Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
Big ideas from Trump’s State of the Union speech, from federal 401k payments to Dalilah’s law
D.C. Circuit Court Shoots Down Bid To Block IRS Data-Sharing Policy Aimed At Boosting Deportations
Over a quarter million federal jobs reduced in 2025 from nearly two dozen agencies
Immigration Chief: Illegal Total Far Above Estimates
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Compensation Local Government Owes From Foreclosure
The Fani Files: Georgia prosecutor plotted Trump case closely with Biden DOJ, J6 Democrats: memos
Trump to call for tech companies to pay more for data center electricity
Apple to Begin Mac Production at Texas Facility
Panama seizes two key ports from Hong Kong group amid U.S.-China canal dispute
‘Dyslexic’ Gavin Newsom Bragged About Reading Book in 90 Minutes
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“”The reality is, we will never have enough judges to handle currently 3.6-plus million cases, and I believe 25 to 30 million people … are here in the United States illegally,” Executive Office for Immigration Review Director Daren Margolin told Axios.”
Who knows?
What I know for certain is, every year when I do my taxes I feel like a bigger chump.
There! You see, that’s all the justification we need for not doing anything, except counting them in the next census (as long as they inflate blue areas)! /Dems
Amnesty! Amnesty! Amnesty!
Rubber stamp all of them out.
Donit with an auto pen.
We don’t have enough cops to catch every criminal – maybe we should just let criminals rule the streets.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin?
“I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just trying to impress upon you I’m like you. I’m no better than you. I’m a 960 SAT guy. And I’m not trying to offend anyone, trying to act all there if you got 940. But literally a 960 SAT guy. You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe I’m in the wrong business to be in.”
Vote for me because I’m a dumbass?
Senator Space Cadet lost on dumbed-down Celebrity Jeopardy to a dumb jock.
I guess if calling your opponents dumb didn’t work you could try calling your supporters dumb.
In the latter case, it may be actually correct.
I’m retarded like all you minority people.
“I’m stoopid just like you darkies so you know I am totally not a racist”
Apparently the company that makes Bearcats is in MA. The MA Governette, the local congresscritter and the juco press are all into making them stop, cause ICE.
https://www.wamc.org/news/2026-02-24/berkshire-lawmaker-calls-for-pittsfield-armored-vehicle-maker-to-forgo-future-ice-contracts
Wake me up when ICE has killed as many Americans as the ATF.
Fuck off.
why is it legal to make weird bear cat hybrids?
The rugs dude. You haven’t lived until you’ve banged on one.
do keep your weird fetishes private.
Not having gone to an American high school you probably haven’t read Brave New World.
(I am convinced that is the origin of the cape in this video )
https://www.proxibid.com/lotinformation/78651678/framed-burt-reynolds-on-a-bear-skin-rug-poster
…because they are communists.
Check your copy of the Constitution, assholes.
Screw “Delilah’s Law”, and every other bill named after a telegenic victim.
Sampson was the real victim.
That is a hairy proposition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEktE8Uh6k&list=RD3vEktE8Uh6k&start_radio=1
What did he do to deserve it?
So, what you’re saying is that Samson was weak and easily seduced?
We truly need a Teds’s Law for this
Also screw other items on the list that aren’t federal matters.
Very little is a federal matter.
On one hand, I want to say the auction price was the fair market value.
Then again, I want to end crony auctions.
On a third hand I want to kill property tax utterly.
On a fourth hand, suing to determine fair market value is only going to enrich more lawyers.
Onl fair solution – kill property tax, so there can be no seizures for failure to pay property tax, thus the question is moot.
This is the way. This way, and not some other.
The auction price at a tax auction cannot be a fair market price, which by definition requires a willing seller.
“Fair market value” as an estimate of what a property will bring is trivially easy to determine these days. The online real estate sites give it, and they’ve gotten pretty good. Plenty good enough for government work.
You want property rights – you pay property taxes. Or are property rights some magical thing that doesn’t require any enforcement?
You want free speech? You pay your journalism fees and licenses.
Shitcan the income tax and property taxes.
Now I have to get up…the morning routine begins
I have free speech, unless the government uses my tax dollars to suppress it.
I do not have property rights WITHOUT the government to secure them.
I would happily pay property taxes to the extent necessary to fund enforcement of my property rights.
Or unless some random guy decides to shut you up. Why this is fundamentally different that that same random guy breaking into your house and setting up kip is something you’ll need to explain. I imagine it’s a definition game.
I enforce my property rights.
No cop ever has stopped some asshole from stealing from me or driving his tractor across my lawn.
