Vegas has Minnesota on the brink of elimination. The Oilers pushed the Kings there as well. And Ottawa staved it off for another day by beating Toronto again. In baseball, the Astros are getting warm. And across the pond, Arsenal did Arsenal things and dug themselves a hole in their first leg with PSG. The other semifinal gets underway today. And that’s it for sports.
This will be an interesting case. The left are screeching like banshees over it. Almost as loud as they screeched “shut up and bake the cake.” Ironic.
This was the smart course of action. I’m almost surprised they did it.
I have a feeling this student is going to learn a lot from this. He won’t be happy with the education he receives on power structures and protectionism, however. But he should still carry the lesson with him forever.
Oh, rats! Gross.
That’s a “brutal” punishment? Sorry, but it seems pretty tame to me.
I hope they get to the bottom of this bullshit. Because it’s ridiculous, at best. Criminal, at worst.
Yes, the former would naturally lead to the latter. I’m confused as to why this would be deemed controversial.
“Mayor For Sale: Inquire at Washington, DC.” Let’s see if she gets the coverage she deserves.
Will the covid runs on items return? Probably. I remember counting the TEUs then and this is looking very familiar.
Thank you, Delaware. Keep sucking ass. Sincerely, Texas.
Let’s rock. These guys make it easy. Such a fun band. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Gee why are all these companies moving to Delaware? I guess it’s a mystery! Woweee
-the author, probably
Couldn’t resist strangling the golden goose. All they needed to keep the gravy train rolling was appoint impartial judges. But they couldn’t.
In favor of State Birds, the birds of the State?
*from Delaware, not to
MercadoLibre’s reasoning in leaving Delaware points to the state’s legal framework that the company thinks is no longer “best suited” for its needs, a filing said. The company also said it would save on franchise tax fees and enjoy more flexibility in strategic corporate actions.
Interesting how one cranky judge is going to cost Delaware
mbillions. You hate to see it.There definitely needs to be a GoFundMe type site where people can crowdfund sending massive shipments of World’s Tiniest Violins to appropriate folks. The judge and probably the state government of Delaware would be a current candidate set for me…
They should probably pass some sort of law against that.
“You may not move out of Delaware, nor may a company be incorporated elsewhere”
There, that should do it.
IIRC, they’ve already got such a law on the books in Delaware and the chancery court has employed it. Not sure where the challenges to its ruling have gone.
Obviously she should join the grain slaves.
That is just garden variety political corruption. Least surprising news from DC ever.
Yes, the former would naturally lead to the latter.
But I’m already in the US. Why do I still need a visa?
Because AmEx turned you down?
AmEx told me they didn’t want my business when I had poor credit. Now they want my business, but I decline to give it to them.
If. you applied for AmEx you deserve to be booted out of the country
Suthenboy:
Huh? I’ve got their card (the Blue) for some good customer service protections and perks. No fee, and I don’t carry a balance on it. Why should I be booted?
I won’t use anything but AmEx. Their fraud protections are easily the best in the business and it’s nice to never have a limit on what I can spend.
Shows what I know. I looked at their terms….uh…maybe 40 years ago and thought they were nuts.
We ended up with a Discover which was pitching hard at the time to get customers and we got a crazy good deal and have stuck with them ever since under those terms. I dont think Discover offers terms like that anymore. I am surprised they haven’t dumped us but they have been pitching a newer, shinier card. No thanks.
You might say my view of AmEx is a bit outdated.
Yeah, my AmEx card gets the most use, if only for the 3% cash back for groceries.
If. you applied for AmEx you deserve to be booted out of the country
My dad’s AmEx just paid for the damage I did backing into his rental car. I’m a big fan of theirs right now.
Because it’s not an entry coupon, it’s permission to be here. If not a citizen, or a lawful permanant resident, you need a valid visa*. If you misbehave or otherwise violate the terms, so long.
*or a waiver agreement with your home country for short term tourist visits.
Why do I still need a visa?
Why do I have to enact your labor? Discover this shit on your own.
🙄
Never change, NBC.
Will we take the lesson from it if it does happen again (and for that matter, the lesson from the fall of the freakin’ Bronze Age as that delicate pseudo-globalist trade economy fell apart when pressured by the Sea Peoples) and realize that while globalism is good for some things, you need to keep necessity production sufficient for domestic consumption? It may not be as economically efficient in the spherical cow world… but it is eminently more practical and better for countries.
I don’t disagree. But the time it takes to ramp that back is a lot longer than most people are willing to wait.
