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  1. 3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    40 years of trickle down being the main economic policy of the GQP and we have one super small example of it maybe kind of working.  Yay?

    I mean, besides the fact I was being sarcastic, it’s funny to me that all these menial positions (e.g. housekeepers, truck drivers, gas station managers) that need humans are so attractive versus, say, a social media marketing associate or business analyst making $80k a year.

  2. 1 minute ago, HendersonHorns said:

    43 members of the democrat congress find no issue in calling for the ethnic cleansing of the only Jewish country in the world. 
     


     

    How does that saying go?

    Every......something.....

    Oh I remember:

    Every accusation is a confession.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Just so long as you're super cool with anyone who isn't a white citizen being called "vermin" who are "poisoning the blood of our country," and the things that inevitably follow when the party espousing such rhetoric takes power.  Are you super cool with that?  No?  You're not?  YET.....you'll still support and empower the regime that says and does such things?  Cool, cool.

    I'm not cool with that and am not supporting it politically with my vote or any money in the Year of our Lord 2024. 

    Thank u, next

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  4. Just now, HendersonHorns said:

    I’m not gaslighting anything. Im pointing out literally nazi sentiment by 44 congressional votes. 43 of which were democrats. 

    You'll get nowhere with a contingent on here in CR-- they have literally argued that Trump is comparable to Hitler because, even though he hasn't killed 7 million people, he has the potential to... possibly if you squint and turn your head and then jump up and down and then if lightning strikes the same place twice, he could possibly one day do the same thing as Hitler.

    So, in their mind, it's an apt comparison and not hyperbolic mental illness.

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  5. 15 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Looney Tunes. So, am I to understand every Trump voter is horrible to other kids from whom they have nothing to gain?

    You're just making shit up as you go. 

    This is just a good old fashioned Brisket Friday Afternoon before a 3 day weekend.

    He's wrapped up his workday by noon and has been working himself up since to where he's positively frothing by mid afternoon and that's even before his first alcoholic drink. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    As we honor Memorial Day this weekend and begin the summer, please know you are richer, aged like fine wine this year, and more successful than you have ever been in your life.

     

    You’d need to be an Olympic long jumper to bridge the gap between how well the public thinks the economy is doing and how well the economy is actually doing, according to a new Harris poll published yesterday by the Guardian.

    Among the 2,000+ participants in the survey:

    56% think the US is currently experiencing a recession, and 55% believe the economy is shrinking. (GDP—a key measure of economic activity—is growing.)

    72% believe inflation is going up. (It’s more than halved from a 2022 peak of 9.1% and is hovering between 3% and 4%.)

    49% think the current unemployment rate is at a 50-year high. (It’s near a 50-year low.)

    49% believe the S&P 500 is on the decline. (It’s risen more than 12% this year, and Wall Street is raising its expectations for the index’s year-end performance. The Dow also just made record gains.)

    Why is reality missing so many Americans?

    Even though inflation is finally easing, the average cost of groceries, housing, and other consumer needs has soared over the past few years. About two-thirds of the Harris poll respondents agreed that “it’s difficult to be happy about positive economic news when I feel financially squeezed each month.”

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    Media coverage likely also shares the blame. Recent studies show that news coverage is becoming increasingly negative, especially regarding gas prices, a common harbinger of economic panic.

    Here’s why that’s bad news for Joe Biden. 58% of the poll’s participants blame the current administration for what they see as a worsening economy. Convincing them otherwise will be a challenge, especially since more than 60% of people surveyed said they’re skeptical of economic news.

    Oh, here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/poll-economy-recession-biden

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Correct.  He's worse than that.  Because he's a little smart, about some things.  But he's not smart enough to realize how dumb he is.  He foolishly thinks he's a super brain genius about literally everything.  Which makes him really, really dumb.

    Kind of like how some of the dumbest people I've ever known have been, for example, heart surgeons.  They're a genius in the operating room, know their specialty perfectly.  AND....because they figured THAT out, they think that they're brilliant at everything else.  So guys like me end up coming along to help clean up the horrific messes they made of their businesses, families, hospitals, car crashes, plane crashes, etc., all because they thought "I'm super smart about A, therefore I'm a super brain genius about B, C, D, E, F, G....LMNOP."

    The post above is Elon spouting off about fucking warfare.  And taking the simplistic view of "ya got the most drones, the war is over, you won."  I must have missed his degree from a service academy, his decades of combat experience, his experience in wargaming asymmetrical warfare, his training from the National War College, etc. etc. etc.  Elon knows fuck about war.  Shit, there are easily dozens of posters on this site who are more qualified and intelligent about warfare than Elon (and this site is a bunch of assholes and idiots).  But not only does he offer opinions (hey, we all do, that's life), he offers them as a fucking end-all, be-all authority, and is treated as such by drooling fanbois. 

