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Do Not Stab: Google has released an update to the Google App for iOS that... Inserts Google Search links into third-party web sites. (9to5Google)

There isn't even a Do Not Stab header for this one:
The feature, Google says, will offer an opt-out for website owners through a form. It's pointed out by SERoundTable that opting out can take up to 30 days, while the feature is live now.
Thanks Google.
Both sides of the Google antitrust case blathered incoherently in closing arguments. (New York Times) (archive site)

Can't they both lose?

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I bought myself a Terramaster D8 which is a small, cheap, and fairly dumb hybrid storage box.

It holds 4 x 3.5" drives and 4 x M.2 NVMe SSDs, attached over 10Gb USB. So it's much faster than my old Synology boxes, but it only does RAID-0 and RAID-1 and even that only on the first two drives. You want to configure that on the system it's attached to.

But it is cheap; I paid about $250 including tax and shipping, and you are not getting an 8-bay 10Gb Synology solution for that.
On the other hand, QNAP. (The Register)

They issued a timely software update.

It bricked users' devices.
Amazon's new Kindle Colorsoft is kind of good except kind of not. (The Verge)

It's a 7" colour e-ink device with a resolution of 300 dpi, which is pretty good, and 4096 colours, which is tragic for an LCD but again pretty good for e-ink.

But in colour mode the resolution is cut in half taking it from pretty good territory to pretty bad.

And while Amazon claims a battery life of 8 weeks on a charge, that assumes that you barely use the device; the reviewer estimated it will last for 20 hours of actual reading. Which again, is not bad, but is a lot less than 8 weeks.

Also it doesn't seem to be available in Australia.
Teamgroup has announced a 16TB external SSD. (Tom's Hardware)

It's basically the size of a 2.5" external hard drive, probably because it's a 2.5" SSD in a metal box, only it stores more, runs ten times faster, is a lot more robust, and costs an estimated $2000.

Disclaimer: No, seriously, duck.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:00 AM (omVj0)

2 Possibly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 26, 2024 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone
It's Hump day

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

4 Made it!!!

Evening and morning, insomaniacals! 'Tis Tiu's Day, one more step along the winding trail to the holiday!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:02 AM (omVj0)

5 And 56 days until the inauguration

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

6 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 04:05 AM (82lKT)

7 Princess ~~Bride~~ Separation:

https://tinyurl.com/2nrmsuvw

Anyone not see this coming?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 04:07 AM (82lKT)

8 I dreamed of the young Heather Locklear naked last night.

No, it was not as cool as it sounds. Linda had dragged me to some ragged araof town to see some kind of faith or Eastern-mystic healer who was very popular and worked out of her own building. We walked into a crowded waiting room at eleven a.m. and were still sitting there an hour later when a tousled mane of blonde hair lifted from a bed-shelf in the far corner, closely followed by Heather's face. Apparently she slept there. With care and interest I watched her pad around naked, apparently not disturbing the other patients, and drinking her morning coffee. She was even more tanned than she looked in the '90s; and no, she had no tan lines. Believe me, I observed carefully.

One dream I hated to wake up from.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:08 AM (omVj0)

9 Trump nominates associate pastor at a big Baptist church in TX to head Housing and Urban development:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxr2zxb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 04:11 AM (X61QJ)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2024 04:17 AM (yF6km)

11 "Christian Post" gives some advice about avoiding political turmoil during TG:

https://tinyurl.com/547bsvdn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 04:20 AM (X61QJ)

12 ZDNet: AI isn't hitting a wall, it's just getting too smart for benchmarks, says Anthropic.

No comment is a comment.

https://is.gd/ZPiMVY

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 04:23 AM (vO42M)

13 My pipe refuses to stay lit -- actually the tobacco in it, a blend from England which is notorious for being hard to dry out. So I will set it aside, sip some coffee, and announce that I spoke with my boss yesterday morning about my retirement. He was not happy, as you might expect, but cheered up a bit when I told him I was aiming for Jan. 31 as my end date, to give him room to hire somebody. I agreed to give him some slack and maybe, maybe, stay as late as March 31, to finish the budget. I'm sure he'll be able to find someone sooner than that.

He told me, in fact, that it was up to me, and he would not have the new person start until a little while before my final end date. He left it up to me if I wanted to have a retirement dinner.

