Daily Tech News 5 March 2025

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Citigroup needed to credit $280 to a customer's account. They instead credited $81 trillion. (MSN)

That used to be a lot.
Regarding Citi's transformation, the company spent $11.8 billion on technology in 2024, CFO Mark Mason said during its Q4 2024 earnings call in January. The focus was on "digital innovation, new product development, client experience and other areas such as cybersecurity," Mason said.
They forgot "noticing individual transactions that approach the global GDP".

Two employees approved the transaction and it was deposited into the customer's account before it was noticed and reversed 90 minutes later.

Which raised the question: How?

Tech News

It Nvidia's new RTX 5070 a $549 4090 replacement? No. (The Verge)

Is it at least significantly faster than last year's 4070 Super? Also no.

Is it at least available? If you wanted to buy the Founder's Edition, still no. (Tom's Hardware)

Watching some review videos today, I noted that my brand new 7800 XT can only achieve an unplayable 4 fps on the new Indiana Jones game (at 4k resolution with maximum ray-tracing settings).

The 5070 can't play it at all on those settings. It crashes almost instantly then refuses to restart. This review notes that in Cyberpunk 2077 the 5070 can only achieve 6 fps at 4k with full ray-tracing without upscaling or fake frames.
Scientists working on reintroducing the woolly mammoth have advanced another step: They created woolly mice. (NPR)

This is from Massive Dynamic Colossal Biosciences, the company that is also working to bring back the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has landed. (AP)

On the Moon.

It's the first private mission to post a successful Moon landing thus far, though a few have posted unsuccess.
Mad King Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, the owner of WordPress, is talking succession. (Tec Crunch)

He's not planning to give up the throne, though.
Eastern Australia is about to be clobbered by Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which is inconvenient because that's where I keep all my stuff.

I'm perfectly safe since I live inland, up in the mountains, and far south of where it expected to make landfall... Which just happens to be dead center on Brisbane, our third largest city.

At high tide, tonight.

With northern Australia so empty, it's 50 years since a capital city here was hit directly by a cyclone - and it pretty much wrecked the place.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Oh no, not again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Stay safe Pixy!

Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 04:02 AM (anGI6)

2 60 degrees yesterday. White out blizzard tonight.
Global warmering.

Posted by: MkY at March 05, 2025 04:06 AM (cPGH3)

3 Thank you Pixy!

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

4 Evening and morning to all the early risers and late toilers on this Ash Wednesday, Woden's Day!

Pixy, I've always wondered how cyclones travel in the Southern Hemisphere. They begin fairly close to the equator, I suppose, as in the north. But ours travel in a generally west-to-northwest direction. The Wiki entry on the 1974 Darwin storm indicates that it traveled roughly *south*westward (until it turned and went SE and hit Darwin). This Brisbane one, did it travel roughly southwestward too?

A lady I knew once from Sao Paolo, Brazil, said she'd never heard of a hurricane hitting there. I guess the bulge of Brazil prevents most storms from affecting them?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 04:07 AM (omVj0)

5 Pixy, do your cyclones rotate differently than ours?
Which way do your toilets swirl?

Posted by: MkY at March 05, 2025 04:08 AM (cPGH3)

6 We're seeing 62 F. right now, though with a stiff (for workouts) breeze, fairly low humidity but still damp. Good workout weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 04:08 AM (omVj0)

7 Cyclone, Huh?

Well at least it's not a hurricane.

Cause those things are really bad.

No.....wait!

Pixy, be safe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 04:09 AM (a1415)

8 Two employees approved the transaction and it was deposited into the customer's account before it was noticed and reversed 90 minutes later.

Which raised the question: How?
-

Since this is the tech thread, the answer might be:

OS mo' sys.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 04:12 AM (BzP/F)

9 So we did our first Shrove Tuesday Pancake dinner at the church last night.

Wonderful food.

Delicious pancakes. As much sausage and stuff as one could ever eat. All topped off with a fresh donut.

Then too tired to stay up for The Donald flame-spraying the Democrats in his speech.

And for the first time since July, maybe...the terrible heartburn that used to plague me almost nightly before my efforts to reduce carbohydrates and lose weight.

I guess it was a warning to me to not lose focus on how my health has changed since June, and to stay focused on diet and exercise.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 04:14 AM (a1415)

10 67.6 degrees outside right now.

26.2 degrees warmer than this same time yesterday.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 04:15 AM (a1415)

11 $81 Trillion? I can't be the only person with bank alerts on their phone. If I saw that total pop up, I'd call a family member who happens to be a tax accountant, figure a good place to protect the loot from a clawback while we put our thinking caps, and see what shenanigans we can cause. I'd try to hold on to _some_ of it, but the rest will go to the most photogenic and heartbreaking causes I can find. Go ahead, take the money away from the adorable little girl who is finally getting that hare lip fixed.

Posted by: bittergeek at March 05, 2025 04:16 AM (NFXcl)

12 Pixy, I've always wondered how cyclones travel in the Southern Hemisphere. They begin fairly close to the equator, I suppose, as in the north. But ours travel in a generally west-to-northwest direction. The Wiki entry on the 1974 Darwin storm indicates that it traveled roughly *south*westward (until it turned and went SE and hit Darwin). This Brisbane one, did it travel roughly southwestward too?

Yes, though again it wandered around quite a bit. I'm not sure if this is generally true or nobody cares much about the ones that stay out to sea and only bother the fish.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 05, 2025 04:17 AM (BLOW1)

13 Looks like severe storms are about to roll in later this morning.

Most of the schools have decided to go to either e-learning for the day, or just outright closed due to incoming severe weather.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 04:17 AM (a1415)

14 5 Pixy, do your cyclones rotate differently than ours?
Which way do your toilets swirl?

Straight up. Which can be a little inconvenient.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 05, 2025 04:18 AM (BLOW1)

15 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 04:19 AM (sAmhv)

16 81 Trillion ... "That used to be a lot."

That running gag line of yours is particularly funny when used in this circumstance.

On a more serious note though, what this proves to me is something I've suspected for a while: The big banks can just create money by putting a number in a database entry. Their system should have refused to do a deposit that large without a corresponding matching series of withdrawals that totaled the deposit... But it didn't.

House. Of. Cards.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:19 AM (O7YUW)

17 Way back in the late 80s or early 90s our bank in Israel at the time inadvertently credited our account for over a million shekels. I called them up to tell them that I think they made a mistake. We got a thank you and the bank took their money back.

It felt nice for a few minutes.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 04:20 AM (BzP/F)

18 I'm not sure if this is generally true or nobody cares much about the ones that stay out to sea and only bother the fish.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

No one ever cares about the fish

Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 04:21 AM (anGI6)

19 Straight up. Which can be a little inconvenient.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Bidets still have to flush.
But what do I know...

Posted by: MkY at March 05, 2025 04:21 AM (cPGH3)

20 Straight up. Which can be a little inconvenient.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 05, 2025 04:18 AM (BLOW1)
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Doesn't that come back down as rain in California?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 04:21 AM (BzP/F)

21 It never rains in California

Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 04:23 AM (anGI6)

22 Mad King Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, the owner of WordPress, is talking succession.

He's not planning to give up the throne, though.

