Daily Tech News 9 February 2023

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Google and Microsoft have discovered this thing called the "web" and decided it needs to die. (Tom's Hardware)

Google had a good try at this previously with its PageRank algorithm, which ranked websites based on the number of incoming links, which created an epidemic of comment spam and fake websites that persists to this day.

What Google and Microsoft plan to do now is to cut out not just the middleman but the creators themselves. Rather than search engines taking you to the websites that contain the original content, the tech companies will use AI to rewrite the content - since expression can be copyrighted but facts cannot - poorly - because that's what AI currently does.

If you've tried searching for rare subjects recently you'd have noticed that search engines have been going down hill, overwhelmed by the crap epidemic that they themselves spawned.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,
Time to just burn it down and walk away.

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ASRock's new 4x4 NUC uses a Ryzen 7000 - sort of. (Liliputing)

This is why I said previously not to buy anything without your secret decoder ring. This NUC uses AMD's Ryzen 7735U. The first 7 means it's a 2023 model. The second 7 means it's fairly high end. The 5 at the end is stupid, inconsistent, and in this case irrelevant.

And the 3 means it's a Ryzen 6800U and all the other numbers are lies.

The Ryzen 6800U is a great CPU and you shouldn't hesitate to buy it. The Ryzen 7740U if and when it shows up should be even better, but not hugely so.
I've noted multiple times that Apple is increasingly locking down its hardware so that it cannot be upgraded, or increasingly, even repaired.

But they haven't yet gone so far as encrypting the batteries.

If you buy a OnePlus tablet and the battery fails, you need to take it to your nearest authorised OnePlus service center - which doesn't exist.

Also, batteries always fail. They have a limited lifespan due to the chemical reactions involved, so they need to be easy to replace.

Which is why manufacturers make this as difficult as possible.
If you want to build your own retrocomputer based on a new old chip like the eZ80 or the 65C265, you quickly run into a problem: The CPUs are still in production and readily available (though they cost more than newer, faster designs like the RP2040) but the video chips from the day like the MC6845 were discontinued decades ago.

There are still sources - the chips were churned out by the millions during the 80s and they just don't die - but there's an alternative (short of using an FPGA): EVE.

It's designed for controlling LCD interfaces in embedded devices, but it has a completely generic interface with with a QSPI host bus, RGB digital output and HSYNC/RSYNC pins. Add a few resistors and you can get 64, 512, or 4096 colours out and plug it into anything with a VGA input - becoming rarer but also still readily available.

The range starts with 256kB of on-chip RAM and a maximum resolution of 480x320, and a price of $4. With 1MB RAM and a resolution of 1280x800 it only increases to $5.90, but that's probably overkill for a retrocomputer.

It includes onboard fonts in multiple sizes, starting at 8x8 and going up to a huge 36x49, and a sound generator that handles basic MIDI music. It seems to only have a single voice but can also play back 8-bit PCM or uLAW audio if you need something fancier.

Seems like a handy thing to have around.

Disclaimer: Now I just need a soldering iron. And the bits to solder. And the bits to solder them onto. And some solder.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2023 04:04 AM (xhxe8)

2 I have created a New Word

Skipixy

Posted by: Miklos sez hi at February 09, 2023 04:07 AM (qs89K)

3 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 09, 2023 04:07 AM (gaeTF)

4 https://tinyurl.com/b924umwt
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2023 04:07 AM (xhxe8)

5 You know what it means

Posted by: Miklos sez hi again at February 09, 2023 04:07 AM (qs89K)

6 How you doing MLii?

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2023 04:08 AM (xhxe8)

7 "Skipixy" refers to the consistent Skip First on the Tech Thread that kills the ONT"

Posted by: The Oxford Miklos Dictionary at February 09, 2023 04:10 AM (qs89K)

8 Morning, MLii

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 04:12 AM (o0Fxd)

9 How you doing MLii?
Posted by: Skip

Covfefe

Guessing covfefe

Posted by: The Miklos Dictionary of Covfefe at February 09, 2023 04:12 AM (qs89K)

10 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 09, 2023 04:15 AM (T4tVD)

11 Doing ok Skip

Work life is hectic, but ok. Pretty much same-old

How about you?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 09, 2023 04:15 AM (gaeTF)

12 Miklos, I'm trying to quit the coffee for a while.

...it's

difficult!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 09, 2023 04:16 AM (gaeTF)

13 Evening and morning, folken,

Up early to work out. I think it's drizzling out there; I'll need to wear a jacket and cap at the least. I hate working out in even light rain, as it trickles into my eyes. First world prollem, right?

The "new rules about tipping" piece MisHum linked to in the ONT inspired more than a few irate comments. I'm certainly not going to pay 20 or 25% for average service. When I go to my local favorite cafe, yes, I often tip way more than 15%, because I like my waitress and I like the food, and am pleased with the place for not being too insane about face diapers in '20 and '21. But if the clerk hands me my coffee in the coffee shop, I don't see any reason to toss in a tip when the damn coffee already runs nearly $3.00 for a plain dark roast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 04:17 AM (omVj0)

14 re: Google, Microsoft, etc. rewriting actual information with their boggle-style "AI" made-up information that may or may not include actual information when you search for something

Ah, I didn't see that coming but it makes perfect sense.

