[No one knows how to price their AI-enhanced productivity tools like the MS Copilot. One of the problems is that it’s hard to tell how much benefit a desk worker gets out such a tool for the various prices charged. I tried it about a week ago to help write a post (here), and it produced what was obviously low-grade ore. Now China enters with its DeepSeek at markedly lower costs but nobody still knows how to rate the benefits. Meanwhile we’re concerned about DeepSeek vacuuming up Americans’ information and thereby compromising our national security. gjr]
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206 responses to “Sandbox – 1feb25”
let’s not forget these white folks, with their important inventions:
Sumeria – invention of writing 3,500 BC
Middle East – cultivation of crops 8,000 BC
Middle East – domestication of animals 8,000 BC
Middle East – wheel 3,500 BC
Philo T. Farnsworth – Television 1928
John Snow – chlorination of water 1854
John Mauchly – computer 1946
Johannes Gutenberg – movable type 1456
Alexander Graham Bell – telephone 1876
Gottlieb Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach – internal combustion engine 1885
Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse – electric generator & AC transformer 1880s
Thomas Edison – electric light bulb 1879
Willis Carrier – air conditioning 1902
Edward Jenner – smallpox vaccine 1790s (a real vaccine)
Alexander Fleming – penicillin 1926
Orville & Wilbur Wright – airplane 1903
Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce – integrated circuit 1957
Gordon Gould – laser 1957
Enrico Fermi – nuclear power (fission) 1942
Gugliemo Marconi – radio 1898
Christiaan Huygens – (pendulum) clock 1656
Herb Boyer – gene splicing (via plasmids) 1976
Kary Mullis – PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) 1983
Robert Goddard – rocket engine 1920
Napoleon – canning of food 1803
Joseph Nicephore Niepce – photography 1826
Robert Watson-Watt – radar 1939
Hans von Ohain – jet engine 1936
Frederick Banting – insulin, 1921
Lee de Forest – vacuum tube 1906
unknown – printing (Phaistos disk) 1500BC, Crete
Heike Kammerlingh Onnes 1911; Ginzburg-Landau 1950; BCS theory 1957, Bednorz & Muller 1987 – superconductivity
Ignaz Semmelweis – hand washing before surgery 1847
Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna – CRISPR for gene-editing 2012
G. Rebane – nuclear power (fusion) 2027 (sorry, on a roll, couldn’t stop)
Then there are these – probably not white guys.
Homo Erectus – Open ocean boating to island of Flores ~800,000 BC
H. erectus (Orce, Spain) – control of fire ~1.4Mya
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scenes 6:24 – “Their whole world is coming apart. Arnold Palmer’s Dick is not much of a political philosophy, but if it’s all you got…”
Oh – they have this other trick up their sleeve.
Name-calling. For the most part – they seem to have no idea what the words even mean.
But they had been taught these magic hurty-words and so in place of reason, facts, and logic – they hurl them with glee and abandon at folks they don’t like.
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E Fox 6:36 – I remember the first time I heard the term:
“acting white”.
And I immediately puzzled – “Sid Vicious or Billy Graham?” (I’m dating myself)
All anyone had to do was substitute black for white.
‘Nuff said.
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Acting white?
Sicilian or Swedish or maybe Sami?
Finn or Old Norse?
English, Welsh, Scots or Irish?
French, Czech, Croat or Serb?
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Gregory 8:45 – I’m sure Hillbilly or Paul will step in to explain.
NOT.
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Excuse me ladies (not sure of the gender of some of our posters) and gentlemen, I would offer my congratulations to the Nevada County Republican Party for their endorsement, monetary, and other support for the election of Joe Bonomolo to the Grass Valley City Council.
Yes, the same Joe Bonomolo who at the last Council meeting, seconded and then voted for the council to “discuss’ a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza (It’s in the middle east for those who are geographically challenged).
By discussing and possibly approving such a resolution, it would add to the actions of other liberal bastions of intellect in minimizing the negotiating power of President Trump in obtaining an end to the conflict.
So, Nevada County Republicans, your elected councilmember adds to the undermining of your presidential candidate and now President of the United States in his efforts.
WTF were you all thinking when you endorsed this guy???? And I’m not talking about Trump.
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My mistake, the motion was for a vote to provide a resolution for a cease fire in Gaza. No discussion.
Put forth by Ivy, endorsed by the Nevada County Democrats and seconded by Bonomolo.
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Realllly?
Sounds like a hodgepodge of Grass Valley council thoughts.
A bloody waste of time.
