Daily Tech News 4 April 2025

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Oracle got hacked, twice, recently, according to Oracle staff who won't go on the record and are now in fact in hiding in an undisclosed location. (Yahoo)

Or something.
Oracle staff informed some clients this week that the attacker gained access to usernames, passkeys and encrypted passwords, according to the people, who spoke on condition that they not be identified because they're not authorized to discuss the matter.
Note that this is the same company that very recently proclaimed:
There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.
Basically, the data that was stolen in the breach that Oracle so strenuously denied ever happened is real, but old, and likely useless.

Tech News

Speaking of Oracle, in MySQL 8.0.17 and later you can create multi-valued indexes on JSON arrays if - and this is important - all the indexed data is in the form of unsigned integers.

This index is automatically used for comparisons like MEMBER OF and JSON_CONTAINS if... Something. I don't know what, because in my case it can't see the index at all and the end result is somehow slower than before I did all that.
Why everything in the universe turns more complex. (Quanta)

It doesn't.
Climate change is on track to destroy capitalism says a leading rent-seeker, warning of dire consequences if other people don't spend enormous amounts of money that will benefit him. (The Guardian)

Right.
A climate firm supported by Microsoft and Facebook has file for bankruptcy after its co-founder was arrested on fraud charges. (MSN)

There's a surprise.
Researchers at Google's DeepMind have listed all the ways AGI could destroy the world. (Ars Technica)

It can't, and in any case, nobody is working on it.

(OpenAI's Sam Altman redefined AGI - which stands for artificial general intelligence - as "profitable". Which OpenAI is definitely not.)
Intel is reportedly launching a joint venture with TSMC. (Tech Crunch)

Involving chips, probably.
The EFF has vowed to fight site-blocking bills that are being put forward in Congress. (TorrentFreak)

By Democrats. The article doesn't mention that.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Happiness is food together.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone TGIF

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 04:01 AM (ypFCm)

2 G'day Skip.

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

3
TGIF. I'm starting to shiver a little as I read about Trump's tariffs. Some cool heads say they're bad news.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 04:05 AM (3izae)

4 Japanese Grand Prix this weekend

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 04:08 AM (ypFCm)

5 Good morning! Gotta find coffee...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 04:10 AM (3Ope8)

6 "Basically, the data that was stolen in the breach that Oracle so strenuously denied ever happened is real, but old, and likely useless."

Oracle, 2 to 3 months from now: "Everything. They got everything."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 04, 2025 04:15 AM (O7YUW)

7 Didn't work on it yesterday but think might try 1 more time connecting old router to see if can't get mesh router to play.
See got it Oct 2023

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 04:17 AM (ypFCm)

8 "TGIF. I'm starting to shiver a little as I read about Trump's tariffs. Some cool heads say they're bad news.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 04:05 AM (3izae) "

What kind of retard are you? Everyone's high tariffs on us is good, but our mild tariffs on them is bad ?
Posted by: somejoe

Retard? You just had to insult Blonde Morticia. Why?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at April 04, 2025 04:31 AM (CHMel)

9 Clap of thunder and its pouring down

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 04:31 AM (ypFCm)

10 I'm starting to shiver a little as I read about Trump's tariffs. Some cool heads say they're bad news

Slowly then all at once. Stellantis is a harbinger. There's a lot of 'reorganizing' that's gonna happen. Lets see what the numbers look like in the next 6 months.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 04:39 AM (3Ope8)

11 Tariffs have been used for hundreds of years, they work they don't work depends on who has money were

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 04:40 AM (ypFCm)

12 Mornin'

3
TGIF. I'm starting to shiver a little as I read about Trump's tariffs. Some cool heads say they're bad news.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

By the same cool heads that told us that Open Borders are beneficial and great for America. I suspect that possibly, just maybe, they are full of shit.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 04, 2025 04:41 AM (6PUpl)

13 Skopje

We can all get irritable on here, but before people launch off into insults it might be helpful to not just count to 100, but count to 1000 before saying something we regret. Except for bots and trolls intending to be disruptive, most people are doing the best they can in their lives and attempting to understand things. In addition, we are all unique people and don't all understand things in the same way, And before "launching off" it might be helpful to think about whether personal circumstances and trials might be affecting how we respond to someone we don't know.

I understand the theory of tariffs but not the specifics here , but I don't think the MSM wants to make things clear. They want to get scoring points against Trump. They want to have people with their hair on fire.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 04:57 AM (r8MCQ)

14 Somejoe not slojoe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 04:59 AM (r8MCQ)

15 Don't hear rain so hopefully it stopped

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 05:00 AM (ypFCm)

16 I did read yesterday somewhere that Trump or one of his people or both said "All countries called to renegotiate" so this is a process not a done deal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 05:01 AM (r8MCQ)

17 Never saw this before, from Dailytimewaster.blogspot.com
A German 88mm flak calculator
https://tinyurl.com/2s3au83e

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 05:04 AM (ypFCm)

18 Blonde Morticia - Just an example of 'reorganizing'... Stellantis has plants all across NA (the US, Canada and Mexico) that perform the various processes that result in a car being produced for sale. Panels and other pieces get stamped, transmissions get assembled in places here in the US and are then shipped to Mexico where they are assembled, then the car is exported into the US for sale with a tariff applied by Mexico. It will take a while for Stellantis to reorganize the supply chain and restructure/retool existing facilities in the US assemble the cars here - OR - Mexico can remove the tariffs they apply to their exports. It's worth noting too, in Mexico Stellantis is going to pay their people to show up and not work.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:07 AM (3Ope8)

19 Posted by: somejoe at April 04, 2025 05:05 AM (RCAte)

Having troubles in your life? I'm sorry. I hope rough places are smooth out for you. At this point you sound like a troll.

