Daily Tech News 19 April 2023

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Carcinisation is the process whereby everything that isn't already a crab, gradually becomes a crab. (Wikipedia)

King crabs are not crabs. Nor are porcelain crabs, or hermit crabs, or coconut crabs, or hairy stone crabs. They are all the result of carcinisation, where various other decapod crustaceans evolved exactly the same outward characteristics as true crabs, to the point that you can't really tell them apart.

This also happens to social networks.

Yes, they turn into crabs.
Not my analogy either: This article by Ellis Hamburger (really) formerly of Snap - the company behind Snapchat - makes the point that all social networks start out as butterflies and evolve into crabs. (The Verge)

It's well-written and has the insights expected of someone who spent years on the inside of one of these companies watching naive promises gradually wither in the face of commercial reality and the fact that people in large groups basically suck.

The author doesn't have a solution to this and doesn't pretend to offer one:
Users seem doomed to be unhappy in this overquantified world of "social." And businesses seem doomed to expect more from the social services they create. Perhaps this was just a blip in the journey of tech, born of a time when oversharing was novel and fun. Indeed, I remember the joy of posting hundreds of photos to Facebook the day after a party, excited to relive those memories with friends. At the time, it felt like a new form of connection.
Now, I just text them.
A big part of the reason here is that the financial incentives of the social media companies are horribly skewed:
However, the promise of ads may simply be too good to turn down. Advertisers are simply willing to pay more for the product than its actual users. In Facebook's case, the company makes something like $200 per year of ad revenue on each American user, but how many of those users would pay $15 / month to use Facebook? According to one study, not many.
If you're more valuable as a product than as a customer, that's how you can expect to be treated.

The thing is, the ads really aren't worth anything. I've seen one ad in all my years on social media that inspired me to buy something, and I didn't, and now I've forgotten what it was for.

Tech News

Cory Doctorow, writing about TikTok, called this process "enshittification". (Pluarlistic)

They're editing the likes of Agatha Christie, P. G. Wodehouse, and Roald Dahl to avoid offending modern sensibilities - of illiterates - but at least we have a new generation of wordsmiths like Doctorow to fill in the gap.

Bitter sarcasm aside, Doctorow has been observing the tech industry for a long time, and when he is reporting fact rather than his personal opinions he can provide some useful insights.

He's a lefty - worse, a left-libertarian - so his preferred solution to every problem is to leave everything in the hands of private companies but regulate bad outcomes out of existence, which works about as well as holding your breath until you turn blue and requires about the same level of intellectual effort.

He is at least partly right: Twitter has crippled its APIs for exactly the same reason that Amazon murdered its Smile program where you could direct a tiny percentage of the value of your purchases to a charity of your choice: You're already on the platform, and the competition is already dead, so they don't give a fuck anymore. You're just crabs in the bucket with them, and they're the big crab.
And finally just by way of comparison here's the same argument made by a doctrinaire lefty who is just so stuffed full of love that she'll beat your brains out with a claw hammer if you so much as blink in the middle of her five-and-a-half thousand word temper tantrum. (Substack)

Five and a half thousand words of blaming every bad thing that has ever happened on "the right", from Twitter being taken over by fascists like Vijaya Gadde to her favourite shade of eyeshadow (moonbat grey) being withdrawn because of lethal levels of cadmium compounds.

Even she recognises that all social networks turn to shit.

She just doesn't recognise her own role in that process.
Minisforum has a cheap Ryzen 7735HS based mini PC wait is that the ASRock industrial SBC I spy? (AnandTech)

Looks like it, with the two HDMI ports on the back and the two USB-C ports at the front. I'll have to do a close check.
Broader price cuts might be coming to the RTX 4070. (Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia's 3000 series cards all sold out immediately at launch. The 4000 series cards have never been difficult to find - because people just aren't buying them.
Nvidia doesn't care much because their growth market isn't $600 cards for gamers, it's $30,000 cards for AI startups. (Tom's Hardware)

Elon Musk reportedly just bought thousands of such cards for his new venture, X.AI.

The AI boom is the new blockchain boom, only worse for everyone.
Twitter meanwhile will no longer suspend your account for the vile crime of (checks notes) correctly identifying someone's name of gender. (Tech Crunch)

The previous regime at Bird Central treated this as worse than murder. The usual suspects are up in arms that the corporate stormtroopers are no longer willing to enforce their delusions.
Firefly can compile BEAM applications to WASM. (GitHub)

Which sounds like a complete fucking nightmare to me, but it can also compile BEAM applications to native code, which could be great.

BEAM is the runtime environment for Erlang, the language invented by Ericsson to run large-scale telephone switches. The idea behind Erlang is that if a system is large enough, some part of it is guaranteed to be broken at any time. You can't predict failures, but you can predict with certainty that failures will happen.

Erlang is designed to handle this and automatically pick up whichever part of the system has died and get it running again on whichever parts of the system are still working. It's robust and powerful and at least reasonably efficient, but running Erlang applications means first installing a complex and unfamiliar environment. Like Java written by aliens.

Firefly should make it possible to deploy Erlang applications just like you would anything else. And to run them in the browser too, though nobody in their right mind would try that.
Reddit will begin charging for its API. (Tech Crunch)

Remains to be seen if the plans they offer are as stupid as Twitter's.
Next-gen Python tooling, written in Rust. (Astral)

The secret to making Python run fast is not to use Python.

I suppose slow corporate suicide is better than fast.
The FTC is planning to target AI that violates civil rights (what?) or is deceptive. (Reuters)

Not sure how AI could violate civil rights, even in law, let alone in practice.

But given that LLMs like ChatGPT are trained explicitly to lie, the industry is fucked if the FTC actually follows through here.
An open letter to epic fantasy readers. (Monster Hunter Nation)

Basically a slap in the face to Patrick Rothfuss and George R. R. Martin:
I've written something like 25 novels, 50 short stories, 6 novellas, edited 4 anthologies, and even wrote a non-fiction book about gun rights since George Martin's last Game of Thrones novel came out
My italics.

I read the first Game of Thrones book. It was certainly well-written, but all the characters were awful. I never read further, and never watched the TV show.

I read half of the first volume of Patrick Rothfuss' series, whatever it is called. The character introduced at the beginning is interesting. He has a past; he has depth, and damage, and is still standing and trying to do the right thing. So the book immediately ditches him for a literally interminable flashback to his past as a whiny kid who never fails at anything and deserves only to be served up as dragon bait.

