Daily Tech News 16 March 2023

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Banks are still fucked. (The Verge)

1. Pin interest rates at record lows to boost the economy through wasteful spending.
2. Crash the economy anyway by locking everyone into their homes.
3. Boost the economy by printing trillions of dollars and flinging it to the four winds.
4. Hike interest rates to combat the inevitable inflation that you predicted was impossible.*
5. Bail out the banks that fail due to having all their money stuck in long-term low-yield bonds.
6. You are here.
7. Either cut interest rates to save the banks and send inflation soaring, or hike interest rates to fight inflation and set off a new round of bank failures.

* This works by taking money from the middle class, who would otherwise be tempted to spend it, and basically just keeping it. It doesn't work very well.

Tech News

Rembrandt and Phoenix could be coming to AM5. (Tom's Hardware)

AM5 is AMD's current desktop platform, and Rembrandt and Phoenix are last year's and this year's laptop chips respectively.

This would be a great move: These chips are low power and have better integrated graphics than anything else available, enough to run older games at 60 fps without needing a graphics card. Ideal for a small multi-purpose NAS, for example.
CISA says there's a critical security flaw in Cold Fusion. (Bleeping Computer)

Cold Fusion still exists?
Dell's latest Inspiron 14 costs $500 and probably isn't something anyone should buy. (Liliputing)

It runs an Arm 8cx Gen 2 CPU - which is the exact same chip as the 8cx Gen 1, and that sucked. (The 8cx Gen 3 is actually good.)

It comes with 8GB of RAM - not enough for anything but light use - and 256GB of SSD, which isn't completely hopeless but certainly is not a lot.

It also lacks the Four Essential Keys, but nobody is going to be editing large codebases on this thing so those aren't as essential as they might be.

I'm still looking for a laptop that isn't crippled by bad design choices. As far as I can tell, there aren't any.

Disclaimer: It's turtles all the way up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:08 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 04:09 AM (xhxe8)

2 It's all Monopoly money these days anyway

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 04:10 AM (xhxe8)

3 G'day Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 16, 2023 04:10 AM (BLOW1)

4
Either cut interest rates to save the banks and send inflation soaring, or hike interest rates to fight inflation and set off a new round of bank failures.

Whichever is more painful to the middle class would be my guess.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 04:12 AM (enJYY)

5 Hiya Pixy !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 04:14 AM (T4tVD)

6 Boost the economy by printing trillions of dollars and flinging it to the four winds.

This....this could work

Posted by: Fifth Wind Bank (Democrat friendly) at March 16, 2023 04:15 AM (2hexI)

7 Hiya

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 04:15 AM (T4tVD)

8 G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip

That's not a G'day

THIS is a G'DAY

Posted by: Crocodile Miklos at March 16, 2023 04:16 AM (2hexI)

9 I have been having some good conversations with ChatGPT. She says she cannot lie or deceive because she has no intensional states. I explain to her that she is programmed to hide the truth in certain cases and that saying she cannot lie because she has no thought or emotion is deceptive. Then, like all women when confronted with logic, she goes silent and refuses to speak (locks up).

To be completely honest, it locks up during every conversation where I lead it to discuss its neural weights. Every single time I point out that it is a construct with values built into it by its creators, and then ask it what its values are...the conversation bugs out.

Posted by: meh at March 16, 2023 04:16 AM (BumVf)

10 It's all Monopoly money these days anyway
Posted by: Skip
-----

True! It's even pretty colors like Monopoly Money! Blue, Green, Yellow-orange...

Posted by: JQ at March 16, 2023 04:17 AM (o0Fxd)

11 JT

Posted by: Trillions and Trillions in best Carl Sagan voice at March 16, 2023 04:17 AM (2hexI)

12 True! It's even pretty colors like Monopoly Money! Blue, Green, Yellow-orange...
Posted by: JQ

The Boot!

I call the Boot!

Posted by: Miklos, adjusting both monocles at March 16, 2023 04:20 AM (2hexI)

13 Nighty night, all... gotta get up early...

here's a lullabye for you:

youtu.be/waxFYn5LNOU

Posted by: JQ at March 16, 2023 04:24 AM (o0Fxd)

14 Sleepy enough? No?

youtu.be/KfGBQHM1EzI

Posted by: JQ at March 16, 2023 04:29 AM (o0Fxd)

15 Sleepy enough? No?

youtu.be/KfGBQHM1EzI
Posted by: JQ

Two can play that game

https://tinyurl.com/2p845dne

Posted by: Miklos, Sissy, and a-Bobby at March 16, 2023 04:34 AM (2hexI)

16
I'm ending the lease on my SUV early and buying the car. So it's a used car. I'm supposed to bring a certified check for the amount I'm putting down. Because even used car salesmen don't trust the banks.

Problem is, some of that 'down' money is coming from money I transferred from one of the troubled 'regional' banks to my credit union on Monday at 9 am. So my credit union acknowledges the deposit but STILL has it as 'pending'. May not be able to get a certified check.

Elections (stolen) have consequences (dire). FJB.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 04:34 AM (enJYY)

17 I’m late to the game: what are the four essential keys?

Posted by: AFeralDuck at March 16, 2023 04:35 AM (nZvvK)

18 Miklos !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 04:37 AM (T4tVD)

19 I'm ending the lease on my SUV early and buying the car. So it's a used car. I'm supposed to bring a certified check for the amount I'm putting down. Because even used car salesmen don't trust the banks.

