Daily Tech News 16 November 2025

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The jury in a federal court case has sided with medical equipment manufacturer Masimo and awarded them $643 million in their lawsuit against Apple over patent infringement in the Apple Watch. (Tech Crunch)

The patent applies to blood oxygen monitoring, which is a little curious since such devices are now everywhere.

Also - according to Apple - this applies to a single very specific patent that expired in 2022.

Of course, Apple would say that. But it also doesn't mean it's not true.

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I was reading through the service manual for the HP 9121 disk drive that I found on Bitsavers - it rained this weekend - and it turns out it did in fact run at 600 rpm, twice as fast as was common for other 3.5" drives.

I then asked Grok to check some details for me, and was swiftly reminded that Grok is less reliable than random half-remembered facts I read in a long out-of-print publication twenty years ago.

I asked if there were any historical 10-bit processor architectures, and it gave me a couple of examples from the late 60s and early 70s. It even gave me the detailed opcode format of one of the models and a bunch of links for further details.

The machines were real.

They were not 10 bit, though; they were 16 bits, which is hardly a rarity.

The opcode format was entirely fictional, which is actually a little impressive. Very minimal but it could have worked.

The links were also entirely fictional.
Some models of Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs have more cores. (WCCFTech)

The 250K, which replaces the 245K, and the 270K, which replaces the 265K, both add 4 efficiency cores, taking them from 6 + 8 to 6 + 12 and 8 + 12 to 8 + 16 respectively.

The high-end 290K is basically a 285K but 1.8% faster... And also just 1.8% faster than the new 270K making it ENTIRELY POINTLESS.
Copy-and-paste is now the leading cause of corporate data leaks. (SCWorld)

Because people are copying and pasting data into AI to get it to lie to them.
Google has filed a sweeping lawsuit against one of those companies that are constantly spamming you with fake SMS messages. (BGR)
Google's legal action is comprehensive and is intent on completely dismantling Lighthouse's operations. The search giant is bringing claims under RICO, the Lanham Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
I'm not sure yet how it will turn out that this is a bad thing.
No uncertainty with this one, though: A group of developers has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to restore a lost video game AND IT'S FUCKING CONCORD. (Aftermath)

Concord came out in August last year and quickly achieved notoriety for two reasons: First, it cost $400 million and took eight years to develop, and second, it made absolutely no money whatsoever because it was so bad Sony shut down the servers and refunded everyone after just two weeks.
Concord wasn't a bad game
Yes it was. Objectively so. It cost $400 million to make, sold just 25,000 copies in total at $40, and was gone in just two weeks.

Until now. Until now, you bastards.
The International Energy Agency now predicts we will reach Peak Oil by 2050 maybe. (CNBC)

Okay.
Scientists have confirmed what is inside the Moon. (Science Alert)

Cheese sauce?
A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron.
Ah. Cheese and garlic sauce. An important distinction.

Thanks scientists.
Turkey is stuffed, seasoned, and in the oven. We'll see how it goes.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: That HP 9121 270k disk drive cost nearly $1200 in 1982. Which used to be a lot... And will buy you a whole computer these days so I guess it still is.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 guten morgen, ♠ horde

Posted by: clarence at November 16, 2025 04:00 AM (cRhQI)

3 >>>Turkey is stuffed, seasoned, and in the oven. We'll see how it goes.

Yay!
What time should we be there?

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:02 AM (RuTUS)

4 July.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

5 July 19th?

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

6 musical interlude isn't.

Posted by: clarence at November 16, 2025 04:06 AM (cRhQI)

7 Well, that's annoying. Blocked in North and South America. Hang on...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 04:10 AM (BLOW1)

8 6 musical interlude isn't.
Posted by: clarence at November 16, 2025 04:06 AM (cRhQI)

is

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

9 The video should video now. For some reason the original 4:3 version is blocked but the widescreen version - which just adds black bars at the sides - is not.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 04:13 AM (BLOW1)

10 BOING!

Got distracted ordering another health supplement to add to the million supplement pills we already take every day.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 04:13 AM (POgqv)

11 yay! 🎶🎶

Posted by: clarence at November 16, 2025 04:14 AM (cRhQI)

12 5 July 19th?
Posted by: m

Lizzie Borden's birthday?

Sure, I guess.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 04:16 AM (BLOW1)

13 Good morning. He who laughs last is slow to get the joke.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 16, 2025 04:16 AM (y+qgR)

14 July 19th?
Posted by: m

Lizzie Borden's birthday?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 04:16 AM (BLOW1)
-

Sorry you aksed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 04:17 AM (POgqv)

15 PSA for MacBook customers.

Amazon in the US has the MacBook Air M4 on sale. The version with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD is going for $750 while the version with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD can be had for $950. This translates to 25% and 21% discounts from retail which for Apple gear is is a pretty good price.

And, yes, nobody really cares about your Linux fetish. Let it rest for a change.

Posted by: Tim Cook, Apple CEO at November 16, 2025 04:18 AM (uv8gn)

16 laptop speakers do not do that song justice.

Posted by: clarence at November 16, 2025 04:18 AM (cRhQI)

17 14
Sorry you aksed.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 04:17 AM (POgqv)

; )

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:19 AM (RuTUS)

18 July 19th?
Posted by: m

Lizzie Borden's birthday?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 04:16 AM (BLOW1)
-

Whacksing nostalgic.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 04:20 AM (POgqv)

19 And, yes, nobody really cares about your Linux fetish. Let it rest for a change.
Posted by: Tim Cook, Apple CEO
----
Well, if you had not taken unix-based code and botched it, we would not bitch about it so much.

Posted by: clarence at November 16, 2025 04:22 AM (cRhQI)

20 And, yes, nobody really cares about your Linux fetish. Let it rest for a change.
Posted by: Tim Cook, Apple CEO

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:23 AM (RuTUS)

21 I love the harmonica work on Suicide Blonde ... but that's just me ...

Posted by: Adriane the Ghost in the Machine Critic . . . at November 16, 2025 04:30 AM (3ZUWJ)

22 18 July 19th?
Posted by: m

Lizzie Borden's birthday?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 04:16 AM (BLOW1)
-

Whacksing nostalgic.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 04:20 AM (POgqv)

Over there by that waltzing Matilda.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:32 AM (RuTUS)

23 Since this is the tech thread:

https://tinyurl.com/3vf7h86v

Grok provides some background info:

https://tinyurl.com/bdf3spyr

I want one for Chanukah!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 04:32 AM (POgqv)

24 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 04:36 AM (+qU29)

25 >>>Grok is less reliable than random half-remembered facts I read in a long out-of-print publication twenty years ago

What's to be done.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:40 AM (RuTUS)

26 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 16, 2025 04:44 AM (iNUL3)

27
We could fly
'Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

28 The International Energy Agency now predicts we will reach Peak Oil by 2050 maybe. (CNBC)

Eh, who cares. Climate Change will kill us all by 2035. Maybe.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 16, 2025 04:50 AM (iNUL3)

29 Second cuppa! Peut-être it will sharpen up my brain. I have my doubts....

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 04:54 AM (RuTUS)

30 A group of developers has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to restore a lost video game (Concord).

Are they crazy? Is that their problem?

G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2025 05:04 AM (O7YUW)

31 A group of developers has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to restore a lost video game AND IT'S FUCKING CONCORD.

This makes perfect sense. A lot of extremely woke developers have had a bad year so resurrecting Concord is the perfect culture war shot that’s inside their skill set. And of course it’s being coordinated through Reddit.

