Elon Musk: Say, Has Anyone Noticed That the Left Has Gotten Very Extreme The Past Few Years...?

At least, that's what he seems to mean by posting this web comic. Many redpilled liberals post this. They all mean "The left has gone crazy and savage."

He also continued to pound Vijaya Gadde, posting this meme, which ridicules Gadde for constantly dismissing Tim Pool's examples of Twitter's leftwing bias, saying she'd need to see context and then, when he says that Twitter's idea of "context" is shaped by its leftwing bias, she claims she'd need to see an example of that.

And when he provides an example of that, she'll say she needs context, and...

The cycle repeats forever. As it's supposed to. It's not supposed to arrive at any satisfactory answer; it's supposed to exhaust you. It's The Corporate Lawyer Runaround (TM).

I listened to that "debate" hoping there would be a debate. There wasn't one. Gadde just kept refusing to admit there was anything to be discussed by this endless cycle of claiming she couldn't answer the question without further information.

But it looks like Gadde is not long for Twitter World.

Here's a former Twitter executive shrieking that Gadde -- who has deplatformed many, many people, including the former President, essentially convicting them in a Court of One of being Insurrectionists or racists -- may not be herself criticized:

dick costolo
@dickc
Apr 27
Replying to @elonmusk
what's going on? You're making an executive at the company you just bought the target of harassment and threats.

It continues to astonish me how blatant they are in asserting that there is an Aristocratic privilege that attaches to members of their classes that protects them from the slanders of the ruffians, but that this privileges works in one direction only. There is just no other possible way to explain this, how Taylor Lorenz may dox LibsofTikTok but that Tucker Carlson is forbidden to even mention Lorenz's name negatively on his show, etc.

They never explain the rules of who gets this privilege and who doesn't because if they dared explain the rules, you'd punch them in their fucking faces for a start.

It's a simple assertion of class privilege. They have it, you don't.

In more news from Space Daddy:

Dave Rubin
@RubinReport
·
Hey @elonmusk, as long as your digging, check into how @nytimes, @forbes, etc., bought their Twitter followers to fake influence.
NY Times has 53 million “followers” and rarely gets 50 RT’s.
I could post a 🍌 emoji and a pic of a 80’s sitcom star and get more. (See next tweet.)

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Replying to
@RubinReport

Yeah, I noticed that too. Pretty weird.

Musk hates bots, so people who bought bots to inflate their follower counts could be in for some embarrassment in the months to come.

As Tim Pool said, sagely: "Musk didn't just buy the company, he bought the evidence."

Yes, that is what has got to be freaking these people out the most. An awful lot of claims were made before Congress about not shadowbanning people, throttling accounts, etc.

That lie is about to be exposed.

And it's not like Twitter is the only one who lied about this. They all did it. Their employees migrated from company to company and shared tricks.

They all lied, and all their executives perjured themselves.

And I like this idea:

Jan Jekielek
@JanJekielek
@elonmusk, an idea: As Poland emerged out of communism, the @ipngovpl_eng [Institute of National Remembrance] did something incredibly powerful to facilitate societal healing: it made everyone's "dossier" (created by the security state) available to them. Logs/settings would be the equivalent here. How about it?

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all
...
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

People are overstating how "free speech absolutist" Musk is. He's said his idea of a good goal to reach for is one in which 10% of the most extreme left and 10% of the most extreme right are equally unhappy.

That's not absolutism. That's just moderation with balance.

Meanwhile: What man talks like this?

On MSNBC's @Morning_Joe, @DonnyDeutsch fears "Dr. Evil" @elonmusk buying Twitter pic.twitter.com/DYjQjfWkA8
— Kyle Drennen (@kjdrennen) April 25, 2022

"My Tummy-Meter says this isn't good."

And here's Musk beating on Bill Gates for being both 1, Fat, and 2, Dumb.

Or at least for being kind of ignorant about many things.

I think Bill Gates really needs to stop being treated as a smart guy.

He never produced great code.

All this asshole did is sign a great contract -- for him. And then he bought a very jenky program from another guy.

He wasn't even smart for signing that contract. IBM was just stupid.

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

2 First!

Posted by: Flyguy at April 29, 2022 03:32 PM (dpJ62)

3 All your tags are belong to Ace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Top 10.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 29, 2022 03:33 PM (ju2Fy)

5 5?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 29, 2022 03:33 PM (bVYXr)

6 I suppose that's a fun episode of Joe Rogan?

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:33 PM (OuH7W)

7 Hey I finally did it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 29, 2022 03:33 PM (bVYXr)

8 Conservatives didn't believe that men could be women ten years ago.

Conservatives didn't believe that the federal government should have total control over education ten years ago.

Conservatives didn't think teachers should teach sex to six year olds ten years ago.

Conservatives didn't think that society should be completely overturned for a loud minority who didn't like Christianity ten years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (LvTSG)

9 I really dislike these street shitters going full hog into leftists dystopian hierarchism the moment they get a bullshit diversity hire position here.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (OuH7W)

10 Winded from the climb out of the previous thread... whew!

Posted by: CZ = FNG Sadly Waiting In The Dark For A Brave Fully Militarized First Responder To Kick In The Door at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (MkuC5)

11 So, what poster mentioned Aldi's is going nuts with price increases?

I just got back, and when the cashier says "we raised the price on that a lot, even though it's not updated on the shelf yet - do you still want it"...yeah, it's getting time to cry...

Spent $213, and didn't even fully fill my one cart or get fresh salmon (which is my usual price buster)...sigh...

Posted by: Nova local at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (exHjb)

12 We've discovered the missing link!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (UHVv4)

13 Who needs Melinda when you've got Moobs like mine?

Posted by: Bill Gates at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (epirx)

14 yeah, then the WashPost did an akkkshually article that it's the right who have gotten more...something...they're not good at telling things that are to make their points.

I'm like, what? how do I get more right wing? I want smaller government to be even more extra smaller?

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (OuH7W)

15 Gates gave us Win NX and Clippy. He's got that going for him. Plus he's at least pedo-curious. Creep.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (gryET)

16 Musk hates bots, so people who bought bots to inflate their follower counts could be in for some embarrassment in the months to come.

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One of Musk's tweets in the between time was about how the top ten profiles by followers barely tweeted at all.

Taylor Swift's account (#2, I think) hadn't tweeted since January.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (LvTSG)

17 PS - The whole line was talking about the price increases...I made sure to mention that I didn't see them improving at all through 2022...you start connecting people's dots without giving the punch line...

Posted by: Nova local at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (exHjb)

18 Spent $213, and didn't even fully fill my one cart or get fresh salmon (which is my usual price buster)...sigh...

Posted by: Nova local at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (exHjb)

Three months ago my typical ALDIs bill (in NoVa) was about $80. It is now $120. I am buying the same stuff.

Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (9otr5)

19 I don't twitter/fbook, and I don't believe they represent society at large...it's entertainment...like the msm.

Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (AwYPR)

20 Gates became the richest man in the world at one time and people STILL say there is no God. Someone like him could never get there without Providence (even though it seems wrong to us).

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (QYPq3)

21 I'll fix this shit.

Posted by: Alejandro Mayorkas the Commie Cueball at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (v0R5T)

22 14 I'm like, what? how do I get more right wing? I want smaller government to be even more extra smaller?
Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (OuH7W)

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In 2008, I wanted the federal government to be in charge of just foreign policy and roads.

I've since cut out the roads part.

I've gotten more extreme.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

23 Last few years? How about the last few days?

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at April 29, 2022 03:37 PM (buqBu)

24 20 Gates became the richest man in the world at one time and people STILL say there is no God. Someone like him could never get there without Providence (even though it seems wrong to us).
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (QYPq3)

Doesn't someone have to be richest? Or is it exceptional because it's him?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:37 PM (b2nrj)

25 DOW dumping another 700.

Posted by: CZ = FNG Sadly Waiting In The Dark For A Brave Fully Militarized First Responder To Kick In The Door at April 29, 2022 03:38 PM (MkuC5)

26 22 14 I'm like, what? how do I get more right wing? I want smaller government to be even more extra smaller?
Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:35 PM (OuH7W)

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In 2008, I wanted the federal government to be in charge of just foreign policy and roads.

I've since cut out the roads part.

I've gotten more extreme.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

It's time to consider the advantages of allowing the States to freely wage war. The border problem would've been solved years ago, and we might own Greenland already.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:38 PM (b2nrj)

27 18 Spent $213, and didn't even fully fill my one cart or get fresh salmon (which is my usual price buster)...sigh...

Posted by: Nova local at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (exHjb)

Three months ago my typical ALDIs bill (in NoVa) was about $80. It is now $120. I am buying the same stuff.
Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (9otr5)

Mine was $150...WITH the fresh salmon...sigh...although I did get the ground beef to replace the salmon, so I guess the inflators will say "you traded down, so inflation is less"...

Posted by: Nova local at April 29, 2022 03:38 PM (exHjb)

28 I suppose that's a fun episode of Joe Rogan?
Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:33 PM (OuH7W)

I've tried to listen to him multiple times and I rarely find him very fun.

I damn sure can't spend 2+ hours listening to him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

29 and best I remember, his daddys law firm is the one who came up with that contract

Posted by: Beeman at April 29, 2022 03:39 PM (6uJU2)

30 Gates was in bed with Epstein, and Musk seems to know where the dirty sheets are.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2022 03:39 PM (NWBBy)

31 The Democrat Party got scared by the mouthing of that far left communist idiot and AOC who comes from a small region in NY that has always worshipped communists. So they piled on and followed her and it is destroying the Democrat Party. And Biden has been no hep since he was an early advocate her crap.

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2022 03:39 PM (mZwKe)

32 Conservatives didn't think teachers should teach ABNORMAL sex to six year olds ten years ago.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 29, 2022 03:39 PM (Cus5s)

33 I am open to hanging Bill Gates from a Lamppost. Are there any objections?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 29, 2022 03:39 PM (RP+Jx)

34 I liked the shrill responses to Musk that "no, no! It's the right that has gotten more extreme!"

Ok, name one current Republican party position that is more extreme than the platform of 1996.

You know, back when the Democrats were against: Welfare, illegal immigration, late-term abortion, gay marriage, etc. etc.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2022 03:40 PM (BjRpt)

35 The Twitter bot thing puffery of lefty 'voices' was really all about "you conservative middle-class rubes are all alone! No one is coming to save you..." gaslighting by the left.

Its the Wizard of Oz gambit....

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 03:40 PM (5iUNf)

36 if you follow the twitter trails on these "the right has actually gotten more doo-doo headed than the left has" bullshit, it's like some bleucheque retardo makes up a graph with words that randomly arranged. "see the GOP has increased its totalitarian impulses by 8% since 2000." and the evidence is we don't want teachers to fuck toddlers.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:40 PM (OuH7W)

37 >>>Doesn't someone have to be richest? Or is it exceptional because it's him?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:37 PM (b2nrj)

Well, my point is, nobody is anywhere in life without the Providence and Gates having been the richest man in the world proves that point.

I guess it's a nice way of saying Gates is more retarded than Corky.

See what you've made me do now?!

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (QYPq3)

38 8 Conservatives didn't believe that men could be women ten years ago.

Conservatives didn't believe that the federal government should have total control over education ten years ago.

Conservatives didn't think teachers should teach sex to six year olds ten years ago.

Conservatives didn't think that society should be completely overturned for a loud minority who didn't like Christianity ten years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (LvTSG)

Technically the Right has basically dropped welfare reform and the national debt as issues.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (b2nrj)

39 DOW dumping another 700.
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Get used to it. Its all part of the plan.

Posted by: Jill Biden, First Lady of the U.S. at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (tIEy7)

40 33 I am open to hanging Bill Gates from a Lamppost. Are there any objections?
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 29, 2022 03:39 PM (RP+Jx)

As long as I get the keys to the G and the Black AMEX, sure.

Posted by: CZ = FNG Sadly Waiting In The Dark For A Brave Fully Militarized First Responder To Kick In The Door at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (MkuC5)

41 Has Joe seized anybody's yacht today?

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (v0R5T)

42 Gates has never been "smart." Go watch his speeches when M$ was in it's mid life prime. He doesn't speak smart. He doesn't portray smart.

He rode the backs of other people to get to where he is and really didn't bring all that much to the table. Right place, right time and sold soul, I imagine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

43 I've tried to listen to him multiple times and I rarely find him very fun.

I damn sure can't spend 2+ hours listening to him.

Rogan actually lets his guests talk, something Sean Hannity might want to look into. But that also means how listenable his show is depends on how interesting the guest is.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (ZGrMX)

44 🫃🏻If that is a fat guy and not a pregnant guy, is she a fat girl? 🤰🏼

And why does it come up when you type pregnant and not when you type fat? Kinda like when they tried to pass 💩 off as chocolate ice cream and not a pile of shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (H4qIP)

45 He stole DOS, then I believe he stole windows from Jobs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (bg3iC)

46 Yes, that is what has got to be freaking these people out the most. An awful lot of claims were made before Congress about not shadowbanning people, throttling accounts, etc.

That lie is about to be exposed.

Well maybe. If you believe that all the liberals losing followers is just from their followers all leaving twitter and not twitter wiping out the bots they controlled. And non-woke and conservatives gaining followers is all based only on people logging back into twitter or joining for the first time. And totally not at all possible that they have disabled some of their shadowbanning/throttling controls.

Posted by: buzzion at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (vMCab)

47 '08 was kind of a watershed year, it was also the year that popular conservatism stopped moving left.

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (R4z5M)

48 34 Ok, name one current Republican party position that is more extreme than the platform of 1996.

You know, back when the Democrats were against: Welfare, illegal immigration, late-term abortion, gay marriage, etc. etc.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 29, 2022 03:40 PM (BjRpt)

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"Reasonable conservatives like George W. Bush (noted theocrat who wanted to implement a Crusader government in the US through a holy war with Islam) have been purged, replaced by heretics who don't even understand that Jesus told his followers to let Caesar rape their children."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

49 Willowed:

825 Livorno is the Army's best kept secret.

Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:17 PM (9otr5)

Were you stationed there? If so, when? I was there for a few months in 1988 but got sent to an isolated radio site in Liguria for the rest of my time there.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (BJKQV)

50 I've gone back to isolationism, my initial foreign policy position as a teen, but for completely different reasons (notably, I actually *have* reasons now, which I didn't really 25 years ago).

I've also swung heavily against capital punishment. Not because I oppose it in principle, but because I'm no longer comfortable with any government having that power.

Other than that, I guess my positions have been pretty consistent.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (8548M)

51 I am open to hanging Bill Gates from a Lamppost. Are there any objections?

You'll need a thick rope. Or a strong lamppost. Bill has missed very few cookouts lately.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (buqBu)

52 38 Technically the Right has basically dropped welfare reform and the national debt as issues.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (b2nrj)

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This is true.

Fiscal conservatism is dead, making the party a more leftwing party than before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

53 Windows is just ghetto discount broken Apple. Everyone knows that. And I despise Apple.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (JpV1k)

54 what's going on? You're making an executive at the company you just bought the target of harassment and threats.
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What an underhanded tweet. Musk did not "just buy" Twitter! If he had done so, she might have an employment claim against the company, which is exactly what Costolo is trying to precipitate.

Musk should sue Costolo for maliciously accusing him of encouraging violence, when he obviously is not, and of interfering in Twitters business, which (as is also obvious) is false.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (291Vr)

55 38 Conservatives didn't believe that the federal government should have total control over education ten years ago.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:41 PM (b2nrj)

Real conservative did not believe the federal gov should have any say in education at all, It was a State matter.

Posted by: Vic at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (mZwKe)

56 My God! It's like the Warsaw Pact all over again!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (LkM8p)

57 25 DOW dumping another 700.
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They've pumping the DOW for the last 5-6 months by shorting real growth companies on the NASDAQ. What you are seeing is that reality catching up to the DOW after the GDP were annouced. 30 stocks are much easier to kite than 500 or 1,000.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (RP+Jx)

58 Ok, name one current Republican party position that is more extreme than the platform of 1996.

///

I lost my shit a few years back when the Mormon CIA operative was saying "not even Reagan could get elected in today's super mega ultra rightwing GOP."

that year we ended up with...fucking Romney? it's not even worth arguing, what did we want...stopping the leftward lurch into lunacy?

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (OuH7W)

59 When I had the misfortune of working in an all Windows office, a co-worker remarked "If carpenters built houses the way these programmers write code, the first stiff breeze would blow them down..."

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (jTmQV)

60 Were you stationed there? If so, when? I was there for a few months in 1988 but got sent to an isolated radio site in Liguria for the rest of my time there.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (BJKQV)

I was there for about 3 months in 1990.

Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (9otr5)

61 All you will ever need is 64K.

- Multibillionaire Bill Gates

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (zL564)

62 >45 He stole DOS, then I believe he stole windows from Jobs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (bg3iC)

Jobs stole the GUI interface from Xerox

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (gryET)

63 I am still hoping that in the end the Twitter/Musk deal still goes through.
There were talks yesterday by some in the business world that it might not.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (NpAcC)

64 57 25 DOW dumping another 700.
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that's ok, the fed will print another trillion dollars for blackrock to buy more stocks with

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (OuH7W)

65 Gates and Microsoft stole all their shit and [REDACTED] those who created it and any competition.
The man is a Malthusian psychopath just like his dad.
More proof nerds are dangerous, and the Day of the Locker is inevitable.

Posted by: The Vooter at April 29, 2022 03:44 PM (gV9uv)

66 Spent $213, and didn't even fully fill my one cart or get fresh salmon (which is my usual price buster)...sigh...
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Checkout girl did a double take on prices of few things I bought, said she was sorry. $11 for 1 oven ready dinner with 2 thin chicken breasts.

Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 03:44 PM (+ya+t)

67 Musk is only an anomaly among the super-rich. He seems to have most of the values of a "Average American." He just has enough money to not have to worry about voicing them in public.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:44 PM (BJKQV)

68 Well maybe. If you believe that all the liberals losing followers is just from their followers all leaving twitter and not twitter wiping out the bots they controlled. And non-woke and conservatives gaining followers is all based only on people logging back into twitter or joining for the first time. And totally not at all possible that they have disabled some of their shadowbanning/throttling controls.

Posted by: buzzion at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (vMCab)

If there are friends of Elon or future suckasses of Elon currently at Twitter, they will be gathering and keeping evidence of what is happening right now.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 03:44 PM (JpV1k)

69 He stole DOS, then I believe he stole windows from Jobs.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (bg3iC)

He bought DOS from a dude's wife while hubby was away for $50k. Sold it shortly thereafter to IBM for a mint.

Xerox gave the mouse away, Gates was working at Apple while developing the same thing at Microsoft. So, stolen, maybe, but first to market is first to market. They couldn't prove he "stole" it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

70 As Tim Pool said, sagely: "Musk didn't just buy the company, he bought the evidence."
Yes, that is what has got to be freaking these people out the most. An awful lot of claims were made before Congress about not shadowbanning people, throttling accounts, etc.
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That's all true, but it might end up being secondary. The Big Tech executives openly lie to Congress about everything. Providing stone-cold proof that they lied might move the needle, but I doubt it moves it much.

