Daily Tech News 19 July 2025

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Since Rockchip launched the RK3588 CPU in 2020 it has started showing up everywhere. With four Arm A76 cores (and four low power A55 cores), it gets the job done without breaking the bank or your power budget, whether you're designing a single-board computer, a low-end NAS, or a high-end router.

What's Rockchip planning for an encore? How about the RK3688? (Liliputing)

It will have eight Arm A730 cores - not Arm's high-end family now, but still seven generations newer than the A76 - and four A530 cores, a similar upgrade over the A55.

Plus a numeric processor that's five times as fast, great for signal processing or image recognition in robotics projects. And it will support the new LPDDR6 standard for memory bandwidth up to 200GBps - twice as fast as the typical Windows PC using DDR5 - completely overhauling the old 64-bit memory bus on the RK3588.

Plus Rockchip is shrinking the die from 8nm to 4nm, so it should be far more power efficient. And there will be a smaller, slower, cheaper ten core RK3668 to accompany the faster model.

Radxa - makers of the Rock Pi 5 single-board computer - already announced on Twitter that it is working on a Rock Pi 6.

No prices or dates as yet.

Tech News

Intel's budget cuts have landed on Clear Linux, killing it instantly. (Nerds.xyz)

The year of BSD on the desktop?
Also killed instantly by budget cuts was Microsoft's TV and movies storefront. (Windows Central)

If you like your movies, you can keep your movies. You just can't buy any more movies.

Musical Interlude

That original video has been almost scrubbed from existence.

There's a slightly more recent live performance though:

Disclaimer: Slightly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 04:30 AM (aURVT)

2 Guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 04:40 AM (YCNJf)

3 Onik!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 19, 2025 04:44 AM (NXz8h)

4 ok. Weird start. There were two comments before and now mine is number two.
Is there an autocorrect function in the comment section? I saw my comment changed to gluten morgan, herd and retyped it. Then, typing this it changed to capital letters and I had to retype again.

Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 04:46 AM (YCNJf)

5 Oh! Saturday!
Glory be to the Father, Son, & Holy Ghost.

usually go to a gathering of friends, but -
Takin lil Baby to vet for regular visit.

Was gifted an RC plane, needs some minor (haha) repairs and update of receiver . Good project.

Posted by: OkJohn at July 19, 2025 04:49 AM (NC/it)

6 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 19, 2025 04:50 AM (XQo4F)

7 Jethro Tull has more songs than Aqualung?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 19, 2025 04:56 AM (Pce4l)

8
Hey Pixy, did you see that crazy turn from that AI investor?

https://x.com/GeoffLewisOrg/status/
1945212979173097560

Posted by: Blonde Morticis's Phone at July 19, 2025 05:04 AM (lCaJd)

9 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 19, 2025 05:04 AM (AN2gy)

10 Real clear investigations has a companion piece to DNI Gabbard's report about the criminal conspiracy that went on amongst Obama's executive branch agencies and personnel to take out Trump and destroy his presidency. The scale and depth of this operation was breathtaking.

That a number of actors from that operation ended up in Biden's administration in key positions makes it difficult not to conclude that the attacks on Trump were a continuation of the Obama ones. Whether or not Obama was meddling behind the scenes is a very compelling question.

From the Real Clear article: "Obama ordered the [Dec. 9, 2016] ICA to set Trump up and knock him off balance before he could even get started...Obama and Hillary [Clinton] schemed the op, and the CIA and FBI ran it, said the senior [Trump] official, who asked to remain anonymous."

It is a worthwhile read. There are a number of classified documents that have never been publicly available that are about to drop it seems.

https://is.gd/sIGUou

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 19, 2025 05:06 AM (NXz8h)

11 >> There's a slightly more recent live performance though:

Boys in the band be wearing some E-Z-fit stretch pants!

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:06 AM (aURVT)

12 3 Onik!
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 19, 2025 04:44 AM (NXz8h)

Kino!

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:07 AM (aURVT)

13 ok. Weird start. There were two comments before and now mine is number two. Is there an autocorrect function in the comment section? I saw my comment changed to gluten morgan, herd and retyped it. Then, typing this it changed to capital letters and I had to retype again. Posted by: clarence

You just experienced time travel. Do you have any very recent memories of being violated by aliens?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 19, 2025 05:09 AM (NXz8h)

14 Posted by: Blonde Morticis's Phone at July 19, 2025 05:04 AM (lCaJd)

Would you like to buy an "a"?

