Daily Tech News 21 March 2024

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The US House of Representatives is doing something vaguely useful for once: It just passed a bill banning the sale of your private information to the nation's enemies. (The Verge)

No, not Washington DC. They already have your information. The other enemies.

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Dungeons and Dragons is dying of acute woke poisoning but I still kind of want this D&D Lego set. (The Verge)

It comes with a dragon, a beholder, a displacer beast, a gelatinous cube, an owlbear, and a mimic, as well as a team of adventurers for them to menace.
MacOS 14.4 may have another trick up its sleeve: Deleting your files. (MacRumors)

If you're using iCloud for storage because you bought a 256GB MacBook Air and it filled up instantly and you can't upgrade the storage, well, if you delete the local copy of a file you have on iCloud it might just delete all the backups on iCloud as well.

This is not good.
The Asus Vivobook 15 OLED has received a little upgrade this year.

While it still has a Ryzen 7730U CPU and comes with 16GB of RAM upgradable to 40GB (8GB soldered and one SO-DIMM slot), the screen has improved from a 1920x1080 60Hz panel to 2880x1620 120Hz.

So 50% better in X and Y and 100% better in T.

It costs A$1200 vs. A$2200 for the Zenbook 15 OLED I mentioned recently (about $800 vs. $1450).

The differences are:

* It has a Ryzen 7730U vs. the 7735U in the more expensive model
* It's half a pound heavier
* Despite that, it actually has a smaller battery

So obviously the Zenbook is built and priced as a premium model, but the screen in the cheaper Vivobook is identical (and excellent), the CPU performance is identical, and it's 40% cheaper.

I looked at getting the previous model Vivobook a couple of years ago but passed it up. With the updated screen I think I'll get one, and swap in 32GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD from my old HP laptop which has developed a couple of minor issues... Like just switching itself off whenever it feels like it.

My preferred online store says they'll have it in stock on Monday.

Disclaimer: Monday too far away.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 04:05 AM (omVj0)

2 Indeed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 21, 2024 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

3 Evening and morning to all the satellites and space and the lonely AoSHQ research posts across the Solar System! (How lonely? Well, right now even the native "life" on Europa is starting to look pretty good. . . .)

'Tis Thursday, one stumble and lurch closer to the weekend. I've got about 56 F. here, humidity (fairly) low, almost no wind. But no workout today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 04:08 AM (omVj0)

4 Disclaimer: Monday too far away.

Patience, ... young padawan.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2024 04:10 AM (o3SCB)

5 "Always pass on what you have learned."
--Yoda

I see some startling ambiguity there.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2024 04:12 AM (o3SCB)

6 "Always pass on what you have learned."

“What you have learned pass on always.”

Fify

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 21, 2024 04:16 AM (JRP2U)

7 Further and later to star work today

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 04:16 AM (fwDg9)

8 Up early as usual; I got five hours' decent sleep, woke up, had to pet Stirling, and managed to doze another hour or so. Coffee, a short pipe, and maybe some toast and peanut butter, and I'll be functioning. Howzaboutchoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 04:17 AM (omVj0)

9 urther and later to star work today
Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024

***
Is the drive at least pleasant? If you have good roads, and not much traffic at this hour, you might be able to enjoy that start to your work day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 04:18 AM (omVj0)

10 Toto and Journey play in Las Cruces in 18 hours. I am going conclude their senior citizen gig beats being a Walmart greeter, senior citizen or not.

Posted by: Lost in Space at March 21, 2024 04:23 AM (vy+Qw)

11 Driving 20 miles isn't pleasant ever.
Think it's raining too

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 04:28 AM (fwDg9)

12 Toto and Journey play in Las Cruces in 18 hours. I am going conclude their senior citizen gig beats being a Walmart greeter, senior citizen or not.
Posted by: Lost in Space at March 21, 2024

***
Don't stop believin' in Africa . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 04:30 AM (omVj0)

13 Driving 20 miles isn't pleasant ever.
Think it's raining too
Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024

***
If most of it is highway, good surface road, that can be fun. Though not so much in rain. And I wouldn't want to do that as a standard commute.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 04:32 AM (omVj0)

14 It's not raining

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 04:32 AM (fwDg9)

15 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 21, 2024 04:40 AM (ju2Fy)

16 Driving in my county it's streets that run long way and short way, if as have to go today it's lefts and rights zigzag to destination

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 04:47 AM (fwDg9)

17 Bella came to get me at 3:37a. A 17 minute improvement from yesterday. At this rate we may get to 4:30 awakenings by Sunday. Progress.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 21, 2024 04:49 AM (ju2Fy)

18 The bill bans data brokers from selling Americans’ personal information to countries like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.

