Daily Tech News 16 September 2025

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If you want to run Borderlands 4 at higher than 1080p at a reasonable frame rate, you are almost required to own an RTX 5090. (Tom's Hardware)

Borderlands 3 meanwhile will run just fine on an RTX 5050.

Nvidia has published an optimisation guide that consists entirely of improving performance by making the game look like a dog had diarrhea all over the texture maps.

With the same hardware Borderlands 3 looks far better while also performing better. Not a direct comparison, but so does Cyberpunk 2077, even with ray tracing enabled to increase the load on the GPU.

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React won by default. (Loren Stewart)

If you wonder why this is a bad thing - particularly if you don't know what React is - imagine if 98% of cars sold were the Ford Escort, even in 2025, simply because it was the default car.
China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations. (Tech Crunch)

Did it? Did it, indeed?

Specifically related to its 2020 acquisition of networking company Mellanox.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Run, fishie, run.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 04:31 AM (aJQjq)

2 Morning

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 16, 2025 04:31 AM (M2rLa)

3 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at September 16, 2025 04:32 AM (2mNT+)

4 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 04:33 AM (JO0sg)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2025 04:33 AM (+qU29)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 04:38 AM (sAmhv)

7 Disclaimer: Slurpy Slurpy Sleep Sleep

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 04:40 AM (aJQjq)

8 So not a fan of going to bed at 9:30 pm and getting up at :300am.

It's the 3:00am that sucks.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 04:41 AM (kCfnB)

9 The music choice arrived from the 1960s. I don't recognize the song or the band. The blond looks great though!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 04:42 AM (sAmhv)

10 I was wrong. Middle of the Road was an 70s act. I looked it up. They were from Scotland. The pretty blond is still alive and 80 years old.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 04:46 AM (sAmhv)

11 The music choice arrived from the 1960s. I don't recognize the song or the band. The blond looks great though!
Posted by: Puddleglum

As near as I can tell they were mostly a fake band that was a front for some songwriters that wrote catchy pop songs. I think their key talent was the Blonde.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 04:47 AM (aJQjq)

12
One Piece dubbed is up to episode 1133, only 11 eps behind.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 16, 2025 05:00 AM (VGLn4)

13 Harold "Lally" Stott wrote and recorded the song and it flopped in the UK. That's where Middle of the Roads comes in; they recorded their own version and it became a UK hit. Oddly, the Stott version was a minor hit in Europe and in Australia. Apparently for one week in Australia.

Here is a video of Harold cutting it up with his version of the song. His stage production values are decidedly worse.

Totally fun selection Pixy.

https://youtu.be/EVnVB7p8kQY

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 05:03 AM (aJQjq)

14 Good morning! Currently 73 on the patio here in Cowtown, headed for the mid 90s. All. week. long. Come on, fall!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 16, 2025 05:05 AM (3Ope8)

15 G'mornin all y'all
LIFE is good today.

Posted by: OkJohn at September 16, 2025 05:10 AM (NC/it)

16
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 16, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

17 w00t

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 05:12 AM (aURVT)

18 Evening and morning to all toiling and/or trying to wake up, as Tiu's Day either crawls to a close or tries to vault over the horizon! (Amazes me, it does, that I can come up with this sort of stuff when I'm still not technically awake.)

I'm up early, from a pleasant dream. The personnel department at the place where I worked had been eavesdropping on office conversations and somebody took offense to my making a joke like "What the fuque?" on a street name like "Dufuque." In my dream, I told the office busybody, "Is *this* what they pay you for?" and walked out three days early for my retirement. Heh, heh, heh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:13 AM (omVj0)

19 Scottish band, can't say remember them

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

20 Jakaranda
Harold "Lally" Stott
https://youtu.be/OvUbKjGJyqw

This is his other well-known song.

The lyrics though it has a rather upbeat feel, it turns out to be quite a tragedy.

Jakaranda always wanted to see the congo
Cassa baby always played on his little bongo
And all his friends would look at him and smile

https://is.gd/iWv9O9

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 05:14 AM (aJQjq)

21 As near as I can tell they were mostly a fake band that was a front for some songwriters that wrote catchy pop songs. I think their key talent was the Blonde.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025

***
She's lovely, but she sings like one of the Chipmunks. The song seems like a tune they'd have had on their early Sixties cartoon show too. And I say this as someone who likes catchy pop songs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:15 AM (omVj0)

22 Should have been gone 10 minutes ago
Later horde

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2025 05:20 AM (+qU29)

23 The lead singer for MotR was named Sally Carr. You can't see it in this video, but she had an absolutely stunning bottom.

https://tinyurl.com/yvvu9a7y

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 16, 2025 05:21 AM (ufSfZ)

24 I would like to raise awareness, by lodging a formal complaint. I’ve noticed early morning or middle of the night AOS participation, the numbers are not quite what they should be. Set your alarm if uiu have to.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 16, 2025 05:22 AM (zO1No)

25 I would like to raise awareness, by lodging a formal complaint. I’ve noticed early morning or middle of the night AOS participation, the numbers are not quite what they should be. Set your alarm if uiu have to.
Posted by: Common Tater

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 05:23 AM (rYMt6)

26 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 05:25 AM (a1415)

27 Trump has sued Wall Street Journal for 10 billion over that fake Epstein birthday card.

Not wanting the New York Times to feel lonely and neglected, he's suing them for 15 billion over defamation, I am interpreting this part as he thinks they're a bunch of shits, and for acting as a mouthpiece for the Democrat party.

And the beat goes on. The New York Times in particular deserves every bit of this.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 05:25 AM (aJQjq)

28 I would like to raise awareness, by lodging a formal complaint. I’ve noticed early morning or middle of the night AOS participation, the numbers are not quite what they should be. Set your alarm if uiu have to.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 16, 2025

***
* raises hand timidly *

It, uh, I might have something to do with that. Since I retired I'm never up at 2:45 or 3:00 am any more, and so I don't post on AoSHQ at those times, and, uh, well, maybe it's me . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:25 AM (omVj0)

29 Morning, all. 57 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high in the low 70s predicted. A good 2-3 hours' worth of work ahead of me.

Thought I had finished the first draft of my novel this weekend, but another look revealed that there's still a lot to write. Not depressing per se, but disheartening.