That’s right, chase the laser pointer just like a cat. This year the shiny dot dancing on the carpet is “property tax reform”, last year it was tariff revenue. The problem is the spending. The problem is always the spending. The solution can only ever be cutting spending. If every level of Government gets to spend to its heart’s content then one way or another we will pay for it. Fighting about which set of ways they will extort the money from us is kind of pointless.
Good, Good, let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Stay on your one track rather than advance on multiple fronts. Be bitter and disillusioned. Get nothing and be miserable.
How is it good to switch the mechanism under which they take your money from property taxes to increased sales or income taxes? It may possibly benefit some people who have very valuable real estate, but unless you are in the upper echelon in terms of house value to income or spending you will end up worse off.
Fuck you, cut spending.
Strictly from an “I wish for a pony” sense it would be really nice to actually own a place that would in theory be a place for me and mine to go to that couldn’t (legally) be taken from me/them.
How is it good to switch the mechanism under which they take your money from property taxes to increased sales or income taxes?
I can (theoretically and practically) avoid paying some or all sales tax and income tax through self-sufficiency measures. There are many one time investments that cut down on how much i need to buy and earn. Property tax is not avoidable in that way. Sure, you can adjust it by going up and down in property value, but theres no way to get the high value thing and avoid paying recurring taxes on it.
Property (wealth) tax is worse than income tax.
No, this take is crazy.
lol You just gave the Dems ammunition to fake their apportionment numbers at the next census even more than they usually do.
I find it weird that people who are not eligible voters count for congress numbers.
So does half the United States.
I’d say more than half, at least 75%.
If only the Repubs had control of Congress and the Presidency, they could pass a law saying that only the actual count can be used, not the estimates used to slug in illegals who dodge the census. Heck, they could even say that only citizens count.
If they had control of Congress and the Presidency.
Maybe they could make a 3/5ths compromise?
Not only that, they could repeal Obamacare and make ID’s mandatory for voting.
No counters needed. People fill out the forms or they don’t. But the forms should be filled out at a voting precinct after completing an identity check.
The 11-12 million number has been a lie for over two decades.
I’ve been saying it’s at least twice that for just as long.
Plus the anchor babies that need to be deported and have their citizenship stripped.
Spoiler – it was “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.”
Heh.
He might have trouble with Green Eggs and Ham…
“To remedy this gross disparity, I’m announcing that next year my administration will give these often forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker.
“We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year, as we ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market.”
Huh. Next year, after the midterms, so not going to happen.
I think it was RC Dean here in response to some talk of the government confiscating 401K and IRA accounts that said that instead the government will force investments in Treasuries. My prediction is if Trump’s plan happens, that plan will be the mechanism to force investment in Treasuries.
That’s the hook. I’ll gladly pay you in 2027 for a hamburger/vote today.
/President Wimpy
Yeah no.
He also suggested there were enough savings to be achieved that could put America on a path toward a balanced budget after years of annual budget deficits of $2 trillion or more.
Maybe at the Pentagon there is that much fraud. But you’re not going to touch that.
Medicaid, Medicare, and SocSec are rotten with fraud. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could squeeze out $1TT a year from those programs without really touching any legit recipients.
I bet it’s more than that Dean.
Elon was right.
Military staffing and spending on Dependabas and fake VA claims is huge money.
I’ve thought staffing could be cut by at least half and no impact on readiness would be noticed.
I would use that cash to build machine sheds to protect vehicles in mororpools from the weather including putting them on jackstands to save billions in tire damage a year.
Interesting. I have a Mac Mini (I went with the Apple ecosystem and have been perfectly happy with it; they make good hardware, and I don’t feel the need to micromanage my computer shit). Looks like the current version starts at $600, with a reasonable build for home use around $1400.
The only drawback is gaming, or the lack of it. I’m waiting to see how the Steam thingie looks when it gets released. I’m really not interested in dropping thousands of dollars on a gaming PC. With the recent nonsense around memory and video cards, Allah only knows what it would cost these days.
Steam deck is still perfectly adequate for gaming, and you can dock it like a Nintendo Switch. I almost pulled the trigger on that setup last year (then I moved and incurred high expenses).
Love my Steam deck, though lately I’ve been on my Amazon TV playing FNV through Luna. That’s been going quite well too.
Steam Deck is currently sold out I believe, and the Steam Machine is looking to have been put on hold while the memory shortage is ongoing.
I don’t want to think about how much money I have in the hardware of my gaming machine.
I don’t want to think of how much money is in the hardware of my NAS (mostly in the harddrives)
Gaming I’ve been 50/50 between the PC and the Switch 2.
I’ve periodically looked at the Mac Mini, but I keep asking the same question “Would I use this?” If I could use it to run TurboTax instead of having to deal with the “Win 11 or Cloud” only choice they gave me, I’d buy one in a heartbeat.
