Daily Tech News 1 July 2025

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Why AI is not useful for programming. (Ordep)

Because writing code was never the problem. Anyone can write code if you don't care whether it works. Even an AI.

And even if it works, it is almost certain to make the overall system more complicated than the value it adds. Keeping a complex system manageable as you add more features is the real battle.

And AI is still at the stage of selling refrigerated tungsten cubes in its snack bar because one guy jokingly requested that.

Tech News

Why do 80% or more of email startups fail? (ForwardEmail)

Because email already works.
Building a working computer in MSPaint. (GitHub)

Uh...
Why React is insane. (mbrizic)

This is literally the COMEFROM statement from Intercal. Which was supposed to be a joke.
Why Matt Mullenweg claimed WordPress belongs to him personally. (The Verge)

Because he's insane.
Norway inflated the announced prizes of winners of its most recent lotto game. (The Register)

The agency in charge multiplied by 100 instead of dividing by the same amount.

Oops.
Potentially millions of pairs of Bluetooth headphones are hopelessly insecure. (Hot Hardware)

Oops again.

Educational Interlude

This information could save your life in an admittedly bizarre set of circumstances.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Because the original is censored.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

2 from the ONT:

429 Really wondering if Pixy like Vegimite but can't stay up any longer.
Have a great morning everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 04:17 AM (+qU29)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 04:31 AM (sAmhv)

4 Yes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 01, 2025 04:31 AM (BLOW1)

5 4 Yes.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 01, 2025 04:31 AM (BLOW1)

Will post that on the ONT.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:33 AM (CQE5S)

6 Why do 80% or more of email startups fail? (ForwardEmail)

Because email already works.

Sometimes it is that simple.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 04:33 AM (NXz8h)

7 "Safety Dance" is still alive and well in my brain.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:35 AM (CQE5S)

8 Why AI is not useful for programming. (Ordep)

Because functioning software requires human intellect. Sometimes it is that simple.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 04:38 AM (NXz8h)

9 swoon

Aelfred The Great
@aelfred_D
Jun 28
This is not depression, this is love of bed

Aelfred The Great
@aelfred_D
Jun 28
Every day I get out of bed and try to accomplish various tasks with one overriding goal—to get back to bed.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:41 AM (CQE5S)

10 Every day I get out of bed and try to accomplish various tasks with one overriding goal—to get back to bed.

Now, with me, it's depression.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 04:44 AM (Dg2sF)

11
Anyone can write code

Interestingly enough, writing code was the subject of interest in the conversation between the gSon and gDaughter when I drove them home late afternoon yesterday. Actually, gSon did most of the talking, but he was really jazzed about the whole thing, which was for the two of them to create a game that would garner lots of users and a high rating.

The caveat, which made me laugh, was when gSon told gDaughter, "The catch is that I will need infinite screen time to do my part of the work." I laughed at that, only to be met with the rebuke, "Coding is hard work, grandpa!"

They are ten and eight years old.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:45 AM (xG4kz)

12
Building a working computer in MSPaint. (GitHub)

Uh...

Are we talking finger paint, or paint by numbers here?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:47 AM (xG4kz)

13 Ars Technica: Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band.

And no, Madonna is not one of them. Though I wouldn't fault you if you couldn't tell.

https://is.gd/G36ham

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 04:49 AM (NXz8h)

14 10 Every day I get out of bed and try to accomplish various tasks with one overriding goal—to get back to bed.

Now, with me, it's depression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 04:44 AM (Dg2sF)

Of the eloquent variety.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:49 AM (CQE5S)

15 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 01, 2025 04:49 AM (a1415)

16
Potentially millions of pairs of Bluetooth headphones are hopelessly insecure. (Hot Hardware)

Not a problem. Market them as "Emo Headphones" and they'll sell like hotcakes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:51 AM (xG4kz)

17 "Gay Bar" by Electric Six

Anybody click that, yet?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:53 AM (CQE5S)

18 Potentially millions of pairs of Bluetooth headphones are hopelessly insecure. (Hot Hardware)

Not a problem. Market them as "Emo Headphones" and they'll sell like hotcakes.
Posted by: Krebs v Carno

I thought the article was about ear buds falling out of your ears.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 04:54 AM (NXz8h)

19 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 04:54 AM (Z5NUn)

20
Could I defeat a T. rex?

Absolutely! I'd ask it how it ever dreamed that it could play ice hockey with such short arms.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:55 AM (xG4kz)

21 Disclaimer: Because the original is censored.

I don't even understand the censorship there.

Saw Electric Six live a couple of months ago. Fun band. Hard to explain to others. One of those that immediately connects or does not.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 04:55 AM (z5QST)

22 "Anybody click that, yet?"

Would not be prudent. Today or any day afterwards.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 01, 2025 04:56 AM (89Sog)

23 Anybody click that, yet?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:53 AM (CQE5S)

It's not as irritating as "What's Up," by Four Non Blondes.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 04:57 AM (L5An7)

24
I thought the article was about ear buds falling out of your ears.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

It very well could have been, but I'm here to score a cheap laughs from "misconstruing" headlines' meanings.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:57 AM (xG4kz)

25 G'Day everyone
Fell asleep but wife woke me up to warn me a tree came down

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 04:58 AM (+qU29)

26 I don't have to worry about the bluetooth headphone issue.

Article says 'High End'.

And my cheap Tozo and Shokz branded stuff ain't High End.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 01, 2025 05:00 AM (a1415)

27 heh

vampire, opening a house door: "Can I come in?"

innocent blonde female inside the house, in her nightgown: "I don't know, *can* you?"

