Daily Tech News 28 March 2024

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The governor of Oregon took a break from her busy schedule of - reportedly - day drinking and nervous breakdowns to sign a new right-to-repair bill that is actually good. (Ars Technica)

The legislation bans "parts pairing", where you not only need an exact replacement part, you need the exact replacement part, because all the parts have built-in clique identifiers and won't talk to interlopers.

The rules come in to effect next year, and exempt a few classes of device like medical devices, where there might be an argument for strict controls over repairs, and... Electric toothbrushes.

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Amazon is investing another $2.75 billion into AI company Anthropic, developer of Claude. (CNBC)

If you haven't heard of Claude you are not alone, but it is a thing that exists.
FTX - what's left of it - is selling off most of its stake in Anthropic to raise funds to pay back customers. (Yahoo Finance)

FTX misused customer funds to - among other things - buy a $500 million stake in Anthropic.

That stake is now worth $1.35 billion, and may be the key to FTX customers getting all their money back.

Disclaimer: It's turquoise all the way down.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

2 G'day Skip.

This week has three Fridays.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 28, 2024 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

3 Evening and morning to all the early risers and late toilers!

Anthropic? When it's gone will we miss Anthropic?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 04:08 AM (omVj0)

4
; )

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 04:09 AM (o3SCB)

5 Mornin

Posted by: Ciampino - remember the mad hatter.. at March 28, 2024 04:09 AM (qfLjt)

6 2 This week has three Fridays.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 28, 2024 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

If Friday is payday, then that could be wild.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 04:11 AM (o3SCB)

7 Thursday, last day at work this week for me. And my boss has said once I finish my work today I can cut out early. Maybe I can catch a short nap this p.m. before dinner and get some of the sleep I didn't get last night.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 04:12 AM (omVj0)

8 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 04:14 AM (T4tVD)

9 ULA - Delta IV Heavy's Last Flight - NROL-70
SLC-37 - CCSFS
Scheduled for Mar 28, 2024
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket is launching the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This is the 16th and final launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket.
The launch date is March 28, 1:40 p.m. EDT, 17:40 UTC, and 18:40 CET.

https://tinyurl.com/mtkwm6ys
____________

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 7-18
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, March 28 for a Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
New Date: Liftoff is targeted for 7:30 p.m. PDT, March 28, (02:30 UTC, 03:30 CET March 29).

Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, in the Pacific Ocean.

https://tinyurl.com/bdmwukar

Posted by: Ciampino -Spacaciality at March 28, 2024 04:18 AM (qfLjt)

10 Naptime for me so as to be up for lunchtime launch.
G'nite all, till later.

Posted by: Ciampino - Spaciality at March 28, 2024 04:21 AM (qfLjt)

11 Quiet as the graveyard this AM. No issue with that, but I've never seen fog like this before. Betcha visibility doesn't reach a foot.

Currently I'm standing 15-20' from the house (that I cannot see). Got a rope tied to the house door and me, else there's no hope of finding the building, it's that bad.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 28, 2024 04:32 AM (KATBx)

12 11 Quiet as the graveyard this AM. No issue with that, but I've never seen fog like this before. Betcha visibility doesn't reach a foot.

Currently I'm standing 15-20' from the house (that I cannot see). Got a rope tied to the house door and me, else there's no hope of finding the building, it's that bad.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 28, 2024 04:32 AM (KATBx)

Time to read a good ghost story. w-o-o-o-o-o-o

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 04:38 AM (o3SCB)

13 Weather: 56 F., humidity not bad for this dump, stiff breeze out of the NW. Rare conditions for late March around here.

There's also a news story on the CBS outlet's website that three of our local bridges will close soon or already have for repairs. None are near me, but the one leading to a ferry that allows people in the SE area of the metro area to cross over to my side of the river, and the ferry itself, are closed. So I've been seeing more vehicles on the main bridge in the morning and afternoon.

We had a bridge over the big Industrial Canal partially collapse and kill one person thanks to a barge impact one afternoon in '93. Though I seem to recall something similar later, about '96 when I worked in an area serviced by that span. One of my coworkers said he crossed it only about five minutes before the barge hit it. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 04:39 AM (omVj0)

14 Quiet as the graveyard this AM. No issue with that, but I've never seen fog like this before. Betcha visibility doesn't reach a foot.

