"But if you ask for a cat drinking a can of beer (in a beer commercial), it will generally fail because there aren't likely many videos of photorealistic cats drinking human beverages in the training data. Instead, the model will pull from what it has learned about videos of cats and videos of beer commercials and combine them. The result is a cat with human hands pounding back a brewsky."
It's almost, like, grammar is important.
An AI prompt of "A cat drinking from a can of beer," would get more realistic results.
Well, if the Tesla shareholders are this stupid, let them kill off the company.
𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 $𝟱𝗕 𝗶𝗻 𝘅𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟲𝟳.𝟵% 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮'𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 — - CEO takes poll on whether EV maker should back his startup — The two companies have intermingled on procurement, recruiting.
Think of how many times a typical product has been updated just to entice consumers to buy a new model. The iPhone has barely changed at all since Steve Jobs died and yet millions of people buy new ones every single year to be certain the have the fastest and lightest.
With the exception of a literal dumpster on wheels to the point raccoons are getting confused, Teslas cars have barely changed. If you purchased an S in 2012, THE SAME CAR is still for sale today. They’ve barely changed at all since the original Mazda knockoff look when they were unveiled. Even though he scammed a bunch of idiots into reserving a new model 8 years ago, there doesn’t appear to be any actual updates in the future. The ketamine addict ceo keeps trying to use its barely functional self driving technology to make sex robots (A CHILD WHO WONT HATE ME!)
retirement mutual funds. lots of employees choosing 'green' focused funds in their portfolios. Tesla got bundled into them early on because EVs. employee contributions keep buying monthly. it's a self perpetuating (to a degree) stock boost.
Meanwhile Bible scholars are meeting this summer to debate whether the recently discovered *Book Of Elon* should be incorporated into the New or the Old Testament.
Oddly enough, according to Pepsi, a 20 oz. diet Mt. Dew contains 91 mg. of caffeine, while a 20 oz cup of coffee contains 320 mg. So it's more like drinking something with a third of the caffeine of coffee.
If it's glowing in the dark, I'm not sure what you're drinking is actually diet Mountain Dew. Do you live near a nuclear plant or other radioactive processing facility?
Oh no. they can't pass up the middle school bully put down. they are using her first name as an insult the way they did Hussein with Obama. It's a dog whistle.
One fascinating thing about public figures is they rarely say their own names. I still jaw-drop when after 30 years of “chain-ee”, Dick Cheney pronounced his own last name as “cheen-ee”.
Sorry (as I even said at the time) it was the worst since Dukakis. Meandering, filled with vapid sloganeering, no coherent theme, and worst of all, colossal misallocation of resources. Hillz was an excellent candidate sunk by an excreable campaign operation.
When asked the lesson Democrats should take from the experience, the usually low-key, avuncular Cornel Belcher bellowed, "STOP HIRING THE SAME CONSULTANTS!!"
Oh look, another white conservative's hot take. Honestly where would we be without these guys telling us how we're doing it wrong:
"So why didn’t a more electable candidate — of which there are many — throw his or her hat in the ring and seek the Democratic nomination? Simple: If you are a White Democrat — with a seemingly bright political future in Democratic politics, why would you get crosswise with Rep. James E. Clyburn (S.C.) and the Congressional Black Caucus by trying to stop the first Black woman from leading a major party ticket? The party of identity politics is never going to pick you over her...
Indeed, the fact that so many electable Democrats are choosing to keep their powder dry for 2028 shows that they really don’t believe Trump is a threat to democracy. They all seem confident that if Trump wins in November, there will still be a free and fair election four years from now in which they can compete." - Mark Thiessen
These racists and misogynists are going to write this kind of shit for the next 100 days, aren't they. They think they can "Clinton" Kamala the same way.
Bad news small peened, mediocre white boys ... you showed America your ass in 2016. It won't work again.
