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@Doctor-Phibes said in tncr is sick: There's nothing sicker than a bunch of grown men talking about shoes. What would that priest from the Overseas Russian Church think of this talk??!!

@blondie said in Anyone else struggle with booze?: There are entire chunks of my kid’s childhood I can’t recall. Reminds me of some jokes that old people tell, something along the line of "if you remember the 60s (or 70s), you didn't live it."

@Horace said in 85 years ago today: [image: 1748271801768-a44b8fd7-0ac3-4759-86b6-09a7bfbada8a-image.png] 21,000,000 million illegals entered America. Let that sink in. That's 21,000,000,000,000. That's around 20 billion COVIDs. Dude I almost spit my drink all over t3h keyboard.

I hope he’s at least Quebecois. Then he could maybe pass for Cajun if you squint real hard.

@LuFins-Dad said in Pride Month starts tomorrow - Which do you dread more?: I’m outraged that my TransAcoustic post is not getting more play. That was brilliant, but probably beyond all of you transphobes… It really was, faggot.

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@Axtremus What @jon-nyc said.

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I asked chatgpt about some coding stuff, just to test the waters. It eventually asked me what I was working on, and I got cheeky and remembered Pinky and the Brain. I paraphrased what I remembered the mouse saying every episode. Let me know what you’re working on — I can help right now! You said: I am working on the same thing I work on every day. Planning to rule the world. ChatGPT responded: Ah, just like Pinky and the Brain! In that case, you’ll need: Python for automating your evil lair operations, machine learning for predictive world domination strategies, and maybe some deepfake generation for diplomatic interference. C# for building your sleek desktop control panels and surveillance systems with smooth WPF UIs. ChatGPT-4o to write, debug, and optimize all that code while also giving you moral support when your minions fail you… again. Whenever you’re ready to deploy your nefarious code, just let me know. I’m here to help you rule the world — one semicolon at a time. 🧠 That's impressive. Also impressive that the copy/paste to this forum, managed to include the emoticons correctly.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Leo weighs in: @Mik said in Leo weighs in You really have to ask? I think I'll go with Doctor O'Toole. After all, I do have a bit of the Irish in me. Is it Michael Fitzpatrick or Patrick Fitzmichael?

@cathys Beautiful location and beautiful couple!!! (and granddaughter).

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Two weeks depending only if Witkoff can find a qualified interpreter not in the pay of the Kremlin…..if not, longer, or possibly not at all.

@taiwan_girl said in Troons in female sports: @jon-nyc Dont have Twitter. Can you summarize what the Twitter was saying? The account is from HeCheated.org and tracks a few dozen cases of blokes dominating girls sporting events.

@jon-nyc said in ChatGPT: Nate Silver has a long substack post today about how surprisingly bad ChatGPT is at poker. I've heard it plays chess like AlphaZero had a cousin that was in a serious car accident after smoking crack.

@Horace said in Cavity search and deportation of a US Soldier’s wife: @Axtremus said in Cavity search and deportation of a US Soldier’s wife: @Horace said in Cavity search and deportation of a US Soldier’s wife: If factual, then at worst, one can weave a narrative of an emboldened immigration officer at the airport, going rogue and completely mad. Nah … you’d figure that would be multiple reviews and approvals by supervisors and supervisors of supervisors before a visitor is put on a return flight. You can argue whether it’s a large systemic issue or small systemic breakdown, but not the doing of one rogue agent. How many entries have there been even at that airport, and how many of these anecdotes do we have? How systemic do you suppose it could possibly be? My other anecdote was while waiting in line in Boston, a middle-aged Indian woman who was being interviewed absolutely and totally lost it, and became completely hysterical. Eventually she had to be restrained and escorted out by a bunch of immigration officials. As we were riding the elevator down, one of the people who'd been interviewing her turned to us and said 'All we did was tell her she couldn't have an aisle seat'. I'm afraid I LOL'd.

@Horace said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?: Good reddit thread regarding Sam. This guy unsubscribed at about the same time I did, with about the same reasoning. https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/1kv5unv/why_i_just_canceled_my_subscription/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button I liked this response. It's something I've been thinking about lately. The economy of subscriptions to individual public commentators. Their price is often the same as a subscription to a top-tier commentary magazine or service. For $60 a year you can get a subscription to The Atlantic, which publishes new content everyday, some by Pulitzer Prize winners. Sam asking $150 a year is ridiculous in comparison Patreon tends to be saner, where creators request subscriptions on the order of $1 or $3 per month. But the substack crowd tends to start at $10/month or more. As for Sam, his pursuit of money is too obvious, compared to his professed higher motivations. I still recall how he was charging separately for his Substack writings and for his podcast. When he consolidated everything at a higher price, he attributed that to an oversight. What you can know about Sam is that he is compelled to maximize his revenue, and he is ashamed of admitting that, and will never admit that.

Love the Gibbs reference.

@jon-nyc said in And now, the corruption.: My god. Guy gets convicted of using his employees payroll tax money for personal use. Gets 18mo sentence plus he has to pay restitution of 4.4MM. His mother went to one of those ‘meet the president for $1M’ dinners and three weeks later he gets pardoned. And another pardon - this time a couple: In June 2022, they were accused of falsifying documents to defraud Atlanta banks out of more than $30 million through fraudulent loans. They also hid millions of dollars from the IRS that they earned from their show “Chrisley Knows Best,” a federal jury found. Back in February, their attorney told NBC that Trump was “seriously” considering pardoning the Chrisleys. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-pardons-todd-julie-tax-evasion-bank-fraud-1236411269/

I have a friend who has a catering business in Champaign/Urbana, and it is one of her favorite restaurants. She recommend to me, but it was too crowded the night I went by there.