Daily Tech News 15 August 2026

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Who are you and what have you done with France? France's Constitutional Council has found the French government's plan to block social media access to children under 15 unconstitutional for the burden it would place on everyone over the age of 15. (Reuters)

Kind of obvious but something that entirely escaped both major political parties here in Australia.

Tech News

Intel says that its Raptor Lake CPUs - 13th and 14th generation - aren't going anywhere. (Tom's Hardware)

Because they still support cheaper DDR4 memory. The company hasn't hinted at any new architectures featuring DDR4 support, but it has introduced new configurations in Bartlett Lake chips, which use the same core design but offer up to 12 performance cores on a chip instead of 8.

You can't officially buy them at retail and they require different BIOS code, but they are floating around and so are alternate BIOS files.
If you have kernel level-access to your PlayStation 4, you can now have... Kernel Level Access Plus. (Tom's Hardware)

This also applies to the Xbox One and perhaps more importantly to server ships like the Opteron 6300, which I hope nobody is still running for anything critical.
Why does Claude Fable feel worse than older Claude Opus models? (GitHub)
Selecting for models that do well on benchmarks (and indeed training for them or on RLVR tasks in general) inherently selects for models that make bold, usually-correct assumptions in the face of ambiguity. It penalizes models with a tendency to stop and ask for clarification or direction.
In short, because the incentive was to forge ahead and get things wrong rather than to stop and ask questions.
The weather was cold and cold. (The Register)

Did Claude Fable write that article?
The Ploopy A Plus is here. (Ploopy)

Plooping up your database connection, it would seem.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 cores 20% higher on AnTuTu than Gen 5. (WCCFTech)

That makes it twice as fast on that benchmark as the Gen 3 I have in the tablet I just bought, although given price increases it will likely cost four times as much. The Gen 5 model of that tablet already costs three times what I paid.
Judge James Lemongrab has ordered Google to stop fucking around and make it easier to install alternate app stores on Android. (The Verge) (archive site)

Unacceptable!
Apple also seems fully committed to fucking around. (MacRumors)

The company wants a 15% cut of purchases not made through Apple's servers.
He who represents himself has a fraud as a client. (404 Media)

Ah, the old hide your fraud attempts in white text on a white background trick. And I would have got away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling Select All.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Da da da.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

3 5 Mgid visits

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 15, 2026 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

5 >>>the tablet I just bought ... The Gen 5 model of that tablet already costs three times what I paid.

Yikes.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 04:41 AM (odBC9)

6 >>>He he represents himself

He who

Gesundheit.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 15, 2026 04:42 AM (wBh67)

8 No, who's on first.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 15, 2026 04:45 AM (BLOW1)

9 No, who's on first.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Hu is First Secretary

Posted by: Miklos, hey who Xi at August 15, 2026 04:47 AM (XOG/m)

10 " both major political parties"

Only because they keep doing everything in their power to make being "Pauline Hanson" Illegal. Her existence as being a target hatred, I THINK, predates TDS, and she held her positions a fair bit before trump.

Meanwhile read a policy paper by Every political party, and the only one that actually talks about real policies is ONP.

Posted by: wickedpinto at August 15, 2026 04:50 AM (r/8/x)

11 Kind of obvious but something that entirely escaped both major political parties here in Australia.

And the US too...It's always "do it for the children", but it's really "fk you serfs and your rights. We want to monitor you wherever and whenever we want, while you're not allowed to see what we do with your tax monies"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 04:54 AM (l3cgK)

12 Hu was been replaced as First Secretary.

Hu is now Second Secretary of the Peoples' Plenary Consultative Committee, under the Glorious Banner of Eternal Comrade Mao.

We shall calmly deliberate who should be First.

Hu Mi is favoured for loyal adherence and emulation of Lei Feng.

Posted by: Miklos, HU (Third Secretary) at August 15, 2026 04:55 AM (XOG/m)

13 Ah, the old hide your fraud attempts in white text on a white background trick. And I would have got away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling Select All.

