163 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “400 US Soldiers Wounded In Operation Epic Fury, Military Says”

    Sad.

    • UnCivilServant

      What is the rate of injury for a similarly sized cohort during normal idle/training time? It doesn’t sound like we’re much above that rate.

      • Threedoor

        When I was in UCS, 04-10 we had more soilders killed in car crashes on fort Campbell than by enemy action

    • Threedoor

      We had a gal in Iraq went out of a window of the infantry guy she was screwing and broke her ankle during a mortar attack. She got a bunch of time off back home over the deal and to hide it my chain of command wrote it up that she tripped and fell when running to a shelter.

      I’m not sure which one of them she was screwing as well.

      Just one example of an injury due to “enemy action.”

  2. Common Tater

    “Appeals Court Blocks California Law Requiring Federal Agents to Show ID”

    Were they trying to vote?

  3. R C Dean

    Virginia Judge Rules Virginia Redistricting Referendum Unconstitutional

    I keep seeing Team Redders moaning and rending their garments over how Trump’s administration will be completely stymied, and the Dems will lock down the 2028 Presidential election, if Team Blue takes the House this year.

    I don’t get it. The Repub House has done practically nothing. The House can’t stop Trump from running the Executive, which is where all the action/progress* has been over the last year or so. The House going from inert to spouting spittle-flecked press releases at a President who clearly doesn’t give a fuck doesn’t strike me as that big a deal, frankly.

    • R C Dean

      *A lot of what Trump has done is progress, in my book. Not all of it, of course.

    • UnCivilServant

      I keep seeing unhinged people being the loudest of any group.

      It’s tiresome, I just put in the effort to filter out the shriekers.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Money doesn’t donate itself, RC.

      (and I agree with you re Trump. Any politician has to herd cats, and Trump is no different in this.)

    • juris imprudent

      We keep trying to be a parliamentary government, based on who’s fucking dirty ass is sitting in the White House. Of course our government can’t work like that – it wasn’t designed to. But that is what the majority of morons voting in this country want.

      • Ted S.

        So who *is* fucking dirty ass?

        HM only fucks clean ass.

      • juris imprudent

        My reverence for the Great and Glorious IMPERIOUS Leader is lacking a bit, isn’t it?

        What I despise most of my fellow citizens is how much they hate one and worship another.

    • rhywun

      Well, it will mean non-stop “impeachment” theater which will be designed to take up all of Donald’s time.

      • juris imprudent

        The problem with that is it WILL waste all of Congress’s time with little to no impact on Trump.

      • rhywun

        I seem to remember the last few impeachments had him sitting in court all day. That’s an impact.

  4. R C Dean

    FBI Rescues 10-Year-Old Boy Kidnapped by Transvestite Father, Taken to Cuba for Sex Change Surgery

    Buried lede – the commies in Cuba actually honored a federal court order, scooped them up and sent them to the US.

    • Not Adahn

      Now they’re even for Elian.

    • rhywun

      Transvestite

      *faints*

      “Transvestite” fathers are women, bigot.

      • Not Adahn

        When did transvestite get de-deprecated?

        I remember when tumblr decided that the sacred trans- prefix should only be used for identities while a mere sexual fetish should be referred to as “crossdressing.”

      • rhywun

        It’s absolutely verboten still. I assume Breitbart is using it on purpose, for spite.

        Which is weird because the word was current as recently as 10 or so years ago.

      • Not Adahn

        Derp. I forgot who was using it. You’re undoubtedly correct.

      • EvilSheldon

        Doesn’t the “-vestite” piece of the word refer to one’s vestments?

  5. Common Tater

    ” On April 13, 2026, a Utah State Court ordered that 10-year-old to be returned to the child’s mother immediately and granted the mother exclusive custody of the child. On April 16, 2026, Cuban law enforcement located the group in Cuba.”

    Couldn’t they just go to California?

  6. Not Adahn

    After RTFA, the tranny pile was in Cuba for 16 days before being arrested, but it does NOT say whether or not this supposed surgery actually happened.

    I’m assuming that they didn’t bring enough dollars to expedite the cutting. Or possibly Cuban doctors aren’t as gung-ho about transing kids as the dadmommy was fantasizing.

