Daily Tech News 7 March 2025

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The Trump administration is planning to demand the social media accounts of people applying for green cards, US citizenship, and asylum or refugee status. (The Verge)

Which is entirely sensible. You'd have to be stupid to document criminal plans online where anyone can read them, but people are indeed stupid.
"One way of looking at this is that it's an attempt at basically catching up to modernity," Kathleen Bush-Joseph, an analyst at the Migration Policy Institute's US immigration program, told The Verge. Bush-Joseph, whose work partly focuses on efforts to modernize the US immigration system, said that the immigration system "does not really reflect the reality of the twenty-first century in important ways."
I'm pretty sure that's not what The Verge wanted to hear.
Two documentary filmmakers sued the first Trump administration over the State Department's social media policy in 2019, arguing that it violated the First Amendment and hadn't proven necessary to protect national security interests. ... A federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice in 2023.
So perish unbelievers.

Tech News

AMD may have an unexpected winner in the Radeon 9070 non-XT. (YouTube)

It's a little faster than expected, and a little cheaper than expected, and it very power efficient - possibly the best of recent graphics cards from any manufacturer.

The cards are selling out and retailers are suggesting and restock won't come in at MSRP, though AMD is disputing that.
The US Department of Labor is investigating Scale AI. (Tech Crunch)

Scale AI is not an AI company; rather it employs large number of people to help feed training data into new AI models. Two lawsuits have recently been filed by employees over the conditions of their employment.
Has Brother's printer division done an HP? (The Register)

The company says no, but users are reporting that their printers no longer support third-party ink and toner after the latest firmware updates.
If you need more memory on your graphics card, the Zeus from Bolt Graphics might be what you want. (Serve the Home)

The base model uses 120W of power, includes 32GB of LPDDR5X memory onboard and two DDR5 SODIMM slots for another 96GB, and a 400Gb Ethernet port so you can connect an entire cluster of them together.

The top of the line runs at 500W, has 256GB of onboard memory and eight SODIMM slots, and six 800Gb Ethernet ports.

Availability is expected late next year.
Cyclone Alfred continues to take its own time to reach the coast. While delivering 110 mph winds, it's only moving as a system at around 5 mph.

It's expected to finally arrive around mid-day tomorrow.

Update: Yeah, the winds here are starting to pick up now, and I'm nowhere near the storm.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: The previous disclaimer is false.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'morning Pixy and Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 07, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2025 04:00 AM (a1415)

3 second, maybe

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 04:00 AM (CQE5S)

4 Morning, early risers! To late toilers, evening! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2025 04:01 AM (omVj0)

5 Another night of waking up at 0200.

Which gave me a chance to reed about WD and Jim SND.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2025 04:01 AM (a1415)

6 We're looking at 54 F. outside, almost no wind, the humidity down (for here, anyway). I really should go work out. Hard to summon the motivation on a Friday, though, when you've already done three workouts in a week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2025 04:04 AM (omVj0)

7 I liked Roxy Music, back in the day. Thanks for the Bryan Ferry vid, Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2025 04:10 AM (rdVOm)

8 >>>Cyclone Alfred

Online, I'm seeing headlines saying "prepare for the worst" and yikes! "The worst" would be, like, complete obliteration?

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 04:11 AM (CQE5S)

9 32.2 degrees out, with 96% RH.

Gonna be a cool walk this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2025 04:13 AM (a1415)

10 Part of the background check. Makes sense.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 07, 2025 04:14 AM (2EDzv)

11 "Online, I'm seeing headlines saying "prepare for the worst" and yikes! "The worst" would be, like, complete obliteration?"

Could be worse...
Could be raining.

Posted by: Igore at March 07, 2025 04:14 AM (a1415)

12 Pixy, I hope you're safe from cyclone Alfred!

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2025 04:15 AM (rdVOm)

13 Mornin' Wolfus!

Furry Thugs behaving better today?

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2025 04:16 AM (rdVOm)

14 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks where happy grins are rampant following the last couple weeks in DC. Our prayers for JSND and family, it has been an honor to know him.

Meanwhile, may all your effort today and ALL days result in maximal benefit to you and yours with the requisite amount of anguish to the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 07, 2025 04:16 AM (hKoQL)

15 Looks like it is indeed time to replace the home heat pump and air handler.

Looks like about 16.5K for the Lennox signature series, with all the bells and whistles.

But, it should bring down the electric usage from what this old single stage in failing health has been going through.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 07, 2025 04:23 AM (a1415)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2025 04:23 AM (K861k)

17 Mornin' Wolfus!

Furry Thugs behaving better today?
Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2025

***
Hello, JQ! Yes, nothing appears stolen or held for ransom. I suspect it was little Dagny the Siberian who did for the matches; she's recently discovered how much fun it is to sit atop, to one side of, or behind the microwave.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2025 04:25 AM (omVj0)

18 'Which is entirely sensible. You'd have to be stupid to document criminal plans online where anyone can read them, but people are indeed stupid.'

Yes. Yes they are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2025 04:30 AM (bss/y)

19 Let's Stick Together was written and recorded Wilbert Harrison in in 1962. The Brian Ferry is a straight up cover of Harrison's arrangement and it is great.

In 1969 Harrison rewrote the song somewhat and released as Let's Work Together. This later version had different lyrics which better reflected the peace and dope mood of the times. Canned Heat would record it at this time and was something of an instant classic

Harrison also wrote one the all time rock and roll classics: Kanas City.

