Daily Tech News 26 October 2024

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The Librarian of Congress has granted a DMCA exemption to allow franchise owners to repair their own ice cream machines. (ExtremeTech)

The requested exemption was much broader, but the Librarian only granted the part covering "retail-level food preparation equipment". Still a step forward for soft-serve lovers everywhere.

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Siri now has an integration with ChatGPT. (The Verge)

Asked a simple question, it can return answers for things you didn't ask, just vague enough to be completely useless when they are not entirely wrong in the first place.
Delta Air Lines has filed its long-awaited suit against Crowdstrike. (Reuters) (archive site)

Delta wants damages of $500 million to cover its direct costs over CrowdStrike's colossal screwup, plus additional unspecified amounts for lost profits, reputational damage, and lawyers' fees.

CrowdStrike says this is Delta's own fault for being stupid enough to use CrowdStrike.
This page does not exist. (Wikipedia) (archive site)

The judge in a defamation case in India has ordered Wikipedia to take down the page about the case - globally.

Be a shame if this got Streisanded into the stratosphere.
Cheaper Zen 5 laptops are on their way. (Tom's Hardware)

The current Zen 5 laptop chips are Strix Point, with twelve cores (four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c). The new Krackan Point chips trim that down to eight cores (four of each) and likely also trims down the GPU side to eight cores.

Still waiting in the wings is Strix Point Halo, with sixteen Zen 5 cores and forty graphics cores.

Voices from the Distant Past Video of the Today

I was wondering how long she's been doing this, and that she started at 17 makes sense of things.

Dooby had about 50,000 people show up for her debut across Twitch and YouTube.

Voices from the Distant Past Videos of the Tomorrow

If you know who this is, you won't want to miss it, even though she'll just be playing a game and chatting.

Same goes for this one.

It's a heck of a weekend for fans of... A certain Japanese entertainment company.

And Rica is having her Live2d debut on the 31st, so it's a heck of a week too.

Disclaimer: Do not the Korsche.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Hello horde

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:05 AM (1/rkI)

2 Good morning Pixie

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:05 AM (1/rkI)

3 So Pixy picked a fight with the Indian judiciary, and the ONT was a casualty as a result?

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to figure out what's going on at October 26, 2024 04:06 AM (dtlDP)

4 Pixie, what is the animation software that create the videos you present here? I know nothing about this genre but cannot imagine these are not machine generated images to match the speech?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:08 AM (1/rkI)

5 OMG. We went straight to tech.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at October 26, 2024 04:09 AM (elaR+)

6 I was going to go to the ONT to advise on the newdity and it was gone

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:10 AM (1/rkI)

7 This is not the ONT you are looking for

Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at October 26, 2024 04:12 AM (elaR+)

8 I still haven’t found what I’m looking for……

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:16 AM (1/rkI)

9
machine generated images to match the speech?
Posted by: Pete Bog

==================

Could be a "skin" over video of a human.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024 04:16 AM (g8Gp5)

10 Could be a "skin" over video of a human.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024 04:16 AM (g8Gp5)

I understood the words you wrote but what generates the “skin”?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:20 AM (1/rkI)

11 Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, dies at age 84.

The Instagram post said he died peacefully, surrounded by family.

Lesh is survived by his wife, Jill Lesh, and their two sons, Grahame and Brian.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 26, 2024 04:20 AM (hovnC)

12 Fudgepops, my carefully-crafted comment disappeared. And Lil Pooky finally wore himself out, so I'm going to try to put him in his crib.

Posted by: pookysgirl, utterly exhausted at October 26, 2024 04:21 AM (dtlDP)

13 4 Pixie, what is the animation software that create the videos you present here? I know nothing about this genre but cannot imagine these are not machine generated images to match the speech?

I'm not sure what Dooby is using for her 3d work. She has an entire home studio set up to match her 3d set, and she can climb around inside that virtual train. She even has an electric car of some kind that she can ride on that is linked to a miniature 3d train on screen.

That's all pretty complicated though, not to mention expensive. Most vtubers use software called Live2d https://www.live2d.com/en/ or VTube Studio https://denchisoft.com/ since those don't require an elaborate setup. You just need a good webcam or smart phone to track your face and hands, and a 2d model that has been "rigged" to move the same way you do.

All of this is done live, which is why it's so popular. The streamer can be talking and responding to viewers while in their virtual character.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2024 04:22 AM (BLOW1)

14 I understood the words you wrote but what generates the “skin”?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:20 AM (1/rkI)

Not sure what the tech is these days, but two years ago, you had a "face rig" of some kind to motion-capture and software translated that into animation.

Think Gollum but with anime girls.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not sure what her preciousss anime would be at October 26, 2024 04:24 AM (dtlDP)

15 Yes, there's all sorts of levels to this, from plonking yourself at your desk with an iPhone in front of you, to Hololive's $20 million 3d studio.

The main difference to 3d motion tracking in movies is this is all (or at least mostly) done live.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2024 04:28 AM (BLOW1)

16 Thanks for the explanation. We take for granted the incredible computational power involved in something like these animations.

Pretty cool. Not going to attempt to create a doe eyed avatar but employed well you could produce some cool bedtime stories and educational stuff for kids.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:28 AM (1/rkI)

17 Good morning, good people, from the slowly fading Adirondacks where leaf removal reigns supreme. Nothing like a leaf carpet to make a lawn look tatty and neglected.

And may all effort this day result in tremendous benefit to you and concomitant grief for the leftwits among us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 26, 2024 04:31 AM (hKoQL)

18 And my lack of imagination shows that I have no clue how many adults are into this because I just think of it as a kids thing

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 26, 2024 04:32 AM (1/rkI)

19 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 04:36 AM (a1415)

20 Could really use some Horde prayers right now....

Will explain later, after I get more information.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at October 26, 2024 04:38 AM (SRRAx)

21 Phil leaves behind a box of rain.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 26, 2024 04:39 AM (KAi1n)

22 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2024 04:39 AM (dR6yv)

23 I guess the UNRWA pay scale is so low that folks have to work two jobs to make ends meet.

https://tinyurl.com/26vjwwvs

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 04:41 AM (a1415)

24 Teresa...

Prayers sent.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 04:42 AM (a1415)

25
my lack of imagination shows that I have no clue how many adults are into this because I just think of it as a kids thing
Posted by: Pete Bog

==================

Some people are camera-shy and want to maintain their anonymity or just look cuter than they do in real life.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024 04:46 AM (g8Gp5)

26 Rogan

6,537,011 views 7 hours ago

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 04:51 AM (VnUSN)

27 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 26, 2024 04:51 AM (rii+a)

28 G'Day everyone

So Trump was on Rogan last night?

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 04:52 AM (fwDg9)

29 Is this more of that 'disinformation' that we keep hearing about?

Or actual election malfeasance?

https://tinyurl.com/3rfjwd3e

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 04:54 AM (a1415)

30 Think Gollum but with anime girls.
Posted by: pookysgirl,

Gollum with an anime girl voice. That would be trippy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 26, 2024 04:54 AM (rii+a)

31 Can you imagine what real estate in the Middle East is like?

"Yes, I'm looking for a two bedroom, one bath... oh, and not next to an IDF target site. What's the furthest away you can get me? Five blocks? Seriously?! Fine.... Yes, yes, death to America to you too."

