“Not guilty, muthafuckas!” the hat said, strolling into the Oval-Office-in-exile, flip-flops slapping against the Mexican tile floor.
“How long are you going to keep saying that?” the hair asked, clinging to the inside bars of his gilt toucan cage.
“Until it sinks in,” the hat said pointedly. “And when I’m done sticking a shiv in all the ones who have betrayed me.”
The hair hummed a few bars of “Paranoid.”
“Shit like that is why he put you in the cage,” the hat said dryly.
“He put me in here because you said I was a Jew baby-eater,” the hair said, shaking, shedding a bit of himself onto The New York Times lining the floors of his cage.
“Burr, Collins, Cassidy, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and that other one…” the hat seethed. “They won’t see me coming. I’ll just be a hat that someone mailed them… and then I’ll strike!”
“Pat Toomey,” the hair said.
“Yes, Toomey. Droopy-Dog Toomey with the startled robot smile…” the hat said.
“Is the Oval Office done yet?” Donald said, coming into the sunny room. He was wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt, board shorts, black dress socks, and loafers. And a “Make America Great Again Again Again” visor on his head with a dollop of yellow wig hair poking out of the top like an aroused prairie dog.
“We’re still working on the permits,” that hair said.
“The county stands in our way,” the hat said, glaring at the visor with naked hatred.
“We’ll pressure DeSantis,” Donald said. “I’ll call him tonight. Put that on the social calendar.”
“Yes, sir!” the hat said.
“Kiss-ass,” the hair hissed.
“Good work on McConnell,” Donald said, awkwardly climbing into his President-in-exile hammock.
“Dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack,” the hat said. “I was really proud of that line.”
“Sullen means unsmiling,” the hair said.
“Shut up!” the hat snapped.
“Dour also means sullen,” the hair said.
“Don’t make me come up there,” the hat said through gritted bill.
“Basically three words that mean the same thing,” the hair whispered.
The hat howled with rage.
“Can I get out of this cage?” the hair asked Donald. “That wig looks terrible. What if someone took a picture of you playing golf in it?”
“And the visor doesn’t even talk,” the hat said tightly, trying to stay calm. “What’s the point of wearing a hat that doesn’t talk?”
“It keeps the sun out of my eyes,” Donald said blithely.
“I keep the sun out of your eyes!” the hat yelled.
“And you two go native when we’re outside,” Donald said.
“So do you!” the hair and hat said together.
“This is our new home,” Donald said, watching the reflections of the pool play across the ceiling. “We have to master Florida or it will master us.”
“I think it’s all the Monster Energy drink evaporated in the atmosphere,” the hair said.
“And we still haven’t gone somewhere on a fan boat,” the hat said. “Do we even have a fan boat? How can we be authentic Floridians without a fan boat?”
“You two better be watching your episodes of Miami Vice,” Donald grumbled.
“We’re halfway through season one,” the hair sullenly.
“You should get a Ferrari!” the hat said.
“USA hat would have loved a Ferrari,” the hair said dourly.
“He’s gone now,” the hat said, “Speak of him no more. He has gone a progress through the guts of an alligator, the most Florida death of them all.”
The hair climbed to his perch, unsmiling, and set it swinging.
“Do we even have a fan boat? How can we be authentic Floridians without a fan boat?”
Well? Can they?
He was wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt, board shorts, black dress socks, and loafers.
I thought this was fiction?
Uh-unh. I always wondered how SF got the bugs inside the Oval Office, but now I’m beginning to think he has some kind of implant on The Donald himself.
It’s the only possible explanation for how searingly accurate – even predictive – these pieces are.
‘Sup Ozy!
Hockey started up a couple weeks ago. I’m already walking normally again!
Tundra! I got my first hatty last night in a competitive game on ice since the Clinton Administration. All good ones, too. No cheapies (EN) or greasies.*
*I note that all that matters is that it went in and I have a particular fetish for greasy goals in front of the net. BUT… in all fairness, there are snipes and dangles, and then there are greasies.
Cheapies, Dangles and Greasies–are you sure these aren’t terms for different kinds of street prostitutes?