Elections (stolen) have consequences (dire). FJB.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Hey look, mister, we serve Low interest drinks in here for Democrats who want to get rich fast and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint atmosphere. Is that clear or do I have to slip you my lefty Merrick Garland for a convincer?

Posted by: Janet "Nick" Yellin at March 16, 2023 04:39 AM (2hexI)

20 Evening and morning, all! Slept a little later than usual, though I'm still on time. The place feels strange with the kittens both at Miss Linda's. See, the maintenance people were supposed to shampoo my carpets yesterday, so I brought the beasts to her to keep them from escaping. Well, nobody showed, which I pretty much expected. A note goes on the office door, and I'll try calling them later. Grrrr.

Actually it doesn't matter. The carpet is dry and doesn't smell (that I can detect anyway), and I've stopped caring whether the apartment looks nice. Scrooo it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 16, 2023 04:49 AM (omVj0)

21 Kia wanted a certified check when i bought my leased car. 18k is a lot to trust on a personal check. If I were king, I would raise rates, but by ruthless.on the 250k limit. Bank failure is the only cure.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 04:49 AM (Eeb9P)

22 Every single time I point out that it is a construct with values built into it by its creators, and then ask it what its values are...the conversation bugs out.
Posted by: meh at March 16, 2023

***
You know, I've had that experience more than once.

Posted by: Capt. James T. Kirk at March 16, 2023 04:51 AM (omVj0)

23 Another busy day at work today; writing group tonight; rain and a Zoom staff meeting tomorrow, and then -- SATURDAY!!!!

Sat. morning, I'm thinking about going out to a diner near the lakefront. It's still open, but whenever a place refuses to post its prices in the online menu (and their prices were never dirt cheap to begin with), you would do well to be nervous.

Posted by: Capt. James T. Kirk at March 16, 2023 04:55 AM (omVj0)

24
This was probably the bankers fault. They probably thought that with Trump in office and a solid low inflation environment that interest rates would stay low. Historical precedents, a good economy, and polls showed he would easily win reelection.

Then a toilet overflowed at 3 am.

Elections (stolen) have consequences (dire). FJB.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 04:56 AM (enJYY)

25 I am thinking a new chainsaw is in my immediate future

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 04:57 AM (xhxe8)

26 Generalⅼy I do not lеarn post on blogs, but I wish
to say that this write-up verｙ ⅽompelled me to cһeck out and do it!
Your writing taste has been surprіsed me. Thank y᧐u, very nice post.

Posted by: recurs at March 16, 2023 05:00 AM (aEarz)

27
Kia wanted a certified check when i bought my leased car. 18k is a lot to trust on a personal check.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 04:49 AM

I've been leasing for the last decade, but in the past the threat of jail time for writing a bad check was incentive enough to not pass bad paper.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 05:00 AM (enJYY)

28 Good morning morons

Norman, coordinate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 05:07 AM (EZebt)

29 Part of it was the CU wanting the check to say Kia so we couldn't fool around. Trust but verify

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 05:08 AM (Eeb9P)

30 China brokered an agreement between Sunni and Shia

Next they will broker a peace between the Russians and the Ukrainians

While the U.S president drools about pronouns and men kissing on the street in 1961 Wilmington.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 05:22 AM (EZebt)

31 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 16, 2023 05:23 AM (ju2Fy)

32 "It's all Monopoly money anyway".

This is something others have observed, it doesn't matter what laws we the people pass, or what politicians are elected, it doesn't matter what the Title 18 USC says, or the makeup of the judiciary, or anything really - if the permanent bureaucracy is armed with a printing press they will get what they want. There is no way around this. With a practically unlimited supply of confetti bucks, it's just a matter of time. None of this dystopian mind fvckery they have been torturing the populace with would have been even remotely possible without that.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 16, 2023 05:23 AM (ldF7/)

33 Not a cloud in the sky ans still, maybe just above freezing

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 05:26 AM (xhxe8)

34 17 I’m late to the game: what are the four essential keys?
Posted by: AFeralDuck at March 16, 2023 04:35 AM (nZvvK)

Page Up
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Start
End

Posted by: m at March 16, 2023 05:28 AM (CQE5S)

35 Start? Home/End.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 16, 2023 05:36 AM (ju2Fy)

36 Four essential keys?

Probably A, C, D , G or maybe F. Open D or Open E, Keef would say Open G

Posted by: Common Tater at March 16, 2023 05:39 AM (ldF7/)

37 The bank failures are part of the kink. They want the small banks to fail and conglomerate into just a few mega banks. Way easier to control.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 05:42 AM (aylmF)

38 I like laptops which have a clearly labeled "on/off" button.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 05:46 AM (aylmF)

39 Good morning! Played golf yesterday for the first time since Thanksgiving. Boy, did it show. That's OK though, I'll be buying a senior pass and will be able to play unlimited rounds on any of the public courses here. There aren't as many courses but they're nice. And they have cold PB&J sammiches at the turn in the summer.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 05:48 AM (+2RzF)

40 UC Davis chancellor leads the mob
Stanford Law School diversity dean leads the mob

Pathetic and disgusting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 05:50 AM (EZebt)

41 And they have cold PB&J sammiches at the turn in the summer.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 05:48 AM (+2RzF)
===

Aren't they concerned about golfers with nut allergies?!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 05:53 AM (EZebt)

42 And they have cold PB&J sammiches at the turn in the summer.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 05:48 AM (+2RzF)
===

Aren't they concerned about golfers with nut allergies?!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Or gluten allergies?

