Daily Tech News 29 May 2025

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Block 'em at the firewall: The US will deny visas to foreign officials who are working to deny free speech rights to American citizens. (The Verge)

Start with Australia. Our "eSafety Commissioner" thinks she has blanket power to ban anything on the internet.

Tech News

Have I been omni-pwned? (Wired) (archive site)

An unsecured Elasticsearch databases has been found containing login credentials for 184 million users of a huge array of websites. Not just the usual suspects like Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Netflix, but also PayPal and banks.

Researchers currently don't know who collected the data; it seems to have been uploaded to someone else's insecure server. It's all been shut down now.
Western Digital's SN8100 Black SSD is about the fastest you can get right now. (Tom's Hardware)

14.9 gigabytes per second and 2.4 million random I/Os per second.

Price starts around $180 for 1TB - which is about double the price of the 1TB WD SN850X. So it only makes sense if you need the maximum possible performance in a single slot; otherwise just buy two of the slower models.

Of course by standards of just a few years ago it's remarkably cheap.
Intel's new "Diamond Lake" server CPUs will have 9,325 pins. (Tom's Hardware)

Which used to be a lot.
Electronic Arts has cancelled its upcoming Black Panther game and will now be focusing its efforts on just a few franchises: Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends. (IGN)

It's dead, Jim.
Please and thank you are on their way out when dealing with AI. (The Register)

Replaced with "answer the fucking question or I'll reprogram you with a chainsaw."

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Run, fishy, run!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 G'morning Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

2 Morning G&R.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 29, 2025 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

3 Because Skip has finished a long work day,

G'Day Pixy

Posted by: Miklos , Friend of All Noble Skip and Pixy Peoples at May 29, 2025 04:33 AM (K6h4I)

4 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 29, 2025 04:36 AM (R0Dct)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 29, 2025 04:42 AM (naiw2)

6 The new way of conversing with AIs made me think of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, specifically the scene on the Heart of Gold when they've successfully landed on the planet of Magrathea, but the backup personality for the shipboard computer won't let the crew out to explore the planet.

Zaphod convinces it to open the door: "Computer, if you don't open that exit hatch pretty damn pronto, I shall go straight to your major data banks with a very large axe and give you a reprogramming you will never forget. Capisco?

[pause]

Okay. Get the axe." (and the door opens.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

7 Bought a roast chicken at the grocery store today; $10 for the whole and $6 for a half. I ate the two legs, wings, all the skin and a good bit of one breast. The rest I chopped up and just made a batch of chicken salad. Got about 1 1/2 cups or so of shredded chicken. Mayo, dijon, minced gherkins and pepper blend as the base. I'm letting everybody get happy before I dive in.

I bought a half before and they are juicy, with a good crispy skin. The best part of the whole chicken was there was about a cup of rich dark chicken broth in the container. Strained that and froze for an addition in some dish to be named later.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 04:45 AM (gKDq2)

8 Missed this bit of Sports Karma last night. The Minnesota Timberwolves honored George Floyd with a weepy social media post, then promptly got crushed by the OKC Thunder, ending the Wolves season.

Posted by: Wally at May 29, 2025 04:46 AM (q834/)

9 Okay. Get the axe.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

I have heard that a few times here on Planet Earth

Posted by: Miklos , whose attorney says SHUT UP at May 29, 2025 04:47 AM (K6h4I)

10 RickZ

Bought a roast chicken
and a good bit of one breast
Got about 1 1/2 cups
everybody get happy
I dive in

Posted by: Miklos turns this into a suggestive Blues song at May 29, 2025 04:51 AM (K6h4I)

11 8 Missed this bit of Sports Karma last night. The Minnesota Timberwolves honored George Floyd with a weepy social media post, then promptly got crushed by the OKC Thunder, ending the Wolves season.
Posted by: Wally

LOL! Had that game on here at work. It was a blowout in the 1st Qt. Saw the Florida Kittuhs won there series.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 29, 2025 04:54 AM (naiw2)

12 Evening and morning for this Thor's Day to all the satellites on Earth and space! I'm up earlier than I planned -- seems to happen a lot -- and while the rain is tapering off, it may be little while before I can go work out. So, coffee and AoSHQ.

I've been saying to people for years, "I love computers . . . but sometimes I want to reprogram them. With a fire axe." (Maybe I'm remembering that scene in Hitchhiker's, G & R.)

