Dang, my Mondays are wreckt this month! Quick links!
Holy crap, I need to get my kids in this!
Sorry, that’s all I got!
Oh, Snap I Missed it Again Afternoon Links
About The Author
Brett L
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.
I never got the mismatched bikini thing.
I assume they lost the matching pieces.
The other half found a sock and eloped?
What’s to get? Any bikini on the right girl is a net positive for the world.
Yeah.
Though I’d consider both ladies.
Any bikini off the left or right girl in a double plus positive for the world.
Correct. I wan’t being inclusive.
If you look closely (and I know you will) you’ll see they are not really mismatched. Pink and blue girl has some blue in her top and I am sure there is black in the other girl’s bikini bottom that coordinates with the top.
Gaaaaaaaaaay.
He must work at BRCC.
The day they blocked me on Twitter was a good day.
“It doesn’t match! Take it off, right now!”
Is the guy in the photo distressed over mismatched bikinis or because he wore boxers under swimming trunks?
I think it’s his terrible beard.
Wait! There’s a guy in the picture?
slacker
It’s a portal to another dimension.
Take them here, instead
Drive our tanks!
We saw their billboards on a latest road trip and thought it would be fun.
“World’s Largest Germ Factory” coming to Tampa, Florida.
“Wuhan Bounce House”
DeathSantis strikes again.
Where’s that dude in the Grim Reaper outfit when we need him?
“The bounce house even turns into a dance floor with lights and a DJ.”
But it closes at 9 PM.
Forget the kids. I’ll be damned if my 36 year old ass wouldn’t be diving in there.
Here let me help!
Florida Governor DeSantis ends ‘corporate kingdom’ of Walt Disney World
Somehow despite the liberal cries of impossibility they managed to still make Disney responsible for the existing debt on the region.
It’s been delicious watching the sort of people who routinely classify accelerated depreciation as a “subsidy” for oil companies lose their shit over Florida withdrawing Disney’s corporate municipality privileges.
We shouldn’t subsidize stuff that everyone needs in order to survive, but we should subsidize people who want to bang your kids,
I’m sure Universal and Disney share the same views, but because they were quieter about it Universal should get the exemption for a few years.
Not letting big corporations run their own cities is Fascist.
“In a move political observers viewed as retaliation”
No fair! You’re not supposed to fight back!
Further:
“bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for many young students’
No specification that it was for THIRD GRADERS AND YOUNGER you fucking hacks. Nice
reportingpropagandizing Reuters.Yeah, and? None of that shit belongs in any school at any age IMHO.
The only reason we got sex ed was the whole tEeN pReGnAnCy panic & yet another case of the state usurping a parental responsibility.
Whatev. You’re just a ciswhite gay man which everyone knows is ciswhite straight man adjacent. Ergo: your opinion is null and void.
Sabatini isn’t impressed:
https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1630255005390307329
Late and skimpy links. What even are we paying for?
The charming company.
Lucky to have anything at all you is. Lucky to have it.
/Salutes
Access to all the libertarian women.
All of us, at once?
Those poor things.
*checks spreadsheet*
All 16 of us (including Tulip, because we still think of her as ours).
Well, she is mythical…
I haven’t seen a ratio like that since the R40 tour.
I’m just glad Swiss didn’t fall into a vat of molten raclette.
I think Z-Bot is losing it.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3674914-zelensky-on-crimeas-recapture-we-are-preparing-for-this.html
Well he did publicly declare that he wants to expel from the country every. single. Russian. (even ones who have been living there for decades)
Sounds like he’s working his way toward a final solution.
Ironic since Zelensky only spoke Russian (not Ukrainian) when he was elected on his Woodrow Wilson-like peace platform.
Meanwhile Bakhmut is now surrounded.
I don’t know how many troops they sacrificed there, but it was apparently a meatgrinder on par with any in history.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a press corps instead of a propagandist brothel so we could actually know what the fuck was going on?
The coverage on Biden in Ukraine was wildly uniform and completely slavering. We don’t have a media, we have a propaganda machine.
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1628452045303996416
KEEEEEEEEEEV!
