Daily Tech News 20 January 2025

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TikTok went down, blaming Joe Biden for its plight. (Bleeping Computer)

Though it set its fate of its own volition.
TikTok came back up, thanking Donald Trump for its rescue. (Bleeping Computer)

Though it still has to divest within 90 days or it will be shut down again.

Those stories were posted two hours apart.

Tech News

The CHIPS Act - funneling taxpayer dollars to semiconductor companies like every other country in the world - may survive into the Trump administration. (Tom's Hardware)

Or so the article says Bloomberg says the incoming commerce secretary told the existing commerce secretary. So maybe not.
Aptera's new lightweight three-wheeled electric vehicle can travel up to forty miles per day - on solar power alone. (MotorTrend)

Two problems:

1. Up to.
2. They said the same thing in 2008.
AI is bad at history. (Tech Crunch)

Just like everything else.
Why are LLMs bad at answering technical historical questions, when they can be so good at answering very complicated questions about things like coding?
Stack Overflow.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I'm totally addicted to mace.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 20, 2025 04:00 AM (sAmhv)

2 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:00 AM (hoCmQ)

3 No trash pick up today. Happy MLK day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:01 AM (hoCmQ)

4 Flags back to full mast today. Happy Inauguration Day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:02 AM (hoCmQ)

5 8 hours until Biden is history and President Trump can start operation clean up on aisle 5.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 20, 2025 04:02 AM (Q8Bj8)

6 Hello horde,

Earlier there was an ad for Auto insurance so I thought the billionaires had finally gotten off their asses and bought or destroyed that video they didn’t want you to see.

Apparently there was more than one video because the ad is back

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 20, 2025 04:04 AM (/Elj1)

7 4 Flags back to full mast today. Happy Inauguration Day.
Posted by: olddog in mo

If your flags are at full mast for more than four hours, thank Trump.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 20, 2025 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

8 6: I'm disappointed in today's billionaires. Andrew Carnegie would have murdered the maker of that ad and erased it by now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 20, 2025 04:08 AM (sAmhv)

9 Thank you, President Trump.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:08 AM (hoCmQ)

10 What ad are you talking about?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:09 AM (hoCmQ)

11
Shock and Awe at 12:00 noon EST. We're gonna get 200 executive orders shortly thereafter. These are YUGE, classy, omnibus EOs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 04:12 AM (w6EFb)

12 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, featuring a winter storm warning today for your enjoyment. A tentative 1-3" accumulation with the possibility of more. Then comes the cold, warming to 35 by the weekend. It looks as if, with the Jet Stream pattern continuing, this will be our winter. Any village or township that doesn't have a heavy snow removal budget is going to be in deep shit simply because of the frequent light snows that require plowing/salting as much as a heavy snow will.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 20, 2025 04:16 AM (hKoQL)

13 Old dog. It’s been running in the popups on the HQ for a few weeks now A faked picture of an insanely hot blonde with some little blonde kids (implying her children) with the caption saying something to the effect that “Billionaires hate this video”. I’ve not clicked on it. Not sure what it is really about.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 20, 2025 04:17 AM (/Elj1)

14 Thanks, Pete Bog. Don't get popups anymore since switching to Brave.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:21 AM (hoCmQ)

15 See you all in a few hours.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at January 20, 2025 04:25 AM (lCaJd)

16 G'mornin' Horde.

Let "Afuera!" day commence and be done with much zeal.

Context:
https://youtu.be/-IPERyhpZbA

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 04:25 AM (O7YUW)

17 ttest

Posted by: Zonk at January 20, 2025 04:23 AM (/Zdq1)
-

Is that you, King George VI?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 20, 2025 04:25 AM (2lzfn)

18 Zonk got zapped. Didn't I see a post from Bruce too?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:29 AM (hoCmQ)

19
The loons are now calling for a boycott of Oscar de la Renta.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 04:29 AM (w6EFb)

20 Zonk got zapped. Didn't I see a post from Bruce too?
Posted by: olddog in mo

Yes, it's me, Bruce. Did I offend the gods?

Posted by: Bruce1 at January 20, 2025 04:30 AM (j1G85)

21 Did that work?

Posted by: Bruce1 at January 20, 2025 04:31 AM (j1G85)

22 What the heck happened?

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:32 AM (j1G85)

23 Working now Bruce.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:32 AM (hoCmQ)

24 Looks like I'm back on.

Morning all!

After sleeping sooooo much better after Nov 5, I woke up at midnight. Fun going on today!!

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:34 AM (j1G85)

25 Disclaimer: I'm totally addicted to mace.

-------------

You can't sleep, you can't eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you can't breathe
Another drink is all you need

Woah, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah
It's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough, you know you're
Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to Ace

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 20, 2025 04:36 AM (B6F9D)

26 Thank you olddog!

I haven't been on so much in the morning because of the much better sleepage.

Weird that I couldn't post....I thought my CardBoard membership had expired.

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:36 AM (j1G85)

27 The loons are now calling for a boycott of Oscar de la Renta.
Posted by: publius,
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Because of Ivanka's and Usha's outfits?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:37 AM (hoCmQ)

28 The loons are now calling for a boycott of Oscar de la Renta.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 04:29 AM (w6EFb)

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Oscar De La Hoya hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 20, 2025 04:37 AM (B6F9D)

29 >> Because of Ivanka's and Usha's outfits?

Yes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 04:38 AM (w6EFb)

30 10 What ad are you talking about?
Posted by: olddog in mo
........................
I have no ad blocker on my phone so I see things, man. Trippy things.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 20, 2025 04:39 AM (sAmhv)

31 I woke up at midnight. Fun going on today!!
Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:34
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Woke up at 2:45. Had couple slices peanut butter toast and cup of milk. Dishwasher unloaded and pot of coffee started. Still may try to get another hour sleep of in before restarting the day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 04:41 AM (hoCmQ)

32 "Aptera's new lightweight three-wheeled electric vehicle can travel up to forty miles per day - on solar power alone."

Mildly curious, I opened the article and saw the price in the headline for one of these things: $40,000.

No. Just no. I don't know what the target market is for these things, but I'm definitely not part of it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 04:43 AM (O7YUW)

33 "Aptera's new lightweight three-wheeled electric vehicle can travel up to forty miles per day - on solar power alone."

Mildly curious, I opened the article and saw the price in the headline for one of these things: $40,000.

No. Just no. I don't know what the target market is for these things, but I'm definitely not part of it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

And it looks like it wouldn't survive a fender bender with a Big Wheel

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:44 AM (j1G85)

34 Of course, if it had AI in it, I'd buy two!

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:45 AM (j1G85)

35
Giorgia Meloni's plane has just touched down in D.C.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 04:53 AM (w6EFb)

36 They had the Pussy Hat protest last time.

Will they have the Hog Ring protesters this time?
Maybe set up a fenced off area (pen) for them.

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:55 AM (j1G85)

37 G'mornin' everyone!

Rejoice!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 20, 2025 05:01 AM (uX4GZ)

38
Rejoice!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Yes!!

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:05 AM (j1G85)

39 @30/Puddleglum: "I have no ad blocker on my phone so I see things, man. Trippy things."

Ouch. This is why, when I'm home, I have my phone connect to my internal network. I've got an ad-blocker up front at the firewall.

