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

***
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

***
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)

93 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)

hahahahaha!

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:33 AM (odBC9)

94 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)
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Perhaps if you watched clips from a local newscast, they would give the pronunciation.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:33 AM (amcLV)

95 94 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)
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Perhaps if you watched clips from a local newscast, they would give the pronunciation.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:33 AM (amcLV)

Good idea for many reasons.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:34 AM (odBC9)

96 hahahahaha!
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:33 AM (odBC9)
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I've traveled around England. I think they make up pronunciations on the spot just to mess with foreigners/Americans.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:34 AM (amcLV)

97 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOd3lwluQIw

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:36 AM (amcLV)

98 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

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The Pesthole is the same. "Mel-POM-eh-knee" Street is pronounced "MEL-poh-meen," "Burgundy Street" as "Bur-GUN-dee," and "Mi-LAN" as "Mile-un."

How many other towns not focused on distillery or winery have no less than two streets in the same area named after liquor or wine? There's "Bourbon" and "Burgundy" in the French Quarter, where I grew up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

99 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 15, 2026 06:37 AM (u82oZ)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:38 AM (odBC9)

101 Missed it by this | | much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 15, 2026 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

102 There's "Bourbon" and "Burgundy" in the French Quarter, where I grew up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

It's kind of fun that they're probably named after the things that the beverages are named for. The actual Bourbon dynasty. The actual region of Burgundy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:39 AM (Ot/FD)

103 m

The Force is strong with this one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 15, 2026 06:39 AM (u82oZ)

104 Perhaps if you watched clips from a local newscast, they would give the pronunciation.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026
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Good idea for many reasons.
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026

***
The last time I moved, in '97, the Internet was still at Romper Room level, and we didn't have such resources.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

105 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 15, 2026 06:40 AM (amcLV)

106 If it wasn't a short commute might not have volunteered
Back in a bit

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 06:40 AM (Ia/+0)

107 The last time I moved, in '97, the Internet was still at Romper Room level, and we didn't have such resources.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

"Hook up the satellite, I want to watch the news in Indiana!"

"Yeah, sure thing, Bruce, then how bout I go fire up the Batmobile for you, too? Jerk."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:41 AM (Ot/FD)

108 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Chloe the Bengal Klutz was so eager for her food this morning she nearly knocked her food bowl out of my hand as I was setting it down.

Glad she didn't, as that would have made quite a mess...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 15, 2026 06:44 AM (FZ29D)

109 It's kind of fun that they're probably named after the things that the beverages are named for. The actual Bourbon dynasty. The actual region of Burgundy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026

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Right, all the French names that were current in 1718. Dauphine, Royal, St. Louis, Orleans. Which, by the way, in the city name it's "OR-linns," but in the parish (aka county) and the street name, is pronounced "Or-LEENS."

There's a church uptown with its cornerstone in Latin, and it translates "New Orleans" as "Novum Aurelianum."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:44 AM (wzUl9)

110 One day i'm going to start a fitness club in Skaneateles, NY and call it "Skinny Atlas" and the logo will be a skinny dude holding up the Earth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:48 AM (Ot/FD)

111 So "Novum Aurelianum" literally means "new gold?"

That's what the streets are paved with I guess.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 15, 2026 06:48 AM (2Ez/1)

112 Aurelian, the emperor. Or maybe Marcus Aurelius. But that dude was too busy doodling in his diary to found any cities, so probably not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:51 AM (Ot/FD)

113 110 One day i'm going to start a fitness club in Skaneateles, NY and call it "Skinny Atlas" and the logo will be a skinny dude holding up the Earth.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 06:48 AM (Ot/FD)

Ha! A relative lived near there, so I got that one.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 06:51 AM (odBC9)

114 Wolfus Aurelius

Good luck getting that house.

May doors open for you as you leave NO in the rear view mirror. You are starting on a slog and a saga.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 15, 2026 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

115 Da da da

Ich lieb' Dich nicht, Du liebst mich nicht.

Uh huh.

Posted by: Another earworm at August 15, 2026 06:52 AM (XE5AP)

116 W. A.: get rid of at least one thing every day.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 15, 2026 06:55 AM (2Ez/1)

117 WNBA denounced 'bad-faith' actors amid fight over trans participation.

WNBA now has a system to determine who is really trans and who is a bad faith trans.

Is there a list I can subscribe to?