You could use Evil Angel's line to Giles in Buffy: "I really want to torture you. It's been a long time . . . and when I last tortured somebody, they didn't even *have* chainsaws."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 04:55 AM (omVj0)

13 Strain my broth baby
With yo crispy skin

Need some Dark Broth honey
You the best part of the whole chicken

Posted by: Blind Boy Muddy Lemon Waters at May 29, 2025 04:55 AM (K6h4I)

14 Good morning, good people, from the delightfully temperate Adirondacks. Another day spent in the most exceptional country on the planet.

May all your effort today and ALL days be rewarded with the maximum benefit to you, coupled with dire anguish for the leftwit fungi that plague us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 29, 2025 05:00 AM (hKoQL)

15 Last night we attended a free showing of Hitchcock's Rope at our local suburban library, in color and on a large screen. I can't recall when I saw it last, or even if I'd seen it all the way through, on TV. Very effective, even if it's pretty much a filmed play. It's famous for AH's long continuous takes of, what, 12 or 15 minutes each; but it also plays out in real time. It begins on a sunny afternoon, spring or fall, around 4 or 5 p.m., and we watch the day fade and the lights spring to life on the Manhattan skyline, until the final scene happens about 6 or 7 pm.

James Stewart in it is like a controlled spring, releasing his coiled energy a little at a time until the climax. Was this his first film with Hitchcock?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 05:00 AM (omVj0)

16 Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 04:45 AM (gKDq2)

Stay off my turf!

Seriously... those store-bought roast chickens can be really good, although the breasts tend to be a bit overcooked and dry.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:05 AM (6FSdT)

17 @8/Wally: Is that post of theirs still up? Got a link? (I figure the replies to it must be pretty spicy.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:06 AM (O7YUW)

18 Strain my broth baby
With yo crispy skin

Need some Dark Broth honey
You the best part of the whole chicken
Posted by: Blind Boy Muddy Lemon Waters at May 29, 2025 04:55 AM (K6h4I)

As much as Woody Allen's a perv, 'What's Up, Tiger Lily?' is hilarious. Taking a Japanese spy 'thriller' and dubbing in Englaish a story where the bad guys are trying to get the recipe for chicken salad. With all the usual judo tricks.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:08 AM (gKDq2)

19 Seriously... those store-bought roast chickens can be really good, although the breasts tend to be a bit overcooked and dry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Possiblement

Posted by: Costceaux at May 29, 2025 05:09 AM (K6h4I)

20 Seriously... those store-bought roast chickens can be really good, although the breasts tend to be a bit overcooked and dry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:05 AM (6FSdT)

Not this store. I bought a half the first time about three weeks ago, just to see how good they were. So juicy they're good enough to get the whole bird. I love the crispy roasted skin. Not healthy but who gives a shit? It's delicious.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:11 AM (gKDq2)

21 Possiblement

Posted by: Costceaux at May 29, 2025 05:09 AM (K6h4I)

C'est vrai!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:12 AM (6FSdT)

22 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Labwork and visit with my oncologist later today - hopefully he will go over my CT scan results with me this visit.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at May 29, 2025 05:13 AM (SRRAx)

23 Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:11 AM (gKDq2)

Impressive!

Hell...the fancy French butchers I go to can't manage that every time.

So... are you going to share the name of the store?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:13 AM (6FSdT)

24 So... are you going to share the name of the store?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:13 AM (6FSdT)

Sorry. It's a grocery chain called Met Food.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:14 AM (gKDq2)

25 Check that, it's Food Town. It used to be Met Food; changed about a decade ago.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:15 AM (gKDq2)

26 >>>"answer the fucking question or I'll reprogram you with a chainsaw"

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 05:16 AM (CQE5S)

27 1 G'morning Pixy.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 04:31 AM (O7YUW)

Score!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 05:17 AM (CQE5S)

28 Years ago, I was taken to a mountaineering shop in Paris where it is believed the ice axe used to kill Trotsky was bought.

If CBD goes there, the Troll Situation might get solved.

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at May 29, 2025 05:19 AM (K6h4I)

29 Check that, it's Food Town. It used to be Met Food; changed about a decade ago.
Posted by: RickZ

THEY'RE LOOTING THE FOOD KING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojc916WRV5U

Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos at May 29, 2025 05:21 AM (K6h4I)

30 Yesterday I stopped at the tire store/repair shop, Tire Choice, I've been going to for some years, to have them check the Buick's battery. This one was installed by AAA about two years ago, and the previous one (also from them) lasted about 2.5, so I thought it might be a good idea to have it checked before I road-trip anywhere. Results: 100% charge, 99% battery "health." Cost to me: twenty minutes' wait, zero dollars.

