Daily Tech News 24 February 2024

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The Florida state legislature has passed a law banning children under 16 from social media. (Associated Press)

I'll have to read the text of the bill, but this seems doomed both constitutionally and practically. Children under 13, you may have a case, and that is essentially the law already. But if you're trying to ban teenagers from YouTube and TikTok, that's simply not going to work.
Meanwhile the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on separate legislation from Florida and Texas restricting viewpoint discrimination by social media platforms. (The Verge)

I don't know how this is going to turn out, but what I suspect is that the Supreme Court will overturn the laws on specific First Amendment grounds and the states will have another try at it with more carefully-worded legislation.

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AMD has fixed that STAPM BIOS bug affecting Ryzen 8700G and 8600G CPUs. (AnandTech)

STAPM stands for "skin temperature aware power management", and it's meant to prevent your laptop from burning your lap. But the 8700G and 8600G are desktop processors, and if your desk is in your lap you have other problems.

Anyway... Up to 7% faster.

Also the 35W 8700GE is on its way to complement the 65W 8700G. (Tom's Hardware)

It delivers more than 80% of the CPU and graphics performance of the 8700G while consuming a little over half the power. Which means that if you could double the number of CPU and GPU cores, you could get 60% more performance at the same power consumption.

Which might be why AMD is planning to do exactly that with its upcoming Strix Point Halo laptop chips.
The US is not planning to restrict sales of 28nm chipmaking equipment to China. (Tom's Hardware)

For multiple reasons: The 28nm node was introduced in 2011, it's old and slow but cost-effective and so used mostly for cheap silicon produced in huge quantities like microcontrollers for dishwashers, and because China is close to producing its own 28nm equipment.

China already owns a lot of 14nm equipment, but it bought that from foreign suppliers.

Meanwhile, TSMC and Intel are starting 2nm production this year, with Samsung about six months behind.
A former CEO of Reddit (there seems to be a lot of those) explains the Google Gemini debacle and gets every single detail wrong. (Twitter)

None of this was unexpected, or unintended. Gemini was doing precisely what it was designed to do: Altering your questions to fit the views of its creators.

The problem with that is its creators are retarded.
What is the point of Elon Musk's AI acompany? (The Verge)

Not mentioned in the article: Wait until the communists infecting all the other AI companies drive his competitors to bankruptcy, then scoop up the entire market.

Disclaimer: Out of cheese? How can you be out of cheese? I gave you cheese yesterday!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:05 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:06 AM (o3SCB)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2024 04:06 AM (fwDg9)

3 Some of the Gemini answers are just shameful.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:08 AM (o3SCB)

4 Good morning morons

Who Moved My Cheese?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 04:11 AM (RIvkX)

5
I followed some more of those Gemini links. Ask it draw some portraits of influential 19th Century physicists. It gives you an Injun in a headdress doing something sciency.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:16 AM (w6EFb)

6 >>>The problem with that is its creators are retarded.

And evil.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:16 AM (o3SCB)

7
Yes, an Inju--uh Native American in a feathered address standing in front of a blackboard with equations written.

That was a 17th Century physicist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:18 AM (w6EFb)

8 Good morning morons

Who Moved My Cheese?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Morning all.

When the book was soooo popular and all the cool managers walked around with their version of "The Little Red Book", we called it "Who Cut the Cheese?".

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:18 AM (vd8XM)

9 Who moved my cheese... never read that one.

Heroz it was, in my day. Bleh.

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:21 AM (njWTi)

10 Heroz left out the chapter where the king hired an evil wizard, to charm all the gold out of the employees' retirement fund...

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

11 Hey, Pixy... Have a terrific weekend!!! Thank you for this thread!

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:27 AM (njWTi)

12 Who moved my cheese... never read that one.

Heroz it was, in my day. Bleh.
Posted by: JQ

There was another one that all salaried employees were given for required reading. Each department even had weekly meetings to discuss the chapters.

The rolled it out to upper management first. By the time it trickled down to middle management I almost (almost) felt sorry for my boss. Her heart wasn't in it and with 6 people in her department, 2 of them who just skimmed the chapter before the meeting (one of them me), not all that interested in the book to begin with, she was beating a dead road killed possum.

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:27 AM (vd8XM)

13 I do not even remember the name of the book.

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:28 AM (vd8XM)

14 12 with 6 people in her department, 2 of them who just skimmed the chapter before the meeting (one of them me)
Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:27 AM (vd8XM)

something something parachute?

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:31 AM (o3SCB)

15 LOL Bruce!

Some high-mucky-muck in my company, decided that it would be great to gift *every employee* with a copy of Heroz. All the way down to the lowest hourly worker.

Hilarity ensued, as we (die untermenschen) rewrote and added 'chapters' to that dreck!

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:31 AM (njWTi)

16 What Color is Your Parachute?

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:32 AM (o3SCB)

17 16 What Color is Your Parachute?
Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:32 AM (o3SCB)

No, it looks like that's for job-seekers, not already employed salaried people.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:33 AM (o3SCB)

18 Cancel for va-cay? Nuh-uh. "Tropical resorts popular with Americans no longer 'off limits' for cartel killers: 'The rules have changed'"

The younger generation of cartel killers.

http://tinyurl.com/y9mj62wc

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 24, 2024 04:34 AM (m5xk1)

19 HeroZ website

"In HeroZ, you’ll actually have fun learning how to survive and even thrive in today’s work world."

How cringey!

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:35 AM (o3SCB)

20
Okay, I'm officially getting really old. Miley, too. We started watching Matlock. And we're, really, really liking it.

I mean, looking forward to it.

Matlock vs Perry Mason. Discuss. Same thing, yet very different.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:36 AM (w6EFb)

21 I feel sorry for Mike Lindell. He shoulda had a stable of competent lawyers.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:37 AM (o3SCB)

22 Meant "Cancun", not "Cancel". Going away now

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 24, 2024 04:37 AM (Y5eGO)

23
Several cable stations run Matlock and Perry Mason a good bit, but I stumble on one, the "Justice Channel". Apparently, it does nothing but run Perry and Matlock 24/7. 12 hours of Perry, then 12 hours of Matlock.

All the damn time. And I like it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:38 AM (w6EFb)

24 What Color is Your Parachute?
Posted by: m

Could have been. For about 5 years the bosses were given some other waste of time program to pass onto the peons.

Of course the bossed got to go to an all expense paid training weekend somewhere nice. By the time it go to the plants, it was coffee and donuts at the meetings and some pizza lunches. After a while, you might get a cup of coffee.