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:10 AM (aURVT)

15 Headline news this am....NY attorney general will probably investigate Colbert's loss of his late night TV show. Of course she will....He will probably move to the internet and make lots of money....Now back to the tech news. AP report

Posted by: Colin at July 19, 2025 05:11 AM (wlQdF)

16 4 ok. Weird start. There were two comments before and now mine is number two.
Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 04:46 AM (YCNJf)

If a banned person posts, the post posts and then the machinery underlying the website zaps that baby bye-bye.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:12 AM (aURVT)

17
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 19, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

18 16 4 ok. Weird start. There were two comments before and now mine is number two.
Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 04:46 AM (YCNJf)

If a banned person posts, the post posts and then the machinery underlying the website zaps that baby bye-bye.
Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:12 AM (aURVT)

That's one possible explanation.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:12 AM (aURVT)

19 What's a Coldbert?

Posted by: Kids today at July 19, 2025 05:12 AM (XQo4F)

20 4 Is there an autocorrect function in the comment section? I saw my comment changed to gluten morgan, herd and retyped it. Then, typing this it changed to capital letters and I had to retype again.
Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 04:46 AM (YCNJf)

My typos just get red-dot-underlined. Your name is red-dot-underlined.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:14 AM (aURVT)

21 19 What's a Coldbert?
Posted by: Kids today at July 19, 2025 05:12 AM (XQo4F)

A Sesame Street character?

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:14 AM (aURVT)

22 8 Hey Pixy, did you see that crazy turn from that AI investor?

https://x.com/GeoffLewisOrg/status/
1945212979173097560
Posted by: Blonde Morticis's Phone

I hadn't seen that before, but he seriously needs to step away from the AI and talk to real people. While there still are real people to talk to.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 19, 2025 05:15 AM (BLOW1)

23 20 4 Is there an autocorrect function in the comment section? I saw my comment changed to gluten morgan, herd and retyped it. Then, typing this it changed to capital letters and I had to retype again.
Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 04:46 AM (YCNJf)

My typos just get red-dot-underlined. Your name is red-dot-underlined.
Posted by: m

Yeah, your browser will do that. The comment system sometimes blocks or bans posts, but it doesn't change them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 19, 2025 05:16 AM (BLOW1)

24 "He will probably move to the internet and make a lot of money."

Why would people pay for standard Democratic talking points when so many places give them away for free.
Admittedly, others won't musically celebrate the Clot Shot, but for those outlets, that's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: Wally at July 19, 2025 05:18 AM (Kgjsf)

25 $20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Come on, people! at July 19, 2025 05:19 AM (XQo4F)

26 >>> NY attorney general will probably investigate Colbert's loss of his late night TV show. Of course she will....He will probably move to the internet and make lots of money

Who will make money on the internet, the NY AG?

Without a network backing him Colbert will have an audience almost as big as that of Don Lemon's podcast.

Posted by: fluffy at July 19, 2025 05:19 AM (AN2gy)

27 Yeah, your browser will do that. The comment system sometimes blocks or bans posts, but it doesn't change them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

You could have just lied and said I explained it correctly. Sigh.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 19, 2025 05:23 AM (NXz8h)

28 Trains are delayed in the Netherlands and west because of copper thief. Power outages causing some transportation to grind to a halt. A lot of voltage on those wires, but after all they can cut the EV charging cables so anything is possible I guess.

Posted by: Colin at July 19, 2025 05:24 AM (wlQdF)

29 Happy to say I never saw this abomination back during the time of Our Most Recent Unpleasantness.

https://youtu.be/Mq76QSlRiPo

What a perversion of a great song by The Champs.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 19, 2025 05:25 AM (XQo4F)

30 23 20 4 Is there an autocorrect function in the comment section? I saw my comment changed to gluten morgan, herd and retyped it. Then, typing this it changed to capital letters and I had to retype again.
Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 04:46 AM (YCNJf)

My typos just get red-dot-underlined. Your name is red-dot-underlined.
Posted by: m

Yeah, your browser will do that. The comment system sometimes blocks or bans posts, but it doesn't change them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 19, 2025 05:16 AM (BLOW1)

Thanks! I did not know that was my browser's doing.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:30 AM (aURVT)

31 27 Yeah, your browser will do that. The comment system sometimes blocks or bans posts, but it doesn't change them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

You could have just lied and said I explained it correctly. Sigh.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 19, 2025 05:23 AM (NXz8h)

Pixy helps us.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:30 AM (aURVT)

32 heh. No underlining and when I retype it stays as I typed. Other sites where I comment do not do these things. It's amusing watching my typing change without any type of notice such as underlining or the suggestion box showing.
I'm using chrome on a Lenovo Chromebox.
ok. Now chromebox got underlined and then capitalized while I was typing. I changed the second instance and it stayed changed.
As I was typing, the suggestion box popped up and gave *my mind* after I changed.

Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 05:34 AM (YCNJf)

33 You need a gluten free browser

Posted by: Wally at July 19, 2025 05:35 AM (Kgjsf)

34 25 $20. Same as in town.
Posted by: Come on, people! at July 19, 2025 05:19 AM (XQo4F)

I didn't even know 'er.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:41 AM (aURVT)

35 You just experienced time travel. Do you have any very recent memories of being violated by aliens?

The aliens don't do time travel and they like me.

Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 05:43 AM (YCNJf)

36 "You need a gluten free browser"

I believe that the site's Minx 0.8 beta is already vegan, and lactose free.

