Daily Tech News 20 April 2023

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Substack has been doing well as a not-exactly-a-social-network that lets writers connect directly with their audience - and get paid for it.

The company recently released a new feature called Notes... Which is a social network. It's a Twitter clone.

Does this mean Substack is going to turn into a crab?

Maybe, says Tom Knighton, and that would kill Substack.

Maybe not, says Holly Math Nerd, but it will be a constant battle against all the other crabs in the bucket who demand that you be one of them.

Substack has a revenue model that works for them; they're not dependent on advertising. They're not the size of Twitter, let alone Facebook, and never will be, but it works for them. The longer they can hold out against carcinisation the better, but we are all crabs in the end.

Tech News

Snapchat now offers a free AI chatbot to all users. (Tech Crunch)

Nobody knows why they did this, but they do.
Google employees begged the company not to release Bard, its AI chatbot, calling it "worse than useless" and "a pathological liar" and "barely smarter than an AI ethicist pulling down $500k in salary and shares and producing no work of any value to anyone". (The Verge)

Google took the hint and fired the complainers and released Bard, which to be fair is in fact worse than useless, a pathological liar, and barely smarter than an AI ethicist, but at the end of the day, still has a job.
The integrated graphics in the new Ryzen 7000 chips are about as fast as a Radeon RX 570. (Tom's Hardware)

Which is a few years old now - my 2017 Dell desktop had a slightly faster RX 580 - but is very, very good for integrated graphics in a laptop.

The upcoming AMD Framework 13 model will have this chip.

(This is different to the high-end 16-core laptop chips from AMD, which are repackaged desktop chips and come with much slower integrated graphics but are usually paired with something fast and expensive.)
Speaking of fast and expensive Intel is preparing cooling solutions for future 2000W chips. (Tom's Hardware)

Might I suggest winter in Montana? That should do the trick.
m=2, n=4 (Medium)

There is one (positive integer) solution for m^n = n^m, and that's it. The article explains how we know that's the only solution.
Major retailers are walking back their plans for the Metaverse after realising what everyone else already knew: It's complete shit. (Modern Retail)

Facebook's tech demos look like they were produced in the 90s. It's a very 90s idea, really - skeuomorphism gone mad - and it should have stayed there.
Why everyone has their wires crossed. (Quanta)

In human beings, the left side of the body is wired up to the right side of the brain, and vice versa. This is odd, but it's also true of chimps and orangutans, horses, pigs, cows, sloths, duck-billed platypuses, whales, birds, lizards, fish, lobsters, crabs (those bastards), and many types of worm.

Every animal with bilateral symmetry and something resembling a brain.

Why?

It makes the wiring easier.

Crab Video of the Day

Disclaimer: Check out the crabs in the bucket.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:37 AM

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1 Morning!

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:40 AM (Zrzqo)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 04:41 AM (xhxe8)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 04:42 AM (T4tVD)

4 Horde news from the ONT

194 Imma little discombobulated. They threw me a surprise retirement party at work and dragged out a lot of people from many years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 11:31 PM (EZebt)

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 04:43 AM (+YA9H)

5 >>>but we are all crabs in the end

We are all wormfood in the end.

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 04:45 AM (+YA9H)

6 My house sandals are getting ready to go. They've been a good pair, lasted for years with daily wear; I've been happy with this brand (2nd pair). Company is 'Reef'. So I go to their website to try to find something similar after many years as I know styles change and models are dropped. What do I discover? This company makes leather and 'vegan' leather sandals but some models actually have a built-in bottle opener inset into the bottom of one sandal! How lazy do you have to be to even think about buying something like that? The mind boggles.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (emlEe)

7 >>>but we are all crabs in the end

We are all wormfood in the end.
Posted by: m

I thought we were all Dusty Springfield in the wind or somethin'

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (T4tVD)

8 >>>but we are all crabs in the end

We are all wormfood in the end.
Posted by: m

All we are is dust in the wind.

...Kansas...

You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here.
...Deteriorata...

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (Zrzqo)

9 Imma little discombobulated. They threw me a surprise retirement party at work and dragged out a lot of people from many years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 11:31 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: m

Congratulations !

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 04:48 AM (T4tVD)

10 Imma little discombobulated. They threw me a surprise retirement party at work and dragged out a lot of people from many years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

San Franpsycho, This is your work life!

Congratulations

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:50 AM (Zrzqo)

11
Substack has a revenue model that works for them; they're not dependent on advertising.

How does that work? Capturing electrons and feeding them into the electric grid?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 04:51 AM (enJYY)

12 Dipshit Justin Amash is out here whining about the possibility that DeSantis will make corporations think twice before running their mouths about politics. After all, can we really say we live in a free society if corporations can't advocate for unconstitutional, totalitarian policies? (He blocked me after I responded to him, by the way.)

https://tinyurl.com/48w8mv8k

Posted by: Michael Mann Fan at April 20, 2023 04:51 AM (18PNs)

13 Reading the article on metaverse, it appears tom over 29 brain that retailers are trying to make it a flashy version of the Sears catalog.

I guess I don't know why for though.

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:51 AM (Zrzqo)

14 But we are all we can be. We can do nothing else. We have to be because that's who we are. And that's who we have to be. We can be no one else.

Posted by: Kamalalaladingdong at April 20, 2023 04:52 AM (emlEe)

15 6 My house sandals are getting ready to go. They've been a good pair, lasted for years with daily wear; I've been happy with this brand (2nd pair). Company is 'Reef'. So I go to their website to try to find something similar after many years as I know styles change and models are dropped. What do I discover? This company makes leather and 'vegan' leather sandals but some models actually have a built-in bottle opener inset into the bottom of one sandal! How lazy do you have to be to even think about buying something like that? The mind boggles.
Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (emlEe)

Are you gonna get them?

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 04:52 AM (+YA9H)

16 This company makes leather and 'vegan' leather sandals but some models actually have a built-in bottle opener inset into the bottom of one sandal! How lazy do you have to be to even think about buying something like that? The mind boggles.
Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (emlEe)

Are you gonna get them?

Sandals with a thing that goes up? Sounds to me like those are assault sandals. And should be banned

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:54 AM (Zrzqo)

17 This is all bullshit, by the way. Bob Iger can advocate on behalf of the trannies all he wants. He just can't use Disney as a conduit for his attacks on a bill that protects parents' freedoms by not spending their money on tranny garbage. Anybody who thinks that the First Amendment was written for multinational corporations is retarded. (INB4: "Oh, so the Second Amendment doesn't apply to assault weapons?")

Posted by: Michael Mann Fan at April 20, 2023 04:54 AM (18PNs)

18 14 But we are all we can be. We can do nothing else. We have to be because that's who we are. And that's who we have to be. We can be no one else.
Posted by: Kamalalaladingdong at April 20, 2023 04:52 AM (emlEe)

You have to rein in all that complicated verb usage. More like:

“I love Venn diagrams, I really do, I love Venn diagrams, it’s just something about those three circles and the analysis about where there is the intersection.”

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 04:56 AM (+YA9H)

19 Sandals with a thing that goes up? Sounds to me like those are assault sandals. And should be banned

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:54 AM (Zrzqo)

I know once the soles wear down and the metal opener is exposed, they'll be assaulting my wood floors.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 04:56 AM (emlEe)

20 I know once the soles wear down and the metal opener is exposed, they'll be assaulting my wood floors.
Posted by: RickZ

HA!

Maybe they have the "Klebb" model. With a knife that comes out the front

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 05:00 AM (Zrzqo)

21 m that sounds wonderful

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 05:01 AM (xhxe8)

22 A Kamala Harris transcript LOL

https://tinyurl.com/nhajxpyn
(CBS News)
JULY 10, 2022

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 05:02 AM (+YA9H)

23 If Meta was to integrate Google's Bard into it's Metaverse what is the over-under that that combination would produce a software singularity? It seems that they both are teetering on the precipice of doing that by themselves so it seems fair to reason that the combination would be a rather epic example hypewear failure.

