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THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots – December 29, 2025
Am changing the Tesla mission wording from:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2025
Sustainable Abundance
To
Amazing Abundance
The climate hoax melts at -68.3°F.�� https://t.co/OXONGg3neo
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 24, 2025
Meanwhile, there was a white Christmas in Saudi Arabia!
From snow capped peaks to desert plains dusted in white, the Kingdom experienced a weather event that many had only imagined.
”Climate change is deepening inequalities – and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s act #ForAllWomenAndGirls and build a safer, more climate-resilient future.”
Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
— UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) November 25, 2025
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s act #ForAllWomenAndGirls and build a safer, more climate-resilient future. #16Days pic.twitter.com/bVu6KvMivp
Alberta is the last remnant of what Canada used to be.
— Rise Of Alberta (@RiseOfAlberta) December 26, 2025
Independence is how we preserve it. pic.twitter.com/LvVTsTJUI7
The company shut down its operation at around 8 p.m. because the cars were unable to operate without traffic signals. Residents shared footage of the Waymo vehicles parked with their hazards flashing. At least four Waymo vehicles were parked in the middle of an intersection with their hazards on, creating a large traffic jam at the busy intersection in the North Beach neighborhood.I remain a skeptical of self-driving cars, and I do not want to trust my liberty to anyone who can immobilize me by turning off the electricity.
A tip of the hat to “Dave O” for sending me this video of the Brian Setzer Orchestra performing live and doing a swinging, big band version of “Rock This Town.” This is so much fun.
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FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
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#Winning
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
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Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2025 11:00 AM (c115l)
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URL Removed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
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Alberta seems to be the Province of the #Based.
I follow some YouTube creators based in Alberta, they are amazingly #Woke-free and conscious of individual liberties
I follow some YouTube creators based in Alberta, they are amazingly #Woke-free and conscious of individual liberties
Posted by: kallisto at December 29, 2025 11:02 AM (dCxaZ)
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Clean power sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
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Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s act #ForAllWomenAndGirls and build a safer, more climate-resilient future. #16Days pic.twitter.com/bVu6KvMivp
— UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) November 25, 2025
So, they know what a woman is now?
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s act #ForAllWomenAndGirls and build a safer, more climate-resilient future. #16Days pic.twitter.com/bVu6KvMivp
— UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) November 25, 2025
So, they know what a woman is now?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
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Good morning good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 11:04 AM (cYBz/)
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6 Clean power sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
It also doesn't exist.. Not in the way climate hustlers say
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
It also doesn't exist.. Not in the way climate hustlers say
Posted by: It's me donna at December 29, 2025 11:04 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2025 11:05 AM (NwnyJ)
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I think Jordan Peterson is an AB native
Posted by: kallisto at December 29, 2025 11:05 AM (dCxaZ)
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“Sustainability” was always a part of the climate hoax. While solar power and battery storage will be necessary for Elon’s planned colonization of Mars, he cannot break the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere without carbon fuels. His abandonment of “sustainability” as a corporate objective is another important milestone as the climate panic recedes.
I believe that Mars is everything to Elon. Tesla was a stepping stone towards Mars.
I believe that Mars is everything to Elon. Tesla was a stepping stone towards Mars.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:05 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 29, 2025 11:05 AM (IBJ3T)
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So, they know what a woman is now?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
It's like broke-ass white dudes. They only exist when someone wants votes for subsidized health insurance and/or a new war.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
It's like broke-ass white dudes. They only exist when someone wants votes for subsidized health insurance and/or a new war.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 29, 2025 11:06 AM (E6ouU)
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Self-driving cars ... what exactly do they improve over human drivers?
In all other cases of automation, the result is an improved experience for the user. Robotic manufacturing and logistics is quicker, more precise, can handle much larger and more complicated tasks, and able to work 24/7 for better efficiency.
But what is the improvement for a passenger in a robocar? The car still has to obey speed limits and traffic laws, so the passenger won't get where he's going any faster or easier. Cabs and Ubers already operate 24/7 (albeit swapping out drivers), so it's not like there's any less downtime with a robocar.
This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
In all other cases of automation, the result is an improved experience for the user. Robotic manufacturing and logistics is quicker, more precise, can handle much larger and more complicated tasks, and able to work 24/7 for better efficiency.
But what is the improvement for a passenger in a robocar? The car still has to obey speed limits and traffic laws, so the passenger won't get where he's going any faster or easier. Cabs and Ubers already operate 24/7 (albeit swapping out drivers), so it's not like there's any less downtime with a robocar.
This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:06 AM (iFTx/)
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Just wait until Waymo clogs the streets in your town! Progress!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 11:06 AM (RIvkX)
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Too bad some red states don't follow Alberta's example and begin to talk about leaving this doomed union of moochers and looters.
Posted by: Free State Of Boomers at December 29, 2025 11:06 AM (m8zKa)
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"Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls."
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The only risk to women and girls that there is actual evidence of is from mohammedans that are imported.
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The only risk to women and girls that there is actual evidence of is from mohammedans that are imported.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:06 AM (0U5gm)
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Promoting coal, encouraging oil drilling, and stopping the net zero / green energy insanity is just about the most conservative thing a Republican president could do. (Along with securing the border.) It’s almost comical that the Never Trumpers are still shrieking that Trump is not a conservative, even as we read headlines like this:
“Trump administration halts offshore wind projects from Virginia to New England, in major blow to clean power” [Politico – 12/22/2025]
There are still windmills and solar panels in this country. Trump isn't really MAGA! Why haven't they all been removed already?
“Trump administration halts offshore wind projects from Virginia to New England, in major blow to clean power” [Politico – 12/22/2025]
There are still windmills and solar panels in this country. Trump isn't really MAGA! Why haven't they all been removed already?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:07 AM (ExV1e)
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This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (/sySz)
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It is funny how gender based violence isn't noticed when it actually happens, but only in a vague climate induced way.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (0U5gm)
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“Trump administration halts offshore wind projects from Virginia to New England, in major blow to clean power” [Politico – 12/22/2025]
"Clean power". Another lie of the left. Nothing about wind power is clean. Not to mention all the oil that is necessary to power the windmills. And the fact that the windmills cannot be recycled.
This is to say nothing about the fact that wind energy is ridiculously expensive and inefficient.
"Clean power". Another lie of the left. Nothing about wind power is clean. Not to mention all the oil that is necessary to power the windmills. And the fact that the windmills cannot be recycled.
This is to say nothing about the fact that wind energy is ridiculously expensive and inefficient.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 11:09 AM (P5BPp)
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Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
Maybe, if Karens would STFU about the 'climate', the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls would diminish.
Maybe, if Karens would STFU about the 'climate', the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls would diminish.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:09 AM (ExV1e)
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Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls."
Who's large lard ass did they pull that from?
Also, yes, producing goods isn't that difficult, but it's a if a portion of the population has decided that others must go without, because... reasons.
Who's large lard ass did they pull that from?
Also, yes, producing goods isn't that difficult, but it's a if a portion of the population has decided that others must go without, because... reasons.
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:09 AM (XuXeR)
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I like that picture of the Silver Surfer playing bass.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 29, 2025 11:09 AM (WPL6O)
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Lot of people don't know that Musk had Space X long before Tesla.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:09 AM (KDPiq)
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Oh good grief. Looks like my7 fears were justified. It seems that the Somalis in Ohio are running the same scam.
This has to be coordinated somehow.
Omar needs to leaned on hard. She either spills the beans or gets sent back.
I wish someone in DC besides Trump had any balls.
WTF is Congress???? This is the kind of stuff that should send people representing the taxpayer on the warpath.
This has to be coordinated somehow.
Omar needs to leaned on hard. She either spills the beans or gets sent back.
I wish someone in DC besides Trump had any balls.
WTF is Congress???? This is the kind of stuff that should send people representing the taxpayer on the warpath.
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (Rmqfl)
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Climate changed raped my mother and killed my father.
Posted by: Inigo at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (qUkBO)
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (XuXeR)
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It is funny how gender based violence isn't noticed when it actually happens, but only in a vague climate induced way.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (0U5gm)
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Fear and funding.
Funding and fear.
Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (0U5gm)
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Fear and funding.
Funding and fear.
Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: mrp at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (rj6Yv)
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Maybe wymmynz should be barefoot and in the kitchen or bedroom? Is this violence?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (pLaQB)
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>>“Trump administration halts offshore wind projects from Virginia to New England, in major blow to clean power”
I voted for this.
I voted for this.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (viF8m)
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I remain a skeptical of self-driving cars, and I do not want to trust my liberty to anyone who can immobilize me by turning off the electricity.
I do not want to trust my liberty to anyone who can communicate with the car and tell it to go someplace other than where I told it to go. Women, particularly, should be leery of self-driving cars.
I do not want to trust my liberty to anyone who can communicate with the car and tell it to go someplace other than where I told it to go. Women, particularly, should be leery of self-driving cars.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:11 AM (ExV1e)
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These look much more like "flavored vodka" than gin, but some seems like they might make a decent cocktail:
https://www.wineenthusiast.com/ratings
/spirit-ratings/gin-ratings/best-gins
#Drink Fake Gin!
https://www.wineenthusiast.com/ratings
/spirit-ratings/gin-ratings/best-gins
#Drink Fake Gin!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2025 11:11 AM (iJfKG)
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Climate change is the easiest religion on Earth to practice. The absence or presence of anything is proof of its existence.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2025 11:11 AM (NR6c1)
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"Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls."
Ah, they're taking a page from the Sears + K-Mart strategy of combining two failing enterprises, which will, of course, magically lead to profits!
Ah, they're taking a page from the Sears + K-Mart strategy of combining two failing enterprises, which will, of course, magically lead to profits!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:11 AM (XuXeR)
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I am very much in favour of Buck's writing, it's a lot to swallow at once. Amongst the varied items, the one about women and girls being more affected by global warming hits me hardest. Of course it's true as women are expected to wear shirts. I take mine off as the temp escalates. Whilst I was formerly not involved in the protest, now I've become a "Free The Nipple" supporter.
Posted by: Do You Like Boobs-a-lot? at December 29, 2025 11:12 AM (oftw2)
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> According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
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Since they make up about a fraction of one percent of all vehicles on the road... yea, fewer accidents.
But... statistics and shit. Elon should know better.
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Since they make up about a fraction of one percent of all vehicles on the road... yea, fewer accidents.
But... statistics and shit. Elon should know better.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2025 11:12 AM (NwnyJ)
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"Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls."
The only risk to women and girls that there is actual evidence of is from mohammedans that are imported.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:06 AM
Wasn't there some leftist who wrote something a while back stating that Muslims are the way they are because of the heat of the Middle East. And of course the heat in the Middle East is because of "climate change".
Ipso facto, presto change-o, climate change is the reason for violence against women.
The only risk to women and girls that there is actual evidence of is from mohammedans that are imported.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:06 AM
Wasn't there some leftist who wrote something a while back stating that Muslims are the way they are because of the heat of the Middle East. And of course the heat in the Middle East is because of "climate change".
Ipso facto, presto change-o, climate change is the reason for violence against women.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 11:12 AM (P5BPp)
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”Climate change is deepening inequalities – and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls
The perennial New York Times headline:
Earth to be destroyed tomorrow - women and minorities hardest hit
The perennial New York Times headline:
Earth to be destroyed tomorrow - women and minorities hardest hit
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2025 11:12 AM (xTIDn)
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Women, particularly, should be leery of self-driving cars."
I'm your vehicle, baby, anywhere you wanna go...
I'm your vehicle, baby, anywhere you wanna go...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:12 AM (XuXeR)
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So when the ice shelf starts breaking off into many icebergs and sinking ships , the women and children first mantra shall be abandoned .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:12 AM (KDPiq)
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Alberta ain't leaving Canada. Go look at the rules for leaving. A complete, rigged joke. A complete waste of time to even read about this for the umpteenth time.
