Once again we encounter man made horrors beyond our comprehension.
This is my review of JoJo Arizona Farmhouse Wheat:
Okay fine this really isn’t a horror, but it is definitely manmade (TW: You may need to be sitting down for this one):
Restaurant chain Hooters began abruptly closing locations this month, despite previously saying it would not shutter restaurants during its bankruptcy proceedings.
Over 30 company-owned locations spanning more than a dozen states were shuttered, with the company on Wednesday, June 4 calling it a “difficult decision.”
The closures come after the chain agreed to sell all of its 151 company-owned restaurants to a franchise group that already owns locations across the U.S. The deal, backed by the company’s founders, was an attempt to address its $376 million in debt.
Is there really a market for awful food and scantily clad local girls? I’m going to go with “sort of”. The last time I was at a Hooters I was working at the VA and TDY at the Amarillo facility. Why did I eat there? Because it was near enough to where I was staying I could walk there and I couldn’t imagine anyone from work hating themselves enough for me to run into there. They weren’t terrible people like I encountered in Phoenix, but they were so friendly as to be unlikeable.
Anyways, my friendly but rather robust built server apologized for consistent delays on account of a debate between the other servers about abortion (???). This prompted me to ask which one was pregnant because almost none of them were particularly attractive. I didn’t say the latter part out loud, it was more like, “Heh. So which one of you are pregnant?” She probably spat in my drink, but the joke was on her as I already had a beer and knew better than drink the tap water in N. Texas.
Which leads me to believe there is probably a market for this, just not with local girls. Nothing wrong with them, dudes in the military marry and subsequently divorce them all the time, right? The solution then is a waitstaff made entirely with robots. I only say this because AI OnlyFans is a thing, and lucrative thing at that, and of course some of these are setting up shop in the uncanny valley.
Which is partly why the bots taking our jobs doesn’t have to be a bad thing. For example if I owned multiple Sports Clips franchises I wouldn’t have to hire a bunch of stylists, just train a few robots like the one above how to properly fade. Bars and restaurants—know who doesn’t ask for a “living wage”? Robots. Hell my oldest wants to get into aerospace, he can start a business chartering planes, and can staff it with proper flight attendants! Own a gym? You can staff them with—okay maybe you need real women working there, but you see my point.
The trouble of course is distinguishing what is real. Thankfully my other senses work since I was not raised to be attracted to robots. This beer is pretty good, but there is something just ever so slightly off about it. I think I know what it is. Traditional farmhouse ales require the wort be exposed to wild yeasts just floating around in the air. This is what gives it its character, body and the subtle crispness when you stick your snout into the chalice glass and say to yourself, “how lovely.” Does this beer not have that? It does, actually. I am just keenly aware the microbes floating around in AZ isn’t exactly the same as the type in Belgium, Quebec, or even Kansas. So it’s serviceable, maybe even good but for the truly discerning there’s something that isn’t quite right. Much like the server that poured it into a glass for you. JoJo Arizona Farmhouse Wheat: 3.1/5
Aren’t all AI models technically underage?
Not if they were programmed 18 years ago
Also why does every new media technology — VHS, internet, AI — immediately go to porn?
It’s a mystery. We may never know.
I always found it amusing that some of the very first “moving pictures” in the 1890s were porn.
I think Pamala Anderson did more for the early internet than Al Gore.
Because for some reason, perverts are early adopters. Gods bless them.
I recall rumors (which I believe were eventually proven incorrect) that one of the reasons for VHS beating Betamax was that Betamax wasn’t licensing the tech to porn companies.
It is my recollection that porn was a clear driver in the VHS vs betamax battle. VHS supported 2 hours of playback that made full length movies possible. Betamax was 60 minutes. The expected use of Betamas was recording TV shows for later playback.
This was also when a good VHS player was close to a month’s take home pay. It took me forever to save enough to buy our first 4-head, stereo VHS player. So, the market was driven by people willing to spend a lot of month to watch movies in the privacy of their home.
And Sony wanted nothing to do with the porn market and would not provide support.
Later when the HD DVD vs Bluray battle played out, porn had no impact and Bluray won out.
kinnath:
There was also DivX that was trying to compete with HD DVD and Bluray (that was the time limited movies, it flopped hard). At that point, the porn had moved onto the internet, and physical media (especially for porn, which most at least make a token effort to hide) was on its way out.
They weren’t licensing to anyone, I thought. The porn industry just put VHS over the top.
mexican sharpshooter:
That was Sony’s MO up until they joined the Bluray consortium. They developed some great tech, that they then refused to license to anyone, so it died. That was what killed minidisc and memory sticks IIRC.
Minidisc died because Sony tried to make it a DRM-laden platform. They came to hate the CDs they invented because they could be ripped, and tried to replace it with minidisc. Fortunately people caught on to the DRM quickly, and decided to just keep using CDs.
Roman walls had porn drawn –and written– in bathhouses and alley walls and everything.
