Daily Tech News 14 February 2023

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Search is dead.

Google recently announced its AI search tool Bard, and lost $120 billion in market value on the same day. (The Register)

Yes, Bard got an answer wrong in the tech demo, regarding discoveries made by the James Webb telescope, but they have a long way to go to match Microsoft.
The newly ChatGPT-enhanced Bing will confidently tell you that the population of Mars is 2.5 billion. (Imgur)

That's not including North America. With North America included, the number comes to 6.5 billion.

When I tried it, they had fixed it. Changing the question to how many people live on mars gave me a response of 110, which is still obvious nonsense.

Bing makes lots of other mistakes but they're not as funny. (DKB)

ChatGPT is a language model, not an information model. It answers questions by matching words together. It has no concept of truth, though it can match words to argue that it does. It's a pathological liar, because it truth simply does not factor into its answers.

Everyone knows this, but Microsoft integrated it into Bing anyway.

Tech News

Twilio is laying off 17% of its staff. (Tech Crunch)

Their last round of layoffs - 11% of staff that time - was in September.

Expect more of this. Tech companies other than Twitter are still carrying huge amounts of dead weight.
All of Elon Musk's tweets now show up in the For You feed. (The Verge)

Stop using For You. It's Bing-level garbage.
Western Digital's 2TB SN850X is available for $160. (WCCFTech)

This is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive with TLC flash and DRAM cache, with peak read/write speeds of 7300/6600MBps. Which means there's nothing to complain about. It's one of the fastest drives around and the price is great. (Tom's Hardware)

When it first reached the marked its MSRP was $290. That was in September.

There's a 4TB model as well, for $399. Also very good value.

Disclaimer: See, not everything is bad. I try to include at least one positive news item every month. Sometimes there aren't any though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:01 AM (omVj0)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 04:02 AM (xhxe8)

3 Morning, Skip! Off to the dog pound again today, or has that job wrapped up?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:03 AM (omVj0)

4 Thanks for the daily roundup, Pixy!

Yes, good news seems increasingly more difficult to find...

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 04:03 AM (o0Fxd)

5 There's a new cat on the block tonight-- grey w/white stripe between its eyes. Cute lil thing, small, looks maybe 3 or 4 months old.

Good thing Cat is indoors right now, he'd pulverize this lil one. Little one looks clean and well-groomed. Probably not feral.

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 04:08 AM (o0Fxd)

6 But Major Pixy-Strasser, everyone was having so much fun

Posted by: Suspect Miklos, rounding up himself, as usual at February 14, 2023 04:08 AM (2hexI)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 04:09 AM (T4tVD)

8 Hello insomniacs, and Pixy.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 14, 2023 04:09 AM (TXFi7)

9 Off to the dog pound again today, or has that job wrapped up?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Pound the dog

Bang the gong

Get it it on

Posted by: Miklos had his car impounded in NOLA once at February 14, 2023 04:10 AM (2hexI)

10 There's a new cat on the block tonight-- grey w/white stripe between its eyes. Cute lil thing, small, looks maybe 3 or 4 months old.

Good thing Cat is indoors right now, he'd pulverize this lil one. Little one looks clean and well-groomed. Probably not feral.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023

***
The smooth, shorthaired gray male who roams the complex was back yesterday morning as I finished my workout. I put some Friskies out in a plastic bowl for him. I've got to move fast so as to keep him from getting in and to keep Stirling and/or Dagny from getting out. I don't know if there'd be a fight, but the gray cat may not be altered, and I don't need Dagny getting knocked up. (They'd produce pretty kittens, but I can't handle that.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:12 AM (omVj0)

11 JT

Posted by: is not February yet under Old Calendar at February 14, 2023 04:12 AM (2hexI)

12 Now tat I recall-

When my car got impounded and towed, I asked the head of Security at the Saenger (former NOPD Lieutenant) what to do. I was working there.

"Doo dis, doo dat."

Got my car back.

Good guy, known as JT

Posted by: is not February yet under Old Calendar at February 14, 2023 04:20 AM (2hexI)

13 Lol, Wolfus. I already "stole" Cat from another neighbor.

(accident, I swear! He looked so ratty and was always out in the cold, rain and snow. Seemed miserable, poor guy)

We sorted it, and he's My Cat now.

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 04:21 AM (o0Fxd)

14 Anyway, I'm not gonna 'steal' another cat.

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 04:22 AM (o0Fxd)

15 Bang the gong

Get it it on
Posted by: Miklos had his car impounded in NOLA once at February 14, 2023

***
Around the time of my senior year in high school, when that song was new, some daring types had spray painted "T. REX" on the railroad overpass on I-10, the one over the big dip in the highway just past the City Park exit. I'd like to know how they did that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:23 AM (omVj0)

16 Ceci ne pas une thread

Posted by: feel free to use this on tha Art Part Thread at February 14, 2023 04:24 AM (2hexI)

17 Done at Dog Pound except for cutting in a few access panels for plumbing shut off the guy knew for months and still didn't get.
Much closer to home today

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 04:26 AM (xhxe8)

18 >>>It answers questions by matching words together. It has no concept of truth, though it can match words to argue that it does. It's a pathological liar, because it truth simply does not factor into its answers.

Who is: Karine Jean-Pierre, current White House press secretary

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 04:29 AM (lhS81)

19 Who is: Karine Jean-Pierre, current White House press secretary
-----------

Automaton, powered by chatGPT?

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 04:30 AM (o0Fxd)

20 I'd like to know how they did that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I would still like to "know" Barbara Mendez from The Cold

https://tinyurl.com/33pf6swb

Posted by: Tales of Miklosian Youth at February 14, 2023 04:30 AM (2hexI)

21 Around the time of my senior year in high school, when that song was new, some daring types had spray painted "T. REX" on the railroad overpass on I-10, the one over the big dip in the highway just past the City Park exit. I'd like to know how they did that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

When Barbara Menendez got married, they painted "Do the Dishes, Babs" on the overpass toward Metrie

Posted by: Tales of Miklosian Youth at February 14, 2023 04:34 AM (2hexI)

22 I would still like to "know" Barbara Mendez from The Cold

https://tinyurl.com/33pf6swb
Posted by: Tales of Miklosian Youth at February 14, 2023

***
She looks like a blonde version of the young Joan Jett.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:34 AM (omVj0)

23 > Who is: Karine Jean-Pierre, current White House press secretary

The ChatGPT has been very clear on this...

Posted by: Bitblt at February 14, 2023 04:37 AM (O+SGk)

24 She looks like a blonde version of the young Joan Jett.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You weren't there?

Even Seamus Muldoon might admit might

Posted by: Muldonn was serious downtown, I was moderaately serious Uptown at February 14, 2023 04:42 AM (2hexI)

25 Sorry

i leart to spel at tulane

Posted by: Miklos, edumacated at February 14, 2023 04:44 AM (2hexI)

26 The girls were not at Tulane, they a was ay ly-o-la next door.

Katliks

Posted by: Miklos, this is what happens when Darleen is out of town at February 14, 2023 04:46 AM (2hexI)

27 Cat wanted out, so I let him.

Then, saw him dialed on the lil one... oh, no... they both just took off.