Speaking of which, I think I may be leaving AoS for a while again - lots of depression, hatred of the current news and a cynical belief that all the anger and resolve of the last few days is simply going to fade away. I don't want to vomit out my sick view of things, so I won't.

I do see via Insty that Gabe showed his ass to the world, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 16, 2025 05:25 AM (ufSfZ)

30 19 Scottish band, can't say remember them
Posted by: Skip

Well, they're no Nazareth. A band I discovered when I was stationed in the UK (early 90s), 'Gun', where very good. They never got big, which is a shame. A damn good rock band.

youtu.be/QTZbkn6TOBI

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 05:27 AM (sAmhv)

31 Got the driver's side front suspension back together on the Volvo wagon yesterday. I hope to finish the other side today.

Another news, Gabe is a poopy-head.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 05:28 AM (a1415)

32 MP4, do what you need to do to take care of yourself.

We'll leave the light on for ya.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 05:29 AM (a1415)

33 Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 05:31 AM (O7YUW)

34 Odd that I feel pretty clear-headed despite having only about five hours' sleep. Maybe there is a connection. But I don't want to go to bed at eleven and get up at four every day, or stay up til midnight either.

I ran a lot of errands yesterday, and had time as well to map out my travel routes to and from Indiana and locate a bunch of truck stops (including a Buc-ees!) along the Interstates. Also a Walmart close to where I'll be staying in Evansville. I dread packing, as I know I'll forget something I'll have to buy when I get there.

Funny, but there are no Exxon gas stations in Evansville. Guess I'll have to use my Shell card.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:33 AM (omVj0)

35 I spent yesterday starting out all the cheap APS-C third-party camera lenses available for my Sony a6400 and then educating myself about them in detail. They're very sexy.

What one can get for under $600 and in many cases under $300 and in a lot of other cases $200 is mind-blowing. A number of $500ish lenses are every bit as good, sometimes better, as the $1,000+ Sony branded lenses. As for the two $250 lenses I have already bought, they're only about 95% as good; I know what you're thinking, I got ripped off.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 05:36 AM (aJQjq)

36 @34/Wolfus: When do you set out on your great journey?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 05:37 AM (O7YUW)

37 Gas station credit cards are still a thing? Things you don't know until you know.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025 05:40 AM (aJQjq)

38 I learned all sorts of things that those crazy kids are up to now. They're building websites on Neocities and Neko Web
https://tinyurl.com/6atuycf9

There's a new PDA:
https://tinyurl.com/36ur977r

They are buying old Apple G3 iBooks:
https://tinyurl.com/2j6wumjv

And I liked The Importance of Inconvenience:
https://tinyurl.com/ycxdtnkf
(Which is the dog waking you up at four when he wants out but doesn't need to go. Back to sleep now)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 16, 2025 05:44 AM (kUxzU)

39 DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

MAJOR BREAKING: State Department & UN ties to Armed Queers SLC leader now confirmed

First, credit to @SKDoubleDub33 for the crucial tip, PLEASE follow, they'll be doing a podcast on this soon.

Here’s what you need to know:

-- Armed Queers SLC is under investigation for possible foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

-- Their leader, Ermiya Fanaeian, was recognized by a State Dept–affiliated NGO, Utah Global Diplomacy, as a recipient of the "7 for 17" Award for advancing the UN's 17 Goals

-- Utah Global Diplomacy has since scrubbed Fanaeian's presence from their website. Unknown when this purge happened. The receipts remain.

Patience as I pull this thread together.

X: https://bit.ly/4goUovb

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 16, 2025 05:45 AM (P5BPp)

40 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 16, 2025 05:45 AM (ppG5b)

41 The lead singer for MotR was named Sally Carr. You can't see it in this video, but she had an absolutely stunning bottom.

https://tinyurl.com/yvvu9a7y
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 16, 2025 05:21 AM (ufSfZ)

https://tinyurl.com/4nkthy57+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 05:49 AM (ExV1e)

42 Math is sort of techie, right?

What are the odds that a High School has failed to produce a single math proficient student in four years?

https://tinyurl.com/5f24urnh

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 05:51 AM (a1415)

43 Wolfus: When do you set out on your great journey?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025

***
This Monday. Birmingham by that evening, then Evansville by Tuesday afternoon. I'll leave IN on Sunday next and be back here by Monday p.m.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)

44 One Piece dubbed is up to episode 1133, only 11 eps behind.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Good grief. That's the main reason I never got into that show. I thought it was an accomplishment when my wife and I got through Gintama.

MAJOR BREAKING: State Department & UN ties to Armed Queers SLC leader now confirmed

I think Guantanamo is lovely this time of year.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 05:52 AM (jjoN6)

45 What are the odds that a High School has failed to produce a single math proficient student in four years?

I can't follow shortened URLs but I am going to guess 100% if it's a place like Baltimore.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 05:53 AM (jjoN6)

46 Gas station credit cards are still a thing? Things you don't know until you know.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 16, 2025

***
For ethanol-free gas I usually pay cash, but the cards are convenient in an emergency or on a trip. I don't have any of those apps on my phone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

47 What are the odds that a High School has failed to produce a single math proficient student in four years?

I can't follow shortened URLs but I am going to guess 100% if it's a place like Baltimore.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025

***
Also possibly Da Swamp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:54 AM (omVj0)

48 "I think Guantanamo is lovely this time of year."

Having been to REFTRA numerous times in a former life, GTMO is beautiful year round.

Fun?
No

Beautiful?
Yes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415)

49 "If you want to run Borderlands 4 at higher than 1080p at a reasonable frame rate, you are almost required to own an RTX 5090."

This is why you should never give your software developers the latest hardware.

Posted by: mark at September 16, 2025 05:57 AM (l8wwz)

50
So let's get this straight.

There's an organization called, literally:

Armed Queers Salt Lake City

Its leader is a Palestinian tranny

There's an NGO called Utah Global Diplomacy

It is affiliated with the US Dept of State

It gave Armed Queers Salt Lake City an award for advancing the UN's goals

Did I get that right? If so, I can't even comprehend the layers of corruption, stupidity, and vice here.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 05:57 AM (cCfL4)

51 @43/Wolfus:

Thanks. I'm really hoping you'll be able to check in with us and report on your findings.

Miss Linda will be in charge of feeding the furry thugs, I'm assuming? Unless you're taking them on your grand adventure and are ready to be serenaded by "Yowl!" for 30 to 60 minutes on the start of each day's trip. (Ask me how I know...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

52 "if it's a place like Baltimore."

