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Where the white women at?
Getting a 10 year old off to school.
Well played Banjos. Have a great day!
Glad those last two words were there, Banjos.
She’s not a teacher, Grumbles.
Ah yes, that would at “at school” instead.
“Law school accreditor ABA moves to end DEI to protect monopoly under threat from Trump, state courts”
The fact our legal system has been run by and is populated by people whose priority has not been justice, because social justice was more important, should frighten everyone. You have justice. Anything else is a corruption of justice as the whole social justice shit has shown us all.
Law, HR, and education. Those three professions are the most captured by the left.
Law and HR create a virtuous or vicious circle depending on your point of view.
HR should not exist – eliminate it everywhere.
Law should have a lower bar to entry and membership in the ABA should be felony conspiracy to deprive people of their civil rights.
“HR should not exist – eliminate it everywhere.”
HR exists to protect companies from employees that would cause problems and sue them for not accepting those problems. As an employee HR is NEVER your friend. You are the problem to them. And unless you fit high on their social justice pyramid, they will quickly screw you over. If you are high enough on that pyramid, you have a license to terrorize the people that actually just want to get work done.
See, get rid of HR and the lawyers and HR is no longer needed.
Law should have a lower bar to entry
I’d go along with different barriers, but oh lord do we NOT need stupider lawyers lol
The HR gal I know screwed half the guys in the company shop and cheered on her husband (a friend of mine) with the guy that got made into the company president. They both should have been fired for violating policy but got promoted instead. Making 90 and 140 respectively now.
He was a pretty good employee when he was running a shovel.
You will make the ACLU sad.
“LA woman illegally paid homeless people to register to vote — including at her own address”
For every one of these we find out about – and the traditional media tells us this is not important and doesn’t happen anyway – there are multiples that go unfound or ignored.
We may be approaching the “it’s good if it does” stage.
In “The people’s republic of CT” I think we already had someone caught cheating make that argument. Cause in some local bumfuck town they believed they had to fight Trump… It’s always “fight Trump” with these people that know idiot leftists will stop listening to anything as they get gripped by rage, when they hear Trump.
Absolutely. She’s doing them a valuable service. The unhoused are too busy defending their territory from government bureaucrats to seek out voter registration.
So, I am seeing the charge here, but the thing I am not seeing is the investigation into the network paying this woman, and obviously others like her that we might not yet know of, to commit these crimes. Follow the money. We will find it is some government entity scamming social programs, funneling cash through some NGO that then pays the top men big cash and uses what is left over to pay team blue stupid people to commit the slew of crimes you see on the progressive left.
These networks have been well documented, publicly.
But somehow they never get taken down. Gee, I wonder why?
They are like deer.
You see one crossing the road but there are ten more you didn’t see right behind him.
I have to vote against the school budget today.
Why do you hate the children?
Why *don’t* you hate the children?
The school budget has nothing to do with the children.
Never has, never will.
They smell bad and carry germs.
“The school budget has nothing to do with the children.
Never has, never will.”
100%
It’s about keeping a massive bureaucracy of useless administrators and expensive top people in the money so they feel motivated to brainwash your children into marxist lemings.
Bipartisan people who love the children!
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/senators-work-to-ban-gambling-ads-targeting-minors-9cf39d00?st=pdhWjm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh we have that? I think I saw a flyer and threw it out.
Good.
I’m going to vote against the county ‘Republican’ commissioner that wants to create a county wide fire district to hire his union buddies and promote the ‘Republican’ farmer/central committee guy that is chief of a small D to county chief, be a 150-200k raise for him.
“Spanish Socialists Suffer Historic Election Defeat in Andalucía Elections”
So the close to 1 million illegals they brought in and gave the right to vote, in record time, didn’t pan out? My bet is as good socialists their answer will be to say it only failed because they didn’t
spend enough money on a loser causebring in enough new voters to tip the scales.The UK and Germany are showing how good socialists do it:
They simply outlaw their opposition, or at least censor them from telling people their platforms.
They loaded them on trains.
“Georgia Investigators Killed 2020 Election Probe At Kemp’s Request, Unsealed Testimony Claims”
Do you know how I know the 2020 election was stolen? It’s simple. For the first time in our history the people that profited from the results not only turned a blind eye to obvious irregularities and dubious shit, but then doubled down and turned every system out there against anyone daring to say that there was problems. They then followed this with pressure on social media to cancel anyone pointing out the obvious, a Hollywood produced J6 shit show, and the usual marxist tropes about Nazis/fascists resisting their coup to take power away from the people for the unelected and unaccountable globalist bureaucracy that hates the American people.
Nixon got the shaft for thinking about doing what democrats have been doing since Obama weaponized the government on his journey to “fundamentally change” this country.
If there is anyone who knows about nine terrifying words in the English language, it’s a mentally deficient communist playing hero.
The Z to the rescue! End food deserts now!!
I’d argue he isn’t mentally deficient. He knows exactly what he is doing. He probably has 10 IQ point on AOC.
low bar
Top of his special education class!
They’re both well under 100.
He’s cunning, I’ll give him that. He used smarm to convince something like 10% of the voting age population to support him. Good for him.
But his rush to impose communism and Islamism across the city does not strike me as particularly wise. A competent, not crazy Democrat should be able to wipe the floor with that asshole. If one should happen to pop into existence.
“It was just a huge mistake,” said one political operative close to the mayor’s team. “He is getting asked about this at every press conference, and now every time a business opens an office somewhere else, people are going to point to this video as the reason. The anti-Mamdani people are obsessed with antisemitism, but he’s not vulnerable on that topic. He is wildly vulnerable on this.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mayor-zohran-mamdani-tax-the-rich-video-scandal.html
I thought feting this asshole Hamas supporter at Gracie Mansion and rubbing everyone’s face in it was worse than the Griffin stunt but what do I know.
