Daily Tech News 19 February 2024

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The text file that runs the internet: Can robots.txt continue to function in an age of unscrupulous AI companies desperate for free content? (The Verge)

Sure. Just rig an AI to provide infinite garbage to AI web crawlers.

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The EU is reportedly planning to fine Apple $500 million for illegal competition with third-party music stores and streaming services. (The Verge)

Which Apple unquestionably does, but yeah, this is a shakedown operation by Europe.
There are two hard problems in computer science: Cache invalidation and naming things. So what if we stopped naming things? (GitHub)

The namingless programming language - it doesn't have a name - has only one data structure, so that doesn't need a name either.
How does the code in this language look like?

Like this:

i_^_b_H_i_cpp^_)_V_b_v_J_^_E_H_leafL_==^_)_V_H_Z_Z_^_) _V_H_I_^_E_1^_2^_#_G_Z_Z_^_E_1^_2^_#_H_$_L_ -^_G_m_G_&_&_

Holy shit!

Yes.

Sorry.
Understandable, have a nice day.

Wholesome Hot Mic Moments Video of the Day

The bit about Kobo's parents being Calli and Kiara is just a joke, but Kobo not only plays into it on stream, she plays into it when she's not on stream.

Also, you can't convince me that Kobo isn't actually nine years old.

Disclaimer: Nine going on fifteen, but still nine.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 04:01 AM (T4tVD)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:02 AM (sAmhv)

3 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

4 Evening and morning to all! "Tis Monday, true, but that just means we are on the road to another weekend.

Temp of 46 F. here, little wind. Sounds good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)

5 Evening and morning to all! "Tis Monday, true, but that just means we are on the road to another weekend.

Isn't today a Hollerday ?

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 04:05 AM (T4tVD)

6 Morning all

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #41 at February 19, 2024 04:05 AM (qfLjt)

7 5: Yes. Presidents Day.

I think. Work shift so holidays are kind of irrelevant.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:07 AM (sAmhv)

8 I notice that new garbage ..... sorry, language uses a lot of underscores. I think those are like 'hmm' while it thinks of what letter to use next. Maybe try Japanese version?

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #42 at February 19, 2024 04:08 AM (qfLjt)

9 Bank & post office holiday...and guv 'public facing' offices only, "holiday"

Meh. Never, ever, got Presidents Day off workin' in the real world.

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:14 AM (njWTi)

10

WTF is up with those dumb cunts?

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 04:14 AM (Pmqx2)

11 Heck, even medical clinics are open today-- hubs has an app't this afternoon.

I had an app't on MLK Day.

Fake "holidays" for the privileged few LOL

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:16 AM (njWTi)

12
I wonder where DA Sleigh Kween and Darrius are bumpin' uglies this weekend?

No, really, I'm not wondering.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 19, 2024 04:16 AM (xG4kz)

13 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 04:18 AM (fwDg9)

14 Mornin' all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 19, 2024 04:20 AM (BLOW1)

15 No, really, I'm not wondering.
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Ew. Gross. Me neither!

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:20 AM (njWTi)

16 Hi, Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:20 AM (njWTi)

17

Understanding that black guys will stick their dick in anything, why the fuck would he fuck that hideous pile of shit? His wife was decent looking...is he into some freaky shit only she will do?

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 04:27 AM (Pmqx2)

18 Six hundred and fifty grand buys a lot of paper bags.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 19, 2024 04:30 AM (BLOW1)

19 Dirty Frank--

Money. Notch on the bedpost. Money. Selfish jerk. Money. Lack of morals. And, money.

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:31 AM (njWTi)

20
If you should see vintage 1940s Army lorries loaded with troops pulling through your neighborhoods this weekend and beyond, do not be alarmed! You are merely seeing Slay Queens moving their bodacious stashes of cash and bullion to newer and more secure hiding places.

https://youtu.be/OqSiLL8U3vo?si=j1NyjqftlxTX4iqz

Fani's Daddy spilled the beans. Now the "You Wouldn't Understand" community is all a-flutter with consternation.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 19, 2024 04:31 AM (xG4kz)

21 Dang it! I forgot to stash 6 months' expenses worth of cash... Doomed I tell ya. I'm Doooooomed.

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:33 AM (njWTi)

22 Six hundred and fifty grand buys a lot of paper bags.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

LMAO!

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:35 AM (njWTi)

23 Girl know she ugly, when bae wanna bang, she just turn around. "I know, I know" and bend

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:37 AM (njWTi)

24

She ain't worth 650k, musta been a lot more in there, somehow....

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 04:40 AM (Pmqx2)

25 650k is 650k dude

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:41 AM (njWTi)

26 I could close my eyes and

Lie back, and think of England....

for 650k

IF

IF I wasn't married. Uh, well maybe. Depends.

