DEI heretics pay a price even when they are financing DEI

Happy New Year!

I really felt like skipping news this weekend, but the story about charges of plagiarism against Bill Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, is developing. Its details are tedious, but demonstrate some interesting things about the fury of the fight over the resignation of the President of Harvard -- part of a small, oppressed class of black women who grew up in a privileged family in a third world country, who went to a prestigious prep school before attending prestigious universities, and who still make about $900,000 a year.

There are other things to think about this weekend, too.

Setting the stage - The Week in Pictures, Gay Times Edition

Steven Hayward:

Well, this new year is starting off much better than expected. It's not often that a schadenfreudey moment like the self-immolation of Harvard's Claudine Gay lasts an entire month, so by all means let's revel in it for another week. Let it roll over us like hot chocolate syrup on a vanilla ice-cream sundae. (I'm sure some ninny somewhere will think this imagery racist, unless they stop and think about it for a moment, which they won't.) It's been so much fun we almost ignored the new Jeffrey Epstein documents, which didn't hang themselves. Now on to MIT!

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The DEI Juggernaut targets Bill Ackman's Wife

It started like this:

Claudine Gay Claims White Supremacists Went Back In Time And Forced Her To Plagiarize At Gunpoint https://t.co/dJlF7lmkGx pic.twitter.com/3qwcj04P81
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 3, 2024

Bill Ackman had earlier called on other CEOs not to hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for the Hamas attack. He then criticized Dr. Gay and two other college presidents over their congressional testimony regarding the acceptability of advocating the genocide of Jews at their schools. He helped start the ball rolling toward the resignation of Dr. Gay. Then the instances of plagiarism were found . . .

The most important point about Claudine Gay's plagiarism isn't that she was fired, but that she had the job--the most prestigious job in higher education--after an extremely thin record of accomplishment. Claudine Gay has never published an article--even a plagiarized one--that…
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) January 4, 2024

DEI fights back

Well, Bill Ackman and his wife are part of the elite. And now they are heretics.

Business Insider seems to have been chosen to charge Neri Oxman with plagiarism, so more "reputable" news sources could quote them. Ms. Oxman received an email from Business Insider on Jan. 4. I don't think the examples included (such as leaving out quotation marks but citing the source) come anywhere close to the examples found in Dr. Gay's work. And Ms. Oxman's response is not anything like that of Dr. Gay and Harvard. They first denied the allegations and threatened to sue the NY Post. In contrast, Ms. Oxman affirmed the importance of her colleagues' work and apologized for any omissions of credit.

You may want to read her post if you are interested in the academic details.

Then, last night, Bill Ackman received, second-hand, another email from Business Insider, asking him to review claims that his wife plagiarized from Wikipedia. He says he received nothing directly:

Ms. Long of Business Insider did not send anything to me.
Fran McGill, who heads communications for us, received an email from Ms. Long at 5:19pm which he brought to my attention when he tracked me down around 20 minutes later. The email was about 12 pages long.
Ms. Long said in the email that BI would be publishing its story this evening. They did so at 7:15pm.
Note that they chose to send the email after sundown on Friday night to a family that celebrates Shabbat dinner together.
And also note that they are attacking the Israeli wife of the protagonist in this situation.
Think about that and think about why they chose to wait until 5:19pm.
Now also consider why is it that Business Insider published this story. Probably because other news sources turned it down. . .

But the NYT has reported that Business Insider reported it. That's what's important.

What if Bill Ackman joins Chris Rufo's campaign to uncover plagiarism among all university faculty? There are a lot more leftists among them than conservatives. Ackman reposted this:

There's an element of @realchrisrufo's strategy no one has picked up on yet. It's this:
Almost nobody outside universities reads academic papers, so the papers radical activist professors write in which they defend absurd ideas don't get read by the general public.
So...
Leftist academics are free to use academic journals to advance their social and political goals in the academy and no one notices because no one outside the academy reads it.
This dynamic allows leftist profs to make absurd claims on behalf of leftist dogma and pay no price.

Paging Thomas Sowell

Since no one outside academia reads these journals, activist profs could claim truth does not exist, everything is about power, men can become women, and other such wild claims, and the general public was unaware that academia had been hijacked by a political agenda.
But....
Now @realchrisrufo has started a plagiarism war in academia. And you know what that means?
It means people are now looking for plagiarism in academia, and in order to find plagiarism guess what they are going to have to do?
That's right . . . they have to read academic journals.
And when they read those journals they are going to find paper after paper denying objective truth, papers claiming racial identity matters more than facts, papers that claim lived experience is more important than evidence, and papers claiming children can pick their gender.
What @realchrisrufo has done by starting the plagiarism wars is to get people outside academia to actually READ all of the insane nonsense that's being produced by activist professors.
Now regular people, even those who hate Rufo, will be forced to confront the fact...
that the universities have been hijacked by activists who are using the universities as a vehicle to advance the political and social goal of the left.
It's brilliant. . . .

There's more, plus responses, at the link. I cleaned up a couple of typos and added some emphases.

There are reasons people hate Rufo. Think seriously about his goals.

Peter Boghossian is not a conservative, but he was fighting DEI before it was cool.

In 10 years, I wonder if Kendi will be held in the same regard as David Duke. https://t.co/7Owc5FVyT7
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) January 5, 2024

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Weekend

Putting down your phone anytime this weekend?

This clip is absolutely terrifying to me pic.twitter.com/YwzmuznSOZ
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) January 1, 2024

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Poetry

You or your kids plan to memorize any poetry this year? What do you like?

I want to commit more poetry to memory this year. Any recommendations? (Before any of you jump in, I already know the ones about the farmer’s daughter and the gentleman from Nantucket, so no reason to mention those).
— Shelby Foote Appreciator⚓️ (@NoJesuitTricks) January 2, 2024

Music

The Smothers Brothers just singing.

Glenn Yarborough

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, December 30, 2023, Can women decolonize the University of Minnesota?

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:17 AM

Comments

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 06, 2024 11:19 AM (ju2Fy)

2 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 11:20 AM (fwDg9)

3 Good morning, KT.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 06, 2024 11:20 AM (ju2Fy)

4 re: black viking queen

*facepalm*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:21 AM (di6C2)

5 So naturally Netflix made him a black woman

Wait until Dylan Mulvaney is Snow White...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2024 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

6 Is it wrong that I feel less moral outrage over all the plagiarism because a lot of these idiots are stealing from other useless commie retards?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:22 AM (di6C2)

7 So the leftist think as their are more of them in education they will find more plagiarism in conservatives.

It like blacks looking for racism in white via so-called antiracism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2024 11:23 AM (lwOKI)

8 What's a Bill Ackman?

Posted by: Not interested enough to look it up at January 06, 2024 11:23 AM (NBVIP)

9 The Vikings were Scandinavian seafarers. The probability of any of them being black was essentially zero. So lets bow down and kiss some more liberal ass.

Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 11:24 AM (A5THL)

10 re: black viking queen

*facepalm*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:21 AM (di6C2)

Wakandans are white.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 06, 2024 11:25 AM (Angsy)

11 Cale Yarborough >>>Glenn Yarborough

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2024 11:25 AM (lwOKI)

12 Slipping thru seams,
A baby screams,
Alchohol oil and sludge

Posted by: Jamaica at January 06, 2024 11:25 AM (Eeb9P)

13 Also, since we are on the subject of citation: I much prefer a footnote that is on the page itself instead of having to flip to the back of the book or document. It takes you out of the flow of the book and makes it harder to make notes if you are having to juggle all this shit.

Just a pet peeve of mine for the past 30 years or so, but never had a chance to vent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:26 AM (di6C2)

14 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 06, 2024 11:26 AM (wYtkg)

15 Bill was the one leading the charge on Gay and Haavaad.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2024 11:26 AM (lwOKI)

16 When will there be a movie about the Battle of Teutoberg Forest with black, female Germans killing Romans?
I hope I haven't given anyone an idea.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 11:26 AM (AN/rm)

17 One of the great Elders of Zion level racist lies is that whites have no culture.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 06, 2024 11:26 AM (Eeb9P)

18 Black Viking queen? Can't you people let that boat cruise die?

Posted by: Fred Smoot at January 06, 2024 11:27 AM (hqVaF)

19 9 The Vikings were Scandinavian seafarers. The probability of any of them being black was essentially zero. So lets bow down and kiss some more liberal ass.

Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 11:24 AM (A5THL)

Old Joke:
Why are there so many beautiful Scandinavian women?
The Vikings left the ugly ones behind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2024 11:27 AM (ynpvh)

20 What's a Bill Ackman

A Jewish Billionaire -or close to it -who has donated immense amount of money to Harvard.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:27 AM (nGhec)

21 2024's @metoo movement will be the uncovering of all the plagiarism.

Some will surprise us, most of the time though, we'll know before they tell us this or that person is a fraud.

I'm going to enjoy the show.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:28 AM (61D1G)

22 Today is Ashli Babbitt Day. And do not forget Roseanne Boyland, Kevin Greeson, and Benjamin Phillips. These four gave their lives for freedom.

Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2024 11:28 AM (ZXAG8)

23 Bet north Atlantic communities wish the Vikings were commanded by a woke Black woman

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 11:29 AM (fwDg9)

24 Relax, everybody. Problem solved.

ALX 🇺🇸
@alx
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “It is my testimony that the border is secure.”
This is a provable lie.
Lying under oath is called perjury.
This is a crime, but he won’t be referred for prosecution.
Republicans can’t even get behind impeachment..

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 11:29 AM (FVME7)

25 Snow or winter mix is in Chester County coming my way

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 11:29 AM (fwDg9)

26 J.D. Vance nails it. Not only a plagiarist but academically unaccomplished. No doubt that made the Harvard PTB defend her even more. Be better Harvard. No actually, stay the same or worse.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 06, 2024 11:29 AM (hEv4o)

27 I see the North Korean nutcase is showing his ass today. He knows Biden will do nothing.

Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 11:30 AM (A5THL)

28 Is it wrong that I feel less moral outrage over all the plagiarism because a lot of these idiots are stealing from other useless commie retards?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:22 AM (di6C2)

Reminder: Claudine Gay heavily plagiarized Carol Swain, who is not a Commie retard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 11:31 AM (tkR6S)

29 23 Bet north Atlantic communities wish the Vikings were commanded by a woke Black woman

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 11:29 AM (fwDg9)

Reminds me how back in the day, Asians were often portrayed by white guys with makeup with their eyes made to look slit-like in the movies ("Seven Faces of Dr. Lao", "The Conquerer").
Seems like it's gone full circle with white, male historical figures portrayed by black female actresses.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2024 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

30 The Des Moines Register has opinion pieces from the major Republican presidential candidates (and Asa Hutchinso). Their titles show where their campaign focus is:

Trump: How I will end Joe Biden's border disaster on day one

DeSantis: I will control the border crisis

Ramasamy: Eminent domain for CO2 pipelines is wrong (it's a local Iowa issue)

Haley: End reckless spending to boost our economy

Hutchinson: America should reward work

Posted by: Intercepted Des Moines Register Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (JCZqz)

31 I see the North Korean nutcase is showing his ass today. He knows Biden will do nothing.
Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 11:30 AM

Joe is in bed recovering from his tirade yesterday.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (AN/rm)

32 20 What's a Bill Ackman

A Jewish Billionaire -or close to it -who has donated immense amount of money to Harvard.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:27 AM (nGhec)

aka a Whale.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (di6C2)

33 George Washingon was a woke black woman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (FVME7)

34 The Ackman-Oxman empire is being targeted for cancellation.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (4I/2K)

35 27 I see the North Korean nutcase is showing his ass today. He knows Biden will do nothing.
Posted by: vic

He wouldn't dare show his bare ass to me!