China? The same ones that are stealing any info they can from us? The same ones with "weather balloons" that go across the country?

That China?

Posted by: Bruce at March 21, 2024 04:53 AM (vd8XM)

19 And morning all!

Posted by: Bruce at March 21, 2024 04:53 AM (vd8XM)

20 Dungeons and Dragons is dying of acute woke poisoning but I still kind of want this D&D Lego set. (The Verge)

It comes with a dragon, a beholder, a displacer beast, a gelatinous cube, an owlbear, and a mimic, as well as a team of adventurers for them to menace.

-

You should do it. The Expert sets can be challenging even with directions, and it's sort of a 3D puzzle that the builder even provides directions for.

Plus it's neat to see how they use different parts to make your brain think something is something else (paradelia?). One of my favorites was a Ferrari set we bought when my son was WAY too young to help much, and the manifolds were flintlock pistols from a pirate set. Except when they were on the engine they became the curved pipes.

Those designers are extremely clever.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 04:53 AM (+RC1q)

21 Should start referring to drag queens as "clown women". Stigmatize and ridicule.

Posted by: Son of Dad at March 21, 2024 04:54 AM (8JB5s)

22 (How lonely? Well, right now even the native "life" on Europa is starting to look pretty good. . . .)

Those sexy obelisks.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 21, 2024 04:56 AM (byWhc)

23 Time to shave and shower, and then to feed the livestock. Plus me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 04:57 AM (omVj0)

24 Donut shop is on the way

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 04:57 AM (fwDg9)

25 Up early as usual; I got five hours' decent sleep, woke up, had to pet Stirling, and managed to doze another hour or so. Coffee, a short pipe, and maybe some toast and peanut butter, and I'll be functioning. Howzaboutchoo?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

--

I went to have a car serviced yesterday and was walking around the dealer lot smoking mine and being disappointed that every single interesting car was an automatic (the Camaro SS? Seriously?) and an elderly lady came up and began to discuss pipe smoking with me. She said she's been smoking one since the 70s. It was an odd conversation because it's so un-feminine, and this nice old white haired lady is talking about her favorite blends.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 04:58 AM (+RC1q)

26 (How lonely? Well, right now even the native "life" on Europa is starting to look pretty good. . . .)

Those sexy obelisks.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Ain't no party like an Obelisks party, cuz an Obelisks party don't stop!

Posted by: Bruce at March 21, 2024 04:59 AM (vd8XM)

27 She said she's been smoking one since the 70s. It was an odd conversation because it's so un-feminine, and this nice old white haired lady is talking about her favorite blends.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Walking down the street a few years back and I smell a familiar smell. Guy walking a little in front of me is smoking a pipe.

I came up to him and inquired what tobacco he was smoking. He seem startled a little and replied, "Mixture 79"

It was one of the ones my dad smoked back in the day. I always loved the smell of it.

The guy told me he was worried a little when I first asked him because he thought I was going to complain about the smoke.

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

28 It's neat how certain scents set off memories like that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 05:12 AM (+RC1q)

29 This week is going fast.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 05:26 AM (ENQN6)

30 I well remember the iTunes rollout for Windows, and my subsequent installment. It did not go well for me. Nothing Apple has done in the decades since has changed my opinion of them.

Posted by: Jim at March 21, 2024 05:27 AM (zhWvq)

31 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 21, 2024 05:29 AM (PFYt9)

32

For pole smoking I prefer a dark, somewhat bitter blend.

