Champions League is back. The Astros managed to take the first two games against the Rangers in a crucial series. The Mets are losing oil too, but will probably hang on to the WC. And I don’t know what else there is to talk about, so I’m moving on.
This judge is a goddamn retarded asshole. I can think of no other way to frame this decision.
Gotta respect the hustle. In a just world, he’d be in no trouble at all and the officials would spend a good bit of their life in prison.
This is how far that state has fallen. But it should come as no surprise.
What the fucking fuck? Perhaps he should become a romance novel writer. Journalism doesn’t seem to be for him.
I’m shocked! Well, not really shocked. In fact, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t the case.
Does anybody really think this is about the climate? I certainly don’t. If it was, they’d do it virtually and minimize their impact rather than jet around the world to tell everybody else they have to limit their “carbon footprint.”
What an asshole. And a stupid one, at that.
Talk about reinforcing stereotypes.
After stabbing the two women, the assailant, later identified as Octavious McCaine, 19, ran to a large retaining wall that overlooks a stormwater pond, climbed a chain-link fence and plunged himself into the water. Divers recovered his body after a search that lasted into the night. The victims are expected to recover from their injuries, police said.
He did a two-fer.
Talk about projection. This is what the left did when anybody didn’t go all in during Pride shit. Nobody on the right has even mentioned these teams be punished.
Now they’re having a go at teflon? Do these assholes have no shame?
Let the rockets fly! Suck on that, luddites.
We should give people this option. But send the commies to North Korea. And I hadn’t heard this in forever. Now you have to hear it as well. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Somber First today.
Also, I don’t see how that Luigi guy is not charged with first degree murder. Even if the terrorist charge got dropped, how is what he did not first degree? He planned it, executed it in cold blood and fled.
This judge is a complete idiot. I hope the prosecutors go over his head.
Meh… they may not bother and just let the Feds do it. And I can live with that — trying these assholes under 2 or 3 systems with multiple harsh penalties seems like decided overkill.
Yeah, somebody posted the relevant definition of “terrorism” and it is exactly what the assassin perpetrated.
Another crooked judge.
Because New York’s First Degree Murder charge is only for Special People
So the premeditated killing of one person who isn’t in those special categories for the sole purpose of killing that person, is at most Second Degree Murder.
That’s not completely true. Look at the statute. If it’s done as an act of terrorism it still counts.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/125.27
(xiii) the victim was killed in furtherance of an act of terrorism, as
defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 490.05 of this
chapter;
But was it really terrorism?
I’d say this was definitely done as an act of terrorism. He killed the guy to influence, through murder, insurance companies.
Subsection defining terrorism:
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/490.05
Did he seek to do any of the following:
(i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or
coercion; or
(iii) affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder,
assassination or kidnapping;
Yes. Yes he did.
Unreal.
Also unreal: news is showing death cult members cheering on this assassin. I imagine them pivoting back and forth between this guy and last week’s assassin.
rhywun:
If there aren’t saint Tyler memes paired with Luigi already, I’d be shocked.
A politically motivated murder is terrorism in my book.
Given his predilections — I’m expecting Luigi in the raccoon suit from the later Mario games photoshopped beside him.
And you know damned well multiple variants on this already exist.
“A politically motivated murder is terrorism in my book.”
That is the whole point of terrorism, so right there with you.
influence the policy of a unit of government
So, the insurance company is a unit of government?
I would argue that he didn’t. Killing someone over a grudge against the company they represent is a hell of a stretch from ‘intimidate or coerce a civilian population.’
Was he trying to intimidate the current healthcare companies via fear? Yeah, I think he was.
I think the judge is wrong for not allowing civilians in the companies to be “civilian population” — it would be a stupid law if you can’t apply it as long as you find
at least 10 honest men in Sodomsome subset who aren’t targets of intimidation.But not a lawyer, never went to law school, don’t live in NY — my opinion on the subject means jack over crap here.
There are myriad government agencies that regulate the practices of insurance companies. Insurance companies directly do business with the government in many instances. And insurance companies are a subset of the civilian population. This was clearly done to influence their policy decisions.
I think it would be hard to prove terrorism as a stand alone charge, however the threshold for it being an aggravating factor to murder is different and shouldn’t be discarded as a reason to let the first degree charge stand.
I’m fine with them dropping the stand-alone terrorism charge. But leaving it in as an aggrevating factor for the murder charge should have happened.
Cops are not special.
Killing them should not be an extra special penalty.
Murder is murder.
The New York 1st degree murder statute is not based on premeditation. It is based on a long list of things including who the victim was (Government employees and witnesses to other crimes), how many people were killed or intended to be killed, and prior acts of the killer. So blame the legislature on this one.
NY legislature is asshole? Where is my shocked face?
New York laws. I don’t know what you have to do to get 1st degree murder there. Probably 1st degree murder is reserved for republicans.
Cops or Fightfighters on Duty, witnesses to prevent testifying, as part of other major felonies, or multiple dead at the same time.
Or as an act of terrorism.
If the AP’s explanation of the murder as terrorism charge is accurate, then the judge was right. This wasn’t terrorism.
Exactly – not according to the statutory language – unless a corporation is a unit of government, and honestly, these days I could see sorta that; it would just lead to a lot of unpleasant consequences.
If NY’s first-degree murder statue was sane, the terrorism statute wouldn’t even be necessary.
Bad law begets more bad law.
Someone on X pointed out that murder laws are particular to each state, and they all have different terms and thresholds. So he is still being charged with what we’d call “murder 1” in most other states. The NY statute for terrorism is specific to large-scale incidents like bombings.
Nuke Dearborn.
Just wipe it off the map.
I’d prefer less… fallouty… options that close to where I live.
We have available spots at Vault 54.
Maybe it would all just blow to Canada.
Nuking Dearborn would probably make the Cuyahoga *cleaner*. :-p
Evidence for restricting eligibility for elected office to natural born citizens. At least second generation. Or maybe just shutting down mass migration from shitholes with no tradition of republican constitutional governance and individual rights.
