Daily Tech News 26 April 2023

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Ordered my new laptop at 9:30 this morning. It shipped at 1:45 this afternoon.

HP has it all over Dell in this department, at least for Australia. Dell seems to ship out of Singapore. Takes them days to ship and then a week to arrive. A week to arrive when I still lived in Sydney.
The tech startup sector is fucked beyond imagining. (Tech Crunch)

On an annualised basis, successful exits for VC funds in this sector are down 97% from 2021.

The article is behind a paywall but nobody really cares.

Tech News

Rapid - formerly Rapid API - which was recently valued at $1 billion, has laid off half its staff and frozen all hiring. (Tech Crunch)

I took a look at their site. I can see where they'd need 20 or 30 staff to build that system and deal with customers and payments.

They had 230.

Now they have half that.

They took $150 million in funding a year ago so the question is, did they correct course in time or have they burned through their case and are about to fold?
Apple pays a lot of money to TSMC to get first dibs on the latest chip technology and sometimes that doesn't entirely work out. (WCCFTech)

The next generation iPhone may be in short supply because only 55% of 3nm chips coming off the production line pass testing. That's not terrible - Samsung started 3nm production earlier and their first production runs apparently yielded something like 20% fully working chips - but throwing out half your product isn't great either.

On the seventh hand, without Apple customers paying too much money for shiny gadgets TSMC wouldn't be able to churn out cheap 4/5/6/7nm chips for AMD and Nvidia.
Speaking of Nvidia, nobody continues to buy the 4070. (WCCFTech)

It's not that expensive, but the people for whom money is no object (or creative professionals for whom time is money) already bought a 4080 or 4090. Customers for the 4070 are at least a bit price-sensitive and they seem to have decided to wait a bit and see what happens.

Which frees up some 4nm capacity at TSMC because Nvidia seems to be cutting production rather than prices.
Nine ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQL. (Phil Booth)

I was an early user of PostgreSQL but then MySQL got good enough (mostly) and PostgreSQL got complicated (very). I would like to dive into PostgreSQL and learn more of its tricks, and learning the bad tricks is a good start.
Microsoft's revenues are up 7%. (Thurrott.com)

Or, given inflation, they're stagnant.
Google's revenues are up 3%. (Thurrott.com)

Which means they're down.
Intel's PC revenues are down 53% for Q1 over the same quarter last year. (WCCFTech)

I hope their server sales are better. Their server CPUs suck compared to AMDs, but companies buy them anyway.
Digital Ocean has opened a datacenter in Sydney. Last November, apparently.

Kind of handy except we already have Vultr and Binary Lane (an Aussie company) and OVH (French) and all the major players.
Web spiders suck in general, and web spiders that explicitly ignore robots.txt suck twice as hard. (Motherboard)

Should call them web mosquitoes.
I noticed that Amazon Australia finally has the Team MP34 4TB model at a reasonable price and I don't need to buy it from Amazon US.

Except they don't. It's a marketplace listing from Australian computer store Scorptec. And it's cheaper on their own site.

I'm planning to buy about 20 of these as I fit out all my new computers over the next year or so, so I got one to give a workout in my new laptop.

There are some cheaper 4TB SSDs now but those are QLC and DRAMless which is fine for regular files but much less fine for databases and virtual servers.
AMD's new Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme CPUs have been announced. (Tom's Hardware)

The Z1 Extreme is the 7840U. Literally the same chip, just marketed at handheld game consoles rather than laptops. The Z1 is probably the 7640U or 7540U.

AMD and Intel sell a lot more different chips than they actually make. The Ryzen 7900, 7900X, and 7950X desktop CPUs and the 7945HX laptop CPU all have exactly the same silicon on them, and there are there are half a dozen other models with the same silicon but one fewer chip on board. It costs a fortune to make a new chip, even based on an existing one, so when it is at all possibly to avoid doing so, they don't.

All that said, the 7840U looks to be great. I want that in my next laptop. Which might be a while since I just bought one this morning.
Oh, and speaking of Apple's overpriced toys, I priced a MacBook Pro with the same configuration as my new HP Pavilion 14.

Almost exactly four times as much.

Disclaimer: Which used to be a lot and still is.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 frist

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 04:33 AM (1rQ1e)

2 sencod?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2023 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2023 04:35 AM (xhxe8)

4 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2023 04:36 AM (T4tVD)

5 >>>Digital Ocean has opened a datacenter in Sydney.

Link? Or I can go hunt one down.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 04:36 AM (1rQ1e)

6 I think the analogy to frist would be sceond.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 04:37 AM (1rQ1e)

7 Evening and morning to all! 'Tis Wednesday, the halfway mark of the week (or will be, around noon for the US; Pixy has already passed the midpoint). I can take it easy tonight, get to bed early and work out tomorrow, then on Saturday am. Or so I tell myself.

The Killer Kittens From Outer Space are trotting around. They love their carriers. I set the box out on the floor and they zip inside, then sit there as though pretending to be cave lions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2023 04:40 AM (omVj0)

8 Perhaps I'll stretch a bit before my shower. That's the ticket.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2023 04:45 AM (omVj0)

9 5 >>>Digital Ocean has opened a datacenter in Sydney.

Link? Or I can go hunt one down.

Updated with a link. I was pretty eager for DigitalOcean to come to Sydney back in, oh, 2016, when there weren't really any good alternatives here. (Well, there now. Here then.)

But Vultr and Binary Lane and AWS Lightsail already provide most of what DigitalOcean does, except for the really good control panel.

The AWS control panel is something H. P. Lovecraft would have rejected as needlessly squamous.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2023 04:45 AM (BLOW1)

10 9 5 >>>Digital Ocean

Updated with a link.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2023 04:45 AM (BLOW1)

Thanks.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 04:48 AM (1rQ1e)

11 Morning all!

Thanks for the tech news Pixy.

Posted by: Bruce at April 26, 2023 04:55 AM (Zrzqo)

12 Mornin'

Washing clothes and living on the edge!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 04:56 AM (sAmhv)

13 Greg Price: Apparently Tucker Carlson had dinner with Rupert Murdoch and his then fiancé (who would've been his 5th wife at 92 years) in late March in which she called him a "messenger from God."

