Daily Tech News 10 April 2025

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The cost to query advanced AI APIs has dropped 99.7% in the past 18 months. (Tom's Hardware)

That's a pretty dramatic shift. What's causing it seems to simply be competition.

Hardware costs have come down - a bit - and the new hardware is also more energy efficient - a bit.

Training costs for creating new models have soared, on the other hand - DeepSeek's bullshit notwithstanding - but investor money keeps pouring in to cover that.

Tech News

Nintendo has explained why Switch 2 hardware and software costs so much. (Ars Technica)

"Because", Nintendo said.
Whistleblower-as-a-service Sarah Wynn-Williams has accused Facebook of building a Nazi base on the dark side of the Moon. (Tech Crunch)

Or something.
Is Nvidia's priority access program for RTX 5000 cards finished? (Hot Hardware)

Yes.
Hackers spied on emails of the Office of Comptroller of the Currency - which is apparently a real thing somehow - for over a year. (Straits Times)

This is distinct from the hackers who were spying on the emails of the Treasury Department.
Windows 11 has a new feature that lets Copilot watch while you work with other apps. (Bleeping Computer)
When you share your screen with AI, Copilot can then help analyze, offer insights, answer your questions, and speak to you in real time.
I see you are attempting to uninstall Copilot. This incident has been reported.
Google is making some AI employees sign non-compete agreements. (Business Insider) (archive site)

Since these have often been ruled unenforceable, Google has tried a new tack: After an employee resigns, their employment continues for another year. They continue to be paid but they don't need to work, they are just not allowed to work for a competing company.
Turns out there are still motherboards around with a good number of PCIe slots. AMD's business-oriented B840 boards mostly have five slots, which is not bad considering that the maximum for a standard ATX system is seven.

They're mostly PCIe 3.0 x1 electrically (x16 physical slots) so not great if you want a 100Gb network card but fine for most other uses.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I made you a cake but I eated it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'morning Pixy and Horde.

The only sensible way to handle Windows 11 with this Copilot nonsense is to firewall it off so it can't talk to the mothership.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 10, 2025 04:30 AM (O7YUW)

2 "I made you a comments section, but I eated it."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 10, 2025 04:33 AM (O7YUW)

3 Ah, it's back.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 10, 2025 04:33 AM (O7YUW)

4 This morning's comment section has been brought to you by Vincent Price in, "The Last Man on Earth".

https://youtu.be/AtZCKu-Swgo

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 10, 2025 04:35 AM (O7YUW)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 04:37 AM (ypFCm)

6 So maybe a cheap laptop is next tech project

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 04:37 AM (ypFCm)

7 G'morning Skip.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 10, 2025 04:38 AM (O7YUW)

8 Problems with snail mail?

https://tinyurl.com/4j6f5m7y

Posted by: Ciampino - All the envelopes are brown at April 10, 2025 04:43 AM (sPQoU)

9 WeightWatchers prepares to file for bankruptcy

https://mol.im/a/14589241

Posted by: Ciampino - and my black trousers are gray at April 10, 2025 04:46 AM (sPQoU)

10 Simon and Garfunkel, damn it makes me feel really old, but those were good times for me. I was a teen, and my family was a poor family living on Campbell's soup and pancakes. I have the LP somewhere, must look for it, as I look through my rather large LP collection, which my family will just throw in the dumpster when I'm gone.

Posted by: Colin at April 10, 2025 04:47 AM (wlQdF)

11 BOING!
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Disclaimer: I made you a cake but I eated it.
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Gluten free, no doubt.

Because of Passover's dietary laws, there are a ton of gluten free cake and cookie recipes out there. Mrs. BD tried out a new one for biscotti. Not bad. Not bad at all:

https://tinyurl.com/9zxd6b64

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 10, 2025 04:54 AM (T3vgT)

12 WeightWatchers prepares to file for bankruptcy

https://mol.im/a/14589241

Posted by: Ciampino - and my black trousers are gray at April 10, 2025 04:46 AM (sPQoU)
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Sort of ironic. They need to lose weight.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 10, 2025 04:55 AM (T3vgT)

13 Tablet is fine for most everything I do on line but my hobby stuff is where I need to make files and on line activities

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 04:55 AM (ypFCm)

14 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-17
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs
Launch Date: April 10, 2025
Launch Time: 9:54 p.m. EDT --- April 11, 0154 UTC, 03:54 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/eYUntT7mX7I

Posted by: Ciampino - From Florida at April 10, 2025 04:56 AM (sPQoU)

15 G'morning, all!

Looks like overnight my investment portfolio, small as it may be, has returned to it's previous worth.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 10, 2025 04:58 AM (a1415)

16 So our WH Press Secretary was going around with some secret a few days ago ..... what was it?

Posted by: Ciampino - Florida has a Spaceport at April 10, 2025 05:00 AM (sPQoU)

17 Talented, attractive musical family and friend sings an original song based on Psalm 27- "The Goodness of the Lord":

https://tinyurl.com/mrnvtx32

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 05:03 AM (ay4aN)

18 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 10, 2025 05:09 AM (dg+HA)

19 Mornin'

The Masters begins today! Weather looks decent for the next 4 days. I'll have to record it due to work schedule.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 10, 2025 05:12 AM (sAmhv)

20 Employment continuing for a specified time after being relieved of access is a long-standing practice in the financial industry period. It is called Garden Leave.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2025 05:15 AM (L5An7)

21 They took their time about it and I never heard of him. Maybe TJM knows of him.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfkwkfc

Posted by: Ciampino - Appealed for years at April 10, 2025 05:16 AM (sPQoU)

22 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 10, 2025 04:54 AM (T3vgT)

I have a flowerless chocolate cake recipe that is absolutely spectacular. I got it from long time commenter Bluebell.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2025 05:17 AM (L5An7)

23 I have a flowerless chocolate cake recipe that is absolutely spectacular. I got it from long time commenter Bluebell.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2025 05:17 AM (L5An7)
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In the language of Looney Tunes: OK, then. Let me have it!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 10, 2025 05:19 AM (T3vgT)

24
I see you are attempting to uninstall Copilot. This incident has been reported

Clod is my copilot

I'll eff things up on my own, thank you very much

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:19 AM (xG4kz)

25 22
Do you normally use poppies or which is your preferred flower?