We’ve preached all people are the same, all have the same rights, everywhere at all times.
Are you trying to tell me that isn’t true?
What you mean ‘we,’ paleface?
all people are the same
No, they are not. All cultures are not equal, and people tend to be products of their culture. I’m pretty sure “we” have never preached all people are the same.
Oh, hereabouts we have indeed debated rights and where they come from and whether or not they are universal. We are not in unanimous agreement as say the editorial stance of TOS was.
My use of we was ambiguous in that regard, and I was leaning more to the largest meaning – the American people and our government.
Fuck, my wife’s from Dearborn.
But, she doesn’t talk to any of her family, so, cool.
Yes.
And this is the problem I have with “moderate” Muslims in America — quite a few seem like nice people… but you know the minute this asshole thinks he has critical mass… and historically, there’s always enough assholes when they achieve critical mass — they’ll impose Sharia and everything else… because they simply have a religion that expressly wants to be the only political and judicial system as well and does not tolerate the Western Civ religious freedom idea.
Hold the jerk to the parade and get the hell out while you can, dude.
The county is installing signs celebrating pro-terrorist individuals?
Fuck… at this rate I’d exit Michigan itself ASAP.
Michigan has been conquered by Islam, so has Minneapolis, and NYC is about to fall.
Taqiyya Is real.
Islam needs to be eradicated.
Worldwide.
By any means possible.
I actually watched the Mets last night. I didn’t know they owned the “local” (a city I’ve never visited) AAA team.
I’m very much annoyed that the Syracuse baseball team is no longer the Chiefs, and I miss MacArthur Stadium.
Yes, I know MacArthur was a dilapidated ruin, but the new place sucks.
The Mets name is going away after next year. I bet it will go back to the Chiefs.
Just so long as it isn’t going back to the Skychiefs. That was a stupid era for the team.
Yeah I saw that name on Wikipedia and could only SMDH.
It isn’t any more stupid than River Cats, for Sacramento’s AAA team.
They used to be the Solons. How cool is that!
Honestly? Don’t really care… just want us to at a minimum stop funding them, preferably treat them like the League of Nations and get us out. Worthless anti-American leeches and worse.
Stop the funding, keep the veto, veto everything.
Relocate COP to Gaza.
Nope, it is about the global elite plotting our deaths. And I am encouraged that some people are finally waking up to that realization.
Someone said the climate thing is over because the same people pushing it also want AI, which uses a lot of power. Even Greta has moved on and is only protesting against Israel. Apparently the thing that’s going to end the world has to take a back seat.
Jew-hatin’ takes precedence. I am shocked.
We emit CO2 with every breath
I’m personally disappointed that he wasn’t eaten by a gator that was hopped up on meth.
No picture of the guy so I’m wondering good he really was Florida Man.
Cool. Now do George Floyd and the NFL.
How about the end zone stencils and helmet messages?
The Ravens did have an excuse, celebrating 30 years in Baltimore 😏
The outrage comes after years of right-wingers complaining that the league should stay away from politics altogether
The outrage comes from left-wingers after years of pushing the league to take up political causes.
“Maybe….*gurgle*…maybe, I oughtn’t to have done that…*gurgle, gurgle*….”
“Consequences.”
/John Wick
Eh… the article does dredge up some fans who are all “They didn’t do what I wanted.. I’m never
shopping here again!going to their games again!” That’s sort of punishment.And yeah — there’s some hypocrisy here for the fans who didn’t want BLM or other politics in the game — though a one time brief moment of silence for a murdered man isn’t really the same. But I can certainly grant that… you want politics out of sports? Then don’t get upset when your politics aren’t in the sport.
But certainly choices by individual fans to tune out is not at the same level as the Pride/BLM/whatnot groupthink ostracization (which apparently isn’t even a word… but it danged well should be!), agreed.
People are hypocritical, shocking. Purity is nonsense, unless you are a Christian talking about Christ or a Buddhist talking about the Buddha, no human is, or has ever been, perfect. I’ll still prefer the side saying boycott in a few silly cases, over the side cheering murder in large numbers.
The Libs of Tik Tok lady was pushing for those teams to be shamed for not having a moment of silence, so there’s that.
Oh this has been talked about for years now — all part of the “forever chemicals” stuff. I’m surprised it took them this long, honestly.
Eventually they’ll have the peasants back in their hair shirts and properly processing the crops by hand while they wine, dine and jet around.
I don’t get this panic over “forever chemicals”. If something’s that stable, it’s not going to be reacting with much, so what’s the headless chicken pacnic all about?
“Sounds good to the scientifically illiterate… You can’t ever get rid of these!”
Much like the “radioactive for a million years!” (because it has a long half-life) — that also means it is pretty low level and likely easy to block. Both scare people and are meant to.
Cooking eggs over easy in an iron pan is a pain. Once again, California can fuck off. I am so glad I left in the eighties and came back home.
Last time I cooked an egg on its own it was for a burger and I ended up floating it in the rendered grease from the patties.
😋 Tallow-fried egg….
Whoever it was here that circulated the link to the AllClad factory seconds outlet a couple years back has my gratitude. I picked up a couple of stainless pans, and now i can actually cook eggs to order! Turns out the equipment actually matters.
I only have two All Clads in my kitchen – the tiniest little sauce pan you’ve ever seen (I think it’s technically a butter warmer or something like that) and a tiny casserole pan. Both are perfect for making single person portions and meals.
Neither are any good for eggs.
Equipment really does matter. My wife was obsessed with buying cheap cookware that was the “right color” and so it all sucked. When we moved I switched to stainless T-Fal professional and it has been great.
My wife hates them because they’re a PITA to clean, but all of a sudden, recipes started working as written for me. Things that were supposed to take 5 min took 5 min. Turning down the heat finally accomplished something, and I even fried an egg without any Maillard browning on it. Idk if that’s how stainless is generally or if the allclads are special.
