Mayo 30, 2026

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NKP ayon kay ...

You're getting really good at these :-)

Achilles ayon kay ...

I was in a hurry cooking food. Not paying enough attention. Dropped the hamburger from a little bit too high. It splashed in the boiling lard that was cooking the onions. There was more oil in there than usual. Girls cooked jowls today. It was a hot sunny day today, no shirt mowing the lawn and such.

I have blisters forming from chin to belly button right now. I smell like burn cream.

Not much to do at this point. That was dumb. At least I was wearing shorts.

The sunrise up there is pretty. It was raining on my morning run today.

Political Junkie ayon kay ...

The NCAA finally gets one right. NCAA argued in court that the college football career of Brendan Sorsby is over since he bet on his own games. His lawyers argue it is a mental health condition. My God!
I love what Pete Rose "Charlie Hustle" represents, but Pete should never be in baseball HOF because he bet on games of his own team.

narciso ayon kay ...

Yikes

narciso ayon kay ...

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/05/30/day-of-the-living-memes/

NKP ayon kay ...

I see where some group in NY has come up with a "starter number" for reparations.

I have a suggestion. Any amount agreed upon must include a matching amount from the people who sold them.

Number two. The number cannot exceed the amount needed to buy a home, start a business in the "old country".

In order to actually receive their "reparations", they must trade their US citizenship for a first class ticket to their ancestral home, People in the slammer are elibible for this program.

This is not an anti-black rant. Some of the most worthy and cherished people in my life worked with me, laughed with me and loved with me.

An hour ago I was checking-out of an almost empty supermarket. The cashier was a huge black woman, the bagger was a huge black woman and the kibitzer was an old white women who'd left her register unattended

Two of them were giving the bagger serious shit about her fantasy about no-calorie donuts. As I fumbled for cash, they turned their attention to me, wanting to know if I was from Wyoming (I was wearing a Wyo Ath Dept t-shirt).

A 10-minute conversation ensued - many laughs, many questions.. other customers interrupted the party but as I said bye and walked out, I turned and said to the bagger - "I don't know why they're lying to you - plenty of places around here have great calorie free donuts if you know where to look. They were all screaming at me as I walked out the door :-)

We really can ALL get along. We just have to do it.

I despair a bit when people ignore the opportunities they've been given.

Apologies to any I've offended.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

We have an open border and millions of immigrants pouring into the country every year. The Democrat party from Top to Bottom wants zero enforcement of immigration laws or checking to make sure only citizens vote.

Given that, Black people and their problems are small potatoes.

Narr ayon kay ...

#2 -- looks too good to be true.

Fantastic.

narciso ayon kay ...

https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/gun-control/virginia-state-police-running-background-checks-on-private-gun-sales-in-violation-of-court-order/

narciso ayon kay ...

It looks like a mirror effect the clouds on the lake front

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Correction : "The viral Reddit rumor about cosplayers selling "feet juice" is partially true, but the part about the lung infections and lawsuits is fake. A bizarre marketing stunt involving foot-marinated drinks did actually happen, but the subsequent medical panic was an internet hoax."

Sorry about that. I should have checked before rushing to post.

Mason G ayon kay ...

RE: Reparations...

From a meme in the link above your post:

"If, as a white man, I'm supposed to carry the sins of white men from hundreds of years ago then surely to goodness, the Democrat Party should carry the sins of Democrats from the past. The government never owned slaves, but democrats did. If you want reparations, ask the DNC."

narciso ayon kay ...

Disinformation Expert Lizzy on X: "Get your kid away from anyone who is a member of this organization. "...decenter book reading and essay writing..."" / X https://share.google/SamplCfmlgDO1Bt6L

Jim at ayon kay ...

I love what Pete Rose "Charlie Hustle" represents, but Pete should never be in baseball HOF because he bet on games of his own team.

Whether Rose did or did not bet on his own team is immaterial.

He broke the unbreakable rule.

