Daily Tech News 7 February 2025

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Arm has abandoned its quest to revoke Qualcomm's Arm license, largely because it already lost its lawsuit. (The Register)

Nuvia, which had an Arm license, developed a new Arm core.

Qualcomm, which had an Arm license, bough Nuvia to acquire the new core. This is where Qualcomm's new range of laptop chips originated.

Arm sued both Qualcomm and Nuvia, arguing that although both companies had paid Arm for a license they mumble mumble mumble and therefore mumble.

The jury laughed at them.

Tech News

Qualcomm says its CPUs can be found in 10% of Windows laptops priced over $800. (Hot Hardware)

Not sure whether that is good or bad.
The former head of the USDS - the department now running the DOGE team - has resigned effective immediately. (The Verge) (archive site)

He stated explicitly that he is not taking the fork. Apparently someone already stole it.

Musical Interlude

Axel F, the theme from Beverly Hills Cop, played more or less on an original Amiga. It looks like this is an emulator, and it has 1MB of RAM where a stock Amiga 1000 had just 512K, but pretty close.

The Amiga had four sound channels playing 8-bit audio at 15.75kHz, so for anything other than electronic music it didn't sound quite so good. But it nailed this piece.

Disclaimer: Close only counts in horseshoes and retrocomputing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 07, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 Thank you, Pixy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 07, 2025 04:00 AM (a1415)

3 That's odd, comments gone

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 07, 2025 04:01 AM (a1415)

4 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 07, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

5 In case you missed it, WeirdDave is requesting prayers for his sister, Susan who had a major heart attack.

Info in his ONT post.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 07, 2025 04:02 AM (a1415)

6 BOING!

I would've been first but I was given marching orders to take out the trash and the recycling.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 04:03 AM (KTCHq)

7 Say what you wish, but replacing the 11 year old MacBook air with a new 15" M3, 16Gig of ram has been amazing.

So was the $1050.00 price, and no sales tax.

And Mrs VIA's replacement arrives today as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 07, 2025 04:05 AM (a1415)

8 Disclaimer: Close only counts in horseshoes and retrocomputing.

And hand grenades.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 07, 2025 04:05 AM (cl15i)

9 "mumble mumble mumble and therefore mumble."

Perfectly described, Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 07, 2025 04:06 AM (O7YUW)

10 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers. As I said on the ONT, it's Friday at last. (Guess I should have saved my dream of working on a case with Barnaby Jones for the Tech Thread. But it was vivid, and the area we drove to looked more like Colorado or N. California than it did like this dump.)

As it happens, the first episode of Barnaby Jones is on MeTV right now. I'd forgotten, if I ever knew, that it was a spinoff of Cannon.

Anyway! The weekend will be here in about fourteen hours! Ding, ding, ding!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 07, 2025 04:06 AM (omVj0)

11 Morning pixie. Had hoped for a last and first, but got bogged down in ONT comments.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 07, 2025 04:08 AM (4780s)

12 I'd be happy to explore the e!stance of the women's underwear I'm seeing.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 07, 2025 04:10 AM (4780s)

13 e!stance????? Elegance. Where is auto cucumber when you need it.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 07, 2025 04:16 AM (4780s)

14 Good morning almost everyone and probably good evening to Pixy.

Posted by: Ciampino - this was also unexpected? at February 07, 2025 04:18 AM (KjLnc)

15 Hundreds flee train as it bursts into flames in Pennsylvania

https://mol.im/a/14370835

Posted by: Ciampino - this was also very unexpected at February 07, 2025 04:21 AM (KjLnc)

16 Philippines VP impeached for plotting coup?

https://tinyurl.com/8c6s9cnj

Posted by: Ciampino - hmm at February 07, 2025 04:23 AM (KjLnc)

17 e!stance????? Elegance. Where is auto cucumber when you need it.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 07, 2025 04:16 AM (4780s)
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Are you 27, corporate employed, with a BA?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 04:24 AM (KTCHq)

18 Bering Air flight carrying 10 people vanishes while flying over Alaska -- this was from several hours ago. Does anyone have more recent news?

https://mol.im/a/14371081

Posted by: Ciampino - most likely crashed at February 07, 2025 04:25 AM (KjLnc)

19 Thank you, Geert Wilders!

https://tinyurl.com/5bk2ajfu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 04:32 AM (KTCHq)

20 FEC YOU!

https://tinyurl.com/4we9aeh5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 04:35 AM (KTCHq)

21 Did you know that AI can save you $999,953 to create a 2 minute ad?

Buh-bye, Mad Men!

Don't miss the very last split-second scene:

https://tinyurl.com/9d99ezpj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 04:45 AM (KTCHq)

22 The Verge has this doomsday article on DOGE going into NOAA as if they need permission from some bureaucrat. Their work

The Verge with a doomsday article on the invasion of NOAA by DOGE. You know NOAA's work "is incredibly important".
This made me laugh - these people are supposed scientists:

“To have those supportive spaces just … gone [is] incredibly hard,” the NOAA employee who identifies as queer and neurodivergent said in a message to The Verge. “It’s demoralizing.”

Neurodivergent sounds like a serious disorder right? Hospital?
Also they love that word 'incredibly'.

https://archive.is/kEliw

Posted by: Ciampino - incredibly at February 07, 2025 04:46 AM (KjLnc)

23 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 07, 2025 04:46 AM (6PUpl)

24 20 FEC YOU!

https://tinyurl.com/4we9aeh5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 04:35 AM (KTCHq)
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Hasn't she been there >20 years? Time to be gone is a long time ago. She was appointed by Bush so can be disappointed by Trump.

Posted by: Ciampino - incredibly easy at February 07, 2025 04:50 AM (KjLnc)

25 Repost from ONT because it's so disgusting and may happen here: The EU has now approved mealworm flour to be used in human foods like pasta and bread.

https://tinyurl.com/yc73dxfz

Posted by: Ciampino - Your mealworm flour may contain some wheat at February 07, 2025 04:54 AM (KjLnc)

26 Don't miss the very last split-second scene:

https://tinyurl.com/9d99ezpj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 04:45 AM (KTCHq)

Kind of ironic that the CEO of a razor company, one whose commercial says that beards are less manly than smooth faces, has a beard himself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 04:56 AM (ExV1e)

27 “To have those supportive spaces just … gone [is] incredibly hard,” the NOAA employee who identifies as queer and neurodivergent said in a message to The Verge. “It’s demoralizing.”

Neurodivergent sounds like a serious disorder right? Hospital?
Also they love that word 'incredibly'.

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Incredible!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 04:58 AM (dDmld)

28 Repost from ONT because it's so disgusting and may happen here: The EU has now approved mealworm flour to be used in human foods like pasta and bread.

