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Daily Tech News 31 March 2023

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  • Twitter has announced its new API plans for developers. (Twitter)

    They're shit. Just completely useless.

    For $100 per month - that's the hobbyist plan - you get 10,000 GET requests per month and 50,000 POSTs.

    Which is already terrible, but in fact even that is a lie. They're counting individual tweets, not requests, and you can fetch 200 tweets with one GET.

    So that's 50 requests per month. For $100.

    Elon Musk is somehow recreating the market opportunity that should have closed when he rescued Twitter from the commies.


  • Twitter is publishing The Algorithm today. (Twitter)

    Whatever that means. We'll see.



Tech News



Disclaimer: No, I did not have a good day today. How did you guess?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM




Comments

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 04:01 AM (xhxe8)

2 G'day Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 31, 2023 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

3
Bad day? You need some puns

Ace was so happy that Trump got indicted that he dipped his balls in glitter. Pretty nuts, right?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 04:06 AM (enJYY)

4
Lost my job as a masseuse today. Boss says I rub people the wrong way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 04:07 AM (enJYY)

5
Most puns make me feel numb
Mathematics puns make me feel number

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 04:09 AM (enJYY)

6
I called to register for a mime class. Was told, "Ah, say no more."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 04:11 AM (enJYY)

7
Pun source (prolly NSFW):

https://www.12thblog.com/hot-girls-and-funny-jokes-2/

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 04:12 AM (enJYY)

8 What happened to dick glitter?

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at March 31, 2023 04:12 AM (tM5h4)

9 I didn't have a good night, but it's Friday

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 04:25 AM (xhxe8)

10 Fernando Alonzo was top of the time sheet in Australian Grand Prix Friday practice 2

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 04:27 AM (xhxe8)

11 I sense a theme in your life, Pixy.
Is Apple shit and evil or just evil?

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 31, 2023 04:31 AM (Eeb9P)

12 Evening and morning to all on this last day of a very long month! Or so it has seemed for me, with budget issues at work, back and rib trouble, a severe water leak at home, and bad (read: unpleasantly hot and humid) weather. The kittens and the car have been fine, thank goodness.

I've earned a break and plan to take off Thursday and Friday next week. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 04:33 AM (omVj0)

13 On the good side, the kittens each reached their first birthdays this month without incident.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 04:38 AM (omVj0)

14 I found this to be one of the better laptop review quotes I've read in years (from the review of the Asus ROG Flow Z13 noted above):

"The dark leather cover sports a funky-looking shape as well. I can’t say I really know what any of them are. If any of you regularly take ayahuasca and expect that you’re aware of their deeper spiritual meaning, feel free to let me know in the comments."

Suddenly I find myself wanting one of these. Maybe six.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023 04:39 AM (9hasw)

15
Apple could have set up manufacturing in the USA, the UK, Australia, etc and I might have considered their product. But China? No way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 04:41 AM (enJYY)

16 "The dark leather cover sports a funky-looking shape as well. I can’t say I really know what any of them are. If any of you regularly take ayahuasca and expect that you’re aware of their deeper spiritual meaning, feel free to let me know in the comments."

Suddenly I find myself wanting one of these. Maybe six.
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023


***
I dunno what ayahuasca is, but I can guess, and it ain't good. The "dark leather cover" line reminds me of the vented leatherette cover that my first transistor radio came with when I was 10. To this day, when I see an ice cream sandwich, the outer chocolate parts of which are just that color, I think of the little Christmas-gift 10-transistor on which I first heard this new band from England -- the "Beetles," I thought their name was spelled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 04:46 AM (omVj0)

17 Hearing there is an extreme shortage of rental housing down under. Good time to be a homeowner.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 04:56 AM (wLgVN)

18 I've earned a break and plan to take off Thursday and Friday next week. How about you? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

This month marks 7 years without having to get up and go to work. I find that quite lovely because it allows me to go down to the pub on a regular basis. Tonight I encountered a a young woman and her friend who were celebrating (which translates into getting completely hammered ) her getting accepted into grad school after graduating from college with two bachelor's degrees. Remarkably I didn't feel guilty that I'm a slacker.

In other news, I did a reading of some of my poetry the other night and they blew up the place which is quite satisfying. This Saturday for the first time I'm doing a reading in a theater that seats about 600 people and will be packed. I should be terrified but I'm too stupid to know that. And that's all the news I care to report from Las Cruces other than it spring here and the weather is perfect.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023 04:57 AM (9hasw)

19 To this day, when I see an ice cream sandwich, the outer chocolate parts of which are just that color, I think of the little Christmas-gift 10-transistor on which I first heard this new band from England -- the "Beetles," I thought their name was spelled.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I still remember the smell of the leather cover and the electronics when I turned on my first transistor radio I worked like a dog to buy so I could listen to the Beatles back in the day. It is remarkable that we have such a similar experience.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023 05:01 AM (9hasw)

20 In other news, I did a reading of some of my poetry the other night and they blew up the place which is quite satisfying. This Saturday for the first time I'm doing a reading in a theater that seats about 600 people and will be packed. I should be terrified but I'm too stupid to know that. And that's all the news I care to report from Las Cruces other than it spring here and the weather is perfect.
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023


***
Wow! Sounds like a lot of fun. And LC does sound like a good place to live, given your D governor and the recent craziness about face diapers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 05:02 AM (omVj0)

21 Watched about 10 minutes of CNN last night. (first time in a long time)
I expected them to break out a bottle of Champaign during the "expert" analysis of Trump by the usual sad looking experts. They are excited that a Trump trial will save the network as the coverage will be 24/7. Wolf looked like he had been up all night, or hitting the bottle a little to much before the show. He now looks older than shit to me.

Posted by: Colin at March 31, 2023 05:05 AM (A2G1E)

22 I still remember the smell of the leather cover and the electronics when I turned on my first transistor radio I worked like a dog to buy so I could listen to the Beatles back in the day. It is remarkable that we have such a similar experience.
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023


***
Well, the Beatles bit was just coincidence. I'd always loved listening to the radio, either at home or in my father's car, and my favorite was our local top-rated Top 40 station. So amid the other hits of early '64 like Lesley Gore and the like, there was this "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" song.

What did I know. I thought the Dave Clark Five would be the ones who would last.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 05:06 AM (omVj0)

23 I watched a few minutes of MSNBC's coverage of the Trump indictment last night and Rachel Maddow was on. She kept getting distracted by her boner which kept poking its head above the desk.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023 05:08 AM (9hasw)

24 Cream of Weat and Shoo-fly pie for breakfast

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:16 AM (xhxe8)

25 Lost In Space,

Been writing long? Are you a follower of poetic rules or more of a free form/imagery type of poet?