Cursing quietly, the vampire backed away, foiled yet again by the English teacher's pedantry.

https://nitter.net/bonchieredstate

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 05:01 AM (CQE5S)

28 Ars Technica: Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band.

Last week I linked to a 'band' on YouTube called Rockabilly Records, which is apparently one musician who uses AI to 'write' songs and create videos. As a non-musician myself, I can say that it sounds. . .OK, but it would be so much better sung by a real band.

Here's one - "Cherry Bomb Baby:"

https://tinyurl.com/5ydsfj4m

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 05:02 AM (Dg2sF)

29 24 I thought the article was about ear buds falling out of your ears.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

It very well could have been, but I'm here to score a cheap laughs from "misconstruing" headlines' meanings.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:57 AM (xG4kz)

We should all do what we do well.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 05:04 AM (CQE5S)

30 Really the question is: Why Politics is not useful in Governing.

Gov't influence comes in only one flavor -- coercive force. July 4th, we find out why.
https://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/files/2009/03/botchmen.jpg

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at July 01, 2025 05:05 AM (yEajp)

31 Pukebox
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
https://youtu.be/pHjaWk8aypE

The band is from Perth. They tour all the time and the closest they've come to me is 10 hours. I just can't get motivated to go 10 hours to see them. I've seen videos of them playing live and what gets on the records is pretty much what they do in their live shows.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 05:09 AM (NXz8h)

32 Seems that AOC may have some looming issues coming up.

https://tinyurl.com/5dh9zd26

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 01, 2025 05:10 AM (a1415)

33 wow

Bonchie retweeted
J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling
12h
Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child rape.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 05:10 AM (CQE5S)

34
https://nitter.net/bonchieredstate called this, "The most WNBA thing to ever happen"

WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
Wings guard DiJonai Carrington, who has been dating Smith since their Baylor days, expressed heartbreak

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 05:12 AM (xG4kz)

35
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 01, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)

36 Sorry I'm late. I overslept. It's 5:05 instead of 4:20.

Had a nice day off yesterday. Took a walk at the local park with FenSpouse. It was very quiet. There have a building there that looks like a little English stone cottage and has all kinds of flowers around. It. We walked over a bridge to the canal and it was quiet. We saw a guy fishing and he had caught one bass. Also saw sliders on a log. Later in the day we went for ice cream at a place we hadn't been to since the young man was a little boy The people in the park were all smiling and when we said hello they said hello as well. It is good to be out in nature!

Oh, yes, I sat down on a bench to look at a pond and underneath the bench was $5.00 . There was nobody else around there and it was placed so neatly that I wondered if someone had placed it there on purpose.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:14 AM (2GCMq)

37 WNBA star NaLyssa Smith 'sick to my stomach' after unexpected trade to Aces separates her from girlfriend
Wings guard DiJonai Carrington, who has been dating Smith since their Baylor days, expressed heartbreak
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

It'll be a good test case to see if period synchronization follows quantum entanglement rules

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 05:15 AM (NXz8h)

38
It'll be a good test case to see if period synchronization follows quantum entanglement rules

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.

Damn!

* starts furiously writing grant proposal to submit to the NIH *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 05:19 AM (xG4kz)

39 Oh, yes, I sat down on a bench to look at a pond and underneath the bench was $5.00 . There was nobody else around there and it was placed so neatly that I wondered if someone had placed it there on purpose. Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That was probably some traitors dead drop intended for a Russian spy. I would inspect the bill for micro printing. You should probably change your phone numbers and move.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 05:21 AM (NXz8h)

40 Wasn't it just the other week that we were told that Trump had started WWIII?

Last night it dawned on me that the largest story of the year has suddenly disappeared from the media's interest.

So I'm gonna assume that things went far better than the media and the Left had hoped it would.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 01, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

41
That was probably some traitors dead drop intended for a Russian spy. I would inspect the bill for micro printing. You should probably change your phone numbers and move.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions

Good advice.

Fen did not say that she took the bill, but no doubt that bench was under surveillance and even now her picture and that of Fenspouse are being circulated among some very dangerous characters.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 05:26 AM (xG4kz)

42 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 05:21 AM (NXz8h)

That was very creative and in the early morning as well. You should write espionage novels.😊It's a shame the spies couldn't fork up $100.00 because five seems kind of cheap for spies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:26 AM (2GCMq)

43 Evening and morning to the late toilers and early risers! Tiu's Day yet again, huh?

I never *heard* of a single one of the failed email companies in that article. ("Skiff"?) Which probably says all I need to know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 05:28 AM (omVj0)

44
Last night it dawned on me that the largest story of the year has suddenly disappeared from the media's interest.

Every horror story concocted in the fever swamps of the TDS crowd and media has, at best, two weeks to circulate in the public screech fests before it is discarded for not having caught fire.

The days of a "Russian collusion" story having legs for months at a time are over, asshats.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 05:30 AM (xG4kz)

45 Krebs and Alteria - you should write a novel together . Get a handsome guy for the movie version and a sexy lady for the guys. Get in made into a movie -no political correctness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:31 AM (2GCMq)

46 Krebs- I laughed. Nobody wants to surveille me. I am the most boring creature imaginable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:33 AM (2GCMq)

47 Here's an immigration story that puzzles me: Recently there's been a flap because ICE arrested a woman who has been here from Iran since 1978. She came here legally on a student visa, the story says, married a U.S. citizen, and there have been repeated delays, reversals, and appeals with her visa status. She has never been "in the shadows" and has never missed a check-in date with Immigration. Is this a miscarriage of justice?

Personally I think there is more to this story that we are not being told.

https://tinyurl.com/y3z3972d

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 05:36 AM (omVj0)

48 Man writes on loving others through prayer and 1st Samuel 12:19-25. Reflection is appropriate for both interested Christians and Jews and is followed by a reflection and insights:

https://tinyurl.com/3dtsnw68

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:37 AM (2GCMq)

49 I am the most boring creature imaginable.
>>>>>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:33 AM (2GCMq)

At last, some self awareness.

