Daily News Stuff 22 August 2025

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Australia's largest bank - the Commonwealth Bank - has been forced to rehire employees laid off in tests against their AI counterparts when it turned out that the tests had not been testing on anything like an even playing field. (Ars Technica)

Who knew? Apart from everybody.

Fortunately only 45 people had been fired by that point. It could have been a lot worse, and soon will be.

Tech News

The Terramaster F4 is four-bay NVMe NAS with a 5Gb Ethernet port. (Liliputing)

The 5Gb port is a nice touch. It can handle that transfer rate without any trouble at all. Internally it can handle about 900MBps, close to the limit of 10Gb Ethernet. Which it doesn't have.

About $360 at the moment.
Google says its AI systems barely sip water when answering questions, while "experts" say they are true water guzzlers. (The Verge) (archive site)

The truth as always is somewhere off to one side in I don't care territory.
We already got a Commodore 64 remake, and now it seems the company - or a company anyway - will be releasing a clone of the rather more capable Amiga 1200. (Tom's Hardware)

With a Motorola 68020 CPU and an effectively 64-bit chipset, the A1200 offered about four times the performance of the original Amiga.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I could have done without that, really.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:48 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 04:53 AM (aURVT)

2 Yay!

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 22, 2025 04:53 AM (PzBTm)

3 BOLD MOVE, PIXY!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 04:53 AM (aURVT)

4 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 22, 2025 04:53 AM (hoCmQ)

5 It's Rosasharn twirling time!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 04:54 AM (aURVT)

6 Try this.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 22, 2025 04:54 AM (hoCmQ)

7 Test.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 22, 2025 04:54 AM (hoCmQ)

8 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 22, 2025 04:54 AM (PzBTm)

9 Nope, didn't work.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 22, 2025 04:54 AM (hoCmQ)

10 Ummmm.........

Pixy?

Rather bold statement, no?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 04:55 AM (a1415)

11 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2025 04:55 AM (gcUgZ)

12 To boldly go...

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 22, 2025 04:55 AM (PzBTm)

13 BOING!

Maple ginger citrus garlic salmon broiled. Chicken and shoulder steak cold smoking.

Grieven frying on the stove.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (91F/+)

14 It might be stuck like that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (a1415)

15 Premature bolding.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (91F/+)

16 And just like that, normality reigns.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (a1415)

17 I thought this was a sweet story about a baby deer adopted into a family:

https://tinyurl.com/4dtjmn62

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (2GCMq)

18 13 Grieven frying on the stove.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (91F/+)

Is that a bread? I am not finding it online.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 04:58 AM (aURVT)

19 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 22, 2025 04:59 AM (zdKZs)

20 Man saves woman from car sinking in water:

https://tinyurl.com/yhkcepuw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 04:59 AM (2GCMq)

21 >>>The truth as always is somewhere off to one side in I don't care territory.

The Pixytude (or Pixy 'tude?) we have come to know and love.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:01 AM (aURVT)

22 "Who knew? Apart from everybody."

That made me laugh. Thanks.

I hope you are feeling better, Pixy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 05:03 AM (2GCMq)

23 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 22, 2025 05:03 AM (XQo4F)

24 Grieven frying on the stove.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (91F/+)

Is that a bread? I am not finding it online.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 04:58 AM (aURVT)
-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gribenes

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 05:04 AM (91F/+)

25 Man saves woman from car sinking in water:

https://tinyurl.com/yhkcepuw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 04:59 AM (2GCMq)
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Without looking, was this another oceanside parallel parking failure?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 05:06 AM (91F/+)

26
"Don't Bother Applying to Law School or Med School. AI Is Taking Over!"

Yeah, saw that on LinkedIn the other day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 05:06 AM (kkTda)

27 24 Grieven frying on the stove.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 04:56 AM (91F/+)

Is that a bread? I am not finding it online.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 04:58 AM (aURVT)
-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gribenes
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 05:04 AM (91F/+)

Yum. The house smells great!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:07 AM (aURVT)

28
Know whose job AI never seems to come for? The dumb, brand-wrecking CEO.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 05:08 AM (kkTda)

29 I am in something of a mood today. People at work were actually fine, just some weird symptoms trailing my bout of RSV that made my day kind of shitty.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 22, 2025 05:09 AM (BLOW1)

30 Sorry, Pixy! You're much appreciated here.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:10 AM (aURVT)

31 Pixy,

I hope you continue to improve and ultimately completely recover from the galloping lung crud.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 05:10 AM (a1415)

32
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 22, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

33 Yum. The house smells great!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:07 AM (aURVT)
-

/checks wind direction

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 05:12 AM (91F/+)

34 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 05:04 AM (91F/+)

Gribenes!

