Daily Tech News 1 March 2025

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Skype will die in May. (Tom's Hardware)

May 5, to be precise.

Microsoft thinks you will move to Teams. I don't think anyone who isn't already using Teams is going to switch to it because the messaging app they liked is being killed off.

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AMD has officially announced pricing of the 9070 XT graphics card at $599. (Tom's Hardware)

The 9070 will also exist.

This competes fairly evenly - if we accept AMD's numbers - with Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti, which has an MSRP of $749, but sells for $899 and up at retail, or would do if it were available at retail at all, which it isn't.

None of the new Nvidia cards announced in recent months are available to buy.

So if AMD's new card is $300 cheaper, and has very similar performance, and is actually available - and reports are that cards have been shipping from manufacturers since January - AMD could do well here.

It's not quite cheap enough or fast enough to make me regret buying the 7800 XT, but so far it looks very promising. It's seems to outperform Nvidia's RTX 4080, which launched in November 2022 for $1199.

It's a bit annoying though seeing a $600 card described as "mid-range". That's a high-end card. $1200 is a stupidly overpriced card.
Intel's $28 billion Ohio fabs have been delayed, just a bit. (Thurrott)

Work started in 2022, with the first fab planned to come online this year.

That date has been shifted out to 2030. Or maybe 2032.
Autodesk, the market leader in design software because it bought all its competitors, is laying off 9% of its workers because it saw a year-on-year revenue increase of 23%. (Fast Company)

That makes sense.
Firefox is saying that its new license, which allowed the company to do whatever it wanted with your data, was never intended to say that it allowed the company to do whatever it wanted with your data. (The Verge)

Remember that data is encrypted from your browser to whatever website you are using. If the browser itself steals your data, there is nothing you can do to prevent that. So the threat that a browser could do that will be taken seriously.

And if Mozilla didn't mean to say this in their license agreement... Why did they?
"I recommend being in the office at least every weekday", said Google co-founder Sergei Brin, without a trace of irony. (New York Times) (archive site)

"Your weekends are your own", he added. "As long as you put in another twenty hours from home."

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Poit.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 01, 2025 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

2 Poke.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 01, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 01, 2025 04:19 AM (rii+a)

4 w00t

Posted by: m at March 01, 2025 04:20 AM (v0TzN)

5 I told them Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at March 01, 2025 04:22 AM (v0TzN)

6 G'Day everyone
Another horrible night

Posted by: Skip at March 01, 2025 04:41 AM (fwDg9)

7 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 01, 2025 04:43 AM (dg+HA)

8 It was 12:30am last night but every night this week slept 4 hours and then awake for hours.

Posted by: Skip at March 01, 2025 04:56 AM (fwDg9)

9 8 It was 12:30am last night but every night this week slept 4 hours and then awake for hours.
Posted by: Skip at March 01, 2025 04:56 AM (fwDg9)

That is me most nights.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 01, 2025 05:00 AM (bss/y)

10 Teams is awfu software with an obnoxious UI. One small detail, whenever you briefly over over a person's avatar/circle a detailed panel of info and options flies out. It happens all the time by accident and is annoying to vomit out all that info when you don't want it.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 01, 2025 05:05 AM (MwpR9)

11 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 01, 2025 05:15 AM (hoCmQ)

12
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: that makes two of us.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 05:15 AM (dg+HA)

13
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 01, 2025 05:15 AM (tljrc)

14 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 01, 2025 05:18 AM (RP0h0)

15 "Your weekends are your own", he added. "As long as you put in another twenty hours from home."

Are those 20 weekend hours or total week hours?

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 01, 2025 05:20 AM (hoCmQ)

16 Good morning, good people. Weather forecast indicates a warming trend, I agree, though there will be a couple brutal betrayals shoulder their way in during the warming period. Don't care an iota, I'm so pleased my beloved country is embarking on the struggle to regain it's greatness, we could not possibly have a leader more suited to the task.

In keeping with this, may all effort undertaken by you result in maximum benefit, with equal grief for the leftwit fungus befouling us currently.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 01, 2025 05:22 AM (hKoQL)

17 16 Good morning, good people. Weather forecast indicates a warming trend, I agree, though there will be a couple brutal betrayals shoulder their way in during the warming period. Don't care an iota, I'm so pleased my beloved country is embarking on the struggle to regain it's greatness, we could not possibly have a leader more suited to the task.

In keeping with this, may all effort undertaken by you result in maximum benefit, with equal grief for the leftwit fungus befouling us currently.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 01, 2025 05:22 AM (hKoQL)

Good goal!

Posted by: m at March 01, 2025 05:24 AM (v0TzN)

18 G'morning, all.

50.4 degrees outs pretty good weather for a walk in a bit.

Trying to decide on if the HF, Hercules brand of 3/8 20v impact is worth switching to.

Pretty good starter pack deal, and the reviews seem to be good for the Pro-sumer level of work that I do.

Decisions...decisions...

