What Elon, Mila, and the rest of us better worry about is all those illegals who weren’t excluded, but waved onto the juries because they already knew how the Soros DAs wanted the trial to come out.
Not sure I understand you. If the DA puts aliens on the jury to ensure a conviction, the defense is going to object, and win on appeal if the judge is corrupt. And why would the DA even bring charges if he wanted to rig it in favor of the defendant?
Bring charges and rig to acquit? DA knows he’s guilty as Cain, and has reasons to prevent the risk of double jeopardy in case what the crooked DA knows should be discovered.
Were I an illegal, the absolute last thing I would want to do would be go down to the courthouse and go through courthouse security daily for weeks on end to score the $15 a day they pay jury members here in the Singed Bear Flag People’s Republic, hoping all the while that not a single one of the deputies manning the metal detectors will shoot their ICE buddies a text and rat me out just to get back at the idiot politicians running the city and state all in the remote hope I could somehow get back at Elon.
Yeah but they still need volunteers. The folks I am familiar with who have, well, indeterminate status let’s say, are hustling like mad for income so they can continue to be here. $15 a day is just a joke, and they won’t think it is funny at all.
You don’t know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you receive a jury summons. You don’t even know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you report for duty on the first day.
So I’m with FM on this one. People here illegally aren’t going to go to a courthouse, where they’ll be surrounded by law enforcement, for a pittance a day (even compared to under the table wages) when they can get out of it by revealing that they’re not a citizen.
She’s not upset at 44 year-old men trying to date her. That’s fine and dandy. She’s upset with 35 year-old men who want to start a family, and are aware that older women have a harder time getting pregnant (particularly if its a first pregnancy), and are dating women younger than her as a result. She spent the last 15 years pointedly *not* getting married, and now she’s upset that all of the guys in their thirties and younger are unavailable to her.
There are other memes floating around touching on this topic. The most popular riffs on “consent” in a relationship by having a guy and a somewhat younger woman both announce that they consent. But a woman that’s the same age as the guy suddenly pops up and loudly declares that she doesn’t consent.
The topic occasionally pops up on X, as well. I don’t know whether to take them seriously (trolling is always a possibility), but I’ve seen people declare that even a few years difference between the man and the woman is problematic.
“I had my fun decade and a half bed hopping in college and afterward, but now, as the ticking clock ticks ever onward, I need to get married and have kids before I can’t.”
But the guys don’t want a bed hopping champ, they want someone with some un-burned-out pair-bonding capacity, which probably means the unmarried 35s are shopping in the 20s range.
So she wants social pressure to counter her cumulative decisions.
I’ve been thinking it would be appropriate if they were Viking shield maidens. Brynhildr, six foot, 190lbs, about 50 years old, meaner than a junkyard pitbull and twice as tough. Got a hate on like Mt. Vesuvius ever since Sigurd dumped her.
Bro going to chew his own arm off sooner than wake her up…
“Congratulations, Achmed, ya made it! Here’s yer 72 virgins, hot and ready, been saving themselves for you for the last 14 billion yea– …what? You expected girls???“
And, if not prepped correctly and cooked very thoroughly, really are, really, really, bad for you to eat. Even then, one would not just be eating pork. Same with bears in some areas. This goes beyond eating wild game. One of the problems with eating true omnivores.
My cousin won’t say anything other than it was rank and horrible, even after being in the freezer, and thoroughly cooked, of the bear her dad shot. Meat handled by people who butchered not only deer and elk annually, but their own steers and hogs annually. Bear tag retroactively.
Uncle wasn’t after bear. But bear was the reason why they carried loaded for bear revolvers when hunting deer and elk in the Wallawa and the Blues mountain ranges. A black (no grizzlies in either range) bear decided the elk uncle was gutting was his. Normally he, and anyone one in the group, would let the bear have it. But the bear chose to try to steal it while it was being gutted, before any of the rest of the party could converge, and uncle was between the elk and the bear. Bear got shot. These days the meat and hide would be confiscated, but no ticket, if no bear tag and bear attacked. Back then, ’60s, hunter just paid for the tag afterward.
I’ve heard the same thing. They cull those feral hogs by the hundreds and I don’t think they even end up at homeless shelters or food banks. They’re just not edible without fairly careful preparation because of the parasites they carry, and I imagine they’re pretty lean and gamy.
The young ones are quite edible and when treated properly (marinate to reduce gaminess) are excellent – on par with European boar. The big ones, full male and adrenaline-rich? Nope! Toss in parasites and very no.
Back in the 80s I had the chance to eat European boar, at a catered SCA feast in Drachenwald. I always regretted not having the schnitzel.
Can we say greasy meat? Yes, yes we can.
But it was amusing to leave the dungeon dining hall and head up to the castle gallery to dance pavanes and galliards, while below the German kids in jeans and t-shirts were doing the funky chicken/disco.
“Throwing whole dead pigs is a waste of perfectly good pork. Get a few bushels of pig guts from the slaughterhouse.”
Remember your audience. It needs piggy ears and a curly tail before they’ll get it.
