Daily Tech News 13 July 2024

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That's going to leave a mark: Call and text records for the past six months for almost all AT&T customers have been stolen in slow-motion train wreck that is the Snowflake breach. (Tech Crunch)

Snowflake was an online data analytics platform with some major customers including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. Technically I think Snowflake is still operating but I wouldn't expect them to be around for much longer.

While Ticketmaster is international and the number of customers affected far outweighs AT&T, in that breach the hackers got your name, address, last four digits of your credit card, that kind of stuff.

In this hack they got the phone numbers of everyone 110 million people called or texted over a period of six months. And it's all out there, forever.

It does not (according to AT&T) include the contents of the text messages, and calls even if recorded for whatever reason would not be stored in this kind of database. I hope. That would raise it from a mere disaster to a catastrophe.

And if you're not an AT&T customer you might still be affected if your phone company uses the AT&T network behind the scenes.

Tech News

Meta has dropped the special restrictions it had placed on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts. (The Verge)

You can enjoy the screaming in the comments there, if you like.
Emmanuel Goldstein's X faces big EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive. (Ars Technica)

Sorry, I mean Elon Musk. It's pure coincidence that every Ars Technica article mentioning SpaceX, Twitter, Tesla, or Starlink has the name ELON MUSK in it as a signal for the zombies to swarm.

Anyway, the headline is a lie. There is no such ruling.

But EU Bookburner General Terry Britain claims that blue checkmarks used to denote trustworthy sources of information which is either a direct lie or a sign of galloping early-onset Alzheimer's.

Musk fired back asserting that the EU offered Twitter an illegal secret deal under which they would hold off on fines if the company would enact secret censorship under their direction.

Terry Britain claimed that the EU doesn't do that, but... It does.

Also interesting to see on that article, Ars Technica's creative director Aurich Lawson getting savaged by his own mob.
Don't run your Ryzen 9 9950X at 60W. (WCCFTech)

More leaked benchmarks, but there's something interesting here because the same tests were run at power levels of 60W, 90W, 120W, 160W, and 230W, with the last of those being the maximum boost power setting without manual overclocking.

At 60W the CPU ran cool at 41C and managed 4GHz on all cores. Bumping it up to 90W pushed the temperature to 49C but the clock to just over 5GHz. At 160W it reaches 5.55GHz and at 230W 5.6GHz, so there's no real point in going over 160W.
Emmanuel Gold - sorry. SpaceX's Falcon 9 has been grounded after issues with a second stage caused the latest cluster of Starlink satellites to miss their orbital target. (Reuters)

They are trying to boost the satellites into the correct orbit with the on-board ion drives - really - but even if that works it will reduce their service life.

This comes after, if you weren't keeping track, 365 consecutive Falcon 9 launches without issue.
Looking to buy a Z80 computer before supply of the chip runs out forever? Tindie (who) and Zeal have you covered. (Tindie)

For $180 you get a 10MHz Z80, 256k of flash storage, 512k of RAM, VGA graphics, and four voice sound synthesis.

It's kind of neat if you're into retrocomputing.
Speaking of retrocomputing the German navy is working on phasing out eight inch floppy disks. (Ars Technica)

I have no idea why they are used because the ships involved were commissioned in the mid-nineties, by which time even 3.5" floppies had been around for a decade, and eight inch models had been dead for years.
A "red team" from CISA broke into another federal agency and had free rein in its network, undetected, for five months. (The Register)

Wait, the federal government noticed a massive problem in only five months?
Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately it's fucked. (Ars Technica)

Well, they use the term broken, but I felt it needed a little more oomph.
The practice of peer review was developed in a different era, when the arguments and analysis that led to a paper's conclusion could be succinctly summarized within the paper itself. Want to know how the author arrived at that conclusion? The derivation would be right there. It was relatively easy to judge the "wrongness" of an article because you could follow the document from beginning to end, from start to finish, and have all the information you needed to evaluate it right there at your fingerprints.

That's now largely impossible with the modern scientific enterprise so reliant on computers.
Specifically because scientific papers very rarely include the code used to analyse the data. All the assumptions - and the errors - in that code are hidden from reviewers.

Noting that peer review is f - broken, the author, not a journalist but real life astrophysicist Paul Sutter, moves on to science's second line of defense, replication, where things are no better:
There's a complex swirling septic tank of problems that all contribute to the replication crisis, but the first issue is that replication isn't sexy. You don't get to learn new things about the world around us; you just get to confirm whether someone else learned new things about the world around us. As an added ugly bonus, non-results often don't even get published. Novelty is seen as a virtue, and if you run an experiment and it doesn't provide a positive result, journals are less likely to be interested in your manuscript. Additionally, because replication isn't seen as sexy, when it is done, it isn't read. Replication studies do not get published in high-impact-factor journals, and authors of replication studies do not get as many citations for their work. This means that their h-index is lower, which lowers their chances of getting grants and promotions.
What's the solution? I'm glad you asked:
Altogether, the scientific and technical publishing industry rakes in about ten billion dollars a year, often with double-digit profit margins. Of course they don't want this ship to change course. I can't really blame them; they're just playing by the accepted rules of their own game.
Yes, there isn't one.
Despite selling literally dozens of units, several of which were not returned, developers are ignoring Apple's wildly expensive and basically useless Vision Pro AR headset. (Ars Technica)

Not even porting existing iOS apps.
OpenAI is reportedly working on an AI that can reason, instead of just regurgitating pre-digested Reddit posts and telling you that backpacks are as safe as parachutes when jumping out of a plane. (Ars Technica)

Well, first up, Terry Winograd, SHRDLU, 1968.
Person: Had you touched any pyramid before you put the green one on the little cube?
Computer: YES, THE GREEN ONE.
Person: When did you pick it up?
Computer: WHILE I WAS STACKING UP THE RED CUBE, A LARGE RED BLOCK AND A LARGE GREEN CUBE.
Person: Why?
Computer: TO GET RID OF IT.
Person: Why did you do that?
Computer: TO CLEAN OFF THE RED CUBE.
Person: Why did you clear off that cube?
Computer: TO PUT IT ON A LARGE GREEN CUBE.
Person: Why did you do that?
Computer: TO STACK UP THE RED CUBE , A LARGE RED BLOCK AND A LARGE GREEN CUBE.
Person: Why did you do that?
Computer: BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME TO.
Second, that parachutes and backpacks thing is really an answer given Google's AI Overview. (Fast Company)

And it's based on a real result from a real scientific study. (NPR)

But it's a study of whether people actually read scientific papers.