Posted by: Test Pattern at July 01, 2025 05:39 AM (rfU4e)

50 Anyway! Coffee now, feeding the furry thugs in a minute or so. Short workout. Maybe a visit to a coffee shop later this morning, if it doesn't rain -- or even if it does.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 05:39 AM (omVj0)

51 An it's actually tech related!! Comedian has chat with a chatbot. Scroll way down through the unnecessary narration to the video:

https://tinyurl.com/yhjt8scf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:40 AM (2GCMq)

52 I wish that we could pass a law requiring that the citizenship status of every identified suspect in every crime is required to be reported.

Not the residency, but the citizenship.

https://tinyurl.com/ytzutbzc

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 01, 2025 05:40 AM (a1415)

53
Good morning, Hordians. Time to get up, put clothes on, take care of the dogs and make my coffee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 05:41 AM (/HVsR)

54 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 01, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)

55 Something for Wolfus:

Part of a letter to a magazine from a writer of pulp scifi from the 40s:

"I have just procured the new issue of Planet, and am still drooling over the cover. Rozen does beautiful work — even if, for some mystic reason, the picture seldom has anything to do with the text."

So, I guess it's not a new phenomenon....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 05:43 AM (0eaVi)

56 It's a shame the spies couldn't fork up $100.00 because five seems kind of cheap for spies.

The irony is that a lot of spies don't really get paid much in return for the risk they take and once they are no longer useful, they are forgotten.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 05:43 AM (RjOoY)

57
Zohran Mamdani, the favorite to become New York City's next mayor after winning the Democratic primary, has a contentious plan to create a network of city-owned grocery stores. But it's less radical than critics portray, some food policy and grocery industry experts say. cnn.it/4nrjP2f

Ahhh, "experts say". It's hard, if not forbidden, to dispute anything they posit then, isn't it?

Every time I see that socialist fraud's name, "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" echoes in my mind (nope, never saw it).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 05:47 AM (xG4kz)

58 40 Wasn't it just the other week that we were told that Trump had started WWIII?

Last night it dawned on me that the largest story of the year has suddenly disappeared from the media's interest.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 01, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)

As a civilian I'd wager that a true WWIII would be the biggest story of the century.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 05:47 AM (CQE5S)

59 Something for Wolfus:

Part of a letter to a magazine from a writer of pulp scifi from the 40s:

"I have just procured the new issue of Planet, and am still drooling over the cover. Rozen does beautiful work — even if, for some mystic reason, the picture seldom has anything to do with the text."

So, I guess it's not a new phenomenon....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025

***
Yes, the way it sometimes worked was that the editors would commission a painting, or at least a sketch, of a future cover, then ask one of their established writers to write a story using it as a springboard. The story might take off in the typewriter in a totally different direction, or the artist might change the painting before final delivery. Crap shoot.

My forthcoming story for Black Cat Weekly is a "Weird West," with all the usual trappings of the classic Western. If they get that much right in illustrating it, I guess I'll be okay.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 05:50 AM (omVj0)

60 I read that AOC isn't a true New Yorker. She was born in a small town in the Hudson Valley upstate. How and why did she move to Gotham, the tips were better at the bar she worked in?

Posted by: Colin at July 01, 2025 05:51 AM (wlQdF)

61 Black Cat Weekly asked me for a back-of-the-cover blurb for my story, and I gave them this:

"The darkness of the Cold Cloak lies across half the West, distorting the face of America. Sent by President Grant to survey and investigate it, agent Kelt Robinson finds himself protecting a defenseless otherworldly being from the men who want to enslave it in their hunt for gold."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

62 Experts say start rolling up your pant legs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 01, 2025 05:53 AM (dR6yv)

63 Pixy keeps bashing AI coding but I've used it to great results in certain situations.

Databricks python it's a champ.

Oracle APEX PL/SQL not as much.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 01, 2025 05:53 AM (9HeEo)

64 Horses enjoy hearing man sing "Blackbird" on the guitar: scroll down past narration to video:

https://tinyurl.com/5euyaett

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:54 AM (2GCMq)

65 Must be feeding time.

All 5 kitties are surrounding me at my desk.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 01, 2025 05:56 AM (IBQGV)

66 Horses enjoy hearing man sing "Blackbird" on the guitar: scroll down past narration to video:

https://tinyurl.com/5euyaett
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025

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I've yet to meet a cat who appears to like human music. Or at least the stuff I prefer (which ranges from certain classical pieces to 1980s-90s country and '50-'80s pop and rock).

His Lordship Arizona did react nervously to recordings of wolf calls.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

67 Posted by: Test Pattern at July 01, 2025 05:39 AM (rfU4e

Good morning to you. It takes one to know one, eh? 😉 I am bored by people insulting me who don't use their actual handle. So who is this . Sounds like.....(drum roll please)....Scogg?
Bye now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:57 AM (2GCMq)

68 The Brit medical journal Lancet says PDJT is in the process of killing 14 million people by gutting USAID. That's their official estimate, about the same number of civilian deaths during WW1.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 05:58 AM (A9kSL)

69 I am eating a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich that my wife bought. The bread has been replaced by a “ cauliflower thin”.
Is it possible to have your “man card” revoked when you are already in Heaven? (Jimmy Dean, not me)

Posted by: Fenderbender at July 01, 2025 05:58 AM (1FEc1)

70 These cats seems to enjoy piano music. Scroll down to video:

https://tinyurl.com/nhp72eek

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 05:59 AM (2GCMq)

71 Almost five am here. Time to change, stretch, and walk, I guess. It's 78 F. outside. Don't tell me the heat index, I don't wanna know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