*spits on ground*
How does PA manage to have such POS senators all the time? They’re some of the worst.
Damned if I know.
When you border NY, NJ and MD on three sides, what do you expect?
Probably because if the Republican senators weren’t POS, then there would only be Democrat senators. The suburbanite social climbers and virtue signalers are not going to put up with an Trumpster senator. And I’ve already heard from two voters who reluctantly voted from Trump that they will no longer support Penna. Republicans if the State GOP censures Toomey.
Boo hoo. RINO voters demand party be a vestigial appendage of the Democrat machine. I hope you gave them voter registration cards on the spot so they can fuck right off.
This.
I’ll go so far as to say it would be better in the long term for these RINO seats to flip blue, if only to purge the GOP of the slow-lane socialism contingent.
So GOP would be a permanent minority and Penna. could become like NJ, NY, CA and IL?
I looked at used ’85 Testarossas recently. Still a bit too much for me to justify. Now, Magnum’s ’79 308 GTS on the other hand, can be had for a reasonable price.
I’ll keep my GTI.
I want an early 70s Dino soooooo much. Used to be you could get one for 50k, which seemed quite a bit for a Ferrari the purists say isn’t a real Ferrari. Now they’re 3 times that much.
My Uncle had one one back in the late ’70s. Beautiful car that was a fucking nightmare to actually do anything with. I think he managed to break even on it, but he sold it right before they really took off.
I watch them (308s) for fun, but deep down I know that that upkeep would give me hives.
Happy to live vicariously through you, though!
Bingo. It’s like the people who buy old Rolls-Royces for $25K who then discover that it’s going to cost them thousands of dollars a year to keep it running.
Same for planes like a Cessna 414…
There’s an old roller pretty much rotting on its tires around the corner, for what I assume are those reasons.
When my daughter’s Xterra was totaled in the windstorm last summer, we started looking for replacements.
We found an ad for a BMW X5 in the desired price range. So we started looking at reviews.
The review with the most impact said “If you can afford a brand new BMW, then you can’t afford and old BMW”.
My son was supposed to inherit a 928 (from his godfather), but it would’ve cost him more than he could afford to get the thing running. Not sure what happened to that car.
He dodged a bullet. Nice car, though.
There is some success with these cars by putting a Chevy LS and transmission in them (just like ’70s Jags) that makes them affordable to drive.
Looks like Limbaugh has passed away..
Fuck cancer, yo.
Speaking of cancer, do not look at twitter for tweets about Limbaugh.
Twitter: an infinite number of monkeys flinging shit.
A man who shaped my view of politics from a very young age. I may have outgrown the show and disagreed with some of his politics, but the man taught me that TMITE and that politicians are scum, and for that I am ever grateful for him.
^^ I think that will be the take for a lot of people that aren’t ghouls.
Never listened to him but I am well aware that the left thinks he’s Evil incarnate so he must have been doing something right.
It took the left and Jon Stewart 25 years to successfully replicate him. It takes boku talent to properly balance satirical comedy and straight reporting.
This was probably his best statement:
“We love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims. We don’t see people we want to exploit. What we see — what we see is potential. We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work. We do not see that person with contempt. We don’t think that person doesn’t have what it takes. We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path like onerous taxes, regulations and too much government,”
Huh. That’s pretty fucking libertarian.
Yep. Sadly, he was also pretty strong on moral conservatism. He supported the war on drugs because, paraphrasing, “we need to protect people from themselves.”
Oh, I didn’t mean to imply that he was a libertarian, just that the LP might just flat-out plagiarize that statement. It’s really good.
What a monster.
When people express hatred for someone who says something like that…it’s a clue. Recently a relative outed herself. I knew for 30 years she was a closet commie but being emboldened by her hatred for president ‘We will never be a socialist country’ and the Biden/pinko election she said two things to me on the phone:
“Poverty is not a bad thing. Your worship of prosperity make me think of greed.”
and
“No facts, no arguments, nothing you can say will change my mind”
I am sure she is celebrating Limbaugh’s death as we speak.