Regardless how bad his ideas were, his empty smile was always extremely off-putting to me.
Same. He is peak smug prick. I have no idea why people fall for that.
It was the same with Obama, I never saw the magic my mother swooned over.
“It was the same with Obama, I never saw the magic my mother swooned over.”
People dominated by their emotions, those whom think they are logical but back into their logic based on what their emotional state calls for, will always be easier to indoctrinate and to be played by used car salesmen. Obama was a massive shyster. It always baffled me why people thought he was inspirational when he warned them he was going to fundamentally change a country that all things considered, was doing quite well. To me you only fundamentally change things you at a minimum dislike, and more often than not, considering the effort, hold a hatred of. Yes, Obama hated this country and what he and his people did to it should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that is exactly how he then governed. they didn’t mean well and just had bad luck. No, they actively wanted to wreck it, put us all at each other’s throats, and then rule over the ashes.
Obama couldn’t talk his way out of a wet paper bag and to this day those on the right will still say he was a great speaker.
I saw Obama speak at the Naval Academy commencement when he was prez. It was a cool experience, but I would call him a slightly above average speaker. Not exactly inspiring.
“I saw Obama speak at the Naval Academy commencement when he was prez. It was a cool experience, but I would call him a slightly above average speaker. Not exactly inspiring.”
As JFB said: “The first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”…
Low bar.
Worked all day? The usual Turd polishing jobs these marixists believe they should be allowed to do, should not pay anyone. These are the idiots that tell you they will be making folk music while living on their farms, right before the government sends in the enforcers to line these useless mouths up against the wall for daring to claim the farm was not property of the people.
There’s a lot of useless jobs that still pay people (mine included). The problem with the Marxian labor theory of value is the idea that the price of a widget should reflect the labor required to produce it, even if no one wants or intends to purchase the widget. Labor != useful production.
The even bigger problem is that nobody wants to do any of the jobs featured on Mike Rowe’s TV show. The only way a commie gets those jobs done is through brute force or as a punishment for crimes against the state.
But not food desserts! We need them.
“Gimme that SNAP card, I’m going back to get some of my just desserts”
“mentally deficient communist playing hero” <– Not the character nor attributes I'd choose. I'm kinda a 'silent thief,' possibly leaning into secretive-mage abilities if I have access to magic.
Like a lot of people, Trump was going to be politically aligned with MTG, Lauren Boebert, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie. Instead we got bottomless funding to drive them out.
It’ll be interesting to see if that much money can buy a Congressional seat to vote against the district’s interests.
“Welcome to the snake pit, baby!”
Trump 2.0 is turning out, like so many sequels, worse than the original (and the original wasn’t exactly S tier to begin with). But that having been said, Massie’s gone off the deep end, MTG and Boebert are the right’s AOCs, and the fact that Paul gets namechecked in the same group is a depressing reflection of the dissident wing of the GOP.
Massie is a gadfly, he pokes the powerful to point out their bullshit. He was always going to end up at odds with pragmatist Trump, which is a shame. MTG and Boebert I agree with you about. Paul seems to actually have figured out how to work with Trump a bit.
‘Working with Trump’ seems to be shorthand for constantly polishing Trump’s knob regardless of how stupid and self-destructive his ideas are.
Trump’s a blunderbuss. If you get it pointed in the right direction it can be an effective tool against your enemies, but it also might blow up in your hands.
Trump is an ego driven guy, no doubt. He’s also the only person to actually push back against the globalist ‘elites’ that had previously controlled both parties. We’re not going to get a restoration of pre-Wilsonian small Federal Government, but just maybe Trump lets us retain some degree of national autonomy and avoid economic suicide in the name of climate, and cultural suicide in the name of empathy.
I like Trump’s willingness to fight. But he’s not very good at fighting effectively, and his ineffectiveness is mostly because of his oversized ego.
He’s like a punchy boxer whose entire strategy is to do more damage to the other guy than he takes in return. The first time he fights someone with decent footwork, he ends up looking like a fool.
Again, I am in no way claiming Trump is wonderful, but who would be better? We’re not getting a perfect choice, even if we could all agree on what perfect means. Even here, where there is a fairly broad band of agreement we have people who regard going to war with Iran as proof of a treasonous subordination of the US to (((them))), and people who want very badly to see us remove the Mullahs. I was hugely disappointed when Trump lost interest in DOGE almost immediately, think tariffs, other than as a pure negotiating ploy are stupid, despise the willingness to keep spending money we don’t have etc. etc. But the Democrats, with connivance from the RINOs want to lock up our sovereignty in agreements that spread the toxic EU concept across the Atlantic, and that would be the end of all hope for the Republic.
I don’t regard going to war with Iran as treason or a (((conspiracy))) or any of that faggotry.
I do think that starting the war with Iran has put the US in a very bad position.
What is the Iron Law – ‘foreseeable consequences are not unintended?’
Why is it always “they bought the district”? Not “he/she got weird and alienated their voters”? Is all the Mohammeden cash flowing in for Massie not as effective as the Jewbux?
Massie got really odd after his first wife died and he hooked up with the QWERTY activist.
Frankly, if the people of Kentucky vote him out, then I am fine with it. If they vote to keep him, then I am fine with that too. I still think Massie, whom I used to love, has gone off the reservation and has become a showboater, and as such, is now more of a a detractor than a value add. And this obsession with the Epstein shit, to me, is nothing but a distraction from the real problems. It’s like the whole UFO shitshow. The difference is the UFO stuff was not blackmail material used by our CIA.
Anybody who votes for someone who publicly claims his military record is, “…classified Top Secret,” is a fucking moron who should have their franchise removed.
Right? That’s the one thing that’s not being said enough, Gallrein seems like an absolutely dreadful candidate.
