Daily Tech News 16 July 2024

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The Sixth Circuit has issued an administrative stay on the FCC's latest Net Neutrality nonsense pending a decision on a permanent stay. (The Verge)

As I've been saying for at least a decade, the FCC doesn't have and cannot be permitted the authority to enact net neutrality without new legislation.

Fortunately the recent Chevron decision cut the FCC's legs out from under it in this regard, if it didn't amputate them entirely. Even The Verge admits that the FCC is likely to lose this one.

As usual, the comments over there are full of foaming illiterates, but there are only a few this time.

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The FBI has gained access to the would-be assassin's cell phone. (The Verge)

Unlikely that this will change anything, of course.

Best comment: Reddit is leaking.
Microsoft's CTO denies the obvious, that AI is facing exponential scaling costs. (Ars Technica)

He denies this in the face of exponential expenses in AI training. He's lying, badly.

Best comment: Always listen to the Chief Tulip Officer's advice about investing in tulips.
A look at AMD's Zen 5 microarchitecture. (AnandTech)

Zen 1 through Zen 4 had the same basic design, able to issue and retire four instructions per cycle. Zen 4 also introduced a 256-bit half-width version of Intel's AVX-512 vector processing. Intel's own consumer CPUs lack AVX-512 in any form.

With Zen 5 the issue width has been increased to eight instructions per cycle, and the AVX-512 unit is now a full 512 bits wide.

If your code is poised perfectly to take advantage of the improved hardware it could run twice as fast on Zen 5 as Zen 4, but that's unlikely.

The performance charts attached to this article show the 12 core 9900X running Handbrake video processing tasks 41% faster than Intel's 24 core 14900K, at half the power consumption.

Of course Intel will have new chips itself later this year, but those are expected to focus on fixing the power issues more than increasing performance.

These AMD chips are due to show up... Basically now.
Also on the AMD front, testing the graphics performance of the new Ryzen HX 370 laptop chip. (Tom's Hardware)

It's basically level with the desktop GTX 1070, laptop GTX 1650 Ti, or the Radeon RX 480. I used an RX 480 myself from 2017 to 2022, and it's a perfectly competent card. For integrated graphics performance it's amazing.

AMD has another, much more powerful laptop CPU in the wings, with at least twice the graphics performance. No word yet on when that one will ship.

Disclaimer: Enter the Carousel. Or don't. That's cool too. The age of thirty is in demand.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:10 AM

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1 First!

Posted by: Swodog at July 16, 2024 04:13 AM (i+Vg5)

2 Ace is back on twitter!

https://nitter.poast.org/AceofSpadesHQ

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 04:14 AM (64Zez)

3 Stayed up reading the ONT - y’all were busy tonight

Posted by: Swodog at July 16, 2024 04:14 AM (i+Vg5)

4 LOL I don't know what you call this kind of Japanese art; some kind of anime? PDT at the podium:

Be the American the Japanese think you are.

https://tinyurl.com/3eb2bw45

(@kangminjlee)

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 04:17 AM (64Zez)

5 Holy shit, now the Tom Jones thread is playing 'It's A Hang Up Baby' from his show, 1969, with his backup band being his musical guest... The Moody Blues! WTF!

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:18 AM (43xH1)

6 Evening and morning to all the far-flung outposts of the AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Tuesday, a bit better than Monday, no?

Did Trump give his "unity" speech last night, or is that to be held for the climax of the R convention?

(Hee, hee . . . he said "climax" . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:19 AM (omVj0)

7 (@kangminjlee)
Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 04:17 AM (64Zez)

That's hilarious

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 04:20 AM (BAEGB)

8 (@kangminjlee)
Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 04:17 AM (64Zez)

From the comments there...

"MAGAme"

Love it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 04:21 AM (BAEGB)

9 I downloaded the anime and sent it to The Kid, I'll see what she says about it. It's hilarious

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:21 AM (43xH1)

10 Holy shit, now the Tom Jones thread is playing 'It's A Hang Up Baby' from his show, 1969, with his backup band being his musical guest... The Moody Blues! WTF!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024

***
Fifty and more years later, we appreciate the music that, at the time, we thought was dull or "old" or (that classic term of the time) not "relevant."

They called James Brown "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," but Tom Jones gave him a run for his money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:22 AM (omVj0)

11 "As I've been saying for at least a decade"

So.

Pixy is also 29+

Posted by: Miklos so notes at July 16, 2024 04:22 AM (XIkHl)

12 The 2 verge articles on tech issues related to the Trump assassination attempt are informative and not brimming with Trump hate. Sadly refreshing. .

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2024 04:22 AM (lCppi)

13 Come to think of it, I seem to recall, hearing Tom Jones on my transistor radio at age ten or eleven, thinking that he was a black singer (like Lou Rawls later), until I saw him at last on TV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:23 AM (omVj0)

14
Looks as if Amazon is getting some bucks from me today. It's Prime Day. The battery powered self propelled lawn mower I want is $150.00 off. Let me do the math - .10 cents worth of electricity per cutting versus almost $3.75 worth of gasoline.

I may have to think about this some more.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 04:23 AM (RKVpM)

15 Along with Glenn Campbell, I've known plenty of Black women of a certain age absolutely in LOVE with Tom Jones. Not into the White Boys but they'd make exceptions for Glenn and Tom!

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:24 AM (43xH1)

16 The comments under the "Be the American the Japanese think you are" video are wonderful.

"Shinzo Abe was protecting him fr"
"Besto friendo"

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 04:24 AM (64Zez)

17 G'Day everyone
Another very hot one today

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 04:24 AM (fwDg9)

18 I love the ghost of Shinzo Abe meme too

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 04:24 AM (BAEGB)

19 I would never have looked at that anime(?) except for you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 04:25 AM (64Zez)

20 If Donald Trump wants the female Black vote he should strut onto stage playing Glenn Campbell and Tom Jones.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:26 AM (43xH1)

21 They called James Brown "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," but Tom Jones gave him a run for his money.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

I actually met and dealt with (!) Brother James, Soul Brother Number One.

But the easiest date I ever got was when Tom Jones came to town, and I had tickets. As many girls as I had tickets.

Posted by: Miklos Englebert Humperdicnck, a B-grade Tom Jones at July 16, 2024 04:26 AM (XIkHl)

22 I may have to think about this some more.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 04:23 AM (RKVpM)

I just bought some goofy ass ZTR mower with a big ass motorcycle engine on it for asking price.... pretty much the sum total of my market research was basically "ooooh, this one is black!", because apparently I'm a child.

