I wonder if that bird parent was just doing the biggest sigh? "Eat the damn fish! 'Hatch babies' they told me. 'They're cute' they told me. Now I'm spending all day trying to feed this doofus and all I get are webbed feet in my face!"
I've noticed that when ospreys bring fish back to their nests (presumably that's where they're going), they always carry the fish so the head is at the front. I figure it's because the natural streamlining of the fish makes it easier to carry.....
Stephen Miller: "We have communities all across this nation that 20 years ago, before the era of open borders, were completely peaceful, completely stable. Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks."
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"Twenty years ago" was "before the era of open borders"?
Really?
The United States opened up its borders in (let us check our calendars) the year 2005?
How is THIS Joe Biden's fault? How is this Barack OBAMA's fault? This was back in the second term of George DUBYA BUSH!
(I could mention that the Immigration and Customs Agency, commonly called ICE, was founded in 2002. Not that this matters to people who want to believe somebody, and surely some Democrat, "opened up the borders" in 2005.)
Stephen Miller expects his viewers to forget everything they used to know about the past twenty years, including not only such easy-to-miss things as the imaginary Open Border Act of 2005, but also such hard-to-miss things as who was the President in that year. This guy is just as bad as Bill O'Reilly.
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Needless to say, it would be nice if we could expect US-American adults to know more about the history of immigration and immigration law than Stephen Miller. It SURE would be nice if more US news media channels tried to enlighten US-American viewers rather than merely to "entertain" them with unfounded, bigoted claims about immigrants that are treated as equal to facts, if facts are ever mentioned at all.
The REAL "era of open borders" ended in 1924. This was a HUNDRED years ago, not "twenty." The laws that ended "open borders" in the 1920s were unabashedly RACIST.
Immigration restrictions were reformed and made less racist only after the Second World War. The effect of this reform has been the so-called "browning" of America, that is, the economic and cultural enrichment, maturation, and beautification of America, in countless ways.
None of this was every appreciated by America's white racists and xenophobes, who never went away. And over the last 40 years, their imaginary grievances have been amplified by the Republican Party, which needed their support to achieve its grand plan to dismantle the New Deal. Part of this project was NAFTA, which was written by lobbyists for the investor class with no input from workers. This law and its progeny destabilized three national economies and embarrassed its sponsors in the US Congress, who quickly went looking for scapegoats. Fortunately, they could still pander to racists and xenophobes. Thus emerged the "Immigrant Responsibility Act" of 1996, which effectively blamed human migration for all the damage the oligarchs had done (thus far) to the New Deal and proposed to stop human migration by criminalizing migrant workers themselves.
To my knowledge, nothing significant has changed about US immigration law since 1996, except that it has been implemented more and more by the thugs of ICE and less and less by lawyers or judges. The new Republican fascist regime, elected last November, would like to "solve" the "problem" of undocumented immigrants just as the US Congress "solved" the "problem" of the Cherokees in 1830.
Terry Moran has a Substack called Real Patriotism with Terry Moran. He interviews a variety of people about the current political situation in America. I think it is excellent and everyone should subscribe to it.
I really wish we could stop talking about Epstein but if this nonsense is what makes the Magaists go Dump Drumpf and denaturalize his citizenship (Dad was born of German nationals, Mom a Scot from the Outer Hebrides), well I guess that is one thing he can tell St Peter. Epstein still is going to the other place, Dante has been assigned to figure out what circle, but maybe he can say he was the one stain that lead to the Fall.
People make fun of S. Miller because he looks like a ghoul. On the contrary, he actually is a ghoul. It is good that he looks like a ghoul so that nobody should be misled.
"Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) blocked a Senate resolution that would have called on President Donald Trump's Department of Justice to release files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
"This is nothing but political theater," he argued. "It's so obvious that the Democrats are just using this for political football."
"Are you kidding me?" the Republican added. "This is nothing more than just political theater trying to go after a president that they truly despise. With that, I object."
I would advocate for a bill which prohibits Senators from having more that one name in their first names. Every time I see "Markwayne" I feel a little ill.
I imagine Markwayne wouldn't advocate investigating the Epstein files if Biden was credibly accused of being included in them. No political theater for Markwayne!
Hey, that's not dowsing. It's astrology, without the math, the myth, the Jungian archetypes, and astral travel, all scraped from circus sites and back issues of Cosmopolitan to provide AI with its "content."
Analytical AI can do scientific breakthroughs when it has been guided and trained by a team of human beings chasing a specific goal. The most recent example of this is using it to fold proteins and make educated guesses about whether the resulting shape will interact with a specific bit of a living body.
Generative AI is a predictive algorithm that will cheerfully lie to your face if that's what it thinks you want it to say, because it's guessing what the most likely string of words will be as an answer. It's not thinking at all, it's still just predicting a sentence that sounds correct because it's been trained on a thousand sentences, many of which are probably NOT correct at all. There is no scientific breakthrough because the only thing it's been trained on are previous science papers... written by human beings. (The legit science papers are now straight up banning the use of gen-AI for writing or images, after the 2024 Giant Rat Balls scandal. Searching for that specific term will bring up a lot of fun articles about that one!)
