And a fanatical devotion to doctrine. THREE! Our THREE chief weapons are violent oppression, secretiveness, and a fanatical devotion to doctrine… I’ll come in again.
And the destruction of trust. High trust societies are both more and less susceptible to outside interference. Once contagion is identified, it is normally rooted out with ruthless enthusiasm.
Let me translate that from Southern for our less fortunate Yankee companions on this site. “Bless your heart” = “Ain’t you just the stupidest little f-tard?”
When I was growing up we said it sincerely. It might have connotations of, “He doesn’t understand,” but it was said with more goodwill and less sarcasm.
And anything from “May Himself watch over you and yours, brother-or-sister in the faith,” to “Y’all done f*cked up and sooner or later you’re gonna realize it, but for now I’m gonna make nice in front of the little ‘uns so’s you’d better step light and avoid dark allies ya sorry sack of pus-riddled fat and stupidity.”
The weirdest thing for me is how hard the tech left still tries for Barry – LinkedIn relentlessly pitches him for me to follow. I follow nobody on their stupid platform, but Barry is apparently the PERFECT ALGORITHMIC MATCH for me.
Ha! Ottocorrupt strikes again. SK tools, not SKS. Little green tool set, good stuff for mechanics and handymen. The other one is a good hole puncher and occasional cause of tinnitus.
I hadn’t seen the “Schrödinger’s catgirl” story before, so I sent it to my wife. She replied that she’d seen it here and there over the years. I replied, “Whereas I hadn’t. And since we are one flesh, that means we both had and had not seen it… until today when the waveform collapsed.”
Commies can fly. Definitely. It’s quite literally documented and proofed and has many, many peer reviewed sources.
Landing on the other hand has received no stars from participants of said unaided and unpowered flight. No complaints either, come to think of it. Except from other Commies, but we don’t court those idiots quite deliberately.
Not only have I survived multiple rides in the open bed of a pickup, I also lived through my uncle spitting tobacco juice out the window and hitting me square in the eye as I peeked around the cab to see how far it was to the asphalt road. Granted, it’s the weaker eye these days, but I start Medicare next month so my astigmatism is more likely to be from age than tobacco.
A cautionary Medicare tale for my fellow ExFed retirees; the rest of you should listen up too.
I’ve been trying to enroll in United HealthCare’s Medicare Advantage plan they offer as part of the Federal Employee Heath Benefits coverage I’ve had for the last 18 years, nine of which have been as a retiree. Despite four calls to UHC since August 14, I’m still not enrolled and can’t do so until December even though I’m eligible in November. It should be breathtakingly simple: I turn 65, UHC moves me to their Medicare Advantage plan automatically since there’s no additional cost to me and I get more benefits than regular Medicare, and if I don’t want it I can drop it or change to another Advantage plan before the deadline in early December.
The problem, you may ask? OPM hasn’t sent UHC my electronic Medicare eligibility record DESPITE the fact that HHS sent my Medicare enrollment card to me in early August. Also, OPM has been paying my pension since 2018 and therefore know (1) my age, (2) I’m retired, and (3) I’m still alive. This is a trivial problem easily solved by a dimwitted freshman computer science undergrad and a relational database script, but obviously the left government hand is too busy defrauding the right hand to actually talk to each other.
UHC says I have to contact OPM to unscrew the problem, yet every time I call the OPM helpline all I get is “We’re too busy to take your call. Try again later, loser!”
And you think bigger government is the solution? Well, bless your heart.
First thing to understand is that the first goal of that program is not to provide satisfactory services in a timely manner to the beneficiaries, but to provide money to the seat warmers administering it who will vote for the politicians who came up with the program.
Points to the meme that not only made me Laugh 🤣, Cry 😭, and Cringe 🤔. Guess who got to be the keeper of legacy code. Ouch!
Cats? Pet-able? Not even the domestic ones to any strangers that enter our household. Even we have to wait until they decide it is cuddle time. Probably safer with the big cats, once anyway.
This is a far more sophisticated version of a tactic Democrats have used in the past: creating fake newspapers delivered to people’s homes, presented as “news” but really PR packages for candidates or parties.
But those were fairly transparent; seeding fake news into AI is not, because AI presents information as if it comes from neutral “news” sources, when in fact it is just laundered propaganda not identified as such.
