Daily Tech News 27 May 2024

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Widespread power failure at one of the two data centers where I have servers. In fact, it was so widespread that it took out servers I have with two different providers.

Yes, they have battery backup and generators.

No, those didn't work. At all.

But at least this time they didn't explode and set off the sprinkler system leaving the company with weeks of cleanup work.
Families of the victims in the Uvalde shooting, and the remoras with legs they call lawyers, are suing Activision and Facebook. (Tech Crunch)

They blame Call of Duty for turning a psychopath into, well, a psychopath.

The Call of Duty series has sold around half a billion copies over the past twenty years. If it were the problem, we would know.

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The Unreal Engine license requires programmers to use inclusive language in their code. (Bounding into Comics)

In particular, the license takes aim at using genders where none are specifically required by the context, and to avoid vernacular that might be unclear to those not familiar with English.

That's going to go down well with the speakers of gendered languages like French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, whose languages Unreal owner Epic Games just collectively mega-aggressed.
Is the RTX 4060 really better than the RTX 3060. Yes. (Tom's Hardware)

It's not worth upgrading, perhaps, but there are very few cases where the 3060 is objectively better.
Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is coming - and it can run in 2GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)

That's because it strips out all the crap that nobody wants. It doesn't even have the TPM requirement that Microsoft declared an absolute minimum for Windows 11 compatibility.

Which is why you're not allowed to buy it.
One in nine US children are being diagnosed as children. (NPR)
Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a professor of pediatric neurology at Case Western Reserve University, says he suspects some parents may be reluctant to put their kids on ADHD medication out of misguided concerns. "There's the myth that it's addictive, which it's not." He says studies have shown people treated with ADHD have no increased risk of drug abuse.
Really? Let's ask another expert.
The hypotheses underlying the procedure might be called into question; the ... intervention might be considered very audacious; but such arguments occupy a secondary position because it can be affirmed now that [this is] not prejudicial to either physical or psychic life of the patient, and also that recovery or improvement may be obtained frequently in this way.
Oh, my mistake. The second quote was talking about lobotomies.
ICQ is shutting down after 28 years. (The Verge)

I don't think I ever used it.

Stealth Anime Music Video of the Day

Disclaimer: I don't want to set the data center on fire; I just want to start a little flame in your motherboard.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:50 AM

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1 BOING!

Shall we start off our day with election politics?

SNL nostalgia - Donald Trump as janitor:

https://tinyurl.com/mryemrpk

(X)

I'm dying here!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 27, 2024 04:51 AM (4xxLB)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 04:53 AM (fwDg9)

3 yay

Posted by: m at May 27, 2024 04:53 AM (hyRRf)

4 Nice to see a BOING! at #1.

Posted by: m at May 27, 2024 04:54 AM (hyRRf)

5 But at least this time they didn't explode and set off the sprinkler system leaving the company with weeks of cleanup work.

A good solution regarding Darleen though.

Posted by: Miklos, who has to hose her down out back at May 27, 2024 04:57 AM (wWqRd)

6 1 SNL nostalgia - Donald Trump as janitor:
https://tinyurl.com/mryemrpk
(X)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 27, 2024 04:51 AM (4xxLB)

Ha!

Posted by: m at May 27, 2024 04:57 AM (hyRRf)

7 Nice to see a BOING! at #1.
Posted by: m at May 27, 2024 04:54 AM (hyRRf)
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This is because I don't try harder.

Picking up BD Jr. soon, after his being down south for quite a stay and quite busy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 27, 2024 04:57 AM (4xxLB)

8 Mornin'

https://youtu.be/ZvFj-KPik0g?si=fMZCaECzCbVbeab4

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 27, 2024 04:58 AM (sAmhv)

9 https://youtu.be/ZvFj-KPik0g?si=fMZCaECzCbVbeab4
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 27, 2024 04:58 AM (sAmhv)
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I'm sorry but that reminds me of:

https://youtu.be/XqyegIAGlmk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 27, 2024 05:01 AM (4xxLB)

10 I could have bacon pancakes and strawberries if I ever get up

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 05:04 AM (fwDg9)

11 9: Well, it was the 80s.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 27, 2024 05:08 AM (sAmhv)

12 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 05:12 AM (T4tVD)

13 The next Deplorable Cookbook should have a recipe for bacon pancakes.

Posted by: Miklos, who would try that at May 27, 2024 05:13 AM (wWqRd)

