Daily Tech News 10 February 2024

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More like this, perhaps: The Frame smart glasses from Brilliant Labs are augmented-reality goggles that don't look like your head is being eaten by a coconut crab. (The Verge)

At $349 and 40 grams they're one tenth the price and one fifteenth the weight of Apple's Vision Pro. They're about the size and weight of regular eyeglasses, and you can add prescription lenses for an extra $99.

The shortcoming is that the AR display is only 640x400 and covers a small part of your vision, but that's really what you want when you're actually using them in everyday life. Just a little area that can show you an urgent message, or directions to where you're headed, or identify the snake that just bit you because you were looking at the AR display rather than where you were walking.

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Skiff is joining Notion. (Skiff)

Oh, and shutting down and deleting all your data, so back it up right now.
We all wondered what Apple was up to when they came out in support of right-to-repair, because Apple is the most vehemently anti-consumer-rights company in the world.

The answer was simple: They truly meant it - for everyone else. (Tech Crunch)

Now that an Oregon right-to-repair bill is looking at banning engineering practices that make repairs of Apple devices impossible, the company is back to its old tricks.
The problem of 240/4. (The Register)

240/4 is an IP address subnet containing 268 million addresses that is locked off thanks to decisions made in the 1970s, back when they handed out millions of IP addresses for free to anyone who wanted them.

With IPv4 basically exhausted at this point, those addresses are worth about $7 billion, but because the range has been locked off for about 50 years some companies are using the same addresses internally, and if they were unlocked for public use, shit would break big time.
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, is reported to be looking for $7 trillion in investment funds to create dedicated AI chips. (Unusual Whales)

That's trillion. With a t. And a rillion.

That used to be a lot, and still is.
Canada is looking to ban the Flipper Zero over it allegedly being used to steal cars. (Gizmodo)

If your car can be stolen with a Flipper Zero, it can probably also be stolen with a pocket knife. Flipper Zero is used to test wireless electronics to make sure they're not horribly insecure.
A search index in 80 lines of Python. (Alex Molas)

This is Vedal-level standing on the shoulders of giants. The "import" statements that constitute the first seven of those 80 lines pull in over a million lines of freely available code in Python, C, C++, and Fortran that do the work.

Still cool.
Are you sure you want to use MMAP in your DBMS? (Symas)

The original version of MongoDB used MMAP and was notorious for losing data if a gnat sneezed in the server room.

The original version of Symas LMDB used MMAP - and it still does, and it's fast, light, and reliable.

Like most things, MMAP is a tool, and if you don't know how to use it you had better have your health insurance up to date.
Reddit doesn't have to share the IP addresses of people who discussed piracy. (TorrentFreak)

Well, good.
The Selen Tatsuki / Nijisani drama written up so that normal humans can understand it. (Polygon)

Now I just need to figure out how to explain how her re-debut was demonetised when a fan triggered a clip of Freebird during the livestream.

Disclaimer: I lost my health insurance in a freak database accident.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 04:01 AM (T4tVD)

2 Hey JT

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 10, 2024 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

3 w00t I'm late

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 04:09 AM (npwPn)

4 >>>identify the snake that just bit you because you were looking [at] the AR display rather than where you were walking

heh

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 04:10 AM (npwPn)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 04:11 AM (fwDg9)

6 or identify the snake that just bit you because you were looking that the AR display rather than where you were walking.

~~First-~~Australian-world problems.

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2024 04:13 AM (DgGvY)

7 6 or identify the snake that just bit you because you were looking that the AR display rather than where you were walking.

First-Australian-world problems.
Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2024 04:13 AM (DgGvY)

Although, similarly enough to remind me of this: In my neighborhood, there are no major problems with the sidewalk UNTIL you get to a little driveway where either 1) a car will be pulled all the way up, so you have to go around the car or 2) a car will be pulled almost all the way up, exposing an uncapped drain that you might step into, in the dark, so you have to go around the car. So, walking with a friend at night and I was walking around the car and he said, "Why are you doing that?" and I at least got him to take out his phone and light up the capless drain before going around the car.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 04:20 AM (npwPn)

8 Hey JT
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Hiya Pixy Misa !

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 04:21 AM (T4tVD)

9 Hiya Skip !

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 04:22 AM (T4tVD)

10 Hopefully last trip to Delaware for a few weeks

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 04:33 AM (fwDg9)

11 jewells, please reach out when you can, even just to confirm your comms

Stay well, Horde!

Posted by: logprof at February 10, 2024 04:35 AM (M6nvs)

12 Hopefully last trip to Delaware for a few weeks
Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 04:33 AM (fwDg9)

Safe travels !

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 04:36 AM (T4tVD)

13 Evening and morning to all the insomaniacals and early "slaving over a hot stove" people! It's Mawdi Grass weekend, it's 66 F. with a high today about 75 (gah!), and I really did not sleep enough last night. On the other hand, yesterday I reviewed my taxes and am due for a big honking refund, so there's that.

Coffee now. Workout a little later. Then breakfast. That's about as far ahead as I need to look right now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2024 04:38 AM (omVj0)

14 My brother put some cheaters on my face this week but they weren't the high tech variety that will steal your soul or rape you brain pan.

Glasses are for dorks. That may make me sound like an asshole, but I love banging a hottie wearing glasses so don't judge me too harshly.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 04:38 AM (EEgXH)

15 "This is Vedal-level standing on the shoulders of giants. The 'import' statements that constitute the first seven of those 80 lines pull in over a million lines of freely available code in Python, C, C++, and Fortran that do the work.

"Still cool."

***
No need to reinvent the wheel, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2024 04:40 AM (omVj0)

16 Glasses are for dorks. That may make me sound like an asshole, but I love banging a hottie wearing glasses so don't judge me too harshly.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024

***
I was glad that my visit to the optometrist back last month did not result in my needing glasses. Though there was a pair of really cool sunglasses, wraparounds, that I've been thinking I should go try on again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2024 04:42 AM (omVj0)

17 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 10, 2024 04:48 AM (rRMBj)

18 >>>I was glad that my visit to the optometrist back last month did not result in my needing glasses. Though there was a pair of really cool sunglasses, wraparounds, that I've been thinking I should go try on again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>Do it. I love coming to the AOSHQ and talking smack, I have no ill will toward anybody but fools. I need to make time to make a trip to the eye doctor myself. Time for an AI upgrade.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 04:48 AM (EEgXH)

19 15 No need to reinvent the wheel, right?

Exactly right.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 10, 2024 04:49 AM (BLOW1)

20 Good morning! Well, I finished my first week of full time work after 'retirement'. That whole 'put on pants everyday and drive to work' thing is just like I remember it. Over rated.

I have to admit though, knowing you can just say fuggeditaboutit and walk away sure does put a completely different perspective on the office environment and the associated politics.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 04:49 AM (YRsIm)

21 or identify the snake that just bit you because you were looking that the AR display rather than where you were walking.

Makes me think of the movie "The Jerk"
A big class action lawsuit because people are have some kind of vision problem after using The Frame and similar devices.

Posted by: Bruce at February 10, 2024 04:50 AM (vd8XM)

22 Though there was a pair of really cool sunglasses, wraparounds, that I've been thinking I should go try on again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
>Do it. I love coming to the AOSHQ and talking smack, I have no ill will toward anybody but fools. I need to make time to make a trip to the eye doctor myself. Time for an AI upgrade.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024

***
Yeah, well, the shades were a name brand at ca. $100. I'd better love them a *lot*.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2024 04:52 AM (omVj0)

23 Anyone watch Tucah interview Pooty Poot? Should I spend 2 hours or look for a synopsis?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 04:54 AM (YRsIm)

24 >>>I have to admit though, knowing you can just say fuggeditaboutit and walk away sure does put a completely different perspective on the office environment and the associated politics.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

>Be sure to maintain some sort of daily routine to keep you healthy. It's more important than you realize. Stay active.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 04:55 AM (EEgXH)

25 Second cup of coffee has been downed. Time to change, stretch, and work out. Yesterday I bought a new pair of adjustable knee supports ($28 the pair), the kind that you strap in place, to succeed the old ones that are coming loose. If I don't care for these, I'll run them back to Walmart, but I really hope they work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2024 04:55 AM (omVj0)

26 Asked last night on a thread if Tuck/ Putin was worth it and someone thought so. I will look for it tonight

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 04:57 AM (fwDg9)

27 If I don't care for these, I'll run them back to Walmart, but I really hope they work.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

If you can run them back, wouldn't that prove that the knee supports work?

Posted by: Bruce at February 10, 2024 04:58 AM (vd8XM)

28 Glasses are for dorks. That may make me sound like an asshole, but I love banging a hottie wearing glasses so don't judge me too harshly.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

*****

We won't judge you for wearing glasses but if the hottie calls you foureyes you'll probably go limp.

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 10, 2024 04:58 AM (8JB5s)

29 I think that I managed to sleep about eight hours last night . Thank you, Lord.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:01 AM (swARZ)

30 23 Anyone watch Tucah interview Pooty Poot? Should I spend 2 hours or look for a synopsis?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 04:54 AM (YRsIm)

26 Asked last night on a thread if Tuck/ Putin was worth it and someone thought so. I will look for it tonight
Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 04:57 AM (fwDg9)

There's a brief written synopsis by John Sexton in the front page righthand sidebar. It contains a link to the full video.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 05:02 AM (npwPn)

31 Bruce bringin' the funnies!

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 05:04 AM (npwPn)

32 >>>We won't judge you for wearing glasses but if the hottie calls you foureyes you'll probably go limp.

Posted by: Son of Dad

>No chance! If the weasel is in the den, it's all about ballistics and postcoital cigars.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 05:05 AM (EEgXH)

33 I think that I managed to sleep about eight hours last night . Thank you, Lord.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024

***
Good to hear. Yesterday I bought some magnesium capsules and took about 400 mg last night; still only got about five hours' sleep. Does the Mg take a while to kick in?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2024 05:06 AM (omVj0)

34 I think that I managed to sleep about eight hours last night . Thank you, Lord.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It happens every once in a while. And then you think,
why can't I do that more often?