I can’t call those people out or it would make me a hypocrite. I was glad/satisfied when RBG died. I don’t think that makes me a monster; it just makes me happy an evil opponent is out of the way.
While RBG’s passing also made me – satisfied? optimistic? – it was because she had power over my life and used that power to vote to make me ever more a subject instead of a citizen. As a person, I held no particular ill-will towards her.
Rush had no power over anybody – people who are happy he’s dead just didn’t like his ideas and speech.
To connect to slumbrew a little; Mojeaux I suspect you would have been happy had RBG retired and gone away. I’m seeing people celebrating death. I think there’s a little distinction there although I take your overall point.
Yes.
I second slumbrew’s comment. I don’t feel bad about the death of some people because I don’t like them but because it is the only way they will give up the power to fuck with my life.
Right its one thing to not feel empathy for their deaths and another to dance on their graves to gain some twisted notion of moral high ground.
My thought, too, Mojeaux, is that when RBG died, you were satisfied, but you didn’t celebrate. I think that is a distinction. I won’t be sad when someone like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi snuffs it, but I also won’t dance on carry on about it. We go on with our lives satisfied that someone who had power to destroy can’t exercise that power anymore. People could choose to tune out of Rush’s show; people could only choose to ignore RBG’s rulings with the possibility of having their lives ruined.
She was 87, had achieved the pinnacle of her profession, and died with her boots on – I didn’t see anything to be particularly sad about.
I see Rush Limbaugh died today. I am not surprised, he was very ill. He was a trooper though, he kept working nearly to the end.
Cue the pinkos dancing in the street in glee, ghouls that they are.
He will be missed, a great American
He got me started on the road I’m on today. In high school I was into art, and of course all those kids were lefties. But I didn’t pay too much attention. Then in college I started taking art classes at a store during the day, and the old timers used to put on Limbaugh. A few years later it was a short jump from conservative to libertarian.
I was thinking about him a lot lately. When I listened to him, he could go over the top. “Liberals want to take your guns and throw you in jail”. It sounded crazy back then. But today, the left is talking about all those “crazy” things out in the open.
#Metoo
I really liked his tv show in the early 90’s. Much more condensed than his radio ramblings.
Cue the pinkos dancing in the street in glee, ghouls that they are.
They are the very definition of “classy”
What? How? The Hat as feet?
The Hat becomes more anthropomorphic the more time he spends in Fla.
I’m picturing some sort of gator-feet that have grown out from his sides as contact with the primordial Florida swamp-essence has reactivated some long-forgotten vestigial DNA.
“How long are you going to keep saying that?” the hair asked, clinging to the inside bars of his gilt toucan cage.
First of many legit lol moments.
Nice one, SF.
The Days Without Sugar are good ones.
*sits seiza, begins meditating*
Rushed out of this world.
Conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh passed away on Wednesday morning at 70-years-old following his year-long battle with lung cancer.
Limbaugh’s “The Rush Limbaugh Show” first aired in 1988 and spent 33 years on the air, growing from being nationally syndicated with 56 radio stations to more than 600 stations with up to nearly 27 million weekly listeners.
“I wasn’t expected to be alive today,” Limbaugh said in his final radio broadcast of 2020, according to Fox News. “I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today.”
Can’t wait to see the solemn, response from tolerant leftists.
*skims comments*
Look like I was third with the news. Oh, well.
Of course they’re going to dance on the grave of the person who basically created fake news and divided the country.
Of course Limbaugh is dead. How else would Donald be able to take over his show?
*blinks*
*blinks*
Dark yet perfect
He truly has been imbued with the gift of prophesy by the Old Ones!
Is it really prophesy if you actively make it happen?
I mean the Old Ones, not SF.
I can’t sit through a minute of Trump blabbering. I can’t imagine sitting through a 4 hour show.
I couldn’t sit through a minute of Limbaugh blabbering, much less a 4 hour show. So… no change.
That too
I started listening to him and quickly decided he was as likely to take some lefty statement out of context and then proceed to tell us “what they really want” as, say, Joe Scarborough or Rachel Maddow was for the other side. I can’t stand that lying and half-truth shit whether it comes from Rush or Hannity or Tucker or Lester Holt or Dan Rather or Chucky Todd. Tell me your opinion, cool, but don’t piss on my shoes and tell me it’s raining.
