Daily Tech News 15 March 2025

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SpaceX has launched the latest crew mission to the International Space Station, with four astronauts onboard to take over operations and relieve Butch and Sundance who have been stranded there ever since the trouble-stricken Boeing Starliner test seventeen years ago. (AP News)

The mission was delayed a little because the latest new Crew Dragon module needed a new battery, so SpaceX chose to re-use an existing module.
CNN wants you to know that the stranded astronauts were not stranded and the decision by the Biden administration to leave them there never actually happened. (CNN)

Thanks, CNN. Where would we be without you?

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In other space news, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the deceased Athena lander, which a week ago landed safely and then tipped over and sank into the moondust. (Space)

This was Intuitive Machines' second mission, after February 2024's Odysseus lander, which... Landed safely and then tipped over and sank into the moondust.

Intuitive's IM-3 lander - which doesn't have a catchy name yet, like gerbils and hamsters that might not survive little Timmy's tender care for very long - is due to launch early next year.
No-one knows what the hell an AI agent is. (Tech Crunch)

In particular, the neoadjective "agentic" needs to die.
Google is rolling out a fix for all the dead Chromecasts, of which there are apparently many. (The Register)

The problem is apparently an authentication certificate baked into the firmware of some models which has now expired. Without that, the device loses connectivity to most Google services.

Once the fix is ready, Chomecasts which have been left powered on should pick it up automatically.

If you tried to fix it yourself with a factory reset, your problems might run a little deeper. Google will post a guide to restore from that. Soon.
A new Copilot upgrade for Xbox plans to ruin gaming for you. (Hot Hardware)

Thanks, Microsoft. Where would we be without you?
Linux or landfill? What happens to old PC with Windows 10 going gently into that good night this October. (Tom's Hardware)

Or October next year if you pay the thirty bucks.
Valve may be planning to launch SteamOS for desktop users soon. (WCCFTech)

That may be a viable solution.

SteamOS already runs the Steam Deck and Lenovo's Legion Go. Windows games mostly just work on it. Throw on a browser and you have 90% of what 90% of people need.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: L-I-N-A, Lina. DRAGON SLAVE!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Hi

Posted by: French Jeton at March 15, 2025 04:01 AM (DehcO)

2 Corgis called

Posted by: French Jeton at March 15, 2025 04:02 AM (DehcO)

3 G'day

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 15, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 G'Day everyone
Still not supposed to be up yet

Posted by: Skip i at March 15, 2025 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

5 Bye

Posted by: French Jeton at March 15, 2025 04:02 AM (DehcO)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Wile E Coyote at March 15, 2025 04:08 AM (K9xEt)

7 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2025 04:09 AM (ocR3k)

8 Good morning,

Since I’m a lazy ass I seldom bother with the ad blocker. As a result I can continually ponder why billionaires want to the video of the smoking hot blonde destroyed? Despite being billionaires and therefore evil villains, they seem spectacularly incapable of doing so.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 15, 2025 04:14 AM (Bjq84)

9 Wile E Coyote did not survive his fall into the 1000 ft canyon. He was able to let out one final post here. Courage.

(He'll show up again next Saturday morning so don't worry kids!)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 15, 2025 04:15 AM (K9xEt)

10 8 Good morning,

Since I’m a lazy ass I seldom bother with the ad blocker. As a result I can continually ponder why billionaires want to the video of the smoking hot blonde destroyed? Despite being billionaires and therefore evil villains, they seem spectacularly incapable of doing so.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Andrew Carnegie would have sent his goons over by now and beaten the video owner to death. Billionaires today complicate things. Keep it simple, Billionaires.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 15, 2025 04:18 AM (K9xEt)

11 “Musk said on Friday that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus, a Nexus-6 replicant.”

I guess it’s the pleasure model.

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2025 04:19 AM (YQOnX)

12 Having read the latest ALNAV message, it would appear that the DON is serious about separating those who suffer from gender diaspora from the Navy.

If there was a bonus involved, they can keep it.
If they are in a Service Academy, they will not have to pay back the cost of education. If they are between 18-20 years of active duty, they will be allowed early retirement.

But, it's happening.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2025 04:21 AM (ocR3k)

13 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Evil storm swept through my town last night in south central MO.

Prayers up for any Morons unfortunate enough to be in its path.

At least half my town has been without power since 8:30 p.m. last night (local time). My side of town is still without power.

