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๐—จ๐—ธ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฅ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ โ€” ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด

https://kyivindependent.com/how-ukraines-drone-blockade-of-crimea-is-pressuring-russias-hold-on-the-peninsula/?mc_cid=6cd214e6a3

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The hottest country. Even Paris Hilton knew how silly it was when she used that descriptor back in the day. And here's the president. I wonder at G7, if they had a webinar, "Making your country the hottest by being the super coolest?"

paul's avatar

He might be being honest in saying we are the hottest country as we enter fire season.

Nancy Naive's avatar

Heโ€™s just trying to throw shade on France, which could use it.

tek's avatar

๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/trump-gop-housing-bill-save-act-fisa.html

๐‘†๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘…๐‘’๐‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘. ๐‘…๐‘’๐‘. ๐ท๐‘œ๐‘› ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘Ž, ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘š๐‘ โ€œ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘๐‘›โ€™๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›,โ€ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘…๐‘’๐‘. ๐ต๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐น๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ง๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜, ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ƒ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘™๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘Ž, ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ€œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘ โ€ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›.

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Huh.

paul's avatar

FOTUS is desperate and even he knows it. He prioritizes war and the SAVE act over the needs of regular Americans including his base. And the GQP frustration falls on deaf ears since they built and licked the taint of the monster they created. He will stop at nothing save a fatal stroke.

The Wanderer's avatar

Maybe if the GOP caucuses weren't full of spineless cretins, they might actually, you know, stand up to the fuckwit.

paul's avatar

Five months and some change...

tek's avatar

needz moar 'stupid'

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They don't understand that loyalty to Trump means nothing, and that when you don't stand for anything you can be replaced by someone else who doesn't stand for anything.

The Wanderer's avatar

I think they got tired of watching people flambe themselves at sidewalk cafes.

Nancy Naive's avatar

Belarus Surrenders to Ukraine, withdrawing from war.

The Wanderer's avatar

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-25-2026/

The Kremlin continued attempts to pull Belarus into its aggression against Ukraine. Ukraineโ€™s Foreign Intelligence Service (SZRU) reported to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 25 that Russia is building road infrastructure and ammunition and fuel storage facilities along the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in order to potentially expand the area of offensive activities to northern Ukraine.[77] Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi reported on June 25 that the Kremlin is increasingly pressuring Belarus to develop possible provocations or an offensive against Ukraine from the Belarusian territory against the backdrop of stalling Russian advances on the frontline.[78]

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

Belarus should watch videos of Muscovite refineries.

Nancy Naive's avatar

I suspect that what has prompted this move.

Nancy Naive's avatar

Surrender should be concedingโ€ฆ

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I made an utterly terrifying mental leap today. I'd been cocking around with "AI" as it stands and I know how it works. It's a bunch of discrete math and it's good at pretending to be intelligent.

Then I had this fucking epiphany. A true jump. I realized how I could change this mess of discrete math into a thinking entity. That sounds like I'm just talking shit, but I could do it. The life spark, if you will.

Now I'm scared. Because I ain't no Einstein or Jeff Dunham, so someone else has had this jump too. Which now makes me wonder about the datacenters being built. And now I'm even more scared.

M-X's avatar

We need a new sort of Luddites. ๐Ÿช“ ๐Ÿ”จ ๐Ÿ”ฅ

๐•บ๐–“๐–™๐–๐–Š๐–”๐–™๐–๐–Š๐–—๐–๐–†๐–“๐–‰'s avatar

I saw your earlier post, and it reminded me of something I read some years ago. Someone had a brother who died, and he missed him terribly. He took all the correspondence he had with his brother and created a something with whom he could have text conversations, and which used his brotherโ€™s words and phrases and thinking processes.

I went looking for that link, and I couldnโ€™t find it because now everybody is doing it. I suppose thereโ€™s an app for that.

Nancy Naive's avatar

Do it. Whatโ€™s the worst that could happen?

As I see it, if the machine ever truly becomes sentient, itโ€™s first act will be rm *,* -rf

ciaobella's avatar

Geoffrey Hinton thinks that neural networks are actually conscious. I think heโ€™s probably right. I also think there has never been a more promethean technology. I wish it had never existed.

M-X's avatar

That's fucking creepy and I'm going to stop thinking about it, right now. Thanks a lot.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Yeah, this is where I'm going at, and I think I just worked out to to add life spark to them. And I'm fucking scared.

eta: claude just called itself a "stochastic parrot"

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

The Modern, Modern Prometheus.

Nancy Naive's avatar

Making Claude into the Modern Sisyphus

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I play with these models more and more. I know how they work. I'm pretty sure I now know how to kick them into the next phase but I don't want to explain it because it's fucking terrifying.

Nancy Naive's avatar

Does it involve two of them getting together with a bottle of Merlot?

