Taxpayer-Funded, Government-Authorized "Researchers" Are Devising Fresh New Schemes to Censor the Right -- and Hiding That Censorship From Us, So That We Cannot Complain

Might as well enjoy your next several years of censorship -- you're paying for it.

'Virality Circuit Breakers:' Taxpayer-funded researchers devise new stealth censorship strategies
Taxpayer and billionaire-backed researchers admit new techniques could allow Big Tech to minimize "public relations challenges" from direct removal of social posts.

Note that "researchers" here is a euphemism. Matt Taibbi has demonstrated ably that most people calling themselves "researchers" into "misinformation" were simply noisy and underemployed and unaccomplished leftwing Twitter addicts who one day decided to claim they were "misinformation researchers" in their Twitter bio and poof, just like that, they were.

A digital free-speech watchdog is warning that federally funded researchers have captured and examined millions of Twitter posts they deemed to be "misinformation" during the 2020 election and used them to devise new strategies that one day could empower Big Tech to censor or throttle content while keeping the affected users and the public in the dark.
The Foundation for Freedom Online says the work done last year by members of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public after receiving taxpayer grants devised new strategies like "virality circuit breakers" and "nudges" that could prevent certain users from spreading content without any apparent evidence they were being censored.
The study is a roadmap on "how to censor people using secret methods so that they wouldn't know they're being censored, so that it wouldn't generate an outrage cycle, and so that it'd be more palatable for the tech platforms who wouldn't get blowback because people wouldn't know they're being censored," Mike Benz, a former State Department diplomat specializing in U.S. foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show Monday night.
Much of the academic research was published in a little-noticed article published last summer in the journal Nature Human Behavior entitled "Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation" that identified a cocktail of four tools that the researchers projected could reduce the spread of content deemed misinformation by as much as 63% without direct removal of posts or time-consuming fact checks.

"Fact" checks are already a sham -- claims aren't being checked against facts, but instead the opinions of a Consensus of Establishment Liberals.

And now they say, even that's too much work -- we want to just suppress this speech as "misinformation" without even having to pay some leftwing college-educated-but-failed-career idiot to make up a reason why it's "misinformation."

The researchers -- who included the University of Washington's Jevin D. West and Kate Starbird -- acknowledged the new tactics like "virality circuit breakers" were less detectable to users and the public and therefore could spare social media giants the public outcries that occurred in 2020 when stories like the Hunter Biden laptop were publicly removed from platforms.
"This approach allows platforms to consider ethical ramifications while minimizing the public relations challenges accompanying direct forms of action," they wrote.

The government extracts money from you at gunpoint and then gives it to thugs to slander, silence, and humiliate you.

Posted by: Ace at 01:10 PM

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1 It's been deboonked.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 08, 2023 01:11 PM (44ww/)

2 It's what a tyranny does.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 08, 2023 01:11 PM (JMAcK)

3 Hi Ace
I'm here too!

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:11 PM (t/2Uw)

4 More slanted news from Ace.

Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2023 01:11 PM (9HDY6)

5 Grey boxes and now italicans.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:11 PM (t/2Uw)

6 Attack of the italicans!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan! at August 08, 2023 01:11 PM (O3C91)

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:12 PM (haFpQ)

8 ...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 08, 2023 01:12 PM (JMAcK)

9 We are all going to die by the end of this.

Posted by: BacktoGA at August 08, 2023 01:13 PM (QfRJd)

10 "This approach allows platforms to consider ethical ramifications while minimizing the public relations challenges accompanying direct forms of action," they wrote.
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This word, "ethical," does not mean what you think it means...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2023 01:13 PM (YIVH2)

11 Outrage!!!!!!
Quick to the angry letter machines we go.
-GOP

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 01:13 PM (N9tGb)

12 Ace is going for a hat trick.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:13 PM (Xrfse)

13 Can't have a banana republic without some silencing slander and humiliation...

Posted by: Inogame at August 08, 2023 01:14 PM (53oGX)

14 Lamont!

Posted by: RI Red at August 08, 2023 01:14 PM (EnT0Y)

15 Willowed:
327 245 199 This bikini blonde in orange has no faith in the judicial system, at any level:
https://is.gd/9LeELL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 12:43 PM (WkNQM)

There is more than a little “ uncanny valley” about this image, Joe…
Posted by: tubal at August 08, 2023 12:46 PM (PCK5/)

Orange bikini on a blonde. I have a sudden yearning for a creamsicle.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 08, 2023 12:55 PM (4I/2K)

I am not sure. Reflections in the glass behind her look right. It is airbrushed to hell and back. Her proportions are... doable. It is how she is holding her head that looks odd.

Image search turns up a german site. Nata Lee?

Ah ha. It is this gal:
https://tinyurl.com/y93mm8wh

She does have an unreal/air brushed look.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:13 PM (zZu0s)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:14 PM (zZu0s)

16 Biden is a scumbag of the first order. He walked up to a grieving mother of a soldier killed at the Biden withdrawal from Kabul, and claimed he too is a Gold Star parent.

https://tinyurl.com/mrkp52ak

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2023 01:14 PM (5kL9d)

17 Grand complicated plots to hide evidence of your activity and intent is the number one sign it's all on the up and up.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:15 PM (haFpQ)

18 "Ace is going for a hat trick."

So he's gonna ban himself...

Again?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 01:15 PM (isNL8)

19 "Ethical" meaning "unobserved, so it's good".

Like ethical theft and ethical murder. So long as no one catches you, it's ethical.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 08, 2023 01:15 PM (JMAcK)

20 Great, sounds like a version of the no fly list only with less transparency.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 01:16 PM (2YtOq)

21 Clearly, we need to pump up Libel Laws until these 'media types' have something to worry about.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 01:16 PM (LQjWA)

22
Viva la Italicans!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2023 01:16 PM (n+4am)

23 It's for your own good. You wouldn't want to be misinformed, would you now. This is a way of avoiding unpleasantness.

Posted by: PG at August 08, 2023 01:16 PM (84jHt)

24 Btw, do not search that gal with the safe search off mistakenly at work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (zZu0s)

25 And does anybody think that the reveal of this is going to stop it?

Joi Lansing doesn't think so.

https://tinyurl.com/3h584tb6

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (AW0uW)

26 "Ethical" meaning "unobserved, so it's good".

Like ethical theft and ethical murder. So long as no one catches you, it's ethical.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 08, 2023 01:15 PM (JMAcK)
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That's the "ethics" of the Left in a nutshell.

The only crime is being caught.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (YIVH2)

27 Is it possible for Ace to go to The Barrel?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (xTRSc)

28 As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Posted by: Pravin Lal at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (lc5cP)

29 The good news is that most social science research cannot be replicated and a lot of it involves intentional fraud, cherry picking data, and unfounded assertions.

Would not be surprised that this is so in this case.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (bk5GW)

30 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 08, 2023 01:18 PM (T4tVD)

31 When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.....

We fucking hate all of you Tech Tyrants, Government Tyrants, Media Tyrants and pond scum sucking, despicable weeds that worship the tyranny!! Leave. Us. Alone.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2023 01:18 PM (Wy1BU)

32 I expect the equivalent of web crawlers could automatically detect these and report on them.
Somebody get busy!

Posted by: db at August 08, 2023 01:18 PM (wu87C)

33 I'm feeling kind of downbeat today. Is there anything positive going on? Did you know that we are still sending billions of dollars to Afghanistan so they can continue to keep women and young boys as chattal? People gleefully waiting for Trump's next indictment. Police officer in Minneapolis gets 5 years in prison for doing his job. AG in California suing a school district because they want to warn parents if their child is the object of social contagion and wants to change gender.
Nothing changes....

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:18 PM (t/2Uw)

34 Censoring your censorship is so meta.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:19 PM (Jk9SN)

35 Streeeeke Two!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:19 PM (krqg6)

36 Biden is a scumbag of the first order. He walked up to a grieving mother of a soldier killed at the Biden withdrawal from Kabul, and claimed he too is a Gold Star parent.

Gotta admit, he's pretty good at recycling the same shameful lies.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:19 PM (Xrfse)

37 The government extracts money from you at gunpoint and then gives it to thugs to slander, silence, and humiliate you.

Posted by: Ace at 01:10 PM

We hear your thunderous call for hearings.

We will not let them humiliate our supporters.

Posted by: House Gope at August 08, 2023 01:19 PM (pHPwR)

38 Is it possible for Ace to go to The Barrel?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

New here? Lol

Posted by: db at August 08, 2023 01:19 PM (wu87C)

39 there was a slant to the post.

Posted by: henry at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (JMDly)

40 Virality circuit breakers. Isn't it funny how leftist soibois always try to hijack the nomenclature of the working class and below? They wouldn't be caught dead actually doing any of those jobs, of course. Those are for the Morlocks.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (eOEVl)

41 27 Is it possible for Ace to go to The Barrel?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (xTRSc)

ace makes a barrel for himself every time he makes a mistake and we can see it. We never, ever let him live it down. We might all have dementia and be in a nursing home, but we will still say 'Remember the busty lesbians?' (Strawberry and Angela White, btw.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (zZu0s)

42 RFKjr filed a US Code 1983 claim. Finally. I have been waiting for this. It is the appropriate vehicle. And I do not agree with those who argue SCOTUS will only use this for protected classes.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (Wcm38)

43 Secret censorship is tight.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (CIS44)

44 The government extracts money from you at gunpoint and then gives it to thugs to slander, silence, and humiliate you.

The point of the US government is to take money and freedoms from the productive class.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (lc5cP)

45 Biden is a scumbag of the first order. He walked up to a grieving mother of a soldier killed at the Biden withdrawal from Kabul, and claimed he too is a Gold Star parent.

Gotta admit, he's pretty good at recycling the same shameful lies.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:19 PM (Xrfse)

I think he gets off on the psychic abuse. There are ppl like that.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:21 PM (Wcm38)

46 17 Grand complicated plots to hide evidence of your activity and intent is the number one sign it's all on the up and up.
Posted by: ...
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The left consistently believes that they can remake reality--they can't no more than they can remake males into females or vice versa.

What happens is that censorship eliminates the feedback mechanism to government and subsequently forces samizdat information flow among the population. As the lies accumulate, no one believes much of anything and that corrosion brings down the regime. Orwell never got to that part of the story of totalitarianism. Downfall.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:21 PM (bk5GW)

47 Nancy Mace is coming.

Posted by: Steiner at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (aD39U)

48 "The researchers -- who included the University of Washington's Jevin D. West and Kate Starbird -- acknowledged the new tactics like "virality circuit breakers" were less detectable to users and the public and therefore could spare social media giants the public outcries that occurred in 2020 when stories like the Hunter Biden laptop were publicly removed from platforms."