The plane was parked on the ground.

Disclaimer: The author has not made this disclaimer available in your location.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 04:01 AM (64Zez)

2 G'Day everyone
No reason to be up

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

3 >>>The plane was parked on the ground.

wut

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 04:02 AM (64Zez)

4 3 >>>The plane was parked on the ground.

wut
Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 04:02 AM (64Zez)

Oh. I need to read the NPR article, I think.

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 04:04 AM (64Zez)

5 3 >>>The plane was parked on the ground.

wut

The study showed that backpacks are as effective as parachutes when jumping out of a plane - if the plane is parked on the ground.

And that people don't read scientific papers.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 13, 2024 04:05 AM (BLOW1)

6 Morning all!

"But EU Bookburner General Terry Britain claims that blue checkmarks used to denote trustworthy sources of information which is either a direct lie or a sign of galloping early-onset Alzheimer's."

Or Loooooooong Kovid.

Posted by: Bruce at July 13, 2024 04:05 AM (szrmA)

7 >>>Noting that peer review is f- broken

LOL

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 04:08 AM (64Zez)

8 Pixy - this is the best roundup of not-for-hire tech news - bar none. You should think about doing your own blog.

Posted by: Viso Latte at July 13, 2024 04:12 AM (jOuu4)

9 Pixy *does* his own blog!

https://ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 04:18 AM (64Zez)

10 G'morning, all!

77.2 degrees in the back yard.

76.9 degree dew point.

But the bird bath is filled by the 1.75 inches of rain we got yesterday afternoon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 04:28 AM (a1415)

11 What plane?

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 04:35 AM (fwDg9)

12 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 13, 2024 04:36 AM (dg+HA)

13 Good morning everyone. 70 with 93% humidity here in Nashville land. Looks like the east coast will be getting some stormy weather today.

Posted by: Tuna at July 13, 2024 04:42 AM (oaGWv)

14 68 w/ 98% humidity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 13, 2024 04:44 AM (i4fVr)

15 One site I look at is showing made up Project 25 points.

Make it legal to remove tags from mattresses.

Make smoking on planes mandatory

It will bring back the AMC Pacer

Posted by: Bruce at July 13, 2024 04:45 AM (szrmA)

16 So the ESPY's have been moved to my "No need to watch ever again' column.

I'm running out of things to boycott.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 04:45 AM (a1415)

17 I'm running out of things to boycott.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

A lot of free time. I bet you're gonna get in trouble

Posted by: Bruce at July 13, 2024 04:47 AM (szrmA)

18 "It will bring back the AMC Pacer "

I can get behind that.

As well as the Gremlin X.

And the AMX.

AMC had some serious motorheaads in their ranks.

All working on a shoestring budget.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 04:47 AM (a1415)

19 It will bring back the AMC Pacer
Posted by: Bruce

LOL. I remember test driving a Pacer when they first came out.

Posted by: Tuna at July 13, 2024 04:48 AM (oaGWv)

20 Birdbaths should be fine, getting rain some.
Going to be another hot week so will try and keep them clean

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 04:48 AM (fwDg9)

21 "I bet you're gonna get in trouble"

More than likely.

But hey...we're Morons.
It's what we do.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 04:49 AM (a1415)

22 Toned physic ?

This seems more like a tongue bath than a serious article.

https://tinyurl.com/37cktscu

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 04:54 AM (a1415)

23 Coffee is on, will be awhile

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 04:54 AM (fwDg9)

24 G'morning Pixy & Horde,

That little Z80 computer is cool. Last time I used a Z80 based computer was in a TRS-80 Model IV.

Another early start day for me...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 13, 2024 04:55 AM (O7YUW)

25 Mornin'

Never heard of Snowflake but analytics isn't in my wheelhouse. Not sure I'd trust a company calling itself 'Snowflake'. Certainly not now.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 13, 2024 04:56 AM (FmapG)

26 Las Cruces, NM. 79 degrees, 26% humidity, dew point 42 degrees. The expected high is 101 degrees. The good news is September is a month and a half away which is when the weather here is perfect clear to December.

The Dona Ana County jail has been busy picking up people who never show up for court. Our featured artist for tonight Is Diamond Neck who has an impressive 5 failure to appear warrants, none duplicated.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2dxs4s

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 13, 2024 04:57 AM (2maI5)

27 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 13, 2024 04:57 AM (eMsaN)

28 16 So the ESPY's have been moved to my "No need to watch ever again' column.

I'm running out of things to boycott.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I forgot that was even a thing until I saw some article over on Outkick. One of the Williams sisters vomited out some snotty comment about that KC kicker and the other broads with her chimed in with their own vomit. I can't boycott something I wasn't watching in the first place.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 13, 2024 05:00 AM (FmapG)

29 "Our featured artist for tonight Is Diamond Neck who has an impressive 5 failure to appear warrants, none duplicated. "

He seems nice....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 05:01 AM (a1415)

30 I, for one, welcome our new AMC overlords.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2024 05:02 AM (dg+HA)

31 One way peer review papers could be fixed is by turning all the hard sciences into soft sciences and the soft sciences into telcum powder. That way everything is an opinion and there is nothing to verify. Come to think of it, that's sort of where we are right now, isn't it?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 13, 2024 05:07 AM (2maI5)

32 - Saw a headline on yeehaw one of the Williams sisters didn't much care for Caitlin too.
Well, she's caucasian, not a lesbian and looking like a female Larry Legend. To be expected.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 13, 2024 05:08 AM (xZpzx)

33 I forgot that was even a thing until I saw some article over on Outkick. One of the Williams sisters vomited out some snotty comment about that KC kicker and the other broads with her chimed in with their own vomit. I can't boycott something I wasn't watching in the first place.
Posted by: Puddleglum

The barking seals in the audience cheered her on even though Mr. Butker was sitting right there. NY Post has his response. He took the high road of course. A true gentleman.