After a few months it would die and be forgotten.

We called it "ran out of donuts"

Then a new brainfart would hit and away we'd go again.

Whoever had the easel and flip chart concession must have made a mint

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:39 AM (vd8XM)

25 Mornin'

Gemini gives a bit of a peek into the mind of our Tech Overlords. Retarded and evil are pretty good descriptions.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."

C.S. Lewis

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2024 04:41 AM (rii+a)

26 24 We called it "ran out of donuts"
Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:39 AM (vd8XM)

heh

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:41 AM (o3SCB)

27 "In HeroZ, you’ll actually have fun learning how to survive and even thrive in today’s work world."
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Today's work world? Bwahahaha! Riiiiiiight...

We were given that f'ing book 30 f'ing years ago!

Doubt it's relevant *now* -- except, perhaps, to a few eager, brown-nosing hourlies what actually grasp its antiquated concepts.

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:42 AM (njWTi)

28 4 out of 5 times I was asked to read a book for work, the book was never mentioned thereafter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 04:42 AM (RIvkX)

29 25 Gemini gives a bit of a peek into the mind of our Tech Overlords. Retarded and evil are pretty good descriptions.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
C.S. Lewis
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2024 04:41 AM (rii+a)

Why don't they see that?

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:43 AM (o3SCB)

30 What Color is Your Parachute?

I bought a copy of that, years ago. It was supposed to help you find your niche, iirc.

A self-help book for job-seekers

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:44 AM (njWTi)

31 HeroZ really was aimed at production work. Meh.

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:47 AM (njWTi)

32 25 "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
C.S. Lewis
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 24, 2024 04:41 AM (rii+a)

REAL tyranny has never been tried! This time it'll work, because we have the right people in charge!

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:47 AM (o3SCB)

33 And all the really cool mangers had their Blackberrys to hunt and peck their notes or access their calendars.

Me? I had a yellow legal pad in front of me. Pluses of that was I could make notes (yeah right) plus doodle all the day.

Polly Wolly

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:48 AM (vd8XM)

34 REAL tyranny has never been tried! This time it'll work, because we have the right people in charge!
Posted by: m

We need better tyrants!

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:49 AM (vd8XM)

35 that reminds me of the best advice I've ever seen regarding becoming a writer.

Write a self-help book. Your books written out of love and passion won't sell a dozen copies, but your book telling people how to write will bring in a surprising bit of extra spending money.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 04:49 AM (Wg1x4)

36 34 REAL tyranny has never been tried! This time it'll work, because we have the right people in charge!
Posted by: m

We need better tyrants!
Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:49 AM (vd8XM)

We need a modern C.S. Lewis.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:50 AM (o3SCB)

37 Lessee here...

ISO 9000, 9001

6 Sigma

PES, TQM...

Ugh! And I spent so much time trying to *forget* all that crap

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:50 AM (njWTi)

38 WORMPIC +1

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:50 AM (njWTi)

39 Kaizen!!!!

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:51 AM (njWTi)

40 Me? I had a yellow legal pad in front of me. Pluses of that was I could make notes (yeah right) plus doodle all the day.
--------

You had a Personal Analog Assistant!

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:53 AM (njWTi)

41
That C.S. Lewis quote is one of my favorites.

Moral busybodies are the worst tyrants. They're doing it for your own good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:53 AM (w6EFb)

42 REAL tyranny has never been tried!
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Bullsh!t.

Can't fool me, I used to work in a factory! Tyranny WAS tried-- Every. Single. Day.

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:55 AM (njWTi)

43 TQM...

Ugh! And I spent so much time trying to *forget* all that crap
Posted by: JQ

Yeah, TQM was a big one for us.

"It's an ongoing process that will never be achieved. We must always strive for Total Quality!"

Then one day someone looked at the Total Cost, annnnnnd...we ran out of donuts

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:55 AM (vd8XM)

44 You had a Personal Analog Assistant!
Posted by: JQ

HA!!! Love it.

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 04:56 AM (vd8XM)

45 tyranny | ˈtirənē |
noun (plural tyrannies)
cruel and oppressive government or rule: people who survive war and escape tyranny | the removal of the regime may be the end of a tyranny.
• a nation under cruel and oppressive government.
• cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control: the tyranny of the nine-to-five day figurative | she resented his rages and his tyranny | his father's tyrannies.
• (especially in ancient Greece) rule by one who has absolute power without legal right.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 04:56 AM (o3SCB)

46 Gemini gives a bit of a peek into the mind of our Tech Overlords. Retarded and evil are pretty good descriptions.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...
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Why don't they see that?

--

?

That's the entire point. It's intentional because of that. You hear people discuss "systemic racism" and other silliness, but this is actual systemic processes being put in place that people will be accustomed to in 12-15 years and only nutjobs on right wing blogs will post things like "It wasn't this way before 2020"

Schools/ school boards around the country weren't given free chromebooks and integrated Google platforms for academics because Google wanted to help kids. That's
their data. That's information on children for them to control and sell and change at their whims, same as promoting black George Washington. That's been a 1+ decade now, too, and it's normal. You could no more remove them than fly to the moon.

Folks don't quite grasp how screwed we are.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 04:56 AM (Wg1x4)

47 No, no, no.
It's TQL: Total Quality Leadership!
That'll fix everything.

Posted by: The US Navy at February 24, 2024 04:58 AM (NBVIP)

48 ISO 9001 certification was... something.

It really was nice, to have every single freaking thing defined down to the gnat's ass. Left no room for argument or speculation. Neat and orderly, you might say.

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:59 AM (njWTi)

49 Not sure I agree the "Constitution" has a social media use protection clause. If you're thinking of some 1st amendment free speech right somehow infringed, that doesn't seem to be at issue either.

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 24, 2024 04:59 AM (8JB5s)

50 48 It really was nice, to have every single freaking thing defined down to the gnat's ass.
Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 04:59 AM (njWTi)

LOL

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:00 AM (o3SCB)

51 Also I think it was mentioned in an ONT or other thread recently, and forgive me if it was mentioned here already, but snack machines are using facial recognition software.

http://tinyurl.com/27ravja8

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 05:01 AM (Wg1x4)

52 Don't I have the constitutional right to consume as much powdered sugar as I want?

How's that different from TikTok?

Posted by: The diabetic fat chick in Apartment 3B at February 24, 2024 05:03 AM (NBVIP)

53 Why, oh why, did I not jump at the chance to go into management?

Well, um, not a glutton for punishment.