Rupert then dumped her and fired Tucker from his network a month later.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2023 04:56 AM (wsSEe)

14 Digital Ocean

I can't swim ! Glub.....glub.....

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2023 04:57 AM (T4tVD)

15 Meh, the only person who knows what truly happened is Tucker Carlson and he hasn't said anything, yet. I'll just wait till all this plays out. I haven't watched Fox News in ages. Only watched clips of Carlson. I know he'll be fine. Probably much better off away from Fox News.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 05:00 AM (sAmhv)

16
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 26, 2023 05:01 AM (ENBF0)

17 Somewhere between pekora and polka my LXD containers stop starting.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2023 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

18 17 Somewhere between pekora and polka my LXD containers stop starting.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2023 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

They have a cream for that.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 05:08 AM (1rQ1e)

19 "Somewhere between pekora and polka my LXD containers stop starting."

Are you sure of that? They could of just started stopping.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at April 26, 2023 05:09 AM (89Sog)

20 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 05:10 AM (BRHaw)

21 Revolver has a article a former very Leftist woman was Tucker's producer and got canned some time ago. As any Leftist will tell you it wasn't ger fault and was going after Tucker. Her claim is she got him gone, that would be a 🏅 on here resume

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2023 05:11 AM (xhxe8)

22 Somewhere between pekora and polka my LXD containers stop starting.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Mebbe they were tired from doing the Pekora polka !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2023 05:11 AM (T4tVD)

23 9 5 >>>Digital Ocean has opened a datacenter in Sydney.

Updated with a link. I was pretty eager for DigitalOcean to come to Sydney back in, oh, 2016, when there weren't really any good alternatives here. (Well, there now. Here then.)

But Vultr and Binary Lane and AWS Lightsail already provide most of what DigitalOcean does, except for the really good control panel.

The AWS control panel is something H. P. Lovecraft would have rejected as needlessly squamous.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2023 04:45 AM (BLOW1)

The author of that article wrote in order to be understood, and I appreciate that. Couple of typos, but informative and not the usual flashiness and dumb adwords.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 05:15 AM (1rQ1e)

24 17 Somewhere between pekora and polka my LXD containers stop starting.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Saw Pekora and Polka open for Primus in '94 at Killian's.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 05:15 AM (sAmhv)

25 Not a Tucker watcher all these years so didn't know he didn't broadcast from DC, Fox built him studios in Maine and Florida where resides.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2023 05:17 AM (xhxe8)

26 Skip, something I found funny. In an interview, Tucker said he has no tv's in his house(s). He says his life is better without it.

Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2023 05:19 AM (emlEe)

27 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2023 05:20 AM (ju2Fy)

28 Prince William attended a dawn service in honor of ANZAC Day:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=B5js_h-IThA

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 05:20 AM (1rQ1e)

29 "Which frees up some 4nm capacity at TSMC because Nvidia seems to be cutting production rather than prices."

Makes sense, in a way. They have a bunch of cards that no one wants to buy. Rather than clearing that inventory by reducing prices so they move inventory, they are going stubborn and just cutting production.

This is an interesting thing with how deformed people look at customers these days. Very similar to how car manufacturers and dealers are handling the fact that during the pandemic they got used to tight inventory and could jack up prices. Instead of lowering prices as supply swelled and demand reduced, they just decided to sit and bet people would HAVE to pay the (inflated price) for the vehicles.

In other words, they wanted to turn the special circumstances into the norm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 05:25 AM (/xaUq)

30 I heard that Tucker Rocky Horror massaged Murdoch's fiancée's feet.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2023 05:27 AM (wsSEe)

31 I really think the consumers vs customers idea has taken root in a lot of business circles. They look at them as mindless buyers rather than a customer who has to be wooed and protected.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 05:27 AM (/xaUq)

32 I really think the consumers vs customers idea has taken root in a lot of business circles. They look at them as mindless buyers rather than a customer who has to be wooed and protected.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 05:27 AM (/xaUq)

Dems think of the black vote as consumers, "mindless buyers." That's why they don't try to woo the Right, because they know they can't. But "mindless" is right up Dems' alley, dark and foreboding as that alley is.

Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2023 05:34 AM (emlEe)

33 31 I really think the consumers vs customers idea has taken root in a lot of business circles. They look at them as mindless buyers rather than a customer who has to be wooed and protected.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 05:27 AM (/xaUq)

I have zero business savvy, but wasn't it always thus?

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 05:35 AM (1rQ1e)

34
Rupert then dumped her and fired Tucker from his network a month later.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2023 04:56 AM

Cut and pasted from front page so Ace or one of the cobs added it:
Alternate theory: Tucker Carlson was fired for calling the other "news" networks corrupt for taking big pharma's tens and tens of millions of dollars and then endlessly shilling for big pharma's products and slandering anyone who questioned them as a "conspiracy theorist"

As I've mentioned before 75% of tv revenue comes from Big Pharma. You'll never see low drug prices with that kind of expenditure. Ask your provider if this is right for you.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 05:35 AM (enJYY)

35 31 I really think the consumers vs customers idea has taken root in a lot of business circles. They look at them as mindless buyers rather than a customer who has to be wooed and protected.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Anheuser Busch, wear a sequin dress at April 26, 2023 05:37 AM (sAmhv)

36 Posted by: Anheuser Busch, wear a sequin dress at April 26, 2023 05:37 AM (sAmhv)

LOL

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 05:38 AM (1rQ1e)

37 Every Big Pharma medicine ad comes with warnings except 1.
Effects of Covid Therapy can cause blood clots and certain death, stop taking Covid Boosters if you drop over dead.
You know Covid booster is right for you so don't ask.

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2023 05:40 AM (xhxe8)

38 Loused up the sock but meh. It's early in the AM. Sun isn't even up yet and I'm EST.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 05:47 AM (sAmhv)

39 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 05:54 AM (u82oZ)

40 I have zero business savvy, but wasn't it always thus?
Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 05:35 AM (1rQ1e)

Yes, but. I think one can argue that the change to a customer based model of the 20th century was actually very important for innovation. Or at least, the competition between the ideas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 05:54 AM (/xaUq)

41
Jean-Pierre: "[Republicans] are fighting to put fentanyl on the street by defunding border patrol... The only things House Republicans are committed to giving Americans are increased crime, lower economic growth, and more manufacturing jobs sent back to China."