This guy copying Justin Trudeau?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:27 AM (O7YUW)

23 Global prevailing winds map showing Brisbane and that incoming cyclone. (Zoom in/out with mousewheel, move around the globe with left-click-and-drag.)

https://is.gd/7HG4nh

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:33 AM (O7YUW)

24 The Linus Tech Tips crew was mucking around with the 4090 and 5070. Before I yelled "Bah!" and throw my remote at the TV I had concluded Nvidia would have been wiser to have bought a bunch of 5070 stickers and stuck them on a 4090 card instead of wasting all that money on developing the 5070 in the first place.

In other news, I needed a new TV anyhow since this one had dust on it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 04:36 AM (S9FN9)

25 It is far too early in the day to make a Paolo/Bulge of Brazil joke.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 04:38 AM (KtIIi)

26 the company that is also working to bring back the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger.

Read that, twice, as “bring back the dildo” and was thinking “he’s posting the Food Thread every week already”.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 05, 2025 04:38 AM (QZThv)

27 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2025 04:39 AM (zlQZX)

28 @24/Alteria Pilgram: In other news, I needed a new TV anyhow since this one had dust on it.

First world problem. Should have just burned down the house and built anew.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:39 AM (O7YUW)

29 .
"That used to be a lot."

Chortle

Posted by: Marooned at March 05, 2025 04:40 AM (kt8QE)

30 I had a bank screw up and withdraw thousands from my account that weren't there. And then charge me an overdraft fee. And then charge me an even larger service fee for the privilege of having been charged an overdraft fee.

It took weeks of rather strident phone calls culminating in something very close to threats of impending doom to get it resolved.

And then the jumped up little prick on the phone had the nerve to chirpily ask me why i was canceling my account...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 04:44 AM (KtIIi)

31 They're making woolly mice? Have they not seen Planet of the Apes?

And they want to make a Tasmanian Devil just as Brisbane's going to get leveled? This is clearly a biblical level warning.

In other news, a woolly mammoth is not a mastodon. If you stick around to the end of the video, you'll get to find out what happens when they meet each other in mortal combat. This is why we have the internet.

https://youtu.be/Fi0Dmj7vPSs

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 04:47 AM (S9FN9)

32 23 Global prevailing winds map showing Brisbane and that incoming cyclone. (Zoom in/out with mousewheel, move around the globe with left-click-and-drag.)

https://is.gd/7HG4nh
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Cool! Looks like New Zealand has a cyclone off there east coast too. Little sporty down that way.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 04:48 AM (sAmhv)

33 NaCly Dog: If you're here this morning, I think it was you that was waiting for John Van Stry's sequel to "Summer's End"?

Well it's out and it's called "Sometimes in the Fall":

https://is.gd/8S9SYG

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:49 AM (O7YUW)

34 Good morning. Waking up in America feels pretty darn good this morning.

PDT rejects the Arab/Egyptian plan for Gaza!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 04:54 AM (mB6WH)

35 Mastodon > Mammoth.

I mean, Eddie's kid is alright and all, but you're not topping Emperor of Sand.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 04:55 AM (KtIIi)

36 @31/Alteria Pilgram: If you stick around to the end of the video, you'll get to find out what happens when they meet each other in mortal combat.

What you get is the ramblings of an "AI" (bullshit generator). The prevaricating wishy-washy language gives it away.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:56 AM (O7YUW)

37 The Paddle People from last night are already a meme.

https://tinyurl.com/y26af6ap

Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 04:56 AM (anGI6)

38 Heros from 2002 ranks right there in my favorite Bowie performances of all time. It just has a certain perfect groove that only masterful musicians can get out of their bands.

I only saw David Bowie perform one time and that was the only time I've been to a Broadway play where he was starring in The Elephant Man. It was complete dumb luck that I ended up with a matinee rush ticket in the second road dead center at half price. It wasn't until years later I realized how fortunate I was that day.

https://youtu.be/bsYp9q3QNaQ

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 04:57 AM (S9FN9)

39 "I didn't get my sign" is some funny stuff

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 04:57 AM (KtIIi)

40 @39/Warai-otoko:

Very. Now re-meme it with phrases from Idiocracy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:59 AM (O7YUW)

41 What you get is the ramblings of an "AI" (bullshit generator). The prevaricating wishy-washy language gives it away.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

You sound sort of upset. I guess we'll have to stay alive until we get some real life samples going. That'll be a hell of a pay-per-view.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 05:00 AM (S9FN9)

42 Good morning. Waking up in America feels pretty darn good this morning.

PDT rejects the Arab/Egyptian plan for Gaza!
Posted by: Ben Had

Damn right. The Arab deal is pretty much the status quo which has worked out really well. What's up with the Arabs not wanting their pali cousins? Do they know something they're not telling us?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 05:02 AM (S9FN9)

43 Altaria, the squatters are getting more than an eviction notice this time.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:09 AM (mB6WH)

44 @41/Alteria Pilgram: You sound sort of upset.

Not with you, just at the constant firehose of crap that the LLMs spew, and all the hype from the tech circles about how great it is, when it isn't.

Relying on these things is the proverbial building a house upon the sand. See this from legal circles:
https://is.gd/KZHhwX

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 05:15 AM (O7YUW)

45 Good morning. Waking up in America feels pretty darn good this morning.

PDT rejects the Arab/Egyptian plan for Gaza!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 04:54 AM (mB6WH)
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I'm thinking of watching the entire Trump speech later this evening with Mrs. BD.

I remain ever so envious that we are lacking this kind of leadership here and now in Israel. Just plain jealous!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 05:17 AM (BzP/F)

46 Which raised the question: How?

It's little glitches like this that reveal we are living in The Matrix.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 05, 2025 05:18 AM (Kv5Mj)

47 Bleh. Was reading some crap about tax cuts linked by insty. Got to a quote of someone saying "blah blah blah and hiding that there is no way to pay for the cuts" and had to click away.

You do not "pay" for tax cuts, you filthy cretins. You figure out what shit you *were* pissing that money away on, and then... don't.

Screw starving the beast. Tie the beast down and give it liposuction.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:19 AM (KtIIi)

48 Will rep Al Green be charged with insurrection and threatening the President with a lethal weapon?

Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 05:26 AM (anGI6)

49 Blessings on Australia, Pixy!

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:28 AM (CQE5S)

50 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

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

51 37 The Paddle People from last night are already a meme.
https://tinyurl.com/y26af6ap
Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 04:56 AM (anGI6)

Ha! The Paddle People.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:30 AM (CQE5S)

52 "What this party really needs is a futile and stupid gesture..."

*hands out paddles*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:31 AM (KtIIi)

53 52 "What this party really needs is a futile and stupid gesture..."

*hands out paddles*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:31 AM (KtIIi)

Kinky!

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:32 AM (CQE5S)

54 The real danger is that their constituents will become paddle-bored.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:33 AM (KtIIi)

55 Will rep Al Green be charged with insurrection and threatening the President with a lethal weapon?

The bastard won't even so much as have his hair mussed.

