I found much more coverage of the “racist” protests by the natives than the attempted murder by the immigrant. I’m assuming imminent arrests of social media posters there because writing about it is worse than committing the crime.
The two opposing sides from back during the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland have suddenly joined forces. A lot of people are expecting a LOT of violence to break out against the invaders and they're expecting it in about 12 days.
I’m reminded of Jefferson’s famous letter which is unfortunately become more apt:
“And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Guys like you make me sick, if I'm being honest here. You're perfectly fine with the immigrants and muslims raping, murdering, beheading, the native population, the white people. But the moment they start defending themselves and attacking these savages you're all like:
"HOW DARE YOU DEFEND YOURSELVES FROM SLAUGHTER!!!"
There's only room for one 'race' in that country - that's been made clear. Excuse me if I'm backing the white people. Who built that country and made it great, and from whence most of my ancestors came.
I've been watching Belfast TikTok and they're getting serious. It's being deleted and accounts are being banned but they're working faster than the dummies working remote can.
It has to be compounded by that Nowak who got knifed to death by a Sikh last year. The Sikh just got his sentence and has been back in the news. They've been up in arms across the UK about it. There's a ton of tension on the isles.
I’m having a hard time imagining NOT being outraged by knowing the last thing a murder victim hears is he’s not been stabbed and had his Miranda equivalent rights read to him while handcuffed and bleeding out instead of receiving first aid.
I don’t feel like getting into it re: the media’s culpability in the Karmello Anthony case, the Nowak case, and this other one in Belfast to incite people. Lots of people wrong. Looks like the courts in all cases got it right though.
What I WILL say is that BLM and the riots/protests of the last decade have ALWAYS been correct in their assertion that cops everywhere suck shit and there needs to be more oversight of them.
That CB1000F just DOES IT for me. My last street bike was the 1982 CB900F that it’s very faithfully styled after. It kicked off Bikes Out for Harambe long ago.
What a terrible time for me to be an unemployed broke ass.
I too had a 900F'er. I commuted on it and it was a fine little bike. But when it rained the coils would get wet and it would run on two cylinders. Minor engineering flaw. Otherwise, really fun.
<3 Should I call you Mistah? I am neither unemployed, nor retired. But "Mythos" debuted and will be accessible for a week before going behind a pay wall, so I guess that's all the time I have left to secure a future for myself.
Some MBA on LinkedIn was talking about the impending price hikes as though it was some sort of limited-time opportunity. My understanding is that a) using LLMs requires tons of re-engineering and b) software is rarely a "fire and forget" asset, and vibeslop is definitely not one of those times; therefore, investing resources in becoming dependent on an input whose cost is about to skyrocket seems stupid.
Of course that LA election is fraudulent. And before people say, "but this means more sane people are going to move out of LA," the Dems reaction will be, "so what?" This is a feature not a bug. Once the few remaining sane voters leave LA, it will be a Blue hellhole forever. They can change the city's name to Mogadishu West.
I personally still think LA is a fine place to be, so much so that I often consider moving back. It has a ton of issues but like most American cities is worth saving.
Living there 20 years I’ve never understood why my many very entrepreneurial, business owning friends were far left politically. California is still the seventh largest economy in the world if it were a country! LA is a paradox in that regard.
They’ll say they just rightfully and finally took it back but some Indian tribes will disagree. I say go all Jurassic Park, clone the mammoths and Sabre tooth tigers, and give it back to THEM. Dinosaur rights have expired.
The hilarious thing about these discussions is that Mexico retained about three quarters of a million square miles of prime real estate, which they proceeded to turn into a third world country with their institutions and culture. Southern California is now more like Mexico than it is like Florida, and the population flows are starting to reflect this uncomfortable truth.
I like the rest of California, but I don't want to go to LA proper. I skirted close to drive the Angeles Crest once, but LA proper just feels like a nightmare for a guy from Minnesota in a car.
It's not that bad if you're patient. Easier on a motorcycle. I have more than a hundred days of driving around LA under my belt, haven't killed myself yet
I have fond memories spending a couple of summers there back when. I actually got to listen to “Ventura Highway” while driving on Ventura Highway…on an 8 track car player!
There's a spot on eastbound I-80 in New Jersey where the road rises and you can see New York City in the distance. Once, after driving overnight to NYC, we reached that spot just as dawn was breaking. As we crested the rise, Little Feat was playing Feats Don't Fail Me Now on the cheap cassette deck, and we heard Lowell George sing,
"Don't the sunrise look so pretty - never such a sight
Like rollin' into New York City with the skyline in the morning light
California in general, and Los Angeles in particular, were actually desirable places to live from WWII to Gulf War I. Four and a half decades of what was arguably the apex of human civilization.
Oh, and it seems you have a troll loose in your house, Jack.
Not EVERY city on the planet. If you go to Tokyo or any other big Japanese city you'd have a very nice time with lots of nice scenery. God, I miss living there.
The increase in America’s overall wealth ruined many, many places.
What you described was the effect of an America that was more egalitarian and one that was not as economically segregated as we are now. But sadly, we are more economically segregated out of necessity.
It’s just Americans self selecting, and they can’t be blamed for it.
My wife grew up in LA county during those years, and the smog was horrible. It was only when the smog-less older vehicles finally aged out that you could regularly see the surrounding Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. It was always nice to see the often snow capped mountains while I lived there from 2000-2020.
I was in LA for a day last year. I drove straight from the car rental at LAX out to Cypress in Orange County, then to Pico-Robertson in LA to get some kosher food and then back to LAX. Orange County looked like a picture postcard promoting southern California. Los Angeles was dystopian. People living in old Winnebagos within blocks of the airport. Way more homeless folks pushing shopping carts up La Cienega than I've ever seen in Detroit. Armed security guards in every retail establishment of any size, also something I rarely see around Detroit.
a lot of that can be blamed on the state's K-shaped economy and housing prices. California has the world's 7th largest economy, yet here in the Bay Area we have literally had teachers living in Winnebagos because they can't afford homes.
The area I stayed at in LA in December was alternately wealthy and dilapidated. Not a great combination. The broken and heaving cracked sidewalks were a horrendous sign of no civic pride. The city just doesn’t care and it was obvious.
Same here, although I’m another one who abandoned it. I moved back to Asheville where I grew up.
My wife is LA born and raised, so I lived there for 20 years. I loved my time there.
1. Car capital of the world…LA worships the car.
2. Roads. Angeles crest and the canyons in LA county are empty on weekdays. And NEVER patrolled!
3. Entrepreneurial spirit. There’s a self-starter culture that transcends ethnicity…I could name friends of all ethnicities that own successful businesses.
The one party politics grated on me, and Covid finally caused me to leave. I took my then five-year-old son to the playground and they had police tape around it. Then Newsome forbade schools to open until Fall 2021. I decided I didn’t want to raise my kids in the state anymore.
I lived in a high-rise in downtown LA 30 years ago. Used to walk from my place to the Biltmore for cocktails and cigars and the occasional dinner In Bernards. On my last visit in April, downtown makes Tijuana look like paradise.
Regarding the stolen election in California, we are turning into a Russian oligarchy, in which we witness fraud and corruption and pretend that it’s acceptable, we individually can do nothing about it and it makes almost no sense to even acknowledge that it exists.
I'm with you. I'm a resident of L.A., and I'm not happy with the results of this election. The idea of a stolen election causes me great cognitive dissonance.
The optics are definitely there, but how could it be that there aren't any Republicans, Pratt supporters, and/or fair-minded people or people with a conscience involved with the process of counting the ballots? I would like to think someone would have sounded the alarm. How could something like this be put past every single person who would object? And, realistically, how would you identify those people ahead of time with 100% accuracy?
As I understand it, the mail-in balloting process in California allows ANYONE to submit ANY NUMBER of ballots at once, as long as they are legitimate original ballots. There doesn't need to be any corruption inside the ballot building.
Just the fact that anyone can vote, be they citizen or foreign in California is antithetical to what citizenship means in this country, the enemy’s are inside the gates.
You can’t like go somewhere and get blank ballots and take them away.
The ballots are mailed to everyone before the election, and you either mail them in (in the provided envelope), or drop them off in designated ballot boxes.
Or you go to a polling place and you can fill out a ballot there and submit it.
To “harvest” ballots, someone would have to go door to door and get people to give them their ballot. While theoretically possible it would be a huge logistical challenge. And, it would assume the Democratic party is actually competent enough to pull off such a massive thing without any evidence leaking out, and there is plenty of data proving that party is not competent.
Don't know if LA is like here, but Washington State's King County Elections allows you to log in with a name, address, and birthday to print a ballot on a computer.
And given that public PDF images of voter initiatives have the required information *and* a signature, you could theoretically.... do the needful.
Here’s several vehicles for sale that will help navigate the mean streets of Columbus and other cities in comfort and safety. Probably not quickly, though. Just saw on CFP.