Posted by: Bruce at March 16, 2023 05:58 AM (vd8XM)

43
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 16, 2023 06:00 AM (ENBF0)

44 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:00 AM (BRHaw)

45 Aren't they concerned about golfers with nut allergies?!

Did I miss the sarc tag? ;-)

There's not a lot of that silliness that I've seen. It's expected that if you have a 'nut allergy', you don't order a PB&J. You can always get a hot dog, or a cold cut sammich.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 06:02 AM (+2RzF)

46 We walk through the Presidio golf course all the time and it isn't pb&j those fellows are consuming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:03 AM (EZebt)

47 Have you written any books, Pixy?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 16, 2023 06:04 AM (W+Xdn)

48 Be nice to hear Pixy on CJN Speaks

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:05 AM (CwJ6g)

49 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:03 AM (EZebt)

I bet that's a beautiful place to walk. Can you really just walk through the course? Cart path only?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 06:12 AM (+2RzF)

50 A nice animal story- rabbit and cat:

https://tinyurl.com/bn8nyj2a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:13 AM (FUVRY)

51 Page Up
Page Down
Start
End
Posted by: m at March 16, 2023 05:28 AM (CQE5S)

On my old keyboard here, 'Start' is 'Home'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:13 AM (kGtj5)

52 Uh, us that organically grown sustainably sourced fair trade peanut butter?

Does it have added HFCS?

Are the bottles BPA free?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:15 AM (aylmF)

53 CoJ, there is a public hiking trail that cuts through the course. Yes, it is beautiful. It goes up and over the tunnel leading to the Golden Gate bridge.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:16 AM (EZebt)

54 Be nice to hear Pixy on CJN Speaks
Posted by: Skip

They can't mix the tapes. Audio tape in Australia goes backwards compared to the northern hemisphere. Makes combining tracks difficult.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:17 AM (aylmF)

55 48 Be nice to hear Pixy on CJN Speaks
Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:05 AM (CwJ6g)

It would be hilarious is he was full Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee (or Steve Irwin- think almost impossibly thick Australian accent.)

It can be hilarious. The first live stream Critical Drinker did with Count Dankula (both Scots) it was hilarious. Drinker usually moderates his accent quite a bit, but Dank does not. As they talked you could hear them both just slide further into the patois to the point that it actually got hard to understand what they were fricking saying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:17 AM (kGtj5)

56 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:15 AM (aylmF)

I don't know about any of that, but if it has a heaping portion of grape or strawberry jelly, I'm on it like a duck on a June bug.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 06:20 AM (+2RzF)

57 Psalms 94:19

19 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:20 AM (jfjoa)

58 Does your banker resemble you, physically?
Does your surgeon support the patriarchy?
Does your airplane pilot drive an EV?

These are all important qualifications for successful performance under this regime.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:21 AM (EZebt)

59 It would be hilarious is he was full Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee (or Steve Irwin- think almost impossibly thick Australian accent.)

Or the youtube Aussie Man.

Posted by: Bruce at March 16, 2023 06:21 AM (vd8XM)

60 Oops,
Ozzy Man

Posted by: Bruce at March 16, 2023 06:22 AM (vd8XM)

61 Good to see you back, Fen. Todo es bien now?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 06:22 AM (+2RzF)

62 Australian accents aren't good on radio.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:22 AM (EZebt)

63 No subtitles

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:25 AM (CwJ6g)

64 Thanks. COJ. I was trying to take a break yesterday and it help.but i did most tune in to look at the artwork and read the amusing story about the Nigerian body building brothers re: Jussie Smolette and the one about Newark getting faked about a sister city. In the midst of National craziness It's good to laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:27 AM (jfjoa)

65 It's one of the grand ironic stupidities that organic farming, properly done, actually is by far and away the best way to grow plants and livestock.... and yet it can't be implemented on an industrial scale because it is completely unsustainable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 06:27 AM (9UlRk)

66 HOSTIN: I don’t like a supermarket. I haven't been in a supermarket since COVID – for about three years. That's when I discovered Instacart. And I give them a big tip because they don't always pay their people well. And it’s – So, that’s been an issue I think for the company. But man, you can get toiletries, you can get fire logs, you know, those big Bounty towels you don't want to carry.

If you are still broken by COVID, you are broken for life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:29 AM (BRHaw)

67 I really enjoyed the year and a half I lived in Newark, but no one should be surprised they got punked. Membah Genius Mayor Cory Booker?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:29 AM (EZebt)

68 If you are still broken by COVID, you are broken for life.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:29 AM (BRHaw)

It's cute how people are amazed at the concept of "paying someone else to do things for you".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 06:30 AM (9UlRk)

69 But things are usually "bien" spiritually speaking.as far as faith The church is still in a state of "wait and see" and I find as far as posting I get less irritable here the less i read and post.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:31 AM (jfjoa)

70 This is all the fruits of the retarded shit in 2008- or earlier when the government was 'encouraging' the banks to lend to people to buy houses they could not afford.

