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The wealthy arent who you think they are

Michael Jackson was wealthy. Anyone want to call him a success?

Donald Trump is wealthy. Anyone want to call him a success?

If any of you do, you're warped. Both men are, or were, twisted souls.

Love of money really is the root of all evil.

Posted by Zed at 2026-09-21 08:37 AM | Reply

Trump's Proposed Arch to Become Sniper, Drone Facility

Will the tourists climbing to the top for the viewing deck he was hyping up just a few days ago be kept away from the snipers or will it be a free for all up there? Will there be guided tours of the ammo dump?

Posted by qcp at 2026-09-21 08:36 AM | Reply

The wealthy arent who you think they are

You wanna help poor people, fight crime, destroy criminality.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut

Another good reason we want to destroy Donald Trump.

Thanks. Good work, actually.

Posted by Zed at 2026-09-21 08:34 AM | Reply

The wealthy arent who you think they are

Personal decisions, life decisions determine your lot in life in our nation

#20 | Posted by subliberal

Jesus, only up to a point.

If you are indeed BOAZ, you know better.

Posted by Zed at 2026-09-21 08:33 AM | Reply

Cassidy says Trump needs to be "radically honest"

ZED - Betcha Cassidy thinks that squeak he let out will be remembered as a roar. That's how up their own fundaments most pols are.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 08:31 AM | Reply

Cassidy says Trump needs to be "radically honest"

"Soon, you will be gone from the Senate and largely forgotten"

Completely forgotten.

But, since he can take his money with him, the fact that he was a weak man and loathesome hypocrite will never trouble him.

Posted by Zed at 2026-09-21 08:27 AM | Reply

CA high-speed rail project-the gift that keeps on giving

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#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-21 08:08 AM
This is where I live. From 2006? This isn't true at all. Its up 30% or more.
I would doubt your whole post because of this.

You difn't pay attention:
In six major markets prices are below what they were in 2006:
Oakland, CA -32%
Contra Costa County (SF Bay), CA -17%
Cape Coral, FL -35%
Fort Myers, FL -27%
Sarasota County, FL -24%
Orlando, FL -18%
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Posted by CutiePie at 2026-09-21 08:19 AM | Reply

CA high-speed rail project-the gift that keeps on giving

Commuting to Mountain View. I believe there's a bus that will take me most of the way. Morgan Hill looks nice.
#13 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

If working for G the Gbus system is wonderful. Get a place near a GBus stop, we have one in Mogran Hill I used to commute wondeful. But getting to the campus from CalTrain is funky, reverse CalTrain commute from SFO is pretty interesting idea.

Apple and Facebook both have buses, but its not as developed.

Redwood city has wonderful weather, and not a bad commute, there are newer town homes east of 101, all the way to Foster City there are townhomes/condos. But they have questionable soil should we get the big one.

There's been alot of condo development in SantaClara (city) All the little downtowns near trainstations need to be/will be developing homes per State regulations, I suspect you'll find alot of condo buildings being built within 1/2mile of these stations. That might give you some ideas.

Yea avoid east bay commute, 237, dumbarton can be a disaster. The Pen is just really expensive.

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-21 08:18 AM | Reply

Trump Revives Racially Offensive Campaign Ad

"Willie Horton was a bad guy, really bad guy," Trump said, before comparing Horton's escape to the pretrial release of a Black man who faces a murder charge for last year's killing of a white Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Cooper was not the governor when the man was released or when he was later charged with killing the refugee.

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-09-21 08:11 AM | Reply

CA high-speed rail project-the gift that keeps on giving

If you are looking in Morgan Hill (nice area), it's down about -20% -28%.

This is where I live. From 2006? This isn't true at all. Its up 30% or more.

I would doubt your whole post because of this.

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-21 08:08 AM | Reply

CA high-speed rail project-the gift that keeps on giving

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#13 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-18 03:07 PM
Currently condo shopping in the San Fran area.
Commuting to Mountain View. I believe there's a bus that will take me most of the way. Morgan Hill looks nice.

Not a bad time to shop for condo - prices in many markets are crashing, some are down 15%-35%.