For that, I use the bind9 name server, and with downloaded copies of a couple of site lists that provide lists of URLs that are known to serve malware, spam, or provide advertising, I run a self-written script that concatenates the lists, removes duplicate entries, and then transforms each URL into a zone lines, each one resolving an address to 127.0.0.1. This list of zones gets saved to /etc/named.blocked.conf and then I use an include statement in the main /etc/named.conf file to import and apply this configuration. Is it a hack? Oh probably, but it's been working well now for 3 decades.

I run my script, it builds the new named.blocked.conf file, and then tells bind9 to reload.

My plan is to retire this and move to a new firewall device running pfSense, which has its own site-blocking mechanisms that allow the admin to select from an impressively large selection of site lists, and it does all the updating/applying automatically. Wonderful stuff!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 05:07 AM (O7YUW)

40 @33/Bruce: "And it looks like it wouldn't survive a fender bender with a Big Wheel"

No kidding, it looks ... fragile. I don't see how this thing gets through modern crash-test safety requirements.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 05:09 AM (O7YUW)

41 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 20, 2025 05:11 AM (dg+HA)

42 No kidding, it looks ... fragile. I don't see how this thing gets through modern crash-test safety requirements.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

They're still looking for investors. So they can build the factory.

Yeah, I'm mailing a check today

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:13 AM (j1G85)

43 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Ice-IX

Posted by: mikeski at January 20, 2025 05:17 AM (DgGvY)

44 Ivanka's outfit: Very elegant and nice dress, and Ivanka wears it well.

Sure beats the freak-show "fashion" we've been subjected to the last four years. We are way past "enough" on that.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

45 Shadows of the tree branches on the snow made by the half moon looks beautiful. I am glad and thankful to God to be able to have a nice cup of coffee and some nuts and cheese, cranberries and raisins for my breakfast.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 05:22 AM (P+aH3)

46 Nic update (posted four years ago here by someone and helped me keep the faith since):

"Fight The Good Fight Every Moment (by Triumph)"

youtube.com/watch?v=QEgpcgO4Hvk

Posted by: ShainS -- Fight The Good Fight Every Moment at January 20, 2025 05:23 AM (B6F9D)

47 to have a nice cup of coffee and some nuts and cheese, cranberries and raisins for my breakfast.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Sounds healthy.

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:24 AM (j1G85)

48 Ivanka's dress was so lovely. Let the loons keep to their pussy hats, ha.

Can't believe we are finally here! The screeching and mourning from the left is so glorious I got out my 'tears of my enemies' coffee mug this morning.

Mildly cold (-5) here in NW IL, but I don't give a care. It's going to be a glorious day!

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2025 05:26 AM (Jfw7U)

49 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2025 05:26 AM (/SCNx)

50 Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:24 AM (j1G85

Well, I did have a lemon shortbread cookie at 4:00 which probably wasn't too healthy but very tasty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 05:27 AM (P+aH3)

51 It's the last dawn of Joe Biden's last Dark Winter.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 05:29 AM (dg+HA)

52 Well, I did have a lemon shortbread cookie at 4:00 which probably wasn't too healthy but very tasty.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:30 AM (j1G85)

53 Mildly cold (-5) here in NW IL, but I don't give a care. It's going to be a glorious day!
Posted by: lizabth

I've got -4. Getting up to 9!

Tomorrow it gets colder though. A high temp of 0

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:32 AM (j1G85)

54 01/20/2025 - The End Of An Error

Posted by: rickb223 at January 20, 2025 05:32 AM (/SCNx)

55 I noticed that, Bruce...the 30s this weekend are going to feel quite nice after this little cold snap.

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2025 05:33 AM (Jfw7U)

56 I am reading a little pamphlet from the early 1900's by someone named Mary Channell Stevens who apparently taught adult Bible studies for Quakers. She has suggestions for Bible readings and had a very winsome style of talking about the Bible, and she clearly loved it . Here's what she says about Psalm 139-" It brings God close to one." So here it is- Psalm 139:

https://tinyurl.com/5evxxtc3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 05:35 AM (P+aH3)

57 Tough to recharge the car if you work a night shift.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at January 20, 2025 05:39 AM (DWpio)

58 I noticed that, Bruce...the 30s this weekend are going to feel quite nice after this little cold snap.
Posted by: lizabth

Great. I can work on my tan.

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:41 AM (j1G85)

59 The fact that Lil Pooky figured out how to roll on to his stomach in the past 48 hours complicates surgery prep a bit. To be fair, he's not a fan of his newfound talent, but I'm not sure how much of that is the hernia. T minus 3 hours, 20 minutes!

Posted by: pookysgirl wants today to be over at January 20, 2025 05:42 AM (mnmVn)

60 Ha....yes you can. Just the legs, though. We don't want TOO much excitement in winter.

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2025 05:42 AM (Jfw7U)

61 A reminder on Inauguration day not to have misplaced faith:

Psalms 118:9 reminds us: "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes."

And Psalms 146:3 also cautions us:

"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help."

We are all flawed. So are our leaders. There will still be big disappointments in store over the next four years. None of us is wiser than God, and this is backed up in Isaiah 55:9:

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 05:43 AM (O7YUW)

62 It's the last dawn of Joe Biden's last Dark Winter.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Poetically stated. Well done.

I get the sense that Obama's Marxist insurgency hit it's high water mark with Biden administration. Literally, without the tenacious war Trump waged for 8+ years with them most likely that insurgency would have succeeded. Because of that battle tested experience we now have the most focused and driven commander in chief in my lifetime running the country. Over the next four years President Trump is going to make the Left moan and howl as he dismantles that insurgency. More importantly, the team he has assembled is young and will gain the necessary experience needed to continue this war when President Trump 's term ends. I don't think the Left gets this part of it, that he is effectively creating a multi-generational movement to carry forth his vision, our vision, of what the United States of America should be.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 20, 2025 05:44 AM (Q8Bj8)

63 26 I haven't been on so much in the morning because of the much better sleepage.
Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:36 AM (j1G85)

Win-win!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 05:44 AM (VnUSN)

64 olddog, with the return of Melania any chance you revive your fashion commentary?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2025 05:45 AM (oT+t6)

65 G'morning, all!

No Church yesterday.

Mrs VIA, who has had head-cold like symptoms for three days and tested negative for Covid two days earlier, woke with a slight elevation of temperature and a touch of worsening conditions.

So yep....tested positive for Covid yesterday morning.

I did some quick food shopping to get us through the death storm due tomorrow night, and we tucked in and watched the Ravens loose last night.

Perhaps I can fit something in about 10:00 this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 05:45 AM (a1415)

66 34 Of course, if it had AI in it, I'd buy two!
Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 04:45 AM (j1G85)

PIXY, look, a heathen!!!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 05:45 AM (VnUSN)

67 G and R, for sure. A word well-spoken.

Still, it's mighty fun.

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2025 05:45 AM (Jfw7U)

68 So, Mrs. Stevens said, "From Genesis to Revelation are scattered divinely inspired sayings pointing to truths that are wings to the heavy hearted, as alpenstocks to the faltering; as drink to the thirsty and food to the hungry. These nourish us in hours of weakness and depression." She suggests we read the Bible we mark passages that speak to us and put them in a notebook

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 05:47 AM (JTeYV)

69 >> 01/20/2025 - The End Of An Error

Julian Date 2460696.2091341 to be exact (Terrestrial Time base).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 05:48 AM (w6EFb)

70 Sorry Mrs. VIA isn't feeling well. I will pray for her. You are a good guy to get all the supplies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 05:48 AM (JTeYV)

71 PIXY, look, a heathen!!!
Posted by: m

Shhhh...I was in AOS timeout earlier this morning.

