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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI hallucination problems are solvable and AGI is five years away. (Tech Crunch)

To the first point: Current AI models - that is, LLMs - are specifically designed and trained to generate bullshit. "Hallucinations" are simply the times when the bullshit is not even surface-level plausible. You can't prevent this without discarding the entire model.

LLMs work the way your brain does when you're not paying attention, like when someone wishes you a happy birthday and you respond "Thanks, you too." before your conscious mind catches up and you die a little inside.

To the second point: AGI is artificial general intelligence, which is to say, human-level intelligence. Current commercial research is not even on a path towards that, and what Huang is talking about is defining a set of tasks and then giving the AI an open-book exam.

Which is not AGI in any meaningful sense, but might make AI useful, if you're using an open-source model that doesn't come pre-lobotomised by the left-wing parasites currently infesting Big Tech.

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At the other end of the scale, here's an 8080 emulator. (Nanochess)

                               #include <stdio.h>
           #define n(o,p,e)=y=(z=a(e)%16 p x%16 p o,a(e)p x p o),h(
                                #define s 6[o]
             #define p z=l[d(9)]|l[d(9)+1]<<8,1<(9[o]+=2)||++8[o]
                                #define Q a(7)
           #define w 254>(9[o]-=2)||--8[o],l[d(9)]=z,l[1+d(9)]=z>>8
                               #define O )): ((
                  #define b (y&1?~s:s)>>"\6\0\2\7"[y/2]&1?0: (
                               #define S )?(z-=
                    #define a(f)*((7&f)-6?&o[f&7]:&l[d(5)])
                               #define C S 5 S 3
                       #define D(E)x/8!=16+E&198+E*8!=x?
                             #define B(C)fclose((C))
                       #define q (c+=2,0[c-2]|1[c-2]<<8 )
                          #define m x=64&x?*c++:a(x),
                         #define A(F)=fopen((F),"rb+")
                    unsigned char o[10],l[78114],*c=l,*k=l
                          #define d(e)o[e]+256*o[e-1]
#define h(l)s=l>>8&1|128&y|!(y&255)*64|16&z|2,y^=y>>4,y^=y<<2,y^=~y>>1,s|=y&4
+64506; FILE *u, *v, *e, *V; int x,y,z,Z; main(r,U)char**U;{

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                                   for(v A((u A((e A((r-2?0: (V A(1[U])),"C")
),system("stty raw -echo min 0"),fread(l,78114,1,e),B(e),"B")),"A")); 118-(x
=*c++); (y=x/8%8,z=(x&199)-4 S 1 S 1 S 186 S 2 S 2 S 3 S 0,r=(y>5)*2+y,z=(x&
207)-1 S 2 S 6 S 2 S 182 S 4)?D(0)D(1)D(2)D(3)D(4)D(5)D(6)D(7)(z=x-2 C C C C
C C C C+129 S 6 S 4 S 6 S 8 S 8 S 6 S 2 S 2 S 12)?x/64-1?((0 O a(y)=a(x) O 9
[o]=a(5),8[o]=a(4) O 237==*c++?((int (*)())(2-*c++?fwrite:fread))(l+*k+1[k]*
256,128,1,(fseek(e=5[k]-1?u:v,((3[k]|4[k]<<8 )<<7|2[k])<<7,Q=0),e)):0 O y=a(5
),z=a(4),a(5)=a(3),a(4)=a(2),a(3)=y,a(2)=z O c=l+d(5) O y=l[x=d(9)],z=l[++x]
,x[l]=a(4),l[--x]=a(5),a(5)=y,a(4)=z O 2-*c?Z||read(0,&Z,1),1&*c++?Q=Z,Z=0: (
Q=!!Z): (c++,Q=r=V?fgetc(V):-1,s=s&~1|r<0) O++c,write(1,&7[o],1) O z=c+2-l,w,
c=l+q O p,c=l+z O c=l+q O s^=1 O Q=q[l] O s|=1 O q[l]=Q O Q=~Q O a(5)=l[x=q]
,a(4)=l[++x] O s|=s&16|9<Q%16?Q+=6,16:0,z=s|=1&s|Q>159?Q+=96,1:0,y=Q,h(s<<8 )
O l[x=q]=a(5),l[++x]=a(4) O x=Q%2,Q=Q/2+s%2*128,s=s&~1|x O Q=l[d(3)]O x=Q  /
128,Q=Q*2+s%2,s=s&~1|x O l[d(3)]=Q O s=s&~1|1&Q,Q=Q/2|Q<<7 O Q=l[d(1)]O s=~1
&s|Q>>7,Q=Q*2|Q>>7 O l[d(1)]=Q O m y n(0,-,7)y) O m z=0,y=Q|=x,h(y) O m z=0,
y=Q^=x,h(y) O m z=Q*2|2*x,y=Q&=x,h(y) O m Q n(s%2,-,7)y) O m Q n(0,-,7)y)  O
m Q n(s%2,+,7)y) O m Q n(0,+,7)y) O z=r-8?d(r+1):s|Q<<8,w O p,r-8?o[r+1]=z,r
[o]=z>>8: (s=~40&z|2,Q=z>>8 ) O r[o]--||--o[r-1]O a(5)=z=a(5)+r[o],a(4)=z=a(4)
+o[r-1]+z/256,s=~1&s|z>>8 O ++o[r+1]||r[o]++O o[r+1]=*c++,r[o]=*c++O z=c-l,w
,c=y*8+l O x=q,b z=c-l,w,c=l+x) O x=q,b c=l+x) O b p,c=l+z) O a(y)=*c++O r=y
,x=0,a(r)n(1,-,y)s<<8 ) O r=y,x=0,a(r)n(1,+,y)s<<8 ))));
system("stty cooked echo"); B((B((V?B(V):0,u)),v)); }

How the heck does that work?

I have no idea. But it can run CP/M.

