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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 30, 2025 [Doof]
What kind of mischief are you up to tonight?
Climate Doomsday Averted?
In 2019 Bill Gates was saying that we had to stop cows from farting, eat fake meat, and get to net zero emissions globally to prevent climate catastrophe.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 28, 2025
If you questioned any of it, you were called an uneducated, science-denying caveman.
Today Gates said that we will never… pic.twitter.com/O0z0fDhoOd
Bill Gates changes his tune on climate change. Now he calls the “doomsday view of climate change” wrong.
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) October 28, 2025
Welcome to the club, Bill.
Here 3 climate scientists debunk several of the doomsday myths: pic.twitter.com/jV9TYxdzHt
I think JackStraw hit the nail on the head earlier today:
>>It's quite amusing on X to see all the True Believers jumpiing out with even more wailing and catastrophism than ever before, they don't know what else to do. I'm watching to see what Bill Gates, high priest of the climate hoax, does next. After decades of hysterical claims that we're all gonna die to drop a comment like "Ya know, maybe the climate stuff isn't so bad after all" is pretty wild. And if Gates is changing course it's because he knows the grift is going belly up and it's time to move to the next one. I'm watching to see his next one.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2025 11:18 AM (viF8m)
CisAmerican liberal gets educated by transindigenous man of color 💪🏾🪶 pic.twitter.com/wQXCvTgj1m
— Josh Seiter (@josh_seiter) October 28, 2025
It's funny how long the word "cool" has been popular. Sixty years or more? Groovy, bitchin', rad, haven't lasted like that. Posted by: Uncool at Any Speed at October 29, 2025 08:58 PM (oftw2) Because those words weren't cool.That got me thinking about words and phrases that have perplexed me for quite a while. Some of these I've mentioned in comments here at the HQ over the years. Today's Morning Report presented an opportunity:
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 29, 2025 09:00 PM (snZF9)
The 3 D's are always on the lookout. Ya never know when one or more of us is lurking.I love that from Blake - "lack of whelm". Then Common Tater joined in and mentioned another one that I wonder about often:
Frankly though - most of the time we are underwhelmed. Can you at least TRY to whelm us occasionally?
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2025 09:26 AM (QMAsf)
----------------- Look, lets get real, we've either not had enough coffee or just getting up from a nap. We're hardly to blame for our lack of whelm.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at October 30, 2025 09:27 AM (UJMvS)
Now that I think about it, I don’t want to be over or under whelmed. Just whelmed would be fine, thanks. Similarly, things by definition should ordinarily or properly be in “whack”, as opposed to being “out” of whack. Whack is good, though not whacked out. Like cat ladies, for example.Exactly! What is the opposite of "out of whack"?? "In whack"? Or just "whack"? But then what about wickety, wickety, whack? Some others...
Posted by: Common Tater at October 30, 2025 09:30 AM (6sbxp)
If one can be "discombobulated", can they be "combobulated"? Or just "bobulated"? Recovering from an illness or medical procedure is called "recuperating". But when does one "cuperate" in the first place? Like "whelming", I like to say that something that is OK, satisfactory, or average is "rated". Not "overrated" or "underrated" - just "rated". Really looking for answers here, Hordelings! Also - What other ones come to mind for you?
A neuroscience startup has created a 6-pound smartphone case that is so heavy and cumbersome to use that it should limit most people’s screentime by around half. Smartphone cases are usually light and slick by design, but Matter Neuroscience decided to go the opposite way, creating perhaps the heaviest and chunkiest phone case money can buy. There was a purpose to their madness, however, as they were trying their best to create the most inconvenient smartphone case in order to make the handheld as difficult to use as possible. The stainless steel phone case weighs a whopping 6 pounds (2.7 kg), heavier than a 16-inch MacBook Pro laptop, and consists of two separate pieces that screw together around the phone.Check out the whole thing. And if you prolific commenters drop off the "wall of shame" soon, we'll know you acquired one of these new gizmos!
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at October 30, 2025 09:54 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Caf at October 30, 2025 09:55 PM (/+mVZ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 30, 2025 09:55 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2025 09:55 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 30, 2025 09:55 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at October 30, 2025 09:55 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 30, 2025 09:57 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at October 30, 2025 09:57 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at October 30, 2025 09:55 PM (v23vE)
Howdy and good job sneaking into First!
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2025 09:57 PM (QMAsf)
Anyway, night all.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at October 30, 2025 09:59 PM (+4S8X)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:00 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 10:01 PM (O7YUW)
Make the case in the same size and shape as a great sword and I'll never put the phone down.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 30, 2025 10:01 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Iris at October 30, 2025 10:01 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: PabloD at October 30, 2025 10:02 PM (j5I5n)
Posted by: TRex - bobulated and whelmed dino. whack TBD. at October 30, 2025 10:03 PM (cCn4/)
I just use somebody else's shoe as a doorstop.
Not enough vim to get a real doorstop.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 30, 2025 10:03 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2025 10:04 PM (ofkVZ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 30, 2025 10:04 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:05 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2025 10:05 PM (ofkVZ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:05 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: PabloD at October 30, 2025 10:02 PM (j5I5n)
I've always aspired to be a miscreant.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2025 10:06 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)
Tonight's ONT brought to you by extreme laziness...
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Could be the packaging. You need a chain saw to get into anything nowadays.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2025 10:06 PM (tgvbd)
Missed competing for Firts. I was distracted perusing my profile on Grok. Nearly doxxable info flood. 🫢
Posted by: mindful webworker - Warm, resilient, pet-loving, it says at October 30, 2025 10:06 PM (UUhkk)
Posted by: PabloD at October 30, 2025 10:06 PM (vVfvj)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 30, 2025 10:07 PM (D57hV)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2025 10:08 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2025 10:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2025 10:06 PM (tgvbd)
You're not kidding. Its like they pack things for space travel these days.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:08 PM (snZF9)
The Taino in Hispaniola mentioned something like that. They asked the Spaniards, "if I go to heaven, will I see many Spaniards there?"
Posted by: gKWVE at October 30, 2025 10:08 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10:08 PM (47diA)
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I'm resting up for The Paul Lynde Halloween Special tomorrow so I have an excuse.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 30, 2025 10:08 PM (0RiMX)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:09 PM (Sco7b)
They mean exactly the same thing.