I can’t disagree with that. Which is why I wish we’d buckled down and seriously started in 2021 (well, I wish we hadn’t let everything go offshore to begin with, duh). But as with nuclear plants and grid capacity… better to start now at least.
In the nonce…. muddle through as best we can.
I had really thought that during the lockdowns, people would learn not to rely so much on China for everything. Some learned that lesson, but not enough.
As long as China continues to offer artificially low prices, that will never change.
Democratic Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is facing scrutiny after a bombshell 7News I-Team investigation revealed her office failed to properly disclose funding sources for a series of lavish trips.
Someone should tell Bowser that she sha na nan’t do that again.
It is hard to resist a nice vacation at a resort in Acapella.
A mayor’s duties require trips to resort locations.
Bowser has a lot of public appearances to make. From golf, to go carts, to negotiating with plumbers…
Is he still CEO of Nintendo USA?
He left Sha Na Na ages ago.
LA Karen Bass says you have sparked her attention and this idea will catch on like wildfire.
Sick burn.
It would appear that the left’s stranglehold on academia is starting to loosen. As for their hold on the judicial system what is happening to these judges is long overdue.
Supply chain: climate driven disruptions? Such as…..?
The punished student…punished how, and for what exactly? I am not giving FOX any money.
Try this link for the Brown student story:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250430105817/https://www.foxnews.com/media/brown-university-student-who-angered-non-faculty-employees-doge-like-email-faces-punishment-from-school
I’m not giving them my money either, but from what I could glean it seems to be for the usual wrongthinkfulness.
For some reason I was expecting Def Leppard in their arena rock phase (Hysteria Tour / Let’s Get Rocked type stuff… just pure fluff but they really seemed to be having fun…)
What has 10 legs, 9 arms, and sucks?
Q: What do you call a man who has no arms and no legs and can play 10 musical instruments?
A: Stump the Band.
I liked Def Leppard before Hysteria, I had Pyromania on cassette.
When I got my first CD player, my mom bought me the Hysteria CD.
Pop garbage, but I had to pretend I liked it because I knew my mom was trying, but she saw no difference between the 2 styles.
It ranks with Bon Jovi and Green Day with how fast can I change the station when it comes on the radio.
I agree with your mom. No idea who those groups are nor do I care.
Now as my kids are in their 60s they are finding solace in Willie, Waylon and the boys.
Fourscore, I would like to go to Honey Harvest this year.
What are the dates and which airport should I fly to?
Also where should I book a room?
I had to refresh my memory on which was which.
You’re right.
I dunno what the right answer is here but I will note that religion classes get public dollars in such wingnut countries as Canada and Germany.
I think the right answer is that the people who want to use the schools pay for it, rather than every taxpayer whether they use the schools or not.
Apply that to public schools as well and I’ll happily agree with you.
Oh, absolutely, I mean ALL schools.
Too be that right answer is way outside the realm of the possible.
Too bad or not too bad…
1. Separation of School and State. Its obviously the best solution. After that, there is a hierarchy, but they all have flaws. And your opinion may differ on some.
2. Backpack vouchers. Each kid gets $X for his parents/guardians to spend wherever they want for his education. This would include religious schools.
3. Public charter. I don’t know if this should or shouldn’t include religious charter schools. That gets weird. The good news is #1 or #2 doesn’t have this issue. My daughter is currently in a public charter, its fine. If we upgraded to #2, it would change nothing for us.
All other options are ranked about 998th.
They get them here. See: all the religiously affiliated groups our government paid a ton of money to in order to flood the country with “refugees.”
Not only that. When you buy a property (in Ontario, anyway) you have to choose which of 4 school systems your tax dollars go to: {English, French}, {public, Catholic}.
When the trans stuff hit the local public elementary school a few years back, I looked at switching our election to English Catholic. Turns out I would have to show proof I converted.
OKC public schools don’t sound great. Who’d think they’d have that in common with L.A.?
Dugan has been charged with two counts of obstruction and was released from detention last week after making an initial appearance in federal court.
Should’ve ginned up a charge of “parading.” I hear that one gets you a few months in solitary before your next hearing.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks Jimbo, you know to destroy an old guy’s bad mood.
I like that they bring her their toys.
THE NBA HAS PLAYOFFS TOO
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2R2sH2ScBM
Ok.
If you insist on hockey linx, why not stories about real hockey?
GO FROST GO!!!!!
Well, considering the players, the NBA seems to mostly have jerk-offs.
well they are most likely packing…
The what now?
