Daily Tech News 26 January 2022

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The new mobile chips from AMD have started showing up in benchmarks.

The Ryzen 6900HX is reportedly 11% faster on single-threaded tests and 28% faster multi-threaded than the 5900HX. (Tom's Hardware)

Which is interesting because it's basically the same Zen 3 core, just built using TSMC's 6nm process, which is really just a tweaked version of 7nm. The performance gains seem to be efficiency gains - the older chip was limited by the heat and power constraints of a laptop, and the newer chip less so.

If this benchmark bears out, it puts Zen 3+ laptop chips on par with current Zen 3 desktop chips, at less than half the power consumption.
Intel's Core i9 12900HK is even faster. (Tom's Hardware)

But it takes the opposite approach. If you read past the shiny benchmark scores and get to the battery life test, when comparing the same Alienware laptop with 11th and 12th generation Intel CPUs, the battery life has dropped from 4h31m to 2h58m.

A huge 17" laptop is going to spend most of its time parked on a desk anyway so that might not matter to you, though you should expect 12th gen laptops to run hotter and louder as well as faster.

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Google has dropped FLoC - its spyware proposal that would lock all targeted ads into a Google infrastructure that everyone in the world immediately opposed - and instead offered a Topics API which would simply have your browser spy on you. (9to5Google)

This actually is better because browsers don't have to spy on you to comply with the API. Brave and Vivaldi can just give you some checkboxes to choose your topics and leave it at that. Then you just need to not use Chrome.
There's a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kubernetes. (Bleeping Computer)

Yay. Get patching.
There's a remote code execution vulnerability and a privilege escalation vulnerability in CWP. (Bleeping Computer)

Yay. Get patching.
There's a local privilege escalation vulnerability in pretty much every version of Linux from the last twelve years. (Ars Technica)

Fucking yay. Get patching. Or chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec to squash it instantly.
Chip shortages are expected to last into the second half of 2022 says the US Department of Commerce. (ZDNet)

No shit, Sherlock. What tipped you off?
If you're worried that your government is not just authoritarian but also retarded, you're not alone: China has changed the ending to Fight Club. (Bangkok Post)

In the Dictator's Cut, everyone gets arrested and Tyler Durden confined to an asylum, which makes total sense and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Logitech has some new mechanical keyboards. (Ars Technica)

They don't have per-key programmable RGB backlighting or built-in colour LCD displays, but on the other hand they start at $70.
Google has recently been making moves to shut down content on Google Drive that violates their terms of service.

This being Google, which leads the world in practical application of AI, the whole thing is going swimmingly.

Uh, @googledrive, are you doing okay? This file literally contains a single line with the number "1". pic.twitter.com/4tLhOzQY1T
— Dr. Emily Dolson (@emilyldolson) January 24, 2022

Obscene Armenian Pigeon Video of the Day

My dad had a Parrot (Tutak in Armenian) named Jack and if you sprayed Jack with water he would start yelling and insulting you. So I made this animated short based on my dad showing off his bird's trick to guests. Only difference is Jack would yell in Armenian and Russian. pic.twitter.com/tX2GlwLhHS
— Hayk Manukyan (@Hayk_Animation) January 24, 2022

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Stand for the National Anthem Video of the Day

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Stand for the Other National Anthem Video of the Day

Party Like It's 1980-ish Video of the Day

Disclaimer: Too many times I've seen the Sun come up through bloodshot eyes this week. No matter what I do these server patches leave no time for sleep.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Hiya

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 04:00 AM (arJlL)

2 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 26, 2022 04:04 AM (ju2Fy)

3 Wow I think I maybe third on here...

Posted by: Supernatural chick in LaLousiana at January 26, 2022 04:09 AM (bNl0I)

4 Yes yes I really am...lol.. Yea 4. Me

Posted by: Supernatural chick in LaLousiana at January 26, 2022 04:10 AM (bNl0I)

5 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 26, 2022 04:10 AM (ajNaO)

6 #3 yes yes 4 me (:-!)

Posted by: Supernatural chick in LaLousiana at January 26, 2022 04:14 AM (bNl0I)

7 Morning, folken!

I loved the ONT story about the CA advocate of electric cars who couldn't manage to charge her electric car. Very much like these rabid vax people who turn around and get COVID. We used to call that being hoist on your own petard. Heh, heh, heh. . . .

Up early to work out, though I don't feel much like it. Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat is eating again -- at least he devoured the Rx food from last night and a bit of people tunafish I left on a separate plate. His gabapentin will now go onto his inner ear skin instead of as a crushed pill in his food. I hope this works.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:15 AM (c6xtn)

8 Bonjour, Monsieur le Pixeleur

Posted by: Miklos and the entire state of la Louisiane, or maybe just me and this one chick at January 26, 2022 04:15 AM (QzkSJ)

9 Hiya MLiiGRAM !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 04:17 AM (arJlL)

10 Slept 8 1/2 and wasn't enough

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 04:20 AM (2JoB8)

11 Hey JT !

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 26, 2022 04:20 AM (ajNaO)

12 Down Under is a really fun song.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2022 04:21 AM (KFhLj)

13 Obscene Armenian Pigeon Video of the Day

this is cause much amusements

Posted by: Miklossarian at January 26, 2022 04:23 AM (QzkSJ)

14 Slept 8 1/2 and wasn't enough
Posted by: Skip

!