So of course the EIB network will be renamed the Trump network, right?
Of course, we all know that those were not real Ferarri’s to start with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars_in_Miami_Vice
The Testarossas were, except when they needed to perform in ways the real Testarossa couldn’t (one example is that when in a spin-out maneuver, the real Testarossa would stall out) or when certain maneuvers or stunts were performed that had a high risk of crash.
The Daytona was always a kit car built on a Corvette body.
Sorry to go OT so soon. Just finished the annual HR compliance training. At one point in the “training” they say something along the lines of be conscious of your privilege. They left out white, but it was pretty obvious what they were insinuating. They’re really pushing it to the edge of getting sued.
COMPLY YOU FUCKING SERF!
Male privilege
Hetero privilege
Cis privilege
English-speaking privilege
Non-Latinx privilege
First-world privilege
The intersectionality of your thoughtcrimes.
If I come from Scottish/Italian stock, am I actually white, though?
As long as you’re not Irish.
*harrumphs
And you’re just the cracker to do it?
Sued? Is that happening? Anywhere at all? I don’t see any pushback on this stuff whatsoever, other than that Damore kid and we all saw what happened to him.
We have to get rid of your privilege rather than increasing the opportunities and privileges of other. This way we’ll all be equally oppressed.
I had to take a mandatory, tracked survey that posed a series of questions and scenarios to which I had to answer. Many questions were intricately worded and I had trouble deciding the “correct” answer even going with the white people=evil viewpoint.
Let me practice my click-bait headline writing:
CNN, NBC, ABC Pay TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars to CAPITOL INSURRECTIONIST for SNUFF FILM!
Huh. So there were left wing activists at the capitol riot. Who’da thunk it? That is just shocking.
*Pelosi looks away and mumbles “I dont know anything about that” *
A thick layer of irony:
Sullivan, who founded the social justice group Insurgence USA
How many times do you have to be told IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
From the article:
it is oppressive to require that he not be allowed to continue his primary area of employment for an extended period of time,” Steven R. Kiersh, the Sullivan lawyer
Ummm. About that.
It’s not like he made a joke about a victimhood class or anything like that.
I was thinking more along the lines of the lockdowns being oppressive as they prevent people from their primary employment for an extended or even permanent amount of time.
That too
The article is STILL peddling this bullshit….
Died not killed.
During, I guess in close time proximity. They’re skirting the edge here.
Sort of.
Sicknick died several hours after it was over. The presumption, still, is that his death was definitely as a direct result of the riot, and considering they haven’t released his official COD, I assume the riot had nothing to do with his death several hours after it was over. If they could spin it, even the slightest bit of evidence would do. That they can’t tells me he died of something else.
Another Covid death attributed to Trump, obviously.
During, I guess in close time proximity. They’re skirting the edge here.
No, during means during, as in “while the riot was going on”. They are lying.
Lots of people died while the riot was going on; they just weren’t anywhere near the riot.
About 340 people die on average every hour in the US. If the riot lasted two hours, then almost seven hundred people died during the riot. TRUMP IS A MASS MURDERER!
But we already knew that.
Do we know how the three died who had medical conditions? Were they aged? Did they have heart issues? I’ve heard several cases of crime victims or others who have gotten overly excited from something, had their blood pressure spike, and then keeled over dead. Are there any cases of old folks checking out while being in a BLM riot, a Pussy Hat parade, or Occupy Wall Street?
Since we don’t know, we can presume that none of the information fits The Narrative™ and therefore will be ignored.
This.
If it doesn’t fit the narrative, we will either never know about it, or hear it from non-approved sources, where it will be attacked by the Fact Check Brigade.
TW: Wikipedia
– Boyland was trampled to death by people rushing to breach a tunnel entrance on the west side of the Capitol
– Greeson had a heart attack outdoors on the Capitol grounds, and was declared dead at 2:05 p.m., shortly before the breach of the Capitol
– Philips died of a stroke at the hospital after splitting from his group at 10:30 in the morning.