Posted by: Barky Obummer at March 21, 2024 05:33 AM (GlkBW)

33 For pole smoking I prefer a dark, somewhat bitter blend.
Posted by: Barky Obummer

And an unexpected finish.

Posted by: Bruce at March 21, 2024 05:34 AM (vd8XM)

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Posted by: fueled at March 21, 2024 05:34 AM (cMkuK)

35 Good morning morons

Local TV news reports a man was arrested for slashing tires on 2 dozen cars overnight 7 blocks from my house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 05:37 AM (RIvkX)

36

Get your pipes cleaned regularly.

Posted by: Barky Obummer at March 21, 2024 05:37 AM (GlkBW)

37 A woman reflects on both answered and unanswered prayer and one of the psalms. Appropriate for both interested Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/42fh99ye

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 05:40 AM (DCNcI)

38 " I will be subscribing to your feed." LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 05:41 AM (3t7Qc)

39 Good morning from the very temperate and somewhat breezy patio here in Cowtown! Gonna be cloudy and cool today with storms later this afternoon/evening. Perfect for landscaping and pergola building. There's a whole lotta dirt to be moved and the stone arrives this morning.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2024 05:41 AM (YRsIm)

40 Got to love those Bangladeshi bots.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 21, 2024 05:41 AM (S8cdb)

41 Rabbi's daughter reflects on a passage from Exodus and doing things for the glory of God:

https://tinyurl.com/yfvuxj6w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 05:44 AM (3t7Qc)

42 UGA university students help save family which crashed in creek:

https://tinyurl.com/3awdx4ay

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 05:47 AM (3t7Qc)

43 Posted by: fueled at March 21, 2024 05:34 AM (cMkuK)

We are not amused, you dick!

Posted by: Lace Wigs, Women's handbags, Machines for Sale and Jeff Spicoli at March 21, 2024 05:50 AM (89Sog)

44 . . . an elderly lady came up and began to discuss pipe smoking with me. She said she's been smoking one since the 70s. It was an odd conversation because it's so un-feminine, and this nice old white haired lady is talking about her favorite blends.
Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024

***
Depends on the pipe, I guess. A big chunky Peterson pub pipe would look odd, but a slim briar with a small bowl, or a little meerschaum, would seem much more "feminine."

What pipe and blend did you have?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 05:59 AM (omVj0)

45 Local TV news reports a man was arrested for slashing tires on 2 dozen cars overnight 7 blocks from my house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024

***
Morning, SanFran! We had a shooting of some kind, a fifteen-year-old boy, in a neighborhood about a mile from me. Cleverly, the "news" item on my local CBS outlet does not mention anything about the circumstances -- if the boy was truly innocent and caught a stray bullet, or if he was a teen gangbanger. Probably the latter, if they're covering it up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 06:02 AM (omVj0)

46 Made the mistake of watching briefly ABC news and the 'reporter' said Trump was loosing to Biden in all the key states.
In the old days when we only had network news and a newspaper, I would have believed it.
Ah the 6pm local news and the 6:30 network news. Believed it all, as that was the news...The rest of the news was from the radio during the day. Off and on. Is network news a thing anymore?

Posted by: Colin at March 21, 2024 06:04 AM (/z/eU)

47 Speaking of Camaros: I saw one parked at my work this week, and it must have been a very new model; I really liked the styling, a great evolution from the earlier editions. Nice dark gray, not a charcoal but lighter. The only thing, it had those huge 19" or 20" wheels (factory, I think) on it. Those would be horrible to ride on around here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 06:04 AM (omVj0)

48 Corny tech joke

Why do developers wear glasses? Because they can't C# .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 06:06 AM (3t7Qc)

49 Whenever I catch a local news story it is remarkable how little actual information there is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

50 ffs NO

REPORT: Sen. Marco Rubio in Serious Contention For Trump's VP

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 06:09 AM (ENQN6)

51 Fueled has an interesting font.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 21, 2024 06:09 AM (IG7T0)

52 Woman sings amazing version of "Amazing Grace":

https://tinyurl.com/mtrkywx7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 06:11 AM (mL2L5)

53 McMaster Carr overnighted a 6" end mill for mortising some doors. It is too long and they will send a 5" HSS TiN one tomorrow. Returning the first will suck and I thought "why hasn't Amazon bought them out?"