😱
There is a kernel of truth in “You get what you pay for” (I’ll add a caveat that scams do exist), and the whole concept of false economies with cheaping out. “Buy cheap, buy twice” was the pithy, over distilled saying version I heard most recently
but that’s the extra flavory bits.
You put an egg on a hamburger?
As for cleaning, I’m less afraid to get tough with the All-Clad because I know I’m not going to hurt them, so they are easier to clean since my scrubbing accomplishes something.
No, Tater, I put an egg on a Cheeseburger. And it is delicious.
Make sure to cook the egg thoroughly, you don’t want runny stuff leaking all over.
but that’s the extra flavory bits.
Correct, and I don’t particularly like eggs without any brown, but to be able to do it was a new skill unlocked.
You put an egg on a hamburger?
You’ve never done that? Dude, you’re missing out on something wonderful.
What? The runny stuff is the best part!
UCS:
–Sam Vimes, Men At Arms
“Buy cheap, buy twice”
The version I’ve heard is “Buy once, cry once”.
Mr Ilium, the concept predates Mr Pratchett by quite some time. He does not deserve extra credit for reiterating the prior art.
Not all stainless is equal. All clad is awesome, for me T Fal was a more affordable option. Still great stainless. There is a lot of so called stainless out there that rusts, so stick with a major brand recommended by someone you know who cooks. Also, the new stamped steel 12” pan from Lodge is fantastic for messy recipes.
https://www.lodgecastiron.com/products/carbon-steel-skillet?variant=51685748998516
has my gratitude
I think that was me, since that is how I buy my AllClad. Did you get the D3 or the Coppercore?
Cast iron is good for hanging from something, and shooting at it from 500 yards. Makes a nice ringing sound.
That is all it is good for.
Did you get the D3 or the Coppercore?
D3. I just cooked my breakfast on the 10” pan, and aside from the fact that I have no idea how to get it really clean after cooking on it (and I don’t want to soak it in barkeepers friend every day), I love the thing. Well worth the cost, especially at outlet price.
Au contraire.
Properly seasoned cast iron is a godsend, and even top shelf stainless is not a substitute for it for certain applications.
Agree with Dean. Cast iron is great, for some applications. Just like stainless is great for some applications. And a good non-stick is good for some. Depends on what you are doing. And it’s important to know how to care for it. Non-stick will be destroyed quickly as will cast iron if you don’t take care of it.
Yeah, I just live with the lacquering on the sides. I don’t know how you escape that especially if you go from burner to oven.
We’re an All Clad, lodge and Le cruset family.
I wish I had spent the same amount on bitcoin as we did on le cruset and Shun at the time.
We trashed our nonstick well over a decade ago.
“On the other are detractors who call Kirk’s ideology hateful and extreme, criticism that has cost many their jobs as his supporters accuse them of trying to incite further political violence.”
Already lying by the third sentence.
It’s telling that only way the left can make their argument is to lie.
They don’t have good arguments, and they don’t have good leadership, so that’s what’s left.
Yeah, that and political violence.
“He was also a frequently incendiary podcaster who suggested that Black people were unqualified for certain jobs,”
With a link saying the opposite. I’m surprised Rolling Stone didn’t make up a rape story about him.
Didn’t the last rape fabulism cost them a pretty penny?
In my fantasies — when Elon gets the final piece for Mars colonization in place, he’ll do it with a classic Orion… because fuck Earth and the environmentalists anyway… one big repeated atom bomb finger as he leaves them behind….
Probably not his actual plans (and probably safer not to since a Mars colony would likely be better off with periodic resupply from Earth Starships, regardless of the extra lift you’d get from Orion)… but fun to imagine.
As long as you’re not beside the launch point, of course.
Rocks are cheepnonce you get to orbit and are sustainable.
Never pay taxes again.
Wait… I thought several people worked hard to give America the option of dead Kennedys?
(What… too soon?)
Regarding the FL scuba robber from the dead thread:
I took a scuba class and got certified my last semester in college. That was my favorite class besides anthropology. I guess I should have majored in Indiana Jones studies seeing as I journeyed to China, Tibet, and Africa after graduating.
[begins humming theme]
The left has received zero pushback to their sick and evil shit for so long that it must come as a rude awakening that FAFO is a thing now.
They got so comfortable romanticizing mob violence that they’re dipping their toe in romanticizing political assassins.
I guess this should have been expected.
The left was always violent when it didn’t get its way, all the way back to the French Revolution. Probably even before that.
No the French Revolution is pretty much the source. I mean you could take the Albigensian Crusade as a source, but that wasn’t really leftist.
The French are the source of the much contested Left, too. I originally refered to the sides of the French General Assembly seating, and the left side was the more… progressive.
And wouldn’t you know it… the French are revolting again.
The love he had for his grandpa and his prized rifle is very touching.
They no longer have a president, DOJ, FBI, and social media companies running cover for them. If Kamala had won think of how different this would be. It would all be impotent rage on the right, who would then be the ones being investigated.
They have all the lower courts
Education establishment
And social media, that one is still being ran by the far left.
When you’ve lost the WSJ Editorial Board…
Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial
The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/pam-bondi-free-speech-hate-speech-charlie-kirk-first-amendment-a4f09203?st=eZVQo3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bondi has consistently flailed around and been trouble. How many embarrassing moments will she get before she is replaced?
Trump himself flails around – what do you expect?
Gun grabbing anti speach
Fire her.
Probably less cunning plan and more serendipity.
Remember kids, the fact that all leftists are retarded does not imply all retards are on the left.
Ain’t that the truth!
“Hi. This is Wilford Brimley. Welcome to Retardation: A Celebration. Now, hopefully with this book, I’m gonna dispel a few myths, a few rumors. First off, the retarded don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it. Nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ‘em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming ‘No, no, no’ and all they hear is ‘Who wants cake?’ Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.”
Wasn’t there something else recently that was set up to push against hate speech laws? Seems there was, so I will put this in the same category that Althouse does, and that it was deliberate.
But, I am willing to be proven wrong, and that she is an idiot.
Pam Bondi needs about fifty more IQ points.
To be average.