Posted by: If we had signed, we would have opened our borders and killed our own manufacturers - Ukraine, 2013 at February 09, 2023 04:18 AM (ZLyax)

15 Morning to Miklos, Skip, and MLiI. I'm starting off grumpy and don't need to be. Hope you all have good days!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 04:18 AM (omVj0)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 09, 2023 04:19 AM (sAmhv)

17 You too, Wolfus!

Let yourself have a cat snuggle, solves all kinds of grumpy-ness!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 09, 2023 04:21 AM (gaeTF)

18 JQ, you getting winter-y weather there?

We've had what I'd call mild winter here. It's 34 now and raining. Only one real cold snap so far and not a lot of snow.

(Probably just jinxed that now!)

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at February 09, 2023 04:23 AM (gaeTF)

19 Not enough hours in day have off tomorrow to go to old boss's funeral. It's going to be a nearly 2 hour drive way upstate

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2023 04:29 AM (xhxe8)

20 MLii, we haven't had a terrible winter (yet?)

Temps between 20s and 40s, rain, snow, wind... a real mixed bag.

Almost got to 50 the other day. Now? Right at freezing. LOL

I may get snow tires taken off at end of this month

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 04:30 AM (o0Fxd)

21 Morning all, hi MLii. Raining here and didn't get below 32 last night. Maybe Puxy Phil was wrong and that other right. There's a woodchuck in CT or so they now also tout.

Posted by: Farmer at February 09, 2023 04:34 AM (55Qr6)

22 Winter continues to do its thing here in the high chaparral. Even the locals are saying they miss the warmer drier winters of the last few years.

The phrase you hear invariably is that this winter is like the ones they remember growing up. Or worse.

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 09, 2023 04:38 AM (Jzz++)

23 I want every winter to be like this one

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2023 04:38 AM (xhxe8)

24 Last winter was snowier and colder.

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 04:42 AM (o0Fxd)

25 Hope I can get our deck rebuilt before summer heats up. I want new one to be covered. Would be so nice to sit outside during rain, without getting wet!

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 04:44 AM (o0Fxd)

26 Last winter was snowier and colder.
Posted by: JQ
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Here. Can't say about anywhere else, of course.

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 04:47 AM (o0Fxd)

27 The best Aggie Engineering 7 cents can buy....

https://tinyurl.com/
ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at February 09, 2023 04:48 AM (3i2Bl)

28 BOING!

Day 6 in bed with a virus but something's a bit more stable.

The worst is the woozy feeling all day long, preventing me from doing a lot of work lying down. The most I feel up to doing is posting useless comments on this or that moronic forum.

Oh.

Let me walk that back.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2023 04:50 AM (VBoTR)

29 Wait, so "AI" really is just a new worse type of search engine, isn't it?

Posted by: If we had signed, we would have opened our borders and killed our own manufacturers - Ukraine, 2013 at February 09, 2023 04:50 AM (ZLyax)

30 20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2023 04:07 AM (xhxe

Thanks. Always good reading.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 09, 2023 04:54 AM (/yCfV)

31 I may get snow tires taken off at end of this month
Posted by: JQ

Don't do that! Not until June anyway.

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 04:56 AM (vd8XM)

32 And sites like Facebook and twitter and instagram and all the rest are walled gardens, so actual searchable/compile-able "AI" search results will only be scraped from limited sources and not from actual human (not reporters or whack-job) interaction and debate.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: If we had signed, we would have opened our borders and killed our own manufacturers - Ukraine, 2013 at February 09, 2023 04:57 AM (ZLyax)

33 31 I may get snow tires taken off at end of this month
Posted by: JQ

Optimist!

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 09, 2023 04:58 AM (Jzz++)

34 Train crash in OH, Gov is 2 hrs late for press conference. TV station starts a live update at the back wall of the gymnasium just as the gov decides to come out and start speaking. Local cops tell reporter to cut the broadcast. Reporter:

The anchor handling the report said she heard the reporter saying, “The governor has just started speaking. I’m being told that I have to quit my report” before it was cut short.

Wasn't fast enough for the cops. They expect immediate compliance. Threw his face to the ground, knee in the back, cuffed and stuffed for 5 hrs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 09, 2023 04:58 AM (DK4U1)

35 And viewing, guy almost gets eaten by a Alligator

Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2023 04:59 AM (xhxe8)

36 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 09, 2023 05:01 AM (ju2Fy)

37 33 31 I may get snow tires taken off at end of this month
Posted by: JQ

Optimist!
Posted by: Pete Bog

Climate change! Models predict tires would be removed earlier and earlier! By 2250 you won't need snow tires at all!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 09, 2023 05:01 AM (DK4U1)

38 Currently 53 and windy here. Going to a high of 39.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 09, 2023 05:04 AM (ju2Fy)

39 Currently 53 and windy here. Going to a high of 39.
Posted by: olddog

Ahhh, winter. When you can wake up at 4 AM and it's the high temp of the day

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 05:06 AM (vd8XM)

40 Wasn't fast enough for the cops. They expect immediate compliance. Threw his face to the ground, knee in the back, cuffed and stuffed for 5 hrs.
----

(lays $20 on table)

They didn't pay the proper licensing fees to broadcast the local representative in a public place while in a taxpayer-funded building.

