I’m going to a dinner party tonight, a yearly event with all of Prime’s long-time friends. To be fair, she’s done the same for me, and managed to actually enjoy her time with SugarFree and Warty and JW and db and Mexican Sharpshooter and Swiss and Neph and… so I’ll happily do the same. As one would expect of the close social circle of a hyper-intelligent doc, they’re all quite nice, quite accomplished, and quite NPR Liberal. I get a lot of practice looking concerned, nodding, and being non-committal since I’m there for the company, I’m not there for an argument, and I don’t want to horrify them. The major point is that there will be drinking and alcohol-fueled merriment, these are not Muslims or Mormons, so I got that goin’ for me. Which is nice. I’ll be loading up.
I feel lucky.
And people lucky enough to be born on this date include a fellow who admitted everything; a fat chick who enjoyed the theater; a conscientious killing machine; a shitty SecTreas who was actually a pretty good SecState; a guy best known for being petriefied; a peddler of shitty pizza and shittier slogans; a guitarist who is more than a bit defensive; a guitarist who is more than a bit offensive; a guy who was King of the Bail Outs; a guy who memorably wouldn’t shut the fuck up; a guy who put the“foot” in “football”; and the very worst part of contemporary football.
And the worst part of our world is summed up in Links.
“At least he’s not getting us into more wars.” Oh, wait… And there may be a more traditional reason.
“At least he’s not getting us into more wars.” Oh, wait, there’s more…
“I can be a knucklehead sometimes.”
I have seen this up close and personal. Welcome to student life in 2025. My hypothesis: Root cause is contemporary accreditation standards which value retention over learning.
On the same topic, this would get a non-tenured professor fired here. Maybe even a tenured one.
Deep silence from the Left. They’re more concerned with releasing murderers like Barghouti. No Jews, no news.
The US has a horrifically bad patent review process. And USPTO is on a path to make it worse. When I’m dictator, I will order examiners to consider prior art submitted from third parties BEFORE issuance.
The irony here is the reporter.
All will be forgiven- remember Jameis Winston?
This article may set a record for stolen bases. But it’s the Guardian, it’s about Jews and those poor hapless “Palestinians.”
Matt Lorentz (his band is called Suitcase Junket, and consists of him, period) might be the single most creative musician currently consuming oxygen. And his performances are exhausting to watch- I can’t imagine the energy it takes to put them on. Tuvan throat singing, slide guitar, homebrew percussion, and terrific songwriting. Clever, intelligent, and stunningly talented. The Old Guy urges you to take a listen.
What you don’t learn in college, you learn on the job.
Seventy-five percent of companies reported that some or all of the recent college graduates they hired were unsatisfactory.
“Some” could be as few as one.
Or all of them!
Only if you are willing to learn.
a conscientious killing machine
Happy birthday Lily!
a guy best known for being petriefied
Happy birthday Robert Sherwood!
a guy who put the“foot” in “football”
Happy birthday Tom Dempsey!
I was half expecting that one.
Live footage.
Before clicking I’m assuming the food fight from Animal House.
OK, not what I expected, but certainly appropriate.
To be fair, I *am* bringing a bottle of wine.
We seized a Chinese cargo ship? That’s an act of war, right?
The Venezuela stuff is so insane I can’t believe it.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-forces-raid-ship-seize-cargo-headed-to-iran-from-china-35a1e2ac?st=vZx3SZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They took specific cargo, not the whole ship.
I don’t disagree that I’d like a legal reason they could do it, however.
This shit is going to get out of control fast. We’re stealing oil tablets in the Caribbean, the Russians are escorting tankers with their navy to prevent Eurotrash from stealing them. The Chinese will probably have to start doing the same.
When the Euros steal the Russian assets, Russia will start seizing everything belonging to EU countries.
Gotta agree Drake, we’re really going all in on doing retarded shit. Definitely not the kind of thing I voted for.
Trump seems to have taken all of the wrong lessons from his first term and wants a Reagan-esque legacy of fucking up South America.
All the great presidents have wars, and he wants to be a great president!
@ Pat – I blame the Nobel Peace Prize, he took the wrong lessons from who they awarded it to and decided extra-juditial bomb strikes are the path to the prize.