On the flip side this means some enterprising person could then patch the game so all the characters are thin and attractive, or the gay characters say “caaaaaahck” constantly or whatever else would offend Reddit.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 16, 2025 05:05 AM (QZThv)

32 Your news might be getting a bit out of date on the revival of Concord. Sony is apparently DMCAing videos of the game being played on custom servers. And they've paused invites to the custom servers because of that.

Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2025 05:07 AM (3tZV2)

33 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 16, 2025 05:09 AM (bQ4nt)

34
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 16, 2025 05:15 AM (tljrc)

35 Morning, olddog

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 16, 2025 05:15 AM (VmDLh)

36 { Lawsuit launched by Google against Lighthouse }

"I'm not sure yet how it will turn out that this is a bad thing."

Google isn't suing to stop the evil.

Google is suing to remove the competing evil so that they can take over the scamming operations directly, and become more evil.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2025 05:15 AM (O7YUW)

37 A group of developers has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to restore a lost video game (Concord).

There's no mention of this in the article, but maybe they were using the project as a space to train young coders--like a tech camp.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 05:16 AM (RuTUS)

38 Morning, Cybersmythe.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 16, 2025 05:25 AM (bQ4nt)

39 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 16, 2025 05:26 AM (AN2gy)

40 We have achieved a quorum of fluffies.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 16, 2025 04:16 AM (y+qgR)
Posted by: fluffy at November 16, 2025 05:26 AM (AN2gy)

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 05:29 AM (RuTUS)

41 G'morning, all!
56.8 degrees out.

14 degrees warmer than this time yesterday.

I think this cold snap has broken.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 16, 2025 05:31 AM (a1415)

42 Apparently Concord can give Springfield a run for its money. There are quite a few in America (I did not count).

There are four in New England alone. I have been to Concord, VT, didn't know about Concord, ME.

Posted by: fluffy at November 16, 2025 05:33 AM (AN2gy)

43 And a bleary-eyed good morning to you all. I'm going to slug down some coffee and go sit in a deer blind. I passed up a shot at a decent buck yesterday in the hopes that a better one would come along. Hopefully that gamble pays off.

Posted by: PabloD at November 16, 2025 05:34 AM (PXp/I)

44 >>> We have achieved a quorum of fluffies.

When I first showed up around Memorial Day (yes /that/ Memorial Day) there was a total of four.

Posted by: fluffy at November 16, 2025 05:35 AM (AN2gy)

45 Hmm. Should I buy a Wollemi pine?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 05:38 AM (BLOW1)

46 I know it wasn't 6am yet it's still dark outside

Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 05:39 AM (+qU29)

47 Vocal group sings old time gospel song , "His eye is on the sparrow"

https://tinyurl.com/2s3mehke

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 16, 2025 05:39 AM (dSKRp)

48 32 Your news might be getting a bit out of date on the revival of Concord. Sony is apparently DMCAing videos of the game being played on custom servers. And they've paused invites to the custom servers because of that.

Posted by: buzzion

Thanks, Sony. And if you need to borrow a stake and mallet, I'm here for you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 05:40 AM (BLOW1)

49 >>> Should I buy a Wollemi pine?

To plant or for a Christmas tree?

Posted by: fluffy at November 16, 2025 05:43 AM (AN2gy)

50 I'm thinking to plant. It should do well where I live.

Only thing that gives me pause is that it can grow over a hundred feet tall given time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 05:44 AM (BLOW1)

51 Don't plant it near the house, or at a spot where prevailing winds might blow it over on the house.

It looks like a fir tree.

Posted by: fluffy at November 16, 2025 05:47 AM (AN2gy)

52 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 16, 2025 05:48 AM (XQo4F)

53 One of the things you’ll hear about the Apollo program - “I’ve got more computing power on my watch than they had on the spacecraft”. And that’s sort of true.

But the computing power was on the ground, at mission control. Whole rooms of IBM 360s to crunch numbers. When 13 had their crisis, the government basically commandeered every mainframe in the university system to crunch even more numbers.

The cool thing on Apollo was the DSKY, which must have looked pretty high-tech in ‘65. Neil Armstrong quipped in a press conference that it probably “cost more thsn some small countries”.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 05:53 AM (JmDaf)

54 They're very beautiful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemia

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 05:54 AM (RuTUS)

55

Good morning, good people. Cold again, another hard frost. If you didn't cover your plants, calling hours extend until tomorrow.

Meanwhile, may all effort from you be rewarded in a most beneficial manner, with maximum heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 16, 2025 05:57 AM (vFbHf)

56 Stuffing a turkey is not advised.
Everything Big Corp does is to benefit Big Commie Government because Big Corp is a cutout for Big Commie Government.

Posted by: Accomack at November 16, 2025 06:00 AM (RBD82)

57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemia

The growth rate is fairly fast in good conditions, with the tallest reliably measured cultivated specimen being one planted in 2009 in Finistère, France, which had reached 8.1 metres tall when 14 years old in 2023.

Like you said!

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:00 AM (RuTUS)

58 10 hours after going to bed I am vertical again
Nedz coffee

Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 06:01 AM (+qU29)

59
Good morning, Hordians. Off to Mass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 16, 2025 06:04 AM (tgvbd)

60 bbc

Nearly 70 schools to close in Australia over fears of asbestos in play sand
Kmart and Target issued a recall for the products, which were found to have traces of asbestos in some samples.

https://www.bbc.com/news/
articles/cnve03m0d94o

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:06 AM (RuTUS)

61 Man writes on "counting the cost" of following Jesus and Luke 14:25-35. The devotional is followed by a reflection and prayer:

https://tinyurl.com/bp83x8am

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 16, 2025 06:06 AM (2sfNr)

62 Not funny. Read thread:

https://tinyurl.com/4crs6eus

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 06:07 AM (POgqv)

63 Grok wants to please you, with whatever you want. Like the hive characters on the Apple program PLUR1BUS, if you want a hand grenade, y
ou will get a hand grenade

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 16, 2025 06:13 AM (+qFxn)

64 Huh? Evening already in AU, and morning for some other people? Well. Will wonders never cease. H'lo, all.

If I'd had $1200 to spare in 1982, I'd have bought a Rolex, new. I think a Sub was about $800 in those days. Not sure, though.

A spare $1200 then might have bought a better used car than the '65 Mercury Park Lane I drove then. Not to run it down; it drove and rode quite well, the A/C was good, and it had the power rear window (the "Breezeway" option) that ran down behind the rear seat. It could have used a paint job, though; the white was a bit faded.

So. Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

65 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Money for nothing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:17 AM (ZEYzj)

66 Not just in Wisconsin, JJ. Watch your six, people:

https://tinyurl.com/rxjspwvj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 06:20 AM (POgqv)

67 I actually slept a good 6.5 hours last night. Amazin'.

It's supposed to be 60 F. outside now. The CBS outlet's website has 64. Better'n a poke in the eye with a sharp stick -- or any stick for that matter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

68 56 Stuffing a turkey is not advised.

Posted by: Accomack

Ah. I just looked that up. I'll keep that in mind.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 16, 2025 06:22 AM (BLOW1)

69 Reading the cyber security and AI data leaking article had me thinking. Do any of you Morons know if SC Media and the CRA (Cyber Research Alliance) are in fact legitimate?