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 01, 2025 05:28 AM (a1415)

19
don't use skype, so the chances of my migrating to teams seem ... minimal ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 01, 2025 05:33 AM (RP0h0)

20 Had to get travel mug from truck, not bad out now. 50s today but seeing 30s tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at March 01, 2025 05:35 AM (fwDg9)

21 Sergei Brin (NYT): He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” for a particular set of employees working on AI and AI-adjacent stuff

Posted by: m at March 01, 2025 05:38 AM (v0TzN)

22 >>>Trying to decide on if the HF, Hercules brand of 3/8 20v impact is worth switching to.

I'm sitting here trying to guess what the topic is, here, and I don't see clues. Still looking!

Posted by: m at March 01, 2025 05:39 AM (v0TzN)

23 Maybe it's a gun?

Posted by: m at March 01, 2025 05:40 AM (v0TzN)

24 m, battery operated tool

Posted by: Ben Had at March 01, 2025 05:41 AM (mB6WH)

25 Thanks, Ben Had!

Posted by: m at March 01, 2025 05:41 AM (v0TzN)

26 I'm guessing that if I were more awake, a link might have been helpful.

https://tinyurl.com/42vjs523

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 01, 2025 05:43 AM (a1415)

27 HF has been stepping up their game from what i hear. I've never got any of the Hercules line myself (because I'm ashameless Milwaukee fanboi), but i haven't heard anything bad about it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 05:44 AM (jKo6M)

28 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 01, 2025 05:47 AM (AN2gy)

29 "(because I'm ashameless Milwaukee fanboi)"

I had just ordered and received the new Milwaukee 1/4" starter pack form Big Orange, and damn if the battery/charger wasn't defective straight out of the box. If I held the battery just right, I could get it to charge, but multiple attempts gave me about a 50% "Bad Battery' indicator light.

Took it ack yesterday, and happened to be in Harbor Freight afterward and saw the starter pack special, and began to think....Hmmmmm.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 01, 2025 05:48 AM (a1415)

30 Firefox is saying that its new license, which allowed the company to do whatever it wanted with your data, was never intended to say that it allowed the company to do whatever it wanted with your data. (The Verge)

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I'm so glad I experienced pre-2005 online life where the tools were created for the user to browse the internet and not the internet to browse the user.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:48 AM (OgBsb)

31 I actually keep my home tools and work tools separate. Milwaukee for work, Dewalt for home. That way i never use something out of my truck for a home project, forget to put it back, and be SOL on a job site.

I have kind of notice Milwaukee quality slipping. It's almost like they're just Rigid tools with a coat of red paint and a bigger price tag, now

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 05:50 AM (jKo6M)

32 Took it ack yesterday, and happened to be in Harbor Freight afterward and saw the starter pack special, and began to think....Hmmmmm.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

-

I cannot recommend Home Depot's house brand, Ridgid, enough. Full lifetime warranty on all tools and batteries. I've had to replace a battery before after a few years and they confirmed it was bad and overnighted a new one to me.

I won't buy anything else now.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:51 AM (OgBsb)

33 Good morning from Boise, ID. On the inbound leg of the road trip to deposit the MiL at the assisted living facility up north by her brother. 3 days of driving 600+ mi/day and two nights in a shared room with the mental equivalent of a 10 year old (on the best day). Today I get to fly home and have mexican food and a cold cerveza. It's gonna be a god good day.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 01, 2025 05:53 AM (vu9m+)

34 I have kind of notice Milwaukee quality slipping.

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I started seeing that a few years ago. I think it started before COVID, too, which was inconvenient timing on their part.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:53 AM (OgBsb)

35 I won't buy anything else now.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:51 AM (OgBsb)

Really? I think I've had the opposite experience, at least second hand, and years ago.

I'd give them a second look, but there's no vacancy on the charger wall anymore....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 05:54 AM (jKo6M)

36 *yawn*

Guten morgen, Hordevolk.

Posted by: pookysgirl on the Lil Pooky shift at March 01, 2025 05:56 AM (Wt5PA)

37 Lowes's Kobalt brand is good for yard tools I've found. Don't like their other stuff though. Too lightweight and rattly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 05:57 AM (jKo6M)

38 Thanks for the tool input.

Time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 01, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415)

39 @33, Wow...that's a TRUE labor of love. I hope you recover well.

Cold and blustery here in NW IL. 50 mph wind gusts and strong winds all day long. Glad I got lots of tree work done in Feb, or I'd spend the day picking up sticks, ha.

Soros and crew practically color-revolutionized America, didn't they. I am not so sure they didn't succeed, with Trump as a stop-gap for these next few years.

Posted by: lizabth at March 01, 2025 05:57 AM (Jfw7U)

40 Off to Delaware
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at March 01, 2025 05:57 AM (fwDg9)

41 *all day YESTERDAY* on those winds

Posted by: lizabth at March 01, 2025 05:58 AM (Jfw7U)

42 It's funny because Milwaukee is what made me try Ridgid. I've still got some heavy wired stuff of theirs, but I haven't really considered the brand since COVID.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:59 AM (OgBsb)

43 Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:51 AM (OgBsb)

Does anyone ever actually say that to women? I know a vocal minrity complain about it, but I've never heard anything like it in any context for my entire life.