With both the recent tanker and now the Chinese flagged vessel OMB isn’t just acting out. In both cases we are enforcing UNSCR resolutions calling on nations to stopping these activities. We also help enforce an oil and prohibited articles in respect to North Korea.
I am not arguing we are correct to be doing this. But for the MSM to argue Trump is Dr Strangelove is BS. An organization they love- the UN- has used the Security Council -including Russia and China- to call on ALL nations to enforce these measures. Trump is doing it. Like it or not, the actions are legal and proper under UN Charter and international law.
But we are potentially sticking our dick into a hornet’s nest for what?
My assumption is there is always some UN bullshit cover that will be used for this regardless of what team holds the executive branch.
Like it or not, the actions are legal and proper under UN Charter and international law.
So, what you’re saying is, is the US needs to get out of the UN?
#cnq
Happy birthday John Schnatter?
Happy birthday Lee Iacocca?
That’s who I always think of regarding bail outs. I remember the debates and the lobbying. They finally decided that bailing Chrysler out was the worst option so of course that is exactly what the fedgov did. Once a dam is breached, no matter how minor, you can’t stop it.
[Long Term Capital Management enters the chat]
Happy birthday Rafał Gan-Ganowicz?
New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran
Perfect.
Business leaders complain that recent graduates are unable to work independently, lack motivation and problem-solving abilities, and are easily offended.
The universities just put the finishing touches on; the problem runs much deeper than those 4-5 years.
Some 50 years ago after it had already started there was a lot of debate over the increasing number of students choosing to study the humanities over science/engineering/medicine. The prediction was that universities were going to produce too many useless people who were unemployable. I am fairly sure that debate is long forgotten.
Get a useful degree and get a job. You can study humanities all you want in your free time.
There’s always the debate whether college should be a jobs program or mind broadening exercise, and the market was doing just fine at sorting those out until the government decided in typical cargo cult fashion that since college education was a marker of success and middle class values, everyone should be college educated. Same for home ownership. We take the outcomes of successful behavior, mistake them for the cause, distort the market to reflect the mistake, and then are surprised when we have things like disaffected Master of Arts in 17th Century Puppetry graduates working at Starbucks to pay off $200,000 worth of student loans.
Also, a college degree is one of the indicators someone will vote Democrat.
mind broadening exercise is vague nonsense and should not by subsidized by then state
The point of education in the humanities is to preserve and transmit the culture. The Universities have largely stopped doing that in favor of remaking the ‘canon’ in their most insane professor’s own image, which is diametrically opposed to the supposed purpose. The humanities were a worthwhile subject of study, what we have now is not.
The point of education in the humanities is to preserve and transmit the culture.
When all of history and culture is oppression, the only thing to do is destroy it so the natural man (a la Rousseau) may arise and flourish!
The point of education in the humanities is to preserve and transmit the culture. – i thought historically it was to give the idle rich something to do…
The natural man defends himself in Court
https://youtu.be/_LwR0c-CE5g?si=cUSFtwPDIKJhuQjG
Cooking an English breakfast.
https://x.com/punishablepress/status/1999241677144531446
Reading “I, Pencil” is an easier way to learn about the division of labor.
“I scammed you out of more than a billion dollars but we mean well. Please pat me on the back.”
What a prince.
I am still not hearing anyone asking what Walz’s cut was….or is. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the theft is ongoing.
His cut was getting re-elected, with the overwhelming support of the constituency most closely identified with the fraud.
Fuck them and their tribal identity – they didn’t even get a cut of the grift, but they support their cousins anyway.
“We are a state…”
That’s an old story, best not forgotten.
We’ve run out of other people’s money, Guv’nor, the peasants are revolting
They stink on ice!
Accidentally on purpose. Also, is it really generosity when you can go to jail for withholding it?
This might be the single funniest story I ever read. As you think it can’t get better… it does.
That is elite. I share his pain. And his sense of humor.
Yes. You definitely do that when the kid brings a date home.
Does this mean you like Pwime Pweenis?
I am not laughing.
A little laughter won’t hurt you, and it will keep the rage from consuming you.
Yup.
There was an opinion piece in our local paper that contained this sentence:
“When a claim is simple, anyone can evaluate it. If someone insists a cat is a dog, the truth is obvious.”