Enjoy having uninterrupted days off.

Never really 'got into' creative writing...

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 05:04 AM (njWTi)

54 Why, oh why, did I not jump at the chance to go into management?

Well, um, not a glutton for punishment.

Enjoy having uninterrupted days off.

Never really 'got into' creative writing...
Posted by: JQ

I made it to low middle management. The meetings were like now sitting thru an hour of Kamalalal-dingdong speeches.

I'd walk out thiniking HUH???

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 05:06 AM (vd8XM)

55 or thinking HUH???

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 05:07 AM (vd8XM)

56 51 Also I think it was mentioned in an ONT or other thread recently, and forgive me if it was mentioned here already, but snack machines are using facial recognition software.

http://tinyurl.com/27ravja8
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 05:01 AM (Wg1x4)

Huh. I had missed that.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:07 AM (o3SCB)

57 If I had the chance to re-do my "career"...

Would've learned to slap on the plastic smile, apply a heavy filter to my speech, and collect that f'ing paycheck, baby!

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 05:09 AM (njWTi)

58 54 I'd walk out thiniking HUH???
Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 05:06 AM (vd8XM)

"There goes Bruce, thiniking again!"

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:10 AM (o3SCB)

59 "There goes Bruce, thiniking again!"
Posted by: m

That dull eyed look and the smell of wood burning is a clue too.

Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 05:12 AM (vd8XM)

60 51 Also I think it was mentioned in an ONT or other thread recently, and forgive me if it was mentioned here already, but snack machines are using facial recognition software.

http://tinyurl.com/27ravja8
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 05:01 AM (Wg1x4)

"Editor, editor!" STAT to that arstechnica article:

"The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, "Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe," displayed after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine."

No, that's not when the scandal started.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:15 AM (o3SCB)

61 re: facial recognition software in vending machines and pretty much everywhere

It's been happening for over a decade (comical how that works out in context)

Go to 30 seconds in this video from a manufacturer touting their product:

Intel AIM Suite Audience Impression Metrics

youtube.com/watch?v=KdMIp2vQjG8

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 05:22 AM (Wg1x4)

62 59 "There goes Bruce, thiniking again!"
Posted by: m

That dull eyed look and the smell of wood burning is a clue too.
Posted by: Bruce at February 24, 2024 05:12 AM (vd8XM)

There he was just a-walkin' down the street,
singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:23 AM (o3SCB)

63 61 Intel AIM Suite Audience Impression Metrics

youtube.com/watch?v=KdMIp2vQjG8
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 05:22 AM (Wg1x4)

Wow, do I hate that woman's voice.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:26 AM (o3SCB)

64 Intel AIM Suite Audience Impression Metrics
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Wow. How does it know how "Tiffany" identifies? And what if it directs a POC to an ethnic food vendor?

I see lawsuits *everywhere*

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 05:27 AM (njWTi)

65 That Intel youtube video only has 231 views in 11 years; that seems odd to me.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:29 AM (o3SCB)

66 "There he was just a-walkin' down the street,
singin' "Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
---------

Hahaha, I will always think of Stripes when hearing this song! Or reading the lyrics.

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 05:31 AM (njWTi)

67 Boom chaka-laka-laka...

Posted by: JQ at February 24, 2024 05:31 AM (njWTi)

68 ... or maybe its view-counter is broken. It's still only showing 231 and I have been there three times, now.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:32 AM (o3SCB)

69 Heroz sounds like a brand you'd find at FoodsCo.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 05:32 AM (p1SDw)

70 69 Heroz sounds like a brand you'd find at FoodsCo.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 05:32 AM (p1SDw)

I've been waiting for JT to say "Gesundheit."

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:34 AM (o3SCB)

71 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 24, 2024 05:39 AM (ju2Fy)

72 I still think Google renamed the AI from “Bard” to “Gemini” because it’s intended to be an artificial Jen Gennai. The name similarity and viewpoint similarity can’t be a coincidence, and Gennai probably believes Shakespeare is racist anyway.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2024 05:41 AM (FD5dr)

73 Intel AIM Suite Audience Impression Metrics
---

Wow. How does it know how "Tiffany" identifies? And what if it directs a POC to an ethnic food vendor?

I see lawsuits *everywhere*
Posted by: JQ

--

(switches ad on front from Dr. Pepper)

WE HAVE GRAPICO
WE HAVE GRAPICO
WE HAVE GRAPICO

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 05:43 AM (Wg1x4)

74 Metal Leo has posted another video "Every store is Closed on Mission Street" he does a great job making the city look like sh*t but never offers any comment on how it got that way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 05:44 AM (RIvkX)

75 ... or maybe its view-counter is broken. It's still only showing 231 and I have been there three times, now.

-

I noticed that too and wondered if it was accurate. I don't know how "views" work but I bet there's some percentage that's required and, like us, very few people have ever watched the necessary length to count it as a view.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 05:45 AM (Wg1x4)

76 74 Metal Leo has posted another video "Every store is Closed on Mission Street" he does a great job making the city look like sh*t but never offers any comment on how it got that way.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 05:44 AM (RIvkX)

https://www.youtube.com/@LeoMetalTraveler

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:45 AM (o3SCB)

77 It got that way because he posts those videos.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 05:45 AM (p1SDw)

78
Go Nikki! Go home and make your husband a sandwich. And stay there.

Posted by: four seasons at February 24, 2024 05:46 AM (PisyI)

79 "Go Nikki! Go home and make your husband a sandwich. And stay there. "

G'morning, all!

Back from the airport, after dropping a neighbor off.

Well, today is the culmination of Nikki's efforts to not underperform in the SC Republican Primary.