Take a bow...we have a winner!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 05:58 AM (a1415)

53 What are the odds that a High School has failed to produce a single math proficient student in four years?

I can't follow shortened URLs but I am going to guess 100% if it's a place like Baltimore.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025

***
I peeked. Baltimore it is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

54 [o]Wolfus:

Thanks. I'm really hoping you'll be able to check in with us and report on your findings.

Miss Linda will be in charge of feeding the furry thugs, I'm assuming? Unless you're taking them on your grand adventure and are ready to be serenaded by "Yowl!" for 30 to 60 minutes on the start of each day's trip. (Ask me how I know...)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025

***
I'll bring along the MacBook Air, my standard for posting on AoSHQ. The hotels have free wifi. No, I'm leaving the feline hogs in her care. I'm gonna be moving fast and covering a lot of ground. I won't have energy for them -- and it would be a pointless strain for them anyhow. Time enough for that during the actual move!

They are both pretty good about yowling in the car; a few minutes and they settle down, resigned. Kitten Stirling was very quiet for the whole four hours as we brought him back from Vicksburg.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 06:02 AM (omVj0)

55 Take a bow...we have a winner!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Woah...And I'm not even shocked about that.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 06:03 AM (jjoN6)

56 Woah...And I'm not even shocked about that.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025

***
The shocking part is that there is no shock.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 06:03 AM (omVj0)

57 50
So let's get this straight.

There's an organization called, literally:

Armed Queers Salt Lake City

Its leader is a Palestinian tranny

There's an NGO called Utah Global Diplomacy

It is affiliated with the US Dept of State

It gave Armed Queers Salt Lake City an award for advancing the UN's goals

Did I get that right? If so, I can't even comprehend the layers of corruption, stupidity, and vice here.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The graft must flow!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 06:03 AM (sAmhv)

58 "Woah...And I'm not even shocked about that."

Well...would you be shocked if I told you that Senator Van Hollen is endorsing Mamdani for New York City Mayor?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 06:05 AM (a1415)

59 @54/Wolfus: Scout out hotels/motels along the way that will permit pets - you'll need those on the grand move.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

60 Wolfus: Scout out hotels/motels along the way that will permit pets - you'll need those on the grand move.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025

***
I've noticed more places allow pets than did in 2005 or 2008, the first two times we had to bug out for a hurricane. I think both of the ones I'm using this time allow it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)

61 React won by default.

That's a shame. It seems like software development started out strong, but recently the tools we use are getting worse and worse. React is horrible.

Posted by: Ace's liver at September 16, 2025 06:10 AM (B9Dv5)

62 tidbit from the DM:
"The elderly political activist who became the first person detained after claiming he'd shot Charlie Kirk told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away.

George Zinn, a 71-year-old Utah resident, was initially suspected of being the shooter ... "

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 16, 2025 06:11 AM (ppG5b)

63 Well...would you be shocked if I told you that Senator Van Hollen is endorsing Mamdani for New York City Mayor?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Must be some good margaritas in NYC.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 06:12 AM (jjoN6)

64 This time it's a nice story about the Phillies and a foul ball. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/5ebaf8wd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2025 06:12 AM (looXz)

65 "told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away."

That just might be a chargeable offense.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 06:13 AM (a1415)

66 The elderly political activist who became the first person detained after claiming he'd shot Charlie Kirk told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away

This is what happens when society permits hippies to walk around without getting punched.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 06:13 AM (jjoN6)

67 mornin yall. For the first time in a couple of weeks I have no commitments today. An empty day lies before me, waiting to be filled with lusty exuberance.

Posted by: fd at September 16, 2025 06:14 AM (vFG9F)

68 tidbit from the DM:
"The elderly political activist who became the first person detained after claiming he'd shot Charlie Kirk told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away.

George Zinn, a 71-year-old Utah resident, was initially suspected of being the shooter ... "
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 16, 2025 06:11 AM (ppG5b)

https://youtu.be/mZKMLC8zhHE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 06:14 AM (ExV1e)

69 tidbit from the DM:
"The elderly political activist who became the first person detained after claiming he'd shot Charlie Kirk told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away.

George Zinn, a 71-year-old Utah resident, was initially suspected of being the shooter ... "
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

RICO his ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:14 AM (rYMt6)

70
Who would be a good replacement for Pam Bondi? Trump needs to get rid of her pronto.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 06:15 AM (cCfL4)

71 Who would be a good replacement for Pam Bondi? Trump needs to get rid of her pronto.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 06:15 AM (cCfL4)

Why?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 06:15 AM (ExV1e)

72 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 16, 2025 06:15 AM (hoCmQ)

73 "Who would be a good replacement for Pam Bondi?"

I don't have anything scheduled today.

Posted by: fd at September 16, 2025 06:16 AM (vFG9F)

74
George Zinn, a 71-year-old Utah resident, was initially suspected of being the shooter ... "
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 16, 2025 06:11 AM (ppG5b)

________

First Howard, now George. I tells ya, them Zinns is nothing but trouble.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 06:16 AM (tgvbd)

75 Who would be a good replacement for Pam Bondi? Trump needs to get rid of her pronto.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

AtC.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:17 AM (rYMt6)

76 Romans 12:14-21

Overcoming evil with good:

Devotional is followed by a prayer and insights. I had no idea of the background of the Dr. Doolittle stories:

https://tinyurl.com/mwxknb3t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 16, 2025 06:18 AM (looXz)

77 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 16, 2025 06:19 AM (AN2gy)

78 @62/sock_rat_eez: { "The elderly political activist who became the first person detained after claiming he'd shot Charlie Kirk told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away. ..." "

Making himself an accessory after the fact.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 06:20 AM (O7YUW)

79 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Twee widdle fiddies...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 16, 2025 06:22 AM (WvZaB)

80 G'morning fluffy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

81 78 @62/sock_rat_eez: { "The elderly political activist who became the first person detained after claiming he'd shot Charlie Kirk told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away. ..." "

Making himself an accessory after the fact.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Bull. Conspirator. That is not something you do within two heartbeats of someone being shot. That was planned ahead of time. No one is that fast with making that kind of decision. And it was literally two heartbeats before he started yelling he did it.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:25 AM (rYMt6)

82 You ever look at your watched videos history on YT and find stuff that you know you've never watched?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 06:27 AM (ExV1e)

