Daily Tech News 14 April 2023

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The project at work that has been eating all my time lately is winding down now, leaving me only 200% busy instead of 500%.
The hackers who hit Western Digital got away with 10TB of data. (Tech Crunch)

Which is smaller than my Steam library, so it rather depends on what's in there.

They're asking for at least $10 million in ransom not to release it to the public. I doubt they're going to get a penny.

Tech News

A suspect has been arrested in the San Francisco murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee. (Mission Local)

Nima Momeni is apparently another tech executive and knew Lee, and they were seen together on the night of the killing.

Much has been made about this murder and San Francisco's descent into chaos under the policies of communist nutcases, and now that a suspect has been arrested the media are trying to pretend that this means that San Francisco is somehow not descending into chaos.

Hey, we arrested one guy for one crime. That means that everything is okay.
Nvidia's RTX 4070 is here, and at least in Australia they killed it on pricing.

That is, the pricing killed it. Between A$1100 and A$1250, when it needed to be under A$1000.

At the high end it's only $100 cheaper than a 4070 Ti, and just $50 cheaper than the currently discounted models of AMD's Radeon 7900 XT, a much more capable card.

The 4070 is a compact and well-designed two-slot card - if you can get the Nvidia Founder's Edition, which we can't here. Almost all the available cards are much larger and hideously ugly. The hold-out in that trend is Inno3D, not a leading brand, but they've come up with some reasonably nice two-slot designs, and a choice of black/silver and white/silver if you want to match your case. They have a two-slot 4070 Ti in the same black/silver design as well.

Still undecided which way to go here. The 20GB 7900 XT is very competitive against anything Nvidia has right now unless you specifically want to play games with ray tracing, or run code that uses the Cuda compute API. On the other hand, I'd probably be just fine with a 6700 at one third the price.
The Radeon 6800 and 6800 XT have received price cuts to compete with the 4070 if you can find them which I can't. (Tom's Hardware)

The Radeon 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT have ceased to exist in Australia. I can get a not entirely terrible deal on a 6800 if I want to bother importing it from the US which I don't.

Again the 6700 sings its siren song, before that too disappears.
On the other hand, the dirt-cheap pricing on the 4TB Team MP34 has reached these shores, so I can buy it from a local retailer (that is, within a day's travel of New House City) instead of importing from the US.

I plan on getting at least five of these for my new PCs; it's less than half the price of equivalent drives from only a year ago, and it's a proper TLC model with DRAM cache, not a DRAMless QLC model like the Crucial P3, the only competition it has in its price range.

Disclaimer: It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of sardines in this crazy world.

-- An earlier, unused script for Casablanca.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 !!!

Posted by: m at April 14, 2023 04:00 AM (+YA9H)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 04:00 AM (xhxe8)

3 G'day!!!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 14, 2023 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

4 Too bad, what's happened to SanFran...

Used to be a fun city. SexandDrugsand RockandRoll AreVery GoodIndeed...

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

5 Thanks for the techie thread, Pixy!

Hope you're well

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

6 Man, I can't believe Trump made that one tech exec kill the other. The Donald is sinister.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 14, 2023 04:05 AM (KFhLj)

7 Oops, forgot the link...

youtu.be/sfp8xrNAS6I

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 04:06 AM (o0Fxd)

8 Morning, all! It's Friday at last!

Thanks to Buck for stepping in as ONT understudy! He asked about our performing careers, if any.

My career in theatre was long and checkered. I had the title role in my first high school play, "Curse You, Jack Dalton," which was not a Western but a comic one-act in the style of 1900s mellerdrammers. We did a well-received version of Guys and Dolls (I was Nathan Detroit). In college I did lots of one-act lab theatre shows, directed one, played the cop who gets attacked by Jonathan for saying he looked like Boris Karloff in Arsenic and Old Lace, etc. I wasn't getting the big roles even in college. So I drifted into radio and did much better. (A story for another day, kiddies.)