It don't know why those two series took up so much mindshare when there's so much else on offer - old and new - but it's probably to do with crabs.

No Fear Music Video of the Day

Disclaimer: You can't always get what you want, because crabs.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1
Calibrate your sundial, Pixy, you're late. I know in the Southern hemisphere, things are bassakwards, so no shade.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 19, 2023 04:31 AM (Mzdiz)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 19, 2023 04:34 AM (T4tVD)

3 With the daylight savings switch I don't get out of the last meeting of the day until ten minutes before this post is due to go up, and skimming a five-thousand-word crayon manifesto took up seven of those.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 19, 2023 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2023 04:35 AM (xhxe8)

5 >>>I've seen one ad in all my years on social media that inspired me to buy something, and I didn't, and now I've forgotten what it was for.

That would be a good story, I bet.

Posted by: m at April 19, 2023 04:37 AM (fNISR)

6 Yay! Tech Thread.

Now to do some learnin' and read it.

(Mao Abe?)

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 19, 2023 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

7
I despise Daylight time. It pushes mean solar noon to 1:29PM here.

Solar time means something. Do not fuck with it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at April 19, 2023 04:40 AM (Mzdiz)

8 Every time windows comes out with a new version it becomes more horrible. I hate these fuckers.

I used to be a world class computer "user." Now I'm a idiot clicking mouse buttons like a fucking asshole.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2023 04:40 AM (V4X9X)

9 and skimming a five-thousand-word crayon manifesto took up seven of those.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Was the manifesto written by crayon formerly known as "Flesh" ?

Posted by: JT at April 19, 2023 04:42 AM (T4tVD)

10 Good morning! Currently 69 on the way to 81 today and a little humid. Prime coffee sippin weather on the patio before the sun comes up. Bird feeders are loaded and the bird bath has fresh water in it. Just have to listen to the fountain burble until the birds start singing. Retirement is tough.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2023 04:44 AM (YRsIm)

11 Soon enough it will be daylight still after my bedtime

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2023 04:47 AM (xhxe8)

12 So, the whole world is crabby? LOL

Oh-- only the social media suckers. Those crabby b@stards!

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 04:48 AM (o0Fxd)

13
Crabs in a bucket is such a great early learning experience that has to be witnessed in person.

Me: 'Dad there's no lid on the bucket, won't they get out?"
My Dad: 'Watch them, they never get away."

Sure enough, just as one is *almost* out, one of the others pulls him/her back down.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 04:49 AM (enJYY)

14
g'mronin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 19, 2023 04:53 AM (ENBF0)

15 Soon enough it will be daylight still after my bedtime
Posted by: Skip
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And dontcha just H8 that?!

I don't feel your pain, but I used to...

Get some blackout curtains and/or a sleep mask. I use this one: (amz link)

tinyurl.com/2p8cde4f

Love it!

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 04:55 AM (o0Fxd)

16 If you're more valuable as a product than as a customer, that's how you can expect to be treated.

Something, something, dystopia.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 19, 2023 05:02 AM (KFhLj)

17 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2023 05:04 AM (ju2Fy)

18 If you're more valuable as a product than as a customer, that's how you can expect to be treated.

Something, something, dystopia.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority

Or dat topia....

Posted by: JT at April 19, 2023 05:05 AM (T4tVD)

19
Sometimes a Facebook ad will pop up for a local restaurant with a picture of a juicy hamburger or brisket and it will remind me it has been a while since I had gone there. With the exception of that, the ads are worthless to me.

It's like they know everything about me, age, sex, etc. and think I only wanna buy old dude medical related shit. But then I've read that 75% of advertising revenue comes from Big Pharma.

Which has become an endless loop of spending too much for medicine, more advertising, higher drug costs, more advertising... endlessly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 05:07 AM (enJYY)

20 Hiya JT

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 05:11 AM (o0Fxd)

21 Hiya JQ !

How you ?

Posted by: JT at April 19, 2023 05:13 AM (T4tVD)

22 So has the Bud Lite thing blown over already. I bet Budweiser thinks it will, and I'd guess it will. With the 24/7 news cycle, what was big one day, is gone the next day.

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2023 05:15 AM (Wswp7)

23 Put the queer beer in your orifice. Consume. Obey.

Posted by: Don Jr. at April 19, 2023 05:17 AM (KFhLj)

24 Still lookin' for a nice new birdbath, JT!

How you?

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 05:17 AM (o0Fxd)

25 Wish I could boycott trannyfluidbeer, but I don't like beer at all, so... MEH

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 05:18 AM (o0Fxd)

26 Bud better hope it is, I doubt it.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2023 05:18 AM (xhxe8)

27 As someone pointed out, Gillette hasn't begun to recover from their own wokeapocalypse.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 19, 2023 05:19 AM (BLOW1)

28 Local radio runs ads about every 10 minutes, and they repeat the same ads over and over and over.
I find radio almost impossible to listen to, with so little content, and tons of ads.

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2023 05:19 AM (Wswp7)

29 If I was Dick Cheney, I'd shoot you in the face.

And then we'd share a Bud Light.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2023 05:20 AM (V4X9X)

30 social networks. Yes, they turn into crabs.

And Cancer.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 19, 2023 05:20 AM (ju2Fy)

31 There's a kweer in my rear...

https://youtu.be/rM8tROzp4Dc

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 05:22 AM (o0Fxd)

32 Good morning morons

It will be Kristallnacht every night in the cities.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:23 AM (EZebt)

33 Chicago sure looks like it's gonna go the way of Detroit. Seriously, what company is going to be able to do business there? Who are they going to hire? Who will want to live there?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2023 05:28 AM (YRsIm)

34 Local TV news reports a Home Depot employee in Pleasanton was shot and killed trying to stop a shoplifter.

The perpetrators were chased back to Oakland and "arrested"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:29 AM (EZebt)

35 Chilly now still above freezing, should be a nice day

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2023 05:30 AM (xhxe8)

36
It will be Kristallnacht every night in the cities.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:23 AM

Much like the 'Blue Screen of Death' signifies that all hope is lost and only a complete reset is going to get the system running again.

