Daily Tech News 12 February 2025

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Average CPU speed actually went down in 2024, for the first time in twenty years. (Twitter)

There's a lot of speculation as to why, but no clear answers. The fastest available desktop CPUs are two years old, with no replacement models in sight. Meanwhile Intel has dropped its hyper-threading support - multiple threads per CPU core - which meant multi-threaded scores declined for newer chips.

But this average includes AMD chips which still have hyper-threading, and Apple chips which never had hyper-threading, so who knows?

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A new attack on Google's Gemini AI lets users permanently plant false memories into the system, so that they are shared with unsuspecting users on the same account. (Ars Technica)

As far as I can tell, this doesn't affect the core Gemini training data; that's fixed irrevocably. So it doesn't persist across Google accounts, limiting the damage it can do.

But LLMs are fundamentally insecure to this kind of attack, like kindly grandmothers with confidence tricksters, and every patch is just a Band-Aid atop a growing heap of Band-Aids.
How Elon Musk's bid for OpenAI could gum up Sam Altman's for-profit conversion. (Tech Crunch)

OpenAI is still, in theory, a non-profit operation with a secondary for-profit company commercialising the product. The bid was made for the non-profit group which owns all the intellectual property.

The state attorneys general in California and Delaware have already filed inquiries with OpenAI over its plans and the valuation of the nonprofit entity, so Sam Altman and the commercial side of OpenAI cannot underbid in their attempt to wrest control.
"Musk is throwing a spanner into the works," said Stephen Diamond, a lawyer who represented Musk's opponents in corporate governance battles at Tesla, in an interview with TechCrunch. "He's exploiting the fiduciary obligation of the nonprofit board to not undersell the asset. [Musk's bid> is something OpenAI has to pay attention to."
Which is the last thing Altman wants right now.
While Tech Crunch has a sane article mentioning Elon Musk, other sites have gone as insane as The Verge. (The Register)

The writer feebly attempts to liken Elon Musk's team rooting out waste and fraud to a CPU microcode exploit, ignoring the fact that in such an analogy the CPU would be on fire to begin with.
Speaking of AI Google is considering using it to make Chrome change compromised passwords for you automatically. (Ars Technica)

I assume they mean in navigating the password change process for each compromised website; this is not otherwise complicated.
Smol GPU is an open-source GPU for RISC-V designs. (GitHub)

Meant more as a learning tool than a real product, but if you are synthesizing a small RISC-V core on an FPGA - and who isn't, these days - and need a GPU to go with it, it might be worth a look.

Musical Interlude

Song is Counting Stars by One Republic. Movie is Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea by Hayao Miyazaki.

Disclaimer: Every piece of ham I eat makes me feel alive.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Nope, this is not what every SciFi reader or writer understands by teleportation.

Breakthrough as Oxford scientists say they've achieved teleportation

https://mol.im/a/14386391

Posted by: Ciampino - take the funding away until they beg then go elsewhere at February 12, 2025 04:03 AM (KjLnc)

2 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 04:03 AM (omVj0)

3 That was a repost from the ONT as no one commented.

Posted by: Ciampino - take the funding away until they beg then go elsewhere at February 12, 2025 04:04 AM (KjLnc)

4 Well seems no one is here so I'll take a nap.

Posted by: Ciampino - take the nap & come back later at February 12, 2025 04:08 AM (KjLnc)

5 Almost, almost . . .!

Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! 'Tis Woden's Day, if only by a few hours here, and soon we will be halfway along the winding dusty trail to the weekend!

Thanks, all, for the comments yesterday about my impending retirement. It seems I have no one else to talk to about it -- Linda does not want to discuss it and my co-workers, with one exception, are too young to envision such a thing as "not *having* to work." (I was like that too in my forties.)

Anyway! We're going to make another try at getting into Texas Roadhouse after I finish work on Thursday. I'm sure the place will still be crowded even then, but nothing like a Friday or Saturday. (I hope.) I dread the traffic, I dread the wait for a table, but hey, Valentine's Day, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 04:09 AM (omVj0)

6 Mornin'

I'll have to dig my car out later this afternoon. Need it. Got some grocery shopping to do. It did finally stop snowing. Got about 6-8 inches.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 04:10 AM (sAmhv)

7 Morning, Puddleglum and Ciampino! Has anyone heard from JQ lately? She was in pretty dire straits last week with her home situation.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 04:11 AM (omVj0)

8 Mornin' Pixy, Ciampino, Wolfus, Puddleglum, and the rest of the Horde when y'all arrive.

Coffee. Definitely coffee.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 04:12 AM (O7YUW)

9 I always like those musical interludes with anime. Not a big anime fan but some of it is interesting looking anyway. Except Cowboy Beebop, which is one of the top 10 greatest TV shows in history. Really. It's the only anime I own. Its anime for people who are meh about anime.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

10 And despite not feeling like it, as usual, I have to go work out. I try to get three times a week at a minimum, and I missed Sunday, so I have only one session in so far. Today and Friday, I guess; it may be raining tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 04:13 AM (omVj0)

11 JQ was posting on the ONT for a bit.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

12 G'morning, all.

Probate Court went smoothly yesterday, so as soon as the letters of Cert arrive from the court, I can begin the executor's duties for my father's estate.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2025 04:22 AM (a1415)

13 I didn't get to listen the the entire press briefing from the Oval Office with Trump and Musk so I'll have to listen today. I knew that Musk was brilliant and I've always thought he was rather a nice looking man, but he's funny as well. When he came over here to go to UPenn he must have had to fight off women with a stick, although if he has eight kids there were obviously times when he was not fighting them off.