Guess there'll be an official redef of "vegan" too.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 07, 2025 05:02 AM (KAi1n)

29 What woukd stop DOGE and Trump's shock and awe revolution in its tracks? A new pandemic. Don't think that they, along with China, won't soon realize this if they haven't already.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2025 05:02 AM (yB3bD)

30 Neurodivergence is a splitting headache.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 07, 2025 05:02 AM (KAi1n)

31 The Dems say that DOGE is going after Medicare and Social Security and its scaring some people. It sounds like the Dems are on their scare noise to get people upset and write their local pol. Next Elon will go after retirement benefits. That stupid Elon (as AOC calls him) is going to destroy us all. The Dems have developed a plan to scare just about everyone. Vote for us and we will just end all this.

Posted by: Colin at February 07, 2025 05:09 AM (wlQdF)

32
From the sidebar ...

Did Alabama do the world a solid and legally dispatch their killer last night?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 05:09 AM (xG4kz)

33 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-9
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: February 7, 2025
Launch Time: 1:52 p.m. ET, 1852 UTC, 19:52 CET
Launch Window: Open until 5:37 p.m. ET

https://www.youtube.com/live/BhFlBN1TdUw

Posted by: Ciampino - Your mealworm pizza is ready at February 07, 2025 05:09 AM (KjLnc)

34 To have those supportive spaces just … gone [is] incredibly hard,” the NOAA employee who identifies as queer and neurodivergent said in a message to The Verge. “It’s demoralizing.”

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Boy, not much gets by these folks, does it?

Yes, that's the point. We don't support your degeneracy, and we outright reject your bullying. We tried to let you be "weird" around normal people, and you couldn't. You turned it all into sex kink fantasies that you insisted everyone engage in with you all the time. Normal people are now telling you they don't like your behavior. It used to just be meanie mean Conservatives and Christians and stupid icky backwards thinking whatever, remember? And you convinced normal people of that, and they let you try to do your thing because they were "nice" and didn't want perverts to say mean things about them. But you couldn't exist around normal people because you're nothing more than sex perverts.

That's all it comes down to and all it's ever been.

The funniest part? All you had to do was leave the children alone, and you couldn't.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 05:12 AM (ppk2X)

35
Regarding South Africa,

I thought Azania was the name the commies had for it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

"Without Zania"? From the sound of things, South Africa is chock full of "zania".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 05:12 AM (xG4kz)

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

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 07, 2025 05:12 AM (PzBTm)

37 The Dems say that DOGE is going after Medicare and Social Security and its scaring some people

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What I suspect is really going to happen is the public realizes Medicare and SS don't cost anywhere NEAR what the government employees responsible for the programs have been claiming for decades.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 05:14 AM (ppk2X)

38 36 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at February 07, 2025 05:12 AM (PzBTm)

Looky thar!

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 05:17 AM (v0TzN)

39
The "Cool Sounds of Radio Free Minecraft" are coolest in the hours just before dawn, when the Quadroscope is really hopping!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 05:17 AM (xG4kz)

40 37 The Dems say that DOGE is going after Medicare and Social Security and its scaring some people

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What I suspect is really going to happen is the public realizes Medicare and SS don't cost anywhere NEAR what the government employees responsible for the programs have been claiming for decades.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 05:14 AM (ppk2X)

Weren't they going to remove from the rolls a bunch of people who are long dead?

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 05:18 AM (v0TzN)

41 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 07, 2025 05:20 AM (dg+HA)

42 What woukd stop DOGE and Trump's shock and awe revolution in its tracks? A new pandemic. Don't think that they, along with China, won't soon realize this if they haven't already.
Posted by: Ordinary American

They're trying but nobody's buying. (Bird flu)
They shot their was with the last one and overreached way too far.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 05:22 AM (fUDLX)

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

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn

YAYYYY!

Posted by: Bruce at February 07, 2025 05:22 AM (V78cl)

44 Weren't they going to remove from the rolls a bunch of people who are long dead?

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I'm not sure, but it's going to be funny to watch the explanations for why simple stuff like that wasn't done.

I don't know how it's set up, but I see the ads for the Medicare health plans all the time (United?) and wonder how much waste is involved in that. I can't imagine those companies would be taking it on if they weren't able to rake in $$$ hand over fist. I won't be at all surprised to learn they get $15K or whatever per enrollee per year and don't pay out anywhere near that amount.

But Medicare "costs" $15K per enrollee. Or something.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 05:24 AM (ppk2X)

45 Weren't they going to remove from the rolls a bunch of people who are long dead?
Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 05:18 AM (v0TzN)

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Word is that the dead people have lawyered up and are bringing a class action to enjoin any stoppage of payments.

District Hula Judge Hakulanii a Kailani seems favorably inclined.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 05:24 AM (dDmld)

46 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 07, 2025 05:29 AM (AN2gy)

47 30 Neurodivergence is a splitting headache.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 07, 2025 05:02 AM (KAi1n)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 05:41 AM (v0TzN)

48 Well, I seem to be getting what I call “the spinning
Wheel of doom” when I try to listen to videos. I liked it better when it was rainbow colored and not because I associated it with LGBT. What is the official technical name for that “spinning wheel” ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 05:42 AM (2SjsW)

49 The Stupor Bowl Frenzy is in full operational mode. The local Fox outlet is mentioning some highway closures for Sunday, and I'm trying to get more details. It sounds like they wouldn't affect me. Still, I'd better have all my grocery shopping and other errands done by Sat. evening or Sun. morning. Like preparing for a snowstorm or hurricane, except even less fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 07, 2025 05:42 AM (omVj0)

50 Well, I seem to be getting what I call “the spinning
Wheel of doom” when I try to listen to videos. I liked it better when it was rainbow colored and not because I associated it with LGBT. What is the official technical name for that “spinning wheel” ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025

***
"Hurry Up and Wait"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 07, 2025 05:43 AM (omVj0)

51 41 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 07, 2025 05:20 AM (dg+HA)

There hasn't been a report in a while.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 05:44 AM (v0TzN)

52 G'mornin' everyone!

"queer and neurodivergent" perfectly describes the mental state that thinks "correcting" the raw data is acceptable.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 05:44 AM (KaBJL)

53 technicolor beachball

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 05:45 AM (v0TzN)

54
Well, well, well. Here we are again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2025 05:45 AM (dxSpM)

55 >>> What is the official technical name for that “spinning wheel”

An Apple store 'genius' referred to it as the rolling beach ball.

