Antisemetic Terrorist Finishing School Columbia University Agrees to Pay Jewish Students $220 Million for Letting Foreign Muslim Agents Terrorize Them for a Year

The left is very, very opposed to racism, you know.

Just a couple of days ago we heard that Columbia had finally punished the foreign terrorist agitators who had taken over their library while screaming Hitlerian chants.

That wasn't their own decision -- that was part of the settlement with the Trump Administration, which actually walks the walk when it comes to shutting down racism and antisemitism.

The Trump administration has won unprecedented concessions from Columbia University in a sweeping settlement -- with the Ivy League university paying more than $220 million and pledging to reverse racially discriminatory practices and resolve civil rights violations against Jewish students, The Post can exclusively reveal.
The settlement, under which Columbia will agree to submit to independent monitoring to ensure it is complying with merit-based hiring and admissions requirements, is likely to put pressure on other schools -- like Harvard -- that have crossed the White House over tolerance of extreme Jew-hatred on campus since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas against Israel.
The resolution comes after just four months of negotiations between Columbia and Trump, striking a stark contrast with Harvard, which decided to drag the administration into court for stripping the school of $2.6 billion in grants and other funding.
In addition to paying the feds $200 million to settle their discrimination claims, Columbia will also fork over more than $20 million to Jewish employees who were discriminated against amid fierce antisemitic demonstrations that followed the Hamas attack.
The Trump administration is touting the employees' sum as the largest public settlement of its kind in nearly 20 years and the highest for any victim who's lodged a Title VI complaint.
The Ivy League school has also agreed to end all programming that discriminated against faculty or students -- bringing it into full compliance with the Supreme Court's 2023 decision banning race-based affirmative action -- and create some yet-to-be-announced faculty positions in the name of broadening intellectual diversity.
The settlement further calls for Columbia to maintain a trained security force blocking demonstrations in academic spaces and coordinate with the NYPD to prevent a repeat of the takeover of Hamilton Hall by anti-Israel rioters in the spring of 2024 -- while the university will impose a complete ban on masked protests.
Disciplinary rules will no longer be governed by the faculty senate but, rather, by the Office of the Provost. On Tuesday, Columbia announced that dozens of students were going to be suspended or penalized -- and a handful expelled -- for a recent disruptive library demonstration and anti-Israel tent encampment that engulfed the campus last year.
The university's admissions office will step up vetting for foreign applicants, quiz potential students about their reasons for wanting to study in the US and share that data with the feds, while Columbia's reliance on international enrollment will be cut back.
As part of its participation in the federal Student and Exchange Visitor (SEVIS) Program, the school will now be expected to report any disciplinary actions for those holding visas -- including suspensions, expulsions or arrests.
Experts are also supposed to consult with administrators to prevent the threat of terrorist financing or other illicit funds flowing to the school.
Regional programs -- specifically the Center for Palestine Studies; the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies; Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies; the Middle East Institute; and learning hubs in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Amman, Jordan -- will come under strict review from the senior vice provost to ensure they are "comprehensive and balanced."
Additionally, the Morningside Heights school will comply with Title IX and no longer force women to compete with biological men in sports or use their locker rooms, housing or other facilities.

Good heavens, it's a total victory on almost every point.

Trump did agree to return most of the $400 million in funding he suspended. Not loving that.

There is a hitch: William Jacobsen of Legal Insurrection declared "Columbia won -- ask any academic why." I'm sure he's referring to wiggle room in the settlement which will allow Columbia to keep breaking the law with impunity.

When he posts about this, I'll note his objections.

Below: Trump's announcement on Truth Social.

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at July 24, 2025 12:00 PM (aQ25I)

2 Hola p

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 24, 2025 12:01 PM (GYt5+)

3 Hulk Hogan is dead. The trifecta is now complete

Posted by: lurking at July 24, 2025 12:03 PM (tlgjd)

4 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 24, 2025 12:03 PM (MG/ac)

5 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2025 12:06 PM (+qU29)

6 Lol.

"Maybe now you can go back to being a real school."

Losers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:07 PM (RlmPm)

7 Hulk Hogan mortuus est

Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 12:07 PM (gKWVE)

8 Willowed.
LIC is kicking the can down the road. Is that a bad thing if you can keep kicking it for the duration?

I don't know.
Posted by: polynikes

Yes, bad. Any conflict that remains unresolved intensifies.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2025 12:07 PM (n4GiU)

9 I'm just gonna say, "Looks like we have our third," on every celebrity death now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

10 I don't care so much that it may not be a complete victory. Nothing like this would have happened without MAGA.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 24, 2025 12:08 PM (bNf8H)

11 Peter "Not Even Wrong" Woit is crying about it. He supports the protests against the "genocide" in Gaza.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 12:08 PM (gKWVE)

12 Another celebrity murder death kill?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 12:09 PM (zLAXK)

13 Wait a second. How does that work?

'Our bad. We deprived you of your civil liberties! Bygones!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2025 12:09 PM (bss/y)

14 There is a hitch: William Jacobsen of Legal Insurrection declared "Columbia won -- ask any academic why."

Because they're still open.

Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2025 12:09 PM (h9A1n)

15 I want the money seized for good, I didn’t really care about the issue at hand.

Foreign Students said mean things about Israel. As if this is gonna stop that from ever happening again.

But let’s keep throwing trillions of dollars at Ivy League schools, but we got a headline that some of their Muslim students don’t like Jewish people

Posted by: Maroon at July 24, 2025 12:09 PM (1DEuE)

16 I finally believe it, brother.

RIP Hulk Hogan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2025 12:09 PM (bss/y)

17 3 Hulk Hogan is dead. The trifecta is now complete

Posted by: lurking at July 24, 2025 12:03 PM (tlgjd)

Ozzie and Hulk, who's the third?

Posted by: Some Moron at July 24, 2025 12:09 PM (Yt3ED)

18 I voted for this. Pay up bitches!

I wonder if Hulk Hogan was vaxxed.

Posted by: Zombie Haystacks Calhoun at July 24, 2025 12:10 PM (rfMRc)

19 RIP Hulk Hogan.

I wonder if when two celebs die, those alive hold their breath.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 24, 2025 12:10 PM (1m/cg)

20 And meanwhile the number of Jewish students going to Columbia continues to decline- understandably. Why would any Jewish parent who isn't a JINO and a progressive send their kid to Columbia ( ?) and even then, if word got out that the student was a Jew who supported the existence of the state of Israel, they could be attacked while on campus even if their parents have voted for Democrats for 25 or more years and the kid is also a Democrat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2025 12:10 PM (2GCMq)

21 Ozzy and Hulk. Who was the third? Did I miss something?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 24, 2025 12:10 PM (Xlao3)

22 Wish Columbia was punished more. Ihope there are some probationary terms in the agreements so that they are watched very carefully.
Can't trust the bastards, no morals.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2025 12:10 PM (n4GiU)

23 Trump did agree to return most of the $400 million in funding he suspended.

So now the Ivy Leagues can just put money aside, pay it as a penalty and keep getting funding.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 12:11 PM (RjOoY)

24
quiz potential students about their reasons for wanting to study in the US and share that data with the feds

Q: Are you here to perform violent acts?
A: No

Welcome to Columbia!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 12:11 PM (63Dwl)

25 The Left: The Party of Hamas and Anne Frank

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:11 PM (7HpjT)

26 Malcolm Jamal Warner
Ozzy
Hulk Hogan

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)

27 Ozzie and Hulk, who's the third?

Malcolm Jamal Warner

There's always a lesser of the three

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 24, 2025 12:12 PM (zLAXK)

28 Damn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

29 Hulk Hogan was such a great Trump supporter and promoter.
RIP!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 12:12 PM (NpAcC)

30 Thank God there's no more discrimination at Columbia.

* dust hands *
* looks back at 40 years of discrimination*

Anyway...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2025 12:12 PM (mlg/3)

31 Not enough. Needs to HURT or these flatworms won't learn.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2025 12:12 PM (N1DT3)

32 federal funding, huh?

So Columbia is a state school?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:12 PM (RlmPm)

33 We're dropping so fast you can't keep track.
Celebrities.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2025 12:13 PM (n4GiU)

34 Wow; That is a powerful name for Columbia, Ace: "Antisemitic terrorist finishing school."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2025 12:13 PM (2GCMq)

35 Rest in Peace, Brotheeerrr!

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 24, 2025 12:13 PM (PC5DH)

36 Willowed:

Didn't we have a run of celebrities killed by trees?
Posted by: toby928

We did have a bononzo of those in the late 90s.

(Too soon?)
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

37 We need to hire more arborists and tree fellers to combat this scourge of celebrities dying in trees!

Posted by: Emily Litella at July 24, 2025 12:14 PM (G5+As)

38 The settlement further calls for Columbia to maintain a trained security force blocking demonstrations in academic spaces and coordinate with the NYPD to prevent a repeat of the takeover of Hamilton Hall by anti-Israel rioters in the spring of 2024 -- while the university will impose a complete ban on masked protests.

Train them to pass out hickory shampoos with walnut conditioners.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 12:14 PM (rw9H/)

39 Ric Flair®
@RicFlairNatrBoy

I Am Absolutely Shocked To Hear About The Passing Of My Close Friend
@HulkHogan
! Hulk Has Been By My Side Since We Started In The Wrestling Business. An Incredible Athlete, Talent, Friend, And Father! Our Friendship Has Meant The World To Me. He Was Always There For Me Even When I Didn’t Ask For Him To Be. He Was One Of The First To Visit Me When I Was In The Hospital With A 2% Chance Of Living, And He Prayed By My Bedside. Hulk Also Lent Me Money When Reid Was Sick. Hulkster, No One Will Ever Compare To You! Rest In Peace My Friend! 🙏🏻

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 12:14 PM (NpAcC)

40 Ozzie and Hulk, who's the third?
Posted by: Some Moron

David Gergen

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

41 Not enough. Needs to HURT or these flatworms won't learn.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

See #38. It will.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 12:15 PM (rw9H/)

42 $220M out of what? Doesn't Columbia have over a billion dollars stashed away?

