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by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2005
Views: 43323

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

Yeah, this is really shitty. Somehow these guys managed to put Bush in the White House in only three days - but this new case has to take months? WTF.
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 501
Views: 12084

Re: Presidential Election 2024

by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Tim Wakefield
Replies: 8
Views: 212

Re: Tim Wakefield

Ugh that's so terrible.
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:01 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Videos
Replies: 1983
Views: 198691

Re: Random Videos

But if the default assumption becomes something is fake, what's real? Essentially, a decade from now, how can you trust anything you didn't personally witness? Right. It's only a silver lining in the case of fake porn of students. It's a fucking disaster for news. On the other hand, think how great...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Videos
Replies: 1983
Views: 198691

Re: Random Videos

Yeah, that's not how AI technology is progressing. We are in the stage RIGHT NOW where we can (mostly) tell. Particularly with video. With still images, I think we're pretty much past the threshold. But we're probably 12-24 months away from it being almost impossible to tell. Shit needs to get regu...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Videos
Replies: 1983
Views: 198691

Re: Random Videos

I say this without any sarcasm at all: Videos like that are the only way AI is going to be regulated before it becomes impossible to decipher what’s real. Sure hope they hurry up. Students at school in Beverly Hills reportedly created and shared nude AI-generated images An investigation is underway...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury
Replies: 169
Views: 7130

Re: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury

They can't object if they don't know about it. What steve is saying, as a law expert guy, is that it’s always better to ask for forgiveness of a judge than to ask for permission. As a law expert guy, I can tell you that it's better not to have to ask for either. So just don't get caught. Edit: That...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury
Replies: 169
Views: 7130

Re: My Wish to Sail Through Life Without Serving on a Jury

They can't object if they don't know about it.
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET
Replies: 485
Views: 4131

Re: Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Over The Top (1987), Thursday, 4/10 9 PM ET

brian wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:07 am (For anyone confused bc you’re not on Facebook and/or not friends with me on FB, I delivered 21 tons of Hawaiian Punch yesterday.)
Hopefully you said "How'd you like a nice Hawaiiian Punch" when you delivered them.
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines! What a great place it’s a great place to start!
Replies: 202
Views: 5873

Re: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines! What a great place it’s a great place to start!

It just dawned on me that about one year ago, when we were in Bern, Switzerland, we were staying two houses down from the Israeli Embassy. The walk to the tram stop took us right past the embassy. It was so calm and quiet. There were gates at either end of the street and a security kiosk out front, ...
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90019

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:52 pm Also, you can also just say "that's just the way it is" and avoid using the "it is what it is" nonsense.
Six syllables instead of five.

Even more if you keep going with the "Do-do-doo do-do-doo, do-do-doo" in your head.
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Official balls and cock thread
Replies: 264
Views: 20402

Re: Official balls and cock thread

And they say American ingenuity is dead.
by Steve of phpBB
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1552

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

There was an explosion of euphoria yesterday in Cub world when they re-signed Bellinger.

At our local Greek breakfast place, a guy was wearing both a Cubs jacket and a Cubs hat. (Not a ballcap, but a driving cap - it looked really cool actually.) He had me beat because I just had a Cubs sweatshirt.
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90019

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Aren’t those more efficient than “there’s nothing we can do about that” and “even though that’s the case”?
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:25 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90019

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Or "What is the ask?" grrr In my new role as dealing with Customer Support tickets, I have found myself saying that...and hating myself as the words leave my mouth. Didn’t Calvin and Hobbes have a thing about Calvin nouning verbs? Or was that verbing nouns? Anyway, “what’s the ask” is muc...
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6196
Views: 340920

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

Watching Masters of the Air Episode 5. Fuck. Every one of these 8th AF guys was a redshirt. Wife basically went upstairs a couple weeks ago tired of a similar sentiment. We haven't watched it since, but I'll finish it up soon enough. (This really is a mild spoiler for Episode Six.) Episode 6 was le...
by Steve of phpBB
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2005
Views: 43323

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

And if he doesn’t? Still doesn’t matter if not enforced by…anyone. Whatever criticism you want to level at the various enforcement bodies and legal jurisdictions I don't think you can accuse them of not going after Trump. He's looking at two civil trials and four criminal trials in a 12-month span....
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6196
Views: 340920

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

Watching Masters of the Air Episode 5.
[+] spoiler
Fuck. Every one of these 8th AF guys was a redshirt.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2005
Views: 43323

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

tennbengal wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:27 pm And if he doesn’t?