Misconfigured Firebase instances have been found leaking usernames and passwords to the internet. (Bleeping Computer)

And 98% of the 20 million passwords found so far were in plain text, which, uh, no. Just no.
Microsoft Office 2024 is here, and you can buy it. (The Register)

As in, not a subscription. Pay once and use it forever.

Microsoft has also promised that this is not the last one-time purchase version of Office.

Disclaimer: To be or not to be, there is no try.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 Hiya Pixy !

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 04:00 AM (T4tVD)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 04:00 AM (fwDg9)

3 Good morning.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 20, 2024 04:05 AM (BHL6B)

4 Hiya Skip !

Why are YOU awake ?

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 04:06 AM (T4tVD)

5 I’m wishing I wasn’t. And will attempt to rectify the oversight.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 20, 2024 04:13 AM (BHL6B)

6 I get up every day at 4am, weekends too
Still working very close to home

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 04:29 AM (fwDg9)

7 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:30 AM (ju2Fy)

8 I get up every day at 4am, weekends too
Still working very close to home
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 04:29 AM (fwDg9)

So you can jog to work !

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 04:31 AM (T4tVD)

9 Hiya Olddog !

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 04:31 AM (T4tVD)

10 Microsoft has also promised that this is not the last one-time purchase version of Office.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 20, 2024 04:31 AM (IG4Id)

11 Hey JT.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:36 AM (ju2Fy)

12 LLMs work the way your brain does when you're not paying attention, like when someone wishes you a happy birthday and you respond "Thanks, you too." before your conscious mind catches up and you die a little inside.

Nicely written, Pixy.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:37 AM (ju2Fy)

13 LLMs work the way your brain does when you're not paying attention, like when someone wishes you a happy birthday and you respond "Thanks, you too." before your conscious mind catches up and you die a little inside.

Nicely written, Pixy.
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:37 AM (ju2Fy)\\

Thanks, you too !

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 04:40 AM (T4tVD)

14 Heh.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:44 AM (ju2Fy)

15 Mornin'

471 I miss Tower Records …
Posted by: Adriane the Helpful Critic

Me too. Used to a big one near the campus of George Washington University in DC. Maybe 4 stories high and inside an old, somewhat elegant, building. I loved just walking around inside. Had all musical genre available to buy and I did indeed purchase a lot. It's gone now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 20, 2024 04:45 AM (9Z67h)

16 Good morning morons

Learn to code

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 04:50 AM (RIvkX)

17 Bella did better this morning. Came to get me at 3:20 instead of 2:20a. Hopefully she'll wait until 4:30ish tomorrow and our clocks will be in sync.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:50 AM (ju2Fy)

18 Bacon quiche with Frank's hot sauce for breakfast.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:54 AM (ju2Fy)

19 Friday maybe, have to get truck worked on

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 04:54 AM (fwDg9)

20 Good morning! Currently 51 on the patio here in Cowtown headed for 70. Coffee is freshly brewed and no email. Gonna be a nice day today.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 20, 2024 04:56 AM (YRsIm)

21 Morning all!

Closed on our new house yesterday. So about a quarter of the worries are off my mind. Now, for some painting and tiling a backsplash and new appliance deliveries and...

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2024 05:02 AM (vd8XM)

22 Bacon quiche with Frank's hot sauce for breakfast.
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:54 AM (ju2Fy)
====
Sounds great. Love Frank's on eggs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:02 AM (RIvkX)

23 Bacon quiche with Frank's hot sauce for breakfast.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Yum!!

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2024 05:03 AM (vd8XM)

24 Congratulations Bruce and Mrs. Bruce

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:04 AM (RIvkX)

25 Congrats, Bruce.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 05:04 AM (ju2Fy)

26 Wanted to mention yesterday that cable box for TV seemingly died welm over a week ago in a short power failure. Tried a few things bit seemed it was done for. Monday evening all of a sudden was working.
Wondering if Verizon reset it?

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 05:16 AM (fwDg9)

27 Je m'entend ma metairie.

Posted by: Dr. Miklos Pangloss at March 20, 2024 05:17 AM (v+0wn)

28 I received a call about the home security system that will,

unlock the doors, dim the lights, change the temperature, notify me of visitors.

All can be controlled by an app. The sales said "it'll be great! You can be a thousand miles away and still change the thermostat."

It's a buncha add on crap and they want you to pay 55 bucks a month for them to "monitor" it.

Hold me back doggy daddy.

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2024 05:18 AM (vd8XM)

29 Wondering if Verizon reset it?
Posted by: Skip

Do not question good luck.

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2024 05:19 AM (vd8XM)

30 Wanted to mention yesterday that cable box for TV seemingly died welm over a week ago in a short power failure. Tried a few things bit seemed it was done for. Monday evening all of a sudden was working.
Wondering if Verizon reset it?
Posted by: Skip

We control the vertical

We control the horizontal

Do no attempt to reset

The Revolution will not be televised

Posted by: Dr. Gill-Scott-Miklos at March 20, 2024 05:20 AM (v+0wn)

31 Oh, and the 55 bucks a month is "about a dollar a day"

ADT sales must be part of the gubbmint.

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2024 05:21 AM (vd8XM)

32 Monday evening all of a sudden was working.
Wondering if Verizon reset it?
Posted by: Skip

Wouldn't be the first service that borked it's own hardware. Then again, brown-outs are the most damaging thing to hardware.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 20, 2024 05:22 AM (IG4Id)

33 Bacon quiche with Frank's hot sauce for breakfast.
Posted by: olddog in mo

We got musics fo dat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

Posted by: Peof. Dr. Miklos, with musics for all Healing eventualities at March 20, 2024 05:23 AM (v+0wn)

34 Congrats Bruce,

Why do you want to change the temperature from thousands of miles away?