I'm waiting until Friday, after the main holiday is over, to tell Linda about it. It's not going to be a massive celebration, I'm sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:24 AM (omVj0)

14 I enjoyed the movie, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" . One thing I noted- since it takes place in the 50's or 60's-was that everybody dressed up to go to church, which was a nice thing, and I guess that's why the iconic Norman Rockwell painting of Thanksgiving had everybody dressed up- because it was a special occasion.

I also liked that obviously- there was not one cell phone in the movie. 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 04:30 AM (Hd+yV)

15 Congrats Wolfus. Home Depot has the best moving boxes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 04:31 AM (vO42M)

16 I'm watching the movie. Hell is for Heroes from 1962. Remarkably Western Germany along the Siegfried line looks exactly like the Redding area of California. Who knew?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 04:32 AM (vO42M)

17 Funny sign in Toronto says what to do if you spot a coyote during the day:

https://tinyurl.com/y5fn9xv4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 04:34 AM (Hd+yV)

18 Funny sign in Toronto says what to do if you spot a coyote during the day:

https://tinyurl.com/y5fn9xv4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 04:37 AM (BliVi)

19 Man sings acapella version of "It is wel with my soul":

https://tinyurl.com/5ayn6v35

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 04:40 AM (Hd+yV)

20 Congrats Wolfus. Home Depot has the best moving boxes.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024

***
Gonna be a while before I'm ready for that. At least I've taken that first step. I probably would not have dared if Kammie-Ha-Ha had won the election.

Though I did tell myself on Nov. 4 that if she won and I had to continue working, I was going to move to a nicer place in the suburbs and get out of this mini-pesthole.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:44 AM (omVj0)

21 No roadrunners in Canada either.
Good Luck, Canada.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2024 04:44 AM (yF6km)

22 Good news Wolfus.
One weight off of you shoulders

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 04:44 AM (BliVi)

23 Good news Wolfus.
One weight off of you shoulders
Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024

***
Yup. "Feel the fear and do it anyway."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 04:45 AM (omVj0)

24 NASA planning to send a drone toward Saturn's moon, with the help of SpaceX, of course:

https://tinyurl.com/5cny6p55

BOEING hardest hit.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 04:46 AM (82lKT)

25 "Americans are very uninformed about reality" Alec Baldwin

Says the guy killed somebody because he doesn't know how gun works.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 04:46 AM (vO42M)

26 "Americans are very uninformed about reality" Alec Baldwin

Oh tell us great Alec, what shall we do?

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 04:48 AM (BliVi)

27 "Americans are very uninformed about reality" Alec Baldwin

Says the guy killed somebody because he doesn't know how gun works.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 26, 2024 04:46 AM (vO42M)
-

The guy's a regular barrel of laughs!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 04:50 AM (82lKT)

28 The guy's a regular barrel of laughs!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

He aims to educate us.

Posted by: Tuna at November 26, 2024 04:55 AM (oaGWv)

29 NATO discussing preemptive strike on Russia. WTF

Posted by: Enough BS at November 26, 2024 04:56 AM (2NXcZ)

30 The guy's a regular barrel of laughs!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

He aims to educate us.
Posted by: Tuna

Well, he is a GREAT actor. He must know everything...and then some.

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 04:57 AM (BliVi)

31 As the president of F.A.G., Alec knows things.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 26, 2024 04:57 AM (2wadn)

32 NATO discussing preemptive strike on Russia. WTF
Posted by: Enough BS at November 26, 2024 04:56 AM (2NXcZ)
-

Is that like a labor picket line? Or we just stop buying beluga caviar?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 04:58 AM (82lKT)

33 NATO discussing preemptive strike on Russia. WTF
Posted by: Enough BS

Alec Baldwin approved

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 04:58 AM (BliVi)

34 Wolfus try a couple drops of lighter fluid in that tobacco, should help it burn

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 05:01 AM (fwDg9)

35 Starting Friday. it'll be a high of 25 and getting to 15 degrees overnight.
I guess I better get out the winter coat

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 05:02 AM (BliVi)

36 Wolfus try a couple drops of lighter fluid in that tobacco, should help it burn
Posted by: Skip

And taste great too.

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 05:03 AM (BliVi)

37 Alec Baldwin approved

Then send his sorry ass over there.