I popped over to Breitbart to see what the RWNJs were saying, and would you believe that they are so prejudiced they believe that Kamala (oh my god their names for her) is a joke, Obama is secretly running everything, and they will replace her with a man of no color at the convention, because only men can be president. The racism was bad, but I swear con men will not get over their misogyny in 1000 years.
I love that Johnson has politely asked them not to do this.
He's a man whose job it is supposedly to keep his party in line, and he hasn't yet learnt that the people in the party who put him in power are people that consider it a matter of pride to not do what they're told, and also consider it a point of pride to be as ostentatiously offensive as possible at all possible times, and also consider it a point of their identity to be both racist and sexist.
There's no possible way he's going to get them to do what he wants.
I can't sleep. I was just so sure that tonight I'd be out like a light for the duration, but after a couple on intervals in twilight sleep I became too restless and couldn't get comfortable at all.
So I decided what the hell, I might as well just get up.
That sucks…did you ever get a thyroid panel? I thought I was going to die of sleeplessness, and even without my thyroid now my brain remembers my wide awake years and I sleep like shit. I’m also really sensitive to blue light from screens
I've had a thyroid panel run twice and that wasn't it.
I'd really hoped that it was. Hypothyroid has been a problem my mother and a couple of my younger sisters have battled with for years now. Since I'm the opposite of them in so many ways it would've been exceedingly appropriate to suffer hyperthyroidism.
Did you have a cortisol saliva test? The only other thing the endo ruled out was adrenal disease. In hindsight, the whole 3-4 years felt like PTSD hypervigilance. I def have it myself
1593: French King Henry IV converts to Catholicism. I guess Paris was worth a Mass.
1609: The English ship ‘Sea Venture,’ bound for Virginia, stops at Bermuda because of a storm. The settlers decide to set up shop, and create the colony of Bermuda.
1783: The last action of the American Revolutionary War takes place . . . in India.
1814: A US attack on Canada is repulsed. Don’t fuck with Canada.
1866: The US Congress authorizes the rank of General of the Army. It’s first conferred upon Ulysses S. Grant.
1897: Jack London sets off to join the Klondike Gold Rush. He’ll write his first successful stories based on those experiences.
1898: During the Spanish-American War, US forces invade Puerto Rico.
1908: Kikunae Ikeda discovers monosodium glutamate, and patents a process for manufacturing it. Umami!
1909: Louis Bleriot lands in Dover, after taking off from Calais 37 minutes earlier. Hurrah!
1934: A botched Nazi coup in Austria ends with Chancellor Dollfuss’ assassination.
1943: Italian King Victor Emmanuel III fires Benzino Napoloni, and replaces him with Pietro Badoglio.
1946: The Crossroads Baker atomic test is set off 90 feet underwater at Bikini Atoll. Impressive photographs are taken.
1956: The Italian ocean liner ‘Andrea Doria’ collides with the freighter MS ‘Stockholm’ in heavy fog. The liner sinks the next day, taking 51 people with it.
1961: US Pres. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. The Russians say, “Bring it, bitch,” but don’t do anything.
1965: Dylan goes electric.
1969: US Pres. Nixon states that the US expects is Asian allies to look after their own defense, starting the “Vietnamization” of the war.
1976: The Viking 1 probe takes the ‘Face of Mars’ photo. This example of pareidolia becomes the foundation of many silly conspiracy theories.
1978: Louise Joy Brown is born; she’s the first human example of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Which some Republicans want abolished.
1984: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1994: Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, ending the state of war between the two states since 1948.
2007: Pratibha Patil becomes India’s first female President.
2010: WikiLeaks does a data dump of classified US documents about the war in Afghanistan.
2019: National high temperature records are set in the UK, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Get used to it, okay?
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Thomas Eakins, Arthur Balfour, Frank Sprague, Maxfield Parrish, Walter Brennan, Eric Hoffer, Estelle Getty, Emmett Till, Lauren Faust.