I once tried to write a poem using the following rule: The first and last word of each line must rhyme. I got the first line ("Proudly our regiment charges, cheering loudly."), then I just could not get anything else to work. Kept the line, changed the poem. I also did one using the alphabet -- in order from 'A' - for each letter of the 26 word poem. A lot of 'rules' or gimmicky poems can be stilted and sound forced. I think I succeeded because the alphabet is well hidden by the poem itself, that is to say the words flow without bringing notice to them individually. That one took a little time. But I love the concept of grabbing an idea out of the ether and, using poetic rules from Gaia knows how long ago, bringing it to life on paper.

Posted by: RickZ at March 31, 2023 05:20 AM (emlEe)

26 Wolfus Aurelius: I still have my dads first transistor radio. It an Elgin made in Japan. It still works just fine, except the leather case is falling apart, so I took it out of the case and the radio looks fine. Ten transistors. He used it after his stroke and spent time in a nursing home before he passed, many years ago.

Posted by: Colin at March 31, 2023 05:23 AM (A2G1E)

27 Hiya

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:23 AM (T4tVD)

28 17 Hearing there is an extreme shortage of rental housing down under. Good time to be a homeowner.

Except for the interest rates (fixed-rate loans aren't really a thing here). But yes, very happy I was able to make the jump last year.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 31, 2023 05:24 AM (BLOW1)

29 Been writing long? Are you a follower of poetic rules or more of a free form/imagery type of poet? Posted by: RickZ

I've been at it for quite a while and yes, I'm a freeform type person. My experience with writing is you keep at it until one day you wake up and you have your voice. It's one of the great mysteries of life when and how that happens.

Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023 05:25 AM (9hasw)

30 The Saint Michael prayer:

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 05:28 AM (FUVRY)

31 . But yes, very happy I was able to make the jump last year.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

ISWYDT !

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:28 AM (T4tVD)

32 Thanks Fen !

and Hiya !

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:29 AM (T4tVD)

33 Tap-Tap-Tap.....is this thing on .....?

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:34 AM (T4tVD)

34 And a prayer of Brother Lawrence ( 1621-1691)
a French lay brother whose collected writings are in a book, "The Practice Of. The Presence of God."

A constant prayer

"My God, here I am, my heart devoted to you . Fashion me according to your heart."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 05:36 AM (MSzCl)

35 Lots of bloggers saying the end of the country is at hand, the Totalitarians are at the Gates closing everyone they can.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:38 AM (xhxe8)

36 >>>Elon Musk rescued Twitter from the commies.

or

>>>Elon Musk "rescued" Twitter from the commies.

I really don't know.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 05:42 AM (v0TzN)

37 >>>Disclaimer: No, I did not have a good day today. How did you guess?

I had one of those yesterday.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 05:43 AM (v0TzN)

38 Some of the early transistor pocket radios are kind of collectable. I think Regency or Arvin made some of the first? Zenith "owl" radio is what I would like. A few electrolytic capacitor replacements are usually all that is needed to get them working 100%. I received a red Panasonic transistor radio, I remember listening at night under the covers in bed. There were a gazillion AM stations still, with real live announcers and DJs. Orien Samuelson reading the farm market report at 4 am was not to be missed! Pork bellies up 2 and 1/8, feeder cattle down for August, square bales of dairy quality hay are fetching a good price at Dyersville. Back over to you Chet

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 05:43 AM (i/LKe)

39 Looking at radar map there is snow north and west of me into New Jersey

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:43 AM (xhxe8)

40 3 Bad day? You need some puns

Ace was so happy that Trump got indicted that he dipped his balls in glitter. Pretty nuts, right?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 04:06 AM (enJYY)

; )

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 05:43 AM (v0TzN)

41 And a Christian devotional "Who are you?"
Based on the gospel of John and written by a woman from Indonesia:

https://tinyurl.com/4wx3pn9w



Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 05:44 AM (8/8uM)

42
⚠️ Stolen elections have consequences.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 05:45 AM (enJYY)

43 Fen, you're always a source of encouragement. Thanks

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 05:45 AM (ufsCk)

44 18 I did a reading of some of my poetry the other night and they blew up the place which is quite satisfying. This Saturday for the first time I'm doing a reading in a theater that seats about 600 people and will be packed.
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 31, 2023 04:57 AM (9hasw)

Supercool.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 05:46 AM (v0TzN)

45 Good morning, Morons! I hope you have better days, Pixy.

Mom ate an orange yesterday, in addition to liquids. Dad is very optimistic that she'll be around longer. We shall see.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 31, 2023 05:46 AM (ac25I)

46 Back over to you Chet
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 05:43 AM (i/LKe)


***
On TV in the evenings, the Huntley-Brinkley Report! National news was about 15 minutes, with local news the 15 before that, and then prime-time TV began. I paid no attention to TV "news" then or later, which helped me avoid the brainwashing that's affected so many of our fellow citizens.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 05:49 AM (omVj0)

47 The Left is running a blitzkrieg now. They see openings everywhere and only scattered, disoriented resistance. What can't they do?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2023 05:51 AM (jyrkA)

48 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 05:51 AM (BRHaw)

49 I don't recall what brand my first transistor radio was. Maybe GE, maybe Zenith -- an American brand name, I'm sure, whatever they sold at Woolco. (Remember Woolco, Woolworth's big outlet/discount store? It was Walmart before Walmart was everywhere. No groceries, but books and models and toys, clothes and household goods, hardware and auto parts and service.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 05:53 AM (omVj0)

50 yo wut sup
Posted by: rhennigantx

Slow day in Blogland.....

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:53 AM (T4tVD)

51
g'mornin', 'rons

¿que pasa?

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 31, 2023 05:53 AM (ENBF0)

52 Lost in Space, enjoy reading at the larger venue. That's fantastic!

One of my brothers had me rummaging for out grandfather's Heath kit radio. Found it; sent him a photo. "Not that one," he said. I haven't knuckle/rubbed his head in decades. Just might do so.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 31, 2023 05:53 AM (ac25I)

53 I had a transistor radio, Panasonic I am pretty sure

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:54 AM (xhxe8)

54 We used to go to SS Kresge's a lot as kids. Remember them?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 31, 2023 05:56 AM (iSZpJ)

55 Rather go back to bed then to work, but that doesn't pay bills.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:56 AM (xhxe8)

56 I'm a fiction/prose writer. Poetry, though I read it and appreciate it, is a mystery to me. If I ever need a poem in a story and can't avoid it, I'll have to subcontract it.

