Daily Tech News 24 August 2023

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A new ruling from the NHTSA says that car makers must comply with Massachusetts' right-to-repair law and provide a standard mechanism for retrieving data from the cars' computer systems for owners and independent repair shops. (Tech Crunch)

Eventually. The ruling allows "a reasonable period of time" for manufacturers to make the necessary updates, without ever bothering to define that.

This overturns a previous ruling saying that manufacturers did not need to comply with the law, issued, uh, two months ago.
Meanwhile a right-to-repair bill has passed 38-0 through the California Senate and attracted the full-throated support of... Apple. (404 Media)

The same Apple that has for years been one of the most aggressive and most disingenuous opponents of right-to-repair legislation.

More on that below.

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AMD will be announcing the Radeon 7800 XT and 7700 XT at Gamescom tomorrow-ish. AMD has one event at noon on the 25th German time and another at 5pm. (Videcardz)

Expect these cards to be pretty decent overall, but priced too high, because there's so little competition right now.
The reason there's so little competition is that Nvidia simply doesn't give a shit. And the reason for that is that they make four times as much from AI as they do from consumer graphics cards. (WCCFTech)

And that's revenue numbers. Margins are a lot better on the high-end AI cards, so the difference in profits would be even larger.

AMD could be more aggressive, but Nvidia can more easily afford a price war right now, so expect prices to remain high at least until Intel releases its second-generation "Battlemage" cards.
Geekom has announced the Mini IT13, a NUC with an Intel 13900H CPU. (Liliputing)
SimplyNUC has announced the Onyx, a NUC with an Intel 13900H CPU. (Liliputing)

That's not a coincidence; both companies are sourcing their motherboards and cases from another manufacturer, and the two are nearly identical. The Geekom model is blue and has 40Gbps USB-C ports, while the SimplyNUC is black and appears to have 20Gbps ports, but the cases are otherwise the same, and the port arrangement is exactly the same.

On the CPU side the 13900H closely matches AMD's 7840HS, also popular in recent NUC announcements.

On the graphics side, though, the AMD chip demolishes Intel, being nearly three times as fast. So unless you just don't care about graphics performance, go with AMD.
OptiLOL: When adding a print statement makes your code run twice as fast. (Medium)

This is really a case of a failed compiler optimisation; adding the print statement allowed the compiler to find that optimisation.

It is a very specific issue related to branch predictions (the ChatGPT explanation inserted into the article is correct but eye-glazingly dull) but basically this is just a compiler bug.

What Is Apple Up To Video of the Day

If you are suspicious about one of the largest and most unscrupulous opponents of device repairability having a sudden change of heart and becoming a stalwart champion of consumers and independent repair shops, you are not half so suspicious as Louis Rossman, who made the mistake of giving Apple the benefit of the doubt once, four years ago, and has been living it down ever since.

It's not a question of whether Apple is attempting to fuck over its own customers, but how.

Disclaimer: Basically, BOHICA.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 24, 2023 04:00 AM (adINt)

2 BOING? BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 24, 2023 04:02 AM (adINt)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 24, 2023 04:02 AM (MOY79)

4 Evening and morning to all!

Willowed: we are getting a taste of Wolfus's weather here, it's after midnight and still 83 degrees, gaaack.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023

***
Morning, sock! Yeah, I've stopped looking at the local TV to see what the temp or weather is, it's always the damn same. My car told me it was 102 yesterday afternoon at 4, and I had been parked in the shade.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:05 AM (omVj0)

5 In SC WI, it was 92F at 10:00PM.
104 at 5PM yesterday.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:07 AM (43xH1)

6 I'm up trying to recall how to build even a basic website. Managed a favicon.
It's coming back but very slowly.

Welp. The curse of the reader is finishing up one book and then not being able to decide what to read next...
May have to check out the Moron Recommendations...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 23, 2023 10:41 PM (BpYfr)
Wait. I reviewed a couple of books the last few weeks. None of interest to you???
Posted by: OrangeEnt

'How To Make A Successful Movie', link at the very bottom of the very-basic-for-now website: leneal.com
It's a quick read.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:09 AM (43xH1)

7 So the right to repair law for cars in MA gives 'reasonable period of time' while the govt says cars have to suspend the laws of physics and get 40 miles per gallon by 2030. How do we give a legislative system a giant does of lithium?

Posted by: Bete at August 24, 2023 04:10 AM (KuG1T)

8 At the office (exposed, 'industrial-look aesthetic') the aircon ducting is condensing heavily and dripping water all over the place and onto the pool table. Last time I covered the table with plastic and let management/maintenance know, and they didn't do anything about it so screw it this time.
The table isn't very good.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:11 AM (43xH1)

9 A 1965 movie I've never really heard of called Die, Monster, Die! is on Comet right now. Nick Adams, Boris Karloff, with a script by Jerry "Corbomite Maneuver" Sohl from an H.P. Lovecraft story. Seems intriguing; I wish I could have watched it from the start. And you have to give them props for putting the commas into the title where they belong.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:15 AM (omVj0)

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Posted by: Bete at August 24, 2023 04:10 AM (KuG1T)
≈================

This is a job for elizabeth holmes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at August 24, 2023 04:17 AM (lCaJd)

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Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:11 AM (43xH1)

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Pool table at the office?!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at August 24, 2023 04:19 AM (lCaJd)

12 The Killer Kittens From Outer Space are galloping around, chasing each other, knocking my Kleenex box to the floor, etc. I forgot and left the bathroom tap trickling for them last night. It's not a problem now, I don't pay for water. But when I finally buy my house and have a water bill, that's gonna stop.

The two feline thugs have a water fountain, but they still love lapping from a running tap.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:20 AM (omVj0)

13 Pool table at the office?!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone

Yeah. And vintage video games, three kitchens, a 'meditation room' and treadmills outfitted with computer stands. Bunch of other stuff.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:26 AM (43xH1)

14 Also two beer tappers, a fridge usually stocked with various alcohol, food and snacks.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:27 AM (43xH1)

15 Gonna be a long day. Work, then writing group tonight. I plan to attend tonight and the next meeting in two weeks, and then I'm out for a while; I may not even attend. I'm tired of wrangling with Mr. "I 'published' a book so I know all about writing, even though my book is full of editing errors and awkward changes from first person to third." I come home each time grumbling under my breath. It's not worth it any more. It's a shame; I've been attending since 2006 and it's taught me a lot.

With luck the new AoS writer's group that OrangeEnt is spearheading will be more fun and will teach me more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:29 AM (omVj0)

16 The entire German TV miniseries of 'World On A Wire' from 1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is on YT at the moment with English subs.

Adaptation of 'Simulacron-3 (1964)'
(also published as 'Counterfeit World')
Daniel F. Galouye

Very early 'virtual reality' SF.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:31 AM (43xH1)

17
#WhoOwnsJoe

#WhereDidYourMoneyComeFromJoe

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 24, 2023 04:33 AM (xG4kz)

18 With luck the new AoS writer's group that OrangeEnt is spearheading will be more fun and will teach me more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere'

I, for one, look forward to disappointing you!

(In fact, the writer's group I joined X years ago that did actually teach me to write was full of loons and losers. I've only kept up with one guy after all these years, but he's one of the most valued friends I have ever had.)

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:33 AM (43xH1)

19 With luck the new AoS writer's group that OrangeEnt is spearheading will be more fun and will teach me more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere'

I, for one, look forward to disappointing you!

(In fact, the writer's group I joined X years ago that did actually teach me to write was full of loons and losers. I've only kept up with one guy after all these years, but he's one of the most valued friends I have ever had.)
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023

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Oh, there have been loons and losers in the real-life group too, but it gave me that little governor in my head that says, "You know somebody in the group will say this is implausible or needs more explanation. Fix it now -- the same way you would before submitting to an editor."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:36 AM (omVj0)

20 The one thing I learned from writer's groups is, if anyone starts talking about 'collaboration', get rid of them immediately. It means they want other people to do their work.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:41 AM (43xH1)

21 Comments wouldn't come up on phone so had to restart.
I rarely turn off phone or tablet

Posted by: Skip at August 24, 2023 04:42 AM (MOY79)

22 The one thing I learned from writer's groups is, if anyone starts talking about 'collaboration', get rid of them immediately. It means they want other people to do their work.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023

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Oh, Mister Expert has said he's putting an ad on Craigslist to find a "co-writer" -- someone who can work with him so they can turn out more books. First, good luck finding someone in this benighted town who can string three coherent sentences together. Second, just what kind of vision is this going to produce? More than likely it will be a mess. Third, Craigslist? The home of listings for pig-in-a-poke used cars and crappy apartments?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:46 AM (omVj0)

23
I hooked up this ancient laptop to my backup power supply which has a readout of watts used. It read 25, then 30 seconds later 0, then 30 seconds later back to 25.

So in a power outage I got that easily covered for a long time. Some other examples of watts used at startup:
toaster 1000
insta pot 1000
sous vide 1400
refrig 150

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 04:48 AM (enJYY)

24 Good morning morons

Yesterday there was a huge rally led by Genius Mayor London Breed outside the federal courthouse hearing on a temporary injunction preventing the city from clearing homeless encampments. The lawsuit was brought by a nonprofit funded by the city, who argue the city cannot remove homeless people if it cannot offer a shelter bed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 04:49 AM (RIvkX)

25 Also it was 80 degrees here yesterday and my poor wife and son truly suffered. Boy F. must have repeated a 1000 times "The sun is hot!" I had to cool him off with a cold washcloth a few times. My whole family find heat physically intolerable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 04:56 AM (RIvkX)

26 Well after not watching the debate last night and only about 10 min of tuck/trump, my choice remains the same.

Trump or write in Trump.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 04:59 AM (O1z4v)

27 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 24, 2023 05:06 AM (ju2Fy)

28 I come home each time grumbling under my breath. It's not worth it any more. It's a shame; I've been attending since 2006 and it's taught me a lot.

