Daily Tech News 26 June 2024

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Fearless Fund's founder has resigned, and it's a sad reflection on the VC world for Black women. (Tech Crunch)

Is it, though?
Still, it is being sued by a politically conservative group called the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER) over its charitable grants program. AAER is challenging the fund's right to provide $20,000 in small business grants to Black women, claiming the program violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which bans the use of race in contracts.
Oh.
The case is not going particularly well for Fearless Fund. As TechCrunch recently reported, earlier this month an appeals court ruled against Fearless. It upheld a preliminary injunction that prevents the firm from making grants to Black women business owners. The firm told TechCrunch at that time it is weighing its options on how to proceed.
Shockingly, it turns out that racism is not only bad, but sometimes illegal. And while larger funds don't care about quaint notions like right and wrong, they do care about lawsuits potentially involving massive damages:
Still, as we previously pointed out, the sad fact is that big names in the tech ecosystem have not exactly come out swinging in support. CEO Simone told Inc. earlier this year that the fund had lost nearly all its partnerships aside from two, JPMorgan and Costco. Even Mastercard, who sponsored the now-contested Strivers Grant, has publicly never commented on the lawsuit.
You hate to see it. Wait, not hate. The other one.

Tech News

Crucial's 4TB T700 SSD is now $362 at Amazon. (Tom's Hardware)

There are cheaper SSDs, but this one is PCIe 5.0 and can transfer data at 12GB per second.

And two years ago - maybe two and a half - that was a good price on a basic 4TB PCIe 3.0 drive. I know because I bought a couple of them at that time.
Microsoft is adding custom smart widgets to the Start menu. Again. (Tom's Hardware)

Currently only in the preview channel, but you know what to do.

(Windows 10 and/or Linux Mint.)
Microsoft is now enabling OneDrive backups by default. (Tom's Hardware)

I was irked recently to find that OneDrive was scooping up client work files that are under NDA. On the other hand, the same overzealous OneDrive settings saved me from having to go back to my old laptop several times to recover little bits of data that hadn't migrated across.

This is actually helpful, just... Ask, next time. Okay?
Five Wordpress plugins - not official plugins but still hosted on Wordpress.org - were hacked and had backdoors inserted into the source code. (Bleeping Computer)

The Wordpress model means that security is not even an option; any plugin can do anything. The core Wordpress code has been relatively stable and free of exploits for a while now, but since very Wordpress blog uses plugins, that's not much of a reassurance.
Researchers have eliminated matrix multiplication from LLM kernels, making them up to ten times more efficient. (Ars Technica)

Sort of. They've translated floating point matrix operations into trinary equivalents, which are much simpler.

The problem is that while the new code is more efficient in principle, existing hardware is designed to be efficient on the existing code, so the difference is meh.
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman - formerly the co-founder of AI startup DeepMind which was bought by Google ten years ago - loves Sam Altman, one of the (many) co-founders of OpenAI in 2015. (Tech Crunch)
"I'm very good friends with Sam, have huge respect and, trust and faith in what they've done. And that's how it's going to roll for many, many years to come," Suleyman said. "That is, until I can sneak up behind him and then schklrrrrk."
Suleyman also dreams of regulatory capture and buddying up with every dystopian nightmare state on the planet.

As for fears about AI, pshaw, says Suleyman.
When asked his opinion on kids using AI for schoolwork, Suleyman, who said he doesn't have kids, shrugged it off. "I think we have to be slightly careful about fearing the downside of every tool, you know, just as when calculators came in, there was a kind of this gut reaction, oh, no, everyone's gonna be able to sort of solve all the equations instantly. And it's gonna make us dumber because we weren't able to do mental arithmetic."
93% of Baltimore students are failing math. (USA Today)

Inconceivable.

Disclaimer: You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia. But only slightly less well-known is never get between a tech weasel and a stack of cash.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

2 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 04:05 AM (omVj0)

3 Twelfth?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 26, 2024 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 26, 2024 04:06 AM (sAmhv)

5 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ reporting stations! I slept about enough last night, and feel like celebrating it by NOT going to work out. I haven't looked to see what the heat index is right now. I like my hair the dark color it is, thank you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 04:07 AM (omVj0)

6 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 26, 2024 04:09 AM (hoCmQ)

7 >>>You hate to see it. Wait, not hate. The other one.

; )

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 04:12 AM (NHMTR)

8 I "disabled" (yeah, right) OneDrive on my computer.

CCleaner still asks, sometimes, if I want it to close OneDrive before it will do its cleanup.

Hmmm...

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 04:23 AM (njWTi)

9 Sipping my coffee and looking at Stefanie Powers on an early Barnaby Jones from '73. The episode also has Wayne Rogers, "Trapper" from the TV M*A*S*H, and Daniel J. Travanti some years before he broke out in Hill Street Blues.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 04:24 AM (omVj0)

10 Wow, that VC article was whiny. At least they got statements from the anti-DEI plantiffs. The funniest part was the worries over the lawsuits moving to class-action, which could mean "any white male" could claim discrimination. And that's much worse than claiming any black woman is discriminated against without any specific instances or by claiming it's happened to that group "historically," I guess.