My office still has power, food, and water, though, so I've relocated for now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2025 04:23 AM (7fElN)

14 Be safe, Perfessor.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2025 04:26 AM (ocR3k)

15 Be safe, Perfessor.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2025 04:26 AM (ocR3k)
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Thanks.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2025 04:27 AM (7fElN)

16 CNN wants you to know that the stranded astronauts were not stranded and the decision by the Biden administration to leave them there never actually happened. (CNN)

And yet they were not in fact, rescued until now. Maybe the junta just thought they needed a time out for some reason. White after labor day? Wrong wine with fish?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2025 04:27 AM (bss/y)

17 Perfessor,

Keep your head down. Letting nature blindside you is a negative outcome.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 15, 2025 04:30 AM (Bjq84)

18 Just windy here at the moment. But warm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2025 04:34 AM (bss/y)

19 Thunderstorms headed my way in Nashville land shortly. Supposed to storm and rain all day.

Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2025 04:36 AM (lJ0H4)

20 Thunderstorms headed my way in Nashville land shortly. Supposed to storm and rain all day.
Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2025 04:36 AM (lJ0H4)
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Stay safe!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2025 04:39 AM (7fElN)

21 Now it's time to get roll

Posted by: Skip i at March 15, 2025 04:40 AM (fwDg9)

22 Bomb cyclone!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2025 04:40 AM (bss/y)

23 Supposed to be nice day today her, sunny upper 60s I think

Posted by: Skip i at March 15, 2025 04:41 AM (fwDg9)

24 Looks like the wind and stormy weather will arrive here on Sunday.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2025 04:41 AM (ocR3k)

25 SpaceX has launched the latest crew mission to the International Space Station, with four astronauts onboard to take over operations and relieve Butch and Sundance who have been stranded there ever since the trouble-stricken Boeing Starliner test seventeen years ago. (AP News)

never ever
@nvrnvr14
5h
Replying to @redsteeze
Honestly, I'm surprised the headline wasn't: "Alleged Nazi Elon Musk's SpaceX launches a new crew to the space station to replace NASA's hero astronauts."

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 04:59 AM (CQE5S)

26 Australian Grand Prix 11:55pm tonight

Posted by: Skip i at March 15, 2025 05:02 AM (fwDg9)

27 Sebring 12 Hours endurance race starts at 10am.

:-)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 15, 2025 05:06 AM (K9xEt)

28 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2025 05:28 AM (hoCmQ)

29
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 15, 2025 05:28 AM (tljrc)

30 MILO@Nero

If someone lives in Arizona when they don’t have to, or if someone moves to Arizona of their own volition when they come from somewhere else, 98% chance it’s a child molester

Posted by: Mister Ghost at March 15, 2025 05:29 AM (TGPs7)

31 Tornadoes all around us last night. Missed us. Just had hail and high winds. Prayers for those they didn't miss and prayers for those who are in for severe wx today.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2025 05:30 AM (hoCmQ)

32 Perfessor, if you're still here, how'd you fare last night? Thought I saw your area got hit.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2025 05:36 AM (hoCmQ)

33 and relieve Butch and Sundance who have been stranded there ever since the trouble-stricken Boeing Starliner test seventeen years ago. (AP News)

17 years ago?

Posted by: Ciampino - shameful but just my opinion at March 15, 2025 05:39 AM (KjLnc)

34 Oof.
@WeatherNation
NEW VIDEO: We're witnessing the devastating aftermath of the tornado in Rolla, MO.

https://x.com/WeatherNation/
status/1900759359749321016

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2025 05:40 AM (hoCmQ)

35 Getting ready fpr some sporty weather here in North Alabama. Good morning, everyone. Good evening, Pixy.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 15, 2025 05:42 AM (MsrgL)

36 Air Canada sparks outrage with very controversial in-flight display - where's Israel?

https://mol.im/a/14499611

Posted by: Ciampino - shameful but just my opinion at March 15, 2025 05:44 AM (KjLnc)

37 Great headlines, thank you for the humor.

Posted by: jeff at March 15, 2025 05:44 AM (0RBw2)

38 34 Oof.
@WeatherNation
NEW VIDEO: We're witnessing the devastating aftermath of the tornado in Rolla, MO.

https://x.com/WeatherNation/
status/1900759359749321016
Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2025 05:40 AM (hoCmQ)

yikes

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 05:47 AM (CQE5S)

39 Morning peeps. My weather radio has gone off a couple time this morning, so now I'm wide awake. Looks like in my area the most severe weather is out to the west near Owensboro, KY.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 05:50 AM (Q4IgG)

40 Evening and morning, Saturday toilers and early risers. It's nasty warm outside, 75 F., with an 80% chance of rainstorms from noon to evening. I hear what sounds like grumbles of thunder already, though.

