Daily Tech News 2 July 2024

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The Supreme Court has a major First Amendment case among all the administrative law ones, namely Netchoice v. Humanity. This was actually two different cases filed against Florida and Texas laws requiring viewpoint neutrality in online moderation.

This resulted in a circuit split with the two cases being decided in opposite directions resulting in the Supreme Court ordering them 9-0 to go back and do it properly this time. (CBS)

The majority opinion (written by Justice Kagan) is favorable to the social networks, while a concurring opinion written by Justice Alito and joined by Gorsuch and Thomas was less so, but all nine justices agreed that the circuit courts made a dog's breakfast of their decisions.

Tech News

Looking for a cheap graphics card that is better than a potato? Can't decide between the Nvidia RTX 3050 and AMD's RX 6600? Just buy the 6600. (Tom's Hardware)

The 6600 outpaces the 3050 even with ray tracing factored in, and if you disable ray tracing - it's not going to be a great experience on low-end cards like these anyway - the 6600 closes in on the 3060.

I have a couple of 3060s. They're not high-end either, but they do just fine.
Thunderbolt 5 cables are here. (Tom's Hardware)

Thunderbolt 5 itself is absent, but the cables are here. $23 for 1ft, $33 for 3ft. They don't come longer than that.

Thunderbolt 5 can transfer data up to three times faster than Thunderbolt 4, and supports power delivery up to 240W.
The telltale words that could identify generative AI text. (Ars Technica)
Father: Yes, you can't beat wood ... Gorn!

Mother: What's gorn dear?

Father: Nothing, nothing, I just like the word. It gives me confidence. Gorn ... gorn. It's got a sort of woody quality about it. Gorn. Gorn. Much better than 'newspaper' or 'litterbin'.

Daughter: Frightful words.

Mother: Perfectly dreadful.
Sorry, sorry, cited the wrong paper there. I'll come in again:
The word "delves," for instance, shows up in 25 times as many 2024 papers as the pre-LLM trend would expect; words like "showcasing" and "underscores" increased in usage by nine times as well. Other previously common words became notably more common in post-LLM abstracts: the frequency of "potential" increased 4.1 percentage points; "findings" by 2.7 percentage points; and "crucial" by 2.6 percentage points, for instance.
Seemly... Prodding... Vacuum.
How to get rich in 2024. (The Verge)

1. Start an AI company three years ago.
2. Run out of money.
3. Have one of the trillion-dollar tech companies hire away all your staff. It doesn't matter which one. You choose.
4. Have them license your tech for hundreds of millions of dollars so they don't get sued.
Democratic senators on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs have sent a letter to fintech company Synapse, its major banking partner Evolve, and everyone else in the vicinity saying, and I quote, "What the fuck guys? Get your shit sorted out or we'll come over there and sort you out." (Tech Crunch)

Synapse imploded a couple of months ago when its Chapter 11 reorganisation plans collapsed and it was left without enough cashflow to operate. The problem is that Synapse operated as an intermediary between its customers, their customers, and banks like Evolve. And now nobody can get their money because Synapse was handling the details and Synapse is toast.

Double toast, possibly, because between $65 million and $96 million of the customer funds deposited through Synapse have allegedly gone walkabout.

Nor is Synapse the only source of drama there:
On June 26, Evolve Bank announced that it had been victim of a cyberattack and data breach that could have affected its partner companies as well. The incident, according to the company, involved "the data and personal information of some Evolve retail bank customers and financial technology partners' customers" such as Affirm, Mercury, Bilt, Alloy and Stripe. On June 29, fintech company Wise announced that some of its customers' personal data may have been stolen in the data breach. Also last week, Thread Bank - a popular partner to BaaS startups such as Unit - got hit with enforcement action from the FDIC. Notably, the order issued to Thread, as the publication Paymnts pointed out, "is unique in that it explicitly calls out the bank's Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Loan-as-a-Service (LaaS) programs."
Bilt? Paymnts? For $65 million surely these guys can afford a new keyboard.

Disclaimer: I tried to spell judgment without an "e" and it came out judgmnt. Now I'm in a predicamnt. Confusd.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:05 AM

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1 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes. Evening Pixy.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 02, 2024 04:08 AM (hoCmQ)

2 Good morning to all, and to all a good night!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 02, 2024 04:11 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone
Hump day

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 04:12 AM (fwDg9)

4
While the information contained within this post has the potential to be crucial to some, the authors findings are in dispute.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 02, 2024 04:16 AM (RKVpM)

5 Good morning early risers, overnighters and tech aficionados .

Posted by: Tuna at July 02, 2024 04:17 AM (oaGWv)

6 Bueno. Dogs are up and so am I. Where's the coffee?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 02, 2024 04:17 AM (YRsIm)

7 >>>Disclaimer: I tried to spell judgment without an "e" and it came out judgmnt. Now I'm in a predicamnt. Confusd.