Posted by: pookysgirl on the Lil Pooky shift at March 01, 2025 06:00 AM (Wt5PA)

44 but I haven't really considered the brand since COVID.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:59 AM (OgBsb)

All my stuff is pre-coof, but cow orkers all have newer stuff, and the difference is surprisingly noticeable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 06:00 AM (jKo6M)

45 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Blop

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 01, 2025 06:03 AM (6K6Eu)

46 Never have used Autodesk, always been a Solidworks or Creo user. Certainly never used Catia. But the annual license for SW is about $1700. This is probably the last year that I'm gonna renew it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 01, 2025 06:04 AM (vu9m+)

47 Does anyone ever actually say that to women? I know a vocal minrity complain about it, but I've never heard anything like it in any context for my entire life.
Posted by: pookysgirl on the Lil Pooky shift at March 01, 2025 06:00 AM (Wt5PA)

I think it's like the line that's always used in movies, "you look like shit". No one ever actually says that to a person in real life. It's just a narrative trope to tell the audience that this one person is supposed to have been through the wringer, and the other person notices it.

"Smile more" is just a narrative trope used by radfems to tell their audience that all women are dour joyless bitches suffering under the patriarchy and all men are arrogant superficial dicks who don't care that she's suffering under their patriarchy. No one actually says that in real life, it's just for storytelling purposes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 06:06 AM (jKo6M)

48
CATIA is an acronym.

Can't
Access
That
Information
Anymore

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 06:06 AM (dg+HA)

49 That "you'd be prettier if you smiled more"? My second husband all the time. I did not handle getting sick well.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 01, 2025 06:07 AM (o5+a9)

50 mornin yall. A local company that makes peanut paste to send to Africa had their USAID funding cut and now has the sad's:

"It's been a long tradition of Americans feeding the world," Moore said. "I've been to Sudan, I've been to Chad, I've been to Congo...when you go to those places, you don't see food that says 'Here's a gift from the Russian people' or 'Here's a gift from the Chinese people,' but you do see food that says 'This is a gift from the American people."

It will be ok though because Raphael Warnock is on the case. That guy knows grifts, I mean, gifts.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:08 AM (vFG9F)

51 Does anyone ever actually say that to women? I know a vocal minrity complain about it, but I've never heard anything like it in any context for my entire life.
Posted by: pookysgirl on the Lil Pooky shift

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I don't think many people will risk it, which is comical when you think about it. Parents are probably safest, but even conservative parents tend to avoid raising anything except boys these days.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 06:09 AM (OgBsb)

52 Peanut butter to Africa?

That's like sending corn to Iowa, or retards to Belgium.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 06:10 AM (jKo6M)

53 And FWIW, American Airlines customer service sucks. It took an hour conversation with a real person whose native language was NOT ENGLISH to change my flight.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 01, 2025 06:10 AM (vu9m+)

54 Radfems have their own patriarchy, made up of 'trans' men, ie: men who dress up as women.

These men can do no wrong, and radfems are happy to submit and bow down to them all day long. They are happy to diminish themselves at their very core to make room for big, hulking men in dresses. Now THAT is subjugation.

Posted by: lizabth at March 01, 2025 06:10 AM (Jfw7U)

55 "That's like sending corn to Iowa, or retards to Belgium.
Posted by: Warai-otoko"

Coal to Newcastle. There was a guy who actually made money on it one time.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:11 AM (vFG9F)

56 Coal to Newcastle. There was a guy who actually made money on it one time.
Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:11 AM (vFG9F)

*that's* the phrase that wasn't coming to mind. So i decided to take a gratuitous swipe at Belgium instead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 06:13 AM (jKo6M)

57

"It's been a long tradition of Americans feeding the world," Moore said..."
+++

Sam Kinison shares his thoughts on the subject:

https://youtu.be/P0q4o58pKwA

Posted by: Don't live in the desert! at March 01, 2025 06:14 AM (dg+HA)

58 I've gradually been divesting myself of many tools that were used in my career, no longer any application for them. Did not realize the investment at first, holy cow that is an impressive total to trust to the security of a metal box, with the box being highly visible to the public. And you get to leave it every night in the open, trusting management to at least exercise reasonable care of it's security. I did have homeowner's insurance on everything, thanks to my very astute insurance agent.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 01, 2025 06:14 AM (hKoQL)

59 Well, I'm off to pick up some studs and drywall. Hooray, weekend projects. Have a groovy weekend hordechachos.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2025 06:15 AM (jKo6M)

60 I have used Ryobi stuff for years, no issues. I am a a Bosch fanboy but their drills and stuff are too expensive.

Posted by: Accomack at March 01, 2025 06:16 AM (RBD82)

