Daily Tech News 15 November 2025

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There is no hope. There are also no socks. (Apple Insider)

That Apple sock? The thing they called the "iPhone Pocket" even though it is neither an iPhone nor a pocket? That thing that costs less than a dollar to make and they are charging $230 for?

You can't buy one.

Because it has already sold out.
Half of American households still have cable TV. (Business Inside)

The surprising number is the reverse of what the article thinks it is.

Tech News

It's always lupus: The autoimmune disease lupus - which despite the memes is a real thing - may be triggered by the Epstein-Barr virus. (NBC)

Most people have Epstein-Barr in their systems, making it hard to track this down. It parks in your body and just sits there, menacingly.

The thing is that it infects lymphocytes, and the rate of infected lymphocytes in lupus patients is 25 times higher than in the general population. That doesn't prove a causal effect but it's a hell of a correlation.
Reviewing the Ubiquiti Mini Flex, a tiny managed 2.5gb Ethernet switch. (Serve the Home)

About $40, which is a good price for a 2.5gb switch, and a very good price for a managed switch. It's Ubiquiti so it's part of their UniFi system and you have to use their software to manage it and not just a web browser, but even without that it's a small, unobtrusive, inexpensive switch that can be powered over PoE or USB-C.
IBM filed a patent for Euler's continued fraction formula. (LeetArxiv)

I think Leonhard Euler can probably claim prior art, or could have if he hadn't died in 1783.

IBM didn't claim some specific novel application of Euler's work, either; they claimed the formula itself.

Incandescent Moon Interlude

There's a name for this: A Nicoll-Dyson laser. It was proposed in 2005 by James Nicoll for powering spaceships over vast distances. As he points out in the comments on the video - a rare exception to Rule One* - vaporising planets was never its intended purpose, merely a happy accident.

* Don't read the comments.

Transcendent Teal Interlude

In H. P. Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space he wrote about a strange material that emitted a colour that didn't exist anywhere on the electromagnetic spectrum. That sounds wild, but in fact imaginary colours are real - imaginary, but still real - and you're about to see one.

(Maybe. Some people don't report anything special, but it worked for me and it was rather startling.)

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Turn the laser around. Please.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at November 15, 2025 04:00 AM (cRhQI)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 15, 2025 04:01 AM (pLaQB)

4 >>>That Apple sock? The thing they called the "iPhone Pocket"

It looks like one of those, what do you call 'em: banana hammocks?

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

5 There is no hope. There are also no socks. (Apple Insider)

That Apple sock? The thing they called the "iPhone Pocket" even though it is neither an iPhone nor a pocket? That thing that costs less than a dollar to make and they are charging $230 for?

You can't buy one.

Because it has already sold out.

Fools and there money are soon parted.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 15, 2025 04:02 AM (pLaQB)

6 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 15, 2025 04:21 AM (+qU29)

7 The color thing is cool. Bekah grows on you; her voice is a little startling at first.

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 04:23 AM (RuTUS)

8 Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn the Beat Around

and a feather boa!

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 04:29 AM (RuTUS)

9 People break out in worship song at Sam's club:

https://tinyurl.com/2zkrvdmr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 04:30 AM (IeCgc)

10 Vicki Sue Robinson (May 31, 1954 – April 27, 2000)

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 04:31 AM (RuTUS)

11 Dog jumps into lake to save little fawn from drowning:

https://tinyurl.com/4sp7bw9k

Faithpot site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 04:36 AM (ecekB)

12 Kindhearted police officer takes elderly woman to hair appt . You can skip over the description if you have an interest and scroll down to bottom left where it says" play.":

https://tinyurl.com/5wd69f27

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 04:40 AM (ecekB)

13 Somebody I knew had a near death experience and she saw her deceased dad walking in a meadow of flowers. She also said she saw colors there which she couldn't describe .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 04:50 AM (ecekB)

14 Young Christian couple sings "In the sweet by and by.":

https://tinyurl.com/2mwmaysa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 04:52 AM (ecekB)

15 Good morning. CROATOAN!

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 15, 2025 05:01 AM (72gFP)

16 NAOTAORC?

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 05:03 AM (RuTUS)

17
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 15, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)

18 "Because it has already sold out."