Now I'm realizing i can't drive the thing worth a crap and I'm going to need some practice....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 04:27 AM (BAEGB)

23 15 Along with Glenn Campbell, I've known plenty of Black women of a certain age absolutely in LOVE with Tom Jones. Not into the White Boys but they'd make exceptions for Glenn and Tom!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024

***
Ah, for the days when artists tried to look their *best* on stage, instead of as if they just finished changing the oil in their cars. One of the reasons I liked country music in the '80s and '90s. Faith Hill and Martina McBride always dressed well and looked great instead of spraying their hair weird colors and wearing scruffy T-shirts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:28 AM (omVj0)

24 G'Day everyone
Another very hot one today
Posted by: Skip

We love it

Posted by: the blueberries at July 16, 2024 04:30 AM (XIkHl)

25 I am too young to have seen the Tom Jones Show, so only know him from oldies stations and his later appearances, when he mostly just sways from side to side because he's, you know, old. But these 1960s Ed Sullivan performances, dude, that guy could shake it with the best of them.
Give Elvis a true run for his money, with a better voice and personality.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:31 AM (43xH1)

26 I may have to think about this some more.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

YU BUY NOAW!!!!

Posted by: dopamine at July 16, 2024 04:33 AM (XIkHl)

27 I think one of the reasons the Carpenters were such a big hit in 1970 and later was that they did not look dirty and unkempt. Yes, part of it was great melodies and lyrics -- a romantic sound rather than screeching guitars -- and Karen's incredible voice, but they were attractive and looked their best on stage.

Hard to beat "We've Only Just Begun" and "Yesterday Once More," and Karen's soaring vocals on "Superstar."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:33 AM (omVj0)

28 Now its Tom Jones with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 'Long Time Gone'!
I've NEVER seen any of this.
Honestly he makes the band look like fools.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:33 AM (43xH1)

29 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 16, 2024 04:34 AM (hoCmQ)

30 Neil Young looks like a constipated muppet.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:34 AM (43xH1)

31 True confession/Hot Take time:

I've never liked Elvis. I don't "get" Elvis. It's not so much that i think he's terrible, i just don't get why he was ever such a big deal.

It's like finding out that Herman's Hermits to this day have a rabid following and still sell out stadiums without even trying...

(Which apparently is true, by the way).

I'm like... cool, but.... why?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 04:34 AM (BAEGB)

32 Stay cool, Skip!

We get another week of 100+ temps. Had a week of that crap already fer cryin' out loud...

I. Hate. Summer.

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 04:35 AM (njWTi)

33 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: olddog

No pronouns

accepted

For now

Posted by: Your linguistic betters at July 16, 2024 04:35 AM (XIkHl)

34 Steven Stills seems to realize he's being wholly upstaged and is getting desperate, screaming into his mic.
It's hilarious.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:35 AM (43xH1)

35 I shared a house with a black woman for a couple years. She was a MAJ in the Army reserve, had a bit of a twang, drove a pickup, and listened to country. She was cool.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 16, 2024 04:35 AM (KAi1n)

36 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2024 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

37 Give Elvis a true run for his money, with a better voice and personality.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024

***
Elvis had that "dangerous," "bad-boy" edge to his looks. Those were given the lie by his Southern-boy politeness ("Yes, ma'am"), but his musical performances, and the best of his movie portrayals, gave your this feeling that you didn't want to mess with this guy. Which appealed to women, and made men want to be like him.

It's hard to dislike the movie King Creole. It had a solid storyline, the songs were kept to his performances in clubs in the story instead of singing on a beach or in the street, and you got the fringe benefits of a young Carolyn Jones and (in his villain phase) Walter Matthau.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:37 AM (omVj0)

38 Haha!
Now it's Tom singing a duet with Dusty Springfield acting like he knows perfectly well she's a dyke

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:38 AM (43xH1)

39 Be the American the Japanese think you are.
........,......

LoL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2024 04:39 AM (sAmhv)

40
I just bought some goofy ass ZTR mower with a big ass motorcycle engine on it for asking price.... pretty much the sum total of my market research was basically "ooooh, this one is black!", because apparently I'm a child.

Now I'm realizing i can't drive the thing worth a crap and I'm going to need some practice....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 04:27 AM

I hope your lot is perfectly flat. At the speed those things can hit I think we're talking major kidney damage from all the bouncing around.

I'm trying to shed about five exceptionally stubborn pounds off my waist so the tractor stays in the garage until victory is achieved, or defeat is assured.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 04:39 AM (RKVpM)

41 Len - first time watching Tom Jones REACTION. Subscribe and Patreon.

Posted by: 13times at July 16, 2024 04:39 AM (ViFAb)

42 Pretty much have finished my morning pipe. No point in trying to light the dottle at the bottom of the bowl. I'll need to start preparing my lunch for work, then shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:39 AM (omVj0)

43 Elvis was... okay. Meh. Not my style.

I always thought he was overrated, before I'd even heard of the word "overrated" LOL.

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 04:39 AM (njWTi)

44 I hope your lot is perfectly flat. At the speed those things can hit I think we're talking major kidney damage from all the bouncing around.

I'm trying to shed about five exceptionally stubborn pounds off my waist so the tractor stays in the garage until victory is achieved, or defeat is assured.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 04:39 AM (RKVpM)

The first thing i did was slide the bastarding thing down a hill and get it stuck in a ditch, and had to yank it out with my truck.

"Oh, so you basically can't point the nose down hill for any reason ever. Good to know. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 04:41 AM (BAEGB)

45
I've never liked Elvis. I don't "get" Elvis. It's not so much that i think he's terrible, i just don't get why he was ever such a big deal.

Every girl crazy ~~'bout a sharp dressed man~~ guy who shaves his legs. Not sure where I came across that info, maybe it was an interview with Colonel Parker. But yeah, earliest known metrosexual.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 04:43 AM (RKVpM)

46 I really liked Elvis as a little kid. Listened to him, Beach Boys, Eagles, and Beatles all the time
from the age of 5 to 10 or thereabouts. Beatles is the only one that really stuck long term though.

Posted by: I also like the Monkees a lot at July 16, 2024 04:44 AM (0GDr5)

47 Elvis was... okay. Meh. Not my style.

I always thought he was overrated, before I'd even heard of the word "overrated" LOL.
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024

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He wanted very much to be a dramatic actor. You get glimpses of real talent in some of his early movies, and if Col. Parker hadn't stuck him in those silly movie musicals, I wonder if he might have developed into something pretty strong.

Funny that his Chuck Berry-penned "Promised Land," one of his very best singles, gets played on country oldies stations, but I never hear it on Top 40 oldies stations. Even when he was older and heavier, and doing the drugs, he could still live-perform a fast number like "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" (later redone well by Travis Tritt; but Elvis was first).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 16, 2024 04:45 AM (omVj0)

48 Elvis is a nice slice of Americana.

Posted by: 13times at July 16, 2024 04:46 AM (ViFAb)

49 Comment from a Tom Jones YT video:
"A guy came into our local bar with a dead cat in a cage. He said it had died at the veterinarian's and he was bringing it into the bar to buy everyone a drink to toast his departed pet. He said it was a wake and he bought drinks for about an hour. Suddenly, his wife walked in and asked where the cat was. A bar buck had put the dead cat and it's cage outside since the owner thought it might start to stink. The man said it was outside in a cage. The wife went out, found that the cat was dead and walked back in and knocked the man off his bar stool. She left in his Cadillac. He picked himself up, dusted himself off and said: "She never has understood a wake". I got up and played "What's New Pussycat?" on the juke box."

