Pettifogger

re: BLM fun popping off in Madison WI. Police shot a knife-wielding felon who was resisting.

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/24/26 at 12:49 pm to W2NOMO

If you'll recall, Madison was the site of the most infamous hoax of 2020, when Althea Bernstein made absurd claims of being hunted and attacked by MAGA guys.

It was dumb from the outset, but tons of money and time were put into the investigation. Ultimately police found no evidence of it, but she wasn't charged. Even after the findings, the NFL presented her as a victim of violence.

In reality, she probably burned herself tossing Molotov cocktails at a protest.

re: Anybody used the kiosk at lowes to get an extra Fob made?

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/23/26 at 6:55 pm to LChama

I feel like every metro has an ultra reliable mobile fob guy who'll do it for 100+ less than the dealer. I've used a few over the years with zero issues. Just investigate and there is probably some guy with 200 google reviews you can feel confident in.

re: Trump admin weighing military options in Mali.

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/23/26 at 12:56 pm to deltaland

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Trump is making the same mistake with Iran

Iran is/was poorly executed, but no

Russia is facing a demographic cliff and decided to throw its young men into a meat grinder to speed up the process. Just insanity.

As for Mali, I'm against nation building. But killing jihadists where you find them with drones and air strikes and SOF is something I typically agree with, particularly where the countering entities (JNIM and/or Wagner) don't have a big card to play in response. If I start hearing a bunch of former SOF guys saying stuff like "we wanted no part of that op in Somalia, didn't know why we were there, etc." my mind may change. But I've never heard that re: the Africa ops.

re: Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/23/26 at 12:34 pm to JohnnyKilroy

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Isn't this part of the muslim/islam logic on why women need be covered in public? Because the men lack discipline in themselves?

Yes

But isn't this an inherently more wholesome and sound answer to that?

I'm not interested in this, but I don't object to people who would be.

re: Emily Wilson claims Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is too woke...

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/23/26 at 8:45 am to iwyLSUiwy

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Nobody obsesses over The Odyssey quite like the people that haven’t watched it.

Every conservative I know IRL who has seen it says it's completely fine on this front

It's very annoying to have these influencer conservatives continuing to wage war over it, I don't see how it's helpful. Particularly as to Nolan, who has made some of the better, less heavy-handed films of the era.

re: Buddy of mine made a $1200 unsolicited donation yesterday to some doctors and engineers

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/22/26 at 7:21 pm to Sun God

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Wow

:lol:

re: Buddy of mine made a $1200 unsolicited donation yesterday to some doctors and engineers

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/22/26 at 10:18 am to VolsOut4Harambe

Imagine buying from a water boy in 2026

re: Cam Newton Cut by ESPN

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/21/26 at 11:21 am to NorthGwinnettTiger

I didn't even know he had a recurring role on ESPN

SEC Rant

re: Chat GPT simply refuses to quote or read the Bible but buddist dhammapada is fine.

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/20/26 at 11:29 am to junkyarddawg3

My model is this -

- If the story comes from a content creator/influencer account that is premised on getting a rise out of conservatives - they have a profit interest in skewing things in that direction or outright concocting them from nothing. So I start with the assumption that it's skewed at best. This means if the post is very obviously intended to draw outrage, I do not take it at face value.

- If it's a regular person - which is rarely the case for this type of stuff posted on here - then I'm more likely to assume it's a good faith, real life observance.

On this board, I'm not sure if people ignore the distinction entirely, or they just can't discern that PatriotBlonde66 with 25k followers isn't simply a good faith, regular woman who happens to be patriotic and like politics.

re: Chat GPT simply refuses to quote or read the Bible but buddist dhammapada is fine.

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/20/26 at 11:00 am to BoarEd

Online stuff like this is so obnoxious

I have theology discussions with ChatGPT and Claude. They both not only do it, they take the tone of a fervent, orthodox (little o) Christian instead of a neutral resource. There are all sorts of side discussions and words of caution about faith and AI but this is not that.

re: 6 weeks to go. Where are you?

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/20/26 at 10:58 am to LanierSpots

- Would guess 3-4 losses

- I think the MBS game sucks for AU but I don't personally mind it. Hopefully we win and if so, I think it's a little bit more of a "AU might be back" bump for Golesh than if it were at home. I don't like the neutral site openers but I concede they offer a slightly bigger game feel for things like that (tone setting for a new era).

- I just want AUFB to be fun again. I have cautiously optimistic hope of that, regardless of record. That said, we're coming off two offensive masterminds of fun, high energy football who at different times became completely unable to field competent offense. So I'll just wait and see.

