Daily Tech News 15 February 2024

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In a clear sign of the End Times, the UN and the European Court of Human Rights have both affirmed that forcing companies to create encryption back doors to enable governments to spy on their civilian populations is a violation of human rights. (Ars Technica)

I mean, duh, and I don't expect this will stop anyone for even a minute, but it's still a little surprising to see them state the obvious.

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Early adopters of Apple's Vision Pro AR headset are lining up to return their $3500 toys before the 14 day trial period expires. (The Verge)

Who the hell has time for that? I'm lucky if I even get the box out of the front hall in the first 14 days.
The new Asus Zenbook 14 has 32GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)

And one of those 2880x1800 OLED displays which are very nice (the HP laptop I'm using right now has the same screen).

This one also has Intel's new Core Ultra 7 155H, which brings Intel more or less up to date with AMD's chips from last year.

No Four Essential Keys though.
Hezbollah had blue checkmarks on Twitter. (Ars Technica)

Which means that Hezbollah paid for them.

Ars Technica runs this as though it were Watergate multiplied by the Pentagon Papers, when it doesn't even amount to a nothingburger.

Meanwhile, the former Twitter regime explicitly granted blue checkmarks to pro-genocide terrorist mouthpieces for years, and Ars didn't raise a peep.

We Do What We Must Because We Can Video of the Day

Disclaimer:

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 15, 2024 04:04 AM (sAmhv)

3 Evening and morning to all the satellites in space and beyond! Luna City, check in! Marsopolis, check in! It'll take a while to hear from Europa Station, though. How's the Solar system tonight?

(I wish . . .)

Debby Doberman Schultz asked how my cats are. About the same, healthy and difficult. Little Dagny the Siberian continues to be kind of standoffish (though she slept with me during my Tuesday nap). Stirling the big black is affectionate as usual and curls up with me for a part of each night.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2024 04:07 AM (omVj0)

4 In other news, perhaps the most logical and plausible explanation for a company's actions is that a clique of Canadian anime girls effectively took control a branch of said company and ruled it like a flock of high school mean girls.

Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at February 15, 2024 04:09 AM (6Xd4f)

5 ; )

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:11 AM (KpWJP)

6 >>>Early adopters of Apple's Vision Pro AR headset are lining up to return their $3500 toys before the 14 day trial period expires.

Many under spousal pressure, I am betting.

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:21 AM (KpWJP)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2024 04:27 AM (T4tVD)

8 >>>Disclaimer:

You got nothin'?

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:29 AM (KpWJP)

9 Maybe we should all head to California to live. Some Politicians want the minimum wage to go to 25 dollars an hour, some have suggested 50 dollars. And then they are complaining that McDonald's is charging to much for a big mack.
I guess Economics has been downgraded in the state schools and universities. Newsom will approve, I'm sure.

Posted by: Colin at February 15, 2024 04:31 AM (/z/eU)

10 4 In other news, perhaps the most logical and plausible explanation for a company's actions is that a clique of Canadian anime girls effectively took control a branch of said company and ruled it like a flock of high school mean girls.

Indeed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 15, 2024 04:36 AM (BLOW1)

11 If you had a robust economy, and stopped trying to strangle it with absurd millenarian Far Woke regulations and punitive taxation on any proceeds from any activity that isn't graft, you wouldn't even need to think about a minimum wage.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 04:36 AM (9UlRk)

12 Disclaimer:

You got nothin'?
Posted by: m

And nothin's plenty for me ....

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 04:37 AM (vd8XM)

13 IMO, those Apple vision people only got them to do influencer videos.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 15, 2024 04:37 AM (IG7T0)

14 IMO, those Apple vision people only got them to do influencer videos.
Posted by: Jamaica

And porn.

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 04:38 AM (vd8XM)

15 9 Maybe we should all head to California to live. Some Politicians want the minimum wage to go to 25 dollars an hour, some have suggested 50 dollars. And then they are complaining that McDonald's is charging to much for a big mack.
I guess Economics has been downgraded in the state schools and universities. Newsom will approve, I'm sure.
Posted by: Colin at February 15, 2024 04:31 AM (/z/eU)

Maybe they could be usefully answered with minimum rage.