Curfews, martial law, National Guard, food riots, riots, burning and looting all look odds on favorites for the coming summer season.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 05:30 AM (enJYY)

37 Local TV news reports a Home Depot employee in Pleasanton was shot and killed trying to stop a shoplifter.

The perpetrators were chased back to Oakland and "arrested"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:29 AM (EZebt)

any word on what the oxygen thieves stole that was so valuable they had to kill to keep it?

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 19, 2023 05:30 AM (+I6Y/)

38 Oakland. The name sounds so benign. LOL

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 05:32 AM (o0Fxd)

39 They say its only the first act of a series of riots in Chicago. I guess it was heard on the social networks.
I have a nephew who lives just south of the city, and he thinks that's about right.
He moved from the Baltimore area, and loved to show visitors how great that city was. He did do the same with Chicago. Taking visitors into downtown Chicago to show off the sites. It seems lately, he has lost his enthusiasm for doing that. Hes in his late 40's now and married, age does change you outlook, at least for some. Not counting Biden.

Posted by: Colin at April 19, 2023 05:35 AM (Wswp7)

40 Kick @** joyfulness for the day posts. Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration 😉 but just doing my part here to lift some spirits:

How to have more joy in your Christian life:

https://tinyurl.com/4n5myw8f

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 05:36 AM (RLsEd)

41
I can buy generic soda with a Coke/Pepsi taste for around one dollar per liter. Or buy actual Coke or Pepsi at twice the price. The generic does not advertise yet makes a profit. Coke and Pepsi constantly advertise and in order to pay for all that advertising have to double their price.

I'd love to see a chart of drug prices before and after they became allowed to advertise. If they're 75% of commercials on television that's a galaxy of dollars, and our betters in government could end it with a stroke of the pen. But you know they won't.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 05:37 AM (enJYY)

42 23 Put the queer beer in your orifice. Consume. Obey.
Posted by: Don Jr.

https://youtu.be/yjw_DuNkOUw

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 19, 2023 05:38 AM (sAmhv)

43 I don't believe for a minute that what happened in Chiraq was something spontaneous. I suspect there had to be coordination between those engaged through social media. Get enough mental midgets and problem children together under the guise of 'protesting' and what happened next was just mob mentality.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2023 05:39 AM (YRsIm)

44 Turns out the little girl shot to death riding to dinner with her family on the freeway 2 Saturdays ago in Oakland was shot by three Sureno gang members who thought the vehicle was from a "rival gang"

This is how we became Venezuela.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:40 AM (EZebt)

45 How to pray for happiness. Article from a rabbi:

https://tinyurl.com/mu9a4jdc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 05:40 AM (RLsEd)

46 Don't drink liter of cola if you are allergic to any of the ingredients of liter of cola. May cause obesity. In some cases, consumers have reported diabetes. Ask your grocer if liter of cola is right for you.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 19, 2023 05:42 AM (KFhLj)

47 Golden retrievers at the Boston Marathon:

https://tinyurl.com/r8bhf2nx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 05:44 AM (RLsEd)

48 F'ing Oakland...

In 1990, I lived between Hesperian and E 14th (San Lorenzo) and wrked at Macy's Clearance Center in San Leandro.

Watched from my car in the mornings-- the Feral Utes checking door handles in the parking lot, before store door was unlocked, looking for an easy grab/steal.

Prayed every a.m. that they'd not come to my POS car to "check"

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 05:45 AM (o0Fxd)

49 No report on what they were trying to boost.

But no, none of this is by chance. It is all by design, by intention, and totally predictable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:46 AM (EZebt)

50 Racing baby goats on a walk:

https://tinyurl.com/2ju9vhsu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 05:46 AM (RLsEd)

51 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 05:54 AM (BRHaw)

52 Funny, clean joke:

A man walks into a library and asks the librarian for books about paranoia. She whispers, "They're right behind you!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 05:55 AM (RLsEd)

53 This is how we became Venezuela.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:40 AM (EZebt)

The judges would have also accepted Mexico.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 05:57 AM (BRHaw)

54 Nice man and dog story:

https://tinyurl.com/mtr56we4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 05:59 AM (RLsEd)

55 Biden's non-binary ex-nuclear waste chief Sam Brinton will undergo mental health evaluation as part of diversion program after stealing luggage from Minneapolis airport - as he also avoids jail time for theft in Las Vegas

mental health evaluation ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:00 AM (BRHaw)

56 Beautiful pictures of nature:

https://tinyurl.com/mtr56we4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:02 AM (RLsEd)

57 mental health evaluation ha
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:00 AM (BRHaw)
===
Ooh ooh! Let me go first!
*waves extended arm*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 06:03 AM (EZebt)

58 G'morning, all.

12 year old gunned down in B'More.

Can you spot the incongruity in this article?

https://tinyurl.com/3wru7wwx

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:04 AM (1n+EO)

59 Pixy Misa

Nice wake up video. Got a catchy beat, and an ambiguous message about threesomes with an added potted plant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:04 AM (u82oZ)

60 As well, the Madrid-based group has identified so-called 'Overseas Chinese Service Centers' that purportedly provide community services in San Francisco, Houston, Minnesota, and Nebraska.

I still think most Chinese national here are really just spies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:05 AM (BRHaw)

61 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:05 AM (u82oZ)

62 Last night Bad Blue had a few videos California businesses getting totally ransacked. A Walmart got cleaned out.
They probably announce on social media where it's going to hit and hundreds of people rush in and clean out a store.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2023 06:05 AM (OMw8U)

63 Morning all!

Pixy got wordy this morning. Bookmarked some for later reading after my eyes wake up. Sometimes it takes a while for the floater in my reading eye to go back to where it belongs

Posted by: Bruce at April 19, 2023 06:05 AM (Zrzqo)

64 Jaylen's grandmother, confirmed her grandson was wearing an ankle bracelet, on house arrest...the night he was killed.

The victim she says, of the crowd he chose.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:06 AM (BRHaw)

65 rhennigantx

They are spies. We had a former Chinese Red Army Chemical Corps officer at part of my research group when I was in grad school. She was a terrible chemist. But very inquisitive about the US.

