Answering the call for content I recently updated a local copy of a video AI known as FramePack. This particular AI will run locally assuming you have a high powered video card. In my case this is an Nvidia RTX 3080. It’s still quite slow.
Jumping over to the FramePack GitHub I downloaded and installed quite a few gigabytes of code.
AI-generated videos now possible with gaming GPUs with just 6GB of VRAM
The instructions suggested using ChatGPT and the following prompt:
You are an assistant that writes short, motion-focused prompts for animating images.When the user sends an image, respond with a single, concise prompt describing visual motion (such as human activity, moving objects, or camera movements). Focus only on how the scene could come alive and become dynamic using brief phrases.Larger and more dynamic motions (like dancing, jumping, running, etc.) are preferred over smaller or more subtle ones (like standing still, sitting, etc.).Describe subject, then motion, then other things. For example: “The girl dances gracefully, with clear movements, full of charm.”If there is something that can dance (like a man, girl, robot, etc.), then prefer to describe it as dancing.Stay in a loop: one image in, one motion prompt out. Do not explain, ask questions, or generate multiple options.
I also added take influence from the movie Spartacus and ancient Rome.
As for why I chose Spartacus, my Senator has been in the news recently fighting the power.
I grabbed an image from NPR and had at it. I needed something that was a full torso and high resolution. Also probably the only useful thing NPR has provided to me in a decade.
This was the result:
This was also my first time using the new WP editor. Let me just say I’m not a fan. Enjoy!
Make your own commies!
Exactly. When the call for content came out he was all over the news fighting OMB.
Thanks Sensei
I’m happy when I press Send on an email and it accepts it.
When I see all the stuff you and the boys and girls are using my eyes roll back farther. Someone will say this is easy and start telling me what to do and I have no idea what the conversation is about.
I don’t care either.
I know how to trap gophers though…
A belated birthday present for Fourscore. Watch it twice or eleven times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGNUo-XQJ8
Can you still get money for gopher feet?
I would think there would be more of a market for lubricants based on great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts.
*I remember that campfire song
No, PO, the market is over on the feet, I used to get 15 cents a pair for the front feet (from the town board). They quit that, I’d be living the high life now if that was still available.
I remember this trick
I can still tell AI when I see it within seconds but not as easily as I could less than a year ago. what that means is that for authenticity or truth purposes video, images and sound recordings no longer have any value.
I have been asking for a while now: when AI makes everyone unemployable what will we do?
I asked my son who uses AI a lot. I posited that within ten years AI will make most people unemployable. He said I was right and wrong.
“It wont be ten years. The people leading AI are saying 40% of jobs for people will be gone in 3 years.” Even for me that sounds a bit much.
He reminded me to consider the exponential speed at which this is advancing. Not very many people seem to get that.
I sympathize with the luddites.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/51qFL-mr8Rg
Suthenboy,
This piece draws parallels between the current university model to the old monastery model, and predicts a collapse for similar reasons (they’re no longer needed).
Holy shit, I subscribed. That was quite a read.
That result – where careers are open to anyone who can pass a cheating-proof skills test – would be much more egalitarian, but surprise surprise, the people who talk about equal opportunity seem to be against it and instead support the status quo, where big-name universities get to be filthy rich gatekeepers of most lucrative white collar jobs.
I’ve been trying to learn to code, but now most people in coding careers tell me that their job has changed from “writing code” to “supervising robots writing code”; kinda feels like trying to hop a train that just keeps going faster and faster. Sometimes I think I should ditch that and get into building and installing datacenters or something – there won’t be any shortage of work there, and giving an AI the “hands” to do physical blue-collar work is probably a long way off.
+1, good read (God I hope the universities collapse).
Akira:
Yeah, I’ve long hated the Griggs ruling, and will be very happy to watch it get stomped down (hopefully soon). Of course, then you have the problem that plagued IT work for decades, people rushing the certs and not having anything to back them up.
Nonsense.
I don’t “supervise robots” and probably never will. Not if I want anything done right.
@rhywun:
Well I sure hope so, or else I’ve been wasting a lot of time.
I work in batch automation.
I supervise virtual robots.
I hear that — and I also hear the BS “Using this AI will save 40 percent of your work day / double your productivity!” which I’m definitely not seeing in real world coding.
Maybe the Power Point and Excel analysis folks will be affected, but I’m really not seeing it here… so color me more than a little skeptical of these wild claims.