Currently I'm standing 15-20' from the house (that I cannot see). Got a rope tied to the house door and me, else there's no hope of finding the building, it's that bad.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 28, 2024 04:32 AM (KATBx)

Time to read a good ghost story. w-o-o-o-o-o-o
Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 04:38 AM (o3SCB)

"It was a dark and foggy night...."

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 04:41 AM (T4tVD)

15 Stay safe IG !

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 04:42 AM (T4tVD)

16 Can't find the story about any bridge-barge impact from '96, just the story about the freighter that hit the riverfront shopping mall a week or so before Christmas that year. I had considered going down there (a Saturday) to do some shopping, and changed my mind at the last minute.

Maybe my coworker in '96 who escaped a bridge incident was telling about 1993, not a recent event.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 04:43 AM (omVj0)

17 About time to shave and shower, then feed the furry thugs and myself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 04:44 AM (omVj0)

18 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 04:51 AM (sAmhv)

19 The Doug Ross journal 10 most destructive Americans is a good list

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 04:53 AM (fwDg9)

20 11 Quiet as the graveyard this AM. No issue with that, but I've never seen fog like this before. Betcha visibility doesn't reach a foot.

Currently I'm standing 15-20' from the house (that I cannot see). Got a rope tied to the house door and me, else there's no hope of finding the building, it's that bad.
Posted by: irongrampa

Haven't stolen any pirate gold lately? If so, you may have some unwelcome visitors in the fog soon.

(Obscure ref to late 70s movie The Fog. I recall liking it last Century. I wonder if I still would. I'm a bit vague on the 'plot'. Was there one?)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 04:55 AM (sAmhv)

21 >>Currently I'm standing 15-20' from the house (that I cannot see). Got a rope tied to the house door and me, else there's no hope of finding the building, it's that bad.

Um, where are you headed?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 05:01 AM (6IDWi)

22 I remember Adrienne Barbeau in 'The Fog'. Hal Holbrook? Not sure. I think it was him. Maybe Tom Skerrit. I'll have to look it up. I bet Ernest Borgnine was in it too. He was in everything during the 70s and 80s.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 05:01 AM (sAmhv)

23 >I'm a bit vague on the 'plot'. Was there one?

well, there's this fog, and it's really thick, see...

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2024 05:02 AM (oCjPU)

24 >>(Obscure ref to late 70s movie The Fog. I recall liking it last Century. I wonder if I still would. I'm a bit vague on the 'plot'. Was there one?)

Adrianne Barbeau's rack and. . . pirate spirits rolling into town within the fog to exact revenge or somesuch?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 05:03 AM (6IDWi)

25 good morning friends
woke up in front of the telescreen again
this must stop

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2024 05:03 AM (oCjPU)

26 At very close job today, almost done sadly

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 05:03 AM (fwDg9)

27 No Tom Skerrit or Ernest Borgnine in The Fog. Came out in 1980 and directed by John Carpenter. It did have John Houseman and Tom Atkins. Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh (her mom?) was in it. I think Janet Leigh was JLC mom.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 05:05 AM (sAmhv)

28 21 >>Currently I'm standing 15-20' from the house (that I cannot see). Got a rope tied to the house door and me, else there's no hope of finding the building, it's that bad.

Um, where are you headed?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 05:01 AM (6IDWi)

I second this question.
Also, nice that you can see the cellphone screen to stay in touch with AoSHq!

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 05:09 AM (o3SCB)

29 Yeah, the fog was something about Pirate spirits. The town elders had betrayed them and they come back to visit revenge on their descendants. IIRC.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 05:11 AM (di6C2)

30 25 good morning friends
woke up in front of the telescreen again
this must stop
Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2024 05:03 AM (oCjPU)

What's up with that?

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 05:12 AM (o3SCB)

31 Adrianne Barbeau's rack and. . . pirate spirits rolling into town within the fog to exact revenge or somesuch?

Yea, that's it. I do remember it. More or less. Might have to scour the interwebs and see if I can watch it again. I tend to like most John Carpenter movies.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 05:13 AM (sAmhv)

32 Not raining now, and maybe close to 50 degrees
Forward Dog 9 heading down that short road

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 05:14 AM (fwDg9)

33 "Town priest, Father Malone, discovers his grandfather's diary. The journal reveals that a century earlier, in 1880, the six founders of Antonio Bay (including Malone's grandfather) deliberately wrecked a clipper ship named the Elizabeth Dane, so that its wealthy, leprosy-afflicted owner Blake would not establish a leper colony nearby. The conspirators used the gold plundered from the ship to establish the town."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 05:18 AM (di6C2)

34 The rope is guidance back to the house, the LED screen is super tough to read, it goes white unless you hold it just so.