The Norwegian Baccarat Association
LISTEN TO PIE!!!
I want more T-wolves coverage or I’m canceling my subscription.
They’re MadCats, Jimbo. Mad. Cats.
The Indispensable Genre
On the future of literacy.
https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-indispensable-genre
The sad fact of it is that any idiot can write a book. If you write two hundred words a day for a year, taking off on the weekends (don’t want to strain the system), at the end you will have a manuscript of respectable proportions that you can inflict on contest judges, agents’ slush piles, and so forth. It’s comparable to becoming fit; but, unlike becoming fit, I’ve actually done the book thing a few times. It is not so exciting as you’d expect; it’s something akin to finishing an unusually large and annoying crossword. (I imagine it’s different if you ever get one published.) And like crosswords, the more you do, the less it feels like a diversion and the more it feels like an embarrassing compulsion.
Especially now. Bakhtin assures us that the novel is the indispensable genre because (among other things) it is the only genre that resists formal convention and can constantly renew itself from the wells of the contemporary. I think that’s true, so far as it goes; I don’t think the old boy considered what I genuinely think the near future will hold, which is the near-complete annihilation of literature in any form longer than a bar receipt.
It is not that the novel will become a dead, ossified form like epic or tragedy; it’s that the whole enterprise of reading will go the way of madrigals, smoking indoors, Greek prose comp, spectator shoes, dog racing, correspondence using an honorific and last name, the Latin Mass, and any number of yesteryear’s other delights. It will become the province of a few frankly socially unattractive maniacs, some of whom will be very gifted, most of whom won’t be, and all of whom will be irrelevant. (You may think I’m joking about smoking indoors, but, on my word of honor, there was a group in the neighborhood of my college, “Cambridge Citizens for Smokers’ Rights,” which devoted itself to expanding smoking zones and abolishing tobacco taxes with the singleminded zeal of trainspotters and amateur radio enthusiasts. They even had a local-access television show.) Being an editor and writer today is like being one of those Restoration-era stage actors who specialized in portraying women, soon to be blasted from the stage by a revolution in public mores that will render them inconsequential, insolvent, and, in retrospect for most people, somewhat silly.
The pretentiousness is strong with this one. Not to mention the ignorance of how many of those things are going quite strong, or were killed by unpopular demand.
Reminder: when operating a motor vehicle, always take the “hands free” option.
TW: Reddit and mildly NSFW
It’s because it was a Taco Bell. That’s enlisted behavior.
Maybe they were out of sour cream and he was just improvising?
I gotta say “Gun Owners for Safety” sounds like gun controller front, not “a group representing firearms owners”.
Well, waddayaknow:
“Gun Owners for Safety has been operated since 2019 by the gun violence prevention organization Giffords, which was co-founded by Gabby Giffords”
Maybe their accusations are 100% above-board, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
which was co-founded by Gabby Giffords‘s puppeteer.
Fixed it for them.
They’re not. I’m surprised that you even have to ask.
The long and the short of it was that a bunch of larger firearms manufacturers handed over their customers warranty information to the NSSF, which then used that data for some kind of political marketing – it’s unclear exactly what. The NSSF is an industry trade group, they do very little retail-level politicking.
In other words, the gun companies did exactly the same thing that every single company with a political interest does, and probably to a lesser extent.
I think that was Sloopy’s point. This type of BS, no matter the industry, needs to stop.
Gun Owners for Safely might very well be a puppet front, but on this they are right. It doesn’t matter if it is my address for political purposes, or my waist size for sales, knock it the fuck off.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really care. I don’t consider my name and address to be personally identifiable information that needs to be kept secret.
I’m also not willing to give my class enemies an easy win.
Why are frontiers more conflict-prone—and what is the relevance of historical political economy for answering this?
By Adeel Malik (University of Oxford), Rinchan Ali Mirza (University of Kent, UK), and Faiz-ur-Rehman (IBA, University of Karachi)
https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/why-are-frontiers-more-conflict-proneand
“For centuries, borderlands have been cauldrons of rebellion, resistance, and violence against the state. Recent data confirms this: a 2024 OECD Report found that peripheral regions of modern states experience significantly more conflict than central territories. Since 2010 the intensity of such violence has also increased in border regions, which have proven to be fertile grounds for armed insurgencies. Why do frontiers tend to experience greater violence against the state than heartland territories? In our research, we offer a deep explanation rooted in the history of colonial rule. Imperial powers often ruled their frontier territories, which were typically liminal spaces on the edges of empires, differently from the core colonial regions.”
