Daily Tech News 26 June 2025

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Facebook has also won the lawsuit filed against it by angry authors (and "authors"), with a different federal judge also ruling that it is legal to read books that you bought. (MSN)

The authors sued because Facebook could hypothetically use its AI to create near-copies of their work. They lost the suit because, well, it didn't.
"The plaintiffs presented no meaningful evidence on market dilution at all," said Judge Chhabria.
There's a lot of that going around.

Tech News

HDMI 2.2 is here, supporting speeds up to 96Gbps. (Tom's Hardware)

Since the existing HDMI 2.1 standard can easily support uncompressed 8k video at 60Hz, this is not something you should make it a priority to go out and buy - particularly since nothing supports the new standard yet.

But if you plan to upgrade to a 12k 120Hz monitor soon - which you don't because they don't exist - this is the way to go.
Intel just laid off 107 staff in California. (Tom's Hardware)

Which is not a lot, except that these are mostly chip designers.

The company seems to be planning to lay off 15-20% of staff across the board. And all of its marketing department.
The cargo ship Morning Midas, which suffered a catastrophic fire while transporting hundreds of electric vehicles, is not on fire anymore. (Notebook Check)

It sank.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I liked the part where it went "meow".

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:31 AM (CQE5S)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 26, 2025 04:32 AM (wUig4)

3 Up in northern Israel vacation home. Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 26, 2025 04:32 AM (wUig4)

4 Man, the corpo-speak is blecchh:

"I have been surprised to learn that, in recent years, the most important KPI for many managers at Intel has been the size of their teams," Lip-Bu Tan wrote in a letter to employees back in April. "Going forward, this will not be the case."

KPI = key performance indicator

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:36 AM (CQE5S)

5 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 26, 2025 04:37 AM (CK39Y)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2025 04:41 AM (wBh67)

7 Lip-Bu Tan is an anagram for ...

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:42 AM (CQE5S)

8
Tulip Ban

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 26, 2025 04:45 AM (ES1Rb)

9 heh

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:47 AM (CQE5S)

10 G'morning Horde.

Last day. Capricorn 15. Carousel Begins.
No no, wait, that's Logan's run.

Last day of school, and bus driving until September.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 26, 2025 04:51 AM (O7YUW)

11 Discovering there's a cat keyboard is more interesting than discovering there's a Dr. Who theme song.

Posted by: 13times at June 26, 2025 04:54 AM (6f4Sc)

12
Discovering there's a cat keyboard is more interesting than discovering there's a Dr. Who theme song.
Posted by: 13times

==============

Wh.. what?

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I've tried to provide electronics to cats and it doesn't work. My cats have to sit on keyboards, so I kept one laptop that I was moving on from so the cats could sit on it. Of course they ignored it. It only looks like a desirable sitting place when I'm trying to use it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 04:57 AM (lIBhD)

13 pan-built
bun plait

but those aren't any good

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:59 AM (CQE5S)

14

Good morning, good people, from the Hotrondacks where sweltering humidity is the name of the game. The weather squeakers are surfacing, and the mewling about the heat is being heard. Let them flabber.

Meanwhile, may your efforts be rewarded far beyond expectation while the leftwits incur mega heartburn in all they do.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 26, 2025 05:00 AM (hKoQL)

15 It is becoming increasingly likely that Intel joins Kodak, Sears, and Xerox in graveyard of once iconic American corporations that failed to adapt. Their years long failure to move on from 14nm set them on the path to where they are today. Missing out on 100% of the mobile CPUs limited Intel's growth opportunities. Apple going with ARM was a crushing loss for Intel as it got Qualcomm and Microsoft focused on moving on from Intel. The next 5 years are looking to be brutal for Intel.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 05:01 AM (NXz8h)

16 tuba nipl? Almost.

Posted by: Kamalala! at June 26, 2025 05:02 AM (8hxDK)

17 moar corpo-speak:

"I am a big believer in the philosophy that the best leaders get the most done with the fewest people. We will embrace this mindset across the company, which will include empowering our top talent to make decisions and take greater ownership of key priorities."