In six major markets prices are below what they were in 2006:
Oakland, CA -32%
Contra Costa County (SF Bay), CA -17%
Cape Coral, FL -35%
Fort Myers, FL -27%
Sarasota County, FL -24%
Orlando, FL -18%

Austin, TX -28%
Garland, TX - 22%
Arlington, TX -19%
Tampa, FL and Jacksonville, FL -22%
Denver, CO and Aurora, CO -19%

Manhattan, NYC/NY -17%
Fremont, CA -17%
San Mateo County, CA -17%

If you are looking in Morgan Hill (nice area), it's down about -20% -28%.
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Posted by CutiePie at 2026-09-21 08:01 AM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

and to wrap that up, because we only had to train the last layers on the new motorcycle dataset, we didn't need large amounts of compute power, we can pull it off with a cheap google colab t4 instance, or train it locally if you a single Nvidia graphics card. Very small models you can train on a laptop.

That's what Ukraine is doing on the front lines. There's foundational models for their drones. A guy with a laptop trains specific models loaded with the latest battlefield images streamed in from drones, and that distilled model is loaded into the 1 way quadcopter's guidance for machine vision (like a Nvidia Jetson Nano or something along those lines). It doesn't need to map the entire world, just that local battlespace.

Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-21 07:55 AM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

See if I can simply explain this.. you get a model that's good at something, call it riding a bmx bike. The early layers of the model teach it how to balance, steer, and stop. Later layers teach you how to pedal it, how to bunny hop, how to do a pump track.

Now we need a model that can ride a motorcycle, so we freeze the early layers, discard all of the advanced bike knowledge layers, and add a new layer that teaches how the twisty throttle works. Now we've got a much smaller model that can ride a motorcycle. It can't backflip like Travis Pastrana, but it can get around and that's all we need it to do. Congratulations, you now have a distilled child model from a teacher or foundational model.

Compression has nothing to do with this.

Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-21 07:49 AM | Reply

Team Trump Spent $7 Billion Paying Staff Not to Work

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Beyond gifting and grabbing power, this administration has no abilities. The needs of all but those in power are ignored, although not always unmet...

Posted by catdog at 2026-09-21 07:43 AM | Reply

Trump's Authoritarian Mindset Can't Handle Appointee Dissent

Worst person in the world in the most powerful job in the world...losing his marbles and refusing to even consider handing over the keys...the next two years is going to be an exercise in fear, unless he "retires" and gets what he wants, a total pardon for himself and his entire grifting army.

Posted by Hughmass at 2026-09-21 07:42 AM | Reply

CA high-speed rail project-the gift that keeps on giving

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#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-18 12:06 PM
imo, there should be actual punishment involved for those who were involved in the massive overruns, both politicians and contractors.

The entire theory of the LA-SF high-speed rail with connecting branches sold to CA voters never made sense, neither logistically nor financially... but the idea was really a make-work jobs program finally put on the ballot in 2008, in the end stages of 2007-2008 GFC crisis, so it passed with over 52% of the votes.

www.smart-union.org - California High-Speed Rail Authority pledges to use unionized labor - SmartUnion.org, 2023-11-17

|------- Today, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA), which oversees the largest high-speed rail project under construction in North America, announced a ground-breaking agreement with 13 rail unions to utilize rail workers covered by federal railroad labor laws in critical jobs once trains begin to operate. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) ensures that highly skilled rail workers will perform all traditional railroad work such as operating trains, engineering work, maintenance of equipment, dispatching, on-board service and clerical work. ...

This agreement follows an existing Project Labor Agreement between CAHSRA and building trades unions to utilize union workers on the construction side, furthering the project's commitment to employing highly skilled union workers... The project is already responsible for the creation of over 11,000 jobs ... and this agreement brings hundreds of additional good union jobs to the California Central Valley.

"The Authority is proud to continue its tradition of working with labor unions and we are pleased to have reached this important agreement ...

... today's agreement establishes a precedent for future high-speed rail agreements between public entities and rail unions.

The High-Speed Rail Labor Coalition includes the following 13 rail labor unions: the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED), Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS), International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Mechanical and Engineering Department (SMART-MD), National Conference of Firemen and Oilers 32BJ/SEIU (NCFO), Transportation Communications Union (TCU), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), Brotherhood of Railway Carmen (BRC), International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB), Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA), International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD), Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
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No surprise there - one hand washes the other.
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Posted by CutiePie at 2026-09-21 07:34 AM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

Its called transfer learning, and the biggest version of RNFM so far is training on UH Carya Cluster which is very powerful but definitely not data center scale.

Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-21 07:03 AM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

This just another way of saying you compressed the algorithm after a data center did all the heavy lifting, right?

#25 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-20 09:04 PM | Reply

No.

Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-09-21 07:01 AM | Reply

Trump wants to control health research funding

Lamplighter - See www.cnn.com for last year's yarn about Dr. John and the Unabomber.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 06:52 AM | Reply

CEOs Now Earn 325 Times More Than Workers

I assume you don't have any of those experiences.
#8 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

God wanting me to see a particular memo and arranging things so I could see it?
No, Bill, I've experienced nothing like that.
Thank God.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 06:46 AM | Reply

White woman enslaved by Native Americans; liberals hate her

Captivity was a strong theme in the colonial experience from the start. In fact, we have masses of captivity narratives, often steeped in religion and its themes - e.g., lost/redeemed, etc. - and filled with often highly questionable or unverifiable information. Captivity narratives were sensationalistic and quite popular.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 06:39 AM | Reply

Cassidy says Trump needs to be "radically honest"

If you're attempting to rehabilitate your self-sabotaged reputation, Bill, just fuhgedaboudit, okay? That ship done sailed. Soon, you will be gone from the Senate and largely forgotten - just another loser who bent the knee to Trump, got ensh#ttified and tossed aside. Buh-bye.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 05:35 AM | Reply

Trump wants to control health research funding

Trump often riffs about his Uncle John, who taught at MIT, which Trump thinks somehow makes him - Trump - just about brilliant.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-21 05:25 AM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

OK, changing direction a bit toward country-rock. Poco, the remnants of Buffalo Springfield ...

Poco - Sagebrush Serenade (1974)
www.youtube.com

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 03:09 AM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

OK, one more from our friends in Australia...

Mental As Anything - Live It Up (1986)
www.youtube.com

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 02:38 AM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

Another from our friends down-under ...

Big Pig - Breakaway (1988)
www.youtube.com

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 02:28 AM | Reply

Ukraine Fires Over 1,000 Drones at Russia, 100s at Moscow

Diesel fuel explained
www.eia.gov

... Where does the diesel fuel consumed in the United States get produced?

U.S. petroleum refineries produce most of the diesel fuel the United States consumes. Most of the diesel fuel consumed in the United States is distillate fuel with a sulfur content of 15 parts per million or less, which is called ultra-low sulfur distillate or ULSD. ULSD is used as diesel fuel and as heating oil. Biomass-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) also contribute to the supply of diesel fuel.

In 2025, U.S. refineries produced about 1.76 billion barrels (73.80 billion gallons) of ULSD.

Total ULSD consumption in the United States for all uses was about 1.42 billion barrels (59.56 billion gallons). Although ULSD production was higher than ULSD consumption, the United States imported about 0.06 billion barrels (2.40 billion gallons) of ULSD, and about 84% of those imports were from Canada.

In 2025, total ULSD imports were equal to about 4% of total ULSD consumption in the United States. The United States exported about 0.40 billion barrels (16.77 billion gallons) of ULSD in 2025. You can find more information in our Petroleum Supply Monthly. ...

[see the article for links]

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 02:20 AM | Reply

CEOs Now Earn 325 Times More Than Workers

@#10 ... Why what? ...

In #5, you stated... ...I remember when CEO pay was around 40 times worker pay in the '80s. Today it's about 325 times. ...

So, I asked why that change in ratio, from 40 to 325.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 02:14 AM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

From our great friends in Australia, a change of direction for me ...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me (1996)
www.youtube.com

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 02:00 AM | Reply

CEOs Now Earn 325 Times More Than Workers

Lamp,

Why what?

Unless people can read your mind, I can think of different things you could mean.

Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-09-21 01:58 AM | Reply

Trump's Authoritarian Mindset Can't Handle Appointee Dissent

@#3 ... he wants what he wants. ...

Looks that way.

Even in his own words ...

"When someone is President of the United States, the authority is total, and that is the way it has to be. It's total. It's total."
-- Pres Trump, Apr. 13, 2020

"I have the right to do anything I want"
-- Pres Trump, Aug. 26, 2025

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 01:53 AM | Reply

Iran War Causes Global Pain at the Pump

@#10 ... And Ukraine vs Russia . ...

It is not Ukraine vs Russia.

That is Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, and Ukraine defending itself.

That aspect aside, Russia accounted for less than 15% of global diesel supplies.

So, maybe, instead of worrying about such a small percentage of the diesel fuel supply, a better approach might be to tell Pres Putin to stop his unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, and stop with the deflections?