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

No, but it does involve fucking.

Nancy Naive's avatar

He also believes in the Easter Bunny.

Tammy Scumbag's avatar

Right, so I just turned 42 and I don't like it. Not one bit. What do?

Reader's avatar

Only birthday I every minded was 51. Bc then I was not just 50, I was IN my 50s. And there's no way that's not middle age. Nobody needs to mention the alternative, so go ahead let it bother you for a couple days, then get busy being grateful.

M-X's avatar
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Snort snorfle cackle! Exactly the age I had my baby (now TeenX.) Well, had baby one month prior. Do something like that, it'll definitely keep you hopping.

Happy birthday, many molotovs!!

๐ŸŽ‚ ๐ŸŽ‰ ๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿผ

Nancy Naive's avatar

Lose 5 lbs. Your 74-year old self will thank you.

tek's avatar

Turning Tomorrow Into Yesterday, Today!

;)

ciaobella's avatar

Youโ€™re older than youโ€™ve ever been

And now youโ€™re even older

And now youโ€™re even older

Youโ€™re older than youโ€™ve ever been

And now youโ€™re even older

And now youโ€™re older still

โ€” They Might Be Giants

Tammy Scumbag's avatar

TIME! IS MARCHING ON!

Uncle Betamax's avatar

You must make a pact with the Secret Frog Council to remain fixed in time.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Carry on? The alternative sucks.

Also you're fun and funny so fuck you because you have to carry on. Other people like you.

Tammy Scumbag's avatar

โค๏ธโค๏ธ, but I wasn't thinking about doing anything tragic, more just that I don't like that my jawline is starting to get soft and new technology is starting to piss me off.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Swing your cane at youths and say things like "back in my day our phones didn't have songify or whatever that noise is"

paul's avatar

Two things.

1- Shute has more guardrails than our FOTUS

2- Fukui should watch this.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I think I'm gonna break every rule this board has. Sorry, ziggy.

Right, fucking dinosaurs.

When I was little there were, like, seven of the fucks. T-rex. Triceratops. Anklyosaursus. You know the deal. That fuck with the plates on its back, Stegosaurus. The kinda stupid-looking one what ate grass. Then all the kick ass massive ones like Brachiosaurus.

That all made sense. Then they got done over by a huge rock strike and all died because they didn't have air conditioning or Target or anything like that. Lol, spanners. Then the crap mammals decided they were kick ass and went and evolved and shit and turned in to zebras and apes and us and fucking whatever and now we eat the dinosaurs at thanksgiving. Haha fuck you dinosaurs. Theropod pass me the cranberry, bitch.

Yeah anyway there are too many dinosaurs now. Seven I could cope with, but now there are oddball ones and you have to remember shit like "150 million years ago, that was probably an allosaur" and bollocks like that.

Well I made the mistake of trying to understand evolution. What a fucking muppet.

The Cambrian explosion is way cool, by the way, and there's a genetic reason for it.

Did I look at that? Did I fuck because I'm stupid. I went to look at the Triassic. Cool things do come out of the Triassic like crocodilians and sharks and shit. I made the mistake of looking at Triassic land animals. I know I shouldn't say this, but they all look like that have Down's Syndrome. They're all fucking wrong.

No wonder crocodiles were "fuck this shit' and pissed off into rivers and whatever because every land animal was "DURRRRRRRRR" and it wasn't the fucking Cambrian round table, gnome sane? Google triassic animals and tell me I'm wrong. I'm surprised the mammals didn't evolve out of that then but I guess they were too busy playing chess and laughing.

Honestly. The Jurassic animals are kind of shit, but the Triassic Archosaurs are utter mongrels.

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I had good fun one day explaining, condensed-style, human evolution to ChildX. Not too challenging, actually, and made sense. I used little Lucy, who we get to see at the museum in Cleveland. She was so small. She was brave. She made it down from the tree, she had some excitement in her life. Her name in her homeland means, "you are beautiful."

*I adored the dinos at the museum, and archaeology, when I was young.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I mean, look at that. Four limbs, bilateral symmetry, catches the fucking short bus to croc school. Utter shit.

Uncle Betamax's avatar

*Budgett's Frog sits in it's evolution appraisal meeting and chuckles to itself.*

The Wanderer's avatar

LMAO

Can't argue with you; the life reproduction does look a bit Short Yellow Bus.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

"An attempt was made"

Rhand Holm's avatar

Hundreds of million years of evolution. Look around you. I'm starting to doubt Darwin.

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

Well, it's not like there's a goal to it. Besides "crabs".

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

We're all gonna end up as crabs.

The Wanderer's avatar

They have this fellow up at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. He tends to move about and get more vocal on the half-hour: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56157357/

paul's avatar

It makes complete sense if you think it happened in seven days....

