This weekend will hopefully go well, as I’ll be spending most of it at the Cleveland Gaming Classic getting my Battletech fix in. Sunday, on the other hand, I’ll be watching the Browns be dismantled by Green Bay, but the weather should be nice for it at least. With that, let’s get to the links.
For those of you in Ohio, Ohio Pint Day is Tuesday, you can check out the glass and list of participating breweries here.
This may be of interest to at least a handful of people here. I for one, am looking forward to it. It’ll be nice to be able to play the game more than the (at most) once I year I’ve managed previously.
The city of Cleveland needs to accept that the Browns will likely be going to a suburb.
It was just this week that I learned that this place existed. For some reason, the girlfriend is not interested in a trip there.
You know where you won’t find that? VANCOUVER!
Which one of the pilots here did this?
Personally, I would provide an alcohol free flight option in deference to the guest.
We have our battle lines, you will not come back into the CLE area!
Those are rookie numbers, we got to get those numbers up.
Was that wrong? Was I not supposed to do that? I mean, if someone had told me…
A tale of two stories.
This confirmed my biases.
This week, the cocktail is a new (to me one) I stumbled across when selecting options to share. Lo and behold, I had the ingredients on hand (well, with a reasonable substitution) and tried it out. It may be a new fall favorite for me, now if only the weather would cooperate.
Storm King
- 8 parts (2 oz) blended Scotch (I did not have that on hand, so swapped it for a mid level Irish)
- 2 parts (0.5 oz) nocino
- 1 part (0.25 oz) Benedictine
- 3 dashes Angostura bitters
First note, there’s no syrups or purees in this, so we will be eschewing the shaker, and grabbing the mixing pitcher for this one. Fill it up with ice, add in the ingredients, and stir until chilled and combined. Strain it into a chilled coupe glass (or cocktail glass), and garnish with a skewer of brandied cherries (if you so desire). Sip and enjoy.
With that, I hope that your weekends are everything you hope they will be.
First.
I felt like being retro.
I feel sorry for the passersby — there will doubtless be a lot of Marauders fighting there.
Last year, for one match, I was able to go full cheese and take the 100 ton clan mech for a match. Since this is open to the public, they have heat turned off, and ammo turned up. After the match, the staff asked who let me take that mech, and made it clear I wasn’t allowed to do it again.
In my defense, I had done several matches with 20-50 ton mechs as well.
Heh… I’ve never played in person (just various PC flavors over the years)… I can’t imagine the sheer overwhelming alphas that an assault mech with no heat rules would turn into… that’d be fun alright… (for you… not for the rest of the players)
SDF-7:
These are the old BattlePods. Get in, you have a full display with three different control sets, the ability to reroute power, jump jets, all sorts of blinkenlights, and the best graphics that a machine running Windows 98/00/NT [I forget which OS is the underlying one, I want to say NT or 0].
Obligatory
I’ll take the recommendation and follow it at least, thanks. Being a non-MP person… it always worries me how well they’ll do the NPC players for such games and how the mechanics will translate… but I’ll at least take a look.
Speaking of older games on Steam — since I don’t see a link… I wasted a lot of time on the original version of this about 15 or so years ago… that version has been refusing to run on Windows (and always was persnickety in installing the OpenAL for the sound), so this is a nice option… didn’t even know it was coming until today, so this seemed like the Links to mention it if anyone is interested.
Yes, the AI cheats like crazy — that’s part of the charm (you grind levels and abilities for your steed to just US WWII vs. Japan style overwhelm them).
It’s based on a big heavy board game. I haven’t played the new edition yet, but it doesn’t appear that there was much that was changed greatly (if I said this on BoardGameGeek, I would doubtless get flamed immediately).
From my experience, getting AI to run board games works quite well. The one downside to this one is how are they going to deal with negotiation and trade, which is always a weakness for computer players.
So they can let people down the cul-de-sac now?
I was really proud that San Diego told Spanos to shove it up his rich arse.
DONATE A CLOWN
How big is this place?
Is it big enough to host a Gathering?
You can’t get her to clown around with you — or is she just afraid you’ll find a couple of bigger honkers when you’re there….