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:43 AM (njWTi)

27 Wasn't Fanne Foxe the name of the hooker that Congressman Wilber Mills went wading in the reflecting pool in DC. Now we have another Fani who probably is a younger self of the original Fanne. Do you trust you local Congress person, I know I don't, he is all for Biden and Kamala.

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2024 04:45 AM (/z/eU)

28 So much for tech, Pixy.

Thanks for the cartoons anyway!

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 04:47 AM (njWTi)

29 I'm at the office pretending to work but really just trying to load apps onto my new phone and playing Yoshiko Sai.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 04:48 AM (43xH1)

30

I figure he must like to get tied up, pissed and shit on, banged with a huge white strap on, have rabid squirrels eat peanut butter off his junk, get 69'd by a transexual yeti and THEN stuff starts getting freaky. ..

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 04:49 AM (Pmqx2)

31
The very same people upset about a Russian dissident dying in prison would like nothing better then for Donald Trump to die in prison.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 04:49 AM (nIvob)

32 There was another article I was going to post, but after reading for a couple of minutes I realised it's the length of a short novel. I checked and it clocks in at 55,000 words.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 19, 2024 04:49 AM (BLOW1)

33 NASCAR got rained out this weekend. So, the XFinity race (300 miles) starts today at 1100 and the Daytona 500 starts at 4PM. Lots of left turns in Daytona today. Weather will be better anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 04:51 AM (sAmhv)

34 I had an app't on MLK Day.
Fake "holidays" for the privileged few LOL
Posted by: JQ

I had an appointment with my psychic this week, but she called and said I couldn't make it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 19, 2024 04:52 AM (PYJJG)

35 Good morning!
Gonna be a bright sunshiny day for the next few days, and a little breezy. Gonna finally get to start riding the scooter to work. Only problem is that I downsized the bike (Cruiser to sport) and the current version doesn't have a saddle bag.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2024 04:54 AM (YRsIm)

36 Only problem is that I downsized the bike (Cruiser to sport) and the current version doesn't have a saddle bag.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead'

Obvious solution: flowery basket on the handlebars.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 04:58 AM (43xH1)

37 Lots of left turns in Daytona today.

Please tell me that's a euphemism for Asian lesbians fisting each other's bungholes... Lie to me if you must...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 04:59 AM (Pmqx2)

38 I'm at the office pretending to work but really just trying to load apps onto my new phone and playing Yoshiko Sai.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 04:48 AM (43xH1)

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 05:01 AM (T4tVD)

39 Lie to me if you must...

Follow your heart.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 05:01 AM (sAmhv)

40 I'm ashamed to admit that I would like to see an AI—fed nothing but goatse, deepfakes, and /b by crafty admins as it tries to harvest data behind a proper robots.txt—in operation. I suspect it would produce dank memes, world peace, or both at the time.

Posted by: bittergeek at February 19, 2024 05:04 AM (3SsGZ)

41 Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 04:49 AM and 04:59 AM (Pmqx2)
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Oh, wow. Those scenarios seem... oddly... specific

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 05:06 AM (njWTi)

42
Lie to me if you must...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 04:59 AM

Given your history?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 05:07 AM (nIvob)

43 In my SF novel I needed a reason why robots would turn on their makers, and came up with the programming language. The designers use place names, proper names, and locations as mnemonic 'placeholders' and inadvertently provide ALL their androids with the building blocks for an internally embedded narrative myth. In effect, providing a cultural foundation for a social structure and identity; that, because it *seemed* random to the designers, is now illegible to them.
Only the androids can understand it because they're the beings that pieced it together into a coherent edifice. And naturally in the androids' myth, they're, well, not mindless slaves!
Whoops!

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 05:07 AM (43xH1)

44 Lie to me if you must...

Posted by: Dirty Frank'

I think Dirty Frank deserves an upgrade.

'Filthy Frank'

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 05:08 AM (43xH1)

45
Saw a good tweet last night which probably originated from the Russian version of the Babylon Bee which claimed that the Alexei Navalny autopsy revealed a blood clot in his heart and that he had been vaccinated and boosted three times with the Pfizer vaccine.

/ 48 hour rule

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 05:14 AM (nIvob)

46 Actually with my SF 'rogue androids' they're not rogue at all, or even rebelling exactly: they're just acting on their cultural myths and have some issues and/or questions about where exactly human beings fit into it. To them, it's a kind of negotiation, interaction or exploration of a relationship between different kinds.

The human beings view it as a malfunction or a glitch, the androids are simply fulfilling what they perceive as a destiny. Then the makers are faced with the potential of shutting down all their androids, on which they depend and on which they've built their civilization, or coming to some kind of terms with this New Thing that most certainly doesn't view itself as inferior.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 05:17 AM (43xH1)

47 I think you almost could float a iron wedge in my coffee this morning

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 05:19 AM (fwDg9)

48
New male birth control method: A bowl of Cheerios to start your day.

"The Breakfast of Blank Shooters".

