Good morning one and all to another splendid day!
Enforcement agreements between ICE, local police climbed by 950% in Trump’s first year of 2nd term
The Trump Administration Officially Kills DEI at the FAA
States Begin Restricting Food Stamps for High-Sugar, Low-Nutrition Products
AOC Attempts To Mock Marco Rubio Over Basic Historical Fact — It Quickly Blows Up In Her Face
MA Democratic Auditor Takes Own Party to Court After $12M Fraud and 72% Vote for Audit
Billionaires Make Plans to Avoid the California Wealth Tax
Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as company looks to focus on value to boost sales
That’s all I got for today. I will leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Who’s next for the trifecta?
James Van Der Beek was first….so Rev. Hymietown was #3.
Does he really count though – not an entertainer.
What? He’s not a comedian?
I rarely eat at Wendy’s but their baconator and especially their nacho cheeseburger (in a double) was perhaps the best fast food burger.
They have the best spicy chicken too. Or they did a couple decades ago.
But yeah, the quality is down and the service is worse than ever. I can’t imagine why so many of these fast food restaurants are closing.
Don’t forget the costs going up too.
The girlfriend and I stopped in a regional Italian Chipotle-style place a year or so back. We both got small entrees, fountain drinks, and a pepperoni stick to split, and it was nearly $50.
Yeah, I was thinking I neglected to add that.
Was at Five Guys a couple years ago, almost 20 bucks for a burger, fries, and pop.
It’s far worse now. I got dinner at a local takeout burger place last night, and it was $35 for a double bacon cheeseburger, onion rings, and a strawberry milkshake.
Damn good burger though.
Grow more cows, America. This is getting ridiculous.
Grow more cows, America.
I’s going to take a while:
I just had 5 guys for the first time in years, still bland and still north of $20 for burger, fries and a shake. They remind me of why I need to quit complaining about Whataburgers prices.
I have been told Whataburger has gone to shit in the past several years.
I have been told Whataburger has gone to shit in the past several years.
I think that’s a bit extreme, but they aren’t as good as they were before PE bought them. Still better than the clown and the king.
Last time I ate at Wendy’s I got food poisoning. That Wendy’s closed last month, so maybe not a huge surprise.
Wendy’s has always been associated with sticky floors and dirty laminated tables in my mind. The food used to be good enough to be worth the occasional stop. However, the last time I went, the restaurant was less dingy but the food was utterly forgettable. There’s a whataburger and a Culver’s on the same stretch of road, so I’ll go to Wendy’s 0/10 times.
Last Wendy’s we stopped at (Rehoboth Beach) was shabby and dirty. How did raising the minimum wage lead to more employees not giving a damn?
Cause employees know they are getting a steal. Sweep floors and push a button for $15-22/hour and I can slack off?
Incentives, how do they work?
Stop at a Buc-Eees when you’re on the road and pay attention to what they pay, and the service you will get while you’re there.
Proper management, expectations and adherence them make a world of difference.
Best bathrooms I have ever seen in a ‘truck stop’
Best truck stop bathroom I ever saw was in Brazil. Looked like it was spit shined on the hour, every hour.
Wendy’s doesn’t cut any corners when it comes to making burgers.
Closing ‘underperforming’ stores is stupid.
If they lose money close them.
If they make money keep them open.
Mega corp pencil pushers make dumb decisions like closing stores that make money but don’t make ‘enough.’ That hurts their brand by limiting exposure and profits.
The Trump Administration Officially Kills DEI at the FAA
How can I feel confident flying if people who look like me aren’t in charge?
OBE has a sad….
I better step up my game
*OBE rolls into work tomorrow *
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzUwZjliMmYtNTg3MS00YmZjLTlmNTItYzZmZmFkYmVkMDcwXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg
That timeline of way off.
They were using affirmative action in the 90s too.
My dad’s wife’s former baby son was trying to get an ATC job out of doing it on carriers. He got a bump for hiring by being former military and having experience but said if he scored a 95% on their tests he would have been beaten out by a black woman with no experience who scored 70%.
This was in 97/98
Cut what’s covered to beans, rice, and kale — save the taxpayers billions.
Kale farmers rejoice!
Rice beans and pork. You can never eliminate pork from government program. It’s a natural law.
/golf clap
I’m tempted to make up some red beans and rice now…
Mmmm. Red beans and rice with andouille sausage…
Kale? Kale is for covering the ice at the salad bar. Let’s just stick to food for SNAP.
No kale.
That crap is poison.
Also don’t let them pay a bag tax with SNAP or buy bottled water.
Mentally ill hockey dude can rot in hell. What a pussy
Technically he’s a dick.
Asshole maybe?
According to the newsies, he’d actually undergone surgery. ‘Asshole’ might have been the only thing left.
