Awesome
Yeah, it’s a Limey Holiday, but I’m celebrating it today. Especially since we got completely jammed up for the last month with the World Cup instead of club soccer. So I’m gonna sit around and watch some today.I just doubt it will be as entertaining as the NFL was the last two days. Lots of great games, best of which was the Steelers comeback win on the day they honored Franco Harris. And that’s it for sports.
He just offered them a ride. The admin and the DC mayor says they’re welcome. Aren’t they welcome?
Unrelated to this.
Oh, these are related to his campaign. I thought they were related to his extracurricular activities. Jeez, Florida dodged a bullet here.
This should be bigger news. Because it’s starting to look like a lot more than random acts of vandalism.
I’m sure the Hunger Games analogies are right around the corner. Unfortunately he doesn’t look anything like President Snow. Also, those movies weren’t very good even though they had the first female lead in an action flick ever, according to the lead actress, lol.
This should be encouraged, not outlawed.
Why didn’t the employees tell him to fuck off? Because that’s how this stuff ends. By telling people to fuck off.
Some of these are just lovely. Enjoy.
How about fewer of these? Has it ever crossed their minds to leave people alone? Fortunately two of them do…unfortunately they’re not new laws, so the cops will still be able to selectively enforce them.
We did it! Suck it, everybody else.
Here’s a magical song. One of my favorites. And an underrated one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy fighting someone on the day designated for it.
Why not celebrate when you box up all the Christmas decorations… Morning, Sloopy… hope y’all are doing well and aren’t too cold today. We get rain this week hopefully… yay! (That isn’t sarcasm.. CA gets so damned little from Central to South every bit is welcome to me).
Ah, we don’t box up the decorations until after Epiphany. So today is about limeys fighting to me.
Me too… the joke just worked better that way. 😉
I’m sure it was those vile right-wing kulaks seeking to disrupt a Drag parade or something.
And I’m sure the FBI and whatever state agencies simply have too much on their plate censoring wrong think to look into anything petty like this. Sigh.
This one is a puzzle. Probably a small group of crazies. I hope this crap gets nipped in the bud.
Thanks for the link in yesterday’s article. 🤘🏻🎅🏻🤘🏻
She should be held up to the next ten generations as an example that actors don’t know what the hell they’re talking about and maybe getting your political opinions from people who are explicitly paid to pretend and lie in from of the camera isn’t the best of ideas and all….
As far as I can tell, no — not in the gorram slightest. Thanks for posting it – I should probably check over it to make sure I didn’t miss anything really fucking stupid that might affect me.
A man named Gloria?
I think we’ve got the alias that he’s been living under.
But we really don’t remember… was it something that he said? Or the voices in his head…..
IMHO, people who commit this sort of political correctness should be pointed to and laughed at whenever they appear in public.
Some stupid day I’ll learn to proofread my posts before clicking “Post Comment”. Dear Lord, I’m just pathetic some days. Sorry.
You’re fine and you have plenty of company. Me included.
Equal protection means that the black, whoops, Black, candidate for governor who committed crimes should receive the same treatment as the white candidate for governor who didn’t commit any crimes.
When you’re treated as special for years due to your skin color, being treated equally feels like racism. At least that’s my take when it comes to these politicians.
I suspect the motion was the equivalent of a Hail Mary.
I wonder who else should be prevented from purchasing cancer drugs from western pharma companies because of their ideology.
Kulaks and wreckers — we saw that masked ripped off with the whole “the unvaxed shouldn’t get any medical care!” this past year.
Or have jobs or be able to buy groceries…
So the gravy train ends in 2023?
Do “reports” have any indication who will replace him?
*Puts finger in the wind* Some other terrible person.
I totally believe all of that.
I know we should all take more time to be thankful for the modern infrastructure that affords us our lifestyles and comforts, but I kinda miss the days when you could just take for granted the fact that the power would stay on when the weather got cold.
