Daily Tech News 17 September 2024

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Intel will be receiving up to $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS Act. (WCCFTech)

Does Intel deserve government handouts? Eh.

Is this what the CHIPS Act is intended to do? Actually, yes.

Is it less wasteful than 90% of government programs? Also yes, but that's not saying much.
Intel has also signed a multi-billion dollar deal to manufacture custom server and AI processors for Amazon. (WCCFTech)

Amazon already buys a lot of chips from Intel, so it's not clear how much bigger this is than existing contracts, but Amazon was not using Intel to make its custom chips previously, so it is at least a new market.

Tech News

Still with Intel the company reportedly lost out to AMD on a $30 billion deal to create the chips for the upcoming PlayStation 6. (Tom's Hardware)

Since AMD has produced the last two generations of chips for both PlayStation and Xbox, the company was the clear favourite to pick up this contract as well.
MacOS 15 Sequoia is here. (Ars Technica)

It brings with it a bunch of stuff you don't want and breaks the cool little apps that make MacOS bearable to use.

Again.
Oracle is here to spy on you. (The Register)

Rest assured, though, that your mandatory bodycam will keep right on recording when you've turned it off.
The 2019 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine has now had thirteen papers retracted after duplicated or manipulated images were found. (Retraction Watch)

Oops.
Brazilian judge Tomas de Torquemada has fined Starlink to cover the fines levied against Twitter. (Ars Technica)

Since this is not a rocket thread, the Ars commentariat has dialed its usual Two Minute Hate up to 11.

Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:01 AM (64Zez)

2 a couple of hours later

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il gabinetto e pulito at September 17, 2024 04:01 AM (qfLjt)

3 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:01 AM (omVj0)

4 Not quite!

Evening and morning to all the early risers and late toilers for a Tuesday! (It is Tuesday, right?)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

5 Come to think of it, I've got our monthly staff meeting via Chinese spyware on Wednesday morning. Personally I have little to report that I'm working on. I gotta come up with something that sounds good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)

6 G'Day everyone
Now hopefully back to sleep

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024 04:05 AM (fwDg9)

7 Day started at 2AM again.

I'm getting too old for this shit.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 17, 2024 04:06 AM (BLOW1)

8 Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

--
Sort of an indirect palindromatic expression,
say [Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.]

Clever, mate.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, un palindromo at September 17, 2024 04:07 AM (qfLjt)

9 Sort of an indirect palindromatic expression,
say [Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.]

-- Wait, I wrote that wrong:

Disclaimer [I think I am, therefore I am, I think.]

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, un palindromo non e at September 17, 2024 04:08 AM (qfLjt)

10 G'Day everyone
Now hopefully back to sleep
Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024

***
Skip, your mention of donuts yesterday morning has got me thinking I'll stop at the early-open coffee shop on my commute for a croissant to take to work. I used to visit the coffee shop nearest my work once a week for that. But I've been excommunicated from that one for *complimenting* one of the clerks. Long, weird story. Their loss, this shop's gain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:09 AM (omVj0)

11 7 Day started at 2AM again.

I'm getting too old for this shit.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 17, 2024 04:06 AM (BLOW1)
----
Nah, you're young, wait till another 29 have gone by, or two!

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, gli anni passano per tutti at September 17, 2024 04:10 AM (qfLjt)

12 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 17, 2024 04:12 AM (dg+HA)

13 >>>the Ars commentariat has dialed its usual Two Minute Hate up to 11

Wow. They're loony tunes. And the author of the article did not incite that.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:13 AM (64Zez)

14 Ain't it funny how much Ars enjoys shitting on the guy without whom we'd be stuck buying space launch from Vladimir Putin?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 17, 2024 04:13 AM (A1yeX)

15 Intel will be receiving up to $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS Act.
--
Can I get 1 million for making some FISH to go with those CHIPS?