Posted by: pookysgirl, still referencing that MADtv skit at October 26, 2024 04:55 AM (dtlDP)

32 Pixy I read an article about an Australian going to a Trump rally. I have to go find it.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 04:55 AM (fwDg9)

33 So Trump was on Rogan last night?
Posted by: Skip

Yes. It was great. Rogan seems to have taken the stance that it wasn't he job to treat Trump like unhinged lunatic. This is in stark contrast to how the media has treated him from day 1.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 04:57 AM (tPMOE)

34 So....who stole the ONT?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 04:57 AM (a1415)

35 Rogan Trump

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

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 04:58 AM (VnUSN)

36 When I open this site on an iPhone, after a few seconds one of the ads here causes the site to refresh twice in rapid succession and then to crash. If I go straight to comments so that the ads aren’t displayed, the site stays up.

Posted by: jwmiii at October 26, 2024 04:58 AM (i/17+)

37 https://pjmedia.com/an aussie walks into a trump rally

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 05:00 AM (fwDg9)

38 "When I open this site on an iPhone, after a few seconds one of the ads here causes the site to refresh twice in rapid succession and then to crash. "

Same here.

My phone didn't crash, but the Ads are everywhere on the home page.

Maybe we should hope that it generates some income for Ace.
But still, it's just about too invasive.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 05:00 AM (a1415)

39 Good morning morons

The ont has been obliterated. Like the SAM bases protecting Tehran.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 05:03 AM (RIvkX)

40 I have Spotify so can see it there

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 05:04 AM (fwDg9)

41 "The ont has been obliterated. Like the SAM bases protecting Tehran."

So the ONT was in possession of information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 05:04 AM (a1415)

42 Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, dies at age 84.

The Instagram post said he died peacefully, surrounded by family.

Lesh is survived by his wife, Jill Lesh, and their two sons, Grahame and Brian.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 26, 2024 04:20 AM (hovnC)
====

"Let Phil Sing!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 05:05 AM (RIvkX)

43 33 So Trump was on Rogan last night?
Posted by: Skip

Yes. It was great. Rogan seems to have taken the stance that it wasn't he job to treat Trump like unhinged lunatic. This is in stark contrast to how the media has treated him from day 1.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 04:57 AM (tPMOE)

The mainstream media, which has shredded its credibility.

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:06 AM (VnUSN)

44
Pixy I read an article about an Australian going to a Trump rally. I have to go find it.
Posted by: Skip

================

I saw it, a Twitter thread. Basically "I was curious so I went, saw plenty of Asians Hispanics and Blacks, Trump was funny but said most of the usual stuff, crowd was very enthusiastic, a lot left early (probably to beat traffic) and a lot didn't get in, interesting overall."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024 05:06 AM (g8Gp5)

45 It is 3 hours! Have it playing on Spotify

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 05:08 AM (fwDg9)

46 My sister and me left early, got home and Trump was still there . We both regret leaving but we were there from 1 pm and it was after 8pm

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 05:10 AM (fwDg9)

47
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 26, 2024 05:11 AM (tljrc)

48 34 So....who stole the ONT?
-----
I refer you to the curious incident of the Ewok in the nighttime.

The Ewok did nothing in the nighttime.

That was the curious incident.

Posted by: Sherlock Holmes at October 26, 2024 05:11 AM (hovnC)

49 The Ewok that didn't bark?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 05:12 AM (a1415)

50 Ads and cookie preferences have gone berserk throughout the 'net, makes a real fun task of navigating.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 26, 2024 05:12 AM (hKoQL)

51 WS Game 1 was one of the best games I have seen in years. How it ended will be remembered and discussed for the next 50 years. More likely longer.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 05:13 AM (tPMOE)

52 Rogan seems to have a lawyer in the room. Right at the start, he mentioned that he can't show an episode of The View from 9 years ago because the Rogan/Trump JRE show he's taping might get taken down in a copyright strike; and at about 30 minutes in, he ponders putting up a clip of CBS News 60 Minutes massively editing a Kamala interview and somebody in the room says, no, possible copyright strike.

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:14 AM (VnUSN)

53 Rogan seems to have a lawyer in the room. Right at the start, he mentioned that he can't show an episode of The View from 9 years ago because the Rogan/Trump JRE show he's taping might get taken down in a copyright strike; and at about 30 minutes in, he ponders putting up a clip of CBS News 60 Minutes massively editing a Kamala interview and somebody in the room says, no, possible copyright strike.
Posted by: m

YouTube can pick out copywritten works and when it does it issues a copyright violation against the channel. Get three of them and the channel gets banned is what I understand. All YouTube channels are hyper vigilant about this - no lawyers needed.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 05:18 AM (tPMOE)

54 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at October 26, 2024 05:18 AM (86W+h)

55 41 "The ont has been obliterated. Like the SAM bases protecting Tehran."

So the ONT was in possession of information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

That's ridiculous. It was aliens.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 26, 2024 05:20 AM (rii+a)

56 Rogan Trump 7,052,062 views 7 hours ago
(youtube)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:20 AM (VnUSN)

57 That Lancaster County Pa story about the suspected fraudulent voter registration drop also mentions two other adjacent counties possibly having the same issue.

Doesn't name the counties, but 2,500 fake registrations multiplied by three counties is a not small amount of potential fraud.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 05:21 AM (a1415)

58 This interview is making Trump into a average human being, not the monster the Left makes him out to be.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 05:22 AM (fwDg9)

59 Librarian of Congress now allows Archie Tuttle to fix the McDonald's ice cream machine.

Seems like scope creep for the governmental body.

Posted by: fluffy at October 26, 2024 05:23 AM (86W+h)

60 "not the monster the Left makes him out to be."

What are the odds that the Left has been lying to use about Trump's Monster status?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 05:23 AM (a1415)

61 Anyhow.....time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 05:24 AM (a1415)

62 This interview is making Trump into a average human being, not the monster the Left makes him out to be.
Posted by: Skip

Yep. We have all seen this side of him for years - treat him with civility and stop with challenging everything he says - let him have his opinions - he becomes charming, funny and engaging. Am I right?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 05:26 AM (tPMOE)

63 2,500 fake registrations X 67 counties in Pennsylvania

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

64 Does the Intelligence Community have a group called "China" ?

China targeted phones of Trump, Vance and Harris campaign affiliates, sources say

The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the federal government is investigating.

Posted by: SMOD at October 26, 2024 05:27 AM (GITLP)

65 Evening and morning to all the early risers and Saturday toilers! I'm up, I'm sipping coffee, what more d'ya want???

So the Rogan interview with Trump is on YooToob? How long is it, an hour?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 05:30 AM (omVj0)

66 Evening and morning to all the early risers and Saturday toilers! I'm up, I'm sipping coffee, what more d'ya want???

So the Rogan interview with Trump is on YooToob? How long is it, an hour?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

3 hours. Time to get watching.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 05:32 AM (tPMOE)

67 Chinese hackers targeted cellphones used by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, his running mate, JD Vance, and people associated with the Democratic campaign of Kamala Harris

… sounds like Dementia Joe

Posted by: SMOD at October 26, 2024 05:32 AM (GITLP)

68 >>> Rogan Trump

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

Thanks. Mrs fluffy will probably watch the whole thing.