He is building his tenth location and is doing it in half the time the first one took. He is using AI for more than half of it. Granted, the business would not exist without him and key workers but he is telling me the key workers will be out of the picture for the next one.
He is wildly successful. I dont know what to tell you. Oh, those coding jobs? Their time is short.
What business is he in?
Coding? Nah. Right now anything a LLM is pumping out is just rote knowledge. No different than going to a repository and grabbing snippets of code.
Gyms.
I had no idea there was so much money in that. I thought Gyms were tax write-offs. In fact, the one he worked for originally was a tax write-off. After he got his hands on it it started making money hand over fist. The owners shit bricks and like all wise business people decided to step back in and do things their way because all of a sudden it mattered. *eye roll*
In no time he started his own and put them out of business.
So there’s hope for me yet? Our gym will be 2 years old this summer, and though we’re steadily growing, it’s still a write off.
@Suthenboy:
I would guess that gym memberships are a recurring paid service that people frequently don’t use due to laziness but don’t want to cancel because that’s “giving up” on their fitness goals for which they’re not motivating themselves. In those cases, they’re just giving free money.
@Akira: Yes and no. When we started we talked to someone who owned an Anytime Fitness. He said we’re not his competition. He sells tons of $10 a month memberships to people in January and February, and half those people show up once or twice but never come back. The price is low enough that they won’t go through the hassle of canceling their contract and risking legal action.
Meanwhile, we have mostly 1-year contracts at $55 a month, and we’ve had 10 or so report their credit cards missing or something like that, so their payments don’t go through. So now we have to consider small claims court.
And you’re spending just as much time fixing it as you would have to write it from scratch.
The hype is ridiculously overblown.
When I was in middle school handheld calculator prices came down enough so that a relatively affluent middle class family owned one.
There was a whole bunch of bed wetting about how children were no longer going to be able to do arithmetic.
I’d argue that all the generations of “new math” did much more harm to mathematics education than calculator. I had to send my son to Kumon because my affluent town with a highly rated educational system adopted one those asinine systems. Naturally, they dropped it after he graduated.
https://www.kumon.com/math-program
Having played board games with people with advanced degrees in math who couldn’t do simple arithmetic (for scoring), I blame everyone involved.
There are times when I force myself to do math in my head even when sitting in the middle of all of the electronic tools available – just so I can retain the skill.
We still play board games, especially with my mother-in-law, and I agree that it’s good practice for your arithmetic skills. Oldest Daughter always struggled with math and still does, so when she plays, adding numbers in my head feels like a super power.
TOK:
There are holy wars in the board game community about games with “trackable private information”. Easiest example for this is Power Grid, each player’s current money supply is secret; however, the amount you start with, and all transactions you make with it are public information (purchases and income are public information). So there are players who will refuse to play if they can’t have a scrap piece of paper to keep track of everyone’s money supply (or, more likely, just demand that it be public information).
My opinion is that the inability for the average person to track all of the interactions is part of the game, and there’s real decision points in game based on how confident you are in your tracking of other player’s information.
My assumption is that they are always flush with cash.
Im with UnCiv here. Ill even do a complex mathematical equation such as VSWR just to make sure my brain isnt mush from time to time.
They were right about children not being able to do arithmetic.
I also try to keep my mental math skills up because reasons. It has nothing to do with practicality. I just like being able to do it and I think an active mind is like an active muscle. Use it or lose it. I dont want to end up in a wheelchair drooling and shitting on myself.
Suthen – a good part of the reason I study Japanese.
There’s a joy in cultivating your own mental and physical abilities that many people these days miss out on because you can have any product (a crappy Chinese version, anyway) shipped to your door and have AI do all the mental work for you. It’s like visiting a mountain and just staying at the bottom because it’s easier while the people who put in the work get the best view from the top because they were willing to put in the work.
I really fucking loathed math more than anything when I was in school – probably 25% my recalcitrant nature and 75% the shitty methods of K-12 schools – but I’ve discovered it’s enjoyable in the way that intense physical exercise is enjoyable: You’ve DONE something today and improved yourself, and that’s worth something, even if people scoff at it. They’re the same people who will miss out on the satisfaction of cooking a meal instead of Doordashing, building something yourself instead of ordering it off Amazon, learning a language instead of using Google Translate, etc.
