[Don’t buy that new laptop until you find out when the next generation of AI-capable laptops become available. The push now is to have AI models executed more at the so-called edge of the cloud. That means that client PCs will be able to do a lot of the processing locally that should give better results and smaller latencies. More here – https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-models-locally . gjr]
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83 responses to “Sandbox – 22nov25”
sorry, posted twice…
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Opinion
George F. Will
A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
https://wapo.st/3YbtEWw
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“The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself. As the recent “peace plan” for Ukraine demonstrated.
Marco Rubio, who is secretary of state and Trump’s national security adviser, seemed to be neither when the president released his 28-point plan for Ukraine’s dismemberment. The plan was cobbled together by Trump administration and Russian officials, with no Ukrainians participating. It reads like a wish-list letter from Vladimir Putin to Santa Claus: Ukraine to cede land that Russia has failed to capture in almost four years of aggression; Russia to have a veto over NATO’s composition, peacekeeping forces in Ukraine and the size of Ukraine’s armed forces. And more.
Rubio, whose well-known versatility of convictions is perhaps not infinite, told some of his alarmed former Senate colleagues that the plan was just an opening gambit from Russia — although Trump demanded that Ukraine accept it within days. South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds, a precise and measured speaker, reported that, in a conference call with a bipartisan group of senators, Rubio said the plan was a Russian proposal: “He made it very clear to us that we are the recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one of our representatives. It is not our recommendation. It is not our peace plan.” Hours later, however, Rubio reversed himself, saying on social media that the United States “authored” the plan.
The administration’s floundering might reflect more than its characteristic incompetence. In a darkening world, systemic weaknesses of prosperous democracies are becoming clearer.
Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell’s 1976 book, “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,” argued that capitalism’s success undermines capitalism’s moral and behavioral prerequisites. Affluence produces a culture of present-mindedness and laxity; this undermines thrift, industriousness, discipline and the deferral of gratification.
Today’s cultural contradictions of democracy are: Majorities vote themselves government benefits funded by deficits, which conscript the wealth of future generations who will inherit the national debt. Entitlements crowd out provisions for national security. And an anesthetizing dependency on government produces an inward-turning obliviousness to external dangers, and a flinching from hard truths.
Two weeks ago, the chief of staff of the French army said: “We have the know-how, and we have the economic and demographic strength to dissuade the regime in Moscow. What we are lacking … is the spirit which accepts that we will have to suffer if we are to protect what we are. If our country wavers because it is not ready to lose its children … or to suffer economically because the priority has to be military production, then we are indeed at risk.”
Putin has surely savored the French recoil from these words. And he has noticed that, concerning Ukraine and the attacks on boats near Venezuela, the Trump administration cannot keep its stories straight. This probably is for reasons Sir Walter Scott understood: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave,/ when first we practise to deceive!” Americans are the deceived.”
G. Will. WAPO
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TPUSA v. Candace Owen’s
https://thehill.com/video/candace-owens-accepts-tpusas-challenge-to-discuss-charlie-kirks-assassination-rising/11319350
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“Instinctually Programmed To Lie”: CNN’s Jake Tapper Mislabels D.C. Pipe-Bomb Suspect As “White Man”
Anybody surprised?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/instinctually-programmed-lie-cnns-jake-tapper-mislabels-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-white-man
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“The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.”
Those survivors were not innocent – they were running drugs and it has been made clear that if you want to run drugs you will die. Our nation has legalized the slaughter of millions of innocents solely because they are “inconvenient, not of the correct age, or an embarrassment to others”. The last admin willfully allowed into this country thousands of criminals who ended up raping, murdering, stealing, and maiming innocent American citizens. Further – they refused to expel from our country illegals who committed all sorts of crimes and those with final orders of removal by the courts. George Will can go f**k himself.
And I’m sure Trump is quite the jerk for trying to end a war. A war that Russia will surely win because of sheer numbers. If Hillbilly and G Will want to volunteer to go to the front and fight they are free to do so. If our nation is to be a credible military threat long term against our enemies, we need to regain our manufacturing ability and pay off our gigantic debt first.
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So just shoot anyone on a street corner because they look illegal and “might” be peddling drugs? Sounds like a moronic MAGA philosophy.
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Kash Patel actually said: “When you attack our nation’s Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life. We will always refute it and combat it.”
This from the same crew that pardoned 1,500 attackers and turned January 6 into a loyalty test.
These are not serious people.
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But if Trump gets paid enough, Scott loves the real drug dealers…
…only a few hundred tons says Scotto, thumbs up!
“The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was prosecuted by the federal government of the United States for his involvements in the trade in narcotics. He was found guilty of having been involved and sentenced to some 45 years in prison. He once boasted that he ‘would stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.’ He accepted a million-dollar bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras destined to the United States. This former president, [President] Hernández, had a man killed in prison to protect him. Honduras has become a bastion of the global drug trade. This former president, [President] Hernández, orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions of dollars for cartels while making Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent, most corrupt countries. So, they prosecute him, find him guilty of selling narcotics through these cartels into the United States. Can you think of anyone more reprehensible than that? Selling drugs to this country, finding more victims by the day… Of course, it’s terrible… so terrible that he was found guilty and sentenced to 45 years in prison.”
