The Unbearable Lightness Of ONTing

Howdy Hordelings! Saw this the other day and found it interesting. Looks like those of us in the central time bone are the future. Yup, we're going to save the country, right here in diddle America.

Fly Me To The Moon

Woman reveals her plans to have sex with Elon Musk and give birth to first 'Martian baby'

She's an OnlyFans model (porn actress) who wants to fly to Mars with Elon and have a kid. The interesting part was this, however:

But according to scientists, the difficulties of having sex on Mars make this highly improbable, if not impossible.

Kelly Weinersmith, a bioscientist and author based in Charlottesville, Virginia, says people who want to populate Mars 'don't understand how reproduction works'.

Weinersmith, who authored the 2023 book 'A City on Mars' with her husband Zach, told the Times: 'These billionaires think it's an engineering problem.

'They think that if they get a rocket that's big enough, biology will take care of itself – but it won't.'

Couples could risk the health of their unborn baby by conceiving in space, whether they're on Mars or orbiting around Earth on the ISS.

They don't say why, however. Now I'm curious why they think you can't get knocked up unless you're on Earth.

Recess Appointments

Brief: On the Article II Recess Appointments Clause

I'm not going to quote anything because it dry and written by a lawyer, but he does give some detail about how and why Trump can make recess appointments for his cabinet. Worth reading if that interests you.

Ball Bow

AI Problems

Home warranty company refused to pay Utah man $3,000 he says was promised by its 'miscommunicating' AI chatbot

Like many homeowners, Robert Brown purchased a home warranty to protect his finances against problems that might occur on his property. Naturally, when his air conditioner broke, he contacted his warranty company to get it repaired.

A technician was dispatched and able to get the unit up and running again, but told Brown it was only a temporary fix. The Draper, Utah, homeowner realized he would need to get a replacement, so he contacted the warranty company again and pleaded his case.

Brown went online and was connected to the warranty company's chatbot, where he explained what had occurred.

"Can I just get the maximum payout of $3000.00?" he asked, according to KSL News in a story broadcast Sept. 23. "I will order and get it installed myself."

The chatbot agreed, per KSL News, stating: "We will proceed with the payout option of $3,000.00 as per your request.”

Brown says he was assured several times that the money was on its way. But when he called the company after the payment didn't come, he says the business told him the chatbot was "miscommunicating" with customers and they refused to pay.

Ultimately they did pay. I've been quite happy with our home warranty company, but I know that not all of them are easy to work with.

Consiquences

How the Democrats Bud Lighted their brand

Reality remains undefeated and suddenly it reasserted itself. Yet in order to appeal to one of the two genders which now apparently exist again, Democratic organizers ended up falling back on clichéd stereotypes of what men are… because they actually have no idea.

The Democrats realized too late that they had Bud Lighted their brand. You can’t be openly hostile to men for two decades and expect to retain the male vote. And judging by Trump’s gains with both genders, you also can’t be incapable of defining what a woman is and expect women to believe you care about them, either.

Whether the left realizes it or not, the Bud Light moment was the beginning of the end of their long-standing grip on the culture. It lost them 23 percent of their market share and still hasn’t recovered. Trump’s recent win is more evidence. He won decisively, a collective middle finger from an America tired of being lectured.

And it was glorious.

Fiscal Responsibility

Kamala Spent $100 Million a Week

Kamala was blowing through $100 million a week. Where did that money go? The answer in a lot of organizations tends to be ‘consultants’, people put on staff because they’re somebody’s pals or politically connected.
Some media allies of Ms. Harris were also paid. Areva Martin, who hosts a talk show, was paid $200,000 as a media consultant, and she went on a battleground-state tour in October.
Roland Martin, who hosts his own streaming programming and runs a media company called Nu Vision Media, received $350,000 in September for a “media buy” that he said was for advertising.
“It should have been a hell of a lot more,” Mr. Martin said in a brief interview. “More should have been spent on Black-owned media.” Mr. Martin interviewed Ms. Harris in October.
Ms. Harris’s campaign also made two $250,000 donations to National Action Network, the organization led by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Mr. Sharpton interviewed Ms. Harris on MSNBC in October.
That’s chump change when you’re spending $100 million a week, but that is also how you end up spending $100 million a week. A lot of ads. A lot of people making money from buying ads. And from everything else.
The good news is they did manage to get all that money out the door. And now they need more.

Fighting Scammers

Meet the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Cellphone Scammers

“Created using a range of cutting-edge AI technology and trained with the help of one of YouTube’s best-known scambaiters, Jim Browning, Daisy is a lifelike AI Granny completely indistinguishable from a real person,” O2 explains in a press release. “Able to interact with scammers in real time without any input from her creators, O2 has put Daisy to work around the clock answering dodgy calls.”

Daisy’s job is ingenious. O2 employs her to waste scammers’ time so that they don’t have time to target real victims.
According to O2, Daisy has:
…told frustrated scammers meandering stories of her family, talked at length about her passion for knitting, and provided exasperated callers with false personal information including made-up bank details. By tricking the criminals into thinking they were defrauding a real person and playing on scammers’ biases about older people, Daisy has prevented them from targeting real victims and, most importantly, has exposed the common tactics used so customers can better protect themselves.

Heehee. That's great.

Not A Bad Idea

A Simple Litmus Test for RFK Jr.’s Ideas

After Donald Trump nominated RFK Jr. for the post, Time magazine called him “a vaccine skeptic who spreads medical disinformation and conspiracy theories,” and quoted Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law as saying of his nomination, “I can’t think of a darker day for public health and science.” But I think we need to draw distinctions. 

After looking at the whole range of RFK Jr.’s positions, I’ve come to the view that while some are extreme, others are genuinely worthy of debate—and still others are correct. And there is a way to sift the good from the bad and the debatable. When you hear one of RFK Jr.’s ideas, ask yourself a simple question: Do other nations do what he thinks the U.S. should do? If the answer is yes, then the HHS nominee’s idea is not necessarily apocalyptic, and we should be able to discuss it openly. 

Some of his ideas are whacko, but many are not. That's not a bad suggestion for a starting point to determine which is which.

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