It was as million to one shot, Jerry. A million to one!

A pizza joint. But a more appropriate type of establishment would have been a face-themed restaurant for leopards.

Nothing says “I’m innocent” like “you are going to come to regret this!”

This was back in the era where ‘children should be seen and not heard’. So the kid and his opinions weren’t considered important, unfortunately.

From the article:

Several were rejected for conveying “a message associated to the characteristics of any person or group of people.”

Examples of these include:

AXE/ELON
BISXUAL/
TRMP/BAD
LIBS/YUK
SOCALHO/
TESLUUT/

(Note: A / represents a half space, according to the DMV.)

Some were rejected for conveying that the vehicle belongs to law enforcement, the DMV said. Examples include:

LAPD*K9/
/CA/ICE/
*CSI*CA/
BB*SWAT/
ARTCL86/
911NRSK/
/*LADP*/

(Note: An * represents a full space, according to the DMV.)

The four iterations of “hawk tuah” — and several other custom plates — were rejected for conveying a “sexual or scatological meaning.”

Examples include:

HAWK2UH/
HOCTUAH/
HAWK2UH/
HAWKTAA/

Many were rejected for being too similar to an existing license plate. Examples include:

QUE33NB/
ST4RBO7/
WRM/HOL3
XL3GACY/
XPR1NCE/
XSM1LEY/
XW1TCHX/
Y11KES$/
Y3S*CHF/
Y3S/PAPI
YA/MON3Y

The ultra wealthy already got their ‘tariff dividend’, in the form of not tax breaks and a discrete heads-up of when to play the market to real maybe amounts of extra wealth.

As for the rest, this offer is just more bullshit. If it does surface (which is very unlikely) there will be some strings attached. And it will in no way fully compensate most people for the turmoil caused by these tariffs.

“I don’t always lick my own butthole. But when I do it tastes like Dos Equis beer” -The Most Interesting Cat In The World

And I bet to many of them it’s still all the Democrats’ fault.

I initially read that headline as “go unpaid”. And I was not at all surprised.

Also with nothing that Piers Morgan was completely useless in this debacle. As per usual.

She is the queen of the psychotic Karens.

We’re also doing a good job destroying the planet, at least from the stance of making it inhospitable for life. Will life survive? Yes. Because “life, err, finds a way”. But it sure as hell won’t be because of the efforts of the most powerful and influential humans.

Yup, gotta make sure it doesn’t go off.

Well now you’re on her ‘don’t like’ list.

A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:

• The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
• It’s short-sighted to say “yeah this will happen, so don’t put your is image out there”. There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
• This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It’s both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
• It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame… none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don’t do shit to address these concerns.

As I recall, there were some fiscal shenanigans with that, which led to the budget looking balanced/with a surplus but it wasn’t exactly that way. Something about kicking some debt into future years.

But still, your point is still good. We were far better fiscally then than we are now. It’s pretty horrifying to see how far we have gone off track over the last 25 years. Especially since the ‘party of fiscal responsibility’ was the one that send to have caused the majority of that debt.

It sounds like Albania needs a new Minister of Virtual Contraceptives. Because either something horrible happened to Diella (their AI bot ‘Minister’) or she’s very horny and very digitally fertile.

My question is: who are the fathers? Did she have a gang-bang with ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen, Grok, Zuckerberg, Data, T-1000, et al?

To the surprise of nobody.

I don’t trust some of the numbers in this article.

Microsoft Teams: 100% CPU usage on 32GB machines

I’m literally sitting here right now on a Teams call (I’ve already contributed what I needed to), looking at my CPU usage, which is staying in the 4.6% to 7.3% CPU range.

Is that still too high? Probably. Have I seen it hit 100% CPU usage? Yes, rarely (but that’s usually a sign of a deeper issue).

Maybe the author is going with worst case scenario. But in that case he should probably qualify the examples more.

While I was reading the article several jokes came to mind. But then I read that most of the women were intimidated by him and scared of coming forward because they felt he would make life hell for them. Which also suggests he might have forced himself on them. So it seems like this guy isn’t a ‘playa’. He’s just an abusive piece of shit.