Daily Tech News 30 June 2026

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South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, sort of. Only about $20 billion of that is direct South Korean public spending, with the remainder coming from regional governments and private investment.

The government will also help fast-track approvals to bring construction plans forward by as much as twelve years.
Meanwhile the Big Three - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have been hit with a private antitrust lawsuit by litigants in California. (Tom's Hardware)

The suit seems to be focused on decreased production of DDR4 and DDR3, which is legal, but alleges they colluded to do so, which may not be.

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IMEC has laid out its roadmap towards a 0.3nm process in 2038. (Tom's Hardware)

The article notes that this is marketing nonsense - well, the part you can read doesn't, but it's there in the details that you can't read - with actual feature sizes in the 10-20nm range. Since a single silicon atom has a diameter of 0.2nm, you can rest assured they're not building circuits that size.

The 0.3nm instead refers to the effective density thanks to increased use of 3D production to stack transistors vertically.
The Steam Cube hasn't even started shipping and the first clones are here. (Tom's Hardware)

Meta PC's Steamroller is a micro ATX system with a Ryzen 9600X and a Radeon 7600 - both a little faster than the components in the Steam Machine - 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 8GB of VRAM, and a 1TB SSD, for $1299.

It ships with SteamOS, so no Windows tax.
Everything new is old again: Nvidia's RTX 3060 has returned from the dead. (Tom's Hardware)

It was a pretty decent card, and its 12GB of VRAM gives it a boost over current 8GB models like the 5060 and the base model 5060 Ti
It can also run PhysX games, which Nvidia half-killed on the 5000 series. But now so can AMD graphics cards. (WCCFTech)

Thanks to open-source library ZLUDA.
The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge) (archive site)

Promise?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Yes. Sure.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:35 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

2 w00t 2nd

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:37 AM (6wpGE)

3 Mornin'

Think I'll take a walk. Gonna be steamy later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

4 >>>The ware against woke

There's a pun there.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:45 AM (6wpGE)

5 I'm glad I quit gaming when I did. There is no keeping up with this foolishness. And my wallet thanks me. Maybe I should invest, billion dollar industry.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 30, 2026 04:48 AM (fkjGs)

6 Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love

um

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:49 AM (6wpGE)

7 Boogie *Pimps*

Wonder what that'll do to my For You feed?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:50 AM (6wpGE)

8 Howdy, med problems are keeping me up today, so I'm surfing laptops. I've decided that building a new rig is to much of an issue and I can have portability so it's time to shop.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 30, 2026 04:51 AM (Q/FnY)

9 Hitting that long road
See you when I get there

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)

10 >>>The war against woke could end US science as we know it

Or, more honestly--as the author of that way-too-long article allows in the very last sentence:

“We are going to see devastation to our federal grant programs like we’ve never seen before in this country if this is allowed to go forward.”

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:54 AM (6wpGE)

11
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 30, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

12 The war against woke could end US science as we know it. (The Verge)

Somebody want to volunteer to read and summarize that?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:10 AM (6wpGE)

13 from the Verge article (about halfway):

Scientists, it turns out, often know good science when they see it.

A little snippy, there, eh?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:19 AM (6wpGE)

14 Evening, late toilers. Morning, early risers. Whass happenin'?

83 F. at 4:20 am. Horrifying, esp. since I was planning to work out in it. Long ago, Dr. Cooper in Aerobics advised that if temps were over 90 F., to reduce exercise or change to the early morning or evening. Excuse me, Doctor Sir, but what do ya do when the early morning and evening heat-index temps are *also* over 90?

Though he lived in South Texas for much of his life, and was an active runner himself, so he knew about that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:21 AM (wzUl9)

15 We had an Osterizer like the one in the ONT. It worked great for easily 2 decades.

Until a spoon slipped out of my hand and bent the blades beyond repair.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 05:23 AM (qFwJc)

16 The tail end of The Eagle Has Landed w/ Michael Caine is on Movies! Odd; I've read the book multiple times, but have never seen the film.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:23 AM (wzUl9)

17 moar from the Verge article:

“People who come from minority communities tend to work on subjects related to health disparities or other things,” Berg says. “Not everybody, but some of them do.”

