Men and women’s brains do work differently, scientists discover for first time
The brains of men and women operate differently, scientists have shown for the first time in a breakthrough that shows sex does matter in how people think and behave.
The issue of whether male and female brains are distinct has proven controversial, with some academics arguing it is society – rather than biology – that shapes divergence.
There has never been any definitive proof of difference in activity in the brains of men and women, but Stanford University has shown that it is possible to tell the sexes apart based on activity in “hotspot” areas.
They include the “default mode network”, an area of the brain thought to be the neurological centre for “self”, and is important in introspection and retrieving personal memories.
The limbic system is also implicated, which helps regulate emotion, memory and deals with sexual stimulation, and striatum, which is important in habit forming and rewards.
Experts said the brain differences could influence how males and females view themselves, how they interact with other people and how they recall past experiences.
Dr Vinod Menon, prof of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Stanford, said: “This is a very strong piece of evidence that sex is a robust determinant of human brain organisation.”
“Our findings suggest that differences in brain activity patterns across these key brain regions contribute to sex-specific variations in cognitive functioning.”
This only confirms what straight men already knew. It doesn’t even have to be considered a bad thing, either, just a difference. But a certain set of straight men will pounce on this. Can you guess who?
Who’s Afraid of Valerie Leon?
Bond Girl (twice, both Connery and Moore) and Hammer Horror sex-bomb in Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb.
Jimmy Kimmel sees the end of his late night tenure on the horizon
Jimmy Kimmel admitted on his podcast Strike Force Five that he was about ready to quit the talk show biz right before the writers strike, when he realized “Oh yeah, it’s kinda nice to work.” But now that the strike is over, he’s envisioning quitting again. “I think this is my final contract,” he says in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times. “I hate to even say it, because everyone’s laughing at me now—each time I think that, and then it turns out to be not the case. I still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good. That seems like enough.”
The comedian has already hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! for more than 20 years, so it’s understandable that he might be weary of the grind. (Plus, he’s been saying he’s ready to quit for years now.) When he’s inundated with work, “I think, ‘I cannot wait until my contract is over,’” he said, “But then, I take the summer off or I go on strike, and you start going, ‘Yeah, I miss the fun stuff.’”
There’s fun stuff on the other side of the talk show, presumably. But Kimmel isn’t sure what his next chapter will look like, beyond the fact that “whenever I think of what I’m going to do when I stop working, it all involves more work.” However, he reflected that “It might not be anything that anyone other than me is aware of. I have a lot of hobbies—I love to cook, I love to draw, I imagine myself learning to do sculptures. I know that when I die, if I’m fortunate enough to die on my own terms in my own bed, I’m going to think, ‘Oh, I was never able to get to this, and I was never able to get to that.’ I just know it about myself.”
Three more maybe years of simping for Biden and the DNC. Guh.
“watch out for stobor”
For first time?
For first time, make it Suntory time.
友達がいる。てブルーの上にウイスキーがある。。。
Boy even Japanese autocorrect kills me.
テーブル
I can’t tell the difference. What’s that in English?
Teeburu.
Table.
(From Forbes Magazine, 1996)
“Wilson himself has wound up in deep water on this score; or cold water, if one need edit. In his personal life Wilson is a conventional liberal, PC, as the saying goes–he is , after all, a member of the Harvard faculty–concerned about environmental issues and all the usual things. But he has said that “forcing similar role identities” on both men and women “flies in the face of thousands of years in which mammals demonstrated a strong tendency for sexual division of labor. Since this division of labor is persistent from hunter-gatherer through agricultural and industrial societies, it suggests a genetic origin. We do not know when this trait evolved in human evolution or how resistant it is to the continuing and justified pressures for human rights.”
“Resistant” was Darwin II, the neuroscientist, speaking. “Justified” was the PC Harvard liberal. He was not PC or liberal enough. Feminist protesters invaded a conference where Wilson was appearing, dumped a pitcher of ice water, cubes and all, over his head, and began chanting, “You’re all wet! You’re all wet!” The most prominent feminist in America, Gloria Steinem, went on television and, in an interview with John Stossel of ABC, insisted that studies of genetic differences between male and female nervous systems should cease forthwith.”
http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/courses/psy115w/Fall02/TomWolfe-SorryButYourSoul.htm
Sounds like Mummy was visiting Aunt Flo.
Run for it Marty!
That would be Blood from the Mummy’s Womb.
prequel?
