Daily Tech News 19 October 2025

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Solar car maker Aptera is about to go public and I'm worried. (Elektrek)

Also, prescient. This article was posted ten days ago.

Aptera listed on NASDAQ last week with a share price around $20.

Three days later it's trading below $6.

Aptera has spent 19 years and an untold amount of money - something like $150 million - trying to build what has been unkindly but accurately described as an electric tricycle, and all it has to show for its efforts is a handful of shiny prototypes.

Though given how similar the protypes have all appeared over the years it's not unimaginable that they just painted a solar cell pattern over the original diesel/electric model and called it a day.

Production was originally scheduled to start in 2008.

Tech News

Scaling Kubernetes to a million nodes. (GitHub)

Why?

As John F. Kennedy famously said of the Apollo Program: We choose to go the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.

I suspect that applies equally to the engineers at Aptera. Maybe more than equally.
People apparently don't want ultra-slim phones. (Mac Rumours)

Apple has reportedly cut production of the iPhone Air - at the same time it has boosted production of other models - and Samsung has cancelled the follow up to its competing S25 Edge.

I wouldn't mind a slimmer phone, but it's far down the list of problems with current models, most of which were self-inflicted by the companies making them.
Presenters prevented a tragedy at the Wikipedia conference taking place in New York when they tackled an armed pedophile who threatened to kill himself. (NBC News)

I fully understand. The cleaning crews in New York conference spaces are all union and those overtime rates will blow your budget into another dimension.
Migrating from Amazon to Hetzner Cloud. (Digital Society)

And getting nearly three times as much (virtual) hardware for a quarter the price.

Wait, didn't an entire Hetzner datacenter burn to the ground not so long ago?

No, that was OVH.

Oh. Carry on then.
A big small PC from Minisforum. (Liliputing)

It measures about 9" x 9" x 4", which is big for a small PC but small for a big PC, and offers four (SODIMM) memory slots, four M.2 slots, and three PCIe slots, and a Core Ultra 9 285HX (8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores). Plus two USB4v2 ports (80Gbps) and a USB4 port (40Gbps), two 25Gb Ethernet ports, one 10Gb Ethernet port, one 2.5Gb Ethernet port, one HDMI port, and the usual bunch of USB3 ports.

Given the size and power constraints (it has a 350W power supply) you're not going to fit a high-end graphics card in it, but a low-profile Nvidia 5060 or an Intel Arc Pro B50 should work fine.
Anbernic is preparing to launch the RG DS, a dual-screen gaming device selling for less than $100. (Notebook Check)

It's designed to emulate the Nintendo DS and 3DS. It can play games made for older consoles but it's clearly aimed at those two since it looks exactly like them.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: What other things, Mr. President? WHAT OTHER THINGS?!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:00 AM (okFN+)

2 Good morning all.

Posted by: Tuna at October 19, 2025 04:02 AM (lJ0H4)

3 Disclaimer: What other things, Mr. President? WHAT OTHER THINGS?!
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Sh*t happens:

https://tinyurl.com/2jh84hdd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:02 AM (okFN+)

4 Gotta get a move on. Quote of the day/week/month:

Gad Saad
@GadSaad

My daughter's class is going on a school trip to NYC. Many of the parents are incredibly upset that the school would visit the United States where there is a "daily genocide of women, trans people, and people of color." The parents are not upset at what is happening in Canada or that @ZohranKMamdani is going to become mayor of NYC. They are terrified for their children's safety because of @realDonaldTrump.

I have spent my entire academic career studying human behavior and human decision making, and yet I'm astounded by this level of suicidal stupidity.

4:31 PM · Oct 17, 2025
25.9M Views

https://tinyurl.com/yeu7mk6k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:06 AM (okFN+)

5 I keep warning you they're not stopping and the Trump admin's responses are a drop in the bucket:

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Oct 17

🚨 GoFundMe caught creating over a million NGO pages and accepting donations without them knowing

“GoFundMe has taken upon itself to create nonprofit pages for 1.4 million 501c3 organizations using public IRS data along with information from trusted partners like the PayPal”

“GoFundMe has created nonprofit pages for more than 1 million charities using public data.”

