In the News II

LOL

That's funny.

Quote: missedhervee

If Bud is now "The Queen of Beers," does that mean the Marlboro Man is now "The Marlboro Minx?"

Technically Marlboro did transition, it was originally a femmine cigarette (filtered with a colored filter to hide lipstick), but once people thought unfiltered cigarettes were bad for you they did a hardcore change in advertising to look ultra masculine. It's actually a really good example of an unchanged product that floated between gender stereotypes simply by marketing.

Quote: Gandler

Technically Marlboro did transition, it was originally a femmine cigarette (filtered with a colored filter to hide lipstick), but once people thought unfiltered cigarettes were bad for you they did a hardcore change in advertising to look ultra masculine. It's actually a really good example of an unchanged product that floated between gender stereotypes simply by marketing.

Do you remember all the old, "Newport Pleasure," window ads and they all just had the whitest flipping teeth?

Good times, man. I wish I could have been an adult in the 90's, but (mostly) growing up in the 90's was great, too.

ChatGPT cooked up a fake sexual harassment scandal.

They named a real Law Professor and accused him of assaulting students on a trip he never took.

ChatGPT cited a non existent Washington Post story.



https://www.aol.com/news/chatgpt-cooks-fake-sexual-harassment-061520350.html

Quote: PotPie

ChatGPT cooked up a fake sexual harassment scandal.

They named a real Law Professor and accused him of assaulting students on a trip he never took.

ChatGPT cited a non existent Washington Post story.



https://www.aol.com/news/chatgpt-cooks-fake-sexual-harassment-061520350.html

Hopefully Ai hasn't passed the Hollywood acting test as its passed many others. Pretending that safeguards limit its ability when tested by programmers.

(there is no Hollywood acting test, but acting is probably learnable also)

Clarence Thomas is one corrupt mothaf***a.

Quote:

For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a billionaire Republican donor, newly obtained docs and interviews show.

These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures, and he appears to have broken the law

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

Quote: ams288

Clarence Thomas is one corrupt mothaf***a.



https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

Quote:

IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.

If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.

I couldn't be happier...

that he got caught at it!!

Oh boy.

The amount of dirty but yet to be tainted politicians who will call for his head should provide some comic relief though. I mean he deserves it, but so do those cluckers.

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we generally as a society have little feeling or emotion toward shootings anymore - it's so very common
a person has only so much emotion they can deal with
the exception is when it involves children and schools - or involves persons we know
there were 20,200 gun deaths in 2022 in the U.S. - willful, malicious, or accidental
995 children age 0 to 11 were killed or injured from a gun
5,157 teens ages 12 to 17 were killed or injured from a gun
647 mass shootings
1,626 unintentional shootings

in 7 years, since 2016 the no. of gun deaths willful, malicious or accidental has increased by about 33%


The House of Representatives in the State of Tennessee has just expelled 2 Democratic lawmakers who favored gun control - this has never happened before - anywhere


https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-democrats-office-removal-vote/index.html#:~:text=In%20an%20extraordinary%2C%20emotionally%20charged,Democrats%20led%20a%20gun%20reform



.https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/


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3 TN legislators were protesting about guns
2 are Black and 1 is white
only 2 were kicked out
Obvious racism by the Republican party