It took Kate Starbird seven years, but the project she's been pursuing to ring-fence the Right from the MSM is finally bearing fruit:

https://archive.is/HJSfl

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (/iWhV)

49 Conservatives that continue to post on social media are like women that think their husbands will stop beating them if they just stay in the marriage long enough.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (o8eVs)

50 What happened to the internet?
At the beginning of this blogs existence, we all thought this internet was our freedom.
Now it is our chains.

Posted by: EFG at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (Ae67h)

51 So soon Chuy is going to block messenger bags and Vespa just like bl*zer?

I'd ask if the shelves are safe, but we all know they are not.

Posted by: Bete at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (ulhA0)

52 First, the Grey Boxes. Then the Italicans.

I think it's time Lamont makes an appearance.

Posted by: XTC at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (UnA8+)

53 Oh that Pravin Lal quote is basically Brian Reynolds, a "good government liberal" playing Mary Sue in Alpha Centauri with the head of what's basically the UN.

Hard as it is to believe now 20 years ago the left was running around declaring censorship would be the end of representative government...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (lc5cP)

54 42 RFKjr filed a US Code 1983 claim. Finally. I have been waiting for this. It is the appropriate vehicle. And I do not agree with those who argue SCOTUS will only use this for protected classes.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (Wcm3

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So, an attack on immunity for government employees? What's the specific charge? Is it covid related?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG)

55 Conservatives that continue to post on social media are like women that think their husbands will stop beating them if they just stay in the marriage long enough.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Has she tried not over cooking the pot roast?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (CIS44)

56 Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:18 PM (t/2Uw)

I started out the day by reading about a 10 year old girl 'marrying' her sweetheart and then dying of leukemia.

I am not helping.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (zZu0s)

57 Downfall.

Posted by: whig

When? WHEN? it cannot happen soon enough.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (t/2Uw)

58 I'm feeling kind of downbeat today. Is there anything positive going on?

Disney earnings call tomorrow at 4p eastern on Valliant Renegade's channel. It will be a massive train wreck, or boring as hell. Earnings drop at 4p, call begins at 4:30p.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (ufFY8)

59 First, the Grey Boxes. Then the Italicans.

MY TIME IS AT HAND

Posted by: One giant multi page hyperlink that busts the margins at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (lc5cP)

60 "Biden is a scumbag of the first order. He walked up to a grieving mother of a soldier killed at the Biden withdrawal from Kabul, and claimed he too is a Gold Star parent.

Gotta admit, he's pretty good at recycling the same shameful lies.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:19 PM (Xrfse)

I think he gets off on the psychic abuse. There are ppl like that."

I love the one about his first wife being killed by a drunk truck driver.

A real knee-slapper, that one is.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (isNL8)

61 > The Foundation for Freedom Online says the work done last year by members of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public after receiving taxpayer grants devised new strategies like "virality circuit breakers" and "nudges" that could prevent certain users from spreading content without any apparent evidence they were being censored.

Mark Zuckerberg already admitted he was using these techniques on Facebook. They "de-boosted" posts. Every system they use to get engagement can also be used in the negative direction. Instead of showing up in trending or timelines or whatever, they just ... don't.

If you try googling a viral story that's helping the right, you'll get the infamous "it looks like these results are changing quickly" warning message and they'll refuse to show you links.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 08, 2023 01:24 PM (V1QHJ)

62 Nancy Mace is coming.
Posted by: Steiner at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (aD39U)

I'll say!

Posted by: Nancy's ass grabbing 'fiance' at August 08, 2023 01:24 PM (ufFY8)

63 28 As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Posted by: Pravin Lal at August 08, 2023 01:17 PM (lc5cP)

+1

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:24 PM (zZu0s)

64 42 RFKjr filed a US Code 1983 claim. Finally. I have been waiting for this. It is the appropriate vehicle. And I do not agree with those who argue SCOTUS will only use this for protected classes.

Posted by: Thesokorus
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According to court precedents, it should be a slam dunk but a couple of the GOP justices are wobbly like Roberts and Kavanaugh.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:24 PM (bk5GW)

65 The Bible? Misinformation.

Also spellcheck has been altered to no longer recognize "Lucifer". I don't exist, you know.

Posted by: Lucifer at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (bdIGW)

66 Sort of related…

Read an article today about a research team that can identify what you’re typing based on the sound a keyboard makes. They claim 95% success.

So this means hackers can now steal your passwords or any confidential data, by just listening to you as you type. And they can hack into your computer mic to do it. Or hack into your phone’s mic to listen in.

The world gets worse and worse.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (N9tGb)

67 So, an attack on immunity for government employees? What's the specific charge? Is it covid related?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG

Social media censorship. Corps acting as State Actors. The statue prohibits the State from using private actors to do things the state cannot do.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (Wcm38)

68 “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he may say.” ― Tyrion Lannister

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (Wy1BU)

69 33 I'm feeling kind of downbeat today. Is there anything positive going on? Did you know that we are still sending billions of dollars to Afghanistan so they can continue to keep women and young boys as chattal? People gleefully waiting for Trump's next indictment. Police officer in Minneapolis gets 5 years in prison for doing his job. AG in California suing a school district because they want to warn parents if their child is the object of social contagion and wants to change gender.
Nothing changes....
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:18 PM (t/2Uw)

I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. That's some positive news.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (/iWhV)

70 And that's why my vote goes to whatever candidate puts forth a "national catapult leftist into the sun" platform.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (5acdM)

71 67 So, an attack on immunity for government employees? What's the specific charge? Is it covid related?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG

Social media censorship. Corps acting as State Actors. The statue prohibits the State from using private actors to do things the state cannot do.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (Wcm3

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Ah. Interesting. Combine that with Chevron being on its last legs already, and we could be at the beginning of some kind of revolution in administrative law.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (LvTSG)

72
Also spellcheck has been altered to no longer recognize "Lucifer". I don't exist, you know.

Hey that's what the head priest of the church of Satan told me too!

Posted by: That leftist woman that joined the church of Satan and claims they aren't satanists at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (lc5cP)

73 Ace doesn't barrel himself, he just let's Lamont the Big Dummy guest blog for sometime

Posted by: Bete at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (ulhA0)

74 First, the Grey Boxes. Then the Italicans.

We are next.

Posted by: The Bolds at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (ufFY8)

75 People could cripple a lot of these efforts by simply getting off of social media. But sharing sick burns, pictures of dinner, and cat memes is too important.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (ppBhU)

76 First, the Grey Boxes. Then the Italicans.

We are next.
Posted by: The Bolds

What are we? chopped liver?
-The Strikethroughs

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (CIS44)

77 I have to give it to these assholes though, they've managed to turn their hobby of responding to every one of their grandma's Facebook posts with "SoUrCE????" into a grift.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (5acdM)

78 When? WHEN? it cannot happen soon enough.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
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Take your pick, election crisis in 2024, war crisis involving Ukraine or China, or financial crisis. Could get all three with a grid collapse as a possible wildcard.

We are in the valley and observing avalanche conditions in the mountains above.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (bk5GW)

79 "Researchers . . . ."

These lazy, incompetent, otherwise unemployable twats have to have something to do.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

80 Is there really a Barrel anymore?

What can you do anymore that results in an embarreling?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (ppBhU)

81 I'm feeling kind of downbeat today. Is there anything positive going on?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
_____________________________

I'm bench pressing 480, that's good,, no?

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (5hfjS)

82 75 People could cripple a lot of these efforts by simply getting off of social media. But sharing sick burns, pictures of dinner, and cat memes is too important.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (ppBhU)

One could argue that this site is a form of social media.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (zZu0s)

83 First, the Grey Boxes. Then the Italicans.

We are next.
Posted by: The Bolds at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (ufFY

~~Fear Us~~

Posted by: Strikethru at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (aD39U)

84 Also spellcheck has been altered to no longer recognize "Lucifer". I don't exist, you know.
Posted by: Lucifer at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (bdIGW)

Oldest trick in the book

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (Jk9SN)

85 "you’re only telling the world that you fear what he may say.” ― Tyrion Lannister"

My favorite character in that series.

L'L Fcuker made some good points.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (isNL8)

86 People could cripple a lot of these efforts by simply getting off of social media. But sharing sick burns, pictures of dinner, and cat memes is too important.

Don't forget the posts demanding to know why rent is so expensive now. I mean all those checks from the government were great...but now, unexpectedly, my rent groceries, and utilities all doubled!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (lc5cP)

87 Does chopped liver actually exist? Who eats it?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (xTRSc)

88 According to court precedents, it should be a slam dunk but a couple of the GOP justices are wobbly like Roberts and Kavanaugh.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:24 PM (bk5GW)

If course, but how do they come up with a narrow enough decision to preserve 1983 and allow Biden Admins actions?

But yes, the law is whatever Roberts decides it is. And Con Law isn't law, it's just horse trading policy outcomes.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (Wcm38)

89 54 So, an attack on immunity for government employees? What's the specific charge? Is it covid related?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:23 PM (LvTSG)

I misread this as an immunity for attacking feds at first.

It would have moved.

Posted by: XTC at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (UnA8+)

90 80 Is there really a Barrel anymore?

What can you do anymore that results in an embarreling?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (ppBhU)

-blow the margins

-italics

-bold probably

I 'almost' miss the days when phone users would accidently copy and paste the entire thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (zZu0s)

91 When we lose the war with China, these are really going to look like the good old days.

So that's a positive, right?

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (Jk9SN)

92 73 Ace doesn't barrel himself, he just let's Lamont the Big Dummy guest blog for sometime
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I've heard that Ace is into self flagellation. He wears a hair shirt as well.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (sVfvf)

93 90 -blow the margins

-italics

-bold probably

I 'almost' miss the days when phone users would accidently copy and paste the entire thread.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (zZu0s)

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I did that twice. In the same thread.

CBD was not pleased with me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

94 Hard as it is to believe now 20 years ago the left was running around declaring censorship would be the end of representative government...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (lc5cP

See, they know exactly what they're doing.

Posted by: Emmie at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (Sf2cq)

95
I 'almost' miss the days when phone users would accidently copy and paste the entire thread.

Don't forget us!

Posted by: Word users doing the same thing at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (lc5cP)

96 87 Does chopped liver actually exist? Who eats it?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (xTRSc)

Isn't that essentially Liverwurst?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (zZu0s)

97 Sagging jowls? Do this today.

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (v0R5T)

98 I 'almost' miss the days when phone users would accidently copy and paste the entire thread.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:28 PM (zZu0s)

Will no one speak for oNormal.dot?

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (Jk9SN)

99 66 Sort of related…

Read an article today about a research team that can identify what you’re typing based on the sound a keyboard makes. They claim 95% success.

So this means hackers can now steal your passwords or any confidential data, by just listening to you as you type. And they can hack into your computer mic to do it. Or hack into your phone’s mic to listen in.