The are letting some coverage out, but it’s still being played as those plucky Ukes holding out against the Evil Ones.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-government-business-49a7a5979ab91badf3ea993170c8b3c3
Come on, man. You really expect me to leave the comfort of the Ukrainian brothel to go report from the front lines?
As an aside, I used to have a Ukrainian girl who worked for me, Mira.
Bat. Shit. Crazy.
But smokin’ hot?
I’ve got a good story about a crazy hot and batshit crazy Ukrainian. It ended with the Baltimore police being called.
Hot, yes. Smokin’? Not that hot.
Mike Pompeo haz a sad.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/26/cia-chief-iran-not-resuming-nuclear-weapons-program/
Then why were we sabotaging centrifuges in the last decade?
If you have an enrichment program for any purpose, including energy, you have centrifuges. It’s always been an argument over the how enriched the product is.
They’ve taken it to 84%. 6% below weapons grade.
Tall Cans!!
/I got ‘nuthin’
Mammary Monday on topic!
https://archive.ph/bNcHf
Seems the Germans are getting nervous. Far better turnout than our own country.
Or maybe the Germans don’t think their government will put them on multiple lists for showing up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/25/thousands-protest-in-berlin-against-giving-weapons-to-ukraine
They fucking well better be nervous. They’re a fuckup away from their cities being leveled.
This is beyond stupid.
And speaking of stupid.
So everyone in the administration is taking turns giving this guy a few billion?
Maybe Epstein was working for the Ukrainians.
But if Putin is Hitler Voldemort and Germany is The Rebel Alliance Harry Potter why aren’t they worried about Russian tanks rolling through Berlin? This is how I know Russia is no threat. People a 1day drive from Moscow aren’t as worried about Putin invading, why should I?
From the BRCC segments. Apparently the lawsuit was settled four years ago. Yet for some reason it seems to have blown up a couple of days ago from a website where the complaint was uploaded six months ago. Interesting.
Also interesting, the public comments of Mr Roper at the end of
https://coffeeordie.com/uvalde-school-shooting-solutions
😂
Story goes they are putting a coffee shop here in my hometown, across the river from where Hafer is from.
Sadly it will do well because most people do t know he’s a gun grabber.
I think the coffee shops are all franchises.
And the Greeks tell DC to shove it.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/despite-us-plea-greece-refuses-to-supply-s-300-to-kiev
Did Blinken forget he’s also getting Greece and Turkey into a war?
No silly, thats the point
Blinken and Nuland are nothing more than global vandals. And the Greeks have no interest in opposing Russia.
Good statistics on where the tanks are in NATO. Turkey and Greece have almost all of them that are near to being in theater.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1294391/nato-tank-strength-country/
“Good statistics on where the tanks are in NATO. Turkey and Greece have almost all of them that are near to being in theater.”
They just plan to use most of the tanks on each other.
That’s good. Ukrainians should be wary of Greeks bearing gifts.
But the adults are in charge and our stature in the world has been restored! Also, Athens is a 2day drive from Moscow and a day drive from the front. They aren’t worried about Putin conquering Europe.
Weird. The S300 is a Russian system and we had an issue with the Turks buying the S400 from Russia. Wouldn’t have thought Greeks would have bought Russian stuff – thought we had sold them our legacy systems.
Environmental retards want cake (EVs) and to eat it too (only foreign lithium).
Lithium mines are for poor brown kids in other countries.
Well, tanned yellow is a sort of brown I guess.
If the skintone of the standard issue enviro-nazi was any whiter it would brighten up a KKK meeting.
Penguin – sorry I missed your Zoom link last night. I passed out soon after I made that comment 🤣
For you:
https://twitter.com/LaocoonofTroy/status/1630311819192713218
I’ve seen that! In hotel form…
Go on…
https://ibb.co/NjrFqM9
Super cool!
I sure wish I would have been able to experience the golden age of air travel.
‘It’s all sound and fury … Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
In this case several idiots including Henry Kissinger (he’s still alive!?!) and Eric Schmit.
ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution
Here is but a taste:
The ChatGPT push has nothing to do with this
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/01/05/chatgpt-creator-openai-discussing-offer-valuing-company-at-29-billion-report-says/
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
And there are sad little girls in this world that don’t think unicorns exist.
Semi on topic
https://www.glibertarians.com/2023/02/joemala-episode-101/#comment-2522650
I always get my tech criticism from a fossilized warmonger and a guy who took one of the most innovative companies in the world and turned it into a government bootlicker.
It really tells you something about what legitimate NPCs these people are that they think being told what they want to hear by a chat bot that spits out Wikipedia summaries and carefully curated goodthinkful politics is revolutionizing human knowledge.
From what I’ve seen, ChatGPT isn’t really all that bright. It’s able to regurgitate popular nostrums from the internet and place them in reasonably logical fashion. But, it can’t, for instance, explain why it “believes” what it claims to believe abstract to any recurring principles. So, it winds up claiming that Rachel Maddow is a reliable, objective journalist or that its preferable to allow innocent people to die than say the “N-word”. I guess, in that light, it might make a pretty serviceable corporate journalist. But, the idea that it’s much of what its advocates are touting just doesn’t hold water. Maybe they can find a spot for Elizabeth Holmes on the board.
In my quick experience it also seems just authoritative enough to be credible, while screwing up.
See my link above.
It doesn’t actually claim to believe anything, of course. I think it’s incredibly impressive, though. And we need to keep in mind that this is basically a “Baby AI” that’s being throttled down for public use. Not only are we not getting access to the full capabilities, but it’s being constantly improved. And it’s not even the best of the current chat AI’s. LaMDA, for instance, is much better.
I think Z-Bot is losing it.
Who’s playing dominoes now?
“Tomorrow… the WORLD!”
From Juris’ link:
A federal judge on Friday declined to block a proposed Nevada lithium mine, the second consecutive defeat for a coalition of environmental groups seeking to halt the project.
Muh sacred wasteland!
Wanna cyber?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21529038/everyone-thinks-dowdy-housewife-love-illicit-sex-online-lover/
Online sex is still cheating and you are risking your marriage each time you indulge in it.
Rather than turn to the internet to find excitement, look to freshening up your marriage.
For once she actually gave worthwhile advice.
Systemic racism – coming from inside the house!
“EXCLUSIVE: Chicago inmates claim jail guards are pressuring them to illegally vote in the mayoral election”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11798187/Inmates-claim-jail-guards-pressuring-vote-illegally-Chicagos-mayoral-election.html
Shocking.
The shocking part is that they didn’t just harvest and fill out the ballots without even making the pretense of having the inmates involved at all.
I don’t know anything about Illinois voting laws but I’m going to go way out on a limb and say that this doesn’t make any sense at all.
“Homicide clearance rates have decreased to their lowest level from 71 per cent in 1980 to around 50 per cent in 2020, according to analyses of FBI data by the Marshall Project and Murder Accountability Project.
Local law enforcement agencies reported only 14,715 homicides while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention so far have counted 25,988 murders, according to data collected by the Murder Accountability Project.
This is because the FBI has mandated that all crimes committed in 2021 and afterwards must be reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) rather than the Summary Reporting System.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11798717/Just-half-Americas-murders-solved-homicide-clearance-rates-lowest-four-decades.html
“This is because the FBI has mandated that all crimes committed in 2021 and afterwards must be reported via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) rather than the Summary Reporting System.”
???? I don’t even understand.
As I recall, the FBI has no authority to mandate anything with regards to local LE, not even state-level. I would guess there is strings-attached money that allows them to lean on some – but not anywhere near all.
Isn’t this just a typical Thursday afternoon at Glibs HQ?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/mexican-cartel-paid-sex-mia-29320564
Taco Thursday?
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen makes surprise visit to Ukraine
More Russian disinfo
Russia’s former president and an ally of President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Monday that the West’s continued supply of arms to Kyiv risked a global nuclear catastrophe, reiterating his threat of nuclear war over Ukraine.
Dmitry Medvedev’s apocalyptic rhetoric has been seen as an attempt to deter the U.S-led NATO military alliance and Kyiv’s Western allies from getting even more involved in the year-old war that has dealt Moscow setbacks on the battlefield.