One of my favorite things to cook!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 22, 2025 05:12 AM (L5An7)

35 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 05:06 AM (91F/+)

No oceans in TN.😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 05:12 AM (2GCMq)

36 Maybe one day we can all meet up at Cracker Barrel for breakfast with Pixy?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 05:13 AM (a1415)

37 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 05:13 AM (

Aside from the woman CEO being an idiot and the stock going down, I think the new logo is boring.
I've always enjoyed Cracker Barrel when I've gone there. Food was ok, decoration was nicely quirky and I liked the gift shop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 05:17 AM (2GCMq)

38 36 Maybe one day we can all meet up at Cracker Barrel for breakfast with Pixy?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 05:13 AM (a1415)

This would be super cool.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:18 AM (aURVT)

39 Greetings and good morning, one and all! Things are improving steadily here in my section of the GPROMD. My brother's gift was finally delivered yesterday, a mere two weeks after his birthday. I took my dog to the vet to get his thyroid levels checked and he was a very good boy for the vet techs.

So it's Friday, I will be making coffee soon and having an apple fritter left over from yesterday.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2025 05:18 AM (99eI0)

40 My health insurance company now offers for you to talk to a AI thing and after a chat, give you all the details about whats wrong with you. Hell, I can google it and always find out I have cancer, even with a ingrown toenail. Still the same copay as before.

Posted by: Colin at August 22, 2025 05:18 AM (wlQdF)

41 AI isn't.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 22, 2025 05:21 AM (vm8sq)

42 So in a little bit, Mrs VIA and I will pile into her Miata, and head up above Greenville to the lake, and spend the weekend helping a friend install some security cameras at their lake house. Maybe even get a bit of time out on the water.

Will be a good opportunity to make sure the Miata is ready for the trip to Corsicana and back.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 05:21 AM (a1415)

43 29 my bout of RSV
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 22, 2025 05:09 AM (BLOW1)

Respiratory syncytial virus, also called human respiratory syncytial virus and human orthopneumovirus, is a virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. (Wikipedia)

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:21 AM (aURVT)

44 When you're smiling,
When you're smiling,
The whole world smiles with you.

https://tinyurl.com/4hduvxj2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2025 05:22 AM (91F/+)

45 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at August 22, 2025 05:24 AM (tb+qH)

46 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 22, 2025 05:24 AM (AN2gy)

47 Spouse and I are having with some new 30 ish neighbors- one of whom is newly employed in a rather esoteric area of study at the local institution of higher learning. I guess I shouldn't say, "Well, I'm glad the school is still hiring someone who is a white male". J/k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 05:26 AM (2GCMq)

48 47- having "brunch"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 05:27 AM (2GCMq)

49 Urk! to all monosyllabic greeters

Posted by: fluffy at August 22, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)

50 40 My health insurance company now offers for you to talk to a AI thing and after a chat, give you all the details about whats wrong with you. Hell, I can google it and always find out I have cancer, even with a ingrown toenail. Still the same copay as before.
Posted by: Colin at August 22, 2025 05:18 AM (wlQdF)

Still the same copay as before: !!!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:30 AM (aURVT)

51 Spouse and I are reading Psalm 105 which contains some of the history of the Jewish people . I'm quite tired but this made me laugh as a description:

"Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, to the chamber of their kings". Yes, I know about the plague of frogs. I'm just getting an image of lots of frogs hopping in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 05:32 AM (2GCMq)

52 >>> Aside from the woman CEO being an idiot and the stock going down, I think the new logo is boring.

My wife loved Badger Balm. She was a good customer of theirs. Lots of competition making natural body care products, but they had unique packaging.

They ditched the elaborate and very charming artwork for a bland sterile look.

Your products don't stand out anymore, Kids.

