Daily Tech News 31

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If you were waiting for an RTX 5090 or 5080 - which you weren't if you've been reading the reviews - they're gone. (Tom's Hardware)

Micro Center is sold out of both cards at all stores, though they only had 233 5090s in the entire country. Taiwan, where the chips are made, received an allotment of just 84.

In Australia, meanwhile, there aren't any. Not that many people care with a starting price of A$4000 for the cheapest model.

The 5080 - half the price for a chip half the size with half the memory - is more plentiful in the sense that there were a lot more for sale initially. It is also completely sold out.

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Contec health monitoring devices are sending your information to China. (Bleeping Computer)

Though why they are doing that is a good question.

When notified, Contec provided a series of firmware updates to resolve the problem.

None of the updates actually fixed anything.
Apple announced a quarterly profit of $36 billion on sales of $124 billion. (Mac Rumors)

Which used to be a lot.
Google offered its Pixel/Android/Chrome software team voluntary redundancy after it smooshed them all together. (Tech Crunch)

The last significant advance in Android was in 6.0's storage updates, so I'm not overly fussed if they all leave.
The Pentagon is moving to block Chinese spyware DeepSeek after workers - who should all be fired immediately - connected to it from their work computers at work. (Tech Crunch)

What?
Italy has blocked DeepSeek entirely. (Reuters)

The country's regulators asked what data the company kept about its users and whether it is stored in China, which we know for a fact it is because the servers weren't secured at all and people were able to log in and download it, and the answers were "considered to totally insufficient".

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Good Morning

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2025 04:02 AM (kq/Qu)

2 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:02 AM (omVj0)

3 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! 'Tis Friday, Freya's Day, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

I had only about five hours' sleep last night. Still sleepy, but not enough to go back to bed; and it's late now anyway. I've done my calisthenics and stretches. Decision time: a pipe, or a slice of toast w/ peanut butter? Or, let's go wild here, both?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:04 AM (omVj0)

4 Spoil yourself Wolfus,

Toast and the pipe. Life is uncertain

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2025 04:06 AM (kq/Qu)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 31, 2025 04:08 AM (rRMBj)

6 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks. Still enough on the political front that will make a fella smile and smile...

Consequently it's my wish that all effort by you today result in maximum benefit and corresponding trauma for the leftwit slugs infesting us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 31, 2025 04:11 AM (hKoQL)

7 Wolfus, I am not here often, only on the nights when I cannot sleep. Then I wait for Pixie, check out what you and Skip and other early risers are doing and go to sleep.
So I have many questions. Did you give that lovely lady, Miss Linda, an engagement ring for Christmas? If I understand correctly, you have been together many years in at least a few states and even I knew that's why she didn't tell you what she wanted for Christmas.

Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025 04:15 AM (X9y7Y)

8 Spoil yourself Wolfus,

Toast and the pipe. Life is uncertain
Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2025

***
Eat dessert first!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:15 AM (omVj0)

9 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 31, 2025 04:19 AM (hoCmQ)

10 G'morning, all!

52.5 degrees, with 97%RH.

Good walking weather for this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:19 AM (a1415)

11 2nd. Have you decided where you are moving when you leave Louisiana? I was an Air Force brat and have lived in many places. I have found that the best place to live is in a small(ish) town outside of a larger one for medical matters and other amenities you can't find in a small town. I now live in WNC about an hour outside of Asheville. It is a wonderful place to live.

Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025 04:22 AM (X9y7Y)

12 Mornin' Horde. Just enough sleep to function, but not enough to feel actually awake yet. No chance for a mid-day nap today with what's on schedule for work today. Just gotta push my way through it.

On the plus side, I'll sleep great tonight.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 31, 2025 04:23 AM (O7YUW)

13 Wolfus, I am not here often, only on the nights when I cannot sleep. Then I wait for Pixie, check out what you and Skip and other early risers are doing and go to sleep.
So I have many questions. Did you give that lovely lady, Miss Linda, an engagement ring for Christmas? If I understand correctly, you have been together many years in at least a few states and even I knew that's why she didn't tell you what she wanted for Christmas.
Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025

***
Hi, Akua,

No, no engagement or ring. I'm not sure where we are, or where we might be going. She won't discuss my retirement or the idea of moving, and her passivity about the subjects is tamping down my own excitement and taking some of the fun out of it. She doesn't want to move, is the problem I can see. And I can't stand it here and badly need a change. So, I'm stuck. Any ideas?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:23 AM (omVj0)

14 So with it hitting 71 degrees yesterday, and me being somewhat bred, I decided to clean the outside heat-pump heat exchanger coils.

Taking off the fan and all the side panels gave me good access to spray the professional cleaning solution on everything, and then about an hour of hosing it out in the reverse direction from the inside out.

Lots of crap and dirt got flushed out with about 20% of the surface area matted over on the outside.

By the time I got everything dried back together and ready to run it was down to 65% outside air temp, so I ran it in the heat mode with no supplemental heat and used the infrared thermometer to check air vent outlet temp.

Significant increase in heat output.

So we will call that a win for the team.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:24 AM (a1415)

15 11 2nd. Have you decided where you are moving when you leave Louisiana? I was an Air Force brat and have lived in many places. I have found that the best place to live is in a small(ish) town outside of a larger one for medical matters and other amenities you can't find in a small town. I now live in WNC about an hour outside of Asheville. It is a wonderful place to live.
Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025

***
Akua, that's my idea too. SW Indiana looks good on the 'Net, but I've never been there and have to see what the people and roads are like. (I'm utterly sick of driving on the bad streets here.) A smaller place outside of a middle-sized city where I can get my car worked on or find a doctor sounds good to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:25 AM (omVj0)

16 bred=bored

F'n autocucumber.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:25 AM (a1415)

17 Sorry. That was pretty blunt.
I'll go now.

Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025 04:26 AM (X9y7Y)

18 Ace's thread yesterday about the overloaded Air Traffic Control position at DCA airport was fascinating.

Comes down to that tweet that Elon put out a while ago about DEI killing people.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:30 AM (a1415)

19 That's another stumbling block: that Linda will probably not want to live in a quieter, smaller town. She doesn't drive and won't learn, and if there are no buses for her to go places like the library, I'll be driving her everywhere. Which I do a lot of now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:32 AM (omVj0)

20 WOW! Thanks for the answers, Wolfus.
Don't know, but it seems that there are only two answers. 1. She's withdrawing or 2. my guess would be that she is insecure in her place with you after all these upcoming changes. You need to find out.

Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025 04:33 AM (X9y7Y)

21 Don't know, but it seems that there are only two answers. 1. She's withdrawing or 2. my guess would be that she is insecure in her place with you after all these upcoming changes. You need to find out.
Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025

***
She gives "private" (or maybe "secretive") a whole new dimension. Getting her talk about important things is . . . difficult.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:35 AM (omVj0)

22 Anyway: Tomorrow I have to work on my car. The USB ports have stopped working -- the in-dash infotainment system says "No Media Available." Before I take it to a shop or the dealer (I understand the hub can be replaced), I'm going to disconnect and reconnect the battery, reboot the car. It worked a year or so ago when the main instrument readouts went blank on me -- no speedometer was no fun!

If that doesn't work in this case, well, we'll see. I like having my music on a flash drive readily available if I can't find a radio station I like. Which is getting difficult without paying for Sirius or something.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:39 AM (omVj0)

23 Wolfus,
Doesn't drive and won't learn!! That puts a stick in the spokes doesn't it?
I'm absolutely sure that the Horde can solve this. I admit, I'm stumped.

Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025 04:39 AM (X9y7Y)

24 I'm absolutely sure that the Horde can solve this.

*************

Slap hot iron to it.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 04:43 AM (/iMjX)

25 Wolfus, if your car has a CD player, it may take a CD data disk that has a bunch of MP3s on it. My 2009 Accord's reader accepts CD-ROMs with MP3s.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 31, 2025 04:45 AM (flKEw)

26 Wolfus,

Did you check out the drive on another computer?

It might need some TLC.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025 04:47 AM (QB+5g)

27 muldoon,

You're up early.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:48 AM (a1415)

28 For the life of me I can't figure out what kind of lunatic would buy a 50 series card, even if the prices were not jacked up like the things were made of platinum. Almost all the touted 'performance' gains are coming from fake frame gen, done poorly. The ASUS TUF 4090 I'm running now will shove the 50 series cards in a locker and steal their lunch money.

Posted by: SeaWorldActual at January 31, 2025 04:48 AM (eZCZA)

29 When my speedometer cable broke I referred to it as an altimeter.

Ha! I crack myself up.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025 04:49 AM (QB+5g)

30 @15/Wolfus: May I make a suggestion as to how to resolve your current quandry?

Take the missus on a few post-retirement road-trips to places that interest you based on your research. See if the reality matches the reports. Pay attention to whether your belle seems to fall in love with things in that area (put that one on your short list.)

Later on... "Do you remember that place we went that you loved so much?"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 31, 2025 04:49 AM (O7YUW)

31 Oh. Oh. Move in to the smaller town, within walking distance of downtown and she'd be able to walk everywhere. There is a small town about 30 minutes from me, Burnsville, NC. Downtown square. Restaurants on Main Street. Shops. Coffee shops. Pig'n Grits(best breakfasts and pulled pork in WNC). Library and churches just off the square. It'd be perfect. If you don't like that one, I'm sure that there are others like it.

Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025 04:49 AM (X9y7Y)

32 Hey VIA-

yes I am. Cranky bones from old surgical hardware in my foot. Waiting for the Motrin to kick in.

I peek in here only occasionally these days.

What's new with you?

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 04:51 AM (/iMjX)

33 Doesn't drive and won't learn!! That puts a stick in the spokes doesn't it?
I'm absolutely sure that the Horde can solve this. I admit, I'm stumped.
Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025

***
I gave her some lessons back in 1997, and she did fine and went for her license. They flunked her for cutting a corner a little hard (I didn't think the DMV flunked *anyone* on a driving "test" in this town), and she was, I think, ready to try again. Then I got my job in Denver. When she joined me there, I didn't think learning was a good idea there -- too many cars and too much traffic. But when we came back to Da Swamp, she refused to learn.

You can't discuss something -- driving, retirement, moving, buying a house -- with someone who remains silent, then changes the subject. I've told her I don't want to leave without her, but that elicits no response. She's hoping I'll wake up and want to stay here; I'm hoping she'll wake and want to flee this place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:51 AM (omVj0)

34 I like eggs.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 04:53 AM (fV+MH)

35 Wolfus,

I forget, does she have family in the area where you guys live now?

Is there a previously unidentified anchor tying her to the area?

Current employment that would be hard to replicate outside the NOLA area for her?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:53 AM (a1415)

36 Sister was just buried, 24 hours after death, as is the custom in her faith.
Couldn't be there but they will send video

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2025 04:54 AM (rmmrE)

37 Move in to the smaller town, within walking distance of downtown and she'd be able to walk everywhere. There is a small town about 30 minutes from me, Burnsville, NC. Downtown square. Restaurants on Main Street. Shops. Coffee shops. Pig'n Grits(best breakfasts and pulled pork in WNC). Library and churches just off the square. It'd be perfect. If you don't like that one, I'm sure that there are others like it.
Posted by: Akua Makana at January 31, 2025

***
That's my dream too! Not to live in Hooterville, but someplace with amenities within a short drive or even a walk!

The big Q: Can I (or we) afford to buy a house in a place like Burnsville? Waht I consider affordable is hard to find now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:54 AM (omVj0)

38 "What's new with you?"

The usual.

Slowly marching toward Spring, and the beginning of a new season of things to do.

We miss your insight and humor.

Don't stay too far gone, please.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:56 AM (a1415)

39 Wolfus,

I forget, does she have family in the area where you guys live now?

Is there a previously unidentified anchor tying her to the area?

Current employment that would be hard to replicate outside the NOLA area for her?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025

***
No, no family. She grew up in upstate NY. And she doesn't work and never really has. I suppose (since she won't discuss it) that she has a trust fund of some kind. She just . . . *likes* this place, despite what it's devolving into, and has ever since she went to college here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:57 AM (omVj0)

40 vmom, prayers for you and your family.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:57 AM (a1415)

41 Posted by: vmom

********

Condolences. Was it unexpected? Were you close to her?

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 04:58 AM (/iMjX)

42 Wolfus...

So she can't leave, and you can't stay.

Or...she can be comfortable.
And you can be miserable.
But at least you're together.

That don't sound too good.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 04:59 AM (a1415)

43 @15/Wolfus: May I make a suggestion as to how to resolve your current quandry?

Take the missus on a few post-retirement road-trips to places that interest you based on your research. See if the reality matches the reports. Pay attention to whether your belle seems to fall in love with things in that area (put that one on your short list.)