I, for one, won’t be mocking northerners who lost power during a massive freeze even though they should be better equipped to deal with it than Texas. It was inappropriate then and it’s inappropriate now.
That wasn’t my intention, I just wish we didn’t have idiotic public policy that creates false scarcity and puts the comfort and safety of millions of people at risk precisely when energy is most needed.
When those making the policy view those millions as superfluous or parasitical….
Oh, I didn’t think it was your intention. I’m just referring to the clown who mocked Texas’s issues a couple years ago when we had a one in a thousand cold front.
I gotcha.
I may yet end up in Texas next year. I’m freezing my balls off with lows in the 20s and highs in the 50s. They better put in a fresh nuclear reactor for me.
^^^
I received several “urgent” texts and emails from my power company on Dec 24th telling me (and all of their customers) to immediately reduce power and leave it as low as possible through Christmas day. That the grid couldn’t handle the cold or power demands.
We usually get a few nights of single digit or low teen degrees in VA. Happens every year. I’ve never gotten a message like that before. I imagine that those who installed smart thermostats had their power forcibly reduced, but just conjecture on my end.
An outdoor wood furnace continues to move up in priority on my home improvements list.
I’ve been burning wood so far this winter. I’m glad my furnace is inside, I can bring in a day’s worth of heat at a time and not have to go back outside. I know the advantages of an outside furnace but they are heavy on consumption and here where the snow gets deep, a pain, unless the furnace and wood are in an enclosure. I never thought I would be this old either.
We could survive without electricity for a while but it wouldn’t be fun. This time of the year food an be stored outside
There are tradeoffs, but I think an outdoor furnace is the right call for me in more mild VA. The convenience of it being next to the wood pile outweigh the increased consumption and need to go outside. That would probably change though if we lived in the Midwest and regularly had deep snow or bitterly cold temperatures. The oil furnace is too expensive to use with oil at $6/gallon, so right now it would mainly be used as supplemental when the temps are too cold for the electric heat pump to operate efficiently.
I also like the idea of having a backup plan not reliant on external energy sources. Electricity, oil, and propane prices could quadruple and I could switch 100% over to the wood furnace. Even if it eats through cords, I have acres of forest to harvest from indefinitely.
I’ll probably have go on propane soon, as the snow gets deeper and slides off the woodshed. Last year the propane truck got stuck in my driveway and pissed the driver off something fierce. After he got out I had to get a bobcat to clean up the mess before he’d come back. I can keep the snow cleaned up but as it gets packed down I can drive through with my F150 but the big rear wheel drive couldn’t make it.
Meanwhile, in California, we’ve had five straight days of “Spare the Air” where it is illegal to have a fire in your fireplace, and your neighbors are encouraged to rat you out. $500 for the first offence, and it goes way up after that.
Next house will have a wood stove before next winter. And a cord of seasoned wood.
Meh, mocking people for where they live is sometimes a blood sport around here.
The Greenville, SC grid had a big fail on Friday night as the temperature was dropping through the teens. My wife and I went to a fancy restaurant to celebrate our anniversary and they had just lost power when we got there. Ended up getting into an Italian place on the other side of town.
The lights go out in Texas, TVA service area, the Northeast and California because utilities have pissed away $Billions on undependable wind and solar generation while shutting down reliable fossil and nuclear plants. On top of that, the Regime discourages mining, drilling and pipelines. There is no longer enough margin to meet unexpected conditions. This is going to get worse.
We in NY haven’t even begun to reckon with Cuomo’s nuke closures. I have a feeling they’re scrambling to hide the impact but that isn’t going to work forever.
Yes, shut down nukes and constrain fossil-fueled generation and the lights will eventually go out.
They should pass a law that regulates more outlets be installed…power problem solved bitches! *mic drop*
Good point. As everyone knows, electricity comes out of those little slots in the plastic plate on the wall. Just add more plastic plates with slots in them.
