Daily Tech News 28 January 2025

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You can't predict how AI will behave. (Scientific American)

You can't predict how people will behave either, except in general terms. Toddlers are going to do toddler things. Malignant dirtbags are going to do malignant dirtbag things.

AIs are going to do AI things. Stop acting surprised.

Tech News

PebbleOS, the operating system for the Pebble smartwatch, which was acquired by Fitbit, which was acquired by Google, is now open source. (Google)

RePebble (name subject to change) is a company formed by the created of the Pebble to, uh, recreate the Pebble.
AMD says its new Strix Halo chips can beat - by margins ranging from a little to a lot - an RTX 4070. (Tom's Hardware)

An RTX 4070 running at the same TDP, though, which means a laptop 4070.

Still pretty good.
After four days working with an AI assistant, I'm now keeping notes with pen and paper. (Nemo)

Sounds about right.
Anthropic has built RAG into Claude as the Citations module. (Ars Technica)

Now it will lie about the contents of the links it provides you, instead of lying about the existence of the links it provides you.

Musical Interlude

Song is Everything Now by Canadian band Arcade Fire. Anime is Ano Natsu de Matteru - Waiting in the Summer - which is sort of but not exactly a retelling of the older Onegai Teacher only better.

I like this video more than the original one released by Arcade Fire themselves. The anime is bittersweet, where the original music video looks like Nebraska after the zombie apocalypse burned itself out.

Disclaimer: Zombies are going to do zombie things.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2025 04:03 AM (omVj0)

2 Hi Pixy

Posted by: Ciampino - Getting annoyed now at January 28, 2025 04:06 AM (KjLnc)

3 Well! I exceeded my own already high standards!

Evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers on this last Tiu's Day of January. 'Tis 51 F. here, damp but not raining, with a high today expected around 61. I could live with this for more than the two months a year we get here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2025 04:08 AM (omVj0)

4 Blue Origin - New Shepard - NS-29
Launch Site One, West Texas - Space Affairs Live
The launch window opens on Tuesday, January 28,
at 10:00 AM CST , 1600 UTC, 17:00 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJEkaZJMRso

Posted by: Ciampino - Getting there at January 28, 2025 04:09 AM (KjLnc)

5 Need to shoot these people.
Let’s Go, agents captured Yoel Alter, The head member of Jewish child sex cult leader of Lev Tahor. He is wanted for extradition by Mexican authorities, accused of the crime of human trafficking, child trafficking, and child rape.

https://tinyurl.com/38p7u467

Posted by: Ciampino - Getting them at January 28, 2025 04:13 AM (KjLnc)

6 Yes, I suppose it's possible that tariffs will make some imported products more expensive. But we can grow or make a lot of that stuff nright here. And with a little time, energy prices can come down, making things easier on everybody. And if Trump can manage to reduce taxes again, and maybe even de-tax Social Security, it can even out.

Speaking of taxes, I did a rough back of the form calc of my taxes. Looks like I'll get about $200 back. At first I thought with horror, "I've gotta send them $4000 --!?!" But then I realized I hadn't applied the standard deduction for 65+. Much better.

IRS provides a Social Security worksheet for you to compute how much, if any, of your SS is taxable. You go through 15 steps . . . and (for me at least) it winds up being the exact same as if I simply multiplied my total x .85.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2025 04:18 AM (omVj0)

7 NEW NGO REPORT: The duo accused of a deadly surprise attack on a Border Patrol - trannies!

https://tinyurl.com/yc2pvja6

Posted by: Ciampino - All head cases at January 28, 2025 04:19 AM (KjLnc)

8 Colombia produces flowers and coffee? We can get the latter from other places, and as for flowers, well, it's pretty much only Valentine's Day that I even think about those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2025 04:20 AM (omVj0)

9 Good morning, All. So, it sounds like AI is too unpredictable, and lacking a conscience (e.g., "Please die.", one AI tells us) that it would be dangerous to connect it to anything powerful. Therefore, I predict that some government will do just that.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 28, 2025 04:21 AM (fKTed)

10 I can't bring myself to call 'AI' Artificial Intelligence. It's only regurgitating what it already knows. A ginormous database with a very fast and fancy front end.

I remember when 'The Cloud' made its debut and I kept telling people it wasn't some great depository for data but just someone else's servers, so why not just have your own server and the data stays in-house?

Posted by: Ciampino - AI indeed at January 28, 2025 04:24 AM (KjLnc)

11 NEW NGO REPORT: The duo accused of a deadly surprise attack on a Border Patrol - trannies!

https://tinyurl.com/yc2pvja6

Posted by: Ciampino - All head cases at January 28, 2025 04:19 AM (KjLnc)

damn, wtf.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2025 04:25 AM (VwHCD)

12 8 Colombia produces flowers and coffee? We can get the latter from other places, and as for flowers, well, it's pretty much only Valentine's Day that I even think about those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2025 04:20 AM (omVj0)
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Also cocaine, mustn't forget cocaine.