As a philosophy, "the best leaders get the most done with the fewest people" seems like a valid goal or rule of thumb. But not a rule. As a goal, it reminds me of paperless offices.

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:06 AM (CQE5S)

18 16 tuba nipl? Almost.
Posted by: Kamalala! at June 26, 2025 05:02 AM (8hxDK)

plain tub!

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:07 AM (CQE5S)

19 Evening to you late toilers (and you are appreciated); morning to you early risers (you are too). 'Tis Thor's Day again. Nasty hot here, with 79 F. at four am (I do not want to know the heat index). I could go and do an abbreviated workout, and then my usual thirty-minute one tomorrow.

I could.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:07 AM (omVj0)

20 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 26, 2025 05:07 AM (hoCmQ)

21
I live between 2 schools, each a block away and the younger kids that graduate to Middle School do the yearly facility tour, checking the place out. We've viewed the tour for 12 years now, I call it the "perp walk".

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 26, 2025 05:08 AM (hKoQL)

22 Wh.. what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 26, 2025 04:57 AM (lIBhD)

Pixy linked the video. The cat keyboard. Lol!

Posted by: 13times at June 26, 2025 05:11 AM (6f4Sc)

23 Funny story. The Logitech k740 keyboard with my current one been in use since 2019. As I recall, I use the same keyboard for a number of years before the current one. A few years ago Logitech discontinued it and I missed the opportunity to pick up one or maybe even two I'd close out. Since then if you want when you have to get a money damn they want hundreds of dollars for them. Not happening. Since then It's been a challenge to find something I would like when this current one keels over. I'm pretty organized so I have things boxed up in certain ways so they're easy to find and some of them I don't go into very often. Imagine my surprise when I opened up one the other day.looking for something completely unrelated. Imagine my surprise when I found a brand new K740 keyboard, still in the box, sitting there. Apparently I did buy one before they disappeared off the market and completely forgot about it. Dumb ass.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 05:14 AM (NXz8h)

24 Ann odd dream this morning:

I was working at a university, much like my old job, and putting together a class list my department was offering for summer. Each semester had its unique three-digit code. I put down the code I knew. But when I traipsed over to the registrar's office, I found they had changed the official code system. If I left mine on the old setup, it would have blown up their program (apparently they did not have decent exception-handling). The woman at the office had the nerve to complain that the font on my printout was too small -- even though it did not matter, as I'd submit the data electronically once I fixed my entries.

Then I woke up, and was glad not to have to deal with that in real life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:14 AM (omVj0)

25 "... the company's strategic priorities, which include laying off 15% to 20% of its personnel."

wild

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:14 AM (CQE5S)

26 Lip-Bu Tan is an anagram for ...
Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 04:42

Latin Pub

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 26, 2025 05:15 AM (hoCmQ)

27 When the HDMI 2.1 standard came out, more than half of the HDMI 2.1 cables being sold couldn't actually handle the 48 Gb/s that they were supposed to, and nothing longer than 10 feet was reliable.

Not sure if things ever got better.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 26, 2025 05:15 AM (TdCYS)

28 23 Funny story. ... Dumb ass.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 05:14 AM (NXz8h)

Ha!

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:15 AM (CQE5S)

29 hahahahaha

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:16 AM (CQE5S)

30 The local newz is all EXTREME HEAT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Otherwise known as summer in Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2025 05:16 AM (wBh67)

31 It is becoming increasingly likely that Intel joins Kodak, Sears, and Xerox in graveyard of once iconic American corporations that failed to adapt. Their years long failure to move on from 14nm set them on the path to where they are today. . . . The next 5 years are looking to be brutal for Intel.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025

***
I remember their flashy TV commercials in the '90s set to mid-'80s disco music. It was amazing to me that a product your average consumer would never actually *see* was advertising in a big way on prime time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:17 AM (omVj0)

32 Oh goodgy "Test Pattern " a person under a fake handle at the end the previous threads need to critique me for answering rainmondo . Have I ever critiquex anybody here- yes but no under a fake handle . LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 05:21 AM (2GCMq)

33 EXTREME HEAT

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 26, 2025 05:16 AM (wBh67)

The f*cking hysteria is so insulting.