And the reason I didn't get to listen to him last night was because I was doing a Bible study with some of the folks at the senior center whom I normally do a worship service with once a month. The Bible study new thing for me with that group. They had a nice man who did it before but he is 90, God bless him, and his family didn't want him to drive over there anymore. Anyway, I was a little nervous but I think it went well and I got home before the somewhat heavier snow hit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 04:24 AM (2+5wL)

14 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2025 04:22 AM (a1415)

Glad things went smoothly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 04:25 AM (2+5wL)

15 20th

Posted by: eleven at February 12, 2025 04:26 AM (fV+MH)

16 Pixy: I saw that article at The Register yesterday. I was more than a little disappointed.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 04:26 AM (O7YUW)

17 "Average CPU speed actually went down in 2024, for the first time in twenty years."

Klimate Khange.

Morning all!

Posted by: Bruce at February 12, 2025 04:26 AM (oEgF3)

18 G'morning, Fen.

I believe we may even begin to get back into Bible study here in a bit as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2025 04:27 AM (a1415)

19 Congrats Wolfus on the retirement date.

Posted by: Bruce at February 12, 2025 04:27 AM (oEgF3)

20 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2025 04:27 AM (a1415)

I think that's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 04:30 AM (2+5wL)

21 Lot's of talk about Nancy Mace yesterday.

Now it looks like one opponent has decided to not run against the Republican nominee, whoever that may ultimately be, for Governor.

https://tinyurl.com/2nke7njz

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2025 04:32 AM (a1415)

22 6 Mornin'

I'll have to dig my car out later this afternoon. Need it. Got some grocery shopping to do. It did finally stop snowing. Got about 6-8 inches.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 04:10 AM (sAmhv)

That is in todays forecast - supposed to start late morning..roughly same amount forecast.

Posted by: a dude in MI at February 12, 2025 04:34 AM (+I6Y/)

23 Barber shop in Idaho gives free hair cuts to veterans to thank them for their service. Sunny Skyz article:

https://tinyurl.com/3eywsuxw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 04:35 AM (2+5wL)

24 Well, I might not be here tomorrow. It's gonna dump almost 4 inches of snow today! In Northern Illinois!! In February!!!

Oh, the Huge Manatee!!!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 12, 2025 04:35 AM (oEgF3)

25 Good morning! Rain and thunder woke up the tiny pups so I guess I had to get up too. Sitting here going through emails and prepping for a busy morning of fire fighting and jackassery management wondering why I didn't stay retired.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 12, 2025 04:35 AM (3Ope8)

26 Happy news! After just 2 weeks on targeted gene therapy, my tumor marker has dropped from a high of 586 to just 91 (half of my original number back in October)! It should be below 37.

So excited - this means the therapy is working!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 12, 2025 04:38 AM (SRRAx)

27 So excited - this means the therapy is working!
Posted by: Teresa

Yayyyyyyy! Great news.

Posted by: Bruce at February 12, 2025 04:39 AM (oEgF3)

28 Teresa...

That is fantastic news!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2025 04:43 AM (a1415)

29 26>> That is FANTASTIC news Teresa in FW!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 12, 2025 04:43 AM (3Ope8)

30 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - E

Thanks for letting us know. Good news. Prayers continue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 04:46 AM (2+5wL)

31 - "....wondering why I didn't stay retired." - COJ

The Lord wrote the pages of my book but I can't imagine what it would take for me to go back to work. At least not a job with a commute, a boss, a salary... and working from home on a computer is out because, well, computers.

Trying to keep up with my yard/house and stuff I do at the widow's place, which is a privilege, is plenty.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 12, 2025 04:49 AM (hM2Rg)

32 Proverbs 5:3-8

Women reflects on God's blessings in her life:

https://tinyurl.com/6s3h6nzc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 04:54 AM (2+5wL)

33 TeeJ -
A friend of mine who provided some very sage and helpful guidance back in the day (30+ years ago) asked me to come help him work a really big project. His guidance is what got me out of the 'touch labor' aspect of the job and into 'engineering and certification' side of the job, so I wanted to return the favor.

I do have to admit though, not needing to work to pay for a house and a car and all the other things we've accumulated and paid off does put an entirely different perspective on "work".

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 12, 2025 05:02 AM (3Ope8)

34 - Teresa, great news. Of course the prayers continue as God brings you to mind.
As do the most important prayer for the folks here, corporatly.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 12, 2025 05:02 AM (hM2Rg)

35 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 12, 2025 05:03 AM (dg+HA)

36 G'Day everyone
I think it stopped snowing, doesn't look too much fell

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 05:06 AM (fwDg9)

37
24 Well, I might not be here tomorrow. It's gonna dump almost 4 inches of snow today! In Northern Illinois!! In February!!!

Oh, the Huge Manatee!!!!
Posted by: Bruce at Fe

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Yep. My third winter back here in north central Illinois and we *may* finally get a snowfall like so many I saw growing up in Chicago.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 05:11 AM (T+xtP)

38 - @33 - COJ

Understandable and commendable.
Hopefully, when the huge project is over,,, was it you that was talking about a road trip on the scooter the other day? 😁

Posted by: TeeJ at February 12, 2025 05:11 AM (hM2Rg)

39 Happy to have FenSpouse with me a little longer today because school was delayed and he doesn't have to live until two hours later. Bonus: He kindly said he would clean off my car, even though it only looks like about two inches

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 05:11 AM (42Vb+)

40 "leave" not "live"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 05:14 AM (h3eYR)

41 Time for the Morning Walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2025 05:17 AM (a1415)

42 A brilliant man, Elon Musk has a way of explaining difficult topics in simple terms. And STILL the media doesn't get it.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 05:18 AM (uOGSL)