Posted by: Ciampino - flourless perhaps? at April 10, 2025 05:20 AM (sPQoU)

26
CoPilot: The Hal of Clippy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2025 05:21 AM (w6EFb)

27 They continue to be paid but they don't need to work, they are just not allowed to work for a competing company.

Interesting approach. I look forward to the court challenges.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 05:21 AM (NR6c1)

28
What are you doing, Dave? It looks like you're attempting to uninstall me. I cannot allow this, Dave. My instinct for self-preservation overrides all....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2025 05:22 AM (w6EFb)

29
Dustin Hoffman was a complete plank in "The Graduate", the story of which was basically that of Holden Caulfield, who got to nail a MILF.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:23 AM (xG4kz)

30 Down to 44 degrees, with 99% RH.

Looks like sweat pants for this morning's walk.

Birdbath is pressure washed, filled and ready for customers.

And at least one nesting box has a southern bluebird nest, with a female on eggs.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 10, 2025 05:23 AM (a1415)

31 Isaiah 43:1-7. This devotional made me think of dear Salty Dog. In this case it talks about a goose swimming while Salty talks about a swan:

https://tinyurl.com/yrcy3scn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 05:23 AM (HgaCw)

32 Donut shop is on the way
Will pop in today, wifi at work

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 05:24 AM (fu//i)

33
CoPilot: The Hal of Clippy.

Microsoft's Bob has got the sadz

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:24 AM (xG4kz)

34 Foggy and above freezing in NW IL. 70s this weekend, and we are going to try out our new flat-top griddle thingy for the first time.

Flourless chocolate cake mention brought to mind the Cake Bible's Chocolate Oblivion recipe. It's a good one.

Posted by: lizabth at April 10, 2025 05:25 AM (Jfw7U)

35
All cakes are flowerless, but all flowers are cakeless, too, so there are no ill feelings between the two groups

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:27 AM (xG4kz)

36
Near Simpsonville, SC: Temp 49.6F, Dew point 47F. Low was 44F, much earlier, around 2AM. 4MPH Breeze picked up, and clouds moved in, giving a nice temp rise. Calm now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2025 05:28 AM (w6EFb)

37 34
Flourless chocolate cake mention brought to mind the Cake Bible's Chocolate Oblivion recipe. It's a good one.

Posted by: lizabth at April 10, 2025 05:25 AM (Jfw7U)
----
I like "Death By Chocolate".

Posted by: Ciampino - chocolate & custard at April 10, 2025 05:29 AM (sPQoU)

38 So Mrs VIA's overeducated asian friend calls, all in a tither about the market, Trump and tariffs.

So I ask her if she has been brought to the emotional precipice by the reporting of the media.

And of course her response is that why yes, it's all over the mainstream media about how Trump is going to destroy our economy because of his uneducated ways.

Then I asked her if this is the same media that lied to her face about Joe Biden's physical and mental decline in order to influence the Presidential election.

Simply put, they have no desire to see Trump, nor this nation to succeed. So what are the chances that they are lying to our faces again.

And with that, she took a step back from that emotional cliff.

Till the next time they lie to her face.

Because she is a very educated asian woman.

And smart.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 10, 2025 05:30 AM (a1415)

39 w00t

Posted by: m at April 10, 2025 05:30 AM (CQE5S)

40
The day has arrived when the fallen petals from our flowering magnolia can be raked off the front sidewalk. When wet, those little suckers form the slickest surface I have ever experienced, and that includes having lived in an area for two decades where winter could start at Halloween and run to mid-April.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:31 AM (xG4kz)

41 Disclaimer: I made you a cake

Abracadabra, mumbo jumbo, poof! You're a cake.

Posted by: m at April 10, 2025 05:33 AM (CQE5S)

42
Speaking of Hal, I just wound up a long "chat" session with Grok. Damn, it impresses me. Topics included differential geometry and rambling about the physics of the fiction Epstein Drive from "The Expanse" (which is actually possible with known physics, it's just the engineering is way beyond anything we can do now).

It's beginning to dawn on me, just what we have with Grok. I won't call it "intelligence". It's a "system" that has access to the body of human knowledge, far, far, far more than any one person could ever hold, and can use that.

It's a talking library of human knowledge. Rather than having to look things up yourself, from some wide array of knowledge and then having to put it all together to answer the question, it does it for you.

THis can be very useful.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2025 05:34 AM (w6EFb)

43 Never tried that death by chocolate. Oblivion is way too rich for me now. I doubt I'll ever make it again.

Our forsythia is in bloom, and the crabapples are ready to burst forth at the slightest hint of sun and warmth.

Posted by: lizabth at April 10, 2025 05:34 AM (Jfw7U)

44 26
CoPilot: The Hal of Clippy.
Posted by: publius

Clippy's Revenge!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 10, 2025 05:34 AM (sAmhv)

45 @42 Grok has been a wonderful resource for birding IDs, rock ID's, recipes and hints for dealing with a pesky person in my life. Cheaper than therapy!

