Daily Tech News 14 September 2025

Top Story

China's Great Firewall turns out not to be watertight: It sprang a leak involving 500GB of code and documentation relating to the firewall itself. (Tom's Hardware)

That's a lot of data to sift through but it spells years of trouble for the maintainers of the firewall, whether in China itself of in it client states Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia, all of which run versions of the same totalitarian control software.

Tech News

Didn't get a lot of time to test the tablets, but they are both set up and working fine.

The two 2560x1600 displays look great. The "paper-like" screen on the cheaper Idea Tab stands out in particular as a pleasant user experience. Colours don't pop quite the way they do on my OLED screens, but it's not washed out or muted, just not aggressive about grabbing your attention. It's listed as covering 72% of the NTSC colourspace, which is the number to look for - it's the equivalent of 100% sRGB. It doesn't seem to handle DCI-P3, which you'll find on televisions and OLED panels, but it's a perfectly good screen, and considering that it's on a budget tablet it's a very good screen. And the resolution is as sharp as you could ask for unless you have some very specific needs.

The CPU on the Idea Tab... Is a budget CPU.

Using the much more expensive Legion Tab (my price A$799), tasks are done before you can start to wait for them. Using the Idea Tab (my price A$249) it's not slow, exactly, but you can definitely feel the 2018 Arm A76 shouldering the weight of a 2024 version of Android.

Maybe I should have set up the slower model first.

I haven't tested sound extensively but the speakers on both tablets sound just fine at the default settings.

The 11" Idea Tab has a headphone jack and a microSD slot in addition to the USB-C port. The 8.8" Legion Tab has two USB-C ports, which might be useful, I guess, but I'd much rather they just return the headphone jack and microSD slot. (Reportedly the coming Legion Tab 4 will restore the microSD slot.)

I also need to test the pen that came with the Idea Tab. The web site doesn't say this, but according to 9to5Google that pen and only that pen also works with the Legion Tab. (You can also buy that pen by itself, but general-purpose Android pens aren't supported by the Legion Tab.)

Perfect opportunity to confirm this, or at least the first part.
Also mowed the lawn. Last time I did that I noted my cardiovascular health seemed to be shot from the earlier bout of RSV. It was just two days later that I got my scary blood pressure reading and found new things to worry about.

Last time I was worn out by the time I had mowed just the area directly in front of the house. This time my back was hurting by the time I had mowed that area and the much larger and much steeper stretch from the retaining wall bounding that first patch and the roadway, but I didn't need to take a break half-way through.

Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.
Are heart attacks contagious? (TUNI)

I mean, probably not, but nobody believed that stomach ulcers and gastric cancer were largely caused by bacteria until Barry Marshall chugged a beaker of H. pylori in 1984 and landed himself in hospital and in the history books - winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology for an unauthorised experiment on himself.

(He got better.)
Five years ago KK Park in Myanmar was farmland. Now it's a bustling town, home to many of the country's 100,000 trafficked slaves working in scam call centers. (The Guardian)

Null route the entire fucking country.
We clean up after vibe coding. Literally. (404 Media)

Vibe coded your way into disaster? Know literally nothing and can't find your way out? Now you can outsource your mess to a Polish tech team which maybe you should have done in the first place.

(I took a moment to look up the location of one of the countries mentioned in the article. Not the third world. Potentially a viable solution.)
"Forever chemicals" have been found in 95% of beer tested in the US. (Science Daily)

At long last you can buy beer and not just rent it.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Down in both directions.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:33 AM (+qU29)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

3 Mornin' Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 14, 2025 04:33 AM (O7YUW)

4 What a smorgasbord of tech-stuff!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)

5 Five years ago KK Park in Myanmar was farmland. Now it's a bustling town, home to many of the countries

countries --> country's

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:38 AM (aURVT)

6 Top of the mornin' to all.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2025 04:39 AM (WO/K1)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 14, 2025 04:39 AM (c3B7E)

8 5 countries --> country's
Posted by: m

I blame (throws dart) inflatable velociraptors.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 04:43 AM (BLOW1)

9 Had to look up Sunway Murderer as saw comment downstairs he was in a institution, he is in jail, some judge just ordered a mental evaluation.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:43 AM (+qU29)

10 Wikipedia
The accompanying music video for "Y.M.C.A.", filmed in New York City in July 1978, features the band singing the song and dancing all over the city. The location shown the most is the original site of YMCA, McBurney, 213 West 23rd Street. Other filming locations included 395 West Street – site of the Ramrod gay club – the West Side Piers and Hudson River Park. It ends with the camera zooming in on the Empire State Building.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

11 "Vibe coding" = "I should not be allowed near a compiler"

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 14, 2025 04:51 AM (N3+8y)

12 8 5 countries --> country's
Posted by: m

I blame (throws dart) inflatable velociraptors.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 04:43 AM (BLOW1)

That woulda been my first guess!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:54 AM (aURVT)

13 G'morning, all!

Second day back from B'More and Ocean City.

Early Church service, new members class, then the Church picnic today.

Back yard need mowing, and I'm debating putting the Volvo wagon back together without the new strut assemblies, as the new ones are back ordered for another month. Control arms, ball joints and axles are ready to go, and I really miss the wagon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 04:57 AM (a1415)

14
Day old news, but I just heard about it...

Steven Crowder has been subpoenaed by ATF for leaks about what was found (text) on the Democrat murderer's casings.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 05:01 AM (CEIO6)

15 In another window, I'm watching

Charlie Kirk + Q&A / Debate | Cambridge Union
19th May 2025

https://youtu.be/dkiM-z0Mzyg

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:04 AM (aURVT)

16 Seen more Charlie's videos in last few days than all others ever seen. He was very skilled at debating.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:12 AM (+qU29)

17 "He was very skilled at debating."

That is why they killed him.

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

18 Charlie Kirk on America's founding...

https://tinyurl.com/bdfrbcr3

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:15 AM (X+xvk)

19 No was thinking yesterday down to really a month and a half to go in hurricane season and have had next to nothing

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:16 AM (+qU29)

20 The BBC posted a heartfelt articleful of responses to Charlie's assassination from the Cambridge Union debaters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/
articles/c9wdp2ypq5vo

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:23 AM (aURVT)

21 17 "He was very skilled at debating."

