Daily Tech News 6 July 2024

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OpenAI got hacked, but definitely not by Chinese spies. (New York Times) (archive site)

In April. 2023.

And they didn't report it until now. In fact, they didn't report it at all. One of their employees alluded to the event on a podcast, and was fired for his trouble.
Mr. Aschenbrenner said OpenAI had fired him this spring for leaking other information outside the company and argued that his dismissal had been politically motivated. He alluded to the breach on a recent podcast, but details of the incident have not been previously reported. He said OpenAI's security wasn't strong enough to protect against the theft of key secrets if foreign actors were to infiltrate the company.
OpenAI denies this - well, not the hack, nor the firing, nor the fact that Aschenbrenner leaked the information, but the causal connection, in an announcement apparently written by a special release of ChatGPT trained exclusively on modified limited hangouts:
"We appreciate the concerns Leopold raised while at OpenAI, and this did not lead to his separation," an OpenAI spokeswoman, Liz Bourgeois, said.
Liz Bourgeois? Obviously a made up name.
Referring to the company's efforts to build artificial general intelligence, a machine that can do anything the human brain can do, she added, "While we share his commitment to building safe A.G.I., we disagree with many of the claims he has since made about our work. This includes his characterizations of our security, notably this incident, which we addressed and shared with our board before he joined the company."
OpenAI is making no efforts to build AGI, safe or otherwise. OpenAI's focus is building something and then redefining the term AGI to claim they have achieved it.

Tech News

Microsoft has indefinitely delayed the release of its Recall spyware, but forgot to tell its marketing department. (Tom's Hardware)

Ads for the new Copilot+ ARM laptops prominently feature the now nonexistent, uh, feature.
Speaking of the Copilot+ ARM laptops, any good? Yes. (The Verge)

The 12 core Snapdragon X Elite chip is almost exactly tied with Apple's (also 12 core) M2 Max. It's a little behind Apple's newer 8 core M3 chip in single-threaded tasks but well ahead in multi-threaded tasks.

It's not the fastest chip on the planet but as far as laptop processors go it's up there with the best.
After previously rejecting the Epic Games app store on iOS and facing nuclear levels of antitrust action in the EU, Apple has approved the exact same app store. (Tech Crunch)

Epic Games made none of the changes Apple demanded, but the store somehow got approved anyway.
Amazon is also facing EU action on a myriad annoying things it does to squeeze more money out of customers. (Tech Crunch)

The EU calls companies like Apple and Amazon VLOPs - very large online platforms. Of the list of VLOPs the EU is looking to regulate, exactly one is European.
After more than entire decade in the court system the lawsuit by Sony against German cheat device maker Datel is turning against Sony. (TorrentFreak)

The courts originally found in Sony's favour, then on appeal the decision was overturned and the suit dismissed. Sony appealed that decision and it's been bounced up to the highest court in Europe for a ruling on specific legal and technical details, which came back saying that changing the value of a variable is not copyright infringement, you idiots.
Japan has introduced a 40 foot tall humanoid robot designed for maintaining railway lines. (The Guardian)

It can be used for painting infrastructure - since it can maneuver to paint both sides and the inside fiddly bits of metal frameworks - and it can also be fitted with enormous death-dealing chainsaws for "trimming tree branches".

Bagger 288 Video of the Day

It was a simpler, more innocent time.

Disclaimer: And we've got another 287 where that came from.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:00 AM (fwDg9)

2 Oui Inspecteur

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Inspecteur., they even took the security video at July 06, 2024 04:01 AM (qfLjt)

3 That Japanese 40 foot Terminator is how you get Skynet

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:05 AM (fwDg9)

4 Back to problem, to get up or not

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:13 AM (fwDg9)

5 Irritating, getting up from hydraulic pressure, fixing that, then being unable to fall asleep again.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 04:28 AM (hKoQL)

6 Mornin' all...

Yeah, I hear ya about the "hydraulic pressure" and not being able to get back to sleep, IG!

It's not faaaaiiiirr!!!!!

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 04:34 AM (njWTi)

7 And so, it'll be *toss & turn* --until daylight-- and THEN get all sleepy, once it's time to get up!

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 04:36 AM (njWTi)

8 I'm going to go put on the coffee

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:40 AM (fwDg9)

9 G'morning, all!

Is this the Hydraulic Pressure Club?

Can I join y'all?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:40 AM (a1415)

10 PJ Media has a good article on the interview, they don't think it helped him at all

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:41 AM (fwDg9)

11
Liz Bourgeois? Obviously a made up name.

I once had to ship product to a government location, attention: Linda Lovelace. It gave me a throaty chuckle.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 04:42 AM (RKVpM)

12 ; )

Posted by: m at July 06, 2024 04:43 AM (64Zez)

13 Yes, welcome all hydraulic pressure victims--we could start a club. Now, if you'll excuse me for a sec, I'll get the Keurig cranked up.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 06, 2024 04:45 AM (hKoQL)

14 Bourgeois is a real name. It's French. I like "Liz" part. Like she was the product of some Anglo-Franco cooperation.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 04:48 AM (VuZH8)

15 "PJ Media has a good article on the interview, they don't think it helped him at all"

This one?

https://tinyurl.com/h7wpnjw8

Nothing says gravitas like clutching a pen, sitting in a 7/8 size chair in an elementary school library, and grinning ridiculously at inappropriate times.

As one of ABC news post interview talking head lesbian space witches said...

He puts them in a bind. He didn't do badly enough to demand immediate removal, and he didn't do well enough to make people think he should continue in office.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:51 AM (a1415)

16 He mentioned a NATO conference next week, that's going to be a good photo observation

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 04:53 AM (fwDg9)

17 "Yes, welcome all hydraulic pressure victims--we could start a club."

Yeh, it was bad 14 years ago after prostate surgery.

It got worse after last years radiation treatments for the recurrence. Oncologist thinks some scarring on the bladder makes it more sensitive to a 'full' sensation.

Only thing worse than getting up to go pee is going pee, and not getting up first.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:54 AM (a1415)

18 Up with coffee

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 04:55 AM (FjEs9)

19 Depends

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 06, 2024 04:57 AM (VuZH8)

20 "Up with coffee"

Come...sit..

* Slides over and pats Hydraulic Pressure Club (HPC) bench*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 04:57 AM (a1415)

21 "Depends "

That reminds me..

Jill, we need to get another pack!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 06, 2024 04:59 AM (a1415)

22 Bagger 288
FOR PRESIDENT!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (wh7vU)

23 House is finally cooled off. Time to turn off fans & close windows. Another 100+F day coming up!

I hate summer.

Oh, and will pee again before going back to bed, LOL

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (njWTi)

24 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (wh7vU)

25 SoLittle VIA called last night, asking what I knew about powered ethernet switches.

Heaven only knows what he's trying to tinker with now.

But it probably involves online gaming, or flight sims.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:01 AM (a1415)

26 youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:04 AM (njWTi)

27 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 05:07 AM (SuNbA)

28
Formerly Hurricane Beryl is now a tropical storm. Experts on climate change agree this hurricane season will be the deadliest in the history of the planet.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:08 AM (RKVpM)

29 Formerly Hurricane Beryl is now a tropical storm. Experts on climate change agree this hurricane season will be the deadliest in the history of the planet.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Don't they say that every year?

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM (oaGWv)

30 HoTteSt sUmMeR oN ReCorD!!!111!!!1111!

Bleh. Whatevs.

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM (njWTi)

31 "House is finally cooled off. Time to turn off fans & close windows. Another 100+F day coming up!

I hate summer. "

Ouch.

We have been hitting within one or two degrees of record temps for several days now.

