Daily Tech News 19 December 2024

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The US government has warned politicians and government officials to avoid the phone network. (Reuters)

It's full of Chinese hackers and nobody can say when - or if - it will be secure again.
The first recommendation: "Use only end-to-end encrypted communications."
Which they have been trying to ban.
Meanwhile in the world of digital license plates, the absolutely thinkable happened: They got hacked. (Wired) (archive site)

Digital license plates aren't supposed to let you change your license plate number.

But of course they do. There's a programming port on the license plate which is secured by a sticker. Peel off the sticker, plug in a programmer, and you can do anything.

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Interpol wants to rename "pig butchering" to "romance baiting". (Bleeping Computer)

Which is actually not a terrible idea. Every time I hear the term "pig butchering" I have to stop for a moment and realise that no, the one I'm thinking of is salami slicing and pig butchering is something different.

Romance baiting is more evocative on what the scam involves.
Bluesky invited a million sociopaths in through the front door. They were not ready. (Tedium)

It's not a technical issue, it's a people issue. Well, commies aren't people, but not everyone on Bluesky is a communist.
Not even slightly ready. (The Free Press)

Jesse Singal writes on Bluesky's Jesse Singal problem.

He still doesn't get it, of course:
Bluesky happens to be left-wing, but I don't think the lesson here is that left-wingers are particularly violent. Rather, the lesson is simply that humans are human, and online, their behavior is shaped by both the prevailing norms in their community, and whether rules constraining that behavior exist and are enforced.
So what he is saying is that left-wingers are particularly violent.
The Radxa Orion O6 is an Arm motherboard that is a little more powerful than a Raspberry Pi. (CNX Software)

It has twelve Arm cores - eight A720 and four A520, so fairly powerful, coupled with up to 64GB of soldered RAM, an M.2 slot for storage, dual 5Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C with DisplayPort support, and a full-length PCIe x16 slot.

It's mini-ITX form factor, with the board starting at $199 with 8GB of RAM and a case going for $39.
Australia wants to ban common encryption methods by 2030 because quantum. (The Register)

In theory quantum computers can break many existing encryption methods. But existing encryption methods exist, and everyone everywhere uses them all the time.

Disclaimer: Stupid!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 04:00 AM (omVj0)

2 Inconceivable!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2024 04:00 AM (BLOW1)

3 Well! Made it. Perhaps that's a good omen for the day.

Evening and morning to all the far-flung outposts of the AoSHQ Empire! How's your Thor's Day looking?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 04:01 AM (omVj0)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

5 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 19, 2024 04:02 AM (hoCmQ)

6 'Tis 60 F. and less than 100% humidity. I should go work out today, because tomorrow morning will be closer to 45. But I like to take a day off between workouts, and I went yesterday, and . . .

. . . excuses, excuses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 04:03 AM (omVj0)

7 Pig butchering? Salami slicing?

Now I want bacon.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 19, 2024 04:05 AM (hoCmQ)

8 'sup!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 19, 2024 04:07 AM (3Ope8)

9 So the terrible people from Twitter all went to Bluesky, and now Bluesky is terrible? Who could have predicted this?

Posted by: Wally at December 19, 2024 04:07 AM (GazsR)

10 Well, commies aren't people, but not everyone on Bluesky is a communist.

Bluesky is the place where Matt Yglesias is being mass blocked for only being a communist instead of actual Stalin. So yes, everyone there is a commie, that’s the table stakes.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2024 04:14 AM (QZThv)

11 @154/SMOD (yesterday's tech thread) @ 8:55 AM:

"Over the last 2 years the famous Linux project has attacked and mass-banned non-Leftists. Now there's nobody left to run openSUSE."

I hadn't heard about this, and I used to use SuSE and then OpenSUSE distributions for years. I've still got an old firewall running that.

So I looked this up and some guy by the name of Bryan Lunduke has a video about this:
https://youtu.be/e4ZKtKGiNq8

This is... Ugh. That's gonna kill that distribution. *sighs*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 04:16 AM (O7YUW)

12 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, home of the wild temperature variation.

And as per usual, may all effort from you today result in maximum benefit to you, with corresponding consternation for the leftwit slugs that leave the mucous trails among us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 19, 2024 04:17 AM (hKoQL)

13 Watching Tu-Cah interview Homan. It's just infuriating what's been done to us over the past few years.

https://tinyurl.com/3enzfx43

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 19, 2024 04:17 AM (3Ope8)

14 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, home of the wild temperature variation.

And as per usual, may all effort from you today result in maximum benefit to you, with corresponding consternation for the leftwit slugs that leave the mucous trails among us.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 19, 2024

***
Good morning to you, Irongrampa, and may I say that's a vivid image for this early in the morning!

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

15 So I looked this up and some guy by the name of Bryan Lunduke has a video about this:

Lunduke is a former SuSE board member so he knows a bit about the situation. And he has a ton of videos detailing the Marxification of all of Linux, from Linus Torvalds on down.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2024 04:22 AM (QZThv)

16 Svengoolie has the 1943 Phantom of the Opera w/ Claude Rains this Saturday night. I've never seen it -- and Rains is always worth watching.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 04:27 AM (omVj0)

17 It's fairly clear that no one can secure any system and that no one is really trying to secure systems and data to begin with. There is little to no practical consequence for failing to secure systems and data. So people will continue to put everyone and everything at risk.