Posted by: If we had signed, we would have opened our borders and killed our own manufacturers - Ukraine, 2013 at February 09, 2023 05:07 AM (ZLyax)

41 Looks like a corporate coup at Project Veritas. O'Keefe put on paid leave.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 09, 2023 05:12 AM (/yCfV)

42 34 Train crash in OH, Gov is 2 hrs late for press conference. TV station starts a live update at the back wall of the gymnasium just as the gov decides to come out and start speaking. Local cops tell reporter to cut the broadcast. Reporter:

The anchor handling the report said she heard the reporter saying, “The governor has just started speaking. I’m being told that I have to quit my report” before it was cut short.

Wasn't fast enough for the cops. They expect immediate compliance. Threw his face to the ground, knee in the back, cuffed and stuffed for 5 hrs.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy,

The cop went way overboard but I despise the mfm. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 09, 2023 05:18 AM (sAmhv)

43 Looks like a corporate coup at Project Veritas. O'Keefe put on paid leave.

--

Brought to you by Pfizer.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at February 09, 2023 05:18 AM (qTw1t)

44 Thanks Skip !

And safe travels !

Posted by: JT at February 09, 2023 05:21 AM (T4tVD)

45 The cop went way overboard but I despise the mfm. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

----

The one I'm enjoying is the cops shooting the amputee. Way, way down in the bottom of all the articles will be something like "Tyrone lost his legs in a previous altercation with officers"

Ohhh. You know, that's not something you hear every day. It wasn't diabetes or a medical condition that people immediately assume because being an amputee isn't normal. No, this one is something from the last time this crazy bastard with a knife decided to do this same thing.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the situation?

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at February 09, 2023 05:24 AM (qTw1t)

46 Full disclosure: I have no idea if his name is Tyrone or not. I'm fairly certain it's not Tyler, though, and I'm taking those same liberties.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at February 09, 2023 05:25 AM (qTw1t)

47
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 09, 2023 05:29 AM (ENBF0)

48 hahahaha

Trying to find out how Tyrone lost his legs:

"She added: “Anthony was a good person. He was always there for his family. He’s our protector.”

(very next sentence)

The Huntington Park Police Department said it was called to the scene after Anthony Lowe Jr. stabbed someone without provocation.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at February 09, 2023 05:29 AM (qTw1t)

49
Looks like a corporate coup at Project Veritas. O'Keefe put on paid leave.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 09, 2023 05:12 AM

with all the rabbits O'Keefe has pulled out of hats over the years, it would not surprise me if this was part of an elaborate op by Veritas

O'Keefe is a proven eleven dimensional chess player

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 09, 2023 05:38 AM (ENBF0)

50 It looks as if, as I suspected, we blew up the Nordstream pipeline. That would constitute a deliberate act of war against Russia (aside from the damage and economic injury caused to parts of Europe).

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 09, 2023 05:43 AM (/yCfV)

51 O'Keefe is a proven eleven dimensional chess player
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 09, 2023 05:38 AM (ENBF0)

I'd like to agree but I fear it is the latest example of punishing audacious competence.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 09, 2023 05:45 AM (/yCfV)

52 A fairly new (probably not) thing now is to go into the suburbs and steal a car, and ram it into a store front hoping to get something. The cops say most of the time the preps choose poorly and get nothing. But anyway if caught, they only get a ticket (which they ignore) so no worries. At Walmart yesterday you now have pass a small army of security to exit the store. Big black guys look at you like they know you must have a microwave hidden under that winter coat.

Posted by: Colin at February 09, 2023 05:50 AM (5MF9p)

53
Let yourself have a cat snuggle, solves all kinds of grumpy-ness!

***
Oh, the Great Black Kitten Stirling and I have a regular routine of that every morning when I wake up. He throws himself in to the crook of my arm, kneads me (ouch!), and even nuzzles a little.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 05:51 AM (omVj0)

54 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 05:52 AM (BRHaw)

55 Light from a cross- A Christian devotional from The
"The Upper Room" by a man from Norway:

https://tinyurl.com/bk5cu6wj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2023 05:52 AM (a/pWW)

56 Currently 53 and windy here. Going to a high of 39.
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 09, 2023

***
I dream of a climate like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 05:53 AM (omVj0)

57 Man sprints across four lanes to help save driver on distress. Sunny Skyz story:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8wdpp9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2023 05:55 AM (a/pWW)

58 Ahhh, winter. When you can wake up at 4 AM and it's the high temp of the day
Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023

***
Ahhh, Swamp Summer. When you wake at 4 am and it's 80 viciously humid degrees.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 05:56 AM (omVj0)

59 O'Keefe is a proven eleven dimensional chess player
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 09, 2023 05:38 AM (ENBF0)

I'd like to agree but I fear it is the latest example of punishing audacious competence.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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I was thinking it might have to do with that piece that was in the sidebar. The ex-employee who talked about all the gay sex they had to perform to get a story.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 09, 2023 05:57 AM (ju2Fy)

60
Fetterman is in the hospital. I'm guessing wife will soon be replacing
him in DC.

Posted by: four seasons at February 09, 2023 05:58 AM (ichPI)

61 Good morning morons

Local TV news reports a popular baker is now on life support in Oakland after a robbery at 12:30 pm Monday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 05:59 AM (EZebt)

62 Ahhh, Swamp Summer. When you wake at 4 am and it's 80 viciously humid degrees.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Mornin' Wolfus.

I lived at Pensacola for most of a year... summer was *sticky*. Couldn't pay me enough to ever live along Gulf Coast again!