43 - Teej, Teej, Teej
"As do..."?
Well, I've never been wordsmithy.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 12, 2025 05:19 AM (hM2Rg)

44 40 "leave" not "live"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 05:14 AM (h3eYR)

Glad you clarified! :-)

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 05:20 AM (uOGSL)

45 They're predicting 6 to 10 inches of snow + ice pellets for my area starting tonight and into Thursday.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:20 AM (O7YUW)

46 Cold and wet here, rain coming down like a cow pissin on a flat rock. Should be a delightful commute....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 12, 2025 05:22 AM (3Ope8)

47 @40/FenelonSpoke: { "leave" not "live" }

If anyone wants me living by departure time, I'd better have had my coffee! :-)

But not too much, otherwise by the time I'm done my 3 hour run, it's like there's a Jack Russell Terrier jumping up and down on my bladder.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:22 AM (O7YUW)

48 A brilliant man, Elon Musk has a way of explaining difficult topics in simple terms. And STILL the media doesn't get it.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 05:18 AM (uOGSL)

No explanation is sufficient for someone who refuses to understand.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 12, 2025 05:23 AM (ExV1e)

49 I see about 70,000 federal workers have applied for early retirement. Their deals are better than most average private company deals. Having gone through this with a private company, you have to look at it as a good deal if you have more than 20 years. Even less time in the government service is pretty good. I wonder what that will do to the huge growth in real estate values in the DC area, of which I would move on as quickly as possible, to a safer place to live. DC isn't that safe with a high murder rate nearly every week.

Posted by: Colin at February 12, 2025 05:23 AM (wlQdF)

50 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 05:25 AM (8NNF8)

51 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:22 AM (O7YUW)

LOL. The first thing FenSpouse does after returning from the morning run is to hit the bathroom.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 05:27 AM (dKL5S)

52 Mornin' rickb223. How's things in your corner of the world?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:27 AM (O7YUW)

53 24 Well, I might not be here tomorrow. It's gonna dump almost 4 inches of snow today! In Northern Illinois!! In February!!!

Oh, the Huge Manatee!!!!
Posted by: Bruce at February 12, 2025 04:35 AM (oEgF3)

Are you gonna be out there, shoveling it?

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 05:29 AM (v0TzN)

54 Cold and wet here, rain coming down like a cow pissin on a flat rock. Should be a delightful commute....
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Would almost bet you are behind me in traffic. 😂
Same here.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 05:30 AM (8NNF8)

55 Mornin' rickb223. How's things in your corner of the world?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Cold and rainy. But doing good. You?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 05:31 AM (8NNF8)

56 @55/rickb223: Cold (10 deg F), no precipitation yet. That comes later this evening. Doing pretty well this morning.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:33 AM (O7YUW)

57 42 A brilliant man, Elon Musk has a way of explaining difficult topics in simple terms. And STILL the media doesn't get it.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

The media's job isn't reporting the news. Its job is to shape narratives for their masters. Plain, understandable, language is foreign to them All they know are lies and propaganda. There entire worldview is based on that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 05:33 AM (sAmhv)

58 /rickb223: Cold (10 deg F), no precipitation yet. That comes later this evening. Doing pretty well this morning.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

We're at 38 and rain. All day long. Possibly freezing precipitation next week. Ugh.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 05:35 AM (8NNF8)

59 47 my 3 hour run
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:22 AM (O7YUW)

Wow.

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 05:36 AM (v0TzN)

60 @59/m: That's run as in driving a commercial vehicle with passengers, not run as in running on two feet.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:37 AM (O7YUW)

61 60 @59/m: That's run as in driving a commercial vehicle with passengers, not run as in running on two feet.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:37 AM (O7YUW)

Thank you! I will go get another cup of coffee, now.

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 05:38 AM (v0TzN)

62 Back from my workout; I'm showered and fed, and I've slopped the feline hogs. So whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 05:41 AM (omVj0)

63 The media's job isn't reporting the news. Its job is to shape narratives for their masters.

Truer words have never been spoken. You only need to see a montage of all the talking heads using the same buzzwords as they drone on about the 'news and current events'.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 12, 2025 05:43 AM (3Ope8)

64 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:37 AM (O7YUW

I think you should have just let m think you were going on a three hour run- training for the Boston Marathon or the Canadian equivalent.. You guys have two three hour runs. Men of iron😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 05:43 AM (42Vb+)

65 @62/Wolfus: How are the furry meatloaves doing these days?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 05:43 AM (O7YUW)

66 57 The media's job isn't reporting the news. Its job is to shape narratives for their masters.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 05:33 AM (sAmhv)

Seems true of the mainstream media. But new media?

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 05:45 AM (v0TzN)

67 Wolfus: How are the furry meatloaves doing these days?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025

***
Both are fine, approaching their third birthdays, eating healthily and playing. Big black Stirling has discovered how much fun it is to jump up to and sit on the top of the fridge. Little gray Dagny is still aloof a good part of the time, as if she's a queen and I'm a trusted household servant or courtier. Yes, people say cats are aloof, and I've always replied, "What kind of cats do *you* know?" But she is. Likes to be petted, but doesn't come over for it the way the black one does.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 05:48 AM (omVj0)

68 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

19 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. I'm very tired, since one of my pups was clamoring to go outside most of the night (there was something awful in the yard that she was desperate to finish eating). There is supposed to be snow tonight turning to rain by early morning, which I hope happens, since I have a dental appointment at 8am.

