THE MORNING RANT: Illegally Logged Wood for Wind Energy is Deforesting the Amazon Rainforest

It would seem odd that the environmental-left is now fully in favor of destroying the environment to produce boutique forms of non-renewable energy, but that is where we are. Of course, the reason we are here is that the high priests of the climate cult have issued their version of “just war doctrine” – specifically that whale killing, bird slaughter, and strip mining are now considered righteous and holy acts when done as sacraments of the faith.

Wind farms are especially awful. They produce zero kilowatts of baseline electricity, and they require 100% backup from reliable sources of electricity. Even worse, wind farms are causing widespread death of whales, including the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. Millions of bats and birds are also killed by wind turbines each year, including raptors and eagles whose killing is otherwise illegal.

But somehow, the story keeps getting worse regarding the damage done by the wind industry.

“Half a Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged in Amazon Rainforest Every Year to Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand” [The Daily Sceptic – 3/17/2026]

Over half a million balsa hardwood trees are being illegally logged in the Amazon rainforest every year to feed the massive demand for wind turbines in many parts of the world. Balsa is a lightweight but strong wood that is commonly used in the core of giant turbine blades.
The annual loss of balsa trees in virgin rainforests is unnecessary ecological rape traceable back to ideologues driving a hard-Left Net Zero fantasy.

Outside of farmed plantations, balsa trees have a very low density of just one or two per acre, therefore half a million trees being cut from the wild indicates vast areas being cleared of any native balsa trees. Just one three-bladed wind turbine requires about 40 balsa trees.

If there were ever any doubt that green energy / net zero is a religious cult, its adherents now *favor* whale-killing & razing the rainforest so that their holy altars - wind turbines - may be erected across every stretch of ocean & wilderness. @ComradeArthur https://t.co/pFthI1nDA4
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) March 23, 2026

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Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Texas and Florida Shatter the ABA’s Gatekeeping Power” discusses how Texas and Florida just became the first states to revoke the ABA’s monopoly power to grant accreditation to law schools. This matters, because only graduates of accredited law schools may take the bar exam, and the ABA has been force-feeding a woke agenda onto law schools.

By 2021, to maintain accreditation, law schools had to “demonstrate by concrete action a commitment to diversity and inclusion.” This included having faculty and student bodies that were “diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.”

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

My latest at The American Spectator: “Texas and Florida Shatter the ABA’s Gatekeeping Power”

“After decades of ideological capture, both states move to end the American Bar Association’s law school accreditation monopoly.”https://t.co/BLsTnCJY6p
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) March 24, 2026

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 We had to kill the rainforest to save the rainforest?

Sounds about right.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 27, 2026 11:01 AM (AkEZC)

2 "Balsa is a lightweight but strong wood that is commonly used in the core of giant turbine blades."

And fuselages for rubber band airplanes.

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2026 11:02 AM (vFG9F)

3 Oh, and to the annoyance of someone, first!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 27, 2026 11:02 AM (AkEZC)

4 The ABA is a marxist front group, amazingly enough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 27, 2026 11:02 AM (yvk+0)

5 And fuselages for rubber band airplanes.

And some more serious airplanes.

The de Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Wooden Wonder" of WWII, was primarily constructed from a plywood sandwich featuring Ecuadorian balsa wood (for the core) and birch plywood (for the outer/inner layers). The airframe also used Sitka spruce for the wing spars, European ash for structural members, and Douglas fir.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

6 Why is everyone saying bad things about ABBA. I love their music!

What? Oh....

Never mind.

Posted by: Emily Litella at March 27, 2026 11:04 AM (eOFY+)

7 “Half a Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged in Amazon Rainforest Every Year to Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand” [The Daily Sceptic – 3/17/2026]

Well, crap. There goes the price of model airplanes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 27, 2026 11:04 AM (kgE5c)

8 And some more serious airplanes.

The de Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Wooden Wonder" of WWII, was primarily constructed from a plywood sandwich featuring Ecuadorian balsa wood (for the core) and birch plywood (for the outer/inner layers). The airframe also used Sitka spruce for the wing spars, European ash for structural members, and Douglas fir.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:04 AM

If you haven't seen it, watch The Fat Electrician's video on the Mosquito.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 27, 2026 11:05 AM (kgE5c)

9 Great news on the ABA .

Posted by: Socks The Cat at March 27, 2026 11:05 AM (qAeYZ)

10 Commenting present while I am working

Posted by: Skip at March 27, 2026 11:06 AM (KyaUN)

11 The AI generated pic of Florida guy needs some running. He’s holding two sledge hammers instead of one. 😀

Posted by: Socks The Cat at March 27, 2026 11:07 AM (qAeYZ)

12

Don't forget the slaughter of birds!!

American Audubon Society loves to rail about bird dying because they get confused and crash into tall buildings, yet are mysteriously silent on wind farms and solar farms.

They regularly kill protected birds that you or I would go to jail for killing (not that we'd ever want to).

It is a total inversion of their stated goals.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 27, 2026 11:08 AM (Suwql)

13 Good stuff, Buck. I wonder what concern troll Greta thinks about all of this....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 11:08 AM (xT8gx)

14 The giant wind turbines have one SMALL useful purpose. If a group that purports to be for wildlife or the environment does not oppose them its a sure sign that the group is just a communist agitator and cares less about critters or the environment.

Well over a decade ago some research was done and they found that Ducks Unlimited actually helped ducks and geese by arranging leases with farmers to keep marshy ponds in their farmland and so on. The rest of the groups basically did nothing but pay lobbyists to wine and dine politicians

Posted by: PaleRider at March 27, 2026 11:09 AM (+89TD)

15
Why can't balsa wood be replaced with plastic foam?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 27, 2026 11:09 AM (mS8PE)

16 My son graduated law school and passed the bar in the last few years. He went to law school in a very red state and yet... that law school was far-out, freakazoid lefty... the voters in that state probably have no idea what they're funding....

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 11:09 AM (xT8gx)

17 The left is like water under pressure and a submarine; it will always find ANY opportunity to enter where it doesn't belong, and then cause havoc.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

18 Good Morning Horde

Thank you Buck for content. Looks excellent as always. I'll go back and read it all.

