Daily Tech News 32 December 2023

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After migrating a huge application spread across a hundred servers from one cloud to another, my key takeaway was containerisation.

Not using Docker, which is great if you're deploying simple applications created by some other group that has a build team. Well, not great, but adequate. Actually Docker pretty much sucks even then, but there are worse things. Like Node.js.

My preferred containerisation platform is LXD.

So they blew that up. (Linux Containers)

To make a stupid story short, LXD is Canonical's - the people behind Ubuntu Linux - build of the Linux Containers system. It works well. It's still supported.

But they've moved it from the Apache license, which lets you do pretty much anything you want, to AGPL, which forces you to release your updates if you build a complex service based on it. And that license makes corporate lawyers itchy.
And they've added a contributor license agreement to control the terms under which open-source developers can contribute to the project. (Stephane Graber)

This is not usually a good sign.
And Canonical has stopped contributing to the upkeep of the public container image server. So if you're running LXD 5.20 or later - the version where these license changes took effect - and you want to install an image from that image server you should have done it yesterday. (Linux Containers)

Access to system images is being phased out for LXD users in steps, starting today, with all access being cut off for all LXD users by May 1st.

You can still install Ubuntu under LXD on Ubuntu, which is in fact what I do 97% of the time. The other 3% may become a problem.

When you find a solution that works, it's only a matter of time before somebody takes it away.

Tech News

How bad are search results? Bad. (Dan Luu)

In running six tests on each of five search engines plus ChatGPT - thirty-six tests in all - eight results earned scores in the range of OK to Great.

The other twenty-eight results ranked anywhere from Bad to Terrible.

In fact, Google, which built its entire business on providing a better search engine than anyone else, rated Bad or worse on every test.

Bing was even worse on average, but was acceptable on one test, and better than acceptable on another.
California is entering a death spiral of malice and incompetence. This might be a bad thing. (SF Gate)

Do tell.
The president of the Navajo Nation has asked NASA to delay a Moon launch over the possible presence of human remains. (KNAU)

This confused me for a moment, but it's not quite as stupid as it seems, though it's still plenty stupid.

The possible human remains aren't on the Moon - at least, not yet. They're on the rocket, thanks to a commercial service that delivers a few crumbs of your loved ones' ashes into space.

The Navajo Nation objects to this - and here comes the stupid part - because they claim the Moon as a sacred site.

The simple and obvious response to this, which NASA will not make because they were already full of woke bullshit the last time this came up in 1998, is Have you been there? No? Then fuck off.

Disclaimer: Too soon.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Happy New Year, Horde!!!

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2024 04:05 AM (ju2Fy)

2 Happy New Year!

Posted by: Molly k. at January 01, 2024 04:05 AM (j/yko)

3 Happy New Year and many more, Pixy!

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:06 AM (4UYlo)

4 Disclaimer: Too soon.

wut

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:08 AM (4UYlo)

5 Date.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 01, 2024 04:13 AM (BLOW1)

6 The Navajo Nation objects to this - and here comes the stupid part - because they claim the Moon as a sacred site.
-

NASA, don't crater to the Navajo's demands.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 04:15 AM (ch/kO)

7 I am a Native American (as in: born within the boundaries of the United States of America)

I claim all that I can see, in every direction, as my property, for all time. I claim that ALL my land is sacred, as it is the place in which I worship my God.

There. Everything is mine. So I say.

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:17 AM (njWTi)

8
Any year that starts with December 32 is bad news.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:18 AM (3qE2b)

9 Someone's gonna mention Alice in 3... 2... 1...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 04:19 AM (ch/kO)

10 We could go ask Alice, if you think it will do any good …

Posted by: Adriane the Sci Fi Critic . . . at January 01, 2024 04:20 AM (4Winp)

11
Date.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 01, 2024 04:13 AM

If it weren't for carbon dating I wouldn't date at all.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:21 AM (3qE2b)

12 We could go ask Alice, if you think it will do any good …
Posted by: Adriane the Sci Fi Critic
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I think she'll know

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:21 AM (njWTi)

13 5 Date.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 01, 2024 04:13 AM (BLOW1)

Daily Tech News 32 December 2023

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:23 AM (4UYlo)

14 Maybe got to wait until Alice is 10 feet tall...

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:24 AM (njWTi)

15 5 Date.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 01, 2024 04:13 AM (BLOW1)

Or is that an imperative?