Later on... "Do you remember that place we went that you loved so much?"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 31, 2025

***
Such is my plan. Though I took her to New Mexico in '94, hoping she'd fall in love with the northern area (ABQ, Santa Fe) as I did after my first visit, and that didn't work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 04:59 AM (omVj0)

44 Yes, Muldoon, please don't stray far. The iimericks are nice, but your insight and general humor are invaluable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 05:00 AM (omVj0)

45 Your in a tough situation Wolfus.

Maybe a bit of the grass is greener syndrome.

You need to get it out of your system.

Start making plans to go on a big loop covering the territory you are interested in. Spend about a month, say June when it's nice but not too hot. Look up each town and find out when the festivals are. Read the local papers. Find out where the old timers eat. Go into data acquisition mode.

The more you learn the clearer your options will become.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025 05:02 AM (QB+5g)

46 We miss your insight and humor.

***********

Fart jokes and fish puns will only take you so far in life.

/stuff my father should have told me lonng ago

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 05:03 AM (/iMjX)

47 "Such is my plan. Though I took her to New Mexico in '94, hoping she'd fall in love with the northern area (ABQ, Santa Fe) as I did after my first visit, and that didn't work."

So this has been tracking exactly the same way for over thirty years?

I hate to suggest this, because Morons give such excellent relationship advice, and I would hate to ruin that winning streak of success we have as relationship counselors.

But is there anything to suggest that another ten years of doing the same thing will have a different outcome?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:04 AM (a1415)

48 "Fart jokes and fish puns will only take you so far in life. "

Wait....what!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:05 AM (a1415)

49 Joe Biden became president with a lot less than fart jokes and fish puns.

He had moxie.

Horrifying moxie.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 05:08 AM (fV+MH)

50 Fart jokes and fish puns will only take you so far in life.

/stuff my father should have told me lonng ago
Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 05:03 AM (/iMjX)

Well they got you here. Oh. Yea.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2025 05:09 AM (kq/Qu)

51 Morons give such excellent relationship advice

***********

Have you tried jiggling the handle?

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 05:09 AM (/iMjX)

52 I almost forgot, in another bold move, Maryland lawmakers want to make it more difficult yet to pull drivers over for safety equipment violations.

https://tinyurl.com/4akk65vp

Seems that black drivers are disproportionately pulled over for failing to operate/ maintain their vehicles in a safe manner.

Their words, not mine.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:10 AM (a1415)

53 "Have you tried jiggling the handle?"

Or

Unplug your modem for ten minutes, and plug it back it.
Then jiggle the handle.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:13 AM (a1415)

54 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:15 AM (CT61Q)

55 Seems that black drivers are disproportionately pulled over for failing to operate/ maintain their vehicles in a safe manner.

********

I have heard that many urban areas are virtually blinker fluid deserts.

And don't even get me started on how hard it is to find summer air for your tires!

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 05:16 AM (/iMjX)

56 "Life is what happens when you are making other plans"

--Somebody

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025 05:17 AM (QB+5g)

57 My brother sent me the Tech Crunch article about the Pentagon workers connecting to DeepSeek.

On the plus side, the next time we have our annual "Thou Shalt Not" lectures at work, we know what's going to come up.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2025 05:18 AM (99eI0)

58 "And don't even get me started on how hard it is to find summer air for your tires!"

Seems like one could have their mounted winter tires, full of winter air.

And then their summer all-season mounted tires, full of ...summer air.

With careful planning, this should be solvable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:19 AM (a1415)

59 Life is what happens when you're breathing.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 05:20 AM (fV+MH)

60 Gmornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 31, 2025 05:21 AM (uX4GZ)

61 On a more serious note, the proliferation of Angle eye/Halo LED aftermarket lights is driving me nuts.

As far as I can tell, it is still illegal to display red lights on the front of a vehicle, same with blue.

Something about federal uniform lighting requirements.

Yet daily I see idiots with variable color light on their cars in every color of the damn rainbow.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

62 So this has been tracking exactly the same way for over thirty years?

I hate to suggest this, because Morons give such excellent relationship advice, and I would hate to ruin that winning streak of success we have as relationship counselors.

But is there anything to suggest that another ten years of doing the same thing will have a different outcome?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025

***
There is not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 05:25 AM (omVj0)

63 CO gray wolf reintroduction update.

https://is.gd/ihFj8z

"Colorado’s wolves could be east of the Continental Divide for the first time"

Durn things won't stay where you put them. Initially localized to the area around the headwaters of the Colorado River, north of I-70, at least one has been tracked down around Leadville, into the headwaters of the Arkansas River.

Oddly enough, a person was killed in a wild animal attack just a few miles from our cabin in recent weeks. (More likely a mountain lion, but no official determination has been made)

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 05:26 AM (/iMjX)

64 And then we have Daytime Running Lights (DRL's).

What design engineer thought it would be a good idea to have the front driving lights illuminated all the time, and apparently have the dashboard lights come on as well.

Yet NOT have the tail lights light up?

So as it gets dark out, the dash lights are on, therefore my headlights must be on, right?

But the back of the car is completely dark.

Every night I see cars up ahead with no tail lights on, but the front of the car is all lit up.

Not sure what make/models it is, but they're out there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:27 AM (a1415)

65 Unplug your modem for ten minutes, and plug it back it.
Then jiggle the handle.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:13 AM (a1415)

He stole my move!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 05:28 AM (+iIV1)

66 "***
There is not."

Ouch...

I was afraid of that.

I think you have some serious soul searching to do, my friend.

And I truly wish you luck with it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:29 AM (a1415)

67 @58/Village Idiot's Apprentice: "...With careful planning, this should be solvable."

What happened then?

Well the front fell off, didn't it?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 31, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

68 Denver Post
"Costilla County death investigated as possible animal attack
Death reported in Sangre De Cristo Ranches near Fort Garland"

https://is.gd/9wPo8k

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 05:30 AM (/iMjX)

69 "Durn things won't stay where you put them."

Well, imagine that......

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:31 AM (a1415)

70 "What happened then?

Well the front fell off, didn't it? "

We don't do zip-ties anymore?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:32 AM (a1415)

71 As much as I have come to enjoy these early morning get-togethers, I find that it is now time to get ready for the morning walk.

But, never fear, tomorrow...same Bat Time...Same Bat channel.

BBIAB.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

72 The rain we were warned about has not arrived yet. I could have gone to work out after all.

Oh, well. It's Friday, and payday. I might leave early and take the long way to work over the other bridge, just for the fun of driving the Buick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 05:36 AM (omVj0)

73 Zi[ ties have joined duct tape and WD40 as essential items in every Real Man's™ toolbox.

Actual tools? Not so much.

