Daily Tech News 3 April 2024

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Taiwan has been hit with its strongest earthquake in 25 years, with an estimated magnitude of 7.something. (MSN)

The death toll currently stands at 7, with more than 700 injured. Fortunately the epicenter was on the less-populated eastern side of the island; in the densely populated north and west such a strong earthquake could have been devastating.
Amazon is closing its automated grocery stores that delivered the magical experience of walking in, picking out whatever you needed, and walking out again, and then having an amount possibly even related to what you had taken deducted from your credit card. (Gizmodo)

Automated.

Well, as to that, all those cameras weren't hooked up to some carefully trained visual AI system, but to a warehouse full of people in India keeping track of your every move.

Not sure if that's better or worse.

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Dell's new Inspiron 14 Plus is HP's Pavilion 14 Plus only worse. (Liliputing)

The Dell has a 2880x1800 display but it's half as bright as the HP's OLED panel, and the Four Essential Keys are absent as they are on all of Dell's current laptops. Since it's the same price as the HP I see no reason for anyone to buy it.
How to hack any AI. (Tech Crunch)

Be very annoying.
Wait, is Qualcomm's new laptop CPU actually good? (Tom's Hardware)

Maybe so. It's only one benchmark, but it beat AMD and Intel chips on both single-threaded scores (narrowly) and multi-threaded scores (by a substantial margin).

Qualcomm's previous efforts in this space have been underwhelming, but all reports on this venture have been positive so far.
Google Podcasts was an opportunity to do something innovative and genuinely useful. (The Verge)

But instead Google killed it and put all their efforts into generating racially diverse Nazis.
The highest-rating vtuber debut of all time is Hololive's Usada Pekora's mother.

Her April 1 stream pulled in more than 180,000 concurrent viewers.

Disclaimer: Don't let Pekora's mother having the highest rating vtuber debut of all time distract you from the fact that Pekora bought a faqing monkey.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 04:03 AM (o3SCB)

2 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)

3 I hear thunder
Posted by: Skip

youtube.com/watch?v=u1RyWy7-aoU

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:04 AM (njWTi)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2024 04:05 AM (fwDg9)

5 But What is GPT? Visual intro to Transformers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 04:05 AM (o3SCB)

6 Magnitude 7.7?!

Holy crap.

I rode out the Loma Prieta, in 1989... think it was only 6.9 or 7.0. Shook like a sunovagun!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:07 AM (njWTi)

7 I watched the "What is GPT?" video (about 27 minutes). Way above my pay grade, like anything involving math.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 04:10 AM (o3SCB)

8 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ reporting stations peppered across the Solar System! (No, Ganymede, no toilet repair crews available to launch right now. You'll have to learn plumbing on your own. Sorry about that.)

'Tis cool(er) and windy here in the hellspot of the Earth. Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2024 04:10 AM (omVj0)

9 Magnitude 7.7?!

Holy crap.

I rode out the Loma Prieta, in 1989... think it was only 6.9 or 7.0. Shook like a sunovagun!
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024

***
And the intensity goes up not in a linear fashion, but by orders of magnitude -- I forget exactly how. So a 7.7 is a *lot* stronger than a 7!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2024 04:12 AM (omVj0)

10 Was hearing thunder off a way but gone now

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2024 04:12 AM (fwDg9)

11 Mornin' Wolfus!

Cool & rainy here, after a lovely warm & sunny yesterday.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:12 AM (njWTi)

12 So a 7.7 is a *lot* stronger than a 7!
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Yeah.

And I don't want to experience even the piddly "7" ever again!!!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:13 AM (njWTi)

13
My near 94 yr old mother, what just had the "minor" stroke due to fall induced head injury, just woke up. Cracker and pineapple juice time.

She was rattled. She had a bad dream. She was a fugitive from justice, she recounted. The cops were after her. What did you do, I asked her. "I don't know", she said, "but you were no help!"

Apparently, in her dream, I didn't help her. Maybe I turned her in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 04:17 AM (w6EFb)

14 "The Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989, killing 63 people and injuring thousands."