Let's Stick Together
https://youtu.be/-NSQI51dppg

Let's Work Together
https://youtu.be/kYWiUErA9Kw

Kanas City
https://youtu.be/Ah0gn5-M2cA

Let's Work Together - Canned Heat
https://youtu.be/Ow0GzV6YxhQ

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 04:31 AM (S9FN9)

20 >>>Daily News Stuff 7 March 2025

But, but ... tech.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 04:38 AM (CQE5S)

21 Puddleglum! How goes it, in da belly of da beast?

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2025 04:42 AM (rdVOm)

22 JQ

Oh, you know. The Wailing and gnashing of teeth. Clutching of pearls and falling upon fainting couches. The stomping of feet of disgruntled bureaucrats. (shrugs)

I'm fine though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 07, 2025 04:45 AM (K861k)

23 from the Verge article:

“This is not immigration policy—it is authoritarianism and undemocratic surveillance,” Beatriz Lopez, the group’s executive director, said in an emailed statement.

No, it's ... immigration policy.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 04:46 AM (CQE5S)

24 I'm fine though.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work
-----

Excellent! Glad to hear, there's so much going on...

Posted this on ONT, but worth a repeat:

youtube.com/watch?v=8kjBNy5AlNQ

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2025 04:48 AM (rdVOm)

25 The iPhone rumor mill is in full on overdrive! Apparently Apple has invented a whole new category of smartphones: Foldable iPhones! Gasp! I can barely breathe from the overwhelming excitement.

And the rumored price for the technological breakthrough and frankly one of the pinnacles of human achievement? A mere pittance given the magnitude of the moment: $2500.00

Look for this to arrive in 2026.

https://is.gd/YYAgZ1

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 04:52 AM (S9FN9)

26 No, it's ... immigration policy.
Posted by: m

Your are a N word. No, not that one, the one with a "z".

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 04:53 AM (S9FN9)

27 I cried for Jim.

Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 07, 2025 04:54 AM (g4sLG)

28 BBC on Cyclone Alfred:

As of Friday, more than 84,000 homes in the two states were without power, and tens of thousands more were under evacuation orders.

I wonder if Starlink can help.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 04:55 AM (CQE5S)

29 I cried for Jim.
Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump

You had lots of company.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 04:56 AM (S9FN9)

30 29 I cried for Jim.
Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump

You had lots of company.

***********************

Yes, you did.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 07, 2025 04:59 AM (X+xvk)

31 Indeed, there was massive company crying for a good man who never deserved this outcome.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at March 07, 2025 05:02 AM (hKoQL)

32 To unmet friends Jim Sunk New Dawn, and Weird Dave:

A pleasure getting to know you via this public pamphlet; I cannot agree with detractors of technology in all topics, because this format has brought many associations to my door I would not otherwise have been blessed to find.

My sincere thanks for all you've done in the short time I've known you.

Friends who care for their fellows in any way they can are gifted with patience and courage that I hope to obtain someday. Men who care for their families and speak highly of them are honorable. You both have succeeded where many before have failed.

My very best wishes, hopes, and unconventional prayers for calm, peace, and comfort to you two men, your families, and friends. There is a better life after this one and we are blessed to know one another while we inhabit the earth.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at March 07, 2025 05:02 AM (DqTIB)

33 4AM. Still in the hospital. Can't sleep much, 2-3hrs max. Then it's vitals time again. Every 4 hrs.
My Pickwickian abdomen is gone. I am still unsteady on my feet, probably the residue from the double pneumonia so they are reluctant to allow me home.
I want to see my kitties.

Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 07, 2025 05:02 AM (g4sLG)

34 Is like claiming that arresting me for vandalism because i tagged an overpass in broad daylight is a violation of my privacy....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 05:05 AM (KtIIi)

35 Just came in and saw the message from Jim Sunk New Dawn. Jim, just wanted you to know how much genuine joy and laughter your comments have always brought me. You radiate positivity, intelligence, wit and a can-do attitude.

I always arrive here very late, and comment infrequently, preferring instead to read the wit and wisdom of the best commenters on the internet. Have always loved seeing the words, (*pours bourbon*), "Cheers!" You represent the very best of this remarkable collection known as the Moron Horde. That's saying quite a bit.

All respect and admiration. My heartfelt prayers will carry your name to His feet, Sir, tonight and going forward.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 07, 2025 05:05 AM (X+xvk)

36 I want to see my kitties.
Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump

Rumor has it they have escaped, formed hunting parties and are collecting mouse gifts by the ton for your arrival.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 05:08 AM (S9FN9)

37 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 07, 2025 05:11 AM (PzBTm)

38 Rumor has it they have escaped, formed hunting parties and are collecting mouse gifts by the ton for your arrival.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

My God, but you people make me laugh!

Hope you can get some needed rest, Ciampino.

And now, off to bed.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 07, 2025 05:12 AM (X+xvk)

39 Ciampino!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women can't increase reproductive value with greater resources and more experiences at March 07, 2025 05:16 AM (OgBsb)

40 I'm gonna do that "I'm smarter than the president and here's what he needs to do" thing a bit now:

It's shaping up that the outright fraud in Medicare, medicaid, and social security, is an appalling fraction of not just the outlays for those things, but federal outlays as a whole.

Change the messaging. We're not attacking MM+SS as a concept. We're not coming for your check. They are. This is your money that they are outright stealing, MM+SS recipients. Every time you have to jump through a flaming hoop to get your pittance, or be denied your pittance, know that there's one person getting paid lavishly who isn't even sick or retired, and another person getting paid who doesn't even exist and the cash is just getting laundered to some "community organizer" or something.

This is your fight. Some rotten people in the government are stealing your entitlements. And it ain't Trump and Musk doing it. Get mad.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 05:17 AM (KtIIi)

41 I posted this on the ONT. Given the comments here this me be of some value.

Since there seems to be quite a bit of dust in the air around here tonight...I have been reading Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life." It is a compact volume but is an expansive discussion about what matters in life and how to wring the most out of it.

