Daily Tech News 30 July 2024

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AI has been determined by the State of California to cause rats in laboratory cancer: SB-1047 - legislation introduced by Scott Wiener, so you know it's bad - aims to make it illegal for AI to do things which are illegal in the first place and which it cannot possibly do in the second place. (Ars Technica)
The bill lays out a legalistic definition of those safety incidents that in turn focuses on defining a set of "critical harms" that an AI system might enable. That includes harms leading to "mass casualties or at least $500 million of damage," such as "the creation or use of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon" (hello, Skynet?) or "precise instructions for conducting a cyberattack... on critical infrastructure." The bill also alludes to "other grave harms to public safety and security that are of comparable severity" to those laid out explicitly.
It's illegal to kill people, even in small numbers.

It's illegal to destroy property that is not your own, even when it's less than half a billion dollars in damage.

It's illegal to create chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

It is trivially easy to find information on how to do any of these things, and that information cannot be erased, because people have done all of these things.

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The Asus ProArt PX13 is another Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 laptop. (Notebook Check)

Now there are two of them.

Again it lacks the Four Essential Keys, which is a shame because the specs are great. Though the cheapest model is $1999 (with 24GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and RTX 4050 graphics) and it goes up to $2999, so I wouldn't have been in the market anyway.

Also, it seems that these chips don't support regular DDR5 DIMMs. There's no particular reason that they couldn't use CAMM2 modules instead of soldered LPDDR5X, but there are very few laptops supporting CAMM2 modules at the moment.
You're blocking it wrong. (404 Media)

Not a huge story but a handy guide to how to block the scourge of new AI web crawlers from your site.
The Dasung Paperlike Color is a 12 inch 2560x1600 USB-C display weighing just under a pound. (Liliputing)

When you see a display specifically named as "color" you can be pretty sure it's e-ink rather than LCD or OLED, and it is.

One problem: It costs $849, so you'd need to really want an e-ink display for this to be worthwhile.
Elon Musk reposted a parody video of Kamala Harris and the usual suspects are rioting. Virtually. (The Verge)

It would be a lot funnier if these idiots didn't vote.
microjs is a collection of JavaScript libraries, many of the under 1k in size. (microjs)

Since it's literally impossible for any single piece of data to measure one microbyte, I'll accept it for what it is.

There are a lot of libraries on there and many of them seem useful.
FastHTML lets you write web applications in Python. (fastht.ml)

I'm not sure I like this. If you don't know HTML and CSS and JavaScript and don't need to fine-tune your website, I can see how it would be useful.

And you can customise the HTML, CSS, and Javascript; you're not stuck with what it generaties.

But the home page for it is kind of ugly, which is not a great start.
If you are running VMWare ESXi and you create a group called "ESX Admins" it gives that group admin access. (Ars Technica)

And if you are running Microsoft Active Directory, you don't even need to do this on the ESXi server. If you can create a group on Active Directory it will apply just fine to ESXi.

I don't run any of that stuff, but a whole lot of people do.

Disclaimer: Skill issue.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 nothing

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #98 at July 30, 2024 04:03 AM (qfLjt)

2 Understandable, have a nice day.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 30, 2024 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

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

Pixy your first sentence is a classic of twisting a cliche's tail and making it squeal.

Had a pretty decent night's sleep, and am sipping coffee and a morning pipe; it's my day off from workouts after two days running. (Pun not included. I walk more than I run, and even the run is kind of a trot nowadays.)

What be happenin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:09 AM (omVj0)

4 everyone is asleep? I'm amusing myself watching sovereign citizen traffic stops, passing the time to the Launch.

Lift-off is scheduled for July 30 from SLC-41 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, July 30, 6:45 a.m. EDT, 1045 UTC, 12:45 CEST. This is a classified mission for the USSF.

https://www.youtube.com/live
/nkt5kqDyBXE

Posted by: Ciampino - Space Update #01 at July 30, 2024 04:13 AM (qfLjt)

5 Oh, and I received my copies of the anthology, All Will Burn: At All Costs from Raconteur Press with my short story in it. It is truly astonishing to see your own writing in a professional paperback. ("Did I really write that? Wow.")

Now I have to read all the others in the collection to get some more idea of what RP wants in their anthologies. There's a current call for submissions, and I have several stories that might fit it. But I need to see what they actually accept in practice. A different editor, of course, may have different tastes, but I can but try.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:13 AM (omVj0)

6 Morning Pixy.

Posted by: Ciampino - Space Update #02 at July 30, 2024 04:14 AM (qfLjt)

7
Elon Musk reposted a parody video of Kamala Harris and the usual suspects are rioting. Virtually.

I'm so old I remember when the left supported parody. You see, Jerry Falwell was some sort of religious figure who got a lot of press. Larry Flynn published a magazine that a lot of people would consider pornographic. Flynn published something nasty about Falwell and Falwell sued. The US Supreme Court eventually ruled that the piece was parody and free speech.