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 04:18 AM (o3SCB)

15 3 I hear thunder
Posted by: Skip

youtube.com/watch?v=u1RyWy7-aoU
Posted by: JQ

https://youtu.be/Hamux6cfGmY?si=wWW2hHcYHUVoIMDu

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 03, 2024 04:18 AM (sAmhv)

16 Tis cool(er) and windy here in the hellspot of the Earth. Howzabout you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Snow forecasted here in No Ill. "Up to four inches!!!" The weather guru's exclaimed last night.

This morning it's to about one inch of snain

"Our 10 year forecast of hot weather and the Arctic melting are spot on though!"

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2024 04:19 AM (vd8XM)

17
I'm still on this kick about the seasonal variation of the Erf's rotational speed. Turns out there is a pretty good correlation with this and seismic activity.

This is fascinating. I'm reading. So earthquakes and the tidal variations.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 04:19 AM (w6EFb)

18 (7.1)

"In 1989, the magnitude 7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake struck the west coast of the United States. "

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 04:19 AM (o3SCB)

19 After almost 3 years in Japan, I was fairly experienced with 'quakes... mostly they were 'rollers' and more horizontal motion.

The 'world series' quake was a vertical shaker. Very destructive motion. It slammed up & down. Sounded like a freight train as it approached. ba-boom boom, Ba Boom Boom, BA BOOM BOOM... WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!!!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:19 AM (njWTi)

20 Oh, 7.1. Okay. For a long time, they kept changing the "estimated magnitude"

It was eye-opening.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:21 AM (njWTi)

21 8 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ reporting stations peppered across the Solar System! (No, Ganymede, no toilet repair crews available to launch right now. You'll have to learn plumbing on your own. Sorry about that.)

'Tis cool(er) and windy here in the hellspot of the Earth. Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2024 04:10 AM (omVj0)
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I read that as toilet paper and was going to comment that if you had run out of TP on Ganymede, it would take a few years for a supply ship from Earth to reach you - a long time to hang around with klingons.

Posted by: Ciampino - no bidets either at April 03, 2024 04:22 AM (qfLjt)

22 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 04:24 AM (ju2Fy)

23 I somehow have missed ever little earthquake here, either sleeping of in a place it wasn't noticed

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2024 04:24 AM (fwDg9)

24 Well, if the earth is a heterogeneous mix then changes in momentum would result in sloshing and bumping.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 03, 2024 04:24 AM (IG7T0)

25 Pixy, I was really intrigued upon reading about those Amazon grocery stores, when they started up.

Wondered just how accurate the "check out" would be...

Heh. Not curious enough to test it myself, though!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:28 AM (njWTi)

26 Every unit on the right of the decimal = 1
So a 7.1 is x1 more than 7.0

Every unit on the left of decimal is x10
So a 7.1 is x10 more potent than a 6.1
a 7.1 is x100 more than a 5.1

I hope I got it right

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine being on the throne when it shakes at April 03, 2024 04:30 AM (qfLjt)

27 Want to feel small? Insignificant? Vulnerable?

Experience a major earthquake.

That'll do it for ya.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:30 AM (njWTi)

28 High today of 50. 25 degree drop from yesterday.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 04:30 AM (ju2Fy)

29
There is actually a Fault in South Carolina. You can look that up. It's not too active at the moment, but way back when I was just a baby, there was some greater than normal activity. A little earthquake.

They tell, when I was little baby, around 1967-68, how I reacted to a little earthquake. I was "concerned" in my little basket, they say.

I don't remember this incident.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 04:41 AM (w6EFb)

30
Looked it up. October 23, 1967 was the date there. Moderate little quake near Charleston.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 04:43 AM (w6EFb)

31 I adjusted the post because there seems to be a lot of disagreement on that second digit.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 03, 2024 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

32 31 I adjusted the post because there seems to be a lot of disagreement on that second digit.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 03, 2024 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

7.something
heh

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 04:49 AM (o3SCB)

33 Well, "7.something" magnitude, is indeed a shocking experience.

Prayers up for all those who endured it!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:51 AM (njWTi)

34
Just wait a bit, the exact magnitude will be determined, within various error bars. Initial reports are always a bit, well, wide error bars, one might say.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 04:54 AM (w6EFb)

35 There was a really good shaker in 1959(?) at Yellowstone. Shook all the way into northern Idaho & cracked plaster in my grandmother's house. Sloshed the nearby lake, too, which flooded the field.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:54 AM (njWTi)

36
Taiwan says 7.2 magnitude. USGS says 7.4. They'll get this straightened out.

Or maybe not. Biden, you know.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 04:56 AM (w6EFb)

37 "Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. "

Didn't a lot of the Walgreens try that in large cities?