The corruption taking place in America is beyond comprehension, and absolutely nobody ever goes to jail.

https://tinyurl.com/4hdkr62x

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:21 AM (okFN+)

6 Waiting for my country to do the right thing. Then again, I've been waiting for over 2 years now.

Open Source Intel
@Osint613

BREAKING 🔴🔴

Here we go!

Initial report: An explosion struck an IDF engineering vehicle in the Rafah area a short time ago.

Preliminary assessments suggest terrorists either fired an anti-tank missile or detonated an explosive device.
IDF forces have been dispatched to the scene.

11:03 AM · Oct 19, 2025

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:34 AM (okFN+)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 19, 2025 04:34 AM (c3B7E)

8 G'Day everyone
No reason for doing it but might as well get up

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2025 04:47 AM (+qU29)

9 Follow Osint613 for update:

Open Source Intel
@Osint613
5m

Ceasefire collapse: Exchanges of fire are ongoing.
Terrorists launched another sniper attack targeting a soldier in the Rafah area, and IDF forces returned fire.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:50 AM (okFN+)

10 @5/Biden's Dog: GoFundMe has created nonprofit pages for more than 1 million charities using public data.

And hasn't informed the charities, so they're taking in funds in other people's names, without informing them.

This reeks of massive fraud. One is left to wonder if the grifters that were funded by USAID are getting desperate.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 19, 2025 04:50 AM (O7YUW)

11 While visiting my dad at hospital he had the Communist News Network on, to.me the No Kings protest looked like a bust. Middle of LA didn't look like 1000 people even showed up.

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2025 04:52 AM (+qU29)

12 @9/Biden's Dog: "Ceasefire collapse: Exchanges of fire are ongoing."

That didn't take long.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 19, 2025 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

13 That didn't take long.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 19, 2025 04:52 AM (O7YUW)
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Where's Captain Obvious when you need him?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:59 AM (okFN+)

14 Who really thought it would with people who believe in the complete destruction or their neighbors?

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2025 05:00 AM (+qU29)

15 1 BOING!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 04:00 AM (okFN+)

Looky thar!

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:08 AM (RuTUS)

16 w00t

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:08 AM (RuTUS)

17 Looky thar!

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:08 AM (RuTUS)
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Whar?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 05:10 AM (okFN+)

18 Squirrel

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2025 05:13 AM (+qU29)

19 @13/Biden's Dog: I had wondered if Hamas had been forced into a "Hudna" situation, but this attack rules that possibility out.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 19, 2025 05:14 AM (O7YUW)

20 >>>trying to build what has been unkindly but accurately described as an electric tricycle

Pixy, have you used any of the stupid scooters and maybe you can tout their up-side? I hate them so much.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

21
g'mornin', 'rons

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

22 It was a “mostly peaceful” anti-tank round.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 19, 2025 05:20 AM (IrAlb)

23 Did Lumpy have a successful brain transplant?

https://tinyurl.com/y9za9yd6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 05:21 AM (okFN+)

24 As John F. Kennedy famously said of the Apollo Program: We choose to go the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.

No, that's not what he said!

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:22 AM (RuTUS)

25 Anti Israel/global antifa activists join "No Kings" protests. Well, of course they did !

https://tinyurl.com/3vb2xjmr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 19, 2025 05:22 AM (pf+DM)

26 It's fun watching my Senator at least being a thorn in the Marxist's side

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2025 05:23 AM (+qU29)

27 No kings day.....local news showed lots of pictures of all the local gatherings. They showed groups in all the small villages holding up signs demanding this and that. It was a nice day and most were older people (probably former 1960's hippies). One place even had a chicken barbecue. It hard to say it was a smashing success, but hopefully the hotdogs and chicken were good.

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

28 Anti Israel/global antifa activists join "No Kings" protests. Well, of course they did !

https://tinyurl.com/3vb2xjmr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 19, 2025 05:22 AM (pf+DM)
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Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
20h

Things Democrats recently thought were the most important things in the world, but now, not so much.

Gaza
Climate change
Voting machines (and elections) are secure
Open borders
Covid shots
Trans everything

Now they're worried about kings.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 05:25 AM (okFN+)

29 g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 19, 2025 05:19 AM (tljrc)

=====

Hey Alton! Missed you yesterday.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 19, 2025 05:25 AM (JhNDb)

30 BBC had NoKings Day on its front page yesterday, and again today. Front and center and in color.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:26 AM (RuTUS)

31 BBC

Millions join anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests across US

The demonstrations against the US president - which Republicans had called "hate-America rallies" - were boisterous but peaceful.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:28 AM (RuTUS)

32 BBC had NoKings Day on its front page yesterday, and again today. Front and center and in color.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:26 AM (RuTUS)
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I assume Charles is not amused?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 05:29 AM (okFN+)

33 The iPhone Air’s biggest problem is a $999 price tag for a phone with lesser specs than the base iPhone 17 at $799, which is selling really well.