...

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:30 AM (6wpGE)

18 I looked over the ONT and its black-and-white photography. I love that stuff. Somewhere I have an Ansel Adams print or two of the Southwest, and will put them up when I have room, aka, when I have my house.

Maybe it's because I grew up with B & W TV and watching even color movies on it. The crispness and starkness of B & W images make them seem more real, somehow, more immediate, than does the color palette of the actual world.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 05:31 AM (wzUl9)

19 Verge article, summary:

Orange Man Bad

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (6wpGE)

20 Today's devotional from "The Upper Room"
Is by a person from Australia and concerns "Each
One's purpose" Psalm 92:1-156

https://tinyurl.com/yc7feyjy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Yl2Ob)

21 Mornin' Horde.

Well I guess we won't be able to count on the South Korean government in any antitrust investigation of SK Hynix or Samsung this time round, not with how much money is being shoveled at them to address the memory scarcity problems.

And we all know what happens when government throws a lot of money at a problem: The solution usually takes longer, costs 10 times more than it should, and arrives broken, if it arrives at all. Yay.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

22 @19/m: "ALL Verge articles, summary: Orange Man Bad"

Fixed that for you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

23 “We are going to see devastation to our federal grant programs like we’ve never seen before in this country if this is allowed to go forward.”
Posted by: m

Faster?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2026 05:43 AM (sAmhv)

24 22 @19/m: "ALL Verge articles, summary: Orange Man Bad"

Fixed that for you.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

Thank you.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:44 AM (6wpGE)

25 NPR was all on this yesterday. Trump is running all the scientists out of the country.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 05:48 AM (6BjcW)

26 25 NPR was all on this yesterday. Trump is running all the scientists out of the country.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at June 30, 2026 05:48 AM (6BjcW)

https://www.npr.org

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:49 AM (6wpGE)

27 Yesterday FenSpouse called me over to the room where our computer is. I thought he was showing
Me the latest problem with it. but instead he opened the window curtain outside and there sitting on the ground was dear little spotted fawn
It's probably eating our lillies, but it is cute.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:49 AM (Yl2Ob)

28 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:33 AM (Yl2Ob)

Fear not! 😊 Psalm 52 for the devotional does not have 152 verses. only 15.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2026 05:52 AM (Yl2Ob)

29 moar NPR:

'Supergirl' has a solid hero but could use a better villain

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:58 AM (6wpGE)

30 7 Boogie *Pimps*

Wonder what that'll do to my For You feed?
Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 04:50 AM (6wpGE)

Not enough, but I can fix that!

This is a great song, I love it:
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
https://youtu.be/KRXty8lDUW0

I prefer this over Rage Against The Machine's cover:
Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill a Man (Official HD Video)
https://youtu.be/Yg-RIOATCbU

I'm conflicted about this performance, but at least it made me feel something?
Nirvana - Rape Me (Live At The Paramount, Seattle / 1991)
https://youtu.be/ly1lWkRwm6g

I have not yet compared the other (newer) official lyric video:
Noah Kahan - Dial Drunk (Official Lyric Video)
https://youtu.be/m9Kev73C2cc

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 06:02 AM (Sy6m/)

31 ***South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix.
---

Samsung is off the market here. If you want to buy it's on the Korean market at ~240. SK Hnix is privately owned. The only other company that makes those do hickeys is MU an American company going for 1300. It was 20 last year.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:04 AM (vPv7/)

32 I'm back

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:04 AM (sgkY8)

33 Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 06:02 AM (Sy6m/)

Nope. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.

(Heavy on the "prude.")