72 I've yet to meet a cat who appears to like human music.

Whereas I had a guinea who loved Vivaldi and she would squeak at the top of her lungs over it.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 06:00 AM (RjOoY)

73 Happy July, Tech Peeps!

Posted by: fluffy at July 01, 2025 06:00 AM (AN2gy)

74 A comment disappeared, from someone who said he had played drums in a punk rock band, from around comment #71.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:02 AM (CQE5S)

75
It's hard getting out of bed knowing that another Pride Month has come and gone. What motivation is there now?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:02 AM (/HVsR)

76 Deaf man adopts deaf dog and teaches it sign language commands:

https://tinyurl.com/2wyuhxa4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 06:02 AM (2GCMq)

77 I hope everyone has a blessed day and knows that you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2025 06:03 AM (2GCMq)

78 LOL, FS!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:04 AM (Z5NUn)

79
*snaps fingers*

It's Bobby Bonilla Day!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:04 AM (/HVsR)

80 Black Cat Weekly asked me for a back-of-the-cover blurb for my story, and I gave them this:

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 05:53 AM (omVj0)

I don't think that will ever be a problem for me. Can't seem to write anything that's publishable.

Read over Rac Press's open sub calls and thought I'd try the pirate one. Thousand words in and I haven't even gotten into the story. It's like, "get to it, dummy."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:05 AM (0eaVi)

81 hmmmm ... thanks for that, FS, the lol was for your retort, above

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:06 AM (Z5NUn)

82 Daughter's friend was going to send his 13 year old dog back to the shelter. Just because. I told her that was the most despicable thing I've ever heard and offered to take the dog.

I met him yesterday about halfway to Dallas to get the dog. He's a handful so far and not friendly. My other dogs are pretty much ignoring him until maybe he opens up. This is going to be harder than I thought.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 01, 2025 06:07 AM (b294k)

83 poor Jimmy
the lesson? don't let your name become a copyrighted piece of IP, to be bought and sold after your death.

cauliflower thin?
*shakes head, mutters*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2025 06:09 AM (Z5NUn)

84 >>> "Gay Bar" by Electric Six
Anybody click that, yet?

No, but I have seen it before. Too rowdty for my tastes at this hour.

Posted by: fluffy at July 01, 2025 06:09 AM (AN2gy)

85 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2025 06:09 AM (hoCmQ)

86 I'm test driving a Tesla 3 later this morning. I hope it lives up to its hype.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 01, 2025 06:10 AM (b294k)

87
Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks. There are 4 days until the birthday of the most exceptional country on the planet, always something I look forward to with great interest.

Upon this day above all may you receive maximum benefit from your effort. It is due to you that this Republic has endured for 250 years.

Rejoice that you are living where you do.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 01, 2025 06:10 AM (hKoQL)

88 Blutarski, patience. The dog's attitude is a product of his recent environment.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:11 AM (HFcKg)

89 "Pixy keeps bashing AI coding but I've used it to great results in certain situations."

The magic 8-ball gets great results in certain situations as well.

Python is somewhat opinionated on how to do things, so the inputs to the LLM tend to align.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 01, 2025 06:11 AM (8m0mY)

90 Read over Rac Press's open sub calls and thought I'd try the pirate one. Thousand words in and I haven't even gotten into the story. It's like, "get to it, dummy."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025

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I found that in my current attempt, another "Weird West" (though not in the same universe as the other). Page five and I still had not gotten to the main action. After reading one of the Jack Reacher stories, I thought I'd recast it in first person and snatch a bit of action from the planned climactic point and set it up at the front; then step back to fill in. It seems to be going better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 06:14 AM (omVj0)

91 Blutarski, patience. The dog's attitude is a product of his recent environment.
Posted by: Ben Had

On of our other rescue dogs took about 6 months to fit in. Now he's great.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 01, 2025 06:15 AM (b294k)

92 I think I probably goofed, eating a piece of sliced ham this morning, seeing that my workout is still ahead of me. We will see.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:17 AM (U7ZsA)

93 “The biggest cost of code is understanding it — not writing it.”

So true. In fact, a problem you see in inexperienced and, frankly, incompetent programmers is a tendency to simply rewrite the code they're tasked with maintaining because it's faster than understanding the existing code well enough to properly modify it.

Of course, when they're allowed to do it you get all sorts of brand new bugs plus all the old problems you worked though when the first version was originally written.

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 01, 2025 06:17 AM (B9Dv5)

94 Scogg has become the new synonym for troll - which was always just short-hand for "i don't like you". Like the Left using "racist":

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:18 AM (0+oSs)

95 On of our other rescue dogs took about 6 months to fit in. Now he's great.

Good luck in the rehab. Hopefully your pack can show him that things aren't so bad in your house.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 01, 2025 06:18 AM (RjOoY)

96 80 Read over Rac Press's open sub calls and thought I'd try the pirate one. Thousand words in and I haven't even gotten into the story. It's like, "get to it, dummy."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:05 AM (0eaVi)

I had a teacher who ripped off the first page of my term paper one time and handed that page back to me, right when I turned the paper in, saying that I had a habit of introducing the introduction to my introduction. A memorable lesson to me.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:18 AM (CQE5S)

97
I think I probably goofed, eating a piece of sliced ham this morning, seeing that my workout is still ahead of me. We will see.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:17 AM (U7ZsA)

Cramps. Perforated intestine. Peritonitis. Death. Better go back to bed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:19 AM (/HVsR)

98 Blutarski, your kindness will win.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:20 AM (HFcKg)

99 Good luck in the rehab. Hopefully your pack can show him that things aren't so bad in your house.
Posted by: NR Pax

The poor little guy is in shock, I'm sure. He has to come to grips with the fact his pack, the only one he's ever known, has abandoned him. I hope once he accepts that fact he can begin to accept us.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 01, 2025 06:21 AM (b294k)

100 100

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:21 AM (CQE5S)

101 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2025 06:14 AM (omVj0)

I'm at the end of page four. Putting some background in, but should probably delete it. It's a short story and you don't need info dumps. The first few lines are ok, so I should probably start again from there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:21 AM (0eaVi)

102 82 Daughter's friend was going to send his 13 year old dog back to the shelter. Just because. I told her that was the most despicable thing I've ever heard and offered to take the dog.