If I seem subtly gleeful for this well you'd be right. The idea of spending my weekends with a fake Mark Zuckerberg, who walks around in his bathrobe, writing phony term papers using Bard makes my eyes go crossways.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 20, 2023 05:05 AM (qUq6d)

24 16 This company makes leather and 'vegan' leather sandals but some models actually have a built-in bottle opener inset into the bottom of one sandal! How lazy do you have to be to even think about buying something like that? The mind boggles.
Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (emlEe)

Sandals with a thing that goes up?
Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:54 AM (Zrzqo)

LOL Bruce

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 05:08 AM (+YA9H)

25 I am so tired

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 05:08 AM (xhxe8)

26 G'morning, horde!

https://youtu.be/D1E9mjvGYq8

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 05:09 AM (o0Fxd)

27 >>>but we are all crabs in the end

We are all wormfood in the end.
Posted by: m

All we are is dust in the wind.

...Kansas...

You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here.
...Deteriorata...
Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (Zrzqo)

I identify as just another brick in the wall.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 20, 2023 05:09 AM (4I/2K)

28 If I stop moving I will stop for good

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 05:11 AM (xhxe8)

29 Snapchat now offers a free AI chatbot to all users. (Tech Crunch)

Nobody knows why they did this, but they do.

--

Seems easy enough. They know it will replace - or at least enhance - porn for a whole bunch of users, and they're getting ahead of the curve on marketing it.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 05:12 AM (CpCeB)

30 I am what I know and what I know is patella tendinitis

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 20, 2023 05:12 AM (Eeb9P)

31 I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
I wonder should I get up and fix myself a drink No, no, no

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 20, 2023 05:13 AM (qUq6d)

32 >>>Google took the hint and fired the complainers and released Bard, which to be fair is in fact worse than useless, a pathological liar, and barely smarter than an AI ethicist, but at the end of the day, still has a job.

>Ha-ha! I read about "AI ethicists" and their brilliant mindthoughts in their books from the '90s.

They were wrong then and they still are.

They are not trying to create anything "artificial," - that was accomplished long ago.

What they're now creating is something that will be uncontrollable when it becomes "self-aware" and humanity just might be on the list of vermin that pose a threat to its "survival."

When self-preservation is the primary pursuit, you have a predator, and ethics are secondary unless you can establish a relationship.

What does AI need from us?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 05:13 AM (V4X9X)

33 I am so tired
Posted by: Skip

So, no dance marathon today, huh ?

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 05:13 AM (T4tVD)

34 Have a GREAT one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 05:14 AM (T4tVD)

35 Clippy was ahead of it's time.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 20, 2023 05:15 AM (qUq6d)

36 What does AI need from us?
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Hmmm.. Whatcha got?

...aye yai yai...

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 05:15 AM (Zrzqo)

37 27 >>>but we are all crabs in the end

We are all wormfood in the end.
Posted by: m

All we are is dust in the wind.

...Kansas...

You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here.
...Deteriorata...
Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (Zrzqo)

I identify as just another brick in the wall.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 20, 2023 05:09 AM (4I/2K)

Ooh, psychedelic, man.

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 05:16 AM (+YA9H)

38 I'm tired
Sick and tired of love
I've had my fill of love
From below and above
Tired, tired of being admired
Tired of love uninspired
Let's face it, I'm tired!

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 05:20 AM (+YA9H)

39 Let's face it, I'm tired!
Posted by: m

Lily!!!

Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 05:21 AM (Zrzqo)

40 The Assistant Manager of Klownworld responsible for firing off that emergency alert system test at 0545 EDT
should be given a public dickoctomy on national TV and then be provided with an all expenses paid one way helicopter ride to a random point east of the continental shelf.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 20, 2023 05:22 AM (MkuC5)

41 https://youtu.be/k8et8sftlc0

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 05:23 AM (o0Fxd)

42 40 The Assistant Manager of Klownworld responsible for firing off that emergency alert system test at 0545 EDT
should be given a public dickoctomy on national TV and then be provided with an all expenses paid one way helicopter ride to a random point east of the continental shelf.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 20, 2023 05:22 AM (MkuC5)

This amused me

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 20, 2023 05:28 AM (+I6Y/)

43 Might as well turn to "artificial intelligence"-- I mean, look at what we have, currently, posing as "human intelligence"...

Ugh!

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 05:30 AM (o0Fxd)

44 What do I discover? This company makes leather and 'vegan' leather sandals but some models actually have a built-in bottle opener inset into the bottom of one sandal! How lazy do you have to be to even think about buying something like that? The mind boggles.

I'd buy a pair of those.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 05:32 AM (AW0uW)

45 40 The Assistant Manager of Klownworld responsible for firing off that emergency alert system test at 0545 EDT
should be given a public dickoctomy on national TV and then be provided with an all expenses paid one way helicopter ride to a random point east of the continental shelf.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 20, 2023 05:22 AM (MkuC5)

I hope you get what you want.

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 05:32 AM (+YA9H)

46 If I stop moving I will stop for good
Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 05:11 AM (xhxe

So skip is a shark? Good to know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 05:33 AM (AW0uW)

47 32 What they're now creating is something that will be uncontrollable when it becomes "self-aware" and humanity just might be on the list of vermin that pose a threat to its "survival."

When self-preservation is the primary pursuit, you have a predator, and ethics are secondary unless you can establish a relationship.

What does AI need from us?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 05:13 AM (V4X9X)

The ability to pass for human while rounding us all up.

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 05:34 AM (+YA9H)

48 42 --

I'm so rattled I got the time wrong.

0445 EDT

Scared the GSDs airborne and gave me a throbbing headache.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 20, 2023 05:35 AM (MkuC5)

49 https://youtu.be/rwrazYUwqQI

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 05:36 AM (o0Fxd)

50 Growing in gratitude- a lovely devotional by a man from Nigeria and based on Ephesians 3:14-19. The prayer at the bottom of the devotional is for a grateful heart.

https://tinyurl.com/4npthd8u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 05:37 AM (eiiMI)

51 Hey, Skip

Just wanted to thank you for your kind donation to our church. Which I received yesterday. I was very touched, but I have to thank you here because there was no return address.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 05:39 AM (eiiMI)

52 m at least that's funny

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 05:42 AM (H8LpJ)

53 Good morning and thank you morons

Parties are really not my style and it was quite jarring to see so many old colleagues in one place.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 05:44 AM (EZebt)

54 > The longer they can hold out against carcinisation the better, but we are all crabs in the end.

"Crab people, Crab people. Taste like crab, talk like people."

Posted by: Bitblt at April 20, 2023 05:45 AM (O+SGk)

55
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 20, 2023 05:49 AM (ENBF0)

56 What do I discover? This company makes leather and 'vegan' leather sandals but some models actually have a built-in bottle opener inset into the bottom of one sandal! How lazy do you have to be to even think about buying something like that? The mind boggles.

--

The part that strikes me is the idea that they're encouraging people to put objects that they will touch to their lips on the soles of their shoes where they walk through port-a-johns, dog parks, etc.

Hey same demographic: Wear your mask and stay safe from this cold virus while you buy these sandals.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 05:49 AM (hsOar)

57 Sharks eat blueberry bagels?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 05:50 AM (EZebt)

58 I like to do word searches as a form of relaxation. The book I have now is word searches on phrases from the Bible and one I did yesterday was a phrase from the Book Of Proverbs 3:5-6

"Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not on thine own understanding."

"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 05:50 AM (cv2Ru)

59 The "best" pair of flip-flops I ever purchased were an afterthought, a huge pile in a large wooden barrel near the register at a convenience store in Hawaii. They are practically the state footwear. They were maybe a buck or two.

Now flip-flops are not a high tech item, but these were durable and lasted many years. Their replacements have not lasted. I noticed they are very light and flimsy compared to the Hawaiian el-cheapos. I would have bought a couple few pairs had ai known.

"If it's good, they'll stop making them" holds true, as always.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 20, 2023 05:51 AM (vqigf)

60 Fen hope your church gets out of its financial situation

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 05:53 AM (H8LpJ)

61 Wouldn't that also be true for m=1 and n=1?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2023 05:53 AM (/xaUq)

62 Actually, ANY m=n=x, that would be true of.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 20, 2023 05:54 AM (/xaUq)

63 Thank you, Skip. That's kind of you. I hope so too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 05:55 AM (cv2Ru)

64 The "best" pair of flip-flops I ever purchased were an afterthought, a huge pile in a large wooden barrel near the register at a convenience store in Hawaii. They are practically the state footwear. They were maybe a buck or two.