Good bye.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 05:08 AM (r8MCQ)

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

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 04, 2025 05:13 AM (PzBTm)

21 Small things make a difference. Christian devotional on 1st John 3:16-24:

https://tinyurl.com/fv6zd4k2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 05:14 AM (r8MCQ)

22 Twirling has commenced. Let the weekend begin!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:16 AM (3Ope8)

23 I didn't realize how one sided tariffs are until Trump. I do feel, however, that he is fighting this war with the last war's tactics.

Posted by: Accomack at April 04, 2025 05:20 AM (28cZF)

24 Raining again and have to go

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 05:23 AM (ypFCm)

25 Late getting outta here
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 05:26 AM (dUiJm)

26 Posted by: somejoe at April 04, 2025 04:34 AM (RCAte)

Maybe less ad hominem and more reasoned response?

You are welcome to disagree forcefully, but when it devolves into name calling that's when it crosses the line.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 05:27 AM (L5An7)

27 An exuberant declaration of faith- Psalm 27:

https://tinyurl.com/7b87hpat

The Lord is my light and my salvation....

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 05:27 AM (aYzw8)

28 Is that Arthur from fate zero?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 05:30 AM (KtIIi)

29 I see PDTS has shit canned the director of the NSA, and the deputy to the director was 'reassigned'. Hmmmm...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:35 AM (3Ope8)

30 You are welcome to disagree forcefully, but when it devolves into name calling that's when it crosses the line.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 05:27 AM (L5An7)

No it doesn't.

....

Oh, i do apologize, this is Argument. Abuse is down the hall. Have a good day!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 05:36 AM (KtIIi)

31 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:39 AM (AN2gy)

32 32 Is that Arthur from fate zero?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Not sure. From this one, I only recognise the girls from Yuru Camp, the trio from Amaama to Inazuma, and Umaru-chan.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 04, 2025 05:39 AM (BLOW1)

33 @24/FenelonSpoke: Some wonderful truth there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 04, 2025 05:40 AM (O7YUW)

34 "All countries called to renegotiate" so this is a process not a done deal.

^^^^

This.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:42 AM (AN2gy)

35 Nothing like some rando swanning in and being a dickhead and then demanding people engage with whatever trite one-note bullshit they're horking up as if they were the second coming of Cato and not some overstimulated neckbeard.

Don't get me wrong, i love a good ranty stemwinder as much as the next Moron, but do us a favor and pick your mode. Rant, or have a discussion. You don't somehow magically deserve both by virtue of existing. The existence theory of value is the true sine qua non of the modern lefty retard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 05:43 AM (KtIIi)

36 Reasoned discourse seasoned with snark and maybe even some vulgarity is to be expected. Abusing the 'rons is semi-tolerable but abusing the 'ettes should get a banishment.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:44 AM (3Ope8)

37 You are welcome to disagree forcefully, but when it devolves into name calling that's when it crosses the line.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 05:27 AM (L5An7)

The esteemed Dildo from Cheese Eating Surrender Land is of course right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 05:45 AM (bss/y)

38 G'morning, all

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 05:47 AM (a1415)

39 The esteemed Dildo from Cheese Eating Surrender Land is of course right.

I'm still having maple syrup on my waffles. Fuck that silliness in particular.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:48 AM (3Ope8)

40 The existence theory of value is the true sine qua non of the modern lefty retard.

God darnit Warai-otoko, you use your keyboard prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

Sorry. Had to say it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 05:48 AM (BpO1e)

41 "I'm still having maple syrup on my waffles. Fuck that silliness in particular."

And don't forget the butter.

Lots of butter.

As god intended it to be.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 05:49 AM (a1415)

42 "Why doesn't this complete stranger I'm being a colossal taint rash to not want to have a reasoned and rational discussion with me? It must be because my oratory is so powerful they simply wither under its effect!"

Yeah, that's it. Got it in one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 05:49 AM (KtIIi)

43 "Sorry. Had to say it."

It needed to be said.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 05:50 AM (a1415)

44 Lots of butter.

As god intended it to be.

In. Deed!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:50 AM (3Ope8)

45 >>> Don't get me wrong, i love a good ranty stemwinder as much as the next Moron, but do us a favor and pick your mode. Rant, or have a discussion. You don't somehow magically deserve both by virtue of existing.

This bears repeating.

The whole thing does, but I don't want a copyright strike.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:51 AM (AN2gy)

46 So unfortunately, a good friend of ours lost their father the other day.

Family has to travel to B'More for the gathering of family and their three dogs do not have a place to stay on short notice.

So.....friends do what friends need to do to support each other.

Their return on Sunday is much anticipated by our cats.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 05:53 AM (a1415)

47 So, CBD...how is the ExPat thing going? What do you find the most stimulating over there, and what are you having the most difficulty adapting to?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:54 AM (3Ope8)

48 The whole thing does, but I don't want a copyright strike.
Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:51 AM (AN2gy)

All content generated by Waraiotocorp is under the AceCorp general use license. No rights reserved. Void where prohibited, and prohibited where void, without the express written consent of Rich "Psycho" Giamboni.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 05:54 AM (KtIIi)

49 On the plus side, Mrs VIA has sufficiently recovered from the lingering effects of the strain A Flu that she will be able to participate in Saturday's Cooper River Bridge Run again.

I will stay home with the cats.

And the dogs.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 05:55 AM (a1415)

50 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 04, 2025 05:55 AM (dg+HA)

51 The esteemed Dildo from Cheese Eating Surrender Land is of course right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 05:45 AM (bss/y)

Yeah...but the cheese is fantastic, and my waistline will attest to that fact!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 05:55 AM (L5An7)

52 I was wondering what my parents did for entertainment before the internet. I don't know.

None of my 18 siblings know either.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 04, 2025 05:56 AM (b294k)

53 Evening and morning to all you insomaniacals, early risers, and late toilers! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished! Or the consomme. Something like that.

