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Linking can get a bit tedious…so I figured I would see if I could use “AI” (it isn’t AI, but that is the common name used) to see if I could post some current events. Here is what I got (using Grok 3);
Note – I did snip off a bunch more text. I left enough for you to get the gist. All the program did was scrape AP and a couple of other sources. Bah, I can do that. But I do have to give this a point for honesty…
Thus, it appears you will be stuck with my regular Monday stuff.
- Stolen locational valor? Why can’t you just be where you were from?
- “Why is there a microphone in this chalice?!”
- I think it was barking in triumph, not alarm.
Comments are yours.
AI will never be able to comprehend snark.
Snarks are those bitey little alien grenades from HalfLife, right?
That’s it. Keep leading Grok further from the truth….
I just recently played through Black Mesa. It was glorious. Especially considering I pirated Half Life the first time I played it, and several textures were missing.
I like Carroll, but I’ll admit I never really got that poem but Grok seems to:
The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony in Eight Fits, is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll, published in 1876. It’s a whimsical, surreal tale that follows a crew of ten quirky characters, led by the Bellman, on a quest to hunt a mysterious creature called the Snark. The poem blends nonsense, humor, and existential undertones, making it both a playful adventure and a work open to varied interpretations.Plot SummaryThe poem begins with the crew assembling to hunt the Snark, a creature described vaguely but said to inhabit a remote island. The characters are identified by their roles or quirks, all starting with the letter “B”:Bellman: The leader, who uses a blank map to navigate.
Boots: A boot-polisher (or possibly a stowaway).
Barrister: A legal expert who dreams of a trial involving a pig.
Broker: A financial figure.
Billiard-marker: Skilled at billiards.
Banker: A wealthy figure who later encounters danger.
Beaver: A lace-making animal who counts crossings.
Baker: A forgetful man who bakes cakes and fears the Snark might be a Boojum.
Butcher: A meat-cutter obsessed with killing beavers.
Bandersnatch: Not a crew member but a dangerous creature mentioned.
The Bellman provides five signs to identify a Snark:Its taste: “meagre and hollow, but crisp.”
Its habit of waking late and missing breakfast.
Its “slow and solemn” sense of humor.
Its love of bathing-machines.
Its ambition.
However, the Bellman warns that some Snarks are “Boojums,” which cause anyone who encounters them to “softly and suddenly vanish away.”The crew’s journey is chaotic, marked by absurd events like the Bellman’s nonsensical navigation, the Butcher’s attempt to teach the Beaver arithmetic, and the Baker’s rambling tale of his 42 boxes, all left behind. The poem builds to a climax when the Baker, having found the Snark, shouts in excitement but then vanishes—implying he’s encountered a Boojum. The poem ends abruptly, leaving the hunt unresolved and the crew’s fate ambiguous.
“Why can’t you just be where you were from?”
+1 Man from Hope
My father went to Hope, AR once when my brother was living there. He had a sticker on his bumper that said ‘Hillary smoked the cigar’.
At the grocery store an old man saw the sticker and tried to attack my father. Much hilarity ensued.
Wherever you go, there you are.
Because suburbs are boring and white. No street cred.
+1 Spanberger living outside the Congressional district
I’ve done that same search on Grok, to see what’s up with my son-in-law. If he said anything to my kid, she’s being tight-lipped. For now, it appears the US Navy isn’t dropping bombs on anyone and the situation is mostly status quo.
Meanwhile the George Washington has take over the very difficult duty of visiting a new Pacific port every 2 weeks for R&R.
https://news.usni.org/2025/07/07/uss-george-washington-leaves-manila-chinese-carrier-leaves-hong-kong
Dey terk er jerbs!
Oh, never mind then.
According to the communiqué, the Air Zermatt team was able to rescue the man and fly him and his dog to a hospital in Visp.
The poor guy’s lips were frostbitten — that’s why he was speaking with a visp.
Unless he was hoarse from yelling for help. Then he’d be speaking in a visper.
Translating from the original Swiss can be tricki to do vell sometimes.
“Why cant you just be from where you are from?”
Because, that’s why.
Remember when the CIA used a cancer ray from outer space to afflict Chavez?
How about when that guy in Turkmenistan renamed all of the days of the week and foods too? I think he renamed bread after his mother?
Papa Doc killed all of the black dogs in Haiti because some one he hated had turned into one from voodoo.