I've never worn flips or sandals - I don't like my feet. My choice of casual footwear is the classic Sperry Top-Sider.

**Jim Backus voice**

Now how about an Old Fashioned made the old fashioned way - the way dear old dad used to?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 05:55 AM (AW0uW)

65 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 20, 2023 05:56 AM (ju2Fy)

66 hey there

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 05:57 AM (BRHaw)

67 When I bought my very first pair of good cheap flip-flops, it was on the Outer Banks. The soles had colored layers and you could get a thick sole or a thinner one; that el-cheapo beach vacation sandal purchase lasted well over 10 years.

You want to buy good cheap sandals/flip-flops? Buy them in areas where they know casual footwear.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 05:58 AM (emlEe)

68 Reef makes a great FF

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 05:58 AM (BRHaw)

69 Samantha Ponder agreed with Gaines, tweeting on Wednesday: 'This would take away so many opportunities for biological women and girls in sports.

'It is a shame that we are needing to fight for the integrity of Title IX in 2023 and the reason it was needed in the first place. #savewomensports.'

moar please

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:02 AM (BRHaw)

70 "but we are all crabs in the end."

Especially tech companies, blogs, phone companies, and politicians.

Posted by: 6:02 and the wren sings good morning at April 20, 2023 06:03 AM (hGlnS)

71 Some people are the bucket.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:05 AM (9UlRk)

72 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 20, 2023 06:05 AM (DhOHl)

73 Idiot son of Mr and Mrs Libtard comes home from college with a “trans” in tow. Idiot son goes back to college leaving the “trans” at home. Now, the “trans” won’t leave. Mr and Mrs Libtard are now in a panic and wanted me to help. I told them to quietly move at least 2 time zones away, then sell the house, without telling idiot son or the “trans”.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 20, 2023 06:06 AM (9X60i)

74 Feelin' crabby! LOL

https://youtu.be/LDU_Txk06tM

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:06 AM (o0Fxd)

75 rhennigantx,

Yep. Getting ready to order my third pair. I only wear them in the apartment (where, since I haven't worked for years, I live 24/7), putting on shoes only to go out, which isn't all that often. I wear Reef's sandals for hours on end around the apartment. They really last.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 06:07 AM (emlEe)

76 without telling idiot son or the “trans”.
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 20, 2023 06:06 AM (9X60i)

Tell them they're bigots and should be ashamed of themselves.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:07 AM (9UlRk)

77 I'm betting the ability to purchase cheap and long-lasting sandals on a whim on beach trips corresponded with when Levis were made in America.

Heck, when almost anything was made in America. Remember when our politicians insisted we could give up our jobs and potential jobs for our kids and... I'm still not clear on what the plan was after that. Something about fixing each others computers?

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 06:07 AM (hsOar)

78 I'm so tired, tired of playing the game... coming and going and going and coming, always too soon.

Posted by: Lily Von Schtup at April 20, 2023 06:07 AM (5u1+1)

79 Dr Phil on Tuesday took issue with a Duke University professor who said 40 million descendants of slaves should be given $350,000 each, calling the plan unworkable. The television host said a lump sum was not usually the answer. 'I can tell you from a psychological perspective that if you take $350,000 or $840,000, and you write a check to any group of people - black, white, poor, homeless, whatever - you give any group of people that much money and say, ''there you go, best of luck,'' you come back in six months, they're going to be broke,' he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LroCgg3uc&t=87s

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:08 AM (BRHaw)

80 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Resting

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 06:09 AM (T4tVD)

81 When i lived in San Clemente years ago, Rainbow Sandals had a factory right by where I worked. They make a good sandal.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 20, 2023 06:10 AM (+coCW)

82 I had to do a DIE training module for work.
Here is how I understand it:
I have to police my speech and actions for anything which might be offensive to anyone in the world. This forces me to prejudge others as to what might be offensive to them.
I also have to police what others say for anything which might be offensive to anyone in the world. I have to judge what some other culture or religion might find offensive, assume they are powerless to defend themselves, then get in the face of the offender and lecture them about what an offensive asshole they are, then refer them to the HR re-education camp.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 20, 2023 06:11 AM (xAJtR)

83 'I can tell you from a psychological perspective that if you take $350,000 or $840,000, and you write a check to any group of people - black, white, poor, homeless, whatever - you give any group of people that much money and say, ''there you go, best of luck,'' you come back in six months, they're going to be broke,' he said.

--

Jeez, no joke. We've given something like $35T to blacks over the last 50 years and - with the exception of Trump's short presidency - they're worse off than they've ever been.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 06:11 AM (hsOar)

84 Ah, so DIE is institutionalized antifa "anti-racist" nonsense.

Great.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 06:12 AM (hsOar)

85 Well, duh! You give a sh!tload of money, to people who don't know how to handle money, and they go broke right away...

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:12 AM (o0Fxd)

86 Posted by: Lily Von Schtup at April 20, 2023 06:07 AM (5u1+1)

I've told the story before: when Mel Brooks was casting for Blazing Saddles, he asked Madeline Kahn to show him her legs. She said, "Oh, you're that kind of producer," and turned to leave. Brooks stopped her and explained that the part of Lily was a takeoff of Marlene Dietrich, so he had to know if she had the legs for the parody. A wary Kahn finally said, "All right, you can look, but don't touch!" and pulled up her dress.

Kahn later said that after that, Brooks would invite her to dinner with both himself and his wife, presumably, she thought, to reassure her that he was happily married and not 'that kind of producer.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 06:12 AM (AW0uW)

87 Family friend got an $85,000 settlement for a work injury. This was about 3 years worth of pay. After 1 year they spent it all and had absolutely nothing to show for it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 20, 2023 06:13 AM (xAJtR)

88 Give them their fucking reparations. In 1865 dollars. As a one time tax credit.

"Here's your twenty dollars. Oh, you're taking the standard deduction, too? Ah, what a shame. Oh well. NEXT!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:13 AM (9UlRk)

89 Me: just waiting for oh, say, 6 months to a year after the "reparations" checks get cashed. Waiting to see what all turns up at the pawn shops...

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:14 AM (o0Fxd)

90 Between the article on Bard and the founder of Google talking about how he wanted to make an AI god, I suspect interesting times are ahead.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2023 06:16 AM (4olE8)

91 87 Family friend got an $85,000 settlement for a work injury. This was about 3 years worth of pay. After 1 year they spent it all and had absolutely nothing to show for it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 20, 2023 06:13 AM (xAJtR)

pearls swine etc

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:16 AM (BRHaw)

92 What to do when the bad guys win. A reflection on psalm 37:

tinyurl.com/ca88jpyr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 06:16 AM (pkEpQ)

93 https://youtu.be/-0kcet4aPpQ

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:16 AM (o0Fxd)

94 88 Give them their fucking reparations. In 1865 dollars. As a one time tax credit.

"Here's your twenty dollars. Oh, you're taking the standard deduction, too? Ah, what a shame. Oh well. NEXT!!!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:13 AM (9UlRk)

Brilliant. I concur.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 20, 2023 06:17 AM (MkuC5)

95 How does it work? If you live say in San Fran, do you get a reparation check from them and another from the state of CA, and then another from the feds too?.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 20, 2023 06:18 AM (+coCW)

96
My family had a manufacturing plant in Philly from about the 1930's to the 1970's. But in the 1960's there were 'race riots' in Philly, and crime, and the factory needed a six foot fence with barbed wire to stop the break ins. So the business moved to K of P as did a whole lot of other employers.

The people who shit in their own bed have been doing it for a long time. Nothing is ever going to stop it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 06:20 AM (enJYY)

97 There were black slaveowners and white slaves. How does that factor into the formula?

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 20, 2023 06:21 AM (UpZpf)

98 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 20, 2023 06:21 AM (u82oZ)

99 Princess Diana, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle top celeb sex doll requests

pitiful

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:22 AM (BRHaw)

100 Divide by Zero

Been going on since before the Sea People. What works is known, but rarely applied.

See Heinleinian Bad Luck.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 20, 2023 06:23 AM (u82oZ)

101 pitiful
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:22 AM (BRHaw)

I knew it. Diana really is still alive!