Yesterday Miss Linda and I visited Franklin, LA. A rather pretty town, I'll own, despite it being in Lousy-ana. If it could be moved wholesale to someplace higher and drier which does not have hurricanes, it would be even nicer and possibly a good place to live. The big Buick performed like the champion it is. Today it will get some fluids changed and possibly a rinse. Though it will rain Sunday . . . but I can wash it on Monday. I have not yet realized that *I will be able to do things like that on weekdays now*.

So, whass happenin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 04, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

54 I'm still having maple syrup on my waffles. Fuck that silliness in particular.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:48 AM (3Ope

Not at this table you're not!

Go to your room!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 05:56 AM (L5An7)

55 Wait, so name calling and personal attacks in threads where a topic is being discussed and easily debated crosses the line?

Interesting.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 05:57 AM (6Gcwb)

56 I did not watch "The Chosen" because I don't have a working TV or do streaming, but I understand it's a very popular show. Here's the star Jonathan Roumie, on the Jimmy Fallon show, doing impressions of various celebrities:

https://tinyurl.com/4hmy6kh2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 05:57 AM (2z4c3)

57 Warai, re: your 35: I have to say I haven't seen the term "swanning" in a while. Even here, the most literate blog on the Web-o-sphere.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 04, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

58 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 04, 2025 05:56 AM (b294k)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 05:58 AM (2z4c3)

59 >>> The esteemed Dildo from Cheese Eating Surrender Land is of course right.

Wait, what?

I was under the impression that you were headed for The Great North Woods region.

You went across the pond?

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:59 AM (AN2gy)

60 The Great North Woods region.

You went across the pond?
Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:59 AM (AN2gy)

The Great North wouldn't, so he went in Seine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:00 AM (KtIIi)

61 I will have to wait until Monday to twirl ( I hope that that is ok) . Friday is not my weekend and besides, we have a rummage sale at the church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 06:01 AM (2z4c3)

62 What do you find the most stimulating over there, and what are you having the most difficulty adapting to?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 04, 2025 05:54 AM (3Ope

Living in a city as opposed to just visiting is vastly different. Learning how the city ebbs and flows (that sounds stupid, but I can't think of any other way to say it) is fascinating. When it wakes up, when it goes to sleep, when the garbage is picked up, which stores get crowded when, what people snack on...

It's all great!

The odd thing though is that the pace of life is simply slower. Store clerks are slower, people walk slower, waiters are relaxed...hell, I got a haircut last week and the woman (very nice rack by the way) simply stopped cutting my hair for a two minute chat with her coworker.

That takes getting used to!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:01 AM (L5An7)

63 Good morning, one and all. Happy Friday to those of you who celebrate it.

Last night was date night (We typically go out every Thursday and Sunday since places tend to be less crowded). Since my wife is housesitting for some friends of ours, I picked her up and we went to a new Indian place that had opened in town.

I selected the Hakka noodles and then the inevitable question came up. "So the spice level is about medium is that OK?"

"I prefer spicy."

"errr...how spicy?"

"Pretend that I'm Indian and I asked you for spicy."

I saw the cook having a conversation with the manager and he looked at me curiously. The end result? There was some kick and it was a bit smoky in taste. Not a bad night.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:02 AM (BpO1e)

64 I was under the impression that you were headed for The Great North Woods region.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:59 AM (AN2gy)

That's J.J. Sefton (actually WI). I am younger and more handsome. I will eventually get to NH, but not this year.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:02 AM (L5An7)

65 Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 05:49 AM

I love you-in an entirely platonic, sisterly fashion, I mean, and I hope to never incur the wrath of the estimable thinker and writer W-o. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 06:04 AM (2z4c3)

66 In Franklin's Historic District, too, we visited a coffeehouse called The Lamp Lighter. The name suggests a bar or lounge, but this was an actual coffee place, with actual food as well. There were notices apologizing in advance for their having to raise their prices recently -- but their coffee alone was at least a dollar cheaper for the same size as you'd find at my local places.

They had a slogan emblazoned on a sign, too: C.O.F.F.E.E., or "Christ Offers Full Freedom to Each and Everyone." I'd never seen that before.

There was an ice cream parlor next door to it, but we didn't check it out. Linda was too busy dragging me into a thrift shop and then a flea market. I should have stayed in the coffee place with my book and just let her roam.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 04, 2025 06:04 AM (omVj0)

67 "Pretend that I'm Indian and I asked you for spicy."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:02 AM (BpO1e)

That is risky. Some South Indian dishes are dangerous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:05 AM (L5An7)

68 TGIF. I'm starting to shiver a little as I read about Trump's tariffs. Some cool heads say they're bad news.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The people talking down about the tariffs come in two flavors:

- They know history and current theory and they're unable or unwilling to consider that times are different and the theory may be wrong.
- They just want to badmouth Trump.

The people talking up about the tariffs come in two flavors:

- Trump fanboys who hail everything he does, regardless.
- People who're tired of Americans being screwed by the world and don't care if it all goes down in flames so long as other feel the pain also.

The world is a different place than it was the last time the US used tariffs extensively, more interconnected. But every other country on the planet puts tariffs on us. Why is it only bad when we use them?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:06 AM (ExV1e)

69 Why everything in the universe turns more complex. (Quanta)

Yo Mama!

Posted by: Entropy at April 04, 2025 06:06 AM (PiwSw)

70 >>> I will eventually get to NH, but not this year.

Leave a message for me when you do. I can give you directions to Fuller's Sugarhouse.