Jus' askin'

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 01:50 AM | Reply

CEOs Now Earn 325 Times More Than Workers

@#5 ... I remember when CEO pay was around 40 times worker pay in the '80s. Today it's about 325 times. ...

Yup, but the real question seems to be ...

Why?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 01:41 AM | Reply

CEOs Now Earn 325 Times More Than Workers

Doc,

"Yup, it was definitely God at work there, Bill, just for you. Bow wow."

Yep...just for me.

I assume you don't have any of those experiences.

Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-09-21 01:30 AM | Reply

Iran War Causes Global Pain at the Pump

Has he found that exit ramp yet?
#6 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Was there ever one?

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-21 01:22 AM | Reply

Iran War Causes Global Pain at the Pump

Now there is a global energy crisis because of Pres Trump.

And Ukraine vs Russia ....

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-21 01:21 AM | Reply

Trump's Authoritarian Mindset Can't Handle Appointee Dissent

And yet MAGAts continue to steadfastly stand by this joke of a human being. Such cultish behavior may indeed be the reason future historians spend great energy studying the madness and willfull ignorance required to sustain the Trump phenomena.

Posted by moder8 at 2026-09-21 01:19 AM | Reply

US and Greenland Reach Agreement for Military Presence

True,

"There's no point in claiming this is a good agreement either for the same reason."

Really?

You don't understand that's based on what we've been told so far?

Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-09-21 01:08 AM | Reply

Trump Revives Racially Offensive Campaign Ad

@#9 ... Melania probably feels the same way ~ LOL ...

Well, there's this nonsense stuff ...

Trump Biographer Claims Prez Went Off On Secret Service After He Was Denied a Door Lock And Lost His Mind Over Changed Bedsheets... as Chaos Erupts At White House
radaronline.com

... Things are getting ugly at the White House, according to Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff, and it's all due to door locks and bedroom sheets, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Wolff, known for the 2018 Trump-focused book Fire and Fury, claimed the president went off on his own security and staff after realizing things weren't up to par.

Why Did Trump Lose His Mind?

Making an appearance on the Inside Trump's Head podcast, Wolff claimed Trump had installed a lock on his bedroom door in the White House, despite the Secret Service not giving him the green light.

The disagreement led to a "confrontation," according to the author, who claimed the Secret Service "actually took [the lock] off, demanded that it be taken off."

Wolff also claimed another moment featured Trump going crazy after the White House's domestic staff changed his bedsheets.

He claimed Trump "had a fit. What that's about, I have no idea." ...

Such nonsense ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:53 AM | Reply

Russia Seizes Assets of Swiss Food Giant Nestle and Three French Firms

@#11 ... More Whataboutism ...

Yeah, that current alias only looks more and more desperately lame with every comment it posts.

But, that's just my opinion.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:48 AM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

Talking about musical styles ...

Teddy Wilson is what I call a "precise" piano-player.

Teddy Wilson - Rosetta (1935)
www.youtube.com

While Art Tatum is more of what I'd call a ~flowery~ piano player ...

Art Tatum - Rosetta (1933)
www.youtube.com

YMMV ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:41 AM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

Ben Webster - Time on My Hands (1957)
www.youtube.com

Mr Webster is a fav sax player of mine. He has the ability to evoke emotions from his instrument.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:25 AM | Reply

Cassidy says Trump needs to be "radically honest"

@#1 ... "I would just ask the president to be aware that people are listening to him " ...

Did Sen Cassidy or did not Sen Cassidy vote to confirm Sec Kennedy?

It is a simple, yes or no question.

Once he answers that question, we can move forward from the health quagmire where we are.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:21 AM | Reply

Cassidy says Trump needs to be "radically honest"

More from the article ...

... "I would just ask the president to be aware that people are listening to him " if he discourages immunization, there'll be fewer people immunized, and if we're speaking of measles, there'll be more people sick in the hospital or even die," Cassidy said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:17 AM | Reply

Trump's Proposed Arch to Become Sniper, Drone Facility

@#11 ... tell everyone where the weapons are? ...

You noticed that also?

Pres Trump is overtly telling our enemies that we will be storing our weapons in this spot.

I mean, how clueless can one be?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:05 AM | Reply

JD Vance's 'Give Us Another Chance' Plea Sends Shockwaves

@#12 ... "Give us another chance, please."

Now that's just downright pitiful. ...

Yup.