The Air sold out in China but they love shiny new status symbols there.

I still think Apple is going to make a foldable out of two Airs basically. Will probably see that in the next few years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 05:29 AM (6ydKt)

34 OK, this is too good not to pass along, cell phone coverage is spotty during daylight here (why is that??) so can’t make the book thread most likely.

Johnny Von Neumann was the classic “absent minded professor” in a lot of ways. A brilliant mathematician and physicist. He was such a brainiac that when he was on his deathbed they had military guys posted at his bedside lest he mumble top secret info in his delirium.

Anyway in better times it was well known he was so busy that he did not spend as much time with his family as he might have. His wife told a story that at one time she was in bed sick, and asked him for a glass of water.

After about 5 or 10 minutes he returned. “Where do we keep the glasses?” She said they had lived at that house for 17 years.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 19, 2025 05:30 AM (IrAlb)

35 32 BBC had NoKings Day on its front page yesterday, and again today. Front and center and in color.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:26 AM (RuTUS)
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I assume Charles is not amused?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 19, 2025 05:29 AM (okFN+)

haha!

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

36 BBC

LIVE
Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says
France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:32 AM (RuTUS)

37 France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.
Posted by: m

*coughs up smoke and brie *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 19, 2025 05:34 AM (mlg/3)

38 “We do these things not because they easy, but because they are hard” (no jokes pliz!)

Posted by: JFK at October 19, 2025 05:34 AM (IrAlb)

39 It's quite amazing of all the Marxist's theories, no borders and world citizens is the top goal.
I guess they see they can't get a majority without them

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2025 05:35 AM (+qU29)

40 Good morning, All!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 05:36 AM (NTdv6)

41 wikipedia
Rachida Dati was born on 27 November 1965 in Saint-Rémy, Burgundy, to a Moroccan father, a bricklayer named M'Barek Dati (1934–2017), and an Algerian mother, named Fatima-Zohra (died in 2001). Her parents immigrated to France in 1963.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:36 AM (RuTUS)

42 20 Pixy, have you used any of the stupid scooters and maybe you can tout their up-side? I hate them so much.
Posted by: m

They're small and easy to push off the road when they inevitably roll over.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 19, 2025 05:38 AM (BLOW1)

43 27 No kings day..... most were older people (probably former 1960's hippies)
Posted by: Colin at October 19, 2025 05:24 AM (wlQdF)

So, born between, say, 1940 and 1950?

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:39 AM (RuTUS)

44
g'mornin', Jordan

yeah, I'm absolutely heart-broken that I couldn't be there this year

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 19, 2025 05:40 AM (tljrc)

45 OK, this is too good not to pass along, cell phone coverage is spotty during daylight here (why is that??)

Posted by: Common Tater at October 19, 2025 05:30 AM (IrAlb)

Cellphones use radio waves, so I assume for the same reason you can pick up that iffy radio station, that’s far away for you, much better at night than during the day.

Solar radiation interference?

I’m sure a bigger nerd than me can explain it better and more accurately.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 05:41 AM (6ydKt)

46 42 20 Pixy, have you used any of the stupid scooters and maybe you can tout their up-side? I hate them so much.
Posted by: m

They're small and easy to push off the road when they inevitably roll over.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at October 19, 2025 05:38 AM (BLOW1)

They maybe won't make it up the high hill where you are.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)

47 BBC

'I'm 89 and I saw my homeland rebuilt before - but now I don't believe Gaza has a future'

One Palestinian family shares their story of life coming full circle - and what they believe lies ahead as talk turns to rebuilding Gaza

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:44 AM (RuTUS)

48 People do t do scooters here.
Instead they love golf carts.

Had to wait behind a convoy of three of them yesterday driving through the neighborhood to go to a nearby neighborhood apparently to watch football at somebody’s house because they were loaded with coolers and containers.

