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@Adam Smith:

"And greetings, Mr. Anon! It's been a while.
I hope you're doing well..."

And the same to you, Sir.

PS: "Not that they hire non-pretty girls to do peloton commercials and such. (Somehow I don't think Achmed would kick her out of bed for eating crackers and leaving crumbs. No matter what he says.)"

I wouldn't buck her off my seat if I were a Peloton bike, put it that way. If I did want to play bucking bronco with Miss Ruiz, I'd make sure to give her a verbal warning, not just with one of those stickers.

PS: Good evening, Achmed,

Thanks for the compliment. I've thought about putting together a few DailyStupids but I think instead of 13 headlines maybe 5-7 could be in order. (Quality over quantity.) And it sure would be a whole lot less work. (Spacing on the 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑡. I've never even heard of that word before.)

I've also thought it might be easier to do them after the fact so I don't have any deadline pressure. I think I'd really enjoy doing a Chinese Spy Balloon edition or a January 6th edition, for example. Really any time the media freaks out about something really stupid, or there is something important(ish). (As an added bonus, I could do predictions in some of the stories that come true "later". Foresight as clear as hindsight and all that.)

As fun as the satirical headlines are I prefer the headlines that are true. (I've toyed with the idea that they should all be true. Or almost all true with just an occasional joke headline.)

In yet another stunning victory for Hulk Hogan Republicanism, Trump Taps Herschel Walker for Ambassador to the Bahamas

Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow Shatters that Glass Ceiling as Horrified Nation Learns that she is Not a straight white male (You Go Girl!)

I like those because they're true.

But hey, the way things are going Trump just might appoint Chief Warren to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs. (Right after they shatter that debt ceiling.)

I'll continue some of this under the next post.

Later... ☮️

PS: Good evening, gentlemen,

And greetings, Mr. Anon! It's been a while.
I hope you're doing well...

Yeah, the onion used to be pretty good. Not sure what happened the last few years. Maybe reality has become so absurd that satire has become more difficult to do properly.(?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/monica-ruiz-gift-keeps-giving-204338858.html

She has an instagram too, if anyone is interested...
https://www.picuki.com/profile/monpearl

I agree. She is pretty cute.
https://www.picuki.com/media/2248814516873835777

Not that they hire non-pretty girls to do peloton commercials and such. (Somehow I don't think Achmed would kick her out of bed for eating crackers and leaving crumbs. No matter what he says.)

I have never seen a Peloton commercial. I guess I could look it up, but it doesn't seem that interesting. I find it more interesting that a company can lose a Billion in market cap over a poorly received commercial. That tells me that the company was overvalued by at least a Billion. But I also find it interesting how certain companies can be rewarded or punished for ideological reasons that have nothing to do with fundamentals or profitability. (The fictionalized economy is truly a marvel to behold.)

I may have posted these before, but apparently I'm doing it again. I think Elise Trouw is cute and has a pretty voice. And the other one I just like. I think both of these are cool versions of these songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHWrNzCDNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhsPYRUqphk

Thank you for the links, Mr. Anon. I had not seen the 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝐴𝑠 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 video. And the story about the guy getting killed by his peloton reminds me of some of the hilarious safety/warning/danger stickers I see on heavy equipment sometimes.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/DkkAAOSwp8BkY-CS/s-l400.jpg

There are some better ones out there, but a couple of those convey the idea. Anyway... I hope you have a great evening and a great Christmas if I don't talk to you before then.

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Regarding that story of the freak accident in which the guy got run over and killed by his own stationary bike - OK, not quite like that - one does see that America has too many lawyers when he gets to this paragraph:

"Johanna alleged that there was only a single warning label on the bike’s front leg that the bike could cause injury if used to “pull oneself up from the floor during a workout,” and Peloton should have more adequately warned against the “foreseeable misuse” that people would do exactly that."