That is why they killed him.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:14 AM (a1415)

Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:24 AM (aURVT)

22 That's how it works, Propaganda works some into a frenzy and then those carry out the dirty deeds

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (+qU29)

23 Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m

Including members of the Oxford Union.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (X+xvk)

24 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 14, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

25 We need all of the Discord chats. We need all of the texts. Friends of the Trantifa freak were celebrating Charlie's shooting moments after it happened. This network needs to be rolled up, and these twinks need to be thrown in prison.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:28 AM (X+xvk)

26 Michael Savage isn't buying the FBI's version of events.

Pretty interesting questions here.

https://tinyurl.com/3p5wtnd3

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:30 AM (X+xvk)

27
I'm glad 4Chan is on the case. Really.
I have way more confidence in $Chan's ability to investigate than the FBI.

I don't think half the FBI even wants to investigate this assassination.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 05:31 AM (CEIO6)

28 23 Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m

Including members of the Oxford Union.
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (X+xvk)

Cambridge Union?

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:32 AM (aURVT)

29
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 14, 2025 05:33 AM (tljrc)

30
By now you all saw/heard the photoshopped fake image of the Democrat assassin wearing a ______* t-shirt that the Entire left-wing/Democrat party was reposting since Friday.

But if you haven't, now you know.

*I don't want to put our President's name in the same sentence as that Democrat murderer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 05:35 AM (CEIO6)

31 "Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing."

By the legal definition, you are correct.A single person apparently committed the actual assassination.

But I still will lay his assassination at the feet of the Democrats, progressives, the liberal media, the education industry, and anyone else who spouted the ideology that created the environment needed for this to take place.

IOW, they own it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

32
That story about the scam call centers in Myanmar is horrifying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2025 05:38 AM (bmq0V)

33 28 23 Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m

Including members of the Oxford Union.
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (X+xvk)

Cambridge Union?

Posted by: m

Oxford Union condemns incoming leader for celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination

https://tinyurl.com/tunjz7u4

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:39 AM (X+xvk)

34 But I still will lay his assassination at the feet of the Democrats, progressives, the liberal media, the education industry, and anyone else who spouted the ideology that created the environment needed for this to take place.

IOW, they own it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Thank you.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:41 AM (X+xvk)

35 Has there been a single act of violence committed in the entire world in the name of retribution for Charlie Kirk's assassination to date?

Any boarded up cities?

And fiery but mostly peaceful protests?

If there are, I am unaware of any.

A stark contrast in it's own right between the left and the right's overarching principles.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:46 AM (a1415)

36 Yesterday I went to officiate at ceremony where people were getting married after living together for about 24 years, They are lovely people and Republicans . There was a woman who was a friend of the wife. They practice Buddhism together She asked me how I knew the couple and I said we are in our township Republican group. She said that she is a Democrat, but she is horrified by stuff online . This is where I think people can come together. She wants peace in the world. I think it's people of good will of various religious traditions who come together.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2025 05:46 AM (looXz)

37 Fen hopefully many will see violence is not going to solve anything

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:49 AM (+qU29)

38 Yesterday here seemed to be batting around what was last if any conservative murder?

Too many get in that trap calling Far Right on the conservative side. Keep bringing it up Europeans are definitely stuck thinking National Socialism, ie Nazis are Right Wing that the Communists started in 1940doing.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:53 AM (+qU29)

39 Note that George Abaraonye will still be allowed to assume the leadership mantle of the Oxford Union. They aren't happy that he so openly cheered Charlie Kirk's political assassination, because it causes them a small amount of embarrassment, but they aren't about to deny a fellow Leftist his position of power.

After all, a community college dropout from America came to their home court and schooled them in debate. To the degenerates at Oxford, there can hardly be any higher crime.

(Unless it involves pointing out Pakistani rape gangs, or waving the Union Jack...)

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:54 AM (X+xvk)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:54 AM (a1415)

41 "Myanmar" "Why did you say 'Myanmar'?" "I panicked."

The joke was better with "Burma", IMO.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 06:00 AM (JBKUT)

42 I'll vibe code ANY project for $99,999.95. Cash up front, please.

Posted by: Earl Scheib at September 14, 2025 06:00 AM (PiwSw)

43 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 14, 2025 06:01 AM (hoCmQ)

44 Elon was at Tommie Robinson's thing electronically.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2025 06:03 AM (ZTk50)

45 Is a shithole still a shithole if you call it something else?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2025 06:05 AM (ZTk50)

46 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I always like going south. It feels like going downhill.

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

47 Evening and morning, all! Pixy, to start off a Sunday and a new week with "YMCA" is inspired. Plus it should inspire us all and remind us of Trump. Full speed ahead!

I'm basically awake after a dream of trying to charge my phone using a USB port in the rear shelf (what they used to call a "hat shelf" under the back glass) -- something my car does not have there -- and another of getting spaghetti sauce all over my trousers in a public restaurant. How was your night?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

48 "Fen hopefully many will see violence is not going to solve anything"

The German National-Socialist German Worker's Party, various North American native tribes, and the citizens of Carthage would like to have a word with you. Among others, of course.

There are certain problems that only violence can solve; you may certainly claim that violence created almost all of that set of problems in the first place, and I'd agree. The US situation appears to be one of those violence created the problem that appears to need violence to solve.

I'd say the situation in England is one of those exceptions, unless the replaced population and culture is willing to disappear. I don't live there and don't really care what happens to them; they appear to be a future example of something bad. YMMV on this bit.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 06:13 AM (JBKUT)

49 Fen hopefully many will see violence is not going to solve anything
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025

***
Skip, the standard cynical answer is that violence solves a lot of things. Ask a Carthaginian, if you can find one. (Paraphrased from Robt. A. Heinlein) But yes, the hope is that violence will not break out over this, or if it does, it will be limited.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 06:14 AM (omVj0)

50 I have watched the video from the Tommy Robinson rally several times. Someone mentioned that the bobbies were trying to keep the crowd away from a group of counter protestors with pali flags. I never saw the counter protestors, did anyone else?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 06:15 AM (mFSH6)

51 It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.

Posted by: J. Peterman at September 14, 2025 06:18 AM (XQo4F)

52 Having eaten, Stirling the big black cat is flashing around to burn off energy. Little Dagny is chilling on one of the dinette chairs. Both slept with me at various times last night; at one point I tried to turn over and felt pinned by a furry body on either side of my legs.