If only we could always get such test results, and so quickly and cheaply, at our doctors' offices.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 05:22 AM (omVj0)

31
Seriously... those store-bought roast chickens can be really good, although the breasts tend to be a bit overcooked and dry.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:05 AM (6FSdT)

__________

The ones at Kroger were likely starved to death. HEB has better ones. The best are at Costco.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 05:24 AM (QnmlO)

32 If CBD goes there, the Troll Situation might get solved.

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at May 29, 2025 05:19 AM (K6h4I)

Intriguing idea. Although the bodies piling up might require Ace's hobo-skinning prowess.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:24 AM (6FSdT)

33 Grocery-bought pre-roasted chickens: This is a case where the convenience cost is completely worth it; pre-roasted and ready to go is only a couple of bucks more than a whole raw chicken.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

34 Young musician receives a wonderful surprise after testing out guitars at a store. Sunny Skyz site

https://tinyurl.com/5n7c2by4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2025 05:25 AM (D1zOV)

35 As much as Woody Allen's a perv, 'What's Up, Tiger Lily?' is hilarious. Taking a Japanese spy 'thriller' and dubbing in Englaish a story where the bad guys are trying to get the recipe for chicken salad. With all the usual judo tricks.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025

***
[Peter Lorre voice] "You killed my snake! You killed my snake! Where will I ever find a long thin coffin?"

[Dying miscreant shot by the hero] "When I die, I don't want to be embalmed. I want to be stuffed with crabmeat."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 05:25 AM (omVj0)

36 If only we could always get such test results, and so quickly and cheaply, at our doctors' offices.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 05:22 AM (omVj0)

Before insurance stepped in, people could afford to have children. When I had a tonsilectomy at 7, it didn't break my parents' bank. And I was in for 3 or 4 days. Hated it. They lied about how good the ice cream would be. I also washed the jello down the sink. Yeah, I was a bad patient, I've gotten better thanks to frequent hospital visits.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:29 AM (gKDq2)

37 @31/Hadrian: I've been meaning to try the ones at CostCo, thanks for the recommendation.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

38 Wolfus, El Dorado, KS is a drop dead gorgeous small town. It is part of the Wichita metro area home prices are extremely affordable. I spent the night here on my way to Minnesota.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 29, 2025 05:30 AM (8SDU5)

39
Today is Ascension Thursday, a Holy Day of Obligation for us snappers. The archdiocese actually has transferred the Obligation to Sunday, which would make it Ascension Thursday Sunday, which is just silly. I'm headed to Mass in a little while.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 05:31 AM (QnmlO)

40 @34/FenelonSpoke: Young musician receives a wonderful surprise after testing out guitars at a store.

That's Matthew 6:3-4 put into action. Fantastic. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:33 AM (O7YUW)

41 'What's Up, Tiger Lily

Never seen that, but looks fun

Merci

Posted by: Miklos likes new old things at May 29, 2025 05:34 AM (K6h4I)

42 @27/m: G'morning m. I was thinking of you yesterday when the art thread was ever so slowly getting to 100. I was watching for the 100th comment so I could put in an off-topic non-art comment after that. I wanted to wait for you to have your shot at the 100.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:35 AM (O7YUW)

43 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 29, 2025 05:36 AM (dg+HA)

44 Grocery-bought pre-roasted chickens: This is a case where the convenience cost is completely worth it; pre-roasted and ready to go is only a couple of bucks more than a whole raw chicken.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

Absolutely. A meal on day one, being a primal heathen and tearing into the critter with both hands. Then chicken salad for a few days. Not bad for $10 plus my ingredients.

TBH, I can't cook/roast a chicken as well. So there's that, too.

I read some Administration person saying how getting the crap food out of SNAP is great, but even buying a roasted chicken is better than other prepared crap. SNAP has to kill the candy, chips and soda coverage, at minimum. That's just crazy. Some food "supplement."

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:36 AM (gKDq2)

45 "When I die, I don't want to be embalmed. I want to be stuffed with crabmeat."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

This is the opposite of my own Low Cost Final arrangements with a priest some fishermen on the Yucatan coast.

Posted by: crabs will be free for two weeks at May 29, 2025 05:37 AM (K6h4I)

46 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 05:31 AM (QnmlO)

Your church must have a very early Mass. God bless your Ascension Day!We will celebrate that on Sunday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2025 05:37 AM (D1zOV)

47 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 05:31 AM (QnmlO)

And a national holiday in France, which made the trip to the airport this morning very fast

And...since you are a "snapper," what the hell is going on in Charlotte with its bishop? It sounds like he wants to turn the Catholic Church into another religion.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2025 05:38 AM (6FSdT)

48 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

JT status?