The left went orgasmic in delight.

Things change and I don't know why.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 04:14 AM (RKVpM)

8 Good morning all.

Good luck with your short story submission W.A.

Posted by: Tuna at July 30, 2024 04:17 AM (oaGWv)

9 Things change and I don't know why.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 04:14 AM (RKVpM)

Naked Hobo Smurf knows why.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:17 AM (BAEGB)

10 Two children dead six wounded in a stabbing rampage in England. The report claimed that the 17 YO male attacker was in custody and terrorism is not suspected, so draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at July 30, 2024 04:19 AM (iJVoP)

11 BOING!

Willowed:

https://tinyurl.com/mrcmr64u
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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No open for me
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 30, 2024 02:43 AM (XeU6L)
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Still works here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 30, 2024 04:21 AM (2ftGe)

12 One day they're huffing and puffing about voters needing debates to truly get to grips with the intricacies of a candidate's platform, and asking why a voter in Kansas is not able to grasp the nuances of modern economic theories which clearly show, if they'd only study their Galbreath and Keynes, that Democrat policies are in their own best interest.... and the next day they're panicking that these same people will get suckered by a clearly fake video showing a candidate saying absolute nonsense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:23 AM (BAEGB)

13 so draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at July 30, 2024 04:19 AM (iJVoP)

We need to all wear little stickers saying "Hello my motive is...", just so that no one has to be scared of us murdering up a concert or shooting a politician in the earlobe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:25 AM (BAEGB)

14 ood morning all.

Good luck with your short story submission W.A.
Posted by: Tuna at July 30, 2024

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Good morning, Tuna, and thank you. The call is for "Wyrd West," i.e., supernatural or other fantastical happenings set in the Old West. I have several stories in the genre. But they didn't buy the previous one I sent them, so I need a bit more of a clue to what they want.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:25 AM (omVj0)

15 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2024 04:25 AM (fwDg9)

16 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 30, 2024 04:25 AM (dg+HA)

17 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2024 04:27 AM (sAmhv)

18 That Cal bill is more insane than you can imagine:

x.com/deanwball/status/
1817919466430185909

@deanwball 18h
Every maker of "recording equipment" must give users the option to watermark data recorded on their devices sold after July 2026. And every website or app with more than 1m California users must develop ways to show content authenticity metadata for all user-generated content.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 30, 2024 04:27 AM (IG4Id)

19 Good morning, good people. May all things beneficial to you result for your efforts today.

And always remember we live in the most exceptional country on the planet.

We are Americans.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 30, 2024 04:29 AM (hKoQL)

20 So sitcoms are illegal now?

Huh.

Ok, I'm in.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:29 AM (BAEGB)

21 Can't everyone just vote California off the island?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 30, 2024 04:30 AM (2ftGe)

22 Can't everyone just vote California off the island?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 30, 2024

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Voting it off the continent would work even better

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:31 AM (omVj0)

23 And all those laughably idiotic spunkgargle FBI shows on network tv will finally go away for good so i never have to watch five seconds of commercial for any of them ever again?

Fuck this Kammmmala chick, let's put gruesome newsom in! No elections, just hand over the keys this afternoon and let's party.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:33 AM (BAEGB)

24 I'm amusing myself watching sovereign citizen traffic stops, passing the time to the Launch.

Ah, the sovereign citizen people. I would almost be sympathetic to them, almost understand that point of view, but then, they keep talking. I want to hit them after that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2024 04:34 AM (sAmhv)

25 Voting it off the continent would work even better
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:31 AM (omVj0)

If you kept carving off coastal states until you got to some presumed non-rotten core, they'd have to start shipping goods from Vancouver to Tijuana across the world's largest dignity canal.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:35 AM (BAEGB)

26 21 Can't everyone just vote California off the island?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 30, 2024 04:30 AM (2ftGe)

They've got all that nice coastline, tho.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 04:36 AM (64Zez)

27 *passing the time to the Launch.*

The significance of the passage of time..

Posted by: Mrs. Emmhoff at July 30, 2024 04:38 AM (dg+HA)

28 Besides, California is beautiful. I don't carve off my dog's ass when he's gnawing on it, i just swap out his flea collar.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:38 AM (BAEGB)

29 If you kept carving off coastal states until you got to some presumed non-rotten core, they'd have to start shipping goods from Vancouver to Tijuana across the world's largest dignity canal.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024

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The Midwest and Plains states, and Texas, would be all that was left. And TN and AL, I guess. I suggest a smallish city in Nebraska as the new capital!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:39 AM (omVj0)

30 The Midwest and Plains states, and Texas, would be all that was left. And TN and AL, I guess. I suggest a smallish city in Nebraska as the new capital!

