Hitler didn’t count them, why would Literally Hitler’s Hat?
PutridMeat
on August 27, 2025 at 7:33 pm
There are infinite universes in which The Hat was, indeed, The Hat of all the great conquerors of history. The Hair simply doesn’t believe in The Science.
Derpetologist
on August 27, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Dark City came first, but The Matrix did it better. I forget the name, but some medieval writer was sort of the founder of “it was all a dream/illusion” genre.
Ambrose Bierce, Ur Curmudgeon and author of the Devil’s Dictionary, wrote this in 1890:
SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant
on August 28, 2025 at 12:04 am
I remember reading the Owl Creek story.
As I recall the ‘it was a dream’ thingy came from the Norse, who frowned on lying but knew that anything dreamt was not real and thus could not be used as an accusation of lying.
kinnath
on August 27, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Dark City was great. I don’t remember if I ever watched the director’s cut.
R.J.
on August 27, 2025 at 7:58 pm
Agreed. I’ll add it to the list. Maybe I can find the Director’s Cut.
rhywun
on August 27, 2025 at 7:40 pm
“Asshole.”
LOL
Derpetologist
on August 27, 2025 at 7:43 pm
Mel Blanc expanded his repertoire using accents and speech impediments. Tom Kenny does it mostly through speed and pitch changes.
Porque no los dos?
Female voice artists have the best range since it’s easier to do a lower pitch voice than a higher one.
Let spectrograms be your guide. Watch enough of them, and you don’t even need the audio anymore, just “male, female, old, young, Arabic, Arabic as 2nd language…”
Every Star Trek holodeck episode was kind of The Matrix in reverse, and that was 10+ before Neo learned kung fu.
The Matrix was released March 31 1999, and The 13th Floor was released May 28 1999.
CPRM
on August 28, 2025 at 3:07 am
The release dates so close together, it wasn’t a ripoff, but a simultaneous idea. And I would argue the 13th floor handled the philosophical questions better. Then there is also Cronenberg’s ExIStEnZ.
🤬 They tried to hide it under euphemistic language, but my electric bill is obscene because of garbage greenie initiatives.
Electricity Supply Reconciliation Mechanism (ESRM): Reconciles National Grid`s electricity supply service revenues to the cost of Company purchased electricity, including Clean Energy Standard costs. Costs above revenues are recovered from customers. Revenues above costs are credited to customers.
“Our trash unreliable sources weren’t enough so we were buying a shitload of electicity, so we’re passing that along to you.
rhywun
on August 27, 2025 at 9:16 pm
You’re helping to heal the earth – isn’t that reward enough?
Renovations will be necessary, of course. You may file a grievance with the local planning commission. Be sure to have it signed, stamped, and notarized.
OK, cool. As a token of our appreciation, you will receive this Warhammer Titan battle mech to conduct aggressive eminent domain operations for more reactors.
notice: Titan may break down, sink into mud, or otherwise be impractical or inoperable. In case of emergency, retrieve emergency crow bar and swing vigorously in the direction of hostiles. Beware of rebel snowspeeder tow cables.
***
J. Frank Parnell:
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day – nothing. Swept away. But I’ll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
***
Radiation hormesis is real.
Derpetologist
on August 27, 2025 at 9:14 pm
I’d love to be at Honey Harvest, but since that is unlikely this year, perhaps someone who will be there will take pictures and submit an article here. Alternatively, maybe someone there can join the permazoom at the right time so that we may enjoy it from afar.
Threedoor
on August 27, 2025 at 9:31 pm
Is it a harvest or is it theft?
Ownbestenemy
on August 27, 2025 at 10:29 pm
#BEESLIVESMATER
R.J.
on August 27, 2025 at 10:54 pm
TANSTAAFB?
Derpetologist
on August 27, 2025 at 10:42 pm
There was a villain in Rescue Rangers who used hypnotized bees:
Can Google for various articles all of which kind of suck.
Ownbestenemy
on August 27, 2025 at 10:19 pm
The research team led by Begun had determined in 2017 that a 7.2-million-year-old ape called Graecopithecus, which also lived in what is now Greece, could be a hominin.