I posted a comment that the author should try replacing cat with man and dog with woman and see where that gets him. That comment got a few replies asking if I deny the existence of intersex people and if I was aware that dogs and cats are different species.
Straight out of the playbook.
Are we quite sure they’re just pretending not to understand? 🤔
I’m not sure it even matters. The important thing is you can’t have a rational argument with them.
On Patent review…
Prior art consideration has gotten better in the computer industry, but it is still too easy to do “but on a computer” patents.
Of course, they key phrase on obviousness is “to one skilled in the art”. The problem here is that to a software engineer, once you pose the appropriate question, the answer is usually obvious.
This is probably how it should be. Most patents should be for something that is truly original and transformative. Not “one click purchase”.
The fundamental issue is that examiners will, as a matter of policy and law, not even consider looking at prior art sent to them by third parties. I remember watching helplessly as an application from someone who was trying to blackmail us work its way through examination and eventual issuance. I had brochures for machines doing exactly what was claimed, made for over half a century, and turning out billions of dollars of the product. These could not be shown to the examiner.
The issuance made re-examination about two orders of magnitude more expensive and difficult.
Isn’t examining the evidence to determine whether the proposed patent is distinct from what exists the whole point of the process?
This is why we can’t have nice things, like patents, and it is past time to shut the whole farce down.
I got a fair degree of exposure to the absurdities of patent law due to the paintball industry. Tl;dr, during the late ’90s and early aughts when electronic paintball guns were coming into fruition, a flurry of patents were issued, one of which was so incredibly broad that it covered literally any paintball gun that used a microswitch to actuate the firing mechanism (hint: they all do). The company that was issued the patent was the 3rd or 4th player to enter the market, there was copious prior art, and also a patent owned by the US Navy that covered a pneumatic projectile launcher actuated by a switch, which should have rendered the patent void. Trouble is, they sued 3 small time manufacturers who didn’t have the means to defend themselves in court, got those victories for precedent, then went after their 2 largest competitors. One of those competitors went and sought out the actual inventor/engineer who was contracted with the patent holder, but not named on the patent, sued on his behalf, got him added to the patent, then had him sell the patent back to themselves, rendering the patent infringement suit null, whereupon the “Big 3” reached a legal agreement to share certain IP.
Patent law is a clusterfuck.
That sounds horrific. And I would argue that anything actuated by a mechanical switch is *obvious* to change over to an electronic switch. Unless that switch is a completely novel design.
Like, the paintball projectile is probably original enough, even though we played paintball with white T-Shirts and spring action BB guns with ink way back in the early 70s. (Don’t do this, BTW. Clogs up your red ryder)
Yep, literally just commodity microswitches, of the same type that are used in computer mice, for example. Dozens of DIY and one-off projects dating to ~1994 had demonstrated the concept, and two commercial products had already been released beginning ~1995 when they applied for the patent in 1996 (it was actually issued in 1997). One company attempted to dodge the issue by switching over to hall effect switches, but the mutually assured destruction lawsuit was completed before they got dragged into court. The slimy fucks who initiated the lawsuits were a pair of brothers, both attorneys, who had gotten into paintball as players and then started a company. Neither had any engineering background, which was highlighted in the ruling issued by the judge in the case awarding the patent to the actual inventor. They argued that they had discussed the idea with the actual inventor informally, scribbled out some ideas on a napkin, and then completed the idea themselves…
“The irony here is the reporter.”
If it was the jpost it would have been “Katz”.
“guitarist who is more than a bit offensive”
Sweaty Teddy’s eponymous solo debut is a 10/10 record, it was all downhill from there. He’s made a decent living being a guitar playing nutjob.
Congratulations, Tonio!
The pictures of that Palestinian ‘bread basket’ are a bit too basket colored to be convincing. I think you have to be a bit more productive than “plastic sheet greenhouses” to qualify as a bread basket.
Pffffft. Israel is doing something to protect its populace. Ergo, it’s bad.
“Under regulations written in the years after the Civil Rights Act became law in 1964, government and private-sector policies could be deemed as discriminatory even if that was not the intent using a data analysis tool called “disparate impact.” That allowed for investigations and discrimination lawsuits when policies impacted people of different races differently, even if that was not the goal….
