Daily Tech News 17 June 2025

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Intel's rumoured next-next generation Nova Lake processors have been rumoured again. (WCCFTech)

Albeit with more details this time.

The top of the line Core 9 model will reportedly include 16 performance cores, 32 efficiency cores, and 4 low-power efficiency cores.

Which would be a lot.

The next models down would be the Core 7, with 14 P-cores, 24 E-cores, and 4 LPE-cores.

However, both would use a base power of 150W, meaning - this being Intel - in reality they would run at more like 300W.

Which is also a lot.

They would also - according to a separate rumour - provide 32 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 16 PCIe 4.0 lanes.

Not counting the PCIe 5.0 connection from the CPU to the chipset.

The CPU provides the same number of I/O lanes - at the same speed - as AMD's current chips. But the chipset does a lot better than AMD, providing 24 total PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 lanes, against AMD's 870E which uses two chips to provide just 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes.

Oh, and DDR5-8000 memory.

Tech News

Why AI is not helpful for coders. (Miguel Gringberg)

Except for simple things like type-ahead, which has gotten a lot better.
An AI tool can only resemble an intern with anterograde amnesia, which would be a bad kind of intern to have. For every new task this "AI intern" resets back to square one without having learned a thing!
Until you throw it out the window.
Facebook's Threads app has a new feature: Spoiler tags. (The Verge)

Straight out of 1996.
TSMC reports yields of 60% on its new 2nm process node. (WCCFTech)

That's good, by the way. Means 60% of chips fabricated are good enough to use, before harvesting half-good dies for lower-end parts. AMD's 8 core and 6 core parts are identical, but the cheaper 6 core chips allow them to re-use 8 core chips with one or two production flaws.

Educational Interlude

Musical Interlude

Song is Sharada by Skye Sweetnam. Anime is of course The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Disclaimer: If you leave a DVD in your player long enough, it will turn into a random volume of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Established fact.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:37 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 17, 2025 04:37 AM (n+rGF)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:38 AM (CQE5S)

3 Hey!

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:38 AM (CQE5S)

4 Woop
Marnin all

Posted by: OkJohn at June 17, 2025 04:39 AM (NC/it)

5 >>Anime is of course The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

of course

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:41 AM (CQE5S)

6 Anime still, looks like they're doing a cover of "Stop! In the Name of Love."

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:42 AM (CQE5S)

7
Good morning, good people, from the lush green Adirondacks. Been a wet Spring and the lawns show it. The yard people are all smiley.

So, may all effort from you good people result in benefit to you and the normal major heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 17, 2025 04:51 AM (hKoQL)

8 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 58 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. I can still hear an owl hooting away somewhere in the neighborhood, but the sun will be up soon, so he or she will be taking off in a bit.

Rain is supposed to be here later today, but who knows? I'm going to be napping the day away after work anyway.

Lost a friend to TDS last week. At least, I thought he was a friend, but if it can come to an end over Teh Donald, then it really wasn't a friendship at all, was it? No time right now to elaborate; I might later on.

Bought a book called The Self-Esteem Workbook over the weekend. Not really helpful - at least not for me. I can't get past my inborn cynicism and depression to objectively answer any of its questions.

A couple of hours' work ahead, so will talk to you all later. Perhaps.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025 04:52 AM (Dg2sF)

9 "anterograde" new word

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:52 AM (CQE5S)

10 Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 17, 2025 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

11 8 Lost a friend to TDS last week. At least, I thought he was a friend, but if it can come to an end over Teh Donald, then it really wasn't a friendship at all, was it? No time right now to elaborate; I might later on.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025 04:52 AM (Dg2sF)

I'd love to hear it.