I’m the guy who is skeptical when someone goes “We have half a tooth and 3mm of upper cranium, no surviving DNA, but we have decided this is a new species”
(I exaggerate for effect, but some of these ‘reconstructions’ contain so little bone it’s farcical.
Brochettaward
on August 27, 2025 at 10:30 pm
I wouldn’t disagree. But that’s the basis for the classification of a large number of hominins in general so not specific to this find.
And I’m not here trumpeting it up as proof of anything, either. We’ll never definitively prove anything on this subject and a lot of is arbitrary in general.
SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant
on August 28, 2025 at 12:12 am
There are a log of hominid species based on upper and lower jaws as they tend to be the most durable bones to survive fossilization (teeth do better but they’re not bones). The situation can lead to some amusing results, when an early paleontologist, noticing that one species of extinct ape was represented by uppers and another only by lowers, put an upper and lower together and found that they fit.
EvilSheldon
on August 27, 2025 at 9:51 pm
Dark City is one of my favorite movies.
I got very lucky seeing it the first time – I went to see the theatrical release, and was late getting there. I walked in just as John Murdock was waking up in the hotel. Missed the entire intro where they spoiled it.
Threedoor
on August 27, 2025 at 10:11 pm
The first time I watched it I managed
To miss the first six minutes or so as well.
Yusef drives a Kia
on August 27, 2025 at 10:13 pm
Its alk dark here ruined relationships, and hurricanes coming spreading high humdity throughout I hate late summer, mexican bullshit weather,
Yusef drives a Kia
on August 27, 2025 at 10:14 pm
Dont spel gud
Ownbestenemy
on August 27, 2025 at 10:17 pm
Well…just last week you were saying the weather was perfect.
Yusef drives a Kia
on August 27, 2025 at 11:29 pm
Ot was but layr summer storms come in, jeez
rhywun
on August 27, 2025 at 10:33 pm
I’m lovin’ this late summer. 55° in August… god bless climate change.
Ownbestenemy
on August 27, 2025 at 10:35 pm
Right? False fall maybe…but welcomed
Ownbestenemy
on August 27, 2025 at 10:16 pm
Taking this 6 mo detail has my counterparts int air traffic in a tizzy. My ‘backup’ is truly not looked well upon.
I mentioned a couple years ago…when I took this spot he was salty and bitchy that I dare travel across country, have a better resume, and be smarter than he.
Turns out, he is just terrible at the job but given lack of training courses for what I do and him being the only one who has received it, he backfills me. Air Traffic folk aren’t too happy but positive point is Im not leaving, just unavailable (until I need to be available)
Similar here due to unexpected departure of my peer/backup/buddy. But it’s not that important and becoming less so every day. Someone else will get tossed into it, sink or swim.
Derpetologist
on August 27, 2025 at 10:49 pm
Peter Principle sez people rise to the level of their incompetence.
The overly critical are often insecure of their own abilities, and insults indirectly expose weaknesses.
On UK hatchet girl or whatever the fuck she was carrying – the real question I have is why she had the weapons. Or rather, the point I’d make is that whatever was going on was so common place that she felt compelled to have them.
Media is trying to report it was a “Bulgarian” couple she was confronting.
Derpetologist
on August 27, 2025 at 10:46 pm
The key questions are always: who wants me to believe this and why?
Girls are often uncomfortable with weapons, especially melee ones. I can only imagine the fear that would compel a girl to brandish a knife and a hatchet, on camera no less.
Then there’s the fact that this got pushed into international news, but all the cases of gang rape from not-so-great-Britain did not.
rhywun
on August 27, 2025 at 10:51 pm
I’m not touching that story. It reeks.
dbleagle
on August 27, 2025 at 11:36 pm
To be fair Rhy, that is probably because she has UK dentistry.
Suthenboy
on August 28, 2025 at 4:02 am
I think the name y’all are looking for is Rene Descartes.
Evan from Evansville
on August 28, 2025 at 4:10 am
Good morning, Sean, EfE, Suthen, Ted’S., homey, and ChipP!
I’m taking today and tomorrow off, but there’s some cleaning to be done before I indulge in the glorious weather out at Tranquility Base. (Ackshually, it’s relatively nippy out there at the moment – only 56 degrees.)
Chipping Pioneer
on August 28, 2025 at 6:48 am
Good morning. Enjoy your days off!
