Daily Tech News 21 December 2025

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You know how I said that the Minisforum AI X1-255 mini-PC that I bought cost 60-70% more on Minisforum's US store?

Strike that.

The US store was quoting me prices in AUD, making it just 10% more expensive than from Amazon Australia. (It's also available on Amazon US but they only have one in stock so you'd have to be quick.)

Thanks to Rick C for the correction.
Is AI useful for programming? Maybe. Sort of. (MIT Technology Review)

I used it last week trying to extract information from a thoroughly-but-incorrectly-documented API, with ultimate success. The API was shit but the AI saved me hours of painful iteration trying different functions looking for one that worked.

On the other hand, if you're carrying out a task where you know what to do you are likely better off doing it yourself, because you will end up with fewer and less severe bugs and a much better understanding of what the code is doing.

And it will in all probability save time doing it yourself.

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In other wonderful AI news Larian, developer of Baldur's Gate III, says the memory drought is already affecting software development. (Notebook Check)

Specifically they need to start optimisation before they even ship an early-access version, because they can no longer just recommend 32GB of RAM when customers can't buy 32GB of RAM.

While Larian themselves have not been guilty of this, I'm not sure being forced to optimise games from the start is a bad thing given the number of titles that have launched recently in a state that left the unplayable on even the fastest available hardware.
PearOS, a long-expired Linux version designed to look like MacOS, has been revived and updated with the latest kernel and KDE desktop. (The Register)

It's incomplete, but interesting.
Privacy is marketing. Anonymity is architecture. (Servury)

The value of your service provider not being able to recover your password is that they can't do anything else to your account either because they don't know who you are.
A newly discovered UEFI flaw allows hackers to break into your system the moment it boots. (Bleeping Computer)

If they can plug directly into your PCIe bus.

Which they can do without opening your system if you have Thunderbolt or OCuLink ports.

The Minisforum AI X1-255, for example, has both.
The best selling console is not what you think. (The Verge) (archive site)

It's an underpowered overpriced gimmick called the Nex Playground aimed squarely at children. It uses motion tracking to let them interact directly with games without needing a controller, or any particular level of hand-eye co-ordination.

Only problem is it kind of sucks.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Don't break a leg. That shit hurts.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:00 AM (CNp5O)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025 04:00 AM (JUmo3)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 Yo!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:11 AM (/HDaX)

5 My CISO called me at 3 AM last Tuesday.

"We caught someone."

I asked, "Caught them doing what?"

He said, "Typing."

Let me explain...

https://tinyurl.com/ww8c897v

So, Pixy, how's latency down under?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:15 AM (CNp5O)

6 TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE

https://tinyurl.com/5x56he9x

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:17 AM (CNp5O)

7 Oink!

Did PearOS get updated to mimic that particular Apple feature that locks people out of their computers they spent thousands of dollars on so they can feel smug? Okay, that was cruel, gratuitous, unwarranted, and mostly true. At least Microsoft has the decency to just brick your machine when trying to update it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 21, 2025 04:18 AM (HTCU3)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2025 04:19 AM (AdHga)

9 Oh oh:

Google just launched a direct attack on Nvidia's most valuable asset.

Not their chips. Their SOFTWARE.

https://tinyurl.com/3u3e7ktj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:26 AM (CNp5O)

10 Evening to you late toilers, and early early morning to you insomaniacals! I'm up way earlier than I planned. Not Stirling's fault, not Dagny's, just . . . awake. So you do what you have to: coffee, a MeTV rerun of Time Tunnel (which I never liked much even when it was new and I was a callow yoot), and AoSHQ.

It may rain between four and six, which will knock out my workout and car wash plans. We'll hafta see.

Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:28 AM (wzUl9)

11 Re: Tesla

Huge social disruption coming right up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:31 AM (/HDaX)

12 Good morning.

For some reason, I have trouble keeping Hall & Oates and Siegfried & Roy separate. Have they ever been seen together?