A second cup of coffee, and then I need to go work out. Grocery shopping can wait until tomorrow. I'll have time for breakfast before the Book Thread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

53 Ben didn't see any other flags , but read they tore one done so probably a few in the near future will get visited and cuffed for a H8 event

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:19 AM (+qU29)

54 Skip, I don't know about that. I think the Brit government is in a " oh shit, what do we do now" mode.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 06:24 AM (mFSH6)

55 So is the assassin a transexual? Because a few days ago I was assured he was a transexual. Maybe he could at least put on some lipstick for the mugshot.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 06:25 AM (XQo4F)

56 When they say "paper like" is that an eInk screen or an LCD with paper like qualities?

Had a tablet with an eInk screen and liked it for a lot of applications, but the lack of color was an issue.

Posted by: Voyager at September 14, 2025 06:26 AM (nmL8W)

57 I think the British government is deliberately provoking their populace into rebellion so they can claim justification for putting the people down by use of force. They want to bring in a combination of military and police to shut up these evil, patriotic Brexiteers.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:26 AM (X+xvk)

58 It seems Tyler wasn't a Trannie, his lover was.
Kind of like Dog Day Afternoon

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:27 AM (+qU29)

59 Did read somewhere the British government was hoping for a Jan6 outcome to call for a crackdown

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:28 AM (+qU29)

60 55 So is the assassin a transexual? Because a few days ago I was assured he was a transexual. Maybe he could at least put on some lipstick for the mugshot.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty

His boyfriend is. Or at least, he's moving in that direction.

He is allegedly on suicide watch. If he ever gets thrown into general population, he's going to wish he'd killed himself. Same goes for his little twink accomplices. If we ever get the full logs from the Discord chats, they're all cooked.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:29 AM (X+xvk)

61 Quarter Twenty , I don't and never did believe he was a deni (denialist , because I will never use that other word). I do believe he is antifa to the bone. I read that he is on suicide watch.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 06:29 AM (mFSH6)

62 Put Communist News Network on for a little they are talking about Harris's book how everyone was against her

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:30 AM (+qU29)

63 [i)Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.

Good to hear, Pixy.

Consider getting a robot lawnmower so we can get another good tech review out of it, and you can get some rest.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:30 AM (6ydKt)

64 Just switched over to CNN, and boy-howdy! they want that man gone.
Therefor, he's my guy.

Posted by: MkY at September 14, 2025 06:32 AM (cPGH3)

65 OOps. referring to Kash

Posted by: MkY at September 14, 2025 06:32 AM (cPGH3)

66 59 Did read somewhere the British government was hoping for a Jan6 outcome to call for a crackdown

Posted by: Skip

I'm sure Starmer's Stormtroopers are salivating at the thought of having their own Tiananmen Square moment. Remember how frequently and fondly Joe Biden brought up the thought of using the military against the American people? Leftists really dig the totalitarian crap.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:33 AM (X+xvk)

67 19 No was thinking yesterday down to really a month and a half to go in hurricane season and have had next to nothing
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:16 AM (+qU29)

We’ve been pretty lucky this year, that’s for sure.

Another month and we should be in the clear until next summer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

68 57 I think the British government is deliberately provoking their populace into rebellion so they can claim justification for putting the people down by use of force. They want to bring in a combination of military and police to shut up these evil, patriotic Brexiteers.
Posted by: Sam Adams

Considering the state of the British police, they're likely to end up like Nepal with that plan.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 06:38 AM (BLOW1)

69 Wait. The cold blooded murderer assassin has a boyfriend who thinks he's a girlfriend? Gross. Glad I haven't done an Algor's Amazing Internet Deep Dive™ into this person's story.

At least tell me the boyfriend slash girlfriend has been arrested as an accomplice and is wearing lipstick in his slash her mugshot.

Lie if you have to..

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 06:40 AM (XQo4F)

70 Andy Ngo has thoughts about the assassin, and his alleged lover.

https://tinyurl.com/27fp9asd

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 06:43 AM (a1415)

71 56 When they say "paper like" is that an eInk screen or an LCD with paper like qualities?

Had a tablet with an eInk screen and liked it for a lot of applications, but the lack of color was an issue.
Posted by: Voyager at September 14, 2025 06:26 AM (nmL8W)

‘Paper like’ means like a semi-gloss or matte finish on the display, so when you touch it it feels more like a really smooth premium paper as opposed to feeling like glass. It also has much less glare for that reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

72 Roommate/ sex partner is cooperating with the Eff Bee Eye reports say

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (+qU29)

73 70 Andy Ngo has thoughts about the assassin, and his alleged lover.

https://tinyurl.com/27fp9asd
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 06:43 AM (a1415)

So Robinson was living with and in love with a Trans Furry.

Well that explains the messages on the bullet cases, and the motive.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (6ydKt)

74 Considering the state of the British police, they're likely to end up like Nepal with that plan.

Posted by: Pixy Misa

I don't think that would leave them in a worse place than they're in right now.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (X+xvk)

75 VIA just read that

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (+qU29)

76 56 When they say "paper like" is that an eInk screen or an LCD with paper like qualities?

LCD with a high-quality matte finish; for once "paper-like" is not an exaggeration. I really need to find how the pen feels, because the screen looks perfect for things like note-taking.

The one drawback, as I mentioned, is speed. There's also the Idea Tab Plus which has a larger version of the same screen, is about twice as fast and has twice the memory and storage of this model, albeit for twice the price. If I end up using this one a lot I'll consider that the next time it goes on sale.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 06:49 AM (BLOW1)

77 " was thinking yesterday down to really a month and a half to go in hurricane season and have had next to nothing
Posted by: Skip"

The Experts have come up with a new weather term for Georgia, "sudden drought". If we don't get a hurricane soon we all gonna die.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

78 Also been pointed out by a few, the Eff Bee Eye all these years seems to have had a verboten looking on Antifa.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:50 AM (+qU29)

79 I'm beginning to suspect that transgenderism and mental illness ride adjacent horses on the carousel of life.

While the calliope plays in the background.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 06:52 AM (a1415)

80 78 Also been pointed out by a few, the Eff Bee Eye all these years seems to have had a verboten looking on Antifa.

Posted by: Skip

James Comey was a Commie. The FBI knelt in subservience to BLM. Chris Wray claimed Trantifa was just an idea. Wray also claimed that Trump wasn't directly shot in Butler, PA.

Now we hear that the Utah FBI had pictures of the shooter for over twelve hours before turning them over to Patel. There is a distinct pattern of protection here for the Left's violent, Marxist tranny army.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:54 AM (X+xvk)

81 I went an ordered an iPhone 17 pro max. After all is said and done, my bill will be 10$ less per month for the privilege.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 06:58 AM (+sNap)

82 How much did it cost you to save ten dollars a month?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 07:00 AM (XQo4F)

83 The 11" Idea Tab has a headphone jack and a microSD slot in addition to the USB-C port. The 8.8" Legion Tab has two USB-C ports, which might be useful, I guess, but I'd much rather they just return the headphone jack and microSD slot. (Reportedly the coming Legion Tab 4 will restore the microSD slot.)

