Daily Tech News 26 May 2023

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An idea so bad even the crazies at Ars Technica are calling it out: Google Search has started rolling out "ChatGPT-style" generative AI results. (Ars Technica)

The only thing we want from a search engine is to report accurately on what has been said on the web relating to our search term.

The most notable thing about ChatGPT and its relatives is that it will simply make shit up, including quotes that were never said and scientific papers that were never published.

This is going to be a disaster.

It's opt-in for now.

For now.
JPMorgan says hold my Bud Light as plans leak for a ChatGPT-based investment advice service. (CNBC)

To be fair, the company hasn't officially announced anything; this could just be a case of staking a claim on a trademark to make sure nobody else nabs it.

To continue being fair, on the scale of dumb ideas this is a polar ice cap to Google's iceberg.

Either one entirely capable of sinking the Titanic, mind you.

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Acer's new Swift Edge 16 is a laptop. (Liliputing)

It has the latest Ryzen 7840U - the lower-power variant of the 7840HS - with 8 Zen 4 CPU cores and 12 RDNA3 GPU cores.

The screen is a 16" 120Hz 3200x2000 OLED model covering 100% of DCI-P3 colour and reaching 400 nits brightness, all of which sounds good. It has two USB 4 ports, two USB 3 ports, HDMI, microSD, and a headphone jack, plus a 1440p webcam (commonly these are 1080p or even just 720p) and the latest WiFi 7.

The Four Essential Keys are present in the form of a three-column numeric keypad, which is not perfect but something I can live with. Price starts at $1299 with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD, and there's a second M.2 slot for expansion.

Memory is soldered (LPDDR4 according to the article, which I suspect is wrong), but at least there's a 32GB model on the way though pricing for that is not mentioned.

The other point of note is that it weighs 1.23kg, which is actually lighter than my current 14" laptop. Could be worth checking out. There are plenty of more powerful 16" laptops with better keyboard layouts, but they are also anything between 50% and 100% heavier than this one.
Western Digital's 2TB SN850X is available for $135. (Tom's Hardware)

This is a good drive. It's TLC, has a DRAM cache, and supports PCIe 4 with a top transfer rate over 7GB per second. It's a little more expensive than other models in the current market, but even so costs less than the cheapest, nastiest 2TB drives from just one year ago.
Final Cut Pro is here for the iPad. It sucks. (9to5Mac)

Not because Final Cut Pro is bad. Not because the iPad hardware isn't capable of running it. But because Apple has deliberately crippled iOS to such a degree that it is useless for any remotely serious task.

For example, if you edit your video in Final Cut Pro, start exporting the final compressed version, and then switch over to play some Flappy Bird while that runs, your export will simply die, because iOS won't do that.

Can. iOS is Unix. Just won't.

Disclaimer: Can Do, Won't WBAGNFARB.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 04:01 AM (xhxe8)

2 G'day Skip
TGFO

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 26, 2023 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'day to Skip and Pixy

I like you, would you like to talk?

Posted by: MiklosGPTbot at May 26, 2023 04:09 AM (iAPSy)

4 Evening, Pixy! And morning to Skip and all the other satellites in space!

I'm afraid to ask but will anyway. What does "WBAGNFARB" stand for? Is it like "NTTAWWT" or "FIAWOL" ("Fandom Is a Way of Life")?

The other acronym I used to see when I went to SF conventions was ""FIJAGH," "Fandom Is Just a Goddamn Hobby."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 04:11 AM (omVj0)

5 My boss wants me to write a report for the board meeting in the fall about some unsubmitted financial reports. There was nothing dishonest about the fact they weren't submitted, just that the staffer wasn't doing her job (and has now moved to a new position anyway). And we didn't go over budget. Still, he wants it documented.

I'm tempted to see if ChatGPT could compose the essential report that I'm supposed to write. Once it's composed, can you edit it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 04:14 AM (omVj0)

6
One of my other cousins got to playing with Chat GPT and gave me a report a couple days ago. This ain't the re-tard meteorologist cousin, but another one, on my my mother's side.

He almost got a Ph.D in mathematics. This sort of runs in the family. We've got a streak that gets interested in all this high-powered book-learnin' and shit, but there's another part that just ain't cut out for that life. He's one.

Anyway, playing with Chat GPT, he got into some arcane mathematical topics, some very tricky stuff in Group Theory. He asked Chat GPT a question, of which he knew the answer. Chat GPT gave him the the wrong answer.

He corrected it. Thereafter, Chat GPT then repeated his correction, as though it knew it all along.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at May 26, 2023 04:22 AM (Mzdiz)

7 Wolfus,

WBAGNFARB = Would Be A Good Name For A Rock Band.

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 04:23 AM (emlEe)

8 Do you have to pay or subscribe to use ChatGPT?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 04:24 AM (omVj0)

9 The most notable thing about ChatGPT and its relatives is that it will simply make shit up, including quotes that were never said and scientific papers that were never published.

This is going to be a disaster.

It's opt-in for now.

For now.

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The Brave browser, whose Search engine gives such piss-poor results in general (forcing me when at wit's end to use the evil Google Search which usually still finds what I'm looking for immediately), is already doing this -- no Opt In or Out that I'm aware of.