We’re horny social primates. Unless given the green light by ‘culture’ in contemporaneous ‘society,’ porn’s forced to remain (somewhat) hidden. And partially covering, or condemning, or chastising, what all folk’s mammal brain thrusts and strives for, (mmmmhmmm..) it just makes it hotter.
See also: All of human history.
We are pretty much there now.
We’ve always been there.
It’s where our minds *go.* It will always be expressed. Stolen from someone here, cuz it’s damn true: “Caligula didn’t start overnight.” The tranny story-time Happy Hour is part of it, but here’s the bigger example I use for It all.
In ~2003, I agreed with my progressive, high school classmates: Child genital mutilation is evil. Was used so much against Bush and ME wars. Two decades later, and it’s just all right. NO! It must be *CELEBRATED!* –> Trump was elected to be a wrecking ball to that horseshit fuckery.
No… I mean porn is almost entirely out in the open now.
rhywun:
For now. I expect to see a more puritan streak coming up from the younger generation. Early reports are already saying they’re less rebellious, have less sex, do less drugs, and are more religious. The pendulum swings back and forth.
Paging Willy Sutton.,,
I dont know much about Hooters. Didnt they lose in a suit from a….less than attractive…woman who was upset that they wouldn’t hire her? Or was that some other place?
That was them. Men also sued them for discrimination as well.
On my bookshelf somewhere is a history of tort law in the US. When you start reading it you nod your head…yeah…yeah….good… but not long after you start thinking ‘what the fuck?’ and about 3/4 the way through you think you are reading a Steven King horror.
This so good, and trenchant, because of how horribly accurate it is.
Common law transitioned from law which emerged from the judgment of local communities as to what was right and proper to law created by academic theories of social engineering. Left leaning academic lawyers wanted tort law to assign costs to the wealthier party regardless of fault, so concepts like assumption of the risk, knowing waiver, open and obvious danger, and contributory negligence have been watered down
There was also a lawsuit at one location because the manager had done a staff promotion offering a ‘Toyota’ as the prize. Then presented a toy Yoda (say them both out loud, and realize the prize was never written down) to the winner.
They did not get the joke.
Like a doll’s eyes?
Yes
Just like a Model T Ford
Auto executives have tossed around the idea for such a modular, stripped-down vehicle amid the rise of connectivity and affordability concerns, but so far the challenges have outweighed the potential opportunities, or companies have struggled to keep prices down.
Slate believes it can succeed where others have failed through simplified manufacturing and lower costs – two areas where other EV startups have failed in recent years.
“This one’s going to be different for a number of reasons,” Eric Keipper, an auto veteran and Slate’s head of engineering, told CNBC after a tour of the company’s manufacturing facility. “We took the back-to-basics, only-the-essentials approach, and, really, we’re building a completely new category of product.”
Nobody wants that!
If they can make it for around $15-20K it would be a great car to dick around with.
Kids just out of college or HS with a decent job and a shot commute would enjoy something they could make thier own.
I want reliability, low maintenance and cheap to drive. The only whingding I want is AC and heat. Oh, and bring back that little triangular smoking window. I want that too.
“ Oh, and bring back that little triangular smoking window. I want that too.”
😂🤣
I want reliability, low maintenance and cheap to drive. The only whingding I want is AC and heat.
Maybe a USB compatible stereo so I can plug in my flash drive full of MP3s (weird that THAT setup is now considered old school).
I’m not looking forward to the day my ’06 Honda Accord craps out and I have a buy a new car. I don’t want a car that is basically a giant computer that incidentally has wheels and an engine. I’d almost go for an early 2000s model Toyota pickup truck, like the militants drive over in North Africa. Those things evidently last forever even in the harshest landscape for vehicles on Earth. Plus they can apparently carry 15+ jihadists loaded down with AKs and a ton of ammo, so they should do alright with a few sheets of plywood.
Ditto.
2006 Hyundai Sonata here.
Akira:
Can I just have an audio aux connection?
/deletes long rant about phone manufacturers getting rid of perfectly good proven tech for no raisin.
Cosigned, and especially the part about the aux port. Just give me access to the speakers and leave the rest of the functionality to the phone.
Oh, and physical buttons that I can feel and press without looking down.
My ‘04 silverado is falling apart, but its a better drive than the ‘21 Stellantis minivan.
Just paid cash for our fifth vehicle. My goal is to never buy another vehicle the rest of my life. I think I have the next 20 to 25 years covered. If we make it into overtime, we’ll sort it out then.
little triangular smoking window
Why did they stop doing that?
mexican sharpshooter:
If I had to guess, aerodynamics. I’m more annoyed by the removal of the ash tray/coin tray in most cars.
I know, right? Those things gave great air circulation without blasting you with the wind stream.
They also allowed you to crack the window open in the summer without making it easier for a smash and grab.
Today I replaced the brakes on a 2007 Hyundai minivan and my 2007 Ranger. Both are easy to work on but the salt will kill both before the mechanicals fail or can no longer be fixed.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/06/the-week-in-pictures-divorce-republican-style-edition.php
@UCS, thank you very much for what you said last night. It really put some things in perspective.