I suppose they think you should buy a USB-C headphone cable and use a small USB-C flash drive for extra storage.

It would be better as you suggest, but at least it’s something.

*glares at the single USB-C port on the bottom of his iPad*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

84 Watching some coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination. It's depressing yet inspiring with all the tributes to him.

Just wait, the lefties will say Trump had him shot to further his cause. They are despicable scum in some of their reactions.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 14, 2025 07:07 AM (55Qr6)

85 80$ upfront on a 36 month deal. Bill goes from 115 to 105. I get new phones about every 4 years. I moved on this now because of the trade in.
I think we are at peak phone tech now.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:07 AM (+sNap)

86 Transgenderism is the saddle on the mental illness nag.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2025 07:08 AM (W4Tso)

87 The "right" will never burn shit down in a riot because we live there. We work there. We shop there.

And when the right gets rowdy, it's to make the world better. Not worse.

The left brings shitters in from all over the country. They don't care about the local business, the community, any of that. They destroy without compunction. Because none of it is theirs, and their aim is to make it worse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:08 AM (06Hmj)

88 I'm looking forward to a future road trip where I visit every newly named Charlie Kirk Street, Avenue, Court, Terrace, Boulevard and Parkway in the country.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 07:12 AM (XQo4F)

89 88 I'm looking forward to a future road trip where I visit every newly named Charlie Kirk Street, Avenue, Court, Terrace, Boulevard and Parkway in the country.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 07:12 AM (XQo4F)

Make sure you snap a pic of the odometer when it hits 999,999.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:17 AM (06Hmj)

90 Tech is like cars: you lose money on the deal unless you keep them for a long time.
I have Amazon Prime and WalMart+. How much do I spend on tech and WiFi to avoid driving everywhere for everything?
Capital investments to make more preferred choices with our scarce time.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:18 AM (+sNap)

91 The new iPhone Air is not impressive to Marques Brownlee, other than the thinness and look of the design.

https://youtu.be/idEAABFzpfg

The camera isn’t as good as the lower prices iPhone 17 base model, and nowhere near as good as the cameras on the Pro model.

He is also worried that the Air will have terrible battery life due to the thinness and since it’s made of titanium, unlike the aluminum bodies in the other two models, that it will get a lot hotter.

Marques is tempted to believe that the new iPhone Air is probably Apple’s first design for a new thinner type of iPhone and that this is a first step in getting a foldable phone from Apple on the next few years.
—-

It does look cool, but at $999 I’d rather get the iPhone 17 and save $200 and get a better camera and battery life.

But it’s perfect for people who prefer cutting edge beauty over function.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 07:19 AM (6ydKt)

92 Now we hear that the Utah FBI had pictures of the shooter for over twelve hours before turning them over to Patel. There is a distinct pattern of protection here for the Left's violent, Marxist tranny army.
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:54 AM (X+xvk)

Maybe, possibly, maybe, they thought that if they could get the guy on their own, they could hog all the glory.

I highly doubt that. But it might, by some astronomical odds, be true.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:19 AM (06Hmj)

93 Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.
Definitely a good thing to hear.

Posted by: GWB at September 14, 2025 07:19 AM (RTQn+)

94 If you do decide to get a robot mower, really push the company to see what temperature restrictions the mower has.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 07:20 AM (JBKUT)

95 86 Transgenderism is the saddle on the mental illness nag.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2025 07:08 AM (W4Tso)

and furryism is the assless chaps on the retard riding it backwards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:21 AM (06Hmj)

96
I might link, but I just watched a clip of the Oregon Ducks coach, sharing some thoughts on Charlie, guns, etc. It was okay, nothing great, some "both sides" bullshit, but okay.

But what struck me is how this Coach got into the odd habit of smiling while talking, no matter what the subject. At times it was just weird. But he constantly smiles, like a grinning fucking idiot. It's weird.

https://is.gd/a20UXK

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:22 AM (CEIO6)

97 So is the assassin a transexual? Because a few days ago I was assured he was a transexual. Maybe he could at least put on some lipstick for the mugshot.

No. The killer is a violent, militant homosexual. No lipstick needed until the sodomite gets to prison.

Posted by: Warden Samuel Norton at September 14, 2025 07:22 AM (R/m4+)

98
Oh, and the woke faggots from the shitty band Coldplay acknowledged Charlie Kirk. Weaksauce, but probably a big deal for them to do it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:24 AM (CEIO6)

99 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2025 07:24 AM (ppG5b)

100 The real lesson in all of this is that you never, ever hook up with a roommate, even if you are trannies and furfags.

That way lies madness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (06Hmj)

101 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

102 Good morning morons

Pixy a prayer for complete and speedy recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (RIvkX)

103 I'm willing to believe almost any rumor about the fibbies being on the wrong side...
their essential core of alliance with evil is what I have confidence in.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (ppG5b)

104 Phones are heading towards gimmickry as a selling point. My 13 is a very good phone and the camera fine for a family man and CYA work photos. A folding phone? Nah, I need a durable phone.
I like the Apple interface so I will stick with them.
The NSA has access and security is based your network's servers. And Pixy has shown that is an illusion despite our increasingly intricate password polkas.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:28 AM (+sNap)

105 Wifey bought a foldy phone, and she loves it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:28 AM (06Hmj)

106 Password Polka was a hit for the Schmenge Brothers back in the day...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2025 07:28 AM (PiwSw)

107 Good morning everyone. Thx Pixy , praying that you feel better. As a person with a serious heart condition I would advise you stay consistently active. Don't overdo it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2025 07:34 AM (Ve63F)

108 I don't really know that the killer of Iryna is that much worse than the people who sat there watching a woman get her throat cut and acted like it was just a bum pissing in the corner.

I get if you don't want to stick your neck out and get murdered yourself, no one is obligated to be a hero (that's part of the definition of heroism), but at least show *some* emotion, some kind of reaction, maybe flee to the other end of the car, something. But to just roll your eyes and look away in annoyance? That takes even more insanity than the murder itself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:34 AM (06Hmj)

109 History teaches the only solution to communism.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

110
heh.
I just heard someone make a great point:

They (govt & fascist corporations' influence on the govt) SHUT DOWN fucking Parler because it was "inciting" "violence" and "insurrections." But that hive of wretched scum & evil, Bluesky is still operating.