You Hordians don't want to know where my mind went as I read the first few lines of the headline 'Illegally Logged Wood.....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 11:11 AM (QGaXH)

19 Most, if not all of those wind turbines are built in China.
The same nation that leads the world, by a large margin, in coal fired electrical generation with over 1,200 of them. With another 200+ planned or under construction.
By comparison, the US has less than 250 of those left in operation.
So, while the Amazon is being de-forested, and lithium is being mined under horrendous environmental conditions in Africa, then shipped across the ocean to China where the EV batteries are made. Then those batteries are shipped across the ocean again to North American or European assembly plants to be put into EV cars.
The entire "Green" religion is a scam and we pay thru the nose for the costs while China spews the most CO2 of any nation worldwide.
A sick fucking joke.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 27, 2026 11:12 AM (MNCvZ)

20 I had no idea that balsa was used in turbine blades. I thought they were fiberglass, which has plenty of negatives of its own.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 27, 2026 11:12 AM (+89TD)

21 My son graduated law school and passed the bar in the last few years. He went to law school in a very red state and yet... that law school was far-out, freakazoid lefty... the voters in that state probably have no idea what they're funding....
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

This is education writ large. You can be in the deepest red area and the local school district is full of woke teachers and administrators.

Posted by: Socks The Cat at March 27, 2026 11:13 AM (qAeYZ)

22 only graduates of accredited law schools may take the bar exam

Isn't this the real problem?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 27, 2026 11:13 AM (4NO2D)

23 The largest wind turbine in the world, off the coast of southern China, was shut down for a period of time when it was discovered it created its own "micro-climate."

It affected some offshore aqua-farming and IIRC a tourist area in a negative way.

When spinning, and it's raining, most wind turbines disrupt the natural flow of rain and disperse it unevenly in the area. A whole "wind farm" can totally disrupt any sort of agriculture or wildlife in the immediate area.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 27, 2026 11:13 AM (AkEZC)

24 Our old boat had balsa cored hull and deck. Deck maintenance was always a primary concern. Kept me up at night at times thinking about where I missed using bedding compound.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 27, 2026 11:14 AM (abIsI)

25 .
.
Thank you.

Posted by: Marooned at March 27, 2026 11:14 AM (kt8QE)

26 I live just down the road from a Vestas faciltiy that manufactures windmill parts. My district elected a conservative, the lefties attacked him for reducing the jobs there by voting to cut wind energy subsidies, I think as part of the Big Beautiful Bill.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 27, 2026 11:15 AM (+89TD)

27 Last time I read a story involving balsa logs was when I read "Kon Tiki " the story of Thor Heyerdahl and his merry band of Skandahoovian misfits sailing across the Pacific on 9 freshly filled balsa logs held together with hemp ropes.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 27, 2026 11:15 AM (z1ru3)

28 We seldom pass a bar!
*Hic*

Posted by: Hillary and Kamala at March 27, 2026 11:16 AM (oftw2)

29 The requirement that one has to attend ANY law school to take the bar needs to go away.

Posted by: Socks The Cat at March 27, 2026 11:16 AM (qAeYZ)

30 By all accounts, Abe Lincoln was a brilliant lawyer before he went into politics. The system was much different back then... he didn't go to law school, but IIRC apprenticed under a practicing attorney. I don't think they had the equivalent of a bar exam either... and yet law was practiced competently.... Go back to 19th century practices?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 11:17 AM (xT8gx)

31 Whoa, I read Buck's entire piece, the link to the ABA article AND a link from there and comments are still at 16?

I guess everyone's getting ready for No Kings Day.

That's great about Texas and Florida. Power moves to the State Supreme courts. I guess the ABA can eventually be weakened by losing all the conservative states.

I'm really not a big fan of accreditation agencies. Aren't there some for hairdressing?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 11:17 AM (Sco7b)

32 Just like farmland being turned into forests just so companies or cuntries to score better on reducing their carbon footprint.

It is never about the environment, it's all about power and money.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:17 AM (2GVsD)

33 I saw a few of the huge windmill blades being transported by truck last year. They bend the tips over at the rear as not to be as long. Amazing they could do that without snapping the composites.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 27, 2026 11:18 AM (abIsI)

34 "Last time I read a story involving balsa logs was when I read "Kon Tiki " the story of Thor Heyerdahl and his merry band of Skandahoovian misfits sailing across the Pacific on 9 freshly filled balsa logs held together with hemp ropes.

Posted by: Sharkman"

I made a model of the Kon Tiki in 6th grade for a school project. After that we tried floating it down the ditch and it fell apart and everybody died.

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2026 11:18 AM (vFG9F)

35 TANSTAAFL

or

Matter cannot be created nor destroyed

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 11:18 AM (45LId)

36 I made a model of the Kon Tiki in 6th grade for a school project. After that we tried floating it down the ditch and it fell apart and everybody died.

Did the cannibals get them?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:19 AM (2GVsD)

37 I made a model of the Kon Tiki in 6th grade for a school project. After that we tried floating it down the ditch and it fell apart and everybody died.

TBF, that might have been because you and all your buddies stood around chucking dirt clods at the raft.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

38 companies or cuntries

Willie Nelson

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 27, 2026 11:19 AM (Kt19C)

39 I despise the ABA and want it dead. It's good that some states think the same thing. But no sane law student will go to a law school that's not accredited by the ABA, unless that student has no choice.

Why? Because it will be a career-killer unless you are absolutely 100% sure you will open your own practice in that state and will never leave.

Each state has its own credentials to be a member of a bar of that state (and thus allowing you to practice law in that state). So if you gain admission to the TX bar after graduating from a non-accredited law school, that allows you to practice in TX alone.

If you ever leave the state, you would need to get licensed or admitted to practice in whatever state you move to. If that state requires ABA-accredited law schools, then you're shit out of luck.

Very risky career choice, IMO.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

40 39 I despise the ABA and want it dead.
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Now do the AMA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 11:22 AM (aBoGB)

41 Weird that mat-science guys haven't come up with some plastic foam or something to replace the balsa.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 27, 2026 11:22 AM (diia5)

42 Gosh, why do they not use a state of tbe art very low density closed cell plastic foam to fill the blades? Plastic is made from chemicals made from evil crude oil is why. We need to cram all the anti-oil at any cost wackos and the Chinese who fund them into discarded wind turbine blades, seal the blades so they float, and set them adrift off Cape Horn.

Posted by: Gref at March 27, 2026 11:23 AM (h0+D0)

43 I believe it was the Dutch who figured out there is no pay off with windmill energy since even if its working another coal fired generator has to be on to back stop the drop in current winds. Ergo - Double the cost and Stupid.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 11:23 AM (n17eQ)

44 Only the finest old growth balsa will do to save the planet.

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2026 11:23 AM (vFG9F)

45 I despise the ABA and want it dead. It's good that some states think the same thing. But no sane law student will go to a law school that's not accredited by the ABA, unless that student has no choice.

Why? Because it will be a career-killer unless you are absolutely 100% sure you will open your own practice in that state and will never leave.

Very risky career choice, IMO.

