Daily Tech News 6 March 2025

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AMD's 9070 XT is here and it's (read through nine pages of review) good. (Tom's Hardware)

At $600 MSRP it's a hair slower than Nvidia's $750 5070 Ti on non-ray-traced titles. On ray tracing it's a hair slower than Nvidia's $800 4070 from last year.

Now a 5070 Ti will cost you around $900 at retail if you can find one - which you actually can right now - and the 4070 Ti super is completely gone. But we don't know yet what the supply will be like for MSRP 9070 XT cards, so it's not clear if Nvidia costs 20% more for similar performance, or 50% more.

Reviewers have also noticed that the performance is very consistent, holding steady throughout a benchmark and also between benchmark runs. That matters because a card that peaks at 80 fps but often drops down to 50 fps can feel worse than one that delivers 60 fps all the time.

It's also 50% faster than my 7800 XT in non-ray-traced games, and 60% faster in ray tracing. It will probably offer worse performance per dollar because I got my card at 20% under MSRP, but if you can't find a deal like that it should look much better.

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Apple has updated the Mac Studio desktop system to the M3 chip, with up to an M3 Ultra with 32 cores and 512GB of RAM. (WCCFTech)

And it's reasonably priced too, with a 28 core model with 96GB of RAM competing with Framework's 128GB Desktop model.

Wait, I'm on the US site, aren't I? Never mind, it costs twice as much.

Though it is effectively a 512GB graphics card, so I'm sure someone will buy it.
Google says to the DOJ, "Please don't throw us into that briar patch." (Yahoo)

I don't think Google quite grasped how that story is supposed to go.
The latest winners of the Turing Award have warned again of the dangers of AI. (The Verge)
"It might say something stupid", they said.
I'm sure we'll survive.

Somehow.
The AOOSTAR WTR MAX is a 7 bay NAS with an AMD Ryzen 8040HS series CPU. (Liliputing)

That's not the very latest but with up to 8 Zen 4 core and 12 RDNA3 graphics cores it should be quite capable as a combination storage device and app server.

It takes up to 6 5.25" drives and 6 M.2 SSDs, though how those all fit into seven bays is not yet clear.
Cyclone Alfred has been rescheduled for - at last update - Saturday. It's just sitting there for now.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Sorry, town's down.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin' Pixy and Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 06, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 "It takes up to 6 5.25" drives and 6 M.2 SSDs, though how those all fit into seven bays is not yet clear."

6 x 3.5" drives.

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

3 "It might say something stupid", they said.

Might? Will.

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

4 Oh come on, where is everyone?

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

5 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 06, 2025 04:07 AM (P3X50)

6 Me: If the count of composites remaining after removing paired composites is less than pi(x) then Goldbach is true for x.
Grok: No. Even if there are less than pi(x) composites remaining, the lower count alone is not enough. You'd still need to show something about the distribution of primes.
Me: What will the remaining primes pair with? Airplanes?
Grok: Sure. Or gumballs.

Posted by: Van Helsing at March 06, 2025 04:07 AM (N462N)

7 >>>Disclaimer: Sorry, town's down.

Stay safe, Pixy! On your non-coastal mountaintop.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 04:09 AM (CQE5S)

8 Can someone recommend a cheap low power lightweight laptop for travel? $200.00 or less. My HP Stream is about done now. Whatever I buy will get wiped and replaced with Linux Mint, unless it should have some version of Linux already.

I surf the net. Edit text and web pages, and play Civ I on DosBox.

Posted by: Van Helsing at March 06, 2025 04:09 AM (N462N)

9 Don't know why I am awake so darn early. Ugh. Nevertheless, I am happy that smug-looking Hampton Dellinger can be temporarily fired again.

Posted by: lizabth at March 06, 2025 04:10 AM (Jfw7U)

10 Cyclone Alfred stalls off Australia's east as millions brace ...

Reuters
2 hours ago — The storm is now likely to make landfall by Saturday morning near Brisbane, Australia's third-most populous city....

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 04:10 AM (CQE5S)

11 PM, you ever shop any Singapore services? Shopee or Lazada? Amazon tacks on 80 dollar import fees when I buy in the USA.

Posted by: Van Helsing at March 06, 2025 04:11 AM (N462N)

12 willowed:

293 Two great quotes I heard today...

Nancy Mace to Shitcago mayor-No wonder your popularity is at 6%, you suck at answering questions.

Greg Gutfeld-
karma is almost as much of a bitch as Nicole Wallace.

LOL
Posted by: Farmer at March 06, 2025 04:06 AM (55Qr6)

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 04:13 AM (CQE5S)

13 Bidens Dog-- replied to you on ONT. (Sorry.)

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:17 AM (rdVOm)

14 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers,

I have lost a box of matches! You know, the strike-on-the-box packet of 300. I'd only used about a third, and in fact employed it on Tuesday. Usually I keep it atop the microwave. This morning I go looking, and nada. It's not a crisis, I have two other full boxes, but I paid for these --and they couldn't just walk off.

I am mounting a search party to go through all the cabinets. The box may be injured and unable to respond.

Anyway! How's your Thor's Day?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:22 AM (omVj0)

15 Bidens Dog-- replied to you on ONT. (Sorry.)

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:17 AM (rdVOm)
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👍🏻

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 06, 2025 04:23 AM (P3X50)

16 Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:17 AM (rdVOm)

I got a big chuckle out of "no butter knife!"