14 hiya
Posted by: JT

GET TO WORK

Posted by: Bird Bath customers, cash in hand at May 27, 2024 05:14 AM (wWqRd)

15 I only barely remember Tesla

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 05:15 AM (fwDg9)

16 Well, it was the 80s.
Posted by: Puddleglum

I kinda liked the 80s

Reagan + New Wave + punk

Few tattoos on chicks

Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at May 27, 2024 05:17 AM (wWqRd)

17 Birdbath customers don't have hands !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 05:17 AM (T4tVD)

18 Evening and morning to all on this U.S. Memorial Day! 'Tis Monday, a consummation devoutly to be feared . . . usually. If you're off today, as I am, all is serenity.

Until I look at the TV, which is tuned to the local Fox outlet and shows the outside temp. 80 F. Ugh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 27, 2024 05:19 AM (omVj0)

19 Birdbath customers don't have hands !
Posted by: JT

"decorates" JT's car

Posted by: birdbath customers at May 27, 2024 05:19 AM (wWqRd)

20 Birdbath customers don't have hands !
Posted by: JT

And they don't have cash neither !

Unless they've been robin banks.

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 05:23 AM (T4tVD)

21 Good morning! Gonna be a hot one today, topping out at about 96. Maybe get a little thunderstorm later this afternoon just to bump the humidity up too. Summer is here in Cowtown.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 27, 2024 05:24 AM (YRsIm)

22 My second ex-mother-in-law, the MILFy one, showed up in a dream of mine. I'd walked down to an intersection along a curving suburban avenue here. A Mexican child was riding a high-stepping gray horse along the road on the other side, in front of a high white wall that does not exist anywhere on that avenue in reality.

Then my ex-MIL called to me. She'd be something like eighty-five now, but in the dream she was as I knew her about forty years ago, kind of a red-haired "Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl." She wore workout clothes and was was walking along the side of the avenue. She began to tell me about some financial crisis that was in the news. Then I woke up.

Mental movies . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 27, 2024 05:24 AM (omVj0)

23 20 Birdbath customers don't have hands !
Posted by: JT

And they don't have cash neither !

Unless they've been robin banks.
Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 05:23 AM (T4tVD)

LOL

Posted by: m at May 27, 2024 05:26 AM (hyRRf)

24 A local breakfast joint's specialty was bacon waffles topped with peanut butter and syrup.

Ancient man was not vegan - so kindly shove off, lefty losers:

Analysis of Ötzi's intestinal contents showed two meals (the last one consumed about eight hours before his death), one of chamois meat, the other of red deer and herb bread; both were eaten with roots and fruits. The grain also eaten with both meals was a highly processed einkorn wheat bran.

Posted by: 13times at May 27, 2024 05:27 AM (4aeJs)

25 Hiya m !

Happy Hollerday !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 05:27 AM (T4tVD)

26 I kinda liked the 80s

Reagan + New Wave + punk

Few tattoos on chicks
Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at May 27, 2024

***
More people were slim and *tried* to be attractive, and often succeeded, than they do now. I was young with a car and a little money, too. As decent as the '70s look in many ways compared to now? The '80s had it all going on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 27, 2024 05:28 AM (omVj0)

27 Time to feed the beasts, and decide if I'm going for a workout. I did yesterday (and in the heat it was hard work), and could take off today . . . but then I'd have to hit the road early tomorrow morning before heading back to work. Neither option is attractive.

We're going to have heat indices over 100 today. So if I am going to work out, it's got to be now, before the sun comes up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 27, 2024 05:32 AM (omVj0)

28 The '80s had it all going on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Dammit, where is that Farah Fawcett poster....

Posted by: nostalgic Miklos, and the kids these days at May 27, 2024 05:32 AM (wWqRd)

29 Good morning morons

Local TV news is about Carnaval in the Mission. Memorial day? Not so much.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 05:33 AM (RIvkX)

30 The '80s had it all going on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Dammit, where is that Farah Fawcett poster....
Posted by: nostalgic Miklos, and the kids these days at May 27, 2024

***
Yeah, but that was '70s. Heather Thomas was the big poster girl in the '80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 27, 2024 05:34 AM (omVj0)

31 Yeah, but that was '70s. Heather Thomas was the big poster girl in the '80s.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yep.

