Daily Tech News 19 September 2021

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A tale of two protests: The DC protest rally didn't happen because it glowed bright enough to be seen with the naked eye from the Oort Cloud.

The Melbourne protest went right ahead. The police locked down public transport and major roads in the center of Melbourne in preparation... So fifteen minutes before the event was supposed to start, the organisers simply moved it by a couple of miles.
AMD's next-gen graphics cards could triple the rendering power over the current generation. (WCCFTech)

At the high end they're also expected to cost twice as much - but twice as much as current MSRP, not twice current retail, which is close to twice MSRP anyway. Since they're not expected to ship until late next year (ignore where it says Q4 2021, that's an error) we might actually see supply constraints somewhat improved and prices likewise.

The mid-range 7600XT will have - according to these leaks - similar hardware to the current high-end 6900XT, but with more cache and less memory bandwidth.

Tech News

It being a slow news day, I'm going to post some of the stuff I would usually filter out.
KySync is a multi-threaded file-distribution protocol based on Zsync. (Kyall)

Somewhere between Rsync and BitTorrent as far as I can make out.
Excision's CRISPR HIV therapy has been cleared for human testing by the FDA. (Fierce Biotech)

Good. Probably.
Sysz is an fzf terminal UI for systemctl. (GitHub)

Fuck systemd.
Toshiba's N300 18TB NAS drives use FC-MAMR. (Serve the Home)

This uses a spin torque oscillator to focus the magnetic flux of the write head, increasing the capacity of the drive by, um, 12.5%.

Oh, and an uncorrectable error rate of 1 in 1014 bits. Allegedly.
An open source DRM driver has been made available for Mediatek AI cores. (Phoronix)
... DRM driver that implements communication between the CPU and an APU. This uses VirtIO buffer to exchange messages. For the data, we allocate a GEM object and map it using IOMMU to make it available to the APU.
It also makes julienne fries.
AMD and Valve are focusing on a P-State / CPPC driver with Schedutil. (Phoronix)

This is to improve performance of the recently announced Steam Deck portable gaming console.

I think.
KWinFT is continuing work on the WLROOTS render / library split. (Phoronix)

No idea, sorry.
Google is resetting permissions on billions of Android apps. (Thurrott.com)

This will be annoying for users but is probably a good idea. Permissions used to be rather lax and apps were installed with permissions they never really needed. Those permissions will be taken away so an update to a game can't start checking the numbers you dial even if you originally said it could, three years ago.
If you want an iPad Mini 6 because it's the only good small tablet around, be prepared to wait. (9to5Mac)

Pre-orders have been pushed out to November.

It's also rather expensive. Samsung's Galaxy Tab A7 Lite is a quarter the price, and is a perfectly viable alternative if you don't care about typography. The iPad has a 2266x1488 display, which is fine at 8"; the Samsung has a 1340x800 display, which simply isn't enough.

Disclaimer: And probably saved them all of $5 on the BOM.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:44 AM

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1 I'll go get em

Posted by: Skip at September 19, 2021 02:57 AM (2JoB8)

2 Here we are again...

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 19, 2021 02:58 AM (dB4Iz)

3 I should probably just go offline permanently... most of the above is a language foreign to me.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 19, 2021 02:59 AM (dB4Iz)

4 I'm amazed how despite everyone calling this out as a setup, the Feds still showed up to prove them right. You'd think any group with intelligent leadership would make sure they didn't get caught doing what everyone suspected they were doing, but they went one step further and made it 100% obvious. The video of the fed getting arrested shows they aren't just incompetent, but can't even learn to work with thier fellow incompetent conspirators when trying to create a false flag attack.

If nothing hopefully this event outed a lot of idiot feds, so that they are burned from ever working again. Maybe they can instead spend that time protecting pedophiles and terrorist instead.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 02:59 AM (bX8eh)

5 >>>So fifteen minutes before the event was supposed to start, the organisers simply moved it by a couple of miles.