Bluesky & Tik Tok are terrorist grooming grounds.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:35 AM (CEIO6)

111 Pixy Misa

Glad to hear you are on the mend.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

112
shirley You People do remember Parler, yes?

And you remember how it was shut the fuck down because of Jan 6th.

Wasn't that Dan Bongo's platform?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:37 AM (CEIO6)

113 Wasn't that Dan Bongo's platform?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:37 AM (CEIO6)

Oh crap, that's right. I actually did forget about that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:38 AM (06Hmj)

114 I get if you don't want to stick your neck out and get murdered yourself, no one is obligated to be a hero (that's part of the definition of heroism), but at least show *some* emotion, some kind of reaction, maybe flee to the other end of the car, something. But to just roll your eyes and look away in annoyance? That takes even more insanity than the murder itself.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:34 AM (06Hmj)
=====

Riding SEPTA desensitizes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

115
And they tried to shut down Rumble, too.

Remind me again who Parler's competition was? Some other platform had a CEO who was constantly ragging on Parler, but he was sus as all get out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (CEIO6)

116 San Franpsycho

A number of countries have abandoned Communism when the external occupying power did not enforce obedience.

But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

117 It's interesting how useful the tools of Kremlinolgy are now. If a politician's party is not mentioned in a news article, you know he or she is a Democrat.

If a terrorist's identity is not named, or if the authorities say "we may never know the motivation" you know the perp is either a Democrat or a Muslim.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (PiwSw)

118 Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.

Crickey, don't go anywhere, friend.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (mlg/3)

119 I would leave BlueSky and TicTok alone. It is all admissible self incrimination.
We know they are lunatics bent on destroying civilization and the easier it is for others to see and learn, the closer we get to winning the culture war with Marxism.
Islam we will have fight face to face in the laundry mats and deli counters.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (FqNtp)

120
I've not been following the shooter story closely, but yesterday there was a lot of screeching on the Left that "He wasn't trans and stop saying he was and stop picking on trans, generally!"

Whatever.

How about we start using a term coined by you and seemingly preferred by you -- "adjacent"?

The shooter was "LGBTQ+ adjacent". We'll hold to that until all the votes are in and counted before declaring into which bin the ID tag settled. Is that good enough for you?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 14, 2025 07:41 AM (Tv15w)

121 Islam we will have fight face to face in the laundry mats and deli counters.
Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (FqNtp)

The muzzie's natural enemies.

Cured pork products, and clean clothes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:41 AM (06Hmj)

122 Accomack, agree 100%. I want them continually exposing themselves.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 07:42 AM (mFSH6)

123
Oh! I remember now.

GAB

Remember GAB?
It turned into a huge anti-jew shit show. We're so free speech, the wacky CEO would say, and he did everything he could to shut down Parler. So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (CEIO6)

124 But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)
=====

Indonesia.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

125 124 But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)
=====

Indonesia.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

North Korea... technically.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:44 AM (06Hmj)

126 Are heart attacks contagious? (TUNI)

--

From the link, it almost sounds like the arterial plaque is a way the body tries to contain the bacteria initially., keeping it dormant
Which works until a virus or something else breaks that and allows the bacteria get free and spread, then inflammation is the second defense that leads finally to a heart attack.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 14, 2025 07:45 AM (J5RCE)

127
do You People even remember the deep, deep mess we were in in 2021 & 2022? We were lost. We were finished. We were getting "canceled" and "de-banked" and investigated and prosecuted.

Thank God for Donald Trump.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:45 AM (CEIO6)

128 I might add Hungary too because although they remained firmly a one party state in the Soviet orbit the economy became fairly liberalized and loosened state direction as a result of the 1956 revolution.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

129 While I was at the grocery store, a song was playing on the PA which raises an important question.

'Temperature', by Sean Paul, make the claim that he has the right right temperature to shelter the female he is conversing with from a storm. But he never specifies what temperature has this property.

Given that he is Jamaican, you would expect him to tell his countrymen. Sad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

130
btw, the great Roseanna Barr took the piss outta this weekend's jew conspiracy jerkoffs wilding out over the "mossad" doing the assassination

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:48 AM (CEIO6)

131
Ironically, the vaunted mossad couldn't take a shit in a toilet -- they are as incompetent & corrupt & useless as our CIA.

(yeah, yeah, but what about the exploding beepers!? Luck.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:51 AM (CEIO6)

132 After debating Grok for two days about transgenderism and science I have learned that LLMs are somewhat useful in that they are capable of maintaining a debate for any length of time without threatening to shoot me.

Posted by: pawn at September 14, 2025 07:51 AM (PmITa)

133 lol, I wasn't going for that connection, just public places where Christian liberty meets muslym hegemony.
Trump's super power is never lashing out. I understand how upset many of us are over Kirk's death but spontaneous violence would not help us, think Catholics and Protestants in Ireland. As much as we disparage it, voting still produces results and the vast majority of America still wants to vote our way out.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:52 AM (FqNtp)

134 San Franpsycho

Thanks. Added to the list.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

135
irony...

How ironic is it that TMZ got TMZ'd?

(I was wrong about TMZ -- I initially believed those asswipes a few days ago when they apologized and gave their [false] reason for the cheering. After seeing more evidence, I now know I was wrong -- they did lie.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (CEIO6)

136 Remember GAB?
It turned into a huge anti-jew shit show. We're so free speech, the wacky CEO would say, and he did everything he could to shut down Parler. So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (CEIO6)

Gab is still around.
gab.com

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

137 As the thermo-meter registers 36°F this morning am reminded once again how wonderful propane is generally, and Catalytic type heaters are specifically.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2025 07:58 AM (uywL/)

138 116
'But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.'

When did France throw out its Communists?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 14, 2025 07:59 AM (3wi/L)

139 Dr. Claw

1871, after the Paris Commune.

They came back about 30-35 years later.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

140 139
'They came back about 30-35 years later.'

Yeah. I was going to say, they didn't throw them far enough away.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 14, 2025 08:04 AM (3wi/L)

141 I read that Iryna had bought a car and was learning how to drive. If she'd just had a little more time....

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025 08:05 AM (kUxzU)

142 135 irony...

How ironic is it that TMZ got TMZ'd?

(I was wrong about TMZ -- I initially believed those asswipes a few days ago when they apologized and gave their [false] reason for the cheering. After seeing more evidence, I now know I was wrong -- they did lie.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (CEIO6)

They claimed the cheering was from watching a car chase video in LA.