It's a start, but hardly enough to change their behavior.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)

43 I finally believe it, brother.

RIP Hulk Hogan.
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At least we still have Gene Hackman.

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 12:16 PM (TN0g+)

44 Wow, Theo is just not getting any love.

It's because he's black, isn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

45 We're dropping so fast you can't keep track.
Celebrities.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 24, 2025 12:13 PM (n4GiU)

Hmmm.
Anyway, how'd the Mariners do last night?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (W/lyH)

46 42 $220M out of what? Doesn't Columbia have over a billion dollars stashed away?

It's a start, but hardly enough to change their behavior.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)

========

People act like taking 1/5 of a university's assets in the form of cash, which they have to use just to keep the lights on, won't negatively affect the place.

Cashflow, man. Cashflow.

Accounting didn't teach me much, but it did teach me how organizations can't operate without cashflow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

47 Oh, FFS. The government should cease funding all private universities, and then turn a baleful eye on the public ones.

By returning these jumped up faggots their $400m against a $220m, it just amounts to taxpayers paying their stupid fine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (c3YMA)

48 Ozzy and Hulk. Who was the third? Did I miss something?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

Malcom-Jamal Warner/Theo Huxtable.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (rw9H/)

49 3 Hulk Hogan is dead. The trifecta is now complete
Posted by: lurking at July 24, 2025 12:03 PM (tlgjd)

Wow.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (ETNER)

50 At least we still have Gene Hackman.
Posted by: Crusader

OK, where the hell does this line come from?

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (77rzZ)

51 The US needs to get out of government-sponsored student loans.

Universities can use their endowments, or banks can determine if they will recoup their investment.

Women's Studies dumbasses, I'm looking at you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (PMtkd)

52 43 I finally believe it, brother.

RIP Hulk Hogan.
--------

At least we still have Gene Hackman.
Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 12:16 PM (TN0g+)

um. He's been dead a while now...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (xcxpd)

53 I read this as Columbia "promising" to spend $200M to get their $1.5B in sweet sweet Govt money. I don't see the punishment?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (BW+Gb)

54 Ozzie and Hulk, who's the third?
Posted by: Some Moron at July 24, 2025 12:09 PM (Yt3ED)

John MacArthur

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 12:18 PM (D7oie)

55 With the breaking news that The View is going "on hiatus" after this Friday, many here are concerned about Ms. Behar, 81.

Not to fret; she is joining CNN as their Global Affairs correspondent.

It's Joy to the World,
all you boys and girls.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2025 12:18 PM (0sNs1)

56 53 I read this as Columbia "promising" to spend $200M to get their $1.5B in sweet sweet Govt money. I don't see the punishment?
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 24, 2025 12:17 PM (BW+Gb)

It's not about punishment. It's about bending the knee.

Which I'm fine with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:19 PM (RlmPm)

57 Women's Studies dumbasses, I'm looking at you.
Posted by: Seems Legit

I've been working on my women's studies degree since the age of 13 or so.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

58 Zohran Mamdani’s father, professor Mahmood Mamdani, is still teaching at Columbia.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 12:19 PM (NpAcC)

59 Is there no clause funding a Donald J. Trump research facility? Because he should have insisted on that.

Posted by: Ed McMahon at July 24, 2025 12:19 PM (jc0TO)

60 Abe Vigoda died?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Spelling Nazi at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (PiwSw)

61 It's also about plundering and desecrating their cathedrals.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (RlmPm)

62 I remember when I wrestled Hulk back when I was in the wrestling game. He used to pull my leg hairs in the clinch. I'd always take him out behind the arena to show him what's what.

True story.

No Joke!

Posted by: Joe Biden- Heavy Mentalist at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (2sMLA)

63 I hope the Jewish students actually get some of that money

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (a1meb)

64 ‘There is a hitch: William Jacobsen of Legal Insurrection declared "Columbia won -- ask any academic why." I'm sure he's referring to wiggle room in the settlement which will allow Columbia to keep breaking the law with impunity.’

I disagree. Huge win for Trump. Most people — including all ‘academics’ — thought the lawsuit was bullshit and Columbia would easily win. How’d that work out? $220M.

There is always wiggle room in these kinds of settlements, and it’s hard to police discrimination. But the settlement includes an independent monitor. Get the right guy or gal in there, and he could cause Columbia pain for decades. Ask the left how successful they’ve been with their independent monitors over the decades.

The monitor is an easy way to go back for more money and pain if Columbia doesn’t fly right.

Don’t believe the naysayers; this was a big win for Trump.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (T4qa/)

65 Off to the great big tanning bed in the sky.

Posted by: wth at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (UjdFS)

66 Joy Behar is 82?? She's a complete dumbass, but she looks amazing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (PMtkd)

67 There’s nothing these Ivy leagues can do where I suddenly think it’s OK for the federal government to throw billions of dollars at them

So they set up some sort of new human resource type department to make sure people can report discriminatory behavior? I’m sure that fixes everything and that won’t be turned around against us at some point.

Let these elite places take it out of their own dime if they want to fund this super important research. They have multi billion dollar endowments.

Posted by: Maroon at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (1DEuE)

68 For now I'd be in the Jacobson camp. Many people watching this closely have been unexcited by this deal since it first emerged.

The real problem is the mindset of those in charge. That can't be changed in a consent decree or deal. The casual, vapid, culturally correct (for them) anti-western, anti-US, anti-Israeli mindset.

And while the anti-Jewish incitement and antics have been repulsive, the indoctrination of the young heads full of mush has been/is disastrous, and will continue, I'd bet, completely unaffected by this deal.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (1m82a)

69 Hulk Hogan always gave off the image of being the ultimate in health and fitness - but I strongly suspect his heart suffered badly from being heavily dosed with steroids for decades.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (uWKK8)

70 The bell is tolling for Harvard now ....

They--despite their cheerleaders in the media and the left--have no chance to win in their lawsuits.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (1tQZO)

71 64 Don’t believe the naysayers; this was a big win for Trump.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 12:20 PM (T4qa/)

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False.

All good news is bad news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

72 With the breaking news that The View is going "on hiatus" after this Friday, many here are concerned about Ms. Behar, 81.
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Looks a nothing burger. Unfortunately. Taking the rest of the summer off just like DC politicians.

Posted by: WisRich at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (G0vdT)

73 $220M buys a lot of rulers.

Posted by: DaveA at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (FhXTo)

74 Crud. I forgot about Warner being the first. There goes my hope that Jane Fonda was included in these three.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (RjOoY)

75 I've been working on my women's studies degree since the age of 13 or so.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

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And where has it gotten you? Hmmmmm?

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (PMtkd)

76 Abe Vigoda died?
Posted by: I am
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Hulk Hogan, for sure.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (XeU6L)

77 I'd be a lot happier with all of these universities if just ONE of them showed some balls and stood up to their student protesters. These children are supposed to be at university for an education. The very notion that the university should listen to the students about their investments or foreign affairs or anything else is ludicrous and insulting. Bang your drum, chant your stupid slogans. But the second you stop other students from free movement around campus, off to jail with you. Oh, and by the way, shut your word hole and get your arrogant immature ass to class, you insufferable selfish dickheads.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (m0WlR)

78 The bell is tolling for Harvard now .... They--despite their cheerleaders in the media and the left--have no chance to win in their lawsuits. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (1tQZO)

Breaking Harvard will make it much easier to get everyone else to behave.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (eStot)

79 But what about the lamentations of their wymmynz?

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (5xvZ1)

80 $220M buys a lot of rulers.
Posted by: DaveA

It sure does.
-- Xi Jinping.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (77rzZ)

81 55 With the breaking news that The View is going "on hiatus" after this Friday, many here are concerned about Ms. Behar, 81.

Not to fret; she is joining CNN as their Global Affairs correspondent.

It's Joy to the World,
all you boys and girls.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2025 12:18 PM (0sNs1)

Fun Fact: Joy Behar is about six weeks older than Joe Biden.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 24, 2025 12:22 PM (ETNER)

82 They can't even take a damn vacation without it being About Trump.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:23 PM (RlmPm)

83 Hulk Hogan recently married a much younger woman. Then he has a heart attack. I hope he went out the right way.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 12:23 PM (T4qa/)

84 Yes I'm happy about this but still stop the flow of taxpayer dollars to Columbia by at least 90%.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 24, 2025 12:23 PM (17s+e)

85 83 Hulk Hogan recently married a much younger woman. Then he has a heart attack. I hope he went out the right way.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 12:23 PM (T4qa/)

=======

Being informed that he washes the dishes wrong?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

86 The oceans of taxpayer money going not just to the Ivies but the entire university industrial complex remain a yuuuge issue.

Outside of STEM (real STEM, not climate nonsense or "social justice" perversions thereof), I cannot see a trace of a rationale for any of that spending. And only STEM directly related, in a way understood since WWII, to national security.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (1m82a)

87 And where has it gotten you? Hmmmmm?
Posted by: Seems Legit

Only the best wife in the world.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

88 >>but she looks amazing.
___
Yikes. I'll admit she looks healthy for an octogenarian, but "amazing," no.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (bNf8H)

89 Lol.

It's funny how the phrase "Harvard Cheerleader" actually conjures in the imagination a mental image of something that looks not unlike the average journalist, in a cheerleader uniform.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (RlmPm)

90 Hulk Hogan always gave off the image of being the ultimate in health and fitness - but I strongly suspect his heart suffered badly from being heavily dosed with steroids for decades.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (uWKK

---
Like a lot of wrestlers, he suffered from a bunch of joint and back issues.

