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Daily Tech News 30 July 2021

Top Story

  • My day job continues to drive me insane, but I have a very capable assistant and today got a raise, back-dated to the beginning of the month. So I'll soon be insane but with a shiny new computer.


  • The server hosting my blog did not crash overnight, so that was nice.


  • AMD has announced the Radeon 6600 XT, set for release August 11. (AnandTech)

    Suggested price is $379, but I wouldn't expect it to be going for less than $500.

    Wait for benchmarks on this one, because it's hard to predict how it will compare against the existing 6700 XT. It has 80% of the compute capacity but only 33% of the on-chip cache, so it will likely depend on the individual games you want to play.

    It should be fine for any game at 1080p, though. Only if you want to play at higher resolutions is there likely to be an issue.





Tech News

  • There's now a standard for LPDDR5X - faster memory for laptops and phones. (AnandTech)

    It will run at up to 8.5GHz, which should be great when coupled with AMD's next-generation integrated graphics. And Apple's Arm-based Macs too.


  • Other gaming PC makers say they're not facing the same problems as Dell. (Tom's Hardware)

    The California legislation is stupid, and the states that blindly adopt it are stupid, but Dell's standard configurations are also stupid.


  • Intel has launched its new range of Ice Lake workstation CPUs. (WCCFTech)

    With up to 38 cores and 64 lanes of PCIe 4.0, they will compete with AMD's Threadripper Pro, which has 64 cores and 128 lanes of PCIe 4.0.

    And is cheaper.

    Oops.


  • An enormous Tesla battery farm being built near Melbourne caught fire. (The Age)

    Looks like just one of the pods - each the size of a half-length shipping container - was affected. Oh, and everyone who lives within ten miles, because it belched toxic smoke everywhere and Melbourne is currently in lockdown.


  • Safari is bad. (HTTPToolkit)

    It's filled with bugs and lacks features available in every other browser, forcing developers to work around it. I know our UI team flinches when they hear the name mentioned.

    It's the only browser available on iOS though, because fuck you that's why. You can pretend to install another browser, and iOS will pretend to let you, but on the inside they're all Safari and all have the same bugs.


  • It's a race to the bottom as China decides to suicide its own economy. (Bloomberg)

    Tencent lost 23% of its market cap, and private education companies were forbidden from... Basically forbidden from existing.

    China's strong economy in recent decades has been due to their switch from communism to fascism. Looks like they may be switching back.


  • One of the two HP notebooks I wanted to get - the new Envy 13 with the 4K display - is now listed on their Australian online store. Not available, but listed. About a 40% markup over the US price, but listed.



Disclaimer: To starboard, probably.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:56 AM




Comments

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1 On phone will be back

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 03:59 AM (Cxk7w)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 04:03 AM (arJlL)

3 Very nice that you got a raise, Pixy! Sometimes hard work pays off!

Better run to get my day started. Payday for me today, heard rumors of a raise...we shall see.
Make it a good day, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at July 30, 2021 04:05 AM (UOhCV)

4 Back on tablet, don't know how people use phones here

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:06 AM (Cxk7w)

5 Apparently, if you are a civil service worker in China, you get paid about $350 a month in salary, plus a few times a year you get bonuses from the party totaling your normal annual wage. But China figured out that the last bonuses they gave, well, they'll be needing those back. So now people have to pay it back, even if it means taking out a loan.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 30, 2021 04:12 AM (buTO7)

6 Everything points to a future lock down here, it's only individual states that can stop it in the own state.

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:17 AM (Cxk7w)

7 Dell has Alienware configurations that are compatible with CA fascism.

Translation: the high-end PC you think you bought from us is not that high-end. The video card and the cooling system are from 5 years ago.

Posted by: BanHim at July 30, 2021 04:20 AM (lyfYv)

8 Back on tablet, don't know how people use phones here
Posted by: Skip

Around here, they pick up and say hello.

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 04:20 AM (arJlL)

9 Everything points to a future lock down here, it's only individual states that can stop it in the own state.
Posted by: Skip

We must be having too much fun !

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 04:22 AM (arJlL)

10 The other server, the one that didn't crash overnight.. Just crashed.

Coming back online now though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 30, 2021 04:26 AM (MqQvv)

11
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 30, 2021 04:26 AM (DUIap)

12 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at July 30, 2021 04:27 AM (6Pqz7)

13 JT MLii uses a phone here as many do, have yet to see what blown margins look like on it.

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:29 AM (Cxk7w)

14 So any one think smuggling gaming PCs to the west coast might become profitable? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at July 30, 2021 04:30 AM (6Pqz7)

15 I wondered when the first or 12th suppressed news) battery 'farm would catch fir. It was, and is, inevitable, ya know.

Roasting chestnuts by an open Tesla fire... you need a really long stick.

It will run at up to 8.5GHz, which should be great when coupled with AMD's next-generation integrated graphics. And Apple's Arm-based Macs too.

I guess for a long time I've wanted to understand why clock speeds are sooooo important. GHz is shorthand for wavelength iirc; overclocking is a push to shorten the wavelength. The shorter the wavelength, the more often you can do a cycle?

I could try out a explainer from wiki, but politics...

Fuck wiki on anything possibly connected to politics. Or facts, for that matter.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 30, 2021 04:31 AM (F0YaR)

16 Good morning nerd morons

Gavin Newsom, resign already you douche!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 04:31 AM (EZebt)

17 Skip-

Any tornado/storm damage by you ?

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 04:32 AM (arJlL)

18 Back on tablet, don't know how people use phones here

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:06 AM (Cxk7w)

I don't know how people use tablets., I am pc desktop all the time. I suck at this but was never barrelled when that was a thing. I still think that was a phone thing for some reason. It seemed to happen with phones a lot. I learned a rule or two but for sure I could have easily screwed up. For some reason my set up prevented it. I am not sure what exactly worked, but it did.

Posted by: Quint at July 30, 2021 04:32 AM (F2/Ok)

19 it sucks when the one server that did not crash, crashed.

Posted by: Quint at July 30, 2021 04:33 AM (F2/Ok)

20 Tablet is the key to my success here, can travel around house with it in hand, even out on deck a lot of evenings.

Time to hit that short road, should be a few days very close to home so will take it while it lasts, we have a job near Philly Airport started, that will be a hour drive.
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:36 AM (Cxk7w)

21 15 I guess for a long time I've wanted to understand why clock speeds are sooooo important. GHz is shorthand for wavelength iirc; overclocking is a push to shorten the wavelength. The shorter the wavelength, the more often you can do a cycle?

Yep. A computer running at 4GHz literally does four billion things per second. A lot more than that these days, because you might have an eight-core CPU where each core can do four operations per clock cycle. But that's the basic story.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 30, 2021 04:37 AM (MqQvv)

22 14 So any one think smuggling gaming PCs to the west coast might become profitable? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at July 30, 2021 04:30 AM (6Pqz7)


Be daring. Being first, the gains are possibly endless. Hire a stable of lawyers with some of the profits. CA, being led by a confabulation of idiots, will take years to bring you down. Take the loot and buy gold; hide it in the Isle of Man.

