Colorado knocked out Minnesota. Vegas gets a chance to do the same to Anaheim tonight and the Sabres and Canadians/Canadiens have a pivotal game 5 tonight all knotted up at 2 games a piece. The PGA Championship is underway as I make these links. Across the pond, Man City kept the pressure on and an inexplicably bad VAR decision kept Celtic in the SPL Premier League title chase with all to play for this weekend. It was a complete screw job by the officials that even Italian referees would blush at. I hope Hearts get every single call this weekend to preserve what should have been an all but clinching day yesterday but for official malfeasance. And that’s it for sports.
This will be an incredibly interesting, and racially charged, case. I will be watching with much interest.
Good. I like cooperation. It helps to make things more efficient to catch people breaking our laws.
Not sure how they’ll indict him. But the bastard certainly deserves a jail cell more than a sweet pension.
This will be a circus. And not the fun kind where there’s elephants and clowns and shit. The other kind. The bad kind.
I have no problem with this. Although I think it would be a good idea to post a notice at the edge of their private property to let people know about it.
You made your bed. Now sleep in it.
Blah blah blah. The whole argument is retarded but casting a petite troon as Achilles’ ghost and a chick who’s black as night as Helen Of Troy is silly.
I can feel the libertarian leaving my body when I read this. I don’t care if they kill them all.
This is fascinating. And illuminating as well. Not about what life was like back then, but at the amount of bullshit that’s spread in education.
What a poor decision. And it’ll cost him, I’m sure. No idea what them finding a perfectly legal, according to the SC, AR-15 at his house means. That part of the case shouldn’t exist and will hopefully get tossed. But the dude was stupid for what he did.
Here we go. Always happy to hear these guys. They’re such fun. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolUK/comments/1sz5xkk/ian_mcculloch_of_legendary_liverpool_band_echo/ 💍
He doesn’t even look old enough to shave, lol.
::taps mic::
“Is this working? Is anybody there? Hello?”
Yeah, the Chud thing is gonna be interesting for sure.
No it isn’t. He’s an asshole begging to be beaten or killed. Someone is bound to oblige him.
Not so long ago this would have worked itself out and not cost taxpayers a dime.
The righty version of the dude shot by ICE?
He’s a one man Westboro Baptist group.
Good comparison.
Chud is about to get a very costly education in how self-defense law really works, versus how the internet thinks that it works.
They are just witnessing, showing their devotion.
It is no different than a devout Christian saying “praise Jesus” at the end of every sentence.
What’s interesting about the article is how they hamfistedly crammed in a pgh about Trump posting that video of the O’Bamas from the Lyin’ King or whatever it was a parody of.
Every article must meet the quota of OMB regardless of the topic.
Gotta feed the algorithm by sprinkling some OMB in every article.
Fucking Clarksville TN.
Shithole supreme.
Guys an ass. But read the comments and they will make you want him to get off.
I’ve had it with “racially charged” media circuses. This one has “I hate everyone involved” written all over it.
You can’t initiate a confrontation and then claim self defense if it escalates.
WRT Fauci – same problem with keep coming up against. Unethical behavior isn’t necessarily criminal.
I think his actions go beyond unethical in this case.
I’m curious how the pardon will come into play. https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1385746/dl?inline
Well, as you said – what exact charge(s) could they indict him on?
It depends on when he started funneling money to GOF research illegally, for starters.
It wasn’t illegal. Congress appropriated the money and Obama put a pause on it.
Low level nonpardoned assholes need to do time so the next time this happens we have whistleblowers in real time. Also, we need to make his name mud, the same way that most of the country spits when they hear Nixon’s name.
I’m not saying it should be illegal to ‘earn’ a living filming people’s reactions to your insulting them, just that if I were on a jury trying one of those people for punching you in the face I’d find it hard to convict them. Not because words justify violence mind you! But on the theory that a battery is a non-consensual contact, and you obviously, knowingly invited it.
This isn’t really any different from the other attention whores that punk people and film them. Beatings deserved all around.
I am delighted when one of that ilk learns that “It was just a prank” is not actually a justification for their behavior.
There was a case here in Virginia, not too long ago, where some obnoxious Twitch streamer went around annoying people and filming it – unfortunately I can’t find the news story. Anyway, one of his victims twisted off and shot him, claimed self defense, and got away with it.
Was it really self defense? In my professional opinion, it was not. But that case does demonstrate that if you’re an obnoxious asshole, any court proceeding is going to be biased against you from the start.
I don’t have a problem with actions (such as pranks) being met with reactions (face punching, in this case).
I can feel the libertarian leaving my body when I read this.
Getting in touch with those more primitive, warlike feelings? Loved the line about hyper-rational people falling for Marxism; reminds of another group that thinks in hyper-rational terms.
Me too.
One of the reasons I have never and will never call myself a libertarian.
