Caption: Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII had a complex relationship involving romantic and political alliances. Cleopatra sought Caesar’s support to secure her reign in Egypt, and he was captivated by her charm. This led to a long-standing affair and the birth of their son, Caesarion. Caesar’s military protection and political recognition helped Cleopatra solidify her position, while he benefited from her wealth and resources.
Adoption
When I was a kid, nobody “adopted” a dog. Somebody gave you a puppy from their dog’s litter, and you named it Rex, Fido, or whatever. The puppy/dog ate table scraps and slept outside. When you were mad at it, you called it a potlicker or something like that. It never needed a psychiatrist or a therapist.
Dog adoption from shelters and rescue organizations gained significant popularity driven by increased awareness, public service announcements, and the rise of the internet and social media. The internet, particularly platforms like Petfinder, matched animals with potential adopters. Public awareness campaigns, such as Ad Council’s, also helped promote adoption.
People buy dog food that costs more than human food. Okay, I don’t care. I’m going somewhere with this.
My kids all have “adopted dogs” – whatever. I am a Neanderthal, and they know it.
When you decide to buy a robot, will you adopt it? Given that the AI robot will be more intelligent, stronger, and live longer than you, will the AI choose its name and gender? Maybe it will adopt you and keep you as a pet until it tires of you, at which time you may be abandoned along a remote stretch of road. It will drive away in your car.
You may recall the film A.I., a 2001 American science fiction drama directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg’s screenplay and Ian Watson’s screen story are loosely based on Brian Aldiss’s 1969 short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long.”
Would robots be comfortable with you transferring your substandard intelligence into an everlasting body only to become a dimwitted cousin? They may not allow cross-species adoption.
US Navy Bloat Float
U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan criticized the Navy’s rampant waste during a Wednesday posture hearing with the House Appropriations Committee.
Phelan and acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. James Kilby laid out the Navy’s bloated acquisitions contracting system and inefficient workforce. The Navy employs 56,000 people but only processes two contracts a month per employee. Phelan, a former Wall Street executive, stressed his mission is to cut waste and utilize his unorthodox background to promote efficiency in keeping America’s Navy ready to fight and win wars.
Phelan said the Navy processed 217,000 contracts in 2024, averaging 34 per employee.
“I’ll also be honest, when I look at our contracting, it’s poor,” Phelan said during the hearing. “We don’t control our [intellectual property]. We can’t repair stuff. We don’t have very good penalties built in for lack of performance. These are all things we are going to try to change.”
We need a serious Navy DOGE.
Hur Interview
You have likely heard the full interview. Some democrats now say that Biden faked being demented to avoid the consequences of taking volumes of classified material home. Yeah, sure.
The interview shows that in 2023, it was clear that Biden was mentally diminished despite claims from many allies and former aides that there was a sudden loss of capacity just before the disastrous debate in 2024. Undeniably, the White House staff hid the president’s incompetence from the American public. That includes the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki (who left her post in May 2022) and her successor, Karine Jean-Pierre, who insisted that Biden was sharp and “running circles” around the staff.
Once the public found out, the media was ready to tell the story when it became impossible, and no longer politically beneficial, to deny it. Articles began to appear with the same realization: “Oh, you meant THAT mental decline. Well, sure.” The same belated acknowledgment came with Hunter Biden’s laptop after the election. The media moved on with a shrug and a collective “our bad” concession.
Enemy Space Fleet
China launched 12 satellites for an on-orbit computing project led by startup ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab. A Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 12:12 a.m. Eastern (0412 UTC) May 14 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. Insulation tiles fell away from the payload fairing as the rocket climbed into a clear blue sky above the spaceport.
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced a successful launch, revealing that the mission had sent 12 satellites into orbit for a space computing constellation. Commercial company ADA Space released further details, stating that the 12 satellites form the “Three-Body Computing Constellation,” which will directly process data in space, rather than on the ground, reducing reliance on ground-based computing infrastructure.
The constellation will be capable of a combined five peta operations per second (POPS) with 30 terabytes of onboard storage. The satellites feature advanced AI capabilities, up to 100 Gbps laser inter-satellite links, and remote sensing payloads—data from which will be processed onboard, reducing data transmission requirements. One satellite also carries a cosmic X-ray polarimeter developed by Guangxi University and the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), which will detect, identify, and classify transient events such as gamma-ray bursts, while also triggering messages to enable follow-up observations by other missions.”