Posted by: fluffy at February 07, 2025 05:47 AM (AN2gy)

56
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 07, 2025 05:20 AM (dg+HA)

_________

Took apart the garden fountain yesterday, cleaned everything, put it back together, refilled it and got it going. The little birdies were happy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2025 05:47 AM (dxSpM)

57 56
Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 07, 2025 05:20 AM (dg+HA)

_________

Took apart the garden fountain yesterday, cleaned everything, put it back together, refilled it and got it going. The little birdies were happy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2025 05:47 AM (dxSpM)

*chirp!*

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 05:48 AM (v0TzN)

58 29, been thinking the same; is it gonna be ebola or birdflu or that think they just found down south?
seen trial balloons for all of those in the enemedia past few days.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 05:49 AM (KaBJL)

59 “The rolling beach ball” LOL. I think my name is actually more clever.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 05:50 AM (2SjsW)

60 thank you Rosasharn, now it's Officially Friday! Yay!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 05:50 AM (KaBJL)

61 34 All you had to do was leave the children alone, and you couldn't.

They cannot reproduce naturally so they have to recruit. Been that way for a long time.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 05:50 AM (OPGS/)

62
"Queer and neurodivergent" means not only are you an asshole, but you've weaponized your assholitude and demand everyone applaud you for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2025 05:52 AM (dxSpM)

63 My phone is about to run out of juice so here’s a “dumb blonde joke” . My phone is not blonde but it can be very dumb:

https://tinyurl.com/3yjbsyx4

And no, I really don’t think blondes are automatically dumb.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 05:52 AM (2SjsW)

64 a pretty good take on where things stand right now:

https://is.gd/hydf9Q

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 05:56 AM (KaBJL)

65 At long last, Tay Tay Bowl weekend is here!
Looks like I can stream it on Tubi free of charge.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:00 AM (dg+HA)

66 65, lol, taytay bowl, innit just, though?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 06:02 AM (KaBJL)

67 mornin yall. I'm up to early. It must be because I am worried that prices may rise for Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and other Mattel products.

No, that's not it. Probably something else.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 06:03 AM (vFG9F)

68 We are supposed to have a yard sale at my MIL's house tomorrow. Now's your chance to load up on baskets and plastic plants. If someone will offer me $50 for the whole lot, we can avoid this unpleasantness.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 06:06 AM (vFG9F)

69
The coffee has been prepared.

I repeat, the coffee has been prepared.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2025 06:08 AM (dxSpM)

70 I'm starting to think the Experts are FOS:

"Being a couch potato could add an extra TEN YEARS to your life: Experts warn gym buffs not to overdo it and instead have a good sit down on the sofa"

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 06:09 AM (vFG9F)

71 Qualcomm says its CPUs can be found in 10% of Windows laptops priced over $800.

This is not easily answered since the data is generally not available. Estimating. The average laptop pc price is about $800 but we don't know the distribution of units sold. Pie in the sky heuristic I just made up says the commodity market is priced below $800 and accounts for about about 65% of the units sold.

To me this suggests that Qualcomm in the first 3 quarters the Snapdragon Elite Xs have been on the market they have been able to capture about 5% of the total laptop PC market.

It also should be noted that Qualcomm says it expects the Snapdragon Elite X PCs Will comprise 30 to 50% of the total Laptop PC market by 2029.

I would tend to say at this point it's too early to say if Qualcomm's efforts are ahead or behind of where they expect to be in 2029. My gut says they probably are on target if one accepts the first year sales are going to be a tough going. I think the real indications will occur in year two and three when the second generation CPUs should be out on the market.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 06:10 AM (Q8Bj8)

72 5 In case you missed it, WeirdDave is requesting prayers for his sister, Susan who had a major heart attack.

Info in his ONT post.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 07, 2025 04:02 AM (a1415)

Blessings on your sister Susan, WeirdDave.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:10 AM (v0TzN)

73 "Experts found that animal species with lower metabolic rates tend to live longer than those that are more active.

The best long term evolutionary strategy may be to be 'sluggish', researcher Dr Bruce Lieberman said."

FTW!

Posted by: A slug at February 07, 2025 06:11 AM (vFG9F)

74 70 I'm starting to think the Experts are FOS:

"Being a couch potato could add an extra TEN YEARS to your life: Experts warn gym buffs not to overdo it and instead have a good sit down on the sofa"
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 06:09 AM (vFG9F)

It's all clickbait.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:11 AM (v0TzN)

75 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: And hydrogen bombs.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 07, 2025 06:12 AM (6K6Eu)

76 70 "Being a couch potato could add an extra TEN YEARS to your life: Experts warn gym buffs not to overdo it and instead have a good sit down on the sofa"

And this time next month: "Sitting on the sofa is a warning sign of white privilege and right wing extremism."

It's as if I've seen this happen in real time.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 06:12 AM (OPGS/)

77 Experts found that animal species with lower metabolic rates tend to live longer than those that are more active.
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Now do birds.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 07, 2025 06:13 AM (6K6Eu)

78 Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 07, 2025 06:14 AM (6K6Eu)

79 "Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar"

As my cousin used to say, that's about dumb.

Posted by: A slug at February 07, 2025 06:16 AM (vFG9F)

80 The former head of the USDS - the department now running the DOGE team - has resigned effective immediately. (The Verge) (archive site)

He stated explicitly that he is not taking the fork. Apparently someone already stole it.

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"If you meet the Elon on the road, thrill him."

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 06:16 AM (vAHT7)

81 I've been alive forever
I wrote the very first song

Posted by: A slug at February 07, 2025 06:17 AM (vFG9F)

82 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Sloths everywhere at February 07, 2025 06:18 AM (dg+HA)

83 >>> Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?

The internet tells me it is for cardiovascular health awareness.

Posted by: fluffy at February 07, 2025 06:18 AM (AN2gy)

84 Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 07, 2025 06:14 AM (6K6Eu)

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Apparently, something to do with "American Heart Month" and heart disease awareness.

* Goes back to drinking whiskey to get some sleep *

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 06:19 AM (vAHT7)

85 USDS = United States Digital Service.

Never heard of it. What cabinet secretary does it fall under?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:20 AM (dg+HA)

86 Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?

I assumed it was to announce the beginning of gay pride season which runs 10 months. Minimum.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 06:21 AM (Q8Bj8)

87 I'd forgotten about the Superbowl, completely.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 07, 2025 06:21 AM (O7YUW)

88 Being a couch potato leads to a long life?

Imma live forever!

Posted by: Brian Stelter at February 07, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

89 They scheduled American Heart Month and Black History Monf together?

hahahaha

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 06:21 AM (ppk2X)

90 Off to the electron mines, all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 07, 2025 06:22 AM (omVj0)

91 Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Support your local hooker!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 06:22 AM (fUDLX)

92 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2025 06:22 AM (gbOdA)

93
"This day aims to raise awareness about heart disease, particularly in women, by encouraging people to wear red."