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 06, 2024 11:33 AM (JCZqz)

36 31 I see the North Korean nutcase is showing his ass today. He knows Biden will do nothing.
Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 11:30 AM

Joe is in bed recovering from his tirade yesterday.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (AN/rm)

Called a lid on today already?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2024 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

37 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: KT at January 06, 2024 11:33 AM (rrtZS)

38 33 George Washingon was a woke black woman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (FVME7)

Sorry, he was a slaveowner, so must remain a white, Christian guy

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2024 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

39 31 I see the North Korean nutcase is showing his ass today. He knows Biden will do nothing.
Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 11:30 AM

Joe is in bed recovering from his tirade yesterday.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (AN/rm)

Really? I thought the Nuremburg II was today?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:34 AM (di6C2)

40 Reminder: Claudine Gay heavily plagiarized Carol Swain, who is not a Commie retard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 11:31 AM (tkR6S)

Valid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:35 AM (di6C2)

41 Or wait, would it be Nuremburg III?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:36 AM (di6C2)

42 And if it must be said, yes, academic papers, and most "scientific" journals only exist to serve as a form of currency for those in their respective fields.

You pay your toll, to be allowed to be part of the clique, and damn near nothing of any value is to be found in most of what gets published.

There are so many useless papers published, and of course nobody reads them, because they're not there to educate, to illuminate, to have any practical benefit to mankind.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:36 AM (tCT/C)

43 George Washingon was a woke black woman.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 11:32 AM (FVME7)

To be played by the sassy maid character from The Jeffersons, Florence.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2024 11:36 AM (4I/2K)

44 What's a Bill Ackman?
Posted by: Not interested enough to look it up at January 06, 2024 11:23 AM (NBVIP)

Huge Ackman's brother?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:36 AM (tCT/C)

45 In a pure democracy each citizen would be required to vote on all issues, then the votes would have to be counted. This would be done daily.
There would be no time for anything else.
Folly.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 11:36 AM (MeG8a)

46 I didn't hate Nikki Haley before this campaign, but I'm coming around now. This Register editorial is just classic GOPe bullshit. Please stop with the fraud, waste, and abuse routine. That means you intend to cut nothing. You're Paul Ryan. We don't need another Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Wally at January 06, 2024 11:37 AM (hqVaF)

47 Is that Netflix kween for real? Good Loki!

I've not been able to NOT notice that casting has to have a POC (how I hate that phrase) in every frame. If a beloved and popular series is being relaunched, chances are it's because they need to up the diversity quotient, no matter the historical setting.

I have no doubt that coastal towns/cities engaged in trade had people from all over; I'm talking about small isolated inland villages that look like a Benetton ad.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 06, 2024 11:38 AM (+RQPJ)

48 45 In a pure democracy each citizen would be required to vote on all issues, then the votes would have to be counted. This would be done daily.
There would be no time for anything else.
Folly.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 11:36 AM (MeG8a)

Hmmm, it might cut down on the useless bullshit the government is doing...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:38 AM (di6C2)

49
Good morning, all.

I was a big follower of the Elizabeth Holmes story. (Theranos, right? the Silicon Valley blonde who seduced Henry Kissinger, Jim Mattis, Charles Schultz, Bill Frist etc?) I read WSJ's John Carreyrou's stories and his book about it.

Man, was I surprised when the Hulu dramatization came out and Carreyrou's crazy editor Mike Siconolfi who always talked about some Italian fishing trick turned out to be a Black woman. She even talked about the Italian fishing trick.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2024 11:38 AM (lCaJd)

50 A "lid" usta refer to weed.

Posted by: But that wuz when dirt wuz new at January 06, 2024 11:39 AM (NBVIP)

51 46 I didn't hate Nikki Haley before this campaign, but I'm coming around now. This Register editorial is just classic GOPe bullshit. Please stop with the fraud, waste, and abuse routine. That means you intend to cut nothing. You're Paul Ryan. We don't need another Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Wally at January 06, 2024 11:37 AM (hqVaF)

Conservation of cuckery would require Nikki kill Ryan in order to be able to take his place.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:39 AM (di6C2)

52 aka a Whale.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Why is he called a whale? Big donations?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:39 AM (RSbhh)

53 Thank you K.T.

Liked the link to Week in Pictures. And Glenn Yarbrough is such a polished singer, even after the Limelighters. You did good.

Please ask ace for an increase for the dental insurance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2024 11:40 AM (u82oZ)

54 In a pure democracy each citizen would be required to vote on all issues, then the votes would have to be counted. This would be done daily.
There would be no time for anything else.
Folly.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 11:36 AM (MeG8a)

May I suggest an anarcho-syndicalist commune? We could take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week...

Posted by: Dennis, Constitutional Peasant at January 06, 2024 11:40 AM (4I/2K)

55 DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “It is my testimony that the border is secure.”
This is a provable lie.
Lying under oath is called perjury.
This is a crime, but he won’t be referred for prosecution.
Republicans can’t even get behind impeachment..
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 11:29 AM (FVME7)

This is not only why they're winning, it's how they're winning.

When you can get away with this, eventually the lie becomes the fact, and once the fact is hardened, you will NOT disobey, and you will not question.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:41 AM (tCT/C)

56 I had tickets for @NikkiHaley’s event today. I was let inside her Iowa town hall by her own staff and was even asked if I wanted to sign up to volunteer for her campaign. It’s not like I snuck in.

On our favorite Nikki
https://shorturl.at/uPRX4

Watch the cop's eyes where he doesn't look at the person he's speaking to ..... Also is he there in an official caacity or as an off-duty cop doing security? If the latter then he should not be in official uniform, that's like driving around in an official squad car after duty hours.

Posted by: Ciampino - sue the bastards at January 06, 2024 11:41 AM (qfLjt)

57 Dennis, Constitutional Peasant

The lovely dirt is on the Bidens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2024 11:42 AM (u82oZ)

58 So your suggesting Sundowner's 'lid' doesn't include Marijuana?

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 11:43 AM (fwDg9)

59 The economy is great. The border is secure. We're winning the war in Ukraine. Covid is killing kids.

And so on and so forth. Right now we live in a parallel universe, where people see the lies, and object to them being told, but the liars are not held to account.

Truth only wins when lies are destroyed, and we're not living in a world where that is happening right now.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:43 AM (tCT/C)

60 Would it be fair to say that Claudine Gay got shot down by Ack-Ack?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM (tkR6S)

61 Why is he called a whale? Big donations?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:39 AM (RSbhh)

Sorry, I thought it was a term more general in usage. A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game. They are usually the ones some games try to cultivate. It can be either cosmetic or substantive stuff, but the hall mark is how much they spend. For example, Star Citizen has ships (that are not even available yet) for the game that are thousands of dollars on their own. I think Star Citizen's development model is based entirely around whale cultivation (note the game is not even out yet, just in beta.)

So in general, a whale would be someone who spends a large amount of money on something of dubious or only prestige levels of return.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM (di6C2)

62 Sorry if that was a stupid question, Aetius. I've just never hear that term for. If donors.

I expect going after his wife will not endear rabid Progressives To him. Maybe he'll end up having a political conversion too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM (it+io)

63 Please ask ace for an increase for the dental insurance.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2024 11:40 AM (u82oZ)

TWO pieces of used dental floss!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM (di6C2)

64 *Truth only wins when lies are destroyed, and we're not living in a world where that is happening right now.*

Get rid of your television.

Posted by: Try it. You'll like it. at January 06, 2024 11:45 AM (NBVIP)

65 Conservation of cuckery would require Nikki kill Ryan in order to be able to take his place.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

If Ryan were a true cuck/simp, he'd step down to give Nikki the mantle.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 06, 2024 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

66 What if Bill Ackman joins Chris Rufo's campaign to uncover plagiarism among all university faculty?

He's going to do the entire MIT faculty and staff.

This will be fun.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:46 AM (YAtuc)

67 Oh Boy, the local rag is going all out on Jan. 6th... They literally say it's worse than 9/11....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2024 11:47 AM (n2vyf)

68 Get rid of your television.
Posted by: Try it. You'll like it. at January 06, 2024 11:45 AM (NBVIP)

Concur wholeheartedly. Where practical, take your TV out into the boonies and shoot it. (But haul the trash out afterwards. We are civilized people.)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 11:48 AM (tkR6S)

69 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM (di6C2)

Well I hadn’t heard it, but I am only a Private, Not a General .😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:48 AM (J/RyQ)

70 Watch the cop's eyes where he doesn't look at the person he's speaking to ..... Also is he there in an official caacity or as an off-duty cop doing security? If the latter then he should not be in official uniform, that's like driving around in an official squad car after duty hours.
Posted by: Ciampino - sue the bastards at January 06, 2024 11:41 AM (qfLjt)

The cop is just following orders. He'll order you out of a public event, he'll put you on a train, he'll direct you to the gas chamber.

It's just his job. No hard feelings.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:48 AM (1xjGZ)

71 There are so many useless papers published, and of course nobody reads them, because they're not there to educate, to illuminate, to have any practical benefit to mankind.

That's why people look at how many times a paper was cited by other papers - it's a way of weeding out the papers that no one ever read.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:49 AM (YAtuc)

72 "When you've been given preferential treatment your whole life, being treated fairly feels oppressive."

--Thomas Sowell

Posted by: logprof at January 06, 2024 11:49 AM (JujKB)

73 "A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game. They are usually the ones some games try to cultivate."

A world I know nothing about nor would ever want to learn. But thanks.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 06, 2024 11:49 AM (NBVIP)

74 A "lid" usta refer to weed.

Posted by: But that wuz when dirt wuz new at January 06, 2024 11:39 AM (NBVIP)

3/4oz if I remember right. Back in a time where it was such crap you probably needed that much.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 11:49 AM (VwHCD)

75 Concur wholeheartedly. Where practical, take your TV out into the boonies and shoot it. (But haul the trash out afterwards. We are civilized people.)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 11:48 AM (tkR6S)

But I want to be able to watch Rio Bravo and Rocketeer and OG Star Trek.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (di6C2)

76 I am 48 today. That makes me 30 years older than my HS students. Am I qualified to tell people to get off my lawn now?!

Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (bVhJi)

77 The video from New Year's Eve turns the phones into the Borg "resistance is futile"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (acK79)

78 Willowed from Coffee Break

Thread on origins of "insurrection" description related to January 6.

https://shorturl.at/eiwM4

Posted by: Ciampino - ask Nikki what's she's doing about Jan6 at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (qfLjt)

79 >>>aka a Whale.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
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An honest, somewhat conservative whale.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 11:51 AM (Zd0xi)

80 I am 48 today. That makes me 30 years older than my HS students. Am I qualified to tell people to get off my lawn now?!

Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (bVhJi)

48?...still a youngster.

Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2024 11:51 AM (AwYPR)

81 67 Oh Boy, the local rag is going all out on Jan. 6th... They literally say it's worse than 9/11....
Posted by: It's me donna

Our higher HQ called to see if we were increasing security measures for Jan 6th. They didn't call and ask last year. We told them we anticipated nothing would occur, and were continuing with steady state operations. They said they were, too, but were being required to check on everyone. The Dems REALLY want something to happen...or to at least get people scared that something will.

Posted by: Military Moron at January 06, 2024 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

82 He's going to do the entire MIT faculty and staff.

This will be fun.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:46 AM (YAtuc)

Part of this past week's op, releasing reams of paper from Epstein court docs, was to hide in plain sight, the people who are NOT named. We haven't really heard anything that wasn't already out there... even if some of us genuinely WERE surprised to hear about Stephen Hawking. Apparently others were not.

The number of MIT perfessers who have participated in Epstein events, on the island and elsewhere, is probably in the 100s. If not thousands.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:51 AM (1xjGZ)

83 Is this black Viking queen sassy?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 11:51 AM (AN/rm)

84 Broadcast tv is impossible for me to watch. Mom and wife like CBS Good Morning show, and since I am out numbered I have to countenance it. Every time I walk by it, it's like drinking from a fire hose of lies. Lies of all types. Men can get pregnant. 2020 was a clean election. The shots can keep you from getting Covid. On and on.
All delivered to your ears and eyes by grinning homosexuals.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (MeG8a)

85 Get rid of your television

I haven’t had a working TV- except to play videos or CDs - for about 10 years or more.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (J/RyQ)

86 What The Cartoonist Said...

Posted by: Dilbert at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (R/m4+)

87 76 I am 48 today. That makes me 30 years older than my HS students. Am I qualified to tell people to get off my lawn now?!
Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (bVhJi)

*fistbump* I'll pass you in April. Strictly speaking I guess I already did 48 years and 8 months ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (di6C2)

88 I hope the Left does go after Ackman, I wouldn't mind a billionaire in our corner. He was extremely effective at bringing all of this to the forefront.