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:24 AM (4UYlo)

16 Pixy - Happy New Year’s.

Posted by: Adriane the Sci Fi Critic . . . at January 01, 2024 04:24 AM (4Winp)

17 There. Everything is mine. So I say.
Posted by: JQ
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That's only the first part. Next you have to assert your ~~bribe~~ licensing fees if anyone else wants access.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 01, 2024 04:24 AM (ju2Fy)

18 6 The Navajo Nation objects to this - and here comes the stupid part - because they claim the Moon as a sacred site.
-

NASA, don't crater to the Navajo's demands.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 04:15 AM (ch/kO)

It seems so cheesy of them.

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:24 AM (4UYlo)

19 Maybe got to wait until Alice is 10 feet tall...
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:24 AM (njWTi)
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What if Alice doesn't live there anymore?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 04:25 AM (ch/kO)

20
The year 2023 was such a cluster of f that Pixy didn't do the year in review thing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:25 AM (3qE2b)

21 Poor Alice

Posted by: when she was just small at January 01, 2024 04:26 AM (njWTi)

22 20 The year 2023 was such a cluster of f
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:25 AM (3qE2b)

I think it was an f of cluster.

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:26 AM (4UYlo)

23 NASA, don't crater to the Navajo's demands.
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Lunatics!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:27 AM (njWTi)

24 Well of course Alice doesn’t live there anymore, she went through the looking glass.
.
.
.
She is now known as Brandy…

Posted by: Adriane the Sci Fi Critic . . . at January 01, 2024 04:28 AM (4Winp)

25 It seems so cheesy of them.
Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:24 AM (4UYlo)
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Which is so teepeecal of the Navajo.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 04:28 AM (ch/kO)

26 23 NASA, don't crater to the Navajo's demands.
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Lunatics!
Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:27 AM (njWTi)

Nice one, JQ.

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:28 AM (4UYlo)

27 Oh, my goodness... it's time for this one to go to bed...

think I better take an aspirin beforehand, morning is gonna suk!!!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:29 AM (njWTi)

28 Happy New Year, all!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:29 AM (njWTi)

29 22 20 The year 2023 was such a cluster of f
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:25 AM (3qE2b)

I think it was an f of cluster.
Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:26 AM (4UYlo)

Like:

a grape cluster = a cluster of grape(s)

a f*wad = a wad of f*(s)

So:

a clusterf* = a f* of cluster(s)

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 04:31 AM (4UYlo)

30
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

I can still hear his voice, especially saying harrrrrrrrrrrrd.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:33 AM (3qE2b)

31
Upon hearing of Kennedy's pledge to get to the moon in the next decade public school teachers decided NOW was the proper moment to force the metric system upon children.

It's been downhill ever since. Although I do seem to recall a meter is about three feet.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:37 AM (3qE2b)

32 20 The year 2023 was such a cluster of f that Pixy didn't do the year in review thing.

Yep.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 01, 2024 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

33 Mornin'

Happy New Year!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 01, 2024 04:44 AM (sAmhv)

34
Yes, search engines have fallen. Worse than Rome. I remember, when this here Google thing first came out, how impressed I was.

I can enter some arcane search phrase and will, like, find shit, find relevant results. I remember searching fro the head-bolt torque specs on an old Craftsman air compressor pump. It found a document on that. And obscure, highly technical stuff, it would find stuff for you.

Those original designers had in mind what a real, true "search engine" should do.

And then it went to hell. Adverstising and woke. Now, all the purpose of the search engine is to sell you shit you shit based on what search terms you input, and, second, give you shit based on the current Woke catechisms vaguely related to whatever search terms you put in.