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 20, 2024 05:23 AM (BHL6B)

35 Oh, and the 55 bucks a month is "about a dollar a day"

ADT sales must be part of the gubbmint.
Posted by: Bruce

Sweeping a broom

50 cent four bit room

Posted by: Beloved Uncle Miklos, 101 year old custodian at March 20, 2024 05:25 AM (v+0wn)

36 Chuck Schumer is a
C*** S******

That is all.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:25 AM (RIvkX)

37 "Guiding Light" -a reflection on a passage from the Gospel of Matthew, ships,and being a light to others:

https://tinyurl.com/3vpz7exe

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 05:27 AM (g1IDO)

38 Chuck Schumer is a
C*** S******

That is all.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Noted

Posted by: Karma at March 20, 2024 05:27 AM (v+0wn)

39 Why do you want to change the temperature from thousands of miles away?
Posted by: Pete Bog

So that when I return home, after 30 hours on the road, the temp will be nice and cozy.

And I'm to stupid to walk into the house and push a button on the thermostat I guess.

"It'll be great, and there's an app for all of this for your phone!!!"

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2024 05:28 AM (vd8XM)

40 James Brown is #approved.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:29 AM (RIvkX)

41 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:25 AM (RIvkX)

I don't know what that stands for because I am very sleepy but I take it it's not complimentary and I certainly understand and agree.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 05:29 AM (g1IDO)

42 I don't know what that stands for because I am very sleepy but I take it it's not complimentary and I certainly understand and agree.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It stands for Cork Soaker.

it was Chucks first job.

Posted by: Bruce at March 20, 2024 05:30 AM (vd8XM)

43 When the Red Army Choir sang Tom Jones.

The World seemed, better, somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVh_54oP4Zk

Posted by: Miklos sings like Edit Piaf at times at March 20, 2024 05:32 AM (v+0wn)

44 Fen, what are you planning for Easter?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

45 Je m'entend ma metairie.
Posted by: Dr. Miklos Pangloss at March 20, 2024

***
"I understand my suburb, me"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 20, 2024 05:34 AM (omVj0)

46 MS man donates part of second organ to a man in need:

https://tinyurl.com/hy29mdtd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 05:34 AM (g1IDO)

47 No, not complimentary.

Cork soaking is nasty

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:34 AM (RIvkX)

48 James Brown is #approved.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

HUH!!!

All aboard for the Night Train

https://tinyurl.com/yeyvt398

Posted by: Miklos may be drinking some Night Train at March 20, 2024 05:36 AM (v+0wn)

49 Want to make point here that Chuck's call for Israeli government change and the US and others now trying to end any arms shipments to Israel are kind of in lock step.
Both would preserve Hamas to fight another day

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 05:36 AM (fwDg9)

50 Evening and morning to all you early risers and late toilers! Temp and humidity, both low-ish, made for a good workout. Fed the beasts and am now feeding me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 20, 2024 05:36 AM (omVj0)

51 How does an appeals court over-rule the SCOTUS?

A federal appeals court late Tuesday issued an order that again prevents Texas from arresting migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the strict new immigration law to take effect.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2024 05:38 AM (jtTfW)

52 Je m'entend ma metairie.
Posted by: Dr. Miklos Pangloss at March 20, 2024

***
"I understand my suburb, me"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

"I shall tend to my garden" as commonly translated.

Metairie means, you guessed it...garden

Now ax about dem girls I met from Chalmette, dem Chalmatians.....

Posted by: 101 Miklosians at March 20, 2024 05:40 AM (v+0wn)

53 Rules are what Leftists says they are, nothing more nor less

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 05:41 AM (fwDg9)

54 How does an appeals court over-rule the SCOTUS?
===
I presume the new injunction was issued on some other basis on which SCOTUS did not rule.

But also, let's not presume the judiciary has any legitimacy or integrity anyway, so...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:43 AM (RIvkX)

55 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 20, 2024 05:43 AM (PFYt9)

56 Another bit of craziness from Britain. Landscapes- including one from the great painter Constable- may evoke "dark, nationalist feelings". From " Legal Insurrection " site:

https://tinyurl.com/42f8h7dt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 05:45 AM (ZETVz)

57 It was false advertisement to be Spring yesterday, it didn't arrive until 11:03PM
Happy Spring everyone

Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 05:48 AM (fwDg9)

58 >>I received a call about the home security system that will, unlock the doors, dim the lights, change the temperature, notify me of visitors.
All can be controlled by an app.

Controlled by whom?
And what happens when wifi is down?
And who datamines the app that tracks when you lock/unlock doors, dims the lights, the temperatures, your visitors, etc and what do they do with that information?
No thanks, "smart"/"internet of everything" things that spy on us and make life more dependent on internet, our phones.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 05:51 AM (6IDWi)

59 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

You mean on here? 😉 or at church?
At church we have a service. I may hide some eggs for the young man home from college, which may sound silly, but my mother used to hide eggs for me when I was home from college and it's a treasured memory.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 05:52 AM (ZETVz)

60 Forward Dog 9 out
Posted by: Skip

Will send out other dogs if you go missing.

Posted by: Miklos is not at the bar, if anybody asks at March 20, 2024 05:52 AM (v+0wn)

61 Didn't even bother putting seat belt on

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2024 05:53 AM (U6Gpb)

62 Oh, yes- we are eligible to get a "free" ham after spending $400 at the local market , but there is no way I want to be cooking a big dinner after church. Truthfully, I never feel like cooking Sunday afternoon after church because I'm usually exhausted . I can function as an en extrovert, but I'm actually an introvert

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 05:55 AM (ZETVz)

63 Fen, I was really asking about home wondering if your boy would come home to celebrate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:56 AM (RIvkX)

64 Didn't even bother putting seat belt on
Posted by: Skip

It is a $15 dollar fine, no points, in Sakkerliner.

Never got one.

Posted by: Miklos has been known to drive with his top down at March 20, 2024 05:56 AM (v+0wn)

65 I've got a real bad glazed spiral-slice ham itch.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:56 AM (RIvkX)

66 >>Landscapes- including one from the great painter Constable- may evoke "dark, nationalist feelings".

Remind me again, what's wrong with nationalist feelings -- why are they considered "dark" now?