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 05:49 AM (j1G85)

72 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at January 20, 2025 05:50 AM (AN2gy)

73 "...and watched the Ravens loose last night."

Who let the birds out?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 05:50 AM (dg+HA)

74 Seems that some Maryland Police Departments have declined to assist with security at the national course correction taking place at noon today.

https://tinyurl.com/36nafnwt

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 05:50 AM (a1415)

75 @62
Oh yes. and I don't think David Hogg or any of his younger ilk are going to help the Dems going forward.

And wow...are you ever right. Biden 2020 (with handlers running the show) was the culmination of the Obama Chicago cabal's great plan for America.

Unfortunately for them, the Biden years totally unmasked them, and the citizens did not care for the ugly stark truth of their madness.

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2025 05:50 AM (Jfw7U)

76 Have to say that Melania’s outfit at the candlelight dinner wasn’t very attractive. Hope she wows tonight. Ivanka looked quite lovely.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 20, 2025 05:51 AM (2NHgQ)

77 Thanks, Fen.

We are fortunate to live fairly close to multiple grocery stores.
And this projected storm is a fast mover, that should be gone fairly quickly.

So it was really only a small amount of stuff to grab.

Plus the plain/un-breaded Hot-Wings from Publix for the game.

Possibly the largest/meatiest and finest wings on the planet.

If you like wings, and live near a Publix, I encourage you to try them from the Deli department.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 05:54 AM (a1415)

78 @53/FenelonSpoke: That group of Psalms (of which 139 is a part of) written by David really highlight his deep respect and love for God. They're very uplifting and encouraging, thank you. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 05:54 AM (O7YUW)

79 Grumpy and Recalcitrant, what OS are you using?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 20, 2025 05:54 AM (PiwSw)

80 In financial news, the markets are closed today in observance of the holiday, but Alpenstock futures are up sharply in light of the changing political administrations in the U.S.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 05:54 AM (dg+HA)

81 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 05:43 AM (O7YUW)

Very well said , quoted and posted. Thanks so much!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 05:54 AM (6TLY5)

82 I wonder how Val Jarret and Vicky Nuland are feeling this morning. Just makes me smile, it does,

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2025 05:55 AM (Jfw7U)

83 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 05:54 AM (O7YUW)

You are most welcome!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 05:55 AM (6TLY5)

84 28.8 degrees out, with 98% RH.

According to the weather station in the back yard, that is 29.2 degrees colder than this time yesterday.

So the cold front is getting here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 05:56 AM (a1415)

85 Time to get moving. Enjoy the fun of this wonderful, folks!

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2025 05:56 AM (Jfw7U)

86
VIA, you're down south a bit in SC, right? I think you're gonna get some snow, more than we do in the upstate by Tuesday night.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 05:58 AM (w6EFb)

87 Take care, lizabth

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 05:58 AM (a1415)

88 Get your Trump watch now!

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2025 05:59 AM (oT+t6)

89 olddog, with the return of Melania any chance you revive your fashion commentary?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2025 05:45
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I'm back from little nap.

Who know's Ben Had. After Melania's first year in the Whitehouse most fashion rags ignored her. I did find an article Vogue ran about pre-inauguration event fashions of the family and 2nd Lady. Reading it I sensed the author drew the short stick regarding who had to write it.

https://is.gd/waTVuQ

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2025 05:59 AM (hoCmQ)

90 To hell with Chardonnay. It's a Black Jack kinda day!

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 20, 2025 05:59 AM (dg+HA)

91 And here's a psaage from the New Testament which Mrs. Stevens liked:

Philippians 3:13-14

New International Version
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 06:00 AM (6TLY5)

92 "VIA, you're down south a bit in SC, right?"

Summerville, about 17 miles up I-26 from Charleston.

Till recently, a bedroom community, just far enough away from the coastline to really mitigate the effects of hurricanes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:00 AM (a1415)

93 T-6 hours....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2025 06:00 AM (BpYfr)

94 @79/Shadout Mapes: "Grumpy and Recalcitrant, what OS are you using?

For my firewall? An older copy of SuSE Linux, but any modern linux with Bind9 would do the trick.

The replacement firewall device is running pfSense which (I think) is based on BSD Unix, but you do all the administration through its web interface.

For the desktops and devices at home, it's a mix. Some windows, some Linux (Linux Mint to be precise), and some android stuff.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 06:01 AM (O7YUW)

95 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 05:54 AM (a1415)

I like wings ( and my son loves the hot ones) but I don't a Publix near me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 06:01 AM (6TLY5)

96 Breakfast time!!

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2025 06:01 AM (j1G85)

97 Fen, I think Publix is mostly a southeastern chain.

I would trade you a Publix for a Wegman's, as our closest Wegman's is up in North Carolina.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:03 AM (a1415)

98 6 Deg F with a windchill of -2 today. Gah. Gonna need more time for vehicle warm-up today.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 06:04 AM (O7YUW)

99 If you're fortunate enough to live within range of a Publix, I strongly recommend Conecuh sausage. Particularly the hickory smoke flavor. Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 06:05 AM (dg+HA)

100 I still feel like the nation has been playing Social Justice/Transgender Jenga for the last several years.

And at noon the last piece gets removed from the game.

And.....OOPSIE!

It all falls down!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:05 AM (a1415)

101 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:03 AM (a1415)

Yes, we have Wegmans. I like it, but it's kind of pricey.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 06:06 AM (6TLY5)

102 We also have Lowes Grocery chain here.

In-store made sausage, as well as a wine bar where on can get a wine/beer/mimosa, and walk around the store and shop while sipping.

And when the coupon/sales cycles align, either Yuengling or Michelob Ultra in cases of 24 bottles for as low as $15.77 a case ( Limit of 4).

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)

103 I can't wait to hear PDT'S speech.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2025 06:09 AM (oT+t6)

104
It's basically Publix and Food Lion here locally now, along with a local chain Ingles. Lowe's grocery does have few around.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:11 AM (w6EFb)

105 Wegman's is indeed pricey.

But there are some things that if one is careful with coupons and sales, the price gets down into the 'affordable' range.

And it's the only place we know of that carries their herb infused basting oil, and Butter Boy butter from France. As I refer to it...a dessert butter, it's that good.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:11 AM (a1415)

106 I live within range of three Walmarts, a Sam's Club, two Albertsons, and a Sprouts. Shopping for groceries in Las Cruces is not a gourmet experience for the most part. Pro Tip: from my experience Walmart produce ranges between near rotten to less near rotten. I literally will not shop for produce at Walmart - you get tired of slicing open an onion and finding it rotten in the center.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 20, 2025 06:11 AM (Q8Bj8)

107 Am I the only one worried that Biden will bomb Russia at 11:59?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 06:14 AM (ExV1e)

108 "It's basically Publix and Food Lion here locally now"

Our local Food Lion is our go-to store for about 75% of our shopping needs.

Clean, well organized and we know almost the entire staff. Really great people.