61 Warai-otoko

The Belgians had it coming

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at March 01, 2025 06:19 AM (WgHS8)

62 My plumber uses Milwaukee power tools. He even has an electric jackhammer.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 01, 2025 06:19 AM (vu9m+)

63 https://youtu.be/P0q4o58pKwA
Posted by: Don't live in the desert!
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LOL. One of my favorites.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 01, 2025 06:22 AM (hoCmQ)

64 Coal to Newcastle. There was a guy who actually made money on it one time.
Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:11 AM (vFG9F)
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Timothy Dexter. Made a series of insane business decisions that would have bankrupted anybody else, but they all paid off.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 01, 2025 06:22 AM (6K6Eu)

65 And if you want to understand why a guy would say that, see Usha Vance as JD takes the oath of office. There a flash of a smile that indicates pride in her man. I didn't get it before.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 01, 2025 06:23 AM (o5+a9)

66 Maybe the "smile" trope was before my time. I've never heard anyone wolf-whistled either.

Maybe I'm just sheltered, having lived in conservative/military places my whole life, with the military having the overt sexual harassment beaten out of it before Pooky joined. I've been to some pretty wild parties, though.

Posted by: pookysgirl on the Lil Pooky shift at March 01, 2025 06:25 AM (Wt5PA)

67 While talking to my mom yesterday, I accidentally discovered a new strategy. When comparing PDTs actions and appointments to Joe Biden's, don't say "Biden", say "The previous president".

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:30 AM (vFG9F)

68
*I've never heard anyone wolf-whistled either.*

We're honking our horns to serve you better:

https://youtu.be/bts28rz0lJ0

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at March 01, 2025 06:32 AM (dg+HA)

69 Evening and morning to all the Saturday toilers and ealry weekend risers! 'Tis Saturn's Day at last. And I have a four-day weekend, thanks to Mawdi Graw.

The new thing around here is to refer to the Sat. before Fat Tues. as "Samedi Gras." I suppose that makes tomorrow "Dimanche Gras." Pffft. (I have bittersweet memories of this weekend, no matter when it falls in Feb. or March, but especially when MG is late like this. I'll be glad when it's over.)

Anyway! Trump lives, Vance is great, and interest rates (as per Ace's post of yesterday) are falling. Good news al around!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 06:32 AM (omVj0)

70 While talking to my mom yesterday, I accidentally discovered a new strategy. When comparing PDTs actions and appointments to Joe Biden's, don't say "Biden", say "The previous president".
Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025

***
Yes; let's do our best to wash *that* taste out of our mouths. Good idea.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 06:33 AM (omVj0)

71 "Timothy Dexter. Made a series of insane business decisions that would have bankrupted anybody else, but they all paid off.
Posted by: Captain Obvious,"

LORD Timothy Dexter, the greatest philosopher in the known world.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:33 AM (vFG9F)

72 Maybe the "smile" trope was before my time.
--

That's an interesting point. Why would good, very solid, very simple advice like that be driven out of the public sphere and replaced with "you'd be prettier if you got prison tattoos and a nose ring"?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 06:34 AM (OgBsb)

73 Off to Delaware
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip

Don't forget the free pudding at the Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Memorial Welcome Center and Emergency Eldercare Facility!

Posted by: Delaware Welcomes You, fat! at March 01, 2025 06:34 AM (RAvq7)

74 What did the Ukrainian dude do to deserve an additional "y" in his name?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 01, 2025 06:35 AM (dg+HA)

75 Just caught up on the drama between lil Z and PDTS. And WTAF is going on with SDNY and the FBI over this Epstein list. I hope PDTS personally goes to NY and fires everyone in that office and has Kash and Bondi personally handing out copies of the list.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 01, 2025 06:38 AM (vu9m+)

76 Beware the 1st of March

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 01, 2025 06:38 AM (gbOdA)

77 "Yes; let's do our best to wash *that* taste out of our mouths. Good idea.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"

It puts the emphasis on the previous administration and not the man.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

78 I've never heard "You'd be prettier if you smiled" in real life, but I have heard, and used, "You're lovely . . . especially when you smile."

What I *know* I've never heard in IRL: "You're beautiful when you're angry."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 06:39 AM (omVj0)

79 *I've never heard anyone wolf-whistled either.*

We're honking our horns to serve you better:

https://youtu.be/bts28rz0lJ0
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference

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On reddit there was a woman complaining because she and her husband were in a discussion about how degrading that kind of thing is, and she had a friend drive by and whistle/honk (or similar) at her husband at some place where he was routinely out in public.

She was complaining because he came home elated and it was all he would talk about for a couple of days.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 06:39 AM (OgBsb)

80
You'd be prettier if you'd smile more

How pretty you look with tears.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025 06:42 AM (dxSpM)

81 We don't deserve them.

https://youtu.be/24A-wIXhLiE

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 01, 2025 06:43 AM (ExV1e)

82 What I *know* I've never heard in IRL: "You're beautiful when you're angry."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Neither have I.