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:47 AM (43xH1)

50 Elvis was a sergeant in an armor battalion.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 16, 2024 04:47 AM (KAi1n)

51 Burnout. That's it. Burnout.

Got sick and tired of Elvis, Beatles, Beach Boys... Anything "America's Top 40"...

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 04:47 AM (njWTi)

52 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 16, 2024 04:48 AM (dg+HA)

53
Elvis has been dead nearly half a century but I still remember the name 'Colonel Parker'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 04:48 AM (RKVpM)

54 A Good analysis by Gab founder https://news.gab.com/2024/07/there-is-no-unity-with-evil/

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2024 04:49 AM (lCppi)

55 Enough of that, reverting to type and playing Honey Bane, 'Violence Grows'.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:50 AM (43xH1)

56 When Elvis passed, we were visiting family out of state. Their neighbor girl came over to tell us about it-- omg, she was hysterical! She was *in love* with Elvis, and was totally distraught... it was so sad. Pitiful, even.

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 04:51 AM (njWTi)

57 A Good analysis by Gab founder https://news.gab.com/2024/07/there-is-no-unity-with-evil/
Posted by: LASue'

A feature of the Great Working Apathetic Blob is a horror of violence. Which is counterintuitive as trust me, their lives are often suffused with chaos and violence, mostly self-generated. But anybody dies or gets hurt, they're genuinely appalled and get all perturbed, usually expressing sentiments that 'something should have been done' or often something about 'fairness' or some asinine shit. So Trump getting shot and the murder of a father of two, is going to hit that demographic where they can actually feel something. They have to 'feel' as believe me, they don't do a lot of 'thinking'.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:55 AM (43xH1)

58
I wanted to run a PC flight simulator. I had no idea I had to become an "expert" on CPUs, GPUs, PSUs, RAM, VRAM, FPS, M.2's, Liquid Cooling, etc.

Cool to see Pixy knows all this stuff.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 04:55 AM (aSsHC)

59 One day, with Ai, we'll be able to get Elvis fronting Black Sabbath. "Finished with my hound dog cause he couldn't help me catch a hare. I tell you to enjoy life. I wish i could but you ain't no friend of mine."

Posted by: SFGoth at July 16, 2024 04:57 AM (KAi1n)

60 Oh, to people doubting the shooter guy had no social media presence, that's becoming more common with younger people. The Kid doesn't have ANY social media, never has, it's all chat rooms.
Social media is for geriatrics, for their parents to show dumb pictures, and to buy shit on Marketplace. When it's reported the guy had no social media site presence I believe it.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 04:57 AM (43xH1)

61
Re: Ace's twitter feed

That Babylon Bee tweet is hilarious!
Crybaby bitch adam kimzinger is one of the women in the pics.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:00 AM (aSsHC)

62 I think (optimistically and without evidence) that a lot of the support amongst the masses for all the evil policies of the Uniparty comes from perverted and misdirected good intentions. I'd go so far as to say that this particular dynamic is the sole pillar of actual tangible power that has brought this damnable, amorphous miasma of a junta into being.

If this charm offensive can somehow serve to crumble that pillar, by rattling enough people to reconsider that just because a policy sounds nice on its surface ("who does it hurt? Why do you want to control people?" Etc.) doesn't mean it isn't evil and does far reaching damage to life, liberty, and happiness....

A push for Unity is actually a push for Division. Divide the evil junta from their mush-headed reflex-action lo-fo supporters.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 05:01 AM (BAEGB)

63 I have 0 trust in the Eff Bee Eye
That cell phone might as well been dumped in the Potomac River for all the information we will see from it

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 05:02 AM (fwDg9)

64
The Kid doesn't have ANY social media, never has, it's all chat rooms.
Posted by: LenNeal

Interesting. Which begs the question: Who else is in these chat rooms with all these lonely, desperate, ignorant 20 year olds? Makes it easy for them to be groomed and radicalized...to maybe shoot Republicans someday.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:04 AM (aSsHC)

65
When it's reported the guy had no social media site presence I believe it.

JUST IN: TMZ has obtained footage of Thomas Matthew Crooks claiming he had a 10-inch penis.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 05:04 AM (RKVpM)

66 I believe Tom Jones had a part in 'Mars Attack' with the ack, ack, ack interrupting his music in Vegas, funny as hell along with the rest of the movie. And the actor who played the general was just like Colin Powell, a real/fake general.

Posted by: Colin at July 16, 2024 05:05 AM (/z/eU)

67 I think (optimistically and without evidence) that a lot of the support amongst the masses for all the evil policies of the Uniparty comes from perverted and misdirected good intentions.'

By my workplace there is a guy who has been set up for several years now with a cardboard sign, 'Need Help God Bless You' crap and people constantly impede me while I'm escaping from work GIVING THIS FOOL MONEY. The gullibility and stupidity of 'compassionate' people never ceases to astonish me.
I never get used to it.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:05 AM (43xH1)

68 JUST IN: TMZ has obtained footage of Thomas Matthew Crooks claiming he had a 10-inch penis.
------

Lovely. Did his d**k have as many zits as his face?

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 05:06 AM (njWTi)

69 Interesting. Which begs the question: Who else is in these chat rooms with all these lonely, desperate, ignorant 20 year olds? Makes it easy for them to be groomed and radicalized...to maybe shoot Republicans someday.
Posted by: Soothsayer's'

The answer is, "You do not know." There is almost no way to determine who is real and who isn't. It's literally a virtual existence and anybody can be anybody.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:07 AM (43xH1)

70 I am not the only one
https://thefederalist.com/any assassination investigation that includes merrick garland or chris wray is a coverup

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 05:07 AM (fwDg9)

71 One more warm week in the Hotdirondacks, now the squeakers are getting vocal, the first few moans of intolerable heat are surfacing. We haven't had a prolonged stretch of hot and humid for some time, El Nino has had a good grip on us for a few years thus winters have been cold but little snow. This will change during the coming year.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 05:08 AM (hKoQL)

72
Trump Indicted For Inciting Assassination Attempt
-- Babylon Bee

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 05:08 AM (RKVpM)

73 It's literally a virtual existence and anybody can be anybody.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:07 AM (43xH1)

*looks down at own nic*

*looks left, right*

*backs out of the room slowly*

Posted by: Warai-otoko thought he would become one of those deaf-mutes... at July 16, 2024 05:08 AM (BAEGB)

74 Yesterday at American Thinker there was a article on the shooters social media
This kind of crap gets scrubbed real quick so never bet there isn't something out there.

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 05:09 AM (fwDg9)

75 The Kid originally got online playing a multi-player game as a child. I was horrified by the lack of accountability as to who any of these people were, that my child considered friends but who may, or may not, even exist! Or if they did, weren't kids like herself... IYKWIM.
As it turned out, she has real-life lifelong friends from that one game, but I remain very skeptical of any of that stuff, there is absolutely *no way* to know for sure who you're dealing with.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:10 AM (43xH1)

76
It's literally a virtual existence and anybody can be anybody.
Posted by: LenNeal

Just like AOL in the 90's!

