Daily Tech News 1 June 2023

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Silence those annoying little negative voices in your head - by electrocuting the bastards. (The Bulletin)

Interesting first-person account of tDCS - transcranial direct current stimulation - by an avowed skeptic, who found the effects instant and obvious. As soon as the current was turned on she went into a state that programmers call flow, where she was focused on the task at hand to the exclusion of all else, to such a degree that her sense of time was off by a factor of 10 when the experiment concluded.

The literature for tDCS and tMS - transcranial magnetic stimulation - is mixed, and I lean on the skeptical side myself, but it's harder to discount this particular report.

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Adata has showed off its next-generation memory modules for laptops and servers, due later this year. (Tom's Hardware)

Not just new DIMMs - only one of these is a DIMM - but new module types entirely.

Of particular interest is CAMM, originally designed by Dell and released as an industry standard. This takes the LPDDR memory chips commonly used in laptops and puts them on a module, making laptop memory upgradeable again.

The electrical characteristics of LPDDR make it faster and less power-hungry than regular DDR RAM but also mean it can't work in regular DIMM slots, so right now everyone (except Dell) solders it directly to the motherboard.

And they only put 16GB in, so your shiny new laptop becomes e-waste if you need more than that.

I'm very much looking forward to this seeing widespread adoption.
There's a potential firmware backdoor in 271 models of Gigabyte motherboard. (Tom's Hardware)

It's not as nasty as it first sounded, though it's not good: The BIOS checks for firmware updates to give you a download alert in Windows, but it doesn't check that the site it connects to is actually Gigabyte's real download site. So if someone can compromise your DNS to point you at a fake download site, it will happily prompt you to download and install a fake BIOS release.

So... Don't take your desktop computer to a cafe and connect it over untrusted wifi. Or just turn off the updater. That works too.
This is the first x-ray taken of a single atom. (Ars Technica)

The atom is pregnant.

Disclaimer: With twins.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:15 AM

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They're -- get this -- rebooting an old show, Matlock this time, and the Big Creative Breakthrough justifying this reboot is, get this, that they're gender-swapping him!
The creativity, it's epochal!

Good cracker!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:20 AM (pNxlR)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 04:20 AM (xhxe8)

3
.

This is the first x-ray taken of a single atom. (Ars Technica)

The atom is pregnant.

I'm betting they didn't have xer don lead shielding before subjecting her to the X-rays, the brutes!

That poor malformed atom-to-be!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:22 AM (pNxlR)

4
Leave it to our new puppy to come up with an entirely appropriate beginning to Monkeypox Pride Month by throwing up in her crate.

Well done, Maddie! Well done!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:25 AM (pNxlR)

5 'Sky Drama' Across EIGHT States - *Sonic Booms for 1000 MILES*
40,826 views May 31, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOINL9p3080

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at June 01, 2023 04:28 AM (MFZ8i)

6 They're -- get this -- rebooting an old show, Matlock this time, and the Big Creative Breakthrough justifying this reboot is, get this, that they're gender-swapping him!

Slatlock!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 01, 2023 04:30 AM (KFhLj)

7 Evening and morning, all!

This tCDS stuff sounds uncomfortably like the wirehead addiction in Larry Niven's Known Space stories. Wireheads have a "droud" installed in their heads, and plug wall current right into the pleasure center of their brains. If you don't have a timer to cut the current, you could sit right there and starve to death.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2023 04:31 AM (omVj0)

8
The hydrogen atom is unique, since it only has one electron and, in a dc electric field, the Stark Hamiltonian is exactly separable in terms of parabolic coordinates ( η , ξ , φ ).

Arrrrgggh! parabolic coordinates!

An accursed adversary arises to haunt me! Curse you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:35 AM (pNxlR)

9 Anyway! Dagny the Siberian kitten is definitely in heat. She is chirruping softly as she walks around, even calling a little (fortunately she has a tiny tiny voice), and is being more affectionate to me. I'm sure it puzzles her no end that Stirling shows no interest in her that way. "Hel-lo, sailor!" "What do you *want*, woman?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2023 04:37 AM (omVj0)

10
This tCDS stuff sounds uncomfortably like the wirehead addiction in Larry Niven's Known Space stories. Wireheads have a "droud" installed in their heads, and plug wall current right into the pleasure center of their brains. If you don't have a timer to cut the current, you could sit right there and starve to death.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

It does, indeed, sound like that.

I was doing alright with the story until the second book in the series degenerated into "Where's Teela?" and "What's Teela doing?" everywhere and all the time. At the close of the second book, therefore, I said, "I'm sick to death of Teela ... I'm out."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:39 AM (pNxlR)

11 Hiya

Posted by: JT at June 01, 2023 04:43 AM (T4tVD)

12 That Atom wouldn't have become pregnant if it had an exploitable backdoor.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 01, 2023 04:44 AM (CMHqV)

13
Slatlock!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Slatlock only takes on cases that involve slatterns.

And, by the way, any "gender confused" pyrsens are firmly but gently directed to "seek legal help elsewhere".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:45 AM (pNxlR)

14
That Atom wouldn't have become pregnant if it had an exploitable backdoor.
Posted by: Rbastid

Surprise anal gets 'em every time!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:46 AM (pNxlR)

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I was doing alright with the story until the second book in the series degenerated into "Where's Teela?" and "What's Teela doing?" everywhere and all the time. At the close of the second book, therefore, I said, "I'm sick to death of Teela ... I'm out."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023

***
Yes, the Ringworld stories. Much as I love his work, I can't recall if I even read the third novel. But he wrote a ton of other stories set in that universe, short stories as well as novels, and they are solid.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2023 04:46 AM (omVj0)

16 I could take a nap

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 04:47 AM (xhxe8)

17 Going to same job been thos week, can't get any reception on phone there.

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 04:49 AM (xhxe8)

18 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2023 04:49 AM (Dzf2t)

19

tpDCS, transpenile Direct Current Stimulation will grow your wang 4" in a month! Do this immediately!

Posted by: Dr Nick Riviera at June 01, 2023 04:50 AM (0EU0W)

20 This is a Wi-Fi router in space I am working with pass code. But tried it on all available Wi-Fi spots and nothing.

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 04:55 AM (xhxe8)

21 I actually never have used another WiFi connection other than relatives

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 04:56 AM (xhxe8)

22 Ugh. Missed the ONT...

In the spirit of Sister Mary Elephant:

youtu.be/XiDMoK-WABQ

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spitit animal at June 01, 2023 04:56 AM (Gkog9)

23 The atom is pregnant.

Disclaimer: With twins.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:15 AM
-

There's always a-Bohr-tion.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2023 04:57 AM (Dzf2t)

24 Time sense is kind of important. Was it Blue Thunder where they said that the sense of time is the first thing you lose when you start losing it mentally?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 04:59 AM (clG5m)

25 Going to same job been thos week, can't get any reception on phone there.
Posted by: Skip

Have a good one and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at June 01, 2023 05:00 AM (T4tVD)

26 Blue Thunder:
-vietnam vet on the edge with PTSD (It was a staple.)
-Boobs
-cool helicopter
-massive government plot to use said cool helicopter against civilians? Funny we do not get that trope anymore...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:02 AM (clG5m)

27 Wifi here at work is on the fritz as well. I am just using the phone hotspot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:03 AM (clG5m)

28 youtu.be/6RUIeX6UCT8

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spitit animal at June 01, 2023 05:03 AM (Gkog9)

29 Re: transcranial direct current stimulation

I have a list of potential people here...

