Daily Tech News 22 April 2026

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AMD's new top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor is here. Don't buy it. (Tom's Hardware)

Not AMD's fault. They've resisted shipping CPUs with this configuration for years, claiming that it only helped performance for certain very specific workloads.

They were right.

Also, Intel's new 270K Plus is nearly as fast for creative work at less than half the price. Yes, it's on a dead platform, but even if you'll end up throwing away both the CPU and the motherboard it may work out better value than the 9950X3D2.

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Framework's new Laptop 13 Pro provides an Intel Core Ultra 7 358H - the one with the best in class integrated graphics that only works with soldered LPDDR5X memory - and also expandable memory. (Notebook Check)

Courtesy of a LPCAMM2 module, which lets you upgrade memory that would normally be soldered to the motherboard.

Up to 64GB of RAM, a 2880x1920 13" touch screen, and none of the Four Essential Keys. Sore point, because they have 20 different keyboard options including some with additional keys, but none have those four.

It's fully compatible with the existing Laptop 13's motherboard and expansion modules, but with a CNC machined aluminium chassis.

They also announced a keyboards - which also lacks the Four Essential Keys.
SpaceX has signed a deal with Cursor that gives them the option to buy that company for $60 billion. (Twitter)

This may or may not happen.
Anthropic suspended one company's access to Claude, leaving 60 employees unable to do anything for 15 hours. (Tom's Hardware)

I don't think the problem there is with Anthropic.
Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

The money on the bus goes round and round...
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is online. (Britannica 11)

Start with A and keep going until you run out of pages.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: It's not what you don't do, it's the way you don't do it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at April 22, 2026 04:31 AM (5OgL1)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:31 AM (YbTYS)

4 Otters called.

Posted by: clarence at April 22, 2026 04:32 AM (5OgL1)

5 >>>Anthropic suspended one company's access to Claude, leaving 60 employees unable to do anything for 15 hours. (Tom's Hardware)
I don't think the problem there is with Anthropic.

Agreed!
"Unable to do anything." sheesh

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:33 AM (YbTYS)

6
I don't care what Amazon does. Keep Claude away from the DoD.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2026 04:34 AM (n7rxJ)

7 Mornin'

The Rockford Files - Greatest TV show evah!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2026 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

8 >>>Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

... and pretty soon you're talkin' real money.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:37 AM (YbTYS)

9 I've been looking up how to cast video to my Roku TV with Linux Mint. Some options, but from what I've read, tricky. It's not to major of an issue. I can just use a good ole fashioned HDMI cable and plug the laptop into the TV directly. Just wondering if I could cast it too. The MacBook isn't an issue. Casts pretty easily.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

10 Disclaimer: It's not what you don't do, it's the way you don't do it.

Similarly:

'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It)

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:45 AM (YbTYS)

11 ... and pretty soon you're talkin' real money.
****

Stock options, corporate accounting games, balance sheet transfers out of thin air are all manifestations of imaginary gains and losses. No real money involved. But the crash will be real and spectacular.

Posted by: clarence at April 22, 2026 04:48 AM (5OgL1)

12 I expect the Devil is enjoying Lenin's birthday

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

13 12 I expect the Devil is enjoying Lenin's birthday
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

What do you get for the man who already has everyone else's things?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2026 04:50 AM (Ot/FD)

14 7 Mornin'

The Rockford Files - Greatest TV show evah!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2026 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

You might be right!