Posted by: Bruce at February 10, 2024 05:07 AM (vd8XM)

35 >>>I think that I managed to sleep about eight hours last night . Thank you, Lord.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

>I'm with you. Eight hours is a blessing.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 05:08 AM (EEgXH)

36 My 2nd half of night after a hour here on ONT was horrible

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

37 7 6
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 04:20 AM (npwPn)
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Didn't want to call it First Australian Problem, or FAP ?

Posted by: Ciampino at February 10, 2024 05:12 AM (qfLjt)

38 A devotional by a man from South Africa who went through some very hard years which included the death of his wife, and who got support through the faithfulness of God and the support of others. Scripture reflection is from one of the psalms:

http://tinyurl.com/mrxrxyyt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:13 AM (Ki//m)

39 The Studpack YT channel did a video on drywall finishing on their house build. One of the commenters said "When you are sanding, make sure you wear a mask!"
YT flagged the comment and asked for input on the quality of the statement.
Their stupid algorithm picked up on the word mask, but didn't understand the context.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2024 05:17 AM (lu1XB)

40 Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

I'm sorry, Skip .Do you mean you couldn't sleep, or that conversation was nasty and that impacted your sleep? It must be very hard to change work shifts, but I personally have found the shouty arguments and the light from the screen too much to take at night.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:18 AM (hYSQE)

41 Good morning norons

Although, similarly enough to remind me of this: In my neighborhood, there are no major problems with the sidewalk UNTIL you get to a little driveway where either 1) a car will be pulled all the way up, so you have to go around the car or 2) a car will be pulled almost all the way up, exposing an uncapped drain that you might step into, in the dark, so you have to go around the car. ...
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 04:20 AM (npwPn)

===
Easy $100 ticket here.

Posted by: Toto at February 10, 2024 05:22 AM (RIvkX)

42 God's transforming word. A reflection from a passage from 2nd Timothy:

http://tinyurl.com/j8adaznr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:22 AM (hYSQE)

43 /little dog sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:22 AM (RIvkX)

44 Fen Friday went to bed at 4:30am, Saturday today had to get up at 4:30 am. It wasn't going to be a good night no matter what

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 05:22 AM (fwDg9)

45 ...I have to admit though, knowing you can just say fuggeditaboutit and walk away sure does put a completely different perspective on the office environment and the associated politics.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 04:49 AM (YRsIm)
===
I'm a month back and fired my first employee yesterday. Back in the saddle, baby!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:23 AM (RIvkX)

46 I live where it is cold because the venomous stuff doesn't.
Golfers like to bitch about KSA and LIV but sure don't mind going to the rest of the ME to pick up a check.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 10, 2024 05:24 AM (Eeb9P)

47 Posted by: Bruce

I'm just going to continue with what I'm doing. One 250 mg tablet, limiting caffeine during the day and no computer screen or as little as possible in the evening and a cup of " Sleepytime Extra" before bed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:26 AM (hYSQE)

48 "When you are sanding, make sure you wear a mask!"
YT flagged the comment and asked for input on the quality of the statement.
Their stupid algorithm picked up on the word mask, but didn't understand the context.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at February 10, 2024 05:28 AM (vd8XM)

49 Posted by: Skip

Sorry. Skip. That sounds really tough.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:28 AM (hYSQE)

50 Local TV news reports on the first meeting of the new fast food workers union. Their minimum wage is going to $20 on April 1.

They interview tattooed and pierced people complaining how much McDonald's meals cost.

They interview a union leader. In Spanish because she can't speak English. She says has learned all about her new rights.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:30 AM (RIvkX)

51 Local TV news reports PG&E workers were attacked and robbed outside their HQ building as they drove into the building garage in Oakland at 10 am Thursday morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

52 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 10, 2024 05:34 AM (NBVIP)

53 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I'm not really sure if it takes a while to kick ion but I've been taking it for while- yes. Some people also take Melatonin gummies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:36 AM (P+aH3)

54 Not sure today yet, but daytime temperatures have been nice for beginning of February, was in upper 50s yesterday and think supposed to be better today.

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 05:37 AM (fwDg9)

55 >>They interview a union leader. In Spanish because she can't speak English. She says has learned all about her new rights. Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:30 AM (RIvkX)

Latinx.

Posted by: ZOD at February 10, 2024 05:38 AM (5HQE5)

56 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 10, 2024 05:41 AM (ju2Fy)

57 We hired a new housekeeper at work. She worked 2 days then called in sick. We just got a letter from a doctor at the free clinic saying that she is sensitive to cleaning chemicals and dust and will need a workplace accommodation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:42 AM (RIvkX)

58 Way warmer than freezing

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 05:44 AM (fwDg9)

59 Here's a longish X-summary of the Putin interview by someone who teaches Russian history:

https://nitter.freedit.eu/julianwaller

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 05:46 AM (npwPn)

60 Forward Dog 9 hitting that long road

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 05:46 AM (fwDg9)

61 >>We just got a letter from a doctor at the free clinic saying that she is sensitive to cleaning chemicals and dust and will need a workplace accommodation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:42 AM (RIvkX)

1. Spray entire body with latex
2. Install breathing apparatus

Welcome to the company. Mr. Hernandez will show you to the sanitation equipment station.

Posted by: ZOD at February 10, 2024 05:46 AM (5HQE5)

62 55 >>They interview a union leader. In Spanish because she can't speak English. She says has learned all about her new rights. Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:30 AM (RIvkX)

Latinx.

Posted by: ZOD at February 10, 2024 05:38 AM (5HQE5)
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So does she speak Spandex?

Posted by: Ciampino at February 10, 2024 05:50 AM (qfLjt)

63 The Julian Waller summary was via

https://nitter.freedit.eu/aghamilton29

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 05:51 AM (npwPn)

64 57
LOL LOL LOL

Posted by: Ciampino at February 10, 2024 05:51 AM (qfLjt)

65 Morning. We were southbound on I-75 yesterday and passed the location near Naples FL where 90 seconds later, that private jet came in deadstick and at 130 knots crossed the highway and slammed into the concrete wall.

Two dead, three passengers escaped the wreckage. No car travelers injured.

You never know the time or place.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 10, 2024 05:51 AM (KiBMU)

66 We hired a new housekeeper at work. She worked 2 days then called in sick. We just got a letter from a doctor at the free clinic saying that she is sensitive to cleaning chemicals and dust and will need a workplace accommodation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Is this the one you fired yesterday?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 10, 2024 05:52 AM (ju2Fy)

67 65 Morning. We were southbound on I-75 yesterday and passed the location near Naples FL where 90 seconds later, that private jet came in deadstick and at 130 knots crossed the highway and slammed into the concrete wall.

Two dead, three passengers escaped the wreckage. No car travelers injured.

You never know the time or place.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 10, 2024 05:51 AM (KiBMU)

Wow.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 05:54 AM (npwPn)

68 Lost letter from 80 years ago during WW2 finally gets delivered.

http://tinyurl.com/jrjs9kdk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 05:57 AM (uEWUd)

69 http://tinyurl.com/bdfxm4b4
Top 20 by Bad Blue

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:57 AM (RIvkX)

70 youtube report of the aftermath of the Naples jet crash

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=UbpXp66ipBA

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 05:58 AM (npwPn)

71 ☕

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:00 AM (geLO8)

72 Is this the one you fired yesterday?
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 10, 2024 05:52 AM (ju2Fy)
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Are you kidding? That doctor's note is a teflon shield.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:00 AM (RIvkX)

73 Family of fallen soldier from NC gets keys to new home built by volunteers:

http://tinyurl.com/y5dvcewv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 06:01 AM (uEWUd)

74 69 http://tinyurl.com/bdfxm4b4
Top 20 by Bad Blue
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:57 AM (RIvkX)

Thanks, San Franpsycho.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:01 AM (npwPn)

75 My test for a housekeeper is for her to make me a tasty dish of liver and onions. If she can't pull that off, she's hitting the bricks.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 06:01 AM (EEgXH)

76 @23

>>Anyone watch Tucah interview Pooty Poot? Should I spend 2 hours or look for a synopsis?

On the whole, it was a solid interview.

There were no major revelations but it was a glimpse into the mind of the Russian leader, his motivations, his views on geopolitics, his view on Russian/Western relations.

Tucker didn't ask him typical journo questions like, if you were a tree what type of tree would you be, or do you get enough you time with the war and all.

So its worth watching from that standpoint alone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2024 06:10 AM (XV/Pl)

77
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 10, 2024 06:11 AM (kQ2Qm)

78 76 Tucker didn't ask him typical journo questions like, if you were a tree what type of tree would you be, or do you get enough you time with the war and all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2024 06:10 AM (XV/Pl)

Ha! Good recommendation.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:11 AM (npwPn)

79 71 ☕
Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:00 AM (geLO

What's in that cup?

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:12 AM (npwPn)

80 Good morning to one and all. I'm so glad that it's "Mission Accomplished" with our retaliation for the sand rats killing our soldiers.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 10, 2024 06:13 AM (Fk7W1)

81 Putin interview so far; history of eastern Europe starting in 862.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:14 AM (RIvkX)

82 >What's in that cup?

Posted by: m

Cafe Bustelo

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:15 AM (geLO8)

83 Karl Rove says it won't be Biden, but it won't be Michelle either

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:16 AM (geLO8)

84 Putin: Poland collaborated with Hitler in the partition of Czechoslovakia. They pushed Hitler into attacking them.

Mm'kay.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:19 AM (RIvkX)

85 Powerline Week in Pictures:

https://is.gd/NaOhQn

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 10, 2024 06:22 AM (PiwSw)

86 Putin: for inexplicable reasons, Lenin created a separate Ukrainian Soviet republic, for inexplicable reasons Russian lands were given to this republic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:23 AM (RIvkX)

87 @83

>>Karl Rove says it won't be Biden, but it won't be Michelle either

I think unless the meat puppet goes captain pike, he's going to be the guy.

