184 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “Trump Signals Potential Military Action Coming Against Cuba”

    It’s important to keep busy.

    • AlexinCT

      I suspect this is bluster to tell the interferers and the Cuba regime that they mean business.

    • juris imprudent

      Where the fuck did this Trump come from? He’s making up for his last administration that’s for sure.

      • (((Jarflax

        Maybe he’s practicing on the overseas Commies and Islamists as prep for an invasion of California, Chicago, New York, and Detroit?

      • Banjos

        A girl can dream.

      • The Other Kevin

        I feel like he was making at least some progress on domestic stuff, but then he realized he had a foot he hadn’t shot yet.

  2. Common Tater

    “Anyway, here is some of the best (or worst) of what we have seen from No Kings 2026.”

    I hate these articles that are just a bunch of X links. The least they ca do is take screenshots.

    • Rat on a train

      My journalism degree allows me to find and report on a Twitter thread.

  3. Common Tater

    “The Republic of Somaliland, a partially recognized state in the Horn of Africa, reacted in a post on X to the claim that Vance made in a podcast interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

    “Deportation? Please you’re just sending the princess back to her kingdom. Extradition? Say the word …” the post read.”

    That doesn’t sound official.

    • Common Tater

      “”This is rich coming from someone who literally said they were willing to ‘create stories’ to redirect the media,” the statement said. “This is a ridiculous lie and desperate attempt to distract from the pedophile protection party’s unpopular war of choice, increasing gas prices, and rapidly dropping polling numbers.”

      Didn’t the Biden admin have the Epstein files for four years?

      • Rat on a train

        They didn’t release them out of respect.

      • juris imprudent

        Admittedly, Biden didn’t run on releasing them.

      • Common Tater

        Is releasing them necessary to prosecute these alleged pedophiles?

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly the opposite Tater. And you are now positing a failure to prosecute across multiple presidential administrations. When this is all Trump’s fault don’t you know.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        looking for any consistency on the left re Trump is a fools errand.

  4. Gender Traitor

    Blue State Dems Pull Resolution Honoring March As National Women’s Month After GOP Lawmaker Defines What A Woman Is

    Now that right there is funny, I don’t care who you are! 🤣

    • R C Dean

      So they changed their mind? Huh.

      • AlexinCT

        On honoring women, or admitting they are dumbasses by saying they don’t know what the definition of women are cause they are not biologists?

      • juris imprudent

        That your definition of a woman there RC?

    • Common Tater

      Apparently you aren’t the only one.

      “McClinton briefly cut her microphone and huddled with colleagues. Seconds later, she declared the resolution “temporarily over,” drawing an eruption of laughter in the chamber, the outlet reported.”

      • juris imprudent

        And no Democratic woman huffed “that’s not funny”???

      • (((Jarflax

        Idiocracy has moved from parody, to prophecy, to understatement.

  5. rhywun

    The measure praised the accomplishments of women that she said too frequently go without recognition, according to Fox News Digital.

    It’s like the last hundred or so years never happened.

    But wow I thought that was gonna be the Bee.

    • Common Tater

      I thought so too.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, that caught my eye, too. For decades now, you haven’t been able to go a week without hearing about some mediocrity who “broke barriers” by doing normal people stuff even though she was burdened by ovaries.

    • (((Jarflax

      Can we have five minutes of silence about bullshit accomplishments by every definable group (and one undefinable apparently)? The endless fine grained “firsts” have gotten worse than the Super Bowl records they start talking about when the score is 47 -3 (the really granular ones Most catches in the 3rd quarter by a left handed tight end from an SEC school). First left handed bi-sexual woman with Hindu and Inuit ancestry born on a Tuesday to fly across the Atlantic first class! Stunning and Brave!

      • juris imprudent

        Real accomplishments are hard and rare Jar. These are the participation trophies of recognition.

      • (((Jarflax

        They kill two birds with one stone. They allow the left to heap awards on their chosen utter nobodies and undermine the idea of achievement at the same time!

  6. Common Tater

    $19K is a lot of K.

    • R.J.

      Considering how much money sloshes around in a campaign, color me not impressed.