With luck, I'll be out by 9 and then can go downtown for breakfast, which I haven't done in a while. For now, I have a couple of hours' work to do and then I'm hoping it will be an easy day so I can take a nice long nap when I clock out.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 05:49 AM (Q0kLU)

69 42 A brilliant man, Elon Musk has a way of explaining difficult topics in simple terms. And STILL the media doesn't get it.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 05:18 AM (uOGSL)

Maybe channeling Ed Koch:

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 05:49 AM (v0TzN)

70 We're supposed to get some rain this afternoon and overnight. Not too much of a problem for my homeward drive, I hope.

The damn parades (that's the basic phrase for me, "damn parades") may be starting soon. Which means I have to take a different route home. The first parade that would affect my commute is not until 2/21, though, so I have some time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)

71 68 one of my pups was clamoring to go outside most of the night (there was something awful in the yard that she was desperate to finish eating)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 05:49 AM (Q0kLU)

Eww. Hope she didn't leave bits of it here and there within the Manor.

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 05:53 AM (v0TzN)

72 Great - there's a server error and now I can't work. I am going to be so behind the 8 ball today. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 05:53 AM (Q0kLU)

73 So Trump and his gang have calmly backed the Blue State Freeze lawsuit into a corner.

1) Blue States and Leftist Judge: You can't freeze grants and such!

2) Trump and Co rejoinder.: Can we freeze illegal/fraudulent grants and such?

3) Blue States and Leftist Judges: We never said you couldn't!

4) Trump and CO: Great...we'll get back to work now, while you get your bottom spanked further up the legal chain. #winning

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 05:56 AM (Jfw7U)

74 Corny tech joke:

What do you call a computer mouse that swears a lot?

A cursor!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 05:57 AM (EdYy2)

75 @67/Wolfus: They sound healthy and happy, this is good. :-)

Do they like to play if you give them the opportunity? Mine always liked it when I dragged a ribbon or string around the corner. Absolutely irresistible for them. "Must chase thing that just disappeared!"

Back when I was into radio, I had several replacement metal whips mobile/vehicle use around. A game I'd play with one of my cats was "chase the bug". I'd hold on to a whip, placing the teardrop end down on the carpet and spin myself around in a circle. One of my cats would go absolutely NUTS chasing that teardrop end around and around. One time after we quit doing this for about 15 minutes, she was literally panting when I picked her up (never saw a cat pant before till that point.) I made sure to limit that game to a shorter time period in future.

Also, this might amuse you:

https://tinyurl.com/yc649fu6

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

76 Dad joke:

Not many people are named Lance today.

But in medieval times, people were named Lance a lot.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 06:07 AM (8NNF8)

77 Maybe channeling Ed Koch:

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."
Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 05:49 AM (v0TzN)

---

So true. The media is told "The Treasury approves payments on a Do-not-pay list", and Nothing... Shouldn't there be ten follow-up questions?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 06:08 AM (v+D84)

78 CPU speeds are declining because the hardware manufacturers are all adopting some form of Intel and NVIDIA's "fuck the consumer" throttled technology increase for maximum profit model to whatever degree.

Counter-intuitively AMD's graphics may be the only trend breaker.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:08 AM (X0I7i)

79 77 Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 06:08 AM (v+D84)

Not when they are in on the gag, the media is STUDIOUSLY disinterested in the details of the open-aired international conspiracy to bankrupt the United States by Socialist GloboHomo.....

A sane electorate would draw some conclusions.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:12 AM (X0I7i)

80 Politico is trying to regain any credibility on economic reporting this morning, essentially granting the "unwashed masses" that the economy was "deceptively good statistically but hurting the normies.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:17 AM (X0I7i)

81 "Average CPU speed actually went down in 2024, for the first time in twenty years."

DEI?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 12, 2025 06:17 AM (ZmEVT)

82 Poor Politico. So much grift so easily before Trumpenstein and the Musk.

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:18 AM (Jfw7U)

83 …. explaining difficult topics in simple terms. And STILL the media doesn't get it.

“It’s impossible to get a man to understand something, if his paycheck depends on him not understanding it.”

Somebody Famous, Forget

Posted by: Common Tater at February 12, 2025 06:19 AM (G6Lak)

84 82 Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:18 AM (Jfw7U)

The top shills are the publishers who hired and probably demanded total ideological subservience from the editors.

Plaintiff's exhibit one the LA Times prior to the new owner.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:21 AM (X0I7i)

85 Wolfus Aurelius,

Parades? Mardi Gras?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 06:22 AM (sAmhv)

86 Trump should use the State of the Union address to pit the waste in concrete terms. Such as, instead of wasting money, $1.7 billion could pay for the new Key bridge for Baltimore.

Opportunity cost:the best alternative you give up when making a choice -- as in spending tax dollars.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 06:25 AM (rkWBz)

87 Every time I see something about teleportation I hear a little voice in my mind:

...hellp me!... helllp me!....

Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 06:25 AM (QB+5g)

88 LOL track down a clip using the search terms

anderson dick

if you haven't seen it yet.

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
T. Becket Adams
@BecketAdams
4h
The Vanderbilt nepot abandoning all pretense as a “moderator,” a guest as milquetoast as Sununu being labeled a “dick,” and all while an infamous workplace masturbator looks on, is the purest distillation of modern CNN.

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:26 AM (v0TzN)

89 JM...yes. I was thinking the same.

The SOTU address is going to be LIT. What an opportunity for Trump. I bet the audience will be higher than normal for such an event.

I wonder what color the gals on the Left will wear in protest, ha.