Some “clarification”.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/16/bondi-clarifies-hate-speech-not-prosecute
I noticed a pattern. Someone in the Trump admin will throw out something like this, and see how a dozen or so of the big pro-Trump accounts on X will react. If there is push back, they’ll backpedal. It seems they know who’s speaking for their base, and they’re listening.
The maniac with a knife story –
Once you stab a few people, don’t expect help when you start to drown.
https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1968079427088036139
Maybe he was trying to reenact Beowulf swimming with his sword?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
Good
I was supposed to see D/K in ’85, when I was 14. But the cops shut it down before it even started.
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/photos-from-the-vault/article73465142.html
Oddly, I started dating a chick who was also there who I met in San Francisco in my late 20’s.
Leftists start violent trouble – film at 11.
Another band I like whose politics are revolting.
I just assume that’s most of them.
“Public housing” is another practice we borrowed from the commies that needs to be nuked from orbit. It has been a complete and utter disaster everywhere it is implemented.
The good news is there are fewer and fewer new Jags. The bad news is Land Rover and Range Rover owners are having trouble both scheduling repairs and getting repair parts. As a former Land Rover owner I can relate.
Jaguar Land Rover Extends Production Shutdown After Cyberattack
https://www.wsj.com/business/jaguar-land-rover-extends-production-shutdown-after-cyberattack-0ab31053?st=gHC5vT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ve read they are losing $8m a day. That seems way too low to me. Their dealers here in the US can’t be happy.
“The elderly man who lied about shooting Charlie Kirk just moments after the conservative activist’s assassination was caught with child pornography on his phone, authorities said.
George Zinn, a 71-year-old Utah resident, was initially suspected of being the shooter after he was caught on video being taken into custody moments after Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University last week.
He was soon cleared of being the suspected shooter and confessed to causing a distraction to keep law enforcement away from the shooter, now alleged to be 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.
Following his arrest, which quickly went viral online, Zinn was transported to a hospital for a pre-existing medical condition.
It was there that he not only admitted to helping the alleged killer escape, but that ‘he uses his phone to view and abuse Child Sex Abuse Material and there may be some images on his phone,’ according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15104765/george-zinn-child-porn-charlie-kirk.html
Criminal genius!
I wonder if he is related to Howard. I mean by blood, he’s obviously moral and intellectual kin.
I thought the same thing Jar
Precoordinated?
Too early to say. Zinn had previously been convicted of planning some kind of bombing, so he’s not philosophically opposed to political violence.
His concern for the shooter was touching. -ABC
“A 95-year-old woman with dementia was arrested Tuesday two days after she allegedly beat a fellow Brooklyn nursing home resident to death with a metal wheelchair piece.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/16/us-news/dementia-patient-95-arrested-charged-with-murder-for-beating-fellow-nyc-nursing-home-patient-to-death/
Damn.
That’s gonna be an interesting trial, if it gets that far. Not sure how they’re gonna be able to say she’s mentally competent.
Holy crap. I’ve said it before, just leave me under a tree for the wolves when I am no longer able to care for myself. I have no desire to ever be in a care home.
Not even for all the hot pussy?
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/basics/sex-in-assisted-living-facilities/
No.
My wife works in a “skilled nursing facility”. the stories she brings home… yeah, I’d rather die at home.
She might get life just waiting for bail.
This will be my mother when she gets to a home.
She’s worked in them and hates them. Of fully convinced she’ll never need assistance and that there is nothing wrong with her mind.
Criminal possession of weapons charges?
Overcharging needs to end.
Ass Wednesday: it’s not just for deviants anymore!
https://archive.is/VVj1F
not just for deviants anymore!
It never was Q, it never was.
Anybody know what an “identity security cloud” is, and whether it’s a workable idea?
Just the name is raising red flags. Not sure what it is, but it sounds like an awful idea.
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
On the emphasis on grooming standards in the military…
The next war isn’t going to be won because of how nice people look in their uniform. It’s a joke. During peace time, dumb shit and dumb political creatures always rise to the top. Then that shit has to go the wayside when the real bullets start flying and slowly people who know what the fuck they are doing filter back up to the top. That’s the American tradition.
Also tradition to lose the first battle with the enemy, though we have broken with that a couple of times.
AR 670-1 needs to be in the dustbin of history.
Bring back beards.
Sadly my unit promoted on looks and uniform.
Don’t have the wrong skin color in support.
I heard a lot of people saying ‘this feels different’ about Charlie Kirk’s murder. I think what happened is that an awakening happened. The realization that America has enemies who are actively waging war on western civilization, especially on America and the time to fight back has come. The sleeping giant…the silent majority…whatever you want to call it, is awake.
It is a bit overdue but I will take it.
The disaffected youths have found a clear cut cause to rally behind. I hope it sticks.
I hope so as well but we have to keep a close eye out….these things tend to get out of hand.
“Sleeping giant” crossed my mind in the last few days. This feels like a political Pearl Harbor.
Meh. I say we’re too far gone and by mid-terms it’s a footnote.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1968104723421987265
I disagree.
I’ll try to contact my “insider GOP acquaintance” and see what the RNC’s crystal ball says. Last he heard (this was before Kirk murder) the forecast was to lose 17 seats at mid-terms, down from 22. This was apparently factoring in the tit for tat redistricting shenanigans. Some of the doom and gloom is obviously manufactured in order to raise contributions. But the mid-terms will probably swing based on the state of the economy (as they usually do) and whatever dumb shit is coming out of Trump’s mouth at the time.
“The village of Amenia, N.Y., tucked along the Connecticut border in eastern Dutchess County, is both close and just remote enough for New Yorkers. Roughly a third of new buyers are Brooklynites moving to Amenia full time thanks to the rise in working from home, said Diana Bisselle, a real estate agent with Sotheby’s International Realty.”
The cancer metastasizes. It always does.
Amenia, N.Y., Close to the City, but Remote Enough
Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/realestate/real-estate-guide-amenia-new-york.html
They’re fucking up Ulster County, too.