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‘showmekid’has always struck me as a Peeline sock puppet. Are you?
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What a difference three weeks makes –
Gov. Newsom will veto California bill blocking prisons from cooperating with ICE
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/gov-newsom-veto-california-bill-144921563.html
😉
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I told you that frog was no trooper…
https://1mfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Drunk-Kermit-1024×678.webp
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WINNING! –
“A top priority for President Trump is lowering costs for American families,” Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a statement. “Today’s announcement will foster consumer choice and lower prices — it is a win for all Americans. The people, not the government, should be choosing the home appliances and products they want at prices they can afford.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/14/department-energy-postpone-implementation-bidens-efficiency-standards-appliances/
😉
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Can’t imagine why this would be occurring right at this moment…
Why would dedicated “public servants” need “Bleach Bit”?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eruption-bleachbit-wipe-hard-drive-offshore-bank-searches-dc-suggest-deep-state-panic
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Sorry, I am no sockpuppet for Peeline. Wouldn’t know the guy if I met him and I think he’s an idiot. Just asking for the reason for such an endorsement. Well, Dr. Rebane, Bessee, others…WHY??
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Posted by: showmekid | 15 February 2025 at 12:46 PM
Well, Dr. Rebane, Bessee, others…WHY??
Its just expedient to assume any pseudonym that hasn’t been here at least a decade is either a jeffy or Keachie sockpuppet.
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No one here endorsed Bonomolo, and I don’t think there are any Grass Valley voters here.
BTW, your insistent denial is exactly what Jeffy would write.
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I did not say anyone here endorsed Bonomolo, just he was endorsed by the Nevada County Republican Party of which Dr. Rebane, his wife and Bessee are deeply involved. And for transparency, I too, am a registered Republican.
I just wanted to know their thoughts now that he has joined with the Democratic endorsed Ivy to support this ceasefire resolution. If you take time to read his facebook page, under the pseudonym of “Sunny Bono”, you might wonder the same about this nutcase.
Guys, I’ve posted here in the past, not frequently, only when something stirs me. I’m as real as a “fish” or a “Gregory”.
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Unlike you, showmekid , I have voted under the name Gregory every four years since 1972.
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I am so looking forward to this getting out….!
https://x.com/Ravious101/status/1890589822189744487
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Quick……raise the makeup budget for Europes Gavin Newsome….
Relax Macron…..I doubt Putin wants it given what the French have let happen to it!
https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1890899899824189904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1890899899824189904%7Ctwgr%5E0a4324ab3db9985a9d9a30ae14318280b34d9be1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F702944%2F
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As they say at Instapundit….
Shot: Teachers under investigation for allegedly wearing ‘Gulf of America’ t-shirts
Chaser: “ It now identifies as the Gulf of America. Stop deadnaming it with the slave name given to it by Spanish colonizers.”
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Well duh…..! All Bidenomics ever was was taking a monkeyhammer to the economy and then hiding the numbers….
A former comptroller of the currency, Eugene Ludwig, has written an astonishing article for Politico, of all places. He throws cold water on every major data source we have. His conclusions fit well with what we had said six months ago and what I’ve intuited since 2020. He flat-out says that output is far lower than we know, effective unemployment is far higher, and prices have risen as much as twice as government has admitted.
But I understand why Paul Raymond Emery is so fond of his “Man of Integrity”!
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/now-everyone-can-see-it-economy-terrible
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With gratitude to Pauli Halstead (one the less crazy contributors to your local …ahem…newspaper)….who sent me down this rabbit 🐇 hole with her most recent letter.
My only guess….other than somebody was moving grampys hand for him when he signed the commutation is that he was motivated by some sense of honor among government thieves!
Next time a progressive Democrat whines about anything DOGE and the Tangerine Tornado do you go ahead and slap the shit out of them! Anyone complains….tell em I said it was okay!
https://www.wifr.com/2024/12/12/biden-commutes-sentence-former-dixon-comptroller-rita-crundwell/
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Kunstler doing the work I won’t do. He watches CBS to see what sort of lies they continue to spew.
“…Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, who said that free speech caused the Holocaust against the Jews. Her reasoning: free speech allowed the Nazis to gain power, therefore. . . Auschwitz . . . therefore, free speech is bad.”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/krakatoa-blows
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If DOGE’s numbers are right, $522B—1/3 of ALL spending on Social Security each year—is fraudulent,” X user Robert Sterling said.
Of course this crime pales in comparison to the one committed by the DOGE lad because he’s insufficiently enamored of subcontinental Indians!