Not sure how they do it there. I was a Republican poll worker in Chicago. At the end of the day, they’d take the thumb drives from the voting machines and stick them into some device which magically sent the results back to some central location. We loaded the paper ballots onto a van to be delivered to a place where they were stored. No one knew the final resting place and how a ballot could ever be located again.
In many places I believe all mail in ballots are supposed to have signatures compared and other security procedures in place. I believe I remember this was not done in many places in 2020.
And I also seem to remember boxes being delivered late at night to counting areas.
No time tonight to try and verify my recollections.
Something I don't get: in Ohio, I can login online to see that my vote was counted but I cannot see how the vote was cast. Why can't I confirm that my choices were recorded correctly?
If republicans ever want to win an election or make and headway in California they are going to have to learn how to play the election game the way democrats do by ballot harvesting and doing whatever they have to do in order to get ballots filled out the way they want and then getting them into drop boxes and into the counting rooms.
It would only take one statewide republican win for California democrats to demand immediate election reform.
I don’t believe that the United States is any where near as precarious today as was The USSR in 1988, yes history often repeats itself, and really, Europe looks a lot more precarious.
I find it amazing that when confronted with the facts like she entered the race late, had no name recognition, ran virtually no campaign, didn’t even win her own precinct (?) and then massively outperforms even the mayor after Election Day, it raises NO questions from the usual suspects.
It is willful ignorance from the media. I grew up in St. Claire County Illinois and it was run by a Democrat machine that rivaled Chicago. The county is mostly rural with two towns of around 45000 people; Belleville, 100% white at the time, and East St. Louis, 100% black at the time. The Democrats had split the county into 2 voting districts with ESL being one district and the rest of the county the other. ESL was always the last to report their votes and always managed to produce just enough votes to put the Democrats over the line. Everyone knew what was going on. I knew several Democrat politicians that readily admitted they paid people to vote in ESL. There was a Pulitzer prize waiting for a reporter to break that story but somehow they never did. It's not quite as bad now that Belleville is integrated and ESL's population has dropped so low that even the Democrats can't manufacture enough votes to push all of the Democrats over the line. But it's still run by Democrats and they still have shenanigans going on and the media is still willfully blind.
That’s the thing. The media shows zero interest in investigating plausible claims.
If the politicians who are so interested in saving our democracy would have opened the books and shown us that 2020 election was free and fair, that would have saved us years of strife. Instead they’ve consistently stonewalled any attempt at transparency.
That tells me something. The same thing is happening with voter, Medicaid, etc rolls in the blue states. Zero cooperation and lawsuits to fight any efforts to clean them up.
I'm shocked these data centers don't get burned down by disgruntled residents
I'm shocked the blatant election fraud isn't met with violence. I suspect we'll hit an inflection point eventually and it'll get hot really fast but that could be in 3 weeks or 30 years.
I'd like to add I have no datacenters in this town nor do I care about LA enough to enact violence on any politician. But, I am still shocked no one does.
If anyone suggest you burn down your local datacenters, that's the Fed. If you come to it of your own devices.... it's the CIA.
Why does everyone hate the data centers? Is it because they take up space? They have to contribute more to the tax base than vacant land. I'm not sure there's an exemption carve out for them in the MCL unless they build in some sort of brownfield or NEZ.
The park thing in today's ORT is egregious, though. Title work should have identified that and prevented it from happening.
They'll double your utility bills and ruin your water supply while the datacenter reaps all the rewards and the residents get screwed. How many jobs do they provide?
They always get huge tax exemptions and so contribute nothing to the tax base. They don't add any beneficial jobs to the economy -- a few dozen illegals during construction and a dozen H1Bs after construction. They obligate power companies to permanently upgrade power infrastructure at huge cost to locals. They are hugely noisy and yet somehow bypass zoning to get built next to residential neighborhoods.
I'm not a fan of how this is all coming about, but...
.... "a few dozen illegals during construction"?!?
A data center of any size will involve thousands of skilled tradesmen to build it -- enough so that Meta is starting their own trade schools, allowing people to enroll for free, and guaranteeing them a job when they finish. There's a data center going up in my sisters new homeland (Cheyenne, WY) and the biggest concern there is the man-camp they're constructing to house the workers. There are projected to be 8000 of them.
It's not all sweetness and light, but please don't call 8000 skilled trades jobs, "a few dozen illegals".
My apologies, I failed to comprehend the sheer scale of this folly. But please don't call 8000 transient workers "8000 skilled trades jobs". Is this why I can't find a skilled tradesman in my town, because they are all building slop factories instead of housing?
I'm still trying to understand the intent of data centers and why I would want more of them? As a citizen, my simple question is: How does it benefit me and the nation as a whole?
To me it looks like a net negative because we spend a shit ton of public money to put them together so that we will have less jobs. Am I missing something?
They're plenty of land in this country to build them in the middle of nowhere. It's the "you can't build shit but google can" that really infuriates people. I don't have a problem with the concept of a datacenter
I used to not have a problem with datacenters but lately with how they intend to use these things at the scale they are building, it does have me a bit concerned.
The gov can't really do these massive social projects so they veil it as private investments. Somehow though, it's gov related. Kinda like how they forced the hand on things like EVs and Vaccines.
I don’t either, PROVIDED, they are not connected to the electrical grid, and they are not allowed to pump water out of the ground or otherwise impact water supplies, AND they pay the same property tax rates as surrounding homeowners.
Well, in the case of Japanese cars, we're never getting another XV10 Camry because Japan will never again be sitting on a huge bubble of cash. The auto industry needs to be deregulated down to some basics. We can argue over what those are.
This is where we the people are pretty stupid. We know that the money only goes to the top with all of this AI Datacenter buildout. Yet, we just keep funneling all of our money into the stocks that's making this happen. All in hopes that we stay ahead of the pack, financially.
In the meantime, what is the point of the AI Datacenters? Probably surveillance and getting rid of a lot of workers. And for sure funneling money to the few. Looking at it macroscopically, we like to build our own nooses...
Edit: Proof, look at all of the funky people we keep voting BACK into office, decade after decade!
One big turn-off is that they've become a gold rush for shady land developers who shush the local government and any neighbors who'll bite with a non-disclosure agreement, seek tax abatement, and make a plan to stuff the maximum number of cooling towers and natural gas "backup" generators on the property. Then they go looking for the power and water (power is hard, water just takes a promise of some $$ tomorrow). If nothing leaks out before the town council or county commission approves the final development agreement, the bulldozing has already occurred.
They've been building a couple of data centers north of where I live for a while now. Started before the AI thing. Texas Instruments also decided to expand, rather than close, a major installation of theirs in the same area. As this is out in 'semi-country' and in an area no one really cared about (and not IN any town) everyone was cool with it. The TI place at least has it's own power, and pretty much everything else (there are a few fabs there and I think they're actually building some more, rather than shut the old ones down).
Right now, everything in that aspect is being done with everyone's approval. Hopefully that won't change.
The current outrage here is that they want to build one next to the Nashville Zoo. The economics are unclear to me of putting it there but the outrage seems to be centered on…well it’s a data center.
That would be a fair point. You likely don’t know but they give an annual festival of lights for over a month where there’s all sorts of light displays at night. I personally would not attend because I think it’s bad for the animals and a money grab by the zoo.
Antonelli is turning in a legendary performance every weekend. The best part about this kid is that he's bright and he loves F1 and its history and pangeantry: have you ever seen him in some of those goofy F1 games they make the drivers do? He knows tons of trivia and can identify those pictures where they change one thing in the time it takes a hummingbird to flap its wings. It's a shame Team LH won't shut up about how great it is to be #2. Maybe it's to get back at all the Max fans last year who are still sore over coming up 2 points short after that stellar end of his season...
I'm glad not everything else is depressing. That Honda stuff looks like good news for all the motorcycle riders here!
Hamilton is the worst. Princess George is a close second. Does that guy ever stop complaining? I don't mind Charles but you know he, or ferrari, is just gonna fuck it up. I like Max but redbull kinda sucks right now. I don't mind either of the McLaren drivers outside of Norris being boring. So... Go kimmy
Kimi is really growing on me. He's just blindingly fast.
Max is an assassin, in all the best ways. George is a princess. LeClerc is never, ever gonna' be a champion. Norris is LeClerc who happened to win last year, and will never win again. Oscar showed every sign of being Max 2.0 until he folded after being asked to give up position for Norris last year (it got in his head and is still crawling around). Sir Lewis is... faster than he's been in a while, but WOW that guy is full of himself.
The guy who has grown on me the most in all of this is Toto. He's steadily, consistently won, no matter who is driving his cars. I liked Zac Brown for a hot minute when McLaren was "in persuit" -- but he's not a likable figure when he's on top. Fred is just lost. Horn Dog cannot get far enough away from the sport for me, he's a cocky Alfred E Newman. James Vowles is Toto 2.0, which is why I keep hoping for the best at Williams.
