Daily Tech News 11 August 2025

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AOL is closing its dial-up internet service next month, bringing the Eternal September to an end after thirty-four years. (Tom's Hardware)

Good. But a little too late.

Tech News

The internet is facing unprecedented levels of censorship around the world from governments and private industry alike. But The Verge wants to whine about Elon Musk. (The Verge) (archive site)

Good to see that nothing has changed.
Security flaws in an unnamed carmaker's website let anyone steal anybody's car from anywhere. (Tech Crunch)

This has reportedly been fixed.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I dream of 9 to 5, to be honest.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

2 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 11, 2025 04:32 AM (9vYpt)

3 Mornin'

youtu.be/D1UY7eDRXrs

Farewell AOL Dial Up. Good times....Good times...

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 04:34 AM (sAmhv)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2025 04:36 AM (+qU29)

5 Security flaws in an unnamed carmaker's website let anyone steal anybody's car from anywhere.

Read the article...Yikes!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:36 AM (ynpvh)

6 Good to see that nothing has changed.

"Good."

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)

7 The sweet sweet speed of 56 kbs.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 11, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)

8 I had a huge crush on Sheena Easton when a teen. Didn't much care for her music. Pretty, nice voice, and I loved that accent.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

9 I remember using the disks AOL sent back in the early-mid 90's...If you weren't careful, you'd spend a lot of $$$...
Haven't thought about my AOL account in many, many years.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:37 AM (ynpvh)

10 8 I had a huge crush on Sheena Easton when a teen. Didn't much care for her music. Pretty, nice voice, and I loved that accent.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

https://youtu.be/TRkDBnu9F_w

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:41 AM (ynpvh)

11 Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves by

the UK,

France and

Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. (BBC)

https://archive.is/Y3ZpE

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 04:41 AM (aURVT)

12 11 Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves by

the UK,

France and

Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. (BBC)

https://archive.is/Y3ZpE

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 04:41 AM (aURVT)

The PLO has done so much for the world...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:42 AM (ynpvh)

13 7 The sweet sweet speed of 56 kbs.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 11, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)

I was as 14.4Kbaud, then upgraded top 28.8K...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:43 AM (ynpvh)

14 And now is time I should get some sleep. Night/morning all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:44 AM (ynpvh)

15 Haven't done this morning routine in months

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2025 04:50 AM (+qU29)

16 I remember Sheena Easton's 3 or 4 episode run on Miami Vice. She was gorgeous and that accent!!

She's been married multiple times and last I checked on the interwebs, she lives in Vegas with her current husband, a plastic surgeon. Most of her is mostly silicon now, I suspect.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 04:51 AM (sAmhv)

17 Who here remembers the joy of InternetMCI?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 11, 2025 04:55 AM (/HDaX)

18 Evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers across the vast AoSHQ Empire! Yes, yes, it's a Monday, but remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:56 AM (omVj0)

19 For some reason in the Eighties, I thought "Sheila E" and "Sheena Easton" were the same singer -- that "Sheila E" was just shorthand for the longer name. Whaddaya want, I was *literally* 29.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 04:57 AM (omVj0)

20 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 11, 2025 05:00 AM (XQo4F)

21 I was never on AOL. When email started up, I used my account at work, and the same for the nascent Internet. Yahoo! was my first non-work email address. I still have a Yahoo! email, but haven't looked at it in a couple of years.

Anyway! I be up, awake (depending on how you define that), sipping coffee, and absurdly flattered that little Dagny the Aloof Kitten* slept on the bed with me not only yesterday afternoon but also last night. Trying to find the motivation to go walk after a while. That motivation has got to be around here somewhere, I just saw it yesterday. Maybe behind the couch.

* Kitten? Not really. She's three years old now. But she still seems kittenish in size and playfulness.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:04 AM (omVj0)

22 Sheena is how Sinead is supposed to be pronounced in Irish, but no one bothers.

Kind of like how Colleen is how Caitlin is supposed to be pronounced.