Good for him!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2025 04:24 AM (DdVAm)

17 Downtown is a great song. Evokes a simpler fun time. And reminds me of the home run era of baseball when the players and the balls we’re juiced. Every team it seemed did a commercial featuring their slugger hitting home runs with that tune as the background.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 06, 2025 04:24 AM (Bjq84)

18 I got a big chuckle out of "no butter knife!"

Good for him!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Nurses & I were giggling too! And shaking our heads. That man is so very stubborn and willful.

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:27 AM (rdVOm)

19 The box may be injured and unable to respond.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:22 AM (omVj0)
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Here's hoping the matches aren't sulfuring.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 06, 2025 04:27 AM (P3X50)

20 Petula's "Downtown," "My Love," and "A Sign of the Times" are all great stuff. It's not her fault or that of the lyricist that city downtowns in the civilized world have become so uncivilized in the last sixty years. My downtown, Canal Street, was a thriving shopping district in 1964. When I was last there on Thanksgiving Day in '24, it was overrun with sloppily-dressed people (and those were the respectable ones), panhandlers, and scummy-looking characters. And the stores are mostly "urban wear," tourist traps touting "Cajun" everything, and hotels.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:28 AM (omVj0)

21 The Americans travelling the 5 major Australian cites, 5 if you don't count Perth which is reasonable since it is effectively in another universe, made it to Sydney.

Holy hell. Wow. I was struck with how much it reminded me of Vancouver BC, Seattle, and San Francisco but better. So much better. It is peculiar mix of Victorian England, and for lack of a deeper understanding, oddly west coast American.

https://youtu.be/VG7rnjtFJmM

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 06, 2025 04:28 AM (S9FN9)

22 wikipedia: Sally "Petula" Clark (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and has had the longest career of any British entertainer, spanning more than 85 years.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 04:28 AM (CQE5S)

23 Mornin' Wolfus!

You say you lost a box of (nice, wooden & rattle-y) matches... from atop (!) the microwave... and you have two cats...

Hmmm. It's a mystery!

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:30 AM (rdVOm)

24 I had insomnia so I listened to about 40 minutes so far of President Trump's Speech to Congress. He's very interesting and entertaining, but I couldn't listen to the whole thing in one shot. I admire those who did.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 04:33 AM (urlcT)

25 The danger of AI is not that it may misbehave, but that people will be stupid enough to follow its lead.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at March 06, 2025 04:33 AM (/U76v)

26 Stay safe Pixy.

Reading M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy. He takes genre tropes and turns them on a merry-go-round. Sci-fi noir and Roadside Picnic mashed up.

Posted by: 13times at March 06, 2025 04:33 AM (UxFma)

27 Glad you mentioned that Fen. I haven't listened to it yet, but will once I get up enough gumption to start work. It's gonna be a lonnnggg day.

Posted by: lizabth at March 06, 2025 04:34 AM (Jfw7U)

28 Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom fame lays out another astute observation:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-158476311

Posted by: pawn at March 06, 2025 04:38 AM (QB+5g)

29 Australian man who saved over two million babies through his blood donations ( He had a special antibodies) died at age 88;

https://tinyurl.com/2fv84fa8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 04:39 AM (bnidB)

30 Mornin' Wolfus!

You say you lost a box of (nice, wooden & rattle-y) matches... from atop (!) the microwave... and you have two cats...

Hmmm. It's a mystery!
Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025

***
Morning, JQ,

For all their demonic cleverness, they couldn't carry the box away and hide it. I've looked behind and all around the microwave. I've been keeping a box there for several years and it's never gone walkabout before.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:41 AM (omVj0)

31 A bit about the inspiration and recording of Downtown. Bullet points: It was inspired by NYC, the song was still not finished 2 weeks before it was recorded, It was recorded live in the studio, take 2 out of 3 was what we have today, and NO AUTO TUNE which I consider the destroyer of souls.

I remember when this hit the airwaves. It just exploded and was a remarkable counterpoint to all the Beatlemaina stuff happening. And it still sounds fresh 60 years later.

https://is.gd/ibaGz7

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 06, 2025 04:44 AM (S9FN9)

32 Quartet sings song of faith, "Fill my cup, Lord":

https://tinyurl.com/yte549pu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 04:45 AM (bnidB)

33 Whoa, GTFO!

President Trump to sign an executive order to abolish the Department of Education as early as Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at March 06, 2025 04:45 AM (i24o9)

34 Okay Wolfus. If you say so. (snort!)

But seriously-- the cats couldn't have just swatted that that box way out onto the floor and then batted it under the fridge or something?

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:46 AM (rdVOm)

35 G'mornin all y'all
So
Happy
It's
Thursday

Carry on.

Posted by: OkJohn at March 06, 2025 04:46 AM (NC/it)

36 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2025 04:46 AM (jrKun)

37 Posted by: lizabth at March 06, 2025 04:34 AM (Jfw7U)

If you have insomnia it makes the day longer. I'm sorry. I was listening to it on Fox channel , but I think I will listen on some other venue because Fox only showed Trump and Vance and Johnson, not any of the crowd and I would like to see some of the specials guests and their reactions. I did see Al Green taken out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 04:48 AM (mwrGF)

38 Whoa, GTFO!

President Trump to sign an executive order to abolish the Department of Education as early as Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon

I am taking bets on how many minutes it will take for an Imperial Hawaiian Judge to go, "Nope, not allowed: government is only allowed to expand and like AUTO TUNE, destroy souls."