Make sure to set your Teams to Out of Office so people don’t message you.
Suthenboy
on August 28, 2025 at 6:52 am
Good morning GT. I could use some 56 degrees. I am worn out on the upper 90s. I have a ton of dirt and rocks to move today…building a new flower bed. The Mrs. wants a couple of kumquats in it. I get to choose the rest..in theory. I am thiking climbing roses.
Long Island Audit managed to catch charges for questioning a police officer at his home. In this video he feeds the police report into ChatGPT and asks it about the charges that followed.
LIA detailed several inaccuracies in the report that were designed to make him look guilty and downplay the officers actions. Despite this, ChatGPT analyzes the charges and found them completely unsupported. It also said the officer should have been charged with assault.
It opined that the charges were institutional protection of the police.
Wild use of AI. Pretty amazing too.
cyto
on August 28, 2025 at 6:52 am
Of its own accord, ChatGPT says the police charged the 2 activists as cover for the actions of the officer. Wild. Just from reading the police report. It says this is a common tactic in police interactions, charging everyone on the non-police side.
I keep hearing that AI is just a machine…just a shiny new thing. It is totally not going to put us all out of work. That is what people used to tell me about the internet.
Dark City is amazing.
Sleeeeep!
Fourth Rome. Russia haz a sad.
Hitler didn’t count them, why would Literally Hitler’s Hat?
There are infinite universes in which The Hat was, indeed, The Hat of all the great conquerors of history. The Hair simply doesn’t believe in The Science.
Dark City came first, but The Matrix did it better. I forget the name, but some medieval writer was sort of the founder of “it was all a dream/illusion” genre.
Ambrose Bierce, Ur Curmudgeon and author of the Devil’s Dictionary, wrote this in 1890:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge
“..the founder of “it was all a dream/illusion” genre.”
Uh. Aristotle? Allegory/Cave?
Also: All of life is an illusion. The illusion is real and you live within it. (So?)
“Dark City came first, but The Matrix did it better.”
There have been few words spoken on Glibs wronger than this.
(the matrix could have been first had there been no sequels)
If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYVwqHM488
And yes, Matrix sequels sucked, but the 4th one had some good comic relief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xz_p3sgpJA
Correct.
I remember reading the Owl Creek story.
As I recall the ‘it was a dream’ thingy came from the Norse, who frowned on lying but knew that anything dreamt was not real and thus could not be used as an accusation of lying.
Dark City was great. I don’t remember if I ever watched the director’s cut.
Agreed. I’ll add it to the list. Maybe I can find the Director’s Cut.
“Asshole.”
LOL
Mel Blanc expanded his repertoire using accents and speech impediments. Tom Kenny does it mostly through speed and pitch changes.
Porque no los dos?
Female voice artists have the best range since it’s easier to do a lower pitch voice than a higher one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXeH_2XIww
Let spectrograms be your guide. Watch enough of them, and you don’t even need the audio anymore, just “male, female, old, young, Arabic, Arabic as 2nd language…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWel5j-F8lE
NSA spectrogram overload, a dramatic reenactment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXkd3O2ow
The 13th Floor was a Matrix rip-off, but it had some merit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor
Every Star Trek holodeck episode was kind of The Matrix in reverse, and that was 10+ before Neo learned kung fu.
The Matrix was released March 31 1999, and The 13th Floor was released May 28 1999.
The release dates so close together, it wasn’t a ripoff, but a simultaneous idea. And I would argue the 13th floor handled the philosophical questions better. Then there is also Cronenberg’s ExIStEnZ.
🤬 They tried to hide it under euphemistic language, but my electric bill is obscene because of garbage greenie initiatives.
“Our trash unreliable sources weren’t enough so we were buying a shitload of electicity, so we’re passing that along to you.
You’re helping to heal the earth – isn’t that reward enough?
I want electricity that is too cheap to meter.
Cool, we’ll put a nuclear reactor in your living room.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Strauss
Renovations will be necessary, of course. You may file a grievance with the local planning commission. Be sure to have it signed, stamped, and notarized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dht_3NziwSw
Is that even going to be big enough?
MOAR!