Because men's illnesses don't matter.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:23 AM (dg+HA)

94 I've been alive forever
I wrote the very first song

Posted by: A slug at February 07, 2025 06:17 AM (vFG9F)

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["Our Song" -- my first love in the early 80s:]

"Somewhere in the night we will know
Everything lovers can know
You're my song, music too magic to end
I'll play you over and over again
Lovin' so warm, movin' so right
Closin' our eyes and feelin' alive
We'll just go on burnin' bright
Somewhere in the night"

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 06:23 AM (vAHT7)

95 91 Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Remember Everyone Deployed. It's been around for a while.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 06:25 AM (OPGS/)

96 91 Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Support your local hooker!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 06:22 AM (fUDLX)

Support your local communist?

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:25 AM (v0TzN)

97 Because men's illnesses don't matter.

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Yep. Imagine if women suicided themselves at the rate men do. There'd be billions of dollars spent to study it and figure out how to help or prevent it, ad campaigns, free therapy, etc. to try and reduce the numbers by even just 10%

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 06:25 AM (aWve7)

98 93 Because men's illnesses don't matter.

Men in general don't matter to folks like that. It's been a rant topic of mine for a while.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 06:26 AM (OPGS/)

99 As it happens, I'm wearing my red plaid shirt. Because it was on the top of the pile.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 07, 2025 06:28 AM (6K6Eu)

100 100

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:29 AM (v0TzN)

101
"Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt..."

Posted by: Sunday Morning Coming Down at February 07, 2025 06:30 AM (dg+HA)

102 96 91 Supposedly, today is National Wear Red Day. Anyone know what the hell that's about?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Support your local hooker!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 06:22 AM (fUDLX)

Support your local communist?
Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:25 AM (v0TzN)

I mean, DON'T support your local communist. I'm just wondering if that's what the commemorative day is for.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:30 AM (v0TzN)

103
Excuse me, stewardness, I speak hexadecimal ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:32 AM (xG4kz)

104 7 Say what you wish, but replacing the 11 year old MacBook air with a new 15" M3, 16Gig of ram has been amazing.

So was the $1050.00 price, and no sales tax.

And Mrs VIA's replacement arrives today as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 07, 2025 04:05 AM (a1415)

How did you manage to get that price?

Posted by: Worf at February 07, 2025 06:32 AM (0tSJR)

105 Support your local communist?
Posted by: m

We diid that for the last four years.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 06:33 AM (fUDLX)

106 100 100
Posted by: m

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (fUDLX)

107 And found my cleanest dirty shirt

Isn't that a line from a Johnny Cash song....

Posted by: Colin at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (wlQdF)

108
Red apparel is not among my palette of tasteful colors with which I adorn myself, so National Wear Red Day can go fook itself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (xG4kz)

109 Excuse me, stewardness, I speak hexadecimal ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

That's too bad. I heard binary is all the rage these days.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (Q8Bj8)

110 Good morning! I hope Homan finds out how TdA was alerted to the raid in CO and that the alert was made by some black robed asshat or some government minion.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (3Ope8)

111
Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman
10h
They've been @DOGE'd.

Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
13h
JUST IN: Secretary of State @MarcoRubio has just informed USAID workers that he only needs 294 of them.
There are 14,000 people who work at the agency.
The DOGE Effect.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:35 AM (v0TzN)

112 Excuse me, stewardness, I speak hexadecimal ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

That's too bad. I heard binary is all the rage these days.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (Q8Bj

-------------
Octal is where it's at.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 07, 2025 06:35 AM (6K6Eu)

113 So was the $1050.00 price, and no sales tax.

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Dang, how'd you manage that? Link?

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at February 07, 2025 06:35 AM (8yEgv)

114 Wear Red Day?
Ok, imma go with Merlot.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at February 07, 2025 06:36 AM (dg+HA)

115 Good morning! I hope Homan finds out how TdA was alerted to the raid in CO and that the alert was made by some black robed asshat or some government minion.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

He mentioned yesterday during an interview that he knew how it happened and that he was going to deal with it. I'm assuming somebody's having a very bad week at this moment.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 06:36 AM (Q8Bj8)

116
Isn't that a line from a Johnny Cash song....
Posted by: Colin

Kris Kristofferson, "Sunday Morning Coming Down"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:36 AM (xG4kz)

117 The crooks are going to pounce and seize upon the DOGEer who resigned over eugenics remarks in his social media.

Posted by: davidt at February 07, 2025 06:36 AM (i0F8b)

118 That's too bad. I heard binary is all the rage these days.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (Q8Bj

Your words are incredibly hurtful.

Posted by: Queer Neurodivergent NOAA Employee at February 07, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)

119
I earnestly looked at the site for KHOU, but I didn't see any stories for the development that the City of Houston is running out of money. Our past moron mayor, Sylvester Turner, has been rewarded for his eight years of ineptitude with SJL's congressional seat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2025 06:36 AM (dxSpM)

120 The song title that's typed in the signature field!

107 And found my cleanest dirty shirt

Isn't that a line from a Johnny Cash song....
Posted by: Colin at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (wlQdF)

101
"Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt..."
Posted by: Sunday Morning Coming Down at February 07, 2025 06:30 AM (dg+HA)

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:36 AM (v0TzN)

121 110 Good morning! I hope Homan finds out how TdA was alerted to the raid in CO and that the alert was made by some black robed asshat or some government minion.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (3Ope

He suggested that he knew when he spoke about it in an interview yesterday.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:38 AM (v0TzN)

122
Excuse me, stewardness, I speak hexadecimal ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

That's too bad. I heard binary is all the rage these days.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

Once you go hex, it's nothing but sex

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

123 Morning Bible verse and commentary from a site called "Bible conclusions":

Lamentations 3:22-23 – “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

This verse reminds us that each morning brings renewed mercy and compassion from God. His faithfulness is a constant source of hope, no matter the challenges we face. Reflecting on His steadfast love encourages gratitude and inspires confidence to face the day with trust in His provision.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 06:38 AM (+iHNz)

124 85 USDS = United States Digital Service.

Never heard of it. What cabinet secretary does it fall under?

‐--------
I'm not sure which secretary. I read an article about it earlier in the week. It is part of the brilliance of the DOGE EO. Digital Svcs os a JEF created, congressionally funded IT shop in the executive branch. Originally chartered to streamline gov software and make it more EFFICIENT. The EO put doge under it, and expanded the mission.

Posted by: Hunter at February 07, 2025 06:39 AM (iaME2)

125
*Isn't that a line from a Johnny Cash song....*

Always read the sock.

Posted by: 101 Ahem. at February 07, 2025 06:39 AM (dg+HA)

126 JUST IN: Secretary of State @MarcoRubio has just informed USAID workers that he only needs 294 of them.
There are 14,000 people who work at the agency.