That rule is on the wall of every locker room, in every stadium. All the players, coaches and managers know it's the unbreakable rule. Break it and you're banned from the game for life.

Pete Rose knew it, and yet still bet on baseball.

It doesn't get more cut and dried than that.

Mason G ayon kay ...

"It doesn't get more cut and dried than that."

You wouldn't think, would you? Yet still, some people (not me, BTW) argue...

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Just saw Nuremberg with Russell Crowe (2025). Judging from Rotten tomatoes, the average move watcher seems to love it, the critics not so much.

Anyway, for an Australian, Crowe does a suprisingly good job as Herman Goering. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie isn't so well done. I started skipping all their scenes, and just watching the ones with Crowe in it for the last 1/2.

Another problem? This is the sort of thing - the Nuremberg Trials - that really needs to be done as TV mini-series. Trying to cram all this information in 2.5 hours, while having to pander to the bam! Zoom! movie-goers doesn't work.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent ayon kay ...

I thought Nuremberg blew big time. How is it that the reality of the trials is not dramatic enough for the tenth-graders that wrote the script? The whole contrived I-know-Herman-Goering-better-than-anyone-alive-get-one-for-the-Gipper thing is absolutely ridiculous. Looks like they’re pulling the same vomitous crap in the Normandy movie. No thanks.

narciso ayon kay ...

Probably not, i mean there are loads of material on nuremberg although it looks like it was a very small docket schacht abt wolf and a host of others were not even there

Curious George ayon kay ...

"It splashed in the boiling lard "

Use tallow. You'll thank me.

Achilles ayon kay ...

Curious George said...

"It splashed in the boiling lard "

Use tallow. You'll thank me.

We use it. But you have to pay for tallow now. My fat buckets are probably 70/30 lard/tallow.

I also tell them to dump all the soft fat cuttings in the ground beef.

heyboom ayon kay ...

I'll argue for Pete Rose. He never bet as a player, he should be in as a player. O.J. didn't murder anyone as a player, so he's still in the NFL HOF.

Aggie ayon kay ...

Goebbels has always been portrayed as a portly, foppish buffoon follower in my experience. Crow had some fairly good scenes but the avenging psychiatrist subplot was just ridiculous, an effort to overlay what today's woke screenwriters would like to pretend are timeless themes, but in reality are shallow current fads. It made the movie stupid by undercutting its premises.

Crowe's performance made me curious enough to look up Goebbels, and I was surprised to discover that he was quite the ace in WWI, decorated for heroism a number of times, and quite famous for his wartime valor. It seems pretty clear that he hedged his bets by aligning with Nazism, wanting to grow his wealth and secure his status by advancing in the military.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

IRC, they gave IQ tests to all the Nuremberg defendents and Goering had an extremely high IQ. He also took over as commander the "flying circus" when Von Richthoven was killed. IOW, he was a substantial man, however evil.

For whatever reason he put on weight as he got older, and its hard to get respect as a leader when you're a fattie.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

I didn't mind it, because hey its a hollywood movie not a history lesson, but the fact that the USSR had judges and prosecutors at Nuremberg is just airbrushed out of the movie.

The lead Soviet Prosecutor at Nuremberg, was a guy called Rudenko, who later was a commandant of Gulag concentration camp! That's per Wikipedia, so take that for what its worth.

The Soviet Judge was a guy called Nikitchenko, who was a "Judge" who had presided over Stalin's Show trials. Basically, the Soviets just wanted to hang everyone. Before the trials. And no one ever mentions the greatest mass murderers in history (next to Mao) were on "our side" judging the Nazis. LOL.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Last comment, I was sorta surprised how much interest there was in the film when I looked it up on the web. Even the Library DVD's had a long waiting list. I didn't even know the movie had been made till Crowe was being praised for his performance. It must have came and gone in 2025 without a trace.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

@Aggie, you mean Herman Goering. Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s Monister of Propaganda and at the end of the war he and his family lived in rooms in Hitler’s bunker in Berlin. On May 1, 1945, as the Red Army closed in, Goebbels and his wife Magda murdered their six children, then committed suicide together. The oldest two children were 11 and 12 and may have sensed that something was up.