Auburn Sports Board

re: Unexpected situation for a future first time grandfather

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/19/26 at 7:57 pm to TidenUP

It’s both overkill and not weird or political. My wife was terrified our kids would get RSV. She didn’t have any firm rules but she consumed a ton of stuff that advised stuff like this and obsessed pretty hard.

They did in fact get RSV and we each spent 2 weeks in the PICU and barely missed being put on vents. I wouldn’t take it personally.

re: World Cup Daily Thread - Sun., July 19 | Argentina vs. Spain | 2:00 PM | Final

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/19/26 at 3:14 pm to 632627

I don’t actually like it but it had energy and was a crowd pleaser

Soccer Board

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re: World Cup Daily Thread - Sun., July 19 | Argentina vs. Spain | 2:00 PM | Final

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/19/26 at 3:11 pm to MetArl15

This is ridiculous but would be the best super bowl halftime show in a while

Soccer Board

re: The Return of the Democratic Manly Man

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/14/26 at 3:27 pm to the808bass

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That was the whole point of Platner.

It's been absolute hilarity.

Tim Walz - "actually he's pretty gay and creepy"

James Talarico - "actually he's pretty gay and setting new standards in creepiness"

Platner - "Alright he's an actual nazi"

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re: Trump is Set to Expose Two Democratic Senators Illegitimately Elected Due to Fraud

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/14/26 at 9:52 am to deathvalleytiger10

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First, this looks like a typical head fake by Trump to get the media and masses all riled up and tuned in, and then he discusses something else.

I hope so

While I'd love some bombshell, undeniable thing to surface, it's highly unlikely. Even if was compelling, it'd be borderline impossible to get the dots connected sufficiently for the average person. It would have to be an extremely simple and extremely well evidenced explanation. Anything less is an absolute gift to the left this cycle.

The tricky part is if a case is really built and it is strong but very convoluted and hard for public consumption. I don't want us swerving justice for politics, but it's probably a near term hit.

re: Comedian Tom Segura and his wife of 20 years, Christina P, have separated

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/14/26 at 9:49 am to DustyDinkleman

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What has this schtick ever gotten anyone? Internet clout?

I'm not sure it's schtick

It's a reaction to the culture expecting you to know, and often, have some sort of emotional reaction. It's frustrating to people. Sure, it's overdone and can be annoying, but I get it.

Podcast culture, alongside stuff like anime or kpop or comic books or other cultural moments I just completely missed - is like this for me. Some post gets made and shared a million times about a story like this, and you have a knee-jerk reaction to it. Some of it might be "missing out" but a lot of it is the discordance of feeling like the world around you is very in the weeds on very dumb stuff.

re: Project Hail Mary on Prime

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/13/26 at 3:12 pm to Decatur

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It was too cheesy for me. Turned off with half hour left.

I'm in the middle. I liked the audiobook and thought it was great - as an audiobook. I thought the story was merely good, although I think Weir's writing is really good. And I thought the movie was entertaining, but not that memorable.

Both Martian and PHM are very "procedural" (not sure how to say it) in the books, with lots of internal narrative of how to figure something out, trial and error, etc. and that gets flattened in both movies. There is a lot of substance/rigor that gets lost in the movies.

But I can appreciate them being fun movies.

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re: Is Debbie on Shameless the worst character ever

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/13/26 at 3:03 pm to CatfishJohn

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Daughter in Ray Donovan

Showtime is GOAT at creating horrible daughters. Homeland, RD, Shameless

But then, Showtime shows often fall off because they're full of extremely hatable characters more generally

re: Yes, Chef: The Bear, Season 5 Thread.

Posted by Pettifogger on 7/13/26 at 11:09 am to TigerMan327

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Just finished it. Good season for sure, hate Carmy is leaving and they are giving all the credit to Sydney. She fricking sucks and was “running the show” for one night (the 2 stars were awarded from a service months previously) and she was a scared bitch half the time per usual.

I'll be the naysayer, I didn't love it. I've defended The Bear a lot but it just never recaptured me. The season was well-made. But not for the brooding emotionalism of the last few, this would have been fine. But it was a better version of more of the same, and I was already fatigued of it.

And yeah, I just can't get behind the Sydney/Carm arc. It seems like it was written for a big swath of the audience who blithely takes "oh the bitter guy stepped aside and let the Michelin stars and the restaurant go to the earnest coke short ribs caterer girl" as some some moral win. I'm not in that group. But worse, I think it takes a nuanced, thoughtful show and dumbs it down. I'm sure that it's supposed to be a "look, someone can be from an atypical background and play nice and still achieve at the highest level" (contrast to Carm and the industry generally at elite levels) but then they forgot to ever show her achieving at the highest level.

I think the showmaking was very good. Writing was, at times, strong (definitely wore on me). I think it deserved a better story down the stretch, though.