Poopy, going back in, this sucks. I'd sooner lurk.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 28, 2024 05:25 AM (KATBx)

35 don't stand outside in the fog

there are ghost pirate lepers out there

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2024 05:26 AM (oCjPU)

36 35 don't stand outside in the fog

there are ghost pirate lepers out there
Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2024 05:26 AM (oCjPU)

Smart military blog and oh so much more!

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 05:28 AM (o3SCB)

37 there are ghost pirate lepers out there
Posted by: Don Black

And pirate Lemurs too!

Posted by: Bruce at March 28, 2024 05:30 AM (vd8XM)

38 35 don't stand outside in the fog
Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2024 05:26 AM (oCjPU)

Also: Don't Sleep in the Subway.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 05:33 AM (o3SCB)

39 Also: Don't Sleep in the Subway.
Posted by: m

Oooo... first earworm of the day

Morning m !

Posted by: Bruce at March 28, 2024 05:37 AM (vd8XM)

40 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 05:38 AM (ENQN6)

41 Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh (her mom?) was in it. I think Janet Leigh was JLC mom.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024

***
Yeah, Jamie was Janet's daughter with Tony Curtis. There's some resemblance in the face betweenJamie and Janet, or there was when Jamie was younger.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 05:39 AM (omVj0)

42 Don't sleep in the subway, darlin'
Don't stand in the pouring rain
Don't sleep in the subway, darlin'
The night is long

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 05:40 AM (ENQN6)

43 Yeah, Jamie was Janet's daughter with Tony Curtis. There's some resemblance in the face betweenJamie and Janet, or there was when Jamie was younger.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 05:39 AM (omVj0)

she had some bodacious tatas

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 05:42 AM (ENQN6)

44 Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, historic running mate to Al Gore in ’00, dead at 82 after fall

RIP

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 05:43 AM (ENQN6)

45 Yeah, Jamie was Janet's daughter with Tony Curtis. There's some resemblance in the face betweenJamie and Janet, or there was when Jamie was younger.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 05:39 AM (omVj0)

https://tinyurl.com/4w8c76ut

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 05:44 AM (di6C2)

46 44 Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, historic running mate to Al Gore in ’00, dead at 82 after fall

RIP
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 05:43 AM (ENQN6)

Kind of sobering that he spent most of his life as a politician and lawmaker and his entire life is summed up to that summer when he was the running mate of a retard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 05:45 AM (di6C2)

47 I don't know about Janet but Jamie has, over the years, been slowly losing her mind. She's a loon.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 05:45 AM (sAmhv)

48 A Maundy Thursday devotional from "Guideposts"
Magazine:

https://tinyurl.com/2zj2anut

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 28, 2024 05:45 AM (THqLF)

49 Back from my shave & shower, and having breakfast. Yesterday I hit both Target and Walmart in a search for a new microwave at a decent price. The ones at a decent price at Tar-zhay were either too small, or didn't have their wattage on the box. I couldn't get any employee help (typical), so I left.

Found what I needed at WM, a Hamilton Beach 900-watter, same as the deceased unit. That MW, a Sunbeam, lasted me for some four or five years. This one seems to do just as well at what it's supposed to do.

If WM hadn't had anything, I was prepared to head to Best Buy (more $$).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)

50 The Mist is worse than The Fog. In many ways.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 28, 2024 05:47 AM (JRP2U)

51 Growing up I used to think that Janet Leigh was about the prettiest woman on earth.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2024 05:48 AM (Cp1vk)

52 Don't stand in the pouring rain.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 28, 2024 05:48 AM (dWUm0)

53 Yeah, Jamie was Janet's daughter with Tony Curtis. There's some resemblance in the face between Jamie and Janet, or there was when Jamie was younger.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024
*
she had some bodacious tatas
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024

***
Nature was good to both of 'em

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 05:48 AM (omVj0)

54 Re re something Insty links to within that article:
Contrary to initial expectations, the genes and proteins are now known to persist in the blood for prolonged periods, and post-vaccination syndrome, or ‘spikeopathy’, has become a major global problem, the researchers say. The jabs should have been regarded as biomedicine, but because they were classified as vaccines, huge numbers of people were inoculated and many areas of medicine are beginning to become involved with the consequences. ‘This has never happened before in the history of biomedicine, and consequently it is highly suspected that blood products for transfusion have been affected.’

