Daily Tech News 28 July 2025

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Intel's network and edge ("NEX") division is headed out the door to join Altera as the company cuts everything that isn't nailed down and some things that are. (Tom's Hardware)

It's not being shut down, just spun off. Intel will keep a major though not necessarily a majority stake.

Intel's share price is down 8% on the latest quarter's results following a $2.9 billion loss.

Tech News

How Clorox got wiped. (Tom's Hardware)

Clorox suffered a major ransomware attack recently, because - allegedly - the internal tech support team run for them by Cognizant was, well, this:
"Cognizant was not duped by any elaborate ploy or sophisticated hacking techniques," the lawsuit asserts. "The cybercriminal just called the Cognizant Service Desk, asked for credentials to access Clorox's network, and Cognizant handed the credentials right over."
Oops.
Allianz Life also had an oops. (Tech Crunch)

The company's CRM was hacked, leaking data for the majority of customers and staff.
How to make Postgress run 42,000 times slower. (Byte of Dev)

As a challenge, you can only edit the config file.
Is ChatGPT making us stupid? (The Conversation)

I don't use ChatGPT. I became stupid through hard work and determination.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: TOO MUCH.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:30 AM (sTuNG)

2 st

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:30 AM (4/BuS)

3 Mornin' Pixy and Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2025 04:30 AM (O7YUW)

4 First

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:31 AM (4/BuS)

5 w00t

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

6 No oink?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:32 AM (sTuNG)

7 Weird. The site had comments, then didn't, then did. I think there's some sort of deep conspiracy at work here.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:32 AM (4/BuS)

8
First there is a mountain,
then there is no mountain,
then there is.

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

9 Is ChatGPT making us stupid? (The Conversation)

I don't use ChatGPT. I became stupid through hard work and determination.

Social media already made people stupid. ChatGPT is just making people stupider.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:34 AM (4/BuS)

10
First there are some comments,
then there are no comments,
then there are.

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)

11 First there are some comments,
then there are no comments,
then there are.

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)
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No comment.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:35 AM (sTuNG)

12 That video reminds me of this:

https://is.gd/dKpLb7

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 28, 2025 04:36 AM (FOLLH)

13 My comment would get me banned for profanity

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 28, 2025 04:37 AM (szqEY)

14 @12/CBD:

That link isn't working.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2025 04:38 AM (O7YUW)

15 Please come to Boston.
She said... alahu akbar!

https://tinyurl.com/22zdhuun

This is the UK play plan. Philistines upon you, America.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:40 AM (sTuNG)

16 Alright, unlike Depeche Mode, I've had enough. I'm off to sleep before the excruciating delight that is work.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:41 AM (4/BuS)

17 Biden's Dog sniffs
(sTuNG)

That's what you get for sniffing in the wrong place.

Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 04:53 AM (is93d)

18 Ooh! Nice hash I got me there!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:59 AM (sTuNG)

19 Prayer of Saint Tychon of Zadonsk- 1724-1783
Russian cleric and monk, later declared a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Why do you bother with me?

Shepherds search for their lost sheep, but for their own profit. Men seek for their lost property, but out of self interest . Travelers visit foreign countries, but for their own benefit . Kings offer ransoms for prisoners, but out of political calculation. But why have you searched for me? Why have you sought me out? Why have you visited this hostile earth where I live? Why have you ransomed me with your blood? I am not worthy of such effort . Indeed , in my sin I have willingly tried to escape from you, so you could not find me. I have wanted to become a god myself, deciding for myself what is good or bad according to my whims and lusts. I have provoked you and insulted you? Why do you bother with me?
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( I liked it for its down to earth humility)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 05:00 AM (2GCMq)

20 Why do you bother with me?

Shepherds search for their lost sheep, but for their own profit...But why have you searched for me? Why have you sought me out? Why have you visited this hostile earth where I live?
I am not worthy of such effort...I have wanted to become a god myself, deciding for myself what is good or bad according to my whims and lusts. I have provoked you and insulted you? [bold]Why do you bother with me?[/bold]
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( I liked it for its down to earth humility)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 05:00
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Fen, are you sure you aren't quoting Ace?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 28, 2025 05:14 AM (UyU0M)

21 cbd: that link didn't work on my network. Can you try something else?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at July 28, 2025 05:18 AM (gHSfI)

22 The postgres story reminded me of a scene from 1941 where Dan Aykroyd tells the homeowner how to operate an AA gun by detailing what NOT to do to make it safe to have in the yard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-YvF5eXwYM

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 28, 2025 05:19 AM (5WDkb)

23
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2025 05:19 AM (tljrc)

24 17 Biden's Dog sniffs
(sTuNG)

That's what you get for sniffing in the wrong place.
Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 04:53 AM (is93d)

hahahahaha!