Horn dog. What an idiot, what a fuckin idiot. Loyalty and faithfulness aside, Gingers still hot! Max has 5 championships if horndog keeps it in his pants*
Let's not overlook Alonso, who is in it purely for the love of the game. He could do any number of things with his time and money, yet he keeps dragging dogs to better finishes than they deserve with teammates who were weren't out of grade school when he was winning three championships in a row. the guy has raced in something like one-third of all F1 faces in history and is still at it.
Between perennial rookie Alonso and the King of all Trolls Max, there are some fun personalities on the grid. Alonso always looks pleased in a strange way to do the post-race and post-qualifying interviews.
"He's 10.5 car lengths behind. He's only allowed to be 10!" They all bitch and complain but George is by far the worst. I guess I didn't really notice the Albon bitching.
One of the results of the LA mayoral race fraud goes far beyond its city limits. The engineered removal of Mr. Pratt from the race stole hope itself.
Normal citizens in blue zones and democratic in name only countries throughout the west have been shown there is no hope for change. That there is no point fighting the leftist blob as your best efforts will be defeated by "break-the-glass" contingencies.
In the above-mentioned areas there is no punishment for fraud only endless reward. Why would they act differently?
“Really? REALLY? Let’s see, poorly-aimed gunfights viewed as urban recreation, taxes through the roof on everything, bums everywhere, halfwits who try to outrun the cops in their 200,000-mile, bone-stock shitboxes, hobos using public spaces as open-air toilets, the most basic house costs a million bucks, state & local governments have declared war on the common man, glass-egoed ethnic gangbangers who take EYE CONTACT as a mortal threat, illegal aliens that walk in daylight, EVERYTHING gives you cancer, sexual predators who ply their trade as if God Himself gave them permission, everyone’s flaky as hell, auto theft & narcotics trafficking so common as to be openly viewed as legitimate sectors of the economy, environmental laws that favor plants & animals over people, far & away the most totalitarian car inspection regime in America, Lower Case G’s, criminal gangs from every country on the planet, celebutante fame whores, smoking’s illegal but marijuana’s encouraged, government regulations that’re chasing all the non-criminal businesses out of the state, public employee unions powerful enough to bankrupt whatever legitimate government they have left out there, roads & bridges disintegrating because the government uses their funding to hire diversity zampolits, militarized police with itchy trigger fingers & a Judge Dredd mentality who’ll arrest someone for speeding while thugs burn down a liquor store a hundred feet away, pornographers who operate under the impression that the First Amendment applies to THEM and really, how far could I go on this tangent without using the word ‘cannibal?’ I’ll just say it - it’s an evil place where only monsters can thrive. And the ones who aren’t stealing BMWs, burning down entire cities in the name of racial justice, murdering each other over facial expressions, manufacturing entire libraries of pornography or writing as many noxious laws as fast as they fucking can are stoned out of their minds on pretty much any chemical substance they can get their filthy little hippie hands on. I mean, have you ever noticed that every single social pathology currently tearing this country to shreds got started in either Los Angeles or Frisco?”
Why didn't sharles just not listen to Ferrari? I mean? C'mon. It was flipping obvious what would happen if lewis pitted before him. You're in 3rd and this fucker can't pass? Especially at monaco.
I have no doubt they're screwing him but HE SHOULD KNOW. We all know. He's right flipping behind the guy. let's say lewis has no penalty. He's still better off in front of him with worse tires. He'd already had his one change if I'm remembering correctly.
Apparently Ferrari decided they would rather have the "guaranteed" 2-3, with Sir Lewis up front, than a situation where Charles would have to defend on old tires... which is ridiculous.
What are the odds Ferrari is getting order from up on high? I'm gonna make a bold prediction the 28 year old ends up ahead of the 42 year old by the end of the season. They'd be tied now if his car didn't shit the bed. Charles needs to look out for charles. I say this for completely selfish reasons of loathing hamilton and the british press
I’m no F1 fan/follower but I have seen the stuff about Lewis yelling about billionaires from the perch of his yacht before getting on his plane. I already knew he’s a faggoty virtue signaling wokester but how does a moron like this not think “yeah they’ll come for the billionaires and then leave the half a billionaires like me alone”? I mean I guess he may just be genuinely unintelligent.
Keeping in mind what Cormac McCarthy pointed out -- that, evolutionarily-speaking, most of our emotional responses date from prior to the development of written language; so whenever you get furious about something you read, reflect for a moment that it's merely a biochemical gradient in your brain, an epiphenomenon of the terrors your illiterate ancestors experienced 8,000 years ago -- the LA and Taylor stories are indeed outrages (I hadn't even heard of the squalid Nashville Zoo episode) which I have a hard time staying calm about.
But there is comfort in the pulverizing rhythms of the Prophets, those magnificent Hebrew parallelisms and repetitions:
Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they sell the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
"watching some of the discourse on the subject has made me lose a measurable amount of hope for our continued American co-existence"
the outcry from the usual suspects was infuriating and unsurprising at the same time. they have no idea what actually happened and they dont care. they only seem to care about a black kid facing any repercussions whatsoever for murdering a white kid because hes white (some even dare to suggest he deserved it which of course he didnt) becuase das raysis or something. and there werent any of them on the jury becuase they cant help themselves being absurdly biased. i know. its not all of them. i am aware of that. 35 years isnt long enough. shouldve gotten the chair.
"Antonelli is effortlessly toasting the driver — Princess George — who has been making Hamilton look awful for years now"
>tfw when you drive a tractor for years at williams only to go to mercedes when they forget how to build a car and then when they remember the guy they put in as the number 2 driver turns into fuckin prime senna
worst luck? possibly the inverse of hamilton
"The FIA has determined that Red Bull has the best F1 engine"
bruh.
"what you are seeing in the chart above is a stolen election, it is fraud, it is evil"
yes. you are objectively correct.
"If you are like me, you probably struggle with your attraction to what I can only call unnecessary technological obfuscation"
real. i dont care if desmodromic valve systems are inferior to lobes and finger followers i want them
"Well, in the hands of Larry Hofer, it’s going to make power. Because he has re-engineered it to feature direct injection, variable valve timing"
okay but assuming he went to an aluminum block what was the point? big blocks and their torque made sense when all you has was a turbo400 or a 4 speed at most. now youve got 8 speeds so frying tires has never been easier. no idea how much power itll make but im sure it could be outdone by whatever lt or ls engine youd want. at least the 632 they sell makes 1000hp but would never pass emissions or durability testing
"The builder’s response to public pushback was… to add another one more than three times as large next to it."
i bet these can be sabotaged relatively easily with targeted small arms fire
"you want a real air-cooled Honda retro, let’s talk"
I'll admit, I've been thinking about a new motorcycle. I don't want to get rid of the ZZR1200. But something newer and yes, more reliable, might be a good idea. I probably should sell my Vulcan SE - it just doesn't ridden enough these days.
Though a part of me is still tempted to buy an older, pre-monoshock, Low Rider. There are days I still miss my sportster, which was just a nice GPB kinda bike. The Low Rider was really just the 'grown up' version with a bigger motor, a bit more power and a bit more range.
Do we get to vote on the FIA's supposed decision to penalize Red Bull's engine? If the choices are "quite stupid" and "openly corrupt," I would have to go for the latter.
The absolutle funniest part of this is he probably has his best chance at it if he stayed with mercedes and toto would've given him the edge and the better car.
I think we've established Lewis is insufferable and an idiot at this point. What's funny is I can't stand toto but I wouldn't bet against him either. Toto has actually ben less insufferable since Lewis has left.
With regards to this Karmelo Anthony thing, I'm wondering if Carmelo Anthony is having a tough time with this.
Has anyone else noticed that just when I didn't think race baiting can't get any worse, I feel like it's ramped up even more lately. All i see on my feeds are "journalists" feeding into the racial divisions. Whites hate blacks, blacks hate whites. Now Asians hate blacks and vice versa. And of course, everyone hating on Indians.
I guess I'm generally a "treat each person as an individual" type of person, but of course we have our initial opinions on people of all different types. And I think most people kinda end up there eventually, regardless. I just wonder what the objective is to race bait from the propagandists today.
odd that youd see that as my take has always been that theres a concerted effort to keep a lid on race relations and as such obscure reality in the process
I mean it’s pattern recognition. I have friends and acquaintances of all races, but would I move into a predominantly black or Indian (or Jewish or Muslim or or or) community? Fuck no. Statistics don’t lie.
My guess is that in Jewish neighborhoods, at least religious Jewish neighborhoods, the teenagers aren't going to break into your garage and steal stuff. They're too busy watching younger siblings.
I did this when I was younger, and, for instance, was probably one of two people on my team who spoke to a contractor.