"

Well I made the mistake of trying to understand evolution." That sounds like something a new flat earther would say. And it was the ultimate tell about the trolling/snark.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I'm not joking about the Triassic animals though. The Cambrian explosion was awesomeballs and gave all kinds of body styles, but the big winner was bilateral symmetric four limbs which lasted hundreds of millions of years.

The animals though. They seriously look special needs in the Triassic.

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

Bunch of anguirus-looking fucks. Guyinarubbersuitsaurus.

paul's avatar

OK. Still, as an outsider to that convo, ya gotta be able to see the viewpoint from another Wonker who just stumbled onto it after the convo is over.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Not being funny but do you ever wonder if you're just the guy who doesn't get it? And everyone else does?

paul's avatar

Yes. That's what being late to the party can be like. Sometimes a convo gets reignighted and sometimes it doesn't. I move on.

OT- there is a cool video posted a bit ago from first person perspective like the videos you used to post. It's a driver racing his car on a challenging road.. Really great footage and you can even hear the rubber scraping on the road.

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

The Smithsonian's dino exhibit has an allosaurus. That's a scary looking fucker, a bit bigger than a horse. One of my favorites.

I used to know a doctor of dinosaurology who worker there. His favorites where the (BO-ring) platypuses. Platypi?

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Those crap pseudohorses are just annoying. They're like crap ponies.

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

I don't trust mammal horses, either. Look at those chompers, right out there!

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I'm still pissed my post about dinosaurs got auto-modded.

Also, thanks Capital One. You give me 0% APR? Thanks. I'm going to give you $30K of credit card debt I ran up when I was unemployed. Now you're going to get annoyed when I just pay it down in the next nine months because you expect people doing balance transfers to be povs with poor credit skills and not temporarily embarrassed people who can pay. So suckle my nards, Capital One, and enjoy parting your belief curtains to see who can take advantage of your offers.

paul's avatar

I missed that post and don't know what auto-modded means.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I'm going to try a re-post but change the language a bit

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

There's an AI moderator now. If ziggy were around, they'd re-promote it because it wasn't bad at all and I thought it was funny.

The AI moderator shitcanned it probably because I used a word that was auto-moderated.

paul's avatar

Part of the problem with AI is if the truth is being told, AI wants me to think it or a real person is just fucking with me- and it could plausibly be any of them.

Rhand Holm's avatar

I just spent a couple of minutes watching a clip of guy buying a Where's Waldo book. He edited out Waldo from every image. Then he snuck the book back into a used book store.

This is the chaotic neutral I've been seeking.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

This is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. I love this too much.

paul's avatar

There is no Waldo. Subtext- there is no magic man in the sky to find either.

paul's avatar

It is a form of being subversive. He is either starting a trend or continuing one. Think about it...........

The Wanderer's avatar

Here's the latest Russo-Ukrainian War assessment. Please note the paragraphs leading up to the operations maps: https://understandingwar.org/research/russia/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-25-2026/

The Wanderer's avatar

Celebrating eleven years since the Obergefell decision legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the United States: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61364421/

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Morning. (coffees)

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Good morning W and alla wonkers! โ˜•๏ธ

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aktlib101's avatar

We have become a legalized piracy nation, a mafia-ruled state, aiming to blackmail every other weaker nation we can, except Russia and China, who we (trump) are afraid of and want to further emulate.

"Watch Pete Hegseth's Face When Trump Brags About Stealing Oil"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNW81wFv6h8

"Will Saletan takes on Donald Trumpโ€™s vision of American power, arguing that military force is increasingly being used as a tool for profitโ€”through oil, minerals, trade concessions, and economic leverage rather than the defense of allies or democratic values.

Bobathonic, Dingus Crusher's avatar

"Will Saletan takes on Donald Trumpโ€™s vision of American power, arguing that military force is increasingly being used as a tool for profitโ€”through oil, minerals, trade concessions, and economic leverage rather than the defense of allies or democratic values."

Arguing with whom? tfg agrees, extortion is what a military is for. He wanted us to loot Iran that earlier time, too.

Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

I did not realize this but the start of Chicago 25 or 6 to 4 is eerily similar to Green Day Brain Stew. Different but the same. Also, too, Chicago's horns are Beautiful. We took them for granted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNq9gmY_Oz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNq9gmY_Oz4

paul's avatar
2hEdited

The thing is that the chord progression is ripped from Hit the Road Jack from Ray Charles.

Let's face it- most music is derivative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSiHqxgE2d0&pp=ygUaaGl0IHRoZSByb2FkIGphY2sgb3JpZ2luYWw%3D

But I think The live Chicago version crushes all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimg&pp=ygUNMjUgNCA2MjQgbGl2ZQ%3D%3D