Imagine coming up with a spelling system for your language that's so weird that when you say "this is how it's spelled", the rest of the world says "LOL, sure buddy, but also no that's dumb. We're still taking your names though."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 05:07 AM (ZHigp)

23 Good time of day everyone. I hope you're feeling batter Pixy!

I don't want to curse Canada's amazing technological future, but after discovering there is a 3:52 am and deciding to get up and finish the last bit of house organizing, I made an AMAZING DISCOVERY at the back of one drawer.

A BOX OF 200 PLASTIC STRAWS!!

I like plastic straws for hot drinks, especially cacao and hot chocolate and I can't buy the damn things anymore. If you can't get straws and light bulbs right, there are probably better places for people to set up their high tech businesses.

That brings me up to about 640 plastic straws.

I counted when I put these in my plastic straw and take out menu drawer.

I'm organizing.....

Happy Day Everyone!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 05:08 AM (jvJvP)

24 And for being dry last couple weeks been neglecting my bird bath

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2025 05:10 AM (+qU29)

25 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025 05:10 AM (a1415)

26 By the way, no one should EVER be THAT HAPPY to find freaking plastic straws.

Or have a p,astic straw drawer....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 05:11 AM (jvJvP)

27 Stateless, plastic straws? That's like discovering a full box of actual wooden kitchen matches, the kind you could strike anywhere instead of only on the box. Congratulations.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:11 AM (omVj0)

28 23 deciding to get up and finish the last bit of house organizing
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 05:08 AM (jvJvP)

Is that even possible?

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:11 AM (aURVT)

29 Already 75.9 degrees out with a 75.6 dew point.

Pretty typical 99%RH for this time of the morning.

But it does make the morning walk a little bit....moist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025 05:12 AM (a1415)

30 Kind of like how Colleen is how Caitlin is supposed to be pronounced. . . .

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025

***
I wonder if the ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 knew that when she ditched her birth moniker and took that first name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:12 AM (omVj0)

31 Is that even possible?
Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:11 AM (aURVT)

Only with the external motivating factor of "Honey the moving trucks will be here tomorrow what are you doing?".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 05:12 AM (ZHigp)

32 Already 75.9 degrees out with a 75.6 dew point.

Pretty typical 99%RH for this time of the morning.

But it does make the morning walk a little bit....moist.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025

***
We've got 81 F. with a heat index of 89. Trade ya.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:14 AM (omVj0)

33 "We've got 81 F. with a heat index of 89. Trade ya."

Let me ponder that for a moment.

Nah, I'm good.

But thank you kindly for the offer.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025 05:17 AM (a1415)

34 31 Is that even possible?
Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:11 AM (aURVT)

Only with the external motivating factor of "Honey the moving trucks will be here tomorrow what are you doing?".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 05:12 AM (ZHigp)

That's when I'd be calling Storage Units ᴙ Us!

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:18 AM (aURVT)

35 Recognize a Palestinian state? Where? Run by whom?

There are two areas run by completely different warlord/terrorist groups who don't even get along with themselves let alone with Israel.

It's a good thing the US has a veto because that sh*t is not going to fly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 05:18 AM (F/fJo)

36 Higher rain chances today. Before that happens I need to visit the local post office for a package from Amazon (I thought *they* delivered?) that came on Saturday morning, but I wasn't home. It's a new LED flashlight I'll keep in the car, plus some Clubman talcum powder I use after I shave.

The new LaCrosse Tech "atomic" wall clock is supposed to show up tomorrow, so I'd better be home or I'll have to go to the PO again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:18 AM (omVj0)

37 Well off, and do have to go to Delaware after day job for a little.
Be good and have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2025 05:18 AM (+qU29)

38 How can it be. I haven't heard 'You got mail' in a long time. But as far as I know AOL email service is still going.
300 baud was my first speed on the C64. Had to buy a new modem and went to almost twice that speed, real highspeed internet, It was like heaven.

Posted by: Colin at August 11, 2025 05:20 AM (wlQdF)

39
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 11, 2025 05:21 AM (tljrc)

40 Rant about a relatively inconsequential tech related thing.

So Youtube has a feature where it'll, theoretically, show what percentage of a particular video you've watched. Only sometimes it says you're 20% into something you've never seen before, sometimes it says you only watched 60% of something you've watched all the way through, and sometimes it says you've watched an entire video even if you've skipped through it and only watched about 10%.