Had that happen in a lawsuit. The other side sent a PDF with a list of expenses, but "blacked out" what each expense was specifically for. I was trying to copy it into another document and noticed the "blacked out" text wasn't actually blacked out...he had, for the third time, using yet another lawyer, to have the lawyer investigate his claims, something that had already been proven exactly wrong in court multiple times...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 05:02 AM (l3cgK)

14 from the 404 media (fraud as a client) article:

In October, the person, named Matthew Elliott, sued the New York Bariatric Group, alleging a series of privacy violations, discrimination, and several other claims.

His privacy is kinda moot at this point.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:05 AM (odBC9)

15 12 Hu Mi is favoured for loyal adherence and emulation of Lei Feng.
Posted by: Miklos, HU (Third Secretary) at August 15, 2026 04:55 AM (XOG/m)

Who, me?

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:08 AM (odBC9)

16 proven exactly wrong in court multiple times...
Posted by: jim

Hey, everybody's got bills to pay

Posted by: yet another lawyer at August 15, 2026 05:09 AM (XOG/m)

17
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

18 Have to work today, hopefully morning only, book store om way home, and OT.

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)

19 G'morning all, time to do back to sleep after reading the tech news.

Hu are you?

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 15, 2026 05:16 AM (Q/FnY)

20 from the Reuters France article:

France's Constitutional Council found that the ⁠bill, while requiring everyone to give proof of age, failed "to specify the conditions and limits" under which it should be provided, as well as infringing on freedoms and privacy.

YAY, FRANCE!

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

21 19 G'morning all, time to do back to sleep after reading the tech news.

Hu are you?

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 15, 2026 05:16 AM (Q/FnY)

... "and what have you done with France?"

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:24 AM (odBC9)

22 A great psalm of praise -Psalm
47. One of our posters here appreciates the KJV, so here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9kwkxk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 05:27 AM (xPsv8)

23 Better get making breakfast
Maybe ham and cheese omelet

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 05:31 AM (Ia/+0)

24
University of Cambridge faculty and staff:

"Say, fellow deans and dons, let's send this Arday chap out onto that thin ice and see how long it takes for him to plunge through it!"

"Oh, I say, that's a capital idea! How about we retire to the faculty lounge for tea now?"

"Uh, he's out there on thin ice, chaps -- shouldn't we get him off it first?"

"Nah, he'll be fine -- how about a round or two of bridge while we're there?

"Jolly good!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 15, 2026 05:31 AM (ixS3i)

25 LOL the first sentence of the Register article on AI-written text:

In an effort to "watermark" text that Claude has generated and comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic ib Friday unveiled a plan on Friday to modify its bots' choice of words in a way that would be detectable as the product of an AI.

Wait, what day? And ... ib?

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:31 AM (odBC9)

26 Judge...Lemongrab?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 15, 2026 05:32 AM (zdLoL)

27 >>>In short, because the incentive was to forge ahead and get things wrong rather than to stop and ask questions.

Sort of faking it until you make it.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

28 Evening and morning for this Saturn's Day at the midpoint of August! Howz ever'body doin'? (I watched part of A Face in the Crowd w/ Andy Griffith last night, and it rubbed off on me. I also watched The Awful Truth from 1937, though, and I'm not talking like Cary Grant.)

Anyway! I'm up and sipping coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 05:33 AM (wzUl9)

29
No, who's on first.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Hu is First Secretary

Posted by: Miklos, hey who Xi

No, Secretariat was first. Who is Hu?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 15, 2026 05:33 AM (ixS3i)

30 "Lost and Found" -Man from
India writes on Luke 15:1-32 as well as his baby chicks:

https://tinyurl.com/3yhyxyyc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 05:35 AM (xPsv8)

31
Any blog with "mu.nu" as part of its moniker ought to made a wide detour around bringing up "hu".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 15, 2026 05:35 AM (ixS3i)

32
"Oh, I say, that's a capital idea! How about we retire to the faculty lounge for tea now?".