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 04:24 AM (arJlL)

15 JT really should have said G'day

Posted by: Culturally and linguistically respectful Miklos at January 26, 2022 04:25 AM (QzkSJ)

16 I'm getting to sleepy to stay up. So I will say goodbye and goodnight to everyone. And it was really good talking to ya'll. See ya soon

Posted by: Supernatural chick in LaLousiana at January 26, 2022 04:27 AM (bNl0I)

17 G'day all!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 26, 2022 04:27 AM (MqQvv)

18 Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Stand for the National Anthem Video of the Day

87% of the World's population are aware that "Australia' might exist because of that one song

Posted by: Miklos, whose bed is also burning or something at January 26, 2022 04:28 AM (QzkSJ)

19 As YouTube videos start showing up on my YouTube app the Divinyls did again
I touch Myself
https://youtu.be/wv-34w8kGPM
Must be later version of band than video from the other day.

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 04:28 AM (2JoB8)

20 Slept 8 1/2 and wasn't enough
Posted by: Skip

!
Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022

***
I really don't recall the last time I slept more than 8 hours at a pop. 7.5 is about the best I do; usually closer to 6. On the weekends I catch a 1.5-2 hour nap in the afternoon, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:29 AM (c6xtn)

21 JT really should have said G'day
Posted by: Culturally and linguistically respectful Miklos

I only speak English .

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 04:29 AM (arJlL)

22 Hiya Pixy !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 04:31 AM (arJlL)

23 G'day all!
Posted by: Pixy Misa

A true Scholar, Lady, and Gentleman.

Or however it works these days.

Posted by: Miklos, with a 25 year survival stock of Harrumphs at January 26, 2022 04:31 AM (QzkSJ)

24 Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Stand for the National Anthem Video of the Day
*
87% of the World's population are aware that "Australia' might exist because of that one song
Posted by: Miklos, whose bed is also burning or something at January 26, 2022

***
Never forget "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"!

"Let me abos go loose, Lou; let me abos go loose.
They're of no further use, Lou. Let me abos go loose."

". . . So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
And that's it hangin' on the shed!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 04:32 AM (c6xtn)

25 Slept 8 1/2 and wasn't enough
Posted by: Skip

You could make a movie about that

Posted by: Fredermikloso Fellini at January 26, 2022 04:34 AM (QzkSJ)

26 "Let me abos go loose, Lou; let me abos go loose.
They're of no further use, Lou. Let me abos go loose."

". . . So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
And that's it hangin' on the shed!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Pedo

Posted by: Miklos, not saying Alex Jones was right, but... at January 26, 2022 04:35 AM (QzkSJ)

27 Good morning morons

Down Under was one the of most overplayed songs of the 80s. It makes me think of drinking stale beer and playing quarters in the basement of some dank frat house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2022 04:36 AM (EZebt)

28 20 Tweets from Bad Blue
https://tinyurl.com/bdddyd9k

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 04:38 AM (2JoB8)

29 So do Australian truck drivers work from home?

Student AI Driver.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 26, 2022 04:41 AM (0gmXN)

30 I really don't recall the last time I slept more than 8 hours at a pop. 7.5 is about the best I do; usually closer to 6. On the weekends I catch a 1.5-2 hour nap in the afternoon, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

"As the pliant bamboo chastened and, slowly, permitted the humid, sultry Louisiana air, Wolfus took to his bed, and his thoughts. But lo! Who stands in the doorway, clad only in the lightest of shimmering garments and sweat, the sweat that speaks of desire..."

Posted by: A Streetcar named Miklos at January 26, 2022 04:42 AM (QzkSJ)

31 We should start a dead pool on countries.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 26, 2022 04:46 AM (0gmXN)

32 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 04:46 AM (arJlL)

33 We should start a dead pool on countries.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot

Rhodesia/Zimbabwe

I win

Posted by: Miklos does not wish to be paid in Zimbabwean currency at January 26, 2022 04:48 AM (QzkSJ)

34 Quantum betting is illegal.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 26, 2022 04:50 AM (0gmXN)

35 Pedo
Posted by: Miklos,

To be clear

Rolf Harris was the pedo

Posted by: Miklos wishes to revise and extend at January 26, 2022 04:52 AM (QzkSJ)

36 Quantum betting is illegal.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot

All my money is in the Schrodinger Fund

Posted by: Miklos, who may, or may not have money at January 26, 2022 04:53 AM (QzkSJ)

37 Killing a Pixy Tech Thread is quite an achievement.

*congratulates self, in a wry, self-effacing sort of way*

Posted by: Miklos, who may, or may not at January 26, 2022 04:57 AM (QzkSJ)

38 It's just pining for the fjords.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 26, 2022 04:57 AM (MqQvv)

39 Then again, today is Wednesday, Hump Day.

Perhaps everyone is just humping.

Posted by: Miklos, perpetually positive at January 26, 2022 04:59 AM (QzkSJ)

40 It's just pining for the fjords.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

It's got a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit!

Posted by: Bruce, Bruce, Bruce and Miklos, University of Wollamalloo at January 26, 2022 05:01 AM (QzkSJ)

41 Quantum betting is illegal.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot

Soros' investment fund is called Quantum

Posted by: Miklos out-points at January 26, 2022 05:03 AM (QzkSJ)

42 Woolloomooloo is a real place, but sadly lacking in universities.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 26, 2022 05:03 AM (MqQvv)

43 How do you know Psaki is lying?

Her lips are moving.