Then we have several of the few remaining Piggly-Wiggly's, after the chain pretty much contracted into almost non-existence.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:14 AM (a1415)

109 Good morning to all on this great day. 19 degrees here and it may crack 32. DJT will be President again soon, so I’m happy. Enjoy the day and may he be successful in all his endeavors

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 20, 2025 06:15 AM (Cn3Ag)

110 This is what we've worked for, hoped for, prayed for. Today is a day to rejoice and give thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 20, 2025 06:16 AM (SfhV1)

111 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I'm partial to sarin, myself.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 20, 2025 06:17 AM (6K6Eu)

112
Bi-Lo went out of business a couple years ago, and Food Lion bought most of the stores. Lowe's bought a few.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:17 AM (w6EFb)

113 Walmart produce is a real hit-or-miss here for quality.

While Lowes, Publix and Harris-Teeter seem to have the consistently highest quality/price, our particular Food Lion stays within the top 85% for quality, and lower price.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:17 AM (a1415)

114 Am I the only one worried that Biden will bomb Russia at 11:59?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I think we're at greater risk of Biden, leaving behind a turd in the toilet and hunter a bag of cocaine somewhere. I highly anticipate stories of how the White House staff sabotage the White House so the incoming administration would have a difficult time. The Clinton administration people did this.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 20, 2025 06:18 AM (Q8Bj8)

115 107 Am I the only one worried that Biden will bomb Russia at 11:59?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 06:14 AM (ExV1e)

I wouldn't say worried.

Posted by: Liz Cheney, Super-Patriot at January 20, 2025 06:18 AM (PiwSw)

116 Wasn't Bi-Lo known as the Beef People, back in the day?

Very good quality beef, at an affordable price.

Of course I'm talking mid/late 80's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:20 AM (a1415)

117 Am I the only one worried that Biden will bomb Russia at 11:59?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 06:14 AM (ExV1e)
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Given this administration, they'd probably wind up nuking Rwanda.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 20, 2025 06:21 AM (6K6Eu)

118
A flash drive with several different Linux operating systems arrived yesterday and I found one that I was actually able to install on my old laptop. So that's good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025 06:21 AM (dxSpM)

119 @118/Hadrian: Great news! Which distribution was it that allowed you to install?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

120 Given this administration, they'd probably wind up nuking Rwanda.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 20, 2025 06:21 AM (6K6Eu)

Picky, picky, picky.

Posted by: DEI Hire, responsible for targeting information at January 20, 2025 06:23 AM (PiwSw)

121 Have we had any updates on Hrothgar since Saturday night, with him in ICU?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:23 AM (a1415)

122 >> Wasn't Bi-Lo known as the Beef People, back in the day?

That was Winn-Dixie. Here's one of their ads, with Jim Davis from the '70s. Boy does that bring back childhood memories:

Wasn't Bi-Lo known as the Beef People, back in the day?

Both Bi-Lo and Winn-Dixie merged under the SE Grocers parent company after bankruptcies. It was SE Grocers that killed Bi-LO brand.

Winn-Dixie is still in business, but not any more in SC.

In the '80s, Winn-Dixie was a big one, competing with Bi-Lo.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:24 AM (w6EFb)

123 This probably wouldn't happen in a Starbucks here, but I thought this was a nice story about a woman from Arkansas praying with a customer at a drive
Through window at Starbucks:

https://tinyurl.com/3p8phy67

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 06:25 AM (azVe6)

124
Sorry, botched the cut and paste for the Winn-Dixie ad. Here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/2bqorv4y

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:26 AM (w6EFb)

125 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:23 AM (a1415)

Sharon ( Willow's apprentice ) reported that he was doing better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 06:26 AM (azVe6)

126 I remember the Winn-Dixie tagline: "The Beef People."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 06:27 AM (dg+HA)

127 93 T-6 hours....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2025 06:00 AM (BpYfr)

I appreciate the countdown clock!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 06:28 AM (VnUSN)

128 Cool ad. Thanks.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 06:29 AM (dg+HA)

129 Great day in the morning, yall! Joe's freak show is finally leaving town.

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 06:29 AM (vFG9F)

130 "That was Winn-Dixie."

Yup, soon as I read that, my memory re-set.

We had one right behind Windjammer Apartments in West Ashley where we lived back in the day.

A little foot bridge from the back corner of the complex right to the back of the store.

And Windjammer was a 'no-children, adults only' community in the day.

So it was pretty much an every weekend run for beer/steaks/potatoes/charcoal type of existence back then

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:30 AM (a1415)

131
Great news! Which distribution was it that allowed you to install?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 20, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

_______

One of the xfce flavors. It would seem that Cinnamon, which I'd been trying, just refused to load.

I'm trying it out on this old laptop because I have a Win10 desktop that I may want to install Linux on later. I don't want to have to buy a new computer just so I can run the latest MS horror, bristling with features I don't want and can't use.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025 06:30 AM (dxSpM)

132 102 ... Lowes Grocery chain ... a wine bar where on can get a wine/beer/mimosa, and walk around the store and shop while sipping.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)

!!!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 06:30 AM (VnUSN)

133 Cute doggy photos and doggy "apology" story. From "Faithpot":

https://tinyurl.com/25cewahv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 06:31 AM (azVe6)

134 Fen, thanks for the update.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:32 AM (a1415)

135 I don't remember that particular WD ad, but there are a not small number of things from my time as a single Sailor living in Charleston back then that I don't remember.

A different time....and a different me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:34 AM (a1415)

136
Exact times when Our National Nightmare will be over.

1/20/2025 17:00:00.0000 Zulu
------------- 17 :00:00.0442 UT1
------------- 17:01:09.184 TT

or JD 2460696.2091341.

Those are all the same instants of time expressed in the main time scales in use.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:34 AM (w6EFb)

137 Are these loony libs going to boycott GM for providing the Presidential limo, or Boeing for AF-1? How about Charmin for providing the Presidential TP, or Coca Cola, for the Presidential soft drink?

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

138
Jim Davis did a bunch of those ads back in the day. I remember them running all the time during the 6 o'clock news as a kid.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:35 AM (w6EFb)

139 137 Are these loony libs going to boycott GM for providing the Presidential limo, or Boeing for AF-1? How about Charmin for providing the Presidential TP, or Coca Cola, for the Presidential soft drink?
Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

I also heard a rumor that the BadOrangeMan uses the Base 10 number system.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 20, 2025 06:37 AM (PiwSw)

140 Latest update from an hour ago sees a worse case of as high as 6 inches of snow here.

And a best case of.......'Never mind'.

So somewhere between very cold with overcast skies, to Death from above.

So plan accordingly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:38 AM (a1415)

141 Are these loony libs going to boycott GM for providing the Presidential limo, or Boeing for AF-1? How about Charmin for providing the Presidential TP, or Coca Cola, for the Presidential soft drink?
Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 06:35 AM (vFG9F)

Are they going to boycott TikTok for thanking Trump for extending the deadline?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 06:38 AM (ExV1e)

142 "Those are all the same instants of time expressed in the main time scales in use."

Or, Both Mickey's big and little hands will be pointing straight up.

For us technically challenged folks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:39 AM (a1415)

143 Donald Trump also uses Oxygen!

So...boycott accordingly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:40 AM (a1415)

144 If JJ hasn't covered this, I bet he will. Charles Blow was fired by the New York Times. Journalism will have one less bloviating ( SWIDT ) Black bisexual "journalist."

https://is.gd/Yw22lB

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 20, 2025 06:40 AM (PiwSw)

145 Inauguration Day
YAY

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2025 06:41 AM (gbOdA)

146 "The 6 o'clock news." We all remember it, but it sounds so quaint now. Like the milkman or S&H Green Stamps.

Back then it was Cronkite and if you weren't in front of a TV at the right time, you missed it with no chance to see it again.

Now it's Joe Rogan on the Omniscient Glowing Rectangle in the palm of your hand whenever you choose to watch it and as many times as you want.