Only one single warning that shouldn't have been necessary in a country with people having lots of common sense. Uhhh, if it starts tipping over, you let go... or something? What was Peloton supposed to have done, having a running audio message, like those on escalators. (First they told you to hold on to the hand rail, then they didn't cause Covid-one-niner, then they do again.)

Oh, and the Onion news video was great! Thanks for that, Mr. Anon.

PS: I'd thought she was part .Indian, Mr. Anon, until you spelled out Miss Ruiz' name here. I don't think she's that cute, but tastes vary. I didn't know the con controversy cost Peloton a billion bucks though.

I just liked the ad for the fantastic Tai Bachman song (only song by him I know), but then too, I noted that people sometimes exercise for other reasons than losing weight. There is cardio - do women never have heart problems? Geeze, you'd think that'd have come up in the "conversation" in which Peloton got berated. Exercise can help with mental health too, bringing us back to the conversation early on here that relates to the blue-haired (partially) lady subject of this post.

PS

@Adam Smith:

"Mass Shooter Shatters the Glass Ceiling as Horrified Nation Learns that Shooter Wasn’t a straight white male"

Brings to mind an old bit from The Onion:

First Female Dictator Hailed As Step Forward For Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEtw3XJoJrE

PS

Then there was also the guy who was killed by his Peloton:

https://people.com/peloton-bike-fell-on-man-killed-mom-claims-lawsuit-7966884

PS

I was perhaps vaguely aware of the Peloton "controversey" when it happened in 2019. By the way, the girl in the ad is Monica Ruiz, who was interviewed here on the Today show (one of the first hits from searching "Peloton Girl":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6emtEW_QeY

She is quite pretty.

Apparently, there was a feminist-driven consumer backlash against Peloton which shaved $ 1 billion off their stock valuation. Of course, within a few months, COVID happened and wiped all that away. In fact, as I recall, Peloton climbed to new heights on the strength of all the purchases made during the lockdown.

PS: " Another NordicTrack owner, who asked not to be named, says the treadmill is one of the most expensive purchases he’s ever made and he was “outraged” when the update stopped him and his partner from watching Netflix, YouTube, and English Premier League football highlights while they worked out. “You’ve actually pushed an update to stop me from doing this, which is really bizarre,” he says. “It’s so frustrating because this beautiful screen is here.”

Whaaa? They both work out together on the same machine? That must be wild. Maybe I've got that wrong, but my main point here is, if you're doing cardio anyway, if you can concentrate on Netflix, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!

Never buy stuff that can change its functionality on its own. I'd have had to wrap the console part in a Faraday cage. The good thing about all this is that if I ever buy a nice commerical-grade machine, the prices should be lower on the ones that don't have all that connectivity crap. I am partial to consoles with mechanical "paddle" setting switches over membrane types, and the latter over touchscreens for all functions. Bad idea!

PS: Great stuff, Mr. Smith! I had a hard time telling which of your reports was real by the end of that. Perhaps it's time to crank up the presses for a Daily Stupid broadsheet. (Not really sure what a broadsheet is, but it sounds good.)

If you made these, I could link to a bigger file, say 1,200 pixels wide by whatever length, so people could see the whole thing together. (That splitting up was not the best solution.)

I especially liked Chief Warren for Indian Affairs and shooters shattering the glass ceiling. On that, I did read your comment on The Unz Review, Mr. Hail. My wife also had some information about this 15 y/o girl, explaining to my son about "broken homes" and such. Notice that there are no calls (that'd I've read) to tone down the ultra-feminist rhetoric. Again, it's anti-Social media for the #Loss here.

PS: I am lucky, Mr. Hail, that I shouldn't have to deal with these Cluster B types on any kind of regular basis. I'm glad that I didn't have to turn off the TV in there, as who knows what reaction that could have triggered. She was quite normal at the time.

Yes, blue hair, facial hardware (other than braces), I'd go for the last piece of advice in that Don Schlitz* song, you've got to kinow when to run.