I should be surprised, but I'm not. Apple's customer base is fairly obsessive.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 15, 2025 05:18 AM (O7YUW)

19 And a gift for J.J. In case he stops in here.
Sybil leaves Basil- Fawlty Towers because we were talking about Prunella Scales the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN-x-2hp86I

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 05:23 AM (j3j1r)

20 18 "Because it has already sold out."

I should be surprised, but I'm not. Apple's customer base is fairly obsessive.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 15, 2025 05:18 AM (O7YUW)

That's more grumpy than recalcitrant.

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 05:24 AM (RuTUS)

21 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 15, 2025 05:25 AM (XQo4F)

22 I tried to watch the color video, but the girl was too annoying.

Also the color was clearly seafoam green, not teal.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 15, 2025 05:26 AM (i00+Z)

23 A happy Saturn's Day evening and morning to all! The color vid is almost fifteen minutes long. Is it worth going through?

I'm up, sorta, and sipping coffee and remembering a strange dream. Roy Rogers was visiting Noo Awlins with Trigger, and I met him at his hotel. Not sure if I worked there or was visiting. He thought the levee at the end of the avenue bordered a flood plain, and I had to tell him, "No, Roy, thats the entire width of the Mississippi River." I asked if I could borrow Trigger to run an errand, and he said yes. So here's your intrepid correspondent, riding Roy's big palomino across the big river bridge on a pedestrian walkway (which does not exist in real life) . . . (cont.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

24

Good morning, good people. A fine morning to have buttermilk biscuits and sausage gravy, that's been a stranger to our table for some inexplicable reason.

Later on,

older daughter will stop by with a 3lb corned venison roast. One of the tastier ways to eat deer meat ever.

And as usual, may all effort from you result in maximum benefit in all things, with maximum heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 15, 2025 05:44 AM (vFbHf)

25 (cont.) . . . to visit somebody on the West Bank. I needed to give Trigger some water -- it was hot, as usual. So I found myself wading through mud and water almost up to my knees in the guy's back yard. For some reason I couldn't see Trigger there. But a guy was giving out treats to a raft of neighborhood cats. When I got close I saw that he was giving them little samples from a toothpaste tube. I was saying, "That's not good for cats," when I woke up.

Melatonin. Hell of a drug.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

26 Still didn't get up yet

Posted by: Skip at November 15, 2025 05:47 AM (+qU29)

27 I watchedthe video up until the color experiment. I certainly saw the "psychedelic teal" field, and there was something, a vertical band, a bit darker off to the right edge of the screen, still in the green category. Was that what she was trying for?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

28 Wasn't sure if the eye conditioning for seeing a variation of cyan started with Bekah's hair or not, it didn't. I saw the color to the right of the video before it appeared in the video window. Interesting phenomenon, that said it's a version of cyan not teal.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 15, 2025 05:55 AM (2NHgQ)

29 Moving, now need coffee

Posted by: Skip at November 15, 2025 05:56 AM (+qU29)

30 "IBM didn't claim some specific novel application of Euler's work, either; they claimed the formula itself."

There should be a provision at the USPTO that if a company is caught doing something like this, first that specific patent is revoked on the spot. Second, their right to apply for patents is suspended for five years.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 15, 2025 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

31 The color thing? Drop some acid. Colors you've never seen before (trip the light fantastic).

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 15, 2025 05:59 AM (g8Ew8)

32 I thought that you cannot get a patent for something you did not invent.

Posted by: no one at November 15, 2025 06:06 AM (W7XSX)

33 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: No, I will not turn the beat around. I refuse to.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 15, 2025 06:07 AM (CwwHD)

34 I'm not much for seizing the day. I just kinda poke it with a stick.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 15, 2025 06:13 AM (XQo4F)