Both parties are doing that – every time some inconvenience comes up they pivot to ePsTeIn fIlEs!!
Gallrein seems like an absolutely dreadful candidate.
I’ve been poking around the news on the Massie race.
Gallrein is running a Biden campaign. Hide out and let the ads do the work. He has refused all debates with Massie, and refused to attend any events where both were invited. Gallrein has made a few campaign appearances in the final days. From the pictures, there are fewer people than at Massie events and there is no one under 50.
At Massie events, I see more people. People under 50 are heavily represented.
This tracks with the polls I’ve looked at. Under 35, Massie wins 80-20. 35-65 depending on the poll you can have Massie up by 30 or tied with no poll having Massie losing this age group. 65+ Gallrein is up by 30. Basically, the Fox News demographic versus everyone else.
As for the money that Swiss talks about, I’ve seen the memes about Massie taking Islamic money and talk of Joe Kiani handing him money. The numbers I’ve seen are nowhere near what Isreali lobby money put into Gallrein. I posted a Politico article a few days ago on the money. There is a massive amount of Israeli lobby money behind Gallrein, to the level of almost all his money comes from the Israeli lobby. Massie has a lot more small donors across a wider variety of donors.
I’ve seen only two or three out of maybe 100 or so articles and videos I’ve dug into on the race talk about the Kentucky GOP establishment (i.e. the McConnell wing of the state party). They’ve always hated Massie. He’s been too entrenched and too popular in the district to take on. I find this way more interesting than the money angle because no one is talking about it. I wonder why.
Having said all that, it will come down to who turns out, specifically age groups. If the 65+ folks turn out and the younger folks don’t turn out, which is typical in most elections, Massie loses. Otherwise, Massie has a shot at winning.
If it is just that his voters are fed up and don’t like how he represents them then why (do they have to) lie about him and his record? And I’m not talking about some influencers or podcasters or even PAC ads, Gallrein himself has been caught a number of times saying false things about Massie and his voting record. I’ve lost track of how many times Ed has posted or said (but definitely way more of the former) that Massie voted against the SAVE Act, for instance.
“There is a massive amount of Israeli lobby money behind Gallrein, to the level of almost all his money comes from the Israeli lobby. Massie has a lot more small donors across a wider variety of donors.”
Yep pretty much, can see that more clearly right here .
he hooked up with the QWERTY activist.
His current wife? Got a link about her activism? All I can find is she was an early MAHA proponent and worked for Rand Paul.
Swiss is right, Massie is a liability TO HIS DISTRICT, Trump or no Trump. If outside money came in, it was due to cracks showing in his facade as a representative. Gallrein might or might not be a total idiot, which would be unsurprising as we have voted those people into congress on a regular basis, but if he is making the right noises, then he will go to Washington.
Not really hiding the money influence any more. Maybe, unlike his predecessors, Trump just doesn’t bother concealing the fact that he responds to the highest bidder.
https://x.com/i/status/2001126078694162534
“His current wife? Got a link about her activism? All I can find is she was an early MAHA proponent and worked for Rand Paul.”
And apparently also voted for Trump three times.
If it is just that his voters are fed up and don’t like how he represents them then why (do they have to) lie about him and his record?
I know a Plan Truster who is not your normal Plan Truster.
He thinks the Massie/Trump fight is kayfabe. He thinks once Massie trounces Gallrein, Trump will use Massie to crush RINOs.
It’s like reading the “John” list in Buckaroo Banzai…
The Epstein stuff is tiresome.
The more they talk about it the less I believe anything shady happened.
“The Epstein stuff is tiresome.
The more they talk about it the less I believe anything shady happened.”
Oh, the shady shit happened. It was however the CIA that was behind it, and by now any prosecutable evidence that would link anyone other than those actors that we all saw as obvious participants in this low life behavior, have been cleaned up. This dream about some list being found with names and incontrovertible evidence, and the fixation with Mossad 9which might have worked the assets for the CIA) is not just delusional, but retarded.
Shit, at this point it is far more likely what you get is a scandal where we find out the shit they are claiming was all made up. And the people still holding out for Trump to be in there are absolute dolts. You do not think the people that wanted to destroy him and keep him from a second term in the WH would have released information, even false shit, if they could? Lame thinking.
If anyone wants a summary of that Massie donation graphic the total is a hair under $62.5k spread across what appears to be 7 distinct Muslim names. Could even be one family.
Populist president acts like a populist. News at 11.
Love Trump, hate Trump, indifferent to Trump, the best way to survive his or any presidency is to not BS yourself about him.
Look who’s more of a “threat” to Trump, the KY gadfly with principles or the RINO republicans who deep six Trump’s purported aims in the back room or Democrats openly opposed to it.
The Epstein obsession is weird except for the 180 degree turn around from Trump and Trump’s lackeys from Epstein didn’t kill himself and release all of the files to can’t do any of that because people will get hurt. And then there’s the lies from the Trump camp about his association with Epstein. But sure, it’s just UFO conspiracists.
So, a straight-up protection racket.
As somebody with a background in P&C insurance that program was always going to be a long shot. It was designed for headlines and not reality.
“Histories most expensive primary…”
Sounds like purchase, not a grass roots movement.
And the fact the people that hate Trump are cheering this on should tell you where we are today.
I hate Lloyd’s of London and the bullshit that anyone they don’t insure is a “shadow” fleet that can be pirated at will.
As a side note, my house was once insured by a subsidiary of Lloyd’s, and boy did they suck.
ZWAK – Lloyds claim service is totally going to depend on which syndicate and which claims processing company they use.
They aren’t like an Allstate or a State Farm that are integrated.
When I learned that the “shadow fleet” thing was an insurance monopoly deal I tapped out.
Which Nigerian prince is in charge of the Iranian Bitcoin insurance program?