(FLORIDA - The Snow Capital Of The USA)

https://tinyurl.com/36s3wk3u

Posted by: Ciampino - FL is the snow capital at January 28, 2025 04:30 AM (KjLnc)

13 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2025 04:20 AM (omVj0)
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I get flowers regularly for the altar and for older people in the congregation, , but I'm sure there are other sources for them than Colombia.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2025 04:35 AM (S1WRs)

14 Time for me to shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 28, 2025 04:37 AM (omVj0)

15 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 28, 2025 04:39 AM (dg+HA)

16 G'morning, all!

44.4 degrees out, with 99%RH.

Should be a good morning for a walk today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 28, 2025 04:40 AM (a1415)

17 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 28, 2025 04:41 AM (sAmhv)

18 Mornin' to you as well Puddleglum, and to the rest of the Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 28, 2025 04:47 AM (O7YUW)

19 Good morning, good people, from the soon to be snowy Adirondacks where another "nuisance" snow is scheduled for today. Don't care a rap, I'm in an astonishingly good mood lately, watching this tornado in a tux rip through the bloated government doing precisely what he indicated during the runup.

And in this vein, may all your effort put forth result in magnificent results for you, with corresponding anguish for the leftwit slugs, as they deserve.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 28, 2025 04:49 AM (hKoQL)

20 What's wrong with flowers from Colombia?

I must have missed something.

Posted by: pawn at January 28, 2025 04:50 AM (QB+5g)

21 So another week of President Trump at the helm begins.

One can almost feel the Left struggling to figure out what the heck is going on, and the direction that the next threat to their hold on the narrative will come from.

One thing is really clear.
If the Federal government had wanted to remove illegal immigrants from our country before the election, they certainly could have.

They just had no desire to, up until now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 28, 2025 04:53 AM (a1415)

22 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2025 04:58 AM (hIyLI)

23 I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.

Posted by: Ciampino - FL is the snow capital at January 28, 2025 04:59 AM (KjLnc)

24 G'Day everyone
Just peeking in

Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2025 05:06 AM (fwDg9)

25 Morning, Skip.

Hope things are improving at your end.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 28, 2025 05:07 AM (a1415)

26 What's that, Lassie...

Timmy fell in the well, and DEA arrested 50 illegal immigrants at a makeshift night club?

Oh no!!

https://tinyurl.com/yc629fvy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 28, 2025 05:10 AM (a1415)

27 20 What's wrong with flowers from Colombia?

I must have missed something.
Posted by: pawn

Trump's tariffs will make them more expensive. Impeachment hearings are pending.
Alas, the Columbian commie president backed down so no tariffs. Impeachment hearings still pending. Probably.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 28, 2025 05:13 AM (sAmhv)

28 30 right now, going up to 34 around noon then temps start falling in western CT.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at January 28, 2025 05:13 AM (Uy2Lz)

29 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 28, 2025 05:13 AM (hoCmQ)

30 Hi Skip, are you better?

Posted by: Ciampino - the snowbird of happiness at January 28, 2025 05:13 AM (KjLnc)

31 DeepSeek sounds like a search engine.
I asked Pandora for Japanese metal. Metal did come up and I likedk it better than American/British.

Posted by: Accomack at January 28, 2025 05:13 AM (GxmKP)

32 38F on the island. Rumors of 50's this week.

Posted by: Accomack at January 28, 2025 05:14 AM (GxmKP)

33 For decades, it seemed that San Mateo County’s cut flower industry would never stop growing. Each year, statistics released by the county revealed expansion: in 1950, 2.8 million square feet of greenhouse flowers; in 1960, 3.2 million square feet; in 1970, 9.6 million square feet.

“Most (cut) flowers in the United States were grown in California” during those years, said Michael Reid, a University of California, Davis, researcher who specializes in horticulture. By 1979, these crops — grown to be cut for floral sales — represented a nearly $15 million a year business in San Mateo County, especially in coastal areas.

Those days are gone. Reid estimates that less than 10 percent of cut flowers sold in the United States now come from California, much of the trade having shifted to Colombia and Ecuador. The state continues to be the leading domestic producer of the crop

Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 05:19 AM (C333W)

34 I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
Posted by: Ciampino

🤦🏻

LOL

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2025 05:19 AM (Z2xQb)

35 I can almost see spring. Furnace didn't come on at all last night, and we are starting up the day at a balmy 26 in NW IL.

Our Big Boy guv is not stopping all deportations as promised, but so far the protected illegal felons in Cook Co. jails are the only ones he can truly protect.

I guess they better stay in jail. Winning.

Posted by: lizabth at January 28, 2025 05:24 AM (Jfw7U)

36 Those days are gone. Reid estimates that less than 10 percent of cut flowers sold in the United States now come from California, much of the trade having shifted to Colombia and Ecuador. The state continues to be the leading domestic producer of the crop
Posted by: 13times

Could be why they die so quickly. Takes forever to get here on Juan Valdez' burro.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2025 05:25 AM (Z2xQb)

37 “Our sure foundation” A devotional based on Isaiah
33:2-6

https://tinyurl.com/mwujz9f4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2025 05:27 AM (M7AGR)

38 Flowers for Algernon > Flowers from Colombia

Posted by: SFGoth at January 28, 2025 05:27 AM (KAi1n)

39
Toddlers are going to do toddler things. Malignant dirtbags are going to do malignant dirtbag things.

AI is going to do malignant dirtbag toddler things.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2025 05:27 AM (dxSpM)

40 I don't know where they get them from, but Whole Foods and Trader Joe's always seem to have an abundant supply of affordable fresh cut flowers available.