*indicates legal pad*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 05:04 AM (RIvkX)

30 I like this turn of phrase from Sarah Hoyt at Insty:

*When you levy a tax you’re extorting money by force. While some taxes might be unavoidable they should pass a sniff test of “is this reason enough to point a gun at someone’s head?”

Me again: That's pretty sensible and a good way to put it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:05 AM (clG5m)

31 As said downstairs, donut shop stop soon

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 05:05 AM (xhxe8)

32 29 Re: transcranial direct current stimulation

I have a list of potential people here...

*indicates legal pad*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 05:04 AM (RIvkX)

*starts scanning the pad*

Huh, the entire population of San Francisco might be difficult.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:05 AM (clG5m)

33 *continues scanning*

'Try the stimulation to the testicles of each member of congress'

I think we can all get behind that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:07 AM (clG5m)

34 8 The hydrogen atom is unique, since it only has one electron and, in a dc electric field, the Stark Hamiltonian is exactly separable in terms of parabolic coordinates ( η , ξ , φ ).

Arrrrgggh! parabolic coordinates!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:35 AM (pNxlR)

I think this is math.
I'm reporting you.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 05:07 AM (SpRPx)

35 *continues*

'Joe Biden'

You probably do not want to see or smell what comes out of him when you turn the current on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:09 AM (clG5m)

36 youtu.be/JmGMzyajA2U

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:09 AM (Gkog9)

37 17 Going to same job been thos week, can't get any reception on phone there.
Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 04:49 AM (xhxe

Shoot.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 05:09 AM (SpRPx)

38 34 8 The hydrogen atom is unique, since it only has one electron and, in a dc electric field, the Stark Hamiltonian is exactly separable in terms of parabolic coordinates ( η , ξ , φ ).

Arrrrgggh! parabolic coordinates!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 04:35 AM (pNxlR)

I think this is math.
I'm reporting you.
Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 05:07 AM (SpRPx)

It's worse. It's P-Chem.

*PT Twitch*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:10 AM (clG5m)

39 17 Going to same job been thos week, can't get any reception on phone there.
Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 04:49 AM (xhxe

You can practice your yodeling.....

Posted by: JT at June 01, 2023 05:12 AM (T4tVD)

40 the Stark Hamiltonian is exactly separable in terms of parabolic coordinates ( η , ξ , φ ).

In Pride Month?!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at June 01, 2023 05:13 AM (0EU0W)

41 I was at a meeting yesterday of downtown hotel people and I was surprised at how bitter and vitriolic their comments were about the street-crime situation. It is really affecting convention business.

Genius Mayor London Breed would be unsafe at this meeting there was so much anger at her failure.

They do not expect to recover from covid until 2025-2026.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 05:13 AM (RIvkX)

42
I think this is math.
I'm reporting you.
Posted by: m

Oh, it's math alright.

I fear what dreams await me as I get some more sleep before arising.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 05:14 AM (pNxlR)

43 Wish I knew more about "tech"....

Sorry, Pixy! I'm just an uneducated dumbass.

Love your threads, though!

Here's my hitch-hiking song:

youtu.be/Fo6aKnRnBxM

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:14 AM (Gkog9)

44
London Breed? More like London Broil!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 05:15 AM (pNxlR)

45 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 01, 2023 05:16 AM (ju2Fy)

46 London Reeee.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 05:16 AM (SpRPx)

47 "London Breed" sounds more like a disease than a person's name...

Oh.

LOL

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:17 AM (Gkog9)

48 Oh. And in low 50s and no chance of rain , all week for that matter.

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 05:17 AM (eBu0s)

49 Parts of Pixy are in my hash.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 05:18 AM (SpRPx)

50 Oh. And in low 50s and no chance of rain , all week for that matter.
Posted by: Skip

That stinks !

Posted by: JT at June 01, 2023 05:19 AM (T4tVD)

51 youtu.be/auLyfd49-UE

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:20 AM (Gkog9)

52
News to make Garrett's day ...

Over at metro.co.uk, Sara Odeen-Isbister asks, "Could Crocs be the shoe of summer?"

"Flip flops can move to the side - it's Crocs szn!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 05:21 AM (pNxlR)

53 Pixy, do you know if this guy and his privacy phone are legit?

https://m.youtube.com/
watch?v=tm8xHDdNhs4

Posted by: Emmie at June 01, 2023 05:21 AM (N5qKs)

54 I'm going to embrace my new hash with an alternative personality: Rivka X.

An alte kocker who lives on Neptune Ave and is also a Mossad agent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 05:22 AM (RIvkX)

55 They do not expect to recover from covid until 2025-2026.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 05:13 AM (RIvkX)

They should not expect to recover at all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:22 AM (clG5m)

56 The atom is pregnant.

Disclaimer: With twins.
-------------

Nah. Sextuplets.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 01, 2023 05:25 AM (ju2Fy)

57 youtu.be/uxX2gA18grk

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:25 AM (Gkog9)

58 Corny joke

How does the moon cut his hair?

Eclipse it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2023 05:26 AM (pepsK)

59 Huh. Kind of looks like those old molecular modeling kits of a Benzene ring.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:27 AM (clG5m)

60 What kind of animal is always at a baseball game?

A bat

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2023 05:28 AM (pepsK)

61 What kind of animal is always at a baseball game?

A bat
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2023 05:28 AM (pepsK)
===
*slit eyes Fen*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 05:30 AM (RIvkX)

62 5 'Sky Drama' Across EIGHT States - *Sonic Booms for 1000 MILES*
40,826 views May 31, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOINL9p3080
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

Awiens.

Posted by: Cute Furry Kitten at June 01, 2023 05:31 AM (LUyqH)

63 Mornin'

Got an early tee time.

They do need some rain up here in NW Penn. It's very dry.