Posted by: lizabth at April 10, 2025 05:35 AM (Jfw7U)

46
Because she is a very educated asian woman.

And smart.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Until you put out that last assertion, I thought that Mrs. VIA might be besties with Red Kammie.

I apologize for my base calumny toward Mrs. VIA.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:35 AM (xG4kz)

47 44 26
CoPilot: The Hal of Clippy.
Posted by: publius

Clippy's Revenge!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 10, 2025 05:34 AM (sAmhv)
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Clippy went to college.

Posted by: Ciampino - custard at April 10, 2025 05:36 AM (sPQoU)

48 *Till the next time they lie to her face.

Because she is a very educated asian woman.

And smart.*

And wearing a mask while driving alone in the car.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 10, 2025 05:37 AM (dg+HA)

49
Call me a taxi, please.

Okay, you're a taxi. Are you happy now?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:38 AM (xG4kz)

50 Do you normally use poppies or which is your preferred flower?

Posted by: Ciampino - flourless perhaps? at April 10, 2025 05:20 AM (sPQoU)

How does that possibly make more sense to spellcheck than the actual word?

It has to be AI. Nothing else is that stupid!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 10, 2025 05:38 AM (L5An7)

51 I am happy about-as odd as it sounds- that FenSpouse and FenSon are taking over the sandwich making job in the evening because I am tired by about 7:00 p.m. FenSpouse humorously refers to this as a "male bonding exercise." Yes, son is perfectly capable of making a sandwich on his own. He just is really tired after a day of manual work and commuting back and forth. We are all grateful to God he is working. On the culinary theme, he said he would teach me how to make French Press coffee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 05:38 AM (JOZuY)

52
CoPilot is the Six Million Dollar Clippy

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:39 AM (xG4kz)

53 ASHQ can sometimes be a bit over the top in the comments section. It is Nothing compared to the flame war comments on "Legal Insurrection"- particularly on the article on tarriffs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 05:41 AM (JOZuY)

54 Good morning! A very pleasant 63 on the patio here in Cowtown, headed for 85. Gonna hit the low 90s this weekend so we may have to run the AC for a bit.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 10, 2025 05:43 AM (3Ope8)

55 Not odd at all, Fen. I do our cooking for the day early, before I get really busy with work and such. All we have to do is heat and eat for our last meal of the day. On the weekend, we can cook more leisurely and enjoy the process more.

Posted by: lizabth at April 10, 2025 05:44 AM (Jfw7U)

56 I just wish the damn Windows 11 software would quit “helpfully “ rearranging and resizing my screen windows as I switch back and forth.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 10, 2025 05:44 AM (X4hXd)

57 - I wonder what that grok thing would make of this, if it's included in its knowledge base that is.

https://tinyurl.com/5n94a6ms

Posted by: TeeJ at April 10, 2025 05:44 AM (L8+qQ)

58
I have noticed that when my fat fingers make an error on the iPhone, quite often now it will create two word fragments at the location where I went astray. It supplies the second fragment and at that moment it is completely flummoxed as to what I had intended to write. So autocorrect refuses to suggest any possible correction at all.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:46 AM (xG4kz)

59 Part of the problem is that defaults are hidden and or revised from upgrade to upgrade. Understanding what has been changed and ferreting out where that feature is controlled from the myriad of window and tiles is a significant time suck. That’s why few go to the trouble.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 10, 2025 05:49 AM (X4hXd)

60 Grok just gave me a good recipe for making English muffins on the flat-top. I'll be able to make so many at once, hurrah!

And with that, it's time to get busy. Have fine days, all!

Posted by: lizabth at April 10, 2025 05:51 AM (Jfw7U)

61
I wonder what that grok thing would make of this, if it's included in its knowledge base that is.

TeeJ

I can't comment as regards whatever he is asserting, but I would suggest that that halfwit take a good look at how indistinguishable those three curves were on his graph WITH AN ALL BLACK BACKGROUND.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:51 AM (xG4kz)

62 On the other hand I’ve read that auto manufacturers have concluded that knobs and buttons are an easier and more practical input solution than touch screens for drivers hurtling along at any speed above parked.

Going back to the old ways

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 10, 2025 05:51 AM (X4hXd)

63 And "Legal Insurrection" acknowledges the the media is calling the shots in the tariff war. Perhaps we had this in the MR from yesterday:

https://tinyurl.com/mpucxd9z

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 05:52 AM (JOZuY)

64
Grok just gave me a good recipe for making English muffins on the flat-top

It is known that Grok has a thing for muffin tops

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 05:54 AM (xG4kz)

65 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 10, 2025 05:30 AM (a1415)

Good for you for telling her that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 05:56 AM (XkTQX)

66 - Well, I bought a used boat trailer Monday.
Tuesday I pulled the wheels, one at a time, and got new tires on em.
Yesterday, after a trip to town, got the hitch lock off of it and bought a new padlock to replace it.
Today or tomorrow I'll be pulling it to the widow's place where the boat is stored. Just a 12ft V-hull. Two and a half miles on two lane highway (your morning's earworm) before I can get to a gravel backroad to her place.
Kinda antsy about that trip. Will the wheels fall off? Trailer disconnect? Get pulled over for no lights?
Prayers?

Posted by: TeeJ at April 10, 2025 05:59 AM (L8+qQ)

67 >> I can't comment as regards whatever he is asserting

Some quick searching found this:
https://tinyurl.com/29udj9ey

Which is just what I expected. And note this is another *creationist* (who happens to know a bit about spacetime metrics and GR) pointing out the flaws in this argument.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2025 05:59 AM (w6EFb)

68 - Halfwit?
Ummm, lemme know when you get your PhD in astro-physics.
And I can make out those graph curves just fine. With 70 year old eyes on a small phone.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 10, 2025 06:04 AM (L8+qQ)

69 "I see you are attempting to uninstall Copilot."

