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To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to put barriers around the world's most vulnerable glaciers to slow them down. (Science)

Uh.

What?

In 2008, the Ilulissat Glacier in Greenland had a calving event in which it shed a single iceberg covering three square miles. It sheds 35 billion tons of icebergs in the average year.

And moving glaciers don't leave much of anything in their wake, except rubble.

I mean... Okay, it's not impossible. If you want to build an anti-glacier barrier, go right ahead. Yes, I'll make popcorn, but if you succeed I'll gladly give you credit.

Update: CBD points out in comment #17 that that part of the plan isn't to stop the glaciers moving but to block warm currents that would melt them more quickly. And the part about drilling holes in the ice is to pump out water so they move more slowly. Paragraph five explains it better than the first four.

Tech News

The new Asus ExpertBook lacks the Four Essential Keys and its Lunar Lake CPU will get crushed by AMD's new Strix Point (non-Halo) chips when they arrive later this month. (WCCFTech)

It's not actively terrible but I wouldn't bother.
Once a new security exploit is made public, system administrators around the world have 22 minutes to update all their servers. (Bleeping Computers)

That's how fast hackers pounce on new exploits.
Speaking of exploits "superhuman" AI Go players turn out to be so dumb that a child can beat them. (Ars Technica)

If the child knows the right exploit. Even after researchers updated the AI to handle this, it only won 22% of the time.
Improving these kinds of "worst case" scenarios is key to avoiding embarrassing mistakes when rolling an AI system out to the public. But this new research shows that determined "adversaries" can often discover new holes in an AI algorithm's performance much more quickly and easily than that algorithm can evolve to fix those problems.
As with AI chat bots that are easily tricked into selling $50,000 cars for $5, the companies behind them will just blame you.
Possibly as part of the ongoing Snowflake debacle, barcodes for around ten million event tickets from Ticketmaster have been leaked. (HackRead)

In theory the barcodes cannot be refreshed.

In practice, anything can be refreshed if the alternative is a billion dollars going up in smoke.
Google is reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23 billion. (Tech Crunch)

I have never heard of Wiz and have no idea what they actually do. $23 billion should be a lot of money, so presumably they do something.

Disclaimer: Or p'raps not.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:20 AM

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1 LOL! Glacier barriers...

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 04:24 AM (njWTi)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:25 AM (fwDg9)

3 Wiz?!

Does the M. Jackson Estate have rights to that?

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 04:25 AM (njWTi)

4 What a weekend

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:25 AM (fwDg9)

5 Wish I could go back to bed

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:32 AM (fwDg9)

6 I made a meme

https://postIMG.cc/14XnQ3Ks

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 04:34 AM (njWTi)

7 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 15, 2024 04:34 AM (dg+HA)

8 Been trying to keep bird baths cleaning refreshed, 3 very hot days coming

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:39 AM (fwDg9)

9 3 Wiz?!

Does the M. Jackson Estate have rights to that?
Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 04:25 AM (njWTi)

heh

I was trying to think of some tie-in with Cheez Whiz, but your joke is better!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 04:39 AM (64Zez)

10 Haven't had a day under 100 for a week, and probably won't for yet another week.

I. Hate. Summer.

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 04:40 AM (njWTi)

11 It's the week of Prime Day. I finally got power back on in Houston. I'm tired.

Pixy, are there going to be any good deals on ssd's?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at July 15, 2024 04:46 AM (gHSfI)

12 Mornin'

Glacier barriers? Same glaciers that can carve out mountain valleys? Those glaciers?

Ok then. Good luck.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 15, 2024 04:46 AM (GuMeT)

13 *10 Haven't had a day under 100 for a week, and probably won't for yet another week.

I. Hate. Summer.*

So do we.

Posted by: The Glaciers at July 15, 2024 04:48 AM (dg+HA)

14 So how many states will Trump win now that he has the sympathy vote?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15, 2024 04:50 AM (dg+HA)

15 I don't believe it will be a "sympathy" vote.

More like: a DEFIANCE vote.