Posted by: Oh FFS at December 29, 2025 11:13 AM (qUkBO)
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Can we now.get rid of the wind fsrms.in central.Washington? Gawd I hate those eyesores.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:13 AM (2WIwB)
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Since they make up about a fraction of one percent of all vehicles on the road... yea, fewer accidents.
But... statistics and shit. Elon should know better.
No, self-driving vehicles have much lower accident rates per car than cars with human drivers.
But... statistics and shit. Elon should know better.
No, self-driving vehicles have much lower accident rates per car than cars with human drivers.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2025 11:13 AM (xTIDn)
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This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
It's really about control, not convenience, and most people would readily let somebody or something else control the vehicle, assuming they trust it. I've no doubt that eventually they'll work out the bugs and people will wonder why anyone ever wanted to drive themselves when they could do something else profitable while being ferried to their destination. They aren't there yet, at least not to the point that I'll trust them, but they will get there.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
It's really about control, not convenience, and most people would readily let somebody or something else control the vehicle, assuming they trust it. I've no doubt that eventually they'll work out the bugs and people will wonder why anyone ever wanted to drive themselves when they could do something else profitable while being ferried to their destination. They aren't there yet, at least not to the point that I'll trust them, but they will get there.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
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I'm a believer in factoring in growing pains when evaluating my criticisms.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:15 AM (KDPiq)
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Why is it just Alberta? I'd have thought Saskatchawan and Manitoba would be similar.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 29, 2025 11:15 AM (s0JqF)
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>>Women, particularly, should be leery of self-driving cars
Because there's a chance self-driving cars can parallel park.
Because there's a chance self-driving cars can parallel park.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)
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This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (/sySz)
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That is 100% complete bullshit, from a guy who's future business model is highly dependent on self-driving cars. There isn't anywhere near enough data to make any kind of conclusion about relative safety.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (/sySz)
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That is 100% complete bullshit, from a guy who's future business model is highly dependent on self-driving cars. There isn't anywhere near enough data to make any kind of conclusion about relative safety.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)
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47 This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
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I thought we got rid of Victor Charlie? Is he still squatting in the jungle waiting to jump us?
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I thought we got rid of Victor Charlie? Is he still squatting in the jungle waiting to jump us?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 11:16 AM (pLaQB)
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Climate disruption! We had high 60s at Christmas which is not normal and Saudi Arabia had snow. /sarc.
I'm glad Musk is dropping sustainability from the Tesla mission statement. I've gotten to a point where when I hear or read sustainable in an ad I just write off whatever as 'pushing commie BS.' Musk is no dummy, he probably had some surveys taken and found that the word is a negative for a good part of the consumer base.
I am thrilled that Trump halted some boondoggle bird choppers. I tell random people that if the Audobon society and Sierra Club really cared about birds they would sue to stop windmills in eagle and condor habitats.
I'm glad Musk is dropping sustainability from the Tesla mission statement. I've gotten to a point where when I hear or read sustainable in an ad I just write off whatever as 'pushing commie BS.' Musk is no dummy, he probably had some surveys taken and found that the word is a negative for a good part of the consumer base.
I am thrilled that Trump halted some boondoggle bird choppers. I tell random people that if the Audobon society and Sierra Club really cared about birds they would sue to stop windmills in eagle and condor habitats.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 29, 2025 11:16 AM (hhkIi)
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Lot of people don't know that Musk had Space X long before Tesla.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:09 AM (KDPiq)
I believe that there was Tesla before SpaceX became profitable though. Tesla also helped with getting approvals for SpaceX stuff because TPTB loved them some Tesla (before) and didn't want to piss off Elon too much.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:09 AM (KDPiq)
I believe that there was Tesla before SpaceX became profitable though. Tesla also helped with getting approvals for SpaceX stuff because TPTB loved them some Tesla (before) and didn't want to piss off Elon too much.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:16 AM (ExV1e)
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This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (/sySz)
Surrendering autonomy for the promise of greater safety is certainly in line with the spirit of the age.
This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM (/sySz)
Surrendering autonomy for the promise of greater safety is certainly in line with the spirit of the age.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:16 AM (55kM1)
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Omar needs to leaned on hard. She either spills the beans or gets sent back.
I wish someone in DC besides Trump had any balls.
WTF is Congress???? This is the kind of stuff that should send people representing the taxpayer on the warpath.
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM
Congress is in on the fraud. All of them. If the GOPe is not in on this fraud, they are in on other fraud. So they look the other way on this fraud so their own fraud can keep going.
With regards to Ilhan Omar, a slight modification of your suggestion. She should be sent back whether or not she spills the beans.
I wish someone in DC besides Trump had any balls.
WTF is Congress???? This is the kind of stuff that should send people representing the taxpayer on the warpath.
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM
Congress is in on the fraud. All of them. If the GOPe is not in on this fraud, they are in on other fraud. So they look the other way on this fraud so their own fraud can keep going.
With regards to Ilhan Omar, a slight modification of your suggestion. She should be sent back whether or not she spills the beans.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (P5BPp)
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Musk needs to get into the nuclear reactor business.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (KDPiq)
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49 Why is it just Alberta? I'd have thought Saskatchawan and Manitoba would be similar.
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Clearly, Alberta is in need of a million or two Somalis to dampen their zeal.
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Clearly, Alberta is in need of a million or two Somalis to dampen their zeal.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (pLaQB)
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50 >>Women, particularly, should be leery of self-driving cars
Because there's a chance self-driving cars can parallel park.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:15
My little car already does this for me. I hit the button, it seeks out a spot and then parks. Ta da!
Because there's a chance self-driving cars can parallel park.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:15
My little car already does this for me. I hit the button, it seeks out a spot and then parks. Ta da!
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (/sySz)
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Self driving cars, EV's are all about subjugating the public. Because a mobile society is difficult to control otherwise.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (NwnyJ)
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What aboot us?
Posted by: Northwest Territories at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (XuXeR)
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J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect: I Planted Devices Because “I Really Don’t Like Either Party”
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Good lord, man! If this catches on we won't be able to leave our houses!
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Good lord, man! If this catches on we won't be able to leave our houses!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (L/fGl)
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Your aggregation of tasty stories is almost Seftonian, Buck. Nicely done.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (kpS4V)
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>>My little car already does this for me. I hit the button, it seeks out a spot and then parks. Ta da!
The prosecution rests.
The prosecution rests.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (viF8m)
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This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
It's really about control, not convenience, and most people would readily let somebody or something else control the vehicle, assuming they trust it. I've no doubt that eventually they'll work out the bugs and people will wonder why anyone ever wanted to drive themselves when they could do something else profitable while being ferried to their destination. They aren't there yet, at least not to the point that I'll trust them, but they will get there.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
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People who want that already (mostly) have that, with Uber and the app-based taxi services. So again, having your own robocar doesn't really solve any pressing problem that doesn't already have a solution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
It's really about control, not convenience, and most people would readily let somebody or something else control the vehicle, assuming they trust it. I've no doubt that eventually they'll work out the bugs and people will wonder why anyone ever wanted to drive themselves when they could do something else profitable while being ferried to their destination. They aren't there yet, at least not to the point that I'll trust them, but they will get there.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:14 AM (Riz8t)
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People who want that already (mostly) have that, with Uber and the app-based taxi services. So again, having your own robocar doesn't really solve any pressing problem that doesn't already have a solution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
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This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
Let's bomb Cambodia!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
Let's bomb Cambodia!
Posted by: Richard Nixon, not a crook at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (TbWk/)
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Surrendering autonomy for the promise of greater safety is certainly in line with the spirit of the age.
Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go.
Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
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It's really about control, not convenience, and most people would readily let somebody or something else control the vehicle, assuming they trust it. I've no doubt that eventually they'll work out the bugs and people will wonder why anyone ever wanted to drive themselves when they could do something else profitable while being ferried to their destination. They aren't there yet, at least not to the point that I'll trust them, but they will get there.
Posted by: Archimedes
The flaw in your logic is that it relies on a high trust society, and the west is importing millions who are destroying that concept.
Posted by: Archimedes
The flaw in your logic is that it relies on a high trust society, and the west is importing millions who are destroying that concept.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (0U5gm)
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Self driving cars, EV's are all about subjugating the public. Because a mobile society is difficult to control otherwise.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Plus there's what happens when someone hacks the system and starts driving those vehicles off bridges, cliffs, and overpasses.
Totes safe and desirable, yo.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Plus there's what happens when someone hacks the system and starts driving those vehicles off bridges, cliffs, and overpasses.
Totes safe and desirable, yo.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (OUMaO)
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Surrendering autonomy for the promise of greater safety is certainly in line with the spirit of the age."
Franklin, is that you?
Franklin, is that you?
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (XuXeR)
72
Self driving cars would eliminate that tough conversation with your elderly parents .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (KDPiq)
73
I attended a town hall meeting sponsored by the Alberta Prosperity Project a few weeks ago. Hall was packed. Presnter was frankly surprised at the turnout. He asked, "How many of you are at one of our mettings for the first time?" More than half the people in the hall rraised a hand, myself included.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:20 AM (8zz6B)
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Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go."
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:20 AM (XuXeR)
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Reality: If climate change were a real problem for the planet, we would be paying attention to China and India and the damage their pollution does to the air and water. But instead, we in America are lectured that we have to do more.
Reality mapped: https://aqicn.org/map/world
Compare the US to Europe. Then have a look at India and China. Remember this when politicians browbeat you.
Reality mapped: https://aqicn.org/map/world
Compare the US to Europe. Then have a look at India and China. Remember this when politicians browbeat you.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 29, 2025 11:21 AM (m0WlR)
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68 Surrendering autonomy for the promise of greater safety is certainly in line with the spirit of the age.
Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
Someone is always going to be in charge. I prefer it to be me. Safety uber alles isn't my jam.
Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
Someone is always going to be in charge. I prefer it to be me. Safety uber alles isn't my jam.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:21 AM (55kM1)
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With regards to Ilhan Omar, a slight modification of your suggestion. She should be sent back whether or not she spills the beans.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
I suspect she hasn't had a bean for decades. It's why she's so angry and insufferable.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
I suspect she hasn't had a bean for decades. It's why she's so angry and insufferable.
Posted by: Man In Boat at December 29, 2025 11:21 AM (oftw2)
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"I can't wait for self driving taxis worldwide. I can sure trust a somali waymo to take me where I want to go!"
- stupid western liberal, about to be take to the desert to be robbed, raped and then shot.
- stupid western liberal, about to be take to the desert to be robbed, raped and then shot.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:21 AM (0U5gm)
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People who want that already (mostly) have that, with Uber and the app-based taxi services. So again, having your own robocar doesn't really solve any pressing problem that doesn't already have a solution.
Disagree vehemently. When I get in my car, it's a refuge from the great unwashed. Plus, you can leave at the exact moment you choose. Most people feel the same. People don't really like subways, because they're filled with dirtbags, and you can't pick your nose in peace.
Disagree vehemently. When I get in my car, it's a refuge from the great unwashed. Plus, you can leave at the exact moment you choose. Most people feel the same. People don't really like subways, because they're filled with dirtbags, and you can't pick your nose in peace.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
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46 Since they make up about a fraction of one percent of all vehicles on the road... yea, fewer accidents.
But... statistics and shit. Elon should know better.
Indeed. he should, and this illustrates how wealth makes complacence, Unimaginative, and BOREDOM driven unachievable goals makes meglomaniacs with more money than talent overlook the obvious solutions.
The surface of this planet is mostly water, were climate change does not exist, composed of a material that can be readily made into breathable oxygen and hydrogen fuel that can be exported for other use at the surface. it is surrounded by abundant materials, food, and resources.