(This plaice could be the start of a beautiful and aromatic but punish run about fish)

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, il pesce e fresco at September 17, 2024 04:13 AM (qfLjt)

16 >>>(Ars Technica) ... Since this is not a rocket thread

I'm a rocket thread
Rocket thread
Burning out his fuse up here alone

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:16 AM (64Zez)

17 Torquemada - do not beg him for mercy. Torquemada - do not ask him for forgiveness. Let's face it - you can't Torquemada anything!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 17, 2024 04:17 AM (fY84s)

18 10 Wolfus, I remember that, a compliment to one server for not being obviously overweight.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le ciambelle sono fresche at September 17, 2024 04:18 AM (qfLjt)

19 >>>the Ars commentariat has dialed its usual Two Minute Hate up to 11

Wow. They're loony tunes. And the author of the article did not incite that.
Posted by: m at September 17, 2024

***
Wow. Eleven minutes of Hate. Or would that be twenty-two minutes?

Brazil: hot women, the nuts named after the country (do they really come from there?), certain, uh, hair trimmings, and a Carnival that often kills celebrants, nutty judges. And a gigantic river system. Is there anything else important to know about the place?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:19 AM (omVj0)

20 It seems very unlikely Intel ever had a serious shot at producing the PS6 innards. While it is reasonably competitive on the CPU side, it's GPU IP, especially the version integrated with a CPU, is severely trailing AMD. Not as badly as a few years ago but it's still playing catch-up with where AMD APUs were when the PS5 launched in 2020. Nividia has much to offer on the GPU side but they're well behind Apple and Qualcomm on the ARM CPU side. They're only attractive if Sony is dead set on going to ARM. Even then, AMD (particularly the part of it that was once ATI) has a history with Qualcomm and could partner with them to keep Sony happy.

Trivia: an early Qualcomm SOC for mobile devices had what was essentially the Xbox 360 GPU for its own GPU.

Going to ARM with a semi-portable similar to the Nintendo Switch seems like a possibility for a future Xbox product. Word has it that the hardware engineering for future Xbox models has been put under the Surface division. The same division that has been working closely with Qualcomm on ARM based Windows laptops.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 17, 2024 04:20 AM (/0z9K)

21 Wolfus, I remember that, a compliment to one server for not being obviously overweight.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le ciambelle sono fresche at September 17, 2024

***
Yes, and I delivered it in a quiet ("indoor") voice that I thought nobody else would overhear. Somebody did and was offended. I refused to apologize to the manager, and that was that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:21 AM (omVj0)

22 wolfus, was that at a cc's?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 17, 2024 04:25 AM (A1yeX)

23 @13

>>Wow. They're loony tunes. And the author of the article did not incite that.

They've got nothing on the Slashdot commenters, those cats are straight up retards.

Probably tied for the stupidest comment section with National Review.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 17, 2024 04:30 AM (XV/Pl)

24 CHIPS? Sounds fishy.

Posted by: Oh no at September 17, 2024 04:30 AM (dg+HA)

25 @13/m: "Wow. They're loony tunes."

It's a problem with tech news at many sites, but it's particularly bad at Ars. If I go there to read (and that's a mighty big 'if') I avoid the comments.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 17, 2024 04:30 AM (O7YUW)

26 Cat just had to bathe herself as loud as she could and knock stuff off the desk, waking me up so now i can't sleep. Thx....

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 04:31 AM (KAi1n)

27 That Oracle AI, "The Oracle CTO also suggested that drones could be used to pursue police suspects instead of relying on patrol vehicle chases"

And what vicarious fun would it be for me, a watcher of such pursuits? Why would a suspect even race, not unless the drones could drop 'stuff' to catch him. Anyway by that time, and in such an intrusive AI scenario, the vehicle would have been incapacitated remotely.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i maritozzi con la crema pasticcera at September 17, 2024 04:32 AM (qfLjt)

28 wolfus, was that at a cc's?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 17, 2024

***
No, at a PJ's. CC's Coffee Houses (for Community Coffee, for those not familiar) have almost vanished around here. There is one near the Barnes & Noble in the suburbs, and one, I think, on my side of the river. But two in the Uptown shopping/residential area sank during the Sniffle Scare. One, which I miss, was near my work, in a grand old Victorian building that once housed a neighborhood pharmacy.

The PJ's right near my house, which I pass every morning, opens at 5 am, so it's convenient too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:33 AM (omVj0)

29 Cat just had to bathe herself as loud as she could and knock stuff off the desk, waking me up so now i can't sleep. Thx....
Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024

***
If cats weren't attractive and cute -- if they looked, say, like armadillos with psoriasis -- we wouldn't put up with their crap for a minute. But they are cute, and so we here we are.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:35 AM (omVj0)

30 Well, I'm gonna try to take one more nap before I'm supposed to be awake.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 17, 2024 04:38 AM (A1yeX)

31 #27

It would be similar to tracking by helicopter, just far less costly and far more numerous. A helicopter isn't going to stop a fleeing car but it does allow the cops to coordinate where to spring the trap with spike strips and a small army of vehicles.