Dopers, gang bangers, rapists, murderers. Make a stack of skulls outside the courthouse.
Do they all think you’re a real swell dude?
I don’t think they think about me at all.
Can they go after the leaders of Blue states who are handing benefits to millions of illegal aliens?
Sometimes you win in appeal. Obviously the State didn’t defend their record and the court felt the DA put their thumb on the scale. Regardless if the guy is a scumbag, its always welcoming when the State gets smacked down a bit.
I’m not seeing how what the clerk did could have influenced the jury.
Without seeing the actual appeals ruling, my comment is towards my general distrust of the State to not be dirty.
You have to read all the way to the end of the article to find out that the court clerk pled guilty to evidence tampering. I wonder why that might have been?
I am guessing she tried to stack the jury in such a manor as to find him guilty.
But I haven’t RTFA
I think she tried to stack the jury in a more modest building.
I see the problem. He hasn’t been in and out of jail so no Justice Warriors will stand up for him.
Toss him in the clink for the weekend, probation for 6 months and firearm classes to reinstate his rights.
The mention of an AR15 to the CA chattering class is the same as saying he used the word nigger in their eyes.
“Automatic” weapon.
No.
You don’t hate journalists enough.
So this is interesting/appalling and maybe one or two of our fin-glibs new about it. I certainly didn’t. We all thought license plate readers were invasive! Since it wasn’t funded by Congress, I assume the LLC must be funded by the securities industry players – right out of “nice market ya got there, be a shame if something happened to it”.
Why do you love terrorists?
Sure Pelosi’s trades are masked, initially, then once un-masked – completely ignored.
I don’t love the USG.
This has gone on for a while. Team Red side lines it and Team Blue pushes it forward.
Nobody on the Street wants anything to do with it. And yes the Street and by extension investors will be paying for it.
I gave up being shocked 25 years ago when DARPA first posted, then a few days later memory holed and denied, the TIA program (Total Information Awareness) on their public website, complete with it’s logo, the all seeing eye of Horus. The pretense that the 4th Amendment matters died when the World Trade Center fell, and idiots started spouting idiocy about the world changing. The world did not change, it was always dangerous, all that changed was that we revealed that we were willing to be herded like any other sheep.
The Patriot Act wasn’t the first piece in the puzzle — that would be the National Security Act of 1947. We had to destroy this country to save it – first from the commies, then from the terrorists.
Actually I shouldn’t exclude the Espionage Act of 1917 – fuck ol’ Woody and his enablers.
The SEC’s CAT is an LLC that tracks
¿Que?
Do they mean it’s an LLM?
Huh, it really is a LLC. WTF?
How is the Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC managed? The CAT NMS Plan provides that the Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC will be managed by its Operating Committee. Each Participant appoints one member of the Operating Committee and each Participant appointee has one vote. The CAT NMS Plan sets forth certain provisions relating to the Operating Committee, including identification of those actions requiring a Majority Vote, a Supermajority Vote or a unanimous vote, and the management of conflicts of interest.
That seems like some bullshit right there – a government-mandated rule, but “it’s a private entity” seems like a blatant attempt to step around various laws.
And? What are you gonna do about it? /thives and prostitutes aka politicians
Never change MSM – What is it SFG an AR-15 or:
“Following the incident, police obtained a search warrant and recovered an illegal automatic rifle at Miceli’s home on an unspecified date.”
Pick one it can’t be both.
It’s a reporter. Do you think they know what an automatic rifle really is?
It’s got “”the shoulder thing that goes up”!
It’s a reporter.
You’re everything we’ve come to expect from 4+ years of journalism college.
I don’t give reporters the benefit of the doubt. They know what an automatic rifle is just as well as you or I, and they lie about it on purpose.
FRT? Super safety?
Some of the very early AR-15s were full auto made for military sales.
I kinda doubt that’s what he had.
My M16 in basic training said “AR15” on the reciever.
It was a full-semi-automatic.
I liked this part: “Miceli told police officers that he meant to shoot the SUV’s tires and that he tossed his gun into Waterdog Lake.”
Miceli admitted to the cops that he committed assault with a deadly weapon and reckless endangerment, then tried to conceal the evidence of his crimes. He’s going to prison, for being a retard and thinking that Jason Bourne movies are real life.
Yeah he’s retarded.
Posting too quickly?! Is this Craigslist?
Saying automatic does not differentiate between semi and full.
And, most AR platforms are illegal in CA with its current laws (which should be struck down but keep popping up with slightly different verbiage)
It was actually a pit bull!
CDC Is Walking a Tightrope With Its Response to Hantavirus
Administration officials host frequent calls and have reallocated staffing, but don’t want to replicate Covid-era response
The important thing is that something is “done”. Because if one single person drops dead it will all be Team Red’s fault. Also I can’t figure out why nobody trusts the CDC.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/cdc-is-walking-a-tightrope-with-its-response-to-hantavirus-d2cdfc73?st=TvCBCe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
How is there an effort to ‘contain’ a virus that is barely contagious, over 11 cases all from the same source?