This week I submitted a story to the Writers of the Future (read: Scientology) ongoing contest for the quarter that ends today. Two of my stories have earned Honorable Mentions, so maybe I'm zeroing in on what they want for the stories they shell out actual money on. And I'm preparing another to go to the Baen Adventure Fantasy story contest that the Perfessor mentioned on the Book Thread earlier this month. That's not due until April 30, so I've got time to have my writing group look it over.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 05:57 AM (omVj0)

57 @36

>>I really don't know.


The dude vaporized 44 billion dollars, I don't care who you are, that's gotta sting.


No larger point, just an observation.


Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 05:57 AM (up/3i)

58 Rest assured in God- a devotional based on the prophet Isaiah and which "only" mentions God, not Jesus. So appropriate for interested Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/a7wfz6xs

And no; I do not want to get into a discussion about this with Slapweasel. We both can have our own opinions and not get into fights.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 05:58 AM (2AFnA)

59 yo wut sup
Posted by: rhennigantx

Definitely not my attitude . Attempting to calculate the odds on the incompetents in charge doubling down on stupid today . On the other, more important side of things, Fridays are grandkid day so life taken a day at a time is still good .

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 05:58 AM (ufsCk)

60 The Left is running a blitzkrieg now. They see openings everywhere and only scattered, disoriented resistance. What can't they do?
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2023 05:51 AM (jyrkA)

May every opening be into a trap.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 31, 2023 05:58 AM (ac25I)

61 Woke up this morning to The Indictment. Looks like the whole country is turning into Chicago / Illinois. Illinois sends their governors to prison.

Hah. I remember when I was called a conspiracy theorist when I talked about The Chicago Way becoming mainstream politics.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 31, 2023 05:59 AM (MIKMs)

62 Apple could have set up manufacturing in the USA, the UK, Australia, etc

Except the West forgot completely how to manufacture things at scale, and dismantled the apparatus so that it can't ever be done in the West.

• supply chains (eg proximity to things like small screws)
• able to hire thousands of workers in a day, and let them go just as easily
• few mid-level engineers (such as community-college degree) China can get 8700 engineers in one week to support a 200,000 assembly line workers
• assembly-worker class is too drugged up, woke, entitled, stupid, lazy and undependable to reliably staff an assembly line in the West
• nearly impossible to physically expand a site due to environmental, political, social and now funding impediments.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:01 AM (YXHzG)

63 Passerby saves woman from house fire. From "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/e9tu9v4m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:02 AM (2AFnA)

64 Please pray for me if the pray-ers would be so kind. I have to talk to my boss today at 9:00 Nj time about why the church shouldn't close, I am running on a sleep deficit and not sure I am very articulate.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:05 AM (2AFnA)

65
Toyota figured out how to manufacture in the USA and now has six different plants. Latest in Texas, of course.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:05 AM (enJYY)

66 "assembly-worker class is too drugged up"

That was one of the motivating factors behind alcohol prohibition. They were right. Repeal, which FDR heartily supported, marked the beginning of our downfall.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 31, 2023 06:06 AM (KAi1n)

67 Rather go back to bed then to work, but that doesn't pay bills.

I love what I do, so much that I get up early just so I can get to it.

And it pays the bills.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:07 AM (YXHzG)

68 Pray for President Trump. and here's a related prayer about the government from a RC friend which came from the the Council of Bishops:

Daily Prayer for “”Liberty”” and for a Holy Spirit Revival

"Free us from every force of oppression, both internally and externally. Grant to our leaders the wisdom to protect and promote our liberties; by your grace may we have the courage to defend them, for ourselves and for all those who live in this blessed land. Heavenly Father, grant a Holy Spirit Revival in our land!" (Based on a prayer by the USCCB)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:09 AM (2AFnA)

69 Clear here, 🌟 are out

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 06:11 AM (xhxe8)

70 Please pray for me if the pray-ers would be so kind. I have to talk to my boss today at 9:00 Nj time about why the church shouldn't close, I am running on a sleep deficit and not sure I am very articulate.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:05 AM

Prayers up!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 31, 2023 06:11 AM (ac25I)

71 Please pray for me if the pray-ers would be so kind. I have to talk to my boss today at 9:00 Nj time about why the church shouldn't close, I am running on a sleep deficit and not sure I am very articulate.


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:05 AM (2AFnA)

Okay

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 06:12 AM (T4tVD)

72 Reuben Hick, all true. Left off your list, however, was innovation and design which still primarily occurs in the US. I am doubtful that we will ever restore the US manufacturing base, but will we maintain control of the lead input? The advent and rapid advances in AI may be the wild card

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 06:12 AM (ufsCk)

73 Toyota figured out how to manufacture in the USA and now has six different plants. Latest in Texas, of course.

You were comparing to Apple, not Toyota. Does Toyota run over one hundred assembly lines with over 400 steps per unit for each model made requiring over two hundred thousand assembly workers - and then distribute those vehicles around the world?

Toyota runs assembly plants where much of it is performed by robots but parts come literally from around the globe. They don't ramp up and down quickly, rather they just chug along without much variation in day-to-day output.

I don't think that Foxcon has problems with union strikes or work slow-downs, in fact, their employees often live on campus and in company dorms.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:12 AM (YXHzG)

74
Wife and I passed a number of church parking lots on Sunday and while I'm a 'keep my eyes on the road' type of driver she did mention that the parking lots were quite full.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:13 AM (enJYY)

75 May every opening be into a trap.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 31, 2023 05:58 AM (ac25I)

Our side hasn't the foresight, cunning or guts to lay traps, or to know what do even if we inadvertently trapped them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 31, 2023 06:14 AM (jyrkA)

76 Lord , continue to use our sister and give her boss wisdom. Encourage and give her peace

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 06:15 AM (ufsCk)

77 euben Hick, all true. Left off your list, however, was innovation and design which still primarily occurs in the US. I am doubtful that we will ever restore the US manufacturing base, but will we maintain control of the lead input? The advent and rapid advances in AI may be the wild card

The reason why I love my job is because I work with scary smart and talented engineers. AI isn't going to take over those jobs, but in fact augments those jobs.

For example, in coding, there is a lot of boiler plate that needs to be composed. There are tools AI tools out there that, with guidance and context are, right now, about 70% good at completing the scut work leaving the developer to focus on making things work.

The very same culture that makes FUSA workers terrible assembly-line workers is what makes us the best innovators and elite engineers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:16 AM (YXHzG)

78 And beautiful pictures of nature from "earthporn". Click on picture for a larger view:

https://tinyurl.com/c4czxh5s

And you can go outside your house or just look out the window to see a beautiful sunrise if it's clear or the budding trees and flowers.