The much bigger problem is going to be bots. Everyone knows there's a bot problem, but nobody knows how to quantify it. Quantifying it will allow the false influence to be measured, but it will have another effect: money. If Twitter deals with the bot problem and the active user count shrinks, that means a shit ton fewer ad impressions.

And if Twitter quantifies the bot problem, it *will* becomes the baseline assumption for Facebook and other networks, including AdSense. Bots piss off advertisers, but there's no quantified proof and no other option. If Musk exposes the scale of the bot problem, it is going to have profound negative implications for the ad networks and Big Tech revenues.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:45 PM (DU+/6)

71 The policy the "right" likes "school choice, maybe vouchers."

The chart showing the right has gotten more extreme..."percentage of GOP denying science by attacking our teachers"

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:45 PM (OuH7W)

72 Red letter day

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (eeRB6)

73 You'll need a thick rope. Or a strong lamppost. Bill has missed very few cookouts lately.
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (buqBu)

NRO: "Yeah? If you don't like Bill Gates, then make you own Bill Gates...um, out of dead body parts, creosol, rat skins, and gonad sweat, I suppose...but still, Dr. Frankenstein-a-be, lets see it!"

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (5iUNf)

74 In 2008, I wanted the federal government to be in charge of just foreign policy and roads.

I've since cut out the roads part.

I've gotten more extreme.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

*High five*

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (0EYoq)

75 Jobs stole the GUI interface from Xerox
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (gryET)

Jobs used to have a pirate flag flying outside of his headquarters. He was proud of stealing the GUI. Then Gates stole it from him and he got all pissy.

People seem to forget how hated Jobs was before he got hired back by Apple and came up with the iPhone.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (BJKQV)

76 I remember a 30 second video where a someone did a video on Soft Serve Joey's Twitter account and started looking at the accounts of his 20 Million followers.

The first 10 were all bots with the Delaware Dimwit being their only follower. Senile Joe was their only follow!!!

His followers are going to take a needed hit.

Posted by: Ironwolf32 at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (JU/1r)

77 I'm glad you mentioned that about Gates. I cringe when I hear people talk about him being a techie or a nerd. He's far from either. Just a lucky douchebag who happened to be in the right place when IBM dropped a nugget of gold on the ground.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (47w2Q)

78 I am still hoping that in the end the Twitter/Musk deal still goes through.
There were talks yesterday by some in the business world that it might not.
Posted by: redridinghood

If he has the money, he'll own the company. If the company turns him down, he'll own the company.
After a court case for Twitter abdicating their fiduciary duty.

They can't get $54.20 a share anywhere else.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (H4qIP)

79 I put Russian dressing on my salad last night. Today Biden confiscated my 17' Coleman Scanoe.

Posted by: Boris Gudenov at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (g6+Ik)

80 Musk seems to know where the dirty sheets are.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2022 03:39 PM (NWBBy)

Well, he DID fuck Amber Heard...

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (KCgWT)

81 I think Bill Gates really needs to stop being treated as a smart guy.

He never produced great code.

Gates himself said he learned to code by fishing other people's code out of the garbage and looking at it. I can't personally vouch for how good or bad his code is, but I've heard it wasn't great.

That said, he was enough of a tech guy that he could call bullshit when someone was trying to snow him or when he was evaluating an idea. I've also heard he had incredible recall. Normal developers brain dump code six months to a year out. If you ask them to look at code they haven't reviewed for a few months, they have to dig in and remind themselves how it all works. I've heard Gates didn't have to do that. He remembered all the code he'd written or reviewed.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (eyxn4)

82 >.."percentage of GOP denying science by attacking our teachers"

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:45 PM (OuH7W)

Denying science; like XX = a male? That kind of science?

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (gryET)

83 Nobody has written new code since 1970. They just keep re using and combining.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (bg3iC)

84 75 People seem to forget how hated Jobs was before he got hired back by Apple and came up with the iPhone.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (BJKQV)

========

The Steve Jobs movie by Danny Boyle does a really good job of making Jobs look like a giant asshole willing to step on anyone, including his own supposed daughter, for success.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (LvTSG)

85 People seem to forget how hated Jobs was before he got hired back by Apple and came up with the iPhone.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (BJKQV)

Did he come up with it or steal it?

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (JpV1k)

86 Bill gates invented the mansierre.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

87 When the Left isn't lying, they're projecting. When they're not projecting, they're lying.

"Systemic racism~!!!!!"
That's not their diagnosis of the US and the West in general. That's what they're trying to install.

"privilege~~!!!"
Again, that's the goal of every Leftist; unearned, invincible status to be used to crush any one that opposes them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (IEa8U)

88 Ace, you are the Brycream on the O rings of my rocket.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (J8LnB)

89 Well maybe. If you believe that all the liberals losing followers is just from their followers all leaving twitter and not twitter wiping out the bots they controlled. And non-woke and conservatives gaining followers is all based only on people logging back into twitter or joining for the first time. And totally not at all possible that they have disabled some of their shadowbanning/throttling controls.
Posted by: buzzion at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (vMCab)
++++
There are three good potential explanations for this:
1. They're backing down on the controls and cracking down on bots because they have to as a condition of the sale, and it is exposing its scale.
2. They are still fucking with things to create noise and make the sale harder, they're just playing Calvinball now
3. None of the follower counts or tweet counts were real in the first place but they've turned the real counters back on (relates to point #1)

It could be all three.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (DU+/6)

90 Jan Jekielek
@JanJekielek
@elonmusk, an idea: As Poland emerged out of communism, the @ipngovpl_eng [Institute of National Remembrance] did something incredibly powerful to facilitate societal healing: it made everyone's "dossier" (created by the security state) available to them. Logs/settings would be the equivalent here. How about it?

That's really beautiful.

Posted by: m at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (2Q+cC)

91 Well, he DID fuck Amber Heard...
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (KCgWT)

And lived to not talk about it!

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (5iUNf)

92 The much bigger problem is going to be bots. Everyone knows there's a bot problem, but nobody knows how to quantify it. Quantifying it will allow the false influence to be measured, but it will have another effect: money. If Twitter deals with the bot problem and the active user count shrinks, that means a shit ton fewer ad impressions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:45 PM (DU+/6)

This. How long has Twitter been defrauding advertisers with knowingly fake numbers. And, even more, how long have they been defrauding investors with those same numbers?

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (BJKQV)

93 Ace posts a hall of famer, then follows up with a html nightmare.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (bg3iC)

94 Gates wants to blot out the sun.
And he is buying up scads of farm land.
For those reasons alone, he should be thrown in to a volcano.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (jTmQV)

95 Bill Gates is the Dr. Fauci of Climate Change.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (LkM8p)

96 >86 Bill gates invented the mansierre.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

I thought it was the 'bro'.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (gryET)

97 Denying science; like XX = a male? That kind of science?
Posted by: Heavy Meta

no that is evidence of the GOP being more authoritarian.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (OuH7W)

98 >>>Bill gates invented the mansierre.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

It's the Bro!

Posted by: Cosm at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (QYPq3)

99 and congrats to Sponge

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (eeRB6)

100 Back when I dabbled in code, I remember looking at stuff I'd done a year earlier and it looked like a stranger had done it. And at that time I had what many would consider a "photographic" memory.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (JpV1k)

101 89 3. None of the follower counts or tweet counts were real in the first place but they've turned the real counters back on (relates to point #1)

It could be all three.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (DU+/6)

========

From the day after to two days after, I gained a single follower without actually getting notification of a new follower.

*shruggie*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (LvTSG)

102 and congrats to Sponge
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (eeRB6)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

103
Jobs used to have a pirate flag flying outside of his headquarters. He was proud of stealing the GUI. Then Gates stole it from him and he got all pissy.

People seem to forget how hated Jobs was before he got hired back by Apple and came up with the iPhone.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (BJKQV)

Jobs getting fired humbled him, is he an asshole Yes.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (x428l)

104 Does anyone remember Vitalis? What the fuck was that shit supposed to do for you hair other than make it oily?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (RP+Jx)

105 >94 Gates wants to blot out the sun.
And he is buying up scads of farm land.
For those reasons alone, he should be thrown in to a volcano.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (jTmQV)

Gates is going long on plant-based 'meat'.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (gryET)

106 Did he come up with it or steal it?
Posted by: ...
April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (JpV1k)

Probably stole, but I don't know from who.

Woz was the one who deserved all the credit back in the day but Jobs stole that too.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (BJKQV)

107 Let's take a wild guess about whether this guy is part of the extreme left that Elon Musk is aware of. Florida man wants to ban the Bible complaining about obscene and hateful passages, sells sex toys on line and has founded a a "Church of Mars":

https://tinyurl.com/3hd6evvm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (fF2aM)

108
This has Ace seeing red!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (/U27+)

109 Musk had a tweet I saw at Bad Blue within last two days how he was a Liberal but the Left ran so fast to the Left he is now a conservative.

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (2JoB8)

110 Awww, I am almost disappointed by the comment section not being the red lines of death.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (3NKiY)

111
*shruggie*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (LvTSG)

Teach me how to shruggie.

Posted by: Michelle Owebama at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

112 It's a losing proposition to try and understand and have a reasonable discussion with psychopaths. You end up in the same insane loop every time.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (F1QSo)

113 People seem to forget how hated Jobs was before he got hired back by Apple and came up with the iPhone.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (BJKQV)

Did he come up with it or steal it?
Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (JpV1k)

Jobs did nothing more than push John Ivey and others to make it. He was a cheerleader, that's all.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (eeRB6)

114 Ace, I would like to check the source on this. Can you provide a link?

Posted by: No Name Today at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (vlXMQ)

115 "Reasonable conservatives like George W. Bush (noted theocrat who wanted to implement a Crusader government in the US through a holy war with Islam) have been purged, replaced by heretics who don't even understand that Jesus told his followers to let Caesar rape their children."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Imagine what Ken Burns would do to this post. Have Morgan Freeman narrate it and end with "George Will".

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (2graF)

116 consider also billionaire super genius Mark Cuban who juked $5B out of yahoo and has done nothing with it other than chase celebrity and sniff the worst smelling jock straps on the planet.

Posted by: x at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (uQFwj)

117 I am still hoping that in the end the Twitter/Musk deal still goes through.
There were talks yesterday by some in the business world that it might not.
Posted by: redridinghood

All kinds of non-parties to the deal are trying to stop it through lawsuits or petitioning regulatory agencies - and some are taking sideways runs at it, going direct at Musk.

Saw one today where someone was trying to sue Tesla because Musk's CEO agreement from 2018 did not make him devote all his time to Tesla so shareholders are getting cheated. Apropos of nothing, TSLA share price was $45 in 2018 and $873 right now.

Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (9otr5)

118 I just got back, and when the cashier says "we raised the price on that a lot, even though it's not updated on the shelf yet - do you still want it"...yeah, it's getting time to cry...

Posted by: Nova local at April 29, 2022 03:34 PM (exHjb)

Advantage WI. State law that if the register price is higher than shelf tag price the customer must get the item at the shelf tag price at minimum (though I've never seen anyone do more than that tag price).

I think MI even had a law where the customers got to collect a bounty of some amount from retailers for items whose shelf tag wasn't correct.

Posted by: Dems who claim to be open minded. at April 29, 2022 03:51 PM (eqyIS)

119 >>>Musk had a tweet I saw at Bad Blue within last two days how he was a Liberal but the Left ran so fast to the Left he is now a conservative.

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (2JoB

::heavy sigh::

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (QYPq3)

120 *fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge

🤜🏻🤛🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (H4qIP)

121 This has Ace seeing red!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (/U27+)

https://youtu.be/trinU3VD1Zo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

122 Just the tip!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (R5563)

123 Census data released Wednesday offers an unprecedented snapshot of Canada’s transgender population, showing 0.33 per cent of residents identify as a gender that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

All of this for 0.33%? And that is probably overstating it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (bg3iC)

124 not evidence of leftist authoritarianism, their open blood lust towards jailing 1/6 peaceful protestors for life. their encouragement that more 1/6 paraders should've been shot by the cops without warning.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (OuH7W)

125 Reasonable conservatives like George W. Bush (noted theocrat who wanted to implement a Crusader government in the US through a holy war with Islam) have been purged, replaced by heretics who don't even understand that Jesus told his followers to let Caesar rape their children."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Imagine what Ken Burns would do to this post. Have Morgan Freeman narrate it and end with "George Will".
--
*furiously taking notes*

Posted by: Ken Burns at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (tIEy7)

126 This. How long has Twitter been defrauding advertisers with knowingly fake numbers. And, even more, how long have they been defrauding investors with those same numbers?
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:48 PM (BJKQV)
++++
Forget Twitter. They're a side show. There are comparatively few ads on Twitter in the first place. The extended question is how long have *all* the online advertising firms - including the juggernauts of AdSense and Facebook - been defrauding customers of their ad dollars, and by extension defrauding their investors? How much did they know and how big is the problem?

If they knew little and the problem is 5%, they'll be okay. If they knew a lot and the problem is 25%, they're fucked. Even if you can't prove how much they knew, advertisers *will* start demanding significant discounts under the presumption that the other networks, like Twitter, have a serious bot problem.

Free speech aside, maintaining opacity in user counts and engagement and bot volume might be a co-primary goal of the outright war on Twitter that ramped up with amazing speed. I even expected it and but damn was it fast.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (DU+/6)

127 what's going on? You're making an executive at the company you just bought the target of harassment and threats.
________

Giddy Vajayjay has claimed death threats. That's become another Commie go-to move. Remember when Cathy Newman set up a trap interview with Jordan Peterson, and found to her dismay that the trap closed on her? Within a day or so, she whined about "death threats".

Even Jim Geraghty (not exactly Mr MAGA) pointed out that, though he is very much a borderline "public figure", that is part of the deal; he gets them.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (R0Tis)

128 Gates wants to blot out the sun.
And he is buying up scads of farm land.
For those reasons alone, he should be thrown in to a volcano.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (jTmQV)

Gates is going long on plant-based 'meat'.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (gryET)

And drinking water made from literal shit.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (NWBBy)

129 , i just woke up from a comma.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (J8LnB)

130 He bought DOS from a dude's wife while hubby was away for $50k. Sold it shortly thereafter to IBM for a mint.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

He didn't sell DOS to IBM. He licensed it to them. They had to pay Microsoft for every install of DOS on every new computer. And that's the genius of Gates.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (BJKQV)

131 A bigger example of this - even *mentioning* George Soros on air can get you soft banned from the media, but you can call Musk any name in the book you want.

And at least to this point, Musk has had far, far less impact on American politics then Soros.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (ESjRY)

132 I would have been first but I was dipping my balls in olive oil

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (DYKQF)

133 119 >>>Musk had a tweet I saw at Bad Blue within last two days how he was a Liberal but the Left ran so fast to the Left he is now a conservative.

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (2JoB

::heavy sigh::
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (QYPq3)

Maybe ace should do a post on it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (b2nrj)

134 DOW broke through 33,000 .. bouncing back a bit, down 900 now.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (Cus5s)

135 125 Reasonable conservatives like George W. Bush (noted theocrat who wanted to implement a Crusader government in the US through a holy war with Islam) have been purged, replaced by heretics who don't even understand that Jesus told his followers to let Caesar rape their children."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Imagine what Ken Burns would do to this post. Have Morgan Freeman narrate it and end with "George Will".
--
*furiously taking notes*
Posted by: Ken Burns at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (tIEy7)

=========

*furiously masturbating*
-David French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (LvTSG)

136 Does anyone remember Vitalis? What the fuck was that shit supposed to do for you hair other than make it oily?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (RP+Jx)

Keeps my crew cut from getting mussed.

Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (AwYPR)

137 11 So, what poster mentioned Aldi's is going nuts with price increases?

I just got back, and when the cashier says "we raised the price on that a lot, even though it's not updated on the shelf yet - do you still want it"...yeah, it's getting time to cry...

Spent $213, and didn't even fully fill my one cart or get fresh salmon (which is my usual price buster)...sigh...

Posted by: Nova local
-------------------
Euroland where Aldis etc. get a lot of food items has as bad or worse inflation than we do due to fuel and heating cost spikes. Food itself will get more expensive worldwide.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (Iq9dF)

138 The left's mantra is: Censorship is the foundation of free speech.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (5kI0z)

139 All of this - the Free speech, the access, all of it comes down to the definition of what Twitter is and what say the government has.

The first amendment only stops the government from making laws that prohibit your speech or religion practice.

How the government is involved with Twitter is key, otherwise it's just another cooperation that doesn't have to abide by your rights, no?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (47w2Q)

140 132 I would have been first but I was dipping my balls in olive oil

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (DYKQF)

yeah the end of that last thread was funny. who knew Olive oil and bread would be so contentious?

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (DJFLF)

141 "Reasonable conservatives like George W. Bush (noted theocrat who wanted to implement a Crusader government in the US through a holy war with Islam) have been purged, replaced by heretics who don't even understand that Jesus told his followers to let Caesar rape their children."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

I'd vote for that GWB

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (eeRB6)

142 Florida man...has founded a a "Church of Mars":

https://tinyurl.com/3hd6evvm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (fF2aM)

Someone had to do it.

Posted by: Robert at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (0EYoq)

143 "Church of Mars":

https://tinyurl.com/3hd6evvm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2022 03:50 PM (fF2aM)

"Church of Venus" would have been more Tranny of him.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (5iUNf)

144 107 Let's take a wild guess about whether this guy is part of the extreme left that Elon Musk is aware of. Florida man wants to ban the Bible complaining about obscene and hateful passages, sells sex toys on line and has founded a a "Church of Mars":

https://tinyurl.com/3hd6evvm
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Yikes! He needs to lay off the meth.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (2graF)

145 Jobs was winning to take the risks and put the money into it. Apple making a phone? (Everyone, 2007)

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (bg3iC)

146 dork glasses and tits on your back is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

147 >>> 20 Gates became the richest man in the world at one time and people STILL say there is no God. Someone like him could never get there without Providence (even though it seems wrong to us).
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (QYPq3)

I think you are misplacing the credit.

Posted by: Stan at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (llON8)

148 I wonder...why would Elon give a shit what @FauciFanForLife-VaxLuver42069 says about him.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (OuH7W)

149 I just wrote my federal representatives about stopping the Disinformation Governance Borad. It is time to drive everyone crazy over this thing. Sample text:

Rep. xxx,

The Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) must be stopped at any costs. It is an abomination to the notions of liberty, freedom, and most certainly will be used to obliterate the First Amendment. Government rarely steps back, maybe never, and I fully expect that in short order the DGB will have morphed into something resembling the NKVD, the Stasi, or the Gestapo. It is then when the fun will really begin. If you wish to leave a legacy that endures it will be being part of the vanguard that aborted this evil before it could ever live.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (9I3i5)

150 The Steve Jobs movie by Danny Boyle does a really good job of making Jobs look like a giant asshole willing to step on anyone, including his own supposed daughter, for success.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:47 PM (LvTSG)

That movie was based on the authorized biography, right? That book was highly laudatory and STILL made him look liek a giant asshole.

Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (9otr5)

151 66 Spent $213, and didn't even fully fill my one cart or get fresh salmon (which is my usual price buster)...sigh...
----------
Checkout girl did a double take on prices of few things I bought, said she was sorry. $11 for 1 oven ready dinner with 2 thin chicken breasts.
Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 03:44 PM (+ya+t)

Ouch...

Posted by: Nova local at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (exHjb)

152 Maybe ace should do a post on it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (b2nrj)

In other news - New Coke is a bust.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 03:55 PM (5iUNf)

153 dork glasses and tits on your back is no way to go through life, son.
Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

Blow me.

- - Meghan McBackfat

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 29, 2022 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

154 If they knew little and the problem is 5%, they'll be okay. If they knew a lot and the problem is 25%, they're fucked. Even if you can't prove how much they knew, advertisers *will* start demanding significant discounts under the presumption that the other networks, like Twitter, have a serious bot problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (DU+/6)

Has there been any serious study examining the effectiveness of online advertising? I mean data mining is such a huge business - all to target me for customized advertising but I don't buy based on online advertising, at least not on targeted ads. Is all of this built on a lie?

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:55 PM (BJKQV)

155 Ann Coulter, that annoying harpy dummy, called out the Left on "death threats" bs 20 years ago. She said all public figures get them and it's their go-to to shut you up. Which many of us knew at the time anyway.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 03:55 PM (JpV1k)

156 >138 The left's mantra is: Censorship is the foundation of free speech.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (5kI0z)

Assuming that will be on the gates of the happy fun hate speech re-education camp.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:56 PM (gryET)

157 I founded the Church of Uranus.

Posted by: Mayo Pete at April 29, 2022 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

158 Joe is just a old fashioned liberal. He seem to be a pretty good guy.

Only real interviewer out there these days.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 29, 2022 03:56 PM (yrol0)

159 You could make $$ putting people In a coma. Wait for a doctor since doctors received around 3 million new patients.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 29, 2022 03:56 PM (J8LnB)

160 >Gates wants to blot out the sun.

Then we will grill in the shade.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 29, 2022 03:56 PM (44ww/)

161 I hope one day that that pregnant image of Bill Gates will be the universal new Blue Screen of Death.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at April 29, 2022 03:56 PM (lmWM9)

162

She went full Nathan Thurm in that stupid interview.

"I’m not being defensive! You’re the one who’s being defensive! Why is always the other person who’s being defensive? Have you ever asked yourself that? Why don’t you ask yourself that?"

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 29, 2022 03:56 PM (XnbJC)

163 Same woman did the graphics for Mac System 6 and Windows 3.0.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (5HBd1)

164 138 The left's mantra is: Censorship is the foundation of free speech.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 29, 2022 03:53 PM (5kI0z)

My mantra is that leftists are buried in the foundation of my mansion.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (b2nrj)

165 >>>I think you are misplacing the credit.

Posted by: Stan at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (llON

There you go, again.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (QYPq3)

166 132 I would have been first but I was dipping my balls in olive oil
Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (DYKQF)

Real Italians don't dip their balls in olive oil.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (BJKQV)

167 Then: You will own NOTHING and like it

Now: You will know NOTHING and like it

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (ESjRY)

168 75 Jobs stole the GUI interface from Xerox
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (gryET)

Jobs used to have a pirate flag flying outside of his headquarters. He was proud of stealing the GUI. Then Gates stole it from him and he got all pissy.

People seem to forget how hated Jobs was before he got hired back by Apple and came up with the iPhone.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:46 PM (BJKQV)

Pirates who were captured by those they had preyed upon were hanged, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the British. Pirates are criminals. I know of nothing to admire about them and nothing they did that should be emulated.

Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (AMIL/)

169
That meme is pretty close to the nub of it.

When I watched the Joe Rogan/Tim Pool/Simple Jack/Vajina Koldanletheree podcast, I never wanted to slap a man or punch a woman more in my whole TV watching life.

F'in Svengalis, man. The combination of buzzwords, left-wing platitudes, and circular reasoning is like an impenetrable wall of brickheaded bien pensant nonsense. No meaningful conversation can seep through it. It was like watching 3 hours of nothing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (UGDPW)

170 One of the great "history does not provide the alternatives" moments. What if New Mexico had given Gates an economic development grant (back in 70s). Would Gates still known to have gone to Paterson if he was in NM? Would Seattle have come to its prominence without Microsoft in Washington State? Etc...

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (J3OJd)

171 52

Fiscal conservatism is dead, making the party a more leftwing party than before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 03:42 PM (LvTSG)
________

Not necessarily. As Paul Gottfried like to point out, it has become less purely rightwing on economics, but much more so on social issues. That is where the battle is being fought.

After all, we did win a partial victory on economics. We didn't get all we want, but true socialists are rarer, and as the Democrats showed in 2016, even they won't put up with one.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2022 03:58 PM (R0Tis)

172 Has there been any serious study examining the effectiveness of online advertising? I mean data mining is such a huge business - all to target me for customized advertising but I don't buy based on online advertising, at least not on targeted ads. Is all of this built on a lie?
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 03:55 PM (BJKQV)
++++
I'm sure. Whether it works or not, however, is beside the point. People buy those ads, and those ads are the source of Big Tech revenue. Money from direct services (cloud services, business-class app hosting, etc.) is also a huge sum of money, but advertising made Google and Facebook the cash cows that they are.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:58 PM (DU+/6)

173 How the government is involved with Twitter is key, otherwise it's just another cooperation that doesn't have to abide by your rights, no?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

They are a public corporation.
They have public accommodation laws they have to follow. Same as any other public company open to the public.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 03:58 PM (H4qIP)

174 I'm an old-time retired computer guy, and and with regard to Bill Gates I have to give the devil his due. Gary Kildall did something really stupid (blowing off a meeting with IBM when they wanted to license CP/M), IBM mentioned it to Gates, and Gates realized something that IBM did not - that what mattered was the operating system, not the hardware. Once the IBM PC BIOS was cloned (and I've heard rumors of skulduggery involved in that), the hardware became a commodity and the OS ruled the roost. Granted, MS-DOS was/is a piece of crap, but that didn't matter: with hardware manufacturers locked into "per unit" contracts, Gates was on his way to his billions.

However, I thought Steve Jobs summed up Gates nicely when he said, "He [Gates] has no taste." Jobs' design sense, which *made* Apple, is utterly lacking in Gates. His is a pedestrian mind. And this dullard wants to remake the world in his image. God, what a fall for humanity!

Posted by: Nemo at April 29, 2022 03:58 PM (S6ArX)

175 I saw Tummy Meter open for Tommy Tutone in Columbia SC in 1987.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, CNN Superfan at April 29, 2022 03:58 PM (PiwSw)

176
Pirates who were captured by those they had preyed upon were hanged, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the British. Pirates are criminals. I know of nothing to admire about them and nothing they did that should be emulated.
Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (AMIL/)

They voted? And they also drank rum.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 03:58 PM (b2nrj)

177 Fiscal conservatism is never dead. It is merely usually ignored on the government scale. It is a fact of life for normal humans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (3NKiY)

178 I wonder how much Kurt and MUMR make for the AOS HQ per day?

Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (9otr5)

179 Twitter HQ must look like The Furherbunker near the end. The defeated leaders must be doing the digital equivalent of burning incriminating papers on site

Posted by: Jeff Gillooly at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (6BTho)

180 It was like watching 3 hours of nothing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (UGDPW)

So, the Prometheus of podcasts then...

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (5iUNf)

181 Has there been any serious study examining the effectiveness of online advertising? I mean data mining is such a huge business - all to target me for customized advertising but I don't buy based on online advertising, at least not on targeted ads. Is all of this built on a lie?

Posted by: 29Victor

I was in publishing in the nineties, when online was just starting. I saw the ad revenue projections and methodology, and told everyone it was bullshit. I left the industry shortly thereafter, and I doubt online ad sales have become less fraudulent in the meantime.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (5kI0z)

182 I'd also like to point out Elon bought all the DMs too.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (48zLg)

183 Vijayjay has some wide set eyes, like they put too much alcohol in the test tube.

Posted by: x at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (uQFwj)

184 Bo Snerdley
@BoSnerdley

Apr 26
The only thing that would have made the liberals meltdown over Elon Musk buying Twitter more enjoyable - is if Rush were here to celebrate it with us.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (NpAcC)

185 Pirates who were captured by those they had preyed upon were hanged, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the British. Pirates are criminals. I know of nothing to admire about them and nothing they did that should be emulated.
----------------
What about pirate shirts?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 29, 2022 04:00 PM (RP+Jx)

186 reagan could never win the gop nomination today because the club for growth and mitch mcconnell would fund Egg McMuffin over him

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 04:00 PM (OuH7W)

187 Bo Snerdley
@BoSnerdley

Apr 26
The only thing that would have made the liberals meltdown over Elon Musk buying Twitter more enjoyable - is if Rush were here to celebrate it with us.
=
Yeah. Good call.

Posted by: I miss your friend too at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (p+Vn+)

188 I am waiting for the ace and garret hour where they discuss the cutting edge developments in shelving, crocs, messenger bags and vespa tech.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (3NKiY)

189 Word is that there's a clause in Musk's purchase agreement for Twitter that penalizes him for openly criticizing Twitter employees prior to the formal transfer of ownership. Speculation is that the Twitter employees are aware of this (or at the very least believe it exists), and so are intentionally attempting to provoke him.

Posted by: junior at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (Z1C9p)

190 Pelosi Dismisses Bidenflation and Shrinking Economy as an Aberration

Guess she thought fuck you peasant would be a little too much!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (yrol0)

191 I was in publishing in the nineties, when online was just starting. I saw the ad revenue projections and methodology, and told everyone it was bullshit. I left the industry shortly thereafter, and I doubt online ad sales have become less fraudulent in the meantime.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (5kI0z)

If someone wants to take down Google, proving this would be a great place to start.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (BJKQV)

192 178 I wonder how much Kurt and MUMR make for the AOS HQ per day?
Posted by: blaster at April 29, 2022 03:59 PM (9otr5)

MUMR seems more like a labor of love.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (3NKiY)

193 148 I wonder...why would Elon give a shit what @FauciFanForLife-VaxLuver42069 says about him.
Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 03:54 PM (OuH7W)

So that's Nicole Wallace's twitter handle?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, CNN Superfan at April 29, 2022 04:02 PM (PiwSw)

194 I am waiting for the ace and garret hour where they discuss the cutting edge developments in shelving, crocs, messenger bags and vespa tech.
==
Don't forget the anal bleaching!!!

Posted by: I'm going to take notes!!! at April 29, 2022 04:02 PM (p+Vn+)

195 Twitter HQ must look like The Furherbunker near the end. The defeated leaders must be doing the digital equivalent of burning incriminating papers on site
Posted by: Jeff Gillooly

That would be awesome. A Downfall parody when Hitler finds out Musk bought Twitter.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:02 PM (H4qIP)

196 "Pelosi Dismisses Bidenflation and Shrinking Economy as an Aberration"

Gosh, she's so useful. I wonder if she joined Schumer with his "you know, the thing that helps inflation is more taxes" schpiel

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 04:02 PM (OuH7W)

197 >Gates wants to blot out the sun.
.......

At least we won't have to see the fucker sunbathing.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

198 Real Italians don't dip their balls in olive oil.

And away we go!

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (DYKQF)

199 This busty, scantily-clad Asian girl dismisses Nancy Pelosi as an aberration:
https://bit.ly/3MFrLK1

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (DU+/6)

200 DeSantis/Carlson 2024?

Posted by: m at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (CRS/E)

201 My first Mac sucked donkey balls. All of this booting from floppies and swapping floppies for programs was gay.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (LkM8p)

202 63 I am still hoping that in the end the Twitter/Musk deal still goes through.
There were talks yesterday by some in the business world that it might not.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 03:43 PM (NpAcC)

You ever heard of fake news? We're going to be seeing a lot of it about Musk/Twitter.

Be careful of what you think is the real story.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (Qhnrt)

203 So Elon Musk is another Glenn Greenwald politically speaking? Not really that comforting.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (F1QSo)

204 Don't mess with Big Link.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (dsbE2)

205 Windows was stolen from Xerox. Apple also stole it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (48zLg)

206 Be careful of what you think is the real story.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (Qhnrt)

Words to live by.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:04 PM (3NKiY)

207 Pirates who were captured by those they had preyed upon were hanged, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the British. Pirates are criminals. I know of nothing to admire about them and nothing they did that should be emulated.
Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (AMIL/)

I've never understood pirate-worship. They tended to kill, rape or enslave everyone they captured. But I think modern mythology has turned them into more of a cowboy than a viscous criminal.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:04 PM (BJKQV)

208 Pelosi Dismisses Bidenflation and Shrinking Economy as an Aberration

Guess she thought fuck you peasant would be a little too much!
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (yrol0)

That's my schtick.

Posted by: Hackey Psaki at April 29, 2022 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

209 @189 - only in regard to the deal. He can call them out otherwise.

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 04:05 PM (DYKQF)

210 94 Gates wants to blot out the sun.
...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 29, 2022 03:49 PM (jTmQV)

-----------------------------

"Paging Maggie Simpson. Maggie Simpson, please pick up a white courtesy phone."

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 29, 2022 04:06 PM (CAJOC)

211 Word is that there's a clause in Musk's purchase agreement for Twitter that penalizes him for openly criticizing Twitter employees prior to the formal transfer of ownership. Speculation is that the Twitter employees are aware of this (or at the very least believe it exists), and so are intentionally attempting to provoke him.
Posted by: junior at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (Z1C9p)

Disparagement clauses are typically for separations - and they have to be untruthful. So, technically, if Musk calls his Indian Robespierre a hooker after he fires her and she can prove that she gave it away for free, then yes, if there is a Disparagement Clause in the buyout for fired skanks like her, then she might avail herself of it.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 04:06 PM (5iUNf)

212 I saw the ad revenue projections and methodology, and told everyone it was bullshit. I left the industry shortly thereafter, and I doubt online ad sales have become less fraudulent in the meantime.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

If someone wants to take down Google, proving this would be a great place to start.

of course this is true and the neat thing about blowing apart the online ad engagement lies would be immense pain to all the verticals also dependent upon fraud by Google/FB/Twit etc

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:06 PM (j9HX3)

213 205 Windows was stolen from Xerox. Apple also stole it.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at April 29, 2022 04:03 PM (48zLg)

So, they copied it. It's not like Xerox hasn't been copying things for years. Heck, the word "Xerox" is synonymous with "copier."

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:06 PM (BJKQV)

214 Windows was stolen from Xerox. Apple also stole it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla

Yes, Apple stole it from Xerox, and Microsoft stole it from Apple. The true robber barons exist today, not a hundred years ago. Those nineteenth century guys built their own fortunes (railroads, steel mills, etc.).

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 29, 2022 04:06 PM (5kI0z)

215 But if Big Tech gets taken down, it could hurt the economy!

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 04:07 PM (JpV1k)

216 176 Pirates who were captured by those they had preyed upon were hanged, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the British. Pirates are criminals. I know of nothing to admire about them and nothing they did that should be emulated.
Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (AMIL/)

They voted? And they also drank rum.
Posted by: Red Turban Somegu

And they talked like pirates.

Posted by: m at April 29, 2022 04:07 PM (CRS/E)

217 ...And if Twitter quantifies the bot problem, it *will* becomes the baseline assumption for Facebook and other networks, including AdSense. Bots piss off advertisers, but there's no quantified proof and no other option. If Musk exposes the scale of the bot problem, it is going to have profound negative implications for the ad networks and Big Tech revenues.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 03:45 PM (DU+/6)

THIS THIS THIS is why everyone in Tech Land is freaking out over Musk's TWTR (pending) purchase. Silicon Valley supposedly solved the problem that was plaguing broadcast TV for generations - who was seeing, and buying, your products. If that is based on a house of e-cards, the whole intellectual edifice gets massively questioned.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 29, 2022 04:07 PM (+ZemB)

218 Giddy Vajayjay has claimed death threats. That's become another Commie go-to move. Remember when Cathy Newman set up a trap interview with Jordan Peterson, and found to her dismay that the trap closed on her? Within a day or so, she whined about "death threats".

Even Jim Geraghty (not exactly Mr MAGA) pointed out that, though he is very much a borderline "public figure", that is part of the deal; he gets them.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2022 03:52 PM (R0Tis)

They always claim death threats and never provide them. Meanwhile people have compiled quite the list of death threats to Elon, and of course the excuse of "Well those aren't real death threats" has been claimed.

Posted by: buzzion at April 29, 2022 04:07 PM (vMCab)

219 Why is she trying to leave snail tracks on the bathroom floor?

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

220 In a normal nation Musk buying Twitrage would barely raise a ripple on the surface of public discourse. The degree to which this exploded is a seminal moment that taps into the very id of our national opponents, the Marxist-Fascist Uniparty hive mind. Twitrage, even if it is only used by minority group, that group is the ad hoc keepers of the Uniparty theology and the vocal chords for it. Losing control of Twitrage can be viewed as a religious desecration to that theology. I am expecting a crusade to reclaim that space to begin soon and may already have begun with the Disinformation Governance Board.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 04:07 PM (9I3i5)

221 207 Pirates who were captured by those they had preyed upon were hanged, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the British. Pirates are criminals. I know of nothing to admire about them and nothing they did that should be emulated.
Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (AMIL/)

I've never understood pirate-worship. They tended to kill, rape or enslave everyone they captured. But I think modern mythology has turned them into more of a cowboy than a viscous criminal.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:04 PM (BJKQV)

Well the question of viscosity aside, most societies had raiders that functioned as part of their military. The Normans were hated in England in particular because William disbanded his army into England (where they turned bandit). I think there's probably some natural sympathy to being a raider, as well as sympathy towards those being raided.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (b2nrj)

222 Damn it. No Downfall Parody yet.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (H4qIP)

223 I wanna be sedated

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (xeB56)

224 Windows was stolen from Xerox. Apple also stole it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla

Mostly, they stole the mouse from Xerox - it was the thing that separated the new GUI's from the type that was in style that went before it.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (5iUNf)

225 That's my schtick.
Posted by: Hackey Psaki at April 29, 2022 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

Just because you have red hair, that does not make you Jewish. Cultural appropriation!!! Oh by the way is it really red? What's your color down there?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (Irn0L)

226 THIS THIS THIS is why everyone in Tech Land is freaking out over Musk's TWTR (pending) purchase. Silicon Valley supposedly solved the problem that was plaguing broadcast TV for generations - who was seeing, and buying, your products. If that is based on a house of e-cards, the whole intellectual edifice gets massively questioned.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 29, 2022 04:07 PM (+ZemB)

It also gets company on board with the idea that wokism is MASSIVELY popular and they can make VAST sums of money by signing on with liberal causes!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (3NKiY)

227 Ooooh Dotcom Bust 2.0 might be fun

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (JpV1k)

228 I think I read that Gates last coded an actual program, in Basic (?), in 1977 or '78. That's more than 40 years ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (txdEq)

229 They always claim death threats and never provide them. Meanwhile people have compiled quite the list of death threats to Elon, and of course the excuse of "Well those aren't real death threats" has been claimed.
Posted by: buzzion

We are a nation of children.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (H4qIP)

230 viscosity? Thermal breakdown next? Non-Newtonian Pirates?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:10 PM (3NKiY)

231 So, technically, if Musk calls his Indian Robespierre a hooker after he fires her and she can prove that she gave it away for free
Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 04:06 PM (5iUNf)

I speak under correction but I believe that Robespierre was the only one guillotined by the Revolution facing up. For some reason the thought of that always makes me grin.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:10 PM (BJKQV)

232 Can't wait for the Wicked Witch of the West Pelosi to go below where the goblins go.

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2022 04:10 PM (2JoB8)

233 We are a nation of children.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (H4qIP)

Damien was a kid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:10 PM (3NKiY)

234 229 They always claim death threats and never provide them. Meanwhile people have compiled quite the list of death threats to Elon, and of course the excuse of "Well those aren't real death threats" has been claimed.
Posted by: buzzion

We are a nation of children.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (H4qIP)

At best.