Posted by: fluffy at August 22, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)

53 I guess I shouldn't say, "Well, I'm glad the school is still hiring someone who is a white male".

I would but that's just my take on things. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2025 05:34 AM (99eI0)

54 An Obama appointed U.S. District Court Judge in Florida has ordered Alligator Alcatraz closed because... *spins the wheel of thinly veiled judicial harassment* It's bad for the environment!

https://tinyurl.com/yc7vvazx
Link sends you to the Miami Herald.
Hat tip to Power Line Blog where I found the story.

Also g'morning Horde, and get well soon, Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2025 05:35 AM (O7YUW)

55 52 >>> Aside from the woman CEO being an idiot and the stock going down, I think the new logo is boring.

My wife loved Badger Balm. She was a good customer of theirs. Lots of competition making natural body care products, but they had unique packaging.

They ditched the elaborate and very charming artwork for a bland sterile look.

Your products don't stand out anymore, Kids.
Posted by: fluffy at August 22, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)

The whole idea of "mascots" is very effective advertising. Think football teams! But, nope, gottagowoke.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:36 AM (aURVT)

56 "...now offers for you to talk to a AI thing and after a chat, give you all the details about whats wrong with you."

+++
Is it Lupus?

https://youtu.be/LNelnqsmnlM

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 22, 2025 05:36 AM (XQo4F)

57 54 An Obama appointed U.S. District Court Judge in Florida has ordered Alligator Alcatraz closed because... *spins the wheel of thinly veiled judicial harassment* It's bad for the environment!

https://tinyurl.com/yc7vvazx
Link sends you to the Miami Herald.
Hat tip to Power Line Blog where I found the story.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2025 05:35 AM (O7YUW)

https://archive.is/YOiVQ
(archived site link)

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:38 AM (aURVT)

58 >>> The whole idea of "mascots" is very effective advertising.

Oh yeah!

Posted by: Mr Kool Aid at August 22, 2025 05:40 AM (AN2gy)

59 Burt's Bees has a cool backstory.

https://youtu.be/UfRWmR_X9a8

(12 minutes)

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 22, 2025 05:41 AM (XQo4F)

60 G'mornin all y'all
Happy Friday

Posted by: OkJohn at August 22, 2025 05:42 AM (NC/it)

61 @40/Colin: "My health insurance company now offers for you to talk to a AI thing and after a chat, give you all the details about whats wrong with you. ... Still the same copay as before."

And here I thought that it required someone with training and a license to practice medicine. This seems like it is a legal liability and a test-case waiting to happen.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2025 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

62 57 54 An Obama appointed U.S. District Court Judge in Florida has ordered Alligator Alcatraz closed because... *spins the wheel of thinly veiled judicial harassment* It's bad for the environment!

https://tinyurl.com/yc7vvazx
Link sends you to the Miami Herald.
Hat tip to Power Line Blog where I found the story.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2025 05:35 AM (O7YUW)

punchline:

Alex Lanfranconi, communications director for Gov. Ron DeSantis, issued a terse statement Thursday evening in reaction to Williams’ ruling.
“The deportations will continue until morale improves,” he said.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:43 AM (aURVT)

63 G'Day everyone
At Doug ross Substack he has been putting up 20 Posts about 5 days a week, been very good stuff
https://tinyurl.com/dwujstft

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 05:44 AM (vr4Ih)

64 @NewsNew97351204
·
34m
Biden judge sticks it to Trump by releasing teens who assaulted Big Balls as president celebrates DC crackdown: 'Everybody's safe now'

A Biden-appointed judge has defied President Donald Trump by releasing two teenagers accused of assaulting a DOGE employee on the streets of Washington D.C.

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2025 05:51 AM (AOsQT)

65
*“The deportations will continue until morale improves,” he said.*

Snort. Gubmint snark is the best snark.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 22, 2025 05:52 AM (XQo4F)

66 Your products don't stand out anymore, Kids.
Posted by: fluffy at August 22, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy

I remember that packaging. it was quaint.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 05:56 AM (2GCMq)

67 Evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers. It's Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished; Rosasharn has twirled; all's right with the world!

The whole idea of "mascots" is very effective advertising.

