Daily Tech News 27 July 2024

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Journalistic Lysenkoism: What a Kamala Harris presidency would mean for science. (Scientific American)

Starvation, slavery, misery, and death. Possibly not in that order.
As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say.
The same type of experts caused millions of people to starve to death in the 20th century. Wikipedia:
Lysenko claimed that the concept of a gene was a "bourgeois invention", and he denied the presence of any "immortal substance of heredity" or "clearly defined species" ... Instead, he proposed a "Marxist genetics" postulating an unlimited possibility of transformation of living organisms through environmental changes in the spirit of Marxian dialectical transformation...
Sound familiar? Sound like what gets thrown up by the mainstream media every single day?

There's a reason for that.

Back to the article:
Health and science have been a part of Harris's life since an early age: her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who Harris cites as a major influence, was a leading breast-cancer researcher who died of cancer.
This is what led to Kamala atttending Stanford Medicine, passing near the top of her class, and becoming a star pharmaceutical researcher with a well-regarded blog spanning more than twenty years.

Oh wait, that's someone else.
As senator, Harris co-sponsored efforts to improve the diversity of the science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) workforce.
Nothing to improve science. Everything to improve "diversity".

Tech News

A federal judge just ruled that while the US CBP can search your bags and vehicle at the border for contraband and/or Nickelback CDs, it cannot search your electronic devices without probable cause and a warrant. (Reason)

That's a pretty strong ruling, and Reason also italicised the and there. A border officer might just claim probable cause post-facto, but it's a lot harder to claim a warrant where none exists.

This is the fourth such ruling in recent years, all pointing in the same direction, so this is likely headed to the Supreme Court soon.
There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th and 14th generation chips - any damage is permanent. (The Verge)

I mentioned this before, but this is a good summary and it's time to throw the poor Verge a bone for getting one right.

If you have one of these chips and it's not dead yet, it's probably a good idea to update the BIOS. Of course, updating your BIOS is not risk-free either, but in this case not updating your BIOS may be worse.

But if you have one of the bad chips suffering from via oxidation (the wires inside the silicon are called "vias" and in some of Intel's chips they are rusting), or if your chip has already started crashing, all you can do is hope it doesn't get worse.

In light of AMD delaying a major launch to run further tests on chips before they are sold to customers, what is Intel doing for chips that have already been sold?
Intel has not halted sales or clawed back any inventory. It will not do a recall, period. The company is not currently commenting on whether or how it might extend its warranty. It would not share estimates with The Verge of how many chips are likely to be irreversibly impacted, and it did not explain why it's continuing to sell these chips ahead of any fix.

Intel's not yet telling us how warranty replacements will work beyond trying customer support again if you've previously been rejected. It did not explain how it will contact customers with these chips to warn them about the issue.

But Intel does tell us it's "confident" that you don't need to worry about invisible degradation.
So we've got that going for us, which is nice.
Boeing's Starliner is still stuck at the ISS. (Ars Technica)

At some point you just gotta jump.
SpaceX meanwhile is back in operation after a recent failure with a second-stage booster. (Ars Technica)

The failure was as unspectacular as they come, just leaving a group of satellites in too low an orbit. SpaceX engineers identified the problem within hours - a redundant sense line cracked due to engine vibration and a loose clamp - and worked with the FAA to mitigate this in future launches and get approval to restart.

Successfully:
And by all measures, it performed. The first stage booster, B-1069, made its 17th flight into orbit before landing on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Then, a little more than an hour after liftoff, the rocket's second stage released its payload into a good orbit, from which the Starlink spacecraft will use their on-board thrusters to reach operational altitudes in the coming weeks.
Amazing what you can achieve if you don't hire communists.

Disclaimer: Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)

2 G'day Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2024 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

3 Boeing's Starliner is still stuck at the ISS. (Ars Technica)

At some point you just gotta jump.

might as well

Posted by: Miklos van Halen at July 27, 2024 04:07 AM (1CnH+)

4 Apparently only Pixy and Skip are not on vacation.

Posted by: Miklos is a Useless Eater, with hobbies of Wrecking and Hoarding at July 27, 2024 04:11 AM (1CnH+)

5 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2024 04:13 AM (oaGWv)

6 In the ONT there was a scholarly discussion about the differences between satire and parody.

I would like to expand this discussion to include the concepts of self-satire and self-parody citing Intel as the archetype model.

Discuss. Be nice: calling each other Hitler is not helpful even if it is a lot of fun. Polka videos can and should be used to illustrate a point. And as always, show your work, you know Hitler would.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 04:16 AM (WsTZq)

7
I read that article on the Starliner, quoting some NASA manager thusly:

The doghouse has a lot of insulation on it," Stich said. "It's designed to protect the thrusters from cold temperatures while we're docked. But I think we're now seeing an integrated effect that we maybe didn’t uncover on the ground during some of the early testing of Starliner, that if you command too many pulses on a thruster, and have those thrusters pointed at the Sun... we can have some crosstalk in the thermal (environment) and have the temperatures increase. So that’s where we see the thruster degradation.

Gene Kranz would've fired any asshole talking like that right on the spot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2024 04:21 AM (w6EFb)

8 As an AG, senator and vice-president, Kamala Harris co-sponsored legislation and led efforts to create mayhem and lawlessness that led to many STEM professionals being assaulted and in some cases killed!

Posted by: wferrin at July 27, 2024 04:21 AM (Vkgxu)

9 Discuss. Be nice: calling each other Hitler is not helpful even if it is a lot of fun. Polka videos can and should be used to illustrate a point. And as always, show your work, you know Hitler would.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 04:16 AM (WsTZq)

P.S. Don't mention the war.

P.P.S Jó reggelt, Miklos!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who isn't even awake at this hour at July 27, 2024 04:23 AM (PiwSw)

10 Trump seeing Skip at a rally...

Skip at a Trump rally:
There's Skip
Skip at a Trump rally:

Trump;

Everybody there's Skip

Everybody loves Skip

What a guy

We all love him
We all love Skip
What a guy

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 04:26 AM (AVyeO)

11 Gene Kranz would've fired any asshole talking like that right on the spot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I would have removed a black government-issued pen from my pen pocket protector and stabbed that fucker in the eye.

Posted by: #the real Gene Kranz at July 27, 2024 04:33 AM (1CnH+)

12 In the ONT there was a scholarly discussion about the differences between satire and parody.

I would like to expand this discussion to include the concepts of self-satire and self-parody citing Intel as the archetype model.

Discuss. Be nice: calling each other Hitler is not helpful even if it is a lot of fun. Polka videos can and should be used to illustrate a point. And as always, show your work, you know Hitler would.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

I hear goose stepping is great cardio

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 04:34 AM (elaR+)

13 Journalistic Lysenkoism: What a Kamala Harris presidency would mean for science. (Scientific American)

Starvation, slavery, misery, and death. Possibly not in that order.

