# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2181 "2024-08-10T17:11:29Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > > I can kinda understand maybe he worked on the fringes of town where there’s a higher chance of something wild coming after him, but wouldn’t you take the gun off when you went into town? > > TBF if they were out working in the sticks then went into town, I’d give them a pass. Nothing intrinsecally “stupid” if properly holstered. We used to spend a lot of time in bear country. We both carried .45 pistols on our hips. We didn’t plan to shoot at the bear, we planned to make a whole lot of noise shooting into the ground in front of us. We also had bear spray on the other hip. When we went into town, we always were very aware that we were armed. As responsible gun owners, we felt it was our responsibility to keep them on our hips because it is hard to safely secure anything in a soft top jeep. So that’s another reason for someone to be carrying a sidearm into a diner. They got hungry and didn’t want to risk losing their weapon if their car got broken into. I will agree that it probably wasn’t the case, but you never know. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2182 "2024-08-10T20:59:00Z")
That is so fucking Seattle. 😆 Still better than the EMP. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2183 "2024-08-10T21:07:00Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Still better than the EMP. “The Museum of Pop Culture” is what EMP is called now. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2184 "2024-08-10T21:09:50Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “The Museum of Pop Culture” is what EMP is called now. I went to the EMP when it first opened. It was nothing like the MoPop is now. It just happens to be located in the same blob of half-melted ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2185 "2024-08-10T21:20:13Z")
“Unalived himself” is just such a boneheaded construction. There already was “took his own life,” or the old obituary euphemism “chose to leave this world on his own terms.” Or go all Camus and proclaim that a free individual has the right and duty to examine their own existence and may choose to renounce it. Or “patently remained on the line through Customer Services’ delaying tactics and cancelled his subscription nonetheless.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2186 "2024-08-10T21:36:18Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “Unalived himself” is just such a boneheaded construction. It came about on social media as a euphemism because content bots on Youtube or Tiktok will demonetize or age-restrict videos with the words “suicide” or “killed himself” in them. (There’s one channel I watch that spent several years referring to covid as “the Backstreet Boys reunion tour” for the same reason.) Using it in real life is, as the kids would say, cringe. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2187 "2024-08-10T23:51:52Z")
They also don’t like the word “rape.” Not sure what gets used instead. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2188 "2024-08-11T00:13:44Z")
Believe it or not . . . _grape_. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2189 "2024-08-11T00:54:33Z")
Kroger, which will be the biggest grocery chain in the country if its merger with Safeway goes through, wants to use AI to profile its customers and raise prices on the fly if it thinks they can afford to pay more. > **[Kroger's new dynamic AI pricing scheme is 'corporate greed is out of...](https://www.rawstory.com/kroger-pricing-strategy/)** > > Expressing doubt that a new artificial intelligence-powered "dynamic pricing" model used by the Kroger grocery chain is truly meant to "better the customer experience," Sens. Elizabeth Warren said Friday that the practice shows how "corporate greed... Aside from the fact that such a scheme is nakedly avaricious and would almost certainly discriminate against customers on prohibited grounds, it’s not even anywhere near feasible - Amazon’s “just walk out” stores were vaunted as being AI-powered but turned out to just be hundreds of people watching cameras at a call center in India, and their stores are about the size of a 7-Eleven. We’re nowhere near where that could be scaled up to a grocery store with 50,000 square feet of sales floor and hundreds of customers at a time. I really hope this AI bubble bursts soon. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2190 "2024-08-11T02:38:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I really hope this AI bubble bursts soon. I used to work for a company that is heavily invested in AI, and I still have some of their stock. So I don’t exactly hope it busts soon. On the other hand you are quite correct. Cognitive dissonance can be painful. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2191 "2024-08-11T02:41:40Z")