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:11 AM (aSsHC)

77 Just like AOL in the 90's!
Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:11 AM (aSsHC)

screeeeee kshhhhhhhh gbong gbong gbong.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 05:12 AM (BAEGB)

78
Years ago, here at the ol' HQ, we didn't have hashes. So we could be anybody and sock each other. One day we were all "Ace." This was before the internet was really evil, so it was still harmless fun.

Once in a while, we'd have an occasional Democrat lefty troll socking a regular and say nasty things. Long story short, Pixy changed it so we'd have hashes.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:14 AM (aSsHC)

79
Someone dug up some social media with a person who I suspect the F B I will want to talk to.

This second individual made some comment two hours after the assassination attempt about not sending an Antifa pussy to do a job for the C I A. Words to that effect.

48 hour rule still applies. May be something, may be BS.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 05:14 AM (RKVpM)

80 Attractive youngish daughter and her nice looking father sing "Bridge over troubled water":

https://tinyurl.com/4pttysxh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 05:15 AM (n5Zdh)

81
We also used to have way more options for fonts, texts, colors, italics, underlines, bold, special characters.

But that was abused and would wreak havoc on the blog, causing glitches and fritzes. So Pixy took that away, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:16 AM (aSsHC)

82
Long story short, Pixy changed it so we'd have hashes.

I've read it was Maet who was behind the hash introduction. Don't see him much anymore.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 05:16 AM (RKVpM)

83 G'morning, all!

Joe....being Joe.

https://tinyurl.com/yf7n5kyj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2024 05:16 AM (a1415)

84
Pixy runs the munu's sites. Pixy makes all the changes.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:17 AM (aSsHC)

85 I remember when we could post hyperlinks & have fancy colorful fonts...

It all ended with that Infamous Memorial Day Thread.

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 05:18 AM (njWTi)

86 Joe....being Joe.

https://tinyurl.com/yf7n5kyj
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2024 05:16 AM (a1415)

Ha!

Dumb fuck. Bags of hammers get annoyed that this guy can't keep up with them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 05:18 AM (BAEGB)

87 I would love to see Long Cat one more time

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 05:19 AM (fwDg9)

88 Heart shaped rocks, psalm 33 and God's love. An "Upper Room" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/ycyf5za8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 05:19 AM (n5Zdh)

89 Monty posted cute kittehs, to ease the DOOM

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 05:20 AM (njWTi)

90 I was out for coffee with The Kid a while back and she point blank told me she has multiple identities in various locations all over the Web in various 'rooms, and cheerfully told me she has some she uses on 4chan and others on Kiwi Farms solely to, as she put it, 'stir shit up and see what happens!'

She pleasantly informed me that one of them, hidden behind a VPN, is solely for cyber-bullying semi-celebrities she doesn't like. I admit to being appalled, and told her so, but since I kind of think anybody taking a virtual world that seriously kind of deserves what they get... as long as she doesn't incite somebody to an assassination or some shit. It's a whole different world from anything I recognize as 'reality' so what do I know.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:21 AM (43xH1)

91 Went on AOL back in the early days (VERY early, V2.

ait was much different, more relaxed and definitely more fun.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 05:21 AM (hKoQL)

92
I remember when we could post images, which is why you get an underscore now when the lower case letters IMG appear.

I posted a picture of Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama holding hands and some people took offense. Well it was offensive, intentionally.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 05:21 AM (RKVpM)

93 As I went to bed early last night, I didn't watch the evening part of the convention.

But I see that someone on the ONT mentioned an apparent lack of GirlBosses on PDT's USSS detail last night.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2024 05:23 AM (a1415)

94 Mostly I think my progeny has inherited some of the less positive aspects of both her parents.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:23 AM (43xH1)

95 Ace back on X. Dang. This might make me break my self-imposed no social media ban.

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2024 05:24 AM (lCppi)

96 Christian devotional "News worth celebrating" from a passage from 2nd Timothy and a reference to a great hymn of faith by Charles Wesley , "O, for a thousand tongues to sing"

https://tinyurl.com/59tuffxb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 05:26 AM (n5Zdh)

97 Heart shaped rocks, psalm 33 and God's love. An "Upper Room" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/ycyf5za8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 05:19 AM (n5Zdh)

Nice .

Posted by: LASue at July 16, 2024 05:27 AM (lCppi)

98 It is steamy out already
Stay cool if you can
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 05:27 AM (fwDg9)

99 100

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 05:28 AM (64Zez)

100 coulda shoulda woulda

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 05:28 AM (64Zez)

101 Speaking of social media, a serious pet peeve of my own is people endlessly engaging with trolls and crackpots in comments sections of sites. I do not understand that. It litters up the site and makes it impossible to read any comments that might even be interesting or even relevant.
I do it on occasion, I know, if it's something egregious that sets me off, but even when I'm doing it I realize inside I'm being played.
Mostly, don't like it? Ignore it. It's Best Practice.
Manhattan Contrarian, otherwise a really interesting blog, is horrible for this. Pedants arguing over Co2 percentages for dozens of comments, every post.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:28 AM (43xH1)

102 Ace back on X. Dang. This might make me break my self-imposed no social media ban.
Posted by: LASue'

I signed up for the first time for the parody Rabbi of Gaza, that one is hilarious

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:29 AM (43xH1)

103 This will change during the coming year.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 05:08 AM (hKoQL)

I hope so. I am south of you, and we haven't had a good snow in awhile.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2024 05:30 AM (A3700)

104
I think this is going to be one of those heavy acorn years. The last time was 2021, when my driveway was getting filled with falling little acorn-bombs.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:32 AM (aSsHC)

105 On the plus side, and it is Tech relevant: despite my progeny getting up to questionable activities online, if I want to know if something is hinky, I know who to ask.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:32 AM (43xH1)

106 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

Their flag is a big plus!

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:33 AM (43xH1)

107 Monty posted cute kittehs, to ease the DOOM

Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2024 05:20 AM (njWTi)

Monty was a pollyanna.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2024 05:33 AM (A3700)

108 Steam locomotive is restored and goes down the tracks for the first time in over 40 years:

https://tinyurl.com/3ywb2ex6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 05:36 AM (PwCOz)

109
is that deranged shithead charles johnson still on the internet?

little green footballs?