Guilty in the Court of Pip!

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 04:21 AM (NHMTR)

8 >>>Seemly... Prodding... Vacuum.

These all have double letters.

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 04:22 AM (NHMTR)

9 Cleaned up the leftover pizza. Not sure if that was early breakfast or late midnight snack. Think I'll go back to bed and try for another 30 mins of zzz's.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 02, 2024 04:25 AM (hoCmQ)

10 Oh man, headed for 102 with about 65% humidity today. Gonna be another hot one. Must be ~~glowbull enwarmening~~ summer in Cowtown.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 02, 2024 04:25 AM (YRsIm)

11 I just pulled up the Netchoice decision. It's obvious in the first two pages the lower courts made an unbelievable mess of it. Seems nobody can, dares, or even wants to, decide if Facebook is a publisher or a neutral provider, when it's screamingly obvious they edit everything they touch.

Fuck Facebook, and all social media platforms.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 04:35 AM (43xH1)

12 Mornin'

Think I'll take a walk this morning. Or. Blow it off and take a walk later on a golf course. I have a tee time for 5:30pm. I think I'll walk later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2024 04:38 AM (sAmhv)

13 Okay think I'm done with work for the day (night, it's 03:45, started at about 10:00).

Got a package of 1,000 wax bullets delivered today, to go with the 50 .38 Special cases drilled for shotgun primers. I forgot how fast these things can be driven: the wax bullets weight maybe 18 grains, and with the 209s, if you push the wax bullets deep into the case they can move out at +1,000 fps from a 4-inch barrel!
I better be careful.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 04:49 AM (43xH1)

14 10 Oh man, headed for 102
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 02, 2024 04:25 AM (YRsIm)

!!!

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 04:52 AM (NHMTR)

15 >>>This resulted in a circuit split with the two cases being decided in opposite directions resulting in the Supreme Court ordering them 9-0 to go back and do it properly this time. (CBS)

I found this article very hard to read. Perhaps because I am not a lawyer. Perhaps because I need more cofveve.

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 04:54 AM (NHMTR)

16 We have a few days of spectacular weather here. Hardly got to 80 yesterday and 100% sun, light breeze

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 05:01 AM (fwDg9)

17
I slept really well last night, probably due to the realization that we beat Medicare.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 02, 2024 05:06 AM (RKVpM)

18 I found this article very hard to read. Perhaps because I am not a lawyer. Perhaps because I need more cofveve.
Posted by: m'
The decision is online. The first two pages are pretty clear.

https://tinyurl.com/vrj5h5a4

96 page PDF but really, it's obvious in the first couple of pages:

"Held: The judgments are vacated, and the cases are remanded, because neither the Eleventh Circuit nor the Fifth Circuit conducted a proper analysis of the facial First Amendment challenges to Florida and Texas laws regulating large internet platforms. Pp. 9–31."

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:11 AM (43xH1)

19 Working in Great Valley

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 05:12 AM (fwDg9)

20 Now we know that the Biden household doesn't get out of bed until late morning and goes to bed mid afternoon, we know the country is in good hands.

Posted by: Colin at July 02, 2024 05:13 AM (/z/eU)

21 Pretty peaceful here this morning. Got some coffee and tha' lil nugget dawg is asleep in my lap, snoring. Too bad that I have to go get ready for work.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 02, 2024 05:16 AM (YRsIm)

22 Now we know that the Biden household doesn't get out of bed until late morning and goes to bed mid afternoon, we know the country is in good hands.
Posted by: Colin at July 02, 2024 05:13 AM (/z/eU)

Not to worry. The country isn't in the hands of a senile idiot, it's in the hands of unelected imbeciles. -- The Democrats

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2024 05:19 AM (T7iTv)

23 18 I found this article very hard to read. Perhaps because I am not a lawyer. Perhaps because I need more cofveve.
Posted by: m'
The decision is online. The first two pages are pretty clear.

https://tinyurl.com/vrj5h5a4

96 page PDF but really, it's obvious in the first couple of pages:

"Held: The judgments are vacated, and the cases are remanded, because neither the Eleventh Circuit nor the Fifth Circuit conducted a proper analysis of the facial First Amendment challenges to Florida and Texas laws regulating large internet platforms. Pp. 9–31."
Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:11 AM (43xH1)

Thanks!

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 05:23 AM (NHMTR)

24 The Netchoice fracas doesn't apply to AoS, obviously, as it's a private blog run solely for the sadistic amusement of Ace and has no pretensions to neutrality or anything else.

Legal Crisis averted.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:24 AM (43xH1)

25 Reading a few articles now that say the writer thinks Sundowner is done. I think he is but I am fearful knowing at least in Pa the fraud will carry him through. Again if as in 2016 I see Pa go to Trump I will know it's all over. September 22 the open street ballot boxes start, and no one has ever explained how in Pa in 2020 candidates ballot totals had negative votes by the thousands and numerous timed.