With luck the new AoS writer's group that OrangeEnt is spearheading will be more fun and will teach me more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:29 AM (omVj0)

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 05:07 AM (yRwlf)

29 Great thing about a propane gas stove- it works during a power outage.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 05:08 AM (O1z4v)

30 Damnit forgot to copy the response to Wolfus from my clipboard @_@

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 05:08 AM (yRwlf)

31
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 04:59 AM

Do you think our Secretary of State and Governor (D)'s are gonna let Trump even be on the ballot?

If they don't and it gets to the Supreme Court will they even hear the case.

AND

If the Supreme Court was to rule he should be on the ballot would they even follow the ruling?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:08 AM (enJYY)

32 To Wolfus:

I love getting scripts reviewed by people who basically do nothing but review scripts, and their suggestions are shit like "take out (what is essentially) the entire focus of the script" or "remove this twist that ties the whole story together"

Being a professional in any writing world is like everything else today, where connections and luck beat out ability every day of the week, except maybe thr 3rd Tuesday. So it sucks a lot, but hopefully we get to that Tuesday.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 05:09 AM (yRwlf)

33 Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:08 AM (enJYY)

Don't care. Writing in Trump. I am not going to surrender before the battle is fought because we might lose. What if trump IS on the ballot and wins big?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 05:11 AM (O1z4v)

34 The next time I read "formerly known as Twitter" someone's going down.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:12 AM (RIvkX)

35 Nice out but not seeing stars

Posted by: Skip at August 24, 2023 05:12 AM (MOY79)

36 I don't underestimate the Government's ability to screw up this right to repair bill. Everyone wanted it basically just to say "we want to be able to fix our Phones or Computers, or have a 3rd party able to do so" now the government will find a way to destroy business who say, don't allow consumers the right to repair the nuclear power plant in their state that provides them energy.

The guy in that video, Louis Rossmann, is a stand up dude. Years ago, back when he just had his small place in NYC, I called him about a repair on my 1st gen MacBook Pro 17" with the motherboard issue (due to Steve Jobs' mindset of form over function) At the time a lot of shops were doing bogus repairs for $500+ by either heating the gpu with a heat gun or putting it in the oven (something I did for about 2 years to keep my 2 17" MBPs alive) but they would desolder again weeks or months later. Louis played it straight, told me how no one can legitimately fix it, and said as long as doing the heat trick was working, to stick with that until i can buy a something else. He could have made easy money, but chose to be a honest business.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 05:12 AM (yRwlf)

37 No matter what happens with the right to repair bills, Apple will weasel its way around it.

Just like how laws have passed that say all phones need to use the same charging system (USB-C now) so Apple is complying, but apparently putting chips in their phones and chargers that mean you can only use Apple USB-C cables to charge your phone. So while technically they're following the law, they're just doing something that no one thought they'd be scummy enough to do, to get around it. (And cables are a huge business, didn't Apple make billions by no longer shipping chargers with phones?)

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 05:13 AM (yRwlf)

38 What kinda shocks me is the obvious deterioration of basic editing in even the most 'prestigious' books and publications anymore. You can pick up any old trashy drugstore paperback from as near back as the 1990s and find nary a misspelling or grammatical error of any kind.

Now? I get academic, high-end stuff and it's riddled with all manner of problems so obvious you'd think a 4th grader would catch them.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:13 AM (43xH1)

39 Don't care. Writing in Trump. I am not going to surrender before the battle is fought because we might lose. What if trump IS on the ballot and wins big?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 05:11 AM (O1z4v)
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I expect to write in Trump as well.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:13 AM (RIvkX)

40 The Onion, back when it was funny, had absolutely the best takes on Apple.

"Should The Nation's Unemployed Be Buying New Apple Computers?"

https://tinyurl.com/bdvzyrwz

Although the bit about 'Is he writing his MANIFESTO?' kind of hit a little too close to home...

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:17 AM (43xH1)

41
What if trump IS on the ballot and wins big?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 05:11 AM (O1z4v)

He *could* win PA in a legitimate election. But if other states keep him off the ballot - which seems to be the new game plan - without the Supreme Court stepping in, the Electoral College numbers won't work.

Since the SC has shown no interest in current events I have little hope.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:18 AM (enJYY)

42 The lawsuit was brought by a nonprofit funded by the city […]
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 04:49 AM (RIvkX

The same happened here twenty years ago but the issue at the time was anti development environmentalist lawyers suing the city.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 05:20 AM (Tag4Y)

43 Present

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 05:21 AM (4I/2K)

44 The Onion, back when it was funny, had absolutely the best takes on Apple.

"Should The Nation's Unemployed Be Buying New Apple Computers?"

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:17 AM (43xH1)

A favorite was the video they did where they basically predicted the MacAir, saying Apple was slowly going to remove everything from their laptops until it was just a screen and an Ipod style wheel.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 05:22 AM (yRwlf)

45 Girl F. reports she read my "manifesto" to her work colleagues in Houston last night and it got "rave reviews."

Funny that she thought it would frighten her wedding guests but it's ok to share at work??
/millenials

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:24 AM (RIvkX)

46 Forgot travel mug and 1/2 cup of coffee

Posted by: Skip at August 24, 2023 05:26 AM (gkxH4)

47 Dear Genius Mayor Breed,

1. Not sure about rallying outside the courthouse

2. Not sure why you continue to fund nonprofits that perpetuate the problem you are supposed to resolve

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:27 AM (RIvkX)

48 R2R: void warranty or liability, screw over dealers, or war with China will make OEM parts scarce

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 24, 2023 05:27 AM (Eeb9P)

49 Since the SC has shown no interest in current events I have little hope.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:18 AM (enJYY)

And if the supreme court does rule in Trump's favor, Dems will rile up their arson squads by saying "Can you believe Trump's illegitimate Supreme Court overruled the whol of the people and allowed Trump on the ballots!"

I think keeping him off the ballot would be a hard option for them. I know they think they can gin up some skewed logic to do it, but it could backfire as people will finally see how their nothing but typical communist.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 05:27 AM (yRwlf)

50 Forgot travel mug and 1/2 cup of coffee
Posted by: Skip at August 24, 2023 05:26 AM (gkxH4)
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Hopefully not left on roof of the truck.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:28 AM (RIvkX)

51 The tropical weather event dumped just enough rain in the north sierra to forestall the threat of wildfire for the next couple months.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 05:30 AM (Tag4Y)

52 PA will not have a legitimate election. Not with the current leadership both D and R.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 05:32 AM (O1z4v)

53 Looks like Ohtani tore his UCL again, 2nd time in 5 years.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 24, 2023 05:34 AM (Eeb9P)

54 A valued colleague who has been struggling with his own 'manifesto' for quite some time, and whom I consider to be highly intelligent, revealed casually to me not long ago he's been depending on Grammarly to get his writing done.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:36 AM (43xH1)

55 Don't complain to much about high temps. You do know that if you drove a EV the temp would be much cooler, I hope. Watching all the car ads on the TV and computer, most are for those nasty fossil fuel cars. Get with it manufactures, the dead line for fossil fuel is coming fast. Assuming Uncle Joe wakes up long enough to demand it.

Posted by: Colin at August 24, 2023 05:38 AM (2DV6+)

56 You know, it is kind of startling to realize how anti-customer so many corporations are now.

Now that is not an idle jest about anti-corporatism, this is not an indictment of 'Late stage capitalism.' It really does seem like there has been a turning point somewhere in the last 20 years from companies at least trying to satisfy customer desires (so they can, I don't know, make money) to actively HATING their customers. In healthy capitalism, this is a two way street on the one hand, the customer takes advantage of the company wanting to attract buyers, and the company wants to attract the money the customer brings. It is a symbiotic type of thing. Both sides look out for their self interest and in turn, help each other.

I could point to fascism, but I do not think that is the only thing at play here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 05:39 AM (zZu0s)

57
Read a long medical article last night that someone posted a link to here. I didn't understand most everything to be honest, but the gist of it is the vaccines have broken peoples immune system. Permanently.

The author supposes that people are soon going to drop dead without a clue that they're ill.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:42 AM (enJYY)

58 Read a long medical article last night that someone posted a link to here. I didn't understand most everything to be honest, but the gist of it is the vaccines have broken peoples immune system. Permanently.

