Uh-Oh: Biden Authorizes Ukraine To Use Holy Hand Grenade Against Russia - Babylon Bee
With time in his presidency running short, Biden has announced authorization for Ukraine to use long-range American missile, anti-personnel mines, and now the Holy Hand Grenade.
Keep your head on a swivel for any white rabbits.
How Spirit Airlines Went From Industry Maverick to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - WSJ
The Justice Department disagreed, arguing the best way to promote airline competition would be to leave Spirit alone.
Lawyers for the government said that most of Spirit’s problems were temporary and that it would quickly get back on track to resume its rapid expansion.
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Representatives from the Justice Department declined to comment on Spirit’s bankruptcy.
The Hosts of MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ Changed Their Tune on Trump—Again - WSJ
A person close to NBC saw the move as a way for the “Morning Joe” pair to stay relevant ahead of a second Trump administration.
MSNBC has made strides in the ratings in the past few years and beat CNN on election night, but its viewership has fallen off since then. “Morning Joe” ratings for Nov. 6 to Nov. 14 were down 22% from the program’s average of more than one million viewers for the year through Nov. 5, according to Nielsen data.
Incredible what a 22% drop in viewership will do to a broadcast journalist. I guess their hyperbolic coverage of the election wasn’t what they really believed; they were just doing it for the eyeballs.
Turning Off AI
When iOS 18.1 was released on October 28, I updated all of my devices and enabled Apple Intelligence. It’s been three weeks, and today, I disabled the feature.
It’s not just that Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, or that Siri is still terrible; it just wasn’t useful. I don’t use AI writing tools, and the summarization of texts and emails actually increased my mental load.
Ludovico Einaudi has a song that I love, “Pathos.” But when I ask Siri to play it, using the Greek pronunciation (Pā-thōs), she can’t figure it out. When I ask her using the English (Pa-thos), she understands and responds to me with the Greek pronunciation. How long has Siri had to get better at basic stuff like this?!
Instead of approaching each message with a blank slate, I first had to read and parse the summary, then open the actual message, and read and parse it again. I was doing everything twice.
For notifications, I like that I see the person’s name and photo. That’s enough to give me context about what I’m jumping in to, and how quick I need to act and respond. Summarization allowed certain messages to jump the line. As soon as I saw the message notification, I had a summary and my brain went to work on responses.
In the end, Apple Intelligence was a lot like a child. It disrupted my workflow, and distracted me from the task at hand, even if it was a lower priority item. Apple wants to be AI like everyone else, but this implementation was useless.
“We would love to explain exactly what went down. Anyone wishing to know can pay a one-time fee of $50 or more, and one of your flight attendants will come down the aisle and whisper it in your ear.”
Written for Me - Catholic Husband
No matter the situation that I find myself in, I can almost always find a direct relationship to a story or character in the Bible. In those times, it feels as if it was all written only for me.
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Episode 269: Taekwondo Championship
I catch up with Benedict the day after his first taekwondo competition.
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“And you say you did this in just three months? Meaning, you spent half a million dollars every hour, even while sleeping, for three straight months? Oh… my… gracious. Where do I begin?”
“Trump needs to pick people with experience in being faceless cogs in the federal machine who won’t change anything,” said MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough. “These people are talking about doing their jobs and that scares me.”
“Trump needs to pick people with experience in being faceless cogs in the federal machine who won’t change anything,” said MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough. “These people are talking about doing their jobs and that scares me.”
At publishing time, Richard Kickrider had published a new video warning fans against joining the Ethiopian Orthodox Church because their Bible is even longer, clocking in at a whopping 81 books.
The law, called the Non-Jemima Syrup Act of 2024, completely neuters Trump and his GOP Congress of the ability to change the name of any syrup or pancake mix to “Aunt Jemima” at any point or for any reason (including during wartime).
Democrats Vow To Improve Their Outreach To ‘Bigoted Misogynists’ - Babylon Bee
Democrats have reportedly also vowed to do better in reaching out to young men by insulting them and telling them that they are the root of all evil everywhere even more.
This is a day for us to pause to not only thank those who gave us everything, but the many, many more who gave part of their lives to protect and defend us and our way of life.
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A Triumph for Trump’s Republicans - WSJ Opinion
It isn’t enough said that Mr. Trump did this while enduring a shooting, a second, thwarted assassination attempt, and credible intelligence reports that Iran was trying to kill him. He went into all his rallies knowing that. He showed a lot of guts. Mass media didn’t dwell on this, but regular people did.
“We’re not going to let American culture’s toxic obsession with being ‘number one’ stand in the way of recognizing that Kamala Harris beat every candidate except Trump by a margin of over 67 million votes. Other parties would kill for the type of turnout the Democratic party saw this year.”
‘Don’t Despair,’ Kamala Tells Celebrating Nation - Babylon Bee
“Please, don’t — please — do not despair — I’m speaking!” Harris shouted above the celebratory crowd in a speech broadcast to tens of millions of elated Americans. “We are sad today. And sad is not happy. Sad is, in fact, the opposite of happy. And happy is what we wish we were right now. Happy is good. And the opposite of good is bad, which rhymes with sad, which is what we are here in this current time.”
Hang in there, America.
Kim Jong Un’s Risky Embrace of Russia Is About His Regime’s Survival - WSJ
“North Korea’s decision to send troops to kill Europeans will not easily be forgotten in European capitals”
Biden Calls Trump To Concede The Election - Babylon Bee
At publishing time, Trump had graciously accepted a concession call from Biden, then Harris, then Biden again.
America Unburdens Itself From What Has Been - Babylon Bee
Sources say the unburdening could lead to unprecedented levels of imagining what can be.