Jupiter ayon kay ...

I've been devoting a lot of thought lately, to how I can kill a sparrow. A particular sparrow, the one that perches near my house, and goes "Cheep-Cheep! Cheep-Cheep!". I have considered poison. I have tried traps, and laser beams. I am beginning to think about exploding nets. I really want to kill this sparrow.
"Why?", you ask. Well, because I put up birdhouses for swallows, which are delightful birds in every possible way, and sparrows attack and harass swallows, and kill them. They perch above the birdhouse, and "Cheep-cheep!". They invade the house when the parents are away, and peck the swallow chicks' eyes out (I have seen this).
Now, you might think, that what is required here, is a program where we offer incentives to the sparrows, to behave in a more desirable fashion. Perhaps they could .... mm.
Anyway, I want to kill the sparrows. And not just the ones annoying me in my yard. I want to genocide sparrows. The problem isn''t that there are too many sparrows, or that the sparrows misbehave. Sparrows behave the way sparrows behave. The problem is that there are sparrows.

Jupiter ayon kay ...

Now, you might say, that I am taking the law into my own hands. That is, I have a valid grievance -- the sparrow is harassing my swallows -- but, rather than attempting to deal with the sparrow myself, I should file a lawsuit, and rely upon the State to address my problem.
This is, in fact, entirely in keeping with the logic of the modern State. Historically, a clan-based system protected members of the clan by feud. An attack on any member of the clan resulted in an attack on every member of the attacking clan. Feud! The modern State attempts to interpose itself in this dynamic, claiming, "We will protect you. You do not need to rely upon your clan."
If that pledge were kept, perhaps that would be a viable substitute. But me? I really want to kill that sparrow. Once that sparrow is dead, my swallows will be safe. From him, at least. Who else will protect them? The lying, idiot State? The criminal, corrupt State? The co-opted, bloated regulatory State? I think not.

This model is collapsing. I don't know what will replace it. "What rough beast ..."

Jupiter ayon kay ...

"A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."

Somehow, in all of that admittedly exquisite poetic imagery, it is the phrase "moving its slow thighs" that has always arrested me. I see those thighs. Slowly, moving. Perhaps "inexorably". One thing, leads to another.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy ayon kay ...

Historic cattle shortages push US beef prices to record highs ~ FT
'High feed costs and drought have thinned herds to the lowest levels in 60 years as protein-hungry consumers drive demand'

Easy solution: Eliminate tariffs on cattle and beef imports from Australia, Argentina, and Brazil.

Actually, if you want to seriously tackle America’s affordability crisis, cut tariffs on everything we import. Super simple.

Peachy ayon kay ...

Poor RC - how dare anyone judge those nice Nazis.

Aggie ayon kay ...

@Big Mike, yes, sorry - I meant Goering.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Peachy hate nazis. Brave, independent minded Peachy.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Thanks for stinking up an otherwise intelligent thread.

Eva Marie ayon kay ...

People are all doom and gloom about AI, but AI may be a force multiplier for independence.
All the assholes in both parties who want to regulate our behavior through taxes and the cost of everything, who pass judgment on our lives, all these central planners who think they’ll rule us - may be in for a surprise.
The real revolutionary in our midst is Bob Wells of CheapRVLiving. His insight: independence is more achievable at the bottom of the income scale because his tribe has already given up the things the system uses to control us - the mortgage, the car payment, the job you can’t quit, the credit score, the address that can be served with papers. Give those folks local AI and they become unbeatable.
And here’s why local AI is actually within reach. You don’t need a cutting-edge chip from Taiwan to run a capable model. A used gaming GPU off eBay for a few hundred dollars runs an AI roughly as smart as the ChatGPT people were marveling at two years ago. Old crypto-mining rigs, last-generation Mac Minis, even clustered PlayStations have all been turned into AI workhorses. Open-weight models like Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek are free to download — the entire useful slice of the internet that trained them fits on an 8-terabyte drive you can buy at Costco. A determined person with a soldering iron, a solar panel, a stubborn streak, and time (and these folks have all the time in the world) can put together a sovereign AI setup for less than the cost of a decent used car.
Here’s the part that should make centralizers nervous: this lifestyle is growing fast. Picture this population in 2030, each person with a local AI handling their paperwork, medical questions, legal disputes, mechanical problems, loneliness, and political organizing. This has the potential to be a competent, mobile, networked, hard-to-surveil, hard-to-coerce population the system can’t bring back into compliance through normal levers - because these folks have kicked those levers out of their way.
(Perplexity helped me with how to set up a local AI)

