Daily Tech News 8 September 2024

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For the sake of security, we have to stop answering the phone. (Tech Crunch)

Way ahead of you there, chief.

Tech News

I don't want unlimited clean energy. I want communism. (Ars Technica)

These people are idiots.
Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition has great battery life thanks to its Lunar Lake CPU. (WCCFTech)

But how does it perform?
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Plus has solid performance. (Hot Hardware)

But how is the battery life?
Fraudulent scientific papers generated by ChatGPT are filling Google Scholar with irrelevant garbage. (Misinformation Review)

So no change to the status quo then.
Larry Ellison of Oracle now owns a controlling interest in Paramount Global. (The Register)

Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the money.

Disclaimer: Maybe he could bring back... Wait, Stargate is MGM. Never mind then.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)

2 BOING!

This is (another reason) why the Demoncrap political machine will make sure that the cheat will work:

https://tinyurl.com/3zyfv533

Similarly:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8x6h5v

And here's a pre-election warning from Vivek Ramaswamy about the "machine":

https://tinyurl.com/2p86wn6p

Maybe this is the plan:

https://tinyurl.com/3bmbpzcx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:07 AM (SRx3B)

3 Pixy I think it's just you and me

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)

4 I don't know what's happening in Kenya but this is evil, if true:

https://tinyurl.com/mv6daywk

Yeh, I know. Sh**hole country.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:08 AM (SRx3B)

5 I can't even tell anymore if this is AI or not. If you can, browse through the comments for even more laughs:

https://tinyurl.com/muy8fhk5

BTW, it's not AI:

https://tinyurl.com/3y2xafz3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:09 AM (SRx3B)

6 Pixy I think it's just you and me
Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)
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YOU LIE!!!

/virtual slap slap

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:09 AM (SRx3B)

7
When you dutch oven your wife, and then you realize you're alone in the bed?

And then you realize you didn't fart?

Hate when that happens...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 08, 2024 04:10 AM (oMIs+)

8 JJ Sefton, things in Wisconsin are closer than they appear:

https://tinyurl.com/48x5y3fp

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:10 AM (SRx3B)

9 Saw on YouTube a report multiple people shot on I-79 in Kentucky, shooter still on loose

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:10 AM (fwDg9)

10 Trump crimewave ad (one of many):

https://tinyurl.com/mw7pnpzu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:10 AM (SRx3B)

11 At least this one didn't get away (from the FBI):

https://tinyurl.com/r74h7xh2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:10 AM (SRx3B)

12 Where in the world is Miss Lindsey? Guess.

https://tinyurl.com/46768vyc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:11 AM (SRx3B)

13 I should know Biden's Dog you might be here being on a different much early time zone

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:11 AM (fwDg9)

14 First time I've heard of FreedomToons. Laughed!

Warning: May contain... MATH!

https://tinyurl.com/ytaj6t9t

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:11 AM (SRx3B)

15 I should know Biden's Dog you might be here being on a different much early time zone
Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:11 AM (fwDg9)
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You mean later time zone. US EDST +7.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:12 AM (SRx3B)

16 Good morning, Pixy and other good people. May all your efforts today be beneficial to you and cause much consternation to the leftwits.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 08, 2024 04:13 AM (hKoQL)

17 I saw a few shorts on YouTube a comedian woman does Harris impressions pretty well

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:14 AM (fwDg9)

18 Anyhoo... getting ready for my late morning walk in the sun. Beautiful day in Jerusalem!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:14 AM (SRx3B)

19 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes. Evening, Pixy.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 08, 2024 04:14 AM (agte1)

20 +7 would be earlier as it's same day.

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:15 AM (fwDg9)

21 I saw a few shorts on YouTube a comedian woman does Harris impressions pretty well
Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:14 AM (fwDg9)
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Obligatory musical interlude:

https://youtu.be/Jz_D-greh8Q

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:15 AM (SRx3B)

22 +7 would be earlier as it's same day.
Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:15 AM (fwDg9)
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More coffee!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:16 AM (SRx3B)

23 Alaska is -4 eastern daylight lime.
Did see a report last week that Pennsylvania is trying to dump daylight savings hour. Because I want it gone it won't happen.

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:17 AM (fwDg9)

24 @23 DST? Keep it or dump it, I don't care, just do one or the other so we're over it.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 08, 2024 04:33 AM (hKoQL)

25 I get done suduko should go make blueberry pancakes

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 04:37 AM (fwDg9)

26
Wow. Just wow.

https://is.gd/fApX2g

/ When Fen arrives make sure she watches

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 04:38 AM (RKVpM)

27 Mornin'

Fraudulent scientific papers generated by ChatGPT are filling Google Scholar with irrelevant garbage. (Misinformation Review)

So no change to the status quo then.

Yea, pretty much. Probably just upset nobody noticed a change.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2024 04:48 AM (sAmhv)

28 26- That's white something. It wouldn't be my particular style although I do share views on certain subjects. Do I think it's possible to be a Christian and a Democrat? Not the why the party is currently stands but then, many Democrats are ignorant about their party.. And I don't know who that preacher is, but I expect that he doesn't have many Democrats in his church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 04:52 AM (o5a5v)

29 Post 10

Kamala Harris obviously is uncomfortable in front of people or she wouldn't laugh so much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 04:53 AM (o5a5v)

30 28-Quite not white.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 04:55 AM (o5a5v)

31 9 Saw on YouTube a report multiple people shot on I-79 in Kentucky, shooter still on loose
Posted by: Skip

Right state, wrong Interstate. I-79 goes through WV and PA. Starts in Erie, PA and ends in Charleston, WV (I think). Morgantown anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 08, 2024 04:56 AM (sAmhv)

32

0200

Cacio e pepe and vodka rocks

Perfect Saturday night wrap up.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 08, 2024 05:02 AM (oMIs+)

33 Quartet does mashup of two hymns, "His eye is on the sparrow" and "Tis so sweet":

https://tinyurl.com/4abd7dnx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 05:02 AM (o5a5v)

34
but I expect that he doesn't have many Democrats in his church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 04:52 AM

I follow a prominent polling organization that the left abhors, Rasmussen, and they asked people in a poll if they had been to church in the past week, month, or year - one of them, I forget which. Anyway they then compared the response with Presidential preference.

It was close to 90% of churchgoers were for Trump.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 05:04 AM (RKVpM)

35 Kentucky shooting.

https://tinyurl.com/5yyamfp7

ND...G'Morning

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2024 05:04 AM (a1415)

36 Short walk in a bit.

Then colonoscopy preps for tomorrow.

Pretty shitty way to spend the day.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2024 05:06 AM (a1415)

37 And why would you want someone as President who is markedly uncomfortable in front of people?
Because she's not Trump is just not a good reason nor is her sec or ethnicity.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 05:10 AM (o5a5v)

38 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 08, 2024 05:21 AM (86W+h)

39
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 08, 2024 05:27 AM (tljrc)

40 Still a bit dark. I can dawdle on putting out th bird feeders.

Posted by: fluffy at September 08, 2024 05:29 AM (86W+h)

41

Nailed it. Best cacio e pepe I've ever made, Almost as good as the one I got a few blocks down from the vatican in rome... so easy, so hard...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at September 08, 2024 05:32 AM (oMIs+)

42 Re: Kentucky shooter...

"Numerous persons" have been shot in an "active shooter" situation on Interstate 75 near exit 49 just north of London, Kentucky, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday evening.

--At Twitchy

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 08, 2024 05:35 AM (agte1)

43 Happy-ish Sunday morning to all y’all rising.

Soon to sleep … so good-ish night to all y’all retiring.

Posted by: Adriane the Musical Cynical Critic . . . at September 08, 2024 05:36 AM (TX4bP)

44 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 08, 2024 05:40 AM (dg+HA)

45 Time for the walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2024 05:41 AM (a1415)

46 Evening and morning for a Sunday in early September! (Sounds like a movie title, huh?) How are all the outposts of the empire doing? Check in!

As for me, I did not sleep as well or as long as I hoped, but I've known worse nights. Having coffee now, about to feed the feline hogs, and planning to work out a little later. The air is less humid and warm, though by no means cool. For a change I'll wait until almost daylight, then drive to a 1/5-mile walking trail not far from my place. It'll be interesting to check my walking/trotting pace on a measured distance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:47 AM (omVj0)

47 My ground birdbath is getting some use, hasn't been as hot last week .I still want something to put up on the pedestal

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 05:48 AM (fwDg9)

48 *Kamala Harris obviously is uncomfortable in front of people or she wouldn't laugh so much.*

It's the hooch.

Posted by: Comma Lah at September 08, 2024 05:49 AM (dg+HA)

49 Time zones? I set the GMT hand on my Steinhart to Sydney, AU, time. It's approaching 8 pm there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:50 AM (omVj0)

50 Happy Sunday

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 05:51 AM (gbOdA)

51 I don't know what's happening in Kenya but this is evil, if true:

https://tinyurl.com/mv6daywk

Yeh, I know. Sh**hole country.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024

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Everybody was a lot better off there under British rule. I understand the current "proper" way to pronounce the name of the country is "Kehn-ya." I prefer the unreconstructed "Keen-ya."