Posted by: Tuna at July 13, 2024 05:08 AM (oaGWv)

34 "That way everything is an opinion and there is nothing to verify. Come to think of it, that's sort of where we are right now, isn't it?"

That's just your opinion.

J/K

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 05:08 AM (a1415)

35 So I'm still trying to get my head around the logic behind the Left failing to support the SAVE act yesterday.

We don't need the SAVE act because it's already against the law for illegal aliens to vote in our elections...

But we need 'common sense gun control laws'?

I guess it's currently not illegal for children to own handguns, nor is it illegal to murder someone using a firearm?

Who knew?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 05:12 AM (a1415)

36 - And 95-99-100-95 today through Tue. Won't be a dry heat.
That one I believe.
Low to mid 80's Wed-Fri with rain Thur.
Not buyin' that for a min.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 13, 2024 05:12 AM (xZpzx)

37 In the Dona Ana County jail most felonies with a ponytail category we have the always distinguished Mr. Villa with five.

https://tinyurl.com/3k6xwhvf

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 13, 2024 05:17 AM (2maI5)

38 That's going to leave a mark: Call and text records for the past six months for almost all AT&T customers have been stolen in slow-motion train wreck that is the Snowflake breach. (Tech Crunch)

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Be sure to enable two factor authentication or else we won't let you access our terrible website to attempt to perform basic customer related tasks!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women are more likely to accidentally kill themselves than be killed by a man at July 13, 2024 05:22 AM (uKQ6k)

39 Dona Ana County seems to attract some of our nations finest citizens.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 05:22 AM (a1415)

40 no, the full message contents are stored in that big enn ess a facility out west, lol, at&t just has the metadata, right?

lol

g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 13, 2024 05:46 AM (MKEsG)

41 Good morning all. Just checking in to see how my new hash is assimilating.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 13, 2024 05:48 AM (AYNL4)

42 Dearest Wise and Wonderful Pixy,
My hash is truly terrible and nobody will like me if I don't have a nice hash, so could you please tell me how to get another one?
Respectfully,
mustbequantum

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 13, 2024 05:50 AM (AYNL4)

43 "Just checking in to see how my new hash is assimilating."

It's a keeper, that one.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 05:51 AM (a1415)

44 No new law to stop illegals from voting must mean illegals can vote now doesn't it?

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 05:52 AM (fwDg9)

45 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 13, 2024 05:54 AM (86W+h)

46 I forgot that was even a thing until I saw some article over on Outkick. One of the Williams sisters vomited out some snotty comment about that KC kicker and the other broads with her chimed in with their own vomit.

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Everyone everywhere knows he's right. The sin is noticing it. Worse is saying it out loud where practitioners of pretend-world can hear it.

The clock on their looks is ticking, and they know it. The farther they advance in their careers the more selective they become, and they know it. They took the jobs that they want their absent mate(s) to have (and they won't marry down), and they know it. The more they move up the more masculine they have to become, and they know it. They "progressed" to expectations of laying down and giving up their treasure for nothing because they think that's how "equality" with men works, and they know it.

All of that plus an expiration date, and when that date passes any man who wants a family immediately self-selects to remove himself from potential mates.

Like the trannies, you're not supposed to try to help them. You're only supposed to enable them and hasten the collapse.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women are more likely to accidentally kill themselves than be killed by a man at July 13, 2024 05:58 AM (K58To)

47 >>> 76.9 degree dew point.

Soggy doggy

Posted by: fluffy at July 13, 2024 05:59 AM (86W+h)

48 NY Post says Elon Musk has donated a "sizable" amount to a PAC that benefits Trump.

Posted by: Tuna at July 13, 2024 05:59 AM (oaGWv)

49 No new law to stop illegals from voting must mean illegals can vote now doesn't it?
Posted by: Skip

In the same way that reversing Clinton's "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" made gay rape legal in the military.
... technically it did not become legal but it suddenly became 'not uncommon' somehow.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 13, 2024 05:59 AM (cOq4q)

50 Evening and morning on a fine Saturday for all the far-flung outposts of the AoSHQ Empire! All hail Pixy and Ace! Ave atque vale! (Not a real farewell, I just wanted to see if I could spell that without looking it up)

Got enough sleep last night, or enough to see me through til an afternoon nap. The usual batch of errands faces me. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)

51 You lucky people with 70s and even 60s temps at this hour at this time of year --! It's 82 F. here with 91 heat index. Hideous conditions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:07 AM (omVj0)

52
An afternoon nap! Nice! Went for a long walk in the woods with the granddaughters yesterday, cleared brush, fell down, rolling an ankle and slept long. Might need a morning nap.

Posted by: Auspex at July 13, 2024 06:10 AM (j4U/Z)

53 I suppose, now that I've had coffee, I should put on my Big Boy Pants and make some breakfast. It may seem odd, but to me, sitting around in pajamas and robe is the kind of thing you do only when you're sick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:12 AM (omVj0)

54 On a tech note, I am happy to report that after a week of not having internet service the repair guy came sooner than we had expected and got our service running, so we do not have to go through our cell phone. Thanks, Lord, and thanks Mr. Repair man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 06:12 AM (NYlfj)

55 Well, I should begin my morning two mile walkabout.

Dr said I need to lose forty pounds and bring my blood pressure and cholesterol down a bit.

So ...here we are

Bbiab

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 06:13 AM (a1415)

56 107 forecast for today. Then: 105, 103, 104, 109, 105, 102... Lucky us, ~70 for overnights... Humidity

But I still hate summer, here.

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:15 AM (njWTi)

57 Going to venture outside after my bagel

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 06:16 AM (fwDg9)

58 Humidity

No rain....

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:16 AM (njWTi)

59 OK.... try it again....

Humidity LESS THAN 30 PERCENT

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:17 AM (njWTi)

60 And spouse made me laugh this morning after I told him about calls I had gotten after he went to bed. I said “ I love the church and my friends but I’m tired. I understand why Jesus went off in a boat sometimes” ( and no, for people who have a problem with me, I am not comparing my to Jesus)
FenSpouse said’ “It was a good thing Jesus didn’t have a cell phone.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 06:17 AM (3X9+T)

61 Good morning, Fen!

Cell phones are great... turn off the ringer... You can still know who called, and when they called.

Text is great too.

