Daily Tech News 2 March 2025

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GPT 4.5 is here and it's... Not great. (Ars Technica)

It's slightly better than GPT 4o on some things, slightly worse on others... And costs up to 30 times as much.

That's not a great combination.

Tech News

The RTX 5070 has been listed online for $550 with availability just a couple of days away. (Tom's Hardware)

But the RTX 5070 Ti was listed for $750 just a few days before it launched, and we know how that turned out.
New weight loss drugs could be a $100 trillion disruption across a broad range of global markets. (Wildfire Labs)

Or, y'know, not.
Researchers have been using a memory leak in the Great Firewall of China to keep track of what China is censoring. (The Register)

The bitter, bited.
Another look at the Asus ROG Flow Z13. (The Verge)

This is a 13" tablet laptop with AMD's new Ryzen 395 Max Pro Plus Gold GTI.

It's pretty good, but with the thermal constraints of a tablet it performs closer to an RTX 4060 than a 4070.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: You can pet the dog.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 04:03 AM (v0TzN)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 04:04 AM (fwDg9)

3
Daniel
@growing_daniel
Mar 1
Okay. I think Zelenskyy came in pissed which is a bad move for a client state leader teetering on the edge. Kinda shocked his people let him have that mindset going in. JD was annoying but it wasn’t unprovoked, Zelenskyy definitely started that

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 04:04 AM (v0TzN)

4 https://genflynn.substack.com/release of the epstein
https://tinyurl.com/3zt4akar

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 04:06 AM (fwDg9)

5 Good morning good people.

A hell of a toothache woke me up and can't get in to see the Dentist until Thursday. Ugh.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 02, 2025 04:09 AM (cYBz/)

6
And it wouldn't be the same without you
We have yet so many stupid things to do

Ha!

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 04:14 AM (v0TzN)

7 Good morning good people.

A hell of a toothache woke me up and can't get in to see the Dentist until Thursday. Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 02, 2025 04:09 AM (cYBz/)

Obligatory hot iron and dirt rubbing comment. After that, Ora-gel ointment helped me get through my last toothache. Good luck.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 02, 2025 04:16 AM (rjoMn)

8 Tonypete take something for it to help.

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 04:16 AM (fwDg9)

9 Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon.

Posted by: jsg at March 02, 2025 04:16 AM (UJ+K5)

10 5 A hell of a toothache woke me up and can't get in to see the Dentist until Thursday. Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 02, 2025 04:09 AM (cYBz/)

Emergency clinic maybe somewhere?

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 04:17 AM (v0TzN)

11 Very tired but just can't seem to sleep more than 4 1/2 hours at a time, many days this week that was a 24 hour span.
Very amazed been wired a bit at times but functioning normal.
Driving home can be touchy

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 04:19 AM (fwDg9)

12 Some PhD guy discusses Microsoft's Majorana quantum computing CPU. The design and claim still have to withstand the withers of peer review, but for now it's looking like they have a breakthrough on their hands.

https://youtu.be/xr_izIthZWQ

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 02, 2025 04:21 AM (tazkY)

13 Driving home can be touchy
Posted by: Skip

Pull over if you have to. Nodding off when driving can happen in a split second.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 02, 2025 04:22 AM (tazkY)

14 Even normal in afternoon there are times I say I could just take a nap at a real light.
40 years ago was driving back to Langley AFB at night, in DC around the Potomac head hit steering wheel and changed 2 driving lanes. That was scary.

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 04:29 AM (fwDg9)

15 I could just get up, have breakfast and take a nap later

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 04:30 AM (fwDg9)

16 I have posted videos of some Americans who are traveling to Australia and visiting Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and then Brisbane.

They finally made it to Melbourne and I cannot express my disappointment in the lack of trash, homeless people, and general, mayhem in the city. Where is the fun in that? So far I'm struck by how familiar these cities are to me. I think maybe they remind of Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, and Calgary.

https://youtu.be/2dDnNLcec2M

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 02, 2025 04:34 AM (tazkY)

17 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 02, 2025 04:35 AM (wiltx)

18 Tonypete... You have to find a dentist sooner than that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 02, 2025 04:36 AM (tazkY)

19 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 02, 2025 04:38 AM (hoCmQ)

20 3:Kinda shocked his people let him have that mindset going in

I'm guessing here, but I'm not sure 'his' people did. I suspect Susan Rice and company did.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 02, 2025 04:40 AM (wiltx)

21 From the Big Deal News Desk...

"'We're on the moon!' Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA"

https://is.gd/EEig71

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 02, 2025 04:41 AM (tazkY)

22 New weight loss drugs could be a $100 trillion disruption across a broad range of global markets. (Wildfire Labs)

Warning: Reading this article will cost you 10 IQ points.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 02, 2025 04:46 AM (hoCmQ)

23
First image from Blue Ghost:

https://tinyurl.com/23ygthdd

This ain't much, due to using low gain antenna. When (and if) they get the high gain antenna deployed and going, we'll get some high-res pictures.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 04:50 AM (w6EFb)

24
Buzz Aldrin: "Contact light, engine stop", weighs in:

https://tinyurl.com/27wzrjj2

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 04:52 AM (w6EFb)

25 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 02, 2025 05:05 AM (dg+HA)

26 18 Tonypete... You have to find a dentist sooner than that.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 02, 2025 04:36 AM (tazkY)

I think so, too.

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 05:08 AM (v0TzN)

27 Birdbaths here are surfs up, still hearing high winds

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

28 18 Tonypete... You have to find a dentist sooner than that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 02, 2025 04:36 AM (tazkY)
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In East Africa, ca 1950s, local African tribal dentist used pointed end of a cane knife (panga, machete) to pry a bad tooth from a gum. No Novocaine.

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 05:14 AM (g4sLG)

29 22 New weight loss drugs could be a $100 trillion disruption across a broad range of global markets. (Wildfire Labs)

Warning: Reading this article will cost you 10 IQ points.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 02, 2025 04:46 AM (hoCmQ)
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What's the conversion factor for IQ to lbs (lost)?
Is there a Universal Stupidity Constant? Oh, US Congress.

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 05:23 AM (g4sLG)

30 8
Tonypete, oil of cloves applied directly.

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 05:27 AM (g4sLG)

31 Evening and morning to those toiling on a Sunday, and those up early on the same!
*
A hell of a toothache woke me up and can't get in to see the Dentist until Thursday. Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 02, 2025

***
There's Ora-Jel, as someone suggested, and Walmart carries an oil-of-cloves liquid in a small bottle. It comes with tweezers and a small bit of cotton; the idea is that you soak the cotton in the solution, then place it in the cavity or lost filling. But a simple dabbing of the liquid on a finger and application of same has worked for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 05:28 AM (omVj0)

32 27 Birdbaths here are surfs up
Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 05:29 AM (v0TzN)

33 New weight loss drugs could be a $100 trillion disruption across a broad range of global markets. (Wildfire Labs)
*
Warning: Reading this article will cost you 10 IQ points.
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 02, 2025

***
Then I will skip it. I don't have that many points to spare.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 05:29 AM (omVj0)

34 Humidity is down, wind's not too much, and it's 57 F. Good workout weather. I'm debating whether to drive to the nearby track after they open at 5 am, or just huff-and-puff up the avenue where I usually go.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 05:31 AM (omVj0)

35 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 02, 2025 05:32 AM (RP0h0)

36 AI is digital masturbation funded by the academy of billionaire bastards.

Pick your nerds wisely, or you'll end up with a digital Charles Manson.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 02, 2025 05:35 AM (fY84s)

37 Better for your boss to be mad at you for being a little late than to be mad at you for getting the company in the news because you wrecked the truck, ruined a load of cargo, and killed three people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:35 AM (/M7rb)

38 VDH pointed out, or at least intimated, that Zelenskyy might very well be cornered in his mindset, to the point of monomania, without any outside prompting anymore. He can't be anything other than a conquering hero now in his own mind, because if he isn't he's a thug who got a million people murdered for no reason in a war he could have ended with minor concessions two years ago. Anything that pierces that bubble simply won't be admitted into his thought process.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:40 AM (/M7rb)

39 You can argue that Z dug his heels in so hard because he believed the US and EU would have his back, but if so he was naive. The American junta and the European pedocrats didn't install him because he is such a darn great guy, they only wanted a pliant funnel for their own corruption to flow through, Ukrainian lives be damned.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:44 AM (/M7rb)

40 Huh, I didn't know this:

Why a Toothache at Night Feels Worse and How to Cope ...
Cortisol levels, which help to control inflammation, drop during the night, potentially making a toothache feel worse than it did during the day.