Good luck.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 30, 2021 04:37 AM (F0YaR)

23 Posted by: GnuBreed at July 30, 2021 04:31 AM (F0YaR)

my first computer was so old and decrepit, it had no hard drive at all. i had one game, one of those adventure games that were text based. When your guy died, you had to reboot Dos. I also knew some guys who were chatting over the internet in the very, very early 80s. Yet I still know next to nothing about these things. The Pixy news is important info. I know the politics stuff, this is something new.

Posted by: Quint at July 30, 2021 04:38 AM (F2/Ok)

24 Have a good one Skip and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 04:39 AM (arJlL)

25 Time to hit that short road, should be a few days
very close to home so will take it while it lasts, we have a job near
Philly Airport started, that will be a hour drive.

TGIF

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:36 AM (Cxk7w)

I have one two, but it is a very outdated Amazon thing. I think they say it is my sixth. Even so it is outdated and runs poorly. My pc is old as well but it works for some reason. I definitely do not trust Amazon.

Posted by: Quint at July 30, 2021 04:40 AM (F2/Ok)

26 Somebody should write a "We Like Pixy" song.

A la Stephen Foster, or a Prussian military march, or a sad, sweet Irish number.

No rap or hip hop fatties, please.

Posted by: Miklosian small adverts at July 30, 2021 04:42 AM (QzkSJ)

27
More stuff leaking out on what has the CDC scared shitless: the "Cape Cod" incident. July 4th celebrations. Outbreak of 'Rona thereafter involving 800+ people, with 74% fully vaccinated.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 04:44 AM (Mzdiz)

28 Morning, Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 30, 2021 04:45 AM (UnQlg)

29 Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 30, 2021 04:37 AM (MqQvv)

TY for the response. Next up, some day, I might try and understand 'cores' and 'stacks'. But that is for another day.

My Fortran skilzzzz are still decent though.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 30, 2021 04:45 AM (F0YaR)

30 Gavin Newsom, your hypocrisy and willingness to straight-up lie is known to MILLIONS of voters

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 04:46 AM (EZebt)

31 The server hosting my blog did not crash overnight, so that was nice.

YAY!

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 04:47 AM (RYc1G)

32 My day job continues to drive me insane, but I have a very capable assistant and today got a raise, back-dated to the beginning of the month. So I'll soon be insane but with a shiny new computer.

Counting blessings is a nice start to the day.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 04:48 AM (RYc1G)

33 Gavin Newsom, you walking talking Dunning-Kruger Effect resign already! Have you no shame?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 04:48 AM (EZebt)

34 >>> No rap or hip hop fatties, please.

You sure? I heard that Pixy is a huge Sir Mix-A-Lot fan. It could be an homage.

Posted by: fluffy at July 30, 2021 04:50 AM (UnQlg)

35 "Other gaming PC makers say they're not facing the same problems as Dell. (Tom's Hardware)"

Odd that as corrupt at CA Dems are, Dell was not able to buy their way out of the stupid law with lobbyists. I guess they suck at that too.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 04:52 AM (49Exr)

36 33 Gavin Newsom, you walking talking Dunning-Kruger Effect resign already! Have you no shame?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 04:48 AM (EZebt)


Lawyers have this beaten into their heads -- NEVER ask a question that you don't already know the answer to. Or so I've been told.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 30, 2021 04:52 AM (F0YaR)

37 On Mars, when a Tesla battery catches on fire, it only affects Martians.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 30, 2021 04:53 AM (bCkNL)

38 >>>their switch from communism to fascism

What a choice.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 04:54 AM (RYc1G)

39 "Oh, and everyone who lives within ten miles, because it belched toxic smoke everywhere and Melbourne is currently in lockdown."

Yay Clean Energy

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 04:55 AM (49Exr)

40 "Lawyers have this beaten into their heads -- NEVER ask a question that you don't already know the answer to."

And yet, I still find lawyers representing themselves in court.

SMH

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 04:56 AM (49Exr)

41 14 So any one think smuggling gaming PCs to the west coast might become profitable? Asking for a friend.



Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at July 30, 2021 04:30 AM (6Pqz7)



Be daring. Being first, the gains are possibly endless.

=================
I see an old fashioned retail store for gaming, just feet on the Nevada side of the border. Next thing you know, Democrats will be decrying out-of-state illegal computers and scheming "reasonable controls" on Nevada computers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 04:58 AM (C/LRa)

42 >>>Roasting chestnuts by an open Tesla fire

Ack; earworm.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 05:00 AM (RYc1G)

43 Markets look shaky this morning. Suddenly, "inflation" is a bad word. Who knew?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 05:02 AM (C/LRa)

44 "strive to balance power and performance with energy efficiency."

Stupid of Dell to use that as a talking point.

"Energy efficiency" is why it takes 3 cycles (3+ hours) to get my clothes dry and 2 cycles to get my dishes clean.

So nothing would make me run away from a product faster than learning it is "energy efficient"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:02 AM (49Exr)

45 Odd that as corrupt at CA Dems are, Dell was not able to buy their way out of the stupid law with lobbyists. I guess they suck at that too.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 04:52 AM (49Exr)

CA is run by a special bred of Marxist ideologues who write laws that only have an ideological purpose, like when Dems banned freelance work in the state last year. Dems in CA have forced unionization almost everywhere. How could they unionize freelancers or gig workers? They couldn't, so they banned it.

Of course, they were quick to make exemptions for their union friends and propaganda branch (MSM).nEveryone else got fucked.

Posted by: BanHim at July 30, 2021 05:04 AM (10yVi)

46 40 And yet, I still find lawyers representing themselves in court.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 04:56 AM (49Exr)

But by definition, those are "lawyers," not lawyers.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 05:04 AM (RYc1G)

47 Good morning Morons. Gonna be a hot one today - a good beach day.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:05 AM (6WCwE)

48 37 On Mars, when a Tesla battery catches on fire, it only affects Martians.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 30, 2021 04:53 AM (bCkNL)


It's bound to happen, I suppose. So. A few of the Martian rovers are having problems with 'recharging'. Apparently, Martian dust is clouding their solar panels, and they have to hope there is enough Martian wind to blow off the dust.

Has anyone at NASA heard of the concept of 'windshield wipers'? I'm, er, asking for a friend. It's a relatively new technology, introduced during the tech revolution of 1903, patent # 743,801.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 30, 2021 05:05 AM (F0YaR)

49 "Next thing you know, Democrats will be decrying out-of-state illegal computers and scheming 'reasonable controls' on Nevada computers."

What's really needed is Common Sense regulation of energy consumption. You don't really need 2 cars. You don't really need central air and heating. You don't really need to bake food.

I want to be in the room when they try to tell Gamers that "you don't really need top of the line gaming rigs".

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:07 AM (49Exr)

50 Has anyone at NASA heard of the concept of 'windshield wipers'? I'm, er, asking for a friend. It's a relatively new technology, introduced during the tech revolution of 1903, patent # 743,801.
Posted by: GnuBreed

Couldn't Hillary, being the mutant human she is, wipe it like with a cloth?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:07 AM (6WCwE)

51 6 Everything points to a future lock down here, it's only individual states that can stop it in the own state.
Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:17 AM (Cxk7w)

I really hope you're wrong.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 05:09 AM (RYc1G)

52 "Has anyone at NASA heard of the concept of windshield wipers?"