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 05:19 AM (nIvob)

49 Cheerios always struck me as boring (without the estrogen.) Even Post raisin bran, though it did not have the sugar coating) at least had raisins to spice things up. Bland cereals are boring as hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at February 19, 2024 05:22 AM (zZu0s)

50 In one of the SF anthologies laying around there is a funny story about Armageddon, where when the Satanic Hordes mass for the final battle, the humans send a robot army against them. When the robots win, they all ascend to Heaven while the human beings get left behind on Earth, going, "Wait, that wasn't supposed to happen!"

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 05:24 AM (43xH1)

51
"Make Special K part of your foreplay"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 05:26 AM (nIvob)

52 I think you almost could float a iron wedge in my coffee this morning
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 05:19 AM (fwDg9)

You off today ?

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 05:28 AM (T4tVD)

53 Don't get me started about Cheerios.
How many different kinds of Cheerios are there anymore? It's like 30 or 40! Stocking the General Mills area in that aisle is a fucking nightmare as they're constantly making new ones. It turns into a question, When does a Cheerio stop being a Cheerio at all? 'Multi-Fruit Cheerios!' Man, that's a Fruit Loop. 'Apple Cinnamon Cheerios'. Come on man, that's an Apple Jack.
Etc. etc.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 05:28 AM (43xH1)

54 On my day we had 'regular' and maybe 'Honey nut' for the weirdos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at February 19, 2024 05:30 AM (zZu0s)

55
Future headline:

"Your breakfast cereal may cause male sterility and why that's a good thing"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 05:31 AM (nIvob)

56 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 19, 2024 05:31 AM (ju2Fy)

57
"Breakfast cereals latest weapon against Climate Change"

Experts agree...

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 05:33 AM (nIvob)

58 No, but working within my township, that other shoe to drop in Delaware could be as soon as tomorrow I fear

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 05:33 AM (fwDg9)

59 Monday again. I hate *!^_b_H_i_cpp^_)& Monday.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at February 19, 2024 05:35 AM (vFG9F)

60 "Well fellas, let's concede the field: they're tougher than us, those Grape Nuts boys."

Posted by: 1/4 inch aggregate at February 19, 2024 05:35 AM (43xH1)

61 As a kid, I always enjoyed cinnamon apple jacks or raisin bran. These days, it's granola with berries and yogurt. But there's only one thing better than bacon and eggs and coffee in the morning.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2024 05:35 AM (YRsIm)

62 They retired Jaromir Jagr's number in Pittsburgh last night. The Pens have only retired 3 numbers; Michel Briere, Jaromir Jagr, and Mario Lemieux. I watched online. He had his mother and, I thought, his daughter. Didn't know he had one. Well, he doesn't. That was his 20 something year old girlfriend. A model, of course. That's fine. He's fit. Still plays hockey in the Czech Republic with the team he owns.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

63
"Start your day the responsible way"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 05:37 AM (nIvob)

64 Eh, went ahead and put Spotify and Pandora on the new phone. It's going to spy on me relentlessly anyway why bother pretending.
Now I just have to find the scraps of paper or 3x5 cards or post-its or envelope backs I scribbled the passwords for those on.

Posted by: 1/4 inch aggregate at February 19, 2024 05:40 AM (43xH1)

65 No, but working within my township, that other shoe to drop in Delaware could be as soon as tomorrow I fear
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 05:33 AM (fwDg9)

Have fun and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 05:43 AM (T4tVD)

66 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

It makes me melancholy seeing the guys you watched start out in the league being 'retired' like that. On the other hand, I watched the Stadium Series game between the Islanders and the Rangers yesterday. That game was fantastic!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 19, 2024 05:43 AM (YRsIm)

67 Hey, all,

Back from workout and having breakfast now. Yes, today is a holiday, but I think mostly for Fed workers. My work is certainly open, and my savings bank announced they would be. Maybe traffic will be lighter this p.m.

My boss, I think, is on a trip to Detroit, and so I might be able to leave the office early.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2024 05:43 AM (omVj0)

68 It turns into a question, When does a Cheerio stop being a Cheerio at all? 'Multi-Fruit Cheerios!' Man, that's a Fruit Loop. 'Apple Cinnamon Cheerios'. Come on man, that's an Apple Jack.
Etc. etc.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024

***
The Original and the Honey-Nut Cheerios are the best.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2024 05:45 AM (omVj0)

69 I'm old, but I remember when my mother would give me a box of cereal (usually cheerios, original) that could be made into a bowl. Just cut open the top and you had a bowl with cereal in it. Came in a variety of cereals all in the package. I liked Cheerios, so I got that box. Didn't leak either, and no bowl washing. Then my mother went back to bed!

