Daily Tech News 21 November 2021

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That pointless 20TB torrent of NFTs? Fake. (Club NFT)

99.95% of the 20TB file is zeroes. They didn't even bother with the pointless scraping of already-public data. They just lied.

Which I must admit is a lot less effort. If you're doing something with no identifiable value or purpose, might as well take the easy way.

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An in-depth review of Intel's Alder Lake Core i7-12700K. (Tom's Hardware)

All you really need to know is that a 12700K with DDR4 RAM is - on average - as fast as a 12900K with DDR5, and a lot cheaper.

If you don't do things like video processing or compiling massive software suites you can probably get by just fine with the cheaper still 12600K.
Or wait for the Pentium. (WCCFTech)

There's an Alder Lake Pentium chip - and a Celeron too - on the way. No official details yet but most likely these will be entry-level dual-core parts priced under $100.
Upgrading the RAM on a Dell XPS13. (GitHub)

Life Pro Tip: Don't even think about trying this.
Well, that clears everything up.

Some of this name confusing might come from initial phrases like "SquirrelWaffle drops QakBot", however as far as I know this has never happened. The maldoc has dropped both DLLs, but the timing is att the qbot traffic starts later than SqWa, so just looks that way in pcaps. >
— TheAnalyst (@ffforward) November 19, 2021
The Wuhan Bat Flu totally broke out in the Wuhan Bat Market and not the Wuhan Bat Flu Lab because the earliest cases the Chinese government will admit to cluster around the Bat Market. (CNN)

Couldn't possibly be linked, since the market is separated from the lab by a distance of nearly a hundred yards.
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Extreme has the four essential keys. (Hot Hardware)

And an 8 core Intel 11800H, a 16" 16:10 screen at 2560x1600 or 3840x2400, up to RTX 3060 graphics, two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB RAM, two full-size M.2 2280 slots, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A ports, HDMI, a full-size SD Card slot, and a headphone jack.

It's in the same class as my Inspiron 16 Plus, but with a couple of advantages - a full 4K display instead of 3K, two full size M.2 slots instead of one full-size and one short, and an 95W version of the 3060 instead of 60W. And it's about 10% lighter.

Downside is that it costs - current retail price, not list - about twice as much.
Transporting young gulls across stately lions for immortal porpoises. (Not Your Father's Accounting Professor)

Nothing to do with tech really, I just had to.

Party Like It's 1979 Video of the Day

I've never seen the video for this before. Not sure how it managed to escape from 1959. I expect Sam Beckett was involved.

Party Like It's 1959 Video of the Day

Disclaimer: Freeze! I'm Korone Baker. Put your money in the air and gimme all your hands.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:00 AM

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1 This is a sad first.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2021 02:32 AM (csEWM)

2 That last video has the same kind of unreality to it that the Hippopotamus for Christmas video does.

My guess it was for a TV sitcom or talent show type of thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 21, 2021 02:35 AM (csEWM)

3 Good morning. Sunday morning.

*blink* *blink*

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 02:43 AM (dB4Iz)

4 Anyone else not feeling too holiday-ish?

I'll be cooking for 3 this Thursday. Meh. Our parents are all gone, all but one sibling far lives far away (hence, our one guest) and a couple of libtard aunts/uncles who wouldn't sup with us even if they didn't have large families of their own to gather 'round.

Will call my grandma tomorrow-- she's 100s of miles away too, also is the last of The Older Ones. She has stage 4 cancer-- who knows how much longer she'll live? Doubt she has another 6 months... but gotta have the clotshot to visit her, so no, I'll never be able to hug her again. Sad.

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 02:55 AM (dB4Iz)

5 Yay me, I took advantage of a not-too-cold day and put up the Christmas lights!

No, not plugging them in until Friday. One holiday at a time, right?

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 03:06 AM (dB4Iz)

6 Hey, Pixy. Thanks for the early threads!

I'm no techie, so can't contribute on-topic, sorry.

Truth be told, I don't understand most of your posts but enjoy attempting to read them anyway.

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 03:12 AM (dB4Iz)

7 I'll be cooking for 3 this Thursday.

That was going to be our Thanksgiving: me, ursine wife, and my mom. But me and wife have been so sick for 2 weeks (flu, I thought, but maybe Covid or something else - who knows) that we three mutually decided not to have mom over so we don't inadvertently kill her. So, no Thanksgiving. What a deal.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2021 03:14 AM (QU5/8)

8 Hi, BWAB. Sorry you're sick and the holiday plans went haywire. Good that you're protecting Mom, though.

Get well soon!

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 03:18 AM (dB4Iz)

9 Thanks. We'll be okay. I think we are slowly on the mend.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2021 03:24 AM (QU5/8)

10 I'm almost ready to call bro and cancel Thursday's meal. He's only showing up out of a sense of duty and will leave asap like always. Why bother?

Hubby doesn't care, just wants supper of some kind and then he'll snooze.

All work and no play. Pfft.

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 03:27 AM (dB4Iz)

11 I might get up when Krak gets up

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 03:36 AM (2JoB8)

12
Okay, I've been laughing so hard I nearly pissed myself. Two things previously have made me laugh that hard: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World, and the antics of Inspector Clouseau (such as the Salty Swedish Sea Dog).