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:53 AM (YbTYS)

15 70 years ago, in April of 1956, my martial arts Sensei, Black Belt Hall of Fame Judo Instructor, the late Karl Geis, almost blew up the world. He was an Air Force radio traffic analyst stationed in Japan on a Sunday. He was the only analyst on duty, when he noticed that all of the Russian Bomber call signs had launched toward the US simultaneously. He called in the LT who was serving as Officer of the Day, and showed him the data. The LT said to him, "What do we do?" Karl said "Call NORAD and report this." They got the General in charge at NORAD and told him. He called President Eisenhower, who ordered an all out nuclear strike on the USSR by SAC. Meanwhile in Japan they had scrambled all the other Traffic Analysts - who confirmed Karl's analysis. In 1956 there was no "Fail Safe". When SAC launched, the bombers were on their way to their targets. All of the foreign analysts were called in and again confirmed Karl's analysis. Suddenly a French analyst shouted "Those Idiots have switched their Civilian and Military call signs. This is the resupply of Siberia after the winter" when he saw a plane land in Siberia. When SAC was recalled the lead B-52s were over Soviet Air space.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 22, 2026 04:54 AM (Da7Vv)

16 Good morning, everyone. I hope you all had a blessed day yesterday . I was over at the local senior care center with the Bible study group- a small group of lovely people who meet twice a month for study. Yesterday we were looking at Revelation 5:9-13 which is about living creatures and angels all singing " Worthy is the lamb who was slain" and "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!"

Yesterday I went to the "Faithpot" site and there was a video of Ce Ce Winans singing a song about this passage:

https://tinyurl.com/tsszfcj5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 05:00 AM (An79C)

17 Mornin' Horde.

Coffee. Bacon. Eggs.

Fueling commences.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (O7YUW)

18 Continuing from downstairs
https://www.americanthinker.com obama hops aboard mamdani_s_socialist bandwagon

I would advocate he always was, just with a smoke screen

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Toddler shares magical moments with some horses.

https://tinyurl.com/3vebp6d5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 05:05 AM (PFs9e)

20 @15/An Observation sez Trump is my President:

That's not one of the close-calls I'd heard of previously. One is left to wonder how many times this sort of thing has happened.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:07 AM (O7YUW)

21 Back to the city, its a big project so expect to have to go there for a few months
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 05:09 AM (Ia/+0)

22 So, don't buy nothin'. Okay, will do.
* zombie hand hits up newegg...*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2026 05:11 AM (diia5)

23 18 ... obama hops aboard mamdani ...
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

ewwwww

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:12 AM (YbTYS)

24 @18/Skip: "I would advocate he always was, just with a smoke screen"

And one heck of a smoke screen it was. Any time I need to remember that I don't hate the media enough, I just have to think back to them running offense and defense for Obama and how much they hid information about him that the voters should have, and needed to know.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:15 AM (O7YUW)

25 17 Mornin' Horde.

Coffee. Bacon. Eggs.

Fueling commences.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (O7YUW)

And toast?

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:16 AM (YbTYS)

26 Very belated BOING!

Israel Independence Day here. Just back from ascending the Temple Mount. Was most uplifting and joyous. Oh, and I was planning on going even before this came out:

https://tinyurl.com/4p2dhs8n

Sounds like a plan!

Anyhoo, early noon stove top coffee bubbling away. Then we're off to a gathering of pups and grandpups for the family BBQ somewhere deep in the heart of Judea and Samaria.

Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2026 05:17 AM (1o8D5)

27 @25/m: No toast. Just black wakeup juice and protein.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

28 Happy Independence Day, Biden's dog.! Our morning prayers include prayers for Israel everyday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 05:25 AM (zMLZ6)

29 That Rockford theme made me remember how much I liked it when it was on, I had a handheld cassette recorder at the time and I recall holding it up next to the tv and recording the song on tape. Nobody under 30 - maybe 40 - would even understand that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2026 05:26 AM (Fmj+u)

30 That's not one of the close-calls I'd heard of previously. One is left to wonder how many times this sort of thing has happened.

