Self-driving vehicles may not be the awesome technological advance that we think they are.
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One thing is for sure, I’ll never, ever get in Self-Driving vehicle! I really can’t imagine ANYONE that would be willing to do that. That said, one of the Clowns that took Rush’s place on the radio did get in one with his son. SMDH!!!
If we didn’t live in Bizarro World these abominations would die on the vine after not be accepted by the general public.
FWIW; I didn’t watch the video.
Mornin’Gang
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Hubby is in pre-op, about to get the good drugs.
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I have a question and that is how long are the left-wing nut-jobs going to keep the Trump Hate Party going? This of course, is headed up by the Lamestream Media, the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party. The reason I ask is that over 50% of the country voted for Trump, he got 312 Electoral Votes and won the Popular vote. Do they even care that over half the country, (the sane half) like Trump? FWIW: I’ve been news blackout but this morning I cranked up Fox and the first story was about a Pittsburgh Steelers player being chastised for visiting Trump. Also the Steelers issued a statement about the player having the right to do that and they of course didn’t take a side. This is still all unbelievable to me but I guess the Democrats are going to ride that dead horse all the way to hell and back.
I’ll add that their popularity is still sinking. I say stick to your principles and go down in flames. 😉
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Self driving cars are a self-inflicted disaster waiting to happen. I haven’t watched the video yet but probably will. The real problem with the self driving cars is that they are not linked to the older human driven cars; the auto-drive will not be able to handle some road raging or otherwise incompetent a-whole and lots of accidents will happen. When the auto-drive gets in a wreck with a standard car because the auto-drive could not handle the complex situation before it, who gets the ticket – the pseudo driver who is really a passenger, the car manufacturer, the software writer?
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The people running the Smithsonian these days are radical, leftist sexual deviants. They are daring the White House to shut down their in-your-face, gay party.
On Saturday, the National Portrait Gallery, along with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), threw an event billed as a “Pride Family Festival.” Tagged under both the “Family Programs” and “Kids and Families” event categories on the Smithsonian’s website, the three-and-a-half-hour event was geared specifically toward children, with “hands-on craft activities.” A description posted online boasted of coloring pages, a scavenger hunt, and “a drop-in story time featuring biographies.” A dance troupe performed a routine that, according to its website, “explores the work of queer women artists.” The youth section of the D.C. Gay Men’s Chorus was invited to perform, as was a band named D.C.’s Different Drummers, which describes itself as a “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender music organization.”
It gets worse.
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Margot Cleveland is a brilliant legal scholar and law professor. This was, in my opinion, the most important news story of yesterday, a day full of remarkable news. Tedtam linked Childers’ comments about it.
I highly recommend reading both of the linked articles. This is a much larger criminal operation than Watergate ever was.
People familiar with the investigation into the Russia collusion hoax told The Federalist that senior officials did not know the FBI case management database, Sentinel, allowed agents to conceal the existence of evidence. Nor did anyone from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office mention that documents related to the investigation into the Trump campaign had been rendered invisible by use of the “Prohibited Access” coding in Sentinel — even though they knew the Department of Justice was investigating the origins and handling of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
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As The Federalist detailed earlier today, the “Prohibited Access” coding in the FBI’s Sentinel case management system, “precludes investigators from detecting the existence of potentially relevant serials.” “In other words,” according to the just-released FBI report, “when search terms that exist in the Prohibited Access-status cases are searched in Sentinel, the particular search will receive a false-negative Sentinel search response.”
On Tuesday, Cleveland published this column. Every agent and DOJ attorney who was aware of this Prohibited Access database should be subpoenaed to testify under oath.
The existence of the “Prohibited Access” classification came as a surprise to several former career prosecutors and FBI agents. Jay Town, a former career prosecutor and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama under Trump 1.0, told The Federalist he was not aware of the “Prohibited Access” classification and shared that many of his colleagues likewise had never heard of it. “This is a staggering revelation for nearly all of us,” Town said.
At least one former assistant U.S. attorney, however, indicated he knew of the “Prohibited Access” coding, and clearly the FBI Washington Field Office agents who drafted and approved the EC were familiar with its use as well. But how many DOJ and FBI agents knew of the “Prohibited Access” functionality is unknown.
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The ‘people’ involved with the Palestenian News Network all need a vigorous hickory shampoo. I’m really surprised that the owner or manager of the restaurant did not kick these jackazzes out or call the police. The PNN group is going to bump into the wrong guy and there will be bloodshed.