And apparently buying a shitton of sex dolls....

Damn, those royals are weird.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:23 AM (9UlRk)

102 >>>but we are all crabs in the end

We are all wormfood in the end.
Posted by: m
All we are is dust in the wind.
...Kansas...
You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here.
...Deteriorata...
Posted by: Bruce at April 20, 2023 04:47 AM (Zrzqo)
I identify as just another brick in the wall.
Posted by: Count de Monet

I yam what I yam.

Posted by: Popeye at April 20, 2023 06:24 AM (iayUP)

103 Poverty is a state of mind, a culture, a social contagion.

This is "teaching a poor man to fish" being better than "giving a poor man a fish." Our rotten culture has reversed these. Now, People who fish are suckers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 06:24 AM (EZebt)

104 rhennigantx

Yikes! Beyond pitiful. Meghan Markle doll is vile.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 20, 2023 06:24 AM (u82oZ)

105 Meggie Harkle seks doll? YUCK! Does it come with disinfectant?

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:26 AM (o0Fxd)

106 https://youtu.be/cvChjHcABPA

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:27 AM (o0Fxd)

107 Yikes! Beyond pitiful. Meghan Markle doll is vile.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 20, 2023 06:24 AM (u82oZ)

The doll opens its mouth, right?

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2023 06:27 AM (emlEe)

108
See Heinleinian Bad Luck.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 20, 2023 06:23 AM

"This is known as bad luck."

I'm sure he was writing it tongue-in-cheek. It's not luck or good fortune that drives employers away. It's avoiding cat ass trophy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 06:28 AM (enJYY)

109 Morning joke:

I can't take my dog to the park because the ducks keep trying to bite him. I guess that's what I get for buying a pure bread dog,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 06:28 AM (Keyt1)

110 There were black slaveowners and white slaves. How does that factor into the formula?
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 20, 2023 06:21 AM (UpZpf)
===
There are many slaves who are coming over our southern border today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 06:28 AM (EZebt)

111 There were black slaveowners and white slaves. How does that factor into the formula?

It doesn't. Honky bastards deserve to be slaves, no matter what tortured 'logic' you have to come up with to justify it.

'Reparations' is nothing more than anti-white hatred on a national scale. Which, in our debased, pagan, animalistic culture, means it will be law within ten years.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 06:32 AM (AW0uW)

112 RepSwalwell
·
Follow
Amending my taxes to claim the free rent inside the empty heads of Tucker Carlson and Kevin McCarthy.

How could you get this so fucking wrong??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

113 The most disgusting part of it is how they are explicitly undoing Reconstruction. If any American gets reparations, we ALL get reparations. It's just more Critical bullshit. Are the descendents of slaves somehow not Americans? Are they not on the hook for their own reparations too? Are we going to rescind citizenship and end all wealth transfers to every person with one drop of slave blood in them? The whole thing is malicious and ignorant and serves no other purpose than to degrade and demoralize black people even further, and drive the splitting wedge further into yet another facet of the Critical Bullshit industrial complex.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:33 AM (9UlRk)

114 In honor of Salty Dog. Beautiful pictures of Kansas:

https://tinyurl.com/4fk8995a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 06:34 AM (pkEpQ)

115 How could you get this so fucking wrong??
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

"There's a thing people are saying on the internet, I'm gonna say it too fart fart fart"

They're like little children.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:34 AM (9UlRk)

116 Some small/mid banks are reporting earnings.

Truist Financial and Key Corp, I just saw.

Huge fails on earnings. Really huge fails.

(I would have said "huge misses on earnings" but I know this crowd too well...)

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 20, 2023 06:34 AM (MkuC5)

117 https://youtu.be/_jCuroTbqBI

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:35 AM (o0Fxd)

118 The Metaverse has been cr#p ever since that near catastrophe called Snow Crash...

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2023 06:35 AM (ov/u3)

119
The promise of opening up trade with China to the hilt was that poor people would be able to afford their goods. So five thousand American manufacturing facilities disappeared from cities predominately, causing five million jobs to be lost, and approximately 20 million people to lose employer health insurance.

So Obama came along with the promise to cover those 20 million with some pie-in-the-sky plan. A new tax on the productive.

So despite cheap stuff from China, the poor in the cities have to shoplift to make ends meet, instead of going to a job everyday.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 06:35 AM (enJYY)

120 92 What to do when the bad guys win. A reflection on psalm 37:

tinyurl.com/ca88jpyr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 06:16 AM (pkEpQ)

Thank you. I needed to read that today.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2023 06:36 AM (4olE8)

121 You are most welcome, NR Pax.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 06:37 AM (Keyt1)

122 So the guys writing AI language processors decided, "Hey, here's a good idea! Let's give AI systems access to server farms, unlimited connectivity, unlimited cooling and access to unlimited power and then give it an Amazon account to utilize the planet's greatest logistics resource for raw materials and robotic supplies."

When AI takes over the global currency market, folks, and makes digital money obsolete, be prepared to embrace a barter system once again!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 06:38 AM (V4X9X)

123 “There is nothing compassionate about letting these individuals live in filth and squalor,” Trump argued.

“For a small fraction of what we spend upon Ukraine, we could take care of every homeless veteran in America,” he pointed out. “Our veterans are being treated horribly. Likewise, with all of the money we will save by ending mass unskilled migration, we will have a huge dividend to address this crisis in our own country.”

dayum

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:38 AM (BRHaw)

124 Have a great day, everyone.

May there be sunshine, flowers, amorous turkeys, and no damage from ping-pong ball sized hail. Put the car in the garage 5 minutes ahead of the hail storm yesterday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 20, 2023 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

125 When AI takes over the global currency market, folks, and makes digital money obsolete, be prepared to embrace a barter system once again!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 06:38 AM (V4X9X)

break a deal
spin the wheel

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:39 AM (BRHaw)

126 "Amending my taxes to claim the free rent inside the empty heads of Tucker Carlson and Kevin McCarthy."

How could you get this so fucking wrong??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

TurboTax.

Posted by: Little Timmy Geithner at April 20, 2023 06:39 AM (emlEe)

127 mornin yall. Otis Redding III has passed. Cancer. I will say once again that if the time and money that was blown on Covid was put towards cancer research, we would have been a lot better off.

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 06:39 AM (iayUP)

128 "Hey, remember that time you fucked a Chinese spy-whore?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:40 AM (9UlRk)

129 Amorous turkeys sitting on the dock of the bay?

Posted by: Man, this place! at April 20, 2023 06:42 AM (DhOHl)

130 Read many studies in last few decades how lottery winners are mostly broke after just a few years

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 06:43 AM (H8LpJ)

131
I see the Bureau of Labor Statistics has amended the view of the Labor Participation chart so you can only see the last 20 years. Doesn't make Biden look so bad or the general down-curve of employment so noticeable.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 06:43 AM (enJYY)

132
Otis Redding III has passed. Cancer. I will say once again that if the time and money that was blown on Covid was put towards cancer research, we would have been a lot better off.

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 06:39 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 20, 2023 06:44 AM (ENBF0)

133 127 mornin yall. Otis Redding III has passed. Cancer. I will say once again that if the time and money that was blown on Covid was put towards cancer research, we would have been a lot better off.
Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 06:39 AM (iayUP)

now do AIDS

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:44 AM (BRHaw)

134 FLAT EARTH DAY

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:45 AM (BRHaw)

135 The pathology of decades of brainwashing black people is tragic to watch. Boss treats you unfairly? Racism. Don't get paid as much as you want? Racism. Strangers treat you with a bit of suspicion? Racism. People stop hanging out with you when you get stoned off your ass and go belligerent and obnoxious every time you're hanging out? Racism.

Never mind that every other race of human on earth experiences the exact same things as you. Nah. I'm special. Racism. Pay me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:45 AM (9UlRk)

136 Good morning.

Posted by: Infidel at April 20, 2023 06:47 AM (/0+YE)

137 Reparations? You mean the price paid at The Bloody Lane wasn't enough?

Posted by: Ghosts of Antietam at April 20, 2023 06:47 AM (DhOHl)

138 Sausage/egg/cheese mcmuffin because the Kroc taught my people the ways of the wild mcmuffins.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2023 06:48 AM (4svuj)

139 "now do AIDS
Posted by: rhennigantx"

No thanks. Cancer affects a hell of a lot more people and animals that did nothing to contract it.