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:19 AM (njWTi)

62 Good morning morons and wow a lot of content Pixy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 06:21 AM (RIvkX)

63 107 forecast for today. Then: 105, 103, 104, 109, 105, 102... Lucky us, ~70 for overnights... Humidity

But I still hate summer, here.
Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024

***
Morning, JQ! Isn't this an unusual set of temps for you hough -- this heat wave that's been all over the country?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:21 AM (omVj0)

64 Humidity LESS THAN 30 PERCENT
Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024

***
I *dream* of seeing that here. Ever.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:23 AM (omVj0)

65 Yes it is, Wolfus. We don't usually get *this hot* until end of July!

My lawn is... dead. Trees are wilting! I've been soaking favored plants for 2 weeks and praying they'll survive.

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:25 AM (njWTi)

66 Be sure to enable two factor authentication or else we won't let you access our terrible website to attempt to perform basic customer related tasks!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women are more likely to accidentally kill themselves than be killed by a man at July 13, 2024 05:22 AM (uKQ6k)
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I currently have four letters about data breaches of my data each of them offering a free year of "credit monitoring" in compensation. We just signed up for AT&T phone service last week.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 06:25 AM (RIvkX)

67 “Patient waiting” A reflection from a passage from the Book of Lamentations:

https://tinyurl.com/8wtd2vte

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 06:26 AM (3X9+T)

68 We just signed up for AT&T phone service last week.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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If you haven't tried to use their phone app or website for anything, go have a look. 25% of the time links will be broken, pages will constantly not load, if you've got two accounts (internet and phone) the system will become confused and unable to show you information on one or the other, etc.

The oldest telecom, and they can't design a website that works. Although part of me wonders if it's not by design itself, and it's an attempt to thwart you accomplishing what you want (cancellation, for example) so you give up and forget about it for another billing cycle.

Related: Good luck talking to a human

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women are more likely to accidentally kill themselves than be killed by a man at July 13, 2024 06:30 AM (K58To)

69 It will be foggy and windy all day, high of 65.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 06:30 AM (RIvkX)

70 Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:19 AM (njWTi

Thanks. I do turn off the ringer at times and I text, but one call was from our dear organist who has a flip phone and doesn’t text, and the other was from someone who really needed to vent, so I needed to speak to them in person.

Sometimes when driving with spouse I just leave cell phone at home because he had his and tnit having it is great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 06:30 AM (Z9Oio)

71 This AT&T debacle is disturbing on many levels. There needs to be prison time for the overseers at AT&T. And I mean top level executives. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Just saying at July 13, 2024 06:30 AM (rzwGB)

72 I suppose, now that I've had coffee, I should put on my Big Boy Pants and make some breakfast. It may seem odd, but to me, sitting around in pajamas and robe is the kind of thing you do only when you're sick.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:12 AM (omVj0)
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When you finally retire, you can make pajamas and robe your default "uniform."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2024 06:31 AM (BpYfr)

73 Well, not in person. They were not in my house but by phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 06:31 AM (Z9Oio)

74 Brandon, Kamala, etc. One of the worst things about our one-party state is that we're lorded over by retarded people. These kind of regimes always end up like that eventually, but we skipped straight to that stage. American efficiency, I suppose.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2024 06:32 AM (0FoWg)

75 Summer, see, used to be fun when we were kids and had it off from school. For me it was necessary for my mental health, a chance to sleep late, stay up at night and read and write, etc. Recently I've found out that my maternal grandparents were still alive when I was a boy, on a homestead in FL. (My mother never told me. Long and mysterious story.) Miss Linda says, "Wouldn't it have been fun to go there for a few weeks in summer?"

"No," I tell her. "They'd have wanted me to get up early and do [and here I shudder] *chores*. If they'd lived out West, CO or NM, and I could have learned to ride a horse, maybe; but summer in Orlando? NOOOO!"

But as grownups, summer is unpleasant when you have to slog to work and back. And I worked outdoors in it for too many years to find it glamorous.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:34 AM (omVj0)

76 I've told friends & family that my phone is set to 'silent' periodically-- depending on time of day *and* hubby's "episodes".

Sometimes I cannot be distracted from caregiving...

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:35 AM (njWTi)

77 My dad liked AMC: we had a Pacer, Gremlin and Hornet

Posted by: Jamaica at July 13, 2024 06:35 AM (5KunV)

78 When you finally retire, you can make pajamas and robe your default "uniform."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2024

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No, Perfessor, that's what I mean. If I sit around dressed like that for too long, a reverse feedback sets in, and I begin to wonder if I actually am sick! A quick change to slacks and shirt, lightweight or sturdy depending on the season, suits me much better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:36 AM (omVj0)

79 DNC message to Stinky Joe:

Step aside.
Please step aside.

https://youtu.be/vAvaWrOJcng

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2024 06:37 AM (RmycU)

80 No, Perfessor, that's what I mean. If I sit around dressed like that for too long, a reverse feedback sets in, and I begin to wonder if I actually am sick! A quick change to slacks and shirt, lightweight or sturdy depending on the season, suits me much better.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:36 AM (omVj0)
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Yeah, I totally get it. I've been off work the past couple of days and I do feel the need to put myself together and get stuff done after a while...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2024 06:37 AM (BpYfr)

81 Posted by: mustbequantum at July 13, 2024 05:50 AM (AYNL4)

Call Me!! (winks)

Posted by: Pete Buttigeig at July 13, 2024 06:39 AM (sAmhv)

82 74, damp, still but clearing

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 06:43 AM (fwDg9)

83 Posted by: Jamaica at July 13, 2024 06:35 AM

Ooo! I had a '74(?) Hornet, once upon a time! It was a good ol' car!

It had a "child-safety" interlock, so that there had to be a certain amount of weight on the front seat before it would enable start circuit. Heh... except it was fuddled & wired bass-ackward by somebody else...

Had to lift my butt UP off the seat, in order to start it.

LOL

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:43 AM (njWTi)

84
I would really like to be able to access that database. I have suspicions of a serious nature of an event from decades ago and seeing the records of who someone called could break the mystery forever. I have a good legitimate reason which could benefit the person whose record of calls I'd search.

I guess the 'dark' web?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 06:46 AM (RKVpM)

85 I served on a Los Angeles class attack submarine and used to joke that I was on a sub in the 90’s that was built in the 80’s from a 70’s design based on 60’s technology. It does not surprise me that the German Navy just got rid of 8” floppies. We still had vacuum tubes on board.