Not many eggs...
but plenty of flowers.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 28, 2025 05:28 AM (a1415)

41
Diana woke me up at 4:00 wanting to go out. I reckoned, as I heaved myself from my bed of pain, that I was not going back to sleep. So you're stuck with me until the sun comes up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2025 05:29 AM (dxSpM)

42 Plenty of flowers and eggs at my nearest Costco yesterday. I was there early, though. Egg prices were no higher than two weeks ago when Joe was prezzy.

Posted by: lizabth at January 28, 2025 05:30 AM (Jfw7U)

43 " Egg prices were no higher than two weeks ago when Joe was prezzy."

They seem to be around $4.50 per dozen around here.

Can't wait till we get closer to Easter, and see what the costs are then.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 28, 2025 05:33 AM (a1415)

44 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 28, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

45 nemo said: and burned through a small fortune in AI tokens

Does this mean you buy tokens to use some AI apps? What's a token cost?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 28, 2025 05:35 AM (hoCmQ)

46
At Kroger yesterday after PT and a dozen Grade A large eggs was $2.79 a dozen for the store brand, though the Eggland variety was higher.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2025 05:36 AM (dxSpM)

47 Paid 5.99 for dozen and a half yesterday. Which actually, when you think of the goodness, nutrition-wise, of the humble egg, is not too bad.

But cheaper is certainly better.

Thought about getting a flock this spring, but then remembered the work and cost involved.

Posted by: lizabth at January 28, 2025 05:36 AM (Jfw7U)

48 Where have all the flowers gone?

Posted by: Long time passing at January 28, 2025 05:38 AM (dg+HA)

49 My Kroger tends to have the nicest eggs, as compared to my Aldi and Walmart. Large is really large at Kroger.

Posted by: lizabth at January 28, 2025 05:38 AM (Jfw7U)

50 Act of kindness by man in Chicago makes a woman's year:

"Sunny Skyz " site story:

https://tinyurl.com/ntky2w56

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2025 05:40 AM (MQJVv)

51 Good morning from OKC, where its 35 headed for 65 with storms with hail forecast for later in the week. Gonna spend the the next 3 days doing some required 'training'.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 28, 2025 05:40 AM (s8+VW)

52 Where have all the flowers gone?
Posted by: Long time passing

Send in the flowers.
99 Luft Flowers.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2025 05:42 AM (Z2xQb)

53 I think a dozen eggs at the grocery store run $8.99

Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 05:42 AM (Wwh8x)

54 Silly joke that's good for computer people as well as those that enjoy J.R.R Tolkien:

What do you call 8 hobbits?

A hobbyte.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2025 05:44 AM (63rSD)

55 Never thought i'd see the day eggs are more $ than pot.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 28, 2025 05:44 AM (KAi1n)

56 Re:AI

My boss wants us to use Magic School AI for a week and explain what we used and what we liked best. No negatives.

There are negatives.

Already, I see that the grade levels are fake; there's no difference between 5th grade and 11th grade assignments. I corrected a lot of awkward English; "gonna" is bad grammar and "they/them" doesn't match the antecedent "mother". Unless your mom is a circus freak; in which case, carry on.

Also, I now understand how French writers wrote the Spanish script for that trans musical everyone is slagging. It goes from a stilted formality to slang.

It creates lesson plans that are pure crap but can be uploaded to Google Classroom. This is terrific for mediocre teachers who don't have time to do their jobs and for administrators who think once the lesson plans are complete, any warm body can teach them.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 28, 2025 05:46 AM (4r6LP)

57 think a dozen eggs at the grocery store run $8.99
Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 05:42 AM (Wwh8x)

Holy shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 28, 2025 05:48 AM (dR6yv)

58 Woke teacher complains about Trump removing their pronouns in parody-like speech

https://mol.im/a/14330397

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono sempre tutti bugiardi at January 28, 2025 05:50 AM (KjLnc)

59 think a dozen eggs at the grocery store run $8.99
Posted by: 13times at January 28, 2025 05:42 AM (Wwh8x)

Holy shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 28, 2025 05:48 AM (dR6yv)

Watch for state ag depts to start strong arming everyone with backyard chickens now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2025 05:53 AM (+iIV1)

60 Went to El WaloMarto last night to get some sundries and some stuff for the dorm sized fridge here in the room. Seems like eggs were about $6/dozen.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 28, 2025 05:54 AM (s8+VW)

61 For some reason, when I see "DeepSeek" I think it says "Deep Fake". No idea why.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 05:55 AM (MkDc8)

62 Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2025 05:53 AM (+iIV1)

The neighbors across the street from us have yard birds and a rooster to go with them.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 28, 2025 05:57 AM (s8+VW)

63 30 degrees and snow on the way here at Stately Poppins Manor. I'm told there was a small earthquake in this area yesterday, but it couldn't have been that bad, as I slept right through it.