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 06, 2025 04:52 AM (S9FN9)

39 Okay Wolfus. If you say so. (snort!)

But seriously-- the cats couldn't have just swatted that that box way out onto the floor and then batted it under the fridge or something?
Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025

***
That's why the search party. I haven't looked under the fridge or stove yet. Furry thugs.

In other news, I sent off my tax forms yesterday: I'm due about $200 back. I thought of telling them to apply it to my 2025 return. Next year's filing will be weird, with salary for three months, SS for twelve, and pension for nine. But then we may not have tax on SS thanks to Imperator Trump -- so I'm gambling. A lot can happen in nine months. "Who knows, the horse might learn to talk."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:52 AM (omVj0)

40 Hopefully, today is launch day for Flight 8.

More history being made right in front of our eyes.

Almost makes me want to be young again.

Posted by: pawn at March 06, 2025 04:53 AM (QB+5g)

41
I surf the net. Edit text and web pages, and play Civ I on DosBox.

Posted by: Van Helsing at March 06, 2025 04:09 AM (N462N)

Chromebook that can run Linux?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at March 06, 2025 04:54 AM (i24o9)

42 Update: The match box has been rescued! It was behind the trash can just below the microwave.

Furry thuglets.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:55 AM (omVj0)

43
GTA V "enhanced" was released with the fancy tracing of raymonds.

I downloading a repack, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer loves zee krauts at March 06, 2025 04:55 AM (TkLhE)

44 Federal Express worker prays that God will use her and she prays with grieving woman:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhkh86a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 04:55 AM (mwrGF)

45 So
Happy
It's
Thursday
-------

OkJohn, did we ever work at the same place? LOL! That was our mantra! Workin' four tens a week...

Also: TGIF...T
Thank
Gawd
It's
F'in
Thursday

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:56 AM (rdVOm)

46 I did see Al Green taken out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 04:48 AM (mwrGF)

All the really good stuff is near the latter half. Have tissues at the ready.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at March 06, 2025 04:56 AM (i24o9)

47 President Trump to sign an executive order to abolish the Department of Education as early as Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon

I am taking bets on how many minutes it will take for an Imperial Hawaiian Judge to go, "Nope, not allowed: government is only allowed to expand and like AUTO TUNE, destroy souls."
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 06, 2025 04:52 AM (S9FN9)

They'll rule that, since the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress, it must be destroyed by an act of Congress. I can't automatically say that'd be a bad ruling.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 04:58 AM (ExV1e)

48 Reading M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy. He takes genre tropes and turns them on a merry-go-round. Sci-fi noir and Roadside Picnic mashed up.
Posted by: 13times at March 06, 2025

***
The first issue of F & SF I ever bought (in 1974!) had a story, "The Centauri Device," by Harrison in it. I still have the issue, in fact. Time I took it down and read that story again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:58 AM (omVj0)

49 28 Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom fame lays out another astute observation:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-158476311
Posted by: pawn

Politics is full of grifters, scumbags, liars, and thieves. Not really that astute. It's been that way for centuries.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2025 04:59 AM (jrKun)

50 Fen, the whole thing is here:

youtube.com/live/XkFKNkAEzQ8

Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:59 AM (rdVOm)

51 Funny JQ.
doubtful we ever worked together. Only picked that up fairly recently myself.
May have got it here even.

Posted by: OkJohn at March 06, 2025 04:59 AM (NC/it)

52 Fen, yeah, last night was a bad sleep. Weird day yesterday is probably why. Big wind storm, hubby home early, breakfast out with the girls, some discussion of future plans all lead to restlessness. I did sleep very deeply from 8PM to 9:30 PM, lol. After that it was tossy-turny 'til I got up at 2:30. Oh well. I'll get by, just not with much clarity.

Posted by: lizabth at March 06, 2025 05:01 AM (Jfw7U)

53 Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at March 06, 2025 04:56 AM (i24o9)

I did see the clip yesterday of the little African American boy getting a secret service badge and the hug he gave to the head of the Secret a service and that was very touching

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 05:02 AM (mwrGF)

54 Posted by: lizabth at March 06, 2025 05:01 AM (Jfw7U)

I'm sorry, dear. Nights like that are awful without good sleep.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 05:03 AM (mwrGF)

55 They'll rule that, since the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress, it must be destroyed by an act of Congress. I can't automatically say that'd be a bad ruling.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 04:58 AM (ExV1e)

Of course on both counts. But it's good to wait and see what any such EO entails. Even WSJ is sketchy these days. And DoEd is a massive failure and a grooming org. It deserves severe scrutiny and reduction to the maximum extent possible.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at March 06, 2025 05:03 AM (i24o9)

56 11 PM, you ever shop any Singapore services? Shopee or Lazada? Amazon tacks on 80 dollar import fees when I buy in the USA.
Posted by: Van Helsing

I don't think so. I buy from Japan reasonably often but not from elsewhere in Asia.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 06, 2025 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

57 I need to be rescued. Please. Melanie Stansbury is one of New Mexico's representatives. She is a lunatic and sadly is not an exception; this is normal at every level of government here.

https://is.gd/erRzDK

For extra credit she was the lunatic holding the "This is not normal" sign when President Trump entered the House of Representatives for his monumental speech.

https://is.gd/Dem4tf

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

58 Flounder, thanks for the Chromebook rec. I had asked Grok about that earlier, but Grok said, "Get the chicken sandwich".