So if I am, I will probably never know.

Posted by: Baron Samedi Gras Miklos with voodoo reference at March 01, 2025 06:44 AM (RAvq7)

83 Mom: I'm not so sure Pete Hegseth has enough experience to be able to do a good job.

Me: The previous President's Secretary of Defence had 30 years in the military, presided over the Afghanistan pullout, and went AWOL for a week.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:45 AM (vFG9F)

84 I know I'm not handsomer when I'm angry, so I don't expect anyone else to be.

Nobody looks good yelling. It's why I hated going to bars in the '80s: The "music" and crowd noise was so loud you couldn't be heard unless you put your lips practically into the lady's ear and bellowed. "YOU LOOK GREAT! WANT TO DANCE?" "MAYBE LATER!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)

85
She was complaining because he came home elated and it was all he would talk about for a couple of days.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 06:39 AM (OgBsb)

That's because men never, but never, hear any kind of compliment from women. It's like some kind of iron law among them: you'll ruin a guy if you say something nice to him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025 06:48 AM (dxSpM)

86 What did the Ukrainian dude do to deserve an additional "y" in his name?
Posted by: I gotta ask at March 01, 2025 06:35 AM (dg+HA)

You ever try to play the piano with your dick? -- V. Zelenskyyyyy

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 01, 2025 06:48 AM (ExV1e)

87 We don't deserve them.

Ok. You have an ivy league education and live in NYC working as a GS-7. BFD. I bet she has student debt out the wazoo and a humanities degree.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 01, 2025 06:49 AM (vu9m+)

88 Ha ha. The Associated Press must be feeling the TRUMP!!! curse. They are asking for donations now.

"If you believe in the importance of a free and fair press, please consider supporting AP. Your donation advances our mission to provide fact-based, nonpartisan information to the world. "

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

89 What did the Ukrainian dude do to deserve an additional "y" in his name?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Some ask y

I ask y not

Posted by: John Fitzgerald Kennedyy at March 01, 2025 06:50 AM (RAvq7)

90 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

91 That's because men never, but never, hear any kind of compliment from women. It's like some kind of iron law among them: you'll ruin a guy if you say something nice to him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025

***
The then-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 would compliment me quite often, both when we had our clothes on and when we didn't. I guess I'm ruint.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 06:51 AM (omVj0)

92 I passed a funeral procession at 6:30, limo 2 cats and a hearse

Posted by: Skip at March 01, 2025 06:52 AM (tcekO)

93 You ever try to play the piano with your dick? -- V. Zelenskyyyyy
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I've played my organ hundreds of times a year for 50 years....

Posted by: Chief Snarky at March 01, 2025 06:52 AM (Bggad)

94 What happened to Knight-Ridder ? That’s great the AP workin’ the truck stop glory holes. Better ‘n they deserve.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 01, 2025 06:56 AM (ebWKH)

95
Looks like I'll be doing the first lawn mowing of the year today. Not all of it, but the dog runs and some areas around the kennel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025 06:56 AM (dxSpM)

96 What did the Ukrainian dude do to deserve an additional "y" in his name?
Posted by: I gotta ask at March 01, 2025 06:35 AM

You ever try to play the piano with your dick? -- V. Zelenskyyyyy
+++
Some ask y

I ask y not
Posted by: John Fitzgerald Kennedyy
+++

LOL.
This place.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 06:56 AM (dg+HA)

97 I know I'm not handsomer when I'm angry, so I don't expect anyone else to be.
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"You'd be prettier if you'd smile more" doesn't apply at all to men. For men it's either "if you were richer" or "if you'd meticulously attend to a restrictive diet while you also spend hours in the gym for months at a time over the course of a few years"

Women know if they are attracted to men within the first 30 seconds or so of seeing/meeting them. Men don't get more attractive with some simple action.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 06:57 AM (OgBsb)

98 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025 06:48 AM (dxSpM)

Some women compliment their husbands rather regularly. If someone is not being complimented it's probably because the woman grew up in a house where there weren't many compliments or because they have a lot of anger. Best way to deal with this is to pray together and to spend some of that time thanking God for qualities in the other person. Of course, if one is married to someone who doesn't share their faith that won't work. In which case a person can always pray, "Open the eyes of their heart, Lord."'which is a phrase from the Bible. It is very hard though when one doesn't feel appreciated.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2025 06:58 AM (Z7SSA)

99
*Men don't get more attractive with some simple action.*

Unless he's wearing a diaper, you can't change him.

Posted by: Doctor Jill at March 01, 2025 06:59 AM (dg+HA)

100 Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 05:51 AM (OgBsb)

Does anyone ever actually say that to women? I know a vocal minrity complain about it, but I've never heard anything like it in any context for my entire life.
Posted by: pookysgirl
===

One cannot say anything anymore.