For the simple reason that they really don't want to run Kamala, and theres really no way of swapping them both out.

I mean, they did get Agnew and then Nixon out but that took a bit of time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2024 06:25 AM (XV/Pl)

88 >>>Karl Rove says it won't be Biden, but it won't be Michelle either

Posted by: Don Black

>Karl Rove is a cartoon character much like Sherman but without Mr. Peabody to keep him inline.

Basically, an imbecile.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 06:25 AM (EEgXH)

89 LOL Dementia Hitler parody on the Bad Blue tweets:

69 http://tinyurl.com/bdfxm4b4
Top 20 by Bad Blue
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 05:57 AM (RIvkX)

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:26 AM (npwPn)

90 86 Putin: for inexplicable reasons, Lenin created a separate Ukrainian Soviet republic, for inexplicable reasons Russian lands were given to this republic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:23 AM (RIvkX)

Did you find a transcript? There'll have to be one.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:27 AM (npwPn)

91 Canada is looking to ban the Flipper Zero over it allegedly being used to steal cars. (Gizmodo)

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Boy, I bet that will stop the people who are stealing cars. They're definitely not going to want to get in trouble.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The RNC is the NRA of the GOP at February 10, 2024 06:30 AM (mGWIQ)

92 Full Text Transcript of Tucker Carlson Putin Interview (purportedly)

https://www.miragenews.com/
full-text-transcript-of-tucker-carlson-putin-1171489/

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:30 AM (npwPn)

93 Putin interview reinforced my belief that the situation is far more complex than the media would have you believe. It's not just "Putin invaded Ukraine, Putin bad". And he kept going back to "we had a deal worked out and the UK PM convinced them not to sign"

But the interview... the man sure likes the sound of his own voice

Posted by: CanuckJack at February 10, 2024 06:30 AM (1cCGi)

94 Name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:33 AM (mGWIQ)

95 @93

>>But the interview... the man sure likes the sound of his own voice

I know a lot of people have come to expect Hannity levels of interruption of interviewees but Tucker chose to do the most rare of things, he let his subject talk, for as long as he liked, with minimal interruptions.

It was refreshing quite frankly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2024 06:33 AM (XV/Pl)

96 But the interview... the man sure likes the sound of his own voice

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I hear that's a Russian trait, but I also assumed that was intentional and in part making fun of the President of the United States' inability to appear before anyone and talk for more than two seconds without notes and before breaking down and needing to rest for sixteen hours.

It was to show he could, and could do it well, and could do it for hours if needed.

A "flex" as the kids say.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:35 AM (mGWIQ)

97 Happy Saturday

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 10, 2024 06:36 AM (ENQN6)

98 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 06:36 AM (86W+h)

99 There's a disclaimer on the Mirage (Australian!) transcript which, o.k., CYA, but:

Note: This transcript presents what Putin said and as he said - it may contain a selective view of history and information to justify the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:37 AM (npwPn)

100 >>>But the interview... the man sure likes the sound of his own voice

Posted by: CanuckJack

>Fucking Brits stuck their noses in this shit over 150 years ago, and now they wonder why Putin seeks to nuke them.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 06:37 AM (EEgXH)

101 >>Hannity

Let not your heart be troubled. You are a great American. Let not your heart be troubled. You are a great American. Let not your heart be troubled. You are a great American. Let not

Posted by: ZOD at February 10, 2024 06:37 AM (5HQE5)

102 100

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:37 AM (npwPn)

103 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wonderin

Just beginning to get light here.

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 06:38 AM (T4tVD)

104 drat

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:38 AM (npwPn)

105 We hired a new housekeeper at work. She worked 2 days then called in sick. We just got a letter from a doctor at the free clinic saying that she is sensitive to cleaning chemicals and dust and will need a workplace accommodation.

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I hate this timeline.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:39 AM (mGWIQ)

106

I have no idea what Pixy was saying tonight, yet I find myself strangely turgid...

Posted by: Just Sayin at February 10, 2024 06:40 AM (kwHg4)

107 Putin: the CIA was supporting the separatists in southern Russia

Da fuq?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:40 AM (RIvkX)

108 >>> Putin: for inexplicable reasons, Lenin created a separate Ukrainian Soviet republic, for inexplicable reasons Russian lands were given to this republic.

Lemme splain it.

The Soviets did this all over the old Russian empire to deliberately foster ethnic tensions, giving them a built in excuse to send the army to 'restore peace'.

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 06:40 AM (86W+h)

109 Note: This transcript presents what Putin said and as he said - it may contain a selective view of history and information to justify the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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hahaha

"This video contradicts the history we've been teaching you and your children and grandchildren for the last 100 years so it's not true and also shut up"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:40 AM (mGWIQ)

110 "We are largely dependent upon the moral influence that surrounds us for all that is good in us. We do not understands that if the restraints of religious and moral society were removed, very many of us would drift away at once into evil. There is power coming forth from this blessed Book of God, holding Christendom today from the influences of the evil one, from the utter wreck and ruin of the nation, the community, and the individual."

That was written by a man Henry Foster, born in 1821 who died before his 80th birthday and was a doctor in the Finger Lakes region of NY. imagine what he'd think today!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2024 06:40 AM (JCEhc)

111 I have no idea what Pixy was saying tonight, yet I find myself strangely turgid...
Posted by: Just Sayin at February 10, 2024 06:40 AM (kwHg4)
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This morning's post was especially incomprehensible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:41 AM (RIvkX)

112 >We hired a new housekeeper at work. She worked 2 days then called in sick. We just got a letter from a doctor at the free clinic saying that she is sensitive to cleaning chemicals and dust and will need a workplace accommodation.

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maybe she could be exempted from housekeeping duties

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:41 AM (geLO8)

113 Allergic to work? So that’s what prematurely aged me. And here I thought it was whiskey.

Posted by: Eromero at February 10, 2024 06:42 AM (HHZI1)

114 >Putin: the CIA was supporting the separatists in southern Russia

Da fuq?

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Yep
Putin says the CIA supported anti-Russian terrorism in the Caucasus region

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:44 AM (geLO8)

115 We hired a new housekeeper at work. She worked 2 days then called in sick. We just got a letter from a doctor at the free clinic saying that she is sensitive to cleaning chemicals and dust and will need a workplace accommodation.

She should be transitioned to be the nighttime DIE supervisor...

Posted by: Just Sayin at February 10, 2024 06:44 AM (kwHg4)

116 If only Putin was a bible thumper, we'd all be safe.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 06:45 AM (EEgXH)

117 g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 10, 2024 06:46 AM (QwWES)

118 I'm looking for a version with the original Russian. A few times so far I have detected what sound like differences or skips in the translation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:46 AM (RIvkX)

119 >>> Putin says the CIA supported anti-Russian terrorism in the Caucasus region

While likely true, I don't think that will win people over and make him look like a conspiracy nut to the average American.

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 06:47 AM (86W+h)

120 The CIA was directly funding Gloria Steinem HERE to sow the seeds of 2nd wave feminism in order to disrupt the U.S.

jstor.org/stable/25772264

Why in the world would it be a surprise that they were fiddling around with trying to disrupt countries they ostensibly DIDN'T like?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:47 AM (mGWIQ)

121 If only the president of Egypt was the president of Mexico.

Posted by: ZOD at February 10, 2024 06:48 AM (5HQE5)

122 I wonder who's stupid idea it is to put cuties signs Welcome to.... on every residential housing areas in Delaware?

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2024 06:48 AM (yb84/)

123 Putin: the U.S. supported those in Ukraine who stole an election thereby conducting a coup there.

I think he refers to the "color revolution."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:49 AM (RIvkX)

124 from the Mirage transcript:

The CIA replied: ”We have been working with the opposition in Russia. We believe that this is
the right thing to do and we will keep on doing it.“

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 06:49 AM (npwPn)

125 If only Putin was a bible thumper, we'd all be safe.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

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Pro-abortion catholic

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:49 AM (mGWIQ)

126 >While likely true, I don't think that will win people over and make him look like a conspiracy nut to the average American.

Posted by: fluffy
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the average American probably doesn't even understand the sentence Putin says the CIA supported anti-Russian terrorism in the Caucasus region

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:49 AM (geLO8)

127 >If only the president of Egypt was the president of Mexico.

Posted by: ZOD
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they both have sand and pyramids
should be an easy swap

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 06:51 AM (geLO8)

128 Tranny daycare baby rapist walks in Kentucky....

Posted by: Just Sayin at February 10, 2024 06:53 AM (kwHg4)

129 the average American probably doesn't even understand the sentence Putin says the CIA supported anti-Russian terrorism in the Caucasus region

Posted by: Don Black

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45% are giggling at the flatulence joke.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:54 AM (mGWIQ)

130 I think his point is this: the same people who undermined the president, meaning the deep state, which has been conducting a soft coup here in the U.S. for years are the same people who did it in Ukraine, which has led to the current conflict there.

This actually fits the evidence.
/Poroshenko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

131 hahaha, I just saw that Colin Kaepernik isn't even a good enough NFL quarterback to get hired as a quarterback coach in the NFL.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:55 AM (mGWIQ)

132
Reddit doesn't have to share the IP addresses of people who discussed piracy. (TorrentFreak)

Well, good.

The real purpose behind the introduction of the language R finally comes to light!

That only took a couple of decades ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2024 06:57 AM (xG4kz)

133 131 hahaha, I just saw that Colin Kaepernik isn't even a good enough NFL quarterback to get hired as a quarterback coach in the NFL.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 06:55 AM (mGWIQ)

Not even as a Diversity hire? That's racist!!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 10, 2024 06:57 AM (PiwSw)

134 My X feed is overrun with pro Biden anti Trump tweets from names unknown to me. Is there a setting to prevent?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 10, 2024 06:58 AM (KiBMU)

135 131 hahaha, I just saw that Colin Kaepernik isn't even a good enough NFL quarterback to get hired as a quarterback coach in the NFL.