Under regulations written in the years after the Civil Rights Act became law in 1964, government and private-sector policies could be deemed as discriminatory even if that was not the intent using a data analysis tool called “disparate impact.” That allowed for investigations and discrimination lawsuits when policies impacted people of different races differently, even if that was not the goal….
“How is it good government and responsive to the people when the attorney general eliminates an important civil rights tool that has been used to root out discrimination for nearly 60 years and does so without public comment?” said Christine Stoneman, former chief of the Justice Department’s Federal Coordination and Compliance section in the Civil Rights Division. “It is unnecessary and it is harmful.”
Stoneman was one of 200 former Justice Department civil rights attorneys who signed an open letter Tuesday accusing the Trump administration of destroying the work and mission of the division.”
https://archive.fo/LjDVZ
How dare they threaten our bullshit jobs!
‘disparate impact even if that isn’t the goal’ means anything and everything. Basically it is open season on any and all institutions, which of course is the goal.
Christine really needs to go fuck herself.
That decision (Duke Power) by the Nazgul also helped to wreck university education because they permitted college degrees to still be used in hiring. The universities saw that as a money-making opportunity and started the wave of Fire Science, Law Enforcement, HR Administration, etc degrees. They started as community college AA degrees and quickly mutated into BA and graduate degrees.
“What do you mean my doctorate in phrenology is invalid?!?”
The way to stop discriminating by race is to stop discriminating by race.
/some old white guy
And some old black guy.
“Many recent college graduates may struggle with entering the workforce for the first time as it can be a huge contrast from what they are used to throughout their education journey,” Intelligent’s chief education and career development adviser Huy Nguyen said in the report.
These girls (it’s mostly girls) have been told since kindergarten that repeating the holy shibboleths made you a Good And Smart Person, and they fell for it hook, line and sinker — not ever catching on that the people feeding them this codswallop, their teachers and guidance counselors — were themselves the dregs of the university system.
Now they’re out in the real world, which unless you’re in HR, still expects results, and they can’t handle it.
As Mojo put it some time back, “And then everything collapses because the people running it are empty shells of human beings. They make nothing important, they contribute nothing of value, they know nothing of worth.”
Many colleges are already being seen as merely expensive finishing schools. It’ll be interesting to see if they adapt, or die.
Zed’s dead.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/us-news/peter-greene-pulp-fiction-and-the-mask-actor-found-dead-at-60-inside-his-nyc-apartment/
Some random European car channel was doing an EV sedan comparison.
Their MB CLA decided to emergency brake to a stop for zero visible reason and the Tesla Model 3 rear ended it while they were doing a bunch of glamor shots so they have a ton of footage.
The Tesla was too fucking close on a wet road, but by no means tailgating. It’s automatic emergency braking couldn’t overcome physics.
Naturally the Euro weenies and MB refuse to discuss that there will always be a false positive possibility with these systems. Personally, I hate the damn thing, but on my Tesla have it on still with the weakest possibility of activating. So far no false trips on that setting, but you can disable it.
Dacia got none of these issues.
It will once they get the Renault platform that finally has the shitty tech the following decade later.
there will always be a false positive possibility
Yesterday, I was coming through a curve to the right, and a car was in the oncoming lane. For the moment that my car was pointed directly at the other car, before the following the curve around, my Sub made the “Yer gonna die!”” frantic beeping. Happily it didn’t have a chance to slam on the brakes.
I’ve never had a random stop like that in my Tesla, and it happened once in my Nissan.
The EU hates musk and is pissed that self driving is coming to Europe. They are pissed that Spain is open to the idea, which challenges Belgian Authority. They are looking for any excuse.
Same reason they are attempting to fine X over the blue check thing.
I’ve had people turn in front of the car with tight, but doable room.
On the lightest setting it will emergency brake all the fucking time here. In the middle I’d still get nuisance activation. On the closest I’ve had it go off, but I was also covering the brake because of the douche turning in front of me. So I consider that valid.
So, that driver took a turn for the douche!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHH3brmhPyw&list=RDpHH3brmhPyw&start_radio=1
“A Georgia woman suffered severe burns to her face and body after being doused with a toxic chemical in a random attack while she was strolling through a park — and her sadistic assailant is still on the loose.
Ashley Wasielewski, 46, was walking laps around Forsyth Park in Savannah Wednesday night after attending a Christmas program at a nearby church when a stranger approached her from behind and poured the corrosive liquid over her head, according to her devastated friends and family.