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 04:55 AM (njWTi)

16 https://youtu.be/UKHqxPNNxfA?si=pn
VH96_2ifMCHQrj

Pretty good analyze

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:57 AM (fwDg9)

17 The glacier barrier thing isn't to keep the glaciers from calving. It is to prevent warm water from undermining them.

It's still a stupid idea, but not quite as stupid as physically blocking them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2024 04:58 AM (A3700)

18 4 What a weekend
Posted by: Skip

Understatement of the year.

Posted by: Tuna at July 15, 2024 05:00 AM (oaGWv)

19 More like: a DEFIANCE vote.

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 04:55 AM (njWTi)

Agreed. Trump isn't a man who evokes sympathy anyway, and his conduct after the assassination attempt was warrior-like!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2024 05:00 AM (A3700)

20
I guess the water cycle theory has been dismissed.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2024 05:01 AM (RKVpM)

21 Air is quite thick outside

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 05:03 AM (fwDg9)

22 X has reports of folks in San Francisco and Seattle out and about in MAGA hats. There's definitely a feeling that a line has been crossed.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 15, 2024 05:05 AM (xjTDL)

23 Longer road today, and a hot one
Stay cool
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 05:09 AM (fwDg9)

24 If you want to build an anti-glacier barrier, go right ahead.

Easy for you to say. They won't be expecting Aussie taxpayers to foot the bill for this stupidity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 15, 2024 05:11 AM (U7wke)

25 16
https://youtu.be/UKHqxPNNxfA?si=pn
VH96_2ifMCHQrj

Pretty good analyze
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2024 04:57 AM (fwDg9)

That was great! He's very well-disciplined in what he selects to say.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 05:13 AM (64Zez)

26 Pixy, I tried to put a link in my url box yesterday. Got a message it was banned. Utube vid.that should in no way be a problem.
This one.

https://tinyurl.com/48fuebwk

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:20 AM (xZpzx)

27 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 15, 2024 05:24 AM (XYAD5)

28 I likely did a copy link text as opposed to copy link address.
Might that have been the problem?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:25 AM (xZpzx)

29 Good morning to one and all
Teej, how did the corn turn out?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 05:25 AM (5MvGY)

30 oh my, glacier barrier, that's the best one yet!

you couldn't make this stuff up ...

g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 05:25 AM (UWgy2)

31 Hey olddog, corn turned out fine. Thanks.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:26 AM (xZpzx)

32 Hah! Ben, two ships, night, some assembly.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:27 AM (xZpzx)

33 Good morning, good people. A strange atmosphere today, almost anticipatory. Not totally certain it's not simply me, but things are just different.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 15, 2024 05:28 AM (hKoQL)

34 thanks, JQ!

Mrs Eez made me a big iron-on of the Trump & flag pic, and I think loser-boi is going on the back of the t-shirt.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 05:29 AM (UWgy2)

35 Glad to hear it, Teej. That was the way Mom cooked it.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 15, 2024 05:30 AM (XYAD5)

36 - IG, as in weather or happening?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:32 AM (xZpzx)

37 Today in the Hotdirondacks is supposed to be a continuation of the heat and humidity with slightly lower levels. People are starting to squeak about it as always.

Been a few years the weather pattern changed from cooler and dry to hot and humid.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 15, 2024 05:34 AM (hKoQL)

38 Please pray for the safety of the participants at the Republican Convention which begins today

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 05:35 AM (ZETVz)

39 LOL, sock_rat_eez, glad you like it!

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 05:35 AM (njWTi)

40 Why it's almost like I can hear Mother Nature sniggering.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 05:36 AM (5MvGY)

41 36 Teej as in happening, perhaps this feeling will dissipate I can't tell, though nearly all the conversation is about the event.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 15, 2024 05:38 AM (hKoQL)

42 To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to put barriers around the world's most vulnerable glaciers to slow them down. (Science)

Uh.