Posted by: Been Timed-out at January 26, 2022 05:04 AM (smVBh)

44 Most apropos for Our Time:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=O0_QSmxKJ8M

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
Too much corruption, and crime in the streets
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground. Send 'em all to their maker and he'll settle 'em down. You can bet he'll set 'em down.

'Cause justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys, you got to draw a hard line. When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune. And we'll all meet back at the local saloon.

And we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing
Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 26, 2022 05:04 AM (Mzdiz)

45 Woolloomooloo is a real place, but sadly lacking in universities.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Clearly, more funding is needed.

Posted by: University of Miklos Global Campus at January 26, 2022 05:06 AM (QzkSJ)

46 Said before my uncle is from Woolongong

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 05:06 AM (2JoB8)

47 Bill Maher, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger you people get ZERO credit for your latter-day conversions.

You're a day late and a dollar short.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2022 05:09 AM (EZebt)

48 Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked things he done
Take all the rope in Texas find a tall oak tree,
Round up all them bad boys hang them high in the street
For all the people to see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 26, 2022 05:11 AM (Mzdiz)

49 When I was a kid, and long distance and international calls were very expensive, my free hobby was calling the international operators and asking them to connect me with Sheila Bruce in Alice Springs.

Talked to people in Alice Springs while trying not to get caught or laugh

Posted by: that crazy Miklos kid at January 26, 2022 05:13 AM (QzkSJ)

50 Said before my uncle is from Woolongong
Posted by: Skip

Mark Twain visited there

Wrote about it too

Led to the famous "Reports of my death are highly exaggerated"

Posted by: Miklos can read if he so chooses at January 26, 2022 05:15 AM (QzkSJ)

51 You're a day late and a dollar short.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2022 05:09 AM (EZebt)

Isn't Shellenberger the urbanization loon?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2022 05:16 AM (Q9lwr)

52 Isn't Shellenberger the urbanization loon?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Coo-coo-co-coo-coo-coo

Take off, hoser

Posted by: Bob, Doug and Miklos McKenzie at January 26, 2022 05:21 AM (QzkSJ)

53 He took a good name, quantum and made it darker.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 26, 2022 05:28 AM (0gmXN)

54 You're a day late and a dollar short.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

You need just the one dollar

Posted by: the Dollar Store at January 26, 2022 05:31 AM (QzkSJ)

55 How do you know Psaki is lying?

Her lips are moving.
Posted by: Been Timed-out at January 26, 2022

***
Air is moving in and out of her lungs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 05:36 AM (c6xtn)

56 You need just the one dollar
Posted by: the Dollar Store at January 26, 2022

***
Not any more!

Posted by: Dollar Twenty-Five at January 26, 2022 05:38 AM (c6xtn)

57 Should get rolling, long walk from parking to job.
See you from the road.

Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 05:43 AM (2JoB8)

58 Australia thread! Fun stuff.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 05:53 AM (STlDK)

59 Have a good one Skip and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 05:54 AM (arJlL)

60 I'm pretty sure "Abos" is considered an ethnic slur, at least that was the impression I got talking to a 'Stryan oncet. He said it was roughly analogous to "N*gg**" ; after getting real uncomfortable when I used it a couple times. I'd no idea, and thought he would be impressed with my knowledge of their slang words. Oops.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 06:01 AM (043pn)

61 >>>Obscene Armenian Pigeon Video of the Day

I am dubious that there is another.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 06:07 AM (STlDK)

62 []When I was a kid, and long distance and international calls were very expensive, my free hobby was calling the international operators and asking ...

Ha! Sort of like asking for "John Smith", eh? They didn't connect you with anyone did they?

When I was a kid my parents phone number was one digit off from a big local grocery store. About once a month maybe we'd get a wrong number. Surprisingly enough, a 10 year old boy can think of a lot of ways to mess with people.

"Oh yes ma'am. We'll send it right out..". Lord, forgive me.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 06:07 AM (043pn)

63 Hiya JQ !

I know you're in here !

I can smell your perfume !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 06:08 AM (arJlL)

64 Too many times I've seen the Sun come up through bloodshot eyes this week. No matter what I do these server patches leave no time for sleep.

Server patches? Is that some kind of crazy Australian upside down under drinking game?

Posted by: Bruce at January 26, 2022 06:10 AM (vd8XM)

65
"Privilege escalation"?

Sounds like something the Karen's should be protesting.

/ Seriously, never heard of it. A way to take over a computer or server?

Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 06:11 AM (dQvv7)

66 A ton of songfacts about "Down Under":

https://tinyurl.com/vcesve6y

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 06:16 AM (STlDK)

67 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 26, 2022 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

68 So the Surgeon General has declared Joe Rogan an enemy of the state. How soon before Stasi is rousting him at 5am on drug abuse and rape charges?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 26, 2022 06:23 AM (Lktpy)

69 Had a good friend and colleague, the best dev I ever saw, get caught up in a death march project several years ago. It literally killed him.

Pixy it strikes me that you may be on one of those as well.

Do be careful.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at January 26, 2022 06:25 AM (MkuC5)

70 So the Surgeon General has declared Joe Rogan an enemy of the state. How soon before Stasi is rousting him at 5am on drug abuse and rape charges?

Somewhere between a week and a month. It's going to happen. They'll fabricate something, and it'll have just a grain of truth to it.

