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68 komento:
No egrets.
Awe inspiring again.
Thanks, tcrosse. Now I'm humming Edith Piaf: "Non, je ne egrette rien".
All in focus.
It's pun time already?
Some Boyce are Haydn my Chopin Liszt. It's Straussing me out and I can't Handel it.
rewriting the National Anthem
Mike the Heron would be a great name for a rock band. CC, JSM
Sorry about my incompetent French. I should have elided the 'ne'. If 'egret' could be used as a verb in French, it would (I think) be "Non, je n'aigrette rien".
https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/new-york/2026/06/22/binghamton-philharmonics-america-250-concert-canceled/90647016007
A July 4th concert in Binghamton NY cancelled- due to security concerns. Conveniently left out- where the security concerns are coming from.
Is it coming from Democrat affiliated groups- like antifa? My guess.
Of members of the Religion of Peace™?
Or some other group?
Make your best guess.
Anyone know of other local festivals/gatherings being suddenly cancelled for the same reason? Or even, perhaps, a made up reason?
Kier Starmer’s a Wanker
https://x.com/sithdaddyx/status/2069045452549546198?s=46
I saw plenty of foreigners in soccer shirts in the area. I wonder what they thought of the place. There are no Buc-ees, Bass Pro Shops or Waffle Houses around here, only pigeons, homeless persons, and the odor of urine.
The rain washed out my urban venture (though it washed out some of the urine smell). I did manage to catch the America 250 show at Harvard's Houghton Library. It was very small (only one room), but filled with old, original newspapers, broadsides, proclamations, cartoons, prints and other documents. Small as it was, it left me feeling more semiquincentennial or quartermillennial than anything else this year or last (though that's not saying much).
https://x.com/japan_nobunaga/status/2069076466680422622?s=61
“It’s almost better than Christmas morning,” said one early-arriving customer.
We have our first Buc-ee’s in Goodyear AZ
These ladies arrived at 9:30 pm for the next day’s 6 AM opening
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5FhuqkcsF/?igsh=MWZuN3ZqY3h5cWp0Zg==
Reuters: “At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes“
Weather News is trying to make a comeback.
"Or some other group?
Make your best guess."
If it was from the right (or "far right", as the MSM likes to say), they already would have said so. If they haven't, well...
Mike is a good name, but is that also Woody the submarine periscope?
I received my custom tag last Saturday and was excited to have it on my vehicle. Went to dinner last Monday at my business partner’s house - a twenty mile round trip - and got back about 8:30, and…
Laid on the couch for a few minutes then got up to make a drink and noticed a strange orange glow through the kitchen window. I went outside to see flames shooting from under my hood. Big time. I was so stunned that I couldn’t remember my street number for 911. I told her they’d see the flames. lol
The fire department and police arrived within ten minutes - two fire trucks plus the fire chief, and two police cruisers. It probably took two or three minutes of full spray to put it out.
It melted a hole through half of the hood, melted all the plastic components under the hood, and popped a tire. They guessed an electrical short, but I have no idea. Oh, and it also melted $80k in cash in the glove box and four Rolexes. ;)
That cash may be replaceable. Handle ot very carefully.
Fewer possibilities for the Rokexes.
So, how do 250,000 minors, or maybe incidents involving minors and adults (sex crimes) happen and nobody was the wiser? This got to be stranger than the UFO stories.
But I bet they can be rebuilt.
The sad, sad truth… the dirty lowdown…
https://x.com/i/status/2069080735391027284
A few towns in Massachusetts have canceled their regular 4th of July fireworks for the purpose, I assume, of signalling to all that they are governed by shitheads.
"signalling to all that they are governed by shitheads."
It would appear they are also signalling to all that they are not competent at governing.
The Vikings Row is so cool I’m rooting for Norway to win the kickball tournament.
I thought I let some time pass before checking the pics again and choosing the best one. After some careful reflection on this matter I decided not to decide. All 4 pics are just perfectly beautiful.