It took our beloved Gene Hackman, we must do something!!!
It was Gene’s wife who died from hantavirus. She was his caretaker, and apparently he was in a pretty bad way, so he died of, essentially, neglect, not a virus.
Ergo, it took him. /CDC Come on man
OBE:
Died “of” hantavirus.
Also I can’t figure out why nobody trusts the CDC.
Really, I can’t figure out why anybody does trust the CDC.
Because government is their religion. To admit that it probably caused COVID via the research funding, massively fucked up the response regardless, then shielded big Pharma would be too damaging to their faith for them to accept it.
Then don’t go outside.
Do t go onto other peoples property.
Reading a Variety article is like listening to a bitchy clique of JHS girls. They even get their Kevin Sorbo hate on – he’s an icky conservative! He hates diverse casts!!
The comments are also amazing on that piece.
We have some of that Flock shit in my area. 🙁
https://deflock.org/
Check your areas.
We had one at the nearest Safeway for a while. 😕
Go to Trader Joe’s: they don’t even have security cameras, at least not here.
Trader Joe’s employees wear Hawaiian shirts. I fully expect half of them to be packing uzies though.
The four pairs in my hometown are 100% funded by the DOT and the Quad Cities Drug Taskforce. They catch the traffic coming down the hill, headed to the weighstation (where the state cops park in the median) and crossing too and from ID/WA on a pair of bridges. All are on the Idaho side so it’s the state cops/dot that are paying for them. Not surprised. I’m a bit surprised about the ones upriver in Orfino, probably tracking logging trucks, the weigh stations will time you from the cameras to the weigh stations and write you a ticket if your speeding.
Do they catch traffic violators in the proper demographic ratios?
Well cities are ‘rethinking’ them not cause its a blatant violation of your rights but it might be used to catch illegals
Honestly, not sure if I care about getting the right result for the wrong reason.
Yeah, there’s been several local scandals about flock cameras.
Decades of self-loathing propaganda will do that.
think of the cocktail parties…
I do. They suck.
I prefer dive bars to cocktail parties.
All I want is a beer and a shot, don’t tase me bro.
peasants
ZWAK:
Both types of places have their time and place. Although I’m more confused by the places trying to merge them with the dive bar aesthetic and upscale cocktail menu.
Although I’m more confused – have you completely missed the hipster phenomenon these last 20 years?
Pie:
I have not missed it. We still have hipster places locally. These are different. It’s diveface.
If it doesn’t smell like the restrooms haven’t been cleaned in decades then it ain’t dive.
Diveface? Jesus Christ on a corncob, that is wrong.
+1 NAP
😴
This will be a circus.
I am no expert in American legalese. I guess there should be a standard for tampering. But feel should not be a standard so the statement
“I never felt that the clerk of court was pushing an agenda or trying to push me to come to a certain verdict,” Williams told NBC News Wednesday. “Never felt that way about her at all.”
makes little sense to me. It may or may not feel like that to you. But that is not relevant.
Ahh, Pie you reveal your misogyny. You advocate for the oppressive hard structures of the patriarchy rather than embracing the intuitive feelings of the divine feminine! Do better!
Correct. Most people who’ve been manipulated never felt like they were manipulated.
A conman isn’t asking for your trust, you are asking for his.
ZWAK:
A conman is selling you the idea that you’re the smart, clever, and handsome one.
Some really interesting photos of PA and NYC.
The World War I Pilot Who Is Still Shaping America’s Best Golf Courses
Rare aerial photographs taken a century ago by Colonel J. Victor Dallin guided the restoration of Aronimink Golf Club. This week, his work will help decide the PGA Championship.
https://www.wsj.com/sports/golf/aronimink-golf-club-pga-world-war-pilot-6a15f7d3?st=RxvXRR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That’s super cool.
Blah blah blah. The whole argument is retarded but casting a petite troon as Achilles’ ghost and a chick who’s black as night as Helen Of Troy is silly.
I am not sure you are properly considering the mandatory diversity requirements for a movie to be Oscar eligible.
Forget that Achilles and Helen of Troy are both fictional characters navigating a mythological fable replete with a giant Cyclops, six-headed Scylla, and assorted other gods and monsters,
I hate this retarded argument. The fact that it is a fable does not mean you can do anything with it. The same argument when a fantasy novel plot is crap and they say well there is magic and dragons you cannot complain about inconsistencies. Well yes you gen the world has to make sense internally. The world of the odyssey did not have a black chick as Helen.
Six – headed Scylla could have each head played by a different oppressed minority group and that would gave met the requirement.
WRONG R.J. – that would be othering all of the oppressed by turning them into one common monster! Now, if the Scylla then wisely taught the cis-white-male *cough* *cough* [swarthy Greek] about his true place in the world – then you might be okay.