Posted by: muldoon at January 31, 2025 05:36 AM (/iMjX)

74 @64/Village Idiot's Apprentice: { DRLs not lighting up the tail-lights but lighting up the dash to make you think the full lighting assembly is turned on }

Canada addressed this problem with a regulation change in 2021:

https://tinyurl.com/3br5e2p6

Since we don't do anything without it squaring firmly with American regulations, and since vehicle manufacturers tend to want to make things standardized across the American and Canadian markets, I suspect it's been solved on your side of the border too.

But there's a lot of cars out there since DRLs became mandatory as part of the manufacturing process back in 1995/1996. Those won't be addressed by the new regulatory changes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 31, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

75 Seems that black drivers are disproportionately pulled over for failing to operate/ maintain their vehicles in a safe manner.

Their words, not mine.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025

***
If Maryland is anything like SE Lousy-ana, they *don't* operate or maintain their cars -- and more likely SUVs or trucks now -- safely. The disproportion of pull-overs is because of their high proportion of failure to be safe or to maintain. (Here, though, cars with a headlight out or that are driven as though the operator thinks he's Stirling Moss are largely ignored by law enforcement.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 05:40 AM (omVj0)

76 Doesn’t everybody want to have a person affected by dwarfism and who’s hard of hearing and had vision problems to be an air traffic controller?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 05:42 AM (qUE2K)

77 @64/Village Idiot's Apprentice: { DRLs not lighting up the tail-lights but lighting up the dash to make you think the full lighting assembly is turned on }

***
You know, I have no idea if my '16 Buick turns on the taillights when the DRLs are on. There's a sensor atop the dash that reads light levels and turns things on, so I suppose if it's dark enough for the system to think they're needed, the taillights are burning too. But I don't know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 05:43 AM (omVj0)

78 Maryland lawmakers want to make it more difficult yet to pull drivers over for safety equipment violations.

Have I mentioned how much I dislike living in this State? Because I do.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2025 05:43 AM (99eI0)

79 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

I hope you have a flashlight when you walk.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 05:43 AM (qUE2K)

80 God is working. Devotional on Hebrews 11:1-10

https://tinyurl.com/7ncnvzxs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 05:46 AM (qUE2K)

81 CryptidPolitics@CryptidPolitics

I can’t take Kristi Noem seriously.

She’s starting to get that Zelensky vibe where she’s unnecessarily going around in “battle” clothing.

MILO@Nero

Almost as much make up as him too

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 31, 2025 05:48 AM (YzQHB)

82 Zi[ ties have joined duct tape and WD40 as essential items in every Real Man's™ toolbox.

Actual tools? Not so much.
Posted by: muldoon

If it moves and it shouldn't? Duct tape.
If it should move and it doesn't? WD-40.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:49 AM (CT61Q)

83 I shot the dog, but I did not shoot the deputy ..

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 31, 2025 05:50 AM (YzQHB)

84 5:50 in the morning is the best time to watch Red Green...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 31, 2025 05:51 AM (YzQHB)

85 @73/muldoon: And bailing twine!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 31, 2025 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

86 5:50 in the morning is the best time to watch Red Green...
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Teams meetings are a good time to watch Red Green.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:53 AM (CT61Q)

87 Good morning! Gonna be a bright sun shiny day here in Cowtown all the way through Sunday so it's off to the fat stock show and rodeo with the grandkids.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 31, 2025 05:54 AM (3Ope8)

88 Nobody bails on conservative women quicker than conservatives.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 05:54 AM (fV+MH)

89 If Noem does her job, no prob.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 31, 2025 05:57 AM (dR6yv)

90 "If Noem does her job, no prob.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner"

Right?

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 05:58 AM (fV+MH)

91 Big Balls in Cowtown.

Posted by: George Strait at January 31, 2025 05:59 AM (dR6yv)

92 Good morning morons

Waiting for news release on Caroline Glick, I think she may have been recalled to the PM's office or Foreign Ministry. She announced she is no longer doing her utube show for JNS.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2025 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

93 It's Friday, it's Friday, Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 31, 2025 06:09 AM (PzBTm)

94 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 31, 2025 06:09 AM (dg+HA)

95 *twirl*

The day is starting off very well.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 31, 2025 06:11 AM (3Ope8)

96 COJarhead,

I have fond memories of attending that show once when I was younger. Even better was when my 9 year old son and I were able to join my at the time 80 year old dad and his 92 year old brother a few years ago. They grew up in Saginaw TX so it was a trip home. It was unspoken but it was their farewell trip. Both gone now.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 31, 2025 06:12 AM (kq/Qu)

97
"Brown Eyed Girl" performed by Van Morrison is one of my BiL's favorite songs. My sister's eyes are blue. I guess they've reached some type of understanding.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 31, 2025 06:13 AM (xG4kz)

98 Yay!

Thanks for starting the day off right, Rosasharn!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 31, 2025 06:13 AM (uX4GZ)

99 Sister was just buried, 24 hours after death, as is the custom in her faith.
Couldn't be there but they will send video
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2025 04:54 AM (rmmrE)
====

May her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2025 06:16 AM (RIvkX)

100 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Observation: It is possible to OD on Kirkland Tortilla Strips.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 06:18 AM (6K6Eu)

101 I don't care a lot for Van Morrison's vocal style, but I have to admit that I like "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Moondance" a lot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 06:20 AM (6K6Eu)

102 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2025 04:54 AM (rmmrE)

I am sorry. May your faith comfort you and may her faith comfort those who knew and loved her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 06:23 AM (XvM9Q)

103
Since today is Friday, and we all know that our poor overworked members of Congress don't keep office hours in DC on Friday, I'm guessing it is unlikely that there'll be more public hearings on Trump's nominees for anything today.

The Sic Bern's two onesies mounted on poster board for his performance yesterday at the RFKj hearing resembled dangling penii and their associated twins. Which, by his actions, the Sic Bern did, too. Swallowell must have loaned Sic Bern the services of his feng shui sidepiece.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 31, 2025 06:24 AM (xG4kz)

104 JJ linked this the other day, and Iliked the metaphor; finally got around to reading it.
Capra defeats Kafka

https://is.gd/F3PvXj

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 31, 2025 06:25 AM (uX4GZ)

105 I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2025 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

106 Smiles. Nods. Exits.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 31, 2025 06:26 AM (PzBTm)

107 Billy Cocker

https://youtu.be/Q9C2i_Z2ETA?si=NAi9kbVpwWH3GbeX

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 06:28 AM (fV+MH)

108 Good morning. Offering breakfast burritos made with jalapeño/ cheese sausage in them.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:30 AM (mB6WH)

109 Good morning. Offering breakfast burritos made with jalapeño/ cheese sausage in them.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:30 AM (mB6WH)
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Yow wow! Sounds great!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 06:30 AM (6K6Eu)

110 Seems that black drivers are disproportionately pulled over for failing to operate/ maintain their vehicles in a safe manner.