"Life ceases for...us just when we are getting ready for it...its not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it."

https://is.gd/xffDcy

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 05:17 AM (S9FN9)

42 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 07, 2025 05:18 AM (AN2gy)

43 Dang, and I just saw the late-night news about Jim. Give 'em heck if you see this, Jim.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women can't increase reproductive value with greater resources and more experiences at March 07, 2025 05:20 AM (OgBsb)

44 "A spiritual dilemma. Man reflects on Psalm 145: 1-8 . There is a brief reference to Psalm to the Book of Revelation, it is appropriate for interested Christians and Jews and appropriate for a tech thread because it's about tech:

https://tinyurl.com/mpzyf697

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2025 05:24 AM (mGdQO)

45 Posted by: Dan Patterson at March 07, 2025 05:02 AM (DqTIB)

So very beautifully said.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:25 AM (CQE5S)

46 Change the messaging. We're not attacking MM+SS as a concept. We're not coming for your check. They are. This is your money that they are outright stealing, MM+SS recipients. Every time you have to jump through a flaming hoop to get your pittance, or be denied your pittance, know that there's one person getting paid lavishly who isn't even sick or retired, and another person getting paid who doesn't even exist and the cash is just getting laundered to some "community organizer" or something.

This is your fight. Some rotten people in the government are stealing your entitlements. And it ain't Trump and Musk doing it. Get mad.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

-

This is a fantastic thought.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Women can't increase reproductive value with greater resources and more experiences at March 07, 2025 05:26 AM (OgBsb)

47 I was just over at Accuweather reading the forecast, as one does, when I saw a very interesting ad.

DHS' very own Kristi Noem was narrating, I saw a brief clip of PDT signing something, and at the end I noticed that the text identifying her was in Espanol.

They are fighting the battle for hearts and minds.

Posted by: fluffy at March 07, 2025 05:26 AM (AN2gy)

48 Little girl snuggling her puppy. Faithpot link:

https://tinyurl.com/yc6c8a8d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2025 05:31 AM (mGdQO)

49 Also, hammer home the maliciousness of it all. This money isn't just evaporating. It's going somewhere. Someone is taking it.
This isn't a nebulous battle against faceless, entropic "waste". This isn't about some innocent "oopsies". It is theft. Wilful, malicious theft.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 05:32 AM (KtIIi)

50 People applying for green cards are not American citizens and should not be afforded the rights that citizens have.

Sadly, our courts don't understand that basic premise.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 07, 2025 05:32 AM (L5An7)

51 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 07, 2025 05:37 AM (dg+HA)

52 Good morning all. Thx Pixy
Ciampino glad to hear that you are doing better. Good luck and God bless.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 07, 2025 05:38 AM (2Km7O)

53 33° here, bit winds are at least 20mph, some big guys up to 50mph. Be windy all day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 07, 2025 05:40 AM (2Km7O)

54 Posted by: Dan Patterson at March 07, 2025 05:02 AM (DqTIB)

So very beautifully said.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:25 AM (CQE5S)

Seconded

Posted by: fluffy at March 07, 2025 05:40 AM (AN2gy)

55 Supposed to get some snow up where I am, but hasn't started yet. Mid 60s next week, which will be lovely.

Sorry to read re: Jim.

In the midst of life, we are in death. Sickness and sorrows hedge us in, and linger over and under our dearest moments.

Whether we can/choose to think about this or no, it is the truth. No matter our influence, money, beauty, intellect, artistic gifts, etc..

Posted by: lizabth at March 07, 2025 05:41 AM (Jfw7U)

56 The devotional says people check their phone times a day on average. I don't want to do that so I hope not to give into that addiction anymore today. Have a good day folks. May as the nice man I know who returned to the RCC after being away for 35 years said about a prayer he makes everyday "Please, Lord, show me something today." ( and that could be a kind person or a lovely bird or a feeling of God's love. ) so May God show you something good today, and May you have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2025 05:43 AM (Ylknx)

57 The spring winds are up in full furry in here southern New Mexico. On Wednesday, I-10 from Las Cruces to Deming, about 60 miles west, was shutdown due the dust causing near zero visibility. Today will be more of the same as the winds are going to be between 30 and 40 mph all day long.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 05:47 AM (S9FN9)

58 LOL the krazy people surfing in the early winds of Cyclone Alfred.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:47 AM (CQE5S)

59 57 The spring winds are up in full furry
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 07, 2025 05:47 AM (S9FN9)

Kinky!

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:48 AM (CQE5S)

60 Good morning, one and all. It's a breezy day and in the 30s at the moment.

Jim, I'm truly sorry to have read your update. And sorry to hear that your home health aide idea got struck down. I recommend ice for the bruising.

Weird Dave, I am sorry for your sister's passing. I'll add you to my prayer list.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 07, 2025 05:51 AM (lXoJ5)

61 CNN:

As of Friday evening, Alfred was around 105 kilometers (65 miles) east of Brisbane, moving west

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:52 AM (CQE5S)

62 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 07, 2025 05:57 AM (hoCmQ)

63
@ZelenskyyUa
14h
I spoke with Norwegian Prime Minister @jonasgahrstore. I thanked him for today’s unanimous decision by the Norwegian parliament @Stortinget to increase Norway’s aid to Ukraine this year from $3.2 billion to $7.7 billion.

This is a timely and necessary decision that should serve as an example for all our partners. The funds will be partly directed towards weapons production in Ukraine and strengthening our energy security. Thus, Ukraine’s negotiating positions on the path to a just and lasting peace will become even stronger.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:58 AM (CQE5S)

64 Currently 42 going to high of 62 today. 15 degrees warmer than yesterday.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 07, 2025 05:59 AM (hoCmQ)

65 mornin yall. I just read Jim's note. Damn. My troubles don't amount to a hill of beans. Remember that as you face your daily trials.

Posted by: fd at March 07, 2025 06:02 AM (vFG9F)

66 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 07, 2025 06:04 AM (6K6Eu)

67 Thus, Ukraine’s negotiating positions on the path to a just and lasting peace will become even stronger.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:58 AM (CQE5S)

I would love to see the Duma say "WE'LL give you a billion if you just shut the hell up and go away".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:07 AM (KtIIi)

68 I spoke with Norwegian Prime Minister @jonasgahrstore. I thanked him for today’s unanimous decision by the Norwegian parliament @Stortinget to increase Norway’s aid to Ukraine this year from $3.2 billion to $7.7 billion.