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:40 AM (aSsHC)

110 The contents of the shooter's phone will be shared just after the Nashville tranny's manifesto gets released.

Posted by: Wally at July 16, 2024 05:40 AM (9Uj9K)

111
I think we got a few people here who jumped the lgf ship. Some of them might still be around.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:41 AM (aSsHC)

112 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

It's beautiful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 05:42 AM (Zy6LG)

113 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

Their flag is a big plus!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:33 AM (43xH1)
-

That doesn't alp.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 05:43 AM (tnz8V)

114 I've just now read Ace's twitter feed back to July 1st so I guess he's not JUST back on twitter.

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 05:43 AM (64Zez)

115 103 CBD Gotta come North, CBD, if you need snow. I remember when we came up here house hunting looking at the ranch homes with soffits 4' deep, and thinking oh shit THAT isn't good.We settled on a really nice Ranch on a wide street, no sidewalks thus have lots of room to put the snow. This is a real issue downtown the buildings were put up so close there's just no room for more than a couple inches.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 05:44 AM (hKoQL)

116 I think we got a few people here who jumped the lgf ship. Some of them might still be around.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 05:41 AM (aSsHC)
-

I was a fan over 2 decades ago. Then, suddenly...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 05:44 AM (tnz8V)

117 Maybe twitter is ace's sandbox. Maybe he tries things out there and sees how they fly.

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 05:44 AM (64Zez)

118 Got banned from lgf, posted there for a couple years prior.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 05:47 AM (hKoQL)

119 I miss Carl in Jerusalem from lgf

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 05:47 AM (5MvGY)

120 I miss Carl in Jerusalem from lgf
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 05:47 AM (5MvGY)
-

I know who he is!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 05:48 AM (tnz8V)

121 80 Attractive youngish daughter and her nice looking father sing "Bridge over troubled water":

https://tinyurl.com/4pttysxh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 05:15 AM

That’s beautiful, Fen! A nice way to start the morning.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 16, 2024 05:49 AM (rbKZ6)

122 {83}Joe....being Joe.

https://tinyurl.com/yf7n5kyj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2024 05:16 AM (a1415)

Thanks for that.

Just once I'd love to see an interviewer tug on the thread of an obvious mistake Biden blurts out and keep tugging on it until he explodes in dementia anger on camera.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2024 05:49 AM (O7YUW)

123 119 You miss wicked pinto too, Ben Had? Got a real kick out of him.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 05:49 AM (hKoQL)

124 I was a fan over 2 decades ago. Then, suddenly...

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 05:44 AM (tnz8V)

I took a look a few weeks ago. It is a pathetic shell of a website. Very few comments...very few posts...mostly fluff to pump up the owner's ego.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2024 05:51 AM (A3700)

125 79 degrees already

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 05:51 AM (IWRzv)

126 "Chief Tulip Officer", LOL Pixy!

G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 16, 2024 05:52 AM (UWgy2)

127 I keep wanting Sundowner to go Capt Queeg in a news conference

Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2024 05:53 AM (IWRzv)

128 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

It's beautiful.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke'

I don't get it.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:53 AM (43xH1)

129 I think we got a few people here who jumped the lgf ship. Some of them might still be around.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge

Raises hand.

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 05:54 AM (oaGWv)

130 Came here from LGF lo those many years ago.

Same Nic even.

OK...time to head out for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2024 05:54 AM (a1415)

131 is that deranged shithead charles johnson still on the internet?

little green footballs?
Posted by: Soothsayer's'

I don't know, I used to enjoy his stuff immensely for a variety of reasons, but it seemed like he... maybe took the brown acid or something.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:55 AM (43xH1)

132 I think we got a few people here who jumped the lgf ship. Some of them might still be around.

waves

I had to leave in the dead of night and could only take my username. Ace took pity on me and let me buy my Formica membership at a discount. Been here ever since.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2024 05:56 AM (OPGS/)

133 I miss Carl in Jerusalem from lgf
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 05:47 AM (5MvGY)

I know who he is!
Posted by: Biden's Dog'

Great! Now can you give us directions on how to get to his house?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:57 AM (43xH1)

134 And popehat. Wow, he went off the boards.

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 05:58 AM (64Zez)

135 Maybe twitter is ace's sandbox. Maybe he tries things out there and sees how they fly.
Posted by: m'

I think you mean 'catbox' and 'flies'.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:58 AM (43xH1)

136 Great! Now can you give us directions on how to get to his house?
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:57 AM (43xH1)

Sail through Gibraltar and keep going. If you smell curry you've made a wrong turn somewhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 05:59 AM (BAEGB)

137 118 Got banned from lgf, posted there for a couple years prior.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 05:47 AM (hKoQL)

I got caught up in the great blanket ban that occurred when Charles went hard-left and didn't want any conservatives on his site anymore. This was years ago, I can't even remember what year it happened now.

When I'm reminded about this, I try my old credentials just to put an entry in the log that a suspended account tried to log in. I imagine Charles' eyelid twitching in response, and that makes me smile.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2024 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

138 Way Back When, it was suggested to me by... uh... 'professionals'... that it might be helpful for me to write about things and my experiences, so I had a blog (this was quite a while ago, decades), where I posted all kinds of insane stuff, all of it factual, because I didn't think anybody read blogs. I thought it was just me yelling at the sky. Then my ex put a stat counter on it.

I deleted that fucker within weeks. I was getting hits from all over the world, got up to thousands of views and I totally panicked and scrubbed the entire thing. I wish I would have downloaded it now, I'll never match the intensity.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:03 AM (43xH1)

139 Chuckles went off the rails when Obama was running for his first term. I bailed before I got banned and landed here at AoSHQ.

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:04 AM (oaGWv)

140 Great! Now can you give us directions on how to get to his house?
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:57 AM (43xH1)
-

Google Maps is going to drown most everyone here before they reach Carl's place.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 06:04 AM (tnz8V)

141 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:33 AM (43xH1)
-

Little did I know until now that it's not this:

https://tinyurl.com/2cuvjzd2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 06:06 AM (tnz8V)

142 Google Maps is going to drown most everyone here before they reach Carl's place.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 06:04 AM (tnz8V)

"In a thousand feet, turn starboard to heading seven-three"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 06:06 AM (BAEGB)

143 One day, with Ai, we'll be able to get Elvis fronting Black Sabbath. "Finished with my hound dog cause he couldn't help me catch a hare. I tell you to enjoy life. I wish i could but you ain't no friend of mine."
Posted by: SFGoth at July 16, 2024 04:57 AM (KAi1n)

Considering there's already an audio AI mix of Elvis singing "Baby Got Back," you're probably right.

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2024 06:07 AM (Q0kLU)

144 Ha! I thought the Switzerland link was going to be that crazy Pagan ceremony of the tunnel opening, that is absolutely one of my favorite Internet Moments.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:07 AM (43xH1)

145 When I first came here I was struck by the number of nics that I saw on lgf posting here.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 06:08 AM (hKoQL)

146 Google Maps is going to drown most everyone here before they reach Carl's place.
Posted by: Biden's Dog'

"There is no such place!"

Posted by: LenNeal checking IslamoMaps at July 16, 2024 06:09 AM (43xH1)

147 When I first came here I was struck by the number of nics that I saw on lgf posting here.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA

Charles used to link ace a lot so it was kind of natural for everyone to end up here.

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:10 AM (oaGWv)

148 Got lots of work, but I will say that, although I am grateful that Teh Donald's life was spared, though I am going to donate to his campaign and vote for him, and am happy to see him at the RNC, I refuse to get my hopes up and expect him to be allowed win the 'election.'