Posted by: Case at November 26, 2024 05:05 AM (27pJk)

38 Alec Baldwin approved

Then send his sorry ass over there.
Posted by: Case

He could do some of his great impersonations.

Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 05:08 AM (BliVi)

39 Alec likes to play with guns

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 05:08 AM (fwDg9)

40 Some rain out there, windy and clearing later the weather report says

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 05:20 AM (fwDg9)

41 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 26, 2024 05:21 AM (hoCmQ)

42 Little cold snap here overnight. Currently 31 with high of 49 today. Calling for snow Saturday.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 26, 2024 05:23 AM (hoCmQ)

43 I dreamed of the young Heather Locklear naked last night.

I had a crappy Fast and Furious knockoff dream.

Even in my dreams I can't get lucky.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 26, 2024 05:23 AM (Q0kLU)

44 G'morning, all!

53.2 degrees, with 96% RH.

Warmer than the last several mornings.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 26, 2024 05:24 AM (a1415)

45 Finished the grocery shopping for Thanksgiving yesterday.

BJ's, Costco, Walmart...and we survived.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 26, 2024 05:26 AM (a1415)

46 Not that anyone cares, but I'll be around a little more for a while. One of our transcriptionists had a death in the family, and since the majority of them are in India, she'll be away for about a month or more. So in addition to my normal Tuesday and Wednesday full days, I'll be doing clean-up work on Thursday and Friday mornings.

It's extra cash, but I really can't take things much longer. The depression is getting worse and my anti-depressants are basically placebos at this point. Every now and then I'm fortunate enough to have a dream or two where I'm in love with (and she loves me) a beautiful woman (time period varies) and oh, how I don't want to ever wake up.

I wish I didn't feel this way, but it's going to be a very sad Thanksgiving and Christmas for me this year.

Sorry to dump this on you gook folks so early in the day. I just needed to get it off my chest before work.

See you all on the Morning Thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 26, 2024 05:28 AM (Q0kLU)

47 I hope Google goes down in flames

Posted by: just saying at November 26, 2024 05:29 AM (rzwGB)

48 That should be "good" folks. I know you're not Vietnamese.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 26, 2024 05:30 AM (Q0kLU)

49 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 26, 2024 05:28 AM (Q0kLU)

You've probably left by now, but you're not dumping on us. You're a kind, smart and very interesting man and we care about you. I will pray rough places are made smooth. Holidays can often be very hard for so many reasons.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 05:33 AM (Ca+UU)

50 That should be "good" folks. I know you're not Vietnamese.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 26, 2024 05:30 AM (Q0kLU)
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So you're saying there are no good gooks?

That's raycyst!!!

(Feel well and get better!)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 05:34 AM (82lKT)

51 Not going to put flag up today
At least a reasonable commute
Forward Dog 9 hitting the road

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 05:34 AM (fwDg9)

52 MP3

May God provide you with peace and the ability to find good things and happiness, even in the most depressing of times.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 26, 2024 05:35 AM (a1415)

53 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 26, 2024 05:26 AM (a1415

Congratulations!. I had hoped I had completed all my TG shopping yesterday, but nope- I have to go to the store today as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2024 05:35 AM (Ca+UU)

54 Running a little late here.
Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 26, 2024 05:36 AM (a1415)

55 Whereas for some reason, I was dreaming that I was in OCS for the Corps because apparently, I was called up.

Yeah...my 55 year old self ain't being drafted for anything which probably stopped the dream's progression.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 26, 2024 05:36 AM (jjoN6)

56 Wolfus - I’ve been following your dilemma in lurkville but now that I’m “out” I just wanted to say good luck with the next steps - I’m of an age where these conversations/decisions are taking place more frequently in my circle of friends, acquaintances and colleagues (I’m not quite there yet). Hope you get your pipe lit and enjoy for a bit.

Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at November 26, 2024 05:37 AM (Uy2Lz)

57 $2000 is kind of pricey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2024 05:41 AM (bss/y)

58 I presume that Kindle Colorsoft's charger is a USB-compatible?

Posted by: Ciampino - too short for a weekend at November 26, 2024 05:42 AM (i0xsb)

59 World's largest retailer Walmart nixes DEI and LGBT-themed products after pressure from conservative activist: 'This will send shockwaves'

https://mol.im/a/14126281

Amazing what an election can do. That Trump is a magician.