Hey now, we had no idea there was dust on Mars. We're in Diversity Workshops most days.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish NASA at July 30, 2021 05:10 AM (49Exr)

53 Has anyone at NASA heard of the concept of 'windshield wipers'?


Windshield wipers are mechanical parts that are prone to fail quickly (i.e. they require a.
power source).

Posted by: BanHim at July 30, 2021 05:10 AM (10yVi)

54 51 6 Everything points to a future lock down here, it's only individual states that can stop it in the own state.
Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:17 AM (Cxk7w)


Sorry to hear that "You're Fucked".

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 30, 2021 05:13 AM (F0YaR)

55 Good morning Morons. Gonna be a hot one today - a good beach day.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:05 AM (6WCwE)
===
All my kindergarten buddies are gathering on Long Island this weekend. *sad trombone*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 05:13 AM (EZebt)

56 48 50 During one of many wars, the Israelis were getting a lot of grief in one on one aerial combat, with MiGs coming up from behind, discovering a blind spot. USAF would have spent millions in study to concoct some sensor device, the Israelis went to the auto parts store and got some rear view mirrors.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 05:14 AM (cddbh)

57 So sadly funny reading the CNBC story of the Melbourne fire. Plenty of verbiage about renewable energy and possible impacts from the fire on electricity supplies, and only in the last two sentences is there a grudging mention of toxic gas clouds requiring the small inconvenience of residents turning off heat/AC and sealing windows and staying indoors for the forseeable time period.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 05:15 AM (gDw8z)

58 >>> the Israelis went to the auto parts store and got some rear view mirrors.<
>I worked with some of these guys and they were as funny as fuck. Made a lot of young engineers cry.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 30, 2021 05:17 AM (bCkNL)

59 Not available, but listed. About a 40% markup over the US price, but listed.

Disclaimer: To starboard, probably.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Took me a minute but I finally got it. Clearly, coffee is needed.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:18 AM (6WCwE)

60 I have the duckduckgo browser on my iPhone- is that just safari underneath?

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus at July 30, 2021 05:18 AM (oEn12)

61 " He also pointed out that BIOS tweaks adjusting standby power are also a big part."

Aren't these gaming rigs going to be mining bitcoin whenever their associated meat puppets collapse from exhaustion, what's the real 'down time' model?

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:19 AM (U/0zO)

62 Everything points to a future lock down here, it's only individual states that can stop it in the own state.
Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2021 04:17 AM

These asshats just can't stop poking the bear with a stick. Keep it up, jerkwads. Even a fat, lazy sleeping bear will decide to knaw your face off if you tick him off enough.

Posted by: THE Lonebadger at July 30, 2021 05:20 AM (lIDCz)

63 Hong Kong courts, which once upon a time were honorable, sentenced a 24 year old man to nine years for protesting Chinese takeover. In a sentence that will bring a happy start to Nancy Pelosi's morning he was sent to jail for carrying "a flag bearing the banned slogan, "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.'"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 05:21 AM (gDw8z)

64 Windshield wipers are mechanical parts that are prone to fail quickly (i.e. they require a.
power source).
Posted by: BanHim

Or toothless bums with greasy rags.....

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 05:21 AM (arJlL)

65 vmom - I don't think so - under the covers it is Bing. But I'm certainly not an expert.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:22 AM (6WCwE)

66 Women's Soccer, Team Nazi Rainbow vs Netherlands starts in 40 mins (7AM EST). This could be the team that sends the brats home with their woke tail between their legs:

"it's the Netherlands that has become a high-scoring juggernaut. The Dutch scored 21 goals in the group stage - smashing the previous record of 16 set by the United States in 2012."

If you want to check in for scores, that's fine, but I do not advise watching the game as play has been even more subpar than normal.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:23 AM (49Exr)

67 JT! But isn't it hard to lift those bums and wipe them back and forth without dropping them?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:23 AM (6WCwE)

68 I see an old fashioned retail store for gaming, just feet on the Nevada side of the border. Next thing you know, Democrats will be decrying out-of-state illegal computers and scheming "reasonable controls" on Nevada computers.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Frye's reborn in Primm and Sparks!

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:24 AM (U/0zO)

69 If you want to check in for scores, that's fine, but I do not advise watching the game as play has been even more subpar than normal.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur

And the commercials and 'up close and stunning and brave' spots are unbearable anyway.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:24 AM (6WCwE)

70 So nothing would make me run away from a product faster than learning it is "energy efficient"
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur

I tell my wife that "I'm not lazy, I'm energy efficient"

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:26 AM (vd8XM)

71 If you want to check in for scores, that's fine, but I do not advise watching the game as play has been even more subpar than normal.

Is the hot chick who took her shirt off playing?

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:26 AM (U/0zO)

72 "And the commercials and 'up close and stunning and brave' spots are unbearable anyway."

I haven't watched TV in ages but I keep hearing that's getting very annoying to Normals.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:26 AM (49Exr)

73 Got an email from Walmart Fashion. TikTok stars style their fave looks!

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 30, 2021 05:26 AM (buTO7)

74 Or toothless bums with greasy rags.....
Posted by: JT

LOL!

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:26 AM (vd8XM)

75 Hiya Tonypete !

The Giant I shop at is up a little hill.

Last week they had a BIG sign in the window "Now hiring $15 per hour".

At the bottom of the hill was a bum with a cardboard sign that said HELP ME !

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 05:27 AM (arJlL)

76 Hoyt, I'll see your 'very annoying' and raise you a 'rage inducing'.

But yeah.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:27 AM (6WCwE)

77 Morning all.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2021 05:28 AM (S8gK1)

78 Apparently, if you are a civil service worker in China, you get paid about $350 a month in salary, plus a few times a year you get bonuses from the party totaling your normal annual wage. But China figured out that the last bonuses they gave, well, they'll be needing those back. So now people have to pay it back, even if it means taking out a loan.
Posted by: Jimco Industries

Cant they just print more, havent we taught them anything

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:28 AM (U/0zO)

79
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 30, 2021 05:28 AM (DUIap)

80 Last week they had a BIG sign in the window "Now hiring $15 per hour".

At the bottom of the hill was a bum with a cardboard sign that said HELP ME !
Posted by: JT

There's probably a lesson here to be learned but, nah, I just can't see it.
-- Leftists everywhere

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:29 AM (6WCwE)

81 Morning Ben Had - you're up early. Trying to beat the heat?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:30 AM (6WCwE)

82
Yeah, according to Jack Posobiec's Twatter, new lockdowns are a done deal, starting in mid to late August. Blue state are all in. Red states will resist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 05:31 AM (Mzdiz)

83
"More stuff leaking out on what has the CDC scared shitless: the "Cape Cod" incident. "

Was that the Kennedy wedding Groot presided over?