Anyway! I'm up with coffee and a morning pipe, having fed the monsters. I'll have breakfast in a bit, and then see whether I'll run to Walmart for groceries. How 'bout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 05:52 AM (omVj0)

41 Well, as usual, a weather forecast for a couple days from now got today wrong. Today may not be a good day

Posted by: Skip i at March 15, 2025 05:53 AM (fwDg9)

42 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2025 05:57 AM (AN2gy)

43 Here's a new one: "residue of post traumatic slave syndrome."

Illinois universities in trouble for 'no Whites need apply' programs.

https://tinyurl.com/ypfamemp

Posted by: Ciampino - shameful but just my opinion at March 15, 2025 05:57 AM (KjLnc)

44 Thunderstorms headed my way in Nashville land shortly. Supposed to storm and rain all day.

Posted by: Tuna

Huntsville weather porn says 4.8" of rain for today.

Prayers up for the MO peeps.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 15, 2025 05:59 AM (MsrgL)

45 Should have left 10 minutes ago, drizzling here
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip i at March 15, 2025 06:01 AM (fwDg9)

46 >>> I can continually ponder why billionaires want to the video of the smoking hot blonde destroyed? Despite being billionaires and therefore evil villains, they seem spectacularly incapable of doing so.

:--))

** actual chuckle **

Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2025 06:01 AM (AN2gy)

47 When we moved back here from South Africa in 1994, the plan was to find jobs in Colorado, Oregon or Washington States. That never happened and look at what happened to those States - mind you I'm in Illinois because that's where late Wife's family resides.

Posted by: Ciampino - shameful but just my opinion at March 15, 2025 06:02 AM (KjLnc)

48 Air India asks passengers to stop flushing clothes down plane toilets

https://tinyurl.com/nafteer8

Posted by: Ciampino - shameful but just my opinion at March 15, 2025 06:08 AM (KjLnc)

49 >>> And yet they were not in fact, rescued until now. Maybe the junta just thought they needed a time out for some reason. White after labor day? Wrong wine with fish?

Mundane logistics.

After Boeing did their yolo launch, The pair were left up there with Boeing compatible space suits so they could not return on the next SpaceX flight.

SpaceX sent up new suits for them so they could return on this flight.

Butch and Sundance had both been to the ISS prior, Butch for about two weeks, Sundance had been up for an extended stay.

Point to ponder: Boeing has been a government contractor for over 90 years; SpaceX is a newcomerr.

Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2025 06:09 AM (AN2gy)

50 It is the Ides of March.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:11 AM (CQE5S)

51 49 The pair were left up there with Boeing compatible space suits so they could not return on the next SpaceX flight.

SpaceX sent up new suits for them so they could return on this flight.
Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2025 06:09 AM (AN2gy)

I did not know that.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:12 AM (CQE5S)

52 and relieve Butch and Sundance who have been stranded there ever since the trouble-stricken Boeing Starliner test seventeen years ago. (AP News)

17 years ago?
Posted by: Ciampino - shameful but just my opinion
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I hope they brought Wilson with them for company.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2025 06:14 AM (/lPRQ)

53 This. Is. CNN.

Posted by: James Earl Jones's Very Deep, Resonant Voice at March 15, 2025 06:15 AM (PiwSw)

54
David Atherton
@DaveAtherton20
·
34m
Damion Ogeare pleaded guilty to raping a Shetland pony after breaking into a farm. The DNA evidence was crucial.

He awaits sentencing

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2025 06:16 AM (H+XUB)

55 It is the Ides of March.
Posted by: m at March 15, 2025

***
Odd, how we remember that exact date and the events more than 2000 years later. Of course Shakespeare's play helped, but that was written 1500 years after the fact and more than 400 years ago itself.