The author supposes that people are soon going to drop dead without a clue that they're ill.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:42 AM (enJYY)

So we are talking about the 'vaxx' not standard vaccines?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 05:43 AM (zZu0s)

59 A valued colleague who has been struggling with his own 'manifesto' for quite some time, and whom I consider to be highly intelligent, revealed casually to me not long ago he's been depending on Grammarly to get his writing done.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:36 AM (43xH1)
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I just write down what the voices in my head tell me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:44 AM (RIvkX)

60 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 05:46 AM (BRHaw)

61
The author of the same piece said that the animals tested with vaccines for covid type viruses all dropped dead.

I *had* read that in 2020 that every test since 2002 was a failure with 'vaccine associated enhanced disease' but that was the first time I read that they all died.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:46 AM (enJYY)

62
So we are talking about the 'vaxx' not standard vaccines?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 05:43 AM

Right, the covid vaccine.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:47 AM (enJYY)

63
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 24, 2023 05:50 AM (ENBF0)

64 Corporations are part of the fascist control system, so, their relationship to consumers is antagonistic

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 24, 2023 05:52 AM (Eeb9P)

65 The author supposes that people are soon going to drop dead without a clue that they're ill.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:42 AM (enJYY)

They already are.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 24, 2023 05:53 AM (NpzV6)

66 Partly cloudy today, in the morning mostly, then sunny afternoon with a tropical high of 107.

In the neighborhood, people's a/c units are crying No Mas!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 05:53 AM (4I/2K)

67 Corporations are part of the fascist control system, so, their relationship to consumers is antagonistic
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 24, 2023 05:52 AM (Eeb9P)
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Think Rollerball

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:54 AM (RIvkX)

68 Good morning! Get to take the grandkids to school today so we're gonna get sausage rolls and a donut for breakfast. Old fashion glazed cake for me and a chocolate milk. For. The. Win!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 05:54 AM (YRsIm)

69 Corporations are part of the fascist control system, so, their relationship to consumers is antagonistic
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 24, 2023 05:52 AM (Eeb9P)

So, not unlike facehuggers and xenomorphs then.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 05:54 AM (4I/2K)

70 In the neighborhood, people's a/c units are crying No Mas!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 05:53 AM (4I/2K)
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I remember as a kid the hum of thousands of window air conditioning units.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:55 AM (RIvkX)

71 Good morning! Get to take the grandkids to school today so we're gonna get sausage rolls and a donut for breakfast. Old fashion glazed cake for me and a chocolate milk. For. The. Win!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 05:54 AM (YRsIm)

The breakfast of Champions!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 05:55 AM (4I/2K)

72
Yes, 'excess deaths' right now have the insurance companies in a financial bind. But Fauci still walks a free man.

If every test of a vaccine for covid type virus since the year 2002 had resulted in enhanced disease or death - and he knew it (of course he did) - then he needs to answer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:56 AM (enJYY)

73 Now? I get academic, high-end stuff and it's riddled with all manner of problems so obvious you'd think a 4th grader would catch them.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023

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"Rich as Creases" instead of "Croesus." That has got to be the pinnacle of howlers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 05:56 AM (omVj0)

74 I'm partial to those donuts with chocolate and sprinkles too. I may get one of each...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 05:57 AM (YRsIm)

75 Hm. Seems most European copyrights are 70 years from the death of the original author. Perhaps I've been hanging around in the 'wrong' parts of 'Europe' where literally nobody gives a shit about any copyrights of any kind... I'm going to have to ask permission from the estate for that one piece. Well, shit.

During the Sanctions on Serbia, it included IP. Serbs simply bootlegged licensed characters and turned out piles of locally produced, illegal Disney product; everything from clothing to coloring books. When the sanctions got lifted Disney tried to sue the government of Serbia and a whole bunch of other people.
Who told them to 'Get Fucked'.
Or, in the local parlance, "We fuck(ed) your mothers."

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:58 AM (43xH1)

76 Eh, is there a good web based explainer on the whole Alien Film Mythology thing? Link?

I’ve seen the films but am missing something important.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 05:58 AM (Tag4Y)

77 "Rich as Creases" instead of "Croesus." That has got to be the pinnacle of howlers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere'

WOW.
"I ran it through spellcheck, ITS fine!"

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:59 AM (43xH1)

78 A 1965 movie I've never really heard of called Die, Monster, Die! is on Comet right now. Nick Adams, Boris Karloff, with a script by Jerry "Corbomite Maneuver" Sohl from an H.P. Lovecraft story. Seems intriguing; I wish I could have watched it from the start. And you have to give them props for putting the commas into the title where they belong.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 04:15 AM (omVj0)

IIRC, the story was The Colour Out Of Space.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 24, 2023 05:59 AM (AW0uW)

79 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 05:54 AM (YRsIm)
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sounds like a blast, enjoy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 05:59 AM (RIvkX)

80 REVEALED: Maui's top emergency officials were on a different island for disaster training conference and did not join coordinating response call until FIVE HOURS after deadly wildfires started

We are from the government and we a NOT here to help.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 05:59 AM (BRHaw)

81 Eh, is there a good web based explainer on the whole Alien Film Mythology thing? Link?

I’ve seen the films but am missing something important.
Posted by: 13times'

Well, you have to start where it all began: Prometheus.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:59 AM (43xH1)

82 Well, you have to start where it all began: Prometheus.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:59 AM (43xH1)

LOL Cruel, but funny.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 06:00 AM (4I/2K)

83 Number of transgender surgeries performed each year has TRIPLED across US in past three years with more than 1,200 procedures performed in patients 18 or YOUNGER annually, study shows

Page Dr Mengele, Dr Mengele come to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:00 AM (BRHaw)

84 A 1965 movie I've never really heard of called Die, Monster, Die! is on Comet right now. Nick Adams, Boris Karloff, with a script by Jerry "Corbomite Maneuver" Sohl from an H.P. Lovecraft story. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023
*
IIRC, the story was The Colour Out Of Space.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 24, 2023

***
Morning, MP4! Yes, that was what the Trivia section on IMDb said. For some reason I am never sure which of Lovecraft's stories I've read, except for the novelette "The Shuttered Room." That one I recall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 06:01 AM (omVj0)

85 Corbomite Maneuver involved neither corbomite nor a maneuver. Discuss.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:02 AM (RIvkX)

86 Oh, I see the viewership of the TuCah interview of PDTS eclipsed the viewership of the Faux News debate bigly.

Hahahahahahahahahaha! HA!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 06:02 AM (YRsIm)

87 Well, you have to start where it all began: Prometheus.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 05:59 AM (43xH1)

After trafficking this site for years I should know better.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 06:04 AM (Tag4Y)

88
Oh, I see the viewership of the TuCah interview of PDTS eclipsed the viewership of the Faux News debate bigly.

That's a lot of listing vessels.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:04 AM (enJYY)

89 80>> It would be a stunning condition of malfeasance if there was no one in place to execute the responsibilities of the office while those folks were out 'training'.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 06:05 AM (YRsIm)

90 I’ve seen the films but am missing something important.
Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 05:58 AM (Tag4Y)

There's a plethora, approaching an avogadro quantity, of UTubes deconstructing every possible POV on the Alien franchise films. All in good fun.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 06:07 AM (4I/2K)

91 66.7 degrees in the back yard.

66.4 degree dew point.

That's moist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:08 AM (1n+EO)

92 Trump's main problem is there are a lot of Stewart Swintons in both parties

and they don't give a shit how they get rid of Trump

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:09 AM (us2H3)

93 The ALIEN 'series' is a lot like BATMAN. It's rife with digressions and non-canon stuff, and trying to make a coherent Universe out of it seems to take up a lot of time for a lot of people.
The Nerdist has an okay overview; you can InterWebz 'Alien Timeline' and pick your poison.
None of them include the comics, though.

And none of them include the treatment I pitched to Dark Horse back in the late 1980s which ROCKED, by the way.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:09 AM (43xH1)

94 Well after not watching the debate last night and only about 10 min of tuck/trump, my choice remains the same.
Trump or write in Trump.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I was going to watch TuCa. Put it on my phone. Then I realized the Roku MST3K channel was running Danger! Death Ray. I figure JJ will be all over it anyway.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 24, 2023 06:10 AM (X++p7)

95 Kristin Smart's killer Paul Flores seriously injured in prison attack: lawyer

I am hoping it was a mop handle up his ass.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:10 AM (BRHaw)

96 REVEALED: Maui's top emergency officials were on a different island for disaster training conference and did not join coordinating response call until FIVE HOURS after deadly wildfires started

--

It's possible that you'll never see government summed up more perfectly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:10 AM (oZ23Y)

97 I saw Alien with my dad in a theater on the east side, and everyone was smoking weed except us. That movie screwed me up for days.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:10 AM (RIvkX)

98 89 80>> It would be a stunning condition of malfeasance if there was no one in place to execute the responsibilities of the office while those folks were out 'training'.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 06:05 AM (YRsIm)

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:11 AM (BRHaw)

99 I’ve seen the films but *am* missing something important.
Posted by: 13times'

Is this a query, or a statement? That you ARE missing something important (No), or are you missing anything important?
(Also No.)

My immediate response was facetious but also true: it starts with P********s.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:12 AM (43xH1)

100 Read a long medical article last night that someone posted a link to here. I didn't understand most everything to be honest, but the gist of it is the vaccines have broken peoples immune system. Permanently.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 05:42 AM (enJYY)

Back when they first rolled out the vaccine, after reading about it, I likened it to steroids. Where you'd basically be dependent on it for life, as it stopped your body's ability to build its own defense against the flu.

I wouldn't doubt that it also would start mutating, so that your body can't build its natural defenses against pretty much anything.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 06:12 AM (yRwlf)

101 Yeah. And vintage video games, three kitchens, a 'meditation room' and treadmills outfitted with computer stands. Bunch of other stuff.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 04:26 AM (43xH1

I was at a dot.com for the Boom (Bubble). where does this happen now?

We had a gym, tae kwon do, ping pong, foosball and a hockey game and other shit I didn't do.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 24, 2023 06:12 AM (GzDfN)

102 Kristin Smart's killer Paul Flores seriously injured in prison attack: lawyer

Oh, no! Anyway...

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 24, 2023 06:12 AM (X++p7)

103
I remember back in 2002 there was some sort of virus loose because some moms who were nurses were volunteering to come in every day and scrub down desks in the classroom. They were very concerned but in the end it wasn't really that deadly.