Akira:
There’s several things that I’ve made just to prove to myself that I could. Some of those items turned out to be a lot simpler than I thought they would be, others turned into nightmares that never reached a good finished state. I’ve learned a lot of humility that way. 🙂
Now, most of the items I go back to buying (or paying someone else to make them) because I prefer the spare time, but just knowing that I CAN do it if I needed to helps me feel better about my abilities in the world.
Neph reminds me of when in college I was studying calculus, and working retail, and lost the ability to make change.
Not to be terribly derivative — but it wasn’t <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKSTvzuPr0"integral to your job process.
Maybe I need to use an AI bot to freakin’ format my posts so I don’t mangle links.
Stupid monkey brained oversized primate behind a keyboard…
@SDF:
There ought to be a limit on puns like that…
Let me commute the punishment for puns simps tote in their ass.
any sentence Swiss feels is justified for this I will accept, even if it approaches infinity.
Photos and videos could always be manipulated (like the Cottingley Fairies, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-55187973).
But I think we’re close to a point where no photo or video should be trusted. That’s going to change the news and even the courtroom. But we’ve only had photography for 150 years or so, and we previously did ok without it.
I think we’re already there.
How long has it been since video evidence of a senescent Biden being called ‘deep fakes’ was a ludicrous lie? A year? Yet here we are where that would be not only a credible claim but a likely one.
It’s not just videos being fake, so many of them are staged, it’s hard to tell anymore.
Well, staged is just a different flavor of fake.
Still too much in the physical world that requires too much dexterity AND human intuition for AI to grab 40% of jobs.
AI as a tool to assist and guide? Sure. AI to fix even 99% of what I do….”here is the maunal….good luck” is what I say
Even Star Wars leaned on it…that computer telling you when to shoot? Fuck it, you will know cause you know
Yeah. AI is going to overtake a bunch of phony-baloney jobs that don’t produce anything, but beyond that is mostly nerds reading their own press releases.
Good point ES. The vast majority of us dont do anything anyway.
Don’t forget – for all the progress AI has made, the LLMs are still badly dysfunctional after a pretty basic level and are running out of content to train on. The video AIs are impressive, but the people they may put out of work are a pretty microscopic fraction.
AI looks like a classic tech bubble. Over a long enough time frame, sure, computers will take over jobs, but only some, and not for a lot longer than it looks now, in mid-bubble.
The industrial revolution brought wave after wave of innovations that rendered large numbers of physical jobs obsolete. Each time there were panics and protests, one of which is where we get the word sabotage. So obviously the wages for physical work dropped to nothing right? Only they didn’t, they went up at every step. We’re in the midst of the information revolution; AI is just another step in it analogous to internal combustion replacing steam, or steam replacing wind and water power.
Jar, the issue is that when people can’t envision what job they might be able to secure after their current role goes away, they get scared and concerned.
Most or even all people lack the prescience to see where the economy will be, and stopping the change sounds like a reasonable course of action.
Sure, I get that. Change is always scary and in individual cases things absolutely will get much worse for some people. If you were a skilled weaver power looms made your life worse, sometimes catastrophically. If you were a seasonal farm laborer they made life better. I’m not saying there won’t be disruptions. I’m saying it’s not the apocalypse. The big difference is that this time the people likely to face the disruptions include the people who write opinion pieces not just lowly proles the chattering people don’t care about.
You couldn’t make him dance like Bojangles?
At least it wasn’t nudify.
🤮
Good point! Trying to keep our family friendly rating here.
“At least it wasn’t nudity”
Oh, is there one of those? Fuck, of course their is.
Humans just cant shake off the monkey thing, can we.
It’s a good thing we don’t Suthen, no more humans without it.
It fits with our species though… Some of the oldest stone carvings are naked women. Some of the earliest motion pictures were pornos. And of course, it only took a few months for AI to be used for nekkid ladies.
Some good news.
Supreme Court says family can sue over wrong-house raid
Unanimous too.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5430354/supreme-court-sue-wrong-house-raid
A bit of sanity in the long dark. Nice
🥳
A wrong house raid should have unlimited personal criminal and civil liability for the officers involved.
You were approved for that other house, you broke in to this house of your own volition.
Mistake or no mistake, you endangered lives and broke and entered.
I agree UCS, but we all know that no matter what, the money will be paid from tax payers and the “Heroes in Blue” will never face any personal consequences.
Good. Too bad it is based solely on a Congress passed law (that can be changed). Sovereign immunity needs to be pared back across the board.