Great North Woods is what they named the area north of the White Mountains.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 06:06 AM (AN2gy)

71 That is risky. Some South Indian dishes are dangerous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I have simply said that if it's too bad, I will ask for yogurt on the side. The first place I tried their spicy, they provided the yogurt without me asking.

That meal tasted pretty good too.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:07 AM (BpO1e)

72 That is risky. Some South Indian dishes are dangerous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:05 AM (L5An7)

The only time I've been "defeated" by a curry was in a restaurant where the menu was in Telugu first, then English, then Hindi.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:07 AM (KtIIi)

73 But every other country on the planet puts tariffs on us. Why is it only bad when we use them?

Because we are the most racist, sexist, xenophobic, hateful country in the history of ever and we had slaves. We must constantly be made to suffer for our ancestors stealing land from the noble tribes like the Slapahoe and the Wherethefukawi and any attempt to put our nation first is Literally Hitler.

Hope that explains it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:09 AM (BpO1e)

74 Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:02 AM

My son loves really spicy food. I'm not sure where he gets this from- I like spicy food/ but not as much as he does and spouse doesn't. Son even adds hot sauce to things I consider pretty darn spicy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 06:11 AM (2z4c3)

75 I think the tariff fiasco is going to make a lot of Americans realize that America still makes a heck of a lot more than we thought we did, it's just that no one buys the crap anymore.

You get a massive demand for domestic goods, and suddenly "no one makes anything here anymore" becomes "Oh hey, who are you?"

It's mostly a hunch, but i think it's the right one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:12 AM (KtIIi)

76 Great North Woods is what they named the area north of the White Mountains.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 06:06 AM (AN2gy)

And it's a lovely place, but too far from what I like!

Seriously, we are looking in Sullivan and southern Grafton county.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:13 AM (L5An7)

77 The only time I've been "defeated" by a curry was in a restaurant where the menu was in Telugu first, then English, then Hindi.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:07 AM (KtIIi)

There is a lamb dish at a pretty good Hunan Chinese restaurant near me (in NJ) that is stupidly hot. Mouth burning, gut wrenching hot. But it tastes spectacular, so I handle the heat as best I can.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:15 AM (L5An7)

78 Hope that explains it.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:09 AM (BpO1e)

"You have plenty of X, and i don't, so you can afford to give me X. In fact, if you don't, you're effectively stealing from me!"

America is rich, right? It's immoral to not give the store away.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:15 AM (KtIIi)

79 Yeah...but the cheese is fantastic, and my waistline will attest to that fact!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 05:55 AM (L5An7)

Your waistline has turned quisling? Typical.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 06:16 AM (bss/y)

80 My son loves really spicy food. I'm not sure where he gets this from- I like spicy food/ but not as much as he does and spouse doesn't. Son even adds hot sauce to things I consider pretty darn spicy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025

***
As a youth I didn't -- the original Popeye's fried chicken was too hot for me. In my forties, visiting New Mexico, I learned the trick of having some honey to kill the burning, and enjoyed their green chile sauce. Now, I'm less likely to chance a spicy meal when I go out. Probably because most places don't know that honey trick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 04, 2025 06:16 AM (omVj0)

81 I've noticed truck stops offering Indian Food. I can't understand the attraction. You stop in, fuel up and chow down on some curry, thinking it hot but not bad. And a half hour later, the Kenworth is at a steady 85mph, the curry starts kicking in (and not in a good way).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:17 AM (gm9Sb)

82 My son loves really spicy food. I'm not sure where he gets this from

My love for spicy food started in the early 90s and living in the dorms for two years. It got the point when my friends heard me say "This has a bit of a kick," they would avoid it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:19 AM (BpO1e)

83 And some people who want to make the tariff issue another "hate Trump time" do not realize that he's not just pulling things out of the air. He obviously has a team of economic people to work with him on this including, I think, Bessent or others who he's known for decades and will critique ideas when necessary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 06:19 AM (2z4c3)

84 @63/NR Pax: I've had a similar conversation at an Indian restaurant. "Ignore the colour of my skin, and bring me something authentically hot."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 04, 2025 06:21 AM (O7YUW)

85 Because we are the most racist, sexist, xenophobic, hateful country in the history of ever and we had slaves. We must constantly be made to suffer for our ancestors stealing land from the noble tribes like the Slapahoe and the Wherethefukawi and any attempt to put our nation first is Literally Hitler.

Hope that explains it.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:09 AM (BpO1e)

I know the reasons the NPCs cite. And the uniparty is opposed because they're paid handsomely to do so.

The question, I suppose, is what an honest, thoughtful person would answer. I guess if they truly believe tariffs are bad then they'd say that every leader of every other country is an idiot and they had just never noticed.

People get trapped into preconceptions and it's almost always to their detriment. How often have we mocked the lifelong Democrats who vote that way because "FDR gave my grandpa a job so Democrats care about people like me"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:22 AM (ExV1e)

86 Morning peeps. The weather radio has been going off this morning with flash flood warnings. We're still on track to get around 8-10 inches by Monday.

At least I won't have to run a hose to fill the pool this year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 06:23 AM (Q4IgG)

87 "You have plenty of X, and i don't, so you can afford to give me X. In fact, if you don't, you're effectively stealing from me!"

See also the "Fair Share" argument that the left constantly harps on.

As I have said before, I am old enough to remember the first reaction to seeing someone with a nice car, good house, nice clothes, etc. was "Wow. That guy is doing well for himself. How can I be that successful?"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:23 AM (BpO1e)

88 Good morning morons

I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 06:23 AM (RIvkX)

89 I've noticed truck stops offering Indian Food. I can't understand the attraction.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:17 AM (gm9Sb)

I haven't been in the industry for years, but in the 1990s there were a lot of truckers who were Indian.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:24 AM (L5An7)

90 The question, I suppose, is what an honest, thoughtful person would answer.

Fair enough. The perception I have is that we have never taken this approach so to them it's automatically bad. And the short term hit in the stock market right now is reinforcing that belief.

