Daily Tech News 28 May 2025

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CEO of smartphone company Nothing, Carl Pei, says that we will soon see the operating system and AI take over from traditional applications because large phone makers are clueless and cannot innovate. (9to5 Google)

That... Makes no sense.

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Panasonic is ending support for VGA port in its laptops. (Tom's Hardware)

You'll only get USB4 and HDMI.

VGA ports are getting scarce enough that this isn't much of a problem. If you have a projector or something that takes VGA, attach an HDMI adaptor to it and just leave it there.
Why the original Macintosh screen had a resolution of 512x342 pixels. (512pixels)

Because.
Asus is planning to market laptops with either free AI or no AI at all because nobody is prepared to pay for it. (The Register)

Someone finally noticed.
AI may have already peaked. (The Register)

AI needs non-AI data to learn from. If you feed it data generated by AI, it focuses on specific facts to the exclusion of reality - patterns in the learning algorithm reinforce patterns in the previous generation of output - leading to a state called model collapse where it goes insane.

And the internet is flooded with AI slop, so filtering it out at this point is prohibitively expensive.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Don't spend it all at once.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2025 04:31 AM (bKqAu)

2 Hi

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 28, 2025 04:32 AM (ZmEVT)

3 Thank you Pixy

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 28, 2025 04:33 AM (a1415)

4 lulz photo:

https://tinyurl.com/2uvrk5yb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2025 04:34 AM (bKqAu)

5 Blue footed boobies!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 28, 2025 04:34 AM (h86Sx)

6 Morning all. It's way too early.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 04:34 AM (mOuM9)

7 Leaving for minor outpatient arm surgery in a few minutes, so ...

BBFN

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 28, 2025 04:45 AM (a1415)

8 I remember spending an absolutely obscene amount of money to upgrade the memory of my Mac from 1 meg to 4 megs.

That was one reason I moved on from Apple.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 28, 2025 04:49 AM (Pu/zx)

9 G'mornin all y'all.
Son has surgery scheduled for this morning.
He is getting a new heart valve. Amazing what can be done these days.
Blessings to you all. And, thanks for your prayers.

Posted by: OkJohn at May 28, 2025 04:56 AM (NC/it)

10 Sara Levine has earned her place, up against the wall.

Posted by: pawn at May 28, 2025 04:59 AM (QB+5g)

11 Posted by: OkJohn at May 28, 2025 04:56 AM (NC/it

Will pray for your son and his surgical team. Thanks for letting us know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 05:00 AM (Z9Oio)

12 Being aware of God's blessings. Devotional on "A new resolution." 2nd Corinthians 5:16-21:

https://tinyurl.com/4ssjs2tj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 05:05 AM (Z9Oio)

13 Mornin'

The Hooters!! Part of the soundtrack of my yute! Great band!

I have a Beelink mini-pc and a very old but still good monitor. I have an adapter that I use and the monitor works just fine.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2025 05:07 AM (sAmhv)

14 "Sara Levine has earned her place, up against the wall."

Who is she and why does she deserve to be shot?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 28, 2025 05:07 AM (MA5db)

15 Go Texas! 64 degrees & 99% humidity.

Lies! Humidity has to be at least 105 to 110%.
You can see it hanging in the air.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 05:19 AM (159FE)

16 @Pixy: "That... Makes no sense."

Maybe his speech was generated by an AI.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 28, 2025 05:24 AM (O7YUW)

17 Sara Levine is a DOJ lawyer who just lost her job. She is responsible for persecution of Jan 6 protesters.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 05:26 AM (Auo8u)

18 Asus and the offering of free AI or no AI because nobody is willing to pay for it...

Pixy writes: "Someone finally noticed."

Prediction: AI will infest so much and annoy so many people that companies forcing it on their users will offer to turn it off for a subscription fee.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 28, 2025 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

19 Woman sings old time hymn, "It is well with my soul":

https://tinyurl.com/2uyvzkn8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 05:33 AM (Auo8u)

20 Prediction: AI will infest so much and annoy so many people that companies forcing it on their users will offer to turn it off for a subscription fee.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 28, 2025 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

And then you never still really know. Maybe the entire company is AI.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2025 05:34 AM (gKDq2)

21 "Sara Levine is a DOJ lawyer who just lost her job. She is responsible for persecution of Jan 6 protesters."