Posted by: JeffC at July 13, 2024 06:48 AM (ANxaz)

86 My dad liked AMC: we had a Pacer, Gremlin and Hornet
Posted by: Jamaica at July 13, 2024 06:35 AM (5KunV)
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My dad's first new car was a Ford Fairmont.

That car was everything wrong with this country and the auto industry in 1980.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 06:48 AM (RIvkX)

87 Yeah, I totally get it. I've been off work the past couple of days and I do feel the need to put myself together and get stuff done after a while...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2024

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My "around the house" uniform is jeans or slacks (linen, right now, an old pair with a couple of holes in them), a shirt with a collar and long sleeves rolled up (also linen at present), and if it's chilly, a light sweater. I picture myself like the guys in L.L. Bean catalogs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:48 AM (omVj0)

88 mornin yall

17-year-old Jakhori Jamal Woolfolk was arrested after crashing a stolen SUV during a police chase at 1:30 in the morning. In the SUV were 9 juveniles. Two 13-year-old boys, a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy were airlifted to the Children's Hospital in Atlanta. Another 11-year-old is still was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A 17-year-old girl was also in the vehicle. They mamas says they was good keeds and they was jes turning they lives around.

The location of this incident? Just a couple of blocks or so away from the city's world class Pickleball venue.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

89 Eric The Car Guy has LOTS of videos about his Ford Fairmont which he's had for about a decade.

https://youtu.be/L22GsHQi7tU

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2024 06:53 AM (RmycU)

90 "Nurse" would hate me---

I wear hubby's old, white, v-neck undershirts. LOL. And plain, solid-color, broadcloth lounge pants.

And I don't parallel park!

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:53 AM (njWTi)

91 *They mamas says they was good keeds and they was jes turning they lives around.*

And on their way to bible study.

Posted by: Quanisha at July 13, 2024 06:55 AM (RmycU)

92 I got a email from Ticketmaster about the breach and was offered credit monitoring. I'm not convinced that's not a scam just to get more info.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

93
The location of this incident? Just a couple of blocks or so away from the city's world class Pickleball venue.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 06:52 AM

Pickleball is the root cause of juvenile delinquency? Let me draw up a grant proposal and submit it to the government.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 06:56 AM (RKVpM)

94 My dad's first new car was a Ford Fairmont.

That car was everything wrong with this country and the auto industry in 1980.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024

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My first-ever car was a '75 Maverick, the Fairmont's predecessor. After years of riding buses and cadging rides from friends, I loved it. I learned about maintenance on it. Oh, it had problems now and then, but was overall reliable. Today I'd find even a mint example of it to be tinny and plasticky, no doubt; but then? I loved it.

My vintage Mercedes sedans, and my Buicks, were and are all immeasurably better in every way. But I'll always look back in fondness at the Maverick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 06:56 AM (omVj0)

95 And I don't parallel park!
Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:53 AM (njWTi)
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One of my favorite guilty pleasures is watching people from the suburbs trying to parallel park their SUVs.

There have been a few times I had to tell the poor lady, "if you leave your car like that, it won't be here when you come back."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 06:57 AM (RIvkX)

96 My around the house uniform makes me look like I just crawled out from under a bridge and am making my way to the soup kitchen. I'm my own riffraff.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

97 My family had a '73 four door Maverick. Burnt orange with a vinyl roof. Downright spiffy.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2024 07:00 AM (RmycU)

98 It was an awful car but I have very fond memories of it. My idiot friends and I drove it to spring break in Ft. Lauderdale, we drove it up and down every dirt lane in the Catskills. They also let me drive it without my license.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 07:00 AM (RIvkX)

99 I got a email from Ticketmaster about the breach and was offered credit monitoring. I'm not convinced that's not a scam just to get more info.
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Trust your gut.

Put a fraud alert on your credit, if you're concerned. Or, even a credit freeze if you're sure you're at risk.

But do it through one of the Big Three Reporting Agencies, rather than.. whoever...

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 07:00 AM (njWTi)

100 Getting light outside. Time to go wash the car. I don't want to do it tomorrow, as I have a workout and grocery shopping slated for that, and three such outdoor errands in one hot sopping morning are too much for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 07:04 AM (omVj0)

101 Have a great day, Wolfus!

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 07:06 AM (njWTi)

102 I think every one of these breaches is a Fed op.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 13, 2024 07:07 AM (0o/AH)

103 WRT the Alec Baldwin dismissal, So if I understand this correctly, some random guy associated with the Armorer's Father, manufactured some bullets that were never on the set or ever in the state until a couple of months ago, gave them to the prosecution and told them to check these bullets out that I manufactured pretty neat huh, and the prosecution said, uhmm, ok great, and somehow these bullets with absolutely zero evidentiary evidence were somehow deemed material Brady violation's necessitating the case being thrown out with prejudice.

Yeah, this passes the smell test.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2024 07:07 AM (XV/Pl)

104 I *am able to* parallel park, if I must... but I'd prefer *not to*

Eff it. There's no need, out here in Free America.

Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 07:08 AM (njWTi)

105 My family had a '73 four door Maverick. Burnt orange with a vinyl roof. Downright spiffy.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2024

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My four-door was a metallic lime-ish green inside and out. Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 and I called it "Klingon green." No vinyl top. It had the larger 250 cid engine with about 100 hp, so it was not fast. Power steering but not power brakes, AM-only radio (I put an FM tuner in later), and good A/C.

I changed oil on it myself, coolant once or twice and even changed a radiator hose that was about to burst, checked and topped off all the fluids, ran carb cleaner and fuel cleaner through it regularly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2024 07:09 AM (omVj0)

106 Yeah, this passes the smell test.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2024 07:07 AM (XV/Pl)
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Yet another example of regime justice. It's laughable. I hope SNL does a skit.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 07:09 AM (RIvkX)

107 I kind of, almost, learned to drive in a Maverick, one with a manual transmission and the shifter was on the steering column. Then I learned parking. Along the way, some damage occurred and my driving career was postponed. Sorry Dad.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2024 07:12 AM (rfnom)

108 37 In the Dona Ana County jail most felonies with a ponytail category we have the always distinguished Mr. Villa with five.

https://tinyurl.com/3k6xwhvf
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 13, 2024 05:17 AM (2maI5)

Five ponytails is at least three too many.