Posted by: Puddleglum in Pennsyltucky at June 01, 2023 05:32 AM (LUyqH)

64 Retired newspaper editors who are conservative must be a very rare breed:

Don Surber on how the media protects a Satanist:

https://tinyurl.com/46cm43cf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2023 05:33 AM (UgALp)

65 Bringing our sins before God. A reflection from the rabbi's daughter at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6hs96p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2023 05:39 AM (UgALp)

66 Fen I get a chuckle from those puns

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 05:41 AM (eBu0s)

67 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 05:42 AM (BRHaw)

68 youtu.be/ijAYN9zVnwg

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:42 AM (Gkog9)

69 I am glad, Skip.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2023 05:46 AM (UgALp)

70 youtu.be/bFgv8Jq4xN0

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:46 AM (Gkog9)

71 Early morning light from Acadia National Park-Maine:

https://tinyurl.com/4y6vseyv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 01, 2023 05:47 AM (UgALp)

72 Ah, the world we live in:

They're Ready For It! Taylor Swift fans confess they are wearing ADULT DIAPERS to her Eras Tour concerts so they don't have to miss a single song by going to the bathroom

Posted by: DB - we regret the inconvenience at June 01, 2023 05:48 AM (geLO8)

73 🍒 cheese donut 🍩

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 05:49 AM (eBu0s)

74 When a kid we went to Arcadia NP for a few days

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 05:50 AM (eBu0s)

75 72 Ah, the world we live in:

They're Ready For It! Taylor Swift fans confess they are wearing ADULT DIAPERS to her Eras Tour concerts so they don't have to miss a single song by going to the bathroom
Posted by: DB - we regret the inconvenience at June 01, 2023 05:48 AM (geLO

I saw someone yesterday talking about the 'Cult of fan' kind of pioneered by Steve Jobs in relation to Apple. The idea that you try to create an almost persona to the act of patronage to the point where you turn your customers into zealots for the product. That means you can ride out difficulties because the fans themselves will do a lot of the work for you. No need for apologies and less marketing needed- they will evangelize for you.

I just look at it as more proof that people are not being to think critically and skeptically.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:53 AM (clG5m)

76 Also, lack of self respect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:53 AM (clG5m)

77 Good morning all.

I see that the debt limit bill was passed, with more Demon votes that GOPe.

That McCarthy guy doesn't disappoint. Because we never trusted him in the first place.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 05:53 AM (vg8N1)

78 If Moon Moon was right here with me, I'd furry his ears and give him belly rubs and alllllll the red meat he wants.

I'm so lonely and miss having a devoted pet.

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:53 AM (Gkog9)

79 73 🍒 cheese donut 🍩
Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 05:49 AM (eBu0s)

Have not had a donut in a while, but I will admit to being a purist: a well done yeast, glazed donut is a thing of beauty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:54 AM (clG5m)

80 I'm so lonely and miss having a devoted pet.
Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:53 AM (Gkog9)

Go thee to a shelter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2023 05:54 AM (clG5m)

81 This tCDS stuff sounds uncomfortably like the wirehead addiction in Larry Niven's Known Space stories. Wireheads have a "droud" installed in their heads, and plug wall current right into the pleasure center of their brains. If you don't have a timer to cut the current, you could sit right there and starve to death.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I was thinking Scientology. You must continue the brain Zotz until Clear

Posted by: Bruce at June 01, 2023 05:55 AM (vd8XM)

82 Also-- fk the GOPe. And demonrats. And American (can we come up with a different word? It seems so very wrong to say 'American' at this point) politics in general.

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 05:55 AM (Gkog9)

83 Fen I get a chuckle from those puns
Posted by: Skip

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at June 01, 2023 05:56 AM (T4tVD)

84 My doggeh is curled up here next to me snoring like a truck.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 05:58 AM (RIvkX)

85 And in low 50s and no chance of rain , all week for that matter.
Posted by: Skip
*
That stinks !
Posted by: JT at June 01, 2023

***
Sounds good to me. It's already 72 F. at 5 am, and we expect 88 today, a moist, dreary, sludgy heat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 01, 2023 05:58 AM (omVj0)

86 ‘Fastest girl in Connecticut’ Chelsea Mitchell suing state after losing to trans athletes

https://tinyurl.com/2cer9pb8

What a pitiful society we have become!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 05:59 AM (BRHaw)

87 Sorry, horde.

Today sucked. Had chores to do, that I *shouldn't* need to do all alone. And I did them, of course.

Still haven't closed Dad's estate because, well, I'm the ONLY one w*rking on it and there's so much to do. (Plus hubby's issues, of course) and I'm just burned out. Burnt to a fking crisp! Not getting any younger.

G'night. Not good company, but so lonely ya know?

Thanks for being here. Thanks for this place, Ace & Cobs!

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:01 AM (Gkog9)

88 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:02 AM (u82oZ)

89
*runs in with arms waving furiously*

Happy Pride Month!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 06:04 AM (MoZTd)

90 MFking "pride month" *spit*

disgusting

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:07 AM (Gkog9)

91
They're Ready For It! Taylor Swift fans confess they are wearing ADULT DIAPERS to her Eras Tour concerts so they don't have to miss a single song by going to the bathroom
Posted by: DB - we regret the inconvenience

___________

The Three Plagues of Music

- Swifties
- Deadheads
- True Opera Fans

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 06:07 AM (MoZTd)

92 FURRY WARS
Furries Now Have Serious Beef With Ron DeSantis
A furry fandom con in Florida just announced it would ban minors based on the governor's ridiculous laws

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:07 AM (BRHaw)

93 Reading that ABC is showing a two hour special on the 1619 project including an hour on why reparations must be paid. Keep poking the bear!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 01, 2023 06:08 AM (oWBc3)

94 Try the stimulation to the testicles of each member of congress. Are we sure that all members of Congress have anything to actually work with! (on the male side)

Posted by: Colin at June 01, 2023 06:08 AM (mLPfl)

95 90 MFking "pride month" *spit*

disgusting
Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:07 AM (Gkog9)

ha pikers we are on our second century of ENVY

Posted by: Marxist at June 01, 2023 06:09 AM (BRHaw)

96 My House of Representatives politician, from the Big 1st Congressional district, voted no on the debt bill.
Still passed.

I aver we are in extremis, and only bold action will keep us from crashing. Every "kicking the can down the road" makes the final crunch worse. But, outside crime-ridden urban areas, life is still good.

So party hardy on Titanic.
Scandi bubblegum pop group Toy Box's Sailor Song: https://youtu.be/qlti8Q-gU-Q

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:10 AM (u82oZ)

97 Sgt. Peppers was released June 1, 1967

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:11 AM (RIvkX)

98 Swiftes as a type were documented in the film Bye Bye Birdie. The wonders of the adolescent female mind - and those that never leave that stage of life - are unfathomable.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 01, 2023 06:11 AM (oWBc3)

99
Estates are a royal pain in the ass. I remember an entire summer of weekends clearing out the in-laws home. They were hoarders who grew up in the depression era. What a nightmare of useless junk, with 1% stuff of value.