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 05:54 AM (BRHaw)

42 "Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did. I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the C.D.C.’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that." - Anthony Fauci

ffs

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 05:56 AM (BRHaw)

43 I heard that Tucker Rocky Horror massaged Murdoch's fiancée's feet.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2023

***
But were they really nice feet?

Posted by: Quentin T. at April 26, 2023 05:56 AM (omVj0)

44 U.S. District Court Judge C.J. Williams ruled Tuesday that the claims at issue in writer Ryan Lizza’s story — “Devin Nunes’s Family Farm is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret” — were essentially accurate. The judge said that conclusion was fatal to the suits brought by Nunes, his relatives and the company used to operate the dairy, NuStar Farms.
“The assertion that NuStar knowingly used undocumented labor is substantially, objectively true,” wrote Williams, an appointee of former President Donald Trump.
In the 101-page opinion issued Tuesday, Williams said evidence developed during the litigation showed that the farm employed numerous workers who provided names and Social Security numbers that did not match Social Security Administration records.
“This Court ordered the SSA to verify the SSNs of all disclosed NuStar Farms employees,” Williams said. “Of those employees who NuStar plaintiffs employed on or before September 30, 2018, 243 of 319 employees’ names, dates of birth, and SSNs did not match SSA records.”

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2023 05:57 AM (wsSEe)

45 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 26, 2023 05:57 AM (DhOHl)

46 Good morning morons

Mrs. F. has been muttering a lot about why Sean Hannity still has his job.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2023 05:59 AM (EZebt)

47 My gut reaction is that tech is floundering from two things:

1) woke -> broke
2) a Gold Rush effect in its final phase, where a field attracts people who want to profit off of what other people have profited off of, but have no idea how. ("Just hire a bunch of Chineses, they'll know what to do!")
3) Tech is the hot new market for fascistic endeavors in creative applied money laundering. These new ventures aren't intended to survive and succeed, they only need to exist as ephemeral particles to carry the grand unified force of Graft.

Ok. Three things.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:00 AM (9UlRk)

48 ffs
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 05:56 AM (BRHaw)

And Hitler never killed a single person.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:01 AM (9UlRk)

49 38 Loused up the sock but meh. It's early in the AM. Sun isn't even up yet and I'm EST.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 05:47 AM (sAmhv)

36 Posted by: Anheuser Busch, wear a sequin dress at April 26, 2023 05:37 AM (sAmhv)
LOL
Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 05:38 AM (1rQ1e)

I thought the sock was funny!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:04 AM (1rQ1e)

50 The latest sales data from NielsenIQ and Bump Williams Consulting shows that Bud Light sales fell 17% in dollars, while volume dropped a whopping 21% in the week ended April 15.

That’s sharply ahead of the 6% drop in sales dollars and 11% drop in volume that Bud Light had suffered during the week ended April 8 — the seven days that immediately followed the April 1

Keep it up!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:06 AM (BRHaw)

51
If you're a news network and derive 75% of your revenue from the pharmaceutical industry who can boycott your network in a heartbeat, you can't call yourself independent.

That's a perfect example of dependency. They own you. There aren't enough fluffy pillow manufacturers who derive their cotton from the Nile region of Egypt in this country to fill in that sort of gap.

The only answer is to repeal the legislation that gave that power over television and radio.

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

52 46 Mrs. F. has been muttering a lot about why Sean Hannity still has his job.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2023 05:59 AM (EZebt)

The purge is young!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:07 AM (1rQ1e)

53 What man would want to be seen drinking a Bud Light by another man?

Almost zero.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2023 06:10 AM (EZebt)

54 Warai-otoko

Think of all the money in consumer's pockets lost by forced obsolescence in tech. How many times do you have to rebuy utility and other programs because companies do not support it?

Think of all Gaia's bounty lost in making computers trash after 5 years.

Eventually, people will try to make Windows 7 or older iMacs run longer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:10 AM (u82oZ)

55 San Franpsycho

I've seen Bud Light used as a punchline to cast doubt on masculinity. Kinda like ~~ace's~~ COB's comments on garret's Crocs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:13 AM (u82oZ)

56 Eventually, people will try to make Windows 7 or older iMacs run longer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:10 AM (u82oZ)

I'm currently flattening a brand new thinkpad and installing Ubuntu because windows 11 is cancer. Sometimes obsolescence is immediate and very much quite unplanned.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:13 AM (9UlRk)

57 After lecturing the press corps about "Lesbian Visibility Week," the first openly queer press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says "this is like the quietest I've heard you guys!"

black and lesbian is the new black and lesbian

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:14 AM (BRHaw)

58 Warai-otoko

My iMac is 12 years old. Does what I want.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:14 AM (u82oZ)

59 So I went to a local township committee meeting part of which recognized people who had helped the community in various ways. It was nice of them to do that. One woman was recognized for arranging a walk to raise money for pre-eclaymsia
Awareness. That. condition causes sudden high blood pressure and other symptoms in pregnant women and can cause the loss of a baby.and mother. She had lost her baby some years ago. It was very good of her to channel her grief in a positive direction, but whatever she was reading from ( official website of the organization) referred to "birthing persons." They are not "birthing persons". They are mothers!!! Can we stop erasing women for the sake of political correctness?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2023 06:15 AM (Keyt1)

60 rhennigantx

But are they busty lesbians? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

61
Went out to lunch yesterday at the Fitz - Skip knows where I'm talking about - and the Bud Light umbrella's where all buried at the bottom of the pile. I ordered a Yuengling, which cost $3.50 and the waitress did not mention that Modela (A Transheuser Busch product) was on special for $2.50 - I still would not have ordered it.

I do like Modela, too. With lime and a brisket taco would have been great. But principles.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 06:16 AM (enJYY)

62 this is like the quietest I've heard you guys!"

black and lesbian is the new black and lesbian
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:14 AM (BRHaw)

Yes. People are often bouncy and cheerful when an organ of the State is lecturing them and trying to gauge their ideological purity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:16 AM (9UlRk)

63 G'morning, all.

Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2023 06:16 AM (L7gdA)

64 Tim Pool is reporting regulators are about to seize First Republic Bank. Local TV news is reporting massive layoffs there today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2023 06:17 AM (EZebt)

65 My iMac is 12 years old. Does what I want.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:14 AM (u82oZ)

My old thinkpad is almost that old, has three corners of the case busted out, and more or less still does what i want.