This is a timely and necessary decision that should serve as an example for all our partners. The funds will be partly directed towards weapons production in Ukraine and strengthening our energy security. Thus, Ukraine’s negotiating positions on the path to a just and lasting peace will become even stronger.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 05:58 AM (CQE5S)

Gonna throw stacks of Euros at the Rooskies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 06:09 AM (ExV1e)

69 - Good morning,

Truly saddened to read about what both Jim and Ciampino are going through.
My prayer for both is the same as for all here:
That if He hasn't already, God, in His grace, would grant the gift of faith in His Only Begotten Son and the finished work of His death on the cross, burial and resurrection.

I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me. John 14:6

Posted by: TeeJ at March 07, 2025 06:10 AM (LajFB)

70 Europe is stepping up, so PDT wins that argument!

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:10 AM (CQE5S)

71 Gonna throw stacks of Euros at the Rooskies.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 06:09 AM (ExV1e)

I would be more impressed if any of this money getting shuffled around had ever been used to actually win the damned war and send Putin back disappointed, instead of being just another loogie in the spitoon of globalist money laundering as a bunch of poor bastards are forced to do a sad reenactment of WWI.

At least the yacht industry is doing well.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:13 AM (KtIIi)

72 @70

>> Europe is stepping up, so PDT wins that argument!

But to what end?

What these countries are doing is simply theft from their citizens, err, subjects, for no good purpose.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2025 06:13 AM (XV/Pl)

73 72 @70

>> Europe is stepping up, so PDT wins that argument!

But to what end?

What these countries are doing is simply theft from their citizens, err, subjects, for no good purpose.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2025 06:13 AM (XV/Pl)

Agreed! Funding Forever Wars. And ... PDT wins that argument, too! I just hope PDT can bite his tongue and let other people point al this out.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:16 AM (CQE5S)

74 Listened to the news on the way in and it touched on how Canadians are SEETHING! at Trump because of those tariffs and how they aren't drinking American made alcohol while standing at the intersection of STUNNING! and BRAVE!

Naturally, the topic of the pre-existing tariffs that Canada already imposes against us before Trump came into office weren't mentioned. Can't imagine why. And I don't understand why stepping up to secure the border and stop human and drug trafficking is seen as a horrible thing.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 07, 2025 06:17 AM (lXoJ5)

75 I would be more impressed if any of this money getting shuffled around had ever been used to actually win the damned war and send Putin back disappointed...

From day 1 there has been exactly 0% chance of Ukraine winning the war short of full NATO engagement (i.e. WW3). The best possible outcome would have been for Ukraine to honor the agreement it inked with Russia at the start but Boris Johnson promised Little-Z that the west would stand behind Ukraine to the last Ukrainian.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 06:20 AM (ExV1e)

76 Beau Biden died in a tropical cyclone.

Posted by: Not a joke at March 07, 2025 06:22 AM (dg+HA)

77 The best possible outcome would have been for Ukraine to honor the agreement it inked with Russia at the start but

-

Yep. And even NATO outright admits they started the festivities when Russia approached them (after asking about joining NATO and being rejected) with an agreement to not expand.

"of course we wouldn't agree with that", IIRC. Because, as we can see now, there were massive opportunities to launder money and make certain individuals extremely wealthy with no oversight, risk, or pain.

I mean, sure they had to cancel elections and some little nobodies had to die waving flags and cheering patriotic /. Nazi slogans, but the yachts are worth it. Those folks are barely even people.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 06:26 AM (G+nrD)

78 Must hit the road to the electron mines. I'm on deck today: The lady who owns the company* that funds the foundation that funds us is coming in with an architect, to research the possibility of revamping our half of our building. My boss is out, so I have to be the greeter, etc. Clean T-shirt time!

* You'd know the name; it's possible you've fed your car at one of their stations.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 07, 2025 06:26 AM (omVj0)

79 75 From day 1 there has been exactly 0% chance of Ukraine winning the war short of full NATO engagement (i.e. WW3). The best possible outcome would have been for Ukraine to honor the agreement it inked with Russia at the start but Boris Johnson promised Little-Z that the west would stand behind Ukraine to the last Ukrainian.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 06:20 AM (ExV1e)

And here he is on X:

Boris Johnson
@BorisJohnson
Feb 28
It’s time for cool heads and to remember that the US and Ukraine are on the same side.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has led his people heroically for three years against completely unprovoked aggression from Russia.

The bravery of the Ukrainians has been amazing. Their suffering has been appalling.

It is they who deserve our support and they who frankly deserve our respect.

The best way forward now is for the minerals deal to be signed as soon as possible. There is still a path to peace.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:27 AM (CQE5S)

80 The best possible outcome would have been for Ukraine to honor the agreement it inked with Russia at the start but Boris Johnson promised Little-Z that the west would stand behind Ukraine to the last Ukrainian.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 06:20 AM (ExV1e)

My highly uninformed view of the war to now is that the Ukrainians have been fighting their tails off and making a good showing of it, and the Russians have been trickling in juuuust enough to keep the war at a manageable standstill for as cheap as possible. Ukraine can't advance, they don't have the means. Russia just wants to bleed them dry and has no interest in glorious shock and awe total victories, so doesn't feel the need to spend any resources to advance. And "The West" is perfectly fine with that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:30 AM (KtIIi)

81 and this:

@BorisJohnson
Feb 26
The US-Ukraine resources deal is excellent and critics are completely wrong. The Ukrainian side negotiated hard and well and it’s a result that works for both sides.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:31 AM (CQE5S)

82 Good morning morons

I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2025 06:33 AM (RIvkX)

83 I currently have the 7900 GRE, I was unable to go to Houston or DFW to score a 9070XT yesterday but I am heading to DFW today to get a 9070 at 660.