Thanks patriarchy!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 06:42 AM (dg+HA)

147 Evening and morning, all! 'Tis the Moon's Day -- 31 F. here, and I don't want to know what the wind chill is. I'm off tomorrow. Well, "remote work," but that doesn't mean I'll be chained to the computer.

Winn-Dixie here has been bought out by Aldi. The store just behind where I live is closing this week, and the Aldi will open sometime next month, I guess. The people here who depend on W-D for their food will have to make other arrangements, and some, I guess, don't have cars. The only grocery within walking distance is across a major four-lane avenue -- so it's gonna be dicey for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 06:42 AM (omVj0)

148 I have to go fix something for a client this morning. I might be back in time for the inauguration. Don't these folks know it's a holiday?

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

149 Winn-Dixie here has been bought out by Aldi. The store just behind where I live is closing this week, and the Aldi will open sometime next month, I guess. The people here who depend on W-D for their food will have to make other arrangements, and some, I guess, don't have cars. The only grocery within walking distance is across a major four-lane avenue -- so it's gonna be dicey for a while.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 06:42 AM (omVj0)

So, a food desert brought on by the corporate greed of fascist German grocers?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 06:45 AM (ExV1e)

150 139 I also heard a rumor that the BadOrangeMan uses the Base 10 number system.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 20, 2025 06:37 AM (PiwSw)

; )

However: math.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 06:45 AM (VnUSN)

151 "The only grocery within walking distance is across a major four-lane avenue -- so it's gonna be dicey for a while."

I believe this the qualifies to be a 'food-desert'.

As such, select minorities can demand that a pedestrian bridge ( Fully ADA accessible, of course) be built across that roadway.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:45 AM (a1415)

152 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:40 AM (a1415)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2025 06:45 AM (5vV3u)

153
Back then, the 6 o'clock news was local. I'm trying to remember the main station we watched, WFBC at the time, was either 30 minutes or 1 hour. Some were 30 and others an hour.

The network news can on after than, either 6:30 or 7PM depending.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:45 AM (w6EFb)

154 Yeah, we're being threatened with as much as 4" of snow tomorrow. The city will probably close the onramps to the bridges, so I'd have no way to get to work on Tuesday, and it might continue into Wednesday as they spread sand and salt. (Yes; the city says they have those and aren't afraid to use them.)

If I'm going to hit the grocery today for anything, and I might, I better go early.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 06:46 AM (omVj0)

155
29 degrees here at Schloss Hadrian. The garage was at 50 when I went out this morning. I turned on the dryer, which vents directly into the garage, and went down to the kennel to let the guys out. It was 50 down there as well. When I came back up, the garage had gotten to 52. So it appears we may not die horribly like the weather people have been saying.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025 06:46 AM (dxSpM)

156 "Charles Blow was fired by the New York Times."

Two responses leap to mind:

1) Another grim milestone for the Biden - Emhoff administration.
2) Oh, no! ... Anyway...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 06:46 AM (dg+HA)

157
So, a food desert brought on by the corporate greed of fascist German grocers?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025

***
Achtung! You *will* learn to shop at prescribed hours!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)

158
And forget two of the other big time scales, TIA (atomic time) and GPS time:

----- 17:00:37 TIA
----- 17:00:18 GPS

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:48 AM (w6EFb)

159 I would love to be a fly on the wall tomorrow morning, when Joe gets up at the crack of noon, and starts dressing to go to work.

" Jill....who moved my furniture?"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:49 AM (a1415)

160
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 06:42 AM (omVj0)

Are you retiring and when? Any destination you and Miss Linda are headed to? How will you survive without the great music and food?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025 06:49 AM (dxSpM)

161 Know who else patronized German grocery stores?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 06:49 AM (dg+HA)

162 Not much news on the LA fires this morning. The sensationalism is over, now those folks are dealing with the reality and it's going to take a while. What a horrible mess.

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

163 Only hours left of the vile Biden regime. I was thinking yesterday what Trump has overcome. The vast resources of the federal govt, many local govts, the MSM, academia, Big Tech,the cultural elite, etc.. all arrayed against him, 24/7 for years. And still he overcame. Could any other person done that or withstood the pressure? It's enough to make me believe in divine intervention.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2025 06:50 AM (PTDkx)

164 "Know who else patronized German grocery stores?"

Germans?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:50 AM (a1415)

165 I was late getting out and no bunnies around.

Looked out the window and the first wave included a bun, cardinals, juncos, bluebirds and a very flappy mourning dove.

Posted by: fluffy at January 20, 2025 06:51 AM (AN2gy)

166
Charles Blow was the Al Sharpton of Don LeMons.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 06:51 AM (w6EFb)

167 All the bird feeders are mopped off for the cold blast coming our way.

Bird Bath is emptied in preparation for freezing temps..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:52 AM (a1415)

168 Did they chuck Mr Peanut in the ground yet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 20, 2025 06:52 AM (JdxE1)

169 You'd flap, too if you were in mourning.

Posted by: The dove at January 20, 2025 06:53 AM (dg+HA)

170 VIA, regarding 74. If I'm reading the articles correctly, the problem seems to be the Maryland police departments don't want their people bound by Capitol Police's restrictions on use of force.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 20, 2025 06:53 AM (lXCUP)

171 "Charles Blow was the Al Sharpton of Don LeMons."

Has he found the plane yet?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 06:54 AM (dg+HA)

172 159 I would love to be a fly on the wall tomorrow morning, when Joe gets up at the crack of noon, and starts dressing to go to work.

That's assuming his handlers didn't knock him out and quietly move him to DE in the dead of night.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 20, 2025 06:54 AM (lXCUP)

173 "don't want their people bound by Capitol Police's restrictions on use of force.
"

You could be correct.

Fox45 sometimes has some rather convoluted reportage. And that little nugget might have gone right past me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:55 AM (a1415)

174 Are you retiring and when? Any destination you and Miss Linda are headed to? How will you survive without the great music and food?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025

***
I've told my boss March 31 is my last day, Hadrian. My initial plan is to drive up to Indiana and Kentucky and have a look around. Linda's enthusiasm about all this is close to her reaction during a heat wave, i.e., ignore it and hope it will go away. I dunno what will happen on that front.

Music and food? Jeez. Music can be had on CD or online. Good food can be prepared anywhere. Neither is worth putting up with a city with cracked streets, lousy weather, major corruption, flooding, high crime, low IQs, hurricanes, and did I mention crime?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 06:56 AM (omVj0)

175 Democracy dies in Delaware.

Posted by: As any school child can tell you at January 20, 2025 06:56 AM (dg+HA)

176 Aldi is a German grocery store. I prefer the way civilized countries restock groceries as opposed to the way the Weimar Republic doesn't.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 20, 2025 06:56 AM (JdxE1)

177
Who knows? Joe may totter around until 100 as well, sharp as a tack. Drinking the blood of a freshly-killed young girl every day keeps you young.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025 06:56 AM (dxSpM)

178 "That's assuming his handlers didn't knock him out and quietly move him to DE in the dead of night."

Better call Mayflower.

They have a proven track record of midnight moves in that area of the country.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 06:57 AM (a1415)

179 >>>>Did they chuck Mr Peanut in the ground yet?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 20, 2025 06:52 AM (JdxE1)
*******
For a minute there I thought you were talking about the squirrel, that I was saddened about. The other guy, not so much.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 20, 2025 06:57 AM (iAdx3)

180 "Therapists suggest group crying, ‘forest-bathing’ for liberals to deal with ‘sense of hopelessness’ on Trump Inauguration Day"

If a lib cries in the forest, does anybody give a shit?