🥳
And rather than make myself a Liar, I’ve ordered one for pickup this afternoon.
I am not running Windows 11 and I am not putting my tax data into Intuit’s cloud.
I do my taxes every year using TurboTax on my Mac Mini.
you pay taxes? gross….
Well, yes the taxes are part of the gross, but ideally I can claw back some of what was taken and improve my net.
I thought as a Euro you’d have a better grasp on paying taxes.
What are the minimum specs for the naturally aspirated version?
I run quickbooks desktop.
I will not do anything on the cloud.
Also.
Quickbooks hates Mac. Functionality of QB on the Mac is often completely different than on a PC. Menus are in different places, adjusting inventory is different. It’s a pain in the ass.
I refuse to pay money in order to pay money.
Then of course, I moved to NY at during the window of time when you were required to use commercial tax software to file. They have since allowed for free options but AFAIK still do not permit paper form submission.
Been battling that on and off for a couple decades. My windows machine bricked itself a while back so I said fuck it went back to macOS and eventually got a Switch. I don’t play a lot of “AAA” stuff so between what’s available on macOS and the Switch, I have more than enough to play with.
#meneither
I am not at all interested in chasing the Latest and Greatest graphics. The Switch 2 has great graphics already for a reasonable price. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I need to upgrade my mini.
Storage is too small for my pics and music and it’s starting to have problems with comparability due to age.
I’m cheep though.
I have somewhere over 40TB of space on my NAS, so I only ordered 256GB internal on the mini. Spend $2,500 on a NAS.
The compatability, however, would be an issue for an older box.
Yeah. I went looking for a larger external hardrive for photo backup and had a difficult time finding one that was comparable.
I think my mini is a 2014 running Catalina.
Compatible.
UCS, What is the NAS?
“Network Attached Storage” It’s another machine made mostly of hard drives for other machines to write to a common bulk storage location.
President Donald Trump’s newly appointed chief immigration judge said that as many as 25 million to 30 million people are in the United States illegally, far exceeding official estimates.
I don’t buy that claim at all. For perspective: Texas’ population is 31 million and Florida’s is 23 million. I don’t buy that many people came into the US illegally.
I find it very plausible, especially with visa overstays. Remember, this is the accumulated load of illegals over decades, not just the last few years.
Not included: offspring of illegals
Their anchor babies are at least equal to them.
And need to be stripped of citizenship.
Over decades? Maybe. But I’m still skeptical.
7-9%. Doesn’t seem unreasonable.
7-9% is likely a tad low.
The fact that nobody actually knows within the closest ten million is pretty telling.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has revealed that it will shift some production of its Mac Mini desktop computer to a Foxconn facility located in Houston, Texas. The manufacturing initiative is scheduled to commence later this year as part of the company’s broader commitment to domestic investment.
I didn’t know Apple still made the Mac Mini.
Foxconn is Taiwanese. I remember when people used to bitch about businesses not being locally owned meant all the money at that business went elsewhere.
Mac Mini. – they do for 9000 Lei. We talked about it 🙂
Wasn’t Foxconn supposed to build some glorious factory in Wisconsin in Trump’s previous term?
Defending nether Foxconn nor Trump, I can totally see being more willing to put a business in TX than WI.
Yes, in Racine, WI. Local and state govs tripped over themselves to give FoxConn subsidies, eminent domain, and tax abatements. They got a dome.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/11/10/what-happened-to-foxconn-in-wisconsin-a-timeline/71535498007/
Was it dome-shaped so employees would find it harder to jump off of?
pistoffnick:
Sounds similar to the Intel plant here in Ohio.
‘Dyslexic’ Gavin Newsom
I remember the old George Carlin bit. Remember when people were just stupid? No everyone has a learning disability.
Hey what’s the matter with him?
Him? He-s just stupid.
OFFS. 🤦🏻♂️
It’s bitterly amusing that the ‘solutions’ people propose to the shortage of electricity don’t ever seem to include getting rid of the red tape preventing rapid building of nuclear plants. Get rid of 90% the redundant studies and permits, and the monopolistic model for power generation and enjoy cheap power? NO! Instead let’s focus on picking favored consumers of power!
Make the plaintiffs pay for every failed legal challenge? I so want to see NRDC, the CBD and the rest of that crowd with their funding cut off and bleeding out money for the harm they cause.
I’d prefer making them bleed out literally, but bleeding money would be ok. Bringing back the concepts of Champerty and Maintenance (providing support for a litigant in exchange for a share of the proceeds and third parties interfering in a lawsuit improperly respectively), and Barratry (encouraging or inciting vexatious litigation) would help with a number of problems, as would restoring traditional concepts like intervening and superseding causation, and contributory negligence. We have bent so far backward distorting the concept of justice in civil litigation to favor plaintiffs that we have broken the system.