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 05:25 AM (fwDg9)

26 24 AoS ... a private blog run solely for the sadistic amusement of Ace
Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:24 AM (43xH1)

!

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 05:25 AM (NHMTR)

27 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Got up at 5 to work, but since the whole system crashed yesterday, there's hardly anything, so I am going out to the porch to sit for a while.

Today and tomorrow are going to be very busy; they usually are in the medical field.

Might be back later, might not.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 02, 2024 05:26 AM (Q0kLU)

28 I H8 reading law stuff

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 05:27 AM (fwDg9)

29 I tried to spell judgment without an "e" and it came out judgmnt. Now I'm in a predicamnt. Confusd.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

But, look at all the time you saved.

Posted by: Bruce at July 02, 2024 05:27 AM (n02sW)

30 I slept really well last night, probably due to the realization that we beat Medicare.
Posted by: Divide by Zero'

Beat it like Biden beats his dogs!

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:27 AM (43xH1)

31 It is very nice out now.
Forward Dog 9 hitting short road

Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 05:30 AM (fwDg9)

32 Who was that one guy who wanted to introduce a simplified English spelling regimen... seems like he was buddies with Dewey... hang on

Didn't get that, but the history of the Simplified Spelling Board is pretty funny. Carnegie backed it. Samples, from Wiki:

"forfeit→forfit, friend→frend, masquerade→maskerade, mortgage→morgage, receipt→reciet, sieve→siv, sleight→slight, sovereign→sovren, sprightly→spritely, touch→tuch, yeoman→yoman"

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:33 AM (43xH1)

33 OMG there's a whole book, it's on Archive, 'The Handbook Of Simplified Spelling', WRITTEN in it!

It's a riot

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:35 AM (43xH1)

34 Mornin' Horde.

Coffee, then thinking.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 02, 2024 05:35 AM (O7YUW)

35 I H8 reading law stuff
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 05:27 AM (fwDg9)
-

It's worse than math!

And now back to reviewing my 109 page form 1040. Yep. 109 pages.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 02, 2024 05:38 AM (GaDNw)

36 The Apt complex that I live at has been pressuring people to use Bilt to pay rent (I'm OG and use checks). Tried it last month and it's all geared to younger people that want perks for going online to pay for shit. Had to laugh when I got the email over the weekend from Bilt about this crap.

Guess what I paid my rent this month in?

Posted by: Pimp Daddy Welfare at July 02, 2024 05:39 AM (TH74n)

37
These all have double letters.
Posted by: m

Are we playing Green Glass Door?

An observation from my experiences with the scouts -- young people today are largely helpless when it comes to playing any game that involves knowing how to spell. And that is sad, really.

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 05:39 AM (xG4kz)

38 Reading a few articles now that say the writer thinks Sundowner is done. I think he is...
Posted by: Skip

I'm on the Chromebook, which is relentless Google News, all the time, and the first page is Vox and Slate saying dude is finished and needs to go.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:41 AM (43xH1)

39 Guess what I paid my rent this month in?
Posted by: Pimp Daddy Welfare

Doubloons?

Posted by: Bruce at July 02, 2024 05:41 AM (n02sW)

40 Good morning morons

I too am urging Joe to stay in the race!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 05:42 AM (RIvkX)

41 Guess what I paid my rent this month in?
Posted by: Pimp Daddy Welfare

Food stamps?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:43 AM (43xH1)

42
maskerade -- a refreshing cool drink prepared by introducing masked individuals to the wonders of the modern blender. Served over ice.

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 05:43 AM (xG4kz)

43
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 02, 2024 05:44 AM (tljrc)

44 I too am urging Joe to stay in the race!
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Yeah, because if Kamalalala gets in, you're a dead man and will have to change your identity, get plastic surgery, and move to a shack in the Sand Hills of Nebraska.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:45 AM (43xH1)

45 maskerade -- a refreshing cool drink prepared by introducing masked individuals to the wonders of the modern blender. Served over ice.
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot:

HA!!

Posted by: Bruce at July 02, 2024 05:46 AM (n02sW)

46 Local TV news reports a 5 year old girl was bitten by a coyote in the Botanical Garden on Friday. State officials closed the garden and shot three coyotes over the weekend. More genius policy outcomes from Marxist ideology.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 05:47 AM (RIvkX)

47 Hm...

'Demokratik President Bad Tuch Jo'.

I can live with that.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:47 AM (43xH1)

48 Not to worry. The country isn't in the hands of a senile idiot, it's in the hands of unelected imbeciles. -- The Democrats
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2024 05:19 AM (T7iTv)
-------------------------
And experts. Don't forget experts! Oh wait, I guess you may have included us in your definition.