*Rhetorical question, they want people to embrace globalism and stop b#tchin about making every western country the same as they flood them with foreigners -- tell us our own culture is racist, but the height of culture is being able to get Thai/Peruvian/Moroccan/Ethiopian food a 2:00am.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 05:57 AM (6IDWi)

67 Oh my, I'm super cynical this morning! Sorry about that. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 05:57 AM (6IDWi)

68 My marriage must be shakier than I thought because I haven't seen blueberry pancakes in weeks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 05:58 AM (RIvkX)

69 Oh, yes- we are eligible to get a "free" ham after spending $400 at the local market , but there is no way I want to be cooking a big dinner after church. Truthfully, I never feel like cooking Sunday afternoon after church because I'm usually exhausted . I can function as an en extrovert, but I'm actually an introvert
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The church should spend $400 and get the free ham.

Posted by: Miklos, son of Presbyterian Deacon at March 20, 2024 05:58 AM (v+0wn)

70 >>I've got a real bad glazed spiral-slice ham itch

Easter is coming!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 05:59 AM (6IDWi)

71 Thai/Peruvian/Moroccan/Ethiopian food a 2:00am.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 05:57 AM (6IDWi)
===
Yes/nah/Yes/Yes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:00 AM (RIvkX)

72 I've got a real bad glazed spiral-slice ham itch.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

saltpeter

Posted by: Miklos, or so they used to say at March 20, 2024 06:00 AM (v+0wn)

73 Thai/Peruvian/Moroccan/Ethiopian food a 2:00am.
Posted by: Lizzy

On Food Stamps?

DEAL

Posted by: Independent voter at March 20, 2024 06:01 AM (v+0wn)

74 Posted by: Miklos, son of Presbyterian Deacon at March 20, 2024 05:58 AM (v+0wn

Well, we had already spent more money than that before even getting the ham, but I don't think anyone at the church wants to make me Easter dinner. 😊We do have a very nice luncheon the first Sunday of each month- just not April 6th.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 06:01 AM (ZETVz)

75 well, exactly, Lizzy ... I dunno how people convince themselves that any of that is a good idea.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 20, 2024 06:01 AM (PFYt9)

76 Anyway

Yes, we can have Nice Things

Fen is one, who brings more.

Posted by: Quiet Miklos at March 20, 2024 06:07 AM (v+0wn)

77 Easter is coming!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 05:59 AM (6IDWi)
====
Easter is coming to your house. Me, I have to find a place that has got ham. There is usually a great buffet at work, but I may not work Easter this year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:08 AM (RIvkX)

78 Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 05:57 AM (6IDWi)

Yep. National identity must be subsumed in globalism. Bah! I hope there is massive blowback from the art lovers at Cambridge University.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 06:09 AM (0DK1Y)

79 Posted by: Quiet Miklos at March 20, 2024 06:07 AM (v+0wn)

Thanks, Miklos. This is a nice thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 06:12 AM (0DK1Y)

80 Not a friend of bunnies Easter or otherwise anymore.

A yard rabbit put sweet little dog's eye out.

Since then I think about Greek Rabbit Stew (Stifado).

Posted by: Miklosious at March 20, 2024 06:12 AM (v+0wn)

81 Good morning, all

It seems I made myself a new Google (of course) account, trying to escape Bing and now must also re-do other sign-in sites, like X.
But these start from scratch- eg. Jigsaw Planet is bare of saved content, X won't let me see current content on people I follow. This is infuriating as well as slightly scary, in a Skynet kind of way.

Son-in-law will walk me through it later, so it will be okay.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 20, 2024 06:18 AM (jN2/U)

82 Beaver mother takes charge of baby:

https://tinyurl.com/p9c6subv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 06:20 AM (0DK1Y)

83 Who are more incapable of self-governance?
Haitians or Gazans?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

84 The only rabbit I've had was made of chocolate

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:22 AM (RIvkX)

85 Still loving my new non-digital washer, which does not lock me out for my own safety.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 20, 2024 06:23 AM (jN2/U)

86 Beavers are quite fascinating.

Instinct or obsessive-compulsive disorder?

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

87 Still loving my new non-digital washer, which does not lock me out for my own safety.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 20, 2024 06:23 AM (jN2/U)
===

Turning the crank is good workout too!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

88 Beaver mother takes charge of baby:

https://tinyurl.com/p9c6subv
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

There are beavers where I live.

Cute and fun to watch.

I will also feed them, the first time they cut firewood for me.

Posted by: Miklos, semi-aquatic ecomomist at March 20, 2024 06:25 AM (v+0wn)

89 Young boy from NC raises funds for a memorial for Pearl Harbor after being inspired by the history:

https://tinyurl.com/3c3nuz85

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 06:25 AM (0DK1Y)

90 Turning the crank is good workout too!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

How do you think Ellie Mae turned out so nice?

Posted by: Jed Miklos-Clampett at March 20, 2024 06:27 AM (v+0wn)

91 This is what jumps to mind when I read about that cool app to control home security:

Speaking at a news briefing Monday afternoon, NYPD leaders named eight suspects in connection with the ring: alleged mastermind Victor Parra, as well as Cleyber Andrada, Juan Uzcatgui, Yan Jimenez, Anthony Ramos, Richard Saledo, Beike Jimenez and Maria Manaura.

Parra would allegedly send out a notice for specific models of phones he wanted, linking crooks from around the Big Apple who may not have even known one another for robbery missions, police said. Next, they would steal scooters and hit the streets to swipe phones and purses away from victims.

A "tech guy" would then allegedly hack the stolen phones, access banking and financial apps and drain the accounts, police said. If they ran dry or the owners placed a lock on their money, the stolen phones would then be sent around the country or to Colombia to be reprogrammed and sold. . . "

Why load up a phone with apps that access all facets of your life just so that some Venezuelan robber can swipe it while you're walking down the street and use the apps to take everything from you?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 06:27 AM (6IDWi)

92 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 20, 2024 06:28 AM (PzBTm)

93 >>A yard rabbit put sweet little dog's eye out.