Well, some bright bulb took the car chase vidro they were watching and it turns out the LA nes station they were watching announced Charlie Kirk’s death while the car chase was on screen.

So they were cheering during the car chase but only because they heard Charlie was dead while watching it.

I never really liked TMZ much anyhow.
Far too much celebrity worship by Cali lefties for me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:05 AM (6ydKt)

143 134 San Franpsycho

Thanks. Added to the list.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

Romania?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 14, 2025 08:06 AM (6qAtw)

144 Notsothoreau

Being in Charlotte and having to rely on public transport killer her. Very Sad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

145 I haven't watched this video all the way through, but it promises to be good. A Black Gay man gets red pilled.

https://youtu.be/N14ywRyTWVI

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2025 08:08 AM (PiwSw)

146 Cow Demon

I debated about Romania and Yugoslavia. Should I include them? The USSR was a force for maintaining the repressive governments there, even without troops in country.

Victor Suvorov mentions this in one of his books. No one in Russia wanted to go to Romania or Yugoslavia.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

147 So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (CEIO6)

You cannot say that you have completely free speech and then say except to bitch about Jews.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

148 Vidro is a new word.
I invented it so it’s mine now.

Vidro™

Amazing how autocucumber didn’t catch it before but every time I try to type Vidro now, it wants to change it to video.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:12 AM (6ydKt)

149 Funny how all the chat platforms except X have turned out to be nothing. Some watch Truth social to see what Trump says, Bluesky has turned into a toxically comic hellhole of hate and declining usership, “threads” which is affiliated with Facebook consists of grandparents talking about their grandchildren.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:13 AM (5Gg6R)

150 Funny how all the chat platforms except X have turned out to be nothing. Some watch Truth social to see what Trump says, Bluesky has turned into a toxically comic hellhole of hate and declining usership, “threads” which is affiliated with Facebook consists of grandparents talking about their grandchildren.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:13 AM (5Gg6R)

I'll always have MySpace!

Posted by: Stuck in 2005 at September 14, 2025 08:14 AM (R/m4+)

151 After debating Grok for two days about transgenderism and science I have learned that LLMs are somewhat useful in that they are capable of maintaining a debate for any length of time without threatening to shoot me.
Posted by: pawn

"For now" - CCP.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 08:14 AM (mlg/3)

152 I liked MySpace for several years.
You could customize the pages, had your own message board, could add music and video and gifs.

My new friend “Tom” loved my page and was quite welcoming when I first got there.

They should make MySpace popular again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:18 AM (6ydKt)

153 They should make MySpace popular again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I believe this is called 'trolling.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 08:21 AM (mlg/3)

154 The Eff Bee Eye had shooters pictures for 12 hours before turning over to Patel because they had to make sure he wasn't one of their minions

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 08:24 AM (+qU29)

155 You can use Slack to talk with a group of like-minded friends.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 08:24 AM (XQo4F)

156 153 They should make MySpace popular again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I believe this is called 'trolling.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 08:21 AM (mlg/3)

Who? Me!?
Never!

It’s still a thing..👇🏻

https://myspace.com/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

157 Back from my workout, showered and fed. What'd I miss? Something about this Robinson freak being an even bigger freak than we thought?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 08:25 AM (omVj0)

158 Prodigy network for the win!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2025 08:26 AM (YD9e9)

159 "I like the Apple interface so I will stick with them."

The only good thing about the Apple interface is the alt-space (or apple-space for those who only use Apple crap) interface to launch applications.

Their desktop interface sucks absolute ass (work gives me a Macbook) for multiple monitors.FWIW, I don't run MS Windows enough to bitch about that UI. My linux desktops (mainly KDE) understand how virtual desktops operate.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 08:26 AM (JBKUT)

160 I liked MySpace for several years.
You could customize the pages, had your own message board, could add music and video and gifs.

My new friend “Tom” loved my page and was quite welcoming when I first got there.

They should make MySpace popular again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025

***
I remember seeing that actress Kim Darby of True Grit fame had a MySpace page maybe 15-20 years ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 08:26 AM (omVj0)

161 Hungary and Poland, definitely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:29 AM (06Hmj)

162 You cannot say that you have completely free speech and then say except to bitch about Jews.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

“Absolute” free speech is a false goal that we like to pay lip service to, but which is in fact a self destructive fantasy. Look at us right here - we don’t allow it, because there is some speech that is so toxic that it drives out anyone who wants to have a reasoned, intelligent conversation. And there are always people who will destroy a conversation just to say “look at me! Look at me!”
So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:29 AM (5Gg6R)

163 "Remember GAB?
It turned into a huge anti-jew shit show. We're so free speech, the wacky CEO would say, and he did everything he could to shut down Parler. So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab. "

So, what do you think "free speech" looks like?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 08:30 AM (JBKUT)

164 So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:29 AM (5Gg6R)

That is precisely what the Left claims that they do when they ban us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

165 Oh, back from grocery shopping
I owe money, to tje money, to the money I owe

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 08:32 AM (+qU29)

166 You can't stop people from being wrong and dumb and probably evil. It's a sucker's game.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:32 AM (06Hmj)

167 Maybe, possibly, maybe, they thought that if they could get the guy on their own, they could hog all the glory.

Ironically, when the FIB practically said "The dude is in the wind, maybe the public will have a better chance" the punk turned himself in.

I sort of wish that there was a throw-back to the old days when the criminal feared the angry mob more than they feared the police.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:35 AM (a4flb)

168 I'm all for multiple forums. Let the crazy people have their own little corners to stew in. Makes it easier to keep an eye on them, and gives them somewhere to be that isn't anywhere near me.

You'd think it'd be a dawdle with LLM tools available. Go ahead, believe the Earth is flat. Believe we're governed by lizards. Believe that Jews are behind your microwave's potato button not working anymore.

And when you start to say "we should do something about these non-euclidian potato-hating lizard-Jews, here's the plan", then we'll know who you are and can probably stop you before you launch an armed assault against the Hague or whatever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:36 AM (06Hmj)

169 Warai-otoko

Under the Russian thumb. Lack of their response was the key to their freedom.

On the full list of all Communist countries that are now under a different government, sure.

I think there are only 5 communist countries left.

Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam. The first three are hardest hit by bad governance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

170 So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious.

I like that speech is free, but one must expect the consequences. And by consequences, I'm not talking about government regulations and enforcement. Like acknowledging through loud salutation your friend "Jack" when you are in a TSA line getting you thrown on to a No Fly List.