The full article:

https://tinyurl.com/3d35efp4

I seem to recall fucking saying these are not vaccines, but 'gene therapeutics.' Fucking snake oil. Let's make sure everyone gets them, including kids- who do not need them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 05:49 AM (di6C2)

55 Don’t stand in the fog.

Don’t stand so close to me.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 28, 2024 05:49 AM (JRP2U)

56 50 The Mist is worse than The Fog. In many ways.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline

Well, yes. Interdimensional monsters slowly devouring you while you scream in agony is much worse than leper ghost pirates.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 05:50 AM (sAmhv)

57 Sheesh. Go pour a cup of coffee and 50 people beat me to it.
And all ya'll that knew it and did,,, old as me?
Unpossible.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 28, 2024 05:51 AM (dWUm0)

58 Also exactly WHO expected the genes and proteins of the Vaxx NOT to persist in the blood stream? This is why it was a fucking insane idea to begin with.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 05:52 AM (di6C2)

59 there are ghost pirate lepers out there
Posted by: Don Black

And pirate Lemurs too!
Posted by: Bruce at March 28, 2024

***
That'd be appropriate, as the word "lemur" is one Latin word for "ghost."

Is the aye-aye of Madagascar a lemur? When I was small, I read in my Golden Book Encyclopedia about a legend, that someone who kills an aye-aye will die a year and a day afterward. I've never seen that repeated anywhere else, so I wonder where they got it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 05:52 AM (omVj0)

60 Good morning morons

Local TV news is a vast wasteland this morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2024 05:52 AM (RIvkX)

61 Let's make sure everyone gets them, including kids- who do not need them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

l read in the past few days the FDC now admits that seizures and myocarditis are possible in children taking the clot shot. But they still believe all kids should get them.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2024 05:52 AM (Cp1vk)

62 Elementary school emphasizes acts of kindness instead of fundraising:

https://tinyurl.com/yhzbej9p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 28, 2024 05:53 AM (THqLF)

63 Don’t stand so close to me.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 28, 2024

***
"Let me stand next to your fire!"
(-- the unaltered black kitten Stirling, on meeting girl kitten Dagny)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)

64 Israel has agreed to provide security for the temporary pier the U.S. military is planning to build in Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians on the brink of famine, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the plans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 05:57 AM (ENQN6)

65 l read in the past few days the FDC now admits that seizures and myocarditis are possible in children taking the clot shot. But they still believe all kids should get them.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2024 05:52 AM (Cp1vk)

Makes sense. These are the same 'ethical' assclowns who believe the kids should be able to sterilize themselves over parent's objections.

These people are evil AND stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 06:01 AM (di6C2)

66 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 28, 2024 06:01 AM (ju2Fy)

67 >>I don't know about Janet but Jamie has, over the years, been slowly losing her mind. She's a loon.

Oh, my, yes.
Trans kid who's creepy perv.
And weird taste in art: https://tinyurl.com/c7pp4rkk

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 06:01 AM (6IDWi)

68 So, i IMDB-ed Adrianne Barbeau and found out she was also in “Escape From New York”. Is that one relevant to the present age?

Posted by: Fenderbender at March 28, 2024 06:03 AM (r72iY)

69 The beheading of Israeli babies and rape of Israeli women during the October 7 massacre was propaganda and lies, US Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) said.

Saying out loud what about 30% of Dems believe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 06:03 AM (ENQN6)

70 Good discussion of the Baltimore collision by a couple of respectable guys if you're interested.

https://tinyurl.com/cnn5vmwu

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 28, 2024 06:03 AM (YRsIm)

71 French toast and sausage patties this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 28, 2024 06:04 AM (ju2Fy)

72 >>l read in the past few days the FDC now admits that seizures and myocarditis are possible in children taking the clot shot. But they still believe all kids should get them.