There used to be a Wikipedia page on the 1956 event, but they have withdrawn it.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 22, 2026 05:32 AM (Da7Vv)

31 Tech thread is jumping today. Good morning.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2026 05:36 AM (uyu6y)

32 Just back from toast-making!

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:37 AM (YbTYS)

33 @Pixy: You should write to Framework and explain what the four essential keys are, and why they should offer them on a keyboard variant.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:39 AM (O7YUW)

34 I recently saw a YouTube video claiming that in 1952, an Air Force F94-A shot down a Nuclear armed Russian B-29 copy over Alaskan territorial waters. My dad flew back seat in an F94-A about that time. The radar screen was so dim that he had to carry a blanket to throw over his head during daytime, so he could see the screen.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 22, 2026 05:40 AM (Da7Vv)

35 Evening and morning, all! Slept solidly but not long, after a dream where I was attempting to direct -- and star in -- a TV episode about a husband-wife acting team hosting one of those old-style quiz shows like What's My Line? You know, when they hired people with actual wit and sophistication to appear on TV even if they weren't that glamorous-looking, like Bennett Cerf, Henry Morgan, or Dorothy Kilgallen.

The trouble? I had no real script, and was depending on some of the other actors to improvise. A nightmare indeed.

Anyway, I am awake, and have to head off to the tire and service shop about my headlight in a couple of hours. How 'bout choo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 05:47 AM (+2QQb)

36 some fun stuff in the comments here:

Josh Weinstein
@Joshstrangehill
10h
Yes! I was just able to use this line in a conversation, once again!

It's my #1 most used Simpsons quote (And it might even be my line)

My #2 most used line is Moe's "Pret-ty clevah!" from "Hurricane Neddy"

What's YOUR most used Simpsons quote?

(Used in regular conversation)

Hmm your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:49 AM (YbTYS)

37 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 05:52 AM (VyBeY)

38 for example:

heytherecharlie
@heytherecharli3
7h
Replying to @Joshstrangehill
I have three kids and no money! Why can't I have no kids and three money?

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:54 AM (YbTYS)

39 Cat steals baby chicks from the neighbor . It's actually a nice story from " Sunny Skyz":

https://tinyurl.com/3vss56mh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 06:00 AM (PFs9e)

40 “ In that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.”

Isaiah 12:4

Posted by: Marcus T at April 22, 2026 06:00 AM (E/qck)

41 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 05:47 AM (+2QQb)

I have to go to the market ( exciting times, eh?)
and prepare for Sunday's service.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 06:01 AM (PFs9e)

42 Back at you, Marcus T !🙂 From Psalm 138:

I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.

2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 06:05 AM (PFs9e)

43 > 34 I recently saw a YouTube video claiming that in 1952, an Air Force F94-A shot down a Nuclear armed Russian B-29 copy over Alaskan territorial waters.

The Russkis have been attempting to penetrate Alaskan airspace for many decades. This rarely makes the Lower 48 news, but it literally happens all the time.

According to a friend who should know, in recent history the game has been to intercept the Russians before they get within cruise missile range of Anchorage.

They don't always succeed.

I can totally believe that a Russian plane was downed back then... there are areas that are still damned remote today, much less in 1952, and there weren't a zillion satellites taking pictures, either.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 22, 2026 06:08 AM (IG3/x)

44 Wow! I am suddenly glad that I am not and never have been a private investigator. That extended theme makes the lifestyle look atrocious.

Posted by: SciVo at April 22, 2026 06:13 AM (Sy6m/)

45 My high-tech experience of the week:

Learning that the fancy ER-grade Foley catheters now have a built-in temperature probe. Apparently urine temperature is a good proxy for actual core temperature, and having a probe in the urine stream lets you do continuous temperature monitoring with sticking another probe up the patient's ass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 22, 2026 06:14 AM (IG3/x)

46 James Garner
Born James Scott Bumgarner
April 7, 1928
Denver, Oklahoma, now part of Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.