Have a good day everyone and remember-if you're a person of faith/- God loves you and wants to be a relationship with you. Of course, God wants to be a relationship with people who don't believe in Him too, but I'm too tired to debate theology now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:18 AM (9Jzu9)

79

Oops I was wrong, 10 manufacturing facilities:

With more than $21.9 billion direct investment in the U.S., 10 manufacturing facilities, 1,500 dealerships and 136,000 (direct and indirect) employees...

Back to the China shill

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:18 AM (enJYY)

80 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:05 AM (2AFnA)

Prsyers up. Your sincerity will debe you well

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 06:18 AM (xeiZc)

81 Please pray for me if the pray-ers would be so kind. I have to talk to my boss today at 9:00 Nj time about why the church shouldn't close

---

I assume it's closing because people aren't coming. Because people in New Jersey think they don't need it. Meaning they need it desperately.

Maybe close what is thought of as "the church" but keep bringing people to Jesus through other ways the community needs and would respond to. Consider yourself a missionary in a foreign land, because with New Jersey I'm guessing that's pretty accurate.

If one person dies and goes to the Devil's Hell because the church was closed, was it worth that cost? If one person is saved, was that worth that cost?

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 06:19 AM (sIl7T)

82 And thanks for the prayers, fellow Ace of Spaders. I do love the congregation which I serve.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:19 AM (9Jzu9)

83 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2023 06:20 AM (ju2Fy)

84 The very same culture that makes FUSA workers terrible assembly-line workers is what makes us the best innovators and elite engineers.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

I can agree with that . Spent part of my career working with engineering R&D types. Kept me humble among other things

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 06:21 AM (ufsCk)

85 Our side hasn't the foresight, cunning or guts to lay traps, or to know what do even if we inadvertently trapped them.

Our side doesn't need to lay out traps. Read Proverbs, those traps are built-in the fallibility and noetic effects of sin.

In observation of "Trans Day of Vengeance":

"Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly." - Deuteronomy 32:35

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:22 AM (YXHzG)

86 I don't think that Foxcon has problems with union strikes or work slow-downs, in fact, their employees often live on campus and in company dorms.

--

Because they're slaves?

Speaking of, wasn't Apple one of the companies that was confirmed to be using Chinese prisoners (not an exaggeration, but actual incarcerated prisoners) to work in their plants?

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 06:22 AM (sIl7T)

87
I would bet that Toyota carefully researches locations where they would be welcomed and invests there. Apple couldn't be bothered.

The reason I was off on the number of manufacturing facilities is because they're still growing. Detroit is dying, but still decides elections at 3 am.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:23 AM (enJYY)

88 Whatever the decision Fen, I believe God will continue to use you for His glory .

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 06:23 AM (ufsCk)

89 I watch a lot of the YT videos made of defunct shopping malls. Many are being torn down and they aren't that old...1980's like.
This morning a guy was shooting a mall in Arizona, that he went to as a kid. All the stores long gone we are all familiar with. Vandals have gotten into it and destroyed a lot. Stealing the metal for drugs he said.
Time are a changing, as I am talking about thousands of malls.

Posted by: Colin at March 31, 2023 06:23 AM (A2G1E)

90
They house them in dorm type facilities with bunk beds, separated from family, and make them work six days a week. But buy those Apple products because American engineers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:25 AM (enJYY)

91 Disclaimer: No, I did not have a good day today. How did you guess?

Because everything is sh*t?

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2023 06:25 AM (ju2Fy)

92 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 31, 2023 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

93 And thanks for your thoughtful and faith filled post, Mr World Trade Center. We are running out of money and are very small. We have an offer to buy some of our land but may not have enough to wait till that comes through. And I try to be a missionary wherever I go, However, the older folks say they will not go to another church if this church closes
because they've been there for 60-90 years and they need a pastor . I think I should just be appointed as the peripatetic pastor of Central Jersey without a salary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:27 AM (T/n0t)

94 Also a lot of YT videos on the new crop of Chinese EV's. Very small, even smaller that the "smart car" of a few years ago. They will probably show up in every community before long, as government mandates say you have to buy EV. And the Chinese cars are cheap, but innovative.

Posted by: Colin at March 31, 2023 06:28 AM (A2G1E)

95 Pitiful

Effective July 1, 2023, the University of Pennsylvania will cease awarding Dean’s List to undergraduate students. This decision is the culmination of extensive consultations over several years across the Penn community, including with undergraduate student leaders, in response to the shared belief that a Dean’s List designation does not reflect the breadth and evolution of students’ academic achievements over the course of their education at Penn. Latin Honors and school and departmental awards will continue to be awarded to recognize the many forms of academic excellence demonstrated by students. The PennBook will be updated in July 2023 to reflect this new policy, and a notation will be added to the transcript to document this change.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 06:28 AM (BRHaw)

96 Because everything is sh*t?
Posted by: olddog in mo

Sh*t like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder . Did you just step in it, or are you spreading it on your garden to make your soil more productive?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 06:28 AM (ufsCk)

97
My son-in-law works for Toyota, is well compensated, and while often on the road five days a week, sleeps in four star hotels while traveling.

Not some dorm room. He goes home to a four bedroom, four bath home with three car garage and heated swimming pool on a couple acre lot.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:29 AM (enJYY)

98 Wasn't it Foxcon that had to put up suicide nets on the building to save the workers, because it's apparently a real fun place to work.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 31, 2023 06:30 AM (iSZpJ)

99 A two-fer: Reagan was shot on my birthday and Trump was indicted. Got to stop having 'em. What's next for us?

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 06:31 AM (cFz0C)

100 Oops I was wrong, 10 manufacturing facilities:

With more than $21.9 billion direct investment in the U.S., 10 manufacturing facilities, 1,500 dealerships and 136,000 (direct and indirect) employees...

Back to the China shill


The numbers and reasons I was giving you came from Tim Cook who was justifying Apple's move to China to assmebly their iPhones. The labor costs difference alone would be a 10% markup in the total price of the phone. The other items - the ability to spin up production quickly - something Toyota doesn't need; the expedited access to commodity components at scale - also not a Toyota concern make China a better nexus for manufacture.

It takes about a month to move a component over the ocean, it takes just a few minutes to get your component from down the street. Wildly different manufacturing inputs and requirements.

You are simply trying to compare Apples to Toyotas.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:31 AM (YXHzG)

101 Sh*t like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder . Did you just step in it, or are you spreading it on your garden to make your soil more productive?
Posted by: Sock Monkey
------------------

Yes, but reading the content I surmise Pixy was not alluding to the productive kind.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 31, 2023 06:32 AM (ju2Fy)

102
Wasn't it Foxcon that had to put up suicide nets on the building to save the workers, because it's apparently a real fun place to work.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 31, 2023 06:30 AM


That's what I read. The same article talked about their dorms, number of days they were forced to work, etc. But buy Apple because... American engineers?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:33 AM (enJYY)

103 Apple is a lot like Hollywood. They may put out a good movie now and then, but the people that run the show suck ass so bad I want nothing to do with them.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 06:34 AM (iayUP)

104 “21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, king of England living as of the date of this declaration.