Shut up. I know what to do when it gets hot during the summer. Shockingly, I have experienced this sort of thing before, since as far as I can tell, it happens every year!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 26, 2025 05:22 AM (L5An7)

34 "Intel Inside"

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:22 AM (CQE5S)

35 "Earlier this month, it turned out that the company will lay off 15% to 20% of its fab staff"

I always misread "fab" as "fabulous."

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:23 AM (CQE5S)

36 G'morning, all!

69.6 degrees, with 98%RH

That's pretty cool for this time of year.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2025 05:25 AM (a1415)

37 I remember their flashy TV commercials in the '90s set to mid-'80s disco music. It was amazing to me that a product your average consumer would never actually *see* was advertising in a big way on prime time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:17 AM

Those ads were for the Pentium 4, one of Intel's more monumental failures. The NetBurst architecture of the P4 was a complete dead end. Their next generation of chips after wound up being based on the Pentium III.

This was also around the same time that Intel hugely shit the 64-bit bed with Itanium. The entire world (including Intel) would adopt the rival x86_64 architecture created by their rival AMD.

Honestly, it amazes me that Intel survived the very early 2000s.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 26, 2025 05:25 AM (TdCYS)

38 I am thankful I do not have the TV and so missed the extreme heat messages. And anyway it will be about five degrees cooler today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 05:27 AM (2GCMq)

39 Last night we went to see A Lady Takes a Chance, a 1946 B & W rom-com with John Wayne and Jean Arthur. An unlikelier screen pair could hardly be imagined. It's set in 1938. Nearing-40 Jean takes a bus trip Out West, and meets-cute with a rodeo rider (the Duke, of course -- in fact his character is called that). Phil Silvers plays a tour conductor in his classic glad-handing fashion.

Jean really carries the pic. IMDb says she herself was 42 at the time, seven years older than JW. If that's what 42 can look like, more women should line up to get whatever Jean was using.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:27 AM (omVj0)

40 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:27 AM (omVj0

I have never seen that movie. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 05:29 AM (2GCMq)

41 The summer temperatures here in Las Cruces have been normal so far. Basically 100° during the day. This week we have been getting monsoon rains where monsoon rains get translated into a quarter inch of rain a day. But hey the clouds are pretty. The real downside is the humidity is a killer. We have some and I'm dying. The real monsoon rains will come in mid-august and when they unload certain villages see homes get filled up with mud.

So for all you people that live with humidity, I stand in solidarity with you now. The struggle continues.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 05:30 AM (NXz8h)

42 A new local Aldi is opening today, with giveaways between 8 and 9 am. Miss Linda wants to go stand out in the heat for whatever goodies she can get -- I didn't think she knew there was another 8:00 in the day. I'll drop her off, go and have a coffee, and come back at 9 (with an iced coffee for her) when the store opens, to do some grocery shopping.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:32 AM (omVj0)

43 So yesterday we hit 103.1 in the back yard.

But today looks like the back side of this hot spell, with temps returning to more normal ranges.

Interestingly, after tweaking the new HVAC system, temperatures and humidity in the house never varied more than .4 from set points.

75 degrees during the day, and 71 degrees through the night.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2025 05:35 AM (a1415)

44 I have never seen that movie. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025

***
It was new to me too, Fen. It's a little slow in places despite having dialog from Jo Swerling, an experienced film and Broadway writer.

