["OpenAI announced a partnership with Estonia to roll out ChatGPT Edu in all secondary schools, starting with 10th and 11th graders by September 2025, as part of the country’s AI Leap 2025 initiative to provide free AI tools and teacher training." (more here) And now for a bit of levity, enjoy this. gjr]
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133 responses to “Sandbox – 25feb25”
Whee! Fresh litter, no chunks. Called them “kitty crunchies” when a cat and a dog lived here.
Herrin Docktor isn’t around here anymore… a shame. I was hoping for some first person reports of the Frankfurt School…
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“Herrin Docktor isn’t around here anymore… a shame.”
It’s not so bad to have pearl clutching that doesn’t involve Arnold Palmer, and I’d love to hear more about Trump’s rape felony and fascist doings.
re: ChatGPT.
What I’m dearly waiting for is the replacement of 95% of GP doctoring with an LLM and a nurse to provide hands. The bar is low enough that only fear of hallucinations (plus the AMA) would keep that from happening soon I think.
One thing I’d love to try is Tesla FSD, but it’s darned pricey given that you need kinda latest/greatest hardware to run the good stuff. I always assumed that was going to happen as the train just keeps on keepin’ on. I sure hope that scammers like that Altman guy don’t convince the government to spend huge money on a facility when both algorithms and hardware are in flux.
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Here’s the skinny on Musks dependency on the US Taxpayers for is business success.
From the Washington Post:
“Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers.
Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.
The payments stretch back more than 20 years. Shortly after becoming CEO of a cash-strapped Tesla in 2008, Musk fought hard to secure a low-interest loan from the Energy Department, according to two people directly involved with the process, holding daily briefings with company executives about the paperwork and spending hours with a government loan officer.
When Tesla soon after realized it was missing a crucial Environmental Protection Agency certification it needed to qualify for the loan days before Christmas, Musk went straight to the top, urging then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to intervene, according to one of the people. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
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Nearly two-thirds of the $38 billion in funds have been promised to Musk’s businesses in the past five years.
In 2024 alone, federal and local governments committed at least $6.3 billion to Musk’s companies, the highest total to date.
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Link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/?itid=sf_latest%20headlines_top-table_p001_f002
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery | 26 February 2025 at 12:45 PM
You’re right Paul Raymond …..those subsidies shouldn’t be available to Tesla……or anybody else! Of course most of the subsidies went to automakers whose employees were UAW members so your Man of Integrity was again using taxpayer money to buy votes.
You’re a busker, he’s a grifter….really not so different after all.
Here’s a link! Feel free to ignore it.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/business/elon-musk-vs-joe-biden/index.html
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Punchy, what are you trying to say? Spit it out!
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Just one of many many DOGE entries:
“A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020 to $520.4M in 2023.
Since March 2024, HHS has paid ~$18M/month to keep the Pecos facility open despite sitting empty.
With national licensed facility occupancy now below 20%, HHS was able to terminate this contract, saving taxpayers over $215M annually.”
Sometimes you have to admire the avarice of Team Blue. There’s a certain purity to it.
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seen on X:
“#BREAKING: FEMA has officially removed the following words from ALL official documents at the agency:
– Gender identity
– Marginalized
– Social justice
– Equity
– Diversity
– Disadvantaged
– Underserved
– Equal opportunity
– Cultural competence
– Intersectionality
– Arnold Palmer’s Dick
”
Wait, strike that last one. It’s still important in at least one place.
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So, Punch… Trump will be in orifice for another 47 months… why keep this up? Relax. Take it easy. Ignore politics for awhile.
At least until 2028. Can you do that for me?
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Poor Paul Emery – he tries to do money stuff, but being affected with Loser Derangement Syndrome, he can only scout out some left wing anti-Musk junk-articles and do his “resistance” cut-and-paste.
The article rolled-in non-fed money which is outside of DOGE’s purview. The subsidies to Tesla were all left-wing Dem ideas. The loans were paid back with interest. Tesla is a successful company with a substantial payroll. Maybe Paul can cite the taxes on payroll from Tesla or the taxes Tesla pays?
Of course he can’t. Nothing Tesla got was hidden from the taxpayers.
“DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse.”
No – they are rooting out fraud, waste and theft.
And Paul is upset by that.
Tells you all you need to know.
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Gregory
To answer you’re question
NO
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The Repubs are indeed on a dark path’. Check this out:
This recent national survey shows that voters overwhelmingly disapprove of
Congress giving more tax cuts to wealthy individuals (76% of voters disapprove)
and large corporations (70% of voters disapprove)
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs/production/b96354633faa9ada2105ad41622a741805db193a.pdf
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Punch, 525p
Please, with sugar on top. Stop the fucking nonsense.
And the word you intended to use was your, not you’re.
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Gregory
To answer you’re question
Paul Raymond….you went to public schools before their enshitiffication by progressive democrats. Do you mean to tell me that after all these years you still can’t figure out when to use “you’re”, the contraction of “you are” as opposed to the possessive “your”?
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Seen on X:
NEW — AG Pam Bondi Says the Epstein Files Will Start to Be Released Tomorrow
“Tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information … It’s pretty sick what that man did”
Cool.