The top result is a "Summarizer" (called Brave AI) and half the time the answers are incorrect and/or nonsense. Ugh ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 26, 2023 04:27 AM (sJSOG)

10
My cousin said he "downloaded" some version of Chat GPT for free.

Prime numbers was the first thing he asked it about. He asked it, "Are the infinitely many prime numbers?" Chat GPT said, "There may be". As Cuz pointed out, the ancient Greeks figured out there were an infinite number of primes. He then tried to pin it down, "Are there or are there not, an infinite number of primes?"

Chat GPT then said, "Yes" and gave him a proof, or a reference to it, that was correct. So, first it was "may be", then "definitely yes, here's the proof".

Then he got into some Group Theory stuff, were Chat GPT stated something false, which he then corrected.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at May 26, 2023 04:29 AM (Mzdiz)

11 The most notable thing about ChatGPT and its relatives is that it will simply make shit up,

So ChatGPT is financed by The Corporate Media, huh?

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 04:29 AM (emlEe)

12 Got a 1976 Barnaby Jones on MeTV right now with a young Gerald McRaney, James Woods, and Loni Anderson -- a year or two before she started on [WKRP.

Daniel J. Travanti, later of Hill Street Blues, is there too. He'd been in the business at least a decade by then; he was on a 1965 Man From U.N.C.L.E..

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 04:32 AM (omVj0)

13 7 WBAGNFARB = Would Be A Good Name For A Rock Band.
Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 04:23 AM (emlEe)

!

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 04:33 AM (LodBx)

14 My boss wants me to write a report for the board meeting in the fall about some unsubmitted financial reports.

His son's kitchen was installed by "Chocolate City" mayor Ray Nagin's son.

Your boss should should look for a jurisdiction without Extradition.

Congratulations, New Boss

Posted by: Miklos, who learned Kremlin Watcing at Tulane at May 26, 2023 04:38 AM (iAPSy)

15 G'day Skip
TGFO

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 26, 2023 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

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IIRC, there was a Peanuts strip where Charlie Brown is lamenting that today may be the end of the world. Linus replies:

"The world can't end today, Charlie Brown, because it's already tomorrow in Australia."

Posted by: ShainS at May 26, 2023 04:40 AM (sJSOG)

16 FUN FACT

All the good and hard working Macedonians, are now retired according to Macedonian Law.

Their English was pretty good, too.

AI is doing the jobs Macedonian simple farmers just can't do.

Posted by: Miklos, wondering where raimondo went at May 26, 2023 04:42 AM (iAPSy)

17 His son's kitchen was installed by "Chocolate City" mayor Ray Nagin's son.

Your boss should should look for a jurisdiction without Extradition.

Congratulations, New Boss
Posted by: Miklos, who learned Kremlin Watcing at Tulane at May 26, 2023

***
He moved here from Oklahoma City (which he thought didn't have enough "die-versity"). I suspect he doesn't like living here and is marking time until he can move on. (Which I understand.)

These reports were to clear corporate credit card transactions. All legitimate. But the staffer, whom I've known for years, just . . . didn't finish and submit these things to clear the charges. Totaled about $45K over five years. Despite having a Ph.D. in history, she is mildly dyslexic and ADHD-ish, so that was part of it, and she was never very organized either. (I kept telling her to create bookmarks in her browser for sites she frequently consulted, but she insisted on going to Gorgle to search for the same sites every time.) Now I, and her successor, have to document all this stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 04:47 AM (omVj0)

18 Totaled about $45K over five years. Despite having a Ph.D. in history, she is mildly dyslexic and ADHD-ish,

For 45k I can solve this problem.

Posted by: Mkilos, Lisdexic, and otherwise as isdabled as needed (can also identify as Miguelita Miklosina, if at May 26, 2023 04:51 AM (iAPSy)

19 JPMorgan says hold my Bud Light as plans leak for a ChatGPT-based investment advice service. (CNBC)

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Jim Cramer hardest hit.

O/T -- ZeroHedge Headline: "German Man Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Pro-Russian Rhetoric, Symbols."

Coming #Soon to a country near you ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 26, 2023 04:51 AM (sJSOG)

20 "The world can't end today, Charlie Brown, because it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Posted by: ShainS

Or yesterday?

Posted by: Mkilos, mates at May 26, 2023 04:54 AM (iAPSy)

21 >>> Do you have to pay or subscribe to use ChatGPT?

Have never used it, but from what I gather, there are free versions which are slow and not as up-to-date as the latest versions. It looks like one can subscribe for a monthly fee or "pay as you go."

>>> Once it's composed, can you edit it?

I assume you can copy the output and then paste/edit into a word processing program -- but will have to defer to others who've actually used it.

Posted by: ShainS at May 26, 2023 04:59 AM (sJSOG)

22 Or yesterday?

Posted by: Mkilos, mates at May 26, 2023 04:54 AM (iAPSy)

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Good point; by Linus' logic, the converse would also be true.

"It's always "Happy Hour" somewhere on the planet ..."

Posted by: ShainS at May 26, 2023 05:00 AM (sJSOG)

23 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 26, 2023 05:02 AM (ju2Fy)

24 Pixy could post today's lottery numbers as it's already known in Australia

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 05:03 AM (xhxe8)

25 "It's always "Happy Hour" somewhere on the planet ..."
Posted by: ShainS

But de Likka Sto don't open till 9

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36cxpf

Posted by: Mkilos knows it from Sticks McGee, but like Jerry Lee at May 26, 2023 05:04 AM (iAPSy)

26 I saw Linus' Logic open for Hypothesis at Musta Kissa in Helsinki around 2012.

Posted by: ShainS at May 26, 2023 05:05 AM (sJSOG)

27 Let me remind everyone: this is not AI. This is a complex form of question form autocomplete- all of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:22 AM (zZu0s)

28 Nice and clear out, 50s

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 05:27 AM (xhxe8)

29 28 Nice and clear out, 50s
Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 05:27 AM (xhxe

50 when I let ajax out. Chilly, but not windy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:29 AM (zZu0s)

30 Had a conversation with The Kid yesterday where she fulminated about calling this Hot New Thing 'AI' and ranted it's nothing of the sort, and that it lies all the time.