Still doesn’t matter if not enforced by…anyone.
Yeah, but he's always being audited. That's why he can't publicly release his tax filings.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:44 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two
Replies: 875
Views: 63436

Re: Hey, I Learn Something New Everyday, Two

The reason that pitchers get hurt so often is simple: The human body is not meant to do what pitchers do. I present this with a caveat, though, which is that I would argue that the human body is literally built to throw things. There’s evidence that thrown object hunting is actually a crucial point...
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:43 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random personalized license plate thread
Replies: 337
Views: 5967

Re: Random personalized license plate thread

Good lord, that brings back nightmares from my adventures in 2014, when we drove with the dog in the motorhome with the window open, looked back, and he was gone.

http://sportsfrog.net/phpbb/viewtopic.p ... 405#p43405
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1552

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

A_B wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:07 pm
sancarlos wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:02 pm I read awhile back that he really wanted to pitch for Seattle, his hometown team, but they passed.
RIP Mariners. Can't believe I missed that one.
Don't worry, AB. At least one person got the joke.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2005
Views: 43323

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

Doesn’t sound legal at all and yes this is a naive thing to say. With Lara Trump as the RNC Chair, I'm sure she will act in the best interest of the Party. There have been rumblings about Trump fundraising being fraudulent for many years. I think they send out those emails with just enough of a tet...
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:58 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random personalized license plate thread
Replies: 337
Views: 5967

Re: Random personalized license plate thread

M1THR1L

Apparently Rass has a spiritual cousin in Salt Lake.
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6196
Views: 340920

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

Anybody catch any of Monsieur Spade on AMC, starring Clive Owen? It is about Dashiel Hammett’s private detective Sam Spade (made famous by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 film noir, The Maltese Falcon ), but it is 20 years later, he’s living in retirement in France, and he gets caught up in a local int...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Racism
Replies: 1519
Views: 80237

Re: Racism

And it's not just the south and blacks. Our history classes generally completely gloss over the countless Native American massacres we committed over a few centuries. Might have a paragraph or two on the Trail of Tears, but we'd been slaughtering and stealing from the natives for a few hundred year...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Racism
Replies: 1519
Views: 80237

Re: Racism

For example, how many of you are aware of the Wilmington, NC massacre? It was as large or larger than the Tulsa massacre. I believe it is the only successful armed coup in American history, yet few outside of NC have heard of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre Heh, I literally ju...
by Steve of phpBB
Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6196
Views: 340920

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

I am…I still think it’s great. Yeah, I think its great. The CGI gets a little janky in spots, but I can look past that. Any of the gunner positions would be horrible…you’re just so exposed. Or the bombardier...sure, I sit here in a glass bubble, totally exposed, as I try to hit a railyard from 30,0...
by Steve of phpBB
Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Curling Thread
Replies: 169
Views: 10011

Re: The Curling Thread

Rex wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:20 pm OK I've heard of curling, and I've even heard of Canada, but "Mountain Time Zone"? That's a bridge too far.
The best time zone for sports.
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:07 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2005
Views: 43323

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

Without using MAGA-brain logic, what difference does this make negatively for a criminal defendant? Like normally, let’s say the DA isn’t banging anyone, she’d appoint the best prosecutor, right? But if she just appointed the guy she’s raw-dogging, he would by logic NOT be the best prosecutor in th...
by Steve of phpBB
Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:00 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Notre Dame
Replies: 122
Views: 2847

Re: Notre Dame

Counterpoint: if there was damage to a global cultural treasure such as the Great Wall or Angkor Wat or the Great Pyramid or the Sydney Opera House due to a disaster, rich people spending their money to repair it IS doing something that matters. Agree. Culture and arts and symbols matter, too. It’s...
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
Replies: 2005
Views: 43323

Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years

It's almost like local politicians bringing politically motivated criminal charges is a bad idea.

Though none of today's theater has anything to do with the merits of the criminal charges.
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:23 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 501
Views: 12084

Re: Presidential Election 2024

Lol

by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:48 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Uniforms, Logos, and Such
Replies: 1280
Views: 84065

Re: Uniforms, Logos, and Such



I dunno. I love the Slovenia stripe, but the vertical stripes with it make me dizzy.
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 501
Views: 12084

Re: Presidential Election 2024

That's the thing. Fox and their ilk have successfully turned politics so partisan that a true follower believes 100% of the things their party leaders (or Tucker Carlson) believe. If they like Putin and Russia, then I like Putin and Russia! Or even worse, "if the [Dems/Liberals/Elite] hate Put...
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1552

Re: MLB Spring Training 2024

L-Jam3 wrote: Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:10 pm Dave Stieb was really under-appreciated.
Yeah, he had a helluva run from 1982-85 especially.
by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: MLB 2024
Replies: 109
Views: 1552

MLB 2024

Yes, the Offseason is over, Spring Training has begun.

(Ok, so this tweet doesn't actually have anything to do with spring training. And may have been posted before for all I know.)

by Steve of phpBB
Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 501
Views: 12084

Re: Presidential Election 2024

Wasn't the ultimate result of the Muller report was that Putin tried to bribe Trump, but TFG was too fucking stupid to understand the deal? Both Mueller and the (then-Republican) Senate concluded that Trump welcomed and took advantage of Russian assistance. As Trump Jr famously tweeted out, when th...
by Steve of phpBB
Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Soul Man (1986), Thursday, Feb 18, 8:30 PM ET
Replies: 277
Views: 1591

Re: Swamp Quarantine-ish Movie Night - Soul Man (1986), Thursday, Feb 18, 8:30 PM ET

Is that Rachel Dolezal? About two weeks ago I got a call from a manager; one of her employees asked if her Only Fans account violated the Firm's outside employment policy. I told the manager to go through all the videos to make sure there is nothing with Firm branding present in any of the content....