-

It's hard to fathom just how far-reaching this is going to be. It's not just the 14K useless employees being paid for nothing, but the people in NGOs in every major city that have been hoovering up billions of dollars for years, all to accomplish nothing.

I saw something earlier about a billion dollar Raleigh, NC group that was telling their employees to remain calm because Americans will almost certainly appreciate that they need to continue funding artistic designs in beehives and teaching men in Borneo about the intersectionality of sexual diversity.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at February 07, 2025 06:39 AM (8yEgv)

127 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 07, 2025 06:40 AM (6K6Eu)

128 125
*Isn't that a line from a Johnny Cash song....*

Always read the sock.
Posted by: 101 Ahem. at February 07, 2025 06:39 AM (dg+HA)

Nah, it'll be fine.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 07, 2025 06:40 AM (PiwSw)

129 The crooks are going to pounce and seize upon the DOGEer who resigned over eugenics remarks in his social media.

-

Abortion good, eugenics bad. Or something.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at February 07, 2025 06:40 AM (8yEgv)

130 Red apparel is not among my palette of tasteful colors with which I adorn myself, so National Wear Red Day can go fook itself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (xG4kz)

"Take Off That Red Shirt!"

[a cheer when Cal played Stanford]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 07, 2025 06:41 AM (g0MSz)

131 Best three weeks ever!

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2025 06:41 AM (NgQJX)

132 USDS = United States Digital Service.

Never heard of it. What cabinet secretary does it fall under?

‐--------
I'm not sure which secretary. I read an article about it earlier in the week. It is part of the brilliance of the DOGE EO. Digital Svcs os a JEF created, congressionally funded IT shop in the executive branch. Originally chartered to streamline gov software and make it more EFFICIENT. The EO put doge under it, and expanded the mission.
Posted by: Hunter at February 07, 2025 06:39 AM (iaME2)

Executive Office of the President.

No cabinet secretary involved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 06:41 AM (ExV1e)

133
Born-e-o, ee-yo-uh!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:42 AM (xG4kz)

134 Excuse me, stewardness, I speak hexadecimal ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:32 AM (xG4kz)
-

You're x'10'.
You're beautiful.
And you're mine!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2025 06:45 AM (KTCHq)

135
Take Off That Red Shirt!"

[a cheer when Cal played Stanford]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Excuse me, stewardess, I went to Cal.

(Let's keep that on the down low, shall we?)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)

136 *Wonders what "JEF created" night mean. Decides not to care.*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:45 AM (dg+HA)

137 ‘See how they fly like pigs in the sky…….’
- DOGE is making them fly.

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2025 06:46 AM (jgmnb)

138
IT'S NOT RED -- IT'S CARDINAL!!!!

-- Stamfurd alums

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:46 AM (xG4kz)

139 might mean

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:46 AM (dg+HA)

140 >Digital Svcs os a JEF created, congressionally funded IT shop in the executive branch.

Clock Boy.

Posted by: davidt at February 07, 2025 06:46 AM (i0F8b)

141 They got CNN to say Big Balls with a chyron

https://x.com/alx/status/
1887672328986734930?mx=2

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2025 06:48 AM (gbOdA)

142
"Wonders what "JEF created" night mean. Decides not to care.*
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

The WH office subsumed by DOGE was created by the Jug-Eared Fuck and it has been co-opted and turned on everything in the feral gubmint used by the JEF to destroy this country.

Irony to the irony power karma

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:49 AM (xG4kz)

143 136 *Wonders what "JEF created" night mean. Decides not to care.*
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:45 AM (dg+HA)

JEF = Barack Obama

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 06:49 AM (v0TzN)

144 *Wear Red Day*
This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Dead Star Trek characters at February 07, 2025 06:50 AM (dg+HA)

145 136 *Wonders what "JEF created" night mean. Decides not to care.*

Jug Eared Fvck. A reference to the President before Trump's first term.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 06:50 AM (OPGS/)

146 So, what did this DOGE kid actually post? I see lots of allegations but no actual posts.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 07, 2025 06:51 AM (3Ope8)

147
They got CNN to say Big Balls with a chyron

They like big balls and they cannot lie

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:51 AM (xG4kz)

148 What did Allen G call him?

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2025 06:52 AM (jgmnb)

149 Anyone know what the DOGE guy posted that the left pounced on?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 06:52 AM (ExV1e)

150
SCOAMF

Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:53 AM (xG4kz)

151 43 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

152 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

153 "JEF = Jug-Eared Fuck = Barack Obama."

*Tucks it neatly into the AOSHQ lexicon file*

Duly noted.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:54 AM (dg+HA)

154 JEF is the One We Have Been Waiting For

Posted by: His legion of minions, who are totally not a cult at February 07, 2025 06:54 AM (PiwSw)

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

FIFY... ;-)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 07, 2025 06:55 AM (3Ope8)

156 Anyone know what the DOGE guy posted that the left pounced on?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 06:52 AM (ExV1e)

Okay. This is pretty horrific stuff...

Marko Elez resigned after the WSJ asked the White House about his connection to an account and its since-deleted posts. In September 2024, the account posted “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” and “Normalize Indian hate.” It also advocated a “eugenic immigration policy” in the weeks leading up to President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025.

I assume there'll be calls for impeaching Trump and executing all members of DOGE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 06:57 AM (ExV1e)

157 154 JEF is the One We Have Been Waiting For.

And yet we're not allowed to see his college transcripts.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 06:58 AM (dg+HA)

158 They got CNN to say Big Balls with a chyron

They like big balls and they cannot lie
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:51 AM (xG4kz)

You know who is sad?

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 07, 2025 06:58 AM (Aqu9a)

159
I see where RFKj's nomination has passed the cloture vote and now cn proceed to the confirmation vote.

Get your butt in gear on the rest of them, Thune.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 06:58 AM (xG4kz)

160 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

And Mrs VIA's replacement arrives today as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Can I have your stuff? Your current wife is stunning, brave, and will not take any of that shit. Even from you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

161 Anyone know what the DOGE guy posted that the left pounced on?

-

It's funny but I bet the vast majority of people no longer care, similar to how they no longer care about concerns of racism or white supremacy.

Worse, I bet they've moved lots of people into the ____-curious" category of lots of things since they've noticed that their own children are at risk by the protected groups.

Way to go, guys. Heck of a job.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Women, does your job make you feminine and inspirational or stressed and brittle? at February 07, 2025 06:59 AM (8yEgv)

162 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison!

The Dems are trying to slow everything down, like IJA bitter-enders in Iwo Jima.