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No camps?

It is finally dawning on me that combing Jacobinism, Marxism, and Lysenkoism is no way to run an aerospace company let alone a country.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 04:34 AM (WsTZq)

14
At the outset of her career, Kamala Harris' research on oral vacuums led to many explosive results. Her nickname, "Old Golf Ball Through a Garden Hose", reflected the satisfaction provided to her research supervisor over the duration of her extensive studies on the subject.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2024 04:34 AM (xG4kz)

15 P.P.S Jó reggelt, Miklos!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Viszont!

https://csopak.hu/turizmus/strand-webkamera

Posted by: Miklos wishes we all were there at July 27, 2024 04:36 AM (1CnH+)

16 As an AG, senator and vice-president, Kamala Harris co-sponsored legislation and led efforts to create mayhem and lawlessness that led to many STEM professionals being assaulted and in some cases killed!
Posted by: wferrin at July 27, 2024 04:21 AM (Vkgxu)

They were more likely than not white so no one gives a fuck.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 04:37 AM (AVyeO)

17
In re: Scientific American tongue bath of Harris

This is a perfect example of why that publication, along with nearly one half dozen other "scientific" publications, no lohn

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2024 04:43 AM (xG4kz)

18
... longer darken the portal of our mailbox.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2024 04:43 AM (xG4kz)

19 In re: Scientific American tongue bath of Harris

This is a perfect example of why that publication, along with nearly one half dozen other "scientific" publications, no lohn
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

"Scientific American" is neither.

Posted by: Miklos has Opinions at July 27, 2024 04:44 AM (1CnH+)

20 https://csopak.hu/turizmus/strand-webkamera

________________________

I don't see any oil wells. Where are the oil wells?

Posted by: Outside of Life at July 27, 2024 04:45 AM (89Sog)

21 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 04:47 AM (LyNt9)

22 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 04:49 AM (yKhjs)

23 I don't see any oil wells. Where are the oil wells?
Posted by: Outside of Life

Other side of the lake. Still produce a little (very little).

Posted by: Miklos is a veteran Trabant Pilot at July 27, 2024 04:50 AM (1CnH+)

24 As California's AG Kareem Harris put Draconian prison sentences on all the Brothers for being within sniffing distance of a blunt .

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 04:51 AM (AVyeO)

25 As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say.

Experts say: THEY DID THE MEME!!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 04:51 AM (yKhjs)

26 https://csopak.hu/turizmus/strand-webkamera
Posted by: Miklos wishes we all were there

Hungarians? Are we not supposed to look down on them and treat them with suspicion? Plus they all look skinny which explains the name of the country. Maybe we could help them out, as a test to see if they are suspicious, by sending them the leftovers from the Minnesota State Fair.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 04:51 AM (WsTZq)

27 Just checked. 12th gen Intel chip on my HP laptop.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 04:52 AM (LyNt9)

28 Levin the other night was summarizing a number of cases while Kamala was the SF AG. Short version: lots of lawsuits for paying "witness" to lie on the stand.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 04:53 AM (WsTZq)

29
Gene Kranz never said "failure is not an option" as memorialized in the Apollo 13 movie. What he did say, and what was his watch phrase was "tough and competent":

Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2024 04:56 AM (w6EFb)

30 Went to rally in Pa in Oct 2020, we got pretty close up front.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 04:58 AM (fwDg9)

31 Hungarians? Are we not supposed to look down on them and treat them with suspicion? Plus they all look skinny which explains the name of the country. Maybe we could help them out, as a test to see if they are suspicious, by sending them the leftovers from the Minnesota State Fair.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Look closely (or don't).

Hungarian for beer belly is sörhas

They exist, they do (for olders)

Younger Hungarians are generally more fit than the most youthful Walmart Associate, or even Kollidge student in the US of A.

Posted by: Miklos notes differences at July 27, 2024 04:58 AM (1CnH+)

32 I am coming around to the idea that the Democrats set in motion the plan to dump Biden months ago. I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory but we should have an open mind here that maybe, just maybe the Democrats are complete bastards.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 04:59 AM (WsTZq)

33
Note DEI is not compatible with Tough and Competent.

Steely-eyed missile men are tough and competent. When they fuck something up, they put their nose to the grindstone and figure out what they fucked up. They do not weasel around talking about "crosstalk in the thermal environment".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2024 04:59 AM (w6EFb)

34 These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Awesome

Posted by: Miklos and the kids should say at July 27, 2024 05:00 AM (1CnH+)

35 Steely-eyed missile men are tough and competent. When they fuck something up, they put their nose to the grindstone and figure out what they fucked up. They do not weasel around talking about "crosstalk in the thermal environment".
Posted by: publius, Rascally

I have just been listening to a podcast about the first Marine flyers based at Guadalcanal in 1942.

Sounds very similar.

Posted by: Miklos pays tribute just by knowing and remembering at July 27, 2024 05:02 AM (1CnH+)

36 Younger Hungarians are generally more fit than the most youthful Walmart Associate - Posted by: Miklos

That is very low bar to jump over. Sounds suspicious.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 05:04 AM (WsTZq)

37 So watching Bad Boys For Life
Typical brainless, dumb assed, action movie for mouth breathers.

Bad guys who can't shoot straight when it counts, people who believe stupid, improbable shit despite facts blatantly showing them to be false, body armor that only works when the script says it does, violation of the laws of physics and probability.

Yes I understand I supposed to suspend disbelief, but I can only do so to a point when it is set in something of the real world.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 05:05 AM (elaR+)

38 Thanks to the CHIPS Act, Intel chips are as efficient as the government.

Posted by: wferrin at July 27, 2024 05:06 AM (lCdHU)

39 That is very low bar to jump over. Sounds suspicious.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

Walmart turned down my proposal for a Team Building Limbo Event

Posted by: Miklos moved on at July 27, 2024 05:06 AM (1CnH+)

40 Hungry looks lovely unlike Romania which even the Romanians I have known think is a 4th world country.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 05:09 AM (WsTZq)

41 Hungry looks lovely unlike Romania which even the Romanians I have known think is a 4th world country.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

And hotscakes

Posted by: Eva Gabor at July 27, 2024 05:10 AM (1CnH+)

42 Ars Technica: Barbie movie “may have spurred interest in gynecology,” study finds

Who in the f**k would "study" something like that. What kind of retard would even think to "study" something like that. My opposition to the USA launching a nuke strike on itself and starting over is negotiable at this point.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 05:15 AM (WsTZq)

43 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 27, 2024 05:16 AM (dg+HA)

44 Some asshole came into the store with a fucking MONKEY. WTF is wrong with people, holy shit

Posted by: LenNeal at July 27, 2024 05:17 AM (NdL8w)

