Recent content by tbh

He's seeking a better vantage point to look for this elusive little guy:

These useful idiots keep referring to the facility as a "concentration camp". In the interest of creating most hospitable conditions for the retainers, I'd like to propose a fundraiser to provide a pallet of these fun games to pass their time while awaiting deportation.

Yeah, one of the things that has become apparent about these low-effort AI responses is the tendency for the output to contain a lot of "may"/"could"/etc terminology. AI is good for summarizing without much effort, but thinking it's a slam-dunk debate winner is laughable.

Looks like Ted encountered one of those useful idiots one hears about occasionally.

Yep. They're different sides of the same coin. What's amusing is how each side acts totally surprised and indignant when the other side turns their policies and workarounds against them after winning a coin toss.

I can see the headlines now..."The PMerican Party and its candidate support wastin' daylight!"

...making a focus on the underlying assets all the more important, of course.

Are they doing a live-action movie based on the classic game, "Hungry Hungry Hippos"? It worked for "Jumanji" and "Battleship" (sort of).

I don't have any firsthand experience with Robinhood, but some of my friends use it and your description aligns with their experience, sort of packaging trading as a game almost. I use Fidelity for my brokerage and Roth accounts, and have been content with it.

All good, man. No misunderstanding there!

I don't believe I ever said it was "awesome". Potentially more effective, sure...along the lines of the real Alcatraz out west, the Cayenne penal colony down in French Guiana, and other incarceration facilities where the terrain, flora, and fauna were leveraged to improve the security of a...

I respect your opinion, Dink. I'd submit that "barbarity" (in this case) would involve the alligators being allowed inside the fence.

Indeed. As a matter of fact, it looks like Florida is looking to utilize part of Camp Blanding, just west of Jacksonville, for another facility. Some pals of mine stationed at Moody AFB would talk about training down there, and didn't have many positive things to say about it (plus, it's in...

It must've been some other variety of alligators that I witnessed persistently hanging out in retention ponds, urban creeks, and marshes at the urban/ex-urban interface back when I lived in Florida, then. As dumb as promotional merch for an incarceration facility is (and I am with you 100% on...

Leveraging terrain and flora/fauna is nothing new for fortifications and incarceration facilities, and the alligators are going to be present anyhow whether there's a moat or not. It's Florida, and alligators will find an populate bodies of water (and move across land to migrate or stake new...