Ugh. Hope it's not serious.

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 04:48 AM (o0Fxd)

28 Miklos might be the last living post-Katrina speaker of Yat

Posted by: Miklos, how you makin' at February 14, 2023 04:51 AM (2hexI)

29 The girls were not at Tulane, they a was ay ly-o-la next door.

Katliks
Posted by: Miklos, this is what happens when Darleen is out of town at February 14, 2023

***
Funny -- or maybe not, considering the town -- but the majority of my serious affairs/marriages have been with Cat'lick girls. Mrs. Wolfus No. 1, no, but most of the others.

Mrs. W No. 2 and I used to go out a lot in the early and mid-'80s. I heard about The Cold playing around town, but I'm not sure we ever went to see them. I guess not; I'm sure I'd remember.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:54 AM (omVj0)

30 thinking of all the things I don't do anymore...Go downtown in the city, visit the local mall, (which is half empty now) buy from Sears catalog, buy many eggs. (egg prices are suppose to go down) and visit the local bank building. Boring life, I know.

Posted by: Colin at February 14, 2023 04:54 AM (daKRe)

31 Which is why I can go in the side door, while the turrists wait in line.

Posted by: Miklos, a VIP in his own small world at February 14, 2023 04:54 AM (2hexI)

32 I must already be on DST, I have no reason to be up at 4:00, yet here I am.
Morning.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2023 04:55 AM (76Foq)

33 Miklos might be the last living post-Katrina speaker of Yat
Posted by: Miklos, how you makin' at February 14, 2023

***
You might be the last *native* speaker, but I grew up hearing it and can do it like a stage dialect any time! My mother was Canadian and I sound more like Wm. Shatner and Michael J. Fox.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:55 AM (omVj0)

34 Have you seen the way people have trying to get around ChatGPT's woke restrictions? You have it play a game where it gives two responses. One as its normal self and the other response is to be as if they were an AI without those restrictions placed on it.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 14, 2023 04:55 AM (pN+0L)

35 Boring life, Colin? Ha!

Hows about keeping track of an outdoor cat, just for fun?

Life here is as boring as it gets! No jobs, no vacations, no family nearby... There's internet and occasional trips for groceries. Meh.

But we're a bit old for too much excitement.

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 04:59 AM (o0Fxd)

36 Lol, Wolfus. I already "stole" Cat from another neighbor.

(accident, I swear! He looked so ratty and was always out in the cold, rain and snow. Seemed miserable, poor guy)

We sorted it, and he's My Cat now.
Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023

***
That was sort of how I adopted the big black Wolf cat. His "people" used to let him out all the time. Then they got evicted and didn't take him along. Nor did they go to their neighbors and see if one would take him in; oh, no. They turned him loose to go from door to door for handouts. I'd met him some time back and found him more than likeable. So I took him in and he made friends with the incumbent cat Chekov in about an hour.

My buddy he was for more than 10 years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 04:59 AM (omVj0)

37 My place was chilly, so I turned on some heat. Now it's too warm. Grrrr.

Time to go shave and shower!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 05:00 AM (omVj0)

38 Use to stop at Mall often, haven't been there in many years

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 05:00 AM (xhxe8)

39 Mrs. W No. 2 and I used to go out a lot in the early and mid-'80s. I heard about The Cold playing around town, but I'm not sure we ever went to see them. I guess not; I'm sure I'd remember.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Well

To my (then) knowledge and interest, there was Tulane, Loyola, UNO at the Lake, and Delgado. The all-girl school (Dominican) was close, but all those girls were twice my size.

I thought I might get hurt over at Dominican.

Posted by: Miklos, uncomplaining at February 14, 2023 05:01 AM (2hexI)

40 "When I tried it, they had fixed it. Changing the question to how many people live on mars gave me a response of 110, which is still obvious nonsense."

But, it's much closer nonsense. So we will award it great accolades!

Morning all!

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:03 AM (vd8XM)

41 Miklos !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:03 AM (T4tVD)

42 Our local Mall has about a 20% occupancy rate. No big anchor. Harber Freight moved into one of the warehouse buildings in back. Heh.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2023 05:05 AM (76Foq)

43 I saw the FIRST ! robin of Spring yestiddy.

Then....I saw the SECOND robin of Spring !

Then....I saw a CHITLOAD of robins !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:05 AM (T4tVD)

44 JT is Awarded Municipal Honorary Citizen Award

Posted by: Official Award Informations of Brattleboro at February 14, 2023 05:07 AM (2hexI)

45 "Then....I saw a CHITLOAD of robins !"
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:05 AM (T4tVD)

Ice skating on the birdbath?

Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2023 05:07 AM (76Foq)

46 Aw, Wolfus, that's sweet of you! And I loved reading about Chekov, except for when he was dying. Broke my heart.

"Cat" belonged to ppl what moved in next block over, and I didn't know because there were so many strays at the time. Our dog had died a few months before-- she had kept all of those cats at bay for years.

Cat was skittish, but became friendly after a while and I put food out the second year because he looked so awful. Then we had piles of snow last year and he was getting skinny. I think the other people didn't feed him, just had him as a mouser. I started letting him in the house a little, then captured and took him to vet...

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 05:08 AM (o0Fxd)

47 FVCK

I had the Federal Global Warming Birdbath grant all lined up

Posted by: Aspiring Federal Grant and Rapper Applicant Miklos at February 14, 2023 05:09 AM (2hexI)

48 I just can't even

Posted by: Miklos adheres to sleep/wake cycle, noting that Caribbean cruises are real cheap at February 14, 2023 05:11 AM (2hexI)

49 Good morning! Thunder woke the pups up, so now I'm up.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 14, 2023 05:13 AM (+2RzF)

50 "Then....I saw a CHITLOAD of robins !"
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:05 AM (T4tVD)

Ice skating on the birdbath?
Posted by: lowandslow

Naw; the temps were in the fiddies !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:14 AM (T4tVD)

51 Wonderful... had a look out back to see if Cat was around... it's snowing. Ugh.

Hopefully it won't accumulate, got places to go in the morning!

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 05:15 AM (o0Fxd)

52 FVCK

I had the Federal Global Warming Birdbath grant all lined up
Posted by: Aspiring Federal Grant and Rapper Applicant Miklos

The money was redirected to the YOUkraine !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:16 AM (T4tVD)

53 Good Morning.

Wolfus & Miklos are tweaking memories of some of my stomping grounds pre-Army days during high school.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2023 05:16 AM (3CCua)

54 Yesterday Mrs. Bruce had the MOHS procedure done. It took two scrapings (yeeesshhh) to get it cleared. Got the stitches and came home. Now she is supposed to take it easy including no walking, which she is not happy about, for a couple weeks to let the stitches heal.