35 If I can need to process leaves today, dragged 4 tarps to back to get chopped up. It's a start

Posted by: Skip at November 15, 2025 06:19 AM (+qU29)

36 That is the first time I could understand the words
I thought it was "love to hear the passion" instead of "percussion" and had no idea what the singer looked like . Very lively Thanks so much , Pixy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 06:20 AM (rZCVI)

37 The Paolo, he is very familiar with this, how you say, hearing the passion.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 15, 2025 06:22 AM (XQo4F)

38 I thought that you cannot get a patent for something you did not invent.
Posted by: no one at November 15, 2025 06:06 AM (W7XSX)

Ideas and inventions have been stolen since the patent process has existed.

There are corporate spy networks that steal inventions (and then patent them) in every type of service or manufacturing.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 15, 2025 06:23 AM (g8Ew8)

39 Gotta say, I find Bekah in the color video to be cute. Not sure if I would find her "hot" in real life, but she's cute and funny.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

40 Watching this 'new color' video. Not convinced

Posted by: Skip at November 15, 2025 06:26 AM (+qU29)

41 Morning peeps.

Patents and licensing. Plenty of room for stupidity, greed and theft. The IT world is rife with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 15, 2025 06:28 AM (NwnyJ)

42 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 15, 2025 06:13 AM (XQo4F)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 15, 2025 06:28 AM (2sfNr)

43 Gotta say, I find Bekah in the color video to be cute. Not sure if I would find her "hot" in real life, but she's cute and funny.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

She'd be a closing time 9.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 15, 2025 06:29 AM (g8Ew8)

44 Stupidity, Greed & Theft was the garage band name for the group that would ultimately go on to call themselves Blood, Sweat & Tears.

Posted by: Music nerd at November 15, 2025 06:32 AM (XQo4F)

45 Cringe Warning: ( actually Super Turbo Hyper Cringe Warning )

Meet the next Congressman representing the great state of New York:

https://tinyurl.com/3s64e2ev

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 15, 2025 06:32 AM (PiwSw)

46 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 15, 2025 06:32 AM (bQ4nt)

47 The city is having elections today: city council, and some bond issues. One is supposed to be for infrastructure, repair and upkeep of roads and streets (BADLY needed). Another is for "affordable" housing, which I guess is for building homes for the homeless. How about building something for *me*?

Mayor-elect Helena says there will be no increase in taxes to pay for the above. Ah believes it when Ah sees it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

48 Most people have Epstein-Barr in their systems, making it hard to track this down

We can't find the files on it.

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 15, 2025 06:34 AM (7xrfc)

49 Meet the next Congressman representing the great state of New York:

https://tinyurl.com/3s64e2ev
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 15, 2025 06:32 AM (PiwSw)

New York deserves him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 15, 2025 06:35 AM (g8Ew8)

50 Schlossberg - we’re hitting that late Roman stage where the public face of government is nothing but clowns, fools, and degenerates, because their only real function is to provide entertainment to the masses; since the actual governance function has long since passed to the bureaucracy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2025 06:37 AM (GxM4+)

51 Mayor-elect Helena says there will be no increase in taxes to pay for the above. Ah believes it when Ah sees it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:34 AM (wzUl9)

Never ever believe that horseshit.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 15, 2025 06:37 AM (g8Ew8)

52 They're sitting on my desk. In the Fox News green room.

Posted by: Pamela Blondie at November 15, 2025 06:38 AM (XQo4F)

53 Schlossberg

is he singing "Springtime for Hitler" there?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 15, 2025 06:40 AM (4M26g)

54 Lupus: I recall "Doctor X" (Alan E. Nourse) in Intern saying that it can present symptoms mimicking other conditions or diseases. True?