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:39 AM (KpWJP)

16 You back in your house, out of the hotel, Bruce?

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:40 AM (KpWJP)

17 Yay! I may have really expensive plumbing problem to fix. The condo unit below me has water leaking into their bathroom from a vent in the ceiling. If it's coming from my unit (highly likely), I'll be on the hook to pay for it. Complicated to explain. I've had this happen several times over the 20+ years I've lived here so I know what to expect and what is my responsibility.

Grumble grumble...

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 15, 2024 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

18 Fingers crossed, Puddleglum.

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:43 AM (KpWJP)

19 I worked in a condo conversion job years ago. The unit below had valuable art. Our unit had its bathrooms inside a lead pan with a drain. The kitchen sink area was set up the same way. Cheaper to do that than carry insurance.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 15, 2024 04:43 AM (IG7T0)

20 tech question carried over from the ONT:

79 Hi, have a question for The Horde:

We're looking to get a computer that will run windows. We will use it for Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro, some kind of graphics program to create files for laser cutters and CNC machines.

We will NOT use it for movies, streaming, games, etc. It'll be for our workshop tasks.

Any recommendations?
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at February 14, 2024 10:29 PM (Rbu5d)

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:45 AM (KpWJP)

21 The building I live in was built in 1963. The plumbing is wearing out. I've replaced what I can inside my place. The space between floors I can't do much with until it's too late. Frustrating.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 15, 2024 04:45 AM (sAmhv)

22 You back in your house, out of the hotel, Bruce?
Posted by: m

Back home now. Still some well issue, but it'll get worked out (I hope) today.

Too much fun.

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 04:45 AM (vd8XM)

23 There's probably some gold to be mined in the train of thought that it's the commodification of labor, and the propensity for the "educated" to sneer at physical labor of any kind, that leads to the backwards and degenerate thinking they push out of their faces with respect to wages, labor, fairness, etc etc etc.

To them, flipping a burger or digging a trench is just dumb, fungible busy-work that any cretin or cripple or robot could do.

In reality, the uptalking Zoom-borne dunces with their Masters of Current Thing Studies would fail miserably at either of those jobs and flame out in a week or two. Every job takes skill of some kind. Every job one can learn to do better, and get paid better to do it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 04:45 AM (9UlRk)

24 McDonalds paying the extra wages in California are shrink-flationing the 1/4 pounder to a 1/3 pounder!

...Sloe Joe...

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 04:48 AM (vd8XM)

25 You back in your house, out of the hotel, Bruce?
Posted by: m

99 bottles of water on the shelf, 99 bottles of water,

Ya flush one down, into the ground,

98 bottles of water on the shelf

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 04:50 AM (vd8XM)

26 25 You back in your house, out of the hotel, Bruce?
Posted by: m

99 bottles of water on the shelf, 99 bottles of water,

Ya flush one down, into the ground,

98 bottles of water on the shelf
Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 04:50 AM (vd8XM)

Or an outdoor hose run through an open window?

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:51 AM (KpWJP)

27 Also consider that flipping a burger or digging a trench are jobs governed by literal rafts of red tape and regulation. Safety rules. Environmental restrictions. Gotta monitor all your temperatures lest someone catch an illness. Gotta watch your sidewall profile lest some excess silt accumulates down grade and threatens the habitat of the lesser greater spotted marsh skink.

But what regulations and restrictions are there for the credentialed class who straddle the world like colossi of erudition, creating all the regulations and restrictions everyone else must live by?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 04:52 AM (9UlRk)

28 I hate doing trim. I'd much rather frame a house. The physical work is part of the satisfaction.
The mason at Billy's is my age. He was sitting in his bobcat moving blue stone slabs while chewing a stoogie, in the sun shine and cold wind.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 15, 2024 04:53 AM (IG7T0)

29 23 27

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024

Newsletter!

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 04:55 AM (KpWJP)

30 Let them eat $25 an hour

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 04:56 AM (9UlRk)

31 It's all Stage 4 Cloward-Piven. The only interesting thing is trying to guess which of them is lying through their veneers, and which of them actually believes any of this shit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 04:59 AM (9UlRk)

32 Or an outdoor hose run through an open window?
Posted by: m

The problem is with the well. It went dry so we had to get another one put in.
Took them about 2 hours yesterday to put it in. Problem is, when the old well went dry it sucked sand up into the plumbing which has now clogged up all 3 toilet fill valves.

