Well, Sloopy is still stuck driving (I think in a roundabout in England?) and so you get some special db emergency links. It’s my fist time, so please be gentile!
I know there’s some international sports shit going on, because I’m having a hard time booking hotels and flights to places I need to get to, and when I was on the road in Texas last week, I saw a bunch of Euro-weenies gawking at a Buc-ee’s and buying Americana and brisket sandwiches. I love this country, and They Do Too!
SCOTUS continues a decent run on the Second Amendment with this gem of a decision. Imagine a world where fundamental individual rights aren’t stifled by government default!
I know a fair bit about firearms, and particularly machineguns, but I learned something new the other day. Did you know that the original 1921 Tommy guns had secret serial numbers that even gangsters didn’t know about?
Maybe not news to you, but a captivating story about a man who used a machinegun in lawful self defense. Imagine working for HK and using a Ruger to fend off rabid biker gangsters. Gee, whyever didn’t he just use an MP5, one might ask?
Here’s a metaphor for human governmental systems if I ever saw one (It’s going to take Jehanne Butler to cut this particular Gordian Knot):
Present-day models tend to produce code that is too defensive, too complex, too local in its reasoning. They avoid strong invariants. They add fallbacks instead of making bad states impossible. They duplicate code, invent bad abstractions, and paper over unclear design with more machinery. Worse though: I so far see very little progress of this improving. If anything, on that front it feels to me that we might even be making steps in the wrong direction. At least for my taste, present-day hands-off harnesses like Claude Code with ultracode produce worse code than what we were producing last autumn.
I love coming home after a week of traveling for work
And an obligatory music link. If you haven’t heard these guys in the last few months, what rock have you been hiding under? eh?
Prospect. The word is prospect.
Word..
OMWC haz a sad! 😞
Because that’s not what he had on hand.
Gee, whyever didn’t he just use an MP5, one might ask?
He could have used an MP3. I understand the kids hate Barry Manilow.
1984 – the mp3 hadn’t been invented yet.
The link was to a video. I couldn’t be bothered to watch.
I watched it earlier this week.
I assume this is the Brandon Hererra one?
Getting a hit on the CNS is the only reliable way of stopping an attacker. Fortunately the guy not only got that, but five other hits. The DA seems like a horrible person and very much typical of the pre-Luby’s attitude toward guns in TX.
You assume correctly.
That’s rich. Who has time for that?
We test in production …
Meets quality standards: Compiles without errors.
Only place with real data…
Are you the devs from my old company?
“No, we can’t provide notice to customers when a new version is coming out. That’s not our department.”
I’m sure you love uncommented, bloated code.
Let that AI clean it up, don’t check it after, check it in, deploy it, and get fired cause the company is now liable to the tune of several million cause of some legal violation and exposure!
I have and do throw out blobs of that sort and re-write from requirements so that people can understand what’s there.
The consultants who wrote the crap I replaced thought their obfuscationary methods would result in job security. It did not.
When you save the cat but then need to be saved yourself…
Lesbians are violent….
lesbian porn >> lesbian sports
Hey look kids, there’s Big Ben, and there’s Parliament… again.
Next time he passes it, it will have morphed in Big Ben and Funkadelic.
Grand Sharia Council
A new menace arrives: AI powered mobile toilets:
https://thepostmillennial.com/youve-seen-self-driving-cars-now-theres-a-self-driving-toilet
the robo toilet is pretty cool….. and $$$$
But does it have smart features like analyzing your waste?
“Smart Pipe Inc. is a registered sex offender”
This is how China is finally going to conquer India
Somehow the Chinese are one step ahead.
I’m going to need 2, unless it can climb stairs
Imagine the disaster of a loaded smart toilet falling down the stairs
From the Supreme Court article:
“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who dissented, countered that the law “fairly applies a first principle of property law—the right to exclude…”
So I can now decide who sits at my lunch counter?
Let me guess ms. “Not a Biologist” doesn’t realize that the right of the property owner to exclude is not impacted by telling the state they cannot decide on behalf of the property owner.
Whoa, whoa, hey there, that’s a level of consistency I’m not sure she’s prepared for. I’m not sure she has the mental capacity to consider first order consequences, much less second-order.
Where logical people go wrong is that you thinks she cares. When her own logic applied to a problem so she gets the result she wants works against what she wants in another situation, she just ignores it and applies a different logic. Her primary ability isn’t logic. It is acquiring and abusing power for the marxist cause.
Oh that’s obvious. The same goes for Sotomayor, and also Kennedy when he was still around. I listened to the oral arguments on the vaccine mandate case a few years ago and was struck at how Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kennedy avoided speaking of the law entirely and focused only on outcomes.
You fuckers, your job is THE LAW. Leave outcomes to Congress and the Executive.
She really is a special one.
In an alternate universe we had Janice Rogers Brown instead.
I’ve decided to exclude my property tax…
I was impressed she used an actual legal argument this time instead of her usual “I just can’t even.” Naturally, she couldn’t think it through.