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“The Repubs are indeed on a dark path'(sic)”
Yeah – must be why they won.
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” It’s true. Elon’s sense of humor is exceptionally juvenile. It’s right in line with the coderboi culture he grew up in.
Elon also does nine impossible things before breakfast. He’s got a paralytic operating a computer with his mind. His rocket launches cost 10% of what other rockets cost. He catches boosters with chopsticks. He started a car company and a rocket company, two endeavors that shouldn’t have worked at all.
He’s exposing the dark money machinations that have been going on in government for decades, and cutting their frivolous waste, all by returning to first principles, which is his superpower.
So he posts dank memes. So what?
I’ll take Elon over our “sophisticated betters” posting fetish obsessions in their chat rooms.
All day, every day.”
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No comment from Gregory or fish on Trumps pathetic poll numbers. He’s you’re guy Gregory and you don’t care.
Once again:
This recent national survey shows that voters overwhelmingly disapprove of
Congress giving more tax cuts to wealthy individuals (76% of voters disapprove)
and large corporations (70% of voters disapprove)
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs/production/b96354633faa9ada2105ad41622a741805db193a.pdf
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What a maroon @846 ROFLOL!! Those are not the prez poll numbers or his issues. PUSH POLL it be.
😉
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“…Trumps pathetic poll numbers.”
And yet –
He’s still POTUS for 4 years!
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Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery, Nevada City, California | 26 February 2025 at 08:46 PM
No comment from Gregory or fish on Trumps pathetic poll numbers.
Well it’s not like he’s running for re-election Paul Raymond….
He’s you’re guy Gregory and you don’t care.
….sad.
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Godspeed Jimmy Doyle!
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“Trumps pathetic poll numbers.”
Make your own decision.
https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HHP_Feb2025_vFinal.pdf
…although I hear that Arnold Palmer’s Dick is up with a bullet.
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Part 1: https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/10/secdef-hegseth-orders-and-end-to-enlisting-transgenders-n2185428
Part 2: https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/27/pentagon-orders-discharge-of-transgenders-n2186073
Thank God.
Seriously, we skirted national disaster with this last election.
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Pretty clever idea in a soft civil war.
Step 1: Mainstream identifies targets:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html
Step 2: Paramilitary arms of Team Blue do their thing.
What should Step 3 be? I don’t really know.
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Not only do liberals think this is a good idea, but that this is a ‘woman’.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-caught-plant-explosive-devices-tesla-dealership/story?id=119244251
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Fed up: 2 in 5 Americans say living in U.S. no longer enjoyable.
17% want to leave
Nothing stopping you……! Give all those Hollywood Stars my best when you see them in your new country.
https://studyfinds.org/living-in-america-not-enjoyable/
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scenes 7:37 – “…but that this is a ‘woman’.
Here’s another fun thing lefties believe:
“So CNN’s Jake Tapper and co-author Alex Thompson of Axios and CNN have announced May 20 as the publication date for their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and his Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
Jake wants you to know he just found out about a sinister plot to cover up Biden’s senility and other really bad stuff!
This – after being part of the plot to cover up Biden’s senility and other bad stuff.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/tapped-out-tapper.php
Paul and Hillbilly will want to pre-order the book fer sure!
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Posted by: Scott O | 27 February 2025 at 10:56 AM
Jake wants you to know he just found out about a sinister plot to cover up Biden’s senility and other really bad stuff!
This – after being part of the plot to cover up Biden’s senility and other bad stuff.
Poor Jake….credibility gone forever! I thought he would have learned from OJ’s promise to hunt down Nicole’s killer!
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Man oh man, clawing back control from The State is a tiring business.
“BREAKING: The FBI NY appears to have GONE ROGUE
AG Letter says FBI NY Is WITHHOLDING Critical Epstein Documents
This after reports that the FBI was secretly destroying Epstein documents
WTF IS HAPPENING”
https://x.com/Timcast/status/1895196506497654913
I expect they’ll have to send non-FBI federal law enforcement down (up?) there.
I have to say that I admire the crookedness of Democrats, especially the large city variety. You’ll never be surprised if you expect the worst.
I’ve got no clue how they’ll clean any of this up without essentially replacing some of these organizations.
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Posted by: scenes | 27 February 2025 at 11:54 AM
This after reports that the FBI was secretly destroying Epstein documents
WTF IS HAPPENING”
Right now in an infrequently used corner office …..a small team of rogue FBI agents are crafting communiques deriding Trumps poll numbers in an attempt to steer “people” away from more incriminating matters.
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“.a small team of rogue FBI agents are crafting communiques”
Head Agent In Chart (HAIC) Arnold ‘Dick’ Palmer is chuckling uneasily as shredding machines grind up disk drives in the parking lot.
Meanwhile, Special Subagent Punchy has been sent new directives.
OPERATION MAJESTIC-420. AGENT PUNCH. IMMEDIATELY BEGIN RELEASE OF ELBONIAN TRUMP POLL. CLAIM THAT PUTIN DESIRES INVASION ELBONIA. MOST URGENT.