I loved doing shows. Looking back, I guess I wasn't very good, not B'way or H'wood level, but it gave me confidence and the ability to handle social situations that nothing else could

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2023 04:09 AM (omVj0)

9 And lemme tell ya . . . if I hadn't had a girlfriend/fiancee, the girl who became Mrs. Wolfus No. 1, I could have had a *lot* of happy action with the aspiring actresses in my college classes and shows. Hot girls, and very pleased to get attention from straight guys instead of being "gal-pals" with gay men. This was the early to mid-'70s, mind you. Though Women's Lib was just getting started, most of the girls had not grown up under its poisonous influence, and *still liked guys*.

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

10 >>>A suspect has been arrested in the San Francisco murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee. (Mission Local)

The Mission Local author's points are somewhat undermined by his tedious writing style. He hits a nail and then hits it and hits it and....

"Of note, police sources say that a series of homeless people had previously been pepper-sprayed in the Marina District prior to this instance."

Posted by: m at April 14, 2023 04:13 AM (+YA9H)

11

I have to give my pretty little puppy Daisy away today. I've got a rotten diagnosis and I won't be able to keep up with her in the weeks and let's see come. Sure you're going to miss her.

At least I get to keep my perfect boy Scout, the independent awesome kitty, for now.

1 AM staring at the clock on the wall sucks...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at April 14, 2023 04:14 AM (ZgS7G)

12 Was up as usual a bit in middle of the night

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 04:16 AM (xhxe8)

13 How many of these "homeless" people are actually, truly, homeless?

Aren't some of them merely CLAIMING homelessness, in order to gain clemency (or some other benefit) from it?

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 04:18 AM (o0Fxd)

14 Max Tegmark
"The Case for Halting AI Development"
(Lex Fridman podcast 2:48:00)

https://tinyurl.com/yc6eb9rr

Posted by: m at April 14, 2023 04:19 AM (+YA9H)

15 Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at April 14, 2023 04:14 AM

Hey. Sorry to read that.

What gives?

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 04:19 AM (o0Fxd)

16 Around here, the freaks claim "homelessness" in order to *not* give the cops a home addy when they're busted for whatever...

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 04:23 AM (o0Fxd)

17 My bird bath is frozen.

Pixie, please delete all comments today. I posted in weakness and I have no reason to trash up any thread. I apologies for my garbage post.

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at April 14, 2023 04:24 AM (ZgS7G)

18 My Pimp Shot My Dealer--

May your load be lightened. May you find comfort and peace.

Wishing you the best, whatever is going on...

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 04:29 AM (o0Fxd)

19 I would pay to see a debate between the author of that Mission Local article and San Franpsycho.

Posted by: m at April 14, 2023 04:32 AM (+YA9H)

20 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2023 04:40 AM (T4tVD)

21 No bird baths are frozen here, was a nice night

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 04:41 AM (xhxe8)

22 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 14, 2023 04:50 AM (ju2Fy)

23 My bird bath is broken... need to find a nice new one.

For now, however, the birdies are simply loving the puddle formed on an upside-down container.

Whatever w*rks, right?

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 04:52 AM (o0Fxd)

24 Tomorrow will be a yardw*rk day, if weather cooperates.

BIG "if". Weather has mocked me for weeks. Every time I attempt outdoor project? Hail and/or hard rain. Pfft!

Still, I persist!

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 05:06 AM (o0Fxd)

25 Hello... hello...

Echo... echo...

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

26 It's that one time of day where its eerily quiet with shadows lurking in and around every corner and alleyway.

-- or sump'n like that.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 14, 2023 05:09 AM (79jIO)

27 Quiet time.

Somewhere between: "Get yer a$$ to bed!" and "Get th' h3ll up!"

Posted by: JQ at April 14, 2023 05:12 AM (o0Fxd)

28 P'raps I should get meself t'bed.

Nighty night all. And a lil prayer for MPSMD.

Later!