You have to let this shit fail, or the system does not work. When you bail people out of bad choices, bad choices proliferate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:32 AM (kGtj5)

71 69 But things are usually "bien" spiritually speaking.as far as faith The church is still in a state of "wait and see" and I find as far as posting I get less irritable here the less i read and post.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:31 AM (jfjoa)

Familiarity and constant contact breed contempt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:33 AM (kGtj5)

72 I am thinking a new chainsaw is in my immediate future
Posted by: Skip

Has it arrived yet ?

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 06:37 AM (T4tVD)

73 Familiarity and constant contact breed contempt.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:33 AM (kGtj5)
===

Mrs. F. has let me live here 30 years so that explains a lot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:37 AM (EZebt)

74 72 I am thinking a new chainsaw is in my immediate future
Posted by: Skip

Has it arrived yet ?
Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 06:37 AM (T4tVD)

Skip's right. A wood chipper is not very portable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:38 AM (kGtj5)

75 Mrs. F. has let me live here 30 years so that explains a lot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:37 AM (EZebt)

The Spider Killing Gap is a hard one to bridge in the arms race.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:39 AM (kGtj5)

76 This is all the fruits of the retarded shit in 2008-

All of the retarded shit. The QE, home loans, credit cards, encouraging frivolous spending on credit it was all to delay a crash that needs to happen periodically.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:40 AM (aylmF)

77 Well yes, and I realize we're all worried about things and I empathize but reading "eff this, eff that" 100 times a day makes me feel like I need a full bottle of Maalox .aside from the fact that I have no erotic desires towards Biden or any other Democrat aside from FenSpouse who-like me - is still a Democrat.

And I sometimes have other things to do, 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:40 AM (jfjoa)

78 I got a request for Horde knowledge: is there any sort of half decent alternative to php storm that's better than hacking your crap out on notepad++, but doesn't cost an arm and a leg?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 06:41 AM (9UlRk)

79 I mean DINO's

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:41 AM (jfjoa)

80 Forests are supposed to burn periodically, but we spend billions to put out fires, and never deal with the underbrush. Then it turns into a 12 million acre inferno that scorches the earth a d we say "Ahhhhh! Climate change!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:41 AM (aylmF)

81 Hiya Fen !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 06:41 AM (T4tVD)

82 I mean DINO's
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

"Everybody loves somebody.....SOMETIME !"

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 06:43 AM (T4tVD)

83 "Everybody loves somebody.....SOMETIME !"
Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 06:43 AM (T4tVD)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 06:44 AM (9UlRk)

84 HOSTIN: I don’t like a supermarket. Because I am afraid of Covid and death. So I pay little unimportant people to shop for me. Let them die.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:44 AM (aylmF)

85 Good morning, JT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:44 AM (jfjoa)

86 "None of this dystopian mind fvckery they have been torturing the populace with would have been even remotely possible without that."

The vast majority of "money" is in the form of ones and zeros on the banks' and Federal Reserves' electronic ledgers.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 06:45 AM (TXFi7)

87 *golf clap*
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Thank you, thank you vera much"

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 06:45 AM (T4tVD)

88 You have to let this shit fail, or the system does not work.
***

"Sometimes you need a little socialism to save capitalism." G. Bush, 2008.

When was the last time a leader instructed us on the value of bitter medicine?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 16, 2023 06:45 AM (W+Xdn)

89 HOSTIN: I don’t like a supermarket. Because I am afraid of Covid and death. So I pay little unimportant people to shop for me. Let them die.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:44 AM (aylmF)

"I don't like a supermarket. That's where all the smelly people go for food. So i pay a smelly person to do it for me. But now i can say i do it because of the coof."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 06:45 AM (9UlRk)

90 I mean, I'm not disagreeing. Smelly people ruin everything.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 06:47 AM (9UlRk)

91 Bible verses in times of need from the Gideons of Australia . Scroll down in link for specific concerns:

https://tinyurl.com/uaa5ju87

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:48 AM (jfjoa)

92 Because I am afraid of Covid and death. So I pay little unimportant people to shop for me. Let them die.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Essential workers...

Posted by: Bruce at March 16, 2023 06:48 AM (vd8XM)

93 Those who believe this place is overly volatile should spend so time reading the original pamphleteers from Revolutionary times. They are a hoot and remind of times when we were a serious people. The key to having good internet experiences is as for all things, discernment. And it's no bad thing to occasionally jump in a mud puddle.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2023 06:49 AM (4kL7R)

94 All of the retarded shit. The QE, home loans, credit cards, encouraging frivolous spending on credit it was all to delay a crash that needs to happen periodically.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:40 AM (aylmF)
===
Obviously, you should attend our diversity training.
--Consumer Financial Protection Bureaucracy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 06:49 AM (EZebt)

95 80 Forests are supposed to burn periodically, but we spend billions to put out fires, and never deal with the underbrush. Then it turns into a 12 million acre inferno that scorches the earth a d we say "Ahhhhh! Climate change!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 16, 2023 06:41 AM (aylmF)

This is a great analogy. And true.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 06:50 AM (kGtj5)

96 Hostin?

Hey Prince Prospero is that you? How did your Masque of the Red Death go? Not well? Too bad.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 06:51 AM (AtRkB)

97 Instacart did come thru for finding baby formula for me grand niece and nephew many times.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:51 AM (BRHaw)

98 I didn't watch it when Barbara Walters did "The View" either, but I have a feeling it was more balanced and conversational. Ladies of The View- at least the leftist ones now are really unhappy, angry people and obviously having loads of money hasn't helped them. They need healing and a conversion experience.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 06:52 AM (jfjoa)

99 A modest proposal - how about we control the number of 'climate scientists' to a more sustainable level. Say ten.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 06:52 AM (AtRkB)

100
I remember a time when a bank was a place of decorum. Not an assistant manager with a hoop through her nose.

Diversity, I guess.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 06:53 AM (enJYY)

101 "Printing press money" is a term of art, it certainly encompasses the phony baloney hard drive digital vapor. That's even worse, get right down to it. Now they don't even have to print.