Too much buttsexx with his strap-on queen...

Posted by: Just Sayin at February 10, 2024 06:58 AM (kwHg4)

136
Proof of my contention that RFK Jr kills Biden's chances (or whoever they replace his demented ass with):

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) accused independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign and his aligned super PAC of illegal coordination, alleging he is receiving improper benefits from the group supporting his push to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states.

https://t.ly/hcjEj

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 06:59 AM (nIvob)

137 Smallish, but: I wonder if, when Putin says--repeatedly--"Of course" in answer to a question put by Tucker, if that's an over-translation and he's just saying "Yes."

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:00 AM (npwPn)

138 Putin: We never agreed to NATO expansion. We never agreed to Ukrainian membership.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

139 Huh. I just noticed that the strikethru line aligns perfectly with the hyphen character in this font....

Is that universal?

Does that always happen by some kind of convention or rule?

Strikethru isn't really a "part" of the font, so there's no immediately obvious reason why it should. But now it occurs to me that i have no idea how font decoration is actually applied to a font.

Posted by: The Moose Out Front at February 10, 2024 07:01 AM (9UlRk)

140 Oof. Off, yesterday's sock

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:02 AM (9UlRk)

141 Reddit doesn't have to share the IP addresses of people who discussed piracy. (TorrentFreak)

Well, good.

-

I kind of love that the article says "they can just print out the pages to show in court."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:02 AM (mGWIQ)

142 I just finished watching the Tucah interview with Pooty Poot. It was interesting to say the least. I cannot imagine any US president, Donny Two Scoops included, doing such an interview.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 07:02 AM (YRsIm)

143 > My X feed is overrun with pro Biden anti Trump tweets from names unknown to me. Is there a setting to prevent?

Posted by: Mr Gaga

there's a feature that lets you mute any account you choose
one click and you'll never see their tweets again

but you can't fine tune your feed to only show you a particular 'viewpoint'

that would be too helpful

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 07:02 AM (geLO8)

144 >>>hahaha, I just saw that Colin Kaepernik isn't even a good enough NFL quarterback to get hired as a quarterback coach in the NFL.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good

>This guy turned in his male genitalia years ago to become a bitchy eunuch. Boys will be castrate.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 07:02 AM (EEgXH)

145 Smallish, but: I wonder if, when Putin says--repeatedly--"Of course" in answer to a question put by Tucker, if that's an over-translation and he's just saying "Yes."
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:00 AM (npwPn)

Probably "konyechno", meaning "naturally".

I don't think it has the same connotation of "well duh, nutsack" that it does in English.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:03 AM (9UlRk)

146 IIRC it was announced years ago that Russia had tried at least once, and maybe multiple times, to join NATO.

NATO refused because it's all a money laundering operation, and what would be the excuse for laundering money if Russia was part of NATO?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:03 AM (mGWIQ)

147
My X feed is overrun with pro Biden anti Trump tweets from names unknown to me. Is there a setting to prevent?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 10, 2024 06:58 AM

If you 'Follow' a large enough list of the right people, click on "Following" at the top of the screen and you'll see pretty much only them and a few ads. The right people have the news and views you want to see.

I follow Tucker, @amuse, General Flynn, Jack Poso, etc, etc

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:03 AM (nIvob)

148 >This guy turned in his male genitalia years ago to become a bitchy eunuch. Boys will be castrate.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 07:02 AM (EEgXH)

Well I never!

Posted by: Prince Harry Markle at February 10, 2024 07:03 AM (PiwSw)

149 >hahaha, I just saw that Colin Kaepernik isn't even a good enough NFL quarterback to get hired as a quarterback coach in the NFL.

an NFL GM would be foolish to hire that jackass
nothing but trouble there

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 07:04 AM (geLO8)

150 Morning peeps

Raining cats and dogs here. Thunder too. Going to be one of those days I think.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2024 07:04 AM (Q4IgG)

151 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:05 AM (0gvpA)

152 >but you can't fine tune your feed to only show you a particular 'viewpoint'

I take that back
if you click 'following' you'll see only the accounts you follow, and whatever they retweet or comment on

I think

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 07:06 AM (geLO8)

153 Of course or конечно is agreement and also a verbal pause like "now" теперь

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:06 AM (RIvkX)

154 This kind of reinforces my general opinion that all the drama we see today is self inflicted. The CIA, NATO and the UN aren't the root of all evil but they are certainly the favored tool of all evil.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 07:06 AM (YRsIm)

155 145 Smallish, but: I wonder if, when Putin says--repeatedly--"Of course" in answer to a question put by Tucker, if that's an over-translation and he's just saying "Yes."
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:00 AM (npwPn)

Probably "konyechno", meaning "naturally".

I don't think it has the same connotation of "well duh, nutsack" that it does in English.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:03 AM (9UlRk)

Thanks. Also for the laugh!

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:06 AM (npwPn)

156 hahaha, I just saw that Colin Kaepernik isn't even a good enough NFL quarterback to get hired as a quarterback coach in the NFL.

an NFL GM would be foolish to hire that jackass
nothing but trouble there
Posted by: Don Black

--

Apparently there was some discussion that Bubbles was possibly going to hire him at his new LA Chargers job.

The L.A. part would be just about perfect if he did.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:07 AM (mGWIQ)

157 >Raining cats and dogs here. Thunder too. Going to be one of those days I think.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

we got another 4 inches of schnee overnight 🌨️

Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 07:07 AM (geLO8)

158 153 Of course or конечно is agreement and also a verbal pause like "now" теперь
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:06 AM (RIvkX)

Thanks.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:08 AM (npwPn)

159 157 we got another 4 inches of schnee overnight 🌨️
Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 07:07 AM (geLO

It schnitzed!

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:08 AM (npwPn)

160 Putin: these are people who exterminated Jews, Poles, and Russians. They may be a separate people, but not on the basis of Nazism.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:09 AM (RIvkX)

161
Oh yeah, follow @catturd2 by all means. He's always tweeting/retweeting good stuff. This morning he's retweeting @amuse who I also highly recommend.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:09 AM (nIvob)

162 Alabama Man strikes again

http://tinyurl.com/43vt7vjt

Posted by former Cob Laura W at Twitchy

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:09 AM (86W+h)

163 We'll have a high of 52 today, nearly 40 degrees warmet that it was 4 weeks ago.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:10 AM (0gvpA)

164 Putin: I haven't spoken with Joe Biden since before February of 2022.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:10 AM (npwPn)

165
I wonder who's stupid idea it is to put cuties signs Welcome to.... on every residential housing areas in Delaware?
Posted by: Skip

Referring to where a person or family lives by the neighborhood in which they are located is the norm here. I do not know why that is. It was a strange custom to get used to, coming as I did, from the Midwest, where we learned street names and locations to place refer to where folks lived.

Do not even think to ask ne to explain "hundreds" to you.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 10, 2024 07:11 AM (xG4kz)

166
Putin, by process of elimination does not like our Presidents who happen to be Democrats. He did not mention Trump at all.

Not hard to figure that one out.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:12 AM (nIvob)

167 Some languages don't have a word for "Yes" or "No" directly, like Irish. You just repeat the verb of the question in positive or negative form. Some have those words but they're reserved for strenuous agreement or denial, and sound weird if used casually. I can't think of any examples. Japanese is sort of kind of the opposite. In casual speech they'll say "-nai", which is a verb ending meaning negation but not really a word itself, just a morpheme, but they'll use it as a stand alone word anyway if being informal. Probably scads of other better examples i'm just not aware of.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:13 AM (9UlRk)

168 157 we got another 4 inches of schnee overnight 🌨️
Posted by: Don Black at February 10, 2024 07:07 AM (geLO

It schnitzed!
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:08 AM (npwPn)

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 07:15 AM (T4tVD)

169 Brett Elmore, owner of WJLX in Jasper, then received an unexpected, and baffling, call.

'He said, ‘Brett, we’re down here and the tower’s gone.'

'I said, ‘The tower’s gone?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, the tower’s gone.' '

--

I'll go ahead and call this one. Someone did or said something on the air that somebody didn't like, and that person took his welder and F-250 with a trailer and took the tower down.

Looking at the photo it wasn't much more than what a lot of rural folks used to have in their backyards for TV reception, only taller.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:15 AM (WF0+t)

170 I wonder if a flipper zero can help me find the car key my daughter ran off with and is located somewhere in my home never to be found?

Posted by: Inogame at February 10, 2024 07:15 AM (KCCqb)

171 Cat just startled by what sounded like fireworks.

Someone needs to go back to China.

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:15 AM (86W+h)

172 "an NFL GM would be foolish to hire that jackass
nothing but trouble there
Posted by: Don Black"

Two days later he would say he is allergic to white people.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

173 170 I wonder if a flipper zero can help me find the car key my daughter ran off with and is located somewhere in my home never to be found?
Posted by: Inogame at February 10, 2024 07:15 AM (KCCqb)

Look under the car seat.

That's where i found mine. Craft little swine jumped out of my coat pocket and wheedled its way down there, probably when i was moving cars around to get shit out of the garage.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (9UlRk)

174 166 Putin, by process of elimination does not like our Presidents who happen to be Democrats. He did not mention Trump at all.