Now I'm trying to get some blocking done, and while trying to play the OST of 'Zardoz' on YT (Castle If is an interesting band), instead accidentally played a completely different album entititled 'Zardoz' by a band called 'Brundle Haze' which is actually pretty good, old-fashioned heavy fuzz rock. They mixed for, and released it on, cassette tape!

Posted by: LenNeal at May 26, 2023 05:37 AM (43xH1)

31 It's not 'lying' it is doing exactly what it has been programmed to do: shit out form answers to common questions with leftist dogma and theology.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:38 AM (zZu0s)

32 Remember the movie 'Sneakers'? Robert Redford. Dan Ackroyd. Ben Kingsley. Mary McDonnell. River Phoenix. Even a bit part by James Earl Jones.

I remember there is an exchange between Redford and Kingsley that taught me a lot about the leftist mindset. They are discussing what has happened in the 20 odd years since they had last seen each other. Kingsley makes the remark that people do not operate on reality, they operate based on their perception of reality.

THIS is primary in their worldview, but they get it wrong. It IS true that people operate based on their perception of reality- but that does not CHANGE reality. They believe that perception can be MADE to be the reality.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:42 AM (zZu0s)

33 It's the hallmark of censorship.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:43 AM (zZu0s)

34 And 'narrative' control. If you eliminate the ability of opposing views to express themselves, then those views do not exist, in their thinking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:43 AM (zZu0s)

35 The Left is in the mode of trying to control what people can say because they want to warp reality to only be seen from their viewpoint. However, reality is what it is, regardless of what they say. So when they realize they cannot keep reality from intruding, and controlling the people who point out reality, they will start eliminating people who point out reality as the only way to maintain control.

It is a pattern that keeps repeating and why they are a deadly threat NOW.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:45 AM (zZu0s)

36 Has anybody asked AI to locate the instructions and technology that NASA lost so we can "go back to the moon"? 🤨

Posted by: Eagle Lips at May 26, 2023 05:46 AM (w8feh)

37 God's love. A reflection from a seminary student from Zambia on a passage from Romans 8 and dealing with suffering:

https://tinyurl.com/4cnwk9ub

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 05:46 AM (LTpwC)

38
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 26, 2023 05:47 AM (ENBF0)

39 Or in 40s

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 05:50 AM (v7VqK)

40 A blessed Shavuot to our Jewish posters!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 05:52 AM (LTpwC)

41 FIAWOL? I'm FAFIAted.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at May 26, 2023 05:53 AM (iZEhM)

42 yo wut sup

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

43 It IS true that people operate based on their perception of reality- but that does not CHANGE reality. They believe that perception can be MADE to be the reality.
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It's the hallmark of censorship.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 05:43 AM (zZu0s)

It's hubris that they think they can control human nature. Censorship is just one of the arrows in their quiver used to 'change' human behavior, also called 'gaslighting'.

The Butt Light 'boycott' does not compute with them. It's not an organized boycott but rather an organic one that just happened. The left does nothing organically, it's all gamed and plotted out but called 'organic' to gaslight us into thinking they are a majority and their opinion is the way things should be. DE&I is a great example. Target is so proud of it they are hiding its advertising/merchandise because no one but a tiny few want that shit.

We really do have the power, we either don't realize we have it or haven't exercised it yet. But the Butt Light fiasco is a damn good start in recognizing that power. Stomping a pride placard in a Target store, while illegal, is also a good beginning. "Enough of this shit!"

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 05:56 AM (emlEe)

44 Aetius451AD, I remember "Sneakers". Loved it when I first watched it because I knew every one of the characters, but it didn't hold up to re-watching.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at May 26, 2023 05:59 AM (iZEhM)

45 Anyone taking investment advise from a fking AI deserves, and I hope it happens, to lose every bit of their investment.

Posted by: Bernie at May 26, 2023 06:03 AM (hGlnS)

46 Sunrise in Shenandoah:

tinyurl.com/bddxt7fb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:04 AM (LTpwC)

47 I have been playing podcasts on the podcast app for years. I have auto updates disabled. Suddenly, after 3 years of running the same ios and same podcasts, whatever I am listening to restarts at the beginning at random. The answer "Oh, i guess you have to update to the latest ios"
I am convinced they build in nudges to force you to update after a set period.
They nudged me into a new podcast app.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:04 AM (slgIg)

48 Today's corny joke:

What do you call fake spaghetti?

An impasta!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:07 AM (LTpwC)

49 Maybe AI Congress would be better?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:10 AM (slgIg)

50 Good morning morons

The shrieking on A.I. reminds me of the shrieking about Y2K.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:13 AM (dS722)

51 Maybe AI Congress would be better?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:10 AM (slgIg)

We already have AI Congress. We have AOC. The difference between Donkey Chompers and AI is that Sugar Tits never learns.