    • DrOtto

      Probably cheaper in the street (or a friend with a vet for a brother) than in a “professional’s” office setting, so maybe not.

    • The Last American Hero

      Remember when she claimed without evidence that Elon Musk was on ketamine? Is every fucking thing a Democrat accuses someone of doing something they themselves are doing?

      • Sean

        Yes. They have no imagination.

    • The Other Kevin

      I hope she got a refund, it appears not to have worked.

  7. Common Tater

    “Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa”

    Seriously?

    • rhywun

      A colleague of Father Guido Sarducci.

    • Not Adahn

      Yup. He was a non-zero-chance candidate the last papal election.

  8. Common Tater

    “The heir to a Texas oil fortune has been ordered to pay $1.1 billion in a landmark ruling after he violently beating his 2-year-old stepson nearly to death — leaving the child bedridden in a wheelchair and requiring 24-hour care, according to a court.

    Charles Brooks Jr. will have to pay the hefty fee after a jury ruled in favor of ex-wife Madison Ball, whose son suffered a severe brain injury at the hands of the now 34-year-old felon, Buzbee Law Firm, which represents the parents, said Thursday.

    Brooks, an unemployed trust-fund baby and the great-grandson of Humble Oil founding investor Percy Turner, is already serving 40 years in a Texas prison for the heinous assault on his stepson, whom he was asked to babysit while his wife was working.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/texas-oil-heir-charles-brooks-jr-ordered-to-pay-historic-1-1b-in-child-abuse-case/

    At least he didn’t have an opinion on a school shooting.

    • Gender Traitor

      bedridden in a wheelchair

      Do you put the wheelchair in the bed or the bed in the wheelchair?

      • Gdragon

        You’ve gotta swap back and forth so that both the chair and the bed stay even and regular, it is like rotating a mattress

      • Common Tater

        Maybe it’s a recliner?

      • (((Jarflax

        With a billion dollar budget you could probably make a Transformer that switches between bed and wheelchair. Cripple Holder, Lord of the Insipidcons.

      • Gdragon

        The five Invalidicons merge to form Flimsy Limb. A giant robot who is not only confined to a wheelchair but also must be fed through a tube.

      • juris imprudent

        Thanks gdragon, I know I’m going to hell for laughing at that.

      • (((Jarflax

        Invalidicons is better, Gdragon is now canon.

    • Plinker762

      So 1 billion for the lawyers and 0.1 billion for the kid?

      • juris imprudent

        I think $100M will make the kid’s life as comfortable as it can be.

        And an asshole that does that to a 2 year old, deserves everything coming to him in this life and the next.

      • R C Dean

        Assuming it’s paid out, and assuming the lawyers are contingency rather than hourly, more likely to be in the neighborhood of $300MM for the lawyers and $800MM for the ex-wife. Unless the ex-wife made a truly terrible deal with the lawyers.

  9. Common Tater

    “A $167.3 million Kentucky Powerball winner who went from career criminal to multi-millionaire overnight is accused of stealing a comparatively minuscule $12,000 cash during a head-scratching home burglary over the weekend.

    James Farthing, 51, was arrested on second-degree burglary and marijuana possession charges Saturday after security footage allegedly captured him breaking into a Lexington residence that evening, according to Lex18.

    Farthing allegedly snatched $12,000 in cash from the home and fled the scene in his black Porsche Passenger — before police caught him and spotted a marijuana blunt in plain view and found more bud during a search of his car, the outlet said, citing an arrest citation.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/167m-powerball-winner-outed-as-career-criminal-stole-12k-in-third-arrest-since-hitting-jackpot/

    I have many questions.

    • Grumbletarian

      Old habits die hard.

      • rhywun

        Yup. A “life of crime” is a real thing.

      • DrOtto

        “Old habits die hard” – is that the one where John McClane infiltrates a convent?

      • Grumbletarian

        Die Hard: Nun Left Standing

      • Gdragon

        “Yippee Ki Yay, Mother Faulkner!”

    • Gdragon

      Maybe “It needed stealin'”?

    • EvilSheldon

      Here’s a secret.