In my younger days, I could probably fix the problem, but after 2 knee replacements I can't kneel any more. And after futzing with it for 20 minutes yesterday my back said "I don't think so Bruce"

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:00 AM (vd8XM)

33 For just 50 cents a day, you can help Bruce buy bottled water to flush his toilets.

Won't you please help?

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:03 AM (vd8XM)

34 Global death count for 2024 so far, 5.5 million by abortion, 7.5 million from all other causes combined.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at February 15, 2024 05:07 AM (EcHpA)

35 7.5 million from all other causes combined.
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey

We must do something, and a very expensive something, well, not expensive to me anyway, of stopping all other causes combined!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:09 AM (vd8XM)

36 32 Or an outdoor hose run through an open window?
Posted by: m

The problem is with the well. It went dry so we had to get another one put in.
Took them about 2 hours yesterday to put it in. Problem is, when the old well went dry it sucked sand up into the plumbing which has now clogged up all 3 toilet fill valves.

In my younger days, I could probably fix the problem, but after 2 knee replacements I can't kneel any more. And after futzing with it for 20 minutes yesterday my back said "I don't think so Bruce"
Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:00 AM (vd8XM)

Ah.

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 05:14 AM (KpWJP)

37 I've been haphazardly trying to compile a list of "first principles" for thinking about the morass of nonsense we're faced with. Basically, things that can be considered true because their inverse leads to absurdities.

- There should be no right to any good or service.
- There should be no prosecutorial discretion towards anyone involved in prosecution, whatever job title they might have (judge, legislator, etc.), outside of jurors.

It's a start, i guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 05:17 AM (9UlRk)

38 Ah.
Posted by: m

And the worst part is, I pinched my finger bad with the channel locks. So I have a big blood blister on my finger.

My tv remote channel flipping finger!

For just 50 cents a day, you can help.....

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:17 AM (vd8XM)

39 - Fuck not around, lest out ye find.

You know. Real bedrock kind of stuff.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 05:20 AM (9UlRk)

40 38 And the worst part is, I pinched my finger bad with the channel locks. So I have a big blood blister on my finger.
Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:17 AM (vd8XM)

I did that yesterday, too! At some point when getting something out of the fridge; no idea how.

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 05:25 AM (KpWJP)

41 I did that yesterday, too! At some point when getting something out of the fridge; no idea how.
Posted by: m

An epidemic!

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:27 AM (vd8XM)

42 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 05:30 AM (a1415)

43 good morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2024 05:33 AM (ENQN6)

44 So after Little VIA did some Micro-miniature repairs to the ribbon circuit board for Mrs VIA's 2002 49cc Vespa, I finally got it reassembled and back on the road.

Last year of the two cycle little Italian made screamers, with a top speed of about 31 mph.

But, it's fun to ride around the neighborhood.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 05:34 AM (a1415)

45
Vespa = 🏳️‍🌈

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 15, 2024 05:36 AM (nIvob)

46 Take that back, or I shall pummel you with my murse!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 05:37 AM (a1415)

47 38 Ah.
Posted by: m

And the worst part is, I pinched my finger bad with the channel locks. So I have a big blood blister on my finger.

My tv remote channel flipping finger!

For just 50 cents a day, you can help.....
Posted by: Bruce

You'll have to get a left handed remote!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 15, 2024 05:39 AM (sAmhv)

48
It's not a purse it's European!
-- Seinfeld

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 15, 2024 05:41 AM (nIvob)

49 The city of Baltimore is purchasing two holes, in order to house the homeless.

http://tinyurl.com/bdh5a8yk

This is gonna get interesting, as Illegal immigrant supporters are beginning to notice that Baltimore really isn't doing much to get their fair share of the Sanctuary City redistribution plan invaders.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 05:42 AM (a1415)

50 Holes=Hotels.

F'n auto-cucumber!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 05:43 AM (a1415)

51 Powerful story behind hymn " What a friend we have in Jesus."

http://tinyurl.com/57xvu5t2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2024 05:43 AM (EffQl)

52 "Stay calm," Our Betters say over and over, without telling us what this supposed security threat IS.