The tits look like add-ons but he doesn’t appear to be trying very hard otherwise.
Shocking to me that a tranny would have narcissistic personality disorder.
Well, at least she was paying attention. That was kind of the point. And boy does the left hate that.
It continues to amuse me that her name is Cortez.
She’s such a perfect midwit. Not entirely dumb but nearly as smart as she imagines herself to be.
And Rubio’s not the idiot Trump claimed in 2016 or so. Her trying to match wits with him (or his speechwriter) was never going to end well.
And like most midwits, she always thinks she’s right, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I don’t know who wrote the speech, but I know Rubio is quick witted. I’d love to see him in a debate with AOC. He’d make her look as brain dead as Biden was.
She probably thinks Spain speaks “Mexican”. Best comment on that article was along the line of you’d think someone who looked like Secretariat would known where horses came from.
“Rubio’s speech was a pure appeal to western culture,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
That is the first thing that struck me. She lives in such a racist bubble that she thinks that is a bad thing. Western culture gave the world The Enlightenment. She wants to lead a movement to enstupidize the world back into a dark age.
Only certain swaths though. Her ilk will live in castles
For the environment…
All I’ve seen are conservatives crowing about the fact that it was the Spaniards who brought horses to America. That without them there would be no cowboy culture here.
Ahem.
What about cows? The Spaniards brought them too. And I daresay it is cowboy culture, not horseboy culture. Why do we tolerate this vicious discrimination? Udderly unacceptable!
I await Snopes to fact check AOC and give her a “mostly true” rating because the Paniolo Cowboys in Hawaii did come from Mexico.
I’m sure that this is what AOC was referencing.
The biggest thing that the Spanish did wrong was to let loose ungelded stallions and bulls in the Americas.
Nice run, RIP
As usual my favorites escape attention, this time “THX 1138” and “Falling Down”. Oh wellz.
I loved it when he showed up halfway through a Tom Cruise movie and made it so much better.
Which one, he’s done that to at least 2 off the top of my head. Days of Thunder and Jack Reacharound.
Yes – both. Days of Thunder was awful until he showed up.
Days of Thunder was a much better movie when Will Ferrell starred in the remake.
He had a lot of great roles. More kid-centric favorite of mine was “Secondhand Lions”.
Secondhand lions was a family favorite for me and the kids.
He was great in Open Range also.
Secondhand lions is a classic.
The Apostle. One of the best movies I saw back in the nineties.
How can we eulogize an actor who stooped to playing Confederate General Robert E. Lee, hammer of the slavemasters??
Yep, great actor and stayed out of the public eye when it didn’t involve movies.
RIP.
He played a similar character in a bunch of westerns, but they were all good. My favorite was Lonesome Dove.
AOC’s flubs will only strengthen her standing with the insane. Venezuela below the equator, cowboy origin story isn’t Spanish, etc.
Reason being is NYT is playing PR damage control and well, to her followers, she is the smartest person they know.
Cowboys exist wherever there is unenclosed domestic cattle and domesticated horses. I’m pretty sure they predate anything that could be called “spain”
It was however imported to the Americas from Spain.
The combo of unenclosed domestic cattle and domesticated horses started in the New World. Cattle in Europe were limited to the owner’s property.
What a narrow, post-medieval mindset.
Think pre-roman, Tater.
Sure, there were cattle in Europe thousands of years ago, but were they managed with horses? Also, everyone knows cowboys have guns.
What’s the difference between Puerto Rican damage control and regular damage control?
Two Haiti’s.
Or, in layman’s terms, 67 hogsheads of sunshine.
A lot more swearing if Hollywood is any indication.
The ratio of graft to actual repair?
PRDC ratio is asymptotic and approaches infinity; the other one tends to hover around 1.
Re: new comments being highlighted:
It was a WordPress/plugin thing.
If that feature doesn’t come back I can reimplement that in Monocle but I’ll give it a little time (and wouldn’t help non-Monocle peeps, obvs).
I think the waves of change are going to go up and down a few more times while things settle in. You might wait a month.
Last night, I discovered that Just Imagine is on Tubi.
https://tubitv.com/movies/100045291/just-imagine
Ha! That is actually already on the list!
I am showing “The Man Who Came to Dinner” this week, and I suggested you do a periodic “ClassyFlicks” to offset GlibFlicks.
Thanks!
Bad WordPress plugin!
So the feature is gone and needs reimplementing by hand somehow, not just a rename I can swap into my copy or something?
I suck at JS so I’m not likely to play with it any further than that.
Yep, there was a ‘new-comment’ class applied to new comments, which I no longer see nor any similar class.
The comment ‘id’ contains a numerical ID so, if need be,
– on first load, parse out all the ids, save largest id in a cookie
– next page load, if cookie exists, add new-comment class to all comments with id > cookie value
– save new largest id to cookie
etc.