75.9 degrees outside right now with a 75.6 degree dew point.

One of the benefits of a relatively newer home is the insulation and vapor barrier requirements that have been implemented in recent years.

Even though it runs a lot during the hottest part of the day, the house holds at 75 degrees, and about 44 percent R.H.

Looking forward to mid-September when the heat and the tourists both begin to abate.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM (a1415)

32 Bagger 288 coming up on my YouTube app

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

33
My wife likes to go outside at night and watch the space station go by. I've warned her before there's stuff out there at night you don't want to run into. She left me a note this morning that there was a huge catlike animal right outside last night.

Not sure what that would be.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:14 AM (RKVpM)

34 LOL, VIA... We are in a valley, in the intermountain West.

The nearest choices are:

Scorching hot summers and mild/moderate snowfall winters

OR

Barely tolerable summers and *heavy* snowfall winters.

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:15 AM (njWTi)

35 One possible unintended consequence of these recent Biden glitches may be the need to chemically maintain him in his highest level of alertness for extended periods of time.

And a flame that burns brighter consumes the candle quicker.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:15 AM (a1415)

36
Don't they say that every year?

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:09 AM

Of course. Every year they get a little more hysterical.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:16 AM (RKVpM)

37 She left me a note this morning that there was a huge catlike animal right outside last night.

It's just your friendly neighborhood WereKittuh! It just wants tummy rubs and to feed on human flesh.

You'll be fine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:16 AM (wh7vU)

38 She left me a note this morning that there was a huge catlike animal right outside last night.

Not sure what that would be.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Let's see. Huge and catlike. Hmmm....

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:17 AM (oaGWv)

39 "Not sure what that would be."

Big Penguin, wearing a cat disguise?

They're sneaky bastidges, you know.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:18 AM (a1415)

40 I'd move to the Coast, if not for all the libtards.

Would rather die of heatstroke. Or of heart attack while shoveling snow.

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:20 AM (njWTi)

41 One possible unintended consequence of these recent Biden glitches may be the need to chemically maintain him in his highest level of alertness for extended periods of time.

And a flame that burns brighter consumes the candle quicker.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I really would like to know what chemical cocktail they give him. I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:21 AM (oaGWv)

42 Annapolis, and Maryland in general still grapples with the slow realization of the fact that there is an illegal immigration problem.

https://tinyurl.com/3fbacmyr

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:23 AM (a1415)

43
I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.

"Gender affirming care" was the end of that oath.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:23 AM (RKVpM)

44 " I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm."

Dat b olde skool.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:24 AM (a1415)

45 I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.

Right. And then you see the freeeeks what get split tongues and facial lumps and gawdknowswhatelse... and you realize that IF those Dr's took any "oath" it was to fill their pockets.

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:25 AM (njWTi)

46 "I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm. "

I don't want to get parted out!

Posted by: 8 month old fetus. at July 06, 2024 05:25 AM (a1415)

47 Gender DENYING care

FIFeveryone

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

48 I could float a iron wedge in my coffee today

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:26 AM (fwDg9)

49 I guess the "do no harm" oath is optional these days.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:26 AM (oaGWv)

50 Was watching a news interview about employment and work trends slamming up against the basic unemployability of some members of the newer generations.

And I am convinced that as the older employees age out, the demand for 'work/life balance' is gonna kill us all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:28 AM (a1415)

51 Good morning morons

Local news says a gas station in Oakland was ransacked last night by a crowd of about 20.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 05:28 AM (RIvkX)

52 "Local news says a gas station in Oakland was ransacked last night by a crowd of about 20."

Do the voters in Oakland support defunding Police?

Restorative justice?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:29 AM (a1415)

53 https://www.americanthinker.com/the diagnosis is in and joes not going to get well

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:32 AM (fwDg9)

54 French is obviously a made up language. I mean who really talks like that?

Posted by: jillyjilly at July 06, 2024 05:32 AM (yA1hZ)

55 And I am convinced that as the older employees age out, the demand for 'work/life balance' is gonna kill us all.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I always 'joke' about retiring 3 years after I'm dead. Considering the recent generations work ethic, that may come true.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 06, 2024 05:34 AM (wh7vU)

56 What I witnessed, of the 'new generation' of employees:

Mostly, they were not educated well enough to succeed on their own merits.

And so, they relied upon victim status --whining to HR about perceived sleights-- to simply remove higher-ups, to clear the way for their own advancement.

Pathetic.

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:34 AM (njWTi)

57 "I always 'joke' about retiring 3 years after I'm dead. "

That's sort of my plan, too.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 06, 2024 05:37 AM (a1415)

58 Before we start a war between the generations, I wan to be clear that I am specifically speaking of those who have delusions of adequacy, and a demand for top dollar without the application of labor or commitment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:39 AM (a1415)

59 Couldn't afford to retire

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:39 AM (fwDg9)

60 Not to be confused with those of my generation who demand and receive substantial and continuous government largess, allowing existence without effort.

Often generationally.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:41 AM (a1415)

61 French is obviously a made up language. I mean who really talks like that?
Posted by: jillyjilly at July 06, 2024 05:32 AM (yA1hZ)
====

If you want to render something important into something silly and useless, say it in French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 05:43 AM (RIvkX)

62 "delusions of adequacy"

Yes, VIA.

I am not simply bitching about Those Damned Kids. I'm referring to a whole batch of idiots who will not follow instructions, cannot think critically, do not accept their actual hiring status/position...

The ones what believe they should be paid 6 figures for their (barely acceptable) entry-level work.

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 05:44 AM (njWTi)

63 State Farm is demanding the state to permit premium increases for homeowners appx. 30% and more for condos and renters, or they will exit California.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 05:46 AM (RIvkX)

64 It is nasty outside

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:47 AM (fwDg9)

65 "or they will exit California."

And like a good neighbor.......

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:48 AM (a1415)

66 I'm curious if we are gonna see any live shots of Biden, vertical and self mobile in the next few days.

Or is it another Rehoboth/Camp David weekend, with him basically invisible to the American people.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:50 AM (a1415)

67 https://youtu.be/K5KAc5CoCuk?si=CkpyMt3Oa5YbmU9n
Indilia sings in French

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:50 AM (fwDg9)

68
I've thought of going 'naked' on my homeowners or raising the deductible to some number like $20,000 or so to save money. The premiums are now pushing $3,000 a year.

Maybe just have fire insurance only. When shit breaks I fix it myself.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:51 AM (RKVpM)

69 65 "or they will exit California."

And like a good neighbor.......
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

State Farm WAS there.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 05:51 AM (oaGWv)

70 "If you want to render something important into something silly and useless, say it in French."

Mimes.

Mimes are all French, right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:51 AM (a1415)

71 Mimes work all in French, or Chinese, it's hard to tell

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 05:53 AM (fwDg9)

72 "Maybe just have fire insurance only."

For those of us with mortgages, don't lenders have specific coverage requirements that have to be maintained?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:53 AM (a1415)

73 Cali wants the insurers out.
Gov't control of a mandatory product=controlled votes

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 05:54 AM (hjK64)

74
For those of us with mortgages, don't lenders have specific coverage requirements that have to be maintained?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:53 AM

Yes, they do. Even the rating of the company has to be at some level.

Fortunately my first (and second) mortgage days are over. If I get a plumbing leak that messes us a wall and insulation I tear out the drywall and insulation, fix the leak, then patch everything up myself. Good as new. Why pay so much every year when I'll probably never file a claim?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 05:57 AM (RKVpM)

75 I guess 'White Flight' has morphed into 'Insurer Flight'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:57 AM (a1415)

76 Good news: The networks are finally going to cover Trump's campaign appearances and the huge crowds that come with them.
Bad news: They're only going to show some slight mispronouncing of a word and say, "See?!?!? He's just as bad."

