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  1. One isn't a "loonie on either side" if one disagrees with that assessment.


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    Romney's foreign policy special advisors were drawn largely from the previous Republican administration. Of the 24 foreign policy advisors, 17 served in the Bush-Cheney administration.[

    that's tip of the iceberg.  fuck all that.

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  2. 11 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    There was a great character actor named Sam Shepard.  Sadly, he passed a few years ago but left behind a wonderful tapestry of meaty roles.  I followed his career because, despite our age difference, we had similar childhoods not too far from another in the Chicagoland area.  And he often passed, as I do, as a Native Texan.  

    One such role was that of Major General, William Garrison, in a fantastic and moving film called "Black Hawk Down."  Shepard only has a few scenes in the overall movie, but in each scene...you can feel his desire to eradicate the evil in Somalia with every ounce of his being.  From motivational speeches, to tactical planning, to real time intel, to being completely lost as to what to do that he just starts mopping up blood in the infirmary.  MG Garrison was the same way in real life.  Helps that Shepard and Joe Biden kinda look alike in real life, stinks that Sam won't be around to play Joe in the inevitable biopic.  

    Point is Garrison pinned his ears back, took care of his people, and relentlessly pursued the end of his enemy.  He accepted blame for the failures, but eventually got his man-Aidid.  And when Aidid was gone, Garrison retired the very next day.  Biden is not the ideal President, and certainly not the ideal candidate.  But he is here to doggedly run down Trump again and again and again.  And only when Trump has lost again, or is imprisoned, or is hopefully dead can Joe rest.  The nation can finally take a breath that we much deserve.  Until that day, however, Joe stands the watch much like MG Garrison.  And we will do all we can to drive Trump and his backwards fucking movement into the fucking ground.  Joe's greatest achievement is yet to come.  And that's saying something since he's also quietly defeating Russia with our Freshmen B-team equipment.  

    I would honestly not be surprised to learn that when Trump dies or goes to jail, Biden collapses the very next day.  I will too, out of gratitude.  Of all the sentries standing all the posts in all the world.  I pray to Christ himself that Trump never has anything to do with any of them ever again.  May he forgive those of you who enabled him in the first place.  


    Its funny you mention Sammy, I was thinking about him the other day.  Of course, only those of us who knew him could call him Sammy without getting punched in the nose.  He was not exactly a push over.  One time he and I were having lunch at The Muse, which I'm pretty sure is closed these days but only due to Jack Nicholson being stingy with his tips.  Anyway, a little known fact about Sammy is he was really crazy for a good tomato bisque.  Also, he truly loathed the Lakers.  Now, The Muse didn't have tomato bisque on the menu, but they would run to the nearest 7-eleven and buy a can of Campbell's and trick ol Sammy into enjoying his meal.

    Well this particular day Kobe walks into the place and everyone but Sammy loses their marbles and starts fumbling.  The waiter messes up and says "here's your campbell's sir, err, I mean."  Well, too late.  Sammy storms into the kitchen, finds the Campbell's can, and then storms back to the table, fuming.  I tried to calm him down and offer him some of my eggplant parmesan, which seemed to be helping.  Well, then a chorus of laughter erupts at Kobe's table and Sammy's face just reddened, like you know he did in the movies.  He stands up, lobs the soup can towards Kobe's table.  Luckily he missed Kobe or things could have got really ugly.  Then Sammy started screaming "I GOT THE RIGHT STUFF!  YOU AIN"T GOT IT, YOU CANNED SOUP SLURPER!"  Kobe just stared and shook his head, went back to eating.   

    The waiter and owner and chef all came out to apologize, and after a foot massage Sammy calmed down.  So maybe instead of you know Trump dies so Biden dies like you theorize it just could be some angry but harmless can throwing, followed by some hollering of nonsense and the right foot massage to calm everyone back down.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Blotto said:

    Cam whore running for office. No, not fitlump you silly gooses...this one is actually decent looking.

    The political candidate performed sex acts on camera for tips.

    https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/house-candidate-susanna-gibson-performed-sex-acts-on-webcam-for-tips/

    How dumb is this broad to get assblasted  on chaturbate for money, and just magically assume that those videos disappear and wont circulate forever. I would say she's too stupid to serve in government, but I'm not sure that's possible anymore. They are all whores anyway, what's one more. 

     

     

    Video is blurred, but you get the idea (NSFW obvs):

     

     

    http://news.rr.nihalnavath.com/posts/Susana-Gibson-link-2fc38287

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he is launching an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, yielding to mounting pressure from former President Donald Trump and his allies in what’s shaping up as an election-year clash between Congress and the White House.

    In a statement Tuesday, McCarthy said the House investigations into the Biden family this year have uncovered a “culture of corruption” that demands deeper review.

    “These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption,” McCarthy said.

    McCarthy said he will direct the chairmen of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees to lead the impeachment inquiry. The panels have been working together for months on various probes related to the Biden family and have yet to directly connect the president to any of it.