    • R C Dean

      At least the father will have an enthusiastic audience in prison for his feminine stylings.

  7. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’ ?

  8. Common Tater

    “Thomas — joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson”

    So KBJ agreed with Thomas?

    • Not Adahn

      I’m reading it as Gorsuch and Thomas said “yeah, ‘battlefield preemption’ isn’t a thing” whereas the trio said “screw the corporashunz!”

    • UnCivilServant

      The case is a suit against a defense subcontractor regarding the actions of an afghan contracotr who turned out to be Taliban.

      The reasoning I expect is Thomas – the law doesn’t shield the company under the legal theory presented; Jackson – Company Bad!

      • Threedoor

        The guilty party is the individual. Not the corporation.

        But the company has the cash.

      • UnCivilServant

        The company would have had a duty to vet its employees for “Are you a member of the organization we are fighting?”

  9. Not Adahn

    Thomas — joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson

    Eh. If Gorsuch and Thomas are on it, I’m declaring the reasoning decent. And it the case was as the article states I would agree with it at first glance. Making up new doctrines on the fly no es bueno.

  10. juris imprudent

    Trump’s “Golden Fleet” is a farce and I’d imagine the SecNav said so. You can’t build ships without Navy requirements and Congressional funding despite any inflated ego.

    • UnCivilServant

      You’d think a longtime bureaucrat would know how to say “We can’t do that” without using those exact words.

      • juris imprudent

        At the cabinet level in general, but even more so in this administration – it is political pissing contests.

    • Tonio

      Ladies and Gentleman, our Acting SecNav (formerly Asst SecNav), Hung Cao. He’s a Virginian whose family fled VietNam when he was young. He ran for US Senate against Tim Kaine.

      • Not Adahn

        I thought it was the bulls that were hung, not the cows.

  11. Shpip

    Today’s first-time buyer is juggling way more than someone buying their first home 20 years ago. They’re coming in with kids, fully formed careers, sometimes aging parents, and zero interest in a temporary starter home.

    All of that is false except the “zero interest in a starter home.”

    The noobs want their parents’ 4000sf home without putting in the 40 year high-end career.

    • rhywun

      Building affordable (real affordable, not Democrat “affordable” i.e. subsidized) housing is not happening because regulations don’t allow it. Only those 4,000 sq ft homes make any money anymore.

      And whatever existing affordable housing was left is already filled by the tens of millions of illegals that Joe let in.

      • Chafed

        The last time I read about it California’s regulatory burden costs a developer $170k per house before construction begins.

      • Threedoor

        My house cost $172,000 in 2012.
        Sure it was a for lost lure with no well but it’s on five acres, had not been lived in and had an unfinished 60×34 shop.

        Money printing is a bitch.

      • rhywun

        And yet young people impacted the most by all of this continue to vote overwhelmingly for the Party making everything worse.

        Because of trans kids or some shit.

    • DrOtto

      This is my personal experience based on what my kids will/won’t consider. They were shocked the other day when they found out we first moved into “gasp” an apartment after getting married.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        We lived in an apartment too. Both of us in grad school making a combined $1800/month. We lived in an apartment for about 2 years before buying our first house, which was only possible because her father died.

    • Nephilium

      40+ years ago, when I was born, my parents were kicked out of their apartment building (which did not allow children), and found the house I grew up in. They did not get a zero interest loan.

      • UnCivilServant

        We moved in to the house I grew up in when I was just old enough to start remembering. One of my earliest memories was playing just outside the front porch on move-in day when the last few things were being completed.

        We got it for $1.

        The neighborhood sucked.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        My parents lived in a trailer for 7 years after they got married and bought their first house, the one I grew up in, in 1980.

      • Threedoor

        My folks rented a trailer.
        Then bought a lot with a tiny house on it and borrowed money from my mom’s mom to buy a ten year old trailer to live in.

        Five or six years later my dad started building the house I grew up in.

        I had it easy.

      • rhywun

        which did not allow children

        Nice.

        I hope I can find that for my next move. Even better, no dogs.

