Daily Tech News 21 August 2026

Top Story

"Whistleblower" Arturo Béjar leads testimony in landmark trial against Meta. (NPR)
"At the end of the day, it was the company culture that Mark had created that made it so that it was practically impossible to deliver features that addressed the wellbeing and safety issues that we've been talking about," he said.
Well, that sounds serious. What wellbeing and safety issues are we talking about?

Grooming? Sex trafficking? Drugs?
But he said efforts to introduce or change features to effectively address those risks were difficult to implement. Instead, Béjar testified, at almost every turn the company chose policies that boosted usership and revenue over safety. Safety was "not a meaningful priority," he said.
Yes, but what safety? What are the actual concerns here?
He called features like video autoplay, "like" counters and infinite scroll "inherently unsafe for teenagers."
This is why Meta is facing a fine of $1.4 trillion.

Likes.

Tech News

SpaceTimeDB isn't. (Strn.Cat)

Neither space nor time.
Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful. (Yaros)

Based on the examples linked, I am inclined to agree.
Castelion has reached a valuation of $13 billion based on contracts to mass produce hypersonic missiles. (Tech Crunch)

Wake me when they're hyperluminal.
Meta glasses aren't the problem. (The Verge) (archive site)

No matter how much The Verge wants to claim they are.

Assholes are the problem.
You can pick up Intel's new Core Ultra 5 250K Plus for just $140 from Micro Center right now. (Notebook Check)

Unless you live in Australia in which case it's a bit of a hike.

It's a good price for the CPU... Except that you need RAM and storage for it and it's a lame duck platform that will be dead by the end of the year. There's nothing to upgrade from and nothing to upgrade to.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Behind you!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 04:30 AM (pHgC8)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

3 Disclaimer: Behind you!
****

Don't look back. Never look back!

Oh, And guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 04:34 AM (pHgC8)

4 Also, otters called.

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 04:34 AM (pHgC8)

5 G'Day, everyone,
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

6 The font on the Yaros site isn't exactly easy on the eyes either. Dude needs to get out of the '80s.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 21, 2026 04:37 AM (iIyc0)

7 Don't look back. Never look back!

The First Rule of Italian Driving

Posted by: il Miklosso at August 21, 2026 04:38 AM (4RYRd)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 21, 2026 04:39 AM (WBro8)

9 Hitting the long road
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Technology makes me sneeze

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at August 21, 2026 04:44 AM (LOZbR)

11
Is tcn here? She had an awful spill and she's laid up with stitches.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 21, 2026 04:51 AM (XJ22o)

12 Oh, we found out why the Feds are looking into Swalwell. Normally a sexual crime would be a state matter, so 'Rons speculated about what made it a Federal case, and I didn't see anyone guess this: according to RedState, the search warrant was issued under 18 U.S.C. squiggly 242, using gov't authority to deprive another of civil rights.

A specific example that the article cited as potentially relevant is Waterbury CT mayor Philip Giordano, who was convicted under that statute for using his office and connections to coerce silence from two girls he had abused. Swalwell is certainly full enough of himself that I can picture him pulling a stunt like that, as if he would 'deserve' to get away with it. It's credible as heck.

I was reading it on a different device, let's see if I can get a link for you...

https://tinyurl.com/37vas7j2

Posted by: SciVo at August 21, 2026 04:53 AM (L3Npt)

13 Morning Horde. It’s funny how our preconceived notion that Zuck is autonomous evil impacts the reporting of the Meta trial. Have any witnesses ever been asked if they chose to control their kids access to an unregulated open sewer of social perversion?

I’m cheering against Facebook because they have built the creepiest most profitable sleaze machine ever, yet all it took was parents to exercise control over their kids viewing and engagement. Not easy but most worthwhile things aren’t.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 21, 2026 04:55 AM (5jWPa)

14 11 Is tcn here? She had an awful spill and she's laid up with stitches.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 21, 2026 04:51 AM (XJ22o)

from the ONT:

304 Slipped on the bottom stair to the camper, fell backwards along the stair and whacked my head on the wheel hub. Bled like a SOB. Ended up in ambulance, to the hospital, got a CT scan to check for damage, got five staples, and one hell of a headache.