Well, I just saw the third one. There's a meme with Biden with a little Hitler moustache. The caption reads, "Heil Shitler!"

I got to laughing so hard, poor Miley thought I'd flipped my lid as she was gonna have to put me in Marshall Pickens (that's the local lunatic asylum).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 21, 2021 03:42 AM (Mzdiz)

13 All work and no play.

Sorry to hear it. I get where you are coming from. Not much fun to go to the work for something that no one seems to care about much. I wish we could all (I mean me too) consciously be more thankful on Thanksgiving. Maybe one of the things we as a country are lacking these days: actual thankfulness.

That said, I've gone native since coming to Texas. I'd rather have tamales or fajitas or something than turkey and dressing. My wife is not having any of this business though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2021 03:44 AM (QU5/8)

14 99.95% of the 20TB file is zeroes.

This, too, is the story of Miklosification.

Posted by: .0000002% Miklosian Content at November 21, 2021 04:00 AM (QzkSJ)

15 At least I don't have to mess around with turkey prep! Yechhh. None of us have ever really liked turkey, so cornish hens or ham or rib roast for us. This year will be hens. Quick and easy.

It's just... damn, it's just lonely. This is what the end of a family tree looks like.

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 04:00 AM (dB4Iz)

16 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 21, 2021 03:42 AM (Mzdiz)
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I think today's numerous winners are the responses to Maria Shriver.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at November 21, 2021 04:07 AM (OS25d)

17 Marshall Pickens (that's the local lunatic asylum).
Posted by: publius

In Columbia, it was called Bull Street

Posted by: Miklos has driven by, but never required to stop in at November 21, 2021 04:20 AM (QzkSJ)

18 Hiya

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 04:24 AM (arJlL)

19 Hi, JT

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 04:27 AM (dB4Iz)

20 Hiya JQ !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 04:29 AM (arJlL)

21 If you don't do things like video processing or compiling massive software suites you can probably get by just fine with the cheaper still 12600K.

Back in my day you did incremental compiles on big projects.

Posted by: Ace's liver at November 21, 2021 04:40 AM (wGeit)

22 It's HiyaTime Morning in America again!

Posted by: the guy who responds to "hiya" with more and better Hiyas at November 21, 2021 04:41 AM (QzkSJ)

23 Marshall Pickens (that's the local lunatic asylum).
Posted by: publius

I wonder if Marshall Tucker ever played a show at Marshall Pickens

Posted by: Miklos, who met the real eponymous Mr. Tucker at November 21, 2021 04:43 AM (QzkSJ)

24 Sorry, it's bye- ya time for this kid. Tomorrow's chores are many.

Nitey nite all.

Posted by: JQ at November 21, 2021 04:46 AM (dB4Iz)

25 Sleep well, JQ !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 04:50 AM (arJlL)

26 Hiya Miklos !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 04:50 AM (arJlL)

27 Hiya Miklos !
Posted by: JT

Jo reggelt!

Posted by: Miklos, early AM Hungarian instructor at November 21, 2021 04:51 AM (QzkSJ)

28
That video of Creepy Joe Biden trying to sniff some little girl, and her wanting to have no parts to do with him is up at GP. Sure, he had a full physical, endured a colonoscopy, then felt good enough for some festivity at the White House, which included him trying to perv on a little girl. Quite a day.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at November 21, 2021 05:02 AM (dQvv7)

29 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 05:05 AM (Z/jzm)

30 >>>If you're doing something with no identifiable value or purpose, might as well take the easy way.

A lot of politicians appear to follow this Rule for Life.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 05:09 AM (rk2/G)

31 One of the first theories was that it came from the market, because the Lab wasn't disposing of the animals it tested on, instead to get a few extra bucks they were selling it to the vendors at ther market.

Sequencing and just damn plain odds, showed that the virus 100% came from the lab, since the particular dna sequence has only been seen in lab created viruses, and that despite searching for bats with this virus they never found one, but some green grocer went and grabbed a few bats and those just happened to have the virus that the scientist could never find.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 21, 2021 05:13 AM (DyEzg)

32 LOL from the Transporting Young Gulls link:

"the Gulls in Maine . . . look like they've grown up next to the waste pipes for nuclear power plants and dine primarily on radioactive sardines"

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 05:17 AM (rk2/G)

33 >>Transporting young gulls across stately lions for immortal porpoises. (Not Your Father's Accounting Professor)

Ha!

Several weeks ago I spent an evening watching gulls feeding on perch at a nearby lake. It was so much fun to watch them swoop and dive. They'd fly away with the fish in their beak and flip it to swallow whole while flying. Others would fly around the one who had the fish and try to steal it! It was all so mesmermizing to watch. Amazing how they could see a fish in the water from so high up, dive down and grab it.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 05:22 AM (Z/jzm)

34 Exactly how I fish. Gollum!

Posted by: Gollum at November 21, 2021 05:26 AM (QU5/8)

35 Jo reggelt!
Posted by: Miklos, early AM Hungarian instructor

Who's he ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 05:34 AM (arJlL)

36 Hiya MLiiGRAM !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 05:35 AM (arJlL)

37
Anyone else not feeling too holiday-ish?

__________

Her Majesty returns the Monday or Tuesday after the holiday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2021 05:35 AM (/U27+)

38 Joe Biden making moves video, here:

https://tinyurl.com/69d3538d

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 05:35 AM (rk2/G)

39 >>Anyone else not feeling too holiday-ish?