But if you find a rational answer, let us know.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:25 AM (BpO1e)

91 "Wow. That guy is doing well for himself. How can I be that successful?"
Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:23 AM (BpO1e)

*looks up sticker price of neighbor's fancy new kind of ugly car*

Holy Camoly. I could buy, like, twenty Jeeps for that! I could paint them in a spectrum and pick which color i drive based on my mood! And this guy just bought one ugly beige egg... what a dope!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:25 AM (KtIIi)

92 I've been "off" Indian food ever since that line in Anchorman, where Christina Applegate describes Ron's cologne as smelling "like a diaper filled with Indian food!" Just not my thing, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 04, 2025 06:27 AM (omVj0)

93 We're jamming a thumb into the eye of the vaunted "World Community", and i get a clearance sale on equities on top of it?

Oh no. Don't. Please. Stop.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:31 AM (KtIIi)

94 Stocks will have reverted to the mean in a matter of months if not weeks.

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Hogs get slaughtered.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:33 AM (KtIIi)

95 And the short term hit in the stock market right now is reinforcing that belief.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that the stock market drop is a combination of an overdue correction, pulling out some of the fake money, and an opportunity for the professionals to fleece the suckers.

Lots of amateur investors will panic and sell as happens every time the market drops and the professionals will scoop up the money and call their hookers and blow delivery service.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:33 AM (ExV1e)

96 G'mornin' everyone!

been a busy morning here already, looks like ...

interesting stuff, CBD, ebb & flow & so forth ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2025 06:34 AM (/Ghsb)

97 Habanero is my upper limit on heat.

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 06:34 AM (AOsQT)

98 As I have said before, I am old enough to remember the first reaction to seeing someone with a nice car, good house, nice clothes, etc. was "Wow. That guy is doing well for himself. How can I be that successful?"

I remember the peace of mind I got when I realized the answer was to go into massive debt like they had. It's not that they were so much more successful than I was, it's that they took a page out of the government's playbook and spent $1.50 for every dollar they brought in.

I guess if they never pay the price for that then I'm the idiot but I kind of get the feeling that the music is coming to an end and lots of people don't have chairs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:36 AM (ExV1e)

99 97 "Uncle Wilbur Scoville's El Diablo Maximo Habanero Sauce". Shipped as hazmat only.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:37 AM (gm9Sb)

100 I don't want to set my hair on fire today, which would be rather unsettling for the rummage sale customers , besides being painful for me- so I'll see some of you folks-sometime. I hope you have a blessed day and know that you're a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 06:37 AM (JFGVP)

101 Lots of amateur investors will panic and sell as happens every time the market drops and the professionals will scoop up the money and call their hookers and blow delivery service.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:33 AM (ExV1e)

Market liquidity is a blessing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:37 AM (KtIIi)

102 97 Habanero is my upper limit on heat.
Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 06:34 AM (AOsQT)

It is usually the flavor, not the heat that is a problem for me (note: I flavor tested hot sauce for a living (QC) for around 8 years.)

Habanero: I hate the tang to it.

Chipotle: I am not even sure what the flavor is, but I do not like it.

Jalapeno: tangy, not bad

Cayenne: cleanest heat to me. Kind of smoky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 06:37 AM (bss/y)

103 "Wow. That guy is doing well for himself. How can I be that successful?"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:23 AM (BpO1e)

That paradigm for success is a white, patriarchal construct that excludes people of color.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...post-modernist at April 04, 2025 06:38 AM (L5An7)

104 Hottest meal I ever had was chicken vindaloo at some dump on E10th St. Memorable and regretful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

105 I guess if they never pay the price for that then I'm the idiot but I kind of get the feeling that the music is coming to an end and lots of people don't have chairs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:36 AM (ExV1e)

On the other hand, if i go $50k in debt, and ten years later that $50k is basically a week's groceries, I've made out on the deal.

A bit of a pyrrhic victory, but still...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:40 AM (KtIIi)

106 That paradigm for success is a white, patriarchal construct that excludes people of color.

And if said colored people (Can we use that term? I remember Steve Dallas getting upset with his mom about it) were to embrace said construct, they are "acting white."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:43 AM (BpO1e)

107 On the other hand, if i go $50k in debt, and ten years later that $50k is basically a week's groceries, I've made out on the deal.

A bit of a pyrrhic victory, but still...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:40 AM (KtIIi)

I find that most people who go 50k into debt don't just carry that forever without going further in debt.

I'm talking about people in an expensive house, always have two new cars, a couple vacations every year. On one salary - in the same industry I'm in but a role that pays less. That's a constant bleed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:45 AM (ExV1e)

108 Once upon a time, Real Money judged each other off their wine cellar, not off whatever shiny coach and four they happened to be renting for the season.

I'm not so sure anything is different now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:45 AM (KtIIi)

109 Another Mass Stabbing.

https://tinyurl.com/2ywtx2bx

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 06:46 AM (a1415)

110 Heh. I linked a Rogan podcast with Suzanne Humphries on facebook. I led the post off with 'Note: I am not endorsing anything she says.'

They 'fact checked' me.