In the end we got enough stock to cash out to put in a new kitchen to remember them by.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 01, 2023 06:12 AM (enJYY)

100 Give except haven't had rain in over 3 weeks

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2023 06:12 AM (eBu0s)

101 Swiftes as a type were documented in the film Bye Bye Birdie. The wonders of the adolescent female mind - and those that never leave that stage of life - are unfathomable.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

And those that identify as having a adolescent female mind....

Posted by: Bruce at June 01, 2023 06:12 AM (vd8XM)

102 >Happy Pride Month!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

no no no no
I refuse to cede June to the crazies. June is my favorite month. It has my birthday, Flag Day, and the first day of summer. June is warm and green and smells like fresh-mowed lawns and kids play outside.

The weirds can piss up a rope.

Posted by: DB - we regret the inconvenience at June 01, 2023 06:13 AM (geLO8)

103 Boker Tov Patriots
On my way to Lejeune for the last time
On my farewell tour lol

Posted by: Nevvergiveup at June 01, 2023 06:13 AM (gSwpP)

104 no no no no
I refuse to cede June to the crazies. June is my favorite month. It has my birthday, Flag Day, and the first day of summer. June is warm and green and smells like fresh-mowed lawns and kids play outside.

The weirds can piss up a rope.
Posted by: DB

Same here, including my birthday.

Posted by: Bruce at June 01, 2023 06:14 AM (vd8XM)

105 The Three Plagues of Music

- Swifties
- Deadheads
- True Opera Fans
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 06:07 AM (MoZTd)
===

*exhales cloud of smoke*
*takes out an earphone interrupting 20 minute space jam*
Wut?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:14 AM (RIvkX)

106 Nevvergiveup

Good morning, Sir. Don't drink the water.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:14 AM (u82oZ)

107 "Pride" is nothing to be proud of.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 06:15 AM (vg8N1)

108 Mazel tov NGU

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:15 AM (RIvkX)

109
Boker Tov Patriots
On my way to Lejeune for the last time
On my farewell tour lol
Posted by: Nevvergiveup

Say "Hey!" to the Naval Hospital -- I was born there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 06:16 AM (pNxlR)

110 Reading that ABC is showing a two hour special on the 1619 project including an hour on why reparations must be paid. Keep poking the bear!
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

I'm claiming that my ancestors not only didn't own slaves, they refused to come to America until America ended the slavery.

Posted by: Bruce at June 01, 2023 06:17 AM (vd8XM)

111
Say "Hey!" to the Naval Hospital -- I was born there.

Will do butt I doubt in the new one. Lol

Posted by: Nevvergiveup at June 01, 2023 06:17 AM (gSwpP)

112
Say "Hey!" to the Naval Hospital -- I was born there.

Will do butt I doubt in the new one. Lol
Posted by: Nevvergiveup

They never tell me anything.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 06:18 AM (pNxlR)

113 Navy had the best chow. When I was a Boy Scout we were always happy to hear we were staying at a naval base.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:18 AM (RIvkX)

114 Bruce

If all the aggrieved by the past people put as much effort into improving their own life as they put into stealing from others, there would be no need for any reparations.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:19 AM (u82oZ)

115 Dear Chrissie Christie;

We've had enough. You can go away now.

Sincerely, America

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:19 AM (RIvkX)

116 San Franpsycho

The Air Force has entered the chat.

Got stories.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:20 AM (u82oZ)

117 Dear Mikey Pence;

*snoooooooore*

Shhh, America

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:20 AM (RIvkX)

118
Pride Month, right. Bad month for America. I remember when we didn't have to celebrate a persons sexuality. We didn't know anything about their private life. We didn't want to know anything about their private life. Now we got homeless hanging around the public libraries. We used to call them bums.

Posted by: Lt Joe Bookman at June 01, 2023 06:22 AM (enJYY)

119 Got stories.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:20 AM (u82oZ)

===
Chocolate milk from a spigot. Just sayin'

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:22 AM (RIvkX)

120 San Franpsycho

Chrissie Christie is the reason there is starvation in Africa. He cleans his plate, and another plate, and another plate.

If he runs for office, soon he will be looking up at people doing CPR on him.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

121 San Franpsycho

Not on ships after the first week.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:23 AM (u82oZ)

122
Pride Month, right. Bad month for America. I remember when we didn't have to celebrate a persons sexuality. We didn't know anything about their private life. We didn't want to know anything about their private life. Now we got homeless hanging around the public libraries. We used to call them bums.
Posted by: Lt Joe Bookman

In Joe Biden's America, every place is an Augean Stable.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 06:25 AM (pNxlR)

123 Lt Joe Bookman

Well, I occasionally am out and proud, in the 1950's version of the words. But not on the book thread. I wear pants for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

124 When I was in h.s. In nyc in the 70s there were a number of gay teachers and they were as overt about their sexuality as all the other teachers and literally no one cared.

I don't know when pride ever came into it but I wish we could get back to DGAF.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:26 AM (RIvkX)

125 Have a great day, everyone.

Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

126 Best. Galley I ever. Eat at was at PARRIS Island

Posted by: Nevvergiveup at June 01, 2023 06:27 AM (gSwpP)

127 124 I don't know when pride ever came into it but I wish we could get back to DGAF.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:26 AM (RIvkX)

No grift in that.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 06:28 AM (SpRPx)

128 Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 01, 2023 06:12 AM
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Yeah, DvZ... gee, if only I had 3 siblings to help me with it, instead of them just sitting back and waiting for their checks when all is done!

Fk. Them. If I'm gonna hurry up and cut them all in on "their share" after they sit on their azzes while I wrk and wrk!

None of them have a disabled spouse. None of them have some kind of *super special top secret can't take time off* kind of j-b. One of them doesn't even HAVE a j-b, and hasn't for 3 years! Oh, but nobody can find the time... too busy... trips to yurrup and all...

I'm just totally fed up!

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:29 AM (Gkog9)

129 Pride Month, right. Bad month for America. I remember when we didn't have to celebrate a persons sexuality. We didn't know anything about their private life. We didn't want to know anything about their private life. Now we got homeless hanging around the public libraries. We used to call them bums.
Posted by: Lt Joe Bookman

---

You got your one day of furniture sales in honor of 250 years of GIs that died, hater. Now shut up and celebrate the perverts and child abusers for the next month.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 01, 2023 06:29 AM (9nwlC)

130 Salty we were always in barracks on base. I have many fond memories of those trips. Especially Fort Carlisle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:30 AM (RIvkX)

131 125 Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at June 01, 2023 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

Trying to do that. Takes a lot of focusing on what's important.

Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 06:30 AM (SpRPx)

132 98 Swiftes as a type were documented in the film Bye Bye Birdie. The wonders of the adolescent female mind - and those that never leave that stage of life - are unfathomable.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 01, 2023 06:11 AM (oWBc3)

look at the was of girls wanting to be boys

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:31 AM (BRHaw)

133 126 I can honestly say I never had a bad meal in a USMC, Navy, or Air Force chow halls. Some were better than others but good food overall. Best was the chow hall at Tachikawa AFB. They took care of the guys in the burn hospital and went all out for quality of meals.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 01, 2023 06:33 AM (lz5hY)

134 I'm just totally fed up!
Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:29 AM (Gkog9)
====

If I may suggest: you write to them asking them to perform specific tasks. If they say "no" at least you will have clarity. Perhaps you already have this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:35 AM (RIvkX)

135 I will always refer to 'pride month' as: "shame month" because that's what it should be

It's a celebration of FILTH and I will NOT "celebrate" with ... them.

Ugh.

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:35 AM (Gkog9)

136 It's a very dangerous precedent to set, that if people just get riled up enough about the products that you're selling, you can completely distance yourself from the LGBT community, when and if it's convenient," said Carnell, a transgender gay man who launched his brand Abprallen in 2017.

Old Dead Brands worry about .2% issues or maybe even 2% issues if you include L and G. No one (in their right mind) goes after .2% in the main stream markets. It may work in luxury brands but never in the middle.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:38 AM (BRHaw)

137 Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 01, 2023 06:35 AM

Well, I don't have their refusals in writing but I have them, nonetheless.

And so... Since I am Representative... They can just sit and ~~twirl~~ wait. As long as it takes.

They want me to do it all? It will happen in. my. own. dear. sweet. time!

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:39 AM (Gkog9)

138 I gotta go to the Augean dentist this morning, then stop off at the Augean bank, and pick up some milk at the Augean grocery store.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 06:40 AM (9UlRk)

139 Just after I updated to DDR4... Figures.

Posted by: weft cut loop at June 01, 2023 06:41 AM (jzzG8)

140 It's a very dangerous precedent to set, that if people just get riled up enough about the products that you're selling, you can completely distance yourself from the LGBT community, when and if it's convenient," said Carnell, a transgender gay man who launched his brand Abprallen in 2017.

--

Yes, welcome to business. That's always how it - and society - has worked. I know gays and blacks want special accommodations because they've been told they require special accommodations and have been given special accommodations their entire lives, but if you endorse child molestation, people will stop buying your product.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 01, 2023 06:41 AM (9nwlC)

141 Even though I'm a little scatterbrained I don't want to be brainshocked. No.

Posted by: Eromero at June 01, 2023 06:42 AM (eo57b)

142 Any Morons in the NC/SC AO: Belk's has been Targayed. Story on Fox Business.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 06:42 AM (PiwSw)

143 tDCS,

So Wire Heads are no longer science fiction? Louis Wu is that you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 01, 2023 06:43 AM (74IAw)

144 Scuffle breaks out at the funeral of Banko Brown, the looter/shoplifter at the San Francisco Walgreens who was shot by the security guard

ha

https://tinyurl.com/2p8e3ufw

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:43 AM (BRHaw)

145 "In nyc in the 70s there were a number of gay teachers and they were as overt about their sexuality"

That is an indication of "when good men do nothing, evil succeeds."

That level of depravity didn't hit the other cities until later.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 06:43 AM (vg8N1)

146 Meanwhile-- the Estate Bank Account Balance is dwindling, as I pay the monthly utilities and annual property tax & house insurance.

Gee, too bad that money is all being wasted. Too bad things aren't 'happening' faster!

LOL

*sigh*

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:43 AM (Gkog9)

147 Looting at the funeral of a looter?

Comedy gold, Jerry.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 06:44 AM (vg8N1)

148 As a reminder, they just wanted the opportunity to get married. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 01, 2023 06:44 AM (oWBc3)

149 The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who identify as a group of "queer and trans nuns," are known for mocking Christian beliefs, including holding an annual "Foxy Mary" and "Hunky Jesus" contest, pole dancing on crosses, and using the saying, "Go forth and sin some more!"

Now do Mohammed

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:46 AM (BRHaw)

150 Sounds like you have a Herculean task, Warai-otoko. Would you mind stopping by DC?

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 06:46 AM (iayUP)

151 The good news is that Banko Brown finally made it to church...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 06:48 AM (PiwSw)

152 It is an interesting intellectual exercise to think of how the powers that be have altered June in the American psyche. From Flag Day, Fathers Day and prime wedding month, to Pride and Juneteenth.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 01, 2023 06:48 AM (oWBc3)

153 The ostensible core of Pride month (it isn't, but let's play along) is a celebration that we don't live in a society where a person can just get beat up or otherwise harassed by a complete stranger just for being or appearing homosexual. I, actually, think that's a good thing, Rule of Law being universal and Assault being a crime, and all.

But what it's really about is not "its safe to be gay", it's a celebration that it's not safe even lightly to disapprove of it. It's about victimization. It's about division. It's about heightening conflict.

It's about Critical Theory. Which hasn't gone away just because it became a meme for a few months and then people stopped talking about it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 06:48 AM (9UlRk)

154 146 Meanwhile-- the Estate Bank Account Balance is dwindling, as I pay the monthly utilities and annual property tax & house insurance.

Gee, too bad that money is all being wasted. Too bad things aren't 'happening' faster!

LOL

*sigh*
Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:43 AM (Gkog9)

Call an estate company. Notify everyone they have 15 days. Sell everything. Find the agent that has their own paint crew. Splash some paint and sell the place.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

155
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who identify as a group of "queer and trans nuns," are known for mocking Christian beliefs, including holding an annual "Foxy Mary" and "Hunky Jesus" contest, pole dancing on crosses, and using the saying, "Go forth and sin some more!"

"We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles."

- Hilaire Belloc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 06:50 AM (MoZTd)

156 Re the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, imagine when they find out that God may have a sense of humor, but will not be mocked.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 01, 2023 06:51 AM (oWBc3)

157 North Korea will serve on the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) until 2026 after being seated during the organization’s general assembly meetings this week.

Dr. Jong Min Pak of the North Korean Ministry of Public Health will serve on the executive board for a three-year term.

tff

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:51 AM (BRHaw)

158 Dr. Jong Min Pak of the North Korean Ministry of Public Health will serve on the executive board for a three-year term.

tff
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:51 AM (BRHaw)

Starvation is just super long-term fasting!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 06:54 AM (PiwSw)

159 92 FURRY WARS
Furries Now Have Serious Beef With Ron DeSantis
A furry fandom con in Florida just announced it would ban minors based on the governor's ridiculous laws
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:07 AM (BRHaw)

........

Granddaughter age 14 left yesterday for her school DC/NY trip. She wasn't too happy with her roommate assignment. This was an actual conversation I had with her mother yesterday " She could handle the 2 lesbians but the furrie was the last straw" Wtf?? These are 8th graders. Luckily at last minute was able to get in a different room with some of her friends. Her suitcase was packed with every piece of Trump gear she owned. If the kid doesn't get sent home early I will be surprised!