A woman I work with has two young kids - 4 and 6.
Vaxed a couple of times and they are always sick. Always. They catch every dang bug that's going around, but also unusual stuff like norovirus and hand foot and mouth disease. And she had cholera this past year

Think their immune systems have been destroyed.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 06:05 AM (6IDWi)

73 Got to wondering, Petula? (Heh, children programming auto-c didn't know that name, color me shocked).
So I looked it up. Yep. '67'.
Thought I really liked her before that so,,, yep. Downtown, '64.' I was 9. Living closer to NaCly's neck of the woods. Learning to fish and play baseball. Learned more about the game in two years from that old coach than all others combined.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 28, 2024 06:10 AM (dWUm0)

74 G'mornin' everyone!

"But they still believe all kids should get them."
thankfully, people are starting to really get that "hate us and want us dead" is not hyperbole but bare-naked scary exact truth.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 28, 2024 06:12 AM (PFYt9)

75 >>The beheading of Israeli babies and rape of Israeli women during the October 7 massacre was propaganda and lies, US Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) said.

Amazing what the Left will pretend never happened or doesn't exist because their ideology cannot accommodate it.

Maybe someone should ask Jamaal if the genocide of Uyghurs is happening in China, if genocide of Armenians in Azerbaijan, active sex slave trafficking across our Southern border, or, nah bro, it's all crazy conspiracy theories, too. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 06:13 AM (6IDWi)

76 42 Don't sleep in the subway, darlin'
Don't stand in the pouring rain
Don't sleep in the subway, darlin'
The night is long
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 05:40 AM (ENQN6)

I had hesitated to address irongrampa (KATBx) as "darlin'."

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:16 AM (o3SCB)

77 39 Also: Don't Sleep in the Subway.
Posted by: m

Oooo... first earworm of the day

Morning m !
Posted by: Bruce at March 28, 2024 05:37 AM (vd8XM)

Ha! Earworm. Sorry.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:16 AM (o3SCB)

78 There's an eclipse in a few days supposed to pass over parts of eastern Oklahoma. Oklahoma has called out the National Guard for it. I vaguely remember these events in the past but don't recall this level of panic.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2024 06:18 AM (Cp1vk)

79 55 Don’t stand in the fog.

Don’t stand so close to me.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 28, 2024 05:49 AM (JRP2U)

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:18 AM (o3SCB)

80 @75 - Lizzy

When people don't "believe" that supernatural evil, in the form of satan exists, they aren't going to accept that there are those who worship him and do his bidding.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 28, 2024 06:20 AM (dWUm0)

81 Maybe someone should ask Jamaal if the genocide of Uyghurs is happening in China, if genocide of Armenians in Azerbaijan, active sex slave trafficking across our Southern border, or, nah bro, it's all crazy conspiracy theories, too. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 06:13 AM (6IDWi)

He probably would say they were made up. For these idiots, the only thing that matters is what happened to their 'people.' I guess that makes sense in the larger historical context. It is how racism/tribalism works.

Horrible things may have happened, but it does not matter, because it did not happen to the tribe I identify with.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 06:20 AM (di6C2)

82 Also: Don't Cry Out Loud

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:22 AM (o3SCB)

83 Also: Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:23 AM (o3SCB)

84 21 >>Currently I'm standing 15-20' from the house (that I cannot see). Got a rope tied to the house door and me, else there's no hope of finding the building, it's that bad.

Um, where are you headed?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 05:01 AM (6IDWi)

Never really got an answer to that!

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:23 AM (o3SCB)

85 A man shares some touching memories of spending time with his dad. From the "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/5h3mynu6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 28, 2024 06:24 AM (ukYEF)

86 There's something hilarious in a crypto scam buying a large share of an AI scam and then having to give the money back to its customers.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at March 28, 2024 06:26 AM (fKIdX)

87 Horrible things may have happened, but it does not matter, because it did not happen to the tribe I identify with.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 28, 2024 06:20 AM (di6C2)
====
And if it did happen, it's a good thing.
/s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2024 06:27 AM (RIvkX)

88 IG was going to the outhouse

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2024 06:28 AM (RIvkX)

89 What's a few twitches and flops out of your kid when sacred compliance is on the line?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 06:31 AM (GkFGh)

90 Also:

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 28, 2024 06:32 AM (JRP2U)

91 School bus driver helps save the day for a boy on Pajama Day:

https://tinyurl.com/3wxym3t2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 28, 2024 06:32 AM (ukYEF)

92 88 IG was going to the outhouse
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2024 06:28 AM (RIvkX)

Ah.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:34 AM (o3SCB)

93 IG was going to the outhouse
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2024 06:28 AM (RIvkX)

Ah.
Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:34 AM (o3SCB)

"Off to slay a minotaur", eh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 06:35 AM (GkFGh)

94 >>Horrible things may have happened, but it does not matter, because it did not happen to the tribe I identify with.