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 05:44 AM (v0TzN)

41
Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
Feb 28
It’s true that world leaders argue like this “behind closed doors.” It’s also true that a lot of things that happen behind closed doors should not happen in front of cameras.

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 05:47 AM (v0TzN)

42 After 20 years of being addicted to a CPAP I'm trying a molded mouth guard instead. After four nights I have to say I seem to be sleeping fine. It cost $650 from the ENT's office. Dentist wanted 15 Benjamins. And you don't know if it'll work or not.
I'm planning to become a nomad so this means I won't be pulling battery power while I sleep.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 05:47 AM (dg+HA)

43 could be right, W-o, not only him either, by a long shot.

I was struck by his jazzy bespoke Ukraine-logo shirt, myself; he did dress up for the occasion.
gotta wonder how much we paid for it ... how many does he have ... does he wear them only once & then give them to the deserving poor?
and wtf is up with the not-shaving thing anyway? to always have a three-days hobo trim look?
"profoundly unserious"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 02, 2025 05:50 AM (RP0h0)

44 It’s also true that a lot of things that happen behind closed doors should not happen in front of cameras.
~~Posted~~ Quoted by: m at March 02, 2025 05:47 AM (v0TzN)

It's a common narrative trope to fling the door open when the bad guy who everyone loves is losing his shit in private, embarrassing him and letting the characters in the story learn what the audience has known since page 1.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:50 AM (/M7rb)

45 I got called a minion of Putin for suggesting that the typewriter forum on FB should not allow political posts. It was fun while it lasted.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 05:50 AM (o5+a9)

46 45 I got called a minion of Putin for suggesting that the typewriter forum on FB should not allow political posts. It was fun while it lasted.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 05:50 AM (o5+a9)

Do typewriters have a Caps Lock key?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:52 AM (/M7rb)

47 Yes, they have a shift lock

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 05:53 AM (o5+a9)

48 44 It’s also true that a lot of things that happen behind closed doors should not happen in front of cameras.
Posted Quoted by: m at March 02, 2025 05:47 AM (v0TzN)

It's a common narrative trope to fling the door open when the bad guy who everyone loves is losing his shit in private, embarrassing him and letting the characters in the story learn what the audience has known since page 1.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:50 AM (/M7rb)

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 05:53 AM (v0TzN)

49 A hell of a toothache woke me up and can't get in to see the Dentist until Thursday. Ugh.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 02, 2025 04:09 AM (cYBz/)
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Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/kzw1_2b-I7A

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 05:55 AM (ZTT+3)

50 I grew up in that golden sliver of history between the manual typewriter and the printer that doesn't work and you can't buy ink for it anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:55 AM (/M7rb)

51 It's just odd that every corner of the internet has to be full of raving Lefties demanding you think like they do. I hust left. I'll post stuff on my own blog. If there's still a functioning search engine, people can find it there

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 05:56 AM (o5+a9)

52 I had to explain to my ex co worker how the typewriter gets ink.

I'm watching a 1938 Corona Zephyr on Ebay and it actually doesn't have a shift lock or margin release.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 05:59 AM (o5+a9)

53 Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 05:55 AM (/M7rb)

I laughed. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 05:59 AM (4Tw/8)

54
... the printer that doesn't work and you can't buy ink for it anyway.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

You neglected to add ", but you can refill the cartridges easily yourself with this dgdtem!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:00 AM (xG4kz)

55 Did you live through those exciting days where we went from 8 tracks to cassettes to CDs? I'm growing tired of tech. A lot seems pointless.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:01 AM (o5+a9)

56 Finally got to have pancakes with strawberries, was very good

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 06:01 AM (fwDg9)

57 I read this prayer at the end of today's Christian devotional in " Our Daily Bread" and I could relate to it. Perhaps som others can as well:

Loving God, I’m tired. This world is tough, and sometimes I feel like the very life is drained from me. Please help me to be more intentional about coming to You and finding rest in Your gracious presence.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 06:02 AM (4Tw/8)

58
@CarlPaulus
14h
*Troops not included.

Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
@Haggis_UK
17h
Keir Starmer: "You have full backing across the United Kingdom... we stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes..."

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 06:04 AM (v0TzN)

59 It's almost like Trump was legitimately on the fence about Zelenskyy, and really did want to use the day to gauge how he should approach him, and so his emotional "outburst" was out of sincere disappointment and disgust in the man. And I'm guessing that disappointment had already taken shape earlier in the day.

So what to do? Send the little bastard packing immediately, and let the cretins in the media shape the narrative? Or pre-empt the newsfaces, drag him him front of the world, and spin him around so everyone can see his ass is showing?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:05 AM (/M7rb)

60 Oh but they don't think Z was an ass. He was stunning and brave and spoke truth to power. Not at all like the evil dictator Putin. I restrained myself from reminding them what Z's previous job was, but I have started mentioning that in other forums.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:08 AM (o5+a9)

61 The moment Z realized the west was going to hang his nation out to dry, he should have been trying to set terms with Russia. I guess it's possible he genuinely hasn't ever realized it yet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:08 AM (/M7rb)

62 Nice take, in search of clarity:

Carl Paulus
@CarlPaulus
14h
It's fine to criticize the cease fire idea. Ok. What's the alternative? No one will send troops. Sending $$$ to a deteriorating army and being sad when the whole place gets conquered and thousands die? Is that the goal?

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 06:09 AM (v0TzN)

63
It's just odd that every corner of the internet has to be full of raving Lefties demanding you think like they do.

What puzzles me are those who, rather than screech incoherently themselves, choose to repost the incoherent jeremiads of others. And all intended to educate or convince the readers to sell all they have and come join or follow them. They are the longer winded analogs to the lost souls who insist on telling you their preferred pronouns and what those signify.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:09 AM (xG4kz)

64 Just remembered didn't see Powerline week in pictures
How the Goths ever beat the Roman's has to be funniest

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 06:10 AM (fwDg9)

65 I think the UK is offering a billion or so. That's not nearly enough for Z. His wife could go through that easily on one of her shopping trips.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:10 AM (o5+a9)

66 kind of a convincing take at 59, W-o, I like it

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 02, 2025 06:11 AM (RP0h0)

67 And here's the devotional "Jesus, our place of rest." Scripture: Psalm 32:1-7

https://tinyurl.com/wrn2vj43

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 06:11 AM (WZztR)

68 Tech now is being deployed to control consumers.

Posted by: Accomack at March 02, 2025 06:11 AM (28cZF)

69 Heck, Trump himself might only just now be learning the depths of depravity and corruption that have been behind this war since the first shot was fired. He gets to see way more than my dumb ass does, and even more so since Jan 20, and I'm only just barely even paying attention.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:13 AM (/M7rb)

70 *I'm growing tired of tech. A lot seems pointless.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:01 AM*

Ok, a little armchair psychology. Lots of time change initially feels like loss, even if it isn't. But I've been pleasantly surprised by YouTube Music. Yes, it costs me $13 a month for YouTube Premium, but I see no ads.
Anyway, let's say I'm in the mood for a particular song so I'll ask YouTube to play it. Then the next selections are chosen by the algorithm and usually I like them. If not, I skip.
It's a tech change I enjoy.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:14 AM (dg+HA)

71 What puzzles me are those who, rather than screech incoherently themselves, choose to repost the incoherent jeremiads of others.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:09 AM (xG4kz)

That lovely combination of intellectual laziness, and a desire to be seen as intelligent through some sort of transitive property.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 02, 2025 06:14 AM (mWSu4)

72
The moment Z realized the west was going to hang his nation out to dry, he should have been trying to set terms with Russia. I guess it's possible he genuinely hasn't ever realized it yet.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

He hasn't read the room and is still high on the heady fumes he enjoyed when J'Blowme and pals were those with whom he dealt. Things have changed here, you malignant little cockroach, and you are now in no position to demand anything.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:14 AM (xG4kz)

73 It's like they don't understand the point of a FB group. It's suposed to be about sharing a particular interest. There are other places to share politics. And saying you should shut up and ignore it means you will get more of it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:15 AM (o5+a9)

74 There are other places to share politics. And saying you should shut up and ignore it means you will get more of it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:15 AM (o5+a9)

Digital brownshirts. Worse, actually:

Freelance digital brownshirts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:17 AM (/M7rb)

75 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Arf.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 02, 2025 06:17 AM (6K6Eu)

76 lol, skip, you too?