The world gets worse and worse.
Posted by: Montec
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Depends on the type of keyboard, the quality of the microphone, and so on. The exploit is not as easy to use as the reports make it out to be.

For Fedgov, easier to just tap into your bluetooth or RFI emissions if they don't put a backdoor with a key logger anyway.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (bk5GW)

100 I did that twice. In the same thread.

CBD was not pleased with me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

No, that was just your personality.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (zZu0s)

101 47 Nancy Mace is coming.
Posted by: Steiner at August 08, 2023 01:22 PM (aD39U)

Not if she has a prayer breakfast to get to!

Posted by: Inogame at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (53oGX)

102 When we lose the war with China, these are really going to look like the good old days.

As long as Xi doesn't need you or your kid's organs he won't try to get your son to cut off his balls.

See, the future looks grand!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (lc5cP)

103 One could argue that this site is a form of social media.

One could. They'd be wrong. But being wrong in the comments is a grand tradition. And in the spirit of compromise and bonhommie, I will sell people at the HQ my bathwater, if they insist.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (ppBhU)

104 Put down the keyboard and back away from the HTML...

Does Pixy need to stage an intervention?

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (Vu7A1)

105 100 I did that twice. In the same thread.

CBD was not pleased with me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

No, that was just your personality.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (zZu0s)

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It certainly didn't help!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

106 So, anyone here still think we're voting our way out of this mess in 2024? Or will that be just the last going through the motions before the Soros Horde makes its move and we (finally) go to the mat?

Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (W+kMI)

107 Bought a set of Roald Dahl's books for my grandchild today. The books were censored in UK, by deleting words such as "fat" and "ugly;" however, the US publisher balked due to justified outrage.

Figured I'd pick up a set before they changed their minds.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (nnp+f)

108 I'm getting somewhat of an inkling Ace thinks his blogging days may be numbered. And not just because the blog biz tends to have a popularity arc.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (2YtOq)

109
The words I've gotten out of the content are "strategies," "techniques," "tools," and "tactics."

wtf is actually going on?

Are these yet more algorithms and filters, or are they a smarter, more automated "cocktail" of them (another term in the content) that lets you suppress more speech while minimizing the number of FBI agents on Free Speech Suppression Duty and heading off those tell-tale DMs, emails, and meeting records showing collusion between your CEO and the government?

Well, there's still going to be a human fingerprint somewhere, but tf is happening?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (lCaJd)

110 One could. They'd be wrong. But being wrong in the comments is a grand tradition. And in the spirit of compromise and bonhommie, I will sell people at the HQ my bathwater, if they insist.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:30 PM (ppBhU)

Heh. It is media and we socialize on it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (zZu0s)

111 There is no such thing as a leftard "expert" on anything useful or concrete. They are expert liars, perverts and imbeciles. That is the extent of their proficiency.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (pohLc)

112 I'm feeling kind of downbeat today. Is there anything positive going on?

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Well, this pretty funny. A bunch of smart asses re-enact the Great Alabama Riverboat Dock Brawl from yesterday. The guy portraying the security guard is particularly good.

https://tinyurl.com/ywvys7sv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (FVME7)

113 I'm getting somewhat of an inkling Ace thinks his blogging days may be numbered. And not just because the blog biz tends to have a popularity arc.

AoS has been around for...15 years?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (lc5cP)

114 87 Does chopped liver actually exist? Who eats it?
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The only way I eat liver is via braunschweiger on black bread with onions and mayo. Any other way makes me gag.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (sVfvf)

115 92 It just looks like a hair shirt but normal fur for an Ewok.

Posted by: Bete at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (ulhA0)

116 Motorboat Mace needs to free the twins a bit more.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (IF2IV)

117 Virality circuit breakers. Isn't it funny how leftist soibois always try to hijack the nomenclature of the working class and below? They wouldn't be caught dead actually doing any of those jobs, of course. Those are for the Morlocks.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2023 01:20 PM (eOEVl)

I also find by calling it something very technical it makes it sounds scientific and unemotional when it is purely driven by anger, power tripping and hate.

If they called it something like Information Silencers it would have a different impact when some people who are familiar with totalitarian regimes heard about it. Like, "hey, should we really be doing this?"

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (haFpQ)

118 106 So, anyone here still think we're voting our way out of this mess in 2024? Or will that be just the last going through the motions before the Soros Horde makes its move and we (finally) go to the mat?
Posted by: exdem13 at August 08, 2023 01:31 PM (W+kMI)

GOP is working on finding quality candidates you can vote really hard for okay?

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (Jk9SN)

119 Anyone here think "we're not voting our way out of this" is something other than cringe fedpoasting?

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (Wcm38)

120
I'm getting somewhat of an inkling Ace thinks his blogging days may be numbered. And not just because the blog biz tends to have a popularity arc.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker

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That same inkling occurred to me, and the whole thing terrifies me. Silicon Valley needs to be n***d.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (lCaJd)

121 Biden is a scumbag of the first order. He walked up to a grieving mother of a soldier killed at the Biden withdrawal from Kabul, and claimed he too is a Gold Star parent.

https://tinyurl.com/mrkp52ak

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 08, 2023 01:14 PM (5kL9d)

What do you expect from ther guy that spent 40 years claiming his wife was killed by a drunk trucker. When in fact the truck driver was cleared, and actually injured trying to save the wife and child Joe chased off when he was caught with his current whore of a wife.

Of all the politicians of the last 50 years Joe is easily the biggest piece of shit, and liberals continually ignore it.

Hell is too good for him.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (5acdM)

122 96 Aetius, it appears you are correct.

I love liverwurst, by the way. Mmmmmmmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (xTRSc)

123 DARPA is up to their eyeballs in this shit and has been for years.. It started as "sentiment analysis" and has warped to sentiment manipulation. I won't out myself by identifying the contractor I worked for who did this shit for them, but these assholes actually think they are doing good.

Posted by: Oldstoke at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (3EvG6)

124 AoS has been around for...15 years?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (lc5cP)

Longer. I remember reading ace's post in the parking lot on break during the 2004 election. Note: I did not even look at the comments.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (zZu0s)

125 Bad comments will trip the virality circuit breaker on your internet connection.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (63Dwl)

126 The elite are really a nasty bunch of dullards. If I am going to be ruled and have my money taken by force, you could at the very least be an nasty, entertaining dullard.

You know, at least by me dinner first.

Posted by: Cheri at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (oiNtH)

127 I love liverwurst, by the way. Mmmmmmmmmmm…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (xTRSc)

So, YOU are one of the godforsaken people who eat chopped liver.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (zZu0s)

128 Biden is a scumbag of the first order. He walked up to a grieving mother of a soldier killed at the Biden withdrawal from Kabul, and claimed he too is a Gold Star parent.

I expect that gave him more of a sexual thrill than sniffing 5 toddlers.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (lc5cP)

129 Does chopped liver actually exist? Who eats it?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Lots of people. They just call it Pate' and pay a lot for the privelege.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (t/2Uw)

130 You see virality circuit breakers are important. You don't want public reaction to damage the stock price of a public company, now do you?

Posted by: Budweiser CEO at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (bNy/6)

131 AoS has been around for...15 years?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (lc5cP)

I think it started in 2001. Back when it was on blogspot.

You know who turned me on to it?

Jonah Goldberg.

Seriously.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (Jk9SN)

132 That same inkling occurred to me, and the whole thing terrifies me. Silicon Valley needs to be n***d.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (lCaJd)

I really do not want to see those nerdish jacknuts naked.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (zZu0s)

133 How did 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano Cheese cause the death of a 75-year-old entrepreneur?

It has been reported that on Sunday, August 6, a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell in the warehouse of a cheese factory in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, crushing the owner, 75-year-old farmer Giacomo Chiapparini. The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (krqg6)

134 Bad comments will trip the virality circuit breaker on your internet connection.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2023 01:33 PM (63Dwl)

So will dicking with an outlet.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2023 01:35 PM (ufFY8)

135
You know who turned me on to it?

Jonah Goldberg.

In fairness that's before they offered Jonah his weight in hot dogs to flip.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:35 PM (lc5cP)

136
"This approach allows platforms to consider ethical ramifications while minimizing the public relations challenges accompanying direct forms of action," they wrote.
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This word, "ethical," does not mean what you think it means...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

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Nor does the word "consider." In fact, it means "dismiss."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:35 PM (lCaJd)

137 When we lose the war with China, these are really going to look like the good old days.

I wouldn't trade economic places with China (https://tinyurl.com/succave

or Russia (https://tinyurl.com/4x7tpcvb).

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2023 01:35 PM (eOEVl)

138 I found the AOS HQ 16 years ago when I was living in NY.

Posted by: Cheri at August 08, 2023 01:35 PM (oiNtH)

139 The debt ceiling would not have had to be raised if the funding for all of this spying was cut off.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 08, 2023 01:35 PM (lTGtQ)

140 How did 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano Cheese cause the death of a 75-year-old entrepreneur?

It has been reported that on Sunday, August 6, a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell in the warehouse of a cheese factory in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, crushing the owner, 75-year-old farmer Giacomo Chiapparini. The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (krqg6)

25K seems like overkill. At 75, I would think that one would do the job.

His cheese really hated him.

Posted by: Strikethru at August 08, 2023 01:36 PM (aD39U)

141 127 LOL. I guess so!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:36 PM (xTRSc)

142 This is why the platform matters.

Tired: Twitter
Wired: X

Posted by: scottst at August 08, 2023 01:36 PM (ojBxe)

143 Read an article today about a research team that can identify what you’re typing based on the sound a keyboard makes. They claim 95% success.

Meh. The “intelligence” community have been doing that for decades. I believe they started with bugs and electric typewriters.

Posted by: db at August 08, 2023 01:36 PM (wu87C)

144 The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (krqg6)

There is a lesson here.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:36 PM (Jk9SN)

145 The left only has one virtue...the acquisition of power for the left.

"Ethical ramifications" literally means "will this help us or hurt us?"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (lc5cP)

146 The cheese wheels, dago on the floor.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (IF2IV)

147 Looks like AI got here just in time.

Almost like it was planed or something.

Posted by: pawn at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (wsHtO)

148 I do not recall when I found Ace, it was pre-Barry but during that election cycle. Insta-link most likely...

Posted by: Inogame at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (53oGX)

149 Killed in an avalanche of cheese, just like the gypsy woman said.

Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (9HDY6)

150 I'm getting somewhat of an inkling Ace thinks his blogging days may be numbered. And not just because the blog biz tends to have a popularity arc.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large

= =

I've had the feeling for some time that the Internet is quickly becoming the enemy of mankind. It was once a University Library. Then a shopping mall. But today?

It's a warzone and a propaganda machine. And now it's a censorship regime.