I’ll unfortunately counter with some bad news. Naming it even the same as Canada doesn’t make me think “Oh — this is just recognizing an individual’s sovereignty over themselves” but rather “Eugenics and public health care score another win.”
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-york-assisted-suicide-bill-kathy-hochul-amy-paulin-4b41c605?st=KAaNfS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I reached out to the group looking to get it on the ballot here and offered to volunteer. Still waiting to hear back from them on that…
I saw that. Broken clock. They cant seem to figure out what “shall not be infringed” means.
AI as a tool to assist and guide? Sure. AI to fix even 99% of what I do….”here is the maunal….good luck” is what I say
As far as I can tell, AI is basically a glorified decision tree.
Decision tree with suggestions.
FAA is full on FedGov behind the eight-ball AI will fix it all train.
Would it be helpful for me to punch in some symptoms to quickly parse and give me the procedure? Sure.
Will it get it right? Only if it is trained with proper reward and punishment.
Trump killed CA’s EV mandate.
*waves tiny USA flag*
link?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/06/12/trump-to-officially-nix-californias-electric-car-mandate-n2658669
🥳
Can’t find a US flag emoji in windows.
Eh….im not a fan of FedGov stepping on States’ dicks for them.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5387729/senate-california-ev-air-pollution-waiver-revoked
Why do you hate the poors?
“Why do you hate the poors?”
Because they are smelly?
Well, OBE, there is that interstate commerce thing which states aren’t supposed to fuck with. Trump can kill this mandate because it was issued under a waiver from the feds to allow CA to take extraordinary measures due to its smog problem 50 freaking years ago.
What is the point of the mandate when everything eventually gets set on fire?
To burn hotter.
You ever seen a lithium battery in full melt down mode?
Meh, the next Dem will just reinstate it and make it worse.
CWAA. Political commentary (well, any social commentary really) is the epitome of Fair Use anyway, ya jerk faced idjit. I’m sure Google and YouTube aren’t happily seizing on opportunities to censor, of course… oh no… they’d never do that….
Im going with complete loss of thurst or improper TO config…there is just no lift taking place after initial rotation
https://x.com/htTweets/status/1933173485486157955
That’s the way the other video I watched looked as well. Taking off from the runway midpoint also seems rather dumb too.
Has to be a CRM failure. Improper GW inputted maybe. Improper flap setting (though would be rare on a 787) can happen. Im guessing a failed cross-check on the FMC
Oh word is now, flaps were retracted, gear extended (we know that). Human failure all around. Of course this fits with the topic…AI wouldn’t have allowed such ridiculous actions!
So my guess this morning was correct?
Thanks to Smithsonian Channel’s Air Disasters show.
“2027 — All Dreamliners converted to fully automated flight. They have a perfect operational record.
2028 – Skynet becomes self-aware… in a panic, they try to pull da plug.”
*SDF – You know Airbus is sitting smug that their automation is far superior on this one. Just overlook all their automation failures and resulting pilot training on a pilot not able to fly a plane.
The pilot didn’t do the needful?
I know the oldies won’t like it, but I use AI for tax research now and it is already a lot better than using the standard industry softwares (Bloomberg, Thomson, CCH). It struggles with calculations, but if you prompt it enough (tell it where it fucked up) it will get the answer eventually.
Also more pleasant to talk to than coworkers.
Perfect application since its policy and procedures.
We’ve fed it regulatory information, news and guidance and asked it to draft correspondence and notifications.
However, after creation it went through four different humans and our general counsel.
Oldest stepdaughter worked with a relative at a tax prep chain for a while and was saying she just wants to do taxes as her career. I was trying to explain to her that unless you’re going to be some kind of specialist (like corporate tax accountant or something) the job of doing “regular” peoples’ taxes will probably be taken by AI – the ones where they’re married with a kid or two, worked the same job all year, no other income or deductions? That’s just boilerplate that is perfect for AI. There will probably be very little work for them in the future since a general tax prep (non-specialist) will probably just doublecheck the returns that were done by AI.
When I worked at KPMG they were outsourcing the prep of returns (corporate and partnership) to India. They are definitely going to be using AI instead (and still charging the same rates).
For most people, TurboTax works just fine. It takes you through the process step by step and prompts you along the way. Adding a bit of AI to streamline the process and ask for special cases shouldn’t be too hard. (“I see you entered this, are you sure you want to do that?”