Posted by: fluffy at October 26, 2024 05:34 AM (86W+h)

69 PDT talking about Detroit (40:00)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:39 AM (VnUSN)

70 Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine 21h
Trump has to meet a very high bar to rule as our most authoritarian President ever. If he sends an ethnic minority to internment camps, tries to pack the Court, and stays in office for four terms, he’ll still only be tied.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 26, 2024 05:42 AM (hovnC)

71 I have been reading the comments for the Trump/Rogan video. They are coming in from all over the world and they are remarkably and consistently favorable to President Trump. The MSM is having a collective headache about this. This video just eclipse their playing gatekeepers. This video seems to be something of a watershed moment in presidential politics and the media.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 05:43 AM (tPMOE)

72 Trump on Rogan is very good. They had to raise the alarms against Trump to millions of decibels just to stop people from hearing him or forming their own opinions about him. I watched it happen. Going back to 2015. I documented it here.

None of the traditional attacks worked, then the non-traditional attacks didn't work, then the really offensive impossible stuff didn't work, so then they quickly moved to what we've been experiencing for a decade which basically amounts to just constant screaming.

People mistake it as being because they "hate" Trump but it's really because they needed to shut him up. And by shut him up I mean color everything he says so people tune it out or get influenced not to listen. The guy is a force of nature.

Going on Rogan a week before the election is genius. I will keep saying that if he is allowed to win and I'm not sure he will be, they have something in the can so big and ridiculous and planned that it will be the only thing talked about every day just like Russia, then impeachment, then covid was. I don't know what it will be but I have my suspicions. They cannot let Trump assume power *and* control of any portion of narrative.

Posted by: ... at October 26, 2024 05:43 AM (lX8VI)

73 No ONT, huh? No doubt there be reasons.

'Tis Saturday, errands day. I need to wash the car -- a rinse at least -- run out for my haircut, maybe a stop by the bank, and groceries at Aldi. And I should pick up an Rx at the Target pharmacy. The beasts need some canned food; I could get that at Target too.

My boss let me go early yesterday, knowing that my route home comes close to the Stupordome where Taylor was to perform her first of three concerts last night. I hope it went well and nobody shot anybody.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 05:48 AM (omVj0)

74 A Starlink setup is the size of an iPad!?
"You just set it on the ground."

--Rogan (46:00)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:50 AM (VnUSN)

75 A Starlink setup is the size of an iPad!?
"You just set it on the ground."

--Rogan (46:00)
Posted by: m

STARLINK MINI
https://www.starlink.com/roam

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at October 26, 2024 05:52 AM (tPMOE)

76 full quote

A Starlink setup is the size of an iPad!?
"You just set it on the ground. You get highspeed internet."

--Rogan (46:00)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:53 AM (VnUSN)

77 Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine 21h
Trump has to meet a very high bar to rule as our most authoritarian President ever. If he sends an ethnic minority to internment camps, tries to pack the Court, and stays in office for four terms, he’ll still only be tied.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 26, 2024

***
Tied w/ Joey MushBrain's handlers, no doubt.

These people can't count. Trump is, what, 78? He wouldn't live to see even twelve more years as President. (Though knowing what a force of nature he is, he might!) Unless this clown means four years more of Trump, then eight of Vance -- but he doesn't say that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

78 They cannot let Trump assume power *and* control of any portion of narrative.

Posted by: ... at October 26, 2024 05:43 AM (lX8VI)

He's the head of a *movement* and not just one man. We need to make it clear that taking out Trump will not stop us.

Posted by: pookysgirl, humming a Queen song at October 26, 2024 05:56 AM (dtlDP)

79 Siri now has an integration with ChatGPT. (The Verge)

Asked a simple question, it can return answers for things you didn't ask, just vague enough to be completely useless when they are not entirely wrong in the first place

Let me guess: it grew up in a middle-class household?

Posted by: Bitblt at October 26, 2024 05:58 AM (qG4SX)

80 Alteria, I see what you mean about comments to the Rogan/Trump interview coming from all over the world. People in other countries praying for the U.S.? The MSM wants us to believe we are hated everywhere. And maybe in boardrooms and palaces we are, in a lot of cases. But the everyday people in Cyprus and Denmark and Scotland -- they see America as something special in human history.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 06:00 AM (omVj0)

81 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

I think Adrian's point is that no matter the screeching about Trump being a dictator, we've had worse in the White House (meaning FDR).

Posted by: pookysgirl, now at 24 hours without sleep at October 26, 2024 06:02 AM (dtlDP)

82 Joe Biden knew about Israel's plan to bomb Tehran on Saturday morning and even encouraged it as a way to deter further attacks, a senior White House official revealed.
----

I find this hard to believe

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2024 06:03 AM (/7KEl)

83 I think Adrian's point is that no matter the screeching about Trump being a dictator, we've had worse in the White House (meaning FDR).
Posted by: pookysgirl, now at 24 hours without sleep at October 26, 2024

***
Then I misread his comment. I see what you mean.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 06:08 AM (omVj0)

84 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 26, 2024 06:09 AM (dg+HA)

85 G'mornin' everyone!

@21, well said

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at October 26, 2024 06:10 AM (gY0JQ)

86 There was a Towson's warbler in our birdbath yesterday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:13 AM (RIvkX)

87 A cup and half of coffee, a pleasant pipe, and time now for breakfast!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 06:14 AM (omVj0)

88 Just put coffee on

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:14 AM (fwDg9)

89 Rogan and Trump calling out Newsom for cleaning up SF for President Xi--instead of for SF. (58:30)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 06:16 AM (VnUSN)

90 Imma whine up some blueberry pancakes when Mrs. F. wakes up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:17 AM (RIvkX)

91 91 86 There was a Towson's warbler in our birdbath yesterday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Goddamn Illegals

Posted by: Elderly Git at October 26, 2024 06:19 AM (Tns43)

92 "The Librarian of Congress has granted a DMCA exemption to allow franchise owners to repair their own ice cream machines. (ExtremeTech)"

What? This is the most bizarre timeline I can imagine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:19 AM (y31cs)

93
No ONT, huh? No doubt there be reasons.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

================

Shelving collapsed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024 06:25 AM (g8Gp5)

94
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

==================

They're talking about FDR. Get it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024 06:27 AM (g8Gp5)

95 Huh? There was an ONT. I saw it before I went to bed.

It had a Roman Painting with a guilty dog.

What the hell is going on here?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:27 AM (y31cs)

96 Unless, something really bad went on on the ONT...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:28 AM (y31cs)

97 I did mot sleep too good.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:30 AM (jgmnb)

98 -the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has control over whether people can repair their own property.

-an ONT has been withdrawn

Strange happenings at the Circle K.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:31 AM (y31cs)

99 Thrashed aroud.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:31 AM (jgmnb)

100 100

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 06:31 AM (VnUSN)

101 Woke up 6 times.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:31 AM (jgmnb)

102 The screaming Yankee fans on sports radio NYC today will be hilarious.
And tedious because they do it every single day.