Want to fix America?

The answer none want to hear:

KILL THE INTERNET.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (AD14M)

151 So this means hackers can now steal your passwords or any confidential data, by just listening to you as you type. And they can hack into your computer mic to do it. Or hack into your phone’s mic to listen in.

The world gets worse and worse.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (N9tGb)

Thankfully all us morons know the secret nsa technic of protecting our keystrokes with constant flatulence.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (5acdM)

152 75 People could cripple a lot of these efforts by simply getting off of social media. But sharing sick burns, pictures of dinner, and cat memes is too important.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:26 PM (ppBhU)

A variation on the Star Trek TOS 'Day of the Dove' strategy. Ignore it, and it weakens.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (/iWhV)

153 Is there really a Barrel anymore?

What can you do anymore that results in an embarreling?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:27 PM (ppBhU)

I think ace should institute a Commenting Credit Score.

Each registered commenter is allotted 20 positive votes and 10 negative votes each week. These votes must all be used, or they will all be counted as negative votes against your own account.

When your aggregate net commenting score reaches (-20) your account is suspended for a week.

I type this knowing I would be almost constantly suspended personally, most days for as little as one comment, but it's the only way I know to ensure thoughtful, intelligent commenting.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (o8eVs)

154 It has been reported that on Sunday, August 6, a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell in the warehouse of a cheese factory in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, crushing the owner, 75-year-old farmer Giacomo Chiapparini. The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM

A shelving failure?

Has anyone seen ace recently?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (Wnv9h)

155 The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.
Posted by: andycanuck

Has Ace traveled to Italy recently?

Posted by: Cheri at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (oiNtH)

156 It has been reported that on Sunday, August 6, a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell in the warehouse of a cheese factory in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, crushing the owner, 75-year-old farmer Giacomo Chiapparini. The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (krqg6)

25K seems like overkill. At 75, I would think that one would do the job.

His cheese really hated him.
Posted by: Strikethru at August 08, 2023 01:36 PM (aD39U)

This too is the story of ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (zZu0s)

157 *touches the man*

Cheddar

Posted by: The Old Gypsy Woman at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (aD39U)

158 Meh. The “intelligence” community have been doing that for decades. I believe they started with bugs and electric typewriters.
Posted by: db at August 08, 2023 01:36 PM (wu87C)

Also, unique radio signals from each keystroke. But you had to be relatively close.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (ufFY8)

159 133 A shelving collapse story? That should make the Quick Hits.

Posted by: Bete at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (ulhA0)

160 Oh, that horde mind!

Posted by: Cheri at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (oiNtH)

161 So this means hackers can now steal your passwords or any confidential data, by just listening to you as you type. And they can hack into your computer mic to do it. Or hack into your phone’s mic to listen in.

The world gets worse and worse.

Posted by: Montec at August 08, 2023 01:25 PM (N9tGb)

Thankfully all us morons know the secret nsa technic of protecting our keystrokes with constant flatulence.

I'm thinking about using an Enigma machine to scramble the keystrokes.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (eOEVl)

162 The Bolsheviks are taking over

Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (UwLg7)

163 133 How did 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano Cheese cause the death of a 75-year-old entrepreneur?

It has been reported that on Sunday, August 6, a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell in the warehouse of a cheese factory in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, crushing the owner, 75-year-old farmer Giacomo Chiapparini. The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:34 PM (krqg6)

It's always the things that you love that end up turning on you.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:39 PM (/iWhV)

164 Meh. The “intelligence” community have been doing that for decades. I believe they started with bugs and electric typewriters.

Posted by: db

They could time the microseconds it took for an IBM Selectric to hit each letter, based on the spin of the ball, and intercept the message as it was typed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 08, 2023 01:39 PM (lTGtQ)

165 I said for a long time that the next leftard that gets in was gonna make the Obama Years look like the Reagan Years. And it's intentional.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:39 PM (haFpQ)

166 Given the reach of the censors, I'd like to recommend the new game Palia. Not for it's gameplay, sadly, but because it's free and lets you create "communities" of housing plots so I will be creating something there in the near future. Having as many points of contact as possible is likely to become an even bigger deal as time goes on.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2023 01:39 PM (nC+QA)

167 Deer droppings found in ready-to-eat salads
https://tinyurl.com/3vvfkfk8

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert saying some fresh, ready-to-eat items could contain deer droppings.
The salads and wraps with meat and poultry may have contaminated lettuce, the FSIS said, explaining that they “may be contaminated with deer feces” and encouraging the public not to eat them.
The establishment number “P-45091” or “Est. 45091” can be found on the items’ front label, officials said. They were made on August 1 and 2, 2023
The products were shipped to retail locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Posted by: BeautifulHillaryClinton at August 08, 2023 01:39 PM (MFZ8i)

168 Thankfully all us morons know the secret nsa technic of protecting our keystrokes with constant flatulence.

I'm thinking about using an Enigma machine to scramble the keystrokes.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2023 01:38 PM (eOEVl)
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Gentlemen, may I be of service?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 01:39 PM (2YtOq)

169 I think ace should institute a Commenting Credit Score.

Each registered commenter is allotted 20 positive votes and 10 negative votes each week. These votes must all be used, or they will all be counted as negative votes against your own account.

When your aggregate net commenting score reaches (-20) your account is suspended for a week.

Uh-oh.

Posted by: The Eeyore Brigade at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (eOEVl)

170 I think I found it through drudge. ace was lumped into a link group with like... Blackfive, Jawa report, and a couple others.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (zZu0s)

171 How enthusiastic was IBM to aid the gov?

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (haFpQ)

172 It has been reported that on Sunday, August 6, a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell in the warehouse of a cheese factory in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, crushing the owner, 75-year-old farmer Giacomo Chiapparini. The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta.
Posted by: andycanuck

We need to get Jessica Fletcher on this!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (FVME7)

173 Haven't been to the Jawa Report in a while.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (IF2IV)

174 170 I think I found it through drudge. ace was lumped into a link group with like... Blackfive, Jawa report, and a couple others.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (zZu0s)

Oh.. maybe it was drudge... that was a thing back then.

Posted by: Inogame at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (53oGX)

175 If Ace enbarreled himself, I'd volunteer to keep him company. I'm a giver like that.

and on that note I'm off to the pool. have a great afternoon everyone. hopefully getting my endorphins up will help my mood.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (t/2Uw)

176 Great, reverse sock failure. So much for Autocucumber taking care of disguising key strokes.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (2YtOq)

177 Want to fix America?

The answer none want to hear:

KILL THE INTERNET.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (AD14M

Bingo.

Of course, a nice, big, fat EMP from the sun would accomplish the same thing.

You want a fun exercise? Picture the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will come if the internet gets turned off. People will go mad.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (rJ7Hd)

178 I've had the feeling for some time that the Internet is quickly becoming the enemy of mankind. It was once a University Library. Then a shopping mall. But today?

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk

It is essentially social media. If people stopped perusing for two hours per day and spent that time in face to face contact, the problem would fade.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (lTGtQ)

179 I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!!!

Today is the first day of school. Usually I hate it but this is my girl spawn senior year!!! She did the cover art for the yearbook last year and every single person who has seen it is raving about how cool it is. She is on track to be class salutatorian. And will probably get some good scholarships for college.
Our manufactured home was delivered and we are waiting for the guys to lay the foundation blocks hopefully this week. We had rain delays.
Yeh I could complain about the weather delay and how slow this process is. I could cry about my baby growing up. NOT!!! Some things happen just the way they are supposed to happen. Some things happen just because they happen.
I find happiness wherever it lives. It doesn't live in the government or the media or politics.

FIND HAPPY WHERE YOU ARE!!!!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (Wy1BU)

180 it's the only way I know to ensure thoughtful, intelligent commenting.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (o8eVs)

I think I see the problem.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (haFpQ)

181 The greatest trick censorship ever played was to convince the world it didn't exist.

Posted by: Zek at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (5FPX4)

182 Hey, I was just doin' what comes natural. It's not MY fault they don't wash the lettuce!

Posted by: The Deer at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (AD14M)

183 Supreme Court revives Biden’s ghost gun restrictions
by: Zach Schonfeld, The Hill
Posted: Aug 8, 2023 / 10:20 AM PDT

(The Hill)- The Supreme Court revived the Biden administration’s restrictions on so-called ghost guns in a 5-4 emergency ruling on Tuesday.
The justices agreed to pause a lower court’s decision, which invalidated the regulation nationwide, as the administration continues its appeal.
The decision hands a victory to Biden, at least for now. Biden last year announced the crackdown on ghost guns, referring to firearms that are sold as do-it-yourself kits and are generally hard to trace.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberals in temporarily reviving the restrictions. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.

Posted by: BeautifulHillaryClinton at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (MFZ8i)

184 I like where your headed with this credit score idea, but the lack of men with truncheons administering morale-improvement exercises seems like a critical oversight.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (ppBhU)

185 Did Drudge ever have AoSHQ on his blogroll?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (xTRSc)

186 Deer droppings found in ready-to-eat salads

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They're organic!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (FVME7)

187 How does something like this even get suggested without someone in the room explaining the constitution to the bright bulb suggesting it?

Posted by: Synova at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (BD/yx)

188 looks like ACB is evolving into quite the gun grabber

this usually the first step to becoming a full fledged libby

Posted by: REDACTED at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (us2H3)

189 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (Wy1BU)

Congrats MM. You are blessed.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (haFpQ)

190 The government extracts money from you at gunpoint and then gives it to thugs

Posted by: Rhenigantx at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (DB0ns)

191 You want a fun exercise? Picture the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will come if the internet gets turned off. People will go mad.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (rJ7Hd)

Have you ever seen what a young person starts acting like if they either do not have their phone or it breaks?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (zZu0s)

192 Second look at Frankenstein Brain Controls? Because, racism aside, Francis E Dec is looking more and more reasonable....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

193 185 Did Drudge ever have AoSHQ on his blogroll?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (xTRSc)

yes, in between xhamster and fuqqt.com

Posted by: REDACTED at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (us2H3)

194
Anyone here think "we're not voting our way out of this" is something other than cringe fedpoasting?
Posted by: Thesokorus

============

For the first time in my adult lifetime... something-or-other.

I'm scared out of my mind. We're half saved because of the force majeure of Elon buying Twitter. Who's going to buy Google, Facebook, and the MSM?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (lCaJd)

195 Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (zZu0s)

Ironically, I found the HQ through Ravelry, before the first purge of conservatives, as well as Rachel Lucas.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (nC+QA)

196 You want a fun exercise? Picture the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will come if the internet gets turned off. People will go mad.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (rJ7Hd)

Probably worse than cutting EBT cards, LOL.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (ufFY8)

197 Francis E Dec is looking more and more reasonable....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

So true. So true.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (Wcm38)

198 106 So, anyone here still think we're voting our way out of this mess in 2024? Or will that be just the last going through the motions before the Soros Horde makes its move and we (finally) go to the mat?
Posted by: exdem13
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Voting still makes sense in part as a delaying action as it is relatively cheap and it is very important to not have leftists in charge of your local and or state governments if everything goes to hell. Make your local community better and so on. Even holding the House is worthwhile because it forces the Dems to rub people's noses in their executive orders and allows court challenges, etc. to their diktats.