Playground rules basically. Fighting words result in seeing a dentist or physical therapist, but not a trauma ward.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:39 AM (a4flb)

171 " believe the Earth is flat."

Nobody in my chapter of the Flat Earth Society has ever advocated violence against any of you round earthers.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (89Sog)

172 Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam. The first three are hardest hit by bad governance.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

And really, Vietnam is pretty much Communist in Name Only these days. They're more like a garden variety corrupt republic that dresses up like a Commie for parades on holidays.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (06Hmj)

173 "So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious."

Define "deliberately toxic and vicious".

I must confess that it's really fucking useful for your enemies to voluntarily unmask themselves. Ambush predators hide to consume their prey.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (JBKUT)

174
do You People understand the difference between "free speech" and the First Amendment's freedom of speech?

First Amendment prohibits the government from curtailing our speech. But privately owned businesses can censor speech on their premises.

If YOU owned a social media platform, would YOU allow total uncensored speech? No, you would not, because that's dumb. But you would if you were a Glowie and wanted to create a platform to gather "right wingers" and set them up.

I'm almost starting to believe Bluesky is an op. But then I remember that the Democrats are both evil & stupid, so they don't have enough sense to see they created a monster that is doing great harm to the Democrat party.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:41 AM (CEIO6)

175 All the memorials to "Charlie" makes me think of Charlie Gard, who didn't get nearly as many. He's the baby the UK government killed because they were afraid treatment in another country, Italy had offered to take him, might prove successful and then other parents with sick children would stop meekly accepting fatal diagnoses.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (lFFaq)

176 Nobody in my chapter of the Flat Earth Society has ever advocated violence against any of you round earthers.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (89Sog)

I know, bad example, I just needed a third "incredibly wrong thing people get worked up over" for symmetry and that's what I came up with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (06Hmj)

177
Does Ace allow "free speech," here?
Why not?

You know why not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (CEIO6)

178 I bitch about joos all day long.

Especially my mother and her yenta friends.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

179 Somewhere South of I-80

Ask you chapter this. If an island is land surrounded by water, and a lake is water surrounded by land,
what do you call is when the left side of the disk is all land, and the right side in all water? 50%-50%?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

180 Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam.

You never, ever hear anything about Laos in the news or otherwise. I think only 7 million people live there.

I wonder if the Swells will turn that into the must go destination in the near future.

Posted by: Travelocity at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

181 You'd think it'd be a dawdle with LLM tools available. Go ahead, believe the Earth is flat. Believe we're governed by lizards. Believe that Jews are behind your microwave's potato button not working anymore.

It seems that LLM training data comes from those forums. I ask ChatGPT why the potato button isn't working and I'm given a lecture on genocide in Gaza.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (a4flb)

182
oh hi, Polliwog

Have you not been around in a while, or have I just missed you when you're here?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (CEIO6)

183 what do you call is when the left side of the disk is all land, and the right side in all water? 50%-50%?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

Oooh! Oooh! I know this one!

Posted by: Hank Johnson (D-Luded) at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (06Hmj)

184 I wonder if the Swells will turn that into the must go destination in the near future.
Posted by: Travelocity at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

Aren't they in the middle of a big civil war right now?

Posted by: Hank Johnson (D-Luded) at September 14, 2025 08:44 AM (06Hmj)

185 Off, sock.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:44 AM (06Hmj)

186 "Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)"

We are not devotees of heretical thoughts. It disrupts karaoke night.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:45 AM (89Sog)

187 I just watched the Michael Savage video,

He does make a good point.

Who reassembles a rifle in the woods to hide it after disassembling it on the roof to make a quick getaway?

That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)

188
I know, bad example, I just needed a third "incredibly wrong thing people get worked up over" for symmetry and that's what I came up with.

Then for your own safety, you should steer clear of the 9mm vs .45, longbow or cross bow, or Ginger or Maryanne conflicts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

189 Travelocity

Leeches, poverty, unknown diseases, unexploded weapons, and land mines your favorites? Visit Laos. We have a wonderful Karst system to explore.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

190 That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)
---
Been wondering that too.

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (KX0bc)

191 - Was on gab for about a year, maybe.

Then the owner started pushing videos by some "pastor." Andrew something. Fisker maybe?
Full preterist which, by itself, is idiocy. Also pushing the heretical, church has replaced Israel, guacamole.

I don't support heretics. Bye.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (eDPLA)

192 That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.

You are expecting logic from someone who is shacked up with a tranny?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)

193 178 I bitch about joos all day long.

Especially my mother and her yenta friends.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

Even the strongest man can only take so much.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (6ydKt)

194 Somewhere South of I-80

Wow. May your karaoke nights harden you to a power of good. Ask Yoko to visit for the final armor installment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

195 Then for your own safety, you should steer clear of the 9mm vs .45, longbow or cross bow, or Ginger or Maryanne conflicts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

12 ga. / sling / Mrs. Howell.

I got no dog in any of those fights.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (06Hmj)

196
That's no mystery, I'd put the rifle back together in case I needed it. I would assume I am being chased or followed or who knows, someone might have seen me. At least now I have a weapon to use in case I run into somebody.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (CEIO6)

197 Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam.

You never, ever hear anything about Laos in the news or otherwise. I think only 7 million people live there.

I wonder if the Swells will turn that into the must go destination in the near future.
Posted by: Travelocity at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

The problem with Laos is that it's laosy place to go.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (iJfKG)

198 Morning peeps.

My wife and I had a fairly candid discussion yesterday on the Kirk assassination, the disinformation and propaganda operation spawned by it, and our government's (at least some of it) role in all that.

She had been a bit less skeptical than I am on a lot of things. Now.... she's not so sure.

Point being; a lot of nominal conservatives probably "woke up" to the realities we're faced with in dealing with the Feds, the left, and the entities that control them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

199 I have the feeling again the facts of this shooting will go down the rabbit hole.
You just need to know shooter had a rifle he got legally and did it all by himself, especially after just 1 semester at Utah awhile ago.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (+qU29)

200 106 Password Polka was a hit for the Schmenge Brothers back in the day...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

They were the Kings, but they abdicated the Throne!

Posted by: Lenny Gomulka and the Chicago Push at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)

201 I imagine all the late-stage "Communist" countries, certainly China and Vietnam, operate their economies like gang style oligarchies, military-owned enterprises, and slavery extortion schemes.

These countries do not provide their populace with ANY education, health care, disability, unemployment, or retirement schemes like most westerners presume.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

202 192 That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.

You are expecting logic from someone who is shacked up with a tranny?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)

He was logical enough to pull off an assassination in front of thousands of people.