Posted by: Jamaica at March 21, 2024 06:13 AM (IG7T0)

54 Clear out. Below freezing
Forward Dog 9 hitting the road

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 06:13 AM (fwDg9)

55 MoPOP is running three summer camps, and two are already sold out. "Rock 'n' Rolling Camp" and "Fantasy STEAM Explorers Camp" have filled up fast, but "Drag-tastic: The Art of Drag Camp" is still open for registration.

Guess not that many Seattle 12 YOs want to hang all week with the chicks with dicks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 06:18 AM (ENQN6)

56 I think Gabbard would be his best bet. Two Reagan Democrats running.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 21, 2024 06:19 AM (IG7T0)

57 Forward Dog 9" is one of my favorites.

Posted by: Barky Obummer at March 21, 2024 06:19 AM (GlkBW)

58 47 Speaking of Camaros: I saw one parked at my work this week, and it must have been a very new model; I really liked the styling, a great evolution from the earlier editions. Nice dark gray, not a charcoal but lighter. The only thing, it had those huge 19" or 20" wheels (factory, I think) on it. Those would be horrible to ride on around here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 06:04 AM (omVj0)

I think Mary ended that car.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 06:20 AM (ENQN6)

59 Trump can pick whoever he wants for VP as long as he picks Elon for his chief of staff.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2024 06:24 AM (GkFGh)

60 Good morning to one and all. Brit wanker, David Cameron, is threatening Israel with not selling them any munitions if the Red Cross is not allowed to visit the hamasshole terrorists. Barky got his message out with his little jaunt.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 21, 2024 06:24 AM (nio1T)

61 What the fuck does Cameron have to do with anything? He's not in government in any capacity anymore, is he? Let him threaten in one hand and shit in the other.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2024 06:26 AM (GkFGh)

62 And didn't Cameron's little pity party shared government with the libdems get booted the hell out for no confidence anyway? Fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2024 06:28 AM (GkFGh)

63 Oooof. Man, did i wake up cranky today....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2024 06:30 AM (GkFGh)

64 In January, Hertz's used car website listed more than 700 EVs for sale, including Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, BMW's i3, and Chevrolet's Bolt. The firm aims to have all of the cars sold by 2025.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 06:31 AM (ENQN6)

65 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 06:32 AM (T4tVD)

66 We used to have a Camaro.

It got stole.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 06:35 AM (RIvkX)

67 Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 06:18 AM (ENQN6)

Only icrazy leftists would send their kids to a camp like that in order to prove how tolerant they are.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 06:36 AM (hwnBu)

68 Cameron is British Foreign Secretary

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 06:37 AM (RIvkX)

69 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 21, 2024 06:37 AM (dg+HA)

70 Chuck Norris, Jim Caviezel, Dinesh D’Souza gotta be in President Trump’s cabinet

Posted by: Eromero at March 21, 2024 06:38 AM (o2ZRX)

71 Hiya

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 06:38 AM (T4tVD)

72 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Dark

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 06:39 AM (T4tVD)

73 If I do get enough signatures to make it onto the ballot for another run for township committee, I am going to suggest to my running mate that we use something like the slogan from the guy who ran in another state: " Listen to the people and do what they want."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 06:45 AM (DCNcI)

74 "If I do get enough signatures to make it onto the ballot for another run for township committee, I am going to suggest to my running mate that we use something like the slogan from the guy who ran in another state: " Listen to the people and do what they want."

That wont get you anywhere. Promise a free miniature American flag for everyone.

That'll do the trick.

Posted by: Kang at March 21, 2024 06:50 AM (89Sog)

75 I don't have enough money to buy everyone a miniature flag even if I wanted to try to buy their. Votes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 06:55 AM (YWfho)

76 That wont get you anywhere. Promise a free miniature American flag for everyone.

That'll do the trick.
Posted by: Kang at March 21, 2024 06:50 AM (89Sog)

Get the Obama version with 57 stars.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 06:56 AM (ENQN6)

77 How come ya never see a Palestinians For Queers sign?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 06:56 AM (dg+HA)

78 Cameron is British Foreign Secretary
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 06:37 AM (RIvkX)

That's so silly i don't even feel bad for not knowing it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2024 07:00 AM (GkFGh)

79 Ice Cream has a very different operating model, and as a result the Board has decided that the separation of Ice Cream best serves the future growth of both Ice Cream and Unilever.