Posted by: Wally at July 06, 2024 05:58 AM (9Uj9K)

77
I think the insurers are hiding behind the 'climate change' hysteria to raise premiums.

Although California definitely has some issues. Especially in those fire prone areas that they can't seem to figure out a sensible compromise with the greenies.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:01 AM (RKVpM)

78 Went to Assateague National Seashore over the Fourth. Lots of whites and Spanish but no Amish or Mennonites.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:02 AM (hjK64)

79 Yoshida is coming up.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:04 AM (FjEs9)

80 We only have a few years of mortgage left and may pay it off to go naked.

The building is only about 1/4 of the total value of the plot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:05 AM (RIvkX)

81 I did get a chuckle Stuffy telling Sundowner not to go there when he started about the crowd he was gathering

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:06 AM (fwDg9)

82 It is obvious the people around Biden have been feeding his delusions.

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

83 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 05:50 AM (a1415

My guess is that it's a recovery weekend particularly if Biden really did have a medical event on AF1,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:13 AM (64yfp)

84 Into the Judge's chamber!

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:14 AM (MK13O)

85 For better, or for worse, ABC left the comment section turned on at their interview video.

https://tinyurl.com/4jueaydb

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:15 AM (a1415)

86 Now, for the kill.....

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:15 AM (MK13O)

87 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 06, 2024 06:16 AM (86W+h)

88 "My guess is that it's a recovery weekend particularly if Biden really did have a medical event on AF1, "

Sort of my thoughts, as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:16 AM (a1415)

89 *biden is a mean, nasty, vindictive fk. Who would tell him anything negative? He's surrounded by 'yes men' and believes he's the king of all he surveys. Safer for his underlings to let him believe all that. Like Stalin?

Buncha pussies, can't handle the mean old dotard when he's angry? Heh.

I dunno... wonder what he put his poor doggehs through?

F.J.B.

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

90 So last night I caught my first glimpse of the new Night Court show.

Ouch..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:17 AM (a1415)

91 That's a home run!

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:18 AM (MK13O)

92 It is obvious the people around Biden have been feeding his delusions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

My late husband had dementia and the delusions were frightening and only controlled with medication. Before he was medicated he often acted out physically. I wonder how far down the delusion road Biden is.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:19 AM (oaGWv)

93 G'mornin' everyone! LOL!

gonna make a cuppa coffee like Skip's, brb

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 06:19 AM (MKEsG)

94 Happy Saturday

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

95 Rabbi's daughter reflects on a passage from Proverbs and that God is with us:

https://tinyurl.com/344pf62s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:20 AM (64yfp)

96 Sharing this from the ONT.
------------

The Prayer List is more immediately relevant.

Old Mama was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July Fourth. No fireworks here.
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024 12:44 AM (XIkHl)

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 06:21 AM (SuNbA)

97 'Night, all. I ain't making sense, even to myself, LOL

Happy Caturday!

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 06:21 AM (njWTi)

98 Perhaps if they released the Robert Hur audio tapes, that would sooth the nations rattled nerves.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:21 AM (a1415)

99 Bagger 288 is what my kids call me at home

Posted by: The Deep State at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (FdrjG)

100 Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:19 AM (oaGWv)

Sorry about your husband. That is a really hard and heartbreaking thing for families to go through/ having a loved one with dementia.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (64yfp)

101 Prayers for Miklos, and mama

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (a1415)

102 Happy Caturday!
Posted by: JQ

Why do cats get a special day and not dogs?

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:22 AM (oaGWv)

103
"My guess is that it's a recovery weekend particularly if Biden really did have a medical event on AF1, "

There seems to be complete denial anything of the sort happened.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (RKVpM)

104 Comments are telling, I think the handwriting is on the wall
He is done as a candidate next month

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (fwDg9)

105 Oh, no!

Prayers up for Miklos, Old Mama, and family!

Seems doubleplus ungood....

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (njWTi)

106 "Why do cats get a special day and not dogs?"

Did they get rid of the Dog Days of Summer?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (a1415)

107 Why do cats get a special day and not dogs?
-----------

Because doggos are special *every day*

This is known.

Posted by: JQ at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (njWTi)

108 Considering how much Biden exaggerates his prowess in all things Festivus, I'd say he's awful. It would explain why he is isolated from the pro's by his family and long time flunkeys.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (5KunV)

109 Thanks for sharing the news about Miklos' mom, old dog in MO. Will add her to my prayer list.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (64yfp)

110 Hey Demofascists, you start by saying Biden definitely has to go, but you'll accept that he stays and other people will make all the decisions.

You'll get Drumpf. And happy Saturday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:25 AM (9wkhT)

111 Miklos a prayer for complete and immediate recovery

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

112 Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (RKVpM)

It's seems odd that someone said this and then it was denied. Suspicious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM (64yfp)

113 Evening and morning to all the Saturday morning and nighttime folken! I'm up after a decent night's sleep. The window A/C is wokring well. Last night I tried putting it in "sleep" mode, and found when I got up that it saves power, all right. It shifts the temp up to 76 and goes to "auto." That's okay, I guess, since the air is dry, and the fan I bought kept the cooler dry air moving across me all night. To use the "timer" function, I think I have to use the remote that came with it. We'll see.

Anyway! Has F. Joke abdicated in favor of Kamalala yet?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM (omVj0)

114 Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM (xpCR0)

115 Happy Caturday!
Posted by: JQ
*
Why do cats get a special day and not dogs?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024

***
Cats have a better PR firm. This is known.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:28 AM (omVj0)

116 "but you'll accept that he stays and other people will make all the decisions.

You'll get Drumpf. And happy Saturday."

Nothing says 'large and in charge' like saying that your candidate is too weak for the job, but Presidenting by Committee is the way to go.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:28 AM (a1415)

117 Biden schedule today:

In Wilmington. Washing 'vette.

LID

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:28 AM (9wkhT)

118 The Prayer List is more immediately relevant.

Old Mama was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July Fourth. No fireworks here.
Posted by: Miklos at July 06, 2024

***
Miklos, I'm sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:29 AM (omVj0)

119 "The window A/C is wokring well. "

Glad to hear it.

Fitful sleep is as bad as no sleep.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:30 AM (a1415)

120
It's seems odd that someone said this and then it was denied. Suspicious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:27 AM

The knives are out right now and you'll hear all sorts of stuff, some true, some wishful thinking.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:30 AM (RKVpM)

121 Sorry about your husband. That is a really hard and heartbreaking thing for families to go through/ having a loved one with dementia.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks. It's been almost a year since he passed. I try not to blame myself for not recognizing all the little signs years ago. The hospice nurse assured me the end would have been the same but I guess it's just human nature to play the "what if" game with oneself.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:30 AM (oaGWv)

122 "Biden schedule today:

In Wilmington. Washing 'vette.

LID"

It's pretty bad when the American people are desperately searching for Proof-of-life on a daily basis.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:31 AM (a1415)

123
There seems to be complete denial anything of the sort happened.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:23 AM (RKVpM)

Never believe a rumor until you hear the official denials.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:31 AM (1Nxff)

124 Skip that French music video has over a billion views

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

125 Dogs have owners, cats have servants

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:33 AM (fwDg9)

126 I really would like to know what chemical cocktail they give him. I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024

***
These are part of the same class of medicos who were all in on the Sniffle Scare/Clot Shot mandate. Something tells me Hippocrates, William Osler, Drs. Kildare and Casey, and the Mayo brothers would vomit in disgust at hearing about these "doctors."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (omVj0)

127 Lovely setting ( in woods by water) of a song based on Psalm 23:

https://tinyurl.com/yc43fwep

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (64yfp)

128 mornin yall. Heat index got up to 121 yesterday. It was one of those days that you let the heat wash over you like a fine spray from a busted radiator hose.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (vFG9F)

129
So Beryl, once forecast to make landfall in northern Mexico, then Brownsville, then Corpus Christi, is now predicted to come ashore Monday morning near Matagorda Bay. That's just great. Maybe they'll change it again to Freeport.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:34 AM (1Nxff)

130 So the Left is arguing that the role of President is actually a figurehead, being led by a group of advisors, or counselors?