The fireworks warehouse near us opens in a couple of days. Usually they have big discounts the first day or two and that's when I load up for the 4th.
If politicians want to start cancelling the nation's 250th birthday, let them. Their minds may be small, but the memories of men are long for that kind of thing.
I have a blanket chest of my namesake that's made out of pine boards. A single board for its lid, over 20" wide. It was made in 1835, when he was getting older. A few years earlier, the King decreed ownership of every single pine tree that was more than 18" in diameter, because they used them for ship masts. Rebellious Yankees would cut these trees down and make floorboards out of them - and occasionally, tables and furniture.
Progressives are really the modern Tories, when you come right down to it. The HOA Karens of the world are the same. It was only about 15% of the men that decided they had had enough of the King's sh*t and actually did something about it, starting the Revolution.
"A few towns in Massachusetts have canceled their regular 4th of July fireworks..."
Look on the bright side- they can take the money they save by not putting on a fireworks show and use it instead to buy drugs for the homeless.
Tonight's TCM*
Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die
2025
Sam Rockwell is a favorite of mine. No matter the movie, he always shows up and gives a hell of a performance. GLHFDD is no exception. Rockwell plays a man from the future who keeps trying to save the world from destructive AI/technology by recruiting losers at Norm's Diner in Los Angeles. It's his 117th attempt and he's yet to be successful in his quest. Why does he go to a diner to gather this team? Not explained.
He does recruit a few willing participants including Juno Temple (shedding her Brit accent) as a single mom who recently lost her son to a school shooting, and a pair of teachers who cannot teach due to kids being obsessed with their phones.
The satire is a bit heavy-handed (oh look the teens are zombies) and doesn't always work (the farcical nonchalance about school shootings since they are so 'routine' is incongruous with the point the film is trying to make about the perils of technology)
It's weird but visually interesting in the way director Gore Verbinski is known for. This is his 'comeback' film since he's only done 1 other project since 2013's much-maligned but underrated (IMHO) The Lone Ranger. Verbinski is mostly known for the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films which made a ton of money and were pretty well put together, and featured some of the best CGI work (Davy Jones) we've ever seen.
Rockwell and his ragtag group evade pig-masked marauders, a machete-wielding homeless man and a giant cat-centaur conjured up in the same way the Stay-Puft marshmallow man was in Ghostbusters. They eventually confront the young genius behind the nefarious future AI and attempt to hijack the code to make sure it turns out benevolent. All of this is pretty messy and typical of 'imaginative' films that have to make digital things that happen inside of computers visual and physical. Some of it is silly, but the overall feeling is that you should simply have fun with the experience.
The good: Rockwell, but he always is. Temple is a bit wasted as the grieving mother. Hailey Lu Richardson (The White Lotus) turns in a solid performance playing a Party Princess-for-hire who is allergic to cellular signals and wi-fi (her nose bleeds and she is wracked with pain).
The bad: Even though the stakes are through the roof, the 'adventure' that results is a bit slowly paced, interrupted by flashbacks explaining the teams' motivations that probably could've been explained in present day, and doesn't cover all that much ground. I suspect this was a budget thing where they couldn't really build much of a sprawling world to explore and filled out the stories with backstories.
There's 2 twists at the end. One of which you may see coming and the other you probably don't.
All in all, it works even if it doesn't. The upside is that it's not formulaic, there's not much of 'the message', and Rockwell is just fun as heck. The film drags whenever he is offscreen. If I had to give it a 'rating' I'd give it a 7 out of 10. A solid C.
* - not TCM. I think I watched this one on Prime?
NY Post: “Californians could be sued, charged $66 per hour for asking questions of state government under crazy new bill” —By Titus Wu
After the Election shenanigans, there is nothing stopping them now. They can pass anything into law. They are only limited by their imagination.
Lem - not sure I believe the 250k number but even if it's let's say 5 or 10 isn't that way too many?