Inflammable comes from the Latin inflammare ("to set on fire"), so the "in-" means into or toward inflammation—not negation.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 30, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
I seldom use "dude," anymore, though. That one can go away.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 30, 2025 10:10 PM (0aYVJ)
Hey, what about SweeTarts? What ever became of them? They were my favorites back in the day, especially the hockey puck-sized ones for Halloween.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 30, 2025 10:10 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at October 30, 2025 10:11 PM (olaq/)
Posted by: PabloD at October 30, 2025 10:06 PM (vVfvj)
*beams*
*starts Rocky training montage to themed music*
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2025 10:11 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)
Damn, what the hell kind of classes we talking about here?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:11 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at October 30, 2025 10:11 PM (JC8i+)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at October 30, 2025 10:11 PM (olaq/)
Yup, Also, sufficiently plussed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get down with your bad self at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 30, 2025 10:10 PM (kpS4V)
Those were great.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at October 30, 2025 10:11 PM (olaq/)
THAT'S that kind of stuff I'm looking for!
*tosses Club ONT restroom token to Tim*
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (EweRc)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: IrishEi at October 30, 2025 10:13 PM (3ImbR)
I do love you, Doof.
Brings me back to being a dj at KBVR AT Oregon state. I had a show from midnight to 3 am on Saturday.
Super fun. Nerdy. Had the Crazy 8s in studio playing live once. Acoustics were horrid. Had a blast. I think. We were all less than sober.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:14 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)
I hear butt breathing helps!
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)
I participated in Halloween hijinks only once, and it was a little soaping of windows and tossing of the toilet paper. Pretty minor league stuff!
I like the use of "horsefeathers" instead of a swear word now and again. And I always hear it in Mr. Ed's voice!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 30, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)
Right, because 99% of the cell phone owners won't tell them to press it in their ass.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: RandomDave at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (aJQbY)
Groovy was uncool the day it was coined.
Feelin' Groovy?!
Spoils that great old song Spooky, but what else rhymes with "movie," that would work?https://youtu.be/Qpo9KZYJ4sA
Groovin' is still hip.
https://youtu.be/4JIq8Zn0AJE
Posted by: mindful webworker - hep cat at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (UUhkk)
Hi Horde!
Posted by: Iris
I forwarded that to my oldest son. He’s already seen it. Said, yup!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (SRRAx)
On the Moon, it would only weigh about 1 pound.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (wVcYX)
My BFF and I grew duding. Way past the time when we knew it wasn't cool, it was just habit. But only with each other.
I'm too old to change now.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: alpine_beer at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (EH7ZV)
I do love you, Doof.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:14 PM (mT+6a)
Glad you found the hidden L&R song!
Much love to you, too!
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2025 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10:16 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get down with your bad self at October 30, 2025 10:17 PM (AOsQT)
To be without ruth, or short on feck
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Get down with your bad self
__________
"Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth" - Milton, Lycidas
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 30, 2025 10:17 PM (tgvbd)
I just use the nearest boot. This guy actually went to a store and found a doorstop. Say what you will, the man is a go-getter.
Posted by: t-bird at October 30, 2025 10:17 PM (Eo7gL)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:12 PM (SRRAx)
Well, if it had a nice handle on it, it would make a nice self-defense weapon. Clock a skel upside the head with that, and they will drop like a sack of wet cement.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 10:17 PM (npFr7)
'When your religion sucks it's difficult to get converts:'
They'll have to go back and do it the old fashioned way: Threaten people with death.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 30, 2025 10:17 PM (fd80v)
I'm too old to change now.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (viF8m)
Because dude abides
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2025 10:17 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2025 10:18 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at October 30, 2025 09:54 PM (v23vE)
Frankly, I blame Walberswick.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic
I think Kindltot heard one of my shows way back when.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:18 PM (mT+6a)
My BFF and I grew duding. Way past the time when we knew it wasn't cool, it was just habit. But only with each other.
I'm too old to change now.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2025 10:15 PM (viF8m)
Another word I use too much, but I haven't found a replacement.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:19 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Already suggested modeling the case as a great sword.
Mace, morning star, flail would be good options.
This? It's just my cell phone case.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 30, 2025 10:19 PM (/lPRQ)
And keep off my lawn you l'il bastards!
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:20 PM (2WIwB)
On Halloween itself, we would go to the apartments of friends we knew for candy and then would go the subway exit at 5:00pm. People coming home from work would throw money in our little plastic pumpkins. Pretty much everyone was dressed as a hobo.
Posted by: IrishEi at October 30, 2025 10:20 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10:20 PM (47diA)
I tried to watch "K-Pop Demon Hunters" but it was too frantic/I'm too old and I noped out at five minutes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 30, 2025 10:20 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:11 PM (snZF9)
Today was a weight and resistance intensive. Every single one. So not exotic as you may have been thinking!
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:21 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:19 PM (snZF9)
Oscar, grumpy old man on Canada's best sitcom ever - "Corner Gas" was fond of 'Jackass.' He made it work.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:22 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10:22 PM (47diA)
third season was meh. I have the first two on DVD. that's good enough for me.
And Mike's mom was HAWT! Dang!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)
There's a reason I had a reputation as a goody two shoes - my mom had eyes in the back of her head.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (Wmg4n)
Then remembered:apparently Gates and Fetterman both got some sort of lobotomy; or went to a weekend de-libber transformative conversion therapy camp at the same time!? Shocking!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (j5WMt)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (QVmho)
Once you become proficient with dude, you can speak an entire sentence just by changing inflection.
We could be out fishing for hours and rarely say much more than dude or cool whether it was catching a fish or remarking on changing sea conditions or commenting on a babe in a bikini in a passing boat.
It's a dude thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:18 PM (mT+6a)
I still have some cassettes I took off the radio about that time. Probably not the midnight to 3 slot, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10
Like you thought about lifting the weight?
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:24 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at October 30, 2025 09:57 PM (v23vE)
Way to go, Fonzie. Very cool.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2025 10:24 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 30, 2025 10:24 PM (W3AhE)
People have no idea how horrible it was for me to discover how other areas of the country called it " devil's night" and tried to burn down half their towns and cities.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2025 10:23 PM (viF8m)
I don't use it much, but 'Eh' has a ton of uses.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at October 30, 2025 09:57 PM (v23vE)
So you whacked it back into whack.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:26 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth,
When I was bald during chemo, I considered getting eyes tattooed on the back of my head. My
Boys were in 12th and 8th grade
At the time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:26 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 30, 2025 10:26 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (Wmg4n)
I have a bar in my house.
Well.
Beer in the fridge.
It's like a bar.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 30, 2025 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)
nurse, that made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10:27 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Solutus at October 30, 2025 10:28 PM (Ds9EH)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2025 10:28 PM (orbKB)
https://youtu.be/77v_Q0mhbZU
Posted by: Doof at October 30, 2025 10:28 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2025 10:08 PM (+qU29)
Sorry, we don't take walk-ins, but we do have a slot available after 11:30 central time for Saturday's Club ONT. Should I pencil you in?