Very few CEOs do either. That's why they buy into the hype from the marketing teams about all the ways that an AI tool can "transform their workflows" and "eliminate redundancy."
The problem is that a lot of the grunt work can be streamlined through non AI means much more cheaply, but it requires custom development work, which they didn't want to pay for. So rather than spend $200,000 to get 4 months of a consultant firm's programming team to write out a basic script to mad-lib in their software to eliminate 90% of the hand writing a human has to do, they get duped into spending 20 million for generative AI to attempt the same thing.... very poorly.
The problem with the Democrats is that they talk talk talk, write strongly worded letters, then go home after voting for Trump's administrative nominees, federal judges, and budget cuts.
I wholeheartedly endorse the notion of more and more "past supporters" for Donald Trump. Yes, let him have all the "past" supporters his withered heart desires. It's good for the republic.
The fish was thiiiiis big! Your hed gif source info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/chick-overwhelmed-by-the-catch-of
And a super meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/c77a529d-553d-4068-bf5b-4d9d7d770296?utm_source=share
Never try to eat anything bigger than your head.
That food wasn't too big. It was too fresh! "Sometimes the food fights back, son. You gotta be ready for that."
I wonder if that bird parent was just doing the biggest sigh? "Eat the damn fish! 'Hatch babies' they told me. 'They're cute' they told me. Now I'm spending all day trying to feed this doofus and all I get are webbed feet in my face!"
Deciduous fitch! 😸
The avian equivalent of that rack-of-ribs drive-through scene in the opening credits of "The Flintstones."
If you don’t have refrigeration, you don’t have to eat leftovers.
You can hear tern parent thinking, “God, my kids are hopeless.”
Birds of a feather flock together. Or, one good tern deserves another.
Good thing they don't eat sausages, or Birb Mom might have to take a wurst for the tern
Don't eat anything bigger than your head.
Never eat more than you can lift
- Miss Piggy
The whirled terns.
This gif is hilarious, the little bird feet in the air, thanks Martini!
I'm not 💯 sure, but I think that's a kingfisher. Watching them plummet like darts into the ocean is captivating. (Not for the fish, tho.)
Kingfishers are cool, but this is a common tern.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Tern/id
Not common enough for me to recognize it, obviously! Thanks.
Tern, Tern, Tern.
... there is a time to fish, and a time to refrain from fishing ...
I think that fish is almost as big as that babby bird. Moms, cut that fish up a bit, will ya?!
I've noticed that when ospreys bring fish back to their nests (presumably that's where they're going), they always carry the fish so the head is at the front. I figure it's because the natural streamlining of the fish makes it easier to carry.....
Correct! Bald eagles do the same thing.
I figure they want the fish to think about it's future!
It's about the view.
"I can see my pond from here."
I have twin bunnies in the bushes by my door that are about as coordinated, leap-challenged.
I got no snark or funny for this today, something must be wrong with me.
Don't worry, it will be your tern tomorrow.
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Chick Overwhelmed by the Catch of the Day
Kinda describes all the women I’ve dated.
Stephen Miller: "We have communities all across this nation that 20 years ago, before the era of open borders, were completely peaceful, completely stable. Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks."
*** *** ***
"Twenty years ago" was "before the era of open borders"?
Really?
The United States opened up its borders in (let us check our calendars) the year 2005?
How is THIS Joe Biden's fault? How is this Barack OBAMA's fault? This was back in the second term of George DUBYA BUSH!
(I could mention that the Immigration and Customs Agency, commonly called ICE, was founded in 2002. Not that this matters to people who want to believe somebody, and surely some Democrat, "opened up the borders" in 2005.)
Stephen Miller expects his viewers to forget everything they used to know about the past twenty years, including not only such easy-to-miss things as the imaginary Open Border Act of 2005, but also such hard-to-miss things as who was the President in that year. This guy is just as bad as Bill O'Reilly.
*** *** ***
Needless to say, it would be nice if we could expect US-American adults to know more about the history of immigration and immigration law than Stephen Miller. It SURE would be nice if more US news media channels tried to enlighten US-American viewers rather than merely to "entertain" them with unfounded, bigoted claims about immigrants that are treated as equal to facts, if facts are ever mentioned at all.
The REAL "era of open borders" ended in 1924. This was a HUNDRED years ago, not "twenty." The laws that ended "open borders" in the 1920s were unabashedly RACIST.
Immigration restrictions were reformed and made less racist only after the Second World War. The effect of this reform has been the so-called "browning" of America, that is, the economic and cultural enrichment, maturation, and beautification of America, in countless ways.
None of this was every appreciated by America's white racists and xenophobes, who never went away. And over the last 40 years, their imaginary grievances have been amplified by the Republican Party, which needed their support to achieve its grand plan to dismantle the New Deal. Part of this project was NAFTA, which was written by lobbyists for the investor class with no input from workers. This law and its progeny destabilized three national economies and embarrassed its sponsors in the US Congress, who quickly went looking for scapegoats. Fortunately, they could still pander to racists and xenophobes. Thus emerged the "Immigrant Responsibility Act" of 1996, which effectively blamed human migration for all the damage the oligarchs had done (thus far) to the New Deal and proposed to stop human migration by criminalizing migrant workers themselves.