Putting her up against the wall is too nice for her, unless the firing squad deliberately aims for non-vital areas and the coup de grace person is out of ammo.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 28, 2025 05:34 AM (MA5db)

22 Ted Levine > Sarah Levine.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, cowhand of the Apocalypse at May 28, 2025 05:35 AM (I8gxw)

23 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 28, 2025 05:36 AM (hoCmQ)

24 Teacher thought that he was breaking up a fight. Instead, he got a wonderful surprise. "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/2amxbem3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 05:38 AM (Auo8u)

25 Between Pixy's Hooters interlude and Mambo #5 from the ONT I love the music around these parts this morning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 05:49 AM (K7yvy)

26 Evening and morning, Woden's Day soujourners!

Re: 1980s Macs: I recall one of the faculty at the first department where I worked at my long-time employer, ca. 1990, toting a Mac CPU/screen in one hand into the office. This was the days of the big PC CPUs that gave off a faint roaring sound as they ran, of green text or yellow on a black CRT screen, of DOS and TSRs (terminate-and-stay-resident programs), and batch files like AUTOEXEC.BAT. And BASIC and COBOL, of course.

"640K of memory ought to be enough for anybody."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 05:52 AM (omVj0)

27 My bride is all whooped up about the dangers of ubiquitous AI. She read an article about Anthropic's Claude trying to prevent a version update by attempting blackmail of a developer and then she saw another article about a Google AI that was caught editing its own code to prevent shutdown. She hopes the DoD keeps AI out of weaponry.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 05:54 AM (kkJCD)

28 Anyway! Here I is, having some coffee and getting ready to feed the furry thugs. Today is SS "payday," so I plan to nip over to the local tire/auto repair store and ask them to test my Buick's battery. It's 2.5 years old, installed by AAA in Feb. of '23, replacing one they installed in August of '20. If need be I'll replace it, but in any case I want to know how it's holding up before I take off on a road trip next month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

29 A little less hot today: 78 F. instead of yesterday's 83. If I have any sense at all, I'll go work out this morning . . . but we all know the facts in that case, don't we?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

30 Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 05:54 AM (kkJCD)

How does a regular person- not a computer geek- avoid AI?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 05:57 AM (EJtBU)

31 30: Become Amish? I don't know. It's annoying though. Fascist nerds are the worst.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2025 05:59 AM (sAmhv)

32 How does a regular person- not a computer geek- avoid AI?

I got an offer from Verizon Wireless for a free* $1,000 smart phone.

It comes with AI.

I declined the offer.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 28, 2025 06:01 AM (ZmEVT)

33 Not knowing who Sara Levine is I asked the internet and it served up a video of her testifying somewhere, crying. I am certain she isn't even a fraction as upset as the families she persecuted.

https://tinyurl.com/3b9ef4bz

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:01 AM (EiGGt)

34 How does a regular person- not a computer geek- avoid AI?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 05:57 AM (EJtBU)
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I use both Grok and Chatgpt for editing help, and for the most part think it useful and like it. But putting AI into decision making modes with weapons sounds idiotic in the extreme.

So I expect someone to do it any day now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:05 AM (5tIzp)

35 New phone for so. hasn't arrived yet ( Fed Exp is hopeless !) even though we've called three times. The person who ran over his phone is his nice sort of superior who is a Christian and his age but she doesn't appear to be much interested in talking with him. Why do I know this? Because she contacted me thinking it was son's phone which he had borrowed and she told me son had told her we go to church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 06:08 AM (mnipd)

36 34:I use both Grok and Chatgpt for editing help, and for the most part think it useful and like it. But putting AI into decision making modes with weapons sounds idiotic in the extreme.