Income Tax Day was March 15 for a long time, until after WWII, I think. Perhaps media pundits of those days, radio and newspapers, likened the stabbing of Caesar to the stabbing the American people were getting from their government, and thus kept the memory alive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:16 AM (omVj0)

56 50 It is the Ides of March.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:11 AM (CQE5S)
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"If I told him once, I told him a thousand times, 'Julie don't go! It's the Ides of March.'"
From Wayne and Shuster: Caesar's Assassination.
If you have never listened it's classical humor.

https://youtu.be/rR_5h8CzRcI

Posted by: Ciampino - clever and extremely funny at March 15, 2025 06:17 AM (KjLnc)

57 Damion Ogeare pleaded guilty to raping a Shetland pony after breaking into a farm. The DNA evidence was crucial.

He awaits sentencing
Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2025

***
I guess his motto was "all creatures great and small."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)

58 Julius Caesar's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2025 06:18 AM (PiwSw)

59 "If I told him once, I told him a thousand times, 'Julie don't go! It's the Ides of March.'"
From Wayne and Shuster: Caesar's Assassination.
If you have never listened it's classical humor.

https://youtu.be/rR_5h8CzRcI
Posted by: Ciampino - clever and extremely funny at March 15, 2025

***
C., I was just thinking of "Flavius Maximus, private Roman eye"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:18 AM (omVj0)

60 Julius Caesar's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2025

***
If only he'd been carrying . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

61 The pair were left up there with Boeing compatible space suits so they could not return on the next SpaceX flight.

SpaceX sent up new suits for them so they could return on this flight.
Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2025 06:09 AM (AN2gy)

I did not know that.
Posted by: m
====

Boeing designed an adapter coupling to connect with the SpaceX capsule but it was too big to fit in the hatch so SpaceX decided to just give them new suits.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 15, 2025 06:20 AM (/lPRQ)

62 It's a foul thing to post such news so early in the morning.

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2025 06:20 AM (H+XUB)

63 NPR is also in on the "They weren't stranded, they could have come home at any time" narrative.

https://tinyurl.com/nprisasshoe

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2025 06:21 AM (PiwSw)

64 It's a foul thing to post such news so early in the morning.
Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2025

***
The reminder of Caesar's fate, or the incompetence of F. Joke's mal-administration?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

65 The pony news thing.

Posted by: 13times at March 15, 2025 06:23 AM (H+XUB)

66 If only he'd been carrying . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

There were a couple later emperors who personally killed would-be assassins in the act, weren't there? Likely ones who got to the throne through blood, and not in the "inheritance" sense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2025 06:27 AM (KtIIi)

67 Air India should have continued on. Conditions were getting more and more like home.

Posted by: Accomack at March 15, 2025 06:27 AM (4qMiv)

68 Trump set to impose travel ban on 41 countries - read the full list

https://mol.im/a/14501691

Posted by: Ciampino - Malawi? at March 15, 2025 06:28 AM (KjLnc)

69 53 This. Is. CNN.
Posted by: James Earl Jones's Very Deep, Resonant Voice at March 15, 2025 06:15 AM (PiwSw)

I thought it was more like

This ... is CNN.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:29 AM (CQE5S)

70 This ... is CNN.
Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:29 AM (CQE5S)

I.... am your father

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2025 06:30 AM (KtIIi)

71 Yeah, sure, but when *I* do it you all make fun of me.

Posted by: William Shatner at March 15, 2025 06:31 AM (KtIIi)

72 https://mol.im/a/14501691
Posted by: Ciampino - Malawi? at March 15, 2025 06:28 AM (KjLnc)

What's up with that half-a-country in the himalayas? Is that Tibet? Why just the west half? And why Code Red straight into Nah You're Cool?

I need to know...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2025 06:35 AM (KtIIi)

73 66 If only he'd been carrying . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

There were a couple later emperors who personally killed would-be assassins in the act, weren't there? Likely ones who got to the throne through blood, and not in the "inheritance" sense.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2025

***
Caesar had been a soldier and a general, and had spilled plenty of blood on the way to the dictatorship of Rome. His problem, I guess, is that he offered clemency to many of his enemies, and they resented him and turned on him. He should have made a few more examples of them before they got him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:37 AM (omVj0)

74 72 https://mol.im/a/14501691
Posted by: Ciampino - Malawi? at March 15, 2025 06:28 AM (KjLnc)

What's up with that half-a-country in the himalayas? Is that Tibet? Why just the west half? And why Code Red straight into Nah You're Cool?