What?
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Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/IUFtgep9sj4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 05:40 AM (/ENeD)

43 Evening and morning, satellites of the Great Blog! How are you?

An anti-glacier barrier . . . seems to me , even if it worked, the glaciers would build up behind it, creating more and more pressure, until BOOM! and a decade's worth of ice would go streaming away from the poles. Not good.

Unless the barrier were heated somehow, to melt the glaciers . . . but then the resulting melt would increase the sea levels, exactly the kind of thing the enviro-whackos are trying to prevent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 05:41 AM (omVj0)

44 - Has only gotten down to 80° - 71% humidity.
Headed for 102 today.
Gonna have to finish mowing early and get some small plot, weeds dug early. After filling the gas can and truck up.

Widow thinks I should come over mid-afternoon for dinner.
Ulterior motive is getting me out of the heat.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:42 AM (xZpzx)

45 I was trying to think of some tie-in with Cheez Whiz, but your joke is better!
Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 04:39 AM (64Zez)
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$23,000,000,000?

The Wiz is a Wow!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 05:42 AM (/ENeD)

46 I just wanted to share a beautiful little experience I had yesterday while spouse was driving us to get the paper early Sunday morning. There was very little traffic at that time even in NJ. We passed a guy going the other way making a turn. The writing on the side of his taxi said "Grace Taxi"
I was reminded of grace/- the unmerited favor of God- which I think the taxi was named for /and it made me thankful to the Lord. Everyday we can see glimpses of God's love and presence if we take the time to look.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 05:42 AM (ZETVz)

47 What can't Trump do?

Breaking: *Morning Joe Cancelled For Monday* because crazy people might say something crazy
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A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 15, 2024 05:43 AM (tDIr0)

48 Please pray for the safety of the participants at the Republican Convention which begins today
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 05:35 AM (ZETVz)
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Let us pray that only qualified Secret Service agents are present.

Can I getta aymen?!?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 05:44 AM (/ENeD)

49
LOL! Glacier barriers...
Posted by: JQ

Glacial condoms

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 15, 2024 05:44 AM (xG4kz)

50 A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
---------

Aw, gee... You mean the poor b@st@rds are totally unable to conceal their disappointment? Fkers.

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 05:45 AM (njWTi)

51 Biden's Dog, may I ask a favor? Could you tell me a place in Israel that is making the hostage t-shirts? I want a Kfir Bibas one. I had one made here but it's not quite right

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 05:45 AM (5MvGY)

52
About to pack it in and get up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 15, 2024 05:46 AM (1Nxff)

53 The writing on the side of his taxi said "Grace Taxi"
I was reminded of grace/- the unmerited favor of God- which I think the taxi was named for /and it made me thankful to the Lord. Everyday we can see glimpses of God's love and presence if we take the time to look.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 05:42 AM (ZETVz)
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Here I was thinking "Come Ninveh, come tire."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 05:46 AM (/ENeD)

54 House is finally cooled. Time to close up & go to bed.

Prayers for all!

Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2024 05:48 AM (njWTi)

55 I'm not sure we in America have crossed a Rubicon. We've had presidential assassinations, and even attempts on candidates like Teddy Roosevelt and a pres.-elect like FDR. There used to be a "tradition" that presidents elected every twenty years since, what, 1840?, would die in office. Certainly we had Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley; Harding died in office of natural causes, so did FDR, and JFK was shot, as was Reagan. He broke the mold; he did not die in office, and Bush II is fine. F. Joke might croak before he leaves office, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 05:50 AM (omVj0)

56 - Well IRONGRAMPA, it has been quite some time since we've seen happenings like this.
I expect those currently in power are worried about more than just being out of power. Maybe fear of being exposed for just how evil they really are?