Setting the record straight
The moves align with the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to slash federal support for EVs. President Donald Trump has pledged to end what he has called an EV “mandate,” referring incorrectly to former President Joe Biden’s target for half of all new vehicle sales to be electric by 2030. EVs do not use gasoline or emit planet-warming greenhouse gases.
No federal policy has required auto companies to sell — or car buyers to purchase — EVs, although California and other states have imposed rules requiring that all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035.
You don’t have to buy a car at all. Walking is good for you.
EV’s use far more fossil fuel than IC cars. Our emissions are not warming the planet. It’s just so much horseshit it is hard to know where to start.
This is about control freak’s war on freedom of movement. Like always it is just what it looks like. It is that sinister and that simple.
No federal policy has required auto companies to sell — or car buyers to purchase — EVs
Then what’s the big deal if the Bad Orange Man gets rid of that non-binding symbolic declaration from Biden?
Consider your d̵i̵p̵l̵o̵m̵a̵t̵i̵c̵ ̵i̵m̵m̵u̵n̵i̵t̵y̵ invitation to the cocktail party … REVOKED!! ~ Too old for this shit Danny G.
Ding ding ding!
We have a winner!
Only in AP-land is a “target” not a “mandate”.
JFC they are tedious.
Who hasn’t been there?
5:18 p.m. A man had an “ugly conversation” with his ex-wife.
Bonus:
5:09 p.m. A gambling man said a guy wearing a white tank top impersonating an auto mechanic in the alley threatened him with a wrench by the Outlaw, but he couldn’t see him because he had been gambling.
I have questions about the type of gambling that causes you to be unable to see.
Was he playing wood alcohol versus grain alcohol?
Prestone vs. MD 20/20 ?
I am fairly sure the cops got the idea that their reports were entertaining so now they are playing it up for the attention.
“$376 million in debt.”
This kind of thing makes me think ChiCom style execution for financial crimes may not be such a bad idea.
Where did more than a third of a billion dollars go?
You have to ask?
Remember when Zuckerberg gave 100M to the Trenton NJ school district? Poooof……it blew away like smoke in the wind and nobody knew nuthin.
It was Newark district and, with other suckers’ (I mean charitable fellows) money , was about $200 mil. Most went to salaries and consultants. Project shut down in 2016 with no measurable success in terms of improving education. Obvious conclusion: we needed more money.
That’s my memory for ya.
Wife and I were just talking, she asked something about James Bond movies…I referred to Craig as the new guy and Brosnin as that other new guy. Apparently that other new guy was 24 freakin’ years ago.
I thought Brosnin made a halfway decent Bond.
ChiCom style execution
Shot in the back of the head, and your next of kin sent a bill for cost of the bullet?
Smoke Smith?
Reported Bigfoot sighting prompts cannabis dispensary to offer discount for photographic proof
today I learned
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The word “feta” comes from Modern Greek “(tyri) pheta,” which combines “tyri” (cheese) and “pheta” (slice).
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Tyros is the ancient Greek word for cheese, hence the word tyrosine. Casein, the protein found in milk, is named after the Latin word for cheese.
Not sure how to say “mmm…64 slices of American cheese…” in any of those languages.
I always pronounce it feet-a because to me that disgusting mold smells like…..feet.
Cancel those vacation plans-
Rijksmuseum exhibits 200-year-old condom featuring erotic print
Good God. They aren’t even pretending anymore. The leftist propaganda outfits are foaming at the. mouth more than ever. No one believes that shit. They know no one believes that shit yet there they are. Trump is done! He has lost his mind! His administration is over! He is in a panic!
I know their job is to distract us from what is really going on (power struggle over who supplies energy, us or the ruskies) but Jesus. They have become the distraction themselves with their craven dishonesty.
Rule of law party
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) cast doubt on the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his return to the U.S. following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, claiming that “charges are not evidence.”
“These charges have to be regarded with a very hefty dose of skepticism, in light of the timing, and all of the attendant circumstances,” Blumenthal said during a Friday night appearance on CNN’s “The Source.“ “The administration has no right to bring charges simply as an offramp, or a face-saver. And now it’s going to have to, in effect, put up and shut up, put its evidence where its mouth is.”
“And I’ve heard again and again and again, as a prosecutor, as a United States attorney, federal prosecutor, as well as state attorney general, charges are not evidence,” he told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “And so far, we’ve seen no evidence.”
You’re innocent until proven guilty? When did that happen?
That guy is gonna be found guilty and the left will have no choice but to continue to defend him.
Mistaken? Pretty sure it’s intentional.
Even if everything was incorrect, is he a US citizen? No? Then he can be ejected at any time. Frankly, the only government rights a non citizen has is the right to return to their own country. Pretty much everything else is a privilege that can be revoked for behavior or actions that a citizen could get away with
That was not a mistake
Honestly, I think the most damning evidence against this guy is that the Dems are tripping all over themselves trying to keep him in the country.
That guy is gonna be found guilty and the left will have no choice but to continue to defend him.
Political vendetta! Kangaroo court!
Maybe there’s a hidden Biden pardon waiting for him.