Well, she loved Married with Children. She admitted she got out of all her military requirements by sleeping with superior officers. So corrupt, inept, and in America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:09 AM (u82oZ)

66 mental health evaluation ha
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:00 AM (BRHaw)
===
Ooh ooh! Let me go first!
*waves extended arm*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 06:03 AM

Psychiatric Help 5 cents

The Doctor is IN

Posted by: Lucy at April 19, 2023 06:09 AM (enJYY)

67 "The victim she says, of the crowd he chose."

Bingo.

Or as I was telling someone else..

This kid died of 'ThugLife'

Don't take ThugLife if you are allergic to ThugLife.

Ask your doctor if ThugLife is right for you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:10 AM (1n+EO)

68 Americans now spend MORE on legal weed than on chocolate: Sales of marijuana from dispensaries topped $30billion in the last year

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:11 AM (BRHaw)

69 Americans now spend MORE on legal weed than on chocolate: Sales of marijuana from dispensaries topped $30billion in the last year
Posted by: rhennigantx

And they barely advertise

Posted by: Bruce at April 19, 2023 06:14 AM (Zrzqo)

70 Menu calorie labels rolled out in 2018 will prevent 45,000 obesity and cancer deaths and save $2.8BILLION in healthcare costs, study claims

BULLSHIT

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:14 AM (BRHaw)

71 Americans now spend MORE on legal weed than on chocolate
------------

Weeelllll, ya gotta admit-- weed does more for the FeelGoods than chocolate

Posted by: JQ at April 19, 2023 06:14 AM (o0Fxd)

72 rhennigantx

One of my friends worked in a cutting edge crop genetic firm tucked away in a tiny corner of Kansas. They had two Chinese students harvesting their prime seedlings. At night. They were caught, and prosecuted.

Later, the Chinese bought the company, and looted all the IP before shutting it down.

Bottom line, without US innovations, Chinese research is too corrupt to reach new frontiers of greatness. But that can change. Look at STEM research programs in the US, and count the Chinese naturalized citizens that are professors. They are crowding out Americans.

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

73 And just because spouse and I rewatched " Rio Bravo" last night ( Great film and I thought that Dean Martin did an excellent job in a serious role) here's what the lovely Angie Dickinson said about working on that film:

https://tinyurl.com/2583hckx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:14 AM (RLsEd)

74 Ask your doctor if ThugLife is right for you.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:10 AM (1n+EO)

Thuglife side effects include death dead people and moar death.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:15 AM (BRHaw)

75
Ask your doctor if ThugLife is right for you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:10 AM

Thug life may cause serious bleeding, shortness of breath, decreased lifespan, and lead poisoning. Feel better about facing the world with Thug Life.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 06:15 AM (enJYY)

76 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:15 AM (u82oZ)

77 FenelonSpoke

I trust you are well. Did Jessie play at your Easter service?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

78 O .k I think I've done my bit for the day.😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:19 AM (RLsEd)

79 FenelonSpoke

I should call you Sunshine, rather than that French clergyman / philosopher /teacher.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:20 AM (u82oZ)

80 So much positivity...I can feel my inner curmudgeon shriveling. {Fen}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 06:20 AM (EZebt)

81 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:20 AM (1n+EO)

82 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Have you recovered from all the procedures at Bethesda Naval Hospital, DBA Walter Reed?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

83 Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

I finally got some sleep so I am ok. Thx. She didn't play- her fingers are still not fully healed but I'm hopeful she can play for Mother's Day. I found a pianist on a parents for choice group- ie not happy with public schools- I belong to and she did a nice job even though we missed Jessie

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:22 AM (RLsEd)

84 San Franpsycho

Ya can't fool us. Underneath the crust of your inner curmudgeon is more crust!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:23 AM (u82oZ)

85 Salty- when you can ,can you please text we your address.?I I am sending out thank you cards and of course, I want to thank you too, dear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:24 AM (RLsEd)

86 Salty.

Mostly.

GI disturbance improves, but continues.

Over the last few weeks, the skin area in the path of the radiation beam has lost every bit of hair.

And radiation brain (AKA, Chemo-brain) seems to be setting in. Struggles with short-term concentration and memory, very poor sleeping pattern, etc.

But....survivable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:26 AM (1n+EO)

87 FenelonSpoke

I owe you my own letter, so I'll send that to you. It is on my list, trust me.

Haven't done much to deserve your thanks, yet. Well, maybe enduring the wrath of a CoB or two.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

88 Thanks for the encouragement Fen. Hope you have a beautiful day.

Posted by: Spypeach at April 19, 2023 06:26 AM (UuB/1)

89
Thug Life may cause perforations in ears, nose, throat, lungs, kidneys, spleen, and bladder separate or all at the same time.

It’s confidence. It’s belief. It’s a way of life. It’s Thug Life.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 06:26 AM (enJYY)

90 55 Biden's non-binary ex-nuclear waste chief Sam Brinton will undergo mental health evaluation as part of diversion program after stealing luggage from Minneapolis airport - as he also avoids jail time for theft in Las Vegas

mental health evaluation ha
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:00 AM (BRHaw)

Something the gubmit obviously thought was unnecessary when he was hired (and probably wearing that fabulous dress he stole).

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 19, 2023 06:26 AM (PiwSw)

91 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Prayers up for a full recovery, which is richly deserved. Live long and prosper.

Using multimillion dollar medical instruments for manscaping seems a tad extravagant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

92 Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:20 AM (u82oZ

I decided to take a break from the " joyless scold" I am on here every single time I post or have posted for the past 14 years. ( sigh)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:28 AM (1VrUy)

93 Ya can't fool us. Underneath the crust of your inner curmudgeon is more crust.

Just like my underwear!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 19, 2023 06:29 AM (KFhLj)

94 FenelonSpoke

Sunshine, that is all behind you. What matters most is the runway in front of you as you prepare to take off.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

95 "Using multimillion dollar medical instruments for manscaping seems a tad extravagant."

Maybe so...but talk about a silky smooth skin surface.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:30 AM (1n+EO)

96 farhad manjoo (former bluecheck)
@fmanjoo
·
Follow
Long term Disney has to find a warm-weather alternative to Florida without job-killing anti-business government

Man this is just industrial military grade stupid

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:30 AM (BRHaw)

97 A NASA satellite is falling to earth, maybe it won't hit anybody.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 19, 2023 06:31 AM (+coCW)

98 I decided to take a break from the " joyless scold" I am on here every single time I post or have posted for the past 14 years. ( sigh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen; the Skoolmarm of the 'rons.