Farah was too old for me

Posted by: Miklos would have been happily cradle robbed at May 27, 2024 05:35 AM (wWqRd)

32 "The Call of Duty series has sold around half a billion copies over the past twenty years. If it were the problem, we would know."

They'll win. And get TRUCKLOADS of cash. Because judges are idiots. Juries are idiots. "It's for the children!" "Someone MUST pay!"

I don't game so the precipitous increase in the cost of "Call of Duty" won't affect me. But criminy, Facebook will go from 20 ads per post you actually want to see, to 200 ads per one. I'll get a cramp in my forefinger from scrolling through ALL THOSE ADS on my phone. They'll find some way to screw us for the verdict.

Posted by: Someone Else at May 27, 2024 05:36 AM (IrqeV)

33 https://tinyurl.com/mryemrpk
The media wants us to forget DJT used to be a very popular bipartisan public figure until he became a threat to the junta.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 05:38 AM (RIvkX)

34 32 "The Call of Duty series has sold around half a billion copies over the past twenty years. If it were the problem, we would know."

They'll win. And get TRUCKLOADS of cash. Because judges are idiots. Juries are idiots. "It's for the children!" "Someone MUST pay!"

The Willie Sutton Rule of Lawsuits.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 27, 2024 05:40 AM (BLOW1)

35 Bacon pancake recipe above.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 27, 2024 05:42 AM (BLOW1)

36 es, they have battery backup and generators.

No, those didn't work. At all.

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It's because they weren't primary. If they were primary they would be much more reliable.

Because shut up, they/them explained.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - without abortion the black population would be 36 percent larger at May 27, 2024 05:44 AM (33xmU)

37 which has been the service’s steward since 2010, published a message Friday that simply reads,

“ICQ will stop working from June 26th,”

That's what I told my boss a month before I retired.

Morning all!!

Posted by: Bruce at May 27, 2024 05:45 AM (BOdfC)

38 Krusteaz Buttermilk Pancake Mix. That's the base of every waffle and pancake recipe.

Posted by: 13times at May 27, 2024 05:48 AM (7zcIB)

39 Birdbath customers don't have hands !
Posted by: JT

You ain't go no legs, Lieutenant Dan.....

Posted by: Bruce at May 27, 2024 05:49 AM (BOdfC)

40 Mrs. F. never uses a mix.

Then again she would never put bacon in pancakes either. On the side, maybe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 05:49 AM (RIvkX)

41 Bacon pancake recipe above.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Above whom?

Posted by: Inquiring mind of Miklos at May 27, 2024 05:50 AM (wWqRd)

42 Families of the victims in the Uvalde shooting, and the remoras with legs they call lawyers, are suing Activision and Facebook. (Tech Crunch)

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The same Discord server where two shooters hung out and the same fed groomed them both is not discussed at all and is perfectly safe, same as the employee that helpfully propped the door open prior to the shooter's arrival and the cops "went in" and then didn't bother checking to see if the door the shooter was behind was locked.

Spoiler alert: The door was unlocked.

Quick, play the video game backwards and listen for satanic messages!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - without abortion the black population would be 36 percent larger at May 27, 2024 05:53 AM (33xmU)

43 Lemon shortbreads, S'mores bites, or Linzer tarts?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 05:53 AM (RIvkX)

44 You ain't go no legs, Lieutenant Dan.....
Posted by: Bruce at May 27, 2024 05:49 AM (BOdfC)

Is the middle one still there Gomer ?

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 05:53 AM (T4tVD)

45 Is the middle one still there Gomer ?
Posted by: JT

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at May 27, 2024 05:54 AM (BOdfC)

46 Other great pancake recipe uses a sourdough starter. No, the pancakes don't have a sour flavor. hah. The texture is wonderful.

Posted by: 13times at May 27, 2024 05:56 AM (7zcIB)

47 "Why Do Chinese Spies Keep Getting Sweetheart Deals?
Why is a CIA traitor caught on video getting a deal instead of life in prison?"

-Daniel Greenfield asking (and answering) questions

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 06:04 AM (RIvkX)

48 Completely overcast out thar

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 06:04 AM (T4tVD)

49 My mom always made pancakes when she couldn't think of anything else for the evening meal. We had an Sunbeam electric flying pan which my dad won at a fireman's raffle. Coffee on brown sugar for syrup (we had real maple syrup also). My first taste of coffee. I still have that electric frying pan someplace and it works. Talk about old appliance longevity.