__________

For "faculty lounge," read "high table".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 15, 2026 05:36 AM (O0L8i)

33 There's also the reverse side of the argument... my boss's boss has a motto: "Fail Fast". It's better to just get something done, see what you did wrong, and then fix it immediately, than to dither around and hee-haw doubting yourself and striving for perfection when you don't even know what perfection looks like, and then getting absolutely nothing accomplished in the process.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 05:37 AM (Ot/FD)

34 Any blog with "mu.nu" as part of its moniker ought to made a wide detour around bringing up "hu".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Well, Hu Nu?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 15, 2026 05:39 AM (YcOeP)

35 Didn't Nauru decide they don't want to be Nauru anymore, but something achingly close to Nauru that sounds closer to the Nauruninite word for Nauru?

I just hope they don't change their domain name.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 05:39 AM (Ot/FD)

36 >>>Judge James Lemongrab has ordered Google to stop fucking around and make it easier to install alternate app stores on Android. (The Verge) (archive site)
Unacceptable!

I can't tell, from the article, if the judge is friend or foe. I can tell that the author needs to check his spellcheck:

Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores inside its own Google Play Store, and to provide rivals with complecte access to Google’s full catalog of apps, for several years.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:40 AM (odBC9)

37 26 Judge...Lemongrab?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 15, 2026 05:32 AM (zdLoL)

Maybe it's Yiddish for "lime pit"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 05:41 AM (Ot/FD)

38
Here they come now sayin', "mu nu, mu nu"
Shoot 'em down, turn around, come on, mu nu
Hey, we love the snark and we feel alright now
Yeah, we gotta toss and turn and feel alright, eh, we feel alright

We say, "Yeah" (yeah), "Yeah" (yeah)
Yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah)

'Cause you make us feel (like a Moron), so good (like a Moron)
So good (like a Moron), so good (mu nu, mu nu)
So fine (mu nu, mu nu), so fine (mu nu, mu nu)
All the time (mu nu, mu nu), well, we feel alright (mu nu, mu nu)
We say, "Yeah" (yeah), "Yeah" (yeah)
Yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah), yeah (yeah)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 15, 2026 05:41 AM (ixS3i)

39 Unacceptable!

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:40 AM (odBC9)

That was a Finn and Jake reference, wasn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 05:42 AM (Ot/FD)

40 Well, Hu Nu?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 15, 2026

***
Hu nu, brun cuw.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 05:43 AM (wzUl9)

41
Remember, we can't spell "gnu" without "nu".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 15, 2026 05:43 AM (ixS3i)

42 33 There's also the reverse side of the argument... my boss's boss has a motto: "Fail Fast". It's better to just get something done, see what you did wrong, and then fix it immediately, than to dither around and hee-haw doubting yourself and striving for perfection when you don't even know what perfection looks like, and then getting absolutely nothing accomplished in the process.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 05:37 AM (Ot/FD)

"Fail Fast." Nice. I'm getting better at this with age.

Mentors had advised me not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good, but frankly I took that the wrong way, like I had a shot at reaching perfection and should stay with it.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:44 AM (odBC9)

43 This morning after breakfast, time to wash the car, then stagger back inside and detail *me.* Then Miss Linda and I will hie ourselves to Walmart. The furry thugs need food, as do I.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

44 39 Unacceptable!

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:40 AM (odBC9)

That was a Finn and Jake reference, wasn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 05:42 AM (Ot/FD)

Oh! I don't know. That's Pixy's comment.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:46 AM (odBC9)

45 "33 There's also the reverse side of the argument... my boss's boss has a motto: "Fail Fast". It's better to just get something done, see what you did wrong, and then fix it immediately, than to dither around and hee-haw doubting yourself and striving for perfection when you don't even know what perfection looks like, and then getting absolutely nothing accomplished in the process.

Posted by: Warai-otoko"

I was in The Marine Corps at one time, I don't know if I ever mentioned that.

I got a bad reputation early on, unearned, and a cuck bitch of a staff NCO, held a grudge against me and was head hunting me from the time I was a PFC, and he caught me by chance of my duty station that made him my SNCOIC, and he poisoned the fuck out of that well. I had eyes on me constantly. I was good, but I always had eyes and I was defiant, "FUCK YOU!" in their face, no subtlety, it eventually lead to the opportunity that he wanted. I got a summary Court-martial, basically lost a year of service in terms of advancement and pay, about 6 months of freedom through brigg, restriction and supervised billets.