More likely obligatory…
Looking over our earlier conversations, I notice several people kicking around game theory in relation to Kirk and Kimmel.
After some more thought, I think this is precisely what we see happening.
The left is playing the prisoners dilemma with a variant of always defect. The right seems to be playing with forgive several times, then retaliate.
The left has some bonus strategy of “after defection, wail like a stuck pig and claim that you’ve been murdered!!!”
Tit for Tat is a default strategy. We are talking about tit for tat – but this is government… so there is no forgiving. The ratchet only gets tighter.
https://youtu.be/mScpHTIi-kM?si=XmrcY8A9gjneG0sN
Tit for 2 tats is a winning strategy unless you play against “always defect”
I’d certainly agree that the Left seems to be playing lots of tit for tat… and tit for piercing….
Making it less personal… Team D introduced the nuclear option to avoid working with Democrats on supreme court nominees.
They were warned. They did it anyway.
And now taking that off the table is over. They are adding more and more advise and consent positions to the nuclear option formula.
To me non-left people are just being cynical, and you can excuse us for it. They poured gas on our house and lit it on fire, sorry if we don’t get too worked up over someone putting a flaming bag of dog shit on their porch. Sure, it could tourn out to be a slippery slope, but during Biden it wasn’t even a slope, it was a 90 degree drop.
The proper solution is kill the side that plays badly, not to let them play the game at all.
Was that wrong? Was I not supposed to do that? I mean, if someone had told me…
What did their clan think?
I think I’m safe in assuming none of our married ones.
Or anyone who has a pet and actually cares for them… seems like a good way to have Fluffy a la Flambe.
My uncle works an an AP IP at Port Allsworth AK, they had a dog thirty years ago who had a bald spot in top of his head, he ran and hid whenever a plane fired up.
His name was Prop Strike.
Disneyland is Price Discrimination Central, and that’s not fair. Got it.
Please do not show Mrs. TOK or my kids that clown hotel. Not that they like clowns, but they know I feared them as a kid and still don’t like them. And it would be just like them to book a night for me just for a laugh.
That Disney article was good. I used to go every year, sometimes twice a year, but no way I could afford it now, and you can’t eat at a restaurant or get on a ride without walking around with your nose in an app all day. We haven’t gone since my birthday in 2021. Every year I hope Nelson Peltz will finally take over.
I’ve seen a meme on the twits about
lower class = never going to Disney,
middle class = going to Disney once in your life
upper class = going to Disney once a year.
I took my kids to Disney Land and Disney World.
Then you definitely shouldn’t look at the photos of the rooms.
They’re warm and inviting!
My 1996 annual pass to Disneyland cost ~$200 in 2025 dollars. A single day ticket can be that much now.
We wanted to take the boy but the reaction to Covid screwed us, then it got worse.
Well no wonder their Clan didn’t raise them with proper manners.
Sum Ting Wong – Wi Tu Lo – Ho Lee Fuk – Bang Ding Ow
A classic never gets old.
The soup of the day was Cream of Sum Yun Guy.
Giant stadia do not belong downtown anyway. AND you’re getting an easy train ride to the new one anyway.
Methinks it’s a dollar issue more than anything else, hm?
It’s more that downtown Cleveland has been emptying out. With the massive shift to WFH, there’s very few people going downtown during the day. This will be a blow to the bars, restaurants, and shops downtown. The city has been flailing trying to fight it the whole time, wasting large amounts of money on legal fees fighting it. It’s to the point that the county (which like the city has Democratic politicians in charge) have even been shifting their support to the Browns, away from the city of Cleveland.
Be that as it may, downtown is a terrible place to put a football stadium no matter how many people it attracts a dozen or so times a year.
Meh… I’ve never really seen the appeal. Give me more of a Six Flags style park and let me get back out of there quickly. (Introvert? Me? Why never!)
And as an aside.. anyone else catch themselves a little on Captcha after this morning’s cross site scripting crap? Reflex reaction of just closing the page instead of selecting the “I am a human… beep boop..” option.
Yeah, was never a fan of anything Disney at any point in my life.