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

29 TGIF

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 05:19 AM (xhxe8)

30 11 MPSMD - dayum, sorry to hear that. We've got a little shih-tzu named Daisy in our home. She's 5 1/2 human yrs now. Don't know what'd we do w/o her. What breed is your Daisy if I might ask?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 14, 2023 05:23 AM (79jIO)

31 Night JQ

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 14, 2023 05:23 AM (79jIO)

32 Morning!

Trying to get my Mac book to do some computer stuff here at the hotel. Shows connected to the internet, but whatever I try to open on any browser shows “Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site”.

Yeeessh

Posted by: Bruce at April 14, 2023 05:27 AM (qPahu)

33 Slow night in blogland.....

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2023 05:32 AM (T4tVD)

34 Good morning! Pups fed, coffee made, time to start thinking about what work has to done before the contractors arrive this afternoon.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 14, 2023 05:35 AM (YRsIm)

35 Sitting in an airport about to fly. Reminded again and again why I hate doing this. Prayers for those who need them.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at April 14, 2023 05:38 AM (8vCFt)

36 Post-workout, having some breakfast. The local "news" is so annoying I'd rather look at an H & I rerun of Lawman from 1960. At least it has good-looking, non-obese people and an unspoken theme that "Law and order will prevail."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2023 05:41 AM (omVj0)

37 Sitting in an airport about to fly. Reminded again and again why I hate doing this. Prayers for those who need them.
Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile

Should be okay; you've been practicing your arm flapping, right ?

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2023 05:44 AM (T4tVD)

38 Speaking of shitty volume controls, I nominate Chrysler. Both my Ram and wife's T&C won't let you change the volume unless something is actively playing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2023 05:46 AM (WzJYQ)

39 I dreamed last night that I was living where it snowed. There was rain when I went into the restaurant -- for some reason it seemed like an Applebee's -- and when I came out it was night and had snowed so much that my car had mounds of it all around. The car was sort of in a grave made of snow with water around it up to the lower edge of the windows. Still, I opened the door and got inside, and somehow it was completely dry; and the engine started up, ran roughly for a moment, and was fine. Seemed to be a silver C-Class Mercedes, the model that was out around 2001 -- one I've never owned or driven.

I started to drive someplace, knowing the snow was atop ice and very dangerous . . . and then I woke up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 14, 2023 05:47 AM (omVj0)

40 LOL. From the ONT, the Obscuritones. Reminds of the line in The Sultans of Swing "He doesn't have to make the scene. He's got a day job and he's doin' alright."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 14, 2023 05:48 AM (5u1+1)

41 Might as well get this day started

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 05:51 AM (reCKZ)

42
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 14, 2023 05:51 AM (ENBF0)

43 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 05:53 AM (BRHaw)

44 Might as well get this day started
Posted by: Skip

THAT'S the spirit !

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2023 05:56 AM (T4tVD)

45 Good morning.

NBC: Supreme Court allows $6 billion student loan debt settlement

CBS: Biden moves to expand health care coverage for "Dreamers" in DACA program

I wonder, is the plan that we die penniless & on their schedule too.

Posted by: Lola - ALL of the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 14, 2023 05:59 AM (GshMh)

46 Biden's non-binary ex-nuclear waste chief Sam Brinton pleads no contest to stealing luggage from Las Vegas airport under plea deal where they will serve NO jail time but must pay victim $3,670

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 06:01 AM (BRHaw)

47 Female javelin coach, 26, accused of having sex with a 17-year-old boy on the high school track and field team after 'texting him at 2am and inviting him to her home' - before pair 'had a 17-month relationship'

Alt Headline
Javelin Coach Caught Pole Vaulting

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 06:02 AM (BRHaw)

48 "The hackers who hit Western Digital got away with 10TB of data. (Tech Crunch)

Which is smaller than my Steam library, so it rather depends on what's in there."

Damn, Pixy. That's a lot of weeb games.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 14, 2023 06:05 AM (kGtj5)

49 Biden's non-binary ex-nuclear waste chief Sam Brinton pleads no contest to stealing luggage from Las Vegas airport under plea deal where they will serve NO jail time but must pay victim $3,670
Posted by: rhennigantx

Musta been one GIANT - ASS suitcase !