There's another and better one where Wayne plays a romantic lead: Without Reservations, from about the same time, with Claudette Colbert. She plays a bestselling author whose novel is about to be made into a movie, and spots Wayne, a Marine coming back from WWII, as the perfect casting for her hero. He doesn't want to be an actor. So she decides to pursue him and convince him on a train trip heading West, with fun results. A much livelier movie all around.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:36 AM (omVj0)

45 42 A new local Aldi is opening today, with giveaways between 8 and 9 am. Miss Linda wants to go stand out in the heat for whatever goodies she can get -- I didn't think she knew there was another 8:00 in the day. I'll drop her off, go and have a coffee, and come back at 9 (with an iced coffee for her) when the store opens, to do some grocery shopping.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

The Pork Schnitzel is good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 26, 2025 05:37 AM (dR6yv)

46 Good morning! Currently 77 with almost matching humidity here on the patio in Cowtown. Yesterday morning the humidity was low(er) and the ride to the airport was really pleasant. Looking forward to 'working' from home today.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2025 05:39 AM (3Ope8)

47 I had mentioned on a previous thread that where spouse and I go to feed some stray fixed cats there was also a beautiful rose bush and perched on a wood fence two vultures waiting for their opportunistic chance to get their breakfast or whichever meal it was . Spouse read the other day that among the most monagamous creatures are vultures. I laughed when spouse said " I didn't realize they were a couple. I just thought they were buddies out for a meal."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 05:39 AM (2GCMq)

48 Interestingly, after tweaking the new HVAC system, temperatures and humidity in the house never varied more than .4 from set points.

75 degrees during the day, and 71 degrees through the night.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2025 05:35 AM (a1415)

I am intrigued by this. What is the coldest temperature your (or similar) system can reliably handle?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 26, 2025 05:42 AM (L5An7)

49 I watched The Train starring Burt Lancaster last night. It holds up perfectly. The black and white photography is spectacular both in terms of the technical dynamic range in the shots, but also in how they're blocked out. They draw heavily from classical composition and they're gorgeous to look at. This is very appropriate since the movie centers around trying to stop the Germans from stealing France's great art. Plus it smashes up some real trains which is the real reason this movie has an enduring appeal. Rating: double plus good smash ups.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 05:43 AM (NXz8h)

50 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:36 AM (omVj0

Don't that one either and I really enjoy many old movies. I was in a production of a stage comedy - i can't recall the name now because of a lack of sleep about a travelling theatre troupe and the husband and wife spar verbally with each other and the wife mentions, It happened one night" . That is probably my favorite Claudette Colbert movie and I bought a copy of it and gave it to the man who played my husband.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 05:45 AM (2GCMq)

51 Today's temps max/min 93/62f and about 45% humidity. Typical weather pattern.

The humidity here can get as low as 12% when a dry north wind blows off the Modoc Plateau. (eastern Oregon/southwestern Idaho)

Posted by: 13times at June 26, 2025 05:51 AM (6f4Sc)

52 I plan, but.....

Posted by: Mice and men at June 26, 2025 05:53 AM (BjH5D)

53 Where else but YouTube can you get a in your recommended list videos about ln(X), Buford Pusser, and a short history of the Sumerians?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 05:55 AM (NXz8h)

54 Woman who moved around a lot as a kid because her dad was in the military and who found it hard to make friends talks about finding a friend in Jesus . Scripture is John 15: 12-17

https://tinyurl.com/5xy745ew

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 05:55 AM (2GCMq)

55 52 I plan, but.....
Posted by: Mice and men at June 26, 2025 05:53 AM (BjH5D)

Lip-Bu Tan!

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 05:56 AM (CQE5S)

56 I remember their flashy TV commercials in the '90s set to mid-'80s disco music. It was amazing to me that a product your average consumer would never actually *see* was advertising in a big way on prime time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 05:17 AM (omVj0)

I felt the same way about the BASF commercials.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 26, 2025 05:56 AM (ExV1e)

57
Good morning, Hordians. Am i late?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2025 06:00 AM (/HVsR)

58 And a "God moment" at the store yesterday ( These are what others might call "coincidences"was seeing a lady at the supermarket . ( There was a little girl with her and the woman was a bit older so I think she might have been a nanny rather than a mother ) and the lady was wearing a shirt with the picture of the Bible standing upright with the pages open and two crosses and the saying on the shirt said "The battle is his" We shared about how our faith helped us and it was just a really nice moment . Thanks, Lord!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 06:01 AM (2GCMq)