But lately, I see that while this makes sense for individualistic cultures, what if said "individual" always travels as part of a group and always acts in the interests of a group?
"I just find it interesting that I'm seeing a lot more propaganda to hate other races lately. Not sure what that accomplishes."
Black people are encouraged to hate whites because it allows them to be more effectively manipulated as a voting and consumer bloc. Whites are being encouraged to return the hate because otherwise they are lambs led to slaughter. It's awful on both sides.
Having only detached interest in the mayoral race stemming from too much time spent on X mostly watching body cam footage of black women getting arrested, what utterly flummoxes me is the absolute vitriol Pratt drew. Like if you want to say he’s dumb or inexperienced or unqualified, sure, I get that kind of, but he came across as earnest in wanting to change things. But the number of “Now go fuck off Pratt” posts I’ve seen from semi-reasonable people on the ‘gram is interesting and disturbing. I mean I guess if you’re just knee jerk anti anyone to the right of Hillary, this is how you respond? But otherwise, what did he do or say that deserves outright hatred from people who aren’t obviously in on the scam in LA? Boggles the mind. There are some politicians I hate, but there are also plenty on the other side who I just have casual disagreement with. Hell, Zohran doesn’t really offend me, I don’t agree with him, but whatever, he seems relatively sincere in his beliefs.
In national politics, sure. But it doesn’t get much more local than this. And you can’t even really say “well it’s the elites behind the gates of the fancy neighborhoods” because the Palisades was the fancy neighborhood. The squalor is all over LA. Money doesn’t really insulate you from it outside of the very tip top of Beverly Hills or whatever. The kind of people who are reacting that I see are well off but certainly not “helicopter to the mansion over the poors” well off. Maybe I just underestimate the amount of virtue signaling is needed to maintain status in a place like that, I dunno.
They saw him as Trump’s candidate, or at least of Trump’s party, what he actually thought wasn’t relevant to them.
People love to find ways to sort each other into one group or the other. In the current political environment once they decide you’re on the opposite team you’re infinite scum.
Karmelo? How about Belfast!?
all it took was a feral african beheading someone in broad daylight to get the party started
shouldve happened way sooner but better late than never
Beheading? I missed that video.
its brutal. just a mentally disabled guy getting hacked to death in the street
link to an article about it even? I heard about a guy who lost an eye and the victim's family asking for peace and non-violence.
https://babylonbee.com/news/karmelo-kicking-himself-for-not-converting-to-islam-and-stabbing-someone-in-the-uk-instead
You can talk about it. I find it invigorating.
The response, I should clarify, not the inciting incident.
As long as it ends up a proper pogrom and not just a simple riot. If leadership ends up getting what they so richly deserve, you'll know it's serious.
I found much more coverage of the “racist” protests by the natives than the attempted murder by the immigrant. I’m assuming imminent arrests of social media posters there because writing about it is worse than committing the crime.
One incident was a random act of violence. The other was a masked riot fed by right wing social media. That's apples to walnuts, Richard.
The two opposing sides from back during the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland have suddenly joined forces. A lot of people are expecting a LOT of violence to break out against the invaders and they're expecting it in about 12 days.
Hopefully it will spread to the rest of Ireland.
To the rest of Europe. FTFY
I'm Dutch - Irish (and a little AmInd) so right now, I'd just like to get Ireland back... :-)
Baby steps.
Another person wishing for violence to spread?
History has shown us that nothing else works.
I’m reminded of Jefferson’s famous letter which is unfortunately become more apt:
“And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Guys like you make me sick, if I'm being honest here. You're perfectly fine with the immigrants and muslims raping, murdering, beheading, the native population, the white people. But the moment they start defending themselves and attacking these savages you're all like:
"HOW DARE YOU DEFEND YOURSELVES FROM SLAUGHTER!!!"
There's only room for one 'race' in that country - that's been made clear. Excuse me if I'm backing the white people. Who built that country and made it great, and from whence most of my ancestors came.
Eh, violence is a tool - it all depends on who's using it, and for what purpose.
You're hoping violence spreads?
its a response to endless migrant violence not a random riot about nothing
Actually I hoping the violence STARTS!! After that? Yeah, I'll be cheering on the sidelines for it to spread.
Why stay on the sidelines, John? Why not get into the fray and really stand for what you believe? Share the excuses proudly in a reply.
BLACK DUMPLING™
@BlackDumpling
Jun 10
What's happening in Ireland isn't a riot.
It's a Counteroffensive.
Call it what it is.
https://xcancel.com/BlackDumpling/status/2064525858971263137#m
I've been watching Belfast TikTok and they're getting serious. It's being deleted and accounts are being banned but they're working faster than the dummies working remote can.
Never get their Irish up!
(::Rim shot!::)
It has to be compounded by that Nowak who got knifed to death by a Sikh last year. The Sikh just got his sentence and has been back in the news. They've been up in arms across the UK about it. There's a ton of tension on the isles.
I’m having a hard time imagining NOT being outraged by knowing the last thing a murder victim hears is he’s not been stabbed and had his Miranda equivalent rights read to him while handcuffed and bleeding out instead of receiving first aid.
NO I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE, MATE
I don’t feel like getting into it re: the media’s culpability in the Karmello Anthony case, the Nowak case, and this other one in Belfast to incite people. Lots of people wrong. Looks like the courts in all cases got it right though.
What I WILL say is that BLM and the riots/protests of the last decade have ALWAYS been correct in their assertion that cops everywhere suck shit and there needs to be more oversight of them.
It may be worse than that. The act of pulling his arms behind his back opened the vein he was bleeding out from, according to a Brit M.E.
And yet who has been fired. There trying to dampen any repose by having a 6
Month commission of
Enquiry
The uk and Europe is lost
This is what happens when your
Police force becomes the leftist woke force
Nah
Predominantly right wing/conservative police forces in the US do the exact same shit.
That CB1000F just DOES IT for me. My last street bike was the 1982 CB900F that it’s very faithfully styled after. It kicked off Bikes Out for Harambe long ago.
What a terrible time for me to be an unemployed broke ass.
Mine was and ‘81 CB900F. The new one’s beaut.
I too had a 900F'er. I commuted on it and it was a fine little bike. But when it rained the coils would get wet and it would run on two cylinders. Minor engineering flaw. Otherwise, really fun.
Why are you unemployed? Aren't you a software dev?
I am, but my duties are mostly ceremonial. VP of Engineering.
Aren't most software devs unemployed or retired right now?
( Also your phrasing reminded me of: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-are-you-gay )
<3 Should I call you Mistah? I am neither unemployed, nor retired. But "Mythos" debuted and will be accessible for a week before going behind a pay wall, so I guess that's all the time I have left to secure a future for myself.
I said "most."
Some MBA on LinkedIn was talking about the impending price hikes as though it was some sort of limited-time opportunity. My understanding is that a) using LLMs requires tons of re-engineering and b) software is rarely a "fire and forget" asset, and vibeslop is definitely not one of those times; therefore, investing resources in becoming dependent on an input whose cost is about to skyrocket seems stupid.
Of course that LA election is fraudulent. And before people say, "but this means more sane people are going to move out of LA," the Dems reaction will be, "so what?" This is a feature not a bug. Once the few remaining sane voters leave LA, it will be a Blue hellhole forever. They can change the city's name to Mogadishu West.
I cannot STAND the fact that human beings are abandoning Los Angeles. It is a fabulous and delightful place to live -- or it USED to be, anyway.
I personally still think LA is a fine place to be, so much so that I often consider moving back. It has a ton of issues but like most American cities is worth saving.
+1.
If you make enough money, LA must remain an incredibly desirable place.
One of the last blue American cities where communism can’t quite overcome the sheer natural beauty and glory of the place itself.
…or maybe I’m just telling myself that. Havent been in three or four years!
Living there 20 years I’ve never understood why my many very entrepreneurial, business owning friends were far left politically. California is still the seventh largest economy in the world if it were a country! LA is a paradox in that regard.
I don't know the answer, but "worth saving" and "can be saved" are different properties.
Mexico will own LA within the next 50 years.
horrifying
https://www.police1.com/police-recruitment/lapd-projected-to-lose-150-officers-by-mid-2026-which-would-mark-lowest-staffing-in-30-years
Look at the picture. They already police it.
They’ll say they just rightfully and finally took it back but some Indian tribes will disagree. I say go all Jurassic Park, clone the mammoths and Sabre tooth tigers, and give it back to THEM. Dinosaur rights have expired.
I like that idea, actually, and there's plenty of DNA to do that in the research center at LaBrea Tar Pits to make it happen
well, to be fair, it was theirs until the US seized it during the Mexican-American War, so they'd be taking it back.
The hilarious thing about these discussions is that Mexico retained about three quarters of a million square miles of prime real estate, which they proceeded to turn into a third world country with their institutions and culture. Southern California is now more like Mexico than it is like Florida, and the population flows are starting to reflect this uncomfortable truth.