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 05:22 AM (aURVT)

25 Ooh! Nice hash I got me there!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:59 AM (sTuNG)

Indeed BD. Maybe that hash should belong to the idiot mullahs in Iran. Trump sure got them stung, beats what Biden or Harris would have done.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 28, 2025 05:28 AM (UyU0M)

26 G'morning, all!

Already 78 degrees, and feeling like 80.1 degrees out.

Yesterday's high was 104.0 degrees in the back yard, with a heat index into the 120's.

We are always different than the 'Official' temperature, but the Ambient Weather station that we use in on the network, and allows me to see other nearby personal stations as well.

And within a 1/2 mile radius, most of them agreed with mine, and the rest were within about a degree.

So, I'm going with 104.0 degrees as the year's personal best so far.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 28, 2025 05:32 AM (a1415)

27 In other tech related news, the app called "Tea" has been getting the bad kind of attention.

Quick summary: Women downloaded the app and as part of their membership application, had to upload a picture of a photo ID.

The PII was stored in a non secure database. 4chan found it and published it. Even better, it seems that some of the ladies used their CAC or a military ID for this.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 05:33 AM (RjOoY)

28 I have a feeling Cognizant's legal team is having a well-deserved bad day.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 05:36 AM (RjOoY)

29 And with that, time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 28, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

30 In other tech related news, the app called "Tea" has been getting the bad kind of attention.

I'm going to laugh if it's discovered that it was always intended to be used to leak the IDs of the women using it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 05:38 AM (ExV1e)

31 I'm going to laugh if it's discovered that it was always intended to be used to leak the IDs of the women using it.

That didn't occur to me until you mentioned it. And I will join you in the laughter.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 05:42 AM (RjOoY)

32 30 In other tech related news, the app called "Tea" has been getting the bad kind of attention.

I'm going to laugh if it's discovered that it was always intended to be used to leak the IDs of the women using it.

If you dangled an app where you could drag on guys, how many women on the internet would not sign up?

Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 05:45 AM (is93d)

33 The PII was stored in a non secure database. 4chan found it and published it. Even better, it seems that some of the ladies used their CAC or a military ID for this.

What if it was someone from 4chan who put the app out?

Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 05:50 AM (is93d)

34 Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 28, 2025 05:14 AM

LOL. I don't think so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 05:53 AM (2GCMq)

35 26 So, I'm going with 104.0 degrees as the year's personal best so far.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 28, 2025 05:32 AM (a1415)

"best"!!!

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 05:55 AM (aURVT)

36 Fixed. Try this!

https://is.gd/dKpLb7

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 28, 2025 05:56 AM (FOLLH)

37
Social media already made people stupid. ChatGPT is just making people stupider.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:34 AM (4/BuS)

People without ChatGPT: Stupid and lazy.

People with ChatGPT: Stupid and industrious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 05:57 AM (HZi96)

38 Fixed. Try this!

https://is.gd/dKpLb7

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 28, 2025 05:56 AM (FOLLH)
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I prefer classical music:

https://youtu.be/3KANI2dpXLw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 06:00 AM (sTuNG)

39
Someone (Diana or Varus) wanted out at 4:30 this morning. Guess who was informed that he had to get up and take care of it? May as well stay up now. You're stuck with me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 06:01 AM (HZi96)

40 38 Fixed. Try this!

https://is.gd/dKpLb7

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 28, 2025 05:56 AM (FOLLH)
-

I prefer classical music:

https://youtu.be/3KANI2dpXLw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 06:00 AM (sTuNG)

THAT IS SO GREAT

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 06:04 AM (aURVT)

41
Today is trash pickup day. Who else has Monday for a trash day? Kinda sucks on account it just piles on the suckitude of being a Sunday Night/Monday thing to do.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:12 AM (K9Awg)

42 Good morning, fine citizens of the Tropic of Adirondack It's another good year for fruit, much to my liking. The sweet corn is just superb also.