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 16, 2025 06:24 AM (hpnR6)

70 Da voters here approved the bond issues for "affordable" housing, road and infrastructure repair and maintenance, and drainage -- the last two BADLY needed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

71 Sounds like Pixy is pining for something.
Aren't we all?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 16, 2025 06:26 AM (XQo4F)

72 eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
Nov 12
people aren't gonna believe in ten years how much cachet universities used to have and how thoroughly they blew it, and how quickly

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:27 AM (RuTUS)

73 I have no idea how long my coffee was percolating

Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 06:29 AM (+qU29)

74 Why do we pine for things?

Why don't we hemlock? Or cedar? Or alder?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:30 AM (ZEYzj)

75 people aren't gonna believe in ten years how much cachet universities used to have and how thoroughly they blew it, and how quickly
Posted by: m at November 16, 2025

***
I used to respect the faculty and staff at my former employer. Then the supposed "leading scientific/medical institution" went all in for the Sniffle Scare Hoax and threatened us with firing if we didn't take the Clot Shot. My respect gauge sank down to zero, and I was glad to be outta there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

76 Holy orders= college degrees

Posted by: Accomack at November 16, 2025 06:31 AM (T1QkV)

77 Then the supposed "leading scientific/medical institution" went all in for the Sniffle Scare Hoax
-------------
So did OHSU in Portland. A teaching hospital, no less.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:33 AM (ZEYzj)

78 Why don't we hemlock? Or cedar? Or alder?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:30 AM (ZEYzj)

Oh, yew.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 06:34 AM (06Hmj)

79 The oximeter on the Apple watch is crap. And I have a real oximeter to compare it to. I couldn't get readings when my O2 was low. Use the oximeter and had no problems. I stopped wearing the Apple wwtch although I haven't shut down cell service for it yet. I got tired of fiddling with it.

Also 2011-2012 Macbooks selling for $50-80 on Ebay. They run just fine on Linux. I am upgrading mine first but I have installed several distros on the Thinkpad in the last couple of days. I'm keeping Omarchy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 16, 2025 06:35 AM (EW4eo)

80 Then the supposed "leading scientific/medical institution" went all in for the Sniffle Scare Hoax
-------------
So did OHSU in Portland. A teaching hospital, no less.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025

***
My former employer has its medical school and hospital complex all over downtown now. I can just imagine the enforced compliance in 2020-2022.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

81 Also 2011-2012 Macbooks selling for $50-80 on Ebay. They run just fine on Linux. I am upgrading mine first but I have installed several distros on the Thinkpad in the last couple of days. I'm keeping Omarchy.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 16, 2025 06:35 AM (EW4eo)

I just stuck xubuntu on an old chromebook. Works pretty good.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 06:36 AM (06Hmj)

82 Sickamo Street.

Posted by: Eromero at November 16, 2025 06:38 AM (i+bC1)

83 "Why don't we hemlock? Or cedar? Or alder?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:30 AM (ZEYzj)

Oh, yew.
Posted by: Warai-otoko "

Sometimes we willow.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

84

We always cooked the stuffing separate then stuffed the bird. Never had a bit of problem. And Ma made giblet gravy which I still love. She taught me how to make it, along with a ton of other stuff. The woman should have been a chef she was that good.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 16, 2025 06:39 AM (vFbHf)

85 Time I changed, stretched, and hit the road for my workout. Gotta start the week on a high note. Maybe I can manage four sessions this week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

86 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:40 AM (ZEYzj)

87 “Extraordinary Delusions and Madness of Crowds”

I wore a dust mask one (1) time, for about a half hour, at a job application/test. It was absolutely surreal seeing everyone lined up wearing them.

Towards the end of that episode, when people in public had stopped, I arrived at a convenience store one evening. This portly Karen pulls in the parking lot about the same time, dutifully wearing her dust mask. She makes a big production of washing her hands in alcohol gel, whilst giving me the stink eye from 25 meters. “What, you’re not wearing a dust mask!?”

I was so hoping she was gonna give me a lecture.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 06:40 AM (v9Y2Y)

88 MTG is going to get slapped down with the TRUMP!!! curse. Mark my words.

Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

89 .I guess those 'developers' sexually love some Concorde

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2025 06:40 AM (Ydr2P)

90 The Trump Curse is a very simply phenomena.

They are Wylie Coyote and they WILL get their roadrunner.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2025 06:42 AM (Ydr2P)

91 My respect gauge sank down to zero, and I was glad to be outta there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

My little employer finagled letters for us from the DoD saying "you may not impede this person's travel or bar them from a site for any reason or we will throw *your* ass in jail and make your life hell", because almost none of us got the clot shot but we had to travel for work on a DoD project.

"Where's your vaccine passport?"

"Right here, buddy."

"Oh.... Oh! Uh..."

That's how you get respect. (My employer. Not the DoD.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 06:43 AM (06Hmj)

92 "liberal commentator Harry Sisson declared: 'MAGA is fractured. Trump doesn't have the hold he once did.

'This could be the beginning of the end,' he suggested.'"

Oh, they have him now. MTG will be their savior.

Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

93 88 MTG is going to get slapped down with the TRUMP!!! curse. Mark my words.
Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
@EsotericCD
Nov 15
POLL: MTG will survive her 2026 primary, and Trump will be an immeasurably weakened lame duck afterwards:
47% You are right
20% You are wrong
33% You sick perverted freak
1,461 votes • Final results

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:43 AM (RuTUS)

94 The speed at which “higher education” collapsed is astonishing. The rot must have been festering longer than most people realized.

Tenure was supposed to prevent a lot of that. I can’t see that it did any good whatsoever. We were always told it was a critical safeguard to academic freedom. Maybe for the communists, not for anyone else.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 06:44 AM (v9Y2Y)

95 If you have really old computers, MX Linux is the way to go. Runs on 256mb of RAM. Uses XFCE desktop manager, which is a good one and Debian based. AntiX is relatedvl but uses a window manager. Both amazingly fast. But Mint or Ubuntu will be better for folks new to Linux

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 16, 2025 06:45 AM (EW4eo)

96 91 almost none of us got the clot shot but we had to travel for work on a DoD project
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 06:43 AM (06Hmj)

Wow. Different from my little world.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:46 AM (RuTUS)

97 Tenure was supposed to prevent a lot of that. I can’t see that it did any good whatsoever. We were always told it was a critical safeguard to academic freedom. Maybe for the communists, not for anyone else.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 06:44 AM (v9Y2Y)

It was already bad enough from the inside in 2013 that i said "thanks for the sheepskin" and promptly got a job far away from academia that had absolutely nothing to do with what i studied.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 06:48 AM (06Hmj)

98 I was so looking forward to the full version of the ending song Destiny by Ellie Goulding for the anime Clevatess and then she releases this as the official music video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCVg3iGEFg

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2025 06:49 AM (Ydr2P)

99 Wow. Different from my little world.
Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:46 AM (RuTUS)

I really had very few problems during the great covidiocy, especially regarding work. But even stores and banks and whatnot weren't more than a minor nuisance. Some were chill and only made a show of "compliance". Others were spastic martinets about it. I simply avoided the latter, and still do to this day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 06:51 AM (06Hmj)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:51 AM (RuTUS)

101 If true, MTG is worth 10M$ now

I should have been a Congressman

Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 06:52 AM (+qU29)

102 94 The speed at which “higher education” collapsed is astonishing. The rot must have been festering longer than most people realized.