***
Hey, a new story idea . . .!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:39 AM (omVj0)

31 If you kept carving off coastal states until you got to some presumed non-rotten core, they'd have to start shipping goods from Vancouver to Tijuana across the world's largest dignity canal.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Still not sure why peeps want to give away Pendleton, Vandenburg, San Nicolas, San Clemente to the CCP.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 30, 2024 04:40 AM (IG4Id)

32 Can't everyone just vote California off the island?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 30, 2024
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They've got all that nice coastline, tho.
Posted by: m at July 30, 2024

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Yeah, it's the *inhabitants* that are the problem.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:40 AM (omVj0)

33 Scottsbluff, NE

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2024 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

34 It's illegal to kill people, even in small numbers.

Everything counts, in small amounts

Posted by: Depeche Miklos Mode at July 30, 2024 04:41 AM (1CnH+)

35
I remember when California had a Governor by the name of Ronald Reagan.

Things change and I don't know why.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 04:44 AM (RKVpM)

36 Scottsbluff, NE

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2024

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That's relatively close to the CO border, right? Sounds good to me. We can accept people fleeing CO's craziness as long as they pass a test that would reveal any leftoid notions. That would be a challenge to devise, to make sure it really works. Blue hair on the immigrant, or a dress and a beard, would be a good clue.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:48 AM (omVj0)

37 52 years from Reagan to Newsome.

Posted by: Passage of tio at July 30, 2024 04:48 AM (dg+HA)

38 Everything counts, in small amounts
Posted by: Depeche Miklos Mode

Don't make me post KDFM.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 30, 2024 04:48 AM (IG4Id)

39 It's illegal to kill people, even in small numbers.

Everything counts, in small amounts
Posted by: Depeche Miklos Mode at July 30, 2024 04:41 AM (1CnH+)
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Even in Round Rock, Texas?

(math. sorry.)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 30, 2024 04:49 AM (2ftGe)

40 52 years from Reagan to Newsome.
Posted by: Passage of tio at July 30, 2024

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It got crazy earlier than that. Arnold as a pretend R governor, for instance. And Jerry Brown and Gray Davis.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:51 AM (omVj0)

41 I feel like it ought to be trivial to whip up some "I'm With Her(pes)" campaign t-shirts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:51 AM (BAEGB)

42 35 I remember when California had a Governor by the name of Ronald Reagan.

Things change and I don't know why.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 04:44 AM (RKVpM)

Things change unburdened by what has been. History has been. Memory has been. And we need to move on from that. Unburdened.

Anybody found a good Kamala Harris speech generator out there?

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 04:52 AM (64Zez)

43 I feel like it ought to be trivial to whip up some "I'm With Her(pes)" campaign t-shirts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024

***
"I'm With the Ho"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:52 AM (omVj0)

44 >> and the next day they're panicking that these same people will get suckered by a clearly fake video showing a candidate saying absolute nonsense.

They hate the video because it's too close to the truth.
Why they hate the right's memes so dang much, too.
They can't fight the simple truths that, say, a Babylon Bee headline highlights. They can only combat these things with paragraphs of BS - and that's hard, you guyz!

Morning all!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 04:53 AM (Pijte)

45 Almost time for me to hit the shower and feed the feline monsters. (Not simultaneously.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:53 AM (omVj0)

46 'So uniquely her': where did Kamala Harris's self-help ...

The Guardian
5 days ago — The vice-president blends a prosecutor's precision with pearls of wisdom.

Aiiee!

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 04:54 AM (64Zez)

47 "Unburdened by what has been" sounds better in the original Khmer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:55 AM (BAEGB)

48 I filled the birdbath yesterday evening

Posted by: Skip at July 30, 2024 04:55 AM (fwDg9)

49 >>The Guardian
5 days ago — The vice-president blends a prosecutor's precision with pearls of wisdom.

I see something like that and wonder, are they really that stupid, or were they laughing hysterically when they crafted that statement?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 04:58 AM (Pijte)

50
Pearls of wisdom secured by being on the receiving end of multitudes of pearl necklaces.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 04:58 AM (RKVpM)

51 "Unburdened by what has been" = "Let's ditch all the things that worked and made America great, just because they are old stuff."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:58 AM (omVj0)

52 For a party and an ideology who have embraced nothing after the year 1900 outside of the birth control pill, they sure like to talk shit about The Past.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 04:59 AM (BAEGB)

53 Our golden age of nostalgia is the 1950s.

Theirs is the 1850s.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 05:00 AM (BAEGB)

54 Anybody found a good Kamala Harris speech generator out there?
Posted by: m

Alcohol, and plenty of it.

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2024 05:00 AM (MVkXU)

55 Pearl necklace of wisdumb.

Posted by: She can't aways swallow at July 30, 2024 05:01 AM (AUL7F)

56 54 Anybody found a good Kamala Harris speech generator out there?
Posted by: m

Alcohol, and plenty of it.
Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2024 05:00 AM (MVkXU)

Ha!