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

50 Let's not start the day. Maybe nothing bad will happen.

Posted by: DB - facing the thing at April 14, 2023 06:08 AM (geLO8)

51 Suicides jump 4% in a year to become SECOND leading cause of death in under-35s, CDC report shows

The suicide rate in the US returned to a near-record high in 2021, reversing two years of decline. Suicide was the 11th leading cause of death in the US, with over 48,000 people taking their own lives

Lockdowns
Inflation
Illegal Immigration
Ukraine
GloBull Warming
Gaslighting

This is all 100% out governments fault. Progressives really really hate people and love a fearful compliant populace.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 06:08 AM (BRHaw)

52 Biden breaks silence on Pentagon docs leak: President insists he's 'not concerned' because top secret information is 'old'

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 06:13 AM (BRHaw)

53 World's first skin tone condoms launch in a bid to make sex more inclusive

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

54 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 14, 2023 06:17 AM (u82oZ)

55 Is it peak "Orwellian" to ban Orwell, as Britain seems close to doing?

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 14, 2023 06:19 AM (+1Ie+)

56 rhennigantx

The only good news is this population decline is voluntary. But we know that these sorts of governments long to make the decline steeper, with chosen heretics to their power going first.

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

57 Ordinary American

The UK collapse accelerated once the Dunblane School Massacre was used to make the subjects give up their guns.

Now it is unrecognizable, and not doing well at all.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 14, 2023 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

58 So you're a teenager growing up and beginning to realize everything about the world is broken and wrong and puberty is making you hate your own body on top of it all. So you...

Ancient and Dusty: Turn to faith
Old and Busted: Turn to revolutionary politics
New Hotness: Chop your willy off and call yourself Sally

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:31 AM (9UlRk)

59 Quiet. Too quiet.

Have a great day, everyone.

May sunshine and beauty surround you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 14, 2023 06:31 AM (u82oZ)

60 Apropos of the news, I stood up a local Minecraft server last night and immediately some FBI narc joined with the Moniker, Banana In The Tailpipe.

Also Java is a fickle beast.

Now all I have to do is get Forge and BiomesOPlenty running and I'll be set.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2023 06:32 AM (up/3i)

61 JimPethokoukis
·
Follow
"Republicans in Congress are already stoking the fires of what could be the next big culture war: A fight over what’s in Americans’ driveways."

pounce
seize
stoking the fire thats a new one

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 06:32 AM (BRHaw)

62 Sad. I though pethokoukis was one of the few voices of reason at that paint mixer of spastic Party Approved ignorance known as cnbc. Granted i haven't watched any of it in almost a decade.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:34 AM (9UlRk)

63 So has Biden managed to totally wreck the "special relationship" or does he need a few more days?"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 14, 2023 06:34 AM (PiwSw)

64 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 14, 2023 06:34 AM (yEBFM)

65 Hey Rosasharn!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 14, 2023 06:35 AM (PiwSw)

66 Yayyy. Rosa Sharon is twirling.

How are you feeling?
.

Posted by: Bruce at April 14, 2023 06:36 AM (qPahu)

67 It's like saying firefighters are already stoking what could be the next big wildfire.....

I don't think you know what stoking means.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:36 AM (9UlRk)

68 Don't fight the bad men trying to take your car from your driveway. They'll just get angry and hurt you worse.

Just lie back and think of Detroit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:38 AM (9UlRk)

69 I don't think you know what stoking means.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Heh heh….

I do!
…Pee Wee Herman…

Posted by: Bruce at April 14, 2023 06:39 AM (qPahu)

70 Hey y'all! I am doing well. Got over the covid-crud uneventfully. Having some work done in the house this week. People. When something starts to leak, FIX IT! It will not heal itself. Trust me on this one.

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 14, 2023 06:43 AM (yEBFM)

71
"Republicans in Congress are already stoking the fires of what could be the next big culture war: A fight over what’s in Americans’ driveways."