Or just build fucking coal plants. China cannot build them fast enough, and AFAIK they can be much cleaner than in the bad old days.
Even better, we are tearing down dams. You know, the source of cheap, clean, hyrdo power that made the net zero pipe dreams even sorta-kinda feasible in the first place.
LAH.
And giving the land behind the dams to special people who are additionally subsidized.
“Bill Gates poses with a woman whose face has been redacted.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/bill-gates-admits-he-had-two-affairs-with-russian-women-apologizes-for-epstein-links/
All women are victims.
This is also why I don’t buy the “Epstein was a pedophile because the pictures of children were redacted” argument.
So, two 16 year olds getting it on are both pedophiles?
Laws are funny, in a strange way.
There’s been cases of teenagers getting a child pornography charge for sending/receiving nudes to/from classmates.
Has there been ONE victim that specifically named an assailant? I see lots of “associated with” and “enabled”, but not much “this bastard stuck his dick up my ass”.
Wasn’t the Prince Formerly Called Andrew specifically accused?
Yes, one victim a day short of 18 named Jeffery Epstein.
The Andrew Formerly Called Prince
Some are lying, some don’t want to get sued.
And one is dead.
Look at the way that girl is holding her arms. She would rather be anywhere in the world than there at that moment.
I am guessing what was going through her mind when the flash went off was “Oh fuck. A camera? I am going to regret this”
Glad I refreshed, yeah, body language suggests she’s uncomfortable.
“When they said I’d get paid to sleep with rich and famous dudes I thought it would be handsome actors and musicians, not fugly executives, bankers and politicians over the age of 50.”
Woman is the first pic is of indeterminate age.
25-45 by the look of her arms and what I can tell of the condition of her skin.
I’ve received a couple “What are we Reading” submissions, If I get a few more I’ll make a post.
Send your reviews, reports, synopses, and what nots to whatarewereading25@proton.me if you’d like to be included.
The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-tax-nerd-who-bet-his-life-savings-against-doge-6b59eda2?st=SUFy1X&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He viewed the transaction as a sure thing, like a bond with equity-sized returns. For him, that made it worthwhile to wager effectively everything outside of his retirement accounts and home equity.
That’s probably correct.
Interesting.
No surprised. If you want to get downvoted for a non-leftist comment, point out that Trump is the one responsible for our $2TT deficits because he’s the one who built in COVID “emergency” spending into the baseline. He’s never cared a bit about deficits, and his “Big Beautiful Bill” didn’t cut spending at all.
I’ve been saying for years the dems could have laid the blame for inflation on Trump legitimately, but that they weren’t willing to because it meant admitting to certain economic realities that they aren’t willing to accept.
And the tax man wins.
“Wild video shows masked ruffians blatantly attacking a police cruiser while an officer was inside during a chaotic street takeover in Maryland.
Video and witness accounts show drivers swarming the intersection of East West Highway and Connecticut Avenue shortly after midnight Feb. 22 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, blocking traffic in all directions and performing high-speed “donuts” as onlookers stood in the roadway.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/maryland-police-attacked-by-masked-drivers-in-illegal-street-takeover/
Sometimes we need more police brutality.
That’s about five blocks from my office, in an expensive and affluent neighborhood.
Thieves and thugs have cars.
This shit right here is when an armored personnel carrier would come in handy.
Death penalty.
They were lucky it was only ruffians. Ruffians typically have 1-2 Hit Dice and low damage weapons if armed. They are mainly dangerous in larger groups. Now if the cops encountered a group of brigands there could have been serious trouble.
Pritchard Sumner Ranch | 8,525± Acres of Historic Ranchland on California’s Central Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9byx-bWbM4
Discover a rare opportunity to own a legacy property on California’s Central Coast. The Pritchard Sumner Ranch spans over 8,500 acres and has been held within the same family for more than 150 years. This historic working cattle ranch features rolling hills, open valleys, and panoramic views — all rich in ecological diversity and recreational potential.
With infrastructure to support 200 cow/calf pairs, the ranch is outfitted with new corrals, cross fencing, troughs, and a 60-ft truck scale. Wildlife thrives across the land, including tule elk, deer, wild pigs, dove, and quail — making it ideal for hunting and outdoor recreation. The property includes a charming 1930s ranch house, a large metal barn, and additional outbuildings, plus a robust water system with two wells and 80,000 gallons of storage.
Whether you’re a rancher, conservationist, or legacy-minded investor, the Pritchard Sumner Ranch offers a one-of-a-kind blend of history, productivity, and natural beauty.