Posted by: Critical Thinker at January 26, 2022 06:26 AM (Z2/d4)

71
So the Surgeon General has declared Joe Rogan an enemy of the state. How soon before Stasi is rousting him at 5am on drug abuse and rape charges?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 26, 2022 06:23 AM

I remember when the Surgeon General would confine herself to more important matters, like encouraging children to masturbate. One of the finer moments of the Clinton years.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 06:27 AM (dQvv7)

72 Pixy Misa

Thank you for those two National Anthems. I had to wait for them to finish so I could sit down and type. Great Southern Lands highlights how Australians are blessed with beauty, and why the Chinese want to subjugate you.

But your own government beat them to it, and puts all Australia at risk.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 26, 2022 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

73 Chip shortages are expected to last into the second half of 2022 says the US Department of Commerce.

I'm trying to figure out what business finds this information useful and actionable.

If your business relies on semiconductors, then your supply engineers, if they are worth keeping as employees, already have written countless reports on the matter. If they haven't then management hasn't been doing their jobs in forecasting production and sales.

Some bland announcement by government drones who are usually the last to know about supply chain issues, have no skin in the game since their paychecks will cash no matter if the world is operating under Trump or is a massive inferno; they can't possibly understand the myriad of relationships, nor the plethora of injections of chaos and FUD that governments poison commerce with on a daily basis.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 06:29 AM (lD3vL)

74 28 20 Tweets from Bad Blue
https://tinyurl.com/bdddyd9k
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2022 04:38 AM

Thanks, Skip.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 06:31 AM (STlDK)

75 I lost a friend and a coworker to our Hospital's COVID-19 WUHAN policy yesterday.

We had soo much fun working on our Constitution Bee show together. He was a solid helper in the equity fund raising. I called him Quiet Competence. His wife will be killed by the hospital soon, just like he was.

We lost good people, by design. Give you a drug to hurt respiration, put on a ventilator, than the plug is pulled.

I'll just put the anger in a box. When that box is opened ...

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 26, 2022 06:32 AM (u82oZ)

76 In a way, I think Neil Young would be in keeping with his muse if he was a little more skeptical. A lot more skeptical. He should be "anti vaxx" as it were, at least this particular vaxx, and he could be using his platform to ask questions that might never otherwise be heard. He turned into the SOBs he used to bitch about, except he is way more cunty about it.

I'd note if recent pictures are any guide he is practically a poster for walking morbidities, he could really stand to lose some fat, even without the commie flu going 'round. It ain't healthy. He used to be pretty skinny in fact.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 06:32 AM (043pn)

77 Reuben Hick

Well said.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 26, 2022 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

78 Venezuela/Western Russia

Posted by: jakee308 at January 26, 2022 06:34 AM (cGAjs)

79 Or Iran.

They're taking turns.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 26, 2022 06:34 AM (cGAjs)

80 Haiti -- stillborn

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at January 26, 2022 06:37 AM (EcHpA)

81 I have been trying to understand supply-chain woes as of late, and what I knew yesterday is obsolete today.

Just trying to understand Turkey's problems in their inability to secure enough natural gas this season. The dominos that fall, combined with myopic political decisions that are guaranteed to make a bad situation worse.... (sigh)

We should start a dead pool on countries.

I was thinking about this question for the last week in view of the globally collapsing supply chain. A highly complex mixture of long term policies (eg. Green Energy) to moment by moment knee jerk reactions (eg. Vaxx or Be Canceled) that tear up everyone's near and far plans and effect individuals and whole nations.

I'm thinking that the Great Reset is a diversion. Each nation is a member of the Jim Jones cult. Though different, we all are drinking the same poison.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 06:37 AM (lD3vL)

82 76 In a way, I think Neil Young would be in keeping with his muse if he was a little more skeptical. A lot more skeptical. He should be "anti vaxx" as it were, at least this particular vaxx
Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 06:32 AM (043pn)

I agree; he should be counterculturally vaccine-hesitant. He is sounding like he is among the Terrified of Death people, and there is no logic there.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 06:37 AM (STlDK)

83 Since this is Australia thread, we need a repeat from the other night of a cute video which Ace posted where a little kangaroo was acting as a personal trainer for a man doing push ups. Couldn't find it on the web.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 06:38 AM (znmNm)

84 He turned into the SOBs he used to bitch about, except he is way more cunty about it.

He's pretty typical. Just another question authority type, unless he's the authority. Then do as he says.

Posted by: Critical Thinker at January 26, 2022 06:38 AM (Z2/d4)

85 FenelonSpoke

Are you almost recovered?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 26, 2022 06:39 AM (u82oZ)

86 Well thanks Japan for yet another Isekai anime. Two single male office workers after leaving a mixer encounter a goddess from another world. She does not take kindly to being insulted and drags them off to her world. Where upon Tachibana's drunken wish to be this incredibly hot blonde chick is granted and they are both cursed to save the world from a Demon Lord.

BTW the other guy is still a guy and yeah things get weird and interesting quickly.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2022 06:41 AM (g3KXW)

87 I don't know anything about Joe Rogan except that he speaks critically of the gene therapy, yes?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 06:41 AM (znmNm)

88 Huh. I'd of guessed wrong. AU national anthem should be by INXS, maybe Midnight Oil; AC/DC in a pinch.

But thats just the imperial Yankee* view at work.

*and if you call me a fucking Yankee, expect a swift nut crunchie*

** carpetbaggin' mofos**

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 26, 2022 06:42 AM (F0YaR)

89 Current Australian government theme song?

INXS "Devil Inside"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 26, 2022 06:43 AM (g3KXW)

90 Even the approaches to "Why is the Supply Chain Failing" are wildly different based on whatever expert you are listening to at the moment. And even this expert, if he is honest (or trying to keep an audience who is seeing the dissonance), will probably be making day-by-day alterations if not wholesale changes..