IANAL, but I agree. In the long run, the only solution is to go after the ABA for some sort of monopoly or election law charge, or perhaps violating the conditions for violating its tax exempt status.

The American Bar Association (ABA) is
not a 501(c)(3) organization; it is classified as a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt business league. As a professional association, it is not eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions for membership dues. However, its charitable arm, the Fund for Justice and Education (FJE), is a 501(c)(3)

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

46 Only the finest old growth balsa will do to save the planet.

Would it have to be encased in real Corinthian leather?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

47 Did the cannibals get them?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:19 AM (2GVsD)

The worst is when they keep you alive as they chop off your balls.

Who wants to die a Democrat....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 11:26 AM (Sco7b)

48 I despise the ABA and want it dead.
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Waterloo was catchy

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 11:26 AM (45LId)

49 Nuke the unborn baby whales for Jesus.

Posted by: Always a popular bumper sticker at March 27, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)

50 34 "Last time I read a story involving balsa logs was when I read "Kon Tiki " the story of Thor Heyerdahl and his merry band of Skandahoovian misfits sailing across the Pacific on 9 freshly filled balsa logs held together with hemp ropes.

Posted by: Sharkman"
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DNA of the Indians living in the Amazon forests reveals they are descended from New Guinea and Australia area. They didn't get to the Amazon by Land Bridge.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 11:27 AM (n17eQ)

51 The purpose of the Kon-Tiki adventure was to prove that white caucasians were the first to settle Polynesia by floating over from Peru. He proved it could be done. Of course, even then that was considered racially offensive, so he was considered an asshole.

Since then, all evidence that whites were the first in the Americas or Polynesia has been buried and/or destroyed. Personally, I don't think the evidence is compelling, but it calls into question the alleged "consensus" that the original settlers were not white.

There's enough evidence supporting Heyerdahl's theory to warrant further research, but that will never happen.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

52 C5 and C6 Corvettes had floor pans made from a balsa wood/fiberglass composite.

Posted by: far cry at March 27, 2026 11:29 AM (Uy8FE)

53 What, no "Texas Hammer" in the Pic?

/Jim Adler

Posted by: man at March 27, 2026 11:29 AM (XuXeR)

54 OT:
A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden shot himself in the leg while accompanying the former first lady through Philadelphia airport.

top people!!

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at March 27, 2026 11:30 AM (/enuJ)

55 "Last time I read a story involving balsa logs was when I read "Kon Tiki " the story of Thor Heyerdahl and his merry band of Skandahoovian misfits sailing across the Pacific on 9 freshly filled balsa logs held together with hemp ropes.

Posted by: Sharkman"
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DNA of the Indians living in the Amazon forests reveals they are descended from New Guinea and Australia area. They didn't get to the Amazon by Land Bridge.

Heyerdahl was attempting to prove that Polynesia could have been settled by "whites" then living in South America, who sailed on the prevailing easterly winds. Thus, he was going in the opposite direction to Polynesians populating S. America.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

56 Save the Rainforest !... We need Balsa trees for our windmills....F' the Rainforest !

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:30 AM (FtULh)

57 *Would it have to be encased in real Corinthian leather?*

In the all new Chrysler Cordoba!

https://youtu.be/uvyTTx33PPQ

Posted by: Ricardo Montalban at March 27, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

58 54 OT:
A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden shot himself in the leg while accompanying the former first lady through Philadelphia airport.

top people!!
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Another Hunter hire?

Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 11:31 AM (n17eQ)

59 A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden shot himself in the leg while accompanying the former first lady through Philadelphia airport

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at March 27, 2026 11:30 AM (/enuJ)

Damn.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 11:31 AM (45LId)

60 OT:
No Kings is uniting with No Dinosaurs and No Unicorns for a combined No Brains Rally this weekend.

TRex hardest hit!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 27, 2026 11:31 AM (S/Y4j)

61 There probably is some suitable man made material that would substitute for balsa but it's a lot cheaper to just cut down trees.

Posted by: fd at March 27, 2026 11:31 AM (vFG9F)

62 58 54 OT:
A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden shot himself in the leg while accompanying the former first lady through Philadelphia airport.

top people!!
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Another Hunter hire?
Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 11:31 AM (n17eQ)

He missed...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:32 AM (FtULh)

63 I despise the ABA and want it dead. It's good that some states think the same thing. But no sane law student will go to a law school that's not accredited by the ABA, unless that student has no choice.

Why? Because it will be a career-killer unless you are absolutely 100% sure you will open your own practice in that state and will never leave.

Very risky career choice, IMO.

IANAL, but I agree. In the long run, the only solution is to go after the ABA for some sort of monopoly or election law charge, or perhaps violating the conditions for violating its tax exempt status.

The American Bar Association (ABA) is
not a 501(c)(3) organization; it is classified as a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt business league. As a professional association, it is not eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions for membership dues. However, its charitable arm, the Fund for Justice and Education (FJE), is a 501(c)(3)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)
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Yes, 100%. I think all of these "tax exempt" associations and charities are operating illegally by being straight-up political actors actively favoring -- and funding -- Democrap cocksuckers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

64 One would think this would be a no-brainer:

Do not use ChapGPT or other LLMs to help with legal cases.

Because a person's life and liberty are at stake.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:34 AM (2GVsD)

65 > A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden shot himself in the leg while accompanying the former first lady through Philadelphia airport.

top people!!
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Turn about's fair play. The Secret Service agents assigned to Trump after his 1st term, and while he campaigned for his 2nd were the bottom of the agency's barrel. Remember Butler, PA?

Hopefully the *biden's get a taste of their incompetence. They and/or their minions did it to Trump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 27, 2026 11:35 AM (AkEZC)

66
"Last time I read a story involving balsa logs was when I read "Kon Tiki " the story of Thor Heyerdahl..."
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Pfffft. Pikers.

https://tinyurl.com/4z8svf5b

Posted by: The Zumwalt Class destroyer at March 27, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

67 Even before government regulation, American fisheries were colluding to control harvesting in order to prevent depletion. They still do it.

Similarly, timber and paper mills developed best practices to prevent deforestation, once places like my AO got deforested, and had to be replanted and cultivated at horrible cost.

But that's America. These dirty foreigners wouldn't bother recultivating, let alone developing best practices for future resource conservation. They have slovenly agricultural practices and are first-order thinkers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 27, 2026 11:36 AM (BI5O2)

68 54 OT:
A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden shot himself in the leg while accompanying the former first lady through Philadelphia airport.

top people!!
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at March 27, 2026 11:30 AM (/enuJ)
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Wonder if the agent was carrying a Sig P320...