It's all crap, now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 01, 2024 05:00 AM (Mzdiz)

35 Instead of worrying about the Moon, maybe the Navajos could do something about their tribal members sleeping it off on the streets of Gallup NM.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 05:02 AM (0EOe9)

36 The Navajo Nation is part of the Neo-Luddite Environmentalist movement to ban all technology & energy creation and send human kind back to the stone age. They oppose everything and "Indigenous people" are being used to block anything energy [hydroelectric dams, lithium mining, ect] or tech related [Decolonizing the Search for Extraterrestrial Life http://tinyurl.com/yxdwr4rc]

Dec 21, 2023
Not of this Earth?
On the night of July 19th, 1952 something rather strange happened on two fronts in North America. At that time, one of the most puzzling UFO flaps in history was happening in the Washington, DC area including multiple radar returns and visua

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at January 01, 2024 05:05 AM (9aVck)

37 31 Bring back the arshin.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 05:06 AM (0EOe9)

38 I clicked meta64.com and got a for sale sign, $2,400.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 05:11 AM (HO/bY)

39 Mass UFO sighting in Washington DC linked to Palomar Observatory discovery!!
youtube.com/watch?v=lxYOKENazKE
The Angry Astronaut
Dec 30, 2023
One of the big problems associated with an alien origin for UAPs lies in the fact that no astronomical events can be tied to any particular UFO event, How do we know, then, that UFOs are actually alien visitations?
A recent discovery at Palomar Observatory appears to have changed all of that!

Images of UAPs: Objects Discovered Same Day UFOs Flew Over D.C. in 1952
youtube.com/watch?v=azW33jxaHPs
Event Horizon
Dec 21, 2023
On the night of July 19th, 1952 something rather strange happened on two fronts in North America. At that time, one of the most puzzling UFO flaps in history was happening in the Washington, DC area including multiple radar returns & visual sightings from people in several locations. At Mount Palomar observatory in Southern California, a pair of photographic plates were taken about one hour apart, one just before 9 pm, the other just before 10 pm local time. One showed a cluster of three star-like points, essentially indistinguishable from stars. But in the second plate, the points had abruptly & inexplicably disappeared.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at January 01, 2024 05:13 AM (9aVck)

40 36 Returning from AZ a couple years ago, I stopped for gas at a Navajo travel center. Gas advertised was competitive, but there was a tiny sign on the pump that a $1.00 surcharge would be added to protect the environment and shit. This was across the interstate from a huge Navajo casino with more neon than Elko, NV. Protecting the environment.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 05:13 AM (0EOe9)

41 I'm using FF now for browsing. I like it because colors (background especially) are adjustable. I have Opera also because it is the most forgiving. My new HD won't accept Brave.

And until I figure out how to open up/use a disc image my old sys is encapsulated and untouchable by me.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 05:15 AM (HO/bY)

42 They didn't go to the moon using the metric system.
They went to the moon using Imperial measurements to the thousandths and slide rules.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 05:20 AM (HO/bY)

43 42 You forgot coffee, Marlboros, and pocket protectors.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2024 05:21 AM (0EOe9)

44 >>>I can enter some arcane search phrase and will, like, find shit, find relevant results. I remember searching fro the head-bolt torque specs on an old Craftsman air compressor pump. It found a document on that. And obscure, highly technical stuff, it would find stuff for you.
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Search engines did what they were supposed to do.
You enter a query and it searches for that specific thing,
like a genius card catalogue of the world. Now, you get
a used car salesman.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 05:24 AM (HO/bY)

45
Don't. Be evil.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 05:26 AM (3qE2b)

46 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 05:30 AM (T4tVD)

47 Tap-Tap -Tap.....Is this thing on ?

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 05:40 AM (T4tVD)

48 HeyHo, that thirty minute nap did me in.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 05:40 AM (HO/bY)

49
Happy New Year, Hordians. We survived our NYE here at Schloss Hadrian where fireworks continued well after midnight.

The kennel dogs had been put up around 7:00 and behaved splendidly; no messes when I went down to let them out. Diana was a perfect house guest.