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:13 AM (emlEe)

52 Corny tech related joke:

Why are spiders great web developers?

They like finding bugs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:14 AM (LTpwC)

53 Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 05:56 AM (emlEe)

Thanks for the encouraging post, RickZ!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:16 AM (LTpwC)

54 A blessed Shavuot to our Jewish posters!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 05:52 AM (LTpwC)
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Thank you dear lady. Last night we enjoyed a dramatic reading of the Book of Ruth that was quite moving.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:16 AM (dS722)

55 The shrieking on A.I. reminds me of the shrieking about Y2K.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:13 AM (dS722)

Honestly? I think this is a little different. Y2K was an unknown that at least was recognized as an unknown and attempts were made to prepare. But this AI is one step closer to never being able to tell 'Is it live or is it Memorex?' Without proper guidance/training (yeah, like that'll ever happen), everything will be whatever you create it to be, including history, current events, anything. There will no longer be reality as we currently know it. It will be a multi-verse catastrophe.

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:19 AM (emlEe)

56 Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:16 AM (dS722)

That is a wonderful story. I mentioned it on Mother's Day. Our organist adores her daughter-in-law and the DIL feels the same about Jessie, her MIL, I don't hear those kinds of stories all that often.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:22 AM (LTpwC)

57 "Wherever you go, I too shall go. Where you lodge, I will also lodge."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:24 AM (dS722)

58 There will no longer be reality as we currently know it. It will be a multi-verse catastrophe.
Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:19 AM (emlEe)

That's already a problem

It's just always been human liars instead of silicon based liars.

"What is true" is a problem that's probably older than language itself.

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

59 57 "Wherever you go, I too shall go. Where you lodge, I will also lodge."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:24 AM (dS722)

We'll leave the light on for ya.

Posted by: Tom Bodette at May 26, 2023 06:28 AM (zZu0s)

60 Beuadette?

Beaudete?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 06:28 AM (zZu0s)

61 Tom Bodett, per an internet search. Thomas Edward.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 06:29 AM (zZu0s)

62 CBP
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NOTICE: Claims that migrants will be provided free travel and transportation to their destination are false. The U.S. government does not provide help or financial support for noncitizens.

BillMelugin_
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This is blatantly false.

The U.S. government indirectly provides financial support for migrants by giving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to NGOs via FEMA’s Emergency Food & Shelter Program. The NGOs then assist migrants w/ transportation around U.S & other services.

BILLIONS AND BILLIONS

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 06:29 AM (BRHaw)

63 Anyone taking investment advise from a fking AI deserves, and I hope it happens, to lose every bit of their investment.
Posted by: Bernie at May 26, 2023 06:03 AM (hGlnS)

Surely there's no way the AI advising me and the AI advising you would be the same AI and acting in concert to drain our accounts into a third AI's account (that's also the same AI) by chicanery and dubious positions.... that's unpossible.

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

64 Thanks for the encouraging post, RickZ!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:16 AM (LTpwC)

Well, she is 'my' Rep, so I have to give her a plug once in a while. I just wish she understood the word 'plug' has a few meanings and my use is not the one of which she would approve.

I truly thought AOC would be a flash in the pan, one and done. But no, she has managed to stay in power. Fascinating in a very bad way. A complete and total moron ran for Congress, beat a heavily favored incumbent in the primary and won. Now we have a dementia-addled president and a mentally challenged senator who is newly elected while mentally challenged and didn't get that way after years in the Senate. Our failing and corrupt Republic needs a Cincinnatus if we are to last beyond the upcoming Russia and/or China War(s). Trump could have been our Cincinnatus but ultimately was stymied and checkmated.

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:33 AM (emlEe)

65 There a certain poetic awfulness to the idea that human beings have finally taught inanimate nature how to lie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 06:33 AM (9UlRk)

66 I have a question for you, SanFranPsycho-

I tried to look this up on the internet but couldn't find info. I thought you might know. My son's doctor is an Orthodox Jew is his late 70's. I asked him once why he wasn't retired and he said, "I have to pay back my student loans." Apparently he was a lawyer before he decided the law wasn't for him and he went back to medical school! Anyway, he wears silvery attached slender rings over all of his fingers. I wasn't sure if this was a religious item or a medical one, but I didn't have the chance to ask him.

He's a nice guy with a dry sense of humor and is about to go to Israel for a month where at least one of his daughters lives. He asked me what I did once and he now calls me "Reverend " which nobody calls me which makes me smile.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:34 AM (LTpwC)

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

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at May 26, 2023 06:34 AM (yEBFM)

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

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn

WooHoo!! A twirl and a long weekend too!

Posted by: Bruce at May 26, 2023 06:37 AM (vd8XM)

69 Dylan Mulvaney is a $15 billion tranny.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:37 AM (dS722)

70 Trump could have been our Cincinnatus but ultimately was stymied and checkmated.
Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:33 AM (emlEe)

The grand irony is that all the bullshit we suffer under was the precise reason the office of Dictator existed in the first place.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 06:38 AM (9UlRk)

71 Good morning! Stars won, twirling has commenced...gonna be a good day!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 26, 2023 06:38 AM (YRsIm)

72 Anyway, he wears silvery attached slender rings over all of his fingers. I wasn't sure if this was a religious item or a medical one, but I didn't have the chance to ask him.
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Never seen that before, sounds like a personal adornment not a religious one.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:39 AM (dS722)

73 Dylan Mulvaney is a $15 billion tranny.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:37 AM (dS722)

Bionic dildo?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 06:39 AM (9UlRk)

74 Invest in precious metals, gold, silver, brass, lead.

Posted by: Eromero at May 26, 2023 06:40 AM (/knpl)

75 Pray for Donald Trump, if you are a pray-er and already doing so. The left wants him in jail and silenced,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:40 AM (LTpwC)

76 Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:39 AM (dS722)

Thanks. I'll ask him,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:41 AM (LTpwC)

77 "What is true" is a problem that's probably older than language itself.