Posted by: colin at May 27, 2024 06:04 AM (/z/eU)

50 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo (ju2Fy) at May 27, 2024 06:04 AM (cBD/g)

51 41 Bacon pancake recipe above.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Above whom?
Posted by: Inquiring mind of Miklos at May 27, 2024 05:50 AM (wWqRd)

Yes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 27, 2024 06:05 AM (BLOW1)

52 Power backup fail.

No one wants to pull the switch to test it.

Nobody has the balls.

It's fun to ask about it after they talk about all the contingency stuff they have in place.

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2024 06:05 AM (QB+5g)

53 Widespread power failure

Tell me about it. Going on 9th hour here. Not optimistic about it being restored too soon either. Lots of damage in region. 50,000 with power out.

Posted by: olddog in mo (ju2Fy) at May 27, 2024 06:08 AM (cBD/g)

54 https://tinyurl.com/mryemrpk
The media wants us to forget DJT used to be a very popular bipartisan public figure until he became a threat to the junta.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

At one time he was a sort of macr-econ guru... so I have heard.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 27, 2024 06:09 AM (cOq4q)

55 Mornin' Horde. Pity about ICQ. I made good use of that little instant messenger back when it came out, then Mirabilis sold out to AOL, who sold out to Digital Sky Technologies. Years later, I tried firing it back up via the Pidgin client in Linux, and got logged in and then immediately got logged out for "suspicious activity", and got given a URL to unlock the account if I'd cough up a mobile phone number. Nope. That wasn't the agreement, and I'm not playing "Go Phish".

Given the story about them shutting down, I tried signing in via their web interface yesterday, and got in, and was able to skip the petulant demand for a phone number. Got to see some old contacts on my contact list but that's about it.

RIP ICQ.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 27, 2024 06:09 AM (O7YUW)

56 Internet is being fked with again

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 06:09 AM (fwDg9)

57 Pixy: Any terms in your service contract that you can invoke to make them cough up some money or extra months of paid service for their failure-to-provide?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 27, 2024 06:11 AM (O7YUW)

58
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian with a big double cup of unsustainable, exploitative, slave-trade coffee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2024 06:11 AM (MoZTd)

59 In particular, the license takes aim at using genders where none are specifically required by the context, and to avoid vernacular that might be unclear to those not familiar with English.

But using "they/them" when writing about a singular person will be way clearer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 27, 2024 06:12 AM (Qn59F)

60 Internet is being fked with again
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 06:09 AM (fwDg9)

You misspelled fixed !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 06:12 AM (T4tVD)

61 Skip it has been spotty for days.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 06:13 AM (RIvkX)

62 Oh that's right; that wasn't Gomer.

I get my nitwits mixed up !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 06:13 AM (T4tVD)

63 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2024 06:16 AM (a1415)

64 I think it's my Verizon not website, it effects all sites, I use phone and connection keeps going in and out. Sometimes connected but takes a minute to load a page

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 06:16 AM (fwDg9)

65 Casual watching of the many live webcams at Ocean City, Md. seems to show a noticeably lighter than expected turnout for this weekend.

Of course just before that, we were discussing the question of if there were a shooting at O.C. this weekend, would the Baltimore news report it or hide the fact.

While the Baltimore news has nothing about it, apparently there was a 15 year old knifed on the boardwalk on Saturday night. And a bunch of rather violent fights on the same boardwalk on Friday night.

So....that answered that question.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2024 06:20 AM (a1415)

66 Skip,

You could probably walk into a T-Mobile store and they could fix you right up.

Can you get out of a LT contract if they cannot meet the service requirements?

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2024 06:27 AM (QB+5g)

67 Reclining in the office chair with my feet on the desk and tha' 'lil nugget dog is asleep on her back in my lap, sawing logs like a lumberjack. And my cup of coffee is down to it's remaining sips. The struggle is real.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 27, 2024 06:27 AM (YRsIm)

68 But using "they/them" when writing about a singular person will be way clearer.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

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Speaking of, we started watching Fallout on Amazon yesterday. Overall a good show and looks well done, BUT the very first episode introduces the Brotherhood of Steel and has a poor little scrawny girl that has a 14 year old boy mustache and the actress lady thinks that makes her a man, and the people 300 years in the future - who think nothing of beating the crap out of a black dude or murdering others at will or for fun - use "They / them" when referring to her.