45 And I saw it coming, No, I did not ask if he had a Li-Sonce for his Minkey

Posted by: LenNeal at July 27, 2024 05:18 AM (NdL8w)

46 Since day 1 I knew Sundowner was temporarily, and never going to be able to run again. By all rights he if mentally tested would be living permanently in Wilmington but they won't force that issue. Remember at end of Trump's Presidency many Leftists wanted the cabinet to go this 25th Amendment, no one hardly even thinks to pull that on a man who barely functions part of the day.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 05:20 AM (fwDg9)

47 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2024 05:21 AM (a1415)

48 A fucking monkey?
Gross.
Is it too much to ask for a celibate monkey?

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 05:21 AM (elaR+)

49 You ever see a celibate monkey?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 27, 2024 05:26 AM (NdL8w)

50 My new birdbath got broke, so have old one that is Flex Sealed together up on pedestal

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

51 I was celibate. But not by choice.

Posted by: Curious George at July 27, 2024 05:29 AM (dg+HA)

52 You ever see a celibate monkey?
Posted by: LenNeal

Why are you watching monkeys?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 05:30 AM (IG4Id)

53 So. I hear you're looking for a new Secret Service Director...

Posted by: Barney Fife at July 27, 2024 05:32 AM (dg+HA)

54 G'mornin' everyone!

neither scientific nor American; this is so on-brand in the 21st century!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 27, 2024 05:33 AM (UWgy2)

55 Recently unearthed recordings show California gangs reeling under the assault from AG Harris.

The Crips and Bloods were recorded as part of a wide ranging investigation.

Here are excerpts:

Gang member #1 "That Ho be all cracking down on us yo.
Gang member #2 "Fo shizzle my nizzel that Ho be all up in our shizznit.
Gang member #3 "Ain't no white boy copper give us probs like this beotch
Gang member #4 "Tru dat. I think this Strong Black Woman is going to go a long way.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 05:36 AM (AVyeO)

56 Good morning, folks. Was hoping to sleep in a bit this morning but I guess that's not in the cards. No worries as there's plenty here in the tech thread to keep me busy. Thanks much, Pixy.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2024 05:38 AM (mH6SG)

57 https://youtu.be/CnVf1ZoCJSo?si=w0NdGJG9RYOYRzOQ

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 05:42 AM (yKhjs)

58 The Ho could be in the Oval Office any day, Sundowner could stroke out any day. If they go with her as the nomination it's possible Sundowner could step down, just thinking Jill is only one who wouldn't want that.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 05:49 AM (fwDg9)

59 Rabbi's daughter reflects on wisdom and humility and a passage from the Book of Proverbs:

https://tinyurl.com/5a7ad6bb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 05:50 AM (Bew+g)

60 Wow, Intel really screwed the pooch, eh?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2024 05:51 AM (mH6SG)

61 Christian woman from Estonia reflects on "faith without fear" and a passage from 1st John:

https://tinyurl.com/5dbd656z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 05:55 AM (Bew+g)

62 Good viewing chances last night and Monday night here tossed the ISS go over

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 05:56 AM (fwDg9)

63 I'm putting it at 51/49 Biden breathing air when the next inauguration takes place.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 05:58 AM (AVyeO)

64 Evening and morning to all the early risers and late Saturday toilers! It's Saturday morning -- and that means incredible, near-infinite possibilities!

Oh. Wait. That was my view at age eight. Well, we can modify that to read "exciting" possibilities, right? Right?

We'll start right after I feed the cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)

65 Swanning in to drop this non-sequitur:

You will never be the correct age. Older people will call you too young. Younger people will call you too old. People exactly your age will say "oh, i thought you were older/younger".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 06:02 AM (BAEGB)

66 Nice cat and human story:

https://tinyurl.com/yhv2x7a8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 06:02 AM (Bew+g)

67 Well i hope that at least the Capuchins are keeping it in their pants. They took vows, man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 06:04 AM (BAEGB)

68 Nice sarcasm. Too bad they're not going to read it too.

Posted by: torabora at July 27, 2024 06:06 AM (iUmfz)

69 STEM is to science as Death is to life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:08 AM (gbOdA)

70 I had a nice experience the other day. After feeling ban about something said to me on this site I went to do some shopping. There was an older lady there wearing a lovely purple tee shirt with pictures of butterflies on it. I told her that I loved her shirt and we got into a conversation about butterflies being a symbol of the resurrection and that reads reflections from "Our Daily Bread". We also shared a bit about her lives. She invited me to her apartment and I'm going to see her next week. That encounter was a blessing from God and I am grateful.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 06:08 AM (d5TUv)

71 Rogan seems to have gone all in on the psychedelics. Never having done it I'm trying not to be completely derisive.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 06:09 AM (AVyeO)

72 Here I am, up and sipping coffee. What's next?

I thought yesterday it might be nice to drive over to a coffee shop near the river, get an iced coffee to go, and sit on a bench in the little park in front of the courthouse nearby and enjoy a short pipe. But it's 80 already with a heat index of 87, and it'll be over 90 HI by 9 am. Somehow this fills me with mild but waning interest.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 06:12 AM (omVj0)

73 STEM is to science as Death is to life.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:08 AM (gbOdA)

People who want to study engineering or mathematics study engineering or mathematics.

They don't feel the need to be homogenized together, or have those fruits who study pure science pureed in with them.

And if you're majoring in "technology" we already know you're either a fucking dunce wasting your parent's money, or you're actually actually going to a real trade school to learn how to do a real thing in which case the political ivory tower bullying of "STEM" has nothing to do with you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 27, 2024 06:13 AM (BAEGB)

74 Climate Change is to science as...

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 06:15 AM (AVyeO)

75 Climate Change is to science as...

Spray paint is to Van Gogh

Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2024 06:17 AM (njWTi)

76 Out of coffee already

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 06:17 AM (fwDg9)

77 . . . After feeling ban about something said to me on this site I went to do some shopping. There was an older lady there wearing a lovely purple tee shirt with pictures of butterflies on it. I told her that I loved her shirt and we got into a conversation about butterflies being a symbol of the resurrection and that reads reflections from "Our Daily Bread". We also shared a bit about her lives. She invited me to her apartment and I'm going to see her next week. That encounter was a blessing from God and I am grateful.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024

***
That's good to hear, Fen. "When God closes a door, He opens a window."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 06:18 AM (omVj0)

78 Nice day today, upper 80s

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 06:18 AM (fwDg9)

79 The Covid Vax is to science as...

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 06:19 AM (AVyeO)

80 "The seals are probably fine" is not good enough for me to hop back in the Starliner capsule. Especially since it has also now been in space getting thermal cycled for 51 days.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2024 06:19 AM (d9LQi)

81 Good morning everyone.

The last year of my employment (IT JPMorganChase), I was burdened with a DEI hire. She didn't put in a full week the entire time I was there.