Further, even if you remove the video from your watch history, whatever percentage it says that you watched will be the only percentage it reports even if you watch it again.

Not that it matters since YT will continue to recommend videos you've already watched no matter how many times you tell it to not do that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2025 05:23 AM (ExV1e)

41 So would the independent and sovereign nation of Palestine be generating it's own energy, purifying and distributing its own potable water and beginning to develop trade agreements with other countries to sell the goods and services created within their borders?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025 05:25 AM (a1415)

42 41 So would the independent and sovereign nation of Palestine be generating it's own energy, purifying and distributing its own potable water and beginning to develop trade agreements with other countries to sell the goods and services created within their borders?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025 05:25 AM (a1415)

Wish you were a news reporter! And would ask those questions.

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:27 AM (aURVT)

43 The other night we watched a 1944 flick, Christmas Holiday, on YooToob. An interesting drama, not a sappy Xmas story at all, with Deanna Durbin as a nightclub "hostess" (read: prostitute) and -- get this -- Gene Kelly as a charming and unrepentant sociopath who commits a murder. If you only know Kelly from his singing and dancing, you will be astonished at how good a dramatic actor he could be. The story is set in New Orleans, and they made a decent effort to make it look right.

Anyway, usually when we watch a YooToob video on the TV, YT inserts ads that you have to watch at least fifteen seconds of before skipping ahead. Not this time; the film was presented without interruption. Amazin'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:29 AM (omVj0)

44 Incredibly beautiful morning. Clear sky. Huge moon. Venus and Jupiter very bright in the east. Orion's belt, and the big dipper. Cicadas calling. I love August.

And speaking of dial-up modems, contrast that with another thing I just saw in the sky: one of Elon's babies flying by.

In 25 years we've gone from 28.8 K through your phone line to high speed Internet anywhere on the planet with a clear view of the sky.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 11, 2025 05:31 AM (XQo4F)

45 Someone should ask American Leftists if the sovereign nation of Palestine would have the right to exercise control over their nation's borders, and refuse entry to Jews if they so desire.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025 05:32 AM (a1415)

46 And with that, time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 11, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)

47 The whole notion of a Palestinian state is so absurd that it can only be the product of the "International Community."

There's a reason there isn't a Palestinian state and there's a reason there will never be one.

The best course of action would be to relocate everyone within Gaza and the West Bank to other Muslim countries and be done with it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 05:37 AM (F/fJo)

48 I remember using the disks AOL sent back in the early-mid 90's...If you weren't careful, you'd spend a lot of $$$...
Haven't thought about my AOL account in many, many years.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 11, 2025 04:37 AM (ynpvh)
---
I once had a boss who decorated the walls of his office with those discs. I contributed my own fair share as well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 11, 2025 05:39 AM (IBQGV)

49 "Daring selection "- A reflection on responding to pressure with the knowledge that the Holy Spirit is with us . The devotional is followed by some insights and a prayer . Scripture : Acts, 4:1-2, 5-13

https://tinyurl.com/4ah3mphm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 05:44 AM (2GCMq)

50 Baltimore's going to be in the news all day long.

The Baltimore Sun
@baltimoresun
One victim in the shooting that injured a 5-year-old girl and five adults in Baltimore’s Central Park Heights neighborhood near Pimlico Race Course died Sunday, according to police.

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:44 AM (aURVT)

51 Fun phrase from the distant past: "information superhighway."

Thanks be to Algore. Peace be upon him.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 11, 2025 05:44 AM (XQo4F)

52 27 Stateless, plastic straws? That's like discovering a full box of actual wooden kitchen matches, the kind you could strike anywhere instead of only on the box. Congratulations.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 05:11 AM

Hi Wolfus!

I think I actually have those! There's a tall container here with 10 inch tall match sticks. I'll keep those.

m

It's just me here. And since the basement is thoroughly cleaned, things are easier. And I have been getting rid of anything of Mom's I don't want. That left very few drawers left to organize.

