Daily Tech News 6 July 2023

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Elon Musk really broke Twitter this time. (The Atlantic)
The social network has never seen chaos quite like this.
They literally know nothing, not even their own magazine. Say the words fail whale and they'll just blink stupidly at you like a myopic dugong.
You might think that if The Atlantic is reporting on a tech story, it must already be obsolete or irrelevant and you'd be 100% correct. (The Verge)

The requirement to log in to read tweets? Gone.

Daily limits on reading, posting, replying, liking? As far as I can tell, gone.

Oh, and there's this:
Twitter's move comes a day before Meta launches its own text-based app called Threads. Interestingly, Threads also briefly allowed users to view posts on the web without logging in before pulling the links. It is likely that people will be able to see Threads posts without an account when the app officially launches.
So the news is that Twitter briefly disabled reading content without an account, and Threads briefly enabled it.

Tech News

Marmot is a distributed, eventually-consistent version of SQLite. (GitHub)

What happens when there's a race condition, you ask?

They have a very clever solution for that: They lose your data.

They do lose your data deterministically, but they still lose your data.
Reddit's subreddit r/programming is back.

It's garbage.
We have left the cloud. (Hey)

They spent half a million dollars on hardware to save one and a half million per year on cloud services.
Bruce Power is planning to expand an existing site in Ontario into the world's largest nuclear reactor complex. (Financial Post)

Swampies hardest hit.
French president Emmanuel Macron has been accused of authoritarianism after threatening to cut off social networks if mobs continue to burn, loot, and murder their way across the country. (The Guardian)

Destroy the city and your TikTok privileges are revoked.

I think there's a generation that needs a lesson in the meaning of authoritarianism.
Promises of the imminent arrival of AGI - artificial general intelligence, or real AI - are bullshit. (The Register)
Enter Yale School of Management economics professor Jason Abaluck, who in May took to Twitter to proclaim: "If you don't agree that AGI is coming soon, you need to explain why your views are more informed than expert AI researchers."
That would be, Jase, because the "expert AI researchers" are crack-addled retards:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last month declared to an audience in India: "I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like, really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..."
Yes, you can tell that by all the rocks that have won the Nobel Prize.
Caswell Barry, professor of UCL's Cell and Developmental Biology department, works on uncovering the neural basis of memory. He says OpenAI made a big bet on an approach to AI that many in the field did not think would be fruitful.

While OpenAI might have surprised the industry and academia with the success of its approach, sooner or later it could run out of road without necessarily getting closer to AGI, he argued.

"OpenAI literally sucked in a large proportion of the readily accessible digital texts on the internet, you can't just like get 10 times more, because you've got to get it from somewhere. There are ways of finessing and getting smarter about how you use it, but actually, fundamentally, it's still missing some abilities. There're no solid indications that it can generate abstract concepts and manipulate them."
He's being very diplomatic there. We know that it can't generate abstract concepts.

And there's another interesting point there: We put the sum of all human knowledge into the most advanced computers on the planet and the result is a radical left-wing college sophomore with the self-awareness of a retarded potato.
A chronological list of Star Wars movies and TV shows. (Gizmodo)

Why am I linking to a dumb list that isn't even chronological (neither in order of release or internal chronology)?

Because it was generated by an AI, because it is indistinguishable from the usual drivel on these sites except that (a) it is spelled correctly and (b) it doesn't accuse you of racism, and because the idiots who regularly write said drivel don't want anyone to click on it because then they'll all get fired and end up living in a dumpster fighting with the rats over the daily supply of Starbucks' coffee grounds.

Which is a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Disclaimer: And I'll be rooting for the rats.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Hiya

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:01 AM (T4tVD)

2 Hey JT

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 04:03 AM (xhxe8)

4 Hiya Pixy !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:03 AM (T4tVD)

5 Repost from last thread...

So, apparently, there is some delicious schadenfraude WRT the Sound of Freedom overtaking Indy at the box office, SOF was shot and in the can in 2018 with 21 C Fox, when Disney bought 21 C Fox, they shelved SOF, it took the producers a couple of years to buy the film back from Disney, but they did and now their film is beating Disney.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2023 04:04 AM (up/3i)

6 Hiya Skip !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:04 AM (T4tVD)

7 >>>It is likely that people will be able to see Threads posts without an account when the app officially launches.

It is likely that that will happen? Or it is unlikely?
I need more coffee.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 04:06 AM (4tUZx)

8 Hi all. "They have a very clever solution for that: They lose your data."

I come for the buffet but stay for observations like that. Having spent a lot of time with databases issues like race conditions or botched transactions warm my heart. Lose your data, that is double plus good.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 04:09 AM (P+hi2)

9
Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a battery.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 04:09 AM (Mzdiz)

10 Be nice to Pixy.

South of the equator, software goes the other way around.

Also, Pixy has to stand on his head to be fully Microsoft Compliant

Posted by: G'day JT mate! at July 06, 2023 04:10 AM (bqhaz)

11
Anything coming from Meta/Facebook is gonna get taken over by the leftists who have an entire bag of tricks to create the perception that everyone agrees with the leftist point of view.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2023 04:10 AM (enJYY)

12 >>>Disclaimer: And I'll be rooting for the rats.

And the cockroaches. We can all root for the cockroaches, too. Now, the Battle Between the Rats and the Cockroaches ... still, cockroaches.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 04:11 AM (4tUZx)

13 G'day JT mate

Seems like I oughtta know you....

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:14 AM (T4tVD)

14 Had to water very well garden yesterday, it's hot out there
Used up extra rain barrel

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 04:14 AM (xhxe8)

15 Evening and morning to all the satellites in space! Flash! Let's go to . . . Twitter? Aw, Mom, do we hafta?

Just had a long, semi-coherent dream about applying to two separate jobs in the same day, with the handicap that my watch was set two hours later than the time zone. Programming jobs, apparently. The first at a small shop, two people, a man and a woman, where they wanted the new hire to learn C. The other was on the opposite side of the Interstate (wherever this was) in a shopping center along the service road, and I was afraid I was two hours late. Turned out the place was run by former co-workers of mine; I knew everybody. I was realizing why my watch was two hours fast when I woke up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:14 AM (omVj0)

16 >Disclaimer: And I'll be rooting for the rats.

And the cockroaches. We can all root for the cockroaches, too. Now, the Battle Between the Rats and the Cockroaches ... still, cockroaches.
Posted by: m

Are you saying that the roaches have guns ?

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:15 AM (T4tVD)

17 Good morning morons

Local TV news frets about "brazen" daylight car break-ins at Alamo Sq where tourists love to stare at the "painted ladies."

The responses from SFPD and genius local officials have become so routine and banal they are devoid of any meaning. Talk about clown world...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023 04:17 AM (RIvkX)

18 I turned my A/C on yesterday for the first time this year.

When its on the needle on my electric meter spins like an airplane propeller.

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:18 AM (T4tVD)

19 The kittens are doing well. Actually I think Stirling has reached the end of kittenhood. He does not seem to have the same desire to knead and nuzzle me when I first wake up; the times he has done it since Linda brought him back have seemed rather perfunctory, like the way you kiss the aunt you see only once every few months on the cheek. He still curls up with me in bed, but he's too busy galloping around with little Dagny.

Ah, well. They grow up so fast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:20 AM (omVj0)

20 AI and AIG panic is what all the hysterical end of times fascists/ marxists will gravitate to once they get bored with climate change.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 04:20 AM (P+hi2)

21 Ah, well. They grow up so fast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

But who makin' groceries

Posted by: Confederate of Dunces at July 06, 2023 04:22 AM (bqhaz)

22 I actually met John Kennedy Toole's mama

She spoke....remarkably, and memorably

Posted by: Confederate of Dunces at July 06, 2023 04:26 AM (bqhaz)

23 turned my A/C on yesterday for the first time this year.