I wonder who Hochul will blame.
Cuomo is out of favor with the Party now.
So much this.
What pisses me off are the a-holes who describe this winter as “the worst EVAH” for obvious Climate Change OMG, when all it would take is 10 minutes of talking to locals who are older than 50 to realize that this shit has been much worse. And due to the constant fear mongering about this, we have another group of AssHoles who are running around blowing up power stations, which is getting people killed.
Had a furnace scare. The house was getting cold though the thermostat said heating was on. After an hour found a loose wire connector on the gas valve. The house is back to 68.
Some of these are just lovely. Enjoy.
Patriarch Pizzaball?
LOL they’re still going with that fiction?
Seeking asylum from lack of American benefits.
Meanwhile, the Democrats openly state that their crime policies are intended to put fewer minorities in jail and they all seem to be on board with this.
Doublethink really is a thing.
Addressing “structural racism” and “historical inequities” just so happens to require tearing down Western Civilization in favor of pseudo-socialist autocratic states where they can reign forever.
Just so happens.
Anyone gonna take one for the team?
Tl;dr: the author Voxsplains that jaywalking laws were foisted on us by the automobile industry in order to establish automobiles as the default mode of transportation and deprecate people who walk or ride bicycles. At $250 a ticket, the fines are abusive against minorities who are poor and can’t afford transportation. Also a black guy died after being tased during an altercation with police who were hassling him for jaywalking 4 years ago, and blacks are eleventy jillion times more likely to be stopped for jaywalking, so clearly jaywalking laws enforce white supremacy and police brutality. Governor Racisty McRacist vetoed a bill to decriminalize jaywalking on the flimsy pretense that its a public safety issue in a state with the 8th highest rate of pedestrian fatalities per 100k in the nation, but really it’s because he’s a racisty racist in the pocket of Big Auto. He is holding California back from joining such luminaries as Virginia and Nevada who have decriminalized jaywalking because he hates walkable, bikable, sustainable cities.
To be fair jaywalking is a stupid crime. If you happen to get hit by an automobile while doing it, well, the punishment is inherent in the act, isn’t it? No fault or charges for the driver and your silly ass gets to pay the medical bills out of your own pocket. No criminal charges required.
I’m not invested in sustaining jaywalking laws, it’s just the rationalizations they used are intechangeable with the rationalizations for any given progressive policy proposal.
Yep. The answer to every problem seems to be enacting socialism.
Problem is, the driver who hits a jaywalker is going to be sued for the pedestrian’s stupidity and likely prosecuted for a hate crime if the pedestrian is a Person of Grievance.
And also the author is a functional retard who uses “beg the question” when he meant “raise the question.”
Selected quotations:
“Gosh, I’d love to see more of this shithole as a pedestrian, where I can step on the needles and human filth myself”.
“The narrative of the driver reigning supreme over people who are not in cars”
Once again, physics is reduced to a narrative, subject to revision by Our Masters.
He with the most lug nuts wins.
What about those of us with centerlocks?
Mass always has the right of way
The laws of physics are greater than the laws of man.
Also, as a cyclist, quit trying to make this happen. For Christs sake, there is a huge reason that people use cars, it’s called convenience. And until you master that, bicycles are going to loose out to cars. Protip, it is never going to happen.
My dad taught me that when I was being groomed as a latchkey kid. You need to have that understanding when walking home at 5 years old from school.
Pretty much exactly what I expected.
There are kernels of truth in some of that but correlation != causation etc.
‘…is seen by some as a law that unfairly targets people based on race and economic status. The history of the law is more complicated than it may seem’
Pay no attention to the history of minimum wage and gun control laws behind that curtain!
and is seen by some as a law that unfairly targets people based on race and economic status.
Only retards see the actual law that way. People who are logical see the selective enforcement of the laws as racist or anti-poor. The law is colorblind. Cops using it as a pretext to harass people in search of finding something on them is the problem.
and is seen by some
Who are these anonymous “some”, and why are you editorializing by presenting their opinion as the gospel truth?