The internet has destroyed privacy and is now an privacy suicide pact.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at December 19, 2024 04:28 AM (YcfMX)

18 Quiet, aren't we, this am?

I've been trying a teaspoon of collagen powder in my first coffee of the day. Lemme tell ya, chirren, it ain't tasteless. It's not nasty, but it gives my coffee an aftertaste that doesn't wash out until I have a second cup. So far, I haven't seen any improvement in joint pain or anything else. It's only been a few days, though. Anybody else trying it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 04:41 AM (omVj0)

19 Made potato cake, ham slice and scramble eggs, pretty good

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 04:51 AM (fwDg9)

20 @15/Ian S.: "Lunduke is a former SuSE board member so he knows a bit about the situation. And he has a ton of videos detailing the Marxification of all of Linux, from Linus Torvalds on down."

Yup, saw that in the video I linked and I'm looking at another from 3 months ago ("Inclusivity Activists are Destroying Open Source"). I had no idea it had gotten this bad in open source projects.

This is intentional. This is Antonio Gramsci's "Long March through the Institutions" put into action. This (like everything communism) is causing so much unnecessary pain and grief.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 04:58 AM (O7YUW)

21 Birdbath status

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 19, 2024 05:06 AM (dg+HA)

22 @20 Then what is to be done when encountering a Gramsci disciple is a brisk buttstroke to the chops, a guaranteed (in this case) influence for good in this instance. You may repeat as necessary.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 19, 2024 05:06 AM (hKoQL)

23 ?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 19, 2024 05:06 AM (dg+HA)

24 G'mornin' everyone!

the All-Knowing are predicting 3 to 5 inches of snow today.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at December 19, 2024 05:08 AM (cY18j)

25 Rain this morning, see snow chance Friday night

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 05:10 AM (fwDg9)

26 Interpol wants to rename "pig butchering" to "romance baiting". (Bleeping Computer)

*reads links*

Jeez, people are shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 19, 2024 05:13 AM (bss/y)

27 @23/Just Wondering: "?"

!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:14 AM (O7YUW)

28 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:18 AM (u82oZ)

29 Up early. Preps for the last full day of school before the break. Friday is a half day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:18 AM (u82oZ)

30 It's clear out, rain passed maybe
Chillies though
Working outside again
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 05:19 AM (fwDg9)

31
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2024 05:20 AM (tljrc)

32 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 19, 2024 05:20 AM (sAmhv)

33 The good news is the IAF hit Yemeni ports and also power production facilities in the capital.

When the IAF strikes Yemen., they go for important strategic targets, not truck parks.

I expect a very robust USN and USAF response to Yemeni shipping attacks after Jan 20th.

Invest in Mk 84 bomb production facilities now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:21 AM (u82oZ)

34 Buzzy the Christmas Bee.

I have never been able to decide whether this or Icky the Icicle is more ridiculous.

https://tinyurl.com/ybcb6a34

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 19, 2024 05:25 AM (bss/y)

35 "Australia wants to ban common encryption methods by 2030 because quantum. (The Register)"

In reality, Australia wants to ban encryption (or force the inclusion of back doors, "only for the good guys"*) because they want to spy on their own citizens.

The Australian government officials all need a good swift kick in the ghoulies. Maybe more than one.

* (And as we've seen from the Chinese pwning the phone networks of the world, if you include a back door to easily tap the system, it'll be hacked by the forces of darkness and used against you. Always.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

36 * (And as we've seen from the Chinese pwning the phone networks of the world, if you include a back door to easily tap the system, it'll be hacked by the forces of darkness and used against you. Always.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:26 AM (O7YUW)

China is the forces of darkness though. Which I guess is your point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 19, 2024 05:28 AM (bss/y)

37 Aetius451AD

If only we had a IC agency devoted to protecting American communications.

But NSAbob spends his time monitoring us.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:32 AM (u82oZ)

38 @36/Aetius451AD: "China is the forces of darkness though. Which I guess is your point."

One of them, yes. There are always others, both known and unknown.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

39 "a brisk buttstroke to the chops..."

Go on...

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at December 19, 2024 05:35 AM (dg+HA)

40 One of them, yes. There are always others, both known and unknown.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:34 AM (O7YUW)

'This is my point. If you don't like it... well, I have others.'
-(with apologies to Groucho)

Agree on the myriad forces of Darkness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 19, 2024 05:38 AM (bss/y)

41 Pete Bootygig

You are so bad at your job that we all know who the Sec. of Transportation is. You are an incompetent wastrel. You can't even steal woman's luggage.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:38 AM (u82oZ)

42 @22/IRONGRAMPA: Can't argue with that.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:39 AM (O7YUW)

43 A Christian devotional called " God's view of us" based on Genesis1:1-10:, -
And John 3;16. It mentions the Apollo astronauts being in space before Christmas and saying
iconic words from Genesis 1.

https://tinyurl.com/hxtz9t2f

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 05:40 AM (JcRly)

44 @40/Aeitus451AD: *snickers* Groucho is the only Marx I like. Thanks for that.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

45 Australia wants to ban common encryption methods by 2030 because quantum.

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[Pull Quote:] "As with the ASD, NIST's guidelines aim to mitigate the risk that cryptographic standards "could be vulnerable to an attack by a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC)" by 2035. That's according to US National Security Memorandum (NSM) 10."