Posted by: pookysgirl, kept up by Lil Pooky at June 26, 2024 04:29 AM (dtlDP)

11 A few weeks before Dad passed, we were talking about 'old times' and he was telling me about this train set he had as a child. He was getting all nostalgic about his hometown, parents & siblings (who were all gone) and then just... started weeping...

"I want to go back"

I get it, now.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 04:30 AM (njWTi)

12 I find it *hilarious!* that the cry-bullies are beginning to lose their superpowers.

BWAHAHAHA!

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 04:34 AM (njWTi)

13 "I want to go back"

I get it, now.
Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024

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I wish I'd asked my mother more about everyday life in the '20s to the '50s. She told us stories about life in Canada and in Florida when she was very young, all about her cats, for example. But day-to-day life in the city here when she was in nursing school, the kind of movies she went to see and the theaters, how people dressed and acted . . . that would have been great to ask her about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 04:35 AM (omVj0)

14 93% of Baltimore students are failing math. (USA Today)

by Jeb Bush Opinion contributor

Please clap.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 26, 2024 04:35 AM (hoCmQ)

15 Morning all!

I read the Fearless Fund article, and still couldn't find out what the Viet Cong has to do with any of it.

No, really, what is VC?

Posted by: Bruce at June 26, 2024 04:44 AM (IPn+f)

16 I think that Suleyman must be defective in some way. He falls very short of being Magnificent.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at June 26, 2024 04:45 AM (gHSfI)

17 I wish I could retain information but that was always a week point for me. My late grandfather worked in two steel mills during WWII. He had the mind of an engineer and pretty much worked as one in those mills. He would show pictures of that time period and start talking about how, what, why, and various calculations. He was a very smart guy but very humble. He never bragged about being the smartest man in the room even if he was. I miss the guy. Wish I could remember what he told me about that time. Never fired a shot in WWII but he worked his ass off for the country.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 26, 2024 04:46 AM (sAmhv)

18 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 04:35 AM

Dad spoke frequently about his early life, growing up in the 40s, coming of age in the 50s... things he & friends 'got away with' and things they *didn't* LOL.

I'd like to go back and see the times he saw. Just as an observer, mind you, I wouldn't necessarily want to LIVE it.

If I had a time machine, I'd go back to the late 60s/early 70s and then break the damned thing. Living in the New Age of Panopticon irritates me.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 04:46 AM (njWTi)

19 Never fired a shot in WWII but he worked his ass off for the country.
Posted by: Puddleglum

My grandfather, as well. Worked for TVA. Found out later he was part of the Manhattan Project. Back in the day, people didn't "leak" knowledge.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 04:49 AM (njWTi)

20 No, really, what is VC?

Posted by: Bruce at June 26, 2024 04:44 AM (IPn+f)

Venture Capital.

They are private equity firms.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 26, 2024 04:52 AM (d9fT1)

21 If I had a time machine, I'd go back to the late 60s/early 70s and then break the damned thing. Living in the New Age of Panopticon irritates me.
Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024

***
I'm thinking I'd like to go to the early '50s, but in a climate where you didn't need air conditioning. Maybe Seattle or Denver or Santa Fe. Those places must have been amazing before the late Sixties Insanity began to take hold in America. Cars were not as reliable as today, but fixing them did not cost a body part; gas was very cheap; high trust in society; not as many people swarming; pay phones everywhere . . .

Before I ever saw an episode of Mad Men, I wrote several private eye stories set in the early Sixties, '61 and '62. I need to reread those and maybe think about doing another one, or a longer story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 04:52 AM (omVj0)

22 Venture Capital.

They are private equity firms.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Thank you

Posted by: Bruce at June 26, 2024 04:53 AM (IPn+f)

23 Never fired a shot in WWII but he worked his ass off for the country.
Posted by: Puddleglum
*
My grandfather, as well. Worked for TVA. Found out later he was part of the Manhattan Project. Back in the day, people didn't "leak" knowledge.
Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024

***
My father, I found recently, worked for a fertilizer company here, and had even before the war. That was an essential war-related industry and would have kept him out of the draft, I guess? He was in his early thirties when the war started, too, and the initial call would have been for boys twenty-eight and younger, or something like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 04:56 AM (omVj0)

24 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 26, 2024 04:56 AM (tQtDb)

25 Grandfather was Army Corps of Engineers, not regular Army, so wasn't drafted. Mentioned once that he had worked "in a huge room, full of giant electro-magnets"

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:03 AM (njWTi)

26 Other grandfather ran a sawmill up North. Kept local guys working during The Depression. Life wasn't so bad for the farm boys that logged between harvests.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:06 AM (njWTi)

27 Would love to read your stories, Wolfus! Did you publish them?

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:13 AM (njWTi)

28 Both of my grandfathers worked during the WWII, each had families, both of my parents were born before the war and many aunts and uncles were as well.