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

Yes, I'm sure every culture in decline has had that problem. Something specific, though tiny and unnoticed, is usually the culprit, something that destroys cultural cohesiveness without seeming to do anything at all.

Our current problem is the woke communism control bullshit. It is so much easier to destroy than to build and we are currently living in an age of destruction, where even our literal history is being destroyed to make it less offensive to snowflakes everywhere. Our culture of trust has quickly morphed into a culture of lies -- and that's never good.

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:42 AM (emlEe)

78 75- Meant "aren't already doing so."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 06:42 AM (LTpwC)

79 The grand irony is that all the bullshit we suffer under was the precise reason the office of Dictator existed in the first place.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 06:38 AM (9UlRk)

Well... sort of. The dual Consulship was a way to divide power. Two guys with absolute power to check each other and with a single year term.

The dictator was a 6 month appointment. It was extraordinary because Consuls could be litigated against AFTER their term of office was over. Dictators were not supposed to be accountable to anyone, ever. That is why it was an extraordinary position.

The problem is, that amount of power is not safe in anyone's hands, long term. The state should not have the power of life and death invested in any of it's functionaries.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 06:42 AM (zZu0s)

80 @45

>>Anyone taking investment advise from a fking AI deserves, and I hope it happens, to lose every bit of their investment.

Unless the AI has access to congressional machinations, they will be as successful at picking stocks as Jim Cramer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 26, 2023 06:43 AM (up/3i)

81 AOC thrives because the left needs extreme batshit crazy people to make their baseline batshit crazy seem normal.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:43 AM (slgIg)

82 @75

>>Pray for Donald Trump, if you are a pray-er and already doing so. The left wants him in jail and silenced,

Trump is the hunted, he will more than likely be imprisoned at some point, he has tasked them, they shall never give him up.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 26, 2023 06:45 AM (up/3i)

83 Will Ace replace the COBs with AI? It would save on the dental plan.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:46 AM (slgIg)

84 Targhey Stock
5 Day
-8.71%
1 Month
-11.00%
3 Month
-14.95%

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 06:47 AM (BRHaw)

85 AOC thrives because the left needs extreme batshit crazy people to make their baseline batshit crazy seem normal.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:43 AM (slgIg)

Moving that Overton Window ever left.

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:47 AM (emlEe)

86 Don’t understand why conservatives are so enthralled with school vouchers. Vouchers will inevitably lead to legions of purple haired, nose-ringed, he/she/it homos telling your Christian school what it can and cannot do.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 26, 2023 06:48 AM (9X60i)

87 Moving that Overton Window ever left.
Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:47 AM (emlEe)

It's almost as if we have two Overton Windows now with no intersection between the two, isn't it.... probably not a good thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 06:48 AM (9UlRk)

88 inevitably lead to legions of purple haired, nose-ringed, he/she/it homos telling your Christian school what it can and cannot do.

Explain please

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:49 AM (slgIg)

89 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 26, 2023 06:50 AM (T4tVD)

90
I wonder if it's legal in PA to have a recall election for a Senator?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 26, 2023 06:51 AM (enJYY)

91 I wonder if it's legal in PA to have a recall election for a Senator?
Posted by: Divide by Ze

I don't recall.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:52 AM (slgIg)

92 I wonder if it's legal in PA to have a recall election for a Senator?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 26, 2023 06:51 AM (enJYY)

I feel like it's happened before... like in the 80's or 90's... maybe I'm wrong

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

93 Honestly PA deserves every inch of Fetterman's 6'8 frame shoved sideways where the sun don't shine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:53 AM (slgIg)

94 Our culture of trust has quickly morphed into a culture of lies -- and that's never good.
Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 06:42 AM (emlEe)

I was watching some outtakes from a seminar where speakers admit many of the things they do are illegal to harass people they call white nationalist. These are everyday people that they decide to target going after them on a personal level such as employers, landlords, and banks. This is coordinated with DHS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 06:53 AM (BRHaw)

95 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 26, 2023 06:54 AM (pVWRI)

96 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 26, 2023 06:54 AM (DhOHl)

97 >>Pray for Donald Trump, if you are a pray-er and already doing so. The left wants him in jail and silenced

No! We are going to lie about Trump's record because we like RDS.

Posted by: Eskimo at May 26, 2023 06:54 AM (ZYNmu)

98 88 explain please. Vouchers are government money. Recipients are required to comply with discrimination laws. The school is the recipient.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 26, 2023 06:54 AM (9X60i)

99 Also yesterday talked with a Balkan family, who has asked me to edit/write a book for them (it's a personal obligation). They recently suffered a severe tragedy and have... 'doubts and questions' and what was supposed to be one thing turned into a 3 hour video call on Comparative Religion, which is interfering with the blocking on the present project that needs to get done first. The big thing about the Balkans and Near East is, none of the very ancient Shaman/Pagan stuff ever went away: it's fully intact from deep antiquity and is co-opted into, or tolerated by, the more recent Faiths. It makes conversations about 'religion' interesting, for sure, but very challenging. You HAVE to know a lot about ancient Shamanism, The Evil Eye, all that old stuff, to have a coherent conversation with anybody from there.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 26, 2023 06:55 AM (43xH1)

100 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Its owner is attempting to wake up.