Not since Tailhook and the "Cigar Incident". And we are not allowed to talk about that either. It's been a lot longer than most people have been alive.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 01, 2025 07:02 AM (/lPRQ)

101 92 I passed a funeral procession at 6:30, limo 2 cats and a hearse
Posted by: Skip at March 01, 2025 06:52 AM (tcekO)

Oh, no! Jen Rubin?

Posted by: long night...lifted at March 01, 2025 07:05 AM (2NXcZ)

102 I was asked by a friend of 20 years to explain Elon to her.

I said his private life had a lot of issues, but in SpaceX and Starlink he was greatly advancing the state of the art and opening the world to communications. His Boring Company will help colonies on Mars.

He has picked good people for his teams, and has earned his money. Even when a judge in Delaware denied him billions.

She said we have nothing in common, and ended the friendship. She seems to hate Musk, Trump, Tesla, and anyone to the right of Joe Stalin.

The election broke her.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

103 Women know if they are attracted to men within the first 30 seconds or so of seeing/meeting them. Men don't get more attractive with some simple action.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more

What about the dick pics?
- Anthony Wiener?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 01, 2025 07:05 AM (/lPRQ)

104 I have never said, "You're so handsome when you're angry" nor has my husband said to me either " You're more beautiful when you're angry "
Or "You'd be prettier if you smiled more." Maybe the last one is intended as teasing to break tension during an argument?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2025 07:06 AM (/NPqS)

105 Dassault Catia is pretty big in manufacturing, especially aerospace. I know Autocad is used for architecture, I'm not not sure what else. I've never seen it used anywhere in commercial manufacturing. Sometimes I've seen baby Catia ie. SolidWorks.

Some companies that have bought into Siemens whole product line use NX cad. Doing that railroads your company into sticking with that software through all their bad decisions, price restructuring, bad updates, loss of features, etc. And you're stuck there at least through a product's design and implementation phase. For an aircraft or automobile with tight regulations you could also be stuck for the entire products continued lifecycle. Decades with a design software company. Not great.

Posted by: Paul Anka at March 01, 2025 07:07 AM (cduTK)

106 Itinerant Alley Butcher

Her second husband has billions. She came out alright. It would help her if she could forget her time with Hillary.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

107 91 That's because men never, but never, hear any kind of compliment from women. It's like some kind of iron law among them: you'll ruin a guy if you say something nice to him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025

What? I must have been raised right, b/c I never heard that.
Also, keep the gratitude flowing. Everyone likes to hear "Thank you!".

Posted by: sal at March 01, 2025 07:08 AM (f+FmA)

108
"She said we have nothing in common, and ended the friendship."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:05 AM

---
What did you lose?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 07:08 AM (dg+HA)

109 FenelonSpoke

"Honey, put down that meat cleaver" are words you don't want to say during an argument.

Secret rules for guys: Never argue in a kitchen. Or near cast iron skillets.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

110 Acad is used widely in Civil Engineering. Revit mostly for architecture. The cost for licensing is crazy, but nowadays they can't do without it.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

111 Integrity kick off sock.

I legitimately need a flashing sign saying, "hey dummy, turn off sock". Or a one use sock toggle.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 01, 2025 07:11 AM (cduTK)

112 I've had women compliment my car. That's good enough for me.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)

113 Quarter Twenty

Nothing. It is freedom from an angry, ignorant, mentally ill person.

We had a good friendship. But that was in the past.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

114 That "you'd be prettier if you smiled more"?
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I always say that, right after telling her to calm down.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 01, 2025 07:13 AM (n4GiU)

115 I have never said, "You're so handsome when you're angry" nor has my husband said to me either " You're more beautiful when you're angry "
Or "You'd be prettier if you smiled more." Maybe the last one is intended as teasing to break tension during an argument?

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I think you're accidentally making the point here.

Men have to secure husband status, or at least serious "potential mate" (or high-tier "I want you as part of my harem", I guess) status before the occasional compliment happens.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (OgBsb)

116 Secret rules for guys: Never argue in a kitchen. Or near cast iron skillets.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

We have a new rule, for our over-29 years:
Don't talk to me when I'm cooking.

If you distract me, something will turn out badly.

Posted by: sal at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (f+FmA)

117 Dang, I just realized it's already March. Winter is over here. In a month or so I will be walking around the yard nearly naked, prompting many compliments from passerbys.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)

118 Life is too short to have negative people in your life.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (dg+HA)

119 "Life is too short to have negative people in your life.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty"

Aint that the truth. The sad truth at times.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

120 Secret rules for guys: Never argue in a kitchen. Or near cast iron skillets.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

We have a new rule, for our over-29 years:
Don't talk to me when I'm cooking.

If you distract me, something will turn out badly.
Posted by: sal
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Years and years ago when I was still smoking I walked into the house from work and the wife had set something on fire on the stovetop.

I leaned over and lit a cigarette off of the flames before putting the fire out.