Oh yeah!
Posted by: Mr Kool Aid at August 22, 2025

***
Mascots have been part of advertising from the beginning, or at least since the 1920s. Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Tony the Tiger, the Esso/Exxon Tiger in Your Tank, and hundreds more. I recall an ad for a product some years ago which used the concept of "The Rest Home for Retired Advertising Mascots," featuring Tony and many others. A shame if business is going to give up on them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2025 06:00 AM (omVj0)

68 63 At Doug ross Substack he has been putting up 20 Posts about 5 days a week, been very good stuff
https://tinyurl.com/dwujstft
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 05:44 AM (vr4Ih)

Great posts! The reporting work of Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) is priceless.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:03 AM (aURVT)

69 The video in the ONT of one local Cracker Barrel makes the store look awfully bland. Part of what people liked, or at least I did, was the rustic look of the walls inside and out. Every CB I've been in has a big fireplace -- not something we need most of the year around here, but when it's cool-to-cold I liked to sit near it or even just look at it. Eating out is not only about the food.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2025 06:04 AM (omVj0)

70 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Thanks, I needed that.

Posted by: Caaptain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 22, 2025 06:08 AM (WvZaB)

71 64 @NewsNew97351204
·
34m
Biden judge sticks it to Trump by releasing teens who assaulted Big Balls as president celebrates DC crackdown: 'Everybody's safe now'

A Biden-appointed judge has defied President Donald Trump by releasing two teenagers accused of assaulting a DOGE employee on the streets of Washington D.C.
Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2025 05:51 AM (AOsQT)

More details:

https://archive.is/IthFA

(New York Post)

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:09 AM (aURVT)

72 >>> I recall an ad for a product some years ago which used the concept of "The Rest Home for Retired Advertising Mascots,"

I remember the same. I knew about half of the mascots.

BRB, going to go yell at the kids on my lawn.

Posted by: grey and fluffy at August 22, 2025 06:09 AM (AN2gy)

73 Posted by: Caaptain

uh-oh

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:10 AM (aURVT)

74 A Biden-appointed judge has defied President Donald Trump by releasing two teenagers accused of assaulting a DOGE employee on the streets of Washington D.C.
Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2025

***
Re-arrest them on federal charges: They committed a hate crime.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2025 06:10 AM (omVj0)

75 Another nice bit of a prayer from Amy Carmichael, the English missionary who served in India and lived from 1867- 1951:

Thou hast called me.

Thou hast called me- I cannot tell why.
Thou wilt justify me- I cannot tell how .
Thou wilt glorify me- I cannot tell when.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 06:11 AM (2GCMq)

76 Re-arrest them on federal charges: They committed a hate crime.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I never liked the "hate crime" even in my liberal days. I knew it was only going to be applied one way. But in this case, I am fine with it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2025 06:13 AM (99eI0)

77 I would like to thank the Left for doing more to de-legitimize our courts than anything that the Conservative side of the nation has ever done.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2025 06:15 AM (a1415)

78 Of course shtf the day I have off.

Network config pushes to the green network crashed cvp, we still have another 100 switches to go and we haven't even started the blue/red network.

That's going to be fun.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 06:15 AM (XV/Pl)

79 I never liked the "hate crime" even in my liberal days. I knew it was only going to be applied one way. But in this case, I am fine with it.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2025 06:13 AM (99eI0)
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I know no better method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent application.
--U. S. Grant

Posted by: Caaptain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 22, 2025 06:17 AM (WvZaB)

80 from the New York Post article:

"Neither teen had come into contact with the DC juvenile justice system before now, both their attorneys said."

O.k., but: Where are they from?

"The 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland"

... and, anything else going on?

"the girl, who still has another pending matter in Maryland"

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:18 AM (aURVT)

81 50 40 My health insurance company now offers for you to talk to a AI thing and after a chat, give you all the details about whats wrong with you. Hell, I can google it and always find out I have cancer, even with a ingrown toenail. Still the same copay as before.
Posted by: Colin at August 22, 2025 05:18 AM (wlQdF)

Still the same copay as before: !!!
Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 05:30 AM (aURVT)

Too bad I can’t get it. I have no health to insure.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 22, 2025 06:20 AM (vm8sq)

82 I know no better method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent application.
--U. S. Grant
Posted by: Caaptain Obvious

Sounds like my mom. "If you want to prove that a rule is stupid, follow it to the letter."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2025 06:21 AM (99eI0)

83 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Genesis 4:7

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2025 06:26 AM (jxyod)

84 Check out this democrat protest sign

https://tinyurl.com/ynsy89yn

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2025 06:29 AM (AOsQT)

85 >>>The truth as always is somewhere off to one side in I don't care territory.