Silly things.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:17 AM (9UlRk)

66 The outlet reached out to roughly twelve different women’s advocacy organizations including, Women for Women International, Global Fund for Women, and the Gender Equality Resource Center. The groups were asked, “Does your group feel transgender women should be allowed to compete in sports with biological women? Is this something President Biden should get involved with?” The silence was deafening. Not one of the groups Fox News Digital contacted responded to their questions.

Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:19 AM (BRHaw)

67 FenelonSpoke

There is no reasoning with these people. Their version of what is going on does not touch reality.

The "Woke" are quite vulnerable to the slightest perturbation in Civilization. I view them as unprepared for the future, and unable to carry their values forward in time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:20 AM (u82oZ)

68 Bud light? I'm not buying it as fast as I can.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2023 06:22 AM (DhOHl)

69 And on a more compassionate note/- a woman who lost her son in a swimming accident reflects on God weeping with us. It is the story of Jesus weeping over the death of Lazarus from the Gospel of John. Somehow I cannot imagine the voice of God saying " So sorry about the loss of your son, "birthing person". Aaaargh!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2023 06:23 AM (bqXH1)

70 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Please give my heartfelt thanks to your stalwart son when he gets home. The Nimitz and embarked air squadrons did an outstanding job keeping the peace. And being a force for Good Times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:23 AM (u82oZ)

71 57 After lecturing the press corps about "Lesbian Visibility Week," the first openly queer press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says "this is like the quietest I've heard you guys!"

black and lesbian is the new black and lesbian
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:14 AM (BRHaw)

She can really read that room.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:23 AM (1rQ1e)

72 Can we stop erasing women for the sake of political correctness?!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2023 06:15 AM (Keyt1)

see 66

Women seemed to be scared of the trans fever.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:25 AM (BRHaw)

73 "Blessed are you among birthing people!"

Posted by: That angel in the Book of Luke at April 26, 2023 06:25 AM (DhOHl)

74 Yes. People are often bouncy and cheerful when an organ of the State is lecturing them and trying to gauge their ideological purity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:16 AM (9UlRk)

I didnt get a harrumph from that guy!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:26 AM (BRHaw)

75 58 Warai-otoko

My iMac is 12 years old. Does what I want.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:14 AM (u82oZ)

My MacBook Air was born in 2011!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:26 AM (1rQ1e)

76 Divide by Zero

A Transheuser Busch product !

Love your phraseology.

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

77 61 Transheuser Busch
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 06:16 AM (enJYY)

; )

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:27 AM (1rQ1e)

78 m

Pat yourself on the back for conserving rare earth elements, copper, and motherboards.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:27 AM (u82oZ)

79 Mrs. F. has been muttering a lot about why Sean Hannity still has his job.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2023 05:59 AM (EZebt)

The purge is young!
Posted by: m

Irena Briganti, Sr. PR VP at Fox, from what I am reading is known to keep dirt files on everybody at Fox and is ruthless in using them to keep Fx employees in line. Rolling Stone suddenly has a long story mentioning her and Tucker Carlson. This is a leak by her or a bit of revenge by somebody at Rolling Stone that has been played by her in the past. There are reasons Tucker hired that attorney out of California beyond walking away with a proper settlement.

https://tinyurl.com/3ms27p7v

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 06:28 AM (7ou2c)

80 Salty, thanks.

We finally got him settled into his new apartment be the end of the day yesterday.

Scrubbed by his mother, and fully stocked the kitchen with $600.00 worth of Commissary goods.

We finish the odds and ends today, pick up his car from putting a new battery in it and sort of relax the rest of the day. Then we head back home to Summerville tomorrow so that I can smoke a brisket on friday for a neighbors birthday party.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2023 06:28 AM (L7gdA)

81 #73 it's so ludicrous, but you you made me laugh:

and I forgot the link from " The Upper Room"

https://tinyurl.com/42ua9ttp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2023 06:29 AM (5GjvU)

82 Shocking I know but the nutz at Chevy say no more Bolts

Posted by: REDACTED at April 26, 2023 06:29 AM (us2H3)

83
A Transheuser Busch product !

Love your phraseology.

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

Stolen goods. From another moron. But it fits so perfectly it should be in the AoS style guide.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 06:29 AM (enJYY)

84 Lost In Space

As I tell the kids, "Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate."

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

85 Instead of the mountains on the can turning blue when it's cold, they just shrink.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:30 AM (9UlRk)

86 As Virginia election officials work to clean up the state’s voter rolls, they announced the discovery of a huge number of dead people still listed as registered voters in the state.

After reviewing death records…they found 18,990 deceased voters who had not been removed.

So how many fake voters are on the VA roles? 100k 200k??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:30 AM (BRHaw)

87 Tucker? I just met her!

Posted by: 2 cute by 1/2 at April 26, 2023 06:30 AM (DhOHl)

88 I was in the pool!

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at April 26, 2023 06:33 AM (DhOHl)

89 We have progressed so far that it's now time to plan to end the Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV production, which will happen at the very end of the year," Barra said.

The best part of this announcement was it was read by candlelight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 06:33 AM (BRHaw)

90 FYI

When stable social conditions collapse, grudge killings skyrocket. Having nothing to lose, or lack of enforcement of norms, leads to a bad place.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

91 If I'm not mistaken, those stupid stunt cans were just a one off marketing ploy, never intended to go into actual distribution.