To be honest, they were happier to be rid of me than her. I wrote her up at every opportunity.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:22 AM (5Seyi)

82 Choices . . . breakfast first, or change into my house clothes? Somehow sitting around for a long time in pajamas and robe, since it's something I only do when I'm sick, give me the feeling that . . . I'm coming down sick. It makes no sense, but there it is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 06:22 AM (omVj0)

83 Out of coffee already
Posted by: Skip

Most frightening words have never been spoken.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:22 AM (5Seyi)

84 The Covid Vax is to science as...

Powdery mildew is to a rose bush

Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2024 06:26 AM (njWTi)

85 Packing the car up soon to head on down to HHI. Woke sil left in a huff on Thursday from the family 'vacation' here in OBX.

I tried out many phrases from AoS on her. Many struck deep.

Apparently, her 'go to' was: "Trump is a felon, Kumswalla was a prosecutor."

I think "Stop. You don't have to sell him. I'm already in!!" was the final straw.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:27 AM (5Seyi)

86 I just got my plane tag made out of the skin of a retired C-5 Galaxy. I didn't expect to get emotional over it. But I am a little emotional.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2024 06:28 AM (d9LQi)

87 Nice to "meet" you again, and on more understandable terms, Mr. Ray.

Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2024 06:28 AM (njWTi)

88 Never drank coffee in my entire life and times. Weird I know.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 06:29 AM (AVyeO)

89 Nice family singers sing a beautiful Christian hymn, " O, the deep deep love of Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/ym9py3mr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 06:29 AM (2AHwK)

90 sitting around for a long time in pajamas and robe

Some mornings it's just nice to kick back and say the heck with it. I ain't budging.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2024 06:29 AM (mH6SG)

91 I could make more coffee, just fished the small pot I made today

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 06:30 AM (fwDg9)

92 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 06:18 AM (omVj0)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2024 06:31 AM (2AHwK)

93 She was a prosecutor? Ok, let's discuss her record as a prosecutor and how she earned her positions.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2024 06:32 AM (d9LQi)

94 @86 - that is very cool, C A T !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 27, 2024 06:34 AM (UWgy2)

95 She was a prosecutor? Ok, let's discuss her record as a prosecutor and how she earned her positions.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Let's just stick to "record as a prosecutor" ok? I think we all know how she "earned her positions."

Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2024 06:34 AM (njWTi)

96 I hope biden hangs on past the election. Otherwise I would have to change all of my Trump merchandise to Trump 48.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2024 06:34 AM (d9LQi)

97 Verse for the Day:

"And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it."
— John 14:13-14

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:34 AM (5Seyi)

98 44 Some asshole came into the store with a fucking MONKEY. WTF is wrong with people, holy shit
Posted by: LenNeal

Don't talk about Pekora that way! She's very nice for a war criminal!

https://youtu.be/B5IYQ1xw_VQ

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2024 06:35 AM (BLOW1)

99 sitting around for a long time in pajamas and robe
*
Some mornings it's just nice to kick back and say the heck with it. I ain't budging.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2024

***
Which is a lot of what I do on Saturday and (sometimes) Sunday mornings. Sunday often includes a workout and trip to the grocery, so it's iffy, but at least on Saturday I can relax for a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 06:35 AM (omVj0)

100 Don Surber- Harris little bit of Black experience is her few years at Howard in a well connected sorority.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 06:35 AM (fwDg9)

101 Out.

G'night, horde!

Happy Caturday!

Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2024 06:36 AM (njWTi)

102 "STEM is to science as Death is to life."

Huh? STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

DEI is death.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 27, 2024 06:37 AM (+H2BX)

103 @sciam
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As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say

Blinded me with Scientism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:38 AM (gbOdA)

104 She was a prosecutor? Ok, let's discuss her record as a prosecutor and how she earned her positions.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2024 06:32 AM (d9LQi)

Whatevs JD Vance said cat ladies.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 06:39 AM (AVyeO)

105 I hope biden hangs on past the election. Otherwise I would have to change all of my Trump merchandise to Trump 48.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Same here.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 06:39 AM (LyNt9)

106 102 "STEM is to science as Death is to life."

Huh? STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

DEI is death.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 27, 2024 06:37 AM (+H2BX)

My point was the STEM is never used as STEM. It is used with moar women in STEM or moar Gays in STEM.
STEM is never about STEM.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:39 AM (gbOdA)

107 mornin yall

The Covid Vax is to science as the Justice system is to justice.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

108 @KamalaHarris
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Paper ballots are the smartest, safest way to ensure your vote is secure against attacks by foreign actors. Russia can’t hack a piece of paper like they can a computer. We introduced the Secure Elections Act to ensure our elections are safeguarded. We must be ready.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:40 AM (gbOdA)

109 LOL. STEM is where the real jobs are. Except for maybe Mathematics.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 27, 2024 06:40 AM (+H2BX)

110 107 mornin yall

The Covid Vax is to science as the Justice system is to justice.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

40 Justice officials officially endorse Kama.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:41 AM (gbOdA)

111 Whatevs JD Vance said cat ladies.
Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024

***
Gotta wonder if JDV has ever visited this site. Of course, nowadays "cat lady" is a common insult.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 06:42 AM (omVj0)

112 Rusting IC chips?

Intel you had one job.

Are any of these chips aboard the Boeing capsule?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2024 06:43 AM (1/gMt)

113 If you haven't heard; Cat Ladies is the newest moral equivalent to the N-word.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 06:43 AM (AVyeO)

114 Kama says ignore the terrorist crossing over.

https://x.com/MattWolking/status/
1816484231998054517

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:44 AM (gbOdA)

115 That piece about needing a warrant to examine electronic devices of border crossers brings to my mind the Gary Schteyngart novel "Super Sad True Love Story," set in a near future. It was published in 2010 and was quite prescient.

Everyone carries a little mobile device called an "apparat" that is what we call a phone. It's lens is called its "nozzle," and you can aim it at someone to determine that someone's "sex quotient."

In the book, when the heavies arrest you, they take your apparat and nozzle to nozzle, extract 100 percent of what is in it. No unlocking, no warrant, they have the keys.

Pretty entertaining book.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 27, 2024 06:44 AM (6LVI+)

116 That seems very fitting after those opening ceremonies that the Olympic flag was raised upside down.

Talk about having one job.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2024 06:45 AM (1/gMt)

117 At Twitchy: Biden Administration Pays Peter Strzok and Lisa Page TWO MILLION DOLLARS

UPDATE: POLITICO obtained Justice Department's settlements with ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok & Lisa Page over release of text messages Trump mocked. Total: $2 million ($1.2M/$800K) & rest of Strzok's suit, over his firing, continues.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 06:45 AM (LyNt9)

118 and nozzle to nozzle, extract 100 percent of what is in it.