They forgot about the whole scanning a QR code when the "shoppers" entered the store though.

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2024 04:58 AM (vd8XM)

38 Goodnight, all. Been a veeeerrrrryyyy long day for us here!

:heart:

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2024 04:59 AM (njWTi)

39
Japan says 7.7. Chicoms say 7.3.

So, range of 7.2 to 7.7.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 05:00 AM (w6EFb)

40 34 Just wait a bit, the exact magnitude will be determined, within various error bars. Initial reports are always a bit, well, wide error bars, one might say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 04:54 AM (w6EFb)

Can we expect, eventually, agreement? Or a range?

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 05:01 AM (o3SCB)

41 Japan says 7.7. Chicoms say 7.3.

So, range of 7.2 to 7.7.
Posted by: publius

Potato, potatoh.

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2024 05:01 AM (vd8XM)

42 Bruce killed the thread.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 05:08 AM (o3SCB)

43 ; )

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 05:08 AM (o3SCB)

44 The Great Babylon DC Earthquake of, whatever year that was, 2011? Whatever. I slept right through it. I was a bit befuddled to wake up with random stuff strewn about my condo. Eventually, I found out about the earthquake.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 03, 2024 05:08 AM (sAmhv)

45 I have 2 x10 side dice we can roll a tens and ones and come up with a final answer

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2024 05:09 AM (fwDg9)

46 Bruce killed the thread.
Posted by: m

I'm sorry....

The thread is merely pining for the fjords.

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2024 05:12 AM (vd8XM)

47 ☕

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2024 05:12 AM (oCjPU)

48 ☕
Posted by: Don Black

I'm on it!

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2024 05:13 AM (vd8XM)

49
'Murican media is going with what the USGS says, 7.3 Reuters is reporting both, 7.2 according to Taiwan and 7.4 according to USGS.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 05:15 AM (w6EFb)

50 Today meeting the electrician at the new house to hang a dining table chandelier, and a couple ceiling fans. All relatively easy for me to do except for the ladder part.

So I had to call a guy.

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2024 05:17 AM (vd8XM)

51 'Murican media is going with what the USGS says, 7.3 Reuters is reporting both, 7.2 according to Taiwan and 7.4 according to USGS.
Posted by: publius,

Of course. When has out gubbmint ever been wrong?

Posted by: Bruce at April 03, 2024 05:18 AM (vd8XM)

52 47 ☕
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2024 05:12 AM (oCjPU)

I hope you brought enough for everybody.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 05:19 AM (o3SCB)

53 Hmm. BBC.

Botswana wants to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
Germany wants tougher limits on hunting the animals, but Botswana says it has too many of them.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 05:21 AM (o3SCB)

54 sorry, I have one of those little 'one man' coffee makers with the urn the size of a regulation softball

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2024 05:22 AM (oCjPU)

55 28 High today of 50. 25 degree drop from yesterday.
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 04:30 AM (ju2Fy)

Yeah, same here. A bit chilly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2024 05:23 AM (di6C2)

56 Botswana wants to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
Germany wants tougher limits on hunting the animals, but Botswana says it has too many of them.
Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 05:21 AM (o3SCB)

I'd prefer migrant elephants, to be honest.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2024 05:24 AM (di6C2)

57 Still raining lightly, should end soon hopefully
Forward Dog 9 hitting a very short road at first anyway

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2024 05:28 AM (fwDg9)

58 Y'all remember that nut Iben Browning, self claimed climatologist turned disaster-prophet? He predicted a major earthquake Dec. 3, 1990 on New Madrid Fault. Turned into a media frenzy. News outlets from all over the country descended on New Madrid, MO that day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 05:30 AM (ju2Fy)

59 The Temptations
"Shakey Ground"

https://youtu.be/W_UxlayuJpk?si=CYs0xr03cyd5vx6-

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2024 05:32 AM (oCjPU)