Kim Jong Porkchop golfs a hole in one with every swing even from a mile. Or something.
Obama is totally not a commie twink.
We currently have a SC justice that cannot tell us what a woman is.
On and on.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire
““Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”― Theodore Dalrymple
Dont underestimate that ‘just a silly girl’ AOC. She is serious bad news.
While she was born in the Bronx, she moved up to Yorktown as a tot with her family, attending Yorktown public schools through high school. She was listed as a resident of her parents’ home in the suburb when her childhood home was sold for $355,000 in 2016 — two years before her election to Congress, according to land records cited by lohud.com.
Politician representing a majority-minority district affects to be “from the streets,” but it’s all an act for the rubes.
See: Jasmine Crockett and just about every other colored rep on the Hill.
I dont get it. Why would anyone want to invade Sweden? Before they let all of the savages in I was happy with what the swedes had done with it. Why would I want to change any of that? If I was going to Sweden a rifle is the last thing I would have brought.
Obviously it’s for the surströmming.
Yes, that’s it. And I would bring a really good camera, not a suitcase full of rubbers.
Someone heard Dancing Queen on too many times.
Anyone interested in Ghislaine Maxwell’s hideaway?
Pretty nice house. And 156 acres? 2.5M isn’t really a bad buy…
I can’t buy that much bare farm ground here for that.
Those taxes though!
That’s an exahuration on the farm ground prices but not too much. The farm down the hill from me sold for over $5000
An acre and plenty of it was scab hillside, only building on it is an old schoolhouse full of bees.
Would
As for the cheehuahua, what Swiss said. Those little guys are bastards.
They are monsters. My neighbors have a pair of them.
They have a complex because of their diminutive size, so they overcompensate by being the most aggressive little assholes in the animal kingdom.
Who is going to post Lucky?
Oh, very well:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMgVkp4OXI
Lol, I didn’t get the reference. That’s about right.
About 16 years ago a Chihuahua puppy wandered up my driveway. She growled and snapped at anyone who approached her, but we coaxed her out from under the car after 20 minutes of food bribery. My wife put up flyers around the neighborhood. No one was missing her. So we tried to find her a home and eventually my wife announced that her dad would take her after he moved, in about 3 months. So the little thing had 3 months to fet to know us and our German Shepherd. She became absolutely devoted. The months went by and the puppy met my wife’s father. And hated him. So she wound up living with us the rest of her life. To us, she was a trembling, scardy, 100% devoted, loyal, and loving, uh, dog, I guess. To anyone else she was a trembling ball of pure hatred.
If you see a Chihuahua that hates you, that’s only because it’s not your Chihuahua. Your Chihuahua thinks you can do no wrong.
I’m not saying I like Chihuahuas now, but I understand why people do.
Naturally a mad scientist would find an affinity to the creation of a mad scientist.
“…trembling ball of pure hatred.”
That sounds accurate.
If you see a Chihuahua that hates you, that’s only because it’s not your Chihuahua
That is correct. They are wonderful with their own family. They are a terror with anyone else.
Now I want to see a chihuahua wandering the Alps with a barrel of booze strapped to its neck.
Wouldn’t that be more of a shot glass?
More like a thimble.
I’m not really a dog person, but that pooch looks like a Papillon to me.
I once made the acquaintance of a charming little Papillon named Romeo whose mission in life was to rid the world of the scourge of evil shoelaces.
It’s a Mystery
Who stands to benefit from the new SALT cap? High-earning homeowners in high-tax states.
Next time you see some H1-b level Facebook accountant say “Blue states subsidize red states,” remind them of the SALT deduction, and the fact that compared to places like New Jersey or Connecticut, states like Texas and Florida have (a) fewer highly-taxed financial services firms, and (b) lots and lots of retirees and military personnel.
It will be interesting at tax time next year, that is for sure.
I hit the limit last year, but I am not poor. Where was the D opposition to tax cuts for the rich?
A lot of the South’s welfare goes to the black population. It isn’t discussed because doing so gets you called a racist. It’s going into red states, but then blue cities more than it is to the rural populations.
The FedEx girl just left. My new wire weedeater head just arrived. I guess I know what I will be doing tomorrow. Despite the oppressive heat I am anxious to try it out.
I wish to hear how this goes. Will it wear down on concrete? Does it survive metal fence posts? I would like to know. I have a weedeater that requires a manual line refill every two uses.
I will be happy to give a review. I posted that comment in the hopes that someone has one and would tell me what to expect.
