Amidst this Jaguar selling 49 cars in Europe, I finally got around to watching the ad. Originally I saw there were 6 rejects from the last casting call for Zoolander in the thumbnail and just assumed what everyone was complaining about was valid. Now that I watched it two thoughts come to mind:
- I’ve never been happier that Sean Connery is dead
- If they’re trying to sell me a car, shouldn’t there be a car in the ad?
I admit I am no marketing genius. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ One would think if you were going to sell me something perhaps that something should be in the ad? Back in the day, you can make gay commercials and I would still know what they’re selling. Like this one.
¡Enlaces!
They’re doing the beheading thing to excite the Mayan gods, again.
Who comes up with these hurricane names?
This is reasonable. Quit dropping your space junk in their country.
Alternate headline: The Orange Man brings US-Cuba policy back to normal.
So we all see the Alcatraz thing was a ruse to distract the media while The Orange Man builds a camp in gator country, right? Will the media learn from this?
Let me get this straight, telling Argentina’s AnCap president he cannot nationalize an oil company that was nationalized by the previous president is somehow an L? Would he not want it to be private?
The Eagles suck, man.
Ha! First!
Firsting yourself will make you go blind!
Ya’ll keep on saying that
Only if you manage to climax from it…
Who said that?
Who said that?
Well for one, Jarflax.
“Hey Dad, I’m over here!”
First? Meh. One is the loneliest number.
Take sixty nine, now. Sixty ninething is where its at.
“Control of YPF is important for Milei; that’s why an appeal is the only option for him,” he added.
Paying up and losing the controlling stake in YPF — which has become a pillar of the economy — would cripple Argentina at a crucial moment for Milei’s government.
Isn’t that the point?
In 2024, YPF notched a net profit of almost $2.4 billion, up from a $1.3 billion loss the year before.
We can’t have that.
Is the site (WordPress) auto numbering comments?
“Copy nothing.” LOL Pretty sure that scene is a ripoff of pretty much every alien planet from the original Star Trek.
(Okay, the comment numbers are gone now.)
I haven’t seen comment numbers here in ages.
Sad it doesn’t number sub comments …
It’s been randomly switching formatting all day. The numbered comments is the benign form. The ugly one puts all the text and boxes in a narrow stack down the center of the page.
Thanks for the sanity check, folks. This has been reported to WebDom as a low-priority issue.
Noted the ugly version too.
“They’re doing the beheading thing again”
If heartless bodies start showing up that’s the time to start really worrying.
“If heartless bodies start showing up…”
You mean conservatives? /shitlib
No I was thinking of someone trying to revive Aztec holy rituals.
“Starship rockets use a relatively new propellant – liquid methane.
See, there’s a grift angle here. They can claim that the spilled methane is the reason that Mexico is hot in the summer.
Pretty sure humans have been burning methane, aka natural gas, for a while. The liquid part is just a red herring and contrived hysterical bullshit. That’s like a New Guinea tribesman freaking out over that dangerous “solid water” or the steam from a teakettle.
Oh sure, it’s safe unless you are a canary in a coal mine!
Oh yes the environmental damage caused by introducing those toxic products of burning methane into our pristine atmosphere: CO2 and H20
Citizen, you need to support the efforts to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
“They’re doing the beheading thing to excite the Mayan gods, again.”
These are the people the Dems are fighting tooth and nail to not deport.
Doing the beheadings that Americans just won’t do.
I’ve been getting a bit more willing to try as they continue to destroy everything I value.
A lot of these headless victims end up being local politicians.
The Mayan gods discredited themselves in 2012.
I thought they were in a Rush to get to 2112?
Hurricane Flossie, followed by Hurricane Winifred, followed by Hurricane Herkamer.
SpaceX also said there were “no hazards to the surrounding area” from the rocket debris. “Previous independent tests conducted on materials inside Starship, including toxicity analyses, confirm they pose no chemical, biological, or toxicological risks.
I guess the State of California didn’t run those tests.
Speaking of wealth and success…
I watched this last night: 1968 BBC profile of Colin Chapman.
It’s pretty good, but the interviewer keeps asking Chapman how it feels to have “made it” and how being a millionaire has changed his life. Chapman obviously finds this baffling. Because, I believe, those are not end goals but incidental byproducts of an ongoing process. He plainly has never contemplated declaring victory and walking away from any of it.
“Despite SpaceX’s attempts to recover the anomaly related debris, which is and remains the tangible property of SpaceX, these attempts have been hindered by unauthorised parties trespassing on private property,” the X account wrote. It did not clarify who these parties were or where they were “trespassing”.
Scavengers looking for recyclable materials.
Also, souvenir-hunters. There is a significant collector market for space related stuff, some of it surprisingly trivial; like a NASCAR fan buying a raced lugnut.
Lugnut of color, shitlord.
Also, fonts have changed and the Reply and Submit Comment buttons are now jumbo sized. The squirrels will have their revenge…
That’s what’s so clever about it! That they’re not talking about the pants!
“I’ve never been happier that Sean Connery is dead”
At least we still have Lou Reed.
Yash. Jusht the way his mother likesh it.