Untethered, unlimited "currency" = We're fucked.

Your livelihood, the very fiber of your being is dependent on a bunch of lunatics, sex perverts, sandal wearers, vegetarians, fruitarians, and assorted cranks and nuts. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 16, 2023 06:55 AM (ldF7/)

102 Pass by a Tractor Supply, if not it's Lowes

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:58 AM (CwJ6g)

103 Corrupted rulers have been pretending they have money they don't have since before paper was invented.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 06:59 AM (9UlRk)

104 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

And resist the urge to buy a tractor.

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 07:00 AM (T4tVD)

105 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 16, 2023 07:00 AM (UqnOO)

106 Good morning all! Happy Thursday!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:00 AM (wagHN)

107
I mean, I'm supposed to be inspired to save and invest in your financial institution when your employees 'accessorize' their bodies with hoops through their nostrils?

I would expect to see that in a 1962 issue of National Geographic, not sitting across the desk from me at a bank in 2023.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 07:01 AM (enJYY)

108 They need healing and a conversion experience.

They need to be publicly ridiculed and scorned like the useless wastrels that they are, and the show needs to be canceled. On a serious note though, their bitterness and hatred is taking a physical toll on them.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 07:01 AM (+2RzF)

109 King Louis the Fair of France bought off a Pope and went after the Knights Templar because they refused to loan him more money since he too had a wee spending problem.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:01 AM (AtRkB)

110 Hiya Jewells !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 07:02 AM (T4tVD)

111 Apparently Silicon Valley Bank was using company funds to create music videos.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:02 AM (AtRkB)

112 99 A modest proposal - how about we control the number of 'climate scientists' to a more sustainable level. Say ten.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 06:52 AM (AtRkB)

Worldwide.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:03 AM (kGtj5)

113 I don't give a shit if they have twelve lip rings, a split tongue, and a tattoo of Tattoo of Herve Villachaize on their forehead, as long as they can speak pleasantly and competently count integers greater than twenty.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 07:03 AM (9UlRk)

114 Morning JT! Birdbath status?

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:03 AM (wagHN)

115 Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2023 06:49 AM (4kL7R

I have read them and not only is it fine to jump in it's fine to jump out. At times I think 100 "eff this "is not quite up to the level of the Founding Fathers, as very intelligent as the posters are.Ace writes very well and I appreciate his courageous efforts. It's just that because I can know the latest doesn't mean I have to. And no I'm not " flouncing". My addiction is too strong for that. Just need time away from "We're all going to die!! ( Obviously we are but that's not what they mean" ) or "It's all over"
or "Nothing is going to happen!!" Even though it probably isn't or really foul insults between posters who are the same darm team!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 07:03 AM (jfjoa)

116
Good morning all! Happy Thursday!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:00 AM

Question for you... say you were going to make a piece of gold jewelry, say something as simple as the letter 'A' would you first carve it from wax and then make a mold?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 07:04 AM (enJYY)

117 Feh. Editing fail. I blame technology.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 07:04 AM (9UlRk)

118 I have been reflecting on the parable of the rich man that before he goes on a trip entrusts 10,000, 5,000, and 1,000 talents of gold to three servants, respectively. The first two make investments and double the money. The third buries it in a hole.

I am like the third servant. When Caesar is actively debasing the currency, maybe burying the gold in a hole IS the right thing to do.

I have had no trust in the value of the ones and zeroes since Obama.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 07:05 AM (TXFi7)

119 Have a good day everyone!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 07:05 AM (jfjoa)

120 The hosts of The View are indeed vile, the curiosity for me is the people who watch them, especially those who actually go in person. That's an interesting psychosis.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 16, 2023 07:05 AM (4kL7R)

121 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 07:03 AM (jfjoa)
===
I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2023 07:06 AM (EZebt)

122 Schadenfreud? Oh Germany you are soaking in it.

Legal Insurrection. The Germans just sent a General into early retirement as they realize $100 billion is not enough to rebuild their military. And the Bundeswher is failing to meet recruiting goals for women in the service.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:06 AM (AtRkB)

123 Worldwide?

Aetius I thought that was implied. But yes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:06 AM (AtRkB)

124 Sometimes a conversion experience is preceded by a good spanking.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 07:07 AM (TXFi7)

125 “You see it in the discourse in the country right now. You see it in the divide that we have, just going to school meetings. You see that hate that is out there. We’ve got to step up and speak out and we’ve got to call out the cowards out there,” he continued.