More financial and legal napalm is needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

163 144, lol!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 07:00 AM (KaBJL)

164 144 *Wear Red Day*
This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Dead Star Trek characters at February 07, 2025 06:50 AM (dg+HA)

I feel compelled to point out that Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott often wrote red in the TOS.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 07, 2025 07:00 AM (PiwSw)

165 Wait. Does “Normalize Indian hate.” refer to feather or tech support?
It can be hard to keep up with this stuff.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 07:00 AM (dg+HA)

166 I feel compelled to point out that Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott often wrote red in the TOS.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 07, 2025 07:00 AM (PiwSw)

And was smart enough to almost never be on an away team.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:01 AM (ExV1e)

167
I feel compelled to point out that Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott often wrote red in the TOS.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher

And he now is dead. Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:01 AM (xG4kz)

168 Wait. Does “Normalize Indian hate.” refer to feather or tech support?
It can be hard to keep up with this stuff.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 07:00 AM (dg+HA)

I assume tech support. I further assume that he committed the crime of noticing and made an inelegant quip on the matter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:02 AM (ExV1e)

169 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 07, 2025 07:02 AM (hoCmQ)

170 used to have a different nic

The engineers had to run the plant. They never got off early for liberty.

Now, pantyhose wearing Ops pukes - sure. They are in red as they transport down.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

171 147
They got CNN to say Big Balls with a chyron

They like big balls and they cannot lie

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

youtu.be/4WwJ6OVSwkM

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 07, 2025 07:02 AM (sAmhv)

172 The engineers had to run the plant. They never got off early for liberty.

Oh, I'm well aware.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:03 AM (ExV1e)

173 In September 2024, the account posted “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” and “Normalize Indian hate.” It also advocated a “eugenic immigration policy” in the weeks leading up to President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025.

The media needs you to care about things like this. The only thing that the administration needs to do is release more information on places like USAID and where they are wasting money.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 07:04 AM (OPGS/)

174 The WSJ says some Aussie chick (originally from Seattle) named Julie Inman Grant (or to her friends, "Karen") is in charge of censoring the internet now. She works for the Australian government and has the power to order the take down of any post originating anywhere in the world that "offends an Australian adult". Since she is not entirely bad looking in a serious bureaucrat kind of way, I may have to do more research.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:05 AM (CLI7x)

175
*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 07, 2025 07:05 AM (EFZgU)

176
Wait. Does “Normalize Indian hate.” refer to feather or tech support?
It can be hard to keep up with this stuff.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Dot, not feather. The esteemed ethnologist, J'Blowme can fill in the details for you is you stop by the 7-Eleven at Foulk and Grubb between the hours of nine and ten every morning.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:05 AM (xG4kz)

177 I used to have a different nic

Of course. Not that you are bitter, or anything. I was in Engineering too. All those Brit lasses in the Med, but I was onboard. **Sigh**

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

178 172 The engineers had to run the plant. They never got off early for liberty.

Oh, I'm well aware.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:03 AM (ExV1e
Squinty-eyed smoking in daylight on the fantail.

Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2025 07:05 AM (jgmnb)

179 Hillary Clinton

Give back the money!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

180 146 So, what did this DOGE kid actually post? I see lots of allegations but no actual posts.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 07, 2025 06:51 AM (3Ope

I'm hoping that Elon will address it. Bluntly; briefly.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:06 AM (v0TzN)

181 Eromero

Only with a fresh air chit in hand.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

182 Lamentations 3:22-23 – “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

Thanks for that, Fenelon. Like water in a dry and thirsty land.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 07, 2025 07:06 AM (SfhV1)

183 They got CNN to say Big Balls with a chyron

They like big balls and they cannot lie

Better, they got David Hogg and Chuck Schumer to put out statements that they oppose Big Balls.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2025 07:08 AM (Dstek)

184 Squinty-eyed smoking in daylight on the fantail.
Posted by: Eromero at February 07, 2025 07:05 AM (jgmnb)

Bah. You fancy surface boys with your fantails.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:08 AM (ExV1e)

185 If he was gonna resign anyway why not take the buyout UNLESS he was fired for cause

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 07, 2025 07:08 AM (OTdqV)

186 Oh man, please let Musk reopen the H1B discussion and what the dot Indians, including Vivek, were saying about Americans.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at February 07, 2025 07:08 AM (CS7as)

187 Also a Hawaiian judge has ordered DOGE shut down and the Democrats get all their money plus interest. Eric Swalwell is delighted, which is always a bad sign.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 07, 2025 07:09 AM (Dstek)

188 {{{grammie winger}}}

Prayers continue to ascend for the Rev. How is he doing?

And are you OK?

FWIW, one of my 3rd graders now has a white pasteboard signed by Jordie Nelson. He visited the elementary school yesterday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

189 Funny thing about CNN putting the term "Big Balls" into the chyron.
More people saw it via Twitter than they did via CNN.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 07:09 AM (dg+HA)

190 I'm hoping that Elon will address it. Bluntly; briefly.
Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:06 AM (v0TzN)

1. Regardless of his opinions on matters of marriage, immigration, or race relations, it had nothing to do with the work he was doing.
2. He has resigned and will now dedicate himself to discovering who went through his deleted posts and thoroughly examining their past.
3. DOGE has shut down the Department of Whiny Bitches.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:11 AM (ExV1e)

191 In September 2024, the account posted “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” and “Normalize Indian hate.”

The kid is what, 20 something? Someone should have been taken him to the woodshed and then told him to stay off social media. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and is free to speak, even when it makes them look stupid. The MSM is the prime example of that.

It also advocated a “eugenic immigration policy” in the weeks leading up to President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025.

Sorry but that sounds like something made up. Show me the words he posted and I'll be the judge.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 07, 2025 07:11 AM (3Ope8)

192 Which property will leave a larger smoking crater next month?

Assassin's Creed: Shadows - March 20th
Snow White - March 21st?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 07, 2025 07:11 AM (/3it3)

193 Prayers continue to ascend for the Rev. How is he doing?

And are you OK?

FWIW, one of my 3rd graders now has a white pasteboard signed by Jordie Nelson. He visited the elementary school yesterday.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

I would love to have that! One day I shall sit outside his house and beg for scraps.

Rev is doing poorly. They are going to try a different procedure on him today to see if they can head off the bad stuff. He is one sad puppy.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 07, 2025 07:11 AM (SfhV1)

194 173, 191, this

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 07:12 AM (KaBJL)

195 If he was gonna resign anyway why not take the buyout UNLESS he was fired for cause
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 07, 2025 07:08 AM (OTdqV)

This made his going away flounce ever so much more dramatic. Generations hence shall build statues to him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:12 AM (ExV1e)

196 191 Sorry but that sounds like something made up. Show me the words he posted and I'll be the judge.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 07, 2025 07:11 AM (3Ope

Agreed.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:13 AM (v0TzN)

197
The banality of the bafflegab names hsed forcall the pass through organizations used to launder USAID funds is off the charts

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:13 AM (xG4kz)

198 A staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.
=================
A Planned Parenthood supporter?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:13 AM (3exNb)

199 prayers for both of you, grammie!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 07, 2025 07:13 AM (KaBJL)

200 200

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:14 AM (v0TzN)

201
201
C'mon, at this time of morning, a moron could do it!