I need to read Robert Ruark's Something of Value and Uhuru again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)

52 Where in the world is Miss Lindsey? Guess.

https://tinyurl.com/46768vyc
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 04:11 AM (SRx3B)
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Graham is letting him know the CIA plan for Trump's second term

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024 05:54 AM (dF0DD)

53 Saw the Reagan movie last night. Enjoyed it. Might go see it again. If you go, be sure to stay for the credits. All of them.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2024 05:59 AM (dg+HA)

54 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 08, 2024 06:00 AM (VdhcA)

55 I see at Powerline Harris has threatened to appoint Ellison for AG, as John Hinderaker says Nothing like having a AG who is bitterly hostile to the Constitution

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 06:00 AM (fwDg9)

56 You can't be an American and vote Democrat. Well, you can but it's self destructive behavior. Maybe it's better said that you can't be sane and vote Democrat.

Posted by: fd at September 08, 2024 06:01 AM (vFG9F)

57 Tuesdays debate could be a riot, but it probably will be lopsided with tee ball questions to Harfis and a sledgehammer towards Trump

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 06:02 AM (fwDg9)

58 Saw the Reagan movie last night. Enjoyed it. Might go see it again. If you go, be sure to stay for the credits. All of them.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2024

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That's my usual routine when I go to a flick in a theatre. I pity the fools who missed the creative credits at the end of Airplane! and the fascinating and fun elements at the end of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie. If nothing else I want to know who played whom and who wrote and directed the thing, since filmmakers now refuse to put credits at the beginning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 06:03 AM (omVj0)

59 The goldfish thing was cute.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2024 06:04 AM (dg+HA)

60 It used to take an entire team of barely literate grad students and a handful of professors who checked out many sabbaticals ago to fill our academic journals with meaningless crap. Now we have machines to do it for us.

I call that Progress.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 06:05 AM (mDTxx)

61 The hooch?

So Kamala is a hoochie grrl?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2024 06:05 AM (zmUuv)

62 GWB says he no plans to make an endorsement for the Presidency. Way to make a stand, jerk. You are part of the reason we are where we are right now.

Posted by: fd at September 08, 2024 06:05 AM (vFG9F)

63 I need to read Robert Ruark's Something of Value and Uhuru again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)
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Wonderful reading, as I recall. I haven't read his books in many years, so I might join you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024 06:06 AM (q5Sxq)

64 GWB says he no plans to make an endorsement for the Presidency. Way to make a stand, jerk. You are part of the reason we are where we are right now.
Posted by: fd at September 08, 2024 06:05 AM (vFG9F)
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He supports Que Mala. We already know George, so go ahead, make it official.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024 06:07 AM (q5Sxq)

65 @55

>>I see at Powerline Harris has threatened to appoint Ellison for AG, as John Hinderaker says Nothing like having a AG who is bitterly hostile to the Constitution

He'll make Holder look restrained.

I bet he will be nominated with at least 15 GOP votes in favor.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 06:07 AM (XV/Pl)

66 I need to read Robert Ruark's Something of Value and Uhuru again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)

I still miss putting "The" in front of all those made up colonized nations.

The Sudan. The Gambia. The Ohio State University.

Ahhhh. Nostalgia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 06:08 AM (mDTxx)

67
Remember how some Seinfeld episodes had Jerry telling a joke as the credits rolled? Kamala makes a guest appearance:

https://is.gd/ewHn37

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 06:09 AM (RKVpM)

68 @52

>>Graham is letting him know the CIA plan for Trump's second term

He's more than likely telling him about the multi decade aid package they are going to ram through right after the election.

I mean, it's so on brand for the Uniparty that you k ow it's what he's there for.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 06:11 AM (XV/Pl)

69
Keith Ellison, who swore his oath of office with hand not on the Bible, but the koran?

Seems par for the course for the communists.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 06:11 AM (RKVpM)

70 Happy Sunday
Posted by: rhennigantx

It is a happy Sunday for me. I get to celebrate Holy Communion with some people Whom I love.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 06:12 AM (bqBJF)

71 I need to read Robert Ruark's Something of Value and Uhuru again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)
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Wonderful reading, as I recall. I haven't read his books in many years, so I might join you.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024

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I have his last novel, The Honey Badger, on my "literature" shelf right now. These are works that, while critics might not mark them as literature, they come close enough for me: some Hemingway, Herman Wouk, Watership Down, Dorothy Parker, Gentleman's Agreement, Somerset Maugham, Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote, and others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 06:12 AM (omVj0)

72 Remember how some Seinfeld episodes had Jerry telling a joke as the credits rolled? Kamala makes a guest appearance:

https://is.gd/ewHn37
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 06:09 AM (RKVpM)
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Thats perfect

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024 06:13 AM (8i1Xd)

73 Also, the long slow death of late night had begun, apparently NBC is now going to a four night schedule for the tonight show and late late show with cuck meets, to be replaced by game shows.

Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 06:13 AM (XV/Pl)

74
Today's my birthday. You better be nice to me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:13 AM (1Nxff)

75 Keith Ellison, who swore his oath of office with hand not on the Bible, but the koran?

Seems par for the course for the communists.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 06:11 AM (RKVpM)

Yeah, that holy compilation of religious goodness that explicitly states that it's godly and awesome to lie your face off whenever you think it might help you.

Go on, swear your oath of office on that. You bunch of dildoes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 06:14 AM (mDTxx)

76 Confirmed not nominated.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 06:14 AM (XV/Pl)

77
Not just any koran but Thomas Jefferson's copy. Jefferson wanted to know what motivated the Barbary pirates to keep hijacking US ships and holding them for ransom so he secured a copy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 06:14 AM (RKVpM)

78 @74

>>Today's my birthday. You better be nice to me.

What anniversary of your 29th birthday are you celebrating this year?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 06:15 AM (XV/Pl)

79 Happy B'Day, Hadrian! Now you and JJ can celebrate together.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024 06:15 AM (kLb13)

80 I like the put-upon look Zelensky had while Graham was talking.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 08, 2024 06:16 AM (VdhcA)

81 Ruark's Something of Value deals with Kenya just before and during the Mau Mau Emergency, so there's a portrait of the British-dominated culture and how the native uprising rocked the old order. Uhuru is from 1960 and confronts the issues about Kenya becoming an independent country. I recall one neat scene. Brian, the lead white character, a safari guide, is driving his latest clients, a brother and sister, near a Masai encampment. The Masai are wearing their usual "kilt"-like arrangement, with, we find, nothing underneath.

A bit of wind blows aside the kilt of one Masai warrior, and the (very likeable) woman client says, "Daddy, buy me that!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 06:17 AM (omVj0)

82
As a child, my birthday present was the start of the new school year.

As an adult living on the Gulf Coast, my birthday present is the height of the hurricane season.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:18 AM (1Nxff)

83 As a child, my birthday present was the start of the new school year.

As an adult living on the Gulf Coast, my birthday present is the height of the hurricane season.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024

***
Same here. No wonder I want to flee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 06:19 AM (omVj0)

84 I like the put-upon look Zelensky had while Graham was talking.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 08, 2024 06:16 AM (VdhcA)
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He was anticipating the "but first, you will blow me" part of the Patriot Missile conversation

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024 06:19 AM (kLb13)

85
I still miss putting "The" in front of all those made up colonized nations.

The Sudan. The Gambia. The Ohio State University.

Ahhhh. Nostalgia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 06:08 AM

The Ukraine.

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 08, 2024 06:20 AM (tljrc)

86
The Ukraine.
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 08, 2024 06:20 AM (tljrc)

___________

Bring back The Papal States!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:23 AM (1Nxff)

87 It says 70% of people polled online were worried for the environment. Easy, mostly people who have that opinion would respond to an online questionnaire on the environment, us non-global warmers would ignore it -- so skewed results.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #01 at September 08, 2024 06:23 AM (qfLjt)

88 Bring back The Papal States!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:23 AM (1Nxff)

I say we try to convince some rugfuckers that Il Vaticano is on Stolen Land.

But only after we've convinced Red Frankie that untramelled refugee-ing to his backyard is even more holy and divine than it is everywhere else in Europe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 06:27 AM (mDTxx)

89 Happy Birthday, Hadrian. God bless you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 06:28 AM (bqBJF)

90 The chick at the end of Week In Pictures is carrying a very interesting looking gun. Would love to shoot that one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 08, 2024 06:33 AM (VRA7i)

91 I'm completely comfortable saying that you can't be a Democrat and also an unrepentant, practicing Christian. It's not possible for the two to exist simultaneously.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at September 08, 2024 06:33 AM (i3fPW)

92 Kenya's problems start with an M and end an M

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 06:34 AM (Y6Ecf)

93
Have to drive Her Majesty to the airport this morning, then off to Mass, then mowing the yard for a second time.

Post-Beryl the ground was too soggy for a month, then the riding mower broke down with a wiring issue. After it came back, the drive belt broke. I went to a dealer to buy a new one, but they gave me one for a 42-inch deck instead of a 48. Then it rained for a week. So the property looked decidedly frowzy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:34 AM (1Nxff)

94 The Ukraine, where Ivan (and the rest of the world) is finding out just how poor his vaunted army is. We saw that in Berlin so many years ago, Ivan blinked at the Gate and nobody called them, instead it was a tongue bath. That was bullshit, you could SEE the fear in their eyes.

Overall, you can see what corruption from the lowest to highest level over many years can do. Not pretty.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 08, 2024 06:36 AM (hKoQL)

95 To me, it will always be the Ukraine. Just like it is pronounced Kee ev. The people telling you to pronounce it otherwise are internationally illiterate. They completely do not understand how languages work. Kee ev Is How we pronounce it in English, We don’t speak Ukrainian when we speak English.