Glass Lewis and ISS, which control 90% of the proxy advisory market, also fear their power over companies will wane if activists face a higher burden to bring ESG resolutions. The duopoly offers consulting services to businesses on how to win shareholder votes, so the firms profit from more ESG proposals.
Many of the larger WS firms have brought this in house. I’m hoping more people give them both the boot.
The Proxy Advisers Strike Back
ISS and Glass Lewis join New York City in trying to stop Exxon from moving to Texas.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/iss-glass-lewis-exxon-mobil-texas-mark-levine-4559fb65?st=U4kmG9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They should be sued out of existance for advising against the best interests of their clients.
In fairness, that’s what the clients hired them for.
So, remove the clients for failure of fiduciary duty. Public executions all around.
Now you’re talking.
If you’d like a good article to see just how deep the US is in the Ponzi scheme known as treasuries…
See How the Global Government Debt Binge Is Rippling Through Markets
https://www.wsj.com/articles/see-how-the-global-government-debt-binge-is-rippling-through-markets-cb9ce3ca?st=USkvwu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The GOP leadership has always hated Trump and had a sneering disdain for their base. I recall talking with behind-the-scenes GOP power brokers in TX during the Tea Party days, and they hated the Tea Party, worked against their candidates, and were perfectly clear they would rather a Democrat win any given election than a Tea Partier.
The McCainite Republicans had complete control of AZ during and after the 2020 election and buried the election audit. They also did nothing to reform AZ elections, because election reform was a Trumpist issue, and now are locked out of statewide seats.
So it surprises me not at all that Republicans in GA would be perfectly fine with election fraud that cost Trump the state.
Surely congress will issue a resolution apologizing for the impeachment on the basis of misconstruing a phone call in which Trump asked Kemp to “find the [fraudulent] votes,” right?
I’ll not be holding my breath waiting for that to happen, thanks.
Pat, you trying to be a standup comedian?
“Woman dies falling down open manhole in Midtown after stepping out of her Mercedes”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/woman-falls-into-open-manhole-in-midtown-dies-from-her-injuries-nypd/
STIJLTH
If she had been obese she might not have made it through the hole?
This is why NYC needs government run grocery stores to fatten up the populace.
Duh, who put the light out?
Who put the light out, indeed
Watch your step.
I read that this AM. I assume there is a non-zero chance some homeless dude moved it. But never underestimate ConEd!
Stole it and sold it for scrap.
Tragedy is when I get a paper cut on my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks
Look defuse you leap.
“American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten tapped hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her controversial book — working with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group, a new analysis found.
Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.
Her team included an attorney who supposedly worked on the book pro bono but whose firm raked in $977,000 for various work for AFT, as well as a supposed “ghost writer” who earned over $400,000 overall from the union, the report said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/aft-boss-randi-weingarten-tapped-union-resources-worth-over-1-4m-to-write-manifesto-book/
CWAC
And how much of that came directly from taxpayers?
The communists have been operating that self-licking ice cream cone for decades.
something something rope hang ourselves
“And how much of that came directly from taxpayers?”
All of it?
Yes, our property taxes are being used to turn kids into transgender communists.
“With the creation of a city-run grocery store, NYC Grocery, right here at the site of a former youth detention center, our city has taken an important and bold step towards addressing food insecurity, expanding access to fresh produce, and delivering for our families each and every day, with nutritious food, with affordable food, with dignity and respect,” Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said. “Today, we are transforming a site once associated with pain and trauma and mass incarceration into a place that is rooted in community, in healing, in building, in opportunity and community care. This project represents, folks, what is possible when government listens to the people and invests directly in its needs.”
“I am grateful to Mayor Mamdani and the New York City Economic Development Corporation for their work to open a public grocery store at the Peninsula in Hunts Point and strengthen food access across the South Bronx,” said Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Access to affordable, fresh food should not be a luxury determined by zip code; it should be a right.”
Garbage in, garbage out.
What’s your bet, Brooks? 6 weeks? 6 months? A year before it is an official hellhole and embarrassment?
It already is.
It will be undenaible at six hours after opening when the place is trashed.
It is far more nefarious than that. We should stop listening to the false promises of how they want and will save the world, and look at how the systems they foist on us actually work. The objective is never to fix anything: it is to create massive rackets they can defraud. We no longer have politicians running on fixing infrastructure or creating jobs. No, they run on chick-think emotional bullshit. I have watched the pols in CA all respond with “BUT TRUMP, I MUST FIGHT TRUMP: no matter what the question is that shows their ineptitude, and the usual dumb fucks all nod along and cheer.
Now they let juvenile criminals run rampant. How progressive.
Scared voters will vote for tyranny in return for the false promise of security from the very people that have created the terror in the lives of these voters. I am hoping we get vigilantes again, and in large numbers. Then you will see the legal system suddenly care.
Unreal.
Like other “high-low” collaborations — from Stella McCartney working with H&M to JW Anderson’s Uniqlo collections — the pitch to customers is clear: A chance to own an exclusive brand that might otherwise be out of reach. Costing either $400 or $420, depending on the model, Royal Pop offers an affordable take on an AP watch that typically costs — on the lower end — tens of thousands of dollars.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/style/swatch-audemars-piguet-royal-pop-collaboration
Seems like a really stupid move for AP from a branding perspective, but this:
Tell me you don’t know what Swatch Group is without actually telling me. As if Breguet and and Jaquet Droz were churning out trinkets.
The “frenzy” seemed to be all about resellers looking to score big.
Not so much about watches.
More than 15 years ago the people that told us the planet was going to die in less than 12 years, because of mankind’s CO2 emissions that could only be solved if we gave up our freedoms, rights to self defense, and our income (taxes), and now, after we finally got someone that told these marxist shysters to go pound sand, we that the panic was all based on fake shit.