Until Wuhan upped the ante with gain of function research. At US taxpayer expense.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:12 AM (enJYY)

104 REVEALED: Maui's top emergency officials were on a different island for disaster training conference and did not join coordinating response call until FIVE HOURS after deadly wildfires started

--

It's possible that you'll never see government summed up more perfectly.

--

Ha. I had posted the above, and then I saw this:

You do know that if you drove a EV the temp would be much cooler, I hope.

Posted by: Colin at August 24, 2023 05:38 AM (2DV6+)

-

My mistake in jumping the gun.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:13 AM (oZ23Y)

105 I saw Alien with my dad in a theater on the east side, and everyone was smoking weed except us. That movie screwed me up for days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

I'd ask if this is the same Dad you lectured about how everyone should wear the same clothes and other Socialist whatnot? I was going to say 'How uncool', but if it's the same Dad, how tolerant of him.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:14 AM (43xH1)

106 why they think it is necessary to have such a shit show that makes the GOP look like clowns is beyond me

and they have another turd coming up in just a few weeks

they should it "a debate" cuz non of those dolts will ever be president

I guess the uniparty thinks if they destroy the GOP they can rebuild it in their own image

Ronna is an evil cunt

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:14 AM (us2H3)

107 So we are talking about the 'vaxx' not standard vaccines?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 05:43 AM (zZu0s)

It'll be abby vaccine that uses mRNA, which they're suddenly coming out with for everything, despite every mRNA vaccine for the previous 30 years being complete and utter failures.

But because of the "vaxx" now the standard has been lowered, so all those previous failures now would pass these low threshold for approval.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 06:15 AM (yRwlf)

108 Back when they first rolled out the vaccine, after reading about it, I likened it to steroids. Where you'd basically be dependent on it for life, as it stopped your body's ability to build its own defense against the flu.

I wouldn't doubt that it also would start mutating, so that your body can't build its natural defenses against pretty much anything.
Posted by: Rbastid at August 24, 2023 06:12 AM (yRwlf)

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Posted by: Dwarf Emperor Fauci at August 24, 2023 06:15 AM (4I/2K)

109 Corbomite Maneuver involved neither corbomite nor a maneuver. Discuss.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:02 AM (RIvkX)

More of a gesture, really.

Posted by: Mrs. Heimlich at August 24, 2023 06:15 AM (9UlRk)

110 I was at a dot.com for the Boom (Bubble). where does this happen now?
We had a gym, tae kwon do, ping pong, foosball and a hockey game and other shit I didn't do.
Posted by: Bandersnatch'

Showcase tax writeoff for a billionaire. Co-Working Space. I pay $100@month and because I work nights, mostly have the entire complex to myself.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:15 AM (43xH1)

111 I still like the video of the Police Segway burning in the middle of the concourse at Dulles the other day.

Pretty much sums up the EV fire issue.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:16 AM (1n+EO)

112 "Praising" A prayer by Frank Topping who was a sailor, song writer, actor and minister:

You were praised Lord,
When you entered Jerusalem
people shouted, "Hosanna", and
strewed your path with palms;
and yet within days
their shouts of praise rang hollow.
Lord, help me to praise God
for all the goodness
That has been shown to me.
I have sung his praises with delight.
Help me, in darker days,
When others mock or deride,
not to be silent,
But continue to be loyal
In love and praise.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 06:16 AM (1RQ2N)

113 On Aug. 8, the heads of the Maui and Hawaii Emergency Management Agencies were busy attending an annual conference on how to respond to disasters from the Pacific’s top officials, but unbeknownst to the 74 attendees at the time, Maui was burning.

Best laid scheme oft gang aft a-gley

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:17 AM (BRHaw)

114 Lovely prayer. Thanks, Fen.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 24, 2023 06:17 AM (4I/2K)

115 I do it all

Posted by: Amber Heard at August 24, 2023 06:17 AM (us2H3)

116 Prometheus was long and messy but I don't go to movies for "canon" I go for 'splosions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:17 AM (RIvkX)

117 I saw Alien with my dad in a theater on the east side, and everyone was smoking weed except us. That movie screwed me up for days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Also, 'The Terminator' is the only movie I ever recall going to with my dad alone, just us two. He was a TV junkie as a kid and walked out, looked up a little, and said, "I think that was ripped off from an Outer Limits episode."

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:18 AM (43xH1)

118 I wouldn't doubt that it also would start mutating, so that your body can't build its natural defenses against pretty much anything.
Posted by: Rbastid

There's a part of me that thinks the whole Tranny hysteria thing was ginned up to take our eye off the many deaths and disabilities because of the clot shot. Ed Dowd analyzed the heck out it and thinks at least 26MM Americans have died or been disabled by the shot.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 24, 2023 06:18 AM (X++p7)

119 "but unbeknownst to the 74 attendees at the time, Maui was burning. "

I guess they all had their phones turned off so as not to disturb anyone?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:19 AM (1n+EO)

120 On Aug. 8, the heads of the Maui and Hawaii Emergency Management Agencies were busy attending an annual conference on how to respond to disasters from the Pacific’s top officials, but unbeknownst to the 74 attendees at the time, Maui was burning.

Best laid scheme oft gang aft a-gley
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:17 AM (BRHaw)

If only they had, like, beepers or something, man.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Hanging 10 at August 24, 2023 06:19 AM (4I/2K)

121 HuffPo thinks that not only did Joe Biden watch the debates, but he also whipped out his phone and Tweeted a response to Haley.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 06:20 AM (O1z4v)

122 Elon Musk slams Facebook for 'manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth'

Who does not know that everything you see is filtered, fucked over, flamed up or down with Flotsam and jetsam.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:20 AM (BRHaw)

123 Well, I suppose I'd better go to work. See you all on JJs thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 24, 2023 06:20 AM (AW0uW)

124 I do it all
Posted by: Amber Heard'

Deutschland Uber Schiesse!

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:20 AM (43xH1)

125 Okay. I’ll check nerdest. It’s kind of obvious that while I enjoyed the films I didn’t care enough to read into the mythos of the thing. That’s on me and my lazy mindedness.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 06:21 AM (Tag4Y)

126 The only reason to need that passel of flunkies and hucksters on-island in person is for horsewhipping, as there is precious little good and untold mischief they could ever have actually done if there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:21 AM (9UlRk)

127 Wildflowers in Colorado:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8zy69h

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 06:22 AM (1RQ2N)

128 I'd ask if this is the same Dad you lectured about how everyone should wear the same clothes and other Socialist whatnot? I was going to say 'How uncool', but if it's the same Dad, how tolerant of him.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:14 AM (43xH1)
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Heh. Yeah, he was pretty tolerant of my b.s. And he loved the movies. He took me to see Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 then expected me to get on the E train.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:22 AM (RIvkX)

129 That’s on me and my lazy mindedness.
Posted by: 13times'

Your lazy-mindedness isn't a patch on the creators. Don't worry about it. And it's Nerdist. Just search 'Alien Timeline'.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:22 AM (43xH1)

130 That’s on me and my lazy mindedness.
Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 06:21 AM (Tag4Y)

A good story doesn't need you to understand all the world building directly to work, it just has to be there and be good so that even if you don't think about it, the story still makes you feel like you're in a different place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:23 AM (9UlRk)

131 Corny tech related prayer

What do you call a doctor who fixes websites?

A URL-ologist

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 06:24 AM (1RQ2N)

132 Heh. Yeah, he was pretty tolerant of my b.s. And he loved the movies. He took me to see Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 then expected me to get on the E train.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

My dad once showed me his drawing books from middle school and showed me his car designs, and gave me a lecture about how everyone should drive the same kind of car and the automotive industry was a Capitalist Plot.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:24 AM (43xH1)

133 'mornin' Wolfus! wasn't sure if you would see that on the ONT.

100 yesterday afternoon, probably close to the same today.

71 right now

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023 06:25 AM (vbuLV)

134 He took me to see Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 then expected me to get on the E train.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

That's more of an L train kind of movie.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:25 AM (43xH1)

135 HuffPo thinks...

Well that right there pretty much tells you what follows is argle bargle.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 06:25 AM (YRsIm)

136 EXCLUSIVE: The “Robert L. Peters” email address Vice President @JoeBiden used to discuss #Ukraine with #HunterBiden in 2016, when he worked for Burisma, was hosted by @USDISA, an elite @DeptofDefense IT unit whose mission is “combat support” for warfighters.

This has to be 22 different types of illegal!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:26 AM (BRHaw)

137 Although with the L train, who would realistically give a shit about anybody hijacking the L train in the 1970s.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:26 AM (43xH1)

138 109 Corbomite Maneuver involved neither corbomite nor a maneuver.

Rob Roy involved neither Rob Roy or Scotsman.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 06:26 AM (Tag4Y)

139 "...how to respond to disasters from the Pacific’s top officials"
---
That phrasing is just perfect.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 24, 2023 06:27 AM (aBJcM)

140 LenNeal Ha! to both comments. Yeah E train was swank.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:27 AM (RIvkX)

141 What do you call a doctor who fixes websites?
A URL-ologist
Posted by: FenelonSpoke'

I'm working on mine now. Do you have a reference?

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:28 AM (43xH1)

142 My dad once showed me his drawing books from middle school and showed me his car designs, and gave me a lecture about how everyone should drive the same kind of car and the automotive industry was a Capitalist Plot.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:24 AM (43xH1)

Mine took me along to the scrap yard to glean parts for whichever vehicle was acting up that particular weekend.

Even if it doesn't make you appreciate automobiles, it'll still give you a healthy respect for the insect branch of the animal kingdom....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:28 AM (9UlRk)

143 Mister Blue: "I'm hijacking the L to Bushwick!"

NYPD: "Good luck."