Posted by: Molly k. at June 01, 2023 06:54 AM (j/yko)

160 Call an estate company. Notify everyone they have 15 days. Sell everything. Find the agent that has their own paint crew. Splash some paint and sell the place.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:49 AM (BRHaw)

Yup. Don't be afraid to cut your losses. My parents went through a very similar situation. Clearing an estate with recalcitrant, lazy, and greedy "family" involved, especially with a poorly written will, is a soul sucking farce that you're best rid of as soon as possible at any price, and the more it drags out, the more gets absorbed out of the pot by third parties like utilities and the tax man anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 06:54 AM (9UlRk)

161 Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:49 AM
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Now yer talkin' my language...

Yes. That's what I ought to do. Sick n tired of this.

Couple of siblings have said "oh, I want this and that" but haven't made any moves to come and get this or that and I'm sick of being sidelined while also being-- at the same time-- hassled about "why is it taking so long?"

*tearing my hair out*

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 06:55 AM (Gkog9)

162 Oh, they dint do this! Oh, yes they did.

They're gayed up Chucks.

https://www.converse.com/shop/pride-collection

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 06:55 AM (PiwSw)

163 I need to buy some new shoes but every damn company has driven me away. I guess I'll go to Walmart and buy some $25 Chinese shoes.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 06:57 AM (iayUP)

164 Have Chucks ever not been gay?

That's like putting a rainbow on a pair of crocs... like.... yeah. You don't have to tell us twice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 06:57 AM (9UlRk)

165 Now do Mohammed

--

I've slowly been coming to the realization that they are accidentally proving Christianity to be the only true path to Heaven.

Same as they couldn't help but name their movement "Pride", there is no reason to attack any other religions that are going to send people to Hell. They're on the same side. They only focus on one.

Are they doing it intentionally out of fear of being killed by the peaceful practitioners of the other religions? Maybe. But it works for their spiritual side of the battle just the same.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 01, 2023 06:57 AM (9nwlC)

166 164 Have Chucks ever not been gay?

That's like putting a rainbow on a pair of crocs... like.... yeah. You don't have to tell us twice.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 06:57 AM (9UlRk)

Yes, normal people wore them in the 50's.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 06:58 AM (PiwSw)

167 Yes, normal people wore them in the 50's.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 06:58 AM (PiwSw

The 1950's?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 06:58 AM (9UlRk)

168
North Korea will serve on the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) until 2026 after being seated during the organization’s general assembly meetings this week.

Dr. Jong Min Pak of the North Korean Ministry of Public Health will serve on the executive board for a three-year term.

The WEF's new "eat ze bugs" go-to guy

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 06:59 AM (pNxlR)

169 “The American Library Association is pleased that the Freedom to Read Foundation, our First Amendment legal defense arm, and our state affiliate, the Arkansas Library Association, are participating in the lawsuit to vindicate Arkansas residents’ freedom to read,” ALA president Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada told PW. “The government has no place in deciding what books people can borrow or buy.”

now do guns, alcohol, and cigs!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:59 AM (BRHaw)

170 Good morning! Kitchen renovation is in full swing. Found some old termite damage that had to be repaired, and some electrical jankiness that required rework, but all in all a very smooth operation to date. We're cooking out on the patio with a green egg and a griddle, and washing dishes in the bathroom.

And the best galley I can remember eating at was the chow hall at Kadena.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 01, 2023 06:59 AM (YRsIm)

171 I had the kids do that with the house. I had to live around all the junk waiting to see if they wanted any of it. Don't waste any more time on it. Give them a deadline and hire a company to get rid of it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:00 AM (ouTlx)

172 Yay! Pride month is here! We can finally stop saying "so close to pride month" and now revert to "During Pride month?!?!?"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2023 07:00 AM (wsSEe)

173 The WEF's new "eat ze bugs" go-to guy
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Your Gateway to Bismarck, ND (TM) at June 01, 2023 06:59 AM (pNxlR)

Yoo have bug? Ruxurry!

Posted by: Warai-Jong Otoko at June 01, 2023 07:00 AM (9UlRk)

174 Rules of being an estate executor: be fair, but firm; document everything; remember that the state of relationships with others involved was likely already in the state you now are experiencing it; and, don't let the experience dim any pleasant memories you have of the departed. Oh, and pray - it helps.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 01, 2023 07:01 AM (oWBc3)

175 youtu.be/PpvhHrP_My0

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:01 AM (Gkog9)

176 I'm not calling it pride month. It's buttfucking degenerate month.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:01 AM (iayUP)

177 My family and my wife's family destroyed themselves over inherited trinkets.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2023 07:02 AM (wsSEe)

178
Same as they couldn't help but name their movement "Pride", there is no reason to attack any other religions that are going to send people to Hell.

*polite cough*

Christianity doesn't send people to Hell, people do that themselves. Christianity tries to tell people how to get to Heaven.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 07:02 AM (MoZTd)

179 JQ

like these people

https://www.twomomsestatesales.com/

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 07:02 AM (BRHaw)

180 Christianity doesn't send people to Hell, people do that themselves. Christianity tries to tell people how to get to Heaven.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 07:02 AM (MoZTd)

Why do all these firefighters put people in burning buildings so much? Weirdos.

Posted by: Warai-Jong Otoko at June 01, 2023 07:03 AM (9UlRk)

181
“The American Library Association is pleased that the Freedom to Read Foundation, our First Amendment legal defense arm, and our state affiliate, the Arkansas Library Association, are participating in the lawsuit to vindicate Arkansas residents’ freedom to read,” ALA president Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada told PW. “The government has no place in deciding what books people can borrow or buy.”

You can buy them new.
You can buy them used.
You can buy them as e-books.
You can buy them as physical copies.
You can buy them hard bound.
You can buy them as paperbacks.
They are not banned.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 07:04 AM (MoZTd)

182 Every month is pride month when you're a lion.

Posted by: Warai-Jong Otoko at June 01, 2023 07:04 AM (9UlRk)

183 One of my wife's aunts stripped everything of value from the family home while "Taking care of mom" then put it all out for an estate sale at her house after mom passed and forced her siblings to buy heirlooms back from her while strangers haggled over them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2023 07:04 AM (wsSEe)

184 Firefighters only save people in burning buildings. They never rescue people from buildings that are not on fire. Why?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2023 07:06 AM (wsSEe)

185
IT'S JUNE

FLAG DAY FATHERS' DAY FIRST DAY OF SUMMER

THE SIXTH MONTH OF THE YEAR

JUNE

Posted by: DB - we regret the inconvenience at June 01, 2023 07:06 AM (geLO8)

186
“The government has no place in deciding what books people can borrow or buy.”

But it is vital that the government decides which web sites people can read.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 07:06 AM (MoZTd)

187 ...ALA president Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada told PW.