I have enough heartbreak in my life. I don't need more.

Anyway, there's my cynicism for the day. Will be back later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2024 06:11 AM (Q0kLU)

149 I never posted at LGF but used to read it quite a bit. The fake memo thing about W pulled me over there. After a while, it changed into gibbering lunacy. I never went back. I kind of miss Dave at Garfield Ridge. Dude was interesting. Probably still is.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2024 06:11 AM (sAmhv)

150 Charles used to link ace a lot so it was kind of natural for everyone to end up here.
Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:10 AM (oaGWv)

That's how i ended up here from NRO.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 06:11 AM (BAEGB)

151 Also according to Islamomaps, there's only one country, Caliphate...
I think my grade school geography was inadequate.

Posted by: LenNeal checking IslamoMaps at July 16, 2024 06:13 AM (43xH1)

152 {144} Ha! I thought the Switzerland link was going to be that crazy Pagan ceremony of the tunnel opening, ...

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:07 AM (43xH1)

Of course, I had to look up what you're referring to. Wow, that's ALL the way out there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2024 06:13 AM (O7YUW)

153 I came here from Michelle Malkin's Hot Air blog just out of curiosity, and never left.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 06:15 AM (hKoQL)

154 Wow, lgf comments section is... 'special':

"If Donald Trump doesn't want me equating him to the Beast / antichrist of Revelation 13:3**, he should stop wearing stupid ear bandages."

** "One of its heads seemed to have received a death blow, but its fatal wound[a] had been healed. In amazement the whole earth followed the beast.""

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:16 AM (43xH1)

155 154 Wow, lgf comments section is... 'special':

"If Donald Trump doesn't want me equating him to the Beast / antichrist of Revelation 13:3**, he should stop wearing stupid ear bandages."

** "One of its heads seemed to have received a death blow, but its fatal wound[a] had been healed. In amazement the whole earth followed the beast.""
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:16 AM (43xH1)

Yikes, that's worse that Democratic Underground!

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 06:17 AM (64Zez)

156 When Kimberly Cheatle packs up her desk today will she be using bankers boxes or flip-top plastic crates?

Posted by: I would like to know at July 16, 2024 06:18 AM (bP4g8)

157 This is a picture of the kind of one of the flowers in my garden/red gladiola. They are lovely:

https://tinyurl.com/4jx6a97e

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 06:18 AM (oXepm)

158 113 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

Their flag is a big plus!
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 05:33 AM (43xH1)
-

That doesn't alp.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 05:43 AM (tnz8V)

Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 06:19 AM (64Zez)

159
Who were the two mentally ill acolytes at LGF?

Tunita? Tunuta? and the other one?

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:19 AM (aSsHC)

160 I mean what kind of monster puts a bandage on a wound. Clearly the antichrist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 16, 2024 06:19 AM (BAEGB)

161 When Kimberly Cheatle packs up her desk today will she be using bankers boxes or flip-top plastic crates?
Posted by: I would like to know

So you think Cheetos Cheatle gets the boot today?

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:19 AM (oaGWv)

162 How to tell me you live in Madison without having to spell it out, from lgf:

"Wisconsin doesn’t do all mail but does make getting an absentee ballot really easy. I have mine requested and our drop off boxes are legal again now that the state courts are no longer tilted fascist."

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:19 AM (43xH1)

163 I'm sorry but a person is. a biblically illiterate dolt if they think Trump is the antichrist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 06:20 AM (oXepm)

164 113 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

Red pocket knives.

Posted by: With tweezers! at July 16, 2024 06:20 AM (bP4g8)

165 I mean what kind of monster puts a bandage on a wound. Clearly the antichrist.
Posted by: Warai-otoko'

Yeah, that's just CRAZY!
Everyone knows you need to piss on it.

Posted by: LenNeal consults the Aztecs at July 16, 2024 06:21 AM (43xH1)

166 164 113 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

Red pocket knives.
Posted by: With tweezers! at July 16, 2024 06:20 AM (bP4g

And corkscrews!

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 06:21 AM (64Zez)

167 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 16, 2024 06:22 AM (PzBTm)

168 Sooth, one of them was Kilgore trout.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 06:22 AM (5MvGY)

169 168 Sooth, one of them was Kilgore trout.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 06:22 AM (5MvGY)

Well done!

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 06:22 AM (64Zez)

170 So you think Cheetos Cheatle gets the boot today?

No. But in 7 months.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 16, 2024 06:23 AM (+H2BX)

171 Name one good thing about Switzerland.
Red pocket knives.
Posted by: With tweezers!'

Pop quiz, no corrections:
A) Corkscrew
B) Phillips head screwdriver
C) Both, but it's too big to fit in your pocket

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:23 AM (43xH1)

172 If Jack Smith has been determined by the court to be illegitimately appointed, how in the world can he appeal?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2024 06:23 AM (Cp1vk)

173 Sooth, one of them was Kilgore trout.
Posted by: Ben Had

That asshole. Yup.

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:23 AM (oaGWv)

174 Biden's Dog, I know who he is too.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 06:23 AM (5MvGY)

175
one of them was Kilgore trout.
Posted by: Ben Had

That's one! Maybe that's the "tuna" one I was thinking about. Trout. Tuna.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:24 AM (aSsHC)

176 Biden's Dog, I know who he is too.
Posted by: Ben Had'

Okay, can YOU tell us how to get to his house?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:24 AM (43xH1)

177 LenNeal, I can.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 06:26 AM (5MvGY)

178 163- that was not directed towards you W-O. I know you are being facetious. My impression is- and I generally skip over Talking points from Democratic Underground is that they use "Antichrist" to mean "horrible , no bad completely irredeemable Republican person ie. Trump, because why would a person actually believe in the AntiChrist if they didn't believe in Christ except as some great progressive teacher.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 06:26 AM (PwCOz)

179 I mean what kind of monster puts a bandage on a wound. Clearly the antichrist.
Posted by: Warai-otoko'

Yeah, that's just CRAZY!
Everyone knows you need to piss on it.
Posted by: LenNeal consults the Aztecs at July 16, 2024 06:21 AM (43xH1)

Whatever happened to "slap hot iron to it?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2024 06:26 AM (Q0kLU)

180 Does anyone use any of the AI image sites? What I'd like to do is take a drawing that I did, which is full face, and see if AI can generate a 3/4 or a profile view. Adobe's AI failed completely when I tried to do that, and if I can avoid redrawing the stupid thing I would prefer that.

I don't think AI can help, since it mostly seems to deal with photos, but thought I'd ask anyway.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2024 06:28 AM (rx/UX)

181 LenNeal, I can.
Posted by: Ben Had'

Don't bother, I'll get lost anyway.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:28 AM (43xH1)

182 "Who were the two mentally ill acolytes at LGF?"

Ice weasel and dark falcon come to mind.