If you believe LIB Strategic Insanity is bad, fElon Mollusk's naked deception of a colony on Mars distracts from his obvious goal of getting funded by the missile mafia of creating bigger and faster missiles to bombard fellow human beings into non-existance -- and that for a handful of rice.
When the Truth hurts, MANFRED takes pride in knowing that he's hit the target. It's time to take not only the Poltico's but those who profit from their folly (Mollusk) to the cleaners, or at least force him to do the dishes.
But... statistics and shit. Elon should know better.
Indeed. he should, and this illustrates how wealth makes complacence, Unimaginative, and BOREDOM driven unachievable goals makes meglomaniacs with more money than talent overlook the obvious solutions.
The surface of this planet is mostly water, were climate change does not exist, composed of a material that can be readily made into breathable oxygen and hydrogen fuel that can be exported for other use at the surface. it is surrounded by abundant materials, food, and resources.
If you believe LIB Strategic Insanity is bad, fElon Mollusk's naked deception of a colony on Mars distracts from his obvious goal of getting funded by the missile mafia of creating bigger and faster missiles to bombard fellow human beings into non-existance -- and that for a handful of rice.
When the Truth hurts, MANFRED takes pride in knowing that he's hit the target. It's time to take not only the Poltico's but those who profit from their folly (Mollusk) to the cleaners, or at least force him to do the dishes.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (M5C+4)
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COWMONKEY
COWMONKEY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (y9nCu)
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Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go."
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:20 AM (XuXeR)
As would I. Driving is awesome. It's fun, it's rewarding and it's a great way to spend a weekend.
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:20 AM (XuXeR)
As would I. Driving is awesome. It's fun, it's rewarding and it's a great way to spend a weekend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
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Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun.
Posted by: Archimedes
I love driving. It forces me to concentrate on the road, thus displacing other, unpleasant thoughts.
Posted by: Archimedes
I love driving. It forces me to concentrate on the road, thus displacing other, unpleasant thoughts.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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78 "I can't wait for self driving taxis worldwide. I can sure trust a somali waymo to take me where I want to go!"
- stupid western liberal, about to be take to the desert to be robbed, raped and then shot.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:21 AM (0U5gm)
Chances of this are higher or lower with a native driving the car?
- stupid western liberal, about to be take to the desert to be robbed, raped and then shot.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:21 AM (0U5gm)
Chances of this are higher or lower with a native driving the car?
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:23 AM (/sySz)
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Can we now.get rid of the wind fsrms.in central.Washington? Gawd I hate those eyesores.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:13 AM (2WIwB)
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[Related:] California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early
[]"The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is set to shut down in 2026 after failing to meet its energy targets. Ivanpah is located near the California-Nevada border, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas. Despite receiving $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees [in the early 2010s from the DogEater administration], nearly 75% of the facility’s [$2.2 billion] cost, it struggled to generate power and had to rely on natural gas to operate rather than the sun. In January, Pacific Gas & Electric announced an agreement with the plant’s owners to terminate its contracts."
https://is.gd/bhsktn
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:13 AM (2WIwB)
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[Related:] California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early
[]"The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is set to shut down in 2026 after failing to meet its energy targets. Ivanpah is located near the California-Nevada border, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas. Despite receiving $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees [in the early 2010s from the DogEater administration], nearly 75% of the facility’s [$2.2 billion] cost, it struggled to generate power and had to rely on natural gas to operate rather than the sun. In January, Pacific Gas & Electric announced an agreement with the plant’s owners to terminate its contracts."
https://is.gd/bhsktn
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 11:23 AM (/8DfO)
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The other thing driverless cars can't recognize?
Emergency vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Traffic cones, mannequins, school busses with blinkie lights & stop signs out.
Emergency vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Traffic cones, mannequins, school busses with blinkie lights & stop signs out.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2025 11:23 AM (c115l)
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Climate disruption! We had high 60s at Christmas which is not normal and Saudi Arabia had snow. /sarc.
I recall that years ago NPR ran a report saying that there was no snow on the ground in Moscow at Christmastime, which proved that global warming was happening.
When that report ran, there was snow on the ground in downtown Los Angeles.
I recall that years ago NPR ran a report saying that there was no snow on the ground in Moscow at Christmastime, which proved that global warming was happening.
When that report ran, there was snow on the ground in downtown Los Angeles.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 29, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
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Why is it just Alberta? I'd have thought Saskatchawan and Manitoba would be similar.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 29, 2025 11:15 AM (s0JqF)
Saskatchewan, yes, probably. Easier to hold a referendum in one province at a time. Manitoba, no. Welfare mentality has really taken hold there.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 29, 2025 11:15 AM (s0JqF)
Saskatchewan, yes, probably. Easier to hold a referendum in one province at a time. Manitoba, no. Welfare mentality has really taken hold there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:24 AM (8zz6B)
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The flaw in your logic is that it relies on a high trust society, and the west is importing millions who are destroying that concept.
Assuming we don't just get rid of them, I'd far rather have a robot driving the cars next to me than the average Somali.
Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go."
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
I'm sure they would, but 99.9% of your driving is commuting, getting groceries, etc. It's not exactly the stuff of F1 legend.
Assuming we don't just get rid of them, I'd far rather have a robot driving the cars next to me than the average Somali.
Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go."
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
I'm sure they would, but 99.9% of your driving is commuting, getting groceries, etc. It's not exactly the stuff of F1 legend.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:24 AM (Riz8t)
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People who want that already (mostly) have that, with Uber and the app-based taxi services. So again, having your own robocar doesn't really solve any pressing problem that doesn't already have a solution.
Disagree vehemently. When I get in my car, it's a refuge from the great unwashed. Plus, you can leave at the exact moment you choose. Most people feel the same. People don't really like subways, because they're filled with dirtbags, and you can't pick your nose in peace.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
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You really haven't used Uber or one of it's competitors, have you?
Disagree vehemently. When I get in my car, it's a refuge from the great unwashed. Plus, you can leave at the exact moment you choose. Most people feel the same. People don't really like subways, because they're filled with dirtbags, and you can't pick your nose in peace.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)
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You really haven't used Uber or one of it's competitors, have you?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:24 AM (iFTx/)
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I hate driving. Mainly because they give me a vehicle that can go 130mph but limit me to 65mph.
I also hate other drivers.
I also hate other drivers.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:24 AM (KDPiq)
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>>Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go
Driving is freedom. Aside from free speech the freedom to go anywhere you want for any reason or no reason at all is one of the most basic freedoms Americans take for granted.
Driving is freedom. Aside from free speech the freedom to go anywhere you want for any reason or no reason at all is one of the most basic freedoms Americans take for granted.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:25 AM (viF8m)
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Thx Buck
The UN release about gender and climate change reads like one of the old MadLibs we used to fill out as kids. The person who wrote it must have a degree in gender studies
The UN release about gender and climate change reads like one of the old MadLibs we used to fill out as kids. The person who wrote it must have a degree in gender studies
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:25 AM (DyOVq)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2025 11:25 AM (dGCAG)
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"The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is set to shut down in 2026 after failing to meet its energy targets. Ivanpah is located near the California-Nevada border, 65 miles southwest of Las Vegas. Despite receiving $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees [in the early 2010s from the DogEater administration], nearly 75% of the facility’s [$2.2 billion] cost, it struggled to generate power and had to rely on natural gas to operate rather than the sun. In January, Pacific Gas & Electric announced an agreement with the plant’s owners to terminate its contracts."
https://is.gd/bhsktn
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 11:23 AM (/8DfO)
But none of that money went into anyone's pocket. None.
https://is.gd/bhsktn
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 11:23 AM (/8DfO)
But none of that money went into anyone's pocket. None.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)
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Chances of this are higher or lower with a native driving the car?
Posted by: Piper
Having been through much of the third world, much lower. If you can't see who is driving the car, you don't have any idea of the risk.
Posted by: Piper
Having been through much of the third world, much lower. If you can't see who is driving the car, you don't have any idea of the risk.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (0U5gm)
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You really haven't used Uber or one of it's competitors, have you?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
I use them fairly frequently. As I said, they have their uses, e.g. coming back from the airport, but as a rule, I prefer my own car.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
I use them fairly frequently. As I said, they have their uses, e.g. coming back from the airport, but as a rule, I prefer my own car.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
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Speaking of genders...
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
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I hate driving. Mainly because they give me a vehicle that can go 130mph but limit me to 65mph.
I also hate other drivers.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:24 AM (KDPiq)
I pretty much hate everyone, with a few exceptions like family and friends and the horde here….
I also hate other drivers.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:24 AM (KDPiq)
I pretty much hate everyone, with a few exceptions like family and friends and the horde here….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (czfTj)
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Clearly, Alberta is in need of a million or two Somalis to dampen their zeal.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (pLaQB)
We have too many of the wedge-headed criminal retards as it is. Almost entirely in the cities, of course.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (pLaQB)
We have too many of the wedge-headed criminal retards as it is. Almost entirely in the cities, of course.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM (8zz6B)
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Having been through much of the third world, much lower. If you can't see who is driving the car, you don't have any idea of the risk.
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Here in NOVA we are possessed by headless drivers. Imma pretty sure most headless drivers can't read English.
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Here in NOVA we are possessed by headless drivers. Imma pretty sure most headless drivers can't read English.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM (pLaQB)
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Driving is freedom. Aside from free speech the freedom to go anywhere you want for any reason or no reason at all is one of the most basic freedoms Americans take for granted.
Agreed, but if I can take my car out where I want to go and hand the driving off to a robot, I get the best of both worlds.
Agreed, but if I can take my car out where I want to go and hand the driving off to a robot, I get the best of both worlds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)
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Comparing Uber and personal self driving cars not a logical comparison . Uber and self driving taxis though is an appropriate comparison.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM (KDPiq)
104
So, if Alberta opts for independence, does King Chuck have to give his approval? Our would the province just say screw it and leave the Commonwealth altogether?
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
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The other thing driverless cars can't recognize?
Emergency vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Teslas do! And they yield the right of way, which driven cars are questionable, it is like no one knows anymore what to do. Our new traffic circle is another thing. I watched someone steer right into it. I truly wanted to ask why and how.
Emergency vehicles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Teslas do! And they yield the right of way, which driven cars are questionable, it is like no one knows anymore what to do. Our new traffic circle is another thing. I watched someone steer right into it. I truly wanted to ask why and how.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:28 AM (/sySz)
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:28 AM (XuXeR)
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If Waymo can eliminate the clear and present danger of ladies farding whilst driving, I'm on board.
Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh at December 29, 2025 11:29 AM (oftw2)
108
Speaking of genders...
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
Vegans go on almond milk cartons!
Gays go on butter boxes.
Lesbians on cheese. Stinky cheese.
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
Vegans go on almond milk cartons!
Gays go on butter boxes.
Lesbians on cheese. Stinky cheese.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2025 11:29 AM (dGCAG)
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Abundance comes from work, and requires work If you could wave a magic wand and have piles of ready-made abundance, nobody will be able to pay for it. Even in some robotic future where factories are automatic and goods pour forth out of them like a modern horn of plenty, where do the inputs come from? Where do the energy and raw materials come from? Who paid for it? Who will buy the goods pouring out so abundantly? With what money?
Where is the "work" side of "abundance" and who is doing it? Why is he doing it?
Where is the "work" side of "abundance" and who is doing it? Why is he doing it?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:29 AM (avHHk)
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"and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls"
I predict a wave of trans men.
I predict a wave of trans men.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 29, 2025 11:29 AM (w6EFb)
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They ran a test with a school bus sitting with it's red lights blinking and it's stop sign out. They had a contraption that mimicked a child dashing out between two parked cars. The driverless car splattered the "child" every time.
The commenters all kept whining that no one could have stopped in time.
Uh, yeah you could. If you had stopped for the bus LIKE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TO BEGIN WITH, you would have never touched the "kid".
The driverless car couldn't pick up the stopped bus. Then again, a lot of people don't either.