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 06:55 AM (/+uur)

118 Hes Dead Gym for Star Trek workouts

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 06:56 AM (/+uur)

119 Aurelian, the emperor. Or maybe Marcus Aurelius. But that dude was too busy doodling in his diary to found any cities, so probably not.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026

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Not sure which of the two the Roman town was named for. But Marcus had barbarians to repel from the frontiers, so he was busy with that too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:56 AM (wzUl9)

120 We're here to help.

Posted by: Sisterhood of Good Faith Transexuals Local #408 at August 15, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

121 W. A.: get rid of at least one thing every day.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 15, 2026

***
I've got a box of books that needs to go to the thrift store, and I'm going to start throwing out a lot of junk. Maybe I'll leave or donate my love seat and end tables, though those are not cheap new. Certainly my aged box spring will stay behind. I might donate my set of the Britannica from '84, but keep the bookcase; those are hard to find now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

122 Not sure which of the two the Roman town was named for. But Marcus had barbarians to repel from the frontiers, so he was busy with that too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 15, 2026 06:56 AM (wzUl9)

Excuses, excuses.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:00 AM (Ot/FD)

123 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 15, 2026 07:01 AM (Hbeqj)

124 I saw Good Faith Transexuals open for Sex Pistols at the Dallas Hot Klub on 1983.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:03 AM (/+uur)

125 I was considered a "good faith" faith actor back in my day.
I often received compliments on my pearls and high heels.

What? Oh, no...transvestite, not transexual.
That's gross.

Posted by: Jamie Farr at August 15, 2026 07:03 AM (2Ez/1)

126 One demands that the world treat them as if they were something they're not and have no right to be, and will literally burn everything down and murder people over it.

The other wants to expose and ridicule an absurdist ontoclastic system that is catering to these monsters and trampling on people's rights and plain common decency.

Who's acting in "Good Faith" here?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:03 AM (Ot/FD)

127 116 W. A.: get rid of at least one thing every day.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 15, 2026 06:55 AM (2Ez/1)

Maybe: spend a (timed) hour every day getting rid of things.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:04 AM (odBC9)

128 Don't judge a book by its cover
I'm not much of a man by the light of day
But by night I'm one hell of a lover

I'm just a sweet transvestite
From Transexual,

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:04 AM (/+uur)

129 Back, doors and hardware to do

Posted by: Skip at August 15, 2026 07:05 AM (L8DX7)

130 120 We're here to help.
Posted by: Sisterhood of Good Faith Transexuals Local #408 at August 15, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

Help with what?

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9)

131 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

My favorite about Nawlins street names was after working a late show at the Saenger, I offered a ride to anybody heading uptown.

One girl said "I live up on Genitalia"

Perhaps, but your place of residence...

Then I realized

She means Gen. Taylor Street

Posted by: I got dat Miklos at August 15, 2026 07:06 AM (XOG/m)

132 Ask your geriatric periodontist if Ontoclastic is right for you.

Posted by: Big Fat Farma at August 15, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)

133 130 120 We're here to help.
Posted by: Sisterhood of Good Faith Transexuals Local #408 at August 15, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

Help with what?
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9)

Themselves?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:07 AM (Ot/FD)

134 133 130 120 We're here to help.
Posted by: Sisterhood of Good Faith Transexuals Local #408 at August 15, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

Help with what?
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9)

Themselves?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:07 AM (Ot/FD)

Wolfus's stuff-culling?

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:07 AM (odBC9)

135 My grandfather was born in New Orleans. He said he was born on Good Man (Bonhomme?) St., halfway between Piety and Desire.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 15, 2026 07:08 AM (qFwJc)

136

Posted by: Mitch McConnell, getting warmed up for his morning IronMan workout at August 15, 2026 07:09 AM (XE5AP)

137 I might donate my set of the Britannica from '84, but keep the bookcase; those are hard to find now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I didn't get the free bookcase with my Britannicas

Posted by: Miklos sold encyclopedias dooor to dorr to pay the Britannica people at August 15, 2026 07:09 AM (XOG/m)

138 I didn't get the free bookcase with my Britannicas
Posted by: Miklos sold encyclopedias dooor to dorr to pay the Britannica people at August 15, 2026 07:09 AM (XOG/m)

Sounds like some kind of ziggurat scheme....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:09 AM (Ot/FD)

139 3 injured after gunman opens fire on vehicles, exchanges gunfire with HPD near Chicken Plus

I love how headline writer write as if every swing dick in the H town Metro is at the Chicken Plus daily.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:10 AM (/+uur)

140 Back, doors and hardware to do
Posted by: Skip

So

You have also met Darleen

Posted by: Miklos, unsurprised at August 15, 2026 07:11 AM (XOG/m)

141 139 3 injured after gunman opens fire on vehicles, exchanges gunfire with HPD near Chicken Plus

I love how headline writer write as if every swing dick in the H town Metro is at the Chicken Plus daily.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:10 AM (/+uur)

Houston?