I need to know...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2025 06:35 AM (KtIIi)
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Is that Bhutan?

Posted by: Ciampino - Malawi? What have we done? at March 15, 2025 06:37 AM (KjLnc)

75 The US declared the South African ambassador PNG and sent him home. The guy was no fan of America or Trump and repeatedly said so.

Posted by: Nic Cage at March 15, 2025 06:38 AM (Je6Mg)

76 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 15, 2025 06:38 AM (dg+HA)

77 I seem to recall that either Butch or Sundance was specifically asked if the *biden administration had planned, or was planning a "rescue" mission to fetch them.

I think they might have deflected on an answer, but it was apparent NASA was in no position to do it.

And it's not clear to me if the administration even talked to SpaceX about one, even though Musk outlined how it could work.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 06:39 AM (Q4IgG)

78 71 Yeah, sure, but when *I* do it you all make fun of me.
Posted by: William Shatner at March 15, 2025 06:31 AM (KtIIi)

“What does God need with a starship?”
― William Shatner

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:41 AM (CQE5S)

79 Before my surgery my anesthetist offered to knock me out with gas or a boat paddle.

It was an ether/oar situation.

Posted by: Ciampino - Malawi? What have we done?! at March 15, 2025 06:42 AM (KjLnc)

80 48 Air India asks passengers to stop flushing clothes down plane toilets

https://tinyurl.com/nafteer8
Posted by: Ciampino - shameful but just my opinion at March 15, 2025 06:08 AM (KjLnc)
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Wasn't it Air India that told people not to bring goats on planes?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 06:43 AM (jxtl0)

81 79 Before my surgery my anesthetist offered to knock me out with gas or a boat paddle.

It was an ether/oar situation.
Posted by: Ciampino - Malawi? What have we done?! at March 15, 2025 06:42 AM (KjLnc)

Muldoon should steal that one...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2025 06:43 AM (PiwSw)

82 moar Shatner:

“(By the way, isn’t it time that I became a GPS voice? You can download Gary Busey, KITT from Knight Rider, and Flavor Flav. There has to be a market for William Shatner giving you directions! Let’s talk, GPS manufacturers. And unlike the sexy lady voice on most units, I can actually pronounce “Sepulveda Boulevard” properly.)”
― William Shatner, Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:44 AM (CQE5S)

83 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-16
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 15, 2025
Launch Time: 7:35 a.m. EDT, 1135 UTC, 12:35 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/4J9ki29tUk4

NOTE: very soon.

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 06:45 AM (KjLnc)

84 "And it's not clear to me if the administration even talked to SpaceX about one, even though Musk outlined how it could work."

Please don't be so naïve.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at March 15, 2025 06:45 AM (trev9)

85 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
--got a cuppa before the Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. guy chimed in

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 06:47 AM (CQE5S)

86 80
Wasn't it Air India that told people not to bring goats on planes?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 06:43 AM (jxtl0)
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Well how would towelheads join the Mile-High Club then?

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 06:49 AM (KjLnc)

87 The famous, ne infamous, Lina Inverse and her patented spell "Dragon slabe!" *KA-BOOM*

That was one of the more fun panels I ever attended at Katsucon, a panel on voice acting hosted by Maria Kawamura and Lisa Ortiz.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2025 06:49 AM (CMMwD)

88 So Pixy, was that '17 years ago' a joke or what?

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 06:50 AM (KjLnc)

89 Speaking of All Creatures Great and Small, we've been watching the 2020 series from the beginning and finding it charming. I've been saying to myself the actress who plays the housekeeper, Mrs. Hall, is really a very good-looking lady under the severe (lack of) makeup and hairstyle. Turns out I was right:

https://tinyurl.com/4vbcat3e

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:53 AM (omVj0)

90 The US declared the South African ambassador PNG and sent him home. The guy was no fan of America or Trump and repeatedly said so.

They aren't sending us their best and brightest. No doubt took charm lessons from Z man.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2025 06:54 AM (a4flb)

91 The US declared the South African ambassador PNG and sent him home. The guy was no fan of America or Trump and repeatedly said so.
*
They aren't sending us their best and brightest. No doubt took charm lessons from Z man.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2025

***
Nice to see America refusing to put up with disrespect again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2025 06:55 AM (omVj0)

92 Now let's PNG the UN and bulldoze them into the ocean

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2025 06:56 AM (CMMwD)

93 So to IM, Lunar dust to their landers is analogous to oh I don't know swamps are to castles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2025 06:57 AM (CMMwD)

94 90 The US declared the South African ambassador PNG and sent him home. The guy was no fan of America or Trump and repeatedly said so.