Strange, isn't it? Like, if he can't blame bad stuff on his political foes it doesn't exist. Especially peculiar when you consider current priority is the muslims in Gaza that must be saved at all costs but muslims in China can quietly be killed and it's not even acknowledged.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 06:35 AM (6IDWi)

95 There's an eclipse in a few days supposed to pass over parts of eastern Oklahoma. Oklahoma has called out the National Guard for it.

So, is the Oklahoma NG supposed to stop it or...?

Good morning all!

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 28, 2024 06:36 AM (PzBTm)

96 >> IG was going to the outhouse

Oh, OK. I wasn't demanding an answer - just curious.
Sounded extreme!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 28, 2024 06:37 AM (6IDWi)

97 69 The beheading of Israeli babies and rape of Israeli women during the October 7 massacre was propaganda and lies, US Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) said.

Saying out loud what about 30% of Dems believe.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Amazing.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 06:37 AM (sAmhv)

98 The rules come in to effect next year, and exempt a few classes of device like medical devices, where there might be an argument for strict controls over repairs, and... Electric toothbrushes.

Heh.

Posted by: Big Electric Toothbrush at March 28, 2024 06:38 AM (PiwSw)

99 FTX misused customer funds to - among other things - buy a $500 million stake in Anthropic.
That stake is now worth $1.35 billion

Scamming scammers scam, but it’s hard to think of more than doubling their money as a misuse of funds.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 28, 2024 06:43 AM (JRP2U)

100 98 >>>The rules come in to effect next year, and exempt a few classes of device like medical devices, where there might be an argument for strict controls over repairs, and... Electric toothbrushes.

There have to be about a bazillion carve-outs in that law.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:46 AM (o3SCB)

101 oh man missed that easy layup

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:47 AM (o3SCB)

102 Morning, good people!

Posted by: Eromero at March 28, 2024 06:47 AM (o2ZRX)

103 Eromero, Good morning. A beautiful day in E Texas, looks like

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2024 06:48 AM (kCvJX)

104 "And there are carve-outs for certain kinds of electronics and devices, including video game consoles, medical devices, HVAC systems, motor vehicles, and—as with other states—"electric toothbrushes.""

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 06:51 AM (o3SCB)

105 No suns, moons, planets, or minor planets slamming together, good start..

Posted by: Eromero at March 28, 2024 06:52 AM (LJvQa)

106 just waking up is the best start we could ask for!

woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 28, 2024 06:53 AM (PFYt9)

107 There is a tiny amount of sense in the toothbrush thing. You're shoving an electrical device in your word hole. Last thing you need is Freddie Fix-It saying "nah, you don't need an o-ring there it'll be fine" and then BZZZZZT!

it's still dehumanizing nannyism. But it's not incomprehensible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 06:54 AM (GkFGh)

108 107 There is a tiny amount of sense in the toothbrush thing. You're shoving an electrical device in your word hole. Last thing you need is Freddie Fix-It saying "nah, you don't need an o-ring there it'll be fine" and then BZZZZZT!

it's still dehumanizing nannyism. But it's not incomprehensible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 06:54 AM (GkFGh)

I have a 220 221 toothbrush whatever it takes

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 06:56 AM (ENQN6)

109 I have a 220 221 toothbrush whatever it takes
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 06:56 AM (ENQN6)

Milwaukee?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 06:56 AM (GkFGh)

110 Whistleblower: Michael Avenatti Revealed Michael Cohen Was Having Affair With Stormy Daniels Since 2006 — Cooked up Hush Money Scheme to Extort Trump Before 2016 Election

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 06:56 AM (ENQN6)

111 Milwaukee?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 06:56 AM (GkFGh)

Falstaff

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 06:57 AM (ENQN6)

112 Good morning rons and ettes!

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at March 28, 2024 06:58 AM (iF0sF)

113 7 to 20% of 26 states voters do not exist.
No such person against public records like change of address
or
Not real address that is habitable

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 06:59 AM (ENQN6)

114 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 28, 2024 06:59 AM (dg+HA)

115 jewells, hugs, darlin.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2024 07:00 AM (kCvJX)

116 Morning peeps

Did not cover the wife's Peony last night. It's 28. Hope it lives.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2024 07:00 AM (Q4IgG)

117 Not real address that is habitable
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 06:59 AM (ENQN6

Fictocracy.