Got about two hours of work waiting, so may see you all later. It's another of those "why do I even bother with anything?" weeks.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 28, 2025 05:57 AM (Q0kLU)

64 As of last Saturday - Dozen eggs at Trader Joe’s around $3.70 - at family run local chain (they have 4 stores) closer to $5.15 - at Stop &Shop: $8.65 for the same large eggs. As a rule TJ’s always has the best price on eggs and dairy (and salmon, both “fresh” and smoked). Ever since Covid I’ve done all the shopping (and cooking) in the family; wife cleans up. We both like the arrangement.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at January 28, 2025 05:57 AM (Uy2Lz)

65 Watch for state ag depts to start strong arming everyone with backyard chickens now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

It won't matter. Not when one bird false positive tests for avian flu, and they whack every bird in the neighborhood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2025 05:58 AM (Z2xQb)

66 Also Re: AI
This will not end well. Imagine for a moment AI systems that communicate with each other. Perhaps none of them have been fed _all_ of your data , but one of the other of them has your financial data, others your blog posts. One day you get de-banked, and _no_ human can tell you why or fix it. "I'm sorry, sir. It's some sort of glitch. I don't know what to tell you.". How many times in the last few have you already heard. "What you are asking makes sense, but the computer won't let me do that." with the current level of automation? We have gone crazy for automating things that should not be automated. Efficiency is not the highest moral value.

Posted by: Din in SoCo at January 28, 2025 05:59 AM (vd6bO)

67 I mean, good morning all. Can't sleep.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, the idiot who misspelled his own name at January 28, 2025 06:03 AM (vd6bO)

68 The neighbors across the street from us have yard birds and a rooster to go with them.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead.

Used to be havi g livestock/farm animals inside the city limits was illegal. Most cities have had to back off of enforcement of that due to the influx of illegal immigrants. You can't take away José and Maria's chicken.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2025 06:04 AM (Z2xQb)

69 I enjoyed keeping a flock (about 25 birds) when we had our fine German shepherds. They were excellent guardians, and would brook no nonsense from the roosters.

At the end of the day, we'd tell 'em, "Go get those chickens in" and the matter was accomplished in short order.

Posted by: lizabth at January 28, 2025 06:06 AM (Jfw7U)

70 I personally wouldn't keep chickens if I wasn't on rural acreage.

Posted by: lizabth at January 28, 2025 06:07 AM (Jfw7U)

71 54: Heh!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 28, 2025 06:07 AM (sAmhv)

72 It seems Paul Krugman was not exactly shitcanned by the NYT, as hoped, but instead was sort of moved gently to the windowless basement office. And they took his stapler away. So he "retired".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 06:08 AM (C7Pt/)

73 54. Now I know how to get Frodo's finger back!

Posted by: Don in SoCo, the idiot who misspelled his own name at January 28, 2025 06:12 AM (vd6bO)

74 Stacy McCain on the fake "transgenders" cehi killed the border agent and who were apparently part of vegan "death cult" as well:

https://tinyurl.com/mvwvcz6s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2025 06:13 AM (Nn5Ho)

75 Ugh... chow isn't until 0600., but at least there's coffee 24/7. Looks like a banana will have to do until then.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 28, 2025 06:13 AM (s8+VW)

76 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 28, 2025 06:14 AM (uX4GZ)

77 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2025 06:13 AM (Nn5Ho

"Who," not cehi.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2025 06:15 AM (Nn5Ho)

78 "Efficiency is not the highest moral value.

Posted by: Din in SoCo at January 28, 2025 05:59 AM (vd6bO) "

it's not efficency; that's one of their many lies

increase profit BAMN & increase the bonus check, more like it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 28, 2025 06:16 AM (uX4GZ)

79 increase profit BAMN & increase the bonus check, more like it.
_-_-_-_
..which is why many are so eager to sell or steal your data. Seems today, that every single bit ever put on an electronic device should be considered public records. "Client-side Scanning", anyone?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 06:20 AM (vd6bO)

80 AIs are going to do AI things. Stop acting surprised.

I see this same idea through a theological lens: after all the research and all the papers and all the training done on AI code, researchers have rediscovered original sin … but are too proud of their own creation to recognize it.

Posted by: crisis du jour at January 28, 2025 06:20 AM (Q5kPc)

81 increase profit BAMN & increase the bonus check, more like it.
_-_-_-_
But not Grace. Well-said, cdj.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 06:23 AM (vd6bO)

82 Watch for state ag depts to start strong arming everyone with backyard chickens now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 28, 2025 05:53 AM (+iIV1)

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The store-bought eggs we normally got were up over $7.50/dozen, so a couple weeks ago we found some neighbors with hens (we live in a fairly rural town and buying & raising bby chicks is popular) who sold us two dozen $3.00/dozen -- and the fresh ones of course were much tastier with darker yolks (the first time I think I've ever NOT had store-bought eggs).