Not hard to figure that one out.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:12 AM (nIvob)

Putin: I had a very good relationship with, say, Bush. I know that in the United States he was portrayed as some kind of a country boy who does not understand much. I assure you that is not the case. I think he made a lot of mistakes with regard to Russia, too. I told you about 2008 and the decision in Bucharest to open the NATO’s doors
to for Ukraine and so on. That happened during his presidency. He actually exercised pressure on the Europeans.
But in general, on a personal human level, I had a very good relationship with him. He was no worse than any other American, or Russian, or European politician. I assure you, he understood what he was doing as well as others. I had such personal relationships with Trump as well.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (npwPn)

175
Nearby police followed a beater vehicle, which then turned into my driveway yesterday, perhaps to evade police as I have a long driveway and a car would not be visible from the street. Well the police got him. I went out to check the mail and there's a police car sitting there writing up whoever was the driver. Wasn't expecting that.

Probably a 'migrant' with no license or insurance who bought the car for a couple hundred bucks. No self respecting American would drive a piece of shit like that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (nIvob)

176 >>> Do not even think to ask ne to explain "hundreds" to you.

Isn't that from medieval England?

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (86W+h)

177 I fine tuned my feed so I get just one viewpoint, the only one I need, mine.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

178 Some languages don't have a word for "Yes" or "No" directly, like Irish. ...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:13 AM (9UlRk)
===

Meh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:18 AM (RIvkX)

179 Fani

“Over the past several years, the district attorney has (used) the media to turn the screws on each of the defendants long before any trial juror was called to serve. These media appearances by a publicly-elected prosecutor are incredibly improper, but more importantly, they were designed to tear down the defendants’ pre-trial constitutional protections,” the filing said. “This case should be, and could have been, tried on the evidence admitted at trial. Because of the actions of the district attorney, however, that is no longer possible. The damage is already done.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 10, 2024 07:18 AM (ENQN6)

180 *I'll go ahead and call this one. Someone did or said something on the air that somebody didn't like, and that person took his welder and F-250 with a trailer and took the tower down.*

Don't criticize The Bear.

Posted by: Bama Fans Everywhere at February 10, 2024 07:19 AM (NBVIP)

181 Look under the car seat.

That's where i found mine. Craft little swine jumped out of my coat pocket and wheedled its way down there, probably when i was moving cars around to get shit out of the garage.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (9UlRk)

Who shit in your garage ?

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 07:19 AM (T4tVD)

182
I had such personal relationships with Trump as well.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (npwPn)

I ~~stand~~ sit corrected. I did not recall that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:19 AM (nIvob)

183 Putin, by process of elimination does not like our Presidents who happen to be Democrats.

_

You mean the leader of a nation doesn't care for the politicians that keep trying to start a nuclear war with him entirely because he decided to stop allowing little Russian boys to be adopted by gay American sexual abusers?

Yes, it's a mystery.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:19 AM (WF0+t)

184 179 Fani “Over the past several years, the district attorney has (used) the media to turn the screws
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 10, 2024 07:18 AM (ENQN6)

"the screws"
Ahem.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:20 AM (npwPn)

185 Who shit in your garage ?
Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 07:19 AM (T4tVD)

My dog. Several pigeons. Likely a mouse or two.

I mean, not all in the same day.

That would be gross.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:20 AM (9UlRk)

186 Probably a 'migrant' with no license or insurance who bought the car for a couple hundred bucks. No self respecting American would drive a piece of shit like that.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

--

(moron robbie checks bank account)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:20 AM (WF0+t)

187 BREAKING: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) announces cuts in services at the DMV and Park & Recs to free up more resources for illegals. He warns there will be more cuts coming.

GOOD

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 10, 2024 07:22 AM (ENQN6)

188 Hmmm... gotta figger out the snackage package for the Taylor Swiftathon.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2024 07:22 AM (NBVIP)

189 Do not even think to ask ne to explain "hundreds" to you.

Isn't that from medieval England?
Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (86W+h)
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Pre-Norman Conquest.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:22 AM (0gvpA)

190 >>> Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) announces cuts in services at the DMV and Park & Recs to free up more resources for illegals.

I approve this message.

Posted by: Chris Murphy at February 10, 2024 07:23 AM (86W+h)

191 G'morning all, from sunny NAS Oceana.

Got here about midnight

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2024 07:24 AM (L7gdA)

192 GOOD
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 10, 2024 07:22 AM (ENQN6)

Name the fucking bill after him. Or act, or order, or whatever the fuck a mayor's edicts are called.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:24 AM (9UlRk)

193 *I'll go ahead and call this one. Someone did or said something on the air that somebody didn't like, and that person took his welder and F-250 with a trailer and took the tower down.*
-

Don't criticize The Bear.
Posted by: Bama Fans Everywhere

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hahaha, I no-joke went to school there. Have the circa 1985 "the winningest coach in college football" Coke bottle visible on my shelf as we speak. That was part of why I was so comfortable making that statement.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:25 AM (WF0+t)

194 Do not even think to ask ne to explain "hundreds" to you.
Isn't that from medieval England?
Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:17 AM (86W+h)
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Pre-Norman Conquest.

Can you explain in 50-100 words, if that is not too unthinkable?

Posted by: fluffy by the dozens at February 10, 2024 07:25 AM (86W+h)

195 Between NAS Oceana and Langley AFB, Hampton Roads is filled with The Sound Of Freedom.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2024 07:26 AM (NBVIP)

196 Got a voicemail from a friend in the Maryland State House. Between the DoJ report and Larry Hogan announcing a Senate run, Democrats are about to slit their wrists there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2024 07:26 AM (L7gdA)

197
>>> Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) announces cuts in services at the DMV and Park & Recs to free up more resources for illegals.

Suspicious. They usually cut fire, police, and libraries first. Things that really annoy the hell out of taxpayers and put their lives at risk.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:27 AM (nIvob)

198 hundred:

The noun sense ‘subdivision of a county’ is of uncertain origin: it may originally have been equivalent to a hundred hides of land

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:27 AM (npwPn)

199 200

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:28 AM (npwPn)

200 Can you explain in 50-100 words, if that is not too unthinkable?
Posted by: fluffy by the dozens at February 10, 2024 07:25 AM (86W+h)
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Without going looking in my library, it's a term for land division. The basic unit was "hides" and a "hundred" was a hundred hides. The terminology was gradually replaced by what became the "English" system (acres, etc.) after those frog-gobbling Danes got in.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:28 AM (0gvpA)

201 A local count of homeless people reveals 3 times as many in the area as in 2022. They are not really homeless though, they have homes near the freeways and down by the river.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

202 200!

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:28 AM (npwPn)

203 Wear the damn mask!!

Posted by: Larry Hogan at February 10, 2024 07:28 AM (NBVIP)

204 BREAKING: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) announces cuts in services at the DMV and Park & Recs to free up more resources for illegals. He warns there will be more cuts coming.

GOOD
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 10, 2024 07:22 AM (ENQN6)
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I love when a good plan comes together.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

205 (New Oxford American Dictionary)

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:29 AM (npwPn)

206 >>> Between NAS Oceana and Langley AFB, Hampton Roads is filled with The Sound Of Freedom.

Oy. I think the local gun club is restricted until after 12. At least they aren't scaring the cats at quarter after seven.

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:29 AM (86W+h)

207 Can you explain in 50-100 words, if that is not too unthinkable?
Posted by: fluffy by the dozens at February 10, 2024 07:25 AM (86W+h)

It actually derives from "hund red", or "dog ride", in Anglo-Saxon. The notables of the area would map out a course through the forest and have dog races, and the owner of the winning dog could keep any other dog in the field they liked. Much like the concept of racing for pink slips. In time, the area within the course and the people who lived there was called a "hundred", or later, "hundreds".

None of that is true at all and i completely made it up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:29 AM (9UlRk)

208 202 200!
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:28 AM (npwPn)
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>
so close

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

209 143!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2024 07:30 AM (L7gdA)

210 Acktshuilly it comes from sunburned Huns.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at February 10, 2024 07:31 AM (NBVIP)

211 nice, W-o!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 10, 2024 07:32 AM (QwWES)

212 Missed it by THAT much!

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at February 10, 2024 07:32 AM (NBVIP)

213 >>> frog-gobbling Danes

This insult will not stand.

Watch the horizon for longboats.

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:33 AM (86W+h)

214 > Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) announces cuts in services at the DMV....
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The DMV? Will anyone notice?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2024 07:34 AM (Q4IgG)

215 209 143!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2024 07:30 AM (L7gdA)

Poor showing. Very, very poor showing.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:34 AM (npwPn)

216 This insult will not stand.

Watch the horizon for longboats.
Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:33 AM (86W+h)
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I see a dark sail
On the horizon
Set under a black cloud
That hides the sun
Bring me my broadsword
And clear understanding
Bring me my cross of gold
As a talisman.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:34 AM (0gvpA)

217 Putin: does anyone in the United States realize what is going on (with the dollar)? You're destroying it with your own hands.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:34 AM (RIvkX)

218 Boris Johnson doesn't come off looking good in the Putin interview. And this Q&A is remarkable:

Putin: Where is Mr. Johnson now? And the war continues.
Tucker Carlson: That is a good question.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:35 AM (npwPn)

219 Putin: does anyone in the United States realize what is going on (with the dollar)? You're destroying it with your own hands.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:34 AM (RIvkX)
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He's not wrong.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:35 AM (0gvpA)

220 Putin: does anyone in the United States realize what is going on (with the dollar)? You're destroying it with your own hands.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:34 AM (RIvkX)

I've been hearing in casual conversation with normies that interest rates will be going back down again soon, back to "normal"

....

Oh you poor poor saps.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:36 AM (9UlRk)

221 The noun sense ‘subdivision of a county’ is of uncertain origin: it may originally have been equivalent to a hundred hides of land
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:27 AM (npwPn)

Land comes in hides ?

Sounds like something Mr. Haney sells.

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 07:36 AM (T4tVD)

222
Don Jr says he wants, as a Christmas present, Tucker Carlson to be the VP nominee just so he can see a debate between Tucker and Kamala.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (nIvob)

223 I dunno. Aside from the brutal and naked military aggression and vicious political persecution and authoritarianism, I find him a fairly erudite and sympathetic figure.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

224 >>> None of that is true at all and i completely made it up.