I’ve used Turbo Tax for the last 15 years or so.
Really easy to use and painless(except for the anger I get looking at how much money they have taken from me every year).
@CPA about outsourcing tax returns to India:
Haha oh wonderful, that’s very encouraging. Working in the billing/claims side of healthcare, I spend a lot of time talking to health insurance companies on the phone, most of whom outsource some or all of their call centers to India. The HIPAA noncompliance is a joke. I hear tons of random other people in the background and occasionally farm animals. In a country known for scammers, I wonder who else is making use of all that sensitive info.
Just makes me glad to stick with the local tax prep office even if it costs a little more.
@TOK
(“I see you entered this, are you sure you want to do that?”
They are already doing that btw. I don’t know if they use AI for it, probably not even necessary.
Our IT people flagged an issue with one of the practices which had outsourced its billing and coding. They noticed that their billing interactions with us were going on for about 20 hours a day under the same username/password. Turns out the company they hired was having it done in India (which is a violation of Arizona law prohibiting the offshoring of Medicaid information), and the username/password had been shared among several people.
I did enjoy my conversations with their billing company while they were in the process of getting fired.
Until I get my wish of getting rid of individual income tax altogether I cant think of anything more suited for AI to do in place of a person than taxes. It’s mathematically formulaic ffs.
You’re thinking about a simple 1040 with a w-2 and maybe some interest. AI is still not going to be busting out a 263A calc anytime soon, but it can answer some questions you might have regarding the code and regs.
*raises hand*
What’s a 263A for?
Suckers/manufacturers
At little Muzzled’s college orientation.
Suicide isn’t off the table at this point. Seems like a better option than finishing this festival of Deans marching through telling me shit that could have been better explained in an email with links I can refer back to.
And also way too much coded language like “validating feelings” and “lived experience.”
“Why couldn’t this have been an email” is a question I’ve pondered a lot while sitting in pointless meetings and/or presentations. I think some people just like to feel like they’re in control and “doing something”.
You dont watch the yootoobs? The world is filled with people head over heels in love with the sound of their own voices and being the center of attention.
How to do X. First listen to me flap my fucking gums for ten minutes then I will take ten seconds to show you how to do X.
Survival story of a person whose parachute fails.. Start video: *close up of narrator’s face * “Hi! welcome to our channel!! Blahblahblahblah blah blah (goes on for two minutes).
Ben Dover was born in……”
Fuck. *clicks video off*
That drives me fucking nuts and everyone does it.
…AI can watch the video for you and tell you what part is actually relevant.
Finally, a worthwhile use for AI.
You have my sympathy. I went with my youngest to a 2-day orientation. She ended up living on campus for one semester, and hated the experience. She moved home for the second semester and did her course work online, then got married and moved to Washington, and she’s still doing it all online.
A big part of it was she hated the use of pronouns and the furries on campus. She’s in accounting so she doesn’t have to deal with that online.
lolwut
I live in a big college town and I have never come across that. As for pronouns, my answer remains “your pronoun is ‘you'”.
“Unless those are the sexiest moobs I’ve ever seen, you are a “she/her”.”
I live in a college town too, only time I come across pronoun people is at a coffee shop, library, or book store.
At one point she had a job at a help desk in one of the campus buildings. She sent us a group text “OMG there is a furry I’m creeped out” with a photo of someone with a blue tail and ears walking by. It was funny as hell.
See, I’m envisioning a sorority girl in cat ears, cuffs, collar and a tail…
See, I’m envisioning a sorority girl in cat ears, cuffs, collar and a tail…
That’s Halloween. For furries you need to picture Trigglypuff in a mascot suit it has been wearing for 4 days in August in Phoenix.
Fortunately, small Catholic school, and even more fortunately, only a 1-day orientation.
Haven’t heard a single pronoun today, despite one of the presenters being very obviously gay.
They do have a DEI office, however. I can only hope that it closes down soon enough.
Perhaps if she shared some of that food with her children?
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1933207614990508502
I was waiting to see if someone posted that.
Truly amazing that she thought it was good optics.
I listened. She struggled. It sucks but your height is bus driver. Nothing wrong with it but maybe stop spreading your legs and getting knocked up if your only income is bus driver.
I need someone to explain to me how any man would be aroused enough to impregnate that lady.
Tres? Tres? I know there are some that are into full figured ladies but I’ve never met anyone that is.
