Monday Afternoon Links

by | Apr 24, 2023 | Daily Links | 142 comments

I took the family to the zoo this weekend. The zookeepers refused to let us leave the primate habitat until I could prove that I brought the four monkeys with us. They have this animatronic bug exhibit that was pretty cool. Except they were all smaller than the average Florida cockroach (that’s hyperbole there, they were quite large). I probably should have been a better husband and told my wife about the bombadier beetle shooting water. My way was funnier. Let’s see what we have for links for you today…

When God wants you, there is no safe place to take a piss.

This is, to use a word from my kids, “sus” as hell.

I am just shocked to find out that CNN was serious enough about finding an audience to let Don Lemon go. Oh wow, Tucker is out, too. Who will Boomers use to link asinine, fear-mongering stories to?

Zog think wheel make people lazy and weak. That’s my basic take on the AI stuff. Mostly, it will help more people survive, occasionally, it will allow them to be crushed under a load no single animal could carry, or converted into a torture device.

 

I’ll keep up with Spud’s music theme.

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Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

142 Comments

  1. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    I intend to use AI to write new pickup lines.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Are you a magician? Because whenever I look at you, everyone else disappears.

      Excuse me, do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes.

      Are you a bank loan? Because you have my interest.

      Are you a time traveler? Because I can’t imagine my future without you.

      Do you have a Band-Aid? Because I just scraped my knee falling for you.

      Please use these lines with caution and always remember to be respectful and mindful of the other person’s boundaries.

      I am not gonna get any, am I?

      • Rat on a train

        Are you from around here? Because your speech patterns don’t match my training set.

      • Sean

        You might get some pepper spray.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Are you a bot? Because I can’t believe you’re real.

      • creech

        A friend who scored a lot told me “Wannafug?” worked enough times to make up for the more numerous rejections.

      • Michael Malaise

        Are we talking just quantity over quality here?

      • slumbrew

        1) Be attractive.
        2) Don’t be unattractive.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Not with that attitude!

    • Rat on a train

      Can AI protect people from flying cows?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        As an AI language model, I exist solely in the digital realm and therefore do not have a physical body to defend. However, if you find yourself in a situation where you need to defend yourself from a flying cow, here are a few suggestions:

        Seek shelter: If possible, seek shelter in a building or vehicle until the cow has passed.

        Move out of the way: If you cannot find shelter, try to move out of the way of the cow’s path.

        Use a deterrent: You may try using a loud noise or bright light to deter the cow.

        Contact authorities: If the cow poses a danger to others, contact local authorities such as animal control or the police to handle the situation.

        It is important to remember that cows are not typically aggressive animals and are unlikely to fly, so it is important to approach the situation with caution and avoid causing harm to the animal if possible.

      • Nephilium

        AI isn’t Earthworm Jim.

    • SDF-7

      “What’s your towing capacity?”

      “Do you have a bed liner?”

      “How easy is it to clean you up when I get your undercarriage all dirty?”

      • Bobarian LMD

        I like me some big ole mud-flaps…

      • Plinker762

        I was not disappointed.

      • Tres Cool

        Heartily approves!

  2. Rebel Scum

    Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died immediately after being struck by a flying cow which was hit and flung 100 feet into the air by an express train.

    Sharma had been urinating on the track in the region of Alwar, India, when the freak incident occurred.

    Instant karma.

  3. Michael Malaise

    That’s the best swastika photo they have of the kid?

    Sus AF.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I think that’s the notaswastika version of the swastika… because it’s not one.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Autistic and nonverbal, she probably noticed it after a bath. Imma just chalk this one up to standard matronly panickiness.

      • Michael Malaise

        Can’t dry it off before snapping a pic? Weird.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Aesthetic choice? All panicky mothers want their hastily snapped photos to look their best.

      • Fourscore

        I had better scratches on my back from just one night with a cheap illiterate hooker

      • Bobarian LMD

        Brad Pitt licked it after he was done with his bowie knife.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I made a mistake. I thought that the whole Nascar “noose” debacle was going to be the most ridiculously obvious hate crime hoax that the media would be willing to push. I should have had less faith in them. My bad.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        This is, to use a word from my kids, “sus” as hell.

        Maybe. This would have been extreme, but not out of place for my high school. I imagine divisions are even worse today.