While wrestling is "fake" in the sense that the winners and losers are pre-determined, it requires a lot of athleticism to pull off those maneuvers. It also comes with a price on one's body.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (7fElN)

91 Wow, Theo is just not getting any love.

It's because he's black, isn't it?
Posted by: AeTribeca.

Well, he did die of perpetuating a stereotype.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 12:25 PM (QRq0a)

92 Only the best wife in the world.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (77rzZ)

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You are both very fortunate.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 24, 2025 12:25 PM (PMtkd)

93
With the breaking news that The View is going "on hiatus" after this Friday, many here are concerned about Ms. Behar, 81.
-----------

Looks a nothing burger. Unfortunately. Taking the rest of the summer off just like DC politicians.
Posted by: WisRich

They're doing the French Mistake.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 12:25 PM (63Dwl)

94 "Columbia gives up hundreds of millions of dollars after extortion by Trump thugocracy." Fixed it.

the money should be going to the alleged student victims, not the government. From NBC: "The $200 million, termed a settlement by the university, will be paid to the government over three years." How is this not like civil forfeiture on a massive scale?

Of course any anti-Muslim/anti-Arab activities will not only be tolerated but probably receive grant money from Crumb the 1st.

It's a wonder it wasn't earmarked for his em...Presidential Library that will never be built. His two book "library" will be in that fucking free 747 he bagged. Only the filthy rich need apply to see the inside.

Who says bullies don't win?

when and if the orange asshole gets out of office, these various entities that paid of the orange idiot will be basically worthless. I don't think they realize this. morons.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (JCZqz)

95 Columbia University Agrees to Pay Jewish Students $220 Million for Letting Foreign Muslim Agents Terrorize Them for a Year
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But only for one year.

Posted by: Martha Radditz at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (krQz2)

96 Can you imagine the View idiots sitting around backstage going "You know what? This is getting kind of boring, isn't it?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (RlmPm)

97 Joy Behar announced The View is going "on hiatus" after tomorrow. Sounds like they're the next to be Colberted.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (2ocoG)

98 It's a bad week to have had a reality tv show in the 2000s on a music network that featured you and your family at home.

Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (jGJov)

99 86 The oceans of taxpayer money going not just to the Ivies but the entire university industrial complex remain a yuuuge issue.

Outside of STEM (real STEM, not climate nonsense or "social justice" perversions thereof), I cannot see a trace of a rationale for any of that spending. And only STEM directly related, in a way understood since WWII, to national security.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (1m82a)

But who will perform interpretive dance celebrating quadratic equations?

Posted by: Just about to get my STEAM degree at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (PiwSw)

100 Hulk Hogan recently married a much younger woman. Then he has a heart attack. I hope he went out the right way.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 12:23 PM

La Petite Morte leads to Der große Schlaff.

Posted by: toby928 muses at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (jc0TO)

101 Here's the thing that can't be overstated enough:

Any enforcement of the law against the left--even the most mild and kitten-like--will be met with howls of outraged, protests and escalation of violence.

They are so used to getting their way for so long without any accountability or consequences for their disruptions that the mere, "you can't hold this protest" will cause them to go ballistic.

Good.

More pain.

And the hand that holds the whip now used to hold open doors for them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (1tQZO)

102
Feather Boa's mourn everywhere.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (IifOV)

103 89 Lol.

It's funny how the phrase "Harvard Cheerleader" actually conjures in the imagination a mental image of something that looks not unlike the average journalist, in a cheerleader uniform.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (RlmPm)

Vera de Milo (Jim Carey from In Living Color) is what first popped into my mind.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (N39Ws)

104 Nobody is suing Youngstown State ( Go Penguins).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (gm9Sb)

105 I've been working on my women's studies degree since the age of 13 or so.

Told a more liberal friend once that I minored in Women's Studies. She asked about what books I read. Then got annoyed when I said it was field work.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 12:27 PM (RjOoY)

106 "The View" typically takes a 2-3 week hiatus during the summer. However...
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As NewsBusters has documented in recent days, ABC News program, The View had made some pretty incendiary and heinous accusations against President Trump; accusing of everything from “crimes against humanity” to “treason.” The White House had apparently had enough, because in a statement to Fox News on Wednesday, the administration called out the show and warned them to straighten up before they get “pulled off-air.” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr also hinted that the administration could be scrutinizing The View.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 12:27 PM (Q4IgG)

107 With respect to The View, "hiatus" for TV normally means either slow-motion cancellation or a major rework.

Probably renting a big enough crane to lift Whoopi out of the set.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

108 Wow I thought The View would never end. Must have had that sweet taxpayer funding cut along with Homo Colbaaaair

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:27 PM (7HpjT)

109 but she looks amazing.
___
Yikes. I'll admit she looks healthy for an octogenarian, but "amazing," no.
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I saw a picture Joy Bahr and I had what doctors cal a "reverse boner." It went turtle then shot out my asshole it was so frightened.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (17s+e)

110 Kenneth Washington, last original member of Hogan's Heroes has passed away at the age of 89. Washington was in the last season replacing Ivan Dixon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (N72/9)

111
It's funny how the phrase "Harvard Cheerleader" actually conjures in the imagination a mental image of something that looks not unlike the average journalist, in a cheerleader uniform.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I imagine a cheerleader from the 1920's with a megaphone.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (63Dwl)

112 94 the money should be going to the alleged student victims, not the government. From NBC: "The $200 million, termed a settlement by the university, will be paid to the government over three years." How is this not like civil forfeiture on a massive scale?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2025 12:26 PM (JCZqz)

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Have these people heard of the CFPB, by the way?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

113 Caesar since you're here, an addendum to your comment last threat re Afghanistan and general security conditions in most areas.

Years back in another festivity zone, I seized the opportunity for some fun, and showed a few reporters cable traffic about Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Where the security conditions (none) were far worse than those almost anywhere in the country in question - notwithstanding the ridiculous hysteria these people were helping stoke back home. These guys were actually pretty smart and fair-minded, they just shook their heads and didn't say much.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (1m82a)

114 Antisemetic Terrorist Finishing School Columbia University Agrees to Pay Jewish Students $220 million

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that is not to Jewish students, it is a fine they will pay to the Feds, right ?

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)

115 Columbia won because they get all their federal money in exchange for agreeing to follow the law. Can I get a billion dollars if I agree to follow the law too?

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (8iNlE)

116 Oh right if it's just summer hiatus they will be back.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (7HpjT)

117 110 Kenneth Washington, last original member of Hogan's Heroes has passed away at the age of 89. Washington was in the last season replacing Ivan Dixon.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (N72/9)

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And now we have our third.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

118 Joy Behar announced The View is going "on hiatus" after tomorrow. Sounds like they're the next to be Colberted.
Posted by: Ian S.

Damn. I thought they were being deported to Haiti.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (QRq0a)

119 Adding to my comment above that this was a Trump win, not even the DU drone slapcocks can spin this as anything other than a win for Trump.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (T4qa/)

120 107 With respect to The View, "hiatus" for TV normally means either slow-motion cancellation or a major rework.

Probably renting a big enough crane to lift Whoopi out of the set.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

They usually had a summer hiatus every year, returning after Labor Day.

This one is starting a week or two earlier than normal.

We'll see if it also last longer than normal.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (tOcjL)

121 With respect to The View, "hiatus" for TV normally means either slow-motion cancellation or a major rework.
.....

New set with bigger chairs?

Posted by: wth at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (UjdFS)

122 107 With respect to The View, "hiatus" for TV normally means either slow-motion cancellation or a major rework.

Probably renting a big enough crane to lift Whoopi out of the set.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

But the swarm of flies will remain around her chair after she's been pried loose from it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (N39Ws)

123 >>>Like a lot of wrestlers, he suffered from a bunch of joint and back issues.

His signature big leg drop move ruined his back. Plus just being that tall and carrying that much weight takes its toll.

Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (jGJov)

124 John MacArthur
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 12:18 PM (D7oie)

Who is teaching systematic theology in Heaven

Posted by: And keeping an eye on Osteen at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (TbWk/)

125 False.

All good news is bad news.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

and nothing will ever happen...

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)

126
The heroes of the WWF are fading into history. As a kid, they were fun to watch. Hacksaw Jim Dugan, Macho Man, etc.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (IifOV)

127 It's funny how the phrase "Harvard Cheerleader" actually conjures in the imagination a mental image of something that looks not unlike the average journalist, in a cheerleader uniform.

Taylor Lorenz in a cheerleader uniform?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (2ocoG)

128 Well, he did die of perpetuating a stereotype.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 12:25 PM (QRq0a)
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I hadn't thought of that angle.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (krQz2)

129 88 >>but she looks amazing.
___
Yikes. I'll admit she looks healthy for an octogenarian, but "amazing," no.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 24, 2025 12:24 PM (bNf8H)

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She won't win any beauty contests, but I thought she was in her 60's.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 24, 2025 12:30 PM (PMtkd)

130 Kenneth Washington, last original member of Hogan's Heroes has passed away at the age of 89. Washington was in the last season replacing Ivan Dixon.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:28 PM (N72/9)

Hulk Hogan was a Hero to many. Coincidence???

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:30 PM (7HpjT)

131 Hogan died after suffering a possible "cardiac arrest" at his home in Clearwater, Florida.

Steroid Damage ?????

Posted by: Harcourt Fenton Mudd at July 24, 2025 12:30 PM (q/j2W)

132 Taylor Lorenz in a cheerleader uniform?
Posted by: Ian S.

At the original Olympic games.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (77rzZ)

133 Anna I didn't remember that Ivan Dixon didn't finish out the series.

The personal backstory of so much of the Hogan's Heroes cast, and the show itself, if viewed properly, all by themselves reflect a completely different world. Where humor and perspective gave society some ballast to enjoy life, vs. always be at war or consumed with a "cause".

Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (1m82a)

134 Rich libs need a summer vacation like we had back in grade school.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (krQz2)

135 126
The heroes of the WWF are fading into history. As a kid, they were fun to watch. Hacksaw Jim Dugan, Macho Man, etc.
Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (IifOV)

Chief Jay Strongbow. The Wizard. Andre the Giant.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (N39Ws)

136 Hogan died after suffering a possible "cardiac arrest" at his home in Clearwater, Florida.

Steroid Damage ?????

He spoke at some Trump rallies last year. Maybe he had information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

137 The bell is tolling for Harvard now

It's a good start. Barack's trail would lead us thru
Occidental
Columbia
Harvard
U of Chicago

Not too concerned about Occidental.

Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (h9A1n)

138 69 Hulk Hogan always gave off the image of being the ultimate in health and fitness - but I strongly suspect his heart suffered badly from being heavily dosed with steroids for decades.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2025 12:21 PM (uWKK

Very common among pro wrestlers, unfortunately. Their bodies also take a LOT of damage over time.

Posted by: A very difficult trade at July 24, 2025 12:32 PM (TbWk/)

139 With respect to The View, "hiatus" for TV normally means either slow-motion cancellation or a major rework.
.....

New set with bigger chairs?
Posted by: wth

Bigger, stronger, more antibacterial.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 24, 2025 12:32 PM (2sMLA)

140 Who is teaching systematic theology in Heaven

Posted by: And keeping an eye on Osteen at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (TbWk/)
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If it wasn't God's pleasure to destroy him.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:32 PM (krQz2)

141 Hiatus? Is that some type of venereal disease?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 24, 2025 12:32 PM (17s+e)

142 Not too concerned about Occidental.
Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (h9A1n)

Once it's occident.

Twice is coincidence....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:32 PM (RlmPm)

143
Will Columbia learn from this?

Probably not

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (IifOV)

144 The bell is tolling for Harvard now

Harvard's settlement should include releasing Obama's transcripts. I imagine "F, but A because black" for every class.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

145 For all intents, Harvard and to a lesser extent some of the other Ivies were turned into NGOs under Obama and his minions including Biden. The various Harvard appendages like the Belfer Center and the Kennedy School weren't just indoctrinating students in far left poltiics, they were working internationally at high levels of academia and government to push this garbage.

Samantha Power was a big player in all of this. You know, the former head of USAID Samantha Power. Trump didn't put out a Truth Social statement the other day asking how she got so rich for nothing.

Whole of society means exactly what it says.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (viF8m)

146 Midget wrestling at the Akron Eagles Lodge for the win.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (gm9Sb)

147 > Steroid Damage ?????

Maybe. He was 71. It's pretty normal to have heart issues at 71, even if you lived perfectly clean.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (lIio7)

148 Chief Jay Strongbow. The Wizard. Andre the Giant.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM

Tojo Yamamoto.

Posted by: toby928 muses at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (jc0TO)

149 131 Hogan died after suffering a possible "cardiac arrest" at his home in Clearwater, Florida.

Steroid Damage ?????

Posted by: Harcourt Fenton Mudd at July 24, 2025 12:30 PM (q/j2W)

He'd had surgeries on his neck in May, and recovery wasn't going great, so more likely just too much on the body to recover...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (tOcjL)

150 Harmeet K. Dhillon reposted

@gunpolicy 17m
LEGAL ALERT: The Ninth Circuit has ruled that California's ammo background check regime violates the Second Amendment.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (mlg/3)

151 The bell is tolling for Harvard now

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (2ocoG)
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I shouldn't ask "who?"

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (krQz2)

152 With respect to The View, "hiatus" for TV normally means either slow-motion cancellation or a major rework.
.....

New set with bigger chairs?
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2025 12:29 PM (UjdFS)

***

They had to reinforce the studio floor

Posted by: Kumswala Hair Ass at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (ycs3a)

153 Hulk lived to be 71. That's like 497 in wrestler years.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (KbCG3)

154 The first original member of Hogan's Heroes to die...ouch baby.

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (fV+MH)

155 Larry Hovis was the funniest of the Allied characters in HH.

Maj. Hochstetter was the fuuniset German, followed closely by Gen. Burchalter.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (77rzZ)

156 . I imagine "F, but A because black" for every class.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

"... but A because that whore mother of his does this thing with her tongue...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (RlmPm)

157 The salaries for just the hosts for The View total over 21m dollars, add in production costs and advertising, you're looking at roughly 50-75m at a minimum to produce that show per year.

They probably aren't losing as much as Colbert but they get the same number of eyeballs as Colbert and in that time slot is sh***y.

Bottom line, all of these broadcast sh*t shows are going away.

And good riddance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (XV/Pl)

158 Just to be clear, Trump admin started with NOTHING. Antisemitism running rampant, elitist schools in defiance of court orders.

He has parlayed that into just about a total victory. Masterfully played sir.

Give them the money back, but all means. Because now you have set the precedent - play ball and you get your money.

Look at Harvard - if they KNEW they wouldn't get the federal funds if they changed their ways, then why change? You have to give the money back when they comply.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 24, 2025 12:35 PM (D1vbu)

159 139 With respect to The View, "hiatus" for TV normally means either slow-motion cancellation or a major rework.

Fumigation takes time.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 24, 2025 12:35 PM (IifOV)

160 >>>Maybe. He was 71. It's pretty normal to have heart issues at 71, even if you lived perfectly clean.

Especially if you were 6'7" and around 300 lbs most of your adult life (he claimed he lost a few inches in height after multiple back surgeries, but he was definitely tall)

Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 12:35 PM (jGJov)

161 > Harvard's settlement should include releasing Obama's transcripts. I imagine "F, but A because black" for every class.

I remember reading his transcript got moved to a vault so curious administrators couldn't look at or leak it. That vault may not even be under Harvard's control. Even if it is, they've had decades to change it.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 12:35 PM (lIio7)

162 I shouldn't ask "who?"
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (krQz2)

Precisely.

Posted by: Because it's "whom" at July 24, 2025 12:35 PM (RlmPm)

163
Will Columbia learn from this?

Probably not
Posted by: Frank Barone

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Sharks don't turn into vegetarians. If you want nice fish in your tank, you need to replace them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 12:35 PM (HL/Ld)

164 157 The salaries for just the hosts for The View total over 21m dollars, add in production costs and advertising, you're looking at roughly 50-75m at a minimum to produce that show per year.

They probably aren't losing as much as Colbert but they get the same number of eyeballs as Colbert and in that time slot is sh***y.

Bottom line, all of these broadcast sh*t shows are going away.

And good riddance.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 12:34 PM (XV/Pl)

Nah, they'll keep the View, but Joy will be encouraged/forced to retire...she and Whoopi make the most money (and I think Joy makes more than Whoopi) and they pay peanuts to the rest of the staff...like it's $8M, $7M, and then $500K-$1M per person...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 24, 2025 12:36 PM (tOcjL)

165 Hiatus? Is that some type of venereal disease?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

It's short for hiabeetus. The Type 10 form of Diabeetus.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

166 The bell does not know for whom it tolls.

Posted by: toby928 muses at July 24, 2025 12:36 PM (jc0TO)

167 I remember reading his transcript got moved to a vault so curious administrators couldn't look at or leak it. That vault may not even be under Harvard's control.

A vault? No problem, we can put Geraldo on it.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2025 12:36 PM (2ocoG)

168
And good morning! I'm looking forward to the news reports on the continuing dissolution of our Constitution.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 12:37 PM (HL/Ld)

169 Can you imagine Andre the Giant's liquor bill?

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 12:37 PM (fV+MH)

170 @166 - What a ding- ding!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 24, 2025 12:37 PM (Xlao3)

171 You can't reach back in time weeks or months to fill out your Three Card. They have to be bundled- 21 day time window, max.

And once you have Three, Three resets to zero again.

Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2025 12:37 PM (AOsQT)

172 > Especially if you were 6'7" and around 300 lbs most of your adult life

His biceps looked incredible for someone that tall. You have to be really REALLY jacked to be 6'7" and have arms that look jacked.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 12:37 PM (lIio7)

173 133 Anna I didn't remember that Ivan Dixon didn't finish out the series.

The personal backstory of so much of the Hogan's Heroes cast, and the show itself, if viewed properly, all by themselves reflect a completely different world. Where humor and perspective gave society some ballast to enjoy life, vs. always be at war or consumed with a "cause".
Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 12:31 PM (1m82a)

Also true of F-Troop

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

174 Punch Punch Forever! episode "Toothless Aggression" is all about wrestling. There is an homage to Hulk Hogan in it. The twin demon's arm candy is voiced by Maki Itoh who is a real Japanese wrestler and idol singer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:37 PM (N72/9)

175 Damned phone!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 24, 2025 12:38 PM (Xlao3)

176 Andre was always the first to be tossed from the ring in the Battle Royale.

Posted by: toby928 muses at July 24, 2025 12:38 PM (jc0TO)

177 >>>169 Can you imagine Andre the Giant's liquor bill?

Over a month long period, while filming The Princess Bride, Andre allegedly rang up a $40,000 bar tab at the Hyatt in London. According to an interview with Cary Elwes in Vanity Fair, Andre’s go-to order was something called an American: 40 ounces of various liquors poured into a pitcher.

He also once drank 119 beers in one night.

Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 12:39 PM (jGJov)

178 Okay, my last comment was a little harsh. I actually think McArthur is quite reasonable as a Calvinist.

And I'm as sure as I can be that he's in heaven.

He gave a great sermon where he didn't back away from Calvinism, but talked about how he believed the scriptures about choice. How did he reconcile it? That wasn't up to him, that was up to God.

Great choice.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (krQz2)

179 Speaking of tolls, the PA Turnpike is completely automated now. If you don't have an EZ-Pass, you just drive through the tollbooth, it takes a picture of your license plate, and then you get a bill in the mail a little while later.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

180 Ozzy and Hulk. Who was the third? Did I miss something?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
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Wasn't me...