Hmmmm...to the Wiki Page.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzkdkpa

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:35 AM (a1415)

131 mornin yall. Heat index got up to 121 yesterday. It was one of those days that you let the heat wash over you like a fine spray from a busted radiator hose.
Posted by: fd

LOL

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:35 AM (oaGWv)

132 Morning, Ben Had. How goes it down your way?

Heatwave broke yesterday here at lake. After several days of 110-117 heat index it got down to high of 92. We were able to go out on the water finally.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 06:36 AM (SuNbA)

133 Dogs have owners, cats have servants
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024

***
Some cats make it more obvious than others. My late Marie, Oreo, and Wolf were, and Stirling now is, more like roommates and friends who leave you to do the housework and meal prep, but love your company.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:36 AM (omVj0)

134 Ben Had, how did that fire do yesterday?

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

135 Dennis Prager had a Indilia music clip and got hooked.
No idea what she says but it sounds nice

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:37 AM (fwDg9)

136 Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024

Dear Tuna

I think that's very natural to do "what ifs"?after a loved one dies, but you are not omniscient and you
Did the most you could in caring for your husband with an extremely difficult medical condition. Be gentle with yourself. I'm sure your husband would be if he were with you and in a sound mind.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:38 AM (gnetv)

137 Some cats make it more obvious than others. My late Marie, Oreo, and Wolf were, and Stirling now is, more like roommates and friends who leave you to do the housework and meal prep, but love your company.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

How many kitties have you had?

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:38 AM (oaGWv)

138 Ripstop utility uniform does not keep one cool when body armor is a ‘layer’.

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

139 Posted by: fd

You have quite a way with descriptive words.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:39 AM (gnetv)

140 olddog, for real temp hasn't hit 100 here yet. The chance of rain last evening dissipated before it got here. Life on the farm is good and the crock pot is my new best friend.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2024 06:39 AM (xpCR0)

141
Biden is the abusive husband to the battered media that swears she ain't gonna take it no more.

Until the next beating.

Posted by: Auspex at July 06, 2024 06:41 AM (j4U/Z)

142 Redneck String Theory vs Urban yute recreation.

Shot: (Repost from Yesterday) https://tinyurl.com/fry9ktcb

Chaser: https://tinyurl.com/4ud8kvy2

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

143 You have quite a way with descriptive words.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That's why I love this place. So many wordsmiths.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:41 AM (oaGWv)

144 Had some thunder and lightning last night early but no rain from it

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:41 AM (fwDg9)

145 I haven't been able to walk regularly since Tuesday. If I can't do at least a mile today, I'll have to tear down these walls with my bare hands.

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

146 145 I haven't been able to walk regularly since Tuesday. If I can't do at least a mile today, I'll have to tear down these walls with my bare hands.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

How is your injury. Did you ever make it to a doctor?

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:43 AM (oaGWv)

147 "How is your injury. Did you ever make it to a doctor?"

It might be a tumor!

Posted by: That kid at July 06, 2024 06:45 AM (a1415)

148 Some cats make it more obvious than others. My late Marie, Oreo, and Wolf were, and Stirling now is, more like roommates and friends who leave you to do the housework and meal prep, but love your company.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
How many kitties have you had?
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024

***
Tuna, since 1983 there have been nine. Twelve, if you count my boyhood cat Rusty and the two Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 and I had. Not serially; in the post-'83 period, I've had two at a time, four times.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:46 AM (omVj0)

149 99% R/H outside.

That's moist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:46 AM (a1415)

150 72 degrees right now, that would be nice but I can see the eastern sky turning pinkish. Past experience tells me thats sun coming up, global warming with no solution.

Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 06:46 AM (o2ZRX)

151 "I haven't been able to walk regularly since Tuesday. "

You too, huh?

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 06, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

152 It might be a tumor!
Posted by: That kid

No, it's probably lupus. It's always lupus.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:47 AM (oaGWv)

153 Thanks for asking. I've been doing rest, ice, compression, and elevation but couldn't make it two blocks yesterday. It's feeling sore today but steps don't feel painful...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 06:48 AM (RIvkX)

154 "99% R/H outside.

That's moist.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Same here. 75 degrees and 75 heat index, 74.5 dewpoint. I'm still not sure how that works

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

155 Is Joe Biden medically cleared to operate moving machinery?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:49 AM (a1415)

156 tff

https://x.com/RealJakeBroe/status/
1803615745198424512

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

157
Looks like kennel cleaning is on the agenda for today. I've managed to talk Her Majesty out of a complete power washing on the grounds that that's a fall/winter job and can't be done in the summer.

Doing the numerous floor mats in the pens and the work area will be difficult with the wet weather forecast, as the usual method is to take them all outside for washing and letting them air dry.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (1Nxff)

158 @41

>>I really would like to know what chemical cocktail they give him. I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.

IM multivitamin, IM b12, testoterone, methylprednizilone, an upper, blood transfusions and whatever the rest of the old fossil inner party power brokers are getting to survive into their 80's and 90's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)

159 "No, it's probably lupus. It's always lupus."

Unfortunately, what he has is a very rare form of....

Posted by: House at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)

160 To a certain extent that is true but that doesn't mean we're required to have. President with major cognitive decline who can't make decisions,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (incbT)

161 Outside, 80 F. w/ 88% humidity; a "feels like" of 89. If I wash the car in a bit, I'll need to stagger back inside and detail *me.*

(And this the "less hot" portion of the day. Gah.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (omVj0)

162 Let's see..it's 69 with 85% humidity right now in Nashville land. Gonna be 87 today. In other words a normal summer day.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (oaGWv)

163
It might be a tumor!
Posted by: That kid at July 06, 2024 06:45 AM (a1415)

Make sure you eat more broccoli. And at least 128 oz. of water every day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (1Nxff)

164 Low 80s in Babylon DC this morning. My drive into work yesterday, the car showed the outside temp at 101. Not sure how hot it will be today. Feels it will be flirting with 100 again. Humid too. Need some rain around here.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (sAmhv)

165 I plan to spend most of the day in the pool today, been hard charging it at the new house since September, and damn it, I deserve a weekend off.

Which I'm going to do by throwing a low-key pool party.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:51 AM (XV/Pl)

166 Is Joe Biden medically cleared to operate moving machinery?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024

***
A toilet, maybe. Then again, maybe not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (omVj0)

167 DailyKos features Kos himself today, decrying Mark Robinson in North Carolina. He campaigned at a black church saying their are bright lines between good and evil and sometimes evil people cannot be reformed, and need to die away. That seems morally wrong to Kos, who supports the right of Hitler, Stalin and Mao to keep on killing innocents until satisfied.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (ugxa6)

168 Good morning! Did some work outside and some cleanup/reorganization in the garage yesterday. It was hot and humid (mid 90s), so I was dressed in shorts and a t-shirt. When I finished I was pretty sweaty so I went to sit on the patio under the fan. It clouded up, got a little blustery and the temperature dropped into the low 80s, then a storm blew in with some rain. I actually got a little chill and had to put on pants and long sleeve shirt to stay out there.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (YRsIm)

169 158 @41

>>I really would like to know what chemical cocktail they give him. I thought doctors took an oath to do no harm.