They don't have time on their side anymore which is why they are in overdrive because the impending financial crash of the US fisc is going to gut the national govt and its ability to buy votes.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (bk5GW)

199 Today is the first day of school.

Man, in early August? I remember having the whole summer free. I guess teaching children about gay sex is extra time-consuming.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (ppBhU)

200 Taxpayer and billionaire-backed researchers admit new techniques could allow Big Tech to minimize "public relations challenges" from direct removal of social posts.

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Make Smoke Signals and Morse Code Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- We're Happy Ace's Geriatric Club ... at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (f6UzA)

201 looks like ACB is evolving into quite the gun grabber
Who dat?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (HfNu5)

202 An actual CDC would promote a "digital sabbath" and "no phone November."

Posted by: Zek at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (5FPX4)

203 195 Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (zZu0s)

Ironically, I found the HQ through Ravelry, before the first purge of conservatives, as well as Rachel Lucas.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2023 01:43 PM (nC+QA)

Ravelry, the knitting site?
Huh.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (/iWhV)

204 2007 and I still feel like I missed all the good stuff.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (haFpQ)

205 >>

Stolen valor of the worst kind from the CIC. Claiming Beau came home in a flag draped coffin and he and Jill know just how she feels. Absolutely the worst.

Posted by: Cheri at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (oiNtH)

206 Ace had a really good weekend, as evidenced by the Bat Signal in last night's Café.

Now I don't know about you, but you might consider cutting the kid a little slack.

Posted by: RADM Painter at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (a3Q+t)

207 Congratulations on your daughter and your new home, Madamemayhem!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:45 PM (xTRSc)

208
How does something like this even get suggested without someone in the room explaining the constitution to the bright bulb suggesting it?
Posted by: Synova

==========

The Constitution is their target. No need to name it, they all understand perfectly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:45 PM (lCaJd)

209 Thankfully all us morons know the secret nsa technic of protecting our keystrokes with constant flatulence.

You know who else was "windy"?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 08, 2023 01:45 PM (/OoVe)

210 Drudge used to link virtually everyone. Hell, before he went bad years ago, a lot of the links went bad.

Hell, everyone had a blog. I'd read a post on Rachel Lukas, then go over to the old school Nun who had a blog, then move on to a dozen other sites.

It was wonderful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:45 PM (zZu0s)

211 The answer none want to hear:

KILL THE INTERNET.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at August 08, 2023 01:37 PM (AD14M)

You say that like Skynet isn't STANDING RIGHT THERE LISTENING.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:46 PM (Jk9SN)

212 Grano Padano is not even considered the good stuff. I am embarrassed for Giacomo's family.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 08, 2023 01:46 PM (nnp+f)

213 Y'all are a bunch of newbies. I've been here since AOL for DOS. When ace was still just the Jack of Spades.

Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2023 01:46 PM (StUJj)

214 Well, I knew I'd say this in some context sooner or later but....FUCK Amy Coney Barrett.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 08, 2023 01:46 PM (xcxpd)

215 Hate to say this but is there anything quite so prescient as the name "Info Wars" ?

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:46 PM (haFpQ)

216 I can assure you, Hell is not too good for him.

Posted by: Lucifer at August 08, 2023 01:47 PM (bdIGW)

217 Ravelry, the knitting site?
Huh.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:44 PM (/iWhV)

Yes. There was a thriving group of conservatives there before TPTB decided that Obama could not be in any way mocked and everyone woke up one morning to find the groups, and many of the individuals, simply *gone*.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2023 01:47 PM (nC+QA)

218 "The Constitution is their target. No need to name it, they all understand perfectly."

A Constitution only works if the things it is supposed to protect are valued by the nation.

Posted by: Zek at August 08, 2023 01:47 PM (5FPX4)

219 Does logic dictate that the existence of internet censorship negates the existence of infallible voter fraud?

Why put so much effort into censorship if you can use fraud to win any election?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:47 PM (XtkZj)

220 Remember, the machinations of the people in power are nothing more than tilting at windmills.

There is a God in Heaven who is truly in charge and these people will have to answer for their sins.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 01:47 PM (2YtOq)

221 210 Drudge used to link virtually everyone. Hell, before he went bad years ago, a lot of the links went bad.

Hell, everyone had a blog. I'd read a post on Rachel Lukas, then go over to the old school Nun who had a blog, then move on to a dozen other sites.

It was wonderful.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:45 PM (zZu0s)

Captain's Quarters. The Brothers Judd Blog. LGF. Heck, even Patterico's Pontifications.

Look where they all are, now. It's pathetic.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:48 PM (/iWhV)

222 Motorboat Mace needs to free the twins a bit more.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 08, 2023 01:32 PM (IF2IV)

Word.

Posted by: guy who always yells: "Show us yer tits!" at August 08, 2023 01:48 PM (v0R5T)

223
the impending financial crash of the US fisc is going to gut the national govt and its ability to buy votes.
Posted by: whig

============

It doesn't take money for the national government to get votes. Look at this. I bet these "tools, strategies, tactics, and techniques" are dirt-cheap. So is election fraud.

But the left is awash with cash anyway. Unions are doing the job.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:48 PM (lCaJd)

224 Hey, Doof. I hear that its National Pickleball Day. Many Happy Returns!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:48 PM (xTRSc)

225 What the heck happened to Orrin Judd? He's a smart guy and funny too. Sheeesh. Pathetic.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:48 PM (Wcm38)

226 The government extracts money from you at gunpoint and then gives it to thugs to slander, silence, and humiliate you.

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Old & Busted: "It's all in the game, yo!"
New Hotness: "It's all part of the kink, yo!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief "Misinformation" Researcher at AoSHQ at August 08, 2023 01:49 PM (f6UzA)

227 Why put so much effort into censorship if you can use fraud to win any election?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:47 PM (XtkZj)

Because the can.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:49 PM (haFpQ)

228 164 Meh. The “intelligence” community have been doing that for decades. I believe they started with bugs and electric typewriters.

Posted by: db

They could time the microseconds it took for an IBM Selectric to hit each letter, based on the spin of the ball, and intercept the message as it was typed.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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When evaluating intel techniques, you have the File 13 problem. The successes are bruited about because they get you more money in your budget, the failures are shoved into the garbage can.

Essentially, Fedgov intel and counter intel are terribly near sighted--they can focus on an individual or a particular organization with massive resources like Trump and his people but that means the rest of it is blurry. The reason is that too much information is out there and you get the needle in the haystack problem--too many false indicators.

Intel is lousy with predictions but decent in explaining what happened after it happened.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:49 PM (bk5GW)

229 It was wonderful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:45 PM (zZu0s)

That was my introduction to the net as well. So many bloggers have turned, or disappeared that it feels a bit dream-like.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 08, 2023 01:49 PM (nC+QA)

230 Congratulations to Madame Mayhem and spawn!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 01:49 PM (2YtOq)

231 Oh FFS!!!!

Because *they* can.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:49 PM (haFpQ)

232
Why put so much effort into censorship if you can use fraud to win any election?

Posted by: AlaBAMA

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Of course they'll use a multi-pronged attack. It's also a battle for hearts and minds.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:50 PM (lCaJd)

233 226 What the heck happened to Orrin Judd? He's a smart guy and funny too. Sheeesh. Pathetic.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:48 PM (Wcm3

That one hurt a lot. Don't go onto that site now. It's indistinguishable from the DU these days.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:50 PM (/iWhV)

234 Hey, Doof. I hear that its National Pickleball Day. Many Happy Returns!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 01:48 PM (xTRSc)

Thanks, brother! Played 4 games with some coworkers during our lunch break. Got my "ZERO-ZERO-TWO" shirt ready to wear when I head out for dinner and drinks with a friend later.

Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2023 01:50 PM (StUJj)

235 Lamont, you big dummy!

Posted by: ShainS -- Chief 'Misinformation' Researcher at AoSHQ at August 08, 2023 01:50 PM (f6UzA)

236
Of course they'll use a multi-pronged attack. It's also a battle for hearts and minds.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:50 PM (lCaJd)

So they want you nodding while they feed you a bullet?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:51 PM (XtkZj)

237 That one hurt a lot. Don't go onto that site now. It's indistinguishable from the DU these days.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:50 PM (/iWhV)

Dude wasn't in it for the money either. It does kinda hurt me more than any other.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 01:51 PM (Wcm38)

238 We had an AOS forum there for awhile.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 08, 2023 01:51 PM (ouTlx)

239 I was a lurker at LGF. When what's his name lost I became a lurker here.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 08, 2023 01:51 PM (HfNu5)

240 April 30 2004 post here on the q:

Our Blogspot Address Isn't Quite Dead Yet
Just to let you know: If you've come here from a link at one of the numerous blogs now linking to this address, we're still doing most of our blogging over at the blogspot address.

You can get there by clicking this Ace-o-Spades link.

We're going to switch here, pretty much exclusively, around Tuesday or Wednesday. Right after we figure out how to make our site-design look less, what's the word? ah yes: faggy.

If you're a blogger and you've changed your link to this address, don't bother changing back to www.ace-o-spades.blogspot.com. We'll be here soon enough. And thanks for being so quick to update your blogroll.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:51 PM (Jk9SN)

241 The earliest sidebar archives are from April 2004. LOL. Blogger.

"First post.

posted at 30.12.03 by Ace"

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (zZu0s)

242 Too much Drudge talk therefore a thermonuclear strike has been ordered on the Ace of Spades servers and Pixy.

Have a nice day!

Posted by: BeautifulHillaryClinton at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (MFZ8i)

243 Of course they'll use a multi-pronged attack. It's also a battle for hearts and minds.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:50 PM (lCaJd)

Yup. It's not just old fashioned "don't say mean stuff about your king" censorship. It's full on psychological abuse. They want you to actually *love* the sick bastards they fob off on us, and to fear and reflexively loathe anyone who doesn't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (D6e9t)

244 170 I think I found it through drudge. ace was lumped into a link group with like... Blackfive, Jawa report, and a couple others.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:40 PM (zZu0s)

Man, that takes me back...

I don't remember if it was through a Drudge link or another blog that I stumbled into this place, found a dark, quiet corner to lurk in, and occasionally lift my head to join the noise. It's been a minute....