Morning Fen. You be you, I enjoy your posts.

Posted by: Bruce at April 19, 2023 06:31 AM (Zrzqo)

99 Posted by: Spypeach

Thanks. You too, dear.

I am now going for a walk. One of the times I walked in the park I met a lady with the most adorable puppy and that was a bright spot for the morning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:31 AM (b6TuJ)

100 Haven't done much to deserve your thanks, yet. Well, maybe enduring the wrath of a CoB or two.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

That's my next movie: "Star Trek X: The Wrath of Cob" The Plot will be Kirk battling CBD, a genetically-engineered SuperChef who goes on a galactic rampage annihilating all planets where the inhabitants put syrup on French Toast and shake their Manhattans. Can Kirk stop him before he sous-vides again?

Posted by: J.J. Abrams at April 19, 2023 06:32 AM (PiwSw)

101 I decided to take a break from the " joyless scold" I am on here every single time I post or have posted for the past 14 years. ( sigh)

I wouldn't take that personally. Expressions of frustration happen. Besides, a solid majority here recognize that you are a joyful scold.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 19, 2023 06:32 AM (KFhLj)

102 FenelonSpoke

We do remember you killed Buzzion. So just maybe some on the blog are a bit ... cautious.

bluebell's shiv has a high body count, but it is sealed from public view by juvie court secrecy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:32 AM (u82oZ)

103 The thing is, the ads really aren't worth anything. I've seen one ad in all my years on social media that inspired me to buy something, and I didn't, and now I've forgotten what it was for.

King Harv weeps.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2023 06:32 AM (6dnDK)

104 Get off me, demented president.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 19, 2023 06:33 AM (KFhLj)

105 In breaking news...

Chris Christie announces he is considering a run for President.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:33 AM (1n+EO)

106 J.J. Abrams

LOL!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

107 Chris Christie announces he is considering a run for President.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

First though, a "Nadler waddle" to the bathroom before he destroys his last pair of dress pants.

Posted by: Bruce at April 19, 2023 06:35 AM (Zrzqo)

108 "the industry is fucked if the FTC actually follows through here."

Not as long as the AIs spout the lies the regime wants told, on any number of subjects. This is just another violation of OUR 1A rights.

Posted by: SDN at April 19, 2023 06:35 AM (KdP4Y)

109 Be still my heart.

Ron DeSantis will be here in tiny Summerville this afternoon to visit and shake hands.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:35 AM (1n+EO)

110 VIA a prayer for a complete and speedy recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 06:36 AM (EZebt)

111 And Pence says he is still deciding if he will run or not.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 19, 2023 06:36 AM (+coCW)

112 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Chris Christie is delusional. Hey champ, stop with the confectionery sugar uptake. It is doing bad things to your mind.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:37 AM (u82oZ)

113 Thanks, San Fran.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:37 AM (1n+EO)

114 And Pence says he is still deciding if he will run or not.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

But first, he will decide what he's having for dinner last Sunday.

Posted by: Bruce at April 19, 2023 06:38 AM (Zrzqo)

115
Chris Christie announces he is considering a run for President.

The last thing I would think of was a sentence with Chris Christie and 'run' in it. The last time he could see his feet the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 06:38 AM (enJYY)

116 Besides, I get that I was overly irritated with babes and boobs, and now I mostly ignore them or put "modestly dressed woman" retorts, but no , disagreeing g with other posters does not make one a scold, nor does asking, "Why did you say that? If disagreeing makes one a scold then the man with many handles needs to form a men only group. And I think MWMH is quite a bright man with a good deal of energy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:39 AM (eyz8w)

117 Have a great day, everyone.

May sunshine and flowers make your local area beautiful. Shame that pollen is part of the mix, but oh well. We have Spring, with the promise of Summer ahead.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:39 AM (u82oZ)

118 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 06:41 AM (1n+EO)

119 Man with many handles is -currently- Tailor- not Miklos who is also very bright but has funny, creative handles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2023 06:41 AM (eyz8w)

120 Whats wrong with this graph on CBC funding

https://tinyurl.com/abxvy35h

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:42 AM (BRHaw)

121 Morning again, all. About to head off to another sloggy day at work. It's warm and unpleasant outside, or rather it will be later; not so bad right now. Rain on Friday, then "drier and cooler" for the weekend. Ha.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2023 06:44 AM (omVj0)

122 The FTC is planning to target AI that violates civil rights (what?) or is deceptive.

Given the two-tiered "justice" system, what the FTC will do is give Leftists the cover to claim that the propaganda from an LLM "can't possibly be deceptive because the government prohibits falsehoods". which itself would be a lie because there is a well established double standard sitting between "unlawful" and "prohibited".

But wrapped up in that claim by the FTC is the trojan horse: "It's not okay to say that your algorithm is a black box" and you can't explain it, he said."

Apparently China is demanding the source code to these non-open source elements

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 19, 2023 06:45 AM (YXHzG)

123 San Francisco has brought the cost of a single public toilet down to a mere $1.4 million

Paging Mr Hayek
Mr Fed Hayek please pick up the white courtesy phone

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:48 AM (BRHaw)

124 111 And Pence says he is still deciding if he will run or not.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 19, 2023 06:36 AM (+coCW)

112 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Chris Christie is delusional. Hey champ, stop with the confectionery sugar uptake. It is doing bad things to your mind.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 19, 2023 06:37 AM (u82oZ)

Pence& and Chris# need a splashy name like jeb!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:50 AM (BRHaw)

125 Pence& and Chris# need a splashy name like jeb!
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 06:50 AM (BRHaw)

What this country needs is the son of a mailman!

Posted by: John Kasich at April 19, 2023 06:57 AM (PiwSw)

126 Well, In the last day I have seen local Desantis and Trump ads on TV.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 07:00 AM (1n+EO)

127 Chicago sure looks like it's gonna go the way of Detroit. Seriously, what company is going to be able to do business there? Who are they going to hire? Who will want to live there?

And why wouldn't Chicago arrive at the same destination as Detroit? They are following the same path.

The collapse of Detroit though, really did have its roots in racism. The poor economy, then the auto industry, followed by the War drew a lot of blacks out of the South and white hill scoggin from the Appalachians. The Poles and other white ethnicities in Detroit discriminated against the blacks for housing which quickly turned into ghettos which led to perpetual tensions.