Posted by: Outside of Life at July 16, 2024 06:29 AM (89Sog)

183 {179} Whatever happened to "slap hot iron to it?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2024 06:26 AM (Q0kLU)

"Walk it off, Jonesy."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 16, 2024 06:29 AM (O7YUW)

184 One of them was Sharmuta.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 06:29 AM (hKoQL)

185 Amnesty International does Adobe?

Posted by: Emily Litella adjacent at July 16, 2024 06:30 AM (bP4g8)

186 One of them was Sharmuta.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA

You guys have awesome memories.

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:30 AM (oaGWv)

187 We're those LGF acolytes real or all in cj's scrambled head.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2024 06:31 AM (sAmhv)

188 I lurked here for ages and never looked at the comments. Then I read that Breitbart barely read the content and went right to the comments. That was insulting to Ace for all his hard work, but at least I started to learn about First!, Nood, Ben Roethlisburger and crossbows v longbows.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 16, 2024 06:31 AM (Cp1vk)

189
One of them was Sharmuta.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA

That's the other one!
Sharmuta -- Tunita. I was close.

Tuna + Shamu the whale.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:32 AM (aSsHC)

190 I should check my Substack Democrats to see what they're up to, but I'm not sure I really want to. There is a certain glee at what is sure to be desperation and woe, but the viciousness is hard to take when they have no real reason to be scared of anything, at this point it's going to be truly surreal, unhinged, and screaming for violence.
I'm reluctant to even look.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:33 AM (43xH1)

191 I lurked here for ages and never looked at the comments. Then I read that Breitbart barely read the content and went right to the comments. That was insulting to Ace for all his hard work, but at least I started to learn about First!, Nood, Ben Roethlisburger and crossbows v longbows.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

How I miss Andrew Breitbart. What a force of nature he was.

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:33 AM (oaGWv)

192
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

(That's code for Pixy Misa. He'll know what it means.)

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:33 AM (aSsHC)

193 "We're those LGF acolytes real or all in cj's scrambled head."

I always got the impression that kilgore was a sock of jharles himself. He admitted that in his early days he ran 4-6 different connections into his site just to stir the pot.

He was an asshat from the beginning. IMO

Posted by: Outside of Life at July 16, 2024 06:34 AM (89Sog)

194 There is one Antichrist and many anti-christs.

Every democrat is an anti-christ. The whole Party is anti-christian.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at July 16, 2024 06:34 AM (+H2BX)

195 Does Presidentish have any campaign rallies this week?

Posted by: Hmmm? at July 16, 2024 06:34 AM (bP4g8)

196 192
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

(That's code for Pixy Misa. He'll know what it means.)
Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:33 AM (aSsHC)

https://www.lipsum.com/feed/html

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 06:35 AM (64Zez)

197
https://www.lipsum.com/feed/html
Posted by: m

You a member of the secret society, too?

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:36 AM (aSsHC)

198 Does Presidentish have any campaign rallies this week?

Don't know about this week but he is supposed to be in Nashville for a Bitcoin convention July 25 or 26 I think.

Posted by: Tuna at July 16, 2024 06:37 AM (oaGWv)

199 194-,Generally I agree with you but I think there are numerous people who had a D after their name who were never anti Christ. They are not the hard liner marxists, however,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2024 06:37 AM (/NPqS)

200 200

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 06:37 AM (64Zez)

201 Fen,

This gentleman is affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship:

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We do not oppose Trump because he is a Republican. We oppose the Republican candidate because he is a menace to society. We lament the capitulation of a once-great political party to the meanness and madness of Trumpism.

Every American who has not fallen under the cultic thrall of Trumpism has one job to do this year: Ensure Donald Trump never returns to any elected position anywhere. Trump is a clear and present danger to democracy itself. As I have previously written, Trump is an antichrist — the opposite of every virtue and value taught by Jesus Christ.

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Full article:

https://is.gd/YIyqL0

I have no doubt that if Biden stays in, he will be voting for him.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 16, 2024 06:37 AM (PiwSw)

202 Boudin is breakfast.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2024 06:38 AM (o2ZRX)

203 ☕️

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2024 06:38 AM (/7KEl)

204 I looked.

"Losing our last cat was hard but not as hard as seeing the Heritage Foundation Project 2025/ Clarence Thomas/Aileen Cannon gut punch to Democracy and the rule of law."

"We are not storming the beaches of Normandy and being slaughtered, we are fighting for our lives as sailors in the midst of Pearl Harbor, we are not the 101st airborne freezing in the winter Battle of the Bulge or my father flying daylight B 17 missions over Germany, all we are asked to do is vote"

"I could only imagine the Republican convention as a series of Nuremberg rallies"

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:39 AM (43xH1)

205 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2024 06:39 AM (gbOdA)

206 "Wisconsin doesn’t do all mail but does make getting an absentee ballot really easy. I have mine requested and our drop off boxes are legal again now that the state courts are no longer tilted fascist."
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Yeah, who needs a legislature when you have a local judge overruling laws he does not like?!

Some folks just hunger to have a tyrant lord over them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 16, 2024 06:40 AM (6NUdT)

207
"I could only imagine the Republican convention as a series of Nuremberg rallies"
Posted by: LenNeal

That's not unhinged, at all.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:41 AM (aSsHC)

208
Bizarre how they're all-in on this "save democracy" bullshit, pretending to each other that their all living in 1938.

Gaslighting us is one thing, but they're gaslighting Each Other. Insane.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:43 AM (aSsHC)

209 More:

"Let’s hope Democrats don’t wimp out and shy away from holding trump and the MAGA cult responsible for the current toxic and violence-prone atmosphere in the U.S.."

"As a volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, "all" of this could have been prevented if reasonable measures had been in place to protect ALL concerned...
"Our" side is trying to prevent tragedies and stop the ongoing uniquely American public health epidemic of gun violence."

"I, too, thought he could have staged this. It's disgusting that a supporter was killed but there's no doubt in my mind that trump would consider that a small price to pay on his road to victory."

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:43 AM (43xH1)

210 Among the many reasons Biden must step down for the sake of allowing someone else to defeat Trump and Trumpism, let us focus here on just one: Religious liberty.

Trump and Trumpism threaten not only democracy but the kind of religious liberty made possible only in a democracy. Trump’s evangelical supporters define religious liberty as something they alone are worthy of benefitting from — liberty for me but not for thee.

Mark Wingfield is a wingnut

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 16, 2024 06:44 AM (gbOdA)

211 For some reason I suddenly feel the urge to drink alcohol and lots of it.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:44 AM (43xH1)

212 This gentleman is affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship:

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We do not oppose Trump because he is a Republican. We oppose the Republican candidate because he is a menace to society. We lament the capitulation of a once-great political party to the meanness and madness of Trumpism.

Every American who has not fallen under the cultic thrall of Trumpism has one job to do this year: Ensure Donald Trump never returns to any elected position anywhere. Trump is a clear and present danger to democracy itself. As I have previously written, Trump is an antichrist — the opposite of every virtue and value taught by Jesus Christ.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

I walked away from the Presbyterian Church. I will have no problem walking away from the Baptist Church.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 16, 2024 06:47 AM (Wt5CP)

213 For some reason I suddenly feel the urge to drink alcohol and lots of it.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:44 AM (43xH1)
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"Hi(gh), Len!"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 06:47 AM (tnz8V)

214 Maybe it was a set-up, but President Trump was the one who was set up.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2024 06:47 AM (o2ZRX)

215
We have to hate the haters to stop hate!

We have to fight fascism...by acting like fascists!