Honestly I was not aware this was such a great mystery .
Because the nexus of state power is far away and can’t stamp down as often in those areas.
Ask a hard one.
look if you just blurt out answers how are 3 people going to make a living researching such important questions?
I’d rather they did something productive.
Sorry, UnCiv. If the answer doesn’t blame everything on white supremacy (“history of colonial rule”), it is prima facie inadequate and wrong.
We’re past that, pushing for those answers will result in loss of funding for your institution.
Take your racism elsewhere.
Also more independent minded people would live outside of the cities.
But I would guess racism and climate change are the true reasons.
borderlands have been cauldrons of rebellion.
There are a number of complicated factors. While one could point to Dahl’s abandonment of Pandora as the precipitating factor in widespread bandit activity, the roles of Atlas and Hyperion corporations cannot be ignored.
“The intricate web of supply chains, already strained by years of geopolitical tensions, labor disputes, and climate-driven disruptions, teeters on the brink of collapse.”
Anyone who blames climate for anything, I have a hard time taking them seriously. And, of course, you will note what is not on the list. The lockdowns during the Plague Years. Now, maybe the commerce apocalypse is looming. But according to ZeroHedge, some kind of kind of apocalypse always seems to be looming.
I blame the local climate for not having apricots this year. So screw ya buddy.
And Joos. They always seem to loom in the comments.
I always read ZeroHedge with a huge grain of salt. They say ZH has predicted 5 of the last 3 recessions. And earlier this year they were claiming the USS Nimitz was headed to Mexico to enforce the border, when there was public information stating it was out for routine training in that area.
ZH is in the same bucket as Alex Jones in my head. Entertaining, unafraid to say things others shy away from, and largely full of hot air.
It’s the “Jews did it” every third comment that makes ZH the source that it is.
They point to Nissan, which has been struggling for years. It’s not like they were the envy of the automotive world and then got bit by the supply chain snake.
“Residents are said they’re afraid to venture out at night along the elite stretch — where doctors and professors live and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather owns more than a dozen buildings — because of the horror-movie-sized rodents that chew their way into cars, gnaw through trash bins and scurry around the local playground….
The on-site management company for Mayweather’s buildings — bought up last year as part of a $402 million deal including more than 60 buildings — said none of the properties have logged resident complaints about rats, or have they received any violations from the city.”
He must have saved his money.
this sounds like a quest in the making. Pay some guy with a bat a per rat sum.
Fun fact – there were several times when governments issued bounties for vermin and enterprising people began simply breeding the vermin to have an easier payday. When the bounties stopped as a result, the livestock were invariably released into the wild, making the problem worse.
Do you want rat “exterminators” breeding rats?
That’s how you get rat exterminators breeding rats.
that only applies to cobras, not rats !
A while ago I saw an article about “urban hunting” where people were bringing their Dachshunds and terriers out at night to hunt and kill rats in alleys.
@Pie, it was cobras in India, Rats in Vietnam under the French.
Just get a country fellow and his gang of wee dogs.
well the French changes everything.
America needs a strategic wiener dog reserve!
Just get a country fellow and his gang of wee dogs.
Fun fact: The reason your dog likes squeaky toys is because the squeak mimics the screams of small prey.
Some examples of perverse incentives are depressing others infuriating.
The Pie pipper says “hello”.
https://www.domyown.com/rat-poisonbait-c-21_133.html
Detroit had a rat bounty on the books until 2000.
“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”
https://x.com/JohnHolbein1/status/1917314383929368781
Almost half of the 17% sent a photo of their ass.
The half sent “Deez Nutz”.
[ lights the Tres signal ]
Maybe ask yourselves which of your neighbors isn’t disposing their garbage properly.
Those bitty little things (“horror movie sized” 🙄) don’t just appear for no reason.
That giant mountain of trash bags shown in the article isn’t going to eat itself.
Yeah, but that’s all over the city. That’s why there are rules specifying when to put out your garbage so it doesn’t sit around long enough to attract rats.
I bet someone’s throwing out their bags too early.
I’m sure this has to do with climate change, exacerbated by Trump removing all safeguards against it.
The rats will all drown when NYC is underwater in a couple of years.
Trash, won’t pick it up, Take those lights away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a5Uf7Hs5c4
US streaming giants should pay a “Netflix tax” to help pay for more high-quality British TV shows, MPs have urged.