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2024 05:15 AM (fwDg9)

29 Last hot day I think. Hope get a T-storm and no wind damage, I need the rain
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2024 05:19 AM (fwDg9)

30 My grandfather and father were the finest practical engineers I ever encountered him my life. There was nothing they didn't seem to know, know it well, and know it in depth. My father used to make parts for Boeing in his shop. The jigs necessary to hold the parts so they could be machined to many thousands of an inch of finish tolerance sometimes would take him a week or so to engineer, prototype, and then make. All of this was done with pen and paper, a deep knowledge of materials and how the cutting tools would affect them, and before the age of computers. Everything he built was done manually. Later in his career when things became computerized, he moved into making one off prototype parts for aerospace and big time racing. People like him were once very common. Today I think they're far more rare. We are worse off because of this.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 05:20 AM (ZVzln)

31 My 2 grandfathers were a whole generation apart... don't know how the older one avoided ww1. Perhaps he wasn't yet a citizen? Had only a primary-school education but built his sawmill & was successful.

Younger grandfather was electrical engineer, went into C of E after college.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:21 AM (njWTi)

32 I wish I'd asked my mother more about everyday life in the '20s to the '50s. She told us stories about life in Canada and in Florida when she was very young, all about her cats, for example. But day-to-day life in the city here when she was in nursing school, the kind of movies she went to see and the theaters, how people dressed and acted . . . that would have been great to ask her about.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

That's a wish I share with you. Wish I had asked her what life was like during the Depression and during WWII. I know my dad enlisted in the Navy as soon as he turned 18 and was in jet pilot training when the war ended. Navy discharged the whole class. Wish I had asked him about that experience.

Posted by: Tuna at June 26, 2024 05:31 AM (oaGWv)

33 Yesterday it was 106° in Las Cruces. The people who work in the trades never skipped a beat including those that build roads. When the power went off at 4:00 p.m. and came back on at 7:00 p.m. I was once again reminded of how soft of life I lead now.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 05:31 AM (ZVzln)

34 Would love to read your stories, Wolfus! Did you publish them?
Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024

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JQ, two of them appeared in online magazines. Let me see if I can find them, if they're still up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 05:36 AM (omVj0)

35 People like him were once very common. Today I think they're far more rare. We are worse off because of this.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Yes they were. My dad was a successful businessman but as far as practical knowledge is concerned he could do anything. I mean everything. Don't remember ever having a repairman of any kind in the house when I was young. Dad did all the repairing. Taught by his dad I'm sure. He was a mechanical engineer.

Posted by: Tuna at June 26, 2024 05:38 AM (oaGWv)

36 Last hot day I think. Hope get a T-storm and no wind damage, I need the rain
Forward Dog 9 out
Posted by: Skip at June 26, 2024

***
The terms "last hot day," "in June" -- I do not understand these words in that order.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 05:38 AM (omVj0)

37 Hubby & I are both 29x2+++

Young road crew, who are accustomed to the heat... well, good for them!

We, on the other hand, are not in such wonderful shape. Box fans FTW! God help us if the power goes out. We lived our lives as best we could and were very active while we were able.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:39 AM (njWTi)

38 Likely neither of us will make it to 29x3

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:43 AM (njWTi)

39 Hoping it cools back into the mid-80s soon. It's tolerable, ya know...

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:45 AM (njWTi)

40 JQ, the first of my early Sixties PI stories, "Piece by Piece," is still listed on the Thrilling Detective website (2007, yet!), but the link is broken. I'll need to email the site owner. He recently migrated the site and hasn't imported everything yet, he says.

I'll need to search for the other one, too. Maybe I can have some links for you tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)

41 Microsoft turning on OneDrive by default.

The near standard tech practice of on by default and not telling you makes me grind my teeth. My reaction is actually stronger than that but I'm on a profanity diet which I've already have blown through a couple weeks ago for this month.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 05:46 AM (ZVzln)

42 Awesome, Wolfus! Thanks! I'm SO looking forward to reading your stories!

ONT is where you'll find me...

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:47 AM (njWTi)

43 I forgot to say good morning to all the early birds. The doggie is getting used to me getting up early. Just looks for his treat and then burrows down in bed again with a sigh that seems to say "Mom is crazy but I'm not".

They changed the forecast here overnight. Looks like we might get a thunderstorm or two today. We could use the rain.

Posted by: Tuna at June 26, 2024 05:50 AM (oaGWv)

44 Mornin' Tuna!

Skritches for doggy... Coffee (?) for you!

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:52 AM (njWTi)

45 Awesome, Wolfus! Thanks! I'm SO looking forward to reading your stories!

ONT is where you'll find me...
Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024

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I think you'll like 'em. They are not "fan fiction" (though I have done several good ones for The Man From U.N.C.L.E.); they read (I flatter myself) like real magazine stories and are without typos or grammar howlers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)

46 Finally down to 70 here. Maybe can sleep?

*sigh*

Did I mention that I hate summer?

Yes, I hate summer.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:54 AM (njWTi)

47 Good morning one and all.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 26, 2024 05:54 AM (8ZuHs)

48 I'm on a profanity diet which I've already have blown through a couple weeks ago for this month.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

"Profanity diet" LOL. That would be hard for me to stick to with the news being what it is these days.