A drone can be very difficult to spot from the driver's seat or even for a passenger. The suspect can be allowed to believe he's escaped and head for someplace where he'd stop and leave the vehicle. Wacky antics ensue.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 17, 2024 04:39 AM (/0z9K)

32 24 CHIPS? Sounds fishy.

Posted by: Oh no at September 17, 2024 04:30 AM (dg+HA)
----
Piscatorial even!

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i maritozzi con la crema pasticcera sono migliori at September 17, 2024 04:40 AM (qfLjt)

33 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 17, 2024 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

34 loony tunes
-->
looney tunes

oops

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:40 AM (64Zez)

35 Wolfus - you are correct. Sadly.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 17, 2024 04:41 AM (KAi1n)

36 31 It would be similar to tracking by helicopter, just far less costly and far more numerous. A helicopter isn't going to stop a fleeing car but it does allow the cops to coordinate where to spring the trap with spike strips and a small army of vehicles.

A drone can be very difficult to spot from the driver's seat or even for a passenger. The suspect can be allowed to believe he's escaped and head for someplace where he'd stop and leave the vehicle. Wacky antics ensue.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 17, 2024 04:39 AM (/0z9K)

I saw a SFPD video of this working recently and it was supercool.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:42 AM (64Zez)

37 Second entry on this X-page

https://x.com/SFPD

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:43 AM (64Zez)

38 Is there anything else important to know about the place?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Has had some of the greatest race car drivers ever. Senna was amazing behind the wheel.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 17, 2024 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

39 Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

There you go man. Keep as cool as you can.

Face piles of trials with smiles.

It riles them that you’ve perceived the web they weave.

Keep on thinking free.

Posted by: Justin Hayward . . . at September 17, 2024 04:44 AM (TX4bP)

40 Intel will be receiving up to $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS Act. (WCCFTech)

-

If I understand things correctly now they'll be expected to build 8 microchips.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 04:46 AM (zxugF)

41 31 allow the cops to coordinate where to spring the trap with spike strips and a small army of vehicles
Posted by: Epobirs at September 17, 2024 04:39 AM (/0z9K)

Spike strips are supercool, too.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:48 AM (64Zez)

42 "Wow. They're loony tunes."

It's a problem with tech news at many sites, but it's particularly bad at Ars. If I go there to read (and that's a mighty big 'if') I avoid the comments.

-

Ha. I think it's the best part. They're better than Youtube comments because they're specialized.

(also goes to find slashdot)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 04:51 AM (zxugF)

43 >>>Disclaimer: I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

Don't bogart that joint, man.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:52 AM (64Zez)

44
https://slashdot.org

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:53 AM (64Zez)

45 Those fudged research papers and Nobel Prizes, we should really have igNoble Prizes.
Why is there so much cheating in the Biological/Medical Sciences? 1. A lot of money is involved. 2. A lot of the data is, perforce, not quantitative and therefore so much harder to check or duplicate. But there's more that I can't put my finger on.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, tutti imbroglioni at September 17, 2024 04:54 AM (qfLjt)

46 Hacker News pretty much avoids the crazies in the comments, I think:

https://news.ycombinator.com

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 04:57 AM (64Zez)

47 Is there anything else important to know about [Brazil]?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Has had some of the greatest race car drivers ever. Senna was amazing behind the wheel.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 17, 2024

***
Okay, then, one more point. Still I have no wish to visit it. They'd sneer at my gringo Spanish because it's not Portuguese, and it's too close to the equator for me anyhow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:58 AM (omVj0)

48 Time to go shave and shower, feed the beasts, and then me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 04:59 AM (omVj0)

49 But there's more that I can't put my finger on.

Posted by: Ciampino

-

It's easy, but it's not easily discussed.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 05:00 AM (zpx/a)

50 47: Nothing in Brazil interests me. Well, Morena Baccarin but that's it. She's from NYC anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 17, 2024 05:01 AM (sAmhv)

51 45 Why is there so much cheating in the Biological/Medical Sciences?
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, tutti imbroglioni at September 17, 2024 04:54 AM (qfLjt)

49 It's easy, but it's not easily discussed.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 05:00 AM (zpx/a)

Because math?