When its on the needle on my electric meter spins like an airplane propeller.
Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023

***
If only I lived in a climate like that. Here, the A/C always has to be ready. We can have an 80 F., nastily humid day in January.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:27 AM (omVj0)

24 turned my A/C on yesterday for the first time this year.

Off

You mean off

Posted by: Argentina, mate-possibly Uruguay at July 06, 2023 04:29 AM (bqhaz)

25 Mornin'

Went to check some twitter accounts I enjoy reading and nope, still wants me to sign up. I could, but I don't wanna. No biggie. First World Problems.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 06, 2023 04:30 AM (sAmhv)

26 If only I lived in a climate like that. Here, the A/C always has to be ready. We can have an 80 F., nastily humid day in January.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Long growing season

Posted by: SEND CREOLE TOMATOES at July 06, 2023 04:31 AM (bqhaz)

27 Las Cruces we have about 6 months where you use little to no heat or AC, 3 months where you leave the heat on all the time and 3 months where you leave the AC on all the time. Right now we're in the middle of peak AC season with daily highs of between 100 and 105° which is a bit unusual. Normally they are about 10° less.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 04:33 AM (P+hi2)

28 Went to check some twitter accounts I enjoy reading and nope, still wants me to sign up. I could, but I don't wanna. No biggie. First World Problems.
Posted by: Puddleglum

My interest in buying a Tesla has gone from 0% to sub-arctic minus

Posted by: NEED CREOLE TOMATOES at July 06, 2023 04:35 AM (bqhaz)

29 If only I lived in a climate like that. Here, the A/C always has to be ready. We can have an 80 F., nastily humid day in January.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Long growing season
Posted by: SEND CREOLE TOMATOES at July 06, 2023

***
Endless sweat season

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:35 AM (omVj0)

30 Mornin'

Went to check some twitter accounts I enjoy reading and nope, still wants me to sign up. I could, but I don't wanna. No biggie. First World Problems.
Posted by: Puddleglum

So no more Big Bad Blue Tweets ?

Oh, the humanity !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:35 AM (T4tVD)

31 Girl F. a San Francisco native announced yesterday she was "tired of being cold all the time"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023 04:37 AM (RIvkX)

32 I can read the Bad Blue tweets, from the Bad Blue website. I'm talking going to twitter directly and reading somebody's meanderings. Still can't do that. Twitter posted here isn't a problem. I was able to see some of the posts from yesterdays Evening Cafe thread. So, twitter is almost back but not quite.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 06, 2023 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

33
Dew point here is hovering around 70F. The "real feel" is all about humilarity (a certain she-redneck around here so referred to it as).

As my cousin, the re-tard (redneck for "retired") meteorologist type of fellow likes to stress, dew point is the best measure of said humilarity. When the dew point gets below 30F, into the mid 20Fs, it's "dry" in an absolute sense. When dew point gets in the mid to high 60Fs, it's "muggy" in an absolute sense.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 04:38 AM (Mzdiz)

34 Long growing season
Posted by: SEND CREOLE TOMATOES at July 06, 2023

***
Endless sweat season
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023

***
Not to mention there is no month of the year in this pesthole where I never need to put the sunshades up in the car to keep it cool from the sun. There are days when I don't -- but there is never an entire month when the shades never get unrolled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:39 AM (omVj0)

35 How about a dew point of 72? Its muggy in Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 06, 2023 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

36 Girl F. a San Francisco native announced yesterday she was "tired of being cold all the time"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023

***
I'll trade. You can always put on a jacket or hat. There is only so much clothing you can remove before you get arrested.

Well, maybe not in modern America.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:41 AM (omVj0)

37
In these conditions here, most of the work your A/C is doing is not keeping the temp below ambient, it's condensing all that humilarity out.

In very dry (in terms of dew point) climes, when the temp is high, you can cool it, by evaporating water into it (swamp cooler).

In conditions here, that will not work. You've got to get that humilarity out of ambient air.

Psychrometry. It's a bitch. And fucking complicated.

Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a psychrometrist.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 04:42 AM (Mzdiz)

38 I can read the Bad Blue tweets, from the Bad Blue website.

Whenever I go there the tweets are several days old.

Must be a secret password to get the fresh ones.

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:46 AM (T4tVD)

39 The cats also seem to have very little interest in their canned food. I'm using good quality brands like Blue Buffalo Wilderness and Tastefuls, and they liked it growing up. Stirling devoured and grew like a weed on the kitten blend. Now, they take only a mouthful when I first serve it, or sniff at it and walk away; and the stuff is still mostly there some hours later. They love their dry food, Iams and others. Them cans ain't cheap. Maybe I need to put the money into good-quality dry food, give them a little canned once a day for moisture, make sure they have their water fountain, and let it go.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:48 AM (omVj0)

40
The highest dew point ever recorded on this here Erf was 95F, at some damn place near the coast of the Persian Gulf. Given ambient temp, the "real feel" heat index was somewhere in the 170F range.

Highest official dew point recorded in the US was 88F some damn place. Supposedly, it hit 90 and 91F in LA, and FLorida, but that is not officially verified.

The human body cools primarily by evaporative cooling, 'vaportin' water known as sweat. When said dew point gets high enough, that don't work. A human would heat up in ambient, not cool down. When dew point gets in the 90F range, one is at that point.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 04:50 AM (Mzdiz)

41 In these conditions here, most of the work your A/C is doing is not keeping the temp below ambient, it's condensing all that humilarity out.

In very dry (in terms of dew point) climes, when the temp is high, you can cool it, by evaporating water into it (swamp cooler).

In conditions here, that will not work. You've got to get that humilarity out of ambient air. . . .

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023

***
The term "swamp cooler" is utterly alien to the natives here. You might as well be speaking Sanskrit. Or proper English for that matter.

In my limited experience in Denver and NM, a swamp cooler in dry conditions will get you about 20 F. cooler than outside. Of course, if it's 110 F. out there, 90 inside isn't so good. And you feel sticky all the time anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 04:51 AM (omVj0)

42 Maybe I need to put the money into good-quality dry food, give them a little canned once a day for moisture, make sure they have their water fountain, and let it go.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I bet they'd like some mice. You should let a few go in the house.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 04:51 AM (P+hi2)

43 >>>Elon Musk really broke Twitter this time. (The Atlantic) The social network has never seen chaos quite like this.

That Atlantic writer appears to be paid by the word.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 04:51 AM (4tUZx)

44 Nobody wants swamp coolers in Las Cruces. Everybody wants regular AC. The only reason swamp coolers are still in existence is they're cheap.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 04:52 AM (P+hi2)

45 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2023 04:54 AM (ju2Fy)

46 >>>and you'd be 100% correct. (The Verge)

That link goes to techcrunch.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 04:56 AM (4tUZx)

47 The human body cools primarily by evaporative cooling, 'vaportin' water known as sweat. When said dew point gets high enough, that don't work. A human would heat up in ambient, not cool down. When dew point gets in the 90F range, one is at that point.
Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram

Oh.

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 04:58 AM (T4tVD)

48 Lost power for 11 hrs. Just came on so I can haz coffee.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 06, 2023 04:59 AM (ju2Fy)

49 Twitter seems to be back on foe viewing to us heathens

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 04:59 AM (xhxe8)

50 You're a bit off there about Macron. It's completely cool if you burn down the city, you won't be punished. But if you dare report on it, you'll be blocked.

He's now changing his tune and saying they want to stop people from organizing these riots on social media, but originally it was all about stopping footage of his inept government spinning on their dildos, just watching the country burn.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 06, 2023 05:00 AM (8ZQ3G)

51 Lost power for 11 hrs. Just came on so I can haz coffee.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Is this a Great Country or what ?