Posted by: Tuna at June 26, 2024 05:54 AM (oaGWv)

49 I think you'll like 'em. They are not "fan fiction" (though I have done several good ones for The Man From U.N.C.L.E.); they read (I flatter myself) like real magazine stories and are without typos or grammar howlers.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I'm sure I will enjoy! New reads is good reads!

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:55 AM (njWTi)

50 Mornin' Ben Had.

Thanks for JT news. Glad to know he's still with us.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 05:57 AM (njWTi)

51 Regarding Fearless Fund: I would have a bit more sympathy if a straight white male VC firm was allowed to exist. Until that happens, they get the bad part of equality as well as the good.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2024 05:58 AM (NR6c1)

52 41 ... I'm on a profanity diet which I've already have blown through a couple weeks ago for this month.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 05:46 AM (ZVzln)

Me, too. The cussing just gets so easy, so sloppy, it loses its punch.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 05:59 AM (NHMTR)

53 JQ, as am I.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 26, 2024 06:00 AM (8ZuHs)

54 Yes they were. My dad was a successful businessman but as far as practical knowledge is concerned he could do anything. I mean everything. Don't remember ever having a repairman of any kind in the house when I was young. Dad did all the repairing. Taught by his dad I'm sure. He was a mechanical engineer. Posted by: Tuna

We once were a nation full with people who had engineering mindsets and engineering skills. In my experience, these people had itchy energy and tended to do all kinds of brilliant stuff. Today this mindset is much different, partly because of the complexity of everything and partly because people are not educated like they once were. The ramifications here have shifted us from being a people with a highly independent mindset to being a people that has traded away this for an ever increasing dependent mindset; that one's life's problems are somebody else's problem to solve. This has created the fertile ground we are seeing tended to by the modern Democrat party today.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 06:00 AM (ZVzln)

55 Happy Wednesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:01 AM (ENQN6)

56 In English, the name is derived from Old English Wōdnesdæg and Middle English Wednesdei, 'day of Woden', reflecting the religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:02 AM (ENQN6)

57 All this reminiscing brings back memories of "working" with my dad at his workbench. He'd give me an old scrap of wood and nails and I'd put it in the vice-I loved that old vice-and bang away with a small hammer while he worked on whatever project he was involved in.

Posted by: Tuna at June 26, 2024 06:03 AM (oaGWv)

58 The high holy part of my week is Tuesday and Wednesday. The first is trash day eve and the second is trash day. I am grateful for them because I'm retired and It's the only way I keep track of what day of the week it is.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 06:03 AM (ZVzln)

59 reflecting the religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:02 AM (ENQN6)

Woden?

That guy would hump anything. Made Zeus look like an incel.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:04 AM (T481d)

60 15 I read the Fearless Fund article, and still couldn't find out what the Viet Cong has to do with any of it.

No, really, what is VC?
Posted by: Bruce at June 26, 2024 04:44 AM (IPn+f)

Bruce, were you having us on, there? I think you were.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:04 AM (NHMTR)

61 Aargghh... up so late again.

I really ought to regulate my time, get on a tighter schedule.

Pfft! But what fun is that???

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:05 AM (njWTi)

62 HSIOW

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:06 AM (T481d)

63 Holy sh!t it's only Wednesday...

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:08 AM (njWTi)

64 Woden?

That guy would hump anything. Made Zeus look like an incel.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:04 AM (T481d)

Woden is Odin I guess

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:08 AM (ENQN6)

65 hump DAAYYYYY!

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:09 AM (njWTi)

66 I have semi tech question. How do I get rid of the garbage that got attached to my name field ? I have tried erasing it and turning the phone off
It keeps coming back

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 26, 2024 06:09 AM (8ZuHs)

67 Have a fantastic day, all!

G'night

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:10 AM (njWTi)

68 62 HSIOW
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:06 AM (T481d)

Happy
S--
I--
O--
Wednesday

?

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:10 AM (NHMTR)

69 Shake It Off?

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:11 AM (NHMTR)

70 Ben Had--

erase all the crap you don't want, and then immediately post something. Should "reset" your name field.

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:11 AM (njWTi)

71 Good morning morons

Local TV news is all about Oakland mayor and the McDonald's at Stonestown Mall is closed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:11 AM (RIvkX)

72 mornin yall. Yellen says everything is fine and inflation should be back to normal next year. And then there is this:

"A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump."

F'n Experts.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:12 AM (vFG9F)

73 Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:10 AM

Told ya @63

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:12 AM (njWTi)

74 73 Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:10 AM

Told ya @63
Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:12 AM (njWTi)

Thanks, JQ!

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:13 AM (NHMTR)

75 "93% of Baltimore students are failing math."

Remember that opinion piece from Scientific American that mentioned how homeschoolers were potentially not getting as wonderful an education that public schools offered? I'm sure they will mention this in a separate article. Really.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2024 06:13 AM (NR6c1)

76 What would we do without "experts"?

Sip pina coladas by a beach near Alpha Centauri probably.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 26, 2024 06:13 AM (BLOW1)

77 I should get up at dawn today and go out for a nice long walk along the Rio Grande River while it's still cool out. Instead I think I'm going to jump on my new Trail 125 motorcycle, which I have named Piglet, and go for a ride along the Rio Grande River out in
the pecan tree orchards and lush farm fields where it is green and cool. Early morning in a high desert (Las Cruces is at 4,000 ft) Is when the natural world is at its fullest expression. A few hours later everything hunkers down to wait out the day's intense heat.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 06:13 AM (ZVzln)

78 JQ , thank you.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 26, 2024 06:14 AM (8ZuHs)

79 "A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump."