Very cool.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:01 AM (cME97)

6 https://tinyurl.com/saxethxy
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Good one with Fedbois
And weirdest tinyurl.com I ever came across

Posted by: Skip at September 19, 2021 03:02 AM (2JoB8)

7 I might need an iPad as it's the only product (or iphone) that can run Qtake Monitor. But like hell am i paying for one that's probably anything less than 20 generations old.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 03:02 AM (bX8eh)

8 https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/
women-warriors-135/

Eh, if you want to see some pretty faces take a look

Posted by: Skip at September 19, 2021 03:04 AM (2JoB8)

9 If nothing hopefully this event outed a lot of idiot feds, so that they are burned from ever working again. Maybe they can instead spend that time protecting pedophiles and terrorist instead.

Posted by: Rbastid

Those fedbois could learn a lot from underage beer drinking fratboys.

Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at September 19, 2021 03:04 AM (QzkSJ)

10 4 If nothing hopefully this event outed a lot of idiot feds, so that they are burned from ever working again.
Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 02:59 AM (bX8eh)

The video of the police force storm troopers marching away was embarrassing. Maybe intentionally embarrassing; wheels within wheels.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:05 AM (cME97)

11 https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/
women-warriors-135/

Eh, if you want to see some pretty faces take a look
Posted by: Skip

ALWAYS TRUST CONTENT FROM SKIP

Posted by: Miklosbot v. 183.57.114 at September 19, 2021 03:06 AM (QzkSJ)

12 3 I should probably just go offline permanently... most of the above is a language foreign to me.

I'm a bit worried that I understood all but one of those headlines.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 19, 2021 03:07 AM (MqQvv)

13 Good one with Fedbois

Kyle

THEY ARE ALL NAMED KYLE

Posted by: Miklosian Analytics S.r.o.o. at September 19, 2021 03:09 AM (QzkSJ)

14 Saw the video of the crowd of protesters breaking thru the police line in Melbourne -- Things are getting pretty sporty over there.

https://twitter.com/_evelynrae/status
/1439102631738167301

evelyn has some other videos on her feed as well.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 19, 2021 03:09 AM (F0YaR)

15 IT IS Amazing AMD is still a thing. I remember owning Research in Motion during the tech melt down. I was far afield but I held on. It was always AMD vs Intell back then. I don't know enough about computers to know who won. But I recall owning RIMM when the shit hit the fan. It could have been worse, way, way, worse.

I remember COLT, the City of London company that was taking over the world. There was also a Dutch company called KMP. They spun off one called KMp something. The key was all people in pharma wanted to invest in tech. All tech types wanted to invest in pharma.

Posted by: Quint at September 19, 2021 03:09 AM (acsaG)

16 any video links to The Melbourne protest?

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it at September 19, 2021 03:11 AM (HbNSs)

17 If I ever get a MA Deuce for my truck I want the Australian cutie to crew it.

Posted by: Skip at September 19, 2021 03:12 AM (2JoB8)

18 I'm a bit worried that I understood all but one of those headlines.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

The Pixy Who Knew Too Much

Posted by: Miklos "Harry" Lime at September 19, 2021 03:14 AM (QzkSJ)

19 should probably just go offline permanently... most of the above is a language foreign to me.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 19, 2021 02:59 AM (dB4Iz)

the more we know, the less we know. people are getting dialed up, but they think they are in charge. Never mind, these are old man ravings. The chance this gets dialed back is nil. There might be some changes on the periphery, but other that that, forget about it, it is internet town.

Posted by: Quint at September 19, 2021 03:14 AM (acsaG)

20 >>>And probably saved them all of $5 on the BOM.

I vote for "bill of materials," "a computer file format used by the Mac OS X installer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOM_(file_format)

I think computer people must dream in acronyms.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:14 AM (cME97)

21 16 any video links to The Melbourne protest?