That was interesting stuff, though the geek details are beyond me at this point, Mr. Smith. I read the 2 articles on Peloton hacking.

"The whole reason Howard bought the X32i, he says, was because he could access God mode. But the good times didn’t last long." Here we go with the country music again: "Are the good times really over for good? She keeps running uphill like a snowflake headed for hell... " Some old Merle Haggard from roughly the same era as Don Schlitz/Kenny Rogers.

Were I a "threat actor" (from darkreading article - "threat actor" WTH? - these geeks have been watching too many Jason Bourne movies) who'd hacked into a Peloton Tread, I wouldn't be that interested in the personal info. OK, perhaps I'd capture a few images of AOC in her workout clothes. Anyway, it'd be more fun to take control of some of these machines. A quick ramp-up of the speed to 15 mph with the camera rolling and real-time streaming to folks around the world would be a blast. Show videos of people getting shot out of the back of the machine like tampons in a Proctor & Gamble plant. (Cincinnati, Ohio)


* Yeah, he sung it first. Then "Crossover" (from country to pop) artist Kenny Rogers, errr knew when to run... with it.

PS: Always happy to help, Mr. Hail. ☮️

PS

Thank you for your service, Mr. S.

PS: Greetings, Mr. Hail,

https://i.ibb.co/4RDdSB8/Blue-Hair-Girl.jpg

President Dernald J. Blumph (the J stands for genius) picks Elizabeth Warren to head Bureau of Indian Affairs

“Listen, folks, Pocahontas is back, and this time, she’s in charge,” Trump declared at a rally in Arizona as the crowd erupted in laughter. “No one knows the Bureau of Indian Affairs better than Liz. She’s been scamming it for years!”

Warren, known for her claims of Native American ancestry, initially declined to comment but was later spotted buying several turquoise necklaces...

https://i.ibb.co/Srg9dsk/Chief-Warren.jpg

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Mass Shooter Shatters the Glass Ceiling as Horrified Nation Learns that Shooter Wasn’t a straight white male

A teenage student and teacher were pronounced dead at the scene while another teacher and five more students were wounded providing an interesting anomaly to Sailer's law.

Mr. Hail asks...

What is a “moid”? What is a “foid”?

(I'm almost embarrassed that I know this, but here goes.) These words are derogatory slang for male and female from incel/femcel culture. I'm under the impression that foid came first and is an abbreviation of "femoid", a combination of "female" and "humanoid" or "female" and "android". As you can easily imagine moid and troid follow the pattern.

https://i.ibb.co/WsvyRVp/Tubwoman.jpg

Hope you have a wonderful day! ☮️

PS: Good morning, gentlemen...

https://i.ibb.co/8mKvdB8/caitlin-clark-blackface.jpg

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has announced a new policy aimed at addressing racial inequality within the sport. The league has decided that rookie sensation Caitlin Clark will be required to play all her games in blackface to compensate for her white privilege.

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In yet another stunning victory for Hulk Hogan Republicanism, Dernald Blumph Taps Herschel Walker to Be Ambassador to the Bahamas!

https://apnews.com/article/herschel-walker-donald-trump-bahamas-92937a9d0b5409b0c91a22082e80d6a2

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Bernie Sanders calls on JoeBidet to pardon Liz Cheney for witness tampering during her handling of the January 6th witch hunt.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-says-biden-seriously-consider-preemptive-pardons-rcna184290

But why stop there? Maybe JoeBidet should preemptively pardon Cassidy Hutchinson, and Nayirah Al-Sabah (and her well paid handlers at Hill & Knowlton) for knowingly providing false testimony to congress. I mean, because of our values of who we are in a Democracy we can't have people being prosecuted for knowingly providing false testimony before a congressional committee. That would un-American!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

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https://archive.ph/WLt9a

To get into his X32i, all Howard needed to do was tap the touchscreen 10 times, wait seven seconds, then tap 10 more times. Doing so unlocked the machine letting Howard into the underlying Android operating system. This privilege mode, a sort of God mode, gave Howard complete control over the treadmill. He could load apps and, using a built-in browser, access anything and everything online. “It wasn't complicated,” Howard says.