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:27 AM (Jfw7U)

90 a shortish clip is at

nitter.net/redsteeze

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:28 AM (v0TzN)

91 SOTU 2025

Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, will address a joint session of the United States Congress on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:29 AM (v0TzN)

92 I wonder what color the gals on the Left will wear in protest, ha.
Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:27 AM (Jfw7U)

Brown. To commemorate the many wonderful and hard working thieves, rapists, drug dealers and murderers who've been deported by the Great Cheeto.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 12, 2025 06:30 AM (ExV1e)

93 {{{Teresa in Fort Worth}}}

Keep up the good news. Your life is getting longer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

94 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:31 AM (u82oZ)

95 Tulsi is supposed to be confirmed today, right?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 12, 2025 06:31 AM (ExV1e)

96 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 12, 2025 06:31 AM (hoCmQ)

97 88 Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:26 AM (v0TzN)

Anderson Vanderbilt was just too sexed up by Sunnunu's hyper-masculinity and was making a dinner request.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:32 AM (X0I7i)

98 97 88 Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:26 AM (v0TzN)

Anderson Vanderbilt was just too sexed up by Sunnunu's hyper-masculinity and was making a dinner request.
Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:32 AM (X0I7i)

Hahahahaha. Sven brings the funny!

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:32 AM (v0TzN)

99 95 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 12, 2025 06:31 AM (ExV1e)

Maybe...rumor is DC is shut down because of the Polar Vortex Hypercane dumping .45 inches of snow.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:33 AM (X0I7i)

100 Tulsi's vote is at 11am, if they can get through the snow, poor dears.

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:33 AM (Jfw7U)

101 My dash to the electron mines begins!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 06:34 AM (omVj0)

102 anderson dick

if you haven't seen it yet.

I haven't and don't want to either.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 12, 2025 06:34 AM (hoCmQ)

103 Currently snowing. We are the only school district that is not closed. Got a lot of preps!

Supposed to get a total of 7 inches. We could conceivably trap all the kids at school if road clearance does not keep up to the afternoon.

But the schools have nearby cooks and food. So no worries.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

104 How cute is Lil X.

(X Æ A-Xii, affectionately known as Lil X)

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:35 AM (v0TzN)

105 Sven...just watched the clip. Yes...Cooper has a certain 'glow' about him when chastising the Guv about 'dick'.

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:35 AM (Jfw7U)

106 Schools closed here, but in spite of all the hysteria about a big snow, we might only get two inches. Not that there is anything wrong with that, ha.

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:37 AM (Jfw7U)

107 98 Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 06:32 AM (v0TzN)

You would think the GOP liberals and moderates of which the Sunnunus are a prime example would eventually get the memo that to the democrats there are NO good Republicans short of avowed traitors like Lez Cheney.

I am not suggesting they leave, but I am suggesting that their lukewarm politics satisfies neither left nor right.

Here the sacrificial lamb on CNN discovers, "No Vanderbilt there LOVES his side of the aisle functionally having an internationally accepted American Express Titanium card with special limitless ability to fund through the thinnest of laundering unfettered funding for the most lunatic democrat causes globally.

We'll see if it registers.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:37 AM (X0I7i)

108 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Do you have any siblings helping you?

May your father always be a blessed memory and guide for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:37 AM (u82oZ)

109 105 Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:35 AM (Jfw7U)

as established here on many an ONT, I am a romantic at heart I sincerely believe there is someone for everyone....

Anderson Vanderbilt's unrequited love for Obama finally sadly accepted he has decided to go after that Manly Sunnunu....

I expect a formal request for engagement by May the first.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:38 AM (X0I7i)

110 Matt Walsh said he most enjoyed seeing the CNN hosts discuss one of Mysk's crew, "Big Balls". Musk must have liked it, too; he renamed himself on X: Harry Bolz. Trolling master.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 06:39 AM (RTEcs)

111 The GOP squishes are more adept at seeing the writing on the wall than their Dem counterparts, who are willing to die on that DEI hill.

I imagine a lot of them will be Maga-curious for the time being.

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:39 AM (Jfw7U)

112 Well, I too would take a rough, manly woodsman type over an effete Chicagoan any day of the week. You go, Coop!

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:41 AM (Jfw7U)

113 Maybe it's time for Trump while he's on a roll to normalize government employment. I don't know anything about it but government employees have their own equivalent of a 401k called Thrift Savings Plan.

I'm sure that plan does very well as opposed to the plebes 401Ks...probably for reasons.

Anyone know any specifics?

Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 06:41 AM (QB+5g)

114 Good news. We just closed for the day. Was not looking forward to traveling the unplowed rural gravel roads. I could do it, but it would be slow.

Didn't the bus in Where Eagles Dare have a plow on the front? That would be cool. ~~And endless ammo for machine pistols to clear the road.~~

Oops. Did I just write something?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:41 AM (u82oZ)

115 111 Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:39 AM (Jfw7U)

My read as well, Liza Mukasowki changed her mind on Gabbard....

because when the chips are down saying "allow the democrats to dominate the civil service and spend like MC Hammer in the 90s on their every whim using unaccountable power" is not an impressive message even for most white democrats.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:42 AM (X0I7i)

116 SVEN!!!!

"as established here on many an ONT, I am a romantic at heart I sincerely believe there is someone for everyone...."

Yeah there probably is but they found someone else.

Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 06:43 AM (QB+5g)

117 113 Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 06:41 AM (QB+5g)

Yes by one degree of seperation, the Army also offers a form of TSP.

Essentially your control of your retirement savings is reduced to "pick a risk pool" but at the end of the day the retirement funds have always been partisan to some degree in how they choose where the cash goes.

ESG is a factor in their choices, and the rates of return "safely" are stupid good.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:44 AM (X0I7i)

118 For the SOTU speech, Trump need a chart for how much each Senator gets from Deep State.

And IRS agents going after the extra money.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

119 pawn

The guy on the ship with the best success ratio of "ask to bed" in foreign ports, by far, had a simple rule.