It looked painful to change in some cases.

Posted by: Van Helsing at March 06, 2025 05:07 AM (kK7U2)

59 Fen..that compassion is gold. Thank you for it.

Posted by: lizabth at March 06, 2025 05:07 AM (Jfw7U)

60 Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:59 AM (rdVOm

Thanks so much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 05:09 AM (EN+Je)

61 https://www.kawaiibox.com/ ?? Not sure they sell laptops.

Posted by: Van Helsing at March 06, 2025 05:09 AM (kK7U2)

62 I've thought about buying a renewed Chrome laptop and just putting Linux on it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2025 05:12 AM (jrKun)

63 Al Green is living up to his reputation as a disruptive member. I see that boy who was honored by the SS as a honorary member of the SS is from his district.
I doubt if he cares at all about the kid. Green says articles of impeachment will be filed by him on Trump. Useless jester, but its something he would do.

Posted by: Colin at March 06, 2025 05:13 AM (wlQdF)

64 G'morning, all.

A cool 44.6 degrees out with a breeze of 3.8mph.

Not to bad for walking, and really need to do so after the Pancake Supper on Tuesday night.

Last night's Ash Wednesday service was well attended as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2025 05:20 AM (a1415)

65 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2025 05:21 AM (nFDf9)

66 Petula Clark takes me back to my youth. Had a cassette and played it in my car. I threw it out at some point in my rush to move to the latest in music devices. I even had a early CD player with Petula Clark. Now I have a car (SUV) which still has a CD player Which I have never used. Sirius was next, but only until the free subscription lasted, used to be 1 year, then 6 months. Now I have nothing. Getting old....

Posted by: Colin at March 06, 2025 05:22 AM (wlQdF)

67 Something caught my eye regarding the whole Trump must pay stuff - it seems some of this may be for services already performed pursuant to a contract and vendor wants paid. Now assuming such vendors are acting in good faith (not a given) I can see why a court would say they should be paid. All of this assumes there’s no fraud, illegality etc. (yes I know the entire Fed bureaucracy is a fraud.)

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at March 06, 2025 05:22 AM (Uy2Lz)

68 Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 06, 2025 05:06 AM (S9FN9)

I live in NJ. I empathize. One of our new members of Congress was holding up one of those paddles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 05:24 AM (XtRmM)

69 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 06, 2025 05:28 AM (dg+HA)

70 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 06, 2025 05:29 AM (hoCmQ)

71 The Babylon DC Fox Newz affliate have noticed high prices in the grocery stores. Trump's tariffs are at fault.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2025 05:29 AM (jrKun)

72 20 degree drop here. Currently 28. Calling for high of 48 same as what they said for yesterday. We'll see. Don't think we made it to 40.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 06, 2025 05:32 AM (hoCmQ)

73 @67 Jonathan Turley has an interesting take on the SCOTUS decision. May not be down and out quite yet. Trust the process seems to be the thing, according to him.

Posted by: lizabth at March 06, 2025 05:34 AM (Jfw7U)

74 Time for the morning walk. Be back in a bit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 06, 2025 05:35 AM (a1415)

75 I've thought about buying a renewed Chrome laptop and just putting Linux on it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2025 05:12 AM (jrKun)

I've been doing that with an old thinkpad, and it's working out pretty solid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 06, 2025 05:35 AM (KtIIi)

76 Yum, Petula Clark.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 05:36 AM (kkJCD)

77 Great video selection. Thanx Pixy.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 06, 2025 05:38 AM (dg+HA)

78 Posted by: Colin at March 06, 2025 05:13 AM

I'm not entirely sure whether some of these disruptive persons in Congress such as Al Green don't have some form of dementia because certainly being combative is frequently a sign of that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 05:38 AM (TXzsn)

79 AI models may be using millions of people as test beds but they are only editing emails and making powerpoints. It's AI in the hands of government that should worry Turing Prize winners. After all, it was government that created and released covid.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 05:41 AM (pzoNl)

80 What strikes me about the legal nonsense is the underlying thing that everyone in the news yammering about it just accepts as given... we have no idea who was paying what, for what, or how, or why. Grant? Contract? Did they actually do what they said they would? Were they ever going to? What was this money even for?

There's just money. Or there was money, they think, and now someone else has money. They think.

It's a farce. The more this dumbass story and others like it percolate through the national consciousness, the more that veil of "Oh Well, it's complicated, but they're experts i guess" gets pierced, and the more pissed off the normies get from this ever growing yellow snowball of government perfidy.

So i don't really give a crap what any thief in black says or does.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 06, 2025 05:43 AM (KtIIi)

81 G'mornin' everyone!

@ 41 - that's what I use for that set of tasks; an old Lenovo running Linux Mint. Quite excellent imho, $50.
Only thing, I had to mess with the hardware to defeat the protection so I could overwrite with new firmware to de-chrome it.
after that, mint installed no prob.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 05:44 AM (RP0h0)

82 Only thing, I had to mess with the hardware to defeat the protection so I could overwrite with new firmware to de-chrome it.
after that, mint installed no prob.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 05:44 AM (RP0h0)

I didn't have to do that with the thinkpad. Must be a chrome OS thing?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 06, 2025 05:46 AM (KtIIi)

83 Looks like I'm CPAP free. I risked six and a half Benjamins on a mouth guard from the ENT and after about ten days now I have to say I'm sleeping well. Been using ye olde air pump for two decades.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 06, 2025 05:48 AM (dg+HA)