I just want the rides. I couldn’t care less about the theme or the characters or any of that crap.
Man I go back to the days of tickets, and honestly, that may have been the best.
Is there anything about him more objectionable than this?!
I have no objection…. but I’m admittedly biased, being one myself.
His brother drank himself to death:
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But the issue of addiction is also a deeply personal one for Trump. His older brother Freddy suffered from alcoholism, and died in 1981 at the young age of 43.
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https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a13098008/fred-trump-jr-addiction-history/
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Donald Trump, who since 1976 has spoken publicly of his own abstinence from alcohol,[23][24] initially cited the formative influence of their father’s teetotalism,[25][26] but also included experience with his brother, saying:
“Every day he lectured me, ‘Look at the mess I’m in. If I ever catch you smoking, you’ll be sorry, drinking even a glass of booze because you’ll like it too much.’ …Freddy did a good job.”[27]
On March 16, 1994, Trump’s mother stated in an interview with Irish broadcaster Bibi Baskin that “We lost a son, our oldest son. He was 41. Something a mother never forgets.”[c][28]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump_Jr.
Thank you sir. Mist people who tee total (at least u til this decade) had a cause like that. It was not like vegan meme where it was trumpeted from the highest rooftops.
He likes his steak well done.
Same, but I think you knew that. I’ve been solidly unimpressed with it yet have to take training after training about how it will reimagine my job for 2 years now (I amusingly noted the last one was almost 100 percent from the marketing / management perspective… “Summarize this email / doc… give me a basic proposal for this that I can expand on”… kept thinking “Do your own work… lazy ass!” throughout. Nothing actually technical. I expect that’s telling of the current reality swelling beneath the happy-happy-joy-joy covers.
OTH, as a corporate drone it’s actually been rather useful. Not in an actual productivity sort of way or actual meaningful way, but clearing crap off the desk.
Great example – Exec A is putting together a conference. Naturally Exec A sends a series of topics he feel should be covered. Exec B says WTF I have no deep knowledge of any of these topics. Reaches out to me for industry research. Takes the research pieces I give him and feeds it into AI. Requests the AI output questions and topics to generate a 40 minute seminar with three people speaking. This takes roughly one hour of time. Sends the questions and topics to people that will be presenting.
We both joke that the presentors will be feeding those same questions back into an AI to generate their respective presentations. It’s a perfect AI circle jerk.
Same. I won’t touch it, except as a slightly enhanced version of StackExchange.
TL;DR the article but I can’t believe a person whose “entire life and personal identity are wrapped up in this programming thing for better or worse” – and for so long – fell for the hype. How many rounds of this bullshit do we have to go through before everyone settles down and concludes that, nope, our job hasn’t changed at all.
No, it’s just shiny new thing. Been there, seen that.
Reflex reaction of just closing the page instead of selecting the “I am a human… beep boop..” option.
Guilty.
ChatGPT gets wrecked in chess match with 1978 Atari.
Still not a believer that AI is really anything even resembling “intelligence.”
Right now it’s a very fancy search engine, nothing more.
They’ve done that same test with several of the LLMs, they’ve all failed. Gemini (Alphabet, aka Google) was the one that started out the most confident, and then decided that it was going to lose so forfeited.
and then decided that it was going to lose so forfeited.
That actually is kind of intelligent.
This is what I am trying to explain to the FAA
However…this is apple/oranges comparison and test.
You have to “train” the GPT on whatever problem you want it to solve.
My understanding is that this widely circulated story basically asked the default GPT if it could play chess and it said yes. After that hilarity ensues.
I’m far from an AI advocate, but I’d imagine a properly trained AI might at least give a specialized chess program of the era at least something like a reasonable game. No idea if that’s going to work or not. When AI hallucinates it it turns into your basic cocksure know it all.
On average, Id say about 5-8 questions into a single conversation an LLM will breakdown into any one of my three boys and be know it alls.
I had one use case where a coworker asked it for all publically available information about one our vendors and its risk of financial distress of bankrutptcy. It came back with – very solid, good financing and good prospects.