Unilever kicks Ben and Jerry in the nutz.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:00 AM (ENQN6)

80 How come ya never see a Palestinians For Queers sign?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 06:56 AM (dg+HA)

"Roof Access"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2024 07:01 AM (GkFGh)

81 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

82 I don't have enough money to buy everyone a miniature flag even if I wanted to try to buy their. Votes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 06:55 AM (YWfho)

Give everyone a stripe !

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 07:06 AM (T4tVD)

83 mornin yall

"Biden administration fails to file paperwork, causes 200K migrant deportation cases to be tossed"

One might think this administration would like them to stay.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

84 That right smack dab in the middle of town
I found a paradise that's trouble-proof
And if this old world starts a-getting you down
There's room enough for two

Up on the roof, up on the roof, up on the roof oh now

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:06 AM (ENQN6)

85 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

A tad delayed to look over that Lego D&D set. Miniatures did it better, back in the day. This is lame and gay.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

86 That's so silly i don't even feel bad for not knowing it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2024 07:00 AM (GkFGh
===
Indeed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2024 07:07 AM (RIvkX)

87 FenelonSpoke

I'll sign the petition for you. I'll use different ink colors and handwriting. You need 20 more signatures?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

88 "The American Society of Magical Negroes" took the 9th spot at the box office last weekend, grossing $1,304,270 while playing in 1,147 locations around the U.S.

Bary is that you?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:09 AM (ENQN6)

89 77 How come ya never see a Palestinians For Queers sign?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

For the same reason you don't see queers IN 'Palestine'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 21, 2024 07:11 AM (sAmhv)

90 huh, so at $10 per ticket (?) that's twenty-something people/day/theater? no, maybe less, I'm assuming a 5 day week ...

LOL.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 21, 2024 07:13 AM (PFYt9)

91 Ballsey Ford devastated when FBI spent 6 weeks interviewing close to 50 people and ultimately determined she and Kav were never even in the same place, time, or group of friends.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:14 AM (ENQN6)

92 rhennigantx

Intentional scab-picking. We could have nice stuff otherwise. Leave the bad behind.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

93 In his State of the Union address this month, President Joe Biden declared that "no one should be jailed for simply using" marijuana or "have it on their record."

However

Justice Department simultaneously insists marijuana users are so dangerous that they cannot be trusted with guns even when they are completely sober—so dangerous, in fact, that they are altogether excluded from "the people" whose "right to keep and bear arms" is guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:17 AM (ENQN6)

94 The CoC and Dem attitude towards illegals looks a lot like slavery.

"We pay you. Vote as we want. "

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

95 Time for work preps.

Have a great day, everyone.

May you all be blessed with insight, health, and a good meme.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

96 rhennigantx

Intentional scab-picking. We could have nice stuff otherwise. Leave the bad behind.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

I read that as "international scab picking"

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 07:19 AM (T4tVD)

97 Backatcha Salty !

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 07:20 AM (T4tVD)

98 92 rhennigantx

Intentional scab-picking. We could have nice stuff otherwise. Leave the bad behind.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2024 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

18 U.S.C. § 1001 makes it a federal crime for anyone who "in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully ... makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation."

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:20 AM (ENQN6)

99 I read that as "international scab picking"
Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 07:19 AM (T4tVD)

ISPU

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:21 AM (ENQN6)

100 "The American Society of Magical Negroes" took the 9th spot at the box office last weekend, grossing $1,304,270 while playing in 1,147 locations around the U.S.