I think it's gonna get worse before it gets better. But then what do I know.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:50 AM (xZpzx)

57 Biden's Dog, may I ask a favor? Could you tell me a place in Israel that is making the hostage t-shirts? I want a Kfir Bibas one. I had one made here but it's not quite right

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 05:45 AM (5MvGY)
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All I did was search for "t-shirt bibas". At Etsy:

https://tinyurl.com/yzrw4mf4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 05:51 AM (/ENeD)

58 I'm not sure we in America have crossed a Rubicon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 05:50 AM (omVj0)
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I hope you don't have to, neither before nor after the election.

But the Boy Scout in me says "be prepared."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 05:52 AM (/ENeD)

59 Biden's Dog, thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 05:52 AM (5MvGY)

60 Just back home with one of our grandkids. Off for a walk in the mid-day heat.

Take a look at my comments on the ONT to see if anything interests you folks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 15, 2024 05:53 AM (/ENeD)

61 I wonder what kind of comments I will get when I print out the Trump-Iwo Jima pic on glossy paper and put it up over my desk. Most of the people at my work are horrifically liberal. One has had a notice on his door calling for the impeachment of Bush II since 2004 or even earlier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

62 -
When the enemy's army comes in like a flood
The battle belongs to the Lord

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 05:55 AM (xZpzx)

63 The difference is that political speech hadn't been shut down, like it is now. It's not just demonizing the candidate. They demonize the supporters too. I am seeing a lot of folks on the internet that are fed up. But the Left hasn't gotten the memo yet. Some of them will get to talk to their boss about why they were cheering on murder. People are being called out for their behavior.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 15, 2024 05:58 AM (xjTDL)

64 Back from my workout. It was not quite as horrible out there as usual: 81 F. instead of 85 or more, and a heat index of only (!) 90 instead of 95. Still, I took it easy.

We're supposed to get rain nearly every day this week. I'll believe it when I feel it.

The local Fox outlet had a minute to remember Shannen Doherty. Despite being way out of the demographic for that show (and I happen to know I wasn't alone), I enjoyed 90210, not least for Shannen and the ongoing drama with Luke Perry as Dylan. Odd that they're both gone now.

Fox TV and, later, the WB did some very innovative and memorable programming, didn't they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2024 05:59 AM (omVj0)

65 might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole.

Aw, but I stretched out this morning and have my pouncing clothes on!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 15, 2024 06:00 AM (NR6c1)

66 A duo sings a lovely version of a Christian hymn favorite, "I surrender all.":

https://tinyurl.com/mr3syj7c

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 06:01 AM (ZETVz)

67 @47, lolol!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 06:03 AM (UWgy2)

68 I. Hate. Summer.*
So do we.
Posted by: The Glaciers

Don't worry, we're coming to save you!!!

Posted by: Enormous Stacks of Tax Dollars at July 15, 2024 06:04 AM (1KCcl)

69 17 The glacier barrier thing isn't to keep the glaciers from calving. It is to prevent warm water from undermining them.

It's still a stupid idea, but not quite as stupid as physically blocking them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2024

Thanks for that. That's a lot less stupid and so a lot less interesting.

I've updated the post to include that information.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 15, 2024 06:05 AM (BLOW1)

70 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2024 06:05 AM (RIvkX)

71 - Pixy, anything on my @26 and @28?

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 06:07 AM (xZpzx)

72 Rabbi's daughter from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews reflects on a passage from Numbers and that " God knows":

https://tinyurl.com/bdd6yy3t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 06:08 AM (KjELq)

73 That's a lot less stupid and so a lot less interesting.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 15, 2024 06:05 AM (BLOW1)

Oh...it's plenty stupid. They want to use natural fibers instead of plastic for the barriers, which of course will require a significant increase in the use of fossil fuels to farm them.