Obituaries: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Macintosh, Francis Coty, Engelbert Dollfuss, Nestor Makhno, Charlie Rich, Harry Patch, Tim LaHaye, Peter Green, Paul Sorvino.
Today in History: First Test-Tube Baby Born (1978), First Woman to Walk in Space (1984), Face on Mars Photographed (1976), Dylan Goes Electric (1965), Greensboro Sit-In Succeeds at Desegregating the Woolworth's Lunch Counter (1960), Crash that Sank the Andrea Doria (1956), First Underwater Atomic Explosion (1946), First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel (1909), Erfurt Latrine Disaster (1184), Roseanne Grabs Crotch and Spits after Screeching the National Anthem (1990), Nixon Refuses to Release the Tapes (1973), First Crossing of the English Channel by a Manned Hovercraft (1959), Catholic Birth Control Ban (1968), Mussolini Deposed (1943), Congress Passes Resolution that Declares the Civil War is Not to End Slavery But to Preserve the Union (1861), First Woman President of India Takes Office (2007)
Penrose alert! Do you think that coming from a family of surrealists made all this other stuff easier to contemplate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2Kpkksf3k
The clearest example yet of “when you’re explaining you’re losing”
https://x.com/farhip/status/1816280371119665347?s=46&t=QTHD9GMfDGpAyfUoOmtJMw
If you knew nothing about this story you’re probably now thinking “he probably fucked a couch”
I passed a Tesla the other day with the license plate ELONX.
I was curious about the owner but not enough to want to meet them.
It would be very difficult for me not to do bad things to such a license tag.
That's amusing, I was going to originally write "...plate, or tag if you're in one of 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 places."
maybe it means they want to x elon
Some fun distractions for this morning.
𝗪𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝘂𝗻𝘄𝗮𝘆’𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀
Gen-3 Alpha produces wild and whimsical results. Here's what it cooked up for us.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/we-made-a-cat-drink-a-beer-with-runways-ai-video-generator-and-it-sprouted-hands/
Cat-herding isn't as far fetched as it used to be.
In related topics: Democrats unify into juggernaut for Kamala Harris.
"But if you ask for a cat drinking a can of beer (in a beer commercial), it will generally fail because there aren't likely many videos of photorealistic cats drinking human beverages in the training data. Instead, the model will pull from what it has learned about videos of cats and videos of beer commercials and combine them. The result is a cat with human hands pounding back a brewsky."
It's almost, like, grammar is important.
An AI prompt of "A cat drinking from a can of beer," would get more realistic results.
well yeah
Can't drink a beer without opposable thumbs
objection! That is not drinking A Beer. That is just drinking beer
This is definitely the technology that will save the world!
We need wild and whimsical AI reading our MRI scans!
Ooh, look!
Lymphoma!
With hands!
"whimsical" is not a word I would use for that.
You can’t spell “Acid” without AI.
New ad from Kamala https://twitter.com/i/status/1816288577342369995
OUTSTANDING!!!!
IK,R?
Poor guy gets in trouble any time he makes a rare True Statement Haha not "poor guy." Fuck him. .
Short. Sweet.
And DAMNED accurate.
Probably took less than a minute to put together and cost next to nothing.
Again, the scalding TRUTH is all that we need this year.
Bonus scalding: whenever your own words are the whole text you are totally burnt.
Full thickness burn inflicted.
Is the Secret Service tasked with protecting him from self inflicted wounds?
Don’t they have enough on their plate already?
Well, if the Tesla shareholders are this stupid, let them kill off the company.
𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 $𝟱𝗕 𝗶𝗻 𝘅𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝟲𝟳.𝟵% 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗹𝗮'𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 — - CEO takes poll on whether EV maker should back his startup — The two companies have intermingled on procurement, recruiting.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-24/musk-asks-x-followers-if-tesla-should-sink-5-billion-into-xai
The thing I genuinely don’t understand.