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 21, 2025 04:33 AM (5DkXk)

13 For some reason, I have trouble keeping Hall & Oates and Siegfried & Roy separate. Have they ever been seen together?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 21, 2025

***
No tigers at a Hall & Oates concert

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

14 For some reason, I have trouble keeping Hall & Oates and Siegfried & Roy separate. Have they ever been seen together?
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 21, 2025

***
"Siegfried. Or maybe Roy. You know, that gay man whose tiger tried to eat him."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

15 Re: Tesla

Huge social disruption coming right up.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:31 AM (/HDaX)
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Now jump from Tesla to another Musk company - Neuralink:

https://tinyurl.com/ycywcdp3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 04:38 AM (CNp5O)

16 Today is the first day of winter? Shortest day of the year?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:40 AM (wzUl9)

17 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 04:41 AM (Ia/+0)

18 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 21, 2025 04:47 AM (2Ez/1)

19 Now I'm stuck on the NVidia/Google issue. Boy, talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 21, 2025 04:47 AM (/HDaX)

20 TechnoUtopians have grand idea's and dreams. Also, the money to implement it, one way or another. It's not going to go they way they think. Oh well, sit back and think of THX-1138.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 21, 2025 04:48 AM (AdHga)

21 Stirling is harassing Dagny. Or maybe they're playing. Hard to tell.

She needs to learn to cuff him across the nose if he's bothering her. Once I did see her boff him one when he was trying to force his way to the water tap and she was there first. So she's not a total pushover.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:51 AM (wzUl9)

22 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?

Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025 04:51 AM (JUmo3)

23 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?
Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025

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Sooner rather than later?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 04:57 AM (wzUl9)

24 23 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?
Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025

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Sooner rather than later?
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Before or after they deliver the first one?

Posted by: clarence at December 21, 2025 04:59 AM (JUmo3)

25
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 21, 2025 05:03 AM (tgvbd)

26 The very first episode of The Invaders is on MeTV. Apparently their overnight SF Saturday night lineup is all the Irwin Allen shows, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, and then this Quinn Martin semi-classic. There was only one season of TT and two, I think, of Invaders, so they repeat pretty often.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 05:05 AM (wzUl9)

27
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2025 05:14 AM (tljrc)

28 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 21, 2025 05:20 AM (bQ4nt)

29 I use Grok to generate short snippets of Javascript code to do routine tasks that have lots of online examples, for example to send an SMS text message using the Twilio API, or to create a flyout menu using React and Material UI.

For short tasks like that (under 200 lines or so) it usually does a pretty good job. I still check every line of code, and I have to understand it 100% before I use it.

For longer tasks it starts to break down and hallucinate nonexistent APIs and NPM packages.

Posted by: WillowViney at December 21, 2025 05:25 AM (VPL4v)

30 I am finally horizontal

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 05:31 AM (Ia/+0)

31 29 For longer tasks it starts to break down and hallucinate nonexistent APIs and NPM packages.
Posted by: WillowViney

Yeah, that is a very common problem, and not one easily solved.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 05:36 AM (BLOW1)

32 One thing I like to do is to have Grok decorate my UI forms for ARIA compliance, which can be tedious to do manually.

Basically I treat Grok like a junior H1B programmer who does all my scut work for me.

Posted by: WillowViney at December 21, 2025 05:40 AM (VPL4v)

33 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 21, 2025 05:41 AM (AN2gy)

34 Yeah, that is a very common problem, and not one easily solved.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 05:36 AM (BLOW1)

Can you break longer tasks into subtasks running independently? My programming training stopped 45 years ago at BASIC in high school so please forgive a stupid question

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 21, 2025 05:45 AM (2AU+F)

35 G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

36 What's all this crazy talk about morning?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 05:47 AM (Pmfrl)

37 @Pixy: Thanks for including the BleepingComputer I threw in the Tech discussion yesterday.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

38
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: That makes two of us.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 05:51 AM (2Ez/1)