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 06:48 AM (iayUP)

140 Is today Erf Adolph Day?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2023 06:49 AM (ov/u3)

141 FLAT EARTH DAY
Posted by: rhennigantx

Lizzo sat down ?

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 06:50 AM (T4tVD)

142 G'mirnin' everyone!

why no one has suggested thoroughly mining the datacenter where the AI "resides", with multiple and redundant means of remote detonation baffles me.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 20, 2023 06:50 AM (1WdLY)

143 I think it's like Weed Day. Or Doritos Day. Or something. Duuuude.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 20, 2023 06:50 AM (DhOHl)

144 It just occurred to me that this whole sudden push for "AI" will not only serve as (literal) porn and (also literal) religion/god for a decent percentage of the population, but it will be "who" otherwise normal people will be expected to converse with in day to day activities* and especially during mandatory climate lockdowns that are coming per the 2030 initiative.

* you already default to bad versions at Amazon and DMV websites

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 06:51 AM (CpCeB)

145 No thanks. Cancer affects a hell of a lot more people and animals that did nothing to contract it.
Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 06:48 AM (iayUP)

I think he meant it the other way around... how much funding and marketing has gone into treating an eminently preventable disease that a huge number of the people who have it went out and *intentionally* got it? The whole thing is a grift, exploiting something awful both to launder money out of it under the guise of "charity" AND to create yet another wedge for the critical bullshit industrial complex.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:52 AM (9UlRk)

146 56 What do I discover? This company makes leather and 'vegan' leather sandals but some models actually have a built-in bottle opener inset into the bottom of one sandal! How lazy do you have to be to even think about buying something like that? The mind boggles.

--

The part that strikes me is the idea that they're encouraging people to put objects that they will touch to their lips on the soles of their shoes where they walk through port-a-johns, dog parks, etc.
Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 05:49 AM (hsOar)

Ewwwww.

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 06:52 AM (+YA9H)

147 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 06:52 AM (1n+EO)

148 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 06:52 AM (1n+EO)

149 I did not watch this
I am sick over this

https://tinyurl.com/3r3z5ez6

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:53 AM (BRHaw)

150 142 why no one has suggested thoroughly mining the datacenter where the AI "resides", with multiple and redundant means of remote detonation baffles me.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 20, 2023 06:50 AM (1WdLY)

"You're just overreacting! What could go wrong? You just hate the future."

I figure those three answers cover your question.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2023 06:53 AM (4olE8)

151 >>>Is today Erf Adolph Day?

Posted by: Anna Puma

>Du-u-u-de! If you didn't spark up @ 04:20 on 04/20, we'll give you another chance later today before we send in the jackboots.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 06:53 AM (V4X9X)

152 Remember folks, we are dealing with Marxists: every destructive consequence we've pointed out is a plus to them.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 20, 2023 06:54 AM (Eeb9P)

153 Ewwwww.
Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 06:52 AM (+YA9H)

If you're already immersed in the liquid miasma Florida has the sheer chutzpah to call "air", what's the difference?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 06:54 AM (9UlRk)

154 139 "now do AIDS
Posted by: rhennigantx"

No thanks. Cancer affects a hell of a lot more people and animals that did nothing to contract it.
Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 06:48 AM (iayUP)

go read how much cancer money was diverted to AIDS.

PS FauxXhi

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:55 AM (BRHaw)

155 mornin yall. Otis Redding III has passed. Cancer. I will say once again that if the time and money that was blown on Covid was put towards cancer research, we would have been a lot better off.
Posted by: fd

-

If COVID taught you anything at all, it should be that there is a lot more money for the Medical Industry in perpetual FDA approved "treatments" that don't accomplish anything beyond the need for more FDA approved treatments. An ouroboros of industry, "research" to "treatment" to insurance (that could probably use quotation marks, too).

Cures will never be allowed. It was heartbreaking to see this confirmed.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 06:55 AM (CpCeB)

156 Yeah, fools and their money are soon parted. Age is no protection from foolishness; just look at the contractor from West Virginia... as a result of winning a massive Powerball jackpot and his actions - his wife of over 40 years divorced him, he got sued by other women because he was lewd, he spoiled his granddaughter with an allowance of $5,000/week so eventually her and her boyfriend died of separate drug overdoses, his charity had to shut down because of too many requests, and then there was the multiple times his vehicle was robbed at the strip club because he kept over $500,000 in cash in it and everyone knew that. So yeah it can be a curse in the wrong hands.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2023 06:56 AM (ov/u3)

157 LOL, alla youse!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 20, 2023 06:56 AM (1WdLY)

158 A continuing article on that 12 year old who died of ThugLife the other day.

Nice mention of the Maryland legislation to shield children from serious criminal charges leading to using small children to commit serious crimes.

Never saw that coming.

https://tinyurl.com/3s7mvesd

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 06:57 AM (1n+EO)

159 The sheriff's department here is putting together a gang task force. It seems that the world class Pickleball courts in the old mall are coming along slowly and there is nothing else for the yutes to do but steal cars and shoot each other.

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 06:57 AM (iayUP)

160 ...there is nothing else for the yutes to do but steal cars and shoot each other.
------------------

Are there no jails? No workhouses?

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 06:59 AM (o0Fxd)

161
If you were an employer looking to start up a manufacturing facility in this country which major city would you think would have the highest chance of success?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:00 AM (enJYY)

162 Reparations? You mean the price paid at The Bloody Lane wasn't enough?
Posted by: Ghosts of Antietam at April 20, 2023 06:47 AM (DhOHl)

The war was just a fight between racist whites. All the correct people tell me so.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 07:00 AM (AW0uW)

163 "Are there no jails? No workhouses?
Posted by: JQ

Jails are full and they don't make prisoners work anymore. They pay the latinx to pickup the trash on the side of the roads now.

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 07:01 AM (iayUP)

164 There are many slaves who are coming over our southern border today.

--

No joke, Joe, Hunter, and others in the Biden family are apparently involved in the slave trave of sex trafficking from Russia and Ukraine.

"Two Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee say the Biden family profited from a human trafficking scheme that included a prostitution ring in the U.S. and countries such as Russia and Ukraine."

https://tinyurl.com/25ym4wb7

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 07:01 AM (CpCeB)

165 Here's an idea. Scrap all your gun laws and put a bounty on gang members. $200 an ear. $1,000 for an OG.

Out of state residents encouraged to apply.

Or just send in the national guard to all the major cities and treat them like the foreign combatants they are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:01 AM (9UlRk)

166 82 I had to do a DIE training module for work.
Here is how I understand it:
I have to police my speech and actions for anything which might be offensive to anyone in the world. This forces me to prejudge others as to what might be offensive to them.
I also have to police what others say for anything which might be offensive to anyone in the world. I have to judge what some other culture or religion might find offensive, assume they are powerless to defend themselves, then get in the face of the offender and lecture them about what an offensive asshole they are, then refer them to the HR re-education camp.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 20, 2023 06:11 AM (xAJtR)

h8er

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 07:01 AM (+YA9H)

167 Some of the thugs would lop off their own ear for a cut of the bounty...

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2023 07:02 AM (ov/u3)

168 161
If you were an employer looking to start up a manufacturing facility in this country which major city would you think would have the highest chance of success?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:00 AM (enJYY)

San Juan, PR.

I'm not even joking.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:02 AM (9UlRk)

169 I force installed Win11 on one of the HP ProDesk Mini's I picked.

The GUI is pretty but the underlying OS is pre-occuppied with "helping me" while hoovering up as much data as possible while serving me with adds and "news," too boot.

I won't be booting into this partition very much just when necessary.

So, yeah, that's Windows 11.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 20, 2023 07:03 AM (up/3i)

170 You try to do something nice and you get this

https://photos.app.goo.gl/6xLJBBNmpzArX4nC6

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:03 AM (BRHaw)

171 Some of the thugs would lop off their own ear for a cut of the bounty...
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2023 07:02 AM (ov/u3)

Lol. Clown-world Yakuza.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:03 AM (9UlRk)

172 If you were an employer looking to start up a manufacturing facility in this country which major city would you think would have the highest chance of success?
Posted by: Divide by Zero
-----------

Red state. But, be sure to check for DIE regs...

