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  1. Nothing at all good can come from an attempt to do something like this even if it is ultimately unsuccessful. Jan 6 out front should have told you.
  2. We need to stop using “active shooter” in media reports. It’s an LEO term used to indicate the threat is ongoing. Of course the shooter is/was active if he’s fucking shooting people. It jargonizes and distances reader from the reality. “Gunman,” “killer,” or just “shooter.”
  3. Part of what makes this so sticky is DJT’s penchant for using non-official MAGA world proxies all over the world. There’s a long tradition of outsourcing extremely sensitive and complex stuff when it makes strategic sense, but when that is done well, non-official people are tightly linked and coordinated with the official world. And it’s almost never done for things this. There’s been less chaos and confusion in the second term but it’s still an issue. This sounds like a Marx Brothers version of the Russian way of business.
  4. A majority of GOP voters want Trump to have a third, unconstitutional term. A majority of Dems and Independents think he will seek one. Tipping point past IMO. The majority party has simply abandoned any pretense of wanting a constitutional order. https://www.semafor.com/article/08/27/2025/gop-voters-favor-third-trump-term
  5. Yes, and the victim doesn’t have to press charges. The DA can decide to do it. It may be a while before there is an arrest or anything, though.
  6. Tuesday night happy hour got extended into Tuesday night angry and drunk posting I see.
  7. Taylor and Travis got my daughters to, for the first time in my life, sit down and watch a full ball game with me. I had to listen to a lot of chatter that slowly turned in questions about the game. Will always be grateful to TayTay.
  8. The new version of ChatGPT is much less affirming and has stronger controls in place to push back against anthropomorphizing. That said, the earlier version was a precision guided missile to the minds of confused and mentally unwell people. FFS, this quote: https://archive.ph/rdL9W
  9. lol, QE is so clearly setting up a grift for after the end of his almost sure to be short pro career. He’ll be a MAGA football podcaster or some shit. It never stops with these people.
  10. I look at this differently: I think that there genuinely is a deepening pushback against the depressing and sloppy beigification of everything. I think that people actually didn’t like the half-assed rework of a piece of familiar, iconic, and harmless Americana (even if attached to a mediocre chain restaurant) into appified slop. But, I do think it’s a reflection of a dangerous political moment in this way: the people who don’t like it are unable to express why they don’t like it outside of political wars. Any point of disagreement or dissatisfaction is reduced to an argument over woke/anti-woke in the same way any and all preferences in the Soviet Union were framed as to whether they were revolutionary or reactionary. And this works the other way, too. Because it’s been politicized, people have the knee-jerk reaction of either defending what is truly a shitty rebrand or saying that no one should care even though caring about trivial aesthetic and marketing shit has a long non-politicized proud tradition (see uniform pron thread). It should be simple and non-political to say the obvious: The Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks. It’s boring and bland and makes our shared human-shaped geography just a little bit more soulless and less fun in an era when soul and fun is in short supply. It’s borne of conformist and soggy marketing brain that thinks making the physical world more like a smartphone screen is good design. The fact that we as a society can’t find the way to say this without reference to hyper-partisan framing is further evidence of creeping totalitarianism in the sense that almost no opinions can be voiced or conversations held outside politics. It’s a hallmark of decaying democracies and hyper-ideological dictatorships.
  11. I love lard tortillas, never tried tallow. To truly level up, get pan dulce made with lard.
  12. I don’t disagree with any of this, but it’s just plain fact that the president can federalize national guards over the objections of state governors and not run afoul of 2A. Under Title 10 this is for insurrections, repelling invasions, or if regular law enforcement cannot enforce federal law. Eisenhower, Johnson, and Kennedy all did this to enforce civil rights. I don’t see any case where DJT can credibly claim that Title 10 allows him to federalize state guards to do routine law enforcement.
  13. The president can federalize the guard under Title 10. Eisenhower and Kennedy both did so during integration in Arkansas and Alabama, at a time when both states’ governors opposed desegregation and the use of the guard in that manner. Title 32 is used when the president asks a state for use of the guard, and states can decline (several did when Trump asked in the 2020 DC deployment). Guard troops perform federal missions under state command and control at the request of the president. That’s how the state guards are in DC right now and how they can perform LE duties without violating the posse comitatus act. Sending non-federalized troops (Title 10) into a non-consenting state would violate the constitution, but not 2A. It would be one state invading the other. DC is special because it’s a non-state.