The chief problem I see is that we falsely assume that people are good actors and work under good intentions - sort of the Ayn Rand model, and that government is the key problem. Rand didn't seem to fully grasp the concept of regulatory capture, and the tail wagging the dog. Rand also didn't fully grasp the concept that people hate to work and would rather have the grift of someone else's money do the work for them.

I don't know how that can be fixed, or how to tie off the hemorrhage from bleeding the entire body dry.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 06:45 AM (lD3vL)

91 Hi, Salty - I think I am still having some effects from my fall, but the Covid or whatever it was seems to be gone. Thanks for asking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 06:45 AM (znmNm)

92 82 Neil Young needs to find out if he can suck start an M2 Browning.

I bet he can, with a bit of help.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 26, 2022 06:46 AM (F0YaR)

93
GP has an article about Ashli and how she swung a punch at one of the Antifa types who was busting windows moments before she was murdered. There's a video, which goes to YouTube (big mistake there) that doesn't want to play, or they've already fvcked with it.

Big Tech and censorship needs to DIAF.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 06:47 AM (dQvv7)

94 But Elio's should nevertheless be fined by the city for not enforcing the regulation and allowing the unvaccinated Palin to dine indoors. Doing so would send an important signal that no one is exempt from the rules - even if they are celebrities and have lots of Twitter followers. It's a message many people in our society need to hear right now.
People like Palin are, by every definition, extremely influential. When they're not required to follow the rules put in place to protect the public - like when they're allowed to eat in a restaurant without producing a vaccine card - it sends an especially powerful signal to their followers that such behavior is OK.

-The author's additional example is all of the other democrats who flaunt these rules that they themselves put in place. Just kidding. No, it is the FB Xcheck system the "whistleblower" exposed that allowed republicans to spread vaccine misinformation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 06:48 AM (F4b8f)

95 I was not arrested-nor where the other Patriots at the showing of Deep Rig last night-at least not so far. FenSpouse and I had to leave before it was over so I didn't get to see the third part, but it is an excellent film about the rigging of the 2020 election and you can see online for free.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 06:49 AM (UgALp)

96 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be blessed with health, and powered by American Exceptionalism.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 26, 2022 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

97 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 26, 2022 06:51 AM (3D/fK)

98 Salty!!!

Stay safe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 26, 2022 06:51 AM (3D/fK)

99 He could do a lot more, if he was playing for the right team. I've never actually been a huge Clapton fan, but he has come out strongly against "the jab" at great personal or professional risk. To me this is always a tell. Doctors, nurses and other "health care providers" don't do that kind of thing for the hell of it.

The people on the other side are being paid, and will push their mother down the stairs for more filthy lucre.

Neil could do the same thing "4 Dead in Ohio" reprised, only this time 14 year old kids in school forced to take an experimental, emergency use shot that wasn't adequately tested, and is largely worthless to boot.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 06:51 AM (043pn)

100 For example, I've been haunted by the near destruction of Texas from last February's deep freeze. Allegedly customers of ERCOT were literally minutes from a collapse that would have destroyed the grid that would require weeks and months to restore. I couldn't imagine a few days without power and seeing the chaos, let alone depending completely on China to supply the transformers and other major power equipment to a region that went Mad Max weeks earlier especially since it takes upwards of a year or two to get custom transformers.

The former United States doesn't make them anymore. Just like we don't even make our own aspirin. The vulnerabilities we have to China is like the vulnerability that Jerusalem had to Nebuchadnezzar and later in 70AD to Rome. It takes nothing to sow chaos, and a siege to complete the destruction.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 06:53 AM (lD3vL)

101 I wonder how different the supply chain issue would be if a competent and intelligent Commerce Secretary like Wilbur Ross was still there. We not only lost PDT, this nation lost a wealth of knowledge in Treasury/Commerce/Trade.

Posted by: EveR at January 26, 2022 06:53 AM (MUpk6)

102 Local newscaster referred to the vaccine as 'The Jab' in a live report yesterday.
Not a term that one hears in the news every day.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 26, 2022 06:54 AM (3D/fK)

103 Here in NJ there is still a crescent moon up and the sky is getting rosy for the upcoming sunrise. It's lovely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 06:55 AM (e7eED)

104 Morning all! Annnnd, I'm off to bed (worked an overnight shift).

Posted by: Mainah at January 26, 2022 06:56 AM (GMgHL)

105 Red sky at morning, Tech Peeps take warning.

Posted by: fluffy at January 26, 2022 06:56 AM (UnQlg)

106 And in B'More shooting news..

Homicide count has jumped to 31 for the year.
Now averaging well over one per day, and acceleration.
And I believe that if that fatal vacant row home fire is determined to be arson, that the three dead firefighters will go into the 'Homicide' column as well.

If this trend continues, the hot and humid summer months are going to be absolutely deadly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 26, 2022 06:57 AM (3D/fK)

107
Good morning, Hordians.

Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 26, 2022 06:57 AM (/U27+)

108 Allegedly customers of ERCOT were literally minutes from a collapse that would have destroyed the grid that would require weeks and months to restore.