Posted by: goozer at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (zyV51)

245 Have you ever seen what a young person starts acting like if they either do not have their phone or it breaks?

Yes, and it's disturbing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (Xrfse)

246
Remember, the machinations of the people in power are nothing more than tilting at windmills.

There is a God in Heaven who is truly in charge and these people will have to answer for their sins.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker

===========

Well, it doesn't comfort me to know that Joe Biden is going to hell. America is dying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (lCaJd)

247 "First post.

posted at 30.12.03 by Ace"
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (zZu0s)

Heh. Ace got first.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (XtkZj)

248 The blogspot site:

http://ace-o-spades.blogspot.com/

You want some memories, check out the blogroll.

Heck, even this is on there:

Blaster's Blog

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (Jk9SN)

249 Taxpayer and billionaire-backed researchers admit new techniques could allow Big Tech to minimize "public relations challenges" from direct removal of social posts.
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LOL.

"PR challenges"

What's really grotesque about this is that the goal is probably actually that. They want to prevent another InBev disaster where the sheep wake up for a moment and decide to punish a corporation just for doing its duty to promote the progressive agenda.

It will, of course, be used for everything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (WkNQM)

250 Jeez. ace posted an entire poem in that first archive.

He was like a 12 year old girl with his diary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (zZu0s)

251 0% of the time, has censorship of speech increased freedom.
100% of the time, the people censoring speech are the bad guys.

What's the current percentage of Democrats who want to limit the 1st Amendment? 70% or so?

I'll bet the first suit sponsored by Musk will reveal these censors also directly contacted the employer in addition to demanding the person be banned from social media.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (TzW+Y)

252 Does anyone have a link to RFK jr filing a US Code 1983 claim?

Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2023 01:54 PM (n4O5Y)

253 It doesn't take money for the national government to get votes. Look at this. I bet these "tools, strategies, tactics, and techniques" are dirt-cheap. So is election fraud.

But the left is awash with cash anyway. Unions are doing the job.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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No jobs, no union money as we are looking at something like the Great Depression across the world.

In bad times, people want their vote to matter if only to repudiate the current sobs in charge. The problem with relying on voter fraud in places like the cities is that when the safety net goes offline, they will become feral.

No master plan ever succeeds in the face of reality--events happen, people fail, and institutions do too. Fear the collapse as it won't be pretty but don't fear some master plan by a bunch of intellectuals like the WEF. As Mike Tyson says, everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:54 PM (bk5GW)

254 246 Have you ever seen what a young person starts acting like if they either do not have their phone or it breaks?

Yes, and it's disturbing.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (Xrfse)

And hilarious

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 08, 2023 01:54 PM (xcxpd)

255 More from the past:
Norm MacDonald Shrine
For my (crossing fingers!) one reader out there, here's that Norm MacDonald link I was telling you all about.

posted at 30.12.03 by Ace

Link still works:
https://tinyurl.com/yj59d8uf

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:54 PM (zZu0s)

256 I remember when Glenn Beck did a public takedown of LGF. CJ tried punching well above his weight and got tossed out of the ring.

It was something to behold.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 01:54 PM (2YtOq)

257 Much of the academic research was published in a little-noticed article published last summer in the journal Nature Human Behavior entitled "Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation" that identified a cocktail of four tools that the researchers projected could reduce the spread of content deemed misinformation by as much as 63% without direct removal of posts or time-consuming fact checks.
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You have two choices when it comes to message control:
1. Counter "bad" messages
2. Suppress "bad" messages, thus removing competition from the approved "good" messages.

Door #1 is whack-a-mole and very difficult. Door #2 is much easier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:54 PM (WkNQM)

258 The researchers -- who included the University of Washington's Jevin D. West and Kate Starbird -- acknowledged the new tactics like "virality circuit breakers" were less detectable to users and the public and therefore could spare social media giants the public outcries that occurred in 2020 when stories like the Hunter Biden laptop were publicly removed from platforms.
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"They disliked these actions when they learned about them, so we shall prevent them from learning about it."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:55 PM (WkNQM)

259 The government extracts money from you at gunpoint and then gives it to thugs to slander, silence, and humiliate you.
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And, if you keep going, to prosecute and eventually kill you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:55 PM (WkNQM)

260 251 Jeez. ace posted an entire poem in that first archive.

He was like a 12 year old girl with his diary.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (zZu0s)

Daisy, Daisy, ...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 01:55 PM (/iWhV)

261 Heh. Ace got first.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (XtkZj)

HAH!

*other commenter's balls shrivel at this display of dominance*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:55 PM (zZu0s)

262
So they want you nodding while they feed you a bullet?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

==========

If they can't change your mind, it doesn't matter because they stole your vote anyway.

If they can't steal your vote, it doesn't matter because for every mind like yours they've poisoned three others.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 01:55 PM (lCaJd)

263 This blonde in a weird garment thinks that censors should burn in hell:
https://is.gd/3aundt

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (WkNQM)

264 246 Have you ever seen what a young person starts acting like if they either do not have their phone or it breaks?

Yes, and it's disturbing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD

= =

And in 20 years that person will be President of the United States.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (AD14M)

265 What we really need now is a favorable court decision WIN to uplift our spirits. Especially against an enemy that never stops scheming and completely ignores law and court decisions.

Posted by: JROD at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (IlL6s)

266 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (D6e9t)

Was going to mention this exact thing. They abuse the way a sadistic profile narcissist abuses. They want absolute ownership.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (haFpQ)

267 and on that note I'm off to the pool. have a great afternoon everyone. hopefully getting my endorphins up will help my mood.
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Careful, Sharon. I understand that male endorphins are know to rape female swimmers.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (krqg6)

268 FYI I only beet places. lurk at

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (HfNu5)

269 264 This blonde in a weird garment thinks that censors should burn in hell:
https://is.gd/3aundt
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (WkNQM)

That is weird. She should take it off, slowly, while dancing to the Moody Blues.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (xcxpd)

270 Well, it doesn't comfort me to know that Joe Biden is going to hell. America is dying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

America is an idea and as such doesn't die. Regimes (that is the current power structure) can and do die with regularity and sometimes the people in them do as well. I grew up about twenty miles from a SAC base during the Cold War and pretty much figured if the balloon went up, bad things would happen. Same today--but to paraphrase Churchill, a master historian, 'nations that go down fighting can rise again--nations that surrender don't.' Use Dylan Thomas as an inspiration and don't go gently into the night.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (bk5GW)

271 I came here occasionally from Hot Air in the mid Twenty-oughts. Ed and AP would link to Ace sometimes. Hot Air was the first place I adopted the Doof nic for online purposes. The abundance of soy over there brought me here for good.

Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (StUJj)

272 I was a lurker at LGF. When what's his name lost I became a lurker here.

I was pretty active there until I realized things were going down the crapper. Met a lot of nice LGF people in meatspace but in the end, it was time to get the hell out. Don't quite recall how I found this place but glad I did.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (Xrfse)

273 266 What we really need now is a favorable court decision WIN to uplift our spirits. Especially against an enemy that never stops scheming and completely ignores law and court decisions.
Posted by: JROD at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (IlL6s)

Yeah, like overturning Roe!

Oh, wait.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 01:58 PM (Jk9SN)

274 270 264 This blonde in a weird garment thinks that censors should burn in hell:
https://is.gd/3aundt
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (WkNQM)

That is weird. She should take it off, slowly, while dancing to the Moody Blues.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (xcxpd)

I like this new version of Rorschach.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:58 PM (zZu0s)

275 I have a confession to make. I’m deep fryer sexual. I love anything that’s deep fried.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2023 01:58 PM (JTwsP)

276 You want a fun exercise? Picture the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will come if the internet gets turned off. People will go mad.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:41 PM (rJ7Hd)
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It would be the end of the world as we know it.

Never mind the people who are addicted to their phones or social media or porno. That's the least of it.

*Everything* rides on the internet now. Without it, you can't move money and you can't pay your bills. Even if *you* pay by checks and mail, the backend systems need to do data exchange and almost all of that happens through internet connections. Commerce will grind to a halt, too, as supply chain management is suddenly non-existent.

A sudden, persistent internet outage would like be worse than a nuke going off in a couple of major port cities.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:58 PM (WkNQM)

277 wiNd pOwer Is tHE FuturE!

Video of a wind turbine collapsing due to a sudden gust of wind. I find this video especially funny because three turbines are in frame, and two of them are not moving at all.

https://tinyurl.com/26ya9h25

Posted by: bonhomme at August 08, 2023 01:58 PM (V1QHJ)

278 "First post.

posted at 30.12.03 by Ace"
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 08, 2023 01:52 PM (zZu0s)

Heh. Ace got first.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:53 PM (XtkZj)

Sponge hardest hit

Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2023 01:59 PM (StUJj)

279 264 This blonde in a weird garment thinks that censors should burn in hell:
https://is.gd/3aundt
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (WkNQM)

Her creepy long fingers are disgusting!

2/10 would not bang

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 01:59 PM (XtkZj)

280 Have you ever seen what a young person starts acting like if they either do not have their phone or it breaks?

Yes, and it's disturbing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD

Watched a co-worker in her late 20s meltdown at work when she dropped and broke her phone. Hardest part of my job that day was stifling my laughter.

Have also seen a few videos of teenagers punching teachers who took their phones away. Kind of hard to pick someone to root for/against in those situations, though.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 01:59 PM (KbCG3)

281 266 What we really need now is a favorable court decision WIN to uplift our spirits. Especially against an enemy that never stops scheming and completely ignores law and court decisions.
Posted by: JROD
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Dobbs and the affirmative action case are two. The step by step peeling back of the admin state legal justification in another.

But, courts are backward looking, not forward normally and I think we have to look to ourselves and form strong local communities in order to survive what is coming.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 01:59 PM (bk5GW)

282 276 I have a confession to make. I’m deep fryer sexual. I love anything that’s deep fried.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2023 01:58 PM (JTwsP)

Note to self: do not eat the chicken at sniffybigtoe's house.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 02:00 PM (Jk9SN)

283 More from the past:
Norm MacDonald Shrine
For my (crossing fingers!) one reader out there, here's that Norm MacDonald link I was telling you all about.

posted at 30.12.03 by Ace

Fuck ace that's good shit right there. Wow.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 02:00 PM (haFpQ)

284 Watched a co-worker in her late 20s meltdown at work when she dropped and broke her phone. Hardest part of my job that day was stifling my laughter. ...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 01:59 PM (KbCG3)
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Sometimes, I'll forget my phone at home. If I'm going to be out all day or I want to be able to use GPS, I'll go back for it. Usually, I won't. I find being without my phone to be somewhat annoying. Not beyond that. Certainly not something that would induce panic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:01 PM (WkNQM)

285 Her creepy long fingers are disgusting!

To be fair those long fingers could come in handy where girthiness is involved.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 08, 2023 02:01 PM (HfNu5)

286 The decision hands a victory to Biden, at least for now. Biden last year announced the crackdown on ghost guns, referring to firearms that are sold as do-it-yourself kits and are generally hard to trace.
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Selling plastic AK-69s outta ice cream vans, man!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 08, 2023 02:01 PM (krqg6)

287 But that's what you have in 'Intel'. College pukes, Stupid ones.
Posted by: Uncle Rick

Bureaucracies are bad enough at information flow--the channelization into silos by the need to know on intel means that the information is often out of date or useless by the time it gets to decision makers.