Speaking of which: I always confused Vicki Sue Robinson with Andrea True of "More, More, More" fame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

55 Is it Lupus?

https://youtu.be/LNelnqsmnlM

Posted by: George Costanza at November 15, 2025 06:44 AM (XQo4F)

56 https://tinyurl.com/a9rnzb66
Powerlineblog.com week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at November 15, 2025 06:44 AM (+qU29)

57 Good morning morons

Too early for bad disco.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 15, 2025 06:44 AM (A0sqA)

58 Svengooli'es movie tonight is Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (196

, one of the color Hammer films with Christopher Lee. No Van Helsing character and no Peter Cushing in this one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

59 mornin yall. I am so done with Trump. When you have lost MTG and Tucker the next step is the Daily Mail and Politico.

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

60 The only way to “build things better” without raising taxes is the Elon Musk way; on Day One, fire 75% of all of the employees.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2025 06:47 AM (GxM4+)

61 A hiccup is a reminder to drink water. Stay hydrated!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 15, 2025 06:47 AM (WFC1M)

62 Hey. I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The Weekly World News at November 15, 2025 06:48 AM (XQo4F)

63
Schlossberg - we’re hitting that late Roman stage where the public face of government is nothing but clowns, fools, and degenerates

"Don't forget me!" - Incitatus

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 06:48 AM (tgvbd)

64 The last recourse of the scoundrel is to send out the legal notices.

James Mulligan who is under a dark cloud of suspicion due him seeming to use AI to help draw art he is selling at conventions is now threatening to sue content creators on YouTube for defamation after his attempt to file DMCA claims has failed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 15, 2025 06:49 AM (4M26g)

65 "Doctor X" said that the term "lupus erythematosus" means "disease of the red wolf" because of the characteristic flush the patient has -- though Wiki says the flush is "butterfly-shaped" rather than "wolf-shaped." Well, maybe the medical interpretation of the flush has changed in description in sixty years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

66 The only way to “build things better” without raising taxes is the Elon Musk way; on Day One, fire 75% of all of the employees.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2025

***
We'd certainly be better off with fewer city employees. They don't do much anyway except be annoying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:50 AM (wzUl9)

67 "Wiki says the flush is "butterfly-shaped" rather than "wolf-shaped." Well, maybe the medical interpretation of the flush has changed in description in sixty years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere"

Naw. It looks like a cow.

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

68 *pauses*

wait a minute.

We need to overlay "Pretty fly for a white guy" to that video of Schlossberg.

Ah aha.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 15, 2025 06:51 AM (4M26g)

69 He should just start using "Kennedy" as his middle name and pretentiously use all three names as if he were a female Supreme Court justice.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 15, 2025 06:54 AM (XQo4F)

70 The last recourse of the scoundrel is to send out the legal notices.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 15, 2025

***
The left has co-opted the observation, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," to mean that someone who espouses patriotic sentiments *is* a scoundrel. No. It means that when all other manipulation tricks have failed, the scoundrel resorts to patriotic appeals to his intended victims, or proclaims he is doing whatever he's doing from patriotic motives. Two different things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:54 AM (wzUl9)

71 Bonjour horde. I read the Telegraph newspaper this morning, because for some unknown reason they email it to me for free. Anyway, today's issue suggests the cure for a hangover is vigorous sex. They attribute this home medicine to Kingsley Amis, the British novelist from fifty years ago. Just thought I'd pass this on, in case anyone finds it helpful.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2025 06:57 AM (YfqPj)

72 Local news is still pushing SNAP sob stories, like this poor woman:

"One of those waiting for help is Tequaila Reid, a mother of five. She usually receives about $1,400 a month in SNAP benefits but expects to get only $900 this weekend. "

Only $900! How can you feed five keeds with only $900?? DAMN THAT TRUMP!!!