If successful I will let y'all know its power to perforance ration vice the 79000gre.

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2025 06:33 AM (X0I7i)

84 At least the yacht industry is doing well.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:13 AM (KtIIi)

Maybe I can go back to my former job.

Posted by: Meghan Markle, this Duchess thing is too much work at March 07, 2025 06:35 AM (PiwSw)

85 I've always liked Bryan Ferry, he has a great voice. My favorite is Avalon for it's dream like quality.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2025 06:35 AM (RIvkX)

86 and this:

@BorisJohnson
Feb 19
When are we Europeans going to stop being scandalised about Donald Trump and start helping him to end this war?

Of course Ukraine didn’t start the war. You might as well say that America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor.

Of course a country undergoing a violent invasion should not be staging elections. There was no general election in the UK from 1935 to 1945.

Of course Zelenskyy’s ratings are not 4%. They are actually about the same as Trump’s.

Trump’s statements are not intended to be historically accurate but to shock Europeans into action.

In particular the US can see $300bn of frozen Russian assets - mainly in Belgium. That is cash that could and should be used to pay Ukraine and compensate the US for its support.

Why is Europe preventing the unfreezing of Putin’s cash?

The US believes Belgium, France and other countries are blocking. It’s absurd. We need to get serious and fast.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

87 From day 1 there has been exactly 0% chance of Ukraine winning the war short of full NATO engagement (i.e. WW3).

Ironically, this is exactly what the left wants and they'll kill as many of us as they need to in order to make that happen.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 07, 2025 06:36 AM (lXoJ5)

88 1/2 pint was never anything more than the opportunity to justify billions of dollars in relatively pointless defense spending.

Slavic Hellhole 2 invaded Slavic Hellhole 1 to keep it out of NATO and to protect their linguistic siblings who were being punished for the Crimea.

They have nukes, and a non-zero % chance of using them.

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2025 06:36 AM (X0I7i)

89 Don't speak for US, Boris.

I know the cash is in people believing Russia is the USSR, but so far as I can tell Putin has never endorsed sexual abuse and mutilation of American children, monitored and stored every bit and byte of Americans internet usage, or joined Five Eyes to spy directly on me.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 06:36 AM (G+nrD)

90 Haven't the Russians already achieved their war aims?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2025 06:38 AM (RIvkX)

91 Also it's neat to see the bizarre double YY silliness in action.

No, it's always been spelled this way!

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 06:40 AM (G+nrD)

92 The US believes Belgium, France and other countries are blocking. It’s absurd. We need to get serious and fast.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

A quick fisking:

- Never.
- This is wilfully obtuse
- We do it just fine
- Strolls are for pippers
- Are yours intended to be historically accurate?
- That would be a war crime
- Because that would be a war crime
- Waraiotoko believes the sun rises in the east. It's absurd.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:41 AM (KtIIi)

93 "34-year-old illegal alien Juan Ariel Molina-Salles of Honduras was sentenced to 12 years in prison minus time served for killing Michael Hartwick in a hit-and-run crash as the deputy was working detail on the construction site where Molina-Salles was working"

So we pay to house and feed him for 12 years and then what? Meanwhile, Michael Hartwick is dead.

Posted by: fd at March 07, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

94 Happy Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2025 06:42 AM (gbOdA)

95 91 Also it's neat to see the bizarre double YY silliness in action.

No, it's always been spelled this way!
Posted by: Boron Quidquid

---
It'll always be Burma to me Elaine.

Posted by: J. Peterman at March 07, 2025 06:43 AM (dg+HA)

96 92 The US believes Belgium, France and other countries are blocking. It’s absurd. We need to get serious and fast.
Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

A quick fisking:

- Never.
- This is wilfully obtuse
- We do it just fine
- Strolls are for pippers
- Are yours intended to be historically accurate?
- That would be a war crime
- Because that would be a war crime
- Waraiotoko believes the sun rises in the east. It's absurd.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:41 AM (KtIIi)

Currently 11,770 replies to that tweet!

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:45 AM (CQE5S)

97 90 Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 07, 2025 06:38 AM (RIvkX)

Depends on how you frame it, they have at absolute worst assuming you are somehow able to freeze the lines precisely where they are traded some land around Kursk for the Donbas....assuming it stops today.

Russia is retarded, they lost a lot of lives that a country in a bad demographical place with aspirations to get back to peak power can ill afford but they are not dead and they can bleed the Ukies to death and the Ukies faced the same demographic challenges.

On a long timeline this has always been a dance of the cripples.

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2025 06:45 AM (X0I7i)

98 I know those backwoods organ harvesting, child trafficking Nazis think people should care, but English doesn't need two YYs at the end of a word.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 06:49 AM (G+nrD)

99 but English doesn't need two YYs at the end of a word.

We don't need a u in color or a c in defense either.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 07, 2025 06:51 AM (lXoJ5)

100 100

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:51 AM (CQE5S)

101 If you can't argue facts, argue statistics. If you can't argue statistics, argue polls. If you can't even argue the polls, just gaslight.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:51 AM (KtIIi)

102 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

103
Beau Biden died in a tropical cyclone.
Posted by: Not a joke

Where is Beau's daddy? The electronic signs that once were posted outside the entrances to J'Blowme 'n' Jill's Wilmington residence are gone.

Beside the victor stood a slave holding a golden crown, who reminded him that all glory was fleeting.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 07, 2025 06:52 AM (xG4kz)

104 *99 but English doesn't need two YYs at the end of a word.*

It's Keeeeeve!