In much the same way that Google will launder Wikipedia answers as authoritative in its AI summaries, making the left-leaning “editors” at the site extremely powerful in creating a Truman Show reality, the fake “news” sites provide another layer of credibility to campaign propaganda.
“Doing weird things with friends” . . . Like our annual plague doctor party? My friend’s invitation said ‘strict plague doctor aesthetic’, which everyone interpreted differently, but awesomely, and then we ate pizza, took pictures, and went on a jaunt – nay, a procession along Main Street, like the cryptids we aspire to be.
I like the Malfoy girl shocked she’s made the mainstream.
And as to canon, the current generation of professional pretenders all have demonstrated they clearly hate it so much, and as a result never touch the stuff, such that it’s fallen subject to the clear text of the abandoned canon salvage rules, so the fans can board and take canon over with a clear conscience.
Dr. Who, and LOTR, and Wheel of Time, and Disney Star Wars, and The Witcher, and HALO, and of course Kurtzman Trek – they HATE HATE HATE the canon and the fans that it yielded. And that’s just TV.
They see the fans as only a captive audience for HR Ladies lectures.
Before and after coffee… who knew that’s what vampires really needed? A little too dark… G Scary pumpkins! Schrodinger’s catgirl rocks! That is one heck of a decoration. Pettable. Yep. Never zero! Spiritual microplastics. Never saw that coming. 10 mm sockets will get ’em, guaranteed. Safety… requirements…. Dies laughing
Department of Education puts up a pro-education poster featuring Harry Potter, his two friends… and Malfoid watching from a distance. Wired throws a hissy fit and contacts the government for an explanation. The response is a quote from Dumbledore. :P
Meanwhile, a fan has AI make a video in which Hermoine complains because Malfoid (who is in the foreground; all of the characters have their backs to the viewer) is bigger than she is. ^^;;
“Force is necessary to maintain the illusion of socialism.”
Kind of explains that whole “shooting your way out” thing.
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… and the hundred-million-plus deaths.
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I repeated that quote just yesterday to my high school bro, a rabid pro-2A Republican, and he’d never heard of it or its authorl
We need to make Ayn Rand read again. She’s always been great.
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Not merely force. Violent oppression is necessary to maintain the delusions of socialism.
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And secretiveness.
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And a fanatical devotion to doctrine. THREE! Our THREE chief weapons are violent oppression, secretiveness, and a fanatical devotion to doctrine… I’ll come in again.
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I always expect the Spanish Inquisition! ;-)
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And the destruction of trust. High trust societies are both more and less susceptible to outside interference. Once contagion is identified, it is normally rooted out with ruthless enthusiasm.
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Worst case, G-d forbid scenario, we’re better equipped than any other country to shoot our way out.
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For the one “I’m not discussing this with you because…”?
I think we sum it up well with, “Bless your heart…”
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Let me translate that from Southern for our less fortunate Yankee companions on this site. “Bless your heart” = “Ain’t you just the stupidest little f-tard?”
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When I was growing up we said it sincerely. It might have connotations of, “He doesn’t understand,” but it was said with more goodwill and less sarcasm.
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And anything from “May Himself watch over you and yours, brother-or-sister in the faith,” to “Y’all done f*cked up and sooner or later you’re gonna realize it, but for now I’m gonna make nice in front of the little ‘uns so’s you’d better step light and avoid dark allies ya sorry sack of pus-riddled fat and stupidity.”
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I was under the impression added words added degree of judgement implied, i.e. “bless your heart…” escalated is “well, just bless your little heart!”
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I have used “Bless your little cotton picking heart” Once or twice. (Looks at ceiling.)
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SFBS!
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Hassan might survive that firing squad but that MP is in serious danger! ……. Lots of great memes today, think I’ll have to “borrow” a few!
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I like the idea of dressing him in Hello Kitty pajamas for the execution.
And if you’ve got any female Marine marrksmen, that would be good.
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What happened with The Cheesecake Factory?
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Obama.
He said something. Apparently he is actually a worse script writer than his script writers.
dunning-kruger opr whatever that was
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People still listen to him?
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Do pigs still wallow in their own filth?