Posted by: Tom Nichols, expert at July 02, 2024 05:47 AM (1V/rV)

49 Spelling games? I'm in.

Posted by: Bookkeeper at July 02, 2024 05:48 AM (6gW4D)

50
Wankel ... Rotary ... Engine

Grunties

Goer

Marklar

Doh!

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 05:48 AM (xG4kz)

51 Yeah, because if Kamalalala gets in, you're a dead man and will have to change your identity, get plastic surgery, and move to a shack in the Sand Hills of Nebraska.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:45 AM (43xH1)
====
I've always wanted blond hair.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 05:51 AM (RIvkX)

52 And now back to reviewing my 109 page form 1040. Yep. 109 pages.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey'

...and you had to add them up and then pay a tax on that.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 05:51 AM (43xH1)

53 Evening and morning to all the satellites in space and beyond! My boss is back from Germany, so I no longer need to set the GMT hand on my watch to that time zone. I'll either do actual GMT (UTC they call it now), or Sydney, AU.

I too am back from my workout, shave, and shower. Breakfast now after having fed the beasts. Maybe I can get out of here on time . . . and more important, maybe I can leave work early this pm and start my holiday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)

54 I've always wanted blond hair.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Welkommen, Friend!

Posted by: Hutterites of Nebraska at July 02, 2024 05:53 AM (43xH1)

55 July 2 was the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, I think. The fourth was the day it was made public.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 02, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

56 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 05:54 AM (a1415)

57 I'm seeing video of an encounter Adam Carolla (who I believe may have left L.A. for Vegas) had with Gavin Newsom just prior to the debate last Thursday, where yet again Newsom is exposed as a Big Dummy.
https://youtu.be/KVdYmqc3fJ0
https://youtu.be/pwoV0bV3ieg

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 05:56 AM (RIvkX)

58 I need to start mowing the yard pretty early this morning to beat the heat.

But, we had almost two inches of rain in about thirty minutes yesterday afternoon. So the yard needs to dry first.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 05:56 AM (a1415)

59 Never seen that before. My comment appears outside the gray box.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 05:57 AM (RIvkX)

60
Welkommen, Friend!
Posted by: Hutterites

"... formerly eschewed as being too 'low and common' today's sod huts offer many modern amenities such as indoor flush toilets, saunas and jacuzzis, and all brushed steel kitchen appliances. Come see what the Sodomite lifestyle can offer you!"

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 05:58 AM (xG4kz)

61 What a tumultuous week, what with SCOTUS, debate fallout and Democrat attacks on Dr. Jill. French and English elections still to come. Russia, China, NORK and Iran have yet to heard from, so more to come.

For July 4th we are going to take a break from all this and shoot off some actual fireworks instead of rhetorical ones. And maybe a potato gun for fun. Grilling and some good beer is on the menu.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 05:58 AM (UxriW)

62 I've always wanted blond hair.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

In this vein, the vindictive woman City Council President, of course a POC, who sent police detectives to my job (!!!) over a nasty letter I sent over Rona lockdowns, left the Council and landed at a non-profit. The building they were in was heavily damaged in a recent tornado, and now they moved into my office space. So now I have this horrific bitch haunting my workspace during the day, so I really am limited to nights only as I do not even want to deal with this person. She's now a private individual so it's not the same as insulting a public figure.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:00 AM (43xH1)

63 I wonder if the signers of the Declaration of Independence could see what our country is going through today, they would

Posted by: Colin at July 02, 2024 06:00 AM (/z/eU)

64 Never seen that before. My comment appears outside the gray box.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

She knows she's In, and is after you already.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:01 AM (43xH1)

65 SciAm: The Biggest Problem in Mathematics Is Finally a Step Closer to Being Solved (Reimann Hypothesis)

https://tinyurl.com/4k6y7vxa

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:01 AM (UWEVd)

66 Joke isn't making any decision. The big time donors want him out.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2024 06:01 AM (K+Odn)

67 For July 4th we are going to take a break from all this and shoot off some actual fireworks instead of rhetorical ones. And maybe a potato gun for fun. Grilling and some good beer is on the menu.
Posted by: Huck Follywood'

No golf ball attachment for the grenade launcher?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:02 AM (43xH1)

68
... left the Council and landed at a non-profit.

Please tell ne that a trebuchet was part of this process. Lie if you must.

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:03 AM (xG4kz)

69 I would love to give my friends grenade launchers for presents. But i don't have any to give. It'll have to be the thought that counts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:06 AM (eXDfp)

70 We have spent most of the last 35 years of July Fourths at the cousin's pool down in Los Altos but she is in poor health this year and so it is canceled. Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 06:06 AM (RIvkX)

71 So, overall...was Biden's 4 minute teleprompter reading on TV last night considered to help him?

Or hurt him?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 06:07 AM (a1415)

72 On the other hand I absolutely hate this woman and she knows it. So, it could be looked at from the other side of this: she goes to work for a Commie non-profit; their building gets wrecked by a tornado; and then, she gets stuck in an office building with some psycho.

