Daily Tech News 27 December 2022

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Americans lost $10 billion to Indian call centre scams in 2022. (Deccan Herald)

To put that into perspective, that's as much as they lost to civil asset forfeiture or to a single major crypto scam, or about 5% of the pork Congress added into the CHIPS Act which was 95% pork to begin with.

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I accidentally ordered a Yamaha hifi system. That is, I was checking out the post-Christmas sales, saw the hifi (which I wanted to buy earlier but was out of stock), saw it wasn't just on sale but on clearance, and hit the buy button without further thought because these days you don't know if something like that will ever come back in stock.

I have an old Yamaha micro hifi but the CD player doesn't work well, and it has a twin cassette deck that I don't need at all, and also it's buried at the bottom of the garage along with everything else. I probably want three of these micro hifi systems around the house, and good ones are getting scarce. The best model like this that I can find in Australia looks to be the Denon D-M41, but that's about twice as much as the Yamaha.
Do AI assistants help programmers? No. (The Register)

That is, they help programmers write code, but the code sucks. Programmers using AI assistance are significantly more likely to introduce both obvious and subtle bugs into their code. And also less likely to notice because they don't understand the code they just "wrote".
Build your own CDN. (GitHub)

Ctrl-F Node.js. No matches.

Okay then.

Uses Nginx and Lua which is a fine and sensible choice though Nginx can be fiddly to configure if you're doing anything complicated.

I might do this next year, because it can be amazingly cost-effective with the right hosting provider - about 40x cheaper than something like Amazon Cloudfront.
Running Windows 7 on a 5MHz CPU. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, not running, exactly; more like crawling Windows 7. It takes 28 minutes to boot.

August Comes In Like A Wombat

On August 1 the HP Pavilion Plus 14 was the new best small laptop except for the memory and the price, Intel's 13th gen laptop chips were expected before the end of the year and they'd better bloody hurry, cosy Moon holes, and Anonymous hacks Russia.
On August 2 the CHIPS Act wasn't a $50 billion cash grab - by the time Congress was done it was a $280 billion cahs grab, it was the right time to buy a 6900 XT, twelve was enough, Winamp returned to whip the llama's ass some more, and China's 7nm chips weren't.
On August 3 Axie Infinity was a garbage company even before they lost $600 million overnight, eleven executives at crypto company Forsage where charged with fraud, and an advanced quantum-safe cryptography scheme got hacked in an hour.
On August 4 GitLab announced it was going to delete projects that didn't have bugs constantly needing fixing, and Robinhood fired a quarter of its staff, which is 25% of what it needed to do.
On August 5 AMD's Ryzen 7000 range was expected to have very high clock speeds - and does, and to overclock poorly - and does, chips suddenly got expensive, GitLab said maybe not, and Namie got into the Zenless Zone Zero closed beta and immediately banned live on stream.
On August 6 two crypto developers faked an entire ecosystem to sucker people into putting their money into yet another fucking Ponzi scheme, that's no moon, and South Korea launched its lunar orbiter.
On August 7 Amazon decided to by poop-spying company iRobot, hackers stole details of 5.4 million Twitter accounts, and Namie got unbanned from the Zenless Zone Zero closed beta.
On August 8 EVGA cut prices on the 3090 Ti, JavaScript sucked, STFU mode, and build your own Windows tablet.
On August 9 Threadripper Pro 5000 hit retail, using DALL-E for blog thumbnails, and in an unprecented move crypto lender Hodlnaut stole all its users' money.
On August 10 AppLoving (who) offered to buy Unity for $17 billion, and PyPI, Twilio, Cloudflare, and Intel's SGX all had containment breaches.
On August 11 Intel's A750 graphics card was a thing that existed, LG's 97" OLED TV double as a 97" speaker, and AMD grew revenue by 70% year-on-year albeit mostly by buying FPGA company Xilinx.
On August 12 what this country needs is a good $15 llama, Redis explained - the Swiss Army chainsaw of database-sort-of-things, the CDC said forget all that stuff we told you, and Intel's $3.5 billion graphics gamble.
On August 13 smile, you're on Candid Doorbell, Epson sucked, a website called ShitExpress - which did exactly what you think - got hacked, and Node.js still sucked.
On August 14 running Android without Google, what to expect in Ryzen 7000 motherboards, and you could pet the dog in Holocure.
On August 15 I ordered the Bae case - still hoping to order the Kronii case from the same distributor, how to make electric vehicles even worse, Canada and Germany signed a deal to invade Belgium and generate electricity from trillion of potatoes, and Apple broke every single security measure in MacOS all at once.
On August 16 Android 13 was here and we didn't care, Linux 6.0 was here and we didn't care - much, Russia announced a model of its new space station, and New Jersey decided to stomp law enforcement and medical ethics into the dirt.
On August 17 AMD announced an announcement for Ryzen 7000, DotNET 6 hit Ubuntu, MailChimp pooped the bed, and American Airlines signed a deal to buy 20 imaginary aircraft.
On August 18 ZDNet pooped the bed, Loupedeck had some nice control surfaces at reasonable prices - not cheap but priced at hundreds where professional models often cost thousands, TSMC was about to start producing 3nm chips, do not eat bugs, and it was time to unplug your router, set it on fire, and fling it out the nearest window.
On August 19 Samsung announced 32Gb DDR5 chips for early 2023, Gigabyte announced PCIe 5 SSDs for who knows when, Apple's M2 vs. AMD's 6850U under Linux, all Linux versions where the same, and Snap cancelled Pixy.
On August 20 I flew my last flight between Sydney and New House City, building an actual display into those classic 80s Lego display bricks, an ocean of Pi Picos, and roundups of Raptor Lake and Ryzen motherboards.
On August 21 Google was the pancreatic cancer in the body politic, Ethereum was moving to Eth2 which didn't actually fix anything, and artists united against hands.
On August 22 the only thing less capable of human understanding than the AI systems run by Big Tech was the humans employed by Big Tech, and the first big Holocure update was announced. It looks like the next update will bring us HoloJP Gen 2 and 3 and be out late next month. I played a lot of Holocure when I was constantly travelling and had no energy for anything more complicated.
On August 23 the Metaverse sucked, donuts were back in stock, the Biren BR1000 hit 1 PFLOPs, and don't copy and paste encryption schemes like Hyundai did.
On August 24 I got internet access, Twitter's security was a disaster, Apple offered a 162 page guide to replace your MacBook battery, perfluorocubane was wrid, and Intel was going to go chiplets on its 14th gen desktop parts which now won't exist at all.
On August 25 Chattanooga launche 25Gbps community internet, 14kb was the new 15kb, and put your GitLab server behind a VPN.
On August 26 Starlink V2 would offer service direct to mobile phones - and Teslas, Mark Zuckerberg admitted to the FBI's election interference, Sony hiked prices, Microsoft didn't, and HP had some nice but overpriced computers.
On August 27 the Twilio hack was a targeted attack affecting 130 companies, the adventure game Malasombra came out - for the NES, and an edit button on Twitter.
On August 28 we watched The Saga of Tanya the Evil, the FBI said of course they interfere in elections, everyone knows that, Walmart offered a 30TB SSD of $39, Nvidia announced a new high-end Arm chip for robotics, and nobody was happy in the ongoing Twitter/Elon lawsuit.
On August 29 freezing in the dark turned out to be unpopular, Ryzen 7000 launched, and a new remote execution vulnerability was found in the GameBoy Colour.
On August 30 California's new age verification law was crap, an animated map of the Berlin subway, Austria decided to defenestrate its own internet, and OpenSea's transaction volume was down 99% in three months.
On August 31 it was chip shortage all the way down, the OptiFi DeFi protocol lost $661,000 when it accidentally stopped existing, and Amelia Watson from Hololive reviewed the best tech toys from the 90s/early 2000s.