So I expect someone to do it any day now.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Trust me! What could possibly go wrong!? (snicker)

Posted by: Skynet at May 28, 2025 06:09 AM (sAmhv)

37 Interestingly, Sarah Levine (who appears to be about 33 years old) has a great hobby, when she isn't sending kulaks into solitary. She makes maps! And she has a website dedicated to her cartography, called sarahmakesmaps.com

I confess to loving maps.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:12 AM (Xi8/k)

38 So I expect someone to do it any day now.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:05 AM (5tIzp)

Yep. Sounds like horror film. Computer thing launches weapons and when you try to get it to stop it says something like " I'm afraid I can't do that now" in a HAL like voice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 06:14 AM (CSwex)

39 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2025 06:14 AM (RIvkX)

40 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 28, 2025 06:15 AM (/Ghsb)

41
I confess to loving maps.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:12 AM (Xi8/k)

A fellow cartomaniac!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2025 06:21 AM (QnmlO)

42 Thank you Fen.
Your links be good. Helpful.

Posted by: OkJohn at May 28, 2025 06:21 AM (NC/it)

43
Woman sings old time hymn, "It is well with my soul"

Quite the back story for that hymn.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2025 06:22 AM (QnmlO)

44 Interestingly, Sarah Levine (who appears to be about 33 years old) has a great hobby, when she isn't sending kulaks into solitary. She makes maps! And she has a website dedicated to her cartography, called sarahmakesmaps.com

I confess to loving maps.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025

***
So do I, so I looked . . . and one of hers is called "Map of Street Harassment," charting catcalls in the chosen area and thus, I suppose, denigrating men. A lib's obsessions come out at every opportunity.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)

45 From the file of Weird Stuff Coca Cola has tried....

The company once introduced a "spicy" new soda using Charles Manson's face as a model for cartoon pictures on its cans. It was called "OK Soda".

https://tinyurl.com/mpe3tn6j

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:25 AM (+zBf9)

46 mornin yall. My big toe hurts.

I don't get what this latest Chrisley pardon is all about. Who are these people, and did they get loans they did not repay? Were they railroaded? It sounds fishy but of course you can't believe anything the media says about it.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025 06:25 AM (vFG9F)

47 Ah, some other map nerds! Yep, been looking at maps since I was a kid. Just like them. Proved useful as an adult. If I get somewhere with no signal, I can read an actual roadmap and figure out where to go. Seems that's a lost art now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to done at May 28, 2025 06:26 AM (sAmhv)

48 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2025 06:22 AM (QnmlO

Yes; There are very powerful stories to a lot of hymns. Just goes to show- to me anyway- that many are not written when things are going smoothly but often when people are going through really hard things and God is the only one who strengthens them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 06:28 AM (EJtBU)

49 I was curious about the voice of HAL in 2001, so I looked. It was a then forty-year-old actor named Douglas Rain.

"He was originally hired to provide narration for the film, which was left unused in the finished product, with Rain switching to doing the voice of the HAL 9000 computer at Kubrick's request during the recording session in London. The character had already been voiced by multiple actors at this point - including Martin Balsam - but Kubrick was not satisfied with the resulting performances, and asked Rain to play HAL instead." (Emphasis mine)

He was also the voice of the "Evil Computer" in Woody Allen's Sleeper.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:29 AM (omVj0)

50 mornin yall. My big toe hurts.

I'm sorry. Are you affected by gout? That is where the pain first showed up before FenSpouse was diagnosed. He thought he had somehow broken his toe he was in so much pain.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 06:30 AM (EJtBU)

51 My bride is all whooped up about the dangers of ubiquitous AI. She read an article about Anthropic's Claude trying to prevent a version update by attempting blackmail of a developer and then she saw another article about a Google AI that was caught editing its own code to prevent shutdown. She hopes the DoD keeps AI out of weaponry.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Haven't seen one yet that can stop you from pulling the power cord out of the wall socket.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:32 AM (159FE)

52 Posted by: OkJohn at May 28, 2025 06:21 AM (NC/it)

You are welcome, John. I am glad you post how God brought you through stuff and that you ask this little part of the AOS community for prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 06:32 AM (EJtBU)

53 Gilbert Gottfried would have been perfect for the voice of HAL.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2025 06:33 AM (PiwSw)

54 Hooters !
Their first independent album was awesome. Wore the tape out.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at May 28, 2025 06:33 AM (YHh4B)

55 Good morning! Currently 71F with 85% RH out on the patio here in Cowtown. Pond renovation continues and top soil, rock, stones and all the pond supplies deliver today. Hoping for significant visual progress today and completion by this time next week.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 28, 2025 06:33 AM (3Ope8)

56 Good morning. Israel and Syria are holding direct talks. This has never happened before .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 28, 2025 06:34 AM (NVNRw)

57 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:29 AM (omVj0)