Not much else that can be said about it, imo.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:03 AM | Reply

Russia Seizes Assets of Swiss Food Giant Nestle and Three French Firms

I think Russia has identified their first two targets.

Posted by fresno500 at 2026-09-21 12:02 AM | Reply

Trump Revives Racially Offensive Campaign Ad

TRUTHY

Melania probably feels the same way ~ LOL

Posted by Twinpac at 2026-09-21 12:01 AM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

OK, a change of pace for me.

Teddy Wilson - It's Only a Shanty in Old Shanty Town (1944)
www.youtube.com

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-21 12:00 AM | Reply

Ukraine Fires Over 1,000 Drones at Russia, 100s at Moscow

Take a look at where diesel fuel is used. ...

Class 1 railroads are typically one of the biggest users.

Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-20 11:57 PM | Reply

JD Vance's 'Give Us Another Chance' Plea Sends Shockwaves

DOC

Trump's not interested in making anybody's dreams come true except his own.

Posted by Twinpac at 2026-09-20 11:57 PM | Reply

Ukraine Fires Over 1,000 Drones at Russia, 100s at Moscow

@#4 ... that's up there. ...

imo, that may be an understatement.

Take a look at where diesel fuel is used. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 11:50 PM | Reply

Trump's Proposed Arch to Become Sniper, Drone Facility

So he wants to build an arch and tell everyone where the weapons are?

How F*ing stupid.......oh wait!

Never happening.

Posted by brass30 at 2026-09-20 11:49 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

Introduction to the Internet and World Wide Web (1997)
academic.oup.com

Yeah, all sunshine and roses back then.

Just like AI seems to be now.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 11:48 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

The song that launched a hundred genres and subgenres:

Velvet Underground, "European Son":

www.youtube.com

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-09-20 11:47 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

John Renbourn, "Plainsong":

www.youtube.com

Wonderful guitar solo from Pentangle guitarist.

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-09-20 11:42 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

And here, VU, "The Murder Mystery":

www.youtube.com

Link to lyrics referencing the four voices and different channels on which they appear:

genius.com

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-09-20 11:41 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

Unique vocals here:

Velvet Underground, "After Hours":

www.youtube.com

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-09-20 11:38 PM | Reply

Trump's Proposed Arch to Become Sniper, Drone Facility

In 10 years, Geraldo will go in there with an investigative crew and find it empty.

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-09-20 11:35 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

www.motherjones.com

"The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence:
Several attacks involving OpenAI's chatbot--including Tumbler Ridge and FSU--raise urgent questions about the technology"

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-09-20 11:33 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

I'm about the last to be interested in tech matters, having little knowledge or experience with them.

But information about the following came across my work desk last week:

"Inside a Mass Shooter's Harrowing History With ChatGPT:
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags--and disturbing ChatGPT replies--from long before a rampage at Florida State University."

Incidents where these personal AI friends convinced kids to pull the trigger.

"You're not resting. You're ready." (As the metal is pressed against the forehead.)

www.motherjones.com

Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-09-20 11:32 PM | Reply

Ukraine Fires Over 1,000 Drones at Russia, 100s at Moscow

Diesel is $7.56 here... that's up there.

Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-20 11:31 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

OK, another prog rock tune ...

Triumvirat - Illusions On a Double Dimple (1973)
www.youtube.com

Warning, like most prog-rock tunes, it is not the usual three minute pop tune. This one runs over 20 minutes.

Enjoy!

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 11:31 PM | Reply

Ukraine Fires Over 1,000 Drones at Russia, 100s at Moscow

@#2 ... The purpose is to make the world suffer ...

You mean like the effect of Pres Trump's whimsical war against Iran?

That purpose of raising gas and diesel prices?

Is that why Pres Trump has effectively closed the shipping through the Strait of Hormuz?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 11:22 PM | Reply

Christianity Is NOT About Going to Heaven When You Die

"It was either Free Will or Robotics"

Free Will is Remote Controlled.

Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-20 11:10 PM | Reply

Ukraine Fires Over 1,000 Drones at Russia, 100s at Moscow

Going after Diesel refineries.

The purpose is to make the world suffer, and help Democrats in the mid terms,

Ukraine wants more than it's getting from Trump.

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-20 11:03 PM | Reply

Trump's Proposed Arch to Become Sniper, Drone Facility

No one in the military requested such a stupid, hairbrained thing.

Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-09-20 10:56 PM | Reply

Trump's Proposed Arch to Become Sniper, Drone Facility

@#7 ... He knows he is going to need to be protected from the People ...