Disclaimer: Lay on, MacDoot, and cursed be he who first says hang aboot.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, RIP #32 at December 27, 2022 04:00 AM (sAmhv)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2022 04:03 AM (xhxe8)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 27, 2022 04:07 AM (IOu4z)

4 Mornin' all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 27, 2022 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

5 Mornin' all.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 27, 2022 04:07 AM (BLOW1)
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As always, you're way ahead of us.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 27, 2022 04:09 AM (IOu4z)

6 It's the final countdown

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2022 04:10 AM (xhxe8)

7 Good evening, Pixy! Thanks for your responses yesterday.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 04:15 AM (o0Fxd)

8 Move over, Laxies and gentlebeings, introducing Flossie!

https://tinyurl.com/4vz2999d

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 27, 2022 04:22 AM (IOu4z)

9 introducing Flossie!

Ugh. Just what we need. Another greentarded activist brat, telling the grownups what to do.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 04:26 AM (o0Fxd)

10 10

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 27, 2022 04:31 AM (ju2Fy)

11 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 27, 2022 04:31 AM (ju2Fy)

12 Morning, olddog in mo.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 04:36 AM (o0Fxd)

13 Morning, JQ.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 27, 2022 04:38 AM (ju2Fy)

14 >>>I accidentally ordered a Yamaha hifi system. That is, I was checking out the post-Christmas sales, saw the hifi (which I wanted to buy earlier but was out of stock), saw it wasn't just on sale but on clearance, and hit the buy button without further thought because these days you don't know if something like that will ever come back in stock.

"Accidentally"!

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 04:43 AM (GkGYg)

15 Americans lost $10 billion to Indian call centre scams in 2022.

This article seems a bit phishy to me.

"It may not be a national security concern yet, but the reputation (of a country) is involved, and we don't want India to suffer on that count," FBI South Asia head Suhel Daud told the publication.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 27, 2022 04:43 AM (ju2Fy)

16 Morning all!

the CDC said forget all that stuff we told you,

Reading the article it seems that 68% of Americans are unjabbed or not up to date on their jabs.

I wonder now how many of the jabbed have buyers remorse

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 04:44 AM (vd8XM)

17 Welp, Christmas is over. Snow's melted. Leftovers nearly gone.

Sitting here, once again, asking myself: "Why the hell am I up so late?" LOL

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 04:44 AM (o0Fxd)

18 I wonder now how many of the jabbed have buyers remorse
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Haven't gathered the courage yet to ask my sister about that. She was sooooo gung-ho, all-in on everybody getting it. (Of course I told her off when she attacked me over my lack of faith in it)

So, add "relationships among family members" to that tall stack of jab side effects.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 04:49 AM (o0Fxd)

19 ADVERSE side effects, I meant

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 04:50 AM (o0Fxd)

20 Heck, *I* have buyers' remorse! Because I have, however unwillingly, paid for that garbage.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 04:52 AM (o0Fxd)

21 So, add "relationships among family members" to that tall stack of jab side effects.
Posted by: JQ

Same here. I just nod my head and change the subject when it was brought up at family gatherings.
My mind is made up and they wouldn't listen anyway.

I think my sister has MOL forgiven her daughter-in-law for not vaxing. DIL was trying to get pregnant and refused the jab. A year later had a beautiful baby boy and first time Grandma is over the moon for the little guy

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 04:55 AM (vd8XM)

22 Heck, *I* have buyers' remorse! Because I have, however unwillingly, paid for that garbage.
Posted by: JQ

No you didn't!!! They were "freeeeeeee"

Get yours today!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 04:56 AM (vd8XM)

23 What's that? You got one? Get another, don't cost nothin'

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 04:56 AM (vd8XM)

24 Oh yeah... "Freeeeeee!"

Riiiiiight.

It's very depressing, when I consider just how many people believe that. Smh.

Like when my (former) Dr's receptionist told me my 'annual wellness visit' was "FREEE" (!) but I just had to tell her: "It had better be. I more than pay for it with each monthly premium payment."

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:01 AM (o0Fxd)

25 I tried a parking app for Chicago. I went into the BIG Shitty yesterday to finally celebrate Christmas with my family. Got the app and found a good, pay, spot. The bad thing with it is that at 29, driving in traffic, fumbling for the phone so I can show the QR code to the all seeing eye, I turn the phone off, a block from the entrance,
Pull over in a no parking zone. Start phone, call up the code and then enter.

The good part was that the same QR code needed to be scanned so that you can enter the building to access the elevator when you leave.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:03 AM (vd8XM)

26 No, I haven't gotten the deathsh0ts. But I *have* paid for them.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:03 AM (o0Fxd)

27 I actually know someone who fell for the IRS scam, where they ask you to pay the IRS in like Walmart gift cards. Suffice to say she's a gigantic liberal, so it wasn't a surprised how easily she was duped.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 27, 2022 05:05 AM (0fQQ2)

28 Like when my (former) Dr's receptionist told me my 'annual wellness visit' was "FREEE" (!) but I just had to tell her: "It had better be. I more than pay for it with each monthly premium payment."
Posted by: JQ

I love looking at the bills showing the cost of the any of the Dr. visits. Doc charges 5000 dollars for the visit.
Insurance pays, ...$125.
You owe, $0

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:06 AM (vd8XM)

29 Vehicles are loaded, goodbyes have been said, plenty of tears have been shed, let's do this!

Posted by: CanuckJack 2500 KMs to FloridaJack at December 27, 2022 05:07 AM (/Ewpp)

30 Posted by: olddog in mo at December 27, 2022 04:43 AM (ju2Fy)

Mark Rober has some excellent videos of pranking a bunch of those guys and helping get them busted.

Posted by: CanuckJack 2500 KMs to FloridaJack at December 27, 2022 05:09 AM (/Ewpp)

31 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 05:10 AM (T4tVD)

32 Trying to finish coffee and get outta here

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2022 05:10 AM (xhxe8)

33 >>>the CDC said forget all that stuff we told you

I WISH they had said that full-stop. They are not so clear.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:12 AM (GkGYg)

34 Trying to finish coffee and get outta here
Posted by: Skip

Have a good one and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 05:13 AM (T4tVD)

35 Back to dog pound, all week for sure

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2022 05:14 AM (xhxe8)

36 Doc charges 5000 dollars for the visit.
Insurance pays, ...$125.
You owe, $0
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I'm on COBRA since 'retiring' last year. Problem is, I'm not 65 yet so not eligible for mediscare. Bennie runs out in a few months and then I won't have the ~~rent control~~ price protection of insurance.

Can't get a FT j*b (and get bennies!) due to hubby's disability-- he needs daily assistance. I'm unedumacated, so couldn't hope to land any j*b that would pay enough to hire help. Ugh. Lucky for us, at least he is over 65 and has mediscare.

We're living on savings and ss. Hope it lasts until I turn 65. Praying, anyway.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:14 AM (o0Fxd)

37 >>> the FBI said of course they interfere in elections

A course in the First Amendment should be required

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:17 AM (GkGYg)

38 Back to dog pound, all week for sure
Posted by: Skip

A Cleveland Browns fan?

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:21 AM (vd8XM)

39 I'm on COBRA since 'retiring' last year. Problem is, I'm not 65 yet so not eligible for mediscare. Bennie runs out in a few months and then I won't have the rent control price protection of insurance.