OK, cool. As a token of our appreciation, you will receive this Warhammer Titan battle mech to conduct aggressive eminent domain operations for more reactors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbO8BGr0Tgs
notice: Titan may break down, sink into mud, or otherwise be impractical or inoperable. In case of emergency, retrieve emergency crow bar and swing vigorously in the direction of hostiles. Beware of rebel snowspeeder tow cables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoJiWJvnj_o
UCS gets his own reactor, in the form of song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEIqTBasNrQ
How I hate the way The Simpsons demonized nuclear power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WqeO9GL8aw
***
J. Frank Parnell:
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day – nothing. Swept away. But I’ll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
***
Radiation hormesis is real.
I’d love to be at Honey Harvest, but since that is unlikely this year, perhaps someone who will be there will take pictures and submit an article here. Alternatively, maybe someone there can join the permazoom at the right time so that we may enjoy it from afar.
Is it a harvest or is it theft?
#BEESLIVESMATER
TANSTAAFB?
There was a villain in Rescue Rangers who used hypnotized bees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmXYOBH-ucs
Ah, Disney Afternoon cartoons circa 1993 on a color tv with a channel change dial.
Kids these days…
“Come along. You belong. Feel the fizz of kookoo cola.”
Gustave gets it.
New oldest found hominin is over 7 million years old – and found in Greece.
The headline and article says 700k.
But it does indicate that the fossil record is an incomplete picture.
Was reading various article on the finds. That’s the wrong one.
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/25/greek-fossils-human-ancestors-europe-not-africa/
Can Google for various articles all of which kind of suck.
Close enough I guess
With a partial upper and lower jaw, there’s not a lot to work from in deciding “Is this Ape or is this Man?”
There’s ambiguity and disagreement on the classification of the earliest finds from Africa, as well.
I’m the guy who is skeptical when someone goes “We have half a tooth and 3mm of upper cranium, no surviving DNA, but we have decided this is a new species”
(I exaggerate for effect, but some of these ‘reconstructions’ contain so little bone it’s farcical.
I wouldn’t disagree. But that’s the basis for the classification of a large number of hominins in general so not specific to this find.
And I’m not here trumpeting it up as proof of anything, either. We’ll never definitively prove anything on this subject and a lot of is arbitrary in general.
There are a log of hominid species based on upper and lower jaws as they tend to be the most durable bones to survive fossilization (teeth do better but they’re not bones). The situation can lead to some amusing results, when an early paleontologist, noticing that one species of extinct ape was represented by uppers and another only by lowers, put an upper and lower together and found that they fit.
Dark City is one of my favorite movies.
I got very lucky seeing it the first time – I went to see the theatrical release, and was late getting there. I walked in just as John Murdock was waking up in the hotel. Missed the entire intro where they spoiled it.
The first time I watched it I managed
To miss the first six minutes or so as well.
Its alk dark here ruined relationships, and hurricanes coming spreading high humdity throughout I hate late summer, mexican bullshit weather,
Dont spel gud
Well…just last week you were saying the weather was perfect.
Ot was but layr summer storms come in, jeez
I’m lovin’ this late summer. 55° in August… god bless climate change.
Right? False fall maybe…but welcomed
Taking this 6 mo detail has my counterparts int air traffic in a tizzy. My ‘backup’ is truly not looked well upon.
Oh? Care to elaborate?
I mentioned a couple years ago…when I took this spot he was salty and bitchy that I dare travel across country, have a better resume, and be smarter than he.
Turns out, he is just terrible at the job but given lack of training courses for what I do and him being the only one who has received it, he backfills me. Air Traffic folk aren’t too happy but positive point is Im not leaving, just unavailable (until I need to be available)
Lack of training availability seems like a shortcoming. One person deep is a single point of failure when that person decides to leave.
Welcome to FedGov…
That person left shortly after I returned from 13 months of disability. Now I’m the single point of failure wheeeee.
Similar here due to unexpected departure of my peer/backup/buddy. But it’s not that important and becoming less so every day. Someone else will get tossed into it, sink or swim.
Peter Principle sez people rise to the level of their incompetence.
