The Hall of Fire

Is it my imagination or does Mike Johnson look like Ellen DeGeneres?

He definitely looks like he is not allowed to smile.

Barbara Lee appears to still live in 2003. I somehow didn't grasp that Porter was giving up her seat to run for Senate. That was a bad move, and I'm disappointed in her. It will be tough for Democrats to keep her seat. To bad the election wasn't last year, when California tax filing deadline was ext...

PJ was pioneering in treating a fantasy world like a real place. As for Dune, I haven't seen part 2 yet, but I wonder if the 1st movie takes the source material a bit too seriously.

Euromaidan Press: Russian forces struck 🇺🇦 Odesa while President Zelenskyy met with Greek PM Mitsotakis. A missile landed just 150 meters away, leaving no time to seek shelter. Zelenskyy confirmed casualties in the city and emphasized Ukraine's urgent need for air defense systems. Mitsotakis and Zel...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:03 am
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Adam Schiff ended up in first place in the California Senate race, with Steve Garvey in second.

I wanted Katie Porter, but I'm not too bummed because her congressional district is probably less securely Democratic.

A little bummed.

European leaders, including the Czech President Petr Pavel and the French President Emmanuel Macron, say they are open to the idea of Western troops being sent to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine skipped a day downing a Russian plane, but they did sink another ship. And possibly downed a helicopter. And,...

I seriously can't believe any rational person would vote against Biden based on his Middle East policy if the alternative is the president who started his previous term with the Muslim ban.

Visegrad posted videos described as Gazans assaulting Egyptian trucks that were bringing aid. One driver is said to have been dragged out of the truck and beaten, possibly killed. In case people are wondering why airdropping aid may be the only way to get it in. This does not solve the problem of Ha...

I don't think he's suffering from dementia. He's all over all the place (it must suck to be running his teleprompter), and he lies a lot, and he pushes an awful agenda and plays to people's worst impulses, but most of the time you can follow his bizarre and gross train of thought. I could always fo...

Ugh, I forgot about the stupid new primary system. Dang.

There are 10 million people in Moscow alone. This is Moscow in 1991, when the city turned out against the tanks to stop the August Coup . The tanks stopped. 57b7a783a30b0.image.jpg But back then, they had Eltzin to rally around. Now, there is no candidate for the throne left alive, no leader and no ...

Hungary ratified Sweden's NATO membership. Baltic Sea is officially a NATO lake.

Putin's house cleaning continues. Reported but not confirmed that Strelkov/Girkin is dead. He was the war criminal responsible for the downing of the MH17 flight over Ukraine. He was arrested by Putin for blog posts that criticized how the war was conducted and demanded that harsher measures be used...

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis

I don't even know where to start with this one.

Radio Free Europe (And other source) Friends of noted Russian blogger Aleksandr Morozov said on February 21 that he committed suicide after citing unnamed sources online saying that Russian troops might have lost up to 16,000 troops while fighting for the Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka. Morozov is said...

Sunsilver wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:29 pm What's next? Banning the Pill for everyone who isn't married?

For everyone, period.

And yet it's the only option that makes sense.

There have been reports of fighting on the border between Gaza and Egypt as Egypt is determined to keep the refugees behind the very tall wall they built at the border.

It must just be generating text that is shaped like the sort of response a person would expect to their prompt, without much regard for whether it is actually correct. That's exactly what it does. It predicts the most probable sequence of words that is related to the prompt. And as the web fills wi...

Ceasefire is only good if both sides adhere to it. Hamas continues daily bombardment of Israeli cities, which goes almost entirely unreported, and refuses to return hostages, some of whom have since been reported dead. They also continue to state the destruction of Israel and its people as their sol...