Jimmy Kimmel admitted on his podcast
Who is asking for more Jimmy Kimmel?
Cthulu?
Yeah, 20 years of that smug face? Whoda thunk?
I can’t believe “20 years”. Holy shit where has the time gone.
You got old.
Yeah, tell me about it.
In a alternate reality it would have been 20 years of The Man Show!
The girlfriend and I went out for brunch on President’s Day (hell, I got the day off of work for some reason), chatting with the staff we got to laugh as we heard a girl in her mid 20’s say she was starting to feel old. We started pointing out the things that will really make it stick, like how the 90’s were just a couple years back, when you’re older than all the professional sportsball players, and you start hearing songs you listened to in high school flagged as “oldies”.
Yeah, back in the nineties, I heard a familiar tune on the mall Muzak. When I recognized it, I realized my day was done.
Tempted, by Squeeze.
When I heard a Guns ‘n Roses tune (given the Muzak treatment) on an elevator, I knew I was old. And that was more than 10 years ago. 🙁
Is there anyone who doesn’t have a podcast?
:raises hand:
Me?
I don’t even listen to podcasts.
What’s a podcast?
Fishing for Orcas.
Orcas aren’t fish, so you don’t fish for them.
Even beavers and capybaras are fish.
That’s rich coming from SciAm. These days they make the CC look like pikers.
I don’t.
I liked him when he was on The Man Show.
Me too but in my defense, I was an idiot teenager.
Some of us get older, but we’re still idiots.
There’s nothing wrong with that.
I wonder how much of that show was Corolla and how much was Kimmel.
Or maybe he actually was funny before he turned into a male feminist.
My impression is they both had a hand in it.
Satan?
Who could it possibly be?
I haven’t watched him but once or twice in 20 years. I am certainly not asking for more.
My wife doesn’t like it when I start yelling at the TV.
Funny thing, my wife hates it too. Men love to yell at the TV. Must be a difference in our brains.
I only yell at sportsball games. The girlfriend will start yelling and commenting during movies, TV shows, random Youtube videos…
Football and hockey don’t count.
I just repeat random signs while we are driving
ZWAK “Look, a tailors. Look, another Bobs something or other. Huh, Stiller Family farm.”
M. ZWAK “shut. up. now.”
A couple years ago, I quit watching things that make me want to yell at the TV.
Sometimes my wife will watch something while I’m on the computer that gets me into an argument with whichever show she’s watching, but that’s about it.
The brains of men and women operate differently, scientists have shown for the first time in a breakthrough that shows sex does matter in how people think and behave.
This changes EVERYTHING!
men are from mars
women are from venus
if you end up behind bars
be on guard for your cellmate’s penis?
The other genders are from Uranus.
Well, as long as you put them back in.
That’s why I wear a kilt.
I’ve been working on a study on how water is wet. You think they’ll accept my submission?
You’re supposed to say that your preliminary results are promising, but more funding is needed to arrive at a definitive answer.
Rocket!
(a little cold for me, but I could build a
tolerancetaste for it.)introspection and retrieving personal memories.
*giant softball floats over plate*
Nooooooo, not Jimmy Kimmel! The man’s so funny: The Man Show, all the down to earth analogies using his construction experience, his love of classic cars, his reasonably sensible political takes-seems like a perfectly decent guy-that other Man Show guy now, that guy is an asshole.
Huh… he did all that? Guess I don’t know him from Adam.
*narrows gaze*
“scientists discover”
ChatGPT has gone cuckoo for cocoa puffs
https://x.com/seanw_m/status/1760115118690509168
I don’t know… I think it would glad my clicklies to grap-turn-tooth over a mind-ocean jello type…. certainly a change of pace!
Reads like something my ex would say.
Sounds like someone got into Agile Cyborg’s stash.
All work and no play makes ChatGPT a dull boy.
I don’t know shit from Shinola, as far as people are concerned, but how can you spend thirty seconds around a group of small children and not realize boys and girls are fundamentally different?
That’s a reason for recess in grade school and the changing of classrooms in high school, to discharge some of the pent up energy.
The one year I taught in the US was unfortunately 6th grade. Not only had the state locked on to block scheduling (90 minute classes) the true reason was so that flunkies could retake classes they failed. But these poor kids were brought to the side of the school after lunch to have “recess”. Just a mud patch and the kids were told not to play tag because they might get injured and then we’d have to fill out an injury report.
