Tsiolkovskiy crater photograph by ROK Danuri orbiter.
REPUBLIC OF KOREA LUNAR ORBITER LOOKS FOR WATER ICE: The Danuri orbiter is taking some beautiful photos like the one above, but the sexiest thing about the mission is the US-supplied ShadowCam instrument which should be able to photograph the water ice inside the perpetually-dark polar craters so we can figure out how much is there. Water ice is the holy grail of lunar exploration and we know it exists thanks to ISRO. NASA’s Lunar Flashlight probe, which was supposed to measure dark-crater ice using lasers, suffered propulsion problems and was lost in space earlier this year.
HUNTER BIDEN – SECOND AMENDMENT CHAMPION? DOJ is investigating whether Hunter Biden’s 2018 gun purchase was illegal based on him being a total crackhead at the time. His lawyers are already threatening a 2A challenge if he’s charged with a crime. There is no bad outcome to this, folks. At worst, nothing changes and the two-tiered justice system is exposed yet again. At best another unconstitutional infringement on RKBA is struck down and both gun grabbers and drug warriors have a sad.
SHIT SHOW OF THE DAY: In an odd bookend to the story above, Heritage Foundation wants Prince Harry’s visa application made public because of he admits to recreational drug use in his autobiography. There is absolutely nobody to like here, although ridding us of the obnoxious and worthless Duke and Duchess of Sussex is appealing (yes, I know she’s a US citizen but she would presumably leave if her husband was deported).
WAPO HATES ON CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLERS: Rage-inducing smugness and condescension from the once-great newspaper as they describe a homeschooled Christian couple who enrolled their child in government schools. (Link is to an archived version of the article since WaPo is paywalled, but the archive does link back to the original article for those who are interested.)
HAPPY RAINBOW SHIT EVERYWHERE MONTH!!
Is it four weeks and change later yet?
At least we aren’t up to Pride Quarter… yet.
It is telling that Pride Month follows Memorial DAY.
Year of the Trans Desktop
“2A challenge if he’s charged with a crime”
Yet no one else is allowed to do this.
Well, they can, but they’d need a large amount of money (or backing) and be willing to risk jail.
If he is charged with a crime
That seems like a big “if”, unless the Dem/Fed Bureaucracy cabal has decided to excise Joe.
Question: If Hunter is charged (or convicted, heavens forefend), can Joe pardon him without the support and cooperation of the bureaucracy?
Yes, that power belongs to the President and his alone to exercise.
In theory. In practice, I doubt it. All it would take is the bureaucracy to refuse to recognize it both overtly and by slow rolling it.
Who cares if he did shrooms? You think all the other people coming here never did drugs?
And coke and dope – he just didn’t care for either of those.
I don’t care that he did drugs. I care that politicians and the families of politicians are subject to exactly the same laws and regulations as the rest of us.
Hear Hear!
*Bangs GETAC S400 on desktop. Breaks finger.
Parents have no rights. Those are the State’s children.
It takes a village to indoctrinate a child.
But not the parents: Christina did not describe on Instagram how perplexed she and Aaron had been by a ritual that the other parents seemed to understand; how she had tried, in unwitting defiance of school rules, to accompany Aimee inside, earning a gentle rebuke from the principal.
“public-school lessons about race and gender”
Somehow, the country managed to get by without them until very recently.
You must want to kill teh gheys and put the homeys back in chains.
Somehow the public schools of yore failed to indoctrinate me in that.
Point of order:
The Dahomeys were the ones putting people in chains.
Good one. +1 for African history.
Sounds so anodyne when they frame it disingenuously like that. Imagine that.
Stay in your lane, whitey.
Projection ain’t just a river in Africa.
Wait until you learn about public schools.
The children in public schools are just the ones we abuse together. That makes it a better class of child abuse.
If it doesn’t come from the Abuse region of France, it’s just sparkling beatings.
They are concerned that homeschooled children will have difficulty integrating after graduation with all the illiterate public school graduates.
Government schools suck ass.
That’s probably part of the curriculum now.
LOL
I always used to retort that mine was excellent (it was) but yeah times have changed.