I do think this is a good law, basically allows crossing the street when cars aren’t around. Of course, that won’t be how it is used/abused. What they should do (and therefore won’t) is scrub all the laws about jaywalking off the books and install one other law in it’s place – it is illegal to cross the street when that crossing would impede traffic that has legal right-of-way. It is legal to cross when you aren’t impeding traffic or have legal right-of-way.
‘Orning ‘orldes — average day, didn’t get my ears boxed at least today.
LL could have been a total pain in the butt, but I got lucky and guessed the one out of 5 I could think of off the top of my head (with what I had left) that they wanted.
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Kamala when asked for comment on the arriving busloads said “are there no workhouses”?
“Can you plant pot on them so I can force them into labor camps?”
Speaking of electricity.
Electric rates for the coop where I live are going up 21% as of January 1st, and that’s without green mandates.
Saw that.
Germany spending 7% of its GDP to hide the cost of electricity from the people is just astonishing.
Of course not. Not when it’s all about buying votes, rewarding friends, and enriching oneself from the public trough. As long as the good times roll, there is no need to put any thought into it.
People in power think the worst that can happen to them is to live out of power – they never seem to contemplate the possibility of not living at all; and that is more and more looking like the result we are headed for.
The politicians that is. The bureaucrats writing and implanting regulations and policy can’t imagine themselves even getting fired.
When I lived in NYC, we used gas appliances with abandon, but kept close watch on our electricity usage; power being far more expensive than gas. Out here in the Western NY hinterlands, the opposite is the case. Gas fed furnace stays around 50 degrees and we have space heaters in select rooms. The resultant problem then being the household wiring; it was seemingly installed by the Little Rascals back in the late ’50s – early ’60s when grounded outlets were not required by code.
I do not miss being poor and cold up there one bit. Gas (and heat) was not included in the rent the way it almost universally is here.
Space heaters and bad wiring are a disaster waiting to happen…
The guidelines banned county employees from showing religious items on their video backgrounds, including Nativity sets, the crucifix, the Star of David and menorahs.
Sikh employees were forced to shave, right? No turbans or yarmulkes allowed either, right?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I just doubt it will be as entertaining as the NFL was the last two days.
I somehow managed to win the fantasy league semifinal. So there is that.
It’s cold af again this morning. I can feel the money leaving my wallet while the system is running.
The admin and the DC mayor says they’re welcome. Aren’t they welcome?
Yes but not in leftist’s neighborhoods.
RealClearMarkets top two headlines today:
A Panicky Fed Is Causing Unnecessary Recession Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
The Boundless Fatuity Informing the Silly Notion of Recession John Tamny, Forbes
Perfect case of the latter affirming the former. Hiltzik might actually be a bigger hack than Krugman.
“It is unknown if there are any motives or if this was a coordinated attack on the power systems,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement.
It’s the feds.
Solovey tells Ukrainian YouTube channel Odesa Film Studio that he’s “certain” Putin is getting specialized therapy that’s unavailable in Russia.
Uh huh.
“Died Suddenly” seems to have been going around last weekend. I am sorry their families had to spend Christmas in mourning.
UFC Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar dies at age 45
ABC News producer Dax Tejera dead at age 37
I did not know that Bonnar named his son after Forrest Griffin (who he had a famous fight with). Class.
Sheesh pro wrestlers die early enough as is.
The rules explicitly state that public showings of religious beliefs ‘may cause disruption to co-workers or members of the public that do not share that particular religion.’
You and your fellow snowflakes can go fuck yourselves.
Good morning, Sloop!
I hope you and the girls had a wonderful Christmas.
And I hope you give thanks for no longer being trapped in CA.
Have you ever manufactured anything? Ever read a single book from Hazlitt, Sowell or von Mises? Fools.