This is what always gets me about power grids. That you can have a failure which "destroys the entire grid that will take months to restore".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 06:58 AM (F4b8f)

109 Here it's 20 degrees below Zero, I'm thankful that I'm not outside. I'll not be watching the sunrise either. LOL. It's too depressing, because it is only the illusion of warmth. Warmth is .... many moons away

Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 06:58 AM (043pn)

110 108 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 06:58 AM (F4b8f)

remember, just 30 short years ago utilities were a distributed set of Islands that while interlocking were not interconnected IT wise....

That structure was resilient, and based on coal largely damn near bulletproof to severe disruption.

"Luckily" and at massively increased cost we have "fixed all that" and now have a physically vulnerable and IT connected mess of fragility.....

"but green!"

Posted by: sven at January 26, 2022 07:01 AM (Lzpvj)

111 I don't know anything about Joe Rogan except that he speaks critically of the gene therapy, yes?

Former MMA fighter, later announcer, later stand-up comic, later podcaster who has interesting guests and who knows to ask an open-ended question and then shutting the heck up to let the guest speak.

I guess this format is appreciated by a wide and diverse audience. Sort of the exact opposite of Rush Limbaugh, with the only thing in common is that the two had large audiences based on a relationship model. They both felt genuine.

This is what makes Rogan dangerous. He is influential because people trust him and the guests, by association are considered trust-worthy.

It also helps that having both Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone on providing well articulated counter narrative of The Establishment's depopulation effort to strike fear and hatred in the Orchs.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:01 AM (lD3vL)

112 The Texan debacle last winter was especially egregious, because they are largely on their own grid system. Naturally the nutbars in the "news" tried to turn this around bass ackwards.

The failure or inability to supply natural gas through pipelines to gas-fired generators was pointedly idiotic beyond compare.

Have they fixed that? Any lessons learned on that? After action reviews? "Here's what happened, and here's why we will never let this happen again".

Or, "mistakes were made. Sorry" ?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 07:02 AM (043pn)

113 Good morning. Brrr! My car's temp reading was 1 on the way into work.

Although it HAS been colder in central Ohio - global warming.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 26, 2022 07:04 AM (yEBFM)

114 112 Posted by: Common Tater at January 26, 2022 07:02 AM (043pn)

It was hilarious, by removing coal the simplest and most durable power source to keep the rest of the grid functioning they made in functionally a glass cannon.

In Texas, the state that used to be the most sane on energy policy.

Posted by: sven at January 26, 2022 07:06 AM (Lzpvj)

115 This is what always gets me about power grids. That you can have a failure which "destroys the entire grid that will take months to restore".

Mostly because of frequency issues. For example, Texas legislature invited Big Tech in to cause irreparable harm to the grid by adding chaotic and unreliable wind and solar. Wind and Solar are not timed well on the grid and thus need gas fired peaker plants to maintain voltage and frequency. Early on there was a mismatch because too much unreliable, not enough fast acting CSGT. (we had reliable coal and nukes that don't respond well to change in demand).

Frequency mismatch causes heat, heat causes breakdowns in the insulation and cooling fluids (made inefficient due to EPA regs). When you blow a transformer of the size needed in major distribution areas, you need a custom replacement which takes a year to design, order, build, transport and deploy.

February's demand would have produced a frequency mismatch which would have destroyed a lot of transformers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:07 AM (lD3vL)

116 H"ow do you know Psaki is lying?

Her lips are moving.

Posted by: Been Timed-out"

She could also be kissing the MSM reporters asses.

Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2022 07:08 AM (PTDkx)

117 Thanks for the information on Joe Rogan, Reuben.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 07:09 AM (YCqH8)

118
The Feds control the output of power plants by establishing some maximum output which they have control over. If the need arises that maximum output can be raised.

But if you want to punish a state for voting the wrong way, you just ignore the request.

CW2.0

Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 07:10 AM (dQvv7)

119 The failure or inability to supply natural gas through pipelines to gas-fired generators was pointedly idiotic beyond compare.

Home heating/cooking gets first dibs on natural gas. This is a huge reason why governments are banning natural gas in new construction.

The National Weather Service predicted the exact opposite weather for February so many power generators, after last summer's beat-down, scheduled with ERCOT to go offline for maintenance. With temps predicted to be in the 60s and 70s this would have been an ideal time.

Then we find out that the NWS's obsession with jacked climate and weather data makes their prediction algorithms absolutely worthless if not catastrophically dangerous. That is why the NWS forecasts are pure junk and have dropped greatly in quality over the years.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:11 AM (lD3vL)

120 Hiya EveR !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 07:11 AM (arJlL)

121 If Trump was still in the WH, the supply issue would be fixed, but we would still be having stories from "un named sources connected to people who are familiar..." which claim Trump asked if we could unload the boats in Kansas City! He so stupid!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 07:11 AM (F4b8f)

122 118 Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 07:10 AM (dQvv7)

Quite, anytime people talk to you about a "radical out of control evil right wing court" laugh at them.

There is a decision to be made that it is no business of the feds about a state's internal power structure....

and Judas Iscariot Roberts will never allow that decision to be made.

Posted by: sven at January 26, 2022 07:12 AM (Lzpvj)

123 *sudo* chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec

Posted by: pleasure dong at January 26, 2022 07:12 AM (SP4PZ)

124 "...and who knows to ask an open-ended question and then shutting the heck up to let the guest speak.

Posted by: Reuben Hick :

So sort of an anti-Hannity (and others). I might have to try listening.

Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2022 07:13 AM (PTDkx)

125 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 07:13 AM (arJlL)

126 Yesterday before dinner-the Deep Rig movie was shown at at a restaurant,- the groups sponsoring it had people stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance . We also had The Lords Prayer . FenSpouse said it reminded him of his elementary public school where they did that and also said the 23rd psalm at the beginning of the day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2022 07:13 AM (YCqH8)

127 Isn't Shellenberger the urbanization loon?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2022 05:16 AM (Q9lwr)
===

Yes and he published San Fransicko criticizing everything he voted for.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 26, 2022 07:14 AM (EZebt)

128 You mean to tell me that placing weather stations in the middle of an asphalt parking lot or at the end of an airport taxiway where it gets blasted by jet exhaust corrupts the data?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 07:14 AM (F4b8f)

129 The Feds control the output of power plants by establishing some maximum output which they have control over. If the need arises that maximum output can be raised.

But if you want to punish a state for voting the wrong way, you just ignore the request.

That is not exactly true, FERC is its own government and operates without any practical oversight - specifically to avoid political abuse.

The problem is, that over time, like any bureaucratic organization, activists infiltrate and cause whole new dysfunctions and pathologies. Sec of Energy Rick Perry fought to get FERC to allow on-site fuel storage but FERC told him to pound sand. FERC was also asked by ERCOT for special dispensation to spin up "non compliant" power generators. FERC told them to fuck-off.

FERC would rather see catastrophic failure and mass death than allow a two week increase in CO2 and SO production.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:15 AM (lD3vL)

130 Good morning, JT! Hope you have a great day!

Yikes! I was bitching yesterday bc it was low 50's and rainy. All this frigid weather talk makes me feel guilty for complaining.

Posted by: EveR at January 26, 2022 07:16 AM (MUpk6)

131 Hey again, all,

Made it to work -- not that it was all that onerous, no flooding rain or anything. I stopped to fill up: $28 for 8.6 gallons (4.5 of those were ethanol free, so more expensive than the regular E10). The big Buick is remarkable as to how little fuel it uses for its size.

I'm considering calling in sick tomorrow and Friday. Once upon a time, as some of us remember, employers wanted you to come in even if you had yellow fever. Now, if you mention so much as a sniffle, "Stay home!!! Stay home!!!" So it won't be difficult to manage. My boss has little on his calendar, with something marked "Travel" for most of the day Friday. And the items I'm trying to clear off my desk and computer can wait until Monday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 07:16 AM (txdEq)

132 If Trump was still in the WH, the supply issue would be fixed,

This is not anywhere near true. There is no political solution at this point. The supply chain, as I see it currently, is on a death spiral and will take everyone with it.

The points of failure are legion, and they are all breaking now.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:18 AM (lD3vL)

133 FERC would rather see catastrophic failure and mass death than allow a two week increase in CO2 and SO production.

I see somebody has inside knowledge. I'll vouch for what Reuben is saying, he's got it exactly right. FERC would absolutely rather see Texans freeze to death rather than exceed emissions limits. If that scenario happens again, I expect Texans will see power distribution triage. Certain areas will simply be denied service. You can bet those areas won't include Houston, Dallas, Austin, or San Antonio.

Posted by: Critical Thinker at January 26, 2022 07:19 AM (Z2/d4)

134 I cum from a gland down under is the National Anthem?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2022 07:19 AM (yrol0)

135 132 Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:18 AM (lD3vL)

Eh, if government would get the fuck out of the way enlightened self-interest would fix the supply chain in a month.

The problem is the zealot control freaks would rather the entire nation go bankrupt than get out of the way.

Posted by: sven at January 26, 2022 07:20 AM (Lzpvj)

136 And in B'More shooting news..

Homicide count has jumped to 31 for the year.
Now averaging well over one per day, and acceleration.
And I believe that if that fatal vacant row home fire is determined to be arson, that the three dead firefighters will go into the 'Homicide' column as well. . . .

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 26, 2022

***
"This isn't our Baltimore any longer, is it?"
( -- H.L. Mencken and Anne Tyler, simultaneously)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 07:21 AM (txdEq)

137 Good morning, JT! Hope you have a great day!

Yikes! I was bitching yesterday bc it was low 50's and rainy. All this frigid weather talk makes me feel guilty for complaining.
Posted by: EveR

Thanks, and I wish the same for you !

I think its 18 here now.

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 07:22 AM (arJlL)

138 I see somebody has inside knowledge. I'll vouch for what Reuben is saying, he's got it exactly right. FERC would absolutely rather see Texans freeze to death rather than exceed emissions limits. If that scenario happens again, I expect Texans will see power distribution triage. Certain areas will simply be denied service. You can bet those areas won't include Houston, Dallas, Austin, or San Antonio.
Posted by: Critical Thinker at January 26, 2022 07:19 AM (Z2/d4)

yep

Last year in the Deep Freeze Texas the PUC and ERCOT both asked FERC and Biden to keep the plant running wide open and they never answered the letter. Any Texan that voted for Biden is the same as a Ukrainian letting Russian soldiers sleep in their house.

FJB

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 26, 2022 07:23 AM (yrol0)

139 Is there ANY good news about ANYTHING? Any Hope, Love, Future?

If not, just step in front of a bus already.

Hi JT! (Your greetings brighten up my day!)

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 26, 2022 07:23 AM (yEBFM)

140
FERC would rather see catastrophic failure and mass death than allow a two week increase in CO2 and SO production.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:15 AM

Who appointed these knuckleheads?

Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 07:23 AM (dQvv7)

141 Eh, if government would get the fuck out of the way enlightened self-interest would fix the supply chain in a month.

Self-interest = regulatory capture.
Self-interest = a Wall Street First paradigm
Self-interest = hacks and shortcuts
Self-interest = ideological agendas

No, self-interest is absolutely not altruistic. If this were so, humanity would have been thriving long before the WASP work and business ethic turned the world upside down with human flourishing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:24 AM (lD3vL)

142 JT, we got spoiled last week w sunny 70's, but happy I don't have to worry about 18. Brrrr! Stay warm!,

Posted by: EveR at January 26, 2022 07:25 AM (MUpk6)

143 Hey, I heard an ad for someone running for Senate here in Ohio. Supposed constitutionalist, CC advocate, Heartbeat bill, etc, etc.

Finished off the ad with "Let's GO Brandon!"

Different.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 26, 2022 07:26 AM (yEBFM)

144 10 year old boy and a telephone back in the olden days. We would call a random number on the black dial phone and do the usual thing like 'is red there' 'is your refrigerator running'...At first I believe we still had a party line in the very small town I grew up in.

Posted by: Colin at January 26, 2022 07:28 AM (f35MK)

145 Let's have the surgeon general appear on Rogan's podcast to lay out exactly, specifically what he considers misinformation. Oh, and we can have Drs. Malone and McCullough there to shred it in real time. How about a debate?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 26, 2022 07:28 AM (rz+/y)

146 141 Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:24 AM (lD3vL)

The horsefuckery you ascribe to self-interest is because asshats have too much comfort and wiggle room to try to "save the world" their motives are not self-interested.

Posted by: sven at January 26, 2022 07:28 AM (Lzpvj)

147 FERC would rather see catastrophic failure and mass death than allow a two week increase in CO2 and SO production.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:15 AM

Who appointed these knuckleheads?

Its complicated. You could have conservative people brought in and get the "Don't Name The Fuel" sort of policies due to an undeveloped and unsophisticated understanding of "free market forces".

"Don't Name The Fuel" is a policy that prohibits energy reliability councils to reward on-site storage of oil and coal to power generators because the Free Market thinkers at FERC would consider that local policy putting a thumb on the scales of market competition.

Then you have appointments made by Leftist regimes and you get the "Low CO2 numbers are more sacred than life itself" suicide cabal in bureaucratic positions of power.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022 07:28 AM (lD3vL)

148 No, self-interest is absolutely not altruistic. If this were so, humanity would have been thriving long before the WASP work and business ethic turned the world upside down with human flourishing.

That's really the trick, who gets to define altruistic, and who gets to define flourishing. I'd settle for us all acting in what we perceive as our own best interests, and accepting the myriad of mistakes and ensuing chaos as the price of individual liberties. Seems like I'm in the decided minority, like every other day ending in Y.

Posted by: Critical Thinking at January 26, 2022 07:31 AM (Z2/d4)

149 Most of us don't know FERC exists. Others know it exists and make it their lifes dream to get on the board and nudge people off of carbon fuels.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 26, 2022 07:33 AM (F4b8f)

150 Biden tells Europe not to worry if Russia shorts them on natural gas, he will supply it.
What a maroon.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 26, 2022 07:38 AM (HaPdD)

151 Hi JT! (Your greetings brighten up my day!)
Posted by: Rosasharn

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 07:45 AM (arJlL)

152
Crazy stuff yesterday... easily a hundred robins in the backyard. Each one doing the three step, pause, lather, rinse, repeat.

I don't usually see them until April here in PA.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 07:45 AM (dQvv7)

153 152 Crazy stuff yesterday... easily a hundred robins in the backyard. Each one doing the three step, pause, lather, rinse, repeat.

I don't usually see them until April here in PA.
Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 07:45 AM (dQvv7)

Are you feeding them?

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 07:55 AM (STlDK)

154
Are you feeding them?

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 07:55 AM

I never see them at the bird feeder. They only seem to go after worms in the ground. The ground here is still pretty much frozen, so it makes no sense for them to be in this area so soon.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus at January 26, 2022 07:58 AM (dQvv7)

155 Are you feeding them?

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 07:55 AM

I never see them at the bird feeder. They only seem to go after worms in the ground. The ground here is still pretty much frozen, so it makes no sense for them to be in this area so soon.
Posted by: Pennsylvania Monkey Virus

They'll eat bread....

Posted by: JT at January 26, 2022 08:00 AM (arJlL)

156 Noodus JJ

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2022 08:01 AM (txdEq)

157 Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 26, 2022

All much appreciated.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 08:03 AM (STlDK)

158 There's a local privilege escalation vulnerability in pretty much every version of Linux from the last twelve years. (Ars Technica)

Fucking yay. Get patching. Or chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec to squash it instantly.

Oof. Thanks, man. I just patched my home infrastructure and I'll pass that along during my morning meeting...

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 26, 2022 08:18 AM (DTX3h)

159 >>>chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec

123 *sudo* chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec
Posted by: pleasure dong at January 26, 2022 07:12 AM (SP4PZ)

Isn't it cute how they talk to each other in their own language.

Posted by: m at January 26, 2022 08:36 AM (STlDK)

160 "Why do voters - in France, New York, or anywhere else - keep getting bamboozled by such people, especially in a time when so much is dependent upon their decisions?"

That's what Bastiat described so well in The Law in 1850. We should not be dependent on Government for so much.

Posted by: I M Simpleton at January 26, 2022 08:41 AM (jQBOW)

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