Posted by: The Dung Beatle at July 30, 2021 05:32 AM (Tnijr)

84 Last week they had a BIG sign in the window "Now hiring $15 per hour".

At the bottom of the hill was a bum with a cardboard sign that said HELP ME !
Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 05:27 AM (arJlL)
===

Where I live this means the store owner draws a five figure fine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 05:33 AM (EZebt)

85 Tonypete, just came in for a coffee break. This time of the year I start at around 3am to keep from stressing the horses too much.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2021 05:33 AM (S8gK1)

86 Thank God I'm no longer on the TV. I stopped watching FOX after MeAgain's antics, and there's been no reason to check anything else out.

I already get radicalized by the bs I read online, if I had to endure what's on TV these days I would probably be sitting in jail. Forced to watch CNN all day LOL.

Torments of Hell (new & improved!)
1) liver eaten by eagle, regenerates back each day
2) CNN 24/7 with remote control batteries missing
3) Having your flesh...

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:34 AM (49Exr)

87 Morning all.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2021 05:28 AM (S8gK1)

Good morning young lady!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 30, 2021 05:34 AM (Q9lwr)

88 A group of Congressional staffers will probably meet in a few days, as they seem to be the ones that really come up with policy. One subject will be mandatory vax for VA patients. This would then give precedence to mandate vax for Medicare recipients. Then state medicare, where fed funding could be cut off if it's some icky state that doesn't want to get with the program. Or is it pogrom?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 05:35 AM (cddbh)

89 Oh. Sock still on. Oops.

Here comes the dung!

Posted by: The Dung Beatle at July 30, 2021 05:35 AM (Tnijr)

90 Off mophead sock

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 05:35 AM (Tnijr)

91 The manga and anime Terraformars is merely a sci-fi setting so the author can indulge in lots of violent fighting action.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 30, 2021 05:35 AM (otxOV)

92 At the bottom of the hill was a bum with a cardboard sign that said HELP ME !
Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 05:27 AM (arJlL)
===

I guess he wanted a ride up the hill......

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 05:36 AM (arJlL)

93 This would then give precedence to mandate vax for Medicare recipients. Then state medicare, where fed funding could be cut off if it's some icky state that doesn't want to get with the program. Or is it pogrom?
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Then controlling what you are allowed to eat and drink if you are on medicare. Those rations will be delivered to your house once a month.

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:37 AM (vd8XM)

94 CBD, A Good Morning to you. I'm hoping you have a glorious day.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2021 05:37 AM (S8gK1)

95 Cape Cod Incident:

"As of Thursday, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak. Among those living in Massachusetts, 74% of them were fully immunized, yet officials said the vast majority were also reporting symptoms. Seven people were reported hospitalized."

(warning, goes to biased Yahoo article)
https://tinyurl.com/42yywes2

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:38 AM (49Exr)

96 93 Hugo Boss uniforms for the Meals on Wheels drivers. Yay!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 05:39 AM (cddbh)

97 Looking at the Kovid numbers, I see that the daily new "cases" are up, but the deaths are not.

Could it be the Delta is not as deadly?

I know, I know, shut up and wear a mask

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:40 AM (vd8XM)

98 So hear me out. A string of high end PC stores along the Nevada and Idaho western borders.

Maybe have a real gun range at a few of them so folks can practice their FPS skills IRL. Include some solar panels and battery storage so even if there is a brown out the shiny PCs keep running.

Like minting coin.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at July 30, 2021 05:41 AM (6Pqz7)

99 But wouldn't the jodhpurs cause chafing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 30, 2021 05:41 AM (otxOV)

100 Could it be the Delta is not as deadly?

Posted by: Bruce

How does anyone know if it even is the Delta variant? Do the tests indicate that or is this a case of 'well, it must be the Delta"?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:42 AM (6WCwE)

101 Reg unleaded up 6 cents to $4.65 yesterday
Total Biden increase 96 cents

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 05:42 AM (EZebt)

102 Get ready for the sob stories

"Next week, landlords in Central Georgia could be handing out hundreds of eviction notices"

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 05:43 AM (Tnijr)

103 This isn't weird at all: Elon Musk's company "Neuralink" wants to build a brain implant allowing direct communication between humans and electronic devices, like phones and computers. It just raised $205 million from outside investors.

Posted by: Philip K. Dick can tell you how this ends at July 30, 2021 05:43 AM (gDw8z)

104 Governor Asa Hutchinson, GOPe Walmart, Tyson, and once in awhile AR, calls for special session to reinstate some emergency powers and masks for chilluns that won't be mandatory but highly encouraged.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 05:44 AM (cddbh)

105 Neuralink - "We gonna hack your ghost."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 30, 2021 05:44 AM (otxOV)

106 Do the tests indicate that or is this a case of 'well, it must be the Delta"?
Posted by: Tonypete

I'm going with "a shoulder shrug and "Delta is as good of an answer as anything we got"

...CDC...

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:44 AM (vd8XM)

107 "a brain implant allowing direct communication between humans and electronic devices, like phones and computers"

Great. Once the computers figure out how stupid people are they will cut us off.

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 05:45 AM (Tnijr)

108 Isn't it Amazon who wants FCC approval to use radar on people when they sleep?

Whatever happened to all these people worrying about being cooked by all these electromagnetic fields? Never mind real RF in radar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 30, 2021 05:45 AM (otxOV)

109 The junta seems to be deciding whether to take the boot off our neck for now, or to press harder.

I wonder which way it will go?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 05:47 AM (EZebt)

110 I'm going with "a shoulder shrug and "Delta is as good of an answer as anything we got"

...CDC...
Posted by: Bruce

I personally know two epidemiologists. Guess who has been uncharacteristically mute since this whole mess began?

Not a freaking word, even in private.

Things that make you go "Hmmmmmm. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 05:47 AM (6WCwE)

111 "use radar on people when they sleep?"

I've heard of Radar Love but that sounds ridiculous.

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 05:48 AM (Tnijr)

112 I wonder which way it will go?

Heh.

Posted by: Uberfuhrer Nanzi Pelousi at July 30, 2021 05:49 AM (gDw8z)

113 I personally know two epidemiologists. Guess who has been uncharacteristically mute since this whole mess began?


When the "news" shows are filled with amateur epidemiologists, it's hard to be heard

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:50 AM (vd8XM)

114 One of the things about a direct neural link to the human brain that Ghost in the Shell used as a plot device was the implanting of false memories into the brain of this garbage truck driver to make him think he had a daughter all the while what he was doing was being the drone doing hacking into a government official's brain.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 30, 2021 05:50 AM (otxOV)

115
The one good thing is that death rates appear not to be increasing. ADE/OAS, or "Pharma Phuckup" does not (yet) appear to be increasing the kill rate of the virus.

But, as Robert Malone, MD, co-inventor of the mRNA technology and Covid vaccine skeptic has noted, it appears that signs of ADE in the vaccinated population are appearing. The Cape Cod incident is a clear indicator that is happening.

These leaky vaccines are increasing the viral loads of the infected, and allowing transmission and infection and higher levels.

Pray this does not lead to a Marek's scenario of increased death rates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 05:50 AM (Mzdiz)

116 Because Delta doesn't cause the acute cases - it hangs around longer - and spreads further. Just like every other airborne virus.