Yikes, Miklos, that's horrible!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 06:31 AM (6IDWi)

94 NYPD leaders named eight suspects in connection with the ring: alleged mastermind Victor Parra, as well as Cleyber Andrada, Juan Uzcatgui, Yan Jimenez, Anthony Ramos, Richard Saledo, Beike Jimenez and Maria Manaura.

This would have been difficult when I was teaching English for Foreigners.

Posted by: Miklos is happly free of such conceptual obligations at March 20, 2024 06:34 AM (v+0wn)

95 A yard rabbit put sweet little dog's eye out.

Yikes, Miklos, that's horrible!
Posted by: Lizzy

She is OK

There will be pics on the Pet Thread one day

Posted by: Miklos, dogs and cats together-CHAOS at March 20, 2024 06:36 AM (v+0wn)

96 Why load up a phone with apps that access all facets of your life just so that some Venezuelan robber can swipe it while you're walking down the street and use the apps to take everything from you?

Posted by: Lizzy

Or live in Noo Yawk?

Posted by: Miklos in the Socratic method at March 20, 2024 06:38 AM (v+0wn)

97 Corny tech pick up line:

Are you a keyboard? Because you’re my type.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 06:39 AM (Esa+w)

98 Congrats on the new house, Bruce!

Hiding eggs for grown kids also sounds like fun.

Where's Wolfus?

Skip, do you have a link for bad blue?

That is all.

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 20, 2024 06:40 AM (PzBTm)

99 >>Or live in Noo Yawk?

Well, yeah, but if they're doing it there it's coming to a town near you soon, if not already there. Thanks, open borders!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 06:40 AM (6IDWi)

100 The only rabbit I've had was made of chocolate
Posted by: San Franpsycho
--------

I've had Easter Bunny coconut cake. Won it in an Easter egg hunt.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 06:41 AM (ju2Fy)

101 Here is bad blue from Monday
https://tinyurl.com/mr46n76h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:42 AM (RIvkX)

102 94 Guess they didn't catch the shortstop.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 20, 2024 06:43 AM (0EOe9)

103 >>I've had Easter Bunny coconut cake. Won it in an Easter egg hunt.

Ooh, that reminds me of the cake we always ued to make for Easter: https://tinyurl.com/29wtwmd4

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 06:44 AM (6IDWi)

104 Corny tech pick up line:

Are you a keyboard? Because you’re my type.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Can I punch your card?

Posted by: Miklos doing Fortran and Cobol at March 20, 2024 06:45 AM (v+0wn)

105 We had a rabbit. He was a little black one and lived in a hutch inside. He used to sit on my lap while I petted him.Unfortunately, he got away from us several times and was chewing on something he shouldn't and met an untimely end. I cried.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 20, 2024 06:45 AM (EPorA)

106 mornin yall. We all have our problems in life, things that try and test us, and make us wonder "why me?". Well, at least you are not this guy:

"Taiwanese man, 56, needs coconut removed from his rectum"

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

107 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

108 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 06:48 AM (5HQE5)

109 Thanks, open borders!!
Posted by: Lizzy

SC now has open carry, no permit

Buen suerte, amigos

Posted by: El Miklosero at March 20, 2024 06:48 AM (v+0wn)

110 Thank you for your good work.

Let's focus on Areas for Improvement.

*begins Zod's Annual Performance Review*

Posted by: Miklos-had-sun-in-his-hair from Extraterrestrial Corporate at March 20, 2024 06:52 AM (v+0wn)

111 >>83 Who are more incapable of self-governance?
Haitians or Gazans? Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

Shame that the Haitians can't be airlifted into Gaza.

Kill kill kill.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 06:55 AM (5HQE5)

112 Up since four, I am waiting to leave at 730 to go pick up a vacuum pump and bag.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 20, 2024 06:56 AM (IG7T0)

113 In my world they call areas for improvement, "opportunities"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:56 AM (RIvkX)

114 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

115 present

Posted by: Don Black at March 20, 2024 06:56 AM (oCjPU)

116 I wonder what this is about:

The executive director of an Arkansas airport bearing the names of former President Bill Clinton and former first lady and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was shot Tuesday, when federal agents attempted to serve a search warrant.

Arkansas State Police said the shooting occurred at 6 a.m. local time at a home on Durance Court in Little Rock, while the ATF was serving a search warrant at the home of airport Executive Director Bryan Malinowski.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

117 Who are more incapable of self-governance?

Madame, you did not keep it.

Posted by: Benjamin Miklos-Franklin at March 20, 2024 06:57 AM (v+0wn)

118 >>"Taiwanese man, 56, needs coconut removed from his rectum"Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

Someone didn't chew his food before swallowing.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 06:57 AM (5HQE5)

119 They are airlifting Kenyans into Haiti...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:57 AM (RIvkX)

120 Jamaicans have an Easter meal consisting of fruit cake and velveeta. Avoid bun and cheese

Posted by: Jamaica at March 20, 2024 06:58 AM (IG7T0)

121 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

We could use Zod as Head MFIC of Defending the Borders. And providing protein to the laboring masses in the Superfund sites.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

122 fd

Did he get any Fed sideboys?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

123

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 20, 2024 06:59 AM (X4yCj)

124 Jamaicans have an Easter meal consisting of fruit cake and velveeta. Avoid bun and cheese
Posted by: Jamaica at March 20, 2024 06:58 AM (IG7T0)
====
How did that happen??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

125 >>In my world they call areas for improvement, "opportunities"

I had a corporate boss who would always use "challenges and opportunities" in place of "problems" - and told us to do the same. She would always enunciate it for effect - gah! Oh man, did we ever mock that. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 07:00 AM (6IDWi)

126 Kill kill kill.
Posted by: ZOD

Fine

Budget

We need to talk budget

Posted by: Miklos-had-sun-in-his-hair from Extraterrestrial Corporate at March 20, 2024 07:00 AM (v+0wn)

127 >>We could use Zod as Head MFIC of Defending the Borders. Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

Transborder Industrial Mastic Human Flypaper Array.