  14. So much with tallow! It has a high smoke point and adds great flavor. Before the 1960s or so basically everyone used tallow or lard so you can substitute it in for oil and it works really well in home style recipes. 1. Searing meat. 2. Panfrying 3. Roasting potatoes and veggies 4. Base for gravies or stew rouxs 5. Shortening for pastries (try it for biscuits) I love it for refrying beans or to grease a pan for a fried egg. I’m not a believer in garlic presses. I’d just get a wooden pestle to smash up garlic if that’s what you need or use the back of a knife and mince after. A garlic press just takes up space in the drawer.
  15. Este. The point about the same notes conveying something wildly different is apt. The “creative” or “idea” part of art is often the easy part. The actual artistry is in the deeply individual perspective and craft the artist brings to the subject. The halls of great museums are adorned with endless examples of the same subject: the Gods, the Saints, the nude, the landscape, the sea, the garden. We are transfixed by the great pieces because the artist has gone beyond mechanical reproduction of the subject and makes us see something familiar in the way the artist wants us to see it. And that is something AI can’t do by definition because it can have no intentionality or perspective. AI can produce a passable version of an El Greco cityscape when prompted but it can never, ever see the world in an original way like El Greco did and put that vision onto canvas because it can’t see anything at all. And that will always be the difference in what it spits out. Similar with literature. Having a great idea for a story is easy and we have pretty much tapped out basic ideas for plots. Shakespeare only wrote two original plots. The artistry is in the hard part, the actual writing. AI will never have its own voice or be able to understand the motivations of a character and thus cannot produce anything of real value. I am not saying here that AI art won’t be popular. It will be, but it will be terrible.
  16. This is terrible and ham-fisted and exactly what I’d expect from an AI “artist.” It belongs on some Facebook slop page for people with brain rot. All it’s missing is an explanatory caption that the sheep represents the viewer. With art, I see AI as the type of thing the worst kind of aspiring artist wants to use as a short-cut. It will be used by people who think they could be artists but don’t have the talent or work ethic to learn the craft or even understand what’s good or bad. Droves of wannabe screen-writers who havesome “brilliant” treatment but is incapable of actually produce a script. And the thing is that the idea itself will be half as good as they think it is.
  17. Y’all will be in for a treat as UK named Zach Calzada— 7th year senior and stints at A&M, Auburn, and Incarnart Word— QB1. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46070105/source-kentucky-names-transfer-zach-calzada-starting-qb
  18. The dumbest people getting high on their own supply.
  19. Any school and Texas State is top 5 for hottest coeds. Like how Enver Hoxa allegedly said that “the Albanians, together with the Chinese, are a quarter of the world’s population.”
  20. Mercedes-Benz wasn’t nationalized. Prior to the war, Porsche was a design and engineering consultancy that created the design for the Volkswagen but didn’t produce its own cars. Ferdinand Porsche was an enthusiastic Nazi and SS member and leadership of Daimler-Benz was also whole-heartedly cooperative with the Nazis. They used massive numbers of prisoners. There are for sure some parallels in the way some segments of industry are rushing into bed with Trump. I do think it’s more closely mirroring managed capitalism in China or corrupt schemes in Hungary than the Nazi way of business. Hitler wasn’t grifting, he really was trying to mobilize German society for his warped vision of national greatness.
  21. A lot of the early MMA guys were fucking lunatics who had plateaued before reaching the peak of their original disciplines. It wasn’t like now, there was a reason McCain called it “human cockfighting.” I think UFC I paid like $50k to the champ. Rampage Jackson for sure is in that category.
  22. It’s that, and it’s also a political W for the GOP to make blue state govs and mayors to go on TV and talk about crime rates and policing.
  23. Also, it looks like the WWE has delisted this organization as an independent development partner. More reason for the promoters not to try and sell this as a tragic script gone wrong. https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/1575515-indie-promotion-removes-wwe-id-affiliation-after-in-ring-shoot-incident/amp
  24. Part of what makes this so egregious. In pro ‘rasslin the ref’s main job is to help sell the action and be part of the show and storyline. All the actors work together on safety. A combat sport ref is there to enforce rules and ensure fighter safety. An MMA ref would have immediately recognized and intervened; a pro rasslin ref isn’t there to do that. It took a beat for people to be aware what was happening, because it was so far outside of norms and expectations. There’s a video of the “beer can” incident where the wrestler confusingly asks Jackson “aren’t you gonna sell it?” The beer can hit itself was a clear work, Jackson doesn’t even wobble or take a step even thought it’s meant to look like a heavy punch. It’s clear he thinks he’s acting all night long, which he is.
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