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:50 AM (U/0zO)

117 Guilty pleasure reference! Whenever "Radar Love" is on the radio, back when we still listened to radios in cars, I crank the volume up to eleventy and start driving lots faster. Great driving song.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 05:51 AM (gDw8z)

118 Governor Asa Hutchinson, GOPe Walmart, Tyson, and once in awhile AR, calls for special session to reinstate some emergency powers and masks for chilluns that won't be mandatory but highly encouraged.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 05:44 AM (cddbh)


The emergency powers that were taken away because they were so abused. Gut check time for the legislators.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 30, 2021 05:51 AM (y7DUB)

119 "health officials had been operating under the assumption that it was extraordinarily rare for a vaccinated person to become infected with the virus. And if they did, they probably wouldn't end up passing it on to others"

That gives me a warm fuzzy. Working under any other assumptions about lives?

Again, politics aside, the government's handling of this crisis has been horrifying. It's become one of those stupid sci-fi movies where the plot relies on premises so laughable that it takes you out of the scene: "LOL Come on! The government would never do something that dumb!"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:52 AM (49Exr)

120 Fully vaxxed Girl F got the 'rona. I'll do a Binax when I get to work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 05:53 AM (EZebt)

121 These leaky vaccines are increasing the viral loads of the infected, and allowing transmission and infection and higher levels.

Pray this does not lead to a Marek's scenario of increased death rates.
Posted by: publius

So, I should just keep taking my HCQ?

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

122 108 Anna, when we traded our F8Ks for F4Bs, I had a buddy in the radar shop. We inherited a SgtMaj, thankfully for only a few months, who was one of the very rare true asshoes of the breed. My bud was waiting for the chance to be in the cockpit with the nose opened and power to the ship, and the SgtMaj walking in front. "Hey, SgtMaj, stand right there".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 05:53 AM (cddbh)

123
The emergency powers that were taken away because they were so abused. Gut check time for the legislators.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 30, 2021 05:51 AM


Indeed

now do the michigan GOPe legislature...

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 30, 2021 05:54 AM (DUIap)

124 "The junta seems to be deciding whether to take the boot off our neck for now, or to press harder. I wonder which way it will go?"

So do they, apparently.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 05:55 AM (49Exr)

125 Fully vaxxed Girl F got the 'rona. I'll do a Binax when I get to work.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

How accurate is that test?

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 05:55 AM (vd8XM)

126 Cape Cod Incident:

"As of Thursday, 882 people were tied to the Provincetown outbreak. Among those living in Massachusetts, 74% of them were fully immunized, yet officials said the vast majority were also reporting symptoms. Seven people were reported hospitalized."

(warning, goes to biased Yahoo article)
https://tinyurl.com/42yywes2
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur

I doubt there is anything specific about the Delta variant that makes it more transmissible, other than the mutation that made it less dangerous. I suspect that the viral load, virtually unmeasured, in those with the mRNA shot were similar with the earlier strains.

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:56 AM (U/0zO)

127 How accurate is that test?
Posted by: Bruce

They tell you on the label all the things not to do, if you want to avoid a false negative ...

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:58 AM (U/0zO)

128 >> So, I should just keep taking my HCQ?

Ivermectin is better, if taken early at the first sign of symptoms. What you need to do is get an antibody test to determine if you've been exposed. If you have, you have natural immunity and are good to go. Do not take a shot, it fucks up natural immunity. If you have this, the variants will not likely infect you. Your immune system knows a thing or two. It knows far more than Pharma and Pfauxci.

If you haven't been exposed, read up on the Ivermectin protocols. Search on this, others may have direct links. Vitamin D and Zinc are good. There are other prophylaxis protocols.

If you've taken the shot, God help you if ADE is kicking in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 05:58 AM (Mzdiz)

129 Could it be the Delta is not as deadly?

Posted by: Bruce

How does anyone know if it even is the Delta variant? Do the tests indicate that or is this a case of 'well, it must be the Delta"?
Posted by: Tonypete

Now I have a Delta Dawn earworm.

Thanks guys !

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 05:58 AM (arJlL)

130 I'm guessing everyone is more focused on what DeSantis is going to do than anything at this point. Amazing the opportunity Abbott ceded to be the guy.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 30, 2021 05:59 AM (oWBc3)

131 >>74% of them were fully immunized

I'm curious about the breakdown of type of vaccinations; J&J vs. all the mRNA ones.

They have that data and chose not to disclose it.

Posted by: squeakywheel at July 30, 2021 05:59 AM (H3YxZ)

132 So, I should just keep taking my HCQ?
Posted by: Bruce

I think getting a family supply of ivermectin would be wise

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 05:59 AM (U/0zO)

133 They have that data and chose not to disclose it.
Posted by: squeakywheel

"Question authority!" is so 1970's.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:00 AM (6WCwE)

134 129 Now I have a Delta Dawn earworm. Try Delta 88, Bonnie Raitt. Much more entertaining.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:00 AM (cddbh)

135 others may have direct links. Vitamin D and Zinc are good. There are other prophylaxis protocols.

If you've taken the shot, God help you if ADE is kicking in.
Posted by: publius,

I've been on HCQ since February. 2 a day for the first 5 days, then one a week, along with zinc. I've taken about 6000 mg of D for about 10 years.

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 06:00 AM (vd8XM)

136 Congratulations on your raise, Pixy Misa! I am glad you have a capable assistant and will soon be getting a shiny computer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2021 06:01 AM (k39e/)

137 I have my follow up with my Cardiologist on Monday. It'll be interesting on what he has to say about the rona in my case.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:01 AM (6WCwE)

138 Used to be heavy into tech. Really enjoying mainlining a heavy dose of jargon laiden tech reading every morning.

Posted by: iandeal at July 30, 2021 06:01 AM (DrSS8)

139 Girl did 2 positive Binax prior to positive PCR, she also had symptoms

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 06:01 AM (EZebt)

140 "a brain implant allowing direct communication between humans and electronic devices"

Party girl wakes up in a strange bed with a metal object attached to the back of her neck.

Ctrl Left is going to love this.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 06:02 AM (49Exr)

141 137 Tonypete, remember to ask about the cases of blood clotting appearing in some shot recipients.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:03 AM (cddbh)

142 "How does anyone know if it even is the Delta variant? "

How does anyone know if anything is true nowadays? If it was just a common cold would they tell us?

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:03 AM (Tnijr)

143 Right Bill - good reminder.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:03 AM (6WCwE)

144 Forgot to add - he has me on Eliquis already.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:05 AM (6WCwE)

145 I have my follow up with my Cardiologist on Monday. It'll be interesting on what he has to say about the rona in my case.
Posted by: Tonypete

Mine didnt even ask about it, annual exam all the usual stuff plus a calcium CT. Didnt mention rona or vax, I asked and she said talk to your GP. No problems with your ticker.