60 good morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 03, 2024 05:33 AM (ENQN6)

61 Part of the frenzy was driven by fact we had a 4.6 in Sept of that year half way between Cape Girardeau and Sikeston. New Madrid's about 30 m south of Sikeston.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 05:33 AM (ju2Fy)

62 I read that as toilet paper and was going to comment that if you had run out of TP on Ganymede, it would take a few years for a supply ship from Earth to reach you - a long time to hang around with klingons.
Posted by: Ciampino - no bidets either at April 03, 2024

***
I *told* 'em to pack extra. But did they listen? Noooo!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2024 05:35 AM (omVj0)

63
Daily Mail is going with the USGS magnitude of 7.4 as well.

I'll be interested in what the final figure is.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 05:39 AM (w6EFb)

64 59 The Temptations
"Shakey Ground"

https://youtu.be/W_UxlayuJpk?si=CYs0xr03cyd5vx6

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2024 05:32 AM (oCjPU)

That makes up for no coffee.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 05:40 AM (o3SCB)

65 New Madrid?
If that happens, I hope it doesn't empty Reelfoot.
Haven't ever fished it yet. A couple days of big gills and redear (shellcracker) would be a lot of fun and tasty.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 03, 2024 05:41 AM (dWUm0)

66 58 Y'all remember that nut Iben Browning, self claimed climatologist turned disaster-prophet? He predicted a major earthquake Dec. 3, 1990 on New Madrid Fault. Turned into a media frenzy. News outlets from all over the country descended on New Madrid, MO that day.
Posted by: olddog in mo

I remember that! Felt the tremors all the way in the UK. Did they ever rebuild St. Louis? Is the Mississippi River going the right direction finally?

I'm guessing Iben Browning is now working as a Klimatoligist for WEF.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 03, 2024 05:42 AM (sAmhv)

67 "The project"- A woman reflects on a passage from 2nd Kings, King Hezekiah and trust in the Lord.

https://tinyurl.com/bdf6acxf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2024 05:46 AM (dAn/M)

68
The New Madrid Fault zone is a big 'un. They pronouce it "mahdrid" and opposed to "MAH-drid".

Big earthquake in 1811 (magnitude estimasted as 7.2 - 8.2), and big aftershocks in 1812.

At the time, the area was sparsely populated. The Mississippi River flowed backwards during that event.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 05:47 AM (w6EFb)

69 If that happens, I hope it doesn't empty Reelfoot.
Haven't ever fished it yet. A couple days of big gills and redear (shellcracker) would be a lot of fun and tasty.
Posted by: TeeJ
---------------

Might be good if it does. IIRC Reelfoot has an Asian carp problem. I know they're in KY Lake and wreaking havoc on other fish hurting fishing.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 05:48 AM (ju2Fy)

70 Restaurant owner drives six hours to fulfill a dying former patron's last request:

https://tinyurl.com/4jej5jzh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2024 05:49 AM (dAn/M)

71 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2024 05:50 AM (RIvkX)

72 Pelican just wants a hug:

https://tinyurl.com/48b9ppan

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2024 05:53 AM (3cjH1)

73 We pronounce it Mad-rid in these parts. And yes, Puddleglum, the river is finally going in the right direction. I lost 2 homes and all my guns that year. One fell into the Mississippi and the other into KY Lake.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 05:53 AM (ju2Fy)

74 "The highest-rating vtuber debut of all time is Hololive's Usada Pekora's mother."

Holomom's got it going on.

Posted by: cheshirecat at April 03, 2024 05:54 AM (TwA+r)

75 Morning, SF.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2024 05:54 AM (ju2Fy)

76 Covering each other. Rabbi's daughter reflects on a passage from Leviticus and " covering" each other with words Ana actions of love and support:

https://tinyurl.com/mvtzjhx8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2024 05:58 AM (3cjH1)

77 There is nothing interesting on local TV news. Truly, no news is good news.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2024 06:00 AM (RIvkX)

78
I'm a big pussy. Just turned on the A/C. Interior temp 77F, 66% RH. Set point 75F.

I'll see what that does. Only temporary as heat will have to be back during the night for the next few days. Temps will hit 37F or so lows.