His life history is amazing.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 06:15 AM (YbTYS)

47
Earf Day! Also, Stuff-Your-Murdered-GF-In-A-Trunk Day!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 06:15 AM (tgvbd)

48 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse with Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor is on TCM. I've never seen it. EGR was amazing -- he played gangsters, doctors, a milquetoast husband, a college professor, a Nazi hunter, a farmer slowly going mad, an enlisted man on a WWII destroyer, an insurance expert, and more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 06:17 AM (+2QQb)

49 47
Earf Day! Also, Stuff-Your-Murdered-GF-In-A-Trunk Day!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Also Vladimir Lenin's Birthday.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2026 06:19 AM (sAmhv)

50 James Garner
Born James Scott Bumgarner
April 7, 1928
Denver, Oklahoma, now part of Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.

His life history is amazing.
Posted by: m at April 22, 2026

***
I read his memoir earlier this year. It includes a section where he lists each movie or TV series he was in, and sums it up as good or bad. For instance, he mentions 1966's Mister Buddwing and says, "To this day I don't know what it was about. What were they thinking?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 06:20 AM (+2QQb)

51 I assiduously plan not to celebrate Earth Day today, and murderous What's- His- Name -except that I have every intention of staying on the earth today, God willing and may pick up flowers for a dear lady in the Senior Center.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 06:24 AM (+2c3a)

52 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 22, 2026 06:30 AM (2Ez/1)

53 I watched The Rockford Files back in the day. It was a good TV show, I liked James Garner. And the shows theme music was great. One thing that annoyed me was the bad guys characters always seemed to have a Brooklyn accent. It was like New York City moved to Southern California. But other than that it was a good TV show.
Garner was great in the movies Support Your Local Sheriff, and Support Your Local Gunfighter.

Posted by: Case at April 22, 2026 06:32 AM (pvf3X)

54 Shimmering paths astound by day
Pieces of light come out to play
The sun turns out so bright
Such a nice day to fly a kite

fin

Posted by: clarence at April 22, 2026 06:33 AM (nD5wh)

55
Earth Day is more pernicious than we acknowledge. It marked to transition of the Democratic Party from We-Are-Going-To-The-Moon to the mingy, crabbed eat-the-bugs party of BANANAs they are today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 06:33 AM (tgvbd)

56 James Garner
Born James Scott Bumgarner
April 7, 1928
Denver, Oklahoma, now part of Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.

His life history is amazing.
Posted by: m

Norman has a statue of him in our little downtown plaza.

Also, Earth Day Shmurth Day. Let's strip mine.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 22, 2026 06:34 AM (cxFcK)

57 I think my favorite Garner TV show one from the early 70's called Nichols. A quirky western.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 22, 2026 06:35 AM (cxFcK)

58 Earth Day. Going to cut down more trees and burn trash in celebration.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 22, 2026 06:42 AM (DIbRX)

59 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 22, 2026 06:35 AM (cxFcK)

Kinda risqué-looking hash, there.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 06:43 AM (YbTYS)

60 Greetings and good morning, one and all. Kindly think happy thoughts in my direction as I'm going to the doctor for an injection into my knee to make up for the fact that I have lost almost all my cartilage.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 22, 2026 06:44 AM (+4yJ5)

61 talk about No Kings:

Pop Base
@PopBase
22h
The UK will ban anyone 17 and under from ever buying cigarettes after the Tobacco and Vapes Bill cleared Parliament.

Anyone born after January 1, 2009 will never be able to legally purchase tobacco, aiming to create a smoke-free generation.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 06:50 AM (YbTYS)

62 Earth First! Make Mars Our Bitch!

Posted by: Dale Alvin Gribble at April 22, 2026 06:50 AM (XE5AP)

63 "Earf Day! Also, Stuff-Your-Murdered-GF-In-A-Trunk Day!"

Yo!

*fist bump*

Posted by: rapper D4vd at April 22, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

64 Since it's Earth Day, let me resurrect this old meme:
https://tinyurl.com/3akxhd2r

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

65 BBC

Iran says it has seized two cargo ships in Strait of Hormuz after three vessels attacked

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:02 AM (YbTYS)

66
Yo!

*fist bump*
Posted by: rapper D4vd at April 22, 2026 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

Minstrel Show: Reinforces stereotype of blacks as happy, singing, dancing, watermelon-eating darkies. Bad and false.