Turned out that wasn't nearly as funny to her as it was to me.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:16 AM (OgBsb)

121 fd

By passerby you mean mosquitos and chiggars, right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

122
Life is too short to have negative people in your life.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (dg+HA)

It's also too negative to have short people in your life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025 07:17 AM (dxSpM)

123 Boron Cobbie

How many years did it take for her to not bring that up?

Pretty funny to me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

124 Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (OgBsb)

Nonsense.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2025 07:18 AM (Ecw+G)

125

You'd be prettier if you showed me your pussy
...

Posted by: Chief Snarky at March 01, 2025 07:19 AM (Bggad)

126 Ok. You have an ivy league education and live in NYC working as a GS-7. BFD. I bet she has student debt out the wazoo and a humanities degree.

And is third generation grifter which means that she has an eight figure trust fund waiting for mom and dad to die.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 01, 2025 07:22 AM (a4flb)

127 I think you're accidentally making the point here.

Men have to secure husband status, or at least serious "potential mate" (or high-tier "I want you as part of my harem", I guess) status before the occasional compliment happens.
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Nonsense.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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o_O

This seems pretty easy. Ask your son, husband, etc. how often they have ever gotten compliments from women that aren't related to them. Tell them they need to be brutally honest about it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:22 AM (OgBsb)

128 "You'd be prettier if you showed me your pussy
...
Posted by: Chief Snarky"

Ok, but no cracks about it.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at March 01, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

129 Are men so shallow that a complement can turn our head and heart around?

Wait. Don't answer that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

130 Years and years ago when I was still smoking I walked into the house from work and the wife had set something on fire on the stovetop.

I leaned over and lit a cigarette off of the flames before putting the fire out.

Turned out that wasn't nearly as funny to her as it was to me.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more
===

That is funny.
Even suave and debonair. James Bond kind of cool.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 01, 2025 07:23 AM (/lPRQ)

131 Dang, I just realized it's already March. Winter is over here. In a month or so I will be walking around the yard nearly naked, prompting many compliments from passerbys.
Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)
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Only *nearly* naked? Are you some kind of "never nude?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 01, 2025 07:23 AM (BpYfr)

132 Svengoolie tonight has the 1974 Dracula with Jack Palance in the title role.

But we have The List of Adrian Messenger from the library. I haven't seen it since the network TV run in the late '60s, so it will be new to me. It must be the only one of Philip MacDonald's novels, mystery or thriller, to have been filmed -- though he did pen a lot of screenplays and teleplays. Sahara w/ Bogart, for instance, and Rebecca for Hitchcock. IMDB says he did an uncredited rewrite on Bride of Frankenstein. He knew how to make a story dramatic, for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)

133 Men have to secure husband status, or at least serious "potential mate" (or high-tier "I want you as part of my harem", I guess) status before the occasional compliment happens.

I only hear "you look nice" when she picks out my clothes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 01, 2025 07:24 AM (a4flb)

134 "Only *nearly* naked? Are you some kind of "never nude?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

I learned my lesson about weed whackers.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at March 01, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

135
"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

~ Mark Twain

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 07:25 AM (dg+HA)

136 Seriously, being able to appreciate the actions or presence of your partner is important. It does not have to be part of a strategy of man-manipulation.

Verbal and non-verbal actions work.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:25 AM (u82oZ)

137 Bonus points:

Ask if your son or husband remembers that one compliment from that attractive stranger that happened years ago.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:26 AM (OgBsb)

138 I was wrong about Philip MacDonald. He had several of his other novels filmed. His creepy proto-serial killer novel, Murder Gone Mad, is not on the list, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 07:27 AM (omVj0)

139 Mrs fd has a visceral reaction to Jack Palance. She can't even look at him.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

140 I was in a restaurant last Sunday after church with a friend of mine. I went to the rest room and when I came back there was an older guy with his wife ( She had gotten out of the booth before him and I guess was leaving for their car. The man was bent over and walking with a cane. He said to me smiling, You better go past me now. Otherwise you'll be here forever." I said, "It's o.k . You're a very handsome man." And he smiled. I have no desire to commit bigamy with that man. 😉. Am I always good at giving compliments to people? No
But contained in the advice from the Mennonite paper I read re entry it had an article
"Proven ways to get along.
better with people " and one suggestion was this: "Never miss an opportunity to give a genuine compliment or say something encouraging to someone."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2025 07:29 AM (aCEbO)

141
Ask if your son or husband remembers that one compliment from that attractive stranger that happened years ago.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:26 AM (OgBsb)

Can't remember things that never happened. However, we're told that the desire to be complimented is just emotional immaturity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025 07:29 AM (dxSpM)

142 Powerline Week in Pictures:

https://tinyurl.com/43cuzmp4

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:30 AM (u82oZ)

143 The FBI is returning the property seized during the 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago to President Trump, according to the White House.

The Archive packed most of these boxes.
They were handled and shipped by GSA.
The FBI is corrupt.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 01, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

144 - mosquitoes and chiggers

Ok, now that there's funny, I don't care who ya are.