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

73 River of No Return w/ Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum is on Movies! Rory Calhoun is in it too. Though even in his prime he was never the right physical type, I always picture Lee Child's Jack Reacher as having Calhoun's face.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

74 Patriotism is the FIRST refuge of a scoundrel.

Posted by: Ambrose Bierce at November 15, 2025 07:00 AM (W7XSX)

75 The Paolo has helped many in need of relief with this, how you say, hangover.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 15, 2025 07:00 AM (XQo4F)

76 Anyway, today's issue suggests the cure for a hangover is vigorous sex. They attribute this home medicine to Kingsley Amis, the British novelist from fifty years ago. Just thought I'd pass this on, in case anyone finds it helpful.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2025

***
Tried it years and years ago with Mrs. Wolfus No. 2. Though you *forget* about the hangover for a while, it's still there afterward.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

77 Mom, we're outta Doritos and grape Nehi again!

Posted by: Tequaila Reid's seven year old at November 15, 2025 07:03 AM (XQo4F)

78 Only $900! How can you feed five keeds with only $900?? DAMN THAT TRUMP!!!
Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)
=====

1. You pay for her food
2. You pay higher prices for your food
3. You deal with her malnourished kids in school
4. She is paid to be entitled and ungrateful and lazy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 15, 2025 07:09 AM (A0sqA)

79 The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space, aka The Furry Thugs, are calmed down now that they've had their morning feed. Stirling for some reason was leaping all around the bed, including on me, starting at 2:30 this morning. I refused to let him get me up and managed to settle back to sleep, and into my dream as related above.

Little Dagny is hanging around the kitchen sink, hoping I'll turn the water on for her. She generally drinks from the fountain on the kitchen floor. I haven't seen Stirling using it very often.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 07:10 AM (wzUl9)

80 Naw. It looks like a cow.
Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

It's never a cow.

-----Dr Gregory House

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 15, 2025 07:10 AM (g8Ew8)

81 The lefty news is all about Epstein and MTG going crazy. Epstein has been such a dry hole for the Democrats and threatens to destroy Clinton more than anyone else, so you wonder what they see in the story. MTG and Trump have a broken relationship and Trump called yesterday for someone to primary her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2025 07:11 AM (LFuIc)

82 Tequaila Reid would not need even need SNAP if her baby daddies Tre’Varus De’Monte Kendrick, Shonquavious Dequan Mitchell, Da’Delveon Lamarcus Porter, and Dequarius Ramone Jones were not in jail.

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)

83 Local news is still pushing SNAP sob stories, like this poor woman:

"One of those waiting for help is Tequaila Reid, a mother of five. She usually receives about $1,400 a month in SNAP benefits but expects to get only $900 this weekend. "

Only $900! How can you feed five keeds with only $900?? DAMN THAT TRUMP!!!
Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025

***
"Tequaila"? Three guesses as to her ethnic group, and the first two are wrong.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 07:11 AM (wzUl9)

84 I think I used up my daily allotment of apostrophes typing that.

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

85 @76/Wolfus: "Tried it years and years ago with Mrs. Wolfus No. 2. Though you *forget* about the hangover for a while, it's still there afterward."

Experienced this myself. I think it's the increased blood pressure and blood flow that allows the headache to temporarily abate, but you're right: As soon as the 'festivities' are over, the headache comes back because the cause for it hasn't been dealt with.

Hangovers are due to a lack of hydration. Drink more water and lay down for a while, preferably sleeping if you can.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 15, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

86 The wife and beer meem is pretty lol

Posted by: Accomack at November 15, 2025 07:15 AM (JY+81)

87 Not long ago MTG was one of the "It Girls" of the GOP. Sassy. Full of mean tweets. Stronk.

She's totally lost her shit. The other 2-3 "It Girls" seem to have gone off the deep end as well. What gives?

Menopause?

/r

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 15, 2025 07:15 AM (NwnyJ)

88 Florida wants to hold its first bear hunt in a decade, saying the state has 6000 black bears.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2025 07:18 AM (8PiEp)

89 "What gives?

Menopause?"

Politicians. The scum that lives on sewer walls has more integrity.

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

90 Stop ridin' our ass. Our mamas were all sure we'd be highly paid running backs in the Southeastern Conference.

Posted by: TreVarus, Shonquavious, DaDelveon, and Dequarius at November 15, 2025 07:19 AM (XQo4F)

91 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 15, 2025 07:23 AM (5+Otm)

92
Her Majesty requested that put together some music on a stick for her to listen to on her drives around this great nation.