No worries – Kathy and the Zohan are united in their desire to keep NYC safe and affordable so people in Ulster and Dutchess Counties can rest easy soon.
With a name like Anemia, there was no way it would stay red for long.
The rotten apple bleeds.
All those idiots who think Trump is a grave 1A threat should listen to something like https://www.newsonair.gov.in/ that has really been captured by propaganda in service of Narendra Modi.
How is Trump a threat to the 1A? The same way he is a threat to ‘democracy’?
He appointed Bondi. Now Bondi isn’t Trump, but he owns the “hate speech” debacle she created.
Trump could appoint a free-speech absolutist and the left would not change their tune at all.
They lie about every single thing.
Bondi took it back. I think she took a rhetorical shortcut out of anger but…..hmmmm.
Yes she did, but it was a dumb mistake and it took too long.
She’s going to make mistakes, but she hasn’t impressed me so far.
I think she took a rhetorical shortcut out of anger but…..hmmmm.
This. I think that particular slip should be job ending. It’d be like her slipping and saying “it was the shooter’s white fragility”. It’s language that doesn’t belong in a right leaning politician’s mouth.
A reminder for those who are complaining about Pam Bondi – two words: Eric. Holder.
Or better: Merrick. Garland.
Trump admin isn’t libertarian.
News at 11.
I remember reading about this. I’m pleasantly surprised.
Retired 4-star Navy admiral sentenced to 6 years for bribery plot
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/09/17/retired-4-star-navy-admiral-sentenced-to-6-years-for-bribery-plot/
Devil in the details. Tried in a civilian court, instead of being recalled to active duty, court martialled, and reduced in rank. So he keeps his full pension and retired rank.
Bribery is Treason, give him the chair.
Chair? This is the navy. From time to time, you have to hang a few admirals.
You can gibbet the steaming corpse and hang it above Annapolis.
Go Navy, beat charges!
Good.
Strip his pension and VA benefits too.
Grift or real?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/adult-star-who-quit-study-35917572
There does seem to be a trend of this.
I’ll believe its not a grift when she stops posting “look-at-my-body” photos online.
Weird that we do not even consider only fans to be a grift?
We dont?
As I understand only fans, people pay money and get access to content. As long as the content is provided, it is not a grift.
Eh. Depend on the quality and quantity of the content.
A lot of online ‘financial freedom’ ‘universities’ are clearly grifts, despite providing some level of content. Same with most MLM scams.
There are things which are criminal frauds, and there are things which are grifts. All criminal frauds are probably grifts, but not all grifts rise to level of criminal fraud. I’m fine with dismissing most gurus, mentoring programs, life coaching, real estate investing seminars, and even some online strippers as grifts.
Apropos
Sarah need to sizzle some steak
The UN is trying to cut costs? Now I’ve heard everything.
Yes, the lack of the USAID and US direct funding has cut into their racket.
Everything? Did you hear Adam Schiff lecturing Kash Patel about telling the truth? After that I think Corey Booker took up the fight for truth.
Booker’s tuffgai act is so ridiculous I can’t believe Patel didn’t walk over to his table and sock him in the jaw.
“After all, when a pregnant woman dies of sepsis in a hospital that could have helped her but is legally prevented from doing so, that’s political violence. It’s political violence when a child is shot in their classroom because lawmakers refuse to take action on guns. An abortion provider being assassinated after years of conservatives calling them ‘baby-killers’ is political violence, as is the death of a person who had their medical claim denied by companies more interested in their bottom line than people’s lives.”
https://jessica.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-shooting-political-violence
CWAC
I can’t read that. Cannot.
“So, let’s let recent events be a reminder: Right-wing figureheads aren’t the only people we should recognize as victims of political violence. Poverty is political violence. A sexual abuser and alleged child sex trafficker skirting accountability and becoming the president of the U.S. is political violence.
Abortion bans that reduce women and pregnant people to second-class citizens and, in some cases, kill us, are political violence.”
These people are nuts.
These people are nuts.
Yes, and they’ve got millions of followers nodding along in agreement.
None of this will end well.
The left has spent at least a decade making EVERYTHING political. So logically (to them), any violence is also political.
Don’t forget, silence is also violence.
*inserts meme of Oprah handing out political violence to audience members*
All I’m hearing here is, “WAHHHHHHHH! The world isn’t exactly how I like it!!!!!”
The last forty years at least TOK.
These are the same shits who laughed at Rand Paul’s broken ribs.
Valenti attended Tulane University in New Orleans for a year, and then transferred to the State University of New York at Albany, graduating in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Is it political violence for the state to take money at gunpoint to subsidize a dumb cunt to get a worthless journalism degree?
Didn’t she have a $7 million wedding?
I only clicked to confirm it was Valenti.
Cock Wobbling Ass Clown?
Dear Rolling stone-
Stick to music.
——-
Meanwhile, Penske Entertainment, owner of RS, is throwing lawsuits around, blaming AI bots for their plummeting revenues. You might want to look a little closer to home.
“Could it be that my increasingly deranged content is alienating readers and negatively affecting my bottom line?”
“No, no, it’s the readers who are wrong.”
Because YouTube Shorts weren’t already a cesspool.
YouTube announces new generative AI tools for Shorts creators
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/youtube-announces-new-generative-ai-tools-for-shorts-creators/
I wish there was a way to just flat out disable YouTube shorts.
https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
Does exactly that. I don’t mind the ones for the Japanese channels I subscribe to. But most of the English language ones are awful.
Dunno, the algo seems to taylor it to the rest of the videos that I watch, so it doesn’t seem much different, plus you can skip the ads easier.
On the other hand, you do tend to keep swiping.
Does it do so swiftly?
Pam Bondi is just carrying on the grand tradition of A Mitchell Palmer.
[golf claps]
Love a good historical counterpoint to how “unprecedented” some given stupidity is. Want another great example, Upton Sinclair was a card carrying Socialist who won the Democratic nomination in the ’34 California gubernatorial election. Exactly like Mamdani, except of course Sinclair lost.
The stupid are with us always.