“Then what happened? Well, you won’t believe it. Donald Trump pulls out his pardon pen,”
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A “Serious Person Scott….,.
Watch: Biden Called For Strike Force To Crush Drug Cartels In 1989!
Well no….not really! After all…..Joe Biden.
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“So just shoot anyone on a street corner because they look illegal and “might” be peddling drugs?”
Making up crap again? Best you can do?
“This from the same crew that pardoned 1,500 attackers…”
1500 “attackers”??!! Stop using drugs RH – it’s ruined your mind.
“But if Trump gets paid enough,…”
How much? Proof? Yeah – didn’t think so. Just more fabricated BS from RH.
Hey – what happened to that big Epstein story that was going to finish off Trump?
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fish – “Anybody surprised?”
Well – the photo showed him with a dress shirt and tie. So – he was acting white.
Tapper thinks all Blacks have dreads and lots of bling around the neck.
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George
Do you think it is appropriate for a President to do this? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/79WDoS9cBXU
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PaulE 251206 – He has every right to peddle his watches (I think the profits go to charity), but I think it’s a bit cheesy for him to do it.
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Well that was predictable unless you are a socialist dem – Falling rents. Rising wages. Perhaps stopping immigration works
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Defund the police…..replace with Social Workers…? “That’s a bold play Cotton….let’s see how it works out for them!
“San Francisco hospital social worker stabbed to death inside ward”
….and because its San Francisco and progressives can never figure out consequences much kvetching ensues!
https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/sf-hospital-social-worker-stabbed-death-21228425.php
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Nothing to do with Trump, so psul won’t care fer sure, but I was just considering the evolution of school boards.
I was looking through an old yearbook in my hometown, saw picture of board, noticed that it was 100% heavy hitter local businessmen and attorneys.
The modern variety, judging from local folks plus the 1/2 dozen other boards I checked out, the officials appear to be drawn almost exclusively from ex-teachers. In other districts the only other ‘talent’ pool seems to be grifty racial non-profit people. Nevada County seems lighter on that although there are a few extremely obvious examples.
You gotta wonder if it makes sense to have a police department oversight committee made up entirely of ex-cops.
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Good morning! Here is your daily lecture…
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Hmmm…
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oh well…
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Trumpers Rejoice!
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine – https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/
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Too big to fail?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/cryptocurrency-economy-financial-crisis/684960/?gift=OW6XrngNZ_wcvZyWIevOwG6dgBRS92lTahVapZYkhCg
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George writes considering Trumps watch peddling that “He has every right to peddle his watches (I think the profits go to charity”
There is no evidence of that George. Can you provide a source for your contention?
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“This sweary ‘wine mom’ is the Democrat’s answer to Joe Rogan”
I like the fact that they use a photo of her from probably 25 years ago!
This sweary ‘wine mom’ is the Democrat’s answer to Joe Rogan
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This software blows…..!
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PaulE 251208 – Let’s just assume Trump is making some extra filthy lucre peddling stuff with his name on it. I don’t approve.
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“There is no evidence of that George. Can you provide a source for your contention?”
Why should he? You provide no evidence of what you post.
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“This software blows…..!”
I admit that it’s really bad. I wonder how hard it would be to self-host something like this with a reasonably simple user interface. Naturally what you are dealing with is years of accreted software UI magic and a strong need to surveil the posters for resale to some marketing firm. This was all a solved problem decades ago, but enshittification is the order of the day.
re: Trump and the watch. Don’t care, didn’t even know about it until psul started rubbing one out to his latest outrage in a world where important things actually happen. My natural assumption is that practically any ‘non-profit’ is a scam, so I’d just as soon Trump kept any money. Strongly suspect it’s simply a licensing deal.
These are always fun:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
https://transparentcalifornia.com/
Plug yer town into the first, yer favorite county officials into the second. At this point, only a fool believes that doing something truly useful for a living was the smart play.
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it looks like every blm leader graduated the jessie jackson-rev al school of scam! Black Lives Matter Oklahoma leader in Oklahoma indicted for fraud
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Scott
Here is the “evidence” of what I have posted. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/79WDoS9cBXU
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No, Paul – evidence of your claim that there are orders to pepper-spray children. You said it was documented. Evidence that ICE zip-tied naked babies and threw them in vans. How about that Jose Smollett story that an ICE agent sprayed into that families car? If you think Trump is breaking the law doing an ad for watches, please cite the law.
And gee, Paul – what happened to that big, big story about Trump and Epstein? Turned out it’s the Dems in bed with Epstein.
While you and RH fret over nothing much about Trump, the feds are getting convictions involving massive frauds in Dem states after years of the Dems inaction.
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I’m always curious why liberals are so anti-immigration enforcement, but have some theories. It occurred to me that it’s easier just to ask.
Looking at this: https://old.reddit.com/r/complaints/comments/1ploz78/ice_agents_is_it_really_worth_it/
it looks like the current thinking is “BECAUSE IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE BORDERS!!!1!”
Since psul and Mr Hillbilly are handy, is that the thinking among elder hippies in the foothills?
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13dec25 – Comments are closed for this Sandbox. gjr
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