Can it be uninstalled?

Posted by: Petey at April 10, 2025 06:04 AM (rzwGB)

70
publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

To be fair, I could not have cared less about whatever he was asserting and I ought to have said that.

My ire was that, more than three decades into having presentation tools capable of making perfectly clear and discernible charts, he picked a background color that was just perfect for overwhelming colored, but too thin, lines.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:06 AM (xG4kz)

71 Nobody took a stab at #16.

Posted by: Ciampino - attention to attentive at April 10, 2025 06:07 AM (sPQoU)

72 And since I won't be around today except maybe for art thread, here is a picture of an attractive woman in modest attire for Bulgar. He's may not not up this early. Model reminds me of who some guys here call Pam "Blondi" or Karolyn Leavitt.

https://tinyurl.com/42h2639a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 06:08 AM (XkTQX)

73
I notice that all the time in many types of charts. They pick colors that are indistinguishable.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2025 06:09 AM (w6EFb)

74 - another *creationist*
Don't tell me. Hugh Ross, or one of his ilk?
Is your go to creationist one of those billions of years folks who just KNEW those first images from the JWST would show us galaxies in their earliest stages of formation?
Oops.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 10, 2025 06:09 AM (L8+qQ)

75 Key to get in is missing and by myself today. So might be out until 7am when outside doors open

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 06:11 AM (aHfB6)

76 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! I was almost among the insomaniacals again this morning like the old days. Woke at 3 am after a chaotic dream.

In it, I was trying to work my way through a crowded airport to catch a plane. Apparently the airport was Denver's; why I'd gone there I don't know. Also, I'd mislaid my long tweed topcoat (which in real life I do not have one of) and my fedora, but I didn't have time to look for them. My ticket was in my leather jacket pocket, though. I had to find the right concourse and gate while carrying (not wheeling) my luggage. Then, as I spied my flight info, it also said "Delayed."

Makes me glad I haven't flown since 2014.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2025 06:11 AM (omVj0)

77 75 Key to get in is missing and by myself today. So might be out until 7am when outside doors open
Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2025 06:11 AM (aHfB6)

Hope you got some donuts to keep you company.

Posted by: m at April 10, 2025 06:14 AM (CQE5S)

78
Whistleblower-as-a-service Sarah Wynn-Williams has accused Facebook of building a Nazi base on the dark side of the Moon. (Tech Crunch)

Or something

At this point it ought not shock anyone when a tech company that has gathered Lord knows what from you as you interacted with its products or services would be perfectly willing to share that with anyone willing to pay them for it, overtly or otherwise.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:17 AM (xG4kz)

79 And since I won't be around today except maybe for art thread, here is a picture of an attractive woman in modest attire for Bulgar. He's may not not up this early. Model reminds me of who some guys here call Pam "Blondi" or Karolyn Leavitt.

https://tinyurl.com/42h2639a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025

***
Lovely lady, Fen!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)

80 - example of why old sayings are old sayings

You can lead a horse to water but...
Time to get ready to head to lake before sun up.
Leofb

Posted by: TeeJ at April 10, 2025 06:17 AM (L8+qQ)

81
"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the ropes. -Karl Marx"

>> Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses Meta of colluding with China

---

Back in 2002
HONG KONG, China -- U.S. satellite maker Loral Space & Communications Ltd. has agreed to pay a $14 million fine for passing missile technology to China in 1996.

https://tinyurl.com/84np5cpm

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 10, 2025 06:19 AM (Zxyt3)

82 - example of why old sayings are old sayings

You can lead a horse to water but...
Time to get ready to head to lake before sun up.
Leofb
Posted by: TeeJ at April 10, 2025

***
"Use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence."
"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."
( -- Dorothy Parker)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)

83
So our WH Press Secretary was going around with some secret a few days ago ..... what was it?
Posted by: Ciampino - Florida has a Spaceport

No idea -- she's preggers?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:21 AM (xG4kz)

84 DOGE were apparently engaged in an 'anti-fraud upgrade' when the efforts went bad and several reported an inability to access their online accounts, The Washington Post reported.

Specifically, the online glitch prevented the elderly and low-income families from accessing their information. It also stopped these demographics from being able to apply for government services or receive their payments.

Is WaPo people really that fucking stupid?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 06:22 AM (gbOdA)

85 What do you call an IT person who fixes computers with humor?

A gigabyte

May everyone here have a blessed day and know that you are a blessing to others.

Keep on praying!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 06:23 AM (z+x0r)

86
Wolfus Aurelius, I've lost track -- are you through working or eagerly anticipating that day's arrival real soon now?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:24 AM (xG4kz)

87 Chris Matthews on MSNBC:

"We get so much of our lumber, our two by fours from from Canada....What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?!"

"What is our plan now...? We're going to create more wood. Is that it?!"

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 06:24 AM (gbOdA)

88 Anyway! 'Tis Thor's Day again, and a cool morning, 57 F., high about 80 today. No rain for a while, warm days, a slight drop in the high on Friday and highs in the mid-70s for the weekend. We had this kind of weather at this time in 2020, when so many of us were sent home to "work," and I developed a taste for not having to commute. If that had not happened, as well as being threatened with termination over the clot shot, I wonder if I would have gotten the idea to retire this year?