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:29 AM (43xH1)

144 Oh, and mornin' Horde. I got up earlier than usual, which means I'll sit around sipping covfefe longer than usual and be online for work at exactly the same time as usual. Or possibly later. This is why I don't get up early.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 24, 2023 06:29 AM (aBJcM)

145 DNC surrogate in Milwaukee: “I would suggest that anybody who thinks that this country is in decline — come to cities! Because Democrat mayors all across the nation are creating great places where people want to be!"

Milwaukee
TOTAL CRIME INDEX
1
(100 is safest)

Safer than 1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:31 AM (BRHaw)

146 Safer than 1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:31 AM (BRHaw)

Wow.

That's actually an accomplishment.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:32 AM (9UlRk)

147 My dad once showed me his drawing books from middle school and showed me his car designs, and gave me a lecture about how everyone should drive the same kind of car and the automotive industry was a Capitalist Plot.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:24 AM (43xH1)

TADA the Trabant.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:32 AM (BRHaw)

148 TADA the Trabant.
Posted by: rhennigantx'

I had one, but my neighbor's goat ate it.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:33 AM (43xH1)

149 Wow.

That's actually an accomplishment.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:32 AM (9UlRk)

It is like missing 99 questions on a 100 question test.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

150 Aetius@56 -
I think there are way, way more psychopaths / sociopaths in power than ever before, they seem to be aiding one another
(and themselves, of course). Might have something to do with it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023 06:34 AM (vbuLV)

151 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:19 AM (1n+EO)

--

VIA, was it you who mentioned the name of the daily shipboard duties list a couple of weeks ago? I've been looking for the name of that again but have been unsuccessful (all I keep getting are things like "these are the daily duties of sailors!", and I want to introduce a similar concept to my children and explain to them how it would work in the real world and why.

If I'm remembering right and it was you, can you repeat the name of that list for me, please?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:34 AM (oZ23Y)

152 I had one, but my neighbor's goat ate it.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:33 AM (43xH1)

HOA president should be involved for a resolution.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:35 AM (BRHaw)

153 cant quite figure out how come we are concerned that one killer in Russia killed another killer in Russia

seem like a net win but I'm an optimist

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:35 AM (us2H3)

154 It is like missing 99 questions on a 100 question test.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

Maybe they should defund the police and disband local government... just to let the place recover back to a normal, equilibrium level of chaos and squalor.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:35 AM (9UlRk)

155 I've been in a Trabant. It's like riding a lawnmower with several people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:35 AM (RIvkX)

156 Maybe they should defund the police and disband local government... just to let the place recover back to a normal, equilibrium level of chaos and squalor.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:35 AM (9UlRk)
===
Promote that guy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:36 AM (RIvkX)

157 Milwaukee's crime is very nearly the sole reason WI elected Scott Walker: so he'd pass concealed carry. There was some West Side pizza delivery guy who shot so many people in attempted robberies even the Dem Cities got fed up and put in Walker so people could legally carry guns. The Dem Gov at the time couldn't let it pass because Madison!
So there was a temporary swap so Black delivery people could get CCWs.
Then Walker being a GOPe fucked it all up and WI got rid of him, but...
I wasn't first in the line for a CCW but I have a very low number.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:37 AM (43xH1)

158 155 I've been in a Trabant. It's like riding a lawnmower with several people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:35 AM (RIvkX)

"Everybody lean left!" *squeeeeee*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:37 AM (9UlRk)

159 "If I'm remembering right and it was you, can you repeat the name of that list for me, please?"

Sure.

It is the Plan of the Day (POD).

At least until recently, Navy Regulations required the Executive Officer to have published and posted on a daily basis on all Naval vessels.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:37 AM (1n+EO)

160 my area has become unsafe

last few mornings when I walk my bichons, there has been a large black bear standing in my drive

he's a bigun

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:37 AM (us2H3)

161 I think there are way, way more psychopaths / sociopaths in power than ever before, they seem to be aiding one another
(and themselves, of course). Might have something to do with it.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023 06:34 AM (vbuLV)
===
They find each other more easily now on social media.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:38 AM (RIvkX)

162
Partially due to that absence of adjuvants, it appears that the immune systems of people vaccinated with mRNA are deciding that the virus actually isn’t worth fighting at all.

Oops. Was that wrong?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:38 AM (enJYY)

163 @BillKristol
·
Follow
There is much that is repulsive about today’s “conservatism.” But to me the willingness—nay, eagerness—to betray Ukraine could be the most repulsive feature. In its hatred for free men and women fighting bravely against brutal aggression, it betrays its descent into semi-fascism.

Dude, put down the crack pipe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:38 AM (BRHaw)

164 I've been in a Trabant. It's like riding a lawnmower with several people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

How does it compare to the Yugo? I've been in a lot of those. Also known as the Fiat Panda. Never actually ridden in (is that the correct term?) a Trabi.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:38 AM (43xH1)

165 131

Sorry; that wasn't a prayer. That was , of course, a tech related corny joke. I probably could think of a tech related prayer., but it would have a lot of imprecations in it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 06:38 AM (1RQ2N)

166 still have that link handy, Divide by Zero?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023 06:39 AM (vbuLV)

167 cant quite figure out how come we are concerned that one killer in Russia killed another killer in Russia

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I'm not convinced it was. We're determined to get in a shooting war with Russia one way or the other, and Our Betters approach him the same way they do Trump voters. Push, push, push, and then full-on war when they say "no, stop."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:39 AM (oZ23Y)

168 HOA president should be involved for a resolution.
Posted by: rhennigantx '

They fined me to clean up the shit.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:39 AM (43xH1)

169 @BillKristol
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There is much that is repulsive about today’s “conservatism.” But to me the willingness—nay, eagerness—to betray Ukraine could be the most repulsive feature. In its hatred for free men and women fighting bravely against brutal aggression, it betrays its descent into semi-fascism.

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Let us secure our borders and then I'll listen to why we should secure theirs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:40 AM (oZ23Y)

170 mornin yall. I see Vivek trounced those other putzes. Good for him.

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

171 Yugo was smaller cabin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:40 AM (RIvkX)

172 Sorry; that wasn't a prayer. That was , of course, a tech related corny joke. I probably could think of a tech related prayer., but it would have a lot of imprecations in it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke'

(Joke goes over Fenelonspoke's head)

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:41 AM (43xH1)

173 There is much that is repulsive about today’s “conservatism.” But to me the willingness—nay, eagerness—to betray Ukraine could be the most repulsive feature. In its hatred for free men and women fighting bravely against brutal aggression, it betrays its descent into semi-fascism.

Liberal Interventionism runs deep with the Bushies

and it has two of their favorite features

cost a shitload of money

and it never works

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:41 AM (us2H3)

174 Yugo was smaller cabin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Holy shit. Well, okay.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (43xH1)

175 Link to a POD image.

https://tinyurl.com/2c4zwr4v

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (1n+EO)

176
still have that link handy, Divide by Zero?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023 06:39 AM

Yup. I'm slowly rereading it. It's pretty heavy duty stuff. Way over my head for the most part.

https://veryvirology.substack.com/p/
igg4-antibody-class-switch-end-of

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (enJYY)

177 It is the Plan of the Day (POD).

At least until recently, Navy Regulations required the Executive Officer to have published and posted on a daily basis on all Naval vessels.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:37 AM (1n+EO)

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Thanks, screenshot-ed and written down in meatspace.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (oZ23Y)

178 "What we get from our leadership is a lot of hand-wringing and bed-wetting!"
-Matt Gaetz last night

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (RIvkX)

179 meatball needed to right the ship last night

he's still taking on water tho

so, a loss

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:43 AM (us2H3)

180 Will Chris Christie shut the fuck up now?

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

181 Mine took me along to the scrap yard to glean parts for whichever vehicle was acting up that particular weekend.

We were poking around a scrapyard and found a high school yearbook dating to when my dad was a wood shop teacher.The scrapyard was 300 miles and 30 years from the school.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 06:44 AM (Tag4Y)

182 2,600 ballots found in Floyd County, Georgia, most for Donald Trump
Beau Evans Capitol Beat News Service

Nav 16, 2020.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:44 AM (BRHaw)

183 Kristol has devolved into the worst form of troll... his complaints are tepid, jejune name calling at best. His worldview is incoherent mimeographed jingoism in service of a bastard nation that lives parasitically on the blood of a once great polity. His vocabulary is repetitive and trite, never evoking anything further than a wobbly, poorly set custard of soured boredom and phoning it in for a paycheck.

He has become the absolute nadir of the political commentator....

A Whiny Bore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:44 AM (9UlRk)

184 178 "What we get from our leadership is a lot of hand-wringing and bed-wetting!"
-Matt Gaetz last night
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (RIvkX)

I'm looking into moving to Niceville FL

the congressman there is Matt

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:45 AM (us2H3)

185 Bill Kristol, if you love Ukraine that much, I hear the Black Sea is lovely this time of year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:45 AM (RIvkX)

186 Colleague's wife (Tax Cop) drives a Government issue Fiat Punto. 4-door. I got in the back and found it had power windows in the front... and roll-down cranks in the back. This was a brand-new car, 4 years ago. I was... well, I hadn't seen that in a Western car since at least the early 1980s.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:45 AM (43xH1)

187 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 24, 2023 06:45 AM (T4tVD)

188 Yup. I'm slowly rereading it. It's pretty heavy duty stuff. Way over my head for the most part.

https://veryvirology.substack.com/p/
igg4-antibody-class-switch-end-of
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (enJYY)
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Wait, is this the internal devices (IG4 was mentioned) that protects us from flus and other respiratory viruses being switched to IG6 or something similar that our body uses to stop the sniffles from allergies?