Ellen Page’s Achilles heel is her lack of balls.
IIRC the mandatory diversity requirements can be met behind the camera too.
Imagine the hilarity if someone cast a whitey as Shaka Zulu or some such.
::laughs in Laurence Olivier::
(Did you notice the featured image for this post)
Nope, often miss it when going from post to post. Nice.
Laurence Olivier was respectful because he did not do it in whiteface. He had the proper color, though he did not get the lips right.
Larry was clean and articulate.
Playing a North African Moor while painted up like Al Jolson was certainly a choice.
Almost every version of Othello makes him sub-Saharan.
sloopyinca:
One of my favorite bits (from the now pulled) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
If Elliot had been cast as an Amazon, I would have approved.
Looking for a Texas Ranch For Sale? 3T Ranch is a 985± acre partially high-fenced hunting and recreational property located 12 miles south–southwest of Abilene in southern Taylor County, Texas. The ranch has been used primarily for hunting and recreation, with minor cattle grazing, and is well-improved throughout. Paved frontage on U.S. Highway 277 and a quarter-mile asphalt driveway deliver all-weather access to the headquarters complex, accommodating luxury vehicles, motor coaches, and high-end equipment with ease. Improvements include a barndominium-style main residence, a newly constructed party barn with a commercial kitchen, pool, and patio, and a custom climate-controlled shop with a car garage, gym, and gun bunker. The hunting infrastructure is well-developed with established food plots, multiple blinds and feeders, and a professionally installed $60,000 observation tower blind on a prominent hill providing 360-degree views across the ranch. Water is a notable strength of the property, with seven producing wells distributed across the ranch, supplemented by four ponds that provide additional surface water. The eastern boundary is partially high-fenced, and completing the perimeter would allow a buyer to operate a fully managed game ranch or high fence hunting lodge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cQezH28Kns
$8,250,000 Abilene, TX 985± Deeded Acres
I’ve driven past that ranch many times.
I’m still amazed by the asking price on these operations.
Almost 9000 an acre.
Nutty.
It’s not even productive/tillable ground.
well if you are very rich and want to own a ranch to tell people you own a ranch…
I promise selling hunting trips on that property more than makes up for the lack of being tillable.
High Fence = captive animals bred and more or less tortured into having massive, very unnatural racks. It’s “hunting”, and rich fools who don’t want to actually work for their trophies pay big dollars to cosplay as some professional hunter from Africa.
Those ‘hunting’ trips would have to cost into five figures to make selling them worthwhile.
I promise that they easily reach 5 figures per person.
The gym needs work but I like the armory set-up.
Looking for an Oklahoma Ranch For Sale? The Gardner Ranch, located near Morris in Okmulgee and McIntosh Counties, Oklahoma, consists of approximately 1,943± acres, with the main body of 1,878± acres being contiguous and an additional 65± acres situated just 450 feet away. The property is operated as an efficient cow-calf ranch, with approximately 15 pastures and traps that enhance grazing efficiency and livestock management. Water resources are abundant, with more than 24 ponds distributed across the ranch, supporting both livestock needs and recreational opportunities. The headquarters are centrally located to efficiently manage daily operations and provide effective oversight of the entire property. This ranch sits in a well-established cattle-producing region with favorable climate conditions and proximity to major transportation routes and nearby communities. The property also offers recreational appeal, including hunting and access to Lake Eufaula, while maintaining a balance between operational productivity and rural lifestyle amenities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W16qVf2XeE0
$7,500,000 Morris, OK 1,943± Deeded Acres
From the way you look at US Properties, I’m guessing you’re looking for a place to retire to.
That’s South of the bad Oklahoma weather, probably a good find. Just remember it gets hot here, and it’s not because of climate change.
Well, to be fair, it was much colder but then the climate changed and the glaciers receded leaving a lot of cool rocks in my area.
South of the bad Oklahoma weather
Isn’t that still part of Sinus Alley?
True. Still Romania Hot < Oklatex Hot
You’d think those rocks would have warmed up by now.
GT – I was thinking of making that joke.
But I didn’t get rolling.
Too mossy?
No rhythm. It just gives him the blues.
This one is at least productive, if you’re willing to work hard.
Price point per acre is still too high. Get it down to $2500 an acre and then start dealing.
Paging Glibs who like distilled spirits… I know exactly where Colts Neck, NJ is, but never heard of Laird.
This Family Business Was Already Old When the U.S. Was Born
The Laird family has owned its distillery operation almost continuously for over three centuries. Its longevity offers valuable lessons.
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/family-business-longevity-lessons-0bc84f1b?st=nHdU6j&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Also, it’s NJ. How was it not run out of business.
They make good Applejack.
Didn’t Neph write about them not too long?
I did. They have the first distilling permit granted during prohibition, as they were allowed to continue to produce medicinal alcohol.
Apple brandy? bleah.