The latest comments by Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, follow Putin’s nuclear warning last week and his Sunday remarks casting Moscow’s confrontation with the West as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people.
Nothing to worry about.
Medvedev is probably more representative of the climate in the Kremlin than Putin himself. They’re not joking.
He used to be the pro-western moderate. He’d say that he was lied to and betrayed too many times.
He’s particularly pissed over Libya, and rightfully so.
Well, sure. Our “elites” talk about a “rules-based international order”. But, they sure as hell can’t define a set of rules that defines that rules-based order consistent across time and place. From the Russians’ perspective, I can’t honestly blame them if they see that rule-based order as “We rule and you follow our orders”.
Sergey Lavrov asked them for the rule book at one point.
Our rules say we win, always. You’ve got more fairness in Calvin-ball.
Well, why would they be? I mean what has our government done to make them not think that we represent an existential threat? They systematically sponsor coups against their allies, openly talk about “regime change” in Moscow, or at least “bleeding them dry”, make a farce of any peace overtures, and back a guy who talks about taking their war into Russian territory. At some point, they’re right to view us as a threat.
Honestly, the impression I get off of the guys running our foreign policy right now is that they think they’re the slickest guys in the room. They think their weaselly little grifts and smug one-liners define reality. But, of course, they don’t. And their being proven wrong means the potential death of millions.
You know how deranged DC is – they cannot see themselves as a threat to anyone. Even killing dictator is expected to earn the love and loyalty of the people being liberated.
They’ve taken “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” to a whole new level.
Thankfully we have adults in charge now, who bang on a podium and yell. So much better than that crazy guy who would go to hostile countries and talk to their leaders.
Speaking of adults:
Biden in 1997.
Douche.
Aurora KPI 4+ right now. Big auroras in Europe right now
The new technology is known as generative artificial intelligence; GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. ChatGPT, developed at the OpenAI research laboratory, is now able to converse with humans. As its capacities become broader, they will redefine human knowledge, accelerate changes in the fabric of our reality, and reorganize politics and society.
Time for a gibberish decoder update.
‘gibberish decoder ‘
Now that would actually be worth something.
Remote kissing device lets long-distance lovers share silicon smooches
Another day, another step closer to Demolition Man.
*buys shares of Taco Bell’s parent corp*
Now that I think about, Sir Humphrey as dictator is yet another accurate prediction.
That was pretty funny when it was a gag on Big Bang Theory.
How much for the model with a tongue?
Or the model that can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch?
The question is do you trust the Changzhou Vocational Institute of Mechatronic Technology to produce something that won’t tear your dick off because that’s what’d end up in there. Think of it as a more complicated “back massager.”
Don’t google banana cleaner.
I must have missed this last week:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11781007/Group-accuses-Biden-using-executive-order-target-whites-Asians-IRS-audits.html?ito=rss-flipboard
This seems pretty racist.
No, no, that’s not racist. It’s the people who call attention to it that are racist.
Again? Aw, man!
*kicks stone*
When racists fill the government with racists you get racist policies.
I wonder if it’s something along the lines of blacks are more likely to work under the table jobs which makes them relatively easy targets for audits.
Honestly, the impression I get off of the guys running our foreign policy right now is that they think they’re the slickest guys in the room. They think their weaselly little grifts and smug one-liners define reality. But, of course, they don’t. And their being proven wrong means the potential death of millions.
For all their smug condescension about ideas like American Exceptionalism, they just assume we are an unassailable colossus.
Hearts will be broken.
After getting the rear ends handed to them by a bunch of 14th century goatherds. In a saner time, that would have encouraged some much-needed introspection among our elites. Instead, they’re playing a game nuclear chicken over a couple of pieces of land (Crimea and the Donbas) of virtually no value to the American people.
At this point, America is a moral and political lightweight. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is doing everything they can to torpedo the economy.
Where do I sign?
Electric vehicle startup Fisker said Monday that it spent less money in 2022 than it had expected, and that it remains on track to begin deliveries of its Ocean SUV this spring and to build more than 40,000 vehicles in 2023.