I met him yesterday about halfway to Dallas to get the dog. He's a handful so far and not friendly. My other dogs are pretty much ignoring him until maybe he opens up. This is going to be harder than I thought.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 01, 2025 06:07 AM (b294k)

Good luck. You're a hero.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:21 AM (CQE5S)

103 Scogg has become the new synonym for troll - which was always just short-hand for "i don't like you". Like the Left using "racist":

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:18 AM (0+oSs)

I am vastly amused when some rando troll is accused of being "scogg." Or even better, when a regular is using a sock and someone is offended and calls him "scogg."

I and a few of the moderators know how to identify him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 06:22 AM (L5An7)

104 Cramps. Perforated intestine. Peritonitis. Death. Better go back to bed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:19 AM (/HVsR)

Or at least have a short bourbon.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 06:23 AM (L5An7)

105 I had a teacher who ripped off the first page of my term paper one time and handed that page back to me, right when I turned the paper in, saying that I had a habit of introducing the introduction to my introduction. A memorable lesson to me.
Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:18 AM (CQE5S)

That's how it seems my 800 words after the first two paras are. Should just start over from opening.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:24 AM (0eaVi)

106
We've fostered rescues who were barely socialized. Time, patience, a regular rhythm of life and unobtrusive affection won them over.

One had never been around men. So I was the one who fed him and gave him treats. While we were gone, the TV was turned on to the MLB channel so he'd hear male voices.

What's sad is that while they eventually come around, their eyes are still haunted, as though they think the good life will suddenly come to an end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:24 AM (/HVsR)

107 Elon keeps asking for it, and Trump keeps delivering:

Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!

Jul 01, 2025 at 12:44 AM

Elon keeps digging on the BBB and doesn’t realize literally everything he does with government funding can be called out as ‘wasteful’ by somebody.

He knew all this before he endorsed Trump, but I guess thought he could change Trump’s mind on the green agenda later on.
Good luck on that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:25 AM (6ydKt)

108 Bryan Kohberger accepted a plea deal! W T F Life instead of death. His sorry ass needs to be put up against a wall and shot...numerous times.

Posted by: Joyce at July 01, 2025 06:26 AM (rzwGB)

109 What's sad is that while they eventually come around, their eyes are still haunted, as though they think the good life will suddenly come to an end.

They're haunted because you made them listen to MLB all day. It would be enough to break anyone.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:26 AM (0+oSs)

110 I'm test driving a Tesla 3 later this morning. I hope it lives up to its hype.
Posted by: Blutarski

Got to extreme. Hit the freeway, turn on the auto drive and take a nap. If you get back alive - its a keeper.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:27 AM (NXz8h)

111 I am vastly amused when some rando troll is accused of being "scogg." Or even better, when a regular is using a sock and someone is offended and calls him "scogg."

I and a few of the moderators know how to identify him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 06:22 AM

Don't even know who that is. I've been around for quite a few years now, but I'm baffled at to this persons motivation.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:27 AM (0eaVi)

112 90 pretend it's for a tv show and you are writing ep 6 in season 2, not the pilot episode.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 01, 2025 06:29 AM (Gmq6N)

113 I just ate an entire apple, cored and sliced. I'm not sure that was a good idea.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:31 AM (CQE5S)

114 I saw a snippet that the debut of the self driving taxis in Austin didn't go so well. The cars veered into other lanes or just stopped in the middle of the street.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (HFcKg)

115 Don't even know who that is. I've been around for quite a few years now, but I'm baffled at to this persons motivation.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:27 AM (0eaVi)

I don’t know who it is either.
For most serious trolls the motivation seems to be pent up anger, antagonizing people, and a really bad case of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

116 >>> I am vastly amused when some rando troll is accused of being "scogg."

Wasn't he also 'Banana Splits Guy'?

Posted by: fluffy at July 01, 2025 06:33 AM (AN2gy)

117
The cars veered into other lanes or just stopped in the middle of the street.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (HFcKg)

So, indistinguishable from ordinary drivers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:33 AM (/HVsR)

118 Hadrian, hahahaha.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:34 AM (HFcKg)

119 I don’t know who it is either.
For most serious trolls the motivation seems to be pent up anger, antagonizing people, and a really bad case of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

Makes no sense either. Nothing any of them posts is going to change opinions. Coming in and posting about how Trump was stymied by some lowly judge and laughing about it doesn't make us or others think less of Trump. We think less of those who oppose him.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:35 AM (0eaVi)

120
The Brit medical journal Lancet says PDJT is in the process of killing 14 million people by gutting USAID. That's their official estimate, about the same number of civilian deaths during WW1.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

"Experts say", Huck! "Experts say"!

IOW, "Know your place, peons, and zip it".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 01, 2025 06:35 AM (xG4kz)

121 Everyone is Scogg, when anyone with Post Traumatic Scogg Disorder wants to type SHUT UP without going through the trouble if tapping the caps button.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:35 AM (0+oSs)

122 Foiled again! I like as many of my bills to hit the inbox on the 1st. Its is an OCD thing. My YouTube TV bill hit my inbox on the 27th - OCD crazy occurred. To solve this I canceled YTTV and went to restart today, 7/1. ***BOOM*** 21 Day Free Trial which but the billing date on the 21st. ACK!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:35 AM (NXz8h)

123 "Instead, to the majority, the power-hungry actors are... (wait for it)... scogg."