Think of how many times a typical product has been updated just to entice consumers to buy a new model. The iPhone has barely changed at all since Steve Jobs died and yet millions of people buy new ones every single year to be certain the have the fastest and lightest.
With the exception of a literal dumpster on wheels to the point raccoons are getting confused, Teslas cars have barely changed. If you purchased an S in 2012, THE SAME CAR is still for sale today. They’ve barely changed at all since the original Mazda knockoff look when they were unveiled. Even though he scammed a bunch of idiots into reserving a new model 8 years ago, there doesn’t appear to be any actual updates in the future. The ketamine addict ceo keeps trying to use its barely functional self driving technology to make sex robots (A CHILD WHO WONT HATE ME!)
How is this company not collapsing into dust?
the model 3 looks like a VW Beatle but not as much fun to drive!
retirement mutual funds. lots of employees choosing 'green' focused funds in their portfolios. Tesla got bundled into them early on because EVs. employee contributions keep buying monthly. it's a self perpetuating (to a degree) stock boost.
yup. it's like a third of my "climate fund" IRA :(
Sales are slipping compared to other EVs, I believe.
He'S a GeNiUs!
I do not think we should blame the shareholders, yet, for a bunch of fan bois flocking his probably not unrigged twitter poll though.
I mean, we already know he gooses the numbers on those things and if they still don't do what he wants, quietly disappears them
I would've thought a guy with 12 kids would invest in a toy company.
He did. Several times.
Uh, we’re the toys to him.
The man is working on becoming a legend.
Not the good kind of legend.
Not a living legend, I hope?
Meanwhile Bible scholars are meeting this summer to debate whether the recently discovered *Book Of Elon* should be incorporated into the New or the Old Testament.
Apartheid Elegy
Yes, now is the time to invest in AI, after 2 years of hemorrhaging money for multiple companies....
“Use your own money and do what you want, clown.”
It is funny how often these richest men in the world only spend other people's money
Also, startup, bloomberg? Really?
I do not think you could count him tacking on "AI" as a startup. Jesus
It's a ponzi, pump and dump.
It's how they stay rich, despite their huge incompetence, I think.
....poll?
Did he take it on x, that he controls? OH HE DID
I heard it, I heard it, I heard it on the X.
Filled with his libertarian fanboyz.
Faster, faster!
Diet Mountain Dew? Hmm. You’ll drink nuclear waste with more caffeine than 5 pots of coffee but no sugar? That’s not racist, it’s stupid.
Oddly enough, according to Pepsi, a 20 oz. diet Mt. Dew contains 91 mg. of caffeine, while a 20 oz cup of coffee contains 320 mg. So it's more like drinking something with a third of the caffeine of coffee.
Nothing that glows in the dark is safe to drink.
If it's glowing in the dark, I'm not sure what you're drinking is actually diet Mountain Dew. Do you live near a nuclear plant or other radioactive processing facility?
Slurm.
Yellow #5 is a stimulant
Mellow Yellow must be #4, then.
There's a Homer Simpson meme in there somewhere..
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRUMIbRDGEXcxgVwE4KtM7ywuIHOsOEmrbqnQ&s
I read that as "grows" in the dark, which is also apt.
That's a squidbilly eligy, right there.
Sounds more like a squidbilly eulogy to me.
#wishful thinking
A VERY nice dream.
See, you've been sleeping this whole time.
Msr LS and I were talking about his book last evening. I said I couldn't get past the third chapter or so.
Is it possible to *read* a book and hear it in your head in a nasal, whiny voice?
I try to default to hearing everything I read in my head in George C. Scott's voice.
The Highwayman is hysterical that way.
Sounds like Mein Kampf.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 ‘𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐚.’
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑠’ 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑆 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑎, 𝐼 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑉𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑀𝑐𝑀𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑛 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑜𝑛𝑒-𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑑-𝑔𝑢𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 1980𝑠.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑟 — 𝑑𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 “𝑈𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑡,” 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 — 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒: “𝐾𝑢ℎ-𝑀𝐴𝐻-𝐿𝑎.” (𝐼𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙-𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑠, 𝑡𝑜𝑜). 𝐴𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑠’ 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒: “𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎-𝐿𝑎.”