84 Petula Clark takes me back to my youth. Had a cassette and played it in my car. I threw it out at some point in my rush to move to the latest in music devices. I even had a early CD player with Petula Clark. Now I have a car (SUV) which still has a CD player Which I have never used. Sirius was next, but only until the free subscription lasted, used to be 1 year, then 6 months. Now I have nothing. Getting old....
Posted by: Colin at March 06, 2025

***
My Buick has a CD player, but I use the music flash drive much more often when I get bored with '80s oldies on one station or to skip the ads on Sean Hannity in the afternoon. When I do my exploratory trip to IN and KY in April, I'll bring some discs with me as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 05:48 AM (omVj0)

85 pb,

Yeah "astute" isn't the right word. It's early and I haven't had my coffee yet.

It's nice to reread his Declaration of Independence again though. Just to remember that the Right can be just as full of shit as the Left sometimes.

A great way to start the day.

Posted by: pawn at March 06, 2025 05:50 AM (QB+5g)

86 Wiki says Petula Clark is 92 now, and living in Switzerland. Apparently, as a child singer, she and Julie Andrews toured together.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 06, 2025 05:53 AM (7YAXG)

87 We're looking at 53 F. here, high of 60 or so, no rain. I may stop at the car wash this pm on the way home and at least get the dust off the Buick. Sat. we're due for rain, so the car will only look great for a day or so, but it's worth it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

88
I saw a "thank you" message from a high school friend in which she described heading into her 72nd year bemoaning the fact that the boycotted business firms' list was growing and making it harder for her to shop for goods and services.

I guess that is the "joyful" life of which Red Kammie's followers all spoke over a year ago. How exciting!

What was eye opening were the many "me, too" responses. All served as testimony to the power of untrammeled and unquestioning adherence to what truly is a soul crushing cult of death.

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas, godess at March 06, 2025 05:54 AM (xG4kz)

89
ANDROID AUTO CONNECTED

(Holds down steering wheel button)

BEEP

Play "Downtown" by Petula Clark."

OK, PLAYING "DOWNTOWN" BY PETULA CLARK ON YOUTUBE MUSIC

(Piano intro starts)

Posted by: Welcome to the modern world at March 06, 2025 05:58 AM (dg+HA)

90 W-o, I think that's true, chrome is protected in a way that windows machines are not.

I had to open the case and remove one screw on the motherboard which bridged 2 traces and functioned as a a write-protect switch.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 05:58 AM (RP0h0)

91 85, true!

he's always been a clear thinker

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

92 Just unplug the town and plug it back in.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Technical Support (not in Bangalore, really) at March 06, 2025 06:02 AM (PiwSw)

93 Arbeit macht Freude.

They turned "joy" into an order to be enforced by Commissars. We won't work to make you joyful, nay nay. You must work for us and make the effort to appear joyful in it, lest your despair besmirch the glory of the heather-has-two-mothers-land.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 06, 2025 06:03 AM (KtIIi)

94 80, yeah, the experts are pushing the death of expertise as hard as they can; I can only applaud, and yell "Faster, please!"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 06:04 AM (RP0h0)

95 75 I've thought about buying a renewed Chrome laptop and just putting Linux on it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2025 05:12 AM (jrKun)

I've been doing that with an old thinkpad, and it's working out pretty solid.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 06, 2025 05:35 AM (KtIIi)

Which Linux?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Technical Support (ok, I might be in Bangalore, but my name is Bruce) at March 06, 2025 06:05 AM (PiwSw)

96 Which Linux?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Technical Support (ok, I might be in Bangalore, but my name is Bruce) at March 06, 2025 06:05 AM (PiwSw)

Ubuntu

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

97 That's the only distro I've ever used, but I've yet to hit a point with it where I'm jammed up and can't find a way to make it do what i need.

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

98
Imagine waking up to see that "Detect Serial Correlation Using Econometric Modeler App" was the web page you last visited prior to falling asleep the night before.

After a spell if "What the ...?", I remembered that I had vaguely remembered that someone named Lomborg (I thought) had been an author of a MATLAB toolbox -- a suite of functions devoted to a specific area of data anslysis -- and I was surfing the MATLAB on-line product literature to recover the person's full name. I had not found him, nor was it now important enough to resume my search.

Today is grandkids' visitation day. We shall, for a time, review how to properly fold an American flag in order to complete an bc advancement requirement for Cub Scouts.

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas, godess at March 06, 2025 06:08 AM (xG4kz)

99 31 I remember when this hit the airwaves. It just exploded and was a remarkable counterpoint to all the Beatlemaina stuff happening. And it still sounds fresh 60 years later.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 06, 2025 04:44 AM (S9FN9)

It really does.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 06:09 AM (CQE5S)

100 Is Clark also the one providing downtown living strategies? Something about not sleeping on the subway, standing in the pouring rain? She missed her calling as a “Life Coach”

Posted by: Common Tater at March 06, 2025 06:09 AM (vOk4U)

101 Good morning, all. I have a bagel. I have had coffee. Life is good.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 06:09 AM (svLOV)

102 34 Okay Wolfus. If you say so. (snort!)

But seriously-- the cats couldn't have just swatted that that box way out onto the floor and then batted it under the fridge or something?
Posted by: JQ at March 06, 2025 04:46 AM (rdVOm)

... or into the sink, and they got wet, and Miss Linda threw the box away. I vote for "it was the cats," too.