Posted by: Jean at July 30, 2021 06:06 AM (U/0zO)

146 142 These are people either mega stupid or liars that couldn't see zero, repeat zero cases of flu reported in some areas during the height of Chinkflu being a flag showing bad reporting.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:06 AM (cddbh)

147 Good morning all!

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 30, 2021 06:06 AM (yEBFM)

148 Maybe I'll head over to Tractor Supply and get me some horse medicine today.

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 06:06 AM (vd8XM)

149 Boker Tov Patriots

It is becoming increasingly hard not to contemplate armed insurrection

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 30, 2021 06:07 AM (GPwVZ)

150
Do serious due research on Invermectin. It is problem if you're on blood thinners. There is an interaction there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:07 AM (Mzdiz)

151 An enormous Tesla battery farm being built near Melbourne caught fire. (The Age)

Looks like just one of the pods - each the size of a half-length shipping container - was affected. Oh, and everyone who lives within ten miles, because it belched toxic smoke everywhere and Melbourne is currently in lockdown.

**

We're not required to count this as emissions when we talk about how awesome electric cars are, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - remember when the CDC told you the vaccine would PREVENT you from getting the COVID? at July 30, 2021 06:08 AM (heGzU)

152 Okay, off to do stuff.

Keep healthy.
Pray all goes well for Girl F

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 06:08 AM (vd8XM)

153 Why won't they tell us the name of the sailor who set fire to our ship? Is it Mo?

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:08 AM (Tnijr)

154 Bruce - for a chuckle, don't forget to read the "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUPTION!! (Eleventy) warnings hanging on the shelves.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:08 AM (6WCwE)

155 Bruce - for a chuckle, don't forget to read the "NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUPTION!! (Eleventy) warnings hanging on the shelves.
Posted by: Tonypete

Got it!!

Thanks

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 06:09 AM (vd8XM)

156 Why won't they tell us the name of the sailor who set fire to our ship? Is it Mo?
Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:08 AM (Tnijr)

His name should be the " Late Yada Yada"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 30, 2021 06:09 AM (GPwVZ)

157 148 When I got mine, I scored a good deal on a feedbag and a bunch of oats. Knees have been feeling better, walking a couple furlongs with no difficulty.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:09 AM (cddbh)

158 Why won't they tell us the name of the sailor who set fire to our ship? Is it Mo?
Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:08 AM (Tnijr)

Think he is a muzzie or blm?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 30, 2021 06:09 AM (GPwVZ)

159 When I got mine, I scored a good deal on a feedbag and a bunch of oats. Knees have been feeling better, walking a couple furlongs with no difficulty.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

How's your coat? Shiny?

Okay NOW I gotta go

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2021 06:10 AM (vd8XM)

160 Grandparents could be out making money in the time they spend with their grandchildren, complains an op-ed published in Bloomberg last week.

Filling your days with watching your grandchildren means you miss the chance to pursue other interests and interact with other adults. Even more important, at least financially, you forgo the opportunity to earn money

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:11 AM (Tnijr)

161 There may be health risks to consider, too. While there could be other benefits to interacting with children, such as keeping depression at bay and staying mentally sharp, grandparents spending time with young children could be exposed to more germs.

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:12 AM (Tnijr)

162
Seriously, read up on the horse paste, and the Ivermectin dosage and and interactions. Yes, you can use the horse paste, but do figure out what you're doing.

This is what our idiot public health POSes have done. Driven us all to do our own doctorin' with horse medicine.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:12 AM (Mzdiz)

163 Grandparents care could even be bad for children too, the article claims, since grandparents tend to allow children to eat more sweets and non-nutritious food than parents do.

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:12 AM (Tnijr)

164 You can also just call a doctor and get the pills.

america's frontline doctors if your local family doc refuses.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - remember when the CDC told you the vaccine would PREVENT you from getting the COVID? at July 30, 2021 06:13 AM (heGzU)

165 Back in my day long ago, I set up all the computers in the labs to run Mr. Potato Head. Quite a sight to see walking through all the rooms. Little did I know that CNN would do the same thing years later.

Posted by: Colin at July 30, 2021 06:14 AM (gfP64)

166 You know, in the black community grandparents often take over raising their grandkids.

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:14 AM (Tnijr)

167 @97
I know this is going to come to a shock for a lot of people, but apparently the CDC doesn't know that as viruses circulate through populations they, mutate, differentiate form new strains and attenuate in their effect and severity as population acquire herd immunity.
I know we are barely out of the bear skins and stone tools understanding of viruses, but this has been pretty well established.
Or alternatively...
This has all been a scam and Op.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2021 06:14 AM (QnTgm)

168 This is what our idiot public health POSes have done. Driven us all to do our own doctorin' with horse medicine.
Posted by: publius

If I need new shoes I'll call Ben Had. If she asks me to get up on the table though . . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:14 AM (6WCwE)

169 >> You can also just call a doctor and get the pills.

That would be the best, if you can get it. Some pharmacies will refuse such prescriptions.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:14 AM (Mzdiz)

170 So, I just want to recommend this book which I picked up at a church rummage sale, but just got around to reading: It's Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World". I'm only on page 76 of a 280 page book, but it features manly men about the go on an adventure in the Amazon where they will find prehistoric creatures. FenSpouse says there is a movie by the same name from the early 60's which he used to enjoy as a kid. I don't recall that. I do recall a movie of Jules Verne' "Journey to the Center of the Earth" which I enjoyed as a youngster. .Anyway, I've read all the Sherlock Holmes stories which I quite enjoyed. Doyle was very good at characterization. He also has understated humor as in this bit which I think the 'rons and "ettes would appreciate. The journalist, Ed Malone, is going to go up or down the Amazon with a professor and another older rich adventurer named Roxton. This is what Roxton says about journalists: "Goodbye, sir. You have done something to mitigate my feelings for the loathsome profession to which you unhappily belong."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2021 06:15 AM (k39e/)

171 Although it's absolutely not a bad idea to have some horse paste (and fish antibiotics, etc.) in your cabinet for the burning times.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - remember when the CDC told you the vaccine would PREVENT you from getting the COVID? at July 30, 2021 06:15 AM (heGzU)

172 בוקר טוב NGU

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 06:16 AM (EZebt)

173 160 Grandparents could be out making money in the time they spend with their grandchildren, complains an op-ed published in Bloomberg last week.
Filling your days with watching your grandchildren means you miss the chance to pursue other interests and interact with other adults. Even more important, at least financially, you forgo the opportunity to earn money
Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:11 AM (Tnijr)

So I'm guessing an asshole that hates their grandchildren wrote it. Or maybe their kids have had more babies than they had and are pissed at the number. Or thief just have douchebag kids that always enlist their grandparents as babysitters so they can go out and party and resent that. Any are possible with a likely New York based writer which I assume the person is.

Posted by: Buzzion at July 30, 2021 06:17 AM (G2zl5)

174 You know, in the black community grandparents often take over raising their grandkids.
Posted by: f'd

And in the spoiled, Karen, white, narcissistic community also.

Ask me how I know. *grits teeth*

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:17 AM (6WCwE)

175 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:17 AM (3D/fK)

176 Sorry kids, but you've got to go with your mom to meet her boyfriend at the meth dealer's because the government is worried that you might be allowed to eat some M&Ms if you stay with your grandparents.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - remember when the CDC told you the vaccine would PREVENT you from getting the COVID? at July 30, 2021 06:18 AM (heGzU)

177 "New York based writer which I assume the person is."