Tenure was supposed to prevent a lot of that. I can’t see that it did any good whatsoever. We were always told it was a critical safeguard to academic freedom. Maybe for the communists, not for anyone else.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 06:44 AM (v9Y2Y)

The lunatics started running the asylum.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 06:53 AM (RuTUS)

103 101 If true, MTG is worth 10M$ now

I should have been a Congressman
Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 06:52 AM (+qU29)

You're only worth what someone is willing to pay for you.

Posted by: Twenty Bucks at November 16, 2025 06:53 AM (06Hmj)

104 Trump voters don’t show up for every vote. MAGA issues won’t outlive Trump.
MTG will get reelected because she has the backing of the GOPe.
Time for a stroll before breakfast and church.

Posted by: Accomack at November 16, 2025 06:56 AM (oERdd)

105 should have been a Congressman
Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 06:52 AM (+qU29)

Or banging on the drums like a chimpanzee.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2025 06:56 AM (Ydr2P)

106 Why do we pine for things?

Why don't we hemlock? Or cedar? Or alder?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:30 AM (ZEYzj

You couldn’t affjord it.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 16, 2025 06:56 AM (hpnR6)

107 Silence! I keel you!!

Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist, moving to NY for a job in the Mamdani administration at November 16, 2025 06:57 AM (PiwSw)

108 Since it's the tech thread, quick review of Omarchy. I kept seeing videos on it. It is basically Arch with custom shell scripts and config files, made by the guy that created Ruby on Rails. It's like no other OS. There are a few tiny icons at the top. It's designed to be run by key commands. And it's tiling windows, so they open up next to each other. Comes with programs developers would use. Even includes Zoom. I didn't intend to install it but couldn't resist.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 16, 2025 06:57 AM (EW4eo)

109 *You're only worth what someone is willing to pay for you.*

Twenty bucks. Same as downtown.

Posted by: Your local elected official at November 16, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)

110 I saw the Spastic Martinets open for Jorma Kaukonnen at Red Rocks in ‘89

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 07:00 AM (ZSozY)

111 106 Why do we pine for things?

Why don't we hemlock? Or cedar? Or alder?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 16, 2025 06:30 AM (ZEYzj

You couldn’t affjord it.
Posted by: Pete Bog at November 16, 2025 06:56 AM (hpnR6)

Because we give a fig about it!

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:05 AM (RuTUS)

112 Asian lady beetles are swarming. They were introduced into the US to control other pests and are now pests themselves. I blame the experts.

“A sure way to distinguish between an Asian lady beetle and a ladybug is to look at the spot where the head meets the wings. If the bug has a black ‘M’ marking in that spot, that’s a telltale sign you’re dealing with an Asian lady beetle,”

These dang things bite and it hurts.

Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

113 Speaking of Asians

https://youtube.com/shorts/Xuytdzrr280

Posted by: The ghost of Buddy Hackett at November 16, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

114 Pixy should get a eucalyptus so all the cute koalas in the neighborhood can congregate in the tree.

Because who doesn’t want koalas in the yard?
They’ve got to be at least as entertaining as squirrels.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 16, 2025 07:12 AM (6ydKt)

115 heh; Horde:

103 You're only worth what someone is willing to pay for you.
Posted by: Twenty Bucks at November 16, 2025 06:53 AM (06Hmj)

109 *You're only worth what someone is willing to pay for you.*
Twenty bucks. Same as downtown.
Posted by: Your local elected official at November 16, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:13 AM (RuTUS)

116 Asian lady beetles are swarming. They were introduced into the US to control other pests and are now pests themselves. I blame the experts.

Better than Asian Lady Boys swarming. Call me Kari, I miss you! I want you to wear my Apple watch like last time. We can check our O2 levels.

Posted by: Tim Cook, CEO and flaming homosexual at November 16, 2025 07:17 AM (R/m4+)

117 Juniper? I just met her!

Posted by: Oh, no. Tree punz at November 16, 2025 07:18 AM (XQo4F)

118 @53/Common Tater: { ..."I've got more computing power on my watch than they had on the spacecraft"...

The cool thing on Apollo was the DSKY, which must have looked pretty high-tech in '65. Neil Armstrong quipped in a press conference that it probably "cost more than some small countries". }

Check this out:

"Restorers Try to Get Lunar Module Guidance Computer Up and Running"
https://youtu.be/g0PIXvjTasI

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2025 07:20 AM (O7YUW)

119 104 Trump voters don’t show up for every vote. MAGA issues won’t outlive Trump.
MTG will get reelected because she has the backing of the GOPe.
Time for a stroll before breakfast and church.
Posted by: Accomack at November 16, 2025 06:56 AM (oERdd)

Let’s hold the election anyway just to make sure.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 16, 2025 07:21 AM (sVOFR)

120 Good morning Vietnam!

I woke up just a little bit hostile. Yesterday I answered a questionaire for tomorrow's Annual Wellness visit.

"What was your gender assigned at birth?"

Holy effing shite?

My sex was recognized at birth but assigned at conception by the Almighty.

I can laugh about it now. The questionaire asked me about smoking and drinking. I lied. They lie. I lie We are even.

Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 07:22 AM (W7XSX)

121 117 Juniper? I just met her!
Posted by: Oh, no. Tree punz at November 16, 2025 07:18 AM (XQo4F)

Tree punz seem to be poplar around these parts.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)

122 I just can't get over the music video for a-ha's "Take On Me." At first all that bothered me was the dine-n-dash, but it just gets worse the more I think about it. Now I see the story of an unmedicated schizo who took up a poor old waitress's table for just coffee and a change of scenery (in place of someone who might leave a good tip), then caused a scene and left without even paying for that much, then got taken advantage of by some random stranger in her building that she integrated into her alarming hallucination. It's a very sad story.

Posted by: SciVo at November 16, 2025 07:23 AM (VB5xp)

123 a-ha - Take On Me (Official Video) [4K]
2,286,207,263 views

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:25 AM (RuTUS)

124 Steve Kelley conservative cartoon:

https://tinyurl.com/yyvpjft9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 16, 2025 07:25 AM (Yl2Ob)

125 And the NY Post has a cover headline for today about a Muslim immigrant groping women in the yellow cab he drives:

A creep at the wheel.

Disgusting man . Clever headline.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 16, 2025 07:28 AM (Yl2Ob)

126 These dang things bite and it hurts.
Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

Not very ladylike.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 16, 2025 07:28 AM (WHfpM)

127 You're only worth what someone is willing to pay for you.

==

For some, you're only worth what insider trading can and will get you.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 16, 2025 07:29 AM (qBdHI)

128 It's a very sad story.
Posted by: SciVo at November 16, 2025 07:23 AM (VB5xp)

But it looked cool as hell in 1985.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 16, 2025 07:30 AM (6ydKt)

129 Tree punz seem to be poplar around these parts.
Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)

Only fir awhile. You cone only take so much before you have to leaf.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 16, 2025 07:30 AM (hpnR6)

130 122 I just can't get over the music video for a-ha's "Take On Me." At first all that bothered me was the dine-n-dash, but it just gets worse the more I think about it. Now I see the story of an unmedicated schizo who took up a poor old waitress's table for just coffee and a change of scenery (in place of someone who might leave a good tip), then caused a scene and left without even paying for that much, then got taken advantage of by some random stranger in her building that she integrated into her alarming hallucination. It's a very sad story.
Posted by: SciVo at November 16, 2025 07:23 AM (VB5xp)

It's possible that I will never quit laughing.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:31 AM (RuTUS)

131 Google has filed a sweeping lawsuit against one of those companies that are constantly spamming you with fake SMS messages. (BGR)

--

I actually applaud this
There must be a catch somewhere

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 16, 2025 07:31 AM (tcsrY)

132 Pete Bog, good morning to and L&T.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2025 07:31 AM (zzXla)

133 These dang things bite and it hurts.
Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

Not very ladylike.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 16, 2025

By some definitions of ladylike

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 16, 2025 07:33 AM (hpnR6)

134 Good morning Ben Had. What’s cooking?

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 16, 2025 07:34 AM (hpnR6)

135 I woke up just a little bit hostile. Yesterday I answered a questionaire for tomorrow's Annual Wellness visit.

"What was your gender assigned at birth?"