Posted by: m at April 29, 2022 04:10 PM (CRS/E)

235 I speak under correction but I believe that Robespierre was the only one guillotined by the Revolution facing up. For some reason the thought of that always makes me grin.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:10 PM (BJKQV)

His jaw was hanging on by a thread anyway. Getting shot in the face with a flintlock will do that.

Ahhh, warms the heart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (3NKiY)

236
"Today, we've got a full schedule, folks. In the 9.15 spot, we're interviewing Pete Buttigieg. Next up in the batters box, we've got our report on the limited-edition custom Bieber Vespa. Then our hard-hitting expose on the Chinese Croc counterfeiters putting Uighur-skin outdoor-wear in YOUR Amazon queue."

---- Next up on "Wacky Drivetime, with Garrett & The Ace"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (UGDPW)

237 Lol. They're still peddling the story that Musk is going to back out.

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!

Posted by: Marcus T at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (OTvdu)

238 229 They always claim death threats and never provide them. Meanwhile people have compiled quite the list of death threats to Elon, and of course the excuse of "Well those aren't real death threats" has been claimed.
Posted by: buzzion

We are a nation of children.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (H4qIP)

Hell, a group of Republican Senators can be shot at and it's not a targeted political shooting. No amount of threats against a perceived conservative will be taken seriously, even if they are acted upon.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (BJKQV)

239 It also gets company on board with the idea that wokism is MASSIVELY popular and they can make VAST sums of money by signing on with liberal causes!

Posted by: Aetius451AD

This is very important. Politicians, media, and CEOs have a very distorted view of reality, and a lot of this is based on gaslighters like Twitter. I have dealt with many CEOs, CFOs, and it amazes me how out of touch with the common they are.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (5kI0z)

240 Dow 900 points down today. this biden guy is working magic. A disappearance act with our money

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (Irn0L)

241 >So, they copied it. It's not like Xerox hasn't been copying things for years. Heck, the word "Xerox" is synonymous with "copier."

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:06 PM (BJKQV)

I recall Xerox PARC pleaded with Xerox HQ for funding to develop a full fledged OS. Xerox didn't see a future and doubled down on the large format print business. Jobs was friends/colleagues with the head of PARC and parlayed that into a demo, including 'borrowing' the original input 'mouse'. Woz engineered the original MacOS based on what was gleaned from the demo - at least that's what I remember. YMMV.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (gryET)

242 It's pretty accurate, but if the person in the cartoon hasn't actually moved further right, they're an imbecile.

Posted by: ... at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (JpV1k)

243
Ace: He wasn't even smart for signing that contract. IBM was just stupid.

lol, nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (/u4P4)

244 DeSantis/Carlson 2024?
Posted by: m

This please. I would actually voot for this ticket and the reverse.

Posted by: The Vooter at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (gV9uv)

245 Just because you have red hair, that does not make you Jewish. Cultural appropriation!!! Oh by the way is it really red? What's your color down there?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (Irn0L)

Calm down. Go to kickboxing class and have a margarita.

Posted by: Hackey Psaki at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

246 234 229 They always claim death threats and never provide them. Meanwhile people have compiled quite the list of death threats to Elon, and of course the excuse of "Well those aren't real death threats" has been claimed.
Posted by: buzzion

meanwhile the feds will send a 5am SWAT raid on your ass with machine guns pointed at your family's faces if you dare spread disinformation.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (OuH7W)

247 Mostly, they stole the mouse from Xerox - it was the thing that separated the new GUI's from the type that was in style that went before it.
Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (5iUNf)
++++
Xerox hardly had the first mouse. They did have the first workable, fully-fledged GUI including some serious human factors research, though.

PARC is a fascinating thing. Xerox acknowledged that they were too staid and uncreative to really pursue the future, and that they would get their lunch eaten. They started PARC and put it far away from the HQ to go invent the future. PARC did exactly that, and the only major thing the home office could grok was the laser printer. But PARC invented workable graphical interfaces, the laser printer, ethernet networking, contributed hugely to computer-controlled telephony, the list goes on. And most of it was stolen or given away because PARC was a think tank that didn't have any business sense and the officers back at Xerox were incapable of understanding what they had.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (DU+/6)

248 >>> I wanna be sedated
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (xeB56)

I'd settle for a little beat on the brat these days.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (qsj+f)

249 I think enough evidence exists that microsoft got big by buying and stealing other people's creativity. Doesn't take a super genius to do that. Jobs had genius level, Gates not.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (lgeFv)

250 His jaw was hanging on by a thread anyway. Getting shot in the face with a flintlock will do that.

Ahhh, warms the heart.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (3NKiY)

Didn't he lay, groaning, on a table in that state for an entire night while those around him debated his fate? Good times....

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (BJKQV)

251 Well the question of viscosity aside, most societies had raiders that functioned as part of their military. The Normans were hated in England in particular because William disbanded his army into England (where they turned bandit). I think there's probably some natural sympathy to being a raider, as well as sympathy towards those being raided.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (b2nrj)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sir Walter Raleigh at April 29, 2022 04:13 PM (+ZemB)

252 If Donny DUtschbag is for something I'm against it. If Mr. DUtschbag is against something I'm for it.

I'm 98% right, he is 89% wrong.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 29, 2022 04:13 PM (iDcra)

253 "Today, we've got a full schedule, folks. In the 9.15 spot, we're interviewing Pete Buttigieg. Next up in the batters box, we've got our report on the limited-edition custom Bieber Vespa. Then our hard-hitting expose on the Chinese Croc counterfeiters putting Uighur-skin outdoor-wear in YOUR Amazon queue."

---- Next up on "Wacky Drivetime, with Garrett & The Ace"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (UGDPW)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:14 PM (3NKiY)

254 Didn't Xerox also fuck up in thinking that what they had wasn't worth shit so they didn't even care about it getting stolen.

Posted by: buzzion at April 29, 2022 04:14 PM (vMCab)

255 228 I think I read that Gates last coded an actual program, in Basic (?), in 1977 or '78. That's more than 40 years ago. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Maybe, maybe not. It is certainly possible. At the same time it isn't like he stopped growing his technical steps right then and there. He did grow a pretty good size business during the 80s and 90s and it wasn't because he had to learn how to code. I know for a fact he was often deeply involved in the specifications, the development and code reviews for major products. Over they years by necessity he became far less hands on.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 04:14 PM (9I3i5)

256 I wanna be sedated
Posted by: nurse ratched

It's one of those days, isn't it nurse.

Posted by: The Vooter at April 29, 2022 04:14 PM (gV9uv)

257 By the way... visit https://storeusa.vespa.com/. The "Justin Bieber X Vespa" is an actual product. I wasn't just making that up to bag on Ace.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (UGDPW)

258 I recall Xerox PARC pleaded with Xerox HQ for funding to develop a full fledged OS.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (gryET)

Didn't they come up with a number of really cool ideas that Xerox never implemented?

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (BJKQV)

259 We just erased all equity gains since March 2021. But the economy is booming baby!

Posted by: Marcus T at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (tU3dj)

260 236 Uighur-skin outdoor-wear
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:11 PM (UGDPW)

Ack.

Posted by: m at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (CRS/E)

261 I wanna be sedated.

I am not a nurse, but I understand that looting the locker where all the goodies are kept in the hospital is considered a no-no.

Posted by: PabloD at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (x0J6u)

262 >nd most of it was stolen or given away because PARC was a think tank that didn't have any business sense and the officers back at Xerox were incapable of understanding what they had.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (DU+/6)

You stated this much better than I did.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (gryET)

263 Wait... Jews = redheads?

*second look at Judaism*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (3NKiY)

264 Gonna call it now: Twitter employees will take a scorched earth approach to the Musk takeover and leave empty servers with little else.

Posted by: NeverBiden at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (eIGHH)

265 189 Word is that there's a clause in Musk's purchase agreement for Twitter that penalizes him for openly criticizing Twitter employees prior to the formal transfer of ownership. Speculation is that the Twitter employees are aware of this (or at the very least believe it exists), and so are intentionally attempting to provoke him.
Posted by: junior at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (Z1C9p

I guess they're forgetting that he'll have the last laugh.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (Qhnrt)

266 And Chazz, the Florida Atheist activist also sells non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of sex toys featuring the names of DeSantis, former President Donald Trump and other political figures on his website.

Sounds like a charmer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2022 04:16 PM (fF2aM)

267 257 to bag on Ace
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (UGDPW)

As in messenger bag!

Posted by: m at April 29, 2022 04:16 PM (CRS/E)

268 I am not a nurse, but I understand that looting the locker where all the goodies are kept in the hospital is considered a no-no.
Posted by: PabloD at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM

Wait...is that wrong?

Posted by: Anesthesiologist at April 29, 2022 04:16 PM (RkC6l)

269
You've got red on you.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 29, 2022 04:16 PM (n+4am)

270 I am not a nurse, but I understand that looting the locker where all the goodies are kept in the hospital is considered a no-no.
Posted by: PabloD

Srsly? Damn.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:16 PM (H4qIP)

271 By the way... visit https://storeusa.vespa.com/. The "Justin Bieber X Vespa" is an actual product. I wasn't just making that up to bag on Ace.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (UGDPW)
++++
A Bieber-themed Vespa is the 20-something girliest thing I can imagine, and that is almost certainly what they are going for.

Pull a Hollywood-style sex flip on the owner, however, and it becomes they gayest thing imaginable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:17 PM (DU+/6)

272 Ooooh Dotcom Bust 2.0 might be fun
Posted by: ...

Its going to be way way worse than that, brother.

Posted by: The Vooter at April 29, 2022 04:17 PM (gV9uv)

273 Wait... Jews = redheads?

*second look at Judaism*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (3NKiY)

Legend says Judas was a redhead.

Posted by: Wally at April 29, 2022 04:17 PM (FJYfm)

274 Gonna call it now: Twitter employees will take a scorched earth approach to the Musk takeover and leave empty servers with little else.
Posted by: NeverBiden

I pray Musk would go after every employee to the fullest extent possible.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:18 PM (H4qIP)

275 It's not getting any better in the futures market. Dow Mini -885

Posted by: Marcus T at April 29, 2022 04:18 PM (tU3dj)

276 Always with the death threats with these retards.

The "death threat" was probably some barista accidentally putting soy milk instead of oat milk in her Frappacino.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 29, 2022 04:18 PM (LV9Tl)

277 Gary Kildall did something really stupid (blowing off a meeting with IBM when they wanted to license CP/M), IBM mentioned it to Gates, and Gates realized something that IBM did not - that what mattered was the operating system, not the hardware. Once the IBM PC BIOS was cloned (and I've heard rumors of skulduggery involved in that), the hardware became a commodity and the OS ruled the roost.

Posted by: Nemo at April 29, 2022 03:58 PM (S6ArX)

And then Microsoft hired away the IBM OS/2 programmers (and their ideas) to develop Windows NT. Windows NT then, eventually, became the core of all of Microsoft's OSes. Say what you will, Gates knew who to stab in the back and just how and when to do it.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:18 PM (BJKQV)

278 The conservative is always happy. Because bow-chicka-bow-bow, am I right?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 29, 2022 04:19 PM (qsj+f)

279 Does anybody really think the government will allow this purchase to go through or, if they can't technically stop it, that they will not hobble Musk with endless inquisition and prosecution?

We're too far gone now.

And Republicans won't lift a finger to help Musk.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2022 04:19 PM (H8QX8)

280 That's my schtick.
Posted by: Hackey Psaki at April 29, 2022 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

Just because you have red hair, that does not make you Jewish. Cultural appropriation!!! Oh by the way is it really red? What's your color down there?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:08 PM (Irn0L)

ANNNNND i no longer need dinner....

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:19 PM (otjel)

281 I am not a nurse, but I understand that looting the locker where all the goodies are kept in the hospital is considered a no-no.
Posted by: PabloD
.........

Are you a biologist?

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

282 Wait... Jews = redheads?

*second look at Judaism*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:15 PM (3NKiY)

Yes, not as many as the Irishm, but Ashkenazi Jews yes. There is a gene

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:19 PM (Irn0L)

283 >>>Legend says Judas was a redhead.

Posted by: Wally at April 29, 2022 04:17 PM (FJYfm)

Oh, legend. Like Joseph Smith.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 04:20 PM (QYPq3)

284 putting soy milk instead of oat milk in her Frappacino.
Posted by: naturalfake

Show me the tits on soy or oats. Or, for that matter, almonds.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:20 PM (H4qIP)

285 The only normal uses of "tummy" are for little kids when you ask them if the have a "sore tummy" or a pregnant woman may sometimes be referred to as having a "tummy" when she starts showing.

Maybe there was a Monty Python skit where one of the characters said "Tum tum tee tummy tum", as well.

But that's it. That's all I can think of.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 29, 2022 04:20 PM (DTrFr)

286 Gates was a snake and delivered terrible software.

dBase >>>> Access
Quartro Pro >>>>> excel
Word Perfect >>>>> word

MS software didn't catch up performance to those 1995 three until 2005.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 29, 2022 04:20 PM (iDcra)

287 207 Pirates who were captured by those they had preyed upon were hanged, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the British. Pirates are criminals. I know of nothing to admire about them and nothing they did that should be emulated.
Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 03:57 PM (AMIL/)

I've never understood pirate-worship. They tended to kill, rape or enslave everyone they captured. But I think modern mythology has turned them into more of a cowboy than a viscous criminal.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:04 PM (BJKQV)

The man selected 25 years ago to develop a modernized Houston Mission Control data and command architecture called his hand-picked team the Pirate Team. Black flags and all. He said he admired the classic Caribbean pirates because they "thought outside the box."

I suppose breaking laws can be considered thinking outside the box. I suspect he made-up the "thinking outside the box" part and used it a sham rationale for the team name so he could sort-of live his fantasy of being an Errol Flynn-type glamorous movie pirate.

Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 04:21 PM (AMIL/)

288 Show me the tits on soy or oats. Or, for that matter, almonds.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:20 PM (H4qIP)
........

Boob thread!

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

289 254 Didn't Xerox also fuck up in thinking that what they had wasn't worth shit so they didn't even care about it getting stolen. Posted by: buzzion

Yes. Xerox management had no idea how important what the Xerox Parc team created and what its impact would be in short order. Great advancements come in pieces. In this case, it took others, messianic barbarians basically, to take those innovations and then use them to build out a new paradigm that is still evolving today. I will leave it to better minds to determine which is greater.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 04:21 PM (9I3i5)

290 28 I think I read that Gates last coded an actual program, in Basic (?), in 1977 or '78. That's more than 40 years ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 29, 2022 04:09 PM (txdEq)

Geez. If I could bank hundreds of billions of dollars, I wouldn't give a shit about coding either.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (Qhnrt)

291 > Windows was stolen from Xerox. Apple also stole it.

Eh. The Lisa was already using a bitmapped screen instead of a character generator screen. Some Apple engineers had worked at PARC or worked for Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. They were already doing a lot of similar things before the first PARC visit.

Apple and Microsoft didn't steal any code, the ideas were already floating around, and actually commercializing an invention is not a simple task.

Xerox PARC was an amazing place for invention, but Xerox executives were wooden headed morons who weren't interested in anything that wasn't copy machines or copy machine supplies.

It's a fun talking point, and the subject of endless debate, but the idea that Apple engineers were lost little lambs that didn't know anything about the mouse or any sort of GUI before Jobs wrangled his way into a PARC visit is a myth.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (eyxn4)

292 So I just checked that Dick Costolo timeline. Evidently he is "learning how to cook like an italian grandma".
And posts a pic of a plate of carbonara with something green on it, like asparagus or snow peas or the like.

Show that to an Italian pyrsyn if you really want a fight. The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (DJFLF)

293 What about pirate shirts?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 29, 2022 04:00 PM (RP+Jx)

they get hanged in the closet

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (xhaym)

294
Legend says Judas was a redhead.
Posted by: Wally at April 29, 2022 04:17 PM (FJYfm)

That explains a lot.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (n+4am)

295 OT, but some amazing results from yesterdays Federalist/Susquehana poll.

It found an amazing 75% of likely voters expect a recession to be officially declared before election day comes. Things have gone so far south for Biden that over half of people describing themselves as "progressive liberals" (56%) say the Biden Junta is a disaster for the economy.

The only problem I see is Federalist didn't ask "do you think McConnell and Luntz-McCarthy will lift even e little finger to help America?", because that answer would result in equally bad numbers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (wqtxH)

296 I kid you not, Austin ISD just sent out a newsletter calling out Libs of tik tok for misinformation/ FAKE NEWS!!!!OMG!!!! For claiming a second grade teacher was giving students a worksheet on furries or something. I know nothing about twitter or what the exact incident was about but I do know that Austin ISD is full of shrill feminist and that there be grooming going on.... That is a fact!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (UUBmN)

297 I never heard of dick costolo until today but he has 1.5 million followers?

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:23 PM (DJFLF)

298 PARC was a think tank that didn't have any business sense and the officers back at Xerox were incapable of understanding what they had.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:12 PM (DU+/6)

I believe there is a story where Jobs or his team asked the PARC people if they could have a mouse that they developed to take with them during a visit and the idiots nerds there, being so prideful, actually gave them one. It was fully functional to drive the GUI, very similar to the mouse ability to drive present day GUIs. And the MS team just reversed engineered it afterwards and commercialized it.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 04:23 PM (5iUNf)

299 Gonna take more than soy tits to get these nerds to quit talking about computers.
*ducks, runs*

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:23 PM (v0R5T)

300 Donny Dunce is another example at how MSNBC really works at hiring the dumbest motherfuckers in television. I'm not kidding, the average reality show skank would say fewer stupid things than the average MSNBC contributor.

Donny Dunce is also a real tough guy, too, in case you haven't heard. He's got what I call "Geraldo Syndrome" where he talks a lot about punching people out when I'll wager the guy makes a fist with his thumb on the inside.

Posted by: UGAdawg at April 29, 2022 04:23 PM (tRd71)

301 I still don't know why crypto in general is so heavily correlated with djia and similar. I know crypto, a dumb idea sure, I know. But it should, in theory, be a good hedge right? But it's not. It merrily jumps off the ledge with the rest of the FJB economy. Even diversified across a variety of coin types their base movement seems pegged to stonks. I've looked for an explanation as to why this is and haven't found anything satisfying.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 29, 2022 04:24 PM (qsj+f)

302 Show me the tits on soy or oats. Or, for that matter, almonds.
Posted by: rickb223

Or rice! I'm with you!!