BUT! I learned how to say fuck you more articulately and since I'm a true believer. . . .

Posted by: wickedpinto at August 15, 2026 05:46 AM (r/8/x)

46 34 Any blog with "mu.nu" as part of its moniker ought to made a wide detour around bringing up "hu".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Well, Hu Nu?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 15, 2026 05:39 AM (YcOeP)

Ha ha!
Pixy nu.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)

47 Cat "Toast" survives four alarm fire by hiding in closet:

https://tinyurl.com/4nhaywxv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 05:48 AM (rHgXV)

48
Mu and Nu walk into a bar.

Barkeep asks them "Who's buying this round?"

Mu and Nu respond, "Hu's not here."
"He is!" ** point at each other **

This reminds me of the Mark Twain short story about the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng. One twin was a heavy drinker, to the great shame and chagrin of the other, who was a temperance advocate, so he was continually falling short of that group's goals.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 15, 2026 05:49 AM (ixS3i)

49 26 Judge...Lemongrab?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 15, 2026 05:32 AM (zdLoL)

The judge is in San Francisco:

... they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today — where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android

... and is that where Don Lemon got into a spot of trouble for where he put his hand?

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:51 AM (odBC9)

50 ODDLY I would say that it helped me become better. I refused to take an Admin, I fought my ass off every month when boat spaces were adjusted and all the administrative bullshit goes on, and I held on, And while going through all that shit, my 2 commands started out trying to hide me. "Put him in S/R" I hated it, but I learned about logistics, and how to read the paper, "Make him pubs so he spends all day taping shit in books" but I read those books, "Mods and Calibration." And because I read the books, knew the logistics, I understood it, and the dipshits, while trying to . . . not punish me, but HIDE me, ended up giving me all of the information I needed to be the fucking best.

And I was.

Posted by: wickedpinto at August 15, 2026 05:54 AM (r/8/x)

51 Until this very day I did not know that France had a "Constitutional Council."

Seems like in a nod to tradition they could have called it the Committee of Public Safety.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2026 05:55 AM (o5Cl5)

52 39 Unacceptable!

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:40 AM (odBC9)

That was a Finn and Jake reference, wasn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Mayyyyyybe.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 15, 2026 05:55 AM (BLOW1)

53 not punish me, but HIDE me, ended up giving me all of the information I needed to be the fucking best.

And I was.
Posted by: wickedpinto at August 15, 2026 05:54 AM (r/8/x)

It's like the man in the iron mask but for leathernecks....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 05:55 AM (Ot/FD)

54 Hawthorne and Collingwood are playing a ripper of a game

Posted by: Accomack at August 15, 2026 05:58 AM (/Chlc)

55 Almost a year to the day of my SMC, I recieved a NMCAM and a month later Marine of month (I was still an LCpl) put of for a second month, but I was on another (total 4) Merit board, so I had my meritorious promotion sent to group, only to be pulled back because that one fucking CUCK actively lobbied my command. and then 3 months later I was meritoriously promoted again.

I had a bad rep, which was NOT mine, I know who's it was, but it wasn't me and it ain't my job to take care of a cucks wife, so I didn't say shit, and I caught all the heat, because I fucked up once. I did it gloriously don't get me wrong, I fucked up, but the attempt to destroy me?

My name's all over The Corps, I can promise you. It will be a while before everything I wrote and codified is replaced.

He won though, because he was in charge of boat spaces at the time of my re-enlistment, which meant I couldn't re-enlist. My MOS was dead, I could only extend until a lat was approved.

Posted by: wickedpinto at August 15, 2026 05:58 AM (r/8/x)

56 FUN FACT: Steve Miller once wrote a song about Judge Peachsqueeze.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 15, 2026 05:58 AM (o5Cl5)

57 49 26 Judge...Lemongrab?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 15, 2026 05:32 AM (zdLoL)

The judge is in San Francisco:

... they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today — where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android

... and is that where Don Lemon got into a spot of trouble for where he put his hand?
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 05:51 AM (odBC9)

Perhaps not!