Jim at ayon kay ...

He never bet as a player.

Again, that's immaterial. Kenesaw Mountain Landis didn't declare, "Hey. Managers and coaches can bet. Players can't."

O.J. didn't murder anyone as a player, so he's still in the NFL HOF.

Does the NFL have a specific rule that bans players - or former players - for murder?

Iman ayon kay ...

Hey Jupiter… you just tell those damn sparrows you’ll bump their allowance up to a couple of bucks a week if they’ll knock off the “cheep cheep” harassment.

Eva Marie ayon kay ...

My comment above started with a rule of thumb of mine: don’t trust any system you can’t overthrow. Can centralized AI be overthrown? I think it can.
The expertise that used to live in heads now lives in AI that anyone can run. AI is the lawyer, the engineer, the doctor, the tutor, the patient explainer who never gets tired of dumb questions - and it runs on a used laptop in a van. You don’t need a community of geniuses anymore. You need a community of regular people with good local AI and the stubbornness to use it.
That’s a population that has never existed before in human history.
The dictator’s traditional advantage was an asymmetry of capability. The state had analysts, lawyers, engineers, propagandists, surveillance experts - and the populatiion didn’t. Even highly literate populations were no match for the institutional knowledge concentrated in a state apparatus.
AI flattens that. A community of 500 people with 500 local AIs has, in raw cognitive capacity, something that can rival the government.
This is the part that the AI doomers and the AI boosters both miss because they’re both stuck on the question of who builds the smartest model. The more important question is who has access to a model that’s smart enough.
My rule doesn’t require overthrowing the system - it requires that overthrow be possible.
Every freedom ultimately rests on whether someone with a badge can show up at your door. The nomads’ answer is to be hard to find, hard to pressure, and expensive to coerce. That’s what “able to overthrow” actually means in practice - not storming a castle, but being costly enough that the castle has to bargain. Authoritarian systems eventually run into the same wall: they can compel behavior but not belief. The Soviet Union had total surveillance for its era and still collapsed in a weekend because nobody believed in it anymore. A technological dictatorship has a worse vulnerability - it’s visibly a machine, and humans are very bad at sustained loyalty to machines. The minute the system has to use its full force, it’s already losing.

Eva Marie ayon kay ...

(I’m trying to rival DinkyDau with long comments everyone immediately scrolls past. But no phrases in all caps — so you can be thankful for that.)

Prof. M. Drout ayon kay ...

I wish I could be as sanguine are you are about it, Eva Marie. It seems much more dangerous to me. One limit on tyrants has always been the willingness and capabilities of their henchman. At a certain point, the troops just aren't willing to fight, or the henchmen stab the king in the back, and even if this happens rarely, the possibility is a check on behavior--we only see the times evil leaders did terrible things, not all the other times they reined in their worst impulses because they couldn't risk disgusting their thanes.
But when oligarchs can buy a bunch of AI-powered, semi-autonomous robots?

Eva Marie ayon kay ...