We call Japan Japan not Nippon. We call it Italy, not Italia. I don’t understand why people don’t get this.

International news readers are the dumbest people this nation and the western world has ever created.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 06:37 AM (OeVvO)

96 Overall, you can see what corruption from the lowest to highest level over many years can do. Not pretty.

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I know this is about Ukraine's relationship with a larger world-power, but you're going to need to be more specific here.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at September 08, 2024 06:37 AM (i3fPW)

97
Packing a suitcase for a two-day trip.

Me: 10 minutes

HM: 3 hours

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

98 Willowed: The Saturday Night Joke (Norm Macdonald)
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I did the meme:

https://___flip.com/gif/92s502

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 06:39 AM (SRx3B)

99 Packing a suitcase for a two-day trip.

Me: 10 minutes

HM: 3 hours
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh a

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The opposite is preparing the car for that same trip.

Me: Check fluids, pressure including spare, make sure there is water, oil, cables in back, make sure jump box is charged, make sure tool bag is present, etc.

Her: Get in that morning and go

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at September 08, 2024 06:40 AM (i3fPW)

100 Kenya's problems start with an M and end an M
Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 06:34 AM (Y6Ecf)
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They melt in your mouth and not in your hands?

I got nothing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 08, 2024 06:40 AM (SRx3B)

101 For real entertainment factor, Tuesday night

Its a rematch; Tulsi vs Kamala.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 08, 2024 06:40 AM (zmUuv)

102 I never got the pronunciation of something from somewhere else like they do.

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 06:42 AM (fwDg9)

103 I'm at the point of actually putting money on getting someone to figure out how to backup up a Mint desktop to a laptop.

Why TFGD is this so hard? It's the same system, same network. It's literally next door. This shouldn't be a mysterious thing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 06:42 AM (IG4Id)

104
I never got the pronunciation of something from somewhere else like they do.
Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 06:42 AM (fwDg9)

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You think the French would pronounce Versailles, IN correctly?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:44 AM (1Nxff)

105 I don't want to hear about Samba. They are 2 mint systems. WTF do I need a inter-species connection?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 06:46 AM (IG4Id)

106 International news readers are the dumbest people this nation and the western world has ever created.
Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 06:37 AM (OeVvO)

"It's not Turkey, it's Türkıye!!"

"Well how in the crap do you even pronounce that?"

"Tur-key"

".... gö fück yourçelf."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 06:46 AM (mDTxx)

107 I want to met a guy from Chile in the south of France. We were chatting with him and we were a small group ourselves. He insisted that calling them chilAYn, was wrong it should be pronounced chili n. That never said right with me because I knew it was wrong. I never worried about it, but I did look it up once and the guy could not have been more wrong.

That was just a weird experience, but in the end, never let a foreigner. Tell you how to speak English that is my advice.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 06:47 AM (OeVvO)

108 You think the French would pronounce Versailles, IN correctly?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:44 AM (1Nxff)

They all do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko from Versailles, TX at September 08, 2024 06:47 AM (mDTxx)

109 35
".... weighing approximately 154 pounds."

That's very specific. Approximately would be 150 or maybe 160 lbs.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #02 at September 08, 2024 06:48 AM (qfLjt)

110 @103

>>Why TFGD is this so hard? It's the same system, same network. It's literally next door. This shouldn't be a mysterious thing.

Are you looking to back up your files or clone it?

Backing up the files would be as simple as mounting a file system and creating a cron job to run an rsync, cloning one system to the other is a whole other story.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)

111 Now that I think about it, I wonder what the world thinks of our own vaunted military when they surrender to goat herders and flee nations with multiple completely unnecessary serviceman deaths during the panic before later happily releasing official photos of officers unaware of how rifle scopes work?

I'm betting it's very, very similar to what we think of Russia. And for good reason.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 08, 2024 06:55 AM (5eGmc)

112 51 I need to read Robert Ruark's Something of Value and Uhuru again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)
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Read those in my younger days, ca 1975-76 while living in Pretoria. I spent 10 years in various boarding schools in Kenya. Yes I pronounce it the British way, Keenya but Kehn-ya is correct.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #03 at September 08, 2024 06:56 AM (qfLjt)

113 Are you looking to back up your files or clone it?

Backing up the files would be as simple as mounting a file system and creating a cron job to run an rsync, cloning one system to the other is a whole other story.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I want a routine copy that I don't have to baby. I just want a copy of the fucking drive. Why is this so mysterious and awful? No, I don't want "BACKUP" which is garbage.

I've made a single copy, and yes, I know, Just buy a fucking external drive, but this is getting ridiculous. Why can't I just back up a drive on MINT?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 06:56 AM (IG4Id)

114 If I have to set up a server for both machines, I will. It's just that this shit is driving me insane. Why can't I just copy the fucking drive on the laptop?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 07:00 AM (IG4Id)

115 66 I need to read Robert Ruark's Something of Value and Uhuru again.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)
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I wonder if the fog-eater ever read those books?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #04 at September 08, 2024 07:01 AM (qfLjt)

116 Hadrian, Happy Birthday !

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2024 07:02 AM (G3Ji7)

117 115
dog-eater

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #05 at September 08, 2024 07:02 AM (qfLjt)

118 If I have to set up a server for both machines, I will. It's just that this shit is driving me insane. Why can't I just copy the fucking drive on the laptop?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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I haven't set up Mint in a year or two but I remember some initial setting you could choose. Is it encryption related?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 08, 2024 07:04 AM (5eGmc)

119 At Axios

With two months until Election Day, cybersecurity experts are eagerly reading the tea leaves to determine how a Harris-Walz administration would approach cybersecurity issues like nation-state attacks and critical infrastructure protections.

Next they will reading goat entrails to get to her immigration policy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

120 "American consumption of tropical hardwoods like mohagany and cedar..."

Cedar is neither tropical nor hardwood.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid exudes Happy Happy Joy Joy at September 08, 2024 07:06 AM (hirWM)

121 "American consumption of tropical hardwoods like mohagany and cedar..."

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We should just be burning it for fuel like everyone else.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 08, 2024 07:07 AM (5eGmc)

122 Cedar is neither tropical nor hardwood.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid exudes Happy Happy Joy Joy at September 08, 2024 07:06 AM (hirWM)

Well maybe they could be if Americans would stop eating them and give them a chance.

Posted by: Warai-otoko tries arguing like a twitter shitlib at September 08, 2024 07:07 AM (mDTxx)

123 What American pronounces Spain España? That really should settle it, though people that want to pretend they have a better handle of the language still creeping into that weird pronouncing foreign countries in a non English way thing.

I never do this, but to be honest, I speak Spanish and French and there’s no way I’m going to use those terms while speaking English. It would be making myself a jag off and speaking incorrectly.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:09 AM (OeVvO)

124 MusliM

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:09 AM (Y6Ecf)

125 I haven't set up Mint in a year or two but I remember some initial setting you could choose. Is it encryption related?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

No, I just want a live copy on the laptop. Or, a timed backup. The "BACKUP" app isn't a reliable thing; it's not a one-to-one thing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 07:10 AM (IG4Id)

126 I'll care about pronunciation as soon as the average baguette muncher becomes magnanimously solicitous about how to pronounce Schuylkill correctly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 07:12 AM (mDTxx)

127 Article: "For the sake of security, we have to stop answering the phone"

Pixy: 'Way ahead of you there, chief.'

Scammers have ruined the telephone network as a useful way to get through to someone you need to talk to with a quickness. "Let it go to voicemail" is now the default, and for good reason.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 08, 2024 07:14 AM (O7YUW)

128 I am surprised there is no Prime Time h8 after Nebraska thunked Colorado.

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:14 AM (Y6Ecf)

129 And if we're playing that game then no more of this "Neuva York" bullshit. You can have Nuevo Laredo, that's its actual name. But there ain't no Nueva York anywhere I've ever heard of.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 07:14 AM (mDTxx)

130 Angleterra
Alemanni

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:15 AM (Y6Ecf)

131 Suecia

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:16 AM (Y6Ecf)

132
I'll care about pronunciation as soon as the average baguette muncher becomes magnanimously solicitous about how to pronounce Schuylkill correctly.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

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Skoo-Kill

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 07:16 AM (1Nxff)

133 Baguette muncher will never do that. The thing about the French is, they don’t care if you attempt their language they think you should do it. It’s not something that they respect or are impressed by. In the modern area, the French speak English really well because they know they have to. They still speak French, of course, but they also speak English. They assume you don’t speak French as well they speak English and for the most part that is true, but I will have to say one thing so-called international English is at a very low level.

Americans and Brits are too kind because we don’t call out the shitty level of so-called international English. A lot of people think they speak English well but they do not.

The French last people I will go after because they do speaking English well and the one thing about the French that I love is, they don’t try to invade our borders like pretty much every other country does.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:16 AM (OeVvO)

134 The whole pronunciation thing is a parasitic brain worm of western lefties.

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:17 AM (Y6Ecf)

135 No, I just want a live copy on the laptop. Or, a timed backup. The "BACKUP" app isn't a reliable thing; it's not a one-to-one thing.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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Sorry I can't help more, but I will laugh at my first memory of a Mint installation simply because it was backup related.