59 I watched The Train starring Burt Lancaster last night. It holds up...
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025 05:43 AM (NXz8h)

Agreed. I consider it the perfect action movie. One, has unique moral conflict, i.e., art as the impulsion toward sacrifice. Two, all action is practical, real-time, no simulations. Three, director Frankenheimer shot most of these scenes in long, contnuous shots, no cuts -- unheard of today. The penultimate sequence of Lancaster tracking the train, sliding down the hill, setting the explosive with train approaching -- all one shot, no cuts. Masterful. Likewise final scene, Scofield's elitist rage, Lancaster's brute stoicism.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 26, 2025 06:05 AM (wQOIH)

60 And a donated heart of an infant helps two families bond:

https://tinyurl.com/yrwmxt7b

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 06:08 AM (2GCMq)

61 watched The Train starring Burt Lancaster last night. It holds up...
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 26, 2025

***
Odd, that I've never seen it. Maybe the public library can get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

62 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 26, 2025 06:09 AM (Z5NUn)

63 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
-James 5:8
G'mornin all y'all
Yesterday spoke with attorney about filing bankruptcy.
This morning,
Went outside to wipe dew off bike. It was gone.
Reported to officer friendly.
Dang- helluva start for the day.
Sky was bootiful tho.
Off to get ready for workie.

Posted by: OkJohn at June 26, 2025 06:11 AM (NC/it)

64 Pastor of the community church where the gunman came in talks about God helping them as well as their security team. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4e7vfs8j

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 06:13 AM (2GCMq)

65 Posted by: OkJohn at June 26, 2025 06:11 AM (NC/it)

Sorry for the difficulties, John. A lot at the same time. May rough places be made smooth. Will pray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 26, 2025 06:14 AM (2GCMq)

66
Honestly, it amazes me that Intel survived the very early 2000s.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 26, 2025 05:25 AM (TdCYS)

It was their mobile chip at the time that saved them, which ironically became the desktop Core family of chips. The architecture was superior to the Pentium 4/Netburst.

Posted by: Farquad at June 26, 2025 06:16 AM (YkGND)

67 I just now searched DDG: The Train 1964 Burt Lancaster and up pops the full length film on the biggest pirate site on the internet.

https://archive.org/details/train-1964

Posted by: 13times at June 26, 2025 06:17 AM (6f4Sc)

68 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:17 AM (u82oZ)

69
Coffee that is hot is coffee that is good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2025 06:20 AM (/HVsR)

70
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2025 06:21 AM (tljrc)

71 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Lucky you to have such good walking weather.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

72 Woman who moved around a lot as a kid because her dad was in the military and who found it hard to make friends

Been there, done it, lived it. By the time I got to high school, my attitude was "I'm going to lose all of my friends in two years so why bother?"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2025 06:29 AM (BpO1e)

73 Last day of school, and bus driving until September.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 26, 2025 04:51 AM (O7YUW)

Well, G&R, there's only one response to that....

https://is.gd/JN3k4D

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 26, 2025 06:32 AM (PiwSw)

74
Woman who moved around a lot as a kid because her dad was in the military and who found it hard to make friends

"Friends"? What is this word of which you speak?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2025 06:33 AM (/HVsR)

75 Temperature range here is about 15 degrees. Summer means humidity.

Posted by: Accomack at June 26, 2025 06:34 AM (Y6Ecf)

76 Hadrian the Seventh

That sounds more like MPPP.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

77 Babylon 5 News
@B5News
·
12h
RIP Aki Aleong, who played Senator Hidoshi in three episodes of Babylon 5's first season. His storied career spanned seven decades in Hollywood!