What more can Pixy do?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 05:47 AM (a1415)

37 15 ... Colbert's loss of his late night TV show. ... He will probably move to the internet and make lots of money
Posted by: Colin at July 19, 2025 05:11 AM (wlQdF)

Nah. He doesn't have this kind of $$$:

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Peter J. Hasson
@peterjhasson
13h
Stephen Colbert was losing Paramount $40 MILLION EVERY YEAR. The libs have absolutely lost their minds

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:47 AM (aURVT)

38 New running shoes finally got delivered.

But...we have to be at Church before 8:00 to clean the flat roof and drains for the summer.

So probably no walk this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 05:48 AM (a1415)

39 Yes, but is it fair trade?

Posted by: Your neighborhood AWFL at July 19, 2025 05:50 AM (XQo4F)

40 even better:

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Matthew Belloni
@MattBelloni
17h
The timing and optics are terrible, but Stephen Colbert’s show costs more than $100M a year to produce

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:50 AM (aURVT)

41 Already 77.2 degrees with a heat index of 79.4.

By 9:00 it will be miserable on the roof.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 05:50 AM (a1415)

42 *Stephen Colbert was losing Paramount $40 MILLION EVERY YEAR.*

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at July 19, 2025 05:51 AM (XQo4F)

43 So the person who "is" Stephen Colbert on t.v. costs that much money to create.
Hahahahahahahaha.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:52 AM (aURVT)

44 Speaking of AWFL's....

Mrs VIA was showing me all the outrage memes from them about that Executive and his HR sidepiece being videoed canoodling at the Coldplay concert.

I mentioned that it was really odd how they were more outraged about that than an illegal alien raping a 9 year old.

But hey...priorities.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 05:53 AM (a1415)

45 ... per year.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:53 AM (aURVT)

46 We're here to help.

https://youtu.be/puM1k-S86nE

Posted by: The Drifters at July 19, 2025 05:53 AM (XQo4F)

47 46 We're here to help.

https://youtu.be/puM1k-S86nE
Posted by: The Drifters at July 19, 2025 05:53 AM (XQo4F)

This is for you, VIA!

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:55 AM (aURVT)

48 Evening and morning, all you Saturday toilers and early risers! 'Tis Saturn's Day once again, innit?

Today will be an odd Saturday. There's no way I can go wash the car, for instance, and I'm not doing a pipe while I heal, so I'm up early with coffee and . . . not much else. I suppose I'll hit the grocery at some point for essentials. Dunno.

The 1941 mystery film The Black Cat is on Svengoolie tonight. This is not the more famous 1934 creep film with Karloff and Lugosi, but an "old dark house comedy" with Basil Rathbone, a young Alan Ladd and Broderick Crawford, and . . . Lugosi. Pics on IMDb appear to show Bela playing a rather comic role, or maybe he was clowning off camera. Anyway, it might be an interesting picture.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 05:57 AM (omVj0)

49 Already 77.2 degrees with a heat index of 79.4.

By 9:00 it will be miserable on the roof.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025

***
Heat index of *only* 79???

Luxury!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

50 That's some beach music. Thanks, (XQo4F).

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 05:59 AM (aURVT)

51 "You need a gluten free browser"

I believe that the site's Minx 0.8 beta is already vegan, and lactose free.

What more can Pixy do?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025

***
Cruelty free! But that's no fun, is it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 05:59 AM (omVj0)

52 48 I'm up early with coffee and . . . not much else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 05:57 AM (omVj0)

Us!

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)

53
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2025 06:05 AM (HZi96)

54 "Up on the Roof" -- "Under the Boardwalk"

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 06:06 AM (aURVT)

55 Body clock got me up early this morning.
Sitting in my bedroom (which is upstairs) with all the windows open, ceiling fan on, and listening to the morning rush of the birds chirping. Coffee with a shot of Fireball.

Glorious.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 19, 2025 06:06 AM (XQo4F)

56 A 1967 Death Valley Days is on Grit now, in color with Robert Taylor hosting; he took over after Reagan left to do that other side job of his in California. Jim Davis (later of Dallas), Bing Russell (Kurt's dad), and Lee Bergere (who played Lincoln in that late Trek episode) are in it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 06:07 AM (omVj0)

57 "Up on the Roof" -- "Under the Boardwalk"
Posted by: m at July 19, 2025

***
With "On Broadway," the Drifters' "preposition songs."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

58 Wolfus - a pinch between yer cheek and gum is real relaxin’!

Posted by: Walt at July 19, 2025 06:08 AM (o9GMr)

59 I'm up early with coffee and . . . not much else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025
*
Us!
Posted by: m at July 19, 2025

***
I can't think of a better bunch to do nothing with!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

60 "Silhouettes"

Posted by: The Rays at July 19, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)

61 Stephen Colbert was losing Paramount $40 MILLION EVERY YEAR. The libs have absolutely lost their minds

Maybe … they lost USAID funding

Posted by: Things That Make You Go Hmmm at July 19, 2025 06:11 AM (o9GMr)

62 - Anybody up on the EO Trump has signed, or is about to sign, that will allow 401k's to invest in private equity firms and the like?