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:01 AM (odBC9)

58 That fucking CUCK refused EVERY Lat enlistment option I put in because I was mission critical for a fucking dead MOS. My only option was riding out 6 month extensions fucking over everyone else in my MOS because as a Merit Corporal I close even more boat spaces for other people, and as long as he had influence, I would have been riding 6 months right up to if not pass the 2 year option, which would have forced me out anyway.

He got me to leave The Corps, because I had respect for my fellow Marine by having no respect for his fellow Marine.

Fucking Cuck.

Sgt. Major Glenn Barnum. FUCK HIM, he died young, and it's a shame. . . .A shame.

Posted by: wickedpinto at August 15, 2026 06:01 AM (r/8/x)

59 Ah.

AI says:

Earl of Lemongrab is a fictional, erratic, and tyrannical character from Cartoon Network's animated series Adventure Time, famous for his shrill voice and screaming "One million years dungeon!" or "Unacceptable!"

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:02 AM (odBC9)

60 Until this very day I did not know that France had a "Constitutional Council." Seems like in a nod to tradition they could have called it the Committee of Public Safety.
--Posted by: Cicero

Do you suppose this is what the DSA, who totally do not plan to replace every damn thing in our Constitution, would invoke instead of the creaky old Supreme Court? It has a sleek modern sound to it. Bet they could dance.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 15, 2026 06:05 AM (zdLoL)

61 Earl of Lemongrab is a fictional, erratic, and tyrannical character from Cartoon Network's animated series Adventure Time, famous for his shrill voice and screaming "One million years dungeon!" or "Unacceptable!"
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:02 AM (odBC9)

Yeah, that show got super pervy, super quick. Between that and other shows, it was almost like you could mark the exact date when a cabal of kiddie diddlers took over CN.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:05 AM (Ot/FD)

62 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 15, 2026 06:06 AM (2Ez/1)

63 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: To do is to be. -Socrates
To be is to do. -Aristotle
Do be do be do. -Sinatra

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:10 AM (amcLV)

64 Don't think Kids shows are immune to gender bending and gheyness

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 06:11 AM (Ia/+0)

65 Yeah, that show got super pervy, super quick. Between that and other shows, it was almost like you could mark the exact date when a cabal of kiddie diddlers took over CN.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:05 AM (Ot/FD)

Roblox. My older child (adult) likes to get on there, but when he pointed out to the Devs that kiddie diddlers were using it, he was booted. Seems Roblox Devs like/are kiddie diddlers themselves. And the owner allows it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 06:12 AM (l3cgK)

66 63 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: To do is to be. -Socrates
To be is to do. -Aristotle
Do be do be do. -Sinatra

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:10 AM (amcLV)

Want some Earl Lemongrab in your Earl Grey?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 06:13 AM (l3cgK)

67 64 Don't think Kids shows are immune to gender bending and gheyness
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 06:11 AM (Ia/+0)

Seriously, for a while there it was like everything for children was being broadcast from a great big antenna jutting out of a busted Ford Econoliner with "Free Candy" painted on the side. Might still be, but I'm past the age where I can ironically watch kids' shows just to escape the dour, irritating, bigoted hellscape that is "Shows made for Grownups".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:13 AM (Ot/FD)

68 Seems Roblox Devs like/are kiddie diddlers themselves. And the owner allows it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 06:12 AM (l3cgK)

There will definitely be more news in the future about that nasty debacle, there just has to be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:14 AM (Ot/FD)

69 Is there anyone at all making filmed media outside of niche yootoob channels who isn't a stupid creepy asshole?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:16 AM (Ot/FD)

70 I see now that the lawsuit against Don Lemon for assault was filed in Suffolk County, New York, and that the charges were dropped.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:16 AM (odBC9)

71 70 I see now that the lawsuit against Don Lemon for assault was filed in Suffolk County, New York, and that the charges were dropped.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:16 AM (odBC9)

so a lemon drop...?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 06:17 AM (l3cgK)

72 Rejoinder: To do is to be. -Socrates
To be is to do. -Aristotle
Do be do be do. -Sinatra
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026

***
"Strangers in the night,
Exchanging rubbers --
This one is too tight, let's try another --
This one feels just right,
For strangers in the night. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

73 Want some Earl Lemongrab in your Earl Grey?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 06:13 AM (l3cgK)
----------
Er...decline.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:18 AM (amcLV)

74 Last day at school, does have WiFi but won't let me go here unless already been on page. Not banned, just get messages site is unsafe and people are stealing my information.