And when a poorly maintained vehicle causes an accident and kills someone, the cops will have angry people demanding to know why the driver wasn't pulled over for it.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2025 06:32 AM (99eI0)

111 Seems that black drivers are disproportionately pulled over for failing to operate/ maintain their vehicles in a safe manner.

And when a poorly maintained vehicle causes an accident and kills someone, the cops will have angry people demanding to know why the driver wasn't pulled over for it.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2025 06:32 AM (99eI0)
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R@cists!!!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 06:32 AM (6K6Eu)

112 Captain Obvious, good morning .

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:32 AM (mB6WH)

113 Good morning, BH!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 06:33 AM (6K6Eu)

114 I'm actually surprised there aren't senators bleating that brand new brake hoses are a human right.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:34 AM (+iIV1)

115 On a more serious note, the proliferation of Angle eye/Halo LED aftermarket lights is driving me nuts.

As far as I can tell, it is still illegal to display red lights on the front of a vehicle, same with blue.

Something about federal uniform lighting requirements.

Yet daily I see idiots with variable color light on their cars in every color of the damn rainbow.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

Yes, THIS. I hate it. They’re distracting and often have glare. (Alternatively, I see people cruising around at night with nothing but red halo lights on their Wranglers. They don’t provide any illumination.)

It is illegal and it should be punished.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 06:35 AM (aiEiO)

116 Someone yesterday, I don't recall who, commented that Trump had not appointed even an interim head of the FAA - as if that would have made a difference in such a short time.

This is, however, apparently incorrect.

x.com/i/status/1885015060759650552

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 06:36 AM (ExV1e)

117 Idris Elba suggests kitchen knives be blunted, others banned to prevent stabbings in UK

Knives are NOT the problem.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 06:38 AM (gbOdA)

118 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 06:36 AM (ExV1e)
-----------
Stupid, easily disproven lies are all they've got left.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 06:38 AM (6K6Eu)

119 How can the skies ever be safe if we don't have some gender studies undergrad law school drop out who can't even spell "bar" sitting in their office tracking every airplane in the atmosphere like some kind of spiced up guild navigator?

It's almost like Orange Man wants planes to crash.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:39 AM (+iIV1)

120 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 06:39 AM (u82oZ)

121 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 06:40 AM (6K6Eu)

122 117 Idris Elba suggests kitchen knives be blunted, others banned to prevent stabbings in UK

Knives are NOT the problem.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 06:38 AM (gbOdA)

You really gonna go up to a dude who just stabbed someone to death and say "Hey, you're not allowed to sharpen that knife that was dull when you bought it! That's illegal! You're in big trouble!"

Simpletons.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:40 AM (+iIV1)

123 Idris, I've seen more people stabbed with a fork. Maybe they should have blunted tines too.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:40 AM (mB6WH)

124 Everyone will have their arms removed at the shoulder at birth to prevent future unpleasantness.

Safety First.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:42 AM (+iIV1)

125 NaCly, dearest. Are things starting to thaw out?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:42 AM (mB6WH)

126 rhennigantx

After knives are gone, the declawing can commence.

The Left ... The stupid should burn them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 06:42 AM (u82oZ)

127 The Sic Bern's two onesies mounted on poster board for his performance...

I'm still unpacking that stunt, trying to figure out, how, in their few minutes of allotted time, that Onesies were going to be the take down.

"Are you for or against the Onesies" assumes a totalitarian mindset. That is, Sic Bern's team of retards who came up with these props had to go out and search for them and then buy them. Up until that stunt, I had no idea that they existed. Then when they brought these novelty garments out, demanded some sort of rebuke or endorsement.

The appropriate response would be: "Why should anyone care about some slogan?" Am I supposed to be "For or Against" a shirt claiming the wearer is from a particular university, a vegan or is into Cross-Fit? Does every single thing require condemnation or endorsement? What business is it of mine what some people make and other people buy?

Why are you, Bernie, obsessed with toddler clothes?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2025 06:42 AM (a4flb)

128 Warai, the problem solver. Well done.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:43 AM (mB6WH)

129 >> Seems that black drivers are disproportionately pulled over for failing to operate/ maintain their vehicles in a safe manner.

CHIRP!

…

CHIRP!

…

CHIRP!

Posted by: Smoke detector that's had a low battery for the last 6 months at January 31, 2025 06:44 AM (EbrMN)

130 That Rosasharn with her twirling.

Is that allowed?

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 06:45 AM (fV+MH)

131 It’s a good thing that the street taught Nvidia a lesson over Chinese spyware DeepSeek that is going to be banned in pretty much all of the world.

Next time don’t let your tech get stolen by a savages and thieves, apparently.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2025 06:46 AM (XV/Pl)

132 eleven, of course it's allowed. Who doesn't like a good twirl in the morning?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:47 AM (mB6WH)

133 Everyone will have their arms removed at the shoulder at birth to prevent future unpleasantness.

Safety First.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:42 AM (+iIV1)

In the land of the armless, the one-armed man is fapping king.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 06:47 AM (EbrMN)

134 The second amendment clearly refers to heraldry. Your family can keep and bear whatever arms and devices it chooses.

But they clearly didn't mean you get to keep those awful dangerous flailing meat tubes hanging off your torso. Someone could get hurt.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:48 AM (+iIV1)

135 " eleven, of course it's allowed. Who doesn't like a good twirl in the morning?
Posted by: Ben Had "

My monocle just dropped into my martini.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 06:49 AM (fV+MH)

136 In the land of the armless, the one-armed man is fapping king.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 06:47 AM (EbrMN)

I'm not sure if I'm for or against...

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 31, 2025 06:49 AM (PiwSw)

137 71 As much as I have come to enjoy these early morning get-togethers, I find that it is now time to get ready for the morning walk.

But, never fear, tomorrow...same Bat Time...Same Bat channel.

BBIAB.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 05:34 AM (a1415)

Lots of bats in there! There might be bats lurking in BBIAB, too!

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 06:49 AM (v0TzN)

138 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

We have rain, which will wash the large piles of remaining snow (IKEA snowmen) into the mud.