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

34 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (Hbeqj)

35 Good morning! The neighbor next door sold his house to some outfit that's renovating it before selling it and they've come to the stage where they're going to paint the exterior. I saw that they'd caulked the eaves in prep for paint and masked the windows, then I realized they'd painted the brick. White. Very, very bright white.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (3Ope8)

36 Today is the last of the first half of the year.

Reminds me: This afternoon I need to set my 1971 watch, which does not have a quick-set date feature, ahead to the 31st, so that tomorrow morning it will read the 1st.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

37 Musical Interlude

Is she some school teacher? Seems like she's trying to entice those kiddos...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:06 AM (l3cgK)

38 TechCrunch: "Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short"

https://tinyurl.com/ma6vz6ru

Snippet: { To be clear, this doesn't mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it's using the rehired employees - referred to as "gray beard" engineers - to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools. }

So reality is re-asserting itself (as it always does), but some executives are still huffing the AI copium as hard as they can. Got it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

39 I think Jefferson Airplane when I hear that song...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:07 AM (l3cgK)

40 @35/CrochetyOldJarhead: "... then I realized they'd painted the brick. White. Very, very bright white."

Graffiti artists everywhere: Blank Canvas!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 30, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

41 Painting brick has become a fad in my neighborhood. I don't get it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:12 AM (vPv7/)

42 Pretty one-story house in the neighborhood where I grew up had white-painted brick and very dark green, almost black, fake shutters.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:15 AM (6wpGE)

43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!

Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

44 Decided to postpone my work out until tomorrow. Time for some breakfast!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

45 mornin yall. The year is half over and I still need a haircut. Sometimes is seems like am not making any progress,

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 06:22 AM (MWfyi)

46 moar NPR:

'Supergirl' has a solid hero but could use a better villain
Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 05:58 AM (6wpGE)
---
Wait...I thought Supergirl WAS the villain...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 30, 2026 06:22 AM (gnNyN)

47 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!
Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

Speaking of which:

@Breaking911
16h
A Los Angeles man has been arrested after allegedly firing a BB gun at naked cyclists riding through downtown Los Angeles.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:23 AM (6wpGE)

48 Brick gets painted often

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:24 AM (sgkY8)

49 Saw a thing over at Insty about the movie Logan's Run. The book was so much better, but hey...Jennie Augutter and Farrah Fawcet...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:25 AM (3Ope8)

50 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 30, 2026 06:27 AM (V0/Sp)

51 Nope. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.

(Heavy on the "prude.")
Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

Then I won't bother reposting the ones I took out to appease the server filter (too many links? accused me of looking like spam). Those were some real doozies!

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (Sy6m/)

52 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!

Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

I don't want to know what or where you're putting your Pride in...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (l3cgK)

53 Yeah but the book didn't have Jennie.
One book I have wanted to read was Walkabout, it is different than how the movie was presented

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (sgkY8)

54 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: No. You can't.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:28 AM (amcLV)

55 47 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!
Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

Speaking of which:

@Breaking911
16h
A Los Angeles man has been arrested after allegedly firing a BB gun at naked cyclists riding through downtown Los Angeles.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:23 AM (6wpGE)

Airsoft, man...
Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:29 AM (l3cgK)

56 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!

Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)
---------
Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!

Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 30, 2026 06:30 AM (amcLV)

57 Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...

I bet you can buy there though.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (3Ope8)

58 Jennie Agutter plays the English girl that Irish spy Donald Sutherland romances in The Eagle Has Landed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

59 Meanwhile the Big Three - Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix - have been hit with a private antitrust lawsuit by litigants in California.

Hynix Hijinks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (l3cgK)

60 57 Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...

I bet you can buy there though.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 30, 2026 06:31 AM (3Ope

Oh yeah, I can.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:32 AM (l3cgK)

61 Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!
Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 30, 2026

***
I'm ready for Lust Month.

Gluttony, though, is right out. It makes it darn difficult to enjoy Lust Month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

62 Don't pump it too many times it would give a good sting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:34 AM (vPv7/)

63 55 47 43 This is the Last Day of Pride Month, so get your Pridin' in NOW!!
Posted by: Pride Month PSA, Did We Mention it's PRIDE MONTH at June 30, 2026 06:20 AM (CpcAD)

Speaking of which:

@Breaking911
16h
A Los Angeles man has been arrested after allegedly firing a BB gun at naked cyclists riding through downtown Los Angeles.

