May 12, 2024

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

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- If you have an Asus anything, better hope it doesn't need to be repaired. (Tom's Hardware)
There's a video at the end of the post providing background, but among other scams, Asus wanted around $2700 to replace just the power connector on an RTX 4090 - a well-documented problem with these cards - and $200 for a literally microscopic scratch on an Ally Z1 gaming device.
In that case the device was sent in to repair a broken joystick, and not only did Asus not offer to repair the joystick, they threatened to send the device back disassembled if the customer didn't cough up.
This didn't go down too well because the customer in question was a hardware review channel with more than two million subscribers.
- My new laptop is an Asus.
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May 11, 2024
There is a big "Holiday" tomorrow. Just a friendly reminder........
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Nothing like spending $100 bill at your favorite Mom & Pop Sport Shop. Welcome to The Weekend Hobby Thread. So what has been you keeping you busy with your hobbies and/or projects? We would love to hear about them. So feel free to join in about the wide world of hobbies. Please leave politics and current events outside at the curb. Preferably by the garbage cans.
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Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) has been celebrated as an emblem of the French Republic for almost 200 years. The dynamic scene of Liberty leading revolutionaries into battle first entered the Louvre in 1874, following its purchase by the state a year after its creation. However, its dramatic palette has yellowed and dimmed over time, leading the museum to undertake a major six-month restoration to remove eight layers of oxidized varnish. The project forms part of other recent restoration efforts to conserve works by Delacroix. . . According to Bénédicte Trémolières and Laurence Mugniot, who restored the painting, previous attempts at preservation had dramatically altered Delacroix’s subtle palette and flattened or obscured key compositional details. For example, the central allegorical figure of Liberty—who is known in France as Marianne, the personification of liberté, égalité, fraternité—wears a tunic which was believed to be uniformly yellow. However, it is in fact light grey with hints of golden hues. A conservation effort in 1949 is believed to be responsible for deliberately recoloring the clothing.
Activists detained for posting stickers around Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’ On Wednesday, French police arrested two Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) activists at the Musée du Louvre in Paris after they staged a protest in front of Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) . A video recording was posted to the group’s social media account showing the pair placing two stickers that read ‘Résister est vital’ to the painting’s right and chanting demands for social security to sustainable food. The two were charged with ‘wilful damage’ and a museum representative filed a complaint with the authorities. The painting, however, remains undamaged. According to its website, Riposte Alimentaire ‘is a profound and collective transformation operation which aims to achieve an ecological and social victory through the establishment of sustainable food social security’. They are the organisation responsible for throwing soup on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) earlier this January.Activists leading the people to victory!
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Good morning Horde. No, that's not my ink above. Not yet anyway.
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Decaf Coffee Is Made With A Toxic Chemical That Causes Liver And Lung Cancer And Experts Are Sounding The Alarm
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- Earth is facing a Category G4 geomagnetic storm. (The Verge)
That's just one rating lower than the Carrington Event which was so energetic it knocked out telegraph lines across Europe and North America - except for some that heeded the warning and disconnected power in advance, which were able to keep operating even without any electricity.
What you can expect: Pretty lights in the night sky. (Axios)
Fiber optics are completely immune to this, satellites are shielded, and it's not strong enough to affect the power grid.
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May 10, 2024
Happy Friday Folks! Who's ready to get their meme on?

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the Dolomites
note the tiny figure in the yellow shirt
sitting on the ridge in foreground
by @rosenfeld.mandy
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Before that, news from the Bee's Science Department:

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The People Setting America on Fire
An investigation into the witches' brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests by
Park MacDougald
Well that name is as goy as they come so this guy is totally a good target for George Soros's baseless smearing operations.
Oh, you mean the Iran Echo Chamber that Ben Rhodes simultaneously bragged about creating and mocked for their pliability.