Liberals going after Musk made him double down.

Posted by: Blago at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (KerES)

89 "A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game. They are usually the ones some games try to cultivate."

That's true of any "free-to-play" video game - the business model is that most people playing won't pay anything, some people will pay a bit, and a few people will spend large amounts of money (sometimes extremely large).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (YAtuc)

90 60 Would it be fair to say that Claudine Gay got shot down by Ack-Ack?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM (tkR6S)
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That AA had proximity fuses.

Posted by: Ciampino - ask Nikki what's she's doing about Jan6 detainees at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (qfLjt)

91 What @realchrisrufo has done by starting the plagiarism wars is to get people outside academia to actually READ all of the insane nonsense that's being produced by activist professors.

Just as good.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (CsUN+)

92 Oh and does she have a behind the size of Iceland?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (AN/rm)

93 You or your kids plan to memorize any poetry this year? What do you like?
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The Revenge. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 06, 2024 11:53 AM (xYckV)

94
What's a Bill Ackman

A Jewish Billionaire -or close to it -who has donated immense amount of money to Harvard.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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He's now searching for a Good Democrat. He seems to sense that Biden isn't it, because he's asking people to take a look at Dean Phillips.

And well may you ask, what's a Dean Phillips?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2024 11:54 AM (lCaJd)

95 I didn't hate Nikki Haley before this campaign

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I despised Haley ever since she took the media at their word and defamed Sandmann for viciously attacking an old native american.

Before that i simply hated her

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - National Divorce NOW at January 06, 2024 11:54 AM (VTu1l)

96 The number of MIT perfessers who have participated in Epstein events, on the island and elsewhere, is probably in the 100s. If not thousands.

MIT has about a thousand faculty.

Yeah, Marvin Minsky and the people in his orbit maybe, doubtful for the rest.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:54 AM (YAtuc)

97 87 76 I am 48 today. That makes me 30 years older than my HS students. Am I qualified to tell people to get off my lawn now?!
Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (bVhJi)

*fistbump* I'll pass you in April. Strictly speaking I guess I already did 48 years and 8 months ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (di6C2)
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Pikers, both of you.

Posted by: Ciampino - 29 a few times at January 06, 2024 11:54 AM (qfLjt)

98 73 "A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game. They are usually the ones some games try to cultivate."

A world I know nothing about nor would ever want to learn. But thanks.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I guess I missed the whole point of that recent Brendan Fraser movie...

Posted by: Movie Moron at January 06, 2024 11:55 AM (JCZqz)

99 So, pos Business Insider publishes a pos hit piece allowing the NYT to report the trash, thus giving credibility to the other rags (L.A. Times etc) to repeat the lie as fact.
a feedback loop

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 11:55 AM (Zd0xi)

100
Roses are red
Violets are blue
MAGA is bad
Where's my ice cream

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 06, 2024 11:55 AM (vFG9F)

101 That's why people look at how many times a paper was cited by other papers - it's a way of weeding out the papers that no one ever read.

True. You are professionally evaluated by your h-index. There are lots of journals now that are there only to give a title where you can pretend you're publishing significant work. H-index helps to work around this.

The h-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications, initially used for an individual scientist or scholar. ...The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 11:55 AM (CsUN+)

102 97 87 76 I am 48 today. That makes me 30 years older than my HS students. Am I qualified to tell people to get off my lawn now?!
Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (bVhJi)

Happy Birthday.. Just a Kid... My Son is 2 years older than you

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2024 11:56 AM (n2vyf)

103 He's now searching for a Good Democrat

Good luck with that shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 06, 2024 11:56 AM (MtjlB)

104 He's now searching for a Good Democrat

They're all dead

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (n2vyf)

105 > Pikers, both of you.
Posted by: Ciampino - 29 a few times
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Preach it, bruh.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - 30 a couple times at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (Q4IgG)

106 And well may you ask, what's a Dean Phillips?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2024 11:54 AM (lCaJd)
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He's no Dean Wormer.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (xYckV)

107 That's why people look at how many times a paper was cited by other papers - it's a way of weeding out the papers that no one ever read.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:49 AM (YAtuc)

Citations are part of the game too though. It's a level up, where you are useful to other academics, who can use your "work" to support their "work." It's a Ponzi scheme.

And the people who have their names attached to more cited papers, are often the gatekeepers of their academic clique.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (f0hoU)

108 I don’t like to memorize poetry though I have somewhat memorized November by Thomas Hood because I think it’s witty.

I much prefer to memorize quotes.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (MNhXM)

109 Is this black Viking queen sassy?

More importantly, does she wag her finger and her head, while going "mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm". I have it on good authority from Hollywood that all black women do this.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (CsUN+)

110 What's a Bill Ackman?
Posted by: Not interested enough to look it up at January 06, 2024 11:23 AM (NBVIP)

Not a bird, not a bath.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (/HDaX)

111 All I know about Dean Phillips is that he is a Congressman. Is it MN?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (J/RyQ)

112 Flurries starting to dust cover surfaces

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 11:58 AM (fwDg9)

113 "A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game. They are usually the ones some games try to cultivate."

That's true of any "free-to-play" video game - the business model is that most people playing won't pay anything, some people will pay a bit, and a few people will spend large amounts of money (sometimes extremely large).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:52 AM (YAtuc)

They even pull that shit with games that aren't free to play. Destiny 2 has a miserable track record with that. Buying the game or not doesn't seem to matter, because anything worth a shit is still has to be bought extra.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 11:58 AM (VwHCD)

114 I am 48 today. That makes me 30 years older than my HS students. Am I qualified to tell people to get off my lawn now?!
Posted by: jmel

Hell, I have underwear older than that.

Now that I think about it, that may explain a few things. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2024 11:59 AM (J47y1)

115 A couple of years ago there was a group of academics who submitted papers which they had intentionally made complete bs. The papers were "peer reviewed" and published. That was the first shot at the gibberish that is social science academia, the take down of Gay is another. The long march of the left through academia will take a lot more effort to reverse. Don't expect the Republicans to do much as $ flow into their districts into colleges and public schools from the department of Ed.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2024 11:59 AM (acK79)

116 85 Get rid of your television

I haven’t had a working TV- except to play videos or CDs - for about 10 years or more.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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2016 for me

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 11:59 AM (Zd0xi)

117 But I want to be able to watch Rio Bravo and Rocketeer and OG Star Trek.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (di6C2)

You have a computer monitor?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 12:00 PM (tkR6S)

118 Rain has ended here...it's a fast mover.

Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2024 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

119 The Heineken commercial has black Vikings in it which is not as absurd as Coppertone commercial having black people be the signature people for their product . ( yes I know black people can get a sunburn too) .

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:00 PM (MNhXM)

120 Harvard is also in the process of blowing up the reputation of its century-old extension school - the general public could take courses at the extension school from Harvard professors, and get degrees from Harvard.

Chris Rufo did this, so Gay's defenders are now explaining that the extension school degrees "aren't really Harvard degrees".

The loathsome Megan McArdle was mocking Rufo's degree - she has an MBA from the University of Chicago. She should discover what everyone else at the University of Chicago, or other "elite" institutions, think of the business students. (Hint: contempt.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 12:00 PM (YAtuc)

121 77 The video from New Year's Eve turns the phones into the Borg "resistance is futile"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (acK79) ----

All Your Brains Are Belong To Us

Posted by: Ciampino - someone sent you the bomb at January 06, 2024 12:01 PM (qfLjt)

122 MIT has about a thousand faculty.

Yeah, Marvin Minsky and the people in his orbit maybe, doubtful for the rest.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 11:54 AM (YAtuc)

Sorry, I meant to say, MIT type perfessers. Hundreds, and probably thousands of them, in all these pointy headed institutions, if they're influential enough in their respective fields, have been targeted and compromised in sex scandals.

Of which Epstein's was only one.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:01 PM (f0hoU)

123 While I do have a cell phone, I almost never use it. I should, just for when I'm away from the house, so my wife can reach me. But I forget. I hate the thing.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 06, 2024 12:01 PM (1bNHn)

124 You can take my TV away from me from my cold dead hands.

Though I haven’t watched network television in years.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:02 PM (MNhXM)

125 I have no idea what J.D. Vance's actual academic record looks like, but I fully expect the AA defenders will now attack him and say he was an AA admit to Yale Law, and he should be more grateful.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:02 PM (CsUN+)

126 They even pull that shit with games that aren't free to play. Destiny 2 has a miserable track record with that. Buying the game or not doesn't seem to matter, because anything worth a shit is still has to be bought extra.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 11:58 AM (VwHCD)

I bought silver I think once for Destiny. I really wanted the Dirty Harry skin for Hawkmoon. That all went out the window and have not played since May 6 2022 according to steam. IIRC, it was them coming out and proud for 'reproductive freedom' in a in game message.

Fuck you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:02 PM (di6C2)

127 A solemn Jan 6th Martyrs Day to the Morons.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (aD39U)

128 And Glenn Yarbrough is such a polished singer, even after the Limelighters. You did good.

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I first became aware of Glenn Yarbrough when he sang the theme song for an old Steve McQueen /Lee Remick movie, Baby, the Rain Must Fall.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (FVME7)

129 Oh yes. Kattegat is a body of water. Being the queen is like being queen of the Long Island Sound.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (1bNHn)

130 POETRY: Somewhere in my youth there a poetry recital and I had to recite a poem from memory. I chose "Casey At The Bat." For whatever reason I can still recite the entire thing by memory.

Robert Service is my favorite poet - good manly story telling with meter and rhyme.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (d9Cw3)

131 I am 48 today

Happy Birthday and may God bless you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (J/RyQ)

132 You have a computer monitor?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 12:00 PM (tkR6S)

Physical media is even better. Hell, the TV is just a glorified computer monitor as it is not hooked up to cable or even ota.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (di6C2)

133 I didn't hate Nikki Haley before this campaign

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I had a huge problem that she decided the state flag was why someone shot up a black church.

It's just the ultimate sign that she will bend to whatever liberal hot take was trending on Twitter.

Posted by: Blago at January 06, 2024 12:04 PM (KerES)

134 They even pull that shit with games that aren't free to play. Destiny 2 has a miserable track record with that. Buying the game or not doesn't seem to matter, because anything worth a shit is still has to be bought extra.

I briefly tried a couple of "free-to-play" games - the problem was that all the creativity in the game went into figuring out how to extract more money from you.

Unfortunately, at least on the iPad, the business model of "free-to-play" is so compelling that relatively free high-quality games are released where you just pay for the game when you buy it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (YAtuc)

135 And well may you ask, what's a Dean Phillips?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2024 11:54 AM (lCaJd)
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He's no Dean Wormer.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 06, 2024 11:57 AM (xYckV)

Obligatory:

Dean Martin>>>Dean Wormer>>Dean Phillips

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (f0hoU)

136 @111 Fen , yes Phillips is from MN. His grandmother was Dear Abby and his great aunt Ann Landers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (acK79)

137 I had a huge problem that she decided the state flag was why someone shot up a black church.

A Confederate Flag flying over the Confederate War Dead Memorial on the edge of the State House grounds.

It had to go.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (aD39U)

138 Harvard is also in the process of blowing up the reputation of its century-old extension school - the general public could take courses at the extension school from Harvard professors, and get degrees from Harvard. ………

I posted previously my best friend has one of those degrees. Let’s say his previous academic record is laughable . His real world business acumen is top notch though and very successful. I tease him he’s Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (MNhXM)

139 Someone in the offices of business insider has a degree or two. Plagiarize-check those !

Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (W/lyH)

140 A couple of years ago there was a group of academics who submitted papers which they had intentionally made complete bs. The papers were "peer reviewed" and published. That was the first shot at the gibberish that is social science academia, the take down of Gay is another.