IM multivitamin, IM b12, testoterone, methylprednizilone, an upper, blood transfusions and whatever the rest of the old fossil inner party power brokers are getting to survive into their 80's and 90's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl
Plus the blood essence of 10 year old girls.

Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (o2ZRX)

170
IM multivitamin, IM b12, testoterone, methylprednizilone, an upper, blood transfusions and whatever the rest of the old fossil inner party power brokers are getting to survive into their 80's and 90's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)

It wouldn't surprise me if it included the blood of young children.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:52 AM (1Nxff)

171 Low 80s in Babylon DC this morning. My drive into work yesterday, the car showed the outside temp at 101. Not sure how hot it will be today. Feels it will be flirting with 100 again. Humid too. Need some rain around here.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 06, 2024

***
I wish my car had an option to turn off the outside temp display. Unfortunately it glares at me as long as the car is in operation. (No, I'm not going to stick black tape over the readout. Imagine the gummy stuff that'd leave on the readout screen.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 06:53 AM (omVj0)

172 "tff "

Nice!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:53 AM (a1415)

173 I wonder how "their" snuck into my 167, instead of "there". I blame my phone keyboard.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 06:53 AM (ugxa6)

174
169/170

Horde mind

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:54 AM (1Nxff)

175 Target is going the way of Svengoolie. NO PERSONAL CHECKS! Soon enough they won't take cash either.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2024 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

176 Maybe Sundowner is mad because the Supreme Court he thinks made Trump a king and he doesn't really have any say in what happens.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:54 AM (fwDg9)

177 So I guess we could say that the Democrats are leaning more toward a more Soviet style of Presidency?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:56 AM (a1415)

178
I probably took 20 showers yesterday with my outdoor solar shower. Got some hedge trimming done, looked at the lawn and figured it could wait. Mainly putzed around with crop, keeping everything watered. No ripe tomatoes yet, but first gigantic zucchini is ready to burst.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:57 AM (RKVpM)

179 Horde mind
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 06:54 AM (1Nxff)
===
Remarkable.

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

180 Often at Lowes they only seem to have auto checkouts so it's plastic only

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:58 AM (fwDg9)

181 Maybe 225 to 250 people

https://x.com/gabegutierrez/status/
1809282341166284935

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2024 06:58 AM (ENQN6)

182 @178

>>but first gigantic zucchini is ready to burst.

Make a bunch of bread and Ratatouille.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM (XV/Pl)

183 At Powerline, Eva Marie Saint turned 100 on the 4th
That's a mile stone to reach

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM (fwDg9)

184 " Often at Lowes they only seem to have auto checkouts so it's plastic only"

Yet our Walmarts are going back to cashiers, quickly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM (a1415)

185
Maybe 225 to 250 people

Carefully selected people. Except that someone had a "Joe Must Go" type of sign at one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 07:00 AM (1Nxff)

186 I probably took 20 showers yesterday with my outdoor solar shower. Got some hedge trimming done, looked at the lawn and figured it could wait. Mainly putzed around with crop, keeping everything watered. No ripe tomatoes yet, but first gigantic zucchini is ready to burst.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 06:57 AM (RKVpM)
===
I've been nurturing and training my runner bean vines and clematis to great success. I'm trying to attract more hummingbirds.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

187 "Except that someone had a "Joe Must Go" type of sign at one. "

I believe it read 'Joe, pass the torch'

Note the proper use of the comma.

Leads me to believe it was a conservative Plant.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (a1415)

188
Make a bunch of bread and Ratatouille.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 06:59 AM

Yeah, zucchini bread is something else. Not sure which is better, zucchini bread or banana bread.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (RKVpM)

189 Anyone seen Hairyback Guy posting lately? Dawned on me couple days ago I'd not seen posts from him.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 07:01 AM (SuNbA)

190 Banana Bread, every time!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:02 AM (a1415)

191 From articles read yesterday I take it that no doubt to hide Sundowner the Democrat convention was to be a virtual one with few actually there. And guessing that's got turned upside down

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (fwDg9)

192 We were recently blessed with a surplus of zucchini and Mrs. F. added a bunch of shredded zuke to her meatloaf and it turned out great.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (RIvkX)

193 Ben Smith at Semaphor quotes one of his WH sources, who says even WH staffers don't know who actually makes decisions:

Here is the assertion this person would like to get across: It’s unclear even to some inside the West Wing policy process which policy issues reach the president, and how. Major decisions go into an opaque circle that includes White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients (who talks to the president regularly) and return concluded.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (jeqkR)

194 181 Maybe 225 to 250 people

Posted by: rhennigantx
-----------------

And half of that was the press.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2024 07:04 AM (SuNbA)

195
" I haven't been able to walk regularly since Tuesday. "

Sorry to hear that as
walks seem to be an important walk of your life and often with your son

Please consider going to an orthopedic doctor . A friend of mine was having healing pain and now he had to wear an orthopedic boot for a while. I will pray for your healing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 07:04 AM (eHqeq)

196 Here is the assertion this person would like to get across: It’s unclear even to some inside the West Wing policy process which policy issues reach the president, and how. Major decisions go into an opaque circle that includes White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients (who talks to the president regularly) and return concluded.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:03 AM (jeqkR)
====

This is what a junta is and how it operates.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:05 AM (RIvkX)

197 @188

>>Yeah, zucchini bread is something else. Not sure which is better, zucchini bread or banana bread.

Zucchini Bread slathered in raspberry jam with a piping hot cup of black coffee is heaven on earth.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2024 07:05 AM (XV/Pl)

198 We were recently blessed with a surplus of zucchini and Mrs. F. added a bunch of shredded zuke to her meatloaf and it turned out great.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Ahh meatloaf. Haven't made one in a long time . Must remedy that situation this week. Leftover meatloaf sandwiches..yum.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (oaGWv)

199 So far just have 1 green tomato started, cucumbers finally are starting and picked 2 small but ripe chili peppers and 2 1/3 ripe ones

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (fwDg9)

200 "I'll drop out if God tells me to." -- Biden

"Stay in." -- ZOD

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (P+D4R)

201 Thanks {Fen} yes Boy F. finds it disconcerting when we cannot do our morning walk. Mrs. F. covered for me Thursday and Friday, so b"h I'm really hoping to make it happen today.

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

202 W have about seven green tomatoes on the two second crop of season plants in the back porch.

Now if the heat doesn't kill them, we might get more ripe tomatoes by the end of summer.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:07 AM (a1415)

203 Don't think I seen Hairyback Guy lately

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:08 AM (fwDg9)

204 NY Post weighs in. Cover story says "Joe adds insult to Infirmary" and the under headline " Gibberish interview taped before his bedtime makes it worse. I'd add a link but I'm about to go for a walk with family and I expect JJ will have it in his links.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 07:08 AM (dDv7s)

205 ""I'll drop out if God tells me to." -- Biden "

Sometimes God speaks in clear and unambiguous ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:09 AM (a1415)

206 Ahh meatloaf. Haven't made one in a long time . Must remedy that situation this week. Leftover meatloaf sandwiches..yum.
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:06 AM (oaGWv)
===

Have I mentioned my turkey quinoa loaf recipe in Deplorable Gourmet?
/beaming

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:09 AM (RIvkX)

207 " I expect JJ will have it in his links.
"

Fen, it's Saturday.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:09 AM (a1415)

208 Often at Lowes they only seem to have auto checkouts so it's plastic only
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024

***
Home Depot, too, though the stations will take cash, and they have no obvious cameras staring you in the face and displaying your phiz, so it doesn't seem so bad.