What they don't say: The security threat is the F. Joe administration, with the chief rutabaga as its figurehead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 15, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)

53 " A tree limb in the road": A nice little story about kindness.

http://tinyurl.com/dv5rkpky

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2024 05:47 AM (EffQl)

54 You'll have to get a left handed remote!
Posted by: Puddleglum,

HA!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 15, 2024 05:48 AM (vd8XM)

55 "Why?" A woman reflects on a passage from Job:

http://tinyurl.com/3z9vppyv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 15, 2024 05:49 AM (EffQl)

56 ""Stay calm," Our Betters say over and over, without telling us what this supposed security threat IS. "

I think the concept of 'Trust us' has flown the coop.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 05:50 AM (a1415)

57
79 Hi, have a question for The Horde:

We're looking to get a computer that will run windows. We will use it for Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro, some kind of graphics program to create files for laser cutters and CNC machines.

We will NOT use it for movies, streaming, games, etc. It'll be for our workshop tasks.

Any recommendations?
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at February 14, 2024 10:29 PM (Rbu5d)'

Off-lease refurbished Dell, tower or laptop either one. Get two, they're cheap. Amazon or eBay, probably around USD$100 each.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 05:52 AM (43xH1)

58 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 15, 2024 05:54 AM (ju2Fy)

59 We're looking to get a computer that will run windows. We will use it for Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro, some kind of graphics program to create files for laser cutters and CNC machines.'

Here's one, $89.

http://tinyurl.com/8wssdv34

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 05:55 AM (43xH1)

60 Nothing says "stay calm" like telling people there's an existential threat but they're not allowed to tell you what it is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 05:55 AM (9UlRk)

61 We're looking to get a computer that will run windows. We will use it for Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro, some kind of graphics program to create files for laser cutters and CNC machines.'

Or go to Walmart and buy new whatever they have that's cheap. Anything available these days will do far more than you need.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 05:58 AM (43xH1)

62 And if you're going to take on this mantle of responsibility and use it to arrogate all kinds of privileges and protections for yourself....

THEN SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM!!!

...

sorry for yelling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 05:58 AM (9UlRk)

63 Good morning morons

Local TV news reports that 71 CHP officers sent to Oakland by Genius Governor Gavin Newsom, was a "surge" that is now over, after a week. He crows that 71 arrests were made and 145 stolen vehicles recovered.

A week??? Sure, Jan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2024 05:58 AM (RIvkX)

64 He crows that 71 arrests were made and 145 stolen vehicles recovered....
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2024 05:58 AM (RIvkX)

Band aid on a cannonball wound.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 15, 2024 06:00 AM (9UlRk)

65 sorry for yelling.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Skip's tryin' to sleep !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2024 06:03 AM (T4tVD)

66 USA Today

Parts of Greenland are becoming green again for the first time since the Vikings visited nearly 1,000 years ago, according to study co-author Jonathan Carrivick, an Earth scientist at the University of Leeds in the U.K.

The Vikings SUVs must have really spewed some serious polution.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2024 06:07 AM (ENQN6)

67 At the office listening to Leona Anderson, 'Music To Suffer By', specifically 'Habanera From Carmen'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOjIaXP2mbc

Why? Well, an E. European colleague asked me the other day about the 'odd cultural practice' in America of people loving bad music or bad art or bad movies, solely for it being 'BAD'. I had not realized it, but this is simply not a form of humor there! He referenced Leona Anderson, from her legendary performances on Ernie Kovacs Show, and I hadn't heard her work in years. It's lost not one bit of its power.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:07 AM (43xH1)

68 Huh, Leona Anderson was born Leona Aronson, to a Jewish family in St. Louis. Her brother Max Aronson changed his name slightly and became...

Bronco Billy Anderson!

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:09 AM (43xH1)

69 She's no Yoko.

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2024 06:10 AM (T4tVD)

70 Good morning horde
Decisions , to get rolling or try and sleep more

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2024 06:11 AM (fwDg9)

71 Up and rolling is usually the best choice.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 06:14 AM (a1415)

72 I had to tell him it's partly mockery of Bad Art, but also a kind of mass satire, elevating a terrible artist to success solely to point out to High Culture Elites how awful their Fine Art mostly is. That the overwhelming majority of Americans will happily watch reruns of 'The A-Team' before they'll sit still for '2001'. And, notably, Jack Benny's gag was of him being a terrible classical violinist (which he wasn't at all!) and not a terrible banjo player.

I had not realized this kind of musical/artistic 'satire' doesn't really exist in Eastern Europe or mostly Europe in general.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:15 AM (43xH1)

73 Good morning horde
Decisions , to get rolling or try and sleep more
Posted by: Skip'

Sleep.