      The vast majority of criminals aren’t committing crimes for financial gain. They’re committing crimes because they enjoy it, and because they’re too mind-blowingly stupid to recognize the possible consequences.

      • juris imprudent

        See also, microplastics researchers.

      • (((Jarflax

        If your prefrontal-cortex is undeveloped adding a pile of cash to the equation doesn’t do anything except expand the number of bad decisions you can make.

    • DrOtto

      When “keeping it real” backfires.

      • Gdragon

        If this happened because he “don’t like people playin’ on his phone” then I may have to completely change my position.

    • (((Jarflax

      STOP QUESTIONING THE SCIENCE!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      comedy gold right there

    • EvilSheldon

      I wear nitrile gloves when I clean my guns, service my reloading press, work on my truck, et cetera.

      Are the microplastics more dangerous than the toxic chemicals and combustion residues? I figure probably not.

      • UnCivilServant

        There has been no proof of injury from microplastics thusfar.

    • Threedoor

      thats too funny, and predictable.

  10. Rat on a train

    It’s spring break. It is going to be a rough week.

  11. Common Tater

    “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is launching a new program on Monday that will reward tipsters with up to 30% of the fines imposed on criminals who are trying to bleed US taxpayers dry, The Post has learned.

    The program includes tips for Medicaid and Medicare rip-offs — and given that fraud in those two programs tops some $70 billion per year according to one estimate, whistleblowers could be in for some big payouts….

    The 63-year-old former hedge fund mogul’s idea is to pay informants 10-30% of the proceeds when criminals are slapped with fines of more than $1 million.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/business/scott-bessent-launches-crackdown-on-health-care-fraud-after-somali-scam-scandal-in-minnesota/

    Maybe that will get fraudsters to turn on each other.

    • R C Dean

      That’s been around since the Civil War. It’s called the False Claims Act.

    • Drake

      He was the guy who did the most to run Elon and DOGE out of DC.

      • juris imprudent

        They were finding the wrong kind of fraud – the Congressionally approved kind.

    • DrOtto

      Since we already have Obamacare and everyone is mandated to have health insurance, why is Medicaid still a thing?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        To pay for healthcare for illegal aliens our new friends?

  12. juris imprudent

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, told CBS’s “Face The Nation” that after years of preparation, after one month, the campaign against Iran is “further along than we would have expected to be at this point, in all the simulations that I’ve seen.”

    *cough* Millennium Challenge *cough*

  13. Common Tater

    “Then in July 2025 President Trump’s tariff war slapped a 40% tax on products from Brazil — the world’s largest coffee producer — causing further increases for importers in the US, who passed much of the costs on to consumers.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/the-price-of-coffee-is-skyrocketing-faster-than-all-other-groceries-and-the-reason-goes-way-beyond-tariffs/

    Don’t see the protectionism since the U.S. doesn’t grow coffee.

    • (((Jarflax

      It’s Trump being nice to the mentally retarded by giving a gift to their Senator Maisie Hirono.

      • Common Tater

        OK, continental U.S.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’d feel bad if it weren’t that those who feel it most unironically complain about how expensive life is and that we need to be showered with govbux while sipping $10 lattes from Starbucks and reading about how bad Trump’s tariffs are on their $1500 iPhone.

      • Threedoor

        If you manage to drop ten bucks on a latte youre buying more sugar than coffee.

  14. juris imprudent

    Cripple fight!

    “He is out there throwing ideas out and traveling and being provocative and stirring the pot and moving the debate, and I don’t think it’s a prelude to a podcast,” says David Axelrod, the former senior adviser to President Barack Obama who worked with Emanuel when he was Obama’s chief of staff.

    • (((Jarflax

      I’m pretty sure no Jew is going to win a single delegate in the current Democratic Socialist Worker’s Party primaries.

      • Rat on a train

        primaries?

      • (((Jarflax

        Fair point, but I am pretty sure the smoke filled room isn’t picking a Jew either.

  15. Not Adahn

    Having caught up on the weekend Glibs posts, allow me to provide information about Killian’s Irish Red.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNqe2QSThY

    Yes, it was founded in Ireland, but that brewery no longer exists, and the company that licensed the name to Coors is French.