Posted by: Ciampino - and he's not even governing yet at November 26, 2024 05:49 AM (i0xsb)

60 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 26, 2024 05:28 AM (Q0kLU)

Hang in there MP4.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2024 05:50 AM (bss/y)

61 Wolfus try a couple drops of lighter fluid in that tobacco, should help it burn
Posted by: Skip

And taste great too.
Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 05:03 AM (BliVi)

Come on, you guys!!!!!

Less filling.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2024 05:50 AM (0eaVi)

62 Good morning, good people, from the ice-bound Adirondacks where we're having a good old ice storm with all the attendant fun. Predicted to hang around 'til Tuesday night or so. I do love Mother Nature's skating parties.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 26, 2024 05:51 AM (hKoQL)

63 Good Morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 05:53 AM (gbOdA)

64 Super mild temps here in the north valley.

Patchy ⛅️

50f overnight.
57f daytime.

Posted by: 13times at November 26, 2024 05:54 AM (zZJ+I)

65 Forward Dog 9 hitting the road
Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 05:34 AM (fwDg9)

Red Right Returning

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 05:55 AM (gbOdA)

66 Wolfus - I’ve been following your dilemma in lurkville but now that I’m “out” I just wanted to say good luck with the next steps - I’m of an age where these conversations/decisions are taking place more frequently in my circle of friends, acquaintances and colleagues (I’m not quite there yet). Hope you get your pipe lit and enjoy for a bit.
Posted by: CTSPURSMAN at November 26, 2024

***
Thanks, CT,

I usually have no trouble with my pipes -- well, maybe with the packing, an art I'm still learning after several years. As with relationships, each session is different. You try to control as many variables as you can, but there's always an element of chaos. The same pipe, loaded the same way with the same leaf, can smoke differently on Tuesday from how it does on Saturday, and that's just how it is.

The other matter, retirement . . . I'm scared to death. It's still a ways off and I want to try to control it too, as I try with my pipes. And yet, there is still chaos.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 05:56 AM (omVj0)

67 US Officials Discussed Giving Nuclear Weapons To Ukraine

https://t.co/QQQZmZZDfQ

What happened to the ones that Obama convinced them to give up?

Posted by: Ciampino - the dogeater had creases on his pants at November 26, 2024 05:57 AM (i0xsb)

68 Here's the article with a link: Alec Baldwin says Americans 'know little or nothing' about the world

https://mol.im/a/14126469

Posted by: Ciampino - the dogeater had nice creases on his pants at November 26, 2024 05:59 AM (i0xsb)

69 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 26, 2024 06:01 AM (X4/Jm)

70 Congratulations on the notice official retirement, Wolfus - and followed Immediately by a nood Heather Locklear dream.

Posted by: 13times at November 26, 2024 06:01 AM (0pcfw)

71 Here's the article with a link: Alec Baldwin says Americans 'know little or nothing' about the world

We learn all we need to know every time we have to go somewhere and save their worthless asses.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 26, 2024 06:02 AM (X4/Jm)

72 Congratulations on the notice official retirement, Wolfus - and followed Immediately by a nood Heather Locklear dream.
Posted by: 13times at November 26, 2024

***
In my experience today will be a horrible day. It started off too well to continue like that!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 06:04 AM (omVj0)

73 Nuclear weapons are kind of interesting when you think about it.

-in one sense they are used to preserve the status quo. The idea being that the borders stay static because no one wants to risk getting nuked. At least some of the borders and that's the rub.

-people want them for power and status and security, and the ones who have them do not want anyone else to get them- because it would then upset the status quo.

-people who have them also enjoy the freedom their threat offers and act with a certain measure of impunity.

-most of the people with that power have no idea how it works or even what would happen if they are used.

It is kind of a microcosm of power down through the ages in a lot of ways. People never change.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2024 06:09 AM (bss/y)

74 Here's the article with a link: Alec Baldwin says Americans 'know little or nothing' about the world

https://mol.im/a/14126469
Posted by: Ciampino - the dogeater had nice creases on his pants at November 26, 2024 05:59 AM (i0xsb)
-

Alec Baldwin is an American.

Ipso fatso....