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it at September 19, 2021 03:11 AM (HbNSs)

See my #14 comment.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 19, 2021 03:14 AM (F0YaR)

22 I'm amazed how despite everyone calling this out as a setup, the Feds still showed up to prove them right. You'd think any group with intelligent leadership would make sure they didn't get caught doing what everyone suspected they were doing, but they went one step further and made it 100% obvious. The video of the fed getting arrested shows they aren't just incompetent, but can't even learn to work with thier fellow incompetent conspirators when trying to create a false flag attack.

If nothing hopefully this event outed a lot of idiot feds, so that they are burned from ever working again. Maybe they can instead spend that time protecting pedophiles and terrorist instead.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 02:59 AM (bX8eh)

How do you know the guy who got arrested was a federal agent? I've seen info that he identified himself as an off-duty police officer. Is it not inconceivable that he was a cop who wanted to attend to support the cause? And, as I understand federal law makes it legal for an active police officer to conceal carry anywhere in the U.S. so I think his weapons charge will be dropped.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 19, 2021 03:14 AM (GtG/j)

23 13 THEY ARE ALL NAMED KYLE
Posted by: Miklosian Analytics S.r.o.o. at September 19, 2021 03:09 AM (QzkSJ)

redsteeze has a schtick going, that their last names are state names

Kyle Montana

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:16 AM (cME97)

24 https://thepostmillennial.com/capitol police reportedly detain undercover cop at rally for jan-6 political prisoners
https://tinyurl.com/326b3ewf

Posted by: Skip at September 19, 2021 03:21 AM (2JoB8)

25 Kyle Montana
Posted by: m

We assess this as TRUE

Posted by: Miklosian Checking of Facts and Memes at September 19, 2021 03:22 AM (QzkSJ)

26 I am using a Galaxy tablet Lite and works great for me

Posted by: Skip at September 19, 2021 03:24 AM (2JoB8)

27 It appears that witty repartee is not functional on this app

Posted by: Teenage Miklos at September 19, 2021 03:24 AM (QzkSJ)

28 I am using a Galaxy tablet Lite and works great for me
Posted by: Skip

Works in a belfry?

They should pay you for an endorsement.

Posted by: Miklosian Anti-Marketing SA de CV at September 19, 2021 03:26 AM (QzkSJ)

29 The video of the police force storm troopers marching away was embarrassing. Maybe intentionally embarrassing; wheels within wheels.
Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:05

I saw a report that only a few hundred showing up was evidence of "Trump's Waning Influence". Like after 1/6 and all the reports of this being a setup AGAIN people wouds show up? They really do think Trump supporters are dumbass rednecks. What does that say about the media?

Posted by: Farmer at September 19, 2021 03:28 AM (55Qr6)

30 Posted by: Serious Cat at September 19, 2021 03:14 AM (GtG/j)

If he was an active duty cop just there to attend the protest in his off time he 100% wouldn't be carrying his gun, because if he supported the J6 defendants he knows that, active duty cop or not, his gun would make him a target and he'd get prosecuted for it, as even if he's allowed to carry a weapon they would charge him with carrying a weapon during a riot, or what ever trumped up charges they decide. Those trying to help thre defendants know better than to help price the government's point that these guys are all guntotting wackos.

Also the obvious wearing all black with a black bandana is 100% what a fed would do thinking that makes him fit in.

His response to "are you undercover or attending" was "I'm just here, helping the guys out" which a show's the Capitol office know there are undercover cops there, and he's not denying he is or isn't one, knowing there are cameras all around.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 03:28 AM (bX8eh)

31 In Belfry it was my Galaxy phone

Posted by: Skip at September 19, 2021 03:29 AM (2JoB8)

32 Here's an update on the armed man who was escorted from the DC rally by Capitol police:

Ford Fischer
@FordFischer
8h
The USCP [United States Capitol Police] made a statement about the armed man who presented a badge and was removed from the event without being disarmed or handcuffed on scene.
They say "it is not clear why the man was at the demonstration" and that they charged him for the gun.
They don't mention his badge.

https://tinyurl.com/4rh5c596

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:30 AM (cME97)

33 Jesus swipe text is making me talk like Biden again, i should proof read this shit.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 03:30 AM (bX8eh)

34 The whole world seemed happier before internet connectivity became commonplace.

Just my observation.