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘’𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑡𝑎𝑔-𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐻𝑢𝑙𝑘 𝐻𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/25/metro/mispronouncing-kamala-harris-name/
It's of a piece with saying 'Democrat' Party. It's what passes for clever among a group of people without a clever bone in their entire bodies.
Gee, maybe they should just call her "Harris" if they have such problems with it
I know for a fact they knew Joe's last name!
Too bad they had such difficulty with his FIRST name. (Brandon)
Oh no. they can't pass up the middle school bully put down. they are using her first name as an insult the way they did Hussein with Obama. It's a dog whistle.
THIS! Vice-President Harris would be fine.
I still slip up once in a while and pronounce It like Kamala Khan, but usually catch myself quickly enough.
One fascinating thing about public figures is they rarely say their own names. I still jaw-drop when after 30 years of “chain-ee”, Dick Cheney pronounced his own last name as “cheen-ee”.
I pronounce it "Vader"
Ms. Harris if you’re Nasty.
I started with ka-MAH-la ... until I heard her say her own name. How hard is it to move the emphasis to the first syllable?
Apparently VERY difficult for PAB.
𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 ‘𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻’
Rightwing playbooks used in past election campaigns are being dusted off for an all-out assault on the vice-president
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/25/kamala-harris-trump-republicans-attacks
whatta they mean dusted off?
From the 2016 misogyny campaign?
Next: Sky is blue, but sometimes also grey.
Nobody could have predicted this!
/s
It will be hard to overcome the overwhelming racism and misogyny. How do we keep Kamala from getting Hillary'd?
Run an even half-competent campaign (off to an excellent start).
And run hard to the end. Give no quarter.
I always thought Hillary's 2016 campaign was good ... maybe I wasn't watching close enough?
Sorry (as I even said at the time) it was the worst since Dukakis. Meandering, filled with vapid sloganeering, no coherent theme, and worst of all, colossal misallocation of resources. Hillz was an excellent candidate sunk by an excreable campaign operation.
When asked the lesson Democrats should take from the experience, the usually low-key, avuncular Cornel Belcher bellowed, "STOP HIRING THE SAME CONSULTANTS!!"
I think there was also a fair amount of hubris..
So a "Kick Them in the Nards" campaign?
[dryly] Perish the thought...
Oh look, another white conservative's hot take. Honestly where would we be without these guys telling us how we're doing it wrong:
"So why didn’t a more electable candidate — of which there are many — throw his or her hat in the ring and seek the Democratic nomination? Simple: If you are a White Democrat — with a seemingly bright political future in Democratic politics, why would you get crosswise with Rep. James E. Clyburn (S.C.) and the Congressional Black Caucus by trying to stop the first Black woman from leading a major party ticket? The party of identity politics is never going to pick you over her...
Indeed, the fact that so many electable Democrats are choosing to keep their powder dry for 2028 shows that they really don’t believe Trump is a threat to democracy. They all seem confident that if Trump wins in November, there will still be a free and fair election four years from now in which they can compete." - Mark Thiessen
https://wapo.st/4cVpGXJ
ELECTABLE!!!!!
"A more electable candidate" means "white and male".
But there is no problem with racism and sexism in the US.
Be fair. Biden was not "electable" either being Old and also Centrist and therefore Totes not an alternative both parties are the same.
And he was white and male
Cry more, asshole. You didn't get your brokered convention and the Democratic Party is united! Sucks to be you right now.
If they are so concerned about Trump, why didn't they work to dethrone him?
Yep, these masters of the universe can't manage to reason their way out of a fucking paper bag.
Are you scared, Marc? You sound scared.
These racists and misogynists are going to write this kind of shit for the next 100 days, aren't they. They think they can "Clinton" Kamala the same way.