At setup it instructs you to choose a backup option, and IIRC the default was something like two times per day, backing up to the drive it was installed on. It didn't even take a week before the little USB I was using wouldn't boot. I started over and it did it again. The third time was the charm when I realized why all the storage - for something that was just a web browsing box - was disappearing.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 08, 2024 07:17 AM (5eGmc)

136 G'mornin' everyone!

Happy birthday, H7! and many more!

goin' for a hike, bbl ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 08, 2024 07:17 AM (UWgy2)

137 But there ain't no Nueva York anywhere I've ever heard of.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

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There will be soon, amigo.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 08, 2024 07:18 AM (5eGmc)

138 124 MusliM

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:09 AM (Y6Ecf)
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Use mohammedan or mussulman, they hate that, as well as moslem.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #06 at September 08, 2024 07:18 AM (qfLjt)

139 Stargate is MGM. Never mind then.

True, but Star Trek: Lower Decks is a Paramount show, a hit that was cancelled before its time. Maybe it'll get a reprieve...?

Posted by: Gran at September 08, 2024 07:19 AM (kycfo)

140 Pfft African French FTW maestro

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:19 AM (Y6Ecf)

141 That's very specific. Approximately would be 150 or maybe 160 lbs.

Maybe an accuracy thing, 153.6 to 154.4?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 08, 2024 07:19 AM (3Ope8)

142 Here's my political question.. Someone donated. $60,00 to the re-election campaign of the Mayor and the other Democrat running for township committee. Why on earth would they need $60, 000 for a local campaign and who had oversight of this money? Sounds like a payoff to me. Meanwhile we barely have enough money to buy campaign signs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 07:19 AM (QM6uW)

143 That's very specific. Approximately would be 150 or maybe 160 lbs.

Maybe an accuracy thing, 153.6 to 154.4?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

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Ain't nobody got no time for none that up in here.

Posted by: Boeing Lead Engineer at September 08, 2024 07:20 AM (5eGmc)

144 Mussulman is an oldie but a goodie

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:20 AM (Y6Ecf)

145 @113

>>I want a routine copy that I don't have to baby. I just want a copy of the fucking drive. Why is this so mysterious and awful? No, I don't want "BACKUP" which is garbage.

I just installed Clonezilla: sudo apt intstall clonezilla

looks promising...

Give that a whirl.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 07:20 AM (XV/Pl)

146 Time to flip the tables, Fen.

Posted by: Accomack at September 08, 2024 07:21 AM (Y6Ecf)

147 Here's my political question.. Someone donated. $60,00 to the re-election campaign of the Mayor and the other Democrat running for township committee. Why on earth would they need $60, 000 for a local campaign and who had oversight of this money? Sounds like a payoff to me. Meanwhile we barely have enough money to buy campaign signs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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Go track down the public records involved and see what business they're involved / investing in. It will become clearer as the grift gets closer.

Posted by: Boeing Lead Engineer at September 08, 2024 07:21 AM (5eGmc)

148 And by the by, Clonzilla is simply a front end for basic linux commands like fdisk, dd, etc.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 07:24 AM (XV/Pl)

149 > If you go, be sure to stay for the credits. All of them.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Saw the 1st Iron Man in a theater. Missed the 'avengers' Easter egg at the end cuz I split when the credits rolled

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2024 07:26 AM (/7KEl)

150 Anyone have a link for the Week in Pictures?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #07 at September 08, 2024 07:26 AM (qfLjt)

151 While traveling in Italy stepson said Americans are so stupid, we don't call it Firenza, we call it Florence. I asked him how you say yes in Italian and English. The stunned look on his face was just precious. There are people who automatically think all other cultures are more sophisticated then the US, have better everything then the US. Those people are idiots.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 07:27 AM (2NHgQ)

152 Computer question. Is it possible to split the screen and look at the same site in English and another language at the same time?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2024 07:27 AM (I1GXe)

153 It didn't even take a week before the little USB I was using wouldn't boot. I started over and it did it again. The third time was the charm when I realized why all the storage - for something that was just a web browsing box - was disappearing.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Dude, I have installed 5 legacy linux machines. This ain't my first rodeo. I may have become allergic to SUDO.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 07:27 AM (IG4Id)

154 Here's another complaint. The Democrat committee members have no indication on their signs which party they are. The only way you'd know that is the sign is blue. We at least have elephants on ours. Oh, yes, the other guy running for election is a developer. Seems like a conflict of interest.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 07:28 AM (dTTBf)

155 Prego, signore:

https://is.gd/wie3ZX

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 08, 2024 07:29 AM (PiwSw)

156 If anyone on our political side is going after the French today, my guess is they are living in maybe the 50s or 60s. I was raised to not like the French and my dad who taught me that was a really good guy.

But that was a different error. That time is gone. I don’t defend the French politically because I’ve never found any of their politicians to be even remotely reasonable. I do defend the nation because they think they are all that just like we do.

I hope neither of us go down. I hope we get Trump and we get Le Pen. If not, we are all going to be moving to Argentina and Milllei will be our savior

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:29 AM (OeVvO)

157 Larry Ellison of Oracle now owns a controlling interest in Paramount Global. (The Register)

Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the money.

Disclaimer: Maybe he could bring back... Wait, Stargate is MGM. Never mind then.

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Baywatch FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- If Your Independence Lasts Over 4 Hours, You May Have Been Red-Pilled at September 08, 2024 07:29 AM (10Lv1)

158 Good morning morons

Turns out racist attacks against a black dog walker in Alamo Square were from a neighbor. Who is also black.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2024 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

159
https://is.gd/jL6o3e

/ Anyone up for some 486 nostalgia?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 08, 2024 07:30 AM (RKVpM)

160 It didn't even take a week before the little USB I was using wouldn't boot. I started over and it did it again. The third time was the charm when I realized why all the storage - for something that was just a web browsing box - was disappearing.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Dude, I have installed 5 legacy linux machines. This ain't my first rodeo. I may have become allergic to SUDO.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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Oh, I know. I'm just remembering my first experience with it. The comical part was how much I liked it, and then it would break and I would have no idea why and after a couple of hours of troubleshooting I'd just start over. It's part of why I hope my in-laws never want to try it. I'm their IT guy and my knowledge of that OS is pretty limited.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 07:30 AM (5eGmc)

161
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Sorry, not directed at you

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 07:30 AM (IG4Id)

162 Sorry, not directed at you
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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Tough luck turkey, I'm responding anyway!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 07:31 AM (5eGmc)

163 There's a story about Scalia learning how to pronounce Bexar (a county in Texas) correctly.

I admit my first instinct would be to say "bear-LEEN", but I also can't remember any time I've ever talked about Berlin when I wasn't speaking German, so...

I do try to say Toukyou (romaji for Tokyo) or Hachioji correctly when speaking to the locals, but I'm way off on Nagoya. Despite knowing better, I keep saying it like I'm saying no thanks to the "international foods" aisle at HEB.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 08, 2024 07:32 AM (Y+AMd)

164 SanFranpsycho, you might be interested in an article at elderofziyon blog.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2024 07:32 AM (I1GXe)

165 Full disclosure: "Turkey" is my new go-to and I call everyone that now, from people I love dearly to unpredictable drivers.

So if I call you turkey it means... something. I'm not sure what.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 07:32 AM (5eGmc)

166 https://tinyurl.com/883ktek2
Powerline week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 07:32 AM (fwDg9)

167 And by the by, Clonzilla is simply a front end for basic linux commands like fdisk, dd, etc.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Yes, I think that's what I used to get a copy over to the laptop, but, heck, that's not a routine thing. I guess I really need a server with chrons or something. woof

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 07:33 AM (IG4Id)

168 151, give the guy a break, he is learning. But yeah, teach him because you have to grow up some time.

We have a pizza place where I live called Firenze. I asked the people that work there if they even knew what the word means and they did not know. I am not making fun of them by the way they’re making money and living their life. But yeah, not a single person at this restaurant has any clue what that word meant.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:33 AM (OeVvO)

169 I love that we can't get people to say "ask" correctly but we need them to roll their R for Nicawrrrrawgah

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 07:33 AM (5eGmc)

170 Watched college football yesterday, ND sucks, anyway it also came with watching commercials. I don't watch tv except during college football season so I was appalled at the election ads, looking at you tester and of course ads for the new Fall network shows. From what I can tell the entertainment industry doesn't have a new thought to be had. Leroy Jethro Gibbs the early years and quasi reboots of Baywatch and The Love Boat. TV is actually what a virtual wasteland.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 07:34 AM (2NHgQ)

171 Tough luck turkey, I'm responding anyway!
Posted by: Moron Robbie -

HAH! You got me.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2024 07:34 AM (IG4Id)

172 At the X

In the National Politics League, the New York Trumps and the California Harrises have just finalized a major, unprecedented, multi-player trade.

🏈⚾️🏑🏓🏀

Details are below.

The California Harrises receive:

-Dick “Big Dick” Cheney.
-Liz “Little Dick” Cheney.
-Adam “Crotch Rot” Kinzinger
-Bill “Snuffy” Kristol
-The Bald Grifter Groomer Goons at The Lincoln Project
-Goldman Sachs
-All the other bankers who engineered the 2008 crash
-George W. Bush’s collection of really bad portraits of soldiers he killed or maimed.
-Five hundred antisemitic racists to be named later.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 07:35 AM (gbOdA)

173 For those who enjoy the Powerline WiP, we also have for your memeing pleasure:

From Stately McDaniel Manor:
https://is.gd/WPbJsD

From Bookworm Room:
https://is.gd/cGpW7a

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 08, 2024 07:35 AM (PiwSw)

174 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR SEPTEMBER 8 - 9.