Posted by: MkY at February 07, 2025 07:15 AM (cPGH3)

202 Thank you sock_rat_eez

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 07, 2025 07:15 AM (SfhV1)

203 Have a great day, everyone.

May ascending prayers be answered, and a faith in a divine being infuse your life as a power of good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 07, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

204 Ha! Newsweek, which apparently still exists, claims a (Hawaiian) Federal Judge was accidentally included in an Office Of Personnel Management email soliciting his early retirement and offering a package.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:16 AM (3exNb)

205 "The Banality of the Bafflegab Names" was Lewis Carroll's working title for the work that ultimately became Alice In Wonderland.

My word as a Biden.

Posted by: Not a joke at February 07, 2025 07:18 AM (dg+HA)

206 201
201
C'mon, at this time of morning, a moron could do it!
Posted by: MkY at February 07, 2025 07:15 AM (cPGH3)

It's a training ground.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:18 AM (v0TzN)

207
"used for all"

There has been a dramatic change in the character of "corrections" applied by autocucumber in recent months. There now appear to be many instances where the correction is of the form

{ first part of word } [ inserted and completely different word ] { second part of word }

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:19 AM (xG4kz)

208 A staffer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.

Too bad he didn't try to take a potshot at POTUS in the run-up to November 5, he would have had his entire social media, academic and personal life wiped clean prior to anyone even knowing his name.

Pro Tip: If you get involved in any way of effecting a Party Member's Grift, wipe your entire history clean, so clean your own mother doesn't remember giving birth to you.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 07, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)

209 Samantha Power wrote an Op Ed in the NYT advocating keeping US AID, but she didn't apologize for undermining the American Republic. So...we grade that effort as "lame".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:20 AM (3exNb)

210 grammie, a prayer for a complete and immediate recovery.

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

211 WSJ broke the DOGE resignation story. They might have screen shots.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:20 AM (v0TzN)

212 Are there any confirmation hearings/votes scheduled for today? It would give me something to watch while sitting at the hospital.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 07, 2025 07:22 AM (SfhV1)

213 This made his going away flounce ever so much more dramatic. Generations hence shall build statues to him.

Slip loose a counter-smear and the Left will tear the statue down.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 07, 2025 07:22 AM (a4flb)

214 208 Pro Tip: If you get involved in any way of effecting a Party Member's Grift, wipe your entire history clean, so clean your own mother doesn't remember giving birth to you.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 07, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)

And it's not like he didn't know how.

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:22 AM (v0TzN)

215 Lefty Propaganda News sites are rushing to assure Americans that the government buying large numbers of "Pro" subscriptions for vast amounts of money is not a secret way to funnel money to lefty Propaganda News sites to promote pro-Junta propaganda. Uh-uh, no way, say they. Nothing to see here. Just a conspiracy theory.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:23 AM (3exNb)

216 Samantha Power wrote an Op Ed in the NYT advocating keeping US AID, but she didn't apologize for undermining the American Republic. So...we grade that effort as "lame".

Of course she would write that Op Ed. She would write the same thing for justifying the Mob or Hamas, people tend to fight to keep their easy food pellet coming.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 07, 2025 07:23 AM (a4flb)

217
WSJ broke the DOGE resignation story

DOGE can simply pull in the next high functioning nerd afflicted with autism to carry on the task.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:23 AM (xG4kz)

218 217 DOGE can simply pull in the next high functioning nerd afflicted with autism to carry on the task.

I have heard the term "weaponized autism" in reference to 4Chan. Nice to see it being used for good.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 07:25 AM (OPGS/)

219 Story on how the FAA fucked up the ATC

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/
the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

220 DOGE can simply pull in the next high functioning nerd afflicted with autism to carry on the task.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:23 AM (xG4kz)

There's a reason they went after this guy's history. He's one of the two DOGE members, listed by name, for whom a judge approved access to the Treasury stuff. Expect an all-hands effort to disqualify the other one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

221 Some asshole NYT reporter has published the names addresses and bios of the entire WH DOGE staff members.

This, after a WSJ reporterette with a USAID background, out of Columbia journalism, doxxed one of the DOGE guys and got him fired because of a mean tweet when he was in school.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 07, 2025 07:26 AM (KiBMU)

222 So some obscure government employee quits on the deadline provided. Why am I supposed to care? And why am I supposed to care he enjoyed wasting hundreds of billions of dollars? They overthrew the Republic a long time ago and we need to throw out the lot of them and start over.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at February 07, 2025 07:26 AM (YcfMX)

223 Federal Election Chair Ellen Weintraub was fired by PDJT but she won't come out of her office because, she says, "proper procedure was not followed". No idea what that means, except she is hunkered down.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:27 AM (3exNb)

224 109 Excuse me, stewardness, I speak hexadecimal ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

That's too bad. I heard binary is all the rage these days.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 06:34 AM (Q8Bj

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No no no, it's non-binary! Sheesh, get with the program.

Posted by: Ciampino - Your base is 3 at February 07, 2025 07:27 AM (KjLnc)

225 Grammie- so sorry to hear that. Prayers for a better outcome, strength for you both and skill and knowledge for his docs.

Posted by: sal at February 07, 2025 07:27 AM (f+FmA)

226 Lefty Propaganda News sites are rushing to assure Americans that the government buying large numbers of "Pro" subscriptions for vast amounts of money is not a secret way to funnel money to lefty Propaganda News sites to promote pro-Junta propaganda. Uh-uh, no way, say they. Nothing to see here. Just a conspiracy theory.

They should title that article "Reflections of a Public Man"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 07, 2025 07:27 AM (a4flb)

227
Samantha Power wrote an Op Ed in the NYT advocating keeping US AID, but she didn't apologize for undermining the American Republic. So...we grade that effort as "lame".
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Tell us that she had the "gay" part already nailed down. Lie if you must.

-- the "imagineers" at Disney who love them those gay and lame story lines

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:28 AM (xG4kz)

228 After the smoke clears in maybe 10 years "The DOGE Boys" might make a pretty good movie.

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

229 I think I might start a 501c:
Union of Concerned High Functioning Nerds Afflicted with Autism.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 07:29 AM (dg+HA)

230 Federal Election Chair Ellen Weintraub was fired by PDJT but she won't come out of her office because, she says, "proper procedure was not followed". No idea what that means, except she is hunkered down.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:27 AM (3exNb)

Cut off phone, power, internet. Nothing goes in, nothing comes out. Invalidate her access badge. When she leaves the office, change the lock.