But, intel can't decentralize other than battlefield usage because doing so risks info becoming public.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 02:01 PM (bk5GW)

288 284 276 I have a confession to make. I’m deep fryer sexual. I love anything that’s deep fried.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2023 01:58 PM (JTwsP)

Note to self: do not eat the chicken at sniffybigtoe's house.
Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 02:00 PM (Jk9SN)

Or, more disturbingly, the chicken 'fingers'.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 08, 2023 02:01 PM (/iWhV)

289 The whole censorship apparatus is built on the existence of pedophilia and terrorism. Terrorism is obv a psy-op and CIA and London are behind almost all post Baader Meinhoff. And I wouldn't be surprised if Baader was Western Intel.

Makes me think pedophilia is BS in the sense that it does not work like the TPTB say it works. It absolutely exists. And they should get the rope. But I am starting to doubt it has the form they say it does. It's more Epstein than anything else. And censorship wouldn't have effected him.

I think they were going to try and make snuff films a thing at one point but decided against it.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 02:02 PM (Wcm38)

290 Knowledge is Good! - Emil Faber, Founder Faber College

Censorship is Good! - Uniparty Asshoes

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 02:02 PM (gmo/4)

291 Why do they always forget to mention that the uppers are considered firearms?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2023 02:02 PM (JTwsP)

292
I was pretty active there until I realized things were going down the crapper. Met a lot of nice LGF people in meatspace but in the end, it was time to get the hell out. Don't quite recall how I found this place but glad I did.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2023 01:57 PM (Xrfse)

I found Ace through LGF, years ago, and I think a lot of people who got fed up with the bike boy migrated here.

Posted by: Moki at August 08, 2023 02:02 PM (JrN/x)

293 I got hooked on Ace with Monty’s DOOM! threads. Lurked for years. Finally started commentating about two an a half years ago.

I regret not becoming a part of this group sooner.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 02:03 PM (xTRSc)

294 What we really need now is a favorable court decision WIN to uplift our spirits. Especially against an enemy that never stops scheming and completely ignores law and court decisions.
Posted by: JROD at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (IlL6s)
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What's the point of a court win if the Enemy just ignores it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2023 02:03 PM (YIVH2)

295 What's the point of a court win if the Enemy just ignores it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2023 02:03 PM (YIVH2)

Didn't work against the Vietcong either.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 02:03 PM (XtkZj)

296
Cash

Posted by: Braenyard at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (O2rhH)

297 Unlike the woman in post #270, this cute, flirty woman in a modest outfit is glad that her first acting role was not in a low budget film, "Boobettes from outerspace":

https://tinyurl.com/fe56ahc4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (Keyt1)

298
No jobs, no union money as we are looking at something like the Great Depression across the world.

In bad times, people want their vote to matter if only to repudiate the current sobs in charge. The problem with relying on voter fraud in places like the cities is that when the safety net goes offline, they will become feral.

No master plan ever succeeds in the face of reality--events happen, people fail, and institutions do too. Fear the collapse as it won't be pretty but don't fear some master plan by a bunch of intellectuals like the WEF. As Mike Tyson says, everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.
Posted by: whig

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Even Argentina in the days of Peron had union money.

Safety net is pretty thin in New York (cf. illegal alien crisis) and feral humans move about fearlessly. Same for San Francisco. TikTok girl who got spat on still defends Team Blue. Team Blue will not fade.

I have mixed emotions about the collapse. It has to happen in order for the Constitution to be restored, but a lot of innocent people will suffer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (lCaJd)

299 I love liverwurst, by the way. Mmmmmmmmmmm…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Me too!

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (VMFAF)

300 Dissent. From Patriotism to Illegal in the swish of an effeminate hip.

Posted by: ... at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (haFpQ)

301 It's more Epstein than anything else. And censorship wouldn't have effected him.

A while back a child sexual abuse ring was discovered in Belgium.

The nominal ring leader was some unemployed guy with little money, no formal job, and supposedly no connections.

After being arrested he claimed that he was providing kids to the elites in Belgium. Instead of investigating the Belgian government locked him solitary and banned the press from talking to him.

I suspect the Epstein type thing has been around for a while. Though, amusingly normalizing pedophilia will take away the value in this sort of operation for the elites.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 02:05 PM (lc5cP)

302 286 Watched a co-worker in her late 20s meltdown at work when she dropped and broke her phone. Hardest part of my job that day was stifling my laughter. ...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 01:59 PM (KbCG3)
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Sometimes, I'll forget my phone at home. If I'm going to be out all day or I want to be able to use GPS, I'll go back for it. Usually, I won't. I find being without my phone to be somewhat annoying. Not beyond that. Certainly not something that would induce panic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:01 PM (WkNQM)

It feels odd to be without mine, especially since I just hit that point where I've officially had one for more than half my life.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 02:05 PM (KbCG3)

303 low budget film, "Boobettes from outerspace":

Is that the Woody Allen flick?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 02:05 PM (XtkZj)

304 184 I like where your headed with this credit score idea, but the lack of men with truncheons administering morale-improvement exercises seems like a critical oversight.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 01:42 PM (ppBhU)

It just isn't AoS if somebody isn't getting physically beaten.

Posted by: XTC at August 08, 2023 02:05 PM (UnA8+)

305 InBev is selling eight of their beer brands to Tilray for only 85 million.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 08, 2023 02:06 PM (V1QHJ)

306 her first acting role was not in a low budget film, "Boobettes from outerspace":

Is that showing anywhere in IMAX?

Posted by: Some Moron at August 08, 2023 02:06 PM (lc5cP)

307 Unlike the woman in post #270, this cute, flirty woman in a modest outfit is glad that her first acting role was not in a low budget film, "Boobettes from outerspace":

https://tinyurl.com/fe56ahc4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (Keyt1)
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Hey! "Boobettes from Outer Space" defined the genre!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:06 PM (WkNQM)

308 294 I found Ace through LGF, years ago, and I think a lot of people who got fed up with the bike boy migrated here.
Posted by: Moki at August 08, 2023 02:02 PM (JrN/x)

Then there were the Hot Air Refugees.

Posted by: XTC at August 08, 2023 02:07 PM (UnA8+)

309 The Foundation for Freedom Online says the work done last year by members of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public
________________

That's a leftist outfit. I shan't believe. I simply shan't.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 08, 2023 02:07 PM (YqDXo)

310 @296 "Perfessor" Squirrel-My point exactly.

Posted by: JROD at August 08, 2023 02:08 PM (IlL6s)

311 Boobettes from Outer Space!

Return of the Boobettes!

Invasion of the Boobettes!

Boobettes Attack!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 02:08 PM (XtkZj)

312 Posted by: Some Moron at August 08, 2023 02:06 PM (lc5cP)

LOL. Not in IMAX; Do doubt the wonderful world of the Internet contains all kinds of adult films-some even with a Sci Fi Theme, I exect.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2023 02:09 PM (Keyt1)

313
'nations that go down fighting can rise again--nations that surrender don't.' Use Dylan Thomas as an inspiration and don't go gently into the night.
Posted by: whig

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whig, I really REALLY appreciate your arguments today. I'm in a horrible spot with this news. I'm not going gently into any night, but I'm worried about "nations that surrender." How long will we even be a nation, much less one that fights?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 02:09 PM (lCaJd)

314 @300 Uncle Rick-I completely understand where you're coming from. I cynically go back and forth on the issue at times.

Posted by: JROD at August 08, 2023 02:09 PM (IlL6s)

315 The first bit I remember from here is Ace mocking some chubby, unfunny Asian comedian.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 08, 2023 02:09 PM (HfNu5)

316 Is this group also being funded by the Global Engagement Center that is part of the US Government? Margot Cleveland reported on them in the Washington Examiner not too long ago as well.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at August 08, 2023 02:10 PM (evaxF)

317 InBev is selling eight of their beer brands to Tilray for only 85 million.

What's that in days of lost Bud Light revenue?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2023 02:10 PM (nfrXX)

318 If I am going to die being crushed by cheese, it's gotta be Gouda, or nothing at all.

Posted by: Don't Give Edam at August 08, 2023 02:10 PM (83IzV)

319 Dances with Boobettes

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 02:10 PM (xTRSc)

320 Dylan Thomas

pffffft... whatever, he never had a Bud Lite can.

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at August 08, 2023 02:11 PM (Vu7A1)

321 Even Argentina in the days of Peron had union money.

Safety net is pretty thin in New York (cf. illegal alien crisis) and feral humans move about fearlessly. Same for San Francisco. TikTok girl who got spat on still defends Team Blue. Team Blue will not fade.

I have mixed emotions about the collapse. It has to happen in order for the Constitution to be restored, but a lot of innocent people will suffer.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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The difference is that economies and people in them were more self reliant back then. Essentially, the US doesn't make very much anymore and relies on trading to places like the Far East to make things. Global chains of parts make even US production fragile to disruption. Covid proved that. Now, picture nothing to buy with a currency collapse because even those factories that make things cannot get the critical parts to keep the machines rolling or to sell the goods. Transportation becomes paralyzed due to lack of orders and cities become feral dangerous places due to widespread looting and worse.

Simply put, imagine something like Covid lockdowns but having to barter for food.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 02:11 PM (bk5GW)

322 This blonde in a weird garment thinks that censors should burn in hell:
https://is.gd/3aundt
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 01:56 PM (WkNQM)
.......

Have to see from behind but... potential nice wedgie

Posted by: wth at August 08, 2023 02:11 PM (v0R5T)

323 318 Margaret Cho?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 02:11 PM (xTRSc)

324 321 If I am going to die being crushed by cheese, it's gotta be Gouda, or nothing at all.
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If it were Havarti I would die with a hard on.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 02:11 PM (fWTJL)

325
After being arrested he claimed that he was providing kids to the elites in Belgium. Instead of investigating the Belgian government locked him solitary and banned the press from talking to him.

Posted by: 18-1

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I am so effing flummoxed by all this pedophilia. Is half the damn human race in on it or what? And what the hell makes people want to fvck little kids?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (lCaJd)

326 Electric bus/bonfire maker Proterra filed for bankruptcy.

It’s time to play “How Much Money. Did the Leftards Throw at This Failure!”