Posted by: 13times at June 26, 2025 06:36 AM (g+2j1)

78 NR Pax

I met my best friend in 10th grade. So despite all the moving around being a Navy Junior and my Service days, it is possible.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:37 AM (u82oZ)

79
The cargo ship Morning Midas, which suffered a catastrophic fire while transporting hundreds of electric vehicles, is not on fire anymore. (Notebook Check)

It sank

It became an eReef for eFishes

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 26, 2025 06:39 AM (Tv15w)

80 mornin yall. If someone offered you $100,000 to wear a candy bikini, would you?

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F)

81 So despite all the moving around being a Navy Junior and my Service days, it is possible.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

I don't disagree. It's just that my own experience was much more negative. I didn't really have a core group of friends until dad retired and I could let my guard down.

I've noticed that most military kids are either social butterflies who always make friends everywhere or withdrawn outcasts who don't care.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2025 06:44 AM (BpO1e)

82 Nice morning, let’s not mess it up.

Posted by: Eromero at June 26, 2025 06:44 AM (jgmnb)

83 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 26, 2025 06:44 AM (lIgBp)

84 fd

$100K is $100K. Where do I have to wear it , after the check clears?

$100K solves some problems.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

85 Starting to get light outside. I'll tote the garbage out and take the chance to photograph the piles of trash gathering, and beginning to smell, outside the back gate. Then I'll ship the pics off to the city and state Depts. of Health. I did that before, with an enormous trash heap that was actually on the property, and soon thereafter it got cleaned up. Maybe this will work too.

Then, shave and shower. Miss Linda will be here for our Aldi trip about 7:45.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 26, 2025 06:46 AM (omVj0)

86 "$100K is $100K. Where do I have to wear it , after the check clears?

$100K solves some problems.
Posted by: NaCly Dog "

Confidence in your manhood can be very profitable.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2025 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

87 NR Pax

We are an interesting sub-culture. There is an article explaining this, ISTR called 3rd Culture people.

I have been in both extrovert and introvert camps. Today, my friends laugh when I say I had to overcome my shyness. But it is true.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

88 fd

I was in the pool!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

89 Wolfus Aurelius

Have a great day. May you get some good stuff.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:50 AM (u82oZ)

90 mornin yall. If someone offered you $100,000 to wear a candy bikini, would you?

I'll see you at the TxMoMe, bring your checkbook.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 06:51 AM (a4flb)

91
Consider the ship afire to be a dot of mass "m", and afire.

Immerse said dot, afire, in a watery mass that is itself salty, with mass "M". It is given that M >>> m.

What must be the molarity of said salty water, you may assume the salt in question is sodium chloride, for you to be able to derive Maxwell's Equations in this scenario?

Need it be said? SHOW YOUR WORK!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 26, 2025 06:52 AM (Tv15w)

92 "I'll see you at the TxMoMe, bring your checkbook.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

You also have to let Kanye eat it off you.

Posted by: fd at June 26, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

93

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 26, 2025 06:54 AM (5hfjS)

94 fd

Gold digger number 3 has very protective friends. They even worried about her being in a car with me, even with seat belts.

I told her to tell them "I'm a sailor and I am after your body."

Mistake!!!!
She then told me she was a Presbyterian deaconess. And she was appalled at me pushing any type of relationship with her.

Absence solves another problem.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

95 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

The solution to lithium pollution is dilution.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

96 The local newz is all EXTREME HEAT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

So what they are saying, if they knew the definition of words, is that the highest possible temperature has been reached.

IOW, It can't get any hotter. So if you survive, not only do you get a commemorative T-Shirt and Norman Rockwell plate, but the confidence that you have seen the worst (for your particular spot on Earth).

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 06:56 AM (a4flb)

97 Hillary Clinton

Run for mayor of New York. I want you to lose another election. Because even the Leftists and Communists reject you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

98 Nice morning, let’s not mess it up.
Posted by: Eromero at June 26, 2025 06:44 AM (jgmnb)
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Too late. I almost forgot to put my cats' food out this morning.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 26, 2025 06:57 AM (IBQGV)

99 97 Hillary Clinton

Run for mayor of New York. I want you to lose another election. Because even the Leftists and Communists reject you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

The Mayoral debate between Hillary and Osama bin Lenin would be a hoot.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 26, 2025 06:58 AM (PiwSw)

100 "I'll see you at the TxMoMe, bring your checkbook.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

You also have to let Kanye eat it off you.