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:53 AM (CQE5S)

12 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 17, 2025 04:53 AM (sAmhv)

13 other antero- words:

anterolateral
anteroposterior

and for lulz

anteroom

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:55 AM (CQE5S)

14 In God's eyes we are enough. Psalm 107:1-9

God is loving and kind to those who are distressed

https://tinyurl.com/37vebnfk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 17, 2025 05:06 AM (Qb4mU)

15
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 17, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

16 Older brothers sing an old spiritual from the 1800's:

"Give me that old time religion":

https://tinyurl.com/4fk533hn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 17, 2025 05:12 AM (Qb4mU)

17 chick in the video is so off-putting

Posted by: donotwant at June 17, 2025 05:14 AM (8vyLI)

18 She's actually an expert in lost and forgotten pigments. Does a lot of videos like this one, and spends a lot of time in protective gear showing off extremely poisonous 19th century oil paints.

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

19 I'd love to hear it.
Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:53 AM (CQE5S)

I've known him for several years. We're both history and Beatle buffs and have exchanged many gifts.

I was in the local last Thursday when he came in, glared at me, then went to look for a seat. I asked, "Is something wrong?" to which he answered, "You're goddamn right something's wrong!"

Now, I piss off people just by existing, so I thought I must have done something bad and asked him what it was I had done.

"Do you like what's happening? Are you proud of this country?" he snarled. I told him that yes, I was proud of the country, to which he told me to get away before he did something, implying a violent reaction.

He really hurt me, because I thought we were friends. What was he pissed off about? ICE? No Kings? Padilla? I don't know and haven't been in contact. If he apologizes, I'll accept, but I will tell him how much he hurt me over something so stupid.

But I don't expect an apology or to see him again. And people wonder why I am co cynical.

Anyway, back to work.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025 05:18 AM (Dg2sF)

20 Some of those pop songs edited into anime videos are pretty good. Some are very good. One was posted here months ago that I saved.

youtu.be/iIAEqTvygb8

The song and video seem to fit. I'm not familiar with Arcade Fire and have no idea about the anime (looks good). It's a very well done video.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 17, 2025 05:21 AM (sAmhv)

21 Oh yes. I like that one a lot better than the official video for Everything Now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 17, 2025 05:22 AM (BLOW1)

22 Thanks Fen.
Enough, wonderful concept.

Posted by: OkJohn at June 17, 2025 05:24 AM (NC/it)

23 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:28 AM (PfGa7)

24 Posted by: OkJohn at June 17, 2025 05:24 AM (NC/it

You are most welcome. OkJohn. May you have a blessed day and may you and all here know that they are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 17, 2025 05:30 AM (2GCMq)

25 Anime is of course The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

I wanted to like it. After all the main star was Kotoha in Lucky Star. But I couldn't even finish one season before I gave up.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 17, 2025 05:31 AM (BpO1e)

26 Amen

Posted by: OkJohn at June 17, 2025 05:31 AM (NC/it)

27 Lost a friend to TDS last week. At least, I thought he was a friend, but if it can come to an end over Teh Donald, then it really wasn't a friendship at all, was it? No time right now to elaborate; I might later on.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025 04:52 AM (Dg2sF)

I'd love to hear it.
Posted by: m

What's that saying?

Shaka, and the masks fell.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:31 AM (PfGa7)

28 "Oh, and DDR5-8000 memory."

Or, as border guards in East Germany once used to say, "Velkomm to de DDR."

Evening and morning, all! 'Tis Tiu's Day again. I'm up, sipping coffee, preparing to feed the felines, and making ready for my road trip today to Jackson, MS. Why there? The Country Squire, a rare full-speed tobacconist, is located there. They offer a lot of name brand pipe tobaccos, a bunch of their own blends (I've tried and loved one, and want to obtain more of it), pre-owned pipes and new ones, etc. Plus, you know, road trip!

I could have gone on Saturday, but I thought the NoKangz Day would not be a good time to be traveling around.

Miss Linda is excited. She can come over in the early afternoon and spoil the cats. She says she and Stirling will smoke catnip and invite all the neighborhood ferals in for a wild party. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 05:38 AM (omVj0)

29 What's that saying?

Shaka, and the masks fell.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:31 AM (PfGa7)

Never trust a masked Zulu.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 17, 2025 05:39 AM (ExV1e)

30 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025 05:18 AM (Dg2sF)
-

Too bad you weren't wired up by James O'Keefe before the meeting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 17, 2025 05:40 AM (n+rGF)

31 Lost a friend to TDS last week. At least, I thought he was a friend, but if it can come to an end over Teh Donald, then it really wasn't a friendship at all, was it? No time right now to elaborate; I might later on.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025

***
It's why I carefully have not brought up politics or Trump at all to my oldest friend, with whom I'm talking again for the first time in some years. I don't want to find he has TDS. He's said he's "been watching a *lot* of news," which is not a good sign. He's undergoing surgery for a pinched nerve in his neck; discussing such topics would be out in any case..