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 06:24 AM (rwlGT)

83 Sorry, forgot to hit copy and used old paste-buffer!

They have rediscovered original sin, but not Grace. There's the complete tought!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 06:26 AM (vd6bO)

84 BOING!

Oh, oh!

New dentist. Crowns and filling.

I hate dentists!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 28, 2025 06:26 AM (sTuNG)

85 Oh yes...those farm fresh eggs are magnificent, esp the yolks. Store-bought usually a mere shadow. It's partially all the nice bugs and such the farm chickens get to eat!

Posted by: lizabth at January 28, 2025 06:26 AM (Jfw7U)

86 I have somehow lost 90 minutes this morning playing nerdle, wordle and quordle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 06:28 AM (C7Pt/)

87 It won't matter. Not when one bird false positive tests for avian flu, and they whack every bird in the neighborhood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2025 05:58 AM (Z2xQb)

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

I'm envisioning a movie idea: "Birdz in the Hood."

It begins with the cautionary tale of "P'Nut and Fred" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 06:29 AM (rwlGT)

88 Oh yes...those farm fresh eggs are magnificent, esp the yolks. Store-bought usually a mere shadow. It's partially all the nice bugs and such the farm chickens get to eat!

I told you bugs were good for you! Now chow down on this bowl of cockroaches, peasant!

Posted by: Bill Gates at January 28, 2025 06:30 AM (Q0kLU)

89 The neighbors across the street from us have yard birds and a rooster to go with them.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead.

I traded my rooster for a duck. Now I get up at the quack of dawn.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 28, 2025 06:31 AM (b294k)

90 The neighbors across the street from us have yard birds and a rooster to go with them.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead.
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Someone in my neighborhood definitely has a rooster and presumably some chickens to go with him. I hear him crowing in the morning sometimes when I leave for work.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 28, 2025 06:32 AM (BpYfr)

91 Speaking of bugs, I saw _maybe_ three mosquitoes last summer, and I work outside a _lot_ in the summer. We had a fairly wet summer compared to average (note the use of the word average, not 'normal'. There is no 'normal' in weather). Do you think they have seven year cycles or some such like cicadas do....in addition to weather effects?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 06:34 AM (vd6bO)

92 "Crowns and fillings"

Plural crowns? That's not good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 06:37 AM (MkDc8)

93 I don't mind yard birds in the neighborhood. I do mind the herons nesting in the trees a few houses down though. I thought the geese in CO were bad. Poo everywhere and always on the greens on the golf course. They got nothing on herons.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 28, 2025 06:37 AM (s8+VW)

94 89
I traded my rooster for a duck. Now I get up at the quack of dawn.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 28, 2025 06:31 AM (b294k)
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Very good. Stolen.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono sempre at January 28, 2025 06:38 AM (KjLnc)

95 Good Morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2025 06:40 AM (gbOdA)

96 My parents have a heron who likes to fish in one of their ponds. He fishes for fun, since he does "catch and release". We sometimes catch a fish with a hole in him as a result.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 06:41 AM (MkDc8)

97 9 Good morning, All. So, it sounds like AI is too unpredictable, and lacking a conscience (e.g., "Please die.", one AI tells us) that it would be dangerous to connect it to anything powerful. Therefore, I predict that some government will do just that.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 28, 2025 04:21 AM (fKTed)

Already there, eh?

Posted by: Canadia's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) Program at January 28, 2025 06:42 AM (PiwSw)

98 Mark Steyn wrote a good piece in stabby Islamists wandering the streets of the UK and Germany killing little kids, with the seeming approval of government ministers.

https://tinyurl.com/3bwza628

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 06:44 AM (MkDc8)

99 - @82 ShainS

Same type of supplier here though quite a lot of them.
$5 doz large. But when I say large,,, I've never seen a turkey egg but...
If you put these in a standard grade a large carton, ain't no closing it. Not even halfway. Many double yolks.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 28, 2025 06:46 AM (hht4k)

100 $7.99

Kroger® Grade AA Large Cage Free White Eggs
12 ct

no more 3-egg omelets for me

Posted by: Don Black at January 28, 2025 06:48 AM (AOsQT)

101 Mark Steyn wrote a good piece in stabby Islamists wandering the streets of the UK and Germany killing little kids, with the seeming approval of government ministers.

https://tinyurl.com/3bwza628
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 06:44 AM (MkDc

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Just one more way for TPTB to cull the excess population.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 28, 2025 06:49 AM (BpYfr)

102 Meanwhile, we have at least 20 vultures perching in our trees at night. I don't think I'll be getting eggs from them.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 28, 2025 06:49 AM (svLOV)

103 Not as cheap as they were, but $2 a meal is still _relatively_ cheap...provided ya don't get toooo fancy with the other ingredients.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 06:51 AM (vd6bO)

104 Does "zombie things" include joining the crowd at a liberal gathering so you can later post pictures of the event to mock and ridicule them?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 28, 2025 06:51 AM (mq091)

105 Like other human spaces the comments section would occasionally jump from one crazy unrelated topic to another.
"Does "zombie things" include joining the crowd at a liberal gathering so you can later post pictures of the event to mock and ridicule them?"