Bad news small peened, mediocre white boys ... you showed America your ass in 2016. It won't work again.
They had a 25 year head start with Hillary, good luck trying to create that much reinforced bad will in 100 days, losers.
TBF they have been working on the grotesque racism and misogyny for centuries...
I popped over to Breitbart to see what the RWNJs were saying, and would you believe that they are so prejudiced they believe that Kamala (oh my god their names for her) is a joke, Obama is secretly running everything, and they will replace her with a man of no color at the convention, because only men can be president. The racism was bad, but I swear con men will not get over their misogyny in 1000 years.
Someone with albinism? Or a perfectly transparent being, like a human glass frog?
One of those deep sea fish with the transparent skulls.
Now is the Winters of our discontent.
"they will replace her with a man of no color at the convention"
Jack Griffin's a Democrat?
I observed yesterday that the racism combined with misogyny from the far-Reich is going to be one helluva toxic combination.
To say the gawd damned least.
I love that Johnson has politely asked them not to do this.
He's a man whose job it is supposedly to keep his party in line, and he hasn't yet learnt that the people in the party who put him in power are people that consider it a matter of pride to not do what they're told, and also consider it a point of pride to be as ostentatiously offensive as possible at all possible times, and also consider it a point of their identity to be both racist and sexist.
There's no possible way he's going to get them to do what he wants.
Now is NOT the time to get me started on the far-Reich's shitty manners.
And they'll hate him for trying to hush their dumb yaps.
Sage words. [Pearls before Swine]
https://assets.amuniversal.com/41bc1ff024df013d60e1005056a9545d
mmmm waffles
Now I need to get a waffle iron...
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I can't sleep. I was just so sure that tonight I'd be out like a light for the duration, but after a couple on intervals in twilight sleep I became too restless and couldn't get comfortable at all.
So I decided what the hell, I might as well just get up.
That sucks…did you ever get a thyroid panel? I thought I was going to die of sleeplessness, and even without my thyroid now my brain remembers my wide awake years and I sleep like shit. I’m also really sensitive to blue light from screens
I've had a thyroid panel run twice and that wasn't it.
I'd really hoped that it was. Hypothyroid has been a problem my mother and a couple of my younger sisters have battled with for years now. Since I'm the opposite of them in so many ways it would've been exceedingly appropriate to suffer hyperthyroidism.
Did you have a cortisol saliva test? The only other thing the endo ruled out was adrenal disease. In hindsight, the whole 3-4 years felt like PTSD hypervigilance. I def have it myself
I don't remember spitting into or onto anything. I'll have to make a point of asking about that one.
It’s misery…could also be you are really sensitive to the blue light from screens not allowing your brain to produce enough melatonin to sleep
And with all of the time I spend online...oh my...
Today . . . in HISTORY!
7-25
1593: French King Henry IV converts to Catholicism. I guess Paris was worth a Mass.
1609: The English ship ‘Sea Venture,’ bound for Virginia, stops at Bermuda because of a storm. The settlers decide to set up shop, and create the colony of Bermuda.
1783: The last action of the American Revolutionary War takes place . . . in India.
1814: A US attack on Canada is repulsed. Don’t fuck with Canada.
1866: The US Congress authorizes the rank of General of the Army. It’s first conferred upon Ulysses S. Grant.
1897: Jack London sets off to join the Klondike Gold Rush. He’ll write his first successful stories based on those experiences.
1898: During the Spanish-American War, US forces invade Puerto Rico.
1908: Kikunae Ikeda discovers monosodium glutamate, and patents a process for manufacturing it. Umami!
1909: Louis Bleriot lands in Dover, after taking off from Calais 37 minutes earlier. Hurrah!
1934: A botched Nazi coup in Austria ends with Chancellor Dollfuss’ assassination.
1943: Italian King Victor Emmanuel III fires Benzino Napoloni, and replaces him with Pietro Badoglio.