        My parents divorced when I was 3 and I had maybe a dozen different homes before leaving for college. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  12. Drake

    Last year Trump got his hand picked guy in as Chair of the RNC. I thought they’d wise up and stop wasting money protecting establishment candidates in the primaries. Hell, I hoped they’d go RINO hunting.

    Nope, still the stupid party. More than ever.

      • Drake

        Yep. Campaigning for Graham and against Massie is such an insult.

    • Gdragon

      “Hell, I hoped they’d go RINO hunting”
      ____________

      I don’t know if they actually believe it but they say that is what they are doing 😉

    • EvilSheldon

      It’s a difference in the two faces of the uniparty. The Democrats are interested in gaining and consolidating power. The Republicans are (broadly) interested in feathering their own nests while they can, before the entire system collapses.

    • Nephilium

      I’m getting to the point I think Rand Paul and Massie are the ones who are RINOs…

      • Tonio

        ISWYDT. That is a charge that is frequently, and not unfairly, leveled against them.

      • Gdragon

        If Lindsey Graham’s actions represent the name well and Thomas Massie and Rand Paul’s don’t then the name ain’t worth a shit anyway.

      • Drake

        Yep. Too conservative to be lumped with the rest.

      • Threedoor

        Rand and Massie are the only true Scotsmen.

      • UnCivilServant

        If they’re Scotsmen, they’re ineligable to serve in Congress.

    • Not Adahn

      Parisians are allowed to piss outside in public and they’re all like, sophisticated and stuff.

    • rhywun

      a staggering 316 complaints of public urination thus far in 2026

      “Staggering”?

      OFFS.

      • R.J.

        That’s just an average Iron Maiden concert.

      • Ted S.

        Sounds like you need to up your game. :-p

      • rhywun

        Back in the day I might have been responsible for a handful of those per year.

      • Not Adahn

        All 316 were reported by a lady who looks out her window into the alley with binoculars.

      • DrOtto

        I rarely pissed outside till Covid hit and everyone closed their bathrooms. I taught me how to get creative. Let’s just say a new habit was created.

      • (((Jarflax

        Public urinators frequently stagger

      • EvilSheldon

        Generally if I’m pissing outside, it’s because I’m staggering…

      • Threedoor

        Every place I stopped during Covid while on the road that had a locked bathroom I left them gifts.

        My bank and a local thrift store permanently closed their bathroom with Covid as an excuse.

  13. rhywun

    “I believe ICE should be abolished.”

    Mayor Z hasn’t ushered in the utopia that his fans wanted just yet, but at least he’s still saying all the right things. 💕

  14. Evan from Evansville

    Howdy, y’all.

    “Report: FBI Rescues 10-Year-Old Boy Kidnapped by Transvestite Father, Taken to Cuba for Sex Change Surgery

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) rescued a ten-year-old boy who was reportedly taken to Cuba by his biological father and his father’s partner without the knowledge of the boy’s mother, allegedly for the purpose of “gender reassignment surgery.”
    The unnamed biological boy, who reportedly identifies as a “female child,” was supposed to be going on a camping trip to Canada with his biological father, Rose Inessa-Ethington, also known as Eri Ethington…”

    Identifies as a female child. And the transvestite dad and “his partner,” uh. Huh. Bio father’s grooming his own son. I’m guessing the partner was particularly interested, and having the dad’s okay, uh. Made it a lot easier. “Kinkier,” I’m sure.

    People are fucked. Mama needs a shotgun.

  15. Common Tater

    “Russell Brand has admitted he slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30 — and says he now sees the encounter as “exploitative.”

    The 50-year-old, who has been battling multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault in UK courts since 2023, spoke about the encounter during Wednesday’s edition of “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

    “The plain fact of it is, in Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I’m from, the age of consent is 16. And I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30,” he said.”

    https://pagesix.com/2026/04/23/celebrity-news/russell-brand-admits-he-slept-with-a-16-year-old-when-he-was-30/

    IANAL, but I would tell him to shut up.

    • Drake

      So that’s your worst case of statutory rapen in the UK in the last 30 years? Nothing worse has happened since then, right?

  16. juris imprudent

    Ermagod, the mighty Russians are going to conquer all with their terrible might (and the 8th or 9th largest economy in Europe).