Maybe a few ferals? Pretty gamey, probable trichinosis, no loss to the environment. Hogzilla springs to mind, 12 feet and 1150lbs of porky goodness… really big teeth…
All right then, trap some big, mean feral boars, turn them loose in the construction site, and live-stream the fun when Achmed, Abdullah and company show up the next day. 🤣
Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
I don’t have an ex timeline, I have never dated in the first place.
For some reason, a good half of everything I see on linkedin is crazy people, and the other half is people I don’t know about making polite noises.
So basically, I do not buy the AI machine spirit hypothesis, and I also doubt that this stuff is completely and entirely useless. I ask Claes or Alpaca or Tobor how to do headers in Markdown, then I don’t get an answer because I am querying a nonexistent API. Anyway, why mess around with neural nets when we have time tested things like metropolis or simplex?
(In all seriousness, of the ten best algorithms of the twentieth century in some paper, an awful lot of the actual answers that have come up in the last ten years for me have been ‘just mess around with FFT for a bit, until you have a better idea what is going on’. )
If Emma’s numbers are correct, and describe real accurate perceptions, then an implication is that women date an average of 33 or more men, and use a sort that is basically uniformly distributed. Personally, I have doubts that average women are any better at psychiatric diagnosis than average (hence untrained) men, and I doubt the sort is uniform. I could buy that ‘female role models’ promoted by schools and shit are a really bad guide to dating, to evaluating people, and to orienting to basic sanity. I think if I had dated, say, thirty different women, the effects of that would tend to make me more insane, if I had not started out insane.
From an American POV, Amelia sounds like a nice moderate girl, the UK government needs to do a better job of warning the kiddos in the UK about the sort of people you can find in America. I think American style mainstream anti-Monarch republicans might be pretty extreme in terms of UK customs and mores.
Alternative explanation: 99% of women are entitled, and dismiss men not serving their entitled mentality as being narcissists, because nothing is ever their fault.
Yeah, I kinda figured that what Emma was actually claiming was women misreporting their experiences, perhaps due to honest misperception.
Personally, I am a fairly weird obsessive, and I suspect that there are people would interpret my conversational issues as being narcissism on my part.
Much of humanity is really into things that do not interest me much, and that is fine.
Though, I would not pick solely on TikTok, and would complain as well about highschoolers who read a book, or about college graduates who had an undergraduate course.
I’m somewhat aware that there are different degrees of emotional contact, and that some of them are definitely minor enough that an accumulation does not cause problems.
One date could/should be pretty minor.
I think this is definitely my bad. Reading what I wrote, I do not think I had a consistent idea in mind about that point.
Was not trying to say anything about all women. I think I figured the model in the tweet was a bit funky, and would be entertaining to talk about.
I feel I may forget too easily how much of the one-size-fits-all interpretations of dating wars are just meant for use as propaganda for wars between the sexes.
(I know I saw another iteration of that ‘women 20 to 30 went more left’ meme recently, and didn’t reflect that the swings in the trendlines(1) at best indicate a noisy process. )
(1) trendlines is almost certainly the wrong word, but I would need to see the actual saus, and be able to think, to understand what the correct term would be.
“Or are we just eliding it all so we can pretend that all women are whores and all men are pure as the driven snow?”
Can’t really say “all”, but do you know how many young women are on #0nlyF@ns? It’s a non-trivial number of the 18-30 female population, approaching 10%.
I’m told 0.F. has a special section where they keep it PG-ish, and then on their 18th birthday they “graduate” with a special debut.
So, yeah. That’s a thing these days, apparently. I try not to judge.
the root cause of political violence in america seems to be student loans for morons, and other ways of funding scholarship misconduct
common sense loan control
common sense grant control
common sense accreditation control
we should harmonize with the EU, and declare that authentic university degrees can only be made in the pine barrens of new jersey, and university instructors have to be medival european men of good standing in the church
and basic schools can only have one classroom, and the instructor has to be an unmarried woman whose reputation is acceptable to the parents
“…the root cause of political violence in america seems to be student loans for morons…”
I grant that as a contributing factor, good sir. Never underestimate the corrosive power of stupidity.
But for the -root- cause, as the days tick by it seems increasingly apparent that this is all bought and paid for. Names will no doubt presently be named. I have popcorn ready.
I am a BIG fan of the Amelia mashup where some AI was told to find all the memes, then become Amelia and make a video telling us what she wants to say.
Angry, not researched: I was wondering yesterday, and Grok came up with this Cartesian variant: irascor ergo sum – idiomatically, that’s “I am outraged, therefore I am”.
Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
The Win10 machine I bought used to run Terrible-Tax got upgraded to ‘nix after I discovered just how horrible Win10 was, with T-Tax not much better. (Not sure if it’s changed, but TurboTax didn’t run under the Linux Wine Windows-adapter. OTOH, if I’m actually awake, I can do the taxes fairly well with my magic spreadsheet. OTOH, revised tax returns are my friend. [sigh])
Kmymoney does the books. Simple enough, and I was able to import Quicken data.