Just go home Nikki, you're drunk again.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 24, 2024 05:50 AM (a1415)

80 I liked this quirky story. Alaska airlines flight attendant helps save precious flamingo eggs during plane flight:

http://tinyurl.com/ysh29e9r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2024 05:51 AM (9LaUz)

81 Fillmore is doing better. It looked real bad during the pandemic, but is definitely doing better than Union Sq or Financial Center.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 05:52 AM (RIvkX)

82 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2024 05:53 AM (T4tVD)

83 At least it won't rain on Chinese New Year parade tonight. That's a rarity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 05:55 AM (RIvkX)

84 Person from Ohio reflects on "light in the darkness" and a passage from Paul's letter to the Philippians :
http://tinyurl.com/pm57edvu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2024 05:56 AM (9LaUz)

85 I wonder if that's the chick from QH.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 24, 2024 05:56 AM (IG7T0)

86 Touching send off for a high school music teacher of 50 years:

http://tinyurl.com/mryvtzma

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2024 06:00 AM (9LaUz)

87 Evening and morning, folken of the gray boxes! Will we have an eMT this morning?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 06:00 AM (omVj0)

88 76 74 Metal Leo has posted another video "Every store is Closed on Mission Street" he does a great job making the city look like sh*t but never offers any comment on how it got that way.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 05:44 AM (RIvkX)

https://www.youtube.com/@LeoMetalTraveler
Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 05:45 AM (o3SCB)

Such a tragedy. Many tragedies.
His demeanor works well for that filming.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 06:01 AM (o3SCB)

89 "Six precious Chilean flamingo eggs from Zoo Atlanta were en route to Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, cradled within a portable incubator by a zoo official.

However, mid-flight, the incubator had stopped working, putting the delicate eggs at risk."

_

I like that it's a first-world version of riding a bus in Venezuala.

Also you need to wear a mask because Science but you'll be riding next to a bunch of chicken eggs that almost certainly haven't had the bloom washed off.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 06:02 AM (Wg1x4)

90 Beautiful version of the hymn: " I surrender all":

http://tinyurl.com/5c9nckvv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2024 06:03 AM (9LaUz)

91 In ‘very serious trouble’: Chronicle poll shows S.F. Mayor Breed’s reelection bid is in danger

https://archive.is/YrvvH
(SFChronicle)

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 06:04 AM (o3SCB)

92 77 It got that way because he posts those videos.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 05:45 AM (p1SDw)

London Breed, is that you?

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 06:04 AM (o3SCB)

93 https://archive.is/YrvvH
(SFChronicle)

"dissatisfaction with Breed was consistent across key issues: Voters reported broad displeasure with how the mayor was handling public safety, homelessness, drug overdoses and housing affordability."

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 06:06 AM (o3SCB)

94 I guess no EMT? Anyway, happy Saturday, all! I slept almost enough last night and there's a nap on my schedule after lunch, so that's okay. Coffee with a little honey to start off. Got to feed the furry thugs in a bit, then me, and I'd like to wash the car before I head out for my haircut and the library. 'Tis 57 F. with little wind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 06:07 AM (omVj0)

95 Whoever is mayor of SF makes little positive difference with our Board of Stupidvisors.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:07 AM (p1SDw)

96 Metal Leo is doing yeoman's work documenting San Francisco's death.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

97 Catching up after a nap so from the ONT:
Charter (Spectrum, they want to call themselves, now), phone is still $10/month.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:00 AM (w6EFb)
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Where are you that you pay $10? I have phone, Internet and TV (still) and it's $20 pm bundled (S. IL)

Posted by: Ciampino - question at February 24, 2024 06:08 AM (qfLjt)

98 @88

>>https://www.youtube.com/@LeoMetalTraveler

From the video: "Even the pawn shops are closed, that's alarming, where do you take the stolen goods?"

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2024 06:09 AM (XV/Pl)

99 I'm sure you're all shocked but, no, I am not endorsing Genius Mayor London Breed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:09 AM (RIvkX)

100 95 Whoever is mayor of SF makes little positive difference with our Board of Stupidvisors.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:07 AM (p1SDw)

Deckchairs on the Titanic?

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 06:09 AM (o3SCB)

101 Deputy adopts boy who was stabbed by the boy's father. I hope the boy recovers from this trauma and can setting in and adjust with this caring family:

http://tinyurl.com/mr2d7zud

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2024 06:09 AM (9LaUz)

102
CPAC is having a straw poll of attendee's choice for Trump VP. Results to be released today.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 06:10 AM (nIvob)

103 "Board of Stupidvisors" LOL. Sorry about the mess in SF but that sounds like an appropriate term,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2024 06:11 AM (9LaUz)

104 Board of Supervisors is composed of drunks, charlatans, racists, and megalomaniacs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:12 AM (RIvkX)

105 Actually, i'm in reno tonight helping a friend move here from SF. Weather is great, people are friendly, bought some pot....

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:12 AM (p1SDw)

106 95 Whoever is mayor of SF makes little positive difference with our Board of Stupidvisors.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:07 AM (p1SDw)

Yikes.

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 06:12 AM (o3SCB)

107

And tell the milkman, No More Cheese!

Posted by: Pustular Jack at February 24, 2024 06:12 AM (AEUcr)

108 Board of Supervisors is composed of drunks, charlatans, racists, and megalomaniacs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That's just Aaron Peskin.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:13 AM (p1SDw)

109 Son in law is chanting this week's Torah portion in synagogue today so he gets rewarded with brunch at our place.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:14 AM (RIvkX)

110 “AFU drone strike tonight on the NMLK steel plant in Lipetsk (Novolipetsk), Russia, which is the site of their largest production facility in Russia.”

http://tinyurl.com/42cssjek

Posted by: 13times at February 24, 2024 06:14 AM (sp2yQ)

111 That's just Aaron Peskin.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:13 AM (p1SDw)
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I was thinking that when I hit "post"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:15 AM (RIvkX)

112 Mazel tov!

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:15 AM (p1SDw)

113 Thank you I am very proud of him

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:17 AM (RIvkX)

114 Hell, Tenderloin Housing Clinic hates Dean and he used to be a lawyer there. 2 of my biggest appellate victories were getting him reversed.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:17 AM (p1SDw)

115 @99

>>I'm sure you're all shocked but, no, I am not endorsing Genius Mayor London Breed.

Isn't SF a jungle system where your choices are left, far left, marxist, ghost of Lenin?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2024 06:18 AM (XV/Pl)

116 Who Moved My Cheese?
=====

My first thought was of Hex, the Discworld computer, who would announce 'out of cheese error'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 24, 2024 06:18 AM (MIKMs)

117 Reno is a very very sad, broken place.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:18 AM (RIvkX)

118 Yes, I was chatting with an old friend who is still very connected who tells me the Party wants her out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:20 AM (RIvkX)

119 Reno is a very very sad, broken place.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I've enjoyed the 2 trips i've made here this year. All cities have their problems. SF being 1 of them.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:22 AM (p1SDw)

120 All cities have their problems. SF being 1 of them.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:22 AM (p1SDw)
===

This is true. But without 105 degree average daily high.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:24 AM (RIvkX)

121 Happy Saturday

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 06:24 AM (ENQN6)

122 They have a cool riverwalk.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:24 AM (RIvkX)

123 Reno very rarely gets that hot. It is in the mountains unlike vegas.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:25 AM (p1SDw)

124 I'm gonna show my ignorance here before the coffee kicks in. Yes, i know that in reality we are governed by criminals and perverts who don't believe in anything nice or good, but.... just conceptually, on paper, is there some mechanism where people writing bills in congress can pass a first draft over to scotus to say "Hey, this would be fine, right?" Almost like an OMB scoring but for constitutionality instead of budgetary feasibility. Or is that actually not legal for some reason?