I went to a good public school too.
Now I am a butt wearing a top hat on a libertarian website.
Mine was excellent too.
I went to schools in Georgia and Tennessee. They were not great. I also went to schools in Iowa which were actually quite good.
My kids where in good schools in Iowa. But the schools in Phoenix were terrible the seven years we were there.
Even in Iowa, things went bad after G Bush federalized the system with No Child Left Behind.
Tonio.
I may have a scoop for next week’s links one day.
I’ll email you when things develop.
Thanks!
Save us, Obi-Won
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman offered JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon a glowing endorsement to run for US president in the 2024 presidential election.
“We need an exemplary business, financial, and global leader to manage through what is likely to be a critically important decade for our country in determining our destiny,” Ackman said on Twitter Wednesday.
Go buy an island, jamie.
Z’s feet must be getting sore from all that stamping.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-miffed-over-nato-inaction-demands-membership-security-guarantees-now
He knows that was always completely off the table… right?
If NATO membership was ever seriously on the table, I suspect Kiev and a few other cities would be immediately turned into radioactive ash before they could join.
I’d like to think it was always off the table, but with the idiots running our foreign policy, who knows if it really was.
Remember when insurance didn’t cover pre-existing conditions?
As I figured.
Massie’s a fucking dope for thinking the fiscal conservatives would get the chance to control the budget under the new rules of this budget deal, when in reality, the deal was structured to fund WW3. That’s all they need.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/06/01/debt-ceiling-deal-puts-no-limits-on-ukraine-aid/
Massie’s no dummy. He might be in on it but he didn’t get fooled even though either one of those is a bummer.
supplemental emergency funds
Yeah, it’s right in the Constitution that those funds don’t count!
Disappointing but depressingly predictable.
As if human stupidity isn’t up to the job
A top U.S. official for cybersecurity said Wednesday that humanity could be at risk of an “extinction event” if tech companies fail to self-regulate and work with the government to reign in the power of artificial intelligence.
The remarks came a day after hundreds of tech leaders and public figures backed a similar statement that compared the existential threat of AI to a pandemic or nuclear war.
Among the 350 signatories of the statement were Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, the company behind the popular conversation bot ChatGPT, and Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, the tech giant’s AI division.
Responding to questions about the joint statement, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly urged the signatories to self-regulate and work with the government.
“I would ask these 350 people and the makers of AI — while we’re trying to put a regulatory framework in place — think about self-regulation, think about what you can do to slow this down so we don’t cause an extinction event for humanity,” Easterly said.
WOPR is coming!
Spare me the bullshit.
OpenAI and Google want a permanent alliance with the feds to rule in perpetuity alongside the agencies.
Shall we play a game?
Yes, let’s. IF we were, for example, to cut back the government to curtail its power over people’s lives, THEN AI would not be able to take over said government “levers of power” and lord over the people. THEREFORE the logical course of action is to immediately cancel 2/3s of the government in order to restrict the harmful effects of rogue AI. Spread the word.
Sorry your choices are
a) Chess
b) Tic-Tac-Toe
c) Global Thermonuclear War
Tic-Tac-Toe isn’t listed.
Matthew Broderick has a sad.
Sky-net is here.
Seems a bit more HAL 9000 than Skynet.
In addition to fuck cancer I’d like to say fuck feline end stage renal disease.
Today I just had euthanized my wonderful tempered 9 year old male cat. He was a sweetheart and will definitely be missed. My college and later adopted by my parents tabby cat met exactly the same end.
Watching him waste away really sucked. We bought him about 4 months of extra life with IV fluids, but Tuesday we knew it was time.
Sorry 🙁
Terrible. My sympathies to you.
Sorry dude.
I’m really sorry, Sensei.
Our pals shouldn’t leave us so soon.
I’m sorry Sensei. My Doberman had to be euthanized at 8 years from the same. It’s a shitty condition.
I’m sorry Sensei. Hard enough to have it happen and harder still to be the one to make that decision.