This is the part Ukraine has been teaching the world for four years. A $500 commercial drone with a grenade taped to it kills a $10 million tank. A net gun, a shotgun, a piece of chicken wire, a cheap signal jammer - all of these defeat expensive robots. The asymmetry runs in favor of the small and scattered, not against them. That’s the actual lesson of modern warfare and it’s the opposite of what the movies show.
What the nomads specifically have going for them: dispersal, mobility, low signature, terrain . . . and AI. The nomads will have local AI that can spot drones, identify signatures, jam signals, coordinate warnings across the mesh, and run counter-surveillance. The same technology that arms the centralizers arms the dispersed. Cheap drones are a defensive weapon when you’re the one being hunted and you have eyes in the sky too.
And here’s the dark joke - these are mostly old people. The state crackdown on grandparents in vans is not a fight any modern democracy survives in the court of public opinion. Even China would think twice.
Robots are a bigger threat to people who can’t move, can’t hide, and have a lot to lose - i.e., suburbanites with mortgages and jobs and kids in the school district. They are a lesser threat to a dispersed, mobile, low-signature population that has already opted out.
Sleep well. These nomads are tougher than you think.

Eva Marie ayon kay ...

BTW, if you have time check out CheapRVLiving on Youtube - you’ll get a sense of what these folks are like.

Kai Akker ayon kay ...

"Oil Falls as US, Iran Expected to Reach Agreement"

"Treasury Yields Fall as Trump Again Signals to Hormuz Deal"

Agreement? Deal with Iran? What world does this describe?

Can Trump surrender fast enough? Seems unlikely to me, but he's trying. The blitzkrieg didn't work. We're still trying to pretend it did. The blockade? Maybe it will work in time, but a besieged nation can often hold out longer than anyone expects. Meanwhile, markets, gasoline -- our local station was out of gas a week or so ago -- politics, and inflation are capable of exacting a price from us. War is rarely as easy as it looks to its enthusiasts, is it.

Against Iran, I am an enthusiast. But it is looking unlikely that Trump is in it to win it. The costs and potential costs are getting to him, I think. His bluffs are painfully empty, make him look ridiculous, and encourage the Iranians.

john mosby ayon kay ...

Infinite X: " if you want to seriously tackle America’s affordability crisis, cut tariffs on everything we import."

We tried that. It led to Wal-Mart poverty. No one starving - in fact, lots of obesity - but high unemployment, low wages for the employed, and just the despair of being surrounded by cheap stuff while being treated like cheap stuff. Lots of crime because no one has anything to lose.

Trump is reversing this by bringing us back to free markets in one country. We pay higher prices, but we pay them to ourselves, so the high prices become high wages. More importantly, whether a widget costs a penny or a grand, it's made in a US factory, which anchors an American community of people who own the place and direct their efforts to maintaining it.

'Affordability' is a temporary cost of doing this. Kind of like when you do a spring cleaning and pull all the furniture out of the rooms, all the stuff out of the drawers. "My God - the house is a mess!" Yes, but by the end of the week it will be the cleanest it's ever been. CC, JSM

Kai Akker ayon kay ...

So set all our prices at infinity and think how rich we'll be!

This may be Trump's strategy, JSM, but your syllogism of prosperity as the inevitable result is untested, at best. Illogical, to me -- affordability does matter and the faith that we are moving toward the best of all possible worlds economically is only that, faith. So many events and changes could derail this, and, IMO, will derail it. Maybe if we'd been able to start from a traditionally sound financial footing, politically; but we are at the opposite end of that spectrum.

How the nation copes with the tests to come is anyone's guess.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

From X by way of Instapundit:

“The Champs-Élysées area is being destroyed, with migrant gangs reportedly even attempting to set fire to the Arc de Triomphe.”

It says something about the average IQ of these migrant gangs that they tried to set fire to a stone structure.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

Bold off

William50 ayon kay ...

Jupiter said...
Anyway, I want to kill the sparrows.

Daisy Powerline 880 Multi-Pump Pneumatic
$74.90
Problem solved

john mosby ayon kay ...

Akker: "So set all our prices at infinity and think how rich we'll be!"

No, the other side does that, with minimum wages.

More Akker: " JSM, but your syllogism of prosperity as the inevitable result is untested, at best."