We’re in that Monty Python world of the perfect tax, no? I would tax foreigners living in foreign?
In a report published on Thursday, the culture, media and sport committee called on American media giants such as Netflix, Disney, Amazon and Apple to “put their money where their mouth is” by paying a 5pc levy on their UK revenues.
The takings would be channelled into a new cultural fund, administered by the British Film Institute (BFI), to support high-end British dramas.
https://timworstall.substack.com/p/this-is-why-we-never-get-our-economics
Oh fuck off, Britain.
^^
We really are watching the death rattle of a once-great nation.
Askin’ ain’t gettin’.
Anyway, there’s a huge backlog of HQ British programming. Go rewatch Upstairs, Downstairs or All Creatures.
Errrm, back catalogue. 🥱
Can you imagine the woke garbage they’d come up with?
Oh wait a minute… new Doctor Who is a thing.
High quality shows would pay for themselves. Perhaps they should sack the BBC for being terrible at their job.
Well, maybe there’s reasons why British shows aren’t as good anymore.
The scene that is so amazingly offensive that he had to be cancelled.
Well, maybe that one and “Gay, The Musical” from “The Work Outing” episode.
Careful Now
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d3/e0/ef/d3e0ef87a34f5fc88371ee7f1b0c0c3f.jpg
WTF:
It’s the trans episode. I read a while back that it’s been banned from the airwaves in the UK (not sure if that’s still the case or not). I mean, they had a woman playing a trans-woman, and had a trans-woman fist fighting a man (and the only reason a woman would like beer, hot wings, and sports).
Anymore? Where’s the always has been gif?
https://youtu.be/mf9jJx0NSjw
Neph – I remember it well. One of my favorite shows along with “Black Books”.
I can’t wait for the next stage in this culture war, where all the statues of folx who weren’t sufficiently pro-tranny are pulled down.
You can have The IT Crowd, Father Ted is pushing it, but don’t touch Black Books!
Sounds compelling (the D entry is good but depressing).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_Film_Institute_films
“She thought maybe 100 people would see it. But things exploded when Olympic runner Nikki Hiltz — a biological woman who identifies as trans and nonbinary and who competes in the female category — made a snarky rebuttal video that went viral.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/opinion/new-mom-kicked-out-of-running-club-over-trans-controversy/
Trans and nonbinary? So a liberal fruitcake.
nonbinary is narcissist not necessarily fruitcake. Trans can also be narcissist if not real damaging medical procedures occur
Heartless Nebraska teen who slit newborn son’s throat after secret birth to spend at least 35 years behind bars for gruesome slaying
Nicholas Decker 🏳️🌈🌐🇺🇦
@captgouda24
Our harsh treatment of those who kill their own newborns is utterly indefensible. If she had killed it a few months earlier we would not have condemned it. Instead we now give a sentence greater than those who shoot others. Why? Will she reoffend? Will this deter? Why?
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there are many takes and this is one of them.
If she had killed it a few months earlier we would not have condemned it.
Well, some of us would have.
I’m not sure if you can identify a psychopath from a photo, but that sure looks like one to me.
Well, the text helps with the identification.
Why? Will she reoffend? Will this deter? Why?
To punish her for doing evil. Chesterton looms large here.
The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League
13th March 2025
35 Mins
The Hanseatic League united merchants to bargain with kings, blockade cities, and even win wars. But when technology changed, defections began and the coalition fell apart.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hanseatic-league/
Not a bad historical article on trade shipping etc
Small ray of sunshine.
USDA Ends a Biden Administration Injustice
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/usda-ends-a-biden-administration-injustice-maudes-ranchers-forest-service-bureaucracy-4c0f488b?st=PqTGLW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was wondering about them. Glad to see the persecution has been ended. Some restitution would be nice.
It’s incredible the effect that man has on the boomers
https://x.com/memeticsisyphus/status/1917061033279070596
can you guess which man that is without clicking?
It’s sad for me to see how successful the propaganda has been. All this labeling of government schools as “public” schools.
this is what you get for not using proper English
Where else would you get your free education?
At least the Brits are accurate in calling them state schools.
My 2005 Saab has finally kicked the bucket.
I was driving and it gave me a LOW OIL PRESSURE and ALTERNATOR NOT CHARGING warning.
I pulled over as soon as I could, but apparently the oil pump died and took the engine with it.
The alternator warning was from the oil pump dumping oil on the belt so it was slipping.
Can’t complain, I paid $5,000 for it 8 1/2 years ago and it had 116,000 miles on it then.