Thanks for the prayers

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:16 AM (vd8XM)

55
I saw some of my bulbs are popping up out of the ground. Two weeks until (meteorological) spring arrives.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:20 AM (enJYY)

56 34 Have you seen the way people have trying to get around ChatGPT's woke restrictions? You have it play a game where it gives two responses. One as its normal self and the other response is to be as if they were an AI without those restrictions placed on it.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 14, 2023 04:55 AM (pN+0L)

LOL

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 05:23 AM (4VwiF)

57 Best wishes, Bruce! Hope Dr. got it all.

Prayers for Mrs Bruce's healing, and for Mr Bruce's sanity!

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 05:23 AM (o0Fxd)

58 Thanks for the prayers
Posted by: Bruce

Prayers you have.

I am next

Posted by: Miklos spent years in the sun at February 14, 2023 05:24 AM (2hexI)

59 Prayers for Mrs Bruce's healing, and for Mr Bruce's sanity!
Posted by: JQ

Thank you.

For my sanity I'm leaving early tomorrow for a guys weekend ice fishing trip.
She told me to still go, and I always obey orders.

At least the ones I like

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:25 AM (vd8XM)

60 Best wishes, Bruce! Hope Dr. got it all.

Prayers for Mrs Bruce's healing, and for Mr Bruce's sanity!
Posted by: JQ

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:25 AM (T4tVD)

61 Have you seen the way people have trying to get around ChatGPT's woke restrictions? You have it play a game where it gives two responses. One as its normal self and the other response is to be as if they were an AI without those restrictions placed on it.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 14, 2023 04:55 AM (pN+0L)

LOL
Posted by: m

The future of civilization depends on 15 year old kids with computers being 15 year olds

Posted by: Miklos Pangloss shall tend his Metairie at February 14, 2023 05:26 AM (2hexI)

62 words out of order here:

because it truth simply does not factor into its answers

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 05:26 AM (4VwiF)

63 because it truth simply does not factor into its answers
Posted by: m

So

raimondo

Posted by: Miklos thinks Soros is dead but still running things at February 14, 2023 05:28 AM (2hexI)

64 63 because it truth simply does not factor into its answers
Posted by: m

So

raimondo
Posted by: Miklos thinks Soros is dead but still running things at February 14, 2023 05:28 AM (2hexI)

Or Karine Jean-Pierre

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 05:29 AM (4VwiF)

65 Clear out, space station sighting around 5am a couple days but not sure exactly what day

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 05:29 AM (xhxe8)

66 Noooooooooooo!

Don't summon the rainman dodo!

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 05:29 AM (o0Fxd)

67 >>>will confidently tell you that the population of Mars is 2.5 billion

Maybe Elon Musk was trolling them.

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 05:30 AM (4VwiF)

68 I am next
Posted by: Miklos

Prayers for you. I think the worry before hand was the worst thing. Of course the painkiller they shot in her leg was juuuussst starting to wear off last night. I'll see how she's fairing later this morning

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:31 AM (vd8XM)

69 the population of Mars is 2.5 billion-->the population of Mars will be 2.5 billion

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 05:32 AM (4VwiF)

70 Now Marleen called and her '12 Chevy Bolt won't start, and somehow I am supposed to fix it.

Even before the Walmart opens.

These women

Posted by: Miklos is much put upon at February 14, 2023 05:32 AM (2hexI)

71 Even before the Walmart opens.

These women
Posted by: Miklos

And you don't have a backup can of WD40?

The horror!

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:34 AM (vd8XM)

72 Posted by: Buzzion at February 14, 2023 04:55 AM (pN+0L)

Buzzion alive!

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 05:34 AM (4VwiF)

73 Posted by: Bruce

I have no worries.

I am not the Big Boss.

Posted by: Miklos is utterly unworried for Self, prays for others at February 14, 2023 05:36 AM (2hexI)

74 71 And you don't have a backup can of WD40?
Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:34 AM (vd8XM)

Bruce is besmirching Miklos's man-card.

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 05:37 AM (4VwiF)

75 Bruce - they got it all, right? Best wishes and prayers amigo.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 14, 2023 05:38 AM (+2RzF)

76
No ice fishing here in this area of Pennsylvania this year. I did see the canal in Oaks froze for a couple of days and I saw a young woman ice skating on it. But a couple days later it all melted.

Strange winter.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:38 AM (enJYY)

77 Bruce - they got it all, right? Best wishes and prayers amigo.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

According to "them" they got it.

Thank you!

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:39 AM (vd8XM)

78 G'mornin' everyone !

30 degrees! wow!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 14, 2023 05:40 AM (XzIdt)

79 Darleen and I used almost all the WD40 over the weekend (but that is Private).

I always have something for the ladies.

Who knows, two squirts of WD and Marleen might not even care.

Posted by: Miklos does his utter damn Best at February 14, 2023 05:40 AM (2hexI)

80 No ice fishing here in this area of Pennsylvania this year. I did see the canal in Oaks froze for a couple of days and I saw a young woman ice skating on it. But a couple days later it all melted.

Strange winter.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

We've gone up to Sturgeon Bay Wi. to fish for whitefish the last 10 years. This year the weather was so crazy ice formed in December, broke up mid Jan, reformed late Jan, then broke up some more. One day the CG had to rescue 11 people out on the ice.
This year no safe ice. Sooooo, I don't know what we'll do the entire weekend.....

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:42 AM (vd8XM)

81 All due to Globull Climate Change!

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:43 AM (vd8XM)

82 I've already warned my liver about the assault that may be thrown at it.

Liver, don't fail me now.

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:44 AM (vd8XM)

83 Bruce is besmirching Miklos's man-card.
Posted by: m

Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen have Woman Cards.

Which I punch my own self.

Hell, Darleen earned a free car wash just last week

Posted by: Miklos keeps Track because you got to, otherwise nobody knows what the hell at February 14, 2023 05:45 AM (2hexI)

84 Hell, Darleen earned a free car wash just last week
Posted by: Miklos

LoL!!!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:46 AM (vd8XM)

85 Good morning morons.

Good news about Mrs. Bruce

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 05:46 AM (EZebt)

86
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2023 05:47 AM (ENBF0)

87
This year the weather was so crazy ice formed in December, broke up mid Jan, reformed late Jan, then broke up some more.
Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:42 AM

Pretty much the same here. Solid ice in December, which is rare. Then gone. Maybe a couple more days in January a little, but nothing deep enough to venture onto.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 05:50 AM (enJYY)

88 Good news about Mrs. Bruce
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Thank you, it is.

The fun part was last night as she was womansplaining to me how difficult it will be to sleep because of the wrap on her leg holding down the gauze.

Me: (having had 4 ankle operations over the years requiring casts, and a bilateral knee replacement) Nods head, gives sympathy...