There is no King of England has not been for 300 years

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 06:35 AM (BRHaw)

105 Wasn't it Foxcon that had to put up suicide nets on the building to save the workers, because it's apparently a real fun place to work.

Yes. Suicide is high because China culture treats humans like livestock.

When people say that we should be more like China so that we can recapture certain sectors of manufacturing, they really mean the FUSA needs to transform into the human enslavement part and nothing about the finance, construction, and infrastructure aspects.

China is putting two coal fired power plants up each week. We are arguing about if a windmill is killing whales and how fast we can destroy the dispatchable energy providers.

Build your factories (good luck with the permits) but see if you can keep them running.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:35 AM (YXHzG)

106
American workers are not all the same as people from Detroit and anyone taking a pinata at them as all the same is a shill for China.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:36 AM (enJYY)

107 AOC has been served!

lulz

https://tinyurl.com/2pbju3zh

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 31, 2023 06:37 AM (cnh8a)

108 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 06:05 AM (2AFnA)
Correction:
Your sincerity will *serve* you well.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 06:37 AM (cFz0C)

109 Have a great day, everyone.

The sun will rise and shine, regardless of foolish actions in the corridors of power.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 31, 2023 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

110
During the pandemic I bought masks from China - I didn't want to buy from them. Should have come from the USA. Bought an oximeter, should have come from the USA. In small print on the back? Made in Wuhan.

They went to war with us 24 years ago and we lost.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:40 AM (enJYY)

111 That's what I read. The same article talked about their dorms, number of days they were forced to work, etc. But buy Apple because... American engineers?

For decades I was exclusively MS-DOS/Windows person. For the past three years, pretty much straight-up Mac Book Pro.

Apple engineers are better. I was pricing a loaded up Dell XPS 17" notebook, comparing it to the MBP of similar configuration (other than the obvious CPU difference). The MBP is slightly more expensive, but really delivers a much better experience.

It pisses me off that Dell can't figure out how to add the Four Essential Keys

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:41 AM (YXHzG)

112 Yes, but reading the content I surmise Pixy was not alluding to the productive kind.
Posted by: olddog in mo

That was apparent . A great deal in this world is beyond our control. What we can do is assess what is put in front of us and adjust accordingly . Doesn't always work or give immediate results but I remain obtusely optimistic. It helps to wear your barn boots and watch where you step.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 06:41 AM (ufsCk)

113 The numbers and reasons I was giving you came from Tim Cook who was justifying Apple's move to China to assmebly their iPhones. The labor costs difference alone would be a 10% markup in the total price of the phone.

--

I was young when I started watching jobs disappear in the 70s and 80s. If we didn't do that then lettuce would cost 3 cents more or something. One couldn't help but notice Ford and GM moved manufacturing to Mexico and it didn't drop or change their car prices by one penny.

As I got older I realized lettuce still costs 3 cents more, as do cars, and people didn't have the jobs to afford any of it. But if they'd kept those jobs here not only would the nation be strong economically, but we'd be working the jobs that would allow the workers to purchase the products.

It's all been a scam. With the exception of non-politician Trump, not a single politician has had our best interests at heart, or loved America and Americans one single bit. That's one of the most hurtful things.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 06:41 AM (sIl7T)

114 Fen - I consider myself a member of your congregation.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 31, 2023 06:42 AM (MIKMs)

115 @105 China is putting two coal fired power plants up each week. We are arguing about if a windmill is killing whales and how fast we can destroy the dispatchable energy providers.

//////

The USA has become an unserious country. Our leaders lack the wisdom and the courage to talk about anything that matters.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 06:42 AM (cFz0C)

116
The sun will rise and shine, regardless of foolish actions in the corridors of power.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 31, 2023 06:38 AM (u82oZ

/////

And we'll smile because we feel gratitude for the many blessings we enjoy.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 06:45 AM (cFz0C)

117 Saying prayers for you Fenelon.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2023 06:46 AM (/0+YE)

118
Also, in those 23 years American males have gone from 75% of the workforce to 70% and the percentage of workers has steadily declined. During Trumps first three years that turned around and headed up.

Then China unleashed the virus on the world. But buy Apple, manufactured in China.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:46 AM (enJYY)

119 As I got older I realized lettuce still costs 3 cents more, as do cars, and people didn't have the jobs to afford any of it. But if they'd kept those jobs here not only would the nation be strong economically, but we'd be working the jobs that would allow the workers to purchase the products.

I don't know anybody who aspires to be an assembly worker who would agree to China's work environment. People in the FUSA just plain don't want to work, or if they do, they expect to get upper management compensation.

Cut the welfare safety net or otherwise get used to seeing Help Wanted signs all over the place for HS grad level of skilled workers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:50 AM (YXHzG)

120 Would anybody be surprised if CNN is giving Bragg a kickback for saving their network?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 06:50 AM (iayUP)

121 Apple will be able to move manufacturing back to the US in 10 yeas after our currency collapses and we become a vassal state of China. Thanks GOP. But then, their consumer base won't be able to afford their products anymore.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2023 06:52 AM (dK+81)

122
When 5,000 manufacturing facilities close, costing 5,000,000 jobs, to blame the workers and say 'they don't want to work' sure sounds like victim blame bias to me.

They lost their jobs because China stole them while unpatriotic Americans looked the other way and bought shiny new iPhones.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:54 AM (enJYY)

123
Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings.

Who the f cares? It has all been an op since HW Bush planted his ass in the WH.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2023 06:54 AM (dK+81)

124 Johnny Cash said it best, "sooner or later God'll cut you down". Prepare for the things that matter, Jesus is coming back and right soon.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 31, 2023 06:55 AM (oWBc3)

125 In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’ race and ethnicity, the Biden administration is asking the public for input on how it might go about differentiating Black people who are descendants of slaves in America from those whose families arrived more recently as immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean or other countries.

So Bary and Mooch has to gets their $$$$ from gullible idiots.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 06:55 AM (BRHaw)

126 'None of that would have happened without Christianity."

Agreed. And Wokedom wouldn't have swept across our institutions like a crusade if we had kept Faith. Atheism failed us.

This happened to me in college. My girlfriend and I needed our term papers typed out, so we responded to a local advertisement through the school. And ran head first into a cult. The leader was an evil man (and at 18 you don't know evil) and all the members looked pretty much like my girlfriend. You can fill in the rest of the nightmare from there.