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 06:00 AM (o0Fxd)

63 Biden's Dog a prayer for complete and speedy healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 06:03 AM (EZebt)

64 It must be a strange feeling put on suspension by the company you founded.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 09, 2023 06:04 AM (/yCfV)

65 I lived at Pensacola for most of a year... summer was *sticky*. Couldn't pay me enough to ever live along Gulf Coast again!
Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023

***
And you at least had the chance of breezes off the Gulf. Here inland, the only breezes are from the interiors of air-conditioned stores when a door opens as you walk past. Believe me, I want to flee . . . but F. Joe's destruction of the economy makes me wonder if a year from now I'll be able to live without another full-time job, if I can find one.

I should have retired in 2018 or 2019.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 06:05 AM (omVj0)

66 What a surprise!! Not..Power goes out in room where House was investigating Twitter interference over withholding info on Hunter Biden laptop:

https://tinyurl.com/y3ydwyx4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2023 06:07 AM (a/pWW)

67 Local TV news reports the man who emptied a pistol full of blanks in a synagogue a mile from here last Wed. night has been charged with a hate crime.

The video is remarkable. They sit there drinking their coffee and cake and basically ignore the shooter. No one got out of his or her chair.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 06:08 AM (EZebt)

68 It looks as if, as I suspected, we blew up the Nordstream pipeline. That would constitute a deliberate act of war against Russia (aside from the damage and economic injury caused to parts of Europe).
Posted by: Ordinary American

But, strangely, we don't seem to have a hard on for the pipelines that run through the Ukraine. Corrupt, thieving, gas skimming Ukraine. Putin is madman who also uses energy as a weapon to destabilize our sacred democracy! REEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at February 09, 2023 06:10 AM (izthW)

69 Microsoft has been a crapfest for a decade now. Bill Gates made his billions and cares nothing about the quality of his software anymore. And Google in the past 2-4 years seems to be doing everything possible to catch up to Microsoft's lead in this area.

Posted by: Tracy at February 09, 2023 06:12 AM (wefyc)

70 Posted by: olddog in mo at February 09, 2023 05:57 AM (ju2Fy)

With whom did they have to perform gay sex with to get a story-James O'Keefe or the guy from Pfizer. I'm asking because I'd just prefer to look at the sidebar story.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 09, 2023 06:12 AM (a/pWW)

71 Guess FBI is going after Catholics now:

They can advise law enforcement about potentially illegal activity. Due to the fact that “white supremacy” is itself a First Amendment-protected belief, to say nothing of proponents of the most established Christian denomination in the world, the Bureau tries to cover documents like these with a caveat excusing their intrusion into the sacrosanct grounds of free exercise of religion and free association. In another typical intrusion into First Amendment concerns, the document implies a strategy of monitoring social media for RTC ideology in online posts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 06:15 AM (BRHaw)

72 Wolfus, sorry you feel trapped. Pensacola maybe wasn't so bad, but I hated it there. Ugh. Air you could cut into chunks!

And the bugs, oh gawd. Huge roaches ("waterbugs"?) and nasty fire ants. Barracuda in the water, Man-o-war, sharks, f'ing stinging jellyfish...

Snakes. Hey, at least the rattlesnakes here can make sound.

Nope. Never going back there!

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 06:17 AM (o0Fxd)

73 Gavin Newsom is so blithe and stupid he enrages me.

Tell me again about your "ten-year plan end homelessness" genius. Stupid people think everyone is as stupid as themselves.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 06:17 AM (EZebt)

74 In two years we've become a rogue empire, a bad actor and destabilizing force within our own shores and across the world. But decorum, please, decorum!

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 09, 2023 06:19 AM (/yCfV)

75 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 09, 2023 06:24 AM (u82oZ)

76 Everything wrong with Public Unions in 2 paragraphs:

In 2019, Success Academy Harlem 2 charter school ranked 37th among New York state’s 2,413 public elementary schools, one of which, PS 30, had only about a third as many pupils as Harlem 2, spent twice as much per pupil and ranked 1,694th. PS 30 and Harlem 2 operate in the same building.

The contract for PS 30’s unionized teachers is 167 pages long, mostly detailing job protections, and what teachers can and cannot be required to do. The contract for Harlem 2’s nonunion teachers is one page long. Those teachers can be fired at will, and are paid 5 to 10 percent more than PS 30 teachers on the other side of the building.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 06:24 AM (BRHaw)

77 Biden's Dog a prayer for complete and speedy healing
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 06:03 AM (EZebt)
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Thanks but that's not working. So send beer, instead.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 09, 2023 06:26 AM (VBoTR)

78 Okay, an actual tech question for youse guys.

What's the best way to clean the USB ports on my laptop?

I tried a cotton swab and the stick is a little to big to get all the way in...no jokes.. Is there a compressed air/cleaner that'll do it?

Brake cleaner?

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:27 AM (vd8XM)

79
Fetterman is in the hospital. I'm guessing wife will soon be replacing him in DC.

Posted by: four seasons at February 09, 2023 05:58 AM

I gotta get the hell out of Pennsylvania. His election and another (D) governor and Secretary of State was the last straw.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 06:27 AM (enJYY)

80 69 Microsoft has been a crapfest for a decade now. Bill Gates made his billions and cares nothing about the quality of his software anymore. And Google in the past 2-4 years seems to be doing everything possible to catch up to Microsoft's lead in this area.
Posted by: Tracy at February 09, 2023 06:12 AM (wefyc)

I think trying to wrap apps into and OS is always a shithole. It is the same as when you add a new software package at work and someone (say purchasing) want to a spec that mimics some workaround they implemented 10 years ago and now believe that is the best way to work.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 06:27 AM (BRHaw)

81 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 06:28 AM (DXrUa)

82 Tell me again about your "ten-year plan end homelessness" genius. Stupid people think everyone is as stupid as themselves.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

10 year plan? What happened to 5 year plans that never end?