83 Hi Grumpy

Posted by: fluffy at September 16, 2025 06:28 AM (AN2gy)

84 MP4
Please take care of yourself and rejoin us when you feel ready. Needless to say, we'll miss you.

Posted by: Tuna at September 16, 2025 06:31 AM (lJ0H4)

85 Posted by: Tuna at September 16, 2025 06:31 AM (lJ0H4)

Thank you, Tuna. I appreciate that more than you know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 16, 2025 06:34 AM (ufSfZ)

86 RE: "Tea, Earl Grey, hot," I've been watching the very earliest TNG episodes. They were still feeling their way in those days, trying to set themselves apart from the original. Picard was tougher and less avuncular than he became, for instance, and there seemed to be no chief engineer for the ship (except for Brooke Bundy's "McDougal" in one very early story). But, as I recall from seeing them new, they tried hard to address shortcomings in the original -- not having the captain risk his neck by leaving the ship in every episode, and actually following the Prime Directive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 06:35 AM (omVj0)

87 My “favorites” online grocery list has a bunch of vegetables listed. It starts out correctly, then devolves. Not as bad as internet search engines, getting close.

eBay sewrch used to be pretty good. Not any lomger. The classic is when searching for specific parts, say for a car or a dishwasher or whatever. If I need a set of sparkplugs for a Toro lawnmower, head gaskets for a diesel truck really don’t have much utility. “Here’s a bunny with a pancake on its head”.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 16, 2025 06:35 AM (zO1No)

88 "Activist"
Trouble-maker, in the olde days.

Posted by: OkJohn at September 16, 2025 06:38 AM (NC/it)

89 eBay sewrch used to be pretty good. Not any lomger. The classic is when searching for specific parts, say for a car or a dishwasher or whatever. If I need a set of sparkplugs for a Toro lawnmower, head gaskets for a diesel truck really don’t have much utility. “Here’s a bunny with a pancake on its head”.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 16, 2025 06:35 AM (zO1No)
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Well, yeah, it turned up head gaskets instead of sparkplugs. But look at the bunny, man! He's so cute!

Posted by: Software Developer at September 16, 2025 06:41 AM (WvZaB)

90
a 71-year-old Utah resident

Cue the Boomer hate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 06:41 AM (tgvbd)

91 "Activist"
Trouble-maker, in the olde days.
Posted by: OkJohn at September 16, 2025 06:38 AM (NC/it)
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The kind of asshole I hated in Jr. High and High School.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 16, 2025 06:42 AM (WvZaB)

92 Cue the Boomer hate.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Nah. Just the hate towards hippies that are desperately trying to relive their glory days before they shuffle off this mortal coil.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 06:43 AM (jjoN6)

93 @61

>>React won by default.

Because it's pretty good at what it does, there are a large pool of devs that know and use it, there isnt a value added benefit to using alternatives.

It's like people bitching about the c++ and that Rust is better why don't more people use Rust.

Rust might be better but I'm never using Rust because I already know c++ and the time to learn Rust would not add value to what I do.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 16, 2025 06:43 AM (XV/Pl)

94 Nah. Just the hate towards hippies that are desperately trying to relive their glory days before they shuffle off this mortal coil.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 06:43 AM (jjoN6)
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I hope he gets shuffled pretty hard.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 16, 2025 06:44 AM (WvZaB)

95 I hope he gets shuffled pretty hard.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

I agree with rickb223 that he was a co-conspirator.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 06:45 AM (jjoN6)

96 Cue the Boomer hate.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Nah. Co-conspirator hate.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:46 AM (rYMt6)

97 WRT to Zinn, if the scenario was reversed and a left wing speaker was assassinated, and he did what he did, what would a Democrat DOJ do to Zinn?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 16, 2025 06:47 AM (XV/Pl)

98 I agree with rickb223 that he was a co-conspirator.
Posted by: NR Pax

I'll bet he's an old queen or furry and that's how his grooming ass was known to them.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:47 AM (rYMt6)

99 82 You ever look at your watched videos history on YT and find stuff that you know you've never watched?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yes, and I think I know why. When you move your mouse around and are looking for videos, if your mouse pauses long enough on one of the links, the video will play. I'm guessing that counts as 'history'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 06:48 AM (sAmhv)

100 WRT to Zinn, if the scenario was reversed and a left wing speaker was assassinated, and he did what he did, what would a Democrat DOJ do to Zinn?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

His body would already be cremated.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:48 AM (rYMt6)

101 @81/rickb223: "Bull. Conspirator. ..."

You raise a good point.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 06:48 AM (O7YUW)

102 Being very poor in math in HS, I would have drawn down the class average of math while in school. Didn't have any real math, (business math I wasn't qualified for any college to tech school. But I did fiend that NYC Tech would except me, and off I went to the big apple. Did much better in college in math (good teacher) and went on to graduate. Joined a research institute where math was in full focus and I went on from there.. So poor math scores in highschools doesn't bother me much as I know some students do better after HS, or learn to rob convenience stores.

Posted by: Colin at September 16, 2025 06:48 AM (wlQdF)

103 ""Activist"
Trouble-maker, in the olde days."

I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 06:49 AM (a1415)

104 WRT to Zinn, if the scenario was reversed and a left wing speaker was assassinated, and he did what he did, what would a Democrat DOJ do to Zinn?
Posted by: Thomas Bender
*
His body would already be cremated.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025

***
I picture a great scorching beam like the reflected sunlight from the giant "sunflowers" in Larry Niven's Ringworld and other Known Space stories.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 06:50 AM (omVj0)

105 Did I get that right? If so, I can't even comprehend the layers of corruption, stupidity, and vice here.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 05:57 AM (cCfL4)

Smedley Butler was famous for saying “War is a racket”, but he was only scratching the surface.

He should have said government is a racket and war is simply an extension of that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 06:50 AM (6ydKt)

106 @100

>>His body would already be cremated.

Seriously, the way to proceed with the CK assassination is ask ourselves, what would Mirror Universe Eric Holder do.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 16, 2025 06:51 AM (XV/Pl)

107 Yes, and I think I know why. When you move your mouse around and are looking for videos, if your mouse pauses long enough on one of the links, the video will play. I'm guessing that counts as 'history'.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 06:48 AM (sAmhv)

You can turn that off in settings, which I have, but this was a 25 minute video which said I'd watched the whole thing. I'm wondering if someone at YT is trying to pump stats for a friend or whatever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)

108 "So poor math scores in highschools doesn't bother me much as I know some students do better after HS, or learn to rob convenience stores."