==

This kind of thing is everywhere now. It's pervasive throughout all manner of medical forms and check-ins you do now. Right along with the questions of whether you have food insecurity, or feel safe at home, or feel like you can make a mortgage payment, or do you have firearms, or are you verbally or physically abused, or are you depressed, etc... I ignore every question I'm able to, or respond with n/a. I even do that on my race or income when asked. None of it is their business.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 16, 2025 07:34 AM (qBdHI)

136 92 "liberal commentator Harry Sisson declared: 'MAGA is fractured. Trump doesn't have the hold he once did."

The little punk has no idea what MAGA is or means. You couldn't explain it to him. He's incapable of understanding.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 16, 2025 07:35 AM (WHfpM)

137 Apparently Concord can give Springfield a run for its money. There are quite a few in America (I did not count).

There are four in New England alone. I have been to Concord, VT, didn't know about Concord, ME.
Posted by: fluffy at November 16, 2025 05:33 AM (AN2gy)

A lot of people were really broken up when Concord took that arrow outside Swamp Castle.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 16, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

138 Pete Bog, chicken fried chicken, mashies and corn.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2025 07:37 AM (zzXla)

139 I think this so-called "fracture" with conservatism will end up proving valuable and healthy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 16, 2025 07:39 AM (WHfpM)

140 Good morning, Ben Had.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 16, 2025 07:39 AM (bQ4nt)

141 olddog, Good morning. Your pup is the essence of cuteness. I hope you and yours are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2025 07:41 AM (zzXla)

142 Good morning, Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2025 07:41 AM (QMAsf)

143 Doof, big hug, darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2025 07:42 AM (zzXla)

144 {{{Ben Had}}} Howdy!

Posted by: Doof at November 16, 2025 07:43 AM (QMAsf)

145 We're doing fine, Ben Had. Yeah, pup's 10lbs of too cute.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 16, 2025 07:45 AM (bQ4nt)

146 You couldn’t affjord it. Posted by: Pete Bog

You'll notice, nobody pines for a Chjevy or a Djodge.
Not even a Vjolvo or a Sjaab.
Curious level of brand lojalty among piners.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 16, 2025 07:47 AM (zdLoL)

147 Good morning Horde, thx Pixy.
Of all the concerts I've seen INXS was one that I never saw. A lot of good tunes.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 16, 2025 07:49 AM (bfwj/)

148 Trump sees l’affaire Epstein as a distraction that will possibly make him look bad. MTG sees a weapon to wield against prominent Democrats.

Unfortunately for MTG most people outside of her district couldn’t care less what she wants.

But the Republicans tearing themselves apart over Epstein & Israel was not on my bingo card for 2025.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 16, 2025 07:49 AM (6ydKt)

149 Ladybugs are a bit smaller, and darker, kinda brownish red. I remember the first time encountering the invasive kind. There were a bunch of ‘em. Cool! I thought. Then they started biting. I didn’t remember Ladybugs biting. Just not very lady like.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 07:49 AM (BWpBM)

150 Sunday memes from Mike McDaniel:

https://tinyurl.com/yn3ydpcz

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 16, 2025 07:50 AM (PiwSw)

151 I think that the inevitable progress technocrats would be more equanimous about the random noise of election results.
We still haven’t won the internal war with the Marxist saboteurs in our ranks, so the fracture stories will continue.

Posted by: Accomack at November 16, 2025 07:51 AM (28cZF)

152 112 If the bug has a black ‘M’

Posted by: fd at November 16, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

: (

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:52 AM (RuTUS)

153 I was surprised that there were no questions about firearms.

Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 07:53 AM (W7XSX)

154 I always thought a Volvo was just a Swedish Fjord.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 16, 2025 07:53 AM (6ydKt)

155 These dang things bite and it hurts.

I'll admit it: I ran across the excerpt downthread, and rushed up to see if we were starting our "Repeal the 19th" campaign early today.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 16, 2025 07:54 AM (zdLoL)

156
Muh 'Horns gave me a sad last night.

Of course, when you're outplayed and outcoached and constantly drop catchable passes,

you're unlikely to win.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 16, 2025 07:55 AM (iJfKG)

157 @156 Manning didn't look bad , just not a lot of support either from players or coaches

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 16, 2025 07:58 AM (bfwj/)

158 91 My little employer finagled letters for us from the DoD saying "you may not impede this person's travel or bar them from a site for any reason or we will throw *your* ass in jail and make your life hell", because almost none of us got the clot shot but we had to travel for work on a DoD project.

"Where's your vaccine passport?"

"Right here, buddy."

"Oh.... Oh! Uh..."

That's how you get respect. (My employer. Not the DoD.)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 06:43 AM (06Hmj)

I would've liked to have had a letter like that.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 07:59 AM (RuTUS)

159 153 I was surprised that there were no questions about firearms.
Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 07:53 AM (W7XSX)

"What does a bulging trunion signify on a stamped AK receiver?"

????

Wow. They're not messing around.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 08:01 AM (06Hmj)

160 "Ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies."

Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 08:03 AM (W7XSX)

161 Those beetles must have a natural predator around me somewhere, because I've been seeing them come and go in waves.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 08:03 AM (06Hmj)

162 > The International Energy Agency now predicts we will reach Peak Oil by 2050 maybe.

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of 10 years until climate Armageddon.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 16, 2025 08:04 AM (1Nv0l)

163 The IEA says send money now.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2025 08:06 AM (zzXla)

164 159 153 I was surprised that there were no questions about firearms.
Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 07:53 AM (W7XSX)

"What does a bulging trunion signify on a stamped AK receiver?"

????

Wow. They're not messing around.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 08:01 AM (06Hmj)

2) "What's the little thingie that goes up?"

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 08:07 AM (RuTUS)

165 The International Energy Agency now predicts we will reach Peak Oil by 2050 maybe.

Which is hilarious, given that I was assured (cross my heart hope to die) that we already reached Peak Oil in 2005 by the sages at Zero Hedge.

Posted by: Ace's liver at November 16, 2025 08:07 AM (B9Dv5)

166 128 But it looked cool as hell in 1985.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 16, 2025 07:30 AM (6ydKt)

Oh, it still *looks* cool. But the visual/social cues for "big-city dreamy struggling artist" also translate to other kinds of big-city poor, such as nutters. So it may have been completely accidental that they left room for an alternate interpretation, or it could've been clever self-subversion; I may never know.

Posted by: SciVo at November 16, 2025 08:09 AM (VB5xp)

167 157 @156 Manning didn't look bad , just not a lot of support either from players or coaches
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 16, 2025 07:58 AM (bfwj/)

Yeah, Manning was fine.