I was out and about all yesterday, just thought of it this morning

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 02, 2025 06:18 AM (RP0h0)

77 Kinda shocked his people let him have that mindset going in

I'm guessing here, but I'm not sure 'his' people did. I suspect Susan Rice and company did.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 02, 2025 04:40 AM (wiltx)
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Something I've been mulling over for a day or so is that Z hasn't had to deal with actual alpha males.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 02, 2025 06:19 AM (6K6Eu)

78 "What puzzles me are those who, rather than screech incoherently themselves, choose to repost the incoherent jeremiads of others. And all intended to educate or convince the readers to sell all they have and come join or follow them. They are the longer winded analogs to the lost souls who insist on telling you their preferred pronouns and what those signify."

+++

Maybe they're just Russian bots.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:20 AM (dg+HA)

79 Fen did you ever get a chance to see the book my aunt wrote?

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 06:20 AM (fwDg9)

80 69, also quite plausible; hope he has a strong stomach, I'm sure that it will still get 100x worse.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 02, 2025 06:21 AM (RP0h0)

81
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 02, 2025 06:22 AM (tljrc)

82
Incoherent Jeremiads of Others was the working title for the screenplay of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Not a joke. My word as a Biden.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:23 AM (dg+HA)

83
I got called a minion of Putin for suggesting that the typewriter forum on FB should not allow political posts. It was fun while it lasted.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

They didn't tack on a gratuitous "... and the typewriter was a primary weapon deployed by the patriarchy to keep wahmens in their place and under compensated!"

My, how their standards are slipping!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:25 AM (xG4kz)

84 45 I got called a minion of Putin for suggesting that the typewriter forum on FB should not allow political posts. It was fun while it lasted.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 05:50 AM (o5+a9)

Literally "minion of Putin"?

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 06:26 AM (v0TzN)

85 In hindsight maybe the man with the extra "y" in his last name should have played a piano tune to lighten the mood.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:26 AM (dg+HA)

86
High-res pictures from the Blue Ghost lander now being posted:

https://tinyurl.com/26glvtsp

Note the picture of the earth. We have a waxing crescent Moon from earth, and that means a waning gibbous Earth seen from the Moon.

They hope to get some shots and footage of the solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon this time. We'll see a full lunar eclipse, which means the Moon sees a full solar eclipse.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 06:27 AM (w6EFb)

87 It’s also true that a lot of things that happen behind closed doors should not happen in front of cameras.

The proles must never know the truth, comrade, they might make incorrect choices.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2025 06:27 AM (ExV1e)

88 My, how their standards are slipping!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:25 AM (xG4kz)

Carriage? Like, for a baby? Typical breeder language!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:28 AM (/M7rb)

89
Maybe they're just Russian bots.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Not the ones with whom I am personally acquainted. For them I activate the digital "mute until I decide otherwise" switch.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:28 AM (xG4kz)

90 I have twice ducked opening remarks like "I can't BELIEVE that Oval Office fiasco!" by playing "Look! Squirrel!"

Posted by: m at March 02, 2025 06:28 AM (v0TzN)

91 The Erf is waning gibbous? No wonder it's so cold and windy out there.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:30 AM (dg+HA)

92 Carriage? Like, for a baby? Typical breeder language!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:28 AM (/M7rb)
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Now do "platen."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 02, 2025 06:31 AM (6K6Eu)

93 They were trying to decide who the minions of Putin were. The person that originally suggested banning politics was the first choice. I was tacked on as an after thought.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:32 AM (o5+a9)

94 64 Just remembered didn't see Powerline week in pictures
How the Goths ever beat the Roman's has to be funniest

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 06:10 AM (fwDg9)
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I missed the link. Please?

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 06:32 AM (g4sLG)

95 They were trying to decide who the minions of Putin were.
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It's a kind of type face, but that's not important right now.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 02, 2025 06:33 AM (6K6Eu)

96 I am finding Substack more enjoyable because I can easily block anything I'm not interested in. I'm on FB mainly for the local info.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:34 AM (o5+a9)

97 The person that originally suggested banning politics was the first choice. I was tacked on as an after thought.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:32 AM (o5+a9)

Not a picosecond's reflection that they truly believe those who push a political view on a non political venue are *not* minions, and those who don't, *are*....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:34 AM (/M7rb)

98
In hindsight maybe the man with the extra "y" in his last name should have played a piano tune to lighten the mood.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

He ought to have borrowed Timpon's adorable little monkey outfit and organ grinder player and performed before a head of state in a manner with which he is more comfortable through his extensive engagement in that art.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:34 AM (xG4kz)

99 Just remembered didn't see Powerline week in pictures
How the Goths ever beat the Roman's has to be funniest
Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 06:10 AM (fwDg9)

More memes:

https://accordingtohoyt.com/

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2025 06:35 AM (ExV1e)

100 We didn't get off into the patriarchy because typewriter forums are mainly guys. I noticed that the typewriter maintenance group is not yet infected.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:36 AM (o5+a9)

101 Birdbaths are likely frozen, seems to be below 32 outside

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 06:36 AM (fwDg9)

102 In case Skip stepped away:

Prego, Maestro:

https://is.gd/cLaRij

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 02, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)

103 85 In hindsight maybe the man with the extra "y" in his last name should have played a piano tune to lighten the mood.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:26 AM (dg+HA)
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On an accordion with his dick.

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 06:36 AM (g4sLG)

104 *raises hand and waves excitedly*
Oooo... pick me! Pick me!
I'm familiar with shipyards and the area immediately adjacent to a drydock is called an "assembly platen." It's the area where modules, subassemblies, and pieces parts are arranged just prior to being lifted into place as the hull comes together.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:37 AM (dg+HA)

105 In hindsight maybe the man with the extra "y" in his last name should have played a piano tune to lighten the mood.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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In Cyrillic, the "sky" bit of a name has a diphthong with a short "i" sound and a long "i" sound. It's transliterated variously as "-i", "-y", "-iy", "-ii", or "yy".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 02, 2025 06:37 AM (6K6Eu)

106 Stately McDaniel Manor also has a weekly meme dump:

https://is.gd/2UZmzq

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 02, 2025 06:39 AM (PiwSw)

107 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 02, 2025 06:40 AM (6K6Eu)

108
And here I thought a diphthong was the favored beachwear of overweight and overoiled German tourists on Europe's summer beaches.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:41 AM (xG4kz)

109
*On an accordion with his dick.*

Sounds like you've visited my OnlyFans channel.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:41 AM (dg+HA)

110 Reflecting again on being born analog and having to cope with an entirely new concept that impinges on ALL of my life. There have been more than a few trials and tribulations to endure along the way, the biggest was the change in my career. Since I was unwilling to give up my chosen profession I've loved since childhood there was only learn computers to the extent necessary to pursue that career and get where I wished to be.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 02, 2025 06:41 AM (hKoQL)

111 Overweight diphthongs?

Is this about me?

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at March 02, 2025 06:43 AM (dg+HA)

112
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In Cyrillic, the "sky" bit of a name has a diphthong with a short "i" sound and a long "i" sound. It's transliterated variously as "-i", "-y", "-iy", "-ii", or "yy".
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I just want to be able to eat Chicken Kiev again.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:46 AM (dg+HA)

113 I think I've booted up my laptop once since I retired. I could use it instead of my iPad but then I'd have to deal with Windows wanting to update

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:46 AM (o5+a9)

114
Chicken Kiev

"It's 'Keeev'! Rhymes with 'heave'!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:47 AM (xG4kz)

115 Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

“Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine,”

Another 50k dead does not seem to be an issue with (D)s.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 02, 2025 06:47 AM (gbOdA)

116 One of the women on Substack, a homesteader, is thinking about doing a newsletter and mailing it. People are becoming nostalgic for letters

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:48 AM (o5+a9)

117 Why is a Senator trying to conduct foreign policy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:49 AM (/M7rb)

118 I suspect Z will discover the Ukrainian people are more interested in peace than he is .

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:50 AM (o5+a9)

119 I suspect Z will discover the Ukrainian people are more interested in peace than he is .

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:50 AM (o5+a9)
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The Ukrainians need to learn from the Rumanians.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 06:52 AM (ZTT+3)

120

Strap on a platen and shove it up my bum! Dry!