F'n Experts.
Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:12 AM (vFG9F)

They're probably right. Inflation will be worse under the next administration than it is right now, who ever it is, no matter what they do. It's baked in now. The roller coaster has crested.

What these bought and paid for hacks intentionally left unsaid is that a Trump administration is probably the best case scenario... because it could always get worse yet.

Inflation > Hyperinflation

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:15 AM (kJyOb)

80 Test

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:16 AM (8ZuHs)

81 Uh-oh, Ben Had...

Put something in the text block, then go to name field & erase extraneous bs. Hit post. Good luck!

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:17 AM (njWTi)

82 Yay!!! Yay for Ben Had!!!

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:17 AM (njWTi)

83 JQ, it seems to have worked.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:18 AM (8ZuHs)

84 72 mornin yall. Yellen says everything is fine and inflation should be back to normal next year. And then there is this:

"A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump."

F'n Experts.

Posted by: fd

They might be right. Like Climate Experts. Just keep saying the same thing over and over, odds are they are bound to happen, at some point.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 26, 2024 06:18 AM (sAmhv)

85 Yay, Ben Had! (cross-posted at 80-81, oops)

Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 06:19 AM (njWTi)

86 "They might be right. Like Climate Experts. Just keep saying the same thing over and over, odds are they are bound to happen, at some point.
Posted by: Puddleglum, "

The Experts usually say "could be", but in this case they say "would be". Now why would they do that?

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:20 AM (vFG9F)

87 Ben Had b"h for you seeking out and checking in on JT

hiya JT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

88 I've been toying with what to call the more weather oriented of the death cult sacerdotal class...

Climaturgists? Climatomancers? Something in that general millieu.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:21 AM (kJyOb)

89 Now why would they do that?

Post #79 covered that. Inflation will get worse because that is the desired outcome of our Political Masters. It is indeed, baked in now. Its criminal what they have done.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 26, 2024 06:22 AM (sAmhv)

90 88: I've been calling them Pagan Druids.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 26, 2024 06:23 AM (sAmhv)

91 Good morning!

Ugh, that Suleyman link: "These technologies are becoming so powerful, they will be so intimate, they’ll be so ever-present, that this is a moment where it’s fine to take stock.”
Think he or any of these people considered that some of us don't want AI invading every facet of our lives?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 06:23 AM (cCVOS)

92 According to the DM, Secondhand EVs now cost less than used gas cars. Experts say this could be because secondhand gas cars cost more than used EVs.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:23 AM (vFG9F)

93 The Experts usually say "could be", but in this case they say "would be". Now why would they do that?
Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:20 AM (vFG9F)

"Could be" means it's actually possible.

"Would be" implies some condition that otherwise needs to be fulfilled, as in "would be, if we weren't completely full of shit".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:23 AM (kJyOb)

94 Bye, Jamaal. You really showed 'em, tough guy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

95 SanFranpsycho, there are several people on a thank you list that deserve credit.
May I ask what the Hebrew word for gift is?

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:25 AM (8ZuHs)

96 "Post #79 covered that. Inflation will get worse because that is the desired outcome of our Political Masters. It is indeed, baked in now. Its criminal what they have done.
Posted by: Puddleglum"

But Janet Yellen, who I maintain sounds like Lionel Barrymore, said just yesterday that inflation should be back to normal next year.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:26 AM (vFG9F)

97
93% of Baltimore students are failing math.

Republican meanies have starved Baltimore schools of funding. If they had adequate money, every student would be a National Merit Scholar on the way to an Ivy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2024 06:26 AM (MoZTd)

98 But Janet Yellen, who I maintain sounds like Lionel Barrymore, said just yesterday that inflation should be back to normal next year.
Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:26 AM (vFG9F)

I've been assured that it's perfectly normal right now and we've never had it so good

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 26, 2024 06:27 AM (kJyOb)

99 I have come to the conclusion that the best times were the eight years of the Eisenhower administration. I was born in '55. After 1960, it's been downhill ever since.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 26, 2024 06:27 AM (VuZH8)

100 93% of Baltimore students are failing math. (USA Today)

Baltimore is the most populated city in the state of Maryland; 30th largest city in the U.S. Does this happen in other civilized countries? Europe? Inconceivable in Japan?

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 26, 2024 06:27 AM (09q/K)

101 G'morning Horde.

I'd better grab a second coffee before I try to write out much more here... Neurons aren't marching in file yet.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 26, 2024 06:28 AM (O7YUW)

102 I would like to hear Janet Yellen say "I'll get you, Underdog!" just one time.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

103 SanFranpsycho, there are several people on a thank you list that deserve credit.
May I ask what the Hebrew word for gift is?
Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:25 AM (8ZuHs)
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Some would say gelt might be appropriate although the literal translation is "money."