The commenters all kept whining that no one could have stopped in time.
Uh, yeah you could. If you had stopped for the bus LIKE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TO BEGIN WITH, you would have never touched the "kid".
The driverless car couldn't pick up the stopped bus. Then again, a lot of people don't either.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM (c115l)
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Teslas do! And they yield the right of way, which driven cars are questionable, it is like no one knows anymore what to do. Our new traffic circle is another thing. I watched someone steer right into it. I truly wanted to ask why and how.
I also don't doubt that in the future, emergency vehicles will have an IFF-type system that communicates with autonomous vehicles and makes them pull over.
TBF, that would be a pretty awesome thing to have in your personal car. Out of my way, peasants!
I also don't doubt that in the future, emergency vehicles will have an IFF-type system that communicates with autonomous vehicles and makes them pull over.
TBF, that would be a pretty awesome thing to have in your personal car. Out of my way, peasants!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM (Riz8t)
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Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun.
Posted by: Archimedes
I love driving. It forces me to concentrate on the road, thus displacing other, unpleasant thoughts.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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Same. I don't like to be driven, whether it's in someone else's car or the backseat of an Uber. And the people I know who have the money to buy very advanced self-driving cars use the self-drive mode for a few weeks, then get bored with it and go back to driving themselves.
So the idea that there's this big market out there for people who don't want to use Uber-like services, but who do want to be driven around in their own cars by a robot, seems ... incorrect to me.
I stand by my comment above that this is a solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Archimedes
I love driving. It forces me to concentrate on the road, thus displacing other, unpleasant thoughts.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)
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Same. I don't like to be driven, whether it's in someone else's car or the backseat of an Uber. And the people I know who have the money to buy very advanced self-driving cars use the self-drive mode for a few weeks, then get bored with it and go back to driving themselves.
So the idea that there's this big market out there for people who don't want to use Uber-like services, but who do want to be driven around in their own cars by a robot, seems ... incorrect to me.
I stand by my comment above that this is a solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)
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All the grift in politics and its so wasteful. A billion for some useless project so that assorted politicians can get their share of 50 to 100 million. The country would be much less in debt if we paid the congress critters 1 to 2 million each but had the death penalty for them getting any kickbacks.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM (hhkIi)
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Speaking of genders...
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
Posted by: Diogenes
*snort
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
Posted by: Diogenes
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM (c115l)
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106 take to the desert to be robbed, raped and then shot."
And not always in that order...
Posted by: man
You are stealing my thunder!
It's "tortured, shot AND sent to the Russian Front!"
And not always in that order...
Posted by: man
You are stealing my thunder!
It's "tortured, shot AND sent to the Russian Front!"
Posted by: Major Hochstetter at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (oftw2)
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>>Agreed, but if I can take my car out where I want to go and hand the driving off to a robot, I get the best of both worlds.
To each their own. I love driving, always have. The journey is the point.
To each their own. I love driving, always have. The journey is the point.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (viF8m)
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96 Chances of this are higher or lower with a native driving the car?
Posted by: Piper
Having been through much of the third world, much lower. If you can't see who is driving the car, you don't have any idea of the risk.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025
It’s not being driven by remote control.
Posted by: Piper
Having been through much of the third world, much lower. If you can't see who is driving the car, you don't have any idea of the risk.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025
It’s not being driven by remote control.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (/sySz)
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Am I mistaken in believing that pretty much any new car you might buy these days have built in technology that someone could use to track your movements and even stop you from driving (remote kill switch)? Why do we put up with that?? No choice, gotta buy some car and my 72 Chevy Impala I just can’t keep it running any longer…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (czfTj)
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Speaking of genders...
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
LOL!
If a tranny goes missing, do they put the picture on a carton of Half-n-Half?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:26 AM (2WIwB)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (8zz6B)
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Promoting coal, encouraging oil drilling, and stopping the net zero / green energy insanity is just about the most conservative thing a Republican president could do.
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I somewhat disagree. I am not sure the government should be encouraging one energy source over another.
What it *should* do is level the playing field and put everything on even footing, with no sources officially favored or disfavored through subsidies, penalties, liability carve-outs or add-ons, etc.
Do that and see what wins. It ain't gonna be wind and solar. It could be coal, but might be nuclear or gas. Who knows. I don't, and neither does the state.
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I somewhat disagree. I am not sure the government should be encouraging one energy source over another.
What it *should* do is level the playing field and put everything on even footing, with no sources officially favored or disfavored through subsidies, penalties, liability carve-outs or add-ons, etc.
Do that and see what wins. It ain't gonna be wind and solar. It could be coal, but might be nuclear or gas. Who knows. I don't, and neither does the state.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
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very advanced self-driving cars use the self-drive mode for a few weeks, then get bored with it and go back to driving themselves."
This. Of the four owners of said vehicles, all 4 have gone back to "regular" driving...
This. Of the four owners of said vehicles, all 4 have gone back to "regular" driving...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:32 AM (XuXeR)
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>>From snow capped peaks to desert plains dusted in white, the Kingdom experienced a weather event that many had only imagined.
An act of God!
An act of God!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2025 11:32 AM (NuV6c)
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>>very advanced self-driving cars use the self-drive mode for a few weeks, then get bored with it and go back to driving themselves."
Driving is fun -- it's freedom!
Driving is fun -- it's freedom!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2025 11:33 AM (NuV6c)
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LOWEST TEMPERATURE RECORDED IN CANADA IN DECEMBER SINCE 1975 [-56.7°C]
Posted by: SMOD at December 29, 2025 11:33 AM (RHGPo)
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While solar power and battery storage will be necessary for Elon’s planned colonization of Mars, he cannot break the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere without carbon fuels.
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Controlled nuclear propulsion FTW!
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Controlled nuclear propulsion FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 11:33 AM (1/Ztw)
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"Climate change is deepening inequalities – and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s act #ForAllWomenAndGirls and build a safer, more climate-resilient future.”
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LOL K.
The thing that keeps most people - men and women alike - is man's constant battle against a nature that is, at best, indifferent to our survival.
Want a better world for women and girls? Okay. Get out of the way and quit doing everything in your power to end all attempts to build anything or tame that stone cold bitch.
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LOL K.
The thing that keeps most people - men and women alike - is man's constant battle against a nature that is, at best, indifferent to our survival.
Want a better world for women and girls? Okay. Get out of the way and quit doing everything in your power to end all attempts to build anything or tame that stone cold bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:33 AM (avHHk)
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“Saudi Arabia Sees Rare Snowfall After 30 Years, Desert Mountains Turn into Winter Wonderland”***
Hey, Iran, thirsty yet?
. _transient Camel Jocky
Hey, Iran, thirsty yet?
. _transient Camel Jocky
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:34 AM (8pnUF)
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Driving is freedom. Aside from free speech the freedom to go anywhere you want for any reason or no reason at all is one of the most basic freedoms Americans take for granted.
Agreed, but if I can take my car out where I want to go and hand the driving off to a robot, I get the best of both worlds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM
Robots driving might be OK for driving in the city or on well marked highways but where I live they can't function. A rural county with crappy roads that are usually not marked or not marked consistently with more patch than road will frustrate any robot driver. These roads constantly set off my road departure warning system on my honda ridgeline, I suspect a robot driver would have the same frustration and not be able to function.
Agreed, but if I can take my car out where I want to go and hand the driving off to a robot, I get the best of both worlds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM
Robots driving might be OK for driving in the city or on well marked highways but where I live they can't function. A rural county with crappy roads that are usually not marked or not marked consistently with more patch than road will frustrate any robot driver. These roads constantly set off my road departure warning system on my honda ridgeline, I suspect a robot driver would have the same frustration and not be able to function.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 29, 2025 11:34 AM (0N4FZ)
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>>Am I mistaken in believing that pretty much any new car you might buy these days have built in technology that someone could use to track your movements and even stop you from driving (remote kill switch)? Why do we put up with that??
Pretty sure that's a feature that Pete Buttigeige had added to a bill during Biden's term. A new requirement.
Pretty sure that's a feature that Pete Buttigeige had added to a bill during Biden's term. A new requirement.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2025 11:34 AM (NuV6c)
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"The driverless car splattered the "child" every time."
This is not true:
A similar staged test occurred in 2025 with Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, where a Model Y repeatedly passed a stopped school bus with lights/stop sign and hit child-sized dummies pulled into its path (reported by outlets like Engadget, Jalopnik, The Register).
This is not true:
A similar staged test occurred in 2025 with Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, where a Model Y repeatedly passed a stopped school bus with lights/stop sign and hit child-sized dummies pulled into its path (reported by outlets like Engadget, Jalopnik, The Register).
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:34 AM (Rmqfl)
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The Alberta Prosperity Project, which is pressing for secession, now has four months to gather 178,000 signatures, and if successful, the following question will be put to the vote in the conservative, energy-rich province. "Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?"
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More power to 'em, and I wish them well.
I do not want them as the 51st state, and I doubt they want that either. If they do it, however, I *do* think the US should immediately recognize the new republic and sign a trade agreement with it, and begin security negotiations.
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More power to 'em, and I wish them well.
I do not want them as the 51st state, and I doubt they want that either. If they do it, however, I *do* think the US should immediately recognize the new republic and sign a trade agreement with it, and begin security negotiations.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:35 AM (avHHk)
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Am I mistaken in believing that pretty much any new car you might buy these days have built in technology that someone could use to track your movements and even stop you from driving (remote kill switch)? Why do we put up with that?? No choice, gotta buy some car and my 72 Chevy Impala I just can’t keep it running any longer…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (czfTj)
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I think that is coming in all cars in the future, not just self-driving ones. It will start -- as it always does -- with low-hanging fruit that's already proven to be a very successful camel-nose-in-the-tent: drunk driving.
There is already proposed legislation that would require cars to have built-in breathalyzers. It will be a very short jump from that to remote disabling of your car for dozens of reasons. Oh, you didn't pay your child support? No driving for you! Oh, you didn't pay your parking ticket? You voted for the wrong candidate?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (czfTj)
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I think that is coming in all cars in the future, not just self-driving ones. It will start -- as it always does -- with low-hanging fruit that's already proven to be a very successful camel-nose-in-the-tent: drunk driving.
There is already proposed legislation that would require cars to have built-in breathalyzers. It will be a very short jump from that to remote disabling of your car for dozens of reasons. Oh, you didn't pay your child support? No driving for you! Oh, you didn't pay your parking ticket? You voted for the wrong candidate?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)
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I see that Canada and Saudi Arabia got my cold weather this month. I'm glad it went somewhere. I reckon it would be bad to have it just vanish entirely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:35 AM (avHHk)
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Driving isn't a test of manhood, and it is very rarely fun. It's getting where you need to go."
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:20 AM (XuXeR)
As would I. Driving is awesome. It's fun, it's rewarding and it's a great way to spend a weekend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Well, driving top the grocery store, sure. A choice is a chore.
But, driving on a trip? It's fun and mostly kind of awesome what you can see on the road as you drive. Even in far west Texas.
A self-driving car is like taking a train and when I do that I generally read or sleep because being the same as a bail of hay transported across country is boring.
Being a man actively taking your faithful steed across this great country is all kinds of fun.
Top Gear/TGT would disagree...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:20 AM (XuXeR)
As would I. Driving is awesome. It's fun, it's rewarding and it's a great way to spend a weekend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 29, 2025 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
Well, driving top the grocery store, sure. A choice is a chore.
But, driving on a trip? It's fun and mostly kind of awesome what you can see on the road as you drive. Even in far west Texas.
A self-driving car is like taking a train and when I do that I generally read or sleep because being the same as a bail of hay transported across country is boring.
Being a man actively taking your faithful steed across this great country is all kinds of fun.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (/iMjX)
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Want a better world for women and girls? Okay. Get out of the way and quit doing everything in your power to end all attempts to build anything or tame that stone cold bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
It's not nice to insult Mother Nature!