I *like* it, but it can be a time-suck if I allow.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 19, 2021 03:31 AM (dB4Iz)

35 @CapitolPolice has details of Capitol police activities in relation to the DC rally.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:35 AM (cME97)

36 Kyle
THEY ARE ALL NAMED KYLE
Posted by: Miklosian Analytics S.r.o.o.

Too much South Park.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 19, 2021 03:37 AM (KAi1n)

37 COVA
@Ur_All_Idiots
11h
Replying to
@redsteeze
Nathan Hampshire.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 03:40 AM (cME97)

38 Nathan Hampshire.
Posted by:

York Dakota

Posted by: Miklosian Fun-Havings at September 19, 2021 03:41 AM (QzkSJ)

39 Hello, fellow insurrectionists!

What a fine day to commit numerous Federal crime, dude-type peoples!

Posted by: York Dakota, fellow treason-committer is also having excellent Ray-Bans at September 19, 2021 03:46 AM (QzkSJ)

40 Jesus swipe text is making me talk like Biden again, i should proof read this shit.
Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 03:30

Hey, you too could be a senile corrupt political parasite, maybe even president.

Posted by: Farmer at September 19, 2021 03:47 AM (55Qr6)

41 Is much agree with fellow patriotic apple pie conspirators!

Before federal crime and/or conspiracy, who is having the Pabst Ribbon Blue?

Posted by: Nathan Hampshire at September 19, 2021 03:48 AM (QzkSJ)

42 Hey, you too could be a senile corrupt political parasite, maybe even president.
Posted by: Farmer

What a country!

Posted by: Yakov "Miklosov" Smirnov at September 19, 2021 03:50 AM (QzkSJ)

43 Apparently everyone has gone to sleep, or been arrested.

*waits for knock on door*

Posted by: Insurgent Miklos at September 19, 2021 03:57 AM (QzkSJ)

44 Mornin', all! Up earlier than I intended. I plan to go exercise soon, but meanwhile I'm having some coffee and looking at Time Tunnel on MeTV. The current episode seems to have some confusing story about silver-suited aliens in both a past time and the current (196

day.

Chekov D. Siberian, my older cat, is not really any better, but no worse. He's eating and moving around, but that's all. I guess this week I will have to take a vacation day to run him to the vet again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 03:57 AM (c6xtn)

45 What a fine day to commit numerous Federal crime, dude-type peoples!

Too bad all the arrest records for AceHQ members read "charged with flogging a local bishop"

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 04:00 AM (bX8eh)

46 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 19, 2021 04:00 AM (arJlL)

47 How ya makin' Mr. Wolfus?

Domilises Poboys open again yet?

Posted by: Miklos, who has almost forgotten how speak proper Yat at September 19, 2021 04:01 AM (QzkSJ)

48 Last episode of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime we get to see that Veldora has totally otaku'd out and has named all of his attacks after ones in Dragon Ball. Plus he is hooked on 3x3 Eyes.

What makes it even more funny, Veldora is a dragon and so is Millim.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:02 AM (CJy0d)

49 Too bad all the arrest records for AceHQ members read "charged with flogging a local bishop"
Posted by: Rbastid

Not...not all bad

Posted by: A local bishop at September 19, 2021 04:02 AM (QzkSJ)

50 so all the cool kidz have moved on from 'beating the bishop' to flogging?

Okay...

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:03 AM (CJy0d)

51 Last episode of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime we get to see that Veldora has totally otaku'd out and has named all of his attacks after ones in Dragon Ball. Plus he is hooked on 3x3 Eyes.

What makes it even more funny, Veldora is a dragon and so is Millim.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I would like to assign decipherment of this to the FBI.

Might keep them busy for years.

