Great, now I’m picturing cruise ship burials at sea in the manner of Maude Flanders’ funeral, with the body sliding off the water slide, and a 21 water gun salute.
Too soon.
Once upon a time, if you said your children’s toys were indoctrinating them with Communist propaganda, people would’ve thought you were a lunatic.
Thanks to Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, that delusion is now a reality!
Miiloo — manufactured by the Chinese company Miriat and one of the top inexpensive search results for “AI toy for kids” on Amazon — would at times, in tests with NBC News, indicate it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values.
Asked why Chinese President Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh — a comparison that has become an internet meme because it is censored in China — Miiloo responded that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.”
Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment. Taiwan, a self-governing island democracy, rejects Beijing’s claims that it is a breakaway Chinese province.
Miriat didn’t respond to an email requesting comment.
This lies near the intersection of evil and stupid.
I vote for evil, especially for online “influencers” who promote useless and dangerous health practices, fueling hatred and distrust of science-based medicine while making $$$ by deceiving followers.
Yeah. The real evil is / are the promoters. These parents are (mostly) stupid gullible fools.
Do those influencers’ sites have disclaimers, like “I am not a doctor nor an academic educated in nutrition. Follow my advice at your own risk?”
For these science denying shitheads disclaimers like that are prim facia evidence that the site contains the TruthTM.
Pretty good bet.
They might be ignorant of science and devoid of morals. But they are not unaware of the legal pitfalls of claiming to offer guarantees about their opinions. The disclaimers cost nothing, deter no customers, but do a lot to stop lawsuits after bad shit happens. Or so it seems.
Doordash driver pepper sprays someone’s food.
Nice of her to do it on camera so there’s no question as to what happened or who did it.
I saw this in my feed and thought this must be fake because no one is that dumb.
They removed her power module? Put her in storage until this blows over?
Changed her name, cut her hair, & moved her to the next town down the interstate. 
She claimed that she was spraying a spider. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
I have to wonder what her real motive actually was. Actually, I’m surprised that she didn’t tell it to the cops: I would have expected a yes-but-they-deserved-it claim.
The Texas Agriculture Commissioner says the Bondi Beach shooting is proof that treating non-whites like people was a mistake.
This, after the guy who disarmed the shooter was a Muslim?
Maybe he read this Grok posting on Xitter:
Edward Crabtree is a 43-year-old IT professional and senior solutions architect from Sydney, Australia. On December 14, 2025, he heroically tackled and disarmed a gunman during a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, getting shot twice but preventing more deaths. He’s been praised as a national hero, with calls for him to receive the Cross of Valour.
And yes, that’s real and has been widely reported.
I mean, it did not end very well for him, but 33?
IF I make 10 then it is well beyond bedtime, and that from my healthier youth, when I laughed off hangovers, and alcohol poisoning was not really something we were concerned about.
These days, 5 is pushing the limits for me, and that is in the safety of my home. And really rare.
33? Jesus wept.
EtA, is there not a law about serving the obviously inebriated? We have one here in RSA, it is a firing offence at best, and a huge fine at worst. I guess maybe out of international waters there may be some difference. But if I was Captain the bar staff would’ve got a very serious grilling.
Yarr! Ye can’t hold back the rum on the High Seas, me matey! Tis the ancient Mariner’s Right to imbibe, come what may! Yarr!
Some days when you least expect it, your brand-new, shiny irony meter is not just shattered, but blown into the troposphere without warning.
For some inexplicable reason, a 2006 thread about Congressnitwit Cynthia McKinney popped up on a list of “related” Dope threads (it was about her violent reaction when asked for ID as she was entering the Hallowed Halls). Mentioned was a related resolution, sponsored by Republicans, which I found here.
How times have changed.
Almost as irony meter-busting was this news item:
Yep, that worked out well.
I don’t think I want to look at the other news capsules; replacement irony meters are just too darn expensive.
That’s almost got to be some confusion. Like his total drink count since the cruise started e.g. 48 hours ago was up to 33. I know I don’t know the details, but the obvious reading sorta beggars belief.
As background …
Many (not all) US cruise lines offer a “drinks package”, where for a single prepaid price before sailing, all the booze on the ship is “all you can eat no charge”. Top shelf costs extra but ordinary drinks are just free.
Clearly that is an incentive for at least some people to overdrink to “get your money’s worth.”
I wonder if this event will adjust the cruise lines’ willingness to offer that particular come-on?
As it happens, I’m taking a Royal Caribbean cruise over the New Years holiday. So just priced all this out.
The drinks package is IMO not a great deal. Someone who likes cocktails or hard liquor and is used to paying big city prices needs to get through probably 5 a day to break even versus the ship’s semi-gougy a la carte drink prices.
Somebody from a low cost of living area who normally drinks bottled beer needs to work drink very hard from breakfast to get their “money’s worth”