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:35 AM (CQE5S)

124 114 I saw a snippet that the debut of the self driving taxis in Austin didn't go so well. The cars veered into other lanes or just stopped in the middle of the street.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (HFcKg)

Self-driving cars seem to do pretty well until they hit an edge case and the algorithm makes the wrong choice.

Unfortunately, driving in the 21st century presents a lot of edge cases.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:36 AM (6ydKt)

125 I saw a snippet that the debut of the self driving taxis in Austin didn't go so well. The cars veered into other lanes or just stopped in the middle of the street.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (HFcKg)

The streets in Austin are kinda fucked up at all times. My youngest, who's doing a traffic internship before they get their civil engineer degree, says that at one point there's a spot for two cars to park on a one-way street right before an intersection. Just two cars. Sometimes drivers, not paying attention, will stop behind the parked cars thinking that they're waiting at the light. They're writing up a recommendation to get rid of those parking spots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

126 I saw a snippet that the debut of the self driving taxis in Austin didn't go so well. The cars veered into other lanes or just stopped in the middle of the street.
Posted by: Ben Had

Sounds like a normal day in Las Cruces. What's the issue?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:39 AM (NXz8h)

127
I saw a snippet that the debut of the self driving taxis in Austin didn't go so well. The cars veered into other lanes or just stopped in the middle of the street.
Posted by: Ben Had

Really bad drivers sporting points on their licenses sat up and took notice. "Say, where'd that guy learn to drive? I need some pointers on how to bring my game to a whole new level!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 01, 2025 06:39 AM (xG4kz)

128 That MS Paint thing was pretty interesting, though it lost me on a technical level. Kudos to that guy, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 01, 2025 06:40 AM (WPL6O)

129 For most serious trolls the motivation seems to be pent up anger, antagonizing people, and a really bad case of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

Makes no sense either. Nothing any of them posts is going to change opinions. Coming in and posting about how Trump was stymied by some lowly judge and laughing about it doesn't make us or others think less of Trump. We think less of those who oppose him.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:35 AM (0eaVi)

We have regular posters who're like that on particular topics. They have their position and absolutely nothing will shift them from it. The recent WW3 issue brought some of that out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

130 Cramps. Perforated intestine. Peritonitis. Death. Better go back to bed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:19 AM (/HVsR)
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I wish I could! But the older I get the harder it is to stay in bed in the mornings!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:42 AM (MUk5w)

131 We have regular posters who're like that on particular topics. They have their position and absolutely nothing will shift them from it. The recent WW3 issue brought some of that out.

Most people are like that about a few things. Its just a matter of finding their particular topics.

For some - just about everything is one of those topics. To them everything is an absolute.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:43 AM (0+oSs)

132 Elon keeps digging on the BBB and doesn’t realize literally everything he does with government funding can be called out as ‘wasteful’ by somebody.
***
He needs to make peace and move on. Unless he wants to transition himself full-bore into a political figure and movement, which I doubt. Trump is the best deal he's ever going to get.

Posted by: Ordinary Amerian at July 01, 2025 06:43 AM (WHfpM)

133
For most serious trolls the motivation seems to be pent up anger, antagonizing people, and a really bad case of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

They give us obsessive compulsives a bad name.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:44 AM (/HVsR)

134
Cramps. Perforated intestine. Peritonitis. Death. Better go back to bed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Relax, Pride Month is over. Let the healing begin!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! at July 01, 2025 06:44 AM (xG4kz)

135 We have regular posters who're like that on particular topics. They have their position and absolutely nothing will shift them from it. The recent WW3 issue brought some of that out.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

I cut slack for regular posters. If they're on some hobby horse, I usually just skip the post. For Sid, raimondo, alias and others, I don't even know why they bother to post. You gain nothing by posting drivel. Do they even stay around to read responses? Seems they'd get mad when the mods "fortify" their comments with insults making them look foolish.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:44 AM (0eaVi)

136 That shit in Idaho that murdered the 4 college students cut a plea deal. Life in prison. Took the DP off the table - at least two of the families are livid this is not going to trial. Odds on the other prisoners will sort this out.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:45 AM (NXz8h)

137 The AoSHQ is filled with collegial, collaborative, and respectful posters who do critically important work every day. I am immensely proud to comment here.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 06:45 AM (PiwSw)

138 I saw a snippet that the debut of the self driving taxis in Austin didn't go so well. The cars veered into other lanes or just stopped in the middle of the street.
Posted by: Ben Had

Sounds like a normal day in Las Cruces. What's the issue?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:39 AM (NXz8h)
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Did the cars try to drive under the speed limit on highways, in the passing lane? No?

I call the test a success then.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:46 AM (38xCr)

139 I had to dig into the archives to get that one

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2025 06:46 AM (PiwSw)

140
But the older I get the harder it is to stay in bed in the mornings!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:42 AM (MUk5w)

I've never been able to stay in bed in the morning. I wake up and I have to get up very soon afterwards. And it's not like I take care of the dogs and hit the sack again. Once up, I'm up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:46 AM (/HVsR)

141 That shit in Idaho that murdered the 4 college students cut a plea deal.

Lawyers don't get paid for justice. Just wins ans losses. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:46 AM (0+oSs)

142 Watching a WAYMO drive the other day at Dupont Circle, a cyclist was poised to cross the outer ring while the WAYMO was in the inner ring just ahead of me, the cyclist moved slightly and the WAYMO, not understanding the cyclist was pointed the other direction (away), sharply slowed in traffic.