Posted by: Al Receptive at March 02, 2025 06:53 AM (I3t53)

121 Also, how is a foreign leader so gobsmackingly stupid he thinks meeting with a backbencher from the resoundingly defeated minority party and biting ankles is the right play here?

Have these people not sold you up the river enough, Zelenskyy? Do you think they will lift a pinky to save you from an Azovite rope, especially now that their power is dissipating?

Fool.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 06:53 AM (/M7rb)

122 It's what we do. Makes us feel important.

Posted by: Senators throughout history at March 02, 2025 06:53 AM (dg+HA)

123 Wecould all learn a lot from the Romanians

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:54 AM (o5+a9)

124
It's what we do. Makes us feel important.

How ... ... Kerryesque

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:55 AM (xG4kz)

125 We're currently running a coupon for Azovite rope.
Check our app.

Posted by: Harbor Freight at March 02, 2025 06:56 AM (dg+HA)

126 Wecould all learn a lot from the Romanians

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:54 AM (o5+a9)
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Obviously I was ruminating about the Romanians.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 06:57 AM (ZTT+3)

127 Z will go wherever someone will flatter him and call him a hero. Then he'll ask for money.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 06:57 AM (o5+a9)

128
Well, that was interesting. I just remembered Stellarium can give you the view of the sky from the Moon.

Blue Ghost landed in Mare Crisium, the Sea of Crisis. That's in the upper NE region of the Moon, close to the limb. That will be the upper right of the disk you see. It's just in the illuminated crescent you'll see after sunset tonight.

From the POV of Mare Crisium, it's early morning. The near full Earth is just a little S of due W. The Sun is low on the horizon almost due East.

And I ran what the eclipse will look like from that location. Very cool.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 06:57 AM (w6EFb)

129 The Sea Of Crisis was angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at March 02, 2025 06:59 AM (dg+HA)

130 102 In case Skip stepped away:

Prego, Maestro:

https://is.gd/cLaRij

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 02, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)
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Thank you kindly. Loved the hollow points and the boxed set

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 07:04 AM (g4sLG)

131 Morning Horde, thx Pixy. I'm now openly rooting for the Ukrainian people to boot Z out of office. It would for a while shut up our left but it would quickly replaced with the people saying the people who threw him out "support Putin" . Keep hammering that out European allies are buying billions in Russian LNG and are therefore funding Putin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 02, 2025 07:04 AM (EG7Bp)

132 It's interesting, the number of European countries that haven't considered Muslims running rampant and slaughtering large numbers of people. You would think they could learn something from Israel.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 07:05 AM (o5+a9)

133
Blue Ghost landed in Mare Crisium, the Sea of Crisis. That's in the upper NE region of the Moon, close to the limb.

Oh, I hate you!

Posted by: Michele Fields at March 02, 2025 07:06 AM (xG4kz)

134 133
Blue Ghost landed in Mare Crisium, the Sea of Crisis. That's in the upper NE region of the Moon, close to the limb.

Oh, I hate you!
Posted by: Michele Fields at March 02, 2025 07:06 AM (xG4kz)

Let's give a hand to the little lady!

Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan at March 02, 2025 07:08 AM (PiwSw)

135 102 In case Skip stepped away:

Prego, Maestro:

https://is.gd/cLaRij
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 02, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)
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For some unknown reason my phone refuses to open is.gd sites

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 07:10 AM (JFlPn)

136 It just dawned on me that it was the guy who said "go get your shine box" who was actually the one who got his face stoved in on the lunch counter by the new guy in town who wasn't going to take his crap anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 07:18 AM (/M7rb)

137 The real reason the Europeans side with Z is that they do the same thing. They are not as blunt but they hate our guts and want us to give them money.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 07:18 AM (o5+a9)

138
If you've got the desktop version of Stellarium, you might enjoy running the POV from the Moon.

A solar day on the Moon lasts about a month, with roughly 14 days of daylight, and 14 days of night. The earth doesn't move much in the sky, tracing out a figure 8 in the sky, as it hovers. The stars and sun just rotate around as the east does its little figure 8 dance in the sky.

I'm trying to remember a little solar time keeping scheme on the Moon. If a solar day is 28 earth-days long, divide that into 28, and have a lunar hour be about one earth day long. There was something about that I'm remembering.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 07:21 AM (w6EFb)

139 The real reason the Europeans side with Z is that they do the same thing. They are not as blunt but they hate our guts and want us to give them money.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 07:18 AM (o5+a9)

Snip that stem of USAID at the base, and the whole sprawling globe-eating mess of choking vines will wither and die.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 07:22 AM (/M7rb)

140 For some unknown reason my phone refuses to open is.gd sites
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 07:10 AM (JFlPn)

https://tinyurl.com/forhucksphone

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 02, 2025 07:27 AM (PiwSw)

141 From X:
Trump was talkin to Zelensky like they was at a dice game

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 02, 2025 07:31 AM (o5+a9)

142 Elon says SS is a ponzi scheme and (D) freaks out.

Amazing what happens when you tell the exact truth.

Search Ida Mae Fuller.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 02, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

143 I missed the link. Please?

https://tinyurl.com/56sbhuuh+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

144
Found it:
https://tinyurl.com/2eg7dlfs

Astronomer Kenneth Franklin came up with this, and some watch outfit made a lunar watch based on his scheme. Franklin co-discovered radio emissions from Jupiter as one of his claims to fame.

Anyway, synodic month and hence solar day on the Moon is 29.5 days long. So, he divided that circle into 30 parts, or 12 degrees as opposed to 24 and 15 degrees.

Thus a "lune" he called it is a bit shorter than a day. Now, he then divided that into 24, dubbing it a "lunour".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 07:34 AM (w6EFb)

145 Zelensky lacked, lacks the moral imagination or energy, and probably the intellectual capacity, to understand Trump or to have questioned his assumptions and entitled expectations going into that meeting. He's been conditioned for years to believe in the endless spigot of western money, and (as I understand it) was primed beforehand by a meeting with democrats and Rinos. The idea of making his big play before the cameras and media was irresistible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2025 07:34 AM (ZlOcj)

146 OT-There was an older guy at the market going through the self service checkout. The machine beeped out " Unexpected item in the bagging area. Please remove this item before continuing." He said to the store employee,"The machine hates me." I waited to laugh until I was out of the store.I could relate to his comment, but I usually just redundantly say, to the machine ,"Oh, shut up!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 07:34 AM (12uA6)

147 There is a story that Susan Rice, Nuland, and others advised Zelensky to reject the Trump deal.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2025 07:36 AM (ZmEVT)

148 Military recruiting, Ukraine style:

https://tinyurl.com/2jh2tes4+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 02, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

149 Morning peeps.
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There is a story that Susan Rice, Nuland, and others advised Zelensky to reject the Trump deal.
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I saw that story last night. Obama's crew, still active. Just like before.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)

150 The English used to do that too. They were called "Press gangs" and were used to round up men to serve the Navy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2025 07:39 AM (ZmEVT)

151 Gabbard said: “We look at the past four years of open borders, where we had tens of millions of people coming across our borders, many of whom we don’t know who they are or what their intentions are, very specifically the threat of radical Islamist terrorism here within our country is higher than it’s ever been before, not only because of Biden’s open borders, but because of his and his administration’s fear of being called Islamophobes.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 02, 2025 07:39 AM (gbOdA)

152 And then there were two older people with a cart and bags and they both said, Good morning to me so it was a nice time of the day. Little things like this can make a difference.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 07:40 AM (Wx7HT)

153 I saw that story last night. Obama's crew, still active. Just like before.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)

Enough. Time for righteous reverse-lawfare. We need to go after these people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2025 07:41 AM (ZlOcj)

154 150 The English used to do that too. They were called "Press gangs" and were used to round up men to serve the Navy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2025 07:39 AM (ZmEVT)
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yes and process was Shanghaiin

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 07:44 AM (g4sLG)

155 Gene Hackman death update at New Mexico sheriff press conference notes possible date actor died:

https://youtu.be/WXtsltv6zI8

This could help solve Hackman deaths: Maureen O’Connell (former FBI agent):

https://youtu.be/9En8tq9D8PU

Summary: I got nothin'!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 07:45 AM (ZTT+3)

156
"145 Zelensky lacked, lacks the moral imagination or energy, and probably the intellectual capacity, to understand Trump..."