Rent control...I never thought of it that way

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:22 AM (vd8XM)

40 16 the CDC said forget all that stuff we told you,

Reading the article it seems that 68% of Americans are unjabbed or not up to date on their jabs.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 04:44 AM (vd8XM)

And that was in August.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:23 AM (GkGYg)

41 Med rent control-- why TF should I, an individual, be charged MORE than the fking insurance company, for the same exact 'visit'?

If individuals were charged ONLY what ins. pays, it wouldn't be breaking so many people.

But yes, I understand we 'normies' must make up for all the freeloaders and deadbeats, mustn't we?

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:30 AM (o0Fxd)

42 If individuals were charged ONLY what ins. pays, it wouldn't be breaking so many people.

But yes, I understand we 'normies' must make up for all the freeloaders and deadbeats, mustn't we?
Posted by: JQ

And the price should be posted at the desk. See the doc for a physical? Insurance or no it's 200

What's that, the doc down the street can do it for 125? Okay let's call it 130 and you don't need to drive anywhere.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:33 AM (vd8XM)

43 I had really bad tinnitus yesterday and I'm thinking about having a no-caffeine day today to see if that helps. I might not make it!

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:36 AM (GkGYg)

44 I had really bad tinnitus yesterday and I'm thinking about having a no-caffeine day today to see if that helps. I might not make it!
Posted by: m

Why is it called tinnitus ?

Why not castironitus ?

or stainlesssteelitus ?

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 05:38 AM (T4tVD)

45 Yes, Bruce!

I have often said "insurance" is the problem, NOT the solution regarding medical expenses.

It's because of what I call the Open Bar Rule:

When paying for their own, people order what they can afford.

When somebody else is paying? TOP SHELF, BABY!!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:39 AM (o0Fxd)

46 tinnitus |ˈtinədəs|
noun
ringing or buzzing in the ears.
ORIGIN
mid 19th century: from Latin, from tinnire ‘to ring, tinkle,’ of imitative origin.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:40 AM (GkGYg)

47 M, are you getting enough water? My tinnitus seems worst when I'm dehydrated.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:41 AM (o0Fxd)

48 It's a good thought, JQ. I'll guzzle some water, too.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:44 AM (GkGYg)

49 When somebody else is paying? TOP SHELF, BABY!!!!
Posted by: JQ

HA!!
And a 6 pack of Chivas to go.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:46 AM (vd8XM)

50 Cash payers pay more for services than the insured do - this is nonsensical and an illustration of one problem with our health care delivery system. The price is the price. It's like these prescription commercials, how can there be a way that drug costs vary by how you pay for it, other than something like credit card carrying costs?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 05:47 AM (oWBc3)

51 Why is it called tinnitus ?

Why not castironitus ?

or stainlesssteelitus ?
Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 05:38 AM (T4tVD)
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Are you metally retarded?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 27, 2022 05:47 AM (IOu4z)

52 Are you metally retarded?
Posted by: Biden's

If I am can I be President?

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:48 AM (vd8XM)

53 One doctor suggested that I go to an online pharmacy for my Rx, as it was expensive. Pffft.

"Regular price" at online (no ins.) was exactly the same as my ins. copay. Savings... riiiight. Plus shipping!

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:51 AM (o0Fxd)

54 Am I the only person on Earth that didn't know yesterday was a Holiday ?

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 05:52 AM (T4tVD)

55 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 27, 2022 05:47 AM

Aww... c'mon, JT is just trying to be funny!

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:54 AM (o0Fxd)

56 Am I the only person on Earth that didn't know yesterday was a Holiday ?
Posted by: JT

I guess there wasn't enough 3 day weekends between now and Jan 17th.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:55 AM (vd8XM)

57 Don't forget, January 2nd may be an extra observance of Jan 1....DRINK!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:56 AM (vd8XM)

58 The myth of renewable energy continues - Texas has 35 GW of wind available power, on Saturday last with temperatures crashing and the wind howling we got 5 GW from wind and sometimes it went to 2 GW. If we didn't have gas and coal still, we'd have dead Texans. ERCOT has to go.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 05:58 AM (oWBc3)

59 Just below freezing, not much traffic

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2022 05:58 AM (ymvUp)

60 tinnitus |ˈtinədəs|
noun
ringing or buzzing in the ears.
ORIGIN
mid 19th century: from Latin, from tinnire ‘to ring, tinkle,’ of imitative origin.
Posted by: m

Look !
A Scientist !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 05:58 AM (T4tVD)

61 Dec 26 and Jan 2 are official United States Postal Service holidays.

DRINK!

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:59 AM (o0Fxd)

62 The myth of renewable energy continues - Texas has 35 GW of wind available power, on Saturday last with temperatures crashing and the wind howling we got 5 GW from wind and sometimes it went to 2 GW. If we didn't have gas and coal still, we'd have dead Texans. ERCOT has to go.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

Pffbbt, just don't charge your 80 grand electric car, you'll be fine.

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 05:59 AM (vd8XM)

63 Evening and morning to all!

That story on the ONT about "In my 50s I became invisible to the opposite sex": Cry me a river, lady. That's what most men have to deal with their entire effin' lives. Your karma just ran over your dogma.

She comes off as a Karen for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2022 06:00 AM (KAKDL)

64 Aww... c'mon, JT is just trying to be funny!
Posted by: JQ

Thank you JQ !

Sometimes comedy isn't pretty.....

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:01 AM (T4tVD)

65 Yesterday morning the grid suppliers covering the 13 mid Atlantic states and DC reported wind supplying 1% of power to the area. Gas, coal and nukes each had a 30% share. Does anyone think our betters in DC actually know this? Frauds? Idiots? Both?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 06:02 AM (oWBc3)

66 Hiya, JT!

I 'got' your little play on words...

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:02 AM (o0Fxd)

67 Dec 26 and Jan 2 are official United States Postal Service holidays.

DRINK!
Posted by: JQ

I KNEW they were behind this !

Are they still trying to get Groundhog Day off ?

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:03 AM (T4tVD)

68 Hiya JQ !

How you ?

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:04 AM (T4tVD)

69 Does anyone think our betters in DC actually know this? Frauds? Idiots? Both?
------

Oh, they absolutely know. And we know it. And they know that we know. They're just rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:04 AM (o0Fxd)

70 Anyway! I'm up with coffee, kittens trotting around and waiting for breakfast. 'Tis a whole 45 F. right now. After my second cup, I'll change, stretch, and go for my first workout walk/trot since Thursday.

Today is probably my last physical therapy appointment. The leg is okay; I get a little ache in the outside of the knee when walking or standing. The lower back twinges occasionally, but stretching and Voltaren (the Rx version) wipes that out. Yup; gettin' older ain't for weaklings.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2022 06:04 AM (KAKDL)

71 "Americans lost $10 billion to Indian call centre scams in 2022."

Ahhhh, so now you believe the FBI. I see. I see. How do you pick and choose when the FBI is lying or not?

Posted by: JamesTCarville at December 27, 2022 06:04 AM (WOfkI)

72 Are they still trying to get Groundhog Day off ?
Posted by: JT

Groundhogs are GAY!!

We must have the whole month off!

...LGBTQZ++===*...

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:05 AM (vd8XM)

73 Been good, JT.

Did Santa bring you nice things, or a lump of coal?

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:05 AM (o0Fxd)

74 Dec 26 and Jan 2 are official United States Postal Service holidays.

DRINK!
Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022

***
Banks were closed on 12/26 too. So was the tire store I planned to visit. (Turns out it was just the lousy roads. The car's wheels don't need to be rebalanced. I need to find a better place to live.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2022 06:06 AM (KAKDL)

75 Did Santa bring you nice things, or a lump of coal?
Posted by: JQ

Is coal supposed to smell like that?