NET - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Polaris Dawn - LC-39A -
KSC - Space Affairs Live
The weather issue requiring waiting for a much better period at the landing sites for the Polaris Dawn Mission remains. The launch is no earlier than Monday, September 9.
Launch Date: No earlier than September 9, 2024.
Launch Time: 3:38 a.m. EDT, 0738 UTC, 09:38 CEST
Launch Window: 4 hours - 2 additional launch opportunities at 5:23 a.m. EDT and 7:09 a.m. EDT.

https://www.youtube.com/live/6et8-MVR3Qg

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #08 at September 08, 2024 07:35 AM (qfLjt)

175 Happy Birthday, Hadrian!

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at September 08, 2024 07:36 AM (gxokI)

176 Verlan. Stepson was in his late 30's at the time. He's a screaming liberal and will never learn how not to bash Americans abroad. They're all evil, except for himself of course.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 07:37 AM (2NHgQ)

177 {{{Ben Had}}}

I don't know about whole web pages, but Reverso can do chunks of text:

https://is.gd/lXDOMD

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 08, 2024 07:39 AM (PiwSw)

178 Watched college football yesterday, ND sucks, anyway it also came with watching commercials.

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Yesterday was a weird, weird day for college football. I'm was glad Clemson made it out of their Appalachian State game, because I think a loss there would've been too much for Dabo.

Also I saw two Dr Pepper commercials (fwiw increased diversity, no gorgeous brunette mom any longer), and thought of how crappy that must be for DJ to have gone from Dr Pepper assumed-Heisman winner to leaving Clemson and ending up bouncing around until finally being on a struggling FSU team. I think he would've been like Nix if he'd fallen into the right place. Instead he'll probably be a high school or assistant coach.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 07:39 AM (5eGmc)

179 170, I keep watching these YouTube movie reaction videos. There is this one with Ace Ventura and he makes a comment to Captain stuebing. It is the real captain, stuebing and not one reactor notices it, not one. Sure it makes me feel old, but it also makes me know the reality that young people today know nothing about even the pop culture that occurred 10 years before they were born. If it didn’t happen after they were born, it did not happen. That is a dangerous thing, but this is how we are. Personally, I blame the parents so those think just going after the young generation is the play. I’m not with them, I blame Gen X and later parents for sucking so bad.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:40 AM (OeVvO)

180 I am the Shadout Mapes, thank you. I hope you are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2024 07:41 AM (I1GXe)

181 >> I am surprised there is no Prime Time h8 after Nebraska thunked Colorado.

I'm still too busy laughing at that cheating fraud of a program and their fraudulent "national championship" getting rolled by Texas.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 08, 2024 07:43 AM (Y1sOo)

182 Today's my birthday. You better be nice to me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 06:13 AM (1Nxff)
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Happy birthday

Virgos Rule

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2024 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

183 176, that is a shame. I used to read up on European travel the French Italians, etc. I recall an in-depth story about the French how they would never respect an American who bashed his own country. Sure They would go after Americans from time to time after a few glasses of wine, but they would never respect a person who tried to and dies himself with them by bashing his own nation. Once you are known to do that, they will never respect you.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:43 AM (OeVvO)

184 151 While traveling in Italy stepson said Americans are so stupid, we don't call it Firenza, we call it Florence.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 07:27 AM (2NHgQ)
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Firenze

I can see how Genova becomes Genoa but I never figured out how the Brits managed to get Leghorn out of Livorno.

Italians call London 'Londra'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #09 at September 08, 2024 07:43 AM (qfLjt)

185
There are people who automatically think all other cultures are more sophisticated then the US, have better everything then the US. Those people are idiots.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 07:27 AM (2NHgQ)

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We have a lot of problems in this country. We will never solve them listening to Europeans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 07:44 AM (1Nxff)

186 Yep; I so want to read what "The Telegraph" says Jesus really thought about" traditional family values"/sarc (Latest in my Bing feed)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 07:44 AM (dTTBf)

187 Ben Had, I'm doing well, hope you are, too. BTW, Reverso is how I keep up with Ciampino's nics.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 08, 2024 07:45 AM (PiwSw)

188 It's like the French have a different word for everything!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, stealing from Steve Martin at September 08, 2024 07:46 AM (PiwSw)

189
I recall an in-depth story about the French how they would never respect an American who bashed his own country.

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I wouldn't respect anyone who bashed his own country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 07:46 AM (1Nxff)

190 but it also makes me know the reality that young people today know nothing about even the pop culture that occurred 10 years before they were born. If it didn’t happen after they were born, it did not happen. That is a dangerous thing,

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It's worse than that. Tech has most influence on this new ignorance / isolation, probably much more than parents. Parents can teach their kids about Pearl Harbor or how communism has failed everywhere it's ever been tried. But parents can't teach their kids pop-culture social bonds like "Who Shot J.R.?" or "No whammies" or the Powerhouse work song from cartoons. Those have to occur in large groups simultaneously so that the members absorb them and continue to share social connections.

Tech has allowed us to be so specialized that we no longer have that. We're engaged in a massive social experiment - sadly with kids at the forefront - involving greater and greater specialization and isolation, and we have no idea where it will take us as a society.

Spoiler alert: We have some idea. We're seeing it already, just a few years in. But what will ultimately occur will be beyond any of our imaginations.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 07:47 AM (5eGmc)

191 184 151 While traveling in Italy stepson said Americans are so stupid .......

Remind him that it was the Brits that came up with those English versions and Italians have their own versions of foreign place-names: Londra, Berlino, Mosca, Parigi, Portogallo, Spania, Inghilterra (England), Inglese (English).

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #10 at September 08, 2024 07:50 AM (qfLjt)

192 I need someone to teach me about what "No whammies" means, because I have no clue.

but yes, I do know about
the meaning of "Who shot J.R". although I don't at the moment recall who actually did.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 07:51 AM (dTTBf)

193 Two interesting stories back-to-back by Pixy this morning:

Scammers use language to put the mark on tilt so that they can extract information or actions the mark would not normally do.

With the first story (the phone call) and the second story ("Earth is past the tipping point) we have the same thing. The scammer is trying to manipulate the mark into doing something that is against the mark's own interests and furthers money and power to the scammer.

I have had to suffer through many KnowBe4 courses that train people to detect scams through phone calls and email. One of the common tactics is the use of stress inducing metaphors, costly calls to action based on the flimsiest excuse.

Assume everyone lies, including your own mother. We are in a post Christian communist society now and its Kill or Be Killed as we march into the Thousand Years of Darkness.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 07:51 AM (g/syZ)

194 No Whammies:

The Press Your Luck game show, I believe.

Some guy figured out the pattern and was able to avoid the whammy and keep racking up prizes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 08, 2024 07:53 AM (ufFY8)

195 I assume my mother is not lying. She's been dead since the 80's.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 07:54 AM (dTTBf)

196 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 08, 2024 07:53 AM (ufFY

I vaguely recall the name "Press your luck" but that's it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 07:55 AM (dTTBf)

197 193c, what a shitty world view. Unfortunately, you are correct. That is why people have family and good friends because there are so many people out there today trying to harm you.

As a side gig, I do the Uber Eats DoorDash thing, and I am the highest rated in the country I won’t get into that. Just recently I had an order and once I was driving to the order, I got called on my phone and they knew where I was going and so on. They told me fraud was involved in blah blah blah, and I was thinking nothing of it, and I probably gave them too much information. Long story short didn’t get a dime from me. Did their best to do so they did harm me. They change some details on my Internet profiles.

The reality is unfortunate a ton of people are out there to harm you and literally don’t trust anyone who calls you ever. I’ve seen old ladies get screwed over by the send payments through gift card scam. When in doubt just don’t believe them, hang up and call the company yourself.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:55 AM (OeVvO)

198 Welcome to black pill central. If you have any shred of hope or see a sunny sky, the black pillers will beat it out of and depress just as much as they are.

Everything is hopeless and you are doomed to slave away in the mines. Now get with it proles! Become a slave now and avoid the rush!

Your future awaits or it doesn't.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 08, 2024 07:55 AM (89Sog)

199 187 Ben Had, I'm doing well, hope you are, too. BTW, Reverso is how I keep up with Ciampino's nics.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 08, 2024 07:45 AM (PiwSw)
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Ooo, I better cleanup my act! I didn't realize anyone was reading them regularly, except for Tonypete.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #11 at September 08, 2024 07:57 AM (qfLjt)

200 192, it is from a game show. I always liked Jeopardy, but some people think it’s too brainy and they liked wheel of Fortune. The no whammy thing is from an old-school game show. One thing that I’ve noticed about game show hosts over the years is they are unusually conservative. I could name 10 game show hosts who are hard-core right wing and that is kind of weird when you really think about it and yes, I will throw out the names if anyone is interested.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 07:58 AM (OeVvO)

201 "Welcome to black pill central"

That's why it's good to take breaks from ASHQ,

Have a good day everyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 08, 2024 08:00 AM (dTTBf)

202 I'm betting "black pill" is a really good example of the "we no longer have real-life shared experiences and social bonds" I mentioned above.