It’s those bigger golf carts with knobby tires and turn signals for road use.
They are all the rage now among people who don’t want to walk through a neighborhood or ride a bike.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 05:45 AM (6ydKt)

49 It looks to me like you need to be pretty young to do the electric scooters. Like skate-boarder age.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:46 AM (RuTUS)

50 Evening to the Sunday toilers, and morning to the insomaniacals, standard early risers, and those waking sluggishly from debauchery, mopery, and dopery at the TXMoMe! (What *are* mopery and dopery, anyway?)

I'm up, for certain values of "up," sipping my coffee, and wondering where that rain we were supposed to have last night went. The local mavens say by this afternoon it will cool a bit and get drier, and tomorrow morning will dip to about 61 F. Ah's gonna believes it when Ah feels it.

The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are doing well. They chased each other all around the apartment last evening while I was trying to enjoy Young Frankenstein on MeTV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 05:47 AM (omVj0)

51 Yes, AM radio waves have a phenomenon called “atmospheric skip”. FM radio frequencies are much higher and don’t generally exhibit this characteristic at all. They are “line of sight”.

That’s why I wondered about cell phone frequencies. Usually it will become usable around dusk, and then till about 0730 or so. Sometimes able to get through during the day but very briefly. The time frame narrows by spring, only being usable starting very late at night, meaning one has to be a night owl to log on.

Posted by: JFK at October 19, 2025 05:50 AM (IrAlb)

52 The photos of the hippies in the BBC article indicate that they are not the beautiful people.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:51 AM (RuTUS)

53 'I'm 89 and I saw my homeland rebuilt before - but now I don't believe Gaza has a future'

As near as I can tell they’ve never believed Gaza had a future because they’ve spent several decades consumed by the past and the future represented nothing but a chance for revenge.

Stop starting wars you can’t win and build a community dedicated to providing a better future for the children and you might get somewhere.

As it stands they are nothing but ignoble savages constantly holding pity parties in between military campaigns.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 05:51 AM (6ydKt)

54 Cellphones use radio waves, so I assume for the same reason you can pick up that iffy radio station, that’s far away for you, much better at night than during the day.

Solar radiation interference?

I’m sure a bigger nerd than me can explain it better and more accurately.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025

***
I understood the night reception phenomenon was because of "skip distance." A layer of the atmosphere, I've forgotten the name, comes down closer to the surface of the Earth at night. So the angle changes at which the radio waves hit it and reflect; it becomes less acute, so the distance between transmitter and receivers can become greater. In '72, I recall listening on an ordinary AM radio at night and picking up stations in Ohio and Kansas City, hearing the Eagles' "Take It Easy" a week before my local Top 40 station began playing it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 05:51 AM (omVj0)

55 In New York, sections of the crowd regularly erupted into chants of "This is what democracy looks like" as a near-constant drumbeat boomed in the background.

um
yes?

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:52 AM (RuTUS)

56
Did your local news stations have stock footage of demonstrations to use for the No Kings rallies? To make it look like millions had turned out where you live.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 19, 2025 05:53 AM (tgvbd)

57 Stop starting wars you can’t win and build a community dedicated to providing a better future for the children and you might get somewhere.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

BuT wE mUsT hElp ThEm~!

Posted by: programmed western marxists at October 19, 2025 05:54 AM (mlg/3)

58 Posted by: JFK at October 19, 2025 05:50 AM (IrAlb)

sock!

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:55 AM (RuTUS)

59 If it really is going to be less hot tomorrow morning, maybe I should skip working out this am and do my 3-4 weekly workouts starting tomorrow. Yeah. Maybe so.

See how your mind can convince you of things that are easy, and talk you out of stuff that's hard?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

60 57 Stop starting wars you can’t win and build a community dedicated to providing a better future for the children and you might get somewhere.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

BuT wE mUsT hElp ThEm~!
Posted by: programmed western marxists at October 19, 2025 05:54 AM (mlg/3)

Because their women have no agency.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 05:56 AM (RuTUS)

61 Time to bestir myself and feed the furry livestock.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 05:56 AM (omVj0)

62
57 Stop starting wars you can’t win and build a community dedicated to providing a better future for the children and you might get somewhere.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

_________

It's like the Irish. Complain your country is a shithole because it's oppressed, get your independence after murder and violence, then continue to be a shithole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 19, 2025 05:57 AM (tgvbd)