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 05:41 AM (omVj0)

32 19 I'd love to hear it.
Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 04:53 AM (CQE5S)

I've known him for several years. We're both history and Beatle buffs and have exchanged many gifts.

I was in the local last Thursday when he came in, glared at me, then went to look for a seat. I asked, "Is something wrong?" to which he answered, "You're goddamn right something's wrong!"

Now, I piss off people just by existing, so I thought I must have done something bad and asked him what it was I had done.

"Do you like what's happening? Are you proud of this country?" he snarled. I told him that yes, I was proud of the country, to which he told me to get away before he did something, implying a violent reaction.

He really hurt me, because I thought we were friends. What was he pissed off about? ICE? No Kings? Padilla? I don't know and haven't been in contact. If he apologizes, I'll accept, but I will tell him how much he hurt me over something so stupid.

But I don't expect an apology or to see him again. And people wonder why I am co cynical.

Anyway, back to work.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025 05:18 AM (Dg2sF)

Sorry. Thanks.

Posted by: m at June 17, 2025 05:45 AM (CQE5S)

33 Senior dog with failing eyesight recognizes his owners voice and excitedly greets him. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/yc27dczs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 17, 2025 05:48 AM (u+PLX)

34 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 17, 2025 05:48 AM (AN2gy)

35 Unpleasantly hot and damp, even though we had rain yesterday that might have reduced the heat a bit. It did, then. But the high humidity it induced allowed little heat to escape overnight. So we are at 81 F., I Don't Want to Know the Heat Index, high of 88 expected with 70% rain. My road trip may be a trifle wet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 05:49 AM (omVj0)

36 I'll need to shave and shower before I pack my gear. And I want to check the tires and oil before I go. The Buick has never lost a drop of oil between changes, but I always check my cars before any long trip.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

37 Some people insist on filtering every single aspect of human existence through the prism of politics. That way lies madness. Sorry to hear about your friend, MPPP

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 17, 2025 05:57 AM (sAmhv)

38 Sorry to hear, MP4. I haven't had the threats but I've been losing extended family over the current environment.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 17, 2025 06:00 AM (BpO1e)

39 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 17, 2025 06:06 AM (lIgBp)

40 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 17, 2025 06:16 AM (hoCmQ)

41 Why AI is not helpful for coders. (Miguel Gringberg)

-

I saw that the joke is now

Artificial Indians

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 17, 2025 06:24 AM (SbtHR)

42 "It's why I carefully have not brought up politics or Trump at all to my oldest friend, with whom I'm talking again for the first time in some years. I don't want to find he has TDS. He's said he's "been watching a *lot* of news," which is not a good sign. He's undergoing surgery for a pinched nerve in his neck; discussing such topics would be out in any case.."

Why should you tolerate someone who cannot tolerate you not hating Trump?

All good things must come to an end. We all change over the years and the you of X years ago isn't quite the same you as now.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 17, 2025 06:25 AM (BkdKv)

43 Unusually early good morning, y'all.

Heading down the road soon, an hour's trip to the hospital for an outpatient procedure for MiladyJo. WHY do they insist on 6am surgery? They just do. Hope the surgeon is more awake than I am.

Here's a great short video of a Belgian Malinois. Not our Daisy, but showing off their superpowers.

Posted by: mindful webworker - rise and shiiiine at June 17, 2025 06:26 AM (agX+n)

44 He really hurt me, because I thought we were friends. What was he pissed off about? ICE? No Kings? Padilla? I don't know and haven't been in contact. If he apologizes, I'll accept, but I will tell him how much he hurt me over something so stupid.