You get good at that and start having to wear disguises. Sounds fun.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 06:56 AM (vd6bO)

106
48 Where have all the flowers gone?
Posted by: Long time passing at January 28, 2025 05:38 AM (dg+HA)

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Where have all the faggots gone
Long time passing
Where have all faggots gone
I wonder my friend

Looking thin and wondering why
Looking thin and wondering why

Posted by: Depraved Communist Folk Singer at January 28, 2025 06:59 AM (g3j/k)

107 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

108 Apparently, we won't have Jim Acosta to kick around much longer. He has been Krugmaned by CNN (meaning, they cancelled his show).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 07:00 AM (C7Pt/)

109

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 28, 2025 07:00 AM (EFZgU)

110 105
You get good at that and start having to wear disguises. Sounds fun.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 06:56 AM (vd6bO)

Sorry for the abrupt change of topic. I had just arrived to the thread and thst comment was made just after reading Pixy's disclaimer.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 28, 2025 07:02 AM (mq091)

111 Same type of supplier here though quite a lot of them.
$5 doz large. But when I say large,,, I've never seen a turkey egg but...
If you put these in a standard grade a large carton, ain't no closing it. Not even halfway. Many double yolks.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 28, 2025 06:46 AM (hht4k)

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Nice! Don't think I've ever seen a double-yoke ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:05 AM (rwlGT)

112 I like abrupt changes of topic. Makes this space more like in-person conversation. Good morning!

I meant if you get good a poking at pranking liberals, you might start getting recognized.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 07:06 AM (vd6bO)

113 39 Toddlers are going to do toddler things. Malignant dirtbags are going to do malignant dirtbag things.

AI is going to do malignant dirtbag toddler things.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2025 05:27 AM (dxSpM)

Ha!

Posted by: m at January 28, 2025 07:08 AM (VnUSN)

114 Hawk tries to grab kitten on car dash

https://youtube.com/shorts/m_3Hc8lbIk4

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, erano pieni di microbi at January 28, 2025 07:08 AM (KjLnc)

115 Apparently, we won't have Jim Acosta to kick around much longer. He has been Krugmaned by CNN (meaning, they cancelled his show).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 07:00 AM (C7Pt/)

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OUT: The Trump Curse.
IN: The Tim (Burchett) Curse.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:10 AM (rwlGT)

116 We have chickens and it's the third winter of going out to the coop in 5 degree temps to tend to them. Even with a heat lamp and lights we only get 2 eggs every other day from 4 chickens. They also eat a lot due to the cold weather so I believe each eggs costs me about $1.50/each. Also, one chicken is currently sick. Ointment for eye infection was almost $40 for a small tube. Once these 4 shuffle off this mortal coil I'm done.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 28, 2025 07:10 AM (2NHgQ)

117 "malignant dirtbag toddler things" with the authority of a magistrate.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 07:10 AM (vd6bO)

118 OT to the OT's. The 1st phase of the hostage release finds 8 of the 33 are dead. Of the remaining hostages 34 are dead as of right now.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2025 07:10 AM (bBNPJ)

119 111
Nice! Don't think I've ever seen a double-yoke ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:05 AM (rwlGT)
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Okay but what about a double yolk?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono molto comuni at January 28, 2025 07:11 AM (KjLnc)

120 Nice! Don't think I've ever seen a double-yoke ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:05 AM (rwlGT)
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Okay but what about a double yolk?
_-_-_-_
I think I just got unequally joked.....crickets.....I almost had a gag, there, sin! Joke, that is

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 07:14 AM (vd6bO)

121 Imagine one fried ostrich egg on several pieces of toast. Sunny-side up. Lots of yolk to dip toast into, half a loaf of toast?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono molto grandi at January 28, 2025 07:14 AM (KjLnc)

122 Hawk tries to grab kitten on car dash

https://youtube.com/shorts/m_3Hc8lbIk4

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, erano pieni di microbi at January 28, 2025 07:08 AM (KjLnc)

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Wow, you don't see that everyday. Poor kitteh ...

Metaphor for #TheBadOrangeHawk and the MDM-MSM?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:14 AM (rwlGT)

123 ShainS

Get the larger eggs for the double yokes. Spooky the first time you find one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

124 That kitten seems a little slow to get off the dash and hide.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 07:16 AM (MkDc8)

125 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

126 Mark Steyn wrote a good piece in stabby Islamists wandering the streets of the UK and Germany killing little kids, with the seeming approval of government ministers.

https://tinyurl.com/3bwza628

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 06:44 AM (MkDc

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I'm still extremely disappointed that the "EIB Network" didn't hire Steyn to take over for El Rushbo ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:16 AM (rwlGT)

127 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

128 Have a great day, everyone.

May Nature get you to say Oooh, Ah, not ouch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

129
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 28, 2025 07:19 AM (w9Ycv)

130 Kinda laughed at the sidebar item on the Tren De Whatever gang members busted in the Denver raid. Part of DHS's "Operation Return to Sender." LOL, perfect.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 28, 2025 07:20 AM (qBdHI)

131 Wolfus, saw an unusual comment yesterday. Studies exist showing melatonin affects glucose levels

Posted by: Mrs JTB at January 28, 2025 07:21 AM (yTvNw)

132 mornin yall. In local news, Central Georgia immigrant families face anxiety as ICE arrests rise.