“The environmental impacts that we’re most concerned about include climate and the ozone hole,” Eloise Marais, atmospheric chemist at the Department of Geography at University College London, told Al Jazeera.
No way.
Man, things must be tough in the Armageddon sales department if they’re trotting out the ozone hole again.
“Don’t run in a straight line. Run like this,” Trump said, as he moved his hand in a zigzag motion. “And you know what? Your chances go up about 1%.” Alligator experts suggest it is better to dash in one direction in the rare situation when the reptile gives chase, according to a website run by the University of Florida.
The AP just can’t help themselves — they had to “fact check” the oft-repeated advice that you move zig when getting chased by a gator.
Run Serpentine!
That’s how the pythons are doing so well.
Serpentine, Shel!
I feel like that was on Mythbusters.
Trump (probably): They proved it was true on Mythbusters. You know that show? They proved the moon landing. Unbelievable, nobody’s seen anything like it. That Jamie guy, hell of a guy Jamie. Always wears a beret.
More Trump: And Carrie. Don’t forget about her. I’d like to bust some of her myths, you know what I mean?
But is that because people are clumsy or because gators can’t corner? I mean, we’re talking a 1% improvement here!
Gators are ambush predators. They’re not going to chase you more than a few steps. Hence, better just to make some distance instead of fucking around trying to run a zig-zag pattern.
EvilSheldon:
I was making a joke on the claim of 1% more than gator survival. Archer taught me to deal with those.
Will Trump’s pernicious lies never end??
AI is coming for your job
Well, yeah. We’ve been asked to train it too.
Color me skeptical
I don’t know what the issue is with xwitter links and the a tag.
https://x.com/the_trshmnstr/status/1940147416537129386
I was convinced AI would be doing the entirety of not just my job, but the jobs of about 100 other people when I got hired at my current company. And then I saw how our chat bot handles online conversations without human intervention…
And? It does well or poorly? I am asking because my son has one that does cold calls and most people cant tell it is an AI
Ours is awful. 8 times out of 10 all it does is fuck up and frustrate people so that when a human takes over they’re dealing with a pre-pissed off customer. It can’t figure out context worth a shit ,so it’ll do things like ask people for their VIN and preferred date and time for a service appointment at an auto dealership 3 or 4 times when the person is asking about purchasing a vehicle. Or collect contact information for people that we would automatically disqualify as leads based on context.
From my experience, the LLMs are very good at very constrained situations. Notification calls, confirmation calls, standard changes/orders, and the like. It is absolutely terrible at anything requiring context, adaptability, or non-standard.
At least one clever pol is finding a way to cash in on the new invader processing facility:
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who first suggested building the $450 million-per-year facility at a small airport in the middle of the Everglades, garnered praise from conservative leaders around the country for the project.
Now that construction is done, he’s selling merchandise.
Uthmeier announced his Alligator Alcatraz products Tuesday, just hours before President Donald Trump landed in Florida to tour the facility.
I’m as bitter, cynical, and misanthropic as the next guy, and even I think this may be in questionable taste.
So should I get a t-shirt, or a hat?
Go for the gator-skin cowboy boots.
More likely, vaquero-skin gator boots.
⬅️
A small airport in the middle of the ‘Glades?
Can you say CIA and the Bay of Pigs?
Released this month in 1983.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tkBivvXwEWM
A under appreciated album by Bauhaus.
Fuck Mexico, why dont they quit polluting the Tijuana river and the entire south end of beaches from Coronado south,
Pigs
Tomorrow is the closing on the house at 1pm. I told my mom I would meet her there. She asked me why.
Why.
I told her I’d be there cloaked in schadenfreude.
🤞
Schadenfreude: the new cologne by Karl Lagerfeld. 🫸 🫷
“To make sure your raging cunt of a sister doesn’t come up with a way to fuck everybody” probably wouldn’t have been diplomatic.
I am prohibited from saying “cunt” in front of her, so I say “stupid” instead.
Mojeaux will be singing “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye”.
Further speaking of wealth & success: Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!
Well, if Bonilla had just taken the $6 million owed him, and put it in the s&p , he’d have over $42 million today, not counting 25 years of dividends.
Tomorrow is the closing on the house at 1pm.
Have the aunts been eradicated?
So, Susie finally found something to buy within the geographic boundaries of her congregation, which was what she wanted. But get this—it’s a duplex. Not, like, the WHOLE duplex, where she can rent out one side, but HALF the duplex.
SMH.
“Semi-detached.”
Ask Spain how the lack consistent power to stabilize the grid worked out.
The Renewable-Energy Sector’s Relative Winners and Losers in the Megabill
Shorter that idiot: “Muh graft.”
“Ten years from now we could look back on this moment as the time in which the U.S. pulled back and essentially lost the transition to clean energy.”
Or not.
Let’s wait for something self-sustaining.
I mean the entire earth was destroyed by a lack of clean energy 10 years ago, so I don’t see why we would even bother.
Come on. You know which way that is going to break.
GOP Sen. Murkowski cast crucial vote for Trump’s megabill after getting key carveout
Lisa is a more reliable vote, sadly.