-

Sorry MP4.

I used to think COVID was mainly about the medical industry. I'm beginning to appreciate that it was also an op to normalize hatred at other Americans who have different opinions and beliefs than you.

We're seeing the fruits of that psy-op now, and without conscious effort by Americans to remember what being an American is all about it will only continue to get worse.

I assume that means it is only going to get worse.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 17, 2025 06:29 AM (SbtHR)

45 MPPPP,

You might want to read Walker Percy's "Lost in the Cosmos: the Last Self-Help Book."

We can't fix ourselves. We can't see ourselves as we really are.

But there is Hope.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 17, 2025 06:30 AM (ZmEVT)

46 I clicked on the video with the chick with the diamonds and YT has decided to do something I’ve never seen before:

“! Sign-in to confirm you’re not a bot
This helps to protect our community”

What in the Wide World of Sports is going on around here?

Never had to sign in to watch an embedded YouTube video in the entire 20 years I’ve been watching embedded YT videos.

Are hackers using embedded videos to wreak havoc on the YT community lately or something?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

47 I lost all my Liberal friends over the years. All my friends now are conservative.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 17, 2025 06:32 AM (ZmEVT)

48 The anime song video just did the same thing.

To quote Rachel Zeigler…

“Weird, weird, WEIRD.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

49 This Karen is in tears because someone farted

I am not making this up

https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/
1934667187731488977

Posted by: Don Black at June 17, 2025 06:34 AM (AOsQT)

50 Here's a great short video of a Belgian Malinois. Not our Daisy, but showing off their superpowers.
Posted by: mindful webworker - rise and shiiiine at June 17, 2025 06:26 AM (agX+n)

I think you forgot the link?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 06:36 AM (6ydKt)

51 Facebook's Threads app has a new feature: Spoiler tags. (The Verge)

Straight out of 1996.

-

Yep. And it's hilarious that we've got flip-phones, walkmans, and people riding in buses again.

Full circle.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 17, 2025 06:36 AM (SbtHR)

52 G'mornin' everyone!

"And people wonder why I am co cynical. "

not me, MP4.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 17, 2025 06:36 AM (/Ghsb)

53 What link? Yeah, try again. Not enough coffee brain.

Here's a great short video of a Belgian Malinois. Not our Daisy, but showing off their superpowers.

https://iotwreport.com/not-a-couch-potato/

Posted by: mindful webworker - rise and shiiiine at June 17, 2025 06:39 AM (agX+n)

54 mindful - oh, the surgeon will be quite awake.
I think of getting the earliest slot as good luck; first patient of the day, surgeon & staff at their best.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 17, 2025 06:39 AM (/Ghsb)

55 This Karen is in tears because someone farted

I am not making this up

https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/
1934667187731488977
Posted by: Don Black at June 17, 2025 06:34 AM (AOsQT)

He apparently farted in her general direction, though.

She said she has a wife so she probably thinks she was being harassed/assaulted for being a lesbian.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 06:42 AM (6ydKt)

56 Make people mad by existing? That’s the enemy trying to get you down.

“He rescued me because he delighted in me.” Ps 18:19

Praying the spirit shows you that for yourself.

Posted by: H at June 17, 2025 06:43 AM (2gjbv)

57 What in the Wide World of Sports is going on around here?

I suspect that "bots" is an excuse that YT is using to try and get people to create accounts as an ooch approach to getting them to pay for YT access.

The "prove you're not a bot" BS goes away after an hour or so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 17, 2025 06:45 AM (ExV1e)

58 mornin yall. In local news, a woman who's mom has been arrested 16 times is protesting the Sheriff's office posting booking photos online. To tell the truth, I'm kind of tired of seeing pictures of her mom too.

Posted by: fd at June 17, 2025 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

59 However, both would use a base power of 150W, meaning - this being Intel - in reality they would run at more like 300W.