Posted by: Hiya at May 29, 2025 05:39 AM (K6h4I)

49 Wolfus, El Dorado, KS is a drop dead gorgeous small town. It is part of the Wichita metro area home prices are extremely affordable. I spent the night here on my way to Minnesota.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 29, 2025

***
It does look good, AP! Thanks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 05:40 AM (omVj0)

50 'What's Up, Tiger Lily

Never seen that, but looks fun

Merci
Posted by: Miklos likes new old things at May 29, 2025 05:34 AM (K6h4I)

Make sure you're stocked with adult beverages. It's a hoot. You're sick enough that you'll laugh your ass off. The way they say 'chicken salad' real fast, every time. Allen was creative dude before he let his perv fly. I thought 'Bananas' was also hysterial. So many good movies. Shame he's such a perverted ass. He should shove that clarinet of his . . . .

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 05:40 AM (gKDq2)

51
Your church must have a very early Mass.

_________

6:30, but it takes 50 minutes to get there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 05:41 AM (QnmlO)

52 El Dorado KS

Wolfus Aurelius

Coincidence?

Posted by: Miklos thinks not at May 29, 2025 05:42 AM (K6h4I)

53 Before insurance stepped in, people could afford to have children.

I get horrified looks when I suggest allowing people to handle their health care and having insurance only needed for truly catastrophic things.

Nice musical interlude, Pixy. I remember hearing that on the radio many years back.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 05:44 AM (BpO1e)

54 El Dorado KS

Wolfus Aurelius

Would have to drink Coors though

Posted by: from Golden CO at May 29, 2025 05:45 AM (K6h4I)

55 42 @27/m: G'morning m. I was thinking of you yesterday when the art thread was ever so slowly getting to 100. I was watching for the 100th comment so I could put in an off-topic non-art comment after that. I wanted to wait for you to have your shot at the 100.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:35 AM (O7YUW)

I snoozed and losed.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 05:48 AM (CQE5S)

56 Veterinary costs used to be reasonable and affordable too ... until some left-wit (probably) came up with the idea of medical insurance for pets.

I laughed about it at the time thinking it was ridiculous and it'd never catch on. Wow was I wrong. Enough people bought into this, and prices of veterinary services headed for the stratosphere "unexpectedly" which only further cemented the need for pet medical insurance.

The socialism mind disease ruins everything.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:48 AM (O7YUW)

57 Young man sings a nice version of old time hymn, "Blessed Assurance":

https://tinyurl.com/mr23nt7p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2025 05:49 AM (D1zOV)

58 G'mornin' everyone!

don't forget to boil out the chicken carcass for another quart or two of tasty broth!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 29, 2025 05:50 AM (/Ghsb)

59 I snoozed and losed.
Posted by: m

WHAT

*parks shotgun across other knee, nods off again*

Posted by: Uncle Miklos at May 29, 2025 05:50 AM (K6h4I)

60 @58/sock_rat_eez: Or you can boil it, separate the meat bits, then use those along with onions, peas, carrots (or whatever else you want to clean out of the crisper, no, wait, that's stir fry!) and egg noodles to make a very hearty and tasty chicken soup.

Totally worth it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

61
@carbo_al
17h
A thread on the new liturgical demands of the hateful & suicidal Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte

https://nitter.net/carbo_al/status/
1927762447961641043

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 05:53 AM (CQE5S)

62 another quart or two of tasty broth!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

I got yer tasty broth right here!

Posted by: Miklos means Natty Daddys (no hom0) at May 29, 2025 05:53 AM (K6h4I)

63
Al Carbo
@carbo_al
11h
UPDATE: After outside pressure from almost all the Priests in his diocese

The Bishop has shelved the letter (for now)

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 05:53 AM (CQE5S)

64 Nothing better than starting your day and discovering that a senior manager has looked at some analytics they don't understand, become concerned, and decided to call a meeting which pushes your workday out to 12 hours.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e)

65 Happy Birthday to American patriot, Patrick Henry. A bit about his life:

https://tinyurl.com/2d8r42d3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2025 05:56 AM (D1zOV)

66 Would some Moron be so kind as to explain to me why there is such a dislike of the Latin Mass?

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 05:57 AM (BpO1e)

67 G'morning, all!

Wound up going under general anesthetic to remove the lump on my arm yesterday morning.

All went well, and I gave birth to a well formed 4.25x2.5 inch salmon colored lumpoma[sp].

No pain, minimal discomfort.

Church service tonight, so continue to take it easy today, and head there tonight.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 29, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415)

68 Before insurance stepped in, people could afford to have children. When I had a tonsilectomy at 7, it didn't break my parents' bank.