They aren't sending us their best and brightest. No doubt took charm lessons from Z man.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2025 06:54 AM (a4flb)
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Z man, you mean Zuma? The ex South African president?

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 06:58 AM (KjLnc)

95 80
Wasn't it Air India that told people not to bring goats on planes?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 15, 2025 06:43 AM (jxtl0)
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Well how would towelheads join the Mile-High Club then?
Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 06:49 AM (KjLnc)

* golf clap *

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 15, 2025 06:58 AM (pJWtt)

96 Z man, you mean Zuma? The ex South African president?
Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 06:58 AM (KjLnc)

Zelenskyyy, I’d assume.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 15, 2025 06:59 AM (l3YAf)

97 Wait, South Africa had a President named after a horrid American beverage?

Oh wait, that was Zima.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 15, 2025 07:00 AM (CMMwD)

98 SpaceX launches relief crew for NASA's beleaguered Starliner astronauts on ISS (Space.com)

https://tinyurl.com/2f455k6w

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 07:01 AM (CQE5S)

99 Good morning! Currently 66 out on the patio here in Cowtown. Lotsa wind yesterday, continuing today. Last evening around 7, a sand storm was actually blowing through here.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 15, 2025 07:02 AM (3Ope8)

100 100

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 07:03 AM (CQE5S)

101 CrotchetyOldJarhead, I didn't tarp my sand pile. Can I come by and get some of my sand back?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2025 07:05 AM (j6NlC)

102 President Zuma, a Zulu. Had unprotected sex, rape actually, and his idea of protection was to take a shower afterwards. The young lady, who was HIV positive, asked for it by wearing short skirts.

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 07:06 AM (KjLnc)

103 Posted by: Ben Had at March 15, 2025 07:05 AM (j6NlC)

Better bring a wheel barrow. And some friends. Gah! The air is still laden with dust.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 15, 2025 07:11 AM (3Ope8)

104
"tarp my sandpile"
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at March 15, 2025 07:12 AM (dg+HA)

105 A sad thing about Intuitive Machines Athena lander falling over is that it held America's first lunar rover, MAPP.

MAPP was designed and built by Lunar Outpost for a dollar. It was supposed to hitch a ride on Blue Ghost but switched to IM.

I was really looking forward to that rover as it had some cool features I've been curious about, like how to navigate on the Moon. It's not as easy as you would think.

Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at March 15, 2025 07:13 AM (trev9)

106 Z man, you mean Zuma? The ex South African president?

I was thinking Zelenskyy due to the recent row in the WH, but come to think of it, Jacob Zuma would also be a fit.

For fun, type in "Tell me about Jacob Zuma, former dictator of South Africa" and ChatGPT gets real defensive about how "democratic" South Africa is.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2025 07:14 AM (a4flb)

107 A new Copilot upgrade for Xbox plans to ruin gaming for you. (Hot Hardware). Thanks, Microsoft. Where would we be without you?

Or I as I like to refer to such matters: Microsoft is being amusing again. Some days I wake up longing for the good old days when we had Clippy to hate on.

The last 10 days or so it's been one long dust storm here in Las Cruces with winds in the 20 to 40 mph range. Today we are blessed with a respite from the wind and we're going to get rain which means everything is going to be turned to mud.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 15, 2025 07:17 AM (hjWnr)

108 107
The last 10 days or so it's been one long dust storm here in Las Cruces with winds in the 20 to 40 mph range. Today we are blessed with a respite from the wind and we're going to get rain which means everything is going to be turned to mud.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 15, 2025 07:17 AM (hjWnr)
----
Just curious, is it clay? Is it red mud or brown?
I remember with 'fondness' the red clays in Uganda an Kenya - like soap when wet. But everything grew. Fertile soils.

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 07:20 AM (KjLnc)

109 *scowling*

The letter "y" is the least used of all the vowels. No one gets to use two in a row.

(Scribbles on pad, then tears off pink copy and leaves it under windshield wiper.)

Let that be a warning to you.

(Climbs on Vespa scooter and officiously rides away.)