She let out a blood-curdling scream as the chemical burned her skin, ate through her clothing, and melted her car’s key fob in her pocket.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/georgia-woman-ashley-wasielewski-suffered-severe-burns-after-being-doused-with-toxic-chemical-in-random-park-attack/
yikes!
There’s one that just needs to be culled from society.
Most likely a mentally ill person who has been shuffled in and out of jails and hospitals and the street. Because it’s “cruel” to keep them from preying on innocent or something.
I’m wondering what the liquid was.
I’m amazed that she didn’t get it in her eyes.
Depending on race and citizenship we can expect this to be ignored by most media.
If the person of interest pictured is indeed the perpetrator, we shall have a chance to test your hypothesis.
Armenia’s ancient ‘dragon stones’ are the work of a 6,000-year-old water cult
https://newatlas.com/history/armenia-dragon-stones-water-cult/
Thanks. I had never heard of this. Really interesting.
“An Atlanta chef allegedly shot two teenagers who were suspected of trying to steal packages outside his home in broad daylight.
Rakim Bradford was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony after he opened fire on the boys, ages 15 and 16, at his townhouse in the Mays neighborhood, southwest of Downtown Atlanta, on Thursday around 3:40 p.m.
Bradford, the head chef at an area IHOP, according to his LinkedIn, was at his home on the 700 block of Celeste Lane SW when he noticed the teens near his front porch, Atlanta Police said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/atlanta-chef-rakim-bradford-charged-with-shooting-two-suspected-teen-porch-pirates-outside-home/
Three thoughts here. “possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony” is a stupid law, it’s OK to shoot porch pirates because the cops won’t do anything, and cooking at an IHOP doesn’t make you a chef.
I had the same three thoughts, but not in that exact order.
I wonder if that applies to non-violent crime, such as having a pistol in your pocket while evading taxes?
Tea Making Tips (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnvYymrCn4g
Just the tips?
That is the only part of the leaf harvested to make tea.
“Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson allegedly embezzled at least $3.15 million in national bail funds and donations to BLM OKC. On Facebook and Instagram, she posted a photo of herself with Democratic Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/us-news/how-oklahoma-pastor-spent-3-15m-of-embezzled-blm-okc-money/
Perfect.
that should be Ta’shel’la
When I’m dictator, I will order examiners to consider prior art submitted from third parties BEFORE issuance.
*cough* *cough*
If you want to talk about what examiners consider, I can rant for a while on that. There’s a reason we flood them with prior art, and it’s mainly because they’ll come after our licenses if we’re seen as hiding something. Oh, and they don’t have a working definition of “hiding something”.
They know it when they see it.
When I’m dictator, I will order examiners to consider prior art submitted from third parties BEFORE issuance.
*cough* *cough*
If you want to talk about what examiners consider, I can rant for a while on that. There’s a reason we flood them with prior art, and it’s mainly because they’ll come after our licenses if we’re seen as hiding something. Oh, and they don’t have a working definition of “hiding something”.
Ugh, I haven’t been able to get links to work since I switched phones.
https://www.uspto.gov/patents/initiatives/third-party-preissuance-submissions
That seems entirely reasonable.
Let me tell you my interference story sometime…
The third party submission stuff must be relatively new- when I was dealing with this (late ’90s), examiners were not allowed to consider this. The blackmailing troll was sent the prior art (which we knew he was aware of) and rather than citing it to the examiner, their response was, “See you in court after issuance and us filing an infringement suit. If you can afford it.”
‘
As I’m sure you’re aware, examination is a joke, regardless of what they have in front of them. Half the examiners speak in broken English and are trying to interpret nuanced legal English mapped onto state of the art technology. It’s not a question of if you’ll get a patent for a certain idea, but how much money you’ll have to spend to get the patent issued.
In regards to the IPR issue, I think the truth is in the middle. The USPTO proposed rule is a sledgehammer where a scalpel is needed. EFF’s rebuttal ignores the need for the scalpel.
“This article may set a record for stolen bases. ”
I didn’t notice much stolen bases, but isn’t that just eminent domain? Although only seven days notice is a dick move.
There’s been a long history of squatting and putting up illegal structures, so the first stolen base is calling it “their” land.