Boobs today, boobs tomorrow, boobs forever!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:24 PM (nnLls)

303 I never heard of dick costolo until today but he has 1.5 million followers?
Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:23 PM (DJFLF)

His cousin Vag Abbott has 2.3 million.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 29, 2022 04:24 PM (LV9Tl)

304 I never heard of dick costolo until today but he has 1.5 million followers?
Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:23 PM (DJFLF)

His followers are as real as I am.

Posted by: Dick Gozinya at April 29, 2022 04:25 PM (FJYfm)

305 Gonna take more than soy tits to get these nerds to quit talking about computers.
*ducks, runs*

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:23 PM (v0R5T)

Don't worry, they can't throw very hard or far.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:25 PM (SH2Zi)

306 I have long called Farcebook et al "advertising companies", because it's obviously true, and also because it of course discombobulated your average vapid American who thinks of them as "tech" companies.

I remember picking up a book in a bookstore in the mid-90s, by Gates, I even think I remember the title - "The Way Ahead". Picked it up out of humorous curiosity, as the guy had never seemed interesting or all that smart in a worldly sense - he just had a great business. Turned to a few random pages. It was laugh-out-loud stupid and sophomoric. No surprise, just as expected.

No data point since has indicated Gates is any more interesting or wise or smart than I first thought.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 29, 2022 04:25 PM (OTzUX)

307 Pelosi Dismisses Bidenflation and Shrinking Economy as an Aberration

Guess she thought fuck you peasant would be a little too much!
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 29, 2022 04:01 PM (yrol0)

Jimmy Carter and zombie Paul Volcker disagree

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 29, 2022 04:25 PM (NW9xb)

308 Windows was stolen from Xerox. Apple also stole it.

That's not exactly right. Apple stole the concept of the GUI; there's significant originality in how it looks and operates. If you've ever seen a video of or used an actual Xerox Alto or Star, the UI is very alien to what was on the Lisa, Mac, and Windows (which is still largely how the Mac and Windows look and work now).

Windows, OTOH, was a copy of Apple's stuff. Microsoft got early prototypes of the Mac to make software for it, and Gates by all accounts went apeshit when he saw it.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 29, 2022 04:26 PM (ZGrMX)

309 301 I still don't know why crypto in general is so heavily correlated with djia and similar. I know crypto, a dumb idea sure, I know. But it should, in theory, be a good hedge right? But it's not. It merrily jumps off the ledge with the rest of the FJB economy. Even diversified across a variety of coin types their base movement seems pegged to stonks. I've looked for an explanation as to why this is and haven't found anything satisfying.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 29, 2022 04:24 PM (qsj+f)

There are "risk-on" assets and "risk-off" assets. The former correlates positively with the stock market, the latter correlates inversely. People pile into crypto to speculate, not when they're fearful.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 04:26 PM (b2nrj)

310 Amiga is the biggest loss of the computer growth. Magnificent, wonderful computer that was huge leaps ahead of their competitors in sound and graphics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:26 PM (KZzsI)

311 Saw some weird sportsball news today: Boris Becker (tennis) going to jail for fraud, Trevor Bauer (baseball) suspended for 2 years! by MLB for consensual rough sex with a chick that the prosecutor declined to charge.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:26 PM (lgeFv)

312 20 Gates became the richest man in the world at one time and people STILL say there is no God. Someone like him could never get there without Providence (even though it seems wrong to us).
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 03:36 PM (QYPq3)

Well, that's bullshit. How about the devil? Or just plain evil?

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at April 29, 2022 04:27 PM (9qiMu)

313 Eh. The Lisa was already using a bitmapped screen instead of a character generator screen. Some Apple engineers had worked at PARC or worked for Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. They were already doing a lot of similar things before the first PARC visit. ...
Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (eyxn4)
++++
Doug Englebart was a true visionary. He was also apparently crazy as a loon and had been more or less dismissed by everybody until he crawled into his skunk works (at Stanford, IIRC) and invented the future. The ideas he showed off became things that others dedicated themselves to creating for real. Real-time shared collaboration. Hyperlinks. Multi-tasking. Data reference across files and file types. Automatic updating. Video conferencing. The world would not look like it does today without Englebart.

He was one of the people who's ideas galvanized legions of people and made them want to go make those ideas real. Vannevar Bush was another, with his seminal 1945 essay "As We May Think" directly influencing a lot of those same people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:27 PM (DU+/6)

314 Show that to an Italian pyrsyn if you really want a fight. The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.
Posted by: kallisto

Stunad!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:27 PM (nnLls)

315 The rules are they hate you and are mistreating you...that is all

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (h1jJh)

316 That martial law (or Marshall Law)

It's martial law. Military law.
The military takes over until civil order can be restored.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (H4qIP)

317 I suspect he made-up the "thinking outside the box" part and used it a sham rationale for the team name so he could sort-of live his fantasy of being an Errol Flynn-type glamorous movie pirate.
Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 04:21 PM (AMIL/)

At least Errol had the dedication to molest a few minors like a real pirate - such a dedication to the craft.

I prefer privateers, some of whom were pretty remarkable men. But the name does sound quite a bit more nerdy than "pirate."

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (BJKQV)

318 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

319 That martial law (or Marshall Law)

It's martial law. Military law.
The military takes over until civil order can be restored.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (H4qIP)

Better than marital law.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (SH2Zi)

320 I remember picking up a book in a bookstore in the mid-90s, by Gates, I even think I remember the title - "The Way Ahead". Picked it up out of humorous curiosity, as the guy had never seemed interesting or all that smart in a worldly sense - he just had a great business. Turned to a few random pages. It was laugh-out-loud stupid and sophomoric. No surprise, just as expected.

No data point since has indicated Gates is any more interesting or wise or smart than I first thought.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 29, 2022 04:25 PM (OTzUX)
++++
"The Road Ahead" did come with a CD accompaniment (because of course it did) that showed off Gates' highly-automated mega-mansion, though. That was actually pretty cool at the time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (DU+/6)

321 Wait... Jews = redheads?

*second look at Judaism*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Way more Red Heads in the Anglo sphere and North West Europe.
My beard is light brown, red, blonde, white blonde, and golden along with other crazy colors in those spectrums, representing the human biodiversity of that region, which my ancestors passed on to me (with light brown hair and green eyes which is the master race

I have never seen anything like my beard on any other man, and neither has anybody else who knows me.

Posted by: The Vooter at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (gV9uv)

322 Amiga is the biggest loss of the computer growth. Magnificent, wonderful computer that was huge leaps ahead of their competitors in sound and graphics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:26 PM (KZzsI)

I loved my Amiga, but in the end it was like that weird 5-legged critter that shows up in the early fossil record.

An evolutionary oddball that went nowhere.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (LV9Tl)

323 Trevor Bauer (baseball) suspended for 2 years! by MLB for consensual rough sex with a chick that the prosecutor declined to charge.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Called out on balls?

I got nothing.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (nnLls)

324 >>>Well, that's bullshit. How about the devil? Or just plain evil?

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at April 29, 2022 04:27 PM (9qiMu)

No, it's not. Their intentions are evil and the means in which a man gains his "wealth" may be evil, but none of it happens without the Will of God.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (QYPq3)

325 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

Oooh! What's he going to do? Angrily poop himself and grope some pubescent children?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (SH2Zi)

326 Yes, not as many as the Irishm, but Ashkenazi Jews yes. There is a gene
------
Old balding Italian ladies around here have red hair. I kinda doubt it's genetic though.

Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (+ya+t)

327
"You will get poorly sewn garments at lower prices than quality goods, and they will keep the rain and dust off your naked skin."

----- Marshall's Law

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (UGDPW)

328 Really the conservative is in the center between the extremes of Left Wing Totalitarianism and Anarcho Libertarianism.

Posted by: SkylerKat at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (SXIn9)

329 It's martial law. Military law.
The military takes over until civil order can be restored.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (H4qIP)

Are you sure? I always thought it was Marshall Law, meaning Penny Marshall would be given supreme executive power.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (BJKQV)

330 285 The only normal uses of "tummy" are for little kids when you ask them if the have a "sore tummy" or a pregnant woman may sometimes be referred to as having a "tummy" when she starts showing.

Maybe there was a Monty Python skit where one of the characters said "Tum tum tee tummy tum", as well.

But that's it. That's all I can think of.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Tummy Rub Tuesday disagrees with you!! B

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (y6iHd)

331 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

??? With what? A failing economy, A destroyed Border, CRT, and a failing foreign policy? Good luck with that one LOL. Oh yeah and he is senile to boot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (Irn0L)

332 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

Get the chains! CornPop Killer is back, baby!

Posted by: Wally at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (FJYfm)

333 Amiga is the biggest loss of the computer growth. Magnificent, wonderful computer that was huge leaps ahead of their competitors in sound and graphics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:26 PM (KZzsI)
++++
Amiga has a fascinating history of its own and they were stellar computers. There's an alternate timeline somewhere out there where Commodore realized what their core strengths were and became a GPU company (before that term really existed) and Nvidia never existed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (DU+/6)

334
Uighur-skin outdoor-wear
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Vedy nice!

Posted by: Wendy at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (63Dwl)

335 326 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

========

"Elected partisan Democrat plans to demean Republicans."

I mean...okay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

336 The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (DJFLF)

Wait...what?

Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (XIJ/X)

337 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

Does that mean Senile Joe is gonna forcibly fingerbang the Turtle?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (LV9Tl)

338 The left of 2022 believes people should be cancelled, if not imprisoned, for publicly stating what the left of 2012 claimed to believe.

The left of 2022 also believes that it is moderate and that the country faces an epidemic of "right wing extremism"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (ESjRY)

339 Tummy Rub Tuesday disagrees with you!! B

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (y6iHd)

Flip Up Friday >>> Tummy Rub Tuesday

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (SH2Zi)

340 "You will get poorly sewn garments at lower prices than quality goods, and they will keep the rain and dust off your naked skin."

----- Marshall's Law
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (UGDPW)
++++
HAHAHAHA. Well played.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (DU+/6)

341 I loved my Amiga, but in the end it was like that weird 5-legged critter that shows up in the early fossil record.

It makes me wonder what could have been, if Amiga really had kept going and developed. What could we have had? Would they stay so far ahead of everyone else in graphics and sound (Babylon 5's graphics were done on an Amiga) or would they be caught up and just lost in the mix?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (KZzsI)

342 337 The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (DJFLF)

Wait...what?

Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (XIJ/X)

We have been informed by *some people* that this is not an authentic Italian way to eat bread.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (b2nrj)

343 And there's Marichal Law, when you get brushed back if you crowd the plate.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 29, 2022 04:32 PM (H8QX8)

344 Does that mean Senile Joe is gonna forcibly fingerbang the Turtle?

Joe you get the sloppy seconds!

Posted by: Chairman Xi at April 29, 2022 04:32 PM (ESjRY)

345 It's martial law. Military law.
The military takes over until civil order can be restored.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (H4qIP)
........

Hmm. The border? Los Angeles?
Seems this could come in handy.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:32 PM (v0R5T)

346 @CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)
++++
I wonder if any of his attacks will be in the form of defending his actions or policies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:32 PM (DU+/6)

347 he dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (DJFLF)

Wait...what?

Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
----
If it's wrong then I don't want to be right!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 29, 2022 04:32 PM (UUBmN)

348 347 I wonder if any of his attacks will be in the form of defending his actions or policies.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:32 PM (DU+/6)

=========

"They're gonna put you all in chains!"

It was a magnificent defense of the ACA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

349 the thing that I think is terrifying them at Twitter is the fact that all the tools they use to shadowban/throttle users are in the code and in config tables ... they simply can't delete the tables (it would crash the system) ... they can truncate some of the data for sure ... but a good reverse engineer can easily see just what they built and how it would be used ... and they can't just deploy new code ... not without getting caught right away ... guaranteed there are copies of the code at each stage of its development ...
and Musk is no fool as it relates to source code ... he has to know it shows what was done and when ... (maybe not why ... those emails are sleeping with the fishes is my bet unless a sys admin was smart enough to hide some backups)

Posted by: The Dark Lord at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (5cMUX)

350 342 I loved my Amiga, but in the end it was like that weird 5-legged critter that shows up in the early fossil record.

It makes me wonder what could have been, if Amiga really had kept going and developed. What could we have had? Would they stay so far ahead of everyone else in graphics and sound (Babylon 5's graphics were done on an Amiga) or would they be caught up and just lost in the mix?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (KZzsI)

In the early 90's, the Amiga was way better than Macs and Intel PCs. Among my college friends, we had all three. The Amiga was our favorite.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (XvPQV)

351 328
"You will get poorly sewn garments at lower prices than quality goods, and they will keep the rain and dust off your naked skin."

----- Marshall's Law
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:29 PM (UGDPW)

"The Hasenpfeffer Corporate Syndicate works alongside the state to set national economic policy."

------Penny Marshall Law

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (BJKQV)

352 If I wanted to authentic Italian, I'd move to the godforsaken peninsula, marry a local, and spend the rest of my life combing her mustache.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (ppBhU)

353 >Amiga has a fascinating history of its own and they were stellar computers. There's an alternate timeline somewhere out there where Commodore realized what their core strengths were and became a GPU company (before that term really existed) and Nvidia never existed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (DU+/6)

When I was a mere lad, I had a Commodore 64 which I installed a bootleg of Geos OS - which itself was a MacOS 1.0 clone. Slow as molasses in January - but really interesting.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (gryET)

354 They were already doing a lot of similar things before the first PARC visit. ...
Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (eyxn4)

But they needed a working mechanical proto-type - and prior to "the visit" - they didn't have a working mouse, not a commercial agronomic version like Xerox's PARC team had - just a GUI that could, theoretically, accept such a mechanical device, if only they could get their hands on one. And they did - at least that's the past down "legend" of the visit.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (5iUNf)

355 ??? With what?

Oh you know, racists!, white supremacy! russia lovers! transphobia!

Book Burning! seems to be the latest.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (lgeFv)

356 Anybody remember Digital Research's GEM?

Posted by: fd at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (vrz2I)

357 ?? With what? A failing economy, A destroyed Border, CRT, and a failing foreign policy? Good luck with that one LOL. Oh yeah and he is senile to boot
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (Irn0L)

I grant you my perspective is skewed from living in the belly of the beast, but don't be fooled by your own biases. More than half of the country will believe whatever Stinkfinger and the MFM vomit out.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (2JVJo)

358 Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (XIJ/X)

check out the end of the last thread. The fight is between those who say that real Italians don't dip the bread in an olive oil saucer and those who claim they do.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (DJFLF)

359 The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.
Posted by: kallisto
Wait...what?

Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
We have been informed by *some people* that this is not an authentic Italian way to eat bread.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Similar to spaghetti being twirled in a spoon (by the fork), eating with a fork only (long strands), or first cut then eating with a fork.

My own family has just about come to blows over this.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (nnLls)

360 Biden's frustrated because they keep standing him in front of a Teleprompter he's too incapacitated to even read.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, CNN Superfan at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (PiwSw)

361 There was a nice UI that was made for C64 in 86. It was nice enough. It took a lot of things from mac os and improved on it. They improved on it and added an office suite. It had a pretty powerful visual coding macro editor. There was even a PC version later. But it had no chance. It was nice though.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (qsj+f)

362 No data point since has indicated Gates is any more interesting or wise or smart than I first thought.
Posted by: rhomboid

But, but.....haven't you seen his TED talks???

Yeah, Gates, what can you say about him? To say he is an empty suit is not true, but he is really not that smart. You have to begin to wonder just how rigged the game really is.
And frankly, Elon Musk is not exactly the white knight of Free Speech. His ownership of Twitter may make some changes and there may be some big reveals, but he has a lot of shall we say.....crazy ideas?
I think the most positive thing I can say is that he will stir things up, and maybe, by random chance, some things might get better.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (vcOmj)

363 A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

KLEPTOGRAPHY

Posted by: Joe Einstein at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

364 319 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (BJKQV)

365 Amiga is the biggest loss of the computer growth. Magnificent, wonderful computer that was huge leaps ahead of their competitors in sound and graphics.

Amiga was an evolutionary dead end. The core chipset was the final ultimate extension of the Atari 2600, by the same hardware designers. And by the time the Amiga shipped, none of how it operated was compatible with the standard way of doing things, which is why side-scrolling games on it tended to be janky.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (ZGrMX)

366 337 The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (DJFLF)

Wait...what?

Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (XIJ/X)

Well it's not maple syrup on French Toast delicious.

Posted by: buzzion at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (vMCab)

367 If I wanted to authentic Italian, I'd move to the godforsaken peninsula, marry a local, and spend the rest of my life combing her mustache.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
-----
lmao!!!!lololol!!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (UUBmN)

368 Wait...what?

Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (XIJ/X)

Dammit. Now I want some crusty bread and olive oil, neither of which are in the house. Will have to buy some tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (2JVJo)

369 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

What else can Joe Biden do, other than what Joe Biden has done his entire political life - attack his political enemies? He knows his policies are the greatest in American history, and he knows this would be proven if he could get every tax dollar and new executive power he wants.

What a loser. And we're all going to lose as a result.

Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (AMIL/)

370 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024

https://tinyurl.com/zra7w8aa
Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

??? With what? A failing economy, A destroyed Border, CRT, and a failing foreign policy? Good luck with that one LOL. Oh yeah and he is senile to boot
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (Irn0L)

The drumbeat about the hoarders and wreakers will be defining. Our disloyalty is dragging the economy down.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (yQpMk)

371 Why are Italians, on the average, hairy? Its not a cold place like say...Sweden or something.

Posted by: Chairman Xi at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (ESjRY)

372 Similar to spaghetti being twirled in a spoon (by the fork), eating with a fork only (long strands), or first cut then eating with a fork.

cutting the strands seems uncivilized

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (DJFLF)

373 > Better than marital law.

That flag has fringe on it. That means this is an admiralty court! Maritime law doesn't apply to my case. I declare this case dismissed and I will sue you for $1,000,000.00 per hour of my time.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (eyxn4)

374 I will be surprised if the term Economic Traitor doesn't gain currency on the Left.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (yQpMk)

375 Similar to spaghetti being twirled in a spoon (by the fork), eating with a fork only (long strands), or first cut then eating with a fork.

My own family has just about come to blows over this.

Just declare yourself as "Keto" and sit back and watch the fight.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (AHeqJ)

376 Are you sure? I always thought it was Marshall Law, meaning Penny Marshall would be given supreme executive power.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (BJKQV)

I see that you've been to this country's public education institutions.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (Qhnrt)

377 Oh you know, racists!, white supremacy! russia lovers! transphobia!

Book Burning! seems to be the latest.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (lgeFv)

Yeah, that's the latest. "They're burning math books!" Frankly, at least 70% of the country (or 167%, as the math-impaired Millenials might say) would support that.

Posted by: Wally at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (FJYfm)

378 The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM (DJFLF)

Wait...what?