Which is even more hilarious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:34 AM (9UlRk)

92 Women seemed to be scared of the trans fever.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I'm not scared ,but it didn't seem appropriate to bring this up at the time with the kindly woman receiving the award and I didn't get a chance to speak to her afterwards. She was just reading from a website. Maybe I'll put a whiteboard sign up outside my house: " I am a mother, not a "birthing person." Stop the bs." Or something along those lines.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2023 06:35 AM (3dUWh)

93 Have a great day, everyone.

May Nature get you to say Oooh, Ah, not ouch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 26, 2023 06:35 AM (u82oZ)

94 Intel's PC revenues are down 53% for Q1 over the same quarter last year.

This reflects Microsoft Surface revenue. In the previous quarter, Surface revenue dropped 39% and in the current quarter it dropped another 30%. If my rudimentary math skills are correct, Surface sales are 42.7% of what they were two quarters ago. There appears to be a lot of unsold computer products hanging around in warehouses and that would also, it seems, explain why SSD prices are down.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 06:36 AM (7ou2c)

95 Birthing Person seems like horrible othering against the men-pretending-to-be-women. They're Real Birthing People too, and can give birth to anyone they choose to. They just don't choose to. So there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:37 AM (9UlRk)

96 Tucker was fired over his views on the Ukraine war and being a clearinghouse for people with similar views like Col MacGregor and Glenn Greenwald

head/snake

we are headed into some pretty raw shit in Ukraine and our government wants a totally unified narative on Ukraine. Now they have it. It should not be lost on people that Kilmeade, a huge Ukraine war, and all wars for that matter, cheerleader replaced Tucker. Good trade, huh

and who likes war more than the munitions dealers

the media

Posted by: REDACTED at April 26, 2023 06:38 AM (us2H3)

97
All I want is to read stories to your chickens.

Posted by: Male Wolf in Dress and Lipstick at April 26, 2023 06:39 AM (enJYY)

98 And on a happier note: Austin police officers help a 95 year old man mow his lawn. From " Sunny Skyz":

https://tinyurl.com/4dvej2ct

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (3dUWh)

99 91 If I'm not mistaken, those stupid stunt cans were just a one off marketing ploy, never intended to go into actual distribution.

wait, Dylan has cans ??

Posted by: REDACTED at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (us2H3)

100 100

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (1rQ1e)

101 wait, Dylan has cans ??
Posted by: REDACTED at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (us2H3)

Stunt cans.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (9UlRk)

102 101 wait, Dylan has cans ??
Posted by: REDACTED at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (us2H3)

Stunt cans.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (9UlRk)

Man cans.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:41 AM (1rQ1e)

103 100 100
Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM (1rQ1e)

whatever ace is paying you, it's not enuff

Posted by: REDACTED at April 26, 2023 06:42 AM (us2H3)

104 68 Bud light? I'm not buying it as fast as I can.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2023 06:22 AM (DhOHl)

I never bought Bud Light as fast as I could.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:42 AM (/xaUq)

105
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, dogs let out, morning prayers said, coffee prepared.

We had a bit of a scare with Ruthie yesterday. She started vomiting and I had to run her to the vet. They couldn't diagnose anything in particular and gave her an anti-nausea shot. She seems fine now and had no issues last night.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2023 06:43 AM (MoZTd)

106 100 100

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 26, 2023 06:40 AM

After adjudication.

Posted by: Dominion Software at April 26, 2023 06:43 AM (enJYY)

107 They could have done a whole thing with it, and owned it. Dame Edna. RuPaul. Admiral Oatmeal Guy. Fuck it. Make it a whole campaign, you cowardly fucks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:44 AM (9UlRk)

108 87 Tucker? I just met her!
Posted by: 2 cute by 1/2 at April 26, 2023 06:30 AM (DhOHl)

Did you hear Tucker got fired? Again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:44 AM (/xaUq)

109 Morning peeps. A little tranny lite story; went into the local liquor store yesterday. While checking out asked how Bud Light sales were going. The clerk says they've not sold a single Bud Light, can, six-pack, 12-pack or case in several weeks.

Also, they haven't ordered any in the same time.

He said they usually order about once a week and go through about 20 cases in that time period.

Small town. 4k people. Imagine what it's been like elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2023 06:45 AM (Q4IgG)

110 Did you hear Tucker got fired? Again.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:44 AM (/xaUq)

Dude can live forever on unemployment checks alone now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:45 AM (9UlRk)

111 He said they usually order about once a week and go through about 20 cases in that time period.

Small town. 4k people. Imagine what it's been like elsewhere.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2023 06:45 AM (Q4IgG)

Dylan is going to have a lifetime supply to work through.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:46 AM (/xaUq)

112 Australian entertainer Barry Humphries, best known for his comic character Dame Edna Everage, has died aged 89 3 days ago.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 06:47 AM (7ou2c)

113 Dude can live forever on unemployment checks alone now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:45 AM (9UlRk)

Yeah. All of the severance packages are piling up in the corner over there.
-Tucker

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:47 AM (/xaUq)

114 41
Jean-Pierre: "[Republicans] are fighting to put fentanyl on the street by defunding border patrol... The only things House Republicans are committed to giving Americans are increased crime, lower economic growth, and more manufacturing jobs sent back to China."
Posted by: rhennigantx

She's perfect for her job. She'll read anything put in front of her. Any questions asked will be answered with lies on top of lies.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 06:47 AM (sAmhv)

115 Yeah. All of the severance packages are piling up in the corner over there.
-Tucker
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:47 AM (/xaUq)

Phrasing

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at April 26, 2023 06:48 AM (9UlRk)

116 There is absolutely no other beer that can substitute for Bud Light. There is nothing else like it.
/s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2023 06:48 AM (EZebt)

117 Seems like senior Pentagon officials are cheering the firing of Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2023 06:52 AM (L7gdA)

118 There is absolutely no other beer that can substitute for Bud Light. There is nothing else like it.
/s
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2023 06:48 AM (EZebt)

Miller Light tastes like beer.
Coors light tastes like nothing.
Bud light tastes like stale horse piss.

It is a rather unique product.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:52 AM (9UlRk)

119
I think in addition to the trannie blueshit a lot of people discovered Transheuser Busch is foreign owned.

So it's a twofer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 06:53 AM (enJYY)

120 It is a rather unique product.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 06:52 AM (9UlRk)

It has it's niche. It just decided to make that niche more cozy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:53 AM (/xaUq)

121 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Resting....