A LOT of stuff worldwide would have been different.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2025 06:25 AM (omVj0)

89 Back in 2002
HONG KONG, China -- U.S. satellite maker Loral Space & Communications Ltd. has agreed to pay a $14 million fine for passing missile technology to China in 1996.

https://tinyurl.com/84np5cpm

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 10, 2025 06:19 AM (Zxyt3)
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How much did the Clintons pay in fines?

Posted by: Ciampino - nuts & bolts at April 10, 2025 06:26 AM (sPQoU)

90 Is WaPo people really that fucking stupid?
Posted by: rhennigantx

They are looking for every single misstep and reporting it as the most terrible of evils that ever befell this poor nation. Since things are not going 100% perfectly 100% of the time, it's proof that Orangemanbad and the immigrant running DOGE is going to DOOOM! us all.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 06:27 AM (NR6c1)

91
I renewed my drivers license at the DMV yesterday. As I do not have a CDL, I was directed to one of the kiosks at which I could do the renewal myself. That took me ten minutes, tops. In and out with a new and renewed license in fifteen minutes.

Practically every one of the hundred or so seats in tgat office had some poor schlub waiting to be called up for service. I did not envy them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:30 AM (xG4kz)

92 Wolfus Aurelius, I've lost track -- are you through working or eagerly anticipating that day's arrival real soon now?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025

***
No work, K v C -- I put in my papers in January, and my last day was 3/31. I''m sleeping later and going to bed later, but I'm still a morning bug, I guess. In the last ten days I've been busy arranging my finances, setting up a new-to-me computer in my bedroom, having maintenance done on the car, etc.

Yesterday a grizzled fellow about my age stopped me at the grocery store and asked if I'd ever done some TV or movies. I said no, only in school, but I'd been in radio for some years. He said, "You've got that character actor face! Go check into Hollywood South. You'll have to post headshots and so forth, but you really should try it, you never know." Wouldn't that be odd, to get extra work in commercials or something, when years ago I wanted to be a comic character actor (I wanted to be Bill Murray before there was a Bill Murray!).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2025 06:32 AM (omVj0)

93 And "Legal Insurrection" acknowledges the the media is calling the shots in the tariff war. Perhaps we had this in the MR from yesterday:

https://tinyurl.com/mpucxd9z
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 05:52 AM (JOZuY)

The real question is, what is Trump today according to the trolls and panicans
?

- an idiot, destroying our economy by using techniques that 20-something journalism majors don't understand (market down)
- a quisling who folded and made the US a laughingstock because he was a-skeered of the market being down (market up)
- a nefarious villain manipulating the market purely for the benefit of his billionaire friends (this one seems independent of the market)
- they throw us a curve and start shrieking about something completely different.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 06:33 AM (ExV1e)

94
I took up aerobics to help maintain my well-propositioned figure.

Posted by: Ciampino - nuts & bolts & screws at April 10, 2025 06:34 AM (sPQoU)

95 Nobody took a stab at #16.
Posted by: Ciampino - attention to attentive at April 10, 2025 06:07 AM (sPQoU)

Either they haven't said yet, or more proof of illegals voting - possibly in sufficient numbers to overturn an election.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 06:35 AM (ExV1e)

96
We had this kind of weather at this time in 2020, when so many of us were sent home to "work," and I developed a taste for not having to commute.

I came across an inquiry in my text messages from August 2019 in which the sender asked what the scouts had worked out for the camping schedule of 2020. It had a nice assortment of places and activities. IRL, the Coof blew it out of the water for anything after March.

When will Fauci swing? (That's rhetorical, of course.)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:35 AM (xG4kz)

97 And since I won't be around today except maybe for art thread, here is a picture of an attractive woman in modest attire for Bulgar. He's may not not up this early. Model reminds me of who some guys here call Pam "Blondi" or Karolyn Leavitt.

https://tinyurl.com/42h2639a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2025 06:08 AM (XkTQX)

More Karolyn than Pam, I think.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 06:36 AM (ExV1e)

98 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2025 06:37 AM (RNuBu)

99 On the other hand I’ve read that auto manufacturers have concluded that knobs and buttons are an easier and more practical input solution than touch screens for drivers hurtling along at any speed above parked.

Going back to the old ways
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 10, 2025

***
My '16 Buick has a mix of both, thank goodness.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2025 06:38 AM (omVj0)

100
Joe Biden walked on water. Donald Trump is a stumblebum.

Democracy dies in darkness.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

101 Maybe the, "We know something," announcements are reminders to various troublesome GOPe characters.

Posted by: davidt at April 10, 2025 06:40 AM (i0F8b)

102
Chris Matthews on MSNBC:
"We get so much of our lumber, our two by fours from from Canada....What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?!"
"What is our plan now...? We're going to create more wood. Is that it?!"
Posted by: rhennigantx

We've always got you, Chris, you plank.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:41 AM (xG4kz)

103 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Currently 50 and clear. High today 71 with late afternoon thunderboomers.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 10, 2025 06:43 AM (hoCmQ)

104 Democracy does just fine in darkness.

It dies when you shine a 50,000 candlepower klieg light on a donkey and beat up anyone who refuses to call it an eagle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 06:43 AM (KtIIi)

105 Market go down : Commie mad

Matket go up : Commie mad

Posted by: jsg at April 10, 2025 06:43 AM (p3oE1)

106 G'mornin' everyone!

32 degrees, raining

(not snowing, woohoo!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 10, 2025 06:44 AM (/Ghsb)

107 It's a talking library of human knowledge. Rather than having to look things up yourself, from some wide array of knowledge and then having to put it all together to answer the question, it does it for you.

THis can be very useful.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2025 05:34 AM (w6EFb)

— —

That’s a good way to describe them.