My junk drawer looks amazing!

Back to work. Next Monday, I want to start creating stuff and earning income. Sweet.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 05:44 AM (jvJvP)

53 7 year old boy from Texas prays with police officers at Chik- Fil-A . From the FaithPot site :

https://tinyurl.com/2mnftt3n

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 05:47 AM (2GCMq)

54 I tried an internet service, not AOL, when the internet was 'new.'

One or two nights later, of dial up fun eighty bucks in charges.

Crazy. That ended the infatuation fast.

Now, back to work.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 05:48 AM (jvJvP)

55 moar Balmer:

The Baltimore Sun
@baltimoresun
In Baltimore’s once-stable neighborhoods, some longtime residents say they feel trapped — hemmed in by open-air drug markets, persistent crime and some of the highest property taxes in Maryland.

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:48 AM (aURVT)

56 Best solution for the Pali's is eradication.

Posted by: Accomack at August 11, 2025 05:48 AM (YVT+g)

57 If you can dream it, we can tax it.

Posted by: The People's Republic of Maryland at August 11, 2025 05:50 AM (XQo4F)

58 Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli sings, "Amazing Grace":

https://tinyurl.com/3f3uj5ts

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 05:52 AM (2GCMq)

59 G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 11, 2025 05:52 AM (O7YUW)

60 NPR pop-up:

$1.1B of federal funding for public media has been eliminated.
This is devastating for the millions of people who rely on public media every day.
We will fight to restore federal funding. In the meantime, your donation is more critical now than ever.
Help this irreplaceable resource continue to be a reliable companion and civic cornerstone, not just for you, but for all. Join our community of supporters today.

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)

61 Help this irreplaceable resource continue to be a reliable companion and civic cornerstone, not just for you, but for all. Join our community of supporters today.
Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)

Lol.

It is demonstrably the most replaceable resource that exists. There is nothing on PBS that is not already available elsewhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 05:59 AM (ZHigp)

62 60 NPR pop-up:

$1.1B of federal funding for public media has been eliminated.
This is devastating for the millions of people who rely on public media every day.
We will fight to restore federal funding. In the meantime, your donation is more critical now than ever.
Help this irreplaceable resource continue to be a reliable companion and civic cornerstone, not just for you, but for all. Join our community of supporters today.

Posted by: m

Millions? LOL! Hundreds, maybe.
'Irreplaceable resource' - LOL! you're replaceable and have been for decades.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 06:00 AM (sAmhv)

63 Live updates: Trump to hold press event on D.C. crime after threatening a federal takeover of the capital (NBC)

President Donald Trump said he will hold a press event on Monday and discuss crime in D.C.

TRUMP REMARKS: President Donald Trump is set to hold a press event today at 10 a.m. and will address crime in Washington.

https://archive.is/WvqIN

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:03 AM (aURVT)

64 "Federal" funding = taxpayer funding.

Posted by: Get it right at August 11, 2025 06:04 AM (XQo4F)

65 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 11, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

66 >>>Help this irreplaceable resource continue to be a reliable companion and civic cornerstone, not just for you, but for all. Join our community of supporters today.

This is how they write; they cannot help themselves:

irreplaceable resource
reliable companion
civic cornerstone

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:05 AM (aURVT)

67 This is how they write; they cannot help themselves:

irreplaceable resource
reliable companion
civic cornerstone
Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:05 AM (aURVT)

They're too good for the Rule of Threes. They use the Rule of Twos.

Like a strand of retarded little kennings.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 06:07 AM (ZHigp)

68 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 11, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)
-

"That's my rum day!" - Jack Sparrow

Oh, and... BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 11, 2025 06:08 AM (Y+jbb)

69 The best course of action would be to relocate everyone within Gaza and the West Bank to other Muslim countries and be done with it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The problem of course is that no Muslim country wants them and for good reason. Which was why I was more than a bit perturbed when one of my Senators seemed to think that bringing them here was so important.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 06:09 AM (RjOoY)

70 67 They're too good for the Rule of Threes. They use the Rule of Twos.