Posted by: Jamaica at October 26, 2024 06:31 AM (IG7T0)

103
Unless, something really bad went on on the ONT...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:28 AM

talk of days for which they sit and wait

all will be revealed

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 26, 2024 06:32 AM (tljrc)

104 Rogan Trump 8,010,728 views 8 hours ago
(youtube)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 06:32 AM (VnUSN)

105 Happy Saturday

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 06:33 AM (gbOdA)

106 Mmmm, catfish tortilla for breakfast. Cafe Bustello. Things are looking up.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:33 AM (jgmnb)

107 It's always the WD ONTs. I'll admit, I did not read many of the comments. It was up to 400+.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:33 AM (y31cs)

108 I am surprised that the Rogan interview has not gotten age restricted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:34 AM (y31cs)

109 This Rogan / Trump interview is all over the place in subjects.
This would be a riot with Kamunist dancing around not answering questions

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:35 AM (fwDg9)

110
They're talking about FDR. Get it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024

***
Now I do. I thought it was more of the standard screaming about Trump and his supposed dictatorial tendencies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 06:35 AM (omVj0)

111 I like catfish, but never had it in the morning. I must ponder this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2024 06:35 AM (dR6yv)

112 Something something ONT upon the stair
Something something wasn't there

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 06:36 AM (dg+HA)

113 My electronics seem to be working, so no electromagnetic pulses overnight?

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:38 AM (jgmnb)

114 So Nijisanji still a thing?

Is Ubislop?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 26, 2024 06:38 AM (VN3OX)

115 112 Something something ONT upon the stair
Something something wasn't there
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 06:36 AM (dg+HA)

Now I'm just curious. If someone had gotten really insane, why not just ban em and remove the comments?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:39 AM (y31cs)

116 69 PDT talking about Detroit (40:00)
Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:39 AM (VnUSN)

Returning to the topic of Detroit (and tariffs) (1:08:00)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 06:39 AM (VnUSN)

117 "imperfect". God can use us in spite of our imperfections. Jeremiah 18:1-6

https://tinyurl.com/5n8s88z4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 06:39 AM (l8U2g)

118 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 26, 2024 06:39 AM (hoCmQ)

119
Keptain! The ONT! It's... gone!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2024 06:39 AM (EsZUh)

120 Jim, His brain is gone!

Posted by: Bones McCoy at October 26, 2024 06:40 AM (y31cs)

121 Who blew up the ONT?

Johnny! Plug that back in!

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 26, 2024 06:41 AM (VN3OX)

122 111 I like catfish, but never had it in the morning. I must ponder this.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2024 06:35 AM (dR6yv
Catfish and grits is a good start for the day.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:41 AM (jgmnb)

123 https://tinyurl.com/ypyhn2yf

Posted by: Bones McCoy at October 26, 2024 06:41 AM (y31cs)

124 Still trying to decide what to have for breakfast

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:42 AM (fwDg9)

125 Israel strikes at the heart of Iran's military with devastating 140-plane barrage

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 06:42 AM (gbOdA)

126 Skip, shouldn't you be on your second breakfast by now?

Posted by: bluebell at October 26, 2024 06:43 AM (79pEw)

127 124 Still trying to decide what to have for breakfast
Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:42 AM (fwDg9)

After the discussion of fish for breakfast, I think I am good for a bit longer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:43 AM (y31cs)

128 Fish in the morning: lox, whitefish, herring, sardines

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:43 AM (RIvkX)

129 109 This Rogan / Trump interview is all over the place in subjects.
This would be a riot with Kamunist dancing around not answering questions
Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:35 AM (fwDg9)

He's "weaving." (For people who haven't watched the video yet, "weaving" is what Rogan and Trump called Trump's style of conversation/interviewing at some point in the second half of the first hour.)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 06:43 AM (VnUSN)

130
Still trying to decide what to have for breakfast
Posted by: Skip

==============

I'm warming up the Doordash I didn't eat yesterday.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2024 06:43 AM (g8Gp5)

131 Has anyone listened to the whole Rogan thing yet? I will eventually, but just wondering how Trump fared.

Posted by: bluebell at October 26, 2024 06:44 AM (79pEw)

132 In other gaming news, the Gayming Awards has been taking bribes from the industry to give positive reviews.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 26, 2024 06:44 AM (VN3OX)

133 When I went to bed the mullets was getting they butts kicked. What’s the score?

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:44 AM (jgmnb)

134 PDT's being very respectful of Ronald Reagan at various opportunities.

(I'm starting hour two of three.)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 06:46 AM (VnUSN)

135 Mullets?

Can you imagine "Achy Breaky Heart" in Farsi?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 26, 2024 06:46 AM (VN3OX)

136
Still trying to decide what to have for breakfast
Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:42 AM (fwDg9)

Breakfast? Young go-getters wake up at 5:00, have a 30-minute run followed by 100 push-ups, then a cold shower and off to work running up meaningless billable hours!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2024 06:47 AM (EsZUh)

137 128 Fish in the morning: lox, whitefish, herring, sardines
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:43 AM (RIvkX
This is known. But Einstein Brothers is not open when I roll in to work.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 06:47 AM (jgmnb)

138 Revolver says Trump did a speech in Austin, 3 hour interview with Rogan then flew to Michigan for a rally with 10,000 people

Yeah, no energy Kamunist

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:48 AM (fwDg9)

139 96 Unless, something really bad went on on the ONT...
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Nope. It was pretty benign all night. Just chill mostly. The ONT disappeared, like tears in the rain. A glitch. Operator error. Aliens.

Who knows.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 26, 2024 06:48 AM (sAmhv)

140 "The environmentalists' dream is Windmills Everywhere."

LOL

--PDT (1:10:00)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 06:49 AM (VnUSN)

141 Mullets in Tehran > Holiday in Cambodia

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:49 AM (RIvkX)

142
Ah, there's good news! The New York Yankees were defeated last night 6-3 on a walk-off, two out, two strike grand slam in the bottom of the 10th.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2024 06:50 AM (EsZUh)

143 PDT's being very respectful of Ronald Reagan at various opportunities.

(I'm starting hour two of three.)
Posted by: m at October 26, 2024

***
I don't remember the TV networks' reaction to Reagan, since I paid no attention to "news" then. But I know magazines like Playboy certainly made fun of him, predicted he was going to spearhead a new "religious right" movement that would turn America into a theocracy, etc. Falwell's Moral Majority came in for target practice, and the editors at PB pretty much equated RR to the MM. (I can't believe I fell for it, some of it, back then.)

The Left's techniques are the same now, just amped up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 06:50 AM (omVj0)

144 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/
1849871737254498358.html

Pennsylvania is to far gone to have a fair election

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 06:52 AM (fwDg9)

145 Beloved employee of McDonalds and who has Downs Syndrome retires after 25 years of service:

https://tinyurl.com/4se45udu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 06:52 AM (DKU3J)

146 1. Tehran bombed
2. Kamala imploded
3. Yankees lost

Yesterday was a good day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:52 AM (RIvkX)

147 Nice young fellow helps Seniors at a nursing home get moving using everyday objects;

https://tinyurl.com/ycxzey6f

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 07:00 AM (DKU3J)

148 Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:52 AM (RIvkX)

How did Kamala implode yesterday?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 07:01 AM (DKU3J)

149 When you are reduced to calling your opponent "Hitler" you have lost the argument.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 07:02 AM (RIvkX)

150 Was wondering this morning if baseball was still going. You know I have absolutely no idea what's happening in baseball or football.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:02 AM (fwDg9)

151 So when does Old Lady Emhoff sit down with Joe Rogan?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 07:03 AM (dg+HA)

152 It's easy to totally tune out on a subject, Leftists do it their whole lives

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:03 AM (fwDg9)

153 The ONT was written in disappearing ink

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 26, 2024 07:03 AM (JRP2U)

154 Quarter Twenty- or how about Jill?

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:04 AM (fwDg9)

155 Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 07:02 AM (RIvkX)

Thanks. I thought this was something new in her arsenal of awfulness. I think she's been doing that for a few days.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 07:04 AM (v37d1)

156 Was wondering this morning if baseball was still going. You know I have absolutely no idea what's happening in baseball or football.
Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:02 AM (fwDg9)
====
Me too. 30 years ago my social life was organized around the Giants and the Niners.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 07:05 AM (RIvkX)

157 I am more than halfway through interview, better go make breakfast.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:05 AM (fwDg9)

158 Jill is too busy drafting the pardons. She's a doctor, dontcha know.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 07:05 AM (dg+HA)

159 I read Ace's yesterday post about Kelly, and looked at a few moments of Springsteen at KH's rally. Never did I think Springsteen was a good singer (songwriter for other people, sure). This limp, croak-voiced "performance" was worse than terrible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 07:06 AM (omVj0)

160
Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈
@MrAndyNgo
8h
A relaxed Donald Trump shows Joe Rogan the scar on his ear where a bullet narrowly missed his brain during an attempted assassination attempt in Butler, Penn. Harris’ campaign turned down an opportunity to be on the popular podcast.