39 Hall and Oates are from my neck of the woods, good family friend worked with one of their aunt's

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 05:52 AM (Ia/+0)

40 One of their aunt's what?

Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at December 21, 2025 05:53 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Time I fed the feline hogs, then changed, stretched, and hit the workout trail. Back in a bit.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 21, 2025 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

42 I’m still trying to figure out all these years later what exactly it is that Hall & Oates will do almost anything that I want them to, but no they cant go for that, no can do.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:02 AM (6ydKt)

43 One of their aunt's what?

Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at December 21, 2025 05:53 AM (2Ez/1)
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You deserve a post trophy!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:02 AM (Pmfrl)

44 @40/Grammar Gestapo: "One of their aunt's what?"

babies, that was accidentally

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 06:03 AM (O7YUW)

45 Trump Suspends $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown:

https://t.co/62IWKSwrN9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:04 AM (Pmfrl)

46 37 @Pixy: Thanks for including the BleepingComputer I threw in the Tech discussion yesterday.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Thanks for mentioning it in the comments. I saw it and realised it's not quite a nothingburger, since it can work with a USB device.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:09 AM (BLOW1)

47 45 Trump Suspends $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown:

https://t.co/62IWKSwrN9
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Can he do Australia next? Our government needs a smack across the nose.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:10 AM (BLOW1)

48 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: No pain. No gain.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 21, 2025 06:13 AM (qbLEp)

49 Can he do Australia next? Our government needs a smack across the nose.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:10 AM (BLOW1)
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I think they'd just continue chewing up the duvet and crapping in the pantry.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 21, 2025 06:15 AM (qbLEp)

50 @46/Pixy: I was thinking of any PCI-E card that could come pre-loaded with a malware delivery payload.

a) Get installed prior to OS boot
b) Compromise Ring 0 (kernel) on OS startup.
c) Perform industrial espionage quietly and slowly so you're not noticed.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

51 Now is the solstice of the year
Winter is the glad song that you hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNc2uifQuGw

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 21, 2025 06:17 AM (qbLEp)

52 It was kinda predictable that after a terrorist attack by radicalized Muslims that the Australian government would crackdown on gun ownership and increase internet surveillance on everybody (especially right-wingers) instead of going after, I don’t know; radical Islamic clerics and their followers.

Never let a good crisis go to waste,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)

53 The winter solstice is snow joke.
It makes me feel iceolated.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2025 06:21 AM (2Ez/1)

54 I didn't bother asking Grok where in anyone's bible does it say that:

https://tinyurl.com/hn6f7dmc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:21 AM (Pmfrl)

55 a) Get installed prior to OS boot
b) Compromise Ring 0 (kernel) on OS startup.
c) Perform industrial espionage quietly and slowly so you're not noticed.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 21, 2025 06:17 AM (O7YUW

The CCP & NorKs are already working on it.

Beware of buying Moore’s Threads GPUs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:22 AM (6ydKt)

56 We're liviing in crazy times. One thing about it the lines are becoming more and more well defined.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:23 AM (Lvwqi)

57 It was kinda predictable that after a terrorist attack by radicalized Muslims that the Australian government would crackdown on gun ownership and increase internet surveillance on everybody (especially right-wingers) instead of going after, I don’t know; radical Islamic clerics and their followers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)
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Compare and contrast to DNI Tulsi Gabbard:

https://tinyurl.com/ys52y4ws

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:24 AM (Pmfrl)

58 Compare and contrast to DNI Tulsi Gabbard:

https://tinyurl.com/ys52y4ws
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:24 AM (Pmfrl)

Tulsi isn’t afraid to open her eyes and call a spade a spade.