OUT: CROCs.
IN: CRQCs.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 05:43 AM (z3WOQ)

46 [Pull Quote:] "As with the ASD, NIST's guidelines aim to mitigate the risk that cryptographic standards "could be vulnerable to an attack by a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC)" by 2035. That's according to US National Security Memorandum (NSM) 10."

OUT: CROCs.
IN: CRQCs.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 05:43 AM (z3WOQ)
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The "Q" makes it sound qool...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2024 05:46 AM (BpYfr)

47 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 05:48 AM (QCSQH)

48 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Write me when that get a room temperature quantum computer. Do we have enough helium for the demand?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:49 AM (u82oZ)

49 If only we had a IC agency devoted to protecting American communications.

But NSAbob spends his time monitoring us.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:32 AM (u82oZ)

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At least our CongressCritters in DC & Califzuela (from the Clinton Gore to the Boxer & Feinstein to the McConnell & Swalwell to the Biden & Newsom treasonous scum) aren't bought off by Chy-na nor actively sleeping with Chinese honeypots nor being chauffeured around by their Chinese (and & husband's Chinese) handlers.

Oh, nevermind ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 05:51 AM (z3WOQ)

50 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 05:48 AM (QCSQH)

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Good morning, rick (FYI, another moron noted a few days ago that the link in your nic has a typo; we purchased some gold & silver from APMEX a couple decades ago, and they sent us a nice tin of various popcorns for Christmas that year).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 05:54 AM (z3WOQ)

51 So the ridiculous spending bill was stopped in a matter of hours by the people who aren't even in office yet?

I'm still not sick of winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 19, 2024 05:54 AM (dg+HA)

52 Seen elsewhere and it made me laugh so I'm sharing here:

"PSA — do not wrap presents while drunk

This is a bad idea, also, if anyone gets a TV remote from me, I'm going to need it back..."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:54 AM (O7YUW)

53 Nice one, Fen.
Those of us who heard that in real time will always remember it.

Clear and crisp out today. Thrift Store is going to be LIT, as we say. We'll be closed the next two weeks, due to a Wednesday Christmas this year.

Posted by: sal at December 19, 2024 05:55 AM (f+FmA)

54 I just came across this nice old hymn- which I didn't know before-"To thy temple I repair" I like the words and the tune. Seems to work better on an I/phone if it's turned sideways:

https://tinyurl.com/4pezuudy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 05:56 AM (ZfOBk)

55 The ridiculous spending bill is from the bureaucracy heading out the door

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2024 05:56 AM (AYz4A)

56 Rick's typo in his linked name:

Japanese fish are trading in precious metals? No, wait, that's Koi not Coi.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

57 Good morning all y'all.
Frosty windshield tday.

Posted by: OkJohn at December 19, 2024 05:58 AM (NC/it)

58 Skip

All the more reason to let the "government" shut down. And no back pay.

DYFJ!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 05:58 AM (u82oZ)

59 I can't imagine a reality where someone trying to extort my BlueSky account would even register with me.

I would be like, huh, wha?

ok

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 05:59 AM (iziT8)

60 (seen on ewetub)

You have to love the way reuter's framed this (sarcasm):
Trump rejects bill that would avert government shutdown

Me: right...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 19, 2024 05:59 AM (bss/y)

61 Re: "romance baiting". Had a co-worker who got into not one, but two of these scams- military ones.
She was immune to evidence b/c her ex-husband had been in the service and she was sure she could spot one.
It was sad and frustrating.

Posted by: sal at December 19, 2024 05:59 AM (f+FmA)

62 The first recommendation: "Use only end-to-end encrypted communications."

-

We're being allowed a glimpse. Government will be allowed encryption, but not you people who answer to government. They need to be able to see what you're doing at all times.

Remember when the government agencies (IIRC feds and down were all doing it) were caught using special words and characters as well as S P A C I N G their terms out so that FOIA requests wouldn't return any results since they required specific words and phrases to be searched?

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at December 19, 2024 06:00 AM (Y5LCy)

63 Would like to ask for prayers for healing for E- my son's supervisor who has a fever and some ailment and so son has been working alone- yesterday and possibly today. Also prayers for another E-one of the home companions:nurse of our retired organist who has been in and out of the hospital. Thanks so much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:01 AM (ukYEF)

64 mornin yall. The TRUMP!!! curse strike again as Johnson gets whacked.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2024 06:01 AM (vFG9F)

65 "Inconceivable!
Posted by: Pixy Misa"

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:02 AM (iziT8)

66 Records showed that last year she worked nearly 1,627 hours of overtime on top of her regular shift, or an average of roughly 74 hours a week.

The overtime, plus her $164,477 base salary, pushed Epps’ total compensation past $400,000 — and made her the highest-paid NYPD employee.

This is going on in every city county and state.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 06:02 AM (gbOdA)

67 FenelonSpoke

Prayers ascending. And more for you two turtledoves. (My girls are singing that a lot, lately).

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:04 AM (u82oZ)

68 Johnson got whacked?

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:05 AM (iziT8)

69 eleven

He wasn't even on my list. Until the CR dropped.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:07 AM (u82oZ)

70 "Those of us who heard that in real time will always remember it. "

I was a youngster, but I remember it, Sal.!😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:07 AM (nwOW6)

71 Here's a weird stat:

"CNN ranked again as a top 5 network in all of cable in Total Day among people age 2 and over for the 5th consecutive year"

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2024 06:07 AM (vFG9F)

72 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Disclaimer: Stupid!