I provided the same coworker with a report we pay good money for from Dun and Bradstreet about its payment history, liens, judgements and other info and D&B’s proprietary financial models that it uses. It’s not good.
Coworker fed that same report back into the AI and it did a complete 180. It was hysterical.
Crazy person makes crazy decision… film at 11.
Roske claimed to suffer from severe mental illness at the time of his 2022 arrest. Now,
that same instability appears to have driven him to identify as female, an episode that underscores both the growing trend of transgender-linked violence and the broader, unaddressed mental health crisis in Americahe’d much rather go to a Federal women’s prison, so he’s playing the “I feel like a woman” card.That would be my assumption as well — but I’m suspicious he hasn’t timed it well. I don’t think this Administration is likely to move him regardless of his claimed feelings… hence “crazy decision” — should have done it during the PPP Era.
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
His cellmate will be heard saying “take it like a man, woman”
Oh fuck you in your ear, The New York Times. And shove a fixed-size pie in there while you’re at it.
You have been loudly promoting for decades the Party that is directly responsible for the erosion of the middle class.
Their link shows that the “middle class” shrank because it moved up.
From the featured
my actual impression is the people bringing up “groypers” are as full of shit as the “pedo-cannibal pizza parlor run by Hilldawg” people were.
They’re really not that hard to find. Go hang out on X for 15 minutes and read the stuff that gets auto censored. Usually it’s the guys with some form of nazi reference in the handle.
Maybe I’m using the wrong term, but I’m referring to the legit neo-nazi types who are “noticers” that just happen to notice Jews everywhere, regardless of whether there are actually any Jews involved.
From the dedthread*
Apple’s autocorrect is much worse than the one I had on android.
It’s gotten much worse this last iteration.
Fuck Disney and their cut-the-line bullshit.
“Cut the line” sounds like congestion pricing.
Better than draggin the line.
When I went in 1987 it was the Asians that cut the line there.
Thankfully I made it through all three of my kids lives so far without any serious requests to go to Disney. I went against my will with my family when I was 15 and have less that zero desire to ever go again (even though I enjoyed the more thrill rides then). Those days it was reasonably priced, these days it is an absolute rip off. I spend a week in an absolutely insane beachfront house in Mexico with a pool and an in house movie theatre for the price some of my friends have spent on a 3 day trip to LA to go to Disney.
Disney was a local hangout in the 90s for us kids. Cheap year round tickets and better than being at a mall.
Chess is based on rules and speech is based on probability. This is the reason computers got good at chess long before they could “talk”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
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Zipf’s law (/zɪf/) is an empirical law stating that when a list of measured values is sorted in decreasing order, the value of the n-th entry is often approximately inversely proportional to n.
The best known instance of Zipf’s law applies the frequency table of words in text or corpus of natural language:
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As illustrated by my favorite killer robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-o-4txOiVE
Or statistics rather. Probability and statistics overlap a lot.
Ownbestenemy – what plug did you pull? One of my favorite Airplane! gags.
Flights stopped as radar and communication outages hit air traffic controllers in Dallas
Just kidding!
Ill answer how this is ATC playing games in the new thread in a bit….
Ride public transportation – get stabbed. Sorry no other choices are available.
A deadly assault in Charlotte underscores a shift in crime on public transit
As usual the way the MSM is going to “cover” this is be analyis around the story that spreads the requisite talking points. The last thing they want to cover is the actual story and reason she was killed.
If there is a Republicans Pounce angle to concoct, NPR will do so every time.
They must be exhausted without one of their own in the White House which would allow them to completely ignore urban crime for a few years again.
Oh, how I laughed: PBS handwringing about PragerU:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4b-IkaHKhs
Freedomtoons guy frets about the future & needs chill pill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL8RaI97fiE
Have Prager U $1000 today.
Fuck you PBS.
With what the kids call “adulting” these days, I guess there are several milestones.
I hit one today.
Congrats!
Since I live in NJ the property tax bill surpassed my mortgage bill for almost 40% of its 15 year life after I refinanced it.
Property taxes are more transparent now that I get a bill twice a year.
Congratulations fine sir!
Congratulations.