Pronhub has thousands of videos showing that very thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:46 AM (5Seyi)

119
some Heinlein character said (paraphrased) "everything useful runs on mathematics"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 27, 2024 06:46 AM (UWgy2)

120 Returning home after a family get together. Had a good time after having to defeat CrowdStrike to get there. Granddaughter’s boyfriend started having allergy symptoms early on and then gdaughter started having them. Then her mom and brother. Lo and behold the many vaxxed actually have the Chinese lung rot. So far, knock wood the remaining 5 of us are fine. Of course 2 of the 5 are also multi vaxxed and have had it at least twice in two years. Mr nec and I are waiting to see if antibodies will win out.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2024 06:46 AM (RPmWU)

121
STEM is where the real jobs are. Except for maybe Mathematics.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 27, 2024 06:40 AM (+H2BX)

Maybe once, but the MBAs have said that industrial R&D is a money loser and to improve shareholder return we should ship those jobs off to India and China.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 06:46 AM (1Nxff)

122 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 06:46 AM (Q4IgG)

123 @112, good question, Anna; we'll never know.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 27, 2024 06:48 AM (UWgy2)

124 Pronhub has thousands of videos showing that very thing.

Unless you are like Kurt Eichmanwald, then its tentacle to tentacle.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2024 06:48 AM (1/gMt)

125 113 If you haven't heard; Cat Ladies is the newest moral equivalent to the N-word.

Posted by: Mr. Ray

How about bitter harpy? Is that ok?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2024 06:49 AM (sAmhv)

126 How about bitter harpy? Is that ok?
Posted by: Puddleglum

The judges were looking for 'pinched faced scold' but we'll allow it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:50 AM (5Seyi)

127 Would Fox "News" Radio really say "Josh Sha-pie-ro" because the other way sounds too Jewish? I say, most likely, yes.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

128 @121
where they just use their imagination while writing up test data sheets

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at July 27, 2024 06:50 AM (UWgy2)

129 Cat lady? Nyah?

Bitter harpy?

How about Horrible Harridan

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2024 06:50 AM (1/gMt)

130 One thing have tried never to do is count chickens before they hatch. I am still sure The Ho will move into the Oval Office before the year is out. Actually surprised it wasn't a year ago as said by rights it should have been.
The Deep State could have switched figure heads a year ago and not missed one step.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 06:51 AM (fwDg9)

131 Starliner will be coming home on a wing and a prayer, but mostly a prayer.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

132 Hate has no home here!!!

Posted by: Bitter Horrible Harridan Harpy at July 27, 2024 06:52 AM (mH6SG)

133 Hate has no home here!!!
Posted by: Bitter Horrible Harridan Harpy

'Except for folks on the right'

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:54 AM (5Seyi)

134 CSL

The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, but the bond remains mere Christianity. What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call "Christianity And." You know—Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity and the New Order, Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and Psychical Research, Christianity and Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:54 AM (gbOdA)

135 Josh has fought to move up to the Governor position for years, can't see him throwing that away for a slim shot at VP.
Maybe he stays in Governor seat until he does or doesn't move to Annapolis, I don't know.

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 06:54 AM (fwDg9)

136
Last week: rain
Today: rain
Tomorrow: rain
Monday: rain

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 06:54 AM (1Nxff)

137 If wearing a holster is part of your job, then to practice drawing with an empty guy 30 times a day for 30 days is not asking a lot.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2024 06:55 AM (lhenN)

138 That Hate has no home is pure protection
I have no hate but would put everyone I don't like into a Gulag

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 06:55 AM (fwDg9)

139 A local family says their son is not a criminal because he has mental health issues. He pulled out a gun and shot a Deputy John during a traffic stop, then drove away.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 06:55 AM (vFG9F)

140 > Starliner will be coming home on a wing and a prayer, but mostly a prayer.
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With or without the crew?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 06:57 AM (Q4IgG)

141 A local family says their son is not a criminal because he has mental health issues. He pulled out a gun and shot a Deputy John during a traffic stop, then drove away.
Posted by: fd

When I am elected your King, the test for incarceration will not be criminal/not criminal. Rather, is this person a menace to decent society? (What I define as decent society).

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 06:58 AM (5Seyi)

142 "It is time for this war to end in a way where Israel is secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity, and self-determination," Kamala said.

What did Palestinians have on Oct 6th Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 06:58 AM (gbOdA)

143 Good morning morons

No stars in Sonoma this morning, just fog

Might as well be in the city.

Race fans must know there is NHRA this weekend at Sonoma Raceway...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 06:58 AM (JvZF+)

144 Trump goes to ER, and narrator has heard that he has been "shot in the head".

https://youtu.be/IvT20ankXx4?si=4YR-7j4WPgg6zH_n

The chubby SS woman unable to holster-unholster was seen here too, on a video that has left me a little verklempt.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2024 06:58 AM (lhenN)

145 Not much 'tooning at the lake either.
Yesterday: rain
Today: rain
Tomorrow: rain

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2024 06:59 AM (LyNt9)

146 Would Fox "News" Radio really say "Josh Sha-pie-ro" because the other way sounds too Jewish? I say, most likely, yes.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

They might just be saying it wrong. Newsreaders are notorious for mangling names.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 07:00 AM (AVyeO)

147 They might just be saying it wrong. Newsreaders are notorious for mangling names.
Posted by: Mr. Ray

'Sum Ting Wong,' 'Wi Tu Lo,' 'Ho Lee Fuk,' and 'Bang Ding Ow'

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 07:01 AM (5Seyi)

148 https://tinyurl.com/yb4zwvsy
Powerline week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 07:02 AM (fwDg9)

149 In other news. Today is the anniversary of Robespierre's overthrow and the beginning of the end of the Reign of Terror.

Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2024 07:03 AM (oaGWv)

150 Remember how we were discussing the loss of proficiency in everything important?

And how SAC of old was absolutely brutal in maintaining their standards?

Yeh...this isn't your father's Air Force, anymore.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhhbmux

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2024 07:03 AM (a1415)

151 Did they ever tell us who was flying the plane, VIA?

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

152
"The seals are probably fine" is not good enough for me to hop back in the Starliner capsule.

In jeeping with Kamala's newfound knowledge about "science" and her having acquired idolatry status, we should now say, "The seals are not blown".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2024 07:08 AM (xG4kz)

153 149 In other news. Today is the anniversary of Robespierre's overthrow and the beginning of the end of the Reign of Terror.
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2024 07:03 AM (oaGWv)

Thanks to the Martyrs of Compiegne, whose feast was July 17.

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 07:10 AM (4lnL8)

154 > Remember how we were discussing the loss of proficiency in everything important?
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Including the building, maintenance and repair of complicated equipment vital to sustaining modern life. I've often said we're witnessing the collapse of civilization in real time.

Well, some degree of collapse...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 07:12 AM (Q4IgG)

155 "Did they ever tell us who was flying the plane, VIA?"