We were discussing that here a year ago. It was a conspiracy theory back then.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:46 AM (oZ23Y)

189 185 Bill Kristol, if you love Ukraine that much, I hear the Black Sea is lovely this time of year.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:45 AM (RIvkX)

Varna is nice

and really cheap

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:47 AM (us2H3)

190 175 Link to a POD image.

https://tinyurl.com/2c4zwr4v
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:42 AM (1n+EO)

cool thx

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:47 AM (BRHaw)

191 We were poking around a scrapyard and found a high school yearbook dating to when my dad was a wood shop teacher.The scrapyard was 300 miles and 30 years from the school.
Posted by: 13times'

I drove The Kid to a college campus to check it out, many miles from home, and she insisted on checking out a consignment shop. I got bored and perused a drawer full of random photos collected from estates.
I found a photograph of my own house from 1915.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:47 AM (43xH1)

192 We were poking around a scrapyard and found a high school yearbook dating to when my dad was a wood shop teacher.The scrapyard was 300 miles and 30 years from the school.
Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 06:44 AM (Tag4Y)
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Sounds like the start of a good thriller...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:47 AM (RIvkX)

193 Thanks!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023 06:47 AM (vbuLV)

194 LenNeal, your wife works for the Italian government?

Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2023 06:47 AM (z3WCn)

195 The GOP keeps pouncing on Hunter to deflect fron Trump's heinous murders.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (O1z4v)

196 I love wrecking yards. I had a 65 barracuda and all the parts also fit a Valiant. I found a 65 Valiant that must have be driven by little old lady. It had the bumpers with the vertical pad and better headlights.

I bought every piece of trim and chrome for 50 bux.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

197 Cross-overs? Not just for Marvel and DC anymore it seems.

There is a new virus variant that it seems has been named after Eris from Jobless Reincarnation.

But wait there is more, in the promo video for a new Berserk series, one character yells out "Roxy!" which is again a reference to Jobless Reincarnation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (VOG8i)

198 Sounds like the start of a good thriller...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:47 AM (RIvkX

San Mateo high school.

Len, life is darn weird.

Posted by: 13times at August 24, 2023 06:50 AM (Tag4Y)

199 I bought every piece of trim and chrome for 50 bux.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

It's amazing what a bit of elbow grease and compound can do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:51 AM (9UlRk)

200
We were discussing that here a year ago. It was a conspiracy theory back then.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:46 AM

Date on article is Jan 27, 2023. Full of charts and images. Very sciencey. I'm taking with grain of salt because I understand just a little. But it backs up some stuff that I do understand from research back in early 2020.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:51 AM (enJYY)

201 "Colleague's wife (Tax Cop) drives a Government issue Fiat Punto. 4-door. I got in the back and found it had power windows in the front... and roll-down cranks in the back. This was a brand-new car, 4 years ago. I was... well, I hadn't seen that in a Western car since at least the early 1980s."

I have a 2017 Ford Focus like that. It also has a manual transmission and no cruise control. It does have AC, Bluetooth, and a backup camera.

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

202 mornin yall. I see Vivek trounced those other putzes. Good for him.

Did anybody have the stones to call Pence a Judas to his face?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 24, 2023 06:52 AM (AW0uW)

203 "Varna is nice

and really cheap"

While stationed on the former 6th Fleet Flagship, we would leave home port in Gaeta Italy every August, and travel up to, and into the Black Sea for the month.

And Varna was on the list of ports we would hit.

As well as Odessa and Sevastopol.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 06:52 AM (1n+EO)

204 The GOP keeps pouncing on Hunter to deflect fron Trump's heinous murders.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (O1z4v)
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The GOP hates a father's love for his only son.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:52 AM (RIvkX)

205 I noticed that Krispy's fellow Jersians, Martha and Bret, did not ask him if he regretted advising Trump to put Wray at the FBI

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:53 AM (us2H3)

206 LenNeal, your wife works for the Italian government?
Posted by: Eromero'

No, a colleague's wife liaisons with the Italians, she's a bit of a heavy hitter in the Tax Cop business. I have a bunch of Tax Cop stuff from Europe: umbrellas, note pads, little stuff.
Also here, a jacket and a Beretta M92S.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:53 AM (43xH1)

207 The prescribed coaching would focus on Peterson's "unprofessional language" and would not prevent him from expressing himself on issues he or his audience care about, the judge wrote.

Citing a clear and transparent review process from the college, previous warnings it had made to Peterson about his language and his "unwillingness to acknowledge the (complaints committee's) concerns," Schabas dismissed the judicial review application and ordered Peterson to pay the college $25,000.

Dad, when did Canada become a socialist dictatorship?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:54 AM (BRHaw)

208 199 I bought every piece of trim for 50 bux.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

same as in town, right

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:55 AM (us2H3)

209 Peterson to pay the college $25,000.

Dad, when did Canada become a socialist dictatorship?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:54 AM (BRHaw)

Yeah, but that's Canadian dollars.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:55 AM (9UlRk)

210 208 199 I bought every piece of trim for 50 bux.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

same as in town, right
Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:55 AM (us2H3)

Your town only has 2.5 pieces of trim?

Dang. Seller's market, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:56 AM (9UlRk)

211 LenNeal, your wife works for the Italian government?
Posted by: Eromero'

She HATED me for years, even though I did all his English translations gratis. She knew I'm a criminal but then, she realized she was going to have to retire someday, and elected to develop a hobby of documenting butterflies. I insisted on bringing her books that in Europe are too expensive, one from Japan, Hokkaido. Now we're cool.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 06:56 AM (43xH1)

212 196 I love wrecking yards. I had a 65 barracuda and all the parts also fit a Valiant. I found a 65 Valiant that must have be driven by little old lady. It had the bumpers with the vertical pad and better headlights.

My dad had a Blue Streak cuda

that is until I tee boned a big ass Olds SW

man, that guy hated me

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:57 AM (us2H3)

213 We were discussing that here a year ago. It was a conspiracy theory back then.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:46 AM

Date on article is Jan 27, 2023. Full of charts and images. Very sciencey. I'm taking with grain of salt because I understand just a little. But it backs up some stuff that I do understand from research back in early 2020.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:51 AM (enJYY)
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Jan 2023? That's incredible in part because I almost wrote "we were discussing it about two years ago"

I'll have to try and find our conversation in JJ's thread. I know I had it in my name field for a while.

Nice of them to catch up with us nobodies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - To cheat with DeSantis they'll have to face themselves and admit they're soviet at August 24, 2023 06:58 AM (oZ23Y)

214 Your town only has 2.5 pieces of trim?

Dang. Seller's market, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:56 AM (9UlRk)

my town has no trim

at least none under 70 years old

Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:58 AM (us2H3)

215
Yeah, Canadian dollars. I can still hear the guy who serviced the soda machine in my factory cursing because the truckers would pull in, buy a soda, pee, and depart. Paying for the soda with a Canadian coin or two.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 06:58 AM (enJYY)

216 199 I bought every piece of trim for 50 bux.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

same as in town, right
Posted by: REDACTED

Price went up.....Thanks brandon !

Posted by: JT at August 24, 2023 06:59 AM (T4tVD)

217 Dad, when did Canada become a socialist dictatorship?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:54 AM (BRHaw)
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1968

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

218 my town has no trim

at least none under 70 years old
Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:58 AM (us2H3)

"The odds are good, but the goods are odd"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 07:00 AM (9UlRk)

219 ”Bungling U.S. government bureaucrats dispatched to the Maui disaster zone are shacked up in $1,000-a-night luxury hotels,” the UK outlet remarked snidely. FEMA officials have been critiqued for their slow response, The Daily Mail noted, but this new revelation shows just how out-of-touch the officials are.

The outlet asserted FEMA officials are living in three five-star establishments: Four Seasons, Fairmont Kea Lani, and the Grand Wailea Astoria. Other FEMA officials are reportedly staying at the four-star Marriott Wailea Beach Resort, which is open to the public starting at $749 per night, though the government is reportedly getting a discounted rate of $531. The Daily Mail even provided pictures of officials at the hotels.

FUCK YOU PEASANTS

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:00 AM (BRHaw)

220 Dad, when did Canada become a socialist dictatorship?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:54 AM (BRHaw)
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I have never seen so many old, white people in one place but for Berkshires

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

221 Anyway, I finished what I was doing and got into the beer tappers at the office. It's a weekday and I should probably split before the Legit People start coming in.
Website started, I'm not having a problem with a super-plain layout.
Actually a very successful night.
Also, I've tried to tell JJS this place is here, it's an easy drive from his new digs and has an entire multimedia room.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:01 AM (43xH1)

222 216 199 I bought every piece of trim for 50 bux.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

same as in town, right
Posted by: REDACTED

Price went up.....Thanks brandon !
Posted by: JT at August 24, 2023 06:59 AM (T4tVD)

tff
Face it we all pay for it one way or another

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:01 AM (BRHaw)

223 Sorry that was supposed to be
my town has no trim

at least none under 70 years old
Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:58 AM (us2H3)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 24, 2023 07:02 AM (RIvkX)

224 I had one too many Scotches in newly united East Germany. The road home was cobblestone and it was raining. I slid off a curve and into a drainage ditch. I was scared shitless about the police showing up.