Posted by: ballistic at March 27, 2026 11:36 AM (oqH4h)

69 Speaking of post-modern idiocy...

@libsoftiktok 17m
In response to years of disruptive and violent protests on freeways, California installed gates on freeway ramps to keep deranged protesters out.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 27, 2026 11:36 AM (diia5)

70 California installed gates?

How much per gate?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:36 AM (2GVsD)

71 *No Kings is uniting with No Dinosaurs and No Unicorns for a combined No Brains Rally this weekend.*

++++++++++

No yellow!

Posted by: H. Biden at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (2Ez/1)

72 As we saw in Butler, Secret Service agents have a hard time holstering their sidearm.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (2UnvF)

73 Nice. A lady just won a car on 'The Price is Right. Good for her. I hope it makes life easier for her.

If inflation is theft, I watch older episodes on PlutoTV and cars were $2000 US. Damn. Buy gold...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (Sco7b)

74 I remember the Scottish forest that was chopped down to put a solar farm on it and then a hail storm took out 85% of the solar panels.

Environmentalism is both a cult and a mental illness.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (xvV+O)

75 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (5bGGs)

76 One would think this would be a no-brainer:

Do not use ChapGPT or other LLMs to help with legal cases.

Because a person's life and liberty are at stake.

My daughter's firm refused to use AI for a long time, but finally caved. However, they've made it VERY clear that an actual attorney must check every cite and make sure everything is correct. I imagine a failure to do so that ended up embarrassing the company would be a firing offense.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

77 Moral of the story:

The left sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (5bGGs)

78 The last images of Renee Good were so creepy. Her face betrayed deep mental illness. The elitists at the top of the leftist pyramid are focused on grabbing all the money they can, but the vast majority of the leftist laity are weak-minded gibbering psychos with no coherent goals or principles. Some of the best people I have had the privilege of knowing in my life were leftist environmentalists (only one facet of their lives). I love them to this day and refuse to believe they would turn their backs on their environmentalism and love for animals due to changing political "winds".

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 27, 2026 11:38 AM (2ap+5)

79 I used to build those model planes and rockets out of balsa wood. If you built them right, they would fly quite impressively. If you built them wrong, all the dozens if not 100s of hours you spend building the thing went to shit because they would crash almost instantly. I had a few rockets blow up on the launching pad too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

80 > *No Kings is uniting with No Dinosaurs and No Unicorns for a combined No Brains Rally this weekend.*

++++++++++

No yellow!
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NO WIRE HANGERS!

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 11:38 AM (ZxPkt)

81 How much per gate?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:36 AM (2GVsD)

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1.8 billion per gate and it'll take ten years to install.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 27, 2026 11:39 AM (2UnvF)

82 51
‘ Since then, all evidence that whites were the first in the Americas or Polynesia has been buried’

I saw a video alleging a crossing from Europe to America thousands of years ago. It was based on the apparently identical too and weapon making methods used by both Stone Age Europeans and Stone Age Clovis people (red Indians).

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 27, 2026 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

83 The ABA is a marxist front group, amazingly enough.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 27, 2026 11:02 AM (yvk+0)

Jack Smith still holds his license to practice law. That mutherf*cker violated every possible statute, law and overall moral code........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:39 AM (5bGGs)

84 psst

Climate change is a scam
pass it on!

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 11:39 AM (ZxPkt)

85 Balsa wood? I thought that was used for model airplanes.

Posted by: dantesed at March 27, 2026 11:40 AM (Oy/m2)

86 Agenda 21 is a scam to hobble and impoverish the First World put forth by commies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:40 AM (2GVsD)

87 ----

NO WIRE HANGERS!
Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 11:38 AM (ZxPkt)

NO SHELVING!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:40 AM (5bGGs)

88 84 psst

Climate change is a scam
pass it on!

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 11:39 AM (ZxPkt)

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More importantly, it's getting in the way of new data centers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:40 AM (JmKZX)

89 Alternate title:

The Left Talks Like a Fag and Their Shit's All Retarded, Vol. MCMXXXVII

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:41 AM (5bGGs)

90 governments do stupid shit all the time
local example:

the city built a roundabout in front of a high school
problem is, the roundabout was too tight for school buses

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 11:42 AM (ZxPkt)

91 Today is World Theater Day?

The whole world is a stage full of idiots

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:42 AM (2GVsD)

92 There's speculation that LLM's could be "trained" in all things legal and do a pretty good job. Again, it depends on what sort of material they're fed for training. But if it was legit, and the LLM was fluent in the law as applied to the situation at hand, it might not be all that bad.

I still wouldn't trust it. Or a lawyer either.

*shrugs* Hope I never have to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 27, 2026 11:43 AM (AkEZC)

93
69 Speaking of post-modern idiocy...

@libsoftiktok 17m
In response to years of disruptive and violent protests on freeways, California installed gates on freeway ramps to keep deranged protesters out.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 27, 2026 11:36 AM

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Protestors can't figure out how to get past the gates? I forsee malfunctioning gates blocking traffic, unperturbed protestors, and contractors with friends in high places installing the gates.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 27, 2026 11:43 AM (mS8PE)

94 We can save these Dodo Birds by making Omelets!

Posted by: garrett at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (W7FsI)

95 92 There's speculation that LLM's could be "trained" in all things legal and do a pretty good job. Again, it depends on what sort of material they're fed for training. But if it was legit, and the LLM was fluent in the law as applied to the situation at hand, it might not be all that bad.

I still wouldn't trust it. Or a lawyer either.

*shrugs* Hope I never have to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 27, 2026 11:43 AM (AkEZC)

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They all STILL hallucinate things.

LLMs are not designed for unchecked, reliable work.

Something else may come along that can do it, but it's not the existing LLMs. They're designed to lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (JmKZX)

96 psst

Climate change is a scam
pass it on!

Posted by: Don Black at March 27, 2026 11:39 AM (ZxPkt)

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More importantly, it's getting in the way of new data centers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:40 AM (JmKZX)
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A 400-acre auto racing facility in PA (PittRace) was just sold to developers for a datacenter. Too bad. PittRace was a fun track to drive, really well developed and kept, and in a nice isolated area.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

97 Well over a decade ago some research was done and they found that Ducks Unlimited actually helped ducks and geese by arranging leases with farmers to keep marshy ponds in their farmland and so on. The rest of the groups basically did nothing but pay lobbyists to wine and dine politicians
Posted by: PaleRider at March 27, 2026 11:09 AM (+89TD)

FARMERS AND RANCHERS DON'T LIKE GOING TO THE GOOD RESTAURANTS!!! THIS MATTERS MORE THAN DUCKS!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (rbvCR)

98 Carbon sequestration farms
Balsa wood deforestation
Data centers altering the environment

Always go back to the German National Socialist Workers Party wanting to build the factory to build the People's Car.