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The naïveté is mind boggling….
From your local….no pun intended….fish wrap –
A man simply too dim to know when his pocket is being picked!
“If God didn’t want them shorn, he wouldn’t have made them sheep”
Noted moral philosopher Eli Wallach
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You know, there’s a lot to be said for having the party who doesn’t run the bureaucracy take over the bureaucracy every now and again.
“The FBI is reportedly beginning an investigation into allegations that the agency, when headed by then-Director James Comey, launched a “honeypot” operation to infiltrate the 2016 Trump campaign with two female agents.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-investigating-claims-comey-era-honeypot-operation-against-trump-2016-campaign-report
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“You know, there’s a lot to be said for having the party who doesn’t run the bureaucracy take over the bureaucracy every now and again.”
Damn straight, especially that the Dems had recently convinced themselves they had a permanent majority.
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re: Gregory@5:18PM
It’s like making accountants go on vacation now and again.
re: Epstein.
Lotsa factoids and opinionoids there: https://x.com/JayShams/status/1895144219771060566
My gut feeling is that the whole deal won’t be as satisfying as people hope. Kind of a shame as it makes great drama.
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worth a glance.
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment
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scenes @07:30 PM.
A glance? – it’s a lo-o-o-ng read. You still have to wonder why Jews support ($$ and votes) Democrats, if Obama’s plan was to have Iran (philosophically, if not militarily) overrun Israel.
Netanyahu has stopped his annihilation of regional terror – he should be continuing.
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About that constitutional crisis….
https://x.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1895466733991010402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1895466733991010402%7Ctwgr%5E56ae658ece058c2ba640fa103c96cf97a064edae%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F705421%2F
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EF@3:28AM
Oh well, I didn’t put up a link to The Pilgrim’s Progress and admit that the screen is not good for text material beyond a page or two. Cell phones multiply this effect. The book has yet to be surpassed as a mechanism for long-form, I think even magazines lack that goodness (and are dead anyway).
While the article was mostly timeline, my typical objection to most current political theories of everything is that they explain mass behavior in terms of individual behavior using the same terms and stick to a Great Generals view of history. Swish in a bunch of analogies combined with political theorists that practitioners have never read and Bob’s Yer Uncle, understanding without really understanding. People want stories and they want heroes and villains.
Maybe what’s needed is Grok 7 musing about the human ant farm. We won’t share in the understanding, but it’ll look like ’42’.
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I like it when Michael Moore is in the news! Every photo posted chronicles his passage through menopause!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/02/28/white-house-responds-to-michael-moore-n2652961
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For a chaotic compilation of the world associated with that Jeff Epstein guy, see Jeff Childers’ site-
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/non-disclosure-friday-february-28
He ties strings, some thin indeed, some not, between Keir Starmer, James Comey’s daughter (ass’t atty for FBI’s Southern District NY), Prince Andrew, Steele dossier out of the Brit MI6, and more.
Use this as background for future revelations. Or revenantations. Maybe there will be prosecutions.
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Of course, they’ll totally get away with this.
“Biden aide admits administration was ‘gaslighting’ Americans by covering up alarm at his age and health”
https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/us-news/biden-administration-was-gaslighting-americans-over-his-health-concerns-ex-aide/
Local Libruls will swing between
1. HE WAS COMPETENT AND HONORABLE.
2. EVERYONE KNEW HE HAD DEMENTIA.
3. THAT’S OLD NEWS
4. ARNOLD PALMER’S DICK
wash rinse repeat.
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re: Epstein
I doubt the truth ever comes out, although I see plenty of theories from aficionados. At some point it all sounds like UFO research.
My guess is that the best place for information is one you’ll never see, which is foreign intelligence files. Fer sure someone like the FSB has got a lot of goods on everyone with little reason for inaccuracy. Maybe the archives will be available in 100 years or so.
Until someone like the Clintons really comes under the hammer, not just for Epstein but the sheer magnitude of their scammery, it’s pretty obvious that the fix is in.
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The Clintons were smart to purchase their “insurance” early on! I suspect knowledge of their crimes dies with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_files_controversy
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They should get the mineral concession and then stiff Tiny Grifter anyway…..
As an “Eastern European” he’d respect them more.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-meets-zelensky-says-minerals-deal-be-signed-today-will-use-ukraine-rare-earths
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Oooh….looks like Tiny Grifter thought he was still dealing with President Stem.
Sorry Tiny, might be time to take your winnings….and they are pretty impressive I understand ….and leave the Casino!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna194118
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This just in – email from Kim Jong Un to President Trump-
“We friends again?”
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re: Zelensky
“The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, had already begun probing potential problems with large sums of U.S. economic and security assistance provided to Ukraine, but those efforts would now be sped up.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/zelenskiy-trump-clash-will-accelerate-us-probe-fraud-ukraine-aide-senior-2025-02-28/
Whoops.
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“ZELENSKY CALLED JD VANCE A BITCH!
The mic caught it!
He literally called JD Vance a BITCH. WOW”
https://x.com/ElizabethPDove/status/1895561697433436202
Good times.
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