At this point, I would be neither surprised if he won, or if he lost. Polls, which we are relying on here, have been so bad in last few decades at to be virtually worthless.
I’d put money on Mamdani unless Cuomo does something brilliant AND Adams drops out.
No way to color this? Headline falls flat? Fails to stick?
Sherwin-Williams temporarily suspends 401(k) company matching contributions
https://www.crainscleveland.com/manufacturing/sherwin-williams-suspends-401k-company-matching-contributions
Yeah, got announced in the local rag a while back, I figured it was too local.
They still haven’t finished their HQ downtown that was slated to open in
2023202420252026!Cover the shortfall?
They can run but they can’t hide?
Nice!
So, you are saying their coverage was a little thin, and they need a primer of how to do this correctly?
The market will give them a good shellacking.
“Two clowns with firearms arrested after harassing women in Seattle”
https://thepostmillennial.com/two-clowns-arrested-after-harassing-women-in-seattle-with-firearms
STIJLTH
Marxist-Leninists and anarchist communists are incapable of producing robust critiques of one another, because they operate on basically the same registers. Where does this become most apparent? When both of them reduce transition to resolving the technical & pragmatic problems posed with holding (and rescinding) political power.
For the MLs, the communist program becomes a geopolitical game of ‘socialist states’ competing against capitalist states, by any means necessary. Communism is turned into whatever is directly or indirectly good for the ‘socialist states’, or bad for the capitalist states. Here the positive side of the program is folded into the negative side, and the ML reduces communism to the motion of struggle itself.
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But the logic of MLism is fundamentally divorced from communism because, in effect, this absorption of the party into the state prevents either structure from acting as anything more than a channel for the forces of capital, because the state spontaneously takes on a shape that preserves the forms of production it arises from without counterpressure from the organized proletariat, and a total shift towards socialism is simply not possible within the boundaries of one country.
…
A mirror image of a bourgeois dictatorship is not a proletarian one, it could only be a system which develops along the same axis as the rest of the bourgeois world, and this has been revealed countless times in the internal trajectories of every “actually existing socialist” regime to date – the only systems that ML parties have ever lead, or could ever lead, are capitalist from base to center, and this is enshrined in ML doctrine through their blindness to path-dependency and everything that path-dependency entails.
…
In their framework, the motion of class struggle becomes the absence of motion – while in word they may oppose utopianism, and recognize the challenges posed by confronting the bourgeosie, in deed ‘prefigurative politics’ is grounded on a pretension to freeze history in place so that their blueprint of communism can be realized.
…
For marxism proper, the execution of the communist program is a dynamic and conflictual process which is identifiable through points of rupture. Those moments where socialized labor outstrips the shell of capital, and the qualities of capitalism are broken down in discernible ways
The one and only way to avoid the pitfalls of both frameworks is to recognize the necessity of international revolution, the grim prospects of the workers substantially retaining power once a revolutionary wave has receded, and a relative distance between Party and state. The Party must indirectly wield the state through the party’s base. Rank-and-file members, who are distinct from & self-subordinated to the center, would act through the mass organizations of the workers, and mediate their activity so that they do not capitulate to the counterrevolution either from outside or within their domain.
https://x.com/Greynxgga69/status/1968091702838636795
Kristian Niemietz
@K_Niemietz
It was a mistake to let people buy their way out of the Twitter character limit.
lol
Can someone translate this to something that isn’t commie goblidy gook?
Marxist-Leninists were first?
“We have to bring the entire world under the yoke.”
How is that?
Anon
@Greynxgga69
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4h
this is communist stuff you wouldnt get it, im a communist arguing with other communists about communism
Something about how you can’t have true communism unless the whole world is communist because the evuull capitalists will corrupt the communism.
Most likely because they will be the only ones with food, electricity, and heat.
No.
“Hi. I’m a communist that likes to smell her own farts. Please throw me out of a helicopter.”
Full disclosure: that interpretation might not be entirely accurate.
“We had to build the wall, don’t you see? Too many people were leaving for the west and communism needs people. We had to keep them here to prove that communism works.”
Unsaid: We had to machine gun the women and children who tried to leave. For their own good.
Capitalism would have exploited them. They are better off dead.
In a small bit of good news for Pie, I found fresh in shell hazelnuts in September! Last few years they appeared in October when they were already too dry.
We planted hazelnut trees three years ago.
The voles killed two of the five.
This year we have a total of TEN nuts!! TEN
Breaking: The Nation Are a Bunch of Lying Partisan Hacks
“”The Nation isn’t a fringe blog,” Vance said on Monday, “it’s a well funded, well respected magazine whose publishing history goes back to the American Civil War. George Soros’ Open Society Foundation funds this magazine, as does the Ford Foundation and many other wealthy titans of the American progressive movement.”
In response, The Nation’s president Bhaskar Sunkara lambasted Vance over his comments, saying that the outlet had not received funding from the Open Society Foundation. Vance also said that Kirk’s assassination was in part attributable to leftwing media spreading fervent animosity and lies about Kirk and his work….
However, according to Newsbusters, The Nation was directly associated with the non-profit media company The Nation Institute from 2004 to 2019, which took in $1,349,000 from Soros’ organizations, according to Foundation Directory Online data. In 2019, the non-profit announced it was rebranding to the Type Media Center….”
https://thepostmillennial.com/leftist-nation-mag-lies-about-soros-funding-after-jd-vance-blasts-them-for-false-claims-about-charlie-kirk
1,349,000
Meh, is that even a month or two of operations for the magazine?
This is basically a normal day in the crowded skies here in metro NYC, but naturally it’s Spirit Airlines.
“I got to talk to you twice every time?” he said. “Pay attention. Get off the iPad.”
‘Pay attention’: Spirit pilots got a slap on the wrist after flying too close to Air Force One while Trump was on board
https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-one-spirit-airlines-flew-too-close-trump-uk-2025-9
OBE, what’s the normal penalty for failing to obey ATC in a timely fashion?
Death by plowing into the side of a hill?