Baby steps…
From the dedthred, Mechanicville (only one mechanic in Mechanicville) is an odd place in that it’s like two miles from me but takes 20 minutes to get there ’cause geography.
Same as Podunksville. Takes me 20 minutes to find my car keys.
That’s like Jamaica Plain here. Always an hour to go a few miles.
It’s very white, but not affluent?
But their privilege is off the charts.
The Heights – 20 minutes from anything. The Heights – 20 minutes from EVERYTHING!
A house in my neighborhood is a half mile away but a seven mile drive.
Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
NJ says – the place is 3 miles away, but it is still going to be a 25 minute drive.
Great 1st time. Glad you popped your cherry!
To much gun. I feel othered.
Do we need to take you to a range?
I mean I can shoot at a range here. I even posted some results a while back.
But I guess it is not the same with a rental. When you have your own gun and shoot it repeatedly and you know get to know it.
The occasional hooker can be nice but there is a place for a wife. To use a analogy.
That raises an interesting question that might be worth an article – what sort of hoops would you have to jump through over there to become a gun owner?
you cant have one just because. And not for self defense in general, you need to provide a justification.
The easiest way to get a rifle is to become a hunter (member of a authorized club) or a collector (member of a authorized club) .
I think you can join a shooting club and get a pistol that way.
I take for granted the awesome gun culture we have here. I will atone by purchasing another. Maybe a 10/22 backpacker with Magpul stock or a 9mm carbine.
“Too much gun” does not compute.
He needs more ZARDOZ.
And an obligatory music link.
how do you know this obscure music.
that is a horrible song.
Enjoy! – Upper middle here as expected. But because I refuse to get on an airplane for vacation “middle” there.
See What Your Lifestyle Says About Your Economic Class
A paycheck isn’t the only determinant of where Americans place themselves on the socioeconomic ladder
https://www.wsj.com/articles/working-middle-upper-class-quiz-85687f19?st=h5y4bY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I am a single guy in an apartment in the city – many of the questions were irrelevant so I tapped out.
I fly if I have to, but if attached to the same land mass, I’m driving till the kids take my keys.
Oh-Oh, can they do that?
i don’t see a quiz but am not american anyway.
I live middle class so my kids can live upper middle class some day. That assumes, of course, that the socialist wave doesn’t sweep over the land before the majority of voters wake the fuck up.
“The hoarder parents of an obese 7-year-old boy who weighed 255 pounds when he died of heart failure have been charged with his murder for their “extraordinary, terrible neglect,” according to prosecutors…
He was 4-feet, 2-inches tall and weighed 255 pounds when he died — far exceeding what the CDC considers a healthy weight for a 7-year-old boy of the same height, which is between 50 and 73 pounds….
The O’Briens were charged with second-degree murder, child abuse and torture this week.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/us-news/hoarder-parents-charged-with-murder-of-7-year-old-son-who-died-weighing-255-pounds/
Yikes!
Only in the US can you abuse a child by overfeeding.
Obviously more food subsidies are in order.
How the *bleep* do you get that fat at SEVEN?
I may be 27 pounds heavier, but I’m also twenty five inches taller than that.
You’d have to be trying intentionally to overfeed the child.
I bet the kid had something like Prader-Willi syndrome where there’s a disconnect between your brain and stomach that says you’re full.
Maybe it was some sort of disorder, but I know a lot of parents who say things like “I just can’t get him to eat healthy”, or “I just can’t get him to put down his phone.” Like, which of you is in charge in this relationship?
That’s enraging.
Set in the sweeping landscapes of eastern Idaho, Leadore Angus Ranch represents one of the Rocky Mountain West’s most remarkable legacy ranch holdings. Spanning approximately 148,000± total acres, including 13,000± deeded acres and more than 135,000± acres of leased grazing lands, this extraordinary river-to-mountain operation stretches from the fertile banks of the famed Lemhi River to the rugged peaks of the Continental Divide. Defined by its immense scale, natural beauty, and productive capability, the ranch offers a rare combination of premier cattle operations, exceptional sporting opportunities, and authentic Western heritage.
At the heart of the ranch lies a highly efficient and fully integrated cattle program capable of supporting more than 2,000 cow/calf pairs year-round, along with replacement heifers and herd bulls. The property features approximately 2,900± irrigated acres, including productive center pivots, native meadows, and fertile river bottoms that contribute thousands of tons of annual hay production. Home to the respected Leadore Angus Bull Sale, the ranch has built a strong reputation for quality registered Angus genetics and long-standing ranching tradition.
Equally impressive is the ranch’s recreational and wildlife appeal. With over eight miles of both banks of the Lemhi River flowing through the property, the ranch offers exceptional trout fishing in a truly private setting. Expansive wildlife habitat supports trophy bull elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, antelope, moose, bighorn sheep, upland birds, and waterfowl. Framed by panoramic views of the Beaverhead Mountains and Lemhi Range, the ranch captures the enduring spirit, scale, and beauty of the American West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2wtZU431eU
$40,000,000 | Leadore, Idaho | 13,005± ACRES
There is something that I don’t trust about leased aces.