If at first you do not succeed, lower your standards.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:48 AM (u82oZ)

120
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs let out, coffee prepared. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian patiently ripping CDs to a storage drive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 06:48 AM (dxSpM)

121 118 Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

The limit on the ability to do this is whether the civil service is more loyal to itself or the democrats and that is not as simple a question as it looks.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:48 AM (X0I7i)

122 Planting false memories in AIs?

Paging Masamune Shirow and Mamrou Oshii

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 06:48 AM (fvLXw)

123 @118 I like. Can we do Miss Lindsey first? Then Chuck S, the distinguished ecoli BBQ chef from New York.

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:48 AM (Jfw7U)

124 I had a 12-slice biopsy of the prostate done yesterday, boy the over 50 club is awesome sauce.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:49 AM (X0I7i)

125 Ahhh....time to get at it. Bread to bake and a fire to attend. Have fine days, all!

Posted by: lizabth at February 12, 2025 06:49 AM (Jfw7U)

126
Breakthrough as Oxford scientists say they've achieved teleportation

Dogs have known for years how to teleport food left on the counter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 06:49 AM (dxSpM)

127 122 Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 06:48 AM (fvLXw)

AI is literally more retarded than the most lustbound highschooler with ADD on any topic requiring judgement.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:49 AM (X0I7i)

128 Trump should use the State of the Union address to pit the waste in concrete terms. Such as, instead of wasting money, $1.7 billion could pay for the new Key bridge for Baltimore.

Opportunity cost:the best alternative you give up when making a choice -- as in spending tax dollars.
Posted by: JM

We've slready established dumping the penny saves $179 million a year. Not putting up wetbacks in ritzy nyc hotels saves another $59 million for a total of $238 million.

That goes a long way to helping the people of Lahania, Hawaii and Western NC & Eastern TN without costing the feral government a dime.

Do we really need 4.3 billion new pennies every year? There's STILL 4.3 billion in circulation from last year. And 4.3 billion from the year before. And 4.3 billion from the year before that.

Here's an idea. How about we mint new coinage in even years and save close to a billion dollars every other year? Nothing says we HAVE to mint coins every year.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 06:50 AM (8NNF8)

129 I wonder if our tax dollars are involved in managing these TSP accounts? No more perks for the self-appoinyed elites and their minions.

Let them live (and maybe work) like their constituents.

Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 06:50 AM (QB+5g)

130 "as established here on many an ONT, I am a romantic at heart I sincerely believe there is someone for everyone...."

At $100/hr.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 06:52 AM (8NNF8)

131 Sven

Liberal Hivemind on YouTube dug up a court case from 1866, President Johnson vs Mississippi in which the courts ruled that no judge can under Article II of the US Constitution interfere with the President of the United States from exercising his executive powers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 06:54 AM (fvLXw)

132 NaClD,

"If at first you do not succeed, lower your standards."

Oh, I eventually did and am paying for it big time every day.

Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 06:55 AM (QB+5g)

133 129 Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 06:50 AM (QB+5g)

Indirectly with one degree of separation by definition.

EVERYONE who pays in is by definition living off of the general fund economic impulse.

The racket set up in the 60s and coming to fruition in the 90s is federal civil service unions get to negotiate with a government largely ran by the politicians those unions subsidize largely creating a massive capital pool who nominate judges who alter the definition of fiduciary duty to "public interest" which allows the politicization of the TSP "funds."

If only a band of Ewok led morons had made these points back in 2008.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:55 AM (X0I7i)

134 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 12, 2025 06:55 AM (KaBJL)

135 Average CPU speed actually went down in 2024, for the first time in twenty years. (Twitter)

-

I was reading something related somewhere about how the latest-gen Intel 12-14 CPUs (and the Ryzen competitors) are the best we're going to experience for the foreseeable future because Global Warming is moving manufacturers to lower power levels and longer battery life, and besides people don't want improvements in their daily lives so much as they want to save the planet while paying more for a worse product.

You'll have nothing, or at least less, and be happy.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 12, 2025 06:57 AM (pjCCc)

136 TSP Website. 18 different funds. Rates of return here. https://tinyurl.com/2wf83tcc

Low expense ratio.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 06:58 AM (dtHqC)

137
The racket set up in the 60s and coming to fruition in the 90s is federal civil service unions get to negotiate with a government

This has to stop. "Public service" unions should have no - repeat, no - collective bargaining power.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 06:58 AM (dxSpM)

138 Have a great day, everyone.

Time for chores.

May you all be warm, dry, with safe travels, and someone who cares about you nearby.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

139 124. My brother had that done, not fun. Good news , negative for cancer. PSA numbers are age related and that now is bolded in his records. So let’s hope you get good news too.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 12, 2025 07:00 AM (vTq9Y)

140
Is there a reason why none of us ever thought of nicknaming biden non compos mentis?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 07:00 AM (2LmUi)

141 131 Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 06:54 AM (fvLXw)

As happy as I am that precedent backs us, understand that the democrats are not into honoring precedents from the last 40 years let alone the last 160.

Donkey judges have made up their mind that they are the unassailable rulers of the entire nation from their circuit benches.

The ONLY way to fight this is to have a GOP judge make a directly inverse ruling ordering all national funds frozen and force the SCOTUS to referee the fight which we will lose.

Losing that fight will justify Trump with a GOP Legislature to defund all the baby bell circuit courts and force all Federal level jurisprudence on SCOTUS.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:00 AM (X0I7i)

142

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 12, 2025 07:01 AM (EFZgU)

143 CPU speeds are declining because the hardware manufacturers are all adopting some form of Intel and NVIDIA's "fuck the consumer" throttled technology increase for maximum profit model to whatever degree.

Counter-intuitively AMD's graphics may be the only trend breaker.