The last Windows I used extensively was Win 7. Once I got broadband (ish–satellite before StarLink), it’s been Linux. Doing updates on dialup was a pain, either in Linux or Windows.
I work at places that use Windows so I have to be familiar with it. That said, I did “upgrade” to Win11 last August. Haven’t had disasters like others have reported here and there, though it might be because I have a Pro license key from Win10 and I used that to deactivate/uninstall (*cou-CoPilot-gh*) a lot of features.
I do find myself annoyed by little things, like having to shift-right-click to activate 7zip options when it was just a right-click in Win10. Plus their attempts to hide the Win7 Control Panel (or have them go back to the Win10/11 system options) are very vexing, especially when I’m trying to fix things for a user.
May load Linux as a separate boot when I have a chance, though a lot of my games need Windows and I’m not sure WINE will work with them.
And yes, PSR B1919+21 (AKA CP 1919) was the first pulsar ever discovered. The graph was seen by Joy Division’s drummer, and used for the cover of Unknown Pleasures.
Not familiar with the band, but I like the drummer’s taste.
My ex once called me a narcissist (I commented on something she specifically asked me to comment on, after she told me I was being too quiet). I have also not dated 99% of women (and may we all thank Himself for that).
Something tells me these women’s math is flawed.
The support group for antisocial people is working precisely as intended. I, for one, am quite satisfied with the service.
The Squeenix “adult woman fetish:” Picture it in your head. And there’s me over here, raised eyebrow with only a “Really?” expression on my face. Yes, facial expression with Southron accent is a thing, people.
Friederich August von Hayek was saying that back in the 80s, and since then it has not gotten any less true. If anything, recent developments have only further defined the general statement. That, and FA Hayek talking economics and capitalism never gets old.
“Live, Laugh Lay down suppressive fire” needs a belt fed. Just saying.
If my 2026, and your 2026, and Bob’s 2026, and… yeah, that’d probably cause massive, MASSIVE inflation and destabilize the markets quite badly. Let’s just go with “more profitable than 2020-2024.” That’s a safer target.
Somewhere there I contracted an earworm. Whiskey in the Jar. Thin Lizzie cover. Great Irish rock band, fronted by Phil Lynnott, who once described himself as “the only black man in Ireland.”
Ok. That was maybe 50 years ago.
I had to scroll back through the post to see what had triggered the earworm. Glad I did.
Snakes (and spiders) push a primate’s wired-in eeeeeGAD!!! button. Snakes don’t need to eat as many critters as cats, either.
Also, Desmond Morris (IIRC) suggested that cats whose “meow” sounds enough like a baby’s cry to stimulate a human’s instinct to nurture it got a yuuuge selection boost.
The same maybe-Morris author also observed that a hissing cat with its ears laid flat is sorta snake-y, which may be why it’s so startlingly intimidating.
There are many a ranch and farm who do protect both snakes and semi-feral cats around their stock, barns, houses, and storage areas. Generally the kind of snakes that are not venomous, and also will hunt venomous snakes along with rats and other pests. (Bull snakes is one.) We do not discourage garter snakes in our backyard because, along with the possums, they eat ticks, slugs, and snails. They, however, do not eat aphids.
We do have to watch the cats closely, or at least Tj. The brat likes those self-motion ropes. He bats, pounces, and makes a dash to the door with his new toy, while it is still wiggling. Since he only gets supervised outings, he does not succeed getting them in the house. Used to. But that was before we got the new garage door. Old wooden one had gaps on either side, where the snakes could get in the garage. Tj would then bring the toy into the house from the garage. Cats lost closed garage privileges for a bit because of that.
Well, he hasn’t gotten smarter. Unfortunately, with computerized traffic cameras and sensors, he might be able to carry out his threats. Commit “violations”, accumulate points, get your license revoked and/or your insurance canceled.
He might be more concerned with his own problems. Looks like he’s not a CA resident, or else committed mortgage fraud by claiming his DC home as his primary residence. But since he doesn’t have a place to sleep in CA I’m thinking he’ll be disqualified.
I definitely found statements by Mr. Jeffries on ICE concerning.
I’m wondering how thought out his position is, versus how emotional or compelled by his ‘allies’.
I’m obviously fairly extreme and narrow in how I parse these things, and in how they shape my estimates of who would respond to what.
So I tend to see some of the Walz and Jeffries statements as inherently useless to inherently harmful for their positions and ambitions. But, the Democrats do have to make a stink, if they need battlespace prep for astroturf and fraud this November. I think Jeffries is making a stink to the end of November.
A basic problem with making an open political statement warning federal LEOs against criminal acts, is that federal LEOs may have strong and very differently informed views about what elements of their business are criminal acts.
There’s the hypothetical that everyone in ICE was hired last year, with no previous federal LEO or federal employment/contact. Turnover means that you will always have newer hires, but there is probably also people who have been with the agency for a while.
So, FBI, DEA, etc., folks are maybe not very invested in the institution of ICE, and of ICE’s theory of the enabling legislation. But, they would be fairly invested in certain views about general legalities around federal LEOs.