You know that the TxMoMe is basically Burning Man for Morons.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 06:58 AM (a4flb)

101
If someone offered you $100,000 to wear a candy bikini, would you?

Who is this "someone" of whom you speak? Because there's your "out" by not having said, "If I offered you ...".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 26, 2025 06:58 AM (Tv15w)

102 "Any man wearing a candy bikini spends a night in the "box."

Posted by: Carr at June 26, 2025 07:01 AM (PiwSw)

103 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Wimps! They should be sent to Massawa to really experience heat and humidity.

Under the Red Sea Sun is a book by Edward Ellsberg describing salvage operations of the many ships scuttled by the Italians to block the port of Massawa (in WWII) on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea.

He describes the non-AC living in explicit terms.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

104 Who is this "someone" of whom you speak? Because there's your "out" by not having said, "If I offered you ...".

Keep out of this, we are playing poker.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 07:01 AM (a4flb)

105 Wimps! They should be sent to Massawa to really experience heat and humidity.

The residents in Babylon DC are likely going to the same place the "Rich Man" who begged Lazarus went. †

† Luke 16:19-31

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 07:04 AM (a4flb)

106
It's right there, in the fine print.

Just saying.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 26, 2025 07:05 AM (Tv15w)

107 Carr

Now I am pondering the technical details.

M&Ms? Smarties? Reeces Pieces? Or flattened sticks of woven red licorice?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

108 I've noticed that most military kids are either social butterflies who always make friends everywhere or withdrawn outcasts who don't care.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2025 06:44 AM (BpO1e)

Tell me about it. I ended up in the second group, my younger sister in the first group.

Posted by: Farquad at June 26, 2025 07:06 AM (YkGND)

109 97 Hillary Clinton

Run for mayor of New York. I want you to lose another election. Because even the Leftists and Communists reject you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

In the end I suspect she will only be respected by those who don't know her.

Posted by: Auspex at June 26, 2025 07:06 AM (j4U/Z)

110 Been there, done it, lived it. By the time I got to high school, my attitude was "I'm going to lose all of my friends in two years so why bother?"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2025 06:29 AM (BpO1e)

Same. It lasts a lifetime.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 26, 2025 07:06 AM (i24o9)

111 The U.S. Coast Guard is actively monitoring the Morning Midas site, located about 415 miles (667.88 km) from land in water over 16,404 feet (5 km) deep. “There is no visible pollution,” said Petty Officer Cameron Snell, who also confirmed that salvage and pollution-control vessels remain on scene as a precaution.

At 16,404 feet, I can believe the "no visible pollution" part. too bad they couldn't have dragged the burning wreck to diveable waters. Would make an interesting reef.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 07:07 AM (a4flb)

112 No Kings?

Go Fish.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

113 Khamenei comes out of hiding to declare victory over Israel and that the US stepped in save Israel from compete destruction.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 07:08 AM (ZIggv)

114 Same. It lasts a lifetime.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I will admit that things did get better but it took a long time. The only lingering effect (For lack of a better word) is that I can pack up and move without being stressed about giving up everything.

That's how I found myself leaving CA and ending up in MD without being bothered too much.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 26, 2025 07:09 AM (BpO1e)

115 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

I guess the salvage ships could not save her.

Why would anyone ship lithium powered cars by ship? This is the third car carrier sunk by fire.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

116 M&Ms? Smarties? Reeces Pieces? Or flattened sticks of woven red licorice?

Something that pairs well with taint.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 07:10 AM (a4flb)

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

He needs to hire stunt doubles. Lots of people blame him for losing a needless war.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

118 Why would anyone ship lithium powered cars by ship? This is the third car carrier sunk by fire.

Ever heard of "Jewish Lightning" ?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 07:10 AM (a4flb)

119 77 Babylon 5 News
@B5News
·
12h
RIP Aki Aleong, who played Senator Hidoshi in three episodes of Babylon 5's first season. His storied career spanned seven decades in Hollywood!