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2025 07:34 AM

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What is moral imagination?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 07:45 AM (dg+HA)

157 Appears large forest fires Myrtle Beach, SC reported in the.news

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 07:45 AM (ZafiO)

158 I saw that story last night. Obama's crew, still active. Just like before.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)

Enough. Time for righteous reverse-lawfare. We need to go after these people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2025 07:41 AM (ZlOcj)
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US AG chimes in:

https://tinyurl.com/4k5atwf6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 07:48 AM (ZTT+3)

159 "What is moral imagination?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty"

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Imaginary Morals at March 02, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

160 The English used to do that too. They were called "Press gangs" and were used to round up men to serve the Navy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2025 07:39 AM (ZmEVT)
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Let's look at the downs side:

https://tinyurl.com/5yacrx3j

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 07:51 AM (ZTT+3)

161 I watched an X vid of an Australian version of our congress, an improbable looking creature grilling another improbable looking creature as to how they are going to pay for all the child grooming (or whatever atrocity it was) without USAID cash. “Australia can do what it can. Australia can’t do what it can’t. We’re not a global world power.”

They need to do more than “pause” funding for 90 days. Cut all this NONSENSE off. It is absolutely criminal.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 07:51 AM (ZafiO)

162 There is a story that Susan Rice, Nuland, and others advised Zelensky to reject the Trump deal.

Should this be a surprise that the crew that arranged the coup d'etat that put Zelenskyy in power, engineered the conflict, blew up the pipelines and made bank on the grift would like to keep him there?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 02, 2025 07:52 AM (a4flb)

163 Press gangs were for the royal navy. Could be wrong, but getting shanghied meant you were taken to a merchant ship.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 02, 2025 07:52 AM (Dm8we)

164 There is a story that Susan Rice, Nuland, and others advised Zelensky to reject the Trump deal.

And he'll get a better one where?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 07:52 AM (SfhV1)

165 19 degrees out

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 07:52 AM (fwDg9)

166 Publius: What was that bright light last evening around 6:45 pm Central Time, a few degrees over from the Moon in the western sky? At first I thought, "plane," but it didn't seem to move; nor did it twinkle. A conjunction of planets?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 07:53 AM (omVj0)

167 Did Gretchen Carlson get fired from Fox? Now she's blowing CNN for a job, I guess.

Posted by: Imaginary Morals at March 02, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

168 Yes, at one time there were (always) good reasons to watch how much you drink at the pub. Passing out might end up getting you a whole new career.

Imagine waking up at sea. “Uh-oh. I really tied one on last night.”

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 07:54 AM (ZafiO)

169 The English used to do that too. They were called "Press gangs" and were used to round up men to serve the Navy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2025

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In the late Sixties when everyone was screaming about the draft, I always wondered why no one ever compared the draft to press gangs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 07:54 AM (omVj0)

170 167 Did Gretchen Carlson get fired from Fox? Now she's blowing CNN for a job, I guess.
Posted by: Imaginary Morals at March 02, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Posted by: Alisyn Camerota at March 02, 2025 07:54 AM (PiwSw)

171 "Moral imagination" is ...
the ability to creatively envision the full range of possibilities in a particular situation to solve ethical challenges. It involves empathy, awareness, and the capacity to discern what is morally relevant in a given context. This concept goes beyond simply following rules or principles; it requires understanding and considering the impact of decisions on others.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 02, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

172 >> Publius: What was that bright light last evening around 6:45 pm Central Time, a few degrees over from the Moon in the western sky?

That was Venus. It's just past peak evening star show, and will quickly get lower on the horizon at sunset as inferior conjunction approaches. In late April, it will repeat the bright light show on the morning side.

See the "five petals of Venus", which is this cycle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 07:56 AM (w6EFb)

173 I hope that story of Rice et al is true and it gets confirmed, they all should get indicted

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 07:56 AM (fwDg9)

174 Back from a solid workout, shower, and finishing some breakfast of eggs and a beef-and-bean burrito. Also a lsice of whole grain bread w/ peanut butter and honey as "dessert." Now I can relax with some coffee.

I'm thinking, too, since I'm in the middle of a four-day weekend, that I could drive up Hwy. 90 and drop in on a local coffee shop. They have Wi-Fi; I won't have to miss the Book Thread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 07:57 AM (omVj0)

175 shanghai1
n verb (shanghais, shanghaiing, shanghaied)
1 historical force to join a ship's crew by underhand means.
2 informal coerce or trick into a place or action.

ORIGIN
C19: from Shanghai, a major Chinese seaport.

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 07:57 AM (g4sLG)

176 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 02, 2025 07:54 AM (a4flb)

Well, done, thank you.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2025 07:58 AM (ZlOcj)

177 Posted by: Ordinary American at March 02, 2025 07:34 AM (ZlOcj)

Not sure how true it is, but X is saying that Graham added 48B into the spending bill for his butt buddy, Z

Posted by: long night...lifted at March 02, 2025 07:59 AM (2NXcZ)

178 171 "Moral imagination" is ...
the ability to creatively envision the full range of possibilities in a particular situation to solve ethical challenges. It involves empathy, awareness, and the capacity to discern what is morally relevant in a given context. This concept goes beyond simply following rules or principles; it requires understanding and considering the impact of decisions on others.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Oh.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 08:00 AM (dg+HA)

179 >> I hope that story of Rice et al

Talk about the Logan Act. This would really be an instance of that. Former American govt officials interfering with current govt diplomatic acts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 08:00 AM (w6EFb)

180 How much USAID funding is going to suppress Free Speech around the world?

Now consider the opportunity costs involved. “What If” USAID funding was used all these years, not to destabilize nations or societies - and grift - but actually help them?

Or even promote “American Values” - say for example, the right of self defense? Dare I say it?

2nd Amendment for vulnerable communities. Like England and Wales and Ireland and etc. imagine. Imagine the howls from the Bolshies

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:00 AM (ZafiO)

181 Pull the 101st out of Poland as a start.

Posted by: long night...lifted at March 02, 2025 08:01 AM (2NXcZ)

182 https://tinyurl.com/forhucksphone
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 02, 2025 07:27 AM (PiwSw)
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You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:02 AM (rlcRU)

183 In my Dictionary “Empathy” is not simply a super hyper sympathy. It is, but it is very specific.

One cannot have empathy, unless you personally have experienced the exact same thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:03 AM (ZafiO)

184 There is a story that Susan Rice, Nuland, and others advised Zelensky to reject the Trump deal.

And he'll get a better one where?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 07:52 AM (SfhV1)

He’s working with Democrats, RINOs and our “European allies” to coup President Trump. It worked in 2019.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 02, 2025 08:03 AM (l3YAf)

185 What was that bright light last evening around 6:45 pm Central Time, a few degrees over from the Moon in the western sky?
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That was Venus. It's just past peak evening star show, and will quickly get lower on the horizon at sunset as inferior conjunction approaches. In late April, it will repeat the bright light show on the morning side.

See the "five petals of Venus", which is this cycle.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025

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I thought it might be -- "evening star" -- but I'd rarely ever seen it so bright.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 08:04 AM (omVj0)

186 17.6° when I got up. Our warm spell seems to have left.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 02, 2025 08:05 AM (n4GiU)

187 > Talk about the Logan Act. This would really be an instance of that. Former American govt officials interfering with current govt diplomatic acts.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 08:00 AM (w6EFb)
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Only two people have been indicted of violating the Logan Act. Both were in the 19th century. Neither resulted in conviction.

Doubtful it'd be pursued today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

188 I'd never looked at the Powerline blog before except when someone linked to the Week in Pictures. I'm amused at how closely their font copies that of the New Yorker. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 02, 2025 08:06 AM (omVj0)

189 Speaking of tech, scientists have created a banana that stays fresh for 24 hours after peeling. This is the kind of thing that Science was really meant to do.

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2025 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

190 More proof journalists are stupid.

Aussie Claire Lehmann, participating in a video of four hens clucking (one is actually a rooster pretending to be a hen), argues that if French and UK troops are deployed to Ukraine and are fired upon by Russians, NATO Article 5 would kick in requiring the US to send its own troops in response, thereby kick off WWIII.