Are all these fantastic ranches for sale because “Yellowstone” and the “Dutton Ranch” created a lusty real estate market? I don’t think your purchase will include wild hot cowgirls and comely Native maidens.
If a codebase is produced by loops, reviewed by loops, patched by loops, and kept alive by loops, what happens when you no longer have access to the same class of systems? What happens when some trade restrictions take away access to the most powerful models? What if just the cost becomes unbearable? What if you and your team just lose the last remaining ability to understand the code without using the machine?
I’ve seen that happen in the past when everyone that knew a bit of code was laid off but the code was still in use.
What could possibly go wrong?
We needed something new to replace the compiled COBOL with missing source problem!
“Sultry nude of working class Londoner painted by Sigmund Freud’s grandson fetches $39M at auction
A painting by the grandson of the famed psychologist Sigmund Freud featuring a London clerk in the buff sold for a mind-bending $39 million at auction Wednesday — and the curvaceous model couldn’t be happier.
“Mona Lisa wasn’t alive when she became famous — but I am,” Sue Tilley, 69, told the Wall Street Journal after “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet” by Lucian Freud sold at Sotheby’s London.
The portrait, painted between 1995 and 1996, depicts a then 35-year-old Tilley sleeping in a chair with nothing left to the imagination — one of four portraits the British socialite, nepo baby painted of her.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/world-news/sultry-nude-of-night-club-cashier-by-sigmund-freuds-grandson-fetches-39m-at-auction/
Sultry?
*clicks*
oh dear god
Fat.
The word you’re looking for is fat.
Paging Trey…Trey to the white courtesy phone.
That’s a big bitch…
+++++++++++++++
bri love🇵🇸
@mclovenxoxo
sorry you’ll never convince me that the “lateness is a moral failing” isn’t rooted in colonization and capitalism, it’s CONTROL!!! and I get we live in a society blah blah blah but if it’s ur friends you know is always late tell them an earlier time or whatever but acting like it’s a moral failing is so puritanical and silly sometimes you just got to accept people as they are
lex
@lexisoupertramp
yall are getting so mad at bri for this but there are countless studies and articles and history books you could read that very clearly discuss punctuality as a primarily western value that half the world doesn’t see as some vital pillar of friendship and morality! it’s cultural!
https://x.com/lexisoupertramp/status/2070126386103144586
It is easy to make fun of stupid shit like this, but I am actually curious how these people think an advanced economy can function without punctuality.
Bribery?
The Pali flag is a sure sign that some commie trash is coming. But to answer the question, those types don’t want to live in an advanced economy. They want to tear everything down and live like cavemen or some shit.
They want to live without care while everyone else follows the rules
“A former Facebook policy executive is suing Meta over an arbitration order that has barred her for more than a year from speaking about her explosive memoir detailing her six-year tenure at the tech giant.
Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta has used an invalid arbitration agreement to seek financial penalties of $50,000 for each purported violation of the gag order – including each book sale, according to a suit filed Thursday in US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Her book, “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, alleged Facebook executives and “careless” CEO Mark Zuckerberg were willing to share data with the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for access to the Chinese market.
Wynn-Williams also accused her former bosses of sexual harassment, alleging Joel Kaplan, Meta’s president of global affairs, pressed against her on the dance floor at a work event and called her “sultry.””
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/business/ex-facebook-policy-chief-sues-meta-to-overturn-order-barring-her-from-speaking-about-explosive-memoir/
Word of the day?
Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ biggest city is divided by a saltwater strait.
Istanbul straddles the Bosporus. New York is split by the East River which, despite the name, is a tidal strait, not a river.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
https://x.com/theiaincameron/status/2070295981241803069
Constantanople is the capital of Occupied Byzantium.
Stop fake-naming the city.
I would thing Constantanople is the capital of the Roman Empire.
Only once we Free Byzantium!
People across the UK would have had their windows open and fans on to try and keep cool in the midst of the third heatwave of the summer.
But there would likely have been few trying out one university lecturer’s alternative method to lower the temperature in a building.
Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows could lower the temperature by up to 3.5C.
He has pointed to the results of a month-long experiment to show the method has brought results.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4rg3nqq7go
That sounds like a reliable way to get a rancid aroma rather than a cooler temperature.
What will that do when is 104? My guess is jack squat.
Growing ivy on the walls actually works.
but ivy looks so ugly compared to yogurt.
Our council has just sent out an email warning parents to keep their baby’s room at 16-20C. It’s 30C in our house right now, 33C outside. What is that advice, with no further detail, going to do other than freak people out?
https://x.com/LNJStokes/status/2069863970035388851
I realize I comment too much about the Europe heat situation, but seriously 30C inside sounds like hell to me. I would not sleep at all.
Daily Ray of Sunshine