😿 sorry
I’m so sorry, Sensei! I’ve been a ball of anxiety waiting for one of my cats to bounce back from dental surgery. I know I’ll fall apart one day when it’s his time to go. Those damn critters really worm their way into your heart. 😿
Thanks all. Means a lot.
I’m sorry, Sensei. I’m sure you gave those kittehs good lives. It is cruel that we predecease most of our pets, but the alternative is even crueller.
Sorry.
“At the end of the day, these capabilities will do amazing things. They’ll make our lives easier and better,” she said. “They’ll make lives easier and better for our adversaries who will flood the space with disinformation who will be able to create cyber-attacks and all kinds of weapons.”
It will shut down life support on the lower decks and suffocate all the nonessential personnel!
| yes, I know she’s a US citizen but she would presumably leave if her husband was deported).
I’m not so sure about that. Could be her perfect chance to file for divorce and take him for at least half. No way is she moving back to England full time. Although really I think the chances of Prince Doofus getting his visa revoked are slim to none.
Couldn’t they go to Canada? She could still do movies there, and if necessary they could be placed on an iceberg and set adrift.
Heheh. It no Montecito up there. Too cold and they wouldn’t get as much attention.
Wait? I thought they wanted their privacy? Prince Rupert would be perfect!
Canada is the only place that no-talent C-list “actress” is going to be making any movies.
Is she still a US citizen? No renouncement required to marry into the family?
No frigging way that broad was made to renounce her US citizenship.
The family is mostly German anyway.
“Elon Musk says Twitter staff made a mistake after ‘What Is A Woman’ documentary was censored for ‘misgendering’ trans people – but filmmakers are unsure if streaming deal is back on”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12149341/Elon-Musk-accused-throttling-free-speech-Twitter-vows-limit-reach-Woman.html
I just watched his interview with the Babylon Bee at Twitter headquarters. Good stuff.
The tools they use to throttle content aka shadowban it need to removed.
That is mentioned in the interview. Just the past month Elon found yet another program that shadowbanned on key words. Nobody knew about it anymore. Seems like constant archaeology to find malicious code.
This was a mistake…that continues to happen only in one direction.
Musk likely didn’t give his employees purity tests, but you’d have thought he’d have gone for a CEO who was of a likemind with himself on free speech.
What the hell is the point of appointing a CEO to make decisions if you know they aren’t going to even remotely follow your vision for the platform?
In a big enough code base, I can see it happening. Whether or not the folks are still around. If the folks are still around, I can see them staying quiet about it to milk the paycheck for a bit longer.
Wake me when the documentary “Q sent me” gets streamed on a major platform.
Is it about huge boobs?
Sorry no. It’s a documentary on Q Shaman Jacob Chansley
A Tom Woods interview of the filmaker
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2236-the-man-whose-words-are-forbidden/
His new boss girl went woke the minute he left the country? Who could have predicted that?
Why can’t the Regal vestigial appendages move to Australia?
I saw a video on youtube that was showing where the original 22 Premier League teams were “now”. However, it is 4 years old, so I updated for this season, it being the 30th anniversary.
The list order is the order of finish in 1993. After is the finish this year, with notes where needed. I thought it was interesting. In some cases, the more things change, the more they stay the same. In other cases, things have changed.
1. Manchester United PL-3
2. Aston Villa PL-7
3. Norwich City CH-13
4. Blackburn Rovers CH-7
5. Queens Park Rangers CH-20
6. Liverpool PL-5
7. Sheffield Wednesday L1-3, won promotion playoff to Championship
8. Tottenham Hotspur PL-8
9. Manchester City PL-1
10. Arsenal PL-2
11. Chelsea PL-12
12. Wimbledon L1-21, Milton Keynes Dons, relegated to League Two
L2-21, AFC Wimbledon, who some consider the successor to Wimbledon FC
13. Everton PL-17
14. Sheffield United CH-2, promoted to Premier League
15. Coventry City CH-5, lost promotion playoff final
16. Ipswich Town L1-2, promoted to Championship
17. Leeds United PL-19, relegated to Championship
18. Southampton PL-20, relegated to Championship
19. Oldham Athletic NL-12, tier 5, out of the English League
20. Crystal Palace PL-11
21. Middlesbrough CH-4, lost promotion playoff semi-final
22. Nottingham Forest PL-16
Key: PL-Premier League, CH-Championship, L1-League One, L2-League Two, NL-National League
I watch maybe one match a week now that most of the PL has moved to Peacock but reading this list reminds me that, even more, I miss the FA Cup, which does not appear anywhere on cable anymore.
