OT: 119th Obsequious Banter Thread: April Foods Day

[swami24]

Highlight of taking the turnpike down to Baltimore from upstate ny

Had no idea they were still around. Haven't traveled 95 south that way for at least 15 yrs.

 

[PDX Flyer]

Had no idea they were still around. Haven't traveled 95 south that way for at least 15 yrs.

This is going back over 30 years

 

[Danko]

Anyone going to see The War on Drugs/The National on Tuesday at The Mann Center?

 

[trostol]

Anyone going to see The War on Drugs/The National on Tuesday at The Mann Center?

nope..want to go to Sisters of Mercy at the Met on Wed..but ...ya know..work

 

[trostol]

TIL that there is a Gibb out there(son of one of the Bee Gees) that plays in a metal band lol

 

[BernieParent]

You can’t even call it “AI” if it can’t answer this easy question properly….

Considering ChatGPT and similars are trained on the "wisdom" of the Internet, AI = Average Idiot.

 

[Embiid]

Considering ChatGPT and similars are trained on the "wisdom" of the Internet, AI = Average Idiot.

ChatGPT is a basement dweller....

 

[swami24]

...ChatGPT would drink Iron City Light.

 

[Danko]

This is bad ass Spy Craft.

Also Pagers, really?

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23406/scores-of-hezbollah-fighters-wounded-following-pager-blasts

 

[Embiid]

This is bad ass Spy Craft.

Also Pagers, really?

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23406/scores-of-hezbollah-fighters-wounded-following-pager-blasts

Pagers help them evade tracking ...until now...

It still won't accomplish much...but definitely a major breach of their security..

 

[dragonoffrost]

Wendy's salad bar was the shit.

Salad bar.... psh...... SUPERBAR

 

[dragonoffrost]

How about the Ground Round?

Ground Round space taken over by 99 then by Longhorn



But the OG place was Farrell's for a burger and a shake.

This is going back over 30 years

Last Roy's on the Jersey Turnpike was between exit 3 and 4, I think. It was closed with the recent remodel.

This is bad ass Spy Craft.

Also Pagers, really?

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23406/scores-of-hezbollah-fighters-wounded-following-pager-blasts

Pagers are still used in the medical field believe it or not.

 

[Superman33]

This is bad ass Spy Craft.

Also Pagers, really?

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23406/scores-of-hezbollah-fighters-wounded-following-pager-blasts

This is straight up diabolical. Essentially the plot of the first Kingsman Movie.

The psychological warfare alone is crazy. How do you know everything else you get isn't also explodable on demand?

 

[Flybynite]

Speaking of explosions... Ukraine may have unleashed the largest explosion of this current war with Russia when it exploded a massive weapons depot in Russia that housed rockets, missiles, including the supersized ballistic variety.

Secondary explosions still going hours later. Thousands... maybe tens of thousands of tons of ordinance going up.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836312639351185832

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

This is bad ass Spy Craft.

Also Pagers, really?

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23406/scores-of-hezbollah-fighters-wounded-following-pager-blasts

Kind of off putting in terms of the slippery slope on a broader scale type of way that that technology can be manipulated like that imo. But at the same time I don’t really feel sympathy for terrorists getting their dicks blown off.

 

[Chinatown88]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836417755416830025

@Striiker Dis u

 

[Embiid]

All these escalatory actions in Lebanon and Russia are disconcerting....

 

[ajgoal]

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-explode-hezbollah-israel-09-18-24-intl-hnk/index.html

I'm dumping my cell phone.

 

[Embiid]

Kind of off putting in terms of the slippery slope on a broader scale type of way that that technology can be manipulated like that imo. But at the same time I don’t really feel sympathy for terrorists getting their dicks blown off.

Eyeballs have been removed more than franks and beans actually...

One doc said a lot of his patients are young and he has never had to surgically remove so many eyes. Most have lost both. New meaning to the "eye for an eye" saying...

Meh....I think both sides engage in terrorist tactics..one just happens to be a state actor and the other an irregular army/paramilitary force as far as Hezbollah. The Lebanese regular army is a joke and would be overrun by Israel in a heartbeat.

While Israel is clever tactically...not sure they are wise in the long game even if we're dragged into a wider regional conflagration on their behalf. .or Netanyahu's, Smotrich, Gallant and Ben Gvir's behalf to be more exact.

This may be a clever tactic to soften Hezbollah before a bigger attack but supposedly the current admin is applying pressure not to escalate in advance of the election. Not sure Netanyahu and his regime will be disuaded though....

We are at an inflection point again with that conflict. The Ukraine situation is perilous especially as they attack deeper into Russia. If Western missiles are used we may be in a Cuban missile crisis. So far Putin has flinched with each escalation as far as Western weapon introduction and support but we are getting closer and closer to a Russia vs Nato situation and that will be WWIII....

 

[Flybynite]

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-explode-hezbollah-israel-09-18-24-intl-hnk/index.html

I'm dumping my cell phone.

Yea, had seen reports about walkie talkies and possibly laptops/cellphones. But seems like the walkie talkies are the only confirmed.