Some guy named Otto?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2024 07:13 AM (a1415)

156 Failure is probably not an option.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 07:13 AM (vFG9F)

157 Three trans-identified males were on the winner’s podium at a race in Washington last week, marking the first time men won first, second, and third place in a women’s race.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

158 Failure is probably not an option.
Posted by: fd

Failure is always an option.
-- Things Gene Kranz didn't say, but should have

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 07:15 AM (5Seyi)

159 One of the things Kamala was always on my back about was this pet outfit she loved in the ghetto called Positive Directions Equals Change. Look them up they are still around. She wanted me to bring them into my work while I knew them as grifters and street thugs and told her so. Well, she didn't like that too much.

"There it is!" she said. She knew I was a racist and that was her proof.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 07:17 AM (JvZF+)

160
I hope biden hangs on past the election. Otherwise I would have to change all of my Trump merchandise to Trump 48.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Then you'd best hope he hangs on until after the Inauguration. If he passes before then, Kammie becomes 47 irrespective of the election outcome.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 27, 2024 07:19 AM (xG4kz)

161 Even 1 day short would move Heels Up on the Oval Office desk

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 07:20 AM (fwDg9)

162 I think it's more likely than not that Harris serves out the remainder of *biden's term. Regardless of the actual election's outcome, she'll get the honor of first black, female president even if her term is only a couple months or weeks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 07:22 AM (Q4IgG)

163 Sundowner may have a %1 chance of going any day and 156 more times to roll those 2x 20 sided dice

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 07:23 AM (fwDg9)

164 ]i]Last week: rain
Today: rain
Tomorrow: rain
Monday: rain
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024

***
We've been getting more wet stuff this week than we did last. Only a 40% chance today, so I think I'll make sure to at least rinse off the car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 07:24 AM (omVj0)

165 We have lived in a long collapse. I often think of France in 1940 and how it came to them so quickly.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 07:26 AM (AVyeO)

166 >>> As senator, Harris co-sponsored efforts to improve the diversity of the science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) workforce.

IOW - DEI racism.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2024 07:26 AM (cOq4q)

167
Feminist Studies Prof: We need more women in STEM!

Normal, well-adjusted person: Why aren't you in STEM?

Feminist Studies Prof:

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 07:29 AM (1Nxff)

168 So I sez to the guy, I sez "Hey! Get yer own monkey!"

Posted by: Just the punchline monkey version 2.1.1.333 at July 27, 2024 07:30 AM (6TYi0)

169 This pharmaceutical innovation could change your life:

https://tinyurl.com/2f9naka2

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2024 07:31 AM (dg+HA)

170 Mitt Romney praised the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, France, as being “imaginative, inventive and memorable."

Come on out of the closet, Mitt, and choke on a bag of dicks.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

171 The US is at some point in a long or slow collapse. Maybe another 50 years?

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 07:35 AM (AVyeO)

172 12
I hear goose stepping is great cardio

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 04:34 AM (elaR+)
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But it's a bootheel killer.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat sole titbit #01 at July 27, 2024 07:38 AM (qfLjt)

173 Friends in England, say Hungary and Czech republic are much more democratic, than the new Labour/Marxist Govt. They want to ban frickin tobacco

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2024 07:39 AM (YCxFk)

174 Mitt Romney praised the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, France, as being “imaginative, inventive and memorable."

Ah, the Manchurian Douchebag weighs in.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2024 07:40 AM (mH6SG)

175 It will be fun watching DEI hires maintain the sewers of NYC. They can't maintain what they have now, imagine Calgary only with poo.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 27, 2024 07:40 AM (1pQBc)

176 167
Feminist Studies Prof: We need more women in STEM!

Normal, well-adjusted person: Why aren't you in STEM?

Feminist Studies Prof:

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 07:29 AM (1Nxff)
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Good one.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat sole titbit #02 at July 27, 2024 07:41 AM (qfLjt)

177 171. Agree. Think Us eventually goes the way of Yugoslavia after the Wall went down. Once the new break off's in the South Etc.... figures out the Soc Sec Question etc...

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2024 07:41 AM (YCxFk)

178 Shyamala Gopalan, who Harris cites as a major influence, was a leading breast-cancer researcher who died of cancer.

..........
Well that's unfortunate......

Posted by: Molly k. at July 27, 2024 07:42 AM (j/yko)

179 Wood stove, well and septic for the win.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 27, 2024 07:42 AM (1pQBc)

180 Mitt Romney praised the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, France, as being “imaginative, inventive and memorable."

And dog-gone-it, people like it!

Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2024 07:43 AM (i0F8b)

181 174. We already picked up a Senate Seat, when Romney announced retirement. New guy Curtis, is a moderate, but is unknown and cannot cause to much harm

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2024 07:43 AM (YCxFk)

182 My family outraged that kneeler, LeBron is waving flag

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2024 07:43 AM (YCxFk)

183 figures out the Soc Sec Question etc...

If they crash the Soc Sec and say its gone, then the Great Divorce can complete.

If the USG can write off students loans, then they can write off Fed backed mortgages since everything is funny money.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:44 AM (rHxhM)

184 Mitt Romney praised the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, France, as being “imaginative, inventive and memorable."

Let me guess, he joined in with the drag queens for an after performance "celebration".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:46 AM (rHxhM)

185 Good morning horde

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 27, 2024 07:46 AM (Agur+)

186 Oops. More like a 50-60% chance of rain today. I guess washing the car will have to wait until tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2024 07:46 AM (omVj0)

187 The US is at some point in a long or slow collapse. Maybe another 50 years?

The former US has all of the tools, resources and supply to go fifty more years, but will collapse in fewer than fifty weeks if the unhumans maintain their death grip post N5.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:47 AM (rHxhM)

188 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

189

https://tinyurl.com/f3fd2bbt

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 07:48 AM (vFG9F)

190 Maybe banning tobacco in the UK is democratic. Is Our Democracy a thing with UK left? Or is it just the loons here?

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 07:49 AM (b8Y5B)

191 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, guv'nor

Long time no see. You and yours doing OK?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

192 Good morning fine people. Is it permitted to drink coffee before the coffee thread?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 27, 2024 07:49 AM (SfhV1)

193 Oops. Hit enter too soon.

I just love this, especially Korla's expression at the end.

Korla Pandit - Turkish Dance

https://tinyurl.com/f3fd2bbt

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2024 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

194 Then you'd best hope he hangs on until after the Inauguration. If he passes before then, Kammie becomes 47 irrespective of the election outcome.