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

181
I'm sure there's a newly-built replica of the Oval Office that Joe can go to every day for an hour of "work". Call it the Salazar Option.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025 06:58 AM (dxSpM)

182 Forest bathing? There is no entry for that term in my brain.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 20, 2025 07:00 AM (JdxE1)

183 "If a lib cries in the forest, does anybody give a shit?'

We're looking forward to it.

Posted by: Hungry Bears, in the forest at January 20, 2025 07:01 AM (a1415)

184 5 hours!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:01 AM (a1415)

185 VIA, if you haven't seen it ESPN (I know) did a great 30 for 30 about the Colts band and the midnight move from Baltimore:
"The Band That Wouldn't Die."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 07:02 AM (dg+HA)

186 Going to get some breakfast. It's 3 out there.

Thermal jeans are a sign God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2025 07:02 AM (bss/y)

187 181 Fake Resolute Desk. Desktop flips over for Retardo's HO train set.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2025 07:03 AM (gm9Sb)

188 " about the Colts band and the midnight move from Baltimore: "

Thanks, I'll have to look it up.

( I knew somebody would get my Mayflower reference)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:03 AM (a1415)

189 I am pretty well-stocked on food and other supplies. Probably I don't need to go out at all.

The latest weather "model" says 5-8" snow tomorrow. Could be spots with more. I knew days like this in Denver -- but then the sun would come out in a day or so and the snow would evaporate. It wouldn't have time to melt; it would just turn into water vapor and be gone.

The winter storm line is said to be all the way down to the coast. Historic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:03 AM (omVj0)

190 93 T-6 hours....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2025 06:00 AM (BpYfr)

T-5 hours!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:04 AM (VnUSN)

191 Or, I guess:

T - 5 hours!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:07 AM (VnUSN)

192 Who is this "T" person and why does he keep losing hours?

Posted by: Blonde chick down the street at January 20, 2025 07:08 AM (dg+HA)

193 Cabbage pizza has to be a joke. Nobody would eat that, would they? Piper?

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

194 Closed roads may stay closed until Thursday. Looks like I might have a really short week.

I have coffee, crackers and popcorn, bread, real food to be cooked, chow for the cats, water (both tap and sparkling mineral), and pipe tobacco. The car's battery is only a year old, the coolant is full and the oil (5W-30, good for much lower temps than this) is fresh, and I'm parking the car away from any trees that might drop an icy branch. It'll get shrouded in snow; but I have a squeegee and an ice scraper (a rare thing around here). I guess I'm set.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)

195 192 Who is this "T" person and why does he keep losing hours?
Posted by: Blonde chick down the street at January 20, 2025 07:08 AM (dg+HA)

PDT! PDT! PDT!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:12 AM (VnUSN)

196 Bets that Dopey Joe wakes up tomorrow morning and says "Doctor Jill, I had the weirdest dream."

200 Executive Orders waiting to be deployed by Trump. It's gonna be a fun day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 20, 2025 07:13 AM (W5ArC)

197 I've never seen so much of the Lower 48 under official weather warnings and advisories. Over 2/3 by my reckoning. Yow!

https://www.weather.gov/

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2025 07:13 AM (aBgBM)

198 193 Cabbage pizza has to be a joke. Nobody would eat that, would they? Piper?
Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

I once ordered a Greek salad and a plain pizza. Somehow this got garbled and I got a pizza with Greek salad ingredients on it. But, you know: tomatoes? cheese? olives? It's the cukes that were kinda eh.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:14 AM (VnUSN)

199 CERN is clearly fucking with the timeline again. Ilhan Omar posted something kind of smart.

Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
People are more upset at performers/artists attending Trump’s inaugural events but not upset at all the politicians who told them he was a “threat to democracy” going to these events are not serious.

Performers at least know they are there to perform and get paid, but these politicians who ran their mouth for 4 yrs and are now willing to be there and clap for him, that’s who they should be mad at. They lied to you and your criticism/anger should be rightfully directed at them.

Also, no one should ask people who are performers/artists to be loyal to a party because that’s what dictatorships do. In a free country like ours, people should be able to support any party they want without having their livelihood compromised.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2025 07:15 AM (wItF4)

200 199

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:15 AM (VnUSN)

201 heh

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:15 AM (VnUSN)

202 198 193 Cabbage pizza has to be a joke. Nobody would eat that, would they? Piper?
Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

I once ordered a Greek salad and a plain pizza. Somehow this got garbled and I got a pizza with Greek salad ingredients on it. But, you know: tomatoes? cheese? olives? It's the cukes that were kinda eh.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:14 AM (VnUSN)

Cukes. Totally related: I've never heard of pickle pizza. That's a good thing!

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2025 07:16 AM (aBgBM)

203 Omar. Hog finds acorn.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2025 07:17 AM (oT+t6)

204 I've never seen so much of the Lower 48 under official weather warnings and advisories. Over 2/3 by my reckoning. Yow!

https://www.weather.gov/
Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2025 07:13 AM (aBgBM)
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*sigh* I wonder if classes at the university I work for will move to "remote" tomorrow. Wouldn't be the first time.

But it's awfully inconvenient for professors and students for the first day of class for the semester.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2025 07:17 AM (BpYfr)

205 I saw a suggestion for cauliflower pizza "crust" in one of my diabeetus books.

That's not happening. Sorry.

A better book suggests using large portobello mushroom caps for the "crust".

Now that has potential.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 20, 2025 07:17 AM (W5ArC)

206 We tried to go to Texas Roadhouse last night. The place was as crowded as on a Friday or Saturday, and the waitress told me we'd have a 35-minute wait for a table. Uh, no. We went to a small local Mexican chain restaurant nearby. The food was okay, the restaurant felt cold inside; the best thing (for me, anyway) was our waitress's cleavage. She kept bending over to ask me if I wanted anything else. Entertaining.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:18 AM (omVj0)

207
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2025 07:19 AM (w9Ycv)

208 Happy Inauguration Day, dear Hordelings!

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2025 07:19 AM (79pEw)

209 181
I'm sure there's a newly-built replica of the Oval Office that Joe can go to every day for an hour of "work". Call it the Salazar Option.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2025 06:58 AM (dxSpM)

He'd better get used to using it. I don't think FJB will do much traveling on his own dime.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2025 07:19 AM (aBgBM)

210 I have coffee, crackers and popcorn, bread, real food to be cooked, chow for the cats, water (both tap and sparkling mineral), and pipe tobacco. The car's battery is only a year old, the coolant is full and the oil (5W-30, good for much lower temps than this) is fresh, and I'm parking the car away from any trees that might drop an icy branch. It'll get shrouded in snow; but I have a squeegee and an ice scraper (a rare thing around here). I guess I'm set.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)
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I notice you don't specify "a good book to read" in that list above...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2025 07:19 AM (BpYfr)

211 "In a free country like ours, people should be able to support any party they want without having their livelihood compromised."

Who is is person and what did they do with Ilhan?

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

212 She's probably worried she's on Trump's mass deportation list and trying to suck up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 20, 2025 07:21 AM (W5ArC)

213 Welp, gotta take the neighbor to his previously scheduled pain shot in the back

Time for shower, and departure.