A basic question now in terms of ‘what can federal LEOs even do about it’, is whether people who voted for Jeffries in January 2025 are very likely to willingly associate with an obvious criminal conspiracy, and how likely the candidates the Democrats have found for new seats are to willingly associate with an obvious criminal conspiracy. If they are very likely, they may have carelessly done so in the past.
What can federal LEOs do, depends on how many of potential congressmen have committed criminal acts that a diligent investigation of would result in successful prosecutions for.
Anyway, the degree and intensity of silence by federal LEOs about statements by Jeffries would be a hint. I mean, if the civil service unions of the LEOS are noisely whining at Jeffries, than that is probably as far as it goes. I don’t know what federal LEOs are saying, maybe they are all airing stuff in public for all I know.
Anyhow, forecasting this requires a bunch of different types of information that I do not have, so I do not know what will happen, and will have to see what happens.
On Iran, www dot centcom dot mil dropped another press release about ISIS/syria yesterday. Fundamentally, Iran has had many proxy organizations in the mid east, and their records would be intelligence on those. Anyway, I got bored waiting for something to happen with Vennyland, and then it did. The professionals and bureaucrats carrying this stuff out have a much longer attention span than my hobby-stuff-attention-span.
About [rude word] time. Between the junk that is taught, and the activism, and the flaming hoops they make students go through* (“not offered this year, but still required to graduate” happens there too), it is another bastion of education overripe for reform.
*Kid of a family friend went through that. Twice. He was … irked to put it mildly, because it cost him at least two jobs.
According To Hoyt 
I’m not in a good mood.
I’m tempted to say something Illegal, Immoral and Fattening. [Twisted Grin]
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Try more coffee…
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“Stolen Pot Brownies”
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The Reader suggests that Ayn Rand Was Right be replaced with The Anti-Federalists Were Right.
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Thank you.
Might take that one down to the Constitution Party office.
Midterms will ne here before you know it.
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If not fren, why fren-shaped?
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What Elon, Mila, and the rest of us better worry about is all those illegals who weren’t excluded, but waved onto the juries because they already knew how the Soros DAs wanted the trial to come out.
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Wouldn’t illegal aliens on the jury be grounds for a mistrial?
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You can’t declare a mistrial on an acquittal.
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Not sure I understand you. If the DA puts aliens on the jury to ensure a conviction, the defense is going to object, and win on appeal if the judge is corrupt. And why would the DA even bring charges if he wanted to rig it in favor of the defendant?
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Bring charges and rig to acquit? DA knows he’s guilty as Cain, and has reasons to prevent the risk of double jeopardy in case what the crooked DA knows should be discovered.
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Or a slap on the wrist. Obama and the Clintons were experts.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/uranium-one-deal-obama-administration-doj-hillary-clinton-racketeering/
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Were I an illegal, the absolute last thing I would want to do would be go down to the courthouse and go through courthouse security daily for weeks on end to score the $15 a day they pay jury members here in the Singed Bear Flag People’s Republic, hoping all the while that not a single one of the deputies manning the metal detectors will shoot their ICE buddies a text and rat me out just to get back at the idiot politicians running the city and state all in the remote hope I could somehow get back at Elon.
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FM, please don’t be obtuse.
They couldn’t care less about Elon…. but if they’re trying someone who’s part of their “community”, it’s a guaranteed mistrial.
Note that if YOU are on trial, that can swing the other way.
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Yeah but they still need volunteers. The folks I am familiar with who have, well, indeterminate status let’s say, are hustling like mad for income so they can continue to be here. $15 a day is just a joke, and they won’t think it is funny at all.
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You don’t know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you receive a jury summons. You don’t even know what kind of trial you’re going to get when you report for duty on the first day.
So I’m with FM on this one. People here illegally aren’t going to go to a courthouse, where they’ll be surrounded by law enforcement, for a pittance a day (even compared to under the table wages) when they can get out of it by revealing that they’re not a citizen.
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when they can get out of it by revealing that they’re not a citizen… instead a “Sanctuary” State.
Yep.
I still like the image of a courthouse guard spotting one and getting a little payback.
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I have to admit, my wife would be completely taken in by that “Free Goat” gambit. I can just imagine that phone call.
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So, a man who’s 44 can’t date that 35-year-old woman?
Who had Dumbass Apocalypse for 2026?
The Mobius cheat sheet 🤣
Halloween cat and dog skeletons have ears, which are not bones.
I wouldn’t want to meet a bunch of antisocial assholes either. Wait, where are you going?
Throwing whole dead pigs is a waste of perfectly good pork. Get a few bushels of pig guts from the slaughterhouse.
I suspect every illegal alien deported is at least 4 less Democrat votes. Of course, the ones that die here will vote Democrat for eternity.
Kalifornia is where, when a Republican candidate wins, they keep ‘counting votes’ for a month or more until the Democrat wins.
Locking down the tiny bags of Doritos 😁 They used to be bigger before BidenFlation ☹️
Find the meme of that USA political map with the caption: 95% of the guns are in the huge red areas. 95% of gun violence is in the little blue spots.