        I broke a classmate’s nose during school after being called a kike. He backed down or it would have gone farther. Antisemitism wasn’t common, but it wasn’t unknown. The racial divides went deeper. Another guy didn’t have his friends for support and was held down by a group of black guys in the locker room. They came fairly close to raping him, but let him go with just bruises and a wounded ego. He was white and alone. They were simply bored.

        Stuff like this story happens. Division is purposefully stoked to divide the populace. And there are some evil motherfuckers out there. There was a news story last year about a kid with autism being kidnapped and tortured by classmates. Those classmates proudly shared the video online, so definitely not a hoax. There are of course plenty of hoaxes as well.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I know this kind of stuff happens all the time in high schools. Some times kids are ignorant and sometimes they think saying racist stuff is just edgy.
        1)

      • Compelled Speechless

        Didn’t mean to post. I was reacting to the picture of the “carving” in the article. It doesn’t look any thing like a swastika. I’m also sick of one-off anecdotes like this turning into national news and being used to indicate that there’s some kind pattern of growing antisemitism. Most of the time, asshole kids are just asshole kids.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The squirrels are out today. I didn’t mean my post as a reply to yours.

        As far as the picture, I get that too. People can’t draw for shit, and, if this story is true, I’m sure the kid didn’t oblige his captors by sitting still while they carved into his flesh.

        I posted about here about this story when it happened. A guy worked for me for years doing odd jobs on the property. After a few years, his shirt sleeve rode up and I noticed the the worst swastika tat on his arm I’d ever seen. I asked him about it and it was so bad that he said most people thought it was man running. Prison tat. He used the offered money to get a cover up and keep working for me instead of taking the cash as severance (my two offered choices).

      • rhywun

        And all it does is gin up more of the same shit.

      • Compelled Speechless

        If I didn’t know that everyone who works at corporate news orgs was a paragon of integrity, humility and accuracy, I might get silly ideas like ginning shit up is actually their main goal.

        ***Reshapes tinfoil into a tasteful old-timey press fedora***

      • Michael Malaise

        I think they should get famed Swastika Hunter Sarah Silverman on the case.

    • B.P.

      The classmates were so diabolical that they carved the insignia for the 2nd SS Panzer Division on the kid.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Ziss ist not how ve do tings in za ver-mahct!

  4. Shpip

    A Las Vegas mother says her Jewish son, who is autistic, returned home from high school with a swastika carved into his back last month.

    Ahh, the tried-and-true Morton Downey Jr. gambit. Always good for a bit of sympathy from the gullible.

  5. Rebel Scum

    A Las Vegas mother says her Jewish son, who is autistic, returned home from high school with a swastika carved into his back last month.

    The FBI is investigating the incident after the mother, who requested to remain anonymous in media reports, filed complaints with both the Clark County School District and local law enforcement. Her son attends typical classes but is nonverbal and uses a service dog.

    I did nazi that coming.

    • Sean

      I blame the dog.

      • Bobarian LMD

        The dog’s name… Blondi.

        Just a coincidence.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Do you know who else liked dogs?

      • creech

        Tommy Rettig?

      • Spudalicious

        South Koreans?

      • Bobarian LMD

        The next letter in the LGBTQRSTLMNOQ+ sequence?

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Dennis Renold’s gramps?

    • Homple

      I knew somebody was Göring to say that.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep, somebody Reich here.

  6. DEG

    Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died immediately after being struck by a flying cow which was hit and flung 100 feet into the air by an express train.

    Sharma had been urinating on the track in the region of Alwar, India, when the freak incident occurred.

    At least it wasn’t a flying pig.

  7. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Do Hindus consider it a special honor to be killed by a flying cow?

  8. Rebel Scum

    It’s a bold strategy, Cotton…

    Hunter Biden’s legal team is asking the Treasury Department to investigate a former Trump aide for circulating federal banking records linked to the president’s son and Congress to take action against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her statements about Biden.

    Letters sent Monday morning to the House Ethics Committee and the Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General and obtained by NBC News are among the latest efforts in an increasingly public and aggressive strategy from Hunter Biden’s legal team, led by attorney Abbe Lowell.

    • Sean

      Hunter Biden’s legal team

      That’s gotta be a rough job.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m sure it pays well, but does it pay well enough to offset the liver damage from all the drinking?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Probably a lot better than being on Trump’s legal team.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Someone’s gotta keep the coke fires burning.

      • Spudalicious

        That smelts fishy.