What's that Rorschach quote from 'Watchmen'?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:08 AM (43xH1)

73 The Carolla take-down of Newsom is fun. Newsom starts bullshitting and Carolla interrupts to ask "why did you shut beaches in Covid?" He refuses to let Newsom change the subject. Just keeps pounding the silly grin off Newsom's face.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:09 AM (eXDfp)

74
Just keeps pounding the silly grin off Newsom's face.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

"When a Glib Bullshitter's Bullshit Wasn't Meeting With Its Usual Success"

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:11 AM (xG4kz)

75 Held: The judgments are vacated, and the cases are remanded, because neither the Eleventh Circuit nor the Fifth Circuit conducted a proper analysis of the facial First Amendment challenges to Florida and Texas laws regulating large internet platforms. Pp. 9–31."
Posted by: LenNeal

Sounds like the 11th and 5th relied on the penumbras and emninations precedent. This is also called the "pulling rabbits out one's ass precedent," or possibly "The Hawaiian Judge Exception." Amiright? Amiclose?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:13 AM (UWEVd)

76 'Glib'. There's a good word you don't hear much anymore.

Glib.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:15 AM (43xH1)

77 “Lost and found”. A man from NC reflects on a lost dog as well as God searching for us. Gospel passage is from Luke:

https://tinyurl.com/4es5bttp

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at July 02, 2024 06:16 AM (9tWJc)

78 I wonder if the signers of the Declaration of Independence could see what our country is going through today, they would

We tried to warn you.

Posted by: The Anti-Federalists at July 02, 2024 06:18 AM (iehE5)

79 Sounds like the 11th and 5th relied on the penumbras and emninations precedent. This is also called the "pulling rabbits out one's ass precedent," or possibly "The Hawaiian Judge Exception." Amiright? Amiclose?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram'

Maybe more the 'procrastination' and 'prevarication' precedents?

I don't no, I am not a lawer.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:18 AM (43xH1)

80 Hey....twenty bucks is twenty bucks!

Posted by: Mika at July 02, 2024 06:19 AM (a1415)

81 Good morning morons

I too am urging Joe to stay in the race!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I've been advocating for that in the New York Times comments because I want to see him and the Democrats completely humiliated in November. As usual, nobody there finds me witty or charming.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:19 AM (UWEVd)

82 Looks like Maryland Governor Wes ( Is Less ) Moore is catching shit in the local press about his grandstanding for Zombie Joe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 06:20 AM (a1415)

83 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 02, 2024 06:21 AM (ENQN6)

84 A friend of mine grew up on a farm in Los Altos Hills. Her mom still owns the home acreage, and lives there still, but the megalopolis has grown up around their home. She has become cash poor but land rich.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:22 AM (KjFHZ)

85 July 2 was the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, I think. The fourth was the day it was made public.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Nope. The fireworks and alcohol delivery was supposed to be on the 2nd but it got delayed two days. True story.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:23 AM (UWEVd)

86 Hey....twenty bucks is twenty bucks!
Posted by: Mika'

I forgot the Bama kid's name, thought 'Mika' was 'Maliah' and that's some scary stuff.
That's barely funny, the Dems very well could run Maliah, get an endorsement from Tay-Tay, social media puts their full weight behind it, and

BAM!

Another Obama term.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:23 AM (43xH1)

87
Decline "glib"

Nominative : glib, glab, glub
Accusative : glonb, glanb, glub
Genitive : glubus, glubus, glubus
Dative : gluic, gluic, gluic
Ablative : glub, glab, glub

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:24 AM (xG4kz)

88 Gavin Newsom is certainly glib.

Like most dumb people he thinks speaking rapidly with lots of big words will make people think he is smart.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

89 Coffee. More.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:26 AM (B92C0)

90 Decline "glib"
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)!

I'd claim you Interwebzed that and cut and pasted, but around here...

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:26 AM (43xH1)

91 I forgot the Bama kid's name, thought 'Mika' was 'Maliah' and that's some scary stuff.
That's barely funny, the Dems very well could run Maliah, get an endorsement from Tay-Tay, social media puts their full weight behind it, and

BAM!

Another Obama term.
Posted by: LenNeal

Malia

Posted by: Tuna at July 02, 2024 06:26 AM (oaGWv)

92 I am often quite glib to customers at the supermarket when I interact with them quite glibly.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:27 AM (43xH1)

93 Malia
Posted by: Tuna'

At least I didn't misgender.