*raises arm and causes thunder and lightning flash*
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
It's not nice to insult Mother Nature!
*raises arm and causes thunder and lightning flash*
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
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So again, having your own robocar doesn't really solve any pressing problem that doesn't already have a solution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
They may be saying "having your own robocar" today but that will quickly morph into "communal robocars (except for the connected)" which you'll be able to try and reserve for when you need to go somewhere with at least 3 weeks of prior notice.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
They may be saying "having your own robocar" today but that will quickly morph into "communal robocars (except for the connected)" which you'll be able to try and reserve for when you need to go somewhere with at least 3 weeks of prior notice.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
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So, if Alberta opts for independence, does King Chuck have to give his approval? Our would the province just say screw it and leave the Commonwealth altogether?
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
I expect a unilateral declaration of independence would result in the formation of a Republic of Alberta. King Chuck is a symbol of the degradation that England and the rest of the commonwealth has suffered.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)
I expect a unilateral declaration of independence would result in the formation of a Republic of Alberta. King Chuck is a symbol of the degradation that England and the rest of the commonwealth has suffered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (8zz6B)
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So again, having your own robocar doesn't really solve any pressing problem that doesn't already have a solution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
They may be saying "having your own robocar" today but that will quickly morph into "communal robocars (except for the connected)" which you'll be able to try and reserve for when you need to go somewhere with at least 3 weeks of prior notice.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
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Yes, that too
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:18 AM (iFTx/)
They may be saying "having your own robocar" today but that will quickly morph into "communal robocars (except for the connected)" which you'll be able to try and reserve for when you need to go somewhere with at least 3 weeks of prior notice.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
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Yes, that too
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:37 AM (iFTx/)
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Am I mistaken in believing that pretty much any new car you might buy these days have built in technology that someone could use to track your movements and even stop you from driving (remote kill switch)? Why do we put up with that?? No choice, gotta buy some car and my 72 Chevy Impala I just can’t keep it running any longer…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (czfTj)
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Most cars have it now. Built-in connectivity is usually two-way. It depends on manufacturer, but I'd assume it's the norm.
But it's also pretty easy to defeat if you want to. Cars are pretty dense and radio has trouble getting in, which is why antennae are external. Unplug the cellular antenna and bye-bye connectivity. Also bye-bye "over-the-air" updates and, possibly, your warranty.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:31 AM (czfTj)
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Most cars have it now. Built-in connectivity is usually two-way. It depends on manufacturer, but I'd assume it's the norm.
But it's also pretty easy to defeat if you want to. Cars are pretty dense and radio has trouble getting in, which is why antennae are external. Unplug the cellular antenna and bye-bye connectivity. Also bye-bye "over-the-air" updates and, possibly, your warranty.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:37 AM (avHHk)
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>>Agreed, but if I can take my car out where I want to go and hand the driving off to a robot, I get the best of both worlds.
The only way I see self-driving truly working is if it's all/nothing. A car that is programmed to follow all the rules of the road mixed in w/individuals driving unpredictably (following some, but not all rules; each one varying its practices) will bog down things.
The only way I see self-driving truly working is if it's all/nothing. A car that is programmed to follow all the rules of the road mixed in w/individuals driving unpredictably (following some, but not all rules; each one varying its practices) will bog down things.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2025 11:37 AM (NuV6c)
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Waymos simply stopped driving during a recent power outage.***
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More unsettling and less mentioned that several Waymos were pulled because they ran stop signs and school bus red lights.
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More unsettling and less mentioned that several Waymos were pulled because they ran stop signs and school bus red lights.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:38 AM (8pnUF)
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LOWEST TEMPERATURE RECORDED IN CANADA IN DECEMBER SINCE 1975 [-56.7°C]
Posted by: SMOD
Gol-danged global warmening!
Posted by: SMOD
Gol-danged global warmening!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2025 11:38 AM (c115l)
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:38 AM (/iMjX)
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123 very advanced self-driving cars use the self-drive mode for a few weeks, then get bored with it and go back to driving themselves."
This. Of the four owners of said vehicles, all 4 have gone back to "regular" driving...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:32
I would use it for long trips, if I wasn’t flying. It would be great to avoid rest breaks and make travel time less. It would also be great in traffic which is not a fun time. I will probably end up with a Tesla as my next car, the new roadster is very, very cute. I don’t buy cars very often and my Mini is just over a year old, so I don’t know when this would happen. But it’s something to think about.
This. Of the four owners of said vehicles, all 4 have gone back to "regular" driving...
Posted by: man at December 29, 2025 11:32
I would use it for long trips, if I wasn’t flying. It would be great to avoid rest breaks and make travel time less. It would also be great in traffic which is not a fun time. I will probably end up with a Tesla as my next car, the new roadster is very, very cute. I don’t buy cars very often and my Mini is just over a year old, so I don’t know when this would happen. But it’s something to think about.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:38 AM (/sySz)
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There is a proposal to build a battery power facility about a mile and a half from my house. I've commented on my rags Website that they should look at Moss Landing amongst other messes. Last week there was a fire at a site in Warwick NY in the county south of me. It has twenty of those battery packs , while the one proposed here has over two hundred. Our Dem Socialist legislator is all in . Even leftists though are saying no. Definitely NIMBY, but any way to stop it is ok by me
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:38 AM (DyOVq)
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It's not nice to insult Mother Nature!
*raises arm and causes thunder and lightning flash*
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
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Nope, it isn't. But that wasn't an insult, it was a simple statement of fact. Nature is stone cold and doesn't care about you in the slightest. It is our duty to carve an ability to thrive out of it.
*raises arm and causes thunder and lightning flash*
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
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Nope, it isn't. But that wasn't an insult, it was a simple statement of fact. Nature is stone cold and doesn't care about you in the slightest. It is our duty to carve an ability to thrive out of it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:38 AM (avHHk)
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Same. I don't like to be driven, whether it's in someone else's car or the backseat of an Uber. And the people I know who have the money to buy very advanced self-driving cars use the self-drive mode for a few weeks, then get bored with it and go back to driving themselves.
So the idea that there's this big market out there for people who don't want to use Uber-like services, but who do want to be driven around in their own cars by a robot, seems ... incorrect to me.
I stand by my comment above that this is a solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM
I am the same. And of the same opinion that most people (at least Gen-X and older) don't really want this.
That said, I don't think we can say the same for the lazy younger generations who are just fine with sitting at home and having food delivered through Uber Eats and Door Dash, etc. I think the younger generations would be interested in yet another technology that allows them to be lazy.
That that said, as you stated, Uber services would probably be the prime choice for people like this instead of owning a vehicle themselves.
So the idea that there's this big market out there for people who don't want to use Uber-like services, but who do want to be driven around in their own cars by a robot, seems ... incorrect to me.
I stand by my comment above that this is a solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM
I am the same. And of the same opinion that most people (at least Gen-X and older) don't really want this.
That said, I don't think we can say the same for the lazy younger generations who are just fine with sitting at home and having food delivered through Uber Eats and Door Dash, etc. I think the younger generations would be interested in yet another technology that allows them to be lazy.
That that said, as you stated, Uber services would probably be the prime choice for people like this instead of owning a vehicle themselves.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 11:39 AM (P5BPp)
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On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, let’s act #ForAllWomenAndGirls and build a safer, more climate-resilient future.”
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Muzzzies are excluded of course.
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Muzzzies are excluded of course.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:39 AM (2WIwB)
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When the temp hits minus forty, does Pizza Night in Rowley get canceled?
Posted by: Hangry Hank at December 29, 2025 11:39 AM (oftw2)
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Wind turbines...
The largest one in the world, naturally built by China, was put off shore earlier this year. It was shut down after only a couple months of operation.
Why? Well it's not because spinning the turbine is cheap and anything produced after that fact is going to cost more than spinning the blades.
It was creating it's own micro-climate that was detrimental to the local farms and fisheries. So imagine what an entire "farm" of these things is doing to the surrounding area.
Yet, the enviroweenies seem disinterested in this phenomenon.
The largest one in the world, naturally built by China, was put off shore earlier this year. It was shut down after only a couple months of operation.
Why? Well it's not because spinning the turbine is cheap and anything produced after that fact is going to cost more than spinning the blades.
It was creating it's own micro-climate that was detrimental to the local farms and fisheries. So imagine what an entire "farm" of these things is doing to the surrounding area.
Yet, the enviroweenies seem disinterested in this phenomenon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2025 11:39 AM (NwnyJ)
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I'm still in the 'are we there yet?' stage and probably always will be. I'm goal oriented and I want to get to my destination asap and it's frustrating when I can't . But I understand and am grateful for people who don't mind driving. I could never ever be a long haul truck driver.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 29, 2025 11:40 AM (KDPiq)
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That said, battery cars are not going away and Musk has developed a safe car and a safe self driver.
They will never replace the reciprical engine but they have their place. And everyone could use a better battery.
How's the charge on your smartphone?
They will never replace the reciprical engine but they have their place. And everyone could use a better battery.
How's the charge on your smartphone?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:40 AM (8pnUF)
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... So the idea that there's this big market out there for people who don't want to use Uber-like services, but who do want to be driven around in their own cars by a robot, seems ... incorrect to me. ...
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM
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I think it's a lie, too. I think it is exactly about those Uber-like services, just absent the drivers. I think that autonomous cars aren't going to be widely purchased by individuals. They are going to be purchased as fleets and turned into "Johnny Cabs." Which will be trumpeted as so much for the greater good as those evil private cars are phased out through law and continued destruction of affordability.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025 11:30 AM
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I think it's a lie, too. I think it is exactly about those Uber-like services, just absent the drivers. I think that autonomous cars aren't going to be widely purchased by individuals. They are going to be purchased as fleets and turned into "Johnny Cabs." Which will be trumpeted as so much for the greater good as those evil private cars are phased out through law and continued destruction of affordability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:41 AM (avHHk)
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This seems like a VC-driven solution in search of a problem.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM
Let's assume this is true.
How long will it be then for government to mandate self-driving vehicles for everyone, as they did with EVs, "for safety".
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 29, 2025
According to Elon, they are safer and involved in far fewer accidents.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:08 AM
Let's assume this is true.
How long will it be then for government to mandate self-driving vehicles for everyone, as they did with EVs, "for safety".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 11:41 AM (P5BPp)
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That Brian Setzer video was great. But what amazed me most is that at his age he can just drop to his knees and continue playing the guitar like nothing happened. I have knee envy.
Posted by: bluebell at December 29, 2025 11:41 AM (79pEw)
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>>They may be saying "having your own robocar" today but that will quickly morph into "communal robocars (except for the connected)" which you'll be able to try and reserve for when you need to go somewhere with at least 3 weeks of prior notice.
Yeah, if you don't drive it, do you own it?
Someone else is programming how it behaves, and that is connected to some sort of central, shared db of traffic/road availability/etc. for maximum efficiency, that could then be manipulated (no cars on this road or that), and so on. Easy to see where this eventually leads. . .
Yeah, if you don't drive it, do you own it?
Someone else is programming how it behaves, and that is connected to some sort of central, shared db of traffic/road availability/etc. for maximum efficiency, that could then be manipulated (no cars on this road or that), and so on. Easy to see where this eventually leads. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2025 11:41 AM (NuV6c)
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I do not want them as the 51st state, and I doubt they want that either. If they do it, however, I *do* think the US should immediately recognize the new republic and sign a trade agreement with it, and begin security negotiations.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:35 AM (avHHk)
Yes. The APP is definitely not an annexationist movement. Still a very hard sell, that. I would like to see a customs union between USA and Republic of Alberta.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:35 AM (avHHk)
Yes. The APP is definitely not an annexationist movement. Still a very hard sell, that. I would like to see a customs union between USA and Republic of Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8zz6B)
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156 That said, battery cars are not going away and Musk has developed a safe car and a safe self driver.