The party sent out a guy to do an environmental survey of the proposed site. He writes a report detailing all the valuable flora and fauna that would be impacted.

He was shuffled off and the factory built anyway.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:46 AM (2GVsD)

99 You guys that had balls wood to make planes had it good. I made my own airplane designs out of egg cartons and meat packages. They flew pretty good. Won a few contests for distance in junior high.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 27, 2026 11:47 AM (xvV+O)

100 73 Nice. A lady just won a car on 'The Price is Right. Good for her. I hope it makes life easier for her.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 7 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 27, 2026 11:37 AM (Sco7b)

A lot of times people don’t get the car. You have to pay income tax on the value of the car right away. . Most people don’t have the money.

I have a friend who was involved with this kind of thing. Not a game show but same type of thing, charity car raffles, casino giveaways, etc. He said dealers make money on this. They’ll sell the car to the company running the charity at full price, buy the car from the winner at a discount, allowing the winner to pay taxes, then sell the car again at full price because it’s still a new car. Easiest $10k for a dealer to make, it’s just paperwork.

Posted by: Socks The Cat at March 27, 2026 11:47 AM (qAeYZ)

101 They're designed to lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (JmKZX)

They're not designed to lie. It's genuinely a weakness in the existing architecture.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 11:48 AM (45LId)

102 Kash Patel's email hacked by Iranian-linked hacking group, DOJ confirms

Top men.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 27, 2026 11:49 AM (abIsI)

103 You guys that had balls wood to make planes had it good. I made my own airplane designs out of egg cartons and meat packages. They flew pretty good. Won a few contests for distance in junior high.

You were the German guy in Flight of the Phoenix?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:49 AM (2GVsD)

104 Confiscate the assets of greentards to pay for the dismantling and disposal of every single "wind farm". Stuff the commie shits into the various parts of the windmill and dump the parts into the Marianas Trench.

Posted by: a modest proposal at March 27, 2026 11:49 AM (ULPxl)

105 Kash Patel's email hacked by Iranian-linked hacking group, DOJ confirms

Top men.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 27, 2026 11:49 AM (abIsI)

His password was Pa55w04d1!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (5bGGs)

106 101 They're designed to lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (JmKZX)

They're not designed to lie. It's genuinely a weakness in the existing architecture.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 11:48 AM (45LId)

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Systems are what they do.

LLMs have been public resources for more than 5 years, and things like systems for legal work are still hallucinating cases.

I don't think it's a weakness. I think it's what the systems are designed to do: provide answers even when there aren't any. Which means...to lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (JmKZX)

107 AI and ChatGPT are already being used by lawyers and law firms.

Only a fool would use it without having someone who knows what they are doing check it thoroughly. But AI does a very good job of pulling together materials, facts, and formats to create a "first draft." It's exceptionally good at taking piles of facts from piles of sources, and assembling them into a coherent summary.

AI is basically doing what a first-year lawyer or experienced paralegal would be doing before.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

108 Okay, it's passed 100... Is it true that the Republicans have agreed to a deal with the Dems to fund Homeland security but not ICE and Border Patrol ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (JOQH4)

109 And Jill Biden gets Secret Service protection that manages to shoot themselves in the leg.

Dude, stop playing with your pistol. Gun safety ya dig?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:51 AM (2GVsD)

110 Okay, it's passed 100... Is it true that the Republicans have agreed to a deal with the Dems to fund Homeland security but not ICE and Border Patrol ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (JOQH4)

The 100 comment rule is only in place for The Art Thread and weekend specialty threads, fyi.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:51 AM (5bGGs)

111 DNA of the Indians living in the Amazon forests reveals they are descended from New Guinea and Australia area. They didn't get to the Amazon by Land Bridge.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 27, 2026 11:27 AM (n17eQ)

This is not a complete comment. Some populations, and this includes some populations that are of extinct lineages, have marker genes of australasian populations, and those markers do not show in any other populations in the new world.
This was considered "possibly because as that population passed from Beringia after the Younger Dryas they left no trace" say because they migrated by boat down the West coast without settling on land where their remains could be found, and then managed to cross the Andes to get to the Amazon, but it now appears that the peopling of the New world goes back to either the Younger Dryas and possibly to the Boelling interstadial (warm period) prior and would have had to have been by boat.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (rbvCR)

112
The 100 comment rule is only in place for The Art Thread and weekend specialty threads, fyi.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:51 AM (5bGGs)

I didn't want to step on the thread

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JOQH4)

113 And Jill Biden gets Secret Service protection that manages to shoot themselves in the leg.

Dude, stop playing with your pistol. Gun safety ya dig?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:51 AM (2GVsD)

It's Jill.

He was OBVIOUSLY playing with his junk and accidentally misfired.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (5bGGs)

114 Current LLMs are very good at playing GIGO.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (2GVsD)

115 I have a crazy ass plan, but hear me out.

SoCal cities could put together a group of guys who are allowed to enforce traffic laws. They could arm them, and even provide them with vehicles and fancy sumptuary that denotes their status, and then they could roam around the highways patrolling for traffic violators. These staffers could be drawn from the existing payroll, with no extra cost.

I don't see a need for a gating system. Jus' sayin'.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (BI5O2)

116 108 Okay, it's passed 100... Is it true that the Republicans have agreed to a deal with the Dems to fund Homeland security but not ICE and Border Patrol ?
Posted by: It's me donna

It's what we do.

Posted by: GOP at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (abIsI)

117 And Jill Biden gets Secret Service protection that manages to shoot themselves in the leg.

Dude, stop playing with your pistol. Gun safety ya dig?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:51 AM (2GVsD)

Or else this was the equivalent of a trapped animal chewing off its own leg to escape.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (rbvCR)

118 108 Okay, it's passed 100... Is it true that the Republicans have agreed to a deal with the Dems to fund Homeland security but not ICE and Border Patrol ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (JOQH4)

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How many times must it be explained that ICE was funded and appropriated through 2028 by the OBBB?

There are some minor support functions, apparently, and some expanded spending (like some holding centers) that the GOP eyed that didn't get funded, but enforcement from OBBB is still around.

The shutdown wasn't about expanded ICE funding, though. It was about policy changes like masks and IDs and not being allowed near "sensitive" locations.

Did Democrats get any of those things?

No, they did not. So, why are people acting like the GOP caved?