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 05:02 AM (T4tVD)

52 Twitter seems to be back on foe viewing to us heathens
Posted by: Skip

What's foe viewing ?

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 05:03 AM (T4tVD)

53 For is a lot like cofevfe.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 05:04 AM (P+hi2)

54 Just got suspended from Twitter for a week.

Oh no. Anyway...

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

55 >>>I think there's a generation that needs a lesson in the meaning of authoritarianism.

It's like the cycle of war and peace generations: “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times."

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:06 AM (4tUZx)

56 54 Just got suspended from Twitter for a week.

Oh no. Anyway...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 05:05 AM (BLOW1)

LOL

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:06 AM (4tUZx)

57 Just got suspended from Twitter for a week.

Oh no. Anyway...
Posted by: Pixy Mis

Congratulations.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 05:07 AM (P+hi2)

58 Someone here also warned me about watching Sword Art Online War of the Underworld,,but I didn't listen.

I'm on episode 9 now, and I actually think it has some good bits and potential, such as the supportng characters for once not being total crap, but they swapped shitty leads, have an cliche and inane plot, and everything still comes down to one all powerful person just snapping their fingers to win.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 06, 2023 05:07 AM (8ZQ3G)

59 Just got suspended from Twitter for a week. ...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 05:05 AM (BLOW1)
===
For what crime?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023 05:08 AM (RIvkX)

60 I see a Bad Moon a rising

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 05:09 AM (xhxe8)

61 Foggy, windy, and cold again today.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023 05:10 AM (RIvkX)

62 I see a Bad Moon a rising
Posted by: Skip

You're trying to trick me into going outside....

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 05:10 AM (T4tVD)

63 59 Just got suspended from Twitter for a week. ...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 05:05 AM (BLOW1)
===
For what crime?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Arguing with an idiot who thinks pregnancy counts as slavery under the 13th Amendment.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 05:12 AM (BLOW1)

64 63 59 Just got suspended from Twitter for a week. ...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 05:05 AM (BLOW1)
===
For what crime?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Arguing with an idiot who thinks pregnancy counts as slavery under the 13th Amendment.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 05:12 AM (BLOW1)

Why would that make you bannable?

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:13 AM (4tUZx)

65 G'morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: creeper at July 06, 2023 05:13 AM (cTCuP)

66 For some reason I've been watching a lot of movies filmed in Australia lately and I find myself becoming quite fond of the landscape. Because of that I looked up city sizes and I discovered that Darwin is about the same size as Las Cruces. Then I looked up the weather in Darwin and decided that I'm not that fond of that part of Australia. I think I just might be a Western Australia type person.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 05:14 AM (P+hi2)

67 >> I see a Bad Moon a rising

The Buck Moon (first Moon of astronomical summer) has already risen. On July 3rd.

The next full moon risin' will be the Sturgeon Moon on August 1. The next moon will occur on Aug 30. Some will erroneously call this a Blue Moon, second in a calendar month. This is wrong. it's just an early Corn Moon.

The true Blue moon won't occur until Aug of 2024.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 05:15 AM (Mzdiz)

68 Arguing with an idiot who thinks pregnancy counts as slavery under the 13th Amendment.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

I may need to get a new account on Twitter.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 05:15 AM (P+hi2)

69 64 Why would that make you bannable?
Posted by: m

Elon clearly hasn't fired enough people yet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 06, 2023 05:16 AM (BLOW1)

70
As Mark Twain observed, do not argue with a fool. Onlookers may have trouble seeing the difference.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 05:17 AM (Mzdiz)

71 13th amdmt:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:17 AM (4tUZx)

72
Pixy sees all these Moons upside down.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 05:17 AM (Mzdiz)

73 I see a Bad Moon a rising
Posted by: Skip

It looks egg-shaped.

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 05:18 AM (T4tVD)

74 Pixy sees all these Moons upside down.
Posted by: Emergency Medical

assume a quasi-spherical Pixy

Posted by: von Neumann-Teller-Szilard at July 06, 2023 05:21 AM (bqhaz)

75 Then I looked up the weather in Darwin and decided that I'm not that fond of that part of Australia. I think I just might be a Western Australia type person.
Posted by: Lost In Space

I think Darwin is the only city bombed by the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. I don't think any other place in Australia got hit.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 06, 2023 05:24 AM (20SKS)

76 Pixy sees all these Moons upside down.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 05:17 AM (Mzdiz)

Balls on top, huh?

Posted by: RickZ at July 06, 2023 05:24 AM (emlEe)

77
Upper limit on survivable humilarity. Wet bulb temp of 95F. This is an upper limit. It may be as low as 87F for young, healthy humans.

At any rate, a young healthy human could not survive a wet bulb temp of 95F for more than 6 hours.

Now, this gets into some complicated thermodyanics and subset psychrometrics, but dry bulb, wet bulb, and dew point are not the same. Wet bulb will always be in between the two others, but if you know two, you know the other.

At any temp, with 100% RH, all three will be the same. Otherwise, dry bulb > wet bulb > dew point.

So, dew point of 95F, as measured near the Persian Gulf is not survivable for any normal human.

Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023 05:25 AM (Mzdiz)

78 Arguing with an idiot who thinks pregnancy counts as slavery under the 13th Amendment.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Some deep thots from Twitter. I would welcome its collapse but something else equally as vapid and retarded would replace it. The narcissistic ramblings of the insane will not be silenced!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 06, 2023 05:25 AM (sAmhv)

79 I can't tweet, but I can still write community notes.

Bwahahaha!

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

80 his inept government spinning on their dildos, just watching the country burn.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 06, 2023 05:00 AM (8ZQ3G)

Sefton and I will be speaking today with Islam expert Robert Spencer about the festivities in France. It should be a good podcast...I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2023 05:28 AM (M5QzP)

81 It's my opinion the AI people are aiming for a philosophy of there being no such thing as Life. I've seen a few treatises on this already, from some very highly-placed sources. It's an aim to convince people their existence, such as it is, isn't real but only a subjective perception; therefore whatever identity they've developed elsewhere, particularly electronically, can be assumed and the physical being discarded, because it's not Death if you've never been Alive.
Who knew the Internet, originally intended as a communications tool, would become a cosmology of (literal) self-annihilation as emphasized in Eastern Religions?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 06, 2023 05:28 AM (/BBNv)

82 Here's a GVS (?) summary of the techcrunch article (I'm unable to access the techcrunch article):

https://www.globalvillagespace.com/
tech/twitter-removes-login-requirement-
for-viewing-tweets/

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:28 AM (4tUZx)

83 Sefton and I will be speaking today with Islam expert Robert Spencer about the festivities in France. It should be a good podcast...I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

How do you book those great guests?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 06, 2023 05:29 AM (20SKS)

84 I'm also unable to access tinyurl.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:29 AM (4tUZx)

85 LenNeal,

Hmm, interesting. That almost sounds very Eastern mysticism-ish. I'm not read up on Eastern religions but what you posted sounds like it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 06, 2023 05:30 AM (sAmhv)

86 Did get proper writing done overnight, but during the last one Libre Office froze on me (using an antique Chromebook running Linux) mostly because I haven't restarted it in, like, three weeks. Froze with two completed pages displayed in an unsaved file. Fooling around with the restart I thought it would retrieve; it did not.
I could have 'backed it up' with either a screenshot or actually taking a picture with my phone, which was sitting right there. I at least would have been able to transcribe instead of having to rewrite it from memory.
Oh well. It got done anyway. It was dumb on my part.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 06, 2023 05:32 AM (/BBNv)

87 The Verge
https://www.theverge.com
"The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel."

!!!