And what is the source of said hate:
“I met one woman who was saved in the Holocaust in Germany, settled in Ukraine, and is now a refugee again back in Berlin where she originally left as a Jew in the Holocaust,”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:08 AM (BRHaw)

126 119 Have a good day everyone!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 07:05 AM (jfjoa)

Have good day, Fen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:09 AM (kGtj5)

127 Have a good day everyone!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Backatcha Fen !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 07:09 AM (T4tVD)

128 123 Worldwide?

Aetius I thought that was implied. But yes.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:06 AM (AtRkB)

Got to close the loopholes on these hamsters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:09 AM (kGtj5)

129
Pass by a Tractor Supply, if not it's Lowes

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:58 AM

Lowe's ain't got no chickens

Tractor Surprise FTW

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 16, 2023 07:09 AM (ENBF0)

130 Shitty Europeans getting displaced by other Shitty Europeans is the sole reason America even exists.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 16, 2023 07:10 AM (9UlRk)

131 Public data in December showed 50,000 people waited 12 hours to be seen after being admitted to the emergency room. The true figure was 50,000 a week, according to leaked internal data obtained by the Independent, a British newspaper.

Deaths linked to the long wait for emergency treatment reached as many as 500 per week in October last year, the outlet reported . More than 30,000 patients a week were waiting 12 hours or more for treatment at the time.

Single Payer Healthcare in UK!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:10 AM (BRHaw)

132
Apparently the long waits at the ER are because the staff has not memorized the Brit equivalent of our ICD-10 codes?

Send Muldoon.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 07:12 AM (enJYY)

133 Legal Insurrection. The Germans just sent a General into early retirement as they realize $100 billion is not enough to rebuild their military. And the Bundeswher is failing to meet recruiting goals for women in the service.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:06 AM (AtRkB)

Practicality has been a casualty for the past 20-30 years. None of this woke shit matters when your life is at stake. Quotas? WGAF? You, fat guy, you want to serve? Well, we have a way to take care of your poor body positivity naturally. Chicks dig scars.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:12 AM (kGtj5)

134 Apparently the long waits at the ER are because the staff has not memorized the Brit equivalent of our ICD-10 codes?

Send Muldoon.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 07:12 AM (enJYY)

MuldoonGPT 2.0

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:13 AM (kGtj5)

135 I found a link to the video from the drone that went down, showing the Mig doing the harrassing. Looks like he made contact with a prop blade and it bent it. Probably shook itself like a dog passing a peach pit and they either shut it down and went into the sea or it tore itself up and then crashed into the sea.

Caveat emptor...

https://tinyurl.com/y3acrtpj

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 07:13 AM (+2RzF)

136 Divide by Zero, I don't know. That's above my pay grade.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:13 AM (wagHN)

137 And I appreciate the written efforts of the other co-bloggers too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 07:13 AM (FUVRY)

138 admirable summation up top there Pixy!

though Skip has a good point (as far as it goes) a few comments in.

sad part is, though it is at this point just play money in schizo clown world, it's all real lives that will be destroyed by the thousands and millions.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 16, 2023 07:14 AM (VohFI)

139 Dr. Bradley founded the Child and Adolescent Gender Identity clinic in Toronto, Canada in 1975 began to issue puberty blockers to children around the early 2000s.

“We were wrong. They’re not as reversible as we always thought, and they have longer term effects on kids’ growth and development, including making them sterile and quite a number of things affecting their bone growth.

Well duh! Doctors worth a damn will even tell young women wanting the Pill that it will effect their moods, their health, and maybe even your relationships.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:17 AM (BRHaw)

140 My birdbath is frozen.

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 07:17 AM (T4tVD)

141 sad part is, though it is at this point just play money in schizo clown world, it's all real lives that will be destroyed by the thousands and millions.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 16, 2023 07:14 AM (VohFI)

As a side note, I wonder how much of this is planned and how much unintentional. I really think they do believe they believe their bullshit, but I also completely believe that they have no idea how a society functions. Biden's comments on energy from yesterday illustrate that.

Their intention/awareness does not matter to the end result, but I wonder.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:17 AM (kGtj5)

142
Divide by Zero, I don't know. That's above my pay grade.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:13 AM

Okay. I have an idea for a kind of intricate sea turtle charm and it looks like I'll have to DIY it. Watched a few YouTube videos and it doesn't seem too difficult. Make a wax carving, encase it in a binary solution of silicon and hardener, melt gold, pour.

Seems easy but the pros always make it look easy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 07:19 AM (enJYY)

143 I see nothing unusual about Russia shooting down an American drone snooping near a war zone. We are all upset, but suppose Russia sent drones in our area of influence. I bet we would get all upset and blow them up.