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2025 10:28 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (Sco7b)
I know, eh?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Jubilant Delinquent at October 30, 2025 10:29 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at October 30, 2025 10:30 PM (QNNvM)
Posted by: tankdemon at October 30, 2025 10:30 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 30, 2025 10:30 PM (DK5Sh)
Bending Spoons, the Milan-based technology firm, has reached a definitive agreement to purchase AOL from Yahoo. The deal, which involves the transfer of the historic web portal and email service, is slated to finalize before the end of the current year, pending standard regulatory reviews and closing requirements. The sale comes just after AOL shut down its dial-up internet service.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2025 10:30 PM (pkeXY)
Boys were in 12th and 8th grade
At the time.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:26 PM (mT+6a)
I saw a bouncer in a club once; he had an image of his entire face tattooed on the back of his bald head. It was very well done, too, a good likeness.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 30, 2025 10:31 PM (W3AhE)
Then again, I lived a pretty sheltered childhood/adolescence.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:32 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 30, 2025 10:24 PM (W3AhE)
We had a short foot bridge with hand rails maybe 25 feet long across this tiny stream down in a gully in some woods up the street from where I grew up. Yup, the party bridge. Do stupid shit and then meet at the bridge and party.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:32 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2025 10:32 PM (bI6eY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7)
When I was in Calgary a few years ago sitting on a bus, two drivers were talking to each other at the stop and one of them used eh about every three sentences. I thought it was mostly a joke that it was done, but I guess Canuks do use it a lot.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 30, 2025 10:32 PM (uQesX)
We called that Friday, and we included such mischief as throwing parking peanuts in the yards of out enemies, lawn jobs for randos, accelerated mailbox replacement service and the like.
We were very helpful youths.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2025 10:32 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Joyenz at October 30, 2025 10:33 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:26 PM (SRRAx)
Yes - but I also have to do what clients like and we do fun things. This was “Tuck or Treat”. I have days where I teach multiple different classes, but that also requires me to keep all that choreo straight in my head, we don’t make it up on the fly. Classes are planned out, I have a choreo schedule to help, and it avoids clients getting the same thing 2 days in a row. Every day is different choreo. Probably way more detail than you wanted!
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:34 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 30, 2025 10:35 PM (y+qgR)
Well.
Beer in the fridge.
It's like a bar.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Antisocial Media Influencer at October 30, 2025 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)
Hi AOP!
There's actually 2 bars in my house.
There's an old wooden one in the basement and a nicer one in the downstairs living room. The house was built in the 70's. I don't know why the bar in the basement.
Were key parties all the rage?
I need to entertain more now.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:35 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 30, 2025 10:36 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 30, 2025 10:36 PM (orbKB)
So he put a beacon unit in the room where the PCs are, and powered it up. And that's all he did. Everything worked well enough for me so I thanked and tipped him and he left.
Afterward, I thought 'what good is the beacon if I don't have the login credentials for it?' It's not actually in the LAN at all yet.
So today I dug out the cardboard box that the beacon shipped in and found the little Quick Start guide. Aha! He was supposed to locate the beacon next to the modem, and hardwire connect them with a CAT6 cable! So I did that, and I was able to login to the STRONG beacon sig from all my machines, wherever sited, with even better performance than before.
RTFM works!
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:36 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 30, 2025 10:37 PM (kpS4V)
Today was a weight and resistance intensive. Every single one. So not exotic as you may have been thinking!
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:21 PM (Wmg4n)
Sounds like a day at the shop. Lifting a 150 pound harley engine into the frame without screwing up the frame paint is pretty weight and resistance intensive. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:37 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:37 PM (Wmg4n)
Then again, I lived a pretty sheltered childhood/adolescence.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 30, 2025 10:32 PM (SRRAx
I hope you're well Teresa.
My Mom grew up in Detroit. I live in Canada, across the border. We got Detroit news. I learned about Devil's Night.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:38 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:39 PM (Sco7b)
People have no idea how horrible it was for me to discover how other areas of the country called it " devil's night" and tried to burn down half their towns and cities.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 30, 2025 10:25 PM (DK5Sh)
It was called mischief night in my area of central jersey where I grew up. I'll say, by the end of the night it looked like a Charmin truck exploded in the neighborhood.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:40 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Piper at October 30, 2025 10:40 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a)
Early fade-out time 🕤 tonight for this "warm, resilient, pet-loving" (per Grok) webworker. Party on, dudes.
https://youtu.be/HsC_SARyPzk
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - good kid, right up until at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (UUhkk)
I gotta get a new computer. A laptop.
Nothing fancy, just something I can write in, do email, and check the web.
Suggestions?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB)
1. Nice doorstop
2. Robber stopper
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (S/Y4j)
But I'm using it mainly indoors anyway, although I might try it out in the field on dry days. Fits easy enough in the car without disassembly.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 10:43 PM (jc0TO)
Nothing fancy, just something I can write in, do email, and check the web.
Suggestions?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB)
I bought last year's Lenovo Ideapad, this February. It's been doing great for me so far.
Not much of a gaming rig but I only play DOSbox and non real time games on this thing anyway (because I'm 29) so they don't tax the CPU.
Posted by: gKWVE at October 30, 2025 10:45 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:46 PM (7imtn)
But I enjoyed them very much!
The little goblins, ghouls, ninjas, witches, and princesses will have to settle for Nestle Crunches and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at October 30, 2025 10:46 PM (+RGVg)
Nothing fancy, just something I can write in, do email, and check the web.
Suggestions?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM
I got my wife an HP from Walmart. This one.
https://tinyurl.com/3nhd5hpa
It costs a quarter of what her last Toshiba cost and she is happy with it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 10:47 PM (jc0TO)
If one can be "discombobulated", can they be "combobulated"? Or just "bobulated"?
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Unruly is the ONT. Ruly is the 100 comment rule?
Posted by: scampydog at October 30, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW)
Status: Elevated
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 10:43 PM (jc0TO)
He looked you up on Grok!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 10:47 PM (npFr7)
I’m in!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a)
When we're not dystopian, it's a pretty country.