Modern humanities and "studies" papers are just the same old buzzwords which they throw in a blender and hit frappe. It means absolutely nothing. Here's the entire "black studies" oeuvre: Whitey bad.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:06 PM (CsUN+)

141 I bought silver I think once for Destiny. I really wanted the Dirty Harry skin for Hawkmoon. That all went out the window and have not played since May 6 2022 according to steam. IIRC, it was them coming out and proud for 'reproductive freedom' in a in game message.

Fuck you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:02 PM (di6C2)

Yeah they have become a woke 3rd rate game company producing garbage. I never bought silver. The most I ever do at Eververse is stop by just to listen to Claudia Black's voice work. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 12:06 PM (VwHCD)

142 I have never played a video game. When I was young , kids still went outside to play and we used rotary phones. That’s how old I am.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:06 PM (J/RyQ)

143 Haley might have been born in Lexington SC, but she is no Southerner.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2024 12:06 PM (aD39U)

144 Rain has ended here...it's a fast mover.
Posted by: BignJames at January 06, 2024 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

Same here. But it's creepy dark after the storm passed.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 06, 2024 12:07 PM (/HDaX)

145 I briefly tried a couple of "free-to-play" games - the problem was that all the creativity in the game went into figuring out how to extract more money from you.

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The best free to play game I played over the years was Star Trek Online. I can't remember an occasion where I felt I HAD or was forced to do microtransactions in order to enjoy the game.

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - National Divorce NOW at January 06, 2024 12:08 PM (VTu1l)

146 You can take my TV away from me from my cold dead hands.

Though I haven’t watched network television in years.
Posted by: Titanium White
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I put on auto racing when I can find it on one of my computer monitors. Most them are streamed through some service, some free, others not. I don't think I pay but for one or two services and those have content my wife watches through the Roku on the "big screen" in the living room.

I don't recall seeing a broadcast event, other than severe weather from a local station in the last 2-3 years.

The cord isn't completely cut here, but we're close. If I could wean my wife off a couple things she watches that I haven't been able to find on a streamer we'd be set.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2024 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)

147 Rotary phones? Luxury! We had empty tomato soup cans on a string and were better off for it!

Posted by: Count de Yorkshiremen at January 06, 2024 12:08 PM (4I/2K)

148 Haley might have been born in Lexington SC, but she is no Southerner.

Maybe her people came from Sri Lanka.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:08 PM (CsUN+)

149 When I was 14 I learned that I could cut and paste my own work from prior class projects into curreht assignments. Plagiaring myself was quite enjoyable but my mom told me to stop.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (991eG)

150
I briefly tried a couple of "free-to-play" games - the problem was that all the creativity in the game went into figuring out how to extract more money from you.

Unfortunately, at least on the iPad, the business model of "free-to-play" is so compelling that relatively free high-quality games are released where you just pay for the game when you buy it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (YAtuc)

The 'best' of the free to play I have tried are probably Warframe and Path of Exile. BOTH are fairly repetitive though because that is inherent in the live service model.

Warframe is probably the 'best' in being able to play without spending money (and you can generate the premium currency by farming in game items.)

Path of Exile... you kind of HAVE to spend money on inventory space if you play for an extended period of time. BUT it is better than Warframe as far as the items being bought are not weapons or game affecting content.

Both games have massive amounts of content.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (di6C2)

151 I have never played a video game. When I was young , kids still went outside to play and we used rotary phones. That’s how old I am.

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So... 29 then?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - National Divorce NOW at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (VTu1l)

152 Confederates were worse than vampire /werewolves.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (FVME7)

153

Hell, I have underwear older than that.

Now that I think about it, that may explain a few things. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2024 11

Is your 49 year old underwear crotchless?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (AN/rm)

154 Someone in the offices of business insider has a degree or two. Plagiarize-check those !
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (W/lyH)

Everyone who has ever published anything anywhere, check your references.

2024 is going to be a bumpy ride.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:10 PM (f0hoU)

155 Rotary phones? Luxury! We had empty tomato soup cans on a string and were better off for it!

We had to send smoke signals, and not the good smoke, no, we had to burn punk wood.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:10 PM (CsUN+)

156 Maybe her people came from Sri Lanka.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:08 PM (CsUN+)
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I understand she's Sikh, so it's more likely the Punjab.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 06, 2024 12:10 PM (xYckV)

157 Is your 49 year old underwear crotchless?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (AN/rm)

It wasn't when he bought it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:10 PM (f0hoU)

158 Insurrection you say?

https://shorturl.at/knzK9

Posted by: Ciampino - someone sent you the bomb? at January 06, 2024 12:10 PM (qfLjt)

159 A couple of years ago there was a group of academics who submitted papers which they had intentionally made complete bs. The papers were "peer reviewed" and published.

Better yet, Peter Boghossian at Portland State was disciplined for that (and eventually left the school) because tricking journal editors into accepting nonsense papers was deemed to be "human experimentation", and required all sorts of approvals from the appropriate committees (who of course would tip off the journal editors).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 12:11 PM (YAtuc)

160 Yeah they have become a woke 3rd rate game company producing garbage. I never bought silver. The most I ever do at Eververse is stop by just to listen to Claudia Black's voice work. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 12:06 PM (VwHCD)

Absolutely.

Game best female sexy VAs:
Laura Bailey
Tricia Helfer
Claudia Black

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:11 PM (di6C2)

161 Elon Musk @elonmusk 17h
Interesting. 𝕏 will add them as defendants in the lawsuit.

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Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 06, 2024 12:11 PM (2yu8s)

162 I have never played a video game. When I was young , kids still went outside to play and we used rotary phones. That’s how old I am.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

We had a party line. Despite the name it was no fun.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:11 PM (FVME7)

163 Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:10 PM (CsUN+)

I am somewhat skeptical of this claim since you just said you are 48 .😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:12 PM (J/RyQ)

164 It wasn't when he bought it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:10

All that's left is the elastic waist band. That way he never goes out with dirty underwear.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:12 PM (AN/rm)

165 Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2024 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)

I probably could stream all the shows and programs I watch as well as all the movies I get for free on On Demand with my cable service but it’s the simplicity and laziness and the WiFI service that stops me from looking at other options than my cable service.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:12 PM (MNhXM)

166 Physical media is even better. Hell, the TV is just a glorified computer monitor as it is not hooked up to cable or even ota.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (di6C2)

Bravo! My issue with TV, as TV, is the cable or the OTA hookup, which means that you get to view only that which the Regime will let you view, at a time of their choosing, and make you pay for the privilege. Watching movies off a DVD, or streamed from a torrent site, is not the same thing at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2024 12:12 PM (tkR6S)

167 Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2024 11:50 AM (bVhJi)

May you be Blessed with many healthy and healthy trips around the sun.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Sarcastic, Nope, Nope, Nope Critic . . . at January 06, 2024 12:12 PM (4Winp)

168 I can still recite poetry from 7th grade. Sister Lourdes was big on the classics. And we had to stand in front of the class, one by one, and recite from memory.

Poe, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Longfellow..... many many more. One a week.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 06, 2024 12:13 PM (f6yyg)

169 The 'best' of the free to play I have tried are probably Warframe and Path of Exile. BOTH are fairly repetitive though because that is inherent in the live service model.

Warframe is probably the 'best' in being able to play without spending money (and you can generate the premium currency by farming in game items.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (di6C2)

I was playing warframe for a little bit. I don't know why but I just couldn't figure out how to advance. I hit a wall somehow and just could not get ahead. I played 100's of games in my time but that one stumped me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 12:13 PM (VwHCD)

170 Everyone who has ever published anything anywhere, check your references.

2024 is going to be a bumpy ride.

Anyone who had a competent dissertation advisor in a serious field is likely to have at most the minor issues that Neri Oxman did.

OTOH, we can probably clean out the bulls*t departments - I suspect that Gay is typical of a "studies" department faculty member.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 12:14 PM (YAtuc)

171 Haley might have been born in Lexington SC, but she is no Southerner.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2024 12:06 PM (aD39U)

She's got the Hillory act down, whenever she's out and about, most of the time she sounds like a shrill, nasally witch, but every now and then when it serves her purpose, she pops her voice into a drawl.

As far as I know, she doesn't yet carry around a bottle of hot sauce, but she will if she has to.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:14 PM (f0hoU)

172 "My issue with TV, as TV, is the cable or the OTA hookup, which means that you get to view only that which the Regime will let you view, at a time of their choosing, and make you pay for the privilege."

I only have OTA but the Regime lets me watch Star Trek every night at 8:00.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 06, 2024 12:14 PM (vFG9F)

173 The only video game I’ve played frequently was Moon Patrol.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:14 PM (MNhXM)

174 I understand she's Sikh,

-
She may be Sikh but she's not gonna find.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:15 PM (FVME7)

175 Oops. Off sock.

Posted by: not Joe Biteum at January 06, 2024 12:15 PM (vFG9F)

176 I have never played a video game.

On my way to San Francisco in '77, we stopped for breakfast in Reno. It was OK. Right next to the cash register was a one-armed bandit. I put in the change, and we hit for just about the amount of the breakfast. That was my gambling career.

Then, in Berkeley, I went into a Star Trek shop. They had one of the first active-player video games there, so early that it was coin-op. I had to get the proverbial shit-load of quarters -- ISTR it was $3.75. I fed in all those coins, and the computer did not come on. They would not refund the money. That was the end of my computer gaming career.

I consider my life tens of thousands of dollars ahead, on this.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 06, 2024 12:15 PM (FCs/J)

177 The only video game I’ve played frequently was Moon Patrol.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:14 PM (MNhXM)

I've played pong.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:15 PM (AN/rm)

178 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:11 PM (FVME7)

Man; you’re really ancient. At least it wasn’t one of the wooden things on the wall that you speak into a horn like thing circa about 20 years or so? After Edison.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:16 PM (J/RyQ)

179 DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas:

“It is my testimony that the border is secure.”

This is a provable lie. Lying under oath is called perjury.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 11:29 AM

Is it a provable lie though? Consider that no one has faced -- or will face -- any consequences for calling the COVID clot shot a "vaccine", nor for renaming the flu shot to the flu "vaccine". Why? Because they simply redefined vaccine.

Same applies here. They will simply redefine what "secure" means.

The Left has been doing this for decades, even pontificating on the definition of "is".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2024 12:16 PM (AaCDb)

180 Anyone who had a competent dissertation advisor in a serious field is likely to have at most the minor issues that Neri Oxman did.

OTOH, we can probably clean out the bulls*t departments - I suspect that Gay is typical of a "studies" department faculty member.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 12:14 PM (YAtuc)

I think a lot of the "serious" fields are going to find out, they aren't.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:16 PM (f0hoU)

181 153

Hell, I have underwear older than that.

Now that I think about it, that may explain a few things. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at January 06, 2024 11

Is your 49 year old underwear crotchless?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:09 PM (AN/rm)
----
You know cotton is durable but after 49 years of extremely corrosive and acidic emanations you can't expect the crotch part to survive. Can be accelerated by ignition: We have ignition; we don't have lift off.

Remember TWO launches tomorrow.