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 06:18 AM (Ia/+0)

75 71 70 I see now that the lawsuit against Don Lemon for assault was filed in Suffolk County, New York, and that the charges were dropped.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:16 AM (odBC9)

so a lemon drop...?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 06:17 AM (l3cgK)

Lemongrab-->lemon drop

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)

76 Lemongrab-->lemon drop
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)

Sounds like a party!

Posted by: Don Lemon at August 15, 2026 06:20 AM (Ot/FD)

77 No matter how much I grow to dislike Tucker Carlson, I'll always remember fondly that he made saying "Don Le MON" a thing.

That's my little olive branch of the day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:21 AM (Ot/FD)

78 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:16 AM

No, it seems to be the career choice of perverted humans

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 06:22 AM (Ia/+0)

79 Some of you may have read this, but I submitted an offer for a house in Terre Haute yesterday. The seller has until 8 pm their time today to accept.

If and when it is accepted, then begins the long slog toward Moscow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

80 61 Earl of Lemongrab is a fictional, erratic, and tyrannical character from Cartoon Network's animated series Adventure Time, famous for his shrill voice and screaming "One million years dungeon!" or "Unacceptable!"
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:02 AM (odBC9)

Yeah, that show got super pervy, super quick. Between that and other shows, it was almost like you could mark the exact date when a cabal of kiddie diddlers took over CN.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The first season was just another mediocre kids show. The second and third seasons had some of the most thoughtful stories and deepest characterisation I've ever seen in a cartoon. Then it disappeared up its own tail and I stopped watching.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 15, 2026 06:25 AM (BLOW1)

81 Fingers crossed for you, Wolfus!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 15, 2026 06:25 AM (BLOW1)

82 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9

I hadn't read that. I hope they accept your offer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 06:26 AM (m6Eem)

83 Wolfus the summers will be nice at least, winters get to -10 average in Moscow

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 06:26 AM (Ia/+0)

84 Really Wolfus hope it goes through for you

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 06:27 AM (Ia/+0)

85 How do they pronounce Terre Haut out that way?

"Tare Oat"?

"Terruh Hoat"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:27 AM (Ot/FD)

86 If and when it is accepted, then begins the long slog toward Moscow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)
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Not all it's cracked up to be, mon ami.

Posted by: Napoleon I at August 15, 2026 06:28 AM (amcLV)

87 If it were Texas, it'd probably be "Terry Howtey" or something, y'all take some kind of strange joy in reading toponyms in the weirdest way conceivable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:29 AM (Ot/FD)

88 Wolfus the summers will be nice at least, winters get to -10 average in Moscow
Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026

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Napoleon's soldiers, and those of Hitler, didn't have Walmart to restock their rations.

Yes, I looked at the weather history there on Wunderground. Last December had lows around -4. On the other hand, it was 73 yesterday with rain, there'll be some more rain today, and a high on Sunday of 90. Such a nice change from the endless March to November here of "low 80, high 95, maybe some rain if you're lucky, but then the air turns into a steambath."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

89 If it were Texas, it'd probably be "Terry Howtey" or something, y'all take some kind of strange joy in reading toponyms in the weirdest way conceivable.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:29 AM (Ot/FD)
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If it were in England, it probably would be pronounced "Basingstoke."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:30 AM (amcLV)

90 77 No matter how much I grow to dislike Tucker Carlson, I'll always remember fondly that he made saying "Don Le MON" a thing.

That's my little olive branch of the day.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:21 AM (Ot/FD)

That's nice of you; I mean that sincerely.
Now do Jake Tapper?

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)

91 How do they pronounce Terre Haut out that way?

"Tare Oat"?

"Terruh Hoat"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026

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I think the latter. Somebody here suggested "Terra Ho," and I like that, but I expect I'd better not use it around locals right away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

92 Now do Jake Tapper?
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)

Might as well, it ain't like his wife is using him.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:32 AM (Ot/FD)

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