The puppies, too, took it well and I was up at 4:00 to give them a chance to burn off energy outside. They're now asleep and looking angelic. I know better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 01, 2024 05:44 AM (MoZTd)

50
Catturd, James Woods, Elon Musk, Babylon Bee, Donald J. Trump. My list of people I follow on Twitter/X so far.

Coincidentally, they all were either banned, blocked, or removed by Twitter pre Elon Musk. Crazy coincidence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 05:47 AM (3qE2b)

51 Good morning, and happy new year! Looking forward to watching the Winter Classic and smoking a good cigar later today.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2024 05:48 AM (YRsIm)

52 Who names their kid Catturd ?

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 05:49 AM (T4tVD)

53 Evening and morning to all the folken out there! Ihope you had a good NY Eve. Stirling, the usually confident big black cat, freaked as he did last NYE at the crumps and bangs of fireworks, and crept to hide *in* the bed. Yes, IN. The fabric liner of my box spring (which is twenty-five years old) is torn, probably helped along by Stirling and his sister, and he slipped his big frame in there amid the springs. The fabric sagged down as if it the box spring were pregnant. Embarrassing, ain't it?

I suppose it'd be a good idea to buy a new box spring soon.

Anyway: Whassup wit' choo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 01, 2024 05:49 AM (omVj0)

54 Ah -- 56 F. outside. Nowhere near as chilly as some predicted. I have no excuse not to go work out before breakfast. Strangely I slept almost six hours, so I feel pretty good.

This unsweetened almond/coconut milk I'm putting in my coffee instead of Sweet 'n' Low (trying to avoid the sugar alcohols in that) is not sweet enough for my taste. Is there a sugar substitute that does not affect your blood sugar or make you run to the head every hour or two?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 01, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

55 Wolfus -

Try using real cream in your coffee.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 01, 2024 05:58 AM (YRsIm)

56
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2024 06:03 AM (xDK93)

57 It's been downhill ever since. Although I do seem to recall a meter is about three feet.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 04:37 AM (3qE2b)

Good morning and happy New Year. Oddly, the metric system seems to be part of the drug trade, grams and kilo’s for instance.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 01, 2024 06:06 AM (hEv4o)

58 Good morning to one and all. 2024 is out of the starting gate

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2024 06:09 AM (I6hse)

59 Happy New Year BenHad !

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 06:09 AM (T4tVD)

60
g'mornin', Ben Had

Happy New Year

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 01, 2024 06:11 AM (xDK93)

61 Happy New Year. JT.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2024 06:13 AM (I6hse)

62 AltonJackson, Happy New Year. May this year bring you all the very best.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 01, 2024 06:15 AM (I6hse)

63 Black Eyes Peas for breakfast.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 01, 2024 06:19 AM (HO/bY)

64 Use straight coconut milk. I use flavored Stevia in herbal teas.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 01, 2024 06:27 AM (L8hCM)

65 G'morning, all.

And may you all have a blessed New Years!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 01, 2024 06:27 AM (hH3Px)

66 Black eyed peas today. I clinched my fantasy football championship.

I'm a little worried 2024 is going to rival 1968.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 01, 2024 06:34 AM (Fwuhb)

67 Delivered from all harm. The rabbi's daughter reflects on a portion from scripture on the life of Jacob:

http://tinyurl.com/593yyjvk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 06:40 AM (NWZOB)

68 G'Day and Happy New York everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2024 06:49 AM (fwDg9)

69 Last night Emmie shared a story about how a church that she belonged to had a game night on New Year's and then at 12:00 had a service of Hilyb immunizing. I thought that was lovely, so it's New Year's Day and Fen and Spouse just had holy communion before we had coffee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 06:51 AM (0dOaC)

70 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 01, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

You might wanto try stevia, the expensive kind without added erythritol.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 01, 2024 06:53 AM (PXay+)

71 Hiya Skip !

Happy New Year !