63 Aussie cop a bit perturbed:

@byoliviajenkins 2h
Victoria Police North West Metro region Commander Wayne Cheesman shows media the rocks that were thrown at police today. He says left-wing, “issue-based” demonstrators were mostly responsible for the violence that unfolded in Melbourne’s CBD today
x.com/byoliviajenkins/status/1979808673699635465

Posted by: programmed western marxists at October 19, 2025 05:57 AM (mlg/3)

64 BBC

Senator Chris Murphy shared footage of the huge turnout in his home state of Connecticut: "Breathtaking. This is why today will likely go down as the biggest day of peaceful protest in our nation's 250 year history."

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:01 AM (RuTUS)

65 I discovered I could pick up KFI 640, the big Los Angeles talk station, in certain parts of Las Vegas on a work trip about ten years ago.

Posted by: Epobirs at October 19, 2025 06:02 AM (/0z9K)

66 As I said, if in LA the protesters couldn't get even a 1000 people to show up, no way millions did.
The Bolsheviks were never the majority in the Russian Revolution yet always got more representatives

Posted by: Skip at October 19, 2025 06:02 AM (+qU29)

67 The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space are doing well. They chased each other all around the apartment last evening while I was trying to enjoy Young Frankenstein on MeTV.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 05:47 AM (omVj0)

=====

They are apparently making a "Younger Frankenstein." I'm sure it will suck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 19, 2025 06:03 AM (gZfs2)

68 BBC

Throughout Europe, there were also demonstrations Berlin, Madrid and Rome as people showed solidarity with their American counterparts. In London, several hundred protesters gathered outside the US embassy.

There were similar scenes in Toronto, where demonstrators near the US consulate waved signs including "Hands off Canada".

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:03 AM (RuTUS)

69 Democracy is an absolutely wretched method of governance. Humans are largely ungovernable, it would appear.

What I can’t figure out is why ordinary people would think individual stupid people will somehow come up with better decisions en masse.

Posted by: JFK at October 19, 2025 06:03 AM (IrAlb)

70 Apologies, it's actually called "Very Young Frankenstein."

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 19, 2025 06:04 AM (gZfs2)

71 BBC LOL a poster carried in a demonstration

NO to

Tyrants
Racists
Usurpers
Misogynts
Pedophiles

"misogynts"

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:06 AM (RuTUS)

72 In Iowa I could get KSL (Salt Lake) as well as big east coast stations, and Louisiana, and Canadian stations. I tried really hard to get a Cali station. It’s a hobby called “DX” for long distance.

Cold clear winter nights, away from sources of interference. Which is practically everything these days. One reason the AM radio band is about dead. The neighbors washing machine 4 houses away will nuke the entire band

Posted by: JFK at October 19, 2025 06:08 AM (IrAlb)

73 What I noticed about Young Frankenstein last night, and I've noticed before, is that it is not a rapid-fire joke machine of a movie. The pace is measured; it's not like Airplane! Mel Brooks was clearly trying to replicate the pacing of the 1931-1945 Universal horror films he was doing an affectionate parody of. He had faith that his audience would stick with him for the payoff comic lines and scenes -- as they clearly did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)

74 What I can’t figure out is why ordinary people would think individual stupid people will somehow come up with better decisions en masse.
Posted by: JFK

Jealousy. Jealousy limits obscene power if the vote is distributed. This is basic Aristotle.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 19, 2025 06:09 AM (mlg/3)

75 "misogynts"
Posted by: m at October 19, 2025

***
No doubt Miso was Peer's uglier, less lucky brother.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 06:10 AM (omVj0)

76 BBC

Ahead of the demonstrations, Trump allies accused the protesters of being linked with the far-left Antifa movement, and condemned what they called "the-hate America rally".

um, ahead of the demonstrations, normal Americans pretty much yawned

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:10 AM (RuTUS)

77 It's like the Irish. Complain your country is a shithole because it's oppressed, get your independence after murder and violence, then continue to be a shithole.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 19, 2025 05:57 AM (tgvbd)

The Irish started getting it together in the late 90s.
They’ve done pretty well for themselves as a base for American tech companies who needed access to the EU market. Low corporate tax rates and a drive to improve worked out for them.

Now they’re going down the same path as the UK with massive immigration and leftist policies that are slowly strangling everything.