And they have no idea how the barriers will change ocean currents. For all they know, it will increase warming.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 15, 2024 06:09 AM (A3700)

74 @50 - exactly. they are incapable of dissembling their hatred for a few minutes, even for their millions of dollars.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 06:11 AM (UWgy2)

75 When does Trump officially become the candidate? Online resources suck.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 15, 2024 06:11 AM (U7wke)

76 Nemesis always follows Hubris.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 06:11 AM (UWgy2)

77 mornin yall. Monday mornin.This week promises to be a doozy.

Posted by: fd at July 15, 2024 06:14 AM (vFG9F)

78 Maybe we could just build a walk in freezer around the glaciers?

Posted by: A Man, A Plan, An Intellectual Disability at July 15, 2024 06:16 AM (lzNT1)

79 I used to, Thursday

Posted by: Ben Had at July 15, 2024 06:17 AM (5MvGY)

80 LOL

Posted by: A Man, A Plan, An Intellectual Disability

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 06:17 AM (64Zez)

81 It would also make a food place to store our strategic reserve of frozen breakfast sausage patties.

Posted by: A Man, A Plan, An Intellectual Disability at July 15, 2024 06:18 AM (lzNT1)

82 If a cable "news" show that nobody watches is cancelled, does it make a sound?

Posted by: Or something at July 15, 2024 06:21 AM (SvpLe)

83 71 - Pixy, anything on my @26 and @28?
Posted by: TeeJ

Sorry, yeah. TinyURL might have been blocked from the URL box. I'll take a look.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 15, 2024 06:23 AM (BLOW1)

84 Posted by: A Man, A Plan, An Intellectual Disability at July 15, 2024 06:18 AM (lzNT1)
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Can I interest you in a floating pier somewhere off Ashdod?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2024 06:24 AM (RIvkX)

85 Good morning, all.

Going to stay off the computer today for the most part, just facts- no analyses. I had planned for this to be a news free week but that is not happening.

Like some of your workplaces, Prayer Shawl meeting is going to be lit. All in favor of Trump.

In good new, Fr Claudius, our new pastor, does not begin his sermon with a joke, the cat seems better after her trip to the vet and the quilt for the Lutheran church organist is almost done. The field across from the school had a gorgeous hay crop- happy for him after last year.
Hope you all have a good one.

Posted by: sal at July 15, 2024 06:24 AM (y7DxH)

86 Bjorn Lomborg argues that reducing emissions restricts economic growth, which we know, and that in turn hampers our ability to respond to threats of all kind including those from climate.

I would like for the left to define, ala George Carlin, what they think the planet is, and what it means to "save" the planet.

Here is a fun movie about saving "the planet": https://archive.org/details/titan-ae

Posted by: meh at July 15, 2024 06:25 AM (a6tT9)

87 - Trying again
Ah, so it's tiny url links that are banned in the URL box with nic.
Well, that makes sense, sorta, I guess.
The utube addy is really long.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 06:26 AM (xZpzx)

88 85 In good news, Fr Claudius, our new pastor, does not begin his sermon with a joke, the cat seems better after her trip to the vet and the quilt for the Lutheran church organist is almost done. The field across from the school had a gorgeous hay crop-- happy for him after last year.
Posted by: sal at July 15, 2024 06:24 AM (y7DxH)

Excellent news all around!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 06:27 AM (64Zez)

89 There is no threat from the climate.

Posted by: George Carlin at July 15, 2024 06:27 AM (SvpLe)

90 The Anne Applebaum article in the sidebar is perplexing. I my even have to read it, even though I would rather give no clicks to Atlantic. My problem is I just can't figure out why someone thinks electing Trump is the end of the American Republic. Lower taxes and fewer regulations do that?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 15, 2024 06:28 AM (hj1Oi)

91 "The planet is fine."