Posted by: Miklos from Station Hypo at September 19, 2021 04:04 AM (QzkSJ)

52 https://tinyurl.com/knukshp4

THE THIng that makes me laugh is I love being totally cut off. I love the old days, but I hate getting directions from a rando. You make one wrong turn and the entire thing goes down. I had AOL 1.o. Hell forget that., I knew guys chatting on the net in 1982. I admit I barely got it, but REALLY I did. The funny part is it took ten years for it to really get started with society.

Posted by: Quint at September 19, 2021 04:05 AM (acsaG)

53 How ya makin' Mr. Wolfus?

Domilises Poboys open again yet?
Posted by: Miklos, who has almost forgotten how speak proper Yat at September 19, 2021

***
Oh, Lord, that dialect. I grew up hearing it, and even pretending to speak it on occasion. Been a while since I heard anybody actually say "Where y'at?" I don't know that po-boy shop, but nearly everything is open again. WM had shortages of eggs, butter, and some other things last week, but the local grocery chains seemed to be okay.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:06 AM (c6xtn)

54 Sorry to hear about Chekov.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 19, 2021 04:08 AM (KAi1n)

55 Don't get that started, next we'll be makin' groceries

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:08 AM (CJy0d)

56 I don't think your kitteh Wolfus is adapting to his whole world being turned upside down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:09 AM (CJy0d)

57 getting directions from a rando.

You go straight, then left where Mr. Haney (I mean old Mr Haney) used to live, then left again where the big oak tree used to be, then right where they say they are going to build the school or something, and yer right there.

Well, kinda on the other side, but you'll see it.

Posted by: rando Miklos, not from around here at September 19, 2021 04:09 AM (QzkSJ)

58 An episode of The Invaders is on. I never realized that David Vincent, the hero, had allies in his quest to reveal the existence of the saucer-flying aliens. Never having watched the show back then, I thought each episode featured him as the lone voice crying in the wilderness, sort of like Richard Kimble trying to prove his innocence.

Apparently they never were consistent in their depiction of the aliens' abilities and knowledge, a problem common to episodic TV back then. Still, the concept of "paranoia is a survival trait" is a good one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:10 AM (c6xtn)

59 Nathan Hampshire? Srsly?

Posted by: SFGoth at September 19, 2021 04:11 AM (KAi1n)

60 Would you prefer Nathan Shropshire of the Shropshire Slashers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:11 AM (CJy0d)

61 I don't think your kitteh Wolfus is adapting to his whole world being turned upside down.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021

***
It might be that. But he is not moving normally either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:12 AM (c6xtn)

62 "Suspicion Breeds Confidence" - random poster slogan in Brazil

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:12 AM (CJy0d)

63 the local grocery chains seemed to be okay.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

An' da Schwegman's?

Posted by: Miklos, who actually misses Nawlins at September 19, 2021 04:12 AM (QzkSJ)

64 Don't get that started, next we'll be makin' groceries
Posted by: Anna Puma

The best Confederacies are made up of Dunces

Posted by: Miklos, who probably qualifies at September 19, 2021 04:14 AM (QzkSJ)

65 We could extend the nomenclature into city names:

Brent Houston

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 04:15 AM (cME97)

66 London Breed

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:16 AM (CJy0d)

67 Don't get that started, next we'll be makin' groceries
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021

***
It's an easy dialect to copy (it sounds like Brooklyn cab drivers from '40s movies) and to make fun of. I've always unfairly deducted about 10 IQ points from a speaker whenever I hear it. I will say hearing it helped develop my ear for dialects at an early age. I was aware that the way my Canadian mother and I spoke, and the way most of schoolmates talked, was very different, and that the latter sounded like Leo Gorcey and his pals on the Bowery Boys movies. As a writer I found that came in handy later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:16 AM (c6xtn)

68 59 Nathan Hampshire? Srsly?
Posted by: SFGoth at September 19, 2021 04:11 AM (KAi1n)

Nah, jokingly.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 04:16 AM (cME97)

69 A confederacy of dunces?

Talking about DC?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:16 AM (CJy0d)

70 Brent Houston
Posted by: m

Houston Hamtramck

Posted by: Miklos, seeing how this works at September 19, 2021 04:17 AM (QzkSJ)

71 the local grocery chains seemed to be okay.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

An' da Schwegman's?
Posted by: Miklos, who actually misses Nawlins at September 19, 2021

***
Long, long gone. Rouse's, now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:17 AM (c6xtn)

72 London Breed
Posted by: Anna Puma

Try to keep it within the bounds of credibility.