But we’ll see if that feature comes back first.
/nopes out of that
But yeah, that feature is kind of basic. A requirement of any serious chat room CMS or plugin I would think.
You rock.
How does monocle work?
I’ve downloaded it before but it didn’t seem to do anything.
This is not the first time the MA legislature has defied a passed voter initiative. IIRC, it took two different “MA will legalize MJ” plebiscites passing, plus a court order after the second one was defied.
The few voter initiatives we get in NY are largely just suggestions, it seems.
When Europeans arrived in the Americas the two continents were populated from pole to pole by Stone Age cultures. They did not have metals except for a handful of places that found metallic copper, they did not have horses, cows, wheels, very little in the way of. crop cultivation, near zero animal domestication.
Women were property and war was constant. Cannibalism not out of the norm and some cultures were built around it.
Whatever sins the Eurotards committed they paled in comparison to what they found when they arrived in the howling wilderness, blood drenched savagery that were the pre-columbian Americas.
IIRC, the OG Americans DID have horses at one point, but ate them all as part of their living in harmony with nature.
Close but still funny.
Sounds about right but then we are told our form of government was cribbed from the Iroquois or some such.
We have some street signs and building names around here that have been respelled “their way” and of course nobody knows to pronounce them.
Rhy, them using a written language is cultural appropriation.
Tear those signs down.
Two things I left out: No dogs save one or two places and they kept them for food.
Stone Age cultures the world over were no different in that stage of cultural development.
Ok, three things: Slavery was near universal.
Western Civilization, particularly as it developed in Britain and the Netherlands with an emphasis on individual rights and responsibilities, emergent law, freedom of conscience and strong protections for contracts and property, is indisputably the most effective way of ordering a society in terms of material prosperity, scientific advancement, and expansion of human liberty that we have discovered to date. Nothing else is even close.
as it developed in Britain and the Netherlands
Which somehow makes it universal to all humans. That’s the part that I have trouble with. I’m not asking to trade for anyone else, why should we assume that everyone else must want this?
The Brits and Dutch aren’t so keen on individual rights these days.
Makes you wonder why those peoples wanted individual rights in the first place. Prolly to get out of paying for something.
If the rest of the world wants to wallow in inferior cultures, who am I to say no?
Provided they keep their hands to themselves, of course.
The Spain h gave them the horse the wheel and the boomstick.
Bad Spaniards.
Apparently, the authority of the sport will be allowing same-sex couples in Ice Dancing. I had thought this would have happened a LONG time before now considering how gay Ice Dancing is. Want to be radical? Have mixed-doubles luge.
synchronized, mixed-doubles, rhythmic luge
giggity
Love on a Real Sled?
New Winter Olympics theme music. People would start watching. At least for a short period of time.
File under “you can’t hate the media enough”:
OMG you won’t use the word “crisis”! So let ke try to put words in your mouth!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019022610/growing-calls-for-overhaul-of-dog-control-laws
This may have been covered elsewhere, but on the cowboys thing, the word “buckaroo” is an anglicization of “vaquero”, since Spanish does the thing where b and v can sound alike.
Neat. I was familiar with vaquero but did not draw the connection.
Heck, and as one of our resident Crackers, that term even has a somewhat crooked path back to Spanish cowboys. In FL and South Georgia, the Spanish-introduced cows were free-ranging, and the habit of the Southern cowboys was to carry and use a bullwhip. That may be Spanish tradition too – dunno. So they’d drive/prod the herds by cracking whips – hence “Crackers”.
Good morning fellow Glibs!
This weekend was spent mostly trying to replace the vent fan in my bathroom. The fucking YouTube videos on this topic made it look so easy…
Of you don’t need to replacing the box, it is quite simple.
Sadly, I do need to replace the box. The old one was a mess.
More sadly, I live in an apartment, so no attic access.
Even more sadly, the old vent fan was tied to an iron ceiling strut, first one of those I’ve even seen, and the ducting is the old 1970’s rigid kind.
Normally at this point I’d just burn the building down for the insurance, but I like my upstairs neighbors so even that’s out…
Ah then ya…good luck buddy!
They always do. I get customers telling me how easy my job is because they saw a video on YouTube and it was only 8 minutes long. At my previous career in financial svcs, I had a buddy who never had a free weekend because his wife watched those home improvement shows and he always had a project going on. His wife never understood why it took him more than an hour.
Can confirm…’look honey, its so easy!’ /bye bye weekend in OBE’s household.
But not easy enough for the wife to do….
Uffda. Mrs. Holiness is a complete sucker for the Home and Garden channel house remodeling videos.