Posted by: Ciampino - asbestos fiber ir the solution at January 06, 2024 12:16 PM (qfLjt)

182 I was playing warframe for a little bit. I don't know why but I just couldn't figure out how to advance. I hit a wall somehow and just could not get ahead. I played 100's of games in my time but that one stumped me.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 12:13 PM (VwHCD)

The game is very knowledge based. EVERYTHING pretty much goes through mods. If you know what you want to do (or can at least look it up) the game all of a sudden clicks. 'Steep learning curve' does not quite describe it because it is more a cliff. Once you understand it and know how to get the mods you need and how to put the warframe and weapons together, the game completely changes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:17 PM (di6C2)

183 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

And if you’re that ancient you probably know what I’m referring to on those occasions in which I mention “ The He-Man Women Haters Club”.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:17 PM (J/RyQ)

184 The Left has been doing this for decades, even pontificating on the definition of "is".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2024 12:16 PM (AaCDb)

It's a very effective technique. Part of Alinsky's rules, and before him, Stalin's.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:18 PM (f0hoU)

185 The game is very knowledge based. EVERYTHING pretty much goes through mods. If you know what you want to do (or can at least look it up) the game all of a sudden clicks. 'Steep learning curve' does not quite describe it because it is more a cliff. Once you understand it and know how to get the mods you need and how to put the warframe and weapons together, the game completely changes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:17 PM (di6C2)

Thats exactly where I got stuck. I couldn't figure out the mod system.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 12:19 PM (VwHCD)

186 depends on "what" you connect your TV to...I haven't watched network in 20yrs.....I DVR anything I watch...98%
ist Soccer or Anime....any movies I might watch are ripped and usually foreign...Rose Bowl 2nd Half was the first College Football I've sees this year....WHEN i do venture out to watch something at a friends place I stare at the TV commercials in horror and my OCD starts ringing in my ears...no wonder people are sooo messed up... today is an excellent day to recoup from the Holidays and sofa-size !!! LOL

Posted by: qmark at January 06, 2024 12:19 PM (+t9Oi)

187 Plus the game is just put together odd due to it's development. The story (which can be very good) does not even get going until you hit one particular quest in your progression- which is about 40-50 hours into game play.

That is a bit... silly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:20 PM (di6C2)

188 I read something interesting yesterday: starting in September 2023 (when the NFL season started) through the end of the year… in that time span, 93 of the top 100 most watched television broadcasts were NFL games. 93%!! Some of us thought the kneeling thing would ruin the NFL. It didn’t

Parenthetically…. I used to be a huge fan. I still watch now, though not as much…. But not because of the kneeling; it’s less interesting now because of stupid rules and bad officiating

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 06, 2024 12:20 PM (xT8gx)

189 Meant “twenty years of so after Edison”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:20 PM (J/RyQ)

190 It wasn't when he bought it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:10

All that's left is the elastic waist band. That way he never goes out with dirty underwear.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:12 PM (AN/rm)

Heh. His momma taught him right.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:21 PM (f0hoU)

191 143 Haley might have been born in Lexington SC, but she is no Southerner.

I'll need to see her shrimp and grits recipe.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 06, 2024 12:21 PM (NBVIP)

192 Haakon Jarl? Hah!
Wait till they redo Shaka Zulu and Shaka will be a White, lesbian ... dare I say it? .... woman. There I said it.

Posted by: Ciampino - asbestos fiber ir the solution ... at January 06, 2024 12:21 PM (qfLjt)

193 OTA commercials are extremely offensive. It's the way I keep my finger on the pulse of modern society.

Posted by: fd at January 06, 2024 12:21 PM (vFG9F)

194 Thats exactly where I got stuck. I couldn't figure out the mod system.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 12:19 PM (VwHCD)

If you ever want some help, hit me up. Same nic in Steam as here. Maltese Cross.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:22 PM (di6C2)

195 Remember TWO launches tomorrow.
Posted by: Ciampino - asbestos fiber ir the solution at January 06, 2024 12:16 PM (qfLjt)

Oh boy! Two lunches tomorrow!

Posted by: Count de Monet with smudged spectacles at January 06, 2024 12:22 PM (4I/2K)

196 The game I play on my iPad now is Match 3D Master. Basically a visual speed coordination game where you match two of the same objects within a large pile of objects under a certain time limit. I think the military should use it as a training tool for observers. It definitely trains your subconscious to pick out subtle differences and details to identify hidden objects.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:23 PM (MNhXM)

197 I've not been able to NOT notice that casting has to have a POC (how I hate that phrase) in every frame. If a beloved and popular series is being relaunched, chances are it's because they need to up the diversity quotient, no matter the historical setting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at January 06, 2024 11:38 AM

Starting this year, I think, in order to qualify for Hollywood awards, any production has to fit a certain "diversity" requirement for the entire production: actors, behind the scenes workers, directors/producers, etc. It was an unofficial policy previously, but now Hollywood has made it official such that if you do not adhere to their diversity BS, you will be banned from consideration of any awards.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2024 12:23 PM (AaCDb)

198 85 I haven’t had a working TV- except to play videos or CDs - for about 10 years or more.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 11:52

Same here

Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 12:23 PM (A5THL)

199 I read something interesting yesterday: starting in September 2023 (when the NFL season started) through the end of the year… in that time span, 93 of the top 100 most watched television broadcasts were NFL games. 93%!! Some of us thought the kneeling thing would ruin the NFL. It didn’t

Yes, but the denominator has changed, i.e. broadcast TV produces virtually nothing of value any more. Thus, football may be king, but it's of a large pile of crap that draws few viewers anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)

200 depends on "what" you connect your TV to...I haven't watched network in 20yrs.....I DVR anything I watch...98%
ist Soccer or Anime....any movies I might watch are ripped and usually foreign...Rose Bowl 2nd Half was the first College Football I've sees this year....WHEN i do venture out to watch something at a friends place I stare at the TV commercials in horror and my OCD starts ringing in my ears...no wonder people are sooo messed up... today is an excellent day to recoup from the Holidays and sofa-size !!! LOL
Posted by: qmark at January 06, 2024 12:19 PM (+t9Oi)

My only thing about the teevee argument, is that I'm sometimes surprised what people think, because I'm not exposed to the same crep they are, even (obviously) those who only get their "news" from Fox.

Having just gotten back from spending the holidays with family, I create tension when I say anything that is routinely discussed and covered here. It's like I'm living on a different planet from these people... and they ALL see themselves as good conservatives.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:24 PM (f0hoU)

201 Sorry, I thought it was a term more general in usage. A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game. They are usually the ones some games try to cultivate. It can be either cosmetic or substantive stuff, but the hall mark is how much they spend. For example, Star Citizen has ships (that are not even available yet) for the game that are thousands of dollars on their own. I think Star Citizen's development model is based entirely around whale cultivation (note the game is not even out yet, just in beta.)

So in general, a whale would be someone who spends a large amount of money on something of dubious or only prestige levels of return.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM (di6C2)

Whales in Star Citizen? Oh, yes.

Posted by: mrp at January 06, 2024 12:24 PM (rj6Yv)

202 In my STEM field when I was a PhD student I submitted an early draft of a paper to my advisor…. He absolutely raked me over the coals for one spot where I didn’t do proper citation. I thought he was gonna drop me, it was that serious. And that was only an early draft only 2 people looked at: he and I! In STEM it was serious…. If it’s the same now you could look a long time and not find plagiarism in STEM. There is also the issue that often the paper you’re writing will really only be understood by 10 people working in your narrow field

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 06, 2024 12:24 PM (xT8gx)

203 Parenthetically…. I used to be a huge fan. I still watch now, though not as much…. But not because of the kneeling; it’s less interesting now because of stupid rules and bad officiating
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 06, 2024 12:20 PM (xT8gx)

I bet you watch for the tranny cheerleaders. 😀

Posted by: Titanium White at January 06, 2024 12:25 PM (MNhXM)

204 How come nobody has mentioned that viking is more like a profession or activity. The nationality would be something like Norse.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:25 PM (AN/rm)

205 Meant “twenty years of so after Edison”

I think you meant "twenty years or so after BELL."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 06, 2024 12:25 PM (FCs/J)

206 How come nobody has mentioned that viking is more like a profession or activity.

Viking = Boss

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:26 PM (CsUN+)

207 Yes, but the denominator has changed, i.e. broadcast TV produces virtually nothing of value any more. Thus, football may be king, but it's of a large pile of crap that draws few viewers anymore.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)

The problem with network television is it is not made for the current model any more than radio is. People are used to being able to just choose what they want to watch 'off the shelf' with like ewetub or streaming of some sort. It means the only time they are exposed to new things is when something pops up in their suggested, but it also is a stronger gratification model than ota or cable can provide (unless the cable does on demand.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:26 PM (di6C2)

208 Yes, but the denominator has changed, i.e. broadcast TV produces virtually nothing of value any more. Thus, football may be king, but it's of a large pile of crap that draws few viewers anymore.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)

Good point! When you’re right, you’re right. Other than sports I myself only watch documentaries and old sitcoms like Seinfeld, Cheers, etc…. Yes the rest is total crap

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 06, 2024 12:27 PM (xT8gx)

209 Some videogames are not only fun but also you learn stuff. For example, Kingdom Come: Deliverance will teach you a lot about early 15th century Bohemia and late middle ages Europe generally. Caveat emptor: It's hard. You begin as the son of a village blacksmith and know nothing but helping your father and carousing. When you are orphaned by an attack on your village by King Sigismund, you must learn everything about how to survive.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:27 PM (FVME7)

210 I don't know what that stroke did to him but damn.

Senator John Fetterman -

"As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course it was always a little pinko. But now, I don’t recognize it."

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2024 12:27 PM (ZLI7S)

211 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 06, 2024 12:25 PM (FCs/J)

Thanks. I’m so old I can’t recall old time inventors.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:28 PM (J/RyQ)

212 When you are orphaned by an attack on your village by King Sigismund, you must learn everything about how to survive.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:27 PM (FVME7)

I have that in my steam library, just have not gotten beyond the initial missions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:29 PM (di6C2)

213 The problem with network television is it is not made for the current model any more than radio is. People are used to being able to just choose what they want to watch 'off the shelf' with like ewetub or streaming of some sort. It means the only time they are exposed to new things is when something pops up in their suggested, but it also is a stronger gratification model than ota or cable can provide (unless the cable does on demand.)

That's a factor, but IMHO it's more due to the move from well written and produced shows, to "reality" shows full of nothing but idiots acting like idiots. They're much cheaper to produce, and as long as you lack functioning synapses, are okay for awhile. However, even the mouthbreathers eventually get tired of them, and at this point, I doubt the networks even know how to make good shows anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:30 PM (CsUN+)

214 Both of her [Nikki's] parents immigrated from India to Canada in 1964 after Ajit received a scholarship offer from the University of British Columbia.[14] After he received his PhD in 1969, he moved his family to South Carolina to be a professor of biology at Voorhees College, a historically black institution in Denmark, South Carolina.
...
Raj earned her master's degree in education and taught for seven years in Bamberg public schools. In May 1976, she started a popular women's clothing boutique, Exotica International, in West Columbia
...
She [Nikki] attended Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, graduating in 1989.[20] She graduated from Clemson University in 1994 with a BS degree in accounting and finance _wiki

===============
It appears that the Randhawa family never associated with the local culture enough for Nikki to have 'grown up Southern'

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 12:30 PM (Zd0xi)

215 171
As far as I know, she doesn't yet carry around a bottle of hot sauce, but she will if she has to.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:14 PM (f0hoU)
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Well that would be normal as she's a dot-Indian. Curry anyone?

Posted by: Ciampino - I love Indian food at January 06, 2024 12:30 PM (qfLjt)

216 Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:30 PM (CsUN+)

I'd agree. I knew Survivor was going to be trouble when it came out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:30 PM (di6C2)

217 Good point! When you’re right, you’re right.

You're new here, so your mistake is understandable. We NEVER acknowledge that the other guy might have a point. It's just not done, old boy.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:31 PM (CsUN+)

218 And if you’re that ancient you probably know what I’m referring to on those occasions in which I mention “ The He-Man Women Haters Club”.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Oh yes, I do.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:31 PM (FVME7)

219 Was Hagar really so Horrible?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2024 12:31 PM (63Dwl)

220 I see Netflix explains away the race thing by all the trading and interaction the Vikings did in the Med and Africa. Met the locals. Fell in love. Took them home. Made them leaders.

Right.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2024 12:32 PM (W/lyH)

221 I'll need to see her shrimp and grits recipe.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 06, 2024 12:21 PM (NBVIP)

As in... putting shrimp and grits... together?