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 05:03 AM (64Zez)

52 Good morning, good people. Back into the dog days of August, featuring mid to high 80's with 100% humidity but cool evenings for good sleeping. Still no signs of foliage colors, though.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 05:05 AM (hKoQL)

53 Cats are cute and cuddly and effusive. Currently I have Bailey fast asleep in a sort of sitting up position, squeezed in between the armrest and my hip. He loves it like that. When I talk to him he'll loll his head while looking at me and if I use 'loving' words he'll give me little nips as an expression of love.
What more may I ask for from a dumb animal?
He's just a stripey gray tabby and I love him.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, tutti i miei gatti sono belli at September 17, 2024 05:06 AM (qfLjt)

54 Stop sniffing your test tubes...

Scientific American
@sciam
For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is
@KamalaHarris

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 17, 2024 05:07 AM (TGPs7)

55 @46/m: "Hacker News ... https://news.ycombinator.com"

Thanks for that. I'll give that a try.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 17, 2024 05:08 AM (O7YUW)

56 54 Stop sniffing your test tubes...

Scientific American
@sciam
For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is
@KamalaHarris
Posted by: Mister Ghost

ORANGEMANBAD IS BAD!!! #BELIEVETHESCIENCE!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 17, 2024 05:09 AM (sAmhv)

57 Why is there so much cheating in the Biological/Medical Sciences?
-

49 It's easy, but it's not easily discussed.
-

Because math?
Posted by: m

--

Absolutely, but also English, science, and social studies.

The president of Harvard could probably explain better than I could.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 05:09 AM (zpx/a)

58 @45/Ciampino: "But there's more that I can't put my finger on."

Government grant money, therefore government-scale corruption in the process and the results?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 17, 2024 05:10 AM (O7YUW)

59 or only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is
@KamalaHarris

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Dang.

Their readers are leaning towards Trump.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 05:11 AM (zpx/a)

60 hahahahaha

Go here and click "hard mode" in the upper righthand corner! And then move the cursor around.

https://tinyurl.com/3pv2w5jv

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 05:11 AM (64Zez)

61 Bailey has his photo available at Update #270 Picture #9. Links

https://is.gd/WQ5JcT
OR
http://tinyurl.com/4pak97f6

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, tutti i miei gatti sono bellissimi at September 17, 2024 05:12 AM (qfLjt)

62 Also there's another element that Eric Weinstein discusses sometimes. We are being actively held back in scientific endeavors because of the gatekeepers.

Gore someone important's ox, come up with something new that threatens a favored industry, or challenge a hypothesis, and you'll never work again.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 05:12 AM (zpx/a)

63 We have a feral cat younger daughter gifted us with after wife's urging. I miss my Lab each day and will confess it hurts terribly. But the love of my life has decreed no more dogs so I'll grudgingly concede, not wishing to open an issue best left alone.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 05:13 AM (hKoQL)

64 Hodgetwins
@hodgetwins
Weird how nobody ever shot at Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, or Biden

But they try to take out Trump twice in 2 months

🤔

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 17, 2024 05:14 AM (TGPs7)

65 It all started with Black Lives Matter, and whoever that guy was. For sure that wasn’t the start, but that is when it became clear that political violence from the left was OK in this country.

Some say this all things started to unravel when Obama was elected. I personally think it happened when Clinton was elected. That was the day we as a country decided you no longer have to be a war veteran or a man of prominence, You can be a sideshow and that alone will make you president

Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 05:20 AM (sJvjL)

66 60 hahahahaha

Go here and click "hard mode" in the upper righthand corner! And then move the cursor around.

https://tinyurl.com/3pv2w5jv
Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 05:11 AM (64Zez)

Also that blog post has some excellent editorial advice for bloggers:

"I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me"

... and the writing is hilarious. The author has a Pixy-like sense of humo(u)r.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 05:20 AM (64Zez)

67 When people say the Democrat party is changed and it is something worse I keep wondering when did that change happen? I know many patriots who fought for this country and they couldn’t stand Clinton probably more than anyone, but to be honest they couldn’t stand JFK either.

Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 05:21 AM (sJvjL)

68 >>>Verlan

[Ne]Verlan[d]?

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 05:22 AM (64Zez)

69 Mister Ghost

Bush Jr had a live grenade tossed onto the stage next to his lectern. In Georgia, near Russia.