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The weirdest thing for me is how hard the tech left still tries for Barry – LinkedIn relentlessly pitches him for me to follow. I follow nobody on their stupid platform, but Barry is apparently the PERFECT ALGORITHMIC MATCH for me.
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Wait, I’m not Bill… hang on… here you go:
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Yeah, I have the same pitch from LinkedIn.
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Obama sneered at the Cheesecake Factory and the people who like it.
Of course, he also mourned the loss of civility and the rise of divisiveness.
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As if he hasn’t done his absolute best to be as divisive as possible.
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He demonstrated definitively that he is a terrible person and a worse politician when he goes off script.
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No no no, he’s the smartest person in the room, just ask him…
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I’m immune to the Snap-On man.
What Snap-On I own was found either wedged in a vehicle I was working on, or found on the road.
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SKS. Best ratchet and socket set I’ve ever owned. Snap-on can go fly a kite.
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I will admit to using the butt of my SKS as a hammer, but I’ve yet to figure out the other uses.
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Ha! Ottocorrupt strikes again. SK tools, not SKS. Little green tool set, good stuff for mechanics and handymen. The other one is a good hole puncher and occasional cause of tinnitus.
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It’s slightly scary when you recognize exactly which Wigwam Village motel was TPed.
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Would you rather deal with landmine bear or cocaine bear?
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Cocaine bear would be easily distracted by hookers.
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So “When traveling in bear country, always take along a couple of hookers just in case you come to the attention of any cocaine bears.”
Sounds reasonable.
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Let’s send both to Iran, China, No. Korea, Gaza, and France.
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Send them to Congress, as long as we’re mentioning enemies.
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State capitols, please. All of them, without exception.
The smart ones on our side will be mostly fine. I am willing to accept a little risk.
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“Come for the empty promises, stay for the breadlines.”
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I hadn’t seen the “Schrödinger’s catgirl” story before, so I sent it to my wife. She replied that she’d seen it here and there over the years. I replied, “Whereas I hadn’t. And since we are one flesh, that means we both had and had not seen it… until today when the waveform collapsed.”
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Excellent crop harvested today.
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Yes please to Roman triumphal Segway. Thank you for the memes.
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All bike paths lead to Rome.
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Heh!
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Commies can fly. Definitely. It’s quite literally documented and proofed and has many, many peer reviewed sources.
Landing on the other hand has received no stars from participants of said unaided and unpowered flight. No complaints either, come to think of it. Except from other Commies, but we don’t court those idiots quite deliberately.
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Not only have I survived multiple rides in the open bed of a pickup, I also lived through my uncle spitting tobacco juice out the window and hitting me square in the eye as I peeked around the cab to see how far it was to the asphalt road. Granted, it’s the weaker eye these days, but I start Medicare next month so my astigmatism is more likely to be from age than tobacco.
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A cautionary Medicare tale for my fellow ExFed retirees; the rest of you should listen up too.
I’ve been trying to enroll in United HealthCare’s Medicare Advantage plan they offer as part of the Federal Employee Heath Benefits coverage I’ve had for the last 18 years, nine of which have been as a retiree. Despite four calls to UHC since August 14, I’m still not enrolled and can’t do so until December even though I’m eligible in November. It should be breathtakingly simple: I turn 65, UHC moves me to their Medicare Advantage plan automatically since there’s no additional cost to me and I get more benefits than regular Medicare, and if I don’t want it I can drop it or change to another Advantage plan before the deadline in early December.
The problem, you may ask? OPM hasn’t sent UHC my electronic Medicare eligibility record DESPITE the fact that HHS sent my Medicare enrollment card to me in early August. Also, OPM has been paying my pension since 2018 and therefore know (1) my age, (2) I’m retired, and (3) I’m still alive. This is a trivial problem easily solved by a dimwitted freshman computer science undergrad and a relational database script, but obviously the left government hand is too busy defrauding the right hand to actually talk to each other.
UHC says I have to contact OPM to unscrew the problem, yet every time I call the OPM helpline all I get is “We’re too busy to take your call. Try again later, loser!”
And you think bigger government is the solution? Well, bless your heart.
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First thing to understand is that the first goal of that program is not to provide satisfactory services in a timely manner to the beneficiaries, but to provide money to the seat warmers administering it who will vote for the politicians who came up with the program.
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OPM sent my file to the chicoms.