This should be the last frost chances for the season. Unless some low probability event occurs later.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 06:00 AM (w6EFb)

79 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 03, 2024 06:01 AM (T4tVD)

80 Asian carp?
I don't know much about the lake. Envision it as basically a big pond, not connected to other waterways. If so, how'd they get in it?
Is it more like a big backwater off the Mississippi?
Have fished KY Lake once, for a few days. Early April in oh, '83' I guess. Cold front went through right before but still did okay on the crappie.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 03, 2024 06:09 AM (dWUm0)

81 The ‘59 quake at Yellowstone created “Quake Lake”, an entire side of a mountain sloughed off and dammed a tributary. It also killed dozens of campers at Hegben lake.
—-
For single coffee servings I have an Italian device, a two piece flip job that makes a pretty decent Espresso. Madaglia D’oro brewed on a Svea 123 this morning.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2024 06:12 AM (bAH4u)

82 I was too busy yesterday to look at any political news on this estimable website. I think it was good to have a break.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2024 06:15 AM (aaVMM)

83 The company that designed the flag for the British Olympic Association claimed that it made it pink and purple because while “red, white and blue is synonymous with Great Britain,… it’s far from unique, with nations such as France and USA also sporting the same colours.”

What? So you took it upon yourselves to change the national flag?

“We needed to find a way of refreshing Team GB’s colour palette in a way that is both flexible and ownable,” branding company ‘Thisaway’ added, spouting more nonsense.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2024 06:17 AM (jtTfW)

84
Well, 14 minute run time on the A/C, T-stat set point 75F. It said start temp was 77F. This is a lie. The T-stat's current temp depends on algorithms.

Anyway, during that 14 minute run time, actual temp dropped maybe 1F here, but RH dropped 10%.

Feels decent, now. We'll see how long that lasts before it kicks on again. Outside temp 66F, dew point 64F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 06:17 AM (w6EFb)

85 My husband is reading the biblical Book of Daniel for the first time- although he knows of some of the incidences from it, of course. He is enjoying it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2024 06:18 AM (uvTOp)

86 "Shakey Ground"
If you enjoyed the Motown sound like I did, there's a documentary on utube, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, about the musicians behind it.
Detroit's version of The Wrecking Crew in LA and The Swampers down in Mussel Shoals.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 03, 2024 06:18 AM (dWUm0)

87 I am reading the book of Enoch. Very interesting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2024 06:21 AM (jtTfW)

88 If so, how'd they get in it?

They walked in, so to speak. This is a thing about carp: if there's water in a furrow in a field, or in the gutters in a street, they'll wallow through it. They can lay in mud and survive. It's not safe to keep them in separate ponds if there's any chance the water will ever be up -- and that's how they came to infest most of the major waterways in the midwest.

Somebody told me once that Germans brought them here, because in alpine streams they're a fair-to-middling fighting fish on the line, and evoked happy memories of mountain life. Once they found swamp bottom they developed a whole new lifestyle and gave up their muscular ways. They were not alone in this.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 03, 2024 06:23 AM (zdLoL)

89 **sigh**
I left out that group of musicians "handle."
The Funk Brothers

Posted by: TeeJ at April 03, 2024 06:23 AM (dWUm0)

90 Good morning, tax filers! We're down the homestretch now, like a tall rollercoaster nearing the bottom of the first drop. Hang on!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 03, 2024 06:24 AM (4I/2K)

91
5 minutes later. T-stat has kicked the A/C back on. It is trying to respond to "real feel" per algorithms/ RH jumped up maybe 3%, but actual temp didn't increase that much.

This fascinates the hell out of me.

The T-stats display has been reading "75F" the whole time since it sastified.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 06:24 AM (w6EFb)

92 Time to get rolling for the electron mines, all. I'll check in later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2024 06:26 AM (omVj0)

93 All the bee are dead.

Not so fast.

Bees have almost doubled since 2010.