Finally, may all effort from you be rewarded with maximum benefit to you and corresponding heartburn for the leftwit fungi among us. I wish them happy aneurysms.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 28, 2025 06:12 AM (hKoQL)

43 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: NOT ENOUGH!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2025 06:12 AM (WvZaB)

44
Today is trash pickup day. Who else has Monday for a trash day? Kinda sucks on account it just piles on the suckitude of being a Sunday Night/Monday thing to do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:12 AM (K9Awg)

Tuesday and Friday.

*smugs*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 06:13 AM (HZi96)

45 Holy Cr*p, is Intel the new Digital Equipment Corp...headed to the ash heap of technology companies? Wow.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 28, 2025 06:14 AM (BW+Gb)

46 I wish them happy aneurysms.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 28, 2025 06:12 AM (hKoQL)
------------
Aneurysm Day was a holiday pushed by the American Greeting Card company, but it never caught on. You might say it blew up in their faces.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2025 06:14 AM (WvZaB)

47 Seems to be escalating.

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Disclaimer: TOO MUCH.
Rejoinder: NOT ENOUGH!!!

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 06:14 AM (aURVT)

48
Twice weekly pickup? What kind of fresh hell is that?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:15 AM (K9Awg)

49 45 Holy Cr*p, is Intel the new Digital Equipment Corp...headed to the ash heap of technology companies? Wow.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 28, 2025 06:14 AM (BW+Gb)

Buy low, sell high.

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)

50
btw, how stupid is this?

bi-weekly means every two weeks, yes?

but, according to google's dumb millennial AI, "biweekly" can also mean twice weekly.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:16 AM (K9Awg)

51 Someone (Diana or Varus) wanted out at 4:30 this morning.
------------
Looking for lost eagles?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2025 06:16 AM (WvZaB)

52
Anyone remember WANG?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:16 AM (K9Awg)

53 Evening and morning, all,

Yes, it's a Monday again. But remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)

54 biweekly

adjective
done, produced, or occurring every two weeks or twice a week: a biweekly bulletin.

adverb
every two weeks or twice a week: she followed her doctor's instructions to undergo health checks biweekly.

noun (plural biweeklies)
a periodical that appears every two weeks or twice a week: an English-language biweekly.

USAGE
On the ambiguity of words like biweekly, bimonthly, etc., see bi-

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 06:17 AM (aURVT)

55
Digital was a big employer here in Massachusetts.

So was Wang. (No offense.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:17 AM (K9Awg)

56 USAGE
The meaning of bimonthly (and other similar words such as biweekly and biyearly) is ambiguous.

Bimonthly, for instance, can mean either ‘occurring or produced twice a month’ or ‘occurring or produced every two months.’ So, if an organization holds bimonthly meetings, over the course of a year, will it meet six times or twenty-four times?

The only way to avoid this ambiguity is to use alternative expressions like ‘every two months’ and ‘twice a month’. See also biennial

Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 06:18 AM (aURVT)

57 49 45 Holy Cr*p, is Intel the new Digital Equipment Corp...headed to the ash heap of technology companies? Wow.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 28, 2025 06:14 AM (BW+Gb)

Buy low, sell high.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)

That was what I was going to recommend.

Posted by: JimCramerGPT at July 28, 2025 06:19 AM (PiwSw)

58 Next to the San Diego Fwy in West L.A., there was a circular cross-section office tower with WANG at the top. I thought it was a little too on-point.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2025 06:20 AM (WvZaB)

59 Why do you bother with me?

Shepherds search for their lost sheep, but for their own profit...But why have you searched for me? Why have you sought me out? Why have you visited this hostile earth where I live?
I am not worthy of such effort...I have wanted to become a god myself, deciding for myself what is good or bad according to my whims and lusts. I have provoked you and insulted you? Why do you bother with me?

Fen, I didn't know that you believe the Doctrines of Grace!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 06:20 AM (a4flb)

60 Someone (Diana or Varus) wanted out at 4:30 this morning. Guess who was informed that he had to get up and take care of it? May as well stay up now. You're stuck with me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 06:01

Hadrian I'm on vacation from that. Jules is home taking care of the dogs while I'm batching it up here in WI at Dad's place. Had to file his will etc.

I have a complaint to file with MisHum as it reached 95 here today. Us flatlanders come nort to cool off, not get roasted like at home!

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 28, 2025 06:22 AM (UyU0M)

61 All this discussion of high temps: We're looking at 98 F. today, a heat index of 112 at the peak. And I have to go out in it for my 1:45 followup appt. with the surgeon. The office building has some covered parking; I'm going to drive through and see if there are any visitor/patient spaces.