I can’t even…

(source: Mollie Hemingway repost)

Posted by: one hour sober at March 02, 2025 08:07 AM (Y1sOo)

191 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 02, 2025 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

192 Naked Brown Bananas would be a good name for a band or a blog.

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

193 There is a story that Susan Rice, Nuland, and others advised Zelensky to reject the Trump deal.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 02, 2025 07:36 AM (ZmEVT)
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Repeat and rinse:

US AG chimes in:

https://tinyurl.com/4k5atwf6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 07:48 AM (ZTT+3)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 08:09 AM (ZTT+3)

194 I try to stay away from talking about the unfortunate looks of people as I am neither 30 nor a supermodel, but gosh Victoria Nuland looks likes some Communist thug leader and represents the idea that the love of money ( and power) is the root of all kinds of evil.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 08:09 AM (WHj3A)

195 One cannot have empathy, unless you personally have experienced the exact same thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:03 AM (ZafiO)

I don't think it's supposed to be exactly that. Where sympathy is simply feeling bad because someone feels bad and I don't want them to, or good because they feel good and i want them to. "Feeling with". Empathy is actively imagining how this person is feeling, in detail, and trying to feel that as well. "Feeling in".

I suppose it's fairly easy for that to become a kind of narcissism if it isn't grounded in some larger ethical framework of Charity (caritas, love, whatever you want to call it). Like a creepy kind of Feeling-Envy, maybe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 08:10 AM (/M7rb)

196 Only two people have been indicted of violating the Logan Act. Both were in the 19th century. Neither resulted in conviction.

Doubtful it'd be pursued today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)
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Well, it had a good run.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 08:10 AM (ZTT+3)

197 It's ok FS. Stereotypes exist because there is some truth in them.

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2025 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

198 I try to stay away from talking about the unfortunate looks of people as I am neither 30 nor a supermodel, but gosh Victoria Nuland looks likes some Communist thug leader and represents the idea that the love of money ( and power) is the root of all kinds of evil.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 08:09 AM (WHj3A)
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If Victoria Nuland were a candy:

https://youtu.be/4H7-acfVx_s

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 08:12 AM (ZTT+3)

199
I dunno about Zelensky(y)'s 'moral imagination'.

I reckon it would take a lot of that to play a piano with your pecker.

Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2025 08:13 AM (j4U/Z)

200 189 Speaking of tech, scientists have created a banana that stays fresh for 24 hours after peeling. This is the kind of thing that Science was really meant to do.

Posted by: fd at March 02, 2025 08:06 AM (vFG9F)
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One way of preserving pealed and even sliced bananas is with vitamin C or other fruit juice -- real fruit!

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 08:13 AM (g4sLG)

201 I reckon it would take a lot of that to play a piano with your pecker.

Posted by: Auspex at March 02, 2025 08:13 AM (j4U/Z)
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Most noticeable for someone who is off-key.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 08:14 AM (ZTT+3)

202 >> I thought it might be -- "evening star" -- but I'd rarely ever seen it so bright.

It's at -4.6 magnitude now, brightest thing in the sky save for the Moon. Peak brightness was around the middle of Feb, and it hit -4.8+ this cycle, pretty bright this time.

It won't be quite as bright on the morning side, maybe -4.5 max.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 08:16 AM (w6EFb)

203 Zelensky may just be dumb.

If Nuland/Blinken et al advised him to ambush Trump with new demands in the oval office in front of the press, he never stopped to consider they are both the team that lost the last election overwhelmingly and the group that got Ukraine into this horror in the first place?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:16 AM (hjxC5)

204 "One way of preserving pealed and even sliced bananas is with vitamin C or other fruit juice -- real fruit!
Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour"

Our semiorganic banana varnish will work better than that.

Posted by: Banana Scientists at March 02, 2025 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

205 Potatoes as well. Every dried or mashed or dehydrated commercial product is treated with anti-oxidants or whatever. Otherwise instant mashed potatoes would be a nice shade of brown or black.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:17 AM (ZafiO)

206 200
peel

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 08:17 AM (g4sLG)

207 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 08:12 AM (ZTT+3)

Well, Susan Rice doesn't seem chunky and she's equally unappealing as far as personality.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 08:17 AM (42Vb+)

208 >> Doubtful it'd be pursued today.

The left and Dems always go on about the Logan Act when some Republican does something they don't like.

Turn it around. This would be about the closest thing to a real violation of the spirit of it I can think of.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 08:17 AM (w6EFb)

209 Freezing sliced banana keeps them fresh and provides a frozen treat

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:18 AM (hjxC5)

210 Since I keeps coming up, the problem with the Logan Act is that it is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment - you cannot restrict Americans from talking to who they want to talk to. It stays on the books because no legislature wants to revisit, and no prosecutor is foolish enough to actually file charges, which would get it finally tossed out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2025 08:18 AM (SSRw1)

211 He’s working with Democrats, RINOs and our “European allies” to coup President Trump. It worked in 2019.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 02, 2025 08:03 AM (l3YAf)

Is this a pretext for some massive Dem action? "Spontaneous Protests (TM)" are popping up in our little burg by some "charity" for the Ukraine. They had beautifully printed mass-produced signs and lots of Ukraine flags that weren't tattered after years of being virtue-displayed in solidarity on people's homes. Audits of the finances of such "charities" might be an interesting trail to follow.

Posted by: moki at March 02, 2025 08:19 AM (wLjpr)

212 Does anyone else get the sense from watching that interview that the Z man is a cocaine or methamphetamine user? He has certain mannerisms, runny nose, nervous tics and facial expressions that sort of indicate “drug addict”,

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:19 AM (ZafiO)

213 >> the Z man is a cocaine or methamphetamine user?

The Russians constantly refer to him as a drug addict or coke head.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 08:21 AM (w6EFb)

214 It used to be considered bad form for opposition politicians to involve themselves too deeply in foreign affairs, and then along came Secretariat and his personal white whale, Iran

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:21 AM (hjxC5)

215 What possible reason would US state governors have in weighing in on Zelenskyy and Ukraine?

What possible concern are these foreign affairs to those states, other than the possibility of throwing their citizens into a meat grinder?

Does the graft go that deep? Is EVERYONE getting freezer cash?

Posted by: Derak at March 02, 2025 08:21 AM (rNa0v)

216 Does the graft go that deep? Is EVERYONE getting freezer cash?

Posted by: Derak at March 02, 2025 08:21 AM (rNa0v)
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"Military Industrial Complex."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 08:24 AM (ZTT+3)

217 I think Obama, Nuland, Blinken and the others coached Little-Z to be arrogant in the hopes it would torque Trump off and make him look like the bad guy. Trump can really lay it on thick when he thinks he's being disrespected.

It didn't work.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 08:25 AM (Q4IgG)

218 When they made alliances with the soviets kennedy with vietnamese kerry with sandinistas too many to spell out

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 02, 2025 08:27 AM (dJR17)

219 Zman isn't in charge of anything. He's just the front man for the gang.

He's the Ukrainian Biden.

Posted by: davidt at March 02, 2025 08:27 AM (i0F8b)

220
"Military Industrial Complex."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 08:24 AM (ZTT+3)

I remember pooh-poohing that as a conspiracy theory when I was young and naive.

not now

Posted by: moki at March 02, 2025 08:28 AM (wLjpr)

221 Is this a pretext for some massive Dem action? "Spontaneous Protests (TM)" are popping up in our little burg by some "charity" for the Ukraine. They had beautifully printed mass-produced signs and lots of Ukraine flags that weren't tattered after years of being virtue-displayed in solidarity on people's homes. Audits of the finances of such "charities" might be an interesting trail to follow.
Posted by: moki at March 02, 2025 08:19 AM (wLjpr)

It’s all part of the ongoing resistance. I’m sure Zelensky was told to make this move. Maybe he was told there’d be an attempt to resurrect Russia Russia Russia with new intelligence from 5 eyes, or there’d be another impeachment of Trump for trying to interfere with Ukraine. Or something new entirely,

It hopefully will not work, but Zelensky had to be pretty self-assured to try this.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 02, 2025 08:28 AM (l3YAf)

222 Seeing as he was a washed up comic their ben stiller

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 02, 2025 08:29 AM (dJR17)

223 He hasn't read the room and is still high on the heady fumes he enjoyed when J'Blowme and pals were those with whom he dealt. Things have changed here, you malignant little cockroach, and you are now in no position to demand anything.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 02, 2025 06:14 AM (xG4kz)

See also: Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: sal at March 02, 2025 08:30 AM (f+FmA)

224 I'd never looked at the Powerline blog before except when someone linked to the Week in Pictures. I'm amused at how closely their font copies that of the New Yorker. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
_________

Hayward is solid. He issued that epic smackdown to Paul Mirengoff for his never-Trumpism and got him kicked off the blog. Johnson and Hinderaker are still a little squishy at times.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 02, 2025 08:30 AM (Dm8we)

225
212 Does anyone else get the sense from watching that interview that the Z man is a cocaine or methamphetamine user? He has certain mannerisms, runny nose, nervous tics and facial expressions that sort of indicate “drug addict”,
Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:19 AM

+++

https://youtu.be/Z14nNqmEiTo

I'm hip, man.