They will never replace the reciprical engine but they have their place. And everyone could use a better battery.
How's the charge on your smartphone?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal
Someone mentioned above, we all hit an age where reflexes aren’t what they used to be. This extends autonomy when driving should stop.
They will never replace the reciprical engine but they have their place. And everyone could use a better battery.
How's the charge on your smartphone?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal
Someone mentioned above, we all hit an age where reflexes aren’t what they used to be. This extends autonomy when driving should stop.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (/sySz)
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Today, I will settle all family business. (of the messy refrigerator kind) They have become too enamored of their leftover casseroles, limp produce, and iffy condiments. It's threshing season.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (3uBP9)
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I'm pretty sure this is real...maybe not...😀
Posted by: naturalfake
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Saw on X - an AI detector has been developed, says it's 90% accurate.
I'm pretty sure this is real...maybe not...😀
Posted by: naturalfake
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Saw on X - an AI detector has been developed, says it's 90% accurate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8pnUF)
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UNHINGED: @SenSchumer says "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE" if we pass the largest tax cut in history, block illegals from taxpayer-funded health care, and cut the deficit.
These are NOT serious people.
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Responsible contrary opinions will be ignored.
These are NOT serious people.
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Responsible contrary opinions will be ignored.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (L/fGl)
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>>As would I. Driving is awesome. It's fun, it's rewarding and it's a great way to spend a weekend.
One of the best memories I have from high school was getting my driver's license. It doesn't seem as a big deal to young people these days but it was everything to me.
Still is. Wandering is very underrated.
One of the best memories I have from high school was getting my driver's license. It doesn't seem as a big deal to young people these days but it was everything to me.
Still is. Wandering is very underrated.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)
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Yes. The APP is definitely not an annexationist movement. Still a very hard sell, that. I would like to see a customs union between USA and Republic of Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8zz6B)
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I wouldn't. Trade agreements are usually more effective than customs unions, and maintain sovereignty. Customs unions have a way of either failing under cheating by one or more sides (which could be avoided through trade agreements), or becoming a sovereignty-destroying superstate. Not a fan of the concept generally.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8zz6B)
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I wouldn't. Trade agreements are usually more effective than customs unions, and maintain sovereignty. Customs unions have a way of either failing under cheating by one or more sides (which could be avoided through trade agreements), or becoming a sovereignty-destroying superstate. Not a fan of the concept generally.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM (avHHk)
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U.S. Teen Substance Use Hits Historic Lows for Fifth Consecutive Year
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
Too busy staring at tiktok and porn to do drugs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)
Too busy staring at tiktok and porn to do drugs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)
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56 Omar needs to leaned on hard. She either spills the beans or gets sent back.
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She gets sent back. What she does determines the manner.
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She gets sent back. What she does determines the manner.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM (8pnUF)
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM (/iMjX)
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Too busy staring at tiktok and porn to do drugs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)
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Those are nto technically substances, but...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)
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Those are nto technically substances, but...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM (avHHk)
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>>Waymos simply stopped driving during a recent power outage.
They were easily manipulated during the LA immigration riots - they called for a bunch to the same place, then set on fire. They did the same thing with electric scooters and the ICE facility protest in Seatle (IIRC), they all rode the scooters to the building, piled them by a garage entrance and set them on fire.
They were easily manipulated during the LA immigration riots - they called for a bunch to the same place, then set on fire. They did the same thing with electric scooters and the ICE facility protest in Seatle (IIRC), they all rode the scooters to the building, piled them by a garage entrance and set them on fire.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (NuV6c)
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By the way--and I saw an article about this that opened my eyes on it--the point of "self-driving" has less to do about a car in traffic than a robot on a factory floor. After all, it's the same basic skillset...and Tesla's so far ahead training the AIs on those skills thanks to "self-driving" they're poised to become dominant in automation of all sorts as a result.
Just pointin' that out. Sometimes the thing ain't the thing.
Just pointin' that out. Sometimes the thing ain't the thing.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (OUMaO)
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How long will it be then for government to mandate self-driving vehicles for everyone, as they did with EVs, "for safety".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 11:41 AM (P5BPp)
And how did that EV mandate go? But advances in technology do occur, people made these same arguments when people saw horseless carriages. The more things change, right?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 11:41 AM (P5BPp)
And how did that EV mandate go? But advances in technology do occur, people made these same arguments when people saw horseless carriages. The more things change, right?
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (/sySz)
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Muldoon! How nice to see you. I hope you and the little Muldoons had a nice Christmas.
Posted by: bluebell at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (79pEw)
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Customs unions have a way of either failing under cheating by one or more sides (which could be avoided through trade agreements), or becoming a sovereignty-destroying superstate. Not a fan of the concept generally.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Yep. The Zollvrerein was one the devices that Bismarck used to create a unified Germany.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Yep. The Zollvrerein was one the devices that Bismarck used to create a unified Germany.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)
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China's largest operational offshore turbines (e.g., Mingyang or Dongfang models up to 26 MW) are currently operating. They are under testing or grid-connected as of late 2025.
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (Rmqfl)
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When the temp hits minus forty, does Pizza Night in Rowley get canceled?
Posted by: Hangry Hank at December 29, 2025 11:39 AM (oftw2)
Yes. They already canceled the December one.
Posted by: Hangry Hank at December 29, 2025 11:39 AM (oftw2)
Yes. They already canceled the December one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2025 11:46 AM (NuV6c)
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[O/T -- feel-good story of the day:]
FREEDOM RINGS: 104-year-old World War II veteran Dominick Critelli, who fought at Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge, wowed the crowd by performing the National Anthem on his saxophone at a New York Islanders game.
Critelli, a staff sergeant who immigrated to the U.S. from Italy when he was a child, spent 151 days in combat during World War II, earning three Bronze Stars.
[video]
https://is.gd/VZxBni
FREEDOM RINGS: 104-year-old World War II veteran Dominick Critelli, who fought at Normandy and in the Battle of the Bulge, wowed the crowd by performing the National Anthem on his saxophone at a New York Islanders game.
Critelli, a staff sergeant who immigrated to the U.S. from Italy when he was a child, spent 151 days in combat during World War II, earning three Bronze Stars.
[video]
https://is.gd/VZxBni
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 11:47 AM (OrY6K)
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Yep. The Zollvrerein was one the devices that Bismarck used to create a unified Germany.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)
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And what started as the Franco-German coal and steel customs union became the EU.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)
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And what started as the Franco-German coal and steel customs union became the EU.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:47 AM (avHHk)
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The heck with self-driving cars. I'm still waiting for my Rosie the Robot maid.
Posted by: bluebell at December 29, 2025 11:47 AM (79pEw)
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>>>U.S. Teen Substance Use Hits Historic Lows for Fifth Consecutive Year
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now
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Of course it is, it's be determined as normal.
Getting high is no longer abuse it's what we do.
Wait until the Muslims take over, we'll be beating our wives.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now
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Of course it is, it's be determined as normal.
Getting high is no longer abuse it's what we do.
Wait until the Muslims take over, we'll be beating our wives.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:48 AM (8pnUF)
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Waymo cars, waymo problems!
Posted by: 99 of em! at December 29, 2025 11:48 AM (TbWk/)
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Saw on X - an AI detector has been developed, says it's 90% accurate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8pnUF)
Ironically, if that number is true, it's more accurate than the AI it's made to detect.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8pnUF)
Ironically, if that number is true, it's more accurate than the AI it's made to detect.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (ExV1e)
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Saw on X - an AI detector has been developed, says it's 90% accurate.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8pnUF)
Wonder if the AI detector utilizes… AI
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (8pnUF)
Wonder if the AI detector utilizes… AI
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (czfTj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (8pnUF)
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Matthias Schmidt
@eurofounder
My son asked for a PS5 for Christmas
I said no
“Son, PlayStation is made by an evil corporation built on worker exploitation”
I got him another electronic gift instead - an EU-approved USB-C cable
He opened it with visible disgust
Then something utterly shocking happened
My wife’s boyfriend Arnold got him the PlayStation my son wanted
“Thank you uncle Arnold” my son hugged him for almost a minute
I pulled my wife aside and explained that her lover is undermining our values
She mumbled “at least he got him a real gift”
The morning after, while my son was still asleep, I took his console and went to the store
Thanks to the wonderful EU consumer protection law, I was able to get a full cash refund of €549
Then I bought a gift for my son that he truly deserves
€549 worth of carbon offset credits
When I came home my son was crying looking for his PS5
I smiled and showed him the carbon certificate
He started shaking and cried even more
Being a good parent means teaching your child European values
And I know my son will thank me for it in the future
@eurofounder
My son asked for a PS5 for Christmas
I said no
“Son, PlayStation is made by an evil corporation built on worker exploitation”
I got him another electronic gift instead - an EU-approved USB-C cable
He opened it with visible disgust
Then something utterly shocking happened
My wife’s boyfriend Arnold got him the PlayStation my son wanted
“Thank you uncle Arnold” my son hugged him for almost a minute
I pulled my wife aside and explained that her lover is undermining our values
She mumbled “at least he got him a real gift”
The morning after, while my son was still asleep, I took his console and went to the store
Thanks to the wonderful EU consumer protection law, I was able to get a full cash refund of €549
Then I bought a gift for my son that he truly deserves
€549 worth of carbon offset credits
When I came home my son was crying looking for his PS5
I smiled and showed him the carbon certificate
He started shaking and cried even more
Being a good parent means teaching your child European values
And I know my son will thank me for it in the future
Posted by: SMOD at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (RHGPo)
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While solar power and battery storage will be necessary for Elon’s planned colonization of Mars
Nuclear, I would believe. Magical Nikola Tesla stuff I would also believe. The sun is, what, half as strong out there on Mars?
Nuclear, I would believe. Magical Nikola Tesla stuff I would also believe. The sun is, what, half as strong out there on Mars?
Posted by: t-bird at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (VnVVA)
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This brunette in a dress doesn't like to drive, but definitely likes a man with a car (and a boat):
http://tiny.cc/djzw001
http://tiny.cc/djzw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (avHHk)
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Sponge is nailing it today. What is your record number of actual !firsts! In a day????
Posted by: lin-duh at December 29, 2025 11:50 AM (EneHm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)
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182 The heck with self-driving cars. I'm still waiting for my Rosie the Robot maid.
Posted by: bluebell at December 29, 2025 11
Optimus is on the way!
I want one of these, too. I need a more lucrative profession.
Posted by: bluebell at December 29, 2025 11
Optimus is on the way!
I want one of these, too. I need a more lucrative profession.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:51 AM (/sySz)
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Matthias Schmidt
@eurofounder
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Being a good parent means teaching your child European values
And I know my son will thank me for it in the future
Posted by: SMOD at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (RHGPo)
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This is surely satire.
@eurofounder
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Being a good parent means teaching your child European values
And I know my son will thank me for it in the future
Posted by: SMOD at December 29, 2025 11:49 AM (RHGPo)
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This is surely satire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:51 AM (avHHk)
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One of the best memories I have from high school was getting my driver's license. It doesn't seem as a big deal to young people these days but it was everything to me.
Still is. Wandering is very underrated.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)
Depends on the kid. My youngest insisted on going and getting their DL on their 16th birthday before the school day started. My oldest would take their car and just go driving. Wife looked one time and they were about 200 miles from home. They realized that and turned around before we called and asked WTH they were doing.
Still is. Wandering is very underrated.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)
Depends on the kid. My youngest insisted on going and getting their DL on their 16th birthday before the school day started. My oldest would take their car and just go driving. Wife looked one time and they were about 200 miles from home. They realized that and turned around before we called and asked WTH they were doing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:51 AM (ExV1e)
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UN Environment Programme@UNEP
Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
Elite Retardation is the problem.
Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
Elite Retardation is the problem.