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

103 42 Update: The match box has been rescued! It was behind the trash can just below the microwave.

Furry thuglets.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 04:55 AM (omVj0)

Hahahahaha!

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 06:13 AM (CQE5S)

104 Today is grandkids' visitation day. We shall, for a time, review how to properly fold an American flag in order to complete an bc advancement requirement for Cub Scouts.
Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas, godess at March 06, 2025 06:08 AM (xG4kz)

That's a weird requirement. What about "How to Look Fabulous for Drag Pinewood Derby Day" or the "Resisting the Oppressive Heteronormative Patriarchy" merit badge?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Technical Support (ok, my name isn't Bruce, but it definitely isn't Kumarisr at March 06, 2025 06:14 AM (PiwSw)

105 If you get the Mac Studio and max out the options it will cost you a cool $14,099.00.

I don’t know why Apple decided not to make the iCar EV they were supposedly working on for years, but since they’re already charging used car prices they should have gone ahead with the idea.

I’m thinking an Apple electric vehicle would start at $59,099.00 for the base model which will give you 150 mile range

But if you upgrade to the full battery pack, which will give you 500 miles range it will only set you back $99,099.00.

I think I now understand why the world was not ready for the iCar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 06, 2025 06:14 AM (6ydKt)

106 Life IS good !
Unfortunately furnace didn't kick on last night. Resolved by flipping breaker.
Frost on windshield out there.
Baby is sleeping under covers w/heat pad. (Baby mama too).
She is 1+ year old. Such a delightful lil puppeh.
God loves us. Even when I am a selfish man. I resist, but try to surrender frequently. Sometimes I struggle.

Have light repairs to make to trailer trim & skirting. Wind was fierce.
I have rambled on. Hehehe
I appreciate all y'all.

Posted by: OkJohn at March 06, 2025 06:19 AM (NC/it)

107
That's a weird requirement. What about "How to Look Fabulous for Drag Pinewood Derby Day" or the "Resisting the Oppressive Heteronormative Patriarchy" merit badge?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Mock it if you must, but it is linked to another requirement to take part in a service project that benefits the neighborhood in which they live.

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas, godess at March 06, 2025 06:20 AM (xG4kz)

108 55 They'll rule that, since the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress, it must be destroyed by an act of Congress. I can't automatically say that'd be a bad ruling.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 04:58 AM (ExV1e)

While we’re waiting for an Act of Congress, it can be cut down to about 20 employees.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 06:22 AM (34LIQ)

109 98 We shall, for a time, review how to properly fold an American flag in order to complete an bc advancement requirement for Cub Scouts.
Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas, godess at March 06, 2025 06:08 AM (xG4kz)

This reminds me that I have some Girl Scout cookies in the freezer.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 06:23 AM (CQE5S)

110
Jeez, you spelled "goddess" wrong?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 06, 2025 06:23 AM (xG4kz)

111 67 Something caught my eye regarding the whole Trump must pay stuff - it seems some of this may be for services already performed pursuant to a contract and vendor wants paid. Now assuming such vendors are acting in good faith (not a given) I can see why a court would say they should be paid. All of this assumes there’s no fraud, illegality etc. (yes I know the entire Fed bureaucracy is a fraud.)
Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at March 06, 2025 05:22 AM (Uy2Lz

If someone was obligated to pay you under a contract and didn't, do you think you could get a TRO or injunctive relief upfront requiring immediate payment?

I've never heard of such a thing.

The ordinary process is that the party claiming money is due and owed has to bring a breach of contract suit. A trial or its equivalent is required. Only if you win do you get a judgment for the money, which then that must be enforced unless the losing side simply pays it.

What is happening here is quite extraordinary and does not at all resemble conventional litigation.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 06:23 AM (YtQZg)

112 107
That's a weird requirement. What about "How to Look Fabulous for Drag Pinewood Derby Day" or the "Resisting the Oppressive Heteronormative Patriarchy" merit badge?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Mock it if you must, but it is linked to another requirement to take part in a service project that benefits the neighborhood in which they live.
Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas, godess at March 06, 2025 06:20 AM (xG4kz)

Sorry, I'm mocking the current woke version. The historical BSA represents American values at their finest, including treating the flag with respect.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Housekeeping is just Technical Support with Roombas at March 06, 2025 06:24 AM (PiwSw)

113 I wouldn't hold my breath on that act of congress.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 06:24 AM (2fBSl)

114 They'll rule that, since the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress, it must be destroyed by an act of Congress. I can't automatically say that'd be a bad ruling.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 04:58 AM (ExV1e)

While we’re waiting for an Act of Congress, it can be cut down to about 20 employees.
Posted by: Tom Servo

We should do that for every department that is not specifically authorized by the constitution. If it truly is that important, Congress can create it.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2025 06:25 AM (nFDf9)

115 @Wolfus: Furry thuglets.

*snrks* Everything is a cat toy, and there is no location that a cat cannot get. Secure those flammables.

Furry thuglets indeed. *laughs*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 06, 2025 06:26 AM (O7YUW)

116
"You can't abolish the Income Tax without repealing the amendment to the Constitution that created it!"