Because Democrats declared victory and people believe them for some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JmKZX)

119 I despise the ABA and want it dead.
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Waterloo was catchy
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I always loved the ABA. Dr. J was the original Michael Jordan.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (Lo97M)

120 Does she still get introduced as Dr. Jill Biden?

Posted by: dantesed at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (Oy/m2)

121 HOLY S$$$!

I sent Friday feedback into Fox's Varney and Company under my nic 'ARiK' - and they showed it this morning!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)

122 The all-time OG of idiotic gun skills is that DEI black dude with FBI or something. He's giving a lecture about gun use and safety at a school.

He brags that "I'm the only one here with the skill to handle this gun."

He then cocks the gun and ... shoots himself in the foot. Not joking. It's all on video.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

123
I didn't want to step on the thread
Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JOQH4)

These threads are made for steppin.'

Posted by: Patsy Cline at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (5bGGs)

124 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JmKZX)

I know about ICE, but what about Border Patrol ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (JOQH4)

125 78
‘ refuse to believe they would turn their backs on their environmentalism and love for animals due to changing political "winds".’

That’s a triumph of Hope over Experience.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 27, 2026 11:54 AM (jbnUc)

126 Hell...we are deforesting here too. Drive into many rural areas in the northeast and you will see acres of solar panels where there was once forest and farmland.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (n9ltV)

127 Does she still get introduced as Dr. Jill Biden?
Posted by: dantesed
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Yes. But now they do the air quotes with their fingers when they say doctor.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (Lo97M)

128 Heyerdahl was attempting to prove that Polynesia could have been settled by "whites" then living in South America, who sailed on the prevailing easterly winds. Thus, he was going in the opposite direction to Polynesians populating S. America.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 27, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

There is some evidence that the Polynesians who settled Easter Island reached South America, because at the earliest level of habitation they have found Cana Lily and a few other plant remains only native to South America

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (rbvCR)

129 124 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JmKZX)

I know about ICE, but what about Border Patrol ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (JOQH4)

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Yes, BP was funded the same was as ICE in the OBBB.

This "victory lap" is Democrats acting like they never asked for anything they actually asked for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (JmKZX)

130 People forget Hillary Clinton's SoS protection detail, one getting into a gunfight at a McDonald's in Hawai'i.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (2GVsD)

131 These threads are made for steppin.'
Posted by: Patsy Cline at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (5bGGs)

Wrong singer.

Posted by: dantesed at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (Oy/m2)

132 Yes, BP was funded the same was as ICE in the OBBB.

This "victory lap" is Democrats acting like they never asked for anything they actually asked for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (JmKZX)

Okay... Hair fire put out

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:56 AM (JOQH4)

133 I sent Friday feedback into Fox's Varney and Company under my nic 'ARiK' - and they showed it this morning!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)

What was your feedback? Negative or positive?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 11:56 AM (OoFl2)

134 The shutdown wasn't about expanded ICE funding, though. It was about policy changes like masks and IDs and not being allowed near "sensitive" locations.

Did Democrats get any of those things?

No, they did not. So, why are people acting like the GOP caved?

Because Democrats declared victory and people believe them for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JmKZX)
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It was actually the Democraps who caved, assuming this deal goes through. You can tell by how desperately they moved the goalposts.

The shutdown was all about ICE and the changes you mentioned. Dums got none of that. So they are now pretending it was always about funding TSA at airports," and since they got that -- which the GOP wanted too -- they won. Pathetic, but sadly even some on our side will fall for it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

135 don't think it's a weakness. I think it's what the systems are designed to do: provide answers even when there aren't any. Which means...to lie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (JmKZX)

No. It's a weakness in an emergent technology. I tool around with LLM's in my spare time. It wasn't designed to lie or be wrong. Buggies weren't designed to be bumpy they were designed to get you from A to B. The ride had to be resolved as time went on.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 11:57 AM (45LId)

136 They’ll sell the car to the company running the charity at full price, buy the car from the winner at a discount, allowing the winner to pay taxes, then sell the car again at full price because it’s still a new car. Easiest $10k for a dealer to make, it’s just paperwork.

Posted by: Socks The Cat at March 27, 2026 11:47 AM (qAeYZ)

Thank you. I knew they had to pay taxes and a lot would take cash. As I recall Oprah's audience had issues after the big giveaway.

I'm surprised the government is that petty.

Canada's a shithole, but when you win the lottery here, it is tax free. HOWEVER, in keeping with our communist nature, they limit the jackpots.

The Lotto Max is capped at $80 million dollars. And they then have extra million dollar prizes so the money gets spread around. Still $80 million would still let you live in BC, Toronto or Montreal if you wanted.....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 8 of 14 at March 27, 2026 11:57 AM (Sco7b)

137 96 A 400-acre auto racing facility in PA (PittRace) was just sold to developers for a datacenter. Too bad. PittRace was a fun track to drive, really well developed and kept, and in a nice isolated area.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

As long as the Dirt Tracks in South-Central PA don't get sold off...

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 11:57 AM (uEmCf)

138 134 It was actually the Democraps who caved, assuming this deal goes through. You can tell by how desperately they moved the goalposts.

The shutdown was all about ICE and the changes you mentioned. Dums got none of that. So they are now pretending it was always about funding TSA at airports," and since they got that -- which the GOP wanted too -- they won. Pathetic, but sadly even some on our side will fall for it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

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It's a messaging battle that will last until this afternoon after which everyone will forget it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:57 AM (JmKZX)

139
Wrong singer.
Posted by: dantesed at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (Oy/m2)

I did it better...

https://youtu.be/qEn-_OvYcK4.....

Posted by: Patsy Cline at March 27, 2026 11:58 AM (5bGGs)

140 Wind farms are a bigger joke than solar. Solar costs more and requires more maintenance. Neither will give you the baseline power requirements we need.

Coal and gas. Wake the fuck up. The next generation is not building nuclear so they're stuck with what works. Or live in the dark.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 27, 2026 11:58 AM (Fbc0I)

141 Jennifer Lopez is not a whore.

https://tinyurl.com/4uymu62k

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 11:59 AM (aBoGB)

142 Patsy Cline at March 27, 2026 11:58 AM (5bGGs)

You do have a better voice.

Posted by: dantesed at March 27, 2026 11:59 AM (Oy/m2)

143 Jennifer Lopez is not a whore.

https://tinyurl.com/4uymu62k

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 11:59 AM (aBoGB)

Taco flavored kisses.......

Posted by: Patsy Cline at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (5bGGs)

144 118 Because Democrats declared victory and people believe them for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JmKZX)

And because the GOPe exist to be Gunt Guards for the Dems.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (uEmCf)

145 So much for that......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (5bGGs)

146 Because Democrats declared victory and people believe them for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JmKZX)

And because the GOPe exist to be Gunt Guards for the Dems.
Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (uEmCf)

Because we're all f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (5bGGs)

147 ABA accreditation is such a ridiculous joke.

It's literally "grease the right palms" and everyone knows it.