Now more than ever.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:00 AM (5HQE5)

128 San Franpsycho

Well, that would be an improvement. I wonder if there are Haitian women the Kenyans will not rape?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

129 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton

Neither of us are getting younger.

Posted by: Huma at March 20, 2024 07:01 AM (v+0wn)

130 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

131 Salty, the Monroe Doctrine is dead.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 07:02 AM (RIvkX)

132 Salty!

Either Zod, or Dominicans.

They seem to know a thing or two about keeping bad guys on the other side of the fence.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2024 07:02 AM (a1415)

133 >>130 Hillary Clinton

Slumbers in R'lyeh, dreaming.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:02 AM (5HQE5)

134 129 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton

Neither of us are getting younger.
Posted by: Huma at March 20, 2024 07:01 AM (v+0wn)

Speak for yourselves, girls. I haven't aged a day.

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at March 20, 2024 07:03 AM (PiwSw)

135 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 20, 2024 07:04 AM (ENQN6)

136 >>"Taiwanese man, 56, needs coconut removed from his rectum"P

"There I was, just minding my own business, when all of a sudden I fell. . ."
-- Taiwanese guy in the ER trying to explain how it all went down (er, up?)

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 07:04 AM (6IDWi)

137 "Did he get any Fed sideboys?
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

One, with a non life threatening gunshot wound. If the guy wasn't going to prison before, he damn sure is now.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

138 San Franpsycho

So send in the Venezuelan and Chinese armies? I like that idea. Imperial Overstretch on others.

Even that glib storyteller Jered Diamond noted the Haitians has issues in his book Collapse.

The Haitians embody the functionality of our early Neolithic DNA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

139 Zod, I am seeing some budgetary issues in the Flypaper vs. Dignity Canal projects.

Prioritize and Justify.

Trans-Galactic is breathing down my remnant of a neck on this.

Posted by: Miklos from the Home Office Nubiru at March 20, 2024 07:06 AM (v+0wn)

140 The only rabbit I've had was made of chocolate
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Don't eat the rabbitt turds !

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 07:06 AM (T4tVD)

141 I was disappointed that coconut guy was not British so I could say he put the coconut in the limey.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

142 yo wut sup
Posted by: rhennigantx

WON TON

YOU GO NAOW

Posted by: Nice lady from Other Culture at March 20, 2024 07:07 AM (v+0wn)

143 Signpost at Transborder Industrial Mastic Human Flypaper Array.

"Caution: You Have Become Adhered To Our Border Glue-Strip. You Cannot Return To Mexico; You Cannot Move Forward Into The United States of America. Struggling Against The Adhesive Will Avail You Nothing. You Will Perish From Dehydration And Will Be Consumed By Birds. Perhaps Your Carcass Will Serve As A Warning To Others. Beautiful. Mutated."

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:07 AM (5HQE5)

144 fd

Thanks. He needed more range time or a larger caliber. Or both.

Based on the FBI & ATF performance in the last decade, I assume they are acting as thuggish, goon, Gestapo types.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

145 139 Zod, I am seeing some budgetary issues in the Flypaper vs. Dignity Canal projects. Prioritize and Justify. Posted by: Miklos from the Home Office Nubiru at March 20, 2024 07:06 AM (v+0wn)

Prioritize: Kill yourself.
Justify: It is Zod's will.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:09 AM (5HQE5)

146 >>Even that glib storyteller Jered Diamond noted the Haitians has issues in his book Collapse.

Re: Haitians vs. Gazans - we have to now consider the construction of an intricate underground maze of tunnels, with concrete walls, lighting, some places wide enough to hold Hamas leadership meetings comfortably. Is it a matter of priorities not capabilities when it comes to above-ground infrastructure being so bad in Gaza?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 07:09 AM (6IDWi)

147 Caution: You Have Become Adhered To Our Border Glue-Strip. You Cannot Return To Mexico; You Cannot Move Forward Into The United States of America. Struggling Against The Adhesive Will Avail You Nothing. You Will Perish From Dehydration And Will Be Consumed By Birds. Perhaps Your Carcass Will Serve As A Warning To Others. Beautiful. Mutated."
Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:07 AM (5HQE5)
====
By the end of reading this I was thinking in Spanish.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2024 07:10 AM (RIvkX)

148 >>Even that glib storyteller Jered Diamond
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

Not a fan of Diamond? I thought 'Guns, Germs and Steel' was very good.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:10 AM (5HQE5)

149 ZOD

"This has been a Green Initiative dedicated to amino acid recycling."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

150 Coconut ....

It's the new Pineapple.

Just add barbed wire.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2024 07:11 AM (a1415)

151 Cross-breed Haitians and Gazans:

Uruk-Hai.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:11 AM (5HQE5)

152 This has been a Green Initiative dedicated to amino acid recycling."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

Green. Purple. Yellow. They turn all kinds of colors.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 20, 2024 07:11 AM (GkFGh)

153 ZOD

He takes a lot away from the book Plagues and Peoples, a book on epidemiological history by historian William H. McNeill published in 1976. Plus his solutions are shit.

He ignores human creativity, resource use, and energy production.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

154 Zod-

Marketing is all in on the new "Die on the Fly-Paper" deal.

But the Dignity Canal group wants a part.

Posted by: Undead Miklos, Cancer Veteran at March 20, 2024 07:13 AM (v+0wn)

155 Struggling Against The Adhesive Will Avail You Nothing. You Will Perish From Dehydration And Will Be Consumed By Birds. Perhaps Your Carcass Will Serve As A Warning To Others. Beautiful. Mutated."
Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:07 AM (5HQE5)

The Strip of Woe

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 20, 2024 07:13 AM (/6GbT)

156 He ignores human creativity, resource use, and energy production.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

So do most humans.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 20, 2024 07:13 AM (GkFGh)

157 >>This has been a Green Initiative dedicated to amino acid recycling."