Posted by: Hair Police at July 13, 2024 07:14 AM (F/oxI)

109 A Fec op lioking for more Jan 6 political prisoners or a Chinese op mapping citizen networks

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2024 07:14 AM (bppHP)

110 @106

>>It's laughable. I hope SNL does a skit.

Oh yeah, they will probably do a skit of Trump in court and have Alec Baldwin do his nauseatingly, and intentionally bad Trump impersonation.

You know a meta take on how Baldwin is innocent and Trump is guilty.

These people are a**holes, so I expect this to happen.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2024 07:14 AM (XV/Pl)

111 Vacuum tube audio enthusiasts like the OG tubes manufactured by US and European manufacturers from the golden age of the 50's and 60's, they last far longer than modern reproduction tubes.

Because of government contracts, the DOD was still buying them as late as 1985, so there are still a lot of them out there in the surplus market.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 13, 2024 07:15 AM (8yFpc)

112 That was a "Fed Op"

Learning phone typing is my task today

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2024 07:15 AM (bppHP)

113 It's laughable. I hope SNL does a skit.

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It will be of a J6 grandma.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women are more likely to accidentally kill themselves than be killed by a man at July 13, 2024 07:16 AM (08Sk0)

114 It used to be that Master's research thesis were used to train someone to do research and often the subject was one of repeating some dubious research that your supervisor had doubts about. If the boss had a monetary stake in the 'dubious' work then sometimes he'd put a post-doc onto it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #01 at July 13, 2024 07:17 AM (qfLjt)

115 It is humid out

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 07:19 AM (fwDg9)

116 Is SNL still a thing? Seriously?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2024 07:20 AM (RmycU)

117 YD@74 - thing is, the war has been generations long; the smart ones started it covertly a century ago and like all organizations (not really the right word, but ...), they have degenerated over time. now that it's overt and in its final stages these dregs are all that remain.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 13, 2024 07:22 AM (MKEsG)

118 Good morning everyone.

Getting ready to head out to volunteer at one of our grade schools to pack school supplies for the kids for the fall. And pack shoes. One of the charities bought a pair of shoes (that actually fit!) for every school aged kid in the county.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: "Whom shall I send?" And who will go for us?" And I said: "Here I am, send me."

-- Isaiah 6:8

Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2024 07:23 AM (WXNFJ)

119 Welp, that was fun. 3.25 miles around the community.

Now to re-hydrate.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 07:24 AM (a1415)

120 Or, you could have a drink of water instead.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2024 07:26 AM (WXNFJ)

121 Good on you Tp and VIA!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

122 115 It is humid out
Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 07:19 AM (fwDg9)

Here, it is also humid in.

Because Centerpoint has not yet restored my power. I'm seriously not enjoying this at all.

Posted by: Dang It All at July 13, 2024 07:26 AM (F/oxI)

123 osted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2024 07:23 AM (WXNFJ)

Wonderful! Good for you! Also, nice Scripture passage.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 07:27 AM (RGS3X)

124 Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 07:29 AM (RGS3X)

125 I dream of a nation where casting a ballot is as easy as buying ammunition in a vending machine.

https://tinyurl.com/v2j2pcu6

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 07:30 AM (a1415)

126 First car was a '71 Pinto. Since we, and it!, lived in the Rust Belt, the left fender was completely rusted away such that mud and slush would splash up from the wheel well onto the windshield and freeze. I couldn't stand it anymore and pop-riveted a piece of tin over the monster hole on the upper fender. What a piece of shit mobile.

What a hooptie.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2024 07:31 AM (WXNFJ)

127
Talk about cooling, I plugged in one of my 'tower' style cooling fans into my Bluetti battery. It was interesting as it recorded 10 watts of power, for about 10 seconds, then down to zero, with some ...'s to indicate there was a load but it was not even 1 watt.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 07:33 AM (RKVpM)

128 Just h other day we saw a Pinto Wagon going up the interstate.

Looked to be in excellent condition.

Plus, a guy near us has one of those candy apple green and white Vegas with a small block V8 in it.

Looks professionally modded, with big tubs in the back, shortened axle..etc.

One of my dream cars.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 07:35 AM (a1415)

129 I have ☕️ now

Posted by: Don Black at July 13, 2024 07:36 AM (/7KEl)

130
Get ready for Amazon Prime Day 2024 on July 16 and 17!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 07:36 AM (RKVpM)

131 It's my 2nd car that was a piece of work
83, maybe 4 Chevette hatchback, eh it worked as a rolling tool box

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 07:37 AM (fwDg9)

132 And time for 🥞 topped with 🍓

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 07:38 AM (fwDg9)

133 The Week In Pictures is sporting one of JJ Sefton's photoshops today! Let the royalty flow commence!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2024 07:38 AM (XM6on)

134 You can purchase a 1-2 ton killing machine just by going to a shop, forking out your money and driving out with your purchase, no questions asked, no background checks. Sometimes you can even get a loan.
So, buying a firearm should be as easy as buying a vehicle as noted above. Let's keep striving to get all those thousands of petty gun laws rescinded.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #02 at July 13, 2024 07:38 AM (qfLjt)

135 Horse and bulldog are friends:

https://tinyurl.com/mtam2zxr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 07:38 AM (bevB2)

136 Blue Bird bus company got an 80 million dollar grant to make electric school buses. If they were viable, they would not need taxpayer money to build them. The sponsors of the grant? The two Dem senators the GA GOP gave the seats to in 2020.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

137 Morning peeps

It's going to be another hot and humid one here in Bourbon Country. I should consider mowing some of the lawn too. But I need some coffee and go look for a missing cat... I don't think that's going to end well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2024 07:41 AM (Q4IgG)

138 1st car was a 72 Mustang, and have no reason why I still shouldn't have had it today

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 07:41 AM (fwDg9)

139
So the person who pulled the trigger is free to go
and the person who did not pull the trigger is in jail

sure, why not

Posted by: Don Black at July 13, 2024 07:42 AM (/7KEl)

140 1st car was a 72 Mustang, and have no reason why I still shouldn't have had it today

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 07:41 AM (fwDg9)

I had a Mustang convertible. I gave it up because I couldn't drive it in the snow. Bad choice for Wisconsin.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 13, 2024 07:43 AM (SfhV1)

141
Because Centerpoint has not yet restored my power. I'm seriously not enjoying this at all.

Posted by: Dang It All at July 13, 2024 07:26 AM

I guess you're using your cell phone? How are you keeping it charged?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 07:43 AM (RKVpM)

142 TP,

I had a 72 Vega hatchback under similar circumstances. When I would drive through a big puddle the car would rooster tail like the boats.