That is a lot of Trump merch that will be boxed up and sent to some remote nation in Africa for tax write-offs aka "Humanitarian Relief".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:50 AM (rHxhM)

195 Good morning fine people. Is it permitted to drink coffee before the coffee thread?

Decaf

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:50 AM (rHxhM)

196 Mr. Ray

Loons. They have already broken their solemn campaign promises on taxes, immigration, health care, etc. I would expect a no confidence vote soon, but they have to fall apart more.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

197 Decaf

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:50 AM (rHxhM)

*stares blankly at empty cup*

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 27, 2024 07:51 AM (SfhV1)

198 Sad, Scientific American was a legitimate rag 60 or 70 years ago.

Posted by: madmike at July 27, 2024 07:53 AM (GJlSU)

199
Maybe once, but the MBAs have said that industrial R&D is a money loser and to improve shareholder return we should ship those jobs off to India and China.

And that is how you get doors to fall off your aircraft midflight.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:53 AM (rHxhM)

200 Normal, well-adjusted person: Why aren't you in STEM?

Feminist Studies Prof: "Women's Studies is STEM."

It's like you've never even met These People.

FWIW, STEMworld, they have already come for you.
You've just been missing those on-campus reunions for a while.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 27, 2024 07:53 AM (zdLoL)

201 I find it amusing Mittens is searching for relevancy and settles on the Olympics. Perhaps the most irrelevant thing possible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 07:54 AM (Q4IgG)

202 I like to finish with my coffee on the Pixy thread and be ready to move on to whisky by the Prayer thread.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 07:55 AM (JvZF+)

203 "The seals are probably fine" is not good enough for me to hop back in the Starliner capsule.

I would imagine that obtaining life insurance would be impossible for them.

It does solve the family dilemma of should we bury daddy or scatter his ashes over the Earth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 07:56 AM (rHxhM)

204 Six weeks to change a blown seal. Must have been a hell of a night.

Posted by: the penguin at July 27, 2024 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

205 Haven't those NASA astronauts been at the ISS for around 50 days now? Talk about overstaying your welcome. I think originally they were going to be there for less than a week.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

206 Local TV news reports SFUSD has imposed a hiring freeze and eliminated 900 vacant positions including 10 elementary school Asst. Principals.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:00 AM (JvZF+)

207 Who was that giant that walked out onto the White House back porch?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 08:01 AM (gbOdA)

208
We have a stationary front above us right now which is, well, stationary. All it does is pump moisture in from the Gulf and give us showers, punctuated by downpours. Between this and Beryl, we've gotten about 14 inches of rain in July. So far.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 08:01 AM (1Nxff)

209
Mitt Romney praised the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, France, as being “imaginative, inventive and memorable."

What part of Mormonism celebrates Drag Queens dancing around little children, Mitt?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 27, 2024 08:02 AM (RKVpM)

210 Martini Farmer

Gref knows the program manager, and is highly complementary of him. The problem is he was put in charge to fix a lot of corrupt mismanagement.

The capsule itself is rated for over 200 days, so it should be OK, if the thrusters work.

SpaceX to the rescue may be needed.

In the meantime, they can add research to the NASAsutra.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

211 Three trans-identified males were on the winner’s podium at a race in Washington last week, marking the first time men won first, second, and third place in a women’s race.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 07:15 AM (gbOdA)
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And the locals in charge of the event will no doubt celebrate it as a triumph over adversity for the Trans community.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2024 08:03 AM (BpYfr)

212 What part of Mormonism celebrates Drag Queens dancing around little children, Mitt?

Mitt is a reprobate. He is a fraud in every aspect of his self-dealing life.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 08:03 AM (rHxhM)

213 The acid wash of "common sense." Notice how common sense, as a political expression, is so threatening to the Left? Milie in Argentina, Bukele in El Salvador, Meloni in Italy, Poilievre in Canada, and of course Trump in America -- all espousing, with a certain resonant conviction, how simple common sense refutes and remedies the systemic catastrophe of "liberalism" (which their common sense demands they accurately call out as Leftism, further infuriating the powers-that-be who can no longer effectively conceal who they are). Milie and Bukele and Meloni are now demonstrating, proving the point.
Common sense terrifies the enemy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2024 08:05 AM (UAO/v)

214 "Perfessor" Squirrel

This is pissing off all the female competitors, and their families. I forsee axe handles inside spokes, or pointy ends of high heels in the back.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

215 Six weeks to change a blown seal. Must have been a hell of a night.

More fruit from the DEI tree.

You didn't really expect performance and competence did you?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 08:05 AM (rHxhM)

216 It's a write off, Jerry. They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at July 27, 2024 08:05 AM (dg+HA)

217
Who was that giant that walked out onto the White House back porch?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 08:01 AM

Alex Jones is all over that. Which should come as absolutely no surprise.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 27, 2024 08:06 AM (RKVpM)

218 201 I find it amusing Mittens is searching for relevancy and settles on the Olympics. Perhaps the most irrelevant thing possible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2024 07:54 AM (Q4IgG)
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Do remember he once fixed some Olympic debacle.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat sole titbit #03 at July 27, 2024 08:07 AM (qfLjt)

219 "Perfessor" Squirrel

This is pissing off all the female competitors, and their families. I forsee axe handles inside spokes, or pointy ends of high heels in the back.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 08:05 AM (u82oZ)
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Anyone with an ounce of common sense (see comment 213) could have predicted it. I suspect the next event may see a surprising lack of female competition.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2024 08:07 AM (BpYfr)

220
Alternately, they replaced Jill with a much shorter version.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 27, 2024 08:07 AM (RKVpM)

221 Ordinary American

North Korea, Cambodia, Rhodesia, South Africa, Vietnam, Red China, and the USSR have entered the chat.

This trend you see has been observed since the Paris Commune over 150 years ago. Yet here we are.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

222 Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2024 08:05 AM (UAO/v

Marxism is opposed to common sense. It makes sense to 8 year olds who have had "fairness" continuously drilled into their head.

I used to argue with my dad that everyone should just wear a uniform as in Star Trek. Or Mao's China.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:08 AM (JvZF+)

223 Mittens led the 1984 L.A. Olympic games it is how he got famous as a "manager"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:10 AM (JvZF+)

224 San Franpsycho

Good morning. May you and yours have new hope with that EO on the homeless by your corrupt and vain Gov.