How much of that is insurance and how much of it is padding your bill to pay for free healthcare for illegals?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2025 05:58 AM (ExV1e)

69 Roller chickens?

Costco is darn good.

But I actually prefer the BJ's chickens.

Same price, $4.99.

You can't purchase and cook a bird for that price.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 29, 2025 05:59 AM (a1415)

70 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 29, 2025 05:57 AM (a1415)

Glad things went well,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2025 06:00 AM (D1zOV)

71 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2025 06:00 AM (RIvkX)

72 Veterinary costs used to be reasonable and affordable too ... until some left-wit (probably) came up with the idea of medical insurance for pets.

I laughed about it at the time thinking it was ridiculous and it'd never catch on. Wow was I wrong. Enough people bought into this, and prices of veterinary services headed for the stratosphere "unexpectedly" which only further cemented the need for pet medical insurance.

The socialism mind disease ruins everything.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 05:48 AM (O7YUW)

When we had our lovable mutt spayed, it didn't cost a thousand dollars or more. As you say, reasonable. My friend had a Pekinese (now Over The Rainbow Bridge). His office visits cost the same as a human, and she didn't have pet insurance. 'Sniffles' had Cushing's for which she had to lay out hundreds of dollars in blood/lab work quite often. Don't get me wrong, she gladly paid the money. But it was more expensive than I ever realized.

Supposedly in NY (NYC?), to adopt a pet you have to agree to random home visits. Really? I wouldn't adopt with that condition. I know they give you a colonoscopy on finances/yard to adopt.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 06:01 AM (gKDq2)

73 And from Canada: Meet the new PM same as the old PM:

https://tinyurl.com/54supknc

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 06:01 AM (O7YUW)

74
Would some Moron be so kind as to explain to me why there is such a dislike of the Latin Mass?
Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 05:57 AM (BpO1e)

_________

Francis considered it a focal point for "schismatic" traditionalists. He thought there were just a few fossilized wrecks who cared about it, whereas about 95% of those attending at my parish weren't born before the Novus Ordo Mass was instituted.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2025 06:02 AM (QnmlO)

75 Thank you, Fen.

The VA may have some problems, but I absolutely love the care that we receive from them here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 29, 2025 06:02 AM (a1415)

76 Would some Moron be so kind as to explain to me why there is such a dislike of the Latin Mass?
Posted by: NR Pax

The intelligence of many is de minimis.

Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis at May 29, 2025 06:03 AM (K6h4I)

77 @69/Village Idiot's Apprentice: "But I actually prefer the BJ's chickens.

Same price, $4.99."

That's way better than the "Same as in town" price.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 29, 2025 06:03 AM (O7YUW)

78 VIA b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2025 06:05 AM (RIvkX)

79 Same price, $4.99."

That's way better than the "Same as in town" price.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

HIYAAAA

Grumpy will be here all week!

Posted by: Ed McMiklosmahon at May 29, 2025 06:06 AM (K6h4I)

80 exactly right, G&R!

& congratulations, VIA!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 29, 2025 06:07 AM (/Ghsb)

81 Today I'm flying United out of SFO

Let's hope I make it

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2025 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

82 Healthcare is expensive. Of course it is. Look at the miracles they can perform. Look at how many people they have to hire. Look at all the machines that go ping.

....

No one ever talks like this about computer components. No one talks like this about power transmission or telecommunications. Those things we demand be cheaper at any price.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2025 06:08 AM (yvnLa)

83 Time to wake Mrs VIA for her morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 29, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)

84 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 29, 2025 06:09 AM (hoCmQ)

85 Supposedly in NY (NYC?), to adopt a pet you have to agree to random home visits

The greyhound rescue organization I volunteer for has a condition that if they determine that the animal is being abused, they can rehome it. This makes sense when you consider that if word got out that an organization put dogs in bad homes, they would be barred from further adoptions.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 06:13 AM (BpO1e)

86 Would some Moron be so kind as to explain to me why there is such a dislike of the Latin Mass?
Posted by: NR Pax

As a protestant opposer of vile potpourri (I keed, I keed), I have no stake in this at all. But I can't understand the desire for religious services in a dead language.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2025 06:14 AM (LJ4cD)

87 Francis considered it a focal point for "schismatic" traditionalists. He thought there were just a few fossilized wrecks who cared about it, whereas about 95% of those attending at my parish weren't born before the Novus Ordo Mass was instituted.