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 26, 2024 06:10 AM (K3JKK)

75 “The evidence presented in these studies reveals that while purporting to combat bias, some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment,” the study released Monday.

That was always the intent.
It is Marxism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 06:12 AM (gbOdA)

76 Baldwin’s got nerve faulting others after having learned nothing from murdering an innocent human being.

And he’s afforded very special treatment -

“He [murderer] appeared at the press conference on the condition that questions about the fatal Rust shooting, where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed, would not be permitted, according to The Hollywood Reporter”

Posted by: 13times at November 26, 2024 06:13 AM (JqbO1)

77 Good Morning. 57 drizzly degrees in western NC going up to 62 today. Strange weather.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at November 26, 2024 06:14 AM (FRhZX)

78 The weather is transitioning. It's thermally fluid and decidedly non-binary.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2024 06:17 AM (QB+5g)

79 I'm losing access to some of my test hardware today, and I won't get it back for a couple of weeks, so I'm frantically trying to figure out why the data I tried to gather yesterday stopped in the middle of the test.

Go me.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 26, 2024 06:17 AM (2Insx)

80 The Assassination of Halyna Hutchins by the Coward Alexander Rae Baldwin III.

Posted by: 13times at November 26, 2024 06:20 AM (likVb)

81 Someone should remake The Deer Hunter and cast Alec in Di Niro's part.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2024 06:21 AM (QB+5g)

82 Baldwin
'Americans are very uninformed about reality, what's really going on — climate change, Ukraine, you name it. The biggest topics in the world, Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information.'

'You know what's going on from the news, but information in America is driven by money. It's a business.'

He went on to say that the vacuum is 'filled by the film industry.

My guess is people that watch 30 minutes style US news know less about world.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 06:22 AM (gbOdA)

83 A quick greetings to the Horde, I've got to get out the door and head for the salt mines.

But before I do...

MP4: " I just needed to get it off my chest before work. "

Isaiah 41:10.

Just ask, He will hang on to you. Imagine the most loving and most loyal family member you have, multiply that by a thousand, and even that's not enough to describe how much God wants to help when he sees us hurting.

Does He want us to lean on him and put all our cares and concerns on Him? YUP. See 1 Peter 5:7

So don't feel the littlest bit guilty about asking for a ton of help, or him to grab onto you with that right hand of righteousness and hold hold on REAL TIGHT that day.

There's been several days I've done that, and have never regretted doing so.

Okay, I gotta get to work. Everyone have the best day they can!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2024 06:28 AM (O7YUW)

84 w00t

Posted by: m at November 26, 2024 06:28 AM (VnUSN)

85 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 26, 2024 06:29 AM (86W+h)

86 Baldwin is lucky Americans are so "uninformed" because if they were well informed he would be shunned for the rest of his life and die penniless.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2024 06:29 AM (QB+5g)

87 Off to the electron mines, all. Later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 06:33 AM (omVj0)

88 Morning all.

Posted by: Picric at November 26, 2024 06:34 AM (13tTk)

89 Whenever I want to gain knowledge and wisdom, the first place I turn is Alec Baldwin.

Posted by: Things nobody has ever said. at November 26, 2024 06:41 AM (sAmhv)

90 Axios CEO Jim VandeHei

“Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day — or X today — saying like, ‘We are the media,’ ‘You are the media,’” VandeHei, a former political reporter for The Washington Post and co-founder of Politico, said at the time. “My message to Elon Musk is: Bullshit. You are not the media.”

VandeHei added, “You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter. ... You don’t do that by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.”

Last buggy whip maker felt the same.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 06:42 AM (gbOdA)

91 26 "Americans are very uninformed about reality" Alec Baldwin
___
Oh tell us great Alec, what shall we do?
Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 04:48 AM (BliVi)

LOL

Posted by: m at November 26, 2024 06:43 AM (VnUSN)

92 "You do it by doing the hard work.”

By that definition, you're not the media either. But it is fun watching you and your kind sink into irrelevancy.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 26, 2024 06:44 AM (jjoN6)

93 I’d wager Americans are no more misinformed by our media than the rest of the world is by their local media.

In fact, since so many nations get their news straight from state broadcasters and state media and government agencies, I’d say Americans have access to the wider variety of sources & opinions, good or bad, than the vast majority of the planet.