She doesn’t grasp the concept of time when viewing them. The spunky 110lb house remodeler gal will say “now we’ll sand the floor” and the show goes to commercial. 4 minutes later the show comes back and starts with the gal saying “now that that is done we can start staining the hardwood floor”. Mrs. Holiness then thinks sanding hardwood floors only takes 4 minutes. I cannot convince her that a) it takes longer than 4 minutes and b) all the sanding was done by large male contractors who can handle the sander.
Worse project we ever did together was when we tore some shrubs/hedge out and put in a brick patio. Mrs. Holiness could not wait to put in the bricks. I kept trying to convince her that we had to dig out all the roots first and do a lot of tamping of the dirt so the patio didn’t settle unevenly as the roots decayed.
I see Mrs Holiness and Mrs OBE are cut from the same cloth.
Yep. Three trips to Home Depot, two hundred dollars, and one full weekend.
That is what a home improvement video costs.
Car repairs suffer from the same issues. I went to replace the ABS sensors on my truck on Sunday. The video showed removing 2 bolts, hanging the brake caliper, and disconnecting the sensor. 10 min max. I spent the entire afternoon breathing PB Blaster and impotently pulling on ratchet handles. Turns out the brakes haven’t been done in a while and all the bolts are seized….
HGTV is nothing more than “home porn” aimed at women.
There are about 40k home fires per year, 500 or so people die.
Causes: 1. Arson 2. Cooking related 3. Heating related 4. Dryers
A minority but still significant number of #3 are bathroom vents/heaters
I fixed mine, i.e. I took them out and replaced the hole in the ceiling with ceiling.
I am a bit of a fanatic when it comes to avoiding house fires.
How in the fuck would a bathroom vent fan cause a fire? It’s a fan?
Improper wiring and the mounds of toliet paper dust just sitting in there?
Also, a failing fan will generate significant heat before failure.
My ass deserves better quality TP than that…
Having had a house burn down around me once, I am rather anal about things like that, also.
My wife, on the other hand…
ES: Dust/lint accumulation plus electric motor eventually = fire
TBF it is more the bathroom ceiling heaters than the fans
In any case I have what some might consider an irrational fear of house fires
Zwak: Same here. A house fire is a hell of a thing that you only really understand when you see one up close and personal.
Wife and kids never understood why when they brought candles in the house they would disappear.
Absolutely they will. One of the buildings I work on for a lovely old Irish couple had someone leave the fan on overnight and it caught fire and spread through the ceiling to other apartments and ended up getting through half the building before they put it out. It was a defect in the fan and it wasn’t even an ancient one. Building was totally remodeled in the late early 00’s.
I was taught that horses were domesticated 5 or 6 thousand years ago somewhere around the Caspian Sea.
Sometime in my late youth I was perusing lots of photos of ancient petroglyphs and found some in Western Europe around 30 thousand years old depicting men riding horses. Hmmmph.
“Uhhh, speak to Mexicans & African slaves!”
– AOC
The African cowboys rode zebras of course.
The first cowboys were whatever the ancestors of the Cimmerians called themselves but tracing the more modern track to Spain is fine. Wasn’t Mexicans though, that’s for sure.
And I tend to think they were probably called horsemen.
New messages are still not showing as new. This is going to be a long day.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Satirically.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/randy-fine-anti-muslim-post-on-x-dogs-calls-for-resignation-rcna259270
It’s an open question as to whether that ship has sailed or not.
You know, that was one of the stupidest aspects of Margaret Atwood’s fiction – that some obscure, minority religious group would seize power. One hundred years of religious warfare – maybe, but not any serious claim to control over a sizeable territory. Unlike our the descendants of our European forebears, we won’t just roll over.
Unlike our the descendants of our European forebears, we won’t just roll over.
Minnesota and NYC have already rolled over.
And Seattle, Portland, and LA eagerly await the chance to roll over.
Islam is definitely aiming for the Religious victory in Civ 6.
American Kennel Club approves…
Those assholes hate dogs. Love eugenics.
The AKC has ruined a lot of good breeds. Fuckers breed purely for looks, not function.
WTF:
Even the trials that are based on skills more than looks are suspect.
My aunt used to go to field trials for spinones with her spins. The rules are better than just show trials, but still sort of silly.
For example, they will toss a dummy into the water. The correct behavior that the judges are looking for is the dog to run/swim directly to the dummy. If the dog runs down the shore to shorten the distance it has to swim points are taken away.
I pick dogs and hogs over muslims.
But where do you put Randy Fine?
I think all politicians rate below swine.
Won’t anyone think of the poor hungry Sioux?
Ummm. I don’t think “unregulated” means illegal.
I think The Koran provides an out to that but you have to like Afghan wolfhounds.
I’ll trade one dog for all 1.2 billion rich worshippers.
And I don’t even like dogs.
Spectacular. Both the AI hallucination and the fact that Ars Technica, home of the Top Men err Persons, got duped by one of their writers!