Posted by: JT at May 26, 2023 06:56 AM (T4tVD)

101 Fen,

Who was the shortest person in the Bible?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 26, 2023 06:57 AM (PiwSw)

102 Knee-High-Miah

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 26, 2023 06:57 AM (PiwSw)

103 The big thing about the Balkans and Near East is, none of the very ancient Shaman/Pagan stuff ever went away: it's fully intact from deep antiquity and is co-opted into, or tolerated by, the more recent Faiths.
Posted by: LenNeal at May 26, 2023 06:55 AM (43xH1)

In some ways that makes them.more equipped to see our current realities.
We live in a post-Christian era, much like the early Christians, surrounded by pagans and heathens.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 26, 2023 06:59 AM (vHIgi)

104 The NC public school cult is already devising ways to use the discrimination laws to destroy voucher recipients. Much the same way they destroyed the charter school initiative. Consensus among Christian schools in the state (there are many) is to not take voucher money. They wouldn’t take COVID money for the same reason.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 26, 2023 07:00 AM (9X60i)

105 Good morning all. Chemo treatment at 8:30. Things to address today:

My continued and worsening fatigue
My continued and worsening swelling
The pain in my right hip
My face suddenly turning bright red last night, like I had a bad sunburn
Results of the CT scans
Results of bone scan

Busy day for the doc. I won't leave until I get some damn answers.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at May 26, 2023 07:01 AM (wagHN)

106 Prayers for you, jewells

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 26, 2023 07:01 AM (vHIgi)

107 Yep, it’s Sam Brinton; disgraced DOE official under the Biden admin. Also known as “Sister Ray Dee O'Active” in the Order of Perpetual Indulgence.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:02 AM (BRHaw)

108 Christianity, of the 'Orthodox' sort, arrived in the Balkans many centuries ago, said, "Well, see, there's one God that's more powerful than all the other ones, and, uh, let's stop with the human sacrifices."
And that's about as far as anybody got! In the late 1800s some English traveler talked with a priest in some remote burg and commented on the admirable work of Christianizing the locals. The priest went, "Phft. They show up all the time, yeah, but I turn my back for a second, they're out dancing naked under the Moon."
Can confirm. The place is wild. You want to see what Original Christianity was dealing with, get into the very remote Balkan mountains. It's all still there. It's really everywhere, just ever-so-slightly papered over and/or co-opted.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 26, 2023 07:02 AM (43xH1)

109 It's almost as if we have two Overton Windows now with no intersection between the two, isn't it.... probably not a good thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 06:48 AM (9UlRk)

'They' pretty much have everything. We have Newsmax, OAN, and some websites. It's why them not having Twitter anymore is so infuriating to them. Who knew some technological genius who's made oodles of money would be our free speech savior by buying that platform and exposing, 'with receipts' as the cool kids say today, all the nefarious shenanigans that went on in 2020?

I really hate interesting times.

It's like nobody understands how, in the History of the World, boring is good for longevity.

Posted by: RickZ at May 26, 2023 07:03 AM (emlEe)

110 There will be schools that don't take the government cheese with strings attached.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 07:03 AM (5RU2S)

111 Ain’t no way the public school cult is going to stand by and let their power be diminished.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 26, 2023 07:03 AM (9X60i)

112 Trump is the hunted, he will more than likely be imprisoned at some point, he has tasked them, they shall never give him up.

Is it really hunting, when the quarry enjoys the chase ? Thats one of Trumps problems. He thinks he'll win in court, and he craves the attention.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 07:04 AM (4ixcl)

113
Good morning, Hordians.

Getting my coffee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2023 07:05 AM (MoZTd)

114 University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, found that up to 13 percent of recycled plastics become microplastics, tiny particles smaller than five millimeters that pollute air and water, if wash water from recycling plants is not filtered. Brown and her team studied wastewater at a mixed plastics recycling facility in the United Kingdom and found it could produce up to 6.5 million pounds of microplastic per year.

The safest, most efficient, most practical use of plastics in recycling the material into energy production. Non-recycled plastics can supply more than 15,000 BTUs per pound. That’s more energy per pound than any type of coal.

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

115 "In some ways that makes them.more equipped to see our current realities.
We live in a post-Christian era, much like the early Christians, surrounded by pagans and heathens.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion"

I have, in practice, found this to be true. Most people there easily recognize Shamanist Paganism because it's all still there. For instance, the Balkans never burned any witches; they never even tried to eliminate that stuff, just hopefully offered a better alternative. The Orthodox Christianity tends to be simple and foundational, kind of lean-and-mean, sticking to the basics and not sweating the small stuff. 'People gonna people' is the working principle.

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

116 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:09 AM (2hlEI)

117 The deep state is amateur hour compared to the power and reach of public school cult.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 26, 2023 07:09 AM (9X60i)

118 Prayers for you, jewells
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at May 26, 2023 07:10 AM (T4tVD)

119 The safest, most efficient, most practical use of plastics in recycling the material into energy production.

We knew that, just from throwing bottles into a fire.