In local news:
New York Man Convicted After Opening Chinese Police Station
Police outpost was used to renew driver’s licenses and hunt a Chinese political opponent, prosecutors alleged
It appears the obligatory American flag lapel pin was unable to sway the jury.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/new-york-man-convicted-after-opening-chinese-police-station-e6b388f2?st=uZdEDn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
wut
Are Chinese drivers licenses valid here?
Anyway yeah these are obviously spy stations. Toss him out of the country.
No, spies are hanged.
Not being up on the whole “international driving licenses” racket – yes.
They are supposed to be temporary and used for things like vacation travel. However, shocking, they can be and are abused.
I believe the US accepts a Chinese license for temporary use here – but it would need to current. During COVID I can see them expiring as people couldn’t return to renew them to continue to play the game.
Oh I didn’t notice it says he’s a citizen.
You’re correct.
whaddup doh’
So… Almost half of the remaining titles in the Unwatched list are from a single franchise.
I need to dilute that with other content, but I’m not sure the best way to do that, since both of my main sources for random are no longer available.
You want me to send you a list of ideas?
No.
I’m trying to come up with a source, or schema.
I’m trying to come up with a source
Oh, I have a good suggestion for you. There’s this broccoli headed alien that knows movies and posts a regular article on some splinter libertarian blog. He can probably source some movies and shows for you.
Randomness, not curation.
You could start watching The Expanse, bring your unique style of criticism, and inspire a rage that would boost the engagement numbers here greatly.
I am that guy.
It is not my intention to antagonize the readership.
Good intentions are no defence.
Who said anything about good intentions?
Who said anything about defense?
My goal is to snark at the content, regardless of the reaction of the readership. But NA suggested a work because the results would be antagonistic.
All those words wasted, the real reason is – I don’t want to watch the Expanse.
I can’t even.
Got distracted by something else while I was in the middle of S03 or S04, I forget.
I will finish it some day.
The Expanse is pretty good.
Granted I have not read the books.
That’s why you think it was pretty good.
I kind of liked the show it was enjoyable enough.
If I hadn’t read the books, I would have liked it more than I did.
The books are slightly different and I am in the middle of that series too.
I’m sure I’ll develop different opinions of it if I ever get around to reading it.
Why the socialist Left and the populist Right are talking past each other
And why that is not going to change any time soon
https://insider.iea.org.uk/p/why-the-socialist-left-and-the-populist
Socialist: “Hello, Mr Working Man. I’m a socialist, and I want to be your voice in politics. What ails you, Working Man? It’s capitalism, isn’t it?”
Worker: “To be perfectly honest with you – it’s immigration. I know you’re not supposed to say it, but I don’t like the way my area has changed due to immigration.”
Socialist: “Oh, I see! You’re blaming migrants for the fact that you’re not adequately paid. But that’s not actually their fault. It’s the fault of greedy capitalists who are exploiting you, while redirecting your anger at migrants. Have you heard about the Misdirected Anger strategy? There’s an interesting book by Ash Sarkar…”
Worker: “I’m not blaming them for my pay situation. I just don’t like the way the area has changed.”
Socialist: “So you’re blaming migrants for the fact that you can’t get a doctors’ appointment? But that’s not their fault either! It’s the fault of the Tories, both blue and red, who have systematically defunded the NHS. You blame migrants, because that’s what the billionaires want you to believe. What we really need is a wealth tax. Have you come across Gary’s Economics? It’s run by a chap called Gary Stevenson, who…”
Worker: “No, I’m not blaming them for the NHS situation either. But the area just doesn’t feel the same anymore.”
Socialist: “You’re blaming them for the closure of youth centres, right? For the closure of libraries and arts centres. For the dilapidated state of the local schools. For cutting disability benefits. But that’s not the migrants’ fault! That’s austerity! And the billionaires, who want you to blame migrants…”
Worker: “No, I’m not blaming them for those things. What I’m saying is…”
Socialist: “You need to read Vulture Capitalism. It explains how Marx was right all along, and how the bourgeoisie are now deliberately stoking hatred and division, misleading people like you…”
Shorter: socialists are blind idiot idealists.
Somebody made a comment on X about this as another datapoint about the US no longer being a “high trust” society. Spot on.
Princeton Changes Its 133-Year-Old Honor Code Over AI Cheating Fears
Faculty voted to require proctoring in all in-person exams starting this summer, reversing a policy set in place in 1893
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/princeton-cheating-ai-proctors-2a1cf62e?st=gs2dYZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Depends where you are in the country.
The culture has become far more homogenized than it was even just thirty years ago. But there are still wild regional variations.
the left can’t meme
https://x.com/ItsLulu_7/status/2054599472265797679
Ick. No.
The left’s problem is that they misunderstand what critical thinking means. They think it means using your obviously perfect in every way ideology to critique existing institutions. They never critically examine their own ideas with an eye toward changing them.