(Not 5 or 10k, just 5 or 10)
Went to NFM f/k/a Nebraska Furniture Mart. It occupies 83 acres in central Omaha. BRK owns 80% and the Blumkin family owns 20%.
NFM is the triumph of capitalism. All sorts of people buying things at low prices. Giant inventory. Lots of Hispanics. I saw a few covered Muslims. Two lesbians. Lots and lots of tats. A scruffy and unkempt guy in a Harvard shirt. One Tesla and one Benz convertible in the parking lot.
FBI agent Strozk would call them smelly Walmart people. Many were probably UFC fans; so hated by Kathleen Parker of WaPo.
Me? I liked saving money.
Rose Blumkin was a Jewish Russian immigrant who founded the Mart. She ended up in Omaha rather than Des Moines because the JCC had English classes. One of her first locations was across Farnam Street from my dad’s business.
Mrs. B’s motto was “sell cheap and tell the truth.” When she first started, the local furniture retailers ganged up on her and claimed she was violating some law for selling below cost.
At trial, Rose B. brought in her ledgers and showed the judge she sold at cost plus 10%. She made money with that markup.
Legend has it that after the trial, the district court judge bought some furniture from Mrs. B.
Trial court affirmed by the NE S. Ct.
NFM ran that gang out of business. NFM now has stores in IA, KS and TX.
What a country!
I still don’t care about the reflecting pool. Americans did not elect Trump because he uses the best contractors.
But this whole vandals attacked it with knives thing. it’s almost like Trump wants to distract from the Iran failure with the pool.
2205 Farnam Street (1945–1980); NFM location.
Yes. 5 to 10 is tragic.
Streamer Asmongold read the entire report live on stream and then loaded the video to YouTube. link to video
Is the MSM even talking about this? The View, anybody?
SpaceX sheds $400bn in market value as debut rally hits reverse ~ FT
“Everyone who wanted to buy [SpaceX] bought in the first few days, and it looks like basically they’re done,” said Mike O’Rourke at Jones Trading.
No, that's not true. I will buy some at $6.75.
What's the debt on their balance sheet and what's the total amount of off balance sheet liabilities? It's quite possible it's worthless when all the liabilities are netted. They will be a cash furnace for a number of years. So, even $6.75 might be too high.
"SpaceX’s massive valuation rests on an assumption that its AI division — which made a loss of $6.4bn in 2025 — has a total addressable market of $26.5tn."
Total world GDP is estimated at $126T. So AI will be 20% of world output? No, no it won't
Thx Lem, I’m going to listen to it at work tomorrow.
@IEE, you’re assuming g AI does not grow the total GDP
It was only about 15% of the men that decided they had had enough of the King's sh*t and actually did something about it, starting the Revolution.
Fifteen? Try three.
And as momentum grew, so did the numbers.
Look within, TinyEE. The Democrats have a mountain of criminal acts, misdeeds, and asshattery they continue to try to deny/sweep under the rug. Unprecedented and much leading to prison or a jail cell.
We have moved from 50s and rain in Norway to 110 and sun in Bordeaux. Merde! We came to Yurp to get away from this. Now it’s cooler in Phoenix.
Oh well. “They” say it will be 70s and rain by the weekend. It darn well better be, or I’m leaving a one-star review.
Lazarus, ref the Houghton Library exhibit, here is a tape of a panel with the curator and some Harvard alum veterans, talking about how many Harvard men were involved in the AmRev. Some of the first casualties at Concord/Lexington were Harvard men, for example. Pretty informative.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y0WBwMjPef8?si=eR48IcI3H3sYuni_
CC, JSM
You can't make this shit up.....
“Thousands of kids no longer able to play Marco Polo in the reflecting pool for fear of being thrown in a gulag. This is what true authoritarianism looks like.”
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2069202976527233036?s=20
It's been many years since I've read our host's instructions about commenting, and I just now saw the new no-italics rule. I'vr broken that rule at least once or twice (not sure when it appeared), luckily without consequences to the rest of the thread (I do always check that), and I apologize - I won't do it again!
