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Pere Ubu's avatar

Wow, AI slop AND PraegerU?

Can't see this all turning out horribly, horribly wrong, nope!

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

Steve Bannon's hot tub is not something I wanted to consider or visualize.

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"M"'s avatar

I thought I read something about him pouring acid in one of his "regular" tubs

Back in his "I didn't assault my ex-wife because the police report has been disappeared and so nobody can PROVE it" days

Which ... yeah

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Anzu's avatar

The teachers are desperately doing everything they can to keep AI OUT of the K12 schools.

The only people advocating for this are people who cannot read, and therefore cannot write themselves, and don't understand why the literate crowd hates AI generated stuff.

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

"What do you mean seven fingers is abnormal?"

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carovee's avatar

The slashing and burning of our government is bad. But the goddamm constant grifting is going to give ma a stroke.

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LOU LOU's avatar

This is so far away from the public education reforms I advocate for including mandatory learning in ecology, critical thinking, gardening, food preparation, communication and relationship skills. We need these skills when we leave this machine driven artificial intelligent culture for good.

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The Wanderer's avatar

TABS SIGN!!!!!!1!!!

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Mr blob's avatar

Early morning DeScandalis news

I guess someone’s running for the Senate. Stealing from Medicaid like a common Rick Scott

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5261542-florida-gov-ron-desantis-hope-florida-scandal/amp/

“ The controversy surrounding the Hope Florida Foundation goes back to last year, when the state of Florida discovered they were owed $67 million in a settlement with the Centene Corporation after the state was overbilled for Medicaid. The draft agreement obtained by media on Tuesday suggested that $10 million of that money was funneled to two nonprofit groups involved in the campaign against the ballot measure. One of those groups gave money to a PAC tied to DeSantis’s then-chief of staff James Uthmeier.”

The Byron Scott/Casey Desantis primary showdown might end up being the worst political battle of all time

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tek's avatar

AH yes, another media hit piece...

“𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 — 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑡 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠 — 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑓’𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦’𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡,” 𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑. “𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ‘𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦’ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑢𝑝𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡.”

Sure, Jan..

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Sure she mighta stole money from olds and poors, but at least she hates the same people I do!

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The Wanderer's avatar

(sighs) Florida . . .

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Well, Florida still retains its entertainment value ...

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jamesHatt the Magnificent's avatar

Pffftt….Floriduh

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Someone please remind me not to comment on youtube videos in the future?

Thanks

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Fog of Jen's avatar

noooo do it and when they go ARGLE BARGLE LIB BARGLE TRANS BARGE ARGLE! You go "Lol, just how small IS your dick anyway"

It is fun.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

What did you say?

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I made a comment about left right, rich poor and got jumped on by the left and right mainly because idiots had no idea what I was talking about.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Well, during covid, my city council got taken over by MAGA GQPs plus a MAGA GQP mayor (one of those council members was forced to resign for also holding a city job, and another, my council rep, has been voted out for embezzlement, and the mayor has been voted out, too). During their time in office, they used emergency powers to approve an entertainment district for the university at taxpayers cost. The district was HEAVILY opposed by the public and only passed during a closed, late night meeting.

The opposition, my team, has called out the notion of "emergency sports arenas" and the new council and mayor are working hard to end the potential development. The only argument the pro side seems to have is "well, we've already signed contracts, and those will be expensive to break". Fortunately nobody is buying it.

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Bobathonic's avatar

In my world, we have termination for default and termination for convenience of the government. T for D, you have to prove the default. T for C, you have to pay them for the work they actually performed, supplies they bought, etc.

"Emergency sports arena" sounds like my favorite song:

https://youtu.be/Oy0TtFkgCPQ?si=TRxNClepyNwwuKQB

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The Wanderer's avatar

"Emergency sports arenas" used to be called "using a side street as a stickball diamond."

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Yeah, no kidding.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Nothing like an ad hoc pickup game, with one kid detailed to scream "CAR!" so the players can get out of the way.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Let the university used their own money to build it. -_-

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Fog of Jen's avatar

I tried explaining this once to my rural raised spawn and they just looked at me funny.

