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FormerLawClerk said...: Cracker Barrel has caved. Close your shorts. Good job, everyone! We made BILLIONS.; 8/26/25, 7:08 PM
rhhardin said...: "Rudder left full. The entire flank ahead," he gave an order.

WWII documentaries on YouTube have been taken over by AI voice and scripting. It goes along okay but seems to lose the plot and wander to other plots, never reaching a point.

I happened to be watching this one

It's sort of plausible but as it goes on it becomes clear that the hamster is dead.

The death blow is inability to make sense of battle vignettes.; 8/26/25, 7:10 PM
buwaya said...: Starship launched. So far so good, crossing fingers. Whole family is watching, some professionally.; 8/26/25, 7:16 PM
Jaq said...: We had such a light show over the mountains this morning, the sun was poking through the clouds in slanting shafts, and columns of rain were falling, blowing in the other direction, lit by the shafts of sunlight, so it made a criss cross of light show like I don't remember ever seeing.; 8/26/25, 7:17 PM
buwaya said...: Something blew, and there was debris floating near the Raptor engines. The vehicle doesn't seem to have been affected though. Crossing fingers harder.; 8/26/25, 7:20 PM
buwaya said...: Some test tiles blew off and the aerodynamic flaps are a bit shredded, but it seems to be coming to splashdown as intended.; 8/26/25, 7:37 PM
buwaya said...: Splashdown.; 8/26/25, 7:38 PM
john mosby said...: The individualized AI instructional pods are here!

For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/26/alpha-school-virginia-ai-education/

RR
JSM; 8/26/25, 7:47 PM
Leland said...: Starship flight looked to meet most objectives. Both vehicles had controlled landings. Needs some work on the TPS, but that was expected. Lots of good data.; 8/26/25, 8:04 PM
NKP said...: Nothing like a launch. Attended many. Launch Control is awesome but nothing like being in a bunker as close as you can get. Kinda like what the end of the world would be like, I think. Rockets exploding, fire blasting, the ROAR, the Earth
trembling, something the size of a tall building slowly at first, inching above its perch. Then faster, and faster…. How was that possible. Very humbling. I watched first Shuttle launch in great fear of “the worst”. In the years leading to launch, I been at countless program reviews, individual systems reviews. One impossible solution after another was found and reported on. Then sitting around airports waiting for flights after “official” proceedings with guys from NASA, military, industry.
After a cocktail or two, a common theme was, “Fuck, I hopeit works…. The heat shield tiles were much discussed/cursed. All ended well until it didn’t. The Challenger was doomed by human error and risk too many accepted.; 8/26/25, 8:08 PM
FullMoon said...: The left is disgusting. Prices have been coming down since Trump took office. Biden's eight dollar eggs are now 3 bucks at the corner store .
Gas is even 75 cents a gallon less.

In unrehearsed, expletive laden rant, Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell insists Trump send military to grocery stores to force lower prices..; 8/26/25, 8:09 PM
FullMoon said...: And, Swalwell "remembers" D-Day, as if he was there.; 8/26/25, 8:12 PM
Dave Begley said...: Had my oral argument today. Made the NE S. Ct. Laugh. Affirmed.

Fairly sure the case will be decided on harmless error issue. Evidence issue.

They really went after my opponent. But in a Nebraska nice way.; 8/26/25, 8:13 PM
Narr said...: @rhhardin710PM--

Already at sec 15 it's "new warships straight off the assembly line"!

I'm beginning to think that Gresham's Law applies to AI.; 8/26/25, 8:14 PM
Eva Marie said...: Congrats.; 8/26/25, 8:18 PM
gadfly said...: I honestly don't understand the operating concepts of Cracker Barrel which serves tiny meal portions for their ever- increasing prices, including extremely slow service, and serving cold food cooked by the untrained who wouldn't know how good food should taste. Restaurants are for eating, and all this bullshit about "Woke" and whether or not you can fuck your sister but not your gay partner has nothing to do with any of this.

Changing a logo is a never mind, fellas. Close 'em down - all 4500 stores.; 8/26/25, 8:20 PM
FullMoon said...: "Dave Begley said...
Had my oral argument today. Made the NE S. Ct. Laugh. Affirmed.

Fairly sure the case will be decided on harmless error issue. Evidence issue."

WINNING!
Next up, Paramount Frankenstein 2 movie.; 8/26/25, 8:27 PM
Big Mike said...: In Scotland a14-year-old girl named Mayah Sommers has been charged with possession of a knife after viral footage showed her and a twelve years old girl being harassed and filmed by at least one Muslim migrant. The firl chases the would-be predator off by brandishing a knife and an axe, so of course she is the one being charged by Scottish authorities. I note that no "true Scotsman" comes along to help the girls out.