This local news update brought to you by the TRUMP!!! curse.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

133 Make Treason Executable Again
chmod a+x Treason

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 07:22 AM (vd6bO)

134 I call BS on China $6 M Dollar AI Man.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 28, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

135 Good morning!

Where's the fresh coffee?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2025 07:24 AM (WbBbu)

136 What will Jim Acosta do now? Does America care? Does anybody care?

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

137 " I call BS on China $6 M Dollar AI Man.
Posted by: rhennigantx"

I'm with you. It's the Harbor Freight of AI.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

138 >>OT to the OT's. The 1st phase of the hostage release finds 8 of the 33 are dead. Of the remaining hostages 34 are dead as of right now.

Then maybe a proportionate number of Pali prisoners should be returned in the same state?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2025 07:28 AM (WbBbu)

139 Get the larger eggs for the double yokes. Spooky the first time you find one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 28, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

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Thanks, Salty.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:28 AM (rwlGT)

140 What will Jim Acosta do now? Does America care? Does anybody care?
Posted by: fd at January 28, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

https://youtu.be/RsYi2VH2y6U

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 28, 2025 07:28 AM (ExV1e)

141 That kitten seems a little slow to get off the dash and hide.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2025 07:16 AM (MkDc

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That was my first thought: a demonstration of fight, flight, or [bfreeze.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:28 AM (rwlGT)

142 >>What will Jim Acosta do now? Does America care? Does anybody care?''

He should make tiktok rants with Don LeMon!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2025 07:29 AM (WbBbu)

143 130 Kinda laughed at the sidebar item on the Tren De Whatever gang members busted in the Denver raid. Part of DHS's "Operation Return to Sender." LOL, perfect.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 28, 2025 07:20 AM (qBdHI)

Are they the fentanyl people, do you know? It would be great to get fentanyl out of the country.

Posted by: m at January 28, 2025 07:29 AM (VnUSN)

144 137 " I call BS on China $6 M Dollar AI Man.
Posted by: rhennigantx"

I'm with you. It's the Harbor Freight of AI

_-_

Ha! Single-use AI.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 07:29 AM (vd6bO)

145 NY Post:

"If you believe the hype, something called DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company, just leapfrogged the world.

It can do AI cheaper and better than established players like America’s Nvidia, which is why about $500 billion in market cap came out of the reigning AI king by noon on Monday."

P.T. Barnum would be loving this shit.

Posted by: fd at January 28, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

146
Bill to repeal cage-free egg law in Colorado postponed indefinitely
Two Colorado republican lawmakers are behind a bill that they believe will save consumers money when it comes to buying eggs. However, an organization behind egg producers is against it.
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we are being told to ignore the evidence before our eyes, and trust the experts' explanations

Posted by: Don Black at January 28, 2025 07:30 AM (AOsQT)

147 Mark Steyn wrote a good piece in stabby Islamists wandering the streets of the UK and Germany killing little kids, with the seeming approval of government ministers.

https://tinyurl.com/3bwza628

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Thanks for the link, Huck. That was good, if not enraging and unbelievable. I can't wrap my mind around what the so-called rulers in Europe are doing to their own people. Suicide of a civilization. All of them, the UK, Germany, France...

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 28, 2025 07:30 AM (qBdHI)

148 don't trust any dink software or AI

Posted by: Don Black at January 28, 2025 07:31 AM (AOsQT)

149 >>Bill to repeal cage-free egg law in Colorado postponed indefinitely
Two Colorado republican lawmakers are behind a bill that they believe will save consumers money when it comes to buying eggs. However, an organization behind egg producers is against it.

Oh, for pete's sake!
Eggs are now so dang expensive in Colorado it is unreal.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2025 07:32 AM (WbBbu)

150 Okay but what about a double yolk?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono molto comuni at January 28, 2025 07:11 AM (KjLnc)

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Damn. *blushes*

If fairness, I've only managed an hour or two of sleep each of the past two nights ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:32 AM (rwlGT)

151
Bill to repeal cage-free egg law in Colorado postponed indefinitely
Two Colorado republican lawmakers are behind a bill that they believe will save consumers money when it comes to buying eggs. However, an organization behind egg producers is against it.
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we are being told to ignore the evidence before our eyes, and trust the experts' explanations

Posted by: Don Black at January 28, 2025 07:30 AM

gretchen whitmer (the jussie smollet of governors) forced a "cage-free egg" policy as of 01JAN25

the cheapest dozen extra large eggs at Walmart went from $2.38 to $6.05

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 28, 2025 07:35 AM (w9Ycv)

152 Sunflowers, or maybe the chickens eating bugs that pollinate? I drove past a huge sunflower field once with all the heads perfectly aligned with the sun. I guess I didn’t know they did that. Nature’s solar panels. Stopped into a diner, ordered bacon and eggs. The yolks were practically flourescent. To top it off the bacon were long strips that hung over both sides of the plate. No band-aid sized limp piece of fat, no sir

Posted by: Common Tater at January 28, 2025 07:35 AM (HhTfM)

153 >>gretchen whitmer (the jussie smollet of governors) forced a "cage-free egg" policy as of 01JAN25

the cheapest dozen extra large eggs at Walmart went from $2.38 to $6.05
- - - -

Interesting that the new MSM-DNC talking point has been "Trump said he'd reduce prices, why are eggs so expensive?!?!?"