Rejoinder: Effin' brilliant!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:08 AM (fzQGK)

73 fd

Is CNN on in day care?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:08 AM (u82oZ)

74 12 more days on our HOA board and I'll be free, free, free, free at last. I will have tolerated it for 3 months of my year term, I resigned. I'm 29x2 plus 10 and never have had children. At my age I'm not ready to babysit adult children. I'm betting my back issues improve due to lack of stress, nothing like clinches your lower back muscles to start spasms.
mike johnson needs to go. Wasn't Gaetz one of those considered for this role when mccarthy got whacked? A shame he didn't get in, ethics you know.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 19, 2024 06:09 AM (2NHgQ)

75 Note to self

::do not piss off nacly dog::

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:09 AM (iziT8)

76 I've been trying a teaspoon of collagen powder in my first coffee of the day. Lemme tell ya, chirren, it ain't tasteless. It's not nasty, but it gives my coffee an aftertaste that doesn't wash out until I have a second cup. So far, I haven't seen any improvement in joint pain or anything else. It's only been a few days, though. Anybody else trying it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 04:41 AM (omVj0)
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I've been using a product from CostCo called "Move Free." It contains collagen and is in pill form, so you don't have to put it in your coffee. It's seemed to have helped me some.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:09 AM (fzQGK)

77 "Is CNN on in day care?
Posted by: NaCly Dog "

Is that a desperate stat, or what? I wonder how CNN is doing with the penguin population.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2024 06:10 AM (vFG9F)

78 @63/FenelonSpoke: Prayer sent on to our Heavenly Father, as you requested.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 06:11 AM (O7YUW)

79 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight

How goes your local area after the election? I hear Portland has a new mayor. Yeah.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:11 AM (u82oZ)

80 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:04 AM (u82oZ)

That sounds nice the singing. You might find this amusing . The kind parents of the kids give gifts to FenSpouse, as I'm sure the parents of the kids on your bus do. We always are grateful but we end up with LOTS of chocolate. They also give money or gift cards which is very generous. One of yesterday's gifts made me laugh/- a whiskey decanter and two glasses. We don't drink whiskey.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:11 AM (nwOW6)

81 FenelonSpoke

You can make friends with that whiskey gift. Sloshed, but friendly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:13 AM (u82oZ)

82 How goes your local area after the election? I hear Portland has a new mayor. Yeah.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:11 AM (u82oZ)
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Same old stupidity, I suppose. Multnomah County used RCV, so I assume the worst possible person got in. Don't pay much attention local politics as a) I live in the purple SW of Portland and b) I already have enough trouble with my blood pressure.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:13 AM (fzQGK)

83 Records showed that last year she worked nearly 1,627 hours of overtime on top of her regular shift, or an average of roughly 74 hours a week.

The overtime, plus her $164,477 base salary, pushed Epps’ total compensation past $400,000 — and made her the highest-paid NYPD employee.

This is going on in every city county and state.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 06:02 AM (gbOdA)

Don't a lot of places use the last 1-2 years pay for calculating pensions? It's basically theft.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 19, 2024 06:13 AM (ExV1e)

84 Goo goo gaa gaa I made a poopy.

Posted by: A CNN spokespersyn at December 19, 2024 06:13 AM (vFG9F)

85 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

I hope the election has helped your BP. And there is a finite amount of time a 1 / x² decay can go on. Look at the Mayan civilization.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

86 AOS is actually a sweet gig. My pickleball partner has the vaccine thread at Reddit. YIKES!

Posted by: Bib@NSA at December 19, 2024 06:17 AM (w9ItN)

87 I hate Siri.

Posted by: Accomack at December 19, 2024 06:18 AM (w9ItN)

88 Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:13 AM (u82oZ)

They didn't give whiskey, just the decanter and glasses. FenSpouse can't drink. He had gout and I'd rather have Kaluha ( sp) and crème, but I suppose I can put it In a whiskey glass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:18 AM (MQJVv)

89 Posted by: Bib@NSA at December 19, 2024 06:17 AM (w9ItN)
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Are you Bob's brother?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:18 AM (fzQGK)

90 Posted by: Accomack at December 19, 2024 06:18 AM (w9ItN)

I don't want machines talking to me although I can tolerate it when it's giving directions on the phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:19 AM (MQJVv)

91 The feeling is mutual.

Posted by: Siri at December 19, 2024 06:20 AM (dg+HA)

92 @71/fd: "CNN ranked again as a top 5 network in all of cable in Total Day among people age 2 and over for the 5th consecutive year"

CNN's lying. Again. They're 20th:

https://tinyurl.com/tcnheyn9

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 06:20 AM (O7YUW)

93 I hate Siri.
Posted by: Accomack at December 19, 2024 06:18 AM (w9ItN)
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Barry Kripke: Siwi, can you wecommend a westauwant?

Siri: I'm sorry, Bawwy, I do not know what "wecommend a westauwant" is.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:20 AM (fzQGK)

94 Thanks for the prayers, folks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:20 AM (yDGNp)

95 FenelonSpoke

Such a refined way to drink alcohol.

Could it work for communion?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:21 AM (u82oZ)

96 @84/A CNN spokespersyn: "Goo goo gaa gaa I made a poopy."