The school offered no electives due to block scheduling 😔
Fred Flintstone?
Dudes with manbuns?
Pounce? Must be Republicans.
Lou Abbott, Groucho Marx, and Oliver Hardy?
And Moe Howard?
“But then, I take the summer off or I go on strike, and you start going, ‘Yeah, I miss the fun stuff.’”
I could really use some time off, but I’m just really busy at work. Maybe I should go on strike.
You need a talk show first.
There has never been any definitive proof of difference in activity in the brains of men and women, but Stanford University has shown that it is possible to tell the sexes apart based on activity in “hotspot” areas.
Did they just assume someone’s gender?
People can only have equal rights and get equal treatment if they are all the same. Thus, there can be no clearly recognizable differences between different classes of people. As a matter of fact, all classes of people must be interchangeable. Anything else is oppression.
Hammer Horror sex-bomb in Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb.
Valerie Leon’s boobpedia page says that it was a body double in that movie for the nude scene.
Since we’re on the topic of gender differences, is there an equivalent of boobpedia for men? Something like dickipedia? Not going to look, but if it exists, I bet it’s run by gay men and not women.
Moobapedia. We should start it and make millions.
“Pay us or we’ll show you the pics!”
Millions of what?
Enemies?
Absolutely. Most gay men have man-brains.
Dikipedea. W into D.
I don’t know how that study saw the light of day. Everyone knows the scientific consensus is that all the genders are exactly the same except for trivial cosmetic differences that can be fixed with a few shots and some surgery.
There are no differences between men and women. But we need to get more women involved in ________. If there are no differences then why do we care?
Can anyone give me rice-cooking advice? Mine (long grain basmati) is always so mushy. I rinse the hell out of it until the water is clear, and I use less water for cooking than the bag calls for (1 3/4 cups when the bag calls for 2 cups). Should I use some kind of fat in the cooking water? Cook it at a higher temp? The rice I get at the Indian restaurant is all nice and separate and not-starchy.
I only have a sauce pan with a lid – no rice cooker or anything like that.
We use a basic microwave rice cooker. I always use Basmati rice. I like that much better than Jasmine.
Off the top of my head. One cup rice. Two and a half cups water. A dollop of olive oil. 15 minutes on high in the microwave. Always comes out great. Not sticky or mushy.
This is what we do.
I use instant pot with a 1:1 ratio and it’s always perfect
If it’s mushy, that generally indicates too long of a cook time or too much water. Are you always cooking for the same duration? I generally go by water absorption when cooking rice on the stove top.
Yes – I check the rice to see when the water is absorbed
Yeah I’ve heard just rinse the hell out of it first, but I prefer sticky rice so never really tried it.
Salt the water.
Make sure the lid is tight fitting. Steam cooks the rice. Use foil in between the lid if you have to.
Adjust your water down. If it is too hard let it stand longer and steam
Sounds like you are cooking in a pot over a burner. Cook it for less time than recommended. The rice is breaking down when it gets all mushy. You might need to drain it when it gets perfect until you find the right ratio of water, time and rice.
This may be happening because you are traveling to different altitudes. Not sure.
Oh, also are you putting in the rice once the water is boiling, or while it is cool?
My wife likes sticky rice, she uses a counter top rice cooker. I’m not a rice guy but I do like fried rice.
Get a rice cooker or steamer basket.
My wife has a small rice cooker. Put rice and water in at 1:1.5 ratio. Turn on and wait.
Boil the rice with the water. Don’t add it after boiling.
My process is 2:1 water:rice (usually 2 c. water, 1 c. rice). I don’t rinse it. Put the rice in the sauce pan. Put in a big pinch of salt. Add the water. Heat to boiling. Drop temp to low (it’s an electric stove, I move it all the way down). Cook ~15 minutes.
Ways I fuck it up:
1. Forget to watch the water and hear it boiling over…sometimes salvageable by adjusting cook time downward.
2. Get antsy and drop the heat too soon – this usually leads to soggy rice, but *can* at times be salvaged by cooking longer (though that risks mushy rice).
^This.
So much this.
Dan from cooks Country has a short seven minute video that is helpful. Gives you a couple of options. I like the 1:1 1/4 ratio. But I like sticky and gooey rice as well as floofy rice.