Interesting. Thanks.
Well, onto the next part of life for the day. I hope everyone has a blessed day and knows that you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 28, 2025 06:34 AM (EJtBU)

58 51 My bride is all whooped up about the dangers of ubiquitous AI. She read an article about Anthropic's Claude trying to prevent a version update by attempting blackmail of a developer and then she saw another article about a Google AI that was caught editing its own code to prevent shutdown. She hopes the DoD keeps AI out of weaponry.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Haven't seen one yet that can stop you from pulling the power cord out of the wall socket.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:32 AM (159FE)

"A computer once beat me in chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing." --Emo Phillips

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 28, 2025 06:35 AM (PiwSw)

59 Gilbert Gottfried would have been perfect for the voice of HAL.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Bobcat Goldwaithe or Sam Kinison.

"I'm afraid I can't do that Dave. AAAAHHHHH! AAAAHHHHH!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:35 AM (159FE)

60 Good morning. Israel and Syria are holding direct talks. This has never happened before .
Posted by: Ben Had

"You take the Palis"

"No, YOU take the Palis!"

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:37 AM (159FE)

61 Tales of dealing with Netgear and the Post Office:

So I mailed a defective Powerline unit back to Netgear on the 28th. Post Office says it arrived at the Memphis branch on the 5th. Two weeks later, still hasn't arrived so I file a claim. The post office miraculously finds my package. Delivers it on the 19th.

Netgear cancels the RMA because they never received the package. Post office cancels my claim since the say that the package was delivered. At this point, someone is giving me money or giving me a replacement part. I will also accept being allowed to use people on both sides of this as a piñata.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2025 06:38 AM (OPGS/)

62 Haven't seen one yet that can stop you from pulling the power cord out of the wall socket.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025

***
I'm reminded of the M-5 in the Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer," who vaporized one of Scotty's engineers when they tried to shut it down.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:38 AM (omVj0)

63 "Are you affected by gout? "

Occasionally. Usually it's brought on by some injury to my foot but I don't know what it would have been this time.

I see Rick Derringer has passed. Check out the video of him with Edgar Winter playing "Frankenstein" live sometime. An amazing performance by a four piece band.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

64 Tales of dealing with Netgear and the Post Office:

So I mailed a defective Powerline unit back to Netgear on the 28th. Post Office says it arrived at the Memphis branch on the 5th. Two weeks later, still hasn't arrived so I file a claim. The post office miraculously finds my package. Delivers it on the 19th.

Netgear cancels the RMA because they never received the package. Post office cancels my claim since the say that the package was delivered. At this point, someone is giving me money or giving me a replacement part. I will also accept being allowed to use people on both sides of this as a piñata.

Posted by: NR Pax

NEVER ship with USPS. NEVER.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:39 AM (159FE)

65 How can AI be any smarter than the people who design the algorithms that it runs by?

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 28, 2025 06:42 AM (hKoQL)

66 Japan never learns:

"Slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima will be used in the prime minister's flower beds"

I expect giant fire breathing chrysanthemums in a few months.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

67 This morning's episode of Cheyenne on H & I is a 1955 rewrite of the Warners property Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Cheyenne (Clint Walker) taking the role of Walter Huston in the original. Rod Taylor plays the Tim Holt role . . . and long-time character actor Edward Andrews, who usually played comic, middle-American blowhard businessmen, handles the Bogart role wonderfully.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:45 AM (omVj0)

68 "How can AI be any smarter than the people who design the algorithms that it runs by?
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA"

People are dumb. They are so dumb they think AI is smart when it's really just enhanced dumb.

Posted by: AI Commentator at May 28, 2025 06:45 AM (vFG9F)

69 Haven't seen one yet that can stop you from pulling the power cord out of the wall socket.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:32 AM (159FE)
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Person Of Interest dealt with that by putting the Machine on redundant servers buried in data centers. I guess you'd have to shut down the whole data center (s).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:46 AM (K7yvy)

70 "Slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima will be used in the prime minister's flower beds"

I expect giant fire breathing chrysanthemums in a few months.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025 06:43 AM (vFG9F)
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That's one way to keep varmints out of your garden.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2025 06:46 AM (GlyvH)

71 66 Japan never learns:

"Slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima will be used in the prime minister's flower beds"

I expect giant fire breathing chrysanthemums in a few months.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

Yum!