Over the past several weeks, Americans have witnessed what has seemed like a mass outpouring of support for terror on elite college campuses. At Columbia, Yale, Princeton, NYU, UCLA, Northwestern, Texas, and elsewhere, masked mobs have occupied schools with tent encampments, established self-proclaimed "autonomous zones," clashed with police, harassed and threatened visibly Jewish students, and issued demands for their universities to divest from Israeli "genocide." Politically, moreover, the protests have displayed an incoherent mix of campus progressivism, hardcore Islamism and Arab nationalism, and revolutionary anarchism and communism, including open praise for North Korea. The only unifying thread would appear to be opposition to Israel and its alleged imperial patron, the United States. Have America's college students suddenly converted en masse to anarcho-communist-jihadism? Not quite. Many are far left and anti-Israel. Some are foreigners, or the children of foreigners, who have imported the conspiracies and hatreds of their homelands. More, admitted under relaxed pandemic-era admissions standards and proudly ignorant of both American and world history, are taking the "decolonial" half-knowledge pushed by their elders to its logical conclusion. But students are not the only, and perhaps not even the most important, faction active in the campus protests. As in the "mostly peaceful" Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020, "outside agitators"--professional radicals and organizers, black bloc antifa thugs, Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, and Palestinian and Islamist radicals--have played a central role in organizing and escalating the campus protests, just as they have organized and escalated the wider anti-Israel protest campaign that began almost immediately after Oct. 7. This largely decentralized network of agitators is, in turn, politically and financially supported by a vast web of progressive nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, and dark-money groups ultimately backed by big-money donors aligned with the Democratic Party. ... Scratch a pro-Palestinian radical organization, and you are likely to find Tides' involvement somewhere. ...
The "movement," [w]hile it recruits from among students and other self-motivated radicals willing to put their bodies on the line, relies heavily on the funding of progressive donors and nonprofits connected to the upper reaches of the Democratic Party. Take the epicenter of the nationwide protest movement, Columbia University. According to reporting in the New York Post, the Columbia encampment was principally organized by three groups: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Within Our Lifetime (WOL). Let's take each in turn. JVP is, in essence, the "Jewish"-branch of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, backed by the usual big-money progressive donors--including some, like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, that were instrumental in selling Obama's Iran Deal to the public.
JVP and its affiliated political action arm, JVP Action, have received at least $650,000 from various branches of George Soros' philanthropic empire since 2017, $441,510 from the Kaphan Foundation (founded by early Amazon employee Sheldon Kaphan), $340,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and smaller amounts from progressive donors such as the Quitiplas Foundation, according to reporting from the New York Post and NGO Monitor, a pro-Israel research institute. JVP has also received nearly $1.5 million from various donor-advised funds--which allow wealthy clients to give anonymously through their financial institutions--run through the charitable giving arms of Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Vanguard, and TIAA, according to NGO Monitor's review of those institutions' tax documents.Of course they received $97,000 from the Tides Foundation.
SJP, by contrast, is an outgrowth of the Islamist networks dissolved during the U.S. government's prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and related charities for fundraising for Hamas. SJP is a subsidiary of an organization called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP); SJP in fact has no "formal corporate structure of its own but operates as AMP's campus brand," according to a lawsuit filed last week against AJP Educational Fund, the parent nonprofit of AMP. ... Today, however, National SJP is legally a "fiscal sponsorship" of another nonprofit: a White Plains, New York, 501(c)(3) called the WESPAC Foundation. A fiscal sponsorship is a legal arrangement in which a larger nonprofit "sponsors" a smaller group, essentially lending it the sponsor's tax-exempt status and providing back-office support in exchange for fees and influence over the sponsorship's operations. For legal and tax purposes, the sponsor and the sponsorship are the same entity, meaning that the sponsorship is relieved of the requirement to independently disclose its donors or file a Form 990 with the IRS. This makes fiscal sponsorships a "convenient way to mask links between donors and controversial causes," according to the Capital Research Center. Donors, in other words, can effectively use nonprofits such as WESPAC to obscure their direct connections to controversial causes.