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 06:32 AM

mayhaps we (the royal "we", as in "someone") should organize the "Million F-150 March" and show these Acela corridor nimwits & dingleberries what's what

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 14, 2023 06:44 AM (ENBF0)

72 Imagine a mugger who looks you square in the eye and calmly reaches for your wallet without a word. Imagine they keep doing it despite your efforts to block them. Imagine they are so inexorable in their attempt to take your wallet that you eventually have to physically restrain them to make them stop.

And then someone walks by and says "why are you picking a fight with that poor guy, you bully!" and calls the cops.

This is Kafkatrapping 101.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:45 AM (9UlRk)

73 Good morning morons.

Slept until almost 4. Feel like Superman. Just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 06:53 AM (EZebt)

74 Cnbc is just Bloomberg with clown makeup on.

Correction: ... with *more* clown makeup on

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:55 AM (9UlRk)

75 My jeep has that straight-6 4 liter AMC tractor engine in it.

Maybe i can get it classified as a farm implement.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:56 AM (9UlRk)

76 RICU refers to an arm of Prevent and is an acronym for “Research, Information, and Communications Unit.”

These include Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, as well as works by Thomas Carlyle and Adam Smith. Elsewhere RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 06:57 AM (BRHaw)

77 How much torque does that 64 liter tractor engine have?

Posted by: davidt at April 14, 2023 06:57 AM (SYTee)

78 The first two chapters of Kapital are a somewhat faithful retelling of the works of Smith and Ricardo.

I think they should investigate anyone reading it, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 06:59 AM (9UlRk)

79 How much torque does that 64 liter tractor engine have?
Posted by: davidt at April 14, 2023 06:57 AM (SYTee)

*snort*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2023 07:00 AM (9UlRk)

80 rhennigantx, clearly this is a lit of must-reads for the normies

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 14, 2023 07:01 AM (DIprt)

81 This is all 100% out governments fault. Progressives really really hate people and love a fearful compliant populace.

Posted by: rhennigantx
**********
All the more reason never to be fearful.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at April 14, 2023 07:03 AM (4zxRq)

82 Local TV news reports another grocery store is closing. The Safeway in North Beach which has been there decades.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 07:05 AM (EZebt)

83 We are going to force you to eet zee bugs!

No, we are not!

OMG! You are trying to start a culture war over what is on our tables!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2023 07:05 AM (lA5id)

84 Between suicides, drug overdoses and abortion, the death cult in the US is booming. Maranatha.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 14, 2023 07:07 AM (oWBc3)

85 Since the EPA is full speed ahead on transforming our auto industry, the EU has backed off on the plan to get 100 percent EV by 2035.
Often wonder what guys who cut trees are going to like electric chain saws out in the forests of California.
With the banning of 2 cycle motors.
I know environmentalist don't want trees cut, so I guess they are winning.

Posted by: Colin at April 14, 2023 07:08 AM (8p0Zk)

86 LOLGF Mission Local

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 07:09 AM (EZebt)

87 Urban grocery shopping will likely all be delivery only I guess. How will the criminals eat?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 14, 2023 07:09 AM (oWBc3)

88 87 Urban grocery shopping will likely all be delivery only I guess. How will the criminals eat?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 14, 2023 07:09 AM (oWBc3)

Walmart is installing a convenient separate entrance for "Shoplifters Only"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 14, 2023 07:12 AM (PiwSw)

89 "Republicans in Congress are already stoking the fires of what could be the next big culture war: A fight over what’s in Americans’ driveways."

Stoking the fires? That would be a nice change of pace from the normal roll over and whimper approach the GOP normally does.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2023 07:12 AM (sAmhv)

90 Urban grocery shopping will likely all be delivery only I guess. How will the criminals eat?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

Hijacking of delivery trucks will be the next big phase of our end. Amazon/Fed Ex/ etc will be targets with drivers shot and trucks stolen.