    • R.J.

      I figured something like that. Once a big company get it the location and quality of the beer changes.

    • Rat on a train

      The French also sell an Irish named brandy.

      • juris imprudent

        I was thinking Flight of the Earls, but Hennessey came well after that.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Is she a foine girrrl?

  16. Not Adahn

    Internet test!

    https://taketest.xyz/mfgkt

    I am generally knowledgeable, mostly so in international knowledge, least in computational knowledge. Which means this is a terrible test. I do like the format though, it kept me from guessing so I had a lot of only picking 4. I also question exactly what they were asking sometimes.

      • Not Adahn

        Huh. Usually the firewall here is extremely picky.

    • Common Tater

      I think Israel having a nuke falls under opinion.

      • Common Tater

        Same with Jim Jones being a criminal.

      • Common Tater

        And whether ethernet is a computer cable.

      • Common Tater

        289

        the 97th percentile of non-anglo western

        Apparently, I need more literary knowledge.

      • Not Adahn

        The “ethernet cable” made me hesitate. But since there were supposed to be 5 true answers, I went with the likelihood that the test writer wasn’t that knowledgeable.

      • Common Tater

        I didn’t know there was supposed to be five.

      • EvilSheldon

        Jim Jones absolutely was a criminal, before and during the People’s Temple era. After, of course, he was nothing.

        I didn’t love the computer cables question. Ethernet is both a standard, and commonly regarded as type of cable, but I’m old enough to remember thinwire. A real nerd would have said UTP. Same with SATA, and again with USB.

    • rhywun

      I did terrible in “aesthetic knowledge”, whatever that is. Great in all the others.

      • Common Tater

        I didn’t do so good there either, whatever that is.

      • Not Adahn

        “Tartan” has the same issue as “ethernet cable.”

    • EvilSheldon

      Interesting.

      Computational Knowledge
      56 / 0–60 – 97th centile – Site: 84th

      International Knowledge
      44 / 0–50 – 87th centile – Site: 41st

      Cultural Knowledge
      75 / 0–80 – 83rd centile – Site: 78th

      Aesthetic Knowledge
      47 / 0–50 – 95th centile – Site: 92nd

      Literary Knowledge
      27 / 0–30 – 91st centile – Site: 81st

      Technical Knowledge
      39 / 0–40 – 97th centile – Site: 86th

      This fits with what I would have expected. Highest in technical and computational knowledge, then literary and aesthetic, international and cultural still above average but definitely bringing up the rear.

      • Threedoor

        When the computer questions hit i knew I was tarded, 41st percentile, I expected that.
        International 84
        Cultural 95 much higher than I espected
        Aesthetic 72 my mother sewed I was dragged to fabric stores
        Literory 70
        Technical 72 damn wires

        It thinks I have an IQ of 122, yeah nice ego stroke there but thats BS

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Cultural 95 much higher than I espected” You are Desi Arnaz and I claim my five pesos.

        I was dragged to fabric stores too. Very educational.

    • The Last American Hero

      96-97-97-99

    • Not Adahn

      50/60 – 49/50 – 78/80 – 47/50 – 30/30 – 39/40

      I don’t know crypto, linux, or makeup brands.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        i know make up brands as I am married i do know nothing about wine

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Score 285

      Computational Knowledge
      44 / 0–60 53rd centileSite: 13th

      International Knowledge
      46 / 0–50 94th centileSite: 61st

      Cultural Knowledge
      80 / 0–80 99th centileSite: 99th

      Aesthetic Knowledge
      44 / 0–50 79th centileSite: 72nd

      Literary Knowledge
      26 / 0–30 85th centileSite: 70th

      Technical Knowledge
      38 / 0–40 91st centileSite: 72nd

      i will fully admit to not giving a shit about computers, which, apparently, drags me down.

      • Threedoor

        I have been into multiple Ulta locations and once dated the JC Penny Makup counter woman.
        Who hardly wore any.

  17. UnCivilServant

    So, the Lego Rifle was supposed to be finished last night. After all, I’d gone to the trouble to dig out my vice, used the “don’t crush the upper” fixture to torque down the barrel nut and had all the pieces for final assembly.