We have to save democracy...by acting like a brutal banana republic.

Divisive people should be killed!

Right? Am I exaggerating? That's what they're doing.

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:47 AM (aSsHC)

216 Name one good thing about Switzerland.

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This might be my favorite thing posted here today.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 16, 2024 06:48 AM (LuU83)

217 Name another Lee Greenwood song

Posted by: Don Black at July 16, 2024 06:49 AM (/7KEl)

218 212 I walked away from the Presbyterian Church. I will have no problem walking away from the Baptist Church.
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 16, 2024 06:47 AM (Wt5CP)

Crap. The Presbyterians got Woke Poisoned as well? Wife and I have been thinking about finding a church and we keep running into this problem.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2024 06:49 AM (lXoJ5)

219
Name one good thing about Switzerland.

"The cuckoo clock."

Anyone know the movie?

Posted by: Soothsayer's mostly accurate musical history knowledge at July 16, 2024 06:49 AM (aSsHC)

220 "As a volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, "all" of this could have been prevented if reasonable measures had been in place to protect ALL concerned...
"Our" side is trying to prevent tragedies and stop the ongoing uniquely American public health epidemic of gun violence."

Conservatives blame the individual.
Liberals blame an inanimate object.
That divide will never be closed.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 16, 2024 06:49 AM (Wt5CP)

221
When I first came here I was struck by the number of nics that I saw on lgf posting here.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 16, 2024 06:08 AM

I retired my nic from there. It was huge is all I'll say.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 16, 2024 06:49 AM (RKVpM)

222 A Dallas PD seargent posted on his Instagram 'Aim better'. Fired, thank heavens.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 06:50 AM (5MvGY)

223 Crap. The Presbyterians got Woke Poisoned as well? Wife and I have been thinking about finding a church and we keep running into this problem.
Posted by: NR Pax

They've been woke since '69.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 16, 2024 06:51 AM (Wt5CP)

224 I cannot recall what my LGF nic was.

OMG! I'm like Joe!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 16, 2024 06:51 AM (tnz8V)

225 Cuckoo Clock:

Off the top of my head, 'The Third Man'.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:51 AM (43xH1)

226 When I first came here I was struck by the number of nics that I saw on lgf posting here.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA

The great LGF purge.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 16, 2024 06:51 AM (Wt5CP)

227

Crap. The Presbyterians got Woke Poisoned as well? Wife and I have been thinking about finding a church and we keep running into this problem.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 16, 2024 06:49 AM (lXoJ5
Find a good Presbyterian PCA church.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2024 06:52 AM (o2ZRX)

228 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
...........................
Marxist Baptists?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2024 06:52 AM (sAmhv)

229 Bizarre how they're all-in on this "save democracy" bullshit, pretending to each other that their all living in 1938.

As I've said before, if they really believed their own bullshit, they would already be moving money overseas, making plans to liquidate their assets, making sure their passports are in order and already be scouting out 'safe' countries to emigrate to.

The fact that none of them are doing any of that tells you this is political cosplay. They're whiny brats pretending to be Hans and Sophie Scholl.

And boy, oh boy, do they hate, hate hate when you shove their hypocrisy back down their throats!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2024 06:52 AM (Q0kLU)

230 @219 The Third Man, I think.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2024 06:53 AM (rx/UX)

231 Mark Wingfield is a wingnut
........................
Yup.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2024 06:53 AM (sAmhv)

232 After Trump is elected WaPo et al will endlessly report on the brave resistance from federal agency embeds seeking to secretly undermine government and calling it patriotism

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 16, 2024 06:53 AM (TWOoZ)

233 Crap. The Presbyterians got Woke Poisoned as well? Wife and I have been thinking about finding a church and we keep running into this problem.
Posted by: NR Pax'

Tu smo, svi su dobrodošli!

Posted by: Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva at July 16, 2024 06:54 AM (43xH1)

234 "Fired", was he? Or just made to retire with pension and benefits.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 16, 2024 06:55 AM (8yWvW)

235
I walked away from the Presbyterian Church. I will have no problem walking away from the Baptist Church.
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No need to.

I'll just leave this here:

"The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has its origins in a meeting in Atlanta in 1990 of a group of theologically moderate churches within The Southern Baptist Convention disagreeing about the control of the direction of the convention by fundamentalists, as well as the opposition to the ordination of women.[3][4] The denomination was officially founded in 1991.[5]...By 2018, the Kentucky Baptist Convention within the Southern Baptist Convention proceeded with the excommunication of churches having a dual affiliation with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, due to a relaxation allowing hiring of non-executive LGBT staff"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 16, 2024 06:55 AM (LuU83)

236 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 16, 2024 06:55 AM (T7iTv)

237 Common Tater. Thankfully fired.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 06:56 AM (5MvGY)

238 Splitter!

Posted by: Baptist Marxists at July 16, 2024 06:56 AM (43xH1)

239 IIRC the Southern Baptists just had a big meeting in Indianapolis and reiterated "No, we're not tolerating any of this woke or gay nonsense."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 16, 2024 06:57 AM (LuU83)

240 When I first came here I was struck by the number of nics that I saw on lgf posting here.

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And Hotair decided they'd purge their commenters, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 16, 2024 06:57 AM (LuU83)

241 "If Jack Smith has been determined by the court to be illegitimately appointed, how in the world can he appeal?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly"

Whoever illegally appointed him will be punished appropriately too, right?

Posted by: fd at July 16, 2024 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

242 It's time to recognize that time is a thing that will change. From CNN:

"The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according to new research."

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

243 There's a nood

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at July 16, 2024 07:12 AM (LuU83)

244 209 More:

"Let’s hope Democrats don’t wimp out and shy away from holding trump and the MAGA cult responsible for the current toxic and violence-prone atmosphere in the U.S.."

"As a volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, "all" of this could have been prevented if reasonable measures had been in place to protect ALL concerned...
"Our" side is trying to prevent tragedies and stop the ongoing uniquely American public health epidemic of gun violence."

"I, too, thought he could have staged this. It's disgusting that a supporter was killed but there's no doubt in my mind that trump would consider that a small price to pay on his road to victory."
Posted by: LenNeal at July 16, 2024 06:43 AM (43xH1)

"No mas! No mas!"
(Nah, I can just skip them.)

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 07:13 AM (64Zez)

245 "Cuckoo Clock":

Eiger Sanction?

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 07:15 AM (64Zez)

246 222 A Dallas PD seargent posted on his Instagram 'Aim better'. Fired, thank heavens.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 16, 2024 06:50 AM (5MvGY)

Wow. And Dallas. Does he have any idea.

Posted by: m at July 16, 2024 07:18 AM (64Zez)

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