    Ukrainian intelligence suggests that Russia is deploying drones capable of operating without external communication — navigating, autonomously identifying targets and striking independently using onboard computing. These systems, known as V2U drones, seem to have transitioned from remotely piloted or programmed weapons into fully autonomous ones that function even when enemies jam the signals coming from soldiers controlling them.

    • Ted S.

      Be careful; you might be getting some people here orgasmic.

    • rhywun

      Link won’t open.

      Can they just obliterate each other so we don’t have to hear about them any more?

      Except that would give the EU a sad – maybe they can find somewhere else to throw their money out the window.

    • Drake

      Glad I’m done and my son didn’t enlist to fight in the coming robot wars.

    • The Other Kevin

      I guess “I will end that war in a week” was a tiny bit of an exaggeration.

  17. Common Tater

    “Vicious flesh-eating bacteria may be lurking in bodies of water across Long Island, as researchers warned that victims face a 20% chance of dying within 48 hours.

    Stony Brook University professor Dr. Christopher Gobler, an ecologist in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, announced this week that his team has found evidence of vibrio vulnificus “hotspots” festering in several ponds.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/us-news/flesh-eating-bacteria-found-in-long-island-waters-leaves-victims-with-20-of-dying-in-48-hours/

    yikes!

    • R.J.

      Let me just leave this here from the LAST LINE of that bullshit scare piece:

      “ No deaths have been reported on Long Island since the three in 2023, but researchers warn the risk grows each summer as waters continue to warm.”

      • rhywun

        waters continue to warm

        Trump’s fault, no doubt.

    • Ted S.

      Or they may not be lurking in bodies of water across Long Island.

  18. Common Tater

    “A Florida couple who claimed a fertility clinic error led to the woman giving birth to a “non-Caucasian child” who was not related to them said they have identified their child’s biological parents, according to reports.

    “The results of testing delivered to us today confirm that our baby’s genetic parents have been identified,” Tiffany Score and Steven Mills said in a statement obtained by People on Wednesday.

    Score and Mills filed a lawsuit in January against Fertility Center of Orlando and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, alleging that another patient’s embryo was implanted in Score’s uterus in April 2025.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/florida-couple-in-alleged-embryo-mix-up-have-identified-biological-parents-of-non-caucasian-baby/

    RACIST!!!

    • Not Adahn

      So, does the kid get handed off to it’s bio-mom? Are the bioparents on the hook for child support?

      • Gdragon

        It takes a village! LOL

    • DrOtto

      If she birthed the baby, isn’t she at least partially related now? Or did that science get unsettled when I wasn’t looking?

      • (((Jarflax

        How so? Some other couple provided both the gametes.

      • Ted S.

        Sounds like IVF, with the zygote being neither her egg nor her husband’s sperms.

      • Not Adahn

        Not her egg. She was the surrogate for some other couple’s embryo.

      • DrOtto

        I couldn’t be assed to read the story. If I wanted to read stories, I would have read the links. So now I have to ask, what’s the point of the egg swapping? Seems like there used to be another way to do these things…

      • UnCivilServant

        The swapping was not intentional. The clinic put the kid from the wrong client in her.

    • Not Adahn

      Before the implantation, the clinic should have written “this embryo to be implanted in X” on it in sharpie.

    • Common Tater

      “Sydney Sweeney’s Euphoria co-star now turns on her: Chloe Cherry says controversial OnlyFans story is ‘crazy and weird’ – as scandal mounts around the ‘MAGA Barbie’

      Porn star and actress Chloe, who nabbed a role on the show after starring in an adult spoof of the programme, weighed in on Sydney’s character Cassie’s storyline, in which she launches an OnlyFans career with shocking scenes.

      Chloe, who plays heroin-addict prostitute Faye Valentine on the show, spoke to Refinery29 about Cassie’s storyline and said it feels ‘crazy as f**k’ that a character with Cassie’s life would ‘turn to sex work’, with episodes seeing her go nude.”

      https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15758127/Sydney-Sweeneys-Euphoria-star-turns-Porn-actress-Chloe-Cherry-says-controversial-OnlyFans-story-crazy-weird-scandal-mounts-MAGA-Barbie.html

      • Gdragon

        I am a bit disappointed that they didn’t do that trick where they present (only) the funniest and most outrageous titles as a sample of what the starlet has appeared in.