    Well, while I was trying to fit the roll pin in the gas block/tube. I slipped and it pinged across the room to join the detent spring in the void.

    😠

    • Common Tater

      Why do you want to shoot Lego?

      • Gender Traitor

        Revenge for the ones you’ve stepped on in bare feet?

      • (((Jarflax

        To take Greenland from the Danes?

    • Not Adahn

      Obviously line your workspace with magnetized steel.

      • (((Jarflax

        Make sure you have separate workspaces for guns and electronics first!

      • UnCivilServant

        That would cost more than replacement parts.

      • (((Jarflax

        You could just repour the floor in converging sloped planes to collect the springs in a known location!

      • EvilSheldon

        Something I’ve done in the past, is to assemble fiddly parts inside a dry cleaning bag.

        When I remember to do this, as opposed to saying, “Fuck it, we’re doing it live,” it generally saves me a lot of frustration.

    • R.J.

      There is a lot to be said about working inside a high-sided rubber tray when installing small pieces. That would be harder with a rifle, since it is hard to find one big enough. Just hover over it?
      I took to leaving a Harbor Freight magnet in the rubber tray when working on those old 3-speed internal gearboxes for Schwinn bikes. Those things are made of tiny kamikaze components that seek the earth. They hit the rubber, then snap over to the magnet.

      • UnCivilServant

        The barrel and upper together are somewhere around two feet, and I can’t attach the gas tube before torqueing the barrel nut, since it gets in the way of the process.

      • Common Tater

        I have a Camel-brand magnetized parts tray that came free with a couple of packs of cigarettes.

      • EvilSheldon

        ***MASSIVE AUTISM ALERT!!!***

        My usual way of installing the barrel on an AR goes like:

        – install barrel into receiver with Loctite #620 sleeve retaining compound.
        – install barrel nut, grease threads with Permatex #80078 anti-seize compound, torque to manufacturer spec.
        – install gas tube into gas block (I have a little block for hammering in the roll pin, very handy.)
        – install gas block onto barrel according to whatever method (set screws, tapered cross pin, etc.) If threaded fasteners are used, they get an application of high-temperature ceramic-loaded thread locker like Rocksett.
        – ensure that the gas tube is precisely centered in the upper receiver opening. Adjust gas block as necessary.
        – Install handguard.
        – Install muzzle device with Rocksett and torque to spec.

      • UnCivilServant

        Yeah, I figured out After the issue that I could have pinned the tube into the block before putting them on. But by then I’d lost the pin.

    • EvilSheldon

      You and me both, brah. I was rebuilding the bolt in my competition AR last night*, and I slipped while installing the ejector roll pin and launched the ejector and spring into another dimension.

      Amazingly, I found both of them just after I unpacked my emergency spare bolt…

      * – That is, replacing the extractor, extractor pin, extractor spring/insert, and gas rings. I’ve been shooting a lot of cheap steel-cased 5.56mm ammo lately, and that shit can cause accelerated wear on those parts.

      • Threedoor

        One time when hunting with my muzzeloader the adjustment screw for the set trigger fell out and I had an AD into the ground infront of me. I was a kid but figured out what had happened and realized I couldn’t use the set trigger after that. I reloaded the gun and went about my day.

        After an unsuccessful hunt the next day we shot our loads and were getting ready to go home, while collecting up my possibles the set screw fell out of a fold in the cuff of mt wool coat into the tin of percussion caps and i heard it. How many miles that stayed in my cuff over the day and a half it had fallen out of the gun and didnt get lost in the woods. Amazing.

      • EvilSheldon

        There’s an old Israeli saying I’ve always liked – “Good ability is important, but good luck is critical.”

      • Threedoor

        Thats a good one

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        in pool it was always better lucky than good

  18. Common Tater

    “The new honey-trap targeting conservative men: Patriot Babes, X-rated videos and MAGA’s dream girl

    There was just one glaring problem: Jessica Foster wasn’t real. She was a total sham, created entirely by artificial intelligence (AI).