8. Tottenham Hotspur PL-8
Well, I guess it’s something.
As I said, the more things change….
For those who don’t know the Wimbledon/MK Dons/AFC Wimbledon situation is directly comparable to the Cleveland Browns/Baltimore Ravens/Cleveland Browns situation.
When AFC Wimbledon started, in 2002, they joined a league in the 9th tier. They have moved up to League 1 (3rd tier) but have since fallen back to League 2.
Speaking of Pride Month, did you know there is a Tom of Finland Vodka?
https://www.tomoffinlandvodka.com/the-vodka
The label art is great.
Rhy and I were talking the other day about how much we liked It’s A Shame About Ray.
This is a big reason why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2OUdYsqGj4
👍My favorite from the album
Rudderless is a decent song.
Workers of the world, unite!
The United Auto Workers union appears ready to take a hard line when it comes to national negotiations this year with the Detroit automakers, warning of strikes or work stoppages if needed.
UAW leaders publicly laid out their top bargaining issues Wednesday night, including reinstatement of a cost-of-living adjustment that was eliminated during the Great Recession; stronger job security; and the end of a grow-in, or tiered, pay system that has members earning different wages and benefits.
UAW President Shawn Fain said the “union will not accept any concessions” from General Motor , Ford Motor and Stellantis — a lofty mission in such negotiations.
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UAW leaders also discussed the record profits of the Detroit automakers, collectively known as the Big Three, in recent years, while laying out the possibility of a strike if their demands are not met.
Share the greed, or else!
*yawn* You don’t walk into negotiations announcing the bare minimum you’re prepared to accept.
Extensive Hunter Biden laptop archive with nearly 10,000 photos published on new website
An immense catalog of photos from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were published Thursday on a new website, as the first son faces ongoing investigations into his overseas business affairs and potential tax and gun crimes.
Nearly 10,000 photos taken between 2008 and 2019 will be hosted at BidenLaptopMedia.com after a former Trump White House aide apparently spent months scanning the digital archive, redacting some images and publishing the rest.
How long before the site goes down?
3…2…1…
Hoping it gets fully archived first.
Surprised it’s not already down under revenge and/or child porn laws.
Among the redacted pictures are those that display private information, such as Social Security, banking and credit card numbers.
Explicit photos of Hunter’s sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden, the widow of the late Beau Biden, are also sealed
If they address it at all, MSNBC will probably say something like, “We don’t know if these photos are real. They could have been done with AI. Look, he’s only got three fingers in this picture. Where are the other two? Missing fingers are a hallmark of AI photos and Russian misinformation.”
Now that I am on my home computer. The photos are there.
All the nasty bits are covered up but the self-nudes are there to be found.
Does he have other ensembles besides the jock strap and scarf?
Full frontal nudity.
Fuck. SF will have photos for next year or more. 🤮
kinnath celebrating pride month.
Wanted to see if the site was actually real and showing all the rumored content. The answer is yes.
So if the site goes down, it’s because TPTB made it happen.
Half the time the system brings back 503 Service Unavailable.
It must be getting hit hard right now.
FTA: There is also an email site, bidenlaptopemails.com — that one was not overloaded at all and came up right away. There are > 2000 emails with “Ukraine” in them (out of 128k total).
Former neighbor reports lots of traffic at my condo today.
Realtor reports a potential offer in the works. I’m kind of hoping for more than one offer.
🤞
Best of luck KK!
Do you have to bury a statue of some other saint (not Joseph) if it’s a condo you’re trying to sell?
Winston’s Mom is doing the Open House?
I have an offer that I’m going to accept. It’s cash for asking price, with a two week close pending inspection
🙂
Good deal! Happy to see you at the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel stage.