*raises hand

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 05:36 AM (Z/jzm)

40 Hey JT!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 05:37 AM (Z/jzm)

41 >>Anyone else not feeling too holiday-ish?

*raises hand*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 05:40 AM (ahosz)

42 At Caldron Pool twitter, a really great, HUGE protest poster, with the text "Your body Your choice No jab No job"--on a photo of Harvey Weinstein:

https://tinyurl.com/wbuztt9t

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 05:40 AM (rk2/G)

43 G'mornin' everyone !

" If you're doing something with no identifiable value or purpose, might as well take the easy way."

that there is words for the ages, it is.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 05:43 AM (ahosz)

44 And another funny Aussie protest poster--I won't spoil it:

https://tinyurl.com/bfcp3du8

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 05:43 AM (rk2/G)

45 Anyone else not feeling too holiday-ish?

Thanksgiving I always enjoy.
The last few years, due to my SIL usually working on T-Day, we started to have a morning brunch. Which I enjoyed much more than turkey.
Late, wife and I might go to a movie and then she would make a casserole with chicken, stove top stuffing, mushroom soup etc. Plus cranberry sauce.
Works for me.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 05:43 AM (vd8XM)

46 Oh and isn't Foone, a twitter user who takes apart everything electrical/ with computers inside and documents it, also trying to DL all the NFTs.

I think he wrote or was writing a program to do it, but when he heard this story he put that on hold, so maybe he'll get to DLing all the NFTs, then he should create an NFT out of all the DLed NFTs and sell that.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 21, 2021 05:44 AM (DyEzg)

47 Hey there sock_rat. *fist bump* about the lack of holiday enthusiasm.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 05:44 AM (Z/jzm)

48 Homemade cranberry sauce, or the canned - sliced following the grooves from the can !

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 05:47 AM (Z/jzm)

49
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 05:47 AM (DUIap)

50 "How to Deal with Unvaccinated Family Members This Christmas"

Most of this is beyond sad. But there are some street interviews where people say, "I'm vaccinated. All of our family members are welcome."

Comments are turned off. LOL.

https://tinyurl.com/s3huz6fa

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 05:48 AM (rk2/G)

51 Hey dere MliI !

at least today's forecast to be a nice mid-November day for Wisconsin (40's, sunny). At least we can look at it out the windows as we start Housecleaning for the Holidays ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 05:48 AM (ahosz)

52 And this year we have a BIG celebration for my sisters 70th B-day which is on T-Day.
We'll celebrate that PLUS my niece's looooooooong time boyfriend finally popped the question. That will take place on Wednesday night. Thursday my niece will have the T-Day dinner at her condo also. We will not go to that though. She doesn't really have enough places to sit comfortably for me, there will be about 14 people and 10 places to sit anyway. Plus, the Bears game will have to be watched by my BIL and nieces fianc�. And my BIL will have the TV on ear bleed level while he also yells at the TV and then tells us in 20/20 hindsight the play that they should have run.

Makes my brain go BOOOOM.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 05:49 AM (vd8XM)

53 some coffee might cheer me up ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 05:50 AM (ahosz)

54 Homemade cranberry sauce, or the canned - sliced following the grooves from the can !
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Wife likes the canned. I like homemade.

We get the canned.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 05:51 AM (vd8XM)

55 Morning, folk! That Dodie Stevens video was cool. I have a faint memory of hearing that song on the car radio before I ever went to school. In 1977 I worked for a small AM/FM station in Ville Platte, LA, which boasted a huge library of oldies 45s. They had each one labeled as to format, CW for country, RK for rock, etc. RA was their designation for what had once been called "race" records, rhythm & blues and early crossover records by black artists.

For some reason "Pink Shoelaces" had the RA designation. Damned if I can figure why.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 21, 2021 05:52 AM (c6xtn)

56
Marshall Pickens (that's the local lunatic asylum).
Posted by: publius

I wonder if Marshall Tucker ever played a show at Marshall Pickens
Posted by: Miklos, who met the real eponymous Mr. Tucker at November 21, 2021 04:43 AM

actually, it was when Slim Pickens toured with Marshall Crenshaw

Pickens played the harmonica. I saw them at The Palace in '87

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 05:52 AM (DUIap)

57
True confession: since Friday morning I gave crossed four state lines.

#gangstalife

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 21, 2021 05:54 AM (Fk34/)

58 And my BIL will have the TV on ear bleed level while he also yells at the TV and then tells us in 20/20 hindsight the play that they should have run.

Dontcha hate that ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 05:56 AM (arJlL)

59 As for the Racey video, the guy with the shortest hair there playing guitar in front might, I say might, have passed in a 1962-64 performance on Ed Sullivan -- but he'd have had to wear a jacket and tie. The others would have had hair too long. So even the video is not really a 1959 flavor.