The vote is split.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:17 AM (43xH1)

74 The undefined securiry concern hasn't happened yet, but, when it does, they will let is know. Tje fact that it is convenient to the interests of the Regime is purely coincidental

Posted by: Jamaica at February 15, 2024 06:19 AM (pYfSJ)

75 http://tinyurl.com/4tr5hxrb
29 Tweets from Bad Blue

Just getting to #1 and below that videos, shameful how far we have let the Marxists take over

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2024 06:20 AM (fwDg9)

76 And the worst part is, I pinched my finger bad with the channel locks. So I have a big blood blister on my finger.
Posted by: Bruce'

I had a pair of needle-nosed that had squared-off flats behind the joint, right where you put your second finger. I pinched myself with those fucking things every single time I used them. I kept them for years because 'throwing away tools is morally wrong', and considered grinding that section away; but looked them over ane the design didn't allow that. Finally after probably 10 years I was near a river on a job and threw them in.
I do not regret it for one moment.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:21 AM (43xH1)

77 I have work to do within my township area, get it done, might not take all day and can call it then. Should be 4 5 hours

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2024 06:23 AM (fwDg9)

78 Len.

Do Polka bands count?

Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2024 06:23 AM (QB+5g)

79 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 15, 2024 06:24 AM (PzBTm)

80 I would always sleep if I could.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2024 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

81 Blood blister you have to break it, get needle and go for it

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2024 06:26 AM (fwDg9)

82 I have work to do within my township area, get it done, might not take all day and can call it then. Should be 4 5 hours
Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2024 06:23 AM (fwDg9)

Have a good one and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at February 15, 2024 06:28 AM (T4tVD)

83 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The renowned cancer treatment and research center is in the midst of a lengthy review of possible discrepancies involving around 60 papers co-authored by four of its top researchers over a period of over 15 years, including CEO Laurie Glimcher and COO William Hahn.

So what is the harm? Billions spent on a false hope. Potential drugs or therapies based on little to NO proofs.
Wait until DEI gets to be the favored approach of research.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2024 06:29 AM (ENQN6)

84 I wish there was a way to see what my hash is without having to unlurk

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 06:29 AM (7fRlC)

85 Len.
Do Polka bands count?
Posted by: pawn'

Actually, yes! There is a tradition of satirical polka, and the accordion is kind of a go-to for perceived satirical music. And I've known several serious audiophiles who avidly collected regional polka bands, and played them all the time for the camp value.
Weird Al Yankovic has been invited, specifically, to tour Europe several times and every time his concerts are poorly received: Euros stand around in bafflement at his 'bad music'. He does tour 'Europe' but it's the UK and a few places in Scandinavia, that's it.
The accordion is a legitimate cultural icon in most of Southern/Eastern Europe and The Balkans, so when someone pulls one out it's assumed to be a serious instrument and has no value as automatic satire as in USA. Here it's an automatic 'immigrant joke'.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:30 AM (43xH1)

86 And of course it sucks

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 06:30 AM (7fRlC)

87
The bumper music is already cued up for today's evidentiary hearing starring Fani and Darrius --

http://tinyurl.com/FaniNDarrius

The Miracles - "(I'm Just a) Love Machine"

I'm just a love machine and I won't work for nobody but you...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2024 06:31 AM (xG4kz)

88 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 15, 2024 06:33 AM (86W+h)

89 Wait until DEI gets to be the favored approach of research.
Posted by: rhennigantx

--White blood cells are racist and overrepresented

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 06:34 AM (7fRlC)

90 I'm just a love machine and I won't work for nobody but you...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2024 06:31 AM (xG4kz)

More like "Love Removal Machine"

Posted by: Nathan's Ex-Wife at February 15, 2024 06:36 AM (7fRlC)

91 I have several Polish-American polka bands on LP, local outfits that played Chicago halls and bowling alleys. And, now Wisconsin, so lots of polka here. I've known more than a few real 'music enthusiast snobs', like the horrible guys in High Fidelity, who loved local polka bands and would go see them all the time for the camp value; or so they said!

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:37 AM (43xH1)

92 Wolfus,

https://is.gd/lLO1UU

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 15, 2024 06:37 AM (PiwSw)

93 Good morning, y'all!

The procrastinator has withdrawn from the case. Things are looking up.