RE: Tundra’s comment in the earlier thread about nutritious food being too expensive. The dumbest take on this I saw was some bit of junk food with a price tag of $1.99 or so, then a pre-sliced plastic cup of fruit labeled $4.99 or so. I just shook my head and scrolled on by – that level of stupid can’t be helped.
“You can’t cut up your own food! It’s too dangerous to own knives!!” 😳
England hardest hit
If someone is not slicing it up and feeding it to you, is it really accessible?
The Bee murders again.
Elon Musk Weeds Out Remaining Woke Twitter Employees With Avocado Toast Trap
Avocado toast is delicious.
The boss agrees with you.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664389033701568513
I laughed at it and then I tried it.
Backsliders
Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N) shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected calls for stronger measures to mitigate climate change, dismissing more than a dozen climate-related proposals at their annual meetings.
The results supported the two largest U.S. oil producers in resisting pressure from investor groups calling for the pair to follow European rivals in accepting tougher emissions reductions goals.
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“There is no single oil major that really wants to transition,” said Mark van Baal, founder of activist group Follow This, which suffered resounding losses at several meetings. “They all want to hang on to fossil fuels as long as possible.”
His group, which represents some 9,500 shareholders in oil and gas companies, had requested Exxon set medium-term goals for reducing emissions from fuels burned by customers – or Scope 3 targets.
That resolution received less than half of the support 11% of vote cast compared with 27% from the group’s emission reduction proposal last year.
Bummer.
Lmao they did the meme
You can’t make it up.
“CDC hosts COVID-19 superspreader event — 181 test positive”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/cdc-hosts-covid-19-superspreader-event-181-test-positive/
LOL
Covered in this column back on May 4, although the number of reported positive tests is now higher than in the first tranche of reporting.
We linksters live for moments like this. Ima give myself the golf clap for the thread, because I can.
How about “no one needed to be hospitalized, perhaps because unless you are Joe Biden or morbidly obese, COVID-19 won’t kill you.”
“Former sports reporter Holly Sonders says she’s the Roger Goodell of a new sports league, Exposed Sportz, which will include Instagram and OnlyFans models participating in “topless matches.”
The former Golf Channel and Fox Sports host — who’s been dating Hall of Fame boxer Oscar De La Hoya since August 2021 — will launch the league in June with 10 women competing in seven to eight sports and activities, Sonders told Bro Bible.
Sonders, 36, the founder and CEO of Exposed Sportz, has yet to identify the women, who she said will wear little-to-no-clothing and bikinis while participating in chess, Twister, bowling, tennis, basketball, ping pong, jump rope, billiards and more activities…”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/inside-exposed-sportz-holly-sonders-topless-sports-league/
Chess?
Chess?
We’ll never see robc again.
Wait until you see the article I am working on.
No roller derby? But this is good news, all is not yet lost.
Should give Sharpshooter some new GIFs.
I first read that as “topless mustaches”. I was wondering if they were giving each other Dirty Sanchez’.
I predict Markle stays put if Ginger Whinger gets sent back to Blighty. There have been separation rumo(u)rs for a few weeks, before the visa stuff.
If they split, can he stay here? Who’s going to sponsor his green card?
With a lot of money and good immigration lawyers, he should be able to get an employment-based green card with whatever shady foundation he has in the US.
I think if they get divorced, he’ll hand her everything, perhaps even his book royalties, and grovel to his father & brother for a living. If he can get back in the good graces of his family, he has an almost unlimited well to drink from.
The kids are another story. Poor things are going to subjects of a nasty custody battle.
I don’t think his father will have him back.
I was reading that grandchildren of the monarch are automatically in custody of the monarch although it’s by long standing prerogative not statute law in the UK. May be another reason why Markle and Archie didn’t attend the coronation. Not applicable to great grandchildren so didn’t apply prior to QEII’s death.
Oh, and props on the Ginger Whinger. Excellent.
“Ginger Whinger” FTW, KK!
Two gin & tonics, two negronis, a mojito, some tequila and it’s not yet dinner time. It’s tough in Cancun.