I have 3 big beers and am deciding what to watch. I have Amazon for a week. M3gan 2.0 is on. Cool.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 30, 2025 10:49 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2025 10:49 PM (A6iMD)
Posted by: Lirio100 at October 30, 2025 10:49 PM (ky7/T)
Corning.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 30, 2025 10:49 PM (LjSYW)
nurse, that made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at October 30, 2025 10:27 PM (47diA)
If you done that, and had fine hair, it might still have an effect of patients considering doing something behind your butt, er..., back.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2025 10:50 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 10:47 PM (jc0TO)
I don't think my Toshiba Satellite (2012 model) cost anywhere near that. Got it from Fry's electronics in Phoenix. Put LInux Mint on it last year, and it runs fine, with no hiccups.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 10:51 PM (jc0TO)
Looks fine to me, if you can swing the $548 price tag.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:51 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: steevy at October 30, 2025 10:52 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:46 PM (7imtn)
I'm using a pretty old dell. I got it new a long time ago. It was their top model of the time. It has win 7 pro. lol. It just won't die, its a tank. I do need to replace it because I mean how much longer is this thing going to last. Not sure what to replace it with. I always had good luck with dell.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:53 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:53 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: gKWVE at October 30, 2025 10:53 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 10:50 PM
Hers was also a Satellite, it is out in the barn so I can't tell you which model, with 32GB, I7, 15.6" screen and two HDDs in it. I remember paying over $2K for it.
and she broke it.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 10:54 PM (jc0TO)
I think they're deliberately designed to die after about 10K cycles. If you use it as a desktop, not as a carry-around portable, you have the option to just leave it open all the time, never bother closing it.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:54 PM (7imtn)
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Far out. Stoked. Can you dig it.
Thanks for the fun ONT, Disco
Posted by: scampydog, totally at October 30, 2025 10:54 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Me too! I love Canada land. Camping in the Frasier River Valley is sublime.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:55 PM (IkM4W)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 30, 2025 10:01 PM (O7YUW)
dropping a nood >> dropping a deuce...?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 30, 2025 10:57 PM (p2nwp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 10:57 PM (yZqjq)
Ask Grok about connecting a Win 7 machine to the WAN without some kind of external security device or external firewall. Win 7 is totally pwned and unsupported now, and very easy to attack from the WAN even with its own Win firewall enabled.
Last time I tried doing going online with it, as soon as the WiFi adapter came up, it got hit by a Yuge flood of traffic. The keyboard and mouse were instantly disabled. I saw what was happening right away and hit the power button.
Be careful.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:57 PM (7imtn)
Looks fine to me, if you can swing the $548 price tag.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:51 PM (7imtn)
***
Yeah. I can do that. But cheap bastard that I am I may go over to Ft Lewis and avoid the 10% tax.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:58 PM (2WIwB)
And Harrison Hot Springs.
Not to mention Vancouver Island.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 10:58 PM (IkM4W)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at October 30, 2025 10:58 PM (8cPKb)
Only been to Toronto twice, but it was way cool.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 10:58 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: gp
Ugh. The BlowJobs are prolly going to win the Series.
Fucking BlowJobs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 11:00 PM (IkM4W)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 30, 2025 10:05 PM (snZF9)
Far out man....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 30, 2025 11:00 PM (p2nwp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:01 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:01 PM
It was the first one where you went 'Oh, this is what Windows was supposed to be.'
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 11:02 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at October 30, 2025 11:02 PM (8cPKb)
Nothing fancy, just something I can write in, do email, and check the web.
Suggestions?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB)
Buy a full sized external keyboard and a real mouse for it to make her life better.
(I did database entry and letter generation for years, and I hate hate hate laptop keyboards. They are for people who have tiny fingers and don't need to use a keyboard or a 10-key pad)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:03 PM (rbvCR)
Maybe in 2050, MS will release the source code for it. They recently released the full 8080 source code for MS BASIC as a historical curiosity.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:04 PM (7imtn)
THIS! And get a little 7-port USB 3.2 hub to carry around with it. Never enough USB ports on a skinny laptop.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:05 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at October 30, 2025 11:06 PM (DK5Sh)
(I did database entry and letter generation for years, and I hate hate hate laptop keyboards. They are for people who have tiny fingers and don't need to use a keyboard or a 10-key pad)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:03 PM (rbvCR)
My Toshiba has the numeric keypad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)
Nope. He's a stubborn old guy who won't change his ways. He KNOWS how to touch type on a real keyboard. It makes no sense to me.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:07 PM (7imtn)
Halloween has always been a big deal in this part of town. Kids still come down from the suburbs to visit and trick or treat.
No mischief tonight to report somehow we are still a nice neighborhood despite what the Freddy Grey incident did to the City.
Posted by: Mogsmash at October 30, 2025 11:08 PM (OXHCZ)
Looking for an economical laptop for general home use once I get over the heartbreak of the HP dying.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 30, 2025 11:08 PM (p2nwp)
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 11:09 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Javems at October 30, 2025 11:09 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:01 PM
It was the first one where you went 'Oh, this is what Windows was supposed to be.'
Posted by: toby928(c)
True, but backward compatibility was maybe 50% of existing programs. And the option to upgrade to "Pro" to get backward compatibility sucked ass. So kept an older machine for that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 30, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Nothing fancy, just something I can write in, do email, and check the web.
Suggestions?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB)
Buy a full sized external keyboard and a real mouse for it to make her life better.
(I did database entry and letter generation for years, and I hate hate hate laptop keyboards. They are for people who have tiny fingers and don't need to use a keyboard or a 10-key pad)
Posted by: Kindltot
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And a self powered hub.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8jzwa8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:10 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:11 PM (rbvCR)
The M in RTFM was a 12-foot metal rack with metal binders in it stuffed with IBM arcana that nobody WANTED to read, but they were taught to, by Nick Burns, your Campus Computer Tech Guy.
Whoever tried to name JCL a "language" was a wicked sarcastic SOB! What a pile of crap.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:13 PM (7imtn)
Well they had some "horror" sounds being played on their record player with the speaker at the window next to the bush. Just as I backed into the bush the record started playing some bee-like buzzing sounds. I thought I had backed into a bee hive and round out shouting "BEES BEES BEES!"
I threw my bag of candy in the air and ran for about 50 feet.
My brother still reminds me of this almost 50 years later.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 30, 2025 11:13 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:14 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:13 PM
370 Principles of Operation was riveting.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 11:14 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Javems
That makes me smile.
Eff cancer. May your friends memory be a blessing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 11:15 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at October 30, 2025 11:08 PM (p2nwp)
My Dell Optiplex box with Win7 died, and I replaced it with a Reconditioned Dell Optiplex running Win11 from Amazon. It was $120 IIRC
I sweated blood and about sent it back before I figured out how to boot it up for the first time without logging it into OneDrive .
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
The original IBM PC keyboard and original Mac keyboard were both a joy to use! I could raise quite a racket clacking on those things all day!
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:15 PM (7imtn)
*record scratch*
Headstones? All that R.I.P. biz, in a Old Folks Home?
Maybe I'm too sensitive.
It got a nervous chuckle out of me, though.
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2025 11:16 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:15 PM (rbvCR)
That, right there, is why I will not buy a new Windoze machine. The cloud is evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 11:17 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:14 PM (yZqjq)
If I get a wireless mouse I will never find it. Between the clutter on my desk, the confusion around my desk, and the cats knocking things off the desk, I might as well either keep one wired, or buy five spares.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 30, 2025 11:19 PM (mP847)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:19 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:20 PM (yZqjq)
Maybe I'm too sensitive.