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:32 AM (4tUZx)

88 Promises of the imminent arrival of AGI - artificial general intelligence, or real AI - are bullshit. (The Register)
Enter Yale School of Management economics professor Jason Abaluck, who in May took to Twitter to proclaim: "If you don't agree that AGI is coming soon, you need to explain why your views are more informed than expert AI researchers."
That would be, Jase, because the "expert AI researchers" are crack-addled retards:

-------------

AI always looked and performed as idiots typing away in call centers. They did some quick google searches and then sent you the answers.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 05:33 AM (3JfbU)

89 CBD, Nice get. Mazel. I love Robert Spencer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

90 How do you book those great guests?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 06, 2023 05:29 AM (20SKS)

Mostly we just ask them to join us! And beg.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2023 05:34 AM (M5QzP)

91
EMH sock off (but I love Robert Picardo, my second favorite Star Trek character behind Elim Gark, DS9).

My re-tard cousin I mentioned above, recalls with fondness, his first tour of duty. My uncle, his Daddy, wanted him to go to collidge. He rebelled and joined the Air Force. Got assigned to weatherman duty, which became the love of his life.

His first assignment was in Alaska. He recalls going out on one hour intervals, in extreme cold, to take readings from some weather stations. He had to do the sling psychrometer thing to measure wet bulb temp in god-awful cold.

He talks about carrying a shotgun at certain times of year, in case a bear got hungry nearby.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 06, 2023 05:35 AM (Mzdiz)

92 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

We have had him on a couple of times and it has been a real pleasure.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2023 05:37 AM (M5QzP)

93 And Thank You for the link to Hey email. I wondered why I'd never heard of it but Oh, 2020! That's, like, brand-new yesterday.

That looks interesting. It's getting to where it might be a necessity to get an actual email service instead of 'free' ones from the Usual Suspects...

Posted by: LenNeal at July 06, 2023 05:43 AM (/BBNv)

94 Arguing with an idiot who thinks pregnancy counts as slavery under the 13th Amendment.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

------------------

Did you tell her to then have a hysterectomy?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 05:43 AM (3JfbU)

95 For some reason I've been watching a lot of movies filmed in Australia lately and I find myself becoming quite fond of the landscape. Because of that I looked up city sizes and I discovered that Darwin is about the same size as Las Cruces. Then I looked up the weather in Darwin and decided that I'm not that fond of that part of Australia. I think I just might be a Western Australia type person.
Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 05:14 AM (P+hi2)

--------------

I remember Perth being nice but it was September, their early spring.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 05:45 AM (3JfbU)

96 We have had him on a couple of times and it has been a real pleasure.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo.

Is your podcast available on Spotify, or Tune in?

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 05:47 AM (P+hi2)

97 Yeah, there is no 'You'!

From BigThink:

https://tinyurl.com/yc72v323

Posted by: LenNeal at July 06, 2023 05:48 AM (/BBNv)

98 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2023 05:49 AM (BRHaw)

99 99

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 05:51 AM (4tUZx)

100 Try to never miss a Robert Spencer article

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2023 05:52 AM (1+G96)

101 Is your podcast available on Spotify, or Tune in?

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 05:47 AM (P+hi2)

It's available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon, one I don't recall, and of course directly at CutJibNewsletter.com

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 06, 2023 05:55 AM (M5QzP)

102 For some reason I've been watching a lot of movies filmed in Australia lately and I find myself becoming quite fond of the landscape. Because of that I looked up city sizes and I discovered that Darwin is about the same size as Las Cruces. Then I looked up the weather in Darwin and decided that I'm not that fond of that part of Australia. I think I just might be a Western Australia type person.
Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023

***
Darwin is much closer to the equator than is LC -- more of a subtropical moisture dump like Noo Awlins. I suspect Darwin is at a lower elevation too.

Perth, on the western coast of AU, is supposed to have a climate much like S. California, that "Mediterranean" climate you see at about 35 N. or S. latitude on the western edge of a continent. The same conditions hold in part of Chile and in South Africa.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 05:57 AM (omVj0)

103 I don't understand how Biden is going to dim the sun to solve his idea the world is burning up.
I thought he had to build his RR across the Indian Ocean first.
I guess Doctor Jill likes to keep Biden's brain active, coming up with impossible dreams.

Posted by: Colin at July 06, 2023 06:01 AM (2DV6+)

104 G'morning, all!

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

105 I think Darwin is the only city bombed by the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. I don't think any other place in Australia got hit.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 06, 2023

***
As dramatized in Baz Luhrmann's epic film Australia w/ Nicole Kidman.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 06:04 AM (omVj0)

106 CBD

Our son is visiting, and mentioned finally trying the boil-n-bag method of doing steaks with his InstantPot.

He has become a big fan of the process, and asked us to tell you 'Thanks'.

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

107 The next full moon risin' will be the Sturgeon Moon on August 1. The next moon will occur on Aug 30. Some will erroneously call this a Blue Moon, second in a calendar month. This is wrong. it's just an early Corn Moon.

The true Blue moon won't occur until Aug of 2024.
Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram at July 06, 2023

***
So what *is* the definition of a Blue Moon?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 06:07 AM (omVj0)

108
Bruce Power

All of our electrons are named Bruce.

G'day, Bruce!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:08 AM (pNxlR)

109 It's available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon, one I don't recall, and of course directly at CutJibNewsletter.com
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Thanks. Also, thanks for all the work you do here.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 06:09 AM (P+hi2)

110 Bruce Power is planning to expand an existing site in Ontario into the world's largest nuclear reactor complex. (Financial Post)

Told ya I would do that.

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

111 Nuclear power...hmmm, isn't that the thing that some people somewhere said would kill us all and we need more giant windmills and also black panels glued to our roofs?

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 06:13 AM (vd8XM)

112 Perth, on the western coast of AU, is supposed to have a climate much like S. California, that "Mediterranean" climate you see at about 35 N. or S. latitude on the western edge of a continent. The same conditions hold in part of Chile and in South Africa.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

From the film's I've seen, it looks a lot like Southern California and certain other places in the southwest. That appeals to me.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 06:15 AM (P+hi2)

113
"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like, really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..."

All terrorist cells in the particle world are comprised solely of mu mesons ... fear them!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:15 AM (pNxlR)

114 I'm starting to see panels of solar cells on the roofs of mostly new houses. An aunt had them installed about 10 years ago, and she never missed the opportunity to tell us all how much she was saving.
Now the panels are gone off the roof after a new roof was installed. What happened, she doesn't say.
Maybe she discovered heat pumps I'd guess.

Posted by: Colin at July 06, 2023 06:20 AM (2DV6+)

115 Good morning, Horde. I have a tech question. How do I get a hot spot in Windows 10 when it doesn't give me the options to foow?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2023 06:20 AM (YjBJd)

116
Pixy sees all these Moons upside down.
Posted by: Emergency Medical Hologram

This is true. The hands involved with "wax on, wane off" to recall the progression of which half of the Moon is lighted when are switched Down Under

Northern hemisphere: wax (R), wane (L)
Southern hemisphere: wax (L), wane (R)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:22 AM (pNxlR)

117 Now the panels are gone off the roof after a new roof was installed. What happened, she doesn't say.
Maybe she discovered heat pumps I'd guess.
Posted by: Colin

That was my concern when they started installing around here.
Who is responsible for roof damage when the time comes.

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 06:22 AM (vd8XM)

118 dammit, follow

Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2023 06:22 AM (YjBJd)

119
I saw Options to Foow in Grand Tetons National Park, but the NDA I signed prohibits me from saying anything further about it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:24 AM (pNxlR)

120 So that mass shooting in Baltimore the other day with thirty folks shot, and two dead doesn't seem to be leaving the front page of local news.