      • Spudalicious

        Did you get the joke? Coke fire? Smelt? The fishy is just a red herring.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        I thought you were talking about strippers…

  9. slumbrew

    By Jaron Lanier

    Jay-sus, where did they dig him up from?

    I remember when he was everywhere, touted as this visionary. He always struck me as “often wrong, never in doubt”.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Why A I?

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s refusal to issue patents for inventions his artificial intelligence system created.

    The justices turned away Thaler’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that patents can be issued only to human inventors and that his AI system could not be considered the legal creator of two inventions that he has said it generated.

    Thaler founded Imagination Engines Inc, an advanced artificial neural network technology company based in Saint Charles, Missouri. According to Thaler, his DABUS system, short for Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience, created unique prototypes for a beverage holder and emergency light beacon entirely on its own.

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a federal judge in Virginia rejected his patent applications for the inventions on the grounds that DABUS is not a person. The patent-focused U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld those decisions last year and said U.S. patent law unambiguously requires inventors to be human beings.

    I suppose if he claimed the design as his own the computer would kill him in his sleep.

    • Sean

      It’s a Banana Junior 6000.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      patent law unambiguously requires inventors to be human beings.

      Speciesists

  11. B.P.

    Ooh. Live Nation dropped an invitation in my email….

    “On the final tour stop for her 2022 bestseller The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama unpacks her toolbox, sharing personal stories, hard-won wisdom, practical advice, and hearty laughs in a wide-ranging conversation with pal Oprah Winfrey.

    Watch the Netflix Special starting tomorrow on April 25.”

    • Michael Malaise

      I don’t know if I’d ever want to see Michelle Obama unpacking her tool box.

      • Bobarian LMD

        With soundtrack by Q. Lazzarus?

    • rhywun

      “Watch them trade quips about the help.”

    • Swiss Servator

      “hard-won wisdom”

      So, it is a comedy tour then?

  12. Rebel Scum

    How peculiar.

    Something very strange is happening with Big Corporations. Out of nowhere, @kroger owned @FrysFoodStores, @KayJewelers, @Hallmark, and now @DoorDash have all sent “Opt out of #MothersDay” emails to their customer base. This is not organic.

    • Nephilium

      Meh. I think this was started with Etsy and the like a couple years back. All it was (at least the Etsy one) was a message saying that with a holiday coming up that may bring up bad memories to their customer base, they were going to offer the ability to opt out of specific (Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc), or all holiday marketing.

      I don’t have an issue with providing the option.

      • Rat on a train

        as long as they provide the same option for all other events they push

    • Homple

      Piss on these spiteful mutants.

    • Michael Malaise

      Okay, I’ll play a bit of devil’s advocate here. A lot of these companies probably use the same automated customer email platforms and these are automated by MailChimp (or whomever) and just skinned to look like each brand. The brands have opted-in to all of the basic auto-generated emails including particular day/holiday opt-out ones.

      • Tundra

        Yeah? Think we’ll get the option to opt of National Chick Month, Black History Month or any of the other nauseating woke shit?

      • Michael Malaise

        That’s why they all look/sound alike. I think the real fault is with the email platforms and lazy CMOs not understanding the details.

      • Tundra

        That’s true. I feel worse for my corporate brethren who get pummeled with it year round. At least I can unsubscribe.

      • Michael Malaise

        I don’t discount activism, but it’s not like the CEOs of these corps had a roundtable to talk about killing Mother’s Day.

      • Fourscore

        Can I log out of TransKids Day?. Shoe doesn’t fit.

      • Pat

        it’s not like the CEOs of these corps had a roundtable to talk about killing Mother’s Day

        Bruh… after the Twitter files and the last 8 years of debanking, deplatforming, demonetizing, delisting, de-etc., it would be far more surprising to find that they were *not* colluding on political messaging. Whether there’s shadowy meetings in smoky conference rooms, or everybody in the C-suite of every Fortune 1000 company just happens to read the same ActBlue PDF every Monday morning, the result is the same.

    • Pat

      I got one of those last year from Mauna Loa Macadamia Nuts. Surprised it took globohomo this long to get the big boys doing it. Coincidentally, I have not ordered any macadamia nuts from Mauna Loa since then. I trust that a bunch of fragile, whiny, gender-confused bitches who can’t handle seeing the word “mother” will more than make up for my lost business.