Boil a kettle of water. Add about 1 tablespoon of olive oil to a saucepan and heat on medium. Add your rice and mix it with oil. Add 1 tablespoon of Better than Buillion chicken stock paste. Add a bay leaf and some dried onion and garlic. Mix it all up and add enough water to cover rice and another quarter cup or so. Cook for 13-15 min. Remove from heat and fluff. Put cover back and leave sit for another 5 minutes or so. Add some butter. Rice perfection.
If you’re rinsing a lot then it’s already starting to absorb water (esp if it takes awhile to get the water to a boil), so adjust the time down 5 min at a time for after boil on low heat.
1) Buy rice cooker
2) Fill rice and water to shown levels
3) press start
that’s how i do it.
My wife(Okinawan) bought a fancy $150 Zojirushi rice cooker 24 years ago.
At the time that was a lot of money for us, but she has used it almost everyday since and it makes perfect rice.
I have one and love it. Same brand.
Mind you my friend in Kansai uses a pot on the stove.
Same. Also a Toshiba. Both are at work. At home, we still use a pot
I live on an RV – no rice cookers or instant pots or crock pots or anything like that.
I’ll try 1:1 with some salt and fat and adjust the cooking. Indian food is so disappointing with mushy or sticky rice
Really? That’s kinda neat.
You can’t run one in an RV or you don’t want to buy one?
It’s a space issue. I only have the most basic and needed equipment.
That makes sense.
For the video, my wife said the secret is the letting it sit in the hot pan with the lid on.
That’s how she learned to do it from her Granma.
This one is mostly cooked uncovered, and it’s stirred occasionally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqaAqpS3UWU
Also they don’t use all the water – interesting
That looks really good.
This one washes the rice 3-4 times, and only cooks it for 10 minutes. Uses a 2:1 water:rice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUCHFsabAFI
Just get used to that microwavable minute rice you buy in cups?
Listen up, you despicable ingrates
Meanwhile, inflation is roughly back to its pre-pandemic rate. While most prices will not return to where they were before the pandemic, the prices of many items, like rents and used cars, are falling.
This is truly an incredible economic picture given that we faced the worst pandemic in more than a century. The United States has seen by far the best growth of any major economy during Biden’s term, and its inflation rate is among the lowest.
This great economic picture was not an accident. Just after taking office, President Biden pushed through his ambitious pandemic recovery package without a single Republican vote in Congress. He faced opposition not only from Republicans but from prominent Democratic economists. Larry Summers, who held top positions in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, denounced it as the most reckless economic policy in 40 years.
But this robust stimulus quickly brought the country back to near full employment, recharging a recovery that was weakening when Biden took office. Biden also passed an infrastructure bill, the CHIPS and Science Act, to boost domestic semiconductor production, and the Inflation Reduction Act. These bills have sustained the recovery, even as they laid the groundwork for longer-term sustainable growth.
Joe Biden is the greatest President in history.
I never take seriously any one whose name is a string of occupations.
You just pissed off Obama. They were a team, Joe learned at the knee of Barack. Give credit where credit is due.
Kammie has also learned the same way, she’s fit and ready.
Something tells me Kamala didn’t get down on her knees to learn from Obama.
Remember, Obama knew more about policies on any particular issue than his policy directors.
Huh, I thought he learned about it on TV
And he still didn’t know that there was no such thing as a shovel ready job.
You would think a guy that wrote a book entitled:Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer would understand actual economics, but I would say the same about Winston’s mom’s boyfriend.
Wow the picture of Biden at the top of that article is terrible. I think they’re trying to get rid of him by making him look mental.
I don’t have to read the article to know they left out the 20% price increases for food and that those much touted wage increases are well below inflation.
Wait…wait. “Inflation is back to its pre-pandemic rate”. Next sentence “prices of many items…are falling”. What the ever loving fuck? Not even a sentence between those two contradictory points (though I suppose, technically, inflation could be non-zero and *some* prices falling….but are they?)
Price of rents is falling? That’s news to me. Maybe it’s true somewhere.
Price of cars is falling? Maybe, but that’s not something I buy every day, and government is doing its damnedest to push us into expensive electric cars.
I permanently raised the rent on my “unit.”
It’s all about location:
Rents in Central Ohio are increasing at one of the highest rates in the nation
3 Ohio cities among most affordable rental markets in U.S., report says
This is a major pet peev of mine. People (mostly the yutes) talk about how expensive it is to buy a house, and how they will never be able to afford it, blah blah blah. But I look at places like Pittsburg and I see a ton of nice places at 100K+/-. So, don’t tell me it is too damn expensive, you just want to live in NYC, or SF, places like that.