At the individual student level, I agree with you.

But a High School that fails to produce a single student in fur years that tests as proficient in math might indicate a systemic issue with the school, and not individual student issues.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 06:51 AM (a1415)

109 383 Here's the full episode:

Episode 6 - Attorney General Pam Bondi | The Katie Miller Podcast

https://youtu.be/4LRPHxSrLTE

The Blaze posted a 30-second clip.
Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 03:23 AM (aURVT)

I have just finished watching this.
Ahem.
I am not the intended audience.

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 06:52 AM (aURVT)

110 fur=four

But, we knew that.

F'n auto-cucumber, it mocks me!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 06:52 AM (a1415)

111 You raise a good point.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

For someone who supposedly doesn't know it's going to happen to "bang! ba-bump ba bump I DID IT! I DID IT!"

Literally two heartbeats to think, formulate a plan and carry it out. All while not knowing it was going to happen?

Nah. Not believing it.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:52 AM (rYMt6)

112 I think Corruption, Stupidity and Vice opened for Earth, Wind and Fire.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 16, 2025 06:53 AM (WvZaB)

113 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 16, 2025 06:54 AM (XQo4F)

114 One last thought before I pick up my shovel and head to the mine*:

I think I'm going to try to put Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" on a Windows 11 laptop late this morning (in a dual boot configuration) between my morning and my afternoon shifts. I'll take some notes and let tomorrow's tech thread know how it goes.

I've already got a full drive image backup I made with CloneZilla.

{*}
https://youtu.be/B9j91-18Kb4

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 06:54 AM (O7YUW)

115 Being very poor in math in HS, I would have drawn down the class average of math while in school. Didn't have any real math, (business math I wasn't qualified for any college to tech school. . . . So poor math scores in highschools doesn't bother me much as I know some students do better after HS, or learn to rob convenience stores.
Posted by: Colin at September 16, 2025

***
I hated math in school because of the grunt work involved in arithmetic. I know my times tables, etc., but under the pressure of an exam you can make an arithmetic error, and my teachers usually did not give credit for doing the procedure correctly. Only in geometry (logic!) did I do well. Years later, with a calculator to help, I aced my two stats courses. If I'd been taught back then *why* we were manipulating and manhandling these poor innocent equations, I'd have done much better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 06:55 AM (omVj0)

116 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 16, 2025 06:55 AM (WvZaB)

117 Geez. Mid to lower 90's all week long.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:55 AM (rYMt6)

118 "For someone who supposedly doesn't know it's going to happen to "bang! ba-bump ba bump I DID IT! I DID IT!"

On Friday while driving back from B'More, there was a caller to a talk show who identified this guy as having a long history of doing stuff at political events.
And to closely look at his history.

Seems to be more to this guy than what was originally generally thought.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 06:55 AM (a1415)

119 Another local story where "we may never know their motivations."

"On Sunday, the FBI arrested two men in Salt Lake City, UT, for allegedly placing and lighting an incendiary device under a FOX13 News vehicle.

The two men, Adeeb Nasir, 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, 31, did this on Friday, two days after someone assassinated Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University."

https://is.gd/8196ci

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 16, 2025 06:55 AM (PiwSw)

120
Literally two heartbeats to think, formulate a plan and carry it out. All while not knowing it was going to happen?

Nah. Not believing it.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:52 AM (rYMt6)

Didn't they release him?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 06:56 AM (tgvbd)

121 I hated math in school because of the grunt work involved in arithmetic. I know my times tables, etc., but under the pressure of an exam you can make an arithmetic error, and my teachers usually did not give credit for doing the procedure correctly. Only in geometry (logic!) did I do well. Years later, with a calculator to help, I aced my two stats courses. If I'd been taught back then *why* we were manipulating and manhandling these poor innocent equations, I'd have done much better.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

If one train leaves California at 50 miles per hour and one train leaves Dallas on the same track headed towards each other, how many potatoes are in the sack?

WTF? GTFOOH!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:57 AM (rYMt6)

122 Didn't they release him?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yes. He wasn't the shooter. Doesn't mean he isn't a co-conspirator.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 06:58 AM (rYMt6)

123 120. No, he was being held on charges of interfering with a police investigation.

Posted by: Jen the original at September 16, 2025 06:58 AM (xPcNV)

124
But a High School that fails to produce a single student in fur years that tests as proficient in math might indicate a systemic issue with the school, and not individual student issues.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

One can legitimately question the bona fides of any "Teacher of the Year" at such a place.

* looks over job candidate's resume *

"Hmm. Oh, you were Teacher of the Year over at Boom-Boom High? Well, we could put your talents to work as a member of our janitorial staff."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 16, 2025 06:58 AM (xG4kz)

125 I've located a real pipe-and-cigar shop in Evansville called Cigar! Cigar! And it's not far from where I'll be staying. I can drop by a couple of evenings -- they are open until 8 pm -- and talk to some people about the area and what it's like living there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 06:59 AM (omVj0)

126 Methinks the 71 y.o. boomer is a groomer.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 16, 2025 06:59 AM (ZmEVT)

127 "Didn't they release him?"

I believe they did, initially.

Something about him claiming he was yelling 'Kill Me' to distract the shooter so that he would shoot at him instead of the young innocent students in the crowd.

And that is what that caller on Friday was talking about.

Basically that he was up to his eyeballs in dumb shit at political events, and to check him out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 06:59 AM (a1415)

128 The man is 72 years old and has nothing better to do than go to a debate event at a college so he can hate watch Charlie Kirk in person.

Then upon seeing Kirk get shot he decides to play crazy linebacker with the police so the real assassin can make his getaway.

I don’t care what generation he’s from, he needs to be charged with obstruction or something.

He’s probably the type who hasn’t turned off MSNBC in ten years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:00 AM (6ydKt)

129 Methinks the 71 y.o. boomer is a groomer.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

👍🏻 See #98. Queen or furry.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 07:00 AM (rYMt6)

130 @114

>>I've already got a full drive image backup I made with CloneZilla.

There really is no clear benefit to installing Linux in dual boot config with windows when you can install Linux Subsystem For Windows in Win 11 or install a Linux VM.