(She's badass gets promoted to become a knight, of course, and everyone cheers for her because she's so loved and awesome)

It's jarring and so ridiculously out of place. Always pushing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - without abortion the black population would be 36 percent larger at May 27, 2024 06:28 AM (33xmU)

69 It's jarring and so ridiculously out of place. Always pushing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - without abortion the black population would be 36 percent larger at May 27, 2024 06:28 AM (33xmU)

When something is so ridiculous it's a clanking anachronism even in a time and place that doesn't exist....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2024 06:29 AM (BpZ5k)

70 Epic Games/Unreal game engine and the "encouragement" to developers to use "inclusive" language:

Message received loud and clear. Use another game engine if you want to maintain creative and legal control over your content.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 27, 2024 06:31 AM (O7YUW)

71 So i guess no more using x and y as variable names?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2024 06:31 AM (BpZ5k)

72 It's my land line Fios, my tablet is in same boat.

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 06:32 AM (fwDg9)

73 It's jarring and so ridiculously out of place. Always pushing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - without abortion the black population would be 36 percent larger at May 27, 2024 06:28 AM (33xmU)
===-

Keep watching, there's more of that. Always, more.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 06:33 AM (RIvkX)

74 I bid you all remember those who gave their lives for us to be free. Praise GOD for such people!

Posted by: Eromero at May 27, 2024 06:34 AM (o2ZRX)

75 Re: Shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas & the lawsuit

Don't recall further information about shooter's grandmother working there (cafeteria &/or aide?); cousins attending the school at time of shooting; that he hadn't returned to finish high school after C19, and more. Had he been well known around the elementary school prior to the shooting, contributing to delay in appropriate response? Didn't the school's admin. office have an active 'intercom' system to be able to listen in & address classrooms? (Even I recall many years ago teachers could step out of their classrooms in a large majority of schools but admin. listened in to hear if & what kids misbehaved in their absences.)

I don't remember so many questions about how and why gone unanswered...until Tennessee.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 27, 2024 06:36 AM (NFX2v)

76 30
Yeah, but that was '70s. Heather Thomas was the big poster girl in the '80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 27, 2024 05:34 AM (omVj0)
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For a moment I thought you said Helen Thomas.
Shudder!

Posted by: Ciampino - great scott at May 27, 2024 06:37 AM (qfLjt)

77 I bid you all remember those who gave their lives for us to be free. Praise GOD for such people!
Posted by: Eromero at May 27, 2024 06:34 AM (o2ZRX)

AMEN !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 06:37 AM (T4tVD)

78 It's my land line Fios, my tablet is in same boat.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 06:32 AM (fwDg9)

I never knew you had a boat !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 06:38 AM (T4tVD)

79 The Libertarians nominated an LGBTQ warrior for president. I think Biden made a wise choice by not speaking to them. The libertarians are unserious people and should not have been legitimized with Trump's presence. If you are a libertarian and don't understand the choice we face this year, you are a pot-smoking leftist troll who thinks it is cool to "buck the establishment".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 27, 2024 06:40 AM (Qn59F)

80 From Harry Brown to a LGBTQ whackadoodle in one generation.

Posted by: 13times at May 27, 2024 06:43 AM (5X+GU)

81 I bid you all remember those who gave their lives for us to be free. Praise GOD for such people!
Posted by: Eromero at May 27, 2024 06:34 AM (o2ZRX)
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Amen.

Also pray that we remain free so their sacrifice isn't ;t for naught.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

82 Power went out during violent thunderstorm at dusk last evening. Still, my first thought was that a terrorist got to the electric grid…

Posted by: Fenderbender at May 27, 2024 06:45 AM (r72iY)

83 56 Internet is being fked with again
Posted by: Skip

Do you look to see if it's being throttled? Yeah, it's not allowed but I've caught carrier a number of times if/when I'm 'overusing' online.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 27, 2024 06:47 AM (NFX2v)

84
The libertarians are unserious people and should not have been legitimized with Trump's presence.

The 2024 Libertarian Party platform

1) Like, free pot
2) Uh, I can't remember
3) Oh, yeah. Whores. The younger the better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2024 06:49 AM (MoZTd)

85 80 From Harry Brown to a LGBTQ whackadoodle in one generation.