Also, lol, "budgetary feasibility".

Ugh, we're boned, aren't we?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2024 06:25 AM (9UlRk)

125 Illegal migrant from Venezuela is arrested for murder of UGA nursing student Laken Riley: Was released from CBP custody because of overcrowding

Coming to a small town near you. On purpose.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 06:26 AM (ENQN6)

126 20
Matlock vs Perry Mason. Discuss. Same thing, yet very different.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 04:36 AM (w6EFb)
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I'll wait until you start watching "Diagnosis Murder".

Posted by: Ciampino - why bother with the cops? at February 24, 2024 06:26 AM (qfLjt)

127 No there's not. Must be a live controversy. No advisory opinions.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:27 AM (p1SDw)

128
Oh, voice here is now $19.99. The $10 was a a "promo" that lasted for 2 years. It expired this month, I see. :-)

Second line is 29.95, I see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 06:29 AM (w6EFb)

129
Illegal migrant from Venezuela is arrested for murder of UGA nursing student Laken Riley: Was released from CBP custody because of overcrowding

Coming to a small town near you. On purpose.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 06:26 AM

Pretty girl. Jogging alone. Dead.

How many will it take before these young women figure it out? There are all sorts of devices at my local gun shop that would incapacitate even the biggest guy long enough to get away.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 06:31 AM (nIvob)

130 >> I'll wait until you start watching "Diagnosis Murder".

I've watched that a bit. They revived the Mannix character for an episode or two on that series. Mike Connors guest starred. (I think this was officially the last screen appearance of Mike Connors as Mannix)

Funny line, I remember. Dick Van Dyke's cop son is getting chewed out by his captain for giving special favors to Mannix.

Jr. says, "But Mannix got shot!". Captain replies, "That happens every week. The days of the LAPD being Mannix's personal errand boys are over!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 06:32 AM (w6EFb)

131 The resident democrat in my office had a literal cow over the Florida Social Media law.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2024 06:32 AM (N38xc)

132 There are all sorts of devices at my local gun shop that would incapacitate even the biggest guy long enough to get away.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 06:31 AM (nIvob)

"I want THAT one!!!"

"Ma'am, i can't sell you my machinists hammer. Well, i suppose i could. No waiting period or paperwork.... all right. Sold."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2024 06:33 AM (9UlRk)

133 Police
‘Why do you have just the one golf club in your vehicle?’
Me
‘Snakes.’

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2024 06:36 AM (N38xc)

134
I'm talking about tasers with a pain level of 'OMG I want to die'. Lightweight easy to carry.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 06:37 AM (nIvob)

135
Yep, Mannix gets shot all the time. He just walks it off.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 06:37 AM (w6EFb)

136
The suspect does not have an “extensive” criminal history, according to Clark. Ibarra is a resident of Athens, but not a US citizen or a student at UGA, he added. There was no evidence the two knew each other, according to Clark.

Just trying to have a better life raping and killing here in the USA.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 06:41 AM (nIvob)

137 There are all sorts of devices at my local gun shop that would incapacitate even the biggest guy long enough to get away.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024

***
What about this Byrna pepper spray/tear gas combo product that Hannity (who pronounces it as "Burner") is always hawking? I think I'd read that they offer charges that can be fired from a shotgun, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 06:41 AM (omVj0)

138 Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇦
@rshereme
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Follow
According to Trump, russia defeated Hitler?! The ignorance and stupidity of this man has no bounds.

shhh dont tell him

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 06:42 AM (ENQN6)

139 Wolfus, I've got it but never deployed it b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:43 AM (RIvkX)

140 It’s just a flesh wound.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2024 06:43 AM (N38xc)

141
What about this Byrna pepper spray/tear gas combo product that Hannity (who pronounces it as "Burner") is always hawking?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 06:41 AM

Yeah, that would work too. There's an entire 'end cap' at my local gun shop with stuff that would instantly incapacitate an aggressor.

I see these young woman at my local state park, jogging around the lake alone, and into deep forest, and I think they're nuts.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 06:46 AM (nIvob)

142 Animals in the forest, bad animals.

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2024 06:47 AM (N38xc)

143 NBC News
@NBCNews
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For those who have criticized former President Trump, fears of retribution grow as he campaigns for re-election.

Interviews with a dozen people who’ve run afoul of Trump reveal deep concern, with some planning to leave the country if he wins.

Hit the fucking road now

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 06:49 AM (ENQN6)

144 124 I'm gonna show my ignorance here before the coffee kicks in. Yes, i know that in reality we are governed by criminals and perverts who don't believe in anything nice or good
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2024 06:25 AM (9UlRk)

Maybe coffee first?

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 06:50 AM (o3SCB)

145
Water flowing underground.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 06:51 AM (nIvob)

146 141 Rick Perry, when gov of TX, was out jogging and came up on a scroungy coyote. Rick pulls out his trusty Ruger LCP and shoots the critter. Ruger had a run of LCPs marketed as "The Governors Edition" with a coyote engraved on the slide.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 24, 2024 06:51 AM (0EOe9)

147 Hit the fucking road now
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 06:49 AM (ENQN6)
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"Bitches, out."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

148 Hit the road, Joe! And don’t you come back no mo. What I say?

Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2024 06:52 AM (N38xc)

149 Follow
For those who have criticized former President Trump, fears of retribution grow as he campaigns for re-election.

-

I hear protestors are going to be jailed for years without trials and laws changed specifically to target political enemies.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 06:55 AM (Wg1x4)

150 I guess I ought to get moving at some point today

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2024 06:56 AM (fwDg9)

151 For our Total Quality Management effort, we got a Koala-T t-shirt, with a cute Koala hugging a T.

Get it? GET IT? GET IT??

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 24, 2024 06:57 AM (PiwSw)

152 just conceptually, on paper, is there some mechanism where people writing bills in congress can pass a first draft over to scotus to say "Hey, this would be fine, right?"