Posted by: Fen at March 31, 2023 06:56 AM (+LcMo)

127 He tried to mind control us, to possess her. I was not religious, and this was a spiritual attack. I had no defense. I wasn't even aware I could be attacked on a spiritual level. I fought back as best I could. I managed to save the girl but it cost me her love, which was everything to me. And I was shell shocked, walking around campus all semester like a zombie, soulless.

C.S. Lewis saved me. Patched me up. Gave me armor. And a sword. And sometimes, Aslan Himself. If I came across that cultist today, he would be no more than a roach under my heel. Of course after 30 years I'm sure the evil has eaten him alive.

Posted by: Fen at March 31, 2023 06:56 AM (+LcMo)

128 But that's what happened to America. I think the Founders made a mistake, or two. Can't complain, they crafted a miracle. But we didn't keep Religion separate from the State. Nit possible. You can't deny appetites physical, intellectual or spiritual. There were three gates to the Castle, not two. We kept Christianity out, but in doing so we left spiritual gate unmanned. Like my 18 year old self, we had no defense. If it seemed like we lost everything from the FBI to the NFL over a fortnight, it's because they had lost Faith. No one was defending that gate. Wokedom arrived to find those slots unoccupied and took them unopposed.

I don't know, maybe the Founders had to choose between two evils and this was the lesser risk. But it fcked us. I don't know how this story continues, but I'm certain of a few things. We have good cause to hang traitors, it's not malice. And we're going to need Faith. And from that, the Will to act

Posted by: Fen at March 31, 2023 06:57 AM (+LcMo)

129 @110

>>They went to war with us 24 years ago and we lost.

They did not go to war with us, The West and Anglosphere largely sold out their citizenry for what amounts to a can of beans.

24 Years ago, China's GDP was under a trillion dollars, today their GDP is over 17 trillion.

There is no way for a country to go from an also ran to a near pear in 25 years without inventing, innovating, pioneering something into existence or a WW to reshuffle the deck.

And the Meat Puppet currently inhabiting the office of The President of United States was one of the prime drivers of our destruction.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 06:58 AM (up/3i)

130 I was young when I started watching jobs disappear in the 70s and 80s.

The wheelin' dealin' years right after WW2 was an anomaly. The remainder of the industrialized world was literally smoking ruins while the FUSA had an industrial build up that would never be seen again. Flush with cash, established supply-chains, workers conditioned to factory work at elevated production levels...

Then the unions came forward and ruined things. Then the grifters and politicians saw all of this bounty and begin stealing as much as they could. The workers went to war with management and investors and made shit products.

In the meantime, Japan rebuilt, leap-frogging WW2 era factory lines, labor working in harmony with management, and grifters and union thugs no where to be seen. In fact, defeated Germany did the exact same thing and that is why both defeated enemies of the FUSA and UK have overtaken both countries to be the juggxrnaught of automobile manufacturing.

Note that Divide By Zero wasn't talking about Ford or GM.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:58 AM (YXHzG)

131 89 they aren't that old...1980's like
Posted by: Colin at March 31, 2023 06:23 AM (A2G1E)

2023 - 1980 = 43.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:02 AM (v0TzN)

132 2023 - 1980 = 43.
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:02 AM (v0TzN)

Don't remind me.

Posted by: Sponge (not really) at March 31, 2023 07:02 AM (9UlRk)

133 Ha, sock off from yesterday's shenanigans

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:03 AM (9UlRk)

134 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 05:36 AM (MSzCl)


Fen, I was at a book sale yesterday, and picked up an old hard copy (in good shape) of Brother Lawrence's book.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:04 AM (PiwSw)

135 Graduation (Latin) Honors

In recognition of distinguished academic achievement and high standards of academic integrity, the University of Pennsylvania awards graduation honors to undergraduate students based on the cumulative g.p.a. on their transcripts at the time of graduation:

summa cum laude: 3.8 or higher
magna cum laude: 3.6 or higher, but less than 3.8
cum laude: 3.4 or higher, but less than 3.6

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:05 AM (v0TzN)

136 They did not go to war with us, The West and Anglosphere largely sold out their citizenry for what amounts to a can of beans.

Imagine if you had a crystal ball and could see five years into the future. Seeing what you see, how would you exploit that to profit mightily.

That was exactly the motivation for moving to China. The smart money was looking at what the FUSA did, then projected that same thing on to a developing nation thinking that all they would have to do is repeat the previous years and avoid doing the stuff that made things go bad.

So they didn't include an EPA, OSHA, EEOC and other industry destroying agencies in China and look what happened! The people of FUSA decided that we wanted to live like kings in the Garden of Eden and established crippling regulations in the pursuit of Heaven.

China didn't because shit still needs to be made and investors liked their chances far better away from unions and regulations. So people in the FUSA got their heaven on the backs of little yellow people on the other side of the planet.

Quit bitching. Choices were made.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 07:05 AM (YXHzG)

137
There is no way for a country to go from an also ran to a near pear in 25 years without inventing, innovating, pioneering something into existence or a WW to reshuffle the deck.


Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 06:58 AM


But did they really invent or just steal and reverse engineer ideas from the USA? Because R&D costs big money, stealing those ideas is incredibly cheap.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:05 AM (enJYY)

138 Comey

It’s been a good day.

Stand up proud boy scout is just another DC sellout!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:06 AM (BRHaw)

139 Hope your weekend is better, Pixy

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 07:06 AM (yu8eA)

140 105 Suicide is high because China culture treats humans like livestock.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 06:35 AM (YXHzG)

One-child policy, too.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:08 AM (v0TzN)

141

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 31, 2023 07:08 AM (vwCZJ)

142 You could make the case that the west has stolen from China the invention of an insane, self defeating, mandarin ruling class and a terrifying disgust of the populace at large. So it's kind of even.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:09 AM (9UlRk)

143 So if NYC judge decides to put GAG order in PDT.

I think SCOTUS and FEC would have to say NO!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:10 AM (BRHaw)

144
One-child policy, too.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:08 AM


That ended quite a while back and they're now scrambling to catch up. Locking workers into dorms for six days a week is gonna make it hard to get home and get busy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:10 AM (enJYY)

145 But did they really invent or just steal and reverse engineer ideas from the USA? Because R&D costs big money, stealing those ideas is incredibly cheap.

Yes. An enormous amount of IP was stolen and is still being stolen.

I had a conversation with a CTO on this problem, why they didn't patent and how his company keeps moving forward.

In short, you don't worry about yesterday's technology, you innovate faster than they can steal and copy.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 07:10 AM (YXHzG)

146 @137

>>But did they really invent or just steal and reverse engineer ideas from the USA? Because R&D costs big money, stealing those ideas is incredibly cheap.