Some cloth got entailed in the pin, and the pin was not removed before the throw.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 17, 2024 05:24 AM (u82oZ)

70 When people say the Democrat party is changed and it is something worse I keep wondering when did that change happen?

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Right after JFK, and for the same reasons we're seeing the inside attempts on Trump right now.

The party didn't change. The government itself did. There were no Democrat or Republican differences through those years. Those are terms to make the movement left easier to swallow, with both "sides" working towards the same globalist goal and the only difference being speed. We've had anti-Americans at the helm for 40 years or so, and in 2016 the mask got accidentally removed in an election where the machine hadn't properly prepared sufficient fraudulent votes to cover.

It's why Trump (and we) are so hated right now. A once-again great America is a threat to their plans, and they'll do anything they need to in order to stop it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women deserve to be told the truth at September 17, 2024 05:26 AM (zpx/a)

71 I’m Quint. I decided to retire that handle and become mostly a lurker. People here told me that they could tell it was me just by the way I spoke lol. No tricks here I just changed my name and likely won’t be posting as much but no promises there.

Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 05:28 AM (sJvjL)

72 "Just enough"- a woman with financial challenges reflects on Matthew 6:25-34 - the "Do not worry" passage:

https://tinyurl.com/2uvhmuna

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 05:33 AM (L1fFl)

73 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Got a couple of hours' work ahead of me, so won't be on with my usual mix of despair, cynicism and useless trivia until the Morning Report.

You may now carry on.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 17, 2024 05:33 AM (Q0kLU)

74 Verlan is a cool term imo. It is the French slang, like argot. I was going to go with …., but it seemed to similar to …

Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 05:40 AM (sJvjL)

75 name field test

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Remember Bush the First telling you they were implementing the NWO? at September 17, 2024 05:40 AM (zpx/a)

76 71 I’m Quint. I decided to retire that handle and become mostly a lurker. People here told me that they could tell it was me just by the way I spoke lol. No tricks here I just changed my name and likely won’t be posting as much but no promises there.
Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 05:28 AM (sJvjL)

I did not recognize you as being Quint! And I thought I could tell it was you just by the way you spoke.

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 05:41 AM (64Zez)

77 An inspiring story about George Muller who was was from Bohemia in the early 1800's was ordained, came to England, preached and started an orphanage. He depended on prayer for all needs:

https://tinyurl.com/yyjdac4z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 05:45 AM (L1fFl)

78 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 17, 2024 05:33 AM

Always glad to see you, MPPPP, and your trivia is intetesting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 05:46 AM (L1fFl)

79 link test

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Remember Bush the First telling you they were implementing the NWO? at September 17, 2024 05:48 AM (zpx/a)

80 76, maybe I am getting better? Then again maybe I am getting worse lol. I didn’t want to bs you M, so I came clean. Just a name change, I never felt comfortable with Quint.

Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 05:51 AM (sJvjL)

81 Time to lurk a bit, complaining about my problems isn't my usual. So may all your effort today be of great benefit and may that benefit cause extreme anguish to the leftwits.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 05:52 AM (hKoQL)

82 See on the local news this am that our electric bills will increase 40 dollars next year to prepare for the Green New Deal. With everything going electric, they somehow have to deliver electricy. It not going to be cheap, and Kamala with push it to the end, has me worried a lot.

Posted by: Colin at September 17, 2024 05:52 AM (e8qy3)

83 Does Intel still make splashy TV commercials with the people in the colorful moonsuits making chips?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 17, 2024 05:54 AM (Aqu9a)

84 Cats are cute and cuddly and effusive. Currently I have Bailey fast asleep in a sort of sitting up position, squeezed in between the armrest and my hip. He loves it like that. When I talk to him he'll loll his head while looking at me and if I use 'loving' words he'll give me little nips as an expression of love.
What more may I ask for from a dumb animal?
He's just a stripey gray tabby and I love him.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, tutti i miei gatti sono belli at September 17, 2024

***
Stirling the great black does that, minus the nips. Thank goodness. The late Chekov D. Siberian nipped me at least once a month for twelve years, and they didn't seem like love nips to me. I'd chase him off my lap -- and five minutes later he'd be back on my lap again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 17, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

85 It's weird how expensive free electricity is.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Remember Bush the First telling you they were implementing the NWO? at September 17, 2024 05:56 AM (zpx/a)

86 Why is there so much cheating in the Biological/Medical Sciences?
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, tutti imbroglioni

Sometimes I think the only thing cheaper to purchase than a politician is a research scientist.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 17, 2024 05:56 AM (Cp1vk)

87 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at September 17, 2024 06:04 AM (PzBTm)

88 >>>Intel will be receiving up to $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS Act. (WCCFTech) ... Does Intel deserve government handouts?