It currently has 237,000 miles and has been really reliable until now.
I just bought my wife a car and now we have to do it again.
I would prefer something similar, a little sporty with a manual transmission.
Looking a car prices and it seems harder than it used to be to find a decent cheap car any more.
Thank you Cash for Clunkers.
If you enjoy it that much are used engines available?
Do you want new or used as a replacement?
An engine for those are hard to find, the shop said $7,000 just for the engine without labor and he flat out said they wouldn’t do it.
It is hard to even find anyone to work on them anymore, the guy I always went to retired.
https://www.tomsforeign.com/products/engine-motor-saab-9-5-2001-nw707218?currency=USD&variant=44924172501167&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&stkn=fdf83c2bd46a&srsltid=AfmBOoqGJqYFUFt91v4jcJ30bzRbivocIVVRGrA279PzXvaiojJPpVWlPhM
Other hits for less money, but you want a reliable yard that cares about its product.
Random hit $2k with 6 month warranty and 87k miles. No idea if a 2001 will work in a 2005. And, of course, you need a shop. I understand if a shop doesn’t want the work rather than say that they just quote a crazy price.
Sorry that’s a 9-5!
Looking at used engines on Ebay, they’re not that expensive.
I’m not sure if the $7,000 was an actual estimate or just his guess.
I do like the car, but I’m not sure it’s worth all that when there are probably other problems lurking.
Your shop probably has a source, and they took that price and put their, perfectly normal, spiff on top of it. Sure, prowl junkyards for a while and you will find one, but, how it has been treated is a complete unknown.
If you wanted to keep it, start looking for a specialist in SAABs, they will know what to look for and do the work. I would start with a SAAB group, such as https://saabclub.com/ or https://www.saabnet.com/
And, you might find a good home for your old SAAB and a new one.
Local dealership has a 2012 Camry with 340k+ miles with $8k price tag.
Whoah.
WTF?
We paid $10K for a 2011 Camry with 89,000 miles and crappy paint.
An acquaintance of mine let his insurance coverage lapse on his truck because he was mad that the premium was raised. Shortly afterwards he ran into an empty school bus and totaled his truck. He got a couple tickets – failure to yield and no proof of insurance. Needing a cheap car quick he paid $7000 cash for a 2005 Camry with 150K from a dealership. I was stunned, you paid $7K for a 20 year old Camry? He said it was the best car he could find for the money. I don’t think he put a lot of effort into looking.
JFC, no.
I Recorded Everything I Said for Three Months. AI Has Replaced My Memory.
The Bee, Limitless and Plaud wearables record everything you say and use AI to provide summaries, to-do’s—and a slightly terrifying glimpse of the future
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-personal-assistant-wearable-tech-impressions-28156b57?st=EYkTFU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Mrs. Holiness remembers everything I said so I wouldn’t need this new fangled stuff.
Well maybe.
I have noticed that Mrs. Holiness sometimes forgets some stuff. Usually it is stuff where I turned out to be right.
Who would have thought a chaotic implementation of tariffs would have slowed GPD?
U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter
The reading fell short of the 0.4% growth that economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1-2025-1f82f689?st=fGUiLJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No surprise the market is down. ADP jobs reports also below expectations.
Well, considering the tariffs weren’t imposed until after the end of the quarter, not sure you can blame any contraction on them.
Markets are anticipatory. Trump alluded to them plenty of times in Q1.
Remember, a recession is no longer two consecutive quarters of contraction. It happens when the government says it happens.
Remember that the same people who lied about how good things were during the “Biden” “Administration” will lie about how bad they are during Trump’s time.
I mean sure but things are unnecessarily bad and they are 100% because of Trump’s socialism.
That really depends on whether you’re one of the beneficiaries of globalism, or one of the victims…
“Robert De Niro’s daughter is speaking her truth.
At 29, Airyn De Niro is coming out as a trans woman and discussing the surprising motivation that led her to follow through with her gender journey, which included beginning hormone therapy last November.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/entertainment/robert-de-niros-daughter-airyn-comes-out-as-transgender/
Apparently, having Hollywood parents increases being trans by over 9000%.
““I think a big part of [my transition] is also the influence Black women have had on me,” she explained. “I think stepping into this new identity, while also being more proud of my Blackness, makes me feel closer to them in some way.””
Oh, fuck off.
The Post is letting their woke stringers write articles again. 🙄
To be fair, I feel sorry for him for having a dad who without a doubt filled his head with mush.