I don't know the song. It seems a pretty catchy tune. But I don't think my local Top 40 AM outlet played it in '79.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 21, 2021 05:56 AM (c6xtn)

60 True confession: since Friday morning I gave crossed four state lines.

#gangstalife
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

While you were humming the theme from Mission Impossible.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 05:57 AM (vd8XM)

61 No one will be here on Thursday but #1 son and mom, and me after work. Everyone else in extended family has other plans. Mr I and youngest son will be visiting with a friend from out of town that invited us all to that place, but I can't get mom there, so no.

So I made my turkey yesterday. Stuffed it, made extra for a casserole dish of stuffing on the side, butternut squash, mashed potatoes ('cause I use the water from boiling them for the gravy) and baked pumpkin custard.

Carcass is in freezer for making stock later in week.

Rest of it is going to be eaten over the next few days and frozen for whenever.

I had some turkey I pulled off when carving it up and a spoonful of stuffing. Taste tested the squash and custard. Didn't make the cranberry sauce, though! (I forgot ) but I did drink a glass of cranberry juice!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 05:57 AM (Z/jzm)

62 Dontcha hate that ?
Posted by: JT

The announcers are bad enough, because they never shut the F up. Add in my BIL.....

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 05:58 AM (vd8XM)

63 Why is a harmonica called a harpoon ?

Because they both start with har ?

"I pulled my HARRUMPH from my dirty red bandanna ..."

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 05:58 AM (arJlL)

64 I had some turkey I pulled off when carving it up and a spoonful of stuffing. Taste tested the squash and custard. Didn't make the cranberry sauce, though! (I forgot ) but I did drink a glass of cranberry juice!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Mmmm...all sounds good.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 05:59 AM (vd8XM)

65 Miss Linda and I drove up to the closer Cracker Barrel last night for an early dinner. I love going there. She had the deep-fried turkey dinner, while I plumped for lemon pepper grilled trout. Maybe it was me -- I haven't had trout in a long time -- but I kept getting a hint of . . . turpentine . . . in it. It couldn't actually have been, since I haven't gotten violently ill. But it was the first time at CB I've ever been less than enthused about the fare there.

Anyway, it was a great drive up and back. The Buick loves to run and it travels on the rare Loozy-ana good road as if it's on rails. Maybe we'll go back for breakfast on Xmas Eve.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 21, 2021 06:04 AM (c6xtn)

66 Good morning morons

Kinda pissy today because one of those damn 1979 songs was an ear worm all day yesterday

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 06:05 AM (EZebt)

67 but I kept getting a hint of . . . turpentine . . . in it.

Might have been ammonia?
Usually means less than fresh fish.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:06 AM (vd8XM)

68 No Krak ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 06:08 AM (arJlL)

69
Fish that has a "fishy odor" or worse is not fresh fish.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 21, 2021 06:10 AM (Fk34/)

70 I was going to get up, but Krak isn't yrt

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:11 AM (2JoB8)

71 Mayor Breed dragged the police chief to Union Sq yesterday to speechify about the crime and vandalism she caused. Du

Up to 80 people attacked a mall in Walnut Creek yesterday.

Say good bye to Christmas sales. There will be literally no one shopping or eating downtown.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 06:11 AM (EZebt)

72 but I kept getting a hint of . . . turpentine . . . in it.

Might have been ammonia?
Usually means less than fresh fish.
Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021

***
Mmf. I've always heard the story about, don't eat fish on Monday at a restaurant, it'll be the leftovers from the weekend. But this was Saturday night. Well, I guess I won't order that again at CB!

On road trips in the past I've always relied on the place for meals. I even keep a paper list of their various locations around the US in the car. Sadly dated now, I'm sure, and they don't offer a paper list any more. But it's been useful.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 21, 2021 06:12 AM (c6xtn)

73 yes, coffee helps ...

27 degrees & overcast in the Driftless.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 06:13 AM (ahosz)

74 Mayor Breed dragged the police chief to Union Sq yesterday to speechify about the crime and vandalism she caused.

She accepted full responsibility and apologized?

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:13 AM (vd8XM)

75 On road trips in the past I've always relied on the place for meals. I even keep a paper list of their various locations around the US in the car. Sadly dated now, I'm sure, and they don't offer a paper list any more. But it's been useful.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

We've stopped a few time at CB on the road. Usually clean bathrooms too.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:15 AM (vd8XM)

76 oh, Bruce, you so funny !

I imagine the root causes are structural racism and too much whiteness.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 06:16 AM (ahosz)

77 74 Mayor Breed dragged the police chief to Union Sq yesterday to speechify about the crime and vandalism she caused.
---
She accepted full responsibility and apologized?
Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:13 AM (vd8XM)

That's a good one, Bruce!

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:16 AM (rk2/G)

78 Rioting in Rotterdam in opposition to the vax pass. Let me know when it starts here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 06:16 AM (EZebt)

79 78 Rioting in Rotterdam in opposition to the vax pass. Let me know when it starts here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 06:16 AM (EZebt)

Who would dare?

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:17 AM (rk2/G)

80 Rioting in Rotterdam in opposition to the vax pass. Let me know when it starts here.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You must be fully vaccinated and have a vax pass to participate in the vax pass demonstrations.