Is that wrong? Because some good crusty bread dipped in good olive oil is delicious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:31 PM (XIJ/X)

especially with some good balsamic vinegar and fresh grated parmesan cheese sprinkled in...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (otjel)

379 362 There was a nice UI that was made for C64 in 86. It was nice enough. It took a lot of things from mac os and improved on it. They improved on it and added an office suite. It had a pretty powerful visual coding macro editor. There was even a PC version later. But it had no chance. It was nice though.

Posted by: banana Dream
-----------------
The Amiga was probably the best of the late 80's computers but unable to break through due to Apple and IBM x86 types having the software necessary for widespread acceptance. Commodore was an afterthought by this time.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (Iq9dF)

380 I'm having all these amusing visuals of "biden on the warpath" after the midterms

like he's on the ground wriggling around like a snake, snapping his dentures ....

or popping up from behind things, wielding a poop-filled diaper like in the Visit ...

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (j9HX3)

381 369
Dammit. Now I want some crusty bread and olive oil, neither of which are in the house. Will have to buy some tomorrow.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (2JVJo)

========

Wear your mask. We're all in this together.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

382 Why are Italians, on the average, hairy? Its not a cold place like say...Sweden or something.
Posted by: Chairman Xi at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (ESjRY)

Hair is a better protection against the Sun then it is against cold.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (yQpMk)

383 OT. my last work meeting where we did the "what are you working in" A few people said "the annual self evaluation that is due soon"

I hate those things. I procrastinate and then do some quickie write up. I never consider it part of "my work goals" Its just crap that is imposed on us because of a high CYA factor in case they need to dump someone whose doesn't get shit done as the rules require a HUGE paper trail of showing requests the slacker didn't comply with. But the clever managers have taken to 2 year terms for new hires so they can just not renew the term appointment for folks that just don't produce. I don't think they get much 'work honestly for 2 years and then become a slacker' gaming of the system. Slackers gonna slack sooner that that.

But some folks seem to relish listing every task they did like it was an accomplishment rather than just what we get paid to do.

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (3cGpq)

384 A frustrated Joe Biden will go on the attack against Republicans in the midterms -- and into 2024
.......

Is he going to seize all their yachts and luxury homes?

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (v0R5T)

385 Similar to spaghetti being twirled in a spoon (by the fork), eating with a fork only (long strands), or first cut then eating with a fork.

My own family has just about come to blows over this.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (nnLls)

Try telling them they should be eating it with chopsticks. Italians stole spaghetti from the Chinese.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (BJKQV)

386 Folklore.org has some stories about early Mac development

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 29, 2022 04:38 PM (YynYJ)

387 ??? With what? A failing economy, A destroyed Border, CRT, and a failing foreign policy? Good luck with that one LOL. Oh yeah and he is senile to boot
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (Irn0L)

YOU PEOPLE JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HIM!!!!

Posted by: EVA BIDEN at April 29, 2022 04:38 PM (6BTho)

388 American politics in 2022...

The Dems control the Presidency, the Congress, the SC (more or less), the Media, The MegaCorps, Academia, and Tech...

And the only thing they can campaign on is how much they hate Republicans.

I would love for someone to ask Slow Joe, "Do you think people are better off today then 4 years ago and if so why?"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2022 04:38 PM (ESjRY)

389 372 Why are Italians, on the average, hairy? Its not a cold place like say...Sweden or something.

I am not hairy! My mother was blonde, we all have blue eyes

might be the southern Italians, because of the Moops

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:38 PM (j9HX3)

390 It's a simple assertion of class privilege. They have it, you don't.

And that, long story short, is why they currently win. It takes somebody willing to fight in the gutters to bust through class privilege.

Privilege of class is real. That's why they hammer on it all the time. Because they've got it now, finally. The Political Class always demonizes what they're doing to the Rubes. Because it works, the Rubes fall for it every time.

Posted by: Glowie is the Troll that is the Conpiracy Theorist at April 29, 2022 04:38 PM (6jStI)

391 Similar to spaghetti being twirled in a spoon (by the fork), eating with a fork only (long strands), or first cut then eating with a fork.

My own family has just about come to blows over this.

Just declare yourself as "Keto" and sit back and watch the fight.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (AHeqJ)

slip in the crossfit somewhere too....

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (otjel)

392 the thing that I think is terrifying them at Twitter is the fact that all the tools they use to shadowban/throttle users are in the code and in config tables ... they simply can't delete the tables (it would crash the system) ... they can truncate some of the data for sure ... but a good reverse engineer can easily see just what they built and how it would be used ... and they can't just deploy new code ... not without getting caught right away ... guaranteed there are copies of the code at each stage of its development ...
and Musk is no fool as it relates to source code ... he has to know it shows what was done and when ... (maybe not why ... those emails are sleeping with the fishes is my bet unless a sys admin was smart enough to hide some backups)
Posted by: The Dark Lord

I think that is a very true statement. Once you start to pull on a few of the strings, the whole thing may just come unraveled. I wouldn't be surprised if some disgruntled guy at Twitter crashes the whole thing on the way out the door.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (vcOmj)

393 Folklore.org has some stories about early Mac development
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 29, 2022 04:38 PM (YynYJ)

Thanks for that - will take a look.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (5iUNf)

394 372 Why are Italians, on the average, hairy? Its not a cold place like say...Sweden or something.

Posted by: Chairman Xi at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (ESjRY)

Because we need our nose hairs to be long enough to dip into the olive oil and then we can just lap the beautiful essence off our lengthy nose hairs onto our tongue, silly.

duh

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (DJFLF)

395 Oh the norm will be for the Dems to take a shellacking in November. The norm for this cycle, and these conditions. You know, sort of how Arctic ice grows, then contracts, then grows again (though in that case we really don't know how or why, of course).

So the GOP will build its lead in the House, and I don't know about the Senate final score.

And?

I really think it would be better to let those most excited about this utterly robotic and predictable turn of events to acesplain to us exactly what benefits will flow from it, so I'll say no more.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (OTzUX)

396 Italians stole spaghetti from the Chinese.

Now you’ve done it!

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (DYKQF)

397
Fork spin (no spoon) is the only proper way to eat spaghetti.

I shall consider all others to be of lowly men and vermin.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (lgeFv)

398 I wonder if any of his attacks will be in the form of defending his actions or policies.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:32 PM (DU+/6)

=========

"They're gonna put you all in chains!"

It was a magnificent defense of the ACA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
*******
"They're going to put y'all back in the closet."
He'll be fighting for trans rights for your kids.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (NpAcC)

399 If Gates' tits get any bigger I might have a go.

I have spoken.

Posted by: Elon Musk at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (dsbE2)

400 Wear your mask. We're all in this together.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

Safer. Apart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (3NKiY)

401 Amiga was an evolutionary dead end. The core chipset was the final ultimate extension of the Atari 2600, by the same hardware designers. And by the time the Amiga shipped, none of how it operated was compatible with the standard way of doing things, which is why side-scrolling games on it tended to be janky.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (ZGrMX)

YOU KEEP MY AMIGA'S NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (BJKQV)

402 400 If Gates' tits get any bigger I might have a go.

I have spoken.
Posted by: Elon Musk at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (dsbE2)

Heard has turned you gay, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (3NKiY)

403 Amiga was an evolutionary dead end. The core chipset was the final ultimate extension of the Atari 2600, by the same hardware designers. And by the time the Amiga shipped, none of how it operated was compatible with the standard way of doing things, which is why side-scrolling games on it tended to be janky.

Posted by: Ian S.
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Amigas dominated the niche in early multimedia computer graphics including at broadcast stations with its multitasking and specific chips for each. IBM clones and apples generally sucked at that application. OS/2 was actually the better operating system for bidness than XT or Unix ports at that time. Widespread software was its problem and gaming was not the main focus on computer software in the 80's as arcades dominated along with consoles.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (Iq9dF)

404 The Amiga was probably the best of the late 80's computers but unable to break through due to Apple and IBM x86 types having the software necessary for widespread acceptance.

The Amiga was bad at the 2D side-scrolling games that filled arcades and the NES at the time. The PC and Mac weren't. Porn isn't the only thing that drives technological adoption.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (ZGrMX)

405
I am not hairy! My mother was blonde, we all have blue eyes

might be the southern Italians, because of the Moops

Northern Italy was conquered by a German tribe - the Lombards, and then controlled by the French and Germans for a LONG time.

Northern Italy and Southern Italy amusingly have a lot less in common then say Russia and Ukraine.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (ESjRY)

406 And there was DesqView for DOS. Somewhere I found a website by the original development team.

https://tinyurl.com/2p98yh8y

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (YynYJ)

407 Privilege of class is real. That's why they hammer on it all the time. Because they've got it now, finally. The Political Class always demonizes what they're doing to the Rubes. Because it works, the Rubes fall for it every time.
Posted by: Glowie is the Troll that is the Conpiracy Theorist at April 29, 2022 04:38 PM (6jStI)

Thank God! We've remade this country into the image of India! Now, get away from me, Untouchable!

Posted by: Vajayjay Gadde at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (FJYfm)

408 Oh, goody. PaleRider, the Horde can help with your evaluation, can't we guys?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, CNN Superfan at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (PiwSw)

409 *******
"They're going to put y'all back in the closet."
He'll be fighting for trans rights for your kids.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (NpAcC)

Copyright that now if you can, before Joe's speechwriter steals it!

Posted by: Gref at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (AMIL/)

410 288 Show me the tits on soy or oats. Or, for that matter, almonds.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:20 PM (H4qIP)
........

Boob thread!
Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

*perks up*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (XvPQV)

411 Fork spin (no spoon) is the only proper way to eat spaghetti.

I shall consider all others to be of lowly men and vermin.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (lgeFv)

as long as you don't cut it...

and my missus cuts it with a knife BEFORE putting any sauce on it... smh

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (otjel)

412 Spaghetti noodles are to be rolled on the fork and the stray long ends are to be slurped in.

It is known.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (yQpMk)

413 anyway last night I made some whole grains just because I wanted something quick, it was couscous, lentils, that kind of stuff. And I just threw a little olive oil and balsamic in there and dang, if I only had some parsley to chop up it would have been a poor man's tabbouleh.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (DJFLF)

414 396
I really think it would be better to let those most excited about this utterly robotic and predictable turn of events to acesplain to us exactly what benefits will flow from it, so I'll say no more.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (OTzUX)

==========

I'm more excited by the potential prospect of the MN state legislature potentially falling in Republican hands.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (LvTSG)

415 Are you sure? I always thought it was Marshall Law, meaning Penny Marshall would be given supreme executive power.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (BJKQV)
........

I think she's a zombie now.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

416 Northern Italy and Southern Italy amusingly have a lot less in common then say Russia and Ukraine.

ha! that is probably true

don't tell a Ukrainian that, they might kill you

but oddly the Russians are ok with it. when you would think THEY would be more annoyed by the comparison? I dunno. it's all weird.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (j9HX3)

417 I see that you've been to this country's public education institutions.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons

Schlemiel, Schlimazel, Hassenphef Incorporated!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (H4qIP)

418 Amiga is my nickname for Bill Gates when I titty-bang him.

So let it be so.

Posted by: Elon Musk at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (dsbE2)

419 And then there's the constant feud of whether being Sicilian is even Italian.

Honestly, all these points of contention are there because we fight/argue for fun. It's that simple.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (nnLls)

420 414 anyway last night I made some whole grains just because I wanted something quick, it was couscous, lentils, that kind of stuff. And I just threw a little olive oil and balsamic in there and dang, if I only had some parsley to chop up it would have been a poor man's tabbouleh.

that sounds awesome kallisto!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (j9HX3)

421 Similar to spaghetti being twirled in a spoon (by the fork), eating with a fork only (long strands), or first cut then eating with a fork.

cutting the strands seems uncivilized
Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:36 PM (DJFLF)
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I break them in half before putting them in the pot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (ARs9M)

422 > But they needed a working mechanical proto-type - and prior to "the visit" - they didn't have a working mouse, not a commercial agronomic version like Xerox's PARC team had - just a GUI that could, theoretically, accept such a mechanical device, if only they could get their hands on one. And they did - at least that's the past down "legend" of the visit.

Yeah, that version is baloney. Several Apple engineers had previously worked for Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. PARC did further development of the mouse, but the mechanical device idea you're describing wasn't a secret to Apple engineers.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (eyxn4)

423 Fork spin (no spoon) is the only proper way to eat spaghetti.

one of my Roman cousins mocked the way I ate the spaghetts, I think i was using a spoon to twirl the strands.

And fuck him anyway, he was just a facciabrutta like so many others.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (DJFLF)

424 Similar to spaghetti being twirled in a spoon (by the fork), eating with a fork only (long strands), or first cut then eating with a fork.
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Got scolded eating at the bar once by a gent with the spoon and napkin. Bread in your left hand and a fork in the other. It's a meal not a performance.

Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (+ya+t)

425 as long as you don't cut it...

and my missus cuts it with a knife BEFORE putting any sauce on it... smh
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (otjel)

She has her sauce... on the side?

What. The. Actual. Fuck?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (3NKiY)

426 and my missus cuts it with a knife BEFORE putting any sauce on it... smh

I break the noodles in half before putting them in the boiling water. Then they're manageable to eat on a fork.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (KZzsI)

427 I grant you my perspective is skewed from living in the belly of the beast, but don't be fooled by your own biases. More than half of the country will believe whatever Stinkfinger and the MFM vomit out.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (2JVJo)

Not according to most polling and their pocket books

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (Irn0L)

428 The fight is between those who say that real Italians don't dip the bread in an olive oil saucer and those who claim they do.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:34 PM (DJFLF)

As the arbiter of all things food on this smart military blog, I hereby declare that if it tastes good it is permissible. And crusty bread dipped in good olive oil tastes good!

Of course maple syrup and French Toast are specifically excluded from this rule, as eating them together is an affront to all human sensibilities.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (XIJ/X)

429 Amigas dominated the niche in early multimedia computer graphics including at broadcast stations with its multitasking and specific chips for each.

Right, it had the one trick where it could reasonably fake high-color still images, and NewTek made some add-on hardware to make that a useful thing to do for people who couldn't afford a Quantel PaintBox or whatever.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (ZGrMX)

430 Are you sure? I always thought it was Marshall Law, meaning Penny Marshall would be given supreme executive power.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:30 PM (BJKQV)
........

I think she's a zombie now.
Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

Once you've had a taste of the Meathead, you can't be killed.

Posted by: Rob Reiner at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (FJYfm)

431 I will be surprised if the term Economic Traitor doesn't gain currency on the Left.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

They will lie, and they will lie a lot.
If you have a chance, you should catch Dinesh D'Souza's "2000 Mules", which is his researched documentary on how the 2020 election was stolen. We are going to see it soon. I would be interested in people's opinion of it.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (vcOmj)

432 Fork spin (no spoon) is the only proper way to eat spaghetti.

I shall consider all others to be of lowly men and vermin.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk
as long as you don't cut it...

and my missus cuts it with a knife BEFORE putting any sauce on it... smh
Posted by: SturmToddler

Some folks don't even salt the water before cooking!

Mutagons!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (nnLls)

433 one of my Roman cousins mocked the way I ate the spaghetts, I think i was using a spoon to twirl the strands.

And fuck him anyway, he was just a facciabrutta like so many others.
Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (DJFLF)

Rome itself has some weird cuisine compared to the rest of the peninsula. IIANM it is a lot more fishy. A lot of weird stuff there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:44 PM (3NKiY)

434 Also, angel hair is the preferred spaghetti pasta!

*waits for incoming*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, CNN Superfan at April 29, 2022 04:44 PM (PiwSw)

435 that sounds awesome kallisto!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (j9HX3)

I've been too lazy to go shopping, it's basically all I had in the pantry.

Tonite it's some mexican chicken soup that I took out of the freezer. With Italian bread and I shite you not...some kind of processed American cheez slices...

lolol

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:44 PM (DJFLF)

436 as long as you don't cut it...

and my missus cuts it with a knife BEFORE putting any sauce on it... smh
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (otjel)

She has her sauce... on the side?

What. The. Actual. Fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (3NKiY)

no no. she cuts the plate up, then puts sauce on the top. but DO NOT MIX the sauce into the pasta.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:44 PM (otjel)

437 Of course maple syrup and French Toast are specifically excluded from this rule, as eating them together is an affront to all human sensibilities.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (XIJ/X)
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Weirdo.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe 2022! at April 29, 2022 04:44 PM (wyw4S)

438 schlemiel, schlimazel, Hasenpfeffer incorporated!

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

439 Got scolded eating at the bar once by a gent with the spoon and napkin.

Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (+ya+t)

You got scolded by another diner? Wow. Were there fisticuffs?

As long as the other diners aren't splattering me with their food I really don't care all that much how they eat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (XIJ/X)

440 Also, angel hair is the preferred spaghetti pasta!

*waits for incoming*
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Fist bump 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (H4qIP)

441 there are no rules to eating pasta that I know of

Ive seen people in tuscany just sit there with the bowl and sort of fork it into their mouths, no spinning or cutting just plowing it in there

ew

also the bread thing - I like doing it I don't see the issue. I do also sometimes add grated parm

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (j9HX3)

442 And fuck him anyway, he was just a facciabrutta like so many others.
Posted by: kallisto

OH!! She went there!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (nnLls)

443 I break the noodles in half before putting them in the boiling water. Then they're manageable to eat on a fork.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (KZzsI)

Pasta Hacks!

Endorsed. Also, salt your water with garlic salt- or use a bouillon cube of choice to punch up the flavor profile.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (3NKiY)

444 Some folks don't even salt the water before cooking!
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***faints!***

Posted by: lin-duh at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (UUBmN)

445 Xerox executives were wooden headed morons who weren't interested in anything that wasn't copy machines or copy machine supplies.

As an ex-Xeroid, I rate this claim as TRUE. They also let Interpress get away from them. The engineers formed Adobe and turned it into Postscript which then evolved into the ubiquitous PDF. Another innovation Xerox let escape.

Posted by: Halfhand at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (7Ol+s)

446 They will lie, and they will lie a lot.
If you have a chance, you should catch Dinesh D'Souza's "2000 Mules", which is his researched documentary on how the 2020 election was stolen. We are going to see it soon. I would be interested in people's opinion of it.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative

I would like to see it, but it's not playing locally and the cost to rent is $20.

Posted by: Infidel at April 29, 2022 04:46 PM (AhBAQ)

447 Maybe, actually probably French Toast for breakfast tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2022 04:46 PM (2JoB8)

448 I have to go to a thing in a few weeks (with Dr Oz! yay) like a gala so no eating for me for a while ha ha

must fit in dress

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 29, 2022 04:46 PM (j9HX3)

449 Vermicelli is the noodle of choice in this house.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 29, 2022 04:46 PM (yQpMk)

450 Spaghetti should be served in a narrow glass and poured into the mouth.

Posted by: irright at April 29, 2022 04:46 PM (SchQD)

451 Pasta Hacks!

Endorsed. Also, salt your water with garlic salt- or use a bouillon cube of choice to punch up the flavor profile.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (3NKiY)

Or you can try this one weird trick. Don't make your sauce bland and tasteless assjuice.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (SH2Zi)

452 And then there's the constant feud of whether being Sicilian is even Italian.

Off the top of my head, Sicily was conquered by: Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Arabs, Normans, and Spaniards.