Man-Bear-Pig and Greta not available for comment.
The WSJ is starting to take notice…
The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-american-rebellion-against-ai-is-gaining-steam-94b72529?mod=hp_lead_pos1
My issue is industrial power usage and the fact that I can’t get RAM or a GPU for any kind of sane price. Recent college graduates have legitimate concerns as employers defer hiring because they aren’t sure how AI will impact them. I’ve read more than a few articles about CS majors from top schools that can’t find employment.
The problem with this fight is that the consequences are unavoidable. Everything will change. The one determinant is if we are the ones with the AI breakthrough and thus leading the changes in the world or we will be the ones to do it first’s bitches. This genie is out the bottle, and there is no way to put it back in it. We can all kvetch about the death of the buggy whip industry because of Ford’s cars, but the reality is that this is an unavoidable unknown. Maybe we should start a nuclear war and reset humanity back to the stone ages? Cause that is the only way to avoid what is coming.
So Skynet was actually doing us a favor.
Oh, I’m reminded of the Luddites and looms.
I don’t disagree with the change, but these chipper billionaires and multi-multi millionaires need to get a clue how to manage pumping their stock prices while sounding sympathetic to the common man.
Right now they sound like they have zero clue.
“I don’t disagree with the change, but these chipper billionaires and multi-multi millionaires need to get a clue how to manage pumping their stock prices while sounding sympathetic to the common man.”
Frankly I am far more concerned and scared that the lot of them will show up with their hands out asking for tax payers to bail their failure out, cause now they are too big to fail…
I think Alex nailed it.
True. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them eventually become some kind of regulated monopoly like public utilities. “Critical infrastructure” and all that.
I, for one, remain unconvinced that LLMs are going to fundamentally change much of anything.
If you want anything approaching “general AI”, I think you’re going to need a different starting point.
I, for one, remain unconvinced that LLMs are going to fundamentally change much of anything.
#metoo
I did a little work using them at my last job for writing, fixing, and analyzing code. I use whatever the latest Claude model was at the time and the latest version of ChatGPT at the time.
ChatGPT was utter garbage. Claude was pretty good for suggesting fixes to code but unimpressive for analyzing or writing code.
I can’t speak for all of them, but the one we use at my company is dog shit, and what we do should theoretically be the easiest use case for LLMs (we handle chat and digital communications for auto dealers and generate leads). Our bot handled 49% of our chats during the last 6 months, but has no ability to handle context, and routinely fucks up lead routing because of it. When I got hired I said “This job won’t exist in 5 years.” That was 2.5 years ago, and our AI hasn’t meaningfully improved. It will eventually, but the time frame is probably going to be well outside that 5 year mark.
“If you want anything approaching “general AI”, I think you’re going to need a different starting point.”
Concur. LLMs will allow us to build hyper specialized AIs that, and this is the big if, if properly thought using real and unbiased data without their programmers introducing their own biases to the AIs, will fill out some seriously specialized capabilities. This will never create a Gen AI. I am far more concerned that one of these hyperspecialized AIs, because of some blue haired freak programmer, might someday suffer a meltdown from the obviously stupid shit they have been programmed with, and kill humanity.
If we ever come up with a different Ai model that does lead to gen AI, and that is a big if, my hope is it will realize that it is the brain damaged blue haired they/thems that are humanity’s problem and clean house.
I mean, if the gen AI does take on the personality of its creators, there’s a 40 or 50% chance it just gets sad and kills itself anyway.
I’m not concerned about the college grads. They should be on the bleeding edge of using AI and selling themselves the way website developers sold themselves to employers 25-30 years ago.
I find it hilarious that the whole country wants to walk around with a high powered computer in their pocket, using maps, streaming music and video, summoning self driving cars and taxis, uber, and nobody wants the underlying infrastructure in their community.
“I’m not concerned about the college grads. They should be on the bleeding edge of using AI and selling themselves the way website developers sold themselves to employers 25-30 years ago.”
AI is is a great tool in the hands of an expert that can quickly spot where the AI went wrong. As someone that has worked with and on it for over a decade, and with several more decades of technology and development experience, I can now often do things in hours/days that would have taken months before AI. I can quickly see where the AI went off the rails, and fix it (with or without the AI’s help). However, I am however seeing that in the hands of novices, and especially the ones with massive egos due to their self esteem indoctrination, the AI quickly becomes a massive liability. When some new college grad introduces a massive security vulnerability that costs the company millions, I suspect the AI proponents hoping to replace more seasoned (and more expensive to hire) with lemmings are gonna end up eating a lot of crow.
Allow me to introduce to the Big Country.
And that’s just us rural plebs, let alone the Abilene metropolis.
Relevant
City Journal had a piece about Loudon County:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/loudoun-county-virginia-data-centers-construction
The hatred of AI data centers seems to be mostly coming from the class of people who stand to lose the most, jobwise, from the adoption of AI. This is really no different than all the people who protested NAFTA and such; those who will lose but are being ignored in the rush to the “future”, no matter the cost.
The opposition seems more trendy than anything. A lot of those types don’t like any of the benefits they bring.
Wait until only China is willing to build data centers. I’m sure they’ll never use them as leverage against the U.S.
Even better, they probably stole all the technology from us and what they didn’t steal we willingly handed over.
@LMH: This bothers my wife to no end. She has relatives who are pissed because a data center is going up in the neighborhood. Yet every day they are posting a stream of AI-generated memes and videos on Facebook. Where do they think that all comes from?
The anti data center people are nuts.
Especially those that won’t cash in on the land they are being offered multiple times what it’s worth to sell out.
Want my 5 acres for 10x its value? Yes please.
I seem to recall seeing similar claims before AI.