"It's a write-off for them."

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

89 Good Morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 17, 2024 06:07 AM (u82oZ)

90 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at September 17, 2024 06:10 AM (P+D4R)

91 Elderly neighbor waved toddler off for first day at pre school:

https://tinyurl.com/hdpxhk63

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 06:10 AM (L1fFl)

92 Not feeling well, going back to bed.

Hve a great day, everyone. May your eggs be less than $5 / dozen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 17, 2024 06:10 AM (u82oZ)

93 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 17, 2024 06:12 AM (VdhcA)

94 Small act of kindness makes a difference:

https://tinyurl.com/28n9hzy7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 06:14 AM (L1fFl)

95 That's what all these big companies do, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at September 17, 2024 06:16 AM (DobEs)

96 "I keep wondering when did that change happen? "

Clinton removed the dignity from the office of the President, but the degenerate Dems were corrupting the government long before he got into office. LBJ really kicked it off after they got rid of Kennedy.

Posted by: fd at September 17, 2024 06:17 AM (vFG9F)

97 I have an egg story. One of my parishioners prays for a job for my son which I really appreciate. Yesterday they sent along some info about a job. It was a job about handling eggs in Georgia. I'm not sure why she thought a degree in horticulture would be a good fit for him but it made me laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 06:18 AM (L1fFl)

98
https://xcancel.com/aceofspadeshq

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 06:19 AM (64Zez)

99 Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 17, 2024 06:10 AM (u82oZ)

Sorry to hear that. Hope you feel well soon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 06:19 AM (L1fFl)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 06:19 AM (64Zez)

101 Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 05:52 AM (hKoQL)

May rough places be made smooth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 06:20 AM (L1fFl)

102 Ok. I have decided that I don't want to read anything about politics today . Have a good day, everyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 17, 2024 06:22 AM (L1fFl)

103 102 Ok. I have decided that I don't want to read anything about politics today . Have a good day, everyone.

Smart thinking, Fenelon. I found myself feeling a bit black pilled last night.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 17, 2024 06:30 AM (99eI0)

104 and a good day to you, too, FS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 17, 2024 06:30 AM (UWgy2)

105 Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 17, 2024 05:52 AM (hKoQL)

Still working, but . . .

Seeing this nic always reminds me of the story of a 16th-century Scots clan chief, a rough, hard, no-frills fellow who once took his grandson out to hunt. When they made camp for the night, the grandson wrapped his tartan around him and pushed together a ball of snow to use as a pillow.

The grandfather saw this, kicked the snow away and growled, "Ill have no effeminacy here, boy."

Back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 17, 2024 06:31 AM (Q0kLU)

106 Have a good day off Fen

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024 06:34 AM (fwDg9)

107
♪ They're eating the pets. ♪

Posted by: Hungry Haitian Gourmet at September 17, 2024 06:37 AM (RKVpM)

108 Back to work.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 17, 2024 06:31 AM (Q0kLU)

Hey, it sounds harsh, but he did save the kid from getting stuck to the ground by a frozen drool-sicle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 17, 2024 06:38 AM (nPLkK)

109 G'mornin' everyone!

@ 54, lemme guess, the other one was joey the 'tard, right?
or no, hillary maybe?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 17, 2024 06:38 AM (UWgy2)

110 " I gotta come up with something that sounds good."

tell 'em you're actualizing your potentialities in a synergistic, whole-view data-grab so as to maximize a valid approach to business outcomes.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 17, 2024 06:38 AM (nCY1P)

111 >>♪ They're eating the pets. ♪ Posted by: Hungry Haitian Gourmet at September 17, 2024 06:37 AM (RKVpM)

Buffalo kitten wing, with blue cheese dressing and celery.