Fisker’s shares closed up over 30% on Monday.
Fisker said that to date, 56 Oceans have been built at manufacturing partner Magna International’s
contract-manufacturing facility in Austria. Fifteen of those were completed before year-end and are being used for testing by both Fisker and Magna, as the two companies refine the manufacturing process, test additional features, and work through regulatory approval processes in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
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Fisker also said it has made progress on its upcoming second model, a lower-cost small EV called the Pear, and it remains on track to go into production next year.
The company said it now has “over 5,600” reservations for the Pear, up from “over 5,000″ reservations in early November. The Pear, which is expected to start at $29,900, will be built by Foxconn Technology Group in the former Lordstown Motors factory in Ohio starting in 2024.
This time, for sure!
I’m a little surprised at how many of those Rivian rolling abortions I see around here. I think this is a delivery hub, but still. At least the Fisker isn’t hideous.
I think I saw one today. Big Amazon van with odd round outline headlights. With heavy usage I think the battery packs will die early and the overall vehicle cost will be higher than a standard UPS truck.
I like the Rivian.
*scurries away*
Fine. But those headlights were a terrible decision.
Terrible.
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1629975959108481025
Old guys rule.
Eh, he was a dick. He has a channel posting his interruptions of other people’s filming.
Is that bad?
Yes.
It’s not bad unless he takes his pants off. Otherwise that tart can fuck off. I used to think guys like that were being the asshole. Then I realized people filming for free in a public area and getting mad when you walk past them are the assholes.
My issue is her EXPECTATION that people move.
My issue is it’s a public park and she was there first. I’ll assume she pays her taxes like everyone else.
That’s not even accounting for the fact that he does this to post to his own channel.
It’s OK to hate everyone involved.
Or just enjoy the comedy from a site called NoContextBrits.
Geez, people.
While the fact that he spoils others’ videos not for the simple joy of spoiling, but to feed his own narcissistic video channel makes it much less spontaneous and therefore less funny, public parks aren’t a single-user environment. If an out of focus old guy sitting on a bench behind you is enough to ruin your livestream, maybe take it to a studio. It’s ridiculous to expect someone in a public place to clear out so you can get a pristine video.
Old guys rule.
I thought maybe it was the one of the guy beating the shit out the kid who tried to rob him t the ATM.
Naw, just an asshole picking on a girl for shits and giggles.
At the risk of incurring yet another possibly-deserved charge of being a sexist prick, is there any reason to suspect he would have behaved differently if the self-obsessed self-videographer had been a bloke?
Don’t know, but it doesn’t matter. Still would’ve been a dick move.
Lol.
https://twitter.com/unhealthytruth/status/1630308261969657858
Good times, man.
Good news: No tornado at Chez GT/TT (nor any serious damage in the area AFAIK.)
Bad news: Power’s out. 🙄
Uh oh. Do you have a gas fireplace?
Nobody needs a gas fireplace. It’ll kill you with asthma while it warms you.
No, but it’s not that cold at the moment – 56 – and crews are nearby trimming the tree(s) that caused the outage, so with any luck this won’t last too long.
You have a safe harbor not to far away if you need to seek refuge.
Then again, since you have a basement the next outbreak of tornados I may be over there.
So you haven’t got the power?
I have the power!
Also has the power.
Zelma be thicc af yo. I like her in C&C too.
Likely due to her Liberian heritage.
That song was a monster hit in the gay clubs until one of them said something uncharitable.
Good times.
And Bauhaus w/o Peter Murphy is Love & Rockets.
Indeed.
Fun fact- this BAD video showcases a young Neneh Cherry.
Our good news – heat is working again. Not getting down below freezing tonight, but still cold enough.
👍👍
Stay safe. The one thing I’m going to miss about southern NV is the relative absence of extreme weather. We get nasty wind storms, but not the kind you have to take to a bunker to ride out.
ADV China does have some good info on the China/Russia mixup lately (being fluent in Mandarin does have it’s advantages in terms of parsing official documentation vs the English-facing public statements).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKma1urwLrU&t=4829s