True. All problems are caused by things external to their world view.
The self-righteous are the worst people, no matter their politics.
You can’t criticize her, he’s both indigenous and a Jew.
Posted most likely from one of a multitude of android phones on the market all competing for her money in which she choose because they provided the best functionality and utility.
I was guessing it was from an iPhone paid for by somebody else.
UCS gets it.
This is a person who has no experience in owning a business.
It’s a lovely sentiment. Meanwhile, 10 years of tax-free compounding have turned hundreds of millions in deductible donations into private equity worth hundreds of billions. Taxpayers don’t even know how much they’ve lost.
The story about OpenAI that you won’t read about in just about every other media outlet. Because Musk bad. Bad. Bad.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-real-story-of-the-openai-case-a326aa6f?st=VqTcoS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
American Communist Party
@ACPMain
The Birth of Sovintern: A New Communist International
https://x.com/ACPMain/status/2054649055842574402
rejoice
At least they are all in one place, at one time…
The socialism of midwits
The triumph of anti-Americanism
British opinion of America has reached such depths that the public now view Saudi Arabia more favourably than our long-standing ally. Anecdotally, I’ve heard people say that they wouldn’t even visit the United States right now, and Times columnist Giles Coren earlier this year wrote about how they had cancelled a family holiday to the country.
I imagine that many Britons were outraged by the institutional racism that became a daily, hourly, minutely subject of discussion in our media. For some British conservatives, in contrast, the summer of Floyd led to a moment of clarity that the United States was the source of our ills – that the country’s institutions, its fanatical universities and grossly dishonest media, were the driver of a mania sweeping across the Atlantic. But then again, I’m not sure how widespread the view actually was, or whether it was just the dozen or so weirdos I was talking to online during lockdown.
Middle-class Europeans dismiss most things American as fake and consumerist, but the progressive politics they’ve adopted, cultivated in Harvard and distilled through Hollywood and Netflix, are entirely that – mass-marketed American rubbish, the junk food of political opinions.
While these ideas often originated in Europe, America is better at producing them at scale, and modern progressive thought is largely a dumbed down version of 60s radicalism mass marketed to a global audience.
It was in the 1990s and 2000s that middlebrow anti-Americanism really took off, brilliant marketed by Michael Moore […]
Moore appealed to a new urban lumpenintelligentsia who […] wanted to distinguish themselves from the hicks […] who still clung to their guns and bibles.
British institutions would completely absorb the BLM narrative about police violence, based on a dishonest misreading of statistics, statistics easily available but ignored by the incurious midwit.
https://insider.iea.org.uk/p/millenial-liberalism-ben-southwood
shit wrong link
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-socialism-of-midwits
then again paywall so the link don;t matter much
Meanwhile they happily continue to import millions of impoverished and/or violent young men.
No worries, much of the US is willfully blind to reality too.
Counterpoint:
They Called You Racist Anyway
Barn Find of the day, Late Brooks edition:
https://barnfinds.com/split-window-custom-project-1979-chevrolet-corvette/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Weekly)
That’s one way to get rid of the 5 MPH bumpers on the C3.
Not the way I’d choose, however…
OMG. I don’t think it can be saved.
Ugly
You could pour 10-15 gallons of salsa in the bowl on the back of that thing.
Perfect for tailgating!
That might be the best use of it
Like a midget in a Mexican restaurant with a salsa and chip hat.
You want to laugh at it but he performed a valuable service and a smile.
The real loser, as ever, is the taxpayer. When OpenAI organized as a 501(c)(3), it accepted the familiar terms applying to nonprofits: The organization wouldn’t pay tax on its surplus, and donors would deduct their contributions from their own taxable income. The underlying premise of the deal was that the assets accumulated under those terms must remain devoted to the charitable purpose for which the privilege was granted. In OpenAI’s case, that purpose was, by its own charter, ensuring that artificial general intelligence “benefits all of humanity.”
What pretentious nonsense.
Not stealing from one group impoverishes another group that is stolen from.
Liberal logic.
Barn Find of the day, Late Brooks edition:
“Let’s put one of everything on it.”
Starting point
The motor and trans would go straight into the bin.
2.5 liter GM 4 cylinder “Iron Duke”
WTF? I saw video where somebody K Swapped an Austin Healey, but I forget which one.
Jesus Christ, are trying to make it handle like a dump truck?
It’s better because of the slush box!
What is the K motor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_K_engine
BTS running on a treadmill?
Oh that would be peppy, light, and reliable.
No. That is a perfect combination of form and function.
It’s super cute.
An excuse for a lighter motor for sure.
I bet I can’t sit in one of them.
So, in ZWAK news, wife’s job at the uni is being eliminated, mostly as they are broke ASF. Normal businesses would do a cash payout depending on length of service, but public institutions can’t do that, so they keep her on the payroll while asking her to stay at home, and they will call if they need anything for her. But! they fucked up on one point, and in negotiations she got them to (in writing) give her two months salary post last day.