I like the rest of California, but I don't want to go to LA proper. I skirted close to drive the Angeles Crest once, but LA proper just feels like a nightmare for a guy from Minnesota in a car.
It's not that bad if you're patient. Easier on a motorcycle. I have more than a hundred days of driving around LA under my belt, haven't killed myself yet
You're a pro compared to me. And honestly I had two seizures last year and bikes are just out for me after that I think.
It just took me 3.5 hours to drive the ~80 miles home from DC
Surely LA can’t be that bad
Depends on where you want to go and when during the week.
I have fond memories spending a couple of summers there back when. I actually got to listen to “Ventura Highway” while driving on Ventura Highway…on an 8 track car player!
There's a spot on eastbound I-80 in New Jersey where the road rises and you can see New York City in the distance. Once, after driving overnight to NYC, we reached that spot just as dawn was breaking. As we crested the rise, Little Feat was playing Feats Don't Fail Me Now on the cheap cassette deck, and we heard Lowell George sing,
"Don't the sunrise look so pretty - never such a sight
Like rollin' into New York City with the skyline in the morning light
Roll right through the night"
That’s funny, when we drove south from Rennsport Reunion 7 in 2023, I made a point to play Ventura Highway as we drove on it to our hotel in Ventura.
Up until 1990.
California in general, and Los Angeles in particular, were actually desirable places to live from WWII to Gulf War I. Four and a half decades of what was arguably the apex of human civilization.
Oh, and it seems you have a troll loose in your house, Jack.
I prefer troll 1.0 (Sherman) to 2.0.
I like Sherman's posts! I like everyone's engagement with him, too. We can't all just toe the line.
He may be wrong about things but he’s not a jerk like 2.0
Well *actually* he is just...
yeah, it's a problem.
Ice Age, shit, that’s EVERY city on the planet.
I grew up in Austin, Texas. Austin was absolute paradise on earth until 1990.
Hot chicks everywhere, you could wait tables and play base in a band and live like a king.
Now? Shit, now it’s L.A. in the Hill Country.
If I had to pick a time of death, I’d choose the day Liberty Lunch closed.
When the “Triangle” was developed, and when the Conan’s Pizza “Cosmic Store” closed, those were just nails in the coffin of Austin.
Not EVERY city on the planet. If you go to Tokyo or any other big Japanese city you'd have a very nice time with lots of nice scenery. God, I miss living there.
The increase in America’s overall wealth ruined many, many places.
What you described was the effect of an America that was more egalitarian and one that was not as economically segregated as we are now. But sadly, we are more economically segregated out of necessity.
It’s just Americans self selecting, and they can’t be blamed for it.
My wife grew up in LA county during those years, and the smog was horrible. It was only when the smog-less older vehicles finally aged out that you could regularly see the surrounding Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. It was always nice to see the often snow capped mountains while I lived there from 2000-2020.
I was in LA for a day last year. I drove straight from the car rental at LAX out to Cypress in Orange County, then to Pico-Robertson in LA to get some kosher food and then back to LAX. Orange County looked like a picture postcard promoting southern California. Los Angeles was dystopian. People living in old Winnebagos within blocks of the airport. Way more homeless folks pushing shopping carts up La Cienega than I've ever seen in Detroit. Armed security guards in every retail establishment of any size, also something I rarely see around Detroit.
a lot of that can be blamed on the state's K-shaped economy and housing prices. California has the world's 7th largest economy, yet here in the Bay Area we have literally had teachers living in Winnebagos because they can't afford homes.
I love California, but also hate it.
I have limited time in CA. My impressions were that OC and San Diego are spectacular. LA and Long Beach are scary.
The area I stayed at in LA in December was alternately wealthy and dilapidated. Not a great combination. The broken and heaving cracked sidewalks were a horrendous sign of no civic pride. The city just doesn’t care and it was obvious.
Orange County, home of the best game show contestant in history (0:20): https://www.youtu.be/0Vm6PnuP24g
Same here, although I’m another one who abandoned it. I moved back to Asheville where I grew up.
My wife is LA born and raised, so I lived there for 20 years. I loved my time there.
1. Car capital of the world…LA worships the car.
2. Roads. Angeles crest and the canyons in LA county are empty on weekdays. And NEVER patrolled!
3. Entrepreneurial spirit. There’s a self-starter culture that transcends ethnicity…I could name friends of all ethnicities that own successful businesses.
The one party politics grated on me, and Covid finally caused me to leave. I took my then five-year-old son to the playground and they had police tape around it. Then Newsome forbade schools to open until Fall 2021. I decided I didn’t want to raise my kids in the state anymore.
I lived in a high-rise in downtown LA 30 years ago. Used to walk from my place to the Biltmore for cocktails and cigars and the occasional dinner In Bernards. On my last visit in April, downtown makes Tijuana look like paradise.
Regarding the stolen election in California, we are turning into a Russian oligarchy, in which we witness fraud and corruption and pretend that it’s acceptable, we individually can do nothing about it and it makes almost no sense to even acknowledge that it exists.
I'm with you. I'm a resident of L.A., and I'm not happy with the results of this election. The idea of a stolen election causes me great cognitive dissonance.
The optics are definitely there, but how could it be that there aren't any Republicans, Pratt supporters, and/or fair-minded people or people with a conscience involved with the process of counting the ballots? I would like to think someone would have sounded the alarm. How could something like this be put past every single person who would object? And, realistically, how would you identify those people ahead of time with 100% accuracy?
How did Pelosi get elected, when everyone knows how crooked she is? I think the ACLU ignores because they are another ngo that is for the democrats.
As I understand it, the mail-in balloting process in California allows ANYONE to submit ANY NUMBER of ballots at once, as long as they are legitimate original ballots. There doesn't need to be any corruption inside the ballot building.
Just the fact that anyone can vote, be they citizen or foreign in California is antithetical to what citizenship means in this country, the enemy’s are inside the gates.
And you can get paid for collecting ballots. Not paid for a single ballot. But picking up multiples is fine.
Yes ballot harvesting.
You can’t like go somewhere and get blank ballots and take them away.
The ballots are mailed to everyone before the election, and you either mail them in (in the provided envelope), or drop them off in designated ballot boxes.
Or you go to a polling place and you can fill out a ballot there and submit it.
To “harvest” ballots, someone would have to go door to door and get people to give them their ballot. While theoretically possible it would be a huge logistical challenge. And, it would assume the Democratic party is actually competent enough to pull off such a massive thing without any evidence leaking out, and there is plenty of data proving that party is not competent.
THAT is the only thing they are competent at
Don't know if LA is like here, but Washington State's King County Elections allows you to log in with a name, address, and birthday to print a ballot on a computer.
And given that public PDF images of voter initiatives have the required information *and* a signature, you could theoretically.... do the needful.
Omw to California with a fully loaded trailer of Jeb! ballots
HE CAN STILL WIN
Here’s several vehicles for sale that will help navigate the mean streets of Columbus and other cities in comfort and safety. Probably not quickly, though. Just saw on CFP.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/fleet-of-secret-service-chevy-suburban-hds-with-superchargers-now-available-to-the-public
Not sure how they do it there. I was a Republican poll worker in Chicago. At the end of the day, they’d take the thumb drives from the voting machines and stick them into some device which magically sent the results back to some central location. We loaded the paper ballots onto a van to be delivered to a place where they were stored. No one knew the final resting place and how a ballot could ever be located again.
Very transparent…NOT.
Its all paper ballots that get machine read.
In many places I believe all mail in ballots are supposed to have signatures compared and other security procedures in place. I believe I remember this was not done in many places in 2020.
And I also seem to remember boxes being delivered late at night to counting areas.
No time tonight to try and verify my recollections.
Something I don't get: in Ohio, I can login online to see that my vote was counted but I cannot see how the vote was cast. Why can't I confirm that my choices were recorded correctly?
Michigan is the same.
They don't want other people being able to coerce you and then confirm who you voted for. Same reason you can't photograph a ballot.
If republicans ever want to win an election or make and headway in California they are going to have to learn how to play the election game the way democrats do by ballot harvesting and doing whatever they have to do in order to get ballots filled out the way they want and then getting them into drop boxes and into the counting rooms.
It would only take one statewide republican win for California democrats to demand immediate election reform.
CA has had Rep governors
Its been a while since that happened and is unlikely to happen again under their current election rules.
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills has a ballot operation. Democrat observers showed up to monitor and were disappointed to find no violations.
There is a theory floated that in the countdown from getting kicked out of Afghanistan to collapse, Trump is our Yeltsin.
I don’t think so, and this part of history has yet to be written.
History just has to rhyme.
I don’t believe that the United States is any where near as precarious today as was The USSR in 1988, yes history often repeats itself, and really, Europe looks a lot more precarious.
the difference being Trump doesn't drink.