WM in some locations here has dispensed with the in-your-face cameras too. I mentioned that to one of the staffers standing around while no doubt dreaming of her break. She shrugged and grunted. I wanted to say, "Just how closely related were your parents, anyway?" but didn't.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (omVj0)

209 JJ is off today for his birthday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (RIvkX)

210 It is Saturday....right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (a1415)

211 180 Often at Lowes they only seem to have auto checkouts so it's plastic only
Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 06:58 AM (fwDg9)

Saw that at HD as well, the last time we were in the city.

Morning, all.
We had the temp drop as well yesterday, like a little summer norther.

Realized I need to put a border on the organist's quilt to get it up to "Throw" size. Then, embroider the dedication on the back, assemble and tie. One of her lifelong (seriously- they were born two weeks apart) friends is going to help me tie it, since she wants to participate.

So I have a 'touch grass' project for the day.

Posted by: sal at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (y7DxH)

212 Oh my gawd oh my gawd oh my gawd...

The greatest shojo manga and anime evah is getting a modern theatrical release from Studio MAPPA.

Bara no Versailles sugoi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxA2wEndpTg

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (OJv82)

213 "Senile denial"

Another Post-ism enters the language

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (KaxPh)

214
"I'll drop out if God tells me to." -- Biden

Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. - Matthew 4:7

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (1Nxff)

215 "She shrugged and grunted. I wanted to say, "Just how closely related were your parents, anyway?" but didn't."

Daddy...if mommy transitions, will she still be your sister?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:11 AM (a1415)

216 It is Saturday....right?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:10 AM (a1415)
----------
VIA readies his opening line for his SNL hosting gig

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 07:12 AM (KaxPh)

217
Psalm 109:8
May his days be few; may another take his office.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 07:16 AM (RKVpM)

218 tff

https://x.com/RealJakeBroe/status/
1803615745198424512

__________________________________

Mildly amusing but not as funny as advertised. snl is garbage.

Posted by: Outside of Life at July 06, 2024 07:21 AM (89Sog)

219 It's getting to the point that Biden needs to walk out into the public, and be videoed holding each days front page of a newspaper, for proof of life.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2024 07:22 AM (a1415)

220 Having off yesterday had to constantly remind myself it wasn't Saturday

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:23 AM (fwDg9)

221 It's still Independence Day in this far NW Chicagoland suburb, which will still not put on its fireworks show.

The show is scheduled for tomorrow night, the 7th, three full days after.

Independence Day is one of the few fed holidays that's not been turned into a Monday one. Fireworks shows typically begin well after sunset, certainly after anyone's work day, unless they are a shift worker. Employers giving paid holidays almost all give shift workers the time off.

Having the 4th fall on Tue, Wed, or Thu doesn't mean anyone will not be able to see the boomboom show if the fireworks are blown up on the 4th.

But here, it's all about revenue for the town guv. They throw a festival into it, and the festival must begin on a Saturday FOLLOWING the 4th, and the boomboom show must then be Sunday night. Ten bucks a head to get into the festival, which includes third rate live music, and shitty food stands.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 07:23 AM (ZtgZZ)

222 Powerline week in pictures is up

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:27 AM (fwDg9)

223 I ordered a kringle from the Danish Bakery last Christmas and, of course, they now shower me with email offers now. I fell for the key lime/cream cheese kringle. Creamy tartness. Like having a slice of key lime pie with your breakfast coffee. Now to split the rest of it up for freezing.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:28 AM (oaGWv)

224 I ordered a kringle from the Danish Bakery last Christmas

Is that the one in Racine WI?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 07:30 AM (SfhV1)

225 https://tinyurl.com/yrs52vru

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:30 AM (fwDg9)

226 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 06, 2024 07:30 AM (dg+HA)

227 Is that the one in Racine WI?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

Yep. It is.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:31 AM (oaGWv)

228 several excellent meatloaf recipes in that Horde cookbook, try one!

shredded zuke does sound good as an ingredient, gotta try that

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 07:33 AM (MKEsG)

229 Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2024 07:31 AM (oaGWv)

Yum.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 07:34 AM (SfhV1)

230 the only True Kringle

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 07:38 AM (MKEsG)

231 Mndful Webworker is back in the hospital too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 06, 2024 07:39 AM (xjTDL)

232 Mndful Webworker is back in the hospital too.

Oh dear.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 07:41 AM (SfhV1)

233 Both my birdbaths are awaiting customers
1 is on ground if other animals want a drink

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 07:44 AM (fwDg9)

234 115f 22%h today and tomorrow then backs off to 105f Monday-Friday. The 95f-105f is standard summer fare in the valley.

Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 07:47 AM (JWQTr)

235 wow, Powerline week in pictures is harsh today;
harsh but effective; I'm lovin' it, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 07:48 AM (MKEsG)

236 I am loving the Lefties complaining that the media isn't fair and publishes stuff that isn't true based on anonymous sources. How biased!

Posted by: blaster at July 06, 2024 07:52 AM (cvZX6)

237 It's still Independence Day in this far NW Chicagoland suburb,

I thought that was a euphemism for a longer run of around the clock escalated gun violence typical of Chicago

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 07:53 AM (rHxhM)

238 Birdbath status?

I have an 180 acre one, and from the looks of the tracking of the rainmaker out of the GoM, appears to add a few more acres early this next coming week.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 07:55 AM (rHxhM)

239 The Atlantic embargo dam regarding anything Biden and dementia finally burst July 5th. Previously never mentioned, it’s now a hot take subject.

Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 07:56 AM (TaPE6)

240 He said (told his aides, they told their spouses, someone told a busy press-man who scribbled it in his notebook and then ran to the Western Union, the one across the street from Stam's Luncheonette) that if the Lord commanded it, he would quit, resign, pack his bags and leave Washington (in those days the locals called it 'Warshington') and return to his native ground, Delaware, a sliver of waterfront known for low taxes, pharmacies, liquor stores and prostitutes, a combination of which generated the type of stump-browed sand-farmers who would select such a specimen as him, with his dolled-up mannequin of a shrill harridan wife to go to Washington in the first place...

Posted by: ZOD Faulkner at July 06, 2024 07:57 AM (P+D4R)

241 So AI is what we call every cockamamie chunk of code that these fucking nerds put out there to basically mine data and steal personal information.

*big sigh*

I also remember a day when "social influencers" on social media were called "prostitutes," engaged in prostitution.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 07:58 AM (2UBPP)

242 I wanted to say, "Just how closely related were your parents, anyway?" but didn't.

In some genetic strains, the family tree is a wreath.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 07:58 AM (rHxhM)

243 Morning peeps

After breakfast it will be time to 🚜 the yard. 3 - 4 hours of time spent solving every problem known to man.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

244 >>In some genetic strains, the family tree is a wreath.

Or a bowl of spaghetti. Or a single, large, solid dot.

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 07:59 AM (P+D4R)

245
Birdbath status?

In the little garden outside Her Majesty's study, we have a fountain, a concrete birdbath and a water-filled catch pan on the ground. All three were getting heavy usage yesterday. Need to get the mister set up so the bees can have a drink too.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:00 AM (1Nxff)

246 >>After breakfast it will be time to 🚜 the yard. 3 - 4 hours of time spent solving every problem known to man. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

Same.