I'm gagging just thinking about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:32 PM (xtVFX)

222 "How come nobody has mentioned that viking is more like a profession or activity. The nationality would be something like Norse."

While I completely agree with you, and have posited similar sentiments on a youtube thread, you would not believe the amount of opposition to it I encountered on that thread. It went on for years. I finally had to shut down comments.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 12:32 PM (MeG8a)

223 Fen, you are safe here. Unless they come up with an "old time inventors" video plot, none of the Wile E. Coyote junior programming associate STEM kooks will even notice.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 06, 2024 12:33 PM (FCs/J)

224
Wasn't Haakon Jarl one of the original Supremes?

Or was that Cleopatra?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2024 12:33 PM (nFnyb)

225 I see Netflix explains away the race thing by all the trading and interaction the Vikings did in the Med and Africa. Met the locals. Fell in love. Took them home. Made them leaders.

Because if there's anything the Vikings were known for, it's being tolerant of other cultures and peoples.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:33 PM (CsUN+)

226 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:27 PM (FVME7

I don’t have against video games except I think it’s good for kids to do things outside with other kids. I’m sure people could learn a lot. My son plays some. It’s just that maybe you need to start it in your teens, twenties or thirties to have it be something you’re comfortable with.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2024 12:34 PM (J/RyQ)

227 I have that in my steam library, just have not gotten beyond the initial missions.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's hard, even the tutorial when you are to go into town and pick up supplies for your father by haggling with shop keepers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:34 PM (FVME7)

228 2024 is going to be a great year for Star Citizen backers. The SQ42 development teams have been transitioning to the Persistent Universe side for months now. New features and gameplay mechanics are being schedule for this year as well as technological advancements like full Vulkan integration and dynamic server meshing.

Posted by: mrp at January 06, 2024 12:34 PM (rj6Yv)

229 You're new here, so your mistake is understandable. We NEVER acknowledge that the other guy might have a point. It's just not done, old boy.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 12:31 PM (CsUN+)

I’m just here for the Mannix girls so if I happen to be wrong occasionally that’s okay LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 06, 2024 12:35 PM (xT8gx)

230 Well that would be normal as she's a dot-Indian. Curry anyone?
Posted by: Ciampino - I love Indian food at January 06, 2024 12:30 PM (qfLjt)

She'll carry around whatever her johns tell her to carry.

Until she needs to curry favor with the Indian government, I doubt she's ever bought a bottle in her life.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:35 PM (xtVFX)

231 Bill Ackman is an activist investor. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

Posted by: nckate at January 06, 2024 12:35 PM (EPm6B)

232 How come nobody has mentioned that viking is more like a profession or activity.

I got my VhD from Harvard!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2024 12:36 PM (nFnyb)

233 Was Hagar really so Horrible?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2024 12:31 PM (63Dwl)

He ruined Van Halen. They were never the same after David Lee Roth left 😁

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 06, 2024 12:36 PM (xT8gx)

234 >>>I doubt the networks even know how to make good shows anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes
----------------------

Hey, producing a 'Columbo' takes a lot of work.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 12:37 PM (Zd0xi)

235 As in... putting shrimp and grits... together?

I'm gagging just thinking about it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:32 PM (xtVFX)

Just think of it as "Cajun scrapple"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 12:38 PM (D7oie)

236 If you ever want some help, hit me up. Same nic in Steam as here. Maltese Cross.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:22 PM (di6C2)

Yeah the problem was I didn't know anybody playing it. My list was all Destiny contacts. Some of them recommended the game, but were never playing it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2024 12:38 PM (VwHCD)

237 What's a Bill Ackman?

==

A man who dared to cancel DEI and call it for what it is, a black supremacist movement.

Posted by: runner at January 06, 2024 12:38 PM (V13WU)

238 >>Bill Ackman is an activist investor. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

He's a weapon and he's currently pointed in the right direction.

That's as deep as my caring about him goes.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2024 12:39 PM (ZLI7S)

239 One thing that might conceivably put a screeching stop to all the gender-bending and race-swapping rewrites of classic tales:

Make a grand epic about an illiterate peasant leading the armies of France against the English, but ending up burned at stake. But make the heroic peasant black, male, and gay. And call him a "sharecropper" instead of a peasant. Surely it's no coincidence that Joan of Arc's actual name in French is "Jean D'Arc", which sounds exactly like "John Dark"! We already have a name for the hero. How about casting? Is Jussie Smollett out of jail yet?

No, such a movie (promised or actually made) wouldn't put a stop to the idiocy, but it would make people think. The one's capable of thinking, at least. Too bad they're the most oppressed minority in the country.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at January 06, 2024 12:40 PM (uL3GK)

240 Just think of it as "Cajun scrapple"
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 12:38 PM (D7oie)

Funny thing is, I used to like gumbo, or so I thought. Then I went to Nawlins, and saw they put shrimp in it.

Egad. I hate shrimp. In all its forms.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:40 PM (xtVFX)

241 Oops, "Jeanne D'Arc", not "Jean", which is a man's name in French! Still sounds just like "John Dark".

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at January 06, 2024 12:41 PM (uL3GK)

242 As in... putting shrimp and grits... together?

I'm gagging just thinking about it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:32 PM (xtVFX)

Just think of it as "Cajun scrapple"
Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 12:38 PM (D7oie)

They do stuff like that in the edgy eating places in Durnham, NC. Mainly fried chicken, as in Chicken and Waffles, Chicken and Grits, etc. i've talked to people who've tried those types of chicken dishes, and the reviews were mixed.

Posted by: mrp at January 06, 2024 12:42 PM (rj6Yv)

243 John Dark > Dark Brandon

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:43 PM (FVME7)

244 This is pretty good. Trump video set to Aerosmith's Dream On. About 3.5 minutes.

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/
1743367892647960812

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 06, 2024 12:44 PM (ju2Fy)

245
Campaign Volunteers Are 'Quitting in Droves'
According to Democrat staffers, volunteers for Joe Biden's 2024 campaign are quitting in significant numbers, mostly because they're angry about Biden's failure to call for a ceasefire in Israel.

Odds of it being bullshit and the real reason they're quitting is because they want Joe to lose so they can move out of the parents basement, be able to afford some groceries, and have a slight chance of success in the future?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 06, 2024 12:44 PM (3qE2b)

246 >>>Egad. I hate shrimp. In all its forms.

Posted by: BurtTC
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I thought there was, you know, something different about you.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 12:44 PM (Zd0xi)

247 >>> I see Netflix explains away the race thing by all the trading and interaction the Vikings did in the Med and Africa.

It's never been Africans were sea-faring traders that went as far as Japan or Iceland. Or Native Americans discovering Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Because they were stone age. Even 'barbarians' were more advanced tothe iron age.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 06, 2024 12:44 PM (cOq4q)

248 Not "Durnham", it's "Durham".

Posted by: mrp at January 06, 2024 12:44 PM (rj6Yv)

249 Starting this year, I think, in order to qualify for Hollywood awards, any production has to fit a certain "diversity" requirement for the entire production: actors, behind the scenes workers, directors/producers, etc. It was an unofficial policy previously, but now Hollywood has made it official such that if you do not adhere to their diversity BS, you will be banned from consideration of any awards.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2024 12:23 PM (AaCDb)

The Cannes festival was started because of the number of films that were being excluded from the film festival held in Venice in the 30's.

DragonCon was set up for the same reason. Somehow, there will be Something Awards that are based on attendence and money made, though to start with it will most likely indies and small studios.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 12:45 PM (D7oie)

250 137 A Confederate Flag flying over the Confederate War Dead Memorial on the edge of the State House grounds.

It had to go.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 06, 2024 12:05 PM (aD39U)

Ol' "Romney with Tits" energized the American Taliban movement to destroy historical monuments with that stunt. I distinctly remember leftoids at the time pointing to it and effectively stating, "See? Incessantly screeching like harpies works! Let's move on to the *next* thing to destroy."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 06, 2024 12:47 PM (DTX3h)

251 Trump has *looks at calendar* 11 days (that included weekends) to file his brief.

Posted by: runner at January 06, 2024 12:47 PM (V13WU)

252 @250

Dang, I should've gone with, "Tits Romney." Cursed lack of an edit button....

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 06, 2024 12:47 PM (DTX3h)

253 Gojira Minus One should win lots of awards.

But it won't because Hollywood is seriously broke.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2024 12:49 PM (OmM79)

254 Maybe black Viking queen will drop a load of treasure off on Oak Island.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 06, 2024 12:49 PM (AN/rm)

255 Bill Ackman is an activist investor. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
Posted by: nckate at January 06, 2024 12:35 PM (EPm6B)

I have seen it described as the conflict between Ackman's circle and the Pritzger circle. Gay was a pick by the Pritzgers, and is a casualty of that fight.

"best educational system money can buy, too bad you can't afford to even make a bid"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 12:50 PM (D7oie)

256 Kindlltot @ 249- where will find that many non-white non-Christian non- binary men’s that lactate?

Posted by: Eromero at January 06, 2024 12:52 PM (ZXAG8)

257 Egad. I hate shrimp. In all its forms.

Posted by: BurtTC
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I thought there was, you know, something different about you.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 12:44 PM (Zd0xi)

I've been in the closet about this for a long time. It feels good, liberating, to finally get it out there.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:53 PM (1NC3z)

258 > Campaign Volunteers Are 'Quitting in Droves'
According to Democrat staffers, volunteers for Joe Biden's 2024 campaign are quitting in significant numbers, mostly because they're angry about Biden's failure to call for a ceasefire in Israel.
______________

Propaganda, obviously. Sure, some of his volunteers want a ceasefire. Most of the media wants it more.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2024 12:53 PM (Q4IgG)

259 The best free to play game I played over the years was Star Trek Online. I can't remember an occasion where I felt I HAD or was forced to do microtransactions in order to enjoy the game.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - National Divorce NOW

I play a lot of Hunt Showdown and War Thunder. Both are free, and money isn't needed to advance or have fun. For mobile games, there a simple game called Slice & Dice that's great. Think I had to pay a couple bucks to unlock the full game (and not the limited demo), but it was well worth it.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 06, 2024 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

260 Sorry, I thought it was a term more general in usage. A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM

First I remember hearing the term 'whale' used was in the movie "Boiler Room" in reference to someone who would purchase a lot of stock.

Whale - A customer with a vast net income. Or "a large sucker with deep pockets".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2024 12:53 PM (AaCDb)

261 Ackman is the vocal one. There were many who stopped donating to Harvard. estimates say that a flow of a billion dollars has stopped. some donors made it permanent. Some made it conditional. There are people donating to Harvard medical centers or science research centers that got shaken by what has happened.

Posted by: runner at January 06, 2024 12:54 PM (V13WU)

262 Might as well get okra off your chest while you're at it.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 12:54 PM (Zd0xi)

263 Gojira Minus One should win lots of awards.

But it won't because Hollywood is seriously broke.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Dude, it has no queers, no trannies, no commies, and the heroes just flat out say that the government can't /won't save them so they'll have to do it themselves. Godzilla, poor bastard, doesn't have a chance!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 12:55 PM (FVME7)

264 Everything is about covered in snow, even road
Glad I didn't go to Delaware today

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 12:56 PM (fwDg9)

265 Egad. I hate shrimp. In all its forms.

Posted by: BurtTC

Fantastic. More for me.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 06, 2024 12:56 PM (R4t5M)

266 "Egad. I hate shrimp. In all its forms."

All its forms??

Posted by: Bubbah at January 06, 2024 12:57 PM (SYTee)

267 Make a grand epic about an illiterate peasant leading the armies of France against the English, but ending up burned at stake. But make the heroic peasant black, male, and gay. And call him a "sharecropper" instead of a peasant.