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She’s not upset at 44 year-old men trying to date her. That’s fine and dandy. She’s upset with 35 year-old men who want to start a family, and are aware that older women have a harder time getting pregnant (particularly if its a first pregnancy), and are dating women younger than her as a result. She spent the last 15 years pointedly *not* getting married, and now she’s upset that all of the guys in their thirties and younger are unavailable to her.
There are other memes floating around touching on this topic. The most popular riffs on “consent” in a relationship by having a guy and a somewhat younger woman both announce that they consent. But a woman that’s the same age as the guy suddenly pops up and loudly declares that she doesn’t consent.
The topic occasionally pops up on X, as well. I don’t know whether to take them seriously (trolling is always a possibility), but I’ve seen people declare that even a few years difference between the man and the woman is problematic.
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This.
“I had my fun decade and a half bed hopping in college and afterward, but now, as the ticking clock ticks ever onward, I need to get married and have kids before I can’t.”
But the guys don’t want a bed hopping champ, they want someone with some un-burned-out pair-bonding capacity, which probably means the unmarried 35s are shopping in the 20s range.
So she wants social pressure to counter her cumulative decisions.
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Also the women who focused on career to the exclusion of relationships and family, and suddenly realized that their biological clock is ticking.
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Guess I should have put an emoji after that one, too. 😜
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So Bidoon actually reduced expenses of these retailors by allowing them to buy smaller lockup boxes due to the smaller bags sizes? Okay!
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“Get a few bushels of pig guts from the slaughterhouse.”
Not immediately identifiable,
Pig’s feet, however … Adds the ‘I know what that is’ to ‘the entire area is now haram!’
Why are the English transliterations of ‘haram’ and ‘harem’ that close? Maybe the 72 virgins all have cloven hooves?
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“Maybe the 72 virgins all have cloven hooves?”
I’ve been thinking it would be appropriate if they were Viking shield maidens. Brynhildr, six foot, 190lbs, about 50 years old, meaner than a junkyard pitbull and twice as tough. Got a hate on like Mt. Vesuvius ever since Sigurd dumped her.
Bro going to chew his own arm off sooner than wake her up…
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“Congratulations, Achmed, ya made it! Here’s yer 72 virgins, hot and ready, been saving themselves for you for the last 14 billion yea– …what? You expected girls???“
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All goats have cloven hooves.
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“Throwing whole dead pigs is a waste of perfectly good pork.”
Depends on the pig. I’ve heard that the ferals that are causing problems in certain areas in the center of the US are really bad eating.
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True. They also tend to be caked with mud and pig shit, and lousy with parasites. So, OK, throw dead feral hogs. 🤣
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And, if not prepped correctly and cooked very thoroughly, really are, really, really, bad for you to eat. Even then, one would not just be eating pork. Same with bears in some areas. This goes beyond eating wild game. One of the problems with eating true omnivores.
My cousin won’t say anything other than it was rank and horrible, even after being in the freezer, and thoroughly cooked, of the bear her dad shot. Meat handled by people who butchered not only deer and elk annually, but their own steers and hogs annually. Bear tag retroactively.
Uncle wasn’t after bear. But bear was the reason why they carried loaded for bear revolvers when hunting deer and elk in the Wallawa and the Blues mountain ranges. A black (no grizzlies in either range) bear decided the elk uncle was gutting was his. Normally he, and anyone one in the group, would let the bear have it. But the bear chose to try to steal it while it was being gutted, before any of the rest of the party could converge, and uncle was between the elk and the bear. Bear got shot. These days the meat and hide would be confiscated, but no ticket, if no bear tag and bear attacked. Back then, ’60s, hunter just paid for the tag afterward.
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I’ve heard the same thing. They cull those feral hogs by the hundreds and I don’t think they even end up at homeless shelters or food banks. They’re just not edible without fairly careful preparation because of the parasites they carry, and I imagine they’re pretty lean and gamy.
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The young ones are quite edible and when treated properly (marinate to reduce gaminess) are excellent – on par with European boar. The big ones, full male and adrenaline-rich? Nope! Toss in parasites and very no.
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Back in the 80s I had the chance to eat European boar, at a catered SCA feast in Drachenwald. I always regretted not having the schnitzel.
Can we say greasy meat? Yes, yes we can.
But it was amusing to leave the dungeon dining hall and head up to the castle gallery to dance pavanes and galliards, while below the German kids in jeans and t-shirts were doing the funky chicken/disco.
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I knew an individual who herded them into a brush corral and fed them corn for a couple weeks.
He said after that they just tasted like pork.
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“Throwing whole dead pigs is a waste of perfectly good pork. Get a few bushels of pig guts from the slaughterhouse.”
Remember your audience. It needs piggy ears and a curly tail before they’ll get it.
Maybe a few ferals? Pretty gamey, probable trichinosis, no loss to the environment. Hogzilla springs to mind, 12 feet and 1150lbs of porky goodness… really big teeth…
It’s important to keep the audience in mind. >:D
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All right then, trap some big, mean feral boars, turn them loose in the construction site, and live-stream the fun when Achmed, Abdullah and company show up the next day. 🤣
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It’s bigger than a Volkswagen, stronger than a bull, smarter than a German Shepard, and it doesn’t like you.