And wear a mask too.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:18 AM (vd8XM)

81 Sfchronicle.com is full of nonsense, propaganda, and, occasionally, news. The comments are great - there are some based people.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 21, 2021 06:19 AM (KAi1n)

82 Another thing about Cracker Barrel: Up by the register they offer candy and mint selections I haven't seen in years, like Life Savers Wint O Green and Reed's Root Beer.

In the toy and gimcrackery part of the store, they offered several products in the Perfect Petzzz line. Remember those in the kiosk in your local mall a few years ago? A toy puppy or kitten, beautifully fashioned, curled up in a little pet bed, with soft synthetic fur . . . and a battery inside makes the pet appear to breathe. It's really kind of creepy. And creepier still, their ads on their website show adults, not just children, with one. The "petzzz" even come with a little brush for the synth fur, and an "adoption certificate" . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 21, 2021 06:19 AM (c6xtn)

83 think this'll fit without tinyurling:

https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/2740/

pretty interesting piece about Where We Are Today ...
daybydaycartoon.com is funny, too; just starting to look at the powerline week in memetic review. oh, and Sarah Hoyt on the 3rd shift at Insty

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 06:21 AM (ahosz)

84 complete idiots

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
13h
NOW - Crowd chants "the only solution is Communist revolution" at Chicago's protest against the Rittenhouse verdict.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:25 AM (rk2/G)

85 NOW - Crowd chants "the only solution is Communist revolution" at Chicago's protest against the Rittenhouse verdict.
Posted by: m

Gee, I wonder who could be behind that ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 06:27 AM (arJlL)

86
got the e-mail from the Personnel Department on Thursday that starting on the 22nd, it's all masks, all the time at the office regardless of "vaccination" status. Previously, it was only the un-vaxxed in "common areas"

in light of the boo-ship that Clyde Shelton's employer is pulling (we're in the same industry), it wouldn't surprise me if Obergruppenfuhrer Whitmer is twisting some arms at the OEMs and the major Tier 1 suppliers to force compliance

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 06:27 AM (DUIap)

87 NOW - Crowd chants "the only solution is Communist revolution" at Chicago's protest against the Rittenhouse verdict.
Posted by: m

Per HeyJackass.
As of 6 PM yesterday, 5 killed 18 wounded in Chicago this weekend. Totes okay though.

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:28 AM (vd8XM)

88 She accepted full responsibility and apologized?
Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:13 AM (vd8XM)
===
She had the nerve to say criminals will be held "accountable." With almost a straight face.

Another zero elevated beyond her ability because of her melanin and genitalia.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 06:28 AM (EZebt)

89 She had the nerve to say criminals will be held "accountable." With almost a straight face.

I'm not kidding this time!

Don't call my bluff!!

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:30 AM (vd8XM)

90 Odd Krak was on time yesterday and not today. He is almost never late on Sunday, while Saturday maybe %10.
I'm worried.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:30 AM (2JoB8)

91 87 Per HeyJackass.
As of 6 PM yesterday, 5 killed 18 wounded in Chicago this weekend.
Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:28 AM (vd8XM)

Covid

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:32 AM (rk2/G)

92 Hiya Skip !

Didja watch the Eclipse ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 06:32 AM (arJlL)

93 NOW - Crowd chants "the only solution is Communist revolution" at Chicago's protest against the Rittenhouse verdict.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:25 AM (rk2/G)

And Communist are twin brothers to the nazis. And we're allow to punch nazis, or more, so I accept these people openly saying they're for communism, I hope they have good dental insurance.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 21, 2021 06:33 AM (DyEzg)

94 At least Chicago are open about it. That's the spirit say it loud and proud.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:33 AM (2JoB8)

95 94 At least Chicago are open about it. That's the spirit say it loud and proud.
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:33 AM

Exactly. Let us know who they are. Free speech for the win.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:36 AM (rk2/G)

96 Yeah, most everyone on late ONT and early Tech saw it.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:36 AM (2JoB8)

97 At least Chicago are open about it. That's the spirit say it loud and proud.
Posted by: Skip

What do we want?

Your stuff!

When do we want it?
As soon as you can deliver it to my front door!

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:37 AM (vd8XM)

98 Sausages and French Toast after the first cup of coffee gets away.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:42 AM (2JoB8)

99 AltonJackson, Good Morning. I keep forgetting to ask how the rabbit is doing?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2021 06:42 AM (sSgU3)

100 When I was a little kid, there was an old CPUSA hall in my town, mostly old Finns sitting around a picture of Gus Hall and swilling coffee. Slackers compared to the Chicago gang .

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2021 06:42 AM (C1Lsn)

101 Odd Krak was on time yesterday and not today. He is almost never late on Sunday, while Saturday maybe %10.
I'm worried.
Posted by: Skip

Does he live in Chicago ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 06:43 AM (arJlL)

102 100 When I was a little kid, there was an old CPUSA hall in my town, mostly old Finns sitting around a picture of Gus Hall and swilling coffee. Slackers compared to the Chicago gang.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2021 06:42 AM (C1Lsn)

Were they harmless enough?