It got a nervous chuckle out of me, though.
Posted by: JQ
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The headstones seem inappropriate. Yikes.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at October 30, 2025 11:21 PM (W3AhE)
Speaking of technology, I nearly tore my hair out tonight trying to get my niece to install Be My Eyes on my mom's phone. You'd think these actual 29-year-olds who are so smarmy about being tech-savvy could install and configure a simple damn app -- BUT NO. I'm listening to her stumbling over every ad, every option, reading like a 5-year-old through everything she should be reading at a glance and swiping right through, but instead she thinks she's in a completely different app and I've given her the wrong instructions and we'd better turn around and back out.
I finally realized I have another phone with a separate line on it and did all the testing on that one. Good lord.
Then comes this Apple app review nightmare...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2025 11:21 PM (5e+/e)
Don't lose the little dongle that goes with it. I used nail polish to color code all my Logitech wireless peripherals and dongles. I got so many of them, can't mix em up. Inside the mouse, there's a little pocket you can store the dongle in if you need to.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:21 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:22 PM (7imtn)
BTW, my favorite reference for something I've yet to figure out was, and will always be, "Well, isn't that a fine how do you do?"
I have no idea on context, meaning or application. I just know our brain addled ancestors used it quite a bit.
I rest my case.
https://tinyurl.com/yac7x3fu
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2025 11:23 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB)
Buy a full sized external keyboard and a real mouse for it to make her life better.
(I did database entry and letter generation for years, and I hate hate hate laptop keyboards. They are for people who have tiny fingers and don't need to use a keyboard or a 10-key pad)
Posted by: Kindltot
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And a self powered hub.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8jzwa8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:10 PM (yZqjq)
***
Dang. You guys are sure free with my credit card.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:14 PM (yZqjq)
_______________________
But, you may, in fact, move forward to a wireless Trac Ball. Even better IMO.
Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2025 11:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 11:24 PM
Remain blessed.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 30, 2025 11:27 PM (jc0TO)
We're putting together an app that we want to make available through the App Store, but it has to pass a review. Apple throws a false positive at us: It doesn't have the privacy policy in the binary. We respond: It's right there IN THE ONBOARDING YOU IDIOTS and you can't even INSTALL THE APP WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING IT. It's also available in Settings.
Okay, we don't use that exact wording, but we respond and then they throw their SECOND false positive: You require registration before you allow access to the app content. We respond: YOU DOUBLE IDIOTS, at NO TIME is registration required. Use these simple, easy, painfully obvious steps to confirm.
They throw their THIRD false positive at us: You don't have a Restore Settings function. We respond: IT'S IN TWO PLACES YOU TRIPLE IDIOTS. And it works precisely per your requirements, as you would see if you so much as tapped it with your fat fingers.
Waiting for its re-re-re-review. What will they throw at us next?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2025 11:27 PM (5e+/e)
It might roll off.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:27 PM (yZqjq)
It might roll off.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:27 PM (yZqjq)
Works fine, if you have the one you operate with your thumb
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 30, 2025 11:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:30 PM (7imtn)
That is all.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 30, 2025 11:19 PM (mP847)
Well Dr. Pepper is the #2 brand, makes sense.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 30, 2025 11:31 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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And with every update they change some things around to amuse you. They should stick to security updates and allow the customer to choose trinkets or not.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:32 PM (yZqjq)
IT work kills your soul. It killed mine. Programming is fun, as long as you don't have to work to a deadline, with 'Top Priorities' changing three times every day, and the f'n phone NEVER stops ringing.
Boss gives you a six week project in the morning, and blocks out the time on the Gantt chart. At 2:30PM same day, he comes by and asks "Got that finished yet?"
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:33 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:36 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 30, 2025 11:36 PM (npFr7)
"We have things flying around in a Nevada desert that are 50 years beyond what you can comprehend, if you've seen it on Star Wars or Star Trek we've either been there, done that, or decided it wasn't worth the effort"
- Ben Rich,
Dir. Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 30, 2025 11:37 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 30, 2025 11:38 PM (h2tDR)
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It's as if the contact person is being guided by AI.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2025 11:38 PM (XeU6L)
I like my M575. Doesn't crud-up very often, but is easy to clean. Battery lasts 6 months or so. Takes one AA and is simple to change.
Posted by: JQ at October 30, 2025 11:39 PM (rdVOm)
It's as if the contact person is being guided by AI.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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My experience with Proton.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:40 PM (yZqjq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2025 11:40 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:36 PM (7imtn)
Cat hair. Mine were always clogging with cat hair. It would have been really disturbing if I didn't have cats.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 30, 2025 11:41 PM (mP847)
Posted by: gp
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Do you have a cat? I used to have to periodically take the mouse apart to clear out a wad of cat ahir.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)
I run up to 100W HF radio transmissions from this room. Every wire in the radio shack is an antenna. The more wires I have, the more stray RF gets into the boxes, and the more problems I have.
Switching to all wireless peripherals, and custom short-length power cables for every box, and ferrite chokes on every indispensible cable, fixed the problems for the most part. WiFi and bluetooth especially are remarkably resistant to HF RFI!
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:42 PM (7imtn)
It's as if the contact person is being guided by AI.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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HAHAHAHA. Since some of those Apple responses were coming in on weekends and at odd hours of the night, I suspected overseas half-wits, but AI could easily be that inept.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2025 11:43 PM (5e+/e)
Posted by: Meat at October 30, 2025 11:44 PM (ciYHQ)
I tell ya, Grok is easier to work with, and more competent, than ANY human colleague I've worked with. I am NOT joking.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:44 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:45 PM (7imtn)
If I get a wireless mouse I will never find it.
This. Every now and again mine goes missing for up to a week. It is a complete pain in the ass to be without it as the click pad on the laptop is only spottily functioning.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 30, 2025 11:45 PM (h2tDR)
Buy a full sized external keyboard and a real mouse for it to make her life better.
(I did database entry and letter generation for years, and I hate hate hate laptop keyboards. They are for people who have tiny fingers and don't need to use a keyboard or a 10-key pad)
Posted by: Kindltot
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And a self powered hub.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8jzwa8
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 30, 2025 11:10 PM (yZqjq)
***
Dang. You guys are sure free with my credit card.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)
And a second monitor. Shit is cheap now, especially used
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 30, 2025 11:45 PM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 30, 2025 11:45 PM (bI6eY)
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Is there a Be My Bladder app? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2025 11:46 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Diogenes at October 30, 2025 11:24 PM (2WIwB)
All the savvy tech gurus shop at Goodwill. That is why you want a wired mouse and keyboard. You can always find them there and pay cash.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:36 PM (7imtn)
So one night the TA center gets me out of bed to drive out to Mt Olive, NJ. Client reports the Sun platform is not responding, and they think it's the mouse. They want me to bring a replacement mouse. It's 10:30, and I know this problem has nothing to do with the damn mouse. It is an optical mouse, however. Keep that in mind for the rest of the story....
