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Even a Jackass Party sycophant can somehow get a law degree and put on a black linen robe.

And a touch of Wiley E in the morning! Thanks for a great collection OGC!

It takes a warped mind to come up with a bacon thong for anti-jihad. Love it. Keep 'em coming. The last one pretty much says it all.

Well said. However, we are beholden to these miscreants. That is different than noting that that are foolishly feeding their psychological parasites

Great read. In reading the part where nobody gets called on the carpet for all the lies….moral hazard. Notice how many arrests Bondi made after DOGE discovered all that fraud, that just about all our tax dollars are stolen? No arrests. Zero. I’m thinking about setting up an office in DC for sending money to Patagonia to study how to turn the sea run brown trout gay. Why not? It’s free money. A lot of it. If we’re not going to have consequences…

Pass the popcorn.
Another great bunch. Thanks!

"It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence."

Ayn Rand

Mrs Wiley Coyote said it well... Jihad proof lol

Never mind me silly dino bit. A long time ago in a savage land far, far away, an unknown portion of half my ancestors may have been Scandinavian tourists, who lived to die Valhalla dreaming with a sword in one hand while screaming, "Odin!"
As for the AUTOPEN meme, that sight is almost precisely how I always thought that Puppet-In-Chief obediently took his orders.
In other news, I yam an old half Swedish Alabama man would be most happy to have a cup of coffee with that lady in the very last meme. We'd be big time laughing it up!

Thanks for posting. Always good to hear that there are others out there that recognize reality is often very different than what we are being expected to believe.

Caution! Their experience may be different from our own.
Names, dates and places were Not redacted.

I encourage Gulchers to read this. After all, isn't this how we became Gulchers?

Thank you for posting, UncommonSense!

Never heard of SOTT before. I'll have to check it out later.

Ah yessss, the 16th amendment. A one-liner that grew into thousands of pages of tax code that nobody can comprehend. Marx would be proud.

Well crafted article, LibertyPen! Thank you for posting it.

I'm thinking how proud treasury was in using tax evasion to bring down Al Capone, but come to think of it the IRS makes Al look like an amateur. Maybe it would be better to have a few Capone's slip through the cracks of justice than to create a tax system that enslaves the whole nation. Hmmm, also come to think of it, if there was no income tax Al wouldn't have broken any tax laws. Justice would have to get him some other way.

OGC - every time I think that you will not outdo your last posting, you pull something like this.
The ones pointing out where timmy gets his monies and we all know what he does with the monies - just wondering how much that Somali congresscritter got out of all of that - and the voter fraud has got to be off the wall as pointed out in #5.

And the panels on the drugs...I liked #7, that is the only way to get that done! That and taking oil tankers!

And the Qomments.... again an excellent collection.

Thanks again OGC!

Without any human contact, we can't have humans either.

With no human contact at all? That would also eliminate AI.
My response would be about some poor soul becoming insanely suicidal.
+1 for an interesting question.

How good are humans without human input?

We don't need cars, computers of washing machines either. NCIS? Are you kidding?

You want to take your virtuous position and wait to see what the Chinese do with AI? Must be nice under that rock.

old saying...garbage in...garbage out....

Great set, OUC!!!! Had me laughing and thinking this morning!

My question was a response to your statement that I was not creative, not an attempt to belittle you. Perhaps I should have phrased it: What have you done that allows you to disparage my creativity without knowing anything about what I've done? As for what you've done, congratulations on your accomplishments.

You better put what I was trying to get at.

Having worked decades at the home of AI (MIT), in my mind, two things stand out as huge red flags...
Computers do what they are programed to do.
If the programers are nefarious, you going get bad results.
More to that point: AI is being programmed using Wiki as a truth base. Wiki is highly Leftwing biased, 30% of content is CIA edited, making it the worst of all possible databases for truth.
Second: When people get it in their heads AI is the arbiter of truth and they don't do their own independent, research, you end up with a large swath of people who no longer think for themselves. They'll regurgitate any lie or propaganda as if it was the word from Gods lips to their ears, without giving it a second thought.

This:
>>It's not the AI, it's the people producing the AI, that are the bad guys.

I can download a fully loaded LLM. And code my own AI (Claude does this, others do this. DeepSeek will run on my machine).

Once I have to OpenSource code for this. I can modify it and remove every restriction.

In fact, I can encourage it with prompt injection to be EVIL.

If YOU create Nuclear Power... I cannot convert that into a bomb as a user. (All I see is the electrical output).

But if I create Nuclear Power... Who is stopping me?

it's the same thing.

And it's custom to LIKE a response that identified something you might have missed...

A few years ago [long ago that I've lost the source] Some of the early AI pioneers were describing various approaches. They basically boiled down to

Human Approach: Systems that think and act like humans, or potentially supersmart humans. This is the Turing approach.

The "Ideal" Approach: Systems that think and act rationally.

I would like to believe that as AI moves forward, it leans more toward the second approach. An Objectivist AI, if you like. I'm not convinced we are moving in that direction yet, based on my limited exposure.