Posted by: t-bird at December 29, 2025 11:52 AM (VnVVA)
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Every creek, sound and river in a city are full of Lime Scooters. Can Waymo cars be far behind? You'll just need a stronger magnet to "fish" them out.
Posted by: Youtube Magnet "Fisherman" at December 29, 2025 11:52 AM (oftw2)
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Someone mentioned above, we all hit an age where reflexes aren’t what they used to be.
Posted by: Piper
__________
This is why I routinely get killed and taunted by 12 year olds in video games.
Posted by: Piper
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This is why I routinely get killed and taunted by 12 year olds in video games.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2025 11:52 AM (XvL8K)
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UNHINGED: @SenSchumer says "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE" if we pass the largest tax cut in history, block illegals from taxpayer-funded health care, and cut the deficit.
These are NOT serious people.
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Responsible contrary opinions will be ignored.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (L/fGl)
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Well chuckie...what will kill us for sure is unchecked corruption. You will not like how that goes.
These are NOT serious people.
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Responsible contrary opinions will be ignored.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:42 AM (L/fGl)
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Well chuckie...what will kill us for sure is unchecked corruption. You will not like how that goes.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)
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Santa brought my dog a squeaky penguin. He has been running around for 30 minutes with it, squeaking non stop.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:53 AM (/sySz)
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Meanwhile, there was a white Christmas in Saudi Arabia!
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When I see white powder and Camels, I think of Hunter Biden.
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When I see white powder and Camels, I think of Hunter Biden.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 11:53 AM (NldOD)
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I think it's a lie, too. I think it is exactly about those >>>Uber-like services, just absent the drivers. I think that autonomous cars aren't going to be widely purchased by individuals. They are going to be purchased as fleets and turned into "Johnny Cabs." Which will be trumpeted as so much for the greater good as those evil private cars are phased out through law and continued destruction of affordability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Think about the last time you were behind an elder d r i v e r . going so s l o o w So cautious.
Wouldn't she be better off in a Tesla self driver?
Wouldn't you be better with her in a Tesla self driver?
I think it's a lie, too. I think it is exactly about those >>>Uber-like services, just absent the drivers. I think that autonomous cars aren't going to be widely purchased by individuals. They are going to be purchased as fleets and turned into "Johnny Cabs." Which will be trumpeted as so much for the greater good as those evil private cars are phased out through law and continued destruction of affordability.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Think about the last time you were behind an elder d r i v e r . going so s l o o w So cautious.
Wouldn't she be better off in a Tesla self driver?
Wouldn't you be better with her in a Tesla self driver?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:53 AM (8pnUF)
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How nice to see you. I hope you and the little Muldoons had a nice Christmas.
Posted by: bluebell
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And hello and Happy New Year to you. Out-of-town daughter and her family are here for 8 days. Always nice seeing them. No snow though so they are taking the girls for a taste of the winter they don't get in San Diego.
Posted by: bluebell
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And hello and Happy New Year to you. Out-of-town daughter and her family are here for 8 days. Always nice seeing them. No snow though so they are taking the girls for a taste of the winter they don't get in San Diego.
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:53 AM (/iMjX)
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I need a more lucrative profession.
Posted by: Piper at December
Move to Minneapolis and set up a studio for Somalis!
Posted by: Piper at December
Move to Minneapolis and set up a studio for Somalis!
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)
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For every stand up bass there is a string instrument repairman yelling god in heaven why do they still make these frigging things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 29, 2025 11:55 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:55 AM (/iMjX)
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Of course it is, it's be determined as normal.
Getting high is no longer abuse it's what we do.
Wait until the Muslims take over, we'll be beating our wives.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:48 AM (8pnUF)
If we go the Mandami Commie route the Glorious People's Democratic Republic of the Caliphate will assign you a wife to beat.
Of course it is, it's be determined as normal.
Getting high is no longer abuse it's what we do.
Wait until the Muslims take over, we'll be beating our wives.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:48 AM (8pnUF)
If we go the Mandami Commie route the Glorious People's Democratic Republic of the Caliphate will assign you a wife to beat.
Posted by: And a goat for fornication at December 29, 2025 11:55 AM (TbWk/)
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When the temp hits minus forty, does Pizza Night in Rowley get canceled?
Posted by: Hangry Hank
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Something of a cosmic intersection, we do not have to ask whether Deg. F , or Deg. C.
Posted by: Hangry Hank
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Something of a cosmic intersection, we do not have to ask whether Deg. F , or Deg. C.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 29, 2025 11:55 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 11:55 AM (RIvkX)
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Someone mentioned above, we all hit an age where reflexes aren’t what they used to be.
Posted by: Piper
This!
Oh...
Wait...
What were we talking about?
Posted by: Piper
This!
Oh...
Wait...
What were we talking about?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (2WIwB)
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By the way, when I go shopping or to lunch with my friend with the Tesla and it’s raining, she calls it and it comes to get us from the parking lot. This is a very fun feature.
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (/sySz)
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I love to go wandering with a knapsack on my back. This one time, I met Inge, who needed assistance with her rucksack....
Posted by: The Happy Wanderer at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (oftw2)
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205 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith
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Hey Spicoli! How would you describe this commenter?
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:55 AM (/iMjX)
Those guys are fags!
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Hey Spicoli! How would you describe this commenter?
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:55 AM (/iMjX)
Those guys are fags!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (JCLJi)
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>>My oldest would take their car and just go driving. Wife looked one time and they were about 200 miles from home. They realized that and turned around before we called and asked WTH they were doing.
Can still hear my dad asking me when I found a pay phone "You're where?".
I had the best parents.
Can still hear my dad asking me when I found a pay phone "You're where?".
I had the best parents.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (viF8m)
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Speaking of Canada, has anybody heard from Stateless lately?
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
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Someone mentioned above, we all hit an age where reflexes aren’t what they used to be.
Posted by: Piper
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My brain says 'a', my finger strikes 's'....
Posted by: Piper
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My brain says 'a', my finger strikes 's'....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 29, 2025 11:57 AM (XeU6L)
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>>>Yes. They already canceled the December one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Talk about timing on when to get out of town,
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Talk about timing on when to get out of town,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:57 AM (8pnUF)
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215 Speaking of Canada, has anybody heard from Stateless lately?
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
I wondered that too...
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 11:56 AM (77rzZ)
I wondered that too...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 29, 2025 11:57 AM (VE6XX)
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WTF is Congress???? This is the kind of stuff that should send people representing the taxpayer on the warpath.
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (Rmqfl)
They're all profiting from this scam, or one like it, too.
One of the things that's so fascinating about this phase of our history is how America's class system developed, because it's pretty nontraditional. It's not strictly or even mostly hereditary, or even economic, at least not in the traditional sense of economics.
The institutional elite power players and the scum of the gutter have formed a powerful ruling class alliance against the productive subject classes.
So, for instance, Elon Musk is the richest man on earth, but occupies a lower social position with considerably less power and fewer rights than a mid-level DoJ bureaucrat or a literally retarded criminal from a cousin-fucking African hellhole, because he refused to join their club.
It's just Them vs. Us. A straight-up kleptocracy.
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:10 AM (Rmqfl)
They're all profiting from this scam, or one like it, too.
One of the things that's so fascinating about this phase of our history is how America's class system developed, because it's pretty nontraditional. It's not strictly or even mostly hereditary, or even economic, at least not in the traditional sense of economics.
The institutional elite power players and the scum of the gutter have formed a powerful ruling class alliance against the productive subject classes.
So, for instance, Elon Musk is the richest man on earth, but occupies a lower social position with considerably less power and fewer rights than a mid-level DoJ bureaucrat or a literally retarded criminal from a cousin-fucking African hellhole, because he refused to join their club.
It's just Them vs. Us. A straight-up kleptocracy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:57 AM (BI5O2)
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Something of a cosmic intersection, we do not have to ask whether Deg. F , or Deg. C.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Hence, why I chose that chilly number.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Hence, why I chose that chilly number.
Posted by: Hangry Hank. at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (oftw2)
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"Climate change is deepening inequalities – and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls ..."
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Tranny's hardest hit!
/During Transgender Climate Change Genocide Vengeance Pride Month of Rage? REALLY???
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Tranny's hardest hit!
/During Transgender Climate Change Genocide Vengeance Pride Month of Rage? REALLY???
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (NldOD)
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One really good thing about AI driven cars is that you can cut them off or muscle them out of the way and they’ll never pull a gun or go all road ragey on you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (8kBBB)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (snZF9)
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My brain says 'a', my finger strikes 's'....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December
We are all going to be typing they will take our self driving cars from our cold dead hands in a few years. Hahahahhah!
My brain says 'a', my finger strikes 's'....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December
We are all going to be typing they will take our self driving cars from our cold dead hands in a few years. Hahahahhah!
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (/sySz)
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15 Self-driving cars ... what exactly do they improve over human drivers?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Elimination of direct labor costs. In any service industry, labor costs are predominant so tech being leveraged to replace front line workers (and the various taxes/regulatory burden/etc.) often make it well worth it.
Same reason that order kiosks will become prevalent for fast food.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Elimination of direct labor costs. In any service industry, labor costs are predominant so tech being leveraged to replace front line workers (and the various taxes/regulatory burden/etc.) often make it well worth it.
Same reason that order kiosks will become prevalent for fast food.
Posted by: whig at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)
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Speaking of ignorance...
Snow in SA:
January 1973: up to 20 cm accumulation in central regions, including parts of Riyadh (lowland desert areas). No comparable lowland events reported until December 2025.
Snow in SA:
January 1973: up to 20 cm accumulation in central regions, including parts of Riyadh (lowland desert areas). No comparable lowland events reported until December 2025.
Posted by: pawn at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (Rmqfl)
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And hello and Happy New Year to you. Out-of-town daughter and her family are here for 8 days. Always nice seeing them. No snow though so they are taking the girls for a taste of the winter they don't get in San Diego.
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:53 AM (/iMjX)
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No snow? And here I thought Colorado always had snow at Christmas!
Glad you have some of your family visiting. We do too, and it's wonderful.
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 11:53 AM (/iMjX)
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No snow? And here I thought Colorado always had snow at Christmas!
Glad you have some of your family visiting. We do too, and it's wonderful.
Posted by: bluebell at December 29, 2025 11:58 AM (79pEw)
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Because there's a chance self-driving cars can parallel park.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:15
My little car already does this for me. I hit the button, it seeks out a spot and then parks. Ta da!
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (/sySz)
I learned to parallel park in my dad's 57 Chevy in 1964 on Smith St in Perth Amboy.....the main street of town. No power steering.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:15
My little car already does this for me. I hit the button, it seeks out a spot and then parks. Ta da!
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 11:17 AM (/sySz)
I learned to parallel park in my dad's 57 Chevy in 1964 on Smith St in Perth Amboy.....the main street of town. No power steering.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2025 11:59 AM (5xuJ/)
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Will Saudi Arabia's fantasized horrible linear arcology prison city handle snow?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 11:59 AM (avHHk)
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220 97% of all Somalis living in Minnesota are American citizens
87% of all FOREIGN BORN Somalis are also American
People who live in America but certainly not "true" Americans.. They never will be
87% of all FOREIGN BORN Somalis are also American
People who live in America but certainly not "true" Americans.. They never will be
Posted by: It's me donna at December 29, 2025 11:59 AM (VE6XX)
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Climate change unrestricted mohammedan immigration is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
See, it isn't that hard to make the statement truthful.
See, it isn't that hard to make the statement truthful.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2025 12:01 PM (0U5gm)
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>>I learned to parallel park in my dad's 57 Chevy in 1964 on Smith St in Perth Amboy.....the main street of town. No power steering.
Parallel parking in Boston isn't a choice. It's survival.