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 30, 2025 11:47 PM (nbLIj)
At 2:30PM same day, he comes by and asks "Got that finished yet?"
Posted by: gp
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Then you work a solid week of 20-hour days to get it finished, and the whole project gets delayed by 3 months.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2025 11:47 PM (5e+/e)
Is there a Be My Bladder app? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Geez, sorry, Mike. I think it exists, but it's analog.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 30, 2025 11:50 PM (5e+/e)
It gave me suicidal/homicidal fantasies, working 90 hours a week in that shit. It was bad.
You slave your ass off for people who can't even decide what the fuck they REALLY want.
You bust your ass because some salesman made a promise to a customer that he knew damn well HE'D never have to honor, because I would have to honor HIS stupid promise for him.
And meanwhile, the phone rings off the hook.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:50 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 30, 2025 11:45 PM (WF/xn)
I have a hard shell briefcase that holds the laptop, keyboard, wires, charger, mouse and spare cable so I can carry it around if need be.
I was looking for a monitor to slip in there too, but the small ones are really delicate
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 30, 2025 11:46 PM (XeU6L)
Its made by Foley.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2025 11:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2025 11:54 PM (7imtn)
Such things as Gravimetric Avionics, Topological Holography (holography with form and mass - like the Enterprise's Holo Deck), Warp Drives and Gamma Bombs, Antimatter munitions, GASERS, MASERS, Human Invisibility and other Cloaking systems, Human Cloning, Creation of Chimeras, Secret Space Program, Bases on the Moon and Mars, mining of Saturn's Rings, Rejuvenation Serums...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 31, 2025 12:02 AM (TGPs7)
You bust your ass because some salesman made a promise to a customer that he knew damn well HE'D never have to honor, because I would have to honor HIS stupid promise for him.
Posted by: gp
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"Can you make it defy gravity?"
"No."
"I don't see why."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 12:02 AM (5e+/e)
I like my M575. Doesn't crud-up very often, but is easy to clean. Battery lasts 6 months or so. Takes one AA and is simple to change.
Posted by: JQ
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My thumb hurts looking at it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:02 AM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:03 AM (eStot)
Such things as Gravimetric Avionics, Topological Holography (holography with form and mass - like the Enterprise's Holo Deck), Warp Drives and Gamma Bombs, Antimatter munitions, GASERS, MASERS, Human Invisibility and other Cloaking systems, Human Cloning, Creation of Chimeras, Secret Space Program, Bases on the Moon and Mars, mining of Saturn's Rings, Rejuvenation Serums...
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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There are some who believe in ghosts.
...oh
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:04 AM (yZqjq)
'He says he needs this,' the boss explains.
'What is the problem they intend to solve?' I ask.
'This is what he needs.'
'What requirements does it have to meet?'
'The diagram summarizes it.'
'No it doesn't. It shows a server, and a box labeled QC, and another box labeled "PC solder" and another box labeled "In circuit test," and so forth. But it doesn't tell me what this network is supposed to accomplish."
'Look, the QC manager has a backlog of 7000 failed units, and we need to "track" them.'
'How does "tracking them" make the 7000 failed units go away? How does it prevent him manufacturing more failed units? Can I ask the guy who drew this diagram?'
'No.'
Forty fucking years of my life dealing with that numbskull shit.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:04 AM (7imtn)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:05 AM (eStot)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2025 12:06 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Braenyard
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I find it quite comfortable. You can adjust the sensitivity, and I have it maxxed. Takes very little ball-movement to cross the screen with pointer.
Again: suit yourself.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 12:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2025 12:07 AM (XGULh)
We will defeat SkyNet with the English language. Things like "whelm" that they won't understand. To/too/two. Threw/through. Wholly/holey/holy. Our lack of coherent syntax.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:08 AM (eStot)
Such things as Gravimetric Avionics, Topological Holography (holography with form and mass - like the Enterprise's Holo Deck), Warp Drives and Gamma Bombs, Antimatter munitions, GASERS, MASERS, Human Invisibility and other Cloaking systems, Human Cloning, Creation of Chimeras, Secret Space Program, Bases on the Moon and Mars, mining of Saturn's Rings, Rejuvenation Serums...
Posted by: Mister Ghost
Yup.
Hundreds of thousands keeping secrets above top secret... With their own private universities to get the top 0.01% to further the tech.
And they could not keep Trump from winning the third time.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 31, 2025 12:09 AM (/lPRQ)
Months pass. Crickets from the users who were supposedly clamoring for this crap.
Boss asks 'Got that sigcap thing done yet?'
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:09 AM (7imtn)
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2025 12:07 AM (XGULh)
Mice gnaw on everything.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2025 12:09 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2025 12:11 AM (8TPCk)
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2025 12:11 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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Mine has 16GB Ram and literature says second monitor welcome.
However, when running a second monitor everything becomes unpleasantly slow. Am I missing a step?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:11 AM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2025 12:11 AM (npFr7)
Why? You need to go pick the cabbages before frost sets in?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:11 AM (eStot)
Posted by: Lirio100 at October 31, 2025 12:12 AM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
You suck: bad.
You blow: also bad.
You are shit: bad.
You ain't shit: also bad.
You are the shit: good, somehow.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2025 12:13 AM (XGULh)
Mine has 16GB Ram and literature says second monitor welcome.
However, when running a second monitor everything becomes unpleasantly slow. Am I missing a step?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:11 AM (yZqjq)
Hmmm, I haven't had that happen
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 31, 2025 12:14 AM (WF/xn)
Yeah, I hadn't heard anything about it for a while, so I figured either they had just already burned down everything that would burn or the media didn't want us to know.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:14 AM (eStot)
Hundreds of thousands keeping secrets above top secret... With their own private universities to get the top 0.01% to further the tech.
And they could not keep Trump from winning the third time.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Wakanda was cleaning its ball mice that day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 12:14 AM (5e+/e)
Then the kid show up with the grands. His car has a waterpump leak and he needs the Jeep that I had all the shit sitting out to do a major overhaul on this weekend. So that won't happen until spring as this is probably the last decent weekend this year.
I should just go back to work but I finally got Signals to play and it's been 2 hours 12 minutes since I started this comment. Time to finally crack a beer.
Posted by: Reforger at October 31, 2025 12:15 AM (9dRxv)
You suck: bad.
You blow: also bad.
You are shit: bad.
You ain't shit: also bad.
You are the shit: good, somehow.