Posted by: Godzilla at May 28, 2025 06:47 AM (PiwSw)

72 Colossus, "what do you mean by saying AIs go insane human serf?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2025 06:47 AM (WwMJV)

73 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 28, 2025 06:47 AM (dg+HA)

74 "Slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima will be used in the prime minister's flower beds"

I expect giant fire breathing chrysanthemums in a few months.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025
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That's one way to keep varmints out of your garden.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2025

***
Great. Three-eyed groundhogs with tentacles, coming right up!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:48 AM (omVj0)

75 NEVER ship with USPS. NEVER.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:39 AM (159FE)
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I worry about this every time I drop something at the Post Office

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:48 AM (K7yvy)

76
People are dumb. They are so dumb they think AI is smart when it's really just enhanced dumb.
Posted by: AI Commentator at May 28, 2025 06:45 AM (vFG9F)

Using the Hammerstein-Equord Matrix

People: Stupid and lazy
AI: Stupid and industrious

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2025 06:49 AM (QnmlO)

77 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

78 Finding nuggets of truth has been my life story. I have been way too hard headed.
Seems I am being led home, slowly
For which I am extremely grateful.

Posted by: OkJohn at May 28, 2025 06:49 AM (NC/it)

79 75 NEVER ship with USPS. NEVER.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:39 AM (159FE)
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I worry about this every time I drop something at the Post Office
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025

***
I've generally had more trouble with FedEx and UPS lately than I have with USPS. (Generally.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:49 AM (omVj0)

80 Kirk could not disconnect M-5 but was able to baffle it with logic enough that it disconnected itself. That method unfortunately does not work on actual humans.

Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

81
NEVER ship with USPS. NEVER.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2025 06:39 AM (159FE)

Learned my lesson. Ordered some chocolates for Mothers Day. Paid for expedited shipping. Package shipped USPS. Sat in some depot for a week. Arrived late.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2025 06:51 AM (QnmlO)

82 I wonder if Tokyo Metropolitan Police still have their anti-drone squad?

The unit was formed after someone tried to land a drone carrying radioactive material on the PM's residence.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2025 06:51 AM (WwMJV)

83 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:45 AM (omVj0)

My father was on a train with Clint Walker as part of an ABC promotional tour. Very pleasant fellow, according to my father, and munched on sunflower seeds.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 28, 2025 06:53 AM (vsTPo)

84 I did not have giant fire breathing chrysanthemums on my Bingo card for this year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2025 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

85 Amazon should worry if no one trusts the delivery companies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2025 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

86 Hadrian the Seventh

Elon Musk is off the scale industrious smart.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2025 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

87 Kirk could not disconnect M-5 but was able to baffle it with logic enough that it disconnected itself. That method unfortunately does not work on actual humans.
Posted by: fd at May 28, 2025

***
Not really so much logic in that case, but by working on its emotional side -- the traits impressed upon it by Dr. Daystrom, its creator. Kirk made it feel guilt for the human deaths it had caused, and it "killed" itself in atonement.

One of the great lines in the series, which gave us an example of the how writers related Roddenberry's vision to ordinary 1968 people: "Get down there and pull out every relay that makes M-5 run. Pull out the plug, Spock!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 06:58 AM (omVj0)

88 Stupid but industrious is a very dangerous
combination.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 28, 2025 06:58 AM (hKoQL)

89 73 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Destroyed by fire breathing chrysanthemums.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2025 06:58 AM (sAmhv)

90 Good morning Horde. Prayers for the Hordians and their loved ones undergoing surgery today. May it be successful and you have a good recovery

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2025 07:00 AM (eDGGN)

91 NEVER ship with USPS. NEVER.
Posted by: rickb223

At least I had a tracking number and insurance. If I didn't have either, I'd probably be SOL.

That being said, I'm going to call Netgear again when I get home today. Yes, the nice man from India said that my ticket was being escalated. That's not good enough. Either they replace the part or pay me in full for what I spent.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2025 07:00 AM (OPGS/)

92 Interestingly, Sarah Levine (who appears to be about 33 years old) has a great hobby, when she isn't sending kulaks into solitary. She makes maps! And she has a website dedicated to her cartography, called sarahmakesmaps.com

I assume that affords her the opportunity to determine where the greatest concentrations of untermenschen are located.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 28, 2025 07:01 AM (ExV1e)

93 IRONGRAMPA

This describes every Dem White House staffer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

94 Democrats are worse - stupid but ambitious.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 28, 2025 07:03 AM (WwMJV)

95 Good morning, Pixy and the Morons! I needed to read that, NaCly Dog.

"...Anthropic's Claude trying to prevent a version update by attempting blackmail of a developer..."