Maybe in this case matan is better it connotes formality and gratitude.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:29 AM (RIvkX)

104 85% of Baltimore students can transact a drug deal.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:29 AM (8ZuHs)

105 "93% of Baltimore students are failing math."

The other 93% are doing just fine.

Posted by: A math studant at June 26, 2024 06:30 AM (vFG9F)

106 Janet Yenta is transitory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:30 AM (RIvkX)

107 A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump.

The former president would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the US economy, the Nobel laureates said in a letter first obtained by Axios.

Thats 35 less experts than chimed in on Hunters Laptop.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:30 AM (ENQN6)

108 Tim Pool and Steven Crowder are on TV together bitching that CNN will not allow them to livestream the debate feed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:32 AM (RIvkX)

109 >>"A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump."

Nobel prize winners like that NYT columnist guy who worked for Enron, who told everyone to cash out stocks after Trump was sworn in 2016?

These are the guys whose expectations are constantly defied - "inflation unexpectedly rose. . ."

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 06:33 AM (cCVOS)

110 SanFranpsycho, I am looking for a name for a colt that is truly a gift from G-D. When we lost his sire the breeding program looked to come to an end and then this gift was born.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:33 AM (8ZuHs)

111 Good name for a colt? Trigger?

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

112 My parents are 90 and have started telling stories about when they were young - it is interesting, and I need to be writing this stuff down!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 06:36 AM (cCVOS)

113 Baltimore is the most populated city in the state of Maryland; 30th largest city in the U.S. Does this happen in other civilized countries? Europe? Inconceivable in Japan?
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 26, 2024 06:27 AM (09q/K)

Government schools have failed. Burn it down. Give vouchers and let a new system start.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:36 AM (ENQN6)

114 G'morning, all.

Yeh, that article about Baltimore students and math track perfectly with my years as a military Recruiter in Baltimore.

As well as the 14 years that we lived there later in life.

One thing that is really alarming is the the number of graduates who are not academically strong enough to enlist in the military, yet their High School Guidance Counselor has led them to believe that they re qualified to successfully enter and complete a college degree program.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2024 06:36 AM (a1415)

115 A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump.

The former president would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the US economy, the Nobel laureates said in a letter first obtained by Axios.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:30 AM (ENQN6)
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Did inflation skyrocket during Trump's first term? No? Why not? What evidence do you have that Trump will make inflation worse in his second term?

Tell me that, Nobel Prize winning "experts," and maybe--just *maybe*--I might at least listen to you for a minute or two.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 26, 2024 06:38 AM (BpYfr)

116 Matan is good, Doron is similar and commonly used as a proper name.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:38 AM (RIvkX)

117 Prayers up for JT.

And a huge thank you to Ben Had, and others.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2024 06:38 AM (a1415)

118 Lizzy, I bought my mom a book called My Story that she could write those stories down

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:38 AM (8ZuHs)

119 May I take a moment to express my dislike of testors model glue? The stuff sticks to everything except what you want it to.

Posted by: Outside. In my garage. at June 26, 2024 06:39 AM (89Sog)

120 75 "93% of Baltimore students are failing math."

Remember that opinion piece from Scientific American that mentioned how homeschoolers were potentially not getting as wonderful an education that public schools offered? I'm sure they will mention this in a separate article. Really.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2024 06:13 AM (NR6c1)

Internet podcaster Mstt Walsh (and wife) have six kids, all home schooled.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 26, 2024 06:39 AM (pbLNJ)

121 A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump.

The former president would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the US economy, the Nobel laureates said in a letter first obtained by Axios.

Thats 35 less experts than chimed in on Hunters Laptop.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:30 AM (ENQN6)
====

Like no one ever heard of cutting fiscal spending and reversing monetary expansion.

Like no one ever took Econ 101.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:40 AM (RIvkX)

122 Homeschooled children are the future.

Posted by: Eromero at June 26, 2024 06:41 AM (o2ZRX)

123 Maryland is marching toward a financial cliff, all while thinking that tossing more money at education will fix the issues.

https://tinyurl.com/3cb6jmj2

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2024 06:41 AM (a1415)

124 >>"93% of Baltimore students are failing math."
The other 93% are doing just fine.

Heh.

What's amazing is that Lefties can loooove "The Wire," which did a season depicting all of the dysfunction of Baltimore schools, then turn around and insist all kids require public schooling (except theirs). Cognitive dissonance is their drug, I guess...

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 06:41 AM (cCVOS)

125 SanFranpsycho. I like Matan. Thank you .

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:41 AM (8ZuHs)

126 105 "93% of Baltimore students are failing math."

The other 93% are doing just fine.
Posted by: A math studant at June 26, 2024 06:30 AM (vFG9F)

; )

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:43 AM (NHMTR)

127 "Maryland is marching toward a financial cliff, all while thinking that tossing more money at education will fix the issues."

hellinois is already there and you should read what the chicongo teachers collective wants.