I find it amazing that when confronted with the facts like she entered the race late, had no name recognition, ran virtually no campaign, didn’t even win her own precinct (?) and then massively outperforms even the mayor after Election Day, it raises NO questions from the usual suspects.
They accomplished with her what they were unable to accomplish with Harris. In broad daylight with everyone looking.
Important to bear in mind that it is only the evil, WOKE CUCK, lizard person, DEMON RAT party that is doing this.
Donald Trump and his family are the only bulwark we have against people looting our country.
Agreed, but many republicans are guilty too, time will tell.
pretty sure Sherman was being sarcastic / ironic about Trump being a bulwark against looting the country.
I don’t disagree 😏
Oh the people on here who will think you said this sincerely…
It is willful ignorance from the media. I grew up in St. Claire County Illinois and it was run by a Democrat machine that rivaled Chicago. The county is mostly rural with two towns of around 45000 people; Belleville, 100% white at the time, and East St. Louis, 100% black at the time. The Democrats had split the county into 2 voting districts with ESL being one district and the rest of the county the other. ESL was always the last to report their votes and always managed to produce just enough votes to put the Democrats over the line. Everyone knew what was going on. I knew several Democrat politicians that readily admitted they paid people to vote in ESL. There was a Pulitzer prize waiting for a reporter to break that story but somehow they never did. It's not quite as bad now that Belleville is integrated and ESL's population has dropped so low that even the Democrats can't manufacture enough votes to push all of the Democrats over the line. But it's still run by Democrats and they still have shenanigans going on and the media is still willfully blind.
But there has never been voting fraud in this country! Except that one time a republican did it in North Carolina!
That’s the thing. The media shows zero interest in investigating plausible claims.
If the politicians who are so interested in saving our democracy would have opened the books and shown us that 2020 election was free and fair, that would have saved us years of strife. Instead they’ve consistently stonewalled any attempt at transparency.
That tells me something. The same thing is happening with voter, Medicaid, etc rolls in the blue states. Zero cooperation and lawsuits to fight any efforts to clean them up.
and it goes up to and includes the White House.
Hunt vs Hamilton
https://x.com/i/status/2063864097460867133
Hamilton https://www.instagram.com/reels/DNlV-35u145/
I'm shocked these data centers don't get burned down by disgruntled residents
I'm shocked the blatant election fraud isn't met with violence. I suspect we'll hit an inflection point eventually and it'll get hot really fast but that could be in 3 weeks or 30 years.
I'd like to add I have no datacenters in this town nor do I care about LA enough to enact violence on any politician. But, I am still shocked no one does.
If anyone suggest you burn down your local datacenters, that's the Fed. If you come to it of your own devices.... it's the CIA.
Why does everyone hate the data centers? Is it because they take up space? They have to contribute more to the tax base than vacant land. I'm not sure there's an exemption carve out for them in the MCL unless they build in some sort of brownfield or NEZ.
The park thing in today's ORT is egregious, though. Title work should have identified that and prevented it from happening.
They'll double your utility bills and ruin your water supply while the datacenter reaps all the rewards and the residents get screwed. How many jobs do they provide?
Like 10 lol
My county just issued a moratorium on them, in a rare spot of good news.
Until someone gets bought off.
Probably a net negative number of jobs.
They always get huge tax exemptions and so contribute nothing to the tax base. They don't add any beneficial jobs to the economy -- a few dozen illegals during construction and a dozen H1Bs after construction. They obligate power companies to permanently upgrade power infrastructure at huge cost to locals. They are hugely noisy and yet somehow bypass zoning to get built next to residential neighborhoods.
I'm not a fan of how this is all coming about, but...
.... "a few dozen illegals during construction"?!?
A data center of any size will involve thousands of skilled tradesmen to build it -- enough so that Meta is starting their own trade schools, allowing people to enroll for free, and guaranteeing them a job when they finish. There's a data center going up in my sisters new homeland (Cheyenne, WY) and the biggest concern there is the man-camp they're constructing to house the workers. There are projected to be 8000 of them.
It's not all sweetness and light, but please don't call 8000 skilled trades jobs, "a few dozen illegals".
a few thousand illegals then?
My apologies, I failed to comprehend the sheer scale of this folly. But please don't call 8000 transient workers "8000 skilled trades jobs". Is this why I can't find a skilled tradesman in my town, because they are all building slop factories instead of housing?
"This one time, at man camp..."
I'm still trying to understand the intent of data centers and why I would want more of them? As a citizen, my simple question is: How does it benefit me and the nation as a whole?
To me it looks like a net negative because we spend a shit ton of public money to put them together so that we will have less jobs. Am I missing something?
Less jobs and a nigh omniscient surveillance state.
Fewer.
They're plenty of land in this country to build them in the middle of nowhere. It's the "you can't build shit but google can" that really infuriates people. I don't have a problem with the concept of a datacenter
I used to not have a problem with datacenters but lately with how they intend to use these things at the scale they are building, it does have me a bit concerned.
The gov can't really do these massive social projects so they veil it as private investments. Somehow though, it's gov related. Kinda like how they forced the hand on things like EVs and Vaccines.
I don’t either, PROVIDED, they are not connected to the electrical grid, and they are not allowed to pump water out of the ground or otherwise impact water supplies, AND they pay the same property tax rates as surrounding homeowners.
Here's my question: How can there be more money than at any time in history, yet the word "enshitification" defines modern America?
And the data centers are part of the problem here.
oh theres more money now than ever
its not going to us though
Money is a medium of exchange. You can print more money but you cant print more things
Well, in the case of Japanese cars, we're never getting another XV10 Camry because Japan will never again be sitting on a huge bubble of cash. The auto industry needs to be deregulated down to some basics. We can argue over what those are.
This is where we the people are pretty stupid. We know that the money only goes to the top with all of this AI Datacenter buildout. Yet, we just keep funneling all of our money into the stocks that's making this happen. All in hopes that we stay ahead of the pack, financially.
In the meantime, what is the point of the AI Datacenters? Probably surveillance and getting rid of a lot of workers. And for sure funneling money to the few. Looking at it macroscopically, we like to build our own nooses...
Edit: Proof, look at all of the funky people we keep voting BACK into office, decade after decade!
The spice must flow to the oligarchy.
One big turn-off is that they've become a gold rush for shady land developers who shush the local government and any neighbors who'll bite with a non-disclosure agreement, seek tax abatement, and make a plan to stuff the maximum number of cooling towers and natural gas "backup" generators on the property. Then they go looking for the power and water (power is hard, water just takes a promise of some $$ tomorrow). If nothing leaks out before the town council or county commission approves the final development agreement, the bulldozing has already occurred.
They've been building a couple of data centers north of where I live for a while now. Started before the AI thing. Texas Instruments also decided to expand, rather than close, a major installation of theirs in the same area. As this is out in 'semi-country' and in an area no one really cared about (and not IN any town) everyone was cool with it. The TI place at least has it's own power, and pretty much everything else (there are a few fabs there and I think they're actually building some more, rather than shut the old ones down).
Right now, everything in that aspect is being done with everyone's approval. Hopefully that won't change.
The current outrage here is that they want to build one next to the Nashville Zoo. The economics are unclear to me of putting it there but the outrage seems to be centered on…well it’s a data center.
I'd be more concerned with the noise and the animals.
That would be a fair point. You likely don’t know but they give an annual festival of lights for over a month where there’s all sorts of light displays at night. I personally would not attend because I think it’s bad for the animals and a money grab by the zoo.
https://www.nashvillezoo.org/zoolumination
I live a few hours away and have been to Cheekwood several times and I've enjoyed their Xmas lights. Never have been to the zoo.
The Nashville Zoo? Could you be more specific?
I thought the whole of Nashville WAS the zoo.
Haha. Touché!
I take the advice of philosopher Elvis Costello who used to be disgusted but now tries to be amused. Doesn’t always work unfortunately.
Imagine Bill Hicks being optimistic. Yeah, not happening.
I’ve been saying a real revolt is long overdue.
"I'm shocked these data centers don't get burned down"
Nah, that'll only allow the owners to collect on insurance.
Antonelli is turning in a legendary performance every weekend. The best part about this kid is that he's bright and he loves F1 and its history and pangeantry: have you ever seen him in some of those goofy F1 games they make the drivers do? He knows tons of trivia and can identify those pictures where they change one thing in the time it takes a hummingbird to flap its wings. It's a shame Team LH won't shut up about how great it is to be #2. Maybe it's to get back at all the Max fans last year who are still sore over coming up 2 points short after that stellar end of his season...
I'm glad not everything else is depressing. That Honda stuff looks like good news for all the motorcycle riders here!
He's one of the Likable drivers.