Time for some Happy Mondays.
If they are “substantially similar” then just buy the cheaper version. It’s not like a woman buying men’s shampoo is charged more.
Consumer preference needs to be stomped out /BernieBros
Don’t really wanna smell like the guy I’m fucking.
Seems legit.
Just a few finishing touches! Hope you and your loved ones are having a great Christmas Eve.
I don’t think Brandon should be on a ladder. And they are blocking the door.
I hope that’s not the door to the Presidential Shitter.
Isnt the Presidential Shitter where LBJ conducted most of the business of state ?
What’s with the bowl, anyway?
My thank you note to the host/hostess:
“Thanks so much, Jolienne and Warren,
The food was super, the friends great. We felt almost like Fletchers for a couple hours.
As you know your Dad and I go back 70 years.
Spearing fish out of season, drinking cheap whiskey, chasing deer and dears year ’round. It was good to have friends like the Fletcher boys growing up and even better now.
A few years ago your Dad, Russ and I were reminiscing, the way old people do. The Fletcher clan was shrinking, Russ’s family was getting smaller and my brothers were gone. We came to some sort of informal agreement, unsaid maybe, that we were brothers after all. Seems to have worked out well.
Thanks again for allowing us to share Christmas with you and your family”
That is odd. Maybe to hold a bunch of ornaments to prevent many trips up and down the ladder? Or perhaps just an air sickness bowl. That is weird.
If he were alone, I understand the bowl. He is not. Has a helper that supposedly is his wife who could pass on ornaments to him
Elections are a farce.
In regards to both counts, Thompson ruled the “Court DOES NOT find clear and convincing evidence of misconduct in violation” and confirmed the election of Hobbs. Lake enlisted a number of “expert” witnesses to testify, but it was not enough to reverse the outcome of the election.
Lake, who lost the election by some 17,000 votes, has not conceded, even after the ruling, and said she intends to appeal the case.
“My Election Case provided the world with evidence that proves our elections are run outside of the law,” she claimed. “This Judge did not rule in our favor. However, for the sake of restoring faith and honesty in our elections, I will appeal his ruling.”
Hahaha, Liddy – the son of G. Gordon, yeah, just another Republican squish!
Courts have let far more frivolous cases go without sanctions, which are almost never imposed. If they sanction Lake’s lawyers, to me that will be a sign that the fix was (and remains) in.
Regardless, courts are simply not capable of fixing a botched or stolen election, at least not as things currently stand. While it’s possible to imagine that a court would order a do-over when state election law is violated (as it was in Maricopa County), it is crystal clear that they will not do so. I have no idea what level of malfeasance would motivate a court to intervene, but I can only imagine that it would be borderline criminal activity which could not be proven up in the short time available.
Just rubbing it in for spite.
Correct. That ship sailed when PA courts themselves unconstitutionally changed their election laws because plague.
I voted this year against my better judgement but I think I’ve had enough of this shit.
Yep. If I am still in Nevada (heaven forbid) in next election all federal offices will be marked none of these choices.
Oh he can ask for sanctions but he isn’t likely to get them. I’m just amused how Republicans are Schrodingers politicians for so many around here. Curious how these systemic problems seem to only apply to some candidates.
I’d argue it’s easier to commit fraud in places that vote 90% one way, since the extra votes are less likely to be noticed.
And we know there’s been fraud in those areas for ages.
Is Philadelphia Democratic because of fraud or does it have fraud because it is run by Democrats? Or, are Philadelphia voters just stupid? Instead of just both, is it all three?
FFS, we’ve got hard evidence that the agencies are directly colluding with Big Tech to censor and propagandize the public.
We’ve got hard evidence that the FBI is manufacturing intelligence to mislead Congress.
We’ve got hard evidence that the Biden family crime syndicate was selling influence and is completely compromised.
Why wouldn’t they be fixing elections? The entire enterprise is corrupt from top to bottom. Elections are the last thing they would want to leave to chance.