No concussion, so far as anybody can tell, but I can already feel my back aching between shoulder blades. I think that's mostly where I landed on the gravel driveway.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 21, 2026 01:18 AM (gNl99)

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 04:58 AM (odBC9)

15 Not easy but most worthwhile things aren’t.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Exactly

You have no idea how much effort I put into my MySpace page.

Posted by: Miklos found better hobbies at August 21, 2026 04:59 AM (4RYRd)

16 >>>Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful. (Yaros)

When he says this:

If a human can see the information, that means there is a way the information can be parsed [by AI].

and this:

Besides, if an effective obfuscation method somehow gains widespread use, then a much higher priority will be placed on breaking it, eventually rendering it useless.

I mean, yes? But that is true of ... everything, maybe? The attitude seems defeatist. Maybe I am missing something.

Nice graphics at the three clickable font sites he points to.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)

17 You have no idea how much effort I put into my MySpace page.
Posted by: Miklos found better hobbies at August 21, 2026 04:59 AM (4RYRd)

So you're the guy that friended everybody? You must get invited to all the best events.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 21, 2026 05:05 AM (5jWPa)

18 Good lord, WAVY10 is going on about Covid

Posted by: Accomack at August 21, 2026 05:05 AM (8jVAy)

19 blog.yaros.ae

UAE?

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:05 AM (odBC9)

20 >>>Castelion has reached a valuation of $13 billion based on contracts to mass produce hypersonic missiles. (Tech Crunch)

Wake me when they're hyperluminal.

>Wake me up when we have hard targets and confirmation of dispensation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 05:09 AM (tvdD1)

21
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 21, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

22 I don't know what META glasses are , but I don't think I want to wear them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 05:11 AM (ZKPnq)

23 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 21, 2026 05:11 AM (V0/Sp)

24 Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 04:58 AM (odBC9)

Thanks for letting us know. I appreciate her presence here and will keep her in prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 05:13 AM (ZKPnq)

25 The author at yaros.ae has some fun stuff elsewhere on the site, like:

lorie.gallery is an artwork portfolio website I developed from scratch for my grandmom, a professional artist with decades of experience.

This is a redesign of the website for my father's ophthalmology practice.

awww

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:13 AM (odBC9)

26 AMV - Grenadine

Wild. Catchy!

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)

27 Assholes are the problem.
****

Same as it ever was. You would need to exterminate a large percentage of the world's population to ease the problem. Then, there would be a new set of assholes as soon as you got the old ones out of their way. Round and round we go....

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 05:25 AM (pHgC8)

28 Kind woman helps out an elderly neighbor and they become a family. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/2tt9bj5c

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 05:27 AM (Ev8b9)

29 New mother writes on God, our father and Luke 18:15-17. Upper Room devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/y9e8f2na

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 05:32 AM (Ev8b9)

30 Good morning, one and all! Today is my appointment with the PA and we're going to discuss treatment options for my knee.

I know cortisone shots are a possibility. This being me, I'm cautious so I reached out to a friend to hear about his experience with it. My mind is a bit more at ease.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 05:33 AM (OPGS/)

31 Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful. (Yaros)

Based on the examples linked, I am inclined to agree.

Prove to me you ~~are~~ aren't human...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 05:34 AM (l3cgK)

32 >>>Meta glasses aren't the problem. (The Verge)

Nice read!