42 tax parcels in Kern and San Luis Obispo Counties totaling 8,525.89 acres
Over 40 historical homestead patents
5,673± acres in Kern County and the balance in San Luis Obispo County
Nearly entire ranch is under a Williamson Act contract for reduced property taxes
$7,750,000
TAXES:
$12,877/year (24/25)
Seems a bit far fro L.A. but otherwise the perfect glib residence.
It is a beautiful area, but you are still governed from Sacramento. That is the deal killer.
Ya SLO and Paso Robles is absolutely gorgeous area and college towns, but as ji stated, it comes with severe baggage.
What JI and OBE says. Buy land in CA? Not a chance.
Those taxes are (very) surprisingly low. I wonder if anyone has run the current mil rate against the asking price. I find it hard to believe CA property taxes on a $7MM+ property are $13K a year.
They may have some sort of farm exemption. I know Texas does, and I have a fraternity brother that has the minimum number of pet livestock in order to qualify for that.
For UnReconstructed: The elder Wickersham was doing that in Flower Mound.
Nearly entire ranch is under a Williamson Act contract for reduced property taxes
The taxes are that low because there’s a 10 year deal (which may be anywhere along the 10 years) in place barring any development or commercial use of the land in exchange for a sweetheart tax deal. You’ll find out the real tax rate by surprise when the deal expires.
It’s Big Carrot. The catch is that you have maintain agricultural use.
Only Twice in taxes than some of my neighbors are paying on 5 acres and shop houses.
Why would you build a pond in the shape of a jellybean?
https://x.com/WalesOnCraic/status/2026235690174775296
is that really a jellybean
“I got a kidney shaped pool with a stone in it.”
The shape of the pond next door is humerus.
That is not a jelly bean. Someone has a sense of humor.
Probably Clarkson’s Farm.
I’ll play this straight (which, apparently, is how the pond just left of the “kidney”-shaped pond is), BUT I FLUV kidney-shaped pools. So midcentury. The Donnell pool is orgasmic.
“A Texas Whataburger manager smashed an unruly customer with a trash can after the suspect allegedly berated staff, returned to the restaurant drunk and attacked the employee….
Paris police found Newhuis bleeding from the head in the restaurant’s back parking lot. He was arrested on charges of assault causing bodily injury, public intoxication and criminal mischief.
Police said Newhuis continued to cause havoc behind bars, allegedly flooding jail cells and racking up an additional criminal mischief charge under $750.
Following the ordeal, a Whataburger spokesperson told the outlet that guests’ and employees’ safety is a top priority.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/viral-video-shows-texas-whataburger-workers-beat-unruly-customer-with-trash-can-fry-basket-after-alleged-drunken-attack/
LOL
What a wonderfully Texas story.
Whataburger challenging Waffle House?
At least it’s not being reported with a racial angle yet.
At least it’s not being reported with a racial angle yet.
It looks like both are white, so no racial angle.
North Korea, under Kim’s rule, reached “absolute military power at the highest level,” the editorial read. The 42-year-old dictator was also credited with having performed three miracles: personally overseeing the rescue of citizens from a major flood, reviving that hard-hit area and completing work on a modern greenhouse farm.
I guess they looked to Rome.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/kim-jong-un-is-greatest-person-in-the-world-says-north-korea-0554991a?st=zNPG6Q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
You’d think he could perform a useful miracle like multiplying bread and fish.
Commie peasants can repeat obvious lies, but even they have a limit to how obvious the lie. Drawing attention to the lack of food would not go well for the regime.
“A high school senior who eerily asked how to stop innocent people from being gunned down in a podcast episode was fatally shot by a stray bullet while waiting for a ride home in Connecticut’s capital early Sunday morning.
Camden Siegal, 17, died on Tuesday, two days after he was critically injured when caught in the crossfire of a nearby shooting while waiting for an Uber to pick him up from a downtown Hartford bar….
“With antisemitic attacks like these, and school shootings on the rise, gun restriction laws remain the same. Therefore, there stands a question. How do we stop innocent human beings from being gunned down?” he said in the clip….
An investigation into the shooting is still ongoing. No arrests have been made.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/24/us-news/connecticut-high-school-senior-killed-by-stray-bullet-while-waiting-for-uber-ride-home/
Target practice in prison?
Well obviously we institute restrictive gun laws. Like Mexico. And New York. Oh, and Chicago. And…
Clearly the bullet that killed him did not hit him in the head. If it had he would be fine.
I know, Indiana guns make Illinois shootings blah blah. Mexico blames their shootings on the US. Anything to keep from admitting that their culture is shit and they are a bunch of savages. All of the gun control laws in the world wont fix that.
Put a tariff on guns. No fair using an out-of-state gun to murder someone. Think/buy local.
Gun controller catches bullet.
Is that like rain on your wedding day?