I’m sure one of our social betters will be along shortly to remind us of this fact!
https://x.com/RobertMSterling/status/1891378438264553879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1891378438264553879%7Ctwgr%5Ee03b82e316982d6c0e49a7bd536dbf187ade1e93%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fmight-be-biggest-fraud-history
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Bwuhahahahahahah…..
….or Gavin J Nepotisms California!
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/complete-failure-calif-pot-industry-dead-licenses-20165785.php
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“and legalized marijuana is failing in California. ”
I haven’t followed that, but just assume that any well-meaning attempt to regulate for health/safety/environmental reasons almost immediately turned into a registration cash grab by local government and heaps and heaps of regulations.
I mean, you get a bunch of petty bureaucrats into a room, ask them for ‘good ideas’ and the rule sets just flow.
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I imagine the tugging the heartstrings stories will unravel just like this in most cases….
I guess she’ll need to go be a speechwriter for some other progressive grifter…..not like there aren’t thousands to choose from!
Samantha Power? How did this woman look at herself in the mirror each morning?!
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1891391817142137182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1891391817142137182%7Ctwgr%5E24d6a25e942fbc9c194f97e79102e0f2614bc976%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Fdavid-strom%2F2025%2F02%2F17%2F60-minutes-propaganda-off-the-charts-this-weekend-n3799901
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fish 12:11 – Love that interview. I’m sure she is somewhat shocked. These people have absolutely no idea how the real world works outside of govt.
“Your services are no longer required”.
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Insanity is going beyond TDS:
“So theoretically praying silently inside of your own house is now illegal in Scotland.”
Ah – but some web site claims that is false.
But here’s the web site’s own words:
“So praying silently in your own home would not fall foul of the law, unless it was intended to directly (rather than divinely) influence, prevent access or cause harassment to those accessing services.”
This is so far beyond wack – some one had to have written that – I don’t think it’s AI.
Who ever wrote this claims that it is now possible to ascertain what some one is thinking.
I won’t even go into the angle of determining what a “prayer” is if it doesn’t involve the “divine”.
What if you are praying to Satan?
What if you are 201 meters away?
I don’t care what you think of abortion – Scotland has lost its mind. Western Civ is lobotomizing itself.
Scotland used to produce great scientists, inventors and engineers. What happened?
The most wack aspect of the whole article is that they first claim it is false (headline) and then admit quietly later in the article it’s true.
Looks like the Feelz has overcome logic and reason.
https://theferret.scot/scottish-law-bans-praying-silently-at-home-is-false/
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“No, free speech did not cause the Holocaust”
Bad enough to be wrong on principle, but it turns out she is stupidly ignorant on the facts:
“The truth is that, before their rise to power, Nazis and their ideas were regularly censored. Anti-Semitism and ‘insulting communities of faith’ were imprisonable offences in Weimar Germany. Leading Nazis, including Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch and Julius Streicher, were all prosecuted for falling foul of these laws. Streicher was imprisoned twice. Editors of the Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, were taken to court on at least 36 occasions. Overall, there were more than 200 prosecutions of anti-Semitic speech in the 15 years before Hitler came to power.”
How much does this pathetic excuse for a human make in a year?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/02/17/no-free-speech-did-not-cause-the-holocaust/
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God Bless those poor guys, good for her! –
Kristi Noem has ‘personally apologized’ to horseback border agents after false accusations of whipping migrants
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kristi-noem-has-personally-apologized-to-horseback-border-agents-after-false-accusations-of-whipping-migrants-sources/ar-AA1zeXk7?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7c565269ec104ec0a93dbab17b5ffcea&ei=51
😉
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DB 10:06 – No, she should have dragged the assholes that disparaged the agents out of their houses at dawn and forced them on their knees to beg forgiveness for their lies.
Noem has nothing to apologize for.
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Your Sunday night funny…….
https://ringsideatthereckoning.substack.com/p/sean-spicers-revenge
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fish – that isn’t funny for the Hillbilly.
Once again – the Hillbilly loses the reality race.
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It’s only funny because it’s true….
https://x.com/sunnyright/status/1891543078328062425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1891543078328062425%7Ctwgr%5Eec199a4c992ddae701a2657667917fcff1bff7f1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F703323%2F&mx=2
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fish 7:30 – “It’s only funny because it’s true….”
continued –
“Men Face $1,000 Fine if They ‘Discharge Semen’ Under New Bill”
https://www.newsweek.com/men-face-thousand-dollar-fine-discharging-semen-ohio-2028909
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Posted by: Scott O | 18 February 2025 at 08:09 AM
Bound to happen eventually! I guess we’re all outlaws now!