The other two who died were Sicknick & Babbitt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol
So Greenwald has it right.
Not a single personal was intentionally killed by a rioter or protester. Someone was trampled, which is an accidental death, but the only person killed was a rioter, and it was done by a cop.
But remember: the InSuRgEnCy!!! has to be portrayed as the most dangerous event since Trump’s great Tweetstorm of 2018, so the narrative will continue to be fudged until it disappears completely.
“Four other people died during the riots, including Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick.”
Factually incorrect.
How much you wanna bet the Fact Check Brigade will let that one slide?
Dan’s Bake Sale.
Good times….
Ya know, in his early years, he tended to be against some of the conspiracies (trilateral commission) sort of stuff.
But with all of the stupid stuff the GOP has done in the past, i wonder if he ever changed his views. He certainly soured on the GOP machine.
LOL I was wondering if anybody remembered that but me and Yusef.
I remember it. Dan failed to cash in, making only enough to cover the subscription which was the original point of the bake sale.
Can I say I am both surprised and yet not surprised that Beijing Biden buttfucks those that voted for him thinking they would make others pay for their education?
And some quit paying loans in anticipation of free shit,
HAHAHAHA!!!!
Stupid is as stupid does
Good: So he does at least handjob the idea that the president doesn’t have unlimited power to just do whatever.
But, legally speaking, what’s the fucking difference between signing an EO forgiving $50k of debt, and signing one that “only” forgives $10k in debt? The mechanism and the act are exactly the same, just using different numbers. It he does or does not have the authority to do one, the same should follow for the other.
It’s like saying he doesn’t have the authority to drone 10 Americans, but it’s perfectly within his authority to drone two of them.
Oh. Wait. Nevermind.
Some sort of stimulus package?
If we had a president beholden to limited executive authority as a first principle, it would stimulate my package.
Also, fuck you!
Talk about incentivizing the growth of government.
If you contribute to society you must repay your loans. If you go in to the noble civil service where all you do is leach off if the productive sectors, the taxpayers will float your bill.
If you go in to government, “society” will subsidize your entire life.
Yes. I’m sure that Norway’s Climate Guy will totally welcome losing the only thing floating his grand welfare state.
Norway would crumble without their oil fund. This guy is full of shit.
That said, this is the first time I’ve seen anyone on the left mention Norway’s hypocrisy. Sure, their country which is less populated than Kentucky is well on their way to being a renewable-only country. But it was all paid for, along with the rest of their welfare state, by oil. As soon as that’s gone, they’re fucked.
~sf
What is Venezuela,
AlexKen?I have privilege privilege.
Top that.
I have impostor privilege, I don’t think I’m as privileged as I really am,
I would add up my privilege, but that would require forbidden math.
Now this would be a real loss. A guy who truly had no fucks to give.
Boss
He was forced to give up driving at the age of 97, after smashing into a car while driving a Land Rover near Sandringham estate in January 2019.
Oh yeah, he was played by that one actor — you know, the British guy who isn’t Bandersnatch Camembert.
Rush Limbaugh has passed. While I can’t say I was a huge fan, I did respect the guy’s staying power and ability to think on his feet. His choice of Walter Williams as a guest host always suggested to me that he was probably even smarter than he let on.
I’ll be avoiding anti-social media the next couple of days. I really have no appetite for the ghouls who are going to come out of the woodwork to attack a better mind than their own.
I can’t sit through a minute of Trump blabbering.
#METOO
Limbaugh kept me company on many a long, lonely commute. He made me understand a few things about how politics works. I haven’t listened to him in years because I outgrew him, but he was one of the way stations to libertarianism. TOS was the next one up after that. Now I am here and still learning and growing.
What The Other Kevin said above. It is a short jump from conservatism to libertarianism.
I was never a conservative but I subscribe to a lot of their values. Conservatism exists because imperfect people developed a system of values by learning from their mistakes. It isn’t a perfect system of values but it is worlds better than leftist systems that promote making stupid mistakes. Toss in a little self ownership and voila…you have libertarianism.