Triumph of the Will but more pretentious and smug.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 21, 2024 07:22 AM (sAmhv)

101 Well, Recuva is 13 hours into retrieving my lost movies and has not found one file larger than 1500kb.

I think CCleaner should stick to what it does best.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 07:23 AM (Au9S/)

102 Is Hunter in jail yet?

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 21, 2024 07:23 AM (MHhQj)

103 100, and that's a pretty high bar ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 21, 2024 07:23 AM (PFYt9)

104 The US House of Representatives is doing something vaguely useful for once: It just passed a bill banning the sale of your private information to the nation's enemies.

What about the USA buying my data to try to use against me.

See J6.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:27 AM (ENQN6)

105 The American Society of Magical Negroes

Wait. That's a REAL movie? I had to ask the interwebs and yes, yes, it actually is.
LOL it has a 2.5 out of 10 rating on IMDB.
So "negro" is an acceptable word again? When did that happen?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 07:27 AM (dg+HA)

106 smug.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 21, 2024 07:22 AM (sAmhv)

Does not EPA regulate SMUG?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:28 AM (ENQN6)

107 >>> iCloud it might just delete all the backups on iCloud as well....
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The cloud is a perpetuation of the notion that you don't need to own. That owning is an unnecessary encumbrance.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 07:28 AM (Au9S/)

108 The mostest fun drive ever undertaken was a longish stretch of fresh unstriped blacktop on a rainy night. Only the once and I waited til dawn to complete it.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 21, 2024 07:29 AM (KATBx)

109 Salty!...

Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 21, 2024 07:29 AM (a1415)

110 105 The American Society of Magical Negroes

Wait. That's a REAL movie? I had to ask the interwebs and yes, yes, it actually is.
LOL it has a 2.5 out of 10 rating on IMDB.
So "negro" is an acceptable word again? When did that happen?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Yep. It bombed. Even its target market didn't bother to see it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 21, 2024 07:30 AM (sAmhv)

111 Does not EPA regulate SMUG?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:28 AM

Punks.

Posted by: Smaug at March 21, 2024 07:31 AM (Wnv9h)

112 So "negro" is an acceptable word again? When did that happen?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 07:27 AM (dg+HA)

https://www.latimes.com › la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19-story.html
Obama the 'Magic Negro' - Los Angeles Times
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:33 AM (ENQN6)

113 MARCH 19, 2007 12 AM PT

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:34 AM (ENQN6)

114 And there is a song too!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:35 AM (ENQN6)

115
So "negro" is an acceptable word again? When did that happen?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 07:27 AM

The 'magical negro' was a genre of films and a term popularized by Spike Lee in 2001. He specially noted the films The Green Mile and The Legend of Bagger Vance, which featured "super-duper magical Negro" characters.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 21, 2024 07:36 AM (RKVpM)

116 In olden days it was negroid, caucasoid and mongoloid for the Big Three races… with Australoid usually thrown in.

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 07:37 AM (PCK5/)

117 The 'magical negro' was a genre of films and a term popularized by Spike Lee in 2001. He specially noted the films The Green Mile and The Legend of Bagger Vance, which featured "super-duper magical Negro" characters.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 21, 2024 07:36 AM (RKVpM)

You forgot Shaft and Cleopatra Jones

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:40 AM (ENQN6)

118 .

NOOD

The Morning Report by J.J. Sefton is up.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 07:41 AM (qPw5n)

119 I'm really happy with my Zenbook Duo. It's the intel I9 model, but still very happy.

Posted by: Inogame at March 21, 2024 07:41 AM (KCCqb)

120 Mongo just pawn in the loids of life.

Posted by: I'll throw in a Blazing Saddles reference at March 21, 2024 07:41 AM (dg+HA)

121 Oh goody. We are sending troops to Taiwan. spit.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 21, 2024 07:42 AM (nio1T)

122 It's nice this time of year.

Posted by: The Pentagon at March 21, 2024 07:43 AM (dg+HA)

123 >It comes with a dragon, a beholder, a displacer beast, a gelatinous cube, an owlbear, and a mimic

The reason D&D has become so gonzo in recent years is that Hasbro is overly concerned with monetizing the IP, and so has been instructing WotC to downplay any parts that are in the public domain or encumbered. That's why tieflings and dragonkin exist, and why these weird monsters are the only ones you see any more.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at March 21, 2024 10:27 AM (0Go0g)

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