I know nothing about this stuff but caught just 2-3 minutes of a guy on Todd Herman's radio show yesterday. Something about how those private equity firms, think Blackrock and the like, real value is nowhere near what the books show and will allow them to dump it on the unsuspecting.

I've seen commenters on this site talk like they're investing whiz kids. Maybe ace can bring it up and they can weigh in.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 19, 2025 06:12 AM (+i903)

63 Wolfus - a pinch between yer cheek and gum is real relaxin’!
Posted by: Walt at July 19, 2025

***
A pipe would be too. But I think it's just common sense to lay off the tobacco while I heal up. I carefully did not mention my pipe smoking to the doctors, and their pre-op questionnaire, amusingly, asked *only* about cigarettes, cigars, and vaping; so I can hardly ask now, "When is it safe to take up the pipe again?" I figure at least until I have my follow-up on the 28th or the stitches come out, whichever comes first.

I'll appreciate that first pipe after a layoff for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)

64 Sitting in my bedroom (which is upstairs) with all the windows open, ceiling fan on, and listening to the morning rush of the birds chirping. Coffee with a shot of Fireball.

Glorious.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 19, 2025

***
Open windows and a ceiling fan is glorious in mid-July? Luxury!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 06:13 AM (omVj0)

65 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Tight against the seam.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2025 06:14 AM (XZ5S6)

66 60 "Silhouettes"
Posted by: The Rays at July 19, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)

; )

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)

67 I've been up on the A1 by Scotch Corner. It's a bad place to hit the trunk road doing around a hundred and twenty.

Fun fact: the backup singer on the original recording of "Too Old..." was Maddy Prior of Steeleye Span, among other things.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2025 06:16 AM (XZ5S6)

68
Coffee that is hot is coffee that is good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2025 06:16 AM (HZi96)

69 Up early watching the British Open (or as the Anglo ass-kissing announcers call it, "The Open"). They're falling all over themselves to praise Royal Portrush, but frankly, the course seems fairly easy.
Sure, if there are 40 mph winds and cold rain coming down sideways, it can play difficult, but so can the 9 hole country course I grew up on.
Why does sports media praise everything non-American and trash everything American?

Posted by: Wally at July 19, 2025 06:18 AM (Kgjsf)

70 54 "Up on the Roof" -- "Under the Boardwalk"
Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 06:06 AM (aURVT)

I read that as "Under the Bolshevik."

Looking forward ( dreading ) November in New York, I guess...

Moar coffee..

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 19, 2025 06:19 AM (PiwSw)

71
Why does sports media praise everything non-American and trash everything American?
Posted by: Wally at July 19, 2025 06:18 AM (Kgjsf)

To curry favor with the Brits and Europeans. Vain hope. You can be the most cringing boot-licker and they'll still think you're the dirt beneath their feet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2025 06:27 AM (HZi96)

72 I saw a headline that Fauxchahontas is claiming government-run grocery stores are a good idea, because (for example) they work on military bases.

The stupid, it just burns. As a point of order, by the way - Democrats ruined any price advantage, discounts, or incentive to shop on base, by passing legislation requiring prices at the PX and Commissary to be within a certain percentage of the local off-base prices. It wasn’t “fair” you see, that active duty and retired military were doing their shopping on base.

Consequently even 25 years ago, service members shopped at Wal Mart because of this. They were pissed off. The PX and Commissary operate at a loss, in any event, and have long been considered on the chopping block because of this.

Posted by: Things That Make You Go Hmmm at July 19, 2025 06:27 AM (s3dxE)

73 - Also, this Stable Coins thing. Part of Genius act, or another one, is something I've seen people talk about.
Like bitcoin but govt will be regulating them, for your protection dontcha know.
"Right people" in power, maybe ok. Wrong people? It pretty much becomes a CBDC that "they/them" can lock you out of.

I don't have much in worldly assets. Never will.
But Im'ma stick with stuff I can at least, for the most part,hold in my hand,,, or put in mah (or some hungry kid's) belly.

Posted by: TeeJ at July 19, 2025 06:27 AM (+i903)

74 " Do you have any very recent memories of being violated by aliens?"

It's funny that 10% seem to enjoy it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 19, 2025 06:27 AM (3Rpkk)

75 I saw Cringing Boot-Lickers open for...no one, really.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2025 06:31 AM (XZ5S6)

76 My son took me to the NEX yesterday. Ray-Bans cost 25% more than at Costco.

The Jim Beam was $20.99 (with not tax), but I don't like Jim Beam.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 19, 2025 06:33 AM (3Rpkk)

77 "62 - Anybody up on the EO Trump has signed, or is about to sign, that will allow 401k's to invest in private equity firms and the like?"

Posted by: TeeJ at July 19, 2025 06:12 AM

###

https://tinyurl.com/5y8p289b

Posted by: I'm the internet. I'm here to help. at July 19, 2025 06:35 AM (XQo4F)

78 I thought the beauty of Bitcoin is that the governments can mess with it.

Government version of Bitcoin? No thanks.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 19, 2025 06:38 AM (3Rpkk)

79 I was surprised how strong the tobacco addiction could be (well not really). One time well into a training deployment, a Medic bummed a cigarette from me. I watched as he tore it open and stuffed the tobacco into his mouth, to chew it, as one would Skoal or Copenhagen. “What are you doing!?”