It’s an old, bad faith, smug, condescending critique typical of left-wing dipshits like Baldwin.

Hollywood has misinformed generations about history, politics, and economics. That Baldwin thinks Hollywood is a source of correct information instead of propaganda masquerading as entertainment shows he’s either stupid or has been bamboozled by their own PR B.S.

It’s not your job to teach us anything.
Once you get that through your thick skulls, we might get somewhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 26, 2024 06:47 AM (6ydKt)

94
Google

Old: Don't be evil

In: Don't. Be evil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 06:49 AM (dxSpM)

95 Wolfus,

Congratulations on the first steps on your next journey. Suggest you stick to the January 31 date as your boss sounds happy for you to procrastinate on carrying it forward. You’ll loose your self respect and nerve if you allow it to linger.

Good luck with Miss Linda. I’m no help there. I’m sure where you are heading is lovely in the spring.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 26, 2024 06:50 AM (NXFQM)

96 89 Whenever I want to gain knowledge and wisdom, the first place I turn is Alec Baldwin.

Posted by: Things nobody has ever said. at November 26, 2024 06:41 AM (sAmhv)

I like to get knowledge and wisdom from diverse sources, so I also check to see what Rob Reiner thinks, too.

Posted by: More things nobody has ever said at November 26, 2024 06:50 AM (PiwSw)

97 He went on to say that the vacuum is 'filled by the film industry.

LOL! Oh, Alec. This is adorable.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2024 06:52 AM (sAmhv)

98 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 26, 2024 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

99 I did ot realize until yesterday that frozen turkeys are generally pre-brined during processing, injected with a saline solution, therefore do not need to be brined at home.

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2024 06:53 AM (991eG)

100 VIA,
Thanks for mentioning those TOZO bluetooth ear buds the other day. They work well and were a lot less expensive than expected. I prefer my old Bose headset for music but the earbuds work great for books on tape and YT tutorials. And I can recharge my hearing aids while using the buds. Nice not being tied to the player.

Posted by: JTB at November 26, 2024 06:53 AM (yTvNw)

101 Another new report from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, shows that it was the Defense Department that delayed the eventual deployment of National Guard in the critical hours of the riot.

The evidence shows that, at 3:18 p.m., Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy “tells sheltering Members of Congress that he is not blocking the deployment of the National Guard and, while referencing the D.C. National Guard, shares that ‘We have the green light. We are moving.’” However, the secretary of the Army’s own timeline indicates that the DCNG did not physically leave the Armory until 5 pm.

J6 was 100% (D) operation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 06:53 AM (gbOdA)

102 83 Isaiah 41:10.

Just ask, He will hang on to you. Imagine the most loving and most loyal family member you have, multiply that by a thousand, and even that's not enough to describe how much God wants to help when he sees us hurting.

Does He want us to lean on him and put all our cares and concerns on Him? YUP. See 1 Peter 5:7

So don't feel the littlest bit guilty about asking for a ton of help, or him to grab onto you with that right hand of righteousness and hold hold on REAL TIGHT that day.

There's been several days I've done that, and have never regretted doing so.

Okay, I gotta get to work. Everyone have the best day they can!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 26, 2024 06:28 AM (O7YUW)

Nicely done, Grumpy and Recalcitrant! This is all very kind and wonderful to hear.

Posted by: m at November 26, 2024 06:55 AM (VnUSN)

103 AlteriaPilgrim, I think it was youwho posted last week about messaging apps, suggested PulseSMS.
We subscribed and really like it.
Thank you so much.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 26, 2024 06:57 AM (1TzeS)

104 I got up early with the dogs and they played in the new-fallen snow for a bit. Puppy then grabbed her best squeaky toy and ran upstairs to help my wife greet the day. I'm sure that will work out well.

Posted by: muldoon at November 26, 2024 06:58 AM (991eG)

105 G'mornin' everyone!

16 (sixteen) degrees out there, calm, sky is SO clear!

virtually guaranteeing that nothing astronomically interesting is happening

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 06:58 AM (gY0JQ)

106 Wolfus Aurelius

Congrats on the decision. Still thinking of rural Indiana?