If she's a lesbian, I think that's an Intersectionality Grand Slam.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 07:07 AM (PiwSw)

188 Wow. Fk. The estate stories...

Will look for a svc like rhennigantx suggested. Don't know if there's any such thing around here, though.

All I know is, that I'm sick & tired of being used.

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:07 AM (Gkog9)

189
remember that the state of relationships with others involved was likely already in the state you now are experiencing it

Yup, when the wife and I finished cleaning out the mess that her siblings couldn't be bothered with and the money was exchanged - though my wife got shorted about 80 thousand dollars - we walked away and haven't spoken to her siblings since. We know they conspired to cheat her.

During covid both her siblings marriages fell apart. I think the respective spouses knew that if they could screw their own sister they could get screwed themselves.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 01, 2023 07:07 AM (enJYY)

190 One of my wife's aunts stripped everything of value from the family home while "Taking care of mom" then put it all out for an estate sale at her house after mom passed and forced her siblings to buy heirlooms back from her while strangers haggled over them.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2023 07:04 AM (wsSEe)

Wow. She still breathing?

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 01, 2023 07:07 AM (7tCXb)

191 Death in a family brings out the worst in some people. And dealing with legal stuff is soul draining.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:07 AM (ouTlx)

192
Firefighters only save people in burning buildings. They never rescue people from buildings that are not on fire. Why?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2023 07:06 AM (wsSEe)

What I heard during the Cold War.
The United States pushes old ladies out of the way of speeding cars. The Soviets push old ladies into the way of speeding cars. The United States and the Soviets are the same because they push old ladies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2023 07:09 AM (MoZTd)

193 Death in a family brings out the worst in some people. And dealing with legal stuff is soul draining.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:07 AM
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Yes!

I thought I knew my siblings. Uh-- no. Not even.

Makes me sick

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:10 AM (Gkog9)

194 191 Death in a family brings out the worst in some people. And dealing with legal stuff is soul draining.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:07 AM (ouTlx)

Oh you're telling me! I'm just lying here and what is this racket?

Posted by: Banko Brown at June 01, 2023 07:10 AM (PiwSw)

195 My husband's nephew used the power of attorney to transfer all the family property into his name. The only thing he didn't get was the river property. And I am finally done with that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:10 AM (ouTlx)

196 Ban minors from a con?

Please do because I hate with the burning fury of a thousand suns the sexual predators that flock to cons.

Hope it drives the con, BTW the con circuit is still trying to recover from the Wuhan Flu Panic, into oblivion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 01, 2023 07:11 AM (74IAw)

197 My mom wore herself ragged taking care of her mother and dumping countless hours and dollars into keeping her and her house going.

... while her shithead siblings tricked their mother into taking out ridiculous loans and reverse mortgages, and then "borrowing" the cash from her, completely off the record, to pay their own mortgages and car payments. Did you not think my mom would find out eventually, being the executor of the estate and all?

And then they kicked up a fuss about not getting an inheritance, because the estate was underwater.

The fact that they're not in jail for fraud and elder abuse is a testament to either the clemency or the spinelessness of my mother. I choose to believe it's the former.

Posted by: Warai-Jong Otoko at June 01, 2023 07:11 AM (9UlRk)

198 I'm reading Dan Simmons' Hyperion again, just the first of four, not read since my early 20s, so it's new to me again.

I realize it could be called "optimistic dystopia" as a genre since there's no oppression by trannies or racialists in it. So in those ways, at least, it's not as bad a dystopia as it could be.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 01, 2023 07:11 AM (iKBwy)

199 Love the Police and that old album...

youtu.be/yeZNfo1zvdU

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:12 AM (Gkog9)

200 >I thought I knew my siblings. Uh-- no. Not even.

Makes me sick

Posted by: JQ--

Been there- I empathize with you

Posted by: DB - we regret the inconvenience at June 01, 2023 07:14 AM (geLO8)

201 “The government has no place in deciding what books people can borrow or buy.”

So school libraries have to carry Rush Revere books then right?

Right?

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 01, 2023 07:15 AM (iKBwy)

202 The company that bought the place gets to do the legal work to clear the deed of trust. Per agreement, it was supposed to be called within two years. And the state has a six year statute of limitations on it. Family wanted to hold me to it after 12 years. But that opened up a second lawsuit and tapped me out the first month.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:15 AM (ouTlx)

203
Whatever level the sibling rivalry is while growing up, once the parents are no longer around to mediate, hatchets its way through the roof, pours an accelerant on the building, and sets it ablaze.

It's not a good time. Be mentally prepared for it so as not to be shocked when it happens. Life is better without toxic people.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 01, 2023 07:17 AM (enJYY)

204 So school libraries have to carry Rush Revere books then right?

Right?
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 01, 2023 07:15 AM (iKBwy)

How about the Bible or the Tanach? Put them right there beside the librarian's desk.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 01, 2023 07:18 AM (PiwSw)

205 So school libraries have to carry Rush Revere books then right?

Right?
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 01, 2023 07:15 AM (iKBwy

I can't wait to have my kids take "Helmut Stomps a Fag" out from the public library. Good time family literature, that.

Posted by: Warai-Jong Otoko at June 01, 2023 07:18 AM (9UlRk)

206 The sibling stuff just makes it worse. But it took six years to settle my mom's estate and I'm an only child. The executor/lawyer just didn't want to bother with it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:20 AM (ouTlx)

207
The 70's were not a good time for libraries either. Yeah '71, that was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abby Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the Public Library, fella.

Posted by: Lt Joe Bookman at June 01, 2023 07:20 AM (enJYY)

208 At least I'm not concerned with siblings' taking money they're not "entitled" to--

I had POA before Dad passed, and didn't screw anybody over. Didn't pull any BS.

It's just that now, siblings all want this or that, but can't be arsed to make moves. And *someone* has to care for the property until it's vacant. (and then prep it for sale)

There's a limit, ya know? It's a bit more involved than what I've stated here, but not terribly complicated.

I'm old. I'm tired. I've got a full plate, beyond taking care of the Estate. And fking siblings have done fk all to help. That's my entire gripe.

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:20 AM (Gkog9)

209 Christianity doesn't send people to Hell, people do that themselves. Christianity tries to tell people how to get to Heaven.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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Reread it. That's my point. The other religions aren't a threat to gays bl/ Marxists because they're working together towards the same goal.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at June 01, 2023 07:21 AM (hQeb1)

210 Reread it. That's my point. The other religions aren't a threat to gays bl/ Marxists because they're working together towards the same goal.
Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at June 01, 2023 07:21 AM (hQeb1)

Christianity doesn't threaten them with Hell. It threatens them with Heaven.