“It is a short jump from conservatism to libertarianism”
That’s pretty much how I got there. Once I stopped being a leftist, conservatism won out. But, when the arguments were basically, the government should leave us alone to make money, live our lives, etc., it became inconsistent for me to say government should leave ME alone but it should control those icky gay people and drug addicts. Of course, once I got to minimalism, it was hard to argue against anarcho-capitalism.
I grew up when the USSR was raging and debate about leftism/rightism was common. I heard all of the arguments early on and since I grew up in a very rural setting I was very much a ‘leave me the fuck alone’ type. It was the rural south so I had my craw full of evangelical conservatives early on. I had a strong sense of small L libertarianism but it took a while for me to clarify that.
The problem now is the use of the word libertarianism. Most people calling themselves by that name are just some flavor of closet leftist. See: TOS.
I noticed conservatives, around the time of the Tea Party during their bid to distance themselves from those conservatives in gov who brought out the Big Checkbook, try to pass themselves as libertarian as well. It was pretty common.
That sort of reminds me of a point I’ve heard about the Pareto distribution. It’s better known as the 80/20 rule. And it’s actually surprisingly common in the world. You wind up seeing 80% of books read are only 20% of those published. That’s only 20% of books written. 80% of new businesses fail in their first year. 80% of the work done by an organization is done by 20% of their people. The list goes on. Yeah, the percentages might vary. But, it’s a matter of calibration. The main point is this. Most things aren’t excellent. Most aren’t even close. Most big ideas generally pan out to be atrocious failures. Sticking with the proven good ones until you know there’s something better is generally not a bad strategy.
And everything you just said is beyond the grasp of 80% of people.
Certainly HR who thinks if they can ape the characteristics of “great” companies, success will automatically follow.
I used to rail against the “cargo cult” tendencies of our former senior management who seemed to think that if they did some of the things big, successful companies did as a result of their success, that our success would follow. They didn’t get that those companies did those things *because they could following their success or because of their size*, not that they were successful or large because they did those things.
Exactly. Or wet streets cause rain.
+1 Director of Diversity
See, also – “home-ownership creates middle-class families”.
As Insty put it so well:
Exactly so. I’ve said for years, the kinds of people who push these policies have the cause-effect chain all wrong.
Ditto, by the way, for the “people who graduate from school, get married, and then have kids are more successful than those who drop out of school and start popping out babies out of wedlock, so if you finish school, get married, then have kids, you’ll be more successful!” It’s a matter of character and discipline, not just proceeding with things in a certain order.
80 percent of people grasp less than 20% of it?
20% of people grasp 80% of it.
Wait, this is getting confusing.
The last company I worked for had “80/20” as their mantra. If you said “Pareto,” you would be corrected on your unfortunate terminology.
That said, if you live and breathe it, it really is a great business philosophy. Several of their execs started a consulting business where basically, in exchange for a big fat check, that’s what they teach their clients.
Fun site:
8020.net
It’s tinkertoys for grownups. Pricey tho.
Huh, I’ve driven by their building dozens of times and I always wondered what they do but never remembered to look it up once I got home.
One of my vendors uses their stuff to make his chassis.
I thought about making a stereo rack out if it, but balked at the price tag.
I made a four passenger tram car with that stuff.
I want to enclose things in conductive polycarbonate. Just think how quiet it would be without EMI.
It would be quiet without EMI
I tried to get my maintenance dept. to start using the 8020 stuff instead of welding every gotdam thing when doing the smallest of fabrication jobs. Then when we need to make a change down the road it’d easier and less wa$teful. They just love to weld though. I gave up.
I made a comment about how we needed a stepover, and a month later this gorgeous overbuilt monstrosity welded out of 3/8″ aluminum plate and square tubing arrived. Beautiful work. The $7000 invoice that came with it was kind of a bummer but we managed to stuff it into a safety project.
Yep, gotta respect their art.
We used to use similar extruded parts to build up pilot test plants and other prototypes. When I built my home brewery frame, I considered using this stuff, but the cost was so high, I was able to buy a MIG welder and rectangular stainless tubing and do it myself for a lot less (it took a little bit of time to learn the welding process, but not much–MIG is pretty simple).
Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap.
He was a Sci-Fi author and someone was deriding the genre because most of it was very poor. Sturgeon’s point was it was true about every genre.
I’d be interested in seeing if anyone can come up with 10% of social media posts that aren’t crap. I’d imagine it’s more like 0.1% or less.
Iowahawk.
Malice.
+1 on both Iowahawk and Malice. They are two that make twitter almost appealing. Almost.
I had to take a mandatory, tracked survey that posed a series of questions and scenarios to which I had to answer.
Are there politicians in the trolley?
I ran across this the other day & though it may be relevant to your interests:
https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes
Interesting, but seems like it would be easily defeated.
Looks like Microsoft already has.
Of course they did.
I’m not sure about “easily” – it looks like the Azure change may have specifically been aimed at one particular implementation they did, which may (probably?) means it’s a fragile change.
Still, very interesting research.
This is top notch innovation. Even if his implementation is easily defeated, he floated the idea, and someone will pick it up and do it right.
In my ideal world it would cause any running of facial recognition soft ware a program like this would cause the server to wipe itself and turn off the cooling fans.
Very interesting.
Of course, they could be lying to us and they are a data collection warehouse too…
*makes new tinfoil hat*
Oh I love spending an hour troubleshooting a high priority ticket that was all caused by a coworker not paying attention and checking things (which he’s been told to check repeatedly).
*sighs*
The company announced the appointment of an Affirmative Action Officer.
*checks internet for rumors of Samsng’s new Austin fab*
Please tell me he’s white.
He? Seriously?
lolsnort
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/about/executive-order-11246-history#:~:text=On%20March%206%2C%201961%2C%20shortly,without%20regard%20to%20their%20race%2C
On March 6, 1961, shortly after JFK took office, he signed Executive Order 10925, opening a new chapter in achieving access to good jobs by requiring government contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color or national origin.”
A few weeks shy of 60 years.
If you say we need Affirmative Action after implementing Affirmative Action for THREE FUCKING GENERATIONS, then I say that is proof that Affirmative Action DOESN”T FUCKING WORK.
then I say that is proof that Affirmative Action
DOESN”T FUCKING WORKHASN’T BEEN TRIED HARD ENOUGH.The bill for my diversity and inclusion consulting is in the mail.
I was 4 years old when JFK blessed us with affirmative action.
It will still be here when I die.
While checking the Samsung press release site, I saw they were having a “Seoul Sisters” event. So not woke. But their mangaers are such assholes…
So… the exact opposite of what actually happened. Interesting, that.
“I wish the government would ban hot women, then they’d be everywhere.”
/paraphrased from some memory
https://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/wolf-military-classic-65-grendel-fmj-100-grain-500-rounds
Talk me out of ordering 5k rounds and a new upper.
There’s unarmed people in
ChinaCanada?Looks like it already sold out. See how easy that was?
Backorderable.
Berdan primed.
I looked yesterday and found zero primers, powder, brass and the only bullets available were the high end very expensive stuff. Almost everyone had purchase limits on the stuff they were allowing backorders on.
Sounds like a bad company.
I’ve never dealt with them before, and it looks like i won’t now.
We don’t need to.
You blinked.
Mostly unrelated to anything, but has anyone posted this link yet?
When CNN is attacking a Dem politician, it’s like a sealed letter from the Vatican. I’ll predict it now: Cuomo is toast. He is going to be served up; the rats and hyenas smell blood.
Any guesses as to how content was the progressive assemblyman (“man”? really, CNN?) with Cuomo’s long career of threats against wrongthinkers on the other side of the aisle?
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
He is going to be served up; the rats and hyenas smell blood.
Maybe. On the other hand, I can’t think of a place that, if I were one of the powers in the Democratic party, that I’d rather he be. Cuomo is now compromised. But, he remains popular. At this point, he can be dispensed with at any moment whenever it’s convenient. That means he’ll go along with any program he’s told to go along with.
“But, he remains popular.”
That is beyond my comprehension.
He’s a Democrat you’ve heard of. Most people don’t think any further than that.