You’d have to be fairly well endowed to inseminate that.
Life…finds a way
Isn’t she the one known as Special K? If so I can certainly see why.
Republicans in Congress are doing no such thing, liar.
PS. My single mom of four made ends meet with one job, not “up to three”. I wonder why it appears to be so expensive where that woman lives.
Tents ain’t cheap, Buddy. ‘Specially when you have buy for 5. Where is the father that’s not paying child support? With some other baby momma?
I should add that we DID get food stamps for a period but it was degrading and she got off them as soon as she could.
My father didn’t pay a dime of child support either.
I’m questioning whether she actually has three kids, or just claims to in order to get more food. Because it looks like she’s eating for four.
Well, she really only has 3* kids that qualify.
*One is 17, the others are 11 and 12?
I mean, her story talks about the struggles with her first born, now 21, you’d think human nature would kick in and say “STOP GETTING PREGNANT!”
Political violence in our late-republic era. A sitting U.S. Senator arrested for assault.
https://x.com/ExxAlerts/status/1933227798371373253
I mean…rushing a stage will get anyone that treatment. You holding office doesn’t make you immune.
Is there footage from earlier I see him being pushed around but not him rushing the stage.
Desperation is a stinky cologne.
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1933229919540015427
Haha.
I dunno…just cause the other team is doing it just doesn’t sit right with me.
You take an unhinged run at a Cabinet official and see what happens.
*shrug*
Well, it worked. I had never heard of the guy before.
I would say “Couldn’t have happened to a bigger moron” — but there’s still Adam Schiff.
Have to say I didn’t see “assault” in that clip though. Just him being pushed back. I assume no one is dumb enough to arrest a Senator without cause and there’s a better clip out there.
twix is blocked at work. Who?
I don’t recognize the name. Maybe a State Senator?
I was wrong This Dude
A US senator?? I never heard of him, either.
I hadn’t either, but according to Wikipedia, he replaced Harris.
We should just revoke California’s statehood.
No wonder he needed to get his name in the news.
How are you the senior US senator of the country’s largest state and nobody has ever heard of you?? That has to burn.
Amazingly Wikipedia is quite quick on their editorial additions
What do you call it when a US Senator is forced to the ground and handcuffed?
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1933230093012201717
I call it a good start.
AI is going to overtake a bunch of phony-baloney jobs that don’t produce anything
Middle management paper-shufflers (looking at you, too, HR) hardest hit.
I know the oldies won’t like it, but I use AI for tax research now
That makes perfect sense. Given the right instructions* your AI ditchdigger can bulldoze its way through a shitload of info in a hurry.
*YMMV
Hopefully the form instructions can answer your question. If not, maybe you can look up the code. If the code isn’t helpful, what do the regs say? Are they final or just proposed? Is there any judicial authority? Can I get a rev proc? Ah shit, I need to read a treaty now.
This is how tax research spirals out of control.
THIS IS WHO REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE TRYING TO TAKE FOOD AWAY FROM
And not a moment too soon. She’s about one waffer thin mint away from an extremely ugly demise.
@ TheOtherKevin
Are you still around? If you are interested let me know and I will put you in touch with my son. He is open to talking about the gym business. One way or the other you two would benefit from talking.
I’m still here, and that would be great. My email address is very doxxing though, lol
If you two are amenable, and your e-mails you used for your accounts are correct, I should be able to provide contact info to both of you through them.
I hereby give my consent to such action.
You misunderstood Neph. He’s not putting you in touch with Suthen, he’s providing STEVE SMITH with your contact info. Although the fact that you consent may confuse the PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER.
Yes, that would be fine Neph. Thank you.
No need for that level of formality, I never share contact information without at least an OK.
E-mails have been sent out.
I don’t care who you are — that’s funny right there.
Have to say I didn’t see “assault” in that clip though.
Any physical contact with a cop is assault, even if you did not initiate it.
hth
Contact is assault and battery. Simple assault is when the assaultee thinks you might hurt them.
It doesnt have to be a cop. Touching anyone without their consent is technically an assault. Non cops do make claims on that and in some jurisdictions people get prosecuted for it.
In any confrontation the instant you think there might be physical contact, unless you like being sued or standing before a judge, put your hands up and back away.
something something Morgan Fairchild
X users are not having Paddycake’s shenanigans.
I’m thinking this stunt is not gonna play how they wanted it to.
twix is blocked at work. Who?