Now don't get me wrong, I hate Windows but unless you are doing something where you absolutely need to boot into Linux, there are better alternatives.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 16, 2025 07:01 AM (XV/Pl)

131 "If one train leaves California at 50 miles per hour and one train leaves Dallas on the same track headed towards each other, how many potatoes are in the sack?

WTF? GTFOOH!"

wait....I know this one!

It's either 'You don't bury survivors,
or
Electric trains don't make smoke.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:01 AM (a1415)

132 113 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 16, 2025 06:54 AM (XQo4F)

Go here and scroll down to the chatting birds:

https://nitter.net/aelfred_D

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:05 AM (aURVT)

133 Birdbath is cleaned, and freshly filled yesterday, during the lawn mowing process.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:06 AM (a1415)

134 Has anyone seen any really bad winter weather yet? I know some were talking yesterday about it supposed to be a bad winter.

I heard two separate flocks of geese already flying south on Friday.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 07:07 AM (rYMt6)

135 If one train leaves California at 50 miles per hour and one train leaves Dallas on the same track headed towards each other, how many potatoes are in the sack?

WTF? GTFOOH!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025

***
Word problems in the college stats classes were no trouble to me. We could bring a list of formulas to exams. I taught myself, "If the problem looks like this, use *this* formula" (and also I knew why it was needed), and Robert is your mother's brother.

But yes, I hated those things in jr. high and high school too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 07:07 AM (omVj0)

136 71 Who would be a good replacement for Pam Bondi? Trump needs to get rid of her pronto.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 06:15 AM (cCfL4)

Why?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 06:15 AM (ExV1e)

A short version of the answer is in the opening, 10-second clip here:

Episode 6 - Attorney General Pam Bondi | The Katie Miller Podcast

https://youtu.be/4LRPHxSrLTE

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:09 AM (aURVT)

137 Well, we could put your talents to work as a member of our janitorial staff.

The janitorial staff has higher standards.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 07:09 AM (jjoN6)

138 Go to KSL.com for full story on George Zinn. He was booked into jail yesterday on charges of obstruction of police investigation after being released from the hospital where he was taken after his arrest. He is also facing child pornography charges..

Posted by: Jen the original at September 16, 2025 07:10 AM (xPcNV)

139 Time for me to shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 16, 2025 07:11 AM (omVj0)

140 There was that video of the cops dragging him around handcuffed through the crowd while he’s saying “Shoot me, Shoot me!”.

The cop in the video was emphatic to the crowd that “We don’t know if he did it, or not.”

So they probably knew they had a kook on their hands early on by the way he was acting.

But they may have gotten Robinson a lot sooner if not for this man distracting them.

It’s a good thing Robinson had no intention of killing anybody else, apparently, or he could’ve done more damage while the police were focused on this looney-toon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

141 I don’t care what generation he’s from, he needs to be charged with obstruction or something.

He’s probably the type who hasn’t turned off MSNBC in ten years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

====

Maybe he'd mentally played the scenario out. "If I'm ever hate-watching some rethuglikan, and he gets shot, here's how I'll stick it to The Man."

He may have won his own useless lottery.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 16, 2025 07:11 AM (8AONa)

142
As for the utility of math teachers, i had the same man for all four years of HS math. He was a great teacher and had become the head football coach by the time I graduated. He was one of the best teachers that I had at that school.

For my senior year he was paired up with another man to "team teach". The rumors were strong that the guy was getting it on with the shrill woman who taught business math. Both were married. Well done, good and faithful servants!

Finally, there was one math teacher who worked summers as an independent contractor doing brick and mortar construction work. I did not think much of him at that time, but now I admire his willingness to have engaged in and earned wages performing a practical skill. I can still go find the single story commercial building upon which he worked whenever I return to my home town.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 16, 2025 07:13 AM (xG4kz)

143
He is also facing child pornography charges..
Posted by: Jen the original at September 16, 2025 07:10 AM (xPcNV)

So, your prototypical left-wing type.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 07:13 AM (tgvbd)

144 Go to KSL.com for full story on George Zinn. He was booked into jail yesterday on charges of obstruction of police investigation after being released from the hospital where he was taken after his arrest. He is also facing child pornography charges.

I am reminded of Police Chief Wiggum's description of jail: "Cold showers, guards whompin' your ass 'round the clock, and the only way out. . .is suicide."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 16, 2025 07:14 AM (ufSfZ)

145 He is also facing child pornography charges..
Posted by: Jen the original at September 16, 2025 07:10 AM (xPcNV)

Why am I not surprised?

The Democrats are now the party of abortion, melanin, and sexual deviance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

146 Posted by: Tuna at September 16, 2025 06:31 AM (lJ0H4)

Thank you, Tuna. I appreciate that more than you know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 16, 2025 06:34 AM (ufSfZ)

You may be gone by now, but you have responses on ALH.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 16, 2025 07:14 AM (0eaVi)

147 I did not have "RICO the UN" on my bingo card for Trump 2.0

Giddy-up

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:14 AM (06Hmj)

148 the opening, 10-second clip here:

Episode 6 - Attorney General Pam Bondi | The Katie Miller Podcast

https://youtu.be/4LRPHxSrLTE

"There's free speech and then there's hate speech. And there is no place--especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie--in our society."

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

149 He is also facing child pornography charges..
Posted by: Jen the original at September 16, 2025 07:10 AM (xPcNV)

So, your prototypical left-wing type.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 07:13 AM (tgvbd)

Come on, Simulation Universe. Your sense of humor is starting to get a little too dark.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:17 AM (06Hmj)

150 Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:09 AM (aURVT)

TY.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

151 I loved "the doctor is your mother" kinds of things.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 16, 2025 07:17 AM (ZmEVT)

152 I guess it would be abetting a fugitive?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:18 AM (06Hmj)

153 Come on, Simulation Universe. Your sense of humor is starting to get a little too dark.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

One thing I like about dark humor?

It's like food. Not everyone gets it.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2025 07:19 AM (rYMt6)

154 I loved "the doctor is your mother" kinds of things.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 16, 2025 07:17 AM (ZmEVT)

I hold in my hand two US coins totaling $0.55 but one of them is not a nickel. What are the coins?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:19 AM (ExV1e)

155 Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

I could only take about 5 minutes of that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:19 AM (ExV1e)

156
"There's free speech and then there's hate speech. And there is no place--especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie--in our society."
Posted by: m

That last sentence is so Kamala-esque

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 16, 2025 07:20 AM (xG4kz)

157 The fifty cent coin is not a nickel.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 16, 2025 07:20 AM (ZmEVT)

158 Anyone watch "Slow Horses" with Gary Oldman on Apple TV? Is it worth investing my time? I see that it's about to start season 5.