Whole thing is rampantly idiotic.
But, she has had two interviews with one specific group (she has had a few with others that didn’t pan out) and they are moving forward and are starting to check her references, a good sign.
Sorry. Hopefully she finds something quickly.
I don’t care if they kill them all.
My friend in Border Patrol has told me many stories of what these cartel people are like. I am inclined to agree with you here.
WTF? I saw video where somebody K Swapped an Austin Healey, but I forget which one.
I’d put an oldish two liter Ford zetec in it. 86 the variable cam timing, please.
I just watched a thing last night about a Limey who put a 1.8 Rover K in a Mini, which livened it up substantially.
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass suggested that homeless meth addicts should be provided with free dental care because their drug use has caused them to have rotten teeth.
During an event highlighted this week, Bass pointed to drug addiction as a major factor in the homeless population, or as she calls them “unhoused,” arguing that individuals who have rotten teeth from excessive meth use cannot “succeed” unless they are provided with new teeth from the state government.
“How many people who are unhoused that you meet have no teeth at all? They don’t have teeth. Why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can’t succeed without teeth. So there needs to be comprehensive health care provided to people,” she said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/karen-bass-prioritized-plans-to-get-free-dental-care-for-homeless-meth-heads
Priorities.
Now, most of them won’t stab you, as long as you don’t make eye contact.
And with no teeth their bites are less dangerous.
I’m not sure about that. Ask OMWC about the old ladies he deals with at the cafe during Alumni Week.
Ted S.:
Never stand between an AWFL and their wine.
I don’t have to worry. I don’t drink their crappy sweet white wines.
Almost none of the needles on the playground have AIDS on them.
Look, for a few grand, we can provide them all with a set of teeth. A package of 12 halloween vampire teeth is $6 on Amazon.
And it’s perfect because these people are sucking the life blood from society.
Zombie/vampires.
I dig it.
As they always do, it is full steam ahead. Even governor candidate was straight up saying vote for me and Ill give all the illegals everything they want.
Either they say that cause they are voting or saying that to lessen the pool of candidates cause they fear their jungle primary will produce icky republican choices only.
You can’t succeed without teeth.
Call my crazy, but I think the “not succeeding” part has more to do with the meth habit than the lack of teeth.
If you don’t succeed,
Keep sucking until you do suck seed.
The next “nonprofit” AI company is being structured right now. Whether the public has any meaningful claim on what comes out of it shouldn’t depend on which billionaire wins in court. State attorneys general are supposed to ensure that charitable assets are used for charitable purposes. In OpenAI’s case, they didn’t.
Or we could do away with the “non profit” fraud altogether.
Or better yet, eliminate the corporate tax structure altogether.
Bloomberg: Hantavirus Scientists Were Close to Vaccine But Ran Out of Money
Darn those evil Republicans!!!!
I heard a breakdown on the cost per life saved if a vaccine was made using average cost of development and how rare hantavirus was.
It came out to something like $40 million per.
That is why it was a shame (sarc) it was never developed. Such a gold mine!
“Smuggled in syringes: how Nairobi became a nexus for the black market in giant harvester ants”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/may/13/smuggled-illegal-global-trade-giant-harvester-ants-kenya-asia-europe
STIJLH
Of course notice what CBS felt compelled to mosaic.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/swastika-flag-nyu-antisemitism/
Although legit LOL from me.
That’s retarded.
“TRANS CONSERVATIVE EXPOSES Terrifying Truth Behind Radical New Trans Laws!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY38T3DhyBg
The video clip of the black guy with a computer around 26 minutes is hilarious.
I remember that video when it came out. Absolute gold and didnt move the needle one bit though.
How would black people see it if it’s on the internet?
Zing!
Thank you CT.
That made my day.
The flag was quickly taken down, but the damage was done. NYU said in a statement it is working with the police to try to identify the person responsible.
“We are shocked and deeply troubled that this hateful symbol expressing antisemitism was raised on a flagpole overlooking Washington Square Park,” a spokesperson said, in part, adding, “We are one community. We protect each other. And we will not let hate and division find a foothold on our campus.”
Thousands dead or severely wounded.
One wonders whether an instructor or a student raised the flag.
Probably the Glee Club
OBE:
So it’s time for another bus ‘accident’?
What leftie cause claims purple?
MAHA is coming for the lunch ladies
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a press conference for the updated guidelines in January that she was particularly interested in how they could improve child nutrition.
“Right now, that is going to be the single most important, from my perspective, move forward — is the school lunches and making sure that we’re getting the right amount, the best amount and the most nutrient-dense foods into the schools,” Rollins said.
Yet some in the medical community have objected to the new food pyramid, specifically the placement of saturated fat sources such as red meat and full-fat dairy at the top. “It does go against decades and decades of evidence and research,” Stanford University nutrition expert Christopher Gardner told NPR this year. Gardner was a member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
Let them eat vegan pizza.