At times, it looked like he was the only trying to win.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 16, 2025 08:09 AM (iJfKG)

168 Alas, my little thingy doesn't go up anymore.

Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 08:10 AM (W7XSX)

169 *ahem*

...the only one trying to win.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 16, 2025 08:10 AM (iJfKG)

170 We were told in no uncertain terms in High School that the World Will Completely Run Out of Oil By 1990.

That, and Acid Rain, Loss of the Ozone Layer, Nuclear Winter, the Coming Ice Age, and Errybody Gonna Get AIDS

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:10 AM (BWpBM)

171 74 Why do we pine for things?

Why don't we hemlock? Or cedar? Or alder?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Number 1- The Larch

Posted by: Run, Forrest, Run! at November 16, 2025 08:11 AM (oftw2)

172 170 We were told in no uncertain terms in High School that the World Will Completely Run Out of Oil By 1990.

That, and Acid Rain, Loss of the Ozone Layer, Nuclear Winter, the Coming Ice Age, and Errybody Gonna Get AIDS
Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:10 AM (BWpBM)

I had an Environmental Studies professor in the '80s that assured us the late 20th century would be known as The Age of Oil, and people of the 21st and succeeding generations would curse us for using up all the stuff before they were born.

Posted by: Ace's liver at November 16, 2025 08:13 AM (B9Dv5)

173 We pine for youth, but then we oak.

Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 08:14 AM (W7XSX)

174 Why do we pine for things?

Why don't we hemlock? Or cedar? Or alder?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
*
Number 1- The Larch
Posted by: Run, Forrest, Run! at November 16, 2025

***
Oh, Leander --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 08:14 AM (wzUl9)

175 We were told in no uncertain terms in High School that the World Will Completely Run Out of Oil By 1990.
================
I remember the President of Cornell, an eminent geologist, speachifying on the subject with great passion. A reasonable person, ie, someone other than me, would have taken him at his word. He was an expert!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 16, 2025 08:15 AM (zN/lz)

176 I had a Comp. Sci professor that predicted "only engineers would have jobs."

Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 08:15 AM (W7XSX)

177 The International Energy Agency now predicts we will reach Peak Oil by 2050 maybe.

Which is hilarious, given that I was assured (cross my heart hope to die) that we already reached Peak Oil in 2005 by the sages at Zero Hedge.
Posted by: Ace's liver at November 16, 2025 08:07 AM (B9Dv5)

I have to assume that at some point we will reach "peak oil". But, when?

In a thousand years or two hundred or fifty or whatever, who knows?

Right now we're benefitting from new technologies for exploring and recovering the oil.

Doom predictions right now are just to scare the smooth-brains into bleating for more solar, wind, and blackouts and EVs.

I would like a lot more investing in and building of nuclear power. A lot more.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 16, 2025 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

178 naturalfake, I keep harassing my Congressman and state officials about that very thing plus desalination plants.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2025 08:19 AM (zzXla)

179 But the Republicans tearing themselves apart over Epstein & Israel was not on my bingo card for 2025.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 16, 2025 07:49 AM (6ydKt)
================
"Republicans"? Plural? Is someone other than MTG involved? Her fascination with Epstein escapes me, and there are so very many ways Democrats are embarrassing themselves that Epstein is just one more on the list. Why does she even engage on the subject? Republicans tried to release all the docs, and Democrats voted it down last week, so they clearly just want to drip-drop stuff out, and she is helping their effort. Weird politics.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 16, 2025 08:20 AM (6tXgo)

180 Apple tree or Apple computer? Bark vs. byte.

Posted by: More tree punz? at November 16, 2025 08:20 AM (XQo4F)

181 I had a Comp. Sci professor that predicted "only engineers would have jobs."

I had an 8th grade gym teacher that told our class half of us would end up in prison and some of us would end up in shallow graves on the other side of town before we reached 21, never to be found.

He was a peach.

Posted by: Can't Stand Ya at November 16, 2025 08:22 AM (R/m4+)

182 Morning peeps.

I recall back in the late 60's the term "Ecology" was leveraged to mean something other than its original definition. A class in Ecology in the 70's wasn't about animals and plants. It was about saving the Erf.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 16, 2025 08:23 AM (NwnyJ)

183 naturalfake, I keep harassing my Congressman and state officials about that very thing plus desalination plants.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2025 08:19 AM (zzXla)

Good idea, Ben Had.

I'm pretty tired of gov't by crisis, which only benefits the Democrats/Communists.

An energy rich society benefits everyone with lower prices and more jobs.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 16, 2025 08:23 AM (iJfKG)

184 If you forget the crazy high expectations Manning started the season trying to meet, he's done pretty well for a first year starter. Next season he could be a force, if he has the receivers. Sayin, by contrast, has an unbelievable group of receivers and, suddenly, he is the favorite for the Heisman.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 16, 2025 08:24 AM (6tXgo)

185 Serious surveys were performed in the 1960s, back when government was serious about such things. Vast reserves were discovered in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, etc. particularly Shale. Hundreds of years worth. Immense amounts. It is no accident the leftist administrations have locked those up in “national monuments”. I always wonder if they have pledged resources as collateral for loans on the sly or something like that.

Coal is even more perplexing. The USA is the “Saudi Arabia” of Coal. High quality coal. Again, hundreds of years worth. Provides a source of reliable energy, and we don’t have to print up phony baloney currency to buy it from hostile nations that want us dead.

Destroying our energy infrastructure is apparently Job One long running project with our government saboteurs in recent decades. No other explanation is possible.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:26 AM (BWpBM)

186 Here's a revolutionary idea:
Just call her "Marjorie Green."

It's sort of a subtle put down. But what has she done to be worthy of three names? Is it all part of a long term strategy to one day be a Supreme Court justice? Because once you get there females are almost required to go by three names.

Just call her "MG."
She is kind of a midget.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 16, 2025 08:26 AM (XQo4F)

187 But the Republicans tearing themselves apart over Epstein & Israel was not on my bingo card for 2025.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 16, 2025 07:49 AM (6ydKt)

Hey, we have to find someway to lose the House and/or Senate next year!

Posted by: GOPe at November 16, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

188 I remember the first "Earth Day." Back when rivers caught fire.

Back then, it was about pollution. Good cause.

Then it transmogrified into "Kill the humans. They are evil."

Posted by: no one at November 16, 2025 08:28 AM (W7XSX)

189 Nah, I'll just go with Trump's putdown: Marjorie Traitor-Green

Posted by: one hour sober at November 16, 2025 08:30 AM (Y1sOo)

190 I assume we will reach peak oil in the same way we reached peak whale oil -- some other form of energy will become more advantageous and the oil market will dwindle down to its chemical feed stock uses.

It'll be fast, too. The whale oil market collapsed in the space of about 18 months.

Posted by: Ace's liver at November 16, 2025 08:30 AM (B9Dv5)

191 Those beetles must have a natural predator around me somewhere, because I've been seeing them come and go in waves.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 16, 2025 08:03 AM (06Hmj)

Regular, cute ladybugs are eaten by preying mantis, so maybe the like the Asian version as well.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 16, 2025 08:31 AM (uQesX)

192 Leave my dad's last name out of this.

Posted by: Old Lady Green at November 16, 2025 08:31 AM (XQo4F)

193 I assume we will reach peak oil in the same way we reached peak whale oil -- some other form of energy will become more advantageous and the oil market will dwindle down to its chemical feed stock uses.