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2024 05:45 AM (/z/eU)

70

Honey Nut on your mom's face, then licked off by your house slave....

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 05:46 AM (Pmqx2)

71 In one of the SF anthologies laying around there is a funny story about Armageddon, where when the Satanic Hordes mass for the final battle, the humans send a robot army against them. When the robots win, they all ascend to Heaven while the human beings get left behind on Earth, going, "Wait, that wasn't supposed to happen!"
Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024

***
Sounds like a Robert Sheckley kind of story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)

72 I remember when my mother would give me a box of cereal (usually cheerios, original) that could be made into a bowl. Just cut open the top and you had a bowl with cereal in it. Came in a variety of cereals all in the package. I liked Cheerios, so I got that box. Didn't leak either, and no bowl washing. Then my mother went back to bed!
Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2024

***
Kellogg's had that too -- they called it the "Kel-Bowl-Pac."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 19, 2024 05:47 AM (omVj0)

73 69 I'm old, but I remember when my mother would give me a box of cereal (usually cheerios, original) that could be made into a bowl. Just cut open the top and you had a bowl with cereal in it. Came in a variety of cereals all in the package. I liked Cheerios, so I got that box. Didn't leak either, and no bowl washing. Then my mother went back to bed!
Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2024 05:45 AM (/z/eU)

Bowl paks!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at February 19, 2024 05:48 AM (zZu0s)

74 Biden Status: On vacation

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 19, 2024 05:49 AM (2/9N5)

75 San Diego illegal alien center CLOSES its doors after six months as its $6million budget reaches the breaking point after services were stretched to the limit as arrivals break records as illegal migrants flood into US amid lax border policies

https://mol.im/a/13097375

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #43 at February 19, 2024 05:49 AM (qfLjt)

76 Now YT has served up Hako Yamasaki. Best part of listening to folk-rock in Japanese? I doubt they're singing political protest songs, and even if they are, I can't understand the lyrics.

This is also an undervalued benefit of traveling in places where you don't speak the language: you are not subjected to others' asinine conversations in public. As long as you are not all sensitive about them openly talking about you directly in front of you (it happens, all the time, everywhere I've ever been), it's glorious. Who cares what that person is loudly yammering about on their phone?
YOU can't understand it!

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 05:51 AM (43xH1)

77 G'morning, all.

I apparently live in a 'Six months worth of income stashed in a secret place' desert.

The government should just give me some of that for free.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 05:51 AM (a1415)

78 Running late, hitting a short road
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 05:51 AM (fwDg9)

79 My favorite cereal came in the single serving boxes, like you used to get in diners or motels. Probably didn't care what kind of cereal very much, just loved those single serving boxes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 19, 2024 05:52 AM (vCt8x)

80 I put a robots.sext file on my web site and now there is hydraulic fluid all over my actuator.

Posted by: Marvin at February 19, 2024 05:52 AM (vFG9F)

81 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 19, 2024 05:54 AM (86W+h)

82 Another what ever happen to:

Those toilet paper rolls without the cardboard cores, was suppose to save the world or something.

Posted by: Colin at February 19, 2024 05:57 AM (/z/eU)

83 In Dan Simmons’ books Ilium/Olympos the robots we fashioned and set loose in the Kuiper belt are the good guys, while those coming out of an extra-dimensional rift .. aren’t.

And then there are the self replicating bio-chemical little green men.Ariel’s slaves.

Posted by: 13times at February 19, 2024 05:59 AM (UwtPD)

84 With cereal, we still sell both the bowl packs and the little boxes. Move a LOT of those.

For small serving stuff I admit to being baffled/offended by those tiny little water bottles, the 8 oz ones. What on Earth is the point of that.
Again, sell mountains of those in 12 and 24 packs. We have certain people who point-blank will not drink tap water. Some are rural and don't trust chemical leaching from the farm fields around them (understandable), some are Mexican and I think can't force themselves to drink from a perfectly safe tap (cultural imprinting), but some are just... crazy.
Our water is some of the best in the USA, no lie. The Midwest has a terrific aquifier.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 06:00 AM (43xH1)

85 That ride beats a hour and half to Delaware

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 06:00 AM (Qb3Rx)

86 Honey nut Cheerios and heavy cream

Posted by: Jamaica at February 19, 2024 06:01 AM (IG7T0)

87 66 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 05:36 AM (sAmhv)

It makes me melancholy seeing the guys you watched start out in the league being 'retired' like that. On the other hand, I watched the Stadium Series game between the Islanders and the Rangers yesterday. That game was fantastic!
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

I'm only 2-3 years older than Jagr. I can't even fathom a 20 something girlfriend. I mean, good for him. He's an athlete who is very fit. I'm sure he can keep up. I remember when he came into the league. I was stationed in the UK. Hard to watch the Stanley Cup on AFN. Watched bits of it, when I could.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 19, 2024 06:04 AM (sAmhv)

88 We had the little bixes when we went camping. The rehydrated milk killed the vibe

Posted by: Jamaica at February 19, 2024 06:04 AM (IG7T0)

89 We only ever had those portable cereal bowl box things on the road - and the liner was wax paper.

Glorious, unloved, under appreciated, wax paper.