Very revealing.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 01, 2025 06:47 AM (AdHga)

143 The AoSHQ is filled with collegial, collaborative, and respectful posters who do critically important work every day. I am immensely proud to comment here.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Your talking about me, right?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:48 AM (NXz8h)

144 What's sad is that while they eventually come around, their eyes are still haunted, as though they think the good life will suddenly come to an end.

My 10-year old Eskie is like that sometimes. She came from a bad home and was very aggressive when I adopted her. She loves me now, but sometimes you see the "please don't hurt me, daddy" look.*

*well, not really. I'm anthropomorphisizing. But you know what I mean.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 06:49 AM (Dg2sF)

145 They give us obsessive compulsives a bad name.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 06:44 AM (/HVsR)

My dream girl is smart, beautiful, sexy, and her OCD causes her to want to clean the house and organize everything to perfection.

If you find her, let me know.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:50 AM (6ydKt)

146 My 10-year old Eskie is like that sometimes. She came from a bad home and was very aggressive when I adopted her. She loves me now, but sometimes you see the "please don't hurt me, daddy" look.*

Did you ever make her listen to MLB ? Because thats abuse. Pure and simple.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:51 AM (0+oSs)

147 Lawyers don't get paid for justice. Just wins and losses. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Doug Roberts

Of course that is how it all works. His lawyer pulled off a miracle.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:51 AM (NXz8h)

148 Sorry I'm late. I overslept. It's 5:05 instead of 4:20.

Had a nice day off yesterday. Took a walk at the local park with FenSpouse. It was very quiet. There have a building there that looks like a little English stone cottage and has all kinds of flowers around. It. We walked over a bridge to the canal and it was quiet. We saw a guy fishing and he had caught one bass. Also saw sliders on a log. Later in the day we went for ice cream at a place we hadn't been to since the young man was a little boy The people in the park were all smiling and when we said hello they said hello as well. It is good to be out in nature!

Oh, yes, I sat down on a bench to look at a pond and underneath the bench was $5.00 . There was nobody else around there and it was placed so neatly that I wondered if someone had placed it there on purpose.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Good Morning!
Sounds like you needed the extra sleep.

That park sounds like it would be very relaxing, we have something similar in Owens Cross Roads, but without the stone building.

Pay that $5 forward at another park where kids can find it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 01, 2025 06:52 AM (QcUc+)

149 If you find her, let me know.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:50 AM (6ydKt)

She's in the Philippines.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:53 AM (0eaVi)

150 >>Why AI is not useful for programming.

It is.

>>Why React is insane.

It's not.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 06:53 AM (XV/Pl)

151

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 01, 2025 06:54 AM (5hfjS)

152 She's in the Philippines.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:53 AM (0eaVi)

lol

Somewhere in Asia, I’m sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:55 AM (6ydKt)

153 136
' Odds on the other prisoners will sort this out.'

Maybe someone could start a GoFundMe to pay the 'legal expenses' of anyone causing Kohberger's death.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 01, 2025 06:55 AM (3wi/L)

154 At what time is it appropriate to begin day drinking?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:55 AM (NXz8h)

155 136 That shit in Idaho that murdered the 4 college students cut a plea deal. Life in prison. Took the DP off the table - at least two of the families are livid this is not going to trial. Odds on the other prisoners will sort this out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:45 AM (NXz8h)

Extrajudicial punishment: I am not a fan.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 06:57 AM (CQE5S)

156 Alteria, a shot of brandy in one's coffee is sometimes a heart starter

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 06:58 AM (HFcKg)

157 At what time is it appropriate to begin day drinking?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:55 AM (NXz8h)

If you’re dedicated enough; at dawn.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:58 AM (6ydKt)

158 That shit in Idaho that murdered the 4 college students cut a plea deal. Life in prison. Took the DP off the table - at least two of the families are livid this is not going to trial. Odds on the other prisoners will sort this out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 06:45 AM (NXz8h)

I heard it was gonna be four consecutive life sentences. Do prisoners go after murderers? I don't recall seeing where he raped any of them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 06:59 AM (ExV1e)

159 Its summer shark attack season but todays Post has a weird one. It seems a surfer was knocked off his board when a shark jumped into the air and whacked him mid-surf. No bite, luckily enough.

The lesson is "watch out for flying sharks".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:59 AM (IgeaQ)

160 Somewhere in Asia, I’m sure.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 01, 2025 06:55 AM (6ydKt)

Mindanao, specifically. Get a provincial, not a city dweller.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 06:59 AM (0eaVi)

161 >>> The recent WW3 issue brought some of that out.

Wait, WW3 started??

I need go stock up on TP.

Posted by: fluffy at July 01, 2025 06:59 AM (AN2gy)

162 103 I and a few of the moderators know how to identify him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 06:22 AM (L5An7)

I trust the cobs. Along with a few commenter deputies who report "cleanup on aisle" whatever.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:00 AM (CQE5S)

163 Lawyers don't get paid for justice. Just wins ans losses. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:46 AM (0+oSs)

Even after they become judges. -- John Roberts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 07:00 AM (ExV1e)

164 Katherine Leavitt did a number on Jerome Powell in yesterday's press briefing. In general, her briefings are pretty remarkable.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2025 07:00 AM (WHfpM)

165 Katherine Leavitt did a number on Jerome Powell in yesterday's press briefing. In general, her briefings are pretty remarkable.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2025 07:00 AM (WHfpM)

She was in her underwear?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 07:01 AM (0eaVi)

166
Katherine Leavitt did a number on Jerome Powell in yesterday's press briefing. In general, her briefings are pretty remarkable.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2025 07:00 AM (WHfpM)

Did Powell get fired? I thought I saw some headline about Bessant saying he'd do what PDT wanted as Fed chairman.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 07:01 AM (/HVsR)

167 The lesson is "watch out for flying sharks".
Posted by: Huck Follywood

My friend told me he has a half brother.