Change my mind.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 05, 2025 05:33 AM (Q0kLU)

56 Before the next SOTU, Trump should have a Paddle Ball placed at each of the Dem Reps seats.

Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 05:34 AM (anGI6)

57 "We may be up Shit Creek, but at least we brought paddles!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:35 AM (KtIIi)

58 Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:35 AM

I really think you should consider. Side career of political stand up comedy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 05:36 AM (zTQaM)

59 Bruce, by that time they will have moved on to another useless stunt that they can be mocked for. At the rate their going maybe they can all cross dress.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:37 AM (mB6WH)

60 And just like that....the rains have arrived.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

61 "The Not-a-SOTU is tonight, and we didn't even prepare! What do we do?"

"What would Wile E. Coyote do?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:38 AM (KtIIi)

62 Whose stupid idea was this with the paddle boards? Even some people in MSNBC -whom I'm guessing are Democrats/thought that it was ludicrous.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 05:38 AM (zTQaM)

63 Uh oh, they are going. Need more coffee

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:39 AM (mB6WH)

64 Kinda remind me of a plague of lemmings in search of a cliff.

* Psst, guys......over here*

* Points to cliff*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)

65 " Don't Maryland my Virginia"

https://tinyurl.com/mrxsk9dm

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 05:43 AM (a1415)

66 Dude.

With 81 trill I could get that Ford Taurus I've had my eye on for years.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 05:43 AM (0HaGk)

67 Next year they'll paint the letters for "F*CK TRUMP" on their chests with body paint.

Conspiracy theories will abound as to what "FRUPT MUCK" is supposed to mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:44 AM (KtIIi)

68 I just looked up at Ace's "Ave, Imperator!" thread and watched the clip of DJT calling out Warren as "Pocahontas."

At last we have a real president, one who loves America and wants us to do well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 05:44 AM (omVj0)

69 Totally irrelevant to anything but have you seen the Hyundai Palisade car?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:47 AM (mB6WH)

70 56 Before the next SOTU, Trump should have a Paddle Ball placed at each of the Dem Reps seats.
Posted by: Bruce at March 05, 2025 05:34 AM (anGI6)

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:49 AM (CQE5S)

71 Biden's Dog, I hold out hope that things will change for Israel too.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:49 AM (mB6WH)

72 " Totally irrelevant to anything but have you seen the Hyundai Palisade car?"

Well...

It's no Taurus.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 05:50 AM (0HaGk)

73 Kinda remind me of a plague of lemmings in search of a cliff.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)
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That used to be a fun PC game.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 05:50 AM (BzP/F)

74 I couldn't finish watching that vid of Crockett and her homegirls. *That*, that is supposed to be a congresswoman???? Diana Ross and the Supremes had more class.

If I were in Congress when she began to "speak," I'd get up and walk out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 05, 2025 05:50 AM (omVj0)

75 Remember when the bundesrat held up twee little props mocking the Austrian painter during his addresses?

Remember when the Assembly held up a banner saying "short-arse" when Napoleon gave his first big speech?

Silly dictators. They let you get away with anything these days.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:51 AM (KtIIi)

76 eleven, definitely not !

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:51 AM (mB6WH)

77 39 "I didn't get my sign" is some funny stuff
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 04:57 AM (KtIIi)

"I Saw the Sign"

I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes
I saw the sign
Life is demanding without understanding
I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:51 AM (CQE5S)

78 81 Trillion. You could understand some multiple of 10 and 28, but 81?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 05, 2025 05:52 AM (zZu0s)

79 Two employees approved the transaction and it was deposited into the customer's account before it was noticed and reversed 90 minutes later.

Which raised the question: How?

"See how diverse we are? We employ the malicious, incompetent, and the apathetic!"

Posted by: Bob at March 05, 2025 05:53 AM (zhWvq)

80 Ashes to ashes.

Great interlude.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 05:54 AM (0HaGk)

81 77 39 "I didn't get my sign" is some funny stuff
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 04:57 AM (KtIIi)

"I Saw the Sign"

I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes
I saw the sign
Life is demanding without understanding
I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes
Posted by: m

That song got LOTS of airplay on Euro MTV when it came out. I was stationed over there at the time (early 90s). I was soon sick of it. The blonde was pretty though. I can't remember the name of the band. Just Swedish and had a hot blonde chick lead singer.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 05:54 AM (sAmhv)

82 "See how diverse we are? We employ the malicious, incompetent, and the apathetic!"
Posted by: Bob at March 05, 2025 05:53 AM (zhWvq)

An actual employee of the federal government tasked with reviewing people's tax returns was genuinely unaware that in accounting, a number in parentheses is negative. Magically turning my dad's deductible losses into taxable gains, and launching a whole fiasco as to why he hadn't paid all the taxes he was...owed.

Burrocracy.

Rule by jackasses.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:56 AM (KtIIi)

83 81 That song got LOTS of airplay on Euro MTV when it came out. I was stationed over there at the time (early 90s). I was soon sick of it. The blonde was pretty though. I can't remember the name of the band. Just Swedish and had a hot blonde chick lead singer.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 05:54 AM (sAmhv)

ACE of Base!

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:56 AM (CQE5S)

84 That song got LOTS of airplay on Euro MTV when it came out. I was stationed over there at the time (early 90s). I was soon sick of it. The blonde was pretty though. I can't remember the name of the band. Just Swedish and had a hot blonde chick lead singer.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 05:54 AM (sAmhv)

Ace of Base.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e)

85 82 Burrocracy.
Rule by jackasses.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:56 AM (KtIIi)

Ha!

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:57 AM (CQE5S)

86 I read the transcript of Slotkin's response. She had nothing but will probably be a contender in 28 because she has a resume/

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:58 AM (mB6WH)

87 Warai, thanks for the humor.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 06:00 AM (mB6WH)

88 I just got an email from a longtime friend telling me that the western border of the West has now moved to the UK.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:01 AM (CQE5S)

89 G'mornin' everyone!

"burrocracy", lol !

35 degrees, rained all night, need coffee ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 05, 2025 06:01 AM (RP0h0)

90 ... westernmost line of defense for the West ... or words to that effect.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:02 AM (CQE5S)

91 m, did you reply?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 06:03 AM (mB6WH)

92 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

44, rainy and windy here. Limbs down in the yard.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 05, 2025 06:03 AM (hoCmQ)

93 91 m, did you reply?
Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 06:03 AM (mB6WH)

Not yet! Might let it simmer a bit.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:04 AM (CQE5S)

94 52 "What this party really needs is a futile and stupid gesture..."

*hands out paddles*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 05:31 AM (KtIIi)

Kinky!
Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 05:32 AM (CQE5S)
----
The memes practically create themselves at this point.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2025 06:04 AM (BpYfr)

95 olddog, a very good morning to you and yours

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 06:05 AM (mB6WH)

96 “ All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

Timothy 3:16-17

Posted by: Marcus T, Servant of our Lord at March 05, 2025 06:06 AM (qnw3j)

97 90 ... westernmost line of defense for the West ... or words to that effect.
Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:02 AM (CQE5S)

What numpties.