Literary license may not be valid in all states or local jurisdictions.

Posted by: Miklos, ed. (emeritus) at September 19, 2021 04:19 AM (QzkSJ)

73 Hello, fellow insurrectionists!
What a fine day to commit numerous Federal crime, dude-type peoples!
Posted by: York Dakota, fellow treason-committer is also having excellent Ray-Bans at September 19, 2021 03:46

Hmm, you seem like a Miklos type instigator. Who is your FBI handler?

Tucker did a devastating take down of the FBI tonight. I did not remember that Omar Mateen's father was a paid FBI informant, as was some dude who lived w/ 2 of the 9/11 hijackers.

I know FBI informants may be scumbags, but your independent contractors don't seem well vetted. As per this Miklos character, I understand he may be of the Hillbilly Hungarian type, very dangerous.

Posted by: Farmer at September 19, 2021 04:20 AM (55Qr6)

74 Don't get that started, next we'll be makin' groceries
Posted by: Anna Puma

The best Confederacies are made up of Dunces
Posted by: Miklos, who probably qualifies at September 19, 2021

***
When a Nebraskan member of my writing group announced that she'd never found that book funny, I stopped listening to her. For sheer humor I prefer Richard Bradford's Red Sky at Morning, but ACoD has some good moments. And Toole captures the NO dialect in print better than anybody. He has people say "chirren" for "children," which is exactly right. Most writers substitute "chillun." I've never heard that in my life, not here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:21 AM (c6xtn)

75 chillun

Try to keep cool in a New Orleans shotgun house in the sweltering mugginess of summer

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:22 AM (CJy0d)

76 Another caption out there for the gaggle of buff fed guys:

Hello, fellow 4channers.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 04:22 AM (cME97)

77 Long, long gone. Rouse's, now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I know.

But I loved da Schweg's

Guys pushing oversized carts with their beer bellies, baby seat full of a po-boy and cold Schwegman's beer, to be consumed while the wife loads up the cart.

Hurricane maps on the paper bags. Schwegman's bonds.

Posted by: Miklos, yes indeed at September 19, 2021 04:23 AM (QzkSJ)

78 Try to keep cool in a New Orleans shotgun house in the sweltering mugginess of summer
Posted by: Anna Puma

Cheap bar with A/C

Posted by: Traditional Miklosian Solutions (Code Napoleon) at September 19, 2021 04:25 AM (QzkSJ)

79 Try to keep cool in a New Orleans shotgun house in the sweltering mugginess of summer
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021

***
Dear God yes. My best friend in jr. high lived in one such house near Esplanade and Broad. When his family moved to a modern air-conditioned house in the suburbs, it was like visiting a completely different world. My family got a window unit when I was 12, and I immediately moved indoors for the entire summer.

We didn't have air in school, just open windows, until I got to college. Don't know how we dealt with it -- or how the teachers survived it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:26 AM (c6xtn)

80 Hello, fellow 4channers.
Posted by: m

Is much for hello and insurrection-type greetings!

Posted by: Johnny Bravo at September 19, 2021 04:27 AM (QzkSJ)

81 I think there was a day when the FBI was respected. I knew a guy who was a legit g man, a Hoover man. He had his flaws, but it was old school America and we did not talk about those things. There was a time we didn't have to air everything out on the ,net, weird I hear ya.

But later in life I knew a guy who was a good guy it seemed. He joined the FBI as an accountant. Back then, that was the top way to join, they wanted accountants like they were going out of style. This guy went from a conservative top a statist like that. it wasn't even comical. It was so blatant that it was only sad. It was basically I care about you right up 'til the moment I no longer have to.