Good luck with Miss Linda.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 26, 2024 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

107 So, Wolfus!
Did you do the deed? Just jumped on here at the tail end of the thread so haven't read comments yet.
I hope you did.

IN weather is actually very mild. Don't worry about snow and people being depressed. Goodness. Come on over!

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 26, 2024 06:59 AM (1TzeS)

108

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 26, 2024 06:59 AM (EFZgU)

109
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 26, 2024 07:02 AM (tljrc)

110 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

20℉ outside. 69℉ inside. Just with three oil-filled radiators. This is a well-built, well insulated house.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 26, 2024 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

111 80, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:02 AM (gY0JQ)

112 Jewish Family Services (NGO) got $600 M from DHS over a 3 month period to help import illegal children.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 07:02 AM (gbOdA)

113 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Go home, and leave us alone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 26, 2024 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

114 Got so preps for the last worekday before the Thanksgiving break.

Have a wonderful day, and may you find that last minute item you need in a supermarket.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 26, 2024 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

115 However, the secretary of the Army’s own timeline indicates that the DCNG did not physically leave the Armory until 5 pm.

J6 was 100% (D) operation.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 06:53 AM (gbOdA)

— —

So it took the National Guard about an hour and forty-five minutes to assemble, gear up, and leave the armory.

That’s actually not bad since I don’t think the National Guard sits around the armory like firefighters just waiting on the alarm to come in.

This is why Nancy & Co. should have taken up Trump’s offer the day before and had the NG on standby, ready to go if needed.

But Nancy, due to fears of looking bad after a Summer of Love rioting, did not want the NG around, so they weren’t ready.

And, in typical Dem fashion, they turn their own incompetence and screw-uos into a years-long propaganda effort to blame it on Orange Man Bad and his Fascist People’s Army as an insurrection.

Or, they planned it all out that way from the beginning, and that plan has been unraveling ever since.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 26, 2024 07:05 AM (6ydKt)

116 91 26 "Americans are very uninformed about reality" Alec Baldwin
___
Oh tell us great Alec, what shall we do?
Posted by: Bruce at November 26, 2024 04:48 AM (BliVi)

LOL
Posted by: m at November 26, 2024 06:43 AM (VnUSN)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE HIS 4TH WIFE HILARIA HAS A FAKE SPANISH ACCENT

Posted by: Ben Rothliesbergergler at November 26, 2024 07:05 AM (OA79/)

117 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 26, 2024 07:08 AM (dg+HA)

118 So, Wolfus!
Did you do the deed? Just jumped on here at the tail end of the thread so haven't read comments yet.
I hope you did.

IN weather is actually very mild. Don't worry about snow and people being depressed. Goodness. Come on over!
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 26, 2024

***
TT, I actually spoke to my boss about it, and I'm planning on 1/31 as my end date! I'm not worried about snow. I lived in CO for four years and loved the four seasons every year. And I'm depressed and locked up indoors for a lot of the year here, in reverse, as the heat is terrifically oppressive. Though the natives seem to love it. So if I do get cabin fever in the North, at least I'll be in tune with my neighbors.

I'm thinking the Evansville area, though I still have to come up and look. Any suggestions are welcome!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 26, 2024 07:09 AM (J2vNu)

119 I'm suffering the w11 'experience'.
I guess Google needed to fuuk w Mac users similarly to how MS is fuuking w PC users.

Right hand cntl 0 was a big part of Zoom full in Adobe. Dell replaced right cntl with a copilot button. Adobe also got rid of marquee zoom.

This old dog is having a hard time with the new tricks.

Posted by: sTevo at November 26, 2024 07:12 AM (asuK3)

120 Justin Trudeau calls Trump just two hours after president-elect threatens devastating sanctions against Canada, Mexico and China to stop border invasion

https://mol.im/a/14126453

Posted by: Ciampino - another dogeater? at November 26, 2024 07:13 AM (i0xsb)

121
J
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Posted by: rhennigantx at November 26, 2024 07:13 AM (gbOdA)

122
Her Majesty has computer problems I swear no other person ever suffers from. I keep telling her that having ten tabs open in the browser plus AOL doesn't help with memory, but I may as well talk to the wall.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 07:19 AM (dxSpM)

123 I wonder how long it will be before the DoNotStab: 1 post will be viewed as eerily prophetic ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:24 AM (gY0JQ)

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