Too many people of diverse backgrounds flooded one area in a short span of time all fighting for the same thing: wealth.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 19, 2023 07:00 AM (YXHzG)

128 BLM seems to be on its last legs

https://tinyurl.com/57hc4h8m

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:00 AM (BRHaw)

129 Most mornings, about 0730, I'll sit outside with my last coffee. I watch the traffic go by as the towns of Paris and Charleston AR empty and go to work in Fort Smith. Now, this is pickup truck country, and I see a lot of very late models and new ones. We're talking $40, 50, 60K and sometimes more. When the crunch comes, and it's coming, there's going to be a lot of expensive truck and car owners in default. That truck will go before a person gives up the house.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2023 07:01 AM (lz5hY)

130 Good morning all. If anyone wants to send a note to Jane D'oh, email me at the moroncookbook at gmail dot com address. Let me know if you want her email or snail mail address. I have her permission to give them out to trusted Hordelings.

The memorial service for her husband will be May 6, two weeks before her son's wedding.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2023 07:03 AM (pTb/Z)

131 The New York State Department of Education has ruled that public school districts will no longer be allowed to use nicknames tied to Native American culture.

The unanimous decision to force schools to eliminate those nicknames was made during a state Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday morning in Albany.

At the very end of each culture or government they take on subjects that have no meaning. This has ZERO to do with education.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:03 AM (BRHaw)

132 mornin yall. I look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement. It’s a mass protest against poverty and segregation.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2023 07:04 AM (iayUP)

133 Have you heard that Pence loves Jesus. Reeealllly loves Jesus.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2023 07:04 AM (6dnDK)

134 We're talking $40, 50, 60K and sometimes more. When the crunch comes, and it's coming, there's going to be a lot of expensive truck and car owners in default.

Still need transportation. I'm guessing people will be eager to accept my 25+ year old Jeep + some cash in trade.

We are a decade out from Cash for Clunkers through

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 19, 2023 07:04 AM (YXHzG)

135 Young people are very smart and know what they want. They should be give space to get it.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2023 07:05 AM (iayUP)

136
Good morning, Hordians. Sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with a double cup of coffee and a ham and swiss sandwich, enjoying my last few moments of leisure before the usual daily chaos begins.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:05 AM (MoZTd)

137 Have you heard that Pence loves Jesus. Reeealllly loves Jesus

So do the meth-heads, tattooed and pierced single mothers of illegitimate kids, danger haired ne're do wells still living at home and other variety of deadbeats and lowlifes living in ETX.

They love Jesus, but not enough to have a faith that positively directs their lives.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 19, 2023 07:07 AM (YXHzG)

138 Pence is a Marxist useful idiot

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2023 07:07 AM (OMw8U)

139 wait wut??

The monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the United States.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:08 AM (BRHaw)

140 134 Yep. When things went south back in the Ohio rustbelt one car dealer I knew was king of the downtrade. He would get you out of the note and get you into a clunker to get by. He was tied up with some outfit on the East Coast that would export the newer units.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 19, 2023 07:08 AM (lz5hY)

141 133 Have you heard that Pence loves Jesus. Reeealllly loves Jesus.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 19, 2023 07:04 AM (6dnDK)

And Teena was a virgin

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

142 AI can't be a "black box algorithm" some pissant legislator could have its staffers review because it is not an algorithm. Not in any meaningful sense. You can't print "the code" except for when it's fresh off of its training set, and even then you can only do it after you've already run the training set to see what values all the nodes in the network land on, and *even then* it would just be a bewildering array of arrays of values that would have no more meaning to a script reader than looking at static on an old television would. An then the minute anyone interacted with the thing, all those values would change anyway.

You couldn't even do that for a basic bitch tensorflow tutorial to recognize handwritten numbers. Forget about anything like a functioning language learning model.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:10 AM (9UlRk)

143

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 19, 2023 07:10 AM (vwCZJ)

144 What if ads are all bullshit and no one ever buys anything based on social media ads?

The whole thing ad based financial incentive could be based in a wishful thinking at best and a lie at worst. I'm sure there are companies that do metrics like they do in TV but a lot of that stuff is all BS.

I admit I know nothing of the advertising industry other tan what I learned watching Bewitched.

Posted by: pawn at April 19, 2023 07:11 AM (wsHtO)

145 Boker Tov Patriots

My Flag has stopped talking to me completely LOL
What a dick

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2023 07:15 AM (Irn0L)

146
I admit I know nothing of the advertising industry other tan what I learned watching Bewitched.
Posted by: pawn at April 19, 2023 07:11 AM (wsHtO)

I imagine it's like the derivative securities market. "The thing in and of itself" doesn't have to actually be worth anything or even mean anything You just need a piece of paper (real or implied), a buyer, a seller, and for one or both of buyer and seller to be a sucker. Everything else is pageantry.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:16 AM (9UlRk)

147 The thing is, the ads really aren't worth anything. I've seen one ad in all my years on social media that inspired me to buy something, and I didn't, and now I've forgotten what it was for.

--

It's becoming more and more clear that the ads aren't FOR anything, either. It's a type of money laundering and directing funds to friends and causes. They've got to give a little to low-level nobodies to keep the facade up, but people like Ace are advertising for toenail fungi and King Harv's coffee while that man with fake tits is on the side of Budweiser cans and the Facebook guy can dump a billion or two into elections.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 19, 2023 07:16 AM (ulgTA)

148 Ads are not necessarily to get you to buy something immediately. They are also to keep the product or company in the public's mind. Like when you think of buying beer, and you remember those commercials with the horse and the tranny.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2023 07:16 AM (iayUP)

149 Crabs....there's plenty of room at the bottom.

Posted by: pawn at April 19, 2023 07:16 AM (wsHtO)

150 I saw a billboard for some lawyer cretin (cretine?) that unironically used the phrase "top of mind".

I loathe humanity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:18 AM (9UlRk)

151 New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala today released the city’s first integrated greenhouse gas inventory, which incorporates emissions from the production and consumption of food. Those emissions represent 20 percent of New York City’s overall emissions — the third largest source, behind buildings (35 percent) and transportation (21 percent).