Pdailla (D, CA) disrupting a press conference by Noem.
He’ll get a standing ovation in congress like Gerry Studds no doubt.
I see that a Mexican senator feels Mexico should annex parts of the United States. *shrug* Come and get it I guess.
Hey, We paid for that land fair and square.
Mexico should get Mexico back from the Cartels before making external adventurism a policy.
Hasn’t the commie group La Raza been saying that since the ’60’s?
Yeah. What OBE says. Molon Labe.
Behind every group hating our country it seems there is a commie. Collectivists despise a culture and country with too much individualists. Imagine that.
Saw the movie ‘Where the crawdads sing’ the other day with wife. Well told story in the southern tradition. Well crafted, well told and engaging.
I read a review from The Gaurdian. According to their reviewer it was a super shitty movie because it held up the ideals of independence and self-reliance. Of course they did.
It has always been the same. The great endless war is between those whose motive for their every action is to yoke their fellow man and those who want to be free.
Some nitwit was claiming LA was founded by Mexicans hundreds of years ago. I commented that the original name (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula) was a clue that it had actually been founded by Spanish colonizers.
And up until at least my educational days in the 80s/90s, that was taught thusly. Every Cali kid had to make a Mission building thingy.
Narratives serve a purpose RC. Dont harsh their narrative.
Why, in the current environment, this sounds like something that could invoke the Alien Enemies Act.
Ugh…if this is anything like History of the World Part II…Im gonna pass
https://x.com/MelBrooks/status/1933196954273755322
It likely can’t be worse than the animated series.
Sweet cheebus that was terrible.
Maybe Sydney Sweeny as Princess Vespa might make me watch it
It probably won’t be. Other people wrote the script. I have the lowest of expectations.
To keep this on topic, it would probably be better if AI wrote it.
He’s still alive??
I think he is waiting for a manhole to fall into.
Mel Brooks is still alive?
He could save money by using CGI remakes of the original cast. They’re in no position to complain.
Yeah, and he did some parts in History of the World, Part 2… which was also not good.
I wasn’t that crazy about the original Spaceballs. At least it’s not Son of Blazing Saddles.
I see Senator Neverheardofhimbefore is all over the tv news. Mission accomplished.
He was a wedge selection too…Black folk of California were upset that Newsome selected a Chicano for the role of their historic Senator Harris’ seat
I read that as ‘histrionic’
Don’t play in traffic.
Its become apparent that we’ve lost that battle. Just listen to the kids around the car…”Why would you do that?” While they throw rocks and threaten the vehicle.
The jurisdictions where it becomes clear that you won’t be prosecuted for driving through and over a crowd that is mobbing you won’t have this problem for long.
Everyone rushing to state the flaps weren’t set. I am sure DB or tripacer could attest to this. Shit was going down and they were in checklist mode and the video didn’t capture initial flap setting. Since there was a mayday call, they knew things were not right.
Final guess: engine failure, probably just one as it appears a right rudder was applied. Rather than go engine-out departure, they scrambled. Failed memory items during emergency and failed to aviate first, possibly due to lack of CRM or even in a sim.
They made it unflyable in the end.
At the end of that video you posted there seems to be quite a bit of smoke from at least one engine.
That other video sure looked like no flappage was out. The unusual pitch attitude without climbing kind of reminds me of the airbus airshow crash from forever ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5NXpar4Ouw
Turns out Bionic face shield dude was a member of “La Causa”, funded by ANSWER among others. I haven’t heard he’s an illegal yet, but I expect it.
I don’t know what it will take to get the feds off their asses and dismantling these networks. Bondi and Patel have been less than impressive so far.
Linky:
https://x.com/breeadail/status/1933189209311113602
The people who whine about “colonialism” seem perfectly fine with the U.S. being colonized.
If a more civilized group subjugates a less civilized group that is evil and bad. When the less civilized groups do it to the more civilized group that is virtuous and good.
It’s almost like market capture drives everything.
Large NGO’s or foundations funded partly by squillionaires (Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation, Job’s wifey foundation, Soros foundations…etc.) who then leverage a shiton of taxpayer money to push market capturing strategies.
Force green energy.
Force competition out of markets
Compulsory purchases for consumers
Exclusive contracts in foreign markets
the list goes on.
In the end it always looks like ‘fuck your choices, I am taking your money’. This is why those who benefit most from free markets strive to make those markets not-free.