“It’s real mild” he says. OK… Apparently chewing tobacco was unobtanium at this location and this was his field expedient. I then casually allowed “Hey, I’ve got an unopened can of Copenhagen in my toolbox”, which I kept for emergency purposes in-flight. His eyes got real big, and thought hebwas gonna choke on my cigarette tobacco. “How much you want for it!??” LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 06:38 AM (s3dxE)

80 74 " Do you have any very recent memories of being violated by aliens?"

It's funny that 10% seem to enjoy it.

alien 1: Zlorg, your turn to do the humans.
alien 2: I did it last century, it is Margles turn.
Margles: No way. Last time gave me such a bad case of the glirmet that I had to zimilgade.

Posted by: clarence at July 19, 2025 06:38 AM (YCNJf)

81 Commissary prices aren't that great so I can see why Walmart and Target and Costo get a lot of military business. I didn't know about the agreement to keep prices within a certain amount. About the only savings is on sales tax.

Posted by: Colin at July 19, 2025 06:40 AM (wlQdF)

82 70 54 "Under the Bolshevik"
Looking forward ( dreading ) November in New York, I guess...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 19, 2025 06:19 AM (PiwSw)

LOL

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 06:40 AM (aURVT)

83 Get out of here with your lame ass digital currency and bring in some greenbacks.

Posted by: Grocery stores everywhere at July 19, 2025 06:40 AM (XQo4F)

84 First they came for the 'naughty' games.

Steam has capitulated to VISA and MasterCard. They have added Rule 15 stating they will not sell games that violate the policies of payment processors or ISPs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 06:41 AM (GPcGP)

85 Admittedly Class VI was a good deal overseas. The general consensus in South Korea was that … oh never mind.

Once in a while I’d pick up a bottle of Chivas Royal Salute, 21 year old blended Whiskey. It was quite tasty I must say.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 06:42 AM (s3dxE)

86 "This is for you, VIA!"

Nice...

Kinda just on the edge of music to shag by.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 06:44 AM (a1415)

87 Commissary is required to sell at cost to DECA, plus a 5% surcharge in place of profit mark-up.

The surcharge is what provides the operating funds for the Commissary.

Oddly enough, one of the largest savings is on McCormick bottled spices.

NOBODY beats the Commissary on that.

The Exchange system is largely broken when it comes to bargains, and usually is easily beaten by Costco.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 06:47 AM (a1415)

88 What's that, Lassie...

Timmy fell in the well, and the Left is lying again!

https://tinyurl.com/2hetr9j7

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 06:48 AM (a1415)

89 I didn't know about the agreement to keep prices within a certain amount.
——-

Nobody agreed to anything. Dumb fuck Democrats forced them to do this. Yes, one could view the price differentials, tax, etc on base as a military benefit or subsidy, because that’s what it was. Until Reagan, military pay was pretty bad. I seem to recall he initiated about a 25% pay increase across the board one year, which was still talked about in glowing terms many years later.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 06:49 AM (s3dxE)

90 Tim Awalz fell into a well?

No one will miss him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 06:49 AM (GPcGP)

91 "Until Reagan, military pay was pretty bad. I seem to recall he initiated about a 25% pay increase across the board one year, which was still talked about in glowing terms many years later."

Yup, as a lowly E-2, that was a very nice pay raise.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 06:51 AM (a1415)

92 “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:

“‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’

Posted by: Marcus T at July 19, 2025 06:51 AM (uZytX)

93 84 First they came for the 'naughty' games.

Steam has capitulated to VISA and MasterCard. They have added Rule 15 stating they will not sell games that violate the policies of payment processors or ISPs.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 06:41 AM (GPcGP)

Buy a "soundtrack" DLC, and get the base game free.

Problem solved.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2025 06:51 AM (RlmPm)

94
What's that, Lassie...

Timmy fell in the well, and the Left is lying again!

Good girl, go lay down.

Anyway, as I was saying...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2025 06:52 AM (HZi96)

95 mornin yall. Why did the chicken cross the road? Well, it didn't:

"A Florida woman is accused of attacking another driver after that person ran over a chicken crossing a road in Key West, Florida"

Posted by: fd at July 19, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

96 ""A Florida woman is accused of attacking another driver after that person ran over a chicken crossing a road in Key West, Florida"

Sort of depends, don't it?

Was the chicken properly using the crosswalk?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 06:54 AM (a1415)

97 Even crappy spices have shot up in price. I bought a metric crapton of spices that keep (many do, some don’t) from a well known leftist asshat, before I knew he was a leftist asshat. When I ran out, I saw even black pepper, ground was several dollars for a twee container. I suppose I shouldn’t complain, peppercorns at one time traded on par with gold, by weight. Don’t drop any!