There's a reason why Scotsmen wear skirts.; 8/26/25, 8:37 PM
Old and slow said...: SpaceX was do for a win. It amazes me that so many people are hoping he fails at his various endeavors. He is the best possible example of what the US can achieve. No one else in the world even comes close.; 8/26/25, 8:38 PM
Dave Begley said...: Thanks, Full Moon!

Now thinking of Sydney Sweeney as the female lead instead of Emily Blunt.; 8/26/25, 8:38 PM
Old and slow said...: Due for a win...; 8/26/25, 8:38 PM
Iman said...: A friend tells me that Cracker Barrel did a 180 on the change a few hours ago. Stock jumped $6+ a share in after market trading.

I think I ate at one back in the early 80s that they had at either the Orange Mall or South Coast Plaza in SoCal. Nothing much memorable about it.; 8/26/25, 8:43 PM
Achilles said...: How well is Trump's crime cleanup in DC going?

This is Chris Cilliza from the Hill.

That is how well it is going.

And Trump got Brandon Johnson to Butterfield himself already.; 8/26/25, 8:50 PM
Gospace said...: Somewhere today I read that Trump's EO was an obvious trap, with big flashing letters above it saying- "It's a trap!" (didn't mention Admiral Ackbar's voice yelling it out...)

And someone, of course, fell into it. IIRC- he burned a US Flag on National Park property. Some national park rules and regulation that everyone must follow are really simple. Like- no fires, any kind, including burning flags, except in designated areas. So- he can be prosecuted to the full extent of the law- for making a fire in a non-designated area.

And, as bonus- appear in GOP campaign ads showing a Democrat joyfully burning a US Flag.

Trump is a master communicator, manipulating the other side into doing just what he wants them to do.; 8/26/25, 8:56 PM
FullMoon said...: "Now thinking of Sydney Sweeney as the female lead instead of Emily Blunt."

Nice knockers.
Any other potential stars?; 8/26/25, 8:57 PM
MikeD said...: Selena Zito is a treasure beyond value:
MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania — When judging the nation's character, the media tend to gravitate toward its loudest voices, its most extreme measures, its deepest grudges. The result is a loss of all subtlety and nuance.

In the days and weeks following Aug. 26, when our nation lost 13 service members in a deadly terror attack in Afghanistan, something profound happened across the country that few in the national media have noticed: simple but meaningful tributes to honor those American lives lost.

https://www.creators.com/read/salena-zito/09/21/americans-have-not-forgotten-the-13-soldiers; 8/26/25, 9:20 PM
Mr. T. said...: Democrat Volksgesichthof thug Hannah Duggan does not get judicial immunity for committing crimes just because she is "on the job when she commits them."

Stand by for Robert Kook and PedoFredo FredoramJonJonsonsson to explain with their law degree staright from a cracker jack box that it no one is above the law wxcept when it's (D)IFFERENT.; 8/26/25, 9:28 PM
Jamie said...: gadfly, you talk as if you're awfully familiar with Cracker Barrel's food! I don't understand why you'd keep going there if the food is cold and prepared by the untrained who wouldn't know good food if it came along and kissed them on the cheek.

Of course, your incest comment is on brand... for you.

I try to avoid ad hominems, but in this case, you started it. We're in the new millennium now, and the post just below this one is about happy, gay Republicans, so maybe avoid the "knuckle dragging barbarians" thing if recognition of the validity of homosexuality as a "lifestyle" is your standard of civilization.; 8/26/25, 9:29 PM
Aggie said...: I ate at a Cracker Barrel once. And that was back when the food was supposedly better, before the reports of it 'going downhill'. Have to agree with you, Gadfly.; 8/26/25, 9:32 PM
Original Mike said...: "Bouycam" recording the Starship landing was AWESOME!!!!!
How did they pull that off? They had that kind of control of the landing coordinates? I know they need that when they get to landing it back at the pad, but am I really impressed!; 8/26/25, 9:40 PM
buwaya said...: They knew the Indian ocean location they were guiding it to, and pre-deployed a buoy there. The rocket guidance system is very accurate.
I regret I am too old for this fun and games, but I'm glad my kids can do this.; 8/26/25, 10:02 PM
Aggie said...: Democrats win Iowa special election, Republicans lose their supermajority, necessary for pushing through confirmations.; 8/26/25, 10:07 PM
Jim at said...: Democrats win Iowa special election

lonejustice celebrates; 8/26/25, 10:12 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Jamie, Gadfly has almost certainly not been in a Cracker Barrel in decades, if ever.

Gospace, yeah, the flag EO was bait- I expect to see lots of Democrats out burning them now to "resist Trump" not realizing they stepped in dogshit.; 8/26/25, 10:13 PM