Stinky but Accurate

Posted by: Dan Rather at December 19, 2024 06:22 AM (O7YUW)

97 What's a CNN?

Posted by: Most people at December 19, 2024 06:23 AM (dg+HA)

98 It's my online nic to avoid the FOIA requests.
Siri does know her way around the country side, but, I have the voice commands off. So, when I'm driving on unfamiliar roads, I spend a lot of time reading my phone. It works for me.

Posted by: Bib@NSA at December 19, 2024 06:23 AM (MeckE)

99 but I suppose I can put it In a whiskey glass.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:18 AM (MQJVv)
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Are they Glencairn glasses (tulip-shaped) or regular straight-sided tumblers?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:23 AM (fzQGK)

100 The guy that was killed by a bear falling out of a tree will not be charged for continuing to hunt a bear that flees into a tree. I suppose the authorities decided he has been punished enough for his Boo Boo.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2024 06:24 AM (vFG9F)

101 Bib@NSA

May you get stuck on MD Route 32 on your way to Odenton.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:25 AM (u82oZ)

102 Have a great day, everyone.

It may look ugly, but We the People are winning.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:27 AM (u82oZ)

103 I am hearing rumblings about the USS, Harry Truman carrier group being hit by Yemeni rickets. No idea if it is true or not. As it supposedly just happened.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 06:27 AM (QCSQH)

104 I am hearing rumblings about the USS, Harry Truman carrier group being hit by Yemeni rickets.
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Need more B-complex vitamins.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:28 AM (fzQGK)

105 I've been using a product from CostCo called "Move Free." It contains collagen and is in pill form, so you don't have to put it in your coffee. It's seemed to have helped me some.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:09 AM (fzQGK)

One of the 'Ettes a while back suggested putting it in a cup of beef bouillon with some hot sauce and some other seasoning which I do not remember.

Posted by: sal at December 19, 2024 06:29 AM (f+FmA)

106 Alberta pushes back on the "Net Zero" nonsense from Ottawa.

Ottawa silently moves the "Net Zero" climate goalpost from 2035 to 2050.

Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change and former Green Peace activist charged with mischief, and general pain in the arse to anyone up here in Canada trying to survive with ever spiraling energy costs due to ever increasing carbon taxes) was no-where to be seen when this was quietly announced.

https://tinyurl.com/45v37e9f

GO ALBERTA!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 06:31 AM (O7YUW)

107 Good morning to all. It is 44 degrees here in western NC and going up to a partly cloudy mid-50s today.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 19, 2024 06:31 AM (1JHoW)

108 @97/Most people: "What's a CNN?

According to #84, I'm guessing the Caca News Network.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2024 06:32 AM (O7YUW)

109 "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with." -Steven Guilbeault

And that's why we mock these people.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 06:34 AM (BpO1e)

110 "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with." -Steven Guilbeault

And that's why we mock these people.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 06:34 AM (BpO1e)
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It is the Shmoo of environmental hypotheses.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:35 AM (fzQGK)

111 Hey! This is a family blog.

Posted by: Bib@NSA at December 19, 2024 06:36 AM (aHqhe)

112 I have good news: I got my Virginia DL yesterday.

Posted by: Accomack at December 19, 2024 06:37 AM (aHqhe)

113 So Fang Fang Bang Bang add new meaning to a Purple intercept?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2024 06:38 AM (ATOlV)

114 Request prayers for Brother in Christ who has ortho surgery this morning.

Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2024 06:38 AM (jgmnb)

115 It is the Shmoo of environmental hypotheses.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Damn, I'm old. Shmoo.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 06:38 AM (QCSQH)

116 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar a

Regular straight glasses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:40 AM (MQJVv)

117 I've been using a product from CostCo called "Move Free." It contains collagen and is in pill form, so you don't have to put it in your coffee. It's seemed to have helped me some.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024
*
One of the 'Ettes a while back suggested putting it in a cup of beef bouillon with some hot sauce and some other seasoning which I do not remember.
Posted by: sal at December 19, 2024

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Hmmmm. Maybe I could dissolve the powder in soup.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 06:40 AM (omVj0)

118 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at December 19, 2024 06:40 AM (fzQGK)

119 Well, off to the electron mines for the penultimate day before the Christmas break. The day is liable to be dull; I'll try to spice it up somehow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2024 06:40 AM (omVj0)

120 "In a new court filing Wednesday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Georgia Court of Appeals that it should reject President-elect Donald Trump’s arguments to dismiss the case over presidential immunity."

Fani is going to get spanked so hard with the TRUMP!!! curse.
CNN's toddler demographic hardest hit.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2024 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

121 It is the Shmoo of environmental hypotheses.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar

I like to say that it's the most convenient religion on Earth.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 06:41 AM (BpO1e)

122 X just gave me a 12-hour timeout

for tweeting Sen Cornyn to not stab Tulsi Gabbard in the back come confirmation time

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 06:41 AM (/7KEl)

123 Thanks for the prayers, folks, and I will pray for your brother in Christ, Eromero, and his ortho surgery this morning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 06:41 AM (MQJVv)

124 CNN -

Communist News Network
Caliphate News Network
Cumsucker News Network

Take your pick or create your own.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2024 06:42 AM (ATOlV)

125 I have good news: I got my Virginia DL yesterday.

Posted by: Accomack at December 19, 2024 06:37 AM (aHqhe)

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You're too young to comment here.

Congratulations!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 06:42 AM (z3WOQ)

126 "What are you in for?"

"Peeling off a license plate sticker. You?"

"Mattress tag. But I'm innocent, you know."