I think the 250,000 number, plus the number of years they had to go back to get that number seems intentional to distract from the severity of the crimes committed by those still alive. I’m not talking about just the foreign rapists, but the officers and politicians that allowed it to happen. They don’t care about the rapes. They care they got caught not caring about the rapes.
“just now saw the new no-italics rule”
…it just now showed up. I type italics so I’m learning, too…
…the people who are praying for Elon to fail and his shares to drop are the same people who make fantasy movies about market crashes where the short sellers are the villains and the politicians who created all the problems are heroes…
ALX 🇺🇸
@alx
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Imagine having to explain to George Washington that America can’t prevent illegal aliens from voting in our elections because a foreign born judge called ‘Sparkle Sooknanan’ said so.
https://x.com/alx/status/2069209616429322342?s=20
"Jamie said... I just now saw the new no-italics rule."
Oops. Thank you for pointing this out. I haven't read the rules in a long time either, but luckily I never skip your comments.
IEE @ 10:28
Then why bring it up you lying numbnuts.
A man of good character knows when to keep his mouth shut.
I'm not sure what gad's point about Benedict Arnold is. Yes, he started out a patriot and a war hero, and then switched sides. And?
If it was just a historical note, very good - we can all use that!
We’ve gone from the price of eggs to the reflecting pool with a number of equally dumb steps along the way.
Things must not be working out on the Trump’s A Pedophile front.
"Things must not be working out on the Trump’s A Pedophile front."
I see that IEE is trying to say herein that s/he never cared about the reflecting pool except as a metaphor for Trump's general corrupt methodology, but to my memory, that's not how IEE's initial comments went.
A problem on the left for sure, but probably sometimes on the right as well, is the dial-it-to-eleven nature of all criticism. When a possible protracted war is commented on as exactly as objectionable as a reflecting pool repair, the war seems... less consequential.
"Mason G said...
"A few towns in Massachusetts have canceled their regular 4th of July fireworks..."
Madison, WI did. Without explanation.
"...A man of good character knows when to keep his mouth shut. ..."
The converse is also true.
“We continue to make the world safer and more prosperous…”
*checks notes*
…by allowing the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism to raise funds by selling their oil.
dirty British cops.
"If you have no strategy you cannot have strategic failure" ~ Sundowning Tzu. The Art of TACO
No one could’ve predicted that an impulsive, poorly planned war led by a senile narcissist and a drunk TV host would end in a humiliating defeat.
I mean, we're losing to algae right now...
@ BM ... how much of the IPO did you buy?
SpaceX a company with a profit to Sales of ~130x , no tech company in history has ever managed a profit to Sales above ~30x and survived . How do you think this SpaceX will ? On KET hallucinations of not only AI but Mars ? Where the travel time to get there is madness .
The TAM figure they have excludes China and Russia. So they think the real figure is even bigger. It’s just ludicrous.
OTH: 20% of EARTHs GDP. Who on earth believes SpaceX's TAM is 20% of global GDP?
I guess I need to be more open minded to multi-planetary, and potentially species, commercial opportunities. 😉
What is interesting (to me at least) is the figure glossed over in the article...the TAM value or 26.5 trn, as attributed to Goldman Sachs. Now the VC world relies on 3 metrics, TAM (total addressable market), SAM (serviceable addressable market) and SOM (serviceable obtainable market).
The IPO was priced on the basis that SOM and TAM are equivalent, which is certainly an eyebrow raising assumption
Delving deeper, for the AI market for SpaceX to be worth $26.5T, global GDP is $123T. Remove China as SpaceX will never get there, that drops to $100T. So in effect GS is saying that AI will account for 25% of global GDP, or 1 in every 4 dollars. Manufacturing and agriculture are 30%, and AI can only replace certain components of it (you still need fertilizer, parts, widgets, factories etc).
If someone can point out an invention that accounted for 30% plus of GDP, I would be really interested. The madness of crowds, following hyper inflated data, peddled by people lining their pockets, is only possible in a world of social media.