    • The Other Kevin

      When I was a kid we had National Enquirer and Weekly World News at the grocery store checkout, and a lot of people were into celebrity gossip. All that’s really changed is that everything is high tech now.

  19. Common Tater

    “Donald Trump has moved to reclassify cannabis following a months-long federal review of the drug and its current restrictions.

    The President’s acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana on Thursday.

    The administration’s plan would move to classify cannabis as a Schedule III substance, which is the same category as prescription painkillers, ketamine and anabolic steroids.”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15756337/Trump-reclassifies-marijuana-bold-angering-closest-Republican-allies.html

    Just take it off the list.

      • kinnath

        Within the fiction that the scheduling of drugs by the administration was constitutional to begin with, then yes the administration can reschedule items on the list.

      • UnCivilServant

        No, I meant “removing from the list” as de-scheduling. not changing the schedule

      • kinnath

        Well, the routinely add things to the schedule. I don’t see why they couldn’t remove things from the schedule.

      • cyto

        I still have a philosophical block about declaring a plant illegal.

        Sure, some refined plant product could be regulated… but a plant? Seems weird. Also seems to violate the enumerated powers. Surely a plant growing in my back yard isnt covered in those enumerated powers.

      • Not Adahn

        Note that castor/nightshade/destroying angel aren’t on the banned plants list. Only wrongfun ones are.

  20. Not Adahn

    I may be turning into a northener.

    When I first moved here I never got sunburned because the sun at this latitude is a piddly little ineffective thing. This year I got sunburned in April. Alas, poor melanin, I never appreciated ye.

      • Not Adahn

        And it never gets overhead here. There are times in the south when the sun is very overt about how it’s going to kill you if you give it half a chance.

      • R.J.

        Heh. I sent DEG a picture of lawn mowing at the new house in July once. The sun was dead overhead, we had no trees yet. I could feel my skin cooking within moments of walking outside. It looked like a nuclear furnace in the picture.
        I think you are right, Northerners don’t experience that.

      • UnCivilServant

        *sigh*

        The difference in angle between us and the sun is the reason there’s more air in between.

        I hate it when I have to explain what I thought was a perfectly good joke.

      • rhywun

        Northerners don’t experience that

        You say that like it’s a bad thing.

      • Not Adahn

        Two things:

        I don’t think the air actually has much to do with anything, since the increased mean path length is dwarfed by the tiny extinction coefficient.

        As such I was working on a cos(latitude) joke but couldn’t make it good enough to bother figuring out how to copy-paste the formatting required.

      • Ted S.

        Technically not dead overhead unless you’re between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

      • UnCivilServant

        NA – I already admitted that the attempt at humor fell flat.

      • cyto

        Nobody appreciates ultraviolet irradiance based jokes anymore. You would thing the combination of physics, chemistry, biology and geometry would make for a real knee-slapper… but noooo!

      • Not Adahn

        Don’t feel bad, nobody appreciated the Python/Durang level absurdism of my “writing on an embryo with a sharpie” joke.

  21. Common Tater

    “Judge’s repeal of Trump ban on gender-affirming care for children ‘a meaningful win for patients’, experts say

    “Unserious leaders are unsafe,” Mustafa T Kasubhai, a US district judge in Oregon wrote in the opening to his final judgment on the gender-affirming care case, a 49-page decision that excoriated the administration for disregarding the law and overreach in its regulations. The judge also barred the administration from implementing similar policies under any other names to restrict care nationally by withholding funding….

    Khadijah Silver, director of gender justice and health equity at Lawyers for Good Government, who uses they and them pronouns, said they were “so overwhelmingly ecstatic” and “couldn’t actually process” that the ruling “was real life”.

    In December, Kennedy announced that any health system providing pediatric gender-affirming care would be suspended from receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding. Medicaid and Medicare would also be banned from paying for any gender-affirming care, he said.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/rfk-jr-agenda-trans-care-children

    LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!!!