Posted by: Kramer at March 02, 2025 08:31 AM (dg+HA)

226 I think Z-man's show the other day was as much about lining his pockets as it is about lining the pockets of the members of Congress who've been riding that gravy train for the last 4 or 5 years.

Little-Z got an earful from "both sides of the aisle."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

227 183 In my Dictionary “Empathy” is not simply a super hyper sympathy. It is, but it is very specific.

One cannot have empathy, unless you personally have experienced the exact same thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:03 AM (ZafiO)

Empathy for the Devil

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 02, 2025 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

228 "On August 16, 2016, the FBI opened a case on Flynn as part of its Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The purpose of the investigation, code-named Crossfire Razor, was to find out if Flynn was knowingly or unknowingly "involved in activity on behalf of the Russian Federation which may constitute a federal crime or threat to the national security" of the United States."

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2025 08:35 AM (D7oie)

229 221 Agree that Zelenskyy was told to act as he did. That was not spontaneous and lacking calculation.

But he acted a bit like Jefferson Davis telling Abraham Lincoln if he could have West Virginia back if he would tell Grant to give him Petersburg back....okay, not a great analogy but makes the point. You are not winning. Quit the death and destruction and work for something better with people that can help you.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Ior/p)

230 I liked Gene Hackman in "Shaft". He was great as Willy.

Listen, Snow White. Me and you gonna tangle, sooner or later. Did you hear what I say?

Posted by: Zombie Richard Roundtree at March 02, 2025 08:36 AM (R/m4+)

231 "One way of preserving pealed and even sliced bananas is with vitamin C or other fruit juice -- real fruit!
Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour"

Our semiorganic banana varnish will work better than that.
Posted by: Banana Scientists at March 02, 2025 08:16 AM (vFG9F)
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But can you still sharpen them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mggl7cC8iys

Posted by: Professor Bunsen Honeydew at March 02, 2025 08:38 AM (BpYfr)

232 I have often confused Karl Malden for Gene Hackman.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2025 08:39 AM (D7oie)

233 >> You are not winning. Quit the death and destruction and work for something better with people that can help you.

Peace was never Zelensky’s goal. His goal has always been to carry out and prolong this war as long as possible, as instructed to by his deep state handlers.

His only remaining move to keep the grift going is NATO boots on the ground. That’s his goal in all of this.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 02, 2025 08:39 AM (l3YAf)

234 I don't accept that the Logan act violates 1A. It's a form of fraud, really. You're attempting to negotiate on someone else's behalf without their permission, or even knowledge.

You can't go negotiate a life insurance contract in my name. I can't go tell your neighbor he can borrow your lawn mower.

Free speech was never intended to protect fraud. You can be wrong all you like, you can talk about foreign affairs and start people "should do" all you like, but you can't conduct business in someone else's name without some kind of official proxy or power of attorney.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 02, 2025 08:39 AM (/M7rb)

235 I have seen several people, who seem to have experience in such things, that Z-man is showing all the signs of a high functioning coke addict.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2025 08:43 AM (SSRw1)

236 Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 08:19 AM

Yes; There was a link posted here yesterday( can't recall from where . Sorry) with someone's theory that's a big part of what's going on- that Zelensky is a drug addict,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 02, 2025 08:44 AM (aaP/f)

237 They not only lined a half mile of highway near Sugarbush VT where Vance and his family were going for a ski getaway, they got on the ski slopes to harass them

The attendees at the "protest" had to have come from far away, as the local community ain't near big enough to turn our a few thousand people.

How was it organized?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 02, 2025 08:45 AM (KiBMU)

238 It's early !

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 08:45 AM (g47mK)

239 *for a Sunday

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

240 "Politics stops at the ocean's edge" used to be the mantra. Not anymore.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:46 AM (q3m2C)

241 is grok going to replace google ?

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

242 they got on the ski slopes to harass them

Would they have to buy tickets to get on the slopes?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 08:46 AM (SfhV1)

243 234 I don't accept that the Logan act violates 1A. It's a form of fraud, really. You're attempting to negotiate on someone else's behalf without their permission, or even knowledge.”

But it’s not negotiating if the one talking has no actual power to negotiate. The worst it could be is a fraud on the person they were talking to, if they pretended to have such power.

You simply cannot tell Americans who they are legally allowed to talk to. Now if they are giving away secrets or conducting espionage that’s different, but there are much different laws covering that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 02, 2025 08:48 AM (SSRw1)

244 Europe has been discussing, analyzing, digesting zelenskyyy's fiasco in the oval for 3 days now!

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

245 How was it organized?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 02, 2025 08:45 AM (KiBMU)
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Soros/Rockefeller et al paid to bus in the usual suspects and there you go, instant protest. Their standard MO.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:48 AM (q3m2C)

246 Follow up from 0400 comment - finally found, and left a message with the DDS's answering service. Hopefully, he'll get me in post haste.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 02, 2025 08:49 AM (cYBz/)

247 You can advertise for protesters on Craigslist.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 08:49 AM (SfhV1)

248 A hell of a toothache woke me up and can't get in to see the Dentist until Thursday. Ugh.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 02, 2025 04:09 AM (cYBz/)

Go elsewhere.

Most (some) dentists usually have a slot set up to get in emergencies esp for patients of record.

If your's doesn't, look elsewhere.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 02, 2025 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

249 You can advertise for protesters on Craigslist.

==

I am planning on going that route when the extremists blatantly promoting interests of the Big Bat become intolerable!

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 08:51 AM (g47mK)

250 226 I think Z-man's show the other day was as much about lining his pockets as it is about lining the pockets of the members of Congress who've been riding that gravy train for the last 4 or 5 years.

Little-Z got an earful from "both sides of the aisle."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 02, 2025 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

But. He was also making a play, but at the same time getting sacrificed. He was making a play for money, that Trump would want to appear magnanimous and go easy on him, in front of the cameras. But his handlers were making a play in case Trump didn't give a shit. They could then paint him as mean and combative to what they think of as a war hero (make no mistake, they see no difference between Z and Audie Murphy.)

Poor little Z. You were the bait in a cleft stick meant for Trump.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2025 08:52 AM (bss/y)

251 247 You can advertise for protesters on Craigslist.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 08:49 AM (SfhV1)

I wonder how much loose money there is for them with USAID getting shut down and the leftwing donors wondering where the hell their money went?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 02, 2025 08:53 AM (bss/y)

252 TonyPete...

Ibuprofen for tooth pain. My dentist recommends up to 400 mg per dose every 6 hours. Clove oil was the only thing that worked for me when I had a dry socket several years ago.
If all else fails.... Whiskey!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity Vwench) at March 02, 2025 08:53 AM (4XwPj)

253 *sigh*

My cat Allie is once again my literary critic, sitting on top of the open book I'm reading.

Apologies if the SMBT is a bit late...

Posted by: Professor Bunsen Honeydew at March 02, 2025 08:53 AM (BpYfr)

254 > "'We're on the moon!' Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA"

A private sector lander launched on a Musk rocket, but sure, "NASA".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 02, 2025 08:53 AM (W5ArC)

255 Love that Propaganda Press organs are saying people are protesting Vance's treatment of Zelinsky, when the protests were organized as soon as Vance's office announced he was taking his family to Sugarbush, long before the Ovak meeting occurred.

Just a pretext the Soros crowd is exploiting....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:54 AM (rNGRC)

256 "Politics stops at the ocean's edge" used to be the mantra. Not anymore.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:46 AM (q3m2C)

It may have been the mantra, but it’s not been followed in a long while. Democrats have been working with international leftist movements against us for many decades.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 02, 2025 08:55 AM (l3YAf)

257 Do the Democrats have anything else besides protests? Like ideas?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

258 "'We're on the moon!' Private Blue Ghost moon lander aces historic lunar landing for NASA"

A private sector lander launched on a Musk rocket, but sure, "NASA".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 02, 2025 08:53 AM (W5ArC)
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Maybe NASA brought coffee to the folks doing the actual work...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 02, 2025 08:56 AM (BpYfr)

259 A private sector lander launched on a Musk rocket, but sure, "NASA".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 02, 2025 08:53 AM (W5ArC)
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Instead of "for NASA" would you be happier with "NASA is the customer" or "on behalf of NASA, who paid the company to land the rover"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:56 AM (rNGRC)

260 Off to church. BBL

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

261 Week in pictures is great, but Powerline has pretty much lost me.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 02, 2025 08:57 AM (n4GiU)

262 Almost outta here, but to me the Logan act is more about traitor act, working against the government

Posted by: Skip at March 02, 2025 08:57 AM (fwDg9)

263 Obama Rice et al want the war.

Just think about that for a second.