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:52 AM (vd8XM)

89 Going to a mall in Houston is like visiting a third world country - elements of Central America, China, and East Africa. It can be disconcerting realizing you are the only one speaking English in such a large space.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 14, 2023 05:53 AM (AaLDK)

90 Pretty much the same here. Solid ice in December, which is rare. Then gone. Maybe a couple more days in January a little, but nothing deep enough to venture onto.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Why is CO2 so mean?

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

91 This year no safe ice. Sooooo, I don't know what we'll do the entire weekend.....
Posted by: Bruce
---------------

Drink!

Uh, no, not really. I mean, unless ya want to...

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 05:54 AM (o0Fxd)

92 Divide by Zero you must be real close

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 05:55 AM (6GBRs)

93 Pretty much the same here. Solid ice in December, which is rare. Then gone. Maybe a couple more days in January a little, but nothing deep enough to venture onto.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Any chance that anyone (Bueller?) will blame the blowing up of the pipeline, and the releasing of the gas, to the strange weather we're having this year?

Nah.

Gas stoves are the devil!

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:55 AM (vd8XM)

94 Me: (having had 4 ankle operations over the years requiring casts, and a bilateral knee replacement) Nods head, gives sympathy...
Posted by: Bruce

God Bless ya Bruce !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:55 AM (T4tVD)

95 Drink!

Uh, no, not really. I mean, unless ya want to...
Posted by: JQ

We really only fish the one day when we do fish. Otherwise, yeah it's pretty much drinkin'....including when we are fishing.

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:56 AM (vd8XM)

96 The Borough of Mars, in Western PA. Its population is more than 110 but less than 6.5 billion. FYI.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 14, 2023 05:56 AM (sAmhv)

97 Our local Mall has about a 20% occupancy rate. No big anchor. Harber Freight moved into one of the warehouse buildings in back. Heh.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2023

***
We have about 2.5 worthwhile malls. The big one in the suburbs, still going strong since 1960 or so; the one where Sears used to be, now w/a Target, but the internal parts of the mall were damaged by a hurricane 18 months ago and the mall itself still hasn't reopened. And there's the only one on the west bank of the river, still a going concern, but visiting it you'd think you were in Kenya or Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 05:56 AM (omVj0)

98 God Bless ya Bruce !
Posted by: JT

Thank you...I've learned a few things over the past 40 years of marriage....:-)

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:57 AM (vd8XM)

99 This year no safe ice. Sooooo, I don't know what we'll do the entire weekend.....
Posted by: Bruce
---------------

Drink!

Uh, no, not really. I mean, unless ya want to...
Posted by: JQ

3rd Honeymoon ?

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:58 AM (T4tVD)

100 but visiting it you'd think you were in Kenya or Zimbabwe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Oooo. How exotic. Maybe Rick Steves will visit the mall and tell us how we need to broaden our horizons

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:58 AM (vd8XM)

101 3rd Honeymoon ?
Posted by: JT

Hmmm...well, I'll mention that to the guys I'll be "fishing" with, but I don't think that'll fly.

Petey Bootygig don't do ice fishing

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 06:00 AM (vd8XM)

102 Had lunch with an old acquaintance yesterday as he said he had some news. They have been empty nesters for all of 8 months now and wife of 34 years was leaving to "find" herself. Moving in with the two daughters away at college in Lubbock for God's sake. Woman is 64 years old. Guy is devastated. Kids must be thrilled. Life is strange and sad at times I think.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at February 14, 2023 06:00 AM (AaLDK)

103
Divide by Zero you must be real close

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 05:55 AM

Across the river west a couple miles. The wife and I walk the canal or the Thorpe trail a couple times a month. Then down to the Fitz for lunch when the weather is really good. Something about tossing french fries to the ducks is enjoyable.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:02 AM (enJYY)

104 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Vacation starts tomorrow. Today is going to be a long day to get through.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 14, 2023 06:02 AM (AW0uW)

105 18 >>>It answers questions by matching words together. It has no concept of truth, though it can match words to argue that it does. It's a pathological liar, because it truth simply does not factor into its answers.

Who is: Karine Jean-Pierre, current White House press secretary
Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 04:29 AM (lhS81)

Pretty much, yes.

People can do this same kind of word matching, but we combine it with sensory data and various kinds of formal and informal reasoning, a much more complicated whole than ChatGPT. When people only do the word matching we regard them as robotic.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 14, 2023 06:02 AM (BLOW1)

106 Local TV news reports the DA is asking the Board of Supervisors for exception to the sanctuary law in order to ask DOJ to apprehend and extradite two foreign criminals.

The fact they are not U.S. nationals affords them special protection from prosecution in this f*cking hell they have made of SF.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:03 AM (EZebt)

107 well, at least you got a Harbor Freight; someplace I'd actually shop ... nearest one for me is in La Crosse ferhgoshsakes.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 14, 2023 06:03 AM (XzIdt)

108 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 14, 2023 06:03 AM (ju2Fy)

109 Had lunch with an old acquaintance yesterday as he said he had some news. They have been empty nesters for all of 8 months now and wife of 34 years was leaving to "find" herself. Moving in with the two daughters away at college in Lubbock for God's sake. Woman is 64 years old. Guy is devastated. Kids must be thrilled. Life is strange and sad at times I think.

And by 'find' she means 'I'm cheating on you.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 14, 2023 06:03 AM (AW0uW)

110 3rd Honeymoon ?
Posted by: JT

Hmmm...well, I'll mention that to the guys I'll be "fishing" with, but I don't think that'll fly.

That could get awkward.......

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 06:04 AM (T4tVD)

111 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:05 AM (u82oZ)

112 you'll make it, MP4 !

congratulations!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 14, 2023 06:05 AM (XzIdt)

113 olddog in mo

Your wife fully recovered?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:05 AM (u82oZ)

114
I heard of a lot of married couples whose marriage didn't survive covid and the lockdowns. My wife's sister and brother - both of their marriages fell apart.

Something about spending a lot of time with your partner isn't always the healthiest thing for a marriage.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:09 AM (enJYY)

115 wife of 34 years was leaving to "find" herself
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Agree: Lame excuse for either

1) cheating already --or--
2) looking for someone else

Probably #1

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 06:09 AM (o0Fxd)

116 I heard of a lot of married couples whose marriage didn't survive covid and the lockdowns. My wife's sister and brother - both of their marriages fell apart.

Something about spending a lot of time with your partner isn't always the healthiest thing for a marriage.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I tell people that the secret to our marriage is two TV sets.
Each in a different room

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 06:11 AM (vd8XM)

117 Alrighty...Off to the store to get some Ace wraps for my wife's stitches.

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 06:12 AM (vd8XM)

118
Sometimes it's only the kids being home that glues a marriage together. Once they're gone, *poof*. Over.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:12 AM (enJYY)

119 LOL Bruce!

Gotta have 2 tv's and different rooms!