Posted by: Tuna at September 16, 2025 07:20 AM (lJ0H4)

159 I hold in my hand two US coins totaling $0.55 but one of them is not a nickel. What are the coins?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:19 AM (ExV1e)

A bermudan dollar and a ten eurocent?

*checks forex* ... no, not that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:21 AM (06Hmj)

160 155 Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

I could only take about 5 minutes of that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:19 AM (ExV1e)

Indeed! Hello, fellow not-the-intended-audience kid!
I watched the whole thing.

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:21 AM (aURVT)

161 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 05:57 AM (cCfL4)

I tried posting that on X. Wouldn't let me.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 16, 2025 07:21 AM (ZmEVT)

162
I hold in my hand two US coins totaling $0.55 but one of them is not a nickel. What are the coins?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That's a bullshit question!

-- Mona Lisa Vito

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 16, 2025 07:22 AM (xG4kz)

163 from the ONT:

360
FIRE
@TheFIREorg
4h
There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Nevertheless, the attorney general says "there's free speech, and then there's hate speech," and the government will "target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

The attorney general would be wise to read the words of the Supreme Court, which has repeatedly held that the "proudest boast" of America's free speech tradition is "freedom for the thought that we hate."
Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 02:49 AM (aURVT)

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:22 AM (aURVT)

164 Are half dollar coins even minted anymore?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 16, 2025 07:23 AM (ZmEVT)

165 [i[]I hold in my hand two US coins totaling $0.55 but one of them is not a nickel. What are the coins?

One is a nickel, the other is not a nickel its a 50¢ piece.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 16, 2025 07:23 AM (a4flb)

166 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 16, 2025 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

167 Benefit of the doubt:

- she's saying hate speech while meaning incitement to murder speech
- she's Alinskying as hard as she can

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:24 AM (06Hmj)

168 Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep gal dated the drunk ass lead singer of The Sweet back in the day.

It’s a ballroom blitz!

Posted by: Top Of The Pops at September 16, 2025 07:24 AM (M7GNj)

169 "There's free speech and then there's hate speech. And there is no place--especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie--in our society."
Posted by: m

That last sentence is so Kamala-esque
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 16, 2025 07:20 AM (xG4kz)

A better wording would be that while all speech in the US is legal, as a society we should not tolerate dishonesty peddled for the purpose of engendering hatred towards another. We should call it out when and where we see it. We should educate, or shame, the people pushing it. Charlie Kirk was murdered for the lies of people who disagreed with him but couldn't articulate why they thought they were correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)

170 "There's free speech and then there's hate speech. And there is no place--especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie--in our society."
Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

Does she get into any specifics about how she defines hate speech and what exactly she plans to do about it?

I don’t want to watch the entire hour to be sure, but it seems she’s just mouthing platitudes there instead of relaying a policy change.

Bit if she started arresting university professors and leftist influencers tomorrow, I think I’d look the other way for a bit. At least until the message is sufficiently sent.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:25 AM (6ydKt)

171 The fifty cent coin is not a nickel.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 16, 2025 07:20 AM (ZmEVT)

Yes. But so many people just exclude nickel completely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

172 Now is not the time for "but I'll defend to the death your right to blah blah". Say whatever you gotta say, Bondi, so long as you're sticking it to the lunatic left and otherwise leaving us alone, i don't really care.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:26 AM (06Hmj)

173 This comes from a commentor over at Anne Althouse's blog.

Remember the Boogaloo Boys craze from years ago?

If they actually existed, it would seem that Charlie Kirk's assassination nation would have brought them out in retaliation.

Perhaps they never more than an invention of the Left to begin with.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:27 AM (a1415)

174 @136

>>A short version of the answer is in the opening, 10-second clip here:

She's a f**king clown, if the Epstein debacle didn't cement it that she was not ready for prime time, then the hate speech diatribe should do it.

Hey Pam, the left says our speech is hate, in your worldview there is no place for conservative views.

Dumb twat.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 16, 2025 07:27 AM (XV/Pl)

175 167 Benefit of the doubt:

- she's saying hate speech while meaning incitement to murder speech
- she's Alinskying as hard as she can
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:24 AM (06Hmj)

The first one--on the basis of the whole clip. She needs to clear that up.

She speaks very loosely throughout.

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:27 AM (aURVT)

176 I presume the point is not to encourage murderous conspiracies to communicate via sign language.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 16, 2025 07:29 AM (06Hmj)

177 I'm beginning to suspect that Pm Bondi was not the best qualified individual to place in her position.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:29 AM (a1415)

178 He is also facing child pornography charges.

Ya know, if I had stuff like that on a computer the last thing I would want to do is draw attention to myself.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 07:30 AM (jjoN6)

179
"There's free speech and then there's hate speech. And there is no place--especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie--in our society."
Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

Not buying it. Kirk was shot. That's the crime. You're free to be a public asshole about it and face the consequences from your employer if you're stupid enough to let the connection get made.

Of course, you're also free to keep your mouth shut and your thoughts to yourself. That's not fear, that's just common decency.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 07:31 AM (tgvbd)

180 Indeed! Hello, fellow not-the-intended-audience kid!
I watched the whole thing.
Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:21 AM (aURVT)

I'm so sorry for you. I find most interviews tedious anyway but that was just on another level.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

181 Perhaps they never more than an invention of the Left to begin with.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:27 AM (a1415)

The Boogaloos were never more than a small group of guys who spent way too much time on 4chan and Reddit, larping as Wolverines from Red Dawn wearing Hawaiian shirts and playing with AR-15s.

The media pumped them up as right-wingers during Trump’s first term just so they’d have another bogeyman group to point to while Antifa was burning up cities.

I haven’t heard a thing about them since 2020.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:33 AM (6ydKt)

182 Of course, you're also free to keep your mouth shut and your thoughts to yourself. That's not fear, that's just common decency.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 07:31 AM (tgvbd)

To expect common decency from the indecent is not logical.