Inflation?

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:29 AM (vd8XM)

83 Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:27 AM

Pipe cleaners (chenille) and vacuum?

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 06:29 AM (o0Fxd)

84 62 Ahhh, Swamp Summer. When you wake at 4 am and it's 80 viciously humid degrees.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Mornin' Wolfus.

I lived at Pensacola for most of a year... summer was *sticky*. Couldn't pay me enough to ever live along Gulf Coast again!
Posted by: JQ

I spent 2 summers in Biloxi, MS (Keesler AFB). I loved the food, the music, and the beach. I hated the sauna inside an oven summers. I do miss the food though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 09, 2023 06:29 AM (sAmhv)

85

Divide by Zero,

The article says he was feeling lightheaded and it's not related to his stroke. Yeah, pull the other one.

Posted by: four seasons at February 09, 2023 06:30 AM (ichPI)

86 Pipe cleaners (chenille) and vacuum?
Posted by: JQ

That might do it. Thanks...
If my dad was still around I could get the pipe cleaners for free...

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:30 AM (vd8XM)

87 The article says he was feeling lightheaded and it's not related to his stroke. Yeah, pull the other one.
Posted by: four seasons

But, if he hadn't gotten the vax it would have been worse.

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:31 AM (vd8XM)

88 I gotta get the hell out of Pennsylvania. His election and another (D) governor and Secretary of State was the last straw.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Good luck - it took me 8-9 years to completely disentangle myself from the farm in Berks County due to interference of the State, county, township and borough (acreage straddled the line). I had a qualified, saintly patient buyer the entire time.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 06:32 AM (DXrUa)

89 G'morning all.

Two days visiting the Smithsonian American History Museum.

More woke crap in the exhibits than you can believe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 09, 2023 06:32 AM (qQisc)

90 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 09, 2023 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

91 Dr. Kaltiala explained that while it is “important to accept the child as they are,” it is also necessary to recognize that it is common for children to strongly identify with the opposite sex at some point in their lives, but four out of five children who identify as transgender will grow out of it during puberty.

Changing society for 0.1% of people not old enough to vote or drink legally may just be the worst idea ever.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 06:34 AM (BRHaw)

92 Two days visiting the Smithsonian American History Museum.

More woke crap in the exhibits than you can believe.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

For me, it's unvisitable (?) now. We've become the old man shouting at his soup haven't we?

Welcome aboard!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 06:35 AM (DXrUa)

93 Village Idiot's Apprentice

That is very bad. It used to be a great museum. I knew the glass-blower who made the lampwork US Capital in their collection.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 09, 2023 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

94 I'm not sure the Nordstream act of war wasn't directed at Germany. Russia's lack of a response probably stems from their realization that America has blundered its way into destabilizing Europe even further.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 09, 2023 06:35 AM (oWBc3)

95 G'morning Salty.

All good here. Hope all is well with you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 09, 2023 06:35 AM (qQisc)

96 60
Fetterman is in the hospital. I'm guessing wife will soon be replacing
him in DC.

Posted by: four seasons

She probably put him there. PA is a lost state. Dems rule it now and it will be like the rest of the Blue states. Dropping populations, higher cost of living, rotting infastructure, and high crime. It was almost to that point anyway. This is the final nail, I guess.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 09, 2023 06:36 AM (sAmhv)

97 Hey Kamilia baby

It is common for children to strongly desire the opposite sex some of the time. And they do not grow out of it until the third divorce.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 09, 2023 06:37 AM (u82oZ)

98 "Woke" is a four-letter word.

Might need to make up some t-shirts. Feel free to steal!

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 06:37 AM (o0Fxd)

99
Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 06:32 AM

Where did you end up moving to?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 06:37 AM (enJYY)

100 Yeh, it's bad at the museum.
Literally walked out of the Hispanic exhibit after they wrapped LGBT into the Hispanic struggle.

And the crap is everywhere

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 09, 2023 06:38 AM (qQisc)

101
Balmy 6 degrees here in Wyoming. Might work on my tan today, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at February 09, 2023 06:39 AM (ichPI)

102 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Got some challenges, but mostly OK. Looking to work with a friend to take back the north part of the county precincts for a strong State Senatorial candidate in 2024. He has a cunning plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 09, 2023 06:39 AM (u82oZ)

103 And the crap is everywhere
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

They see how well it works at grocery stores with end cap items.

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:39 AM (vd8XM)

104 Balmy 6 degrees here in Wyoming. Might work on my tan today, lol.

Posted by: four seasons

Or a Black and Tan..

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:40 AM (vd8XM)

105 Good luck Salty.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 09, 2023 06:40 AM (qQisc)

106 Over at Wyatt's house there is an appalling story about a black history month flyer sent to the Border Patrol. Incredible what they spend tax dollars on these days. These people really hate us.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 09, 2023 06:41 AM (oWBc3)

107

Good idea Bruce, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at February 09, 2023 06:41 AM (ichPI)

108 Have a great day, everyone.

May you bask in the beauty all around you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 09, 2023 06:41 AM (u82oZ)

109 Dby0 - My permanent home was Ohio but I had always planned to move back to the farm. The state of the state of PA (taxes, regulation, influence from NYC, etc.) drove me to give that idea up. Sold everything in OH and PA and I'm now in east/central TN.