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:06 AM (vd8XM)

76 Turns out it was just the lousy roads.

We need more money for inferior infrastructure!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:08 AM (vd8XM)

77 West Point military academy is starting to remove ALL Confederate statues and symbols from its campus - including a portrait and stone bust of Gen. Robert E. Lee

something something doomed and history

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:09 AM (BRHaw)

78 My rural mail lady worked yesterday. The plumber was at her house repairing busted pipes so she needed something to do. Most times you can't beat living in the sticks.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 06:10 AM (oWBc3)

79 >Does anyone think our betters in DC actually know this? Frauds? Idiots? Both?

I read the Declaration of Independence over the weekend and had a thought. It needs a modern rewrite with the intent of breaking from the current 2 party system.
The first two paragraphs could be used almost verbatim, and the grievances filled with the last 20 years of governmental abuses from both sides.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 27, 2022 06:10 AM (DB16e)

80 Did Santa bring you nice things, or a lump of coal?
Posted by: JQ

Is coal supposed to smell like that?
Posted by: Bruce

I took FOUR shits on Christmas !

Good ones too ! Not diarrhea, good logs that woulda made a good cabin.

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:11 AM (T4tVD)

81 Musa Hasahya (right), 67 and from Uganda, has now asked his wives to use contraception so that they can afford to buy food to eat. He said: 'My income has become lower and lower over the years due to the rising cost of living and my family has become bigger and bigger. I married one woman after another. How can a man be satisfied with one woman?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:11 AM (BRHaw)

82 Turns out it was just the lousy roads.
*
We need more money for inferior infrastructure!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022

***
The motto of this city and state.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2022 06:12 AM (KAKDL)

83 Speaking of 'infrastructure'... has anyone put together Bai-Dumb BS Bingo Cards for next sotu address? I 'memba when we did it for o'bammy.

"Crumbling Infrastructure" has been a constant for decades I think, though not in the Free Space square.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:12 AM (o0Fxd)

84 Good ones too ! Not diarrhea, good logs that woulda made a good cabin.

Posted by: JT
--------------

*facepalm*

neeevverrrrmiiind

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:13 AM (o0Fxd)

85 Good ones too ! Not diarrhea, good logs that woulda made a good cabin.

Posted by: JT

Winning!!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:14 AM (vd8XM)

86 "Crumbling Infrastructure" has been a constant for decades I think, though not in the Free Space square.
Posted by: JQ

Free space could be 'RabGGunobin"

A wild card could be "Covid is over and I and I alone, and Corn Pop, conquered it"

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:15 AM (vd8XM)

87 Biden's theme this year will be, " it's working - you just can't see it and anyone who says otherwise is a wrecker, hater or racist."

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 06:15 AM (oWBc3)

88 Good ones too ! Not diarrhea, good logs that woulda made a good cabin.

Posted by: JT
--------------

*facepalm*

neeevverrrrmiiind
Posted by: JQ

You asked !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:16 AM (T4tVD)

89 A New York man filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple on Dec. 24, alleging that the Apple Watch’s blood oximeter has a “racial bias” against individuals with darker skin tones.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:16 AM (BRHaw)

90 Biden's theme this year will be, " it's working - you just can't see it and anyone who says otherwise is a wrecker, hater or racist."
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

Alternating between whispering and shouting

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:17 AM (vd8XM)

91 When filling out form for my recent gun purchase here in SC, i noticed the question for sex had three options. Yes, "Binary" was the third. The madness is ever-reaching.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2022 06:17 AM (pB7yW)

92 Good Morning Sunshine.

Posted by: Infidel at December 27, 2022 06:19 AM (ZEa+g)

93 I read the Declaration of Independence over the weekend and had a thought. It needs a modern rewrite...
--------

Concur, Fool Otto!

Was thinking similarly the other day. Especially that part about 'eating out our substance' (shut UP about phrasing, morons!)

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:19 AM (o0Fxd)

94 Temps here are going to be in the mid-70s, and no doubt humid to boot, by Thursday. Gah. Vile climate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2022 06:21 AM (KAKDL)

95 Maybe it’s a Florida thing, but when my husband was in the hospital for 28 days and the bill was over a quarter of a million, the insurance company paid almost exactly what the hospital offered as settlement of the bill (if cash payer.) It was about a third of the itemized, original bill.

Posted by: EveR at December 27, 2022 06:22 AM (MUpk6)

96 Just the opposite JT.

Posted by: Infidel at December 27, 2022 06:24 AM (ZEa+g)

97 We are back in the 60’s today, 70’s later this week. Lots of folks will be on the beach after the miserable weekend.

Posted by: EveR at December 27, 2022 06:24 AM (MUpk6)

98 76 Turns out it was just the lousy roads.

We need more money for inferior infrastructure!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:08 AM (vd8XM)

and teachers
and healthcare
and research
and......

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:24 AM (BRHaw)

99 Yes, "Binary" was the third. The madness is ever-reaching.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2022 06:17 AM (pB7yW)

no A sexual

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:25 AM (BRHaw)

100 After PT I need to run out to the 'burbs to pick up my resoled Dan Post boots. Shoe repair places are thin on the ground here. There's an expensive guy not too far from my office; a mom-and-pop place near where I live that lost my business when they still they insisted on face diapers this summer; and not much more. So I'm trying this place near the airport. If they do good work, I'll bring them the Justin Roper boots I've had for a couple of decades as well.

I don't get to wear my boots often here. And yet I still wear out the soles pretty fast. Weird.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2022 06:26 AM (KAKDL)

101 Good morning. What's going on at Southwest Airlines that they are cancelling so many flights?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 06:26 AM (4I/2K)

102 Why am I up at 4:30 am?

Posted by: Infidel at December 27, 2022 06:26 AM (ZEa+g)

103 Good morning all.
JQ, have you looked into local programs that would compensate you as a personal caregiver? something along these lines:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/3wddrufe or https://preview.tinyurl.com/yzs2jsc5
dated but may be helpful.

Posted by: I am Pasquinel & I am unafraid to at December 27, 2022 06:27 AM (VClZ9)

104 They gonna run out of other people's money real soon.

Think I'll plant a big garden this spring. Maybe get some chickens...

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:27 AM (o0Fxd)

105 Good morning. What's going on at Southwest Airlines that they are cancelling so many flights?
Posted by: Count de Monet

No jet fuel ?

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:28 AM (T4tVD)

106 Good morning morons

These retrospective posts only serve to remind how much I am alienated from most technology.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2022 06:28 AM (EZebt)

107 Think I'll plant a big garden this spring. Maybe get some chickens...
Posted by: JQ

Can we get some rabbits George?

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:29 AM (vd8XM)

108 Finding our balance. A devotional that mentions a Model A Ford and praying and reading scripture. The devotional is suitable for both interested Jews and Christians as the passage for reflection is from Ecclesiastes:

https://tinyurl.com/5aep5p28

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 27, 2022 06:29 AM (r8unI)

109 Pelosi ends her final speech as Speaker of the House by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a "Happy Shwanza"

May the Swartz be with you!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:30 AM (BRHaw)

110 Good morning. What's going on at Southwest Airlines that they are cancelling so many flights?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Weather and airports and....

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:30 AM (vd8XM)

111
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 27, 2022 06:31 AM (ENBF0)

112 G'morning, all.

20.3degrees outside.

And I-26 westbound is shut down near here due to a wrong way head on crash about two hours ago that killed one person, and injuring three.