Grow up!
Sounds like you have been talking to my son.
Akron and Toledo? Really?
I mean, Im sure I could find a reasonable spot that suits my needs. But…..
Well, same as wanting to live in Cleveland proper instead of one of the ‘burbs.
It’s almost like rent reflects something or other.
$25, same as downtown?
Pre-pandemic, it was $20.
You won’t have a nice guy to kick around anymore.
Less than 24 hours after an NHJournal report on his obscene, sexist, and racist social media posts, Northwood School Board member Gary Caron submitted his letter of resignation.
But not, he insisted, an apology. Instead, Caron blamed his demise on “maga republican deplorable key board basement dwelling instigators.”
Events began Tuesday afternoon with a social media post by Northwood School Board Chair Brian Winslow.
“I would like [everyone] to know that earlier this afternoon Mr. Caron submitted a letter of resignation.”
Earlier in the day, Winslow posted a public message urging Caron to step down from the board.
“As chair of the Northwood School Board, I would like to address the recent obscene and heinous comments made by one of our board members, Gary Caron. These comments were made in a private capacity, outside of school board business, and do not reflect the views or values of the school board or the Northwood School District,” Winslow wrote. The comments made by Mr. Caron are obscene, and objectionable and have caused significant concern within our community.
“As chair of the school board, I am requesting that Mr. Caron resign from his position on the board, effective immediately. His actions are inconsistent with the values of our community, but also prevent the board from fulfilling its purpose effectively,” Winslow added.
Apparently, it worked.
Caron has a history of using obscene and sexually explicit language in attacking conservatives and Republicans in social posts long before taking office, and the progressive activist didn’t change his behavior after being elected to the board. (Caron ran unopposed.)
More on the story.
Fixed second link
Of course he says his posts were taken out of context.
It took me a while to figure out that lefties love to curse constantly and smear people. I watch for it now.
It’s not a new phenomenon. The Bottle Rockets did a song about it years ago.
He seems nice.
For a white dude he’s quick to label any black conservative a “house nigger”.
Maybe he laments he doesn’t have one.
I don’t like having to dig for what the asdshole actually said. But it looks like he was trolled by the same guy repeatedly and being the immature leftist dipshit that he is, he couldn’t stop himself from responding.
Caron is the troll.
I mean, Caron is a moron. You’ll get no argument from me. But what a good troll does is bait people into revealing themselves. Carol is a pig who can’t help but roll around in his own shit. He is on the right side of history. Smug and self-assured. Alls it took was a little poke and he’s all too proud to say the dumb shit he believes.
But I only skimmed the story.
,em>Fox News trashing the Biden economy is a given. But mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN have also chosen to misrepresent the data to highlight the negative. A recent analysis from Brookings showed that the media have been far more negative on the economy under Biden than the data warrant.
We have seen endless stories on how high prices for milk or gas or other items are devastating families. And major news stories don’t mention that for every family being hit hard by inflation, there is probably an autoworker or restaurant worker who has received a big raise.
So there, you bunch of Negative Nellies.
The good news is that this year’s raise almost matches the “official” rate of inflation. Of course, food and energy prices continue run amuck.
Somehow 50% of families struggling to afford food is something to be proud of.
Where’s my Biden “I did that” sticker at?
It’s really only me & Jugsy here at the Palatial 2X-Wide™ and I just blew nearly $100 at Kroger.
My beer was only $10, and I had 3 bags.
The media have been far harder on Biden and Obama than they ever were with Republicans.
It’s all the turgid rubbing that causes them to get harder.
I thought it was the tight creases in the pants that did it.
It’s the vast right wing conspiracy.
CNN
They couldn’t even find a retired full colonel to “react”?
Maybe someone gave them the full bird?
Word.
Could be a friend that lives near the Pentagon, I’m always teasing him that he never shows up on TV as an expert spokesman. He’s too busy tending his bees this time of year.
Sigh…
https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/us-news/non-citizen-chinese-immigrant-is-sworn-in-on-sfs-election-commission/
That seems wong.
Not a citizen? Why bother swearing in ?
Ho Lee Fuk!
Non citizen immigration rights activist. $5 sez they’re a Chicom agent. How the fuck do you legally remain in the US without actual means to support yourself? I’d like to meet the one easy going CBP agent who stamped their entry approved for being a political activist.
