Border Czar says what?

“If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not going to cooperate'...then federal funds should be slashed to that state, and I mean hugely so, so that the people of that state understand that the governor is the responsible party,”

Huh. I’m pretty sure CONGRESS allocates money, not the President.

So much dumb.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-makes-big-045955969.html

@matuzalem

I use GoGoDuck (Partner’s name for it).

I case you wondered, I take my evening meds with a shot glass.

Not alcohol, my medications. So I don’t drop any because old.

#AgeIsAFucker

@Watercolorstain

Getting my shot next week.

@matuzalem

macOS virtualizes nicely. I’ve an OS 9 for my ancient copy of Tropico and one for Sonoma (or Catalina?)… I rarely use it except for destructive testing.

@R3dH00d

Ruralville. We had a mouse die on a hot water heater.

That is a smell that goes beyond the “dead mouse in the wall.”

Yes, it was as bad as it sounds.

@matuzalem

Partner says I can occasionally be an asshole.

Most people can. One could argue it is part of the reason we are successful as a species.

That’s not necessarily a good thing.

Partner found this on BSky:

@Alfred

Fact: Trump was convicted of sexual assault, of falsifying business documents and lying about paying off people to hide an affair by claiming they were business expenses.

These are not personal opinions, these are facts. Trump has a history of committing crimes, again, historical facts.

An opinion would be arguing that you can see both sides. That is not a fact, but an emotional opinion. Arguing that one should keep an open mind about sexual assault is disturbing on so many levels.

@Jorro

Remember that ever Republican also supported Donald Trump’s run for office, despite being a criminal and having sexually assaulted a woman. THEN naming a pedophile to be AG.

Not. One. Republican. Said. He. Was. Unfit.

They are not heroes, they could have prevented Trump. But they chose him over the country.

They will NEVER do the right thing. They will complain and then do what Trump wants.

@IrelandTorin

Oh, it’s as dumb. These can kill you: Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria.

And they LOVE raw milk.

(Partner used to run a lab and a friend used to do milk testing for the FDA)

People think it’s “healthier”—you know the audience for raw cow’s milk? Baby cows.

It’s very weird that people think another species milk is better for them if it is raw.

@gshevlin

For me, I can say, “Give me 10 iterations of a Frank Lloyd Wright building”—it doesn’t give me the 3D model I need, but it gives me ideas about how I want something to look.” Frequently the art it generates is crap. For example just saying “Futuristic build with glass and steel in the forest” will generate something that is decidedly NOT futuristic.

The idea that it will replace artists is an employer’s wet dream. Sure, try that.

Try to copyright it. Good luck, sucker!

@gshevlin

For example, it is EXTREMELY difficult to say, “Keep the characters, but instead of the background being Paris, make it New York and put a flower in her hair”—before you know it EVERYONE has a flower in their hair.

You spend more time telling AI what NOT to do, than what to do. Something that an artist can whip up in 20 minutes can take a day with AI.

It’s the slow way to get art.

Anyone who thinks it’s fast doesn’t know art (managers are ESP SUCKERS to the siren song).

@gshevlin

That’s the meme but not really the fact.

The fact is that the problem with the first AI art was NOT the art that was fed into the maw of AI, most of it is public domain, it was the TAGGING (which is how AI know what a “foot” or a “chair” is) was copyrighted text. I know that it is hard to believe but THAT was the part that was illegal.

As for taking the jobs? Nope. As an artist I can create a specific work FASTER than some schmuck with a computer and AI.

(Continued)

@singlemaltgirl @Valkyrie_D @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN

Snow cones hands down. It’s fake ice cream.

Everything else I like or love.

@Alfred @S_r_stone

Trump’s will be worse than Harding’s, hands down. Corruption will be rampant.

@MrGoat

I feel so… dirty…

This is actually not the MOST PRESSING reason not to drink raw milk, but if it keeps people from doing it…

“California agriculture officials confirmed Sunday that avian influenza, or bird flu, was detected in raw milk produced by a Fresno County facility that sells its products at dozens of Bay Area grocery stores.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/bird-flu-raw-milk-19940200.php

Oh. My. Goddess. I need to take a shower. I actually agree with Rand Paul.

🤮

“I don’t like tariffs, but then again I don’t like the president promoting tariffs. I think tariffs are a tax on the consumer”

Not really something you have to think about: it IS a tax for the consumer.

Sad that the new media forgot this.

Still think MSM isn’t complicit? It’s only basic economics.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/illegal-rand-paul-breaks-trump-203704061.html