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Bullet Points:
** Should the Trump tax cuts be extended, or do we go back to the years of Obamanation?
** Night on Io.
** Zerohedge – The progressive ideal is primarily to blame for the monstrous creation that is ghetto culture. The idea that racial narcissism among blacks should not only be tolerated but celebrated has led to a surge in open animosity for societal rules and standards within the US. Far more than any other group, the black community makes up the largest share of physical crime according to their percentage of the population. This includes robbery, aggravated assault, and homicide. For example, black Americans make up only 13% of the population but commit around 52% of all homicides according to FBI statistics. The recent case of Karmelo Anthony comes to mind, a black teen who admitted to stabbing a white teen and killing him because the white teen allegedly “pushed him” (which he argues was a threat that made deadly force justifiable).
Black fatigue is leading to a dangerous place, and it’s clear that at least some in the community see what is happening and they’re trying to mitigate the damage. Historically speaking, the next stage would be mass anger and retaliation for such behaviors.
Hopefully it won’t come to that. If ghetto culture is abandoned and calmer minds prevail, then it’s likely most racial strife within the US today will disappear as quickly as it gestated. But this would require that a large portion of black Americans accept the reality that they are not victims and that they are causing the problem. How likely is it that this will happen given decades of woke indoctrination that says white people are always the source of every conflict and trespass?
** Does any woman have All Five?
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Chinese Generators
(ZeroHedge) According to Nikkei Asia, China has approved plans to build 10 new nuclear reactors for 200 billion yuan ($27.7 billion), positioning it to surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest nuclear power producer by 2030.
The decision, made at a State Council meeting last month, includes eight Hualong One reactors—developed by state-owned firms based on U.S. and French designs—and two CAP1000 units, based on Westinghouse’s AP1000 model (another knock-off). The reactors will add about 12,000 megawatts of capacity.
Construction will occur along the coast in Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi, and state-owned companies like China National Nuclear Corp., China General Nuclear Power Group, and China Huaneng Group will operate the plants. China paused new nuclear projects after Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011 but resumed approvals in 2019, accelerating to around 10 reactors yearly since 2022.
The Chinese claim to have built a working/operational Thorium reactor, which would be the first to use Thorium fuel. Scientists outside the Workers’ Paradise are skeptical of the claims. They’ve tried to get one working for some years now. If they did it, it would mean that they could build a reactor without copying somebody else’s design—very un-Chinese of them.
For your information, Chinese coal-fired generating plant outputs currently exceed all power output from all sources in the USA.
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Your AI artist needs adjustment. That’s not Cleopatra. Cleopatra’s Chinese. My grandma told me so.
She done said to me, “Chy-uhl, doan’ mattah what dey tol you in skool. Cleo wuz one of us!”
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I be slandering muh po grandma for humoristic purposes. She didn’t speak English, AAVE or any other flavor.
#hangsheadinshame
Biden (breaking)–Joe Biden Diagnosed With ‘Aggressive Form’ Of Prostate Cancer
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“….with metastasis to the bone”. Right. So….how long have they known?
It’s a slow growing cancer
He’s being Clinton-ed to prevent his being questioned further on any topic. He’ll be gone so fast there won’t be a chance to say DLTDHYITAOTWO.
Maybe they’re feeding him Polonium to help the slide?
It’s another smokescreen…nothing these people say is true, covering for him exactly when the Hur tapes were released. The Deep State Cabal Leviathan (plus a few other choice words to describe scumbaggery to the Nth) are getting desperate to cover their tracks.
Watched the Twitter documentary on Prime, a CNN production but (save for one founder, Biz) proves the point that smart nerdy kids who never grow up then become wealthy are still immature putzes who believe they are smarter than everyone else without a moral compass underpinning. They were deeply involved in swaying public opinion from Obama forward…bunch of leftists with money and influence.
I sure hope it’s painful.
– Kle.
Huh, I’d have figured glans penile cancer, colloquially known as d**khead cancer (is there even such a thing?) would’ve been more apropos.
“Maybe it will adopt you and keep you as a pet until it tires of you”
That already exists. It’s called “cats”
Yes, of course.
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“12 satellites forming a 3 bodied constellation”;
Is it really what ” they ” say it is? In a MAD scenario, would something like this be an insurance policy declaration for their A.I. take control until the last nuke is launched?
Recalling the 1984 “thought speak ” of the 3 self patriotic movement alignment with China’s United Front Work Department.