All the Christmas stuff is taken down, boxed and stored, except for the two trees themselves. They need to be taken down, folded up and returned to their storage bags and lifted up into the ceiling mounted shelving in the garage.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 06:31 AM (1n+EO)

113 Ah, Marshall Tucker - "I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old, we've been together so long now these both need resoled."

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 06:31 AM (oWBc3)

114 Posted by: I am Pasquinel & I am unafraid to at December 27, 2022 06:27 AM

Thank you! Bookmarked!

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:32 AM (o0Fxd)

115 My understanding on the SW mess was that they had flights dependent on planes and crews from northern states that were snowbound and then their entire logistics structure just seemed to collapse.

Posted by: EveR at December 27, 2022 06:32 AM (MUpk6)

116 "Why am I up at 4:30 am?"

To be with us?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 06:33 AM (1n+EO)

117 My understanding on the SW mess was that they had flights dependent on planes and crews from northern states that were snowbound and then their entire logistics structure just seemed to collapse.
Posted by: EveR

Pixy!!! The damn computer's is broken again!!!

...SoWe...

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:33 AM (vd8XM)

118 @washingtonpost
·
Follow
An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.

Wonder what the attach picture of NY Orthodox Jews has to do with this story?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

119 My understanding on the SW mess was that they had flights dependent on planes and crews from northern states that were snowbound and then their entire logistics structure just seemed to collapse.
Posted by: EveR at December 27, 2022 06:32 AM (MUpk6)

Okay, I guess it hit them far worse than other airlines? 'Cause the news feed only talks about Southwest. 70% of flights cancelled it says.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 06:34 AM (4I/2K)

120 To be with us?
Posted by: Village Idiot's

Well of course, that and my bad shoulder.

Posted by: Infidel at December 27, 2022 06:35 AM (ZEa+g)

121 And, they kept bumping ppl to future flights that were already fully booked. Insane screw-ups.

Posted by: EveR at December 27, 2022 06:35 AM (MUpk6)

122 Good Morning Sunshine.
Posted by: Infidel

Just the opposite JT.
Posted by: Infidel

Moonshine ?

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:35 AM (T4tVD)

123 Later today I need to go up in the attic and change out a 50 amp pull-disconnect switch for the interior air handler.

This in preparation for the HVAC guy to show up tomorrow to diagnose, and hopefully repair the heat pump system prior to our departure for Baltimore on Thursday morning.

I really don't want to leave here for three weeks with the house limping along in the expensive 'emergency' heat setting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 06:36 AM (1n+EO)

124 Well of course, that and my bad shoulder.
Posted by: Infidel

Hi Infidel, Hi Bad Shoulder!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

125 Moonshine ?
Posted by: JT

I wish.

Posted by: Infidel at December 27, 2022 06:37 AM (ZEa+g)

126 I was reading about ppl booking w United, while SW was out of service. Don’t know what happened that SW was so devastated. Happened crazy like this during the summer, too, iirc.

Posted by: EveR at December 27, 2022 06:37 AM (MUpk6)

127 Good morning! Today will be day two of packing the office. You never know how much junk you have until you move....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 27, 2022 06:38 AM (TgNpw)

128 "Wonder what the attach picture of NY Orthodox Jews has to do with this story?"

Maybe a thinly veiled antisemetic suggestion that those dirty unvaxed Jooos are spreading the deadly disease to our children?

And lice.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 06:38 AM (1n+EO)

129 WaPo... those aholes...

"unvaccinated children" (likely illegals) and the current "anti-vaccine sentiment" (cl0tsh0t) have little to do with each other and they KNOW it.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:39 AM (o0Fxd)

130 "Wonder what the attach picture of NY Orthodox Jews has to do with this story?"

Maybe a thinly veiled antisemetic suggestion that those dirty unvaxed Jooos are spreading the deadly disease to our children?

And lice.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

And vaudeville !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:40 AM (T4tVD)

131 To err is divine
To really foul things up requires a computer.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 06:41 AM (4I/2K)

132 From yesterday: Tech journalism doesn't know what to do with Mastodon.

This article is from a tech journalist who claims he doesn't care that Twitter ruined his personal party over there and then writes a huge article complaining about Twitter and how mastodon is the greatest thing to happen to the internet since the internet.

https://tinyurl.com/3a5syy4p

Posted by: Lost In Space at December 27, 2022 06:42 AM (RPgkA)

133 Ok, out... got to sleep. I hope.

Carry on!

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 06:42 AM (o0Fxd)

134 At our Christmas doings yesterday, My niece's MIL was also with us. She was to have an Amtrak train taking her to her home 3 hours away. Midway thru the day she found the train was canceled.
All of the others jumped into the "How dare they" mode.

I explained that Amtrak lease track from the actual railroads. This time of year and with the extreme cold the coal trains coming from the west and going to and thru Chicago have precedence over the other freight trains. The freight always has precedence over Amtrak. Things go wonky like they did with the GloBull Warming that just happened and....

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:43 AM (vd8XM)

135 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 27, 2022 06:43 AM (UqnOO)

136 We're living on savings and ss. Hope it lasts until I turn 65. Praying, anyway.

Posted by: JQ at December 27, 2022 05:14 AM (o0Fxd)

Ugh. I hate saying it but check out Obamacare. Buddy of mine retired at 62 three years ago. Has some assets but his part-time income was under $30K. He was eligible for a $0 Obamacare plan. He's even had heart valve replacement and is pleased with the coverage.

Posted by: golfman at December 27, 2022 06:43 AM (BLVc0)

137 Good morning. Weather calls for a high of 71 Thursday. On airline cancellations, there was a time when they were a little more flexible. I come home from WESPAC and bought a ticket at Travis, Delta because they flew into my local regional. Get out to San Fran airport, and no room. Guy at the counter picks up the phone then tells me I need to hurry but KLM could get me to O'hare. I ask about the ticket and he says they know what to do, just show it. And I didn't have to take off my shoes and belt.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 27, 2022 06:43 AM (lz5hY)

138 Southwest has surprisingly few "bus routes" in spite of their reputation. Whereas folks like United Express fly back and forth on the same route during a day (think to Houston to Birmingham and back two times a day), Southwest typically has 3 to 4 multi-leg routes on the bounce for a plane and crew. When it works, it's magic, when it doesn't it's garbage. They are a long way removed from the days of flying back and forth from Love to Hobby for $17.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 06:44 AM (oWBc3)

139 And vaudeville !
Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:40 AM (T4tVD)

Pinkface>>Blackface

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:44 AM (BRHaw)

140 I'm pretty certain the reason Southwest Airlines canceled a thousand flights is because Elon Musk owns Twitter.

Posted by: Lost In Space at December 27, 2022 06:45 AM (RPgkA)

141 Okay, I guess it hit them far worse than other airlines? 'Cause the news feed only talks about Southwest. 70% of flights cancelled it says.

The particulars don't really concern me. Its a shitty carrier in a shitty industry getting criticized now by a shitty government. I have no dog in the fight. I win either way.

The comments in that story on Fox irritated me - don't know why I bothered. A ton of Contemporary Conservatives felt the need to defend a "private company". Same company in the same industry that was one of the biggest vax and mask pushers. Same industry that's constantly pushing more and more restrictions on everything, all in the name of "public safety".

Fuck 'em all. Sometimes - most times, really - there's no good guy and bad guy. Just bad and worse guys. Let Southwest and the FAA eat each other. I win either way.

Posted by: Blues Junior at December 27, 2022 06:46 AM (3KrWI)

142 And I didn't have to take off my shoes and belt.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,

A quicky?