Romeo and Julius is about to begin. Take your seats. And keep a bucket of tomatoes ready to hurl at the idiots on the screen. A whole trash can full.
https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1968163925960298773
Yea, really tugs at my heart strings that he shot because someone had a difference of opinion on trannies.
“In an iconoclastic masterpiece reminiscent of Sartre’s “No Exit”, author Tess Smith rips the veil of complacency from the eyes of her 21st century audience. Using Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as her trellis she has arranged a bouquet of literary and political figures that offends and enlightens. We are compelled to watch as her two protagonists, Romeo and Julius, eviscerate each other with love and compassion. The two are determined to marry despite the ominous warnings of Julius’s father, ‘The Donald’.
Who will be their savior? Why Elvis of course in Smith’s weltanschauung, Elvis has indeed NOT left the building, and is entirely capable of preventing the young lovers from destroying their eternal souls, if he chooses to intervene!
No ideology is sacred! The vapidity of pop culture is juxtaposed with the intellectual ejaculations of Allen Ginsberg! The abortion debate is utterly muted forever with Smith’s heart wrenching spoken aria as the Paris character explains the great evil which at once surrounds her and metastases within her. This profound and bitingly clever play forces us to ask “for whom the bell tolls?” And like it or not we all ultimately have to admit, that it does indeed, toll for us!”
Is that supposed to be a recommendation???
The author seems to think so.
The Party must indirectly wield the state through the party’s base. Rank-and-file members, who are distinct from & self-subordinated to the center, would act through the mass organizations of the workers, and mediate their activity so that they do not capitulate to the counterrevolution either from outside or within their domain.
Monkey laser purple compendium.
Top notch links, bro.
Depressing, but top notch.
Have a nice day, everyone!
There is only one Bro here.
The Bro Of All Bro’s.
Your First Of All Firsters.
Starting a 5-hour, WoD-necessary drive to Michigan to resupply my supply. Drive goes by Peru, IN, and am always tempted to pop in, though what would I really do there? It’s a remarkably pretty drive, IMO, with scenic rural farmland to pass through.
To Buchanan, MI in my ‘new’ Kia Sportage. Will be fun to take it where it’s never been, and we’ll be joined on the ride back with an afternoon ballgame on Cubs radio. Cade Horton really likely should be the Rookie of the Year, per last night. I hope to catch the end of the game on TV, and then I gotta further carve out the piece I’m working on.
Have a jolly one, y’all. Our world is askew, but it’s always been for everyone living in it. Our current flavor of religious insanity isn’t far from other swells in history. Shucks.
Was this shared with Mojeaux already?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/climax
And I’m sure MSFT would have gone to all this trouble for a third party product, right?
Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/chen_bluetooth_driver/
Mr. Jingles?
Thats funny
The Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation isn’t even an Indian tribe. They are a hustle. I hope they continue to waste money on lawyers.
The judge has probably had to deal with UHC as an insured.
/currently frustrated with UHC’s game playing
What condiments or fixins do you recommend for a fried egg on a cheeseburger? I have ground beef, cheese, and eggs.
salt and pepper – the beef before cooking, the egg while cooking.
That should be good.
No ketchup or anything?
I haven’t used Ketchup in a long while. If you normally do on a burger, it wouldn’t hurt.
Are you a ketchup on eggs person?
Me, I would put Tapatio on it, but, you do you.
Hot peppers.
Anything you like. Shredded iceberg lettuce, sliced dill pickles, caramelized onions, and ketchup with a little sriracha is my usual.
Cheddar on the patty, bacon and cream cheese on the fried egg.
Onion rings, pepper jack cheese, thousand island dressing or mayo, your favorite hot sauce.
Bacon.
Sadly more show than go.
This is the first flight of a larger model of the Cygnus spacecraft known as the Cygnus XL, measuring 5.2 feet (1.6 meters) longer, with the ability to carry 33 percent more cargo than the previous Cygnus spacecraft design.
TW – Ars
A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/a-record-supply-load-wont-reach-the-international-space-station-as-scheduled/
Isn’t that a Rush song?
Close. It was one of the first things I thought about as well.
It did lead us into Hemispheres. Another album that has zero chance of being made today and one of my favorites.
Cygnus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGK3Da2CzA&list=RDhaGK3Da2CzA&start_radio=1&t=132s
(It’s like Rush, but with balls)
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/rarely-seen-wagon-1966-checker-marathon/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
That thing is fantastic. That is one heap I would want to restore and modify with a comfortable modern interior.
I’m just old enough that when I first moved into NYC in the early 90s that actually rode in some of the few remaining Checker Cabs.
I still remember the little jump seats on the partition.
take it from the barn to the junkyard
Fran Lebowitz would love it.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/06/28/nyregion/FRAN2/FRAN2-articleLarge.jpg
I rode in one once, the back seat was super roomy.
Would buy.
Capital sleuthing, guvnuh
Police in the U.K. arrested four people after photos of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle on Tuesday night.
The projections included photos of Trump and Epstein; of the two joined by first lady Melania Trump with Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell; and of a lewd birthday message Trump allegedly sent Epstein in 2003 for a 50th birthday book.
Trump arrived in London on Tuesday for a state visit. He’s expected to spend most of Wednesday at the castle with King Charles III and Queen Camilla and other members of the royal family.
Thames Valley Police said in a statement Tuesday night that they arrested four adults “on suspicion of malicious communications following a public stunt in Windsor.” The police added they will conduct an investigation into the incident, and that all four people arrested remain in custody.
“Our officers responded swiftly to stop the projection and four people have been arrested,” the statement read
Malicious communication? I would have expected them to be knighted.
NOW: Crowd outside of Courthouse cheer and hug as it’s announced that terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione have been dropped
https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1967947416465969391
The Left.
I wonder if NY is the only state where a premeditated murder is not Murder 1? (Though shows like “Law and Order” would seem to contradict it.)
I saw a twitter thread about this but i don’t think I can find it
I saw that too, Pie. Every state has different legal definitions.