The whole reason Howard bought the X32i, he says, was because he could access God mode. But the good times didn’t last long.

Since October, NordicTrack has been automatically updating all of its exercise equipment—its bikes, ellipticals, and rowing machines all have big screens attached—to block access to privilege mode. The move has infuriated customers who are now fighting back and finding workarounds that allow them to bypass the update and watch whatever they want while they work out.

Another NordicTrack owner, who asked not to be named, says the treadmill is one of the most expensive purchases he’s ever made and he was “outraged” when the update stopped him and his partner from watching Netflix, YouTube, and English Premier League football highlights while they worked out. “You’ve actually pushed an update to stop me from doing this, which is really bizarre,” he says. “It’s so frustrating because this beautiful screen is here.”

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/tech/peloton-bike-plus-hack/index.html

https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/mobile-security/is-your-peloton-spinning-up-malware/

https://i.ibb.co/gF086WZ/Tubman.jpg

Cheers! ☮️

PS

The 15-year-old girl who murdered two people at a school in Wisconsin released a manifesto in which she said she was shooting people to make a statement against males.

"Women are the only hope for this wretched world," she wrote. She soon works her way up, within the same paragraph, to: "Every single male must be wiped out, from babies to the elderly. Only then can women be free to create a new world. ill be a pioneer, ill be the first to take the first step."

(Most of her writing gets a green-flag from Wokeness; she just followed the ideas to their evil conclusion.)

See:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/150k/#comment-6907961

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"the partially blue hair and nose ring and about 40 extra pounds on her"

What is the best theory for why some Western women treat their bodies like postmodern, post-Western, post-dignity versions of South Seas Islanders with bones through noses, tattoos, and blue hair?

I believe studies have shown that Cluster-B-personality women, the most unstable and destructive women out there -- and most dangerous when they have the skills or ability to hide it a bit -- are far-and-away the likeliest to dye their hair unnatural colors.

It's to the point that if you see a wild-hair-color-dyed White woman "in the wild," it's a good bet she is Cluster-B. You can make that tentative 'call' even without making any further observations of the specimen whatsoever. It may not be true, but it so often is that you're better off. Life is always an odds game. And as a White man once sang, "you got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away" etc.

PS

The statement was released (or at least re-posted) here:

https://x.com/vdare/status/1869168485529518211

PS: That's very timely information, Mr. Hail. I was wondering if there was any point at all in sending money for Christmas now. Where is that letter, though? I don't see it on the one page they've had up since the summer. I hate to pay for lawyers, OTOH. A great Christmas present for me would be to see the VDare site back up, not just tweets and other anti-social media stuff.

Was there a rough timetable (month or season) for said conference at the castle?

PS: It looks like Santa's getting plenty of caloric intake - should be able to power that thing - Soylent Green-wise - all night long to keep the Christmas tree bright.

Thanks for that "Dark Reading" article too, Adam. I wonder how far the spying goes. Are the additional sensors, on the seats perhaps? What kind of information do they send back to NSA HQ. What will they think of, indeed.

PS

OT: ------- VDare Christmas letter signed, and presumably written, by Lydia Brimelow.

"Even though VDARE is essentially on “ice” for now, the work we’ve done is far from finished. We need your financial support to keep the lights on, to pay legal fees, and to ensure that our message continues to reach new audiences through social media.

We are still aiming to have a conference in 2025 at the Berkeley Springs Castle in WV..."

PS: Good evening, Mr. Moderator,

https://i.ibb.co/QkSWcb7/Santa.jpg

IoT exercise equipment, eh?
https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/flaws-in-peloton-tread-expose-enterprise-network-to-iot-attack-vectors

What will they think of next? ☮️