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:46 AM (vd8XM)

143 I'm pretty certain the reason Southwest Airlines canceled a thousand flights is because Elon Musk owns Twitter.
Posted by: Lost In Space

And Russia

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:47 AM (vd8XM)

144 142 A quicky with one of the KLM stews would have been welcome.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 27, 2022 06:47 AM (lz5hY)

145 112 All the Christmas stuff is taken down, boxed and stored, except for the two trees themselves.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 06:31 AM (1n+EO)

That was fast!

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 06:47 AM (GkGYg)

146 Southwest has surprisingly few "bus routes" in spite of their reputation. Whereas folks like United Express fly back and forth on the same route during a day (think to Houston to Birmingham and back two times a day), Southwest typically has 3 to 4 multi-leg routes on the bounce for a plane and crew. When it works, it's magic, when it doesn't it's garbage. They are a long way removed from the days of flying back and forth from Love to Hobby for $17.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 27, 2022 06:44 AM (oWBc3)

That complexity would account for the logistics meltdown. What happened to K.I.S.S.??

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 06:48 AM (4I/2K)

147 Okay. Time for breakfast and a long day for doing as little as possible...I hope

Have a great day all!

Posted by: Bruce at December 27, 2022 06:48 AM (vd8XM)

148 I had an Obamacare policy until I turned 65.

Gotta say, Blue Cross Blue Shield made a lot of money from the gubmint teat.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at December 27, 2022 06:49 AM (I9VC/)

149 See ya Bruce !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:51 AM (T4tVD)

150 'Nite JQ !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:51 AM (T4tVD)

151 "That was fast!
Posted by: m "

Normally we wait till New Years Day.

But...medical needs in Baltimore on Friday, and a pre-heat -system failure plan to depart this morning for the great frozen North was to get it all down yesterday.

And this way, if the repair guy can arrive early, like they said they would try, we could depart upon completion of repairs.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 06:54 AM (1n+EO)

152 Nite, Bruce, JQ.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 06:55 AM (1n+EO)

153 I don't fly anymore, so I'm out of touch with how things are in the industry.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 06:55 AM (4I/2K)

154 'There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.'

--Idi Amin

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 06:56 AM (GkGYg)

155 I don't fly anymore, so I'm out of touch with how things are in the industry.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Tired arms ?

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:56 AM (T4tVD)

156 @110

>>Weather and airports and....

...Breathtaking incompetence.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2022 06:57 AM (up/3i)

157 Stranded Southwest customers can't rebook their flights until after December 31, according to a Southwest Airlines official who spoke to the press at Hobby International Airport on Monday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:58 AM (BRHaw)

158 I don't fly anymore, so I'm out of touch with how things are in the industry.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Tired arms ?
Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 06:56 AM (T4tVD)

*snort* yeah.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 06:58 AM (4I/2K)

159 Twitter is a Big GOvt Agency:

Here’s the breakdown:
CIA-27
FBI-52
NSA-30
DHS-50
ODNI-6

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:59 AM (BRHaw)

160 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

161 Stranded Southwest customers can't rebook their flights until after December 31, according to a Southwest Airlines official who spoke to the press at Hobby International Airport on Monday.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:58 AM (BRHaw)

That's gotta ruffle a few feathers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 07:01 AM (4I/2K)

162 Salty!

G'morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:02 AM (1n+EO)

163 Good morning! Happy Tuesday!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 27, 2022 07:04 AM (nxdel)

164 I read a good bit of the content. I have no idea what most of it means.

Posted by: BignJames at December 27, 2022 07:04 AM (AwYPR)

165 This summer, my daughter’s Delta connecting flight out of Atlanta was cancelled. She was 5 months pregnant and promised, never again. But, then, she flew on a direct Delta flight a couple months later; friends again. She’s a millennial and seems to accept things break easily much more than I, bc I do remember when there was some reliability in the system.

Posted by: EveR at December 27, 2022 07:04 AM (MUpk6)

166 Hiya Jewells !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:05 AM (T4tVD)

167 mornin yall. I've got a tech problem. I got a DJI Mini drone for Christmas, but the stupid app won't run on my phone. I hate "apps". I guess I will have to get another phone that will run this thing.

So we set it up with my son's phone and the video it makes is incredible. I can see the potential for much mischief.

Posted by: fd at December 27, 2022 07:05 AM (iayUP)

168 157 Stranded Southwest customers can't rebook their flights until after December 31, according to a Southwest Airlines official who spoke to the press at Hobby International Airport on Monday.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 06:58 AM (BRHaw)

Southwest Airlines says travellers stranded by holiday meltdown can't rebook until December 31st

https://tinyurl.com/y7kbtexs
(Business Insider)

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 07:07 AM (GkGYg)

169 Walmart, Family Dollar Looted and Destroyed After Buffalo Blizzard That Killed 26 People

Amazing how 55 inch LCDs and Beer can stave off cold and hunger.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 07:07 AM (BRHaw)

170 Navy retention?

Everything is going swimmingly, why do you ask?

https://tinyurl.com/2kmzdsjv

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:07 AM (1n+EO)

171 Buffalo, NY couple helps
Korean tourists after their bus was stranded in a blizzard. Story from "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/259unj9b

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 27, 2022 07:08 AM (OuyI9)

172 Boker Tov Patriots

I always tell those indian scam calls to have their mother's blow me. I get a rise out of them sometimes

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2022 07:08 AM (dO/0d)

173 I read a good bit of the content. I have no idea what most of it means.
Posted by: BignJames

You're ahead of me; I have no idea what ANY of it means !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:08 AM (T4tVD)

174 Navy retention?

Everything is going swimmingly, why do you ask?

https://tinyurl.com/2kmzdsjv
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:07 AM (1n+EO)

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2022 07:09 AM (dO/0d)

175 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Good luck with the HVAc repair guy showing on time. We have a good guy, but he is so busy fixing broken systems of others that our Fall Maintenance is 3 month overdue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

176 Hiya Captain !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:09 AM (T4tVD)

177 I read a good bit of the content. I have no idea what most of it means.
Posted by: BignJames

You're ahead of me; I have no idea what ANY of it means !
Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:08 AM (T4tVD)

When in doubt of a tech fix, suggest reversing the polarity of the tachyon emitters.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 07:10 AM (4I/2K)

178 "Sigh"

On the plus side, I would expect waivers to be very easy to get approved at this point.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:10 AM (1n+EO)

179 {{{ jewells45 fuck cancer}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

180 "Good luck with the HVAc repair guy showing on time. "

Yeh, I know.

Keeping fingers crossed here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:11 AM (1n+EO)

181 172 Boker Tov Patriots

I always tell those indian scam calls to have their mother's blow me. I get a rise out of them sometimes
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2022 07:08 AM (dO/0d)

For all scam calls, I set the receiver down gently into a rattan box on a table beside me.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 07:12 AM (GkGYg)

182 I'm pretty certain the reason Southwest Airlines canceled a thousand flights is because Elon Musk owns Twitter.
Posted by: Lost In Space

And Russia
Posted by: Bruce

Of course. How could I miss that. I will show myself out and as penance I am going to the airport to book a flight on Southwest Airlines.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 27, 2022 07:13 AM (c7ca9)

183 Well at least the government isn't fcuking with the trucking industry.

Oh???

Nevermind.

https://tinyurl.com/2p2aprcc

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:13 AM (1n+EO)

184 Good top see you regularly commenting, Jewells. Howzit going these days?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 27, 2022 07:14 AM (TgNpw)

185 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Wow. Waiving High Year tenure. And saying they would be advanced further. That last is most probably a cynical lie. I would expect the deckplate LPOs to want to leave, with no advancement possible.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

186 "I'm pretty certain the reason Southwest Airlines canceled a thousand flights is because Elon Musk owns Twitter.
Posted by: Lost In Space

And Russia
Posted by: Bruce
"

Elon bought Russia, too?