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:23 AM (6wpGE)

Airsoft, man...
Anyway, it's illegal to fire BB guns and Airsoft rifles where I live...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:29 AM (l3cgK)

Is it illegal to ride bikes naked in public?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:34 AM (6wpGE)

64 61 Wrath Month is gonna be LIT!!!
Posted by: That guy who thinks Wrath Month is gonna be LIT at June 30, 2026

***
I'm ready for Lust Month.

Gluttony, though, is right out. It makes it darn difficult to enjoy Lust Month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

Sloth Month sucks...takes a month to poop.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:35 AM (l3cgK)

65
*storms in*

Didn't I tell you to clean this place up? It looks like the wreck of the Hesperus!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (O0L8i)

66 Selective prosecution is pernicious. How can a person know which laws are being enforced?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (qFwJc)

67
pride
greed
lust
envy
gluttony
wrath
sloth

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (6wpGE)

68 Donald Sutherland is a fine actor, but Eagle and The Great Train Robbery decisively show that he can't do a convincing Irish dialect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (amcLV)

69 Is it illegal to ride bikes naked in public?

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:34 AM (6wpGE)

Yup. Also illegal to ride on the streets without a helmet, yet a few years back the state had this huge bike ride event, and traffic was stopped to allow tons of bicycles to ride down major streets, cops handling the traffic...very few were wearing helmets, but the popo did nothing. I doubt any bike infractions were ticketed that day.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:37 AM (l3cgK)

70 "Forget it Jake, it's Los Angeles."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:37 AM (qFwJc)

71
pride
greed
lust
envy
gluttony - food thread
wrath
sloth - pet thread

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (6wpGE)

72 68 Donald Sutherland is a fine actor, but Eagle and The Great Train Robbery decisively show that he can't do a convincing Irish dialect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (amcLV)

So?

Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (l3cgK)

73 71
pride
greed
lust
envy
gluttony - food thread
wrath
sloth - pet thread

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (6wpGE)

gun thread may cover more than one...pride, greed, lust, envy

Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (l3cgK)

74 So?
Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:38 AM (l3cgK)
----------
Dude - the studio was abusing their contractual rights on that one.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (amcLV)

75 Apparently, IIRC, Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" was ridiculed too.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (qFwJc)

76 66 Selective prosecution is pernicious. How can a person know which laws are being enforced?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (qFwJc)

By breaking them

Posted by: John Wayne as Genghis Khan at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (l3cgK)

77 off sock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (l3cgK)

78 Sloth Month sucks...takes a month to poop.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026

***
That story on the ONT about the wombat that craps cubical poop . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

79 As Affordability Fears Mount, $100,000 Salary Considered Low-Income In 7 California Counties...
--

Ya hoooo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:40 AM (vPv7/)

80 79 As Affordability Fears Mount, $100,000 Salary Considered Low-Income In 7 California Counties...
--

Ya hoooo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:40 AM (vPv7/)

$100,000 monthly?

; )

Posted by: m at June 30, 2026 06:41 AM (6wpGE)

81 78 Sloth Month sucks...takes a month to poop.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026

***
That story on the ONT about the wombat that craps cubical poop . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

Borg cubes! Get ur Borg cubes here!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:42 AM (l3cgK)

82 Apparently, IIRC, Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" was ridiculed too.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (qFwJc)
---------
As a kid, I didn't notice it. As an adult...

Funny - well, for certain values of funny - story on that is that they hired a dialect coach for him, but the dialect coach could do a Cockney dialect, either. TBF, it's one of the more difficult dialects for a non-native speaker to get a handle on.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:42 AM (amcLV)

83 * coach could NOT do*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:43 AM (amcLV)

84 65
*storms in*

Didn't I tell you to clean this place up? It looks like the wreck of the Hesperus!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (O0L8i)

We're practicing for Sloth month!

Posted by: The Horde at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (CpcAD)

85 82 Apparently, IIRC, Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in "Mary Poppins" was ridiculed too.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 06:39 AM (qFwJc)
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As a kid, I didn't notice it. As an adult...