Crime news: We had a shooting on the main Miss. River Bridge last night. I'm not sure which side or if anybody was killed. But it just amazes me that when driving at freeway speeds on an elevated surface, somebody has energy and attention to fire a gun at somebody else. On the other hand, I know how people drive here; I shouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:23 AM (omVj0)

62
bi-weekly means every two weeks, yes?

but, according to google's dumb millennial AI, "biweekly" can also mean twice weekly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:16 AM (K9Awg)

*removes glasses tiredly*

Semiweekly is twice a week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 06:23 AM (HZi96)

63 Anyone remember WANG?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:16 AM (K9Awg)
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I think it was a Wang system on which I used its terminals to do my programming studies, with the CPU connected to a university mainframe.

Remember Tandem?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 06:24 AM (sTuNG)

64 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 06:20 AM (a4flb)

Good morning. I was really not thinking deeply theologically about this ( it's too early ) as in the acronym TULIP . I just liked the prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 06:25 AM (2GCMq)

65 I'm not sure when the bridge shooting happened. One story dated yesterday morning says it occurred at about 1 am, I guess they meant Sunday; but I saw a snippet on it on the 10 pm "news" last night. It occurred on the side of the bridge coming to where I live, the West Bank. One person died.

Charming.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

66 Wang is what one does to a chung.

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 06:27 AM (AOsQT)

67 bi-weekly means every two weeks, yes?

but, according to google's dumb millennial AI, "biweekly" can also mean twice weekly.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025

***
As the old joke had it:

"I get paid bi-weekly. Very weakly."

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

68 The only way to avoid this ambiguity is to use alternative expressions like ‘every two months’ and ‘twice a month’. See also biennial

Or use more precise words: bimestrial or bimensal (every two months), semimonthly (twice a month); fortnightly (every two weeks), semiweekly (twice a week)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 06:29 AM (a4flb)

69 Must be a UK thing.

Biweekly means every other week.

Twice a week means twice a week.
Or Twiceweekly.

In other news, my Weather app says it’s 80 (84 Heat Index) at 6:30 a.m.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

70 As in 'Loo,k there's a chung- let's wang it'.

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 06:29 AM (AOsQT)

71 Bi = two. Every two.
Semi = half. Every half.

The words aren't ambiguous. People just started using it wrong often enough that nobody cares anymore and there's no hope of fixing it.

See also: nauseous, split infinitives, speed limits

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 06:31 AM (RlmPm)

72
Or use more precise words: bimestrial or bimensal (every two months), semimonthly (twice a month); fortnightly (every two weeks), semiweekly (twice a week)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 06:29 AM (a4flb)

you white supremacists with your precise words and grammar and punctuation are suppressing the freak language of bipoc shut up or were going to stand you up against a wall were going to do it anyway

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 06:32 AM (HZi96)

73 In other news, my Weather app says it’s 80 (84 Heat Index) at 6:30 a.m.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025

***
You're lucky, Speaking. My local CBS outlet's website says 91 HI at 5:30 am. And that is not unusual.

Suddenly I think I am not up to a walking workout today. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:33 AM (omVj0)

74 "I get paid bi-weekly. Very weakly."

I actually hadn't heard that before or I forgot it . I laughed . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 06:33 AM (2GCMq)

75 Good morning. I was really not thinking deeply theologically about this ( it's too early ) as in the acronym TULIP . I just liked the prayer.

Its a great prayer that comes from humility without sounding like a struggle session.

It encapsulates the degree of being lost and without hope, singled out and divinely and purposefully regenerated from a state of rebellion to a state of repentance.

That the individual called is an integral part of the Divine Revelation of God's Glory where all of Creation can witness His Holy Attributes.

Potter's Freedom.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 06:34 AM (a4flb)

76 So a Semi is half a truck with 18-wheels?

Now do regardless or irregardless.

Martial or Marshall.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

77 My previous comment has a misplaced comma. I would point out that this error is typographical in nature, rather than grammatical. In addition, when I say 'rather', it rhymes with 'bother'. It sounds fancy.

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 06:35 AM (AOsQT)

78 91F high here right now but I assume less humid since we're up in the mountains.