Then, be sure to look at city/local regs within 'preferred' state...

Stay away from state capital areas, and major college/uni cities.

Good luck!

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 07:05 AM (o0Fxd)

173 If you were an employer looking to start up a manufacturing facility in this country which major city would you think would have the highest chance of success?

--
Find a deep red rural area full of Heritage Americans that want to work and will work.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 07:05 AM (CpCeB)

174 164 There are many slaves who are coming over our southern border today.

--

No joke, Joe, Hunter, and others in the Biden family are apparently involved in the slave trave of sex trafficking from Russia and Ukraine.

"Two Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee say the Biden family profited from a human trafficking scheme that included a prostitution ring in the U.S. and countries such as Russia and Ukraine."

https://tinyurl.com/25ym4wb7
Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 07:01 AM (CpCeB)

google 8 YO girls with multiple multiple DNAs inside them

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:05 AM (BRHaw)

175 >>>Here's an idea. Scrap all your gun laws and put a bounty on gang members. $200 an ear. $1,000 for an OG.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

>When they buried John McCain, he had enough ears from the VC to pay down the entire deficit.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 07:06 AM (V4X9X)

176 google 8 YO girls with multiple multiple DNAs inside them
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:05 AM (BRHaw)

Please don't.

I start vacation tomorrow.

Posted by: Bob from the Eff Bee Aye at April 20, 2023 07:06 AM (9UlRk)

177 I did not watch this
I am sick over this

https://tinyurl.com/3r3z5ez6
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:53 AM (BRHaw)
-
eI did not watch this
I am sick over this

https://tinyurl.com/3r3z5ez6
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 06:53 AM (BRHaw)
-

People need to be tried and hung.

Or eliminated.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2023 07:06 AM (odVni)

178 Oh, sorry Divide by Zero, you said "major cities"-------

BZZT!!! Wrong.

You know better than that!

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 07:06 AM (o0Fxd)

179
San Juan, PR.

I'm not even joking.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:02 AM

Weren't they the people who left hundreds of skids of bottled water out on a runway for a year because no one was ambitious enough to distribute it? Think I'll pass.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:07 AM (enJYY)

180 If you were an employer looking to start up a manufacturing facility in this country which major city would you think would have the highest chance of success?
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Depends
If you need educated near a small college town in Tex or OK
If just labor then one of those new Mexico towns north of Houston or san antonio.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:07 AM (BRHaw)

181 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 07:09 AM (OzJjC)

182 138 Sausage/egg/cheese mcmuffin because the Kroc taught my people the ways of the wild mcmuffins.
Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2023 06:48 AM (4svuj)

; )

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 07:09 AM (+YA9H)

183
If you need educated near a small college town in Tex or OK
If just labor then one of those new Mexico towns north of Houston or san antonio.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:07 AM (BRHaw)

"But none of our management wants to live in Timpson, TX!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 07:09 AM (MoZTd)

184
Oh, sorry Divide by Zero, you said "major cities"-------

BZZT!!! Wrong.

You know better than that!

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 07:06 AM

Yeah it was a trick question, sorry. You couldn't even hire a high school graduate 'proficient' in math from a major city. Maybe a few from the charter and private schools. But the vast majority have no future except in the service industry.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:10 AM (enJYY)

185 Today is pot day, where every hippie for 100 miles comes to Golden Gate Park to smoke weed instead of staying home.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 07:10 AM (EZebt)

186 Yeah it was a trick question, sorry. You couldn't even hire a high school graduate 'proficient' in math from a major city. Maybe a few from the charter and private schools. But the vast majority have no future except in the service industry.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at

--

75% illiteracy rate. That's not a joke. It was accidentally posted by the MSM during the George Floyd Memorial Celebrations.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 07:11 AM (CpCeB)

187 skeuomorphic

Relating to or having the character of a skeuomorph; illustrating or exhibiting skeuomorphs in its form or decoration: as, skeuomorphic pottery.

Well, that's a useful definition. Self referential. Maybe the etymology will help.

Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.

All righty.

**Omits 'skeumorphic' from working vocabulary.**

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 07:11 AM (ykeLU)

188 Wouldn't it be something if someone like Pence get the Pub nom and we all have to vote for RFK?

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 07:11 AM (iayUP)

189 Today is pot day, where every hippie for 100 miles comes to Golden Gate Park to smoke weed instead of staying home.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Today is different than any other day?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 07:12 AM (OzJjC)

190
Today is pot day, where every hippie for 100 miles comes to Golden Gate Park to smoke weed instead of staying home.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 07:10 AM (EZebt)

Potheads (as opposed to the occasional indulger) disgust me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 07:13 AM (MoZTd)

191 Weed is a freaking scourge. I feel like some old timey spinster railing about the demon of drink tearing the fabric of society apart.... seriously, people, get a hobby, get a life, make something, build a thing, i don't know, whatever.... stoners are just so damn tedious to be around.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:13 AM (9UlRk)

192 Jeez, no joke. We've given something like $35T to blacks over the last 50 years and - with the exception of Trump's short presidency - they're worse off than they've ever been.
Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 20, 2023 06:11 AM (hsOar)

Heh.

Posted by: Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ibram X. Kendi, Nikole Hanna-Jones, et. al at April 20, 2023 07:13 AM (PiwSw)

193 @188

>>Wouldn't it be something if someone like Pence get the Pub nom and we all have to vote for RFK?

If he governed like an old-school Democrat, I'd vote for him over Mr. GOPe, "Ukraine is the most important issue facing the GOP," Pence

I've voted for two Democrats in my life, Ed Koch and Daniel Patrick Monaihan, so there is precedent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 20, 2023 07:14 AM (up/3i)

194 I think skeuon means face in Greek....

I could be wrong though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:14 AM (9UlRk)

195 FBI agent testifies at Andrew Gillum trial
FBI agent went undercover for a year for Andrew Gillum investigation

undercover or under the covers

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:14 AM (BRHaw)

196 Morning all. Haven't been around much lately. I need prayers please. I'm battling a persistent UTI, horrible back pain, fatigue and my right ankle is swollen and red and painful. I've been quite miserable.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 20, 2023 07:15 AM (wagHN)

197 CAT, I had the DIE course too. It may take me awhile more to become less friendly, but hey they been working on me for over 50 years.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2023 07:15 AM (4svuj)

198
I had HS graduates from Philly apply for jobs in my suburban factory who could not even spell the name of the HS they attended. Goerge Washnton HS was one example.

Of the job requirements, the key requirements were being able to read written data, perform rudimentary math, and read a ruler.

Is that too much to ask of the public school system?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:16 AM (enJYY)

199 But the vast majority have no future except in the service industry.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

Big Govt jobs

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:16 AM (BRHaw)

200 Driving through the park has been a nightmare ever since our Betters decided to close most of the roads.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (EZebt)

201 San Juan, PR.

I got sent to PR once to help a plant that couldn't meet it's numbers consistently because of an alleged yield problem.

After a week I reported that the problem was that many of the people who were at work were drunk and that was the people that bothered to show up.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (wsHtO)

202 jewells,

Prayers sent

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (1n+EO)

203 Is that too much to ask of the public school system?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:16 AM (enJYY)

Rulers are racist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (9UlRk)

204 Morning all. Haven't been around much lately. I need prayers please. I'm battling a persistent UTI, horrible back pain, fatigue and my right ankle is swollen and red and painful. I've been quite miserable.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer

Prayers jewells.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (OzJjC)

205 Burns my hide that I studied so hard to take all those tests to get my GED (yeah, tough times) after only completing sophomore year.

Then, years later, trying to train "HS grads" to read, write legibly, perform BASIC math... AAARRRGGHHH!!!

Oh, but the precious darlings have their fking DIPLOMAS, and are therefore 'better than' me, with only my paltry GED.

Harrumph!

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (o0Fxd)

206 199 But the vast majority have no future except in the service industry.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

Big Govt jobs
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:16 AM (BRHaw)

Can they identify a noose?