  13. Rebel Scum

    I’ll take this as confirmation that he was more on point than not because he insufficiently toed the establishment line.

    “Pure joy,” one Fox reporter told Rolling Stone of their reaction to the split. “No one is untouchable. It’s a great day for America, and for the real journalists who work hard every day to deliver the news at Fox.”

    “It was a good move to part ways with Tucker,” added a producer. “He knowingly spread lies throughout his time at Fox, but I fear management will replace him with someone who is just like him … so there probably won’t be any real change.”

    “Good riddance,” said a network correspondent. “For a while there it seemed like he was running the network. This clearly is a message that he’s not. In the interim, it’s a morale boost, that’s for sure.”

    • Homple

      Canning one of the two guys carrying the place just to make envious second-rate fellow employees gloat is not. I think, a sound business proposition.

      • Sean

        It could work!

        lulz

      • Fourscore

        Have Tucker pay the fine out of his paycheck.

      • Michael Malaise

        It’s actually a white pill.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Stop trying to make me think you’re the real Michael Malice!

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        He’s too nice on the internet for that to be true.

      • Michael Malaise

        I was a horrible person on Twitter. Got permabanned.

    • rhywun

      LOL

      Wait til they find out they’re replaceable, too, after most of the network’s audience is gone.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        America is totally ready for a non-binary beer mascot!

        Why is this stuff being poured out everywhere?

      • Nephilium

        It’s not getting poured out, that’s the problem. It’s sitting on shelves, getting old and getting past it’s Best By date (I’m not sure how the general AB-InBev distributors deal with past code items).

      • robc

        As much as I generally dislike “AB-Inbev” I think the answer to the parenthetical is “very well”.

      • Nephilium

        I’d lean that way myself, as having past code items reflects poorly on the distributor, retailer, and brewer. You don’t want to be the distributor that’s leaving old beer out there to get corporate complaints called in.

      • robc

        I have mentioned before that the family of a friend owns a shop that makes distilling and brewing equipment. AB (pre-inbev) was one of their biggest customers. When August Busch III was coming to visit, the place had to be made spotless. Even things like a ladder sitting out would upset him.

        If he was that way around vendors, imagine the way distributors were expected to perform? And they had the power to enforce it by “arranging” distributor buyouts.

        They did a lot of bad things with that power, but it caused some good too.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Back when AB owned Busch Gardens, visits by Auggie would inspire dread and terror. The managers would torment the park employees with constant requests to pick up gum and spitshine everything.

        Auggie would walk through, offer his critiques, and then go party at Kingsmill.

    • Drake

      I noticed the lies weren’t named.

      One thing Tucker said regularly that stuck with me – “they only punish the people telling the truth.’

  14. Rat on a train

    Another government immunity kick in the nuts

    Today, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by a group of 10 nurses and their attorney against corrupt former prosecutors, who used their power to punish the nurses for quitting their jobs at a politically connected nursing home with a spotty history.

    In 2009, an appellate court ordered the prosecution stopped, holding that Spota and Lato’s prosecution violated Felix’s First Amendment rights to provide good-faith legal advice and the nurse’s Thirteenth Amendment rights not to be subjected to criminal penalties that would treat them as indentured servants. However, when Felix and the nurses sued to vindicate their rights, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Spota and Lato were entitled to prosecutorial absolute immunity, a legal doctrine that protects even intentional rights violators from being held accountable.

    • The Other Kevin

      Prosecutors have way too much power. And zero accountability. No wonder Soros focused his efforts on them.

  15. Sensei

    It only counts if you sleep with them.

    Video shows suspect accused of operating secret Chinese police stations mingling with Schumer, Adams

    One of the two men accused by federal prosecutors of running a secret Chinese police station in New York City purportedly has been captured on video attending an event alongside two prominent Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

    Video recorded on March 18 appears to show Lu Jianwang standing alongside Adams most recently at an event where Schumer also spoke. Lu was arrested last week and charged with conspiring to act as an agent of China’s government, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

    • Sean

      “They were setting him up!”

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m not saying Schumer and Adams aren’t INCREDIBLY corrupt, but this “we managed to get a picture of a prominent politician standing next to a criminal” gotcha journalism needs to stop. It’s not like politicians would ever spend a second with anyone who wasn’t a criminal that could help their career anyway.