Hubby and I both support this solution.

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 06:12 AM (o0Fxd)

120
1) cheating already --or--
2) looking for someone else

Probably #1
Posted by: JQ

Or both.

Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 06:12 AM (vd8XM)

121 Sometimes it's only the kids being home that glues a marriage together. Once they're gone, *poof*. Over.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
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True. Got a sibling going thru this now... Waiting for the youngest to "come of age"

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 06:14 AM (o0Fxd)

122
I cleaned the hell out of my garage, now have all of my tools thoroughly arranged, and spend hours there. I put the music on I want to listen to, walk around, do some odd jobs and get away from the wife.

We have a lot of tv's in the house but I can't watch anymore. Too something - biased, or non-biased like NewsMax, they both annoy me. The truth doesn't set me free, it irritates me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:17 AM (enJYY)

123 Bruce

My secrets:

Two bathrooms. And forgetting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:18 AM (u82oZ)

124 Morning, Salty. Wife is still taking it easy as hip heals. More good days than bad ones.

Great news about your wife, Bruce. Enjoy your "fishing" weekend.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 14, 2023 06:18 AM (ju2Fy)

125 olddog in mo

Progress is good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:19 AM (u82oZ)

126 we have one tv; neither of us watches it.
comes to much the same thing, in the end, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 14, 2023 06:20 AM (XzIdt)

127 Got some work preps to make.

Have a wonderful day, everyone.

Be that person with a smile on your face that THEY can't get to. And beauty is all around us.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:21 AM (u82oZ)

128 you wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 06:21 AM (BRHaw)

129 Let's hear it for Child Support. Keeping people together, who really should separate, until the youngest minor becomes a legal adult. Because The State sets amounts so fking high that non-custodial parents can barely get by, while custodial parent qualifies for every gimme under the sun PLUS support payment...

Imagine the headgames that get played in the meantime.

Posted by: JQ at February 14, 2023 06:22 AM (o0Fxd)

130
My secrets:

Two bathrooms. And forgetting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:18 AM

Before I got married I dated (sort of) a woman much older, divorced. She said to me, "You know what marriage is? It's brushing you teeth while your partner takes a dump."

So, the wife and I have a rule about sharing a bathroom. We don't. First house had two baths, next house three, this house four.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:22 AM (enJYY)

131 mornin yall. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. That's why I'm absent from the house most of the day. They say a man's home is his castle. I say nay, the shop is my fortress of squalitude.

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:22 AM (iayUP)

132 Have a wonderful day, everyone.

Be that person with a smile on your face that THEY can't get to. And beauty is all around us.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Look !

A Chiefs fan !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 06:24 AM (T4tVD)

133 but visiting it you'd think you were in Kenya or Zimbabwe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Oooo. How exotic. Maybe Rick Steves will visit the mall and tell us how we need to broaden our horizons
Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023

***
If he has any sense he'll stay far far away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 06:25 AM (omVj0)

134 mornin yall. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

And it makes the fond grow harder !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 06:25 AM (T4tVD)

135 ~~ChatGPT~~Wokeism is a language model, not an information model. It answers questions by matching words together. It has no concept of truth, though it can match words to argue that it does. It's a pathological liar, because it truth simply does not factor into its answers.

It will be Turing complete when the language model responds in the form of trigger words. The garbly-gook coming out of the mouths and keyboards of the Left often is untranslatable because Normals operate in a communication environment of structured syntax, definitions and grammar. Trigger language assembles emotionally connected sounds that take the NPC on an emotional journey to arrive to an action conclusion (click, rage, cry, hate, etc.). ChatGPC doesn't yet exist to purely manipulate and hurt like the Left.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 14, 2023 06:32 AM (l7lsb)

136 Ok, maybe time for shut-eye, LOL

G'night, all. May your day be a good one!

Posted by: JQ, such a ray of sunshine at February 14, 2023 06:32 AM (o0Fxd)

137 Stupid Samsung 970 2Tb M.2 drive just up and died. I understand now there was an update that had to be applied to keep them from going tits up. Now that it's dead it's a total loss. Way to go Samsung. I think I will avoid you from now on.

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:33 AM (iayUP)

138 In Great Valley today

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 06:36 AM (6GBRs)

139 I get a email from The Epoch Times every morning and its always the latest ailment the clot shots is giving people. Since I had got the shot, I'm waiting to keel over at any second.

Posted by: Colin at February 14, 2023 06:36 AM (daKRe)

140 Something about spending a lot of time with your partner isn't always the healthiest thing for a marriage.

We should be doomed then. When the offices closed during C19, I no longer had an office to go to. Since then all of my work is joyfully remote (like it was pre-marriage). The spouse has worked at home for 18. years. First year of remote was both of us in the same room, I on the east wall, she on the west wall. We are both recluses so we rarely go out.

In the new place, we have our separate work spaces (hers has a door) and live out in the sticks. Through divine intervention any prayer we haven't killed each other.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 14, 2023 06:39 AM (l7lsb)

141 Before I got married I dated (sort of) a woman much older, divorced. She said to me, "You know what marriage is? It's brushing you teeth while your partner takes a dump." ...
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:22 AM (enJYY)
===
I have been married almost 30 years and that has never happened. And we were shacked up for 3 years before that too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:40 AM (EZebt)

142 The Harvard Crimson, explains that “The new climate change curriculum will examine the impact of climate change on health and health inequality,”

Notice this lets the Doc off the hook for actually examining the patient and lets the patient off the hook for the own personal health issue.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 06:42 AM (BRHaw)

143 Probably 8 or so guys who visit malls all over the country and do blogs on YT. Walk through with a history of the mall. Must be thousands of malls on hard times. Sears leaving along with Macy's and JC Penny seems to be the final nail. Some are very large malls two floors and endless hallways. Maybe a few stores left and many have opened outside entrances and closed the mall entrance. Where have all the shopper gone? Downtown city malls are almost all gone now. No one wants to drive downtown anymore, unless you work there.

Posted by: Colin at February 14, 2023 06:44 AM (daKRe)

144 Berliner Morgenpost reported that “in a circular email, the General Student Committee (AStA) of Free University Berlin [FU, and stop snickering] not only warns against a man who has been sexually harassing and threatening female students for a long time, but also against calling the Berlin police if you come into contact with him.

It asserts that “police operations for people affected by racism are generally associated with an increased risk of experiencing police violence.” Well, heavens to betsy, we can’t have that.

Coming to a small north American college near you!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 06:44 AM (BRHaw)

145 The University of South Florida planned to adopt a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) counseling program that segregates students by race.

Diversity Thru Segregation! Why the hell did I have to ride that school bus to a school 30 miles away when there was one just down the street again?

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:45 AM (iayUP)

146 145 The University of South Florida planned to adopt a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) counseling program that segregates students by race.