The term is an online phenomenon, inspired by a movie most people under 40 probably haven't seen, and with extremely limited places it can be used where the specialized group involved understands the reference.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 08:01 AM (5eGmc)

203 My scam was sophisticated. They placed the order for food, although they were far from my state. They told me I had to cancel the order because fraud was involved and then somehow they kept me talking and they changed some of my information with DoorDash.

It really sucks but the reality is people are out there and they’re trying to harm you. I’m from Gen X and back in the day when the phone rang we answered it. I only answered this call because it was during an order and the phone record, said DoorDash. Even after that, DoorDash tried to shame me as if I did something wrong. Then when I called them out, they backed off and helped fix the situation.

I’ve seen old ladies scammed, really smart people people from the military, When the scam is going on, you don’t realize it you think you’re talking to a good person, but you’re not the real

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 08:02 AM (OeVvO)

204 Addendum: Which is why it's good to find a church and become involved and go as much as you can. Setting aside the obvious accepting Christ so I don't burn for eternity in the Devil's Hell part, churches are pretty much the last places where real-life communities exist.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 08:02 AM (5eGmc)

205 Key there you have to break away from normal human interaction and realize the person on the phone is a goddamn liar and even if they’re not hang up on them anyways and check up. Too many people are being scammed, and even the companies realize they have no way of dealing with it.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 08:03 AM (OeVvO)

206 Lil Pooky has made his grand (overly dramatic, as predicted) entrance. I wish I could sleep in the hospital as well as he does.

Posted by: pookysgirl, happily exhausted at September 08, 2024 08:04 AM (46OLZ)

207 Tech has allowed us to be so specialized that we no longer have [ popular pop culture social bonds ].

Thanks for bringing that line of thought up. Though it began with 200+ cable channels and government schools no longer requiring students to read from a list of books (rather eschewing any titles particularly from dead white men)

Leaving Mayberry and moving into large homogenized suburbs didn't help either. Bifurcation of society where wealth disparities became more apparent and social castes appearing where they didn't before. (easy credit partly to blame) The differences between Belmont and Fishtown† are more apparent.

Bringing in tens of millions of immigrants from all over the planet over a very short period of time is the 800# gorilla in the room though.

† "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010" - Charles Murray

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:05 AM (g/syZ)

208 https://youtu.be/EupPXp89Apw?feature=shared

Michael Larson, the unemployed ice cream truck driver that solved the Press Your Luck pattern.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 08, 2024 08:05 AM (ufFY8)

209
I don't answer the phone unless I recognize the number or caller ID. Otherwise there's only someone at the other end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 08:05 AM (1Nxff)

210 When someone get something so wrong like cedar as a tropical hardwood I tend to throw out the entire post.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:06 AM (gbOdA)

211 Cedar is neither tropical nor hardwood.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid exudes Happy Happy Joy Joy at September 08, 2024 07:06 AM (hirWM)

Edge of the Hill Country here. That's hilarious.
Also, they kill me every spring.

Is it really Hadrian's B-day? It's my brother's as well.
Happy Birthday!

Posted by: sal at September 08, 2024 08:06 AM (bx3Km)

212 Bringing in tens of millions of immigrants from all over the planet over a very short period of time is the 800# gorilla in the room though.

† "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010" - Charles Murray
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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Yep. There's a reason when you search for Camp of the Saints the results are "You're a racist for searching for this book."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 08:07 AM (5eGmc)

213 Learned a new term this morning. Rappel module. What exactly is it, the aircraft used to rappel out of to fight a forest fire. Couldn't they refer to it as a helicopter, not a module?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 08:07 AM (2NHgQ)

214
Lil Pooky has made his grand (overly dramatic, as predicted) entrance.

________

Someday you can tell him he shares a birthday with Hadrian. And JJ, of course.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 08:08 AM (1Nxff)

215 Hardwood >> cedar >> tropical

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 08, 2024 08:09 AM (ufFY8)

216 Congrats to the pooky family. Babies can sleep anywhere.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 08:09 AM (2NHgQ)

217 So we had a story here in H town were an older lady was shoving money into a bitcoin box. Of course it was a scam.
So I always walk by the bitcoin box to see if a person is getting scammed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:09 AM (gbOdA)

218 >Lil Pooky has made his grand (overly dramatic, as predicted) entrance.
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the birth spasm has ended? Congrats, Mom

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2024 08:09 AM (/7KEl)

219 When you gotta sleep, you gotta sleep.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 08, 2024 08:10 AM (ufFY8)

220 Welcome to black pill central. If you have any shred of hope or see a sunny sky, the black pillers will beat it out of and depress just as much as they are.

You missed the opportunity to sock Pollyanna.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:10 AM (g/syZ)

221 It's a boy? It's a boy! Congratulations!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 08, 2024 08:10 AM (SfhV1)

222
Babies can sleep anywhere.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 08:09 AM (2NHgQ)

_________

Nothing sighs more deeply than a dog with no responsibilities, no debt and who sleeps 16 hours a day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 08:11 AM (1Nxff)

223 I don't answer the phone unless I recognize the number or caller ID. Otherwise there's only someone at the other end.

Embrace the miracle of voice-mail. If they didn't think it was important enough to leave one, the call wasn't important to you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:11 AM (g/syZ)

224 209
I don't answer the phone unless I recognize the number or caller ID. Otherwise there's only someone at the other end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 08:05 AM (1Nxff)
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We let almost all calls go to voice mail, figuring if it's important they'll either leave it in a message or identify themselves and ask for a call back. This means that over time we get fewer and fewer Bombay scammers.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #12 at September 08, 2024 08:12 AM (qfLjt)

225 I have a feeling it's not so much the Americans who trash America abroad who lose respect.... it's the ones who do so and then go back to continue living there.

Put up or shut up.

Also, there's the general human instinct to distrust a gossip. You're gonna sit there and talk trash about your own people because you assume that doing so will "earn you points" somehow socially with us? Well then what kind of trash are you talking about *us* and *my* country when you're not here, and talking to someone you think doesn't like us?

Trashy is trashy no matter how you pronounce your Rs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:13 AM (mDTxx)

226 Our doctor and home health care both come up as Potential Spam, so I answer most calls.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 08, 2024 08:13 AM (SfhV1)

227 Lil Pooky has made his grand (overly dramatic, as predicted) entrance. I wish I could sleep in the hospital as well as he does.

Posted by: pookysgirl, happily exhausted
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This is fantastic news. Congratulations.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at September 08, 2024 08:14 AM (5eGmc)

228
I also figure anyone who wants to talk to me (Her Majesty excepted) is out to scam me anyway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 08:14 AM (1Nxff)

229 I'll care about pronunciation as soon as the average baguette muncher becomes magnanimously solicitous about how to pronounce Schuylkill correctly.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024

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Over dinner last night, Miss Linda said she didn't know how to pronounce a certain county in PA. "It begins with an S, and there's a Q in there."

"Susquehanna?" said I. "You, the expatriate New York Stater, with place names like Schuylkill and Ossining?"

How *do* you pronounce "Schuylkill"? "Skile-kill"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 08:14 AM (omVj0)

230 Welcome, Li'l Pooky! So glad you're here safely.

Tell Mom you're just playing to your strengths...

Posted by: sal at September 08, 2024 08:14 AM (bx3Km)

231 SanFranpsycho, you might be interested in an article at elderofziyon blog.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2024 07:32 AM (I1GXe)
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Thanks Ben Had love it

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2024 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

232 Short walk in a bit.

Then colonoscopy preps for tomorrow.

Pretty shitty way to spend the day.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Same.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 08, 2024 08:15 AM (4XwPj)

233 Skool-kill

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2024 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

234 Congratulations to the Pooky family

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2024 08:16 AM (I1GXe)

235 Do we have a baby Pooky yet?

Posted by: Jen the original at September 08, 2024 08:16 AM (GG9j3)

236 Pretty shitty way to spend the day.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

ISWYDT.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, stealing from Steve Martin at September 08, 2024 08:16 AM (PiwSw)

237 Mazel Tov to pooky and his girl and new pooky'sbaby

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2024 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

238 163 There's a story about Scalia learning how to pronounce Bexar (a county in Texas) correctly.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 08, 2024 07:32 AM (Y+AMd)

Then there's the joke about Mexia:
"How do you say the name of this place?"
"Day-Ree Kween."

Posted by: sal at September 08, 2024 08:17 AM (bx3Km)

239
If Lil Pooky's first word is "boob" then we know he's Moron stock.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 08:17 AM (1Nxff)

240 I’m right on time I see. Congratulations,Pooky’s girl!

Posted by: Jen the original at September 08, 2024 08:18 AM (GG9j3)

241 what a shitty world view. Unfortunately, you are correct.

When you do time in a low-trust society, you learn a few things.

One of them is how much everyone should value a high trust society and struggle to maintain it.

You can tell the differences between low trust and high trust because it permeates all of society. In a low trust society people have mason homes, barred first floor windows and live behind gates and walls, often decorated with razor wire.

In high trust societies, we build open estates walls made of sticks and doors made of glass.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:18 AM (g/syZ)

242 It's Skookl.

One syllable.