-

The lobbyists and staff don't have that kind of access to the SCOTUS.

I guess it kind of balances out that we learned that office staff (and I guess lobbyists in a way since you think about the threat of communists burning stuff down) is making most of the SCOTUS rulings, too, though.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 06:58 AM (Wg1x4)

153 For our Total Quality Management effort, we got a Koala-T t-shirt, with a cute Koala hugging a T.

Get it? GET IT? GET IT??
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 24, 2024

***
"I hate Qantas!"

Posted by: Koalas Everywhere at February 24, 2024 06:58 AM (omVj0)

154 I need to decide what I should whine up for breakfast...suggestions?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:58 AM (RIvkX)

155 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2024 06:59 AM (pVWRI)

156 Hey! Sorry I'm late. Spent some TQM time with Jill. Heh heh heh.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at February 24, 2024 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

157 Yonder Horde

Bit breezy here this morning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2024 07:01 AM (Q4IgG)

158 @NBCNews
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For those who have criticized former President Trump, fears of retribution grow as he campaigns for re-election.

Interviews with a dozen people who’ve run afoul of Trump reveal deep concern, with some planning to leave the country if he wins.
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Exactly none of this will happen. They fund raise and get rich off of BADORANGMAN.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 24, 2024 07:01 AM (sAmhv)

159 Hiya Cap'n !

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2024 07:01 AM (T4tVD)

160 Yonder Horde

Bit breezy here this morning.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Raining here

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2024 07:02 AM (T4tVD)

161 PowerLine

http://tinyurl.com/48drk3nv

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 24, 2024 07:03 AM (Mig/N)

162 158 Bill Kristol could arrange the "Get out of Town While the Gettin's Good" cruise for totally conservatives who fear being locked up in Orangeman Camp Number 37.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 24, 2024 07:04 AM (0EOe9)

163 130
Funny line, I remember. Dick Van Dyke's cop son is getting chewed out by his captain for giving special favors to Mannix.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 06:32 AM (w6EFb)
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Mandatory on Diagnosis Murder is the cop (who is really Dick's son) has to do the running tackle at the end of almost every episode. Wooden performance. Van Dyke seems to never perform any medical work.

Posted by: Ciampino - why bother with the cops eh? at February 24, 2024 07:04 AM (qfLjt)

164 Suspect in the Murder of a Student on the University of Georgia Campus 'Not a U.S. Citizen'

If it saves just 1 life does not count for her life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 07:06 AM (ENQN6)

165 131 The resident democrat in my office had a literal cow
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2024 06:32 AM (N38xc)

Pics or it didn't happen!

Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 07:07 AM (o3SCB)

166 Color episode from '64 of Death Valley Days on Grit right now. Nothing great on their evening lineup, and Svengoolie has How to Make a Monster on MeTV. Nuthin' special.

Posted by: Koalas Everywhere at February 24, 2024 07:08 AM (omVj0)

167 I saw Fani's Booty Calls open for Pussy Riot at the DCCC in 1988.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 07:08 AM (ENQN6)

168 Murray and other legal scholars say that, absent clear guidance from the Supreme Court, a Trump win could lead to a constitutional crisis in Congress. Democrats would have to choose between confirming a winner many of them believe is ineligible and defying the will of voters who elected him.

Jan 6 DOS Electric Boogaloo II: The Gooder War

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 07:11 AM (ENQN6)

169 131 The resident democrat in my office had a literal cow
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2024 06:32 AM (N38xc)

Pics or it didn't happen!
Posted by: m at February 24, 2024 07:07 AM (o3SCB)

Would ya settle for a MOO ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2024 07:11 AM (T4tVD)

170 Mandatory on Diagnosis Murder is the cop (who is really Dick's son) has to do the running tackle at the end of almost every episode. Wooden performance. Van Dyke seems to never perform any medical work.
Posted by: Ciampino - why bother with the cops eh? at February 24, 2024

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Okay, D:M was set in the same universe as Mannix. Cannon and Barnaby Jones were in their same universe, in fact BJ was a spinoff of Cannon. Was Mannix in the same universe with Frank and Barnaby?

Seems to me I recall a D:M with Robert Culp as a "former intelligence agent" (Kelly Robinson?) and Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter from Mission: Impossible. True?

Posted by: Koalas Everywhere at February 24, 2024 07:11 AM (omVj0)

171
The resident democrat in my office had a literal cow

Sure, the pedophiles are gonna be the first to bitch about any limits on young children on 'social' media.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 24, 2024 07:12 AM (nIvob)

172 I need to decide what I should whine up for breakfast...suggestions?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 06:58 AM (RIvkX)

Grits?

Posted by: Vincent Gambino, Esq. at February 24, 2024 07:15 AM (4I/2K)

173 Looked it up: Yes, Barbara Bain did play Cinnamon on the DVD series in '97. But Culp's character was "Dane Travis." Robert Vaughn was in it (though not as "Napoleon Solo"), Patrick Macnee (though not as "John Steed"), and Phil Morris, Greg's son (Greg was "Barney" on M: I).

Posted by: Koalas Everywhere at February 24, 2024 07:15 AM (omVj0)

174 As a teacher last year I simply wanted to declare the Butlerian Jihad against cellphones.

To me, I think the best solution is to re-introduce these things called “lockers” and thus ban all cellphones in the classroom. Or ban students from having them in school, period.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 24, 2024 07:15 AM (8sMut)

175 Shared universes are fun. Seinfeld, Mad About You, and Friends were all part of the same late '90s Manhattan world.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 07:17 AM (omVj0)

176 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 24, 2024 07:17 AM (0gvpA)

177 To me, I think the best solution is to re-introduce these things called “lockers” and thus ban all cellphones in the classroom. Or ban students from having them in school, period.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 24, 2024 07:15 AM (8sMut)

But then how could we do basic math??

Posted by: Innumerate High School Students at February 24, 2024 07:19 AM (PiwSw)

178 Mannix has an anti-tech vibe to it. The boss always pushing his IBM punch cards and Mannix reading people instead of computer print outs. I could see Mannix teaming up with Hawaii 5-0 when on vacation in Hawaii.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at February 24, 2024 07:19 AM (55boN)

179 >> nd Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter from Mission: Impossible. True?