It’s like ten thousand Glocks when all you need is a knife.
@ Ted S., oh, well played.
I was thinking more like Butthole Surfers. Apparently this time it was a better shot.
Well, he wasn’t gunned down in a podcast episode, was he?
Little young to be out late at the bar at 2am. The bar says it’s age 21+ so I wonder if they catch a civil suit.
Doing hands on research on how easy it is to get a phony ID. He’d have been able to vote in the mid terms as well.
Ass Wednesday makes the Union strong.
https://archive.is/HSUvv
This FL man at least decided to go big.
DOJ: Orlando crypto firm CEO arrested for $328 million Ponzi scheme
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/24/doj-orlando-crypto-firm-ceo-arrested-for-328-million-ponzi-scheme/
It’s a rare FL man that actually does a risk/return calculation.
That’s small compared to the size of the government Ponzi scheme.
OTH, the C-Suite said “We aren’t Jaguar!”.
Aston Martin cuts 20% of workforce as losses widen
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9m8n2vx0mo
I wonder if we’re reaching a transition — a deal for chips measured not in number of chips, but in power consumption.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/amd-meta-100-billion-deal
That seems to be the way Wall St is measuring these transactions – by power consumed.
I’ve not read of a standardized unit of AI “work” that’s been used instead.
I thought they measured AI work by the Token.
I suppose that’s not uniform across models.
Yes, I think that works within a model / company.
Much in the way that torque is measures in variations of foot-pounds, AI work should be measured in typewriter-monkeys.
OTOH, I can see that it would make accounting easier since the primary variable input is going to be electricity. OTOH, the specific AI capability in terms of typewriter-monkeys/watt seems like it would be awfully important to differentiate providers.
The German automakers are going to really struggle as long as the green charade continues.
China’s BYD Opens 2026 With Blockbuster Sales Growth in Europe
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/chinas-byd-opens-2026-with-blockbuster-sales-growth-in-europe-0e239718?st=vS3g32&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Germany Shows How Difficult It Is to Rewire Relations With China
https://www.wsj.com/world/germany-shows-how-difficult-it-is-to-rewire-relations-with-china-ae46ab0b?st=2viMHp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“TOTAL CLOWNSHOW: While Trump Delivers Masterclass SOTU, Dems Throw Bizarre ‘Animal House’ Counter-Party Featuring Literal Frog Costumes, a Screaming Giraffe — and a Suitcase Full of Dildos”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/total-clownshow-while-trump-delivers-masterclass-sotu-dems/
Adults in the room.
How does one get to the point where they think this is a good idea?
Complete control of the MSM helps.
Which room?
The rubber one?
I watched a few minutes of that. The same old shrill speeches about people losing health care, everyone is now poor, the gestapo is arresting people randomly, blah blah blah. They might be firing up their base but they’re not winning any new converts.
Yanno, for all the times people have asked “why do you need so many guns?” I can’t recall anyone asking someone else “why do you need so many dildos?”
I’m going file that one away for future use.
When did frogs cease being a far-right neo-Nazi symbol of racism?
When they all got turned gay.
I am just old and not-with-it. I don’t even ship rizzly looksmaxxers!
ProducerAI is a creative collaborator, whether you’re writing lyrics, refining a melody or inventing entirely new genres. With ProducerAI, you can turn your imagination into dynamic, comprehensive songs.
Does it come pre-autotuned with dynamic compression pushed to 11 or are those additional paid options?
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/producerai/
Someone will get a different AI to control this AI, and it will just churn out hundreds of songs a day.
Another bullshit “recognition” of nonexistent Indian sovereignty.
https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-an-american-indian-born-in-canada#:~:text=You%20may%20be%20eligible%20to,Were%20born%20in%20Canada.
https://ca.usembassy.gov/first-nations-and-native-americans/?_ga=2.58016554.1842551196.1739453245-1351641362.1739266653
All such special status and rights should have been terminated when US citizenship was extended to Indians. They are either US or Canadian citizens. This clown show pretending that racist pseudo governments can exist in the US contrary to the Constitution needs to end.
I love the ‘stolen land’ canard. It only works if you ignore the fact that the Injuns stole the land from some other bunch and were in constant state of war with each other over territory and slaves. Also, cannibalism.
Also, the same is true of every other square inch of the planet since the beginning of time.
Unrelated, from the other day’s Nola post. Haven’t seen him around recently but there’s one Glib around Monroe somewhere.
If a treaty with the Injuns was signed, it should be followed, just like the Constitution should be.
Once they became US citizens, special status should be forfeit. Once tribes were no long sovereign, they became defunct. At the very least, all of the amendments should be incorporated against tribes. Racist pseudo governments exercising government like powers enabled by states or feds is abhorrent. It’s no different that some state allowing and blessing the Klan to enact their version of racist rules and claiming it’s okay because the Klan is not the state.