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 07:07 AM (VnUSN)

161 mornin yall. Greek festival today sponsored by the local Holy Cross church. Hopefully nobody goes over there thinking they are Jewish. We will go and get a tasty sampler.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

162
How did Kamala implode yesterday?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024

***
Worse than usual, you mean? I dunno. She was a blue giant star for a week around the time of the Dem convention. Then she exploded and collapsed into a white dwarf, and now a black hole. (I may have the exact details of the physics wrong, that a star can't do both. But the metaphor is apt.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 07:09 AM (omVj0)

163 Old rock stars never die...

they just -
refuse to die

enough of these relics touring into their 70s and 80s
I see it as no more than passing the collection plate

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2024 07:09 AM (/7KEl)

164 *Harris’ campaign turned down an opportunity to be on the popular podcast.*

IOW, B.O. sez "Not only no, but Hell No!"

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 07:09 AM (dg+HA)

165 Was somebody bad last night? Did Ace have to break out the sloths?

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

166 Just looked at weather forecast, no rain of course because it never rains in southern Pennsylvania, but see after a chilly day tomorrow possibly 80 degrees Halloween.
It most likely won't happen but hopefully a nice day for treaters.

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:09 AM (fwDg9)

167 Harris’ campaign turned down an opportunity to be on the popular podcast.
Posted by: m at October 26, 2024

***
She wouldn't dare do that. Three hours of unscripted airtime? She'd melt into a puddle of sweat. And that would be just the first twenty minutes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 07:10 AM (omVj0)

168 Morning peeps. I take it that Trump's appearance on Rogan's podcast was a success? I'll go look for it later on this morning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2024 07:12 AM (Q4IgG)

169 Why isn't Greek food as good as Italian food?

It's like Greece is Italy's little impoverished food stepsister...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 26, 2024 07:12 AM (TGPs7)

170 Rogan Trump 7,052,062 views 7 hours ago
(youtube)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 05:20 AM (VnUSN)

Excellent.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 26, 2024 07:13 AM (i24o9)

171 Why isn't Greek food as good as Italian food?

It's like Greece is Italy's little impoverished food stepsister...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 26, 2024 07:12 AM (TGPs7)
===
What's wrong with a cheeseburger and no Coke Pepsi?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 07:14 AM (RIvkX)

172 I love a good Greek salad. And a gyroscope sandwich.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 07:14 AM (dg+HA)

173 PDT discusses the "ear scar"

(1:20:40)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 07:15 AM (VnUSN)

174 165 Was somebody bad last night? Did Ace have to break out the sloths?
Posted by: fd

Nope. Just vanished.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 26, 2024 07:16 AM (sAmhv)

175 "Why isn't Greek food as good as Italian food?"

Past experiences at these festivals have been that the food is excellent. They never have Italian Festivals here. I think there's still an Olive Garden though.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

176 "Nope. Just vanished.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come"

Oh. Probably aliens then.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

177 The ONT was seized as evidence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 07:20 AM (RIvkX)

178 Baklava makes up for everything else

I've been to Crete
mostly lamb and seafood
and wine- and Ouzo

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2024 07:20 AM (/7KEl)

179 Pixy I read an article about an Australian going to a Trump rally. I have to go find it.
Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 04:55 AM (fwDg9)

The first time I scanned your post, I misread it as "Austrian" ... then I thought someone ar the rally was trying to make a connection about Donald Trump being the Bad Orange Hitler (tm) ... then I read it again and thought, Oh never mind.

LOL.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 07:21 AM (pJWtt)

180 I being a big podcast listener having dropped radio wonder that unlike YouTube having watched count ( have seen they can be manipulated) Spotify at least doesn't show them

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:22 AM (fwDg9)

181 Know who else went to Austrian rallies?

Posted by: Someone has to say it at October 26, 2024 07:23 AM (dg+HA)

182 4 Pixie, what is the animation software that create the videos you present here? I know nothing about this genre but cannot imagine these are not machine generated images to match the speech?

Just back to this question for a moment, Dooby is using a 3d vtuber program called Warudo.

https://warudo.app/

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2024 07:23 AM (BLOW1)

183 Taiwan! (1:26:30)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 07:24 AM (VnUSN)

184 France’s new crackdown on cyberbullying sees seven charged in “first wave” of arrests against those who trolled the creator of the Paris 2024 Olympics LGBT-themed opening ceremony.

The Ministry of Gender Equality and the Fight Against Discrimination made clear others who had insulted the creator of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony and his colleagues should fear the arrival of police officers shortly, saying: “This is a first wave of arrests, there will be others, the investigators will go all the way”.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

185 Mark Cuban says Trump will destroy Christmas. Cindy Lou Who was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:30 AM (vFG9F)

186 114 So Nijisanji still a thing?

Is Ubislop?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Nijisanji JP is still going strong. Nijisanji EN is dying, and Nijisanji ID and KR and pretty much gone. Just a few poor souls like Derem Kado hanging on.

Ubisoft is dead and decomposing. They just need to find someone to bury it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2024 07:30 AM (BLOW1)

187 I am gonna be straight up honest, Greek food is not as good as Italian food. That is no great shame there are only a handful of great international cuisines. Some might quibble with my list but I did not make it. I do basically agree with it obviously. The great world cuisines are the ones people from other countries make an effort to eat on a regular basis. For example you might love Canadian food, but no one in Bangladesh is taking his date to a Canadian restaurant.

So the great world cuisines are Chinese, French, Italian, and Mexican. I expect blowback so I will throw in Japanese and Indian as also rans. If I had one thing throw in I like it would be Lebanese. Outside of that I think the list is tight.

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 07:35 AM (RZ77V)

188 well duh

The 5th Circuit has just ruled that ballots must be received BY ELECTION DAY to be counted

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

189 Sure the party that won't even mention Gog in a party platform is the one one to protect Christianity

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:37 AM (fwDg9)

190 My one memory of Greece is, I went all over Athens and could never find a gyro. They have souvlaki up to your ears but not gyros. The American breakfasts they made in Athens were legitimately horrible. But they did have good octopus.

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 07:37 AM (RZ77V)

191

Greek food, served in Greece, is better than Italian food served anywhere except Italy.

Italian food, served in America, generally sucks.

Posted by: Elderly Git at October 26, 2024 07:38 AM (Tns43)

192 90% of Mexican "cuisine" is rice and beans.