Posted by: Rednecks Everywhere at May 26, 2023 07:10 AM (4ixcl)

120 Who was the shortest person in the Bible?
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I would think that Zacchaeus would be a contender.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:11 AM (2hlEI)

121 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at May 26, 2023 07:01 AM (wagHN)

I am sorry you are having these conditions, dear. I hope that the doctor has some answers and can offer solutions. FenSpouse and I are praying for you everyday!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 07:11 AM (LTpwC)

122 Morning peeps.

Got the last of the winter crud vacuumed out of the pool yesterday and put some "super shock" and algicide in to begin clarifying the water. Today we'll pull the solar blanket out and begin warming things up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2023 07:12 AM (Q4IgG)

123 Who was the shortest person in the Bible?

Samwise.

Posted by: Right Wing Hate Machine at May 26, 2023 07:13 AM (4ixcl)

124 15 G'day Skip
TGFO

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 26, 2023 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

---------

IIRC, there was a Peanuts strip where Charlie Brown is lamenting that today may be the end of the world. Linus replies:

"The world can't end today, Charlie Brown, because it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Posted by: ShainS at May 26, 2023 04:40 AM (sJSOG)

; )

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 07:13 AM (LodBx)

125 Orthodox Christianity had very moving liturgies. Before Covid I used to attend services on Saturday evening for Vespers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 07:13 AM (LTpwC)

126 New DHS Grant:

Among the groups identified by the University of Dayton involved in “far-right radicalization” are the Heritage Foundation, Fox News, and the Republican Party. Quillette and Dennis Prager’s “Prager U” are even more extreme, just shy of the Nazi Party according to their classification of an “extremism” pyramid. Breitbart, Turning Point USA, and of course, MAGA are similarly identified.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:14 AM (BRHaw)

127 The real solution is to end the federal department of ed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 07:14 AM (slgIg)

128
Ain’t no way the public school cult is going to stand by and let their power be diminished.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 26, 2023 07:03 AM

They'll still have the power. The only thing they'll lose is bodies in the classroom. It's a helluva lot easier to have a class of 15 and not 30. As long as they get that sweet taxpayer money and pensions down the road they don't GAF.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 26, 2023 07:14 AM (enJYY)

129 jewells last night we prayed for your renewal of body and renewal of spirit

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 07:14 AM (dS722)

130 I would think that Zacchaeus would be a contender.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:11 AM (2hlEI)

He was a wee little man!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:15 AM (BRHaw)

131 120 Who was the shortest person in the Bible?
----------
I would think that Zacchaeus would be a contender.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:11 AM (2hlEI)

*golfclap*

Deep ref.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 07:15 AM (zZu0s)

132 I would think that Zacchaeus would be a contender.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:11 AM (2hlEI)

He was a wee little man!
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:15 AM (BRHaw)
------------
And a wee little man was he.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:16 AM (2hlEI)

133 127 The real solution is to end the federal department of ed.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 07:14 AM (slgIg)

Yes. This is the answer to every thing. Not 'who should have this power?' but 'NO ONE SHOULD HAVE THIS POWER.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 07:16 AM (zZu0s)

134 "Before Covid." Notice how it's become such a cultural time reference. The way my parents used to say "during the war."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2023 07:16 AM (DhOHl)

135 He was a wee little man!
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:15 AM (BRHaw)
------------
And a wee little man was he.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:16 AM (2hlEI)

wee little man, he was.

Posted by: Yoda at May 26, 2023 07:17 AM (zZu0s)

136 The JP Morgan article is bullshit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 07:17 AM (ZCCyW)

137
Every state has their own Environmental Protection Agency. No need for a Federal EPA.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 26, 2023 07:18 AM (enJYY)

138 mornin yall. Now Pence is going to have a CNN town hall meeting. Yippee. Ratings should be thru the roof.

Posted by: fd at May 26, 2023 07:19 AM (iayUP)

139 138 mornin yall. Now Pence is going to have a CNN town hall meeting. Yippee. Ratings should be thru the roof.
Posted by: fd at May 26, 2023 07:19 AM (iayUP)

And we are pleased to announce here on ESPN 8 that we are the top rated network this evening with our presentation of Slug Drag Racing!

Posted by: The Ocho! at May 26, 2023 07:20 AM (zZu0s)

140 Kristie Ortiz? That's new. Not quite a stripper or porn star name.

They are getting smarter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 26, 2023 07:21 AM (zZu0s)

141 One of you mentioned the other day that while Sears is gone, the Craftsman tool name is now part of Lowe's. If you have a breakage or failure of a Craftsman item, you can go to Lowe's and they replace it free? Is that right? I have a small hard plastic tool kit (it's so old it says "Made in U.S.A."). One of the hinge pins of the lid has sheared off. Could I take it to Lowe's and get a replacement?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 26, 2023 07:21 AM (J2vNu)

142 Kristie, Kristie, Kristie. You have entered a world of hardened cynics; your blandishments will fall on deaf ears.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:21 AM (2hlEI)

143 Also, Nikki Haley gets a CNN town hall. Be there!

Posted by: fd at May 26, 2023 07:22 AM (iayUP)

144 Posted by: Kristie Ortiz at May 26, 2023 07:20 AM (/GdZ7

No income can be earned online through doing convoluted tasks at home? What about people who enjoy a challenge?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 07:22 AM (LTpwC)

145 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 26, 2023 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

146 Lowe's will give you a free hinge pin.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2023 07:23 AM (DhOHl)

147 Even a young child?

Posted by: Incredulous at May 26, 2023 07:24 AM (DhOHl)

148 The cats have been anxiously watching something invisible that is up near the ceiling. Either they've spotted the house poltergeist, or they're trying to freak me out.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:24 AM (2hlEI)

149 I wonder if the other Republican candidates will appear on CNN? Regardless of their chances.

Also... why hasn't RFK Jr. or one of the other Democrat nutters that've announced been offered to appear?