I just cleaned that car!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

139 In the land of the armless the drinking straw concession is a gold mine

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 06:50 AM (mB6WH)

140 The United States Army is hereby disbanded and to be replaced with the United States Leggy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:51 AM (+iIV1)

141 eleven

Encouraged!

{{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi
And big finish - Crash, Bang, Boom, sounds of armor plates hitting the floor. *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

142 Idris Elba suggests kitchen knives be blunted, others banned to prevent stabbings in UK

This is what you get when you ban firearms.

TBH, from a self-defense standpoint, knife defense skills are technical and highly perishable, whereas gun defenses are not. That is, my chances of survival are much greater if the perp's weapon is a gun rather than knife.

Furthermore, outside of the screaming and yelling that occurs when people are being murdered, guns are a beacon to the crime scene, in fact ShotSpotter is a LE tool to alert and locate real-time shootings. There is no analog for knifings, poisonings, vehicle-related or blunt instrument assaults.

I don't know how they can criminalize anything that can cause another person to bleed. My dad had to go to a Doc In A Box when he got severely cut installing roofline rain gutters. Outlaw rain gutters?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2025 06:52 AM (a4flb)

143 Everyone will have their arms removed at the shoulder at birth to prevent future unpleasantness.

Safety First.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
___________

Cue the Black Knight memes.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 31, 2025 06:53 AM (Dm8we)

144 Sorry, surgeons. Blunt scalpels only.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:53 AM (+iIV1)

145 I have a lot of Van Morrison CDs. Hard to pin down a favorite song but this one is probably it.

youtu.be/0AQtd5LFa38

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 31, 2025 06:55 AM (sAmhv)

146 Idris, I've seen more people stabbed with a fork. Maybe they should have blunted tines too.

Why do you think the plastic Spork was invented?

Safety, Man!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2025 06:55 AM (a4flb)

147 Wolfus,

Did you check out the drive on another computer?

It might need some TLC.
Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025

***
I did, on my desktop here at work. Windows said it had errors. I ran the tools/scan & repair function, then tried it in the car again, in both USB ports. Nada.

Today I'll copy a few .mp3s onto a totally different flash drive, then see if the car recognizes that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 06:55 AM (J2vNu)

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

Yes. Above freezing in the afternoons. In the morning I walk very carefully to my bus, because of all the ice.

One of my sisters broke her arm falling on ice during the big storm in the DC area.

Every day we pass some Angus cows. I ask the kids "Are they happy cows?"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

149 103 we all know that our poor overworked members of Congress don't keep office hours in DC on Friday
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 31, 2025 06:24 AM (xG4kz)

I didn't know that.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 06:56 AM (v0TzN)

150 Sorry, surgeons. Blunt scalpels only.

Just use disk grinders and Dremmel tools.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2025 06:56 AM (a4flb)

151 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Gone: We removed all the cancer.
Now: That will buff right out.

We need King William to sort this all out. Charles has reserve powers he is not using. The UK is overrun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

152

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 31, 2025 06:59 AM (EFZgU)

153 A troop of Boy Scouts from 1955 could knock over the whole country of the UK it seems.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2025 06:59 AM (Z4Lx1)

154 Idris Elba suggests kitchen knives be blunted, others banned to prevent stabbings in UK

Next, they'll go after fresh fruit.

youtu.be/piWCBOsJr-w

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 31, 2025 07:00 AM (sAmhv)

155 Anybody remember Handy Andy tool kits? Real tools, just kid size. Makes it easy for Junior to shorten the dining room table or take apart that thing on the wall that makes electricity.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 31, 2025 07:00 AM (gm9Sb)

156 140 The United States Army is hereby disbanded and to be replaced with the United States Leggy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:51 AM (+iIV1)

Ha!

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:00 AM (v0TzN)

157 "In the land of the armless the drinking straw concession is a gold mine
Posted by: Ben Had "

An entrepenueress.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 07:01 AM (fV+MH)

158 Hillary Clinton

Ah. Someone to make every 'ette appear smashingly beautiful and brilliant. "All Ettes shine with an inner beauty nimbus. They are a joy to see.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

159 Brown Eyed Girl was played while I was out exercising yesterday.

La di da!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2025 07:01 AM (P/ezU)

160 morni yall

"Meta Employees Protest Removal of Tampons from Men’s Bathroom by Bringing Their Own"

Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Men should buy their own damn tampons.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

161 The United States Army is hereby disbanded and to be replaced with the United States Leggy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:51 AM (+iIV1)

Ha!
Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:00 AM (v0TzN)
-

But the Navel Academy will remain, right?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2025 07:02 AM (P/ezU)

162 Can the families of the civilians lost at Reagan Nation sue Secretary Buttplug for loss of life due to stupid policies?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

163 "Anybody remember Handy Andy tool kits? Real tools, just kid size. Makes it easy for Junior to shorten the dining room table or take apart that thing on the wall that makes electricity.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,"

I still have my Handy Andy toolbox but nowadays it holds drill bits.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

164 "Meta Employees Protest Removal of Tampons from Men’s Bathroom by Bringing Their Own"

Yet another reason for "Work From Home". HR departments take note.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2025 07:03 AM (a4flb)

165 Idris, I've seen more people stabbed with a fork

I once saw someone kill three men in a bar... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2025 07:03 AM (99eI0)

166 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Every time the Sixth Fleet has Port of Call Haifa.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

167 161 The United States Army is hereby disbanded and to be replaced with the United States Leggy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 06:51 AM (+iIV1)

Ha!
Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:00 AM (v0TzN)
-

But the Navel Academy will remain, right?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 31, 2025 07:02 AM (P/ezU)

Oh, my goodness. You people!

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:04 AM (v0TzN)

168 Akua, that's my idea too. SW Indiana looks good on the 'Net, but I've never been there and have to see what the people and roads are like. (I'm utterly sick of driving on the bad streets here.) A smaller place outside of a middle-sized city where I can get my car worked on or find a doctor sounds good to me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,
---------------------------

Moved to SW Indiana back in 96'. Lived (worked) there until 2012 (just west of Evansville). I don't recommend anyone retire in Indiana

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 31, 2025 07:04 AM (EFZgU)

169 I'm a retired pilot and night flying is a challenge, especially around the big, big airports. Regan National is so restricted in no fly zones (White House, capitol, etc that you have to be on top of it fly in there.. Once away from those areas, its easy as radar and other sensors keep you out of trouble. Airplane navigation lights, ATC can only do so much. I believe it was the crew of the helicopter just made the mistake of which plane they were looking at, and didn't see the CJ right ahead of them. I have no reason to blame anyone, it was just a mistake or human error. Of course the MSM will confuse everyone with their speculations.