Yep:
http://tinyurl.com/278prvwe

Also had Robert Vaughn and Patrick Macnee.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 07:20 AM (w6EFb)

180 And in the episode description of the big crossover on Diagnosis: Murder, there's this line: "Jesse has to content himself with dinner in Del Florio at 8." Del Floria's (with an "a") was of course the tailor shop that fronted the agents' entrance to HQ on U.N.C.L.E. Heh, heh, heh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 07:20 AM (omVj0)

181 > To me, I think the best solution is to re-introduce these things called “lockers” and thus ban all cellphones in the classroom. Or ban students from having them in school, period.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
__________

I was in school back when the first calculators came out.

They were banned.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2024 07:20 AM (Q4IgG)

182 Mannix has an anti-tech vibe to it. The boss always pushing his IBM punch cards and Mannix reading people instead of computer print outs. I could see Mannix teaming up with Hawaii 5-0 when on vacation in Hawaii.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at February 24, 2024

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That was in the very first season, w/ Mannix working for "Intertect." I've gotten to see a couple of those episodes; they are nicely done. Mannix was a classic TV example of the private-eye genre all around.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 07:21 AM (omVj0)

183 Follow
According to Trump, russia defeated Hitler?! The ignorance and stupidity of this man has no bounds.
-----------
*looks at tweet*

*looks at picture of Red Army soldier raising Hammer and Sickle over the Reichstag*

*looks at tweet*

This individual has it mixed up about who's ignorant and stupid.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 24, 2024 07:22 AM (0gvpA)

184 Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2024 07:20 AM (Q4IgG)

That must have been 4377.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at February 24, 2024 07:22 AM (55boN)

185 mornin yall. I get to pull a tranny today. Don't judge.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

186
Lucy (Lucille Ball), head of Desilu, retooled Mannix after Season 1. She got rid of Intertek and the computers. It didn't do to well in the ratings. Lucy personally retooled and made Mannix the Mannix we know and love.

Although, watching the reruns, Season 1 does have a charm to it.

Lucy knew good TV.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 07:24 AM (w6EFb)

187 Lucy (Lucille Ball), head of Desilu, retooled Mannix after Season 1. She got rid of Intertek and the computers. It didn't do to well in the ratings. Lucy personally retooled and made Mannix the Mannix we know and love.

Although, watching the reruns, Season 1 does have a charm to it.

Lucy knew good TV.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024

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I've read that, and that she also greenlighted Star Trek, which in its first year was a Desliu show. She was also there when the studio started off Mission: Impossible. She did know good TV, huh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 24, 2024 07:26 AM (omVj0)

188 Lucille Ball was an amazing talent and shrewd businessman.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 07:28 AM (RIvkX)

189
Diagnosis Murder was a spinoff of Jake and the Fatman. Cannon was the Fat Man there (with Joe Penny as Jake).

So maybe kinda-sorta they're in the same universe.

Cannon and Barnaby were Quinn Martin. QM is a legend, of course. I think QM holds some kind of record. At least one network TV series in the top 10 for 20 years straight or something like that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 07:31 AM (w6EFb)

190 So NASA goes back to the moon for the first time since 1972 and the lander tips over and everything is fine. Isn't the the story of Joe Biden's America?

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

191 Thanks for playing HEIDI PRZYBYLA

But the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians because Christian nationalists are very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans and as all human beings do not come from any Earthly authority. They don’t come from Congress, from the Supreme Court, they come from God.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 07:31 AM (ENQN6)

192
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 24, 2024 07:33 AM (kQ2Qm)

193
Lucy was a perfectionist. However, she did not know what was funny, from what I've read. Desi and the others did.

Watching Lucy's comedic performances, you'd think she was a natural, a natural cut-up, goofball who instinctively knew how to act funny and do that.

She didn't. Her performances there were practiced and timed to a T.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 24, 2024 07:33 AM (w6EFb)

194 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 24, 2024 07:35 AM (86W+h)

195 But the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians because Christian nationalists are very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans and as all human beings do not come from any Earthly authority. They don’t come from Congress, from the Supreme Court, they come from God.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 07:31 AM (ENQN6)
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Yeah, put me down on that list.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 24, 2024 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

196 161 PowerLine

http://tinyurl.com/48drk3nv

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 24, 2024 07:03 AM (Mig/N)
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Thank you, some great ones. Who is buying that truck with grill?

Posted by: Ciampino - why bother with the cops eh?? at February 24, 2024 07:36 AM (qfLjt)

197 "Toyota recalls 280,000 pickups and SUVs because transmissions can deliver power even when in neutral"

They say it's a software issue. I suppose when you put your car in neutral there is no physical connection to the transmission. This could allow Russian hackers to make your SUV drive thru the front of a Bucky's, or maybe thru a Fourth of July parade.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

198 mornin yall. I get to pull a tranny today. Don't judge.
Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

Mulvany? Jenner?

Posted by: Doof at February 24, 2024 07:39 AM (RFPHU)

199 "Honest, officer, Russians hacked my transmission!"

Posted by: davidt at February 24, 2024 07:39 AM (SYTee)

200 "Toyota recalls 280,000 pickups and SUVs because transmissions can deliver power even when in neutral"

They say it's a software issue. I suppose when you put your car in neutral there is no physical connection to the transmission. This could allow Russian hackers to make your SUV drive thru the front of a Bucky's, or maybe thru a Fourth of July parade.
Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

I'm filing an appeal first thing Monday morning.

Posted by: Shirtless Darrell Brooks at February 24, 2024 07:40 AM (4I/2K)

201 mountains unlike vegas.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2024 06:25 AM (p1SDw)

124 I'm gonna show my ignorance here before the coffee kicks in. Yes, i know that in reality we are governed by criminals and perverts who don't believe in anything nice or good, but.... just conceptually, on paper, is there some mechanism where people writing bills in congress can pass a first draft over to scotus to say "Hey, this would be fine, right?" Almost like an OMB scoring but for constitutionality instead of budgetary feasibility. Or is that actually not legal for some reason?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 24, 2024 06:25 AM (9UlRk)

The Constitution says that the Supreme Court may only hear a "case or controversy." In 1793, President Washington approached the Court for their opinion on some proposed legislation, and they said "Nope, we only do cases or controversies. No Advisory Opinions. " and that has been the Rule ever since.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 24, 2024 07:41 AM (S6gqv)

202 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 07:41 AM (ENQN6)

203 "Mulvany? Jenner?
Posted by: Doof"

Miata. Almost as bad, huh??

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

204 181
I was in school back when the first calculators came out.

They were banned.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2024 07:20 AM (Q4IgG)
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I must be older (well I was on a different continent) because slide rules were banned in middle school.