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:03 AM (64Zez)

57 They're seriously getting within feeling the static on your arm hairs range of "Dear Leader scores a 17 on an 18-hole course" territory

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 05:04 AM (BAEGB)

58 Here's Harvard embarrassing itself. Again. So much cringe in this article.

>>>Harvard for Biden, Unburdened by What Has Been, Rebrands as Harvard for Harris

https://tinyurl.com/wchnx6ds

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:04 AM (64Zez)

59 >>>Biden initially attempted to silence the criticism sparked by his performance at the debate, but a series of public gaffes — including the embarrassing moment during the NATO summit when Biden introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin” — failed to appease allies in Congress who feared Biden would drag down the rest of the Democratic ticket in November.

a series of gaffes ... failed to appease

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:06 AM (64Zez)

60 The marine layer in mid-SF is really heavy tonight. They must be getting soaked in the outer Avenues. 60F.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 30, 2024 05:06 AM (KAi1n)

61 A marine layer is an air mass that develops over the surface of a large body of water, such as an ocean or large lake, in the presence of a temperature inversion.

--Wikipedia

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:09 AM (64Zez)

62 >>Here's Harvard embarrassing itself. Again. So much cringe in this article.

Reminds me of a campaign in the neighborhood:
BIDEN
HARRIS
Obviously

Walked by it yesterday and they had hastily cut off the "Biden" part (jagged edge). Not so obvious now, lol?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 05:09 AM (Pijte)

63 Baghdad bugout? Meh, shit happens. Covid policy was 100% bullshit based on people making things up and calling it science because they put on a doctor's outfit from Halloween Spirit? Hey, we had to do something.

Calling Big Z "Putin"? Holy fuck, battle stations, people, all quarters, this is not a drill.

This Is Why We Hate You.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 05:11 AM (BAEGB)

64 The marine layer in mid-SF is really heavy tonight. They must be getting soaked in the outer Avenues. 60F.
Posted by: SFGoth

Atherton must be positively soaked.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 30, 2024 05:12 AM (IG4Id)

65
So many spectator videos showing up on Twitter right now of the minutes before Trump was shot. Police had the building surrounded for five minutes. Yet no one thought to walk forward and tell the Secret Service to get Trump the hell off the stage.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 05:15 AM (RKVpM)

66 G'morning, all.

Today is three weeks of walking 3 miles, and massively cutting down carbs and caffeine.

Weight has dropped 15 pounds.

Blood pressure is down consistently below 130/80, usually 118/74.

Acid reflux is markedly reduced.

Overall, seems to be improving at a good rate.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 30, 2024 05:18 AM (a1415)

67 Overall, seems to be improving at a good rate.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Great!

Posted by: Bruce at July 30, 2024 05:22 AM (MVkXU)

68 I never thought of Mass. as a hotbed of immigration.

But sure seems to be a lot of non-english speakers living there.

https://tinyurl.com/49dn3cx5

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 30, 2024 05:23 AM (a1415)

69 VIA, glad to hear your good news

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2024 05:25 AM (5MvGY)

70 Going back to carbs and caffeine for a moment.

Imagine the effects on your body of drinking an entire pot of coffee in the morning. With approximately 15-20 servings of Dunkin' Extra-Extra in those five cups of coffee.

That alone was doing a huge amount of damage to my weight.

And the jitters.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 30, 2024 05:26 AM (a1415)

71 *quietly drinks second cup of Dunkin Donuts breakfast blend*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 30, 2024 05:27 AM (y31cs)

72 Aetius, Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2024 05:28 AM (5MvGY)

73 24 I'm amusing myself watching sovereign citizen traffic stops, passing the time to the Launch.

Ah, the sovereign citizen people. I would almost be sympathetic to them, almost understand that point of view, but then, they keep talking. I want to hit them after that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2024 04:34 AM (sAmhv)
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YES.

Posted by: Ciampino - I'm traveling NOT DRIVING at July 30, 2024 05:28 AM (qfLjt)

74 Yet no one thought to walk forward and tell the Secret Service to get Trump the hell off the stage.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 05:15 AM (RKVpM)

Which is the more preposterous "theory"?

- there was an intentional lapse in security, probably not unique, to create an ongoing stochastic threat to the candidate's life.

- many people from the world's premier personal security force all considered a kid with a gun taking up a position on a roof to be insufficient cause for alarm.

In fact, putting it that way.... what's the difference?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 05:29 AM (BAEGB)

75 Morning Ben Had.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 30, 2024 05:31 AM (y31cs)

76 Ah, the sovereign citizen people. I would almost be sympathetic to them, almost understand that point of view, but then, they keep talking. I want to hit them after that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2024 04:34 AM (sAmhv)
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YES.
Posted by: Ciampino - I'm traveling NOT DRIVING at July 30, 2024 05:28 AM (qfLjt)

To be fair, that's most people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 30, 2024 05:31 AM (y31cs)

77 Thanks, Ben Had and all.

Little VIA's wedding is the end of September, and I soooooo want to hit 200 lbs for that event.