    This digital phantom first flickered onto the scene in December 2025, launching with a defiant, two-word bio that signaled exactly the type of demographic she was hunting for: ‘America First.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15677957/new-honey-trap-plot-conservative-men-maga-dream-girl.html

    https://archive.is/K1L0r

    So a robot that hates Jews?

      • juris imprudent

        They are a soul-less creation of man.

      • R C Dean

        So, golems?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        robots are trying to take the world from the jews but havent considered the space lazers and weather control

  19. The Other Kevin

    I wasn’t a communist before, but this weekend I saw a lot of unattractive people holding signs that made no sense, and they won me over. NO KINGS BABY! SOMETHING SOMETHING STOLEN LAND!

    • EvilSheldon

      Were all of them also old?

      • rhywun

        To be fair, the ones with purple hair or wearing frog suits tend to be fairly young.

    • Rat on a train

      No king is illegal on a stolen throne?

      • The Other Kevin

        See that’s how you troll. Maybe next time I should actually go, and hold signs with catchy but nonsensical slogans.

      • Ted S.

        As if you’re going to march with protesters.

      • EvilSheldon

        TOK don’t roll like that.

        (I’m sorry, I’m sorry, please put down the pickaxe handles…)

      • Plinker762

        But that’s how he rolls.

      • The Other Kevin

        True story, I used to be a non-skating official for roller derby, and my derby name was Howie Rolls.

        And you’re right Ted, no way I’d ever join a protest even as a troll.

      • slumbrew

        Howie Rolls

        *insert thunderous applause gif here*

  20. Common Tater

    From the world’s greatest critical thinker:

    “Why MAGA fears human teachers
    Melania Trump’s robot stunt opens a new front in the GOP’s war on education

    Most recently, we saw the rise of Moms for Liberty, a group whose name hides its real aim: to redefine censorship as “parents’ rights” with the goal of removing books that portray people of color, women and LGBTQ people as deserving of full rights and dignity.

    The right’s war on public education has always been rooted in fear that kids will learn empathy, curiosity and critical thinking skills — all of which could lead to them questioning, or even challenging, authority.”

    https://www.salon.com/2026/03/30/why-maga-fears-human-teachers/

    • EvilSheldon

      Show me some modern elementary-school teachers who display critical thinking skills, and I might believe that they can teach those skills to impressionable children.

      • Threedoor

        “Ive never met a bad teacher”
        My sister, fired twice from teaching jobs.

    • Ted S.

      These are the same people who say to unquestioningly trust The Science™.

    • rhywun

      full rights and dignity

      Teaching toddlers about anal sex is dignified.

    • The Other Kevin

      a group whose name hides its real aim

      Once again, they never state this anywhere, but Amanda has somehow cracked their secret code.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Disappearing up their own assholes

    The initial Valhalla concept car featured a V-6, but then Aston evidently remembered that it doesn’t need to comply with Formula 1 design constraints for its road cars, so in went a dry-sump, twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 with a flat-plane crankshaft. This engine traces its lineage to the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series, where it made 720 horsepower. Aston considered that a good start, increasing the size of the turbochargers and indulging in other hot-rodding tricks to bump output to 817 horsepower. The V-8 breathes through a snorkel on the roof, which looks the business and probably gives the Valhalla very respectable water-fording capability.

    The remainder of the thrust is provided by a trio of electric motors, two on the front axle and one incorporated into the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission. The goal for the hybrid side of the powertrain was to juice performance without drawing attention to itself. You never feel a lunge of instant EV twist, and the front-end torque vectoring is tuned to keep the steering feel natural rather than impart the physics-bending shove that’s possible when you can theoretically spin the front wheels in opposite directions. That’s largely because the front motors can turn 19,000 rpm and are geared to provide torque all the way to top speed, so they’re always in the mix. Aston cares so much about steering feedback that it notes that the optional magnesium wheels, which save a claimed 26 pounds total, transmit a different feel than the aluminum ones.

    A true driver’s car. You’ll take it everywhere.

    • Common Tater

      1064 horsepower?

    • rhywun

      Her poems often speak to the struggles of minority ethnic people and she is clear about identifying as Black. “The police didn’t stop us, pull us over and say, ‘Oh, you’re Cuban.’ They saw Black people. My uncle was locked up from the time I was a kid,

      For no reason at all I’m sure and in MAGA NYC no less, where Black people fear to tread.