That’s basically why they kicked her out of the Democrat party; she asked too many uncomfortable questions and called out too many obvious lies and hypocrisies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

59 22 Odds of when someone hacks the robots?
Posted by: clarence
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Any news about the Chinamen stranded in space?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:30 AM (Lvwqi)

60 Judging by the comments this morning, I guess it was a quiet evening for the world...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2025 06:31 AM (ESVrU)

61 Neo has a theory ln the Brown/ MIT professor that is probably going to be as good as we ever hear
https://thenewneo.com/

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:31 AM (Ia/+0)

62 Can he do Australia next? Our government needs a smack across the nose.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2025 06:10 AM (BLOW1)
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I always know whether a Bee headline is a joke or real.

Not this time:

https://tinyurl.com/36mkkjkm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:32 AM (Pmfrl)

63 "TESLA'S $2 TRILLION SECRET: THE CARS WERE JUST THE TROJAN HORSE"

This is awesome. Elon's been playing a far higher game. Turns out the answer is old school. Vision and execution for the LONG term.

That has been completely lost these days.

Posted by: pawn at December 21, 2025 06:33 AM (EMg+d)

64 I don't like the DC Police chief. I don't like that she lied about time statistics. I think she is incompetent but the clip of her ( this is not addressed to you ,Biden's Dog- just a general comment ) was edited. Here's the actual clip. She spoke really poorly, but the f word she seemed to have mean tvtwas "I forgive you'l to the haters. Then she compared herself to Jesus on the cross which seems excessive. She was really angry and probably not ready to forgive them:

https://tinyurl.com/2j7fn25a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (rZCVI)

65 There's a contest between Gabbard and Noem as to who is the toughest broad in town - hottest too.
Bondi's hanging on for deer life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (Lvwqi)

66 Saw yesterday that Trump didn't endorse Stefanik. That was chichkenshit. She's been point man in NY for him. Backed of UN job when asked. Did everything he asked. But a buddy wants to be gov. I thought better of him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:37 AM (Lvwqi)

67 Neo has a theory ln the Brown/ MIT professor that is probably going to be as good as we ever hear
https://thenewneo.com/
Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:31 AM (Ia/+0)
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Direct link:

https://tinyurl.com/36swdt56

So, 2 headline-making schizophrenic murderers last week.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:38 AM (Pmfrl)

68 "Bondi's hanging on for deer life."

Say what?

Posted by: Bambi at December 21, 2025 06:38 AM (2Ez/1)

69 Bondi's hanging on for deer life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (Lvwqi)
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/headlights on

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:40 AM (Pmfrl)

70 Second to last day on St. Croix. Woke up to see a perfect rainbow over the Atlantic. Never seen a rainbow at 6:30 AM before. Now looking forward to a day of beach bar football watching and rum punch. Not a bad way to wrap up 2025.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 06:42 AM (O6icp)

71 w00t

Posted by: m at December 21, 2025 06:44 AM (RuTUS)

72 Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center's top billing is driving Dems insane!

Here's hoping Trump names this in a few week's time:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2rcum2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)

73 https://tinyurl.com/mr2rcum2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)
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Dear TinyURL: Please make your URLs child-safe. Thank you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)

74 I doubt Stefanik quit congress and the governor race because Trump didn’t endorse her.

She probably has some other issues going on to just up and quit politics all at once.

Maybe she got a good job offer and decided she’d had it with politics for now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:46 AM (6ydKt)

75 Lincolntf, how was the horseback ride?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:48 AM (sDNVV)

76 Dear TinyURL: Please make your URLs child-safe. Thank you.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:45 AM (Pmfrl)

It’s quite possible Mr 2R graduated cum laude twice, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

77 Entirely possible that Stefanik had told PDT she wasn't going to run.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 06:50 AM (sDNVV)

78 It will get colder but at least daylight increases here on out for a few months

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2025 06:52 AM (Ia/+0)

79 @64 Thanks for that, Fen. Yes, that police chief was a bad joke as a public servant, but if somebody is guilty of this set-up, they ought to be prosecuted. What an unspeakably cruel thing to do to someone, for a cheap political payoff.