Posted by: Warai-Jong Otoko at June 01, 2023 07:22 AM (9UlRk)

211 I think that's a C.S. Lewis quote. And if it isn't it should be.

Posted by: Warai-Jong Otoko at June 01, 2023 07:23 AM (9UlRk)

212 FURRY WARS

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 06:07 AM (BRHaw)
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By Dicker & Dicker of Beverly Hills?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 01, 2023 07:23 AM (Dzf2t)

213 Then hire a company to clear it out and let them know anything still in the house goes. A deadline is the only thing they will understand. You deserve to have your life back.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:25 AM (ouTlx)

214 One sibling has been 'cut out' by way of "estate resolution agreement' that we all signed. Sibling "A" got a piece of property, valued at equal to the entire remaining estate, that the rest of us get to split...

Sibling "A" can kiss all our azzes, and has been axed from fambly tree

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:25 AM (Gkog9)

215 Happy Pride Month everyone. There I said it, so i do not have to say it again. Only 18 shopping days days til Juneteenth.

Posted by: Picric at June 01, 2023 07:26 AM (13tTk)

216 I've been waiting two weeks for my stepson to give me the info to wire him money, so I can pay him back for legal fees. I'm about ready to just send cashier's checks and be done with it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:27 AM (ouTlx)

217 If nothing else, handing an estate is a great lesson in the depths of human stupidity and the breadth of governmental malice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 07:27 AM (9UlRk)

218 Shjt... Sun's coming up!

Gotta go.

Thanks for all your support and advice! I gots stuff to do!

G'nite horde, you're all The Best!

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:28 AM (Gkog9)

219 I am going to try to give my children the gift of a hassle-free estate.

I plan to spend it all before I die.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 07:28 AM (vg8N1)

220 My mom has been working on her will. She scheduled a call with me and my sister this evening (an unusual occurrence). I mentioned to my sister that the will might be the subject of the call, and my sister immediately replied, "I expect nothing." Um...I meant she would likely tell us where the will is and, e.g., where to find info on how to pay the house water bill...but okay, I guess I know what's on your mind, sis...

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 01, 2023 07:28 AM (jrY13)

221 At least 330 COVID-19-related medical papers have been retracted since the coronavirus pandemic began, oftentimes for scientific errors or ethical shortcomings, according to watchdog Retraction Watch.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 07:29 AM (BRHaw)

222 Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:27 AM

Ugh! Western Union is THE MOST EXPENSIVE way to send $. Go for the cashiers' check!

Posted by: JQ-- Moon Moon is my spirit animal at June 01, 2023 07:29 AM (Gkog9)

223 Dad's side, his mother left almost everything to him, and his brother basically said "yup, sounds about right". So it's not always a pain in the ass.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 07:30 AM (9UlRk)

224 I don't know what will happen with this house. Was going to leave it to the stepson, but he won't deal with it. It could just become another empty vacant house in this town.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:30 AM (ouTlx)

225 Christianity doesn't threaten them with Hell. It threatens them with Heaven.

IIANM, only Jesus acted overtly once, to admonish people for blaspheming and that was when he rampaged the market in the temple. Otherwise he always pointed out their sins and how there was always a way to forgiveness.

I cannot recall any NT 'threats'. And I don't consider telling folks the wages for their transgression as threatening. It's all about free will, and the consequences of your decisions and actions.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 01, 2023 07:31 AM (YRsIm)

226 I'm also the executor of said will, ostensibly because I'm closer (5 min compared to over an hour), but you can guess the real reason.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 01, 2023 07:31 AM (jrY13)

227 I could sign over the house to the church.

They would sell it tout de suite.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 07:31 AM (vg8N1)

228 No, I was going to do a wire transfer from my bank to his. But he has to get that info from his bank. My bank said it's a headache if a cashier's check gets lost in the mail.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:32 AM (ouTlx)

229 St. Paul did write that when you stop worshiping the Creator and worship the creation instead, you will be given over to these unnatural urges.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 07:32 AM (vg8N1)

230 229 St. Paul did write that when you stop worshiping the Creator and worship the creation instead, you will be given over to these unnatural urges.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 01, 2023 07:32 AM (vg8N1)

*looks up from squeezing mayonnaise and Sriracha on cold pizza*

What's it to ya, bub?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 07:34 AM (9UlRk)

231 I'd like to see a gender-swapped F-Troop.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:34 AM (iayUP)

232 pride
prīd
noun
A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.
Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association.
Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.

I am thinking the third one works best.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 07:35 AM (BRHaw)

233 231 I'd like to see a gender-swapped F-Troop.
Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:34 AM (iayUP)

Chris Pratt as Wrangler Jane...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 07:35 AM (9UlRk)

234 At the old place, the house behind me was gifted to a guy, just because he would cut the grass for the old man. He had no idea until the lawyer contacted him after the old man's death.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:35 AM (ouTlx)

235 219. Chatterbox the name of the book is "Die Broke". Written by Steven Polland I think. Well worth the read when it comes to inheritance and all problems. I do not agree with everything, but he does raise some good points.

Posted by: Picric at June 01, 2023 07:36 AM (13tTk)

236 Cpt. Parmenter would be that Limey McBoring-Hyphen they keep trying to make happen, of course.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 07:37 AM (9UlRk)

237 Ooh ooh. Gender swapped "Hogan's HERos".

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:38 AM (iayUP)

238 Lizzo can play Shultz.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:39 AM (iayUP)

239 I keep getting an ad for a Jeep for $1500, but when I go there it's not $1500. Is there someone I can register a complaint with?

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:40 AM (iayUP)

240 Lizzo can play Shultz.
Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:39 AM (iayUP)

"I EET EVVVERRRYYYSINK!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 07:42 AM (9UlRk)

241 228 No, I was going to do a wire transfer from my bank to his. But he has to get that info from his bank. My bank said it's a headache if a cashier's check gets lost in the mail.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:32 AM (ouTlx)

put it in an joint account. send him the info certified mail. get his sig on a card. it will take him 30 seconds

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

242 231 I'd like to see a gender-swapped F-Troop.
Posted by: fd at June 01, 2023 07:34 AM (iayUP)

I am waiting on the white remake of the Color Purple

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 07:44 AM (BRHaw)

243 Jennifer Lawrence can play The War.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2023 07:44 AM (9UlRk)

244 That's an idea. I was going to give him one more try on it. He's in no hurry because he borrowed the money and will be paying someone else back.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 01, 2023 07:45 AM (ouTlx)

245 two words

J
and
J

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 01, 2023 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

246 🏴‍☠️

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 01, 2023 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

247 246 🏴‍☠️
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 01, 2023 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

?

Posted by: m at June 01, 2023 08:33 AM (AOrJZ)

248 Insider tip: they had the room wired with six big screen tvs all playing Clockwork Orange at maximum volume, simultaneously, of different parts of the movie.

Posted by: Ray Mota at June 01, 2023 11:43 AM (sw3xv)

249 Oh, great.

Slave Hats.

Posted by: MartynWW at June 01, 2023 02:14 PM (Ur3df)

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