Might copy and paste this to keep on hand as a multi-purpose snarky comeback.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:31 AM (aURVT)

86 Sean Davis at the Federalist 'splains about Cracker Barrel:

https://is.gd/hUaE4Z1

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 22, 2025 06:34 AM (PiwSw)

87 ‘With hate they are filled, gone to the dark side they have…’

- you asked for it, the yota has got it

Posted by: Eromero at August 22, 2025 06:37 AM (jgmnb)

88 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 06:42 AM (u82oZ)

89 86 Sean Davis at the Federalist 'splains about Cracker Barrel:

https://is.gd/hUaE4Z1
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 22, 2025 06:34 AM (PiwSw)

Nice!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:43 AM (aURVT)

90
Long day today. Have to drag myself off to the west side of town to help at a show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 06:44 AM (kkTda)

91 from the Sean Davis Cracker Barrel article:

>>>people were happy to wait 30 minutes for a table after Sunday School and happily mill about the store until their table was ready

And longer!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:45 AM (aURVT)

92 May I suggest a new restaurant chain to cover the niche previously covered by Cracker Barrel. Call it “Hillwilliams”. A “Hillwilliam” is an upscale “Hillbilly”.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 22, 2025 06:45 AM (1FEc1)

93 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Vince Guaraldi*

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 06:46 AM (u82oZ)

94 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Have fun on the water. Like old times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 06:47 AM (u82oZ)

95 Bob Evans, Perkins, others stand to profit from this rebranding.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:50 AM (aURVT)

96 CrackBarrel has been losing business so long they’re in there comfort zone. Big glasses woman will shake them up

Posted by: Eromero at August 22, 2025 06:50 AM (jgmnb)

97
Why do women wear those enormous glasses? Two pounds of frame and an acre of lenses. Not in the least bit flattering.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 06:53 AM (kkTda)

98 >Why do women wear those enormous glasses? Two pounds of frame and an acre of lenses. Not in the least bit flattering.
----

it's an identifier
so leftist women can find each other

Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2025 06:55 AM (AOsQT)

99 Hadrian the Seventh

With those glasses, they are immune to the male gaze.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 06:56 AM (u82oZ)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:56 AM (aURVT)

101 Venus and Jupiter require big glasses?

Posted by: Eromero at August 22, 2025 06:56 AM (jgmnb)

102 98 >Why do women wear those enormous glasses? Two pounds of frame and an acre of lenses. Not in the least bit flattering.
----

it's an identifier
so leftist women can find each other
Posted by: Don Black at August 22, 2025 06:55 AM (AOsQT)

... and look down their noses at us.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:57 AM (aURVT)

103 m

Back to the forefront of posting. Carry on.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

104

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 22, 2025 06:57 AM (EFZgU)

105 Hillary Clinton

Hillary for paying huge lawyers fees is getting closer.

No prison wants you. Well, maybe the alligators. But those are for illegals.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

106 103 m

Back to the forefront of posting. Carry on.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

Learned my lesson!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 06:59 AM (aURVT)

107 29 I am in something of a mood today. People at work were actually fine, just some weird symptoms trailing my bout of RSV that made my day kind of shitty.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 22, 2025 05:09 AM (BLOW1)

----

Does Pixy EVER take a day for illness or rest?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 22, 2025 07:04 AM (2xthb)

108 hahahahaha

[CEO Julie Felss] Masino remains adamant that the renovations are working, telling ABC News this week that “people like what we’re doing” and that feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive.”

https://archive.is/ZTE5U

(CNN)

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 07:05 AM (aURVT)

109
Lots of thunder and lightning this morning, but not much actual rain. Need to get the garbage out to the road, feed the brutes, take a shower, dress in coat and tie and head out at 8:00.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 07:05 AM (kkTda)

110 Everybody oughta swarm the Waffle Houses!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 07:05 AM (aURVT)

111 I mean:

On Tuesday, the Southern-inspired casual dining chain unveiled a new logo “rooted even more closely to the iconic barrel shape,” but without the barrel itself

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 07:06 AM (aURVT)

112
[CEO Julie Felss] Masino remains adamant that the renovations are working

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If you say so. Arguing with a woman is rarely profitable.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 07:06 AM (kkTda)

113 m

The Waffle House in Corsicana is quite entertaining. The food is fast and good. Not great, but good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

114 @107

>>Does Pixy EVER take a day for illness or rest?