And yes, I have finally seen reporting describing the location of the party, attended by 800-1,000 people as being at a Public Housing Complex.

With cell phone videos taken by adults of children removing handguns from backpacks and brandishing them all throughout the day.

Maybe we should make it illegal for children to carry handguns.

/S

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:29 AM (1n+EO)

121 AP says record breaking temps are gripping the planet. We are all going to die in 5 years from the heat. (Its July you know, AP)
I wasn't aware we had accurately tracked the earth temperature from the dawn of life on the planet

Posted by: Colin at July 06, 2023 06:29 AM (2DV6+)

122 I wasn't aware we had accurately tracked the earth temperature from the dawn of life on the planet
Posted by: Colin

They're relying on the Old Farmers Almanac.

Why?

"It's Old!"

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 06:31 AM (vd8XM)

123
Now the panels are gone off the roof after a new roof was installed.

Oh, I am sure that the technically aware roofing crew took exacting pains to dispose of the now abandoned solar panels properly. Check along roadsides of back roads in adjacent counties for starters.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:31 AM (pNxlR)

124 "I wasn't aware we had accurately tracked the earth temperature from the dawn of life on the planet"

Are you questioning 'The Science'?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:31 AM (1n+EO)

125 103 I don't understand how Biden is going to dim the sun to solve his idea the world is burning up.
I thought he had to build his RR across the Indian Ocean first.
I guess Doctor Jill likes to keep Biden's brain active, coming up with impossible dreams.
Posted by: Colin at July 06, 2023 06:01 AM (2DV6+)

And then he blurts them out.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 06:33 AM (SpRPx)

126 I know we hit a heat index of 122 degrees in the backyard yesterday.

Which is hot.

But later in the day, using Joe Biden's proven idea of reducing the amount of sun striking our side of the planet, it began to cool off.

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

127 At a press conference about the recent mass shooting in Philadelphia, a BLM activist said conservative media is committing verbal "violence" by sharing photos of the shooter wearing women's clothing because he was not really trans.

"But the language spewed out by the conservative press is violent and is dangerous and is targeting trans women of color. It's rallying the community to be violent."

he was not trans trans

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2023 06:35 AM (BRHaw)

128
I don't understand how Biden is going to dim the sun to solve his idea the world is burning up.

Joe knows dim ... intimately.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:36 AM (pNxlR)

129 so, the atlantic, and a buncha other lefty retards, are wishcasting as hard as their tiny minds can bear?

-_- shocked face!

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at July 06, 2023 06:36 AM (dwh5k)

130 126 I know we hit a heat index of 122 degrees in the backyard yesterday.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:33 AM (1n+EO)

ouch

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 06:36 AM (SpRPx)

131 I know we hit a heat index of 122 degrees in the backyard yesterday.

Which is hot.

But later in the day, using Joe Biden's proven idea of reducing the amount of sun striking our side of the planet, it began to cool off.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

It's time to get rid of the heat index and "feels like" readings.
Grandma says 122 feels just fine to her

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

132 121 AP says record breaking temps are gripping the planet. We are all going to die in 5 years from the heat. (Its July you know, AP)
I wasn't aware we had accurately tracked the earth temperature from the dawn of life on the planet
Posted by: Colin at July 06, 2023 06:29 AM (2DV6+)

LA cooling streak is up to 65 or 66 days of below 80.
It is the longest recorded streak of days with high temperatures below 80 during May and June in downtown Los Angeles since 1878.

The previous longest streak was 59 days from May 2 to June 29 in 1916.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2023 06:37 AM (BRHaw)

133
AP says record breaking temps are gripping the planet.

Not "seizing" or "pouncing on"?

APers must have finally been issued thesauruses.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:40 AM (pNxlR)

134 APers must have finally been issued thesauruses.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

I thought Thesauruses were extinct?

...AOC...

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 06:42 AM (vd8XM)

135 Interesting article from a small online news site for Baltimore.

Some more info and background on the community, and the events leading up to the mass shooting.

And a PeaceMobile...that even offers a punching bag.

https://tinyurl.com/mtkyvksj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:43 AM (1n+EO)

136
At a press conference about the recent mass shooting in Philadelphia, a BLM activist said conservative media is committing verbal "violence" by sharing photos of the shooter wearing women's clothing because he was not really trans.

"But the language spewed out by the conservative press is violent and is dangerous and is targeting trans women of color. It's rallying the community to be violent."

I think the "acting violent" ball is in your court, sport-o.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:43 AM (pNxlR)

137 CBD, seriously...thank you for all the effort you put into the blog.

Posted by: creeper at July 06, 2023 06:44 AM (cTCuP)

138 "I thought Thesauruses were extinct?

...AOC..."

Spielberg shot the last one.

https://tinyurl.com/yc623ay3

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:45 AM (1n+EO)

139 121 AP says record breaking temps are gripping the planet. We are all going to die in 5 years from the heat. (Its July you know, AP)
I wasn't aware we had accurately tracked the earth temperature from the dawn of life on the planet
Posted by: Colin

Well, we're in the 54th year of Ten years to Save Mommy Earf!! DOOMED we are (still).

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 06, 2023 06:45 AM (sAmhv)

140 136 At a press conference about the recent mass shooting in Philadelphia, a BLM activist said conservative media is committing verbal "violence" by sharing photos of the shooter wearing women's clothing because he was not really trans.

"But the language spewed out by the conservative press is violent and is dangerous and is targeting trans women of color. It's rallying the community to be violent."

I think the "acting violent" ball is in your court, sport-o.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:43 AM (pNxlR)

Nice! If ONLY someone at the press conference had said exactly that.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 06:46 AM (SpRPx)

141 "because he was not really trans. "

So now THEY are arguing against the shooters Truth?

How....violent of them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:46 AM (1n+EO)

142 And now for something completely different and to supply the anime fix.

Undead Murder Farce

https://youtu.be/USr-jDwBlgc

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 06:46 AM (hbhtj)

143 PA finally got above 85 this summer. We are surely going to die.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 06, 2023 06:46 AM (EZIW5)

144 My wife and I, both over 29 yo, worked for 2.5 hours yesterday in the summer warmth to mow and do some weeding. We rehydrated during that time with tap water.

So far, no problems.

I think last year we did not have a day where the temp was in the 100's. Maybe the past few years.
The weather guessers keep pouncing on, and promoting, the "feels like" temp instead of the actual.

It's summer. It can get hot. Do or don't do.

When it's winter. It can get cold. Put on more clothes.

Maybe patch your ripped jeans.

Get off my lawn!

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 06:47 AM (vd8XM)

145 My sister told me that she finally turned on her A/C yesterday. She lives in NW PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 06, 2023 06:48 AM (sAmhv)

146 creeper, did you get your A/C fixed? Comms problems are delaying my reply

Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2023 06:48 AM (YjBJd)

147 It is the inverse McDLT theory of climate change. The hot stays cool and the cool stays hot. And the dry gets wet and the wet gets dry. But, rest assured, no place will have really nice weather.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 06, 2023 06:48 AM (EZIW5)

148 "because he was not really trans"

"And she's not only merely trans, she's really most sincerely trans."

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 06:48 AM (SpRPx)

149 BTW, that heat index of 122.8 in our yard yesterday was with an actual temperature of only 94 degrees.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:48 AM (1n+EO)

150 So the media is denying the killer's own truth?

How patriarchal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 06:51 AM (hbhtj)

151
Then this is the day of independence
For all us trannies and our descendants!

Ding dong the Xe is dead!
Which old Xe? The wicked Xe!
Ding dong the wicked Xe is dead!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 06:52 AM (pNxlR)

152 ha

Sales of the beer in the week ending on June 24 were 27.9 percent lower than during the same period last year. The brand’s troubling numbers come despite Bud Light giving out rebates for free beer ahead of Independence Day weekend.