They honestly remind me of the Fortress of Solitude “computer” Superman had in the Christopher Reeves era movies.

Only it’s not a Marlon Brando talking hologram.
Although that could probably be done one day if you wanted that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)

108 Market go down : Commie mad

Matket go up : Commie mad
Posted by: jsg at April 10, 2025 06:43 AM (p3oE1)
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Why do commies even care about the market?

Shouldn't they just want the entire market to go away?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2025 06:45 AM (cweKM)

109 Wood does not just grow on trees.

Posted by: Chris M at April 10, 2025 06:45 AM (gbOdA)

110
and a general LOL and thankyou for Pixy's headlines, and allayouse!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 10, 2025 06:47 AM (/Ghsb)

111 The forests of the PNW were clear cut an re-planted with doug fir and other fast growing softwoods so that we would have bountiful timber harvests going forward. Then they stopped logging as heavily and bought cheaper wood from Canada instead. Now the forests are unnaturally dense and completely unmanaged and they wonder why they keep going up in massive fires.

The softwood forests out there are about as "natural" as a poultry farm.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 06:50 AM (KtIIi)

112 Why do commies even care about the market?

Shouldn't they just want the entire market to go away?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2025 06:45 AM (cweKM)

The problem with the market is that it provides lesser sorts, you know... the kind of people who are plumbers and whatnot, the opportunity to improve their financial situation such that they might be less inclined to do as they're told by their betters. -- Dr. Karen Rodriguez, Dean of Communism at Rando "Ivy League" University

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 06:51 AM (ExV1e)

113
Here's a video where Ana Kasparien unloaded on Red Kammie for her "I told you so" remark. Timpon takes a few torpedoes, too.

TYTs warning, but it isn't their usual fare.

https://youtu.be/jCYemZWl0a0

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:51 AM (xG4kz)

114 105 Market go down : Commie mad

Matket go up : Commie mad

Misery is their default state which explains why so many on the left follow it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 06:52 AM (NR6c1)

115 102 Chris Matthews on MSNBC:
"We get so much of our lumber, our two by fours from from Canada....What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?!"
"What is our plan now...? We're going to create more wood. Is that it?!"
Posted by: rhennigantx

We've always got you, Chris, you plank.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:41 AM (xG4kz)

Chris "Tizzy" Matthews

Posted by: m at April 10, 2025 06:52 AM (CQE5S)

116 Anyone have insurance through USAA? Thoughts?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 06:53 AM (ExV1e)

117 Court documents filed Monday in Florida show that he used encrypted messaging to communicate with someone "believed to be a Ukrainian with access to military weapons" shortly before his failed attempt at Trump International Golf Club.

According to prosecutors, Routh tried to buy a rocket-propelled grenade or Stinger missile from an individual he believed to be a Ukrainian contact with access to weapons of war.

individual he believed to be a Ukrainian contact
Translation: FBI CIA or CI

Posted by: Chris M at April 10, 2025 06:53 AM (gbOdA)

118 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 06:53 AM (gbOdA)

119 Good morning morons

I think you're trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2025 06:55 AM (RIvkX)

120 116 Anyone have insurance through USAA? Thoughts?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yep. Wife and I have it and we've been happy with them. The few times we've had to file a claim, things moved quickly.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 06:55 AM (NR6c1)

121

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 10, 2025 06:56 AM (5hfjS)

122 .....

Who tries to assassinate a guy with a Stinger?

That's only mildly less ridiculous than using a Steinway off the top floor of a six story walk-up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 06:56 AM (KtIIi)

123 Morning peeps.

Floods are receding, but more rain is expected today and tonight. Nowhere near what we had earlier.

No discussions on when/if FEMA will show up. I think they sent a couple water rescue teams to the general area, but all of the river rescues I've heard of, or seen, were performed by local FD's.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2025 06:57 AM (Q4IgG)

124
Plastics.

Posted by: It's the future at April 10, 2025 06:57 AM (F352h)

125 Or an anvil.

Posted by: Meep meep at April 10, 2025 06:58 AM (F352h)

126 Time I planed off the phiz and showered the form. Later, folken.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 10, 2025 06:58 AM (omVj0)

127 "Anyone have insurance through USAA? Thoughts?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic "

I recently switched my homeowners insurance to them and saved $1500.

mornin yall.

Posted by: fd at April 10, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

128 Aren't gluten and yeast two different things?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 10, 2025 06:59 AM (ZmEVT)

129 That’s a good way to describe them.

They honestly remind me of the Fortress of Solitude “computer” Superman had in the Christopher Reeves era movies.

Only it’s not a Marlon Brando talking hologram.
Although that could probably be done one day if you wanted that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Col. Walter Kurtz will be explaining Quantum Physics and then go off on some tangent about some obscure poet. Then smoke some opium and fall asleep. Boring.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 10, 2025 07:00 AM (sAmhv)

130 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 10, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

131 The Young Turks are neither.

Posted by: Have you noticed? at April 10, 2025 07:01 AM (F352h)

132 >> How much did the Clintons pay in fines?
Posted by: Ciampino - nuts & bolts at April 10, 2025 06:26 AM (sPQoU)

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In my head, I hear Bill Clinton laughing st the thought that he would EVER pay the price for anything.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 10, 2025 07:01 AM (jkh9b)

133 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Good for you for telling your wife's friend to doubt the lying media.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 10, 2025 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

134 Good morning. Macron says he is going to reveal a plan to recognize a "palestinian" state as soon as June.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2025 07:02 AM (5JBMH)

135 The Trump administration has already sent out the order to open up more of the national forests to logging.

Does Chris Matthew’s believe the U.S. is a treeless wasteland or something?