It was entertaining, at least.

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (86W+h)

225 Don Jr says he wants, as a Christmas present, Tucker Carlson to be the VP nominee just so he can see a debate between Tucker and Kamala.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (nIvob)
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She'd come to a battle of wits unarmed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (0gvpA)

226 "217 Putin: does anyone in the United States realize what is going on (with the dollar)? You're destroying it with your own hands.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

he's .. not wrong

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 10, 2024 07:39 AM (QwWES)

227 Dumping Biden is a fantasy. Jill won't permit it, never mind what he has to say about it. No, he's their albatross. The collateral fantasy is that another democrat will really change the forecast once the novelty juice wears off. The message is going to be different? No, it isn't, and too many are on to their game.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 07:39 AM (ErIoO)

228 223 I dunno. Aside from the brutal and naked military aggression and vicious political persecution and authoritarianism, I find him a fairly erudite and sympathetic figure.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

Bravo on the summary!

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:39 AM (npwPn)

229 It's technically not destroying. It's looting. It always happens after a coup.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:39 AM (WF0+t)

230 Byeeee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 10, 2024 07:40 AM (0gvpA)

231 223 I dunno. Aside from the brutal and naked military aggression and vicious political persecution and authoritarianism, I find him a fairly erudite and sympathetic figure.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

He's finding that comfort zone for a Dictator where you're brutal to your direct enemies but by and large you leave the average schmuck alone to do whatever they will.

Definitely not liberal, but more liberal than the creepy thugs here who insist on insinuating themselves into every possible facet of daily life and commerce.

And that's more or less meant to be damning by faint praise.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:40 AM (9UlRk)

232
She'd come to a battle of wits unarmed.

:: sobs ::

Posted by: Michelle Fields at February 10, 2024 07:40 AM (nIvob)

233 I'm guessing that tomorrows Meet the Depressed type shows are gonna be interesting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 10, 2024 07:40 AM (L7gdA)

234 Aside from the brutal and naked military aggression and vicious political persecution and authoritarianism, I find him a fairly erudite and sympathetic figure.

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It's weird how the first part of this could almost be about Biden. It clearly falls off the cliff after the comma, but still.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:41 AM (WF0+t)

235 They called it Realpolitik when reformed fascists did it, but now they look down on reformed communists who do it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

236 Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

Heh! Watch what they do, not what they say. The thing that came across clearly to me was that he is not impressed or intimidated by the US, and he negotiates from a power position with a lot of pride.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 07:42 AM (YRsIm)

237 234, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 10, 2024 07:42 AM (QwWES)

238 Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:40 AM (9UlRk)

+100

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

239
Saturday so no JJ.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:45 AM (nIvob)

240 "Russia, Russia, Russia!"

US "news" outlets

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:46 AM (npwPn)

241 We have to write flow charts to train the new team on tech support. They gave us some generic ones as an example. They look like they were written by AI and are worse than useless.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 10, 2024 07:46 AM (dfztv)

242 The 80s called, they want their foreign policy back.
-foreign policy genius Pres. Obama

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

243 ... or maybe the US "news" outlets will entirely ignore the Tucker-Putin interview.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:48 AM (npwPn)

244 Definitely not liberal, but more liberal than the creepy thugs here who insist on insinuating themselves into every possible facet of daily life and commerce.

And that's more or less meant to be damning by faint praise.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:40 AM (9UlRk)

The difference I suppose between strong-man rule, or a de facto monarchy, and totalitarianism. Our leaders have totalitarian ambitions -- to control EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 07:49 AM (ErIoO)

245 There was a commercial a few seasons ago about some woman who was hired as "the first woman NFL coach" a few years ago by the niners. I think it was as a strength coach.

Anyhoo, in the ad she states "I am not an affirmative action hire". Oh, yes. Oh, yes you are the very definition of an affirmative action hire.

Point is they won't hire the Knee Taker but they'll hire an unqualified woman who never played the game.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 10, 2024 07:52 AM (Fwuhb)

246 >>> The thing that came across clearly to me was that he is not impressed or intimidated by the US, and he negotiates from a power position with a lot of pride.

His army sucks and we can produce oil.

What is his power position?

Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:52 AM (86W+h)

247 ... or maybe the US "news" outlets will entirely ignore the Tucker-Putin interview.
Posted by: m

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It's this.

JackStraw made a great point maybe last night.

The leader of a competing nation, on a two hour sit down news interview with a major name in media, said that the U.S. performs color revolutions around the world and had done that in Ukraine in 2014.

Nothing. No coverage by the MSM at all. Might as well be searching for info about CIA color revolutions on Google.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:52 AM (WF0+t)

248
The US news outlets can ignore the Tucker/Putin interview but it drew more then 150,000,000 views on Twit/X.

I don't know that they can ignore that. It's a coin flip.

They already marched Hillary out in a preemptive strike.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:52 AM (nIvob)

249 What is his power position?
Posted by: fluffy

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He can apparently print U.S. dollars and cause inflation. Also make the U.S. refuse repeated attempts at negotiations in Ukraine. I suspect there are other dastardly things, too.

Very powerful guy, Putin.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:54 AM (WF0+t)

250 "His army sucks and we can produce oil.
What is his power position?
Posted by: fluffy"

Our leadership sucks. He doesn't have to do anything for the USA to destroy itself.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

251 hahaha, I forgot about Biden's sanctions against Russia that made their economy stronger and destroyed ours. That dastardly Putin!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:55 AM (WF0+t)

252
he's .. not wrong
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades

He isn't, but I don't need him to tell us that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 10, 2024 07:57 AM (MoZTd)

253
When Putin's troops moved into Ukraine the media reported on what he said in announcing the action but were completely befuddled by his using the word Nazi.

A lot of top people in the USA media need a civics lesson about WW2 and about who was fighting who, and why.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 07:57 AM (nIvob)

254 It's weird to realize that the only reason we're not in a shooting war with Russia is because Putin is in a leadership position.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:57 AM (WF0+t)

255 "His army sucks and we can produce oil.

What is his power position?"

I don't it is so much his position of power as it is our position of weakness.

Posted by: jjod3 at February 10, 2024 07:58 AM (PUDHj)

256 254 It's weird to realize that the only reason we're not in a shooting war with Russia is because Putin is in a leadership position.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:57 AM (WF0+t)

The only reason we're almost in a shooting war with Russia is because Biden is in a leadership position.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 07:58 AM (9UlRk)

257 249 What is his power position?
Posted by: fluffy

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He can apparently print U.S. dollars and cause inflation. Also make the U.S. refuse repeated attempts at negotiations in Ukraine. I suspect there are other dastardly things, too.

Very powerful guy, Putin.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:54 AM (WF0+t)

Does he have a huge military?

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 07:58 AM (npwPn)

258
It's weird to realize that the only reason we're not in a shooting war with Russia is because Putin is in a leadership position.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 07:57 AM

He did say that if Chuck Schumer gets his way and American troops go to Ukraine the equation changes in a very bad way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:00 AM (nIvob)

259 When Putin's troops moved into Ukraine the media reported on what he said in announcing the action but were completely befuddled by his using the word Nazi.

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Oh goodness, I'm sure. For years they'd been insisting that churchgoing white people who believed in traditional marriages and not showing p()rn to kids were Nazis.

I honestly believe there was a coordinated plan on that. They knew Ukraine was full of that crap. Oliver Stone had made a documentary about it years ago. They were getting out in front of it because this was part of the long-term plan and they had to desensitize folks to the word.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:00 AM (WF0+t)

260 "His army sucks and we can produce oil.

What is his power position?
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Well, his country has the GDP of Florida, so there's that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2024 08:01 AM (NBVIP)

261 His army sucks and we can produce oil. What is his power position?

He has nothing to fear militarily, from a cabal of old men with no chest.

He can produce oil. And natural gas. And the natural resource and mineral wealth of Russian territory is probably on par wit that of the US. The dollar is in decline thanks to efforts to isolate us from the rest of the world vis-a-vis SWIFT policies and debt.

His power position is that he is intimately familiar with the CIA and it's methodologies, and that we are 'led' by fools with no chest that they control.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 08:01 AM (YRsIm)

262 BBC, "Nazi" reference:

Mr Putin claimed that Poland - which was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 - "collaborated with Hitler".
The Russian president told his interviewer that by refusing to cede an area of Poland called the Danzig Corridor to Hitler, Poland "went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War Two by attacking them".
For Prof Prazmowska, President Putin's interpretation of history is a flawed reading of the historical record. She says that while it is true that there were diplomatic contacts between Poland and the Nazis - the first treaty Hitler signed after coming to power was a non-aggression pact with Poland in 1934 - Mr Putin is conflating diplomatic outreach to a threatening neighbour with collaboration.
"The accusation that the Poles were collaborating is nonsense," says Mrs Prazmowska.
"You can't interpret these things as if this were collaboration with Nazi Germany, because it just so happened that the Soviet Union also signed treaties with Germany [at the same time]."
In September 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland according to the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed between both states earlier that year.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:02 AM (npwPn)

263 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68255302

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:02 AM (npwPn)

264 Does he have a huge military?
Posted by: m

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I'm not militaryologist, but I'm betting he has already figured that bit out. Spread stuff out a bit involving Iran and China and he won't need a real big one, especially against a country that somehow can't meet recruitment goals in the worst economy in years.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:03 AM (WF0+t)

265
Well, his country has the GDP of Florida, so there's that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2024 08:01 AM

So, he's basically Ron DeSantis with 6,000 nukes?

Bet Disney would back down pretty quickly if the Magic Kingdom became de-atomized.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:04 AM (nIvob)

266 > What is his power position?
Posted by: fluffy
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Likely blackmail on our political class. Maybe not all p3d0 and sex stuff, but I'll bet he knows exactly who got paid off, for how much, and for what.

From a purely policy standpoint, that's significant.

