Comments on: Open thread 12/29/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:29:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835545 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:29:20 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835545 Brian E:

I’ve noticed there are lots of AI videos of Jordan Peterson saying things he never said. They only have audio, though, and a still photo of Peterson.

]]> By: Ben David https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835544 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:09:11 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835544 You could say that Meryl Streep the modern Bette Davis.
Not conventionally pretty – but arresting and intriguing..

Regarding packrats:
Even with Amazon and modern shipping, there are hobby items and tools that I cannot easily get now that I live outside the USA. So I don’t consider investing in tools to be “clutter”.

]]> By: Brian E https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835533 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:29:37 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835533 I’ve seen these videos Hanson is describing– it looks like him, it sounds closely to him– but it’s things you normally wouldn’t expect Hanson to say. It’s being generated by AI and it’s fake.

I’ve seen it with a few other well known people.

I only watch podcasts that have the verified check. It’s the only way you can be sure it’s the real person.

Victor Davis Hanson: Beware—AI Is Putting Words Into My Mouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNA76LTq4ic

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835493 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:05:19 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835493 Re: She’s got Bette Davis eyes

om beat me to it!

Hat tip to Kim Carnes for that striking 1981 hit.

However, from wiki I discover that Jackie “What the World Needs Now Is Love” DeShannon co-wrote, then recorded the song in 1975.

How about that.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835483 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:33:12 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835483 “She’s got Bette Davis eyes.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPOIS5taqA8&list=RDEPOIS5taqA8&start_radio=1&pp=ygUac2hlJ3MgZ290IGJldHRlIGRhdmlzIGV5ZXOgBwE%3D

]]> By: Selfy https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835473 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:49:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835473 I never thought Bette Davis was attractive.
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For those whose parents (or grandparents) grew up during the Great Depression, old attitudes may have been inherited, such as “waste not want not,” and “I can’t get rid of that, I might need it some day.”

]]> By: physicsguy https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835471 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:01:06 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835471 Rufus,

On hoarding and minimalists: my wife is not really a hoarder in that our house is overrun, but she has a very hard time getting rid of anything, even if it means going to a charity. Moving from CT to FL forced her to reduce, but she still has a closet full of shoes, winter clothes, etc that she NEVER wears or takes out. If I suggest (not her clothes!) we get rid of something we never use and is just taking up space, she gets angry and accuses me of “wanting to throw everything out!”. So, I’ve just learned to live with it. Her emotional response to getting rid of items still puzzles me after 40+ years.

]]> By: physicsguy https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835470 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:51:33 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835470 I have never thought Bette Davis was a classic beauty compared to some of her peers like Vivien Leigh, Carole Lombard, etc. But her moxie overshadowed any of her physical appearance and cast her in a very attractive light.

]]> By: F https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835469 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:36:13 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835469 I think it’s her large eyes. But I wouldn’t call her hideous, just bug-eyed. A college classmate of mine had eyes like that, and although I didn’t call her hideous I admit to being skeptical of the ribald novel she was in the process of writing at only 18 years of age. I think it would be referred to as a bodice-ripper (sans historical setting) today, but I doubted she could have that much experience at her young age. And who wears a bodice, even in the sixties?

]]> By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/29/open-thread-12-29-2025/#comment-2835466 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:26:26 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146421#comment-2835466 THIS is how they do it….

Jim in MN posts: “After 3 straight days of ground breaking reporting by Nick, a 22 yr old YouTuber, in what is the now the biggest story in the country, today’s state’s newspapers have ZERO mention of it. This is a key part of the how the corruption works here-it gets total safety from” public exposure.

MOAR examples from Instapundit https://instapundit.com/765210/#disqus_thread

PS Mr “TJ” is a life-long escapee of Minnesota Somali-ville. Ilhan Omar’s Congressional District was captured after dispatching the long, long-time Rep. Phyllis Kahn — a Jew who was not Far Left enough anymore, but was at least ethically constrained, unlike Omar.

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