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 06:54 AM (T4tVD)

72 I'll be present mornings here for a bit (lurking) since my sleep pattern has changed and I want to investigate that to see if it's harmless (leave it run it's course) or harmful. Call that retirement boredom if you need a label.

As for 2024, I do not belong IN this society, observing the majority is sufficient interaction, the personal conduct as taught will remain in accord with traditional values everyone here is familiar with. As always, if that's offensive or "triggering" deal with it, I couldn't possibly care less.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 01, 2024 06:56 AM (KATBx)

73 Yonder Horde and Happy New Year.

Had to fight with the coffee maker this morning. It is insisting I "descale" it instead of making coffee.

It made coffee anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 07:00 AM (Q4IgG)

74 Speak a new beginning. A Christian from Nigeria reflects on the concept of light and passages from Genesis, John and 1st Thessalonians:

http://tinyurl.com/mbr5ubaf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 07:04 AM (RSuNx)

75 NYC cops carry elderly people on their shoulders out of a burning building;

http://tinyurl.com/2fzunah5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 07:07 AM (RSuNx)

76 Tea. (happy) Earl Grey (new) Hot. (year)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:09 AM (ScR16)

77 I see where Japan is starting off the new year with a bang. 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

Anamizu area.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 07:10 AM (Q4IgG)

78 Elderly woman gets a special Christmas gift of being able to pet a penguin:

http://tinyurl.com/yjb98vn2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 07:10 AM (RSuNx)

79 I have question for the Horde about modern workplace tolerance for humor. If one seeks to achieve the “Epididymis Award” for high performance ( = “on the ball”

, will that get you summoned to HR?

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 01, 2024 07:10 AM (r72iY)

80 I see where Japan is starting off the new year with a bang. 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

Anamizu area.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 07:10 AM (Q4IgG)
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That'll shake up the Pokemon.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:11 AM (ScR16)

81 NYC cops carry elderly people on their shoulders out of a burning building;

http://tinyurl.com/2fzunah5
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 07:07 AM (RSuNx)

I bet they were glad Chris Christie didn't live there !

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 07:11 AM (T4tVD)

82 Good morning morons

Happy New Year!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2024 07:13 AM (RIvkX)

83 Disclaimer: Too soon.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM
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No no, you're late, it's December 32nd already.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cats own the Lands at January 01, 2024 07:13 AM (qfLjt)

84 Elderly woman gets a special Christmas gift of being able to pet a penguin:
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Duncanthrax hardest hit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:14 AM (ScR16)

85 Why do they call it hyper text?

Too much JAVA,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 07:15 AM (UmsIw)

86 7 I am a Native American (as in: born within the boundaries of the United States of America)

I claim all that I can see, in every direction, as my property, for all time. I claim that ALL my land is sacred, as it is the place in which I worship my God.

There. Everything is mine. So I say.

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:17 AM (njWTi)
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Well you're wrong, cats own everything, we are just servants, slaves, and can-openers. Eventually they will have knocked everything off tables, even mountains and the Earth will be one featureless, flat plain plus oceans.

Posted by: Ciampino - You have no dominion or standing cf cats at January 01, 2024 07:16 AM (qfLjt)

87 To quote Oscar of Gordon, "Coffee comes in five grades: coffee, java, jamoke, joe and carbon remover."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:17 AM (ScR16)

88 > Well you're wrong, cats own everything, we are just servants, slaves, and can-openers.
____________

Yup. They got me up at 0630 because "reasons." Not that they wanted food, or to go out, or water.