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They sent literally everyone’s. I am so very far down the great totem pole of interesting SF86 forms that it’s not even funny, and mine went too.
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Mine went by aggregate…. And the boys too. So.
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There need to be prison sentences, or guillotines.
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For that last meme: “If you have trouble understanding, it could be because you are a F*KING IDIOT!!”
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Chem trails? I have a better idea. Catch all the wild hogs and stray dogs around the country, and ship them for release in Minnesota and Michigan.
Obviously, Chesterton never met a politician.
Socket to me. Socket to me. Socket to me.
Queue the theme from The Terminator.
It was never about the kids. It was always about redeeming Mr. Banks.
Segway Chariot. Damn. Now I want one.
Somehow I don’t think the IRS is going to buy that my body is a temple.
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You and Kenny…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApDcvIhlWw
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Plenty of wild hogs pretty much everywhere, so no reason to do that to the pups and kitties.
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Ah, no kittehs were threatened with Detroit, so just spare the pups, send the hogs.
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“It is sad to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”
“And they that rule in England, in stately conclave met/Alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.”
Both G.K.Chesterton
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https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_oldissue.htm
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And of course Leslie Fish set this one to music…..
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Points to the meme that not only made me Laugh 🤣, Cry 😭, and Cringe 🤔. Guess who got to be the keeper of legacy code. Ouch!
Cats? Pet-able? Not even the domestic ones to any strangers that enter our household. Even we have to wait until they decide it is cuddle time. Probably safer with the big cats, once anyway.
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Gotta be very careful of the cyantologists. Their mailing list is indelible, once you are on it, you will always be on it.
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The moon is not full. Don’t know about Venus and Mercury. Otherwise, ouch.
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And this is why AI is dangerous when moved outside of narrow technical grounds.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/10/31/misinformation-npr-reveals-democrat-scheme-to-fool-ais-into-deceiving-voters-n3820548
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Full moon was last week, yep.
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THERE! ARE! FOUR CANDLES!!!
Oh and that MP is doomed.
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“Doing weird things with friends” . . . Like our annual plague doctor party? My friend’s invitation said ‘strict plague doctor aesthetic’, which everyone interpreted differently, but awesomely, and then we ate pizza, took pictures, and went on a jaunt – nay, a procession along Main Street, like the cryptids we aspire to be.
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I’m jealous!
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oops, pasted the wrong link, meant to post this one
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HV-hTcibgAAb0Ha?format=png&name=900×900
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I like the Malfoy girl shocked she’s made the mainstream.
And as to canon, the current generation of professional pretenders all have demonstrated they clearly hate it so much, and as a result never touch the stuff, such that it’s fallen subject to the clear text of the abandoned canon salvage rules, so the fans can board and take canon over with a clear conscience.
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Unlike Star Trek, where the Canon gets repeatedly spiked.
ST:Disco Sucks worse than vacuum.
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Dr. Who, and LOTR, and Wheel of Time, and Disney Star Wars, and The Witcher, and HALO, and of course Kurtzman Trek – they HATE HATE HATE the canon and the fans that it yielded. And that’s just TV.
They see the fans as only a captive audience for HR Ladies lectures.
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Skybrows has cast his talented gaze about the intertubez and taken official notice of Malfoid:
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I confess. I tabbed over to look up the etymology of “preposterous”.
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Before and after coffee… who knew that’s what vampires really needed?
A little too dark… G
Scary pumpkins!
Schrodinger’s catgirl rocks!
That is one heck of a decoration.
Pettable. Yep.
Never zero!
Spiritual microplastics. Never saw that coming.
10 mm sockets will get ’em, guaranteed.
Safety… requirements…. Dies laughing
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Olive and Ham – now a luncheon loaf?
But that blue is not cyan . . .
Minnesota – I was born here. Of course I escaped, but then I returned.
They can have their democracy, I want my republic back.
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Department of Education puts up a pro-education poster featuring Harry Potter, his two friends… and Malfoid watching from a distance. Wired throws a hissy fit and contacts the government for an explanation. The response is a quote from Dumbledore. :P
Meanwhile, a fan has AI make a video in which Hermoine complains because Malfoid (who is in the foreground; all of the characters have their backs to the viewer) is bigger than she is. ^^;;
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