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein, on a beach, sipping mai tais at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (EFZgU)

181 71 in wrestler years is like 213 in regular human years.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (PC5DH)

182 Hiatus hernia

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (63Dwl)

183 He also once drank 119 beers in one night.
Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 12:39 PM (jGJov)

Being *the* Brute Squad is thirsty work.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (PiwSw)

184 The Air Force Global Strike Command has ordered an immediate halt to the use of its M18 service pistol following the death of a Security Forces Airman in a “tragic incident.” The Airman was killed by an alleged accidental discharge, fueling long-standing complaints and a recent FBI report suggesting the M18 can fire without its trigger being pulled.

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

185 'Ravishing' Rick Rude
Jake 'The Snake' Roberts
'The Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase
'Rowdy' Roddy Piper
Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake
The Ultimate Warrior
'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka
'Captain' Lou Albano

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (QRq0a)

186 Resisting Trump At All Costs has a financial loss limit? So much for being brave.

Posted by: Gref at July 24, 2025 12:41 PM (aBgBM)

187 Afternoon Ace. I still be willing to bet that come September Jews will still be harassed at Columbia and other Ivy League schools. Leopards don't change their spots

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 12:41 PM (8UsV6)

188 It's a wonder it wasn't earmarked for his em...Presidential Library that will never be built. His two book "library" will be in that fucking free 747 he bagged
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LOL

I like how they actually think Presidential Libraries are actual libraries with books on a myriad of topics to be lent out, and not more museums collecting documents relating to their Presidency.

But you know, Obama--if he ever builds his--said his was going to be all-digital.
Because he's just as stupid as the people who voted for him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 12:41 PM (1tQZO)

189 I always wonder what people do with all that time they save by posting RIP instead of Rest in Peace.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 24, 2025 12:41 PM (KVy6F)

190 report suggesting the M18 can fire without its trigger being pulled.
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

Is this the sig P320 or a different animal?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:42 PM (RlmPm)

191 Chief Wahoo McDaniel

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 24, 2025 12:42 PM (PiwSw)

192 > Ozzy and Hulk. Who was the third? Did I miss something?

Theo Huxtable.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 12:42 PM (lIio7)

193 "He also once drank 119 beers in one night.
Posted by: brak"

Those were like shots for him. But 119 shots is a lot of shots.

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 12:42 PM (fV+MH)

194 188 But you know, Obama--if he ever builds his--said his was going to be all-digital.
Because he's just as stupid as the people who voted for him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 12:41 PM (1tQZO)

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How expensive is a warehouse, 100 TV screens, and an internet connection to some Obama worshiping website?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

195 180 Ozzy and Hulk. Who was the third? Did I miss something?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
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Wasn't me...
Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein

The Reaper is a bitch.

Posted by: Keith Richards at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (JCZqz)

196 169 Can you imagine Andre the Giant's liquor bill?
Posted by: eleven
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Cary Elwes wrote a book about the Princess Bride recently. He recounts Andre the Giant's enormous capacity for drinking to the extent he drank Oliver Reed under the table. But, of course, so did Keith Moon.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)

197 Blackjack Mulligan, the father of The Sleeper Hold, gets no respect.

Posted by: toby928 muses at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (jc0TO)

198 @177

>>He also once drank 119 beers in one night.

That's roughly 7 bottles of vodka worth of alcohol in one night.

Dudes liver must of taken up 25pct of his body mass.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (XV/Pl)

199 184 The Air Force Global Strike Command has ordered an immediate halt to the use of its M18 service pistol following the death of a Security Forces Airman in a “tragic incident.” The Airman was killed by an alleged accidental discharge, fueling long-standing complaints and a recent FBI report suggesting the M18 can fire without its trigger being pulled.
Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (RHGPo)
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Anyone willfully carrying or using a Sig P320 at this point is gambling with their own life imho.

Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (5aZAZ)

200 196 Cary Elwes wrote a book about the Princess Bride recently. He recounts Andre the Giant's enormous capacity for drinking to the extent he drank Oliver Reed under the table. But, of course, so did Keith Moon.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)

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"Shadows and dust!"
-a weirdly CGI'd Oliver Reed that looked pretty decent at the time but just looks weird now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

201 192 > Ozzy and Hulk. Who was the third? Did I miss something?

Theo Huxtable.
Posted by: bonhomme

Lol. We're talking celebrities.

Posted by: Reality at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (JCZqz)

202 Resisting Trump At All Costs has a financial loss limit? So much for being brave.
Posted by: Gref at July 24, 2025 12:41 PM (aBgBM)
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Resisting ICE at all costs got them the deportation of housewives and all that they are screaming about.

But Homan said, cooperate, and we'll only take the felons. Don't cooperate, and we're sweeping.

When they show me an instance where a city cooperated, and Homan swept, I will stop with this line of argument. But progs like to double down, and I don't any decent-sized city would dare to cooperate.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:44 PM (krQz2)

203 194 188 But you know, Obama--if he ever builds his--said his was going to be all-digital.
Because he's just as stupid as the people who voted for him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Nope, the less money spent on a library, the more he can pocket. Digital is cheaper than librarians, historians, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:44 PM (ctrM5)

204 The average lifespan of a WWE wrestler is probably in the forties. Steroids, drug abuse , physical damage and hanging around with a lot of crazy people doesn't lead to a long life. RIP Hulk

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 12:44 PM (8UsV6)

205 202 When they show me an instance where a city cooperated, and Homan swept, I will stop with this line of argument. But progs like to double down, and I don't any decent-sized city would dare to cooperate.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:44 PM (krQz2)

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That being said...

I wouldn't mind sweeps in non-sanctuary cities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

206 Wrong Way Walrus.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/A5m5l21p5VA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 24, 2025 12:45 PM (L/fGl)

207 Digital is also easier to edit

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:45 PM (N72/9)

208 200 196 Cary Elwes wrote a book about the Princess Bride recently. He recounts Andre the Giant's enormous capacity for drinking to the extent he drank Oliver Reed under the table. But, of course, so did Keith Moon.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)

According to IG AtG once emitted a 16-second fart on the set of The Princess Bride. I have no idea who timed it.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 24, 2025 12:45 PM (kTd/k)

209 Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock at Wrestlemania 18

https://tinyurl.com/4d4arcyz

probably the two most charismatic pro wrestlers of all time

Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 12:45 PM (jGJov)

210 Hulk, Ozzy and others are saying Malcolm Jamal Warner. Bruce Willis is not doing well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 12:46 PM (8UsV6)

211 Cary Elwes wrote a book about the Princess Bride recently. He recounts Andre the Giant's enormous capacity for drinking to the extent he drank Oliver Reed under the table. But, of course, so did Keith Moon.
Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)
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But also, Andre had to wear a harness to carry Buttercup at the end of the movie. Because on our scale, he's mega strong, but on his scale, he couldn't carry her through all the shots.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:46 PM (krQz2)

212 I wouldn't mind sweeps in non-sanctuary cities.[i/]

Come to Nashville and roll down Nolensville Rd like that train in Inception.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 24, 2025 12:46 PM (KVy6F)

213 "Shadows and dust!"
-a weirdly CGI'd Oliver Reed that looked pretty decent at the time but just looks weird now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ai is going to make reviving dead movie stars into an industry.

There was already that weird Abba project so I guess dead rock groups can also be AI'ed back into existence.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:46 PM (ctrM5)

214 Anyone willfully carrying or using a Sig P320 at this point is gambling with their own life imho.
Posted by: ballistic at July 24, 2025 12:43 PM (5aZAZ)

Based purely on cursory yootoobing, it seems the whole fiasco is because they got their crap made in India who said "meh close enough", and when they got it back they said "meh close enough".

Something something tolerance stacking boom.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:47 PM (RlmPm)

215 The average lifespan of a WWE wrestler is probably in the forties. Steroids, drug abuse , physical damage and hanging around with a lot of crazy people doesn't lead to a long life.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

For their families either.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Benoit at July 24, 2025 12:47 PM (QRq0a)

216 I was curious.

Biden has not announced any plans to build a presidential library yet.

I mean...great graft opportunity. Why not? Too busy writing his memoirs, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

217 Whoops. Using tags like Ace today.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at July 24, 2025 12:48 PM (KVy6F)

218 75 I've been working on my women's studies degree since the age of 13 or so.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

Ogling and fapping hardly constitute a rigorous studies program. Degree denied!

Posted by: The Chancellor at July 24, 2025 12:48 PM (G5+As)

219 Speaking of tolls, the PA Turnpike is completely automated now. If you don't have an EZ-Pass, you just drive thro

Be warned that it will cost $120 to cross the entire state.

Always a shock if you're used to driving in freedom out West.

Posted by: t-bird at July 24, 2025 12:48 PM (7Lr83)

220 Can you imagine the parties on the set of Becket, with both Burton and O'Toole? Yikes!

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

221 Sounds like the M18 service automatic should result in some Pentagon procurement pukes getting jail time.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (N72/9)

222 At Telegraph: "scientist believes bread is making us sad"

Croissants are the most tragic bakery items IMHO. They bum me out every time I see them.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (VUviF)

223 That being said...

I wouldn't mind sweeps in non-sanctuary cities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes, but I would prefer that people I promote on any level are people of their word.

The whole idea is "How can you disagree with the deportation of violent felons"? It blunts it if you're just sweeping up every border-jumper up, regardless of threat.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (krQz2)

224 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (4X30M)

225 @216 heard this morning that Biden got $10m for his memoir. The guy can't remember what he had for breakfast. Dr Jill will be writing the whole thing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (8UsV6)

226 According to IG AtG once emitted a 16-second fart on the set of The Princess Bride. I have no idea who timed it.
Posted by: Still lurking up north
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Probably via the film take itself. A few years ago, they reinstalled Secretariat as setting the Preakness record using the race film to measure time post to post. During the original race, the official timer malfunctioned giving Secretariat a bit longer time than even unofficial clockers had it.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (ctrM5)

227 Sid Sad

Posted by: toby928 muses at July 24, 2025 12:50 PM (jc0TO)

228 Biden has not announced any plans to build a presidential library yet.
......

Too busy fighting fake prostate cancer.