Science
By Susan Milius

JANUARY 17, 2018 AT 2:42 PM
It was one of the flashiest mysteries in the news about a decade ago — honeybee workers were vanishing fast for no clear reason. To this day, that puzzle has never been entirely solved, researchers acknowledge.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 03, 2024 06:27 AM (ENQN6)

94 WI amended our constitution to ban private funds in election voting.
My local defeated a school referendum 60-40 with a voter turnout of about 25-30% depending on ward.
One election is TIED at 190 votes each and the Dem guy is a fucking menace.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 03, 2024 06:28 AM (NdL8w)

95 @88 - thanks

Yeah, they're in the major rivers around here. Hopefully they won't make it into the reservoirs. Only way in would be through the outlet tubes I would think.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 03, 2024 06:29 AM (dWUm0)

96 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2024 06:2

That's great!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 03, 2024 06:29 AM (XkYcA)

97 There is an Amazon Fresh store near me. It's quite convenient and fast, and prices are in line with other local stores.

And it is accurate. I have had a few issues with the charges (none recently) and Amazon took care of them effortlesly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2024 06:30 AM (gSZYf)

98
I was just reading something about this recent OMG!, the honey bees are dying stuff.

It was all bullshit. Turns out there is a long term cycle, there. Bee population waxes and wanes over maybe decade long cycles. Human activity, you know, bee keeping incentives and all that modulate it somewhat.

Anyway, the "colony collpase" disorder thing was just a natural cycle that has has been observed over many years.

It was all bullshit. Bees are now at the peak of that decade long cycle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 06:30 AM (w6EFb)

99 It was all bullshit. Bees are now at the peak of that decade long cycle.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 06:30 AM (w6EFb)

And this year we have something like 4 groups of cicadas coming up.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 03, 2024 06:34 AM (ENQN6)

100
Still raining lightly, should end soon hopefully
Forward Dog 9 hitting a very short road at first anyway

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2024 05:28 AM

Nope, it ain't over 'til it's over:

ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - Additional rainfall amounts between 1.0 to 3.0 inches are expected across the Watch area into Thursday. About two dozen of our river points are forecast to approach flood stage today into Thursday, with several exceeding flood stage.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 03, 2024 06:39 AM (RKVpM)

101
Anyway, people what knew 'bout bees, knew this whole cycle of bee population. They knew this "Colony collapse disorder" was all bullshit.

But funny, how the news media just didn't report what the actual people, what knew 'bout bees was saying.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 06:40 AM (w6EFb)

102 Colorado has cicadas, but not the periodic ones that are supposed to torment parts of the country this year

I experienced a cicada event in MD years ago
what a mess

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2024 06:42 AM (oCjPU)

103 and whatever happened to the murder death hornets we were warned about

and killer bees

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2024 06:43 AM (oCjPU)

104 Glenn Greenwald has his panties in a bunch about the IAF "attacking the Iranian embassy in Damascus."

When Iranians and Libyans attack the American embassies in their capitals, not so much...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2024 06:43 AM (RIvkX)

105 12 reasons to vote for PDT

https://tinyurl.com/f9pskvdt

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 03, 2024 06:43 AM (ENQN6)

106 @99 - cicadas

They're saying 2 groups around here. 13 year and 17 year in same year. First time since, I think it said, 1803.

Why am I seeing Jake go through his excuses in the Blues Brothers?
And will it result in a big hatch of cicada killers?

Posted by: TeeJ at April 03, 2024 06:46 AM (dWUm0)

107 What’s more, this year’s cicada groups, known as Brood XIII and Brood XIX, happened to make their homes adjacent to one another, with a narrow overlap in central Illinois.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 03, 2024 06:51 AM (ENQN6)

108 Prof. John Mearsheimer says the primary cause of October 7 was the Israeli desire to "ethnically cleanse" Gaza.

Sick bastard.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2024 06:52 AM (RIvkX)

109
Okay, I'm officially impressed about this here T-stat. When they was building Miley's house, the HVAC guys tol me this here T-stat they was puttin' in was the Shiz.

It responded to Humilarity as well as temperature (you know, actual thermodynamic equilibrium temperature, such as is defined). Well, they were rednecks, and didn't really know what Thermodynamic Equilibrium Temperate actually was, as per Lord Kelvin and Mr. Feynman might precisely define it. I'm a big redneck too, so I cain't criticize.