I’m not saying he’s a genius by any stretch but he had enough brain cells to get as far as he did.

I’m just thinking he had very little time to put the rifle back together while he was running for his life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:50 AM (6ydKt)

203 196 - But run into someone when? If the plan was to ditch it, you'd remain in that location as short a time as possible.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2025 08:51 AM (XvL8K)

204 Warai-otoko

I too am beyond the event horizon, when Mrs. Howell is more interesting than Ginger or Mary Ann.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

205 "Wow. May your karaoke nights harden you to a power of good. Ask Yoko to visit for the final armor installment."

The Ladies Auxiliary are having the annual bake sell here shortly. Yoko's screeching would deflate the cakes !!

What have we ever done to you for you to suggest such a horrible thing?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:51 AM (89Sog)

206 Walmart closing all their Portland stores. I don't think there are many of them

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025 08:52 AM (kUxzU)

207 Leeches, poverty, unknown diseases, unexploded weapons, and land mines your favorites? Visit Laos. We have a wonderful Karst system to explore.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

Sounds exciting! I hope they have Starbucks and Sushi!

Posted by: Mumsy And Dadsy Archibald III at September 14, 2025 08:52 AM (R/m4+)

208 SpeakingOf

Who helped him?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:54 AM (u82oZ)

209 People in Portland think its not "cool" to use an umbrella in the rain.

Idiots.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

210 Full preterist which, by itself, is idiocy. Also pushing the heretical, church has replaced Israel, guacamole.

Ironic though that Dispensationalism completely removes Israel from the Old Testament prophecies and makes much of what the various prophet says refer to events still yet future.

Also, I know full preterists, like the late David Chilton, and people like James Stuart Russel (The Parousia) have better arguments for a full eschatological completion than the Dispies have for all of their goofy black helicopter teachings.

(I am not full preterist)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:55 AM (a4flb)

211 Walmart closing all their Portland stores. I don't think there are many of them
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025

***
Maine or Oregon?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 08:55 AM (omVj0)

212 Somewhere South of I-80

Sorry. You are a social club, not an assault force getting ready for unpleasantness.

My bad.

OK, I'm over it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (u82oZ)

213 - 12 ga. is the way to go when you can't hit the broad side of a barn from inside the barn.
- What you gonna do when you run out of bolts or arrows? Get a good sling and the whole world is your ammo pouch.
- Mrs. Howell knew how to keep a man. Which means she knew how to keep a man happy.

The defense rests.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (06Hmj)

214 Bible Study Moment With Chuck Todd.

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Being angry and staying angry is a choice. Giving grace is a choice. Choose wisely. Don’t let the algorithms fool you, in the real world, folks choose grace.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (L/fGl)

215 Have you not been around in a while, or have I just missed you when you're here?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (CEIO6)

Mostly lurking and reading. Tech Thread is always over before I read it. Hope you are doing well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 14, 2025 08:57 AM (lFFaq)

216 Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Being angry and staying angry is a choice. Giving grace is a choice. Choose wisely. Don’t let the algorithms fool you, in the real world, folks choose grace.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (L/fGl)

I've never heard anything more "privileged" come out of a white dude's face.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:58 AM (06Hmj)

217
I'm bueno, Polliwog.

Don't be a stranger.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (CEIO6)

218
B
O
O
K
S

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

219 If YOU owned a social media platform, would YOU allow total uncensored speech? No, you would not, because that's dumb. But you would if you were a Glowie and wanted to create a platform to gather "right wingers" and set them up.

Gab was founded before Musk bought Twitter, back at a time when suggesting that someone might consider voting Republican was consider hate speech and bannable.

So the founder set the rule to be "if it's legal to say in the United States, then it's legal to say on this platform". You can disagree with that. Fine, stay away. But imagine what people would say if you had a platform who's rules were "free speech except for saying bad things about Jews". That would be considered proof that all the bullshit people claim was all true.

Now, you could say that you're only allowed to say things that don't offend anyone. We know how that works out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

220 Portland OR

And an umbrella doesn't work well when it's windy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025 09:01 AM (kUxzU)

221 BOOK THREAD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 09:01 AM (+qU29)

222 - i think he's conflating "grace" and "forgiveness"

- anger is an emotion. Very few people can practice total mastery of their emotions. And I thought we were all supposed to wallow in our emotions as if they were central to our identities, right? Otherwise we're "inauthentic" or some such nonsense?

- In the real world, nobody chooses "grace" (forgiveness). That's precisely why we need a justice system of some form or another to keep everyone from exacting vengeance for every slight, real or imagined.

It's just a stinky puddle of low-brow Frenchian nanothought masquerating as a High horse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 09:02 AM (06Hmj)

223 masquerating?

To Masquerate. He/she/it Masquerates. To have Masquerated.

....

Man, that could almost be a word, couldn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 09:03 AM (06Hmj)

224 Man, that could almost be a word, couldn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 09:03 AM (06Hmj)

Meaning .... When a woman gets really dolled up for a first date so she looks eleventy times better than her normal look.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 14, 2025 09:06 AM (2J/Lj)

225 - "I am not a preterist."

You also seem to think there is only one view on dispensationalism. The one that pre-trib rapturists hold to. That we're in the church age (no such thing-man made term) and God doesn't deal with Israel and the church at the same time.
Ergo, church is out of here before the 70th week of Daniel begins.

Cont-

Posted by: TeeJ at September 14, 2025 09:08 AM (eDPLA)

226 I still maintain, as apparently others as well, there’s no way we heard a .30-06 round in that video. They are like a cannon. The cell phone microphone perfectly captured the light “crack” of a smaller, lighter rifle. Anybody who has familiarized themselves with various calibers upon hearing that did not immediately think “big game hunting rifle”.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2025 09:19 AM (FiefX)

227 - 2 of 2

That pre-trib view on dispensationalism is an easy strawman to knock down.
The historical view however, not so much.
Two ages. This current, evil, wicked age and the Kingdom Age to come.
To try to shorten this a bit, a proper view on the timing of the rapture -
At some point during the 2nd half of Daniel's 70th week.
The abomination of desolation has occurred.
The entire world is in a time of great tribulation.
Christ's return to rescue those who belong to Him and are still alive.
Enough time is left in the 70th week for the trumpets and bowls to be poured out.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 14, 2025 09:20 AM (eDPLA)

Processing 0.03, elapsed 0.029 seconds.
14 queries taking 0.006 seconds, 235 records returned.
Page size 129 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.