Shit, why don't people ever tell me these things?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:14 AM (1n+EO)

187 "I would expect the deckplate LPOs to want to leave, with no advancement possible."

Deckplate stories I'm hearing from our neighbors concerning rules, regulations and advancement are pretty startling.

And not pretty.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:16 AM (1n+EO)

188 Morning JT!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 27, 2022 07:16 AM (nxdel)

189 Village Idiot's Apprentice

On top of the incredibly expansive kleptocracy, our government is a kakistocracy as well.

This is why good people like NGU are vital to making things work. He got his third waiver when waivers were not cool.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

190 {{NaCly}} hope all is well in your neck of the woods. Looks like we are going to start to thaw out.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 27, 2022 07:17 AM (nxdel)

191 "This is why good people like NGU are vital to making things work. He got his third waiver when waivers were not cool."

True dat.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:18 AM (1n+EO)

192 Maricopa Elections Director Scott Jarrett Lied Under Oath In Kari Lake’s Historic Election Trial – Admits He Knew About Ballot Printing Issues “a Few Days After Election Day”

This happened about 5 or 6 times with the defense sojourning perjury. Judge never did a damn thing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 07:18 AM (BRHaw)

193 Village Idiot's Apprentice

So people have changed the universal excuse of poor performance to Musk instead of COVID-19 Wuhan? I suppose this is progress of a sorts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

194 "Service leaders have attributed recruitment challenges to factors including more thorough medical screenings, fewer Americans eligible to serve, and low civilian unemployment."

"Fewer Americans eligible to serve" ... why?

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 07:18 AM (GkGYg)

195 Good top see you regularly commenting, Jewells. Howzit going these days?

Going okay. Good days and bad. More good than bad so I can't complain much.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 27, 2022 07:18 AM (nxdel)

196 I had really bad tinnitus yesterday and I'm thinking about having a no-caffeine day today to see if that helps. I might not make it!
Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:36 AM (GkGYg)
~~~~~

Have you ever tried the "finger drumming" technique? It's pretty simple and works for a lot of people. Worth a shot:

https://tinnitusterminator.com/
tinnitus-finger-drumming-technique/

Posted by: IrishEi at December 27, 2022 07:19 AM (3ImbR)

197 "This happened about 5 or 6 times with the defense sojourning perjury. Judge never did a damn thing. "

Are these statements in the transcripts, and part of the record?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:19 AM (1n+EO)

198 I wonder if those same idiots who lost 10 billion with a "B" to the indian dot head call scam centers are the same idiots who run with scissors, smoke in bed and vote democrat.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 27, 2022 07:20 AM (UCfnM)

199 Well at least the government isn't fcuking with the trucking industry. https://tinyurl.com/2p2aprcc
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

"The EPA’s rule, which is more than 80% stricter than the previous regulation...The agency’s rule is intended to push truckers to phase out diesel-powered vehicles and use electric vehicles (EV) instead:

I will never understand why engineers have so much trouble coming up with crap and then making them work. Bureaucrats are able to do the same thing with a word processor.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 27, 2022 07:20 AM (c7ca9)

200 jewells45 fuck cancer

We are warm in the house. I am the only one going outside the house.

Our whole house generator will not start. We are dependent on Evergy.
Maintenance, it is always maintenance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

201 Well at least the government isn't fcuking with the trucking industry.

Oh???

Nevermind.

https://tinyurl.com/2p2aprcc
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:13 AM (1n+EO)

What are the dollar savings and health benefits when goods and supplies stop being truck-delivered to vulnerable communities?

EPA Administrator: *Jedi hand wave* This is fine.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 27, 2022 07:21 AM (4I/2K)

202 ""Fewer Americans eligible to serve" ... why?"

1. Not smart enough

2. Not healthy enough

3. Not morally qualified through arrests and admitted drug usage.

Just three wild guesses.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:21 AM (1n+EO)

203 198 I wonder if those same idiots who lost 10 billion with a "B" to the indian dot head call scam centers are the same idiots who run with scissors, smoke in bed and vote democrat.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 27, 2022 07:20 AM (UCfnM)

And wear masks and ask for the manager.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2022 07:22 AM (H8QX8)

204 196 I had really bad tinnitus yesterday and I'm thinking about having a no-caffeine day today to see if that helps. I might not make it!
Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 05:36 AM (GkGYg)
~~~~~

Have you ever tried the "finger drumming" technique? It's pretty simple and works for a lot of people. Worth a shot:

https://tinnitusterminator.com/
tinnitus-finger-drumming-technique/
Posted by: IrishEi at December 27, 2022 07:19 AM (3ImbR)

Cool link! Will look into that. Thanks!

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 07:23 AM (GkGYg)

205 "What are the dollar savings and health benefits when goods and supplies stop being truck-delivered to vulnerable communities? "

Is this where we say 'Women and minorities hardest hit'?

Or

Most cities are only three days away from anarchy and starvation.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:24 AM (1n+EO)

206 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:16 AM (1n+EO)

FFS, zone A E4s in certain aviation MOS' are getting 32k.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 27, 2022 07:24 AM (TgNpw)

207 Morning JT!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:24 AM (T4tVD)

208 My birdbath is frozen SOLID ! (if you're keeping score at home)

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:25 AM (T4tVD)

209 "Our whole house generator will not start. We are dependent on Evergy.
Maintenance, it is always maintenance."

An effective and robust PMS system will prevent these things from happening.

And good PMS Spot Checks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:26 AM (1n+EO)

210 I see Katie Hobbs is now seeking officially sanctioned monetary vengeance against Lake. Always on the offensive.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2022 07:26 AM (H8QX8)

211 m

Felony convictions and a lot of drug use, coupled with poor physical fitness.

I can imagine a land whale trying to get through a scuttle in a water-tight door.

On ships, the ladder going from one deck to another below the waterline is a hazard to watertight integrity, and could sink the ship if not sealable. The deck opening is protected by a heavy watertight door. In the center of that door is a round hatch opened with a wheel. It can be tight for the large.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

212 "FFS, zone A E4s in certain aviation MOS' are getting 32k."

I wonder if it's still a thing where if you re-enlisted in a tax-free zone, the re-enlistment bonus was tax free.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:27 AM (1n+EO)

213 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Yes. Gun-decked it, to care for my wife. She is doing less and less, with less energy.

For example, she used low energy as the excuse to shut the door in the face of my neighbors caroling. I was at work. *Le Sigh*

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

214 "Americans duped into losing $10 billion by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: Report"

Not personal here, but Americans have been duped into losing $30,000,000,000,000 for a very long time.

Do you know where the $7T has gone from the last two years? Me either.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 27, 2022 07:29 AM (klw0w)

215 I see Katie Hobbs is now seeking officially sanctioned monetary vengeance against Lake. Always on the offensive. Posted by: Ordinary American

If something doesn't change and fast in a few years Hobbs would just execute Lake before the election. Hobbs suing Lake is pretty breathtaking.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 27, 2022 07:29 AM (c7ca9)

216 Rackspace still cannot give us access to our email history, because they totally suck and they were ransomwared. But mostly because they suck. We also can't get access to any emails that arrived between the day they locked down our (and thousands of other companies) Exchange system, and when we completed the switchover to M365 and populated the DNS system with the new addresses; about a week of company emails that were "received" but never viewed by anyone.