Or Saudi Arabia saying only Muslims may enter the city of Mecca? Governments with racist/sexist/ethnocentric/religious/etc discrimination built into their system is more common than not.
Saying treaty obligations should be cancelled because they’re obsolete/archaic is literally identical to “the 2A can’t possibly apply to modern guns that the founders didn’t know about!”
I would not object to what’s left of the State Department being tasked with oging trhough all the Injun stuff, pruning cruft and amending/eliminating treaties. And the BIA.
SA is not asserting sovereignty within the US with the back of state and federal governments.
The tribes do not exist any longer, the members are now US citizens. The modern reconstructions are not valid. The treaties are moot.
Or rather, the descendants of the former members are US citizens.
I watched a little of the SOTU, and I have to say the Dems are not doing themselves any favors. A lot of them boycotted, so there were only a few interruptions. They gave us all a taste of what life would be like without Democrats, and it was really, really nice. The ones that did show up refused to stand for anything, even the most basic things most people agree on (murder is down, the border is closed, we uncovered fraud…) It was a bad look.
Couple that with blue areas like NY and California imploding, and a summer of 250th anniversary celebrations, and I don’t think the Dems are a lock for winning the mid terms.
I would also add, whether or not you agree with the content, the speech was optimistic and had a lot of energy. Contrast that with Dems sitting with sour pusses, and their only real message being “I no like Trump”.
“They gave us all a taste of what life would be like without Democrats, and it was really, really nice. ”
^Comment of the day^
Thanks. For about 15 minutes it just felt “normal” and I forgot how good that was.
“I don’t think the Dems are a lock for winning the mid terms.”
I hope you right, but everyone seems to be predicting they will win the House.
The Stupid Party is stupid for a reason.
Something that just struck me:
The Stupid Party thinks that the Evil Party is stupid.
The Evil Party thinks that the Stupid Party is evil.
“Once he could be certain that most sane people had shut the TV off, out came the unvarnished racism. He attributed crime and fraud explicitly to non-white immigrants. Crime, he argued, is mainly, if not solely, the result of “importing these cultures,” an especially rich claim from someone who, by all appearances, spent over a decade as the best friend of the American-born Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender whose records are being covered up by the Trump administration in the most ham-fisted way. The president even pretended that the budget will be balanced simply by ending immigrant fraud, a laughable claim that even his most racist fans will have a hard time buying.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/25/trump-hides-in-plain-sight-at-the-state-of-the-union/
There is no Somali fraud because Epstein.
That kind of mendacity and duncery, I knew it had to be Amanduh.
I tried going to their home page to see who else ‘writes’ for Salon and found their site to be unreadable.
“In one cooking demo, Molly (using a pseudonym due to anthropological confidentiality practices), who’d recently earned a master’s in urban planning, stood behind a white plastic folding table with the ingredients for “healthy tacos” spread before her: small bowls of steamed cauliflower, diced tomatoes and onions, cilantro, and whole wheat wraps. Molly explained to the classroom of high school students in east Los Angeles, a majority Latino area of the city: “Using a whole wheat, low-carb wrap instead of white flour tortillas is a healthy option for making tacos at home.” She held up a wrap, stiff and brown, to demonstrate.
Molly scooped the steamed cauliflower into the wrap, but it broke straight down the center. A student interjected: “Tortillas aren’t supposed to break like that.” One asked: “Is it old?” Another added: “You need to heat it up.” Molly continued from her script: “Using steamed cauliflower is a good substitute for meat. It gives the taco something big to bite into, and it is way healthier than beef or pork or even chicken.” Molly tried to fold the “healthy taco” enough to take a bite. The wrap broke some more. She took a bite and smiled at the students, who watched politely. When she finished chewing, she said: “This could be a good after-school snack for you, or you can try to tell your parents to make these for dinner.””
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/why-food-justice-isnt-being-served-in-america
CWAC
Molly is an idiot, and will die of malnutrition.
It’s a grauniad article, so it’s mostly about bashing white saviors.
Ooooo the Guardian’s “Race” and “Our unequal earth” beats has a chin-stroker about “Food justice”.
I would rather undergo a dozen colonoscopies in a day than read that shit. That crap is so ridiculously tedious who the fuck is reading it? Even your average American Dems aren’t that broken.
The latest edition of the magazine — in a section topped with the quote “AI is like fire. You can use it to light a home, or to burn it down” — gives advice on “responsible ways to use AI chatbots.” It gives examples of how the tools can be used to assist in religious campaigns and preaching.
https://www.politico.eu/article/isis-teaching-recruits-how-to-use-ai-responsibly/
Aight, y’all. I’m feeling very inadequate today. ChatGPT tells me I’m a systems person and what I do in my work is make concepts work within a framework already existing (e.g., a modern human mortal sorcerer trying to protect various supernaturals from the vagaries of the IRS and law enforcement, 4Chan and Redditor doxing experts).