Update:
“The raccoon that barged into a Virginia liquor store, smashed bottles of booze and passed out drunk in a bathroom this past Black Friday has at least two other break-ins under his belt, a local government official has revealed.
Before burgling the Ashland ABC store on 29 November, the raccoon had separately broken into a karate studio and a department of motor vehicles office, all on the same block of businesses, Hanover county animal protection officer Samantha Martin said on an episode of the local government’s official podcast published Thursday.
Martin told Hear in Hanover that the raccoon had even eaten some of the snacks kept at the DMV in what perhaps presaged the boozy bender that the animal was later said to have gone on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/13/drunk-raccoon-liquor-store-dmv
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Our spirit animale.
Glibcoon.
You can never be too fucking careful. Also the NYT contempt flows through the paywalled piece.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/a-measles-outbreak-brings-with-it-echoes-of-the-pandemic.html
It’s simple. The measles vaccine works. The covid vaccine doesn’t.
Yes. The reluctantly note the vaccinated percentage is 90% from a preferred 95%.
Also no mention of what may be lowering interest in vaccination or the demographics of the unvaccinated. (My guess black and/or immigrant.)
In California it was leftist hippy people.
“The rant is abhorrent and factually incorrect, but it does hold one truth – the Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish it is through the exclusion and removal of all who do not fit that vision – in other words, through ethnic cleansing.
To that end, Trump and his acolytes have increasingly been using the term “reverse migration” and even proposed an “office of remigration”. The idea, borrowed from white supremacists in Europe, understands immigrants as an inherent threat to the identity of what they imagine to be “white” nations. Immigrants’ forcible and systematic removal – remigration – is envisioned as a way to “restore” that whiteness.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/13/ethnic-cleansing-racism-us-trump-ilhan-omar-somalia
These assholes can’t tell race from culture.
Again, I return to “Maybe you shouldn’t tell on yourselves if you don’t want to get called out on your bullshit.”
Knew the source before I finished the first sentence.
They do that on purpose because they know it works on stupid people, such as their dedicated readership.
Robinson laughed and said, “Smear the queer, that’s what we do. Smear the queer.”
What a world, what a world.
“I recognize the mistake and make sure to do better in the future,” Robinson said. “It was not reflective of my beliefs and I am so sorry to those I offended seriously!”
He should set up a foundation for queer running backs.
One of Neph’s links yesterday afternoon was “spirits that should disappear from your bar.” One was celebrity-branded or -endorsed liquor.
Just to show that it’s not going anywhere… coming soon to a fundraising email on your computer, the opportunity to buy whiskey to support the mercenaries who wear your alma mater’s laundry.
Sorry. I’m not shelling out a hundred bucks for thirty dollar whiskey so the proceeds can pay some teenager to agitate a ball (before he hits the portal next year).
“Trump-style condoms are sold for $4.50 at what appears to be Fishs Eddy, a New York store”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15380407/More-incredibly-disturbing-Epstein-pictures-come-say-Democrats-release-95-000-images-Trump-says-photo-dump-no-big-deal.html
LOL, what?
The walls are well and truly closing in now.
“I reported an illegal immigrant to ICE and won free beer – now liberals are sending me death threats”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15345579/reported-illegal-immigrant-ice-free-beer-idaho-bar.html
STIJLTH
The requirement that an employee create more value than he costs, and save his superiors more trouble than he creates, comes as a surprise to people educated to conform and demand others comply, rather than innovate and improve.
Employers exist to hand out paychecks.
Is this something new?
“I may be late on occasion”
I suppose if you have to argue politics over the holidays. Make it 1000 year old politics
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/bsDOIoeLgbg
That did get a laugh from me.
Florida Goodwill store evacuated after live grenade donated
Dammit Dale.
The oral exam thing will never become common unless forced on teachers. Think about it. 30 minutes per student in a class of 20 is 10 fucking hours to administer the exam. Most professors are lazy fucks with no interest in interacting with their students for 10 hours or doing anything for 10 hours.
How many professors are using the AI to build lesson plans or worse right now? It wouldn’t surprise me if many of them aren’t any better than their students.
How long does it take to grade an oral exam compared to an essay exam?
I once did a 20 page paper in a course that we worked on the entire course. I was curious and wanted the paper back from the professor. He wrote a grade on the front with nothing else.