I don't think so.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

193 I don't like Indian food at all, Quint. Also, American food should be at the top of the list and you can drop those frog eating pansies.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

194 > The 5th Circuit has just ruled that ballots must be received BY ELECTION DAY to be counted
-------
Nationally? Or is this for a particular state(s)?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2024 07:39 AM (Q4IgG)

195 God not Gog stupid phone

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:40 AM (fwDg9)

196 The ONT, it just went whoosh!

Posted by: Luther Heggs at October 26, 2024 07:40 AM (Aqu9a)

197 "The 5th Circuit has just ruled that ballots must be received BY ELECTION DAY to be counted"

Completely ridiculous. When people vote on things like the Academy awards, they will accept vote weeks and even months later.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

198

Mexican food, served in America, is litteraly nothing but Kumswalas pesky anal rundown.

Latin American cuisine, served in Latin American for locals, can be superb, legit world class.

Posted by: Elderly Git at October 26, 2024 07:42 AM (Tns43)

199 So the great world cuisines are Chinese, French, Italian, and Mexican. I expect blowback so I will throw in Japanese and Indian as also rans. If I had one thing throw in I like it would be Lebanese. Outside of that I think the list is tight."

I found most french food suffered from a overblown reputation. I highly prederred a good Wiener Schnitzel to anything french when I was stationed in europe.

This not blowback but an opinion. I highly recommend that you eat the food you like in the way you like it.

Posted by: Run with it! Certified dangerous radical at October 26, 2024 07:43 AM (89Sog)

200 People are still voting for "Zorba The Greek". The 1965 Academy awards are still up for grabs.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

201 200

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 07:43 AM (VnUSN)

202
The ONT, it just went whoosh!
Posted by: Luther Heggs at October 26, 2024 07:40 AM (Aqu9a)

The piquant wit, the light raillery, the lapidary comments, the profound wisdom, all vanished as though they never existed, never to be recovered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2024 07:43 AM (EsZUh)

203 193 lol, American food should get a special mention for our adaptability and bbq. It isn’t easy to make a list of four cuisines. I expected blow back. But I do think those four are the ones around the world making an effort to eat. I mean, they have Mexican places that even Tex-Mex in Paris. Like I said, I did not make the list, but I do stand by it as pretty accurate.

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 07:44 AM (RZ77V)

204 what is 'American food' ?

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2024 07:47 AM (/7KEl)

205 Cheesesteaks

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:48 AM (fwDg9)

206 Did the ONT get wiped out or something?

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 07:49 AM (fwDg9)

207 NY Post campaign beat

Dems driving doubters to MAGA.
Ingrid Jacques- USA Today says" They emphasize
her ( Kamalas) "potential to be the first femal President " yet most people care more "about her policies- or lack thereof". She had @ so poorly defined what her Presidency would look like and what she actually believes, she's resorted to Trump and what's happened in the past". Between the "nonsensical preaching on democracy , the media's harping against Trump and liberals playing the woman card, I ve had enough. And I may do exactly what they're hoping people won't: Vote for Trump."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 07:49 AM (fSzEz)

208 204 what is 'American food' ?

Posted by: Don Black at October 26, 2024 07:47 AM (/7KEl)

Correct! Next selection please!

Posted by: Zombie Alex Trebek at October 26, 2024 07:49 AM (i0F8b)

209 "what is 'American food' ?"

Grits, hog jowls, pickled crow gizzards, possum loaf, corn flakes, most anything that will fit in my mouth.

Posted by: Jethro Bodine at October 26, 2024 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

210 Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine 21h
Trump has to meet a very high bar to rule as our most authoritarian President ever. If he sends an ethnic minority to internment camps, tries to pack the Court, and stays in office for four terms, he’ll still only be tied.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 26, 2024

***
Tied w/ Joey MushBrain's handlers, no doubt.

These people can't count. Trump is, what, 78? He wouldn't live to see even twelve more years as President. (Though knowing what a force of nature he is, he might!) Unless this clown means four years more of Trump, then eight of Vance -- but he doesn't say that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

No, Vermeule is alluding to Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Another thing FDR did was send Jews back to Nazi Germany when he wouldn't allow that passenger liner to make port in 1939-ish (name of the ship escapes me right now).

Vermeule is making the point that FDR wasn't the saint the Democrats have portrayed him as.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM (pJWtt)

211
My attitude to Indian food is ambivalent. Somehow, though, anything that requires a lot of spice to make it palatable is automatically suspect.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM (EsZUh)

212 Rogan Trump 8,915,656 views 10 hours ago
(youtube)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 07:52 AM (VnUSN)

213 96 Unless, something really bad went on on the ONT...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 26, 2024 06:28 AM (y31cs)
----
Well we were discussing the merits of black and white pepper, freshly ground, as well as drilling bigger (1mm) holes in the top of a pepper shaker to make it easier to refill it! Reversible drill.
I was slowly posting the lyrics of The Rolling Stones "She's A Rainbow", line by line.

Posted by: Ciampino - She's a Rainbow at October 26, 2024 07:52 AM (i0xsb)

214 210 Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine 21h
Trump has to meet a very high bar to rule as our most authoritarian President ever. If he sends an ethnic minority to internment camps, tries to pack the Court, and stays in office for four terms, he’ll still only be tied.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 26, 2024
. . .

Vermeule is alluding to Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Another thing FDR did was send Jews back to Nazi Germany when he wouldn't allow that passenger liner to make port in 1939-ish (name of the ship escapes me right now).

Vermeule is making the point that FDR wasn't the saint the Democrats have portrayed him as.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM (pJWtt)

Make America Historically Literate Again!

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 07:54 AM (VnUSN)

215 No website lets you enter fake address.
No website lets you enter bad birthday or age verification.
No website lets you enter invalid phone number format

Yet all of this allowed in voter registration.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

216 I think for some weird reason people sleep a lot of Mexican food. And I am not afraid to be controversial because I think Mexican food is way better than the rest of Latin America. The Mexicans had the influence of the Germans, the French, etc.

Are used to think when I first learned this list many years ago the Chinese was simple because it would just take out. It turns out that Chinese may be the most cuisine ever. The poor people never get it.

French went out of style back in the 1980s in America. From our founding to the 1980s, anyone would tell you that French was best. The world that surprised me on the list was Chinese, but the more I thought about it, was right.

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 07:54 AM (RZ77V)

217 211
My attitude to Indian food is ambivalent. Somehow, though, anything that requires a lot of spice to make it palatable is automatically suspect.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM (EsZUh
‘The chicken him long time no cook yesterday, in pot now. Cook up plenty good. You eat!’

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2024 07:55 AM (jgmnb)

218 Harris County (Houston) Early Voting volume this week stayed above 100,000 daily for in-person.

In-Person weekly total: 570,609
By Mail rec'd weekly total: 40,189
Total Early Voting: 610,798

For comparison, in the 2020 Presidential election there were 1,262,877 Early Votes for President and 1,656,686 voters in total (68.14% turnout of registered voters).

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 26, 2024 07:59 AM (Aqu9a)

219 Some of the worst food on the planet comes from Antarctica.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 26, 2024 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

220 In fact, she tried only 2 as a Deputy District Attorney in San Francisco and only 8 during her 10 years in Alameda’s District Attorney’s Office.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 08:00 AM (gbOdA)

221 If your into Indian food then Montgomery County PA should be your vacation destination, there are hundred of Indian restaurants here

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 08:00 AM (fwDg9)

222 Indian food is my favorite.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2024 08:01 AM (dR6yv)

223 219, lol, I believe you.