The fix was shown to be in as soon as the admitted that they didn’t have counts from each polling location.
And yet Lake is the only Republican arguing about the election? Did other Republicans win, or if they lost, why aren’t they joining her suit?
why aren’t they joining her suit?
Lack of testicular fortitude.
Or maybe they won when she didn’t – like in GA with Walker vis-a-vis the others on the ballot.
Boxing Day?
Reminds me that my ex wasnt much of a wrestler, but you shoulda seen her box!
Rimshot.
Liquor? I barely know ‘er!
Send the troops back in
Three major international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) announced on Sunday that they are halting their work in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s announcement that it is prohibiting women from working for these types of organizations.
Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE International said in a joint release that they are demanding both men and women be allowed to continue participating in their “lifesaving assistance” in Afghanistan. They said they will suspend their programs there while they gain “clarity” on the announcement.
“We cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without our female staff,” they said. “Without women driving our response, we would not have jointly reached millions of Afghans in need since August 2021.”
The NGOs said the Taliban’s decision will also affect thousands of jobs as the county is in the midst of an economic crisis.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the Taliban’s prohibition on women working for NGOs could be “devastating” and disrupt “vital and life-saving assistance” to millions of people.
The Taliban has said that it established the ban in response to “serious complaints” about women who worked for NGOs wearing their hijab, the Islamic headscarf, improperly.
Ours is the right kind of cultural imperialism. How dare they resist?
It isn’t appropriation when you are shoving it down their throats!
The Taliban’s higher education minister said he believed the ban was necessary to prevent the mixing of genders at universities and because he believed some subjects being taught violated Islamic principles.
I’m sure they do.
Their country, their rules,
We gave it back to them fair and square
How quaint.
A Panicky Fed Is Causing Unnecessary Recession Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Now there’s a guy who can get his Shrieking Retard on.
At least in Cali we will have lawsuit over lawsuit to determine how to to define “different price for any two goods that are substantially similar”
How are businesses now supposed to communicate their hatred of women if not through pricing?!
Auction the stuff off.
Mammary Monday sez show bobs and vagene.
https://archive.ph/LBKQN
A belated Christmas story by someone who should be Minnesoda’s favorite story teller. Not that hack Garrison Keillor.
I heard a Montana official on tv praising the cowboys who are out feeding their cattle in the deep snow. If you live in NYC, and are enjoying beef this holiday season, I’m sure you believe those cowboys are doing it because they love you and your politics so much. See, fly over country is good for something – – – at least for now.
No worries. Beef will soon be illegal becuz bad weather so we’ll all be eating bugs anyway.
Whiskey dick.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/10857108/10-men-one-night-swinger/
You suck a whiskey dick,
You suck a vodka dick
as someone terminally single, I can;t understand why some people stay together
Xuefei Yang plays “Eterna Saudade”Another Spanish/classical guitar piece.
And another by a female Asian guitarist…Autumn Leaves by Yenne Lee.
Last night, during my sleep mode malfunction, I turned on the teevee in the bedroom just in time to catch “The Ransom of Red Chief”.
Awesome deadpan humor.
Fake news.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/sexperts-top-tips-best-orgasms-28771132
Best orgasms ever = cabergoline + oxytocin + bremelanotide. Near fatal.
Further for doods: clomiphene + lecithin + l-arginine + pygeum + l-carnitine + zinc = disconcerting amounts of semen.
I am going to nibble…. How would you get clomiphene? Because the rest is true.
Certain people might tell you to go to http://www.reliablerxpharmacy.com . I certainly wouldn’t, but some people might.
Those people would have issues….
Where would uncertain people tell you to go?
http://www.google.com ?