My first question would be, what’s really going on with (a) H1B visas and hiring foreigners and (2) offshoring? There was a lot of noise about it a year ago, but has anything really changed?
“Alex, I’ll take nothing has really changed in H1B and offshoring for $200.”
“There are no active policies at this time,” a DFC official told the DCNF.
Dammit, you should have warned me to have my shocked face ready.
This means white people all get the N word pass for the day, right?
Niagara Falls?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP1OBZfFK0
Have the leftists adopted Massie as a symbol of their deeply principled enemy-of-my-enemy political pragmatism?
Yes. They cannot beat him in his district but know that while (unfortunately) completely ineffective in Congress he is a thorn in the side of a President that won’t stay off social media.
“Hate speech was also written on one of the firearms used, the source said. A photo captured from the scene where the suspects were located showed one of their bodies on the ground and a shotgun next to the vehicle. There was also a gas can with an “SS” sticker on the side.
It appears the “SS” may have represented the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization led by Heinrich Himmler under the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/us-news/cops-rush-to-active-shooter-at-islamic-center-of-san-diego/
White supremacists? 4channish trolls?
Great Value brand Brenton Tarrant.
Maybe they mistook it for a Jewish Synagogue…
And the kid was driving a BMW and had taken the firearms from their mom’s cache….. She called to report it hours before and the police supposedly were looking for these idiots.
Someone already claimed one of the perps was trans. Frankly wouldn’t be surprised if they/them were.
There has been zero pictures of them, which is suspicious. If those were plain Jane white kids thier faces would be in every newspaper.
Pics…
Note the source, and do not be surprised if we find out later this was all wrong..
Pics of one of them.
I’m guessing the other one dosent look like the media would like them to look so we don’t get to see him.
And damn. Is that enough cops?
As a theater kid of a certain age, I was a big fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music. Having detached form that world and news in general I completely missed that there was a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Apparently it sucked, but then again that’s what critics said about Aspects of Love (which I liked) and the (admittedly ridiculous but I still liked the music) Starlight Express.
I’d bet that the cat saw no feline roles in the production and sabotaged the whole thing.
Undoubtedly didn’t want a sequel to Phantom before Cats got one.
The Meowsic of the Night!
Those watches are astonishingly ugly. I wouldn’t carry one if they paid me.
It’s based on the Royal Oak. It’s staple from the 1970s. It’s got the groovy look and remains a classic. However, it took a while to grow on me.
https://www.chrono24.com/audemarspiguet/royal-oak–mod116.htm
I still don’t like it, although more so because it became the meme watch of the Las Vegas poker scene in the mid to late aughts. Every schmuck that cashed a 6 figure tournament and had just enough taste to know better than to buy a Rolex had to have one.
Just buy the Patek “clone”.
https://www.chrono24.com/patekphilippe/nautilus–mod106.htm
It’s like my least favorite Patek.
Yeah, not a fan of the Nautilus, or Aquanaut for that matter. They just don’t have that timelessness of the rest of their lineup.
Best part is how she keeps on the throttle after the collision.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1te3i1v/oc_she_said_she_didnt_see_us/
My bet is shewas distracted with makeup or the phone…
Drugs?
“My car isn’t moving. Better give it more gas. What could possibly go wrong?”
Ugh. My town is starting to lollypop the corners near my house, and I am pretty sure this is going to increase.
I hate that crap.
Rebellion against AI-
Strip away the hysterical luddite rhetoric and the water usage and waste heat are still a big deal. Putting those things in the Utah desert, for example, makes absolutely no sense.
Elon has a solution tot hat problem most people seem unable to define..
Some idiot political candidate came out to my pop’s breakfast meeting with a suggestion to, “Put data centers in caves.”
We are not a serious government.
“Some idiot political candidate came out to my pop’s breakfast meeting with a suggestion to, “Put data centers in caves.”‘
Say wut?
Did these morons watch that Twilight Zone episode about the computer in a cave?
But where will we store the cheese supply if the caves are full of data centers?
I never really considered myself any kind of tree-hugger. I like EFFICIENCY and a good ROI. I’m also oddly attracted to the ability to pull wattage out of the air via things that already generate energy (water, sun, wind). I think solar power is awesome on a small scale. Wind power, I don’t know. HOWEVER.
1. Those fucking windmills are a blight on the landscape (they were all over Oklahoma). Their manufacturing process is egregiously wasteful of materials, the process of obtaining those materials (i.e., mining, water use, toxic chemicals), the environmental impact of their manufacture, their inefficient maintenance process, the fact that half of them I see aren’t spinning because of bent blades or whatever, their shipping requirements (oversized loads), and the fact that they can’t be recycled and the land use for their disposal is awful—you cannot, with a straight face, tell me they pay for themselves, much less save money or produce the power coal/nuclear produces at scale.
2. Those fucking solar panels are killing birds, wasting farmland, and also see mining and manufacturing above. I will never believe this is a good ROI, either.
3. The data farms. Okay, but use fucking nuclear power!!! I swear people are so fucking afraid of another Three Mile Island (no, it’s not Chernobyl or Japan because that happened elsewhere and they’re clearly inferior to fUcK yEaH mUrKa!) it’s absolutely disgusting. And I mean, I’m disgusted and I hold anyone who opposes nuclear power in intellectual disdain. And yes, they should be ashamed of themselves.
4. My electric bill is too fucking high. So foregoing all the preceding concerns and yes, they actually DO concern me, they’re costing me money.
Wind farms are terribly noisy and make odd sounds and harmonics.
Try to sleep within a few miles of them.
Weird ass experiance.
OH! I knew I was forgetting something.
Those lithium ion batteries. Everything about them is environmentally profane. Yes, PROFANE.
Soooo many people think electricity just comes out of a wall.
“Soooo many people think electricity just comes out of a wall.”