She said she also wanted some Broadway stuff on it. No big problem, we have some CDs and I have Amazon Music that I can stream and record. So we get to the "Evita" problem. It turns my stomach to have to include something that has a psychopathic homicidal maniac as a protagonist-commenter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:23 AM (tgvbd)

93 The local news asks:

"Tire pressure drops in the cold: Should I put air in my tires?"

The answer should be obvious, I think. Bring your tires inside at night.

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

94
She's totally lost her shit. The other 2-3 "It Girls" seem to have gone off the deep end as well. What gives?

Few women from either side of the aisle seem to avoid the allure of the Stronk Outspoken Woman Diva pose.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:25 AM (tgvbd)

95 Speaking of MTG. Goes to 𝕏.

https://tinyurl.com/2cozs8zb

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 15, 2025 07:29 AM (NwnyJ)

96 Re: Transcendent Teal Interlude

Brown isn't a real color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

Posted by: ethan saunders at November 15, 2025 07:29 AM (ysKxY)

97 Light outside. Time for me to shave and shower!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 15, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

98 "Brown isn't a real color"

What color is a dark orange?

Posted by: fd at November 15, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

99 Since someone has already posted the powerline link, and Sarah Hoyt is sleeping in this morning, here's the Midwest Chick's meme link - https://tinyurl.com/3kbw2cp2+

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 15, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

100 right with ya H7, no evita. not nohow. there's enough other Broadway show tunes out there ...

aren't there? I am startlingly ignorant of these matters, really

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 15, 2025 07:31 AM (5+Otm)

101 You need new tire heaters, miss.

Posted by: Mechanic at November 15, 2025 07:33 AM (Q+gd/)

102 MTG is from Georgia. She has been told to attack Trump from her nominal right position or be destroyed. Trump has confirmed her apostasy.
All right of center women will be given the same choice. My hunch is that they don’t expect MAGA to have legs as evidenced by election results.
Florida needs to go ape shit on pythons and all other foreign fauna.

Posted by: Accomack at November 15, 2025 07:34 AM (Bbhox)

103 “ Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.”

John 12:26

Posted by: Marcus T at November 15, 2025 07:35 AM (vIl3q)

104 I promised myself I'd buy a Les Paul if Trump won last year and it's sitting in my bedroom acclimating...

I figure I might as well do the Nero thing after this week, except with a Wah and some serious overdrive.

Posted by: jsg at November 15, 2025 07:36 AM (VM+VC)

105 The Treasury should start a penny buyback program at 2x their value. 50 pennies gets you a dollar. 500 pennies gets you ten dollars. 500000 pennies gets you a million dollars.

Posted by: A math studant at November 15, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

106 Just heard on Detroit news that the police chief of Hamtramck, who reached a settlement to resign instead of being fired for misconduct in office, has been offered a job in New York by Mandami. This police chief is, I believe, Muslim.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 15, 2025 07:37 AM (l7iez)

107
there's enough other Broadway show tunes out there ...

aren't there? I am startlingly ignorant of these matters, really
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 15, 2025 07:31 AM (5+Otm)

Some of the ones I've included so far:

Damn Yankees
Annie Get Your Gun
Anything Goes
Kiss Me Kate
Bye Bye Birdie
Camelot
Mame
Gypsy
Oklahoma!
Show Boat
South Pacific
The Sound of Music

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:38 AM (tgvbd)

108 Got to feel percussion.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 15, 2025 07:38 AM (wVcYX)

109 I want my Iphone pocket sock and I want it now!

Posted by: democrat goblin at November 15, 2025 07:39 AM (R/m4+)

110 Two woodpeckers are working on my dying tree

Posted by: Skip at November 15, 2025 07:40 AM (+qU29)

111 Just heard on Detroit news that the police chief of Hamtramck, who reached a settlement to resign instead of being fired for misconduct in office, has been offered a job in New York by Mandami. This police chief is, I believe, Muslim.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 15, 2025 07:37 AM (l7iez)
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Sounds about right. Tribe trumps everything.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 15, 2025 07:41 AM (IBQGV)

112 Some of the ones I've included so far:

Damn Yankees
Annie Get Your Gun
Anything Goes
Kiss Me Kate
Bye Bye Birdie
Camelot
Mame
Gypsy
Oklahoma!
Show Boat
South Pacific
The Sound of Music
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

My Fair Lady
Carousel

Posted by: Tuna at November 15, 2025 07:41 AM (lJ0H4)

113 You need new tire heaters, miss.
Posted by: Mechanic at November 15, 2025 07:33 AM (Q+gd/)

An order of Mrs. Douglass' hotscakes will keep 'em warm throughout the night.