Posted by: Mr. Spark at September 16, 2025 07:33 AM (0eaVi)

183 @178

>>Ya know, if I had stuff like that on a computer the last thing I would want to do is draw attention to myself.

Technically, if you have visited adult websites and that adult website has suspect content, you could probably be charged wild c-p***.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 16, 2025 07:33 AM (XV/Pl)

184 180 Indeed! Hello, fellow not-the-intended-audience kid!
I watched the whole thing.
Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:21 AM (aURVT)

I'm so sorry for you. I find most interviews tedious anyway but that was just on another level.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

Thank you. It was ... I am not the intended audience.

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)

185 Wait, so the folks who believe that Charlie Kirk should have been killed because of his opinions also believe that they should not lose their jobs because of their opinions?

Seems....odd.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:34 AM (a1415)

186 I don’t want to watch the entire hour to be sure, but it seems she’s just mouthing platitudes there instead of relaying a policy change.

Yes. It was just platitudes. She should probably avoid public speaking unless it's a press conference pertaining to a specific legal issue.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)

187 62 tidbit from the DM:
"The elderly political activist who became the first person detained after claiming he'd shot Charlie Kirk told police he lied in an attempt to let the real killer get away.

George Zinn, a 71-year-old Utah resident, was initially suspected of being the shooter ... "
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 16, 2025 06:11

Seems like that would make him an accomplice after the fact.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 16, 2025 07:35 AM (QPCEj)

188 You ever look at your watched videos history on YT and find stuff that you know you've never watched?

If you have auto preview on, it adds stuff to you watch history if you just move your mouse over the thumbnail. It's so annoy___.

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 16, 2025 07:35 AM (MC/+K)

189 Lock his old ass up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 16, 2025 07:35 AM (dz143)

190 Technically, if you have visited adult websites and that adult website has suspect content, you could probably be charged wild c-p***.

In all seriousness, I have seen police reports where a traffic stop yields everything from no license, a stolen car, felony warrants (Yes. Plural) and two previous moving violations.

A smart criminal would walk, bike or use public transportation and avoid contact with most people.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 07:36 AM (jjoN6)

191 But she's blonde.

Posted by: And photogenic at September 16, 2025 07:36 AM (XQo4F)

192 I'm beginning to suspect that Pm Bondi was not the best qualified individual to place in her position.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:29 AM (a1415)

I suspect that you're wrong. One of the key qualifications for the post of AG is " can be confirmed by the Senate". Considering the collection of traitors and quislings who inhabit that place, she might be the best we can get. And the DOJ is doing a reasonable job - albeit slower than some would like.

I suspect that if she STFU most people would be fine with her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

193 RICO the Higher Ed complex. Seems this was started there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 16, 2025 07:38 AM (dz143)

194 "But she's blonde."

So maybe she could dye her hair brunette?

Or would that be considered artificial intelligence?

( Yeh, I'm gonna get smacked for that one)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 16, 2025 07:38 AM (a1415)

195 191 But she's blonde.
Posted by: And photogenic at September 16, 2025 07:36 AM (XQo4F)

And loyal.
Which is all Trump was looking for in an AG after the first term DOJ.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:39 AM (6ydKt)

196 Ya know, if I had stuff like that on a computer the last thing I would want to do is draw attention to myself.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 16, 2025 07:30 AM (jjoN6)

OTOH, if you draw the wrong attention to yourself you might find that you have stuff like that on your computer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

197 191 But she's blonde.
Posted by: And photogenic at September 16, 2025 07:36 AM (XQo4F)

Go watch it. Please go watch it. Pleeeeeeease? All 53:42 of it.

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:39 AM (aURVT)

198 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

199 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 16, 2025 07:40 AM (ppG5b)

200 100

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:40 AM (aURVT)

201 uh-oh

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 07:40 AM (aURVT)

202 OTOH, if you draw the wrong attention to yourself you might find that you have stuff like that on your computer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

That really is a nightmare scenario.

You piss th3 government off, for whatever reason, and then you got sheriff deputies knocking down your door at 4 a.m. to arrest you for CP on your computer.

You can protest all day long for the rest of your life that it wasn’t yours and the government hacked your PC and planted it, big who is going to believe you?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:42 AM (6ydKt)

203 18 USC 1001:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be not more than 8 years.

Also opens you up to felony murder charges.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 16, 2025 07:47 AM (Da7Vv)

204 You can protest all day long for the rest of your life that it wasn’t yours and the government hacked your PC and planted it, big who is going to believe you?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 16, 2025 07:42 AM (6ydKt)

If you are Paul Krugman, apparently everyone (but me).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 16, 2025 07:49 AM (QPCEj)

205 Maybe your mama just walked down to Chick-Fil-A.

Posted by: GWB at September 16, 2025 07:55 AM (RTQn+)

206 Seems like that would make him an accomplice after the fact.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 16, 2025 07:35 AM (QPCEj)

Yep. Even if he wasn't a conspirator.
But, then I'd crawl up his backside with a microscope and examine every facet of his life the last 10 years, to make sure he wasn't a conspirator.

Posted by: GWB at September 16, 2025 08:00 AM (RTQn+)

207 Looks like someone should have nooded.

Posted by: GWB at September 16, 2025 08:01 AM (RTQn+)

208 207 Looks like someone should have nooded.
Posted by: GWB at September 16, 2025 08:01 AM (RTQn+)

198 JJ is nood.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 16, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

199 nood!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 16, 2025 07:40 AM (ppG5b)

Posted by: m at September 16, 2025 08:07 AM (aURVT)

209 @130/Thomas Bender: "Now don't get me wrong, I hate Windows but unless you are doing something where you absolutely need to boot into Linux, there are better alternatives."

Thomas, I think I might hate Windows 11 even more than you. ;-)

I don't trust it on data confidentiality and security any further than I could comfortably spit out a dead rat. Further, it keeps annoying me with pop-ups requesting that I connect to a network (nope) and that I update my Windows security software (a fair request, but I'm not hooking this to a network.)

Since Windows won't stop being annoying, Linux Mint gets the opportunity to be the main OS and Windows can be in the stand-by partition in case I ever find I need it. (Doubtful, but possible.)

At the end of the day, user files are transferred to a desktop workstation via USB stick. The laptop is literally just a "taking notes" machine for use in meetings. That's it, that's all.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 16, 2025 10:34 AM (O7YUW)

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