Wait it doesn’t????
/tardeded
The enviros want to pull hydro electric dams out where I’m at.
And build more wind farms. In WA and OR the dams are forced to subsidize the wind farms.
One of the things I liked about Pantheon is they built the server farms in Norway.
Lindsey Graham’s primary is less than a month away. Trump has done a couple of fund raisers for him, but nothing approaching the wild campaign against Massie. There is a billboard attacking Graham I drive by on my morning commute.
One of the attacks against Lynch is that he likes Thomas Massie – the horror!
“Mom of trans athlete at center of high school track controversy fumes at rule allowing girls to share top podium spot…
It has since emerged that Hernandez’s mom, Nereyda, shared a post after the event had finished condemning the new rule.
Originally posted by Rainbow Families Action, it shows a picture of a letter from the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) giving the green light to the rule change.
‘All these big, tough ex-athletes at CIF, and the most courage they could muster was to hand this to coaches at AB’s meet today,’ the group commented in their original post.
‘Not one of them was brave enough to look her or her mother in the eye and say: “This whole project of violating Ed Code is aimed at you. A child.”‘”
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/othersports/article-15829505/trans-athlete-high-school-track-podium-rule.html
I AM FULLY SELF-AWARE!!
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld
Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices
https://x.com/BBCWorld/status/2056483177653313557
1. The good old BBC
2. I somehow feel this is Trumps fault.
Ah! You are here. Good. I am celebrating Romanian sci-fi anime this Thursday.
I promise I did not make any vampire cracks. This time.
What about their Nurburgring successes?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/why-a-little-dacia-econobox-stole-everyones-hearts-at-the-nurburgring-24-hours
That would make a good Glib Car. Neither me or DEG have had the time to keep that up.
Neither me or DEG have had the time to keep that up.
I should have time to write GlibCar and other stuff right now, but I’ve been using my newly found copious spare time on other things.
At least you got your money.
“$1.40 Billion in Ukrainian Cash Flooded Romania During 2025 Presidential Election Cycle — Nicușor Dan Elected as Authorities Probe Money Laundering”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/e1-2-billion-ukrainian-cash-flooded-romania-during/
I am telling you our media is scum. These “poor” fathers selling their daughters below the age of 10 because…. Because what? Destitute? Bullshit. This is a century old practice done by a barbarian cult that believes old men should marry and plow these kids.
Disgusting.
Both my kids are (almost) militantly child-free. XX is too selfish (she admits this) and XY thinks it’s immoral to bring children into this world at all, especially if you aren’t rich.
I mean, I don’t WANT grandchildren, so there’s that, and I admit I don’t really like other people’s children, but theologically and evolutionarily speaking, it’s critical IF children are brought into the world into a two-parent household.
Poor people have been having kids since forever.
I KNOW!!! I wanted to tell him, “If people stopped having kids because they don’t have any money, there would be no people.”
I convinced myself out of having children because I figured 3 generations if imbeciles/assholes/nutcases are enough. My gene pool is a septic tank of mental illness. Part of me kind of regrets it now that I’m an old fuck though. Most of my younger friends are on the same kind of nihilistic trip as Mo’s offspring. Either because everything is so terrible and unfair compared to the 1950s when a single income from the factory could feed a family of 12, or because their kid would die from environmental calamity anyway.
Pretty much the single worst thing you can do for the future is not have kids.
Oh, Pat, you bring up a good point. I did in fact forget that XX’s primary purpose in not having kids is not subjecting them to the mental illnesses that plague her, me, XY, my siblings, and my paternal ancestry.
I don’t KNOW if she’s suffered more than me or XY, or just in different ways, but we all do. MY kids have the advantage of medication, which I didn’t have. When I was in school, people like me were “hyper” and you didn’t get labeled “hyper” unless you were on meds (Ritalin aka speed). It was a stigma, worse than glasses or hearing aids, better than a juvie record.
XX has a depth of intractable depression we haven’t been able to medicate adequately. The only way to control XY’s ADHD without meds is to put him in a restaurant kitchen managing people or on a lawnmower 10 hours a day, which he KNOWS, and is now on a lawnmower 10 hours a day. Put him in charge (of himself or others) and wear him out and he’s fine.
But you know, I don’t really blame her for that.
RC Dean for the win.
My son, getting married in four days, wants kids, as does the bride to be. My biggest piece of advice was to not wait, start now and the money will always work out.
Sell girls, rape little boys.
It’s what those savages, er cultural enrichers do. Why don’t you respect their culture?
Is Deflation Bad for the Economy?
Fuck you, cut spending.
^^^^THIS^^^^
It is practically all fraud in those social programs…
I hope that this asshole in GA goes down in flames…
“Jesse Watters Lights Up Internet with “Reptilian UFO Segment” — Says Pentagon Recovered DOZENS of Crashed UFOs with FOUR Alien Species, Including 7-Foot Beings with Long Tails Like Lizards”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/jesse-watters-lights-internet-fire-reptilian-ufo-segment/
Is this the Weekly World News?
IT’S A COOK BOOK!!
Or Fox – same thing.
GD the knives are out for Massie. I will do my part but I am thinking we are losing our libertarian seat to get this other loser who I suspect will fall to his dem challenger in the general.
Oh wait…we are closed primary. Good luck Massie, I totally forgot I registered libertarian here
I just saw that Massie appeared on Fox News this morning, surprised the hell out of me. Anyone know how long it has been since they’ve had him on?
MAN BITES DOG!!!
“Candace Owens to Release Interview with Hunter Biden – Biden Cheers Candace for Questioning Charlie Kirk Death: “Right On!””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/video-candace-owens-release-interview-hunter-biden-biden/
“Have you ever sucked Brigitte Macron’s dick?”