Posted by: Outside. In my garage. at June 26, 2024 06:43 AM (89Sog)

128 >>Lizzy, I bought my mom a book called My Story that she could write those stories down

Ooh, thanks, Ben Had - good idea!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 06:44 AM (cCVOS)

129
Know what will improve Baltimore's math education problem? Drag queen story hours.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2024 06:44 AM (MoZTd)

130 A few weeks before Dad passed, we were talking about 'old times' and he was telling me about this train set he had as a child. He was getting all nostalgic about his hometown, parents & siblings (who were all gone) and then just... started weeping...

"I want to go back"

I get it, now.
Posted by: JQ at June 26, 2024 04:30 AM (njWTi)

"Last Stop Willoughby."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 26, 2024 06:44 AM (Q0kLU)

131 Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey sent state officials this week to the U.S.-Mexico border with a message for migrant families:

"Our shelters are full."

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:44 AM (ENQN6)

132 My pleasure. There was a real little sh*t in my hebrew school class named Doron, so I like Matan better too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:45 AM (RIvkX)

133 Government schools have failed. Burn it down. Give vouchers and let a new system start.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:36 AM (ENQN6)

Yes, we should. Absolutely. But Teacher's Unions have a death grip on the Democrst party, which itself needs to be tossed on to history's ash heap. Leftists destroy everything they touch.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 26, 2024 06:45 AM (EuwGa)

134 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 26, 2024 06:45 AM (dg+HA)

135 "Focusing on what we have. A
devotional based on a passage from the Book of Numbers. Devotional is from The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/yxz9kzw2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2024 06:46 AM (YoTD4)

136 Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey sent state officials this week to the U.S.-Mexico border with a message for migrant families:

"Our shelters are full."
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:44 AM (ENQN6)
===

The bureaucrat out front should have told you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:46 AM (RIvkX)

137 110 SanFranpsycho, I am looking for a name for a colt that is truly a gift from G-D. When we lost his sire the breeding program looked to come to an end and then this gift was born.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:33 AM (8ZuHs)

from Greek: Theodore, Theo

Posted by: m at June 26, 2024 06:46 AM (NHMTR)

138 VIA, thanks go to Wyatt, CBD , Weasel and if course the Horde for their care and concern

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:46 AM (8ZuHs)

139 1.5 inches of rain last night.

Birdbath is full.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

140 Out of the 52 NY House primary elections (26 D, 26 R) 46 of the races were uncontested. That there folks is democracy as our modern parties want it in practice.

As for the anomalies, they are not much better. In the 6 contested races the incumbent won 3 and by at least 20%, the 2 open races the winner won by at least 20%, and in the one race where the incumbent lost (Bowman) the difference was 16%.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 06:49 AM (ziD2a)

141 The water (from the well) cut off just as I was getting in the shower. The well guy can't come out for two days. Waiting. Then the water started running again. I hate intermittent problems.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 26, 2024 06:50 AM (EuwGa)

142 >>Tell me that, Nobel Prize winning "experts," and maybe--just *maybe*--I might at least listen to you for a minute or two.

This is from two days ago:
Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schonberger asked Yellen during a Monday interview, "Have you been to the grocery store lately?"

"I sure have — I go every week," the treasury secretary replied.
"It's sticker shock, isn't it?" Schonberger questioned.

"No," Yellen flatly stated.

HOST: "Have you been to the grocery store lately?"

YELLEN: "I sure have — I go every week."

HOST: "It's sticker shock, isn't it?"

YELLEN: "No."

Yeah, she does NOT grocery shop every week.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 06:50 AM (cCVOS)

143 I would like to go back to the 20s, albeit somewhere that I don't need air conditioning. Just enough modern conveniences to make life swell, but no damned TV, pervert month or the worst elements of black 'culture.'

A pity Somewhere in Time was only a movie.

Anyway, back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 26, 2024 06:50 AM (Q0kLU)

144 Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey sent state officials this week to the U.S.-Mexico border with a message for migrant families:

"Our shelters are full."
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 26, 2024 06:44 AM (ENQN6)
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In other words, Texas needs to keep sending illegal immigrants to MA until it's overflowing...Maybe THEN they'll get the idea that unrestricted borders is a bad idea...But probably not.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 26, 2024 06:51 AM (BpYfr)

145 Best thing about Firealarm losing is we won't be paying for him for the rest of his worthless life. Unfortunately we are now on the hook the scrunt

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:52 AM (8ZuHs)

146 Yellen is worth $20 million. Inflation to her is a gnat, annoying because people keep bringing it up.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

147 geeze, I need to go start mowing because I sure can't type.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 06:54 AM (8ZuHs)

148
Weight is down to 185 this morning. Earlier this year I was near 210, so progress.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2024 06:55 AM (MoZTd)

149 "93% of Baltimore students are failing math."

I take this to mean that the Baltimore public schools still have work to do here. 7% got aways? This cannot stand.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 06:56 AM (ziD2a)

150 Yellen is worth $20 million. Inflation to her is a gnat, annoying because people keep bringing it up.
Posted by: fd at June 26, 2024 06:53 AM (vFG9F)
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Yeah, people worth that much don't have a real grasp of the actual cost of goods and services unless it's *really* expensive.

Normal, everyday products that keep increasing in price isn't even on their radar because they can always pay the cost.