1. Live outdoors in huts
2. Walk well maybe the rich get a horse cart
3. Starve

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)

152 Bluebell,
Thank you for the update.

E-mail to follow

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

153 145 Boker Tov Patriots

My Flag has stopped talking to me completely LOL
What a dick
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2023 07:15 AM (Irn0L)

Sounds like that Navy ship were the CO and XO periods synched!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:20 AM (BRHaw)

154 I'll look for it, VIA.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2023 07:20 AM (pTb/Z)

155
No crabs on my bottom, though Village Idiot's Apprentice probably has some mutant radioactive mites preparing to take over the world.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 07:20 AM (enJYY)

156 Mmmm. Toe fungus in the morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 07:20 AM (EZebt)

157 “ literally interminable flashback to his past as a whiny kid”

If you want a pretty decent fantasy story that has a good character with a whiney kid background, read Prince of Thorns (and whatever the trilogy is called).

The book takes some interesting turns.

Posted by: egd at April 19, 2023 07:21 AM (cOB2v)

158 the third largest source, behind buildings (35 percent) and transportation (21 percent).

1. Live outdoors in huts
2. Walk well maybe the rich get a horse cart
3. Starve
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:18 AM (BRHaw)

Your four burner whirlpool burning clean nat gas is destroying the Earth. Encampments full of shopping cart grills and burn barrels running on greasy rags and rodent carcasses are blessings of socialism you must be thankful for.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:21 AM (9UlRk)

159 Like when you think of buying beer, and you remember those commercials with the horse and the tranny.
Posted by: fd at April 19, 2023 07:16 AM (iayUP)
----------

Did you see the parody ad for that? My brother sent it to me. Let me find it and I'll post it.

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2023 07:21 AM (pTb/Z)

160 NGU

Is this a political thing, or is the Flag just being a dick?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 07:22 AM (1n+EO)

161 Here's the Bud Light parody ad:

https://youtu.be/B6PYN50oE1s

Posted by: bluebell at April 19, 2023 07:22 AM (pTb/Z)

162 "New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala today released the city’s first integrated greenhouse gas inventory, ..."

And this is important, how? Might as well count all the butterflies or pigeons.

Taxpayers in NY are suckers.

Posted by: pawn at April 19, 2023 07:23 AM (wsHtO)

163
I've seen one ad in all my years on social media that inspired me to buy something, and I didn't, and now I've forgotten what it was for.

'S okay, pixy. Even its strongest proponents admit that the vaunted "Get Your AoSHQ Boxboard Membership, Now!" advertisement campaign was a complete bust. They're just a little verklempt that you forgot about it ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2023 07:23 AM (pNxlR)

164 Has there ever been a big city that hasn't had a history of ethnic turf battles over neighborhoods, which could be called racism? Detroit was destroyed by the Great Society and a failure to enforce norms across certain population groups - a perverse discrimination if you will. The slope of decline was increased by free traders and NAFTA. They took a city with a thriving black middle class and ruined it in under 25 years.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 19, 2023 07:24 AM (oWBc3)

165 And this is important, how? Might as well count all the butterflies or pigeons.

Taxpayers in NY are suckers.
Posted by: pawn at April 19, 2023 07:23 AM (wsHtO)

Hell, counting the butterflies and pigeons would actually have some use to the DNR. DCNR. DPW? Feh, whatever that shithole city has. You know what i mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:24 AM (9UlRk)

166 Cities have been hellholes since a bunch of lazy late Paleolithic nomads plunked down at the mouth of a river and made Erech a thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:26 AM (9UlRk)

167 Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Refuses Three Times to Answer the Question: What is a Woman?

Once
Twice
Three times I dont know what a lady is

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:26 AM (BRHaw)

168
I'm amazed that Microsoft has never yet devised a straightforward way of exporting file information from File Explorer or Windows Media Player to Excel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:26 AM (MoZTd)

169 Dilmun? Whatever, whichever city is older.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:27 AM (9UlRk)

170
Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Refuses Three Times to Answer the Question: What is a Woman?

Once
Twice
Three times I dont know what a lady is
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:26 AM (BRHaw)

And the cock crew.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:27 AM (MoZTd)

171 And the cock crew.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:27 AM (MoZTd)

I saw The Cock Crew open for Ween at some coffee shop i can't remember the name of in '97

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 19, 2023 07:28 AM (9UlRk)

172
Taxpayers in NY are suckers.

I wouldn't blame the entire state. Just like Pennsylvania which has Philadelphia deciding elections every time, New York City decides the states direction. New York City, where the majority of voters are minorities.

With Alvin Bragg, they're now flexing their muscles on a nationwide scale.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 19, 2023 07:29 AM (enJYY)

173 Is this a political thing, or is the Flag just being a dick?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 19, 2023 07:22 AM (1n+EO)

He is totally ignorant of the Dental Corps
He is selling the Dental Corps down the river
Every time I stand up for the Dental Corps, he kneecaps me and stabs me in the back
He is the pawn of the 2 Star
He is a weird person who never socialized with other Officers when he was in other Commands. Strange dude
He is a liar. Steals my ideas and achievements and passes them off as his own
And on and on
I suspect he is a left winger but that has not played into any of this

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2023 07:29 AM (Irn0L)

174 168
I'm amazed that Microsoft has never yet devised a straightforward way of exporting file information from File Explorer or Windows Media Player to Excel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:26 AM (MoZTd)

I think in Excel DATA you can point to a folder

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

175
He is a liar. Steals my ideas and achievements and passes them off as his own

Must have read, digested and absorbed a management book.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:33 AM (MoZTd)

176 Carcinisation is the process whereby everything that isn't already a crab, gradually becomes a crab.

We cancers do not believe this!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:33 AM (BRHaw)

177 He is a liar. Steals my ideas and achievements and passes them off as his own

Must have read, digested and absorbed a management book.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:33 AM (MoZTd)

And even then, since they are not his ideas or achievements and knows nothing about them, when he presents to groups he fucks it up. LOL and I am left to clean up after him....Kinda like what they have to do with biden

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2023 07:35 AM (Irn0L)

178 Complete bullshit:

"Menu calorie labels rolled out in 2018 will prevent 45,000 obesity and cancer deaths and save $2.8BILLION in healthcare costs, study claims"

Just throw out some numbers and move on. Such is the state of "Science".

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2023 07:36 AM (iayUP)

179 The research ethics committee at King’s College London ordered a professor to consult with the campus “Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team” about his proposed survey on men competing against women in sports.