If I end up in the ER getting a wire splinter removed from my groin or eye I will let y’all know.
You’re both doing it wrong. Spray a 6 to 12 inch bead of RM-43 around fence posts, walkways, and any place else you would normally use a weedeater or edger. The vegetation will die and stay dead for a solid 6+ months. No more maintenance.
Sure it looks trashy. Which is an added bonus, since you won’t have to be invited to any social engagements with your neighbors.
My neighbor on one side is kind enough to mow and trim along the exterior of his fence so I don’t have to.
Definitely wear safety glasses on first use. You never know.
Cover the RM-43 areas with marble chips. Trashy look resolved.
It isn’t a week whacker unless it has bull horn handles, a chest harness, and takes a saw blade.
Otherwise it is just a string trimmer.
Does it whack months too?
AOC saying she’s from the Bronx is like me saying I’m from Oakland, and let me tell you, I’m hella street.
I grew up closer to Compton than she did to the Bronx …
Deep East!
back from an expedition which concluded with swapping out my dying Tmobile intertube receiver thingy.
I just hard wired it to the computer (or vicee versee) via ethernet cable. Now I have to figure out how to reset the name and password so the roku can get in and feed my youtube addiction. I hope this solves the flaky slowness and dropped connections trouble I have been having.
The guy at the counter was going to do it, but my antique phone thwarted him.
If you have a home router, best practice would be to run the Ethernet from the T-Mo receiver to the router and share it across your network. Otherwise, you can use your PC as a WiFi hotspot, if the wireless card allows it (most do).
I have a weedeater head with serrated metal blades. It does short work of pretty thick weed stems.
Also, RM43 is like Agent Orange. Very effective.
Overspray with chlordane to keep the bugs away.
A journalist, prosecutor, and mob informant walk into a bar.
He wasn’t in Al Capone’s vault?
Hoffa was killed by Jeffrey Epstein.
Pat-
The thing itself is a wifi hotspot. I hard wired the computer so I wouldn’t have to deal with the default name and password. I just have to get to where I can change them.
Patching through your own router makes it easy to swap out the connection without updating every device. I didn’t have to change anything when Verizon replaced my fried ONT.
Until the router dies, of course.
I’ve lost two ONTs while on the same router.
Ahh, I gotcha.
Wire the whole house for Ethernet.
/hypocrite, in that I live in a house built in 1948 that obviously isn’t retrofitted for Ethernet
I was going to crawl up in the attic and run cat6 to my living room and the bedrooms, but the living room and master share a wall, so I ended up just using low voltage old work boxes to bring everything to the living room router, and the secondary bedroom, which only gets used as a work room and storage anyway, is fine with WiFi.
“The easiest way is with the app!”
Of course it is.
I was just on Red State and some guy named Ward seems to have written a lot of the articles on the first page or two. How odd.
Obviously Ward is the name of their LLM.
Those dastardly Russians and their suspiciously tall church spires, located near the airport no less. What a bunch of half-baked innuendo and hysterical nonsense.
Would you say it’s nonsense if the Americans built such a structure?
Without some kind of evidence other than its location? No. Being near an airport and being near some key bridges doesn’t mean it’s a spy hub. Of course it doesn’t mean it isn’t either but that’s weak sauce.
Yeah, there is no doubt the Russians and Americans both spy on, well, every country they can.
But spying from a church spire seems farcical to me.
Why?
If the Americans are going to use anything and everything to foment “color revolutions”, why wouldn’t other countries use the same tactics to spy on the western establishment?
Well somebody never saw Die Hard 2.
Essex Junction VT is a bit far from Buffalo, but the beef on weck is glorious.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250707_174944-scaled.jpg
*drool*
Damn I miss a good beef on weck.
A judge placing an injunction on an EO is very understandable.
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/07/07/judge-blocks-bbb-defunding-of-planned-parenthood-n2415343
Blocking an actual legislative action gets right to the heart of what SCOTUS just ruled on.
Until the SC grows a pair and sanctions lesser judges for this nonsense it’ll continue. Other than completely destroying the credibility of the court system why not do it? The paycheck’s still being deposited in the same place.
Can they? I don’t know how it works. Has there been a time when lower judges were so out of control?
Planned Parenthood sued, stating that the law’s specificity in describing what organizations should be exempted from receiving Medicare funding essentially functioned as a bill of attainder.
They may have a point.