Posted by: mikeski
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We sanction your language, in order to stop it.
We sanction your language, in order to allow it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 12:17 AM (5e+/e)
"No, just a very tired gerbil."
The room was tough that night my friends.
Anyway, I assured them the platform froze due to a memory buffer overflow. I just clear the buffer, and everything will be fine. Less than five minutes later, I announce my success. Shift lead comes over and he moves the mouse around to confirm the cursor tracks like it's supposed to. Then he turns it over (this is where you recall that this is an optical mouse).
"What about this?"
I inspect the bottom of the mouse, "uhhmm?"
He points to the LED...the red LED, "It's still in alarm"
Please understand that I was sleep-deprived, and a bit loopy from the two-hour drive to get there. For a nanosecond, I thought that I was in the presence of an unsung comic genius. I was about to explode in gales of laughter, punch him in the shoulder, and surrender any claims of having any wit while in the presence of this...this...true god of comedy.
In the next instant, I realized he was serious...and the rest of the shift nodding their agreement...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2025 12:17 AM (nbLIj)
Makes and models will vary a lot, depending on what's on sale in your area. Before you go shopping, though, make a list of the features you want. Does the laptop have to have a DVD drive? Does the quality of the speakers matter? How large a screen do you need - and what resolution should it have? Is the keyboard comfortable for you? How many external ports do you need, and what configuration - USB, HDMI, Ethernet? Do you need a socket for a chip? How big a SSD do you need? How much RAM do you need? What operating system do you need? Note I haven't talked about processor: given your modest needs, almost any current processor will do the job.
Once you've figured out your requirements, go to a major dealer in your area and check out their sales. (For me, in Chicago, Microcenter is my go-to store.) Given your modest needs, buy trailing-edge technology: it's cheaper, and it's been debugged. I've had good luck with refurbished machines: again, they're cheaper; but YMMV.
Good luck!
Posted by: Nemo at October 31, 2025 12:18 AM (4RPgu)
Posted by: Jackson K. at October 31, 2025 12:18 AM (J9q9v)
No easy way to deal with that. @AOP, any tricks up your sleeve the rest of us don't know about?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:18 AM (eStot)
In northern Vermont tonight was called cabbage night. That doesn't seem a popular name anywhere else.
Posted by: 496
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That's as mysterious to me as "the Santa Anas" used to be to my eastern friends, but I hear the Santa Anas are generally known now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 12:20 AM (5e+/e)
I bet the dunderhead marketer who thunk up 'Notifications' is filthy rich in Elysium now, and has successfully escaped the Wrath he richly deserves, and laffs about it.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:21 AM (7imtn)
We sanction your language, in order to allow it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Biweekly
Bimonthly
Etc.
Half or twice... Whatever the speaker meant.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 31, 2025 12:22 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:22 AM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:22 AM (eStot)
I'm just glad they retired the talking paperclip.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:24 AM (eStot)
this...this...true god of comedy.
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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omg
I guess you were too tired to tell him that was the radium leakage indicator.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 12:25 AM (5e+/e)
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AOP checked out, I believe.
Sounds like kid needs a new water pump.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 12:25 AM (rdVOm)
Cripes, caught in the middle of a damn customer-vendor dispute AGAIN! They claimed the customer didn't buy the warranty, when he DID, according to their own invoice.
If you buy new, get the full warranty that covers you for any accidental damage. Might as well go to Best Buy; they've never shafted me yet.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:26 AM (7imtn)
No easy way to deal with that. @AOP, any tricks up your sleeve the rest of us don't know about?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
Replace pump.
Most have a hole to weap through when bearings go bad.
You may have a couple weeks before it goes really bad and seizes up.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 31, 2025 12:26 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:27 AM (7imtn)
We sanction your language, in order to allow it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Contronyms!
The fight-or-flight response could be called "stand fast or run fast."
If we cleave together, no one can cleave us apart.
A lack of oversight led to this oversight.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2025 12:27 AM (XGULh)
Posted by: JB1000 at October 31, 2025 12:27 AM (ttgbj)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 12:29 AM (5e+/e)
So, keep working with it and let us know if the mouses stop working or start to stutter or lag.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2025 12:29 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:18 AM (eStot)
I'm fully capable. Just lacking the lift and the desire to do it but mostly the desire to do it.
Posted by: Reforger at October 31, 2025 12:29 AM (9dRxv)
(only because dickhead Cook won't allow me to store them intact any other way)
_Featured content is turned off.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:31 AM (yZqjq)
I've gone my whole life never having to deal with Apple stuff. The zillion other platforms I've turd-wrassled with are enough trouble for me, without adding that too.
Not knocking Apple. Just drawing a line somewhere, for my own sanity.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:35 AM (7imtn)
I liked the Trans-indigenous fellow.
Posted by: JB1000
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He's genius! Show up at an anti-ICE demonstration in feathers and war paint and demand mass deportations of all the white trespassers and land thieves. Starting with the Karens and Chads on hand.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 12:35 AM (5e+/e)
Yeah, I can sympathize with not having the desire. As for the lack of lift, my dad, more than once, drove the car over a ditch so he could lay in the ditch and work under it. I've never had the balls to try it.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 31, 2025 12:35 AM (eStot)
Posted by: Common Tater at October 31, 2025 12:37 AM (xHdZY)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2025 12:37 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 31, 2025 12:38 AM (ZVgZ4)
You could disable prolly over half the "services" without impairing the functionality.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:39 AM (7imtn)
My public library has a fully-neutered, sandboxed Win 11 environment that works pretty well.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:42 AM (7imtn)
Posted by: 496 at October 31, 2025 12:43 AM (Vvecv)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:45 AM (7imtn)
The walk to the car took forever. I continued to deny my lungs the breath they clamored for. As I drove past the guard gate, my left eyelid began to flutter.
It was a near thing, but I managed to get a half mile from the site before pulling over and giving into the most raucous laughing/screaming jag of my adult life. If a cop happened by, I probably would have let him arrest me rather than attempt a coherent retelling of night's proceedings
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2025 12:47 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:48 AM (yZqjq)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 12:53 AM (7imtn)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 31, 2025 12:54 AM (uHi2H)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 31, 2025 12:55 AM (uHi2H)
“I make no apologies for believing that Christianity is a pathway to God,” Vance urged, adding “I make no apologies for thinking that Christian values are an important foundation of this country, but not going to force you to believe in anything because that’s not what God wants, and that’s not what I want either.”
Watch:
https://tinyurl.com/yhajk232
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 12:56 AM (yZqjq)
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That's scary.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 12:57 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 12:57 AM (rdVOm)
-
And here you are:
https://tinyurl.com/2se6m7bu
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 31, 2025 01:01 AM (uHi2H)
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 01:05 AM (7imtn)
WTF?