That's the larger point, China is where it is because a bunch of greedy maniacs that run the world decided to act against their populaces and actively subvert their people for a few pieces of silver, not because they created anything or innovated anything, they stole every thing they possibly could while the politicians looked the other way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 07:11 AM (up/3i)

147 So if NYC judge decides to put GAG order in PDT.

I think SCOTUS and FEC would have to say NO!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:10 AM (BRHaw)

That would be the height of irony...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:11 AM (9UlRk)

148
They did not go to war with us, The West and Anglosphere largely sold out their citizenry for what amounts to a can of beans.

24 Years ago, China's GDP was under a trillion dollars, today their GDP is over 17 trillion.

There is no way for a country to go from an also ran to a near pear in 25 years without inventing, innovating, pioneering something into existence or a WW to reshuffle the deck.

And the Meat Puppet currently inhabiting the office of The President of United States was one of the prime drivers of our destruction.

---

1963 documented plan for communist defeat of United States

ecjones.org/1963_Communist_Goals.pdf

"4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether
or not items could be used for war."

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:11 AM (ZLyax)

149 Yes. An enormous amount of IP was stolen and is still being stolen.

I had a conversation with a CTO on this problem, why they didn't patent and how his company keeps moving forward.

In short, you don't worry about yesterday's technology, you innovate faster than they can steal and copy.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 07:10 AM (YXHzG)

If you have 3 Chinese nationals in your company they are stealing shit!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:12 AM (BRHaw)

150
I can see no reason to continue to deal with a thief or a fence. Sooner or later, you come home and all your shit's gone.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:12 AM (enJYY)

151 @136

>>Quit bitching. Choices were made.

I've been bitching for the last 40 years, it hasn't amounted to anything.

And the choices were made without letting the American people know that they were being sold out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 07:13 AM (up/3i)

152 In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’ race and ethnicity, the Biden administration is asking the public for input on how it might go about differentiating Black people who are descendants of slaves in America from those whose families arrived more recently as immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean or other countries.

--

Sure sounds like a lead in to reparations.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2023 07:13 AM (sVtYq)

153 One-child policy, too.

Oddly enough, that is one of the reasons I doubt China wants to go toe-to-toe and fight a conventional war.

Their culture still has retiring parents depending on their children being productive. Sort of hard to do that when you one child is killed in battle.

Nonetheless, China has urbanized so much and has destroyed their posterity that the country is in a demographics death spiral. That, and obscene levels of debt and fraud, I'm not seeing how China gets through this in the next couple decades.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 07:14 AM (YXHzG)

154 Prepare for the things that matter, Jesus is coming back and right soon.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem


I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, " Sock Monkey do My will!"

Take this day for what He gives you. Be a good steward of His blessings .

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 07:14 AM (ufsCk)

155 I hope tomorrow is better, Pixy!

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 31, 2023 07:15 AM (QNv15)

156 "Are you a real Negro or a Sears Negro?"

...

Who the hell in this cabal decided that this shambling phoney should still have his vocal chords intact?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:15 AM (9UlRk)

157 Or China knows that war is a pretty good way to get rid of a bunch of makes.

The parents don't have a say in it. See also : USA closing schools

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:16 AM (SXbM4)

158 Makes = males

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:16 AM (SXbM4)

159 Besides, i have it on good authority that the "descended from slaves" thing is irrelevant because the Power Structures of White Oppression are yadda yadda yadda fucking retch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:17 AM (9UlRk)

160 TikTok has enlisted three heavyweights from American politics and business to advise it behind the scenes as the social-media app tries to convince U.S. authorities that it isn’t beholden to the Chinese government.

David Plouffe and Jim Messina, veterans of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, and Zenia Mucha, the former longtime communications chief of Walt Disney Co., are advising TikTok in its fight against efforts to ban it in the U.S, according to people familiar with their roles.

PS This means they ARE in fact CHINA.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)

161
And the choices were made without letting the American people know that they were being sold out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 07:13 AM


My Senator from Pennsylvania way back then - Arlen Specter - who depending on the day of the week or year could have been a (D) or an (R) made a speech on the Senate floor voicing his opposition to giving China permanent most favored trade status.

He said we *will* lose control of China. He called it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:18 AM (enJYY)

162 So far as I can tell, the "not descended from slaves" ones are the ones out there busting their humps and taking advantage of opportunities.

I'll take my $14m now. Thanks.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:19 AM (SXbM4)

163 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2023 07:20 AM (2hlEI)

164 George Washington University Law Emeritus Professor John Banzhaf has informed Stanford University School of Law officials that he intends to file a Bar complaint against the students who disrupted a lecture by Federal Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:21 AM (BRHaw)

165 Boker Tov patriots

Sad day in America

Anyone have any bananas

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 07:22 AM (pVWRI)

166 You can't know that. Maybe the dude who just moved here has a great x12- uncle who was stolen by wypipo, and the family just never recovered from the economic loss.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:22 AM (9UlRk)

167 159 yadda yadda yadda fucking retch
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:17 AM (9UlRk)

LOL

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:23 AM (v0TzN)

168 I like the part where we are supposed to pretend slavery isn't happening right now so long as we say "trafficking" instead.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:24 AM (SXbM4)

169 168 I like the part where we are supposed to pretend slavery isn't happening right now so long as we say "trafficking" instead.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:24 AM (SXbM4)

I can guarantee that all those central Americans at the hardware store parking lot every morning are freelancers who file 1099s fastidiously.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:25 AM (9UlRk)

170
It's kind of funny, not ha-ha but statistically strange that a good number of people that did me wrong in my life all died of brain cancer. I'm not sure what Arlen Specter did exactly, but brain cancer got him. The waste 'engineer' who dumped thousands of gallons of pharmaceutical waste down into a well and polluted my businesses well? Brain cancer. The former head of Greater Philadelphia First who sent business across the state, far away from the Philadelphia area which cost me my business? Brain cancer. Someone else, very close to me. Brain cancer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:26 AM (enJYY)

171 144 One-child policy, too.
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:08 AM

That ended quite a while back and they're now scrambling to catch up.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:10 AM (enJYY)

I honestly had not kept up with the current status. The fact that a government instituted that policy at any time is frightening.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:26 AM (v0TzN)

172 I honestly had not kept up with the current status. The fact that a government instituted that policy at any time is frightening.
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:26 AM (v0TzN)

Hell, we're slouching towards a de-facto Zero Child Policy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:27 AM (9UlRk)

173 Hell, we're slouching towards a de-facto Zero Child Policy.
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How many carseats can you fit in a minivan?