I feel strangely proud.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 06:47 AM (bss/y)

111 And if said colored people (Can we use that term? I remember Steve Dallas getting upset with his mom about it) were to embrace said construct, they are "acting white."
Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:43 AM (BpO1e)

I wonder how many members of the black community are aware that they were doing so much better before they were convinced to become "authentic".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:47 AM (ExV1e)

112 Speaking of debt, lately I have found monitoring your FICO score excessively will drive you nuts. I have two CCs and a line of credit at the bank. Zero balance. One credit card is for recurring payments like the phone and car insurance. The other is mostly for Walmart grocery delivery. I would pay them off as the statements came in. Then I got in the habit of paying them as purchases post. FICO score drops.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:49 AM (gm9Sb)

113 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

114 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

How are you doing?

We are abiding.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

115 I wonder how many members of the black community are aware that they were doing so much better before they were convinced to become "authentic"

The ones who are aware are the ones getting accused of "acting white."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:51 AM (BpO1e)

116 On one salary - in the same industry I'm in but a role that pays less. That's a constant bleed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 06:45 AM (ExV1e)

I guess living on leverage is easier when you're constantly inflating your way out of it... but then you got to get an even bigger lever to keep up.

And then with all these giant levers flying around, nobody wants to sell a house or a car or a college degree for a price any sane normal person would pay who doesn't want to rent a great big crowbar from The Bank to do it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:53 AM (KtIIi)

117 Salty!

Doing pretty well.

Dog sitting out of necessity, not desire.

The kittens are not happy about this.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 06:54 AM (a1415)

118 Village Idiot's Apprentice

On that assault, they stopped him, then beat him a lot, but did not kill him. So they did not finish the job. Near Metro Center, now a bad neighborhood.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

119 Similar to NY bagels, you can't find authentic Indian food outside of India. It, too, is because of the rich flavor the water provides.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 06:54 AM (6Gcwb)

120 Interesting. A lot of the same posters who are very concerned about tariffs are the same posters who were very concerned about "signalgate." They'll be very concerned about the next thing, too.

There's no connection at all, I'm sure.

Posted by: Tanz der Lemmings at April 04, 2025 06:55 AM (Ofj4q)

121 Then I got in the habit of paying them as purchases post. FICO score drops.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:49 AM (gm9Sb)

Credit scores are mostly about how credit worthy you are to them, aren't they? Not how safe you are to lend money to.

No revolving balances means you're not renting their great big lever, which is how they keep the lights on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:55 AM (KtIIi)

122 119 Similar to NY bagels, you can't find authentic Indian food outside of India. It, too, is because of the rich flavor the water provides.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 06:54 AM (6Gcwb)

The insouciant piquancy of raw sewage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 06:56 AM (bss/y)

123 119 Insist on "Raj's Bottled Raw Ganges River Water".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:57 AM (gm9Sb)

124 wonder how many members of the black community are aware that they were doing so much better before they were convinced to become "authentic"
-

Many are noticing that their families remained strong and intact through slavery and Jim Crow, but welfare destroyed them.

It's not going to have an easy solution because the women are the only ones who can fix it, and they're unlikely to give up free money, housing, food, Strong Independence, etc.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 06:57 AM (6Gcwb)

125 Oh, tech related

Best Buy is getting the occasional 50 series Nvidia card in store for MSRP

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 06:58 AM (6Gcwb)

126 Insist on "Raj's Bottled Raw Ganges River Water".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:57 AM (gm9Sb)

Wow.

The second ingredient is "spirochetes". And no HFCS at all!

I always read labels, you know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:58 AM (KtIIi)

127 123 119 Insist on "Raj's Bottled Raw Ganges River Water".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 06:57 AM (gm9Sb)

Wasn't there a 'raw water' fad a few years ago?

Food poisoning is not fun, folks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 06:58 AM (bss/y)

128

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 04, 2025 06:59 AM (EFZgU)

129 Britain had reciprocal tariffs in the 19 century. And the sun never set on the British Empire.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 04, 2025 06:59 AM (ZmEVT)

130 Wow.

The second ingredient is "spirochetes". And no HFCS at all!

I always read labels, you know.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 06:58 AM (KtIIi)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 06:59 AM (bss/y)

131 The neat part is how this is common knowledge about India, but we're also supposed to pretend they produce employees that are higher skilled than Americans.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 07:00 AM (6Gcwb)

132 "and they're unlikely to give up free money, housing, food, Strong Independence, etc."

And nobody ever notices that prisoners enjoy just about the same level of strong independence as they do.

Except for maybe the free money.

Other than that...everything else is provided to them.

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

133 The insouciant piquancy of raw sewage.

Is that why NYC bagels are the best?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 04, 2025 07:00 AM (ZmEVT)

134 Hillary Clinton

Lets play a game, shall we?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

135 131 The neat part is how this is common knowledge about India, but we're also supposed to pretend they produce employees that are higher skilled than Americans.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 07:00 AM (6Gcwb)

Or the ingrained caste system mentality.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:00 AM (bss/y)

136 Is that why NYC bagels are the best?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 04, 2025 07:00 AM (ZmEVT)

A good bagel sandwich is amazing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:01 AM (bss/y)

137 Village Idiot's Apprentice

The Democrats can never give up being slave-masters.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

138 A good bagel sandwich is amazing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:01 AM (bss/y)

50% of my caloric intake for a good while was turkey and Swiss with mayo on an everything bagel.

Lettuce, but only if it looked nice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:02 AM (KtIIi)

139 The Democrats can never give up being slave-masters.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

Huh, I wonder why there are so many Indians are gravitating to business upper management?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:02 AM (bss/y)

140
Is that why NYC bagels are the best?
-I always assumed that was mostly BS

If you're from an area, that areas food will taste best to you. See also - granny's cooking or regional BBW

Bagels taste good to people who grew up in area enjoying the taste of the bagels.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 07:02 AM (6Gcwb)

141 If you're from an area, that areas food will taste best to you. See also - granny's cooking or regional BBW

Bagels taste good to people who grew up in area enjoying the taste of the bagels.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Moms lie to daughters because they compete against them for men at April 04, 2025 07:02 AM (6Gcwb)

You never had my Mammaw's fried sweet corn, I see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:03 AM (bss/y)

142 Here's how I feel about issues of personal property, envy, etc

https://youtu.be/qdbfJeI1Y1I

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 07:04 AM (AOsQT)

143 Good morning everyone, thx Pixy.

The story about the climate company going broke as one of its founders was indicted for fraud is perfect. Any alleged real business named Aspiration is completely full of crap

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 07:04 AM (MxsNV)

144 "The Democrats can never give up being slave-masters."