Posted by: Colin at April 14, 2023 07:12 AM (8p0Zk)

91 Urban grocery shopping will likely all be delivery only I guess. How will the criminals eat?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

Time to arm Uber eats

Posted by: Bruce at April 14, 2023 07:13 AM (qPahu)

92 How many people actually recycle the batteries from their "toy" electric tools? Landfills are going to be lit, in many ways, in the future.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 14, 2023 07:13 AM (oWBc3)

93 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at April 14, 2023 07:13 AM (Q/6pY)

94 All the more reason never to be fearful.
Posted by: Durak Kazyol at April 14, 2023 07:03 AM (4zxRq)

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not [ c]arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:13 AM (BRHaw)

95 An elite was murdered by another elite, not a random poor.

"Whew! See? We're all safe."
--Genius Mayor London Breed

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 07:14 AM (EZebt)

96 Good morning all. Happy Friday! Chemo treatment today. It's been a rough week for me. Horrible fatigue, my back has been acting up and causing much much pain! and.. my feet keep swelling up. Not been a fun time. Pray this isn't my liver again. I see him at 8:00.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 14, 2023 07:15 AM (wagHN)

97 Whew! See? We're all safe."
--Genius Mayor London Breed
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Easy peasy. Just don’t be an elite

Posted by: Bruce at April 14, 2023 07:16 AM (qPahu)

98 Hijacking of delivery trucks will be the next big phase of our end. Amazon/Fed Ex/ etc will be targets with drivers shot and trucks stolen.
Posted by: Colin at April 14, 2023 07:12 AM (8p0Zk)
===
Cargo and freight trains are being routinely pillaged in L.A.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 07:16 AM (EZebt)

99 Prayers up for you jewell

Posted by: Bruce at April 14, 2023 07:16 AM (qPahu)

100 >>89 "Republicans in Congress are already stoking the fires of what could be the next big culture war: A fight over what’s in Americans’ driveways."

A 2009 black BMW 328i covered in pollen dust. Cracks in the asphalt from the roots of a big, old, assertive oak. Some human bodies.

Just like everyone else's driveway. Whatever.

Posted by: ZOD at April 14, 2023 07:16 AM (Q/6pY)

101 {jewells} a prayer of complete and immediate healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 07:17 AM (EZebt)

102 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 14, 2023 07:17 AM (2hlEI)

103
A suspect has been arrested in the San Francisco murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.

___________

At least he didn't use a gun.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 14, 2023 07:19 AM (MoZTd)

104 mornin yall. Did they figure out why 18,000 cows blew up yet?

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 07:19 AM (iayUP)

105

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 14, 2023 07:19 AM (vwCZJ)

106 Prayers sent, jewell's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 14, 2023 07:19 AM (1n+EO)

107
"A suspect has been arrested in the San Francisco murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee."

We are going to learn that they were out together getting hammered.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 07:20 AM (iayUP)

108 Another fatal freeway shooting in Oakland yesterday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 07:21 AM (EZebt)

109 >>At least he didn't use a gun.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 14, 2023 07:19 AM (MoZTd)

"Assault knife."

Posted by: ZOD at April 14, 2023 07:21 AM (Q/6pY)

110 The cows blew up because of farts, they been tryin to warn us. Got to get rid of all the cows because of science, yo.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 14, 2023 07:21 AM (+coCW)

111 Just got an email from Microsoft, urging me to celebrate 'Earth Month'.

Used to be a day, now it's a month.

Posted by: DB - facing the thing at April 14, 2023 07:22 AM (geLO8)

112 The nearby city has a new male mayor who seems tougher on crime. The previous mayor a black women kind of just pretended she was doing something. Her husband got arrested for drug dealing out of her house! But the police dept is short of cops after cutting the budget, and giving the dollars to social workers who were suppose to answer many violent 911 calls. I guess not many social workers were up to the task. Only having a clip board and pen in a gun fight.

Posted by: Colin at April 14, 2023 07:23 AM (8p0Zk)

113 >>Used to be a day, now it's a month.
Posted by: DB - facing the thing at April 14, 2023 07:22 AM (geLO

Eventually, everything is going to be everything always.