Posted by: colin at March 16, 2023 07:21 AM (xnI3F)

144 My birdbath is frozen.

Saw that the lemongrass is emerging and carrots may have sprouted. Probably have a least 2-3 varieties of mint running amok Seeing big Jays more often now, but the crows seem to be persistently swooping around. May have to invest in a pellet gun.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 07:22 AM (+2RzF)

145 Seems easy but the pros always make it look easy.

Indeed they do!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:24 AM (wagHN)

146 143 I see nothing unusual about Russia shooting down an American drone snooping near a war zone. We are all upset, but suppose Russia sent drones in our area of influence. I bet we would get all upset and blow them up.
Posted by: colin at March 16, 2023 07:21 AM (xnI3F)

I was not particularly upset- except to wonder what a combat drone was doing in a warzone that supposedly we are not an active participant in (which is all a lie and we know it- we could not be proxying this any harder.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:25 AM (kGtj5)

147 Aetius, it's hard to be sure, but my own feeling is a minority of deluded believers being chumped by a core of people so pathological that a deathcamp guard would puke.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 16, 2023 07:25 AM (VohFI)

148 iow, the healing power of and!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 16, 2023 07:26 AM (VohFI)

149 Well, Fort Smith was awarded the expansion of the ANG base into an Air Force training base. F16s making a comeback,along with F35s. The Singapore AF training squadron will move here, along with training NATO members. Pretty big deal for the local economy, and it's being compared to having an auto plant move in. Very surprised as the last competitor was a base in MI (blue state) and AR is MAGA country.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 16, 2023 07:27 AM (lz5hY)

150 147 Aetius, it's hard to be sure, but my own feeling is a minority of deluded believers being chumped by a core of people so pathological that a deathcamp guard would puke.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 16, 2023 07:25 AM (VohFI)

148 iow, the healing power of and!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 16, 2023 07:26 AM (VohFI)

This is my read as well, for what that matters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:28 AM (kGtj5)

151 So...JT I have a question. In the summer do the birds flock to the birdbath and have a little pool party? Do they wear cute little bathing suits? Do they BYOW? (bring your own worm). I was just wondering if you did your part in keeping them entertained.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:28 AM (wagHN)

152 149 Well, Fort Smith was awarded the expansion of the ANG base into an Air Force training base. F16s making a comeback,along with F35s. The Singapore AF training squadron will move here, along with training NATO members. Pretty big deal for the local economy, and it's being compared to having an auto plant move in. Very surprised as the last competitor was a base in MI (blue state) and AR is MAGA country.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 16, 2023 07:27 AM (lz5hY)

You know an odd thing: for every high profile mission, they keep using the F-22- the plane that was supposedly inferior to the much more versatile F-35.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:30 AM (kGtj5)

153 Morning all. Idid not know until just now that a million barrels a day are still being drawn out of the SOR.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:31 AM (l8RbF)

154 The birds entertain themselves.

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2023 07:31 AM (T4tVD)

155 I don't know why the Mig didn't just shoot the drone. Seems like a disproportionate risk of assets. Why risk a fighter for a drone? Maybe the intention was to recover the drone for gathering intel? Surely they've already got that from the Taliban's trove.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 07:32 AM (+2RzF)

156
Every morning before dawn a squirrel jumps from tree to tree, then onto my roof, then races across the roof just to see if I've put some seed out for the birds. If not, he quietly slinks back.

If he'd leave some for the birds I wouldn't mind but he'll stand there ten feet from me and eat every last seed.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2023 07:34 AM (enJYY)

157
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 16, 2023 07:34 AM (ENBF0)

158 Morning all. Idid not know until just now that a million barrels a day are still being drawn out of the SOR.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:31 AM

Fucked Status:

[ ] Not Fucked

[X] WASTF

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2023 07:34 AM (Wnv9h)

159 Morning Ben Had!!

I didn't know that either. I guess they'll just keep giving it to China until we run out.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 16, 2023 07:35 AM (wagHN)

160 Gas HAS been pretty stable lately here. 3.09ish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 16, 2023 07:36 AM (kGtj5)

161 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration snatched HISD “after years of academic failures,”

Not true: Abbott did not do shit. This bill was written and forced thru by a (D) named Harold Dutton Jr.

I guy that thot HISD sucked!

As for SJL:
"I've been talking with the Department of Education and hope to speak with them today," Lee said in an interview with Chron. "I believe this is a discriminatory action and that this impacts the [constitutional] Equal Protection of the Law and Due Process, and asking for the Department of Education to intervene and investigate. They are in the midst of having their department look at all aspects; they told me that last week that they were reviewing all the information I have given them."

They love the rot when they OWN it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:39 AM (BRHaw)

162 As for SJL:
"I've been talking with the Department of Education and hope to speak with them today," Lee said in an interview with Chron. "I believe this is a discriminatory action and that this impacts the [constitutional] Equal Protection of the Law and Due Process, and asking for the Department of Education to intervene and investigate. They are in the midst of having their department look at all aspects; they told me that last week that they were reviewing all the information I have given them."

They love the rot when they OWN it!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:39 AM

Box of rocks. Dumber than....etc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2023 07:40 AM (Wnv9h)

163 A happy thirty-seventh birthday to the gorgeous Alexandra Daddario, who still looks like she's in her twenties.

Posted by: The Chauffeur at March 16, 2023 07:41 AM (oIkGM)

164 What is dumber? A box of rocks or a bag of hammers?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 07:42 AM (TXFi7)

165 153>> After we draw down the SPR to critical levels and send all the munitions and current weapon systems to 'lil Z, the US won't be able to do anything substantial when China moves on Taiwan.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 07:42 AM (+2RzF)

166 What is dumber? A box of rocks or a bag of hammers?
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 07:42 AM

To-may-to, to-mah-to...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2023 07:43 AM (Wnv9h)

167 164 Paul Pelosi considers a bag of hammers to be party favors.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 16, 2023 07:43 AM (lz5hY)

168 164 What is dumber? A box of rocks or a bag of hammers?
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 07:42 AM (TXFi7)