--George Carlin

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 06:29 AM (64Zez)

92 - @83. I tried again while you were typing/checking.
That's the problem.
Must be my torn paper level membership.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 06:29 AM (xZpzx)

93 Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 06:27 AM (64Zez)

Thanks for sharing good news. Why are you making a quilt for the Lutheran Church organist?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 06:31 AM (VqDXL)

94 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 15, 2024 06:32 AM (3Fz6p)

95 94 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 15, 2024 06:32 AM (3Fz6p)

Thanks for the reminder!

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 06:32 AM (64Zez)

96 Try laminating your torn paper membership card with clear packing tape.

Posted by: 2nd Class Horde Member at July 15, 2024 06:34 AM (SvpLe)

97 Hmmm i wonder if nature knows that splitting up those ice blocks is the energetically most favorable thing to do, and preventing that process would have other catastrophic outcomes in the future.... nahhh, that's dumb. Nature is stupid. Ice belongs where we say it belongs, dammit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 15, 2024 06:35 AM (BAEGB)

98 "Why are we here?"

"Plastic, asshole."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 15, 2024 06:36 AM (BAEGB)

99 People are such assholes. I am sorry I said anything.

Posted by: meh at July 15, 2024 06:36 AM (a6tT9)

100 When does Trump officially become the candidate? Online resources suck.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 15, 2024 06:11 AM (U7wke)
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He gets nominated Thursday, I believe

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 15, 2024 06:37 AM (cWCpX)

101 JJ is up!

nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 15, 2024 06:37 AM (UWgy2)

102 - Me? Use clear packing tape?
You want to risk a rift in the space, time continuum?
At the very least I'm liable to spend hours getting it stuck, then unstuck, from one hand to the other.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 15, 2024 06:43 AM (xZpzx)

103 Come to think of it, doing so might violate the Terms Of Service.
We wouldn't want to get the lawyers involved. Forget I said anything.

Posted by: 2nd Class Horde Member at July 15, 2024 06:49 AM (SvpLe)

104
When does Trump officially become the candidate? Online resources suck.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Delegates vote him into the role on Wednesday and he accepts the nomination on Thursday if past conventions are any guide these days.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 15, 2024 06:52 AM (xG4kz)

105 Thanks for sharing good news. Why are you making a quilt for the Lutheran Church organist?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 06:31 AM (VqDXL)

In our tiny town, everybody is connected some way.
She's a member of our Prayer Shawl group and has been the organist at one (there are five or six) of the Lutheran churches around here for over sixty years. I worked with a bunch of members from there at the Thrift Store, one of whom is giving me a hand with it.

Posted by: sal at July 15, 2024 06:53 AM (y7DxH)

106 94 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 15, 2024 06:32 AM (3Fz6p)

Tea. Gunpowder Green. Dash of Nettle. Hot.

Posted by: sal at July 15, 2024 06:55 AM (y7DxH)

107 90 The Anne Applebaum article in the sidebar is perplexing. I my even have to read it, even though I would rather give no clicks to Atlantic. My problem is I just can't figure out why someone thinks electing Trump is the end of the American Republic. Lower taxes and fewer regulations do that?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 15, 2024 06:28 AM (hj1Oi)

Thanks for pointing it out. I had missed that. She does not in any way answer your questions!

Reasons not to worry about the plan she sketches out:

She's promoting "Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Vice President Harris" LOLOLOLOL

and no one reads The Atlantic.

Posted by: m at July 15, 2024 06:56 AM (64Zez)

108 Posted by: sal at July 15, 2024 06:53 AM (y7DxH)

What a thoughtful thing to do and what a nice group to have.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2024 07:21 AM (+TcQa)

109 Google is reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23 billion.

Why pay for a Wiz when you can just take a Wiz?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 15, 2024 09:38 AM (JRP2U)

110 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 15, 2024 10:21 AM (oQD10)

111 Fun Fact: Golf courses around the world are designed to mimic the features of a terminal moraine - the landscape left by a retreating glacier.

Posted by: Tmitsss at July 15, 2024 11:11 AM (omU9l)

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