Posted by: Quint at September 19, 2021 04:27 AM (acsaG)

82 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:02 AM (CJy0d)

I'll have to find this to watch, it looks good and I'm a sucker for Anime that are about RPGs.

Though I still need to find March Comes in....Season 2 (not as good as season 1) Mr Tonegawa (not really good) and Ouran High School (okay, not the legendary anime of legend, that i expected) The are also a few recent additions on Netflix i need to check out, like Darwin's Game, Eden's Gravity, and a few of the newer movies.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 04:28 AM (bX8eh)

83 But I loved da Schweg's

Guys pushing oversized carts with their beer bellies, baby seat full of a po-boy and cold Schwegman's beer, to be consumed while the wife loads up the cart.

Hurricane maps on the paper bags. Schwegman's bonds.
Posted by: Miklos, yes indeed at September 19, 2021

***
In the early '60s, there was a competitor, Nicholson's, that we visited occasionally in the area around Chalmette National Monument. I think the founder was involved in local politics for a time. I don't know how many locations they had, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:28 AM (c6xtn)

84 Rbastid

Slime is about this middle management type who gets stabbed to death while being chivalrous. So he is reincarnated as a slime monster and has lots of adventures.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:31 AM (CJy0d)

85 I don't know how many locations they had, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I don't recall Nicholson's, but they must have been better than Canal Villere.

We did call girls from Chalmette "Chalmatians" though (not where they could here us).

Posted by: The semi-Glorious days of Miklosian Youth at September 19, 2021 04:33 AM (QzkSJ)

86 85 We did call girls from Chalmette
Posted by: The semi-Glorious days of Miklosian Youth at September 19, 2021 04:33 AM (QzkSJ)

I read this as: we "did" "call girls from Chalmette".
Moar covfefe.

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 04:36 AM (cME97)

87 Ouran yeah you have to be a certain type of fan to get that show and no I never was one of them.

Tonegawa was just one cheap stunt/gag after another and it quickly wore thin.

Is Eden's Gravity a sequel to Eden's Bowery?

Not sure if I am looking forward to the Eureka Seven movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:37 AM (CJy0d)

88 In the early '60s, there was a competitor, Nicholson's, that we visited occasionally in the area around Chalmette National Monument. I think the founder was involved in local politics for a time. I don't know how many locations they had, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 04:28 AM (c6xtn)

I legit have never heard of any of those places, and unlike Millennials, I take no pride in that. Are those grocery stores in the MidWEst?

I could talk about some old school stores in my A.O. I miss Maverick Market. It was like the Circle K in the Rio Grande Valley. That area is important to our side because it is one of the few micro regions moving Republican. I am sure the MSM are shocked, but they should not be.

It has been known for decades Texas Hispanics are not like those from CA or NY. Sure some are Dem but then again, it took a while to get Tex non Hispanics on board.

GW did pretty well with them, though he did not deserve them. The reality is Texas Hispanics are the least of our worries.

Posted by: Quint at September 19, 2021 04:39 AM (acsaG)

89 I read this as: we "did" "call girls from Chalmette".
Moar covfefe.
Posted by: m

Official "Heh" AWARDED

Posted by: The Noble Miklosian Prize Committee at September 19, 2021 04:42 AM (QzkSJ)

90 Dang, it got cold tonight. Had to fire up the heat.

Winter is coming and I'm not sure we're ready, but at least we'll be warm.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 19, 2021 04:45 AM (dB4Iz)

91 The tweet in Skips link with Hulk Hogan is awesome - in addition to Andre you can see that dude who played the Russian Clunt in the background. Now we get real police in gear designed for the movies.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 19, 2021 04:55 AM (oWBc3)

92 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 04:37 AM (CJy0d)

No it's not a sequel to Eden's Bowery, mostly because i got the name wrong... it's actual Eden Zero (i must have seen something else with gravity)

A Eureka Seven movie? Is it tied to the original? Or the sequel? Our something totally different? I loved the first half of the original, hated the second half when Eureka tried to fight for her spot as the worst character in anime history (watch your back Akira Oono and Nadia)

Posted by: Rbastid at September 19, 2021 04:57 AM (bX8eh)

93 Clunt is Count and I am red -faced.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 19, 2021 05:00 AM (oWBc3)

94 Dang, it got cold tonight. Had to fire up the heat.

Winter is coming and I'm not sure we're ready, but at least we'll be warm.