Posted by: Ciampino - had to use fingers and toes at February 24, 2024 07:43 AM (qfLjt)

205 "Honest, Miss Hawkins, that isn't a slide rule in my pocket!"

Posted by: davidt at February 24, 2024 07:46 AM (SYTee)

206 How can someone abandon a child for 10 days and go on vacation? Evil comes in many forms, but it can be pretty f'n easy to identify. There are some things that justify more than an eye for an eye.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

207 just conceptually, on paper, is there some mechanism where people writing bills in congress can pass a first draft over to scotus to say "Hey, this would be fine, right?"

Where is the fun in that? Pass the law and dare anyone to sue. Lucky to find one who has standing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2024 07:47 AM (6nbos)

208 Miata. Almost as bad, huh??
Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

Just don't use the wrong pronouns

Posted by: Doof at February 24, 2024 07:48 AM (RFPHU)

209 'This was a real emotional day for our client. She has taken responsibility for what she did, and she is remorseful,' Milligan said.
'There will be mitigating issues that come up at sentencing that we will address. Hopefully, people will realize that she is not the monster that some see her as.'
The defense attorneys said Candelario suffered from mental health issues but refused to provide further information"

Mentally ill huh? Almost certainly a Democrat. She worked as a substitute teacher.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

210 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 07:41 AM (ENQN6)

If I've told you once, I've told you an thousand times Jefferson, it's "inalienable." Friggin' William&Mary educated ignoramus!

Posted by: John Adams at February 24, 2024 07:54 AM (4I/2K)

211 "Mentally ill" is just an excuse for her EVIL behavior.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

212 Made bigger coffee pot today instead of my usual mini pot, it's weaker as didn't get ratio right.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2024 07:54 AM (fwDg9)

213 "Supreme Court to hear arguments on restricting viewpoint discrimination by social media platforms."

Well since it's not about m'bortion, One-Trick Coney will vote against it.

Posted by: Soooooo conservative at February 24, 2024 07:57 AM (Eqssc)

214 Christian nationalists are bad because they want to use the power of the state to force their oppressive views of morality in all of us. Unlike us who use the power of the state ti force girls to accept grown men in their bathrooms and sports in the name of "being nice to everyone".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2024 07:57 AM (6nbos)

215 "Just don't use the wrong pronouns
Posted by: Doof"

I'm not sure how a female clutch pilot will work out, but we might have a real problem when we get to the slave cylinder.

Posted by: fd at February 24, 2024 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

216 > ...just conceptually, on paper, is there some mechanism where people writing bills in congress can pass a first draft over to scotus to say "Hey, this would be fine, right?"
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The congressional staffers and lobbyists are responsible for most, if not all of the legislation written recently. People you didn't vote for. People with an agenda that may, or may not jive with the "elected" official they work for and purports to support said legislation.

I'd like some enterprising "reporter" to ask one of these congress critters during a stump speech for the next bill to actually quote from it.

The can't. Because they didn't write it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

217 I accept full responsibility for my actions.

Great. I sentence you to 10 year....

Wait! Sentence? I accepted responsibility!!!! I am mentally ill! I can't be held accountable!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2024 08:02 AM (6nbos)

218 Doesn't look to bad outside, really need to get moving

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2024 08:02 AM (fwDg9)

219 Tranny fluid >> fluid tranny

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 24, 2024 08:03 AM (NBVIP)

220 207 just conceptually, on paper, is there some mechanism where people writing bills in congress can pass a first draft over to scotus to say "Hey, this would be fine, right?"

Where is the fun in that? Pass the law and dare anyone to sue. Lucky to find one who has standing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2024 07:47 AM (6nbos)

Its a tax.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 08:04 AM (ENQN6)

221 That reminds me, i have to get my truck's gender fluid topped off. It seems to be slipping.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 24, 2024 08:06 AM (6nbos)

222 185 mornin yall. I get to pull a tranny today. Don't judge.
Posted by: fd

Don't envy you draining his fluid. Good luck.

Posted by: Manic Mechanic at February 24, 2024 08:06 AM (Eqssc)

223 @210 -

Dear John,
I spelled it correctly. Pronounced correctly it is un-a-lien-a-ble.
No type of lien may be placed upon those rights.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Posted by: Your fellow patriot in freedom, Thomas at February 24, 2024 08:07 AM (o3xwr)

224 Oh and it would be nice if Nikki lost big today in SC

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2024 08:09 AM (fwDg9)

225 Nood, yo.

Posted by: Jb at February 24, 2024 08:11 AM (UHUGX)

226 Disclaimer: Out of cheese? How can you be out of cheese? I gave you cheese yesterday!

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Cheese is fungible.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2024 08:11 AM (991eG)

227 So NASA goes back to the moon for the first time since 1972 and the lander tips over and everything is fine. Isn't the the story of Joe Biden's America?
Posted by: fd

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Rumor has it the mission was unmanned.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 24, 2024 08:12 AM (Wg1x4)

228 I'm not saying it's unaliens, but...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 24, 2024 08:12 AM (NBVIP)

229 >>> be nice if Nikki lost bigly today in SC

Suggested edit

Posted by: fluffy at February 24, 2024 08:13 AM (86W+h)

230 TRUMP: “I’ve been indicted more than Alphonse Capone... If I fly over a blue state, the next day I get a Federal Grand Jury.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 24, 2024 08:16 AM (ENQN6)

231 The thing about the Reddit ceo's thread is, it's pure cope. You can tell because Gemini's output is of a kind with the rest of Google's output.

This is not a case of the AI doing something unexpected or bizzare. This is a case of what they wanted the AI to do being insane, and everyone seeing it all at once.

Posted by: Voyager at February 24, 2024 09:18 AM (S3d13)

232 just conceptually, on paper, is there some mechanism where people writing bills in congress can pass a first draft over to scotus to say "Hey, this would be fine, right?"

You obviously do not understand the system.
Take for example the 2nd Amendment:
A progressive/Liberal/Marxist/Communist/Democrat political entity wants to take your weapons contrary to your constitutional rights, so the pass a law full well knowing it is unconstitutional and will be defeated in the courts (Ninth Circuit excepted).
The aggrieved citizens spend $5 million in attorney fees and five years defeating the law in court. The significant Attorney General appeals the decision. The aggrieved citizens spend another $5 million and five more years on the appeal... lather, rinse, repeat.
Commie.gov knows they will lose...eventually in a generation or three.

Posted by: waepnedmann: at February 24, 2024 11:19 AM (MiM3G)

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