And I work in a grocery store (not a publicly-traded one, fortunately, but I do own about a quarter mil in company stock) where people will throw a fit if they think the price on an item should be ten cents less than what it is. I can only imagine the arguments that would ensue if we were literally changing the price for every customer. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2192 "2024-08-11T03:23:40Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Not sure what gets used instead. I’ve heard “surprise sex”. I even participated on another message board about a particular tabletop RPG (I won’t say which one) that had discussions about half-orcs and other half-monsters which would inevitably bring up the subject of rape and how gaming groups handled (or avoided) the subject in their games. The people who ran the boards put in a filter that automatically changed the word to “surprise sex” in posts. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2193 "2024-08-11T03:28:58Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ve heard “surprise sex”. I think the worst euphemism I’ve heard is “Kermit sewer slide”, because at that point you’re getting so oblique with what you’re trying to say that you may as well be speaking in rhyming slang or Polari or some other kind of secret language that you have to be “in the know” to understand. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2194 "2024-08-11T04:17:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I really hope this AI bubble bursts soon. You mean like the internet bubble did? I’m sure glad we don’t have to deal with that internet thing any more. (Another way to day that: don’t hold your breath.) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2195 "2024-08-11T04:18:55Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > You mean like the internet bubble did? Yes. > **[Dot-com bubble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble)** > > The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Internet, resulting in a dispensation of available venture capital and the rapid growth of valuations in new dot-com startups. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, investments in the NASDAQ composite stock market index rose by 800%, only to fall to 78% from ... What we’re seeing now, like we did 25 years ago, is a speculative bubble around a technology that isn’t nearly mature enough or sustainable enough to deliver on what the hype artists are promising and what the people pumping billions of dollars into it expect from it, and it isn’t going to be profitable any time soon, so the sooner it bursts and people stop acting like LLMs are going to replace all human labor in time for the Q3 earnings statement, the better. And of course, the internet was USEFUL and low overhead. Most people don’t need or want AI products, and with the energy consumption they require the only way to actually make them profitable is going to be to discover cold fusion. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2196 "2024-08-11T04:52:53Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > They also don’t like the word “rape.” Not sure what gets used instead. > > > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > > Believe it or not . . . _grape_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mqgiEQXGetI/hqdefault.jpg "WKUK Grapist") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2197 "2024-08-11T05:24:15Z")
We had a grapist on here for a while. Now there is no more coloring of text, though. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2198 "2024-08-11T05:28:40Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Now there is no more coloring of text, though. [![](https://i.imgflip.com/8zw9sz.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/8zw9sz.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2199 "2024-08-11T05:47:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The 21-year-old spoiled rich brat who has spent much of the last year terrorizing downtown Seattle by driving a customized super-loud Dodge Charger late at night and at dangerously high speeds so he could post videos of it to Instagram, accruing $83,000 in fines in the process, has finally been taken into custody, banned from using social media, and is prohibited from driving his car on any public road in the state of Washington. Update: the shithead’s bail has been revoked for continuing to post to Instagram on a sock puppet account. > **[Belltown Hellcat wanted again for violating social media content ban](https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/belltown-hellcat-wanted-again-violating-social-media-content-ban/IMKBCRRFJVCZDL6WTTU4FIZJQU/?outputType=amp)** > > The “Belltown Hellcat” is wanted again in Seattle after city prosecutors filed a motion to revoke Miles Hudson’s release. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2200 "2024-08-11T13:02:14Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > We used to spend a lot of time in bear country. We both carried .45 pistols on our hips. We didn’t plan to shoot at the bear, we planned to make a whole lot of noise shooting into the ground in front of us. We also had bear spray on the other hip. A proper plan. We have had bears break into our cars 3-4 times. Lost count. But if your car door is open… Umm… I don’t want to just poke my head in there, I prefer to have a quick escape into the house. Last time I shot a .357 into the ground near the car. If a bear was still in the car, I should be able to see movement by waking it up, the car would rock a little. In twilight, you really can’t see through a cars windows from a distance. I like to stay at least 20 feet away and have a shorter distance to my house. Haven’t seen bear this year. although my neighbor had one in a tree. He said he thought it was a cougar because it hissed at him. Nope, bear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=111)