     


    https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-congress-oversight-republicans-impeachment-57c5b1b40d19ede4ecf7fde08c027cee

  5. 20 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I think what we call "AI" would more aptly be described as large scale data processing. Every mechanism we have to move from computing against GBs of data up to TBs and PBs of data uses the same technology and techniques as machine learning. In the information age, ML models (read: massive statistical modeling) are really the best tool we have for getting value out of the vast quantities of data that most legacy organizations have been building and stewarding over the last decade.

    There's definitely a boatload of crappy hype buzzword AI pitch companies out there, and lots of moonshine to chase, but the core idea and utility of it is very much so going to be a key driver in the IT business for the foreseeable future in my opinion.

    And just to really emphasize how there is no moat on any of this - you can right now go download a 13 billion parameter pretrained model (around 10GB of disk space) and run it using a tool like KoboldCPP on your local machine - and presto! You've got your own Azure ChatGPT or AWS Bedrock or Google Bard, running locally on your GPU or even CPU (if you've got enough cores). Running a powerful model and building a service on it isn't a big deal - it's moreso about how you can use this new lego piece in your architecture to build new shit we haven't thought of yet

    Thanks, I appreciate it.  It seems massive computing scale and GPU demand should stay reasonably high for the near foreseeable future unless I'm blind to some kind of drop off. 

  6. On 8/26/2023 at 6:40 AM, Captainant said:

    Really is nuts how NVDA has figured out a way to turn extremely complex math into computer chips. The amount of processing power sitting on my desk could probably crack the enigma code while decoding 4k video and playing a game at max settings. 

    In the time of the AI gold rush, NVDA is selling the best shovels

    I'm curious what thoughts are in regards to 'gold rush' and 'AI bubble.'  To be clear, I'm not asking from an investor's POV, but it seems most of the talk and knowledge comes from investors.  Potential job offer with a company that is in the field and dependent on the current demand. 

  7. https://www.salon.com/2023/09/11/has-his-own-age-problem--and-it-terrifies-him/
     

    Editorial theorizes he's scared of impending dementia.  This bit just completely cracked me up.  

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    I will name the place and the test, and it will be a tough one. Nobody will come even close to me! We can also throw some physical activity into it. I just won the Senior Club Championship at a big golf club, with many very good players. To do so you need strength, accuracy, touch and, above all, mental toughness. Ask Bret Baier (Fox), a very good golfer. The Wall Street Journal & Fox are damaged goods after their failed DeSanctimonious push & stupid $780,000,000 "settlement." MORONS!!!

     

    "Senior Club Championship at a big golf club" put me in tears.  Normally I just rage at the man, or roll my eyes or what not.  But this one, whew, thanks Donny, that was funny.

     

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  8. 2 hours ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    Is he "obviously evil?" I'm not getting that vibe at all.

    Yes he's one of the "antagonists" but it seems to me that they are going out of their way to show that he became disillusioned with the Jedi (just like Ashoka did) and his actions (in his mind) are for the "greater good", versus someone like Palpatine who is just craving power.

    Obviously not on her side.  I type w/o thinking deeply sometimes.  Probably the wrong word to use. I didn't mean it judgmentally (although he did kill a bunch of folks already), but his very stated goal is the return of Thrawn.  As a viewer that's going to be awesome, but as a New Republic person that's not great.  I stick with my opinion, the Rebels era Sabine wouldn't have done this.  I mean, maybe she would have tried (and been unsuccesfu) to just run away with the map.  But it is only my opinion, ofc. 

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  9. 17 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Considering how much force it took a lightsaber to destroy that map, her shot would have just ricochetted off into her face 

    Fair enough.   Can't recall if Sabine had her light sabre or not at that point in time.  And the whole Baylon telling her she lost everyone again to me wouldn't have played with Sabine previously.  Oh, I know, I'll give this thing to an obviously evil Jedi and hope it all works out.  Which, I guess thanks to plot stuff it just might.  It just really felt out of character for her imo.

  10. I know that they need some kind of plot vehicle to get to Thrawn and maybe Ezra, but boy was I disappointed that they turned Sabine into a weak willed dumbass in order for it to happen.  Rebels era Sabine would have spray painted that Jedi's face and shot the map, imo.  If you love Ezra like family, why undo his sacrifice?    How many times did Ashoka ask if she could trust her? 

    Otherwise enjoyed it.

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  11. On 9/2/2023 at 11:25 AM, CooterBrown said:


    The 2A doesn’t specify what those “arms” are. Fuck it. Ban everything but nunchucks and throwing stars.

    Not to mention the whole 'well armed militia' bit.  And that the 2a has been interpreted differently through out the years.  I'm for confiscating the guns myself.  Will never happen but I would not feel sorry for one hobbyist.  Let the dudes living in the wilds of Alaska keep what they need to surive.