Posted by: Grammar And Spelling Police at March 15, 2025 07:23 AM (dg+HA)

110 T - 9 mins

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 07:26 AM (KjLnc)

111 I just wanted to tell you (Pixy) that your daily news article is key to my daily awakening. It is the second thing I look at (weather is first). I really appreciate your writing style.
this comment may not fit in with the others.

Posted by: whiskey mike at March 15, 2025 07:27 AM (l5vxg)

112 Severe storms to the north of me. Reported baseball sized hail and 60MPH winds.

Gusty winds here. No rain. Yet.

Storms seem to be heading towards Cincinnati.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2025 07:28 AM (Q4IgG)

113 83 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-16
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 15, 2025
Launch Time: 7:35 a.m. EDT, 1135 UTC, 12:35 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/4J9ki29tUk4

Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches at March 15, 2025 06:45 AM (KjLnc)

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 07:28 AM (CQE5S)

114 The letter "y" is the least used of all the vowels. No one gets to use two in a row.

I think of it as a cheap reminder on what a greedy bastard that man is. Can't be satisfied with one 'y'. There will be justice when those who write about the fall of Europe will spell that clown's name with an 'i' rather than a precious 'y'.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2025 07:28 AM (a4flb)

115 111 I just wanted to tell you (Pixy) that your daily news article is key to my daily awakening. It is the second thing I look at (weather is first). I really appreciate your writing style.
this comment may not fit in with the others.
Posted by: whiskey mike at March 15, 2025 07:27 AM (l5vxg)

#metoo

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 07:30 AM (CQE5S)

116 nood covfefe

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 15, 2025 07:36 AM (pIfcn)

117 Just curious, is it clay? Is it red mud or brown? Posted by: Ciampino - a plethora of launches.

It is mostly a red clay. The Mesilla Valley, which is where the Rio Grande River runs through here, Is excellent farmland and can support growing everything from cotton to corn to peppers and to pecan trees which the dominant crop in the area. It should be noted. The Rio Grande is so regulated in this region that during the winter months the water flow is cut off and the river through the Las Cruces area is a sandy ditch. When it is flowing Texas New Mexico and Regular Mexico each getting allotment out of it. Think of it as the American Southwest's Nile River but with more lawsuits between Texas and New Mexico over who's stealing whose water.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 15, 2025 07:36 AM (hjWnr)

118 "Rocket 9 is supersonic."

Posted by: m at March 15, 2025 07:37 AM (CQE5S)

119 Linux or landfill? What happens to old PC with Windows 10 going gently into that good night this October.

I looted a Windows Surface Pro when the office permanently closed its offices during the Wuhan Death Miasma Scare. Then, for reasons, I replaced the screen and battery because the computer had some utility as a easy to carry computer within my 5.11 EDC Man Bag.

I'm not sure that Linux would support the unique properties of the Surface Pro like touchscreen, camera or pen input. Alas, since it has a 1 TB SDD drive and a somewhat useful screen with a low power requirement and a built in "UPS", maybe it can be incorporated as a FTP file server for the security system.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2025 07:39 AM (a4flb)

120 Rio Grande River r

Out of curiosity, do you know the translation of the word "Rio" ?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2025 07:40 AM (a4flb)

121 Out of curiosity, do you know the translation of the word "Rio" ?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Yes. The locals call it the Rio Grande. The gringos call it the Rio Grande River. Are you happy now.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 15, 2025 07:47 AM (hjWnr)

122 Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
-Julius Caesar, Act 2, scene 2

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Posted by: GWB at March 15, 2025 11:10 AM (x4LL+)

126 The Rio Grande is so regulated in this region that during the winter months the water flow is cut off and the river through the Las Cruces area is a sandy ditch. When it is flowing Texas New Mexico and Regular Mexico each getting allotment out of it. Think of it as the American Southwest's Nile River but with more lawsuits between Texas and New Mexico over who's stealing whose water.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at March 15, 2025 07:36 AM (hjWnr)

I have kin in New Mexico dating back to the conquistadors.
I spent several summers in The Land of Enchantment.
The sky in NM has a particular quality of blue I have seen no where else.
But I digress.
New Mexico has Spanish influence in its record keeping and administration. If recall about thirty years ago the New Mexico water management dating back to its Spanish type administration was doing so well that Texas sheer them for additional water.

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