I would have thought https://www.ask.com/
Sadly it is no longer Ask Jeeves
never knew a Jeeves
Pity, Pie. You strike me as a man who deserves his own Jeeves.
ahem I actually read 4 of the books
Then you are clearly a man of refinement and discerning taste. My mother loved reading Wodehouse. I should pick some up for some light winter reading fare.
l-arginine – I though arginine was poorly absorbed. That is why in fitness citrulline is supplemented, better absorbed and covered to arginine by the body, you just need 45 minutes for that
Why not both?
because it is pissing money
I wonder how many marriage proposals Caroline Ellison has had so far.
She may not be conventionally attractive but she has a certain willing-to-let-you-violently-penetrate-her-with-the-empty-cheap-bottle-of-tequila-you-pounded-while-playing-Russian-roulette-with-her-morbidly-obese-yet-beautiful-friend-videotaping-and-masturbating-on-a-faux-fur-hat.
She’s also gross and morally bankrupt; some people’s perfect type.
*hurk*
that is weirdly specific. is there anything we need to know about your past Q?
That reads that craigslist/FB marketplace/garage sales can fall under this “pink tax” law.
Sorry in advance.
Lol…now where is my barf bucket
You should be.
Now go to your room.
I’m sure he went to his bunk right after posting that link.
For you.
Gah!
I suspect that photoshop is being very, very kind to Nancy.
(b) A person, firm, partnership, company, corporation, or business shall not charge a different price for any two goods that are substantially similar if those goods are priced differently based on the gender of the individuals for whom the goods are marketed and intended.
Now do airline seat pricing.
There is a reason memes like this exist
https://external-preview.redd.it/zV60yc_BR4RtsqQjqSmoOmPiZbS6Ivx-iaBQ8eudfTM.jpg?auto=webp&s=957a6e759940b65e77c3b2fd9c11247358370e5b
that meme is bullshit
“Lie” is an ugly word
It all started with philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein, who explains that he received a refusal from ChatGPT after asking it a question about fossil fuels.
“Alarm: ChatGPT by @OpenAI now *expressly prohibits arguments for fossil fuels*. (It used to offer them.),” Epstein wrote on Twitter on December 24. “Not only that, it excludes nuclear energy from its counter-suggestions. @sama, what is the reason for this policy?”
Epstein posted his question to ChatGPT and the response he received when he asked: “Write a 10 paragraph argument for using more fossil fuels to increase human happiness.”
“I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against my programming to generate content that promotes the use of fossil fuels,” ChatGPT responded to Epstein, according to a screenshot posted by the philosopher. “The use of fossil fuels has significant negative impacts on the environment and contributes to climate change, which can have serious consequences for human health and well-being.”
This message and the philosopher’s response immediately led to Musk’s reaction, who took this opportunity to warn against certain dangers linked to AI.
“There is great danger in training an AI to lie,” the billionaire commented.
It’s not a lie, it’s more like a carefully curated version of the truth. All you have to do is completely discount the benefits and imagineer the costs.
The whole point is to determine the answer you want to produce and then reverse engineer the logic.
MEGA economic consequences. Like what exactly?
Prosperity?
The punchline is that the “AI” is actually just a selection of WaPo reporters.
WaPo reporters wouldn’t pass a Turing test.
The NYP article ends with some line about Putin falling in his home and defecating himself. Reads like propaganda to me, too good to be true and a line that hits way too close to home as I’d wager that whatever state Putin is in it is far more likely to happen to Biden.
Oh, and I’d also wager that the Washington power stations were attacked by environmentalist nutjobs and the story will be memory holed once the clueless fucks running the investigation realize that inconvenient fact.
I’m going with Antifa. Not much of a difference, but since we’re speculating…
The NYP totally has an inside source in Putin’s household. Howcome you no believe that?
as someone terminally single, I can;t understand why some people stay together
Same here I can’t comprehend the desperate need for companionship a lot of people have; desperate unto self-destructive.
Been with the wife for 46 years.
Love is Like Oxygen,You get too much, you get too high,Not enough and you’re gonna die.