Posted by: Eb Dawson, farmhand at November 15, 2025 07:41 AM (wVcYX)

114 Tequaila Reid would not need even need SNAP if her baby daddies Tre’Varus De’Monte Kendrick, Shonquavious Dequan Mitchell, Da’Delveon Lamarcus Porter, and Dequarius Ramone Jones were not in jail.

I played with Dequarius Ramone Jones and Rockwell at the Apollo Theater in 1984 on their "Somebody's Watching Me" tour.

Posted by: Zombie Tito Jackson at November 15, 2025 07:43 AM (R/m4+)

115 My Fair Lady
Carousel
Posted by: Tuna

The King and I
West Side Story

Posted by: Tuna at November 15, 2025 07:44 AM (lJ0H4)

116
My Fair Lady
Carousel
Posted by: Tuna at November 15, 2025 07:41 AM (lJ0H4)

Got them. And

The Producers
Hello, Dolly!
The Student Prince
Lots of Gilbert and Sullivan

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:45 AM (tgvbd)

117 Lots of Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Can't go wrong with G&S

Posted by: Tuna at November 15, 2025 07:46 AM (lJ0H4)

118 It turns my stomach to have to include something that has a psychopathic homicidal maniac as a protagonist-commenter.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:23 AM (tgvbd)

I think that’s why the film version got rid of any references to who was originally written to be, and made the narrator nameless. I think I know what Weber was trying to do intellectually, have two different types of revolutionaries critique each other; but it just never really worked on that level.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 15, 2025 07:47 AM (GxM4+)

119
Then, there's the general Andrew Lloyd Webber problem. I included stuff from Phantom of the Opera, but ALW shows in general have one good song amid an ocean of AndySludge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:47 AM (tgvbd)

120 My hunch is that they don’t expect MAGA to have legs as evidenced by election results.

The issue with MAGA is that 98% of all government officials who adhere to that philosophy are in the administration. If the shitstains in Congress started acting like they gave half a shit about the country and the people they'd get more support.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 15, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

121 42nd Street

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2025 07:48 AM (5c6LT)

122 "Two woodpeckers are working on my dying tree."

Is that what you kids are calling it now?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at November 15, 2025 07:49 AM (XQo4F)

123 Chorus Line

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 15, 2025 07:49 AM (5c6LT)

124 oh, that's an outstanding lineup!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 15, 2025 07:49 AM (5+Otm)

125 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 15, 2025 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

126 Lupus: I recall "Doctor X" (Alan E. Nourse) in Intern saying that it can present symptoms mimicking other conditions or diseases. True?

Thank you, Ladies and Germs!

And now I'd like to do...Gout!

"Oh, ow! Me foot is swollen like a cantaloupe and hurts. Ouchy!"

*applause, laughter*

And who doesn't love.....Malaria!

"Oooooh, ouch! I got parasites in me veins. And I'm running a high fever and the parasites! Eeek!"

*applause, laughter*

And my big finish....Parasomia!!!

....

Posted by: Lupus Comedy Night at November 15, 2025 07:51 AM (iJfKG)

127
Didn't know we had so many homosexuals here.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:52 AM (tgvbd)

128 Didn't "The Phantom of the Opera" just have one tune being sung, over, and over, and over?

Posted by: no one at November 15, 2025 07:53 AM (W7XSX)

129
I recall "Doctor X" (Alan E. Nourse) in Intern saying that it can present symptoms mimicking other conditions or diseases. True?