Parallel parking in Boston isn't a choice. It's survival.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)
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Will Saudi Arabia's fantasized horrible linear arcology prison city handle snow?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
I think they're planning a ski resort (with fake snow) as part of the NEOM megaproject.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
I think they're planning a ski resort (with fake snow) as part of the NEOM megaproject.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)
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NEOM will never happen. That is a fantasy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 12:02 PM (BI5O2)
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I learned to parallel park in my dad's 57 Chevy in 1964 on Smith St in Perth Amboy.....the main street of town. No power steering.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2025 11:59 AM (5xuJ/)
Damn, that street is the pits.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2025 11:59 AM (5xuJ/)
Damn, that street is the pits.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 29, 2025 12:02 PM (snZF9)
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People who live in America but certainly not "true" Americans.. They never will be
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They can only be Americans if the Americans are forced to feed, cloth and shelter them. Otherwise, they are Somalis AKA Parasites.
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They can only be Americans if the Americans are forced to feed, cloth and shelter them. Otherwise, they are Somalis AKA Parasites.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 12:02 PM (pLaQB)
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Off to take my dog on an adventure!
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 12:02 PM (pZEOD)
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With no cabbies, who will TV detectives lean on for what's happening on the street? Already we have lost the shoeshine guy ready to give up the information.
Posted by: Pushy's Pool Room at December 29, 2025 12:03 PM (oftw2)
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235 I learned to parallel park in my dad's 57 Chevy in 1964 on Smith St in Perth Amboy.....the main street of town. No power steering.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2025 11:59 AM (5xuJ/)
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Did you know the Amboy Dukes?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2025 11:59 AM (5xuJ/)
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Did you know the Amboy Dukes?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 12:03 PM (pLaQB)
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NEOM will never happen. That is a fantasy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Yeah, probably. But they have started working on it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Yeah, probably. But they have started working on it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)
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[Prayers for AoSHQ Cruelty Aficionado Emeritus VDH:]
Rob Bluey
@RobertBluey
🙏 Please pray for my friend and colleague @VDHanson.
VDH announced on his show that he will have a major medical operation tomorrow.
“I’m having a major operation, and I’ve been presented with a serious problem, but I’m going to do all I can to solve it. And that’s all I can do and trust in the power of prayer, and faith—and in a wonderful surgeon.”
https://is.gd/hQ9OJj
Rob Bluey
@RobertBluey
🙏 Please pray for my friend and colleague @VDHanson.
VDH announced on his show that he will have a major medical operation tomorrow.
“I’m having a major operation, and I’ve been presented with a serious problem, but I’m going to do all I can to solve it. And that’s all I can do and trust in the power of prayer, and faith—and in a wonderful surgeon.”
https://is.gd/hQ9OJj
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 29, 2025 12:04 PM (NldOD)
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230 220 97% of all Somalis living in Minnesota are American citizens
87% of all FOREIGN BORN Somalis are also American
People who live in America but certainly not "true" Americans.. They never will be
Posted by: It's me donna
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Somalis are a beginning. It's Islam.
87% of all FOREIGN BORN Somalis are also American
People who live in America but certainly not "true" Americans.. They never will be
Posted by: It's me donna
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Somalis are a beginning. It's Islam.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 12:04 PM (8pnUF)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 29, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)
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I think they're planning a ski resort (with fake snow) as part of the NEOM megaproject.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)
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They could add unicorn-drawn taxi carriages to the "plan" and it would be just as achievable and realistic as the rest of NOEM.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)
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They could add unicorn-drawn taxi carriages to the "plan" and it would be just as achievable and realistic as the rest of NOEM.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 12:05 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 12:05 PM (viF8m)
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Duh. I've known for a long time that climate is not gender neutral. I freeze whenever a man is in charge of the thermostat setting.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 29, 2025 12:05 PM (FMtrg)
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Schumer has a 27.7% approval rating. He won't be reelected in Communist NYC in 28
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 12:06 PM (DyOVq)
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I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination?
Posted by: Johnny Cab at December 29, 2025 12:06 PM (jc0TO)
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The absolute worst thing that could happen would be for NOEM to actually get built and occupied. Age will not improve it. It will end up - probably within a decade - resembling one of Phillip K Dick's darker and bleaker works.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 12:06 PM (avHHk)
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This year I voluntarily surrendered my driver's license due to vision loss. Toughest decision I've had to make in a long time.
Not having that option of just getting in the car and going where I want has been hard.
With my luck by the time self-driving cars are generally available I will be able to jump in the car and go, but only where the car wants to take me.
Not having that option of just getting in the car and going where I want has been hard.
With my luck by the time self-driving cars are generally available I will be able to jump in the car and go, but only where the car wants to take me.
Posted by: muldoon at December 29, 2025 12:07 PM (/iMjX)
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NOOD EXPOSED PIRACY
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2025 12:07 PM (avHHk)
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The absolute worst thing that could happen would be for NOEM to actually get built
I dunno. I kinda like Kristi's build.
I dunno. I kinda like Kristi's build.
Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)
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I watched an number of episodes of the New Shogun. While they call it Shogun, its basically a mafia, western and soap opera that is loosely connected to the book Shogun. Its not that good. My memory is the Richard Chamberlain TV version stayed close to the book and was much better.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2025 12:08 PM (pLaQB)
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> NEOM will never happen. That is a fantasy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Yeah, probably. But they have started working on it.
Posted by: Bulg
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Like any con, you have to show something, make an effort at least, to get the really big bucks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Yeah, probably. But they have started working on it.
Posted by: Bulg
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Like any con, you have to show something, make an effort at least, to get the really big bucks.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2025 12:08 PM (NwnyJ)
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>>Yeah, probably. But they have started working on it.
Have been for some time. And there's already an indoor ski "hill" in Dubai.
Kind of sad but it almost looks like skiing. Sort of.
Have been for some time. And there's already an indoor ski "hill" in Dubai.
Kind of sad but it almost looks like skiing. Sort of.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 12:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 12:08 PM (8pnUF)
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U.S. Teen Substance Use Hits Historic Lows for Fifth Consecutive Year
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:32 AM
Too busy staring at tiktok and porn to do drugs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM
Does "substance use" include prescription drugs like ADHD medication and anti-depressants?
Quick check of Grok:
Legitimate antidepressant prescribing among U.S. adolescents and young adults has increased substantially in recent years (up ~66% from 2016-2022, accelerating post-2020, especially among females), reflecting higher reported mental health needs.
Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/497OU65
So U.S. teens are not drinking or using drugs as often as before, but they are drugged up on anti-depressants. Probably, as you said, because they are depressed from spending all their time alone on social media.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 29, 2025 11:32 AM
Too busy staring at tiktok and porn to do drugs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 29, 2025 11:44 AM
Does "substance use" include prescription drugs like ADHD medication and anti-depressants?
Quick check of Grok:
Legitimate antidepressant prescribing among U.S. adolescents and young adults has increased substantially in recent years (up ~66% from 2016-2022, accelerating post-2020, especially among females), reflecting higher reported mental health needs.
Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/497OU65
So U.S. teens are not drinking or using drugs as often as before, but they are drugged up on anti-depressants. Probably, as you said, because they are depressed from spending all their time alone on social media.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 12:09 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 29, 2025 12:09 PM (Kt19C)
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NOOD
Ace is up: YouTuber Exposes Another Huge Ring of Somali Pirate Fraud as Legacy "Journalists" Refuse to Investigate or Report Others' Investigations
NOOD!
NOOD
Ace is up: YouTuber Exposes Another Huge Ring of Somali Pirate Fraud as Legacy "Journalists" Refuse to Investigate or Report Others' Investigations
NOOD!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 29, 2025 12:10 PM (O7YUW)
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Parallel parking in Boston isn't a choice. It's survival.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)
Same around here. All of the main streets in towns have parallel parking. No choice.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)
Same around here. All of the main streets in towns have parallel parking. No choice.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2025 12:10 PM (5xuJ/)
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NOEM?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 12:08 PM
NEOM is a planned megacity and economic zone in northwest Saudi Arabia, announced in 2017 by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a cornerstone of Saudi Vision 2030. Spanning about 26,500 square kilometers (roughly the size of Belgium) along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, it aims to diversify the kingdom's oil-dependent economy through innovation, sustainability, and tourism. Powered by 100% renewable energy, it features a car-free, zero-carbon design with advanced AI and robotics. Key regions include: [ ... ]
Internal audits revealed issues like manipulated projections and unrealistic assumptions. Human rights concerns include forced evictions of Bedouin tribes and poor worker conditions. Saudi officials deny major scaling back, calling reviews standard for multi-generational projects, while shifting focus to AI and returns on investment.
NEOM remains a bold symbol of ambition, with some elements advancing amid broader recalibration. Construction continues selectively, but the full futuristic vision appears deferred.
Grok full summary: https://bit.ly/3L3BmiH
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 12:08 PM
NEOM is a planned megacity and economic zone in northwest Saudi Arabia, announced in 2017 by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a cornerstone of Saudi Vision 2030. Spanning about 26,500 square kilometers (roughly the size of Belgium) along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, it aims to diversify the kingdom's oil-dependent economy through innovation, sustainability, and tourism. Powered by 100% renewable energy, it features a car-free, zero-carbon design with advanced AI and robotics. Key regions include: [ ... ]
Internal audits revealed issues like manipulated projections and unrealistic assumptions. Human rights concerns include forced evictions of Bedouin tribes and poor worker conditions. Saudi officials deny major scaling back, calling reviews standard for multi-generational projects, while shifting focus to AI and returns on investment.
NEOM remains a bold symbol of ambition, with some elements advancing amid broader recalibration. Construction continues selectively, but the full futuristic vision appears deferred.
Grok full summary: https://bit.ly/3L3BmiH
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2025 12:13 PM (P5BPp)
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17 Too bad some red states don't follow Alberta's example and begin to talk about leaving this doomed union of moochers and looters.
Posted by: Free State Of Boomers
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I don't think voting returns actually reflect votes of real people anymore in a lot of blue states particularly cities. Any state using cheat by mail probably have at least 20 percent or so fraudulent ballots all in favor of Democrats.
New England is probably the one bastion of Democrats where the voting for Team Blue actually more closely reflects the population in those states.
Posted by: Free State Of Boomers
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I don't think voting returns actually reflect votes of real people anymore in a lot of blue states particularly cities. Any state using cheat by mail probably have at least 20 percent or so fraudulent ballots all in favor of Democrats.
New England is probably the one bastion of Democrats where the voting for Team Blue actually more closely reflects the population in those states.
Posted by: whig at December 29, 2025 12:15 PM (WDjG6)
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See. It's all about the wander.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Are you, perchance a Hoosier? License plate:
https://shorturl.at/SfZBL
See. It's all about the wander.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Are you, perchance a Hoosier? License plate:
https://shorturl.at/SfZBL
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 29, 2025 12:21 PM (XeU6L)
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@262, counties in blue states are trying to figure out how to join neighboring red states. there was a book by Michael Lotus years ago called America 3.0 that foretold all this
Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at December 29, 2025 12:36 PM (ZiwLX)
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I expect a unilateral declaration of independence would result in the formation of a Republic of Alberta. King Chuck is a symbol of the degradation that England and the rest of the commonwealth has suffered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (8zz6B)
I personally would like to see Alberta as a new Dominion, like Newfoundland before it went bankrupt. Becoming a republic would be a second choice, as that does not necessarily mean that they would have to leave the Commonwealth. There are lots of republics in the Commonwealth. Hey, USA and Irelenad, nudge nudge, wink wink.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:36 AM (8zz6B)
I personally would like to see Alberta as a new Dominion, like Newfoundland before it went bankrupt. Becoming a republic would be a second choice, as that does not necessarily mean that they would have to leave the Commonwealth. There are lots of republics in the Commonwealth. Hey, USA and Irelenad, nudge nudge, wink wink.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at December 29, 2025 01:09 PM (VoMie)
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