And probably sent his kid to some super-woke $$$ private school.
Gee, such a shock that DeNiro’s kid would turn out a crazy narcissist.
These can’t be real people?
What the hell do those weirdos do to their kids to have such a high conversion rate?
It’s white people looking for woke cred. The odds of having more than one “trans” kid is astronomical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Dearest
So hanger choice is crucial?
Becoming trans is the only move a white person can make to receive forgiveness. It’s the only way to transgress their oppressor status.
“How Jordon Hudson’s demands ruined iconic TV show’s plans to film Bill Belichick coaching at UNC”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-14664091/Jordon-Hudson-demands-ruined-hard-knocks-Bill-Belichick.html
So dating a hooker is a bad idea?
She’s pretty, but that is a rough 24.
She looks like Gretchen Whitmer.
It’s going to be interesting if you notify an AI company of an error and it fails to respond what kind of liability they have.
“If the AI company is put on notice that the AI program is hallucinating a particular false statement about somebody and nothing is done to correct that, that’s a stronger defamation case,” said Norins.
When Starbuck learned last year what Meta’s AI tool was saying about him, he used X to ask Meta executives, including Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, to take down the inaccurate information. Starbuck said his lawyer sent the company a cease-and-desist letter.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/activist-robby-starbuck-sues-meta-over-ai-answers-about-him-9eba5d8a?st=LkEas8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well, if a bunch of people on the internet call someone a racist or whatever, the AI is going to learn from that.
Exactly. The question is how the AI Co decides to handle that particularly if they are notified something demonstrably false is continuously being output.
It is interesting because AI is mostly a glorified search engine, so what liability does a search engine have for pulling up defamatory results?
WTF – a search engine points you to other content. OTH, an AI is creating its own content.
I’m not pretending to have an answer.
We trained on a combination of Bluesky and 4chan. Let it loose.
“We trained on a combination of Bluesky and 4chan. Let it loose.”
Be cheaper just to get some schizophrenic homeless guy.
Speaking of AI, ChatGPT sucks.
I was trying to build a schedule. Some rules that must be followed, but nothing too complicated. Even after several hours of trying to push it in the right direction, it was unable to do it. It constantly made basic errors and violated the very simple rules on every version.
I made one by hand within an hour.
The rules were pretty simple….
All 5 teams must play every Sunday, with 1 team playing a double header. The team which played a double header on a Sunday must not play the following Wednesday. I gave start and end dates, along with blackout dates that no one will play.
It simply could not do it.
Okay, So only games on sundays, double-header team plays against two of the others, the pair not playing the double header team play each other. The double header team rotates round-robin through the group.
(In the rules as provided in chat you did not require anyone play Monday-Saturday, just Not play Wednesday if double-headered)
We have discovered the world’s most insufferable human.
Excerpt from the introduction to Bryan Caplan’s new book (its a good ways from being released, details in link):
https://www.betonit.ai/p/capitalism-socialism-and-social-desirability
Having friends and family that are recovered addicts I’m happy to see the “non-disease” concept gain more acceptance.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/what-is-it-like-to-be-an-addict-review-the-danger-of-a-safe-feeling-c0cd1a8f?st=Rbjbxp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Tangential note…. The article’s author’s need to cram editorial notes into parentheticals is like nails on a chalkboard. Massively condescending.
My aunt was an addict and it’s fair to say she died of alcoholism.
I always thought wonder what are the advantages to treating it as a disease vs not?
Because the semantics do matter less to me overall than what works.
My long sober father is a believer in the “disease” theory. I think it has helped him not take his failing personally. OTH, my 10 year plus, sober friend hates it because people use it to absolve themselves and others when they relapse.
It’s purely semantic from the addict point of view. For example if you pray to God and it keeps you sober, the sobriety is what matters. It really doesn’t matter if God exists and is a means or the means to sobriety.
The issue is how the medical establishment decides to embrace it.
Yes, calling it a “disease” means it’s not your fault.
That’s why certain types call every bad habit a “disease” now.
Gambling, smoking, drugs, etc. etc.
I have the same questions. My oldest has a junk food addiction, and now that she’s not working due to a broken ankle, she has no access to junk food. Now she has a serious phone addiction. She just started seeing a therapist, so we’ll see what happens once they start talking about serious stuff.
Funny placement, after my Caplan link, as he is a “Non-disease” guy.