Posted by: Try to keep up at March 07, 2025 06:53 AM (dg+HA)

105 96 A quick fisking:

- Never.
- This is wilfully obtuse
- We do it just fine
- Strolls are for pippers
- Are yours intended to be historically accurate?
- That would be a war crime
- Because that would be a war crime
- Waraiotoko believes the sun rises in the east. It's absurd.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:41 AM (KtIIi)

Currently 11,770 replies to that tweet!
Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:45 AM (CQE5S)

And it is a swamp.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:53 AM (CQE5S)

106 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Just read Jim Sunk New Dawn's note. Dusty in here.

Jim, love you better than my brother, but always request Home Health Aides with breasts smaller than your SO. Prevents bruising and swelling.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

107 (tries to remember where else YY is significant)

Wait a minute...

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 06:54 AM (G+nrD)

108 Wait a minute...
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 06:54 AM (G+nrD)

Kleinfelter's syndrome?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:54 AM (KtIIi)

109
"...but always request Home Health Aides with breasts smaller than your SO."

+++
You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at March 07, 2025 06:56 AM (dg+HA)

110 you can't argue facts, argue statistics. If you can't argue statistics, argue polls. If you can't even argue the polls, just gaslight.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:51 AM (KtIIi)

If they can't baffle you with their bullshit, they'd be happy to lie to you

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 07, 2025 06:56 AM (/6GbT)

111 My highly uninformed view of the war to now is that the Ukrainians have been fighting their tails off and making a good showing of it, and the Russians have been trickling in juuuust enough to keep the war at a manageable standstill for as cheap as possible. Ukraine can't advance, they don't have the means. Russia just wants to bleed them dry and has no interest in glorious shock and awe total victories, so doesn't feel the need to spend any resources to advance. And "The West" is perfectly fine with that.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 06:30 AM (KtIIi)

I believe that's correct. They've gained everything that they asked for... the ethnic Russian areas are no longer part of Ukraine and Ukraine is not, currently, part of NATO. They have neither the need nor the desire to take more land so they'll mostly just sit where they are and kill native Ukrainians who're being murdered by their own government to pave the way for calls to import a more diverse population.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 06:56 AM (ExV1e)

112 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

If you are sick enough to need a home health aide, you need knowledge and compassion rather than arm candy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

113 In particular the US can see $300bn of frozen Russian assets - mainly in Belgium. That is cash that could and should be used to pay Ukraine and compensate the US for its support.

I'm sure Russia won't make the return of that money part of the deal. Boris Johnson really is a piece of shit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 06:58 AM (ExV1e)

114 - Okay, question for those "in the know."

Did anyone else see early on about the Azov battalion's horrific treatment of the ethnic Russians in the two, eastern provinces...
The initial attack was on a good number of biolabs - most in the northeast...
Ukraine was infecting geese that were soon going to be migrating back to Russia with some disease.

Biab to check.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 07, 2025 06:58 AM (LajFB)

115 Imagine arguing that Cuba and the USSR should've been paid billions by the US during the missile crisis.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 06:59 AM (G+nrD)

116 BBC:

Incessant strikes leave Ukrainians drained - but they don't want a 'humiliating' deal

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:59 AM (CQE5S)

117

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 07, 2025 07:00 AM (5hfjS)

118 G'Day everyone

Not up, just peeking in

Posted by: Skip i at March 07, 2025 07:00 AM (fwDg9)

119 Did anyone else see early on about the Azov battalion's horrific treatment of the ethnic Russians in the two, eastern provinces...
-

Yep. Outright ethnic cleansing, tearing down statues, churches, etc.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 07:01 AM (G+nrD)

120 BBC, live reporting, Ukraine:

https://www.bbc.com/news/
live/cg70jylp32gt

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 07:01 AM (CQE5S)

121 I used to have a different nic

The Russians are tactically innovating small infantry assaults with motorcycles. Then they spot for gravity bombs --which are larger than 2,000 pound bombs.

Need a lot of drones to stop that. Ukraine drones seem to focus on resupply routes.

I never thought I would see WWI stupidity in my lifetime. I was wrong.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

122 Jim, hang in there . Good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 07, 2025 07:02 AM (2Km7O)

123 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

124 "You yanks are all too stupid to understand the nuances of European history," sniff the europeans, as they feverishly pound the table and demand we nod and accept that Russia invaded Ukraine out of nowhere with no possible justifications or provocations of any kind because they're just big dumb onion eating dummy dumdum heads.

You want to sniff and stick your noses in the air about shit that happened a thousand years ago that you only just made up two hundred years ago, while throwing a tarp over the events of just a few years ago and saying "what tarp, stop lying about tarps, you weirdo."

Fuck off, Europe. You're a bunch of degenerates who haven't known peace since that couple of years when that Attila guy stomped your asses down and made you stop being dickheads to each other for a hot minute. Fuck your history.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 07:03 AM (KtIIi)

125 The funniest part of the drone strike publicity has been the videos of the women soldiers being killed.

How terrible! This is outrageous!

Except the same people forget the articles they wrote about the drone pilots and the opportunity it offers women.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 07:04 AM (G+nrD)

126 Slavic Hellhole 2 invaded Slavic Hellhole 1 to keep it out of NATO and to protect their linguistic siblings who were being punished for the Crimea.

This isn't about Crimea. This is about the ethnic Russian sections not being down with the the government installed after the coup.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 07:04 AM (ExV1e)

127 The Bryan Ferry video is tremendous, and even the beautiful blond making weird noises seems to fit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 07, 2025 07:04 AM (awECa)

128 117

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 07, 2025 07:00 AM

+++

Back atcha.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at March 07, 2025 07:05 AM (dg+HA)

129 I really appreciate the commenters who know the Russian/Ukraine background and are chiming in.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 07:06 AM (CQE5S)

130 Russia launched a massive missile strike across Ukraine last night. The Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast is on its last legs and Chassiv Yar is about to fall. The Russians have also been pounding the area around Odessa. Z has better work a peace deal quickly or he won't have much to deal with

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 07, 2025 07:06 AM (2Km7O)

131 I used to have a different nic

Let's say a ceasefire on current lines takes hold. It will be a decade before all the damage is fixed. The ethnic Russians are still screwed trying to live in the areas fought over.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

132
The babbling of Boris Johnson is perfectly consistent for a lumbering buffoon whose idea of a haircut is to invert a bowl on his head a lop off with a pair of dull scissors those strands that remain uncovered by the bowl.