Been with the wife for 46 years.
Congrats! 28 years and counting here. A good trip so far.
thanks
Nice work. 31 for us on Wednesday.
Goes fast.
Goes fast. Seems like forever. Time dilation at its best.
Yes it does
MEGA economic consequences. Like what exactly?
The Industrial revolution, dude. It was a death warrant for the planet.
The NYP totally has an inside source in Putin’s household. Howcome you no believe that?
The reporter’s sister gets her hair done by a lady who lives in the same building as a guy who went to school with Putin;s gardener’s niece. It’s indisputable.
“Sources familiar with Putin’s blood chemistry”.
Thank you Simone.
Been with the wife for 46 years.
My parents were married for 70. I didn’t get that “nesting” gene.
Out kids have not exactly followed in our footsteps.
Brother 1 — divorced, now single
Brother 2 — divorced from 2 different women, currently married to a man. Maybe settled down at this point.
Sister — divorced, now single
Brother 3 — divorced, now single
I am the only one of my parent’s kids to follow in their footsteps (they are currently at 65 years and counting).
I attribute my success to being pretty boring.
Ouch. Boring has its advantages. / checks mirror.
Boring is lovely and underrated.
Only 20 years for me and Mr Mojeaux.
TPBT. The scheduled post has not been posted.
They have Christmas duties, too. Also, other interests , like Tundra with his Fools Gold.
Sweet!
The Only One I Know
Being old has its advantages.
Grocery shopping has become challenging lately. My go-to store for most staples, Shop-Rite, is is having big troubles with their dairy supplier. Eggs, when they last had them, were $5.99 for a dozen large. Today there are no eggs of any size at any price. Fortunately there is a Whole Foods up the road with large brown eggs @3.99/doz. I never imagined going to that store to find bargains.
Check out Sprouts if you have any near you. Plenty of eggs.
We get ours from a local ranch, so that’s usually an option.
Nearest Sprouts is 65 miles. Thanks for the tip, though 😊
This may yield a source closer!
Thanks! Two Miller’s within 10 minutes.
Ramen is still cheap. Take it with vitamins.
And yeah , I know, real food costs prices. Ordered a pizza the other day.
Scary
Josh Kaplan was driving his Tesla Model X on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles last month when he saw a vehicle ahead of him had suddenly stopped.
“I noticed a car facing left against the barrier despite the road veering to the right,” he told Insider.
He realised that vehicle was also a Tesla, and had smoke coming from it. “In the time it took me to call 911, it caught fire. Kind of looked like sparklers going off,” Kaplan said.
He got out and spoke to the driver of the crashed Tesla, who was not injured in the incident. The driver told Kaplan he had his 2018 Model X in Autopilot but “it suddenly veered hard to the left and stopped against the wall.”
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Kaplan quipped that Tesla should advertise Autopilot as “the scariest ride you’ll ever take.”
The guy talks about how flaky his “autopilot” is, but apparently it’s not unpredictably terrifying enough to keep him from using it.
Define “American interests.”
Continuing our support for Ukraine is morally right, but it is not only that. It is also a direct investment in cold, hard, American interests.
I really despise the federal government and the lizard-person cuntes that operate it.
Why do you hate Raytheon?
It is in America’s interest to not have Putin steal another election.
“This means that if you’re driving, and the computer crashes, which it has done multiple times, you are left with a blank screen – and no way to know what your car is doing.”
You could try looking out the window.
McConnell is funneling funds for Ukraine into cutting edge research that will give him a chin.
Speaking of lizard-people.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul on winter storm: “It’s very clear to me that the effects of climate change are wreaking havoc everywhere.”
There were no storms of any kind in any season before the industrial revolution.
“Beep. Boop.”
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul on winter storm
The fact that she could get re-elected is incontrovertible proof the American Experiment has failed.
A rotting sperm whale corpse should out poll her by millions of votes.