They’ll be screwed if the EU keeps trying to manhandle every American company with rules and regulations, because those companies might decide it’s no longer worth it and pull out completely.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 06:12 AM (6ydKt)

78 A 1964 Western called A Distant Trumpet w/ Troy Donahue and a slew of familiar character actors is on Grit. I'm waiting for Suzanne Pleshette to appear; she's billed right after Troy.

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

79 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy.
A couple thousand if the usual geriatrics, purple hair noseringers and pro Hamas types rallied about a mile from me on a public green. Succeeded in causing traffic problems. People who pointed out they accomplished nothing were met in the comments section of my local rag with "they made connections and furthered the resistance" . Pathetic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 19, 2025 06:12 AM (PWwWv)

80 Some Europeans don't like America? Wow; That's amazing! I could never have predicted that/ s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 19, 2025 06:13 AM (7RYym)

81
After about 5 or 10 minutes he returned. “Where do we keep the glasses?” She said they had lived at that house for 17 years.
Posted by: Common Tater at October 19, 2025 05:30 AM (IrAlb)

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There's a rumor that Hungary (population 9 million) produced so many geniuses such as John von Neumann, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, Beka Bartók, Harry Houdini, etc., that it's been invaded by space aliens.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 06:14 AM (NTdv6)

82 79 A couple thousand if the usual geriatrics, purple hair noseringers and pro Hamas types rallied about a mile from me on a public green. Succeeded in causing traffic problems. People who pointed out they accomplished nothing were met in the comments section of my local rag with "they made connections and furthered the resistance" . Pathetic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 19, 2025 06:12 AM (PWwWv)

A big ol' love-in!

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:15 AM (RuTUS)

83 Fertilized and seated the lawn yesterday before the coming rain. Unfortunately, we got over three inches and may have had it all washed away

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 06:17 AM (NTdv6)

84 Seated >> seeded

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 06:18 AM (NTdv6)

85 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 19, 2025 06:21 AM (881BD)

86 “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler

I can’t argue against it, as all evidence shows he’s correct.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

87 miso: paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt, used in Japanese cooking.

(also miso soup) a soup thickened with miso paste, often with added tofu or vegetables: a bowl of piping hot miso.

... and gynts

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:22 AM (RuTUS)

88 A couple thousand if the usual geriatrics, purple hair noseringers and pro Hamas types rallied about a mile from me on a public green. Succeeded in causing traffic problems. People who pointed out they accomplished nothing were met in the comments section of my local rag with "they made connections and furthered the resistance" . Pathetic

The smell of Ben-Gay wafted through the air.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 19, 2025 06:24 AM (9qnLV)

89 “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:25 AM (RuTUS)

90 trying to get ai dreck out of searches:

It had worked for me to add
-ai
at the end of a search string

but now all of the hits contain literally AI

halp

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

91 The Texas MoMeet was fun. OPSEC on how much fun. But a team of doers worked hard to entertain and feed the Horde.

Ben Had was just one of those people.

The Not Bossy, Aggressively Helpful t-shirt was worn with brio by a great person. Not by me. I'm too shy for a shirt like that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 19, 2025 06:27 AM (881BD)

92 88 A couple thousand if the usual geriatrics, purple hair noseringers and pro Hamas types rallied about a mile from me on a public green. Succeeded in causing traffic problems. People who pointed out they accomplished nothing were met in the comments section of my local rag with "they made connections and furthered the resistance" . Pathetic

The smell of Ben-Gay wafted through the air.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 19, 2025 06:24 AM (9qnLV)

At best.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:27 AM (RuTUS)

93 A big ol' love-in!
Posted by: m at October 19, 2025

***
More like Laugh-In. Without the talent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 06:28 AM (omVj0)

94 Return preps start now.

Safe travels, and warm hearts, everyone.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 19, 2025 06:28 AM (881BD)

95 91 The Texas MoMeet was fun. OPSEC on how much fun. But a team of doers worked hard to entertain and feed the Horde.

Ben Had was just one of those people.

The Not Bossy, Aggressively Helpful t-shirt was worn with brio by a great person. Not by me. I'm too shy for a shirt like that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 19, 2025 06:27 AM (881BD)

Was there some bacon?