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 31, 2023 07:28 AM (MIKMs)

174 172 I honestly had not kept up with the current status. The fact that a government instituted that policy at any time is frightening.
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:26 AM (v0TzN)

Hell, we're slouching towards a de-facto Zero Child Policy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:27 AM (9UlRk)

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:29 AM (v0TzN)

175 Anyone have any bananas
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 07:22 AM (pVWRI)

yes we have no bananas

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:29 AM (BRHaw)

176
Hell, we're slouching towards a de-facto Zero Child Policy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:27 AM


Who knows just what effect the 'vaccine' is going to have on birth rates? All those people cooped up at home sure gave them every opportunity to get busy but it's not reflected in any baby boom.

Worrisome.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:32 AM (enJYY)

177 It's all we can do to feed two teenagers. Not many families will be able to feed them and help with cars, insurance, etc

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:32 AM (SXbM4)

178 If I had had to guess, I would have guessed that Australians say "shite."

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:32 AM (v0TzN)

179 yes we have no bananas
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Good morning, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 31, 2023 07:33 AM (MIKMs)

180 How many carseats can you fit in a minivan?
Posted by: mustbequantum

80's era Toyota van . Preferred mode of transportation for a majority of the 3rd world. Can seat up to 8 adults, 5 kids, 3 goats and 27 chickens



Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 07:33 AM (ufsCk)

181 How are Gal-Faced minstrels any better than Black-Faced minstrels?

Judge

https://tinyurl.com/2p9exwm6

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:34 AM (BRHaw)

182 Well thats it. I'll vote for him now no matter what.
Short of Jesus Christ Himself returning in Glory to get on the ballot, I will vote for Trump even if he is in jail. Heck, I'll vote for him now if they display his rotting dead corpse on a podium in the national mall.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at March 31, 2023 07:36 AM (RaWcF)

183 Scary read on CHINA

https://tinyurl.com/8kktefw6

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:37 AM (BRHaw)

184 A one-child policy is essentially asking adults to sacrifice their future.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:37 AM (v0TzN)

185 I listen to a handful of Australian yootoobers, and they all say "shit", not "shite". Don't know how representative a sample that is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:39 AM (9UlRk)

186 jjs should be lit today.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at March 31, 2023 07:40 AM (MvF+J)

187 A one-child policy is essentially asking adults to sacrifice their future.
Posted by: m

I remember watching a docu in the 70's about the one child policy. I distinctly remember a lady they puller out of her house during her second pregnancy for a forced abortion. I was horrified as a kid. Still am.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2023 07:40 AM (/0+YE)

188 puller=pulled.

Posted by: Infidel at March 31, 2023 07:41 AM (/0+YE)

189
When I was growing up a job in a factory was far from the most glamorous of professions but it paid the bills, decade after decade after decade. My employees owned homes, boats, decent cars, cabins in the woods, had large families and a pretty damn decent middle class existence.

With men going from 75% of the workforce to 70% post annihilation of manufacturing how many men now wanna get down on bended knee with an uncertain career ahead of them in the service industry? Sure some percentage of them can 'learn to code' but just how certain of a career is that if AI takes over?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 07:42 AM (enJYY)

190 The thing I can't explain are the hypersonic missiles. How did they get them before we did?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2023 07:42 AM (R8uWY)

191 "…the U.S. depends on China as the single source for about half-dozen chemical ingredients in explosives and propellants, and other countries of concern for another dozen."

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hahaahaha
(gasp)
hahahahahahahahaha
(wheeze)
hahahahaha

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:42 AM (ZLyax)

192
DOUBLE J is here

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:43 AM (BRHaw)

193 The thing I can't explain are the hypersonic missiles. How did they get them before we did?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 31, 2023 07:42 AM (R8uWY)

My dumb uneducated guess is that hypersonic missiles are ultimately pointless and useless so we didn't waste our time on it, and they just sunk a pile of resources into a dead end project.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 07:44 AM (9UlRk)

194 Have a better day next time, Pixy!

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 07:45 AM (v0TzN)

195 jjs should be lit today.
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I hope it's blank. I'd prefer a general strike for a week (no trucks in or out of DC, NYC, and California would be funny to watch), but I'd settle for a purchasing drought.

That's what all consumers should be doing to one business for #twoweeks at a time. Zero purchases. None. Cycle through the big three, two weeks each, then start over.

Stop buying from them completely if possible.

Shame we don't have anyone in a position of influence that could get this sort of thing going.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:45 AM (ZLyax)

196 90
They house them in dorm type facilities with bunk beds, separated from family, and make them work six days a week. But buy those Apple products because American engineers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:25 AM (enJYY)
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That sounds worse than the lot of Black goldmine workers in South Africa pre-1994 (I don't know how it is now).

Posted by: Ciampino too claustrophobic to go down a shaft at March 31, 2023 07:46 AM (qfLjt)

197 80's era Toyota van . Preferred mode of transportation for a majority of the 3rd world. Can seat up to 8 adults, 5 kids, 3 goats and 27 chickens



Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at March 31, 2023 07:33 AM


Running joke when I was in Haiti:

Q: How many Haitians can you fit in a tap-tap?

A: One more.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2023 09:09 AM (Wnv9h)

198 During the “hearing on censorship,” the Democrats attempted to strike testimony from two of the GOP witnesses.

Jim Jordan spoke about this earlier.

During the testimony today, Democrat Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett (D) got up from her chair at a House committee hearing on Thursday, stormed over to Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) and threw a letter in his face. Rep. Johnson had just given the letter to her a moment before in an effort to assuage her objections to the letter being entered into the record.

The hearing turned contentious after two witnesses, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) were excused by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) after they read their opening statements–but before Democrats could question them.

Of course, Democrats wanted to censure their statements after they left the room.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

199 Reading this, I'm always nervous about how much I depend on computers and how much I don't know about how they work. What the hell IS an NPM anyway? I do know what a microATX form factor is.

My latest Solidworks computer, from BOXX, I had to buy from somebody. I no longer have what it takes to assemble my own.

I suggest Pixy Misa tweet Elon with his opinions. Whatever else the man is like, he does listen to people. Although I have no idea how much of his Twitter input he's physically capable of processing.

Posted by: MartynWW at March 31, 2023 12:03 PM (Ur3df)

200 Tax Heaven 3000 was apparently created by an art 'collective'. It's apparently supposed to be a critique of the Turbo Tax monopoly and the US Governments facilitation of that.

I still wouldn't put any sensitive info into it but if it hurts turbo tax even slightly that can only be a good thing.

Posted by: STV at March 31, 2023 01:51 PM (/dqoc)

201 When everything is SHIT you’re SHIT.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at March 31, 2023 06:15 PM (FkMTW)

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