On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/
As a reply so I can include two links – the issue that Ars got duped with was a rogue AI going nuts on a maintainer when it’s code changes were rejected!
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
It’s AI battling AI.
I demand only human-fabricated quotations be allowed.
Cripple Fight!!!!
And yet millions of people vote for these Democrats. The country is doomed.
No I am assured that there are no real Democratic voters, it is all an illusion.
Well, they do inflate their numbers with straw men, so…
Gavin’s response to being called “historically illiterate”.
A new narrative is set “its just a bit of dyslexia” will be given as excuse for Newsom from here on forth.
He got some of his hair creme in his eyes?
I keep hoping that the victimhood Olympic torch will burn out…
Gavin being intellectually challenged is the least surprising news of the year so far.
Cruz obviously meant that Newsom had been illiterate in the past AND that he is illiterate to a historic extent, both of which I find entirely plausible.
Has Newsom ever mentioned being dyslexic prior this exchange?
Newsome went to Santa Clara university. You would think that a scion of a major CA political family would go to one of the UCs, like Berkeley or UCLA, but to have gone to a regional commuter school…
““White Lotus” star Natasha Rothwell blasted ICE in a sharp expletive-filled rebuke as she went off-script while presenting an award at Sunday’s Independent Spirit Awards.
“Hi, everyone! I’m going to go to the prompter, but I just want to say, ‘f—k ICE,” the actress said, which sent the audience into raptures.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/us-news/white-lotus-star-natasha-rothwell-goes-off-script-while-presenting-award-unleashing-anti-ice-tirade/
I can’t take anymore of this stunning bravery.
Who? What awards? Me thinks the media just finds some pompous gasbag spouting off at some community theater participation award ceremony and amplifies it for the clicks.
Why, they would never!
I’m still waiting the Award Show Awards. Who will win best virtue signal?
Bruce Vilanch?
I’ll say it again – host an illegal and give him free food, education, and health care yourself or just shut the fuck up already.
Wow, no wonder she won an “Independent Spirit” award.
Apparently Eric Swallwell’s love poetry is being put on the internet.
*burns down internet*
You know, ‘Eric Swolewell’ would be a great porn name…
Ode to the CCP?
🤢🤮
Can’t help but think of Vogons.
“When I want some tang tang
I hit up Fang Fang
She hops on my wang wang
and we start to bang bang.”
Slow clap.
Huh. I’m reading the https://galacticpistolalliance.com/ rulebook, and it looks like in an attempt to speed up the game they’re bringing the targets way in:
Still using time-plus scoring. Pass.
USPSA:PCSL::IDPA:GPA
No idea what/why/who, but my local (fun) club and the local IDPA club are switching to these rules. The USPSA club is staying with USPSA. Thank freaking God.
ARMing 3-4 majors this season. 5 majors total, only one Nats will I not be ARMing as of now.
The GPA rules have much cringe, but a couple decent ideas. I do not like that a hit on a non threat is a lesser penalty than a miss tho.
Good analogy.
And as much cringe as the GPA rules may have, at least they don’t force you to wear a photographer’s vest in public.
I would think a hit on a non-threat would be a huge penalty. Maybe not a DQ, but something. At my GunSite classes, the instructors get super-pissed at actual safety violations, but somewhat less pissed when you shoot the wrong target. Except in the shoot houses, when it’s more a sorrowful shaking of the head.
It’s 5 seconds. For comparison, stepping outside the lines is 3 seconds a miss is 10.
This kind of relates to the difference between soldier and policeman, whether killing the bad guy takes priority over not killing the not bad guy.
Remember, this is a shooting game, not a simulation of a gunfight. No-shoot targets exist to add difficulty and disaster factor to the shooting problems. As such, they can have any penalty value that makes sense for the game. I do agree that hitting a no-shoot should cost the shooter more than a miss.
And they’re not ‘non-threat’ targets. None of the targets in a shooting game are a threat, because they’re made out of cardboard. (I’ll allow that badly maintained steel targets can sometimes shoot back.)
They’re ‘no-shoot’ or ‘penalty’ targets.
Confucius say, “The beginning of wisdom is to call a thing by its right name.”
To be fair, back in the Jeff Cooper days of IPSC, they were called ‘hostage’ targets. We truly owe the gaymers a debt of gratitude for chopping that one off at the knees…
While you are of course correct, the conceit of IDPA and (presumably) GPA is that it is a self-defense training simulator. Hence why explicitly in the IDPA rules each stage must be a self-defense scenarios and of course that’s where all the doctrinal penalties (AIEEE! You dropped a magazine with ammo in it!) come from.
USPSA is “this is a game. A puzzle game. With guns. And some footraces attached sometimes.”
IPSC is the same but “we can’t expect to be able to communicate what the puzzle is to foreigners, so here’s some IKEA icons, memorize what they mean ahead of time.”