...I think.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:29 AM (43xH1)

94 There's a scam robo call coming out of area code 202 concerning a large purchase on Walmart Account. I let just about everything go to voice mail, so I avoid the temptation to give a click to speak to somebody. Checked Walmart, checked the credit card, and no problem. Area code 202 is DC and is popular with scammers, making the call look more official I guess.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 02, 2024 06:29 AM (V5eKu)

95 friend of mine grew up on a farm in Los Altos Hills. Her mom still owns the home acreage, and lives there still, but the megalopolis has grown up around their home. She has become cash poor but land rich.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:22 AM (KjFHZ)
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It is still very bucolic down there, far enough away from the hubub of Cupertino, Santa Clara, and San Jose.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 06:29 AM (RIvkX)

96 BBC: Biden says court verdict on Trump undermines rule of law

Well, if anybody would know know what it means to undermine the law or behave in a lawless fashion it would be Biden.

Translation: Biden to SCOTIS, "Hey. man, stay in your own lane."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:30 AM (UWEVd)

97 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 02, 2024 06:31 AM (3Fz6p)

98
Two, count 'em, two years of high school Latin!

And all I have to show for it is my badly misremembered declination of "hic hec hoc ..."

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:32 AM (xG4kz)

99 Bucolic. That word always invokes visions of some cow taking a piss in a field.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:32 AM (UWEVd)

100 98 In hoc signo Vince's. Pall Mall cigarettes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 02, 2024 06:34 AM (V5eKu)

101 “Lost and found”. A man from NC reflects on a lost dog as well as God searching for us. Gospel passage is from Luke:
https://tinyurl.com/4es5bttp
Posted by: FenelonSpoke'

I've been working on a series of essays now being organized into something coherent on how total self-negation is not a Christian value or practice. It's a serious issue in the EOC and has caused major problems in the past, and is likely to create a crisis in the very near future.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:34 AM (43xH1)

102 Texas deputies rescue puppies from scorching heat:

https://tinyurl.com/ycxk39me

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at July 02, 2024 06:35 AM (9tWJc)

103 Decline "glib"

Nominative : glib, glab, glub
Accusative : glonb, glanb, glub
Genitive : glubus, glubus, glubus
Dative : gluic, gluic, gluic
Ablative : glub, glab, glub
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)!

I can still rattle off the present tense conjugation of "amo" from my eighth grade Latin: amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant. The only thing I retained from my year of Latin.

Posted by: Tuna at July 02, 2024 06:35 AM (oaGWv)

104 I see Biden is ignoring SCOTUS yet again on his student loan vote buying scam. And the "Presidents must obey the law!" crowd is for some reason completely mute.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:35 AM (vR0zm)

105 Bucolic. That word always invokes visions of some cow taking a piss in a field.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram'

Down into your right boot while stepping on your left foot.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:35 AM (43xH1)

106 Bucolic. That word always invokes visions of some cow taking a piss in a field.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:32 AM (UWEVd)
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More horses than cows in Los Altos.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 02, 2024 06:35 AM (RIvkX)

107 Semper ubi sub ubi.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 02, 2024 06:36 AM (3Fz6p)

108
What names did we formerly apply to Malia and Sasha O'Bumbles?

Malaria and Sashay?

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:36 AM (xG4kz)

109 Act of kindness by a little girl:

https://tinyurl.com/mkyhfdzh

Posted by: FenelonSpokd at July 02, 2024 06:38 AM (9tWJc)

110 My friends farm had a farm stand on Camino Real back when that was a country road and she and her three sisters used to be the sales staff. Good marketing move, Dad. Stick your gorgeous daughters out there and sell the hell out of your crop.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:39 AM (bYnSH)

111 I was walking out of the polling place in Erie with one of Gannon University's elderly priests, and we were talking. Old guy got a light for his cigarette, and pointed to a Gannon U coat of arms on the wall. He said he got a chuckle out of most of those, saying, in his words, "it's usually authentic frontier Latin gibberish". Blazing Saddles fan?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 02, 2024 06:39 AM (V5eKu)

112 LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Effective Immediately, the Dripping Springs Natural Area A.B. Cox Visitor’s Center will no longer be issuing America the Beautiful and BLM Las Cruces District Annual Recreation Passes. In addition, the Visitor’s Center will no longer accept cash for transactions.

Excellent move. To be allowed to step onto Obama's Organ Mountain Monument you need a pass. Now you can't buy one with cash. Genius. The rationale is the volunteers who work at the visitors center need to spend more time talking to visitors. It should be noted that is exactly what they did while making change for the pass you just bought with cash or credit card.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:40 AM (UWEVd)

113 I see Biden is ignoring SCOTUS yet again on his student loan vote buying scam. And the "Presidents must obey the law!" crowd is for some reason completely mute.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 02, 2024 06:35 AM (vR0zm)

Dammit! It's (Republican) Presidents must obey the law! -- President, International Society of (Republican) Presidents Must Obey the Law

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 02, 2024 06:40 AM (T7iTv)

114
"it's usually authentic frontier Latin gibberish"

Ix-nay on the ot-pay

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:42 AM (xG4kz)

115 More horses than cows in Los Altos.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Those also piss in fields, into your boots, and step on you.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:43 AM (43xH1)

116 94 There's a scam robo call coming out of area code 202 concerning a large purchase on Walmart Account…
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 02, 2024 06:29 AM (V5eKu)

Caller ID isn’t really a reliable indicator of where the call is coming from anymore.