But I still got Billy’s e-mail screed for a long time. That was a real eye opener. Total nutjob. They expunged me from the list after a few years no longer purchasing. I sort of miss it in a way, as a sort of barometer or thermometer to keep tabs on the fevered delusions of our betters.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 06:56 AM (s3dxE)

98 On the topic of fowl and automobiles.

We have large gatherings of America's-Hat geese, who love to saunter across even major roadways at their leisure. This naturally causes traffic to grind to a halt, while they walk in front of your car, while staring into your windshield.

I tend to try to intimidate them on the smaller roads, but never try to physically harm or hit them.

My reasoning is that if they have no fear of automobiles, and they encounter an inattentive, speeding, or just plain bad driver, they wind up being a puddle of blood and feathers in the road.

So, a little fear helps keep them alive.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 06:58 AM (a1415)

99 So if we remove corn from our coke, and our gas tanks, will that lower the price to feed beef herds?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 07:01 AM (a1415)

100 “Sky Carp” is the proper nomenclature

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:01 AM (s3dxE)

101 Indeed. It's for their own good.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 19, 2025 07:01 AM (3Rpkk)

102
What's this Coal Bear that everyone's talking about?

Is it a bear that eats coal?

Or, a bear that's made out of coal? That would be kind of neat!

Maybe we could use Coal Bear to dig for all our industrial coal needs and then we wouldn't have to use illegal aliens for Our Coal Digging Needs.

What I'm saying is that I don't think this Coal Bear needs to lose his "job". He can serve a useful purpose, even if it's just wandering around in a zoo somewhere.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 19, 2025 07:04 AM (iJfKG)

103 "“Sky Carp” is the proper nomenclature"

I like that one.

Or, walking crap machines.

You get a flock of 20 or so walk down your sidewalk, and there is no denying that they have been there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 07:05 AM (a1415)

104 Not really. Corn ethanol is made from field corn basically. The remainder isn’t discarded, it’s sold as DDGs or distillers dried grains, and fed to livestock, same as it always was, just minus the starch.

I thought the Sugar thing was something to do with the Cuba embargo. Sadly, Hawaii is no longer much of a player in the Sugar business. Savvy cooks use Cane Sugar, too. It costs a little more but is superior for baking and other things. Beet Sugar has a lot of extraneous crap in it. I’m told it won’t work for making Cotton Candy, for example.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:06 AM (s3dxE)

105 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 19, 2025 07:06 AM (q//dC)

106 Only corn ethanol anyone needs comes in square bottles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2025 07:09 AM (RlmPm)

107
I saw Beet Sugar open for The Beatles at the Dallas Memorial auditorium in "64.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 19, 2025 07:11 AM (iJfKG)

108 Ethanol from corn: why are we burning our food?

Posted by: Old Glenn Beck question at July 19, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

109 Another example of a law requiring the citizenship status of any violent crime conviction be required to be included in reports.

https://tinyurl.com/4k6cpwh3

Not saying he's here illegally.
But I can't say that he isn't, either.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 07:12 AM (a1415)

110 96 ""A Florida woman is accused of attacking another driver after that person ran over a chicken crossing a road in Key West, Florida"

Sort of depends, don't it?

Was the chicken properly using the crosswalk?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 06:54 AM (a1415)

Might have been playing "chicken."

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 07:14 AM (aURVT)

111 "Might have been playing "chicken.""

* Golf Clap*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 07:15 AM (a1415)

112 Mornin'

(Sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 19, 2025 07:16 AM (uGaBv)

113 Ethanol from corn: why are we burning our food?
Posted by: Old Glenn Beck question at July 19, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

I don't know about here, but the corn grown for ethanol production in the EU is a special cultivar/hybrid that's intended for ethanol production. It gets harvested whole-crop just after the ears form, iirc, and the whole thing is ground up and run through a digester. It was never going to be anyone's food, human or livestock, it just happens to be the same species of plant.

But, land, labor, and capital that could have been used to grow food, or any other kind of crop, wasn't. So it's still an opportunity cost.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2025 07:17 AM (RlmPm)

114 Ethanol from corn: why are we burning our food?
——-

We’re not, that’s a myth. The reason we’re burning ethanol in our cars and trucks is a question. It is corrosive, attacks alloys, and very hard on hoses. Near as I can figure, the gubbmint requires an Oxygenate in gasoline, to make the numbers look better. The solution to pollution really is dilution! They formerly used a chemical - MTBE - methyl-tertiary-blah-blah-blah, which was later found to be a persistent groundwater poison. So, good ole alcohol is the answer to that. Corn farmers said “Yee-Haw!”.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:18 AM (s3dxE)

115 Corn squeezin's is a thing.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 07:18 AM (aURVT)

116 I asked Brave AI how many episodes a year The Late Show does and it came up with around a 209 episode per year average for its ten year run.

If it cost $100 million a year to produce the show that means one show cost about $478,469 for each episode.

Colbert makes $15 million per year on his contract, so that’s around $71,770.30 a show just for him.