In some fields and occupations, taking a day off is challenging.

Sometimes coming back from a day off and catching up can take a weeks and cause you even more stress.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2025 07:08 AM (XV/Pl)

115
Nouvelle cuisine bacon and eggs! Yum!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 07:08 AM (kkTda)

116 How about going to the NoVa school perversion topic?, I was once required to study some snippets of law regarding healthcare encounters. IIRC, under Virginia law minors were considered “emancipated minors” if seeking obstetrical care or STD care. I haven’t seen any of these details mentioned in the Fairfax County school scandal. The initial referral of a pregnant minor for supposedly obstetrical care might be used in criminal defense if the minor wasn’t taken directly to an abortion clinic.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 22, 2025 07:09 AM (1FEc1)

117
In some fields and occupations, taking a day off is challenging.

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I used to say that rain, snow, sleet or Christmas, US patents issue every Tuesday whether you're there or not.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 07:10 AM (kkTda)

118 US patents issue every Tuesday.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Has even that changed?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

119 Fenderbender

It is every big school system. Even in Kansas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

120 83 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Genesis 4:7
Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2025 06:26 AM (jxyod)

Thank you, Marcus T!

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 07:15 AM (aURVT)

121 Nood JJ

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 22, 2025 07:16 AM (5+4Wp)

122
Has even that changed?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

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Granted patents (B1 and B2) have issued on Tuesday for as long as I remember.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2025 07:16 AM (kkTda)

123 I hope Crackhead Barrel goes under and lays off all those illegals who work there who are reheating all the frozen bagged food for the chumps that eat it.

The chumps will always have Olive Garden for the bagged goodies.

Posted by: Gordon Ramsay, English Chef and Closeted Homosexual at August 22, 2025 07:17 AM (R/m4+)

124 Cracker Barrel’s stock dropped almost 20 percent when this was announced. Her board should fire her and her ridiculous glasses immediately.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 22, 2025 07:17 AM (Cpv8k)

125 Hadrian the Seventh

Thanks. Wednesday morning was always entertaining as a coworker would slap a patent on my desk and say "Look: They even issued this. And it's valid." I'd look at it and laugh.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

126 J.J. and the News. Landing on runway 030.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 22, 2025 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

127 The ladder-climbing female assistant in She Blinded Me With Science has kind of ginormous glasses on, too.

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 07:21 AM (aURVT)

128 Australia's largest bank - the Commonwealth Bank - has been forced to rehire employees laid off in tests against their AI counterparts when it turned out that the tests had not been testing on anything like an even playing field. (Ars Technica)

https://archive.is/r3zSh

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 07:24 AM (aURVT)

129
124 Cracker Barrel’s stock dropped almost 20 percent when this was announced. Her board should fire her and her ridiculous glasses immediately.
Posted by: Jen the original at August 22, 2025 07:17 AM (Cpv8k)

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Matt Walsh says the company hired three marketing firms to develop this new logo. This new CEO has been on the job since November 2023 and the stock has declined steadily.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 22, 2025 07:25 AM (2xthb)

130 129 Matt Walsh says the company hired three marketing firms to develop this new logo. This new CEO has been on the job since November 2023 and the stock has declined steadily.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 22, 2025 07:25 AM (2xthb)

https://nitter.net/mattwalshblog

Posted by: m at August 22, 2025 07:29 AM (aURVT)

131 The Stache got the 6AM Jack bows wake up call! 😂

Posted by: Rando Calrissian at August 22, 2025 08:00 AM (Ep5PA)

132 Post 86- Very good article by Sean Davis on the demise of Cracker Barrel. I think he phrases very well what people who went there some years ago and liked it appreciated about it . Thanks for posing it , Shadout Mapes .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 08:03 AM (2GCMq)

133 >>> immigrants in the U.S. population fell slightly from 15.8 percent in January to 15.4 percent in June.
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I think most people would be shocked if they knew it was more than 5% and think the couple of areas they know of chock full of aliens are anomalies.

Oh... NYC and LA were always like that... and that town near me... and that one city neighborhood...

No, they are ALL fvcking like that now.

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