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:12 AM (odBC9)

142 Chicken plus what? Waffles? Biscuits?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 15, 2026 07:12 AM (2Ez/1)

143 Jason Arday committed suicide.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 15, 2026 07:13 AM (qFwJc)

144 Wolfus's stuff-culling?
Posted by: m

We call it Maize

or Potlatch, sorry

Posted by: Chief Iron Eyes Miklos at August 15, 2026 07:13 AM (XOG/m)

145 Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: Dennis Miller monotone voice at August 15, 2026 07:14 AM (2Ez/1)

146 Which Texas charter school was the worst?
Celebrate Dyslexia School in San Antonio received the worst grade of any charter school listed in the report – F/41.

tff

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:14 AM (/+uur)

147 "Chicken Plus? For real? Maybe we just don't write that one up, huh?"

Posted by: The Editor at August 15, 2026 07:15 AM (Ot/FD)

148 Houston?
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:12 AM (odBC9)

si

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:15 AM (/+uur)

149 Celebrate Dyslexia School in San Antonio received the worst grade of any charter school listed in the report – F/41.

tff
Posted by: r hennigantx

This a cruel joke on those of us so afflicted

Posted by: Lysdexic Imklos at August 15, 2026 07:16 AM (XOG/m)

150 148 Houston?
Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:12 AM (odBC9)

si
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:15 AM (/+uur)

Danke.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:16 AM (odBC9)

151 Chicken Plus Sized is most likely better name for joint.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 15, 2026 07:17 AM (/+uur)

152 149 Celebrate Dyslexia School in San Antonio received the worst grade of any charter school listed in the report – F/41.

tff
Posted by: r hennigantx

This a cruel joke on those of us so afflicted
Posted by: Lysdexic Imklos at August 15, 2026 07:16 AM (XOG/m)

Recalling now the best evah nic (some other site; maybe LGF!):

TypoKnig

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:17 AM (odBC9)

153 "Guys! Guys! It's says 'Celebrate'! We were wrong this whole time!"

Posted by: School Superintendent with his pants around his ankles at August 15, 2026 07:18 AM (Ot/FD)

154 They give you a punch-card for Lipitor refills?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:19 AM (Ot/FD)

155 Back in aught-diggity, we used to program in Chiken Plus Plus. Which was the style at the time.

Posted by: Why I do have a pocket protector, why do you ask? at August 15, 2026 07:19 AM (XE5AP)

156 Gotta hit the pool for some water polo this morning. Then a half marathon this afternoon. Later!

Posted by: Cocaine Mitch at August 15, 2026 07:20 AM (2Ez/1)

157 School Superintendent with his pants around his ankles

I larfed

Still larfing

Posted by: Miklos is amused at August 15, 2026 07:20 AM (XOG/m)

158 Posted by: Why I do have a pocket protector, why do you ask?

; )

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:20 AM (odBC9)

159 143 Jason Arday committed suicide.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 15, 2026 07:13 AM (qFwJc)

If I didn't know that was your usual nic....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:22 AM (Ot/FD)

160 Why I do have a pocket protector, why do you ask?

I got rid of mine when I realized the pens were actually my friends

Posted by: Miklos never wears protection at August 15, 2026 07:22 AM (XOG/m)

161 mornin yall ."Fail Fast" doesn't really work for engine building. I'd rather take three times as long.

Posted by: fd at August 15, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

162 161 mornin yall ."Fail Fast" doesn't really work for engine building. I'd rather take three times as long.
Posted by: fd at August 15, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

See, that's how I instinctively feel. There has to be a happy medium.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:23 AM (odBC9)

163 So if a school that celebrates dyslexia gets a terrible grade, does that mean they failed at celebrating dyslexia?

Did all the kids go out and get counselling and learn to read in secret in spite of all the school's best efforts?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:23 AM (Ot/FD)

164 Measure once, cut twice.

Posted by: That's how you learn at August 15, 2026 07:24 AM (2Ez/1)

165 164 Measure once, cut twice.
Posted by: That's how you learn at August 15, 2026 07:24 AM (2Ez/1)

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:25 AM (odBC9)

166 Fail Fast" doesn't really work for engine building. I'd rather take three times as long.
Posted by: fd

I'm more of a "git 'er done" guy.