Our intelligence community knows this so I assume Putin's does as well. Whether it's as complete a picture as our IC or better/worse is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2024 08:04 AM (Q4IgG)

267 Okay that's neat.

The Oliver Stone documentary? "Ukraine on Fire."

Someone made a new pro-Ukraine documentary named "Winter on Fire."

Weird that the names would be so similar, isn't it? Guess which comes up unless you specifically search for Oliver Stone's?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:05 AM (WF0+t)

268 So, he's basically Ron DeSantis with 6,000 nukes?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:04 AM (nIvob)

Be still, my heart

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 08:05 AM (9UlRk)

269 " What is his power position?"

Lead from the rear!

Posted by: Barky McDogeaterface at February 10, 2024 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

270 That's hot.

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at February 10, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

271 268 So, he's basically Ron DeSantis with 6,000 nukes?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:04 AM (nIvob)

Be still, my heart
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2024 08:05 AM (9UlRk)

I hope that gets passed along to RDS.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:06 AM (npwPn)

272 Color revolution in 2008 in Ukraine, color revolution/voter fraud in the US in 2016.... hmmm...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 08:06 AM (YRsIm)

273 Putin also claimed that all religions and cultures have always been welcomed and protected in the Russian state.

Yeaaah, no.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:07 AM (RIvkX)

274 I'd like to see THIS at the BBC:

"Fact-checking Biden's 'nonsense' history"

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:07 AM (npwPn)

275 Ukraine is game to you?

https://youtu.be/fzLtF_PxbYw

Posted by: Yeah, I know. Another Seinfeld reference at February 10, 2024 08:08 AM (NBVIP)

276 The most devastating contrast for our junta was Putin's confident, calm, coherent performance. The simple fact he would sit down with an adversarial media figure of certain stature when Biden can't even manage composure around fluffers must be humiliating.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 08:08 AM (ErIoO)

277 Putin also claimed that all religions and cultures have always been welcomed and protected in the Russian state.

Well, mostly all religions...except those with people who 'bang their heads on the floor'.....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 08:08 AM (YRsIm)

278 Wait, so post-USSR Russia doesn't have a problem with "first gay cities" or needing to go visit the representative of Muslim cities in order to appease the inhabitants?

Interesting.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:09 AM (WF0+t)

279 273 Putin also claimed that all religions and cultures have always been welcomed and protected in the Russian state.

Yeaaah, no.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:07 AM (RIvkX)

In the transcript, I'm finding this, which is more nuanced:

"Russian authorities were always very careful about the culture and religion of those peoples who came into the Russian Empire."

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:11 AM (npwPn)

280 Well, mostly all religions...except those with people who 'bang their heads on the floor'.....
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 08:08 AM (YRsIm)
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Yes I caught that too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

281 *Well, mostly all religions...except those with people who 'bang their heads on the floor'...*

Uighurs wobble, but they don't fall down.

Posted by: Welcome to the gulag, comrade at February 10, 2024 08:12 AM (NBVIP)

282 Anyone watch Tucah interview Pooty Poot? Should I spend 2 hours or look for a synopsis?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 04:54 AM (YRsIm)

There are clips on Rumble and Bitchute, stuff that people thought was noteworthy. If you want a taste before jumping into it, those are worth a look

Posted by: Kindltot - Erehwon is closed for re-formatting at February 10, 2024 08:12 AM (D7oie)

283 VVT is looking pretty good for a 71-year-old.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:14 AM (npwPn)

284
Well, mostly all religions...except those with people who 'bang their heads on the floor'.....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 08:08 AM

Just to set the record straight he did include the head-bangers in with the religions they welcome.

Somehow Russia keeps them under control with some past exceptions. On a long enough timeline with islamic birth rates what they are... not going to be good.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:14 AM (nIvob)

285 Pooty Poot talks a good game, I'll give him that. I don't think he uses a bluff as a primary strategy either. I think he means it when he says it would not be good for the US to have its troops in Ukraine.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 08:15 AM (YRsIm)

286 wikipedia

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin[c][d] (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has been President of Russia since 2012.

Who do we have who has that kind of background in the US?

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:16 AM (npwPn)

287 I don't think Variable Valve Timing has been around that long.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2024 08:16 AM (NBVIP)

288 the worst part for me is the feeling that Putin loves his country and wants what is best for it.

We don't have that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:16 AM (WF0+t)

289 Ric Grenell?

Richard Allen Grenell (born September 18, 1966) is an American political operative, diplomat, TV personality, and public relations consultant who served as Acting Director of National Intelligence in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in 2020.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:20 AM (npwPn)

290 288 the worst part for me is the feeling that Putin loves his country and wants what is best for it.

**
One big reason the entire self-loathing woke western alliance despises him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 08:20 AM (ErIoO)

291 Didn't the media tell us Putin was sick and dying just a short time ago?

Maybe got Joe And Putin mixed up.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 10, 2024 08:20 AM (R/m4+)

292 I think his approach is very simply pursuing the national interest.

And, no, our leaders are not. They are pursuing some ethereal "global" interest.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

293 but can I get the coconut crab head eating experience without the AR bs?

Posted by: mea culpa at February 10, 2024 08:21 AM (BuzFn)

294 Does anybody here use Zelle to take payments? I need a way to take payments without the stupid fees.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:21 AM (vFG9F)

295 Or waiting for a check. Which is the way I have done it forever. Lately though, checks never make it here.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

296 Richard Allen Grenell (born September 18, 1966) is an American political operative, diplomat, TV personality, and public relations consultant who served as Acting Director of National Intelligence in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in 2020.
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:20 AM (npwPn)

His short stint as Acting Director of NI was the most remarkable example of shock-competence in recent bureaucratic history.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 08:22 AM (ErIoO)

297 Ric Grenell (cont'.)

Private sector (2020–present)
In August 2020, the American Center for Law and Justice announced that Grenell had been named Special Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy for the organization. That month, Grenell became a senior advisor to the Republican National Committee, focusing on outreach to LGBT voters.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:22 AM (npwPn)

298 "288 the worst part for me is the feeling that Putin loves his country and wants what is best for it.

We don't have that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:16 AM (WF0+t)"

boom!

this!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 10, 2024 08:23 AM (QwWES)

299 I dunno. Aside from the brutal and naked military aggression and vicious political persecution and authoritarianism, I find him a fairly erudite and sympathetic figure.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

I think you are wrong, there is nothing erudite or sympathetic about President Biden

Posted by: Kindltot - Erehwon is closed for re-formatting at February 10, 2024 08:23 AM (D7oie)

300 Good morning y'all

Just a little area that can show you an urgent message,

How often does a typical person get a message that is truly urgent?

I mean "Timmy fell down the well, do you know where Lassie is?" urgent as opposed to "Pick up a loaf of bread." urgent.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 10, 2024 08:24 AM (991eG)

301 Does anybody here use Zelle to take payments? I need a way to take payments without the stupid fees.
Posted by: fd

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No idea about Zelle, but I'm betting it will get harder and harder to find that sort of thing now that companies are required by the 2021 law to monitor, track, report to the feds, and send out 1099Ks to individuals for any and all $600+ transactions, even if it is "Hey, you still owe me your half of the rent" transactions that aren't job related.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:24 AM (WF0+t)

302
>Fucking Brits stuck their noses in this shit over 150 years ago, and now they wonder why Putin seeks to nuke them.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2024 06:37 AM

I think I saw something that Britain removed nukes from the country in 2008 and recently asked for them back.

I could be wrong, anyone see/remember?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:25 AM (nIvob)

303 Does anybody here use Zelle to take payments? I need a way to take payments without the stupid fees.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:21 AM (vFG9F)

My mom uses Zelle to send me money on birthdays and holidays. Seems to work fast.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 10, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

304 Or waiting for a check. Which is the way I have done it forever. Lately though, checks never make it here.
Posted by: fd

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Our postal service has really fallen off, too. Speaking of, did you get your Christmas card? Not for anything other than "I wonder if it arrived" because it seems like there's about a 25% failure rate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:26 AM (WF0+t)

305 @291, yeah, that was the narrative back in, what, December?

LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 10, 2024 08:26 AM (QwWES)

306 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 08:26 AM (T4tVD)

307 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 10, 2024 08:27 AM (SfhV1)

308 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:28 AM (u82oZ)

309 I've watched the Putin interview twice now.
I challenge Biden to do such a thing. Both watch it and do one himself.
I highly recommend it.
Historical to say the least.

Posted by: Reforger at February 10, 2024 08:28 AM (Nk1k0)

310 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 10, 2024 08:27 AM (SfhV1)

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 08:28 AM (T4tVD)

311 I just finished watching the Tucah interview with Pooty Poot. It was interesting to say the least. I cannot imagine any US president, Donny Two Scoops included, doing such an interview.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 10, 2024 07:02 AM (YRsIm)

My take is that all propaganda is newsworthy when hearing it for THE FIRST TIME. And I agree with the commenters who said Putin's 2-hour marathon was faceslap at the US DarkState.

Posted by: mrp at February 10, 2024 08:28 AM (rj6Yv)

312 His short stint as Acting Director of NI was the most remarkable example of shock-competence in recent bureaucratic history.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 08:22 AM (ErIoO)
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This is a good point considering Trump's personnel picks have not been good overall.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

313 I get a few 1099s every year but the majority of my clients don't send anything. It doesn't matter anyway, when I do my books the gross is always more than the 1099s add up to.

I thought about going paperless but the fkr's take at least 2%.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:29 AM (vFG9F)

314 I don't know what "shock-competence" means.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:29 AM (npwPn)

315 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

VA Beach?

I thought your son had transferred out of there.
It's the golf course, right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

316 His army sucks and we can produce oil.

What is his power position?
Posted by: fluffy at February 10, 2024 07:52 AM (86W+h)

Our army can't make recruitment goals and Biden won't let us export or refine more oil?