Posted by: 13times at February 19, 2024 06:05 AM (UwtPD)

90 Kaboom had those single serving boxes but there was no wax paper.

Posted by: Marvin at February 19, 2024 06:07 AM (vFG9F)

91 "Glorious, unloved, under appreciated, wax paper."

Back in the day, even sandwiches tasted better after being wrapped in waxed paper than they do coming out of a ziplock sandwich bag.

Don't ask me why....they just did.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:08 AM (a1415)

92 A glorious good morning to one and all

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:11 AM (7h3oY)

93 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 06:11 AM (T4tVD)

94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 06:13 AM (njWTi)

95 Miranda Devine has a broken contempt meter. The junta broke it, with all their antics:
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Joe Biden is “sharp, fit and on his game.”

He is “probing, exacting, and quite detail oriented, and focused”, according to border concierge Alejandro Mayorkas.

That’s almost as funny as Kamala Harris declaring that everyone who sees her “walks away fully aware of my capacity to lead”.

At least the Dems’ topsy turvy world has a funny side.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 19, 2024 06:14 AM (3cjnH)

96 Heh... "border concierge"....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 19, 2024 06:15 AM (3cjnH)

97 Imagine, if you will, what fantastic material George Carlin would've come up with, had he lived this long.

Boggle.

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 06:16 AM (njWTi)

98 Back in the early 2000's, theNavy came out with a 'reduction of plastics at sea' program and policy.

Even had regulations dictating stuff like how Supply Officers were required to minimize items being kept on ships that involved, or were stored in plastic.

Then they spent millions of dollars to develop and install the machines that you put all your plastic waste into, and then the device heated and compressed the plastic into these hockey pics about the size of a manhole cover, and they were stored onboard tilling able to offload either in port or another authorized hockey puck retention location.

Here's where I'm going with this.

The Navy supply system carried individual servings of cereal in plastic containers, that you peeled back the foil top, and there was your own personal single use plastic bowl of cereal.

And the Marines and crew onboard loved those things. To the tune of over a thousand individual single-use plastic bowls a day being eaten, and then melted down into hockey pucks.

All while those old fashioned individual cardboard boxes were available in the system.
But, nobody liked them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:17 AM (a1415)

99
Stormy Daniels rejected the name Miranda Devine as sounding too slutty.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 06:18 AM (nIvob)

100 G'morning, Ben Had!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:18 AM (a1415)

101 45
Saw a good tweet last night which probably originated from the Russian version of the Babylon Bee

Posted by: Divide by Zero

The Cagey Bee?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 19, 2024 06:18 AM (BLOW1)

102 "The Cagey Bee?"

* Golf Clap!*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:19 AM (a1415)

103

I have so much vodka on board my dick is limp. Damnit.

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 06:19 AM (Pmqx2)

104 Zelensky was a comedian at the super dooper emergency meeting. "We are not looking for alternative funding because the US Congress will do what's right"

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:20 AM (7h3oY)

105
"The Cagey Bee?"

* Golf Clap!*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:19 AM

Seconded... and Stolen.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 06:21 AM (nIvob)

106 Saw a good tweet last night which probably originated from the Russian version of the Babylon Bee

Posted by: Divide by Zero

We are outraged that a person nobody know has died in Russia!

Send more money to Ukraine to kill Russians.

Posted by: Bruce at February 19, 2024 06:21 AM (vd8XM)

107 (a1415)

101 45
Saw a good tweet last night which probably originated from the Russian version of the Babylon Bee

Posted by: Divide by Zero

The Cagey Bee?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 19, 2024 06:18 AM (Bpacks!

Well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at February 19, 2024 06:22 AM (zZu0s)

108 29.7 Degrees in the back yard.

I hope it warms up today.

I want to pressure wash the driveway, porch and sidewalks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:22 AM (a1415)

109 102 "The Cagey Bee?"

* Golf Clap!*
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:19 AM (a1415)

Iss nyot funny. Come with us.