WESPAC, however, is not merely the fiscal sponsor of the Hamas-linked SJP but also the fiscal sponsor of the third group involved in organizing the Columbia protests, Within Our Lifetime (WOL), formerly known as New York City SJP.... WOL-led protests tend to have a few... hallmarks. These include eliminationist rhetoric directed at the Jewish state--such as Arabic chants of "strike, strike, Tel Aviv"; the prominent display of Hezbollah flags and other insignia of explicitly Islamist resistance; the presence of masked Arab street muscle; and the antisemitic intimidation of counterprotesters by said masked Arab street muscle. WOL's role appears to be that of shock troops, akin to the role played by black block militants on the anarchist side of the ledger. WOL is, however, connected to more seemingly "mainstream" elements of the anti-Israel movement. Abdullah Akl, a prominent WOL leader--indeed, the man leading the "strike Tel Aviv" chants in the video linked above--is also listed as a "field organizer" on the website of MPower Change, the "advocacy project" led by Linda Sarsour. MPower Change, in turn, is a fiscal sponsorship of NEO Philanthropy, another large progressive clearinghouse. NEO Philanthropy and its 501(c)(4) "sister," NEO Philanthropy Action Fund, have received more than $37 million from Soros' Open Society Foundations since 2021 alone, as well as substantial funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the Tides Foundation. More than any of the dark-money giants on the left, Tides has become tightly integrated with the ascendant Obama faction of the Democratic Party.I don't know why we put up with this. Oh, right, because Mitch McConnell doesn't want any limits on who he can grub money from.
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It's been a long time since a GAINZZZ thread.
Elon Musk reveals his secret to getting a good night's sleep: As he's drifting off to dreamland, he listens to podcasts about his greatest fear.Elon Musk reveals bizarre way he gets to sleep at night Elon Musk shared that he likes to listen to podcasts about his greatest fearsEccentricities aside, his thinking is very grounded and commonsensical.
He spoke at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles on Monday Elon Musk has shared the bizarre way he gets to sleep every night. The Tesla boss revealed that he enjoys listening to podcasts about one of his greatest fears to help him nod off. Musk, 52, told the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles that he likes to listen to series, 'about the fall of civilizations' to get to sleep. However, he also revealed that the topic is one of his biggest anxieties. 'Anything that's a civilizational risk,' Musk said when asked what his greatest concerns are, the Independent reports. He has previously spoken about his worries about plummeting birthrates. Other potential threats keeping him up at night include, 'anything that undermines the foundations of democracy in America or elsewhere' or 'anything that's leading us away from a merit-based system', he told the conference on Monday. The entrepreneur also stated a 'single world government' could lead to societal collapse.
Musk stated that he believes humans will need to merge with machines to avoid becoming obsolete.And there you go. I knew a woman who would fall asleep every night watching The Murder Channel, I mean, Investigation Discovery. I wonder what kind of dreams she had with the TV talking about hatchet murders and body disassembly. Due to Bidenomics and Biden's hyperinflation, transsexual cabaret Planet Fitness will be raising its prices. Princeton crybabies cry: If you don't meet our demands, we'll starve ourselves to death! Right there, they're admitting they're not even capable of feeding themselves.
If Princeton 'wants to let us starve, then they're welcome to do that'A three-day "hunger strike" is just a 72 hour fast. It's easy. This isn't a protest, it's a slim-down weekend. Do these idiots have any idea how long it takes to actually starve to death? No, no they don't. An extremely obese man fasted for 382 days (under close medical supervision and taking vitamins and minerals).
Seventeen Princeton students began a hunger strike last Friday until the university agreed to meet with them to discuss divestment from Israel and the dropping of charges against students who had occupied a campus building. According to The Daily Princetonian, student Sameer Riaz said he believed he and his comrades "were forced into" their hunger strike by school officials. Areeq Hasan, another hunger striker, said all those participating are "very well-supported" -- unlike "political prisoners who are in Palestine." David Chmielewski said the strikers' demands were "not that intense" as activists only wanted a meeting (along with the dismissal of criminal/disciplinary charges against the aforementioned occupiers). He added if Princeton "want[s] to let us starve, then they're welcome to do that."
Angus was reportedly sick of being obese, and checked into the University Department of Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Dundee weighing 207kg (32.5 stone). [That's 456 pounds in American.] He told hospital staff he was ready to cut out food together, so doctors happily agreed to monitor his progress. Angus's doctors didn't really expect the fast to last long. But they thought a short fast would help him to lose some weight. To compensate for his lack of nutrients, he was prescribed multivitamins to take regularly, including potassium and sodium, as well as yeast. As days turned to weeks, Angus's persistence increased. The Scot wanted to reach his reported "ideal weight" of 180 pounds (12.8 stone), so he kept going, much to his doctors' surprise.These little fucking idiot weaklings really don't know anything, do they? And some of these stupid little porkchops look like they could use a couple of weeks of fasting:
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Interesting piece by Reynolds.