Posted by: wth at July 24, 2025 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

229 At Telegraph: "scientist believes bread is making us sad"
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

I won't disagree. Lamest band ever.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:50 PM (77rzZ)

230 Ai is going to make reviving dead movie stars into an industry.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:46 PM (ctrM5)

And ironically it's likely gonna kill movie stars as even a thing. They've already gone halfway the fools.

Why would I go see some dumbshit movie when I can spin up any movie I can dream up of any length I choose with either just a sentence or a paragraph. With all the narrative interest and tropes *I* want to see. We can't be more than 7 years out from it.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:50 PM (7HpjT)

231 I'll wait to read what Jacobson says. The one part of this I definitely don't like is:
"and create some yet-to-be-announced faculty positions in the name of broadening intellectual diversity."
They don't need more administration, especially in "diversity". They need fewer and better staff in the existing positions, not more.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at July 24, 2025 12:50 PM (8hxDK)

232 229 Ha!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 12:50 PM (VUviF)

233 223 Yes, but I would prefer that people I promote on any level are people of their word.

The whole idea is "How can you disagree with the deportation of violent felons"? It blunts it if you're just sweeping up every border-jumper up, regardless of threat.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (krQz2)

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True Believers must just never think of what anything ever means.

Sanctuary city status only means that criminal aliens get preferred treatment over anyone else in the jurisdiction. This promotes lawlessness on the part of illegal aliens because they know that they can get away with a host of minor crimes which then overwhelms and depresses police into not even citing people for crimes if they're illegal.

And that's just a good thing because America is racist, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

234 Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake
The Ultimate Warrior
'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka

I think I must be twenty-nine-er than you are. The oldest names I remember include Verne Gagne, Killer Kowalski, Johnny Valentine, Wahoo McDaniels, et al.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 24, 2025 12:51 PM (/y8xj)

235 Joey Bidet Presidential Library?

30 bathrooms, 20 changing stations, 15 nap alcoves, and one Corvette full of classified documents.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:51 PM (N72/9)

236 Trump did agree to return most of the $400 million in funding he suspended.

So now the Ivy Leagues can just put money aside, pay it as a penalty and keep getting funding.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2025 12:11 PM (RjOoY)

Exactly, no pain.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 24, 2025 12:52 PM (144I4)

237 21 Ozzy and Hulk. Who was the third? Did I miss something?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 24, 2025 12:10 PM

Connie Francis died last week.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 24, 2025 12:52 PM (rbKZ6)

238 30 bathrooms, 20 changing stations, 15 nap alcoves, and one Corvette full of classified documents.
Posted by: Anna Puma

What, no pudding bar?

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:52 PM (77rzZ)

239 On the socials, you can find clips of the promos and classic matches from the 80s and 90s.

Macho Man was unmatched in his promos.
How Mean Gene ever kept a straight face is a testament to just how much a pro he was.

"Cream of the crop," "cuppa coffee in the bigtime" and "riding on the edge of a lightening bolt" were amazing promos.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2025 12:52 PM (1tQZO)

240 Commies love the "educated" because they can use them to take power, then after that their spindly arms and ineffable naivety are easy to dispatch.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:52 PM (7HpjT)

241 Lol.

How am i supposed to get edumacated in the ways of buttfuckin and knowing nothing about anything if they won't let me break stuff and throw shit at jews?

Sid, you're not even trying today are you?

Problems at home? Feeling vaccinated? You'll get through it. You're a trooper.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (RlmPm)

242 Joey Bidet Presidential Library?

How many coloring books?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (kTd/k)

243 We lost a great American hero today.

https://tinyurl.com/ypxabxzd

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (uCjyK)

244 One source said he just had a cervical fusion. That is a pretty common operation, I've had two.

Read several news stories and all they talked about was wrestling. Is it my imagination or wasn't he the governor of a state?

Posted by: javems at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (8I4hW)

245 "Connie Francis died last week.
Posted by: Moonbeam"

I can't be somebody that makes you have to look it up.

That's the freakin rule.

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (fV+MH)

246

Chuck Mangione
Dead at 84

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 12:54 PM (63Dwl)

247 AI replacing movie stars?

Michael Crichton's 'Looker' needs a remake.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:54 PM (N72/9)

248 Hulk Hogan that is.

Posted by: javems at July 24, 2025 12:54 PM (8I4hW)

249 scientist believes bread is making us sad

The Neolithic was a mistake.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 12:54 PM (gKWVE)

250 Trump did agree to return most of the $400 million in funding he suspended.
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He believes in deals. He's consistent on that.

Which makes it bizarre how a guy who thrives on deals can be called a "tyrant".

But I don't take my brain out every day and play with it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:54 PM (krQz2)

251 Joe, chatting with his Dr.:

"Joe, does this hurt?"

"Umm, yeah...what was the question, again?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 24, 2025 12:54 PM (tT6L1)

252 Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake
The Ultimate Warrior
'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka

I think I must be twenty-nine-er than you are. The oldest names I remember include Verne Gagne, Killer Kowalski, Johnny Valentine, Wahoo McDaniels, et al.
Posted by: Oddbob

HA! You kids!

The Sheik
BoBo Brazil
Nature Boy
Gorgeous George
Bearcat Wright

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2025 12:55 PM (cYBz/)

253 I had a friend who's niece was called Connie and her middle name was Francis and I never got why they used to always call her by first and middle.

So confusing. It's like having a cousin called Wayne Newton Smith and always referring to him as Wayne Newton.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:55 PM (7HpjT)

254 Sounds like the M18 service automatic should result in some Pentagon procurement pukes getting jail time.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (N72/9)

Mebbe they could go field test them, instead.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 12:55 PM (D7oie)

255 he just had a cervical fusion

Best-passing FTM tranny in history.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 12:55 PM (gKWVE)

256 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at July 24, 2025 12:55 PM (kDa4+)

257 Read several news stories and all they talked about was wrestling. Is it my imagination or wasn't he the governor of a state?

Posted by: javems at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (8I4hW)

That was Jesse "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" Ventura (h/t Rush).

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (Wt5PA)

258 Chuck Mangione
Dead at 84

I only know who he is because of King of the Hill. But it's still sad he has passed.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (lIio7)

259 Why would I go see some dumbshit movie when I can spin up any movie I can dream up of any length I choose with either just a sentence or a paragraph. With all the narrative interest and tropes *I* want to see. We can't be more than 7 years out from it.
Posted by: ...

I think music will be the first industry to be Ai'ed because sound is less computationally difficult to generate than video.

Sound reasonable as far as technology time line but would require massive AI infotainment investment in servers etc. I am not sure that current entertainment companies have that money for the transition right now.

FWIW, Pretty interesting AI generated retro movie trailers already being put out there.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (ctrM5)

260 scientist believes bread is making us sad

The Neolithic was a mistake.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 12:54 PM (gKWVE)
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You can go to Europe, eat the bread there, and even lose weight. A good number of people have noted that. The problem is how Americans make bread.

Seed oils are one of the worst things you can consume.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (krQz2)

261 Banana bread is the happiest bread. Bake some chocolate chips in there, it's like laughing gas.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (VUviF)

262 he just had a cervical fusion

Best-passing FTM tranny in history.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 12:55 PM (gKWVE)

Dude, please. It means he is transitioning into a deer.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (D7oie)

263 Chuck Mangione
Dead at 84
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 12:54 P

Day before yesterday, so Hulk starts the next triple rather than ending it.

Posted by: toby928 muses at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)

264 This Tulsa Grabberd women is lying about my Presdent of Coler and should be arrested for Hate Crimes. Trump lied and America died !!!!!

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 24, 2025 12:57 PM (d3l2y)

265 >>>Chuck Mangione dead

there's your third

Sad day at the Mega-Lo-Mart

"Shopping at the Mega-Lo-Mart....feels so good"

Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 12:57 PM (jGJov)

266 I think I must be twenty-nine-er than you are. The oldest names I remember include Verne Gagne, Killer Kowalski, Johnny Valentine, Wahoo McDaniels, et al.
Posted by: Oddbob

Maybe. I was just listing those I remembered around the Hulk Hogan era. George 'The Animal' Steele, 'Classy' Fred Blassie, Jerry 'The King' Lawler were predecessors I recall somewhat.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 12:57 PM (QRq0a)

267 ~~Seed oils~~ Plutonium and Beryllium are ~~one of~~ the worst things you can consume.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 12:58 PM (D7oie)

268 "Bread is making us sad"
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Oh so it's not the fact that our leaders are releasing killer viruses and deadly vaccines on their own people, violent crime soaring, prices going up, ER's being filled with illegals, a media full of constant lies, weird insane confusing Trannymania 24/7, it's bread.

Fuck you.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 12:58 PM (7HpjT)

269 Maybe. He was 71. It's pretty normal to have heart issues at 71, even if you lived perfectly clean.
Posted by: bonhomme

He was one of the WWF's biggest stars. He may not have been into fun stuff, but no steroids? Please. Even George Lynch (Dokken's guitarist) was juicing when he got into body building. (Took shredding to a new level.)

I went to a few WWF matches at the Cap Center in the early 80's. Great fun. Andre the Giant/Big John Studd steel cage match. No bigger attraction, literally.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 12:58 PM (KAi1n)

270 You forgot Andy Kaufman.

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 12:58 PM (fV+MH)

271 I think music will be the first industry to be Ai'ed because sound is less computationally difficult to generate than video.

Sound reasonable as far as technology time line but would require massive AI infotainment investment in servers etc. I am not sure that current entertainment companies have that money for the transition right now.