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2023 06:54 AM (T4tVD)

122 Good morning! Sipping coffee on the patio and listening to the rain compete with the fountain in the pond. Thunderous applause and lightning, too.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 26, 2023 06:54 AM (YRsIm)

123 I think in addition to the trannie blueshit a lot of people discovered Transheuser Busch is foreign owned.

So it's a twofer.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 06:53 AM (enJYY)

We need MORE American flags!
-AB

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2023 06:54 AM (/xaUq)

124 Seems like senior Pentagon officials are cheering the firing of Tucker Carlson. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Lots of moving parts here and I wouldn't be surprised if they all eventually trace back to Joe Biden and his run for the presidency.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 06:54 AM (7ou2c)

125 So, when is Birthing Person's Day next month?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 26, 2023 06:54 AM (5u1+1)

126 You would think that other companies would look at the bud light debacle and maybe hold off on killing their brands. The Dylan Mulvaney kerfluffle was started by his twitter post, not even a true ad campaign and that post launched a massive boycott. Will be interesting to see what happens with his true ad campaigns, I believe they are Nike and Maybelline.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 26, 2023 06:55 AM (2NHgQ)

127 > There is absolutely no other beer that can substitute for Bud Light. There is nothing else like it.
/s
Posted by: San Franpsycho
_____________

There are some people that are like that. My sister in law is one. She will only drink Bud Light. And only out of a bottle or glass. She's never heard of this bullshit with the tranny and doesn't care.

The hole-in-the-wall bar she frequents is probably the same. And I'll bet they're still selling about as much Bud Light as they were in March.

Demographics.... she doesn't surf the 'net, doesn't watch TV nor get newspapers. Blissfully unaware.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2023 06:55 AM (Q4IgG)

128 96 Tucker was fired over his views on the Ukraine war and being a clearinghouse for people with similar views like Col MacGregor and Glenn Greenwald

head/snake

we are headed into some pretty raw shit in Ukraine and our government wants a totally unified narative on Ukraine. Now they have it. It should not be lost on people that Kilmeade, a huge Ukraine war, and all wars for that matter, cheerleader replaced Tucker. Good trade, huh

and who likes war more than the munitions dealers

the media
Posted by: REDACTED

I saw a documentary once with Nic Cage: Lord of War. I recommend it. It's excellent and timely, still. Cage is actually a hell of an actor. The character he plays is based on the guy that got traded for the lesbian basketball player the Ruskies had locked up. Nice, huh.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 06:56 AM (sAmhv)

129 So, when is Birthing Person's Day next month?
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

I think so but I'm not sure. What I am sure of it's after lesbian visibility week which is right now. And what exactly is lesbian visibility week? Are you supposed to wear international orange construction vests if you're a lesbian this week? Or bicycle lights attached to the top of your head if you're lesbian this week?

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 06:57 AM (7ou2c)

130 I think the plan is for Joe to step down in late Jan 2026, so kammy can take over for 10 years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2023 06:58 AM (aX9WI)

131
The hole-in-the-wall bar she frequents is probably the same. And I'll bet they're still selling about as much Bud Light as they were in March.

Demographics.... she doesn't surf the 'net, doesn't watch TV nor get newspapers. Blissfully unaware.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2023 06:55 AM

I asked a beer distributor in a good neighborhood near me if he was selling any Bud Light and he said not something his customer base purchases.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 06:59 AM (enJYY)

132 @65

>>My old thinkpad is almost that old, has three corners of the case busted out, and more or less still does what i want. Silly things.

The oldest computer I have running is an SGI Octane that runs the house mail and webserver.

It's in the processes of being switched out for an HP EliteDesk Mini.

I was contemplating using an RPI to replace it but RPI's are prohibitively expensive right now due to the ongoing supply chain issues.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2023 06:59 AM (up/3i)

133 So at the end of the week, they promise to all go invisible again?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:00 AM (9UlRk)

134 I saw a documentary once with Nic Cage: Lord of War. I recommend it. It's excellent and timely, still. Cage is actually a hell of an actor. The character he plays is based on the guy that got traded for the lesbian basketball player the Ruskies had locked up. Nice, huh. Posted by: Puddleglum

Nicholas Cage over invested into real estate and then the market went south which left him 6 million in debt. Since then he's taking every single movie role. He possibly can pay off that debt which he recently has. So yeah, he's a hell of an actor, especially if you consider the blistering pace at which he works.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 07:00 AM (7ou2c)

135 Biden says he is n't through saving America's soul. You're saving its soul by sending to hell in a hand basket?!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2023 07:00 AM (Keyt1)

136 Apparently there is a possum trying to transit the backyard along the fence. The dogs see him and go berserk and he runs to the next tree to get off the fence before the dogs get there. I'm dreading the day they knock him off and just hope he lands in the neighbors yard.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 26, 2023 07:01 AM (YRsIm)

137 Hah. "Pay off your debt". What a tool. What is this, the twentieth century or something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:01 AM (9UlRk)

138 I saw a documentary once with Nic Cage: Lord of War. I recommend it. It's excellent and timely, still.

Oh, yeah. A real revelation, that one. Talk about ahead of its time.

Posted by: Smedley Butler at April 26, 2023 07:02 AM (G58JT)

139 Basically, Tucker was fired because he was offering heterodox counter narratives that stepped on too many toes to be allowed to continue and was becoming too hard to hand wave away with the slurs Putin Puppet or Racist/Transphobe.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2023 07:02 AM (up/3i)

140 "Oh, yeah. A real revelation, that one. Talk about ahead of its time."

Now do Idiocracy.

Another outstanding documentary.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2023 07:02 AM (L7gdA)

141 117 Seems like senior Pentagon officials are cheering the firing of Tucker Carlson.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Glad I work mids. Dayshift at the 5 sided nut house in Arlington was like living inside the Jonestown compound. The nightshift a fairly apolitical, which is nice change of pace.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 07:03 AM (sAmhv)

142 Nobody gets the Smedley Butler sock, do they ?

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 26, 2023 07:04 AM (G58JT)

143 142>> Ike certainly did

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 26, 2023 07:05 AM (YRsIm)

144
I've seen a number of movies with Nicholas Cage but the one that always makes me shudder is the opening scene of 'Leaving Las Vegas' where he goes shopping for booze and grabs a shopping cart and fills it to overflowing. Yikes!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 07:06 AM (enJYY)

145 "Glad I work mids. Dayshift at the 5 sided nut house in Arlington was like living inside the Jonestown compound."

Wanna do something really fun in your spare time?

Swing on over and sit a spell in any clinic waiting room at the America building at Walter Reed.

Spend about an hour watching the closed-circuit TV channel being shown there for the waiting patients to be entertained with.