And it -smells-.
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Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
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Probably deserved a magazine article titled ‘the hidden racist conspiracy against vampires’.
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I don’t have an ex timeline, I have never dated in the first place.
For some reason, a good half of everything I see on linkedin is crazy people, and the other half is people I don’t know about making polite noises.
So basically, I do not buy the AI machine spirit hypothesis, and I also doubt that this stuff is completely and entirely useless. I ask Claes or Alpaca or Tobor how to do headers in Markdown, then I don’t get an answer because I am querying a nonexistent API. Anyway, why mess around with neural nets when we have time tested things like metropolis or simplex?
(In all seriousness, of the ten best algorithms of the twentieth century in some paper, an awful lot of the actual answers that have come up in the last ten years for me have been ‘just mess around with FFT for a bit, until you have a better idea what is going on’. )
If Emma’s numbers are correct, and describe real accurate perceptions, then an implication is that women date an average of 33 or more men, and use a sort that is basically uniformly distributed. Personally, I have doubts that average women are any better at psychiatric diagnosis than average (hence untrained) men, and I doubt the sort is uniform. I could buy that ‘female role models’ promoted by schools and shit are a really bad guide to dating, to evaluating people, and to orienting to basic sanity. I think if I had dated, say, thirty different women, the effects of that would tend to make me more insane, if I had not started out insane.
From an American POV, Amelia sounds like a nice moderate girl, the UK government needs to do a better job of warning the kiddos in the UK about the sort of people you can find in America. I think American style mainstream anti-Monarch republicans might be pretty extreme in terms of UK customs and mores.
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Alternative explanation: 99% of women are entitled, and dismiss men not serving their entitled mentality as being narcissists, because nothing is ever their fault.
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Yeah, I kinda figured that what Emma was actually claiming was women misreporting their experiences, perhaps due to honest misperception.
Personally, I am a fairly weird obsessive, and I suspect that there are people would interpret my conversational issues as being narcissism on my part.
Much of humanity is really into things that do not interest me much, and that is fine.
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“…honest misperception…”
Alternately, it highlights the absolutely uninformed widespread misuse of actual well defined clinical diagnoses by people who watched a TikTok video.
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Yes.
Though, I would not pick solely on TikTok, and would complain as well about highschoolers who read a book, or about college graduates who had an undergraduate course.
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Are we distinguishing between “dated” and “went out on a date with” in this data set?
Or are we just eliding it all so we can pretend that all women are whores and all men are pure as the driven snow?
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I have no idea.
I’m somewhat aware that there are different degrees of emotional contact, and that some of them are definitely minor enough that an accumulation does not cause problems.
One date could/should be pretty minor.
I think this is definitely my bad. Reading what I wrote, I do not think I had a consistent idea in mind about that point.
Was not trying to say anything about all women. I think I figured the model in the tweet was a bit funky, and would be entertaining to talk about.
I feel I may forget too easily how much of the one-size-fits-all interpretations of dating wars are just meant for use as propaganda for wars between the sexes.
(I know I saw another iteration of that ‘women 20 to 30 went more left’ meme recently, and didn’t reflect that the swings in the trendlines(1) at best indicate a noisy process. )
(1) trendlines is almost certainly the wrong word, but I would need to see the actual saus, and be able to think, to understand what the correct term would be.
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“Or are we just eliding it all so we can pretend that all women are whores and all men are pure as the driven snow?”
Can’t really say “all”, but do you know how many young women are on #0nlyF@ns? It’s a non-trivial number of the 18-30 female population, approaching 10%.
I’m told 0.F. has a special section where they keep it PG-ish, and then on their 18th birthday they “graduate” with a special debut.
So, yeah. That’s a thing these days, apparently. I try not to judge.
But men, pure as snow? That’s just silly. ~:D
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the root cause of political violence in america seems to be student loans for morons, and other ways of funding scholarship misconduct
common sense loan control
common sense grant control
common sense accreditation control
we should harmonize with the EU, and declare that authentic university degrees can only be made in the pine barrens of new jersey, and university instructors have to be medival european men of good standing in the church
and basic schools can only have one classroom, and the instructor has to be an unmarried woman whose reputation is acceptable to the parents
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“…the root cause of political violence in america seems to be student loans for morons…”
I grant that as a contributing factor, good sir. Never underestimate the corrosive power of stupidity.
But for the -root- cause, as the days tick by it seems increasingly apparent that this is all bought and paid for. Names will no doubt presently be named. I have popcorn ready.
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Those skeletons might not be an “octopus skeleton” they might be mind flayer skulls MHI sells when they complete a job. ;-)
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SFBS!
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I am a BIG fan of the Amelia mashup where some AI was told to find all the memes, then become Amelia and make a video telling us what she wants to say.
Angry, not researched: I was wondering yesterday, and Grok came up with this Cartesian variant: irascor ergo sum – idiomatically, that’s “I am outraged, therefore I am”.