Have one of the DOGE guys hack her X account and post something where she called the JEF a fag or something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

231 230 Knock knock. Candygram for Ellen. Flash bang gets tossed in, problem solved.

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

232 A Michigan state legislator has voluntarily had herself sterilized so that she won't become pregnant while Trump is President. When it was pointed out he will only be in office for four years, she said (and I think this is a quote), "No shit? Really? Darn!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:31 AM (3exNb)

233 Grammie, prayers for you and the Rev.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 07, 2025 07:32 AM (OPGS/)

234
Federal Election Chair Ellen Weintraub was fired by PDJT but she won't come out of her office because, she says, "proper procedure was not followed". No idea what that means, except she is hunkered down.

A couple of flash-bang grenades rolled into her office will solve that conundrum.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:32 AM (xG4kz)

235 Landshark.

Posted by: Chevy Chase at February 07, 2025 07:32 AM (dg+HA)

236 Horde.

231 230 Knock knock. Candygram for Ellen. Flash bang gets tossed in, problem solved.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 07, 2025 07:31 AM (gm9Sb)

234
Federal Election Chair Ellen Weintraub was fired by PDJT but she won't come out of her office because, she says, "proper procedure was not followed". No idea what that means, except she is hunkered down.

A couple of flash-bang grenades rolled into her office will solve that conundrum.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:32 AM (xG4kz)

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:32 AM (v0TzN)

237
Yeah, bill in arkansas!

** fist bump **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! at February 07, 2025 07:33 AM (xG4kz)

238 A Michigan state legislator has voluntarily had herself sterilized so that she won't become pregnant while Trump is President. When it was pointed out he will only be in office for four years, she said (and I think this is a quote), "No shit? Really? Darn!"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:31 AM (3exNb)

She's 36, single, and an "open bisexual". I'm guessing she'd have to set out to get pregnant.

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

239 232 A Michigan state legislator has voluntarily had herself sterilized so that she won't become pregnant while Trump is President.

So much winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 07, 2025 07:33 AM (dg+HA)

240 237 Back atcha!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 07, 2025 07:34 AM (gm9Sb)

241 Ellen Weintraub should be remived bunthe U.S. Marshals

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 07, 2025 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

242 *looks at fingers which don't work*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 07, 2025 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

243 She's 36, single, and an "open bisexual". I'm guessing she'd have to set out to get pregnant.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

She's actually not unattractive though she has two markers- nose ring and danger glasses.
She may just be getting drama virtue points for doing something she wanted to do anyway.

Posted by: sal at February 07, 2025 07:37 AM (f+FmA)

244
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

245 Empty a spray can of Jerry Nadler's Fart in a Can (available at the Congressman's website) into the vents.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 07, 2025 07:38 AM (gm9Sb)

246
SMX 🇺🇸
@iam_smx
Feb 6
Let us be honest NGO means Nothing Going On!

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:38 AM (v0TzN)

247 Ask your doctor if Remived Bunthe is right for you.

Posted by: The Marketing Department at February 07, 2025 07:38 AM (dg+HA)

248
JJ is here

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

249 247 Ask your doctor if Remived Bunthe is right for you.
Posted by: The Marketing Department at February 07, 2025 07:38 AM (dg+HA)

; )

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:39 AM (v0TzN)

250 Amidst all the panic over federal layoffs, lets not forget the civilian federal workforce expanded under Biden from just under 2 million people to nearly 2.4 million. Let's also not forget Clinton did a RIF of 370,000 people back in March 1994, when the civilian workforce was about 2.1 million.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:41 AM (3exNb)

251 ...“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” and “Normalize Indian hate.”

The kid is what, 20 something? Someone should have been taken him to the woodshed and then told him to stay off social media..

--

If he's 20 all he's known is black and gay and protected classes, all while he's been the best of the best everywhere and has watched blacks, gays, and dot-indians get preferences over himself and his friends. I'm fine with him being fired, but any black, gay, indian, etc. that has posted similar has to be fired, too. It can't just go one way.

We don't live in heritage America any longer. Obama destroyed it. We are dealing with it now, but we're going to have to go through some race-based realities to get back to the America of the 90s.

If you missed it, the H1B stuff blew up over Christmas. Indians from a nation without indoor plumbing were calling Americans stupid because they didn't want to be indentured servants working 80+ hours a week for 2/3rds the wage and threat of deportation.

This young man is trying to change society the way he's been shown by the protected classes. And drawing attention to things like H1Bs and such will only help.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 07:41 AM (aWve7)

252 nood

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 07:44 AM (aWve7)

253 JJS is in da house

Posted by: Bill Clinton loves Amagansett at February 07, 2025 07:44 AM (3exNb)

254 Federal Election Chair Ellen Weintraub was fired by PDJT but she won't come out of her office because, she says, "proper procedure was not followed".

She is in year 23 of her 6 year term.

She's an Abbas wannabe.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 07, 2025 07:44 AM (aD39U)

255 250 Amidst all the panic over federal layoffs, lets not forget the civilian federal workforce expanded under Biden from just under 2 million people to nearly 2.4 million. Let's also not forget Clinton did a RIF of 370,000 people back in March 1994, when the civilian workforce was about 2.1 million.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 07:41 AM (3exNb)

RIF = Reduction in Force

Posted by: m at February 07, 2025 07:45 AM (v0TzN)

256 The stock Amiga 1000 had 256K of RAM. Quite quickly Commodore recognised that this wasn't really enough, and the A500 (in every other sense a cost-reduced 1000) started with 512, later upgrading to 1Mb.

And it wasn't completely useless at non-electronic music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKF1AjxiEtw

Posted by: Sam Duncan at February 07, 2025 09:24 AM (ZBurU)

257 Many, many, many moons ago, I was a proud owner of an Amiga 1000. When I bought it, it shipped with an astounding 256K of ram then you could get the 256k expansion module. If my clouded memory serves me right, the price was $1,800 in 1987. This computer served me well over the years. I took this machine from Colorado to FRG to Louisiana to Texas to California. I used this system in Germany to help with printing out hand receipts and such other documents when the powers that be decided to make me the Company supply daddy (picked up the secondary MOS of 76Y).

Did you know that the Amiga 1000 will run OK behind a transformer? However, you had to beware of "guru meditation"(the OS vaper locking Amega DOS 3.1)

Posted by: Eric (the former OC Tanker) at February 07, 2025 11:13 AM (2MADe)

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