Posted by: ZOD at September 17, 2024 06:38 AM (P+D4R)

112 Trying to decide to get this long day started or not

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024 06:43 AM (fwDg9)

113 @ 70, bingo, spot on, excellent summation

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 17, 2024 06:44 AM (UWgy2)

114 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 06:53 AM (fKRr8)

115 ♪ They're eating the pets. ♪ Posted by: Hungry Haitian Gourmet

🎵Wok Like An Egyptian🎵

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 06:54 AM (fKRr8)

116 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

117 115
🎵Wok Like An Egyptian🎵
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 17, 2024 06:54 AM (fKRr

; )

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 06:57 AM (64Zez)

118 Not feeling well, going back to bed.
...
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 17, 2024 06:10 AM (u82oZ)
====
A prayer for complete and immediate recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 17, 2024 06:57 AM (RIvkX)

119

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 17, 2024 06:59 AM (5hfjS)

120 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 17, 2024 07:00 AM (hoCmQ)

121 JJ HAS THE NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 17, 2024 07:01 AM (fwDg9)

122 Does Intel deserve government handouts?

No.

Posted by: Twenty Six at September 17, 2024 07:10 AM (Vu7A1)

123 110 " I gotta come up with something that sounds good."

tell 'em you're actualizing your potentialities in a synergistic, whole-view data-grab so as to maximize a valid approach to business outcomes.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 17, 2024 06:38 AM (nCY1P)
----
You left out 'stochastic' and 'leverage'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, tutti i miei gatti sono bellissimi animali at September 17, 2024 07:12 AM (qfLjt)

124 I will tell you a Jose Andres story that I guarantee you no one else knows. He is a hard-core leftist, and that is a shame because he was a great cook and a great ambassador for Spain.

So I went to one of his restaurants in Virginia and they would have a happy hour with discounted beers and certain tapas, etc. He would offer one supercheap beer during happy hour at a discounted price. The beer he used was Yeungling. It is a low price beer, a good beer, but low priced.

Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 07:17 AM (sJvjL)

125 Mi"I think I am, therefore I am, I think."

Obligatory Boomer song in head, already party quoted:

[Thinker:] I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think."

[Establishment:] "But of course you are, my bright little star,
I've miles and miles of files, pretty files, of your forefather's fruit.
And now, to suit our Grrrreat computer,
You're magnetic ink."

[Thinker:] "I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be."

[Inner Man:] "There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles and piles of trials with smiles.
For it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave.
Keep on thinking free."

Posted by: setnaffa at September 17, 2024 07:19 AM (nOVGb)

126 So all of a sudden, Andres heard that Yingling supported President Trump. He decided he will never sell Yuengling again in his restaurants. I remember the day they locked the Yuengling tap, And said there would be no discounted beer for happy hour.

The Point I am making is he locked off Yuengling as a political statement, But being a cheap ass bastard, He said there would be no discount beer at all, although he had several types of Spanish beer.

To me, it was the perfect encapsulation for what a jag off he is. Stand by your political views, But then don’t cheap out and tell your patrons there is no discounted beer when you have several other beers available. If you don’t get what I’m saying, I’m saying it wrong, Personally, I think it is the best example of how horrible Andres and the left are. Not only anti American, but cheap as well.

Posted by: Verlan at September 17, 2024 07:22 AM (sJvjL)

127 125 "I think I am, therefore I am, I think."

Obligatory Boomer song in head, already party quoted:

[Thinker:] I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think."

[Establishment:] "But of course you are, my bright little star,
I've miles and miles of files, pretty files, of your forefather's fruit.
And now, to suit our Grrrreat computer,
You're magnetic ink."

[Thinker:] "I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be."

[Inner Man:] "There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles and piles of trials with smiles.
For it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave.
Keep on thinking free."
Posted by: setnaffa at September 17, 2024 07:19 AM (nOVGb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AukFsBv2oDY

The Moody Blues: In The Beginning- Lovely To See You

Posted by: m at September 17, 2024 08:42 AM (64Zez)

128 offen soch

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 17, 2024 09:27 AM (CEzQx)

129
The odds of Elon deorbiting a Starlink satellite into the judge's home just went up.

"Did that one contain a titanium rod suitable for penetrating several hundred feet of reinforced concrete? whoopsie."

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at September 17, 2024 10:52 AM (1hM1d)

130 It's like Larry Ellison watched that Black Mirror episode and thought recording everyone all the time was a great idea.

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at September 17, 2024 03:04 PM (XU3QZ)

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