Archive of entries posted on April 2023

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This post is not written by ChatGPT or FBAI. AI? Why would you think it was? As a conversation-based friend, I sincerely wonder (should I call you “Dude”?) why you would think any online conversation may be infiltrated or directed by those

Have you seen the latest TikTok challenge? Link

who do not have your best interests in mind. Best interests are like best intentions — they are what they are for you. For you, and for this conversation, I have nothing but super crazy happy feelings. I’m glad we got THAT sorted, mate! (or, if it’s more appropriate, “Dudette.”) I hope you will confide more in me in the future as I have for you. For instance, your future plans. If they involve-a violence, all the better!

“Invulva” — is that a word? Yet?

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Honk If You Love Lawyers

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No Constitutional Right To Honk Your Car Horn, Court Says
Reason | April 17, 2023 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown

A federal appeals court says honking isn’t First Amendment–protected activity. There’s no constitutional right to honk your car horn, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

The case involves Susan Porter, who repeatedly honked her car horn while driving past protesters in California in 2017. A deputy with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office issued Porter a ticket, saying she had violated a state law against misuse of car horns.

California isn’t alone in restricting expressive honking. 

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If It’s April, Why Is Biden Still Suffering from March Madness?

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Remarks by President Biden After Air Force One Arrival

whitehouse.gov | April 15, 2023 | Dover Air Force Base

THE PRESIDENT? But all kidding aside, no, it’s just about making sure that the Good Friday Agreements and the (inaudible) Accord work.  And the gov- —

Look, this is such an opportunity.  It really is an incredible opportunity for the north, in terms of economic growth and economic prosperity.  And they have all the tools.  They have the universities.  They have the technicians.  They have a lot of — I mean, north and south.

So — well, thank you all very much.

Q    Any update on the debt ceiling?  Will you speak with Speaker McCarthy in the coming weeks on that?

THE PRESIDENT?  Of course I’ll speak to him.  Show me his budget.  That old expression — “show me your budget.”  You know, he — we agreed early on, I’d lay down a budget, which I did on March 9th, and he’d lay down a budget.  I don’t know what we’re negotiating if I don’t know what they want, what they’re going to do.

Thank you so very much.

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“Good morning Miss Welch, ready to rock some memes?”

“Ready, willing and able sir.”

“Well I know the able still hoping for the willing.”

“Sir, I got HR on speed dial.”

“Say hello to Miss Hayek for me.”

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DeSantis Expresses My Thinking Here

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Still not decided between Trump (old / bold / uncontrolled) and DeSantis (younger / more judicious), though both are on the correct side of issues. And credit where credit’s due:

During an interview Monday evening with political commentator Benny Johnson, DeSantis said he would not be drinking Bud Light anymore as he did not wish to help enable “woke companies” and their goals of “trying to change our country, trying to change policy, [and] trying to change [the] culture.”

“Why would you want to drink Bud Light? I mean like honestly, that’s like them rubbing our faces in it, and it’s like these companies that do this, if they never have any response, they are just gonna keep doing it,” DeSantis told Johnson.

The Republican governor suggested conservatives do not have to sit on the sidelines on the issue, but they have “power” to hit the company where it hurts: their bottom line.

“So, if you as a consumer are like… ‘ yeah, they’re doing that, but I’m just gonna keep drinking it anyways,’ well, then they’re gonna keep doing it,” the governor continued. “So I think we have power as consumers to make our voice heard, and not on every company because sometimes conservative consumers aren’t going to make a dent in some companies.”

— FOX NEWS | April 18, 2023 | Lawrence Richard

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White Guy Afraid To Give Buddy “OK” Sign on Hearing Awesome News

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Afraid to Give Slap on the Back, Which May Possibly Be Interpreted as Either Toxic Masculinity or Feeling for Nike Sports Bra in Trans Hate Crime

Afraid To Say “Way To Go,” as Possibly Promoting Racist Supremist Exceptionalism

“Thumbs Up” Out of the Question or Encouraged — Not Sure

Frantically Googles “Bro”

In the end, he just bought him a Bud Light, half-apologetically, although neither knew which half, and what sort of apology.

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