    • cyto

      As someone who is forced to take these drugs to keep from dying of cancer, I can report that they are far worse than you can imagine. The negative health impacts are everywhere throughout your body. But worse, they impact your mind as well.

      The tradeoff of “not dead” is worth it. But damn, dont do it just because you have a fetish. It will not do what you think it will.

      • Common Tater

        Sorry 🙁

        Hope you get well soon.

    • rhywun

      “care”

      Won’t someone please think of the luxury liberals and their trophy trans kids??

    • cyto

      Down here in south Florida, $3.87 is the best price.

      Unless you use an app.

      7-11 has promotions for their app. I got $1.47 off for 1 fill-up (times 3 phones) took both vehicles at the same time. With the SUV it ended up saving us $35 each trip.

      They also have a lock-in pricing feature as a hedge against rising prices.

      Most of my deals have expired, but with lock in and a few deals stacked, I am only paying $2.89

      So, 7-11 successfully purchased my patronage.

    • R.J.

      Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas: A number of stations at $2.99 and $3.02.

      • cyto

        Taxes here are “only” 44 cents.

        So the rest is transportation, I suppose. Maybe business costs.. real estate is high here.

        Anyway, a buck price difference is quite a bit, with taxes in Dallas being 38.4 cents.

      • cyto

        Los Angeles has a tax of 89 cents. Yet gas costs $6 per gallon.

        Does anyone know why the cost at the pump is so much more than is explained by the gas and sales tax?

      • cyto

        I asked Grok.

        Taxes aren’t the main reason. California has way higher taxes — about 90 cents total per gallon versus Florida’s 40 or so — but that’s only half of the gap.
        The real difference comes from California’s special cleaner-burning gas blend that costs refiners 10-20 cents extra per gallon, plus strict environmental rules like cap-and-trade and low-carbon fuel standards that add another 40-50 cents. Refinery closures in California are tightening supply too, driving prices up even more.
        Right now LA’s around $5.90 a gallon, while Broward is closer to $4.00. The extra dollar-plus mostly comes from those California-only regulations and supply constraints, not just the tax difference.

      • Common Tater

        The refineries left due to regulation.

      • R.J.

        I think it is transportation. I was pondering that last time I was in Florida.

      • rhywun

        Special gas formula and closing refineries?

    • The Other Kevin

      Ours is over $4 and we’re taking a road trip to Kentucky for a wedding tomorrow. No bueno.

      Funny how concerned the Trump admin was with the economy not too long ago, now it’s meh, no big deal.

      • cyto

        Yeah, I really dont understand the shift. He has been pretty strongly anti war for a very long time.

        Because he is going at things in a very limited way, I suspect that someone convinced him that we need to control resources before China does, and the entire thing is just that, an oil gambit. It is the only thing that ties Venezuela and Iran together.

        His plans do seem to have a long-term restructuring of the economy and global trade in mind.

        Not just oil and domestic production, but also shipbuilding, steel, even chemicals – there is a big fight right now because he is moving to bring all agricultural chemical production home from China (who now produce our pesticides and fertilizer, including Roundup, which became the poster boy)

        It is wild that such a sweeping restructuring of the economy is happening with almost no coverage.

        Obama did a ton in the other direction too, with things like Operation Choke Point and trade deals that offshored lots of manufacturing. It didnt get covered as a major change to all of the economy, but glowingly as a disconnected series of good things ™. But change it they did.

  22. Common Tater

    “This is a cover song produced by the Power Music app. Some gym-goers will never hear the real Rihanna, or any other well-known artist, again, because GLL – the social enterprise that owns and operates Better and its 250 leisure centres across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – decided to cancel its music licence and instead play royalty-free songs from the Power Music app from 1 March.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/23/fitness-classes-gym-music-better-cover-versions

    I’m sick of AI slop everywhere.

    • The Other Kevin

      Agreed. It makes me sick. One of our highest functions as humans is creativity, and AI has turned creative work into a mass-produced commodity.

  23. Common Tater

    “Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is more likely to collapse than previously thought. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises…

    They reshape the world to suit their demands. One of the symptoms of the pathology known as “billionaire brain” is an inability to see beyond their own short-term gain. They would sack the planet for a few more stones on the pointless mountain of wealth. And we can see it happening. Last week delivered the biggest news of the year so far, perhaps the biggest news of the century. But partly because billionaires own most of the media, most people never heard it. We might find ourselves committed to a civilisation-ending event before we even learn that such a thing is possible.