'I'll have them... voting for us for the next 100 years!'

-Shit some dead white guy said.

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

145 Yay know, we have given the Global Deep state, which is everyone but Russia and Bhutan, very powerful reasons to stop MAGA, Trump, and the sane part of America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

146 w00t

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

147 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Yet this is never taught, I wonder why?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

148 145 Yay know, we have given the Global Deep state, which is everyone but Russia and Bhutan, very powerful reasons to stop MAGA, Trump, and the sane part of America.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

Either that or accept the boot, NaCLy.

No matter how it works out, I prefer the attempt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:05 AM (bss/y)

149 m

Close. But not too close.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

150 @122 I saw the Insouciant Piquancy of Raw Sewage open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Mud Club

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 07:06 AM (MxsNV)

151 138 turkey and Swiss with mayo on an everything bagel
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:02 AM (KtIIi)

What's an everything bagel?

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

152 Aetius451AD

I am with you. We are the ones preventing a new Dark Age, when all progress is lost.

We happy few.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

153 " I saw the Insouciant Piquancy of Raw Sewage open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Mud Club"

That's not mud.

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

154 64 I was under the impression that you were headed for The Great North Woods region.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 05:59 AM (AN2gy)

That's J.J. Sefton (actually WI). I am younger and more handsome. I will eventually get to NH, but not this year.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:02 AM (L5An7)

Hmm. I read this in a before-it-was-edited-by-cob-logger draft when it said:

That's J.J. Sefton. I am younger and more handsome.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:10 AM (CQE5S)

155 No matter how it works out, I prefer the attempt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

I like that attitude. I shall now appropriate it for my use.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 07:10 AM (BpO1e)

156 Interesting. A lot of the same posters who are very concerned about tariffs are the same posters who were very concerned about "signalgate." They'll be very concerned about the next thing, too.

I blame it on absolutes. People grasp onto absolutes to try to make the complex simple. This time - its the "free trade is always good" absolute.

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 04, 2025 07:10 AM (10jyo)

157 thank you for the twirling, Rosasharn!

now it's really Friday!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2025 07:10 AM (/Ghsb)

158 What's an everything bagel?
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:07 AM (CQE5S)

Died onion flakes, poppy seed, sesame seed, salt. Maybe some other stuff, but i think that's it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:10 AM (KtIIi)

159 151 138 turkey and Swiss with mayo on an everything bagel
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:02 AM (KtIIi)

What's an everything bagel?
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:07 AM (CQE5S)

What a setup, for:

"$20. Same as in town."

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

160 "Died onion flakes, poppy seed, sesame seed, salt. Maybe some other stuff, but i think that's it."

Cream cheese

Floor sweepings.

Kinda like the scrapple of bagels.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 04, 2025 07:12 AM (a1415)

161 The only good onion is a dead one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:12 AM (bss/y)

162 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Peter White's Reveillez-vous. *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

163 158 What's an everything bagel?

Best joke I heard about that.

"How did you fail the drug test?"
"I had a poppy seed bagel."
"How do you explain the weed and cocaine in your system?"
"...It was an everything bagel."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 07:12 AM (BpO1e)

164 158 What's an everything bagel?
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:07 AM (CQE5S)

Died onion flakes, poppy seed, sesame seed, salt. Maybe some other stuff, but i think that's it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:10 AM (KtIIi)

yum

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:12 AM (CQE5S)

165 What a setup, for:

"$20. Same as in town."
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:11 AM (CQE5S)

If the hole in it is that big, it's clearly been over-proofed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:13 AM (KtIIi)

166 we happy few, we band of Morons & 'ettes

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2025 07:13 AM (/Ghsb)

167 If the hole in it is that big, it's clearly been over-proofed.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:13 AM (KtIIi)

The town bicycle of bagels.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 04, 2025 07:13 AM (bss/y)

168 Aetius451AD

I am with you in the attempt.

I bring my father's sword, and a few cordless hole punchers to the fight. And a firm belief in the revolutionary nature of the Constitution.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

169 @ 163, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2025 07:14 AM (/Ghsb)

170 Died onion flakes
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:10 AM (KtIIi)

Condolences.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:15 AM (CQE5S)

171 Mrs. F. has been making everything bagels and they are teh awesome.

Now I'm truly done with NYC.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 07:15 AM (RIvkX)

172 > wonder how many members of the black community are aware that they were doing so much better before they were convinced to become "authentic"
---------
The black community has realized they're no longer at the head of the free shit line. The illegals have taken their place, so far as the Democrats are concerned. And the illegals have been showered with money, clothes, food and housing whereas the blacks haven't. Not to the degree the illegals are.

Had this trend continued there would have been massive unrest between the two ethnic demographics.