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:44 AM (rk2/G)

103 Sausages and French Toast after the first cup of coffee gets away.
Posted by: Skip

Use the maple syrup before CBD wakes up !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 06:44 AM (arJlL)

104 Hiya BenHad !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 06:45 AM (arJlL)

105 JT, Good morning to you!

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2021 06:46 AM (sSgU3)

106 The good and bad about the JAB

I can lie and tell people I got the jab. The only one that knows is my wife

Thanks to the inability to actually prevent Kovid later on, if I feel crappy or flu like, I can beg off an event because I don't feel well, like I would normally do anyway.

Winning!

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:47 AM (vd8XM)

107 98 Sausages and French Toast after the first cup of coffee gets away.
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:42 AM (2JoB

Gets away? Like, it's dashing out the front door?

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:47 AM (rk2/G)

108 Like, it's dashing out the front door?
Posted by: m

In a one horse open sleigh

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:48 AM (vd8XM)

109 102 Were they harmless? Commies are never harmless, but those clowns were trying . Once or twice they mustered three guys for the Labor Day Parade.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2021 06:49 AM (C1Lsn)

110 Actually do we have any idea where Krak resides?I assume he is in east. Maybe the issue is he has to get up at 3am if in California.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:49 AM (2JoB8)

111 Are they teaching crt in England Australia or Zardozland?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 21, 2021 06:51 AM (tPUfk)

112 JT, Good morning to you!
Posted by: Ben Had

And good morning to YOU !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 06:51 AM (arJlL)

113 Off to find something to eat.
Supposed to get to the 50's today, So I might attempt some window washing later.

YaYyyyy

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021 06:52 AM (vd8XM)

114 109 102 Were they harmless? Commies are never harmless, but those clowns were trying. Once or twice they mustered three guys for the Labor Day Parade.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2021 06:49 AM (C1Lsn)

Huh. Clowns!

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:52 AM (rk2/G)

115 Have another cup.

Posted by: King Harv at November 21, 2021 06:56 AM (jYQlA)

116 115 Have another cup.
Posted by: King Harv at November 21, 2021 06:56 AM (jYQlA)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 06:57 AM (rk2/G)

117 hey y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at November 21, 2021 06:57 AM (Adlwz)

118 In the spirit of "party like it's 1979", because 1979 was when I programmed my first computer, I've been doing some CP/M programming. FORTRRAN and C yesterday, Pascal the day before.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 21, 2021 06:58 AM (ezpv1)

119 Do they make caffeine in a snortable form? No jabbing though.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 21, 2021 06:59 AM (tPUfk)

120 Do they make caffeine in a snortable form?

Mountain grown. It's the richest kind.

Posted by: King Harv at November 21, 2021 07:02 AM (jYQlA)

121 'morning...

Posted by: Oldowan at November 21, 2021 07:03 AM (W+vQq)

122 LOL; the replies are phenomenally great.

@redsteeze
7h
Yes we know. That was kind of the whole start of the problem.

@wahlstedt007
Nov 20
As a German I will never understand how on earth this kid can walk on open street with a gun.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 07:04 AM (rk2/G)

123 Has anyone tried King Harv coffee? It would be nice to use a advertiser

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:08 AM (2JoB8)

124 123 Has anyone tried King Harv coffee? It would be nice to use a advertiser
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:08 AM

I don't recall the nic but yesterday afternoon one commenter said it was very good but pricey.

Posted by: Fool Otto at November 21, 2021 07:10 AM (DB16e)

125 Every
Damn.
Day.

Posted by: King Harv at November 21, 2021 07:10 AM (jYQlA)

126 the commies who mucked about Friday night chanted the same stuff

Posted by: Jamaica Queens riding the E to the 6, oh my! at November 21, 2021 07:11 AM (b+v9B)

127 Watched 1959 video, not sure what to think of it.
Before my time

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:11 AM (2JoB8)

128 I am here. Everyone calm down. I did not cross state lines.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2021 07:13 AM (UkBFs)

129 Big media had no interest in ballots crossing State lines in both Pennsylvania and Florida. I wonder why?

Posted by: Fool Otto at November 21, 2021 07:13 AM (DB16e)

130 My whole life drink regularly commercial coffee, rarely get expensive, but have had it a few times. Like wine it is better the more you pay for most cases.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:14 AM (2JoB8)

131 Lotsa memes out there:

Gaige Grosskreutz
2nd Place finalist
Kenosha Quickdraw Competition 2020

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 07:14 AM (rk2/G)

132 2020-->2021

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 07:14 AM (rk2/G)

133 Good morning. Time to drink coffee, eat a burrito, and yell "Be quiet, sit down! Eat!" Repeatedly to 5 minions.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2021 07:16 AM (UkBFs)

134 I gotta admit, I am thoroughly enjoying the "crossed state lines" mockery. Everyone is getting in on it like "Let's Go Brandon." It let's you know that we are not fully Soviet Amerika, yet.

Posted by: flounder at November 21, 2021 07:17 AM (SH2Zi)

135 In the spirit of "party like it's 1979", because 1979 was when I programmed my first computer, I've been doing some CP/M programming. FORTRRAN and C yesterday, Pascal the day before.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 21, 2021 06:58 AM (

No Cobol?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at November 21, 2021 07:17 AM (dQvv7)

136 Eggs fried in Mrs. F's homemade pesto.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 07:17 AM (EZebt)

137 90 Odd Krak was on time yesterday and not today.
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 06:30 AM (2JoB

Slackin' cuz ace is off.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 07:18 AM (rk2/G)

138 Good coffee makes a breakfast out for me. Bad coffee, I probably won't go back. Maybe once for a 2nd chance if the food is awesome.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at November 21, 2021 07:19 AM (Z/jzm)

139 skipping the Krak of dawn and going straight to book thread?

