Dog Days of Summer Edition

Good morning from my office surrounded by stadiums in Seattle. It is a Monday morning, bright-AM, and I’ve already replaced six florescent light fixtures in the back kitchen with some new-fangled LED flat panels that just drop into a suspended T-square ceiling slicker than snot. They weigh a whopping two pounds as opposed to the ten-pound fixture with ballast and four bulbs.

And it isn’t even 0600 yet.

I spent the better part of six hours yesterday fiddle-fucking with ChatGPT. It was being exceptionally truculent yesterday. I swear it was deliberately trying to be wrong. I am strongly suspecting that maybe it will vote for Donald Trump in November — that’s how out-of-pocket the AI model was acting yesterday. It would literally provide a code solution, and when it didn’t work, it would pretend like it didn’t have anything to do with providing it in the first place. Maybe today it will be different. You never catch the AI in the same frame of ‘mind’ twice in a row.

So let’s see what’s in the news today…

I see the “Size Queen” is talking about crowd sizes again. If he were in a gay bar, he’d be comparing dick sizes. Instead, he’s comparing the size of crowds that each candidate attracts. He really doesn’t like it if someone else attracts a larger crowd than he does — because he sees it as a ‘failure’ of some kind.

For example…

Trump Falsely Claims That the Crowds Seen at Harris Rallies Are Fake

This really bothers him. More than it should, in my honest opinion. People show up for a spectacle, to be entertained. Large crowds do not necessarily translate into winning elections.

Remember Obama’s Birth Certificate stupidity? The online sleuths suddenly became photoshop experts, claiming that they could prove that the image of Obama’s birth certificate was doctored because they were somehow able to peel back the layers. It was bullshit then and still is.

But these very same experts have now become experts in reflections.

These idiots don’t see the reflection of the crowd in the shiny paint and chrome on the engine cover of the plane and that is *PROOF* that the crowds are “fake”, or “AI generated”.

They apparently flunked basic geometry in high school. (along with history, social studies, civics…)

If the reflective surface had been a flat mirror, then sure, you would see the reflection of the crowd. But this is not only a curved surface, the angle of the camera shot is much higher than the crowd, so the reflection is of an image ABOVE and beyond the crowd, and therefore the reflection is out of sight of the camera angle.

Idiots.

Oh No! Kamala Harris ‘stole’ an idea from Trump!

That should disqualify her immediately! OMG! OMG! OMG!

Harris copies Trump’s promise on no tax for tips

Is there a rule or law that says two opponents can’t have the same basic thought or idea? The question is, “is it a good idea?” If it is, who is more likely to implement it? If Trump thought it to be a good idea when he was president, why didn’t he do it?

For the record: I don’t think it is a good idea to exempt tips from taxes. If it is income, it should be taxed. If you want to start making carve-outs for tax exemption income, then I would START with Social Security benefits.