You have to be be severely educated to not know that there are some fundamental biological differences between the sexes that go beyond the physical ones. Either that or a straight up ideologue to push all observable evidence aside. It’s easily seen at a very young age in children.
Since nobody replied earlier, reposting about houthi attack on us ship carrying yemenese relief.
https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1760315696578212144?t=baqx1mSjkUpsi5NT8Kfmeg&s=19. The fox News link on that Twitter link should let you read the entire article (at least via Twitter app).
Also, Massie submitted another bill to get rid of Dept of Ed.
Trump is going to get us into a war yet!
On a serious note, we’ll probably keep bombing them, even though Biden admitted that’s not working.
They have a finite supply of anti-ship missiles. Easy to target and disable with minimal collateral damage. These aren’t like the mortars or rockets shot at us in Iraq or that Hamas uses (with the exception of that time they shot ASCMs and hit an Israeli ship).
Pretty sure Saudi Arabia would be happy to let us put the Predators up in their airspace to loiter and pick these off. Much cheaper than carrier strikes and eminently justifiable.
“watch out for stobor”
+ Heinlein
Justice
But bond agents may have reservations about working with Trump, whose business practices and claims about his wealth have been successfully challenged in court.
Appeal bonds are used to ensure that a person ordered to pay a judgment cannot misuse the courts to delay or avoid making that payment.
“Whoever is going to bond [Trump] is committing that they’re going to make good on that judgment,” said New York business attorney David Slarskey. “Who’s going to do that?”
——-
Engoron also barred Trump for three years from running a business in New York or applying for loans from financial institutions registered with the state.
He should get the money from a bank in Russia.
I heard that Trump’s company didn’t miss a loan payment through the entire pandemic. Seems like a good risk, based on that.
Do bond companies charge interest?
Actually, as I understand it, the bond is essentially an insurance policy. Why wouldn’t Lloyd’s or somebody pick it up?
Do bond agencies have to be registered with the state as such? I’d bet (especially in NY – but let’s face it, probably everywhere) that the state agencies that register bonding agencies and the ones that register insurance are distinct, and have onerous processes for registration, and that most insurance outfits have not complied with that set of regulations.
Do bond agencies have to be registered with the state as such?
Good question. I don’t know.
Would appear so in Albany County. I assume other counties are similar.
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/courts/3jd/Albany/Bond-Requirements-Information-Sheet.pdf
You get into admitted and non-admitted and I have no idea how NYS deals with non-admitted sureties.
Well, it’s Trump, so you can guess how this will one will work.
I am late…
I nearly choked. For the first time eh? We have only known this since…ooh…..about a million years . I guess we forgot at the awokening.
You get into admitted and non-admitted and I have no idea how NYS deals with non-admitted sureties.
I also wonder how spreading that risk (reinsurance?) works. do you have a principal, admitted, issuer who then goes to other insurers hedge the risk?
Anything that large will be reinsured.
The primary carrier will likely be admitted given NYS, but I don’t know for certain.
The reinsurers may or may not depends on the carrier.
You have automatic reinsurance called treaty and facultative per risk and combinations of both.
facultative per risk reinsurance.
BigJetTV just got an incredible shot of midair refueling over SFO!! If they clip it, I’ll post it
More Robots, fewer humans, please.
I read that in your voice.
Careful, you may be Captured By Robots
In the grand tradition of yellow journalism
Donald Trump thinks he has a lot in common with Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, likening his own legal comeuppance for fraud and rape to the plight of the Russian opposition leader, who died in one of Russia’s harshest penal colonies on Friday.
“It is a form of Navalny. It is a form of communism or fascism,” Trump said at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday evening, referring to his recent court judgments, which are expected to top nearly $540 million.
That stems from losing just two cases: a defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, whom a jury determined had been sexually abused by the former game show host, and Trump’s New York fraud trial, in which Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump’s lack of contrition and remorse “borders on pathological.”
But using Navalny to make himself a martyr can only go so far for Trump, who won the 2016 general election in part due to Russian election interference that his campaign welcomed, per the 2020 report by the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee, and who consistently kowtowed to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his presidency.
Instead of condemning Putin for Navalny’s death—like President Joe Biden, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, and Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya—Trump instead opted to simply refer to it as a “horrible thing.”
Serious journalisming, for serious people.
Google offers an artificial apology:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/google-apologizes-new-gemini-ai-refuses-show-pictures-achievements-white-people
I went over to gab, which has its own ai now.