I finally went "Well, we didn't have AC you see"

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Daniel's avatar

https://bsky.app/profile/number10cat.bsky.social/post/3lnhlkinays2t

It's St. George's Day, which is traditionally celebrated by men with beer bellies and/or public school educations* moaning about how they're not allowed to celebrate it.

*remember, USians, that's not the same as US public school

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

Starmer was wanking on this morning about how the English flag has become the property of bigots and Little Englanders. I think he was against it but it was hard to tell, and given that is who he is trying to get back into the Labour fold I’m really not sure what his point was.

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Daniel's avatar

I don't honestly remember a time in my life when the England flag wasn't the property of bigots and Little Englanders.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Your version of our confederate flag then?

Which is totally about heritage, despite how it was actually the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia, which is a very small region, but later adopted because out of all their assholes only Lee was a sympathetic figure (though not to me: he did not fight to defend Virginia, but to keep his wife's slaves, but I digress).

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Daniel's avatar

Not quite, in that it is literally the flag of a nation within the UK and it’s not considered a problem to show it when England plays a sport, but if you see it in any other context it’s a pretty good sign that the person who owns it reads the Mail and has strong opinions on immigrants.

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

The correlation between St George Cross flags and Brexiteer fuckwits in Derby is very clear. Very local sample but all I have.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Might be a different school system, but it has a parallel of USians with beer bellies and christian school educations moaning about how they can't celebrate manliness anymore!

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The Wanderer's avatar

And no one says a single word about the poor dragon.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

"Why hasn't this been DOGE'd?" -- Orangini

𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 100 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦.

𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢 “𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴” 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘈𝘚𝘈’𝘴 𝘑𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 (𝘑𝘗𝘓) 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘻𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗨𝗽𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗮: ‘𝗜𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲’

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/perseverance-rover-stumbles-upon-mars-rock-bonanza-it-has-been-all-we-had-hoped-for-and-more/

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The Wanderer's avatar

SCIENCE!

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The Wanderer's avatar

You make that sound as if it's a bad thing.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Depends on who is yelling it. I am a heretic as well.

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Bobathonic's avatar

This is video of the recent submarine dive on the Yorktown. It's 10+ hours long and there's a lot of time not near the wreck.

https://youtu.be/3BGZJB1sHYI?si=SHc04bbx9Hoppjdg

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Fog of Jen's avatar

*Reads the more. Sees building off an archaeological survey. Gets happy that fast*

Nothing I dislike more than looters acting like they are doing the world a favor, so it is super nice to see one of these being done science like

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JCfromNC's avatar

Ha! The Cinema Therapy guys made a horror short. I mean, I don't think it has anything to do with their Cinema Therapy gig, but Alan wrote and directed it and Jonathan's in it.

"Moonstruck"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Yea-nuoZs

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Daniel's avatar

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lngx6swpkg2p

RFK Jr: An American teenager today has less testosterone than a 68 year old man. Sperm counts are down 50 percent.

WATTERS: Wait -- an American teenager has less testosterone than a 68 year old man?

RFK JR: That's right

I think the greatest mistake of the Harris campaign was easing up on calling these fucking weirdos weird.

This weird leathern man is on TV trying to get people anxious about whether their children's cum is potent enough.

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MorganX's avatar

Say, here's a point: weird leathern man may be the best description yet as the bastard does look like he'd been dug up from a bog.

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Bobathonic's avatar

Let's call him "Peat".

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MorganX's avatar

👍🏼

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

We would ask for citations, but ...

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BosGrl's avatar

bexhc73.bsky.social

‪@bexhc73.bsky.social

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‘An American teenager’ also encompasses all teenage girls, is that where he’s getting confused?!

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Daniel's avatar

"Which American teenager?"

"Well, his name is Pete Chuckles and he goes to Jeremy Christmas Eyebrow High in Santa Chutney, South Virginia."