He never even read the fucking paper and gave out whatever grade he wanted.
They are using the AI bots to grade papers, as well.
So in theory, yes, you could maybe save time on the grading portion. Though most of these people do not want to interact with their students and would, if they have to work, prefer to do so alone reading papers.
I took a self directed course, requirement was a paper. I did a serious job for about 3/4 of the paper, got tired/bored and did a summary/conclusion.
The department head fell off his garage and got hurt, then his wife died. He came back part time, his associate was a friend of mine, every week he’d put my paper on top of the guy’s In-box. About 6 weeks or so after the semester was over my friend called me, told me I’d received an ‘A’. It was not an ‘A’ paper and I didn’t complain.
By the time kids arrive at the cusp of adulthood, with a fraction of the literacy and other skills that more rigorous programs offered decades ago, college can’t possibly provide what it promises.
Any inclination toward actual critical thinking has been beaten out of them? You don’t say.
Piers Morgan has milked Nick Fuentes for content for like a week now.
We’re not doing phrasing?
So has Brochettaward.
And Piers Morgan did it first.
Piers Morgan has milked Nick Fuentes
I think this is a kink we can all shame.
Milo Yiannopoulos is the only serious person left on the right. Also the only straight guy who’s not a cuck.
Milo says he has 6 months to live because of cancer. I’m going to start a Go Fund for him.
He also says that Benny Johnson is extremely gay and that he fucks dudes in assless chaps while his wife cries herself to sleep on the couch. And so was Charlie Kirk apparently.
Oh I am well aware
“Milo Yiannopoulos has recently revealed that doctors are investigating a possible brain tumor after he experienced severe headaches, fainting spells, and blurred vision. He has not yet received a formal diagnosis but plans to undergo further medical evaluation.”
Chamath on Why the Rise of Nick Fuentes is ‘Not Entirely Organic’
“There is a coordinated amplification process that is happening … I think that’s why we’re having the Nick Fuentes moment at this point in time … Who is paying for and who is activating all of these bots and fake accounts in all of these developing world countries, and why did they pick him?”
https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1999693542705234244
You know what would be nice? Is if the people making those accusations came with hard evidence and not some bullshit report with dubious funding that looked at 20 fucking “recent” tweets.
The entire thing looks like a hit job to me. And even if Fuentes has a bot army or someone has organized one on his behalf, plenty of assholes have tried to do the same on the left and right. Not to mention the celebrities and other public figures who have done the same. At least in the case of Fuentes he can honestly claim that his content was artificially suppressed for years so turnabout is fair play.
But I think the reality is that Fuentes spent years honing what he does on platforms most of us haven’t even heard of until he was able to finally establish something more solid. Combine that with some current events that got people to question certain popular narrative son the right and people started to watch in greater numbers.
Fuentes is a result of the modern right taking certain positions for granted needing no real explanation beyond empty propaganda and the inherent contradictions they created.
in order to get accurate info I will go in the mountains to an old gypsy woman who will read the entrails of a duck and tell me if Fuentes in in fact a gay fed. That is evidence no one can deny.
It has as much value as that hit job report had frankly.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Fuentes has some people backing him with some level of resources and part of that includes paying for a bot army. Or even if he did it himself.
But there’s a reason Piers Morgan has spent a week harping on that interview and he’s basically admitted it himself. It was one of the most popular interviews he’s had. There was more public interest in it and the engagement has been incredibly high.
If Fuentes was an empty suit or a lolcow like David Duke in the 90’s as some on here have compared him to, he’d be a minor novelty. People might tune in, laugh at the backwards racist and then he’d go back into obscurity. But that’s not what’s happening, is it?
He has real arguments that need to be addressed. He’s providing answers to questions that most people have been too happy to ignore or leave unexamined.
It has nothing to do with bots. It’s popular podcasters “platforming” him.
“What Fletcher and others like her represent are threats to Donald Trump, America’s first White president. As Ta-Nehisi Coates has compellingly argued, Trump’s power in this role is not rooted in skin color or phenotype but in white identity politics and making “the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own… [Trump] is the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/13/trump-is-whitewashing-black-american-history/
I thought he was the third black president?