BBIAB.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:21 AM (a1415)

214 John Abatzoglou, a climatology professor from the University of California, studied 30 years of wildfires in Los Angeles County. After examining the data from 1992 through 2020, he declared: “More than 95% of these [California fires] are human-ignited fires.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2025 07:21 AM (gbOdA)

215 Fauci, Milley, all the members of the J6 Committee and even the police officers who testified get a pardon.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2025 07:22 AM (LkLld)

216 Wolfus, you are finally getting your wish - real winter in New Orleans!

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2025 07:22 AM (79pEw)

217 Wolfus, two things:

Aldi sells an Italian sausage flavored with Old Bay. I love it in an omelette.

The Once In A Lifetime Gulf Coast snowstorm (I know, 'cuz I grew up in Mobile) will provide an opportunity for you to get some unique pictures of the beloved Buick.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 07:23 AM (dg+HA)

218 I guess I'm set.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)
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I notice you don't specify "a good book to read" in that list above...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2025

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Oh, that goes without saying, like mentioning that I have gravity! Two Agatha Christies to start with, some John Collier short stories, and plenty of stuff I haven't re-read in a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:23 AM (omVj0)

219
Yep, they're going to drop some pardons right as they're slipping out the door at noon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 07:23 AM (w6EFb)

220 >>Yep, they're going to drop some pardons right as they're slipping out the door at noon.

They are dropping as see speak.

See 215

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2025 07:24 AM (LkLld)

221 Biden just pardoned Fauci, Milley and all J6 committee members ,
Scum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 20, 2025 07:24 AM (6v8aM)

222 But before I go, some concerning trends in the field of optometry.

https://tinyurl.com/5fmrd2br

Scroll down to the mention of standards.
And I will tell you, my last visit I was blessed with a new hire very young Doctor.

And I left there vaguely disappointed, and planning to find a new practice to go to.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:25 AM (a1415)

223 215 Fauci, Milley, all the members of the J6 Committee and even the police officers who testified get a pardon.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2025 07:22 AM (LkLld)

And PDT's going to suspend the security clearances of 51 national security guys who were Spies Who Lied about Hunter's laptop.

Deal? (Nah, not.)

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:25 AM (VnUSN)

224 These preemptive pardons need to be challenged in court. This is not what the pardoning power was created for.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 20, 2025 07:25 AM (07T7N)

225 Were the pardons specific as to crime?

Posted by: davidt at January 20, 2025 07:25 AM (i0F8b)

226 Wolfus, you are finally getting your wish - real winter in New Orleans!
Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2025

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True. I have no real way to shovel my walkway if it gets that bad. I do have a small folding shovel I bought at an Army Surplus store decades ago in case I should need to dig my car's wheels out of sand or mud. It would be like trying to dig a grave with a big spoon, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:26 AM (omVj0)

227 No detail yet.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2025 07:26 AM (LkLld)

228 221 Biden just pardoned Fauci, Milley and all J6 committee members ,
Scum
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 20, 2025 07:24 AM (6v8aM)

Fauci Scum, Milley Scum....

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:26 AM (VnUSN)

229
Just reading the pardons now.

I wonder if any more, like brother Frank will get one at the very last minute.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 07:27 AM (w6EFb)

230 A lot of us have been expecting these pardons for a long time, and I think they’re going to backfire badly on the Dems. The chances of Trump’s people actually charging any of these big name figures was very small; but now Biden’s team has gone public and told all of the LiV’s “yeah we know they’re guilty.”

And of course doing it just a few hours before the inauguration makes it look dirty as hell to everyone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2025 07:27 AM (7MHHr)

231 How can he pardon Fauxchi without him being charged with a crime? He can't. They are just words, like his words about the ERA. Sound and fury, uttered by a demented idiot.

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

232 Aldi sells an Italian sausage flavored with Old Bay. I love it in an omelette.

The Once In A Lifetime Gulf Coast snowstorm (I know, 'cuz I grew up in Mobile) will provide an opportunity for you to get some unique pictures of the beloved Buick.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025

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I was just at Aldi on Saturday. Is this sausage in the regular meat section?

And you're right, snow mound photos! "That right there is my car, believe it or not."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 20, 2025 07:27 AM (omVj0)

233 These preemptive pardons need to be challenged in court. This is not what the pardoning power was created for.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 20, 2025 07:25 AM (07T7N)
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I agree. This is midnight judges all over again.

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2025 07:27 AM (79pEw)

234

Mommy! Pooped 'Em!

Posted by: Joey Bidet, Crack SBD Pilot at January 20, 2025 07:28 AM (0BhXH)

235 bluebell!!!

Good morning, young lady!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:28 AM (a1415)

236
So now Fauci has no 5th Amendment right about this. He can't refuse to answer questions.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 20, 2025 07:28 AM (w6EFb)

237 Good morning! How do you pardon someone who hasn't been charged with anything?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 20, 2025 07:28 AM (luW68)

238 Lemme guess. Pardon by tweet?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 07:28 AM (dg+HA)

239 Hello, VIA! How are you and the lovely missus?

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2025 07:29 AM (79pEw)

240 237 Good morning! How do you pardon someone who hasn't been charged with anything?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 20, 2025 07:28 AM (luW6

Preemptively?

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:29 AM (VnUSN)

241 The Nixon Precedent.

Posted by: davidt at January 20, 2025 07:29 AM (i0F8b)

242 "Lemme guess. Pardon by tweet?"

Don't be silly.

Tweets are for important things.

Like re-writing the Constitution.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:30 AM (a1415)

243 Dems are such idiots - they’re setting the precedent that any administration can avoid accountability by handing out blanket pardons for everyone on the way out the door.

I think this is the strongest argument in favor of asking the SCOTUS to overturn all blanket pardons.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2025 07:30 AM (7MHHr)

244 No way these pre-emptive pardons can stand up in court. On the other hand, it make them all look guilty as hell so maybe just let them be. Doubtful any of them will aver face justice anyway.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2025 07:30 AM (PTDkx)

245 What was Fauxchi pardoned for? I thought he was the county's savior.

Posted by: fd at January 20, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)

246 Could PDT still recall Milley into service, court martial and reduce his rank/pension? Would this pardon stop that?

Posted by: EveR at January 20, 2025 07:30 AM (cUzJO)

247 I guess now any incoming Dem president can assemble a motley crew of law breakers to go after political opponents and just pardon their lawlessness on the way out the door.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2025 07:31 AM (qBdHI)

248 "How are you and the lovely missus? "

She is down with a case of Covid, with only minimal symptoms so far.

But other than that...all good.

( Except that we all are gonna die tomorrow night in this winter hell-storm about to descend upon us)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:31 AM (a1415)

249 Declare the pardons invalid due to Biden's mental deficiency.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at January 20, 2025 07:31 AM (ZmEVT)

250 I am now 100% in favor for blanket pardons for all J6 prisoners. No exceptions. Fuck these assholes.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2025 07:31 AM (PTDkx)

251 The Fauci pardon is really sad.
But imagine how much worse it would be if the Dems had won the White House!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (VnUSN)

252 "I am now 100% in favor for blanket pardons for all J6 prisoners. No exceptions. Fuck these assholes."

Kinda hard to argue against that position at this point.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (a1415)

253 That turd Milley getting a pardon is the one that irks me the most. Some kid sends Mom and Dad a picture of his work station aboard a sub and gets brig time. A General gets chummy with the enemy and disobeys orders from the CinC and goes scot free to his no show job at Raytheon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (gm9Sb)

254 230 A lot of us have been expecting these pardons for a long time, and I think they’re going to backfire badly on the Dems. The chances of Trump’s people actually charging any of these big name figures was very small; but now Biden’s team has gone public and told all of the LiV’s “yeah we know they’re guilty.”