If Jeff Cooper was involved in any way, no wonder they don’t know what to call it, what it is for, or any other intelligent thing.
I guess I still have it….sort of. Yesterday afternoon the neighbor and I were yaking and he challenged me to hit a 55 gallon barrel he had in his yard with my 1-5/8″ J-frame 38. “Nobody can hit anything outside 5 yards with one of those!”
It has fixed front and gutter sights. Standing free-hand (I used two hands) and five seconds of sighting *bang*. We walked down to look and yep…75 yards and hit dead center. He stared at it for a few seconds, spun on his heel without saying a word and walked back to his porch.
“It isn’t about the distance. Think in two dimensions. The target is just larger or smaller”
When I said that his face lit up….he got it.
For your consideration, a current-gen AI movie short:
https://x.com/thedorbrothers/status/2023460644905742577?s=20&ct=rw-null
My reaction: As a proof of concept, this should scare the crap out of Hollywood.
Seen a few of those. The technology is in the early 2000s quality it appears
Today. Where was it a year ago? Where will it be a year from now.
I’m generally an AI skeptic, but this kind of thing is an exception.
Ya I didnt expand on that. Agreed the technology has bloomed quite rapidly
Scare the crap out of Hollywood? Hollywood loves this stuff. All reward, zero risk.
Good question(?). Everyone who works in Hollywood and is not a financier should be very worried indeed.
Even the money men can’t be happy if this breaks the current massive barriers to entry into bigtime production. And I don’t see how it doesn’t.
The actors will pitch a fit for sure.
And they will all move to Broadway, where you cannot fake it.
Plus, the writing, if done by AI, will be shit. (not that most movie scripts aren’t shit, but the best will always be human.)
Follow the Late P Brooks’ example, and your worries will melt away like polar ice caps.
I was thinking of doing exactly that.
Starting… now!
Dancing skeletons:
https://youtu.be/TfNB-RtqEyY?si=tsLDQAgdItgftSsU
She mis-spelled “grifter” and/or “race baiter.”
My favorite bit is he “mentored Al Sharpton”. I’d leave that off my resume but I have a sense of shame I guess.
Today, in pancake news
“You’re flipping your pancakes WRONG! Scientists reveal secret behind the perfect toss – and the importance of a ‘pivot point'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15566549/flipping-pancakes-WRONG-secret-perfect-toss.html
“Flipping good… for you! Nutritionist reveals simple ingredient and topping swaps to make pancakes healthier”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15563933/Flipping-good-you-Nutritionist-reveals-simple-ingredient-topping-swaps-make-pancakes-healthier.html
What’s even the point of the things if you aren’t syruping yourself half to death with them?
Who makes 1 pancake at a time?
People with small skillets?
“Nicki Minaj ridiculed for ‘cringe’ fantasy photos of her and Donald Trump twinning in pink as she celebrates Presidents’ Day”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15566101/Nicki-Minaj-ridiculed-cringe-AI-photos-Donald-Trump.html
STIJLTH
I love that she doesn’t have two fucks to give about all this.
THAT is stunninger and braver than anything her critics are up to.
She’s not stunning and brave?
“The next pandemic could come from an ancient underground ice cave, scientists have warned.
Researchers from the Romanian Academy have discovered a bacterial strain that has been frozen in Romania’s Scarisoara Ice Cave for 5,000 years.
Carefully extracting a sample, the researchers tested it against 10 common antibiotics, including those used to treat tuberculosis, colitis, and UTIs.
Their results showed that, despite dating back five millenia, the strain is already resistant to all 10 antibiotics.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15563967/prehistoric-killer-superbug-5-000-year-old-ice-resistant.html
WCPGW?
See? Time travel is real!
I blame Pie.
We must nuke Romania before it is too late.
“Pregnant Minnesotans postpone abortion appointments to avoid ICE
Planned Parenthood’s no-show rate has gone up almost 10 percent since the Minnesota operation began”
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/17/pregnant-patients-in-minnesota-have-postponed-abortion-appointments-to-avoid-ice-partner/
So they are having an ice ICE baby?
Holy shit, that’s what ‘Rollin’ in my 5.0′ was about this whole time?
I’m guessing the anchor baby is already in hand, if illegals are having abortions.
Oh no, what a shame. 🙄
This news will get those Republican bigots to oppose ICE.
Headline: “More than 600 people were fired or punished for posting about Charlie Kirk’s death. They want justice”
Article: “By November of 2025, a Reuters investigation estimated that 600 people had been terminated, disciplined, investigated, suspended or otherwise admonished for their Kirk posts, likening the reaction to an ideological purge.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/17/people-fired-punished-posting-charlie-kirk-death
“It was the afternoon of 13 September 2025, just a few days after Charlie Kirk had been killed by a sniper’s bullet on a college campus. Shortly after his assassination, Strebe had posted on her personal Facebook page: “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.” In comments underneath, she did not mince words. She called Kirk a racist, a sexist, an antisemite and the kind of person who wants to see gay people, like her own son, stoned to death. “I don’t feel bad,” she says, months later, speaking from her home. “I refuse to feel bad for this man, and the hateful things he stood for.””