Ok, like, one and a half syllables.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:18 AM (mDTxx)

243 I need to nap some more. See you all later.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, go bisogno di dormire adesso #13 at September 08, 2024 08:19 AM (qfLjt)

244 Television is dead and has been so for many years.
You can stream whatever you want whenever you want.
Likewise music and talk radio.
And in many cases without commercials.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 08, 2024 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

245 Good morning everyone.
Congratulations to the Pooky family on the new little wonder.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2024 08:21 AM (RshWO)

246 Our doctor and home health care both come up as Potential Spam, so I answer most calls.

Pro Tip: Enter that "Potential Spam" number as your doctor or home health care in your contacts list.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:21 AM (g/syZ)

247 The hiway shooter in KY they know who it is.
The school shooter in Ga was known by all.
The bastard punk asswipe that killed the 90 YO in a car jacking here in H town they knew who it was.
The nurse in Oregon killed by her neighbor...

I see a trend.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

248 Back from my workout at the local 1/5 walking-running track. I was the only one doing any running, though not that fast. I clocked one mile in 10:37 -- pretty good considering I haven't done anything like that in a few years -- and I feel like I'm supercharged. In contrast, my usual slower workout (one mile in 17:00, w/ a lot of walking) leaves me, well, not listless, but not supercharged.
It helped that the outside temp is more like 74 F. instead of 84, and the humidity is down a bit too.

I want to take Cooper's 12-minute or 1.5-mile test. If I'd continued at the pace I did just now, Id have finished 1.5 miles in about 16:00 -- excellent condition for someone my age.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 08, 2024 08:22 AM (omVj0)

249 The French historically do not respect people that defame their own country. I know the world has changed the ton over the last 20 or 30 years so I can’t speak about that. But I do know historically that is a thing with a French if an American or Brit broke bread with them and started bashing their own country thinking that would make them get along. The French would have nothing of that that is historically true.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 08:22 AM (OeVvO)

250 Pro Tip: Enter that "Potential Spam" number as your doctor or home health care in your contacts list.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:21 AM (g/syZ)

I set my andorid up to ask me if I want to add contact.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:22 AM (gbOdA)

251 Morning peeps
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I don't answer the phone unless I recognize the number or caller ID. Otherwise there's only someone at the other end.

Embrace the miracle of voice-mail. If they didn't think it was important enough to leave one, the call wasn't important to you.
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We have a "house phone." An actual wired phone. Technically it's cordless, but there is an actual phoneline into the house.

Spammers call this number daily, even though we're on the "do not call list." I've blocked so many numbers the phone won't accept any more. Must be hundreds in there by now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2024 08:22 AM (Q4IgG)

252 Ooo, I better cleanup my act! I didn't realize anyone was reading them regularly, except for Tonypete.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho ricevuto la sveglia #11 at September 08, 2024 07:57 AM (qfLjt)
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Va bene

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2024 08:22 AM (RIvkX)

253 There is no one on earth so provincial and bigoted as the cosmopolitan World Citizen.

The world is your oyster yet you pretend you're allergic to shellfish because all the other cool kids have an allergy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:23 AM (mDTxx)

254 Nothing sighs more deeply than a dog with no responsibilities, no debt and who sleeps 16 hours a day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 08, 2024 08:11 AM (1Nxff)
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*** cats who sleep *20* hours a day have entered the chat ***

...then promptly went back to sleep.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 08, 2024 08:24 AM (BpYfr)

255 Pro Tip: Enter that "Potential Spam" number as your doctor or home health care in your contacts list.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:21 AM (g/syZ)

Thanks! I'll do that.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 08, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

256 I went to the website if the spice store that Harris went to yesterday. They have an About Republicans button which leads you to a page that spews all kinds of lying crap about Republican beliefs and actions. But they still want their business. AYFKM, no way Jose

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2024 08:27 AM (RshWO)

257 Pooky Mom

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2024 08:27 AM (/7KEl)

258 There are tons of French named towns in the Midwest and so forth, and none of those towns even come close to the French pronunciation.

In The South With Like To Make a Big thing about Beaufort SC and Beaufort NC.

I Living Virginia en Even Home And Landlords can’t pronounce Leceister. Sûre that goes against my point, but come on guys.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 08:27 AM (OeVvO)

259 Divide by Zero, that "pastor"

ummm, just no.
That's not how church discipline works.
Or is supposed to work.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 08, 2024 08:28 AM (JrYM1)

260 Smell the Glove @256

If they're the ones I'm thinking of, they've been that way for a while.
Was she channeling her inner "Dot Indian" or nah?

Posted by: sal at September 08, 2024 08:31 AM (bx3Km)

261 256, I’ve never been there and I never will but my understanding is they are hard-core lefty and make a point of it.

My guess is most of their clients can cook their own arse if they had to make rice pudding. Those people offer nothing but hard-core lefty politics there’s no spice they have the population all over this country couldn’t get somewhere else. This group should’ve been canceled long ago by conservatives and even normal people. They’re not just left-wing. There’s a hate about them.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 08:32 AM (OeVvO)

262 My cousin and her husband lived in Europe for a couple years. Denmark, Netherlands or somewhere near there.

She considered herself an "ex-pat" while there. I asked if she was still one when they had to move back to the states since she renounced everything about America while there.

I haven't talked to the woman in decades since.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 08, 2024 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

263 Good morning good people.

Verse for the Day:

"I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us."
— Romans 8:18

Today is the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.

Mary is celebrated on September 8th, nine months after the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The Blessed Virgin’s parents, St. Ann and Joachim, were an aging couple praying for a child. Mary’s birth was miraculous, as she was conceived without sin (Immaculate Conception), an exclusive grace God bestowed upon her because she was predestined to be the mother of the Incarnate Son of God. The birth of the Virgin Mary ushers in the dawn of the redemption of the human race through Jesus Christ.

And that's your Catholic lesson for the day.

Yes, this will be on the test.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 08, 2024 08:32 AM (WXNFJ)

264 any news about Lil' Pooky making his way into the world? Haven't read all the comments yet.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 08, 2024 08:33 AM (JrYM1)

265 Is, "White Pilling," a thing? Is it racist?

Posted by: davidt at September 08, 2024 08:35 AM (i0F8b)

266 Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 08, 2024 08:33 AM (JrYM1)

He's here but he's sleeping, so we're all trying to type really quietly.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 08, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

267 Today is the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 08, 2024 08:32 AM (WXNFJ)

On my Trad calendar, it's a commemoration, b/c Sunday this year. But still celebrated in spirit.
Want to talk about stunning and brave? That would be her...

Posted by: sal at September 08, 2024 08:36 AM (bx3Km)

268 And if you need spices with multiple flavors like four or five that only in itself proves you are a charlatan.

Real chefs know that seasoning means salt and pepper, and the skillful use of salt alone is the greatest test of a real chef. The other ingredients are spices, not sesonings. You don’t need some hard-core leftist commie ti tell you how to sprinkle orther sou es.

Posted by: Verlan at September 08, 2024 08:36 AM (OeVvO)

269 I sure as shit ain't saying "mBaílle athá Clíath" (bayya-Kleeya?). That's for damn sure.

Viking: "what's this town called?"

Irishman: "mBaílle athá Clíath"

Viking: ".... how the hell is that even spelled?"

Irishman: "We don't do spells here, m'chara. Druids died out ages ago."

Viking: "...Odin's beard, you people are nuts."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:36 AM (mDTxx)

270 Louisiana Pronunciation

Bayou Pierre
By Pier

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

271 Yet more evidence that the former United States, while under Leftist control, is the Evil Empire and Global Menace to Society:

Headline:
"Australia may delay release of 2035 climate target as world awaits outcome of US election"

That only makes sense when one realizes its Babylon DC who controls hundreds of billions, if not trillions in tax payer gifts to the global Climate Scam. Major "Investors" (read: Rent Seekers and Grifters) are willing to delay their "commitment... that was aligned with The Science™... and reaching for the highest possible level of ambition" (read: expecting tens of billions in grift and money laundering).

Shorter version: Trump wins, the world wins; if the election is stolen for Harris, the money floodgates will open to the Globalists and Communists to impoverish the world.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:38 AM (g/syZ)

272 @110/Thomas Bender:

"Backing up the files would be as simple as mounting a file system and creating a cron job to run an rsync, cloning one system to the other is a whole other story."

Just be aware that rsync will dutifully and faithfully mirror the source machine's files as are presented by the source machine.

In other words: If data corruption happens on the source machine, the destination backup machine will do exactly as instructed and will mirror the damage.

1. Verify your file systems before beginning your rsync backup. Do not proceed with the backup if any damage is present.

2. Keep rotating offline backups to be able to restore files from before the point of drive malfunction or file system corruption.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 08, 2024 08:39 AM (O7YUW)

273 Happy Birthday Hadrian.
I know you have a hard time believing this, but you add a lot to this blog and you are loved.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 08, 2024 08:39 AM (JrYM1)

274 Streets in my neighborhood:
Cabrillo - ka-bril-oh
Arguello - ahr-gwel-oh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 08, 2024 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

275 Cedar being a evergreen should be a softwood.
Now Balsa is a hardwood that obviously is as soft as you can get, it's really in grain that is important.

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 08:40 AM (fwDg9)

276 @260 sal, nah she was just being her usual cackling ignoramus self

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2024 08:40 AM (RshWO)

277 I see our brand spanking new Pooky baby boy has arrived! Wonderful news and blessings upon the entire Pooky family.

Is this our first Moron grandson? I mean, no other 'Ette has posted to the threads while in the midst of delivery.