You'll want to puke on your shoes by the end of the first 15 minutes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2023 07:06 AM (L7gdA)

146 Kevin Bacon says tranny strip shows are art and a great fun way to educate kids.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2023 07:09 AM (aX9WI)

147 133 So at the end of the week, they promise to all go invisible again?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:00 AM (9UlRk)

Hahahaha. Some presstitute should have asked that.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 07:11 AM (1rQ1e)

148 mornin yall. I went to buy beer and they were out of a lot of brands except AB products. Two six packs of Yungling were left at the grocery store so I got one of those, but I don't like it as much as my regular cheap beer, Icehouse. There was none of that to be found in the 3 places I went.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2023 07:13 AM (iayUP)

149 I didn't realize a kid had to see a hairy nutsack to learn about the Louisiana Purchase and alternate interior angles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:13 AM (9UlRk)

150 Kevin 🥓 can go stuff himself.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2023 07:14 AM (iayUP)

151
So at the end of the week, they promise to all go invisible again?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:00 AM (9UlRk)

It'll be like how "the love that dare not speak its name" became "the love that won't shut up".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2023 07:14 AM (MoZTd)

152 No wonder test scores have been declining.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:15 AM (9UlRk)

153 Good morning! Happy hump day!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 26, 2023 07:16 AM (wagHN)

154 There is a contingent of Space Force peeps based at White sands here in New Mexico. They never discuss what they're doing out there, but if they're like everybody else, they spend their days trying to shoot rockets down with lasers. And I wanted to be a computer person. Damn I screwed up.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 07:16 AM (7ou2c)

155
No wonder test scores have been declining.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:15 AM (9UlRk)

Math and Reading, sure, but Accessorizing has rocketed upwards.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2023 07:16 AM (MoZTd)

156 146 Kevin Bacon says tranny strip shows are art and a great fun way to educate kids.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 07:17 AM (sAmhv)

157 I asked the Gas Station Lady at my local convenience store if they'd seen a drop in Bud Light sales. She kind of dodged the inquiry then told me she thought the 'boycott (is it?) is 'petty and immature'.
This in a small city in WI.
I'm at a total loss as to what to do about people, especially women, like this. Blue collar, 40-ish, etc. Total loss. No idea.
Meanwhile their Bud stock sits in the cooler.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 26, 2023 07:17 AM (43xH1)

158 And here was me stupidly putting an ell in "Public" school.

No wonder i got confused.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:17 AM (9UlRk)

159 at the BEE

Female Crash Test Dummy Says She Doesn't Know How Car Got Totaled

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 07:17 AM (BRHaw)

160
"the love that won't shut up"

Wear the ribbon, damnit!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 07:19 AM (enJYY)

161 Who will be the first to say "most Hollywood folks don't really believe this stuff - they're just worried about their jobs " ? I can tell you who gets tired first of listening to people make excuses for their enemies. Me. I was tired of it twenty years ago.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 26, 2023 07:19 AM (G58JT)

162
Victoria Nuland has the "reverse Midas's touch". Anything she touches turned to dust.
A couple of weeks ago they're talking about "democratic transition" in #Sudan, and today the place is on fire.

Dems do love them some war

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 07:21 AM (BRHaw)

163 [Bud Light not selling] in a small city in WI. Posted by: LenNeal

One word: Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 07:22 AM (7ou2c)

164 https://youtu.be/0AQtd5LFa38

Try to have a nice day, yinz! How about a little Van Morrison. Later!

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2023 07:22 AM (sAmhv)

165 144
I've seen a number of movies with Nicholas Cage but the one that always makes me shudder is the opening scene of 'Leaving Las Vegas' where he goes shopping for booze and grabs a shopping cart and fills it to overflowing. Yikes!
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 07:06 AM (enJYY)

I just watched a trailer at IMDB. Looks great.
https://tinyurl.com/yckdamzm

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 07:23 AM (1rQ1e)

166
I asked the Gas Station Lady at my local convenience store if they'd seen a drop in Bud Light sales. She kind of dodged the inquiry then told me she thought the 'boycott (is it?) is 'petty and immature'.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 26, 2023 07:17 AM

Did 'she' have a five o'clock shadow?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 07:23 AM (enJYY)

167 Australian entertainer Barry Humphries, best known for his comic character Dame Edna Everage, has died aged 89 3 days ago.

--

The only time I ever saw him was on, I think, an episode of AbFab. It took me a while to figure out if he was really a she or a he! He was very funny.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2023 07:24 AM (sVtYq)

168 Good morning, early risers!

Posted by: Doof at April 26, 2023 07:24 AM (LLddH)

169 I've seen a number of movies with Nicholas Cage but the one that always makes me shudder is the opening scene of 'Leaving Las Vegas' where he goes shopping for booze and grabs a shopping cart and fills it to overflowing. Yikes!
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 07:06 AM (enJYY)

I just watched a trailer at IMDB. Looks great.
https://tinyurl.com/yckdamzm

I saw it in theater and I still watch it from time to time. I find it to be Nick cage's 2nd best work. That movie where he rides a motorcycle and has a flaming skull is by far his best work.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 07:26 AM (7ou2c)

170 She kind of dodged the inquiry then told me she thought the 'boycott (is it?) is 'petty and immature'.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 26, 2023 07:17 AM (43xH1)

Is not that the point. I think she probably realizes for the first time in her life that a conservatives blocks can change the system.

Counter to the idea only progressive can make changes.

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

171
The only time I ever saw him was on, I think, an episode of AbFab. It took me a while to figure out if he was really a she or a he! He was very funny.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2023 07:24 AM (sVtYq)

Not so funny now that we have to pledge allegiance to the Trannies of America.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2023 07:27 AM (MoZTd)

172 In my experience and observation most 40-ish Gas Station Ladies are too ugly to pass as men.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 26, 2023 07:27 AM (43xH1)

173
Good morning, early risers!
Posted by: Doof at April 26, 2023 07:24 AM (LLddH)

Got up at 5:00 this morning, but I've noticed a disturbing trend to waking up near 6:00. Makes me feel like I'm wasting the day away.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2023 07:28 AM (MoZTd)

174 I'm at a total loss as to what to do about people, especially women, like this. Blue collar, 40-ish, etc. Total loss. No idea.