Ethnically that's pretty mixed. But a lot of that is shared with mainland southern Italy as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (ESjRY)

453 If you cut the noodles in half how is the pineapple supposed to stay on top of the marinara. And the carrots will slip away

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (DYKQF)

454 She has her sauce... on the side?

What. The. Actual. Fuck?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (3NKiY)

Real Italians dip their spaghetti in olive oil.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (BJKQV)

455 Posted by: Steve Bannon at April 29, 2022 04:24 PM (9J0Rw)
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You're not the real Steve Bannon. The real Steve Bannon uses English, a language of planet Earth.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (sWM8x)

456 Also, angel hair is the preferred spaghetti pasta!

*waits for incoming*
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, CNN Superfan

I like Angel Hair spaghetti a lot, but like the normal size noodles, too.
When I was a kid, I cut up spaghetti. Then, I ate it by twirling noodles on a fork with a spoon (or just twirling them). Now, I just don't eat that much spaghetti.
My ex-wife was Italian ancestry, and we ate a lot of pasta.
My present wife is Polish ancestry, so I eat a lot of potatoes now.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (vcOmj)

457 Of course maple syrup and French Toast are specifically excluded from this rule, as eating them together is an affront to all human sensibilities.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (XIJ/X)

I did thin blackberry preserves and pour it over french toast with fresh blueberries and raspberries. That was pretty good. And no maple syrup, so it should be okay with you.

Posted by: Moki at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (JrN/x)

458 Also, angel hair is the preferred spaghetti pasta!

If I hadn't already started supper, I would make some chicken marsala over angelhair.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (2JVJo)

459 OH!! She went there!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (nnLls)

Spicy we are.

I rarely eat spaghetts anymore, when I do it's at my own house because honestly, no matter how you manage to eat them it usually ain't pretty. Plus I usually just twirl and twirl (with no spoon) until the strands aren't super long, so it also takes me a long time to finish a serving.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (DJFLF)

460 57 Puddinghead, we're way past pumping and kiting. IMHO, this is the beginning of the beginning of the troubles.

As most people think Elliot Wave analysts are nutz I'll leave it at that, except for this: SPX 900 in 2034.

One man's analysis. Cue scary music.

Posted by: CZ = FNG Sadly Waiting In The Dark For A Brave Fully Militarized First Responder To Kick In The Door at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (MkuC5)

461 Endorsed. Also, salt your water with garlic salt- or use a bouillon cube of choice to punch up the flavor profile.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (3NKiY)

some days i use olive oil instead of salt. but the garlic salt sounds like a good idea.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (otjel)

462 We have to leave some of the spaghetti un-sauced because 1 of my kids won't eat the sauce. I have failed as a parent.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (lgeFv)

463 If you cut the noodles in half how is the pineapple supposed to stay on top of the marinara. And the carrots will slip away

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (DYKQF)

Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (SH2Zi)

464 I think that is a very true statement. Once you start to pull on a few of the strings, the whole thing may just come unraveled. I wouldn't be surprised if some disgruntled guy at Twitter crashes the whole thing on the way out the door.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 29, 2022 04:39 PM (vcOmj)

I would still consider that a win.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (Qhnrt)

465 420 And then there's the constant feud of whether being Sicilian is even Italian.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (nnLls)

I though Sicilians didn't have "feuds," just vendettas.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (BJKQV)

466 I have been served crusty bread with a saucer of olive oil and basalmic vinegar.

Yum

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (lKAqb)

467 I like just about every kind of pasta.
Just like swimsuit models.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (XvPQV)

468 Also, angel hair is the preferred spaghetti pasta!

Me too. I am not a huge noodle fan to begin with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

469 With apologies to our own MP4, has anyone else seen this scrunt's Mary Poppins song about disinformation?

https://tinyurl.com/mverz52n

Totally not a cult, you guys.

Posted by: McLurkerson at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (wNDOJ)

470 *sigh*

The proper way to eat noodles is with chopsticks

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (xhaym)

471 The dipping bread in olive oil dispute will pale in comparison.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:22 PM
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But it's ok if you add some basalmic vinegar to the oil, yes?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (ju2Fy)

472 > Some folks don't even salt the water before cooking!

Way too many heathens put cream in their Fettuccine Alfredo.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (eyxn4)

473 448 Maybe, actually probably French Toast for breakfast tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2022 04:46 PM (2JoB

you used to talk about making Dutch babies, they look really good

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (DJFLF)

474 I though Sicilians didn't have "feuds," just vendettas.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (BJKQV)

I'm half Sicilian and half Irish. I'll bomb your house just for lulz.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (2JVJo)

475 Or you can try this one weird trick. Don't make your sauce bland and tasteless assjuice.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (SH2Zi)

Well, that's just cheating.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (3NKiY)

476 Heh. If I was to replace Musk with Mice Elf, it would be Conservative to Dissident Right because Conservatives just drive the speed limit of Progressivism while they yell for decades that everybody they supported the last 8 decades is not really a conservative because true conservatism has never been successfully implemented.
You move Right to the fringe to move the Overton Window Right which mainstream Cons absolutely to this day refuse to do because reasons.

Posted by: The Vooter at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (gV9uv)

477 464 We have to leave some of the spaghetti un-sauced because 1 of my kids won't eat the sauce. I have failed as a parent.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk

When I was very young I ate mine with butter instead of sauce, eventually grew out of it.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (dsbE2)

478 I would like to see it, but it's not playing locally and the cost to rent is $20.
Posted by: Infidel

It's probably 10 bucks a seat at the movies, so it would be $20 for us both to see it.
If I drag over my older son (who would be interested), then it's kind of a bargain if three of us watch it together.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (vcOmj)

479 My present wife is Polish ancestry, so I eat a lot of potatoes now.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (vcOmj)

Perogies FTW!!!!

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (otjel)

480 444 I break the noodles in half before putting them in the boiling water. Then they're manageable to eat on a fork.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:43 PM (KZzsI)

Pasta Hacks!

Endorsed. Also, salt your water with garlic salt- or use a bouillon cube of choice to punch up the flavor profile.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (3NKiY)

I like to serve it deconstructed: a glass of warm water, dry noodles, a whole tomato, and a clove of garlic.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (VGRuw)

481 >>> Amiga was an evolutionary dead end. The core chipset was the final ultimate extension of the Atari 2600, by the same hardware designers. And by the time the Amiga shipped, none of how it operated was compatible with the standard way of doing things, which is why side-scrolling games on it tended to be janky.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 29, 2022 04:35 PM (ZGrMX)

YOU KEEP MY AMIGA'S NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:40 PM (BJKQV)

I don't see how the Commodore Amiga's Motorolla 68000 had anything architecture-wise in common with Atari's MOS 65xx. 68000 series was also used in the Mac until powerpc. It was used in a lot of stuff. It's probably closer to 8080 than 65xx but still nothing like that either.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (qsj+f)

482 I like just about every kind of pasta.
Just like swimsuit models.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (XvPQV)
.......

The plus size ones love pasta.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

483 Olive oil and salt... boil then add pasta. I sometimes do some shrimp, olive oil and butter on the side and dust with some herbs while the shrimp cooks. I then add the pasta right to the pan, barely draining. Add a little shredded dry cheese and dinner is done. Takes longer to boil the water than anything else.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (BFigT)

484 476 I though Sicilians didn't have "feuds," just vendettas.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (BJKQV)

I'm half Sicilian and half Irish. I'll bomb your house just for lulz.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (2JVJo)

QED

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (BJKQV)

485 We have to leave some of the spaghetti un-sauced because 1 of my kids won't eat the sauce. I have failed as a parent.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2022 04:48 PM (lgeFv)

That's my oldest. But I make him have the sauce on the side. Probably got it from the wife's side.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (SH2Zi)

486 But it's ok if you add some basalmic vinegar to the oil, yes?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (ju2Fy)

all that matters is that it tastes good to you because food is an essential pleasure of la dolce vita

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (DJFLF)

487 > 450 Vermicelli is the noodle of choice in this house.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 29, 2022 04:46 PM (yQpMk)

Re: pasta...depends on the sauce. Angel hair, or even spaghetti are a no-go with a bolognese or heavier sauce. I prefer a shaped pasta for that (Orichetta FTW!). But a quick marinara with summer tomatoes and lots of garlic over angel hair - sublime!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:51 PM (gryET)

488 The ADA will protect Biden when he pops out of the little door at the top of the cukoo clock.

Posted by: klaftern at April 29, 2022 04:51 PM (taPSh)

489
I'm half Sicilian and half Irish. I'll bomb your house just for lulz.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (2JVJo)

migawd, I suspect your family has never gotten through and intervention without a stabbing.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2022 04:51 PM (xhaym)

490 The proper way to eat noodles is with chopsticks
Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2022 04:49
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Isn't that cultural appropriation? And what about the starving children that are chopstick retarded? (like me.)

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 29, 2022 04:51 PM (ju2Fy)

491 I cut my spaghetti up with a knife and fork, the Sicilian way. And more civilized.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 29, 2022 04:51 PM (dsbE2)

492 My favorite pasta? Penne.

I just can't get enough Penne!

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (ESjRY)

493 >>>Because we need our nose hairs to be long enough to dip into the olive oil and then we can just lap the beautiful essence off our lengthy nose hairs onto our tongue, silly.

>This is why Putin wants to nuke the west. Now do meat balls. Beef or pork?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (LkM8p)

494 Sometimes pasta with just good evoo, crushed garlic, torn basil leaves, and S&P is just divine.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (UUBmN)

495 You know what? Elon Musk owns twitter. If he wants to go all Potlatch Chief and burn it down that's his perogative. He owns it.
Burn
Scatter
Salt.
If he wants to, but I think he has something else on his mind, what I have no idea.

Posted by: Eromero at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (gktX6)

496 You got scolded by another diner? Wow. Were there fisticuffs?
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Lol, no. He was just showing me his skilz at the bar.

Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (+ya+t)

497 Show me the tits on soy or oats. Or, for that matter, almonds.
Posted by: rickb223

*********

NUTS!!

Almond milk's the new non-dairy treat
The advertisements say it can't be beat
But the almond rancher's rant
"Gosh darn it! I just can't
Get my fingers 'round that tiny little teat!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (kXYt5)

498 With apologies to our own MP4, has anyone else seen this scrunt's Mary Poppins song about disinformation?

https://tinyurl.com/mverz52n

Totally not a cult, you guys.
Posted by: McLurkerson at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (wNDOJ)

I watched it and will save the rest of you time. Bad phony English accent, crazy eyes, brainwashed twat 'singing' about Rudy, Ukraine and COVIDiocy. Your perfect Inner Party wannabe.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (2JVJo)

499 474 > Some folks don't even salt the water before cooking!

Way too many heathens put cream in their Fettuccine Alfredo.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:49 PM (eyxn4)

Like, 4 cups of cream

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (XvPQV)

500 to acesplain to us exactly what benefits will flow from it, so I'll say no more.

Obviously cash.
And a lot of swearing from the Empress when they start waffling.

Posted by: DaveA at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (FhXTo)

501
Who has a pasta of choice? If you have a pasta of choice, you're pasta'ing wrong. I can think of five off the bat that I need. Spaghetti, vermicelli, linguine, fettucine, campanelle or farfalle.

So that's like 5.5 kinds.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (UGDPW)

502 I cut my spaghetti up with a knife and fork, the Sicilian way.

It is very Sicilian to work a knife into everything even if it doesn't make sense. I eat my jello with a knife *gesticulates in Sicilian*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:53 PM (KZzsI)

503 >Now do meat balls. Beef or pork?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (LkM8p)

Yes - and veal.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:53 PM (gryET)

504 > We have to leave some of the spaghetti un-sauced because 1 of my kids won't eat the sauce. I have failed as a parent.

After a year and a half of work, my six year old kid will now eat a plain cheese pizza, no sauce. He is not an adventurous eater.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:53 PM (eyxn4)

505 I like to serve it deconstructed: a glass of warm water, dry noodles, a whole tomato, and a clove of garlic.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at April 29, 2022 04:50 PM (VGRuw)

I ordered a "deconstructed steak salad" at a nice restaurant once. It was a wedge of lettuce, a pile of egg slices, a pile of cherry tomatoes, piles of some other salad crap and a skewer with a bunch of steak bits on it. IIRC it was, like, $20+. I felt like such a sucker.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 04:53 PM (BJKQV)

506 well if twitter went absolute free speech within 2 hours they would be removed form the Apple and android stores. This would be followed by AWS dumping them as a service provider. So you can't go that far, but even less restrictive speech is not something the left can handle.

Posted by: Iron-Wombat at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (BRnXm)

507 I really think it would be better to let those most excited about this utterly robotic and predictable turn of events to acesplain to us exactly what benefits will flow from it, so I'll say no more.

Posted by: rhomboid
-------------
That is the normal progression but we are increasingly in uncharted waters. The Estates General was originally only met under Louis XVI to raise taxes for the bankrupt state. The 1930 election losses in Congress during Hoover's time set the stage for 1932.

The US Constitutional Convention originally only met to fix the Articles of Confederation after the Annapolis meeting indicated agreement among states that it was needed.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (Iq9dF)

508 Now do meat balls. Beef or pork?

Why not a mixture of both?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (2JVJo)

509 I watched it and will save the rest of you time. Bad phony English accent, crazy eyes, brainwashed twat 'singing' about Rudy, Ukraine and COVIDiocy. Your perfect Inner Party wannabe.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (2JVJo)
++++
Not at all. That "Inner Party wannabe" is actually Inner Party. She's your new Minister of Truth at DHS.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (DU+/6)

510 > Olive oil and salt... boil then add pasta.

You boil your pasta in olive oil?

*backs away slowly*

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (eyxn4)

511 Sometimes pasta with just good evoo, crushed garlic, torn basil leaves, and S&P is just divine.
Posted by: lin-duh at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (UUBmN)

I've done similar as a side. spaghetti, evoo, salt, black pepper, red pepper flake and then finish with shredded parmesan. it's got a kick if you add enough pepper to it, and just a nice side if you don't want hot.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (otjel)

512 So that's like 5.5 kinds.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (UGDPW)

I eat pasta so rarely now, but farfalle is def in my top 5. And I love the radiatore because they are so chewy and the sauce gets all smooshed up in there.

and I commit a very grave sin according to my cousins over there...I cook WHOLE WHEAT penne, with butternut squash sauce. And gorgonzola and sprinkled with toasted walnuts. But it's really the whole wheat they object to.

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (DJFLF)

513 I've been using a boatload of Rotelle (wagon wheel shape) pasta lately.

The granddaughters think it is the craziest thing ever. They don't know so much. I have much to expose to them.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (nnLls)

514 > Like, 4 cups of cream

The original recipe for Fettuccine Alfredo has zero cream. None.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (eyxn4)

515 Of course maple syrup and French Toast are specifically excluded from this rule, as eating them together is an affront to all human sensibilities.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

This is precisely what we mean by misinformation.

Posted by: MinTru at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (a3Q+t)

516 The Paolo he - how you say? - knows about meat balls.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (2JVJo)

517 Instead of hot dogs at baseball games they should serve spaghetti.

Because baseball is America's favorite pasta time!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (kXYt5)

518 Whew, busy day. Didn't get much chance to goof off.

*checks stock portfolio*
*chokes*

That's OK, I don't ever want to retire anyway.

Posted by: spindrift at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (h5TKJ)

519
God I wish the GOP had the balls to move to the dissident Right. We would actually win and begin to get our hands dirty to do the dirty work to take out the trash.
Middle to Late Gen X is our only hope especially when it comes to forcing the Boomers and Silents out of power.

Posted by: The Vooter at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (gV9uv)

520 Who has a pasta of choice? If you have a pasta of choice, you're pasta'ing wrong. I can think of five off the bat that I need. Spaghetti, vermicelli, linguine, fettucine, campanelle or farfalle.

So that's like 5.5 kinds.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (UGDPW)

Orzo, with light oil. Love it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (XvPQV)

521 Yeah I like to make spaghetti in a pan with some oil, herbs, and vegetables with meat, because that much tomato sauce kind of tears my guts up. My brothers in the house don't seem to like it as much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (KZzsI)

522 Not at all. That "Inner Party wannabe" is actually Inner Party. She's your new Minister of Truth at DHS.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (DU+/6)

I am surprised they did not go all the way and make Anita Sarkissean the High Lord Inquisitor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (3NKiY)

523 Now do meat balls. Beef or pork?

sweedish?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (otjel)

524 I did thin blackberry preserves and pour it over french toast with fresh blueberries and raspberries. That was pretty good. And no maple syrup, so it should be okay with you.

Posted by: Moki at April 29, 2022 04:47 PM (JrN/x)

FRENCH TOAST IS A SAVORY DISH!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (XIJ/X)

525 I watched it and will save the rest of you time. Bad phony English accent, crazy eyes, brainwashed twat 'singing' about Rudy, Ukraine and COVIDiocy. Your perfect Inner Party wannabe.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (2JVJo)
........

a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
the medicine go down-wown
the medicine go down

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (v0R5T)

526 NUTS!!

Almond milk's the new non-dairy treat
The advertisements say it can't be beat
But the almond rancher's rant
"Gosh darn it! I just can't
Get my fingers 'round that tiny little teat!
Posted by: Muldoon

Golf clap 👏🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (H4qIP)

527 496 You know what? Elon Musk owns twitter. If he wants to go all Potlatch Chief and burn it down that's his perogative. He owns it.
Burn
Scatter
Salt.
If he wants to, but I think he has something else on his mind, what I have no idea.

Posted by: Eromero at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (gktX6)

------

I could see him building a multifaceted single platform to rival and eventually displace many of the other social media and big tech apps. He's big into the efficiencies of vertical integration, although this would be more of a horizontal integration enterprise.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (fZmG/)

528 Is this it? That's what it's all about, Manny? Eating, drinking, fucking, sucking? Snorting? Then what? You're 50. You got a bag for a belly. You got tits, you need a bra. They got hair on them. You got a liver, they got spots on it, and you're eating this fuckin' shit, looking like these rich fucking mummies in here... Look at that.

Posted by: Bill Gates at April 29, 2022 04:57 PM (R/m4+)

529 515 > Like, 4 cups of cream

The original recipe for Fettuccine Alfredo has zero cream. None.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (eyxn4)

You gotta share your recipe. I like experimenting in the kitchen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:57 PM (XvPQV)

530 I break my spaghetti in half before tossing in the water. Is that a bad thing, too?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 29, 2022 04:57 PM (ju2Fy)

531 >I've done similar as a side. spaghetti, evoo, salt, black pepper, red pepper flake and then finish with shredded parmesan. it's got a kick if you add enough pepper to it, and just a nice side if you don't want hot.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:55 PM (otjel)

Saute a little broccoli rabe with the evoo and garlic first, just to wilt it, then toss with pasta and red pepper.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:57 PM (gryET)

532 If you live alone or like small pasta meals I highly recommend the Fasta Pasta gadget. Easy and almost no dishes.

Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 04:57 PM (+ya+t)

533 After a year and a half of work, my six year old kid will now eat a plain cheese pizza, no sauce. He is not an adventurous eater.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 29, 2022 04:53 PM (eyxn4)

My oldest had dairy allergies, and we had to use soy cheese on a pizza to get him something good to eat, and he gobbled it up. Once dairy allergies were in the past, he'll eat almost as much pizza that we throw in his cage.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (SH2Zi)

534 530 You gotta share your recipe. I like experimenting in the kitchen.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:57 PM (XvPQV)

=========

You know...if a college coed said this...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

535 Bozo, just me here. Hard to justify $20 when your are not working. I might bite the bullet after I see some reviews from the horde.