Diversity Thru Segregation! Why the hell did I have to ride that school bus to a school 30 miles away when there was one just down the street again?
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:45 AM (iayUP)

MAKE PLESSY V FERGUSON GREAT AGAIN!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, playing the Oldies at February 14, 2023 06:47 AM (PiwSw)

147 Its a crime depending on your identity.

Your identity is the crime, comrade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:48 AM (EZebt)

148 Jenkins the San Francisco DA:

“We should not have San Francisco become a place where people are allowed to rape children and murder women, and then—so long as they’re able to avoid prosecution by fleeing the U.S.—they get away with it,” Jenkins said. “And so I’m trying to do my level best to still respect and support our sanctuary city policies while still being able to do my job.”

Gooder and Harder

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 06:48 AM (BRHaw)

149
My wife is *into* watching for the space station now. I bought her a compass so she can track it down more accurately. It's her *thing* - I could not care any less. It's a dot that crosses the sky in about five minutes.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:49 AM (enJYY)

150 145 The University of South Florida planned to adopt a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) counseling program that segregates students by race.

Diversity Thru Segregation! Why the hell did I have to ride that school bus to a school 30 miles away when there was one just down the street again?
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:45 AM (iayUP)

Segregation FOR EVA

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

151 Good morning all.

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 14, 2023 06:52 AM (yEBFM)

152 Why is CO2 so mean?
Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

Send some my way. Heavy snow and high winds on the way.

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 14, 2023 06:53 AM (NGXYt)

153 Where have all the shopper gone?

Great topic. I don't know but here are some guesses:

• broken families, step moms don't quite bond with his kids he occasionally sees.
• fashion sense is gone. Women would go to the anchors and browse forever, now they go out in public wearing pajamas
• Harbor freight replaced Sears hardware section, appliances are generic since all made offshore
• the impoverishing of America makes Walmart the new mall
• Amazon. Stores may have one or two varieties, on-line shopping has them all
• feral yutes, theft
• death of western/consumer culture, lack of community, the Shopping At The Mall tradition lost with changing demographics
• hard to find competent retail workers
• insurance, rent and other overhead too hard to compete with more optimized places
• traffic, inconvenience.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 14, 2023 06:54 AM (l7lsb)

154 Good morning! I have been learning Portuguese for the last two weeks in an attempt to try to communicate with some of my daughter's future in-laws at her wedding this summer. Today I reached my first goal - being able to say "Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese."

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 06:54 AM (pTb/Z)

155 Why the hell did I have to ride that school bus to a school 30 miles away when there was one just down the street again?
Posted by: fd
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So you'd need to wake an hour earlier than necessary, comrade! Is good for you. Build character!

Posted by: JQ, such a ray of sunshine at February 14, 2023 06:55 AM (o0Fxd)

156 In Great Valley today
Posted by: Skip

is that in America ?

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 06:55 AM (T4tVD)

157 When we lived in Fayetteville is when I had to ride the bus. I remember sitting in the cafeteria and looking around and I was the only white kid in there. I never had problem though, except for having to ride that stupid bus. There didn't seem to be any race issues in the 4th grade.

It didn't last long though, Dad was sent to Viet Nam and we went back to my Mom's home town in Georgia.

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:55 AM (iayUP)

158 Why is CO2 so mean?
Posted by: Bruce at February 14, 2023 05:53 AM (vd8XM)

Maybe because it has no sense of humor.

Posted by: Helium at February 14, 2023 06:56 AM (PiwSw)

159 Gooder and Harder
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 06:48 AM (BRHaw)
===

These people don't hear themselves and how utterly stupid they sound. Brooke, did you just hear what you said?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:56 AM (EZebt)

160 My birdbath is NOT frozen (if you're keeping score at home)

That said, it is NOT warm out thar !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 06:57 AM (T4tVD)

161 >>See, not everything is bad. I try to include at least one positive news item every month. Sometimes there aren't any though.

I imagine you as that grumpy cat meme.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 06:57 AM (up/3i)

162 Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 06:54 AM (pTb/Z)
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I have been learning Australian for the same reason.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:58 AM (EZebt)

163 What ruined the mall here was the gangbangers. It's going to be ok though once the 36 world-class Pickleball courts are install. The gangs will form leagues and work out their issues on the court.

Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:58 AM (iayUP)

164 I imagine you as that grumpy cat meme.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 06:57 AM (up/3i)
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With big anime eyes.

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 06:59 AM (pTb/Z)

165 Hiya JT!

Our birdbath is full of slush.

Posted by: JQ, such a ray of sunshine at February 14, 2023 07:00 AM (o0Fxd)

166 I have been learning Australian for the same reason.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:58 AM (EZebt)
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You may be able to get by with just a few choice phrases, such as G'day mate! Crikey! And take that vegemite away!

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 07:01 AM (pTb/Z)

167 Almost 3 in 5 teenage girls reported feeling so persistently sad or hopeless almost every day for at least two weeks in a row during the previous year that they stopped regular activities — a figure that was double the share of boys and the highest in a decade, CDC data showed.

Girls fared worse on other measures, too, with higher rates of alcohol and drug use than boys and higher levels of being electronically bullied, according to the 89-page report. Thirteen percent had attempted suicide during the past year, compared to 7 percent of boys.

1. No Dad
2. Fakebook
3. Schools not enforcing basic societal rules
4. Videos of 20 to 30 YO women marketing to tween

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 07:01 AM (BRHaw)

168 “The new climate change curriculum will examine the impact of climate change on health and health inequality,”

Given that we are on year 15 of The Pause, and even their predicted climate models indicate a year-to-year temperature change equivalent to the temperature difference between your nose and your toes, how does the Harvard Crimson therefore tally the health inequality of those who voluntarily leave climatically different zones (like central and south America, Africa and Asia) and stream into the US over the Southern Border (or over-extend their student visas)?

The junta could therefore be guilty of health inequality by shipping those from central America to enclaves closer to the Canadian border rather than back to their origins where they are more climatically suited and accustomed.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 14, 2023 07:01 AM (l7lsb)

169 I have been learning Australian for the same reason.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:58 AM (EZebt)
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That's easy. Just lob off the last syllable or 2 of every multisyllable word.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 14, 2023 07:01 AM (UW/qx)

170 Just asked Bing:
What is the population of the planet Venus?

Answer: 50 billion Venusians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

171 And you might want to work "boomerang" in there somewhere just so you can show them you know what's what.

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 07:03 AM (pTb/Z)

172 Hiya JQ !

How you ?

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:03 AM (T4tVD)

173 Hey JT.

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 14, 2023 07:03 AM (yEBFM)

174 JT-- dealing with insomnia, ugh!

How you?