It'll be fast, too. The whale oil market collapsed in the space of about 18 months.
Posted by: Ace's liver at November 16, 2025 08:30 AM (B9Dv5)
----
According to Futurama, whale oil makes a comeback when other petroleum reserves run out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 16, 2025 08:32 AM (IBQGV)

194 We were a better country when the Cuyohoga had an octane rating

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:32 AM (BWpBM)

195 Just call her "MG."
She is kind of a midget.
----
I'd say that was an insult to Morris Garage but Lucas gets a word.

But you could get around the prince of darkness by rewiring. I doubt Green could be rewired.

Posted by: clarence at November 16, 2025 08:32 AM (cRhQI)

196 That nightmare of the week is over at least
Grocery shopping

Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 08:32 AM (+qU29)

197 Morning all. Door Dash girl has been arrested.

However, as of today (November 15, 2025), Henderson has been arrested and charged. This is a recent development, which explains why older news articles don't cover it yet-it's breaking via public court records and social media.
• Charges: Two E-felony counts in New York:
• Unlawful surveillance (filming/recording someone without consent in a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy, like inside their home).
• Unlawful dissemination of unlawful surveillance (sharing/distributing the recording, especially online for views/profit).
• Court: Oswego City Court (public record; case details match her name, DOB, and incident date of October 12, 2025).
• Evidence: Her own viral TikTok video serves as key proof-she's seen giggling while filming the unconscious man. Police likely used this, plus DoorDash logs and her reports, to build the case.
Instagram handle.

@crimetimeteatime cited inmate records from Oswego County, New York, and confirmed that the DoorDash girl was arrested on November 10 at 9:46 p.m. Henderson was released, with a court hearing scheduled on December 4.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2025 08:33 AM (cIxJn)

198 I had an 8th grade gym teacher that told our class half of us would end up in prison and some of us would end up in shallow graves on the other side of town before we reached 21, never to be found.

He was a peach.
Posted by: Can't Stand Ya at November 16, 2025

***
Lemme guess. He was a former Marine DI?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 08:34 AM (wzUl9)

199 EVs will suddenly become viable when gas prices rise due to peak oil. There will be superchargers everywhere.

Until then, attempting to mandate them is pushing on a string.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 16, 2025 08:34 AM (1Nv0l)

200 @195/clarence: "... but Lucas gets a word.

But you could get around the prince of darkness by rewiring."

Lucas is not the Prince of Darkness.

More accurately, Lucas is the Prince of Sudden Unexpected Darkness.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2025 08:35 AM (O7YUW)

201 For those who missed it overnight, Maduro held a press conference to karaoke sing "Imagine" in the hopes of Trump/Hegseth not bombing him. That in itself is a *very* strong reason to bomb him.

Young Mexicans are rioting and staging a siege of the government building in protest of their lesbian WEF member president, who is deeply in bed with the cartels.

Trump may clean up Latin America just by existing.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 16, 2025 08:36 AM (P9pDS)

202 There is lore about the ladybugs (and other insects like those wooly caterpillars) being signs of what type of winter you're going to get.

I mentioned this on the gardening thread yesterday.

We're infested with ladybugs right now. Some say it's a sign of a very cold winter coming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 16, 2025 08:36 AM (NwnyJ)

203 I had an 8th grade gym teacher that told our class half of us would end up in prison and some of us would end up in shallow graves on the other side of town before we reached 21, never to be found.

He was a peach.
Posted by: Can't Stand Ya at November 16, 2025

***
Lemme guess. He was a former Marine DI?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025

***
Excusez-moist. I meant to write "former DI in the Marines." Once a Marine, always a Marine, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 08:36 AM (wzUl9)

204 I don't think they will be able to use Ra's al Ġhūl in any future Batman movie, since Social Justice cult dogma has evolved to where he would be The Real Hero.

Posted by: SciVo at November 16, 2025 08:37 AM (VB5xp)

205 The Indians are gathering firewood like crazy!

Posted by: Just the punchline at November 16, 2025 08:38 AM (XQo4F)

206 pine
verb

suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart: she thinks I am pining away from love.
• (pine for) miss and long for the return of: I was pining for my boyfriend.

ORIGIN
Old English pīnian ‘(cause to) suffer’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijnen, German peinen ‘experience pain’, also to obsolete pine ‘punishment’; ultimately based on Latin poena ‘punishment’.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 08:39 AM (RuTUS)

207 Standard Oil did more to “Save The Whales” than any dirty hippies smoking dope and talking shit about the gubbmint.

Kerosene. Lamps. Demand for whale oil cratered virtually overnight.

The problem with modern Luddites is they forgot about the part where they have to invent or discover an alternative that actually works. Instead they went straight to “Outlaw Petroleum, Gas, and Coal” minus that crucial step. And No Nukes Too MFers.

Their world view must really be something from the inside. Because it is dystopian from the outside. Self-loathing, eat bugs and veggies, live in a pod, stacked like cordwood, queer your kids, cut off their tweeters, destroy the schools, ad nauseam ad infinitum

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:39 AM (BWpBM)

208 Excusez-moist. I meant to write "former DI in the Marines." Once a Marine, always a Marine, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 08:36 AM (wzUl9)

You better believe it.

Posted by: John Murtha at November 16, 2025 08:40 AM (uQesX)

209 For those who missed it overnight, Maduro held a press conference to karaoke sing "Imagine"

Yeah, that deserves Tomahawks and Bunker Busters just on general principles. What an asshole!

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:42 AM (BWpBM)

210 Didn't transmission fluid have whale oil in it back in the Fifties and Sixties? It was supposed to be excellent. Maybe that was one reason why GM transmissions back then were supposed to be so smooth.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 08:42 AM (wzUl9)

211 To longingly hope for an F150.

Posted by: Suburban Dictionary at November 16, 2025 08:42 AM (XQo4F)

212 The Texas trooper at the A&M-South Carolina game yesterday is asshoe

Posted by: one hour sober at November 16, 2025 08:43 AM (Y1sOo)

213 The problem with modern Luddites is they forgot about the part where they have to invent or discover an alternative that actually works. Instead they went straight to “Outlaw Petroleum, Gas, and Coal” minus that crucial step. And No Nukes Too MFers.

It was straight up commie infiltration. The soviets and now the red chinese know they cannot compete with us economically so they set out to sabotage our energy resources to hinder us. We should have a nuke plant at every major intersection like the CEFCO's.

Posted by: General Urko, Chief Of Security Central City at November 16, 2025 08:44 AM (R/m4+)

214
ORIGIN
Old English pīnian ‘(cause to) suffer’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijnen, German peinen ‘experience pain’, also to obsolete pine ‘punishment’; ultimately based on Latin poena ‘punishment’.
Posted by: m at November 16, 2025

***
I, of course, sir, explained that all long ago!

Posted by: Zombie Samuel Johnson at November 16, 2025 08:44 AM (wzUl9)

215 Their world view must really be something from the inside. Because it is dystopian from the outside. Self-loathing, eat bugs and veggies, live in a pod, stacked like cordwood, queer your kids, cut off their tweeters, destroy the schools, ad nauseam ad infinitum
Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:39 AM (BWpBM)

It is truly a death cult. This is where the WEF gets its desire to reduce the planets population by 80% to 90%.

But yes, the magical anti-reality, anti-science thinking is truly remarkable. They seem to all believe that if they just wish hard enough for a thing to be true, it WILL be true.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2025 08:44 AM (GxM4+)

216 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 16, 2025 08:45 AM (SwYQF)

217 In 1948 General Motors developed a prototype automatic transmission intended to operate solely on whale oil. Dubbed the "Humpback" it never made it into production because of problems with the seals, which became affectionately known as "blow holes."