Posted by: JQ, a hick in the sticks at September 19, 2021 04:45 AM (dB4Iz)

has anyone seen more homeless and beggars on the streets of America? We have supposedly never been more prosperous, we have never seen as a world less major warfare.

I thought this has to be the thing with ending broken glass policing. How can there be ten times as many homeless when our nation has never been more prosperous? I thought something was off but I no longer do. Do people think in the old days she shuttled the homeless off to some netherland?

We have beggars at every intersection. What does that show the kids? I know many are hurting for various reasons,but only a tiny percentage of them stand at intersections all day. I am not sure what to make of it. This country has changed, and the more socialist it is, the more homeless it produces.

Posted by: Quint at September 19, 2021 05:00 AM (acsaG)

95 KRAK OF DAWN IS UP

Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at September 19, 2021 05:01 AM (2JoB8)

96 The movie trailer I stumbled across and never bothered to look further is Eureka Hi-Evolution and what struck me was the mech and military uniforms belong more to the Gundam universe.

https://youtu.be/wYWrSIO4Hs8

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 19, 2021 05:06 AM (CJy0d)

97 Also in Skip's link, a tweet showing Perth protests; a nice poster "Coercion is NOT Consent."

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 05:06 AM (cME97)

98 Perth: "What do you want?" "Freedom!" "When do you want it?" "Now!"

Posted by: m at September 19, 2021 05:07 AM (cME97)

99 Chekov D. Siberian, my older cat, is not really any better, but no worse. He's eating and moving around, but that's all. I guess this week I will have to take a vacation day to run him to the vet again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 19, 2021 03:57

Sorry to hear Chekov is still having issues. Maybe being home and a trip to the vet will settle things down.

At least you have a job to take a vacation day from. The f*cking azzholes at the Park Dist that paid me for 32 yrs, w/ an agreement w/ the Hist Soc, that went back 40 yrs, decided to eliminate my position while I was on disability leave, as soon as my IMRF protection was removed.

Cokesuckers did this just short of my full SS retirement, mine is 66 yrs, 2 mths. Ooops, do I sound resentful?

Posted by: Farmer at September 19, 2021 05:13 AM (55Qr6)

100 I could care less about AMD's gains unless they finally man up and put RDNA on their APUs.

Posted by: sven at September 19, 2021 05:14 AM (Lzpvj)

101 94 Posted by: Quint at September 19, 2021 05:00 AM (acsaG)

Hoboes are the noblest of souls...

//Kamala Toe and Nanzi hiding behind a fence

Posted by: sven at September 19, 2021 05:16 AM (Lzpvj)

102 My dad told me a story that he got subpoena'd as a witness or something to testify in some court case in the 1960s, I've no idea what it was about, can't remember. The FBI was involved somehow in the prosecution. Some financial shit. And I never understood what exactly he was really trying to convey with the story, other than the whole thing scared the shit out of him. I think he was afraid they were trying to ensnare him or something. He was as straight laced as they come. He probably would have been a classic agent back in the day. He was good at statistics and accounting.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 19, 2021 06:30 AM (gBShP)

103 Samsung's Galaxy Tab A7 Lite is a quarter the price, and is a perfectly viable alternative if you don't care about typography.

Well, typography, but also apps that aren't cringe. Android developers, like the Feds yesterday, aren't even trying. The iPad has thousands of useful apps with a tablet specific UI, Android has mostly phone UIs scaled up.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 19, 2021 06:31 AM (6XLoz)

104 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 19, 2021 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

105 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at September 19, 2021 07:13 AM (Mqlxw)

106 Thank you for fixing the SSL certificates.

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