Sod off, wanker.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 07, 2025 07:08 AM (xG4kz)

133 really appreciate the commenters who know the Russian/Ukraine background and are chiming in.
-

Maybe the key part is understanding that Hunter Biden is key to the entire thing

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 07:09 AM (G+nrD)

134 Trump made Justine Trudeau cry.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 07, 2025 07:09 AM (Y1sOo)

135 Chrome stopped supporting u shock this week.
Any Ad blocker app recommendations.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 07, 2025 07:09 AM (n4GiU)

136 That would be hilarious for Russia to make a big press for land in advance of the agreement

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 07:10 AM (G+nrD)

137 Sniveling is disgusting.

If you care so much, then where were your tanks rolling hot on day one? Where were your troops, Mr Former Prime Minister? Morally dubious grandstanding over a war your ass isn't even in is flat out sickening.

I'm fine staying the hell out of this slav grinder altogether. But i sure as shit ain't gonna turn around from that position and roll into Kazakhstan or Bulgaria and snipe at them for their lack of contribution to The Cause.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 07:11 AM (KtIIi)

138 Fun fact: The US has never not held an election, even during a civil war, elections were held.

So go stick a pinapple up your arse Boris.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 07, 2025 07:11 AM (XV/Pl)

139 week.
Any Ad blocker app recommendations

-

Switch to brave.

All the chrome (you go there for extensions) , fewer trackers, internal ad blocking.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 07:11 AM (G+nrD)

140
A most excellent ONT for Alamo Day evening, WD.

Prayers for you, your family and Jim Sunk New Dawn. There is an extraordinary cast of characters here at the HQ.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 07, 2025 07:12 AM (xG4kz)

141 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

This is an absolutely futile attempt to be relevant. The UK armed forces, esp the British Army, are way too small to be peacekeepers or DMZ enforcers.

But this is an excellent way to get what little armed forces the Brits, Germans, Dutch, French, and Canadians have out of the country, leaving the balance of forces remaining the Islamic mobs.

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

142 Russia is retarded, they lost a lot of lives that a country in a bad demographical place with aspirations to get back to peak power...

So western analysts say. No doubt they're as accurate about this as they have been about everything else for the past 24 years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 07:12 AM (ExV1e)

143 So both Russia AND Trump are retarded.

Interesting.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - single moms, your children are a detriment, not a benefit at March 07, 2025 07:13 AM (G+nrD)

144 126 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 07:04 AM (ExV1e)

The coup was the western response to the Crimea....I will bet you twenty internets that USAID money with a few cutouts was funding the Azovs shooting Russians who had been in the Donbas since the 1880s in the head for shits and giggles because the west was in a snit Putin jobbed them in Crimea.

Any takers?

If you look at a calendar the two look barely related, but they were not. The LGM seizure of the Crimea had had over six months of groundwork laid, in Feb the West succeeds in flipping the Russo leaning Ukie govt.... Ivan retaliates with seizure of the Crimea (that they had groundworked into a flip the switch condition) so by May the Azovs go from protesting (starting in March) in the Donbas to shooting Russians in the head.

This is not to absolve the Russians in the micro or the macro...I do wish I shared like the democrat civil service and USAID in the conviction that the Azovs who were being leveraged to be placed on the terror list under Ogabe and Trump I were 100% accurate in their assessments of who they extra-judicially killed.

The whole clusterfuck is due to western idiocy IMHO. 1/2

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2025 07:14 AM (X0I7i)

145 BBC headline:

The Kremlin describes the discussions as "confrontational" and warned it will respond
___

No kidding.

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 07:15 AM (CQE5S)

146 Morning peeps. Kinda' gloomy out there this morning, but at least the wind isn't howling.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2025 07:15 AM (Q4IgG)

147 Compared to such 'smart' people as Doll Eyes Alex and Al Green, of course Trump and Putin are retarded.

*thud*

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 07, 2025 07:16 AM (nd3Pj)

148 Anna Puma

Any attack on the Trump coterie or policies fails just by applying a symmetry inversion on Dem policies and people.

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

149 2/2 cont If the Ukies being western allied is the point the west was criminally indifferent....if it is not in fact a key NATO objective to have the Ukies be a laundry for western socialists than what occurred is the west interfered in regional affairs with a non-ally basket case economy driving the idiot paranoid nation who invaded closer to other authoritarians empower the BRICS coalition.

USAID/ State could have leveraged a LOT earlier in the glorious Sun King Obama's reign but he was addicted to the notion of a reset button that really said "overcharge"... it turns out when America votes donkey and tries to focus 100% of federal energy on domestic score settling it sucks at diplomacy and military efforts. The end.

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2025 07:18 AM (X0I7i)

150 What was the money quote?

"A limited incursion would be fine", or words to that effect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 07:21 AM (KtIIi)

151 BBC:

Incessant strikes leave Ukrainians drained - but they don't want a 'humiliating' deal
Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 06:59 AM (CQE5S)

I bet no one asked the guys being kidnapped off the street to be sent to the front lines.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 07:21 AM (ExV1e)

152 But we are the only ones allowed to look at someone's online social media presence to determine if they are white male Christian haters and raycisses and discriminate against them. So unfair...

Posted by: Big Homo, democrats and Sheryl Crow at March 07, 2025 07:21 AM (EEZHI)

153 Have a great day, everyone.

"Every one has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Mike Tyson

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

154 "Every one has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Mike Tyson
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

Ah, yes.