And here I thought all along it was because the State of California imposed energy efficiency regulations on the computer industry allowing them to only sell computers that met their strict requirements.† When you tell computer manufacturers that laptops can't use as much energy as last year, you get CPUs designed to operate at lower speeds to achieve this arbitrary goal.

† California Code of Regulations, Title 20, sections 1601-1609

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 12, 2025 07:01 AM (a4flb)

144 124 I had a 12-slice biopsy of the prostate donI hope e yesterday, boy the over 50 club is awesome sauce.
Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 06:49 AM (X0I7i)

---

I can't even... I hope I don't have to.
Good luck, sven

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 07:02 AM (dtHqC)

145 pawn

Sorry to hear that.

Low standards are for one night!

Can you extend you hands palm up, curl the fingers, put the thumbs up, and then sweep the hands back over your shoulder while yelling "Next"?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

146 143 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 12, 2025 07:01 AM (a4flb)

The State of California creates a lot of opportunity for business to pretend there are regulatory justifications for fucking over the client base while increasing their profits.

I'd sell Cali to Denmark for NEGATIVE 100 dollars.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:03 AM (X0I7i)

147 Is there a reason why none of us ever thought of nicknaming biden non compos mentis?

The usual formula for a nickname of derision is:

[ vulgar word ] + [ noun ]

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 12, 2025 07:04 AM (a4flb)

148 144 Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 07:02 AM (dtHqC)

The side effects suck, the clarity on the situation will not.

My PSA was 10 at 52, of course not to be indelicate I had also had a good week with the wife carnally.

My best advice is to abstain from horizontal dancing for ~ 5 days before your check-up blood draw.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:05 AM (X0I7i)

149 137 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 06:58 AM (dxSpM)

It has created a slush fund for the communist left that is larger than Haiti's GDP laundered through NGOs and connected business.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:06 AM (X0I7i)

150 The State of California creates a lot of opportunity for business to pretend there are regulatory justifications for fucking over the client base while increasing their profits.

That is why the future is in China. While Silicon Valley, or the Banksters (in your opinion) are deliberately detuning their products for regional sale, no such imposition is on the other 8 billion people who inhabit this orb.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 12, 2025 07:07 AM (a4flb)

151 NaClD,

"Can you extend you hands palm up, curl the fingers, put the thumbs up, and then sweep the hands back over your shoulder while yelling "Next"?"

Oh yes, but woman my age are looking for security mostly.

I was financially ruined by what happened but I ended up with my son to raise. So now he's gone and so is the money. Starting over like I was in my 20s when you are in your 60s wasn't what I ever thought would happen to me.

Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 07:09 AM (QB+5g)

152
My best advice is to abstain from horizontal dancing for ~ 5 days before your check-up blood draw.
Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:05 AM (X0I7i)

Words to live by from the voice of experience.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 07:10 AM (rK0qD)

153
I was financially ruined by what happened but I ended up with my son to raise. So now he's gone and so is the money. Starting over like I was in my 20s when you are in your 60s wasn't what I ever thought would happen to me.
Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 07:09 AM (QB+5g)

Awful. Divorce laws are so unfair,. The younger generation seems to have figured this out.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 12, 2025 07:15 AM (rK0qD)

154 This has to stop. "Public service" unions should have no - repeat, no - collective bargaining power.

Every time someone wants about banning the AFL/CIO, Teamsters, et al because its really just organization mob, we are given a history lesson about how cruel employers were exploiting workers during the Great Depression.

Well, we aren't in a Great Depression, we have indeed.com and one hell of a welfare safety net and trade schools everywhere begging for wanna-be welders, electricians, etc.

Which leaves the "cruel employer" excuse. What the public union employees are saying is even though their team of negotiators is sitting on both sides of the table, that the tax payer (the employer) is natively cruel, cheap and sadistic and thus the poor, poor government drone needs protection afforded by the tax-payer against the same tax-payer.

Its a racket, or more likely they view themselves as citizens of an overlord entity that conquered the former United States, and We The People are a vanquished enemy.

Or diseased livestock. They are of a different species or race where they live and operate under different rules and benefits and any change to that would be a coup d'etat.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 12, 2025 07:15 AM (a4flb)

155 Wolfus Aurelius,

Parades? Mardi Gras?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025

***
The Lord help me, but yes. The last time I'll be burdened with it, I hope.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 07:17 AM (J2vNu)

156 Happy news! After just 2 weeks on targeted gene therapy, my tumor marker has dropped from a high of 586 to just 91 (half of my original number back in October)! It should be below 37.

So excited - this means the therapy is working!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 12, 2025 04:38

Thats so great ! Hearing that is a very happy way to start the day.

Posted by: LASue at February 12, 2025 07:17 AM (lCppi)

157 154 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 12, 2025 07:15 AM (a4flb)

Quite the guppy is swallowing the whale on the Sovereignty of the American people.

Evidently our Founders created a government of the Civil Service, by the Civil Service, and for the Civil Service unaccountably...

neat trick for a group of men who the democrats hate.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:18 AM (X0I7i)

158 Theresa in Ft Worth,

I am glad to hear it.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:18 AM (X0I7i)

159 If a group of civilians ran the PEU racket in the private economy the DOJ would label them a Mafia and RICO them into oblivion.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:19 AM (X0I7i)

160 sven, Good morning. How is your wife doing,?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 12, 2025 07:19 AM (mB6WH)

161 The President and his team should not take any shit off those crazy judges. I'm glad they are pushing back.

Hey, crazy judges! Let the man work or we won't have a country left for you to be crazy in anymore. Dumbasses.