Fingers status: Crossed

Posted by: Muldoon at February 15, 2024 06:37 AM (991eG)

94
Do Polka bands count?
Posted by: pawn

Of course they do:

And a one-a, a two-a..."
* bubble machine goes into overdrive *

-- zombie Lawrence Welk

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2024 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

95 How is everyone?

I started the thread at 50

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 06:39 AM (7fRlC)

96 And a one-a, a two-a..."
* bubble machine goes into overdrive *

-- zombie Lawrence Welk
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2024 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

Not again...

Posted by: A Bobby and a Sissy at February 15, 2024 06:41 AM (PiwSw)

97 I started the thread at 50
Posted by: logprof

******

Wow! How old are you now?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 15, 2024 06:42 AM (991eG)

98
More snow Friday night into Saturday morning. Joy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 15, 2024 06:42 AM (nIvob)

99 And a one-a, a two-a..."
* bubble machine goes into overdrive *
-- zombie Lawrence Welk
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot'

Still to this day one of the funniest things I have ever seen on TV was a Lawrence Welk show performance. It was 'Leavin' On a Jet Plane', performed by one of his perfect 'couples'... dressed in 1920s fashions and sitting in a prop biplane. Then the fog machine fired up to make fake 'clouds' but it was turned too high and for half the song the screen was entirely whited out, totally blank.
I cannot find this clip anywhere, and I have searched for years. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt for an hour.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:43 AM (43xH1)

100 So Weird Al doesn't go over in Europe.

Even with the schism between old and new, East and West "Europe".

I saw a bumper sticker in CA once that read "Play an Accordion, go to Jail"

Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2024 06:44 AM (QB+5g)

101 Muldoon, I chuckled because my half century mark was not that long ago 😆

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 06:44 AM (7fRlC)

102 Created by House investigators in 2019-2020, the Russian collusion binder included the many ways in which the intelligence community allegedly violated the law in surveilling Trump associates during the events of Russiagate. We know this was a partisan political attack—the latest nugget is that the CIA got the foreign intelligence services of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—The Five Eyes—involved in the collusion plot, which started well before the FBI’s July 2016 counterintelligence probe which was seen as the start of this circus.

SO does PDT have the BOOK??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 15, 2024 06:45 AM (ENQN6)

103 It's not really a Polka, without a Boombah being played.

http://tinyurl.com/3kcbtsv2
Almost an Amish upright bass.

Growing up in the Lehigh Valley, these things were in every friday night firehall get together.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 06:46 AM (a1415)

104 Job it Delaware went to Hell, a wall had to come down and there was unplanned double wall and all kinds of plumbing running through it.

Posted by: Skip at February 15, 2024 06:48 AM (fwDg9)

105
"Why?" A woman reflects on a passage from Job:

http://tinyurl.com/3z9vppyv
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It is hard to believe these days, but the Book of Job was one of our reading assignments for senior year English in high school in the early '70s. Mrs. D set some very high standards for those heading to college.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2024 06:48 AM (xG4kz)

106
Despite a highly concerted and time consuming effort the evidence was not to be found in Melania's panty drawers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 15, 2024 06:48 AM (nIvob)

107 Good morning all. It's been a crazy past few days. Sunday evening I had to go to the ER. I had been vomiting all day along with other "ahem" ailments. They ended up admitting me because my WBC was low and I had a bladder infection. I was so miserable I couldn't even watch my Chiefs win the super bowl.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 15, 2024 06:48 AM (iF0sF)

108 Don't these guys know how dumb it is to put incriminating stuff in a binder?

Posted by: Mutt Romney at February 15, 2024 06:49 AM (SYTee)

109 Jewells!

Prayers up.

You home now?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)

110 It is hard to believe these days, but the Book of Job was one of our reading assignments for senior year English in high school in the early '70s. Mrs. D set some very high standards for those heading to college.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2024 06:48 AM (xG4kz)

My favorite New Testament book.

Posted by: Dr. Howard Dean, Bible Scholar at February 15, 2024 06:52 AM (PiwSw)

111 So the residents of Massachusetts have found a way around that pesky 13th Amendment?

And actually made slavery a new woke thing.

http://tinyurl.com/2n26ckux

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 06:53 AM (a1415)

112 That Lawrence Welk performance! Oh my God

'Leavin', on a jet plane (pause)
Don't know when (pause)
I'll be back again (pronounced 'a-gayn-)'

(Screen goes blank)

Posted by: LenNeal at February 15, 2024 06:53 AM (43xH1)

113
I started the thread at 50
Posted by: logprof

Well, if you'd only seen
That the joke was on you...