Just because.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 07:20 AM (Q4IgG)

89 It's definitely a New Year. I just received a notification that my confidentiality agreement with the University has to be renewed. Two clicks and it's done...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 01, 2024 07:22 AM (BpYfr)

90
77 I see where Japan is starting off the new year with a bang. 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

Anamizu area.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2024 07:10 AM (Q4IgG)
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Here's a link
https://shorturl.at/gmvIY

Posted by: Ciampino - Tsunami now? at January 01, 2024 07:23 AM (qfLjt)

91 Happy New Year

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 01, 2024 07:24 AM (lwOKI)

92
Former major league baseball great Steve Garvey running for Senate in California as (R) against Adam Shitful.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 07:27 AM (3qE2b)

93
Former major league baseball great Steve Garvey running for Senate in California as (R) against Adam Shitful.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

============

Oh ffs. I bet schiff skates circles around him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at January 01, 2024 07:30 AM (n7rxJ)

94 My apologies .... I was so tired that I missed dinner and a launch from India.
youtube
https://t.ly/Av0gy

What a start for 2024 for me.

Posted by: Ciampino - missed one at January 01, 2024 07:31 AM (qfLjt)

95 I'll be having Indian food this evening - does that count?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:33 AM (ScR16)

96 I'll be having Indian food this evening - does that count?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:33

Buffalo steak ?

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 07:35 AM (T4tVD)

97
Everything always remains as it has been, until it doesn't. Unexpectedly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 07:35 AM (3qE2b)

98 Buffalo steak ?
Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 07:35 AM (T4tVD)
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Chicken something - the person cooking wasn't sure when she messaged us.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:35 AM (ScR16)

99 Everything always remains as it has been, until it doesn't.
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I think Sir Isaac Newton said something to that effect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:37 AM (ScR16)

100 Everything always remains as it has been, until it doesn't.
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I think Sir Isaac Newton said something to that effect.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:37 AM (ScR16)

The inventor of the Fig ?

Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 07:38 AM (T4tVD)

101
You wanna be the one who never discounts the possibility of the unexpected.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 01, 2024 07:38 AM (3qE2b)

102 95 I'll be having Indian food this evening - does that count?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:33 AM (ScR16)
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Assuming you mean dot-Indian then I envy you. Indian food is my favorite, on a par with Italian cooking. I also like spicy hot.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hmm curry! at January 01, 2024 07:39 AM (qfLjt)

103 The inventor of the Fig ?
Posted by: JT at January 01, 2024 07:38 AM (T4tVD)
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Figs were already around (cf. Jesus blasting the unproductive fig tree). He just Newton'd them.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:39 AM (ScR16)

104 Undergirding the student newspaper’s defense of Gay — at least in part — were concerns that the myriad of negative press about the Ivy League school’s president were “manufactured by conservative activists intent on discrediting higher education.”

Dudes, your so called school sucks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 01, 2024 07:39 AM (lwOKI)

105 Byeeee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at January 01, 2024 07:40 AM (ScR16)

106 Chicken something?
Wouldn't that have to be feather food then?
Dots would think they're eating someone's grandmother,,, or something.

Posted by: Teej at January 01, 2024 07:45 AM (3K/9t)

107 This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Isaac Newton

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2024 07:45 AM (RSbhh)

108 par with Italian cooking. I also like spicy hot.
Posted by: Ciampino - Hmm curry! at January 01, 2024 07:39 AM (qfLjt)
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I love hot spicy food.

But we were in Italy, absolutely nothing was spicy. In fact, the pizza vendor couldn't stand that the mostly Americans kept asking for garlic powder and cayenne flakes to shake on top of their slice.

We took a cooking course there from a local chef. Not one thing spicy. Everything very refined, with success in bringing out the flavors of the main ingredients and not cover them up.

So, too, with the recipes in the Italian cookbook I enjoyed using way back when.

There's a no spicy meatball anywhere here!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 07:46 AM (ch/kO)

109 I go use Google when I want nothing but liberal links about a subject for the first page of results. Which is never.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 01, 2024 07:46 AM (ynpvh)

110 23 NASA, don't crater to the Navajo's demands.
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Lunatics!

Posted by: JQ at January 01, 2024 04:27 AM (njWTi)
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Well what did the Moonies say?