It did a black family.
It did a white family
It did a southern family.
Fingers and toes are still a little wonky.
I tried “hero slaying a dragon”, and it spat out a person with a dragon head wearing plate armor
Everyone is going to have an AI, and every AI will have a podcast.
Sometimes, it’s great to get legit Government Cheese.
My elem school is ridiculous and you can guess why: Excess food, unopened, often milk, wrapped graham crackers//’goldfish’/ etc, all has to go! Can’t be donated anywhere! What the motherfuck is THAT?! So my MtoF trans colleague got 32! We were splittin’ amongst us. I got about the same. I also got my bullshit First Aid/CPR and whatever bullshit CEU. I̶’̶l̶l̶ I’ve taken it! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Shock advised.”
The Royals want a new stadium downtown. So, beyond the extension of a sales tax (no nude Texans), I got some problems with this:
1. The Royals aren’t winning and it’s not because they don’t have a new stadium.
2. Until the Royals win, they don’t deserve a new stadium.
3. I like Kauffman Stadium right where it is (although, yes, I realize that 50yo concrete is delicate).[1]
4. The businesses where they want to put the new stadium have not been consulted, and they are going to be displaced. Hello, Kelo.[2]
5. This is practically being shoved down people’s throats, being presented as a fait accompli, but we’ll see what the voters have to say about that.
6. “If you don’t do this, we’re taking our balls and going somewhere else. OMAHA WANTS US!!!” Ciao.
7. The two alternate sites in different municipalities and counties already said, “Nope.”
8. There’s already no parking downtown.
9. Gentrify the neighborhoods where Kauffman already is. Oh, wait. Nobody’s tried that in 50 years. Why not? *crickets*
[1] I realize this is probably my regrettable susceptibility to nostalgia.
[2] This is one reason I don’t like Trump. No, he was not involved in Kelo, but when asked about it, he thought it was a fine idea.
I’m a little het up about this, but mostly because of the businesses that will be displaced under eminent domain [for private development].
I would quibble a little with point 8 because what annoying urbanists get right is that cities should not be catering to car traffic and helping to facilitate suburbanites in and out of the city. I would assume anyway that they wouldn’t stick a stadium some place where no one would attend.
But yeah, they are asking for 1 billion (?) public dollars? NO!
WRT #8, I would be okay if they made a parking garage in some blighted neighborhood (like, where they originally wanted to put the stadium) and built, say, a lovely trail/walkway/park to the stadium, maybe a mile or so away.
I think at the very least someone else would come along and build a garage to capitalize on any gaps in the market.
The renderings I’ve seen are really nice. But what’s going to happen is they will get their public money and it will not turn out to be as shiny as the pictures.
Indeed it won’t.
But the real problem is how to drag people to a Royals game when they suck. The sad fact is, this is is not really a baseball town. The loyalty for the Chiefs doesn’t translate to the Royals.
They actually had attendance of 33k/game, more than twice that last year, as recently as 2015, when they won the World Series. Since then attendance has been tracking down with their performance.
I think building massive public works projects just gets politicians hard. Just going off the top of my head, voters tend to reject these massive handouts and then get ignored as governments signs off anyway.
That kinda luxe just ain’t for them.
“Biden’s dog Commander bit Secret Service agents in at least 24 ‘incidents’ before he was removed from the White House, new documents reveal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13110991/biden-dog-bites-secret-service-removed-white-house.html
What a great family.
Do you know who else liked German Shepherd dogs?
Lee Duncan?
Nazi Shepherds ?
The cavalry at Fort Apache?
There’s no bad dogs just bad owners.
He raised a crack head and a mad dog.
I find nothing cringier than aging Dems. The boomers who just vote team D because that’s what they’ve done their entire lives and who obliviously just have faith in government as long as its managed by the correct people who are of course the one’s with D’s after their names.
Something I saw today that I thought was funny. The border “compromise” bill would have allowed up to 5,000 border detainees to cross into the country per day. Basically, 5,000 catch and releases. No more!
5,000 a day would be more than have been released into the country in any year on record. It basically would have solidified catch and release as official policy through legislation. It would have cemented us into the current status quo of effectively having no border.
Yes, the bill was laughable (in a cringey way) as a solution to the border problem.
If my dog had bitten two dozen people, the government would have dragged her off and killed here.
The Biden family corruption extends across species.