Individuality is required for progress. Conformity is a dead end.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

225 Common sense terrifies the enemy.

I thought the unhumans hijacked "Common Sense" (as in "Common Sense Gun Control"™ which is a euphemism for only let sociopath criminals in and out of government have a monopoly on violence)

Whenever I hear any politician say "common sense" in any context, its their battle cry for more assaults on liberty, freedom, prosperity and human flourishing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 08:11 AM (rHxhM)

226 213
Common sense terrifies the enemy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2024 08:05 AM (UAO/v)
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Except 'Common sense gun laws'.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat sole titbit #04 at July 27, 2024 08:11 AM (qfLjt)

227 The 1976 games fairly ruined Montreal. The Olympic Stadium is a gigantic abandoned memorial to brutalism.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:12 AM (JvZF+)

228 https://revolver.news/internet warrior digs into kamala senate days scarier than you ever imagined

Her Cultural Marxist voting record

Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2024 08:12 AM (fwDg9)

229 Mitt Romney praised the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, France, as being “imaginative, inventive and memorable."
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I didn't watch it, because I dislike seeing civilizations decaying in real time. Mittens endorsement makes that decision look good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 27, 2024 08:13 AM (iXu4U)

230 Again, I have never tasted coffee and the same is true for some relatives. Not many but a few.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 08:13 AM (mW5g6)

231 Common sense terrifies the enemy.

Gives me an idea.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2024 08:13 AM (dg+HA)

232
Do remember he once fixed some Olympic debacle.

And now contributes to the long tradition of facilitating Olympic debacles.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 08:14 AM (rHxhM)

233 Good morning. May you and yours have new hope with that EO on the homeless by your corrupt and vain Gov. ...
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 08:11 AM (u82oZ)
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Morning Sawlty. Hope? Hope!

I have no idea what the word even means.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:14 AM (JvZF+)

234 Sturmer's parliament will go on and on and on.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 27, 2024 08:14 AM (GfN2c)

235 "I have never tasted coffee and the same is true for some relatives. Not many but a few.
Posted by: Mr. Ray "

How did they taste?

Posted by: An inquiring cannibal at July 27, 2024 08:14 AM (vFG9F)

236 Again, I have never tasted coffee...

*seals inner door*

*punches EMERGENCY DECOMPRESSION button*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:15 AM (JvZF+)

237 You tech nerds have all turned into sheep that simply repeat what all the other sheep are talking about that day and all the sheep are screaming about PL1 and PL2 setting today, lol.

Posted by: Fisht at July 27, 2024 08:16 AM (BHEHK)

238
COFFEE

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2024 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

239 Eric Weinstein on X explaining how the awareness of the Democrats' Communism is driving support for Trump. It's exhilarating to hear the term used so openly.

https://tinyurl.com/3j8jzkze

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2024 08:18 AM (UAO/v)

240 Sturmer's trouble will come from the Left. Being more crazy is easier than stopping crazy.

Posted by: Jamaica at July 27, 2024 08:18 AM (MK13O)

241 Daylight's burning.

Have a wonderful day ignoring the Olympics, everyone. Except highlights of woman's pole vaulting. That is OK on a Chanel that is not NBC.

Sure miss the Wide World of Sports. They did it right.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

242
Mittens led the 1984 L.A. Olympic games it is how he got famous as a "manager"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:10 AM (JvZF+)

*polite cough*

1988 Salt Lake City Winter Games

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 08:19 AM (1Nxff)

243 I always thought of coffee as European and as such a decadent thing. Why I didn't want it. I've gotten this far without it.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 08:19 AM (mW5g6)

244

>>And the locals in charge of the event will no doubt celebrate it as a triumph over adversity for the Trans community.

The most disgusting example of this was when that trans-woman became the most winning "women" in Jeopardy history, the real women who was the top winner was essentially forced, hostage style,to heap praise on the fake woman.

Essentially, we are being taken hostage by the left.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2024 08:19 AM (1khX8)

245 So, we watched the opening ceremonies last night. Thankfully the grandkids weren't too interested and were suitably occupied doing other things. I'd rate them as 'meh' and an attempt to demonstrate to the world that globo homo is alive and well in France.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 27, 2024 08:20 AM (YRsIm)

246 1988 Salt Lake City Winter Games
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 08:19 AM (1Nxff)

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Google says SLC was 2002 Winter games

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:21 AM (JvZF+)

247
Mitt Romney and his supporters often cite his role in the organization of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as a solid credential for the Oval Office. Romney was brought in as CEO in 1999 ...

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 27, 2024 08:23 AM (RKVpM)

248 I can't be that demented already

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:24 AM (JvZF+)

249 From wiki
"Following the success of the 1984 Games, the Los Angeles OCOG, led by Peter Ueberroth,..."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 08:26 AM (JvZF+)

250 You couldn’t pay me to watch one minute of these Olympics. Well not unless LeBron James puts on a long blonde wig, calls himself Mary, and takes over as captain of the US Women’s Olympic Basketball Team.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 08:27 AM (S6gqv)

251 The Olympics like everything except the NFL and college football have been diminished. 1984, the year not the book, was the last height of an American common culture.

Posted by: Mr. Ray at July 27, 2024 08:28 AM (mW5g6)

252 Lord Miles
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

Im offering tours to Afghanistan this winter and next summer! 10 days of adventure visiting Kabul, Bin ladens caves (tora Bora), Bamyan, dinner + video games + shooting with the TALIBAN!

https://tinyurl.com/2k9rvf7b

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat sole titbit #05 at July 27, 2024 08:30 AM (qfLjt)

253 Transgender athletes sweep podium at women’s cycling championship

https://tinyurl.com/yhxeem9a

So all the girlboss stronk wimmenz can't muster up enough grrrllpower to stop this?

Oh, well.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2024 08:30 AM (dg+HA)

254 Guys, I'm going to have to switch to being left wing.

Then there won't be dancing bearded trannies in my twitter feed.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2024 08:38 AM (lhenN)

255 >>>Nothing to improve science. Everything to improve "diversity".

This would be such a great way to phrase every Kamala policy.

Posted by: m at July 27, 2024 10:07 AM (64Zez)

256 Will Intel issue a recall?: no

Will I ever buy another Intel product?: no

(I bought a new Dell computer last year. Just checked my processor....Gen 12. Reinforcing my belief in never buying the latest and "greatest" hardware)

Posted by: JTSmith at July 27, 2024 10:41 AM (FxdZx)

257 Is this chip issue related to replacing solder with more 'environmentally friendly' material?

My laptops have been physically weaker lately.

Posted by: MikeN at July 27, 2024 12:34 PM (XygMV)

258 Moore's Law is Dead put up a breakdown of the issue last night:

https://youtu.be/ZFE4q35buKs?si=HF7HQLnL9WdxELQz

Basically Intel was rushing with Raptor Lake and looks like they over bolted the ring bus, and this will impact all fast Raptor Lake and Bartlett Lake chips. This was a concern in the Alder Lake design, but apparently the Raptor Lake team was running so fast they didn't find out from them.

The oxidation is a red herring Intel is throwing out to stem the bleeding. They had problems at the Arizona plant, but it would be showing up in Sapphire Rapids chips if that was the case.

It's a real cluster.

Posted by: Voyager at July 27, 2024 04:05 PM (nmL8W)

259 Harris, as California's Attorney General once wanted to prosecute so-called climate deniers.
This doesn't exactly display a lifetime familiarity with science or the scientific process.

Posted by: Max Entropy at July 27, 2024 07:15 PM (rGssv)

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