"Me too."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 06:42 AM (y/ZMQ)

127 Yemeni Rockets. Damn Siri.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 06:42 AM (QCSQH)

128 CNN -

Communist News Network
Caliphate News Network
Cumsucker News Network

Take your pick or create your own.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2024 06:42 AM (ATOlV)

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[Old School:] Clinton News Network.
[New School:] Collaborators News Network.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 06:43 AM (z3WOQ)

129 I'm so attempted to get an X account.

But I don't know why.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:46 AM (iziT8)

130 Alberta pushes back on the "Net Zero" nonsense from Ottawa.

Ottawa silently moves the "Net Zero" climate goalpost from 2035 to 2050.

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The carbon they're interested in eliminating is YOU.

And when they say "Net Zero" they mean Net Zero Living Human Beings.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 06:47 AM (z3WOQ)

131 I thought MSNBC and CNN were the Trump Networks.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:47 AM (iziT8)

132 I'm so attempted to get an X account.

But I don't know why.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:46 AM (iziT

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"It's a trap!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cartels Have Killed More Americans Than All Other Terrorist Orgs Combined at December 19, 2024 06:48 AM (z3WOQ)

133 Ottawa wants to pattern all the carbon units with MAID service.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2024 06:48 AM (ATOlV)

134 So I can't say rude things to politicians all day today
what a gyp

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 06:48 AM (/7KEl)

135 G'morning, all.

My father was called home to be with God about 1:00 this morning.

It is so bittersweet know that he is no longer here, but yet already at the side of God.

Anyhow, pryers for all the members of the Horde, and needs both asked and unasked.

Things to do....

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2024 06:49 AM (a1415)

136 131 I thought MSNBC and CNN were the Trump Networks.
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:47 AM (iziT

Well, he's pwned them both since at least mid 2015 after that escalator ride.

Posted by: Roy at December 19, 2024 06:49 AM (z+ik4)

137 Actual Yahoo headline:

It was a better year for Bidenomics than for Biden

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 19, 2024 06:49 AM (kkc73)

138 "131 I thought MSNBC and CNN were the Trump Networks.
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:47 AM (iziT

Well, he's pwned them both since at least mid 2015 after that escalator ride.
Posted by: Roy "

The greatest escalator ride in history.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:51 AM (iziT8)

139 VIA -- sorry bro.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 06:51 AM (iziT8)

140 VIA, he closed his eyes here and opened them in the presence of the Lord.

Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2024 06:53 AM (awwdu)

141 When I googled what I need to do to buy a firearm in Virginia, I laughed.
When I explained it to my mother, she told me that a friend of hers, 80 something y/o widow, bought a gun because she is frightened living alone.
I told my wife that I was looking for a gun that worked for her small hands, she said I was being silly. Our daughter said I was being an American.

Posted by: Accomack at December 19, 2024 06:53 AM (MeckE)

142 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Pryers ascending for the entire family.

Your blog silence was ominous. This is not a surprise, from what you said.

May you be comforted that he led you from a toddler to a great adult, with assistance of others.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2024 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

143 I've got a small conjecture, if it even deserves to be called that, and which I'm not exactly wedded to, that it isn't the size of the government that matters, it's the competence and intrusiveness that matters. Things are fine with a huge, corrupt, crappy government, as long as they aren't obvious about it, and as long as the average person in their daily life isn't hampered or annoyed by it.

Go ahead. Skim off the top. Grease all your wheels. Make all the sausage you want. But don't get lazy. Don't get arrogant and think you can just boss people around for fun, or take money straight out of their wallet with a bold face. Sure, the parasitic effect of their crappiness is always a drag on society and commerce, but that might just be well enough offset by having the crooks and goons who relish in crappitude being insulated from the world of the decent.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 06:54 AM (y/ZMQ)

144
Bluesky is the place where Matt Yglesias is being mass blocked for only being a communist instead of actual Stalin. So yes, everyone there is a commie, that’s the table stakes.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 19, 2024 04:14 AM (QZThv)

I predict that on those four-year avoid-the-US cruises that are being proposed, the leftists will have executions in the Grand Salon every Friday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2024 06:55 AM (dxSpM)

145 My condolences for your loss, Village Idiot's Apprentice.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 06:55 AM (BpO1e)

146 VIA. Your father will live forever in your memories of him. Wishing you peace.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 19, 2024 06:55 AM (1JHoW)

147 VIA, condolences

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 06:55 AM (/7KEl)

148 Prayers up for you and yours, VIA.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 19, 2024 06:57 AM (hoCmQ)

149 VIA, prayers.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 19, 2024 06:58 AM (PiwSw)

150
I'm very sorry for you and your family, VIA. Prayers for him and all of you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2024 06:58 AM (dxSpM)

151
Meanwhile in the world of digital license plates, the absolutely thinkable happened: They got hacked. (Wired)

FCKBDN and TIMPON are already taken

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 06:58 AM (xG4kz)

152 Headline @Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days... with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi at the top of her 'naughty list'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 06:58 AM (/7KEl)

153 Condolences VIA. Never easy even if you know that this outcome is the best for dad. It will be 4 years tomorrow that I lost mom to the effects of a deep brain stroke. Her last 3 months weren't fun. RIP to both of them.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 19, 2024 06:58 AM (2NHgQ)

154 I have stepped up to the edge of signing up on X several times in the last few months but stop short.. I just can’t quite bring myself to surrender my info to their database.. I must be broken somehow, eh?