We absolutely love it.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 06:41 AM (DXrUa)

110 Off to treatment

BBL

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 09, 2023 06:41 AM (qQisc)

111 These people really hate us.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem
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The feeling is mutual.

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 06:42 AM (o0Fxd)

112
Facebook is kinda funny. I'm not sure of their algorithm but they keep presenting me with "People You May Know" who all happen to be attractive young women who live very close to the Florida city where my brother and sister live, like a thousand miles away.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 06:43 AM (enJYY)

113 Good news. I was at a quarterly meeting for work and everyone ditched their mask. First time in 3 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 06:43 AM (EZebt)

114 I spent 2 summers in Biloxi, MS (Keesler AFB). I loved the food, the music, and the beach. I hated the sauna inside an oven summers. I do miss the food though.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 09, 2023

***
That's the rationalization the natives here use to justify staying in this pesthole: food and music. Well, good food can be prepared anywhere, and music can be had on CD or DVD. Those are not reasons to live in a high-crime drainage ditch with "sauna inside an oven summers."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 06:44 AM (omVj0)

115
Sold everything in OH and PA and I'm now in east/central TN.

We absolutely love it.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 06:41 AM

Interesting. My son now lives in Knoxville.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 06:45 AM (enJYY)

116 " Sen. John Fetterman, who had a stroke during his 2022 Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, is in the hospital after feeling lightheaded, his office said in a statement."

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 09, 2023 06:45 AM (DB16e)

117 Breakfast time!!

Have a good one all.

Posted by: Bruce at February 09, 2023 06:48 AM (vd8XM)

118 So the PA governator appoints a true commie if finisterman croaks?

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2023 06:48 AM (1vBNQ)

119 Wow, I never realized that I was supposed to call an ambulance when I felt light-headed.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 09, 2023 06:48 AM (wXOk6)

120 Eventually tech companies will be forced to allow the right to upgrade, fix and change. Their arrogance they still own my property must be explicitly prohibited backed up with serious fines.

Posted by: Xavier Basora at February 09, 2023 06:48 AM (HZCl6)

121 Dad told stories of his time in/near Biloxi, when he was in the Air Force, late 1950s or early 1960s.

He went to a bar with a couple buddies, late afternoon... saw the proprietor filling some bottles on the back-bar from a jug LOL.

They decided to go elsewhere for a drink

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 06:48 AM (o0Fxd)

122 'Night all! Have a great day!

Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2023 06:53 AM (o0Fxd)

123 Hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at February 09, 2023 06:54 AM (PbwT0)

124 At OFCOM in the UK:
We also help to make sure people across the UK are satisfied with what they see and hear on TV and radio, and that programmes reflect the audiences they serve. We consider every complaint we receive from viewers and listeners. Often, we investigate further and we sometimes find broadcasters in breach of our rules.

We are independent, and funded by fees paid to us by the companies we regulate.

ha fucking haha

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 06:55 AM (BRHaw)

125
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 09, 2023 06:44 AM (omVj0)

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Here its food and weather.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 06:55 AM (EZebt)

126 Eventually tech companies will be forced to allow the right to upgrade, fix and change. Their arrogance they still own my property must be explicitly prohibited backed up with serious fines.
-

It's going to be the opposite. You'll own nothing and be happy wasn't an accident. That's the plan. We're already getting a glimpse of it with software and, as you pointed out, devices up to and including farm equipment.

I'm told some people are already embracing just-in-time food delivery services for their meals.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 09, 2023 06:56 AM (wXOk6)

127 There was a redneck bar called Wildfire in Gulfport/Biloxi area, always baited with wespac widows, attracted AF and Seabees.

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2023 06:57 AM (1vBNQ)

128 Fetterman's wife is ready to step into her husband's shoes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2023 06:58 AM (ALMmx)

129 G'mornin' everyone!

31 degrees, not snowing yet ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 09, 2023 07:00 AM (XzIdt)

130 always baited with wespac widows, attracted AF and Seabees.
Posted by: Eromero

"Hey Chief, would you buy a lady a drink?"

"Sure - if one walks in."

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 07:01 AM (DXrUa)

131
Fetterman is in the hospital after feeling 'lightheaded'.

His neck lump heard about the CCP's spy balloon and now it, too, wants to float, serene and undisturbed, above things. "Let me be free! Let me be free!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 09, 2023 07:01 AM (pNxlR)

132 Fetterman is in the hospital after feeling 'lightheaded'.

His neck lump heard about the CCP's spy balloon and now it, too, wants to float, serene and undisturbed, above things. "Let me be free! Let me be free!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 09, 2023 07:01 AM (pNxlR)

PA is a lost State.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 09, 2023 07:02 AM (nuyZG)

133 Just in time meals?

Wow, well we always knew the dense urban areas were unsustainable. This will make the descent into anarchy and cannibalism much quicker.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2023 07:02 AM (ALMmx)

134 Wow, well we always knew the dense urban areas were unsustainable. This will make the descent into anarchy and cannibalism much quicker.
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Popcorn!, Git yer popcorn here!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 07:02 AM (DXrUa)