Rule by fictitious people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 28, 2024 07:01 AM (GkFGh)

118 Morning Ben Had. {{big hug}}

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at March 28, 2024 07:01 AM (iF0sF)

119 Parts pairing and electric toothbrushes...

Why am I thinking of WiFi?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 28, 2024 07:01 AM (Q7krm)

120 Warai-otoko

BLM is Fistocracy

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 28, 2024 07:03 AM (Q7krm)

121 110 Whistleblower: Michael Avenatti Revealed Michael Cohen Was Having Affair With Stormy Daniels Since 2006 — Cooked up Hush Money Scheme to Extort Trump Before 2016 Election
Posted by: rhennigantx

Michael Avenatti? He's still cooling his heels in jail, right? He's a liar and a cheat so take anything he says with a grain of salt. Maybe several grains. A 5lb bag?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 28, 2024 07:05 AM (sAmhv)

122 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wonderin

Wet and foggy !

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 07:05 AM (T4tVD)

123 Walking across the street for a donut 🍩
Can I get you anything?

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 07:08 AM (TY6j5)

124 107 There is a tiny amount of sense in the toothbrush thing. You're shoving an electrical device in your word hole. Last thing you need is Freddie Fix-It saying "nah, you don't need an o-ring there it'll be fine" and then BZZZZZT!

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Your girlfriend's vibrator at March 28, 2024 07:08 AM (dg+HA)

125 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 07:09 AM (T4tVD)

126 JT, Good morning!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2024 07:10 AM (kCvJX)

127 Have they caught P.Diddy yet?

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 28, 2024 07:11 AM (9KyZG)

128 123 Walking across the street for a donut 🍩
Can I get you anything?

A McMuffin and a Mcflurry.

Posted by: The new McDonald's menu at March 28, 2024 07:11 AM (dg+HA)

129 Going for a Medicare Wellness check this am...scam.

Posted by: BignJames at March 28, 2024 07:11 AM (AwYPR)

130 Hiya BenHad !

Happy Holy Thursday !

Posted by: JT at March 28, 2024 07:12 AM (T4tVD)

131 Utah Basketball women's team says they were called racist terms

Can I bet a hoax?

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 07:12 AM (TY6j5)

132 Back on my side of street is McDonald's

Decided Cheryl cream cheese donut

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 07:14 AM (TY6j5)

133 131 Utah Basketball women's team says they were called racist terms

Can I bet a hoax?
Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 07:12 AM (TY6j5)

white shirted bike riders?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 07:18 AM (ENQN6)

134 Good morning everyone…

Posted by: tubal at March 28, 2024 07:20 AM (PCK5/)

135 Watched a doc about AI last night...if you didn't see it happen...it might be disinfo.

Posted by: BignJames at March 28, 2024 07:23 AM (AwYPR)

136 Wife told me last night P Diddy killed Biggie Smalls and Tupac and that he is a well known pedo rapist porno creep.
They all are, so why him now? I asked. She had no answer.

Posted by: Jamaica at March 28, 2024 07:25 AM (Ml6De)

137 Cherry cheese!

How are you feeling jewells?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2024 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

138 Was the bridge collapse supposed to distract us from Diddy, or the other way around?

Posted by: logprof at March 28, 2024 07:26 AM (F2c6O)

139 Every business in the area with an advertising marquee is selling eclipse glasses. Most will end up in the warehouse alongside the fidget spinners.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 28, 2024 07:26 AM (0EOe9)

140 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 28, 2024 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

141 When is the eclipse again??

Posted by: tubal at March 28, 2024 07:29 AM (PCK5/)

142 What's P Diddy's absolutely most well-known song?

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 07:29 AM (o3SCB)

143 {{{Ben Had}}}

🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 28, 2024 07:29 AM (u82oZ)