Posted by: Ciampino - Hmm oomm at January 01, 2024 07:48 AM (qfLjt)

111 So I should look for straight coconut milk for my coffee? This stuff is called NutPods, and is almond plus coconut. It's okay, I guess. I've never bought real cream for my coffee, so that'll be something new.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 01, 2024 07:48 AM (omVj0)

112 108
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 07:46 AM (ch/kO)

Wife went to Spain (before we dated), and went into a "Mexican" restaurant there; the food was bland. She asked if they had any chiles, and amazingly enough they had jalapeños. So here she's eating her food and keeps asking for more jalapeños and notices the staff looking at her like she was insane...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 01, 2024 07:49 AM (ynpvh)

113 Just got back from Puerto Rico. The food is not spicy ( hot) at all. Very good food.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2024 07:49 AM (PCK5/)

114 Noodus JJ

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 01, 2024 07:50 AM (omVj0)

115 111 So I should look for straight coconut milk for my coffee? This stuff is called NutPods, and is almond plus coconut. It's okay, I guess. I've never bought real cream for my coffee, so that'll be something new.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 01, 2024 07:48 AM (omVj0)

NutPods? Sounds like Nards (see Urban Dictionary)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 01, 2024 07:51 AM (ynpvh)

116 Our neighbor is 100% Indian, raised around the world, but fully emerged in Indian cooking and culture.

He absolutely loves anything from the grill or the smoker.

I pretty much can't tolerate Indian spices.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 01, 2024 07:52 AM (hH3Px)

117 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 01, 2024 07:49 AM (ynpvh)
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I find genuine Italian food to be very flavorful.

We went to Spain. I found the local recipes to be extremely bland.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 07:52 AM (ch/kO)

118 I'm taking the kids out for Korean lunch today. You like spicy, they have you covered,

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 01, 2024 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

119 108
There's a no spicy meatball anywhere here!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 01, 2024 07:46 AM (ch/kO)
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Italian sausage is a bit hot and mortadella has actual black peppercorns embedded in it ....

Yes, black pepper is what I considered spicy as a kid but once I got exposed to those little multi-colored peppers of hellfire fame I didn't look back. Pasta aglio e olio with one of those peppers broken up in the oil with the garlic, lots of parmigiano and pecorino cheeses -- now I'm hungry. Hey I missed dinner!

Posted by: Ciampino - can you hear my stomach rumbling? at January 01, 2024 07:55 AM (qfLjt)

120 @107 - Fen

Yep. And those pesky comets. So short lived that "they" had to invent a place called the Oort cloud that births them and spits one out every once in a while.
"They can't tell you where it is but it just HAS to be out there somewhere.
JWST images also have "them" in a crisis. They were going to be looking so far "back in time" that they'd be seeing galaxies in their earliest stages of forming.
Oops. Out past red shift 14 and still seeing all these fully formed galaxies.

Told ya so. - Dr Jason Lisle of the Biblical Science Institute

Posted by: Teej at January 01, 2024 07:59 AM (3K/9t)

121 121

Posted by: m at January 01, 2024 09:11 AM (4UYlo)

122 NASA should issue a formal statement reaffirming that, in accordance with all applicable laws, they will not disturb any "native" sites or remains that they find on the Moon or any other celestial body. And do nothing else. Especially never mention so-called "sacred sites".

(For too many tribes in the US and elsewhere, it seems that their "sacred sites" are suddenly and conveniently are discovered to be located on valuable land right after the outside development announcement is made.)

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 01, 2024 09:28 AM (a/7LW)

123 Has this Dan Luu dude ever, like maybe, taken a class on how to format wall-o'-text in HTML? So it's not 16" wide with almost no margin at 8pt unreadable? He'd get the barrel if he managed to do that in comments here. Holy CSS, Batman!

Posted by: GWB at January 01, 2024 10:41 AM (sSx7k)

124 Yeah, the moon is a sacred place.

No, fellas, it isn't. The image you have in your mind of the moon in the sky ? Call that as sacred as you want. THE END

Posted by: deadrody at January 01, 2024 04:58 PM (F92US)

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