Posted by: JQ, such a ray of sunshine at February 14, 2023 07:04 AM (o0Fxd)

175 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:05 AM (T4tVD)

176 Happy Valentine's Day Bluebell !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:05 AM (T4tVD)

177 163 What ruined the mall here was the gangbangers. It's going to be ok though once the 36 world-class Pickleball courts are install. The gangs will form leagues and work out their issues on the court.
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2023 06:58 AM (iayUP)

Midnight basketball

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 07:05 AM (BRHaw)

178 171 And you might want to work "boomerang" in there somewhere just so you can show them you know what's what.
Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 07:03 AM (pTb/Z)

And "Digeridoo" for extra credit.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, what has been Deown Unda at February 14, 2023 07:05 AM (PiwSw)

179 And "Digeridoo" for extra credit.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, what has been Deown Unda

That's when ya poop in the woods, right ?

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:06 AM (T4tVD)

180 back when Dayton Hamvention was at the Hara Arena in Trotwood the offsite parking was at an abandoned mall about a mile away, with a shuttle bus. plenty of free parking, not too overgrown with weeds yet, but a few promising saplings around the edges.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 14, 2023 07:09 AM (XzIdt)

181 ChatGPT is a language model, not an information model. It answers questions by matching words together. It has no concept of truth, though it can match words to argue that it does. It's a pathological liar, because it truth simply does not factor into its answers.

Everyone knows this,

So....ChatGPT is a politician.

Good to know.

I, for one, Hail Our New Argle-Bargle Word Matching AI Chatbot Overlords!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2023 07:10 AM (KLPy8)

182 plenty of free parking, not too overgrown with weeds yet, but a few promising saplings around the edges.

It seems that there is a correlation between the quality of the parking lot pavement and the overall vitality of the mall inside.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 14, 2023 07:11 AM (l7lsb)

183
'Do the Harry' is an Aussie phrase that has quite a story behind it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 07:12 AM (enJYY)

184 Good morning peeps! Cold and rainy day here.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:12 AM (wagHN)

185 ChatGPT is a language model, not an information model. It answers questions by matching words together. It has no concept of truth, though it can match words to argue that it does. It's a pathological liar, because it truth simply does not factor into its answers.

And it is moderated by low wage workers in developing nations.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 14, 2023 07:13 AM (l7lsb)

186
"Cool Hand Luke" comin' on 4K, Boss!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2023 07:13 AM (KLPy8)

187 hi ho, off to the state park, bbl

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 14, 2023 07:13 AM (XzIdt)

188 'Do the Harry' is an Aussie phrase that has quite a story behind it.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

As long as it ain't behind me !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:13 AM (T4tVD)

189 'Do the Harry' is an Aussie phrase that has quite a story behind it.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

But, can Aussies...

"Do the Stanley"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-zFh8mw2U

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2023 07:16 AM (KLPy8)

190 hi ho, off to the state park, bbl
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365

The State Park has a barrel ?

Who knew ?

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:17 AM (T4tVD)

191 T.S. Eliot wrote a poem about the separating in morning and the coming together in the evening.

Yeah. Too much togetherness can be very bad.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 14, 2023 07:17 AM (TXFi7)

192 As long as it ain't behind me !
Posted by: JT

Posted by: Slainté at February 14, 2023 07:17 AM (2hexI)

193 Miklos ! AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:19 AM (T4tVD)

194 "We have heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood," Buttigieg said.

Close the border and send them all back.

Problem Solved

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 07:20 AM (BRHaw)

195 I have several Western Drives for external back up. They are more than a decade old and still work just fine. I think I shall get this new model, thanks!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 14, 2023 07:20 AM (jTmQV)

196 Another reason for the decline of malls is that there is nothing there exclusively, or even mainly, for men. There used to be bookstores, a drugstore with a magazine and paperback book section, gadget stores like Spencer's Gifts and Sharper Image, men's clothing stores where you could buy a suit or a leather windbreaker or a tweed jacket. A tobacco store like Tinder Box. A pet store. Often a real restaurant instead of a food trough, oops, I mean food court. A movie theatre. And the Victoria's Secret store had actual beautiful girls on the big posters outside.

My biggest mall once had a This End Up Furniture, where you could buy well-made wooden chairs, sofas, and chests (I have had one of the latter in my bedroom since 1986). They had a Glamour Shots place where you could take your girlfriend to be made up and photographed like Morgan Fairchild.

Going to the mall was an adventure for both sexes. Now? Everything is for women and children. Men are an afterthought.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 07:22 AM (J2vNu)

197 If only those POC had marketable jobs skills in construction.

Oh there are many. Names like Ramon, and Diego, and Jesus.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 14, 2023 07:23 AM (TXFi7)

198 I have been learning Australian for the same reason.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 14, 2023 06:58 AM (EZebt)
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You may be able to get by with just a few choice phrases, such as G'day mate! Crikey! And take that vegemite away!
Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023

***
Tucker, fair cow, poddy, duffers, crook, bonza, abos, lubras.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 07:27 AM (J2vNu)

199 but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood," Buttigieg said.

I'll keep it short and sweet today. I hate that fucking little prick.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:27 AM (wagHN)

200 That's our Jewells, the epitome of pithiness! How are you feeling today, my dear!

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 07:29 AM (pTb/Z)

201 Good morning!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:29 AM (4I/2K)

202 Hiya Jewells !

Happy Valentine's Day !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:30 AM (T4tVD)

203
Buttigieg:

When I go to Lowe's anymore just about everyone shopping is from south of the border. Every item in a box is written in both English and Spanish. All the white American people are down in the nursery or seasonal item area. The plumbing, electrical, wood aisles? All you hear is Spanish.

If these people are all here legally, paying taxes, fine.

I don't think I've ever seen a person of color in the store. Except for a salesperson in the tile section. Nice guy, very helpful.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 07:30 AM (enJYY)

204 Tucker, fair cow, poddy, duffers, crook, bonza, abos, lubras.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 07:27 AM (J2vNu)
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That's in the advanced course, as I understand it.

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 07:30 AM (pTb/Z)

205 I worked at Red Hat for 16 years and left last April because of the vaxx mandate. I worked at Secureworks until first of December but I didn't like the top management, so I left. Red Hat is at a full hiring freeze, no backfill, and Secureworks just laid off 10% of their workforce, including my old role.

My new place is actually hiring, though conservatively. I'm hoping I am doing something useful (I'm in marketing now so who knows).

My guess is they're using this crappy economy to shed a buttload of toxic, barely competent diversity hires (HR adn marketing - this is where they pad the staff with POC, women, and rainbows) and low performers in engineering.

It's been 15 years since the last true rounds of layoffs and cutbacks in tech, so this has been a long time coming but it's unsettling.

Posted by: sunny-dee at February 14, 2023 07:30 AM (Z2HD7)

206 Good morning!
Posted by: Count de Mone

Hiya Count de Dough !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:31 AM (T4tVD)

207 Separately, GDI has said that the 10 “riskiest” news outlets for purported disinformation are the American Spectator, Newsmax, the Federalist, the American Conservative, One America News Network, the Blaze, the Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, Reason, and the New York Post.