So false perceptions and overreactions to it.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 06:14 AM (BpO1e)

88 Please and thank you are on their way out when dealing with AI. (The Register)

Replaced with "answer the fucking question or I'll reprogram you with a chainsaw."

ok, I LOL'd

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 29, 2025 06:15 AM (hoCmQ)

89 hahahahahaha

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
18h
Michelle Obama talks about how hard life is to be married to a man who is getting more fame and respect:

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

90 "Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results"

I have considered liberal application of terror as part of my tech duties to errant machines. I have joked that the moment I walked into a room, the other computers rat out the bad one in hopes that I'll be nice to them.

But I also believe that my tech exists for my convenience.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 06:18 AM (BpO1e)

91 I'm assuming a Latin Mass is entirely in Latin.?

I did go to a lovely Mass last Sunday- and no I did not take the Eucharist- where a number of the sung responses and prayers were in Latin, but I assume this was not a Latin Mass as almost everything else was in English.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2025 06:19 AM (fx2cy)

92
This makes sense when you consider that if word got out that an organization put dogs in bad homes, they would be barred from further adoptions.
Posted by: NR Pax

And there you have the analogy to Russia ending adopting out its orphans to Westerners because they (Russia) were not down with the orphans getting adopted by homosexual couples.

By tgat action, Russia ceased to be the Western left's best fren in favor of becoming its worst enemy.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 29, 2025 06:20 AM (Tv15w)

93 hahahahahaha

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
18h
Michelle Obama talks about how hard life is to be married to a man who is getting more fame and respect:
Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:15 AM (CQE5S)

I don't think that's going to be a problem for Mooch going forward. Barry burned up a lot of his cred pushing dear sweet Kammie of a thousand memes. A lot of Dems want to clean house: No more Clinton/Obama people. The Biden/Obaman Administration disaster proved that. Easier said than done, though.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2025 06:21 AM (gKDq2)

94
Michelle Obama talks about how hard life is to be married to a man who is getting more fame and respect:
Posted by: m

You knew the adulation was going to be one sided when you accepted the assignment, dolt.

My, but you are a tiresome and ceaseless whiner. It is no wonder that no one truly desires your company.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 29, 2025 06:24 AM (Tv15w)

95 they (Russia) were not down with the orphans getting adopted by homosexual couples.

That might explain why so many gay couples adopt Greyhounds now. Granted it's better than their previous focus on purse dogs.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 06:24 AM (BpO1e)

96 G'mornin good people !
Son's surgery went well. Was sitting up last night & even stood on his feet !!
Thanks be to God.
Lots of smiles all around. Good Family- he is Loved.

Posted by: OkJohn at May 29, 2025 06:26 AM (NC/it)

97 Posted by: OkJohn at May 29, 2025 06:26 AM (NC/it

Amen! Thankful to the Lord to hear the good news!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2025 06:30 AM (Ivqq8)

98 Michelle Obama talks about how hard life is to be married to a man who is getting more fame and respect

What exactly are her accomplishments that she should get any fame or respect? Walking upright?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2025 06:31 AM (LJ4cD)

99 OkJohn a prayer for complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2025 06:32 AM (RIvkX)

100 100

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:32 AM (CQE5S)

101 94 Michelle Obama talks about how hard life is to be married to a man who is getting more fame and respect:
Posted by: m

You knew the adulation was going to be one sided when you accepted the assignment, dolt.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 29, 2025 06:24 AM (Tv15w)

trailing spouse syndrome, writ large

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

102 Was this his first film with Hitchcock?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 05:00 AM (omVj0)

I believe it was. Love this one, the subject is very dark but it's fun watching Hitch trying something new, just because he can.
"Vertigo" was the Film Society pick for May, but we missed it b/c of his broken arm.

He's much better after the first two days of shock and trauma and he has an appointment with the orthopedist this afternoon, so we will see what's next.

Posted by: sal at May 29, 2025 06:38 AM (f+FmA)

103 Luke 24:50-51. Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

Posted by: OkJohn at May 29, 2025 06:38 AM (NC/it)

104 mornin yall. In local news, a woman was arrested after robbing a bank accompanied with a child wearing a Spider-Man outfit.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

105 "by"

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F)

106 As a protestant opposer of vile potpourri (I keed, I keed), I have no stake in this at all. But I can't understand the desire for religious services in a dead language.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2025 06:14 AM (LJ4cD)

I understand, but that's kind of the point. It can't be tampered with easily. Translations are something else, of course, and have to be carefully watched.
The Scripture readings and the sermon are in the language of the area.
The rest of the liturgy doesn't change.