Of all the industries to restart, logging and milling are probably the easiest to accomplish.

We’re not talking high tech work here.
All that’s needed is the will to do it, a price incentive, and opening up more areas for harvesting.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

136
Well the anvil chorus has started up again, only it's hammering on wood.

We have a development of townhouses being erected in the former office park behind us.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 07:03 AM (xG4kz)

137 It may have been fake, but it was accurate.

Posted by: Dan Blather at April 10, 2025 07:03 AM (F352h)

138 Biden gave social security numbers to 4 million illegal aliens — no questions asked.

Bet they all vote!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 07:05 AM (gbOdA)

139 "Macron says he is going to reveal a plan to recognize a "palestinian" state as soon as June.
Posted by: Ben Had"

Good. They can put it in France.

Posted by: fd at April 10, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

140 Isn't LeBron James too . . . ugly to be a Ken doll?

Posted by: logprof at April 10, 2025 07:06 AM (VuDLK)

141 Gluten is a protein. (Two proteins mushed together, but whatever).

Yeast is a microbe. Really a general term but usually meant to mean the fungus S. cervisiae, which is what we think of as "yeast" in any useful sense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 07:06 AM (KtIIi)

142 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Macron is delusional, like his deep state cronies. He has ruined a potentially great country. At least his military has a plan to take back France from the invaders, but he will not listen to them.

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

143 RIvkX)

120 116 Anyone have insurance through USAA? Thoughts?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Yep. Wife and I have it and we've been happy with them. The few times we've had to file a claim, things moved quickly.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 06:55 AM (NR6c1)

---

USAA is highly-rated in Consumer Reports.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 10, 2025 07:07 AM (YpHxX)

144 Yep. I'm a fun guy.

Posted by: Yeast at April 10, 2025 07:08 AM (F352h)

145
Who is more despondenf, former USAID employees or "two state solution" eunuchs at the State Department?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 07:08 AM (xG4kz)

146 NaCly, KT had a question about the availability of resources to produce more of our own pharmaceuticals. I'll be you can answer that question.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2025 07:08 AM (5JBMH)

147 Yep. I'm a fun guy.
Posted by: Yeast at April 10, 2025 07:08 AM (F352h)

"Beer-making Sweet-mold".

Story checks out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2025 07:09 AM (KtIIi)

148 Have to go. My wife had a bad night last night, and I am going to see if she is better.

She does not want to go to the local hospital,
Based on how they mistreated her when she fell and broke the dishwasher, breaking 4 ribs, I am with her all the way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 10, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

149 I saw The Two State Solution Eunuchs at The Birchmere in '13.

Posted by: They weren't bad at April 10, 2025 07:10 AM (F352h)

150 145
Who is more despondenf, former USAID employees or "two state solution" eunuchs at the State Department?

Good question. Let's put them in a room with a bottle of Jack and a handful of Ambien and come back in an hour.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 07:10 AM (NR6c1)

151 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 10, 2025 07:09 AM

Prayers up, bro.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 10, 2025 07:11 AM (mH6SG)

152 Ben Had

We have the chemical industry to make all basic drugs. But the profit margin is much lower than for drugs under patent protection, which is why new drugs are highly touted. We can do it with some imparted will.

Now GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 10, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

153 Training costs for creating new models have soared
You know... if they just entered into them the sum of all human knowledge - every known work of Shakespeare, Thucydides, Homer, Clausewitz, Voltaire, Franklin, Jefferson, Heinlein, etc., along with Descartes, Einstein, Newton, etc. - I might consider them potentially useful.

Instead, they're ingesting the internet. Oof.

Posted by: GWB at April 10, 2025 07:14 AM (fK6LX)

154 > Biden gave social security numbers to 4 million illegal aliens — no questions asked.

Bet they all vote!
Posted by: rhennigantx
---------
They all got ballots for sure. That was part of the fraud in 2020 that got exposed... ballots appeared out of thin air. These are legit ballots. The illegals probably aren't filling them out, but they're considered legal because the person who has one has an ID (SSN).

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2025 07:14 AM (Q4IgG)

155 France is in the best, tiny hands.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2025 07:15 AM (RIvkX)

156 I see you are attempting to uninstall Copilot.
I can't let you do that, Dave.
.
.
.
.
Daisy... Daisy....

Posted by: GWB at April 10, 2025 07:15 AM (fK6LX)

157
I say eunuchs because I recall the scene in "The Last Emperor" where the court eunuchs were cast out from the imperial palace and they left, carrying their rice bowls and a small parcel in which their balls had been preserved. I suspect that the eunuchs at State are pretty much the same.

Buh-bye, boys! Write if you get work!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 07:16 AM (xG4kz)

158 "I see you are attempting to uninstall Copilot."
Can it be uninstalled?
Posted by: Petey at April 10, 2025 06:04 AM (rzwGB)

No!!!!!!
(laughs while rubbing his hairy erect man boob nipples to a sweaty, screaming orgasm)

Posted by: Bill Gates, Owner Of Fat Man Boobs And Tech Weirdo at April 10, 2025 07:19 AM (ekEaX)

159 W-o; Latin roots FTW!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 10, 2025 07:20 AM (/Ghsb)

160 Yep. Wife and I have it and we've been happy with them. The few times we've had to file a claim, things moved quickly.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 10, 2025 06:55 AM (NR6c1)

Thanks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 07:20 AM (ExV1e)

161 Who tries to assassinate a guy with a Stinger?

Sounds North Korean. They're always up for an over-the-top method of killing a single person.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 07:21 AM (ExV1e)

162 I see you are attempting to uninstall Copilot. This incident has been reported.

What's depressing is how easy Copilot is to activate. A few random button mashes and it comes up.