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Not a meme but should be: Elon told Rubio (among others) DOGE had found nearly half a million people allegedly 114 and collecting unemployment. Rubio replied, “To be fair, it’s really hard to get employed after 114.”
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Smart cities, if only some had made a movie to warn us, eh Logan?
Lots of Amelia over at John Carter/Barsoom’s place on Substack.
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thank you for memes!
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the windows stuff is getting worse everyday. Im going Linux on my next pc rather than windows 12.
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Bravo! I went Linux in 2004, and have never regretted it.
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The Win10 machine I bought used to run Terrible-Tax got upgraded to ‘nix after I discovered just how horrible Win10 was, with T-Tax not much better. (Not sure if it’s changed, but TurboTax didn’t run under the Linux Wine Windows-adapter. OTOH, if I’m actually awake, I can do the taxes fairly well with my magic spreadsheet. OTOH, revised tax returns are my friend. [sigh])
Kmymoney does the books. Simple enough, and I was able to import Quicken data.
The last Windows I used extensively was Win 7. Once I got broadband (ish–satellite before StarLink), it’s been Linux. Doing updates on dialup was a pain, either in Linux or Windows.
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Windows peaked with Win2000/NT in my opinion. Everything since then seems to be yet another step in me banging my head on the desk.
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I work at places that use Windows so I have to be familiar with it. That said, I did “upgrade” to Win11 last August. Haven’t had disasters like others have reported here and there, though it might be because I have a Pro license key from Win10 and I used that to deactivate/uninstall (*cou-CoPilot-gh*) a lot of features.
I do find myself annoyed by little things, like having to shift-right-click to activate 7zip options when it was just a right-click in Win10. Plus their attempts to hide the Win7 Control Panel (or have them go back to the Win10/11 system options) are very vexing, especially when I’m trying to fix things for a user.
May load Linux as a separate boot when I have a chance, though a lot of my games need Windows and I’m not sure WINE will work with them.
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Working on the system dayjob provides is fine and understandable, though I do try to get businesses to go Linux as well. Almost never works.
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Joy Division shirt FTW! (I have the parody “Meow Division” shirt. Those who know, grin and thumbs up. Those who don’t, don’t.)
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I have that image (sort of, it’s an animation) as one of my screensavers. IIRC, it’s an image of a pulsar’s light output.
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And yes, PSR B1919+21 (AKA CP 1919) was the first pulsar ever discovered. The graph was seen by Joy Division’s drummer, and used for the cover of Unknown Pleasures.
Not familiar with the band, but I like the drummer’s taste.
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The only way to self-medicate – no, wait. Chocolate, soda and pizza also qualify.
Have known bio grad students, can confirm the grant money would do it.
I’m not fighting that guy – I want him on my side!
When different groups come into contact… yep, that scans.
But he is destroying the government – exactly!
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My ex once called me a narcissist (I commented on something she specifically asked me to comment on, after she told me I was being too quiet). I have also not dated 99% of women (and may we all thank Himself for that).
Something tells me these women’s math is flawed.
The support group for antisocial people is working precisely as intended. I, for one, am quite satisfied with the service.
The Squeenix “adult woman fetish:” Picture it in your head. And there’s me over here, raised eyebrow with only a “Really?” expression on my face. Yes, facial expression with Southron accent is a thing, people.
Friederich August von Hayek was saying that back in the 80s, and since then it has not gotten any less true. If anything, recent developments have only further defined the general statement. That, and FA Hayek talking economics and capitalism never gets old.
“Live, Laugh Lay down suppressive fire” needs a belt fed. Just saying.
If my 2026, and your 2026, and Bob’s 2026, and… yeah, that’d probably cause massive, MASSIVE inflation and destabilize the markets quite badly. Let’s just go with “more profitable than 2020-2024.” That’s a safer target.
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Rather like the ex who called me a control freak because I wouldn’t do everything she told me to. 😧
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Hayek just standing there never gets old.
Oh, wait, you said Fred. Nevermind.
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Sounds like those Narcissists are getting ALL the tail. I need to work on my Narcissism.
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Somewhere there I contracted an earworm. Whiskey in the Jar. Thin Lizzie cover. Great Irish rock band, fronted by Phil Lynnott, who once described himself as “the only black man in Ireland.”
Ok. That was maybe 50 years ago.
I had to scroll back through the post to see what had triggered the earworm. Glad I did.
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And then I remember Bill Clinton using the line ‘stand and deliver ‘…
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The cat did not see humans having a vermin problem. The cat saw humans luring food to a place.
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Snakes like pretty much that same food – why are there fewer domesticated snakes?
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Snakes don’t purr? 😁
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Snakes (and spiders) push a primate’s wired-in eeeeeGAD!!! button. Snakes don’t need to eat as many critters as cats, either.
Also, Desmond Morris (IIRC) suggested that cats whose “meow” sounds enough like a baby’s cry to stimulate a human’s instinct to nurture it got a yuuuge selection boost.
The same maybe-Morris author also observed that a hissing cat with its ears laid flat is sorta snake-y, which may be why it’s so startlingly intimidating.