Like a strand of retarded little kennings.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 06:07 AM (ZHigp)

hahahahaha

kenning
noun
a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g. oar-steed = ship.

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:09 AM (aURVT)

71 The best course of action would be to relocate everyone within Gaza and the West Bank to other Muslim countries and be done with it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The problem of course is that no Muslim country wants them and for good reason. Which was why I was more than a bit perturbed when one of my Senators seemed to think that bringing them here was so important.

Join our community of supporters today.

Hm. Support a community that despises me? Nah.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 06:10 AM (RjOoY)

72 Hadrian or other RC's might like this story. Priests in Fall River Mass attempt to boast their Christian morale by consecrating themselves to St. John Vianney. Article from "National Catholic Register":

https://tinyurl.com/yeyt87dy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 06:10 AM (2GCMq)

73 Join our community of supporters today.

Hm. Support a community that despises me? Nah.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 06:10 AM (RjOoY)

I already *was* in their "community of supporters" against my will. Why would I go back? Stockholm syndrome?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 06:11 AM (ZHigp)

74 I would be interested in seeing a nice comparison of their approaches to NPR/PBS funding, and their approaches to "Net Neutrality" and FCC regulations.

I'm too uninformed to do it myself. But I bet there's some comedy gold in there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 06:13 AM (ZHigp)

75 Why would I go back? Stockholm syndrome?

"Warai-otoko, don't be like that. Please come back. We'll go to therapy. We'll treat you better. We promise."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 06:13 AM (RjOoY)

76 She's been married multiple times and last I checked on the interwebs, she lives in Vegas with her current husband, a plastic surgeon. Most of her is mostly silicon now, I suspect.

According to Wikipedia they divorced in 2003.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at August 11, 2025 06:13 AM (Da7Vv)

77 Boasting in your Christian morality? Sounds like spiritual pride.

Posted by: But hey, I'm not RC at August 11, 2025 06:14 AM (XQo4F)

78 "Warai-otoko, don't be like that. Please come back. We'll go to therapy. We'll treat you better. We promise."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 06:13 AM (RjOoY)

"You're being crazy, you're not yourself. Stop this. The neighbors will think there's something wrong with you.

Posted by: Hiss goes the gaslight at August 11, 2025 06:14 AM (ZHigp)

79 Does some kind of Air America 2.0 actually stand a chance if NPR goes away entirely?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 06:16 AM (ZHigp)

80 Boast should be boost.

Oh.
Nevermind.

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 11, 2025 06:16 AM (XQo4F)

81 76 She's been married multiple times and last I checked on the interwebs, she lives in Vegas with her current husband, a plastic surgeon. Most of her is mostly silicon now, I suspect.

According to Wikipedia they divorced in 2003.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

LOL! That might be the last time I checked. Never cared for her music. Meh, mostly. I loved the accent and she was hot.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 11, 2025 06:17 AM (sAmhv)

82 We've got a start on a list of Places to Put Them:

11 Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves by

the UK,

France and

Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. (BBC)

https://archive.is/Y3ZpE
Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 04:41 AM (aURVT)

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:17 AM (aURVT)

83 79 Does some kind of Air America 2.0 actually stand a chance if NPR goes away entirely?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The two hour Joe Rogan style podcast format is always an option. Let the market decide.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 11, 2025 06:19 AM (XQo4F)

84 78 "Warai-otoko, don't be like that. Please come back. We'll go to therapy. We'll treat you better. We promise."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 06:13 AM (RjOoY)

"You're being crazy, you're not yourself. Stop this. The neighbors will think there's something wrong with you.
Posted by: Hiss goes the gaslight at August 11, 2025 06:14 AM (ZHigp)

I will hold this football right here this time, Charlie Brown, so you can kick it, I promise.
--Lucy

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:21 AM (aURVT)

85 Let the market decide.

"But they might make the wrong choice, comrade! And then where would we be?"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 06:22 AM (RjOoY)

86 mornin yall.

"Five Al Jazeera journalists are killed in Israeli strike on tent in Gaza"

Only one of them was a terrorist posing as a reporter. The others were just posing as reporters.