Charles Alexandre Dumas, of course. Born in Saint-Domingue. Too bad it is 500 years too late, and he participated in the massacres of the Vendee and the massive acts of anti-clericalsim. But he was black and his son was Alexandre Dumas, so that is all OK.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 12:57 PM (D7oie)

268 Is Jussie Smollett out of jail yet?

No, such a movie (promised or actually made) wouldn't put a stop to the idiocy, but it would make people think. The one's capable of thinking, at least. Too bad they're the most oppressed minority in the country.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at January 06, 2024 12:40 PM (uL3GK)

Speaking of Juicy Smooliet, since Ace was talking about it yesterday, I watched both the new Chappelle and Gervais specials.

While I enjoyed both, neither man was doing his best work. Chappelle seems to be coasting a bit, and even the clip Ace posted, Dave comparing meeting Jim Carey for the first time, when Jim was "in character" as Andy Kaufman, the observation was somewhat clever, but as a joke, meh. It was ok. And Dave seemed to revel in it longer than he needed to.

As for Gervais, yeah, he was a bit too obvious, and focused on Woke. Which is fine. Hard to disagree with him on any of it, but it doesn't necessarily translate into the funniest stuff he's done.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 12:57 PM (1NC3z)

269 Might as well get okra off your chest while you're at it.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 12:54 PM (Zd0xi)

That goes without saying.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:00 PM (1NC3z)

270 This is pretty good. Trump video set to Aerosmith's Dream On. About 3.5 minutes.

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/
1743367892647960812

That was very good. Not enough for me to pick Trump as my first choice, but still very good. I especially enjoyed the shouting woman at 2:54.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 01:00 PM (CsUN+)

271 Everything is about covered in snow, even road
Glad I didn't go to Delaware today
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 12:56 PM (fwDg9)

Still coming down pretty good here. Just got done walking the dog.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 06, 2024 01:00 PM (R4t5M)

272 A medieval Scandi king as a black woman? Who the hell watches this crap?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2024 01:02 PM (XqcwY)

273 Charles Alexandre Dumas, of course. Born in Saint-Domingue. Too bad it is 500 years too late, and he participated in the massacres of the Vendee and the massive acts of anti-clericalsim. But he was black and his son was Alexandre Dumas, so that is all OK.

Interesting. I did not know that.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 01:02 PM (CsUN+)

274 So, pos Business Insider publishes a pos hit piece allowing the NYT to report the trash, thus giving credibility to the other rags (L.A. Times etc) to repeat the lie as fact.
a feedback loop
Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 11:55 AM (Zd0xi)

Sounds familiar. The FBI leaked stuff on Trump to the press, and then used the press publishing it as proof to get FISA warrants.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:02 PM (FD5dr)

275 A medieval Scandi king as a black woman? Who the hell watches this crap?

Apparently nobody. You'd think the programmers would have taken the hint.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 01:02 PM (CsUN+)

276 Does look by radar to be snow all day, fine with me

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 01:03 PM (fwDg9)

277 >>Bill Ackman is an activist investor. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

He's a weapon and he's currently pointed in the right direction.

That's as deep as my caring about him goes.

Correct. The Left didn't win control of the planet by having only the perfect weapons lined up at every step. That's one thing where you really can make it up in quantity.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:05 PM (FD5dr)

278 Whale - A customer with a vast net income. Or "a large sucker with deep pockets".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Also, Orca Winfrey.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 06, 2024 01:06 PM (FVME7)

279 Apparently nobody. You'd think the programmers would have taken the hint.

Their payment comes in glowing reviews and awards, which they can then use to convince people to sign up for future turds.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:06 PM (FD5dr)

280 As a note, for a brief period of time the left LOVED David Duke.

After his political career in the US completely died out Duke started working for the Arab press writing articles on how evil America was.

This is the same time frame where the left cast Alex Jones in "A Scanner Darkly" playing himself, because he was also a WoT opponent. Of course to be clear Jones isn't a racist/antisemite and Duke is - but the left did not care at the time.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2024 01:07 PM (XqcwY)

281 A medieval Scandi king as a black woman? Who the hell watches this crap?
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Chique d'Afrique is already the Black Viking Queen of Greenland, anyway.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 06, 2024 01:07 PM (xYckV)

282
John Fetterman did not commit suicide.

Senator John Fetterman has cosponsored a bill that would ban congressional stock trading.

I remember when Congress played that game when Obama was in office. At the end of the State of the Union address, camera moves in tight (as planned), and someone says something to Obama about a bill about insider trading, closeup of Obama (defiant), "Put that bill on my desk and I'll sign it tomorrow" - end of script, back to long view of chambers. He signed the bill. They repealed it 90 days later.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 06, 2024 01:07 PM (3qE2b)

283 Whale - A customer with a vast net income. Or "a large sucker with deep pockets".

Las Vegas casinos use it too - the kind of person that you charter a jet for to bring to Vegas, and top-of-the-line comps.

I.e.: a rich sucker.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 06, 2024 01:08 PM (YAtuc)

284 Correct. The Left didn't win control of the planet by having only the perfect weapons lined up at every step. That's one thing where you really can make it up in quantity.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:05 PM (FD5dr)

There's a long list of people to which that principle could be applied, who can be quite helpful to "the cause." Musk, Rogan, RFK Jr, Alex Jones, Vivek, even Meatball DeSantis and Trump...

The list goes on. Imperfects, all.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:08 PM (1NC3z)

285 Claudine Gay was a Dean of .......
Now how did she even get there except by AA, what with her mediocre academic achievements?

Posted by: Ciampino - Peanuts, bringing peanuts at January 06, 2024 01:09 PM (qfLjt)

286 Even if the Vikings traveled to the Middle east, Africa there is no way they would come back with a Black woman and make her queen... They may bring one back but as a slave

Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2024 01:09 PM (n2vyf)

287 Physical media is even better. Hell, the TV is just a glorified computer monitor as it is not hooked up to cable or even ota.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM (di6C2)

Same here.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2024 01:11 PM (BdMk6)

288 Should have made the actress playing the Viking out on "whiteface" bleach hair, and stuff a sock in her pants.
And glue a fake beard on her face.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 06, 2024 01:11 PM (cOq4q)

289 Their payment comes in glowing reviews and awards, which they can then use to convince people to sign up for future turds.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:06 PM (FD5dr)

Oh, it's more simple than that. Media no longer exists to attract views/listens. It exists to issue propaganda, and no amount of failure at the box office (or whatever) is going to stop them from keeping it coming.

It serves a purpose. Looking at how unpopular it is, is missing the point.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:11 PM (1NC3z)

290 lol all the new Chester County-ans don't know how to drive in snooo and probably never have had to yet

no snow in bangalore

accidents everywhere and we have nothing the roads are really fine I drove the sportscar for errands

also on the Ackman thing - first off everyone forgets that Liz McGill quit post haste which was a huge win! second of all he should buy out that RAG business insider

it's a leftist tool not a magazine really. buy it and close it the next day!

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at January 06, 2024 01:11 PM (AcWfM)

291
First I remember hearing the term 'whale' used was in the movie "Boiler Room" in reference to someone who would purchase a lot of stock.

Whale - A customer with a vast net income. Or "a large sucker with deep pockets".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Is that where Unusual Whales gets its name?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2024 01:12 PM (63Dwl)

292 The lump runs Fetterman now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 06, 2024 01:12 PM (R4t5M)

293 AWFLs are the big beneficiaries of Woke at universities and at big companies. Cover for quotas

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2024 01:12 PM (+Aw2y)

294 Is that where Unusual Whales gets its name?

Yes.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:13 PM (FD5dr)

295 Claudine Gay was a Dean of .......
Now how did she even get there except by AA, what with her mediocre academic achievements?
Posted by: Ciampino - Peanuts, bringing peanuts at January 06, 2024 01:09 PM (qfLjt)

when your goal is to hire, say, 1000 top flight specialists, you run into the problem that there are not 1000 top flight specialists to be hired, so then you start reducing your standards until you start hiring the applicants who can fog a mirror because they also can get an online application to autofill.

Which is not really a problem, since there really isn't enough work for 1000 top flight specialists, and the dumber hires should be happy to take their money and sit quietly

(spoiler, dumb people are NEVER happy to take their money and sit quietly)

Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 01:13 PM (D7oie)

296 The only time I see TeeVee is at the local watering holes I visit.

I am reminded every time I gander at the screens just how mind boggling stupid TeeVee is today.

Like Stump Dumb.

And the commercials are so rayciss and idiotic I always buy things that are not advertised.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2024 01:13 PM (R/m4+)

297 Poetry?

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2024 01:13 PM (W/lyH)

298 AWFLs are the big beneficiaries of Woke at universities and at big companies. Cover for quotas

Which is why you can scratch nearly any woke disaster and find an AWFL.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:14 PM (FD5dr)

299 Claudine Gay was a Dean of .......
Now how did she even get there except by AA, what with her mediocre academic achievements?
Posted by: Ciampino - Peanuts, bringing peanuts at January 06, 2024 01:09 PM (qfLjt)

I had a supervisor, some years ago. She was smart, and in some ways, very effective at her job. But she was functionally illiterate... well, not quite, but close enough.

For all her advanced education, she was never pushed academically, and would often come to me to help her with writing.

That's part of the shame of this stuff. Yes, the person I'm talking about is black, and if she had been challenged, all through her academic life, she'd have achieved so much more. But she never had to, so she was only as good as she had to be, to keep moving along in her career.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:15 PM (1NC3z)

300 Unusual Whales was probably the best single put out by Carroll Gibbons and His Band. 1938, the B side was a cover of Oh By Jingo and was never well thought of.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 01:16 PM (D7oie)

301 Maybe Fetterman's lump is now self aware?

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 01:17 PM (fwDg9)

302 A medieval Scandi king as a black woman? Who the hell watches this crap?
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Chique d'Afrique is already the Black Viking Queen of Greenland, anyway.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

And now we know who is behind global warming.

Make Greenland Green Again!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 06, 2024 01:18 PM (cOq4q)

303 Spike Jones, Oh By Jingo

https://youtu.be/aCJ3ETx_zf0?si=o-rt2bpZ9niTXrBt

Posted by: Kindltot at January 06, 2024 01:18 PM (D7oie)

304 That's part of the shame of this stuff. Yes, the person I'm talking about is black, and if she had been challenged, all through her academic life, she'd have achieved so much more. But she never had to, so she was only as good as she had to be, to keep moving along in her career.

The other part is that when you run across competent blacks/women you wonder if HR was playing the lottery and won. Two of the smartest coders I've ever worked with are black (one African import, one AA). Both have married parents and know their father, which is the factor nobody wants to talk about since it's "anti-woman".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:19 PM (FD5dr)

305 Whale - A customer with a vast net income. Or "a large sucker with deep pockets".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
--
Is that where Unusual Whales gets its name?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2024 01:12 PM (63Dwl)

I think they used the term "whale" in the movie, Wolf of Wall Street too. Which I only watched, just past the part where Margot Robbie gets nekkid.

I mean, she looked magnificent, but I realized they were using a body double, and I was sorely disappointed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:20 PM (1NC3z)

306 Sorry, I thought it was a term more general in usage. A 'Whale' is someone who buys a ton of content for a video game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 06, 2024 11:44 AM

I'm no gambler, but I have long seen the term, in fiction, used by casinos to signify the big spenders. Long before video games.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2024 01:20 PM (/QIWP)

307 You or your kids plan to memorize any poetry this year? What do you like?

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Why, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew', of course.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2024 01:22 PM (XeU6L)

308 The other part is that when you run across competent blacks/women you wonder if HR was playing the lottery and won. Two of the smartest coders I've ever worked with are black (one African import, one AA). Both have married parents and know their father, which is the factor nobody wants to talk about since it's "anti-woman".
Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2024 01:19 PM (FD5dr)

Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I've encountered the other side of it... people obviously in their positions, with their degrees, because somebody just moved them along.

I'd assume most workplaces, with degreed professionals has the same. Even the so-called hard sciences.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:22 PM (1NC3z)

309 FAA orders temporary grounding of all 737MAX9 aircraft.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 01:22 PM (MeG8a)

310 I'm no gambler, but I have long seen the term, in fiction, used by casinos to signify the big spenders. Long before video games.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2024 01:20 PM (/QIWP)

Concur. Whales are the ones who built all those nice casinos in Las Vegas.