Definitely lethargic from this heat, which has been non-stop for 3-4 days now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 06:36 AM (sTuNG)

79
Martial or Marshall.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

Martial or Marshall or Marshal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 06:36 AM (HZi96)

80 To Beg the Question

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, nobody gets this one right either at July 28, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)

81 You're lucky, Speaking. My local CBS outlet's website says 91 HI at 5:30 am. And that is not unusual.

Suddenly I think I am not up to a walking workout today. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:33 AM (omVj0)

Yeah, I think it’s bad here and then I remember you poor souls around the Gulf Coast.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

82 What is happening?

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 06:37 AM (AOsQT)

83 "I get paid bi-weekly. Very weakly."

I actually hadn't heard that before or I forgot it . I laughed . Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025

***
Good morning, Fen,

There actually was a period where I was paid every week while I was driving for the courier company. I went from that to being paid monthly for most of my working life. Teaches you to budget things, lemme tell ya. First week of the month, you're rich; the last week, you're eating Spaghetti-Os.

The other height of wit in the working world: "Workin' hard or hardly workin'?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:38 AM (omVj0)

84 The Marshall will marshal his resources in order to get martial.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2025 06:38 AM (WvZaB)

85 People with ChatGPT: Stupid and industrious.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 05:57 AM (HZi96)

The worst kind of stupid.

Posted by: Farquad at July 28, 2025 06:38 AM (znbnV)

86 "Semi" as slang for trucks comes from "semi-attached", referring to how the trailer is registered, right? Or maybe how the trailer is on a bogey on one end and jacks on the other when detached, so it can only be moved when a tractor is hooked up to it. It's something like that, but i know it has to do with what the truck is pulling, not the truck itself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 06:39 AM (RlmPm)

87 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 28, 2025 06:40 AM (WvZaB)

88 Bi = two. Every two.
Semi = half. Every half.
The words aren't ambiguous. People just started using it wrong often enough that nobody cares anymore and there's no hope of fixing it.
See also: nauseous, split infinitives, speed limits
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 06:31

OK Warai you just revealed yourself. You are really Miss Mary Margaret Montgomery my 5th grade English teacher. And you are correct of course.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 28, 2025 06:40 AM (UyU0M)

89 91F high here right now but I assume less humid since we're up in the mountains.

Definitely lethargic from this heat, which has been non-stop for 3-4 days now.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 06:36 AM (sTuNG)

We’ve had a little heat wave here over the past three days.

Today is the last of it, then it’s supposed to rain tomorrow and we’re back to hovering around 90 for the rest of the week with occasional rain.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:40 AM (6ydKt)

90 So a Semi is half a truck with 18-wheels?

Semi refers to the trailer which only has wheels at the rear and can't support itself without transferring its weight to the tractor.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 06:41 AM (a4flb)

91
The worst kind of stupid.
Posted by: Farquad at July 28, 2025 06:38 AM (znbnV)

"I distinguish four types [of officers]. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage." - Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 06:41 AM (HZi96)

92
Yeah, I think it’s bad here and then I remember you poor souls around the Gulf Coast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025

***
Someone here, maybe you?, suggested I look at the area around Duncan, OK, as a possibly relocation spot. I've been checking the temps. It's supposed to be 95 today, HI of 107. On the other hand, yesterday Evansville, IN, hit 99, HI of 111.

I know, it's July, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:41 AM (omVj0)

93 (is93d)

Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 06:42 AM (is93d)

94 86 "Semi" as slang for trucks comes from "semi-attached", referring to how the trailer is registered, right? Or maybe how the trailer is on a bogey on one end and jacks on the other when detached, so it can only be moved when a tractor is hooked up to it. It's something like that, but i know it has to do with what the truck is pulling, not the truck itself.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2025 06:39 AM (RlmPm)

I couldn’t tell you,
I’ve heard them called semis or 18-wheelers.

I know it’s called “Bobcating” when the truck is driving without a trailer. I suppose because bobcats have little tiny tails.

At least that’s what they call it around here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)

95
bobtailing??

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:46 AM (IPmnD)

96 mornin yall. The local news says it will be 110 today and it's also Fingerless Chicken day.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

97 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 28, 2025 06:47 AM (XQo4F)

98 On the other hand, yesterday Evansville, IN, hit 99, HI of 111.

I know, it's July, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025

***
Oops, on Weather Underground I was reading the record temps. Yesterday it was 91 F. at Evansville with 61% humidity at its lowest. Starting Thurs., with some storms, the highs will be in the 80s. Okay then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)

99 The Atlantic has a lot of Sahara dust coming across from Africa, so storms will have some trouble forming out there. Some decent news at least.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:48 AM (omVj0)

100 Semi refers to the trailer which only has wheels at the rear and can't support itself without transferring its weight to the tractor.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 06:41 AM (a4flb)

Ahhh, so that’s probably another word that started out being used correctly for a specific meaning and now it means something else to a lot of people.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

101 Here in Fat City it will be 96F today, but it's a dry heat.

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 06:49 AM (AOsQT)

102 Someone here, maybe you?, suggested I look at the area around Duncan, OK, as a possibly relocation spot. I've been checking the temps. It's supposed to be 95 today, HI of 107. On the other hand, yesterday Evansville, IN, hit 99, HI of 111.