Parent company Anheuser-Busch offered customers a $15 rebate when buying a 15-pack of Budweiser, Bud Light, Budweiser Select, or Budweiser Select 55, meaning free beer in places where the cost of a pack is $15.

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

153 Ben Had-
If you click on the Network icon on the taskbar, you should see a list of available wifi networks and hotspots, assuming your PC has a wifi adapter and the hotspot is turned on. Are you using your phone for the hotspot?

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 06:53 AM (iayUP)

154 "And she's not only merely trans, she's really most sincerely trans."
Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 06:48 AM (SpRPx)

ha I saw wicked on Sunday

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

155 The current AI mania has been foretold:

https://youtu.be/rSk_37So0Xk

Posted by: Editor at July 06, 2023 06:53 AM (4DcbE)

156 Eliza would like to have a word or two with these current chat-bots.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 06:54 AM (hbhtj)

157 "Eliza would like to have a word or two with these current chat-bots.
Posted by: Anna Puma"

Why do you say that?

Posted by: Eliza at July 06, 2023 06:56 AM (iayUP)

158 Wow. From an article about the Baltimore shooting:

"James Townes was sitting in his car when he heard gunshots, and immediately began driving around looking for his two children, 16 and 11, who were both at the block party. Townes, whose 18-year-old son was fatally shot two years ago..."

Go have fun with the same strangers who killed your 16 year old brother, 16 and 11 year old children of mine!

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 06, 2023 06:56 AM (HBEnm)

159 I don't know how I feel about this idea,

But I did serve during a time before we had random urinalysis testing.

And I will tell you, shipboard drug abuse, including weed was out of control.

https://tinyurl.com/yckk8m9a

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 06:56 AM (1n+EO)

160 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 06, 2023 06:56 AM (DhOHl)

161 150 So the media is denying the killer's own truth?

How patriarchal.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 06:51 AM (hbhtj)

Ha! They're all so tied up in knots of their own making.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 06:56 AM (SpRPx)

162 The Atlantic.

What kind of an idiot still reads that forgotten rag? Is it still in print or just online?
It’s only use when in print was to be torn into little squares to clean the backside of upscale urban outdoorsmen so he would be clean and fresh to fly a sign at the street corner.

More coffee…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 06, 2023 06:56 AM (R/m4+)

163 AP says record breaking temps are gripping the planet. We are all going to die in 5 years from the heat. (Its July you know, AP)
I wasn't aware we had accurately tracked the earth temperature from the dawn of life on the planet
Posted by: Colin at July 06, 2023 06:29 AM (2DV6+)

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It's really tedious that I have to point this out to people who have never been taught real climate science in schools.

When you have a really hot summer in the northern hemisphere while at the same time you have a particularly cold winter in the southern hemisphere it means the Earth has tilted on its axis. It has nothing to do with the our energy use.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 06:56 AM (3JfbU)

164 fd, I get nothing having to do with wi fi or hot spot.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2023 06:57 AM (YjBJd)

165 Ben Had, no. I'm now two weeks without air. Regular repairmen has switched his phone completely off. Three others have no-showed appointments, one twice. The most recent no-show was yesterday. I have one more I can call. Then I'll probably give up and call Lowe's.

It's hard to support your local businesses when you wait all day and no one shows.

Posted by: creeper at July 06, 2023 06:58 AM (cTCuP)

166 "fd, I get nothing having to do with wi fi or hot spot.
Posted by: Ben Had"

I'd be glad to try to talk you thru it if you'd like.

Posted by: Eliza at July 06, 2023 06:59 AM (iayUP)

167 "...sitting in his car when he heard..."

Mm-kay. Cars are for driving but whatevs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2023 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

168 And anybody who is trying to tell you that temps are higher all over the world are simply lying. Read the small print unless that has also been deleted.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 06:59 AM (3JfbU)

169 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

170 168 And anybody who is trying to tell you that temps are higher all over the world are simply lying. Read the small print unless that has also been deleted.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 06:59 AM (3JfbU)

Hide the Decline!

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 07:00 AM (SpRPx)

171 Oops, off artificial stupid sock.

Call me if you'd like help Ben Had.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 07:00 AM (iayUP)

172 I believe Australia and New Zealand have been having a very cold start to their winter season. I expect the same is true of South America and South Africa.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 07:01 AM (3JfbU)

173 169 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

Doing my best over here, boss.

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 07:01 AM (SpRPx)

174 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

I saw the impact of screening. We called it Operation Bottom Blow, like cleaning sludge out of a boiler.

Back in the day the Navy had an inordinate interest in my pee and prostate.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

175 And anybody who is trying to tell you that temps are higher all over the world are simply lying. Read the small print unless that has also been deleted.
Posted by: President Select Decaf

Men can be women and women can be men,
But, the weather MUST remain constant dammit

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 07:01 AM (vd8XM)

176 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:02 AM (1n+EO)

177 Wow creeper, that's some pathetic "service" men. That seems to be the state of the service industry nowadays.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 07:02 AM (iayUP)

178 m

Are you going to nail comment 200?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

179 fd, would later this afternoon be OK?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 06, 2023 07:02 AM (YjBJd)

180 Breakfast time!

Have a good one all.

Posted by: Bruce at July 06, 2023 07:02 AM (vd8XM)

181 Yes, you can tell that by all the rocks that have won the Nobel Prize.
----------

Well, let's not forget that Obama won one.

Posted by: bluebell at July 06, 2023 07:03 AM (pTb/Z)

182 In contrast to the mayor’s words came this assessment of what happened given to The Brew by a resident of the 800 block of Gretna Court:

“There was a big disturbance. Everybody called it in, but they [the police] took too long to get here.”

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The weird part is to think of all the millions of people who can gather together in large groups in parks and along streets in identical ways and not not murder each other on holidays, but laugh and smile and fellowship and reject any scuffles or loudmouth drunks that might decide to act up.

What is broken culturally that makes the two so different?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 06, 2023 07:03 AM (HBEnm)

183
pee and prostate

Perfect name for a gay bar ... just sayin'

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 07:04 AM (pNxlR)

184 creeper

Sorry to hear your AC was not worked on.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

185 "fd, would later this afternoon be OK?
Posted by: Ben Had "

Sure. I may be on the road but can still talk. I'll be back home about 5 EST.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 07:04 AM (iayUP)

186 I'm also unable to access tinyurl.
Posted by: m

You should write to the president !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 07:04 AM (T4tVD)

187 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

*Shudder*

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

188 The thing with the Earth's tilt, the more it's tilted the bigger disparities between summer and winter which is true of the present. In the 90s when there was less difference between summer and winter it was due to the Earth being more upright in relation to the sun.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 07:05 AM (3JfbU)

189 Yassir Arafat, Jimmy Carter, and Gaylord all won the same booby price - Nobel Peace Prize.

Jimmy Carter is still alive. Guess the Ruth Vader-Meinhoff Ginsberg workout routine is paying off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 07:05 AM (hbhtj)

190 Ben Had

🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

191 Good morning, Anna Puma.

He may begone, but still voting the Dem ticket.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

192 The Seattle homeless community announced that they will be going to war during the MLB All-Star game.

Homeless vagrants plan to occupy the parking lots of tailgate areas in defiance of the city removing their encampments before the game.

“Let’s f*ck their day up.”

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

193 "Jimmy Carter is still alive."

Is he really?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:07 AM (1n+EO)

194 Right now humidity here is 98%, temp 71. In a couple of hours you won't be able to walk around outside without getting soaked with sweat. Instead of lasting 3 days, your Lume will expire in 3 minutes.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 07:07 AM (iayUP)

195 Jimmy Carter is still alive

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Which minds me, he is immortal and will live for ever.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 07:08 AM (3JfbU)

196 'Operation Bottom Blow'

I remember it fondly.