Crowing and strutting because they're at least paying lip service to the very thing Trump is trying to make them do... pony up for their own damn defense and stop throwing rocks at the other kids from under America's petticoats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:06 AM (KtIIi)

98 Warai, numpties? I am so stealing that.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 06:08 AM (mB6WH)

99 Ace of Base.

Yep, that's it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 06:09 AM (sAmhv)

100 Apparently Trump said this:

This is my fifth such speech to Congress, and, once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded, and these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements,” President Trump observed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 06:09 AM (QicIc)

101 I had to go look it up!

numpty
noun (plural numpties) British English informal, derogatory
a stupid or ineffectual person: confused numpties who have little idea of what they're talking about | what a complete numpty!

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:10 AM (CQE5S)

102 I read the transcript of Slotkin's response. She had nothing but will probably be a contender in 28 because she has a resume/
Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 05:58 AM (mB6WH)

I believe she's "former" CIA. She'll definitely be a contender.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2025 06:10 AM (ExV1e)

103 Went from being deeply asleep and in a dream to the alarm going off so I was groggy as hell.

Got out of bed and the entire lower half of my right leg welcomed a charley horse.

I'm pretty much done with today.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 05, 2025 06:10 AM (NR6c1)

104 mornin yall. I missed the speech, but I trust my President said some things to make all the right people break out in a rash of TDS.

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2025 06:11 AM (vFG9F)

105 The paddles make a lot of sense, as you can repurpose them for disciplining the underage prostitute you close out the evening with after the speech.

Posted by: Democrat Lawmakers at March 05, 2025 06:11 AM (Kv5Mj)

106 102 "former" CIA
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2025 06:10 AM (ExV1e)

heh

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:11 AM (CQE5S)

107 I just got an email from a longtime friend telling me that the western border of the West has now moved to the UK.
Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:01 AM (CQE5S)

Europe better start spending on a military then.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2025 06:11 AM (ExV1e)

108 I used to have a different nic, first thing she touted in her speech

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 06:11 AM (mB6WH)

109 fd, it is definitely worth the time. to watch it.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 05, 2025 06:13 AM (mB6WH)

110 To hell with "The West". The bile and poison flooding out from the universities of "The West" have debauched an entire century of human endeavor. The feckless chauvinism of "post-colonialism" has permanently entrenched every developing nation into a cage of poverty and violence. The world's economy is a bowling ball held up by a scaffolding of toothpicks and bubble gum. "The West", since 1920 or so, has done the world no favors. Let it burn, once and for all, so the real work of civilization can start up again by all the people this fake "West" has subjugated for generations. It's the only way the people of North America and Europe will stand a chance against the more old fashioned barbarians in the rest of the world.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:14 AM (KtIIi)

111 BBC:

3 March 2025
Cyclone Alfred is set to bring severe flooding to Australia's east coast with landfall expected Thursday night or early Friday.
On average four cyclones hit Australia each year but what makes Alfred exceptionally rare is just how far south the storm is.
It is due to move across the border region between Queensland and New South Wales.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:17 AM (CQE5S)

112 If you didn’t watch the Trump speech last night, do yourself a favor and watch it today. It was excellent.

Posted by: Ann at March 05, 2025 06:19 AM (BArhm)

113 There are days when i can easily believe the entire "Cold War", from beginning to end, was kayfabe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:19 AM (KtIIi)

114 kayfabe
noun US English informal
(in professional wrestling) the fact or convention of presenting staged performances as genuine or authentic: a masterful job of blending kayfabe and reality | he's not someone who can break kayfabe and talk about the business | [as modifier] : I heard that AJ approached him to rehearse a kayfabe segment.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:20 AM (CQE5S)

115 origin:

1980s: origin uncertain; often said to have arisen in American traveling carnivals. One explanation interprets the word as an alteration of ‘be fake’ written backwards, while the -ay- element is typical of the way in which words are formed in pig Latin.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:20 AM (CQE5S)

116 "What this party really needs is a futile and stupid gesture..."

*hands out paddles*

The funny thing is, I didn't watch the circus so I'm more likely to see the memes rather than what was actually printed on the paddles?

Or were those paddles actually mirrors so they can see who the liars really are?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 06:22 AM (a4flb)

117 This is the moment when Felonious D summoned the war elephants:

"The media and our friends in the Democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border.

But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president."

Trump has hit on a tactic I am calling "The Little Z". This is where where he goes after his political enemies to their face and he does it on camera before the world. Over and over and over he pointed out their hypocrisy, intransigence, absurdity and the Democrats accommodated them by waving around their pickleball paddles. The optics could not be better for him.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 06:22 AM (S9FN9)

118 My dad told me a story about a bank error he heard about, might have been a local thing. It was a long time ago. The bank mistakenly put a large sum in this guy’s account. He had the bank cut him a cashier’s check and he put it in his safe deposit box and then proceeded to “na na na na na” … Caused a lot of problems for a while. Dad was trying to explain “don’t try to get cute” I suppose.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 06:23 AM (OZ5rj)

119 The optics could not be better for him.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 06:22 AM (S9FN9)

Remember when Obama said he wished he could just go full Bullworth?

Trump is going full Bullworth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:24 AM (KtIIi)

120 >>>"The media and our friends in the Democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border.

But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president."

And he *somehow* avoided tagging on the word "me": "But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. Me."

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:24 AM (CQE5S)

121 Unfathonable .,,,yet personal God. A devotional on Isaiah 40:25-31 and appropriate for any interested Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/4m7zk3ws

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 06:25 AM (QicIc)

122 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, still resonating from last night's DC fireworks. The man just doesn't take prisoners.

That said, may all effort on your part result in maximal benefit for you and corresponding anguish for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 05, 2025 06:26 AM (hKoQL)

123 Did Nancy show up drunk?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 06:28 AM (a1415)

124 Wari-otoko one thing, while the “domino theory” was operant (Viet Nam) they should have been looking a lot closer to home.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 06:29 AM (OZ5rj)

125 Did Nancy show up drunk?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 06:28 AM (a1415)

She did, the poor little trooper.

Took her eight hours and a pot of coffee to get there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:29 AM (KtIIi)

126 The only thing I saw Dems clapping for was a mention of a foreign country.

They really are Insane America Haters.

Posted by: jsg at March 05, 2025 06:29 AM (UJ+K5)

127 To hell with "The West"

"The West" was a euphemism for Judeo/Christian ethics, Roman Catholicism in particular, to be distinguished by the Islam and pantheism of The East, but The West in terms of North America, largely Protestant Calvinist.

Once Calvinism was replaced by DIY Salvation (aka Free Will) ushered in by The Great Awakening, Charles Finney, Billy Sunday, et al, the collapse of Western Civilization began as Jesus was moved over from the left seat to be everyone's "Co Pilot".

And thus it was OK for each man to do what was right in his own eyes.

And here we are, a culmination of WWJD meaning, what best rewards me with temporal riches with the taste of entitlement and blessing from [a] god.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 06:31 AM (a4flb)

128 “Our broken immigration system”

That particular bit of political boilerplate has always been particularly loathsome

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 06:31 AM (OZ5rj)

129 Democrats...

I believe they are the same political party that voted to put condoms in vending machines in the bathrooms of kindergartens and elementary schools in the state of Maryland.