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:00 AM (P+D4R)

247 nice, ZOD; looking forward to you getting 4 more years of The Tales of Sun-In-His-Hair!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 06, 2024 08:01 AM (MKEsG)

248 In some genetic strains, the family tree is a wreath.

utility pole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 06, 2024 08:04 AM (qZEuM)

249 Bagger 288 is what I use to clean my marijuana right before I go on vacation.

The rates are reasonable and you get a volume discount.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:04 AM (2UBPP)

250 The Atlantic

On the debate stage, Joe Biden came across as largely frail and shaky. But on other days, he appears to be much more lucid. Scientists have a term for this: cognitive fluctuations

Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 08:07 AM (WHP6G)

251 NY Post says this:

" Denial or senile ?Either way, Biden's not fit for the office and had entered that stubborn stage of grumpy old man that wants you off his lawn."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:07 AM (hBP6r)

252 So AI is what we call every cockamamie chunk of code that these fucking nerds put out there to basically mine data and steal personal information.

As a "fucking nerd", these decisions to apply "AI" are almost always made at the organizational level that has nothing to do with actually making things.

Due to the high cost of everything, "AI" is a luxury idea that marketing is now wresting to attract investors and customers (mostly investors since the customer is tapped out).

LLMs have their place. The consensus of those who work with the technology daily is that AI is a very eager intern that lies a lot. I think most of the public sees AI generating heavily previous-art influenced music, text and art. It plagiarizes with amazing speed rendering its output as near worthless since it doesn't have the human aesthetic, creativity or ability to self-correct and properly adapt to its intended use.

This is why the output in legal, systems code and finance is close but error filled and can't be used directly but must be heavily edited by someone skilled in the area being addressed by the Augmented Intelligence.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:08 AM (rHxhM)

253 >>on other days, he appears to be much more lucid.
Posted by: 13times at July 06, 2024 08:07 AM (WHP6G)

On other days, those around him are much less perceptive.

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:08 AM (P+D4R)

254 "What else are they lying about!?" is naturally going to run through the minds of anyone. I'm sure the press will come clean and it will be smooth sailing from here on out.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 08:12 AM (HHI2d)

255 Organizational level LLMs have their place consensus very eager intern generating heavily plagiarizes amazing speed near worthless self-correct augmented intelligence.

Leviticus 3:15

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:12 AM (P+D4R)

256 " Denial or senile ?Either way, Biden's not fit for the office and had entered that stubborn stage of grumpy old man that wants you off his lawn."

Now the fun begins. On what day would it be safe to say that Biden wasn't fit and never would be fit for the office?

Before the Afghanistan debacle? Before publicly giving Putin permission to invade Ukraine? Before deciding to undo every single bit of work Trump did to secure the border? Before siring Hunter? Before that twinkle in Joe's father's eye?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:13 AM (rHxhM)

257 cockamamie

yu don't see that one a lot

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:14 AM (/7KEl)

258 In other news, Orioles lead the division by 3.

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:14 AM (P+D4R)

259 The American Thinker article at least tries to pin down exactly what is going on in Sundowner's head, seems to have it

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:14 AM (fwDg9)

260 > " Denial or senile ?Either way, Biden's not fit for the office and had entered that stubborn stage of grumpy old man that wants you off his lawn."
-----------
He's past all that.

He's at the "grumpy old man yelling at clouds" stage.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)

261 Ms G's cousin is coming over today to visit, and she's picking up a couple quarts of Rainbow Cones ice cream, a Chicago area favorite for almost 75 years.

One of the flavors is called Palmer House, a take on spumoni, that includes almond pieces and Palmer House cherries. Whatever Palmer House cherries are.

Their aunt's lifelong boyfriend Eddie, long departed, was the manager at the Palmer House, way back in the days, had his own suite, knew the guys from the outfit when they came in, told the young girls, Ms G and her cuz, about whatever suicides of note happened that week on the twelfth floor.

The aunt worked her whole career right up the street, as the buyer for the Tea Room at Marshall Fields. All the food, the tableware, linens, waitress uniforms.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 08:15 AM (ZtgZZ)

262 Good morning everyone.

It's been a quiet week here in Palookaville, my adopted hometown.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 08:16 AM (WXNFJ)

263 That there are moments of time he seems normal, lots of others he is slow in processing information.

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:16 AM (fwDg9)

264 The American Thinker article at least tries to pin down exactly what is going on in Sundowner's head, seems to have it

Just the words "American" and "Thinker" proximate to anything about Sundowner's head seems to be a hallucination of AI.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:16 AM (rHxhM)

265 The aunt worked her whole career right up the street, as the buyer for the Tea Room at Marshall Fields. All the food, the tableware, linens, waitress uniforms.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 08:15 AM (ZtgZZ)

I loved the Tea Room!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 06, 2024 08:17 AM (SfhV1)

266 cockamamie

yu don't see that one a lot
Posted by: Don Black

I think Eisenhower used it a lot.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 08:18 AM (WXNFJ)

267 AI will be less aggressive and malicious if we scale it up two orders of magnitude above teraflops and turn it loose in social media.

Nothing says 'sex appeal' like the perfect Kardashian.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:19 AM (2UBPP)

268 I loved the Tea Room!
Posted by: grammie winger

The LMNO Room wasn't too shabby either!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024 08:19 AM (WXNFJ)

269 The Atlantic embargo dam regarding anything Biden and dementia finally burst July 5th. Previously never mentioned, it’s now a hot take subject.

Sort of like all of the hagiographies that are sitting in abeyance waiting for Jimmy Carter to follow Rosalyn.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:22 AM (rHxhM)

270 The LGBTQWERTY room is fabulous.

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:23 AM (P+D4R)

271 "Guide For The Perplexed" is now reduced to a map showing how to get from the Presidential bed to the bathroom.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 06, 2024 08:25 AM (9wkhT)

272 The wave of discussion by the country is only going to grow about Sundowner's mental health

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:27 AM (fwDg9)

273 Oh, Ike! Again?

Posted by: Cockamamie at July 06, 2024 08:30 AM (dg+HA)

274 >>>The LGBTQWERTY room is fabulous.

Posted by: ZOD

>I was fortunate enough to learn typing on an IBM Selectric when I was a sophomore in HS. Those old mechanical typewriters were a bastard.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:30 AM (2UBPP)

275 AI will be less aggressive and malicious if we scale it up two orders of magnitude above teraflops and turn it loose in social media.

Currently its on the path to self-destruct.

For example, the music industry, in their usual greed and litigiousness as gone after EVERYONE who provides an AI service to generate new music so any retard with an iPhone and a data plan can fantasize about being the next Taylor Swift because the AI made the music. The music industry is dashing those plans - and will generate their own AI from their own signed artists and make endless music for $10/mo subscription.

Problem is, why generate new training data? So AI will be using dead data, yesterday's trends, and less than reliable sources. Then subsequent AI will train on the previous garbage accelerating even more the GIGO process.

I'm starting to see some of it now in the dropped quality of new code that AI engines "suggest". Also dead-linked citations, and refactorings that are amplified versions of previous reductions.

Its spinning apart, and will continue to spin apart as more people want to influence its already alien processes and as AI borrows more from previous AI hallucination

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:30 AM (rHxhM)

276 How many times a day do you suppose the White House staff had to rescind something *biden blurts out? Maybe something as innocuous as "I want to go to that place at the beach with the ice cream I like" while in a meeting to "I think we need to nuke Russia today."