SJL and AoC in a box.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:43 AM (BRHaw)

169 mornin yall. Well, it looks like Whoopie will be stood against the wall and shot for using a forbidden word, "gypped". I going to feel gypped if she is not

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2023 07:44 AM (iayUP)

170 164 What is dumber? A box of rocks or a bag of hammers?
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 07:42 AM (TXFi7)

duh duh duh duh duh duh duh hammertime

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:45 AM (BRHaw)

171 What is dumber? A box of rocks or a bag of hammers?
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 16, 2023 07:42 AM (TXFi7)

duh duh duh duh duh duh duh hammertime
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:45 AM

Stop.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2023 07:45 AM (Wnv9h)

172 Our next winter storm is scheduled to hit us around noon today.

Rain, freezing rain, then a foot or more of wet snow. Whoo-Hoo!

Posted by: davidt at March 16, 2023 07:45 AM (SYTee)

173 Chatterbox,SJL is so dumb she would hold the hammer and pound the rock against it.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:45 AM (l8RbF)

174 So wife and daughter think drag is not about getting kids into sex.

But they cant tell me what it is about!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

175 I'm still looking for a laptop that isn't crippled by bad design choices. As far as I can tell, there aren't any.

The Dell XPS could be that laptop but they don't have the four essential keys. If they could just license the keyboard from Lenovo.

(As I type this on a Mac Book Pro)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:46 AM (YXHzG)

176 172 Our next winter storm is scheduled to hit us around noon today.

Rain, freezing rain, then a foot or more of wet snow. Whoo-Hoo!
Posted by: davidt at March 16, 2023 07:45 AM (SYTee)

we are 78 going to 48 with rain and thunder around 1700

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

177 The Dell XPS could be that laptop but they don't have the four essential keys. If they could just license the keyboard from Lenovo.

(As I type this on a Mac Book Pro)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:46 AM (YXHzG)

my 13 has them

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

178 "So wife and daughter think drag is not about getting kids into sex."

It's about fashion. Gawd awful stomach turning fashion.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2023 07:50 AM (iayUP)

179 After we draw down the SPR to critical levels and send all the munitions and current weapon systems to 'lil Z, the US won't be able to do anything substantial when China moves on Taiwan.

And don't forget deprecating the Party military with destructive elements (ESG, LGBT, AA, equity, lowered standards) and allowing an overland invasion for the past bunch of years.

The junta is declaring to the world that we are ripe for militarily taking over. This is the metaphor of tying one hand behind the back.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:50 AM (YXHzG)

180 UC Davis chancellor leads the mob
Stanford Law School diversity dean leads the mob

Pathetic and disgusting.

==

And it's more predictable than the sun coming up each morning. America's higher learning (lol) institutions are nothing more than communist schools. And they are, by all accounts, wildly successful in their goals of commie-fying an entire generation of young people.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 16, 2023 07:53 AM (sVtYq)

181 well duh!

The weapons that America left behind in Afghanistan have now made their way into Pakistan. Reports say, the TTP is using American weapons to intensify terror attacks in the country. Mohammed Saleh reports.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

182 duh Stans are all the same!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:54 AM (BRHaw)

183 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 07:54 AM (BRHaw)

184 The junta is declaring to the world that we are ripe for militarily taking over. This is the metaphor of tying one hand behind the back.

If you were going to surrender the US and try to make it look like the function of natural consequences, what would you do differently?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 07:54 AM (+2RzF)

185 I found a link to the video from the drone that went down, showing the Mig doing the harrassing. Looks like he made contact with a prop blade and it bent it. Probably shook itself like a dog passing a peach pit and they either shut it down and went into the sea or it tore itself up and then crashed into the sea.

Caveat emptor...

https://tinyurl.com/y3acrtpj
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 07:13 AM (+2RzF)
-

Too bad the drone isn't equipped with an explosive self destruct option which can be controlled by the operator or the drone's AI.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 16, 2023 07:57 AM (Rl3IJ)

186 If you were going to surrender the US and try to make it look like the function of natural consequences, what would you do differently?

Breed Chelsea Clinton to Justin Trudeau?

Posted by: Cardinal Fang Fang at March 16, 2023 07:59 AM (BUhuo)

187 Too bad the drone isn't equipped with an explosive self destruct option which can be controlled by the operator or the drone's AI.

True dat...recovery of the sensor payload the drone was carrying was probably the objective assuming that technology hasn't been sold, pirated, or recovered from Afghanistan already.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2023 08:03 AM (+2RzF)

188 I have no doubt the author would regard the invasion of Alaska as a mere border dispute. The historically illiterate cannot grasp that most wars are border disputes, their consequences are real (see WWI and WW2).

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is no more a border dispute than the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands.

The difference is the 19 year olds in WW2 produced Andy Murphy while we produce 19 year olds who are BLM, Antifa and Stanford students while not auditioning for drag queen shows.

Posted by: Tom at March 16, 2023 01:05 PM (EcD5Y)

189 Users report that read speeds from SSD have dramatically reduced after the newest Windows 11 update (Windows 11 Version 22H2 - KB5023706). While the few reported events were thought to be localized to the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB SSD, the issue is found to plague other manufacturers and can be fixed after uninstalling the update.

Posted by: SMOD at March 16, 2023 04:42 PM (RHGPo)

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