  22. Threedoor

    Thanks Neph, I got my pieces out of Projects and to post submissions.

    Does WordPress hate paragraph indentation?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of finely honed critical thinking skills

    The researchers were testing a key theory: whether users would be willing to believe what the AI was telling them regardless of accuracy, in what they termed a “cognitive surrender” that effectively overrode their intuition and deliberation process.

    In the most striking experiment, involving 359 participants, participants followed AI’s correct advice 92.7 percent of the time — and a still-considerable 79.8 percent of the time when the AI gave them the wrong answer.

    “While override rates were substantially higher on AI-Faulty than AI-Accurate trials, participants followed faulty AI recommendations on roughly four out of five chat-engaged trials,” the researchers wrote.

    If only those test subjects had been educated in government schools…

  24. The Late P Brooks

    The experiments also suggest we could be losing our ability to critically engage with information, something previous research has found as well.

    “The capacity to think critically, the capacity to be able to check what the AI is giving you has become more and more important over time,” Nave said. “This is kind of a muscle that we have, that hopefully we are not going to lose over time.”

    It’s almost as if people have been trained from childhood to accept what they are told at face value.

    • Threedoor

      I’ll never forget one of the times my dad told me that my 6th grade teacher was wrong.
      It made me think. There was a distinct split in the kids that ended up going down the track of what that particular teacher taught vs the handfull that ended up either being corrected by their parents or figuring it out later on their own.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Remember Question Authority bumper stickers?

      • Threedoor

        But not THAT authority!

      • The Other Kevin

        There were recently lefties pushing some sort of “media literacy” for kids, and the basic idea was to tell them what institutions were “trustworthy”. NY Times, CNN, NPR good, Fox, X bad.

  25. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Now that we’re down to the Final 4, it looks like the winner of the Glib’s March Madness competition is between Shpip and Rat on a Train who picked Michigan and Arizona respectively to win it all. Whiz is currently sitting in second, but his upside is limited by having picked Duke to win it all.

  26. Fourscore

    I didn’t pay much attention to “No Kings” over the weekend, other than a lot meaningless signs. I’m not a Trump fan but the signs didn’t over a solution, if in the minds of the protesters they meant Trump.

    How about signs “Impeach Trump, call your congressperson” The disregard Trump has shown towards the Constitution certainly warrants consideration.

    The VN war protesters marched with a purpose, these folks today have been marketed with some meaningless jingoism

    • juris imprudent

      The disregard Trump has shown towards the Constitution certainly warrants consideration.

      Oh no, there’s really nothing wrong with that, it’s just he is Trump – that’s everything that is wrong! /tards

    • Threedoor

      Protesting Vietnam was about Jody getting HS girls in the back seat wasent it?

      • Fourscore

        I was at Camp Drum as Nixon’s regime was falling apart. I watched the hearings daily, evidence kept trickling out, little by little.

        Rather than answer to the impeachment calls he resigned in disgrace. I have the time now, I could watch the same thing again.

    • The Other Kevin

      I notice that too. They have no purpose or result in mind, just “I hate Trump”. It’s nothing more than group therapy.

      “No King” is terrible branding. Way too vague.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Not to mention utterly retarded in a country with no king, and with a President who won both the real and fake votes.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      It’s all just a massive group therapy session designed to get their 2 minute hate taken care of.

      There is no substance. No point beyond “We hate Trump.”

    • Ed Wuncler

      It’s all pretty meaningless. I remember getting into an argument with a former acquaintance of mine about the misuse of power by the Left during the Biden years and COVID. He basically said that it’s okay that the Left does these things because the Right is evil and needs to be stopped by any means possible. In response I told him that it’s not that he doesn’t like the boot being on people’s necks, it’s just that he prefers his side wearing the boot (as do most partisans). He got really mad at that statement because in their minds they don’t see themselves as the baddies.

      • Gdragon

        C.S. Lewis tried to warn us about these types. “I’m helping you, stop fighting me!!!!”

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