Posted by: pawn at July 13, 2024 07:47 AM (QB+5g)

143 Just h other day we saw a Pinto Wagon going up the interstate.

Looked to be in excellent condition.
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VIA, I still remember this Pinto from a Mecum auction several years ago, amongst all the Bugattis and McLarens, this stood out to me:

https://tinyurl.com/h55brzyh

Sold for $33,000

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 13, 2024 07:48 AM (iZbyp)

144 I had a 72 Vega hatchback under similar circumstances. When I would drive through a big puddle the car would rooster tail like the boats.
Posted by: pawn

Not exactly a babe-mobile.

Amirite?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2024 07:48 AM (WXNFJ)

145 No new law to stop illegals from voting must mean illegals can vote now doesn't it?

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As I said yesterday, that is the signal they will receive from it. It's a Wink and a Nod coming directly from the treasonous Democrats.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2024 07:48 AM (mupln)

146 Mornin' Horde. My cousin is picking up Mom today for an outing, if I can get her up and ready by 10. Then I have a free day. What to do???

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 13, 2024 07:49 AM (iZbyp)

147 Meta has dropped the special restrictions it had placed on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts. (The Verge)

You can enjoy the screaming in the comments there, if you like.

I don't read lefty comments usually so these were fun to peruse. Amazing how bad TDS is in the Lefty-sphere. Then there are those worried about Trump hanging his enemies - really trying to say that they are important enough while in their Mom's basement, to actually be on a Trump reprisal list - they wish!

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #03 at July 13, 2024 07:49 AM (qfLjt)

148 First car was a '66 VW Square back station wagon. Top speed was about 50 mph. Had to have it because it had an FM radio. $200

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 13, 2024 07:51 AM (1FWWQ)

149 133 The Week In Pictures is sporting one of JJ Sefton's photoshops today! Let the royalty flow commence!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2024 07:38 AM (XM6on)
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Link?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #04 at July 13, 2024 07:53 AM (qfLjt)

150 First guy I went on a date with had an orange VW Rabbit. I wasn't old enough to drive yet, and it was wheels, so it was cool.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 13, 2024 07:54 AM (iZbyp)

151 Week In Pictures link with JJS spice included

Also sporting Miss Israel 2021 and her rifle

https://shorturl.at/FOJQl

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2024 07:56 AM (Er4RC)

152 72 Vega was not a babe mobile.

It had it's own collection of peculiarities the most significant one was it would diesel like crazy when you shut off the engine.

The thing was embarrassing. As I am walking away it would do t's little song and dance:

Chunka boom, chunka boom....chunka boom...............chunka, chunka boom............boom................wheeeeeeeeeze!!!

Posted by: pawn at July 13, 2024 07:56 AM (QB+5g)

153 I'll just leave this here:

"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The city of Asheville's purchase of five electric buses in 2018 has turned into a multi-million-dollar loss. The buses have been broken or unable to run because of software and/or mechanical issues, making them an expensive and disappointing purchase, according to city maintenance and transportation staff....

Each of the buses cost the city $616,796-plus. Morriss said additional costs included more than $200,000 for the infrastructure for each charger, $118,000 annually for the contract to lease batteries for the buses and $45,481 for annual electric charges."

https://tinyurl.com/ysfq8ook

And remember, this is a city that WANTS this junk and to ultimately have it succeed. This isn't some reluctant red area that is forced into it because of ties to federal money.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women are more likely to accidentally kill themselves than be killed by a man at July 13, 2024 07:56 AM (08Sk0)

154 The ONT just died shortly before 1AM. !
What happened?
I eventually went to sleep and didn't wake up till 5:40AM.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #05 at July 13, 2024 07:59 AM (qfLjt)

155 tinyurl.com/548xub4x
Powerline week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 08:00 AM (fwDg9)

156
Alberta Oil usually keeps the ONT rolling and I think he's taking a trip somewhere for the next few days.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 08:00 AM (RKVpM)

157 Gary Varvel conservative political cartoon:

https://tinyurl.com/mrsps5rf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2024 08:01 AM (Zy6LG)

158 See #136 Robbie. Maybe they can get a grant.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

159 @125, LOL, if only!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 13, 2024 08:03 AM (MKEsG)

160 Robbie. Maybe they can get a grant.
Posted by: fd

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I recently heard someone make a great point about all of this stupidity.

Who does this help?

The answer is, of course, no one. This Global Warming stuff doesn't help a single person. The closest there is to an answer is that people who already have jobs will possibly be able to get other jobs in Global Warming related fields, but more than likely not. Plus they've already got jobs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women are more likely to accidentally kill themselves than be killed by a man at July 13, 2024 08:05 AM (08Sk0)

161 Censoring righty news outlets has given way to stopping advertisers from paying them money, probably including Ace. It is literally a conspiracy of lefty creeps, and was exposed this past week. Here is Professor Jacobson in the Post:

https://shorturl.at/L3IvV

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2024 08:05 AM (ZePNB)

162 "amongst all the Bugattis and McLarens, this stood out to me: "

Very nice example.

Bur, I'm not paying that price for it.

I had the Vega Panel Truck for about a year.