John Armstrong sought to ask athletes about their views on gender-dysphoric men competing as females in women’s sports. However, the Research Ethics office denied his application because he referred to gender-dysphoric men who compete against women as “males.”

In one of Gulivers Travels he found an island where researchers were trying to find soft rocks, to make pillows.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:37 AM (BRHaw)

180 April 18, 2023 1:52 pm Robert Zimmerman

The modern dark age: Simon Fraser University in Canada (SFU) has an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion learning group in its math office, and it appears that this office is today running a seminar, in partnership with the Simon Fraser Public Interest Group (SFPIRG), asking the important question, “How can math be racist?”, led by two modern “scholars” with no training in math at all.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:39 AM (BRHaw)

181 wow, what a hater! reminds me of lefties who believe that the media is all rightwing propaganda.

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 19, 2023 07:41 AM (1WdLY)

182 what constitutes sight-seeing in Chicago? Seriously.

Posted by: DB - past Comment Of The Week honoree at April 19, 2023 07:42 AM (geLO8)

183 "what constitutes sight-seeing in Chicago? Seriously.
Posted by: DB"

The underside of a boot.

Posted by: fd at April 19, 2023 07:43 AM (iayUP)

184
And finally just by way of comparison here's the same argument made by a doctrinaire lefty who is just so stuffed full of love that she'll beat your brains out with a claw hammer if you so much as blink in the middle of her five-and-a-half thousand word temper tantrum. (Substack)

A simple response of, "That's nice, dear." would cause her head to explode.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2023 07:43 AM (pNxlR)

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I'm amazed that Microsoft has never yet devised a straightforward way of exporting file information from File Explorer or Windows Media Player to Excel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 19, 2023 07:26 AM (MoZTd)

I think in Excel DATA you can point to a folder
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

If you want information from the file system or properties off of media files you gonna have to write code.

And if its media file information you gonna have to write a -lot- of code. Very ugly code.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 19, 2023 07:43 AM (MkuC5)

186 I'm concerned the aliens have finally come for JJ...

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 19, 2023 07:45 AM (MkuC5)

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"Menu calorie labels rolled out in 2018 will prevent 45,000 obesity and cancer deaths and save $2.8BILLION in healthcare costs, study claims"

On the downside, the use of these labels contributed greatly to the catastrophic decline in numbers of the hitherto vast stickum herds on the Mongolian steppe.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2023 07:46 AM (pNxlR)

188 Looks like JJ's been kidnapped....

Posted by: JT at April 19, 2023 07:47 AM (T4tVD)

189 A simple response of, "That's nice, dear." would cause her head to explode.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2023 07:43 AM (pNxlR)
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"Bless your heart" would achieve a similar response...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 19, 2023 07:48 AM (YIVH2)

190 Extract GPS Metadata from .MP4 and create .GPX using Exiftool

this may work

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:48 AM (BRHaw)

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I'm concerned the aliens have finally come for JJ...
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida

He's probably in a coma from gorging on fried cheese curds overnight.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 19, 2023 07:49 AM (pNxlR)

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here

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 19, 2023 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

193 scary morning thread is up

Posted by: DB - past Comment Of The Week honoree at April 19, 2023 07:50 AM (geLO8)

194 Nood nation.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 19, 2023 07:51 AM (MkuC5)

195 "the fact that people in large groups basically suck."

Something that's been blatantly clear to me as a long-time MMORPG player. I've lost count of the number of time I saw some new developer talking about how amazing and wonderful their upcoming open-world PvP game was going to be as they described elements that would just lead to veteran players ganking newbies en masse.

One of the most surprising things about Final Fantasy XIV is how non-toxic the player base has remained. It's so unusual that many players have talked about how shocked they were about it when they came over to FFXIV from a different MMORPG.

Posted by: junior at April 19, 2023 08:40 AM (PTw5h)

196 Bitcoin is also Daily Tech News. Readers of this section should begin educating themselves and learning about Bitcoin. And, Bitcoin ONLY! All the other so-called "crypto" is crap and a scam. Here's a link to learn from. I have many more I can provide.
Maybe one day the AOSHQ will begin devoting space on the site to financial sovereignty and freedom. Copy and paste this SAFE link and begin your journey.
https://www.bitcoinpleb.com/

Posted by: Ring O' Fire at April 19, 2023 09:45 AM (J/pqx)

197 If my personal data is do valuable how come I'm not compensated for it? I should make millions for providing companies with a portrait of my consumption habits.
I make them money and I demand reparations!

Posted by: Xavier Basora at April 19, 2023 10:23 AM (KDX5C)

198 34 Local TV news reports a Home Depot employee in Pleasanton was shot and killed trying to stop a shoplifter.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2023 05:29 AM (EZebt)

Damn.

Posted by: m at April 19, 2023 10:37 AM (rrxFZ)

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Posted by: m at April 19, 2023 11:03 AM (rrxFZ)

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Posted by: m at April 19, 2023 11:03 AM (rrxFZ)

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GRRM is still Tolkien's bitch.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at April 19, 2023 11:39 AM (1hM1d)

202 There is no such animal as a "Leftwing Libertarian." What an absurd idea. No wonder everyone thinks Libertarians are idiots, most of them are.

Posted by: Fisht at April 19, 2023 11:57 AM (ZRarh)

203 When F/SF authors show up to argue with F/SF authors, you're supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a side. Correia bragging about writing 25 novels is like Don Pendleton bragging about writing 38 _Mack Bolan_ novels, and for the same reason.

Part of the problem is that there _isn't_ much else on offer. F/SF is a moribund genre that just chases the market leader, which is why everything is black and grey morality and awful protagonists and thinly veiled periods of history with a bit of dragons sprinkled in. That's what made GRRM, a mediocre editor of mediocre anthologies, a household name; so that's what gets published.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at April 19, 2023 02:27 PM (KTmDq)

204 Hеy there would you mind stating which blog platform you're using?

I'm planning to start my оwn blog in the near future
Ƅut I'm һaνing a hard time mаking a decision bеtween BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and
Drupal. The reason I ask is becauѕe your design seems different then most bⅼoɡs and I'm looking for something unique.

P.S Apologies for being off-topic but I һad to ask!

Posted by: backdrop at April 23, 2023 04:56 AM (PFLlE)

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