It’s not that there was a black president that’s the problem. It’s that there was a black president who racialized everything. One who had his supporters yell racism at the slightest sign of dissent. One who weaponized such accusations as a political tool (not that this was new from the left, but it reached a fever pitch under Obama).
It’s nice to see that even the left recognizes where this shit started or at least escalated to the point where white people who naively believed we were entering a color blind world have resorted to retreating to their own identity group.
Fuck. Off.
Let me stop you right there, and leave.
This is one of those people you cannot possibly have a rational argument with. The world they live in is just too far away from reality.
Per Capita Statistics
The Wrong Answer
Per capita, as a premise, averages out data about a certain group of people and then compares them against each other. That’s a very rudimentary description and slightly reductive, but for the benefit of this article, it works as a baseline.
But, this is where the entire issue lies, with using this data across a broad spectrum of people — the multifactorial dimensions within a demographic are vast and, often, uncomparable. Let’s dive into crime stats for some examples, as they highlight the glaring issues with per capita data across multiple groups.
Most crimes in the UK are committed by men in the 15-35 year old bracket. That covers all crime across the country. Let’s break it down a bit by immigrants and native UK residents to see how things stack up.
To really compare these two, very differently structured demographics, there would need to be statistical controls put in place that account for:
https://donmcgowan333.substack.com/p/per-capita-statistics?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
this retarded shit again. I do not care what the immigrant crime rate would be if the immigrants were mostly women. what matters is the kind of immigrants we get. and if we get demographics that are more likely to commit crime, then we are getting the wrong kind.
I’m going to circle back to what I said about Fuentes above. People see shit like this, the sophistry and attempt to explain away reality and the very real negative interactions they have in their daily lives, and they become skeptical of the people making those claims. If there’s a vacuum for real arguments for these sorts of policies, people are going to look for their own answers and for people on the right, they’re going to find voices like Fuentes.
Mainstream libertarian outfits like Reason spent years jerking off into the faces of their audience telling them how great immigration is. So even if plenty of libertarians were skeptical, the movement as a whole became associated with that shit. It’s one of the many reasons libertarianism has become a dirty word on the new right.
But you can apply the same idea more broadly.
“Controls” that allow him to manipulate the numbers to get the narrative he wants.
Speaking of Walz…
Didn’t one of his major “selling points” in the VP search boil down to “Look at him. He’s too
honestdumb to be any richer now than when he was a school teacher”?Surprisingly, the whole “jus’ folks” schtick was a complete fraud.
Another bullet dodged.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the biggest far-left party in France, says that Muslim women are free and it’s Christian women who are oppressed:
“Christianity is patriarchal, and women have to cover up and submit to men. In Islam, women submit to God only, therefore, their veil represents freedom and dignity.”
The far-left’s embrace of Islam needs to be studied. Why do they love Islam so much?!
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1999394147447267558
I dunno but the Soviets were aiming the same propaganda at the west 80 years ago. My guess is because it is another way to “smash the system”.
Celebrity gossip. It’s what’s for breakfast.
Guess who’s coming home for Christmas? Many college graduates are getting fired just five or six months into their first “real world” jobs. Sixty percent of the 1,000 employers surveyed by Intelligent.com last October said they’d already dismissed graduates hired in May or June of 2024.
Good.
Though, my group had a new college hire that was excellent. He left for bigger and better things about the time we expected he’d go. He’ll go far. Good college hires still exist, but they are rare.
“The drama erupted just 48 hours after Yiannopoulos went on Tim Pool’s podcast and unloaded a dumpster full of insinuations about Johnson’s sexuality, supposedly well-known secrets, and alleged hotel-room behavior at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit.
“Benny Johnson posts pictures of his children every two days, it’s weird. And everybody knows what went on with Benny Johnson in those lobbies and in those hotel rooms at SAS,” Milo claimed, insisting, “Everybody knows.”
When George Santos—yes, that George Santos—said he had no idea what Milo was talking about, Yiannopoulos doubled down with a flourish fit for a soap opera villain.
“Men, younger men. Not underage, at least I don’t know that. His wife was crying drunk in the lobby three SASs in a row, about how her husband was upstairs with boys!” Santos, stunned, replied simply: “Come on.”
https://thedailybs.com/2025/12/08/milo-yiannopoulos-digs-in-as-benny-johnson-vows-to-sue-for-claim-he-slept-with-boys/
LOL