Posted by: AI Commentator at August 11, 2025 06:23 AM (vFG9F)

87 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Locomotive Breath.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 11, 2025 06:25 AM (WvZaB)

88 Oops, AI sock.

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2025 06:25 AM (vFG9F)

89 @79

>>Does some kind of Air America 2.0 actually stand a chance if NPR goes away entirely?

The only people that listen to NPR are uber drivers and suburban wine Karen's.

Nobody is going to miss NPR.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2025 06:28 AM (F/fJo)

90 Sheena Easton, For Your Eyes Only:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNksLL0sv4

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 11, 2025 06:28 AM (WvZaB)

91 It is demonstrably the most replaceable resource that exists. There is nothing on PBS that is not already available elsewhere.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025 05:59 AM (ZHigp)

I actually do have a Detroit PBS broadcast of Tom Lehrer in concert on the DVR! But, you're right, it's probably somewhere.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 06:31 AM (jvJvP)

92 NPR from the mouth of NPR

March 26, 2025; US House of Representatives

https://archive.is/jYaKm

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:33 AM (aURVT)

93 I've got some AOL CDs if anybody wants one. If not maybe I can sell them to Cracker Barrel to hang on the wall.

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2025 06:34 AM (vFG9F)

94 Here, using AI, I found a home for the Palestinians. Obviouslyy, they have to be as far as possible from Israel as possible...

From Grok.

"Final Answer

If you dug straight through the Earth from the area known as Palestine, you would end up in the South Pacific Ocean, approximately at 31.5°S, 145.25°W, with no significant land nearby."

I'm fine with this. But if the UN wants to build them rafts, I'd be alright with that too.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 06:35 AM (jvJvP)

95 Speaking of a Palestinian "state". This is an interesting article that defines, in international law, defines the criteria for "statehood."

https://is.gd/Eb15bV

Spoiler alert: "Palestine" ain't no state.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 11, 2025 06:36 AM (PiwSw)

96 Just to keep up my nice guy persona.

In reality, I don't give a crap.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 06:36 AM (jvJvP)

97 She's been married multiple times...

That's pretty unlucky. Keeps picking bad guys, I guess.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2025 06:39 AM (ExV1e)

98 I listen to NPR on occasion so that I know what goofy thing the lefties in my life wjll be going on about when I see them next. Otherwise, no. Lessee, in the past? I liked Garrison Keillor(sp?) for abouut five minutes until he turned political (or was that three minutes), then there was Car Talk that was fun on occasion...yeah, not something that should get a penny of federal funding ever.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 11, 2025 06:40 AM (vd6bO)

99 Tom Lehrer is available via the Utoobz.

In fact, today would be a good time to celebrate National Brotherhood Week!

https://youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 11, 2025 06:43 AM (XQo4F)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:43 AM (aURVT)

101 One can't listen to Sheena Easton 9-5 without thinking of Kramer and his short lived career.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 11, 2025 06:48 AM (A0ECY)

102 >>>I understand that there is skepticism from the Subcommittee around why public funds should go to NPR, whether NPR is truly committed to serving the totality of the American public, and whether we are an effective steward of taxpayer dollars.

https://archive.is/jYaKm

Do you?

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 06:48 AM (aURVT)

103 Sheena Easton had 9 to 5 (Morning Train) and did the theme song to For Your Eyes Only. Seemed normal enough. Then there was Sugar Walls.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 11, 2025 06:50 AM (TdYBy)

104 LELAND

Well, I'm sorry. There's just no way that we could keep you on.

KRAMER

I don't even really work here!

LELAND

That's what makes this so difficult.

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 11, 2025 06:52 AM (XQo4F)

105 AOL Dial-Up can’t shut down! Not done downloading a video i want to watch. Started in 1999, it’s almost done. Something about a whale and dynamite and Oregon DOT. Should be interesting

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 06:53 AM (DYCNj)

106 This is the flower I have outside my house. It blooms at dawn and dusk, I think . Evening Primrose:

https://tinyurl.com/5hepnyyh

What beautiful plants or vistas do you have where you live?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 06:53 AM (2GCMq)

107 Who was the guy who posted anecdotes about doing industrial jobs in various third world countries? I forgot his screen name. Maybe the spooks that hired him told him to shut up?