My father's descent into dementia was full of days like that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:31 AM (Q4IgG)

277 He said (told his aides, they told their spouses, someone told a busy press-man who scribbled it in his notebook and then ran to the Western Union, the one across the street from Stam's Luncheonette) that if the Lord commanded it, he would quit, resign, pack his bags and leave Washington (in those days the locals called it 'Warshington') and return to his native ground, Delaware, a sliver of waterfront known for low taxes, pharmacies, liquor stores and prostitutes, a combination of which generated the type of stump-browed sand-farmers who would select such a specimen as him, with his dolled-up mannequin of a shrill harridan wife to go to Washington in the first place...
Posted by: ZOD Faulkner at July 06, 2024

***
This reminds me of Sinclair Lewis, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:31 AM (omVj0)

278 what bugs me is the amount of people who seem to finding out 'just now' how messed up Joe is

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:32 AM (/7KEl)

279 The Internet is dead.

Posted by: And has been for a long time at July 06, 2024 08:33 AM (dg+HA)

280 "Guide For The Perplexed" is now reduced to a map showing how to get from the Presidential bed to the bathroom.

Which will be reduced further into pressing the call button on their necklace medallion so that a care worker will come in, mop the floor, change the sheets and diaper.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:33 AM (rHxhM)

281 I was fortunate enough to learn typing on an IBM Selectric when I was a sophomore in HS. Those old mechanical typewriters were a bastard.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024

***
I learned on a Selectric too, but that was in the typing classes at the Job Training Partnership Act program in 1988. A bit older than 15, I was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:33 AM (omVj0)

282 Lewy Body Dementia. LBD.

FJB's got LBD.

Shout it out after me: FJB's got LBD!!!11!

We ain't got no CIC.

Come on, shout! FJB's got LBD! We ain't got no CIC!

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 08:34 AM (ZtgZZ)

283 Rush had Sundowner pegged before the election

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2024 08:35 AM (fwDg9)

284 cockamamie

yu don't see that one a lot
Posted by: Don Black
*
I think Eisenhower used it a lot.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 06, 2024

***
F. Joke would have been, what, ten when Ike was first elected president? He, Joke I mean, would have heard it a lot during his formative years as a little frog-killing bastard. (I presume, based on his character as an adult)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:35 AM (omVj0)

285 Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 06, 2024 08:15 AM (ZtgZZ)
===

What?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

286
What's hilarious are the expressions of astonishment among the establishment elite over something that was manifestly apparent to us mud people ages ago.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:37 AM (1Nxff)

287
My father's descent into dementia was full of days like that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2024 08:31 AM

I feel sorry for people with dementia, with one exception which is Joe Biden. I feel kindly toward the caregivers, like Nancy Reagan who stayed with Ron to the end. I feel nothing but loathing toward Jill Biden who is encouraging this broken man to continue and putting the entire nation at risk.

Sometimes I hearken back to an early lesson from my parents, the phrase 'there but for the grace of God go I'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2024 08:38 AM (RKVpM)

288
Dolled Up Mannequin Shrill Harridan Wives opened to big fanfare off Broadway in 2003. It was quickly panned by critics however for it's shallow dialogue, cheap sets, tinny music and subpar talent. It closed inside of two months.

Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at July 06, 2024 08:38 AM (dg+HA)

289 >>>Its spinning apart, and will continue to spin apart as more people want to influence its already alien processes and as AI borrows more from previous AI hallucination

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

>This is what I have suspected all along.

Certainly we should place AI in a position where it coordinates and controls all of our first strike and nuclear defense capabilities to gain those milliseconds above our adversaries.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (2UBPP)

290 You youngsters and your new-fangled electric typewriters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

291 F. Joke would have been, what, ten when Ike was first elected president? He, Joke I mean, would have heard it a lot during his formative years as a little frog-killing bastard. (I presume, based on his character as an adult)

Odd words and sounds work like that.

I remember so many people were saying "Aaaaaaay" sometime into the first season of the sitcom "Happy Days". Dittos with the "Whazaaaaaaaaa-p" after popularized with the Budweiser adverts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (rHxhM)

292 Certainly we should place AI in a position where it coordinates and controls all of our first strike and nuclear defense capabilities to gain those milliseconds above our adversaries.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (2UBPP)
====

This is a fabulous idea!

Posted by: Dr. Forbin at July 06, 2024 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

293 One of the issues with the American Thinker article is the statement that the spud hasn't been diagnosed. Balderdash, everyone in his inner circle knows what the problem is and are covering it up. All those weekends in DE at the beach and no records of who visited, many doctors have seen him. The diagnosis has been in for a long time.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 06, 2024 08:40 AM (2NHgQ)

294 what bugs me is the amount of people who seem to finding out 'just now' how messed up Joe is
Posted by: Don Black
++++
If you only get your "news" from the MSM, you only know what they want you to know.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 06, 2024 08:40 AM (Lo97M)

295 (Eats mushroom, has alien process AI hallucination)

ZOD IMPERIAL

(looks at hand, unsees it)

Mutated.

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:41 AM (P+D4R)

296
You youngsters and your new-fangled electric typewriters.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

________

*flings wad of copy paper and Ticonderoga No. 2 pencil at SF*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:41 AM (1Nxff)

297 Noodus coffee-ana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2024 08:42 AM (omVj0)

298 >>*flings wad of copy paper and Ticonderoga No. 2 pencil at SF* Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2024 08:41 AM (1Nxff)

*flings piece of coal and cave wall at Hadrian*

Posted by: ZOD at July 06, 2024 08:43 AM (P+D4R)

299 I think that, until an accredited physician examines the Old Man in person, runs a battery of tests, etc, and then makes an official diagnosis on the record, Joe's inner circle can contiunue to maintain that everything's fine.

IMO YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (/7KEl)

300 Lewy Body dementia is rare, my sense is frontal-temporal dementia, this has more of the emotional disturbance features we see displayed in public.

Posted by: Dr. Forbin at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (RIvkX)

301 Ah...the smell of fresh mimeograph!

Posted by: Childhood memories at July 06, 2024 08:44 AM (dg+HA)

302 Non political comment:

Today’s nature walk- a blue and a white heron, a monarch butterfly, another yellow butterfly with blue on it too, painted turtles. Lots of wildflowers and cultivated flowers. a male cardinal and two funny and friendly bulldogs with their owners.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (5EV+l)

303 Certainly we should place AI in a position where it coordinates and controls all of our first strike and nuclear defense capabilities to gain those milliseconds above our adversaries.

In all seriousness, that ain't gonna happen. Far too many people want to strut around claiming their role in the decision chain.

Furthermore, from a security standpoint, I'm not sure how it could be air-gapped, because if it isn't, in order to receive the myriad of real-time streaming inputs that need to be scored, sorted and ingested in the decision matrix, it would be vulnerable to all kinds of malevolent manipulation events.

Sort of like how Joe is air-gapped and how Trump likely was so that any world altering decision would be managed by the power-mad sociopaths who don't trust anybody except their own vain imaginations.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 06, 2024 08:45 AM (rHxhM)

304
Bud.
Wise.
Her.

Posted by: Two funny and friendly bulldogs at July 06, 2024 08:46 AM (dg+HA)

305 This is weirder than it looks, and that's saying something.

"We" knew Joe was a vegetable a long, long time ago. But we incorporated that into our worldview, and eventually ignored it, because "they" were ignoring it. It was part of the furniture to our political view.

It was like the hypnotist snapped his fingers on debate night. The spell has been broken! This is devastating to the media, or ought to be. The most amazing 180 turn we've witnessed in the "news" certainly.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 06, 2024 08:47 AM (HHI2d)

306 Oh, somebody In this very liberal town has an E Pluribis Unum" and "Don't Tread on Me" license plate. Good for them!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:53 AM (s+ZSR)

307 /mad computer scientist sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2024 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

308 Oh yes, there was a leaf in the garden which my son identified as "heart of Jesus".

And by the comment I am not telling any RC's how they "should feel about their faith."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2024 08:57 AM (cWGcu)

309 Java noodity.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2024 09:00 AM (dg+HA)

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