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  12. On 8/8/2023 at 1:14 PM, texasdago said:

    Mount Bachelor

    I don't follow the ski threads like I should but this is my home mountain.  I got 36 'days' in last year.  Now unlike most of you I took up snowboarding at age 49 (before Covid closed the mountain) having not done any winter sports at all prior.  Also, when I put quotes on 'days' its because some days are just a few hours after work.   Kind of spoiled with a season pass and a local mountain.   So I'm not great, mostly blues, a few blacks, and plenty of skiers and boarders are way faster/much more skilled than me.  There's just a difference between people who learned at a young age and someone taking it up in their old age.  That said, I have fun and I've given my son the gift of lessons in a sport I never got to participate in.  So hopefully as an adult he'll have a level of skill I never did.  Also fun being part of the culture and occaisionally catching some pros riding around (in snowboarding, I wouldn't know the pro skiers).

    Anyway I do forget to check the hobbies board but if any of you make it up to Bachy, ping me and maybe I can join you on your warm up runs before you move on to the bigger stuff.

     

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    When host Laura Ingraham asked what his “constitutional” plan was on 6 January 2021 — as Mr Trump and his allies sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election — Mr Eastman admitted that he tried to stop the certification of the election results and wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence to at least halt Congress from certifying them for a week.

    “Some people had urged that Vice President Pence simply had power to reject electors whose certification was still pending,” he said.

    “I explicitly told Vice President Pence in the Oval Office on January 4, that even though it was an open issue, under the circumstances we had I thought it was the weaker argument, and it would be foolish to exercise such power.

    “What I recommended, and I’ve said this repeatedly, is that he accede to requests from more than 100 state legislators in the swing states, to give them a week to try and sort out the impact of what everybody acknowledged was illegality in the conduct of the election.”

    His response left many legal experts baffled — as it appeared that the attorney admitted live on air that he was guilty of one of the crimes with which he is charged.

    Bradley P. Moss, an attorney specialising in national security, posted a clip of the interview on X/Twitter, saying: “He literally just confessed to the crime.”

     

     

    https://news.yahoo.com/did-trump-codefendant-just-confess-095756682.html?src=rss

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  14. Slow day so I read some more.  Not only is it not a Biden thing, it is not even necessarily a sure thing at all:

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    Dr George Koob — who admits enjoying a couple of glasses of Chardonnay a week — said he was watching Canada's 'big experiment' with interest. 

    'If there's health benefits, I think people will start to re-evaluate where we're at [in the US],' he told DailyMail.com.

     

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12438233/Americans-limited-two-beers-strict-new-alcohol-guidelines-Bidens-booze-czar.html

    So forgetting the sensationalist headline, the Doctor is saying we could move towards the two drinks a week max as a recommendation.   Wow, sure is worth getting fake angry over.

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  15. Haven't seen the study Rafael is complaining about, but I have been reading some other health related/longevity related articles/newsletters and I have seen this two per week maximimum recommendation come up.  The first time was dealing with steps towards reducing your chances at neurodegenerative diseases.*

    from a newsletter that summarzied this study ("Association between healthy lifestyle and memory decline in older adults: 10 year, population based, prospective cohort study")

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    Research suggests that a few lifestyle changes can slow down memory decline and keep you mentally sharp.

    Scientists followed more than 29,000 people over a 10-year period and found that those who prioritized their wellness by regularly exercising, eating a balanced diet, not smoking, and consuming alcohol in moderate amounts didn’t decline like those who didn't embrace healthy habits.

    Participants who followed a healthy lifestyle had a 30 percent lower risk of memory decline compared to those who did not.

    What’s more interesting is that even people who were genetically predisposed to cognitive problems, dementia, or Alzheimer’s (because they were carriers of the APOE ε4 gene, which increases risk) had lower rates of decline if they engaged in healthy lifestyle behaviors.

    If you’re looking to keep your brain sharp, the super-agers had a few common traits:

    75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise per week.

    Social contact twice per week

    Engaging in a mentally-challenging activity twice per week

    No smoking or alcohol

     



    There's this "Nordic Nutrition Recommendations" that says
     

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    Alcohol: Since no safe limit for alcohol consumption can be provided, the recommendation in NNR2023 is that everyone should avoid drinking alcohol. If consuming alcohol, the intake should be low

    Everywhere I see that article discussed people get bogged down in the meat argument, and seem to skip the no alcohol recommedation. 


    Now, I write this as someone who really enjoys good beer pretty often, including some last night.  But I don't think I'm ignorant of the risks I am taking.  It seems from a layman's point of view  quite obvious that if the goal is long term health/mental vitality then avoiding alcohol altogether is the safest bet.    Next safest is now the two per week at most recommendation that seems to be gaining popularity.

    So not sure what Rafael is all upset about.  If you want to keep getting fatter and unhealthier go right ahread.  Although perhaps not being from this planet makes him immune to the delterious effects of an unhealthy diet.  

    *not sure we would recognize any mental decline on his part.

     

  16. 54 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    Or the knives, the cars, the hammers, the rocks.  Stupid people, and criminals, do stupid shit.  Murder is and has been illegal for a very long time.

    You're right.  There is a real problem with mass stonings in this country.  

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