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:28 AM (RuTUS)

96 New beats dropped for Tojima Wants to be a Kamen Rider - "I am Tackle!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpjC4MCm9Vo

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 19, 2025 06:29 AM (9qnLV)

97 The smell of Ben-Gay wafted through the air.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 19, 2025

***
A little Aspercreme behind the ears can be very appealing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 06:29 AM (omVj0)

98 patchouli-scented Ben Gay

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:30 AM (RuTUS)

99 "No Kings"? Trump's not defied a single court order.
He has followed the law.

Typical leftist projection:
Biden "worked around" SCOTUS rulings against student debt cancellation, and failed to enforce immigration law, especially for border control

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 06:30 AM (NTdv6)

100 100

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:30 AM (RuTUS)

101 ‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

Winston S. Churchill, 11 November 1947

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:31 AM (RuTUS)

102 Casting our cares Christian devotional on 1st Peter 5:6-9

https://tinyurl.com/2s48mfxz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 19, 2025 06:32 AM (looXz)

103 m

The finest bacon served by the smiling Bacon Wench.

Bliss.

No GTG.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 19, 2025 06:33 AM (881BD)

104 Winnie was wrong on that, I think. Sort of. Well, totally.

Curiously the early 20th century Army technical manuals described Democracy in not very glowing terms. “Results in license, agitation, discontent. Mobocracy. Attitude towards property is communistic”.

After the 2nd war to end all wars they described this anodyne bullshit. They would have PSAs on the radio claiming “In a Democracy, a dictator can’t take over. The people won’t allow it”. This a real howler, because democracies are exactly how dictators generally take over, it’s almost axiomatic.

Posted by: JFK at October 19, 2025 06:33 AM (IrAlb)

105 ". . . The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler

I can’t argue against it, as all evidence shows he’s correct.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025

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We seem to be somewhere on the continuum between late selfishness and early dependence. With a large portion of our population solidly on the side of dependence. "Where my check at?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 06:34 AM (omVj0)

106 complicated!

https://www.governor.vic.gov.au › government-australia
Jun 26, 2025 — Overview of Australian Governments. The Commonwealth of Australia is a federation, a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy.

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:36 AM (RuTUS)

107 patchouli-scented Ben Gay
Posted by: m at October 19, 2025

***
I think I know what patchouli smells like, and I don't wanna smell it any more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 06:37 AM (omVj0)

108 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 19, 2025 06:38 AM (hoCmQ)

109 While the quote is good, is there any evidence there was really an Alex Tytler?

Posted by: Common Tater at October 19, 2025 06:39 AM (IrAlb)

110 "... vote themselves largesse from the public treasury..."
I can’t argue against it, as all evidence shows he’s correct.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

The great city of New York is about to go down this road "gimme free stuff".
And there's Dearborn Michigan. partly sharia law
And blue cities like LA, Chicago, Portland and others seem to want anarchy

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 06:40 AM (NTdv6)

111 Time for morning chow. I'm thinking a couple of scrambled eggs and some toast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 19, 2025 06:42 AM (omVj0)

112 John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".

The belief is that public and private virtue are necessary to uphold the Constitution, which is designed to be a government of laws, not of men, and requires a virtuous citizenry to succeed.

So maybe we've been lucky to make it to 250 years

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 06:46 AM (NTdv6)

113 86 or:

Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times.

From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 19, 2025 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

Posted by: m at October 19, 2025 06:48 AM (RuTUS)

114 85 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 19, 2025 06:21 AM (881BD)

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Easy for you to say after you've been served by the great Bacon Wench.:-) Others of us can only dream.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 19, 2025 06:50 AM (NTdv6)

115 Speaking of tech thread stuff... I'm sick now for going on two weeks. Whatever virus this is keeps hopping from my chest to my head and back. Right now its in my head and its draining.

Anyways - I'm down in my office because my coughing was keeping the boss awake and I noticed that somehow OneDrive forced itself to activate at which point it decided to eat up almost every single byte on my hard drive. Infuriating.
I thought I had nuked OneDrive from orbit.

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 19, 2025 06:52 AM (WYStd)

116 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 19, 2025 06:56 AM (kHop/)

117
Quite a beautiful sight of Venus and the thin waning crescent Moon, about 4% illumination now. Earthshine is pretty bright on the dark side of the disk. Close to due east, look before civil twilight begins, and it will be quite a nice sight.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2025 07:00 AM (w6EFb)

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