And of course doing it just a few hours before the inauguration makes it look dirty as hell to everyone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2025 07:27 AM (7MHHr)

This is Joey and his Handlers attempting to both win today's MSM news cycle and mightily PO Trump on his Day of Ultimate Victory. I'm sure DJT will have some choice words for FJB about it when they meet at the White House before heading to the Capitol.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (aBgBM)

255 Fauci, Milley, all the members of the J6 Committee and even the police officers who testified get a pardon.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2025 07:22 AM (LkLld)

Is that confirmed or are you speculating?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

256 'stralians gonna be watching the Inauguration stuff?

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (VnUSN)

257 Wolfus, in my local Aldi it's in refrigerated section with other Italian sausage and also close to some salmon. But it may not be in every store. Aldi stock varies by location. For instance: something called Sweet Lebanon bologna. I think your store has to be within some radius of Lebanon, PA to carry it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2025 07:34 AM (dg+HA)

258 Fuck these assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 20, 2025 07:34 AM (chV8r)

259 >>Is that confirmed or are you speculating?

Confirmed.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2025 07:34 AM (LkLld)

260 "Fauci, Milley, all the members of the J6 Committee and even the police officers who testified get a pardon.
Posted by: JackStraw"

I assume killer of Ashlee Babbit got a Get Out Of Prison Free card?

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2025 07:34 AM (PTDkx)

261 The pardons will stand up in court, and no changes will be made to the pardon power, because the people who would have to do that are counting on pardons to protect themselves.

The foxes run the chicken coop.

Posted by: davidt at January 20, 2025 07:35 AM (i0F8b)

262 247 I guess now any incoming Dem president can assemble a motley crew of law breakers to go after political opponents and just pardon their lawlessness on the way out the door.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2025 07:31 AM (qBdHI)

This is precedent for saying any President can block accountability for anyone in his administration.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2025 07:35 AM (7MHHr)

263 230 A lot of us have been expecting these pardons for a long time, and I think they’re going to backfire badly on the Dems. The chances of Trump’s people actually charging any of these big name figures was very small; but now Biden’s team has gone public and told all of the LiV’s “yeah we know they’re guilty.”

And of course doing it just a few hours before the inauguration makes it look dirty as hell to everyone.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2025 07:27 AM (7MHHr)

Still investigate. They can't be tried in court of law, but they can be tried in the court of public opinion. It won't help Dems, that's for sure.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2025 07:36 AM (0CU3H)

264 Is that confirmed or are you speculating?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

It’s confirmed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2025 07:37 AM (7MHHr)

265 We know the extent of the crimes that the J6 prisoners were convicted of.

What we don't know with a blanket pardon from Biden is the yet unknown crimes which these Asstards on the Left may have committed that are being swept away with a pardon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:37 AM (a1415)

266 "For instance: something called Sweet Lebanon bologna. I think your store has to be within some radius of Lebanon, PA to carry it."

We see it down here occasionally in Aldi's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 20, 2025 07:38 AM (a1415)

267 Will Biden give himself a pardon on the way out the door?

Posted by: davidt at January 20, 2025 07:38 AM (i0F8b)

268 Why accept a pardon if you've committed no crime?

Every single J6er should sue civilly and take them for all they're worth.

Investigations should still be held just to expose all their wrong-doings.

We knew this was coming, but it still stings.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2025 07:38 AM (3ImbR)

269 Nood JJ

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 20, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

270 "Sweet Lebanon bologna"

Not a very good Lynard Skynard song.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 20, 2025 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

271 This is Joey and his Handlers attempting to both win today's MSM news cycle and mightily PO Trump on his Day of Ultimate Victory. I'm sure DJT will have some choice words for FJB about it when they meet at the White House before heading to the Capitol.
Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2025 07:33 AM (aBgBM)

Except it’s actually a big political gift to Trump. (And just wait til Biden pardons his brother later this morning). Charging these big name people would have been politically problematic with voters who wanted Trump to look forward, not back; but now Trump can publicize the corruption of the Biden admin endlessly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2025 07:42 AM (7MHHr)

272 I was about to say good morning morons until just learning that the leading cabal of traitors has been pardoned by the demented pervert.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2025 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

273 Could PDT still recall Milley into service, court martial and reduce his rank/pension? Would this pardon stop that?
Posted by: EveR at January 20, 2025 07:30 AM (cUzJO)

Depends on the wording but, yes, this would likely stop it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 07:45 AM (ExV1e)

274 I guess now any incoming Dem president can assemble a motley crew of law breakers to go after political opponents and just pardon their lawlessness on the way out the door.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2025 07:31 AM (qBdHI)

I suspect part of their reasoning is to get people upset so they call for an amendment to remove the Presidential pardon. That way they could use lawfare against Republicans unhindered.

And, if that fails, they'll just become increasingly lawless in office and apply pardons. Oh, you engaged in vote fraud? Pardon. Oh, you assassinated an opposition political figure? Pardon. Etc., etc., etc..

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

275 Still investigate. They can't be tried in court of law, but they can be tried in the court of public opinion. It won't help Dems, that's for sure.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2025 07:36 AM (0CU3H)

Fauci, at the very least, could be sued for every single death from covid or injury from the vaxx.

The Jan 6th people could be tried, in state courts, for election interference... worked for Fani (sort of).

Joe's pardons are federal. We need some enterprising folks to start showing them that they're not as safe as they think they are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 20, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

276 270 "Sweet Lebanon bologna"

Not a very good Lynard Skynard song.
Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 20, 2025 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

James Taylor?

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 08:39 AM (VnUSN)

277 276 270 "Sweet Lebanon bologna"

Not a very good Lynard Skynard song.
Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 20, 2025 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

James Taylor?
Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 08:39 AM (VnUSN)

Uh-oh!
Neil Diamond?

Posted by: m at January 20, 2025 09:07 AM (VnUSN)

278 Note from corporate this morning said it was "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Week" asking for volunteer Engineers to reach out to girls and give them "An incredible experience!".

I just can't believe it all sometimes.....

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at January 20, 2025 09:27 AM (QB+5g)

279 Why are LLMs bad at answering technical historical questions, when they can be so good at answering very complicated questions about things like coding?
Stack Overflow.

Have you considered that AIs are using the trick to get a good answer out of the Stack Overflow crowd? That is, post a wrong answer and wait for a know-it-all to correct you?

Posted by: Candidus at January 20, 2025 09:33 AM (tTDJx)

280 Establish a shit-pot full of tik-tok accounts and feed that data to a software analysis AI machine. Duplicate the recommendation algorithm, which is apparently the basis of its popularity, block tik-tok, and present its users with an all-American toc-tik.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 20, 2025 10:28 AM (+XvTL)

281 First of all, the CHIPS Act was passed by Congress and signed into law. It isn't going anywhere unless Congress passes a repeal. They're not going to.

The idea that a Trump administration would somehow be adversarial to chip manufacturers moving factories to the US is ridiculous.

Posted by: deadrody at January 20, 2025 10:32 AM (vgB0v)

282 The other day, while I was at work, my cousin stole my iPad and tested to see if
it can survive a forty foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My iPad is now
destroyed and she has 83 views. I know this is totally off topic but
I had to share it with someone!

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