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 11, 2025 06:55 AM (1FEc1)

108 Click and Clack - the Magliozzi bros, was good. Car Talk was interesting even if you weren’t into cars. They were lefties, but they would be “cancelled” today. They did archive the shows, I used to listen to them, or try to. They insisted on inserting new advertising into them. No sale.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 06:57 AM (DYCNj)

109 Does some kind of Air America 2.0 actually stand a chance if NPR goes away entirely?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 11, 2025

***
If the cringe-worthy snippet Hannity plays of Alec Baldwin trying and failing to do a radio talk show is any indication . . . NO.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 06:58 AM (omVj0)

110 We had so many AOL CDs, we used them as coasters for coffee cups all around the shop.

I'm surprised there isn't an AOL-AI beast out there destined to dominate the Earth.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2025 06:59 AM (9bq/n)

111 Tom Lehrer is available via the Utoobz.

In fact, today would be a good time to celebrate National Brotherhood Week!

https://youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 11, 2025

***
Whenever we walk past the German-American Center in the next town over, I tell Linda they should hold a "National Socialist Night," and sing those words to the Tom Lehrer tune. The humor soars over her head, of course.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 07:01 AM (omVj0)

112 Posted by: But hey, I'm not RC at August 11, 2025 06:14 AM (XQo4F)

You would be incorrect. If they're consecrating themselves to St John Vianney they are not boasting in their spiritual pride. He was quite a devoted humble man and they are acknowledging thrir desire for his intercession, but then I'm guessing you did not read the article , which if course your right.

I am not RC either and I admire St John Vianney.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 07:02 AM (2GCMq)

113 AOL is closing its dial-up internet service next month, bringing the Eternal September to an end after thirty-four years. (Tom's Hardware)

Other than the FAA, who is still using dial-up?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 11, 2025 07:02 AM (a4flb)

114 "Is " not "if"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 07:02 AM (2GCMq)

115

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 11, 2025 07:03 AM (EFZgU)

116 65 It's just another Merlot Monday.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at August 11, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

115
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 11, 2025 07:03 AM (EFZgU)

heh

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 07:05 AM (aURVT)

117 I've got some AOL CDs if anybody wants one. If not maybe I can sell them to Cracker Barrel to hang on the wall.

They make splendid long-range shooting targets. The surface on a sunny day really makes them stand out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 11, 2025 07:05 AM (a4flb)

118 https://tinyurl.com/5hepnyyh

What beautiful plants or vistas do you have where you live?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 06:53 AM (2GCMq)

That is pretty.

My friends across the street have plenty of sunflowers now in full bloom. Very beautiful. Tall as heck.

Back to stuff.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 11, 2025 07:06 AM (jvJvP)

119 *hic*

_-_-_

Yeah, now this comment that shows up often, I totally get. That birdbath status, on the other hand...not yet. I guess you have to be here a while to absorb the culture of the place.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 11, 2025 07:07 AM (vd6bO)

120 Purslane, thistle, creeping charlie, knotweed. You should see my blue ribbon prize winning dandelion!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 11, 2025 07:09 AM (n1swJ)

121 Read the article on AOL. I remember having an account there and having to monitor the time I spent on it because I was charged if I went over a certain amount.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 07:11 AM (RjOoY)

122 G'mornin' everyone!

66 degrees, overcast, humid, 3/4" of rain yesterday, yay!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 11, 2025 07:11 AM (dKEEs)

123 blue ribbon prize winning dandelion!

Ha ! 😉 Well, thistles are pretty. I didn't actually plant the Evening Primrose. It just popped up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 07:12 AM (2GCMq)

124 It is demonstrably the most replaceable resource that exists. There is nothing on PBS that is not already available elsewhere.

I think the reference is to the sinecure-like jobs that NPR/PBS offers. Rush Limbaugh had a handful of people and was able to produce a daily three hour show.