That's commitment!!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 08, 2024 08:41 AM (WXNFJ)

278 Welcome to the world, Lil Pooky! Congrats to the whole Pooky family! Rest well, pookysgirl, you more than earned it.

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 08, 2024 08:42 AM (iZbyp)

279 276 @260 sal, nah she was just being her usual cackling ignoramus self
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2024 08:40 AM (RshWO)

Tell me she mispronounced the name of something.
Lie if you have to.

Posted by: sal at September 08, 2024 08:43 AM (bx3Km)

280 >any news about Lil' Pooky making his way into the world?
---

the young one has emerged

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2024 08:43 AM (/7KEl)

281 Have mentioned this before when kammie is referred to as a cackling ignoramus. The video of her jumping up and down with glee and clapping like a trained seal when her 2020 campaign bus was delivered. She's all fluff, like the blown out dandelion head. Very little substance and blows in the wind. Yes, I used blows when talking about kammie, it fits in so many ways.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 08:44 AM (2NHgQ)

282 Tonypete, I believe YD's daughter was the first.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 08, 2024 08:45 AM (I1GXe)

283 TJM had babies. Not him of course, his wife.

Posted by: runner, at September 08, 2024 08:46 AM (V13WU)

284 Tell me she mispronounced the name of something.
Lie if you have to.
Posted by: sal at September 08, 2024 08:43 AM (bx3Km)

If she said "Garma Malassa" instead of "Garam Masala", you can bet every penny you have that within three weeks that's how they would be saying it on all the daytime tv cooking shows.

Remember back when "top of mind" was not a phrase anyone had ever used before?

Gleichschaltung is just another word for the things we all do together, If We Know What's Good For Us.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:46 AM (mDTxx)

285 "the young one has emerged"

Did he see his shadow?

No...wait..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 08, 2024 08:46 AM (a1415)

286 >Today is the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.
Posted by: Tonypete
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I don't speak RC, so I guess this means it's her birthday?

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2024 08:46 AM (/7KEl)

287 @279 sal, didn't watch that closely but it was very scripted and she hugged some weeping white woman. She also said "we have to come together". That is always a signal to me to get out of the way as quickly as possible as totalitarian group think is about to break out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 08, 2024 08:47 AM (RshWO)

288 In my time here babies have been born to young Morons, however I believe they were fathers not a mother who just gave birth and then commented.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 08, 2024 08:47 AM (2NHgQ)

289
We have a "house phone." An actual wired phone. Technically it's cordless, but there is an actual phoneline into the house.

Spammers call this number daily, even though we're on the "do not call list." I've blocked so many numbers the phone won't accept any more. Must be hundreds in there by now.

For reasons I will never understand, the spouse got a land line when we moved to this part of the world. We had a family discussion on the matter prior to where I brought out the crystal ball and prophesied her future.

As sure as the sun rises in the East, she was being hammered with round-the-clock calls from spammers, bail bondsmen and debt collectors looking for any and all of the previous holders of that number.

For reasons that I still will never understand, we still have that line, but the ringer is turned off.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:47 AM (g/syZ)

290 Good morning my pretties.

Good news about the Pooklet! Hope momma and baby are doing well.

Did she name him Ace or Chuy?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 08, 2024 08:50 AM (kpS4V)

291 TJM had babies. Not him of course, his wife.
Posted by: runner
+++
Whut???
TJM actually found a woman that he would bang?
Unpossible!

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 08, 2024 08:50 AM (Lo97M)

292 She also said "we have to come together".

Oh Great, the Party of Hate and Endless Division is hoping to steal the slogan of the Unity Party of Trump, RFK Jr, et al.

The jackals are demonic to the core.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:50 AM (g/syZ)

293 So the number keep coming:

In the 15-44 age group there were just 8 deaths. Moreover, the youngest person in this age group was 38, so no one younger than 38 died from covid in Northern Ireland in the entire 4 year period.

Shutting down schools was pure ffing stupid.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

294 Did she name him Ace or Chuy?
Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 08, 2024 08:50 AM (kpS4V)

I liked Ace O'spade.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

295 well you know, 'an abundance of caution'

Posted by: Don Black at September 08, 2024 08:53 AM (/7KEl)

296 The jackals are demonic to the core.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 08, 2024 08:50 AM (g/syZ)

Nice opportunity for some political judo:

We, over here, don't have to Come Together. We can work together perfectly fine while disagreeing about this thing or that thing, and still manage to cobble together some decent representational governance out of it.

It's you people who need everyone to Come Together, Or Else.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:53 AM (mDTxx)

297 Tonypete, I believe YD's daughter was the first.
Posted by: Ben Had

Ah! Darn it - You're right! Sorry YD - but you are in good company. I can't keep my own kids and grandkids straight either.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 08, 2024 08:54 AM (WXNFJ)

298 https://www.vote.org/
voter-registration-deadlines/

Tex
In Person: Received 30 days before Election Day. If that day is a weekend or national holiday, then must be received by the next business day.
By Mail: Postmarked by 30 days before Election Day. If that day is a weekend or national holiday, then must be postmarked by the next business day.

So 10/5/24.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:55 AM (gbOdA)

299 Quite a place here. Moronette posting during labor-that's amazing. Couple weeks ago, we had a poster giving us play-by-play of Colonoscopy prep and appointment right up until the propofol hit. Amazing!

Posted by: TMI? Nah! at September 08, 2024 08:55 AM (CV8a5)

300 TJM actually found a woman that he would bang?
Unpossible!
Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 08, 2024 08:50 AM (Lo97M)

"4.5/10

New world record.

Let's make a person."

-TJM

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:56 AM (mDTxx)

301 yay for little pooky making his/her way into the world.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at September 08, 2024 08:56 AM (YiKO5)

302 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 08, 2024 08:57 AM (u82oZ)

303 Mega Millions jackpot hits $800 million,

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

304 Mega Millions jackpot hits $800 million,
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

That's not even a kilo-million, let alone a mega-million.

False Advertising. Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 08, 2024 08:59 AM (mDTxx)

305 Will not comply! Not putting on pants here!

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at September 08, 2024 08:59 AM (CV8a5)

306
B
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k
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Posted by: rhennigantx at September 08, 2024 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

307 Mega Millions jackpot hits $800 million,

==

I'd play, but I hate, HATE losing!

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2024 09:00 AM (V13WU)

308 Bring your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 08, 2024 09:00 AM (fwDg9)

309
Come together all you want, statist a'holes. Leave me out of it and get off my lawn.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 08, 2024 09:04 AM (xG4kz)

310 Also, the long slow death of late night had begun, apparently NBC is now going to a four night schedule for the tonight show and late late show with cuck meets, to be replaced by game shows.

Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 08, 2024 06:13 AM (XV/Pl)

Gutfeld has been the top rated "late night" show for a while. The left is going nuts. When they did a live show a few months ago, the "F" bomb slipped through. Normally, the show is recorded earlier and the most 4 letter words are "bleeped" out. Most times.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 08, 2024 09:29 AM (iODuv)

311 When will banks start issuing us a "distress" or "duress" pin codes which will cause a false balance to be shown and an automatic police call?

Posted by: Fred Z at September 08, 2024 09:48 AM (VQIqq)

312 It's a boy!

206 Lil Pooky has made his grand (overly dramatic, as predicted) entrance. I wish I could sleep in the hospital as well as he does.
Posted by: pookysgirl, happily exhausted at September 08, 2024 08:04 AM (46OLZ)

Posted by: m at September 08, 2024 09:48 AM (64Zez)

313 Regarding phone security: Do not leave your voice on your outgoing message/voicemail message to prevent cloning.

Posted by: epador at September 08, 2024 11:07 AM (ah1Jo)

314 weft-cut loop: Doing some more searching regarding your desire to backup and synchronize your files under Linux Mint, a desktop and a laptop. It's a good question, and I'm really glad you asked it because it got me thinking about this for possible use myself.

I'm seeing a lot of references to software called: syncthing

It's installable under the synaptic package manager in Linux Mint.

Here's a video of a gent setting it up between three different machines:

https://youtu.be/PSx-BkMOPF4

This might well be what you're looking for.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 08, 2024 11:09 AM (O7YUW)

315 @314, correction: weft cut-loop (had the hyphen in the wrong place.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 08, 2024 11:10 AM (O7YUW)

316 WOW! The people at Ars Technica really are idiots. The comments are so full of "the stupid" it's like a feeding frenzy of leftist idiotology!
One example: A commenter states "coral reefs are doomed" when the Great Barrier Reef is at it's largest size in 100 years. It's doing great! As are all the reefs in the world because high CO2 is plant food.

Posted by: 5Cats at September 08, 2024 01:32 PM (hv5ip)

317 >Maybe he could bring back...

Some of my high school chums and I were "student theater techs" and after graduation they went on to work on the 1990s reboot of _The Outer Limits_...which morphed into a little show called _Stargate SG-1_. I got to hang out with them on set a few times and got stealth invited to some cast & crew parties.

Believe me, the writers and producers were baffled and amused by turns by the rabid and frankly weird fandom, to the point that multiple episodes in the first few seasons were written explicitly to poke fun at their own fans.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 09, 2024 11:17 AM (0Go0g)

318 Hiɡhly dｅscгiptive post, I enjoyed that a lot. Will
there be a paгt 2?

Posted by: went at September 20, 2024 05:43 AM (1Tz8a)

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