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03-30-2023 , 11:46 PM
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That's a man, baby.
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04-06-2023 , 05:38 AM
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ChatGPT cooked up a fake sexual harassment scandal.

They named a real Law Professor and accused him of assaulting students on a trip he never took.

ChatGPT cited a non existent Washington Post story.



https://www.aol.com/news/chatgpt-coo...061520350.html


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04-06-2023 , 05:49 AM
Forget accusations. You could produce a video right now with AI that showed someone assaulting someone else that would be good enough to fool many people. Anyone that has their face and voice online is vulnerable.
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04-06-2023 , 05:52 AM


Jay-Z's part on this track is completely AI generated.
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04-06-2023 , 12:25 PM
New piece on Clarence Thomas:

https://www.propublica.org/article/c...vel-gifts-crow


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For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
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04-06-2023 , 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubble_Balls
I'm having a hard time understanding how Thomas concluded that this didn't require disclosure.
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04-06-2023 , 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Rococo
I'm having a hard time understanding how Thomas concluded that this didn't require disclosure.
He understands, he doesn't give a ****.
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04-06-2023 , 01:02 PM
It seems every other weekend Joe Biden and/or extended family is vacationing at a beachfront property given out to him by one billionaire Democratic donor or another, and no-one in the MSM bats an eye. Is the supposed issue Thomas was gifted these alleged vacations, or it was all done secretly?
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04-06-2023 , 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Dunyain
It seems every other weekend Joe Biden and/or extended family is vacationing at a beachfront property given out to him by one billionaire Democratic donor or another, and no-one in the MSM bats an eye. Is the supposed issue Thomas was gifted these alleged vacations, or it was all done secretly?
You could read the article and find out. The main issue is the transportation needs to be disclosed. The private jet and yacht trips.
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04-06-2023 , 01:59 PM
So this alleged impropriety on Thomas's part has been going on decades. Do you think the media just found out now, and felt compelled to report it immediately because it is such a big deal? Or do you think they have been sitting on this story potentially for decades, knowing it was mostly a nothing burger, and are reporting it now for some ulterior motive?

Interesting how both the Trump indictment and now this story is coming out now. If one was inclined to look for an ulterior motive for the timing, one might wonder if this is a giant distraction from some more pertinent news, such as the ongoing banking crisis or the Biden administration taking massive L's on the foreign policy front with (among other news) Chinese diplomatic intrusion into the Middle East, OPEC cutting oil production, and so many nations abandoning the dollar.
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04-06-2023 , 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Dunyain
So this alleged impropriety on Thomas's part has been going on decades. Do you think the media just found out now, and felt compelled to report it immediately because it is such a big deal? Or do you think they have been sitting on this story potentially for decades, knowing it was mostly a nothing burger, and are reporting it now for some ulterior motive?

Interesting how both the Trump indictment and now this story is coming out now. If one was inclined to look for an ulterior motive for the timing, one might wonder if this is a giant distraction from some more pertinent news, such as the ongoing banking crisis or the Biden administration taking massive L's on the foreign policy front with (among other news) Chinese diplomatic intrusion into the Middle East, OPEC cutting oil production, and so many nations abandoning the dollar.
The distraction meme is so weak. There is literally never a moment in time you couldn't claim this based on what's going on in the world.
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04-06-2023 , 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Dunyain
So this alleged impropriety on Thomas's part has been going on decades. Do you think the media just found out now, and felt compelled to report it immediately because it is such a big deal? Or do you think they have been sitting on this story potentially for decades, knowing it was mostly a nothing burger, and are reporting it now for some ulterior motive?

Interesting how both the Trump indictment and now this story is coming out now. If one was inclined to look for an ulterior motive for the timing, one might wonder if this is a giant distraction from some more pertinent news, such as the ongoing banking crisis or the Biden administration taking massive L's on the foreign policy front with (among other news) Chinese diplomatic intrusion into the Middle East, OPEC cutting oil production, and so many nations abandoning the dollar.
What is so special about this moment? I could think of plenty of times in just the last two years when Biden was more in need of distraction than he is at this moment, or the Supreme Court has been more in the forefront than it is right this second.