Anyhow, time to get ready for the walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 30, 2024 05:32 AM (a1415)

78 70 Going back to carbs and caffeine for a moment.

Imagine the effects on your body of drinking an entire pot of coffee in the morning. With approximately 15-20 servings of Dunkin' Extra-Extra in those five cups of coffee.

That alone was doing a huge amount of damage to my weight.

And the jitters.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 30, 2024 05:26 AM (a1415)

Really rooting for you, VIA! Lots of great observations.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:33 AM (64Zez)

79 Little VIA's wedding is the end of September, and I soooooo want to hit 200 lbs for that event.

Schnikeeze! It seems he was just getting aviation warfare qual'd a year or two ago.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 30, 2024 05:36 AM (YRsIm)

80
As you walk and lose weight, a good idea is to wear a backpack and load it with the pounds you've lost.

People tend to plateau and wonder why? It's because it now burns fewer calories to walk the same distance.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 30, 2024 05:37 AM (RKVpM)

81 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 30, 2024 05:38 AM (hoCmQ)

82 The coconut Kamala is sitting on top of, on the cover of a New York magazine looks so much like the dung that a dung beetle rolls along.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:39 AM (64Zez)

83 The coconut Kamala is sitting on top of, on the cover of a New York magazine looks so much like the dung that a dung beetle rolls along.
Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:39 AM (64Zez)

Heh

At first glance, i would assume it was a hit piece.

Everyone looks goofy and subservient to an even goofier master. Evoking the whole knocking two coconuts together to mimic a horse thing from MPATHG is emphasizing that Harris is a frivolous, farcical, empty suit. And also... coconuts?

Racist, much, New Yorker?

But no...i think that they actually are trying to help her cause. And that they've never watched MPATHG except for third hand exposure to references to it. The silly bastards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 05:45 AM (BAEGB)

84 New York magazine (not New Yorker):

https://nymag.com

They're kinda nuts.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:47 AM (64Zez)

85 New York magazine (not New Yorker):

https://nymag.com

They're kinda nuts.
Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 05:47 AM (64Zez)

Filthy bolshie pamphletteers, all of them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 05:49 AM (BAEGB)

86 73
Hilarious when a SovCit in Ireland spouts US laws or US Constitution items which have no bearing there. 'Probable Cause' in the UK would elicit a Huh? There it is 'a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed.'
--
Sovereign citizens/moorish/mornish/
nationals/whatever sobriquet

I would enjoy for once a cop or a judge to say:
1. If our laws don't pertain to you then why are you quoting various USSC cases?
2. Read all those rulings right through - they don't mean what you think they mean.
3. There were no cars when the Constitution was written and signed. That word 'travel' refers to 'on foot'.
4. Visitors to our land (hence non-citizens) have to comply with all US Laws, Federal, State, County and City. If you are a non-citizen then you are just like a visitor.

I do agree on one thing: Being detained (often in cuffs) is the same as arrested, regardless of what the cops say.

But these people keep me amused specially the fee schedules and the questionnaire they hand the cops.

Posted by: Ciampino - I'm traveling NOT DRIVING! at July 30, 2024 05:50 AM (qfLjt)

87 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 30, 2024 05:51 AM (u82oZ)

88 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 30, 2024 05:52 AM (HJPAp)

89 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 30, 2024 05:54 AM (PzBTm)

90 Pacifica

Posted by: SFGoth at July 30, 2024 05:54 AM (KAi1n)

91 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, guv'nor

That is excellent news. Keep it up until you are the tight end your wife has been looking for, stud.

Finally up early enough to greet you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 30, 2024 05:55 AM (u82oZ)

92 Oh my goodness, why would they have her sitting on a coconut?

Then there are the race-based Kamala support groups, created by her own campaign, because race segregation for Kamala is totally cool and hip. . . I can't even with these people, they are completely mad.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 05:56 AM (Pijte)

93 {{{Ben Had}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 30, 2024 05:56 AM (u82oZ)

94 g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 30, 2024 05:57 AM (UWgy2)

95 >>Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Tryin', Salty, I'm surrounded by them at work

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 05:57 AM (Pijte)

96 45 Almost time for me to hit the shower and feed the feline monsters. (Not simultaneously.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:53 AM (omVj0)

Geek moment. The cartoon "What's New?" by Phil Foglio did a strip on what certain things in D&D would be like in the real world. The last one was "Strap 53 live cats to your body and take a cold shower. This will simulate the average injuries from an encounter with a monster."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 30, 2024 05:57 AM (OPGS/)

97 Lizzy, you saw the "white dudes for Harris" thing too !!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2024 05:57 AM (5MvGY)

98 Decades ago (1997), i had to deal a slobberin' citizen in the army reserve. Guy had filed a crazy case in federal court. I think he was a major. We got him tossed.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 30, 2024 05:58 AM (KAi1n)

99 I have never been approached by a police officer except for one time when some creep was skulking around the back yards of my neighborhood and the tracks in the snow went right around my house, and he was asking if our doorbell camera caught anything. It didn't, really, but hey, thanks for looking at least.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 05:59 AM (BAEGB)

100 NaCly, dearest Good morning

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2024 05:59 AM (5MvGY)

101 Time for work preps. I help with back to school preps, as all our busses are being inspected by State Troopers today.

