PS: "Apparently, some people use the backslash in their urls as a sort of marker knowing that the system will disregard them. This is the first time I've noticed such a thing."

I either haven't seen it or have not noticed it either, Adam. That makes sense, using them as markers.

PS: 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟?

Yeah... After 1 am. Getting sleepy. But you know the thing...

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PS: Good evening, Achmed!

𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚?

https://i.ibb.co/nsLpJ9Z0/screenshot.jpg

From the source code on this page...
https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/us-news/clip-of-sydney-sweeneys-expert-shooting-range-run-goes-viral-after-republican-registration-revealed-american-eagle-ad-fiasco/

All I did was search for ".mp4" and it popped right up.

(Pro Tip! If you want to save a video from the NYPost just go to the source code and search for ".mp4")(Also... I bet you could embed a video this way if you were so inclined.)

𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑆 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠.

Yes. You are correct. Both the PS software and the browsers strip out the backslashes. As you say, they do this because the urls are originally based on a unix file system so this is a sort of artifact (for lack of a better term right now)(after 1 am, getting sleepy) that was written into the backbone of the interwebs and modern web browsers.

𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑅𝐿 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒.

Yes. Apparently, some people use the backslash in their urls as a sort of marker knowing that the system will disregard them. This is the first time I've noticed such a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYg7Qrx4-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZhleGV4Qc

For reference...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPFy-WXVCI

But.. Damn... Sydney Sweeney is a badass. She didn't drink any water, or anything, no ice cream, no stress ball, no nothin'.

Makes my chanteuse crush on Rosé all the merrier...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8KvdWagfo

But still. Hats off to Sydney. I think there is more to this girl than meets the eye.

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PS: OK, I watched all the Sydney Sweeney videos - at the shooting range and doing the beautiful vehicle restorations. It's fun to watch her, of course. I'm glad to see she's involved in hobbies that mostly are filled with Conservatives. (Plus, she likes to be seen, whether it's working on the rear end or whatever.)

However, she's 28 y/o now. I sincerely hope that a woman that pretty will make good use of her body, going very much along with the whole jeans, errr, genes thing.

Yes, of course she's hot enough, not to mention the money, to be able to attract plenty of guys at 35 y/o, and well past 40. That's not good enough though. She ought to start having babies within the next 3-4 years, or it WILL get much tougher. I suppose she thinks money can solve everything, such as helping her have a baby whenever. Nah, start soon, Sydney Sweeney, at least after this ad campaign since I think the whole company has blown its wad, so to speak...

Well, if she's a Conservative, she may understand all this, and failing that, may at least listen to her Mom and Dad who should understand all this.

Were I to ever look at the "People" magazine website, probably not agonna happen, I want to see "Sydney Sweeney had twins! 5 things you need to know about this." soon in their headlines.

PS: Adam, where'd that original link with both up and down slashes in it come from? I can see where not just the PS software for comments but the browsers themselves might strip off all the down slashes. They mean something regarding disk drives, as I recall - I mean that they did have a place in URLs or at least "paths" to directories in the old DOS and Unix etc.

If you strip the down slashed out, the URL makes sense.

PS: Ok, so about that last comment...

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/Nck5TLDA-RyIcpnTz.mp4

is what I was referring to.

Looks like this...
https://i.ibb.co/35rQm1SS/Blog-Works.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/m5rGmfp3/Screenshot.jpg

But apparently blogworks auto-corrects this weird url and it somehow still works. Very curious...

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PS: Gentlemen of culture, we meet again...

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/Nck5TLDA-RyIcpnTz.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTdocpdOCHQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBST62MBCiM
https://www.tiktok.com/@syds_garage

Seriously though...
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/Nck5TLDA-RyIcpnTz.mp4

Might just be the coolest web address I've ever posted.
Just look at all those // / / going on. Crazy...

Anyway...

I hope you all have a wonderful evening! ☮️

PS

Seems the company didn’t leave enough room in jts jeans for their own newly grown cajones.

RIP, American Eagle.

PS: I see what you are getting at Mr. Hail. There's no way to return to the pre-Woke mindset for anyone who remembers, because we all know and remember what kind of sick things were were told to believe (or act like we believe)

The goal now is to flood the culture with rebellious moves like this one, so that the ctrl-left will not be able rejuvenate wokeness. Maybe for some people it's just a fad to join. They'll LIKE and FOLLOW and all that on anti-Social media until something else gets their attention. I hope any attempt to rejuvenate this same program of the cultural revolution will result in media campaigns that will be seen as stupid at that point by all.

I do agree that many Conservatives just love to have brown allies on their side to prove that they are not somehow the bad guys. They don't have enough confidence.

To see how it's done, they need to watch more Alex Stein 99. Ever seen that guy? I posted a video of him way back during the CoronaPanic, but I've gotten back into some of his videos.

PS

I think what I have in mind might be phrased like this:

The answer to "Wokeness" is not a gimmicky "anti-Wokeness," but a firm non-Wokeness.

I'm not making the argument that the Jeans/Genes ad is gimmicky anti-Wokeness (a term I've just made up anyway, so the definition is up for grabs), but stating the principle. In the pre-Wokeness period, you didn't have (need) people signaling messages like this. That ought to be the goal.

The risk of a gimmicky anti-Wokeness is that it can pass in and out, like any fad. If people say and do things just to get a rise out of people, this is a seeping into normal-reality of the worst of social media.

And if anti-Wokeness is a fad, meaning a trend or an idea or set of ideas or postures, it can also be adopted by anyone and used.

And here come the anti-Woke Based Brown Guys, assuring you they're on our side; just look at this list of bullet-points they assure you they agree with, and watch them make cool anti-Woke one-liners to outrage the other team. They are great! Ramaswamy-2026 for Governor!

PS: "What do I mean by Anti-Wokeness being the new Wokeness. I mean people thinking Wokeness is uncool and want to signal Anti-Wokeness, but on similar motivations as peopled signalled Wokeness in the late 2010s and early 2020s."

To me, it's great that the young people have woken up, (pun or not at this point?) and have the guts to fight this stuff. Granted, the more others get on the bandwagon, the less courage it takes to join in. Is it still virtue-signaling in this direction?

I gotta go, but I'll write more later this morning...

PS

"The double meaning based on the un-captioned homophones "Jeans" or "Genes" is much more of a threat to the ctrl-left Woke enforcers."

It's possible that we've ben seeing a lot of signs that Anti-Wokeness being the new Wokeness. Sometimes these are more obvious or readily recognizable than others. This one people have latched onto, but it's also not, I'd argue, a one-off.

What do I mean by Anti-Wokeness being the new Wokeness. I mean people thinking Wokeness is uncool and want to signal Anti-Wokeness, but on similar motivations as peopled signalled Wokeness in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

In other words, it's about stirring controversy to get attention and cashing in status-points. Or cashing in literal money from customers, I suppose; psychologically, it's often not monetized directly and exists on a different plane than dollars and cents.

In an "Anti-Wokeness as the New Wokeness" 'paradigm', it's not enough to put a White-female model in an ad but politicized insinuations have to be made. There are apparently a number of other ads like this now, including the July 2025 Dunkin Donuts ad in which the punchline is "Golden Summer," with a White male speaking to camera saying his "genetic analysis" proves he is "golden" and worthy of consuming Dunkin summer-themed products.

This is all a commodification of Anti-Wokeness, and it can be seen far beyond mere commercials. It's a commodified-politiczation of White-normality. This can be argued to be as unhealthy as Wokeness, even if we prefer the Anti-Wokeness version.