Yes. Oregon. Simple premeditated murder is murder in the 2nd degree. 1st degree and aggregated murder require elements beyond just premeditation.
*aggrevated murder, although aggregate murder is one of the possible elements for it.
Now you’ve done it. You’ve collectivized the left.
I can’t say I’m surprised by this level of doubling down.
“The 19-year-old suspect admitted to the encounter, telling police it was meant as a prank, and even showed officers a video of the incident. Both suspects were arrested for investigation of felony harassment.”
Not the smartest clowns.
https://thepostmillennial.com/two-clowns-arrested-after-harassing-women-in-seattle-with-firearms
Have they been checked for Hatchet Man tats?
Soothing words from elder statesman
Former President Barack Obama addressed political violence in the United States on Tuesday night, telling a group in Pennsylvania that the country is “at an inflection point.”
The former president addressed the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attacks on two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers that left speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman and her husband dead, and another state representative and his wife severely injured. He called both incidents “horrific” and “a tragedy.”
Obama said that political violence “is not new” and “has happened at certain periods in” U.S. history, but is “anathema to what it means to be a democratic country.”
“There are no ifs, ands or buts about it, the central premise of our democratic system is that we have to be able to disagree and have sometimes really contentious debates without resorting to violence,” Obama said during a fireside chat at the Jefferson Educational Society, a nonprofit in Erie, Pennsylvania.
We should be able to slander you without consequences, you depraved Nazis.
In 2016, everything became fascist (not that such comparisons didn’t happen on the left before that).
Before that, from 2008 to 2016, it was any dissent to the Light Bringer was racist.
Same shit, spread by his administration.
Even Fetterman’s Monster is against this shit:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/16/fetterman_you_dont_compare_anyone_to_hitler_when_you_do_you_will_incite_somebody_to_take_them_out.html
US Tire Assault Vehicle
NASA tried several simple ways of safely detonating the tires, but they did not always work, and could even be dangerous. A 450 lb (204 kg) bomb disposal robot, worth 100,000 U.S. dollars, was available to the CV-990 LSRA crew, but it was often preoccupied when they needed it. In addition, the bomb robot was 4 feet (1.22 m) tall, 4 feet (1.22 m) long, and 3 feet (0.91 m) wide, making it too large to effectively maneuver under the plane.
This problem, as with most problems when you put your mind to it, was solved with heavy armor. Not just any heavy armor, the heaviest and most fearsome tank of the Second World War, the King Tiger, albeit made of plastic and much smaller than the original.
… but it was often preoccupied when they needed it.
What, it was busy downloading steamy pictures of industrial robots?
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
They could have sent an orphan out there to take the valve stems out of the tires.
Obama said that recent political violence isn’t the only worry he has about the state of the U.S. He warned that there is “a host of larger trends that we have to be concerned about.” He criticized leaders who responded to Kirk’s death with comments that could sow further division.
“There’s been some confusion, I think, around this lately, and frankly, coming from the White House and some of the other positions of authority that suggest, even before we had determined who the perpetrator of this evil act was, that somehow we’re going to identify an enemy,” Obama said. In a video statement mourning Kirk, President Trump blamed the “radical left” for his death.
“We’re going to suggest that somehow that enemy was at fault, and we are then going to use that as a rationale for trying to silence discussion around who we are as a country and what direction we should go,” Obama continued. “And that’s a mistake as well.”
We all know white nationalist terror is the root cause.
Let’s not forget the NRA.
And yet there appears to distinction between liberals and conservatives about if it is justified.
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52960-charlie-kirk-americans-political-violence-poll
This nation was founded on political violence.
The murder of Kirk was not political violence.
It was religious.
Obama said that he disagreed with many of Kirk’s opinions, including his 2023 claim that Black women including Michelle Obama and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson “do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously” and his belief in the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.
I have seen this assertion several times. Did he really say ALL black women are mental defectives? I somehow doubt it.
They’d have that playing on a loop if it existed.
He did not say all black women.
The left lies and distorts, always, and I bet if you very carefully edit a clip of Charlie you can extract those words. Just be sure to exclude all the context.
I can see an “Exact Words” situation talking about Affirmative action – “To achieve superficial diversity quotas, the colleges are admitting black women like Big Mike and Jackson who do not have the brain power to be taken seriously in these fields of study”
Here’s the clip
Jackson and Big Mike do strike me as not particularly adroit in the cognition department.
They would be showing the video proof of it 24/7, if it existed.
I doesn’t, and they don’t.
He specifically mentioned 3 black women that he claimed were hired due to DEI. He did not make a blanket statement about all black women.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-charlie-kirk-quote-082017036.html
It’s mostly taken out of context, but here is some of the context. I’ve not watched nor do I plan to watch the video for complete context.
Just be sure to exclude all the context.
Oddly enough, I was just imagining a little vignette in my head.
Media Matters, fact checking a report of Kirk’s execution: “Lacks context.”
Will I finally be able to get a GPU without paying close to $1k?
Chinese Officials Urge Firms to Shun Nvidia AI Chip
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-nvidia-ai-chips-fbdbc30a?st=Wehtgq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
New firm has opened – “Shunchip” imports a suspicious number of “silicon blanks” from the US, grinds off the markings and relabels them.
Architecturally, from a hardware perspective, what is different about a GPU that makes it more useful for LLMs versus classical CPUs?
My understanding is the they mostly use the same building blocks – it’s just how many of them want to stick on the chip.
Nvidia is fabless and they only have so much fab capacity that they have commitments for capacity. Economically it makes the most sense to dedicate that to AI configurations where the margins are much higher.
My hope is that lower AI demand makes it more lucrative for them to use some of the capacity for gaming GPUs.
To oversimplify slightly, the GPU is a bunch of pocket calculators wired up in a matrix. A CPU is a relatively small number of Ti-84 graphing calculators wired up in a row.
AI is just matrix math writ large, so the math isn’t particularly hard most of the time (simple adds and floating point multi) but you have to do it billions of times over. The GPU is best equipped to do that sort of things.