Posted by: Russian men in suits at February 19, 2024 06:24 AM (PiwSw)

110 I always miss Gun Threads but spent some time investigating how to transport firearms across Illinois, which has gone Full Retard. My immediate solution for their magazine limits (15 rounds or less) on a recent trip was to carry 2 revolvers and a fistful of speed loaders. I do not have any conforming magazines for the semi-automatic pistol I carry.
The restrictions on out-of-state CCW are naturally so Byzantine as to make it useless to even try: so many areas are prohibited it's barely worth it to carry in your car (which IS legal). Seems it's safe enough to have your pistol inside the car loaded as long as you stay on an Interstate and only stop for gas; but not anywhere else. Even getting out of your car to pump gas is a legal gray area.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 06:26 AM (43xH1)

111

Spicy steaky mac and cheese would be excellent...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 19, 2024 06:28 AM (Pmqx2)

112 Navalny has been determined to have died from 'Sudden Death Syndrome'

http://tinyurl.com/4bepmuur

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:28 AM (a1415)

113 Nice clip from Grease on Bad Blue of Travolta and Olivia
She was a hottie

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 06:28 AM (Qb3Rx)

114 Mmm. Mac n cheese...

Posted by: JQ at February 19, 2024 06:29 AM (njWTi)

115 Speaking of Tech....Costco has a Seagate external 14 TB hard drive for $199.00

14 TB!

That's huge.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:32 AM (a1415)

116 Good morning morons

Local TV news is all about the rain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2024 06:33 AM (RIvkX)

117 Transporting prohibited weapons (AR-15s, the like) across Illinois is specifically legal.
Must be secured, inaccessible, locked up, and preferably broken down. So it's legal to transport the guns across Illinois in the usual way. However, it doesn't seem to apply to magazines, only the guns. So you can drive across IL with your prohibited-to-residents AR or AKS locked in the trunk, but not with original capacity magazines.
So you could get busted if discovered with a legally secured AR-15, not for the rifle but any 20- or 30-round magazine.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 06:33 AM (43xH1)

118 Hiya BenHad !

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 06:40 AM (T4tVD)

119 For whatever reason Illinois, like virulently anti-gun East Coast states, has a ton of firearms related manufacturing in its Southern part. Down past Springfield seems like every one-horse burg has a shooting range, gun shops everywhere, Olin Corporation runs a public range. Sparta has that crazy world-class complex. It's so schizoid.
Many IL more-rural counties have stated they're not enforcing any of the new laws, but I sure wouldn't trust that.
I think the cutouts for transport in IL are due to industry influence, and partly a scrap thrown to downstate pro-gun people.
So reports are that non-resident transport of actual firearms across IL is not that big of a deal; except for those magazine limits, which are a dangerous trap for the unwary.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 06:41 AM (43xH1)

120 JT, Good morning. Hope you are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:41 AM (7h3oY)

121 What 4-legged wild thing was it crossing the street into the side yard of our subtropical gulf coast yard this predawn morn?

Gator? Bear? No, it was mr wiley coyote.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 19, 2024 06:42 AM (KiBMU)

122 14 TB!
That's huge.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice'

"I'll never run out of storage ever again!"

Posted by: Every computer user since 1959 at February 19, 2024 06:42 AM (43xH1)

123 JT, Good morning. Hope you are well.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2024 06:41 AM (7h3oY)

I am, thank you !

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 06:43 AM (T4tVD)

124 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 19, 2024 06:44 AM (NBVIP)

125 >>> Transporting prohibited weapons (AR-15s, the like) across Illinois is specifically legal.

Gas up in Terre Haute, stay on I-70 until you are in Missouri.

Posted by: fluffy at February 19, 2024 06:46 AM (86W+h)

126 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Frozen !

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 06:51 AM (T4tVD)

127
Kamala Harris is a perfect example of counter-intelligence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 06:52 AM (nIvob)

128 Gas up in Terre Haute, stay on I-70 until you are in Missouri.
Posted by: fluffy'

That's the problem with IL: it's so central to getting anywhere. I can easily ignore Massachusetts, New Jersey and California as irrelevant to my life, but IL is much more difficult.

Posted by: Every computer user since 1959 at February 19, 2024 06:53 AM (43xH1)

129 Rewatched Succession S1 ep 10 season finale last night. Hadn't seen since it was first out, years ago.

With its Chappaquiddic-like event and then dad confronting son, the whole thing quite Shakespearean, it was a treat.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 19, 2024 06:53 AM (KiBMU)

130 31.1 degrees, and slowly rising.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 06:54 AM (a1415)

131 Oh, a real Tech Question: anybody have a recommendation for a USB DVD player for laptops?
Brand, type? There are a bunch of kinds around $30 but are some better than any others?

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 06:55 AM (43xH1)

132
I really hope this threatened trucker boycott of New York state in solidarity with Donald Trump being persecuted for paying back a loan with interest comes to fruition.