True, but we can set the income tax rate to zero.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 06, 2025 06:26 AM (xG4kz)

117 Off to the electron mines, all!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 06, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

118 108 55 They'll rule that, since the Department of Education was created by an act of Congress, it must be destroyed by an act of Congress. I can't automatically say that'd be a bad ruling.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 06, 2025 04:58 AM (ExV1e)

While we’re waiting for an Act of Congress, it can be cut down to about 20 employees.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2025 06:22 AM (34LIQ)

PDT's creating an opportunity to get the bad side of the DOEd into the press.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 06:27 AM (CQE5S)

119 Bear - I agree with you. Dug into it a bit more and your analysis is spot on. If anything these are breach of contract claims and should be litigated accordingly.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at March 06, 2025 06:32 AM (Uy2Lz)

120
If someone was obligated to pay you under a contract and didn't, do you think you could get a TRO or injunctive relief upfront requiring immediate payment?

I've never heard of such a thing.

The ordinary process is that the party claiming money is due and owed has to bring a breach of contract suit. A trial or its equivalent is required. Only if you win do you get a judgment for the money, which then that must be enforced unless the losing side simply pays it.

What is happening here is quite extraordinary and does not at all resemble conventional litigation.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

There ought to be a concerted strategy and effort mounted in the DOJ to get a court case to put an end for once and for all to District Court judges overstepping their bounds. Devoting effort to redacting portions of the Epstein evidence is a "Look! Squirrel!" distraction at this time.

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

121
Off to face the day ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 06, 2025 06:35 AM (xG4kz)

122 Week is moving fast.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 06:36 AM (gbOdA)

123 Thanks for the song pick, Pixy! A lot of us are getting a big kick out of that.

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

124 Good morning!

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

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

125 It's almost midnight in some parts of Pixyland right now.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 06:55 AM (CQE5S)

126 What I'm reading about that SCOTUS decision that the USGovt must shell out the $2B, is because that money is supposedly for services already rendered/work already performed. Yesterday I read where Elon Musk and his team of untouchables are going to ask for detailed, itemized receipts for every dollar spent. So that could be fun.

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 06:56 AM (AOsQT)

127 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

The bus that was hit by the cab of a semi as I was unloading kids on the side of the road is still [/] not repaired. 6 months in various shops. I went to work the next day, although it hit just in front of me. My boss will not show me the video.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 06, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

128 17 degrees out on the deck.

the predicted snowpocalypse failed to materialize, as usual, we got a scant two inches. I value it nonetheless as a wonderful excuse to do little or nothing all day yesterday.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 06:57 AM (RP0h0)

129 NaCly, dearest. A glorious good morning to you

Posted by: Ben Had at March 06, 2025 06:57 AM (mB6WH)

130 @ 126, that was pretty much what scotus actually ordered, when you read the decision.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 06:58 AM (RP0h0)

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

A greeting from you is like sunshine on a bleak, grey, day.

Hope you are full of vigor.

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

132 Yikes. Too early to close a tag? The weather is typical for early march. Below freezing in the morning, and crisp and windy in the afternoon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 06, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

133

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 06, 2025 07:00 AM (5hfjS)

134 NaCly. Life is good and I am springing into Spring.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 06, 2025 07:01 AM (mB6WH)

135 not good:

@ZelenskyyUa
13h
I am grateful to @EmmanuelMacron for his clear vision and our joint efforts to achieve peace. Peace must be real, not just a word—it cannot mean Ukraine’s capitulation or collapse. It must be just, reliable, and lasting, and this can only be achieved through strong and long-term security guarantees — for Ukraine, Europe, and the entire world.

We deeply appreciate the leadership and efforts of all those supporting Ukraine and strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:02 AM (CQE5S)

136 I want clocks moved ahead 2 hours for May, June, July.
Double Daylight Savings Time.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: CapeFear at March 06, 2025 07:02 AM (SlNlo)

137 Hillary Clinton

You will watch Trump be the best President of the 21st Century. Your efforts notwithstanding.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 06, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

138 Just weighing in
Trump's legal team must be working around the clock in shifts

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:05 AM (AOsQT)

139 Got some spousal required chores before work.

Have a great day, everyone.

May the bliss of Spring bless you all.

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

140 CNN:

European leaders will once again try to grasp control of negotiations over the war in Ukraine on Thursday, in an increasingly frantic tug-of-war against the US and Russia that could be nearing a climax.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:06 AM (CQE5S)

141 Oh, yeah.

He's definitely trying to pump a baybay in that there female....

https://tinyurl.com/48xfm5py

Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 07:08 AM (UJ+K5)

142 >European leaders will once again try to grasp control of negotiations over the war in Ukraine on Thursday
---

it looks the Euros are afraid that US/Russia talks might bring the war to a premature peace

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:08 AM (AOsQT)

143 Also, I think the "services already rendered" argument in this context amounts to "we stole this money fair and square." I don't give a rat's hindquarters if pro-LGBT plays were already put on in Ecuador. This should be resisted maximally.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 06, 2025 07:09 AM (YtQZg)

144 142 >European leaders will once again try to grasp control of negotiations over the war in Ukraine on Thursday
---

it looks the Euros are afraid that US/Russia talks might bring the war to a premature peace
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:08 AM (AOsQT)

So sick of the War Machine Globalists.

Posted by: jsg at March 06, 2025 07:12 AM (UJ+K5)

145 "European leaders will once again try to grasp control of negotiations over the war in Ukraine on Thursday, in an increasingly frantic tug-of-war against the US and Russia that could be nearing a climax.
Posted by: m"

Will they come to an agreement before negotiations go soft?

Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 06, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

146 CNN winning awards in propagandistic wording:

Europe is “entering a new era,” French President Emmanuel Macron admitted in a televised address on Wednesday night, describing an increased weariness over the shift in tone of US President Donald Trump toward Moscow.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:13 AM (CQE5S)

147 We deeply appreciate the leadership and efforts of all those supporting Ukraine and strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities.
Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:02 AM (CQE5S)

We live in the age of the epic cons: Ukraine, Covid, Wokism, Climate Change. Are they at the end, their Last Hurrah? Let us hope.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 07:14 AM (ZlOcj)

148 moar CNN:

[headline; photo of PDT and photo of Castreau] The world is beginning to tire of Trump’s whiplash leadership

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:15 AM (CQE5S)

149 Trump's legal team must be working around the clock in shifts
Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:05 AM (AOsQT)

Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts! Leads! Hahaha! Leads...

Posted by: Auto Circus Cop at March 06, 2025 07:16 AM (EEZHI)

150 CNN:

“The United States, our ally, has changed its position on this war, is less supportive of Ukraine and is casting doubt on what will happen next,” Macron warned.

indeed

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:17 AM (CQE5S)

151 I’m still laughing that Trump maneuvered the Ds in Congress into not standing and applauding for a black child fighting cancer.

Masterful.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 06, 2025 07:19 AM (Y1sOo)

152 “The United States, our ally, has changed its position on this war, is less supportive of Ukraine and is casting doubt on what will happen next,” Macron warned.

That's right. We're not underwriting endless bullshit wars anymore.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 07:20 AM (ZlOcj)

153 CNN:

Like during the meetings over the weekend, Zelensky was given a warm welcome by Von der Leyen in Brussels, a dramatic contrast to his frosty reception at the White House.

excuse me?

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:21 AM (CQE5S)

154 Europe is “entering a new era,” French President Emmanuel Macron admitted in a televised address on Wednesday night, describing an increased weariness over the shift in tone of US President Donald Trump toward Moscow.

==

They're entering a new era, alright. An Islamic one that will be far more dangerous and life-changing than President Trump.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 07:21 AM (qBdHI)

155 I never cared for Petula Clark. I'll go sit in the corner now.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 06, 2025 07:21 AM (SfhV1)

156 authors of this disastrous CNN article:

By Rob Picheta and Niamh Kennedy, CNN
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh and Svitlana Vlasova contributed reporting

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:22 AM (CQE5S)

157 I really liked her in "Goodbye Mr. Chips."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 06, 2025 07:23 AM (ZmEVT)

158 Cool pic of Wyatt Earp in the thread before the last thread.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 07:24 AM (qBdHI)

159 As a wee lad I remember hearing "Downtown" on our car AM radio as my mother drove me, yes, downtown. Every time I hear the song I'm back in that VW bug.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 06, 2025 07:24 AM (ZlOcj)

160 Yesterday I read where Elon Musk and his team of untouchables are going to ask for detailed, itemized receipts for every dollar spent.

A few years back, there were people yapping that Elon could spend a few of his billions and solve world hunger. He took them up on their challenge. There were NGOs that were salivating at the image of the sweet Elon bucks they felt they deserved. And when he announced that he would basically be in charge of how that money would be distributed, world hunger wasn't a problem any more.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 07:25 AM (svLOV)

161 >“The United States, our ally, has changed its position on this war, is less supportive of Ukraine and is casting doubt on what will happen next,” Macron warned.
----

the war's appeal is becoming more selective

Posted by: Don Black at March 06, 2025 07:25 AM (AOsQT)

162 They're entering a new era, alright. An Islamic one that will be far more dangerous and life-changing than President Trump.

But they will gladly embrace it because it means that they have atoned for their colonial past. Besides, the food is delicious!

Posted by: NR Pax at March 06, 2025 07:26 AM (svLOV)

163 it sure was, LiB

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 07:26 AM (RP0h0)

164 moar CNN drek:

A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company

“Black people spend upwards of $12 million dollars a day, and so we would expect some loyalty, some decency and some camaraderie,” Bryant said.

Posted by: m at March 06, 2025 07:27 AM (CQE5S)

165 Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 06, 2025 07:23 AM (ZmEVT)

Good book and film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 06, 2025 07:27 AM (LK2pl)

166 I’m still laughing that Trump maneuvered the Ds in Congress into not standing and applauding for a black child fighting cancer.

==

They also remained seated when Melania was recognized. Some R congressman was calling them out on their disrespect because the R's stood for Jill.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 07:27 AM (qBdHI)

167 160, lol, I remember that.

the real solution to world hunger begins with making the payments on the cabin in davos and the new lamborghini

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 07:29 AM (RP0h0)

168 Petulant Clark's Downtown can also be heard in a lot of towns at the local "cop bar" at closing time. Sung by a bunch of drunk cops with no fear of getting popped for DUI.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 06, 2025 07:29 AM (gm9Sb)

169 As a wee lad I remember hearing "Downtown" on our car AM radio as my mother drove me, yes, downtown. Every time I hear the song I'm back in that VW bug.

--

It's definitely what I call a "kiddome" song.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 06, 2025 07:29 AM (qBdHI)

170
JJ
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 06, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

171 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2025 07:31 AM (RP0h0)

172 “The United States, ~~our ally~~sugar daddy, has changed its position on this war, is less supportive of Ukraine and is casting doubt on what will happen next,” Macron warned.

FIFY

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