Nothing you can do except waste your time. She has made her decision and will not change it come Hell or high water. No different than those who proudly state they will simply not set their hair on fire, no matter what. Or those who publicly state, proudly, that they still believe in the country and always will no matter what.

Those people have chosen to blindly exist today and ignore tomorrow, in favor of what they remember about yesterday. They'll be herded into a smaller and smaller corner, one they increasingly can't break free from, all while spouting platitudes that don't match reality.

Which is fine - as along as you ignore them and write them off: Because they'll certainly try their best to convince you to join their illusion - because your participation helps their denial. They need you. You don't need them.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 26, 2023 07:29 AM (G58JT)

175 I am at core a liberal. I believe no person is a law unto themselves, there are no kings or lords or dictators who can rightly hold power, that every law applies to every citizen, that harassment and assault are illegal no matter who it is directed at, and that a citizen is a citizen no matter what they may believe or think. I believe that no one has the right to subjugate others in order to "fix things".

Everything about the collectivist sociopathic cult controlling the state and the culture is illiberal. This never-terminating program of "yeah but" to justify any atrocity or absurdity is not progressive or liberal or productive at all. It's just a farce designed to concentrate power and eliminate liberty and justice under the guise of liberty and justice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:30 AM (9UlRk)

176 The Russian Bounties Hoax.

https://tinyurl.com/3c59p42n

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2023 07:30 AM (BRHaw)

177 Good morning! Happy hump day!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer

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START HUMPING !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2023 07:33 AM (T4tVD)

178 Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:30 AM (9UlRk)

Trust me - the current UniParty regime absolutely believes that every law applies to you and me. Including several not yet written.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at April 26, 2023 07:33 AM (G58JT)

179 Got up at 5:00 this morning, but I've noticed a disturbing trend to waking up near 6:00. Makes me feel like I'm wasting the day away.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2023 07:28 AM (MoZTd)

You're not really 29, are you??

Posted by: Doof at April 26, 2023 07:34 AM (LLddH)

180 I am at core a liberal. Posted by: Warai-otoko

What you said strikes me as the classical definition of what it means to be a liberal. That I find perfectly reasonable and was the primary purpose of a university education. Well, that
and drinking beer, getting laid and stuff like that.

The world liberal today has been perverted into essentially meaning Marxism.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 07:35 AM (7ou2c)

181 The stone apathy and ignorance of blue collar people often astounds me still. I spent years working in these environments and in factories and the sheer lack of interest or curiosity about anything not directly involving them or their immediate existence is jaw dropping.
I had a coworker reveal 2 days ago he did not know the order of the months in a year.
Male, mid-20s.
Mind blowing.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 26, 2023 07:35 AM (43xH1)

182 I've been using ChatGPT more. Although it is woke, it will at least reason with you, and acknowledges when it it caught in a logical error. A human lefty will simply ignore you or REEEEEE you. ChatGPT is willing to engage.

And it works well for non-political queries, and STEM topics. I am beginning to think it is true that people need to learn how to use these things, lest they be left far behind, and at the mercy of those who do know how to use them.

Posted by: gp Rented A Tent at April 26, 2023 07:36 AM (MvF+J)

183 Leaving Las Vegas has one scene of Elizabeth Shue pouring scotch all over her breasties in an effort to entice the alchy Cage. As an Elizabeth Shue afficianado I was willing to watch the movie to get to that scene, but it was difficult.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2023 07:36 AM (lH5hK)

184 The left is not liberal. They are tyrants.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2023 07:36 AM (iayUP)

185 I am watching the Live Now Fox channel and it's production values are a cut above the public access channels from the early cable days or in modern terms when Steve Bannon shows up on set over at Real America's Voice.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 07:38 AM (7ou2c)

186 183 Also, Elizabeth Shue's husband is a lucky man being married to Elizabeth Shue's legs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2023 07:38 AM (lz5hY)

187 NOOD J.J. Sefton with the morning report

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 26, 2023 07:39 AM (nRMeC)

188
I had a coworker reveal 2 days ago he did not know the order of the months in a year.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 26, 2023 07:35 AM

Not a product of a Catholic school education, obviously. I remember getting in a small debate with my wife, Catholic school educated, over the sequence of the planets, particularly Mars. She instantly rattled off some planetary mnemonic that had me shaking my head in wonder.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 07:41 AM (enJYY)

189 The world liberal today has been perverted into essentially meaning Marxism.
Posted by: Lost In Space at April 26, 2023 07:35 AM (7ou2c)

I have been recoiling against the phrase "classical liberal".... Liberal is Liberal, it needs no adjective. And the played out dimwitted barbarism strutting around giving orders and spreading lies is not liberal, no matter what adjectives you try to attach to it.

It sounds trivial and petty, but i think language matters. It's why the masses support atrocities and absurdities... they know at some Jungian level that liberal is good, but they're told that what is illiberal is liberal, so they support it reflexively just to be The Good Guy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2023 07:42 AM (9UlRk)

190 181 The stone apathy and ignorance of blue collar people often astounds me still. I spent years working in these environments and in factories and the sheer lack of interest or curiosity about anything not directly involving them or their immediate existence is jaw dropping.
I had a coworker reveal 2 days ago he did not know the order of the months in a year.
Male, mid-20s.
Mind blowing.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 26, 2023 07:35 AM (43xH1)

Did he have a learning disability? I wouldn't chalk that up to apathy, ignorance, or being blue-collar.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 07:45 AM (1rQ1e)

191
Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Needs, Perhaps

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

Catholic school version:

My very excellent mother just served us nine pies

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2023 07:51 AM (enJYY)

192 Google said its cloud group has turned profitable on an operating basis after showing losses for more than three years.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2023 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

193 A laptop version of the rtx4090 is a desktop rtx3060, lol. Laptops still aren't ready for prime time.

Posted by: Fisht at April 26, 2023 10:26 AM (ZRarh)

194 MySQL was always kind of a toy database until InnoDB, but it was free. Like the Linux kernel, "free" trumps "terrible design". It got popular because it was just good enough to backend most web apps during the Web 1.0 explosion. PostgreSQL has always been a solid enterprise database and if you don't care about support you can run your business on it for free just like MS-SQL. Only thing is it's niche-y; it's a powerful tool that hardly anyone actually uses, so it's hard to find jobs or engineers for it.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at April 26, 2023 10:47 AM (KTmDq)

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