Blomberg "news".

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:18 AM (Tnijr)

178 Go to a grocery in rural America and you will doubtless see a number of families shopping that appear as grandparents, children and their children. There is no color bar for moral laxity.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 30, 2021 06:18 AM (oWBc3)

179 a brain implant allowing direct communication between humans and electronic devices"

Gosh, that sounds like another great idea!/sarc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2021 06:19 AM (k39e/)

180 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:17 AM (3D/fK)


Howdy VIA!

Posted by: Doof at July 30, 2021 06:19 AM (mZUr4)

181 The big panic in DC seems to be that Covid voting procedures must remain in place, which was the grand prize of the op in the first place.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:20 AM (cddbh)

182 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 06:20 AM (arJlL)

183 39 "Oh, and everyone who lives within ten miles, because it belched toxic smoke everywhere and Melbourne is currently in lockdown."

Yay Clean Energy
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 04:55 AM (49Exr)

-----------

"Clean energy"*

*only at the end point of the energy production, forget the increased footprint for most everything related upstream

Posted by: Kuiper'Oort at July 30, 2021 06:21 AM (yPS6L)

184 Shot recipients ?

People in Chicago ?

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 06:21 AM (arJlL)

185 Hi Doof.

Finally got to try out the new power brake fluid flush kit.

188,000 miles, and the old fluid looked kinda....yuk!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:21 AM (3D/fK)

186 If voting rules, or lack thereof are the prize, didn't they start this version of panic porn too early? Do they have calendars?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 30, 2021 06:22 AM (oWBc3)

187 so either Dell had gone full retard or California hates Dell.

Posted by: sven at July 30, 2021 06:22 AM (Lzpvj)

188 Clean energy"*

*only at the end point of the energy production, forget the increased footprint for most everything related upstream
Posted by: Kuiper'Oort at July 30, 2021 06:21 AM (yPS6L)

I'm sure they're using electric off-highway trucks at the strip mines.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2021 06:23 AM (6FeV1)

189 @187

As the saying goes, embrace the power of AND.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2021 06:23 AM (QnTgm)

190 "so either Dell had gone full retard or California hates Dell."

We don't do 'and' anymore?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:23 AM (3D/fK)

191 186 Gives them time for venue shopping to find that "just right" judge.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:23 AM (cddbh)

192 >>>Driven us all to do our own doctorin' with horse medicine.<
>When I used to treat my horses for worms, I used to take the syringe-like plunger device and jam it under their tongues because they would try to spit it out.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 30, 2021 06:24 AM (bCkNL)

193 Gosh, that sounds like another great idea!/sarc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2021 06:19 AM (k39e/)

Don't laugh. Wouldn't you love to be able to tell your laptop exactly what you think of it, and have it actually listen?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2021 06:24 AM (6FeV1)

194 California hates Texas, Dell is a Texas company, California hates Dell.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 30, 2021 06:25 AM (oWBc3)

195 Wouldn't you love to be able to tell your laptop exactly what you think of it, and have it actually listen?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2021 06:24 AM (6FeV1)

============
my worry is when the laptop answers, and gives its opinion of me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 06:25 AM (gDw8z)

196 186 Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 30, 2021 06:22 AM (oWBc3)

The point of this panic is to enable them to keep feeding fiat cash to freeshit Army to keep them enthusiastic.

When reality sets in for freeshit army look for violence to flare back up and the economy to take a hit.



Posted by: sven at July 30, 2021 06:25 AM (Lzpvj)

197 Hi Doof.

Finally got to try out the new power brake fluid flush kit.

188,000 miles, and the old fluid looked kinda....yuk!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:21 AM (3D/fK)


A time capsule of a lot of time on I-95. Nothing could be finer!

See what I kinda did there?? Haha

Posted by: Doof at July 30, 2021 06:26 AM (mZUr4)

198 California hates Texas, Dell is a Texas company, California hates Dell.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks

Ergo, they hate the Farmer IN the Dell !

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 06:26 AM (arJlL)

199 Outdoor temp is 76.6

Dew point is 76.0

Thats humid.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:26 AM (3D/fK)

200 190 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:23 AM (3D/fK)

"Heh tm"

I am just trying to weight which is greater, or maybe Dell was making a political point-who knows?

Posted by: sven at July 30, 2021 06:26 AM (Lzpvj)

201 "See what I kinda did there?? Haha"

Yes...yes I did.

But you're not wrong.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:28 AM (3D/fK)

202 Name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - firemen don't use cheap blue masks to stop larger than virus smoke at July 30, 2021 06:28 AM (heGzU)

203 A time capsule of a lot of time on I-95. Nothing could be finer!

============
Loved singing that song to my once upon a time girlfriend, Carolina

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 06:28 AM (gDw8z)

204 196 The media, always happy to stir things up for the left, is even now scouring file photos of furniture piled up on the curb. These will be re released when rent and foreclosure forbearance ends.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:28 AM (cddbh)

205
Denninger has written another barn-burner that sums it all up:

https://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/
akcs-www?post=243105

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:29 AM (Mzdiz)

206 Just saw a news clip of Sec. Austin in the Philippines where he will meet with Duarte. He got off the plane wearing a face shield with no mask. Science!

Posted by: Jen the original at July 30, 2021 06:30 AM (D9jnW)

207 According to the MFM there is a lot of vaccine that is about to expire. So get out there and get your shot or two or three. Tell everyone that 2 shots are not enough, that should help get rid of it. Tell Nancy, so she can write new rules for all of us.

Posted by: Colin at July 30, 2021 06:30 AM (gfP64)

208 Maybe Catholic Charities can step in for people evicted? Sorry, no money in that compared to Uncle Sugar's immigrant graft.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 30, 2021 06:30 AM (oWBc3)

209 204 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:28 AM (cddbh)

Yup, "Muh Timmy is the most moral man, they taking away his money and making him pay his bills he marched in the protests Timmy a gut poy, gut poy."

Posted by: sven at July 30, 2021 06:31 AM (Lzpvj)

210 Quote from Denninger:

Let's be clear: Fauci has now admitted, on live camera, that a person with a breakthrough infection is just as dangerous as someone who was never vaccinated and gets infected.

This was expected by anyone who has ever studied anything about viral disease and the use of non-sterilizing immunizations when infections are active in a community. We have known this all the way back to Polio and is why we insisted on a sterilizing vaccine (OPV) following the inactivated injected vaccine (IPV) in the United States until 20 years after we were declared polio-free.

In addition it is exactly what is expected if a non-sterilizing vaccine produces both binding and neutralizing antibodies and we know, scientifically, that all the existing jabs do exactly that. When levels wane you still have binding antibodies and when the neutralizing level falls below the threshold to protect you now have an enhancement of the disease rather than protection.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:31 AM (Mzdiz)

211 A time capsule of a lot of time on I-95. Nothing could be finer!

============
Loved singing that song to my once upon a time girlfriend, Carolina
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Didja sing "Nothing could be finer than to be in your vagina "?