I find that mind boggling for a talk show and I’m not surprised the show was losing $40 million a year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 19, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

117 Tert butyl ether?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2025 07:18 AM (RlmPm)

118 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 19, 2025 07:19 AM (dKEEs)

119 I find that mind boggling for a talk show and I’m not surprised the show was losing $40 million a year.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 19, 2025 07:18 AM (6ydKt)

Well a lot of that budget is spent on paying advertisers to run their ads to soak up all that runtime.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2025 07:20 AM (RlmPm)

120 Tert butyl ether?

I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at July 19, 2025 07:23 AM (XQo4F)

121 Hmmm...

Watch Coal-Bear
or
Another episode of Tulsa King?

Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 07:23 AM (a1415)

122
They formerly used a chemical - MTBE - methyl-tertiary-blah-blah-blah, which was later found to be a persistent groundwater poison. So, good ole alcohol is the answer to that. Corn farmers said “Yee-Haw!”.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:18 AM (s3dxE)

My company was working on a project to make ethanol by hydrogenating acetic acid, itself made from methanol and carbon monoxide. I suggested that it might be used to make ETBE, from ethanol and isobutylene. It would be a good oxygenate for gas and not have the ground-water migration problems of MTBE.

Alas, I was congratulated on my insight and told that anything with "TBE" in it was now anathema to anyone, attractive as it may be.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2025 07:23 AM (HZi96)

123 Don't you go messin' with my corn squeezins!

Posted by: Granny at July 19, 2025 07:24 AM (XQo4F)

124 I don't know about here, but the corn grown for ethanol production in the EU is a special cultivar/hybrid that's intended for ethanol production
——-

Yes, same in the US, but the remainder is sold for livestock feed, minus the starch. Europeans don’t eat much corn, and consider it only as animal feed in the first place.

Ethanol in the gasoline makes the gas gauge decline at a precipitous rate. Some vendors are a little less than scrupulous on the up to “10 percent” bit, it is noticeable for sure, right away when this happens.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:24 AM (s3dxE)

125
E10 is not particularly corrosive in your car, because you drive it often enough so that it gets turned over frequently. It's death to small engines, which often sit for long periods of time. So I always use ethanol-free gas for the mowers and generators.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2025 07:28 AM (HZi96)

126 Europeans don’t eat much corn, and consider it only as animal feed in the first place.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:24 AM (s3dxE)

I knew there was something wrong with those people, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it until now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 19, 2025 07:28 AM (6ydKt)

127 "So I always use ethanol-free gas for the mowers and generators."

Spinx, which is huge down here carries ethanol-free at all their convenience stores/stations.

That's all I use on small engines, and add about an ounce of stabilizer to each gallon in the can.

You pay a premium, but my 8 year old mower starts every time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2025 07:30 AM (a1415)

128 Corn. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Beef at July 19, 2025 07:31 AM (XQo4F)

129 Well a lot of that budget is spent on paying advertisers to run their ads to soak up all that runtime.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2025 07:20 AM (RlmPm)

That explains how they lost so much money because generally the advertisers are supposed to pay them.

I wonder how much Pfizer paid for the dancing vaccine needles.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 19, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)

130 Well, if they don't grow the corn until it matures and is sweet, it's no wonder that they don't like it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 19, 2025 07:32 AM (3Rpkk)

131 Fuel systems in modern vehicles are completely sealed.

Small engines are not. Alcohol is hygroscopic, which is actually a good thing, to a point. But in an open to the atmosphere fuel system, it picks up moisture - condensation, and other contaminates. It reaches saturation and undergoes what’s called phase separation.

What I can’t figure out, remember HEET? Back in the day, with vented fuel caps and steel tanks, gas line freeze ups were common. Not anymore, and besides gasoline is ordinarily 10% alky. Why would anyone need HEET in the yellow bottle in 2025? What is a half pint going to do when it’s already 10%? I don’t get it.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:34 AM (s3dxE)

132 E10 is everywhere here, but there are a few stations that sell E0. There is an Exxon convenience store near me with E0 at $3.29. A Discount Zone about eight miles away near a Walmart (and my regular mechanic) has it at $2.99, so I fill up whenever I'm out there.

I try to keep at least half the tank of the Buick filled with E0. Mileage is improved, and I tell myself it's better for the car's digestion -- though, as a 2016, it's young enough to run just fine on E10.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 07:35 AM (omVj0)

133 Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:18 AM (s3dxE)

Of course we are burning our food. Every acre planted in ethanol-producing corn is an acre that isn't used for food.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 19, 2025 07:37 AM (6N1t+)

134 So the Europeans loved potatoes and tomatoes from the Americas but maize & corn was just a step too far?

You’d think the Spanish would like some corn just because the Mexicans visited home every now and then and brought back some tortillas.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 19, 2025 07:37 AM (6ydKt)

135 Jethro Tull has more songs than Aqualung?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 19, 2025 04:56 AM

Of course! They've also got "Thick as a Brick" and, um, that other one.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 19, 2025 07:37 AM (VmDLh)

136 From the Windows Central article: "Now, we just have to hope Microsoft commits to keeping those servers alive so that already purchased content is always available."