⬅️
🎉🥳🎉🎉
Congratulations!
Nice, but you’re not a kulak until you are wealthy enough to hire farmhands.
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Kulak (/ˈkuːlæk/ KOO-lak; Russian: кула́к, romanized: kulák, IPA: [kʊˈɫak] ⓘ; plural: кулаки́, kulakí, ‘fist’ or ‘tight-fisted’), also kurkul (Ukrainian: куркуль) or golchomag (Azerbaijani: qolçomaq, plural: qolçomaqlar), was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned over 3 ha (8 acres) of land towards the end of the Russian Empire. In the early Soviet Union, particularly in Soviet Russia and Azerbaijan, kulak referred to property ownership among peasants who were considered hesitant allies of the Bolshevik Revolution.[1] In Ukraine during 1930–1931, there also existed a term of podkulachnik (almost wealthy peasant); these were considered “sub-kulaks”.[2]
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can still be a wrecker
Congratulations Sir. We knocked ours out about 4 years ago and wow, it is like a millstone lifted from your neck.
Enjoy.
Woot!
Congrats: we knocked ours off earlier this year. Freed up some budget space – although a chunk of that space was re-allocated to property taxes & insurance.
Congrats. Me & Jugsy knocked ours out last year, 3 years early.
Its a nice feeling.
Nice.
10, 15, 20, or 30?
Fundamentally un-American
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus condemned a bipartisan resolution to memorialize conservative organizer Charlie Kirk on Friday, saying the measure validated Kirk’s beliefs, and legitimized “racist, harmful, and fundamentally un-American” ideals.
In a statement following the House’s approval of the resolution, which received support from more than 90 Democrats, the caucus denounced political violence and the killing of Kirk, but said individuals must condemn violence “without abandoning our right to speak out against ideas that are inconsistent with our values as Americans.”
“The resolution introduced in the House to honor Charlie Kirk’s legacy is not about healing, lowering the temperature of our political discourse, or even ensuring the safety of members of Congress, staff, and Capitol personnel,” they wrote. “It is, unfortunately, an attempt to legitimize Kirk’s worldview — a worldview that includes ideas many Americans find racist, harmful, and fundamentally un-American.”
That settles that.
Note that they never populate that with actual evidence. Just assertions.
I’m sure you have a plethora of examples demonstrating these inherently un-American ideals.
“It’s disheartening to see a tragedy used to further divide the country and suppress honest debate,” the caucus wrote. “As the conscience of the Congress, the CBC has a responsibility to speak out against this on behalf of our communities, and we are calling on each of our colleagues who share our values to follow suit. Enough is enough.”
As the conscience of the Congress, we are the sole arbiters of honest debate.
I suspect many here know the US anthem is based on a drinking song. That’s why the notes switch from high to low so much. It’s the way drunk people sing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IPLFLH3BHU
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“The Anacreontic Song”, also known by its incipit “To Anacreon in Heaven”, was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen’s club of amateur musicians in London. Composed by John Stafford Smith, the tune was later used by several writers as a setting for their patriotic lyrics. These included two songs by Francis Scott Key, most famously his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”. The combination of Key’s poem and Smith’s composition became known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”, which was adopted as the official national anthem of the United States of America in 1931.
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For the first time in a long time, I sat down and got Pages written instead of mere paragraphs.
I’m going to try to keep up the momentum.
Awesome. Keep going!
Is it a rulebook for The Cones of Dunshire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etPLaJWVPY4
The Settlers of Catan people made an actual version of the game.
No.
I’m writing “Judge of Jinwick”.
No I’m not saying what it’s about, people will have to read it when it’s done.
Hm. The place name sounds Irish, except for the J.
A monolingual Irish speaker tells a story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP4nXlKJx_4
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Seán Ó hEinirí (26 March 1915 – 26 July 1998), known in English as John Henry, was an Irish seanchaí (“traditional storyteller” or “bearer of the old lore”) and a native of Cill Ghallagáin in County Mayo.