Posted by: 13times at May 27, 2024 06:43 AM (5X+GU)
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I don't use that alphabet crap that's the Left's lingo. I use queer or homosexual and it annoys them.

Posted by: Ciampino - for now use language to fight at May 27, 2024 06:49 AM (qfLjt)

86 I don't use that alphabet crap that's the Left's lingo. I use queer or homosexual and it annoys them.
Posted by: Ciampino - for now use language to fight at May 27, 2024 06:49 AM (qfLjt)

Not Weedwhackerless ?

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 06:51 AM (T4tVD)

87 I don't use that alphabet crap that's the Left's lingo. I use queer or homosexual and it annoys them.
Posted by: Ciampino - for now use language to fight at May 27, 2024 06:49 AM (qfLjt)
===

Sounds like you didn't get a good grade in DEI class.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2024 06:52 AM (RIvkX)

88 mornin yall. I see the Cannes film festival gave a best actress award to a man. Ha Ha.

(Nelson Muntz laugh)

Posted by: fd at May 27, 2024 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

89 83. Clarification. My carrier but it's not Fios, Verizon.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 27, 2024 06:53 AM (NFX2v)

90 Trump is a leader.

Libertarians are a bunch of certified pussies.

Trump probably called them pussies too but not to their faces.

"Trump called me a pussy!!!"

I would pay good money to read that in a headline.

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2024 06:56 AM (QB+5g)

91 Do women ever get best actor awards? Why not?

Posted by: fd at May 27, 2024 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

92 SpaceX Falcon 9 launch
New T-Zero: Lift-Off is targeted for 10:20 a.m. EDT, 1420 UTC, 16:20 CEST.

Posted by: Ciampino - Space is curvy at May 27, 2024 06:58 AM (qfLjt)

93 @92/Ciampino: Thanks!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 27, 2024 06:59 AM (O7YUW)

94 Forgot the URL
92 SpaceX Falcon 9 launch
New T-Zero: Lift-Off is targeted for 10:20 a.m. EDT, 1420 UTC, 16:20 CEST.

https://www.youtube.com/live/MDHSTu9AE4U

Posted by: Ciampino - Space is curvy! at May 27, 2024 07:00 AM (qfLjt)

95 My only guess is that women make crappy actors.

Posted by: fd at May 27, 2024 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

96 Been fine again, but last two days it has had sports of being normal which it's fast, to very slow, then gone for minutes say 15, then slow then back to normal a couple minutes then starts all over.
Up until 6am it was it's normal fast

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2024 07:01 AM (fwDg9)

97 "Trump called me a pussy!!!"

I would pay good money to read that in a headline.

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2024 06:56 AM (QB+5g)
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He only called me a taxi.

Posted by: Ciampino - does poor imitation Middle East accent at May 27, 2024 07:02 AM (qfLjt)

98 Ocean City New Jersey, not Maryland. Stabbing has been on the news here in NYC.
Trump skit was awful. SNL has been lame for decades.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 27, 2024 07:03 AM (IG7T0)

99 What's a lobotomy, and why is it right for me!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 27, 2024 07:03 AM (hOUT3)

100
Nearly four hours later here and it remains quiet. Too quiet. Not even a hint of a breeze.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 27, 2024 07:03 AM (xG4kz)

101
I had to have Verizon visit my connection up on the pole. They claimed 'ants' were the cause of the slowdown.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 27, 2024 07:04 AM (RKVpM)

102 "Ocean City New Jersey, not Maryland."

Thanks.

I was beginning to see the cross reporting, and wondering..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2024 07:05 AM (a1415)

103 They probably use the same vendor and upgrade we used, that took down half our network last week.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 27, 2024 07:05 AM (yeEu9)

104
What's a lobotomy, and why is it right for me!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again!

Isn't Red Lobotomy in Chapter Eleven bankruptcy court?

Their "All You Can Eat Shrimp and a Pre-Frontal" specials were selling like crazy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 27, 2024 07:05 AM (xG4kz)

105 Ants are known to be huge bandwidth hogs.

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2024 07:07 AM (QB+5g)

106 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 27, 2024 07:07 AM (mUnoX)

107 Remember our those that gave their lives for this country.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2024 07:07 AM (ENQN6)

108
"Ants! Why'd it have to be ants?"