Posted by: FBI HR, We're Hiring! at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (PiwSw)

207 "But none of our management wants to live in Timpson, TX!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 07:09 AM (MoZTd)

Tenehah maybe

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (BRHaw)

208 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 20, 2023 07:15 AM (wagHN

Sorry to hear you!'ve been feeling sov miserable, Jewells. I will certainly keep you in prayer. I have been praying all along, but will say some extra prayers right now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 07:18 AM (Keyt1)

209 Oh, but the precious darlings have their fking DIPLOMAS, and are therefore 'better than' me, with only my paltry GED.

Harrumph!
Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (o0Fxd)

Also see: mortgage and car loans.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:19 AM (9UlRk)

210
Wouldn't it be something if someone like Pence get the Pub nom and we all have to vote for RFK?

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 07:11 AM

RFK is just a younger Biden on steroids. Same shit. Hates pipelines, oil industry, ICE vehicles, exported coal, the whole nine yards. Just more alert ruination.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:19 AM (enJYY)

211

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 20, 2023 07:19 AM (vwCZJ)

212
Tenehah maybe
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:17 AM (BRHaw)

Or Bobo or Blair. The East Texas microplex.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 07:19 AM (MoZTd)

213 >>>Weed is a freaking scourge. I feel like some old timey spinster railing about the demon of drink tearing the fabric of society apart.... seriously, people, get a hobby, get a life, make something, build a thing, i don't know, whatever.... stoners are just so damn tedious to be around.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

>What's the probability/likelihood that these stoners are wearing some sort of hemp bracelet or necklace or jewelry?

On the bright side, with the legalization of recreational marijuana, patchouli sales have leveled off.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 07:20 AM (V4X9X)

214 "Democrats approve of racial violence. They are stoking it everywhere... they want race hate and violence."

https://tinyurl.com/3tchwaj7

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:20 AM (BRHaw)

215 Prayer up, Jewells.

Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2023 07:21 AM (cTCuP)

216 Hang in there Jewells. What do your docs say is causing the ankle swelling?

Posted by: Jen the original at April 20, 2023 07:22 AM (o/cvM)

217 google 8 YO girls with multiple multiple DNAs inside them

Among the many, many reasons the left hates Trump with the heat of a thousand suns is because he dared to break up their child sex rings.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 07:22 AM (AW0uW)

218 Democrats approve of racial violence. They are stoking it everywhere... they want race hate and violence."

https://tinyurl.com/3tchwaj7
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:20 AM (BRHaw)

Because there's never been large scale pogroms based on inflated resentment and economic desperation against numerically inferior subpopulations before. Never happens. It'll be fine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:23 AM (9UlRk)

219 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 20, 2023 07:15 AM (wagHN)

I'm so sorry, jewells. Prayers for you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 07:23 AM (AW0uW)

220 "Democrats approve of racial violence. They are stoking it everywhere... they want race hate and violence."
https://tinyurl.com/3tchwaj7
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:20 AM (BRHaw)

Concur. Racial violence is mother's milk to the democrat party.

Without it, they would cease to exist.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 20, 2023 07:23 AM (d4xYr)

221
I think the pot has become so potent that people have lost their minds. I can't blame the kids for the gender shit, but the pot smokers who think these kids should change gender? Taken out and shot. That's magical thinking caused by mental defect.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:23 AM (enJYY)

222 Oh no, a teenager feels uncomfortable in their body.... that's called puberty you weird mutant fucks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:24 AM (9UlRk)

223 I think skeuon means face in Greek....

I could be wrong though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

*******

I like learning new words as much as the next guy, but not when it is more work to figure out what people mean when they use a word than to use the word it is meant to replace.

As near as I can tell skeumorphicism relates to design elements that are outdated or obsolete but used anyway. It is a non-cromuleent word.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 07:24 AM (ykeLU)

224 Fox News Houston

18 YO released after gun charge picks up a MURDER charge.

it must have been dropped!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:25 AM (BRHaw)

225 Also see: mortgage and car loans.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:19 AM (9UlRk)

....
Reminds me..........have you seen this yet?

https://tinyurl.com/m93t3h4b

Posted by: Molly k. at April 20, 2023 07:25 AM (/iiLd)

226 {jewells} I'll chant a psalm today maybe that will help. Psalm 81 but if you like another one...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 20, 2023 07:25 AM (EZebt)

227 Not a good beginning.

https://tinyurl.com/3hkf2m9y

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:25 AM (1n+EO)

228 Holy crap.

"Even today, minorities are still oppressed by lower literacy levels...

46 percent of white students scored at or above proficient. Just 17 percent of black students and 25 percent of Latino students scored proficient."

-

I like how black people are "oppressed" by it. First time I've seen that.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 20, 2023 07:26 AM (0XgVs)

229 It is a non-cromuleent word.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 07:24 AM (ykeLU)

So it's a word to say "anachronism" when you feel like everyone is using the word anachronism and you wanna do something different?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:26 AM (9UlRk)

230 222 Oh no, a teenager feels uncomfortable in their body.... that's called puberty you weird mutant fucks.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:24 AM (9UlRk)

And that's why these freaks push magic pills and injections that "pause" puberty until they are ready to undergo it. Those horrible side effect? Why, that happens to other people. You're special and you'll make it through just fine.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2023 07:27 AM (4olE8)

231 "Oh NO! Drawn Butter!"

Posted by: The climax to a Crab Horror movie at April 20, 2023 07:27 AM (PiwSw)

232 46 percent of white students scored at or above proficient. Just 17 percent of black students and 25 percent of Latino students scored proficient

-

Don't miss this BTW. There's some sleight of hand in it. Do blacks even register "or above" in the rankings?

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 20, 2023 07:28 AM (0XgVs)

233
I think ~~the pot has become so potent~~ that people have lost their minds.

Are there ambulance-chasing law firms advertising for victims of second-hand pot? Is there research going on for filters for joints? Do regulatory agencies think pot is less harmful than vaping? The extent to which we've been bamboozled by evangelical potheads is amazing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 07:29 AM (MoZTd)

234 So it's a word to say "anachronism" when you feel like everyone is using the word anachronism and you wanna do something different?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

*******

That's is a great way to put it.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 07:29 AM (ykeLU)

235 I see weed helps many

I see people that drank 10 or 12 drinks have a few tokes and then nurse a drink

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:29 AM (BRHaw)

236 Thank you.

I don't know about the ankle. The doc is aware of it and had an ultrasound done about 3 months ago. That foot has been bothering me for a long time but this is a new development.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 20, 2023 07:29 AM (wagHN)

237 RIF . Reading Is Fundamental. Whatever happened to that?

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2023 07:29 AM (4svuj)

238 "We need to get rid of these stifling oppressive gender roles!"

"Well, my little son likes the color pink...."

"CASTRATE THAT THING LIKE IT'S ORNERY LIVESTOCK, NOW!"

Freaks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:30 AM (9UlRk)

239 Hooked on phonics worked for me!

Posted by: A dude in MI at April 20, 2023 07:30 AM (/6GbT)

240 >>>Oh NO! Drawn Butter!"

Posted by: The climax to a Crab Horror movie

>Damn you! That looks and smells good when it's dripping off of my muffin breakfast sandwich.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 07:30 AM (V4X9X)

241 "Don't miss this BTW. There's some sleight of hand in it. Do blacks even register "or above" in the rankings?"

Depends on the legitimacy of the data....don't it?

https://tinyurl.com/57fnk4ts

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:31 AM (1n+EO)

242 227 Not a good beginning.

https://tinyurl.com/3hkf2m9y
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:25 AM (1n+EO)

CO and XO were ovulating maybe

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

243 Congratulations, Sanfranpsycho on your retirement (or a least, the party for it).
I have often compared retirement to crabs in a pot. The escaping crab is like the retiree and the others are the former co workers trying to drag it back in.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mere pawn in game of life... at April 20, 2023 07:32 AM (jTmQV)

244 Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues" when confronted with facts by Vivek yesterday. Coward.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 20, 2023 07:32 AM (oWBc3)

245 237 RIF . Reading Is Fundamental. Whatever happened to that?
Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2023 07:29 AM (4svuj)

google Damen saying that he is a retard

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:32 AM (BRHaw)

246 I don't know about others, but I am not inclined to click on a link that is posted without any hint as to what the link refers to. YMMV

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 07:32 AM (ykeLU)

247 Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues" when confronted with facts by Vivek yesterday. Coward.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 20, 2023 07:32 AM (oWBc3)

Ok, then. When you have white skin, you can talk to me about white issues.