Yeah, pay her off and line her pockets and she’ll vote for anything, sure as the sun comes up.
And once again Senator Paul grandstands.
Shorter NPR, people will die.
Farewell to USAID: Reflections on the agency that President Trump dismantled
NPR interviewed four former high level officials within USAID, including previous heads of the agency during both Democratic and Republican administrations, to reflect on this milestone event: Atul Gawande, Dean Karlan, Andrew Natsios and Susan Reichle.
Reichle says that the reorganization amounts to “an absolute train wreck” and Natsios calls it “an abomination.”
In addition, they all expressed concern that the State Department is not equipped to manage what’s left of the agency’s programming and staff.
While I didn’t vote for the fuckery that is Trump’s spending bill, I did vote for agency reorganizations that swampers say are “an absolute train wreck” and Natsios calls it “an abomination.”
I suppose it would be gauche to ask them to cite which article and section of the constitution authorizes the state department to dole out money to activist groups in foreign countries.
I am just curious…do the plants that make solar panels run on the energy produced by solar panels? How about windmill factories?
Hmmm. Wonder how she feels about Ukraine. Who I’d be willing to bet is receiving far more foreign assistance.
‘Lucrative’ business deals help sustain Israel’s Gaza campaign, UN expert says
WW XXIV or whatever we’re up to now can only be touched off by pissing off pre-nuclear goat fuckers who even the Saudis can’t stand. Dragging ourselves into a territorial dispute with the only competitive nuclear military force on the planet to ensure continued access by our political royalty to one of the most corrupt regimes on the planet is the good kind of armageddon.
Paywalled. Sad!
Young women and their fake jobs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P63oXaR3aug
bullshit jobs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdDB10usZg
goons, flunkies, taskmasters, box checkers, and duct tapers
I deftly straddle the line between goon and taskmaster at my primary wage job.
Fantastic drive to Buchanan, MI. Northern Indiana is what rural England would look like if they had *space.* Enough rolling hills, forests abound, and little houses surrounded by (slightly rolling) farmland.
And nothing like Montana, but a pretty big sky. Weather always seems to treat me nice on these day-drives. Lovely, happy clouds today.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/upenn-surrenders-trump-big-win-women-will-strip/
#winning
Waiting for the tears…
😁👍
I read “big women will strip”
*pages Tres*
That is a big deal. Long overdue. That it happened in the first place will be a mark of shame on everyone that had anything to do with it.
I hope Thomas has to leave the country and go into hiding.
“women-will-strip”
😳
Sounds like the same terms that have been demanded of… I forget whom. Some school in California? Probably all of them.
This school might be the first to submit.
Not a terrible outcome in light of the way things are, but in Pat’s libertopia, it would be entirely up to the privately-funded, or (grudgingly, due to federalism) state-funded UPenn to make that decision based on its own interests and its free association with other schools in whatever equally-private collegiate athletic association it chose to join. In the same way that I don’t think the government needs to concern itself with sports leagues’ rules on performance enhancing drugs or other competition rules. If there’s a market for roided up baseball players with heads the size of a beach ball knocking 800 foot home runs out of the park every night, let somebody cater to it. Similarly, if there’s a market for dudes with fully intact male genitalia who went on HRT last week to kick the shit out of biological women in any number of sporting events, let that flower bloom.
Sure, if the biological women are fully on board with that. I’m not seeing a lot of evidence for that.
Some segment of them are so mind-fucked that they’ll go along with it for social clout, but I sincerely doubt there’s any major constituency for it, which is why in Pat’s libertopia this would be a largely self-correcting problem.
UPenn surrenders to reality.
Now let’s hope other unis and high school interscholastic organizations get the hint and start doing it to all the other Pretenders who made a mockery of women and girls sports.
Can somebody explain the attraction to the pouty puffy lip look?
British teenager ‘tortured into smuggling drugs to Georgia’
I find it grotesque personally, but to venture a guess, I’d say it’s the “supernormal stimuli” phenomenon. Monkey brain associates it with blowjobs. Same reason triple D boobs and 9″ cocks are the norm in porn.
Quick way to suck in their cheeks and perk their eyebrows.
A way for chicks to slender their face for the camera. The puffy lips add further size juxtaposition.
I think the resulting face is .. unflattering. Unless you’re already hot. Then, ya already had my attention.
Suck-sucky lips are obvious.
“I’m easy!.. If you’re 6-6-6.”
OMG!
DOJ looking at denaturalization for American citizens convicted of certain crimes
Oh… never mind.
Turns out prosecutorial discretion can be used for selective enforcement of the laws you hate just as much as the laws you love.
If only people on both sides realized that every time a new crime is legislated.
Dude was in the wrong place at the wrong time trying to score. His life is fucked because of an offhand comment. However he was figuratively speaking the truth.
I’m assuming the puff piece is him trying to find a job.
An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life
https://archive.fo/pfNJ9
Yeah, that’s the gist of it. NYT being NYT wants to akshually the whole thing as if the EPA wasn’t shoveling all its budgeted money out the door as fast as possible to “use it or lose it.”