I know, it's July, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:41 AM (omVj0)

Wasn’t me,

If I had to make a recommendation, it’d be to the mountains of East Tennessee.

Johnson City area, especially.

It may get hot up there during the summer, but nothing like on the coast.

Of course there’s snow on occasion but we can’t have everything we want all the time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

103 My favorite snippet from Tom Lehrer comes from his song “Be Prepared”:
If you’re looking for adventure
Of a new and different kind
And you come across a Girl Scout
Who is similarly inclined.

Of course, I was an incredibly geeky Boy Scout when I first heard that.

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 28, 2025 06:52 AM (1FEc1)

104 Fog rolled in this morning here on the Atlantic coast. The world is gray! (Not just boxes)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2025 06:56 AM (ZZDcC)

105 I've learned not to complain about weather, bloody fanny adams you're going to change one iota of it, just wait it out without mewling.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 28, 2025 06:57 AM (hKoQL)

106 bobtailing??
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 28, 2025 06:46 AM (IPmnD)

That’s it.

My memory is going.

My brother used to drive the big trucks occasionally for deliveries.

That’s what he called it when there was no trailer attached.

I remember now because he used to warn me about one truck that shook a lot driving without a trailer because it would get so bad in spots it’d make your bladder loose.

Frequent rest stops driving that one after dropping the load off.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 06:59 AM (6ydKt)

107 just wait it out without mewling.

"But I LIKE mewling!" -Greta

Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 06:59 AM (RjOoY)

108 DM has pictures of the Marine that pulled a gun on the guy who stabbed 11 people at a Walmart. He held the stabber until the cops showed up. One picture shows the Marine holding his pistol in the style preferred by gangstas in the hood. Whatever works, I guess.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

109
I know it’s called “Bobcating” when the truck is driving without a trailer. I suppose because bobcats have little tiny tails.

Bobcats are the little skid loaders and compact loaders/extractors.

Bobtail is a tractor without a trailer attached. Deadhead is pulling an empty trailer.

Since most tracker-trailer setups have the majority of the braking in the trailer, special bobtail insurance for liability when not under dispatch is required because the empty tractor has longer stopping distances, higher risk of skidding, basically harder to control.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 07:01 AM (a4flb)

110

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 28, 2025 07:01 AM (5hfjS)

111 The Bitterroot has been hit with thunderstorms the last couple of days. A clap of thunder was so loud yesterday that I thought the Yellowstone caldera had blown. Almost fell off the chair I was sitting in.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 28, 2025 07:04 AM (2NHgQ)

112 On the other hand, yesterday Evansville, IN, hit 99, HI of 111.

I know, it's July, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025

Instead of taking every opportunity to bitch about the very predictable and consistently high-humidity/high-temperature weather that is the Gulf Coast, you get some humble cottage up around Lake Huron or something and hang out there for a few months in the summer?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 07:06 AM (a4flb)

113 105 I've learned not to complain about weather, bloody fanny adams you're going to change one iota of it, just wait it out without mewling.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 28, 2025 06:57 AM (hKoQL)

We don’t really complain about it.

It’s more like exasperated amazement.

“Damn, it’s hot out there!”

“Can you believe how hot it is?”

“I wish we had some that ‘dry heat’ I keep hearing about.”

“I’ve got the thermostat set to 72 but it won’t go below 78 in here, Nothing else I can do!”

“My sweat glands stopped working right, I just feel moist all the time.”

“Uh oh, Bob stroked out. Better drag him inside under the fans and put some ice packs on his head.”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:06 AM (6ydKt)

114 Wang is what ~~one~~ everybody does to a chung.
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 06:27 AM (AOsQT)

fify

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 28, 2025 07:06 AM (JRP2U)

115 "A Florida woman attempted to smuggle turtles through airport security by hiding them inside her bra"

Seems like a logical way to do it.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

116 The other height of wit in the working world: "Workin' hard or hardly workin'?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 06:38 AM (omVj0)

Cue the internet guy that, when he hears that, says "I'm hardly laughing...tell me something I don't hear every day...like thank you."