* solidly whacks the metaphor mixer with a hammer *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 15, 2024 06:53 AM (xG4kz)

114 Growing up in the Lehigh Valley, these things were in every friday night firehall get together.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

--Dad's family from Bethlehem. Loved visiting as a littl'un. Great-grandparents had a railroad right being their backyard. ❤️

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 06:54 AM (7fRlC)

115 NOOD, No J.J.!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 15, 2024 06:55 AM (btQjq)

116 Jewells, thanks for the update!!

I've missed see you knowing what I've heard about your health.

🕊️

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 06:56 AM (7fRlC)

117
♪ Sundown, you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round in my wife's drawers ♪

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 15, 2024 06:56 AM (nIvob)

118 When it comes to solving criminal behavior issues in school, Maryland once again says...'Watch this siht, hold my beer'

http://tinyurl.com/ycx79zud

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 06:57 AM (a1415)

119 VIA yes I am home now.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 15, 2024 06:57 AM (iF0sF)

120 {{{ jewells45}}}

Prayers continue.
May your path to progress be smoother.

F*n F, that F*er cancer, the f*ing f*.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2024 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

121 I saw a bumper sticker in CA once that read "Play an Accordion, go to Jail"

Posted by: pawn at February 15, 2024 06:44 AM (QB+5g)
===
I saw one that said "I'm Pro-Accordion and I Vote!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 15, 2024 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

122 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2024 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

123 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 15, 2024 07:00 AM (R4t5M)

124 pawn & San Franpsycho

Gary Larson had an accordion player serenading those in Hell. Those players got 'tude.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 15, 2024 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

125 Y'all, I've seen signs popping up almost by the day.

Fen mentioned Job, in the last 48 hours I've been thinking of a cool storyboard/comic
about certain passages.

Favor: Can anyone post a good list of Job's trials chronologically?

I'm trusting individual believers, not a search engine.

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 07:01 AM (7fRlC)

126 Ever wonder what the Morning Report would look like without J.J.behind the wheel?

It's sort of like Readers Digest.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 15, 2024 07:02 AM (a1415)

127 VIA, so like the Pips without Gladys Knight?

(They actually tried that IRL)

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 07:05 AM (7fRlC)

128 Also wanted to tell you all the PET scan showed great results from the treatment! MRI showed no cancer.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 15, 2024 07:09 AM (iF0sF)

129 Awesome jewells!

Please, where did it start?

My mom's started with uterus but now it's simply cancer of her person.

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 07:12 AM (7fRlC)

130 126 Ever wonder what the Morning Report would look like without J.J.behind the wheel?

It's sort of like Readers Digest.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

J.J. puts a ton of work into the Morning Report.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 15, 2024 07:13 AM (BLOW1)

131 @128/jewells45 - That's fantastic news!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 15, 2024 07:14 AM (qPw5n)

132 logprof mine is lung cancer stage 4. I had no symptoms.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 15, 2024 07:14 AM (iF0sF)

133 J.J. puts a ton of work into the Morning Report.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

--It's not the recipe; it's the presentation. 😉

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 07:15 AM (7fRlC)

134 Jewells, what made my mom bedridden was a lung filling up with fluid that had to be drained. It's also why she needs the painkillers. She has home hospice so no tubes except oxygen machine and at least my stepdad is always around.

I say cancer can fog the brain but clear the mind.

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 07:22 AM (7fRlC)

135 All right, gotta take another financial bite in the arse to pass inspection today.

May the Lord have mercy on my wallet.

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2024 07:25 AM (7fRlC)

136 128 Also wanted to tell you all the PET scan showed great results from the treatment! MRI showed no cancer.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 15, 2024 07:09 AM (iF0sF)

What wonderful news! Be sure to bring this up tomorrow. You've gotten willowed here.

Posted by: m at February 15, 2024 07:48 AM (KpWJP)

137 You don't understand, though. ARS Technica and their reader base are anti-fascist authoritarian bootlickers.

Posted by: Jim at February 15, 2024 08:09 AM (zhWvq)

138 Except for the "anti" part.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 15, 2024 08:10 AM (BLOW1)

139 Skip to the last quarter of the video for VR headsets in the Carousel of Progress from a quarter of a century ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4jnlvJmrk

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