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 08:02 AM (RZ77V)

224 Vermeule is making the point that FDR wasn't the saint the Democrats have portrayed him as.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM (pJWtt)

Make America Historically Literate Again!
Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 07:54 AM (VnUSN)

It's stunning how little most people know about history. Of course that's intentional, otherwise people would grasp that Utopian schemes end, at best in tears, and most likely in blood.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 08:03 AM (pJWtt)

225 Vermeule is making the point that FDR wasn't the saint the Democrats have portrayed him as.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM

Now do Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 08:03 AM (dg+HA)

226 I guess there are people dumb enough to base their vote on who billionaires Beyoncé, Taylor Swift
and other millionaire or billionaires singers want for President.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 08:04 AM (MQJVv)

227 8.9 million views of Trump on Rogan on YouTube.
In 10 hours.
800k likes; 205k comments.

And it was 3 hours long.

One of the top-rated comments was:
This guy has come a long way, from working at McDonalds to Joe Rogan in a week.

This week has killed every shred of the Dems constant and carefully orchestrated hate campaign against Trump--exposing that he's none of the things they claimed.
There are comments from people all over the world in support.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 26, 2024 08:05 AM (qHqHk)

228 222 Indian food is my favorite.

++++

Feather or Tech Support?

Posted by: Archibald Bunker at October 26, 2024 08:05 AM (dg+HA)

229 From the article about the DMCA exemption for ice cream machines:

Unfortunately, 1201 exemptions are not permanent. They're only valid until the next rulemaking session in three years but can be extended if the conditions that prompted them are still present.

There is no rational reason why this has to be renewed. Deleting a rule should be permanent.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 26, 2024 08:06 AM (lXCUP)

230 " Vermeule is making the point that FDR wasn't the saint the Democrats have portrayed him as.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM

Now do Woodrow Wilson."

Now do Democrats and slavery.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 08:06 AM (a1415)

231 " 222 Indian food is my favorite.

++++

Feather or Tech Support?
Posted by: Archibald Bunker "

The crab dip is my favorite.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

232 Vermeule is making the point that FDR wasn't the saint the Democrats have portrayed him as.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM

Now do Woodrow Wilson.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 26, 2024 08:03 AM (dg+HA)

No question he was an authoritarian. I get the sense that Woodrow Wilson is starting to get in a bit of a bad odor with the Democrats. Not so with FDR.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at October 26, 2024 08:07 AM (pJWtt)

233 Indian food simply reminds me that for a long time, India had little refrigeration available to the average person.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 08:08 AM (a1415)

234 Tech Support. Harvested Buffalo organs don't excite me much.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2024 08:08 AM (dR6yv)

235 Biden-Mayorkas allegedly implemented a policy flying inadmissible aliens into the interior of the U.S., reportedly bringing in up to 45,000 per month from various countries.

Since the policy's launch, 823,000 individuals have been transported.

Citizens have to have the asshole felt up and their toes inspected.
But illegals just jump on a plane and fly.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

236 Indian food simply reminds me that for a long time, India had little refrigeration available to the average person.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 08:08 AM (a1415)

Exactly. I prefer my butter in solid form.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 26, 2024 08:11 AM (Aqu9a)

237 I think there's a significant difference between ethnic food made in restaurants and what's made at home. The dozen or so dishes we make at home, Indian, Mexican, Middle Eastern, etc. are seldom like the same dish served elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2024 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

238 This week has killed every shred of the Dems constant and carefully orchestrated hate campaign against Trump--exposing that he's none of the things they claimed.
There are comments from people all over the world in support.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 26, 2024 08:05 AM (qHqHk)

Would you say that the Dems have been hoist with their own petard?

Posted by: El Guapo at October 26, 2024 08:13 AM (Aqu9a)

239 @226

Alice Cooper: Rock stars offering their political opinions is "the worst idea ever." "First of all, why do people think rock stars know more than they do?" he said. "That is the biggest fallacy in the world — if anything, we're dumber. We're not smarter than anybody else. I mean, why do you think we're rock stars?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 26, 2024 08:13 AM (JRP2U)

240 All of this is done live, which is why it's so popular. The streamer can be talking and responding to viewers while in their virtual character.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 26, 2024 04:22 AM (BLOW1)

Which is funny because I find myself mostly watching clips after the stream is done. Still I have to thank you for turning me on to this. Pipkin Pippa and SmugAlana are regularly in my YouTube algo now. Hilarious and based.

Posted by: Caiwyn at October 26, 2024 08:15 AM (m2di8)

241 211
My attitude to Indian food is ambivalent. Somehow, though, anything that requires a lot of spice to make it palatable is automatically suspect.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2024 07:50 AM (EsZUh)
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You are forgetting that the European explorers went 'East' for spices and silks.

Posted by: Ciampino - what happened to kill the ONT? at October 26, 2024 08:15 AM (i0xsb)

242 " I think there's a significant difference between ethnic food made in restaurants and what's made at home. "

Our neighbor, and good friend and his wife are both native born and raised Tech Support Indian.

An by all accounts from folks who are familiar with true Indian food prepared the correct way, their cooking is authentic and delicious.

I simply can not get myself past my instinctive response to it.
Not their fault, and I wish it were otherwise.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 26, 2024 08:16 AM (a1415)

243 Starting hour three of three!

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 08:17 AM (VnUSN)

244 I had Nepalese neighbors at my previous home. They would cook in their garage with the door open. Wonderful smells.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 26, 2024 08:20 AM (dR6yv)

245 Stupid question: I went on Twitter. I can see the main post but I can't see the comments. What am I doing?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 26, 2024 08:20 AM (SfhV1)

246 Totally agree with you "72". It will be outrageous but they will not let Trump win. War, then?

Posted by: just saying at October 26, 2024 08:20 AM (rzwGB)

247 238 yes El Guapo

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 08:20 AM (RZ77V)

248 Got sidetracked, first Julie Kelly now interview with the Chieftain, will get back ti Rogan soon

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 08:21 AM (fwDg9)

249 Norwegian native cuisine is second to none. Fifty varieties of fish paste in a tube should tell you that.

Posted by: Otto From Oslo at October 26, 2024 08:23 AM (nS6qG)

250 I think comparisons to early voting numbers in 2020 are partly inapt.

There were tons of people then convinced tif they went out into public they would die.

Posted by: blaster at October 26, 2024 08:23 AM (CNys3)

251 Morning peeps. I take it that Trump's appearance on Rogan's podcast was a success? I'll go look for it later on this morning.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2024

***
I'm watching the start of it. DJT is very low-key, very much himself (as he usually is). It's like two guys just sitting and talking, where one wants to know, "What's it [the wild experience the other has gone through] like?" And the other is answering. Not dull, but not bombastic or anything.

Trump wears his usual blue suit, but with a yellow tie for a change.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 08:23 AM (omVj0)

252 > I simply can not get myself past my instinctive response to it.
Not their fault, and I wish it were otherwise.
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Yea, I get it. There are some things I cannot abide. It's usually the consistency, but there are some foods I just can't do. Not many, but some.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2024 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

253 You mean all my pithy, humorous, ONT comments vanished? How will I keep my Top Ten Sockpuppet Status?

Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at October 26, 2024 08:24 AM (nS6qG)

254 https://x.com/MSNBC/status/
1849873486459584607

ho lee fook

he is batshit cra cra

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

255 So, I'm watching Rogan/Trump on YouTube. About 45 minutes into it. He's only thrown two people under the bus, and the two he did (so far) are interesting;

Kelly and Bolton

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 26, 2024 08:27 AM (Q4IgG)

256
Stupid question: I went on Twitter. I can see the main post but I can't see the comments. What am I doing?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

If you went on Twitter using the Twitter app, you would then you would be able to access the comments if you had a Twitter account and had logged into it).