A Trabi driver stopped and offered to help. After some digging in the boot he came up with a cable. I said, "it's handy you have a tow cable". He said, "Trabifahrer haben alles!" (Trabi drivers have everything).

His 80 lb. Trabi, though, didn't budge my rented 3,000 lb. BMW.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 24, 2023 07:02 AM (GzDfN)

225 Yeah, but that's Canadian dollars.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 24, 2023 06:55 AM (9UlRk)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:03 AM (BRHaw)

226 MY town has 2.6 pieces of trim. But there is a wheelchair involved.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:03 AM (43xH1)

227 226 MY town has 2.6 pieces of trim. But there is a wheelchair involved.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:03 AM (43xH1)

Rolling trim
Trim on wheels

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:05 AM (BRHaw)

228 Also, I've tried to tell JJS this place is here, it's an easy drive from his new digs and has an entire multimedia room.
Posted by: LenNeal'

He never has to see me, almost nobody here does. And if he wants to get all Neew Yaaawk he can take the bus. There is a regular city bus line between there and here. He can even buy a pass.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:05 AM (43xH1)

229
Partially due to that absence of adjuvants, it appears that the immune systems of people vaccinated with mRNA are deciding that the virus actually isn’t worth fighting at all.

I get it. Adjuvants = 'dirt'.

They didn't rub some dirt in it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 07:05 AM (enJYY)

230 It sounds like JD Vance had the best quote last night. "Let’s end this charade and stop wasting Republican money attacking our inevitable nominee. Donald Trump for president."

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

231 California has threatened a Stanford University researcher with a lawsuit and up to $50,000 in fines after he testified on behalf of poor families suing the state over pandemic school closures.

Thomas Dee, who has studied academic outcomes for 11 years at Stanford, submitted testimony last month in support of the families’ claims in a 2020 lawsuit that the state harmed vulnerable children when they shut down classrooms and effectively stalled instruction. Within days, the California Department of Education sent him a letter claiming that because he works with taxpayer-funded data from the agency, he could not criticize the state in court.

Dad, when did California become a socialist dictatorship?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:06 AM (BRHaw)

232 Trabant weight: 1356 lbs

My 1986 Honda Shuttle: 1700 lbs

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:06 AM (43xH1)

233 I have never seen so many old, white people in one place but for Berkshires
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

My paternal grandparents' condo in Florida. I had to get out of there after 3 days it was like going over the mountains of Shangri-La.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:09 AM (43xH1)

234 And, Sefton, JJS, as a WI resident, can get himself a pistol like a real man and a CCW and carry it around with him.
He has multiple offers to come shooting.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:11 AM (43xH1)

235 'mornin' Wolfus! wasn't sure if you would see that on the ONT.

100 yesterday afternoon, probably close to the same today.

71 right now

G'mornin' everyone!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 24, 2023

***
You got 71???? Luxury! Temps here at 4 am were more like 84.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 24, 2023 07:11 AM (J2vNu)

236 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 24, 2023 07:12 AM (NBVIP)

237 Anyone who takes their car to the "dealer" for service spends a night in the box.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 24, 2023 07:13 AM (ae93S)

238 my town has no trim

at least none under 70 years old
Posted by: REDACTED at August 24, 2023 06:58 AM (us2H3)
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Reason numbers 1 through 2,000 I live in a college town.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 24, 2023 07:13 AM (bePxA)

239 Ramaswamy gains from the debate. He was the most pro-Trump, passionate and counter-intuitive -- tapping into the base. Pence and Christie sink. No one else moves much.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 24, 2023 07:15 AM (SpykJ)

240 A taxpayer was forcibly removed by security from a @FortWorthISD meeting tonight after he read from the pornographic book “Flamer” which was available in the school library.

Too graphic for a meeting of adults but cool for minor students!

Dad, when did Ft Worth become a socialist dictatorship?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:15 AM (BRHaw)

241 Reason numbers 1 through 2,000 I live in a college town.
Posted by: Huck Follywood'

Scenery or follow-through? Or do you choke down the vomit and bone Woke professors with bad tattoos and stupid glasses, and ignore the after talk about how much they love Joe Biden?

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:16 AM (43xH1)

242 TODAY’S WEATHER FORECAST
8/24
103°Hi
RealFeel® 112°
Mostly sunny and hot

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:16 AM (BRHaw)

243 “An individual only loses a constitutional right if he commits an offense or is or has been engaged in certain behavior that is covered by 18 USC section 922,” Judge Coffey wrote on August 3rd in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Dean F. Donnell. “He doesn’t lose that right simply by traveling into an adjoining state whose statute mandates that residents of that state obtain a license prior to exercising their constitutional right. To hold otherwise would inexplicably treat Second Amendment rights differently than other individually held rights.

Big deal or not?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 24, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)

244 G'morning everyone.

Tucker's interview with Trump is up to 156.7 million views in less than twelve hours.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 24, 2023 07:18 AM (qPw5n)

245 Scenery or follow-through? Or do you choke down the vomit and bone Woke professors with bad tattoos and stupid glasses, and ignore the after talk about how much they love Joe Biden?
Posted by: LenNeal '

Because as long as men keep fucking them, they will keep doing what they do.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:20 AM (43xH1)

246

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 24, 2023 07:20 AM (X4yCj)

247 To my knowledge, Trump still hasn't addressed what he does when the machinery of the deep state stymies his every move as they did before.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 24, 2023 07:20 AM (SpykJ)

248
News from Philly:
The Landlord and Tenant Office has conducted evictions since the 1970s. Tenants and advocates say it’s time to get rid of it.

Maybe they'll get communism right this time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 24, 2023 07:20 AM (enJYY)

249 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

In use !

Posted by: JT at August 24, 2023 07:20 AM (T4tVD)

250 I want the last VW SuperBeetle. mfg in Brazil or Argentina or whereever.

Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2023 07:21 AM (z3WCn)

251 226 MY town has 2.6 pieces of trim. But there is a wheelchair involved.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:03 AM (43xH1)

...

What are their names?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:23 AM (zZu0s)

252 Honestly until someone brought it up the other night I had completely forgotten about the Super Beetle.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:25 AM (43xH1)

253 Decided I needed a new car. After learning how much a new one cost, I decided I did not need one.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at August 24, 2023 07:25 AM (9X60i)

254 What are their names?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop'

Millie, Billie, and Wheelie.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:26 AM (43xH1)

255 102 Kristin Smart's killer Paul Flores seriously injured in prison attack: lawyer

Oh, no! Anyway...
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 24, 2023 06:12 AM (X++p7)

Not a fan of extrajudicial punishment.

Posted by: m at August 24, 2023 07:26 AM (SpRPx)

256 I never thought the Super Beetle was that super. You gave up the nearly indestructible torsion bar front end for struts.

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

257 Not a fan of extrajudicial punishment.
Posted by: m at August 24, 2023 07:26 AM (SpRPx)

How about prisoner on prisoner violence cuz that is what this was.

Ya know, there is an old saying that gos something like, "don't want none, don't start none"

Posted by: Outside of Life at August 24, 2023 07:28 AM (89Sog)

258 That thing with the woman that had a spear thrown thru her windshield looks staged. Something else happened there.

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

259 {247} To my knowledge, Trump still hasn't addressed what he does when the machinery of the deep state stymies his every move as they did before.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 24, 2023 07:20 AM (SpykJ)

I think that's correct. What I wrote in last night's Debate/Interview thread at #1094:

"When asked the large broad-brush question of what he'd do with a second term, he answered along the lines of closing the border, and removing the foreign criminals that came here back to their own countries.

What he didn't say was how he'd do that in any specifics, particularly not when dealing with proven multiple levels of non-elected bureaucracy that are willing to defy, ignore, or at least slow-walk lawful directives from elected members of government."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 24, 2023 07:29 AM (qPw5n)

260 I like that one very much, Fen. A practice much on all our minds these days.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 24, 2023 07:29 AM (hAfUZ)

261 Not a fan of extrajudicial punishment.
Posted by: m'

I've been in jail. It wasn't fun anyway, and people wishing cage matches on people has always kind of not been cool with me. I'm of the opinion the US prison complex is extremely abusive and poorly run. And, of course, the closer you get into Blue Shitholes the worse the confinement gets.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:30 AM (43xH1)

262 Scenery or follow-through?
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:16 AM (43xH1)
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Definitely scenery.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 24, 2023 07:30 AM (9CzUn)

263 I completely missed the debate thread (sleep, getting up at 0230.)

Any fire works? Or more of the same?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:31 AM (zZu0s)

264 It seems as if every decision made on Maui was an incorrect decision.

https://tinyurl.com/2bdshtkk

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 07:32 AM (1n+EO)

265 I ran into an Illinois prison guard (Black guy) in a cop bar among cops, who had verifiably shot 14 men and killed 5 while suppressing gang fights in the yard.
That is not a system under control.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:32 AM (43xH1)

266 Walter M Chesnut has a Substack that covers this. He says it's similar to how radiation damages cells.

https://tinyurl.com/3st6tvtd

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 24, 2023 07:33 AM (ouTlx)

267 "I completely missed the debate thread (sleep, getting up at 0230.)
Any fire works? Or more of the same?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop "

"Let’s end this charade and stop wasting Republican money attacking our inevitable nominee. Donald Trump for president." - JD Vance

Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

268 Scenery or follow-through?
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:16 AM (43xH1)
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Definitely scenery.
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I should amplify that: Imagine a beautiful spring day, when all of a sudden puffy coats are gone, and short skirts are everywhere. It's tremendous.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 24, 2023 07:34 AM (9CzUn)

269 I've been in jail. It wasn't fun anyway, and people wishing cage matches on people has always kind of not been cool with me. I'm of the opinion the US prison complex is extremely abusive and poorly run. And, of course, the closer you get into Blue Shitholes the worse the confinement gets.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:30 AM (43xH1)

That's my point. Never been in and never want to be, but...