"Intern" is a great book. Need to track down "The Making of a Surgeon" as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 15, 2025 07:53 AM (tgvbd)

130 So a socialist and a clueless grifter that wants to be President walk into a bar...

https://tinyurl.com/ffb7mv4p

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 15, 2025 07:53 AM (a1415)

131 Svengooli'es movie tonight is Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (196, one of the color Hammer films with Christopher Lee. No Van Helsing character and no Peter Cushing in this one.

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It does have the late, beautiful Veronica Carlson in it though.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 15, 2025 07:54 AM (qBdHI)

132 @92/Hadrian the Seventh: "She said she also wanted some Broadway stuff on it."

"Anne of Green Gables" might work:
https://tinyurl.com/b7jan73x

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 15, 2025 07:54 AM (O7YUW)

133 Good morning. Peaceful here - in woods, waiting for sunrise.

Posted by: scampydog at November 15, 2025 07:54 AM (dPKvx)

134 The psycho who went berserk in Alina Hubba-Hubba's New Jersey office has been arrested.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 15, 2025 07:59 AM (Y1sOo)

135 Greetings from the Carolinas.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 15, 2025 08:01 AM (XqFM2)

136 I don’t know if I saw anything special. I might have needed to up my phone brightness

Posted by: banana Dream at November 15, 2025 08:02 AM (FWYDO)

137 The Apollo crews said that the moon rocks and dust has an odor to it, like burnt gunpowder. They got their spacesuits dirty, tracked in a lot of it and everyone described it pretty much the same way.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 15, 2025 08:02 AM (dkvw6)

138 Fiddler On The Roof

Posted by: Tevye at November 15, 2025 08:03 AM (wVcYX)

139 Noodus Coffeecanus

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 15, 2025 08:04 AM (eZ5tL)

140 That whole Apple sock business just shows that there will never be an incentive for Apple products to not be absolute shit because there is no link between quality, utility, and demand. Just “must buy new shiny, give all money” And as a result, their offerings have become crap. Wasn’t always the case. But things have never been the same since Steve died and probably never will.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 15, 2025 08:08 AM (FWYDO)

141 "Cats" only had one good song, yet it ran forever.

Posted by: Mr. Sheffield at November 15, 2025 08:10 AM (oftw2)

142 Second, their right to apply for patents is suspended for five years.

No problem at all, just form a subsidiary that does nothing more than manage patents.

People who manage real-estate do something similar all the time, different LLCs for different properties so that the umbrella organization doesn't get sued out of existence, but the damage is limited to one entity.

Same idea. Create an organization that owns patents and does nothing more than manage licensing or be set up for selling to a larger entity.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 15, 2025 08:17 AM (a4flb)

143 That whole Apple sock business just shows that there will never be an incentive for Apple products to not be absolute shit because there is no link between quality,

I dunno... whenever I feel an impulse to upgrade my software development machine, I keep eyeing the Mac Book Pro because it does represent top quality performance and build.

I just can't get past the fact it can't be upgraded and I can never justify the cost. In tech, wait a few months and the next tier equals or exceeds today's top tier.

Looking at the AMD 395 AI Pro Max in the mini-pc market, knowing that in a few months something way better will be enclosed in a better container.

The same thing in EVs. Buy today's top model and next year's lower tier will have better range and better performance than the today's State of the Art.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 15, 2025 08:23 AM (a4flb)

144 134 The psycho who went berserk in Alina Hubba-Hubba's New Jersey office has been arrested.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 15, 2025 07:59 AM (Y1sOo)

Yay!

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 08:38 AM (RuTUS)

145 Fox News

52 minutes ago
— Fox News' Chanley Painter reports the latest on the arrest of Keith Lisa, who is accused of attacking Alina Habba's office.

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 09:05 AM (RuTUS)

146 Keith Michael Lisa

Posted by: m at November 15, 2025 09:06 AM (RuTUS)

147 He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.

Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.

Posted by: SMOD at November 15, 2025 09:13 AM (GITLP)

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