That's what Darleen says anyway

Posted by: Miklos accepts neither criticism nor complaint for speedy delivery at August 15, 2026 07:25 AM (XOG/m)

167
Dyslectics of the World Untie!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 15, 2026 07:26 AM (AMvSw)

168 Measure once, cut twice.
Posted by: That's how you learn

Oy vey

Posted by: Miklos the Mohel at August 15, 2026 07:26 AM (XOG/m)

169 Miklos, you're on a roll. Much appreciated.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:27 AM (odBC9)

170 Good judgement comes from experience.
And experience comes from poor judgement.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 15, 2026 07:28 AM (2Ez/1)

171 Yeah, the whole Fail Fast idea is better suited for the situations where you're thrown in to the unknown and just need to get some traction on whatever it is you're trying to do. It's for when you don't even know what "correct" looks like yet, it's not an excuse for willfully turning in shitty work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:28 AM (Ot/FD)

172 Metzitzah B'peh.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 15, 2026 07:28 AM (vrgy6)

173 Oops.

A deputy was disciplined after officials say he accidentally left Lake County Sheriff’s K9 Axel in a field while on duty until he was found by a bystander.

Also, another Georgia cop got caught Flocking.

Posted by: fd at August 15, 2026 07:29 AM (MWfyi)

174 170 Good judgement comes from experience.
And experience comes from poor judgement.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 15, 2026 07:28 AM (2Ez/1)

bzzzt Brit-spelling

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:29 AM (odBC9)

175 Miklos, you're on a roll. Much appreciated.
Posted by: m

I haven't been on a roll like this since the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor

Posted by: Miklos Blutarsky at August 15, 2026 07:30 AM (XOG/m)

176 168 Measure once, cut twice.
Posted by: That's how you learn

Oy vey
Posted by: Miklos the Mohel at August 15, 2026 07:26 AM

https://youtu.be/Zy-URspwUGA

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 15, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

177 Somebody left the door open to the bedroom and who should be sitting at the door at 4:15 a.m but the furball ( kitten) . I must say it is nice to be greeted by a purring kitten. He greets me when we come back from the store as well. He probably wants to be fed, but it's still affectionate, so I have to forgive him for the wild eyed craziness at other times.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 07:32 AM (wmzkx)

178 "...it is nice to be greeted by a purring kitten... probably wants to be fed, but ... still affectionate, so I have to forgive ... for the wild eyed craziness at other times."
=====

Used to date her.

Posted by: Most guys at August 15, 2026 07:36 AM (2Ez/1)

179 And nice things this morning : Man held the door at convenience store and said "You have a nice day." There was also a dog ( looked like Golden Retriever mix) resting his head on the window frame of the car. He was so cute ! Another car had a saying on its window "You 'll never walk alone." That was a song which "Jerry and the Pacemakers"performed. I don't know if as written ,or on the car it was intended to have a religious significance but I took it as such.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 07:38 AM (wmzkx)

180 Posted by: Most guys at August 15, 2026 07:36 AM (2Ez

You used to date cats? Ooooookay then. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 07:39 AM (wmzkx)

181 That was a song which "Jerry and the Pacemakers"performed. I don't know if as written ,or on the car it was intended to have a religious significance but I took it as such.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 07:38 AM (wmzkx)

Liverpool's fight song. Or Man U. One of them, I forget.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:40 AM (Ot/FD)

182 Badminton?

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 15, 2026 07:40 AM (vrgy6)

183 Liverpool's fight song. Or Man U. One of them, I forget.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:40 AM (Ot/FD)

So yeah. Religious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 15, 2026 07:40 AM (Ot/FD)

184 Egg recall. Even some from Krogers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 15, 2026 07:43 AM (vrgy6)

185 184 Egg recall. Even some from Krogers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 15, 2026 07:43 AM (vrgy6)

AOC hardest hit.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:43 AM (odBC9)

186 184 Egg recall. Even some from Krogers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 15, 2026 07:43 AM

Or you can freeze them.