They lose and lose big and love it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 06, 2024 01:23 PM (R/m4+)

311 83 Is this black Viking queen sassy?
Posted by: Northernlurker

More to the point, does she do that sideways neck-wagging thing when she's telling you what's what?

Authenticity is important, you know.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2024 01:23 PM (/QIWP)

312 Why, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew', of course.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2024 01:22 PM (XeU6L)

There once was a man from Nantucket.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:23 PM (1NC3z)

313 FAA orders temporary grounding of all 737MAX9 aircraft.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 01:22 PM (MeG8a)

Hopefully the Max8's are still flying.

No but seriously, who didn't get their DEI score up to par? I'm sure that's a factor. A... Max factor.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 06, 2024 01:25 PM (1NC3z)

314 NOOD

Posted by: vic at January 06, 2024 01:25 PM (A5THL)

315 >>I'm no gambler, but I have long seen the term, in fiction, used by casinos to signify the big spenders. Long before video games.

Whale.

http://tinyurl.com/mrx4z4yr

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2024 01:25 PM (ZLI7S)

316 I'm no gambler, but I have long seen the term, in fiction, used by casinos to signify the big spenders. Long before video games.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 06, 2024 01:20 PM (/QIWP)

Yup. We used that term when I worked in Vegas Casinos during the early 80's. We also used the term "comp king" also.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2024 01:27 PM (BdMk6)

317 Anyone see that St Louis health director ordered masks to be worn and less than 24hrs later it was changed to a recommendation due to push back from doctors/hospitals?

sick burn.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 06, 2024 01:28 PM (S8LYt)

318
All its forms??
Posted by: Bubbah

"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it."

Posted by: Quote at January 06, 2024 01:29 PM (XeU6L)

319 Claudine Gay was a Dean of .......
Now how did she even get there except by AA, what with her mediocre academic achievements?

Claudine Gay looks up and aspires to mediocrity.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 06, 2024 01:30 PM (CsUN+)

320 Anyone see that St Louis health director ordered masks to be worn and less than 24hrs later it was changed to a recommendation due to push back from doctors/hospitals?

sick burn.
Posted by: AZ deplorable
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They can only do that because the director is not the member of a protected class.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2024 01:32 PM (XeU6L)

321 So naturally Netflix made him a black woman

Wait until Dylan Mulvaney is Snow White...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2024 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

At least he would make the effort to look the part. How does a black woman become a Viking warrior? These people are nuts.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2024 01:34 PM (Mzdiz)

322 There was a black samurai - for real.

So I'm surprised that Hollywood hasn't made a movie about him yet.

And he did have an interesting, movie worthy life too...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2024 01:36 PM (XqcwY)

323 They can only do that because the director is not the member of a protected class.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Heh, they did it to a black woman 'Health Director'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 06, 2024 01:37 PM (S8LYt)

324 >>> At least he would make the effort to look the part. How does a black woman become a Viking warrior? These people are nuts.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Big Mike Obama might be able to pull off the role of a Berserker.
Bit part only though.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 06, 2024 01:38 PM (cOq4q)

325 support minoritized women

A phrase I just read about the efforts of a local University in reference to women in STEM.
Very admirable, but WTF kind of word is minoritized?
Are these women who weren't minorities but became one?
A verb? Adverb?
I hate the jerks who create this bullshit.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2024 01:42 PM (W/lyH)

326 Director is the Political Commissar

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 01:50 PM (fwDg9)

327 You or your kids plan to memorize any poetry this year? What do you like?

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She offered her honor,
He honored her offer,
And all night long,
It was honor and offer, offer and honor.

--Seen on a bathroom wall.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 06, 2024 02:00 PM (xxG/v)

328 I sense a disturbance in the nood thread universe...

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 06, 2024 02:00 PM (xxG/v)

329 Heh, they did it to a black woman 'Health Director'.
Posted by: AZ
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*!*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2024 02:02 PM (XeU6L)

330 I sense a disturbance in the nood thread universe...

Only if you plan to discuss gardening...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 06, 2024 02:03 PM (/HDaX)

331 Claudine Gay looks up and aspires to mediocrity.
Posted by: Archimedes
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In fairness, I'm sympatheic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2024 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

332 >>>The list goes on. Imperfects, all.

Posted by: BurtTC
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There's a book full of imperfect people, murderers, stutterers, crippled etc., who changed the world for the better.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 02:05 PM (Zd0xi)

333 That's a good point about the plagiarism war forcing normies to know more about academia. Same with the tranny pushback...nobody cared about that or a host of other woke dysfunctions until Branch Covidian mayhem inadvertently forced parents to know more about their kids' education experience, and they didn't react well to what they found.

Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2024 02:06 PM (PZvjL)

334 Speaking of Big Michelle
Seeing more coming around to her being the Democrats 2024 nomination

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 02:08 PM (fwDg9)

335 >>> ... shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it."

Posted by: Quot
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Shrimp with lobster sauce

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 02:09 PM (Zd0xi)

336 309 FAA orders temporary grounding of all 737MAX9 aircraft.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 06, 2024 01:22 PM (MeG8a)

I didn't check lamestream media this morning, but in the absence of evidence to the contrary I'll just assume that some of them randomly fell out of the sky again.

Posted by: CppThis at January 06, 2024 02:09 PM (PZvjL)

337 A phrase I just read about the efforts of a local University in reference to women in STEM.
Very admirable, but WTF kind of word is minoritized?
Are these women who weren't minorities but became one?
A verb? Adverb?
I hate the jerks who create this bullshit.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2024 01:42 PM (W/lyH)

59% of America is Non Hispanic White. 52% of Americans are Women... thus 23% of Americans are Non Hispanic White Males.... below 1/4... ergo... we are a Minority.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2024 02:13 PM (xaFKb)

338 >>>Chique d'Afrique is already the Black Viking Queen of Greenland, anyway.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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So, Is Donald going to be able to make a deal with her?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 02:14 PM (Zd0xi)

339 59% of America is Non Hispanic White. 52% of Americans are Women... thus 23% of Americans are Non Hispanic White Males.... below 1/4... ergo... we are a Minority.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2024 02:13 PM (xaFKb)

Need more coffee... math is slightly off....

28% are non Hispanic White Males... still a Minority.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2024 02:15 PM (xaFKb)

340 How does a black woman become a Viking warrior? These people are nuts. Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 06, 2024 01:34 PM (Mzdiz)

Caesar's Wife and I were in England about 10 years ago. On the radio they were interviewing a black woman who was playing Henry V. OK, actors are supposed to make you believe. It might be more of a stretch, but if you can pull it off, more power to you. So they asked her to say some of the St. Crispin's Day speech. It was awful. I could have done a better job. She clearly did not understand the context of the words she was saying, who she was speaking them to, and what they meant. A speech meant to be inspiring just came off flat. Id rather have been a-bed holding my manhood cheap than to be led into battle by that woman. The French would have slaughtered them.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 06, 2024 02:23 PM (7B5FA)

341 Sasquatch (#327):
The words on the bathroom wall are quoted from "Have some Madeira, ma dear" by Flanders and Swann.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at January 06, 2024 02:24 PM (uL3GK)

342 This clip is absolutely terrifying to me
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No French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2024 02:33 PM (RIvkX)

343 My problem with the black Jarl Haakon woman is consequently, the writers make her a superior, never wrong, always saves the day if she's there kind of character. Very boring, in other words.
Because writing her as having any flaws would be racist

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 06, 2024 02:34 PM (mTuD/)

344 I love and watched all the Viking shows and I thought the black lady did a good job with the role of the Viking king. Akshully.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2024 02:39 PM (RIvkX)

345 Buck Throckmorton at January 06, 2024 12:03 PM

It's a good thing to help kids memorize poetry. I still remember some Robert Frost poems I memorized in elementary school

Posted by: KT at January 06, 2024 02:40 PM (rrtZS)

346 Don't be a victim of minoritization.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2024 02:41 PM (63Dwl)

347
If Claudine Gay had to do the work of an actual scholar, she would cry. Establish a method to gather clean data in sufficient quantity. Establish a method to analyze it for whatever question you're investigating. Gather your data. Do the analysis. Report your results. Account for anomalies. She hasn't a clue how hard real scholars work.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2024 02:44 PM (lCaJd)

348 But it is the shrinking white male population

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 02:44 PM (fwDg9)

349 But it is the shrinking white male population
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 02:44 PM (fwDg9)
__________________

Leave Robert Reich out of this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 06, 2024 02:47 PM (YqDXo)

350 If Claudine Gay had to do the work of an actual scholar, she would cry. Establish a method to gather clean data in sufficient quantity. Establish a method to analyze it for whatever question you're investigating. Gather your data. Do the analysis. Report your results. Account for anomalies. She hasn't a clue how hard real scholars work.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2024 02:44 PM (lCaJd)
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This. Gay in her resignation letter said she was going to return to scholarship.

Me: Return??

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 06, 2024 02:49 PM (YqDXo)

351 Stella's Got a New Dress: A very wholesome song! I don't remember having ever heard that before.

Posted by: m at January 06, 2024 03:02 PM (hWiTk)

352 Return to stealing thoughts and writing

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2024 03:10 PM (fwDg9)

353 Unbelievable. This is a US Senator.

>>@SenatorShaheen

>>“A democracy, if you can keep it,” said Ben Franklin.

>>January 6, 2021, was a stark reminder of just how fragile our democracy is.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2024 03:20 PM (ZLI7S)

354 "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats is the coolest, most chilling poem ever written and should be memorized by everyone.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 06, 2024 03:20 PM (5YmYl)

355 "This clip is absolutely terrifying to me"

Besides the stupidity of trying to record firework shows instead of watching it, NOBODY ever goes back and watches them and if you post it somewhere, nobody watches it there either. They totally fail to capture the beauty and awe. Just enjoy the moment.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at January 06, 2024 03:20 PM (JojsZ)

356 A line from Yeats' "The Second Coming" that's resonant today:

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity".

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 06, 2024 03:22 PM (5YmYl)

357 Racist, no. Kinky, yes.

Posted by: Richard Sean McEnroe at January 06, 2024 03:35 PM (1UfpD)

358 She offered her honor,
He honored her offer,
And all night long,
It was honor and offer, offer and honor.

--Seen on a bathroom wall.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 06, 2024 02:00 PM (xxG/v)
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The uncle of my best friend recited this at the end of his wedding toast for my friend (his nephew) and new wife. Then, we drank and danced and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The married couple is still happily married, 40 years later.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2024 03:41 PM (ZePNB)

359 Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2024 03:20 PM (ZLI7S)
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Was Jeanne just always historically illiterate or does the propaganda finally eat away at your brain, like a bacterial invader?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2024 03:44 PM (XM6on)

360 347
If Claudine Gay had to do the work of an actual scholar
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There is a group of people who refer to themselves as scholars.
VDH, in one of his clips, describes what one has to achieve in
order to be considered a scholar. One of the requisites that I
remember is, debating a particular subject in ancient Greek
with the other scholars. The list of areas of necessary mastery is jaw dropping.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 03:44 PM (X6Sy7)

361 >>Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Was Jeanne just always historically illiterate or does the propaganda finally eat away at your brain, like a bacterial invader?

Or, conspiracy theory time, she only said what all leftists are now saying including Biden. The dream of the left is to have a democracy not a republic and do away with pesky things like the electoral college.

Most of our population has been so dumbed down they don't even know the difference.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2024 03:46 PM (ZLI7S)

362 >>> Was Jeanne just always historically illiterate or does the propaganda finally eat away at your brain, like a bacterial invader?

Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Brain virus.
_E Musk

Posted by: Braenyard at January 06, 2024 03:54 PM (X6Sy7)

363 Nowadays, always go with the conspiracy theory. Recent history says its the likeliest to eventually be right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2024 03:55 PM (jMXHF)

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