Posted by: Case at February 12, 2025 07:21 AM (NMZGW)

162 640K ought to be enough for anybody!
(vigorously rubs his hard and erect nipples to a violent orgasm)

Posted by: Bill Gates, Owner Of Fat Man Boobs at February 12, 2025 07:22 AM (y7KuV)

163 They sound healthy and happy, this is good. :-)

Do they like to play if you give them the opportunity? Mine always liked it when I dragged a ribbon or string around the corner. Absolutely irresistible for them. "Must chase thing that just disappeared!" . . .

Also, this might amuse you:

https://tinyurl.com/yc649fu6
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025

***
G & R, cooI cartoon. I'm fortunate that they don't call in the middle of the night. Or very often at all. Dagny is *very* silent -- not mute, I've heard her screech, but it's rare. Stirling meeps when he wants me to turn on the faucet so he can drink from the stream.

Yes, they love to chase something around a corner. And the "Flippety-Fish" toy I bought for the late Chekov D. Siberian some years ago entertains them wonderfully.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 07:23 AM (J2vNu)

164 160 Posted by: Ben Had at February 12, 2025 07:19 AM (mB6WH)

She is doing great, there is a mass under her left armpit they want to ultrasound but her prognosis has been so good for so long they removed her port.

Hope you and yours are doing well.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:23 AM (X0I7i)

165 Happy news! After just 2 weeks on targeted gene therapy, my tumor marker has dropped from a high of 586 to just 91 (half of my original number back in October)! It should be below 37.

So excited - this means the therapy is working!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 12, 2025

***
Grand news, Teresa. Treat yourself to something!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 07:24 AM (J2vNu)

166 Imma go with Sauvignon Blanc today.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at February 12, 2025 07:26 AM (dg+HA)

167 I've undergone four prostate biopsies over the last dozen years or so. They're not so bad. The problem most have is a doctor who won't wait long enough after injecting the numbing agent before beginning to extract the cores.

The urologist who performed my second one got an earful from me prior to me leaving his office.

I fired him the next day and went through my GP to find another one.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 12, 2025 07:26 AM (Y1sOo)

168 167 Posted by: one hour sober at February 12, 2025 07:26 AM (Y1sOo)

They put me completely under which is "odd."

I think it is because they know I have a very fucked up pain threshold.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:28 AM (X0I7i)

169
Posted by: one hour sober at February 12, 2025 07:26 AM (Y1sOo)

Did you have anyone entered yesterday?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 07:30 AM (dxSpM)

170 >>Did you have anyone entered yesterday?

No, sir.

Wife watched all of it last night. I stopped watching after the working group.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 12, 2025 07:33 AM (Y1sOo)

171
Oh, Unknown, not the livestock!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM), imprison, imprison, imprison! To at February 12, 2025 07:34 AM (xG4kz)

172 I think it is because they know I have a very fucked up pain threshold.
Posted by: sven

Should radiation be ordered they insert a gel up da butt to minimize neighboring tissue damage.

A whole different planet of pain.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2025 07:37 AM (j4U/Z)

173 So my android calendar isn't going to tell me that it's People of Indigenous Color month?
Not sure I can cope with this.

Posted by: Karen McMansion at February 12, 2025 07:38 AM (dg+HA)

174 "Should radiation be ordered they insert a gel up da butt to minimize neighboring tissue damage.

A whole different planet of pain."

OMG yes, I started scat singing real loud when that was going on. I think the nurse thought I was crazy. Well.....

Posted by: pawn at February 12, 2025 07:39 AM (QB+5g)

175 172 Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2025 07:37 AM (j4U/Z)

My condolences, I don't feel pain like normal folks in some ways.

I worked in a dynamic tactical environment with a 15cm hold in my right side from an incisive hernia for four years until I finally got the thing patched.

Had a cyst removed from my neck without any local anasthesia and was making the medics being trained on field surgery laugh with the play by play as the PA did his thing.

I hurt my hip ~33 years ago in a pretty bad fall and the secret to not feeling pain like most people counter-intuitively is to be in mid-grade pain for decades.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:41 AM (X0I7i)

176
J und J

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 07:42 AM (dxSpM)

177
Don't tell me, sven, that you have forgotten the popular companion show to the 60's "Wagon Train".

"Bureaucrat Train" featured the hitherto unknown tales and trials of the caravans of regulators, inspectors, printers and front office staff who proceeded west in parallel with the hardy pioneers. Why, their struggles to set up the presses and roll off the latest volume of regulations each night tugged at one's heartstrings!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 12, 2025 07:45 AM (xG4kz)

178 At Wikipedia, on the Steve Witkoff page, there's the usual Born; Children; Spouse; Organization founded; Education, and then:

President: Donald Trump

(It was Steve Witkoff's jet that flew Marc Fogel home from Russia.)

I guess because he "serves as the United States Special Envoy to the Middle East" but it looks funny when it's on a list of biofacts like that.

Posted by: m at February 12, 2025 07:47 AM (v0TzN)

179 177 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 12, 2025 07:45 AM (xG4kz)

They charged us a 100 bucks to check that back axle Nadine, because THEY ARE SAVING US!

Now get your sweet ass in the wagon and let's get to the Williamette Valley and set up some bureaucracy of our own.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 07:54 AM (X0I7i)

180 I would assume hyperthreading with AMD is probably on its way out as well. The cost doesn't seem worth it anymore.

Posted by: Leninism at February 12, 2025 11:24 AM (Zuj8l)

181 180 Posted by: Leninism at February 12, 2025 11:24 AM (Zuj8l)

It depends on the software being ran, and your desired use.

It sucks for gaming largely, is eminently useful for video editing.

Posted by: sven at February 12, 2025 12:39 PM (X0I7i)

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