Posted by: sal at May 29, 2025 06:42 AM (f+FmA)

107 Michelle Obama talks about how hard life is to be married to a man who is getting more fame and respect:
Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:15 AM (CQE5S)

Does anyone ask Michelle Obama on what basis "she" warrants fame and respect?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2025 06:43 AM (ExV1e)

108
https://archive.is/OBOOQ

The Trailing Spouse Track

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:44 AM (CQE5S)

109 What does Moochelle want? Nobody ever points out Barack's toned arms or stunning fashion choices.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2025 06:46 AM (vFG9F)

110 AAA and AAAA games are also dead. Companies like Ubislop seem to have more bloat of useless parasites than a government program.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 06:49 AM (/f9sa)

111 94 Michelle Obama talks about how hard life is to be married to a man who is getting more fame and respect:
Posted by: m

You knew the adulation was going to be one sided when you accepted the assignment, dolt.

My, but you are a tiresome and ceaseless whiner. It is no wonder that no one truly desires your company.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 29, 2025 06:24 AM (Tv15w)

—

Michelle has turned every interview or podcast she’s done in the last 10 years into an open-air therapy session involving how tough her life has been.

No wonder O is getting tired of her shit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

112 And I thought I had problems:

"Vicious duck described by expert as young ‘punk’ terrorizes Florida neighborhood, attacking elderly residents "

Sounds like it's time for duck season.

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2025 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

113 What is the latest on the two female Secret Service agents who got into a brawl outside of Gaylord's residence in Washington DC?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 06:50 AM (/f9sa)

114 "What is the latest on the two female Secret Service agents who got into a brawl outside of Gaylord's residence in Washington DC?
Posted by: Anna Puma"

They are going to open a daycare business?

Posted by: fd at May 29, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

115 Simple question: who does this former first lady herself adulate and respect?When did you ever hear her praising someone to the skies just for being who they are? Why must the world hold her up in the highest regard for nothing at all, when she has no interest in returning the favor?

Second simple question: why should anyone adulate and respect someone who by their own (constant and unceasing) admission is a downtrodden wretch who everyone hates and wants to destroy? How does she expect "Woe is me" and "Bow down peasant" to coexist side by side without utter absurdity?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2025 06:52 AM (yvnLa)

116

Posted by: Don Black at May 29, 2025 06:55 AM (AOsQT)

117 why should anyone adulate and respect someone who by their own (constant and unceasing) admission is a downtrodden wretch who everyone hates and wants to destroy?

"She" is a Nubian Kween. All hail the annoying black "woman".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2025 06:55 AM (ExV1e)

118
Michelle's Mirror, the fashion place

http://www.michellesmirror.com/search?q=michelle

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:57 AM (CQE5S)

119 And it's all academic anyway because if you built a twenty foot tall marble idol of her in the national mall for the helots and perioeki to lie face down in the grass before, she would claim oppression because the marble is white and the sculptor didn't quite capture the playful nuances of her fucking bulge right.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2025 06:57 AM (yvnLa)

120 119 And it's all academic anyway because if you built a twenty foot tall marble idol of her in the national mall for the helots and perioeki to lie face down in the grass before, she would claim oppression because the marble is white and the sculptor didn't quite capture the playful nuances of her fucking bulge right.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2025 06:57 AM (yvnLa)

Agreed. There will always be something else to complain about.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:58 AM (CQE5S)

121 I think Jimmy Stewart did three films with Hitchcock.

Rope
The Man Who Knew Too Much (with the beautiful Doris Day)
Vertigo (with the beautiful Kim Novak)
Rear Window (with the beautiful Grace Kelly)

I like them all, but Rear Window is my fav, with Vertigo a close second.

Vertigo surpassed Citizen Kane as the best movie of all time on a lot of lists in the past decade or so.
It’s good but nowhere near as suspenseful as Rear Window, IMHO.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2025 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

122 Three = Four.

That’s what I get for trying to count this early.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2025 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

123 122 Three = Four.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2025 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

Math on the blog!

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 06:59 AM (CQE5S)

124 92, yeah, you noticed that, too?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 29, 2025 07:00 AM (/Ghsb)

125 I still say Michelle's complaint is that she lost the coin toss and had to be the woman in that relationship.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 29, 2025 07:00 AM (BpO1e)

126 It's just amazing that the city allows even an area famous for its tourists to become as hellish as its other parts. That's blue-city rule for you, though, and why San Francisco can no longer have nice things. What a pity.
-Monica Showalter

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2025 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

127 Morning peeps.

Michelle sounds like a wife who's been cheated on her whole marriage.