There still may be....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 07:16 AM (Q4IgG)

173 Nothing worse than your onion flakes all wriggling around on your bagel.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:16 AM (KtIIi)

174 Have a great day, everyone,

Let us thrive in our neighborhoods.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 04, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

175 Coyote vs. Acme]/i], now there's a movie I think I actually want to see

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2025 07:17 AM (/Ghsb)

176 woopsie! close tags in the nic FTW!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 04, 2025 07:18 AM (/Ghsb)

177 >Coyote vs. Acme
----

Appearing for the plaintiff... Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 07:19 AM (AOsQT)

178 Nothing worse than your onion flakes all wriggling around on your bagel.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 07:16 AM (KtIIi)
=====

You need a bialy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2025 07:20 AM (RIvkX)

179 Pouring cream into your first cup of coffee and discovering it has gone sour >>>> Nothing worse than your onion flakes all wriggling around on your bagel.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Posted by: Sock Monkey * feeling a bit atavistic at April 04, 2025 07:20 AM (J1mV/)

180
https://nitter.net/seanmdav

has been rounding up a lot of analyses of PDTariff.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 07:20 AM (CQE5S)

181 I just went out and checked the car for hail damage (nothing). Boy, the rain is icy cold. The Doppler map on the TV is really lit up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 07:20 AM (gm9Sb)

182 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 06:01 AM (L5An7)

Not gonna lie CBD, that sounds pretty fun.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 04, 2025 07:22 AM (luW68)

183 "Cloud" and "Breached" are synonyms.
"Computers" and "Breached" are synonyms.

The only questions are:
1. What do you choose to make susceptible to a breach
2. How do you gauge the odds of a breach, the appeal of a breach, and the scope of a breach - and are you better off rolling your own systems or paying someone else to host it, given the sensitivity of what you're doing and your level of competence vs. theirs

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 07:24 AM (WkNQM)

184 A climate firm supported by Microsoft and Facebook has file for bankruptcy after its co-founder was arrested on fraud charges
++++
LOL

The entire "climate" industry from academia to business to government to press needs to be brought up on fraud charges.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 07:25 AM (WkNQM)

185 >>> Seriously, we are looking in Sullivan and southern Grafton county.

Quite liveable with plenty of spots where you could have moose wandering through your yard.

Posted by: fluffy at April 04, 2025 07:26 AM (AN2gy)

186 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

187 Oracle stinks. Not just as a company, but the DBMS itself and most of their products (Mysql gets a pass, because Oracle didn't create it) are just awful and I'll never understand why any business in its right mind would use them, outside of momentum/sunken costs originating from the 1990s. Or sheer upper level IT management stupidity, which can never be ruled out.

Posted by: Handshakes at April 04, 2025 07:33 AM (Qmkgs)

188 175 Coyote vs. Acme]/i], now there's a movie I think I actually want to see
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

As long as the Wile E Coyote doesn't talk. He can just hold a sign up when he needs to speak. 'Oops', 'Nope', 'Guilty'. etc...

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 04, 2025 07:33 AM (sAmhv)

189 129 Britain had reciprocal tariffs in the 19 century. And the sun never set on the British Empire.

Posted by: no one of any consequence

- -
They did well at that time, as the only industrial powerhouse in the world.

Then the U.S. surpassed them. Then Germany started surpassing them. France was giving them a run for their money.

And by the start of the 20th century, the world had reached the first form of a true globalist economy.
You could order resources and products from all around the world and receive them in record time.
You could communicate around the world through telegraph and telephone and then radio.

Then WWI came and blew all of that to pieces.

The Brits were, by then, no longer the largest industrial powerhouse. That’s when they started the entire free trade movement, to help their exports and a shrinking economy.

America has been at the top for over a century.
But we’ve steadily been losing ground for fifty years.

China is now where we were a century ago.
And the world is more connected than ever.

We have now entered a new Multi-Polar world, very similar to the situation before WWI.
We have to face this reality.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 04, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)

190 Hillary Clinton

Lets play a game, shall we?
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Roll the dice

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 04, 2025 07:34 AM (EFZgU)

191 Not gonna lie CBD, that sounds pretty fun.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 04, 2025 07:22 AM (luW6

It is!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 04, 2025 07:36 AM (L5An7)

192 51
Yeah...but the cheese is fantastic, and my waistline will attest to that fact!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2025 05:55 AM (L5An7)
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I love cheese.
CBD enjoy the rich variety. My all time fav to spread on a bread roll is stracchino - semisolid, creamy, very slightly tart - wonderful. Here in S IL Aldi has a goat cheese that may be a distant relative.

Posted by: Ciampino - stracchino at April 04, 2025 07:56 AM (sPQoU)

193 63

"Pretend that I'm Indian and I asked you for spicy."

I saw the cook having a conversation with the manager and he looked at me curiously. The end result? There was some kick and it was a bit smoky in taste. Not a bad night.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 06:02 AM (BpO1e)
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I have had that exact conversation many times. They are still reluctant to do it right. I find using "hot" in place of 'spicy' gets places faster. In Africa, if you wanted it hot then you got it, no more questions.

Posted by: Ciampino - I could go for a hot curry at April 04, 2025 08:08 AM (sPQoU)

194

Ha! As best as I can tell, Thomas Sowell's remarks on the tariffs is in line with my reservations I posted about here yesterday.

Some people don't accept tariffs as a political tool and not an economic one. Trump is doing this to pressure the other countries to BACK OFF!

Posted by: pawn at April 04, 2025 08:15 AM (QB+5g)

195 194
Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
@EsotericCD
Apr 3
This couldn't possibly be true because the guy running the Twitter account with his name keeps telling me tariffs are economic genius.
Hoover Institution
@HooverInst
Apr 3
In an interview recorded yesterday, Hoover Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell criticizes the tariffs President Trump instituted earlier today. Watch the complete interview with Dr. Sowell on @UncKnowledge with Peter Robinson (@P_M_Robinson) on April 15th, 2025.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 09:12 AM (CQE5S)

196 There are some people working on AGI. John Carmack is one.

Posted by: MP2000 at April 04, 2025 11:35 AM (udvao)

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