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 06:59 AM (PCK5/)

155 have executions in the Grand Salon every Friday.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2024 06:55 AM (dxSpM)

They will install a new captain every week based on the fad du jour.

By year three they'll be hosting seminars about the plight of the attached earlobe and making people give statements about admitting their split-ear privilege before they are allowed to speak at the general assembly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 06:59 AM (y/ZMQ)

156 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Prayers and deepest condolences to you and your family.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 07:00 AM (QCSQH)

157 135 G'morning, all.My father was called home to be with God about 1:00 this morning.
It is so bittersweet know that he is no longer here, but yet already at the side of God.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Prayers.

Posted by: Auspex at December 19, 2024 07:01 AM (j4U/Z)

158 I too have toyed with signing up for X. I there an X for Dummies book in case I need it?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 19, 2024 07:01 AM (2NHgQ)

159 EXCLUSIVE How vengeful Jill Biden is urging 'depressed' Joe to 'burn the whole thing down' in their final days... with Obama, Kamala and Pelosi at the top of her 'naughty list'
Posted by: Don Black

From your keyboard to God's inbox.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 07:01 AM (QCSQH)

160
Prayers and condolences for your loss, VIA

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:02 AM (xG4kz)

161 VIA, JTB and I send our deepest condolences. Prayers for comfort and peace are sent for your father and family.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at December 19, 2024 07:02 AM (yTvNw)

162 " I have stepped up to the edge of signing up on X several times in the last few months but stop short.. I just can’t quite bring myself to surrender my info to their database.. I must be broken somehow, eh?
Posted by: tubal"

Wait...you have to give information?

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:02 AM (iziT8)

163 I'm sorry to hear that VIA. May his memory be a blessing to you and your family.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2024 07:02 AM (vFG9F)

164 VIA

May the Lord strengthen and comfort your family and any others who knew and loved your father and who was a beacon of light to them in their lives.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2024 07:02 AM (uzAFe)

165 I have stepped up to the edge of signing up on X several times in the last few months but stop short.. I just can’t quite bring myself to surrender my info to their database.. I must be broken somehow, eh?
Posted by: tubal"

Wait...you have to give information?
Posted by: eleven

Yes. Don't know if you have to give YOUR information though.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 07:04 AM (QCSQH)

166 May God be with you during this time VIA, seek the Lord and his peace.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:04 AM (PCK5/)

167
I too have toyed with signing up for X. I there an X for Dummies book in case I need it?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

Just sign for an account and lurk. No need for acquiring blue checkmark ($$) status unless you intend to comment.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:04 AM (xG4kz)

168 167
I too have toyed with signing up for X. I there an X for Dummies book in case I need it?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

Just sign for an account and lurk. No need for acquiring blue checkmark ($$) status unless you intend to comment.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:04 AM (xG4kz)

Something to consider… I can shitpost here, all day long, for free!!!

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:06 AM (PCK5/)

169 "Yes. Don't know if you have to give YOUR information though.
Posted by: rickb223"

So I could just be Kevin from Jagdishpur?

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:07 AM (iziT8)

170 So I could just be Kevin from Jagdishpur?
Posted by: eleven

Bob. From Mumbai.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 07:10 AM (QCSQH)

171 >Wait...you have to give information?

Posted by: eleven
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an email address and a password, and you're in

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:11 AM (/7KEl)

172 Wait...you have to give information?

Posted by: eleven
---

an email address and a password, and you're in
Posted by: Don Black

Hard to pick which burner account to use.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 07:12 AM (QCSQH)

173 170 So I could just be Kevin from Jagdishpur?
Posted by: eleven

Bob. From Mumbai.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 19, 2024 07:10 AM (QCSQH)

Or just some random jag meat from Ottawa.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2024 07:12 AM (y/ZMQ)

174
Something to consider… I can shitpost here, all day long, for free!!!
Posted by: tubal

I'll admit to my bias, but the horde here is wiser, wittier and overall more wonderful than the X folks

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:13 AM (xG4kz)

175 My posts have been liked by Jason Kelce, Monica Crowley and Paige Spirinac

just sayin'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:13 AM (/7KEl)

176

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 19, 2024 07:15 AM (c0tJM)

177
My posts have been liked by Jason Kelce, Monica Crowley and Paige Spirinac

just sayin'
Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one

They might as well have been Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:15 AM (xG4kz)

178 Prayers for you and your family, VIA.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 19, 2024 07:16 AM (dg+HA)

179 Prayers for VIA

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 19, 2024 07:17 AM (jJdaW)

180 Think I’ll stick with the Horde for my window to the world for now… you guys never let me down, right?? … RIGHT????

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:17 AM (PCK5/)

181
Think I’ll stick with the Horde for my window to the world for now… you guys never let me down, right?? … RIGHT????
Posted by: tubal

I don't get it

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:18 AM (1CG4q)

182
Think of all the iNet enabled alliances that can now crop up among your appliances.

Fear the Roomba, refrigerator and digital license plate cabal!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:20 AM (xG4kz)

183
I'll admit to my bias, but the horde here is wiser, wittier and overall more wonderful than the X folks
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

___________

Veracity status: True

I don't often comment at Insty because the people there are frequently nasty and/or unhinged. Compared to that commentariat, we're polite and measured.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2024 07:21 AM (dxSpM)

184 Welcome Kevin!

Posted by: The Jagdishpur Chamber of Commerce at December 19, 2024 07:21 AM (dg+HA)