FWIW, Pretty interesting AI generated retro movie trailers already being put out there.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (ctrM5)

*Hatsune Miku and her friends all wave*

Posted by: pookysgirl, Age Age Age Again at July 24, 2025 12:59 PM (Wt5PA)

272 The Evil Trio of Managers-Albano, Blassie, Hart, were entertaining sleaze on their own, but the sleaziest manager of all-time-The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, (Ernie Roth) passed away in the early 80s, just as the WWF took off to new heights.

Posted by: RIP Grand Wizard at July 24, 2025 12:59 PM (G5+As)

273 ~~Seed oils~~ Plutonium and Beryllium are one of the worst things you can consume.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 12:58 PM

I get no respect.

Posted by: Strychnine at July 24, 2025 12:59 PM (jc0TO)

274 Biden Presidential library. One drawer in a 3 drawer file cabinet

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2025 12:59 PM (HFcKg)

275 Maybe in Heaven Chuck can write something that doesn't sound exactly like but isn't exactly Feels So Good.

Posted by: Reforger at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (sNI6D)

276 245- I can't be somebody that makes you have to look it up.

That's the freakin rule.
Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (fV+MH)

Uh, what?

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (rbKZ6)

277 272 The Evil Trio of Managers-Albano, Blassie, Hart, were entertaining sleaze on their own, but the sleaziest manager of all-time-The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, (Ernie Roth) passed away in the early 80s, just as the WWF took off to new heights.

Posted by: RIP Grand Wizard at July 24, 2025 12:59 PM (G5+As)

Heenan was the greatest heel manager of all time and I will hear not one word to the contrary.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (KbCG3)

278 --
You can go to Europe, eat the bread there, and even lose weight. A good number of people have noted that. The problem is how Americans make bread.

Seed oils are one of the worst things you can consume.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (krQz2)

Yes but it's not even the oils. It's the rapid rise nature of the yeast making bread little better than a fancy box of stripped down flour with air in it.

One of the main ingredients in bread is time but companies stripped that out because time is money.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (7HpjT)

279 Pookys Girl

We'll get Sharon Apple

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (N72/9)

280 Whole loaf is happier than sliced. Baguettes and bagels are a tie.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (VUviF)

281 Seed oils Plutonium and Beryllium are one of the worst things you can consume.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 12:58 PM

I get no respect.
Posted by: Strychnine at July 24, 2025 12:59 PM (jc0TO)
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How does that compare to Hydrochloric acid?

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (krQz2)

282 Big part of my childhood lost this week.

Rest easy Brotha

https://tinyurl.com/2ufc3bkp

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (MGB5H)

283 245- I can't be somebody that makes you have to look it up.

That's the freakin rule.
Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (fV+MH)

Uh, what?
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM (rbKZ6

I was giving him the business this morning for saying "look it up" about something. I think. Was that today?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (RlmPm)

284 AI can make awesome imagery but it doesn't go anywhere.

It gets dull after a minute.

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (fV+MH)

285 How does that compare to Hydrochloric acid?
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 01:00 PM

I bat cleanup.

Posted by: Hydrochloric acid at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (jc0TO)

286 Chuck Mangione
Dead at 84
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I only know who he is because of King of the Hill. But it's still sad he has passed.

So he dies when the Mega Lo Mart burned down?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (/y8xj)

287 ... while screaming Hitlerian chants.

Hitlerian Chants sounds almost worse than "moderate muslim proverbs".

Posted by: Operator Error at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (NPWqQ)

288 257 Read several news stories and all they talked about was wrestling. Is it my imagination or wasn't he the governor of a state?

Posted by: javems at July 24, 2025 12:53 PM (8I4hW)

That was Jesse "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste" Ventura (h/t Rush).

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (Wt5PA

Ah, OK. Thanks.

Posted by: javems at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (8I4hW)

289 229 At Telegraph: "scientist believes bread is making us sad"
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

I won't disagree. Lamest band ever.
Posted by: Bulg

(Tears of joy) We did it! Thank God above, our talent and skill has finally been recognized!!!

Posted by: Nickelback at July 24, 2025 01:02 PM (JCZqz)

290 "Uh, what?
Posted by: Moonbeam"

If you have to look someone up.

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 01:02 PM (fV+MH)

291 >>> Connie Francis died last week.
Posted by: Moonbeam

======

I found interesting that over the past few weeks her "pretty little baby" was being used as background music in so many utube shorts.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 24, 2025 01:02 PM (CyFyf)

292 258 Chuck Mangione
Dead at 84

Who got custody of the hat?

Posted by: Susquehanna Hat Company at July 24, 2025 01:02 PM (G5+As)

293 258 Chuck Mangione
Dead at 84

I only know who he is because of King of the Hill. But it's still sad he has passed.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM

His song was huge when I was in college.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 24, 2025 01:03 PM (rbKZ6)

294 The Masked Superstar is still alive. Mr Wrestling II isn't.

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 01:03 PM (TN0g+)

295 Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 12:56 PM (ctrM5)

You will be able to do it on your own box, no exterior company needed. Also there will be AI advances that make the need for compute much more efficient than it is now.

Nothing stays as it is, look at the size required for a computer that could add and subtract a few numbers back in the 50s. Imagine telling someone then all the things you'll be able to do with one in 50 years and they would think yeah if you have a computer the size of a 10 story building, and then you're like no it fits in your pocket.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:03 PM (7HpjT)

296 You have hydrocloric acid in your stomach. Technically you are consuming it all the time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 24, 2025 01:03 PM (0kwZe)

297 While wrestling is "fake"

Pro Wrestling is not fake - it is choreographed. There is no way to "fake" a 300 lb guy jumping off the top rope. If the support at the end of that maneuver is missed, gravity and inertia result in a disastrous outcome. It is not surprising that pro wrestlers get injured quite often. Is a play choreographed? Sure it is. So are all movies, its the basis of almost all entertainment.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 24, 2025 01:04 PM (Da7Vv)

298 I'm here to help.

Posted by: The Internet at July 24, 2025 01:04 PM (kDa4+)

299 At Telegraph: "scientist believes bread is making us sad"

It's our time to shine!!!

Posted by: Keto Evangelists at July 24, 2025 01:04 PM (JCZqz)

300 254 Sounds like the M18 service automatic should result in some Pentagon procurement pukes getting jail time.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2025 12:49 PM (N72/9)

Mebbe they could go field test them, instead.
Posted by: Kindltot

One of the things that I am wondering about is whether MIM was involved as it sometimes has uneven wearing versus the traditional forged parts. The very process of forging tends to break inferior parts while MIM can slide by. Smith and Wesson had that problem in the later 90's with their revolvers--the MIM process resulted in a lot of parts breakage albeit just made the weapons unusable, not unsafe.

If sears and or safety engagement surfaces made through MIM processes are involved, it is possible that the relatively thin heat treated layer is either wearing through prematurely or there are some parts that break down internally from mfg quality issues. I think Smith had both of those issues with their MIM parts back then.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

301

Anti-Israel activists took to social media in the hours after rock legend Ozzy Osbourne’s death on Tuesday at the age of 76, trashing him for performing in Tel Aviv despite far-left attempts to enforce an artistic boycott.

Antifa_Ultras
@ultras_antifaa
Ozzy Osbourne was a supporter of Zionism.

He broke the boycott by performing in Israel and, during a time when thousands of children in Gaza were being killed, he called on other artists to do the same. Never forget that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

302 AI can make awesome imagery but it doesn't go anywhere.

It gets dull after a minute.
Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 01:01 PM (fV+MH)

Things change. You can't look at what a tech is right now and be hornswaggled by limitations. Humans overcome limitations. It's what we do.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:05 PM (7HpjT)

303 Yes, The Brain, I mean The Weasel was a wonderful manager and on-air commenting talent. He is loved and missed!

Posted by: WWF Lore at July 24, 2025 01:06 PM (G5+As)

304 Antifa_Ultras
@ultras_antifaa
Ozzy Osbourne was a supporter of Zionism.

He broke the boycott by performing in Israel and, during a time when thousands of children in Gaza were being killed, he called on other artists to do the same. Never forget that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

Sweet fuck these people are like Hitlerjugend without all the joy and frivolity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 01:06 PM (RlmPm)

305 Anti-Israel activists took to social media in the hours after rock legend Ozzy Osbourne’s death on Tuesday at the age of 76, trashing him for performing in Tel Aviv despite far-left attempts to enforce an artistic boycott.

Antifa_Ultras
@ultras_antifaa
Ozzy Osbourne was a supporter of Zionism.

He broke the boycott by performing in Israel and, during a time when thousands of children in Gaza were being killed, he called on other artists to do the same. Never forget that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

Sharon was Jewish through her dad. He came to have a very large love of Judaism and the Jewish people. Played 2 stadium shows in Tel Aviv.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 01:06 PM (MGB5H)

306 Less than total victories are an improvement over retreating to the next hill to Not Die On.

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 24, 2025 01:06 PM (wRg20)

307 Seems like a negotiated ceasefire to me. How long will it hold? What will the consequences be when (not if) it's broken?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at July 24, 2025 01:06 PM (+9mM3)

308 I recently came across the American Gladiators channel on YouTube. They have full episodes starting with season 2 from the original show. I really enjoyed the show as a kid, so I was binge watching it and enjoying re-experiencing it all.

Than I saw there was a documentary. I watched it, and was sad at how badly the gladiators were treated. They were making union minimum with zero health insurance or any real injury protection. Gold (Tonya Knight) badly twisted her knee. They got rid of her and didn't help her with medical bills.

At a later point I was looking at what happened to some of the other gladiators. I ran across an article about Siren (Shelley Beattie). The poor soul hanged herself, lingered for three days in a coma, and died.