The overly critical are often insecure of their own abilities, and insults indirectly expose weaknesses.
punk rock dinosaur:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/punk-rock-dinosaur-with-metre-long-spikes-discovered/ar-AA1LkA9N
suggested music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeAINi9omo
On UK hatchet girl or whatever the fuck she was carrying – the real question I have is why she had the weapons. Or rather, the point I’d make is that whatever was going on was so common place that she felt compelled to have them.
Media is trying to report it was a “Bulgarian” couple she was confronting.
The key questions are always: who wants me to believe this and why?
Girls are often uncomfortable with weapons, especially melee ones. I can only imagine the fear that would compel a girl to brandish a knife and a hatchet, on camera no less.
Then there’s the fact that this got pushed into international news, but all the cases of gang rape from not-so-great-Britain did not.
I’m not touching that story. It reeks.
To be fair Rhy, that is probably because she has UK dentistry.
I think the name y’all are looking for is Rene Descartes.
Clocked in, Glibbies. Up and atom! .
Get er done.
Oh look, another Ford recall.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/business/ford-recalls-355k-trucks-over-faulty-instrument-panel-that-could-increase-risk-of-crash/
It must be Thursday. Wakey, wakey Glibs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70yJwgQtzo
🎶🎶
Fix Or Repair Daily.
Good morning, Sean, EfE, Suthen, Ted’S., homey, and ChipP!
I’m taking today and tomorrow off, but there’s some cleaning to be done before I indulge in the glorious weather out at Tranquility Base. (Ackshually, it’s relatively nippy out there at the moment – only 56 degrees.)
Good morning. Enjoy your days off!
Make sure to set your Teams to Out of Office so people don’t message you.
Good morning GT. I could use some 56 degrees. I am worn out on the upper 90s. I have a ton of dirt and rocks to move today…building a new flower bed. The Mrs. wants a couple of kumquats in it. I get to choose the rest..in theory. I am thiking climbing roses.
Morning, GT.
Don’t work too hard in that heat, Suthen! In your neck of the (literal) woods, it must be like unto a steam bath! 🥵
Good morning, U! How are you today?
I don’t know…
😟
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/08/27/doctor-says-myocarditis-was-a-very-very-small-price-to-pay-for-the-covid-vaccine-n2417904
Oh.
I wonder if the people that died from it feel that way?
My opinion of humans continues to diminish
Powerball is up to $950m.
That could come in handy for whoever wins it. I could squeak by on that. I will pick up a ticket.
Cutie Colleague is away for good, I’m afraid.
I do hope my dispensing duty is as chill as can be, even without her.
What did you do to turn her off? :-p
Humped her leg?
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning, Glibs.
There are things you have to do, things you should do, and things you want to do.
Eliminate the things you should do.
Hmmm. No autistic screeching yet.
Where would you place “clean the bathtub before the cat mistakes it for a litter box”?
Tough call…
Interesting use of artificial intelligence.
https://www.youtube.com/live/uHUcthLn6xE
Long Island Audit managed to catch charges for questioning a police officer at his home. In this video he feeds the police report into ChatGPT and asks it about the charges that followed.
LIA detailed several inaccuracies in the report that were designed to make him look guilty and downplay the officers actions. Despite this, ChatGPT analyzes the charges and found them completely unsupported. It also said the officer should have been charged with assault.
It opined that the charges were institutional protection of the police.
Wild use of AI. Pretty amazing too.
Of its own accord, ChatGPT says the police charged the 2 activists as cover for the actions of the officer. Wild. Just from reading the police report. It says this is a common tactic in police interactions, charging everyone on the non-police side.
I’m going to need a human second opinion.
I keep hearing that AI is just a machine…just a shiny new thing. It is totally not going to put us all out of work. That is what people used to tell me about the internet.
Well, did the Internet put us all out of work?
One minute in: “I dont have the actual police report because in CT my attorney cant release that to me.”
Just stop right there. CT is accusing someone of a crime but that person cant know what they are accused of? Fuck that. Throw the whole case out.
Oh, it gets way worse. The guy takes 100 words where 5 would do, but he has a pretty good story.
The original video shows everything he claims is accurate.
Among other things, the police up there get to set the bail. All by themselves. So they say $5k for the activist and personal signature for cameraman.
Police chief then calls and says make it $75k and 50k.
Wild place.
Officer claims that by Connecticut statute, spitting is not assault, but spitting at an officer is a felony.