135 Fetterman is in the hospital after feeling 'lightheaded'.

His neck lump heard about the CCP's spy balloon and now it, too, wants to float, serene and undisturbed, above things. "Let me be free! Let me be free!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 09, 2023 07:01 AM (pNxlR)

PA is a lost State.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 09, 2023 07:02 AM (nuyZG)

Well let me rephrase that:
Philly and Pittsburgh and Scranton are a lost State

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 09, 2023 07:03 AM (nuyZG)

136
I'm told some people are already embracing just-in-time food delivery services for their meals.

For generations that are wholeheartedly in the "carbon dioxide releases are gonna kill us!" cargo cult, Millennials and Gen Z sure have embraced lifestyles that do just that: to wit, meal and meal prep delivery services and Amazon, which is bound and determined to level that very region in order to box everything in oversized cardboard containers. Well, okay then.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 09, 2023 07:08 AM (pNxlR)

137 Well let me rephrase that:
Philly and Pittsburgh and Scranton are a lost State

I'm hoping the rest of the state practices a little 'Irish Democracy' and resist the criminals in Harrisburg.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 09, 2023 07:09 AM (sAmhv)

138 mornin yall. Shitty day yesterday. I had to go to Atlanta, nothing went right, and on the way back a rock hit my windshield and broke it. If you hear about someone strangling stupid people today, that would be me.

Posted by: fd at February 09, 2023 07:10 AM (iayUP)

139 I was thinking it might have to do with that piece that was in the sidebar. The ex-employee who talked about all the gay sex they had to perform to get a story.

Its a comedic skit. Chuy links to their videos from time to time.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:11 AM (l7lsb)

140 If you hear about someone strangling stupid people today, that would be me.
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2023 07:10 AM (iayUP)
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So we'll have you to thank when the usual trolls decide NOT to show up today?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2023 07:11 AM (BpYfr)

141 Red sunrise here. Rain is coming.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 07:13 AM (TXFi7)

142 Chatterbox Mouse, keep your johnboat tied to the porch.

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2023 07:14 AM (1vBNQ)

143 Westpac widows in Gulfport?

Huh?

San Diego or Long Beach I understand.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 07:15 AM (TXFi7)

144 WesPac widow is like schoolmarm.

Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2023 07:17 AM (1vBNQ)

145 Wow, well we always knew the dense urban areas were unsustainable. This will make the descent into anarchy and cannibalism much quicker.

Its been that way throughout human history. There are far more reasons why a dense urban area should fail than to thrive.

The interesting part is why so many dense urban areas even cropped up in the past fifty years (globally speaking), and the answer largely had to do with Post WWII Pax Americana, a stable currency and a high trust supply chain - all very much related.

There are only a handful of cities globally that can continue to be big in Supply Chain crash. The de-urbanization will be the norm going forward, either through death, or relocation to the sub and ex-urbs.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:18 AM (l7lsb)

146 My mom asked her friend what it's like to be married to sailor. (a Master Chief)

There's good news and bad news, she says.

The bad news is that he is gone for 6 months at a time.

The good news is that he is gone for 6 months at a time.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 07:18 AM (TXFi7)

147 The US Naval Construction Battalion at Gulfport MS, forget if they are LANTFLT or PACFLT.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2023 07:19 AM (ALMmx)

148 Then why has the Energy Department proposed new efficiency standards that would ban the sale of most gas stoves currently on the market? The stated purpose of the rule-making is to reduce energy consumption and save consumers money. But these benefits are meager. The department estimates the proposed rule would reduce energy use by a mere 3.4% from the status quo, and consumers on average would save $21.89 over a cook-top’s lifetime.

Twenty of the 21 gas stove-top models that the Energy Department tested wouldn’t comply with its proposed standards. Manufacturers would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars redesigning stoves, if they bother.

THEY HATE YOU

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 07:19 AM (BRHaw)

149 It's true, February is the shortest month, unfortunately every day is a Monday.

Can't remember where I found that, but it made me laugh.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 09, 2023 07:19 AM (KATBx)

150 My mom asked her friend what it's like to be married to sailor. (a Master Chief)

There's good news and bad news, she says.

The bad news is that he is gone for 6 months at a time.

The good news is that he is gone for 6 months at a time.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 07:18 AM (TXFi7)

LOL, spot on.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 09, 2023 07:20 AM (nuyZG)

151 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

I see the usual cucks are 'disappointed' at the 'goons' in the GOP who dared to heckle Spongebrain Shitpants.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 09, 2023 07:20 AM (AW0uW)

152 147 The US Naval Construction Battalion at Gulfport MS, forget if they are LANTFLT or PACFLT.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2023 07:19 AM (ALMmx)

The sister base is at Port Hueneme, CA.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 09, 2023 07:20 AM (BRHaw)

153 His neck lump heard about the CCP's spy balloon and now it, too, wants to float, serene and undisturbed, above things. "Let me be free! Let me be free!"

And here I though it was the Clot Shot molecules that accumulated in the lump, the nano-particles formed into a ersatz radio through design commands issued through Babylon DC's 5G network and the communications from the Chinese balloon activated a buggy piece of code causing stray electrical shots to an already confused brain to set off a streak of misfiring neurons

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:22 AM (l7lsb)

154
I was thinking it might have to do with that piece that was in the sidebar. The ex-employee who talked about all the gay sex they had to perform to get a story.
Posted by: olddog in mo

That piece was satire. The guy in it is Ryan Long's sidekick in his videos.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 09, 2023 07:23 AM (pNxlR)

155 My birdbath is frozen (if you're keeping score at home)

Posted by: JT at February 09, 2023 07:24 AM (T4tVD)

156
How the hell do you make a gas flame more efficient?

It's nothing but too many people in government trying to justify their existence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 07:25 AM (enJYY)

157 My birdbath is frozen (if you're keeping score at home)
Posted by: JT"

We are. Can we see your permit please?