One time, I saw a law school up for re-accreditation.

They did goofy shit like polish all the wood railings, bannisters and steps.
So the whole school reeked of Lemon Pledge.

'Cause that's how you know it is too a reel skool of learing:
The wood is polished to a fine sheen.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (HXT0k)

148 @BillMelugin_57m

Because Senate Democrats didn’t end up accepting the Republican offer on DHS funding & negotiations fell apart yesterday,
Dems will get *zero* of the ICE reforms they had been demanding, including ones that GOP had already agreed to, like showing ID, increased Congressional oversight, agreements to not hit sensitive locations, etc.

These reforms were the reason Dems started the shutdown in the first place, and now instead of getting a few concessions on their demand list, they get none.

The only thing they secured was no funding for CBP & ICE, which are largely already funded via the OBBB, and Republicans will seek to fund them even further without Dem votes in reconciliation instead.

As for the Dem’s demand list on ICE reforms?

“That ship has sailed,” Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said this morning. “They kissed that opportunity goodbye by failing to provide funding for those agencies.”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (aBoGB)

149 AI is basically doing what a first-year lawyer or experienced paralegal would be doing before.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

Here's one of the interesting issues with this.

If AI is doing the work of first-year lawyers, journalists, etc, then you have a lot of people not getting the basic experience needed to do the higher level jobs that AI can't do yet.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 8 of 14 at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (Sco7b)

150 133 I sent Friday feedback into Fox's Varney and Company under my nic 'ARiK' - and they showed it this morning!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)

What was your feedback? Negative or positive?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 27, 2026 11:56 AM (OoFl2)

I would call it neutral. I suggested they do the 'Grammar Quiz' more frequently but Stu and Ashley kind of pooh-poohed it.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (QGaXH)

151 The left is like water under pressure and a submarine; it will always find ANY opportunity to enter where it doesn't belong, and then cause havoc.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Termites

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 27, 2026 12:01 PM (XeU6L)

152 144 118 Because Democrats declared victory and people believe them for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:52 AM (JmKZX)

And because the GOPe exist to be Gunt Guards for the Dems.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (uEmCf)

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And people can't take in new information, it seems.

Thune walked all over Democrats in the OBBB battle.

But that doesn't matter because McConnell sucked for a decade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:01 PM (JmKZX)

153 Jennifer Lopez is not a whore.

https://tinyurl.com/4uymu62k

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 11:59 AM (aBoGB)

She really is quite the ass. Heh.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at March 27, 2026 12:01 PM (5xuJ/)

154 A 400-acre auto racing facility in PA (PittRace) was just sold to developers for a datacenter. Too bad. PittRace was a fun track to drive, really well developed and kept, and in a nice isolated area.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

As long as the Dirt Tracks in South-Central PA don't get sold off...
Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 11:57 AM (uEmCf)
_____

Places like Williams Grove should be fine for now. They are much smaller facilities. The lure of the big, full-size racetracks for developers is they usually sit on 100s of acres of mostly empty but usable land and are already properly zoned for commercial use.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

155 As for the Dem’s demand list on ICE reforms?

“That ship has sailed,” Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said this morning. “They kissed that opportunity goodbye by failing to provide funding for those agencies.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (aBoGB)

Hey Thune... No thanks to you...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:01 PM (JOQH4)

156 They all STILL hallucinate things.

LLMs are not designed for unchecked, reliable work.

Something else may come along that can do it, but it's not the existing LLMs. They're designed to lie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:45 AM (JmKZX)

The human brain goes through a development period in which, during childhood and puberty, the brain prunes connections to help focus and control how it perceives and interacts with reality. This is evident during early language acquisition, and later learning as the individual matures. One of the theories of schizophrenia is that the pruning is short circuited or neglecte, which causes all sorts of misconnections leading to hallucinations and bad reality matching.
I wonder if LLMs have the same problem.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 12:02 PM (rbvCR)

157 155
Hey Thune... No thanks to you...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:01 PM (JOQH4)

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Why no thanks to him?

There were like 7 votes on amendments to reopen TSA et al WITH the policy changes, and Thune kept his senators in line enough to prevent any of the changes from getting through the Senate. Even at the peak of the whole "airports are nothing but lines" media attack.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:03 PM (JmKZX)

158 HAL 9000, Attorney at Law

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 12:03 PM (2GVsD)

159
“That ship has sailed,” Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said this morning. “They kissed that opportunity goodbye by failing to provide funding for those agencies.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (aBoGB)

Pass the SAVE Act, you nutless wonder. F*cking worthless GOP assholes........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:03 PM (5bGGs)

160 132 Yes, BP was funded the same was as ICE in the OBBB.

This "victory lap" is Democrats acting like they never asked for anything they actually asked for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (JmKZX)

Okay... Hair fire put out
Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 11:56 AM (JOQH4)

What really torques my nads is that The Daily Liberty is trumpeting this as a GOP "cave"....

What the fuck happened over there? Do conservative news aggregation sites always turn left?

I know, I answered my own question - everything does eventually.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (dmDsy)

161 Hell...we are deforesting here too. Drive into many rural areas in the northeast and you will see acres of solar panels where there was once forest and farmland.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 27, 2026 11:55 AM (n9ltV

Dude I have seen these atrocities on a small scale in Western NC. And I've seen them on a gigantic scale in KS. Though that's prairie getting wrecked instead of forests.

My mom & dad lived in a particularly beautiful little place for a long time. We went back a few years ago and she saw the panels: "what have they done," she said.

It's the modern strip mining.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (BI5O2)

162 Because Senate Democrats didn’t end up accepting the Republican offer on DHS funding & negotiations fell apart yesterday,
Dems will get *zero* of the ICE reforms they had been demanding, including ones that GOP had already agreed to, like showing ID, increased Congressional oversight, agreements to not hit sensitive locations, etc.

These reforms were the reason Dems started the shutdown in the first place, and now instead of getting a few concessions on their demand list, they get none.

The only thing they secured was no funding for CBP & ICE, which are largely already funded via the OBBB, and Republicans will seek to fund them even further without Dem votes in reconciliation instead.

As for the Dem’s demand list on ICE reforms?

“That ship has sailed,” Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said this morning. “They kissed that opportunity goodbye by failing to provide funding for those agencies.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 27, 2026 12:00 PM (aBoGB)
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Then why is Speaker Johnson and the WHIP reportedly hopping mad?