Posted by: Kindltot - Erehwon is closed for re-formatting at February 10, 2024 08:30 AM (D7oie)

317 Looks like he made all the right enemies!

Democratic national security leader Susan E. Rice has described Grenell as "one of the most nasty, dishonest people I’ve ever encountered."

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:30 AM (npwPn)

318 I don't know what "shock-competence" means.
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:29 AM

You're qualified with a tazer? *shrugs*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2024 08:31 AM (Wnv9h)

319 " Speaking of, did you get your Christmas card?"

NO I didn't! I knew we were missing some other mail too. I had several checks that never showed up, and an empty mailbox on several occasions when usually there is at least a catalog or two in there.

Well Thank you anyway. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

320 I hate having to get folks to cancel and resend checks. First I figure out they are late, then send them an email to see if they ever sent a check. This shit is getting old.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:34 AM (vFG9F)

321 Shock competence > Disruptor

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

322 Try sending me $100 on Zelle and we'll see if it works.

Posted by: Nigerian Prince at February 10, 2024 08:34 AM (NBVIP)

323 318 I don't know what "shock-competence" means.
Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:29 AM

Shocking the system with sudden competence and the demand for competence. Nearly unheard of within government ranks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 08:35 AM (ErIoO)

324 Well Thank you anyway. Merry Christmas!

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Ha. Merry Christmas to you and yours, too.

I'm pretty cheap and I bought a bunch of cards that were marked down by 75% at the end of December. My wife said the adhesive might go bad before we use them (it's a good point with humidity around here) so I told her I'd just go ahead and mail them out and be done with it.

I might do two years in advance if I've got enough.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:35 AM (WF0+t)

325 {{{grammie winger }}}

This past football season we had Jordy Nelson as an assistant football coach. He just resigned.

Our team was good, but other teams were better. Football is close to the center of the rural school culture, and most of the boys in high school are on the team. We still show a slice of Americana every game.

The basketball and volleyball families are also very supportive, with them cheering on a child. Loudly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

326
NO I didn't! I knew we were missing some other mail too. I had several checks that never showed up, and an empty mailbox on several occasions when usually there is at least a catalog or two in there.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:31 AM

In my hood, pretty upscale, mail is being stolen all the time. The police officer I spoke with yesterday says they're close to making an arrest. I guess someone set up a camera and gave the police the footage.

For now any checks we write we deliver directly into the post office.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:36 AM (nIvob)

327 It's because the post office is underfunded, duh.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:36 AM (WF0+t)

328 "Try sending me $100 on Zelle and we'll see if it works.
Posted by: Nigerian Prince"

Ok. Send me your bank account number and routing info and I'll get started.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:36 AM (vFG9F)

329 This past football season we had Jordy Nelson as an assistant football coach. He just resigned.

Love me some Jordy.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 10, 2024 08:37 AM (SfhV1)

330 321 Shock competence > Disruptor
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

323 Shocking the system with sudden competence and the demand for competence. Nearly unheard of within government ranks.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 10, 2024 08:35 AM (ErIoO)

Thanks!

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:38 AM (npwPn)

331 If Putin visits the US will he stay at the Ritz?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 10, 2024 08:38 AM (991eG)

332 grammie winger

His youngest daughter was picked as an attendant for the Winter Royalty popularity contest, so his kids continue to excel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

333 It doesn't help that our mailbox is way down the driveway where we can't see it. I had a UPS mailbox at the UPS store for years but I cancelled it during Covid because the sawed off little tyrant fukhead manager thru a hissy fit every time I went in there without a mask.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:39 AM (vFG9F)

334 This past football season we had Jordy Nelson as an assistant football coach. He just resigned.

Love me some Jordy.
Posted by: grammie winger

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I'll sit over here with you.

See #193

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:39 AM (WF0+t)

335 Baseball season starts today for Thing 1. Indoors weekend tournament. Heaven.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 10, 2024 08:39 AM (SfhV1)

336
I hate having to get folks to cancel and resend checks. First I figure out they are late, then send them an email to see if they ever sent a check. This shit is getting old.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:34 AM

I looked up locking mailboxes on Amazon and they're around $150.00 which is kinda pricey for me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:39 AM (nIvob)

337 Divide by Zero

20% of my outgoing mail never got there. The Post Office has had a negative change in culture and worker ethics.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

338 331 If Putin visits the US will he stay at the Ritz?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 10, 2024 08:38 AM (991eG)

It'll have to be the roof to work

Posted by: jsg at February 10, 2024 08:40 AM (j0Uz8)

339 coffee

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 10, 2024 08:41 AM (ENQN6)

340 Oh man, imagine how much less mail you'd get if the mailman had to bother unlocking your mailbox.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:41 AM (WF0+t)

341 Divide by Zero

Have your bank or credit union send people or companies a direct payment. This avoids the Post Office entirely.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

342 867-5309.

Posted by: Jenny at February 10, 2024 08:41 AM (NBVIP)

343 The UPS store was reasonable. It was about $12 a month for a mailbox and they would receive all my packages for me too. I liked the employees and even gave them restaurant gift cards at Christmas. All except for that manager though. He just gets the evil eye.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:42 AM (vFG9F)

344 Oh and morning all.

Berlin, June 1990. Second weekend in country I went on a trip there. Freely traveled between East and West of the city. Drank Goldschlagger with Russian soldiers. Hugged and cried with them as, two generations after it started, we witnessed the end of the Cold War. We were friends now.

What happened?
Watch the interview, Putin knows. Biden doesn't remember for his own protection.

Posted by: Reforger at February 10, 2024 08:42 AM (Nk1k0)

345 20% of my outgoing mail never got there. The Post Office has had a negative change in culture and worker ethics.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:40 AM (u82oZ)

Concur. Last time I had to pick up a certified letter at the post orifice the staff looked like Antifa, Bull Dykes and Menudo all wrapped around Lou Rawls. Semi hostile and incompetent too.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 10, 2024 08:42 AM (R/m4+)

346 I thought about going paperless but the fkr's take at least 2%.
Posted by: fd at February 10, 2024 08:29 AM (vFG9F)

From my experience the cost of the transaction is between 2 and 4%. It is the actual cost for the financial institution that includes things like holding cash, managing the accounts and charge-backs. The banks also charge it, but it is in what they get off the top.

I am told the cheapest way of doing it is through some crypto exchanges, but there is some cost there, including those customers who won't touch it. It is cheaper because there is not a layer of banking on top of it, it is peer-to-peer and the same sort of cost savings between USPS letters and emails. With all the associated risks, as well.

Posted by: Kindltot - Erehwon is closed for re-formatting at February 10, 2024 08:42 AM (D7oie)

347 the staff looked like Antifa, Bull Dykes and Menudo all wrapped around Lou Rawls. Semi hostile and incompetent too.

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hahaha, this is poetry.

I try not to go to our post office because we've got a lady that works there that is a really attractive MILFy type and she makes me feel all funny. It's best for me and all my relationships if I just avoid that place entirely.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:44 AM (WF0+t)

348
Oh man, imagine how much less mail you'd get if the mailman had to bother unlocking your mailbox.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:41 AM

Doesn't work that way. You need the key to unlock it and retrieve mail. It then remains empty and unlocked until mailman opens it and puts mail in. When he closes it it then locks.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2024 08:44 AM (nIvob)

349 Has anyone had a piece of mail, one with sensitive financial info (like a statement from your investment firm or bank) come up missing... only to be delivered days later, all taped up after it had been opened?

Is there anyway to find out where it got delivered by mistake? Other than interrogating the mail carrier... which would probably be pointless.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2024 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

350 For years at work, we let our postal carrier chill for a bit, have a coffee, use the loo, take a break in our lounge.

Then COVID came and for nine months he dumped the mail in a cardboard box at the front door, making our people deliver mail to 100 apartments.

I don't let that POS have a drink of water now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

351 Doesn't work that way. You need the key to unlock it and retrieve mail. It then remains empty and unlocked until mailman opens it and puts mail in. When he closes it it then locks.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

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Ah, that makes sense. I assumed it would be for both parties since once the kids found out they'd be routinely locking it for you when they rode by on their bikes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Fort Sumter bad Texas good, Southern states bad Ukraine good at February 10, 2024 08:45 AM (WF0+t)

352 HAve a wonderful day, everyone.

I've got Super Bowl party preps ahead.

May you party hardy, and not have Taylor Swift enter conversations.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

353 Mail didn't arrive? Was it raining?

Posted by: Newman! at February 10, 2024 08:46 AM (SYTee)

354
Richard Grenell
@RichardGrenell
18h
The White House reporters can’t think for themselves.
It’s all groupthink.
Very few have the backbone to challenge the Mean Girls controlling the system.
Today they all decided to be outraged after the public skewered them yesterday for their 3 years of protecting Biden.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:50 AM (npwPn)

355 Trump's picks that didn't require confirmation were fine. The confirmation process gave us the crap.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 10, 2024 08:51 AM (dfztv)

356 HAve a wonderful day, everyone.

I've got Super Bowl party preps ahead.

May you party hardy, and not have Taylor Swift enter conversations.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 10, 2024 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

Backatcha Salty !

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2024 08:51 AM (T4tVD)

357 reaching, but fun:

@AriFleischer
Feb 9
“My memory is fine.”
“I am not a crook.”
It took Nixon five words to say something that helped bring down his presidency.
It took Biden only four.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2024 08:53 AM (npwPn)

358 "Read my lips."

Posted by: GHWB at February 10, 2024 08:56 AM (NBVIP)

359 The Stupid Bowl.
Want to predict whose going to win?
Figure out the final that will make the make the major bookies the most money.
Only way I'll watch any of it will be hilights if SF wins and Brock Purdy has a great game.
Mostly for the post game interview with him.
God hating hearts exploding everywhere.

Posted by: TeeJ at February 10, 2024 09:00 AM (o3xwr)

360 Nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 10, 2024 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

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