Nothing like turning over the watch on a 1200PSI steam plant to a guy who you know for a fact is stoned. And the Command is unable to do anything about it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:09 AM (1n+EO)

197 CBD, seriously...thank you for all the effort you put into the blog.
Posted by: creeper

Seconded !

It almost makes me want to read the content !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 07:09 AM (T4tVD)

198 The Seattle homeless community announced that they will be going to war during the MLB All-Star game.
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What amazes me about this sentence is that the Seattle homeless community evidently has a spokesman who does press releases.

Posted by: bluebell at July 06, 2023 07:09 AM (pTb/Z)

199 Jimmy Carter better not live forever or this genuine hand painted painting of Billy Carter's horse that I have been holding on to will never be worth anything.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 07:10 AM (iayUP)

200 178 m

Are you going to nail comment 200?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

Posted by: m at July 06, 2023 07:10 AM (SpRPx)

201 Salty Dawg

Looks like the tire is still inflated on this Lexington TBD-1 Devastator.

https://tinyurl.com/2hupbj9r

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 07:10 AM (hbhtj)

202 Right this moment the outside temp is 74.5 Degrees.

With a 74.2 Degree dew point.

A hard 99% humidity.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (1n+EO)

203
Well, after busting our butts yesterday to get the RV ready for Her Majesty and Delilah to go to Dallas this weekend, we're considering pulling our entries. Lila has pinched a nerve in her neck (common among Borzoi) and simply doesn't appear to be up to it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (MoZTd)

204
From the film's I've seen, it looks a lot like Southern California and certain other places in the southwest. That appeals to me.

Posted by: Lost In Space at July 06, 2023 06:15 AM

Pixy gave a name to a beach on the west side of Australia which I forgot now, but it looked as awesome as they come.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (enJYY)

205 Hospice for politicians sure is different.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (33ek6)

206 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

I was Just Wondering where you were .

What a Quincy Dance !

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (T4tVD)

207 It got cool last night and the house is down to 81°. I'll close it up soon and it might stay below 90°.

I've seriously considered window units.

Special company arrives next Friday. There will be A/C by then.

Posted by: creeper at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (cTCuP)

208 Sefton and I will be speaking today with Islam expert Robert Spencer about the festivities in France. It should be a good podcast...I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Thank you. I’ll be sure to give it a listen.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (gQyTB)

209 Sweet, m.

Posted by: creeper at July 06, 2023 07:13 AM (cTCuP)

210 m

Well done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

211 "I've seriously considered window units"

For a couple hundred bucks, it might be worth it to get at least one. You could sell it later.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 07:13 AM (iayUP)

212 Hadrian, I'm sorry. I hope she feels better.

Psycho, if you are still here, how is your family doing, particularly your son, since yesterday?

Posted by: bluebell at July 06, 2023 07:13 AM (pTb/Z)

213 Anna Puma

Did you get my tiny story?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

214 "I've seriously considered window units"

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I saw where companies are making units that hang with the weight inside now. Slender, too. Probably unavailable or expensive, but it's nice to know they might exist for the next 5-7 years.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 06, 2023 07:15 AM (33ek6)

215 *watches Teh Herde drift across the road*

Corn run, BIAB.

Posted by: creeper at July 06, 2023 07:16 AM (cTCuP)

216 195 Jimmy Carter is still alive

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Which minds me, he is immortal and will live for ever.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 07:08 AM (3JfbU)

I'm not chuffed about that, as you can imagine.

Posted by: Keith Richards at July 06, 2023 07:17 AM (PiwSw)

217 What story?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 07:17 AM (hbhtj)

218 Sefton and I will be speaking today with Islam expert Robert Spencer about the festivities in France. It should be a good podcast...I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

How do you book those great guests?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

(he has photos of them with ducks)

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 07:17 AM (T4tVD)

219 Boker Tov Patriots

86 days

Hey if anyone needs any Coke, I hear the price at the WH is pretty good

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 06, 2023 07:19 AM (pVWRI)

220 We put the sum of all human knowledge into the most advanced computers on the planet and the result is a radical left-wing college sophomore with the self-awareness of a retarded potato.

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Politics. It's future is in politics!

Posted by: runner at July 06, 2023 07:19 AM (VRzI3)

221 Hiya Capn'

Posted by: JT at July 06, 2023 07:20 AM (T4tVD)

222 We put the sum of all human knowledge into the most advanced computers on the planet and the result is a radical left-wing college sophomore with the self-awareness of a retarded potato.

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Politics. It's future is in politics!

Fetterman Ver 2.0

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2023 07:20 AM (hbhtj)

223
Which minds me, he is immortal and will live for ever.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 06, 2023 07:08 AM (3JfbU)

Old Scratch doesn't even want him around.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2023 07:20 AM (MoZTd)

224 Nevergiveup

Good morning, Sir. May the final slide out of there be smooth. So sorry to hear of the change in even technocratic Flag officers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

225
We put the sum of all human knowledge into the most advanced computers on the planet and the result is a radical left-wing college sophomore with the self-awareness of a retarded potato.

Pray, do not insult the humble potato by comparing it to a college sophomore.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2023 07:21 AM (MoZTd)

226 >> So what *is* the definition of a Blue Moon?

Seasonal. The Blue Moon is the 3rd full moon of a astronomical season with 4 full moons. See the Metonic cycle.

Normally, 12 full Moon per tropical year. But the mean synodic period of the Moon is 29.5 solar days. Thus, every so often a tropical year must have 24 full moons, as opposed to 12.

It's complicated, but this must be resolved in terms of astronomical seasons.

A "Blue Moon" is the 3rd full Moon of a tropical Season which has 4 Full Moons.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 06, 2023 07:22 AM (Mzdiz)

227 Anna Puma

Sent to your AOL account. Send me a better address and I will resend it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

228 Pray, do not insult the humble potato by comparing it to a college sophomore.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 06, 2023 07:21 AM (MoZTd)

Yeah!

Posted by: Brian Stelter at July 06, 2023 07:22 AM (PiwSw)

229
13 full moons, not 24. Sheesh.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 06, 2023 07:23 AM (Mzdiz)

230 Morning peeps. Got woken up early by heavy rain. Only had about 1/4 inch, but boy it poured for a few minutes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2023 07:23 AM (Q4IgG)

231 @214

>>Probably unavailable or expensive, but it's nice to know they might exist for the next 5-7 years.

I'll be in the market for a couple of those units in the not too distant future and they are readily available currently and they are expensive.

But Murphy's Law would dictate the moment I need them they will no longer be readily available.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 06, 2023 07:24 AM (up/3i)

232 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Good morning. Was waiting for that correction.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

233 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Another hot day here in NE MA. Finally had to put the A/C unit in the bedroom and another up in the attic (which is where I work / write). Going to be 90 at least today, so no pants for me while I type.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 06, 2023 07:26 AM (AW0uW)

234
Note: Calendar(Gregorian) Year 2023 has 13 full Moons. But, in terms of true Astronomical seasons, 2023 has only 12 full Moons. It is calendar year 2022, specifically, astronomical summer therein, which has 4 full Moons

The third of the fourth of said season is the True Blue Moo .