Posted by: WisRich at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (G0vdT)

163 I wonder if LLMs have the same problem.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 27, 2026 12:02 PM (rbvCR)

They are probability engines, they deal in math. Unfortunately the outputs aren't subject to an internal verification process because in the end it's just a very good guess as to what it should be saying. It's kind of like speaking without thinking. Sort of.

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (45LId)

164 What really torques my nads is that The Daily Liberty is trumpeting this as a GOP "cave"....

What the fuck happened over there? Do conservative news aggregation sites always turn left?

I know, I answered my own question - everything does eventually.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (dmDsy)

I've been noticing that as well.

What's up with that fat asianlooking dude that runs the place? He getting leftist money to go full Drudge?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:05 PM (5bGGs)

165 162
Then why is Speaker Johnson and the WHIP reportedly hopping mad?

Posted by: WisRich at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (G0vdT)

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They're making theater, blaming Democrats for not providing the expanded funding of ICE and BP that Republicans tried to get passed as a means of prepping the rhetorical battleground for the reconciliation push.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:06 PM (JmKZX)

166 Everything coming from the media is an op wrapped in lies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 12:06 PM (2GVsD)

167 Then why is Speaker Johnson and the WHIP reportedly hopping mad?
Posted by: WisRich at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (G0vdT)

B/c they have to vote again when they already passed the bill...and for theater to help get Dems votes they need to pass this (b/c remember, he doesn't have 218 right now)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 27, 2026 12:07 PM (tOcjL)

168 Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:04 PM (dmDsy)

I've been noticing that as well.

What's up with that fat asianlooking dude that runs the place? He getting leftist money to go full Drudge?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:05 PM (5bGGs)

YES!

That's fucking JD Rucker... he used to be a pretty reliable conservative, but lately, things have changed...

Thanks, man! I thought I was the only one seeing this!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:07 PM (dmDsy)

169 Everything coming from the media is an op wrapped in lies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 27, 2026 12:06 PM (2GVsD)

The media is the enemy of the people. Trump was right and they keep proving it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:07 PM (5bGGs)

170 >>>She really is quite the ass. Heh.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

>That is one thirsty woman. She feels it slipping away. I'd still do her, but would kick out onto the street after I'm finished.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 27, 2026 12:08 PM (Fbc0I)

171 They're making theater, blaming Democrats for not providing the expanded funding of ICE and BP that Republicans tried to get passed as a means of prepping the rhetorical battleground for the reconciliation push.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:06 PM (JmKZX)
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So they're pretending that they have to eat a sh*t sandwich.

Posted by: WisRich at March 27, 2026 12:08 PM (G0vdT)

172
Thanks, man! I thought I was the only one seeing this!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:07 PM (dmDsy)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:09 PM (5bGGs)

173 171 So they're pretending that they have to eat a sh*t sandwich.

Posted by: WisRich at March 27, 2026 12:08 PM (G0vdT)

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Everything that comes out of DC is theater without meaning except the wording of final bills.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (JmKZX)

174 Torqued nads?

Posted by: Owww at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (2Ez/1)

175 I'm pissed at Thune for his handling or mishandling of the SAVE Act

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (FtULh)

176 AI is basically doing what a first-year lawyer or experienced paralegal would be doing before.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at March 27, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)
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What are the first year lawyers going to do now?

Posted by: Black JEM at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (GZYu7)

177 Thanks, man! I thought I was the only one seeing this!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:07 PM (dmDsy)

*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:09 PM (5bGGs)

*Boom*

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 27, 2026 12:11 PM (dmDsy)

178
>That is one thirsty woman. She feels it slipping away. I'd still do her, but would kick out onto the street after I'm finished.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 27, 2026 12:08 PM (Fbc0I)

The best Lopez discussion......

https://youtu.be/MzV8wrnLfS4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:11 PM (5bGGs)

179 175 I'm pissed at Thune for his handling or mishandling of the SAVE Act

Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (FtULh)

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He's doing it the same way he dealt with the OBBB.

Will it pass?

I don't know, but we're not anywhere close to "it's over."

Probably has to do a long song and dance to make certain GOP senators happy that the process was followed correctly.

All we have is that they're in the middle of debate on amendments (well, they just went on recess, sort of) and implications that there are other paths that they could follow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (JmKZX)

180 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (5bGGs)

181 I'm pissed at Thune for his handling or mishandling of the SAVE Act
Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (FtULh)

Just handling; he did his job, which was to defeat the act. No malfeasance.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (BI5O2)

182 175 I'm pissed at Thune for his handling or mishandling of the SAVE Act
Posted by: It's me donna at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (FtULh)
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Especially the "we'll get it through reconciliation" failure theatre.

Posted by: WisRich at March 27, 2026 12:12 PM (G0vdT)

183 Since then, all evidence that whites were the first in the Americas or Polynesia has been buried
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The current controversy I'm seeing is a very obvious Roman individual bust/carving was found buried deep inside an undisturbed Central American tomb of some royalty.

And all the "first nations only and forever" assholes are all over trying to dismiss it.
Because Europeans with 2000+ year old tech were the first to ever sail across the Atlantic in 1492.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:13 PM (HXT0k)

184 176 What are the first year lawyers going to do now?
Posted by: Black JEM at March 27, 2026 12:10 PM (GZYu7)

Put the fries in the bag.

Posted by: XTC at March 27, 2026 12:13 PM (FpHTM)

185
Wind farms are a bigger joke than solar. Solar costs more and requires more maintenance. Neither will give you the baseline power requirements we need.

Coal and gas. Wake the fuck up. The next generation is not building nuclear so they're stuck with what works. Or live in the dark.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 27, 2026 11:58 AM (Fbc0I)

I've been listening to a lot of Sarah Paine's geopolitical/historical analysis on yootoob and she's quite good. However, she has two blind spots. First is an overreliance on the idea of foreign allies; and an absolute faith that alternative energy is the wave of the future. And since the Chinee are building most of the alt energy parts and equipment, she thinks that it's a harbinger of Chinese power in the near future.

What she doesn't get is that the Chinee aren't stupid enough to rebuild their whole domestic energy grid and expecting it to run on wind and solar. They're heavily investing in coal/nat gas power stations, like a sane country.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 27, 2026 12:13 PM (y9nCu)

186 Democrats won on the shutdown:

They forced ICE to withdraw from Toronto!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:18 PM (HXT0k)

187 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 27, 2026 12:18 PM (HXT0k

LOL

Posted by: ... at March 27, 2026 12:23 PM (45LId)

188 You cannot trust the GOPe. Nothing that passes at 3am is valid.

Posted by: TJ jackson at March 27, 2026 12:39 PM (bXvrr)

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