That guy was hysterical.

Posted by: Boswell at July 28, 2025 07:06 AM (NTVPI)

117 70 As in 'Loo,k there's a chung- let's wang it'.
Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 06:29 AM (AOsQT)

Only if everybody is doing it.

Posted by: Johnny Hildo at July 28, 2025 07:09 AM (zhAIW)

118 Deadhead is pulling an empty trailer

Also known as "hauling sailboat fuel"

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 28, 2025 07:10 AM (zs2tC)

119 Since most tracker-trailer setups have the majority of the braking in the trailer, special bobtail insurance for liability when not under dispatch is required because the empty tractor has longer stopping distances, higher risk of skidding, basically harder to control.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025 07:01 AM (a4flb)

I believe you, since that one truck shook the piss little of me when I was a kid.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:10 AM (6ydKt)

120 Instead of taking every opportunity to bitch about the very predictable and consistently high-humidity/high-temperature weather that is the Gulf Coast, you get some humble cottage up around Lake Huron or something and hang out there for a few months in the summer?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 28, 2025

***
If I could afford a summer cottage as well as my rent here, I'd be able to move there. And "summer" here lasts for ten months, so "a few months" is not really feasible.

I didn't intend to be here this summer. But I had to get my retirement finances straightened out, and then I've had my minor surgery and have had to recover. I'm taking my road trip this Sept., though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)

121 Only if everybody is doing it.
Posted by: Johnny Hildo at July 28, 2025 07:09 AM (zhAIW)

Has to be done only at night, though.

Posted by: Boswell at July 28, 2025 07:11 AM (NTVPI)

122 "Jennifer Lopez was performing in Warsaw, Poland, when her fringe skirt fell off, revealing her green underwear."

I hate it when that happens.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

123 >Has to be done only at night, though.
----

Same as fighting foo.

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2025 07:13 AM (AOsQT)

124 How autocucumber changed ‘out’ to ‘little’, I’ll never know.

Just another of modern life’s little mysteries.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

125
I've learned not to complain about weather, bloody fanny adams you're going to change one iota of it, just wait it out without mewling.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 28, 2025 06:57 AM (hKoQL)

*polite cough*

I believe the expression is "Sweet Fanny Adams", a euphemism for "sweet F all". Fanny Adams was an 8-year-old girl murdered and dismembered in 1867, which created a national sensation.

When tinned mutton was introduced to the Royal Navy in the late 19th century, sailors referred to it as "Fanny Adams", implying that the unsavory contents were actually the little girl.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 07:14 AM (HZi96)

126 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 28, 2025 07:14 AM (dKEEs)

127 122 "Jennifer Lopez was performing in Warsaw, Poland, when her fringe skirt fell off, revealing her green underwear."

I hate it when that happens.
Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

It’s a good thing she decided to not go commando that night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:15 AM (6ydKt)

128 I got a spam email in a language I didn't recognize. Out of curiosity I has google translate the first line.
Google said it was Croation:

"Dear Sir/Madam,

Do you want to settle your debt peacefully or by force?"

So mafia!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 28, 2025 07:16 AM (DoBxX)

129 "AI-fueled crypto scams are booming, up 456% — and no one is safe, expert warns"

No one is safe, you guys!

Posted by: A expert at July 28, 2025 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

130 I’d never heard of Sweet Fanny Adams.
Must be a phrase popular up North and in the UK.

Now I’ll remember that story if somebody says that around me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:19 AM (6ydKt)

131 And "summer" here lasts for ten months, so "a few months" is not really feasible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 07:10 AM (omVj0)

Now I feel better knowing we get about four or five months of decent (as in not 90) weather here.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:22 AM (6ydKt)

132 I got a spam email in a language I didn't recognize. Out of curiosity I has google translate the first line.
Google said it was Croation:

"Dear Sir/Madam,

Do you want to settle your debt peacefully or by force?"

So mafia!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 28, 2025 07:16 AM (DoBxX)
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It could also be a throwback to an earlier time when matters of honor (debts) were settled via pistols at dawn.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2025 07:23 AM (4S2yc)

133 By the way: I watched the 1999 HBO Western The Jack Bull last night, and was riveted. John Cusack plays a horse trader in Wyoming just before the territory became a state. He clashes with a local land baron played by long-time character actor L.Q. Jones. It's beautifully done, with each plot development arising from the one before. Cusack is genuine; he convinces as the married-with-one-son horse rancher who just wants fair treatment, and will go to any length to get it.