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Bellville’s Trump Burger is spreading across SE Texas and woke journalists don’t like it even if it is making national news.
A Lebanese immigrant named Roland Beainy reportedly opened the restaurant chain, “Trump Burger,” featuring burgers branded with the president’s name, American flags, and joke items themed around his Democratic rivals. The chain currently has multiple locations in Texas, and food reviewers have offered their opinions on both the food and the politics of the new chain.
“I’m waiting for my order at Trump Burger in Houston surrounded by merchandise including baseball caps emblazoned with ‘Trump 2024 The Revenge Tour’ and red T-shirts featuring a favorite line from the 47th President of the United States, ‘You’re fake news!’” Houston Chronicle restaurant critic Bao Ong wrote.
The writers at the Chronicle are insufferable boors with no sense of humor.
Trump Burger, which loudly proclaims its support for President Donald Trump, has quickly become one of the most controversial fast-casual restaurants in Texas. What started as one politically charged burger joint in Bellville, Texas, in 2020 has since expanded to a chainlet across the region, bringing its unapologetically MAGA branding to cities like Flatonia, Texas; Kemah, Texas; and, most recently, West Houston on Chimney Rock Road.
Owner Roland Beainy, a Lebanese immigrant who says he opened the restaurant in support of Trump, has been candid with local media. Though his restaurants have no official affiliation with the president, Beainy has said he thinks Trump greatly improved the economy during his first presidency (spoiler: he didn’t) and hopes to collaborate with him one day. Not everyone, however, seems as enthusiastic. Even before opening its doors in May, Trump Burger’s Houston outpost was met with middle fingers from passing drivers, according to a Houston Chronicle report — a sign of the friction in a predominantly Democratic city. But Trump Burger isn’t trying to win everyone over. From the “Made in USA” logos plastered on the menu to burgers literally stamped with the Trump name, the restaurant makes its deference to the president (and a particular group of diners) resoundingly clear.
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Appreciate the spoiler alert Chronicle. :anger:
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You might think about changing those critical website passwords.
The database containing the compromised passwords was ironically unencrypted and not password-protected itself, the report said.
The publicly accessible database contained 184,162,718 unique logins and passwords reportedly tied to email providers such as Google and a range of Microsoft products, as well as social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, ZDNet reported.
Fowler shared that information from bank accounts, health services and government portals was also unprotected.
According to Fowler, as cited by Website Planet, the data appeared to have been harvested by infostealer malware, a type of malicious software that extracts sensitive information from infected devices, often distributed via phishing emails, malicious websites, or cracked software.
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He’s out of surgery and in his bed, moaning. But not in a good way.
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Now the healing begins. Have patience, there will be good days and bad days. Eventually the bad days will be better than the good days are now.
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I swear this is not a hoax.
Karine Jean-Pierre has left the Democratic Party.
I’m not kiddin’, man.
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Hubby and I saw that in the news. we both agreed it’s her attempt to save her own a$$ by distancing herself from the sinking ship.
Like that new NK warship.
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I can’t stand this pompous moron. Kurt stomps on Bono’s fake halo.
It’s behind a paywall.
Joe Rogan just had Bono on his podcast, and Bono, who famously poses as the great White Irish savior of the Third World, stated that America’s USAID cuts have already killed 300,000 people. Well, that’s a lot of people. Rogan pointed out that USAID is a giant money laundering scam, and a lot of other people have been either asking where all these 300,000 dead people are or wondering why Bono – who’s rich beyond measure thanks to the bad taste of so many people – doesn’t get his checkbook out and start scribbling. No evidence supports his ridiculous claim, but the substance of his accusation isn’t really the point.
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Like leftists do all the time when they decide we have to do something, Bono didn’t say, and I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – an answer to the foundational question of why foreigners’ problems are our fault. I think he’s just pulling it out of the same place he’s been pulling songs out of since about 1987.
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What ?!?! Have we slipped into a bizarre parallel universe ?
In her new book, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” will come out Oct. 21.
“Until January 20, I was responsible for speaking on behalf of the President of the United States,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement released to news outlets on Wednesday.
“At noon on that day, I became a private citizen who, like all Americans and many of our allies around the world, had to contend with what was to come next for our country. I determined that the danger we face as a country requires freeing ourselves of boxes. We need to be willing to exercise the ability to think creatively and plan strategically.”
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Just like Jake career in the crapper Tapout, she just wants to sell a book. She lied to our faces daily knowing the wooden dummy was a vegetable as well as the entire propagandist media and congress knew.