Rackspace sucks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 27, 2022 07:29 AM (e2Mwc)

217 Are these statements in the transcripts, and part of the record?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:19 AM (1n+EO)

yes

Another example was Betty's vmail saying there is not record of chain of custody for over 300,000 ballots. Several people said there is NO BETTY that works for county. This went on on both days of the trial. They had a business card for the Director of Outreach Betty Galanter.

Tom Liddy responded to this with another lie, changing his story and stating that “the question was asked about a Betty who works in the Cheating Maricopa County public records department, and there is no Betty who works in the Cheating Maricopa County public records department.” He continued, “That goes directly to my integrity.”

Notice he changed from the Elections dept to the Records Dept.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 07:29 AM (BRHaw)

218 195>> Good to hear that.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 27, 2022 07:29 AM (TgNpw)

219 https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Betty-Galanter/6934911924

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 07:30 AM (BRHaw)

220 I always tell those indian scam calls to have their mother's blow me. I get a rise out of them sometimes
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2022 07:08 AM (dO/0d)

For all scam calls, I set the receiver down gently into a rattan box on a table beside me.
Posted by: m

If I am a bit bored, speaking Hungarian to Jugdish can be amusing.

Posted by: Miklos, easily amused at December 27, 2022 07:31 AM (NUlxh)

221 "For example, she used low energy as the excuse ..."

Ouch.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:31 AM (1n+EO)

222 Miklos !

Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:33 AM (T4tVD)

223 If something doesn't change and fast in a few years Hobbs would just execute Lake before the election.
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 27, 2022 07:29 AM (c7ca9)

We're just a few clicks on the dial from that happening as a matter of course. We're dealing with conscience-less monsters.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2022 07:33 AM (H8QX8)

224 There is a whole YouTube subculture devoted to screwing around with Indian call center scammers.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8ssppv

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 27, 2022 07:34 AM (c7ca9)

225 202 ""Fewer Americans eligible to serve" ... why?"

1. Not smart enough

2. Not healthy enough

3. Not morally qualified through arrests and admitted drug usage.

Just three wild guesses.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:21 AM (1n+EO)

I'll be pondering this.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 07:34 AM (GkGYg)

226 JT

Posted by: happy for assisting with your issue at December 27, 2022 07:34 AM (NUlxh)

227 "Americans lost $10 billion to Indian call centre scams in 2022. (Deccan Herald)

To put that into perspective, that's as much as they lost to civil asset forfeiture or to a single major crypto scam, or about 5% of the pork Congress added into the CHIPS Act which was 95% pork to begin with."

But less than they lost to the Ukrainian Aid scam by an order of magnitude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2022 07:34 AM (CsVWE)

228 I never understood the fascination with crappy japanimation and annoying voices.

Then again, I never ate "magic" mushrooms, smoked meth, mainlined heroin, or destroyed my nasal passages with cocaine, either.

Maybe the two are not related; but it certainly must require some mind-altering substance or other head trauma to like those screeching tones as much as our beloved CoB does.

Posted by: setnaffa at December 27, 2022 07:35 AM (WgEgc)

229 211 m

Felony convictions and a lot of drug use, coupled with poor physical fitness.

I can imagine a land whale trying to get through a scuttle in a water-tight door.

On ships, the ladder going from one deck to another below the waterline is a hazard to watertight integrity, and could sink the ship if not sealable. The deck opening is protected by a heavy watertight door. In the center of that door is a round hatch opened with a wheel. It can be tight for the large.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:26 AM (u82oZ)

Will ponder this, too.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 07:35 AM (GkGYg)

230 "This is why good people like NGU are vital to making things work. He got his third waiver when waivers were not cool."

True dat.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022 07:18 AM (1n+EO)

5 Waivers if you include the one I had to get to come in LOL.Last Waiver signed by the Sec Nav

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 27, 2022 07:36 AM (dO/0d)

231 Aetius451AD

An awful lot of corporate business plans expect a large middle class to have money.

Uh, about that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

232 JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 27, 2022 07:36 AM (BRHaw)

233 George Santos says he didn't say he was Jewish, but that he is "Jew-ish". Fkn politicians, lying scumbags one and all.

Posted by: fd at December 27, 2022 07:37 AM (iayUP)

234 "An awful lot of corporate business plans expect a large middle class to have money."

They should have thought about that before they embraced middle class-annihilating wokism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 27, 2022 07:39 AM (H8QX8)

235 212 Every so often, Wing back in Iwakuni would fly a few people down for a 24 hour stay in country for reenlistment purposes. A few cynics always hoped Charlie would lob a few in on those nights.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 27, 2022 07:39 AM (lz5hY)

236 Watching a Gene Hackman movie. How is it possible that he has had an entire career and never once made a public spectacle of his life? Plus he is a solid actor. I likes me some Gene Hackman.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 27, 2022 07:39 AM (c7ca9)

237 Nevergiveup

I don't worry about dental care in the Navy. You got that.

Ship-handling and forming a tight, well-trained crew with unit cohesion and combat readiness, on the other hand ...

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

238 I was going to point JQ to Obamacare, but I see golfman beat me to it. Horde mind is stronk!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 27, 2022 07:41 AM (PiwSw)

239 JJ Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 27, 2022 07:42 AM (PiwSw)

240 An awful lot of corporate business plans expect a large middle class to have money.

Uh, about that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 27, 2022 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

That's because they have no idea why the middle class had money to begin with. They are idiots who think they are geniuses. Ignorant, but think themselves wise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2022 07:43 AM (CsVWE)

241 The falling snow over at 4chan is nice:

https://boards.4channel.org/news/

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 07:53 AM (GkGYg)

242 This is a preview of what's coming next from the government:

@tedlieu
15h
Dear @hamill_law: I oppose censorship by the government. Twitter is not the government.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2022 08:19 AM (GkGYg)

243 "This happened about 5 or 6 times with the defense sojourning perjury. Judge never did a damn thing. "

Are these statements in the transcripts, and part of the record?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 27, 2022

***
"Sojourning" perjury? A sojourn is a trip; traveling. Do they mean "suborning" perjury?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2022 08:28 AM (KAKDL)

244 Posted by: JT at December 27, 2022 07:25 AM (T4tVD)

My birdbath had a skim of ice when I checked on Christmas. I checked yesterday and it was *broken*! It was a pretty glass one with iridescent peacock feather designs, and a Mother's Day gift from Littlest Kidlet. I am very sad.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 27, 2022 10:39 AM (nC+QA)

245 >Uses Nginx and Lua

These days I'm more and more enamoured of Caddy as a lightweight http server/reverse proxy. Nginx configuration is old school idiosyncratic conf files and requires a ton of boilerplate.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at December 27, 2022 10:51 AM (/0tPK)

246
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Posted by: Sharon Webster at December 27, 2022 12:32 PM (psO9b)

247 Hi Pixy

Link to the HiFi you purchased?

Posted by: Sunny at December 27, 2022 01:00 PM (Q47Lc)

248 Re: DRINK!

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

"While you live, Drink!—for once dead you never shall return."

AND:

YESTERDAY This Day's Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you not know whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Posted by: Dyspeptic Curmudgeon at December 27, 2022 01:13 PM (Kc1Sm)

249 Browsing the old posts from August, came across this from Pixy Mis, the perfect epitaph for an IT bit wrangler:

"After trying every setting I could find to no avail, I gave up and rebooted it one last time, and it worked."

BRAVO!

Posted by: Dyspeptic Curmudgeon at December 27, 2022 01:16 PM (Kc1Sm)

250 I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
Here's what I've been doing... www.Payathome7.com

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