Posted by: 13times

He was 91. He was in lots and lots of movies and TV. He also produced, directed, and was a musician. A versatile dude

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 26, 2025 07:11 AM (sAmhv)

120
Yesterday was spent replacing three out of four wheels on the golf cart. It was not four out of four wheels because someone has the nuts on the fourth one torqued down so tightly that they were not removable.

On tap today is to diagnose why the low oil pressure light is on in the missus' car, fix the vacuum cleaner beater bar that is not turning, plug the holes at both ends of the roof's peak with hardware cloth in order to keep out birds seeking to nest there and, finally, to get a scheduled time to bring my car into the shop for some needed repairs snd replacements.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at June 26, 2025 07:13 AM (Tv15w)

121 NaCly, dearest. No, no no. Iran absolutely defeated both Satan's. Do not try to adjust the horizontal or vertical.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 07:13 AM (ZIggv)

122 Ben Had

So Iranian policy is under the influence of the good drugs?

My happy demeanor is because I have no external signals reaching my TV.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

123 On tap today is to diagnose why the low oil pressure light is on in the missus' car,

Isn't that just a function of reading a code from an OBD-II scanner?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 26, 2025 07:15 AM (a4flb)

124 Ben Had

Today's crop report is on the Kansas wheat harvest.

Yields are good, with 35% of the harvest already in. Some wheat mosaic streak mosaic virus is seen in isolated area.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

125 "Isn't that just a function of reading a code from an OBD-II scanner?"

Or...the dipstick.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2025 07:20 AM (a1415)

126 125 "Isn't that just a function of reading a code from an OBD-II scanner?"

Or...the dipstick.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 26, 2025 07:20 AM (a1415)

Dang, beat me to it.

Posted by: jsg at June 26, 2025 07:21 AM (ra4xZ)

127 Heat has broke in Northeast. A delightful 69°.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 26, 2025 07:21 AM (n4GiU)

128 NaCly, hay season just went into overdrive around here. Finally dried out enough.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 07:21 AM (ZIggv)

129 Ben Had

We have had a lot of rain for June. (5 inches in last two days.) Hay yields are off the scale. I have already seen second cropping.

How much rain did you get is a constant in conversations with friends.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:24 AM (u82oZ)

130 "Any man wearing a candy bikini spends a night in the "box."
Posted by: Carr at June 26, 2025 07:01 AM (PiwSw)
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At least we won't go hungry.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 26, 2025 07:28 AM (7fElN)

131 54F here in Fat City

Posted by: Don Black at June 26, 2025 07:30 AM (AOsQT)

132 75F here in the fruitcake capital.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 26, 2025 07:32 AM (ZIggv)

133 is not on fire anymore.
It sank.

Ummm. saltwater won't put out a lithium fire. It's hot enough to burn by breaking the water into hydrogen and oxygen, then using the oxygen.

Posted by: GWB at June 26, 2025 07:35 AM (PkFyV)

134 J.J has arrived with the curated news and his own snark.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2025 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

135 The Chinese make a lot of electric vehicles.

They’ve got to ship out hundreds of thousands of them.

I guess they don’t mind losing a cargo ship every now and then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 26, 2025 07:37 AM (6ydKt)

136 Where's some video of the Morning Midas sinking?

Posted by: Can't find it at June 26, 2025 07:49 AM (lIgBp)

137 tap today is to diagnose why the low oil pressure light is on in the missus' car,

Isn't that just a function of reading a code from an OBD-II scanner?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under
===
Cars still have dip sticks, no?

Posted by: From about That Time at June 26, 2025 08:00 AM (n4GiU)

138 Alisha Lehman is a ghoul.
Botox is not your friend

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 26, 2025 08:24 AM (P0m9n)

139 Lip-Bu Tan

platinub!

Posted by: m at June 26, 2025 08:40 AM (CQE5S)

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