Basic idea: The Regime wants to empower its street thugs to bully and harass citizens. When citizens push back against the thugs, suddenly the Regime fears "disorder" -- disorder meaning, now our street militias might get roughed up, we'd better send in the cops to restore order. We can't have citizens roughing up our brigands!!! Pushing back, he writes, is the only way to bring The Regime's attention to the disorder they are allowing/encouraging.Pushback Works Campus political violence and the moral and practical aspects of resistance. Glenn Harlan ReynoldsReynolds links a picture of the UNC fraternity brothers defending the flag.
May 08, 2024 Pushback works. That's the lesson of the pro-Hamas protests on college campuses, and the reaction to them. It's a lesson that many of us need to take to heart. With support from lefty foundations and NGOs, and training from professional leftists activists, pro-Hamas encampments were established at campuses all across America. Libraries were the victim of rampages, Jewish students literally wound up hiding in attics, were assaulted, and were taunted and greeted with chants of "go back to Poland." "Checkpoints" manned by Hamas sympathizers barred Jewish students, or anyone who wouldn't renounce "Zionism," from some parts of campus. American flags were torn down and replaced with Palestinian flags. It looked as if the protesters had the momentum, as university administrations responded supinely. And then, something happened. People fought back. Mostly fraternity guys, who in this season have become the defenders of Western civilization. For decades, of course, leftist mobs on campus have run wild without much pushback. Their threats and destruction have been excused as just a "passion for justice" or some such twaddle. While university administrators demand exquisite sensitivity to the feelings of favored groups, everyone else is told to just put up with lefty excesses. But a funny thing happened: When people started pushing back, suddenly the administrators got some backbone. To be fair, the pushback hasn't just been from frat guys. There had been pressure from donors sufficient to get some university presidents fired, but when it came to getting the encampments moved off campus, it was the on-campus resistance that did it. It wasn't just frat guys. UCLA told its police not to do anything to the pro-Hamas encampment even after a pro-Israel Jewish girl was beaten unconscious. It was attacked by pro-Israel students and neighbors, and torn down, while the police didn't arrive to the encampment -- which reportedly was emblazoned with "All Cops Are Bastards" and the like -- for two hours. But afterwards, UCLA removed the encampment. Since then, Columbia, the University of Chicago, MIT, and Harvard have all done the same. [CORRRECTION: There were reports that Harvard was shutting its encampment down, but it's still there.] The fact is, if nobody resists, most people will go with the flow even if they don't like it. And administrators won't lift a finger to protect unpopular minorities from one-sided violence. But as soon as the violence becomes two-sided, they fear expanding disorder and act to bring things under control. When you're being assaulted and terrorized, that's your problem. When you fight back, you make it everybody's problem, and the authorities are under pressure to act. ... In addition, they note the moral aspect of resistance: Resistance breeds resistance, courage promotes courage, and the aggressors tend to rethink things when it looks as if they might be the victims, not just the perpetrators, of violence...
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Before getting to that, the angry chubby-cheeked spasmoid and Islamomarxist Greta Thunberg is demanding that the Israeli contestant in the Eurovision song contest be kicked out, because she's a Jew.
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@OliLondonTV Greta Thunberg poses with a sign calling Eurovision the 'Genocide Song Contest.' The climate activist has joined protesters in Malmo, Sweden demanding a 20 year old Israeli singer be thrown out of the competition- simply because of her nationality. Thunberg took to X saying: "We will not accept that a country currently committing genocide is allowed a platform to artwash themselves. The world cannot remain silent in a genocide. Everyone who can must use their voice and speak up against Israel's crimes and occupation."
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The economy is withering and shriveling as fast as Joe Biden's dying brain.
Carville is reacting to this disaster-pants Biden interview, in which he insisted the economy had never been better. He explained away voters saying the economy is poor by just saying that "the polls are wrong," and whined that many people hang up the phone before a pollster gets one to do a survey. Lefties mocked righties for talking about "skewed polls." But now here's the "president" claiming that all polls, all of them, are skewed against him. Biden just sat there with a slack jaw as Erin Burnett read the actual economic figures to him. As some observed: It's like Biden has been kept in a plastic bubble and this is the first time someone's telling him the real economic data.Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:40 PM | Comments (372) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Decrepit closeted lesbian says what?
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