Anwway, under these conditions, this here fancy T-state, what they put in, is responding more to changes in RH than to temperature.

Leaving the Temp setting at 75F, it's going to slowly get the RH down to 50% before it worries too much about the actual temperature.

I'm impressed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 06:53 AM (w6EFb)

110 G'mornin' everyone!

snowed all night, out to see how bad the shovelings gonna be ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 03, 2024 06:53 AM (PFYt9)

111 108 - how in hell do people get that way anyhow?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 03, 2024 06:55 AM (PFYt9)

112 What’s more, this year’s cicada groups, known as Brood XIII and Brood XIX, happened to make their homes adjacent to one another, with a narrow overlap in central Illinois.

10 million people that we have no fucking clue about come and go but American Citizens are traced down like criminals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 03, 2024 06:56 AM (ENQN6)

113 Sorry meant this

Biden is mandating Americans reentering US give CDC contact tracing info or face "criminal penalties," even though CDC's COVID health emergency expired May 2023.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 03, 2024 06:56 AM (ENQN6)

114 75° and 50% humidity?
Shhhh. My Taylor DN8 might hear ya and want me to buy it one of those. I don't even have AC.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 03, 2024 06:58 AM (dWUm0)

115 G'morning, all!

Mrs VIA continues to try to get the pollen and crap out of her sinus and upper chest.

No fever, clear mucus.

Bot cough...cough...cough.

And here comes the heavy rain, right on schedule.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 03, 2024 06:58 AM (a1415)

116 "Leaving the Temp setting at 75F, it's going to slowly get the RH down to 50% before it worries too much about the actual temperature.

I'm impressed."

Not a Lennox T-Stat, perchance?

Ours does the same thing, and it's pretty nifty.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 03, 2024 07:00 AM (a1415)

117 The Morning Report has arrived

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 03, 2024 07:03 AM (J8OCH)

118 I am sure they knew about bee cycles, but it was a convenient way to bootstrap climate change, glyphosate, and "pesticides" into a crisis.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2024 07:04 AM (jtTfW)

119 >> Not a Lennox T-Stat, perchance?

No, this is Trane shit. You know, you cain't stop a Trane.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2024 07:09 AM (w6EFb)

120 83 ... branding company ‘Thisaway’ added, spouting more nonsense.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 03, 2024 06:17 AM (jtTfW)

LOL

Posted by: m at April 03, 2024 08:51 AM (o3SCB)

121 The last hatch of cicadas could have blot out the sun.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 03, 2024 09:28 AM (R4t5M)

122 The UK, Poland, Australia, Canada and the US have demanded answers after 7 humanitarian workers from the World Central Kitchen were "unintentionally" killed

But rapes, beheadings, murder of women, children, and the elderly, burning folks alive, all done by Hamas? Yawns, or worse, excuses (Jews are occupiers!).

I'd DEMAND F'n answers for why some of those SAME countries are giving money that is knowingly being used by countries and organizations given that money to support terrorism. Get the fucking log out of your eyes, assholes, before you complain about the Jewish splinter; you guys are DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY responsible for October 7, 2023.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2024 10:59 AM (ynpvh)

123 UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak spoke to Netanyahu on Tuesday and said the war in Gaza has become "increasingly intolerable"

Yo, Rishi: have you stopped buggering little boys, sheep, and goats? I find you intolerable. DIAF, asshole. The people of your Hindu ancestors were murdered by Muslims who raised mosques over the Hindu temples they razed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2024 11:03 AM (ynpvh)

124 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated "Someone going about providing aid and humanitarian assistance should [never] lose their life."

And innocents enjoying life should never have their lives taken; or do you, Anthony, support raping of women and children? Beheading babies? Tying people up and setting them on FIRE? Perhaps so. Libbies can be that way.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2024 11:05 AM (ynpvh)

125 And believe me, front and center is what happened the other day. This doesn’t have to do with politics, this has to do with race.”

A supporter of the party of racism, slavery, lynching, and segregation accuses hard-working Americans of racism because they disapprove of another democrat supporter who is wrongfully going after the political enemy of her party by bending and breaking statues in league with judges who also support the same racist party by bending and breaking state laws in his rulings are somehow racist. Got it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2024 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

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