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (JTwsP)

327 Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 02:08 PM (XtkZj)

I don't know; I found "Return of the Boobettes" formulaic,
with robotic poses amongst its actresses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (Keyt1)

328 OpenAI Launches Web-Crawler 'GPTBot' Amid Plans For 'GPT-5'

zerohead

Posted by: Braenyard at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (O2rhH)

329 Margaret Cho?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 08, 2023 02:11 PM (xTRSc)

Sounds right.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (HfNu5)

330 @291

>>Makes me think pedophilia is BS in the sense that it does not work like the TPTB say it works. It absolutely exists. And they should get the rope.

The US LE/IC runs the worlds largest child *o*n distribution network in the world.

Mostly as a way to dirty up individuals and to use certain individuals as causes beli to open investigations.

DHS has allowed around 100k unaccompanied minors into the country over the last 2 plus years.

These kids aren't necessarily unaccompanied they are often time traveling with adults who are not their parents, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (up/3i)

331 I am so effing flummoxed by all this pedophilia. Is half the damn human race in on it or what? And what the hell makes people want to fvck little kids?
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A sense of power.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (fWTJL)

332 @283 whig-I always enjoy your comments whig. Hopefully you don't think I was being too salty with you yesterday. : )

Posted by: JROD at August 08, 2023 02:13 PM (IlL6s)

333 I have mixed emotions about the collapse. It has to happen in order for the Constitution to be restored, but a lot of innocent people will suffer.

At this point, suffering is baked into the cake. If the current tyrants prevail, there'll be plenty of suffering too.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 02:13 PM (ppBhU)

334 From the 'They Will Never Stop' files:

Washington and Lee University has removed a plaque honoring Robert E Lee's horse, Traveller because of the horse's association with the general.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 02:13 PM (XtkZj)

335 I first found Ace via several other blogs like IMAO and Michellee Malkin, and I think Blackfive.

Can't recall when I de-lurked, but it's been years, and I had a different handle back then.

the Kaboom post is still my favorite. Kind of crazy how long I've been hanging around here.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 08, 2023 02:13 PM (xPJvm)

336 If I am going to die being crushed by cheese, it's gotta be Gouda, or nothing at all.
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If it were Havarti I would die with a hard on.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 02:11 PM

Gentlemen, let me remind you that it's Swiss with the bonus holes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2023 02:14 PM (a3Q+t)

337 But there is no evidence of election interference.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2023 02:14 PM (ZLI7S)

338 whig, I really REALLY appreciate your arguments today. I'm in a horrible spot with this news. I'm not going gently into any night, but I'm worried about "nations that surrender." How long will we even be a nation, much less one that fights?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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We may not hold together as a nation, then again we might. What I do think is that there will be a substantial change in how we are governed, for better or worse, but that is primarily going to happen at the national level with islands of stability in local and state regions. Cities and suburbs though may become battlegrounds for massive crime and disorder at the least.

Posted by: whig at August 08, 2023 02:14 PM (bk5GW)

339 I am so effing flummoxed by all this pedophilia. Is half the damn human race in on it or what? And what the hell makes people want to fvck little kids?

Its a taboo that will get you thrown in jail and removed from the political sphere. Likely 50 years ago they ran gay honeypots.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 02:14 PM (lc5cP)

340
Simply put, imagine something like Covid lockdowns but having to barter for food.
Posted by: whig

============

Well, if that's the last stage of collapse before the rebirth, it should produce some dedicated capitalists and a firm belief in self-reliance, so there's that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 02:14 PM (lCaJd)

341 @318

>>The first bit I remember from here is Ace mocking some chubby, unfunny Asian comedian.

The funniest bit Ace ever did was a supreme fisking of a writer from the Village Voice, he fisked the dudes book The Cat Sitters.

Ace was Dave Barryesque.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2023 02:15 PM (up/3i)

342 The last time the elites f*cked up this bad was August 1914.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2023 02:15 PM (JvZF+)

343 am so effing flummoxed by all this pedophilia. Is half the damn human race in on it or what? And what the hell makes people want to fvck little kids?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (lCaJd)

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Romans 1:24-29

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 02:15 PM (2YtOq)

344 I never understood all the fuss about stopping Abortions. If a leftist wants one, we should pay for it.

And give them $5 from Crime Stop.
Posted by: Uncle Rick at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (tQ0Tc)

It is because the unborn innocent are forced to suffer for the convenience of the guilty. That is Evil. The real issue is whether or not you believe an unborn child is a human being, or just a meaningless blob of tissue.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2023 02:16 PM (i9ffA)

345 I don't know; I found "Return of the Boobettes" formulaic, with robotic poses amongst its actresses.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM

Why has this movie never been reviewed by TJM?????

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2023 02:16 PM (a3Q+t)

346 Simply put, imagine something like Covid lockdowns but having to barter for food.
==
Barter Town

Blonde Morticia gets to be Aunti Entity.

Posted by: Thunderdome here we come at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (bNy/6)

347 Ace was Dave Barryesque.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2023 02:15 PM (up/3i)

Except WAY more dick jokes.

Posted by: blaster at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (Jk9SN)

348 I never understood all the fuss about stopping Abortions. If a leftist wants one, we should pay for it.

And give them $5 from Crime Stop.
Posted by: Uncle Rick at August 08, 2023 02:04 PM (tQ0Tc)

I'll give your charity of choice $5 if you abort yourself.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (Wcm38)

349 Romans 1:24-29
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 08, 2023 02:15 PM (2YtOq)

That and Moloch.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (XtkZj)

350 Since this apparently a movie thread now, has anyone seen "Pig" with Nicolas Cage? I've heard good things but know nothing about it. Wondering if I should check it out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (WkNQM)

351 Coney Barrett and Robert's just trampled your Second Amendment right again. Denied a continuation of the stay for Garland v Vanderstok and in ATF ban on "ghost guns". Good pick, Trump and the Federalist Clown Society. Once again a "conservative" woman on the court gives it to us in the neck.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (IaTa3)

352 346 am so effing flummoxed by all this pedophilia. Is half the damn human race in on it or what? And what the hell makes people want to fvck little kids?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 02:12 PM (lCaJd)

The cultural and political elites are certainly in on it. Perhaps they always have been to an extent, but they feel emboldened by how easily they have been able to assert their control lately. They've stopped putting much effort into trying to hide it, and are openly trying to normalize it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (i9ffA)

353 That and Moloch.

I have...so many names.

Posted by: The guy they claim to NOT worship at the Church of Satan at August 08, 2023 02:18 PM (lc5cP)

354 Nood, y'all.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2023 02:18 PM (a3Q+t)

355
But there is no evidence of election interference.
Posted by: JackStraw

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While RDS is busy claiming that, I wonder if he's the least bit chilled by findings of mind-control like this.

And I don't mean this to be an RDS vs Trump post. I just wonder what really, deeply gets to RDS.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 08, 2023 02:18 PM (lCaJd)

356 353 Since this apparently a movie thread now, has anyone seen "Pig" with Nicolas Cage? I've heard good things but know nothing about it. Wondering if I should check it out.
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No. But I've seen twenty minutes of Babe-Pig in the City and it was horrible.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 08, 2023 02:18 PM (DmtxH)

357 353 Since this apparently a movie thread now, has anyone seen "Pig" with Nicolas Cage? I've heard good things but know nothing about it. Wondering if I should check it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (WkNQM)

It's no Boobettes from Space, but I enjoyed it regardless.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 08, 2023 02:18 PM (XtkZj)

358 354 Coney Barrett and Robert's just trampled your Second Amendment right again. Denied a continuation of the stay for Garland v Vanderstok and in ATF ban on "ghost guns". Good pick, Trump and the Federalist Clown Society. Once again a "conservative" woman on the court gives it to us in the neck.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (IaTa3)

This is why I'm not banking on SCOTUS to save Trump. 5-4 or 6-3 against is almost a lock.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 08, 2023 02:18 PM (KbCG3)

359 Since this apparently a movie thread now, has anyone seen "Pig" with Nicolas Cage? I've heard good things but know nothing about it. Wondering if I should check it out.

I really liked it.

But I'm a Cage fan.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 08, 2023 02:18 PM (ppBhU)

360 Since this apparently a movie thread now, has anyone seen "Pig" with Nicolas Cage? I've heard good things but know nothing about it. Wondering if I should check it out.

Its good. And weird. I've never seen a movie quite like it before.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 02:19 PM (lc5cP)

361 Since this apparently a movie thread now, has anyone seen "Pig" with Nicolas Cage? I've heard good things but know nothing about it. Wondering if I should check it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (WkNQM)

It's no MANDY but I laughed at the absurdity of it all. And enjoyed it. But then I dig Nic Cage.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 08, 2023 02:19 PM (Wcm38)

362 354 Coney Barrett and Robert's just trampled your Second Amendment right again. Denied a continuation of the stay for Garland v Vanderstok and in ATF ban on "ghost guns". Good pick, Trump and the Federalist Clown Society. Once again a "conservative" woman on the court gives it to us in the neck.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (IaTa3)
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I warned about Coney Barrett repeatedly. But nobody wanted to listen. "Abortion," "abortion," "abortion" is all they heard. She was a big fav on this site, despite my warnings.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 08, 2023 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

363 I gave up on the franchise after Close Encounters of the Boobette Kind.

Posted by: reason at August 08, 2023 02:19 PM (qzFjd)

364 Since this apparently a movie thread now, has anyone seen "Pig" with Nicolas Cage? I've heard good things but know nothing about it. Wondering if I should check it out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:17 PM (WkNQM)

I don't know anything about it either, but Nic Cage is one who I actually like. Yes, he's been in some turrible movies, but he's also been in some very good ones, like Matchstick Men.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at August 08, 2023 02:20 PM (xPJvm)

365 At least it is not Boobettesmetheus.

Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2023 02:20 PM (gmo/4)

366 Close encounters of the mammary kind > Boobettes from Space

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 02:20 PM (lc5cP)

367 Heh horde mind

Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2023 02:21 PM (lc5cP)

368 The funniest bit Ace ever did
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I still occasionally read the Tom Friedman We need to talk about my Egyptian cab driver . . . Its a sure fire laugh every time he gets stabbed in the ear.

Posted by: Thunderdome here we come at August 08, 2023 02:21 PM (bNy/6)

369 Thanks, guys!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 08, 2023 02:28 PM (WkNQM)

370 Hey Ace, aren't you missing an opportunity to complain how this happened on Trump's watch because he was too busy following Twitter or some other BS?

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at August 08, 2023 03:30 PM (nHs3g)

372 Both the Nazis and Commies were fans of censorship Hitler, Stalin Castro and Mao

Posted by: Tamaa the Dromgo bird at August 08, 2023 04:17 PM (wGqjj)

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