Personally I cannot see SpaceX being worth anything more than 5x to 10x of next years revenue.
“We continue to make the world safer and more prosperous…”
*checks notes*
…by allowing the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism to raise funds by selling their oil.""
So I am led to conclude that you were in favor of the military action against Iran and now wish it to continue. Because the important thing is that the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism not be allowed to raise funds by selling oil. Right?
If you agree we can perhaps begin a rational discussion. I am a little puzzled as to how and why it took you so long to get here, but it's a start.
Retail traders off Wall Street have been madly chasing their own tails since April. Madly! No matter how many red flags appeared; always more reasons to buybuybuy.
And what has been said during this period? The future is incredible, so much better than anything ever before seen. Robots will do it all. Humans will have tremendous wealth but there will be no work and no money. AI will..... fill in the blank with epic forecasts. Cure every problem.
Now we wake up and see that traders finally caught those tails. Their own tails. What happens now? Are we at a permanently high plateau? Or just the very first step into heaven itself? Or something else?
My guess is the last.
peak akker…
"If you agree we can perhaps begin a rational discussion."
Good luck with that. "If Trump's for it, I'm against it. And if he's against it, I'm for it" does not make for a rational discussion, but it's pretty much all the left has.
@dave begley, re your observations about Nebraska furniture mart…this weekend my husband and I visited Bentonville, AR and were simply knocked out. It wasnt on our radar as a destination, but we needed to pick up husband’s van conversion nearby so I talked him into spending two nights since we have never been there. I’m assuming everyone knows that Bentonville is the town that is home to WalMart. We stayed in a fabulous hotel, the Compton, about a block from the town square, a layout typical of so many small American towns— only these now tend to be hollowed out , or peopled with vape shops and tattoo parlors. Here is a thriving center, nice shops and a variety of really good restaurant choices. The square full of people, listening to street musicians, People watching on benches, a square bedecked with American flags and anchored by the Wal Mart museum, which is just the original Walmart five and dime where you can buy all the old school candy you grew up with. The folks we saw strolling along on a Saturday night all made an effort in their dress. I didn’t see the usual component of fat slobs, in other words. The houses in the neighborhood nearby were all beautifully restored or upscale new construction. We noticed the total absence of graffiti and pride flags. No low lifes draped along the sidewalks or on benches in the square. Not a single lurker or panhandler. The service was uniformly outstanding, with a workforce consisting of young locals, as opposed to imported 3rd world immigrants. The marquee attraction in Bentonville is the Crystal Bridges museum. We came upon it right when it opened on Sunday morning, so not crowded, and in the rain, which made it a very moving experience. The architecture is simply unbelievable. The product of Alice Walton’s personal vision. (The content of the galleries, however, was regrettably 90% wokeology. I mean, half of the exhibits in the “America 250” show consisted of pieces by artists who hate America. But I digress.)
The whole experience made me extremely grateful to the Walton family for single-handedly creating a vibrant, flourishing town from which young people need not flee. It was like an unironic “pleasantville”. A revelation. What could America be, if her small towns could be restored to such glory? Only capitalism can do that. In Bentonville, it’s as plain as the nose on your face, the Walton tide truly lifted all boats.
Was there a reason given for "no italics"? I like italics, here and there.
About those pictures: If no gallery for your work (and similar), why not find a good printer and offer prints/pasters/wallpaper? If you produced a batch of "signed and numbered" of your very best.... $$$$$
---- the people who are praying for Elon to fail and his shares to drop are the same people who make fantasy movies about market crashes where the short sellers are the villains and the politicians who created all the problems are heroes… [rehajm]
Hear, hear.
Still, it must be said that that SpaceX IPO was one of the worst structured deals ever to get to market. Selling less than 4% of the equity to the public enabled the other 96%-plus private holders to immediately get a huge wealth boost from the public tail now wagging their dog. And given the size of the offering, it seems fair to say this definitely IS the worst structured deal ever.
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