I have this idea that’s so crazy it has to work. How about parents feed their own kids?
And educate them.
“Evidence and research” by a college and lobbying organization set up by the Seventh Day Adventists and a seed oil marketing (AHA) outfit.
There’s some high quality cherry picking for you. Frozen breaded chicken nuggets as an example of ‘animal protein.’
My lunch today is going to be half a pound of 80/20 ground beef, rice, salsa, and guacamole. nom nom nom
processed meat!
Animal protein by necessity is highly processed. After all, the animal consumed helpless plants and plant ova slaughtered for their enjoyment, digested said murdered denizens of Gaia, and converted their mutilated masticated corpses into organs, muscle, and glandular products.
70/30 or GTFO.
In an SNA survey released in January, nearly 95% of school nutrition directors said they were concerned about the financial sustainability of their programs three years from now.
“The current reimbursement rate isn’t even quite enough for the current status quo,” said Jennifer Gaddis, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of civil society and community studies who studies school food systems, “let alone to do the holistic transformation that we need in order to make school meals really important engines of public health and economic vitality in our communities.”
Nothing left to cut.
Meanwhile, down at the Humpty Dumpty Academy of Political Rhetoric
House Democrats say they tried playing nice. Now the gloves are off.
After spending more than a decade pushing for anti-gerrymandering measures and other good-government initiatives, Democratic lawmakers said this week they are gearing up to play political hardball in the wake of stunning court losses on redistricting — potentially for years to come.
“We will beat the far-right extremists,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday. “We’re going to win in November, and then we’re going to crush their souls as it relates to the extremism that they are trying to unleash on the American people.”
Those darn far right extremists just won’t stop oppressing us. This means war.
“After spending more than a decade pushing for anti-gerrymandering measures”
Prolonged laughter from this NJ resident.
When they mean ‘the gloves are off’ it means the brass knuckles go on. And the billy clubs, bike locks, baseball bats, guns, tactical thermonuclear missiles, etc. etc.
lol Horseshit.
NY Dems have been trying to overturn the independent commission and redraw the maps themselves for years.
At least they’re honest about their seething hatred.
I wish any Republican in Congress was ‘far right’ instead of the flock of FDR loving cucks they are.
A huge thumbsucker in the NYT. I don’t even know what to begin to highlight.
In a City of Big Dreams, Many Young Adults See a Cloudy Future
A bleak job market. Rising rents. Huge debt. In New York and other cities, traditional milestones of adulthood feel further away for some 20- and 30-year-olds.
https://archive.fo/rGiJI
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyregion/gen-z-nyc-unaffordable.html
I know of two young people who went to NYC to break into Broadway. Now, nowhere near NYC, one is a hospital nurse and the other teaches math. Thankfully for them, they smartened up and used their other talents. But the lights on Broadway are far brighter and you can’t tell a young person anything.
Maybe walk out of the city and apply for real jobs?
Not going to read it but I can already say that all of that is entirely by design.
Several Democratic states, including New York, have been hindered by their adoption of independent redistricting commissions and other processes meant to take partisan considerations out of the drawing of congressional lines. Now Democratic leaders are openly discussing overriding those safeguards.
Strictly independent and nonpartisan commissions focused strictly on the fair and inclusive apportionment of representation.
Yep, that’s why all 21 House seats in New England states go to the Dems, even though Republicans get 35-45% of the vote.
Iowa has been purple for two decades — voted for Bush and Gore and Obama and Trump and Biden . . .
We currently have 100% Republican representation in the House and Senate. And we are not heavily gerrymandered.
Yep, that’s why all 21 House seats in New England states go to the Dems, even though Republicans get 35-45% of the vote.
Who drew the NH maps? Which party firmly controls the NH State government, including at the time the last maps were drawn?
Who got Maine’s CD-2 electoral college vote?
Yes, the relatively non-partisan map we have now is a “hindrance” to the 100% Democrat control they want versus the 80% or so control they already have.
High Falutin’ Execs using burner phones in China
While it is somewhat ironic that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, is afraid to use his own product while visiting China, why would he need a burner phone at all? If he made a call, it would go through the Chinese state-owned cell provider. The phones were supposedly stripped of app so no Candy Crush. The burner phone is reduced to a clock and a camera.
Ugh Donald dragged along some plutocrats, right?
I wonder if they can refuse.
“I don’t wanna go to that shithole, but Donald can you get them to pay for all the shit they stole over the decades?”
So they can throw the phone in the trash before they get on the plane to go home.
This.
That’s what our execs do.
It’s less for calls made while there than to minimize the spyware they return home with.
Yep.
A former employer issued burner laptops to anyone traveling to China for this reason.
That’s what I would expect.
Assume the phone is completely corrupted and trash it.