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A seanchaí (Irish: [ˈʃan̪ˠəxiː] or [ʃan̪ˠəˈxiː]; plural: Irish: seanchaithe [ˈʃan̪ˠəxəhɪ]) is a traditional Gaelic storyteller or historian, serving as an oral repository. In Scottish Gaelic the word is seanchaidh (pronounced [ˈʃɛn̪ˠɛxɪ]; plural: seanchaidhean). The word is often anglicised as shanachie (/ˈʃænəxiː, ˌʃænəˈxiː/ SHAN-ə-khee, -KHEE).
The word seanchaí, which was spelled seanchaidhe (plural seanchaidhthe) before the Irish spelling reform of 1948, means a bearer of “old lore” (seanchas).[1] In the Gaelic culture, long lyric poems which were recited by bards (filí; filidhe in the original pre-1948 spelling) in a tradition echoed by the seanchaithe.
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If you think knowing Hebrew is useless, try learning Irish, aka the magical gibberish language from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PMFsDL2Go
Florida Man declares ten cigars upon arrival in Tampa.
Make no bones about it, lying to Customs will get you in hot water.
Wut?
I do have three cigars right now. It is still over 90 degrees and I hate that so I am not smoking outside.
And I screwed up the link. That’s quite the boner.
I’m sure I’ll get some ribbing about that.
I have a story to tell on Zoom someday.
Is your story about quite a loner, or about human remains in your duffle?
I am conflicted. Would I like this show sent to the trash heap of history? Yes. Do I want the FCC to have a say in it? No.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/abcs-view-spotlight-after-jimmy-kimmel-suspended-says-fcc-chairman
This is what happens when things get too unbalanced.
If repubs are good for one thing, it is going too far. Just like the dems.
A pox in all of them.
The late, great George Carlin complained about an FCC chairman who said the 1st amendment doesn’t apply to TV or radio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_v._Pacifica_Foundation
Posted earlier. WSJ sums up most of how I feel.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/fcc-disney-jimmy-kimmel-brendan-carr-media-regulation-197bdf0a?st=Jy8fPL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Isn’t that sort of the TOS position discussed earlier?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nicholas-roske-brett-kavanaugh-sentencing/
The wheels of justice turn slowly.
How is this not at the top of the news.
Literal political assassination for partisan ideological purposes. Forget stuff the court, just kill the fuckers!
But nah…. Jimmy Kimmel got pulled off of the franchise stations. That is much more relevant to the moment after a political assassination than another story about a political assasin….
Lest we all forget what we are arguing about, here is a thread of some of the more banal and anodyne excesses of cancel culture. See how many you remembered.
https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/1967557497755148744?s=19
I’ll pull out one you definitely had forgotten.
A dude named Greg Patton was suspended from his teaching job for teaching his student the Chinese language. Specifically, for teaching them the filler word (like uhm in English) “nega”.
They suspended him because a foreign word sounds kinda sorta like the dreaded N-word.
That one I do remember.
I also remember the usual talking heads actually defending it.
I remember it all. And I want them all to go the Hell. I just want the government to stay out of the next phase. I can help send the marxists to Hell without government.
A lecturer at UCLA was condemned and investigated for reading MLK’s famous Letter From Birmingham Jail out loud.
My favorite example of cancel culture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LqoLBQ68Uw
ATF pants-shitting from the VHS era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW95GBqqSQ0
“Americans have more handguns than hairdryers.”
That ATF video is great.
“What we do here is, we focus on using the firearms laws to target the violent criminals who are committing the majority of violent crimes”
Quaint times. Nothing about targeting guns painted black, or with mounting rails or other decorations.
Today I learned about 300 “General Lee” cars were destroyed during the Dukes of Hazard TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfrJHs56cA
Greatest Canadian ever and his rocket powered car jumps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTe050GXL0
makes sense:
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The ability to lip read in tonal languages can be challenging due to the complexity of the language’s structure. Tonal languages, such as Mandarin and Vietnamese, have distinct tonal patterns that can be difficult to interpret without context.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
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“Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den” is a short narrative poem written in Literary Chinese, composed of around 92 to 94 characters (depending on the specific version) in which every word is pronounced shi ([ʂɻ̩]) when read in modern Standard Chinese, with only the tones differing.[1]
The poem was written in the 1930s by the Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao as a linguistic demonstration. The poem is coherent and grammatical in Literary Chinese, but due to the number of Chinese homophones, it becomes difficult to understand in oral speech. In Mandarin, the poem is incomprehensible when read aloud, since only four syllables cover all the words of the poem. The poem is somewhat more comprehensible when read in other varieties such as Cantonese, in which it has 22 different syllables, or Hokkien, in which it has 15 different syllables.
