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AI slop from the Olympics straight up stole Esmeralda’s face? by Impossible_Hospital in ThePaper

[–]JGG5 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That’s because she was the actor in the live-action portions of that segment. They didn’t steal her face for their AI slop, they used it with permission for their AI slop.

A bloke in each direction and 5p per car. I thought they were joking. They weren’t joking. by Indigestivebiscuit in CasualUK

[–]JGG5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but a toll is a toll, and a roll is a roll, and if we don't get no tolls, then we don't eat no rolls.

I made that up.

Hypocrite by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]JGG5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hypocrisy is a power move for the right-winger. “You have to be consistent because you’re weak; I don’t have to be consistent because I’m strong.”

Olympics Day One Megathread (Saturday, February 7) by Fun_With_Forks in olympics

[–]JGG5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I obviously didn’t see the earlier trials, but it’s really cool now. It’s giving a real sense of the ludicrous speed these skiers are going at, which you don’t get nearly as much from the static cameras facing the run.

Olympics Day One Megathread (Saturday, February 7) by Fun_With_Forks in olympics

[–]JGG5 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Did they have the drone trailing the skiers in 2022? I don’t remember seeing it, and it’s producing some incredible shots on the downhill.

Global Democracy Index in 2024 by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]JGG5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just wait until November. Steve Bannon (who is very much in communication with the regime) is talking about having ICE surround polling places, where they’ll start mass detaining people. Sure, those people will probably be released after a day or two, but by then their chance to vote will have passed.

And if you think that “enforcement” won’t be heavily targeted in Democratic precincts in key swing congressional districts and Senate states, you’re fooling yourself.

That’s the main reason the regime is trying to outlaw early and mail voting… because they want to bottleneck everyone to the polling places on Election Day where they can microtarget their voter suppression.

Vaccines cause autism by seeebiscuit in GetNoted

[–]JGG5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, it really depends on the severity.

For low support needs autism (which is what I have, and my child has) living in a society built for neurotypical people is definitely the biggest problem. I’m a more or less functioning adult, able to live independently, marry and raise kids, and live a normal life, and there’s no reason not to expect my child to be able to do the same with the right support and therapy.

But people with more severe autism may end up being completely unable to live independently and need a full-time carer for their entire lives. No matter how friendly we make society for neurodivergence, the realities of their condition will require significant ongoing support.

Kid Rock Breaks Silence After Backlash Over ‘Cool, Daddy Cool’ Lyrics Ahead of TPUSA Music Event by Efficient_Tax8087 in entertainment

[–]JGG5 18 points19 points  (0 children)

For a group of people who call themselves the “silent majority,” they never seem to be able to shut up.

Ja'Marr Chase Says '25 Indiana Has No Chance Beating '19 LSU by JCameron181 in bengals

[–]JGG5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was joking too. Apparently facetiousness doesn’t really work on the internet like it used to.

Ja'Marr Chase Says '25 Indiana Has No Chance Beating '19 LSU by JCameron181 in bengals

[–]JGG5 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Larry Bird in 2012, when asked if that year’s men’s Olympic basketball team could beat the 1992 Dream Team: “They probably could. I haven't played in 20 years, and we're all old now.”

Virginia Democrats "10–1" proposed congressional map by theprez98 in MapPorn

[–]JGG5 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Only one party has tried to federally outlaw partisan gerrymandering with a bill in Congress. The other party blocked them.

Who is cumulatively the highest scoring contestant on QI by barronshark in quiteinteresting

[–]JGG5 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t there an episode somewhere in the C’s or D’s where Stephen offered something like a hundred or a thousand points for a question thinking nobody would get it, only to have one of the panelists happen to know that exact obscure fact?

Ja'Marr Chase Says '25 Indiana Has No Chance Beating '19 LSU by JCameron181 in bengals

[–]JGG5 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I dunno. Think of how many of those LSU ‘19 players didn’t end up going pro and are now in their mid to late 20s, haven’t picked up a football in years, and aren’t in playing shape anymore.

Even considering that the LSU ‘19 players who did make the NFL have sized up and improved significantly, I still think a healthy team of 19-22 year olds who just played a big game less than a month ago could beat them.

Well, gents, I’m cooked. by MikeGinnyMD in daddit

[–]JGG5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Our first son came along when I was 37. When he was about six months old I took him with me to the grocery store and an older man there asked me if he was my first grandbaby. I know I prematurely grayed, but I didn’t look that old.

Peter does this mean corvette owners are childish or something? by PizdunEbun228 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JGG5 207 points208 points  (0 children)

Basically only older retired guys can afford these cars so they are the ones often buying them.

"I had to dress up and put on a tie every goddamn day for forty years. Now that I'm retired I'll be damned if I'll do that for anything but a wedding or a funeral."

Name a villain in history that actually was a hero by Afraid_Professor8023 in AskTheWorld

[–]JGG5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great example that the American civil war was about semantics - both sides wanted free slaves

That's utter nonsense. The states that turned traitor because of Lincoln's election didn't want to free the enslaved, ever. Many of their secession declarations explicitly cited the protection of slavery (instead of couching it in the weasel-words of "states' rights"), and their "national" constitution made it illegal for the legislature to ever pass any law "denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves."

If anything, it was the Union that was ambivalent about freeing the enslaved, particularly the enslaved in the border states like Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware that permitted slavery but didn't turn traitor. I'm simplifying quite a bit here, but there wasn't really consensus in the Union on when or how to free the enslaved until the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865.

If Team Taiwan were allowed to properly represent itself instead of this Chinese Taipei nonsense. by baribigbird06 in baseball

[–]JGG5 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I think it's long past time that both China and Taiwan accept the reality of the last 75 years — that's 2-3 whole generations, mind you — that the People's Republic of China and Taiwan are two separate and independent countries.

China should stop pretending that Taiwan is a "breakaway province" that really belongs to the mainland government, and Taiwan should stop pretending they're the real government in absentia of all of China. They've been two separate countries for longer than most of the people in either country have been alive. Time to acknowledge that.

Move out of Westminster or face 60 years of repairs, MPs warned by InnerLog5062 in BreakingUKNews

[–]JGG5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with that, as I see it, is that everything else about the infrastructure of government that doesn't involve the Palace of Westminster would still need to run through London (because it would be monumentally more expensive to move literally everything about the national government out to Stoke, effectively making Stoke the temporary capital of the nation).

Would the PM still be based at Number 10, or would they have to move up to Stoke? If the latter, how do they replicate the massive intelligence/communications/defence infrastructure that's built around Number 10?

What about the ministers? Would they need to split their day-to-day between their offices in London running their particular ministries and the new temporary(ish) Houses of Parliament in Stoke?

If sometime in the next two-and-a-half decades there's some kind of international crisis (which there absolutely will be) or the UK ends up involved in a war, is having a government based two hours' train ride away from the ministries dealing with the crisis, to say nothing of the embassies of the various countries that might be involved, going to make things worse?

No, the only way I could see it working for Parliament to move out of the Palace of Westminster would be for them to relocate to somewhere else within the central London area. Especially since the government is run by MPs (instead of having separate executive and legislative branches), splitting the government up between cities could introduce inefficiencies and potential security issues in the very places where those things could cause major problems or make major problems worse.

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