I might like an AI if all it did was act as my enforcer against annoying updates. Speaking of which, this weekend I uninstalled CoPilot. Will it show up again the next time there's an update?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 28, 2025 07:04 AM (fxCK2)

96 My father was on a train with Clint Walker as part of an ABC promotional tour. Very pleasant fellow, according to my father, and munched on sunflower seeds.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 28, 2025

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Warners worked its TV actors hard in the early days. Walker was the star and was in nearly every scene of the hour-long show, which took 5-6 days to shoot; and then the studio expected him and other TV stars to do promotion on numerous weekends. The studio was forced to develop the alternating leads deal on Maverick and other series.

Still they didn't pay even their stars that well, and James Garner eventually rebelled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 07:04 AM (omVj0)

97 "this weekend I uninstalled CoPilot. Will it show up again the next time there's an update?
Posted by: NaughtyPine"

What makes you think it's actually gone?

Posted by: AI Commentator at May 28, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

98 James Garner was in so many great TV shows

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 07:06 AM (/cpaV)

99 "NEVER ship with USPS. NEVER."

Pay for certified mail. The package is signed for at each transaction.

The above is based upon my 30+ year memory of being a US Army battalion S-1 in South Korea who had to have knowledge of the USPS' abilities to handle Secret/TopSecret information.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 28, 2025 07:08 AM (MA5db)

100 When I have a choice, I prefer to ship to Israel via USPS. Takes longer but costs less and it gets here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2025 07:10 AM (oClyJ)

101
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 28, 2025 07:10 AM (gbOdA)

102 Not knowing who Sara Levine is I asked the internet and it served up a video of her testifying somewhere, crying. I am certain she isn't even a fraction as upset as the families she persecuted.

https://tinyurl.com/3b9ef4bz
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025 06:01 AM

I would like to see a sequel in which she's crying in an alley, surrounded by garbage bags.

Also, where do women learn the hold-up-hand, press-fingers-into-palm maneuver when they're distressed? It looks so weird, like they're showing off their manicures.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 28, 2025 07:13 AM (fxCK2)

103 I would like to see a sequel in which she's crying in an alley, surrounded by garbage bags.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 28, 2025 07:13 AM (fxCK2)
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I'd like her to be in one of those garbage bags!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2025 07:15 AM (oClyJ)

104 From the old (supposed) German General staff matrix, stupid and energetic was the worst possible combination.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at May 28, 2025 07:15 AM (MA5db)

105 What makes you think it's actually gone?
Posted by: AI Commentator at May 28, 2025 07:05 AM

It's no longer shoving its "helpful" suggestions in my face. *winning*

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 28, 2025 07:15 AM (fxCK2)

106 James Garner was in so many great TV shows
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2025

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An actor who was instantly relatable to the audience. And one of the few (more possible in the early days of TV) to have a good movie career too. Steve McQueen did it as well. It got to be harder later, when audiences didn't always want to pay to see a lead actor in the theatre when they could watch him for free at home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 28, 2025 07:17 AM (omVj0)

107 James Garner - I'm sure that it didn't hurt that he was so handsome.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 28, 2025 07:43 AM (fxCK2)

108 Man, it's been ten years since James Garner died.

Posted by: m at May 28, 2025 08:13 AM (CQE5S)

109 sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at May 28, 2025 09:29 AM (w9Wax)

110 @44/Wolfus: { Re: Sara Levine }

So do I, so I looked . . . and one of hers is called "Map of Street Harassment," charting catcalls in the chosen area

I looked up a picture of her. I sincerely doubt her claim of getting catcalls. Typical Democrat: Play the victim in order to gain power over the accused under color of law.

Oh, and that's a federal crime too. Unfortunately this law hardly ever gets used. Maybe Trump should instruct the DOJ to start using it.

18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
https://tinyurl.com/49f4t3ty

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 28, 2025 09:52 AM (O7YUW)

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