"Solid red area, probably safe to assume a lot of people who live there are watching. Pete, if you're there, have a good evening."

"Little fucker keyed my car."

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

"Slapdash work as well"

"I AM PETER SELLERS wasn't great creativity"

"If only he were"

"Is he still Pete Chuckles?"

"No he calls himself Dave Random Eight Ball now"

"Well, he did kill that dog"

"True, true"

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Bobathonic's avatar

Thank you, I was feeling lost, not knowing who it was.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

All you really need to know this is some bullshit is to walk into any teenager boy's room.

Do not bring a black light. It is not needed.

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Linda1961 is woke and proud's avatar

Agree - that was Harris' greatest mistake. No doubt the campaign listened to their paid political consultants, who are greedy and have no spines.

As for what RFK the Lesser said, notice that he seems to think that only males are teenagers. To these chuds, women and girls aren't real people. As for the amount of testosterone anyone has, who gives a fuck? Other than insecure males, that is. And how does he know this anyway?

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I'm not chiming in until I hear what Herman Cain has to say.

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memzilla's avatar

The worms go in

The worms go out

The worms play pinochle on his snout.

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

He's brown bread

Everyone said

And nobody cared

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The Wanderer's avatar

What study is being cited, and what was the methodology?

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Daniel's avatar

RFK Jr has beeing going round testing it personally, by dipping a finger in it and smearing it on his gums.

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The Wanderer's avatar

LOL

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Bill Door's avatar

A) His ass, and B) his ass.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Yeah, it's all incel bullshit designed to justify being shit to women.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

We're not being shitty to women! We're being "Manly"!

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The Wanderer's avatar

Which explains why incels can't get laid in a brothel.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

They don't want to get laid.

They want a perfect woman whom their friends would be jealous of to make them money, cook and clean for them, and lay back and think of England on demand.

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Bobathonic's avatar

Citations are for nerds!

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The Wanderer's avatar

(buffs his Nerd Card)

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Meccalopolis's avatar

It had traction.

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

First, WTF, why does he look like that?

Second, WTF is he talking about?

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MRK's avatar

1. Years of drug abuse, followed by years of intense workouts (and probable steroid abuse) to get 'healthy' after kicking that first habit.

2. The right's obsession with manliness given a thin coating of 'science'.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Who even knows. Though I do remember when my one nephew was born his mom was convinced that lavender would lower his T score or some such.

I was all...yeah but is T score really important in a newborn?

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

I would suggest that 50% of US teenagers have very low testosterone levels and zero sperm counts. Which will greatly effect the averages.

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MRK's avatar

I've said it before - as a middle aged testicular cancer survivor, I find their obsession with testosterone and sperm count baffling and pathetic.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

It's the eugenics coming through their "rhetoric" ...

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

Well, after an awful time waking up still sick yesterday from the anesthesia, last night I slept great and this morning I feel great other than the pain at the incision sites, which is to be expected. Breakfast will be avocado toast with salt AND PEPPER, boiled eggs, and a banana. That will be lunch too, then dinner will be half a chicken sandwich from Chili's.

I spent yesterday watching Laverne & Shirley, and today looks like a marathon of Orson Welles pictures. Plus more napping. Nothing worse than sick days when you're actually sick.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

So glad you've got the surgery and are on the mend, Diane!

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Glad you are feeling better!

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Fog of Jen's avatar

although the real challenge would be creating a large-language model stupid enough to spit out a realistic simulation of the speech Trump might give to laud the winners and call for the immediate military invasion of Latveria.

No need for AI for that! We've got Daniel

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

To simulate Trump, a small-language model would more than suffice.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

ouch. It's the timing and cadence for a TTS model we would have to train. Or maybe there's already a "demented idiot" speech model out there?

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

This is just crying out to be investigated further.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

We could have Daniel train the model. And then use AI text-to-speech with Orangini's voice. Since we have all the dumbasses' mobile numbers, just call them and have the AI babble for an hour or so ...

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