Well, yeah.

I am sure he can see his approval ratings.

Trump says 'nobody will' build monuments for him after he's gone (September 4, 2026)
www.usatoday.com

... In a candid interview, President Donald Trump admitted that the various construction projects he has undertaken in Washington, DC, are an effort to build monuments to himself, saying, "Nobody will do it once I'm gone."

Trump's comments to New York Magazine came as the outlet asked the president about monuments such as the "triumphal arch" in the nation's capital.

"Nobody will do it once I'm gone. When I leave here, nobody will," Trump said. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 10:53 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

OK, if you have not noticed, I am in a prog-rock frame of mind this evening.

To that end ...

Fireballet - Night On Bald Mountain (1975)
www.youtube.com

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 10:40 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

"Live hand in hand, and together we will stand on the threshold of a dream ..."

Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-09-20 10:34 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

It's all scary stuff - and this Netflix doc that I watched said basically our kids - in the future - won't be working. They won't have to, AI will do it all.

They'll have to decide what they want to do with their life - but it won't be working and earning a living. They'l have hobbies lol

And - I assume - their will be basic universal income. And the AI companies will control all the money.

That's just one prediction :)

Bottom line, I'm rarely a pessimist and usually dismiss this stuff, but now I'm not sure............

Posted by brass30 at 2026-09-20 10:33 PM | Reply

ICE Shoots Another Man in Austin

imo, these ~events~ are just Pres Trump's private militia (a.k.a. ICE) warming up for the future that Pres Trump envisions.

Where his power over Americans is unchallenged.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 10:24 PM | Reply

ICE Shoots Another Man in Austin

Later in the video, the man is seen handcuffed while officers cut his shirt, exposing a gunshot wound on his back.

At least he didn't nine bullets in the back like that dude in Minneapolis.

Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2026-09-20 10:19 PM | Reply

Ukraine Fires Over 1,000 Drones at Russia, 100s at Moscow

Ukraine seems to be launching an attack on Russia that looks to be unprecedented.

For example ...

Ukrainian drones and missiles target Moscow, oil refinery in deadly attack: Officials
abcnews.com

... Plumes of smoke rose over Moscow on Sunday morning after a Ukrainian drone and missile attack on the city in which a major oil refinery was among the targets, according to the Russian capital's mayor.

Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in posts to Telegram that 450 Ukrainian drones were shot down while heading toward the capital on Saturday night into Sunday morning, describing the latest attack as "unprecedented."

"Several drones did reach the territory of the Moscow Oil Refinery, and one hit a residential building. There were no fatalities," Sobyanin wrote, suggesting that the attack was "clearly planned to disrupt" the ongoing Russian parliamentary elections, voting in which is due to end on Sunday. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 10:18 PM | Reply

Trump's Proposed Arch to Become Sniper, Drone Facility

He knows he is going to need to be protected from the People when the Coup de Trump happens.

Posted by Corky at 2026-09-20 10:16 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

Moody Blues - Dream Sequence (1969)
www.youtube.com

"Live hand in hand, and together we will live on the threshold of a dream ..."

Yeah, they don't write lyrics like that anymore ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 10:12 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

@#27 ... Great job illustrating how AI bots hallucinate. :-) ...

Did you not mention "2 tier distillation" in #22?

Where might there be a hallucination?

Please be specific.

thx.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 10:02 PM | Reply

ICE Shoots Another Man in Austin

... "Over and over, ICE has shot people and then lied about what happened," ...

Well, yeah.

And I am sure that AG Blanche will be right on top of those egregious violations of the rights of Americans.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:58 PM | Reply

ICE Shoots Another Man in Austin

"Congressman Greg Casar, a Democrat who represents Austin, demanded an independent investigation into Sunday's shooting.

"Over and over, ICE has shot people and then lied about what happened," Casar said in a news release, referencing the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year.

Video footage has disproved DHS's claims that Good was trying to run over ICE agents with her vehicle.

"We can see the lies with our own eyes. We will demand truth, transparency and accountability," Casar said.

Sunday's ICE shooting is at least the second to happen this year in Texas.

In July, federal immigration agents in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national father of three."

Salgado Araujo was killed after agents attempted to conduct a traffi

Posted by Corky at 2026-09-20 09:55 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

Genesis - Firth Of Fifth (1973)
www.youtube.com

Genesis before Phil Collins took over the lead and diminished Genesis.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:53 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

@#40 ... They can actually play! ...