Posted by: Agent Of Chaos at August 15, 2026 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)

187 AOC still has student loan debt she has not paid on since 2018.

Posted by: fd at August 15, 2026 07:44 AM (MWfyi)

188 187 AOC still has student loan debt she has not paid on since 2018.
Posted by: fd at August 15, 2026 07:44 AM
***
It's a write off, Jerry.

Posted by: Kramer at August 15, 2026 07:45 AM (2Ez/1)

189 Freezing killls the bad stuff?

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 15, 2026 07:46 AM (vrgy6)

190 Posted by: Agent Of Chaos

LOL
Missed that, first time around.

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:46 AM (odBC9)

191 164 Measure once, cut twice.
Posted by: That's how you learn at August 15, 2026 07:24 AM (2Ez/1)

Old carpenters lament: “I’ve cut this board three times, and it’s still too short!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2026 07:49 AM (Ol0VD)

192 The weather was cold and cold. (The Register)
Did Claude Fable write that article?

Magic 8-ball says

YES

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:49 AM (odBC9)

193 How soon before the next violent democrat homosexual troon attack at a school or WNBA game?

Posted by: Fear Is A Weapon at August 15, 2026 07:50 AM (cFP1B)

194 FenSpouse is listening to the first episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies." It is pretty funny:

https://tinyurl.com/ym6675tz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 07:50 AM (wmzkx)

195 115 Da da da

Ich lieb' Dich nicht, Du liebst mich nicht.

Uh huh.
Posted by: Another earworm

Bingo.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 15, 2026 07:51 AM (BLOW1)

196 AOC hardest hit.
Posted by: m

That is Cold

Posted by: Miklos acknowledges Truth at August 15, 2026 07:52 AM (XOG/m)

197 196 AOC hardest hit.
Posted by: m

That is Cold
Posted by: Miklos acknowledges Truth at August 15, 2026 07:52 AM (XOG/m)

You might say, "Freezing cold."

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:53 AM (odBC9)

198 Da da da

Ich lieb' Dich nicht, Du liebst mich nicht.

Uh huh.
Posted by: Another earworm

Bingo.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

NO YELLO

Posted by: Hunter B. at August 15, 2026 07:53 AM (XOG/m)

199 159 143 Jason Arday committed suicide.

But the usual suspects claim otherwise.

Posted by: Auspex at August 15, 2026 07:53 AM (Y8DZL)

200 200

Posted by: m at August 15, 2026 07:53 AM (odBC9)

201 He greets me when we come back from the store as well. He probably wants to be fed, but it's still affectionate, so I have to forgive him for the wild eyed craziness at other times.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 15, 2026 07:32 AM (wmzkx)
----
They do grow out of that phase eventually. Though they sometimes break out in spontaneous zoomies even at the ripe old age of 14.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 15, 2026 07:53 AM (FZ29D)

202 Amazon founded the "Climate Pledge" to great publicity, signed by all the largest tech companies and pledging to "decarbonize" their businesses.

Then, along came AI and attendant data center requirements for power generation. Now Amazon is building the largest carbon emitting NatGas turbine facility in North America, in Texas.

As The Police sang and climate warriors are learning, "logic ties you up and rapes you!".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 15, 2026 08:00 AM (BZ3bm)

203 Noodity.

Posted by: Noodist at August 15, 2026 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)

204 Roman Trivia - Orleans in France was founded by Aurelian. Fascinating how the old names live on - Zaragoza in Spain began as a garrison town named Caesar Augusta.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 15, 2026 08:15 AM (Ol0VD)

205 "Zaragoza in Spain began as a garrison town named Caesar Augusta."

Do they host a golf tournament there?

Posted by: The Masters at August 15, 2026 08:27 AM (2Ez/1)

206 ~~strike through~~

Posted by: test at August 15, 2026 09:07 AM (J4Dwc)

207 172 Metzitzah B'peh.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 15, 2026 07:28 AM (vrgy6)

The OT talks about NOT consuming blood...where the f'n hell did this practice come from?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 09:10 AM (l3cgK)

208 206 ~~strike through~~

Posted by: test at August 15, 2026 09:07 AM (J4Dwc)

~~Strike~~
Italic
Bold
Underline

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 15, 2026 09:12 AM (l3cgK)

209 THIRD BASE!!

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210 Bold

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