-- alternate phobia Indiana Jones timeline # 1

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 27, 2024 07:07 AM (xG4kz)

109 Tech thread took forever to get to 100 comments!

Posted by: Ciampino - do I have to do everything here? at May 27, 2024 07:07 AM (qfLjt)

110 The Unreal Engine license requires programmers to use inclusive language in their code. (Bounding into Comics)

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"PC Programming" and "Coding Camps" take on entirely new meaning.

OUT: Infinite Loops and Divide By Zero errors.
IN: Infinite Hoops and Diverse By Zero errors.

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 27, 2024 07:08 AM (bu09+)

111
They probably use the same vendor and upgrade we used, that took down half our network last week.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Ants'll do that ... devious little buggers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 27, 2024 07:09 AM (xG4kz)

112 Not Weedwhackerless ?
Posted by: JT at May 27, 2024 06:51 AM (T4tVD)
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Got a new weed whacker this weekend. Battery powered. My theory is that it will be less hassle to use than the old one, dragging the extension cord around, and therefore I will use it more often. Will be taking it for a spin (ha!) later today.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 27, 2024 07:09 AM (mUnoX)

113 Le NOOD

It be here!!!!

JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 27, 2024 07:09 AM (a1415)

114 I had to have Verizon visit my connection up on the pole. They claimed 'ants' were the cause of the slowdown.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

There is some clever pun to be made here about bugs in computer code and ants taking down the internet, but I haven't had enough coffee yet to make it.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at May 27, 2024 07:10 AM (1KCcl)

115 105 Ants are known to be huge bandwidth hogs.

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2024 07:07 AM (QB+5g)
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I believe the ants steal IP packets right off your porch.

Posted by: Ciampino - do I have to do everything here, eh? at May 27, 2024 07:10 AM (qfLjt)

116 Their "All You Can Eat Shrimp and a Pre-Frontal" specials were selling like crazy.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

A Diversity Accounting Hire told them "Shrimp are so very small, almost nobody gonna do the work to eat very many of them!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 27, 2024 07:11 AM (hOUT3)

117 HP wants to rent printers out now. For a monthly fee, they will send you a printer and ink when it gets low.

Next up, rent a PC with a Windows 13 subscription included.

Posted by: fd at May 27, 2024 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

118 Remember our those that gave their lives for this country.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2024 07:07 AM (ENQN6)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-xDkxg8pc

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 27, 2024 07:12 AM (mUnoX)

119 When you see one of those wireless antennas sticking out of an anthill, well, there's going to be problems.

Posted by: pawn at May 27, 2024 07:12 AM (QB+5g)

120 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight

I am not a fan of battery operated stuff, but the weedwacker version is very useful.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 27, 2024 07:13 AM (hOUT3)

121 Dang, #88 died.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 27, 2024 07:17 AM (yeEu9)

122 This is about my Uncle John.

I have posted this here before, and will do it again.

https://tinyurl.com/3v6fstd6

Posted by: Miklos at May 27, 2024 07:23 AM (wWqRd)

123 “Widespread power failure at one of the two data centers where I have servers. In fact, it was so widespread that it took out servers I have with two different providers.“

Of?

Posted by: English Is Dead at May 27, 2024 09:27 AM (8sMut)

124 34 32 "The Call of Duty series has sold around half a billion copies over the past twenty years. If it were the problem, we would know."

They'll win. And get TRUCKLOADS of cash. Because judges are idiots. Juries are idiots. "It's for the children!" "Someone MUST pay!"

The Willie Sutton Rule of Lawsuits.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 27, 2024 05:40 AM (BLOW1)

LOL; that's a good rule

Posted by: m at May 27, 2024 10:06 AM (hyRRf)

125 35 Bacon pancake recipe above.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 27, 2024 05:42 AM (BLOW1)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at May 27, 2024 10:11 AM (hyRRf)

126 Youre a millennial ignoramus. Of course you never used ICQ.

Posted by: Fisht at May 27, 2024 10:45 AM (BHEHK)

127 In re: Gendered language --

Saw a vid yesterday talking about how English is weird, and one thing it pointed out is that English's lack of gendered nouns is shared by a mere 1.4% of all languages, and it's actually a relatively recent thing, as Old English was also a gendered language, but as it progressed into Middle English that started to drop out.

So the leftists aren't just mega-aggressing other Euro languages, they're aggressing over 7,000 languages around the world......

Posted by: pkudude99 at May 27, 2024 11:21 AM (OP5+h)

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