It’s the 45th anniversary of Mt St Helen’s going boom in 1980.
Biden isn’t anywhere close to useful any longer. Prostate cancer is a good cover for an untimely demise, and the money is good for the doctor making the diagnosis. With what he knows, and his dementia, a few words out of place could endanger the future prospects of those that used him. Prostate cancer sounds better than asphyxia with a pillow.
Hell, we’ve been bitching about the acquisition process for YEARS! All they had to do was ask… sigh
Regarding *46, seriously, he was known as Joe-Gaff-o-Matic back in the 80’s. He’s never been mentally sharp. And he was noticeably diminished when he was Obummer’s VP. Very noticeably diminished during the runup to 2020. And totally brain-dead during his ‘presidency’ (thus the ‘*’ before his presidential number.)
As to African American city culture, my wife and I have a saying. There are ‘People who are Black’ and ‘Black People.’
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People who are Black are people who, well, are of African heritage (includes actual dark-skinned Africans all the way to mulatos that are not-noticeably African-American.) They speak like normal people, they dress like normal people, they drive normal vehicles and have normal jobs and do normal things. The only difference between them and average Americans is some fiddly genetic information relating to hair and skin. ‘African-American’ is a label to differentiate Bob-who-is-Black from Bob-who-is-White. And that’s the thing. It’s a descriptor, not a way of life that is a danger to ‘normal’ life.
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Then there are Black People – people of the Ghetto Culture. You know them. The people that twirk at 4am in the parking lot of your apartment complex. The people who complain about not having any money but their car is all ‘hooptied’ up (chameleon paint, huge rims and thin tires, more LEDs than found on the Christmas aisles at Walmart, sound system set to ‘shake the car apart’ that can be heard 5 blocks away) and also smoke $500 of weed every week and eat out and the females have that screechy-assed tone to them. Their apartments are identifiable by the cars parked in front and the constant smell of weed and stale alcohol. And a total lack of respect to anyone else’s wants or needs.
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I live in an apartment complex. There are both types here. The Black People who twirk in the parking lot, have screaming arguments that the police won’t stop, that smell of booze and have open drug transactions and everything else wrong with the world. The people that don’t acknowledge a “Good Morning” or “Hiya” with anything less than a sneer, and sometimes far more. The only help they’ll be is helping themselves to your stuff given half a chance. Then the People who are Black who are nice, respectable, clean, greet you with a nice polite greeting or respond with a polite response and who will help and accept help.
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It’s funny, but an easy way to find the separation point is… The American Flag. Another way is, can you hear yourself think in their presence?
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I could go on, but…
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Ghetto Culture is generating a very uncomfortable tidal wave of negative response. Sadly many of the People who are Black will be caught up in the negative reaction. The nation, overall, is tired of the street riots and the wholesale theft of everything and the looting and and and. The nation, overall, is tired of ‘The knockout game’ and rap music and and and…
I would like to know what the other three items that a woman has. I feel cheated, but mildly satisfied that is got the second item correct.
Adopting pets – if you can adopt a pet rock, then…
Joe going in circles – out in nature, when a critter is busy going in circles it usually indicates something ain’t quite right.
Three US State Dept. advisors shot in Mexico – is someone gunning for war?
I love dogs , especially Jack Russels . Damn near every adopted dog I have encountered was batshit crazy with numerous behavior problems , and many were just downright mean and untrainable . I have known two women , both who were friend’s wives who suffered broken collar bones when the dog bum rushed them from behind bolting get through an open door first . I appreciate people who adopt pets and animals of any kind , and I am sure there are good ones out there , I just haven’t encountered one , except my neighbor’s adopted donkey , he stays with the cattle and scares the hell out of coyotes , he brays loud and can hear me at great distances , he’s a great critter .
Biden – nobody is asking the former White House Physician jack shite about his numerous assurances that Biden was sharp as a tack , wish somebody would ask him to reaffirm that claim . Anybody that has been around dementia , could tell early in Biden’s term he had that terrible affliction . His family should be ashamed , they knew .
Yep.
Is it treason to defraud the American People, the nation at large, for personal and political gain?
Sounds like a High Crime and certainly a Misdemeanor.
don’t think Biden is/was anything but a figurehead; a living, breathing effigy that people could throw stones at should anything go wrong.
it’s always been the person(s) moving his mouth, waving the marionette’s hands, that’s who we should be looking for/at.