(D) Progressive are Pro War. They want another 100k dead. They want 2 Western (semi)Democracies fighting for another 1 or 2 or 3 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 02, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

264 Do the Democrats have anything else besides protests? Like ideas?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead
+++
Their ideas are the same as the last four years.
Only more and harder.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at March 02, 2025 08:58 AM (sw/8R)

265 You can advertise for protesters on Craigslist.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 02, 2025 08:49 AM (SfhV1)

Probably time to start flooding Craigslist with bogus offers for protesters.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2025 08:58 AM (D7oie)

266 Ya know what's funny?
Watching Scots play soccer.
What they really need are sticks and permission to hit each other.

Posted by: Accomack at March 02, 2025 08:59 AM (YVT+g)

267 Why did they announce their ski trip? Why not just go and don't advertise it? Or say they're going to one area the go to a different area? Are they required to tell the whole country their plans?

Just shut up and go! It will be more peaceful that way.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity Vwench) at March 02, 2025 08:59 AM (4XwPj)

268 Apparently, Z went to the UK with his hand out and Starmer gave him a 3 billion pound "loan."

Posted by: Halfhand at March 02, 2025 09:00 AM (tHgJv)

269 Week in pictures is great, but Powerline has pretty much lost me.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 02, 2025 08:57 AM (n4GiU)
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Not me. Hayward is outstanding, Hindersker is usually very solid (though with occasional backsliding) and Johnson is great on Israel and Ilhan Omar.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 09:00 AM (rNGRC)

270 Ya know what's funny?
Watching Scots play soccer.
What they really need are sticks and permission to hit each other.
Posted by: Accomack at March 02, 2025 08:59 AM (YVT+g)

There is a reason the Scots don't play Hurling

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2025 09:00 AM (D7oie)

271 Instead of "for NASA" would you be happier with "NASA is the customer" or "on behalf of NASA, who paid the company to land the rover"?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 08:56 AM (rNGRC)

The taxpayer paid for it. NASA’s the sclerotic bureaucracy that hands out our money. I don’t know who the customer is supposed to be in this exchange.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 02, 2025 09:01 AM (l3YAf)

272 I listened to remarks of the leader of the opposition in the UK , Kemi Badenoch, and decided that all major parties in Britain are working for Zelenskyy. Or, to be exact, Ukraine is a UK project. I could be wrong...

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 09:01 AM (g47mK)

273 Apparently, Z went to the UK with his hand out and Starmer gave him a 3 billion pound "loan."
Posted by: Halfhand at March 02, 2025 09:00 AM (tHgJv)

there were hugs in front of the cameras. for a British politician that is ..like stripping naked

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 09:02 AM (g47mK)

274 I was wrong, the Scots play "Shinty" which is Hurling.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2025 09:02 AM (D7oie)

275 The war in Ukraine is over two things: keeping the US in NATO and preventing the US and Russia from having any bilateral agreements.
I think Putin has had to fight only as hard and dirty as is necessary to win without losing moral right to win.

Posted by: Accomack at March 02, 2025 09:02 AM (YVT+g)

276 Ukraine
UK
UK rain

Whoa! It's like right there man!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity Vwench) at March 02, 2025 09:03 AM (4XwPj)

277 I am looking forward to NASA under new leader Jared Isaacman. He is going to do great things there, I believe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 09:04 AM (rNGRC)

278 Zelenskyy.

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 09:01 AM (g47mK)
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CEASE AND DESIST AT ONCE!

https://tinyurl.com/4nw8vcrr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 09:04 AM (ZTT+3)

279 shinty/hurling match, Scots v Irish

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XGiPWA4tj0g?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2025 09:05 AM (D7oie)

280 CEASE AND DESIST AT ONCE!

https://tinyurl.com/4nw8vcrr
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 09:04 AM (ZTT+3)
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Love that. Hope its real. Please tell spell check.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 09:06 AM (rNGRC)

281 273
there were hugs in front of the cameras. for a British politician that is ..like stripping naked

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 09:02 AM (g47mK)
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John Cleese "A Fish Called Wanda".

Posted by: Ciampino missed the landing by an hour at March 02, 2025 09:06 AM (g4sLG)

282
This is all part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program:
https://tinyurl.com/2cxaoqh3

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 09:06 AM (w6EFb)

283 Trump//Putin overture is proceeding.
US/Russia bilateral trade agreements likely
US out of NATO possible
US out of United Nations? Hopefully.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity Vwench) at March 02, 2025 09:07 AM (4XwPj)

284 Lol

Posted by: Accomack at March 02, 2025 09:07 AM (Bbhox)

285 Or, to be exact, Ukraine is a UK project. I could be wrong...
Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 09:01 AM (g47mK)

There is a train of thought that Ukraine is in fact a UK project, to bankrupt the US by getting us involved in another forever war, and re-establish financial controls over the Anglsophere.

I consider this the neo-LaRouchian theory, but it does hold together better than I though it would

Posted by: Kindltot at March 02, 2025 09:08 AM (D7oie)

286 The war in Ukraine is over two things: keeping the US in NATO and preventing the US and Russia from having any bilateral agreements.
I think Putin has had to fight only as hard and dirty as is necessary to win without losing moral right to win.
Posted by: Accomack at March 02, 2025 09:02 AM (YVT+g)
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I was under the impression Nuland started this war to grind down and finally deplete the Russian military, and to depose Putin.

And she was willing to sacrifice the entire Ukrainian nation to get her way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 02, 2025 09:11 AM (q3m2C)

287
The IM-2 mission which launched a few days ago, will attempt to land near the lunar south pole on Mar 6.

So, two commercial lunar landings in a week.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 02, 2025 09:11 AM (w6EFb)

288 Or, to be exact, Ukraine is a UK project. I could be wrong...

Posted by: runner at March 02, 2025 09:01 AM (g47mK)
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... and Soros and WEF and EU and China somewhere in the background.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 02, 2025 09:11 AM (ZTT+3)

289 Kindltot..
I'm not seeing the "bankrupt the US" part of this. I think its more likely that they want to keep up the flow of laundered money and kids they can use as sex toys.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity Vwench) at March 02, 2025 09:12 AM (4XwPj)

290 And I think that's what the DC crowd is invested in as well.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity Vwench) at March 02, 2025 09:14 AM (4XwPj)

291 Nothing wrong with that goal, Huck. With Putin and his crew deposed and banned, the New Russia would give herself away like the Poles did.

Posted by: Accomack at March 02, 2025 09:14 AM (4qMiv)

292 I didn’t to to church today, but the mesa top view is pretty fair, I’d say. I’m not too much of a religious feller, but ai like Doc Watson’s version of “Precious Lord”, it’s a nice arrangement. Capo on the 1st fret. Found on YT - “An Evening with Doc Watson”. Might be my favorite hymn, I dunno.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 09:16 AM (BWpBM)

293 If you told me you had real, legitimate pictures of Lindsey Graham railing a 12 year old boy that is chained to the wall of the sex dungeon under the US Capitol building I would no be surprised. I would say, well finally! Someone got the proof.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity Vwench) at March 02, 2025 09:17 AM (4XwPj)

294 I'm not seeing the "bankrupt the US" part of this…
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I can, without question. See Also: Killing two birds with one stone. There’s a reason, ever notice how much of a hurry the progressives seem to be in? Almost as if there is timeline, a plan, or directives that they are not necessarily fully informed or control of, but they have to try and get things done or attempt. Hell, they probably get a performance bonus.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 02, 2025 09:20 AM (BWpBM)

295 104 *raises hand and waves excitedly*
Oooo... pick me! Pick me!
I'm familiar with shipyards and the area immediately adjacent to a drydock is called an "assembly platen." It's the area where modules, subassemblies, and pieces parts are arranged just prior to being lifted into place as the hull comes together.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 02, 2025 06:37 AM (dg+HA)

Wow. Collectively, maybe we really DO know everything.

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