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:36 AM (odBC9)

33 Meta glasses aren't the problem.

Flock cameras aren't the problem either, in the same manner, except for Gov't abuse by asshoe in Gov't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 05:36 AM (l3cgK)

34 27 Assholes are the problem.
****

Same as it ever was. You would need to exterminate a large percentage of the world's population to ease the problem. Then, there would be a new set of assholes as soon as you got the old ones out of their way. Round and round we go....
Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 05:25 AM (pHgC

similarly, from the article:

A social internet cleansed of all content that takes advantage of others would be quite empty.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:38 AM (odBC9)

35 Nice, old time hymn from
A lovely acapella group- which sounds like they're from someplace in Africa, I think, and are singing acapella, "Guide me, thou great Jehovah":

https://tinyurl.com/3j3zf8y6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 05:40 AM (+kigi)

36 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy
Just took a walk to my local convenient store. It's 58° with a bit of fog. 58° on 8/21 means a cold winter is coming.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2026 05:43 AM (rp63B)

37 Had cortisone shots in both shoulders. Worked wonders.

Posted by: Dark Lix at August 21, 2026 05:44 AM (Fv808)

38 Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 05:33 AM (OPGS

May your appointment go well. I am glad your friend gave you some helpful information. I guess having strong knees is important for everyone, snd in your case additionally soon because you do this Japanese martial arts thing-yes? I'm sorry; I've forgotten that name of it.

I will keep you in prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 05:44 AM (+kigi)

39 Nrg. Mornin'.

Y'know what? I remember teenagers being addicted to:
- television
- radio
- alcohol (though they shouldn't have been yet)
- cigarettes (though they shouldn't have been yet)
- video games (remember the huge moral panic about those in the 80's?)
- sex (willfully oblivious parents are willfully oblivious!)
- various other things over time.

Maybe the problem isn't Facebook's features of "like", "autoplay", and "infinite scroll". Maybe the problem is teenagers getting fixated on things, and that sounds like something parents or friends can help with.

Or y'know, mentally maturing by having to actually take on the world and survive will help with that too.

How does the EU prove "harm" that's specific to Meta's Facebook features?

If Facebook didn't have any money to raid, would the EU still be going after them?

Posted by: Karen the Hut at August 21, 2026 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

40 Off chinless blob of a sock.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

41 Posted by: Karen the Hut at August 21, 2026 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

40 Off chinless blob of a sock.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

I wuz gonna say.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)

42 Off chinless blob of a sock.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Yeah, but what do we do for the rest of the 45 minutes?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2026 05:47 AM (diia5)

43 Hate it when I don't notice I have a sock puppet name on from the previous day.

"Karen the Hut" was used for this comment:
https://tinyurl.com/ya8fj3rm

(Remember, do not comment in previous day's threads)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 05:48 AM (O7YUW)

44 Personal responsibility and how far many go to avoid it.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 05:49 AM (gIjzl)

45 @42/weft cut-loop: "Yeah, but what do we do for the rest of the 45 minutes?"

Try to take over the world!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 05:49 AM (O7YUW)

46 "She Bop" blasted away in my brain this morning on wake-up.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 05:49 AM (odBC9)

47 Finally sleepy. Good night!

Posted by: SciVo at August 21, 2026 05:50 AM (L3Npt)

48 I should probably also ask this on a later thread in addition of people who are tech gurus and have -or do -spend a lot of time sitting...but my son has a job where he's standing to work much of the day, and needs something more comfortable than running shoes? Anyone know of anything? Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 05:50 AM (+kigi)

49 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 21, 2026 05:56 AM (Hbeqj)

50 tcn retains her sense of humor:

306 305 I'm thinking it was probably pretty entertaining to watch, in a Three Stooges kinda way.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 21, 2026 01:24 AM (gNl99)

315 You rock girl!
Posted by: four seasons at August 21, 2026 01:38 AM (/QHx4)

Apparently sometimes I do!
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 21, 2026 01:39 AM (gNl99)

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:00 AM (odBC9)

51 @46/m: My morning music that gets blasted at my brain comes courtesy sound files I uploaded to my phone, and alarms I set that are linked to same.

05:00: Wang Chung's "Wake Up Stop Dreaming"
05:15: Huey Lewis and the News' "I Want a New Drug"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:05 AM (O7YUW)

52 Belated BOING!

Grilled homey mustard salmon done. Will go with a side serving of zucchini spaghetti al pesto, topped with fried tomatoes.

Lemon chicken just out of the oven.