Rap Music: Reinforces stereotype of blacks as violent, sociopathic thugs and amoral sluts. Good and real.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 07:05 AM (tgvbd)

67 Nothing on the BBC online front page about "The UK will ban anyone 17 and under from ever buying cigarettes after the Tobacco and Vapes Bill cleared Parliament."

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:09 AM (YbTYS)

68 Witch Hat Atelier.

I love the art, but I have lost interest in the story.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2026 07:10 AM (2GVsD)

69 45, science is sure wonderful, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 07:12 AM (VyBeY)

70 ... AND vapes:

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
18h
BREAKING:

The UK passes lifelong ban on buying tobacco and vapes for everyone born after 2008.

The law, meant to create “a smoke-free generation, will come into effect in 2027

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:13 AM (YbTYS)

71 talk about No Kings:

Pop Base
@PopBase
22h
The UK will ban anyone 17 and under from ever buying cigarettes after the Tobacco and Vapes Bill cleared Parliament.

Anyone born after January 1, 2009 will never be able to legally purchase tobacco, aiming to create a smoke-free generation.
Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 06:50 AM (YbTYS)

No Kings except for Nosmo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2026 07:14 AM (Ot/FD)

72 "Anyone born after January 1, 2009 will never be able to legally purchase tobacco, aiming to create a smoke-free generation"

But weed is still ok, right?

Posted by: fd at April 22, 2026 07:15 AM (vFG9F)

73 OK, this was neat to watch. The Joker facing Jesus:

https://youtu.be/jwVe9jBxZM0

(Yes, yes. AI animation with a lot of flaws. It still works out.)

Posted by: NR Pax at April 22, 2026 07:15 AM (+4yJ5)

74 LOL, W-o!

I remember a college textbook where that was one on the character names used in hypotheticals.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 07:16 AM (VyBeY)

75
Anyone born after January 1, 2009 will never be able to legally purchase tobacco, aiming to create a smoke-free generation

No more fags, eh?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 07:16 AM (tgvbd)

76 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 07:16 AM (RIvkX)

77 heh

13 12 I expect the Devil is enjoying Lenin's birthday
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

What do you get for the man who already has everyone else's things?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2026 04:50 AM (Ot/FD)

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:17 AM (YbTYS)

78 Back then the opening theme was hugely important to TV programs. Several became popular hits. Happy Days, Welcome Back Kotter, Baretta.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 07:18 AM (RIvkX)

79 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2026 07:19 AM (u82oZ)

80 Lol, that law will only make the UK's two-tier, race-based justice system even more obvious. No more hiding it in courthouses with media lockouts.

Arabs loooove cigarettes. So the Arabs will freely purchase and smoke cigarettes, while whitey will get the nightstick for it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 22, 2026 07:20 AM (BI5O2)

81 BBC

Trump participates in marathon Bible reading ... Trump read from 2 Chronicles on Tuesday night

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:21 AM (YbTYS)

82 ... The passage he read includes the line: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:22 AM (YbTYS)

83 We LOVE the Erf!
Learn to coal.

Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at April 22, 2026 07:22 AM (2Ez/1)

84 Had fun meeting Wolfus Aurelius in Salina, Kansas yesterday. He has a very nice looking car.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

85 Had fun meeting Wolfus Aurelius in Salina, Kansas yesterday. He has a very nice looking car.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Where's he off to? I forget.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 22, 2026 07:25 AM (cxFcK)

86 >>>Earth Day. Going to cut down more trees and burn trash in celebration.

Posted by: Ben Had

>I think I'll drain my engine oil into the ground.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 22, 2026 07:25 AM (Fbc0I)

87 81 BBC

Trump participates in marathon Bible reading ... Trump read from 2 Chronicles on Tuesday night
Posted by: m
---
Two Corinthians walk into a bar...