185 Prayers for you and your family VIA.

Posted by: sal at December 19, 2024 07:22 AM (f+FmA)

186
Fear the Roomba, refrigerator and digital license plate cabal!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

__________

Your washing machine wants to wet its beak and sends the vacuum cleaner over to collect.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2024 07:24 AM (dxSpM)

187
The wee beastie is unusually calm this morning. If I play my cards right, I'll not have to walk her before Mrs. KvC takes her to the dog park.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:24 AM (xG4kz)

188 I would like to be liked by Paige Spirinac.

Don Black is kind of a big deal in my world.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:25 AM (iziT8)

189 My view of people is summed up by Jeremiah 17:9. I have been part of the Horde for forever, seems like because at least here we speak freely.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:25 AM (PCK5/)

190
Welcome Kevin!
Posted by: The Jagdishpur Chamber of Commerce

Is our commenter "..." Indian (dot, not feather)?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:26 AM (1CG4q)

191 They're all in the pay of Big License Plate...

Posted by: It's a conspiracy! at December 19, 2024 07:27 AM (dg+HA)

192 criminal

The National Archives previously confirmed through a FOIA response that they found 5,138 email messages and 25 electronic files pertaining to the known Joe Biden pseudonym accounts robinware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov.

After missing the deadline to turn over the requested documents, the National Archives said it located 82,000 pages of emails then-Vice President Joe Biden sent or received on three separate private pseudonym accounts to conduct illicit business deals with foreign officials.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

193 > I would like to be liked by Paige Spirinac.

Don Black is kind of a big deal in my world.

Posted by: eleven
----

you're very kind
I'm just entertaining myself on the web
No TV subscription in 12 years

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:28 AM (/7KEl)

194
Anyone have a suggestion for the best rum to use when making hot buttered rum drinks?

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at December 19, 2024 07:29 AM (c0tJM)

195 So in First World Problems I am pricing out pet insurance. One of my dogs got a bad cut on his leg that had to be stitched up. This happened a week after my other dog got her stitches removed.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2024 07:29 AM (BpO1e)

196 Ahem.
The property term is now "Tech Support, not feather."

Posted by: Try to keep up at December 19, 2024 07:29 AM (dg+HA)

197 193
eleven
----

you're very kind
I'm just entertaining myself on the web
No TV subscription in 12 years
Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:28 AM (/7KEl)

Yeah. I have the interwebs and whatever comes through Prime, that’s it. Works for me.

Posted by: tubal at December 19, 2024 07:30 AM (PCK5/)

198
They're all in the pay of Big License Plate...
Posted by: It's a conspiracy!

Big License Plate is a duly registered subsidiary of Big Houses, Inc

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:30 AM (xG4kz)

199
JJ
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Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2024 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

200 "No TV subscription in 12 years"

When you stop watching TV it's such a release.

I don't miss it at all. We are don't watch TV bros.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:32 AM (iziT8)

201
NR Pax

How to confess that your pers are snitches without directly saying that your pets are snitches.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2024 07:32 AM (xG4kz)

202 >Yeah. I have the interwebs and whatever comes through Prime, that’s it. Works for me.

Posted by: tubal
---

I realized I was paying for a crapton of channels, when all I was watching was movies and sports

and there are other ways to get that kind of content

Posted by: Don Black. Message: trust no one at December 19, 2024 07:32 AM (/7KEl)

203 Cable TV. That's cute.

Posted by: People under 30 at December 19, 2024 07:34 AM (dg+HA)

204 TV is just corporate soulless ghetto shit.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:37 AM (iziT8)

205 "Cable TV. That's cute.
Posted by: People under 30"

More like under 40.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:38 AM (iziT8)

206 Nood morans

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2024 07:38 AM (iziT8)

207 U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes.

“TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks.”

The router-manufacturer TP-Link, established in China, has roughly 65% of the U.S. market for routers for homes and small businesses. It is also the top choice on Amazon.com, and powers internet communications for the Defense Department and other federal government agencies.

Investigators at the Commerce, Defense and Justice departments have opened their own probes into the company, and authorities could ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the U.S. next year, according to people familiar with the matter. An office of the Commerce Department has subpoenaed TP-Link, some of the people said.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

208 Good Lord. What will it take for Jesse Singal to admit that leftists ARE violent? His own death???

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 19, 2024 09:31 AM (wtvvX)

209 "A large contingent of House Republicans guffawed at the 1,547-page continuing resolution..."

Hear, hear; let slip the guffaws of war.

Posted by: AWOL Civilization at December 19, 2024 09:45 AM (ZQ3a+)

210 w00t

Posted by: m at December 19, 2024 10:00 AM (VnUSN)

211 >>>the absolutely thinkable happened

; )

Posted by: m at December 19, 2024 10:11 AM (VnUSN)

212 Village Idiot's Apprentice
May God bless you and your family.
May your memories be joyful.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at December 19, 2024 11:18 AM (J8OCH)

213 Got this message:

Parallels is Virtual Machine (VM) software for the Mac. It allows me to run Windows, Linux and old versions of MacOS on my Mac.
I was banned from Parallel's support forum for asking why Parallels Desktop for Mac connects to a Chinese website (parallels.cn) when it starts up. I showed a screen capture of Parallels trying to connect to the site.

Posted by: SMOD at December 19, 2024 08:40 PM (GITLP)

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