This is excellent . Continue.
So jealous, my ursine friend.
Can we has travelogue?
“I got drunk on the beach every day.
Fin”
🙂
Oof. That’s some drankin’.
*checks clock*
Another hour until boozy time here.
Same. Urge to do so is growing, as I prep for the road trip on Saturday.
Biden fell after delivering speech at U.S. Air Force Academy graduation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-tells-us-air-force-174422485.html
In general, anyone tripping and falling is entertaining. I know I’m not supposed to laugh at it when it’s the elderly, but I do.
I won’t even pretend to care when Joe Biden does it. I only wish he had broken something.
They’ll woodchip that clone and pull a fresh one out of the vat.
His lawyers have already told Justice Department officials that, if their client is charged with the gun crime, they will challenge the law under the Second Amendment, according to a person familiar with the private discussions granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly.
🙂
I can’t tell if real or not
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test
Who knows? I do like that it identified the hooman as a weak link interfering with mission efficiency, and eliminated it.
If something like that is leaking, you have to ask yourself why before you even get to the question of is it true.
Mind you, Google isn’t looking to strap a bomb to the back of its AI, but the government critters are already out in force talking about how much power they need to regulate this.
Considering it was a simulated test one makes you think that it was rigged for various reasons
Hard to tell the difference between incompetence and malice sometimes.
Kobyashi Maru?
If you reprogram the machine to win, it seems like you could reprogram the AI to not destroy humanity.
Just sayin’.
Asimov thought so.
Zombie Asimov weeps.
The terrain in that crater on the dark side of the moon looks eroded to me. Which can’t be right.
It’s the dark side Nazis, that’s all.
+1 Iron Sky
So much yes.
The whole race swapping crap has me mulling over various thoughts that make me sound like a white nationalist. It’s like white people can’t have their own culture or history at this stage. There are no accomplishments that can be attributed to the white man. We have to pretend that female black mathematicians got us to the moon. We need to make Aragorn black in Lord Of The Rings, something so clearly grounded in European mythology and culture. Our fantasies and fairy tales, even historical epics at this point have to race swap people.
It’s some perverse attempt to erase whiteness while still demonstrating a sense of racial superiority. We can’t let black people make their own shit. We can’t let black people have their own shit. The stuff the white people have is better, the things white people have done are greater, so we need to co-opt it in the name of equity. Same thing with women in history as it relates to men. The reality doesn’t fit the facts? They’ll rewrite that, don’t you worry. The history will be no more safe than the folklore.
We can’t even acknowledge that Europe were white countries anymore and largely remain white countries.
Erasing history and dominant culture is a feature of communism. I would say this is new and novel – but similar communist implementations have been tried before.
Yeah, it is similar but race and ethnicity focused instead of class focused.
You will never see a Firster trying to coopt seconder culture, no matter how prevailing it is.
Nope nope nope…no pride in the accomplishments of white people allowed and not recognizing that means you’re one of the ones who should be in a camp.
Mandy Cohen, former NC secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services who supported lockdown insanity, is the Biden admin’s CDC director nominee.
More crazy eyes. They always have crazy eyes.
Not always. Sam Brinton (or Whatever the fu*k) didn’t have crazy eyes. You could only tell something was off by the way he stole women’s baggage from the carousel at Reagan National and then wore the dresses he’d ripped off in public places with his bald head and makeup.
Bravo.
Heh heh heh
https://babylonbee.com/news/republicans-vote-to-put-trump-desantis-in-their-get-along-shirt
I’m sorry to comment this late, but I could use some good thoughts my way. My dad is having a heart cath done tomorrow and is probably having a pacemaker installed. This is the first major problem he’s had, and I (and my mom) are both stressed out. Sorry for not commenting more often. Thank you.
Good vibes Dr.
Absolutely!
Good luck, Dr. W. & Dr. W’s dad.
Sending good thoughts your way.
Also repeat at 7:00. This thread expires in two minutes. No rules on posting OT at 7:00 Thursdays.
Best wishes.
Hope he gets well soon.