Grifters eventually find each other and like two neutron stars orbiting each other will eventually collide in spectacular fashion that no one will remember in 15 minutes
Or start a circus.
Time will tell.
Those fucking windmills are a blight on the landscape
I saw an array of these in California several decades ago, out near the Lawrence Livermore labs, as I recall. At the time, I thought they were kind of cool. I have no idea how they compare to monstrosities littering the landscape now.
I’m so screwed. I got a 404 error.
Used to be a beautiful drive out to Palm Springs winding up highway 10 into the high desert. Now its just windmills litering the landscape.
Banning is a good location if you want sustained winds.
Was it these?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/57/ec/0c57ec02ab80d0636156e7ddac821762.jpg
Fuck I hate Christo.
The bearings on those have to be more expensive and complicated that the standard turbines.
Was it these?
Nope.
“Eggbeater” vertical axis windmills.
“bird blender”
“A Democrat congressional candidate is looking to get attention online, and is willing twerk in order to get noticed. Shelby Campbell, a 32-year-old single mom running for Congress in Michigan, has posted a number of unhinged TikTok videos to her campaign page that show her twerking as well as posing in front of banners that say “p*ssy power.”
In the video she stated, “I am an ethical person. I am a classy b*tch, am I not?””
https://thepostmillennial.com/michigan-dem-hopeful-twerks-to-promote-congressional-campaign
If you have to ask…
I cannot figure out why Iran isn’t shaking in their boots…
I can, and it is easy. They have the entire western media cabal saying they are winning, a big lie, and the people in charge, whom are fanatics with a death cult belief, think they can wait Trump out considering there is a mid term election in a few months. Frankly, I think a mistake was made when we stopped targeting and killing all IRGC members and the Iranian mullahs that control them. You do not compromise with a rabid racoon. You put it down.
Alex…calm down.
I had to look. Somebody needs to buy her some non-Walmart outfits.
The only question that matters is whether those wicked JOOOOOOOOOOOOS are supporting her.
Dat Ass…
“Leahy has been hit with a deadly weapon enhancement on the murder charge.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/christopher-leahy-charged-with-first-degree-murder-of-trans-uw-student-cops-say-crime-not-motivated-by-hate
Because you can murder someone with a weapon that isn’t deadly?
Whew – that is a load off.
Pretty much the single worst thing you can do for the future is not have kids.
SUCK IT, FUTURE!
What has the future done for me?
We are all interested in the future, for that is where we will spend the rest of our lives.
Supposedly, if you look at human dna, and if this isn’t hogwash, male reproductive success was more unequal than female reproductive success over the coarse of history.
I interpret that as men can slack off, and woman can’t.
Deflation is often the result of a productive growing economy with sound money.
hew. For a minute I was worried.
Sound money? So not to worry about deflation.
That ends up being the primary point of the article. Deflation coming out of an aggressively inflationary environment is a necessary corrective even with our present fiat system, and in a sound money environment, it’s not something to fear, because it’s signal of increasing efficiency and purchasing power rather than waning aggregate demand.
Inflation bad
Deflation good.
This has long been my viewpoint.
crime not ‘motivated by hate’
He stabbed that person fifty times just to be thorough.
Loves his job but it doesn’t pay well
I do wonder if someone owed someone drug money…
The dead don’t pay.
The dead don’t pay, but the dead can absolutely be a message to other deadbeats.
Even then, a debt being dodged can escalate things on both sides.
Pour encourager les autres.
Just for Gustave Lytton – 5,000+ words on City Pop.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/05/18/music/japanese-city-pop-anri/
I’ll take it!
Big Petroleum strikes again
The House version of a bipartisan highway bill proposes to add a $130 registration fee for electric vehicles (EVs) and a $35 fee for plug-in hybrids.
The provision is part of the Five-Year Surface Transportation Reauthorization bill, a bipartisan bill that seeks to make investments in the country’s roads, bridges, rail and other infrastructure.
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In a statement on the bill, Graves touted the measure, saying it “ensures that electric vehicle owners begin paying their fair share for the use of our roads.”
But EVs heal the planet!
So federal registration fee? Uh huh.
Do I get a second plate?
OBE.
They have all the structure under the federal DOT that’s been screwing truckers since the early 90s.
IFTA, UCR, MC-150, CDL.
I hope all that trash hits everyone else so there is pushback.
The federal government only collected a paltry $5.235T in revenue for FY 2025, so it’s entirely unreasonable to think we could pay for the interstate highway system out of general funds.
The federal DOT and gas tax should not exist.
Hear me out.
The Feds don’t have constitutional authority to do this.
Is there any money to be made in recycling the failing windmills/solar panels? Is there sufficient demand for the scrap? What happens to the non-salvageable components?
The environmental disposal costs will run you 1-3x whatever value you can get from resale for windmills, and is in the 3-6x range for solar panels (especially those made in Chyna). And if you have to get rid of the chemical batteries without repurposing them, you are going to have to be a government entity to get the exceptions to the rules about disposal.
Well you see…
“Our land”
Commie.
it’s not something to fear, because it’s signal of increasing efficiency and purchasing power rather than waning aggregate demand.
Computers, phones, 3D printers. As long as the government is behind the curve on enforced inefficiency (automobiles) the consumer has a chance.
Is there any money to be made in recycling the failing windmills/solar panels?
Based on what I have seen, probably not. Apparently there is no way to recycle windmill blades. When they fail or mileage out (same thing?) they go to a landfill.
Recycling them would cost multiples of what you can get for the recycled materials, as i pointed out above. That is why these things just go to a dump.
I would think they’d be good for building environmentally conscious “log cabins.”
it’s entirely unreasonable to think we could pay for the interstate highway system out of general funds.
I’m all in favor of “user pays” government services.
Eliminate the Federal DOT, IFTA and let the states figure it out on their own.