Funny - well, for certain values of funny - story on that is that they hired a dialect coach for him, but the dialect coach could do a Cockney dialect, either. TBF, it's one of the more difficult dialects for a non-native speaker to get a handle on.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:42 AM (amcLV)

I've never seen a cock with a knee...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

86 To all the sailors at sea, all the pilots in the air. Put away your watches.
==
"White Time": Dutch Professor Argues That Time Itself Is Racist

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (vPv7/)

87 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)

88 I think I will open Chapter Two of Beelink Follies today.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 30, 2026 06:45 AM (CHHv1)

89 You could make a case that Sutherland's Devlin, though a proud Irishman -- hating the English so much he was aiding the Germans, like a lot of Irish then -- nevertheless had lived in England so long he had picked up some of their speech patterns.

Jack Higgins wrote a later novel with Devlin as the lead; I'll have to look it up to see which book it was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:46 AM (wzUl9)

90 88 I think I will open Chapter Two of Beelink Follies today.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm
---

What happened?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:47 AM (vPv7/)

91 72 68 Donald Sutherland is a fine actor, but Eagle and The Great Train Robbery decisively show that he can't do a convincing Irish dialect.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:36 AM (amcLV)

That is surprising. He looks like he should be able to. Some people, though, just *look* like they do the most atrocious, mangled Irish accent when they're drunk...

Posted by: Maine Fuhrer at June 30, 2026 06:48 AM (Sy6m/)

92
"White Time": Dutch Professor Argues That Time Itself Is Racist

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (vPv7/)

_____________

*deletes comment about CPT*

Nothing will happen to this professor. But if you or I suggest trannies might not be right in the head, ooh doggies!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:49 AM (O0L8i)

93 "White Time": Dutch Professor Argues That Time Itself Is Racist"

Even more so than Newsweek?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 06:49 AM (MWfyi)

94 I've never seen a cock with a knee...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

a peyro-knee?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (Ot/FD)

95 Touch the Devil was the Higgins novel in which Devlin is the lead. Apparently, too, there was a sequel to Eagle Has Landed, in which Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine's character in the film) has survived the earlier mission, and is imprisoned in Britain. Devlin is persuaded by the German High Command to rescue Steiner from the Tower of London! I need to find this one!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (wzUl9)

96 hating the English so much he was aiding the Germans, like a lot of Irish then --
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By no means all. During the Blitz, fire companies from the Republic on their own hook went to help out bombed cities. There's a story that, in Belfast, one man was knocked unconscious, and when he woke, seeing trucks from the Dun Laoghaire fire brigade, thought he'd been blown all the way to Dublin!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (amcLV)

97 Latvia has announced confirmation its government has inked a new deal for Ukraine to assist in a Ukrainian drone manufacturing plant on Latvian soil, right near the border with Russia, as well as close to the Belarusian border

Ironically the spillover has come from Ukrainian drones.
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any stupider.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 06:52 AM (vPv7/)

98 94 I've never seen a cock with a knee...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

a peyro-knee?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (Ot/FD)

::: golf clap :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:52 AM (l3cgK)

99 94 I've never seen a cock with a knee...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:44 AM (l3cgK)

a peyro-knee?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:50 AM (Ot/FD)

When your meat has a knee is pepper-o-knee...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:53 AM (l3cgK)

100 "Time itself"? Not "Wypipo's perception of time"?

The actual time-like parts of the various dimensions of spacetime?

If you're going to say something preposterous about physics, at least make it involve quantum chromodynamics. That could at least plausibly lead to a sensible punchline.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:53 AM (Ot/FD)

101 100 "Time itself"? Not "Wypipo's perception of time"?

The actual time-like parts of the various dimensions of spacetime?

If you're going to say something preposterous about physics, at least make it involve quantum chromodynamics. That could at least plausibly lead to a sensible punchline.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 06:53 AM (Ot/FD)

There is a lot of color in those words...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 06:54 AM (l3cgK)

102 He looks like he should be able to.
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Some people just aren't good with accents and dialects. I have no idea what John Malkovitch thought he was doing with that weird Russian accent in Rounders.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:54 AM (amcLV)

103 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 30, 2026 06:55 AM (amcLV)

104
The attitude of the Irish during WWII was that they did not want to see Britain beat, but nearly beat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 06:55 AM (O0L8i)

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