Yikes. Did Qualcomm help Intel design the Nova lake CPU? Intel will sell boatloads to these because they are Intel. However, it seems to me Intel is running out of road here rapidly to get their act together. The next generation of Qualcomm X Elite CPUs will help emphasize this along with Microsoft 's continuing move towards ARM.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 17, 2025 06:48 AM (NXz8h)

60 What link? Yeah, try again. Not enough coffee brain.

Here's a great short video of a Belgian Malinois. Not our Daisy, but showing off their superpowers.

https://iotwreport.com/not-a-couch-potato/
Posted by: mindful webworker - rise and shiiiine at June 17, 2025 06:39 AM (agX+n)

If that height is measured in cm that dog just jumped up that wall about 14.75 feet (450 cm).

Impressive.

No wonder the military & police love Belgian Malinois so much.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

61
Good morning, Hordians.

Got my ChemDraw CD delivered yesterday. To my astonishment, considering it was a used version, it actually installed with no problem. And it works! Another step taken on the path of The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Done.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 06:52 AM (QnmlO)

62 I suspect that "bots" is an excuse that YT is using to try and get people to create accounts as an ooch approach to getting them to pay for YT access.

The "prove you're not a bot" BS goes away after an hour or so.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 17, 2025 06:45 AM (ExV1e)

It’s getting to be ridiculous.
I probably spend 30 minutes combined daily just signing in to stuff and doing captchas and 2FAs to get into accounts, watch a video or read an article.

All because of sites wanting to track your every move, bots and hackers.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

63 If that height is measured in cm that dog just jumped up that wall about 14.75 feet.

I could do that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 17, 2025 06:53 AM (NXz8h)

64 "Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year"

I hope some executives at Glenn Valley Foods feel some real pain.

Posted by: fd at June 17, 2025 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

65 Got my ChemDraw CD delivered yesterday. To my astonishment, considering it was a used version, it actually installed with no problem. And it works! Another step taken on the path of The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Done.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Can a portrait of our fellow traveler, Salty Dog, be far behind?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 17, 2025 07:00 AM (NXz8h)

66 "It's why I carefully have not brought up politics or Trump at all to my oldest friend, with whom I'm talking again for the first time in some years. I don't want to find he has TDS. He's said he's "been watching a *lot* of news," which is not a good sign. . . ."
*
Why should you tolerate someone who cannot tolerate you not hating Trump?

All good things must come to an end. We all change over the years and the you of X years ago isn't quite the same you as now.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 17, 2025

***
True, RC. But politics is only a small part of who I am. I was never into such things at all for many many years. C.J. (his name) and I go back to seventh grade, age twelve, and grew up together. He was more my brother than my younger brother was. If trying to restore at least some of that means staying away from certain topics, so be it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)

67 If that height is measured in cm that dog just jumped up that wall about 14.75 feet.

I could do that.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 17, 2025 06:53 AM (NXz8h)

The amazing thing is that they don’t even care what happens to them when they have to land after jumping so high.

The people are catching them in the video to prevent them from breaking a leg.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 07:02 AM (6ydKt)

68 Having my second small cup of coffee; I'm shaved and cleaned and dressed. I'll stop at a diner I know on the old Federal highway for breakfast, then vault across the river and cruise up toward Jackson. There are lots of truck stops and travel centers along the Interstate, so if I need a pit stop, facilities are always there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 07:03 AM (omVj0)

69 "It's why I carefully have not brought up politics or Trump at all to my oldest friend, with whom I'm talking again for the first time in some years. I don't want to find he has TDS. He's said he's "been watching a *lot* of news," which is not a good sign. . . ."

-

Wait until you experience the feeling of knowing some tolerant, loving, open-minded person you met would be thrilled if you told them you were gay (or whatever other degeneracy) but you know for a fact they'll never talk to you again when Christianity is brought up.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 17, 2025 07:04 AM (SbtHR)

70
All good things must come to an end. We all change over the years and the you of X years ago isn't quite the same you as now.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 17, 2025

I don't keep myself hidden away but neither do I seek to re-establish contact with people from my past. It has nothing to do with them. I look back at the me of that time and feel nothing but the most acute shame. Seeing or talking to them again could only be embarrassing for them and humiliating for me. Though certainly I'd respond to any approach cordially. There's never been one.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 07:07 AM (QnmlO)

71 The amazing thing is that they don’t even care what happens to them when they have to land after jumping so high.

Got a tour of the K9 unit at work. The guy was telling us about his Malligator (Which is the word I use for that breed.).