Some lame talking head with no audience has a staff of eighty who all enjoy catered meals and few responsibilities.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 11, 2025 07:12 AM (a4flb)

125 Well, the contractors are here to (hopefully) finish our decks. The one that semi-surrounds the pool has sort of vexed them with the beveled cuts needed around the curved sides. The rest of it goes really fast, but not that part.

So, I suggested they remove the old boards and use them as templates for the new ones. Other than length, only one cut.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 11, 2025 07:13 AM (Q4IgG)

126 I'll see your 3/4" of rain, and raise you....oh, nevermind. Says here 0.02", but it was great while it lasted.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 11, 2025 07:14 AM (vd6bO)

127 Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 11, 2025 07:07 AM (vd6bO)

There was an amusing fellow who used to post there , and would tell us about the status of his birdbath every morning . Then he went into physical therapy or assisted living and we lost track of him. Kind Ben Had was trying to get him hooked up with a laptop but that didn't work out, I think

So the nice person asking about the birdbath status is concerned about him and misses him, I think .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 07:16 AM (2GCMq)

128 Here's one of many places where the NPR lady gives herself away:

We've been speaking with communities in places like Hoover, Alabama, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa

https://archive.is/jYaKm

What would that mean?

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025 07:17 AM (aURVT)

129 127- Post "here" not "there"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 07:17 AM (2GCMq)

130 >>>Purslane, thistle, creeping charlie, knotweed. You should see my blue ribbon prize winning dandelion!

Posted by: Common Tater

>Piker. My yard is full of saplings that have taken over what was once a prairie of dust, tumbleweeds and alien mold.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2025 07:18 AM (9bq/n)

131 My wife's planting of large amounts of plants for the butterflies has yielded results. We've seen one caterpillar and I helped a Swallowtail to one of our flowers.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 07:19 AM (RjOoY)

132 No one needs internet dial up service! Everything you need is in my Vista operating system, my vaccine and my bra!

Yeah! Oh yeah!

Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo with fat man boobs at August 11, 2025 07:19 AM (u5iGG)

133
Some lame talking head with no audience has a staff of eighty who all enjoy catered meals and few responsibilities.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

But they all have the sonorous drone down pat!

Surely that counts for something!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 11, 2025 07:19 AM (xG4kz)

134 We've been speaking with communities in places like Hoover, Alabama, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa

https://archive.is/jYaKm

What would that mean?

Posted by: m at August 11, 2025

***
If Hoover, AL, is where I think it is, it's a very nice suburb of Birmingham and has Internet, weather radio, and everything. As of 2020, too, Cedar Rapids had a population of 137,000. Not a tiny town with one main street, is it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 07:20 AM (omVj0)

135 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 11, 2025 07:22 AM (ExV1e)

136 FenelonSpoke BH did send JT a tablet.

Posted by: fd at August 11, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

137
A paragraph from the Hoover, AL and Cedar Rapids, IA article for NPR simply drips condescension:

We've also been listening to Americans directly. For the first time, we are now conducting qualitative audience research with audiences without prior pre-screening for educational attainment – in other words, we're asking people of all educations levels, especially those without college degrees, what they want out of public radio. We've been speaking with communities in places like Hoover, Alabama, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa to listen to what they want and need from public media, and hearing some informative, and often moving, perspectives.

All it lacked was a closing sentence in which they assured their loyal audience that they had showered and been deloused afterward.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 11, 2025 07:26 AM (xG4kz)

138 Cool commercial for Izervay -- you know, the one with the music from the '70s? An older lady with silver hair hops into her ragtop Mustang, brilliant orange over black, and the car is a mild custom with all chrome removed and an aftermarket grille installed. The hell with the drug, I want to know more about the Mustang.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 11, 2025 07:29 AM (omVj0)

139 You don't want to walk barefoot on my lawn, the grass perfectly disguises the punji sticks I have concealed, like walking in a minefield.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 11, 2025 07:30 AM (9bq/n)

140 Posted by: fd at August 11, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F

Ok. Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 07:44 AM (2GCMq)

141 Posted by: NR Pax at August 11, 2025 07:19 AM (RjOoY

That's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2025 07:45 AM (2GCMq)

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