I don't believe anyone makes a 'Child size' condom.

So why would a kindergartner need an adult size condom?

Who exactly would be having protected sex with these children?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 06:32 AM (a1415)

130 That particular bit of political boilerplate has always been particularly loathsome
Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 06:31 AM (OZ5rj)

Pour sugar in your gas tank and take out all the spark plugs and then bitch about how your car was poorly designed...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:33 AM (KtIIi)

131 “Our broken immigration system”

In what way is it broken? Please elaborate.

I can image the answer, if not "racist" would be some meandering collection of disconnected slogans and utopian platitudes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 06:36 AM (a4flb)

132 Was it really the thing to call Christendom "The West" in centuries past? I'm not saying no one ever said that in the history of ever, but the usage of that term the way its used now, as in "The Free World", is really a post WWII thing, isn't it?

I'm not planting a flag or placing a marker, it's just an impression, or a poorly formed observation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:37 AM (KtIIi)

133 In what way is it broken? Please elaborate.

Simple. We don't have open borders where everyone and their grandchildren can walk in and demand welfare from cradle to grave.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 05, 2025 06:38 AM (NR6c1)

134 128 “Our broken immigration system”
Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 06:31 AM (OZ5rj)

Citation?

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:38 AM (CQE5S)

135 “Our broken immigration system”
=========
In what way is it broken? Please elaborate.

I can image the answer, if not "racist" would be some meandering collection of disconnected slogans and utopian platitudes.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 06:36 AM (a4flb)

I assume this was BS spouted in one of the responses... so, by one of the people responsible for fixing the immigration system, were it broken.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

136 I am offended that Trump called Warren "Pocahontas".

I would much prefer the more accurate "Lieawatha."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 05, 2025 06:40 AM (PiwSw)

137 For that Citibank customer, how much would they owe in takes under Kamaia's Unrealized Gains tax?

Posted by: Wally at March 05, 2025 06:40 AM (8wj3t)

138 >>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 06:25 AM (QicIc)

I enjoyed that. Thank you.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2025 06:40 AM (qnw3j)

139 132 Was it really the thing to call Christendom "The West" in centuries past? I'm not saying no one ever said that in the history of ever, but the usage of that term the way its used now, as in "The Free World", is really a post WWII thing, isn't it?

I'm not planting a flag or placing a marker, it's just an impression, or a poorly formed observation.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:37 AM (KtIIi)

In the history of the Crusades, for example, it's been a convenient dividing line.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:41 AM (CQE5S)

140 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 05, 2025 06:41 AM (dg+HA)

141 I would much prefer the more accurate "Lieawatha."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

I myself favor "Pokahonky."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 05, 2025 06:42 AM (NR6c1)

142 And the history of Western Civilization.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:42 AM (CQE5S)

143 Usage: Anytime a leftist would appear on television or radio and illegal migration was the topic, that would be thrown in there as part of the rhetoric.

You cannot tell me you haven’t heard them say this, unless you’ve been living under a rock. Been in use since the 1980s, at least.

Sorry, no cite necessary. Should be self-evident

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 06:42 AM (OZ5rj)

144 Psychojawea

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 06:42 AM (OZ5rj)

145 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:43 AM (u82oZ)

146 Did Nancy show up drunk?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I'd be more impressed if she showed up sober.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 05, 2025 06:43 AM (3oPA9)

147 Trump has to turn this good news into tangible effects felt by the 2026 voters. Tax cuts, lower prices, safer streets will help.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 05, 2025 06:44 AM (2EDzv)

148 Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2025 06:40 AM (qnw3j)

You are most welcome, Marcus. Thanks for your lifting up of Scripture to encourage your sisters and brothers in the faith.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 06:45 AM (QicIc)

149 I would imagine drunk Nancy's reaction time is faster than sober Nancy's, ala Johnny Fever in that WKRP episode.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 05, 2025 06:45 AM (PiwSw)

150 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Snow is over. 60 kt winds are over.

Lost power 5 times last night. Lots of load shifting.

No delay for schools, as only 2 inches of snow was blown all over. Only 35 kt winds, so normal for March in Kansas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

151 Immigration is like healthcare or insurance or tax codes or a thousand other things.

Compound rule upon rule, fix upon fix, guideline upon Thou Shalt Comply guideline, until the whole thing is a mess of contradictions and conflicts and the only arbiter of what is lawful or not for you, and you specifically, is the say-so of some dickhead gender studies dropout in an office hundreds of miles away.

I don't even need a crime, just show me the man.

Turn a system into the opposite of a system, and you're left with Vae Victis.

In metamathematics, a false proposition makes every other proposition provable. If False = True, then P for all conceivable values of P.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:47 AM (KtIIi)

152 Salty!

Weather decks are secured due to high winds and heavy seas.

Stay safe, my friend.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 05, 2025 06:47 AM (a1415)

153 JM in Illinois

Plenty of people will work hard for him to fail.

Grrr.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:48 AM (u82oZ)

154 No more wars.

Except at our borders. The yurps can hash that shit out.

0 cares.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 06:48 AM (0HaGk)

155

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 05, 2025 06:49 AM (5hfjS)

156 Hillary Clinton

I thought you were dead.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

157 Morning, Ben Had. Just got back from hauling down limbs back to the woods.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 05, 2025 06:50 AM (hoCmQ)

158 @145/NaCly Dog:

See comment #33.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 06:50 AM (O7YUW)

159 Hillary is dead.

The bitch that bore her is in heat again.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 06:51 AM (0HaGk)

160 Did we sign a minerals deal with Ukraine?

Best line: You just needed another President.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

161 88 I just got an email from a longtime friend telling me that the western border of the West has now moved to the UK.
Posted by: m

Good luck.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 06:51 AM (sAmhv)

162 Lenten prayer by Bernard if Clairvaux (1090-1153), the founder of the Cistercian order:

Let me hold fast to you, beautiful Lord, whom
the angels themselves yearn to look upon. Wherever you go, I will follow you. If you pass through fire, I will not flinch, I fear no evil when you are with me. You carry my griefs , because you grieve for my sake. You passed through the narrow doorway from death to life, to make it wide enough for all to follow. Nothing can ever now separate me from your love.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 05, 2025 06:52 AM (42Vb+)

163 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

What a great memory! Thank you. I will order the book this morning after runs.

Tell your Mom she did a good job with you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

164 161 88 I just got an email from a longtime friend telling me that the western border of the West has now moved to the UK.
Posted by: m

Good luck.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 06:51 AM (sAmhv)

I also love the fact that they completely forgot that Canada, Spain, and Portugal exist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 06:52 AM (KtIIi)

165 Was it really the thing to call Christendom "The West" in centuries past?

Yes, anything "West" of Constantinople. Particularly after Rome and Greek Orthodox went their own ways.

Rodney Stark, in his book "Victory of Reason" explains how a high trust society based on Roman Catholicism (Stark is/was a Baylor professor) allowed what became modern banking and international trade. Instead of shipping large quantities of gold that was expatriated out of Central American mines, and often lost to pirates or hurricanes, it was easier to use letters of credit.