It was tested, in the 20th century. Especially in the post-WWII, pre-open borders period. We had massive prosperity. CC, JSM

narciso ayon kay ...

I didnt know cramer posted here

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy ayon kay ...

@ John Mosby: It appears we can agree; Trump’s tariffs are effectively a backdoor consumption tax on American families. Importers pay the duties to the government, but the costs are overwhelmingly passed through in higher prices—Americans bore 85-95% of the burden. It’s not foreigners paying; it’s U.S. consumers funding the policy every time they buy imported goods or their domestic substitutes. Call it revenue or industrial policy if you want, but let’s be honest: it’s a selective tax on American consumption.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy ayon kay ...

"Oil Falls as US, Iran Expected to Reach Agreement"

Here are known Trump Admin claims,

• Trump has won this war 7 times.

• He’s negotiated a peace settlement 12 times, and

• He's opened the Strait of Hormuz at least 4 times.

“No other president in history could negotiate a deal like this.” ~ Donald J Trump

This sounds like Trump discussing with Trump at 2 am.

As ever, Trump is correct, just not for the reasons he thinks he is. The greatest victory for the US since the Vietnam war.

Curious George ayon kay ...

"Jupiter said...
Anyway, I want to kill the sparrows."

I used to park my F-150 in the driveway and two of those little fuckers decided a great place for a nest was behind my radiator. They laid a few eggs before my son noticed it and we took it out. Didn't seem to matter that often my truck and their nest was gone. They came back the next year but after that I parked in the garage.

Kai Akker ayon kay ...

--- It was tested, in the 20th century. Especially in the post-WWII, pre-open borders period. [JSM]

Up until Biden? Or Obama.

It was all free markets. During the Marshall Plan? Nixon's wage-and-price controls? The abandonment of the gold standard? The Fed's 25-years of ZIRP and near ZIRP?

Mosby, I fear you have succumbed to magical thinking.

narciso ayon kay ...

You buy chinese stats how amusing for you

Narr ayon kay ...

The TV and YT offer me many trailers and teasers for pseudo-historical movies like "Nuremburg" and "Pressure" and "Lucky Strike" just to mention the Anglo-American productions. The Europeans are cranking out a lot of WWI material in addition to revisiting the Hitler-Stalin eras.

Whoever mentioned tenth-graders above is exactly right. Most of what I've viewed--not without hope--is History Fair-level storytelling.

Sad.

Iman ayon kay ...

#peakakker

NKP ayon kay ...

How wars end -

Good - One side agrees to stop fighting and surrenders something of value

Better - AND; One side kneels and converts (in hope of being spared)

Best - AND; All males old enough to remember are put to death. Young attractive women are spared. Healthy toddlers may be spared depending on customs and needs of the victors.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Easy solution: Eliminate tariffs on cattle and beef imports from Australia, Argentina, and Brazil.

LOL -the problem isnt price - its quantity.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Yeah, typical Libtard/Losertarian thinking. Lets destroy the US cattle ranchers, out source beef production to Brazil, Australia, and Argentina. And then sell their land to the Chinese. And it will all end up with lower beef prices cause the "Magic of the Free market".

Magical thinking indeed.

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Of course, must libtards and losertarians would love it if 100 million Zulus and congoese moved here. Think of the cheap labor!

RCOCEAN II ayon kay ...

Of course, most libtards and losertarians would love it if 100 million Zulus and congoese moved here. Think of the cheap labor! Think of the D votes!

DINKY DAU 45 ayon kay ...

The e hardest part of getting back to where it was before trumps war (straitsopen,noproofofnuclearweaponUS not get slaughtered on their citizens,is how not to have to pay 12 billion dollars for Iran to sign anything(pallets full of cash)righties went nuts with over the BiG O Iran needs money to stop producing Uranium and a sign on to tollboothing thru the straits only came to be because of the trump invasion.GOD FORBID IT TURNS OUT TO BE OBAMMA LITE.Check the 90 day rundown on how many times the WAR HAS BEEN WON

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