At this rate, you will be outluckboxing Luckbox by the end of 2023.
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04-06-2023 , 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Rococo
At this rate, you will be outluckboxing Luckbox by the end of 2023.
That would be impossible
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04-06-2023 , 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Dunyain
It seems every other weekend Joe Biden and/or extended family is vacationing at a beachfront property given out to him by one billionaire Democratic donor or another, and no-one in the MSM bats an eye. Is the supposed issue Thomas was gifted these alleged vacations, or it was all done secretly?
do we have examples of this actually happening?
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04-06-2023 , 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
That would be impossible
Fair enough.
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04-06-2023 , 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Slighted
do we have examples of this actually happening?
I do think Biden take a lot of time off compared to the likes of Obama , Clinton and Bush .
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04-06-2023 , 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by FallawayJumper
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ChatGPT cooked up a fake sexual harassment scandal.

They named a real Law Professor and accused him of assaulting students on a trip he never took.

ChatGPT cited a non existent Washington Post story.



https://www.aol.com/news/chatgpt-coo...061520350.html


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An Australian mayor said he may take legal action over false information shared by advanced chatbot ChatGPT.

Brian Hood, Mayor of Hepburn Shire Council, says the OpenAI-owned tool falsely claimed he was imprisoned for bribery while working for a subsidiary of Australia's national bank.

In fact, Mr Hood was a whistleblower and was never charged with a crime.

His lawyers have sent a concerns notice to OpenAI - the first formal step in defamation action in Australia.

OpenAI has 28 days to respond to the concerns notice, after which time Mr Hood would be able to take the company to court under Australian law.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65202597
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04-06-2023 , 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by lozen
I do think Biden take a lot of time off compared to the likes of Obama , Clinton and Bush .
https://www.cleveland.com/nation/201...s_who_too.html

Bush was widely perceived to have taken more time off than any recent president.

I personally don't care about this issue no matter who the president is. You are never really off the clock if you are president, and if Bush thought that chopping wood on his ranch helped him manage stress, or Obama thought that playing golf in wherever helped him manage stress, I'm OK with that.
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04-06-2023 , 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by lozen
I do think Biden take a lot of time off compared to the likes of Obama , Clinton and Bush .
but i believe he goes to his own house in delaware that he has owned for decades.. the allegation was that he is jet setting to billionaire owned retreats via billionaire owned jets and lying about it/covering it up like Thomas has been doing.
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04-06-2023 , 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Slighted
do we have examples of this actually happening?
https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/joe-hu...olina-mansion/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tic-donor.html

That took 2 seconds of google search. 2 different vacations gifted by 2 different Democrat buisnesspeople/megadonors during his presidency.

Interestingly, I am sure we would all agree that Thomas is a right wing ideologue, who is always going to take the far right wing position on any case, which means his loyalties are not really for sale. He is essentially being rewarded for doing what he would have done regardless.

Joe Biden on the other hand is not an ideologue, and therefor is more malleable to being influenced/bribed, by definition. Which means in theory him possibly being gifted vacations for political favor should be a much greater concern in a rationale world.

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04-06-2023 , 06:22 PM
The legal issue is the lack of disclosure on Thomas's part. It doesn't look like Biden has neglected that. It is slimy to vacation at rich donor's villas but doesn't seem to be illegal.
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04-06-2023 , 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubble_Balls
The legal issue is the lack of disclosure on Thomas's part. It doesn't look like Biden has neglected that. It is slimy to vacation at rich donor's villas but doesn't seem to be illegal.
Why doesn't it? Maybe he did, and in 20 years it will become a "breaking story" the entire media covers.

Anyways, the point is it is very hard to believe the MSM had no idea Thomas had been gifted vacations over the years, so IMO it is very fair to speculate why the media ecosystem has decided to make this front page news right now.
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04-06-2023 , 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by lozen
I do think Biden take a lot of time off compared to the likes of Obama , Clinton and Bush .
The president is never off.
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04-06-2023 , 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Dunyain
Why doesn't it? Maybe he did, and in 20 years it will become a "breaking story" the entire media covers.

Anyways, the point is it is very hard to believe the MSM had no idea Thomas had been gifted vacations over the years, so IMO it is very fair to speculate why the media ecosystem has decided to make this front page news right now.
I think the media gave him a pass for many years because he is black. Just over the last several years he has come under more and more scrutiny.
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04-06-2023 , 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dunyain
Why doesn't it? Maybe he did, and in 20 years it will become a "breaking story" the entire media covers.
The president is under a lot more media scrutiny than judges. I can't believe the NY Post wouldn't have looked into his disclosures if they're publishing stories about every time he vacations somewhere.
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