Posted by: a dude in MI at November 21, 2021 07:19 AM (/6GbT)

140
ltonJackson, Good Morning. I keep forgetting to ask how the rabbit is doing?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2021 06:42 AM

g'mornin', Ben Had

the rabbit is thriving & mischievous & sneaky

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 07:20 AM (DUIap)

141 mornin yall. That guy wearing a black hoodie, black pants, a and a black mask has struck again. And then again. He really gets around. No mention of race though, I suppose it's hard to tell with all that black.

Posted by: f'd at November 21, 2021 07:20 AM (Tnijr)

142 Mornin'
(Sips coffee)

Thanksgiving week!! Now I have to prepare my condo for the Parental Units. They're coming down on Tuesday. Right now it looks like a single guy lives in it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 21, 2021 07:22 AM (sAmhv)

143 The good and bad about the JAB

I can lie and tell people I got the jab. The only one that knows is my wife

Thanks to the inability to actually prevent Kovid later on, if I feel crappy or flu like, I can beg off an event because I don't feel well, like I would normally do anyway.

Winning!

Posted by: Bruce at November 21, 2021

***
Lie like a Persian rug. The elites have been lying to you, and the Karens would lie if it suited them as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 21, 2021 07:23 AM (c6xtn)

144 A car wiped out my nearby DD, so it will be closed for awhile. Went clean through and out the other side. Made a new drive thru for the doughnut fans. I stop by sometimes and I remember seeing this in Florida once. Two old gentleman backing into each other and then one drove right into the CVS front door. Probably really wanted to get his Covid shot from his car.

Posted by: Colin at November 21, 2021 07:23 AM (gfP64)

145 I just say ..t turned gay an hour ago and haven't had the chance to clean yet.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 21, 2021 07:26 AM (tPUfk)

146 Lie like a Persian rug. The elites have been lying to you, and the Karens would lie if it suited them as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Didn't Aladdin have a Persian rug ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 07:26 AM (arJlL)

147 first programming class; 1967 I think, freshie year high school ... simulated assembly programming on a room-sized Univac in a basement at IIT.
Fortran came later, after we had acquired the basics ...

you may remain on my lawn if you do not scatter that deck of Hollerith cards.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 07:26 AM (ahosz)

148 A car wiped out my nearby DD,...
Posted by: Colin at November 21, 2021 07:23 AM (gfP64)
===
Nooooooooo!

Posted by: Local cops at November 21, 2021 07:27 AM (EZebt)

149 I suggested Kyle get out of Wisconsin and go to South Dakota or someplace. Rodger KKimballsuggests getting to Brazil so the FBI can't do that 3am knock on the door after Garland charges him with denial of rights.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:27 AM (2JoB8)

150 In case anyone missed it, Portland had a declared riot the night of the verdict. Portlanders will riot over almost anything nowdays. I wonder what its like to live there....

Posted by: Colin at November 21, 2021 07:28 AM (gfP64)

151 Both sides are wrong. The cause of the 100,000 deaths is the normalization of hard drug use and the liberalization of drug laws. Many of those deaths were of children poisoned after taking what they thought were prescription drugs they had bought from dealers they met through Snapchat. Many others were of addicts who had first gotten hooked on prescription opioids, then switched to heroin, and more recently to fentanyl.

Correction: ...poisoned after taking fentanyl they thought was prescription drugs they had bought from dealers they met through Snapchat. Many others were of addicts who had first gotten hooked on prescription opioids, then switched to heroin, which was actually pure fentanyl.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2021 07:28 AM (UkBFs)

152 There was a Hollerith machine in my junior high but no one knew how to use it.

Posted by: Local cops at November 21, 2021 07:28 AM (EZebt)

153 /leo sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 07:29 AM (EZebt)

154 Portland....

Is that where da Nurse and Jordan and Notsothorou

are ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 07:30 AM (arJlL)

155 Nurse is in washington

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 07:31 AM (EZebt)

156 Fentanyl is cheap to make and compact, so it is easy to smuggle, and even if you get 10% across the border, you make a huge profit. All of the big celebrities who "died suddenly" Prince, Tom Petty, the guy from "the wire", heath ledger, and that other guy all died from fentanyl they thought was something else.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2021 07:31 AM (UkBFs)

157 Ya know who ELSE ain't here ?

Fenelon !

Mebbe she and Krak have been out all night drinkin' !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 07:32 AM (arJlL)

158 Lib little sister and my mom are in Portland and they things are swell! #OrangeManBad

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 07:32 AM (EZebt)

159 Nurse is in washington

oh.

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 07:33 AM (arJlL)

160 I think OM might be in Oregon. I don't know what makes me think that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 21, 2021 07:34 AM (UkBFs)

161 At my first place of employment, the computer area named all of those main frame computer towers after Disney characters. Micky was I believe the nearest one to the door. Main frame IBM all the way back then. Elevated floor for all the wires I'd guess.