It should be punishment, not torture. Rape jokes or shiving people as a matter of course is wrong. It may be Pollyanna, but to me it seems like there should be a dividing line and no acceptance of the latter. Prisoners should not be allowed to prey on other prisoners.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:34 AM (zZu0s)

270 I never thought the Super Beetle was that super. You gave up the nearly indestructible torsion bar front end for struts.
Posted by: fd'

The 1986 Honda Shuttle also had torsion bar front suspension and it was indestructible. The whole pan rotted and it never tore loose, I couldn't believe it. It's a very strong design. Seems inherent. I recall they copied it from the Brits?

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:35 AM (43xH1)

271 Ramalamadingdong kicked krispy in the balls last night. Or at least the area where the balls should be located.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 24, 2023 07:35 AM (O1z4v)

272 "Let’s end this charade and stop wasting Republican money attacking our inevitable nominee. Donald Trump for president." - JD Vance
Posted by: fd at August 24, 2023 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

I think I can imagine certain parties response...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:35 AM (zZu0s)

273 I too think the prisons are a disaster.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 24, 2023 07:36 AM (9CzUn)

274 Did not watch the debate. Watched Tucker for a bit. The whole thing is dispiriting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 24, 2023 07:37 AM (9CzUn)

275 It is interesting to search through a thread (1100+) using just the search term 'fuck.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:37 AM (zZu0s)

276 It should be punishment, not torture. Rape jokes or shiving people as a matter of course is wrong. It may be Pollyanna, but to me it seems like there should be a dividing line and no acceptance of the latter. Prisoners should not be allowed to prey on other prisoners.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:34 AM (zZu0s)
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Unfortunately, "predator" tends to be their default behavior. If they weren't predators, they probably would not end up in jail. No, they should not be allowed to prey on other inmates, but the only way to prevent it entirely (or at least mostly) is to make every jail a Supermax prison where the inmates have virtually NO contact with anyone outside their individual cells.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 24, 2023 07:38 AM (YIVH2)

277 How did we miss this?

https://tinyurl.com/pyuzmu76

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2023 07:38 AM (1n+EO)

278 Last time I was at County it was a zoo. County is both a confinement and processing center so you get newbies and hardened cons all mixed up. It was brutal. I wasn't there 20 minutes and had ABs trying to recruit me over my Cyrillic tattoos, the Black Vice Lords controlled the TVs.
I said I was tired and bunked, a bunch of shitheels mobbed my cell and robbed my old alcoholic cellie of his entire stash of sugar, sugar substitutes, and all his makings for jailhouse booze.
I had pulled a book off the cart and just read through the whole thing.
Not my problem.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:39 AM (43xH1)

279 I think literally every person on stage was told to fuck off by various commenters.

Except for Bergum(sp?) Was he there?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:40 AM (zZu0s)

280 After reading the reviews of the debate at the Salem sites it appears that Vivek has gotten their panties in a wad. I'm guessing they think he's another PDT, just too uncouth to run for office. Smarmy, a used car salesman, an amateur like Obama. Too bad he's not a bought and paid for swamp creature, then they could heap praise on him. It's just so much theater and useless endeavor. Until the debates get down to a manageable number of contestants, they're just political porn.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 24, 2023 07:40 AM (2NHgQ)

281 Ok, I just hadn't gotten to the end of the thread. Bergum got told to fuck off too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:41 AM (zZu0s)

282 Not a fan of extrajudicial punishment.

When the government fails to administer justice, expect more extrajudicial acts.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 24, 2023 07:41 AM (8fpTj)

283 "Who will say, "No more" to this current madness? Victor Davis Hanson article:

https://tinyurl.com/ym73y2sb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 07:42 AM (NpWq6)

284 The book 'Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun' by Geoffrey Canada is the best in trying to describe the ghetto behavior and why. He goes wrong at the end but it's an otherwise terrific book, highly recommend.

Also, 'Gang Leader For A Day'! That is an awesome book!

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:44 AM (43xH1)

285 Blaise Pascal wrote that the best way to punish prisoners in to put each one in his/her own cell and give them NOTHING to do.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 24, 2023 07:44 AM (8fpTj)

286 68 Good morning! Get to take the grandkids to school today so we're gonna get sausage rolls and a donut for breakfast. Old fashion glazed cake for me and a chocolate milk. For. The. Win!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 24, 2023 05:54 AM (YRsIm)

Aww, good grandparenting! Enjoy.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 24, 2023 07:45 AM (hAfUZ)

287 Except for Bergum(sp?) Was he there?

He was there, much to everyone's surprise (...that North Dakota is part of the US and he is their governor)

Posted by: t-bird at August 24, 2023 07:46 AM (dNNCD)

288 I think I was on the debate thread until about 8:00. I missed the entire debate and most of the comments. Today I went over to "Legal Insurrection" and read their debate thread. The back and forth between a moderator "Fuzzy Slippers" and a poster with a name like gonzotx was brutal. It should be a jolly campaign season.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 07:46 AM (NpWq6)

289 Jordan Peterson has two choices: lose his license to practice as a shrink, or pay a fine for wrong-think and get re-educated.

This is Canada, so the officials are not yet threatening to put him against a wall and shoot him.

Citing a clear and transparent review process from the college, previous warnings it had made to Peterson about his language and his "unwillingness to acknowledge the (complaints committee's) concerns," Schabas dismissed the judicial review application and ordered Peterson to pay the college $25,000.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 24, 2023 07:48 AM (9CzUn)

290 So the Maui coroner is the police chief.

The police chief was in charge of the orders for the blockades.

The police chief is the official from the Vegas shooting and cover-up.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at August 24, 2023 07:49 AM (tAFR1)

291 Citing a clear and transparent review process from the college, previous warnings it had made to Peterson about his language and his "unwillingness to acknowledge the (complaints committee's) concerns," Schabas dismissed the judicial review application and ordered Peterson to pay the college $25,000.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 24, 2023 07:48 AM (9CzUn)

And everyone knows it's tyranny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:49 AM (zZu0s)

292 For those that didn't see it, TonyPete's beloved wife is having a medical thing this morning, He said it's not a big procedure, but sometimes she has problems even when a procedure isn't simple, so prayers for the medical team and for her would be appreciated he noted. And prayers for him too. He didn't say that, but it can be stressful for us when our loved ones have medical procedures. Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 07:50 AM (NpWq6)

293 290 So the Maui coroner is the police chief.

The police chief was in charge of the orders for the blockades.

The police chief is the official from the Vegas shooting and cover-up.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at August 24, 2023 07:49 AM (tAFR1)

Small world.

WTAF?

*tinfoil*

Who needed to die here?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:50 AM (zZu0s)

294 And prayers for him too. He didn't say that, but it can be stressful for us when our loved ones have medical procedures. Thx.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 07:50 AM (NpWq6)

Of course.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:50 AM (zZu0s)

295 > "Let’s end this charade and stop wasting Republican money attacking our inevitable nominee. Donald Trump for president." - JD Vance

Let's wait until we see if he's in or out of jail next year

Posted by: DB - FWIW at August 24, 2023 07:50 AM (geLO8)

296 Hmmm, debate thread only shows one result for 'ace', 'chuy', or 'lamont' from when ace posted the thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:51 AM (zZu0s)

297 Blaise Pascal wrote that the best way to punish prisoners in to put each one in his/her own cell and give them NOTHING to do.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse'

He was full of shit. That is a surefire way to create killers who can never be let out.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:52 AM (43xH1)

298 Okay Fen !

Posted by: JT at August 24, 2023 07:53 AM (T4tVD)

299 He was full of shit. That is a surefire way to create killers who can never be let out.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:52 AM (43xH1)

Solitary? Or the lack of diversion?

I would think it would be the lack of anything to do.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 24, 2023 07:54 AM (zZu0s)

300 Thread Of Horrors is open

Posted by: DB - FWIW at August 24, 2023 07:54 AM (geLO8)

301 And at any rate, I like that this site seems to never get mentioned on other sites. It's like it doesn't exist. I intend to do my part.

Fuckity Fuck FUCK!

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:54 AM (43xH1)

302 LenNeal

Check out Nick Harkaway, "Gone Away World"

BTW like vey much your Great Men fiction.

Posted by: pawn at August 24, 2023 07:55 AM (wsHtO)

303 292 For those that didn't see it, TonyPete's beloved wife is having a medical thing this morning, He said it's not a big procedure, but sometimes she has problems even when a procedure isn't simple, so prayers for the medical team and for her would be appreciated he noted. And prayers for him too. He didn't say that, but it can be stressful for us when our loved ones have medical procedures. Thx.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 24, 2023 07:50 AM

Prayers up

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 24, 2023 07:56 AM (GshMh)

304 Solitary? Or the lack of diversion?
I would think it would be the lack of anything to do.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop '

Poor people are communal as they cannot get anything, alone. They are also prone to far more crime than other people. So take them away from the group, they either become monk/saints (very rare) or go violently insane. Why do I have to explain this?

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:56 AM (43xH1)

305 LenNeal
Check out Nick Harkaway, "Gone Away World"

BTW like very much your Great Men fiction.
Posted by: pawn'

Will do! thank you so much for the suggestion!

Posted by: LenNeal at August 24, 2023 07:57 AM (43xH1)

306 YDs comment is really spot on

Thanks for the coup du publique article

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