There is a lot more, but the benefits of a high trust society based on the commonly held belief of eventual accountability by a transcendent judge went a long way in bringing the world modernity.

The Left prefers low or no trust, and look where that takes us.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 06:53 AM (a4flb)

166
Bernard if Clairvaux
And two if by sea
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 06:54 AM (CQE5S)

167 Ash Wednesday, my friends.

“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Posted by: Marcus T at March 05, 2025 06:54 AM (hUAHw)

168 Morning Horde, thx Pixy. CNN snap poll had 69% favorable for Trump's speech. CBS snap poll 76% favorable. The propaganda ministers can't be happy about that.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 06:54 AM (EG7Bp)

169 m

I would put the boundary of the West on Pennsylvania's western border. And continue to the eastern border of California. Colorado is a hostile enclave.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

170 Spain and Portugal sat out two world wars so good luck with that.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 06:55 AM (0HaGk)

171 I just got an email from a longtime friend telling me that the western border of the West has now moved to the UK.

Yet another example of killing the respected institution gutting it and wearing the remnants as a skin suit.

UK discarded Western society when it fully secularized its church and then shortly replaced it with Islam, irrationality and lawlessness.

Time for the US to leave NATO. I don't want to be supporting Marxists and Leftists.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 06:57 AM (a4flb)

172 165 The Left prefers low or no trust, and look where that takes us.

The left sees high trust societies as abhorrent because it means that morals are being taught. They want good neighborhoods trashed because they want everyone equally miserable.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 05, 2025 06:57 AM (NR6c1)

173 I would put the boundary of the West on Pennsylvania's western border. And continue to the eastern border of California. Colorado is a hostile enclave.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Where's the love? And we share a border with Colorado. - New Mexico.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 06:58 AM (S9FN9)

174 How many countries could I buy with $81 Trillion?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (2EDzv)

175 Dunno if this has been posted yesterday. Remember last year's breach at Quantico?

https://t.co/B69WNQWwRq

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (/ngI8)

176 170 Spain and Portugal sat out two world wars so good luck with that.
Posted by: eleven

I used to post at a motorsports site that had a lot of F1 fans. Some Portuguese guy had a tag line that always cracked me up. 'Portugal-Celebrating 800 years of decline'. Didn't know Portuguese had such a pessimistic sense of humor.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (sAmhv)

177 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Do exactly what the French did when they left NATO. Leave the fighting part of NATO, but not the upper management.

We do need commonality in comms, tactical symbology, procedures, and air management.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

178 Morning peeps. Still under a "wind advisory" here in KY. Was pretty gusty last night. Loud.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (Q4IgG)

179 How many countries could I buy with $81 Trillion?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (2EDzv)
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Just about all of them together *except* the United States.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2025 07:01 AM (BpYfr)

180 Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.

OK, New Mexico has ... issues with Leftist governance. But clean up the illegals, bonk some liberal heads, and it will be all right.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

181 Time for the US to leave NATO. I don't want to be supporting Marxists and Leftists.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 06:57 AM (a4flb)

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when NATO was meant to *restrain* expansionist far-Left regimes hell bent on martial aggrandizement.

Posted by: David Hogg at March 05, 2025 07:02 AM (BI5O2)

182 I think Sweden Ireland and Switzerland also sat out both wars.

May be wrong on that.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 07:02 AM (0HaGk)

183 178 Morning peeps. Still under a "wind advisory" here in KY. Was pretty gusty last night. Loud.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (Q4IgG)

‐-----

We're getting a strong wind out of the south; scent of bluegrass.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 05, 2025 07:02 AM (2EDzv)

184 CNN snap poll had 69% favorable for Trump's speech.

https://youtu.be/45A_9y1ClAQ?t=2

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 05, 2025 07:02 AM (ExV1e)

185 "Turns out all we needed was a new President"

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2025 07:03 AM (U7Cio)

186 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

The death penalty prevents repeat offenders, and can raise the moral behavior in a society a tad.

I sure hope all the repatriated HAMAS fighter were vaccinated against COVID-19 Wuhan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

187 How many countries could I buy with $81 Trillion?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 05, 2025 06:59 AM (2EDzv)
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Just about all of them together *except* the United States.

You left out China and India.

Example: China has an annual GDP of around $17T. The average P/E ratio for equities is about 21.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 07:04 AM (a4flb)

188 This was not a paddle sign but I don't understand why Rep. Lance Gooden knocked it our of the abnormal lady's hands. It was an accurate self-proclamation!

https://tinyurl.com/43nz8jsa

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 07:04 AM (/ngI8)

189 eleven

Well, WWI and WWII, for status as belligerents. Trade ... Not so much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

190 CNN snap poll had 69% favorable for Trump's speech.

------

Unsurprising. It was a barn burner. America tuned in for yet dull-as-dishwater SotU and got entertained instead.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 05, 2025 07:04 AM (BI5O2)

191 The death penalty prevents repeat offenders, and can raise the moral behavior in a society a tad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 07:03 AM (u82oZ)
-

I'm not the one that needs convincing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 07:05 AM (/ngI8)

192 My favorite Bluegrass-Americana band is touring New Zealand and Australia. They finished New Zealand and our now in Australia. Their Beaudesert show got cancelled due to the storm. If you are in Australia and near one of the venues give them a watch.

https://petersenband.com/the-petersens-tour-australia/

Posted by: Fred4D at March 05, 2025 07:05 AM (f+9hS)

193 They're making woolly mice?

Woolly saber-toothed mice would be the next step.

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2025 07:06 AM (U7Cio)

194 We do need commonality in comms, tactical symbology, procedures, and air management.

And we got stuck with the 9mm and 5.56.

We can do better.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 07:06 AM (a4flb)

195 t-bird

Will no one think of the electrical wiring?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

196 OK, New Mexico has ... issues with Leftist governance. But clean up the illegals, bonk some liberal heads, and it will be all right.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

You could not be more wrong. In 2018 it went hard left and it's been going left ever since. I call it East California. They're so insane here our governor tried to invalidate the second amendment all by herself. They're so insane they locked us out of the grocery stores in covid and made a stand out the cold for hours. The nitwit Democrat when Trump walked in that was holding the sign that said" this is not normal", she's from New Mexico.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 05, 2025 07:07 AM (S9FN9)

197 Have a great day, everyone.

Knock those signs from the limp hands of the bitter-enders.

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

198 Woolly saber-toothed mice would be the next step.

Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2025 07:06 AM (U7Cio)
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https://youtu.be/vOWHDQU46NU

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 07:07 AM (/ngI8)

199 Woolly saber-toothed mice would be the next step.
Posted by: t-bird at March 05, 2025 07:06 AM (U7Cio)

Wait.... do we have to make the incisors little too when we make the canines big, or are we just gonna have a bunch of shaggy howdy-doody lookin' things running around?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 07:07 AM (KtIIi)

200 They're so insane they locked us out of the grocery stores in covid and made a stand out the cold for hours.

It was a clever, though sadistic, way of helping people boost their natural Vitamin D intake.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 07:08 AM (a4flb)

201 Alteria Pilgram

I am so sorry for you. Thanks for the education.