Training, then kids on busses, will be soon. Less than two weeks.

Have a great day, and may your dreams come true due to hard work and the Hand of God.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 30, 2024 05:59 AM (u82oZ)

102 @65

>>Yet no one thought to walk forward and tell the Secret Service to get Trump the hell off the stage.

You don't really need a grand conspiracy, all you need is a single conspirator in the comms chain to orchestrating the events.

Hopefully they are ferreted out during the investigation.

LOL as if.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2024 06:00 AM (XV/Pl)

103 Heh, yes, Ben Had. They are going to put the Babylon Bee out of business with this stuff - how can satire service in an Idiocracy?

>>Rocketto, a progressive organizer and Deloitte alum, was quick to address the uncomfortable name of the group he co-founded to raise money for the vice-president’s campaign. After an estimated 40,000 Black women gathered on Zoom to fundraise for Harris last week — followed by a White Women for Kamala event that broke Zoom —Rocketto stated that a white guy fundraiser was necessary. “We know the silent majority of white men aren’t MAGA supporters,” he said, adding that “we created this place to listen.” Then the white guys began talking.

"silent"

As if. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 06:02 AM (Pijte)

104 92 Oh my goodness, why would they have her sitting on a coconut?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 05:56 AM (Pijte)

I still can't figure out out. I think it must just be lazy dumbass word association. Kamala, Camelot, Monty Python, Coconuts. That's it. It doesn't mean anything, it's just mashing together outdated pop culture references like a hipster toddler smashing his G.I. Joes together to make them "fight".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:03 AM (BAEGB)

105 Just a reminder there's a rocket launch (not SpaceX) in a short while, see Comment #4 for details and link.

Posted by: Ciampino - Put a sovcit in a rocket, aim for the Sun at July 30, 2024 06:04 AM (qfLjt)

106 "silent"

As if. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 06:02 AM (Pijte)

"I know everyone actually agrees with me even if they're too scared or stupid to say it out loud, unlike brave genius me".

The douchiest hubris.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:06 AM (BAEGB)

107 Psalm 5

A psalm for the morning;

https://tinyurl.com/36yemupz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2024 06:06 AM (jNNaP)

108 92 Oh my goodness, why would they have her sitting on a coconut?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 05:56 AM (Pijte)
----
Waiting for the African swallows (pun intended) to come and migrate her from Jamaica to Florida? ..... what? Is that wrong? ..... Camelot then?

Posted by: Ciampino - Flown to success ..... suck Cess at July 30, 2024 06:10 AM (qfLjt)

109 I'm sure all the celebrities and megalomaniacs on that cover love being depicted as fawning interchangeable idolaters to St. Kamala of the Biohazard Bag Full Of Fetus Parts.

"I mean, sure, we support her monstrosities and all, but... you know, don't make us all look so ... little."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:11 AM (BAEGB)

110 And this is a nice note on that psalm from my Bible

How do we enter God's presence? If we waited until we were sinless and perfect, we would never go in. God's faithful love opens the door for us. Without his mercy and kindness, we would be unfit to approach him. Each day ask him to fill you with joy inwardly and surround you with joy outwardly. Then you will be able to approach him boldly

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2024 06:12 AM (ezVYU)

111 I do agree on one thing: Being detained (often in cuffs) is the same as arrested, regardless of what the cops say.

Posted by: Ciampino

I like the 2A Auditors. Specifically the Florida ones.
Florida is a concealed carry state EXCEPT for a specific exception. Specifically:

790.25
(h) A person engaged in fishing, camping, or lawful hunting or going to or returning from a fishing, camping, or lawful hunting expedition;

Guy is walking down a beach with an AR strapped (wearing) across his chest, fishing pole in one hand, tackle bag/backpack in the other. Cops stop him, eventually handcuff him, take his property, and put him in the back of the cop car. Detectives & supervisors show up. After 20 minutes or so, they let him go without as much as a ticket.

Clasdic Terry stop. Except they had NO reason. As soon as the cops asked "what's up?" & he said "going to the pier to go fishing", he was covered by 790.25 h (3).

They have to be able to articulate what law was or is about to be broken. So many commenting said the cops had to stop him and investigate him. For what? A legal activity?