To my knowledge, nothing significant has changed about US immigration law since 1996, except that it has been implemented more and more by the thugs of ICE and less and less by lawyers or judges. The new Republican fascist regime, elected last November, would like to "solve" the "problem" of undocumented immigrants just as the US Congress "solved" the "problem" of the Cherokees in 1830.
Terry Moran has a Substack called Real Patriotism with Terry Moran. He interviews a variety of people about the current political situation in America. I think it is excellent and everyone should subscribe to it.
Looking at Stephen Miller's bronzer in that video, I think we now know who applies the bronzer on Trump.
Stephen "Goebbels" Miller is this person
Put in power by both permitted Republican cheating and American voter inaction to cage and torture our fellow humans
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lu4j7xrpx22v
That Bill-o clip is brilliant!
“But it’s my obligation as a Conservative to blame Biden!”
I really wish we could stop talking about Epstein but if this nonsense is what makes the Magaists go Dump Drumpf and denaturalize his citizenship (Dad was born of German nationals, Mom a Scot from the Outer Hebrides), well I guess that is one thing he can tell St Peter. Epstein still is going to the other place, Dante has been assigned to figure out what circle, but maybe he can say he was the one stain that lead to the Fall.
People make fun of S. Miller because he looks like a ghoul. On the contrary, he actually is a ghoul. It is good that he looks like a ghoul so that nobody should be misled.
He is a ghoul
Put in power by both (permitted) Republican cheating and voter inaction
And not only is he caging and torturing fellow humans, he is profiting from it
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lu4j7xrpx22v
"Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) blocked a Senate resolution that would have called on President Donald Trump's Department of Justice to release files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
"This is nothing but political theater," he argued. "It's so obvious that the Democrats are just using this for political football."
"Are you kidding me?" the Republican added. "This is nothing more than just political theater trying to go after a president that they truly despise. With that, I object."
https://www.rawstory.com/markwayne-mullin-blocks-epstein-files/
"a president that they justifiably despise."
Fixed it for ya, Marky.
I would advocate for a bill which prohibits Senators from having more that one name in their first names. Every time I see "Markwayne" I feel a little ill.
I imagine Markwayne wouldn't advocate investigating the Epstein files if Biden was credibly accused of being included in them. No political theater for Markwayne!
Thank goodness Republicans don't engage in political football theatrics like, oh, say, Hunter Biden hearings.
AI generated “vibe physics”?! How do you verify your theory? With a dowsing rod?
Hey, that's not dowsing. It's astrology, without the math, the myth, the Jungian archetypes, and astral travel, all scraped from circus sites and back issues of Cosmopolitan to provide AI with its "content."
Analytical AI can do scientific breakthroughs when it has been guided and trained by a team of human beings chasing a specific goal. The most recent example of this is using it to fold proteins and make educated guesses about whether the resulting shape will interact with a specific bit of a living body.
Generative AI is a predictive algorithm that will cheerfully lie to your face if that's what it thinks you want it to say, because it's guessing what the most likely string of words will be as an answer. It's not thinking at all, it's still just predicting a sentence that sounds correct because it's been trained on a thousand sentences, many of which are probably NOT correct at all. There is no scientific breakthrough because the only thing it's been trained on are previous science papers... written by human beings. (The legit science papers are now straight up banning the use of gen-AI for writing or images, after the 2024 Giant Rat Balls scandal. Searching for that specific term will bring up a lot of fun articles about that one!)
Train an MLM on Xitter, and you get MechaHitler. Which teaches us a lot... about Xitter.
The saddest part is that too few actual human people either know or understand the difference
Very few CEOs do either. That's why they buy into the hype from the marketing teams about all the ways that an AI tool can "transform their workflows" and "eliminate redundancy."
The problem is that a lot of the grunt work can be streamlined through non AI means much more cheaply, but it requires custom development work, which they didn't want to pay for. So rather than spend $200,000 to get 4 months of a consultant firm's programming team to write out a basic script to mad-lib in their software to eliminate 90% of the hand writing a human has to do, they get duped into spending 20 million for generative AI to attempt the same thing.... very poorly.
I do not have words for the fact that so many of us went and got that education, which our elders practically yelled and screamed at us to do ...
... and now the stupidest (and cruelest) of the stupid people have their hands on the levers of power
It's simultaneously debilitating and infuriating
"If you sang that in Donald Trump's voice to the tune of 'Jolene,' you are correct."
And here i thought it was a Brady Bunch reference ...
"vibe physics" 🤨
Huh, we used to call that "guy working in his basement building a perpetual motion machine".
The problem with the Democrats is that they talk talk talk, write strongly worded letters, then go home after voting for Trump's administrative nominees, federal judges, and budget cuts.
That's not fair! They also look over their glasses and purse their lips.
"Don't eat more than you can lift" - Miss Piggy
Psych! I owe you a Coke.
I wholeheartedly endorse the notion of more and more "past supporters" for Donald Trump. Yes, let him have all the "past" supporters his withered heart desires. It's good for the republic.