Posted by: The EPA at February 09, 2023 07:26 AM (iayUP)

158 Twenty of the 21 gas stove-top models that the Energy Department tested wouldn’t comply with its proposed standards.

Prima facie evidence that there are FAR TOO many bored government bureaucrats who are trying to justify their existence by "making a change" in the only way that they can express themselves in a woke, climate-aware, LGBT world - through banning, canceling and maliciousness all in the name of Gaia and social/environmental/racial/economic justice

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:26 AM (l7lsb)

159 It's nothing but too many people in government trying to justify their existence.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

...trying to justify their existence...

Posted by: Reuben Hick

Hoard mind

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:28 AM (l7lsb)

160
Hoard mind

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:28 AM

I only beat you to the draw because you typed more.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 07:29 AM (enJYY)

161 How the hell do you make a gas flame more efficient?

What is the Constitutional authority for stealing money from We The People to find out, and then declare by fiat that they have supreme authority to govern what We The People can use.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:30 AM (l7lsb)

162 The US Naval Construction Battalion at Gulfport MS, forget if they are LANTFLT or PACFLT.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 09, 2023 07:19 AM (ALMmx)

LOL, I can look for you. Some are BSO 60 and some are BSO 70. It is confusing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 09, 2023 07:31 AM (nuyZG)

163 My birdbath is frozen (if you're keeping score at home)
Posted by: JT"

We are. Can we see your permit please?
Posted by: The EPA

The birds ate it.

Posted by: JT at February 09, 2023 07:32 AM (T4tVD)

164 It's an excellent idea, hoarding a mind. There seems to be a distinct shortage of functional ones lately.

We DO need a Horde of them for safety.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 09, 2023 07:33 AM (KATBx)

165
I suppose, as you lower the flame it *could* have some gadget to raise the height of the burner. I know when I'm soldering there is some *exact* location at the tip of the flame which is the hottest.

But all that effort and expense for a 3.4% efficiency achievement?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 07:33 AM (enJYY)

166 How the hell do you make a gas flame more efficient?

--

Allow it to only turn up "so high?" Meaning you'll never get that pot to boil. Or only allowing intermittent flame. On for a few minutes, automatic shut off for a minute, on for a few minutes, automatic shut off for a minute. Whatever they're able to do, one thing is clear. It will be a useless, incredibly inefficient means of control.

Now, how's about outlawing ALL private air transportation...in the name of Gaia. Gov't officials and multi-billionaires...show you care. Until you do that, shove your totalitarian regulations up your backsides.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 09, 2023 07:35 AM (sVtYq)

167 The stated purpose of the rule-making is to reduce energy consumption and save consumers money.

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LOL, I guess it would save consumers money if they can't cook their food efficiently.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 09, 2023 07:37 AM (sVtYq)

168 How the hell do you make a gas flame more efficient?

Add Techron to the natural gas. Worked for gasoline.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 07:38 AM (4I/2K)

169 Surround the gas burner with an electric element that preheats the pot so you don't use so much gas.

Posted by: fd's engineering tips at February 09, 2023 07:38 AM (iayUP)

170 How long before they go after the gas backyard grill too? And you know charcoal will be outlawed to save the erf. Enjoy your new electric gill, you won't own it but you'll like it.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 09, 2023 07:38 AM (WNfWI)

171 A hybrid stove, if you will.

Posted by: fd's engineering tips at February 09, 2023 07:39 AM (iayUP)

172 So, if you're in Gulfport and you need to get to the Western Pacific, which route do you take?

Panama Canal?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 07:39 AM (TXFi7)

173 Gas fireplaces next. You know, maybe, just maybe, we'll reach a point where we drag these mofos out of their offices, break their pencils and tell them they aren't going to rule over us like the kings and queens they most definitely are not.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 09, 2023 07:40 AM (sVtYq)

174 J.J. up

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 07:40 AM (TXFi7)

175 A series of mirrors and lens that bring sunlight into your house to your range top.

Posted by: fd's engineering tips at February 09, 2023 07:41 AM (iayUP)

176 Morning!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 09, 2023 07:43 AM (w/RvR)

177
Twenty of the 21 gas stove-top models that the Energy Department tested wouldn’t comply with its proposed standards.

"Stove-top" is the key. No mention of the oven. They want the flame on the stove top to be more efficient. 3.4% more efficient.

It's the same child's plastic straw argument. Because she found X number of straws on some square foot of California beach she then extrapolated into some huge issue. We're letting children decide the direction of the country.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 09, 2023 07:43 AM (enJYY)

178 59 I was thinking it might have to do with that piece that was in the sidebar. The ex-employee who talked about all the gay sex they had to perform to get a story.

139 Its a comedic skit. Chuy links to their videos from time to time.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 09, 2023 07:11 AM (l7lsb)

154 That piece was satire. The guy in it is Ryan Long's sidekick in his videos.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 09, 2023 07:23 AM (pNxlR)

Nicely explained!

Posted by: m at February 09, 2023 09:03 AM (mn2bz)

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