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“The Ohio Department of Transportation reversed itself and announced Thursday it has approved a permit for the Cleveland Browns to build their proposed stadium next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.”
Aerial shot shows location directly adjacent the airport. Um. This is considered a *good* idea? I can’t imagine that adding much atmosphere for the fans. I suppose planes successfully landing could help project *some* confidence for the team. They should put up 2016 World Series banners to highlight what Cleveland can achieve. They did so well.
I know Fenway and Wrigley are special, but all these new* stadiums are such a chore just to *get* there. (So… all of ’em except those two.)
If I had any sense, and I don’t, I would have started buying houses in Parma, Brook Park, and Brooklyn as soon as it was mentioned.
I recall from a couple trips the airport was like a fifteen minute drive from downtown and the train not much longer, around 20 minutes? Easy-peasy.
the last battle of the Vietnam War – Newport Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDgVUVfCZJg
Many civilian and children casualties
😋 Mmmm… Flatiron Steak with seasonings (salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, pakrika, celary seed), cliced onion, sliced bell pepper.
This is one of those rare times where I begrudgingly agree with you.
Quick, say something about how people who commit minor crimes should be crucified on windmills, so they get to experience pain AND dizziness.
Why would I do that, I’m against windmills.
I am confused by Derpy’s comment.
Try the Regressive Party – against abortion to oppress women but also in favor of killing babies to appease Moloch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOCf8sL0xgE
I’ll see your Moloch and raise you.
Church of Euthanasia
One of Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts was about the aforementioned merits windmill crucifixion.
UCS seems like a fan of Hammurabi’s Code:
http://faculty.collin.edu/mbailey/hammurabi%27s%20laws.htm
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109. If outlaws meet in the tavern and are not captured and delivered to the court/palace, the female tavern-keeper shall be put to death.
110. If a holy woman opens a tavern door or enters a tavern for a drink, she shall be burned to death.
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Heh. Even in ancient times, crooks were planning crimes in public places. Crooks are dumb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyR4RK0LA_E
I remember my grandmother telling me the story that years back she & my grandfather were with another couple that had been out for a Saturday afternoon. They stopped at a restaurant to get something to eat. They were told by they owner that they had to eat in the bar since both women were wearing slacks and not dresses.
For Tres: behold the glory of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
“There’s your problem, lady”
VHEMT was founded in 1991 by Les U. Knight, an American activist who became involved in the American environmental movement in the 1970s and thereafter concluded that human extinction was the best solution to the problems facing the Earth’s biosphere and humanity.
“Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Life finds a way. Humans couldn’t make the earth lifeless even if they tried. Humans have been around for far less than 1% of the earth’s age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0VfnqLUs8M
It amuses me that the debate about women voting played out the same as the one about allowing women to wear pants.
Soon they will gain the right to wear false beards and stone blasphemers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwFXGPRDu4
I just watched that clip last night.
My mom bought that me movie as a present for my 21st birthday.
oops, got my mords wixed up
I blame Florida Man brews.
Florida Man Makes Beer Run With Gator In Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IML3jU_yyGs
The new Naked Gun is not as good as the old Naked Gin movies.
But I still want to see it.
Meh, you are used to the old version, kids that see the new one will think the old one is dated and stuffy. Thirty years from now they will bitch about the new version that their kids are watching, and thus the circle will remain unbroken.
I have been thinking about the AI getting its ass handed to it by an Atari in a chess game. I dont think it means what we think it means.
I think it might mean that the AI is thinking more like a human than like an adding machine? It might mean that the AI is smarter than the Atari regarding thinking more like our own. I havent quite worked it out yet. Making mistakes is inherent in higher thinking.