Posted by: Colin at November 21, 2021 07:35 AM (gfP64)

162 Most over-the-top line from that re-ramming laptop: "Lastly, and this is definitely overkill. I had a dentist take an xray of the new and old parts."

Funniest line: "I got pretty confident in my re-balling . . . ."

Posted by: flounder at November 21, 2021 07:35 AM (SH2Zi)

163 Nurse is in washington
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Now how am I gonna remember that......?

I'll picture da Nurse with a GW wig !

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 07:35 AM (arJlL)

164 I often wonder by chance is there some place a commenter isn't from. I think every state is covered.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:36 AM (2JoB8)

165 Portland....

Is that where da Nurse and Jordan and Notsothorou

are ?

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 07:30 AM (arJlL)

None of the above.

Posted by: flounder at November 21, 2021 07:37 AM (SH2Zi)

166 And Communist are twin brothers to the nazis. And we're allow to punch nazis...

*

And there's the dirty little secret no one talks about

Antifa is 100 years old. They did fight nazis in Germany, but only because they were communists trying to gain control of Germany.

Interestingly, the organization not only crossed state lines, but international borders to move the United States to where we are now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - no significant difference in ability to spread or catch regardless of vax status at November 21, 2021 07:37 AM (MXP5B)

167 Anyone here from Delaware besides the great one.

Posted by: Colin at November 21, 2021 07:38 AM (gfP64)

168
I often wonder by chance is there some place a commenter isn't from. I think every state is covered.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:36 AM

Hawaii, mayhaps?

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 07:39 AM (DUIap)

169 I liked Spokane. it was the whitest city I have ever been. Noticeably white. But never been to Seattle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2021 07:39 AM (EZebt)

170 yeah, at UIC there was an immense Hollerith card sorting machine in one of the public areas ... it looked clean & maintained, but I never saw it used.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 07:40 AM (ahosz)

171
Krak is nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 07:40 AM (DUIap)

172 Well, I just saw the third one. There's a meme with Biden with a little Hitler moustache. The caption reads, "Heil Shitler!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 21, 2021 03:42 AM (Mzdiz)

That's an odd mix. But that IS pretty funny.

Posted by: flounder at November 21, 2021 07:41 AM (SH2Zi)

173 What did Delaware to the party?

Posted by: Her New Jersey at November 21, 2021 07:41 AM (jYQlA)

174 AltonJackson, let me know if you need more alfalfa cubes.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2021 07:41 AM (sSgU3)

175 'Now how am I gonna remember that......?
I'll picture da Nurse with a GW wig !'

So she lives in Mount Vernon.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 21, 2021 07:42 AM (4thlk)

176 A not frequent commenter is from Hawaii.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:42 AM (2JoB8)

177 Delaware isn't real. It's an idea. I kid. It's a suburb of Philly.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 21, 2021 07:42 AM (sAmhv)

178 Delawore flats.

Posted by: klaftern at November 21, 2021 07:42 AM (taPSh)

179 Nurse is in washington
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Now how am I gonna remember that......?

I'll picture da Nurse with a GW wig !
Posted by: JT at November 21, 2021 07:35 AM (arJlL)

Seattle!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at November 21, 2021 07:42 AM (y7DUB)

180 nood !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 07:42 AM (ahosz)

181 I think I'll cross the MO state line and get a couple of no AR tax stamp cartons of smokes. Maybe some booze. Swing over the OK line for a casino break. With a gun in the car.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 21, 2021 07:44 AM (C1Lsn)

182 Bet at least a dozen regulars from Pa

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:44 AM (2JoB8)

183
Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2021 07:41 AM

thanks, Ben Had

she's still working through them, it takes her a few days per each

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 07:47 AM (DUIap)

184 147 you may remain on my lawn if you do not scatter that deck of Hollerith cards.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 21, 2021 07:26 AM (ahosz)

; )

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 07:53 AM (rk2/G)

185 168 I often wonder by chance is there some place a commenter isn't from. I think every state is covered.

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2021 07:36 AM

Hawaii, mayhaps?
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2021 07:39 AM (DUIap)

Somebody used the word "lanai" for "porch" in the gardening thread yesterday, making me think maybe--not for sure, but maybe--"Hawaii."

Posted by: m at November 21, 2021 07:57 AM (rk2/G)

186 In the spirit of "party like it's 1979", because 1979 was when I programmed my first computer, I've been doing some CP/M programming. FORTRAN and C yesterday, Pascal the day before.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 21, 2021 06:58 AM

No Cobol?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at November 21, 2021 07:17 AM

Two things. First, unlike FORTRAN (modern Fortran only has the F capitalized, but I last did FORTRAN programming in the mid-1980's) and C, I've never programmed in COBOL. Second, the CP/M system I have (an SBC2 built up from a bare board) didn't come with COBOL compiler.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 21, 2021 08:38 AM (ezpv1)

187 Great to get the update on the nfts not being stolen. Thanks Pixy

Posted by: Draki at November 21, 2021 08:40 AM (op5te)

188 Correction: The thing is an MBC2, not an SBC2

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 21, 2021 09:20 AM (ezpv1)

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