This is a nice way of telling me I don’t have a creative bone in my body. What I REALLY do is try to rearrange puzzle pieces into the way I think they should be. My pirate novel is a pastiche of all the tropes and cliches, slightly altered to reflect my particular taste. I can’t think up NEW things. I don’t hear music in my head I’ve never heard before. I don’t think up shapes of objects I’ve never seen before. I don’t see something and wonder how I could make it better. And then I run across this guy and I want to throw my stupid laptop out the window. The perfect blend of art and skill. It would never occur to me to look at a beautiful piece of wood and think, “How can I make this even more stunning than it already is?” OR, alternatively, be a super-rich person trying to outfit a home with such spectacular pieces. It would never occur to me to say, “This space needs a table that looks like XYZ.”
😞
Put a chick in it, make it gay. Works for Hollywood.
You’re welcome.
Also make the villain an “evil corporation”.
“This is a nice way of telling me I don’t have a creative bone in my body”
Why are you worrying about the ‘opinion’ of an LLM?
It would be like me asking a rock I stumbled over, “why did you do that?”
“The psychiatrist Dr William Dodson, based in Denver, Colorado, is used to people dismissing RSD. As the leading expert in the field, he began working with people with ADHD in the mid-90s and after treating hundreds, then thousands, noticed that many patients showed the same symptoms when faced with rejection – intense and often immediate reactions to triggers or perceived triggers of rejection, teasing, criticism or self-criticism. While rejection sensitivity is a normal human experience, he says, the dysphoria – which in Greek means unbearable – is what makes rejection feel different for people with RSD. He identified the characteristics as they are understood today. “This is something that is just several orders of magnitude stronger” than everyday rejection, he explains. And that unbearable pain is often disproportionate to the event.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/25/rise-of-rejection-sensitive-dysphoria
OFFS!!
I don’t speak Greek. And yet I doubt this translation.
I can’t think up NEW things.
Shakespeare stole it all from the Greeks.
The man is a master.
“You know, you read about all these crazy shooters, but they only go after consequential presidents. They don’t go after non-consequential presidents,” Trump said at a White House event…
https://abcnews.com/US/motive-probed-fatal-mar-lago-shooting-armed-man/story?id=130418542
McKinley was consequential?
Off the top of my head:
Andrew Jackson (shot at)
Lincoln (shot dead)
Garfield (shot, lingering death. Inconsequential)
McKinley (shot dead, inconsequential)
TR Roosevelt (shot and wounded, after he was president)
FDR (shot at when he was President-elect)
Kennedy (shot dead)
Ford (shot at (well, he was consequential in that he stemmed the bleeding))
Carter (the killer rabbit)
Reagan (shot and wounded)
Trump (shot and wounded while an ex-president)
I probably forgot someone. And any knife attacks.
So as usual OMB is a liar.
U mad, bro?
Hey, US Men’s Hockey Team, you may not realize this, but you just won the gold medal.
Not just in ice hockey, but in misogyny.
Watching you all hunched around a phone loudly laughing it up while a court-adjudicated rapist and likely serial pedophile unnecessarily (but quite predictably) belittles your female counterparts, I gotta tell ya, the national pride was off the charts.
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Look, I get it, guys: you were in a rough spot: still flooded with adrenaline after having just accomplished the greatest athletic feat of your lives, something you surely worked tirelessly for and should be extremely proud of, I can imagine it was impossibly easy to get caught up in the moment.
But here’s the thing: real men are defined in such moments.
Having the so-called leader of what currently passes for the Free World (whose name appears tens of thousands of times in the Epstein files) shamelessly gushing over you, all while the crazy-eyed head of the FBI guzzles beer like a frat party first-timer who’ll soon be vomiting into the nacho bar, was a lot to contend with.
That hockey stick up your ass must be a tad uncomfortable.
One passive-aggressive panty-twist at a time.
“whose name appears tens of thousands of times in the Epstein files”
And almost entirely pejoratively. The Big Lie must be repeated endlessly for it to be effective.
As it is, your entire team should at the very least apologize to this nation and to the women who call it home, for your collective lack of judgment, your alignment with a predator, and your perpetuation of the toxic masculinity that is doing so much damage to the country you represent. If not, you’ll have lost where it really counts.
But just know that disturbing and painful moments like these are why women rightly choose the bear.
Women choose the bear? What in the everloving fuck does that even mean?
I don’t speak smug beta prick asshole so who knows.