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 30, 2024 06:13 AM (HJPAp)

112 And why is Eric Holder there? That cafe au lait motherfucker ain't had shit to do with shit in years.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:13 AM (BAEGB)

113 22 Can't everyone just vote California off the island?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 30, 2024

***
Voting it off the continent would work even better
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 30, 2024 04:31 AM (omVj0)

Workin' on it, Boss.

Posted by: The San Andreas Fault at July 30, 2024 06:17 AM (PiwSw)

114 And a nice devotional on a passage from the letter to the Colossians:

https://tinyurl.com/yk3j5naa

Following the reflection are some questions for reflection.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2024 06:19 AM (st4qM)

115 >>And why is Eric Holder there? That cafe au lait motherfucker ain't had shit to do with shit in years.

Sadly, not true:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder and his law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, will conduct vetting of potential running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the US presidency, sources say. . . His involvement in the vetting process may reassure Democrats a longtime political and legal hand is helping to ensure Harris’ pick, should she win the nomination, is free of major conflicts.

Holder is a civil rights advocate and chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which works to oppose Republican gerrymandering – efforts by politicians to redraw voting maps in US states to give their party an advantage.

Embedded in our politics like a tick. Thanks, Obama!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 06:19 AM (Pijte)

116 {92} Oh my goodness, why would they have her sitting on a coconut? ...

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 05:56 AM (Pijte)

Been wondering that myself. Then again, it's the Dems. Crazy doesn't need a reason.

Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 30, 2024 06:21 AM (O7YUW)

117 A beautiful hymn with a powerful story behind it, "It is well with my soul" and sung by a choir from BYU:

https://tinyurl.com/bdz39dch

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2024 06:24 AM (8ZJJb)

118 34 It's illegal to kill people, even in small numbers.

Ahem.

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at July 30, 2024 06:25 AM (PiwSw)

119 Embedded in our politics like a tick. Thanks, Obama!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 06:19 AM (Pijte)

Yuck.

I normally try to have more trenchant snark than that but all i can muster for that is just....

Yuck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:26 AM (BAEGB)

120 A woman follows her God given instincts and helps save lives;

https://tinyurl.com/36j4hyyt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2024 06:27 AM (8ZJJb)

121 why would they have her sitting on a coconut?

Look up "Kamala coconut tree speech."
Her followers now say they are coconut-pilled.
Unfair that Jimmy Buffett didn't live to see this moment.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 30, 2024 06:30 AM (zdLoL)

122 Good morning morons

Style Guide requires referring to Scott Weiner as State Pervert-in-Chief.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2024 06:30 AM (JvZF+)

123 "Or, hey, what if we went with the whole Kennedy angle? You know? Camelot. JFK. Convertible. Book Repository. We'll put little Bobby Jr. in there and everything!"

"Dammit, Larry, were doing the Monty Python thing. It was Karen's idea. Just let it go. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:30 AM (BAEGB)

124
The bill also alludes to "other grave harms to public safety and security that are of comparable severity" to those laid out explicitly.

Using the wrong pronouns
The traditional Latin Mass
Grilling steaks outdoors
Taking an interest in your child's education

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 30, 2024 06:31 AM (1Nxff)

125 116 {92} Oh my goodness, why would they have her sitting on a coconut? ...

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 05:56 AM (Pijte)

.........

I'm assuming it's a take on her mother saying something to the effect of "what is wrong with you young people, did you fall out of a coconut tree?" I'm going with yes she did.......

Posted by: Molly k. at July 30, 2024 06:32 AM (j/yko)

126 Kamala introduce the coconut theme into discussion herself:

But what does a coconut tree have to do with Harris? It goes back to May 10, 2023. That day, Harris spoke at a swearing-in ceremony.... "None of us just live in a silo. Everything is in context," she continued. "My mother used to — she would give us a hard time sometimes — and she would say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."

CBS News
https://tinyurl.com/2p9fd75k

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:33 AM (64Zez)

127 Here's the coconut reference explained

https://tinyurl.com/mvr5xhpk

Posted by: Just ask the internet at July 30, 2024 06:33 AM (uT/+m)

128 Oh, pissing hell, that's why they have her on a coconut? She talked about coconuts that one time?

Fuck's aches they're even more stupid than i give them credit for.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:34 AM (BAEGB)

129 >>Look up "Kamala coconut tree speech."

Ah, thanks!
The “coconut tree” meme originates from a May 2023 speech Harris gave at a White House event for advancing opportunities for Hispanic Americans. . .

"Everything is in context," Harris said, before launching into the now-famous anecdote.

"My mother ... would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' " Harris said with a laugh. "You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."

The moment was first meme’d in earnest in February of this year, when for a period of time, one could not open X, formerly known as Twitter, without seeing clips of or oblique references to those remarks.