What do you suppose “bonking” gets you these days?
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This is tragic…..
If only they hadn’t sacrificed every last shred of their credibility during COVID maybe someone might care!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-s-firings-strike-the-nation-s-health-agencies/ar-AA1zhbjo
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Well – ol’ JD kicked the hornet’s nest in the land of the actual Hitler. Because history:
“The Weimar Republic had such laws. It used them freely against the Nazis. Far from stopping Hitler, they only made his day when he became Chancellor. They enabled Hitler to confront Social Democratic Party chairman Otto Wels, who stood up in the Reichstag to protest Nazi suspension of civil liberties, with a quotation from the poet Friedrich Schiller:
“‘Late you come, but still you come,’” Hitler pointed at the hapless deputy. “You should have recognized the value of criticism during the years we were in opposition [when] our press was forbidden, our meetings were forbidden, and we were forbidden to speak for years on end.”
https://www.steynonline.com/15046/too-stupid-even-for-cbs-news
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This is the kind of shit journalism that just seems to work these days.
….and by free he really means “somebody else is paying for it”. Which, to his credit even after the horribly misleading title he describes at length while not making the connection between running a bus line and the notion that there are costs involved.
I suppose it also shouldn’t be a great surprise that the author is the SFGate.com “Cannabis Editor”….a more august title I simply can’t imagine!
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/mountain-town-proves-free-transit-works-20166276.php
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A new one for psul to be outraged about (well, maybe not).
“The bill requires an individual who completes a certificate of death to record the decedent’s sex to reflect the decedent’s gender identity.
If an individual who completes a certificate of death is presented with a document memorializing the decedent’s gender identity (gender identity document), the individual must record the decedent’s sex to reflect the gender identity indicated in the gender identity document.
…
An individual who knowingly and willfully violates these requirements commits a class 2 misdemeanor.
”
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1109
So, basically they want to put lies into the official records.
Why Team Blue so badly wants to die on the hill of men with fetishes is absolutely beyond me.
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Posted by: scenes | 20 February 2025 at 09:18 AM
So, basically they want to put lies into the official records.
Sad that the gravestone or obituary is insufficient for their need for attention.
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Uh, oh – some one doesn’t have a job anymore.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/doge-vs-department-of-education.php
This is exactly the kind of crap that has to be exterminated from the Fed Govt. You can’t just trim around the edges – these depts evolve into creatures that exist solely for their own benefit. All the “good works” they do is just hand-waving.
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“BREAKING: Hearing reports from within DOD that command elements are denying waivers to mission critical personnel including special agents to cut them in acts of malicious compliance. Command seniors are letting go of the people who do the job to protect themselves from being cut”
– Jack Posobiec on X
No surprise, but it’s gonna get ugly.
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I’ve been watching the Stacey Abrams giant grift machine getting increasingly covered on X. Good times.
I see that JHK has now set aside a column to it.
“You’ve got to wonder how the Party of Chaos thought they would get away with the Stacey Abrams grift-of-grifts. In case you forgot, Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia twice, lost, and claimed she was “real governor” for years after. In the meantime, she parlayed her celebrity persona to a $3.17-million net worth by 2022, doing nothing but running for office. She claimed it derived from giving speeches, publishing romance novels, and “wise investments.”
…
”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/funny-money
Hey psul, what do you think of all this? roflmao. Maybe Arnold Palmer’s Dick has a theory on the matter.
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Well I’m convinced….
It takes a $30,000 a year makeup 💄 budget to establish this level of credibility.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-macron-ukraine-china-ec6310fca8b9a20650bbb196d48d43f9
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This should put to rest any question about the desperate need to import 15 million “pre-citizens” under the Stem administration…
https://x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1892610723840159782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1892610723840159782%7Ctwgr%5Ea5368453dad20c380c16cbb2637d589c739e51ca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F703992%2F
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re: fish@9:04AM No doubt to appease the illegal voters and the more rowdy Democrats. I suppose the ACLU will step in because there’s some part of the Constitution that sez you have to give money to people who sneak over the borders.
Today’s hard-hitting news from the hard-hitting news team:
“Among the hardest hit when devastating fires tore through Los Angeles in January were transgender and nonbinary residents in transitional housing programs.”
– ABC News on X
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Posted by: scenes | 21 February 2025 at 09:13 AM
“Among the hardest hit when devastating fires tore through Los Angeles in January were transgender and nonbinary residents in transitional housing programs.”
Transitional housing….? The jokes do write themselves!
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