Hamilton is the worst. Princess George is a close second. Does that guy ever stop complaining? I don't mind Charles but you know he, or ferrari, is just gonna fuck it up. I like Max but redbull kinda sucks right now. I don't mind either of the McLaren drivers outside of Norris being boring. So... Go kimmy
Kimi is really growing on me. He's just blindingly fast.
Max is an assassin, in all the best ways. George is a princess. LeClerc is never, ever gonna' be a champion. Norris is LeClerc who happened to win last year, and will never win again. Oscar showed every sign of being Max 2.0 until he folded after being asked to give up position for Norris last year (it got in his head and is still crawling around). Sir Lewis is... faster than he's been in a while, but WOW that guy is full of himself.
The guy who has grown on me the most in all of this is Toto. He's steadily, consistently won, no matter who is driving his cars. I liked Zac Brown for a hot minute when McLaren was "in persuit" -- but he's not a likable figure when he's on top. Fred is just lost. Horn Dog cannot get far enough away from the sport for me, he's a cocky Alfred E Newman. James Vowles is Toto 2.0, which is why I keep hoping for the best at Williams.
Horn dog. What an idiot, what a fuckin idiot. Loyalty and faithfulness aside, Gingers still hot! Max has 5 championships if horndog keeps it in his pants*
*I don't even think he got any
I think he and Ginger have a deal of sorts. That's why she lined up behind him so quick. She doesn't need his money or his assets.
Let's not overlook Alonso, who is in it purely for the love of the game. He could do any number of things with his time and money, yet he keeps dragging dogs to better finishes than they deserve with teammates who were weren't out of grade school when he was winning three championships in a row. the guy has raced in something like one-third of all F1 faces in history and is still at it.
Between perennial rookie Alonso and the King of all Trolls Max, there are some fun personalities on the grid. Alonso always looks pleased in a strange way to do the post-race and post-qualifying interviews.
Imagine being Princess George’s engineer and listening to the whining over the radio for 2 hours.
"He's 10.5 car lengths behind. He's only allowed to be 10!" They all bitch and complain but George is by far the worst. I guess I didn't really notice the Albon bitching.
One of the results of the LA mayoral race fraud goes far beyond its city limits. The engineered removal of Mr. Pratt from the race stole hope itself.
Normal citizens in blue zones and democratic in name only countries throughout the west have been shown there is no hope for change. That there is no point fighting the leftist blob as your best efforts will be defeated by "break-the-glass" contingencies.
In the above-mentioned areas there is no punishment for fraud only endless reward. Why would they act differently?
Well, there is still one way to get things to change...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
All democratic nations would benefit from the right to bear arms. A case could be made that is a necessity of self-government.
No American has the balls to do that anymore.
Yeah, those were guys fresh from Omaha Beach in that revolt. I'm not sure how many of those are in the entire state of CA, let alone LA.
There is a lot of active and former military here
There’s a good Fat Electrician video about everything worth knowing about.
https://youtu.be/tdIK3JFIWNI?si=uioRm0h4P7dRk6lv
In a real country, Donald trump would quit the war in Iran and invade LA.
Warthogs over Hollywood
Do you have the script rights to that yet?
I should be working but let's load up on coffee and bang out a treatment by end of day.
🙄
Id take the quitting the war in iran half too
We all know you just got a semi.
Or Escape From LA?
“Oh, come on. What’s wrong with California?”
“Really? REALLY? Let’s see, poorly-aimed gunfights viewed as urban recreation, taxes through the roof on everything, bums everywhere, halfwits who try to outrun the cops in their 200,000-mile, bone-stock shitboxes, hobos using public spaces as open-air toilets, the most basic house costs a million bucks, state & local governments have declared war on the common man, glass-egoed ethnic gangbangers who take EYE CONTACT as a mortal threat, illegal aliens that walk in daylight, EVERYTHING gives you cancer, sexual predators who ply their trade as if God Himself gave them permission, everyone’s flaky as hell, auto theft & narcotics trafficking so common as to be openly viewed as legitimate sectors of the economy, environmental laws that favor plants & animals over people, far & away the most totalitarian car inspection regime in America, Lower Case G’s, criminal gangs from every country on the planet, celebutante fame whores, smoking’s illegal but marijuana’s encouraged, government regulations that’re chasing all the non-criminal businesses out of the state, public employee unions powerful enough to bankrupt whatever legitimate government they have left out there, roads & bridges disintegrating because the government uses their funding to hire diversity zampolits, militarized police with itchy trigger fingers & a Judge Dredd mentality who’ll arrest someone for speeding while thugs burn down a liquor store a hundred feet away, pornographers who operate under the impression that the First Amendment applies to THEM and really, how far could I go on this tangent without using the word ‘cannibal?’ I’ll just say it - it’s an evil place where only monsters can thrive. And the ones who aren’t stealing BMWs, burning down entire cities in the name of racial justice, murdering each other over facial expressions, manufacturing entire libraries of pornography or writing as many noxious laws as fast as they fucking can are stoned out of their minds on pretty much any chemical substance they can get their filthy little hippie hands on. I mean, have you ever noticed that every single social pathology currently tearing this country to shreds got started in either Los Angeles or Frisco?”
Hey, are you calling me flaky? Oh, well, never mind …..
yeah but besides that i mean
There is lots of CA that are not LA or Frisco. Thankfully. Now if we could just get a non-wack-job to run for governor.
Not according to Hollywood.
The refrain “Learn to swim” from the Tool song Aenima runs through my head whenever I am back in LA. Lived there for
I can't imagine why you wouldn't welcome any change, my friend!
Why didn't sharles just not listen to Ferrari? I mean? C'mon. It was flipping obvious what would happen if lewis pitted before him. You're in 3rd and this fucker can't pass? Especially at monaco.
He was underinformed, deliberately, by the team. He wanted to stay out.
I have no doubt they're screwing him but HE SHOULD KNOW. We all know. He's right flipping behind the guy. let's say lewis has no penalty. He's still better off in front of him with worse tires. He'd already had his one change if I'm remembering correctly.
Apparently Ferrari decided they would rather have the "guaranteed" 2-3, with Sir Lewis up front, than a situation where Charles would have to defend on old tires... which is ridiculous.
WAT
What are the odds Ferrari is getting order from up on high? I'm gonna make a bold prediction the 28 year old ends up ahead of the 42 year old by the end of the season. They'd be tied now if his car didn't shit the bed. Charles needs to look out for charles. I say this for completely selfish reasons of loathing hamilton and the british press
Sadly he's signed a multi-year extension to remain with the team. Although, where else is he going to go? Red Bull after Hadjar washes out?
If he is lucky, he can go race Ferrari prototypes after this nightmare is done.
I don’t know about Hadjar washing out. He looked pretty strong on Sunday despite being 30 seconds back of Kimi by the end of the race.
I’m no F1 fan/follower but I have seen the stuff about Lewis yelling about billionaires from the perch of his yacht before getting on his plane. I already knew he’s a faggoty virtue signaling wokester but how does a moron like this not think “yeah they’ll come for the billionaires and then leave the half a billionaires like me alone”? I mean I guess he may just be genuinely unintelligent.
charlie chaplin had similar ideas: 'communists will just leave us artists alone.'
The one bright side of the revolution is before they kill us all, they kill eachother first. So, at least we get to enjoy that.
We are about to have a trillionaire among us in just a few hours.
Billionaires are regular folks in comparison, and mere centimillionaires like Luigi are common.
It's literally the same thinking that Matt Farah has.
Keeping in mind what Cormac McCarthy pointed out -- that, evolutionarily-speaking, most of our emotional responses date from prior to the development of written language; so whenever you get furious about something you read, reflect for a moment that it's merely a biochemical gradient in your brain, an epiphenomenon of the terrors your illiterate ancestors experienced 8,000 years ago -- the LA and Taylor stories are indeed outrages (I hadn't even heard of the squalid Nashville Zoo episode) which I have a hard time staying calm about.
But there is comfort in the pulverizing rhythms of the Prophets, those magnificent Hebrew parallelisms and repetitions:
Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they sell the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth
and turn aside the way of the afflicted;
a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
they lay themselves down beside every altar
on garments taken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
the wine of those who have been fined."
"watching some of the discourse on the subject has made me lose a measurable amount of hope for our continued American co-existence"
the outcry from the usual suspects was infuriating and unsurprising at the same time. they have no idea what actually happened and they dont care. they only seem to care about a black kid facing any repercussions whatsoever for murdering a white kid because hes white (some even dare to suggest he deserved it which of course he didnt) becuase das raysis or something. and there werent any of them on the jury becuase they cant help themselves being absurdly biased. i know. its not all of them. i am aware of that. 35 years isnt long enough. shouldve gotten the chair.
"Antonelli is effortlessly toasting the driver — Princess George — who has been making Hamilton look awful for years now"
>tfw when you drive a tractor for years at williams only to go to mercedes when they forget how to build a car and then when they remember the guy they put in as the number 2 driver turns into fuckin prime senna
worst luck? possibly the inverse of hamilton
"The FIA has determined that Red Bull has the best F1 engine"
bruh.