Posted by: Car Nerd at November 16, 2025 08:47 AM (XQo4F)

218 @207/Common Tater: "Their world view must really be something from the inside. Because it is dystopian from the outside. Self-loathing, eat bugs and veggies, live in a pod, stacked like cordwood, queer your kids, cut off their tweeters, destroy the schools, ad nauseam ad infinitum"

Their world view boils down to "I hope Satan devours me last." (See 1 Peter 5:8.)

They'll never admit it to themselves or others, though.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 16, 2025 08:47 AM (O7YUW)

219 Woo Hoo!

Over one million trackers blocked on my computer by Brave.

The fact that it blocked that many since I've only used this computer for about a year is concerning.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 16, 2025 08:48 AM (uQesX)

220 Speaking of trucks like the F150: Linda has me watching the mini-series Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn & Chee Navajo Police stories by Tony Hillerman. The series is set in 1971 and the trucks everybody drives are clearly from that time. Two doors, one long bench seat, a long bed, big steering wheels, and no real conveniences (though I suspect there are cigarette lighters). One character drives a Jeep Wagoneer (?) of that time, and it's amazing how much window glass it has. I'd love one.

(I don't recommend the series -- though it's well cast and acted, it's slow and filmed in the modern "dark and dim" style. But the landscape is gorgeous and the trucks and cars are great.)

Posted by: Zombie Samuel Johnson at November 16, 2025 08:49 AM (wzUl9)

221
For those who missed it overnight, Maduro held a press conference to karaoke sing "Imagine"

Posted by: Ian S. at November 16, 2025 08:36 AM

Yeah, that deserves Tomahawks and Bunker Busters just on general principles. What an asshole!

Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:42 AM

dust off & nuke the site from orbit

it's the only way to be sure

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 16, 2025 08:50 AM (tljrc)

222 But was whale oil a component in the trans fluids of the time? I expect our synthetics today are superior, especially given how complex a six-speed (or more) shiftbox is. But think of the neat jokes one could make. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 08:51 AM (wzUl9)

223 In 1948 General Motors developed a prototype automatic transmission intended to operate solely on whale oil. Dubbed the "Humpback" it never made it into production because of problems with the seals, which became affectionately known as "blow holes."
Posted by: Car Nerd

Well, whales and seals never really got along.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2025 08:52 AM (cIxJn)

224 207 Their world view must really be something from the inside. Because it is dystopian from the outside. Self-loathing, eat bugs and veggies, live in a pod, stacked like cordwood, queer your kids, cut off their tweeters, destroy the schools, ad nauseam ad infinitum
Posted by: Common Tater at November 16, 2025 08:39 AM (BWpBM)

I don't think it's self-loathing. They demonstrate an attitude of "way too many of you, just the right amount of us." And I can't remember if I've posted it here before, but I have a theory that the transnational laptop class is a neo-proto-ethnicity, so there is synergistic class/ethnic/cult supremacy in their ideology.

To elaborate on my theory, an ethnicity is basically a recognizable tribe-of-tribes with the same language, culture, and morphology, distinct from outsiders'. Well, with the advent of passenger air travel, all the world's Ruling Class and Clerisy have sent their spawn to the same finishing schools, where they all learn in English, get indoctrinated with the same Social Justice cult, and then go on to marry only each other. It's early years yet, but I expect it's only a matter of time until the Worldies (as I call them) are recognizable.

Posted by: SciVo at November 16, 2025 08:52 AM (VB5xp)

225 Good mornin' morons , The Earth says Hello!
Now sing along with me
Our early moron singin' song

Glibby gloop gloopy, nibby nabby noopy, la, la, la, lo, lo
Sabba sibby sabba, nooby abba nabba, le, le, lo, lo
Tooby ooby walla, nooby abba nabba
Early moron singin' song!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 16, 2025 08:52 AM (iJfKG)

226 Is that sperm whale oil in your transmission or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: Your mechanic at November 16, 2025 08:53 AM (XQo4F)

227 Is that sperm whale oil in your transmission or are you just happy to see me?
Posted by: Your mechanic at November 16, 2025

***
I call my car the Pequod, sir!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 16, 2025 08:56 AM (wzUl9)

228 In 1948 General Motors developed a prototype automatic transmission intended to operate solely on whale oil. Dubbed the "Humpback" it never made it into production because of problems with the seals, which became affectionately known as "blow holes."

Posted by: Car Nerd at November 16, 2025 08:47 AM (XQo4F)
-

Alternate name: "Mobile Dick"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 08:56 AM (POgqv)

229 223 In 1948 General Motors developed a prototype automatic transmission intended to operate solely on whale oil. Dubbed the "Humpback" it never made it into production because of problems with the seals, which became affectionately known as "blow holes."
Posted by: Car Nerd

Well, whales and seals never really got along.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2025 08:52 AM (cIxJn)

And penguins.

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 08:58 AM (RuTUS)

230 Yeah, I remember that. It was done as a secret project under the code name "Ishmael."

Posted by: Retired GM engineer at November 16, 2025 08:59 AM (XQo4F)

231 Bring your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at November 16, 2025 08:59 AM (+qU29)

232 Coffee, steak, hash browns, and sourdough toast!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 16, 2025 08:59 AM (vYXYo)

233 One more reason “Peak Oil” is nonsense; we are commonly told that all the world’s been explored and is being developed - but that’s not true at all. Offshore fields in the Gulf Coast make up a huge amount of US production; the area off the coast of Mexico has similar geology and also should hugely productive, but due to the malignant corruption of Pemex, and Mexico in general, it’s never been touched. North Slope in Alaska has huge reserves, never touched. Places like that are all around the world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 16, 2025 09:01 AM (GxM4+)

234 232 Coffee, steak, hash browns, and sourdough toast!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 16, 2025 08:59 AM (vYXYo)

yum

Posted by: m at November 16, 2025 09:01 AM (RuTUS)

235 With Smokey and the Miracles on the sound system! Damn I love this diner.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 16, 2025 09:04 AM (vYXYo)

236 Not just in Wisconsin, JJ. Watch your six, people:

https://tinyurl.com/rxjspwvj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 16, 2025 06:20 AM (POgqv)

Shoot 'em. No bag limit.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at November 16, 2025 09:11 AM (5xuJ/)

237 I have found a flaw with this diner. They brought the extra napkins and there are 3. For two of us. Unacceptable!
But that sourdough toast though....

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 16, 2025 09:21 AM (vYXYo)

238 F' Apple.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 16, 2025 09:39 AM (XMwZJ)

239 Didn't the Intellivision have a 10-bit processor? Way back in the days of the Atari 2600, if a little later? "CP1610", per a search.

RAM and registers were 16-bit, but the OpCodes themselves were 10 bits. I believe 3 bits were always used for the addressing mode, leaving 6 to ID the specific OpCode.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 16, 2025 11:19 AM (4h45B)

240 "Yes it was. Objectively so. It cost $400 million to make, sold just 25,000 copies in total at $40, and was gone in just two weeks."

If I am remembering figures right - and I have access to better ones than most - that number is about 10x too high, plus half the "sales" were copies given to employees and their friends/family.

AAA developers are underestimating how much players hate woke shit, and failing to understand that "modern audiences" don't actually spend much time gaming. Being a loon is an all consuming hobby.

Posted by: heya at November 16, 2025 11:26 AM (TjVj/)

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