Posted by: Stop me if you've heard it at April 22, 2026 07:26 AM (2Ez/1)

88 Arabs loooove cigarettes. So the Arabs will freely purchase and smoke cigarettes, while whitey will get the nightstick for it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 22, 2026 07:20 AM (BI5O2)

Asians too...love their tobacco. The West should promote smoking in Red China as a way to weaken and undermine the commie bastards. Cheap smokes with extra nicotine and fiberglass filters.

Posted by: The CIA at April 22, 2026 07:26 AM (79nfv)

89 87 81 BBC

Trump participates in marathon Bible reading ... Trump read from 2 Chronicles on Tuesday night
Posted by: m
---
Two Corinthians walk into a bar...
Posted by: Stop me if you've heard it at April 22, 2026 07:26 AM (2Ez/1)

hahahahahahaha!

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:27 AM (YbTYS)

90 "Arabs loooove cigarettes. So the Arabs will freely purchase and smoke cigarettes, while whitey will get the nightstick for it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice"

Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: Southern Penguin Law Center at April 22, 2026 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

91 Here, try these cigarettes.
Tell ya what. The first carton is free.

Posted by: RJ Reynolds Marketing Department at April 22, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

92 The SPLC memes are already fantastic.

Picture of Elmo with two black kids
"But what if Elmo was paid $270,000 by SPLC to say that word?"

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 07:29 AM (qRNmP)

93 Hookahs for the win.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:29 AM (YbTYS)

94 Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Eventually, back home to New Orleans.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

95 The first cigarette I ever smoked was in Israel. Provided by the UN for the Arabs in Gaza. The brand was Noblesse. Poor Israelis would also smoke them. Even young children in Israel often smoke. The kid who gave them to me had an English language joke for me about them: "No money? NOBLESSE!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 22, 2026 07:31 AM (BI5O2)

96 ... Trump participated in the America Reads the Bible marathon Tuesday, reading aloud 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 via a pre-recorded video message ...

Christian Post

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:32 AM (YbTYS)

97 RJ Reynolds Marketing Department

Nicotine is soo addictive.

For the Arabs smoking in the UK, they will not like the NHS care plan for lung cancer. It's just a little better than Canadian Health Care.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

98 On topic: Phoronix's benchmarks show the 9950X3D2 is actually a good boost for serious work: programming, scientific apps, video encoding, 3D model creation, etc, etc. But sites like Tom's Hardware rate CPUs only on games, and games are almost always limited by the video card, not the CPU.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2026 07:33 AM (qRNmP)

99 But New Orleans was not to be his home for much longer...

Posted by: Ominous narrator voice at April 22, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

100 100

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:33 AM (YbTYS)

101 Getting lighter outside. I'll need to leave for the tire shop in about forty minutes, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 07:35 AM (+2QQb)

102 Wolfus:

85 Had fun meeting Wolfus Aurelius in Salina, Kansas yesterday. He has a very nice looking car.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Where's he off to? I forget.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 22, 2026 07:25 AM (cxFcK)

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 07:35 AM (YbTYS)

103 What's YOUR most used Simpsons quote?

(Used in regular conversation)

Hmm your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:49 AM (YbTYS)
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The first step to failing is trying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 22, 2026 07:36 AM (RIvkX)

104 Good morning! Gonna be a cool drizzly day here in Cowtown.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 22, 2026 07:36 AM (3Ope8)

105 "I've already forgotten his name."

Posted by: Homer Simpson at April 22, 2026 07:37 AM (2Ez/1)

106
I used to work for a company with a division that made cellulose acetate for cigarette filters. Part of my job was to monitor patent and literature publications that might be of interest.