Tech talk: Any of you morons fiddling yet with Grok Bots?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2026 06:05 AM (QNSrI)

53 51 @46/m: My morning music that gets blasted at my brain comes courtesy sound files I uploaded to my phone, and alarms I set that are linked to same.

05:00: Wang Chung's "Wake Up Stop Dreaming"
05:15: Huey Lewis and the News' "I Want a New Drug"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:05 AM (O7YUW)

Haha! Those'd make me laugh.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:06 AM (odBC9)

54 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: It's a trap!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2026 06:07 AM (amcLV)

55 Evening and morning, satellites and satraps. It's Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

56 @48/FenelonSpoke: "my son has a job where he's standing to work much of the day, and needs something more comfortable than running shoes"

I swear by these - I use them in western-style work boots and in running shoes:

https://tinyurl.com/mrpmkezk

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

57 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks so much!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 06:10 AM (Z1RBE)

58 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

Whoops! It's bouncing around so much I can't get the name. What is it please?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 06:12 AM (Z1RBE)

59 The blue-green banner on the Verge pages ALWAYS makes me see an afterimage red of some flavor on adjacent white backgrounds.

Wikipedia Afterimage covers the topic.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:12 AM (odBC9)

60 @48/FenelonSpoke: There's also something called an "anti-fatigue mat" he should look into getting (or having work acquire for him.) These are placed where a worker has to spend a lot of time standing in one spot.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:14 AM (O7YUW)

61 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 21, 2026 06:16 AM (VyBeY)

62 @58/FenenlonSpoke: "Whoops! It's bouncing around so much I can't get the name. What is it please?"

(This is why I have so many ad-block layers in my browser. Modern web design has RUINED a lot of sites to the point they're unusable without the blocks.)

Your answer:
Dr. Scholl's Heavy Duty Support Insoles

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

63 Yesterday I forgot to set the alarm. Today I set it later than I intended and still woke up before it went off. Perhaps there is a great overriding life lesson here somewhere.

I planned to go work out, but at the moment I'm not sure . . . which is usually the case every morning.

We're going out to our favorite diner this morning and then passing by Aldi to get our Fri. evening pizza. We have Murder by Death to watch tonight; that, or something modern and dark about the Irish potato famine called Black 47.

In Swamp weather news, we have rain this evening, highs around 98 this weekend, and then -- supposedly -- temps will drop dizzyingly to 94 and 92 next week. Break out the sweaters, boys.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

64 @FenelonSpoke: Oh, and I get those insoles at WalMart. They should be able to be found in either the shoe department, or the pharmacy in the footcare area.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:18 AM (O7YUW)

65
I hope he will understand
Ooh
I bop, you bop, they bop

🎶

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)

66 Somehow, I believe Cucker Tarlson is trying to tell us nuclear weapons were created by the Jews, as are his personal demons. Things are heating up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 06:19 AM (tvdD1)

67 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:17 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks. He has some version of Dr. Scholls, but may be it's a different type. I will write down the name.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 06:19 AM (+kigi)

68 Finally! Candace Owens moves on from the Charlie Kirk murder conspiracy:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8pxpzh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2026 06:19 AM (QNSrI)

69 68 Finally! Candace Owens moves on from the Charlie Kirk murder conspiracy:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8pxpzh
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2026 06:19 AM (QNSrI)

aagghh

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:23 AM (odBC9)

70 Watch out for those bottom steps.

I spent a week recently in my son's RV. That bottom step, when it gets wet, can be treacherous.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 06:25 AM (qFwJc)

71 mornin yall

"Meta glasses aren't the problem.

Flock cameras aren't the problem either, in the same manner, except for Gov't abuse by asshoe in Gov't.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"

Likewise, guns.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 06:27 AM (MWfyi)

72 And I just wanted to share that spouse pointed out to me a goldfinch on a branch yesterday during our morning walk. So beautifu!. It helped make my day. Have a blessed day everyone, and may you know that you are a blessing to others by what you do and say.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 06:27 AM (+kigi)

73 from the NPR whistleblower article:

Instead, Béjar testified, at almost every turn the company chose policies that boosted usership and revenue over safety.