(C'mon...be honest, we're like a FAMILY here !"

Posted by: JT at July 30, 2021 06:31 AM (arJlL)

212 Charleston passes new laws for protesting.

https://tinyurl.com/24kaynkx

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:32 AM (3D/fK)

213 206 Posted by: Jen the original at July 30, 2021 06:30 AM (D9jnW)

Hey "go your own way.*"

*as long as it is where I want you to go

Posted by: sven at July 30, 2021 06:32 AM (Lzpvj)

214 I am pleased that Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney for screwing her out of profits from the theatrical release so they could boost their numbers on Disney+.

Posted by: Downcast at July 30, 2021 06:33 AM (JjMWb)

215 Didja sing "Nothing could be finer than to be in your vagina "?

(C'mon...be honest, we're like a FAMILY here !"
Posted by: JT

Wife #1 was not impressed.

Enough time has passed that forgiveness was granted however.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:34 AM (6WCwE)

216 210 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:31 AM (Mzdiz)

Quite, good luck I will need it.

Posted by: sven at July 30, 2021 06:34 AM (Lzpvj)

217 When levels wane you still have binding antibodies and when the neutralizing level falls below the threshold to protect you now have an enhancement of the disease rather than protection.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:31 AM (Mzdiz)

**

That's the ABE bit of the process that the inventor of the mRNA technology warned against and said will - and possibly already is - happening, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - firemen don't use cheap blue masks to stop larger than virus smoke at July 30, 2021 06:34 AM (heGzU)

218 I too am looking forward to a long and vicious lawsuit between Disney and Scarlett Johansson. Popcorn futures are heading north.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 06:35 AM (gDw8z)

219 Loved singing that song to my once upon a time girlfriend, Carolina
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 30, 2021 06:28 AM (gDw8z)


LOL! I don't even need Ben Roethlisberger to explain that one!

Posted by: Doof at July 30, 2021 06:36 AM (mZUr4)

220 When levels wane you still have binding antibodies and when the neutralizing level falls below the threshold to protect you now have an enhancement of the disease rather than protection.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:31 AM (Mzdiz)

So basically Fraudci is conducting his gain of function experiments on us instead of on Chinese bats?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 30, 2021 06:37 AM (oEn12)

221 >> That's the ABE bit of the process that the inventor of the mRNA technology warned against and said will - and possibly already is - happening, right?

ADE = Antibody Disease Enhancement. Early on, there was a paper than showed all the idiot spike-only vaccines were producing a majority of binding-only to neutralizing antibodies. Indeed Pharma had to adjust the dose to get enough neutralizing antibodies present at the expense of blowing out the binding-only levels.

This was weapons-grade stupid, and looks like an intentional ADE promoting exercise. As antibody levels wane over time, the neutralizing level falls below the threshold, and there you have only binding, which enhance infection.

That appears to be happening right now.

These people who did this are fools. Idiots.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 30, 2021 06:38 AM (Mzdiz)

222 @220

>>So basically Fraudci is conducting his gain of function experiments on us instead of on Chinese bats?


Feet first, wood chipper, into, some assembly required.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2021 06:38 AM (QnTgm)

223 Charleston passes new laws for protesting.

https://tinyurl.com/24kaynkx
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at July 30, 2021 06:32 AM (3D/fK)


Nice -- the 1st Amendment requires a permit???

"Congress shall make no law..." But the Chucktown City Council apparently can!

Posted by: Doof at July 30, 2021 06:39 AM (mZUr4)

224 JJ is up

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2021 06:39 AM (6WCwE)

225 nood. Farzrohr.

Posted by: f'd at July 30, 2021 06:39 AM (Tnijr)

226 Can't wait to spend time with the grandbabies this weekend.

The writer is full of hate and bitterness.

Figures.

Posted by: SMH at July 30, 2021 06:40 AM (+tqLU)

227 President Mike Bloomberg, VP Anthony Fauci, Treasury Secretary Robert Reich, WH press secretary Chuck Todd. Now think of Randy Newman's Short People for today's earworm.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:41 AM (cddbh)

228 ADE = Antibody Disease Enhancement. Early on, there was a paper than showed all the idiot spike-only vaccines were producing a majority of binding-only to neutralizing antibodies. Indeed Pharma had to adjust the dose to get enough neutralizing antibodies present at the expense of blowing out the binding-only levels.

*

Thanks

Posted by: Moron Robbie - firemen don't use cheap blue masks to stop larger than virus smoke at July 30, 2021 06:41 AM (heGzU)

229 Enhancement of the disease rather than protection. Um, maybe the authorities in Oz are on to something after all?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 30, 2021 06:41 AM (oWBc3)

230 Safari is bad. (HTTPToolkit)

This article was doing OK until he got to "and everyone should let arbitrary Russian web pages access your filesystem and Bluetooth devices". That's not just a "no", but a "fuck no".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 30, 2021 06:43 AM (6XLoz)

231 and Re Post 170 about "The Lost World"

If some of the characters in this book were real people they could post on this board. The party going up/down the Amazon is given instructions to open at letter on July 15th at exactly 12:00 p.m. 'We have seven more minutes....The old dear is very precise" Professor Summerlee gave an acid smile.. "What can it possibly matter whether we open it now or in seven minutes?" said he...It is all part and parcel of the same quackery and nonsense for which I regret to say the writer is notorious."

Great stuff. I laughed

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2021 06:43 AM (k39e/)

232 "I am pleased that Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney"

Yup. But I like her more before she complained about the sexual objectification of Black Widow in early Marvel movies, considering that's what gave her the popularity to mount her soapbox.

Seems hypocritical. Although I guess it's possible she was blind to that and is now speaking up to right a wrong that she helped create. That would be better.

Honestly, I wish they would all just stop exploiting our appreciation of their art to indoctrinate us with sophomoronic political activism.

Can you imagine: "...but before we go inside to view The Last Supper, let's take a moment to talk about Scientology."

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 30, 2021 06:46 AM (49Exr)

233 103 This isn't weird at all: Elon Musk's company "Neuralink" wants to build a brain implant allowing direct communication between humans and electronic devices, like phones and computers.
Posted by: Philip K. Dick can tell you how this ends at July 30, 2021 05:43 AM (gDw8z)

I knew somebody (now deceased) who wanted to do something very like this with her own self: she wanted her brain to be preserved, floating in a sort of tank; she wanted that to happen ASAP, doing away with her body right now. She was an early computer person. I expect these things are related.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 10:04 AM (RYc1G)

234 PROMOTE TO THE SIDEBAR?

109 The junta seems to be deciding whether to take the boot off our neck for now, or to press harder.

I wonder which way it will go?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2021 05:47 AM (EZebt)

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 10:07 AM (RYc1G)

235 227 President Mike Bloomberg, VP Anthony Fauci, Treasury Secretary Robert Reich, WH press secretary Chuck Todd. Now think of Randy Newman's Short People for today's earworm.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 30, 2021 06:41 AM (cddbh)

LOL

Fauci 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Posted by: m at July 30, 2021 10:50 AM (RYc1G)

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