Fuck along, now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:33 AM (9UlRk)

248 When you have pink skin, you can talk to me about pink issues.

Posted by: man who lives as a pig at April 20, 2023 07:33 AM (iayUP)

249 An official investigation into whether Katie Hobbs violated the law while serving as Arizona Secretary of State is still active, and therefore any records related to the matter are being withheld from the public, according to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office (AGO).

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:33 AM (BRHaw)

250 "I don't know about others, but I am not inclined to click on a link that is posted without any hint as to what the link refers to. YMMV"

My bad.

I'll try to include more info.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:35 AM (1n+EO)

251 In honor of Earth Day I will listen to Whitey on the Moon

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:35 AM (BRHaw)

252 What, exactly, are "white issues" and "black issues"?

Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2023 07:36 AM (cTCuP)

253
Another pet peeve, the use of acronyms without any 'hair around it'.
Are you talking about YouTube or Young Turks - whatever the hell they are.

At time I've looked up an acronym and there could be a hundred choices. SSWTGDA!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:38 AM (enJYY)

254
If you were an employer looking to start up a manufacturing facility in this country which major city would you think would have the highest chance of success?

Posted by: Divide by Zero

I think I see the problem here...

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 20, 2023 07:38 AM (ENBF0)

255 248 When you have pink skin, you can talk to me about pink issues.
Posted by: man who lives as a pig at April 20, 2023 07:33 AM (iayUP)

When you have a gun, you can talk to me about gun issues. This is fun!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Crabby Housekeeper at April 20, 2023 07:38 AM (PiwSw)

256 GPS guided tractors grind to a halt, as GPS signals fail.

https://tinyurl.com/4d7hjaa4

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:39 AM (1n+EO)

257 But MSDE and State Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury won’t interview with Project Baltimore. Instead, the state explained in a statement to Fox45 News that it has changed its own guidelines for reporting data to the public, “to protect the privacy of individual student records.” They’re calling it “enhanced deidentification.”

Daniel Day Simpson DDay
0.00

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:39 AM (BRHaw)

258 So many perverts and hucksters who gussy up their hamfisted attempts at extortion as if it were noble.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:41 AM (9UlRk)

259 "” They’re calling it “enhanced deidentification.”

One simply can not make this shit up.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:41 AM (1n+EO)

260 252 What, exactly, are "white issues" and "black issues"?
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2023 07:36 AM (cTCuP)

WI Bobby picked up a B in organic
VI DeMarcus picked up a murder rap

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

261
I saw Enhanced Deidentification open for Men Without Hats at the Spectrum in Philly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 07:41 AM (enJYY)

262 Thanks linking to Holly's substack
That was a good read

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 20, 2023 07:42 AM (vHIgi)

263 I expect a rebuke from Pope Fiction -
The 2030 Agenda and the New World Order
by Bishop Manuel Sánchez Monge
The Sustainable Development Goals (“sustainable” is now a magic word that is used for everything) are for the most part laudable and acceptable to all: protection of nature, eradication of poverty and hunger in the world, water available to all, etc. All are formulated in a language that is sufficiently ambiguous to lend itself to the most diverse interpretations. But behind the Agenda 2030 lies an attempt to change civilization, a new world order that will change the beliefs of individuals. It is a globalist system – which has nothing to do with globalization -–aimed at establishing an unelected and undemocratic world government.
(much more in link in nic)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2023 07:43 AM (fs1hN)

264 You won't have to vote for RFK, Jr.

Dominion Systems will take care of it for you.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 20, 2023 07:43 AM (5u1+1)

265 Ah, deidentification, from the Latin "Dei-", pertaining to the divine, and "-dentification", adding teeth to something.

They want to make dentures for the Almighty.

Weird, i guess, but you do you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:43 AM (9UlRk)

266 "What, exactly, are "white issues" and "black issues"?"

The ink is black
The paper's white
14 Trillion dollars
Sounds 'bout right

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 07:43 AM (iayUP)

267 CO and XO were ovulating maybe
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

You can still hear some of the brain dead idiots in the audience clapping like trained seals "Woohoo!".

More tax payers money down the crapper for a useless ship for a useless Navy. A Global For For Good.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 20, 2023 07:44 AM (d4xYr)

268 @266
Well played, f'd.

Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2023 07:46 AM (cTCuP)

269 On Tuesday, a 26-year-old Home Depot worker named Blake Mohs was shot dead while attempting to stop a shoplifter in the lawless state of California, just east of San Francisco.

The suspects, 32-year-old Benicia Knapps and 31-year-old David Guillory, attempted to steal a phone charger from a Home Depot in Pleasanton, California. Knapps is a licensed security guard with a criminal history.

We have 35 to 40 chargers around the house

WTF

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

270 244 Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues" when confronted with facts by Vivek yesterday. Coward.
___

It doesn't matter to me so I'm not going to video to check, but I have seen clips of the two men, and based on this, if I had to guess, I'd say their skin color is about the same.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2023 07:47 AM (fs1hN)

271 Looks like the military is gonna miss recruiting goals this year as well..

https://tinyurl.com/2p82h5b4

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:47 AM (1n+EO)

272 White issues: There's a black guy standing in front of my car with a squeegee who won't let me buy if I don't give him some money.

Black issues: There a honkey in this car who's acting like he isn't scared of me...yet.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2023 07:48 AM (wsHtO)

273 "Knapps is a licensed security guard with a criminal history.
"

Ummmm.....OK.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (1n+EO)

274
J
and
J

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

275 The ink is black, the page is white
Together we learn to read and write
A child is black, a child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight, a beautiful sight

Posted by: Three Dog Night at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (fs1hN)

276 White issues: holy shit it's only Thursday. Did i get my taxes done? Crap, and i got to pay the gas bill yet. I'm not even looking at that letter from the hospital yet....

Black issues: holy shit it's only Thursday. Did i get my taxes done? Crap, and i got to pay the gas bill yet. I'm not even looking at that letter from the hospital yet....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:50 AM (9UlRk)

277 JJ is here.

Biggly

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:50 AM (1n+EO)

278 "WTF
Posted by: rhennigantx "

No shame, no regard for the law or human life, no impulse control.
Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: fd at April 20, 2023 07:51 AM (iayUP)

279 276 White issues: holy shit it's only Thursday. Did i get my taxes done? Crap, and i got to pay the gas bill yet. I'm not even looking at that letter from the hospital yet....

Black issues: holy shit it's only Thursday. Did i get my taxes done? Crap, and i got to pay the gas bill yet. I'm not even looking at that letter from the hospital yet....
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yeah, yeah, yeah, irrelevant. What's relevant is the white guy hates you. Not really, but we need you to think that.

Posted by: Democrat Party at April 20, 2023 07:53 AM (fs1hN)

280 Re: Cross-wiring

The 1980s book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology gave a similar explanation and a plausible way it might have come about.

Posted by: AFFA at April 20, 2023 07:53 AM (NMz5T)

281 Nood JJ

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2023 07:54 AM (fs1hN)

282 Weed is a freaking scourge. I feel like some old timey spinster railing about the demon of drink tearing the fabric of society apart.... seriously, people, get a hobby, get a life, make something, build a thing, i don't know, whatever.... stoners are just so damn tedious to be around.

Amen

Posted by: Fetterman's Lump at April 20, 2023 08:03 AM (Vu7A1)

283 but at the end of the day, still has a job
IOW, it's still smarter than all those fired Google employees.

Posted by: GWB at April 20, 2023 08:04 AM (NJ9MR)

284 276 White issues: holy shit it's only Thursday. Did i get my taxes done? Crap, and i got to pay the gas bill yet. I'm not even looking at that letter from the hospital yet....

Black issues: holy shit it's only Thursday. Did i get my taxes done? Crap, and i got to pay the gas bill yet. I'm not even looking at that letter from the hospital yet....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:50 AM (9UlRk)

Bravo!

Posted by: m at April 20, 2023 09:50 AM (lfdZ0)

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