The Indian scammers use a program on their computers which can “spoof” a Caller ID from anywhere in the world.

They’ve been doing it fo a decade or more.
Here I get multiple calls daily from our 843 area code and all of them are Indian scammers trying to get you to pick up the phone by making the call look like it’s coming from a local number.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2024 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

117
The Organ Mountain Monument has a Dripping Springs unit? And it was established by Barky?

The jokes write themselves

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:44 AM (xG4kz)

118 Disclaimer: I tried to spell judgment without an "e" and it came out judgmnt. Now I'm in a predicamnt. Confusd.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:05 AM
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We can help!

Posted by: Vowels R Us -- LLC at July 02, 2024 06:44 AM (qfLjt)

119 The Tesla CEO wrote: 'When will politicians, or at least the intern who runs their account, learn that lying on this platform doesn’t work anymore?'

It is safe to assume about 80% of Pols tweets before Elon were lies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 02, 2024 06:45 AM (ENQN6)

120 10 Oh man, headed for 102 with about 65% humidity today. Gonna be another hot one. Must be glowbull enwarmening summer in Cowtown.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 02, 2024 04:25 AM (YRsIm)

I love him, but we have that conversation every day from June 'til late September.
Bet it's even hotter in the Cowtown.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at July 02, 2024 06:45 AM (y7DxH)

121 We can help!
Posted by: Vowels R Us -- LLC'

Begone, SATAN!

Posted by: Serbia at July 02, 2024 06:45 AM (43xH1)

122 I have actually gotten spoofed calls where the caller ID shows the call coming from inside our own home.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 06:46 AM (a1415)

123 8 >>>Seemly... Prodding... Vacuum.

These all have double letters.

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 04:22 AM (NHMTR)
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They must be Finnish the?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #01 at July 02, 2024 06:47 AM (qfLjt)

124 You said: "Democratic senators on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs have sent a letter..."

Let me fix that: "Democrat senators on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs have sent a letter..."

They are Democrats. They are not "democratic." If they were democratic then they would seek the will of the majority. No, they are Democrats; they seek power and control over the majority.

It's clever how the oligarchs think they can get you to subtly advertise them as populist every time you say their name. Don't go along. Call them Democrat senators. Don't call them Democratic senators.

Posted by: bradc at July 02, 2024 06:47 AM (Pg5yA)

125 They’ve been doing it fo a decade or more.
Here I get multiple calls daily from our 843 area code and all of them are Indian scammers trying to get you to pick up the phone by making the call look like it’s coming from a local number.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer. I figure if it's important they'll leave a message.

Posted by: Tuna at July 02, 2024 06:47 AM (oaGWv)

126
Lost to the Taliban, supporting Ukraine getting its ass kicked by Russia, but by damn Joe beat Medicare.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 02, 2024 06:47 AM (RKVpM)

127 I have actually gotten spoofed calls where the caller ID shows the call coming from inside our own home.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice'

Total nonsense. Answer the phone.

Posted by: Ghostface at July 02, 2024 06:48 AM (43xH1)

128 123
They must be Finnish then?

Add one here and the computer removes one there!

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #02 at July 02, 2024 06:49 AM (qfLjt)

129 Today's career criminal that got booked into the Dona Ana County jail in Las Cruces was arrested for littering and then getting into a fight with the cops. We give Oakland a run for its money here.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2xzjwh

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:49 AM (UWEVd)

130 'This version of Joe Biden is the best version ever'

: Morning Joe, less than 90 days ago

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)

131
Here I get multiple calls daily from our 843 area code and all of them are Indian scammers trying to get you to pick up the phone by making the call look like it’s coming from a local number.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Here in area code 302, the scam calls almost always use numbers from little burgs located below the C&D Canal. Places with signs that proclaim their reasons why you should live there yourself.

As I once put it, the phrase they all could put on such signs was, "Welcome to Smallville -- If You Lived Here, You Would Have Killed Yourself By Now"

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:51 AM (xG4kz)

132 Le NOOD

It be here!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 06:51 AM (a1415)

133 : Morning Joe, less than 90 days ago
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)
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I wonder what it's like being a professional knob-gobbler.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 02, 2024 06:51 AM (3Fz6p)

134 117
The Organ Mountain Monument has a Dripping Springs unit? And it was established by Barky?