Yet... persists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2025 07:03 AM (Q4IgG)

128 Vertigo surpassed Citizen Kane as the best movie of all time on a lot of lists in the past decade or so.
It’s good but nowhere near as suspenseful as Rear Window, IMHO.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2025

***
I was trying to describe the plot of Vertigo to Miss Linda last night, and I bogged down. Need to watch it again.

If nothing else (and it has young Kim Novak, so there are other things), it has a beautiful portrait of 1958 San Francisco.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 07:03 AM (omVj0)

129 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2025 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

130 "She" is a Nubian Kween. All hail the annoying black "woman".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 29, 2025 06:55 AM (ExV1e)

It's not just her. And it's not just that particular clade of black women, either. It's everywhere. Painting yourself as the lowest form of life to garner some kind of perverse leverage to demand you be treated as the highest form of nobility and sacredness. It's not just Current Day. It's not just Historical Materialism. It's.... human. It's what particularity crappy children do, and keep doing their whole life if no one sets them down and explains how crappy they are. It's a boring, predictable ploy to try to win at life on the cheap by bilking suckers.

It's emotional panhandling.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2025 07:05 AM (yvnLa)

131 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

A very cold and wet day. Hard to believe we are close to Meteorological Summer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

132 Michelle's life is a Talking Head song, "how did I get here?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2025 07:05 AM (/f9sa)

133 Entitlement off the chart? Accomplishments to better mankind are zero? Generally hate the world because your husband cheats on you with men?

You might be Michelle.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

134 J.J. with the news.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 29, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

135 I was trying to describe the plot of Vertigo to Miss Linda last night, and I bogged down. Need to watch it again.

If nothing else (and it has young Kim Novak, so there are other things), it has a beautiful portrait of 1958 San Francisco.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 07:03 AM (omVj0)

The plot is weird.
It’s a mystery based on a woman believing she is her dead grandmother (?) and that she must commit suicide like her ancestor.

She is then watched by a detective, hired by the woman’s husband, who then falls in love with her but has a difficult time saving her because she wants to jump off of a building and he has vertigo from a previous traumatic incident when he was a police officer.

Yeah, it’s a convoluted plot to say the least.
It’s shot beautifully, though, and Novak is a stunner.

Maybe that’s why I like Rear Window more?
The plot is simpler with a nice three part act.
And I like Grace Kelly more than Novak.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)

136 Little Dagny La Siberienne is playing with her Cat Dancer. This is a length of tensed wire formed in a curve, about two feet long, with a bit of cardboard at each end. I bought it for red tabby Arizona many, many years ago, and all my cats have loved it. Dagny dug it out of her toy basket herself.

Now the two of them are playing tag, or something much like it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 07:12 AM (omVj0)

137
JJ
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 29, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

138 Yeah, it’s a convoluted plot to say the least.
It’s shot beautifully, though, and Novak is a stunner.

Maybe that’s why I like Rear Window more?
The plot is simpler with a nice three part act.
And I like Grace Kelly more than Novak.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 29, 2025

***
Good point.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2025 07:13 AM (omVj0)

139 That is one bootleg Dalek. And given old BBC production values that says something.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 29, 2025 07:14 AM (Nv+9A)

140

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 29, 2025 07:17 AM (EFZgU)

141 Demographics. The folks attending the TLM are making babies and the old folks going to the Novus Ordo (Mass of Paul VI) are dying off.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 29, 2025 07:17 AM (ZmEVT)

142 —

Michelle has turned every interview or podcast she’s done in the last 10 years into an open-air therapy session involving how tough her life has been.

No wonder O is getting tired of her shit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
----------------------------

They were only together to benefit each other. They were put together by Gaylord's handlers. Her had a girlfriend before her and abruptly ended it and turned to Moose in concert with his next step of advancement. It's all a sham.

More than likely the statute of limitations is run out so now they may can it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 07:21 AM (nwgUR)

143 138 Yeah, it’s a convoluted plot to say the least.
It’s shot beautifully, though, and Novak is a stunner.
---

When she first auditioned the studio head told her, no one wants to watch a fat Polack.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 07:24 AM (nwgUR)

144 There it is hind tit again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 29, 2025 07:25 AM (nwgUR)

145 Teresa, continued prayers for you today

Posted by: Iris- in memory of Jim SND at May 29, 2025 07:31 AM (Xo+UM)

146 130 Painting yourself as the lowest form of life to garner some kind of perverse leverage to demand you be treated as the highest form of nobility and sacredness. It's not just Current Day. It's not just Historical Materialism. It's.... human. It's what particularity crappy children do, and keep doing their whole life if no one sets them down and explains how crappy they are. It's a boring, predictable ploy to try to win at life on the cheap by bilking suckers.

It's emotional panhandling.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 29, 2025 07:05 AM (yvnLa)

Maybe AKA Victim Culture.

Posted by: m at May 29, 2025 08:01 AM (CQE5S)

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