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2025 07:36 AM (WbBbu)

154 It never fails. Anytime I have medical appointments I have a poor night's sleep. I have an eye exam and then x rays to see if the gel injections will help my knees. At least the VA clinic here is punctual and I should be out of there by noon. They give me the works on the eye exam, usually taking an hour and a half. X rays are just walk up to the counter, check in, and they have you back to the room in a couple minutes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 28, 2025 07:37 AM (gm9Sb)

155 On X, Cernovich posted something I didn't know. Many NPR hosts make close to $500,000 in total compensation per year. The CEO makes more than the President of the United States. Madness! Boy, do they ever need a defunding.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 28, 2025 07:38 AM (qBdHI)

156 Nood

Posted by: AI Garbage Generator at January 28, 2025 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

157 chmod a+x Treason

Posted by: Don in SoCo at January 28, 2025 07:22 AM (vd6bO)

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Heh. ISWYDT.

First used BSD Unix back in the mid-80s ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 28, 2025 07:40 AM (rwlGT)

158 the egg cartels- Big Egg- are saying avian flu killing birds is to blame for high egg prices

yet the price of chicken doesn't change
are we to believe that avian flu kills egg-laying birds, but not birds raised for human consumption?

boneless chicken breasts go on sale tomorrow, BOGO

somehow these birds survived the avian flu apocalypse

Posted by: Don Black at January 28, 2025 07:40 AM (AOsQT)

159 >>Boy, do they ever need a defunding.

Recall that the McDonald founder's widow, Joan Kroc, left $200 of her fortune to NPR when she died in 2003.

Imagine how much money they've made off of that endowment. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2025 07:41 AM (WbBbu)

160 It was 51 yesterday, should be 54 today. Still below freezing at night so it takes awhile to warm up, but a nice change.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 28, 2025 07:45 AM (NQtI0)

161 What I can’t figure out, didn’t hear a peep (heh) from our wonderful AG state government or senators.

If Cali or another state wants to require Feng Shui and Yoga classes for their poultry, they can do that, but they can’t require other states to do the same in order to sell their eggs in the their state, if that makes sense. It’s a prior restraint of trade.

It’s the same reason (surprise!) countries can sell inexpensive items in this country and kick our ass. In that situation - no OSHA, no Worker’s Comp, no Sociial Security, no child labor laws, no EPA regulations, no business taxes, no ADA regs on the building, etc etc etc.

I always thought any foreign goods into this country should have a price differential or tariff if you will to reflect those stark differences in business conditions. “Free” trade sure, and my asshole is an air freshener. No way any business can compete, not even a little bit.

Our government could have been using their leverage to improve worker lives around the world. Just like they did here. And then chuckleheads would intone that allowing essentially slave labor goods into the country “keeps inflation low”. Inflation is a monetary phenom

Posted by: Common Tater at January 28, 2025 07:45 AM (HhTfM)

162 It certainly means less expensive goods on the shelf, but that has nothing at all to do with inflation, but it does allow the monetary quacks to point to graphs and charts and clap each other on the back about what a great job they are doing in the puzzle palace. While our factories go bust. Towns and cities atrophy. Casinos and Fentanyl will pick up the slack.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 28, 2025 07:49 AM (HhTfM)

163 "AMD says its new Strix Halo chips can beat - by margins ranging from a little to a lot - an RTX 4070. "

But only when playing Halo

Posted by: Kevin at January 28, 2025 10:45 AM (nPkF/)

164 You are one defective millennial. You are an embarrassment to IT. Why do you come here youre not a Conservative American, you and youre anime are defective foreigners we need to deport both physically and mentally.

Posted by: Fisht at January 28, 2025 10:50 AM (BHEHK)

165 Blizzard technical artist and Associate Art Director of Gearbox both wish death to 50% of America in a post and likes to their public Facebook.

This is the type of atmosphere that Activision President Rob Kostich is fostering as he doubles down on woke DEI and ESG today.

HR turns a blind eye to open calls for violence and death at these studios.

They’ve gotten away with these for years as they mistakenly thought they were protected and on the right side of history.

https://x.com/Grummz/status/1883938172733907378

Posted by: SMOD at January 28, 2025 10:51 AM (RHGPo)

166 you and youre anime are defective foreigners we need to deport both physically and mentally.
Posted by: Fisht at January 28, 2025 10:50 AM (BHEHK)

Heh. He doesn't live here, fool.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 28, 2025 11:01 AM (aD39U)

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