"at almost every turn"
I'm just I can't even.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:30 AM (odBC9)

74 In East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire news, dozens of disposable barbecues were seized after they were banned.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 06:31 AM (MWfyi)

75 74 In East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire news, dozens of disposable barbecues were seized after they were banned.
Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 06:31 AM (MWfyi)

a source and a link:

BBC

https://tinyurl.com/y2krxsac

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:35 AM (odBC9)

76 BBC:

Last week, the government imposed a temporary ban on the sale of single-use barbecues following a prolonged period of hot, dry weather and a spate of wildfires across the UK.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:36 AM (odBC9)

77 Professor Nathan Cofnas was suspended from his Ghent university job for outing Cambridge's Jason Arday for the plagiarist that he was:

https://tinyurl.com/mv879jsy

Guess ~~who~~ what suspended Cofnas:

https://tinyurl.com/2k2yv9ph

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2026 06:36 AM (QNSrI)

78 In saw a new car color yesterday. This one I call "Flaming Teal".

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 06:36 AM (MWfyi)

79 >>>In East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire news, dozens of disposable barbecues were seized after they were banned.

Posted by: fd

>This is the kind of activity that happens when you don't have a 2nd amendment. Unacceptable. My barbecues and grills will be free until you pry the firestarter from my cold dead hand.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 06:37 AM (tvdD1)

80 In East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire news, dozens of disposable barbecues were seized after they were banned.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 06:31 AM (MWfyi)
-

Are suspects being taken in for grilling?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 21, 2026 06:37 AM (QNSrI)

81 Raked over the coals.

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2026 06:39 AM (Q+gd/)

82 >>>More information about the ban is available on the government website.

no doubt no doubt no doubt

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:40 AM (odBC9)

83 the government website

www.gov.uk

https://tinyurl.com/4s8ve73z

Guidance

Statutory Guidelines On Disposable BBQs

In response to the current droughts and heatwave, the Government has introduced statutory guidelines in relation to the supply of disposable BBQs.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:42 AM (odBC9)

84 >>>Are suspects being taken in for grilling?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

>There's always going to be some drunk fucking yob that sets the neighborhood on fire, but seriously, who places the thing in the grass? Probably some neanderthal who should have not access to fire.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 06:45 AM (tvdD1)

85 84 There's always going to be some drunk fucking yob that sets the neighborhood on fire, but seriously, who places the thing in the grass? Probably some neanderthal who should have not access to fire.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 06:45 AM (tvdD1)

hear, hear

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:47 AM (odBC9)

86 The will just have to barbeque their goats without a grill.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 06:48 AM (MWfyi)

87 The free over-the-air Movies! Channel has a routine. They feature a new crop of vintage movies every month, repeated at various times and days. At the start of the month there's a wealth of good films. By the last week or so of the month, you've seen all the ones that first appealed to you and your second choices and thirds, and you're left with films you've seen recently and ones that didn't interest you much to start with. Or others that do interest you, but are on at 2:45 am.

Still, they have good lineups. And did I mention they're OTA, and thus free?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 06:48 AM (wzUl9)

88 wow

They [these guidelines] must be taken into account by retailers and distributors of disposable barbecues in ensuring they do not supply products that they know or ought to know to be dangerous....

To be considered safe under GPSR, a product must not present any risk or only the minimum risks compatible with the product’s use, considered to be acceptable and consistent with a high level of protection for the safety and health of persons, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use.

Before placing a product on the market, producers must ensure that it is safe. This means, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use, the product does not present any risk or presents only the minimum risk compatible with the product’s use, and which is considered acceptable and consistent with a high level of protection of health and safety.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:49 AM (odBC9)

89 These are single-use grills. Cook, cool, throw 'em away.

Dafuq? Get a camping grill and use it a ton of times. Oh no, I might have to clean it, the horror! Lazy ass ... { stopping now before I go on a rant that will blister the paint }

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:50 AM (O7YUW)

90 I have never heard of a disposable BBQ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 06:53 AM (Ev8b9)

91 Thanks for the well wishes, everyone.

Fen, I study Aikido. Lot of fun but I can't kneel or roll right now.