Meanwhile, we have to make tough decisions about whether or not we can afford that meat in the grocery store.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 26, 2024 06:57 AM (BpYfr)

151 "... not academically strong enough..."

That is a very charitable way of phrasing it.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 26, 2024 06:57 AM (VuZH8)

152 Weight is down to 185 this morning. Earlier this year I was near 210, so progress.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2024 06:55 AM (MoZTd)
====

Good for you. Doc keeps adjusting my BP Rx and my weight seems to pop every time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 06:58 AM (RIvkX)

153 >>Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey. . ."Our shelters are full."

The increased attention to home prices comes as the housing crunch becomes a growing issue in this year's general election campaign.

“We face a very significant housing supply shortfall that has been building for a long time,” Yellen said in a speech Monday afternoon. “This supply crunch has led to an affordability crunch.”

Yellen said the Democratic administration is “pursuing a broad affordability agenda to address the price pressures that families have been feeling.”

Both homebuyers and renters are facing increasing housing costs that skyrocketed after the pandemic. According to the Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index, home prices increased by 46% between March 2020 and March 2024. A new Treasury analysis shows that over the past two decades, housing costs have been rising faster than incomes.

Think, think, think, what happened after the pandemic to cause a housing shortage?????

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 06:58 AM (cCVOS)

154 I have been keeping track of my expenses this month.

I used to feed a family of five with the money I spend on just myself now.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 26, 2024 06:59 AM (VuZH8)

155 Leftists prattle on about rich people paying their fair share, then inflation is the most regressive tax there is and harms the lowest-income families the most.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2024 07:00 AM (RIvkX)

156 I know my dad enlisted in the Navy as soon as he turned 18 and was in jet pilot training when the war ended. Navy discharged the whole class. Wish I had asked him about that experience.
Posted by: Tuna at June 26, 2024 05:31 AM (oaGWv)

My dad was in the Navy, with his same aged cousin. They turned 18 just before and just after VE Day.
We do have a priceless collection of letters he wrote to his parents while in college and med school. (He was an only child and they saved everything.)

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 26, 2024 07:02 AM (y7DxH)

157 We serve on average 150 families a week at the Christian food pantry I volunteer at… lot of need out there…

Posted by: tubal at June 26, 2024 07:02 AM (PCK5/)

158 >>Normal, everyday products that keep increasing in price isn't even on their radar because they can always pay the cost.

Yup. But also: they have people who do the everyday stuff like food shopping. Yellen just won't admit it and thinks she can bluster past that question. Insulting to all of us.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 26, 2024 07:04 AM (cCVOS)

159 Continued prayers for JJ that his treatment side effects are slight.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2024 07:07 AM (8ZuHs)

160 The left has specifically attacked 1) eggs and egg production and 2) fast food

Why? This is where poor people got a lot of their cheap protein.

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

161 JJ NOOD

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 26, 2024 07:09 AM (ziD2a)

162 Janet Yellen is Secretary of the Treasury, before that she was chair of the Federal Reserve.

There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that she does her own grocery shopping, much less every week, especially when part of her job is flying around the world on a frequent basis.

“Bob, you have to reschedule my return flight from the G7 in Italy next week, I simply have to be back early Sunday morning as I need to do my grocery shopping Sunday afternoon, you know I can’t miss that!”

B.S.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2024 07:10 AM (6ydKt)

163 JJ noodity

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 26, 2024 07:10 AM (dg+HA)

164 The Baltimore teachers union will be the first to say that the issue is money. Pay them more and they will get around to teaching math.

Posted by: chicagovota at June 26, 2024 07:24 AM (hH3ux)

165 "I wish I'd asked my mother more about everyday life in the '20s to the '50s."

One of the smart things I did as a young man (among the many, many stupidities) was tape-record a conversation with my mother before she died. She had cancer, which is awful; but the one positive was that my family knew that the end was coming soon, and we made a point of cherishing her while we still had her. My advice to you 'rons and 'rettes whose parents are still on this earth: cherish them now, while you can. And if possible, make an audio recording of them. In years to come, you and your children and grandchildren will be glad you did.

And before you ask: No, I am NOT going to use my recording to seed an AI bot: That would be an abomination.

Posted by: Nemo at June 26, 2024 07:39 AM (S6ArX)

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Posted by: Matt Harris at June 26, 2024 09:44 AM (x0RtA)

168 My work PC updated to Windows 11 yesterday. What a piece of crap. I hate what they did to the taskbar.
Posted by: Matt Harris at June 26, 2024 09:44 AM (x0RtA)

Tell me about it.... they did the same to me, as an upgrade, wrecked my desktop, all my custom shortcuts, and refuses to allow access to the mapped drives as a "Security threat"

Even said my custom background pic was 'not properly formatted for this action' and use that blue-wavy POS

I swear, everything Redmond touches turns to merde....

Posted by: Pinochet Airlines Attendant at June 26, 2024 11:21 AM (zL/eJ)

169 >>> And it's gonna make us dumber because we weren't able to do mental arithmetic.

>> 93% of Baltimore students are failing math.

Unintentionally sticks the landing.

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