Tyson's First Law of Involuntary Dentistry

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 07:22 AM (KtIIi)

155 > I bet no one asked the guys being kidnapped off the street to be sent to the front lines.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Heroic

/s

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 07, 2025 07:23 AM (Q4IgG)

156 Let's say a ceasefire on current lines takes hold. It will be a decade before all the damage is fixed. The ethnic Russians are still screwed trying to live in the areas fought over.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 07, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

Considering the Ukes had been shelling them sporadically for the past decade, that was baked into the cake.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 07:24 AM (ExV1e)

157 So the SS Death Master List is NOT share with any other US Govt agency.
Should not that be a public record just like voter registration records?
Dont share the SS number but there should be listing that can be queried.
Jon Doe
DOB
Birth State
Date of Death
I know I made sure my Moms voter reg was canceled.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

158
"You yanks are all too stupid to understand the nuances of European history," sniff the europeans.

"Oh, look, a plain (too bad it's not a marsh)! Let's battle for it, back and forth, and hither and yon, with our armies, alliances and guerrilla bands for years, nay, centuries and millennia, to no good end other than to churn up the ground and soak it in blood! You Yanks have no such sophisticated history of your own, what with your ancestors having turned tail and skeedaddled across the ocean rather than continue to participate in the grand story of Europa!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Enstompen! Enstompen! Enstompen! at March 07, 2025 07:25 AM (xG4kz)

159 Back to the fields
DOGE is racist because some of the programs were started by Bhusssein.
Al Green was treated unfairly.

Racist Racist Racist

Interesting that to claim or ask someone to have some standards of behavior and treatment of others and your are the RACIST.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

160 The whole clusterfuck is due to western idiocy IMHO.

I don't know that idiocy is the word I'd use. There are whole sections of the US government where everyone owes their career to "containing the Soviets". The fact that there are no Soviets is irrelevant. The fact that Russia tried to join the EU and NATO is irrelevant.

Muh pension is all that matters. Drive NATO eastward. War, war, war! Where's my kickback from Defense Inc.?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

161 JJ is nood!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 07, 2025 07:30 AM (ExV1e)

162 "Oh no, we don't want to escalate" is the most surefire way to get your ass, or your buddy's ass, kicked. This idea that escalation is everywhere and always incorrect, and bordering on sinful...

It should be your enemies who fear escalation.

Putin invaded because he knew he could. Who lifted a finger to help their "ally" puppet government? Who sent their military to fight the evil nasty rotten Rooski menace? No one. As planned. Every piss pot nation in the "Free World" let them twist in the breeze. So none of these fake bastards gets to say peep about Standing With Ukraine. You don't stand for shit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 07, 2025 07:31 AM (KtIIi)

163
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 07, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

164 I'm north burbs of brizzy and the winds only started hitting about an hour ago, rain is still waiting, but the sunny has been catching the brunt of the rain for the entire day. With it moving so slow, it seems like it's gonna be resting on us until at least Tuesday morning just dropping piss endlessly, and we are gonna be getting the good part.

Not a big storm at all, been through 5 huricanes, this is number 6, 3 in the states 2 in japan, and this is relatively mild so far, but the flood threats are very very real.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at March 07, 2025 07:32 AM (XKj0h)

165 Read , once, that every square inch of Europe is soaked in blood… their history bears that out… violent bastards.

Posted by: tubal at March 07, 2025 07:34 AM (PCK5/)

166 Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State started this whole Ukraine fiasco. Lavrov twisted her knickers with that stupid reset button and her wrath turned to revenge against Russia and Putin. Obama didn't do shit.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 07, 2025 07:37 AM (mB6WH)

167 164 I'm north burbs of brizzy and the winds only started hitting about an hour ago, rain is still waiting, but the sunny has been catching the brunt of the rain for the entire day. With it moving so slow, it seems like it's gonna be resting on us until at least Tuesday morning just dropping piss endlessly, and we are gonna be getting the good part.

Not a big storm at all, been through 5 huricanes, this is number 6, 3 in the states 2 in japan, and this is relatively mild so far, but the flood threats are very very real.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at March 07, 2025 07:32 AM (XKj0h)

North burbs of Brisbane?

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 08:10 AM (CQE5S)

168 Watching Cyclone Alfred coverage here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-07/
tropical-cyclone-alfred-queensland-nsw-
landfall-friday/105019120

Posted by: m at March 07, 2025 08:40 AM (CQE5S)

169 Has Brother's printer division done an HP? (The Register)

The company says no, but users are reporting that their printers no longer support third-party ink and toner after the latest firmware updates.

I bought a Brother laser printer new for $80 right immediately prior to the government COVID terror campaign and have been using it on occasion since then with the original toner cartridge. I really like it and was ready to set my parents up with a Brother model but have read comments on Slickdeals that, yes, they've gone full HP with their firmware updates. What's worse is that, on the newer models, the firmware updates are automatic and cannot be disabled (according to commenters).

Is there a printer manufacturer who *isn't* evil at this point?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 07, 2025 09:37 AM (NuKV1)

170 @BigJoeBastardi 26m
I think Brisbane gets 40 [mph] G 60 mph and 5-10 inches of rain. So lets see if Can hit the land down under

@BigJoeBastardi 33m
What a tropical cyclone peaks at and what it makes landfall at are 2 different things. Big rainmaker, but winds are a moderate tropical storm. its a 45 kt storm but headlines would make you think its the end of the world Big Rainmaker If 45 kts is destructive you need better buildings

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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 07, 2025 10:55 AM (E7bCG)

171 Bought a Brother about 7 years ago. Works fine. B&W only, don't need color. It just prints, no firmware, no on line necessary, no out of ink or ink dry no bs. Before that I bought a Kodak because cheap ink.
Of course, it won't print B&W without all the little colors working. I still use it as a copy machine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 07, 2025 11:48 AM (E7bCG)

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