@61 It has been my burden to have to shepherd some otherwise brilliant technical minds through the baffling maze of living in the world with other people. Every jumped-up junior programming apprentice who shows up frothing at the mouth over Humanities should get to spend a night in the box (or a career in the cubicle) with Neves-Valente.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 21, 2025 06:52 AM (zdLoL)

80 @Ben Had It was as good as I had hoped. Better, even. When we were just walking in the surf I thought it was perfect, but then we went out deeper and the horse was actually swimming with me on his back, right into 5-6 foot waves. Hooves acting as propellers almost. Otherworldly feeling.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 21, 2025 06:53 AM (O6icp)

81 Who's up for some more Wuhan?

https://t.co/dr7m6UOgEn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:55 AM (Pmfrl)

82 She has a point:

Katie Miller @KatieMiller
Dec 20

Anyone notice how quiet @HillaryClinton is right now?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 06:58 AM (Pmfrl)

83 I’m a little skeptical that adjectives need to be appended. I think it might be politician-speak or euphemisms that bleed over to normal people and get internalized. Maybe that’s the whole point.

“Radicalized” is the best we get, when the news outlets aren’t out there already tying to deny any link in the first place.

They really are a sad pathetic bunch in the aggregate, and hopefully soon expire in a conflagration.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2025 06:59 AM (DfBUG)

84 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

85 I got a good laugh earlier this week learning that China and the Wuhan lab are suing the state if Missouri because they lost the lawsuit their AG filed.

Their biggest claim?
That the lawsuit has harmed their “institutional reputation”.

Only a communist could be that shamelessly bold.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 21, 2025 07:01 AM (6ydKt)

86 Pixy, you need someone from the Horde living in the US to officially adopt you:

https://tinyurl.com/4vju2hjc

Crikey!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:02 AM (Pmfrl)

87 NaCly, dearest. Good morning. I am working on getting those packages sent out.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:04 AM (sDNVV)

88 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

I gave NotSoThoreau most of the swag I had from the MoMeet. The T-shirt did not arrive.

Hope your Christmas is joyous, and that you are thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

89 Apple bashing so early in the morning? I used to have to refer customers to their computer manufacturers. When I told people to call Microsoft, they whined and complained. They knew they would get someone they couldn't understand and eouldn't help. If I told them to call Apple, no problem. They were able to get help.

These 2011 Macbook Pros are really nice laptops. They are stylish and easy to use. They work well with Linux installed. I haven't tried the patch that lets you upgrade to newer versions of the OS. Probably should. The supply of cheap old reusable laptops won't last torever so you might want to pick up something to play around with.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 21, 2025 07:06 AM (+mUZM)

90 NaCly, my apologies.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2025 07:07 AM (sDNVV)

91 Ben Had

Thank you for the answer. Asked and answered. 20% of my mail is disappearing in the USPS system. A letter to your PO Box was one of them, returned to me after 3 weeks.

I will see her soon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

92 Ben Had

No worries at all. You have dancing, horse care, and a lot of living to do.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

93 Your tax dollars at work. If I had a hammer:

https://tinyurl.com/2s4he2nk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 21, 2025 07:10 AM (Pmfrl)

94
It takes a village to satisfy my husband.

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 21, 2025 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

95 SpeakingOf

The problem with the Chinese "Wolf Diplomacy" is that they run out of countries that put up with China. Lots of pushback going on.

The Communists in power are really China's worst enemies. Could have been a great nation. If I can pop into the book thread, I am still reading a book that explains all of that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

96 69 Bondi's hanging on for deer life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 06:34 AM (Lvwqi)
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/headlights on
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Yup, see yall in the morning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2025 07:13 AM (Lvwqi)

97 Old Lady Rodham

Still not President, and Biden was sorta one.

Your husband likes them young and naive. Unlike you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

98 I did not have sex in that jacuzzi.

Posted by: President William Jefferson Clinton at December 21, 2025 07:16 AM (Idlxh)

99 President William Jefferson Clinton

Like we would believe a denial from you. Again.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

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