Now GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 05, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

202 Attempts at creating a Woolly Penguin have failed due to the fact that it is a stupid idea.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 05, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

203 Time for the US to leave NATO. I don't want to be supporting Marxists and Leftists.

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I'm starting to think that's what the push for Greenland is all about.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at March 05, 2025 07:08 AM (pmNlF)

204 So I bought a weave and a Bic lighter down at the Gas N Crack corner gas station yesterday. Did I waste my money?

Posted by: Bald Guy, A Weave and A Lighter at March 05, 2025 07:08 AM (EEZHI)

205 followed by woolly venomous saber toothed mice

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 05, 2025 07:09 AM (RP0h0)

206 A “high trust” society isn’t just one of those nice things to have. It isn’t a luxury. No society can function without it.

There was an X meme post, some parking garage had a sign “Don’t Tempt Them” or something similar, i.e. don’t have expensive items visible inside your car. Leftists are always virtue signaling the lengths they are willing to go to accommodate thieves. “I drive a POS car, the only thing they are going to find is a moldy french fry under the seat! Muhuhuhaaa”. Great.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 07:09 AM (OZ5rj)

207 Leftists are always virtue signaling the lengths they are willing to go to accommodate thieves.

Look up the "bike cuck" meme sometime. It's a perfect example of that sentence.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 05, 2025 07:11 AM (NR6c1)

208 well, Bic lighters are the best brand ... so that part's ok

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 05, 2025 07:11 AM (RP0h0)

209 Unsurprising. It was a barn burner. America tuned in for yet dull-as-dishwater SotU and got entertained instead.

I just woke up. One of the first thoughts that came to mind is that the POTUS called Liz Warren Pocohantas last night, during a SOTU, to her face.

This fkn guy

Posted by: kallisto at March 05, 2025 07:12 AM (GuzlA)

210 @182 eleven, Sweden provided raw materials to the Nazis well into 1944 until we threatened them. Switzerland was Hitler's bankers. Ireland gave their condolences when Hitler died
They didn't fight however

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 07:12 AM (EG7Bp)

211 It's just so....lazy.

You have to put at least a little effort into gaslighting people. You can't just hold up a sign that literally says "this is not normal", for crying out loud. I can't even snarkily come up with a better parody of gaslighting than that. Nothing i can think of is more hilarious, or a more concise and efficient mockery of it. "Psst.... hey..... I'm gaslighting you". Fuck's aches.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 07:13 AM (KtIIi)

212 192: The Petersons are very good. I watch there YTube site quite a bit. Talented bunch.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 07:13 AM (sAmhv)

213 An argument can be made Djeep are superior to Bic. More ergonomic. Fits pocket better.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 07:13 AM (OZ5rj)

214 Wooly Mammoth Sea Lions.

Just ayin.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 07:13 AM (0HaGk)

215 Love the Petersons.

That Dojo player is the shizz.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 07:15 AM (0HaGk)

216 The Swiss were everyone’s banker weren’t they? It was useful to have someplace that was neutral, I suppose.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 07:15 AM (OZ5rj)

217 Ooops sorry...dobro?

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 07:15 AM (0HaGk)

218 An argument can be made Djeep are superior to Bic. More ergonomic. Fits pocket better.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 05, 2025 07:13 AM (OZ5rj)

Go on....(Furiously taking notes)

Posted by: Bald Guy, A Weave and A Lighter at March 05, 2025 07:15 AM (EEZHI)

219 Another Sand In The Pussy Reaction To JD Vance:

"That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years,"

Now UK ~~children~~ politicians are screaming that JD needs to "check his privilege" while calling him a "clown".

They resent being referred to as "some random country".

I'm pretty sure that JD pronounced "country" without the "o"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 05, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

220 @219 the Brits seem to forget they fought alongside us in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 05, 2025 07:20 AM (EG7Bp)

221 The nitwit Democrat when Trump walked in that was holding the sign that said" this is not normal", she's from New Mexico.

That nitwit is 100% correct though. It is absolutely abnormal that a POTUS, within 40 days of taking office, already has fulfilled major objectives he campaigned on. That his cabinet comprises leading lights from the opposition party, that he appoints a Pardon Czar who happens to be a woman he pardoned his first term in office.
That he, being ALPHA, surrounds himself with other competent Alphas who are wasting no time getting the job done.
This is not normal at all. It is extraordinary.

Posted by: kallisto at March 05, 2025 07:20 AM (lO6Ut)

222 "Check his privilege"?

Hahahahaha!

So you admit that being American and not having to be British is actually a privilege?

Awesome. It's just nice to hear *you* say it for once, Blighty.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 07:20 AM (KtIIi)

223 It's the New Normal.

Posted by: fd at March 05, 2025 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

224 The hideous Black Lives Matter plaza near the White House is going away.

For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not sick of winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 05, 2025 07:21 AM (dg+HA)

225 It's sad trad normal can't coexist with Hollywood.

But, apparently, not.

I mean, if they have to self immolate, 'k.

Posted by: eleven at March 05, 2025 07:23 AM (0HaGk)

226 > The hideous Black Lives Matter plaza near the White House is going away.
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Local and city governments need to wipe those rainbow intersections off the map next. You know the ones... walk or drive over it and you'll go to prison for a "hate crime."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2025 07:24 AM (Q4IgG)

227 Second winter is here. A foot of snow out there, and more coming.

Posted by: davidt at March 05, 2025 07:25 AM (i0F8b)

228 "Are you holding up a little sign or something honey?"

"Yeah."

"What's it say, it's to dark in here to even read it. "

"It says 'we totally didn't just turn the lights off to make you think you're going blind.'"

"Oh....kay?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 05, 2025 07:26 AM (KtIIi)

229 Unsurprising. It was a barn burner. America tuned in for yet dull-as-dishwater SotU and got entertained instead.
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Someone should compare-and-contrast President Trump's speech with FJB's last SOTU....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 05, 2025 07:26 AM (7fElN)

230 The nitwit Democrat when Trump walked in that was holding the sign that said" this is not normal", she's from New Mexico.

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By the day's end, there will be a meme with her holding up an "I'm not normal" sign.

Sounds like I missed quite a show last night!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 05, 2025 07:28 AM (qBdHI)

231 Good morning, everyone. That was a speech for the ages last night, a perfect Mardi Gras nightcap. Blessed Ash Wednesday to you all.

Posted by: bluebell at March 05, 2025 07:29 AM (79pEw)

232 Funny how Trump didn't need a "new bill" to enforce the border.

Posted by: BignJames at March 05, 2025 07:30 AM (Yj6Os)

233 I just woke up. One of the first thoughts that came to mind is that the POTUS called Liz Warren Pocohantas last night, during a SOTU, to her face.

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OMG, is this for real?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 05, 2025 07:30 AM (qBdHI)

234
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 05, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

235 I said it last night - I think "It turns out all we needed was a new president" was the line of the evening. And it had lots of competition.