"what you are seeing in the chart above is a stolen election, it is fraud, it is evil"
yes. you are objectively correct.
"If you are like me, you probably struggle with your attraction to what I can only call unnecessary technological obfuscation"
real. i dont care if desmodromic valve systems are inferior to lobes and finger followers i want them
"Well, in the hands of Larry Hofer, it’s going to make power. Because he has re-engineered it to feature direct injection, variable valve timing"
okay but assuming he went to an aluminum block what was the point? big blocks and their torque made sense when all you has was a turbo400 or a 4 speed at most. now youve got 8 speeds so frying tires has never been easier. no idea how much power itll make but im sure it could be outdone by whatever lt or ls engine youd want. at least the 632 they sell makes 1000hp but would never pass emissions or durability testing
"The builder’s response to public pushback was… to add another one more than three times as large next to it."
i bet these can be sabotaged relatively easily with targeted small arms fire
"you want a real air-cooled Honda retro, let’s talk"
do go on sir
"do go on sir"
ACF reader price on the CB1100 would be dirt cheap.
it looks like a slightly modern version of the 400/4 i had the chance to buy years ago
really does suit my tastes
Alright, you have my attention. I've been casually looking at these for a while now. My ideal one would be a Deluxe, but I could possibly be swayed...
Jack has a black standard. So no abs or anything.
Everything you need, nothing you don't!
Every standard black I've known has had a 6 pack
I'll admit, I've been thinking about a new motorcycle. I don't want to get rid of the ZZR1200. But something newer and yes, more reliable, might be a good idea. I probably should sell my Vulcan SE - it just doesn't ridden enough these days.
Though a part of me is still tempted to buy an older, pre-monoshock, Low Rider. There are days I still miss my sportster, which was just a nice GPB kinda bike. The Low Rider was really just the 'grown up' version with a bigger motor, a bit more power and a bit more range.
Try a USA-made Sportster S, they are out there cheap.
I'll have to look into that, thanks!
Do you want an air cooled bike or is liquid cooling ok?
Either is fine if I go with something new. The bike Jack showed us that's coming from Honda I admit is interesting.
I’m sure it’s just a random coincidence that this man is in charge of the vote counting in LA:
https://nypost.com/2026/06/05/us-news/los-angeles-county-registrarclerk-dean-logans-history-of-election-controversy/
Wow, what an incredible coincidence
Yeah that was something.
Do we get to vote on the FIA's supposed decision to penalize Red Bull's engine? If the choices are "quite stupid" and "openly corrupt," I would have to go for the latter.
They plainly want a Sir Lewis World Championship, and Lewis has traditionally demonstrated that he needs the best car AND a hand up to do it.
The absolutle funniest part of this is he probably has his best chance at it if he stayed with mercedes and toto would've given him the edge and the better car.
and he would either be fighting george or kimi who would both dust him
You have to be an IDIOT...
and I mean an IDIOT...
to bet on Ferrari against Toto Wolff. They've never come CLOSE to figuring out how to beat him.
I think we've established Lewis is insufferable and an idiot at this point. What's funny is I can't stand toto but I wouldn't bet against him either. Toto has actually ben less insufferable since Lewis has left.
It'd be like betting on the Cowboys to win a super bowl before any team coached by Andy Reid.
Just imagine all the merch sold if Sir wins the WDC for Ferrari!
With regards to this Karmelo Anthony thing, I'm wondering if Carmelo Anthony is having a tough time with this.
Has anyone else noticed that just when I didn't think race baiting can't get any worse, I feel like it's ramped up even more lately. All i see on my feeds are "journalists" feeding into the racial divisions. Whites hate blacks, blacks hate whites. Now Asians hate blacks and vice versa. And of course, everyone hating on Indians.
This can't be completely organic, right?
I for the record didn’t need any help in being pushed towards hating other races. Happened totally organically for me.
I guess I'm generally a "treat each person as an individual" type of person, but of course we have our initial opinions on people of all different types. And I think most people kinda end up there eventually, regardless. I just wonder what the objective is to race bait from the propagandists today.
odd that youd see that as my take has always been that theres a concerted effort to keep a lid on race relations and as such obscure reality in the process
Maybe it's just platforms like X. Just total racial hatred one way or another. It's pretty stupid because what's the objective?
I mean it’s pattern recognition. I have friends and acquaintances of all races, but would I move into a predominantly black or Indian (or Jewish or Muslim or or or) community? Fuck no. Statistics don’t lie.
My guess is that in Jewish neighborhoods, at least religious Jewish neighborhoods, the teenagers aren't going to break into your garage and steal stuff. They're too busy watching younger siblings.
"treat each person as an individual"
I did this when I was younger, and, for instance, was probably one of two people on my team who spoke to a contractor.
But lately, I see that while this makes sense for individualistic cultures, what if said "individual" always travels as part of a group and always acts in the interests of a group?
https://xcancel.com/amandalouise416/status/2062182782529409460#m
If the said individual aligns themselves with the "other side" then they are an enemy. But I'm assuming not ALL share the same views of behavior.
0. He murdered someone in cold blood.
1. 1M was raised in his support, while Austin's dad got the visit from Community Relations to 'not make it about race'.
2. His parents blew the money on a luxury home rental and cars and cruises
3. No attorneys would take the case, even pro bono, after seeing the video so he got stuck with a PD that argued that Austin walked into the knife.
4. Austin is still dead, Karmelo is still breathing.
It's organic as much as the OJ trial was.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/trump-administration-doj-fired-workers
This is infuriating. Trump gutted the demonic CRS then an "American" judge, Indira Talwani, put them back to work.
And he complied of course. I WAS TOLD HE WAS HITLER
EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING
I heard on a podcast "Please lord give me the Trump they say he is".
{Indira Talwani}
id put it down to people finally opening their eyes to the reality of the situation
kinda like how the #stopasianhate thing got shut down when people started figuring out who was doing the asian hating
I think people already know how this stuff works, hence you see where they move when they make some money.
I just find it interesting that I'm seeing a lot more propaganda to hate other races lately. Not sure what that accomplishes.
"I just find it interesting that I'm seeing a lot more propaganda to hate other races lately. Not sure what that accomplishes."
Black people are encouraged to hate whites because it allows them to be more effectively manipulated as a voting and consumer bloc. Whites are being encouraged to return the hate because otherwise they are lambs led to slaughter. It's awful on both sides.
Here is the cure:
https://www.youtube.com/@CultureSwapShorts
Well, also at the same time suburban white women are getting convinced that black folks need protection from the really bad white man.
Carmelo "Stop Snitching" Anthony, you mean? I'm sure he is mostly upset the kid didn't have a chance to stab TWO people.
I wonder how all of this affects Cadbury's sales of "Caramello" products.
Having only detached interest in the mayoral race stemming from too much time spent on X mostly watching body cam footage of black women getting arrested, what utterly flummoxes me is the absolute vitriol Pratt drew. Like if you want to say he’s dumb or inexperienced or unqualified, sure, I get that kind of, but he came across as earnest in wanting to change things. But the number of “Now go fuck off Pratt” posts I’ve seen from semi-reasonable people on the ‘gram is interesting and disturbing. I mean I guess if you’re just knee jerk anti anyone to the right of Hillary, this is how you respond? But otherwise, what did he do or say that deserves outright hatred from people who aren’t obviously in on the scam in LA? Boggles the mind. There are some politicians I hate, but there are also plenty on the other side who I just have casual disagreement with. Hell, Zohran doesn’t really offend me, I don’t agree with him, but whatever, he seems relatively sincere in his beliefs.
Read your Orwell. Women, and men who think like women, will scream themselves hoarse in defense of an evil status quo.
In national politics, sure. But it doesn’t get much more local than this. And you can’t even really say “well it’s the elites behind the gates of the fancy neighborhoods” because the Palisades was the fancy neighborhood. The squalor is all over LA. Money doesn’t really insulate you from it outside of the very tip top of Beverly Hills or whatever. The kind of people who are reacting that I see are well off but certainly not “helicopter to the mansion over the poors” well off. Maybe I just underestimate the amount of virtue signaling is needed to maintain status in a place like that, I dunno.
"The kind of people who are reacting that I see are well off but certainly not “helicopter to the mansion over the poors” well off."
To coin a phrase, they are cosplaying the AP Swatch of elite attitudes.
They won't get invited to the cool parties if they don't. How much of this is the women caterwauling and the men too afraid to tell them to shut up?
They saw him as Trump’s candidate, or at least of Trump’s party, what he actually thought wasn’t relevant to them.
People love to find ways to sort each other into one group or the other. In the current political environment once they decide you’re on the opposite team you’re infinite scum.