Sounds. . . forced. Astroturfed.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 06:35 AM (Pijte)

130 Bus driver in NY saves little boy running in the street:

https://tinyurl.com/4n7frn26

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2024 06:35 AM (8ZJJb)

131 I feel like we live in a different world than this people:

But the meme took on new life this summer, after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance fueled speculation that he might step aside as the Democratic nominee. Harris’ supporters, also known as the KHive, were waiting in the wings.

Since then, the moment has been remixed into Charli XCX’s “Von Dutch” and Britney Spears’ "Gimme More." Democratic operatives have spoken of being “coconut-pilled.” The meme flourished into 2028 debate fan fiction. Google searches for "coconut tree" started climbing in the U.S. in early July.

Like all of us, the coconut tree moment exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. Which is to say, it’s part of a larger set of memes surrounding Kamala Harris’ political persona. Harris has been spawning memes longer than she’s been vice president. We Did It, Joe, is likely the most well-known. But her laugh, her bus, her dance moves and her love of Venn diagrams have all become social media fodder.

OK, the fact that the coconut meme has been mixed into pop star songs is a huuuuuge tell that this has been planted.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 06:38 AM (Pijte)

132 @129/Lizzy: "Sounds. . . forced. Astroturfed."

Agreed.

Also opens the door wide for the obvious joke: "She's just nuts."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 30, 2024 06:38 AM (O7YUW)

133 Naughty lion cubs plays with their dad's tail:

https://tinyurl.com/5cef4u5m

And that's it for today. Off to talk a walk with family and then a busy day. Keep on praying! That is one of the great and important things many people on here do!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 30, 2024 06:39 AM (8ZJJb)

134
1) "You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you." Kamala Harris

2) "I can imagine what will be, unburdened by what was" also Kamala Harris

Hmm.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:39 AM (64Zez)

135 When a coco and a nut love each other very much ...

Posted by: And I was that little churl at July 30, 2024 06:41 AM (AUL7F)

136 131 I feel like we live in a different world than this people
...
Posted by: Lizzy at July 30, 2024 06:38 AM (Pijte)

I had never heard of any of that. Blessedly!

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:41 AM (64Zez)

137 4th morning in a row without stars in Sonoma. Marine layer here too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2024 06:41 AM (JvZF+)

138 @130/FenelonSpoke: Thank you for that one, kudos to that bus driver. (Thank you for all the uplifting ones you posted today too!)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 30, 2024 06:41 AM (O7YUW)

139 You put the lime in de coconut...

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 30, 2024 06:41 AM (HJPAp)

140 .

NOOD

J.J. Sefton's Morning Report is here.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 30, 2024 06:44 AM (O7YUW)

141 JJ up

Posted by: rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods at July 30, 2024 06:44 AM (HJPAp)

142 Soon, America will fall in love with Kamala too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2024 06:44 AM (JvZF+)

143 So ownership and personal liability are evil concepts because other people exist.

That's not even recycled 19th century Fabian hokum. That's the halfwit recycled 18th century hokum that the 19th century charlatains based *their* hokum on.

And you think you just fell out of a coconut tree and invented it yourself.

And then you somehow managed to distill the centuries of collectivist hokum that came before your fake asses into "everything belongs to the Crown because you would be nowhere and be nothing without the Crown." Which was what the original hokum was designed to fight against. Real progressive, assholes. Super liberal worldview. Santayana just called to say, get it right round ya.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:46 AM (BAEGB)

144 LOL Quora commenters go to town on the coconut meme:

https://tinyurl.com/yc3zuceb

Including this, which seems compatible with the astroturfing theory, Lizzy:

"She wanted that to be her 'famous' Words the same as Martin Luther King's I had a dream. She tried it the first time and didn't get the recognition she wanted so now she says it every time.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:46 AM (64Zez)

145 142 Soon, America will fall in love with Kamala too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2024 06:44 AM (JvZF+)

wut

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:47 AM (64Zez)

146 Soon, America will fall in love with Kamala too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2024 06:44 AM (JvZF+)

wut
Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:47 AM (64Zez)

Sweet fuck, no, she has a daughter?

Oh. Nevermind. I thought you said "Kamala II".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:49 AM (BAEGB)

147 146 Soon, America will fall in love with Kamala too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 30, 2024 06:44 AM (JvZF+)

wut
Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:47 AM (64Zez)

Sweet fuck, no, she has a daughter?

Oh. Nevermind. I thought you said "Kamala II".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2024 06:49 AM (BAEGB)

Aagghh!

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:51 AM (64Zez)

148 {144} ... so now she says it every time.

Posted by: m at July 30, 2024 06:46 AM (64Zez)

Kind of like that "Unburdened" line. Over and over and over...

The woman is a sound-bite machine.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 30, 2024 06:52 AM (O7YUW)

149 Know what it's not a felony to do anymore in California thanks to Scott Wiener? Knowingly donating AIDS-infected blood.

Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at July 30, 2024 11:56 AM (kIwCj)

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