Faster Than A Speeding ONT

Greetings Horde! Say, didja see that Bernie Sanders and AOP are flying a private jet around the country to their “fight the oligarchy” events?

Do Androids Worship An Electric Savior?

Now, I lack the knowledge to comment intelligently on the subject of how AI works, but it's a really interesting topic, and if you click through to the thread on X, there's lots of people who do seem to know more than I do talking about it.

Kids Will Be Kids

People Are Sharing The Extremely Weird Things They Did As Children

Some examples:

"I used to drink my own blood whenever I got a cut because I thought I had a limited supply and would die if I didn't."

"As a little girl, I used to sit back to front on the toilet to pee. I thought it sounded more like my dad peeing so the monsters wouldn't try to grab me."

Musical Interlude

That fucking slaps. I feel like getting drunk, painting my face blue, and conquering all of Asia.

Good Advice From The Experts

As search goes on for missing swimmer, experts say people shouldn’t have teased sharks

“They are not creatures that attack. We have seen them here for many years. You don’t go out into the wilderness and stroke a lion. It is not logical to tease them and jump on them,” said Itamar Avishai of the EcoOcean nonprofit.
Israelis flocked in large numbers to the beach during the weeklong holiday of Passover, sharing the waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some tugged on the sharks’ fins, while others threw them fish to eat. Dusky sharks can grow to four meters (13 feet) long and weigh about 350 kilograms (750 pounds). Sandbar sharks are smaller, growing to about 2.5 meters (8 feet) and 100 kilograms (220 pounds).
Police and rescue workers launched a search along the coast after reports that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera on Monday. The Fire and Rescue Authority announced Tuesday afternoon that “findings” had been brought to the forensic institute for identification.
The man’s identity was not released, but Hebrew-language media said the man in his 40s from Petah Tikva had gone to swim with the sharks.

I mean, at some point, you just have to throw up your hands and let nature take its course.

Physics Is Phun

Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning

The Universe is expanding, but exactly how fast is a contentious question. Two different methods of measurement return two very different speeds – and as the measurements become more precise, each becomes more certain. This discrepancy is known as the Hubble tension, and it's reaching crisis levels in physics.

So for a new study, physicists in Hungary and the US added a small rotation to a model of the Universe – and this mathematical massage seemed to quickly ease the tension.

"Much to our surprise, we found that our model with rotation resolves the paradox without contradicting current astronomical measurements," says István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.

"Even better, it is compatible with other models that assume rotation. Therefore, perhaps, everything really does turn."

I just KNEW the universe was a Monday morning after a week long bender!

It's Poping Time!

The Papal Conclave Is A Battle Not Just For The Catholic Church But For Western Civilization

What’s certain, however, is that the conclave will be a contest between two competing visions of Catholicism. On one side are the aging liberal boomers, who came up in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council and whose vision for the church is decidedly modern. They think everything that came before Vatican II is bad and that ripping out the altar rails, selling off the icons, and banning Gregorian chant and polyphony in favor of tambourines and guitars was a great improvement. They believe in erasing the differences between the laity and clergy, ignoring or destroying Sacred Tradition, and deemphasizing or outright denying the reality of sin. Francis was one of them, and there are many others in the College of Cardinals. They have done their work with zeal, and much has been lost.

Such men thought, back in the 1960s and ‘70s, they were forging a new future for the post-conciliar Catholic Church. They believed they were blazing the trail into a bright modernist future for Catholicism. But now they are old men in their 70s and 80s, and their revolution is dying with them. Almost no one in the Catholic Church wants to continue their religious modernization project. When they look behind them to the younger generations in search of Catholics to whom they can pass the baton of their revolution, they find almost no one. In America, theirs is the weak and sclerotic “cultural Catholicism” of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and John Kerry — boomers whose worldview is inherently anti-Catholic and whose politics are an affront to Catholic morality.

Regardless of whether or not you're Catholic (and I am not), I think that a traditional church, strong in the teachings of Christ and steadfast in its defense of the same, is a fundamental pillar of western civilization and one that badly needs shoring up if we are not to fall to the eastern barbarians.

Pray For Jay

Jay Leno Faces His Biggest—and Most Heartbreaking—Challenge

blockquote>The comedian, who turns 75 next week, has been married to his wife, Mavis, since 1980. While she has managed to stay out of the spotlight, Leno has always spoken favorably of his wife, who is 78. The couple never had children, and I do not know a lot about her, but I know she has dedicated much of her life to helping others, specifically women and young girls suffering from terrible oppression in Afghanistan. From what I've heard through the grapevine, like her husband, she doesn't just talk the talk; she's dedicated much of her own time and resources to this cause and others.  

Unfortunately, Mrs. Leno suffers from "advanced dementia" now. Last year, her husband filed a petition for conservatorship, citing her doctor's letter that explained she sometimes didn't recognize Jay or know her own date of birth and had "been progressively losing capacity and orientation to space and time for several years." Her lawyer agreed with the idea, citing that she receives "excellent care" from her husband

Jay always seemed like the decent sort, my prayers are with him as he cares for his wife.

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