They’re trying to rehabilitate their unrehibilitateble images and character.fool me once shame on me
fool me twice…
That’s the only thing the Crawford cowboy dunce ever said that I liked.
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This is perfect.
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Lol, that is pretty true.
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This sure isn’t Grandpa’s world anymore.
Abilene, Abilene
Prettiest town I′ve ever seen
Women there don’t treat you mean
In Abilene, my AbileneI sit alone, most every night
Watch those trains pull out of sight
Don′t I wish they were carryin’ me
Back to Abilene, my Abilene(all bold emphasis in original text)
Abilene isn’t building apps. It’s building the physical substrate of cognition.
It has something more valuable than talent or capital: land, power, fiber, and silence.
On the outskirts of Abilene, between wind farms and rail lines, Crusoe Energy is building one of the largest AI data center campuses in North America. At full buildout, it will house up to 1.2 gigawatts of capacity — enough to run 400,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs.
Oracle alone has committed to buying $40 billion worth of Nvidia compute. Much of it will spin in this dusty corner of West Texas. This is not a data center in the traditional sense. It’s a compute citadel. Call it a GPU furnace engineered to soak up electrons at planetary scale. And it’s not alone. The Stargate Project, a $500 billion hyperscale AI infrastructure initiative led by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, is laying down a new kind of grid across the U.S., with Abilene as one of its anchor nodes.
The rationale is simple: to train and serve intelligence at global scale, you don’t just need GPUs. You need geography.
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Richard Fernandez and Ed Driscoll on The Battle of Midway:
Tomorrow, June 4, is the anniversary of the naval battle of Midway. As historical drama it was hard to equal. At 10:22 Japan was master of the Pacific. Five minutes later the Empire was doomed.
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By the way, to get a sense of how far the US Navy has lost its way in the decades since WWII: CBS Evening News: How Dare Pete Hegseth Rename the USS Harvey Milk, DURING PRIDE MONTH??? “The whole Milk fiasco encapsulates what underlies Secretary Hegseth’s mission at DoD: restoring readiness to a United States Navy decimated by woke nonsense. Ships run aground, aircraft carriers colliding at sea and amphibious vessels burning in port with no one seemingly able to extinguish the fire because the Navy elevated shipboard drag shows at the expense of operational readiness.”
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He should rename it the USS Almond Milk just to torque em a bit.
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Now we know what Tedtam has really been up to.
The memo, known as the “Richmond Domain Perspective,” was originally portrayed by FBI Director Christopher Wray as a rogue product of a single field office. But newly surfaced records show it was disseminated broadly across the country, with FBI offices in Buffalo, Milwaukee, Portland, and Louisville among those receiving it. One of the offices even acknowledged that some of the Catholic groups mentioned in the memo were active in its jurisdiction.
“This raises serious concerns that FBI field offices may have relied on the Richmond memo, and placed groups in their areas of responsibility under suspicion based on reporting from the deeply biased sources used in the memo,” Grassley wrote in a letter Monday.
The February 2023 memo, which was publicly released by a whistleblower, warned of supposed extremist elements within “Radical Traditionalist Catholic” communities–accusing them of promoting “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.” That language mirrored reporting from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left organization known for labeling politically conservative and religious groups as hate groups.
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Pride month.
what a propagandist scam it is.
Hard left communists force feeding their agenda on the rest of us.
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I think most of Teh Ghey are as tired of pride month and all its nonsense as the rest of us are. The only gays that are likely to have troubles with anyone else are the flamboyant en fuego types that feel a need to force everyone into acknowledging their lifestyles. The rest of that community simply live their lives quietly without having a need to participate in public events that make strip clubs seem prudish.
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Today, 04June, is my parents 70th anniversary. They are both still in pretty good shape and they can still drive. Thank you ABBA!
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1 June 2025. Make a note of that date. For there is a good chance it will be recorded as a day of infamy. As a day when the Jews were once again libelled as the slayers of innocents. As a day when the intellectual classes mimicked their benighted forebears of the medieval era and falsely accused the Jewish nation of spilling blood for sport. For many it was just an ordinary Sunday – but for those who will come to write the history of our times, it will stand out as a day of frenzied hearsay in which Jews were once again branded demons and bloodlusters.