Posted by: ZOD at April 14, 2023 07:24 AM (Q/6pY)

114 The billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy has spent the past two years pushing to overhaul how the Texas electrical grid works, and is now promoting a bill that would require the state to fund construction of natural gas-fired power plants that would be turned on when the system is under strain. Cost estimates range from about $10 billion to $18 billion.

BHE would have the rights to increase size and cost of plant by almost 100%.
IT IS A TERRIBLE DEAL FOR TEXAS

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:25 AM (BRHaw)

115 Amazon is going to buy more artificial diamonds and then use them in quantum repeaters. This supposed to make AWS faster. OK. Since I am still trying to figure out why EV make any sense at all it be no surprise that I have f'ing idea what quantum repeater is and diamonds are good idea. I didn't set out to be a Luddite. Somehow I became one. Quantum repeaters?

Posted by: Lizzo at April 14, 2023 07:26 AM (ykzUo)

116 It seems like every month is now black history month or the alphabet organizations month.

Posted by: Colin at April 14, 2023 07:26 AM (8p0Zk)

117 On the cow explosion my guess is that they were also storing hay or grains or maybe amonium nitrate. The fire needs fuel to burn like that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:27 AM (BRHaw)

118 Well fk, Mitch says he is not retiring.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 07:28 AM (iayUP)

119 A Minneapolis City Council committee recently approved a change to the city’s code of ordinances that would allow mosques to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer five times a day year round.

If the ordinance passes the full council, Minneapolis will be the first “major city” to allow the call to prayer to be broadcast five times per day.

I know we have the first A but then there is a right to peace and privacy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:28 AM (BRHaw)

120 twirls with Rosasharn

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 07:29 AM (+H4Az)

121 Boker Tov Patriots

Are there any US top Secrets that the top men at the pentagon have not released to our enemies yet?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 14, 2023 07:30 AM (pVWRI)

122 'I am looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday,' McConnell wrote. 'We've got important business to tackle and big fights to win for Kentuckians and the American people.'

I was looking forward to you going away. Now you have wrecked my Friday.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 07:31 AM (iayUP)

123 We need common-sense knife control.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 14, 2023 07:31 AM (5u1+1)

124 Kentuckians?

More like Kentuckers.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 14, 2023 07:32 AM (5u1+1)

125 Jewells have a question you might be able to answer
Not sure if you saw my hat on hobby thread but it needs 2 metal medallions of spread eagles. Going to try to carve it out in a block of plaster ( more or less, using quick set spackle ). Anyway carving it in then casting my eagles out of plumbing solder. It won't cost anything but time to try it.

Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2023 07:32 AM (+H4Az)

126 >>124 Kentuckians?

Kentuckii.

Posted by: ZOD at April 14, 2023 07:32 AM (Q/6pY)

127 "We need common-sense knife control."

Yup

https://tinyurl.com/3jpa3m76

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 14, 2023 07:33 AM (1n+EO)

128 rst “major city” to allow the call to prayer to be broadcast five times per day.

I know we have the first A but then there is a right to peace and privacy.
rhennigantx at April 14,

Great idea. Just point all the loud speakers at the city hall at full volume. If you have ever been in a city where this is done, its a great alarm clock.

Posted by: Colin at April 14, 2023 07:33 AM (8p0Zk)

129 Prayers sent for Jewells and MPSMD (comment 11).

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at April 14, 2023 07:35 AM (7EjX1)

130 "history of the entire world, i guess"
youtube

https://tinyurl.com/yvx3yksy

it's about 20 mins and covers everything, from the birth of the universe to present day. fast-paced and very entertaining. Language warning for some f-words.

Posted by: DB - facing the thing at April 14, 2023 07:35 AM (geLO8)

131 “We’ve come to a community that feels like for a long time they have been systematically undervalued, treated badly, and that’s been true for generations. So there’s a lot of anger about a rigged system,” Warren told reporters afterward. “That’s why I ran for Senate in the first place. It’s why I’m running for the Senate now. I learn a lot by being here with people.”