The jokes write themselves
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot

I had never connected all those dots until right now. I will never be able to keep a straight face while I'm looking at the mountains here ever again.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 02, 2024 06:51 AM (UWEVd)

135 122 I have actually gotten spoofed calls where the caller ID shows the call coming from inside our own home.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 02, 2024 06:46 AM (a1415)

I’ve gotten those several times over the years,
It’s freaky to see your own phone number calling you.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2024 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

136 12 Mornin'

Think I'll take a walk this morning. Or. Blow it off and take a walk later on a golf course. I have a tee time for 5:30pm. I think I'll walk later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 02, 2024 04:38 AM (sAmhv)
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If you're playing with FJB then be on your toes, he's got a 6 handicap ..... wait, or is it a sippycup? A 6oz sippycup?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #03 at July 02, 2024 06:52 AM (qfLjt)

137 Joke from Yugo-era Montenegro, where all the boys grew up with creepy blonde girl fetishes. The local girls were of course off-limits for fooling around, but Northern Europeans flocked to the resorts and many were nudist. My brother's family had a pissant little fishing boat with a kitchen mixer motor, and he and his buddies would scrape together change to put gas in it to cruise off the island beaches and gawk at the naked girls. Some would even have sex with them out of boredom or for 'something different'.
Montenegrin Boy (referring to orgasm): Did you finish?
Girl: What? No, I am Swedish!

Posted by: Ghostface at July 02, 2024 06:53 AM (43xH1)

138 SCOTUS found Trump cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can be for private acts, in the landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.

Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475 (1867)
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 02, 2024 06:53 AM (ENQN6)

139 Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475 (1867)
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)'

Thanks, I'm looking those up.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 02, 2024 06:56 AM (43xH1)

140 {116} ... and all of them are Indian scammers trying to get you to pick up the phone by making the call look like it’s coming from a local number.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2024 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

The best is when they mess up their dialing software and they spoof the caller-id as the very name and number they're calling. "Oh look, I'm calling myself. Riiiiiight."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 02, 2024 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

141
"This version of Joe Biden is the best version ever"

Overripe, oozing, and redolent with the smells of lineament and a wet, sloppy load in his adult undergarment.

THAT kind of "best version".

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 02, 2024 06:56 AM (xG4kz)

142 Semper ubi sub ubi.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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Only thing I retained from 8th grade Latin.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 02, 2024 06:58 AM (hoCmQ)

143 So now I have this horrific bitch haunting my workspace during the day, so I really am limited to nights only as I do not even want to deal with this person. She's now a private individual so it's not the same as insulting a public figure.
Posted by: LenNeal

I would pretend she's invisible, no reaction at all when I see her.
Drives narcissists crazy

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 02, 2024 06:59 AM (Ka3bZ)

144 28 I H8 reading law stuff
Posted by: Skip at July 02, 2024 05:27 AM (fwDg9)

I try, but I'm usually not very good at it.

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 06:59 AM (NHMTR)

145 If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer. I figure if it's important they'll leave a message.
Posted by: Tuna at July 02, 2024 06:47 AM (oaGWv)

That’s my usual course of action.
Last year they had me so angry because they were calling multiple times an hour 10 times a day at least, must’ve been a bad time and they were missing quotas and increasing calls.

Anyhow I picked up and cussed them out, told them nobody here was going to fall for their scams and stop calling this number!
Futile, I’d get another call within the hour, and go through the same thing with a different idiot.

At that time the scam was them calling from CVS Pharmacy, which I knew was B.S. so I asked “Tell me the address from the CVS you’re calling from?”
After taking a few seconds to think of an answer “Jessica” with the thickest Indian accent since Ghandi said “I’m calling from CVS Headquarters, sir.” I said “No you’re not, you’re a lying, GD Indian trying to scam old people in foreign countries out of money”
Click.

The calls continued the next day.

It’s hopeless, I gave up, and just never answer now, hoping they’ll take the phone number off their automatic dialer list one day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 02, 2024 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

146 125 If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer.
Posted by: Tuna at July 02, 2024 06:47 AM (oaGWv)

Me, too.

Posted by: m at July 02, 2024 07:31 AM (NHMTR)

147 {125} ... If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer. I figure if it's important they'll leave a message.

Posted by: Tuna at July 02, 2024 06:47 AM (oaGWv)

Best thing to have is the mentality of "Another scam call" as soon as you hear the first ring. And NEVER press any number on your dialing pad if prompted to on an incoming call.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 02, 2024 07:54 AM (O7YUW)

148 “I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers I have for three and a half years,"

Unless you include the student loan forgiveness schemes, selling out American interests to whichever foreign power has cash on hand, persecuting members of the opposition party, using public funds to fly illegal invaders into the country, forcing individuals to take experimental vaccines as a condition of employment...

Posted by: tankdemon at July 02, 2024 08:50 AM (emu0X)

149 Pretty sure Graham Chapman was saying "gone" and not "gorn".

Posted by: Gran at July 02, 2024 10:30 AM (kycfo)

150 Goooorrrnnn!!!....

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