1946: The Crossroads Baker atomic test is set off 90 feet underwater at Bikini Atoll. Impressive photographs are taken.
1956: The Italian ocean liner ‘Andrea Doria’ collides with the freighter MS ‘Stockholm’ in heavy fog. The liner sinks the next day, taking 51 people with it.
1961: US Pres. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. The Russians say, “Bring it, bitch,” but don’t do anything.
1965: Dylan goes electric.
1969: US Pres. Nixon states that the US expects is Asian allies to look after their own defense, starting the “Vietnamization” of the war.
1976: The Viking 1 probe takes the ‘Face of Mars’ photo. This example of pareidolia becomes the foundation of many silly conspiracy theories.
1978: Louise Joy Brown is born; she’s the first human example of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Which some Republicans want abolished.
1984: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1994: Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, ending the state of war between the two states since 1948.
2007: Pratibha Patil becomes India’s first female President.
2010: WikiLeaks does a data dump of classified US documents about the war in Afghanistan.
2019: National high temperature records are set in the UK, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Get used to it, okay?
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Thomas Eakins, Arthur Balfour, Frank Sprague, Maxfield Parrish, Walter Brennan, Eric Hoffer, Estelle Getty, Emmett Till, Lauren Faust.
Obituaries: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Macintosh, Francis Coty, Engelbert Dollfuss, Nestor Makhno, Charlie Rich, Harry Patch, Tim LaHaye, Peter Green, Paul Sorvino.
Picture it: Sicily, 1943....
Frank Sprague... now there's someone you've never heard of who changed the world..
Today's trains/subways wouldn't run without him..
Can we say the Andrea Dorian had Stockholm syndrome, or is it too soon?
I'm sorry, but "Benzino Napoloni" sounds like an excellent fake name ;)
It was what Chaplin chose for the Italian dictator in 'The Great Dictator.' Benzino Napoloni, Ill Digaditchi of Bacteria (capital, Aroma).
I could see Groucho Marx expounding on his greatness..
Or Mel Brooks.
Tim LaHaye's mind was on a Rapture he would never touch.
Today in History: First Test-Tube Baby Born (1978), First Woman to Walk in Space (1984), Face on Mars Photographed (1976), Dylan Goes Electric (1965), Greensboro Sit-In Succeeds at Desegregating the Woolworth's Lunch Counter (1960), Crash that Sank the Andrea Doria (1956), First Underwater Atomic Explosion (1946), First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel (1909), Erfurt Latrine Disaster (1184), Roseanne Grabs Crotch and Spits after Screeching the National Anthem (1990), Nixon Refuses to Release the Tapes (1973), First Crossing of the English Channel by a Manned Hovercraft (1959), Catholic Birth Control Ban (1968), Mussolini Deposed (1943), Congress Passes Resolution that Declares the Civil War is Not to End Slavery But to Preserve the Union (1861), First Woman President of India Takes Office (2007)
"Congress Passes Resolution that Declares the Civil War is Not to End Slavery But to Preserve the Union (1861)"
Also the first documented gaslighting by the US Congress.
The Confederacy was pretty explicit about their motives.
Orange Julius is very soft and remarkably bitey.
Gato is a biter, and nothing worked but just accepting it and trying not to kill him when he bites my face
My mom used to make that for us all of the time; I just LOVED that stuff when I was a kid.
I'm going to have to track down that recipe, make a list of the necessary ingredients and make some of those for paul and I this weekend.
I've been meaning to try spiking the recipe with a bit of vodka since I was in high school and STILL haven't gotten around to doing it.
...is this about Trump, some mixed drink, or a dog?
It's our orange kitty. He's very nice, but bitey AF.
And here I thought you were discussing the tasty beverage.
That IS a perfect moniker for a ginger kitty.
Ah, forgot the possibility of Cat. I am ashamed.
Don't be. I am bi-petual. I like dogs and cats.