I noticed that the velocity of publications followed a trend:

- Very little in poor countries
- Vastly more as they got richer and started enjoying cigarettes
- A decline when they discovered these things were killing them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 07:37 AM (tgvbd)

107 "What's YOUR most used Simpsons quote?"

HA HA.

Posted by: fd at April 22, 2026 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

108 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 07:35 AM (+2QQb)

Hows the road trip going? Why are you going to the tire shop?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 22, 2026 07:38 AM (3Ope8)

109
It's just a little better than Canadian Health Care.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

Canadian Health Care: MAID today

NHS: MAID next week

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 07:38 AM (tgvbd)

110 D'oh!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 07:39 AM (VyBeY)

111 "Hollywood actors. Is there anything they DON'T know?"

Posted by: Homer Simpson at April 22, 2026 07:39 AM (2Ez/1)

112 Unpopular opinion (and for the record I’m not a smoker):
People in the US were, on average, healthier when most people used nicotine to control their appetite, rather than eating all day long and weighing 300 pounds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2026 07:39 AM (Fmj+u)

113 #2 has to be: "I know you'll tell me it's impossible, Lisa, but this both sucks and blows".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 07:40 AM (VyBeY)

114 The first step to failing is trying.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Done-iddly-un. I use that a lot.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 22, 2026 07:41 AM (cxFcK)

115 "...rather than eating all day long and weighing 300 pounds."

And wearing totally inappropriate yoga pants.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 22, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

116 NR Pax

Thank you for that link. Very powerful.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

117 you're not wrong, Tom ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 07:41 AM (VyBeY)

118 112 Unpopular opinion (and for the record I’m not a smoker):
People in the US were, on average, healthier when most people used nicotine to control their appetite, rather than eating all day long and weighing 300 pounds.

Yeah tell that to my dad who was a chain smoker for most of his life and still weighed over 300 lbs until he developed cancer, from the smoking. Also bilateral emphysema. Oh and another form of cancer (from the smoking) that was detected while he was being treated for the first cancer.

Posted by: farquad at April 22, 2026 07:43 AM (CFMhl)

119 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 07:43 AM (VyBeY)

120 Quarter Twenty

A failure of the fabric under load could injure others. Like a hawser snapping during a docking. Some woke women stuff themselves into yoga pants like John Holmes into Pia Zadora.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 22, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

121
And in the "Everything Is More Complicated Than You Think" category, just making the cellulose acetate tow to make cigarette filters is a long, multi-step process that starts with wood pulp and ends in a miles-long strip of material fed into a box and shipped off to cigarette manufacturers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 07:44 AM (tgvbd)

122 Hows the road trip going? Why are you going to the tire shop?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 22, 2026

***
The right low-beam headlight bulb is out, and it's HID and very hard to get to. I had the left done about two years ago. It's complicated and things have to be moved out of the way. The tire and service store has been recommended to me by locals -- "They do good work."

Otherwise Salina has been great, perfect weather, good streets. If they get done with this in a reasonable time, I might hop on the I-135 and drive down to that pipe shop in Wichita I've heard about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 07:54 AM (+2QQb)

123 sock change

Posted by: Will Robinson at April 22, 2026 08:16 AM (zBgIx)

124 You should write a phone app that lets you turn the screen into a massive Four Essential Keys, allowing input over Bluetooth or USB. Instant fix for any deficient system!

Posted by: Epobirs at April 22, 2026 09:13 AM (/0z9K)

125 spock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 22, 2026 09:21 AM (w9Wax)

126 Your KB has more than 4 essential keys you nimrod. Do you know how defective you are saying that everyday? Millennials are morons.

Posted by: Fisht at April 22, 2026 09:43 AM (BkYMd)

127 124 You should write a phone app that lets you turn the screen into a massive Four Essential Keys, allowing input over Bluetooth or USB. Instant fix for any deficient system!
Posted by: Epobirs at April 22, 2026 09:13 AM (/0z9K)

I love this.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 10:35 AM (YbTYS)

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