The last Republican mayor of Boston was Malcolm Nichols, from 1926 to 1930.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:35 AM (BRHaw)

132 Call to prayer? That's what smart phones are for.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe would stop whatever he was doing at the top of the hour to pray the Hail Mary.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 14, 2023 07:36 AM (5u1+1)

133 78 The first two chapters of Kapital are a somewhat faithful retelling of the works of Smith and Ricardo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
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“…somewhat…” Marx missed the parts about the invisible hand and how freedom to trade leads people to better themselves by creating the things others need.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at April 14, 2023 07:36 AM (4zxRq)

134 “major city” to allow the call to prayer to be broadcast five times per day."

Around here it would be accompanied by very loud subwoofers.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2023 07:37 AM (iayUP)

135 The first two chapters of Kapital are a somewhat faithful retelling of the works of Smith and Ricardo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
********
“…somewhat…” Marx missed the parts about the invisible hand and how freedom to trade leads people to better themselves by creating the things others need.
Posted by: Durak Kazyol at April 14, 2023 07:36 AM (4zxRq)
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Details, details.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 14, 2023 07:38 AM (2hlEI)

136 Tucker: Lloyd Austin Lied:

https://tinyurl.com/2y6tsrkd

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:40 AM (BRHaw)

137 Urban grocery shopping will likely all be delivery only I guess. How will the criminals eat?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 14, 2023 07:09 AM (oWBc3)

State run stores like the old Soviets had - with nothing in them to sell.

Posted by: Boswell at April 14, 2023 07:40 AM (+Cgut)

138 G'mornin' everyone!

Thanks, Rosasharn!

You too, NaCly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 14, 2023 07:42 AM (KGlll)

139 " A Minneapolis City Council committee recently approved a change to the city’s code of ordinances that would allow mosques to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer five times a day year round. "

Will this be alongside the clarion call of the Christian churches ringing their bells on Sunday?

Or is that not allowed?

Cause nothing says 'Islamic lands' like the silencing of all other calls to worship besides the call to the prayer mat five times per day.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 14, 2023 07:42 AM (1n+EO)

140 The whole trans thing is peak Weimar Germany.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2023 07:44 AM (EZebt)

141 Tucker: Lloyd Austin Lied:

In other news, water is wet...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 14, 2023 07:44 AM (YRsIm)

142 >>>A Minneapolis City Council committee recently approved a change to the city’s code of ordinances that would allow mosques to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer

that's the sound of being conquered

Posted by: DB - facing the thing at April 14, 2023 07:44 AM (geLO8)

143 I complained I had no EMT; then I met a man with no Wi-Fi.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 14, 2023 07:45 AM (Vwz3I)

144 One study counted 286,075 firearm deaths among black people from 1990 to 2021. That’s over a quarter of a million deaths.

Over 35% of White (D) voters want less law enforcement.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

145
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Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2023 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

146 A Minneapolis City Council committee recently approved a change to the city’s code of ordinances that would allow mosques to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer

But condo associations will not allow you to hang an American Flag?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 14, 2023 07:48 AM (pVWRI)

147 EMT up

you're welcome

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 14, 2023 07:49 AM (Vwz3I)

148 Paraphrased exchange I saw on Twitter about the stabbing:

'Suck it rightwingers who were squalling about homeless! Turns out it was a rich white guy!"

"Uhm, he's Tamil? Makes a big deal out of it on his bio."

"Exactly! Literally Aryan!"

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 14, 2023 09:11 AM (nC+QA)

149 Test. Test one, two.

Posted by: lowandslow at April 14, 2023 12:19 PM (76Foq)

150 The first rule of Rust is, "You do not talk about Rust."

https://preview.tinyurl.com/njfnmfwk

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 14, 2023 02:50 PM (DTX3h)

151 Honestly, if you need something nVidia and the 4070 is pushing the 7900 XT price, I'd price out used 3090 cards and see what they're doing.

On ray tracing, I'd really take a look at the specific games you're wanting to play. Hardware Unboxed did a bunch of testing on the RDNA3 and nVidia cards and in games that you would care about ray tracing in, the RDNA3 cards were solid performers. This is probably going to be even more so for the 4070 with its lower VRAM.

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