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There are many a ranch and farm who do protect both snakes and semi-feral cats around their stock, barns, houses, and storage areas. Generally the kind of snakes that are not venomous, and also will hunt venomous snakes along with rats and other pests. (Bull snakes is one.) We do not discourage garter snakes in our backyard because, along with the possums, they eat ticks, slugs, and snails. They, however, do not eat aphids.
We do have to watch the cats closely, or at least Tj. The brat likes those self-motion ropes. He bats, pounces, and makes a dash to the door with his new toy, while it is still wiggling. Since he only gets supervised outings, he does not succeed getting them in the house. Used to. But that was before we got the new garage door. Old wooden one had gaps on either side, where the snakes could get in the garage. Tj would then bring the toy into the house from the garage. Cats lost closed garage privileges for a bit because of that.
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”Live, Laugh, Lay Down Suppressive Fire.”
I mean, AKs are fine, but for real suppressive fire you just need a radio.
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I want to know why that octopus “skeleton” costs $269.
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Only if ‘Bang-Bang Fang-Fang’ Swalwell is there. 🤣
When Swalwell farted on live TV, it was the most intelligent thing heard from a Democrat all week.
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Well, he hasn’t gotten smarter. Unfortunately, with computerized traffic cameras and sensors, he might be able to carry out his threats. Commit “violations”, accumulate points, get your license revoked and/or your insurance canceled.
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/01/17/eric-swalwell-says-that-as-governor-he-will-revoke-ice-agents-drivers-licenses-n2424062
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He might be more concerned with his own problems. Looks like he’s not a CA resident, or else committed mortgage fraud by claiming his DC home as his primary residence. But since he doesn’t have a place to sleep in CA I’m thinking he’ll be disqualified.
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I definitely found statements by Mr. Jeffries on ICE concerning.
I’m wondering how thought out his position is, versus how emotional or compelled by his ‘allies’.
I’m obviously fairly extreme and narrow in how I parse these things, and in how they shape my estimates of who would respond to what.
So I tend to see some of the Walz and Jeffries statements as inherently useless to inherently harmful for their positions and ambitions. But, the Democrats do have to make a stink, if they need battlespace prep for astroturf and fraud this November. I think Jeffries is making a stink to the end of November.
A basic problem with making an open political statement warning federal LEOs against criminal acts, is that federal LEOs may have strong and very differently informed views about what elements of their business are criminal acts.
There’s the hypothetical that everyone in ICE was hired last year, with no previous federal LEO or federal employment/contact. Turnover means that you will always have newer hires, but there is probably also people who have been with the agency for a while.
So, FBI, DEA, etc., folks are maybe not very invested in the institution of ICE, and of ICE’s theory of the enabling legislation. But, they would be fairly invested in certain views about general legalities around federal LEOs.
A basic question now in terms of ‘what can federal LEOs even do about it’, is whether people who voted for Jeffries in January 2025 are very likely to willingly associate with an obvious criminal conspiracy, and how likely the candidates the Democrats have found for new seats are to willingly associate with an obvious criminal conspiracy. If they are very likely, they may have carelessly done so in the past.
What can federal LEOs do, depends on how many of potential congressmen have committed criminal acts that a diligent investigation of would result in successful prosecutions for.
Anyway, the degree and intensity of silence by federal LEOs about statements by Jeffries would be a hint. I mean, if the civil service unions of the LEOS are noisely whining at Jeffries, than that is probably as far as it goes. I don’t know what federal LEOs are saying, maybe they are all airing stuff in public for all I know.
Anyhow, forecasting this requires a bunch of different types of information that I do not have, so I do not know what will happen, and will have to see what happens.
On Iran, www dot centcom dot mil dropped another press release about ISIS/syria yesterday. Fundamentally, Iran has had many proxy organizations in the mid east, and their records would be intelligence on those. Anyway, I got bored waiting for something to happen with Vennyland, and then it did. The professionals and bureaucrats carrying this stuff out have a much longer attention span than my hobby-stuff-attention-span.
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Good ones today may send the Dilbert one to my sister The Kafka one is thot provoking bec that may already be happening.
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These go together IMO
FWIW – goes with that
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Why did they add Fox News to that meme? Fox is saying, “She came, she FA’d, she FO’d.”
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that’s good, because they’ve been in the chorus before.
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THIS is good news. And the FIRST state was Texas, earlier this month.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2026/01/19/florida-becomes-second-state-to-break-american-bar-chokehold-on-law-schools/
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About [rude word] time. Between the junk that is taught, and the activism, and the flaming hoops they make students go through* (“not offered this year, but still required to graduate” happens there too), it is another bastion of education overripe for reform.
*Kid of a family friend went through that. Twice. He was … irked to put it mildly, because it cost him at least two jobs.
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My understanding is that, strictly speaking, other states, like California, do not even require a JD.
But, yes, breaking the ABA’s accreditation monopoly on law schools is a necessary step.
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SO “Blue hair” = Crazy Leftroid = dont date
“Purple hair” = rational rightie = good date.
Got it!
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Blue accents with dark clothes = Possible HGC (Hot Goth Chick). Investigate further.
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