    The news is that the state of a crucial oceanic circulation system has been reassessed by scientists. Some now believe that, as a result of climate breakdown changing the temperature and salinity of seawater, it is more likely than not to collapse. This system – known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) – delivers heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic. Recent research suggests that if it shuts down, it could cause both a massive drop in average winter temperatures in northern Europe and drastic changes in the Amazon’s water cycles. This could help tip the rainforest into cascading collapse and trigger further disaster.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis

    Peak Guardian?

    • cyto

      Definitely in the “this is new” part. They have been worrying over this for at least a couple of decades.

      I’m pretty sure there was a “by 2015” in there at some point, but I could be mixing a few things together.

    • rhywun

      Or it could not.

      Sounds like they’re jelly to me.

    • Tonio

      So, they are pivoting back to global cooling.

      • cyto

        Or… bet-hedging so that any variation is “just as predicted”

  24. Common Tater

    “Can we finally admit that rape culture exists?

    But it does. It always has. Rape culture is an assemblage of ideas, beliefs and received wisdom: That male sexual aggression is natural, that heterosexual sex is something that men enact on — rather than with — women; that women make themselves rapeable by flirting or drinking or wearing revealing clothing. Guardian columnist Moira Donegan characterizes rape culture as “a whole complex of attitudes: attitudes about women’s status, attitudes that eroticize inequality or violence, attitudes about sexuality that reference, naturalize and glamorize rape even when they do not themselves amount to or grant permission for actual forcible sexual penetration.”

    https://www.salon.com/2026/04/22/can-we-finally-admit-that-rape-culture-exists/

    No.

    • rhywun

      But enough about the middle east. What about the west?

      • The Other Kevin

        Beat me to it. If they were talking about certain third-world cultures they’d be correct. But they’re not, are they?

      • Gender Traitor

        If they were talking about certain third-world cultures they’d be correct defending it.

        FTFY

    • cyto

      Who comes up with this stuff?

      I cant decide if it is women with no libido who cannot understand human sexuality, or high libido women who feel shame over their rape fantasies.

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah. Tiny little niche complaint:

        I can’t get calibration ammo shipped to me, and no stores ever carry it. So I have to beg for it when I RM a match.

    • Not Adahn

      LE Duty .38spl? Ok grampa.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yeah, all the cool kids carry .32 H&R Magnum in their J-frames.

      • UnCivilServant

        .38 special is only three years older than 9x19mm.

        /deliberately missing thr point.

      • Not Adahn

        After the BUG match showed me that my P365 was literally smaller in every dimension than my Colt Agent I’ve decided revolvers are either fun toys or affectations.

      • Sean

        32 H&R Magnum

        I’m not stocking another caliber, especially for pistols.

    • R.J.

      I thought you were discussing the band for a minute.

      • cyto

        I totally thought they were releasing a box set. I was like, “why all the .38 special hate?”

  25. Not Adahn

    Regarding ammo,

    There this lawsuit against OpenAI ’cause sumdood used GhatGPT to plan his mass shooting. Anybody know what those recommendations actually were? I’d be interested if it recommended Federal HST/Underwood/Lehigh Controlled Chaos or the like and freaking amazed if the dude actually shelled out the money for it.

    • EvilSheldon

      If OpenAI actually recommended Underwood or Lehigh or any of that other meme-tier garbage, that’s a cause for action all by itself. Federal HST might get the AI a pat on the head, though.

      • Not Adahn

        ChatGPT is trained on the internet.

    • cyto

      That is 11 levels of stupid. I suppose Google maps is similarly vulnerable?

      Meanwhile, some cop doesnt like your attitude, twists your arm to manufacture “resistance” to justify a beating that comes with a hospital stay, and a local prosecutor decides to back the state… the judge is on board and you get 8 years for resisting arrest and assaulting an officer…. but when you finally are vindicated and it all gets thrown out 3 years later, everyone involved is immune from lawsuits and prosecution.

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