Posted by: Infidel at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (AhBAQ)

536 I don't get all the anti Bill Gates sentiment here during the period he was running Microsoft. It is ludacris, generally speaking, to claim that 100% of MSFT's success was only due to theft, and dumb luck. Nothing could be more wrong, they worked like dogs and competed like lions to build the company. And the net result of it all? They were a key player in changing the course of history. How many trillions of dollars of wealth has Microsoft created when you consider the impact on how corporations are run, the vast eco systems that is computer hardware, our daily lives? This list goes on endlessly and it is staggering. Dumb crooks could never have done that. No doubt, they built some buggy software, name me one company that hasn't. Often they were second with a product, so what? Is there a rule that says you can't build competing products? You may not like big tech and its personalities but ignoring the brilliance and energy that built the modern computing universe is purposeless. With that said, I am all in on nuking Big Tech for using it position to undermine our Constitution. It can't happen fast enough. As for the current Bill Gates: Moobs. That's all I got.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (9I3i5)

537 Tummy Meter. Well there it is ... Confirmation that Donnie swallows.

Posted by: Calbadger at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (Uk8xl)

538 Wouldja lookit that...cocktail time!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (gryET)

539 well if twitter went absolute free speech within 2 hours they would be removed form the Apple and android stores. This would be followed by AWS dumping them as a service provider. So you can't go that far, but even less restrictive speech is not something the left can handle.

Posted by: Iron-Wombat at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (BRnXm)

I wonder if the man who owns Starlink has considered this possibility?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (xhaym)

540 oh no it looks like somebody woke up CBD

Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (DJFLF)

541 French toast. Butter. Powdered sugar. Mrs. Butterworth's.

Finito.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (H4qIP)

542 Now do meat balls. Beef or pork?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (LkM8p)

C cups

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (XvPQV)

543 507 well if twitter went absolute free speech within 2 hours they would be removed form the Apple and android stores. This would be followed by AWS dumping them as a service provider. So you can't go that far, but even less restrictive speech is not something the left can handle.
Posted by: Iron-Wombat at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (BRnXm)

There are ways of getting around not having an app. On any phone.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (Qhnrt)

544 I used to cook a lot of pasta, but I got tired of picking all the dried up pieces off the wall.

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (v0R5T)

545 Now do meat balls. Beef or pork?

********

I make sausages with one end beef, the other ennd sawdust, because these days it's hard to make both ends meat.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (kXYt5)

546 "The granddaughters think it is the craziest thing ever. They don't know so much. I have much to expose to them."

Mama mia.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (OTzUX)

547
I am surprised they did not go all the way and make Anita Sarkissean the High Lord Inquisitor.

Look fat Anita Sar...sar....uh...sour puss got mad when I gave her the old two finger hello.

I mean she was wearing a skirt and a hat what was I supposed to do...I couldn't smell her hair.

Posted by: Joey Bitem at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (ESjRY)

548 Lost in Space, I just really hate the fact that Bill Gates is turning into Woody Allen in front of our eyes

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (xhaym)

549 Prediction for 2022 (no later than 2023):

At some point, some dude pretending to be a chick is going to be admitted to the maternity ward where he passes a kidney stone and everything involved will play along and say he gave birth.

Then, in an attempt to gaslight everyone, they will start pushing for legislation to protect kidney stones from being "killed" before they are passed in solidarity of... well, whatever lunacy we are in at the moment.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (QYPq3)

550 kallisto made one month or not too long ago, had leftover apple pancakes this morning.

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (2JoB8)

551 Pappardelle is my favorite pasta.

Posted by: Squid at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (DYKQF)

552 French toast. Butter. Powdered sugar. Mrs. Butterworth's.

Finito.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (H4qIP)

with bacon and sausage links. that was last weekend's breakfast....

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (otjel)

553 Savory? Next you will be telling us to put brown gravy on top of french toast.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (3NKiY)

554 I could see him building a multifaceted single platform to rival and eventually displace many of the other social media and big tech apps.
Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (fZmG/)

I hope so. Am I the only one who notices that social media halted any kind of innovation about a decade ago? For years the Internet was all about new, exciting technology. Then, suddenly, at the same time great web-site creation standards were being created, Big Tech took over everything and now people get super-excited about Twitter adding an "edit" button.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (BJKQV)

555 I don't see how the Commodore Amiga's Motorolla 68000 had anything architecture-wise in common with Atari's MOS 65xx. 68000 series was also used in the Mac until powerpc. It was used in a lot of stuff. It's probably closer to 8080 than 65xx but still nothing like that either. Posted by: banana Dream
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It didn't. The 68000 was a fairly advanced chip for its time and the Amiga combining it with specialty dsp processors for sound etc. put it ahead of its competitors at the time. What Amiga did not have was a corp of software developers. Motorola was also distracted from its chip business with the ensuing move to cellular phones. Not great followups to the 68000 and Intel which was focusing primarily on chip making eventually overcame it with help from Microsoft and the pc clone industry. Jack of all trades beat specialty even if the Wintels were inferior in a lot of ways to its competitors and that was due to software and hardware extensions.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (Iq9dF)

556 Orzo, with light oil. Love it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse

0W20?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (nnLls)

557 You know...if a college coed said this...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

I always wake up before the good part in those dreams

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (XvPQV)

558 I could see him building a multifaceted single platform to rival and eventually displace many of the other social media and big tech apps. He's big into the efficiencies of vertical integration, although this would be more of a horizontal integration enterprise.
Posted by: ShainS

Call it "YourSpace"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (H4qIP)

559 523 Not at all. That "Inner Party wannabe" is actually Inner Party. She's your new Minister of Truth at DHS.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 29, 2022 04:54 PM (DU+/6)

I am surprised they did not go all the way and make Anita Sarkissean the High Lord Inquisitor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (3NKiY)

--------

What, BFF of Adam Schitt -- Ed Buck -- wasn't

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (fZmG/)

560 554 Savory? Next you will be telling us to put brown gravy on top of french toast.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (3NKiY)

Nothing wrong with adding a little egg to your SOS.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (BJKQV)

561
So here's the thing with meatballs. I never got it with beef. With pork, I get it. It's like extra-delicious little sausages in there.

But with beef, you can buy a cheap cut of meat that's still better than hamburger, like skirt-steak, and just serve it with pasta and a nice vegetable sauce like puttanesca. For very cheap. Unless you boil down bottles of wine and sticks of butter to make it. Which I do. And it's still pretty cheap.

What am I missing? Why meatballs? They're difficult to make and crappy steak is better anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (UGDPW)

562 I make sausages with one end beef, the other ennd sawdust, because these days it's hard to make both ends meat.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (kXYt5)

*snort* literally.

*golf clap* well done

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (otjel)

563 557 Orzo, with light oil. Love it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse

0W20?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (nnLls)

CLP Breakfree
/s

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (XvPQV)

564 558 You know...if a college coed said this...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

I always wake up before the good part in those dreams
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (XvPQV)

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I'm going to write you a prescription for one lucid dream.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (LvTSG)

565 528 496 You know what? Elon Musk owns twitter. If he wants to go all Potlatch Chief and burn it down that's his perogative. He owns it. Burn Scatter Salt. If he wants to, but I think he has something else on his mind, what I have no idea. Eromero

I could see him building a multifaceted single platform to rival and eventually displace many of the other social media and big tech apps. He's big into the efficiencies of vertical integration, although this would be more of a horizontal integration enterprise. Posted by: ShainS

I think you maybe on to something here. Ma Elon. Who is going to play the Lillan Tomlin nasty operator role?

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (9I3i5)

566 The app stores - both Apple and Google kind of depend on having all the important apps in them.

If they drop twitter they'd have some issues.

AWS is a bigger issue if twitter uses them.

Perhaps Musk is hoping that all this comes to a head under a President DeSantis?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (ESjRY)

567 I am surprised they did not go all the way and make Anita Sarkissean the High Lord Inquisitor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (3NKiY)

No one would expect the Spanish Inquisition!

Posted by: 29Victor at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (BJKQV)

568 There are ways of getting around not having an app. On any phone.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons
Strictly speaking Twitter does not need a native app on either Android or Apple as it can run on browsers quite well. Practically, most people prefer app bloatware to running lean.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (Iq9dF)

569 I don't get all the anti Bill Gates sentiment here during the period he was running Microsoft.

. . . they worked like dogs and competed like lions to build the company.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (9I3i5)

They competed like monopolistic bully lions. I think that that is the main sticking point.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (SH2Zi)

570 544 507 well if twitter went absolute free speech within 2 hours they would be removed form the Apple and android stores. This would be followed by AWS dumping them as a service provider. So

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oh no, Musk would have to build his own servers. And then become a successful amazon competitor.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (OuH7W)

571 541 oh no it looks like somebody woke up CBD
Posted by: kallisto at April 29, 2022 04:58 PM (DJFLF)

It's wrong of me, but I felt the need to provoke. I feel sort of ashamed.

Posted by: Moki at April 29, 2022 05:02 PM (JrN/x)

572
FRENCH TOAST IS A SAVORY DISH!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:56 PM (XIJ/X)

I watched someone spoon my mom's blackberry preserves over cotija cheese. There is no accounting for taste

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2022 05:02 PM (xhaym)

573 hey you could use apple or linux or learn to compile your own operating system.

Posted by: sockamster at April 29, 2022 05:02 PM (OuH7W)

574 Not that I want to be ruled at all but if I had to I'd rather be ruled over by a libertarian than a leftist..

Posted by: lin-duh at April 29, 2022 05:02 PM (UUBmN)

575 So that's the gambit. Let Musk by tweeter and then the three big tech monopolies cry the new teeeter is too musky for their tender senses and off the Platform it goes. Down the shitter. Might get sued by tweeter for collusion. Who knows. I can see Google and apple ginning up some bs to keep Musk off there platforms.

This battle Royale is gonna be lit.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (rjpjQ)

576 This is weird. The ACLU wrote the Amber Heard op-ed against Johnny Depp that ran in the Washington Post

http://bitly.ws/qzXg

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (sWM8x)

577 Since I'm going to the grocery for olive oil tomorrow, I may as well buy some tricolor bow tie pasta and make some pasta salad as well.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (2JVJo)

578 Because baseball is America's favorite pasta time!

I make sausages with one end beef, the other ennd sawdust, because these days it's hard to make both ends meat.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2022 04:59 PM (kXYt5)
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the one, the only...

Posted by: wth at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (v0R5T)

579 No baked ziti? Or roast garlic? Guy I worked with from Jersey, Sicilian, you could smell the garlic from a block away.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (LkM8p)

580
I think you maybe on to something here. Ma Elon. Who is going to play the Lillan Tomlin nasty operator role?
Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 29, 2022 05:01 PM (9I3i5)

It won't be Grimes.

Posted by: Moki at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (JrN/x)

581 >>> Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2022 04:52 PM (kXYt5)

I cannot consume something referred to as "nut-milk". If I had someone when I was younger come up to me and ask, "Hey you want some nut-milk?" I would have hit them because they probably were a friend giving me crap and that's what you expect. It would have ruined the whole joke if I didn't hit him. That's how it works. nut-milk

I can't believe I live in a world where those two words are put together on a box and people buy it and drink it. I understand people are allergic to or their digestive system can't handle milk. But they should have come up with a better name. Testicle-dairy? Scrotum-juice? Ball-batter?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (qsj+f)

582 NOOD

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2022 05:03 PM (kf6Ak)

583 439 Got scolded eating at the bar once by a gent with the spoon and napkin.

Posted by: dartist at April 29, 2022 04:42 PM (+ya+t)

You got scolded by another diner? Wow. Were there fisticuffs?

As long as the other diners aren't splattering me with their food I really don't care all that much how they eat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2022 04:45 PM (XIJ/X)

....

I had an entire restaurant (okay like 12 old men) in hysterics once because I had no idea how to eat rice with my fingers.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 29, 2022 05:04 PM (aMA7g)

584 Call it "YourSpace"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2022 05:00 PM (H4qIP)

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Brilliant!

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at April 29, 2022 05:05 PM (r9sPH)

585 I'm more excited by the potential prospect of the MN state legislature potentially falling in Republican hands.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 29, 2022 04:41 PM (LvTSG)

You and I and Dave in FL agree - forget the US Congress - it's a hopeless corrupt group right now and the national party organizations are cheating as much as they can to get people in who will make grifting dough off tax payers.

But the state and county run governments to not get this national party attention and dollars, and all signs point to a complete conservative shelling of progressives in even blue states. And that, my friends, is the beginning of the end...because if there is anything Ron DeSantis has taught us the last couple of years, you can't beat state ran governments with Fed ran bullshit if that state has real backbone.

Posted by: Boswell at April 29, 2022 05:05 PM (5iUNf)

586 It's funny because Jeff Bezos is Dr. Evil without the fun backstory:

https://tinyurl.com/Monologuing-Again

Posted by: Sharkman at April 29, 2022 05:06 PM (LmKI9)

587 Bezos will never reach the status that Elon has achieved and he knows it and it chaps his ass. SNAP! Hope it burns, bitch.

Posted by: sidney at April 29, 2022 05:10 PM (Uy/WF)

588 >>>IBM was just stupid.

More like lazy."OMG! This stooopid Tonka Toy home computer product can't run a real operating system. Can't we just buy one instead of programming it ourselves? No one is going to buy a computer this pathetic anyway."

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 29, 2022 05:12 PM (R4z5M)

589 537 I don't get all the anti Bill Gates sentiment here during the period he was running Microsoft.

Posted by: Lost in Space
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Billy became a monopolist in the 90's and ironically it took him being sued for antitrust and the rise of the web (which btw Microsoft hindered rather than helped) to make them more harmless to the consumer. Development wise, their products were largely crap compared to specific products from competitors but since Microsoft sold them in a package deal of take it or leave it, most end user development software companies kept Microsoft happy because a lot of undocumented extensions gave favored developers an advantage. Ironically, what gave Microsoft its start was IBM's decade long antitrust battle with FedGov and IBM felt it could not develop in house. Even at the time, it was chance that the superior DR DOS was not chosen.

Apple was always a closed garden so if you liked its approach, then you were bound to it.

I run mostly linux now with a windows computer or two for running a couple of applications plus a Mac notebook.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 05:12 PM (Iq9dF)

590 Wow! That rush of wind that you feel is the point blowing right by Jeffries.

Q; Why should Twitter not be completely free?
A: Because people will use their freedom of speech to express hatred.

Right?

So this exchange is:

1. Show me an example of people hating Clarence Thomas.
2. They are expressing the freedom of speech.

So it can't be hate?

Posted by: Axeman at April 29, 2022 05:13 PM (krQz2)

591 577 This is weird. The ACLU wrote the Amber Heard op-ed against Johnny Depp that ran in the Washington Post

http://bitly.ws/qzXg

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis,
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Not really, the ACLU has whored itself out for the left just like Amnesty Intl. during the Obama years, more recently Salvation Army and many denominations running refugee scams, and so on. The reason is AWFLs and money for grifting.

Posted by: whig at April 29, 2022 05:14 PM (Iq9dF)

592 Bill Gates' genius was in manipulating the intellectual property system.

Posted by: JB at April 29, 2022 05:15 PM (TO8Xm)

593
All this asshole did is sign a great contract -- for him. And then he bought a very jenky program from another guy.

I've read that the first 38 steps of Gates' DOS at bootup exactly replicated CPM (which was the better OS), but 'intellectual property' laws back then were pretty lame.

But this is life. Sometimes losers and thieves win.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 29, 2022 05:20 PM (dQvv7)

594 537 I don't get all the anti Bill Gates sentiment here during the period he was running Microsoft.

Posted by: Lost in Space

Vista

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 29, 2022 05:21 PM (M+Lyo)

595 Bill Gates didnt buy code. He stole CPM. It was a better code. It was 32 bit before it was needed (Bill Gates once famously said that there was no reason for more than 16 bit OS). The CPM guy eventually killed himself.

Bill Gates may be evil. He is absolutely and asshole.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at April 29, 2022 05:22 PM (gPeKt)

596 This freak show is about the Left losing their ace in the hole to not getting creamed in the upcoming midterms. Twitter was immensely helpful in 2020 and they were counting on the same in 2022. That's why they have never backed down on their unpopular policies: they had their cheat sheet all ready just like last time, except Musk ruined the party. They will never forgive him or forget this. Interesting times ahead.

Posted by: Here in Italy at April 29, 2022 05:28 PM (nqWxz)

597 If you can’t handle Pelosi in goblin mode, you don’t deserve her in beast mode.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 29, 2022 05:37 PM (X9Vam)

598 Hoo boy, lots of myth going on here. I was around back then. I wrote code for CP/M, including assembler. I wrote code for MSDOS.
1. Bill Gates wasn't/isn't stupid. Harvard geeks aren't stupid. Except maybe from Musk's perspective.
2. The Musk emoji tweet didn't say anything about IQ, did it?
3. Gates wrote at least half of the first Basic interpreter for a microcomputer. He contracted its math subsystem out. His partner Paul Allen wrote an Intel 8080 emulator to test it. The interpreter was limited (no text manipulation) so it could run in 4 KB of memory. Gates's code was first class - correct and tight. And he wrote it fast. I'm guessing he wrote about 1000 to 2000 lines of assembler code.
4. The story of the IBM/Digital Research negotiation is complicated. Look up Gary Kildall in Wikipedia.
5. If "the CPM guy" referred to is Gary Kildall, he didn't kill himself. Ibid.
6. Gates didn't steal CP/M. Ibid.

Posted by: Neil Ferguson at April 29, 2022 06:14 PM (rfDRL)

599 Maybe some reality would have helped Musk but if you read his Tweeter feed and see the people he has blocked that is too much to expect.

Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left

https://tinyurl.com/3afy7un8

Posted by: Easter Lemming at April 30, 2022 03:26 PM (j/D4+)

600 Republicans and Democrats are now further apart ideologically than at any point in more than two decades.
A deep dive into Americans’ attitudes across individual political values and policy issues with data dating back to the late 1990s or early 2000s. In nearly every domain, across most of the roughly two dozen values questions tracked, views of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents and those of Democrats and Democratic leaners are now further apart than in the past.
It is not just Republicans getting more conservative and Democrats more liberal. In some cases, the gap has grown because the parties have moved in different directions, with growing shares of Democrats taking liberal positions and increasing shares of Republicans taking conservative positions. But in other areas, shifts are greater among one set of partisans than another generally as the country shifted more liberal.

https://tinyurl.com/yc74s4ht

Posted by: Easter Lemming at April 30, 2022 04:02 PM (j/D4+)

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