Even came with the standard warped head and blown head gasket from overheating.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 08:06 AM (a1415)

163 which photoshop was JJ's

Posted by: Don Black at July 13, 2024 08:09 AM (/7KEl)

164 Waddayouknow...

Mecum has their Florida auction today, I believe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 08:10 AM (a1415)

165 I am stuffed

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 08:11 AM (fwDg9)

166 Jill with baby Joey

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 08:11 AM (fwDg9)

167 "which photoshop was JJ's"

I believe it was Dr Jill holding baby Joe

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 08:11 AM (a1415)

168 oh yes
an instant classic, destined for the Permanent Display

Posted by: Don Black at July 13, 2024 08:13 AM (/7KEl)

169 155 tinyurl.com/548xub4x
Powerline week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 08:00 AM (fwDg9)
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I got in for a while but now throwing page/site errors. Has it been hacked?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #06 at July 13, 2024 08:15 AM (qfLjt)

170 Week in Pictures

Me studying French so I can refuse to speak it as opposed to just being unble to

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 08:15 AM (RIvkX)

171 Perfessor could use the book trap

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 08:17 AM (fwDg9)

172 Powerline is fine, sometimes I get a your not human or something

Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 08:18 AM (fwDg9)

173 > I got in for a while but now throwing page/site errors. Has it been hacked?
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It was fine a couple seconds ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2024 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

174 155 tinyurl.com/548xub4x
Powerline week in pictures

Posted by: Skip
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LOL at the librarian trap

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 13, 2024 08:20 AM (iZbyp)

175 Yes it is, Wolfus. We don't usually get *this hot* until end of July!

My lawn is... dead. Trees are wilting! I've been soaking favored plants for 2 weeks and praying they'll survive.
Posted by: JQ at July 13, 2024 06:25 AM (njWTi)

See? SEEEEEEE?!?!? You Climate Change deniers are being punished! You didn't listen. Called us names. Nyah!
*sticks out tongue*

Posted by: Final Cut Pro Editor at July 13, 2024 08:22 AM (iODuv)

176 ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The city of Asheville's purchase of five electric buses in 2018 has turned into a multi-million-dollar loss.
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Monorail!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

177 Off damn sock. Grrrr. Screwed that one up.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 13, 2024 08:24 AM (iODuv)

178
Powerline says my browser is not up to date. I don't wanna f with updating so I don't go there anymore.

Scolds annoy me. It's pictures, and some basic HTML. Anything more then that being required is shenanigans.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 08:24 AM (RKVpM)

179 AT&T data breach ..meh. The government, with all its guns and ethics as questionable than any hacker, already has free access to not just the metadata but the content of all our communications.

Posted by: Bigsmith at July 13, 2024 08:24 AM (myHUv)

180
AT&T data breach ..meh. The government, with all its guns and ethics as questionable than any hacker, already has free access to not just the metadata but the content of all our communications.

Posted by: Bigsmith at July 13, 2024 08:24 AM

I'm sure it's a massive database. Who has the skills to make it searchable? That's nation level effort, and I'm not saying China, but it's China.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2024 08:28 AM (RKVpM)

181 179 AT&T data breach ..meh. The government, with all its guns and ethics as questionable than any hacker, already has free access to not just the metadata but the content of all our communications.
Posted by: Bigsmith at July 13, 2024 08:24 AM (myHUv
I think we’re being set up for ‘bad things’ between now and November. All kinds of infrastructure fubars.

Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2024 08:28 AM (Nq2KV)

182 Some Experts proclaimed Atlanta as the second best city in the USA to live in. #1 is Honolulu. These Experts are defective.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

183 ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The city of Asheville's purchase of five electric buses in 2018 has turned into a multi-million-dollar loss.
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I'm so old I can remember when Asheville was a nice little mountain town.
Then the crazies took over.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 13, 2024 08:31 AM (Lo97M)

184 Coffee nood

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 13, 2024 08:32 AM (kOluj)

185 "Some Experts proclaimed Atlanta as the second best city in the USA to live in. #1 is Honolulu. These Experts are defective."

Depends on what their definition of 'Best' is.

But I can assure you, their definition is not the same as mine.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2024 08:33 AM (a1415)

186 I think we’re being set up for ‘bad things’ between now and November. All kinds of infrastructure fubars.
Posted by: Eromero

Yep.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 13, 2024 08:33 AM (1XRTb)

187 > I think we’re being set up for ‘bad things’ between now and November. All kinds of infrastructure fubars.
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My tinfoil hat theory is that the thousands of Chinese that infiltrated the country via the open border have a plan. It may already be in effect.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2024 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

188 - @181
I'm not counting out all those military aged jihadis and chinese that have co.e in entering the equation between now and Nov.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 13, 2024 08:33 AM (xZpzx)

189 #3 city best city to live in is Pittsburgh. San Francisco is #9. I wonder where the Experts live.

Posted by: fd at July 13, 2024 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

190 Foghorns have started up

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

191 Everyone in Pittsburgh is so darn nice, it freaked me out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

192 My tinfoil hat theory is that the thousands of Chinese that infiltrated the country via the open border have a plan. It may already be in effect.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2024 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)
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*dons propeller cap*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 13, 2024 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

193 122 115 It is humid out
Posted by: Skip at July 13, 2024 07:19 AM (fwDg9)

Here, it is also humid in.
Posted by: Dang It All at July 13, 2024 07:26 AM (F/oxI)

LOL; sorry, but funny

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 08:39 AM (64Zez)

194 129 I have ☕️ now
Posted by: Don Black at July 13, 2024 07:36 AM (/7KEl)

whew!

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 08:41 AM (64Zez)

195 That Powerline access problem = traced to Avast Antivirus that I have installed. It says it found
HTML:Script.inf (susp)
suspicious? Really?

May have to unistall it. It used to be that one got an option whether to load a suspect page anyway ..... I guess the Avast writers think we're to dumb to make our own decisions - we've been Bidened.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #06 at July 13, 2024 08:45 AM (qfLjt)

196 My other tinfoil hat theory is that antivirus software is actually malware/spyware. 👀

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2024 08:48 AM (Q4IgG)

197 To me, Avast crossed the threshold from nagware/scareware to malware when, some years ago, it popped up an ad window on my desktop that could not be closed without clicking their website link within. I immediately removed it from my computers and phone.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 13, 2024 08:53 AM (DTX3h)

198 I had analysis systems in my lab that used 8-inch floppies into the late 80's, when I left. Well after 3.5-inch floppies were wide spread, but things were still dominated by 5-inch floppies. I could see certain technical systems in war ships being built off an 8-inch storage system and lasting a long time. These things can be very expensive to upgrade.

Posted by: Fred4D at July 13, 2024 09:02 AM (y8M19)

199 teeing this up ...

Posted by: m at July 13, 2024 02:21 PM (64Zez)

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