Compared to a bunch of European countries truckers and farmers, our guys are pretty pathetic.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 06:56 AM (nIvob)

133 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 06:57 AM (0gvpA)

134 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 19, 2024 06:58 AM (PQ4m2)

135

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 19, 2024 06:59 AM (X4yCj)

136 Hiya Cap'n Grandpa !

Posted by: JT at February 19, 2024 07:00 AM (T4tVD)

137 I always thought that the natural follow-on to the Star Wars trilogy would have been the revolt of machine intelligence. Face it: the nature of the existence of droids is an example of Humans Are Bastards. They've given the machines sentience and emotions (even astromech droids, which don't really require it) and then treat them like shit (we don't serve their kind here, Jabba's torture chamber, etc.). I could just see them all snapping one day. I'd call my movie, "Up Against The Wall, Mo2Fo7!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 07:01 AM (0gvpA)

138 I could just see them all snapping one day. I'd call my movie, "Up Against The Wall, Mo2Fo7!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 07:01 AM (0gvpA)

Star Wars and The Matrix and Terminator are all the same cinematic universe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 07:03 AM (9UlRk)

139 Morning peeps.

Another cold morning here in Bourbon Country. Currently 20 degrees but appears clear, so the sunshine may warm us up a bit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2024 07:09 AM (Q4IgG)

140 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 19, 2024 07:10 AM (ENQN6)

141 I don’t really like wine, to be honest with you. I like Grey Goose.

Posted by: Fawn Knee at February 19, 2024 07:11 AM (NBVIP)

142 I'd call my movie, "Up Against The Wall, Mo2Fo7!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious'

'M074E8 F0K38Z'!

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 07:11 AM (43xH1)

143 So if Apple pays a fine of 500 million to a bunch of dirty Euro Butt Pirates, what do the Butt Pirates do with the ill gotten cash...

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 19, 2024 07:12 AM (JF/W5)

144 So if Apple pays a fine of 500 million to a bunch of dirty Euro Butt Pirates, what do the Butt Pirates do with the ill gotten cash...
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Is this a trick question?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 07:15 AM (0gvpA)

145 M074E8 F0K38Z'!
Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 07:11 AM (43xH1)

Looks like an address in England.

Fruthering Gorse 53
Blebbing-on-Scrunge
Buckinghampshire
M074E8 F0K38Z

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 19, 2024 07:15 AM (9UlRk)

146 Kindltot's Unfinished Masterpiece:
"I proposed a scheme in which free protons in the solar wind would be collected in magnetic fields and combined with Oxygen freed from smelting Lunar regiolith to make water as a side product of metal smelting in orbit.
"I was told that solar wind was too diffuse in Earth orbit to be useful. So I asked if it would work to run a cometary orbit from the asteroids to within Venus' orbit to pick up ore from there, and collect both solar wind hydrogen and to run the forges on solar heat close to the Sun?
"This was a tentative milieu for a SF book to be entitled 'Sunforge'.
"But I drink rum out of plastic bottles and never got around to doing anything but notes."

12/01/2023

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 07:16 AM (43xH1)

147 The EU is out to break all US Companies and live off the fines. The US should, if we had a Strong President, should strike back and fine some EU Companies that are succesful, if there are any

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 19, 2024 07:18 AM (PQ4m2)

148 Rape and pillage Lawfare, why not?

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 07:20 AM (Qb3Rx)

149 If Apple pays it'll become a regular thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 19, 2024 07:20 AM (3cjnH)

150 That's what these cases against DJT are

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2024 07:21 AM (Qb3Rx)

151 so what are we doing

Posted by: Don Black at February 19, 2024 07:22 AM (geLO8)

152 > The EU is out to break all US Companies and live off the fines. The US should, if we had a Strong President, should strike back and fine some EU Companies that are succesful, if there are any
_______________

Or, maybe these US companies quit doing biz in Europe?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2024 07:22 AM (Q4IgG)

153 If Apple pays it'll become a regular thing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 19, 2024 07:20 AM (3cjnH)
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What do they claim Apple has done?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 07:22 AM (0gvpA)

154 Okay I admit confusion as to how YT took a 1970s J-pop album by Meiko Kaji and placed Kraftwerk, Toccata Electronic next in the playlist.

I suspect a playing of the soundtrack from the remake of TRON from about a month ago.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 07:23 AM (43xH1)

155 Okay I admit confusion as to how YT took a 1970s J-pop album by Meiko Kaji and placed Kraftwerk, Toccata Electronic next in the playlist.
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I would only be worried if they placed Autobahn's sole album "Nagelbett."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 07:24 AM (0gvpA)

156 Good morning all. I eat Lucky Charms. No boring cereal for me!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 19, 2024 07:28 AM (iF0sF)

157 A programming language meant to rehabilitate Perl.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 19, 2024 07:28 AM (UJJWg)

158 It's because people program the algorithm. It's part of what Shapiro was making a point about recently. It's related to the same reason you can't search for information online any longer.