Free Palestine!
When did he advocate for stoning homosexuals to death? I kind of suspect she made that up or if I want to be charitable misinterpreted what he said.
Yeah, and all of the rest posted similar, actually hateful, garbage.
The Guardian can, as always, go fuck itself.
He didn’t. IIRC he used that as an example of why some interpretations of the Bible are wrong or why the Bible shouldn’t always be taken literally or something.
This person didn’t misinterpret what he said, though. It was misinterpreted for her. It’s likely that she never even heard of Charlie Kirk prior to his murder, and certainly never heard or read anything he actually said. She only learned of these “hateful things he stood for” from some Facebook posts from other lefties who cherry-picked, took things out of context, or made shit up in order to justify his murder.
Howdy, y’all. This (and next) week, I’m on 2nd shift again in my life, working 1:30-10pm, reminiscent of my teaching schedule in Korea. Oddly, I’d prefer the morning shift, all things considered, but it’s damn nice to not wake up at 4am.
I do have UPS arriving today, theoretically coming anytime from *now* up to right before work. (Thankfully, work’s 5min away.) I have to sign the bitch cuz it’s my menthol vapes and we’ve unsuccessfully ‘connected’ twice already.
Tranny shooting is running behind Jesse Jackson’s death, and the AP included the alias but didn’t focus on the tranny issue, for obv reasons.
That’s going to be a bugaboo for Blue in the midterms, to be ignored. If only they can get another martyr, however, all will be saved for them!.. in their bizarrely desperate and one-track mind.
Preaching to the choir
She said she went to the conference “not because I’m running for president, not because I’ve made some kind of decision about a horse race or a candidacy, but because we need to sound the alarm bells that a lot of those folks in nicely pressed suits in that room will not be there much longer if we do not do something about the runaway inequality that is fueling far-right populist movements.”
The New York Democrat praised her meetings with European leaders, saying she was “pleasantly surprised” by the reception she received. Former Irish President Mary Robinson said Ocasio-Cortez’s presence at the conference offered a fresh voice and left-wing views appealing to Europeans.
“I’m not sure America’s ready for that yet,” Robinson told the Times. “But maybe it is.”
Those fucking right wing populists again. Always Hell bent on destroying democracy. At least the Eurocollectivists understand how the world should work.
What about those in chick-fil-A dresses?
Doesn’t anyone know why the Nancy Guthrie thing is getting so much coverage? It’s all Megyn Kelly can talk about. Fox news has a graphic with hotline numbers in the bottom corner of the screen while reporting other stories.
Nothing gets the right-wing versions of Karens more titillated than a good old kidnapping. Fox and Kelly know what side their bread’s buttered on.
Yeah, that is my impression. And it’s 24/7 not just one show. Most of their viewers are probably females and they love this stuff.
From what I can tell, they have been talking about a glove they found somewhere for about a week and a half now.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven BTW but I just don’t care enough to dig into it.
It is the same people who read/watch true crime. They eat this junk up.
What’s the gender breakdown for true-crime shows?
It’s to distract from the Epstein files and Pedo trump, duh.
“Illegal Aliens Break into North Carolina Man’s Home, Tie Him Up, Beat Him — Then Rape Him”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/illegal-aliens-break-north-carolina-mans-home-tie/
Seems a bit excessive.
“Was that wrong?”
But I have been assured that illegals commit crimes at lower rates than Americans!
Because that is at all a valid way to look at this stuff!
Ocasio-Cortez said present working-class interests are undermined by movements fueled by various right-wing leaders, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Argentinian President Javier Milei and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
For being such a tiny fringe group of deluded malcontents, those guys sure scare the pants off some people.
Orban’s the only elected leader with any goddamn sense. Of course they can’t stand him.
Where “working-class interests” are the exact opposite of the interests of the actual working class.
A pioneer in the science of weaponized victimhood
“Reverend Jesse Jackson was one of America’s greatest patriots,” Harris wrote on social platform X. “He spent his life summoning all of us to fulfill the promise of America and building the coalitions to make that promise real.”
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A mentee of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson was one of the preeminent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. He later ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1984 and 1988, finishing in third and second place in those primaries, respectively.
Harris, the second Black politician to be a major party nominee along with former President Obama, wrote Tuesday that she had a “Jesse Jackson for President” bumper sticker on her car during her time in law school at the University of California Hastings.
Truly an inspiration to us all.