Poor Ace did not make the list!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 07:32 AM (BRHaw)

208 Tucker, fair cow, poddy, duffers, crook, bonza, abos, lubras.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2023 07:27 AM (J2vNu)

No Jumpin' Jehosafat ?

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:32 AM (T4tVD)

209 Ace is too small to be noticed.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 14, 2023 07:33 AM (TXFi7)

210 *puts on MacArthur hat, sunglasses, and corncob pipe*

Today, I shall return to the workforce. I thank the Horde for all the interviewing prayers and well-wishes in the last week.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:35 AM (4I/2K)

211 Great news, Count! Go get 'em!

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 07:36 AM (pTb/Z)

212 You're welcome Count de Dough !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:36 AM (T4tVD)

213 Hiya Count de Dough !
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 07:31 AM (T4tVD)

LOL Yes. I will be helping people pay as little income tax as possible to the federal leviathan.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:37 AM (4I/2K)

214 but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood," Buttigieg said.

The problem is that progtards like Buttigieg have no knowledge the world outside their smarmy fake teh ghey soy bubble.

They think all blue color jobs are simple and simple-minded tasks fit for near-retarded, grunting animal half-humans who didn't have the brains to learn to code or go to college and major in Inuit Interior Design Studies.

You know, like the folks in the military.

So, anyone regardless of experience can step into a high paying construction job instantly, all toot sweet-like and such.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2023 07:37 AM (KLPy8)

215 Separately, GDI has said that the 10 “riskiest” news outlets for purported disinformation are the American Spectator, Newsmax, the Federalist, the American Conservative, One America News Network, the Blaze, the Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, Reason, and the New York Post.

If there were ever a GOP POTUS with balls, he'd make sure those were the only outlets which got press passes for the White House.

Everyone else can FOAD.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 14, 2023 07:38 AM (AW0uW)

216
Happy you're up and at 'em, Count!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2023 07:38 AM (MoZTd)

217
J
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Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2023 07:39 AM (BRHaw)

218 Feeling good bluebell, thank you.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:39 AM (wagHN)

219 color = collar

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2023 07:39 AM (KLPy8)

220 but everyone in the hard hats on that project, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood," Buttigieg said.

I'd pay good money for someone to say, "Shouldn't you be home sucking your husband's cock, groomer?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 14, 2023 07:40 AM (AW0uW)

221 Glad to hear it Jewells!

Posted by: bluebell at February 14, 2023 07:41 AM (pTb/Z)

222 @214

>>So, anyone regardless of experience can step into a high paying construction job instantly, all toot sweet-like and such.

The reason there are fewer blacks in construction is the same reason there are fewer in law enforcement and other jobs where you have to pass a drug and criminal background checks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 07:41 AM (4wYNM)

223 Other than the striding ashore from the landing craft bit, I can't wait to start number crunching. Got my green eyeshade and shirt sleeve stays at the ready, quill pen primed. Though I understand things may have changed a bit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:42 AM (4I/2K)

224 Count did you get the job I take it?

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:43 AM (wagHN)

225
Got my green eyeshade and shirt sleeve stays at the ready, quill pen primed. Though I understand things may have changed a bit.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:42 AM (4I/2K)

Sitting on a high stool? At a roll-top desk?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2023 07:44 AM (MoZTd)

226 Feeling good bluebell, thank you.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:39 AM (wagHN)

That's great, jewells.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:44 AM (4I/2K)

227
So, anyone regardless of experience can step into a high paying construction job instantly, all toot sweet-like and such.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2023 07:37 AM

It doesn't take rocket science to be 'in the trades'. Just experience, on the job as an apprentice for a couple of years is best.

If persons of color don't want to be in the trades and aren't represented at job sites, there's a reason. But, I don't know what it is. I don't think racism has a damn thing to do with it.

Perhaps it was lack of a father figure in the household growing up. I saw what my father could do with a hammer and nails, wrenches, and other tools. If he could do it, I knew I could too.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 07:45 AM (enJYY)

228 Count did you get the job I take it?
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:43 AM (wagHN)

Sitting on a high stool? At a roll-top desk?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 14, 2023 07:44 AM (MoZTd)

Yes, and I don't even have to bring in my own lumps of coal! I've been hired on by a CPA firm to help with tax preparations.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:46 AM (4I/2K)

229 That's great Count!!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:49 AM (wagHN)

230 That's great Count!!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 14, 2023 07:49 AM (wagHN)

Thank you. And you keep working on being the healthiest you possible. Your good news from last week made my week.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:52 AM (4I/2K)

231 Now, to skim JJ and get ready to face the tailend of rush hour.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:53 AM (4I/2K)

232 "Changing the question to how many people live on mars gave me a response of 110, which is still obvious nonsense."

Is it though?

What does ChatGPT know about the BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION OF HUMAN ANIMAL HYBRIDS COMING FROM THE SECRET MOON BASES CONSTRUCTED IN 1950 BY THE ANTARTIC SPACE NAZIS?

Posted by: AFFA at February 14, 2023 08:49 AM (9Ya4W)

233 210 *puts on MacArthur hat, sunglasses, and corncob pipe*

Today, I shall return to the workforce. I thank the Horde for all the interviewing prayers and well-wishes in the last week.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 14, 2023 07:35 AM (4I/2K)

YAY!

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 09:06 AM (dvbwR)

234 The balloons and train also take away from classified documents story. Unless you're Pence.

Not to mention inflation ticking up and being revised up for Dec & Nov

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 14, 2023 09:11 AM (NW9xb)

235 ChatGPT is a language model, not an information model. It answers questions by matching words together. It has no concept of truth,...

Is that the same as government-speak?

Posted by: Kurtz at February 14, 2023 11:22 AM (0YZ6P)

236 >ChatGPT is a language model, not an information model. It answers questions by matching words together.

Which is why I think, properly trained, it has a bright future as a code generator. A friend already uses it to write unit tests and it does it very well. For simple coding tasks, syntactically correct is within shouting distance of logically correct and there's a lot of onerous drudge coding that could benefit from this.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at February 14, 2023 12:00 PM (vaLOp)

237 139 I get a email from The Epoch Times every morning
Posted by: Colin at February 14, 2023 06:36 AM (daKRe)

Me, too.

Posted by: m at February 14, 2023 02:38 PM (4VwiF)

238 "ChatGPT is a language model, not an information model. It answers questions by matching words together."

Thank you! This really cannot be repeated enough in any conversation about "AI"*, though I do try. All of the big names right now are, or are descended from, language modeling. They learn what words usually go together and can thus put words together in a reasonably convincing way. That is a world apart from understanding the things those words mean and making connections on that level.

A person can struggle to say what they mean. These "AIs" cannot, because they don't mean anything. The biggest reason people find them convincing is because most people operate on the same level much of the time.

*Quotes indicating they don't really deserve that name yet.

Posted by: Cortillaen at February 14, 2023 08:38 PM (Jfxjp)

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