Posted by: bluebell at March 05, 2025 07:30 AM (79pEw)

236 By the day's end, there will be a meme with her holding up an "I'm not normal" sign.

Sounds like I missed quite a show last night!
Posted by: Lady in Black
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The one I saw last nite changed the signs to "I'm retarded".

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 05, 2025 07:31 AM (hoCmQ)

237 OMG, is this for real?
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 05, 2025 07:30 AM (qBdHI)
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Oh yes! He was saying that Pocahontas would want the war in Ukraine to go on another 5 years, and the camera showed her grimly clapping.

Posted by: bluebell at March 05, 2025 07:32 AM (79pEw)

238 > By the day's end, there will be a meme with her holding up an "I'm not normal" sign.
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X is full of memes like that. Those clowns with the signs left themselves open for it. The signs read everything but what was originally on them.

The first one was "I'm a retard"

And the broad with the little white board sign said "I forgot my retard sign" Or something to this effect. And they started to come out on X during the SotU. It was wild.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 05, 2025 07:32 AM (Q4IgG)

239 Via Insty...

https://tinyurl.com/yc3ej7we

Posted by: davidt at March 05, 2025 07:32 AM (i0F8b)

240 217 Ooops sorry...dobro?
Posted by: eleven

Not a Peterson. A Franz. Can't remember his first name but The Franz Family toured around for a bit. The mom died a while back. Not sure what happened with the rest of them. Probably got married and went about life.

youtu.be/r6KApfD-cI4

youtu.be/8BGHjkHSm2k

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 05, 2025 07:32 AM (sAmhv)

241 Second winter is here. A foot of snow out there, and more coming.

I am sad for you. I hope we are done with winter here in SEPA. But I suspect another snowfall, or at least a dusting, will show up before month’s end.

Posted by: kallisto at March 05, 2025 07:32 AM (GuzlA)

242 Got left over stew in the frig. Told daughter since I was over 29 I could eat meat today. She wasn't buying it.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 05, 2025 07:33 AM (hoCmQ)

243 Hahaha

How the Trump-Zelensky meeting should have gone

https://tinyurl.com/k9f4n52z

Posted by: jsg at March 05, 2025 07:36 AM (UJ+K5)

244 CBS poll among viewers of speech.
76% approve. 23% Disapprove.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 05, 2025 07:37 AM (hoCmQ)

245 Nvidia is selling the 5070 for 5070 prices but if you look at the specs it’s about where the 5060 should be in performance.

The reviews show the 5070 performance at around 4070 Super levels.

In a new architecture you’d expect the 70 class to perform as well as the previous generation 80 class.

So Nvidia has basically moved performance down on the stack but not the price.

The 5070 should be able to do 60 fps with full ray tracing at 1440p with non frame gen or upscaling.
That’s what’s expected of a 70 class card these days. And it only has 12GB of VRAM which is killing it for higher rez gaming.

No wonder people are so disappointed by this generation from Nvidia - pricing too high for lower tier performance.

And I think they’ll make a 5050 and sell it at 4060 pricing.

Look for another “Super”/series next year where Nvidia gets the stack right and pricing corrected like the did for the 4080 Super.

Just about every review I watched recommended waiting until today for the review of the 9070 & 9070XT from Radeon today.

Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed look like they will recommend the Radeon card.

Steve from HUB did his review from the roof he was so disappointed in the 5070.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 05, 2025 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

246 - I had to shut it down around an hour into it.
Will check out the rest this am.
At one point they (Fox) showed a guy, appeared to be at the back of the room, that got a look on his face like 'oh, this is not good.'

Hey baldy, yes it is.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 05, 2025 07:44 AM (LajFB)

247 188 Rep. Lance Gooden knocked it our of the abnormal lady's hands
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 05, 2025 07:04 AM (/ngI

ASSAULT!

Posted by: m at March 05, 2025 07:56 AM (CQE5S)

248 I'll let you know Pixy, I am going to get a 9070xt tomorrow if able....

I am pretty sure I will have a spare 7900GRE sitting around....wife and lad both have 4070s.

Posted by: sven at March 05, 2025 07:58 AM (X0I7i)

249 For those who missed it:

NOOD! (So get on over to J.J. Sefton's Morning Report thread, it's been live since 7:30 EST)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 07:59 AM (O7YUW)

250 245 Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 05, 2025 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

They and intel both use the similar "fuck you small consumer" mindset....

I switched to team Red a long time ago for CPU and unless absolutely stupid GPU....

Not buying 10000 shares when AMD hit a buck and a half is one of my regrets.

Posted by: sven at March 05, 2025 08:00 AM (X0I7i)

251 "At high tide, tonight."

Well, cheers and good luck.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at March 05, 2025 09:13 AM (1hM1d)

252 "Two employees approved the transaction and it was deposited into the customer's account before it was noticed and reversed 90 minutes later."

Did the recipient receive interest on the money for the 90 minutes it was in the account?

Posted by: Seawriter at March 05, 2025 09:25 AM (fcGkZ)

253 I *REALLY* would like to see the post-mortem analysis of that Citigroup foul-up. How something like this could even happen, against checks and balances and any validation the system should have.

Where did the 'source' of the trillions come from? Accounting is "credits and debits", taking from the Peter account/bucket to put into the Paul account/bucket. The customer didn't have trillions in actual physical items, but that line item going to their account had to be balanced from somewhere else.

Also, what was required to reverse it? Were those two responsible for the mistake able to do the reversal themselves? What guards, notes, and other things did they have to do, bureaucracy-wise, to get the system to roll back? If they couldn't, and had to do frantic calls to higher ups to get it reversed? Malicious employees could simply prepare people in places, cut several of these unbalanced deposits, have their goons withdraw, and then run for Mexico.

They'd be criminals, but rich criminals. After all, banks are where the money is, per Willie Sutton. And it's easier to rob when you're the inside man.

Posted by: Another Anon at March 05, 2025 09:27 AM (wK3f3)

254 Global prevailing winds map showing Brisbane and that incoming cyclone. (Zoom in/out with mousewheel, move around the globe with left-click-and-drag.)

https://is.gd/7HG4nh
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 05, 2025 04:33 AM (O7YUW)

I larfed at the popup the crybitches running that site put up, whining about cuts at the NOAA.

Posted by: far cry at March 05, 2025 09:43 AM (OguvZ)

255 If you're gonna just create a mimic of wooly mammoths rather than an actual one from their actual DNA, why not create something that people will buy rather than a mere curiosity for a zoo?

Minmoths.
As per the Girl Genius webcomic.
Wooly mammoths the size of mice.
You've already got the wooly part down, now you just need to select the genes for tusks and prehensile noses.

Posted by: BobM at March 05, 2025 10:57 AM (gIHl0)

256 Which raised the question: How?

Work from home? The guy built a bot to rubber stamp all his approvals so he could get more nap time.

Posted by: Socratease at March 05, 2025 11:30 AM (t8Egx)

257 Scientists working on reintroducing the woolly mammoth have advanced another step: They created woolly mice.

Making a mammoth out of a mouse? New catchphrases evolving faster than mammals.

Posted by: Socratease at March 05, 2025 11:31 AM (t8Egx)

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