Step 1: Be Woman

Step 2: Be of mixed ethnic background

Step 3: Be successful and famous

Step 4: Live in time of intense racial and political antagonization

I remember when Obama tried to normalize relations with Cuba and the possibility of the embargo being lifted and Guantánamo finally closing were close to reality. One can still dream, right?

Can I reverse engineer it?

I’m not queer (though I consider myself an ally) I will be buying a gun because my last name and skin tone goes against Fürer Orange ideal master race.

The Apple II was a good computer but if I lived in that era I probably would have used a Commodore 64 and later the Amigas or a i386 IBM clone.

Shopping list for this year:

1. AR-15

2. Any 9mm pistol

3. Semtex

4. Military surplus gear

5. Toyota Tacoma

Seymour, who reportedly had a daily rate of $150 for his translation services, lasted less than a day on the job before he was replaced.

$150 in 1977 is roughly $800 today. I don’t think he charged enough for such an epic troll.

Welcome to Las Vegas Belfast!

Black and Tans intensifies

Henry would’ve been proud!

Any snapshot from Morrowind.

So, I did some very basic reverse image searching with Google Lens and, as others of pointed out, it seems to have originated from Facebook. More specifically, it originates from some kind of copypasta first posted on Sept. 15th of this year by user Hashem Al-Ghaili. This same copypasta later appears in two other places: in Turkish (twice) and again on someone’s Linkedin post. Since many (myself included) suspected this to be AI generated, I ran this through AI image detector sightengine. Now, AI detection tools are very flawed so I took the results with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, It came back with a 99% chance of it being AI generated with Midjourney being the most likely candidate for its creation.

I find it strange how racist and ultra-nationalists ideas have taken root in Russia when its predecessor (USSR) defeated the Nazis and prided itself in its ethnic diversity. Compare that to the US where its long history of racism since the beginning has allowed the formation of racial and ethnic tensions.

Can someone explain the disparity between Australia’s and New Zealand’s use of antibiotics in meat?

I see Costco as simply a place to buy groceries but I got to give them credit for not giving into culture war bullshit.

“I swear, officer, that I didn’t kill that judge. The fact that my search history indicates an interest in 3D printed guns, and I own the works of Karl Marx, AND I was wearing a free “Free Luigi” shirt doesn’t prove anything.”

Just 6? Surely Argentina’s already broken economy can not survive with so little tax revenue sources? I’m no economist but the only way I can see this even remotely working is if the rates of those 6 taxes are raised expectionally high.

And to think that threating litigation to silence critique and save face was just an American phenomenon.

Movies and shows that I have watched this year in no particular order and not all released this year:

The Beekeeper

Iron Claw

Say Nothing

Altered States

The Substance

Oppenheimer

Peaky Blinders (rewatch)

Kneecap

In The Name of the Father

The Batman

Lord of the Rings (rewatch)

The Departed (rewatch)

Deep Space Nine (haven’t finished)

The Devil’s Own

Sicario

Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?

From the his Wikipedia:

More controversially, Feeney gave substantial personal donations to Sinn Féin, a left-wing Irish nationalist party that has been historically associated with the IRA.

He was a basically an Irish-American George Soros.

And it’s down Along the Falls Road, that’s where I long to be, Lying in the dark with a Provo company, A comrade on my left and another on me right And a clip of ammunition for my little Armalite.

If their population were to exceed 20 million, would that actually be a problem or this just thinly-veiled anti-immigration fear-mongering?