Yup!

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:49 PM | Reply

Christianity Is NOT About Going to Heaven When You Die

#17

It was either Free Will or Robotics, so I'm glad the former was chosen.

#19

Make America God Awful

Posted by Corky at 2026-09-20 09:44 PM | Reply

Trump bans media outlets CNN, MS NOW, Politico from WH

"When someone is President of the United States, the authority is total, and that is the way it has to be. It's total. It's total."
-- Pres Trump, Apr. 13, 2020

"I have the right to do anything I want"
-- Pres Trump, Aug. 26, 2025

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:38 PM | Reply

Trump bans media outlets CNN, MS NOW, Politico from WH

Oops, Pres Trump accidentally says how he views the White House, but catches himself at the last second ...

"I don't have to let them into my, into the people's house."

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:35 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

"Well, you mentioned it in #22."

Great job illustrating how AI bots hallucinate. :-)

Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-20 09:33 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves (Live From Sessions at West 54th)

www.youtube.com

Posted by Corky at 2026-09-20 09:31 PM | Reply

The wealthy arent who you think they are

People born into poverty generally stay there, at no fault of their own.

It's almost always their fault in our country today. Personal decisions, life decisions determine your lot in life in our nation. You could apply your statement to Africa or some other poor shithole, but not the U.S.

I'll wait to call you an idiot until you tell me how much money you've got.

#15 | Posted by Zed

I didnt call you an idiot.

I called LOD an idiot.

Posted by subliberal at 2026-09-20 09:29 PM | Reply

White woman enslaved by Native Americans; liberals hate her

What's interesting is the article says she was "placed" with a native american family.

Took great pains to avoid saying she was put into slavery there.

Posted by subliberal at 2026-09-20 09:25 PM | Reply

Christianity Is NOT About Going to Heaven When You Die

To MAGA, Heaven is a willing bottle-blonde Natalie Harp lookalike in every bedroom and a trafficked child hiding in every bedroom closet.

Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-20 09:25 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

AUGUST FLOWER - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian
www.youtube.com

Posted by morris at 2026-09-20 09:23 PM | Reply

Christianity Is NOT About Going to Heaven When You Die

@#3 ... Christianity is only about going heaven. ...

Of late, Christianity seems to be more about MAGA than anything to do with Heaven.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:22 PM | Reply

Trump wants to control health research funding

@#2

I'm not sure of what you speak.

Can you elaborate?

thx.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:19 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

And my fave John Prine cover.
Alabama 3 -Speed of the sound of Loneliness
www.youtube.com

Posted by morris at 2026-09-20 09:18 PM | Reply

3-Year-Old's Metastatic Cancer Disappeared

@#3

Yes, it appears that Pres Trump is not at all concerned about the health of Americans.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:17 PM | Reply

Christianity Is NOT About Going to Heaven When You Die

A doctrine where an all-powerful creator brings into existence an inescapable and inherited wickedness and then offers his services (in the guise of his son) to save his creation from another wicked condition he also engineered brings to mind the stereotypical rural car mechanic clandestinely breaking something on an out-of-towner's car just so he can tow it back to his shop and charge for the repair.

Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-20 09:17 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

@#25 ... This just another way of saying you compressed the algorithm after a data center did all the heavy lifting, right? ...

Well, you mentioned it in #22.

So, maybe try to explain it?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-20 09:16 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

www.youtube.com

Posted by Corky at 2026-09-20 09:11 PM | Reply

Weekend Music thread - no theme, have fun!

#38 | Posted by LampLighter

I went with their name rather than what US lawyers forced on them.
I had heard The Sopranos theme and was intrigued, then a friend played me the whole of "Exile On Coldharbour Lane" and I went all in.
The two acoustic records really sold me. They can actually play! I've gotten a few records imported, as well.

Peace In The Valley
www.youtube.com

Posted by morris at 2026-09-20 09:11 PM | Reply

The wealthy arent who you think they are

"If you had any self awareness you'd understand everyone here fits that description, including yourself."

Perhaps to one with a reputation for overanalyzing another poster's retort to the point of incoherence that might be worth trying to argue. But the statement and the language used was directed to Boaz, not to you.

Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-20 09:05 PM | Reply

OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors

"2 tier distillation"

This just another way of saying you compressed the algorithm after a data center did all the heavy lifting, right?

Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-20 09:04 PM | Reply

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