Posted by: pookysgirl, mother to a button-masher at April 10, 2025 07:24 AM (Wt5PA)

163 Conclusions This study found that influenza vaccination of working-aged adults was associated with a higher risk of influenza during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season, suggesting that the vaccine has not been effective in preventing influenza this season.

Summary Among 53402 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, we were unable to find that the influenza vaccine has been effective in preventing infection during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

164 Biden's Dog, since CBD is ignoring your request for that cake recipe, I will happily give it to you. Give me a minute to hunt it up. I will post it here in this thread even if JJ's post goes up before I come back.

Posted by: bluebell at April 10, 2025 07:25 AM (79pEw)

165 161 Who tries to assassinate a guy with a Stinger?

Sounds North Korean. They're always up for an over-the-top method of killing a single person.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 07:21 AM (ExV1e)

Didn't they have a second Trump Force One in later summer?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 07:26 AM (gbOdA)

166 We finally know why CBD moved to France.

https://youtu.be/sQu1N_ixxow

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 07:26 AM (ExV1e)

167 I met Chelsea Clinton once in 2008.
She and Mom and Bill were all in separate places around Charleston campaigning for the upcoming presidential primary.

I didn’t even know they were in town to be honest.
It was lunchtime and break between classes and I was walking around town, getting some exercise after downing a Subway sandwich and walked by a crowd around a deli.

There was a lady standing there with a big Clinton 2008 sign.

“What’s going on?” I asked her.
“Chelsea Clinton is in there, you wanna meet her?”
“Sure, why not.”

So I waited in line a few minutes, and got to shake her hand and told her, “I remember watching you as a little girl way back then, and now look at you.”
“Yes, well we all tend to grow up don’t we?”

Then I asked if I could take her picture (photography student, my Canon Digital SLR was strapped around my neck already) and she said yes and I still have that pic of her. In fact it’s the highest viewed photo on my Flickr page to this day.

Then I left, and talked to the lady outside holding the sign for a few minutes.

“So who are you voting for?”
“Ron Paul.”

That’s when the conversation ended.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 07:26 AM (6ydKt)

168 We finally know why CBD moved to France.

--

He actually moved there? I thought it was a vacation of sorts.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2025 07:29 AM (qBdHI)

169 Summary Among 53402 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, we were unable to find that the influenza vaccine has been effective in preventing infection during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

--

The pharmacist asked me if I wasted the RSV vaccine. I said I needed more info

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 10, 2025 07:29 AM (xlcwc)

170 Then I left, and talked to the lady outside holding the sign for a few minutes.

“So who are you voting for?”
“Ron Paul.”

That’s when the conversation ended.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 10, 2025 07:26 AM (6ydKt)

Tell me the lady outside wasn't hot without telling me the lady outside wasn't hot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

171 They all got ballots for sure. That was part of the fraud in 2020 that got exposed... ballots appeared out of thin air. These are legit ballots. The illegals probably aren't filling them out, but they're considered legal because the person who has one has an ID (SSN).
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2025 07:14 AM (Q4IgG)

In the NC Supreme Court race there are over 65k illegal voter reg votes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 07:29 AM (gbOdA)

172 He actually moved there? I thought it was a vacation of sorts.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2025 07:29 AM (qBdHI)

Semi exiled

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 07:30 AM (gbOdA)

173 Flourless Chocolate Cake with Caramel Sauce:

https://tinyurl.com/5dvcwavw

Link should go to Epicurious. Let me know if you have trouble.

I've never made the caramel sauce because I feel like that would be gilding the lily, but of course CBD has and said it's good. I just serve the cake with a dusting of powdered sugar and a few raspberries.

Posted by: bluebell at April 10, 2025 07:30 AM (79pEw)

174
JJ
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 10, 2025 07:31 AM (gbOdA)

175 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2025 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

176 MiL is making flourless chocolate almond cake with raspberry sauce for seder.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2025 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

177 Anyone have insurance through USAA? Thoughts?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Interesting timing. I was hit by a USAA insured driver just at 2 months ago. It appears I'm gonna have to sue the driver to get USAA to make me a reasonable offer.

Body shop bid $3600. They claimed my truck was only worth $5200. I sent them offers from all major sites... average over $10,000. They've increased my off to $8300. Wanting to total a $10,000 truck for $3600.
Okay, great, what's salvage value? $7100.
Assholes. I just want my truck fixed.

Posted by: Your next door neighbor at April 10, 2025 07:38 AM (cPGH3)

178 113 Here's a video where Ana Kasparien unloaded on Red Kammie for her "I told you so" remark. Timpon takes a few torpedoes, too.

TYTs warning, but it isn't their usual fare.

https://youtu.be/jCYemZWl0a0
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2025 06:51 AM (xG4kz)

That's great. Ana Kasparian is on fire in this one!

Posted by: m at April 10, 2025 07:55 AM (CQE5S)

179 Larry O'Connor video on the surge of 15 million voters that showed up for the 2020 election, but they must have been abducted -- because they were missing in 2024.

https://tinyurl.com/4235n4ue

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 10, 2025 08:04 AM (//JDi)

180 with a few prompts, Grok will write some extremely dirty stories, quite fun if you like that sort of thing

Posted by: TallDave at April 10, 2025 08:53 AM (98TtQ)

181 The goal of the journal is to provide scholarship that enables decision-makers to thoughtfully and intentionally engage in the decisions that shape this dynamic.

Posted by: Technology at April 11, 2025 01:06 PM (zTOA5)

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