Net zero emissions achieved?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 07:14 AM (6IDWi)

158 Chipotle stock split: 50 to 1.

WTF. I thought they were having all kinds of problems.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:14 AM (5HQE5)

159 "a matter of priorities not capabilities "

exactly right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 20, 2024 07:14 AM (PFYt9)

160 Warai-otoko

Well spotted.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

161 >>He takes a lot away from the book Plagues and Peoples, a book on epidemiological history by historian William H. McNeill published in 1976.

All history is derivative.

>>Plus his solutions are shit. He ignores human creativity, resource use, and energy production.

This is incorrect.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:16 AM (5HQE5)

162 Have a great morning, everyone.

May you be the solution to local problems.

Head on a swivel and have a plan.

"Every one has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"
Mike Tyson
Don't let this happen to you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 20, 2024 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

163 The Chipotle Split was a Dance Craze in which people tried to get in line for the toilet.

Posted by: Miklos will only Shag, and it's even Legal here at March 20, 2024 07:17 AM (v+0wn)

164 Everyone has a plan until ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:17 AM (5HQE5)

165 You, too, Salty!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2024 07:17 AM (6IDWi)

166 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 20, 2024 07:18 AM (dg+HA)

167 I sometimes wonder if Uncle Palp and Zod are the same, or at least kissing cousins.

Posted by: Miklos has many questions at March 20, 2024 07:19 AM (v+0wn)

168 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2024 07:19 AM (a1415)

169 I have ☕ now
do your worst, Wednesday

Posted by: Don Black at March 20, 2024 07:19 AM (oCjPU)

170 Palpatine is still "trapped" in W. Virginia.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:20 AM (5HQE5)

171 I saw The Rectum Coconuts open for The Circle Jerks at Cathay De Grande in 1983.

My ass was sore for a week afterwards.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 20, 2024 07:21 AM (MHhQj)

172 Can we have some fresh hell served up today? I am getting tired of the same gruel.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2024 07:21 AM (jtTfW)

173 President Biden, 81, bizarrely wanders off stage as he is being introduced at Phoenix diner to pull faces at a baby

Posted by: Don Black at March 20, 2024 07:21 AM (oCjPU)

174
Microsoft has also promised that this is not the last one-time purchase version of Office.

I've said things like this on dates before I met Smash.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 20, 2024 07:22 AM (MsrgL)

175 >>166 Birdbath status? Posted by: Just Wondering at March 20, 2024 07:18 AM (dg+HA)

Had Trump only used that term instead: "If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a birdbath...it'll be a birdbath for the country."

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:23 AM (5HQE5)

176 Don't nude sunbathe under a coconut tree.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2024 07:23 AM (jtTfW)

177 See the ENT this morning. Turns out I have white spot on lingual frenulum. My guess is leukoplakia. Had that back in 2019 and biopsy was negative.

Worried about location if he lasers it off how it will affect my speech. Making my list of questions.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 07:24 AM (ju2Fy)

178 That man who was arrested for heckling Biden at SOTU?

Charges dropped

Posted by: Don Black at March 20, 2024 07:24 AM (oCjPU)

179 I did not know Don Lemon was Taiwanese.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 20, 2024 07:24 AM (0EOe9)

180 The Strip of Woe

Posted by: A dude

No it's not! That's my cootcher's furry landing strip! No lap dance for you H8TR.

Posted by: Tiddy Bar Stripper at March 20, 2024 07:24 AM (MsrgL)

181 Birdbath? Birdbath? That was a secret white nationalist codeword used on the Stormfront BBS listserv in 1983!

-MSM, who are curiously well versed in white nationalist obscure trivia

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2024 07:25 AM (jtTfW)

182 Zod gets per diems for dealing with Earth Beings.

It is equivalent to Belgium.

For some reason, Belgium was insufficient.

Posted by: Miklos the Bean Counter from Planet 9 at March 20, 2024 07:25 AM (v+0wn)

183 >>173 President Biden, 81, bizarrely wanders off
Posted by: Don Black at March 20, 2024 07:21 AM (oCjPU)

Epic Onion headline:

Secret Service Finds Biden Attempting To Dig Own Grave On White House Lawn

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:25 AM (5HQE5)

184 @164

>>Everyone has a plan until ZOD.

My plan is to distract you with a Dance Off while a gang of Ewoks sneak up behind you, chloriform you, load you into a burlap sack and chuck you into the Negative Zone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 20, 2024 07:26 AM (XV/Pl)

185 Don't nude sunbathe under a coconut tree.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

*opens new tab, ace.mu.nu*

Oh.

Moar coffee please.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 20, 2024 07:26 AM (MsrgL)

186 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

NOT Frozen !

Go figure !

Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 07:26 AM (T4tVD)

187 Microsoft has also promised that this is not the last one-time purchase version of Office.

I've said things like this on dates before I met Smash.
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 20, 2024 07:22 AM (MsrgL)

You said to your dates that the check is in the mail?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2024 07:27 AM (4I/2K)

188 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

NOT Frozen !

Go figure !
Posted by: JT

GET THE JACUZZI WORKING

Posted by: the Birds at March 20, 2024 07:28 AM (v+0wn)

189 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 20, 2024 07:29 AM (WXNFJ)

190 You said to your dates that the check is in the mail?
Posted by: Count de Monet

No. . . .I'm thinking it was that other thing he said.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 20, 2024 07:30 AM (WXNFJ)

191 It is equivalent to Belgium.

For some reason, Belgium was insufficient.
Posted by: Miklos the Bean Counter from Planet 9 at March 20, 2024 07:25 AM (v+0wn)
---
Did you at least try the Belgian pommes frites?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2024 07:30 AM (4S2yc)

192 >>Worried about location if he lasers it off how it will affect my speech. Making my list of questions.
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 07:24 AM (ju2Fy)

Ugh, sorry to hear that. Had surgery and radiation two years ago for tonsil cancer.

Stock up on Boost; eating with a compromised tongue sucks.