A lot of the shine from the show is gone for me.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 01:07 PM (lIio7)

309 302 Things change. You can't look at what a tech is right now and be hornswaggled by limitations. Humans overcome limitations. It's what we do.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:05 PM (7HpjT)

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The fact that AI is STILL hallucinating primary sources, quotes, and information in general tells me that current AI is either designed to be dishonest and can't get better or the architecture is not getting any better.

I think it'll take an all new approach to AI before we get anything like we imagined AI to be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

310 I’ve shot a 320 and just how light the trigger is was enough to turn me off. No way I’m carrying anything that light without a manual safety.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 24, 2025 01:07 PM (0kwZe)

311 Chuck Mangione
Dead at 84
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Too bad it's Chuck and not that shit Luigi.

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

312 Nood vegatable book royalties

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 24, 2025 01:07 PM (yqJLm)

313 291 >>> Connie Francis died last week.
Posted by: Moonbeam

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I found interesting that over the past few weeks her "pretty little baby" was being used as background music in so many utube shorts.
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 24, 2025 01:02 PM

Same here'when I read that in her obituary the other day. She had just put out an Instagram or TikTok video thanking all the singers, including Taylor Swift, for giving her song so much love.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 24, 2025 01:08 PM (rbKZ6)

314 29 Hulk Hogan was such a great Trump supporter and promoter.
RIP!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2025 12:12 PM (NpAcC)

We went to the same 24 Hour Fitness back in the day. Yeeaah, we were practically work out buds...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 24, 2025 01:08 PM (88IMd)

315 "Things change. You can't look at what a tech is right now and be hornswaggled by limitations. Humans overcome limitations. It's what we do.
Posted by: ... "

Which is what I'm critiquing. Where it is right now.

Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 01:08 PM (fV+MH)

316 AOL and Yahoo mail are down. Grrr.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 24, 2025 01:08 PM (KAi1n)

317 Joy Behar is 82?? She's a complete dumbass, but she looks amazing.
——-/

If by “amazing” you mean “Yeast Infection”, then certainly yes

Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2025 01:08 PM (XK2P4)

318 I cannot believe these assholes on the Left have mainstreamed the term "Zionism" which was principally only ever found in "certain" places for a very long time. They are the worst of the worst.

It would be like bringing the n word back. Oh wait.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:08 PM (7HpjT)

319 Didn't Elton also incur the wrath of the left by performing in Israel?

Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

320 AI can make awesome imagery but it doesn't go anywhere.

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They're wowing people with things that have nothing to do with intelligence. How good of an artist do you think Euler had to be?

We're the reference model of what "thinking" is. But right now there are PhDs out there trying to define the common element between AI and human brains as "thinking".

Based on Turing's argument from ignorance called The Turing Test.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 01:09 PM (krQz2)

321 Which is what I'm critiquing. Where it is right now.
Posted by: eleven at July 24, 2025 01:08 PM (fV+MH)

You and others. It's the fastest moving technology on the planet. Where it is right now isn't even where it is right now. It's then.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:09 PM (7HpjT)

322 > He was one of the WWF's biggest stars. He may not have been into fun stuff, but no steroids? Please. Even George Lynch (Dokken's guitarist) was juicing when he got into body building. (Took shredding to a new level.)

Did I say he hadn't used steroids? No, I didn't. I just said it's not certain the cause of his heart attack was steroids damaging his heart.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 01:10 PM (lIio7)

323 "The whole idea is "How can you disagree with the deportation of violent felons"? It blunts it if you're just sweeping up every border-jumper up, regardless of threat."

Abandoning the concept of a border and immigration law is what got us where we are.

Criminal aliens represent a very small part of the problem. Virtually none of the economic or social part.

Americans voted, for decades, at different levels and in different ways, to end/reverse *all* illegal migration. The issue is the only reason Trump was ever a nominee, or a president. Trying - stupidly - to finesse the issue now, and silently decide that 95% of the problem is not a problem ..... good luck.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 01:10 PM (1m82a)

324 I think it'll take an all new approach to AI before we get anything like we imagined AI to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

You are probably correct. And it will happen.

Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:10 PM (7HpjT)

325 Anti-Israel activists took to social media in the hours after rock legend Ozzy Osbourne’s death on Tuesday at the age of 76, trashing him for performing in Tel Aviv despite far-left attempts to enforce an artistic boycott.

Antifa_Ultras
@ultras_antifaa
Ozzy Osbourne was a supporter of Zionism.

He broke the boycott by performing in Israel and, during a time when thousands of children in Gaza were being killed, he called on other artists to do the same. Never forget that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

So I'm sensing a Children of the Grave vibe?

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 24, 2025 01:11 PM (144I4)

326 He was one of the WWF's biggest stars. He may not have been into fun stuff, but no steroids? Please. Even George Lynch (Dokken's guitarist) was juicing when he got into body building. (Took shredding to a new level.)

Did I say he hadn't used steroids? No, I didn't. I just said it's not certain the cause of his heart attack was steroids damaging his heart.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 01:10 PM (lIio7)M

He was also a recovering addict. As like 99.99999% of wrestlers are. Esp those from the older eras.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 01:11 PM (MGB5H)

327 You will be able to do it on your own box, no exterior company needed. Also there will be AI advances that make the need for compute much more efficient than it is now.

Nothing stays as it is, look at the size required for a computer that could add and subtract a few numbers back in the 50s. Imagine telling someone then all the things you'll be able to do with one in 50 years and they would think yeah if you have a computer the size of a 10 story building, and then you're like no it fits in your pocket.
Posted by: ...
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Not so sure about having your own computational ability to generate photorealistic movie length stories in real time in seven years time. Animated or anime, sure. But a dead Bogie and Bacall in a Casablanca revision, not so much without widely available training modules already done by big iron. And you can be sure that any such will require paying to toll for access to it.

Consumer grade cpus and gpus are simply not up to it for real time spinup and locally trained AI models require a lot of data to be able to do it right which most people simply do not have on hand.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 01:11 PM (ctrM5)

328 324 I think it'll take an all new approach to AI before we get anything like we imagined AI to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

You are probably correct. And it will happen.
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2025 01:10 PM (7HpjT)

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Eh.

I'm doubtful.

Just because we can imagine a technology doesn't mean it will exist in the future.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

329 Last trips to work on Turnpike cost double, tolls are figured my mile or something all automated.

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2025 01:13 PM (+qU29)

330 Eh.

I'm doubtful.

Just because we can imagine a technology doesn't mean it will exist in the future.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025

Skynet hardest hit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2025 01:13 PM (MGB5H)

331 Wow, Theo is just not getting any love.

It's because he's black, isn't it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 24, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

Maybe because scarcely anyone remembers a minor role in a decades-old sitcom that they never watched?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2025 01:14 PM (cAJJI)

332 The fact that AI is STILL hallucinating primary sources, quotes, and information in general tells me that current AI is either designed to be dishonest and can't get better or the architecture is not getting any better.

I think it'll take an all new approach to AI before we get anything like we imagined AI to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I can see AI being used heavily in the arts simply because mistakes matter much less. Such as an actor forgets their lines in a play--no biggie. If a pilot forgets to set his landing gear down before landing-biggie. Same would go with AI. Easier to use on music and static art first as both follow relatively computationally simple algorithms to generate. Video, a bit more complex, but doable. Same with drafting screenplays, turning existing comic strips like Calvin and Hobbs into moving, talking, animated shorts, and so on.

Flying a plane, driving a car or truck, running your power grid, diagnosing your illness--AI is much less desirable because the stakes are so large if it makes a mistake.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 01:17 PM (ctrM5)

333 Just because we can imagine a technology doesn't mean it will exist in the future.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 24, 2025
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We were supposed to have Mr. Fusion by now.

Posted by: whig at July 24, 2025 01:18 PM (ctrM5)

334 whig, there's been some fusion.

Castle Bravo is my favorite example.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 24, 2025 01:19 PM (1m82a)

335 331-Maybe because scarcely anyone remembers a minor role in a decades-old sitcom that they never watched?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2025 01:14 PM

Did The Cosby Show not air in Canada? Theo was definitely not a minor character and everyone watched it.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 24, 2025 01:19 PM (rbKZ6)

336 Maybe because scarcely anyone remembers a minor role in a decades-old sitcom that they never watched?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2025 01:14 PM (cAJJI)
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He's had a fairly steady career as an adult in television.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 01:19 PM (OaZlZ)

337 The fact that AI is STILL hallucinating primary sources, quotes, and information in general tells me that current AI is either designed to be dishonest and can't get better or the architecture is not getting any better.

I think it'll take an all new approach to AI before we get anything like we imagined AI to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not really. They say that the algorithm of an LLM is trying "to predict the next word".

I think that algorithm puts less weight on verifying how it corresponds to reality. It probably does not yet know how to coordinate both activities.

But they're making awesome pictures!

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 01:23 PM (OaZlZ)

338 Speaking of tolls, the PA Turnpike is completely automated now. If you don't have an EZ-Pass, you just drive through the tollbooth, it takes a picture of your license plate, and then you get a bill in the mail a little while later.
Posted by: Bulg at July 24, 2025 12:40 PM (77rzZ)

I see an emerging market for license plate spoofers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2025 01:27 PM (G2NPp)

339 Hope this makes sense (cell phone).

The issue with the M-18 is the same as with the P-320s that have gone off in the holsters of civilian LEOs; the Sergeant's M-18 was full magazine, chamber loaded, and manual safety engaged. The problem is (apparently) with internal parts allowing the striker/firing pin to hit the primer and firing the weapon regardless of trigger (non) manipulation or safety use.

Posted by: Al Shabbah at July 24, 2025 01:58 PM (AuEd9)

340
RIP
Connie Stevens, Izzy Osborne, Hulk Hogan and just now, Chuck Mangione.

Posted by: YIKES! at July 24, 2025 02:01 PM (CEhRX)

341 Columbia pays the price and the Piper can collect his fee

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 24, 2025 06:18 PM (wGqjj)

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