  16. The Other Kevin

    In addition to the laptop, we have model citizen Hunter Biden’s child support case. This was brought on by himself because he’s requesting his payments be reduced.

    HB: I make less money now so I should pay less child support.
    Judge: Ok, let’s see some receipts.
    HB: Well that’s sensitive, you’ll just have to take my word for it. I make less now so reduce my payments.

    The mom’s lawyer is trying to get him jailed until he produces the records. To me this seems like a clear case of contempt of court, but I’m just a lowly serf, the law applies to us differently.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/24/arkansas-court-petitioned-jail-hunter-biden-until-conveys-financial-records-paternity-case/

    • juris imprudent

      Can you imagine the fear in Hunter’s nightmares when the old man is gone?

      • Pat

        Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

  17. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    I’m sitting on my patio with the dog while my neighbor target practices with his compound bow. I’m still extremely stressed & anxious, but this moment is good.

    • Tundra

      Yes. Take the moments when they show up.

    • Tonio

      Enjoy what is best in life, KK.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        She should listen to her own lamentations?

  18. The Late P Brooks

    “Pure joy,” one Fox reporter told Rolling Stone of their reaction to the split. “No one is untouchable. It’s a great day for America, and for the real journalists who work hard every day to deliver the news at Fox.”

    It sounds like this person’s first choice was MSNBC, but they didn’t offer him a job.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Anybody who would use the descriptor “pure joy” in regards to that has already shown their bias and need for social approval.

      Besides, Carlson was underwriting a lot of salaries at Fox. They just lost a lot of job security.

    • Compelled Speechless

      It sounds like they’re positioning themselves to get a really good gig high up when CNN, MSNBC and Fox all have to merge into one because of low ratings. Chief Editor at New Pravda would be a sweet gig.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Former employees of Fox get lined up first when New Pravda (same as the old Pravda) gets to town.

        Anyone who describes themselves as “real journalists” are next.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Doesn’t New Pravda just take Babylon Bee stories and remove the sarcasm and humor from them.

    • Animal

      “Dr. Charles Darwin, please pick up the white courtesy phone.”

  19. Count Potato

    “Four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers is FINALLY traded to the Jets, ending his 18-YEAR stay at Green Bay – as New York makes a huge move in bid to win its first Super Bowl since 1969

    New York receives not only Rodgers but the Packers’ No. 15 pick and a fifth-rounder in Thursday’s draft. In exchange, Green Bay receive the Jets’ 13th overall draft choice, plus its second and sixth-rounder, and a conditional 2024 second-round pick, which will become a second if Rodgers plays 65% of snaps this season.

    Rodgers will wear the No. 8 for Gang Green according to Schefter, despite receiving Joe Namath’s blessing to wear his customary No. 12. The four-time MVP wore No. 8 while in college.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-11843353/Aaron-Rodgers-traded-New-York-Jets-ending-18-YEAR-stay-Green-Bay.html

    Narrator: The Jets still did not win the Super Bowl.

    • WTF

      Yeah, Rogers is on the way down and the Jets are still the Jets.

    • Tundra

      How often do these moves actually work?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        It actually worked for Tampa, for a year.

      • juris imprudent

        Worked for the Rams with Stafford, for one season anyway.

    • R C Dean

      I’m confused. If the Jets want a shot at the Super Bowl, why’d they hire Rodgers?

      • juris imprudent

        Namath wouldn’t come out of retirement?

    • Count Potato

      I guess Bacon isn’t much brighter or informed than many of the people commenting on his post.

      “Fact: all original Shakespearean plays (and many before those) were essentially drag: women weren’t allowed to work in those days so men cross-dressed for the female parts (and enjoyed it). Drag is not a new phenomenon. Only the vehement loudspeakered rejection is new.”

      • creech

        Minstrel shows were popular once. I guess we should drop “vehement loudspeakered rejection” of them too?

      • Count Potato

        I think it’s more that Lady Macbeth wasn’t waving her dick in a kid’s face.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Because women were banned on stage. Maybe we should bring that back.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      BB; how did I know before hovering?

    • Sean

      😂😂

    • DEG

      It’ll buff out.

    • slumbrew

      Hilarious 🙂

      (But different boats)

      • R.J.

        So you were looking closely at the boats?

      • slumbrew

        My aspie powers allow me to look closely at everything

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Tucker might be drunk

      • rhywun

        Now he is – unexpected vacay!