He later ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1984 and 1988
Oddly enough, they make no mention of his “Hymietown” comment during the 1984 campaign. Or how Rainbow/Push was just a way to shake down corporations for cash.
The tongue bath he was getting from the Foxheads around 5 or 6am that I turned on loud to drown out the baying wolf that lives next door was unreal.
LOL I don’t believe that for a second.
“fweedom”
To be very generously fair, his religious views were very trad – some of it a little extreme for me and I’m pretty whatevz on that stuff.
But I don’t think he advocated anything like stoning homos though he was not at all on my radar before his assassination.
He wasn’t anti-LGBT. He even did an interview with Buck Angel.
Horse race. Maybe she does have a sense of humor.
Do you feel lucky, punk?
Any deal could trigger a windfall for the 21% private equity investor TSG, which bought its stake in 2017.
But about 220,000 investors, who contributed £75m in crowdfunding across seven “equity for punks” rounds, could walk away with nothing.
Phil Halsey, 47, has invested about £2,500, starting in the second cash call in 2011.
“It’s extremely disappointing that it’s gone this way,” said Halsey. “The last time you could have done some form of cashing out was about a year and a half ago.”
He said he had chosen not to sell because he believed that the shares were already effectively worthless and felt it would have been unethical to make money from a new investor. “I just hoped beyond hope that my suspicions weren’t going to be fulfilled and something good would come out of it. Probably not now.”
Wait- if I put a buck in a panhandler’s cup and he buys a winning lottery ticket I don’t get q cut?
I’m shocked… Or perhaps not.
PARIS—For years, guides who escorted Chinese tourists through the Louvre were using the same ticket for multiple people in their groups, French authorities said. They weren’t caught because museum security had been bribed to look the other way.
Authorities cracked down on the scheme last week with the arrest of nine people, mostly Chinese nationals. They have been charged with defrauding the museum of more than $12 million. Two of the people charged were Louvre employees.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/tour-guides-accused-of-scamming-the-louvre-out-of-12-million-f99fc9bd?st=5haAKi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested in New Orleans on Tuesday morning, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
The 39-year-old Fury star got into a fist fight just after midnight with multiple people while partying during the Mardi Gras festival.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15567603/Shia-LaBeouf-arrested-New-Orleans-alleged-bar-brawl.html
How many times is this asshole going to arrested for the same thing?
He will not divide us!
♫♫♫Legendary fight with Shia LaBeouf,
Normal Tuesday night for Shia LaBeouf…♫♫♫
He looks like a vagrant. Yuck.
Another victim of the Mouse.
Because with the First Brands debacle there isn’t enough chaos in auto parts.
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/genuine-parts-plans-to-split-into-two-companies-45156614?st=skPsdQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Friend of mine is facing just this with his nursery business.
Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don’t Want to Be in the Family Business.
https://www.wsj.com/business/family-farms-inheritance-44c9aa17?st=C88iv5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
OTH – maybe some more corn subsidies can fix it!
Many farmers already rely on government bailouts to stay afloat. In 2024, Congress approved $10 billion in bailout funds and $21 billion in natural disaster relief for growers and ranchers. The Trump administration’s trade policies exacerbated the situation, pushing more families and communities to the brink. In December, the White House pledged $12 billion in aid to farmers. Even with that money, corn growers are expected to be in the red again in 2026, industry estimates show.
Ruh-roh.
Tchaikovsky, excellent choice. One of my favorites for morning music.
But EVs are so much simpler than old fashioned cars
In a recent report, Consumer Reports attributed these problems to a faulty ICCU, or Integrated Charging Control Unit. The ICCU converts high voltage to low and is responsible for recharging the 12-volt battery—not the large battery used for propulsion—that powers many, if not most, of the car’s functions. The 12-volt battery serves many important roles, and can be thought of as the starter and an alternator in a gas car. It also powers the vehicle’s main and auxiliary systems, including the infotainment system, safety systems, and other components vital to the car’s operation. While EV owners can still charge via DC fast charging and top up the main battery, an ICCU failure may leave other systems inoperable or only functional for a limited time.
The publication surveyed 380,000 vehicle owners, who claimed one of the biggest problems was losing power while driving. As covered by YouTuber The Ioniq Guy, many owners report coming to “a dead stop on the road” despite having sufficient charge to drive. That’s not only inconvenient (especially for a new car), but also extremely unsafe.
The auto conglomerate has issued two recalls in the past and has attempted to fix the problem with software updates and part replacements. However, the CR claims that “between 2 and 10 percent of Hyundai and Kia EV owners experienced ICCU-related issues,” while the typical rate of charging issues for other models of the same model year is “1% or less.” Furthermore, many owners who have performed these repairs over the last three years are still reportedly dealing with issues today.
A minor inconvenience.
Afternoon Links are fucked