Miranda Otto plays his wife, and John Goodman has a solid role as a territorial judge. Recommended!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 07:23 AM (omVj0)

134
"Do you want to settle your debt peacefully or by force?"

__________

"By force. Visit and we'll settle."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 28, 2025 07:27 AM (HZi96)

135 I've been watching nothing but old Carson reruns, mostly trying to find the thing that doesn't exist anymore. Don't know what it is exactly...,but it smells like Christmas '76.

Posted by: Johnny Hildo at July 28, 2025 07:29 AM (zhAIW)

136 A local man was almost scammed out of $20,000. This stuff is happening, they almost got my dad with something similar. If I had not spoken to him on the phone that day they could have drained his account.

"Scammers claiming to be from Bank of America convinced Joe he was involved in a money laundering investigation.

"During the process, they stayed on the phone with him from the point they convinced him to go to the bank and withdraw cash.He took a picture and texted them the picture that he actually sent it."

His dad had a USPS envelope stuffed with the cash - now being sent to an address in Miami."

Watch out for this if you have elderly parents and keep reminding them to not give out any personal info to random callers and emails.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

137 Watch out for this if you have elderly parents and keep reminding them to not give out any personal info to random callers and emails.

My dad almost got hit by one of those Indian tech support scams. Mom pulled the plug on the computer before anything happened.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 07:31 AM (RjOoY)

138 Jonathan Turley (legal writer) had some kind of run-in with ChatGPT, where he showed it was putting out false information and the owners had to retract some things. Now he’s noticed that he has been completely unpersoned by the platform; if he logs in and asks about a book he’s written, for example, it refuses to describe it and refuses to say who wrote it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2025 07:32 AM (t+64Y)

139 133 By the way: I watched the 1999 HBO Western The Jack Bull last night, and was riveted. John Cusack plays a horse trader in Wyoming just before the territory became a state. He clashes with a local land baron played by long-time character actor L.Q. Jones. It's beautifully done, with each plot development arising from the one before. Cusack is genuine; he convinces as the married-with-one-son horse rancher who just wants fair treatment, and will go to any length to get it.

Miranda Otto plays his wife, and John Goodman has a solid role as a territorial judge. Recommended!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 28, 2025 07:23 AM (omVj0)

L.Q. Jones was the sidekick Smitty in the first few Cheyenne episodes.

I’ll have to check that out if I catch it somewhere.

Haven’t seen it in HBO Max that I can recall, and it’s got most of HBO’s library.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:32 AM (6ydKt)

140 It’s not stupidity, it’s laziness: the inevitable conservation of energy because they believe in their own poverty of place, mind, or spirit. Man is not made of such stuff as this. The enemy’s most cunning bait n switch, if you ask me.

Posted by: H at July 28, 2025 07:33 AM (2gjbv)

141 Watch out for this if you have elderly parents and keep reminding them to not give out any personal info to random callers and emails.
Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

137 Watch out for this if you have elderly parents and keep reminding them to not give out any personal info to random callers and emails.

My dad almost got hit by one of those Indian tech support scams. Mom pulled the plug on the computer before anything happened.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 07:31 AM (RjOoY)

AT&T puts a POTENTIAL SPAM notice on Caller ID for suspicious calls now.

I worry about my Dad with it because the man will pick up the phone whenever it rings, whereas I don’t answer unless I recognize the number or it has a legitimate Caller ID.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 28, 2025 07:36 AM (6ydKt)

142 *sneaking turtles in her bra*

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 28, 2025 07:36 AM (XQo4F)

143 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

144 "My dad almost got hit by one of those Indian tech support scams. Mom pulled the plug on the computer before anything happened.
Posted by: NR Pax"

Those are scary. They convince the victim that their computer is infected with a virus and then get them to go to a web site and download a program that give the criminal complete access to the computer. It's hard to believe that people fall for it, but they do all the time.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

145 Flammable: see "inflammable"

Inflammable: see "flammable"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 28, 2025 07:52 AM (6eOSv)

146 My favorite Postgres article: https://tinyurl.com/3suu99fm

Posted by: pjungwir at July 28, 2025 09:19 AM (q4wrI)

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