"If I throw this ball off a cliff, he will go after it. He doesn't care."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 17, 2025 07:08 AM (BpO1e)

72 I’m convinced most of these ‘regular’ people with severe TDS are basically news junkies who can’t turn off CNN or MSNBC and still believe everything shovel of shit they’re getting from the talking heads on their TV.

Once you leave the corporate news plantation the rage and psychosis subsides eventually.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)

73 I can handle disagreements between friends. If you are going to cancel me because of politics, just go right on ahead and do it.

I'm not going to mind my tongue around you. Ever.

Posted by: KwaK! at June 17, 2025 07:09 AM (89Sog)

74 There are lots of truck stops and travel centers along the Interstate, so if I need a pit stop, facilities are always there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 07:03 AM (omVj0)

Try a Buc-ees if they have a location on your route.

I haven’t been to one, but I’m told it’s the best gas station/convenience store known to mankind.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

75
JJ is up

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 17, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

76 "If I throw this ball off a cliff, he will go after it. He doesn't care."
Posted by: NR Pax at June 17, 2025 07:08 AM (BpO1e)

They do appear to be loyal little show-offs with no regard for personal safety.

Perfect soldiers. ;-)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

77 I used to think COVID was mainly about the medical industry. I'm beginning to appreciate that it was also an op to normalize hatred at other Americans who have different opinions and beliefs than you.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - The 19th Amendment is a civilization level sh*t test at June 17, 2025 06:29 AM (SbtHR)

Yes- it was a floor wax AND a dessert topping!
Always love your nics!

And, morning, all!

Posted by: sal at June 17, 2025 07:17 AM (f+FmA)

78 Thanks for your thoughts, everyone. As I said, I expect neither apology nor contact, but if anything happens, I'll let you know.

One of the many curses of living in Maskachusetts.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 17, 2025 07:19 AM (Dg2sF)

79 Military mavens, do you see a pattern here?

https://tinyurl.com/2s48nrk5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 17, 2025 07:25 AM (n+rGF)

80 Try a Buc-ees if they have a location on your route.

I haven’t been to one, but I’m told it’s the best gas station/convenience store known to mankind.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 17, 2025

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Only one in MS right now, according to their home page, and it's way in the other direction. But when I drive to Indiana, there is one in Alabama, north of Birmingham, right on my route.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 17, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)

81 "True, RC. But politics is only a small part of who I am. I was never into such things at all for many many years. C.J. (his name) and I go back to seventh grade, age twelve, and grew up together. He was more my brother than my younger brother was. If trying to restore at least some of that means staying away from certain topics, so be it."

Well....hold the memories of that childhood near to your heart. Realize that C.J. has free will and can move in directions that you don't wish to go.

Or as we used to say: "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."

I got nothing soothing, which fits the nick of course.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 17, 2025 07:36 AM (BkdKv)

82 Aurelius - good luck on your trip to Jackson. I live right outside and my wife works there. Weather very overcast as of 7:11.

Posted by: Caf at June 17, 2025 08:12 AM (/+mVZ)

83 Zoroaster sometimes known as Zarathustra was the prophet who founded Zoroastranism.

Ahura Mazda vs Ahriman (which we could correlate to a supreme deity of good vs demon of evil) locked in an eternal struggle

Very important in temples of Ahura Mazda are the sacred flame.

That's all I know

And I think they have psalms/hymns

Ironically closer in spirit to Judaism and Christianity than Islam, imo.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 17, 2025 08:27 AM (Splbu)

84 The article by Miguel Gringberg was a breathe of sanity in a world promoting AI far beyond it's capabilities. As a programmer, I finally felt vindicated that my reluctance to use AI to help me write code wasn't just me being an old man yelling, "Get Off My Lawn!" to the AI bot. Thanks for that link!

Posted by: AlecK at June 17, 2025 10:35 AM (cMlC1)

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