Since you’re around, NHK World’s English program this morning had a piece on Japan’s Gen Z supposedly being afraid to make business phone calls because they engage in so much text communication. One interviewee said that because he never did business communication he finds it difficult to use the proper honorifics.
Unfortunately I can’t find a link to the piece.
Ted-Duuude, We have formalized that prospectus regarding the cement apostrophe production prospects.
It happens here in the US. Young people unable to have phone conversations. I’m not surprised it happens in Japan and they are even less confrontational by nature.
“One interviewee said that because he never did business communication he finds it difficult to use the proper honorifics.”
Large companies actually spend several weeks training new employees on proper language and honorifics. Even native speakers struggle with them. I can generally understand them, but since I don’t use them I really struggle to initiate conversation as the “humble” party, i.e. speaking as business to a customer.
I’ve seen this with some of the younger and more useless clients I support. Calling it pathetic is not nearly strong enough – I’m about to the point that anyone who can’t have a normal phone conversation in a professional environment, should be killed and eaten by those who can.
Telephones are 19th century technology and their conventions are based on insanity by extroverts.
I will send a business email, thank you very much. Please respond when you have the appropriate information rather than giving me an inaccurate off the cuff response because you feel pressured to not make me wait on the audio link.
EvilSheldon – Let’s have a 50 message text or IM chat instead of having a 5 minute phone call.
Drives me crazy.
It is NEVER a 5 minute phone call. It is always added confusion, no one has the information needed, and no one is willing to make a definitive statement.
Don’t waste time with phone calls.
It is NEVER a 5 minute phone call. It is always added confusion, no one has the information needed, and no one is willing to make a definitive statement.
Don’t waste time with phone calls.
So, what you’re saying is, is EvilSheldon is right?
#cnq
“Telephones are 19th century technology and their conventions are based on insanity by extroverts.”
Human speech has been around for 150,000 years and it’s time to replace it with something modern.
There’s a time and a place for both synchronous and asynchronous communication styles. There’s also things that are much better suited to voice and items that are much better suited to text.
One of the dumbest conversations I had with a manager was when he was complaining that I wasn’t calling customers for the first communication on tickets they opened. I was doing telecom support. I asked him, “So, you want me to call the people reporting a problem with their phone lines on the phone lines they’re reporting problems with?”
His answer, “Yes.”
DEG, my coworkers skew older than the average employed person. I don’t get to deal with “the younger generation” in a business setting. I get useless people who don’t want to catch blame for anything.
Yes, Homple, people need to learn to shut up.
Your number is far too low, man. I told you to get the accurate data first.
I get useless people who don’t want to catch blame for anything.
So, what you are saying is, is EvilSheldon is correct?
#cnq
Yes, useless old fogies all over.
“150,000 years”
Depends on how “speech” is defined. This varies by source.
Relevant to the article
Remember the first step to recovery is to get addicted.
Thereby reducing the problem to a case previously solved.
“California Democrat state senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, who recently surveyed the rubble of her Los Angeles County district and said to herself, “I know just how to make this rubble bounce.”
Smallwood-Cuevas just introduced SB560, also known as the Legalized Welfare Fraud Bill, or at least it should be. According to L.A.-based Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, SB560 “would decriminalize welfare fraud below an amount of $25,000.”
What’s stealing a measly $24,999 among friends? Honestly, it could happen to anyone, and, if SB560 becomes law, it probably will.”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/04/30/california-dem-wants-to-legalize-25k-welfare-fraud-n4939364
What could possibly go wrong?
Those fuckers are all insane.
“What is the stupidest possible thing a person could do to harm themselves or society at large, and how can my party make it easier or even incentivize them to do it? I mean, in ways we haven’t already done a thousand times.”
This right here is probably the best summation of the Progressive’s worldview.
On the bright side, it will probably cut down on store theft because $950 is chump change compared to $25,000.
Pretty sure they repealed that law.
“The Latest: US economy shrinks 0.3% in first quarter as Trump trade wars disrupt business”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-us-economy-shrinks-03-quarter-trump-trade-121312729
I have a feeling we’re about to revert to the old definition of a recession being two straight quarters of negative growth.
Two straight quarters of negative growth during a Republican administration is the formal definition.
Winner!
Assuming that is even true it’s going to fun watching the left cheer for a bad economy.
They were doing that even before the inauguration. I have seen “I hope the economy crashes” on social media and in opinion pieces.
Mornin’, Glibbies!
Sorry for not being around for last night’s plausible reasoning.
JI – I dropped a reply to you about Keith Windschuttle’s death in that thread.