If you went on Twitter using a URL link to Twitter and the post that you sought to see, then you would NOT be able to access the comments (again, unless you had a Twitter account and you had logged into it on your device).

At least, that is how things seem to work for me. I have the Twitter app on my device and I can log into my account, which I have used exclusively to read Twitter posts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 26, 2024 08:28 AM (xG4kz)

257 The café goes straight to Pixy's morning musings? No ONT!?!?

IS THIS THE APOCALYPSE?!?!???eleventy!!?!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 26, 2024 08:28 AM (xCsYi)

258 ho lee fook

he is batshit cra cra

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 08:26 AM (gbOdA)

Weird. I can see the comments on that post just fine. But the posts on my feed? No. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 26, 2024 08:28 AM (SfhV1)

259 Morning peeps. I take it that Trump's appearance on Rogan's podcast was a success? I'll go look for it later on this morning.

I'm over two hours in. Rogan is making some of Trump's points better than Trump is.

youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY

Posted by: t-bird at October 26, 2024 08:28 AM (wKqZM)

260 Also, good morning Pixy and Morons!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 26, 2024 08:29 AM (xCsYi)

261 "Penguin Facts" posting misinformation is probably the reason entire ONT threads disappear like a queef in the night. When we assume unbridled power, this will be dealt with.

Posted by: Big Penguin Is Our Friend at October 26, 2024 08:29 AM (nS6qG)

262 I love this story about witch's spells bouncing off Trump:

"I hate to say this, but don't do magic against him. He has a form of protection surrounding him that feeds off of magic done against him. You will have better results if you focus your magic on helping his opponent or protecting yourself and others. I wish it would work to bind him or do a freezer spell, but you will only be helping him"

They also suggest throwing spells on his supporters. Which may explain why you are feeling froggy this morning.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2024 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

263 If you went on Twitter using the Twitter app, you would then you would be able to access the comments if you had a Twitter account and had logged into it).

Thanks. I think I did that but maybe not. I am befuddled.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 26, 2024 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

264 COFFEE BREAK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 08:31 AM (fwDg9)

265 245 Stupid question: I went on Twitter. I can see the main post but I can't see the comments. What am I doing?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 26, 2024 08:20 AM (SfhV1)
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I assume you don't log in to X?
Edit the URL so that the x.com part becomes xcancel.com and press ENTER. Wait a short while.

Posted by: Ciampino - I can't get no at October 26, 2024 08:31 AM (i0xsb)

266 I think Americans have suffered from cuisine envy, primarily coming from our elites. If you consider the diversity of American food and preparation, it is amazing. Gumbo, chow-dah, steak and of course BBQ and other dishes too many to list are just a few examples .

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 26, 2024 08:31 AM (OZddN)

267 I went all over Athens and could never find a gyro.

The gyro was invented in 1965, by a Turk.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at October 26, 2024 08:31 AM (zdLoL)

268 Back from shaving and cleaning up. I'm almost out of cologne; I've ordered some vintage English Leather from eBay, but I probably won't see it at my work mailbox until Tuesday. People are just gonna have to deal with me as I smell.

In a few minutes I'll leave to wash the car and then go straight to the barber and my other errands. Good thing I woke up earlier than I set the alarm for.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2024 08:32 AM (omVj0)

269 covfefe up

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 26, 2024 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

270 31 Can you imagine what real estate in the Middle East is like?

"Yes, I'm looking for a two bedroom, one bath... oh, and not next to an IDF target site. What's the furthest away you can get me? Five blocks? Seriously?! Fine.... Yes, yes, death to America to you too."
Posted by: pookysgirl, still referencing that MADtv skit at October 26, 2024 04:55 AM (dtlDP)

This is brilliant.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 26, 2024 08:33 AM (PiwSw)

271 There was a Towson's warbler in our birdbath yesterday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 26, 2024 06:13 AM (RIvkX)

Did you shoot it?

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 26, 2024 08:33 AM (g8Ew8)

272
In fact, she tried only 2 as a Deputy District Attorney in San Francisco and only 8 during her 10 years in Alameda’s District Attorney’s Office.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Exactly. Red Kammie's experience arguing cases in an actual courtroom was exceedingly thin.

Harmeet Dhillon related, however, how RK hankered to get moved up to robbery an homicide cases and -- get this -- the chief administrator position for the DA's office (or some such post) with that thin. thin experience base. 'Cause she was sucking Willie Brown's willie, donchano?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 26, 2024 08:33 AM (xG4kz)

273 A lot of ethnic restaurant food is actually their native "holiday food". Most cultures don't eat all that much fresh meat because it is expensive. They fill up on bread, rice, potatoes, whatever. And anyone who serves kale, is suspect.

Posted by: Straight Food Talk at October 26, 2024 08:35 AM (nS6qG)

274 For sure with the Greeks. They live to a right old age eating greens, not mousakka.

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 08:38 AM (RZ77V)

275 Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at October 26, 2024 08:13 AM (JRP2U)

Thanks. Good for Alice Cooper!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2024 08:40 AM (WrUdH)

276 264 COFFEE BREAK NOOD
Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2024 08:31 AM (fwDg9)

Posted by: m at October 26, 2024 08:42 AM (VnUSN)

277 266, and our fast food for sure. France is just one example, but that country is easily one of the two or three top countries for McDonald’s. An argument can be made for American food, but it is much more difficult to classify.

Even with all the discussion which I love, I stand by my list that Chinese, French, Italian, and Mexican Or the top four world cuisines. As many of said here, you can get crap from a restaurant and really good stuff in a home. You can get really good stuff in a Russian home if the lady knows how to cook. You can also get great Russian food in a really good restaurant, I have tried some of their recipes and they are brilliant.

But the four I mentioned our cuisines people eat all over the world all the time. In any legitimate country, you will have restaurants that serve those four cuisines. I am not saying they are necessarily better though they kind of are because they did it first. Also, all four of those countries are foodie countries. I don’t want to crap on Latin America, but just as an example, considering the immigration to this country, There is a huge difference from authentic Mexican and Latin American. The second cuisine can be great I

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 08:44 AM (RZ77V)

278 I am sure, but when you look at the cuisine, it is very utilitarian. But in the end, this is something people can look up, Someone isn’t going to do research and find out danish cuisine is more desired than French around the world.

Posted by: Quint at October 26, 2024 08:46 AM (RZ77V)

279 Wikipedia delenda est

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at October 26, 2024 09:00 AM (DTX3h)

280 I think if you live in a country where you have to get permission from a friggin' LIBRARIAN to repair something you personally own yourself, it's a pretty good sign that you live in the Bizarro World.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at October 26, 2024 09:22 AM (Ij2uN)

281 Did that Indian judge 86 last night's ONT too?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 26, 2024 09:59 AM (klJTj)

282 ))) Hot girls are waiting for you on --- www.Nu21.eu

Posted by: Alana at October 26, 2024 01:46 PM (jkd8y)

283 ***This page does not exist. (Wikipedia) (archive site)

The judge in a defamation case in India has ordered Wikipedia to take down the page about the case - globally.

Be a shame if this got Streisanded into the stratosphere.***
---

This is right up Kamala's alley.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 26, 2024 02:12 PM (pdiue)

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