Best of luck.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:30 AM (5HQE5)

193
You said to your dates that the check is in the mail?

Posted by: Count de Monet

And i wouldn't do that thing in their mouth. Promise.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 20, 2024 07:30 AM (MsrgL)

194 Good morning everyone.
Posted by: Tonypete

And God Bless us every one

Posted by: Tiny Miklos-Tim at March 20, 2024 07:31 AM (v+0wn)

195 "-MSM, who are curiously well versed in white nationalist obscure trivia "

y'know what they say; "if you hear the dog whistle, you're probably a dog". either that or they just make it all up as they go ... though really this is such a case for The Power Of "And", innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 20, 2024 07:31 AM (PFYt9)

196 To be fair, what they want is not even real AI. Real AI would not be directly under their control.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 20, 2024 07:31 AM (di6C2)

197 To be fair, what they want is not even real AI. Real AI would not be directly under their control.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Damn straight!
-- Colossus

Posted by: Tonypete at March 20, 2024 07:32 AM (WXNFJ)

198 Mornin' Horde.

Watching Microsoft be forced to "back up 10 and punt" amuses me to no end. A wonderful bit of news to accompany morning coffee.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 20, 2024 07:33 AM (qPw5n)

199 >>"-MSM, who are curiously well versed in white nationalist obscure trivia "

There are approximately 206 bones in the adult white nationalist's body.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:34 AM (5HQE5)

200 NYT OBEY YOUR MASTERS

When we hear "deep state," instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. The are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 20, 2024 07:34 AM (ENQN6)

201 "The NHS advises that anyone exploring anal play do so safely, and use an object with a flared base to prevent it from getting lost inside"

Like a lamp, or a Princess phone.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

202 My guess is that they will call something general AI in less than five years so they can point to it even more as an unassailable font of political authority.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 20, 2024 07:35 AM (di6C2)

203 I have a nomination for "Delusional Statement of the Year"

From an article about building the pier in Gaza:

At a recent Pentagon press briefing, General Ryder was asked, "Does the DoD anticipate that Hamas will fire on them, on the JLOTS operation?" He replied, "That’s certainly a risk, but if Hamas truly does care about the Palestinian people, one would hope that this international mission to deliver aid to people who need it would be able to happen unhindered."

Full article: https://is.gd/uHfLbL

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (PiwSw)

204 Todays WTF

Ted Lieu - The best way to combat fake news is for people to watch MSNBC because they report real news all the time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (ENQN6)

205 200 NYT OBEY YOUR MASTERS

When we hear "deep state," instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. The are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 20, 2024 07:34 AM (ENQN6)

Nah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (di6C2)

206 spot-on, Aetius

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (PFYt9)

207 Damn straight!
-- Colossus
Posted by: Tonypete at March 20, 2024 07:32 AM (WXNFJ)

Heh. I am also thinking of the Golem story from Jewish tradition.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (di6C2)

208 Everyone has a plan until ZOD.
Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:17 AM

Especially the Russians.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (jkhSQ)

209 "That’s certainly a risk, but if Hamas truly does care about the Palestinian people, one would hope that this international mission to deliver aid to people who need it would be able to happen unhindered."

Full article: https://is.gd/uHfLbL
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (PiwSw)

they dont care and they have said so

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 20, 2024 07:36 AM (ENQN6)

210 >>an object with a flared base to prevent it from getting lost inside" Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

Shoulders: flared base of a human head.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:37 AM (5HQE5)

211 "Does the DoD anticipate that Hamas will fire on them, on the JLOTS operation?" He replied, "That’s certainly a risk"

A risk he is willing to take because it won't be his ass sitting on the dock of the bay.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

212 Watching Microsoft be forced to "back up 10 and punt" amuses me to no end. A wonderful bit of news to accompany morning coffee.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I migrated to Open Office years ago. Trying to get Smash to migrate has been equivalent to teaching a Frenchman aroma therapy and personal hygene compounded with deoderant.

Bif: it's the same as MS Office, just looks a bit different and it's free
Smash: i have to submit my manuscripts in .doc format
Bif: so save as
Smash: what if it doesn't work or messes up my layout
Bif: it is NOT MS Word
Smash: *blinks eyes*
Bif: *sighs* fine, i'll pay for the subscription
Smash: i thought you'd see it my way, want a sammich?

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 20, 2024 07:39 AM (MsrgL)

213 >>public servants, the everyday superheroes
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 20, 2024 07:34 AM (ENQN6)

This person has never worked in/near the Federal Government.

Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:39 AM (5HQE5)

214 .

NOOD

The ever reliable J.J. Sefton is here with The Morning Report

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 20, 2024 07:40 AM (qPw5n)

215 213 >>public servants, the everyday superheroes
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 20, 2024 07:34 AM (ENQN6)

This person has never worked in/near the Federal Government.
Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:39 AM (5HQE5)

That person does not even believe the shit they are saying.

Also, they have never worked anywhere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 20, 2024 07:40 AM (di6C2)

216
hey look at that
Corn Nuts® are on sale

Posted by: Don Black at March 20, 2024 07:41 AM (oCjPU)

217 Shoulders: flared base of a human head.
Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:37 AM

I think leftists discovered that long ago.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 20, 2024 07:42 AM (jkhSQ)

218 Best of luck.
Posted by: ZOD at March 20, 2024 07:30
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Thank you.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 07:46 AM (ju2Fy)

219 {212} ... Smash: i thought you'd see it my way, want a sammich?

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 20, 2024 07:39 AM (MsrgL)

Smash is a keeper.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 20, 2024 07:53 AM (qPw5n)

220 13 LLMs work the way your brain does when you're not paying attention, like when someone wishes you a happy birthday and you respond "Thanks, you too." before your conscious mind catches up and you die a little inside.

Nicely written, Pixy.
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 20, 2024 04:37 AM (ju2Fy)\\

Thanks, you too !
Posted by: JT at March 20, 2024 04:40 AM (T4tVD)

Ha! Horde.

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