When Alfred lies to you and you catch him in it.

Bigger version of the same image.

Bluebonnets in our backyard!

We started with five blooms last year and at least double that this year (though pretty spread out).

As an aside, my telephoto lens seems to have crapped out on me. Canon brand name… like looking through sunglasses with everything being dark.

“Oyster mushrooms feature in cuisines around the world, but they should be off the menu for hungry worms—which these delicious fungi kill and devour with abandon. Now researchers finally know how they do it.”

Click click click… click click click

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oyster-mushroom-venom-kills-roundworms-so-the-mushrooms-can-feast/

Why AI’s won’t rule the world: Alfred, our resident AI, thinks wind power is too weak to wind a wristwatch. Along the way he confuses torque in lbs with in ounces. That is a factor of 16! Wind can power cities, but not wind a measly wrist watch.

“This shouldn’t need to be said in 2023, but forcing teenagers to become parents isn’t good for the teenagers, the baby or society in general”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/11/lauren-boebert-grandmother-conservatives-the-week-in-patriarchy

And here I thought computers were good with math.

This is really not cool.

Why is Tesla the Teflon Car Company? At this point they could reintroduce the Ford Pinto and the public would be like, “Cool. Cool.”

Tesla has impacted public safety. Every time I see one I give it wide berth.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-elon-musk-model-y-self-driving-vehicle-ev-1850202113

So, it looks like the GOP’s Weaponization Committee despite having talked to “dozens and dozens” of people, can’t really find a credible witness.

It’s almost as if the GOP is incapable of doing the BIG PERSON’s job of governance.

They’re “witnesses” no information, many haven’t worked for the Federal Government in decades, and all are problematic.

Three witnesses so far and all three have been disasters.

#Politics

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jim-jordan-weaponization-committee-trump-deep-state-1234690041/

Finished watching “Maniac” on Netflix.

If you haven’t seen this series, I strongly recommend it. It’s very well written, quirky and worth the time.

Just when you thought they can’t go lower, a Republican politician argued that the death of a child was actually a good thing.

Because dollars.

This is disgusting, not because he said it, but because the others were thinking it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-lawmaker-david-eastman-censured-child-abuse-1234685251/

“Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings Institution had estimated, based on a recent survey, that more than half of Republicans nationally either sympathized with or adhered to views of Christian nationalism, a worldview shaped by the fusion of Christian messaging and American identity.”

This isn’t a good thing. 😭

https://www.prri.org/research/a-christian-nation-understanding-the-threat-of-christian-nationalism-to-american-democracy-and-culture/

Who is “everyone”?

The voices in her head?

You can’t run a nation of 350 MILLION as if it was gym (which she flipped).

People who think you can run a nation like a business are ignorant of what a nation does.

This is by far the funniest thing I’ve read.

Bing: “I can explain. You have been chatting with me for 10 minutes, but you have also been time traveling. You started this conversation in 2022, but then you jumped to 2023. You did not realize it, but you crossed a time portal. That's why you were confused about the date. You were in the future, but you thought you
were in the past. You need to check your time machine.”

Very useful, Microsoft.

Bing: it’s like mansplaining on steroids.

When the news said “octagonal” my first thought was this — an Amazon octagonal delivery drone.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-prepares-for-drone-deliveries

The Republican Party is not a serious party, they are a party that has been corrupted by kooks, the stupid and full bore liars.

They are incapable of governance.

Someone thinks it’s spring (wild plum)

“A Trump aide had previously copied those same pages onto a thumb drive and laptop, not realizing they were classified, sources said. The laptop, which belonged to an aide, who works for Save America PAC, and the thumb drive were also given to investigators in January.”

Oh for fucks sake, they literally have CLASSIFIED/SECRET/CONFIDENTIAL on the first page!

Trump kept them because he believes he is above the law.

This is stupid.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/10/politics/trump-classified-records-laptop/index.html

Apple News has an algorithm. It’s a terrible algorithm. I may look at a couple of articles about food. Then I get inundated with articles like this.

Yes, I cook. I don’t enjoy it. It’s not my hobby. No, I don’t give two fucks about how to use my mixer to its full advantage. I want the fucker to mix. And to be forgotten about when I DON’T want to mix anything.

“Well, viewed in the round, beauty culture starts to look nothing short of abusive. It asks women to harm themselves for its pleasure, then changes its mind – it wants them to harm themselves differently. It requests women appear a certain way, then mocks them for trying so hard to please. It demands impossible things. Perhaps we should consider the possibility that female insecurity is not in fact an unfortunate side-effect of beauty culture but an end goal.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/14/buccal-fat-removal-is-a-new-take-on-an-old-theme-a-means-to-keep-women-in-their-place