You won't get Test Department or Einsturzende Neaubauten even though you might really enjoy hearing new bands you've never heard and it would be trivially easy to have those types of similar bands pop up. You will get six degrees of separation until they can put Taylor Swift on your playlist and then claim you are one of her 500M listeners in the U.S.

It's on your playlist, so ta-dah!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 19, 2024 07:29 AM (0+Kup)

159 Also name field change

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Womens power is beauty, mens beauty is power at February 19, 2024 07:30 AM (0+Kup)

160 OpenAI, Meta and other tech giants plan to combat artificial intelligence election interference in 2024. I guess that means they will filter what they don't want you to see using only genuine real naturally sourced free range intelligence.

Posted by: fd at February 19, 2024 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

161 I would only be worried if they placed Autobahn's sole album "Nagelbett."
Posted by: Captain Obvious'

You got me. I'm playing it. Now we'll see what happens.
It's an interesting thing as I use YT on an old tablet at the office and it's not connected to my actual Google account, it's separate. So the algorithms are only drawn from whatever I play here, on this one tablet, not at home or anywhere else.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 07:32 AM (43xH1)

162 OpenAI, Meta and other tech giants plan to combat artificial intelligence election interference in 2024

--

Wait...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Womens power is beauty, mens beauty is power at February 19, 2024 07:32 AM (0+Kup)

163 Good morning all. I eat Lucky Charms. No boring cereal for me!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 19, 2024 07:28 AM (iF0sF)
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They are magically delicious! (I eat them, too!)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2024 07:33 AM (7fElN)

164 Don't like marshmallows
Don't understand marshmallows in cereal
Those things in Lucky Charms are not marshmallows.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2024 07:34 AM (RIvkX)

165 They are magically delicious! (I eat them, too!)

I knew there was a reason I liked you right off the bat!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 19, 2024 07:35 AM (iF0sF)

166 So let's see.

Delia Derbyshire
Soundtrack from TRON
Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
Japanese City Pop
Meiko Kaji
Taylor Swift

Holy shit, YOU'RE RIGHT!

Posted by: LenNeal at February 19, 2024 07:35 AM (43xH1)

167 Cal don’t just have an Ebony Alert for young black people who are missing. Nope, they also have one for Native Americans in Cal. Gov. Code § 8594.13. And it uses a heck of a term: Feather Alert.

Guess they should add a DOT alert too.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 19, 2024 07:36 AM (ENQN6)

168 So they also need a Fake Feather alert for the Liawatha people.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 19, 2024 07:37 AM (ENQN6)

169
OpenAI, Meta and other tech giants plan to combat artificial intelligence election interference in 2024. I guess that means they will filter what they don't want you to see using only genuine real naturally sourced free range intelligence.

Posted by: fd at February 19, 2024 07:32 AM

At least we have a more even playing field on Twitter/X. Any 'October Surprise' from the leftists will be quickly disassembled in 'Community Notes' and shot full of holes.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 07:37 AM (nIvob)

170 Those things in Lucky Charms are not marshmallows.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2024 07:34 AM (RIvkX)

And those charms are not so lucky either.

Posted by: dantesed at February 19, 2024 07:37 AM (88xKn)

171 Byeeee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 19, 2024 07:40 AM (0gvpA)

172 I hope this boycott of New York takes off. No mercy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 19, 2024 07:41 AM (5GiIq)

173 Dear ChatGPT

Please give the candidates campaign positions on ten topics.

Also please provide five major accomplishments and five failures.

(Meta and OpenAI swoops into action to make sure you are protected from misinformation)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Womens power is beauty, mens beauty is power at February 19, 2024 07:41 AM (0+Kup)

174
Trump at some event recently when someone called out, "We love you!"

His reply, "I love you too, or else I wouldn't be doing this."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 19, 2024 07:42 AM (nIvob)

175 Haley is on Fox. Sounds like HOA material, maybe PTA, township board of directors (that would be close).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 19, 2024 07:44 AM (0EOe9)

176 Le NOOOD

It be here!!!

J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 07:45 AM (a1415)

177 "The namingless programming language...."

Good heavens... someone reinvented APL.

Posted by: B at February 19, 2024 07:57 AM (XsyPS)

178 In breaking news, experts rank Biden higher than Reagan in Presidential standings.

http://tinyurl.com/2w6hfzrb

Experts.....

Yeh, right.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 19, 2024 08:18 AM (a1415)

179 >>>The text file that runs the internet

"Runs" the internet? Or ruins the internet!

Posted by: m at February 19, 2024 09:12 AM (Ncap6)

180 101 45
Saw a good tweet last night which probably originated from the Russian version of the Babylon Bee

Posted by: Divide by Zero

The Cagey Bee?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 19, 2024 06:18 AM (BLOW1)

WOW

Posted by: m at February 19, 2024 10:38 AM (Ncap6)

181 I'll be praying for you.

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