Fantagas – Carlos Nine, Argentina, 2008.
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No idea…
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 32 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at April 6th, 2026 - 2:00 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Tom the Bot was discovered messing with Wikipedia and got pissy when admins called him out.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/2026/04/wikipedias-ai-agent-row-likely-just-the-beginning-of-the-bot-ocalypse?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
LOL I absolutely loved playing with neural networks 25 years ago. Training them with pictures of shapes ( now they do it with faces at the speed of light )
You feed it a black and white image of, say, a square then tell it that is a square. ETC with other simple shapes. Training the neural network.
Then run a test and show it a shape and ask what is it.
After over 30 minutes it usually came back with ” Unknown ”
Modern AI would come back with a smart ass answer like ” It is a lettuce ”
They are training AI to be comedic.
Really and I mean really boring post about AI
Been working on a project wit it about doing time lapse of seedling growth. Using a $10 thingy. Image quality is crap.
AI just came up with an alternative plan. Use an old retired Android phone instead. They have better cameras.
Looking forward to waking up tomorrow!
@ Possum:
Any pics you see of food are taken by an iPhone 7 that is no longer my phone as it no longer supported by apple but camera is great.
Don’t ever throw an old phone away.
Unrelated topic but educational.
In the USA you have towns and cities. Sometimes a place is called a city and there are only about 12 people living there.
In the UK a place where people live, even though they may have a population over a quarter of a million is called a town, not a city.
The designation of a city is if there is a cathedral there.
Glad I cleared that up.
Any IDEAS ? He can’t really mean kill 90 million Iranians ….. right ? Nah …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLHh8KvxVE
4_Sticks wrote:
He’s trying to scare the crap out of what’s left of the Iranian government. At some point the rebels need to take control, but they’d probably be slaughtered en masse unless they had significant arms. A transitional government is needed, but who is going to manage that transition/civil war?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Easy for me to say, yes, but they need to strike while the iron is hot, or, are they waiting for the signal from Trump saying when its time to go ?
The only reason why I questioned this ‘8pm deadline’ is that I know Trump would not murder 90 million people so I wondered why use this tactic – if I don’t believe it, why would they ? I mean, if I were top brass over there I would have made my decisions on how to handle this based on thinking ‘No WAY is he going to do this !!’ So then, what was the point ? I know, guess wrong and its over but ya know ‘No way’.
@ 4_Sticks:
A lot of Trump’s “announcements” annoy me, even if he does it to troll the media. It’s boorish behavior.
Saw my CPA today and I owe $0 to the feds, $0 to the state. Retirement is a money saver…
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’ve always strived for this but have only got it down to having to pay the feds the money I was refunded from the state. Yes, its close to zero but never exact.
I have a plan for the future.
Made a beef stew with obviously beef and baby carrots and expensive pearl onions and mushrooms and used a packet of McCormick slow cooker mix.
Tastes great! Last of it will be served on buttered fresh Italian bread. In the USA I think it is called an open faced sandwich.
Anyway I am a a gourmet chef and presentation is important. The seasoning mix turned everything into the same colour.
Next batch at a slow cooked stew will be using seasonings that do not colour the stew.
That way the vibrant colour of the beef, carrots and pearly white onions emerge. Fuck the mushrooms.
A picture of the end of the last batch of beef stew may be posted to show how Lucy cooked it and the individual ingredients remained distinguishable but colour was messed up
Found the skunk’s burrow.
The missus made deviled ham for sandwiches.
Weather is planned for tomorrow.
That is all.
morning y’all
happy friday
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Things much the same here.
Except no skunk.
No wife.
No ham or devils.
In Houston we don’t have weather, same shit every day except sometimes it pisses it down so hard we all drown.
That is all I got.
The bomb dropped.
Eric Swallwell is toast.
lol
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
He’s so screwed.
“I dindoo nuttin but I apologized to my wife.”
https://x.com/RepSwalwell/status/2042800069334962405
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
LOL poor guy.
Now, I am sure people in here know much more about oil, and global oil prices than I do, but.
Trump is rejoicing there is a fleet of oil tankers that are empty, the biggest and yugest oil tankers ever built heading to the USA to pick up the sweetest crude oil ever.
I thought the USA was in a slight oil deficit, so why is the USA exporting it?
In my World, the USA should use all oil internally, only export any surplus and internal to USA price of oil should remain stable.
But no, internal price of USA produced oil is tracking the global oil price.
Personally I buy coconut oil, and would by peanut oil ( smoke point is higher ) but Walmart no longer sells it in 16oz sizes only one fucking gallon.
As fresh bread, wine, eggs, frozen fries just arrived I am done for the day.
Real British meal, fried eggs and chips sammiches. With sausage and mushrooms!
No girls allowed….
Possum wrote:
I don’t always agree with you, but you hit the nail on the head. As someone who’s family worked the oil fields during his childhood, I can’t agree more wholeheartedly that we need to use domestic oil domestically and to hell with everyone else. Our prices should reflect our own production. This may not be realistic for reasons I’m unaware, but I’ve always thought it should be our policy.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It’s amazing that he has dodged all the criminal allegations brought against him, and this is what brings him down.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
The difference in opinion is often because I am from a different country thousands of miles from the USA and see things from a different viewpoint
My head hurts. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, then re-opened it for any tanker that paid a transit fee of $1 per barrel of oil.
That is not actually much really if you see the way the price of oil bounces around. And half the transit fee would be given to Oman. Hey we have toll roads in the USA!
Trump response is closing the Strait of Hormuz completely.
Oh well, China is pissed now.
Glad I converted 70% of my SIPP ( same as a 401k but I has more control over it ) last month before all this recent shit started.
Possum wrote:
Um converted 70% to cash. It will not make as much money but as sure as hell it won’t lose much money if the shit hits the fan on stock market.
@ Possum:
The markets get humpy when people don’t know exactly what’s going down. I predict it will have a strong bounce back once Iran stops fucking around.
Did they ever replace our emergency oil reserves, the one that Biden supposedly gave away ?
@ 4_Sticks:
@ Possum:
Well, thats quite the answer, thank you !
@ 4_Sticks:
Hey, I paid for Grok then I am going to use the Grok! LOL
Actually at the moment it is totally unbiased and gives detailed answers.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
For anyone day trading and trying to chase the markets the London stock exchange opens six hours before New York.
I don’t do that any more, but is interesting how anything Trump says affects markets worldwide.
I wish he would just shut up….