"Different mothers?", I asked.

No. Shark attack.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 01, 2025 07:02 AM (b294k)

168 167 My friend told me he has a half brother.

"Different mothers?", I asked.

No. Shark attack.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 01, 2025 07:02 AM (b294k)

; )

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:03 AM (CQE5S)

169 Did Powell get fired? I thought I saw some headline about Bessant saying he'd do what PDT wanted as Fed chairman.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 01, 2025 07:01 AM (/HVsR)

Powell's term ends at the end of the year. There's speculation that Trump will nominate Bessant to replace him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 01, 2025 07:03 AM (ExV1e)

170 Karoline Leavitt

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 07:04 AM (HFcKg)

171 If the interest rate is cut by 1BP, then the economy takes off like a rocket ship, Powell and his ilk don't want the economy to take off like a rocket ship, thus his refusal to do anything to goose the economy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:04 AM (XV/Pl)

172 Its summer shark attack season but todays Post has a weird one. It seems a surfer was knocked off his board when a shark jumped into the air and whacked him mid-surf. No bite, luckily enough.

The lesson is "watch out for flying sharks".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:59 AM (IgeaQ)

Great White ambush tactics. Did the story say what kind of shark?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 07:04 AM (0eaVi)

173 Did the story say what kind of shark?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 01, 2025 07:04 AM
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Spinner shark, fwiw

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 07:06 AM (9VUoo)

174 Powell and his ilk don't want the economy to take off like a rocket ship, thus his refusal to do anything to goose the economy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 01, 2025 07:04 AM (XV/Pl)

Correct. He goosed rates for Biden at every opportunity. He despises Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 01, 2025 07:07 AM (WHfpM)

175 159 It seems a surfer was knocked off his board when a shark jumped into the air and whacked him mid-surf. No bite, luckily enough.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 06:59 AM (IgeaQ)

And no bark.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:07 AM (CQE5S)

176 Everyone is Scogg...

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 06:35 AM (0+oSs)

Et tu?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 07:08 AM (L5An7)

177 Extrajudicial punishment: I am not a fan.

When the judicial system fails, and in this case it has, then justice may only be had by others means. Always obeying an unjust judiciary is order, not justice.

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 07:09 AM (qk2AV)

178 Et tu fey?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 07:10 AM (HFcKg)

179 176 Et tu?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 07:08 AM (L5An7)

French or Latin?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:10 AM (CQE5S)

180 French or Latin?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:10 AM (CQE5S)

Latin.

French would be "et vous?"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 01, 2025 07:12 AM (L5An7)

181 Et toi in French, maybe.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:12 AM (CQE5S)

182 Simultaneous Frenchifying!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:12 AM (CQE5S)

183 178 Et tu fey?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 07:10 AM (HFcKg)
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Chef jokes!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 07:12 AM (9VUoo)

184 178 Et tu fey?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 01, 2025 07:10 AM (HFcKg)

Ha!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:13 AM (CQE5S)

185 Extrajudicial punishment: I am not a fan.

When the judicial system fails, and in this case it has, then justice may only be had by others means. Always obeying an unjust judiciary is order, not justice.
Posted by: Doug Roberts

When I am elected Your King, I look forward to beginning my hearings with the words:

"You may think this is a legal proceeding. It is not."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 07:13 AM (H7X8V)

186 181 Et toi in French, maybe.
Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:12 AM (CQE5S)
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Except for Scogg we're sll friends here!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 07:14 AM (9VUoo)

187 Sharknado!
https://youtu.be/M-pXDoe5a0E

This film had a very drunk/high midnight premiere in Seattle. There were two 6' or so flying sharks in the theater for the entire movie. The staff made sure the audience got attacked by them for the entire movie.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 07:15 AM (NXz8h)

188 kangaroo court
noun
an unofficial court held by a group of people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence, as guilty of a crime or misdemeanor: they conducted a kangaroo court there and then.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:15 AM (CQE5S)

189 @122/Alteria Pilgram: Sounds like a first world problem post to me.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

190 We went through a Sharknado phase here when that movie came out. Suddenly, Tara Reid pictures became very popular, iirc.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 07:18 AM (9VUoo)

191 187 Sharknado!
https://youtu.be/M-pXDoe5a0E

This film had a very drunk/high midnight premiere in Seattle. There were two 6' or so flying sharks in the theater for the entire movie. The staff made sure the audience got attacked by them for the entire movie.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 07:15 AM (NXz8h)

Like a blowup pool float

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:18 AM (CQE5S)

192 For some - just about everything is one of those topics. To them everything is an absolute.
Posted by: Doug Roberts

You always say that!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 01, 2025 07:18 AM (H7X8V)

193 When I am elected Your King, I look forward to beginning my hearings with the words: "You may think this is a legal proceeding. It is not."

I find your jib exquisite. The cut particularly divine. Would you by chance have a newsletter to which I may subscribe ?

Posted by: Doug Roberts at July 01, 2025 07:18 AM (0+oSs)

194 my question mark did not make it into my comment:

Like a blowup pool float?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:18 AM (CQE5S)

195 .
NOOD

J.J. Sefton is here with the Morning Report

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 07:20 AM (O7YUW)

196 Sooooo close to

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 07:20 AM (CQE5S)

197 Yesterday, Charles Payne reported Jaguar April unit sales were down nearly 98% compared to a year ago. I'll look for his report, but this is further evidence of "never go full LGBTQuerty in advertising"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 01, 2025 07:22 AM (9VUoo)

198 Let's give m...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 07:31 AM (O7YUW)

199 ... one last chance.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 01, 2025 07:31 AM (O7YUW)

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