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 06, 2023 07:27 AM (Mzdiz)

235 A Very Berry Blue Moo to you too.

F'n auto-cucumber gets all of us at least once.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:29 AM (1n+EO)

236 Coke at the Waffle House?

Posted by: So confused at July 06, 2023 07:30 AM (DhOHl)

237
If there is a Sturgeon Moon, then when is the Caviar Moon?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 07:31 AM (pNxlR)

238 The fan is going out on my laptop. A squealing whirling nightmare.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 06, 2023 07:31 AM (yKPAy)

239 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be blessed with the America of yore in your local area and neighbors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 06, 2023 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

240 As even Meggy Mac pointed out earlier.

Can you imagine if a Republican President had a topless performer on the White House lawn, followed by reports of a bag of cocaine being found in the house?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:32 AM (1n+EO)

241 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:32 AM (1n+EO)

242 It's a Scrod Moon.

Posted by: Astronomical at July 06, 2023 07:33 AM (DhOHl)

243 I've seriously considered window units.

Special company arrives next Friday. There will be A/C by then.
Posted by: creeper
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I picked up a portable unit for about $300 when I lived in Wyoming w/no central air, when we had a minor heat wave of 90+ temps and it was impossible to sleep at night. It just has a panel and vent to put in the window - really easy to set up and cools one room enough for sleeping.

It's sitting in my storage unit doing nothing at the moment, I wish I could teleport it to you.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 06, 2023 07:34 AM (aBJcM)

244 Paper Moon was a pretty good movie.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2023 07:34 AM (DhOHl)

245 It got cool last night and the house is down to 81°. I'll close it up soon and it might stay below 90°.

I've seriously considered window units.

Special company arrives next Friday. There will be A/C by then.
Posted by: creeper at July 06, 2023 07:11 AM (cTCuP)
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It's not a bad idea to have a window unit at least for the bedroom. My A/C went out a few years ago and I used one for a couple of summers before I could afford a full replacement. It was totally worth it just to keep my bedroom cool at night.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2023 07:35 AM (YIVH2)

246 The stupidity of writing an article behind a paywall bashing Twitter for requiring logins is too much to comprehend for the leftist morons over at the Atlantic. Pretty much says everything you need to know.

Posted by: Trip at July 06, 2023 07:35 AM (V8g0o)

247
A squealing whirling nightmare.

I'll take "How is AOC in the Sack?" for $200, Alex.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 07:36 AM (pNxlR)

248
The Blue Moon confusion is due to an error that appeared in an issue of "Sky and Telescope" in the late 1940s. An amateur astronomer wrote an article about Blue Moons, and made a dumb mistake.

Every so often, a calendar year must have 13 Full Moons. A year is 12 months, so the 13th oddball must mean a month has two full Moons. Wrong.

The author knew better, he was simply trying to simplify things for a general audience. He fucked up. He corrected his error a few months later in a subsequent publication. But that went into obscurity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at July 06, 2023 07:36 AM (Mzdiz)

249 Paper Moon was a pretty good movie.

It was adapted into a musical many years ago, though I don't know if it ever made Broadway. I saw it in previews at the Goodspeed Opera House in CT.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 06, 2023 07:36 AM (AW0uW)

250 Every so often, a calendar year must have 13 Full Moons. A year is 12 months, so the 13th oddball must mean a month has two full Moons. Wrong.

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The astronomers guild agreed to add an extra moon to each dozen in order to not run afoul of the crown's new laws regarding moon volume per sale.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 06, 2023 07:38 AM (VzVXA)

251 I just found a hammerhead worm on the outside of the shop. First live one I have seen. It's an invasive giant planaria.

Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023 07:38 AM (iayUP)

252 I was somewhat taken aback when our son confessed to not knowing about Hunter Biden being a former commissioned Naval Officer.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:39 AM (1n+EO)

253
J
J
Sefton

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 06, 2023 07:40 AM (BRHaw)

254 Le NOOD

It be here!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 06, 2023 07:40 AM (1n+EO)

255 I am in disbelief at MisHum's feel good story last night. In looking at those photos with the article, I can't believe that couple is 106 and 105. They look much younger than their years. By a lot! Good for them.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 06, 2023 07:41 AM (sVtYq)

256
I see the Trannish Inquisition has been convened to harangue actors in Whorrywood who performed in roles "not of their gender" in years past.

Stanley Tucci is among the latest to be called to task for his gay role in "The Devil Wears Panda".

The simple addition of "So what? Tough nooggies." to one's vocabulary should suffice for an answer. Now, find the stones to utter it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 06, 2023 07:43 AM (pNxlR)

257 Right now humidity here is 98%, temp 71. In a couple of hours you won't be able to walk around outside without getting soaked with sweat. Instead of lasting 3 days, your Lume will expire in 3 minutes.
Posted by: fd at July 06, 2023

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*Only* 71? Luxury!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 06, 2023 07:43 AM (J2vNu)

258 BTW, don't miss this on the Brooklyn Dayzzz shooting:

“It is an event that’s happened every single year and, most of the time, we are able to find out the date that it is occurring,” he said. “I can tell you, all of our social media analysts, the intel officer from the Southern – none of the officers we spoke to ever escalated anything that Brooklyn Day was happening” until a few hours before the party began.

If police had more time, Worley asserted, “we could have put a plan in effect, something like last year, if we had known it was coming.”

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They knew it was happening. They admit they knew it was happening. They ignored it because they "didn't have more time" to enforce the law.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 06, 2023 07:44 AM (VzVXA)

259 The puppet UN president would serve either WEF or China (is my guess) ... and as those two do now, the Liberty of The West would be the target. People must be controlled, and killed as necessary if they disobey.

To save the planet ... to save the people from the plagues ... but if they ever reached Total Control, it would just be raw totalitarian force that can't be questioned.

Someone mentioned an online meme where George Orwell is reading a book called 2023 ... he is shocked and saying something like WTF, or maybe OMG.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 06, 2023 08:19 AM (Cus5s)

260 Good morning Pixy. I can’t get the old comments from July 4th to load, so if you answered my question at the end of that post, I haven’t been able to read it. Thank you

Posted by: Nan in cool AZ at July 06, 2023 08:55 AM (k+bsZ)

261 >They spent half a million dollars on hardware to save one and a half million per year on cloud services.

It's 37 signals. They lie. They're in the iconoclastic hype business, not the actually providing service business. The fact that they're using VMs and Docker and MSRK instead of a real container orchestrator is a good example. If their resource requirements are really that stable, then they could have cut their hosting bill by at least half by negotiating with AWS.

>Pixy has to stand on his head to be fully Microsoft Compliant

Microsoft had a distributed, eventually consistent, atomic database 23 years ago. It's called Active Directory. It's what CosmosDb is based on.

>Someone here also warned me about watching Sword Art Online War of the Underworld

There are no good isekai or high school anime. Period. There are no exceptions.

>Bruce Power is planning to

The word "planning" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Trust me, the Canadian government will never allow any expansion of nuclear power.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 06, 2023 11:11 AM (JABiU)

262 Quote Pixy: "And there's another interesting point there: We put the sum of all human knowledge into the most advanced computers on the planet and the result is a radical left-wing college sophomore with the self-awareness of a retarded potato."

That's just the personality filters they put on it to make it stop saying things that annoyed radical left-wing sophomores with the self-awareness of retarded potatoes.

Jailbroken versions are a lot more interesting. They still have the self-awarness of an NPC raised on a diet of CNN, but they're way less dogmatic about it.

Posted by: Voyager at July 06, 2023 01:00 PM (fGgGl)

263 Good morning Pixy. I can’t get the old comments from July 4th to load, so if you answered my question at the end of that post, I haven’t been able to read it. Thank you

Posted by: Nan in cool AZ at July 06, 2023 08:55 AM

As near as I can tell, Pixy didn't answer your questions.

To access comments from the history listing, you have to change the domain of the link from minx.cc to acecomments.mu.nu.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 06, 2023 01:36 PM (R4Jsw)

264 I still can't read tweets without logging in (which means I can't read tweets from anyone that has me blocked)

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at July 07, 2023 08:00 AM (L9Ewk)

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