144 When is the eclipse again??

Posted by: tubal at March 28, 2024 07:29 AM (PCK5/)

4/8

Posted by: BignJames at March 28, 2024 07:30 AM (AwYPR)

145 Decided Cheryl cream cheese donut
Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2024 07:14 AM (TY6j5)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2024 07:31 AM (RIvkX)

146 TSA is about controlling citizens, not air travel safety.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 07:31 AM (ENQN6)

147 SF, feeling okay today. Probably start feeling like crap tomorrow and will go on for about a week or a little more. I never know really but as soon as the I end the steroids that's it. But it's been a good past week or so.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at March 28, 2024 07:31 AM (iF0sF)

148 So does Sirius have a Classic Rap station?

Posted by: Not like I would care at March 28, 2024 07:32 AM (dg+HA)

149 @50cent
Now it's not Diddy do it, it's Diddy done ‍♂️they don't come like that unless they got a case.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 07:33 AM (o3SCB)

150 Also: Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow
Posted by: m at March 28, 2024

***
Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 07:34 AM (J2vNu)

151 150 Also: Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow
Posted by: m at March 28, 2024

***
Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 07:34 AM (J2vNu)

Aagghh earworm.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 07:35 AM (o3SCB)

152 On Jason Whitlock's podcast last week he did a good two-day breakdown of Puff Diddy and the filth of rap culture.

He said that peeps in thrall to Illuminati don't have F You money; they are stuck with F Me money.

Posted by: logprof at March 28, 2024 07:37 AM (F2c6O)

153 Have a great day, everyone.

May Nature get you to say Oooh, Ah, not ouch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 28, 2024 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

154 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at March 28, 2024 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

155 Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024

***
Soon to be re-recorded as "Diddy, Don't You Run So Fast"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 07:38 AM (J2vNu)

156
Some maritime 'expert' made an interesting point about the propellers on the ship; they (to simplify) can either be clockwise or counter-clockwise. In reverse rotation it could have swung the bow of the boat left or right based on which type was used.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 28, 2024 07:38 AM (RKVpM)

157 Oh it's Diddy dis, and Diddy dat
Dey tink that I'm a brute
They tossed my crib and took my shit
They had guns they'd like to shoot.

Kipling on Diddy

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 28, 2024 07:42 AM (0EOe9)

158 Also: Don't Come Around Here No More

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 07:43 AM (o3SCB)

159 On XM/Sirius, they are really pushing Willie Nelson's new song called "The Border".

Seems odd as it ain't a lefty tune.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 28, 2024 07:43 AM (9KyZG)

160 Hey Diddy Diddle, The Cow Twerked The Moon, Yo.

Posted by: Pseudo Diddy at March 28, 2024 07:45 AM (SYTee)

161 Now do The Gods Of The Rap Music Lyrics.

Posted by: Heh at March 28, 2024 07:46 AM (dg+HA)

162 President of the Queer Princeton Alumni society arrested for child porn. Imagonna judge his culture. Sick.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

163 P.Diddy's best was when Mase was with him.

When Mase left, P.Diddy had to go into producing and rape as he is a no talent hack.

But mostly rape.

Mase is now a preacher and has found The Lord.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 28, 2024 07:47 AM (9KyZG)

164 162 President of the Queer Princeton Alumni society arrested for child porn. Imagonna judge his culture. Sick.
Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

I saw Queer Princeton Alumni society open for Culture Club at the Royal Albert in 1985.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 07:48 AM (ENQN6)

165 You said rape twice.

Posted by: Blazing Saddles at March 28, 2024 07:49 AM (dg+HA)

166
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 28, 2024 07:50 AM (ENQN6)

167 The guy says:
'The things I've done in my life and career all stem from the things I was exposed to at Princeton.'

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2024 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

168 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 28, 2024 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

169 151 150 Also: Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow
Posted by: m at March 28, 2024

***
Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 28, 2024 07:34 AM (J2vNu)

Aagghh earworm.
Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 07:35 AM (o3SCB)

Man, that one is really sticking.

Posted by: m at March 28, 2024 08:17 AM (o3SCB)

170 Claude.ai is scary smart. It has crossed the uncanny valley and is busy building a suspension bridge. Smarter than most of Congress, not that that is saying much...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at March 28, 2024 08:44 AM (InqhU)

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