It's like we're only shown certain candidates... *

*We are only going to be shown certain candidates*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 26, 2023 07:25 AM (Q4IgG)

150 What is this CNN?

Posted by: Never heard of it at May 26, 2023 07:27 AM (DhOHl)

151 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

https://youtu.be/bl5TUw7sUBs
Data and Picard Pogo. Your earworm gift to me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 26, 2023 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

152 Cars should be banned in Oregon because these people cannot drive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 07:30 AM (dS722)

153
Does CNN really think they'll be able to find a Pence supporter? Hahaha. They'll get conned and Pence will end up booed off the stage.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 26, 2023 07:30 AM (enJYY)

154 50 The shrieking on A.I. reminds me of the shrieking about Y2K.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 06:13 AM (dS722)

Hmm; I'll think about that.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 07:30 AM (LodBx)

155 Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 26, 2023 06:57 AM (PiwSw)

I just saw this joke now. Thx. Cute, Another Bible humor answer is Bildad the Shuhite.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 26, 2023 07:32 AM (LTpwC)

156 148 The cats have been anxiously watching something invisible that is up near the ceiling. Either they've spotted the house poltergeist, or they're trying to freak me out.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:24 AM (2hlEI)

Mice in the attic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 26, 2023 07:35 AM (9UlRk)

157 I have always assumed this of Social Justice Whores:

“As grandiose narcissists typically desire fame, distinction, elevated social status and high social importance, they can be assumed to strive for influential positions that involve social visibility and outreach as well as access to financial and other resources.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:36 AM (BRHaw)

158 Make money online at home doing arcane tasks. Even a young genius along the lines of a modern Albert Edison can profit from this using their complex and mysterious brain for only several hours a day!

Posted by: Alicia Rodriguez at May 26, 2023 07:37 AM (LTpwC)

159 {{{jewells45}}}

Prayers ascending for answers, healing, and relief.

Remember, you are a cherished one. And an influence on me.

Fuck Cancer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 26, 2023 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

160 Byeee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:40 AM (2hlEI)

161 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi music. *

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 26, 2023 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

162 Chicago public schools allowing migrant children to enroll without documentation
Chicago parent Jennifer Preston weighs in on migrant children being allowed to enroll in Chicago public schools without proper documentation during 'Fox & Friends First.'

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

163 Will Ace replace the COBs with AI? It would save on the dental plan.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 26, 2023 06:46 AM (slgIg)

How do you know that all of us aren't AI...including Ace?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 07:41 AM (ZCCyW)

164 Lib little sister's kitteh is in my lap and he weighs a ton.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2023 07:41 AM (dS722)

165 How do you know that all of us aren't AI...including Ace?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 26, 2023 07:41 AM (ZCCyW)

How do we know we are not all living in a 15 YO girls roll playing matrix game?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:43 AM (BRHaw)

166 CharlieBrown'sDildo

Uh, ... because we have met you, and no AI can be both good on the Art thread and short rants, and as cruelly discerning as ace.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 26, 2023 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

167 How do you know that all of us aren't AI...including Ace?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

AI likes maple syrup !

Posted by: JT at May 26, 2023 07:46 AM (T4tVD)

168 148 The cats have been anxiously watching something invisible that is up near the ceiling. Either they've spotted the house poltergeist, or they're trying to freak me out.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 26, 2023 07:24 AM (2hlEI)

Invisible ... to you.

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 07:46 AM (LodBx)

169 The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% of Likely U.S. voters believe FBI officials involved in promoting the false Russia-Trump claims should be criminally prosecuted. Twenty-three percent (23%) disagree, while 18% are not sure.

not sure??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

170
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 26, 2023 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

171 JJ IS UP

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2023 07:49 AM (v7VqK)

172 rhennigantx

The power lovers. Gotta make sure no relatives are charged, first.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 26, 2023 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

173 151 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

https://youtu.be/bl5TUw7sUBs
Data and Picard Pogo. Your earworm gift to me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 26, 2023 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

LOVE THAT!

Posted by: m at May 26, 2023 07:51 AM (LodBx)

174 "The only thing we want from a search engine is to report accurately on what has been said on the web relating to our search term."

The big ones haven't been so hot in doing this of late.

Something as simple as a minus/negative (IE, look for A, but not B - "Diamond Silk -Neil") is being steadfastly ignored, making it impossible to find some info on some topics. You have to go to alternative places (like Reddit) and use their search features to hope that someone else has complained about your problem too.

And avoid any Microsoft forums - they either give you multiple paragraphs of their forum pedigree, followed by even more paragraphs of copy-pasted instructions that hit a keyword ("Oh, blue not showing! Here's how to deal with a Blue Screen:"), or telling the original user (who perfectly indicated the exact issue you are having) that this is the wrong forum and they need to try in another - with no links or indication or BLOCKING the useless thread from search results.

Posted by: Another Anon at May 26, 2023 08:36 AM (hwP7U)

175 Our job is complete. — Intelligence Community

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