Reports of a massacre in Gaza came early that day. It took place in Rafah, we were told, at one of the distribution centres overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US-Israel group that’s providing aid to Gaza’s needy. With depthless cruelty, IDF troops opened fire on the half-starved Palestinians queuing for meals. Thirty-one souls were slaughtered in the ‘aid-centre attack’, as the BBC swiftly called it. A venomous fury spread through the internet. No one can deny it now, people cried: Israel is ‘replicating’ Nazi tactics. Just as the Nazis told Jews they were being put on trains for a better life, so the New Nazis promise Palestinians food as ‘a pretext for slaughter’.
There was one problem with these breathless accounts of a wicked massacre: it seems no such thing took place. Last night, the BBC backtracked. It said it has now studied the ‘graphic video’ of the ‘aid-centre massacre’ and has ruled that it is ‘incorrect’. We were told the ‘massacre’ took place early in the morning, yet the ‘direction of the shadows’ in the clip point to an event that took place ‘after 7pm local time’. More devastatingly, the Beeb geolocated the clip and found that it was filmed in a part of Khan Younis that is 4.5km from the nearest aid-distribution centre. A journalist in Gaza confirmed it: the events in the viral clip are ‘unrelated to any aid-distribution site’.
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Send the US Marshals to arrest him then kick him out of congress like they did santos.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hakeem-jeffries-threatens-doxx-ice-agents-compares-them-nazis
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Let’s keep selling them our farmland.
it’s fun.
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Hubby did well today in PT. He walked the required 300 feet – once around the unit – which he had to do before he could leave. He has a “class” for PT in the morning, and with luck, he may be home around lunch time. If he doesn’t do well, he’ll have to stay for a second class and come home some time in the evening.
I told the nurse, and he told me again this afternoon, that the exercises are probably going to hurt tomorrow. These are muscles that haven’t been used much for the last several years, since he didn’t want to bend that knee. Rehab starts next week. I ordered a cooler thingie for his knee. It has an timer on it, to go through cooling and not cooling cycles to keep inflammation down. A friend who’s been through this recommended it. It should arrive tomorrow.
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Tell Mr. Tedtam we’re praying for an expedited recovery. Fay survived it. 🙂
The cooler we used was not automatic. But no problem, I became a pretty good nurse over the years.
I had a good teacher and an ornery patient.
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For those unaware, in the days following a knee replacement there is an ice cooler set-up that circulates cold water through a sleeve around the knee.
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Later, the motorized range-of-motion apparatus was pretty neat.
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I don’t typically watch Jeopardy!, but these Jeopardy Masters are pretty amazing.
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I had a nice piece of Teriyaki Salmon with Spicy Sesame Noodles.
I can’t have anything but water after midnight, which means I’ll be pretty hungry by 5pm tomorrow.
I’ll let you know if I cooked a big breakfast at 11pm tonight. 🙂
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What test are you having tomorrow ? I’ve had almost everything imaginable in the last 7 months.
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I gather no one has watched the video. It goes beyond the difficulties of just using the AV’s, it also describes the destructive effect it will have on our societal structures.
I hadn’t thought of those side effects. They are touted as futuristic, life enhancing items. Mebbe not so much.
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I watched it.
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Shannon
I tried to send this to you and Squawk via email today, but it didn’t work. I didn’t post here because I thought it would offend folks. It’s late so go ahead and watch this link.
Nobody else is allowed to see this.
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Most years I get a rash on my torso. It’s not a heat related rash, as it usually surfaces before the heat does. I’m thinking it may be some kind of allergic reaction, but it sticks around for a long time when it hits. I’ve done antifungal creams, which seem to help a little bit, but it may be the cream itself coating the rash may be where I get some relief.
What I’ve found that knocks it out is alcohol rubs and vinegar soaks. I rub some alcohol on it when I’m doing my finger sticks in the morning, and then during the day (if I’m sitting down long enough), or at night (like right now) I soak some rags in vinegar and just let them lay on top of the rash until I’m ready to get up. The vinegar seems to be the best treatment.
Years ago, Hubby had a fungal infection that started on his hand and over a period of weeks began creeping up his arm. When our creams and sprays didn’t work, the doctor began prescribing very expensive creams of his own. $60 for a tiny little tube, for example. It didn’t even pretend to stop the advance. When it reached his elbow, I suggested we try a vinegar soak, like the one I’m doing now. He acted a little like a baby, wrinkling his nose and trying to get out of it. I was lucky if I could have those rags clothes pinned around his arm for 30 minutes, though I tried for more.
After two weeks, the rash diminished by half. Another week, and it retreated to just over his wrist. After four weeks, it was completely gone. The doctor was a little flabbergasted that a home treatment of just vinegar did what his very expensive prescriptions couldn’t.
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