Posted by: Colin at January 31, 2025 07:05 AM (wlQdF)

170 I once saw someone kill three men in a bar... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil.

Yet another argument for "Work From Home".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2025 07:06 AM (a4flb)

171 Can the families of the civilians lost at Reagan Nation sue Secretary Buttplug for loss of life due to stupid policies?

Trump EO - "If any citizen of the United States has been harmed physically and/or financially by proven negligence from any US government employees, those employees are not shielded by any form of immunity."

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2025 07:06 AM (Z4Lx1)

172 169 I'm a retired pilot and night flying is a challenge, especially around the big, big airports. Regan National is so restricted in no fly zones (White House, capitol, etc that you have to be on top of it fly in there.. Once away from those areas, its easy as radar and other sensors keep you out of trouble. Airplane navigation lights, ATC can only do so much. I believe it was the crew of the helicopter just made the mistake of which plane they were looking at, and didn't see the CJ right ahead of them. I have no reason to blame anyone, it was just a mistake or human error. Of course the MSM will confuse everyone with their speculations.
Posted by: Colin at January 31, 2025 07:05 AM (wlQdF)

Thank you, Colin.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:07 AM (v0TzN)

173 Anna Puma

I like it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

174 I don't care a lot for Van Morrison's vocal style, but I have to admit that I like "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Moondance" a lot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025

***
Same here, esp. "Moondance." I first heard it on the soundtrack of An American Werewolf in London long ago, and thought it was perfect for the moments in the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 07:08 AM (J2vNu)

175 Time for work preps.

Have a blessed day, everyone.
Ad Astra Per Aspera

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 31, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

176 I have no reason to blame anyone, it was just a mistake or human error. Of course the MSM will confuse everyone with their speculations.

Posted by: Colin

Yep.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 31, 2025 07:08 AM (sAmhv)

177 Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Men should buy their own damn tampons.
Posted by: fd
__________

Will their wives be embarrassed when they're sent to buy them?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 31, 2025 07:09 AM (Dm8we)

178 I'm going to protest my employer's refusal to provide donuts by bringing my own donuts. That'll show that asshole.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

179 Moved to SW Indiana back in 96'. Lived (worked) there until 2012 (just west of Evansville). I don't recommend anyone retire in Indiana

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 31, 2025

***
Why is that, SR? It doesn't tax Social Security, for example. And I can handle snow and cold weather. I'm looking forward to living someplace that is NOT rancidly, steamily hot ten months out of the year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 07:10 AM (J2vNu)

180 What is truly mystifying is PAT25 veered out over the river along with busting the altitude cap of 200ft before then impacting the Bombardier which was descending at the exact same moment through 400ft.

On that route PAT25 should not have gone above 200ft until after it had passed a bridge that was south of Reagan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2025 07:11 AM (Z4Lx1)

181 No one will ever need more than 640K of memory, especially all those Africans who I get to inject with my vax.
(vigorously rubbing his hairy nipples to orgasm)

Posted by: Bill Gates, Owner Of Fat Man Boobs at January 31, 2025 07:12 AM (7P61U)

182 I'm looking forward to living someplace that is NOT rancidly, steamily hot ten months out of the year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming
__________

Evansville is still rancidly, steamily hot. But only for four months out of the year.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 31, 2025 07:13 AM (Dm8we)

183 I'm still trying to wrap my head around this apparent "well just don't hit nothin', I guess" protocol that seems to be in place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:14 AM (+iIV1)

184 On that route PAT25 should not have gone above 200ft until after it had passed a bridge that was south of Reagan.

Posted by: Anna Puma

I'm tired and could be wrong, but I believe the only bridge south of Reagan National, is Wilson Bridge and it's 6-7 miles south of RN.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 31, 2025 07:15 AM (sAmhv)

185 Thanks Puddleglum. I was unfamiliar with "Dweller On The Threshold." I like it a lot.
Sounds like it could be a theme song for Wolfus' current season of life.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 31, 2025 07:17 AM (dg+HA)

186 Today will start a week of winter rain and all the Californians are panicking.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2025 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

187 On the screen right now "Fear and chaos grip federal workers as Trump returns". PDT should call a bunch of them in for a meeting. "I didn't get a Harumph out of you. You better watch your ass".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 31, 2025 07:17 AM (gm9Sb)

188 Rules on top of rules, protocols on top of protocols, unless Someone Important is trying to do a thing and then it's "i'm sure it'll be fine".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:18 AM (+iIV1)

189 Thanks Puddleglum. I was unfamiliar with "Dweller On The Threshold." I like it a lot.
Sounds like it could be a theme song for Wolfus' current season of life.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

My brother introduced me to that song years ago. Love it.

Posted by: Tuna at January 31, 2025 07:18 AM (oaGWv)

190 @81 Re: Noem, yes....I've thought the same thing.
At least when 'out in the field'. put your hair back, hunny. Your mermaid ringlets are not needed then.

In and out as I slept late and have to work..bah. And it's raining in NW IL. On the last day of January. Here's to it!

Posted by: lizabth at January 31, 2025 07:18 AM (Jfw7U)

191 >> Idris Elba suggests kitchen knives be blunted, others banned to prevent stabbings in UK

This invader’s parents moved from their third-world shithole to London in the early 70s, just a couple of years after Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech.

Imagine going back to 1968 and telling Britons that 57 years in the future their kids will be lectured by some foreign imbecile about how they shouldn’t be allowed to have kitchen knives because his fellow Blessings of Diversity won’t stop committing terrorist attacks.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 07:18 AM (EbrMN)

192 SanFranpsycho, Good morning. Anything interesting on the breakfast menu?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 07:19 AM (mB6WH)

193 Good morning dear, yes blueberry scones freshly made

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2025 07:20 AM (RIvkX)

194 No whining needed

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2025 07:20 AM (RIvkX)

195 Morning peeps. Almost 3 inches of rain since yesterday afternoon.

Things be soggy this morning but I think the last remnants of the snow and ice are finally gone.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 07:21 AM (Q4IgG)

196 170 I once saw someone kill three men in a bar... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil.