    But, he thinks and says out loud that minorities are everything wrong with the world, so he's beloved by....a certain crowd.  And that's that.

    He's a little smart about some things-- the things that he's historically worked on and made him money-- and he bloviates opinions on most everything else.

    So he's you (and me, and everyone else on this website), just with billions of dollars. Which I guess is why we get to punch up at him and call him stupid and we have the luxury of being poor nobodies that makes us think we are pretty nifty and clever in an "I could do that" kind of way.

    Imagine if you ever got famous or rich and become a somebody and people went through your tweets or posts here. Based on those (e.g. opinions and reactions and emotions about most things you are so amatuer in that nobody would think to pay you in those realms) think you were one of the biggest idiots in the world. "Probably a good or decent lawyer though, but man, what a dummy!" they'd say.

  8. On 5/23/2024 at 11:54 AM, Pescado_Rojo said:

    We had a guy. Mid 60s, been with the company 30 years. The last 20 IN THE SAME JOB. Guy was probably worth high 7 figures having been in a mid six figure job for 20 years plus stock, etc. Any time you asked him about retirement, he'd say something like "oh, I'd get bored in a week" or "My customers are my friends! I get to work with my friends every day!". Anyway, dude failed 3 phishing tests in 6 months, and they gave him a nice package next time we had a rif. 

    Didn't we have a guy on this site who was telling us how he almost got fired for failing the phishing links stuff?

  9. 3 minutes ago, ultimaton said:

     

    All that money yet he's still in the midst of a severe mental health crisis, addicted to drugs, can't keep a woman, fat, can't dress himself properly, and his pet project is the laughing stock of the entire world.

    There's another saying in these mean streets: "money ain't everything"

     

    Amen to that!

    Elon Musk. Exhibit Eleventy Billion.

    But people without it will still idolize it and fantasize that tons of money will solve their problems. 

    But also, people mad at and/or disdainful of Elon Musk aren't wrong. But to claim he's stupid seems...well, stupid. He might not be the smartest guy or even half as smart as he thinks he is, but he's not the average room temperature intelligence and IQ that walk our streets despite Brisket's claims.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    The phrase "stupid money" exists for a reason.

    Equating dollars with intelligence is something that, well, 12 yr old Brisket might have done.

    Is the phrase "dumb money"?

    But agreed, equating the two is stupid. But for all the faults of Elon, of which there are too many to enumerate despite 383 pages worth of attempts, it's funny to hear middle aged financial washouts like you/me/us talk about how stupid he is.

    There's a saying in the mean streets: "It's always the broke [jokers] tryna tell you how to get a dollar"

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  11. In Elon Musk news: His A.I. start-up, xAI, has secured funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia and Tribe; and SpaceX is reportedly considering a tender offer that would value the company at roughly $200 billion, up from $180 billion in December. (FT, Bloomberg)

    Thing$ are $till not going well for that big ole dummy with the brains of a 12 year old, ammirite @Brisketexan

  12. On 5/23/2024 at 12:45 PM, Felix said:

    To me this highlights one of "AI"s biggest failings.  Will it ever understand parody, satire, sarcasm, etc?  Seems like 90% of the content on the internet is people making funny (to them) comments and absurdities for humor or whatever.  AI in it's current state is just an information collator that doesn't even understand the information it's using.  People say it will get better, but I just don't see it.  It's basically an autistic person with unlimited memory.  It can regurgitate but will never understand enough of the subtlety of human thought and communication to be in any way useful as a tool except in very limited circumstances.

    Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

  13. On 5/22/2024 at 5:03 PM, Don Johnson said:

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    I just found out last week that these dorks actually perm their hair. It takes total sense in hindsight, but for the last few years I did wonder "man, waaaaaay more young kids have curly hair this generation than ever before for this stupid brocolli cut".

    Now, wait until you hear about this haircut trend called "The Edgar" that took over low income areas the last few years.

  14. 2 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    This actually did make me LOL. I don’t care how they talk so long as they aren’t doing something or saying something that intentionally hurts others. The NBA is lucky to have guys like Edwards, Jokic, Doncic and others.  It’s a fun time especially if you are just a fan of the sport in general. 

    I get that. I really love his (Ant's) game. I just don't like him as a human being and find him hard to stomach off the court.

    I guess it's an age old problem that Sir Charles addressed himself in the early 90's with the "I'm not your kids role model, I'm a basketball player first and foremost" comments that was deemed controversial in the pre-internet era.

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