37 Had cortisone shots in both shoulders. Worked wonders.
Posted by: Dark Lix

Good to hear. I am hopeful that this will work out for me.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 06:53 AM (OPGS/)

92 "transgender gynecologist"

thanks for that link BD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 21, 2026 06:53 AM (VyBeY)

93 @90/FenelonSpoke: Me neither. But apparently in the UK, they're a thing.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:53 AM (O7YUW)

94 And don't run with scissors!

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)

95

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 21, 2026 06:55 AM (732Gn)

96 You can buy disposable grills at Walmart for $5. They are perfect for drunken picnics where you leave your garbage everywhere when you leave.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 06:55 AM (MWfyi)

97 Sherman, set the Wayback machine for 1982:

https://youtu.be/ysmVlaw36L0

(Yaz - Situation)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:55 AM (O7YUW)

98 @90/FenelonSpoke: Me neither. But apparently in the UK, they're a thing.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 06:53 AM (O7YUW)
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Looks like you can get them on Amazon for around $15-$20 each.

https://tinyurl.com/yxdyyjne

I'd prefer a standard Weber grill, even though I don't use it very often.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 06:59 AM (FZ29D)

99 hup!

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 07:01 AM (pHgC8)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 07:01 AM (odBC9)

101 Is this ... OUR Ace?

Jarvis
@jarvis_best
9h
This is Jarvis’s roommate Ace. I’m sorry to report that he passed away tonight. I know he loved you guys and he would want you to know. He was shot by security at the Governor’s mansion as he was trying to climb the fence and screaming DO MY TAXES YOU BIG GAY AL LOOKING BASTARD. Alcohol may have been involved. He was 74.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 07:05 AM (odBC9)

102 >>>You can buy disposable grills at Walmart for $5. They are perfect for drunken picnics where you leave your garbage everywhere when you leave.

Posted by: fd

>The crows will take care of the baby back pork ribs and scavenge the kit and caboodle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 07:05 AM (tvdD1)

103 @101/m: *snorts* People select the oddest "blazes of glory" to go out in.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:06 AM (O7YUW)

104 Last week, the government imposed a temporary ban on the sale of single-use barbecues following a prolonged period of hot, dry weather and a spate of wildfires across the UK.

So weather is the new Covid.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:09 AM (pUU4E)

105 Morning. *yawn*

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 07:10 AM (aJQbY)

106 Good morning! Looks like an early morning trip to the vet is in order. :-( Probably gonna have to let Xena cross the rainbow bridge.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 21, 2026 07:11 AM (3Ope8)

107 He was shot by security at the Governor’s mansion as he was trying to climb the fence and screaming DO MY TAXES YOU BIG GAY AL LOOKING BASTARD. Alcohol may have been involved. He was 74.
Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 07:05 AM (odBC9)

He died doing what he loved...

Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2026 07:11 AM (j10i6)

108 Jarvis retweeted

Magills
@magills_
10h
Woke 1 was craaaazy

Matt Calkins
@Matt_Calkins
18h
After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males. It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change.

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 07:12 AM (odBC9)

109 So it turns out that Karmelo is a punk with a bad attitude just looking to stick someone with a knife. Is anybody surprised?

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:12 AM (MWfyi)

110 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:12 AM (ExV1e)

111 "the link below"

https://tinyurl.com/3t465wyf

substack

Posted by: m at August 21, 2026 07:14 AM (odBC9)

112 Our local Microcenter is reopening after a renovation on Saturday. We're going and taking in a niceinch afterwards.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:25 AM (Kl4xy)

113 When Meta assures you that "privacy" is built into their products from the ground up, you can be sure they are talking about their privacy and not yours. You are the product for Meta. Their goal is to strip away your privacy and mine ever bit of your personal information for profit.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at August 21, 2026 11:12 AM (YcfMX)

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