NaCly, I limited out (5) on trout in a state park pond yesterday morning. 15, 15, 15, 15.5, 16 inchers.
Had the place to myself for most of it. Trout license status - more than paid for.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 01, 2025 07:30 AM (ItCQP)

145 Have a great day, everyone.

Not tired of wining.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

146 Although "Thank you dear, for taking out the trash" may not be quite as immediately impressive as some hot , young woman they dont don't know saying, "You have very nice eyes."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2025 07:34 AM (qHVM4)

147 FenelonSpok

I do something similar. When I get unexpected help, I say "Your mom did a good job with you." Almost always brings a smile.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

148 Let's see. It's Saturday. Hmmm ... think I'll go with Chablis.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at March 01, 2025 07:34 AM (dg+HA)

149 We have a new rule, for our over-29 years:
Don't talk to me when I'm cooking.

If you distract me, something will turn out badly.
Posted by: sal at March 01, 2025 07:14 AM (f+FmA)

Back in the day, before my wife's parent's generation passed and my SIL decided she couldn't visit literally Hitler adjacent people, I used to do the cooking for the holidays. I would always hang up a sign that read "it'll be done when it's done".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 01, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

150 The man was bent over and walking with a cane. He said to me smiling, You better go past me now. Otherwise you'll be here forever." I said, "It's o.k . You're a very handsome man." And he smiled.

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You're accidentally making all the points.

You, a younger woman, told an elderly decrepit man, hunched over a cane to the point that he was an obstruction to walking, (and one that you didn't want anything to do with), that he was very handsome.

The old man has told that story to his friends a dozen or more times by now.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:38 AM (OgBsb)

151 Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 01, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

Very nice!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2025 07:40 AM (20pis)

152 The FBI is corrupt.

Given that the tens or hundreds of thousands of deadbeat government employees have lost or are likely to lose their jobs to DOGE/Trump/MAGA their TDS goes near 100 level on the DSM-5 scale, they have completely lost the ability to judge including in the jury box.

Even if there were one or two people in this country with the authority and competence to conduct an investigation based purely on the law, not on partisian politics, there are no Babylon DC judges and there are no members of the jury capable of conducting a trial that leads to a guilty verdict no matter how solid the case.

The FBI will be lawless for as long as there is a Babylon DC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 01, 2025 07:41 AM (a4flb)

153 But contained in the advice from the Mennonite paper I read re entry it had an article
"Proven ways to get along.
better with people " and one suggestion was this: "Never miss an opportunity to give a genuine compliment or say something encouraging to someone."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2025

***
Fen, it took me a long time to realize that when a total stranger (who is not trying to sell me something) gives me a compliment out of the blue, it's real. I tell Miss Linda, "Everybody can't be in a conspiracy to make you think you're *better* than you are."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 01, 2025 07:42 AM (omVj0)

154 I'm not really interested in getting in the middle of the Fen/Boron discussion but I will say that I find it interesting how often women will tell men that they don't know what it's like being a man.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 01, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

155 I'm not really interested in getting in the middle of the Fen/Boron discussion but I will say that I find it interesting how often women will tell men that they don't know what it's like being a man.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

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The absolute best practical example is the poor lesbian chick that tried pretending it for a year or so and then killed herself.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:46 AM (OgBsb)

156 Frequently when I interact with a female in a simple transaction such as the grocery store or hotel front desk I'll ask her name. Even if it's a very common name like Mary or Susan, just say something complimentary about her name. Almost always she'll react positively.
It feels a little manipulative, but essentially I think she interprets it as "if my name is pretty, then I'm pretty."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 01, 2025 07:47 AM (dg+HA)

157 The absolute best practical example is the poor lesbian chick that tried pretending it for a year or so and then killed herself.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You'd be prettier if you'd smile more at March 01, 2025 07:46 AM (OgBsb)

In fairness, she had other issues, but it did mess her up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 01, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

158 Oh no. I got an email saying my icloud account is going to be canceled. I didn't even know I had an icloud account.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:49 AM (vFG9F)

159 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 01, 2025 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

160 I'll take care of that icloud account after I order these African penis pills.

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

161
Even if it's a very common name like Mary or Susan, just say something complimentary about her name. Almost always she'll react positively.

Stopped at a diner in NC for breakfast while on a drive. Paying the check, I saw the hostess's name tag. "Cassandrea!" I thundered. "What a magnificent name!" "Oh, you say that so nice," she replied.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 01, 2025 07:51 AM (dxSpM)

162
On Monday, Pfizer named Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni as its executive vice president and chief medical officer, overseeing the company’s safety and regulatory teams globally.

Until Jan. 18, Cavazzoni had a different job - director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Effectively, she was the FDA’s top regulator.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 01, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

163 If an iCloud account that you never used gets deleted, did it ever exist?

Posted by: A bear in the woods looking for toilet paper at March 01, 2025 07:51 AM (dg+HA)

164 Rush L. would always tell women that their name was in his "top ten list of women's names".

Posted by: fd at March 01, 2025 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

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