Yet another argument for "Work From Home".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 31, 2025 07:06 AM (a4flb)

LOL

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:21 AM (v0TzN)

197 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
--------------------------

State income tax, full of meth heads and crooks, lots of cancer cases (locals are convinced area wide pollution is the casue), major termite and brown recluse spider area, not a pretty area (landscape). The people are uh, well sort of a strange lot. If I were to look for a place to retire, Indiana would never even cross my radar

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 31, 2025 07:21 AM (EFZgU)

198 There was only 1 ATC in the tower at Reagan.

I want to see heads roll.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 07:23 AM (gbOdA)

199
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2025 07:23 AM (w9Ycv)

200 It's Saturday Eve. Imma go with Pinot Noir today.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 31, 2025 07:23 AM (dg+HA)

201 Imagine going back to 1968 and telling Britons that 57 years in the future their kids will be lectured by some foreign imbecile about how they shouldn’t be allowed to have kitchen knives because his fellow Blessings of Diversity won’t stop committing terrorist attacks.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 07:18 AM (EbrMN)

Them Here = There Here

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

202 AltonJackson, Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 07:25 AM (mB6WH)

203 "There was only 1 ATC in the tower at Reagan.

I want to see heads roll.
Posted by: rhennigantx"

Were the others working from home?

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

204 Me too, Colin. Retired from a major four years ago. You have the correct perspective.

I had to leave the comments section here yesterday. All profound findings from the self-identifying aviation experts had me reeling.

I think I pulled an eye muscle rolling them too much.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 07:26 AM (Y1sOo)

205 Condolences. Was it unexpected? Were you close to her?
Posted by: muldoon

Just woke up again
Not unexpected; she had stage 4 cancer

We were close but hadn't seen each other in decades because of distance- she's back in my old country

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2025 07:26 AM (rmmrE)

206 201 Imagine going back to 1968 and telling Britons that 57 years in the future their kids will be lectured by some foreign imbecile about how they shouldn’t be allowed to have kitchen knives because his fellow Blessings of Diversity won’t stop committing terrorist attacks.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 31, 2025 07:18 AM (EbrMN)

Them Here = There Here
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

I have the exact opposite impression.

You can take two people out of anywhere on earth, drop them in London, and within one generation you'll have a fully formed Euroweenie Podperson.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:26 AM (+iIV1)

207
g'mornin' Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2025 07:27 AM (w9Ycv)

208 Can the families of the civilians lost at Reagan Nation sue Secretary Buttplug for loss of life due to stupid policies?

I believe there were Russian nationals on-board. Can Russia extradite PB for criminal negligence in their deaths?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

209 I'm tired and could be wrong, but I believe the only bridge south of Reagan National, is Wilson Bridge and it's 6-7 miles south of RN.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 31, 2025 07:15 AM (sAmhv)

495 is about 2 or 3 mile S at Jones Point.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

210 vmom, my sincerest condolences.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 07:28 AM (mB6WH)

211 197 State income tax, full of meth heads and crooks, lots of cancer cases (locals are convinced area wide pollution is the casue), major termite and brown recluse spider area, not a pretty area (landscape). The people are uh, well sort of a strange lot. If I were to look for a place to retire, Indiana would never even cross my radar
Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 31, 2025 07:21 AM (EFZgU)

I'll chime in that I know about a bazillion people who FORMERLY lived in Indiana.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:28 AM (v0TzN)

212 You can take two people out of anywhere on earth, drop them in London, and within one generation you'll have a fully formed Euroweenie Podperson.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
---------------------

LOL

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 31, 2025 07:28 AM (EFZgU)

213 Well, back from the walk.

Fen, if you are still here, I walk with an illuminated beanie both front and rear, as well as reflective arm and leg bands to increase my safety margin.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 07:29 AM (a1415)

214 204 Me too, Colin. Retired from a major four years ago. You have the correct perspective.

I had to leave the comments section here yesterday. All profound findings from the self-identifying aviation experts had me reeling.

I think I pulled an eye muscle rolling them too much.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 07:26 AM (Y1sOo)

Thank you.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:29 AM (v0TzN)

215 Fen, if you are still here, I walk with an illuminated beanie both front and rear, as well as reflective arm and leg bands to increase my safety margin.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 07:29 AM (a1415)

Boat or Airplane style lights?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

216 State income tax, full of meth heads and crooks, lots of cancer cases (locals are convinced area wide pollution is the casue), major termite and brown recluse spider area, not a pretty area (landscape). The people are uh, well sort of a strange lot. If I were to look for a place to retire, Indiana would never even cross my radar
Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 31, 2025

***
Lousy-ana has all those things too. IN seems to be ahead for me because of no hurricanes. And I don't mind strange in the people around me, as long as they're not violent (yes, I know, you said meth heads and crooks).

My very first choice would be someplace in the West, some place much drier. But from what I can tell, the Californians have driven up the prices on nearly everything west of the Miss. River except Kansas

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (J2vNu)

217 JJ is nood!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

218
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

219 State income tax, full of meth heads and crooks, lots of cancer cases (locals are convinced area wide pollution is the casue), major termite and brown recluse spider area, not a pretty area (landscape). The people are uh, well sort of a strange lot. If I were to look for a place to retire, Indiana would never even cross my radar
Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at January 31, 2025 07:21 AM (EFZgU)
*
I'll chime in that I know about a bazillion people who FORMERLY lived in Indiana.
Posted by: m at January 31, 2025

***
Madame Mayhem seems to like it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 31, 2025 07:31 AM (J2vNu)

220 206 Euroweenie Podperson
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2025 07:26 AM (+iIV1)

I set my coffee down JUST in time to avoid disaster.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:31 AM (v0TzN)

221 "Boat or Airplane style lights?"

Red light on my right shoulder.
Green light on my right shoulder.
White stern light on my rear belt.

In case I'm walking in water, I can still navigate.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 07:32 AM (a1415)

222 221
Red light on my right shoulder.
Green light on my right shoulder.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 07:32 AM (a1415)

uh-oh

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:34 AM (v0TzN)

223 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 31, 2025 07:29 AM (a1415)

I am glad. I didn't really think you were walking dangerously, but I wanted to ask anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 07:46 AM (EBPnT)

224 >>>Daily Tech News 31

Daily Tech News 31 wut

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 07:46 AM (v0TzN)

225 “Into the Mystic” is a really relaxing tune. I read somewhere, surgeons like to play it at work, it helps keep them calm and focused. Probably a good thing when slicing people open, and planning to put them back together. Capo on the 3rd fret, standard tuning. Like most tunes it’s all about the strumming. The chord shapes are just C, G, E, F etc

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2025 08:43 AM (ebH14)

226 >Google offered its Pixel/Android/Chrome software team voluntary redundancy after it smooshed them all together

Google is about to be forced to divest of one or more of Android and Chrome by the fed, so they're destroying its value. If they can't have it, no one can.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at January 31, 2025 11:41 AM (LgYtf)

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