As soon as Microsoft has sufficient legal cover (provided by the passage of time with respect to various region's consumer protection laws) those servers will be decommissioned. Figure out how to get those movies downloaded onto your own storage media at home, or lose access to them when shutoff-day happens.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 19, 2025 07:39 AM (O7YUW)

137
Alcohol is hygroscopic, which is actually a good thing, to a point. But in an open to the atmosphere fuel system, it picks up moisture - condensation, and other contaminates. It reaches saturation and undergoes what’s called phase separation.

- Alcohol absorbs water.
- Water grows organisms.
- Organisms eat ethanol.
- Ethanol is turned into acetic acid.
- Acetic acid corrodes metal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2025 07:39 AM (HZi96)

138 Figure out how to get those movies downloaded onto your own storage media at home, or lose access to them when shutoff-day happens.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 19, 2025 07:39 AM (O7YUW)

Downloading them is the easy part.
Getting around DRM protections is the tricky part.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 19, 2025 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

139 Powerline Week in Pictures:

https://is.gd/qCvKRb

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 19, 2025 07:43 AM (PiwSw)

140 Thank God ethanol is hydrophilic. Otherwise, it wouldn't smooth out in cocktails when shaken or stirred with ice!

God loves us.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 19, 2025 07:44 AM (RU0zE)

141 thx, H7, very clear

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 19, 2025 07:44 AM (dKEEs)

142 135 Jethro Tull has more songs than Aqualung?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 19, 2025 04:56 AM

Of course! They've also got "Thick as a Brick" and, um, that other one.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 19, 2025 07:37 AM (VmDLh)

You guys are just Living in the Past.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 19, 2025 07:44 AM (PiwSw)

143 Of course we are burning our food. Every acre planted in ethanol-producing corn is an acre that isn't used for food.
——-

Nah. Corn is just stuff that hasn’t been turned into steaks yet.

They used to feed the corn to livestock. Then they started extracting the starch from it, to make ethanol. They still feed the corn to cattle and hogs. It just doesn’t have any starch in it. Distiller’s dried grains. In that sense it is an extra for corn farmers, it is an incentive to grow corn.

We’re not depriving little bambinos of their corn tortillas. Very little corn was ever actually used for human consumption per se, Sweet Corn is a niche product. Popcorn is a pain in the ass to grow, I’m told. I think Corn Chips are made from field corn, the cheapest of the cheap. It was peasant food, till the food conglomerates started to charge whatever the EBT market would bear. There is about 10c worth of product in a $6 bag of chips. The bag must cost more.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:44 AM (s3dxE)

144 Luckily I don’t have many movies that I bought off the cloud.

I’ve got exactly one on the Apple Store -
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
I bought that when it first came out and had no idea how much worse things were about to get.
I’ve watched it the one time on there.

And I “own” several movies on Amazon.

That’s it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 19, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

145 Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:44 AM (s3dxE)

I am second to none in my.love of good American corn-finished beef.

But you are missing the point. There are millions of acres under cultivation for ethanol that could be used for other food. That raises the cost of all food, and people on the margins (admittedly not very many) will suffer, and perhaps die.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 19, 2025 07:48 AM (RU0zE)

146 Ris e and shine ✨️ Coffee NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 19, 2025 07:48 AM (5clMv)

147 Hey sockrat did you get my email?

Posted by: fd at July 19, 2025 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

148 Hadrian - thanks for the elaboration!

I used to hear gearheads bitch about brake fluid. “It absorbs water!!”

Yeah. That’s not a defect. It it didn’t, brakes would fail in the summer, and freeze up solid in the winter. Unless the system is completely sealed, this is basically a requirement. Glycol based brake fluid was selected for this reason.

Aircraft use hydraulic fluid, with considerably more pain in the assedness to service. Although I’m not really sure why autos didn’t go this route.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:51 AM (s3dxE)

149 and thx Mapes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 19, 2025 07:53 AM (dKEEs)

150 They don't just grow corn. They grow wheat and milo on the same land.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 19, 2025 07:53 AM (cuCUO)

151 There are millions of acres under cultivation for ethanol that could be used for other food. That raises the cost of all food, and people on the margins (admittedly not very many) will suffer, and perhaps die.
——

Yeah, no. That’s bullshit. Corn farmers grow corn, that’s what they do. Corn is just food that hasn’t been turned into steaks yet They were feeding it to cattle and hogs before. They are still feeding it to cattle and hogs now. There’s an intermediate step now - where they make extra money, due to government demand for ethanol.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:55 AM (s3dxE)

152 So Bhussein was 1000% all in on RUssiaGate and even had several (Dec 9 and 14) meetings to help push out the fake news.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2025 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

153 Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2025 07:55 AM (s3dxE)

No, it's not bullshit. Acreage under cultivation for corn has increased since the ethanol mandate was forced on us. We aren't making more land, so...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 19, 2025 08:04 AM (RU0zE)

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