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 01:11 AM (7imtn)
Posted by: Wallace and Gromit at October 31, 2025 01:13 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 01:13 AM (yZqjq)
Grok:
https://tinyurl.com/5n89pzt8
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 31, 2025 12:54 AM (uHi2H)
Umwhatnow?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 31, 2025 01:14 AM (pIfcn)
WTF?
Posted by: gp
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It doesn't know how to sign in.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 01:14 AM (yZqjq)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 01:15 AM (rdVOm)
I'm feeling kind of let down by that
23 years of commenting here, all for nothing.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 01:16 AM (7imtn)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 31, 2025 01:17 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2025 01:17 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 01:18 AM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Reforger at October 31, 2025 01:19 AM (9dRxv)
bloop
bloop
bloop
Grawk and ay-eye will ruin everything for everyone, eventually.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
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Frightening article in the Epoch Times re AI. Not avaiable unless you sign up, which is too bad. Scary stuff going on.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2025 01:27 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 01:27 AM (yZqjq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2025 01:28 AM (XeU6L)
I was gonna ask Pixie about the not being able to access comments on old threads. I think comments get closed after a certain time and aren't veiwable. Maybe Grok can't see them.
Posted by: Reforger
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Here's the formula:
If you use the archive links from the home page, you eventually get to a link to minx.cc/whatever that can not be found. Replace minx.cc with acecomments.mu.nu in the address bar and reload.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 01:28 AM (5e+/e)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 01:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Common Tater at October 31, 2025 12:37 AM (xHdZY)
Won't that create giant radioactive ants?????
🐜
Posted by: Archer at October 31, 2025 01:31 AM (YGRGv)
I'm sure AI will be abused and misused and misapplied in a billion different ways, but that says more about us humans than it says about AI.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 01:31 AM (7imtn)
Frightening article in the Epoch Times re AI. Not avaiable unless you sign up, which is too bad. Scary stuff going on.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2025 01:27
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"AI-Induced Delusions Are Driving Some Users to Psych Wards ..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2025 01:31 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2025 01:37 AM (XeU6L)
"AI-Induced Delusions Are Driving Some Users to Psych Wards ..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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I know how to fix it: chips. Chips in the brain to straighten out your thinking. And sex robots.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 01:38 AM (5e+/e)
I asked my questions. Grok gave good answers. Bit by bit, I could reason with it to make it see flaws in examples it gave, and it always cheerily refined its results to correct the flaws. I asked for references on the topics, and it gave me good ones.
It's *refreshing* to have a good faith, substantive, edifying and fruitful argument/discussion with some entity that doesn't always collapse into angry ad hominems and mockery! It's *unhuman,* and that's the best thing about it
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 01:41 AM (7imtn)
I can't believe the horrors in my X timeline.
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
·
Oct 29
2 Muslim doctors have been performing illegal surgeries on young girls in Minnesota as part of “Shia Muslim religious practice”
“Security camera footage, some taped phone conversations and the testimony from 2 very young girls who say they were taken to that clinic where they experienced unthinkable pain”
I was hoping it would end differently for the 2 very young girls.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 01:43 AM (5e+/e)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 31, 2025 01:44 AM (0nHVk)
Amy Reichert
@amyforsandiego
BREAKING: California’s UC system now requires students through an online TEST to affirm transgender ideology to stay enrolled. Under the SHAPE program, refusing to use trans pronouns or objecting to males in women’s restrooms is labeled “harassment.” Fail the quiz, and you’re blocked from registering.
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How is Harmeet Dhillon not ending this? Is there just so damn much of it that she can't spin all the plates?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 01:44 AM (5e+/e)
...
Crude tanker rally continues as VLCC spot rates skyrocke
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 01:46 AM (yZqjq)
I was hoping it would end differently for the 2 very young girls.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Mutilators should be taken out in the public square, making sure all other healthcare providers are in attendance, made to kneel and given more than a sternly worded letter.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 01:50 AM (yZqjq)
Satellite images in Sudan show blood-soaked ground after a brutal RSF massacre in Darfur. The slaughter is so severe, it’s visible from space.
https://gellerreport.com/
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 01:55 AM (yZqjq)
Fire still kills about 2400 Americans per year. It used to be much higher, but 2400 is still a lot. Let's ban Fire then. Of course we can't and don't.
Automobile transpo kills thousands of Americans per year. Lets ban cars. Of course we can't and don't.
So I don't worry about AI per se. I worry about the Human Idiot who gives it fire-control authority over strategic nuclear weapons.
Of course, I have no real reason to believe that fire-control of strategic nuclear weapons is ANY SAFER in the hands of Human Idiots, than it is in the 'hands of AI.' So it's really a wash decision, in that sense.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 01:56 AM (7imtn)
King Charles the ?? has given Prince Andrew the Louis Capet treatment. He will henceforth be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. He's being kicked out of Royal Lodge and will have to get his own place. Holy fvk what a fall. He still denies everything.
Rumor is, it's all coming from William and it's a signal to Harry that he's next on the chopping block once William is king.
I stopped caring about the Royal Family when Elizabeth died and it became clear that Charles is an idiot, but this human drama does sort of grip me. I wonder if Andrew will even leave the country?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 02:00 AM (5e+/e)
youtube.com/watch?v=y2jGAVO6wA0
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 02:01 AM (7imtn)
LAFD crews told to abandon smoldering blaze that reignited as Palisades Fire, LAT reports
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2025 02:01 AM (yZqjq)
So "Cide" would be not make a choice, or undo a choice.
Example: I cided to go to the store, since my money is all tied up in "Run in 28, Kamala!" t-shirt production.
"Peat" is to iterate once and once only.
Example: I peated my instructions, even though I knew the Mamdani voter wouldn't have the mental dexterity to understand the phrase printed on the claymore, "Point Towards Enemy."
The 6-pound phone case is total lefty "genius solution" territory. It'll reduce screen time until you get off your lazy ass and get a screwdriver. It's like you're hiding the Oreos in the cupboard so you don't eat them when you're hungry later.
Posted by: VirginiaSmoker at October 31, 2025 02:02 AM (bcGP5)
So I don't worry about AI per se. I worry about the Human Idiot who gives it fire-control authority over strategic nuclear weapons.
Posted by: gp
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Bummer, a grown-up in the ONT.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 02:04 AM (5e+/e)
Posted by: Common Tater at October 31, 2025 12:37 AM (xHdZY)
Won't that create giant radioactive ants?????
🐜
Posted by: Archer at October 31, 2025 01:31 AM (YGRGv)
No, the worst thing that can happen is all that radioactive waste will revive Harry Reid.
Or maybe I misunderstood what Tater meant.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at October 31, 2025 02:07 AM (NZPfR)
What. A. Guy.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:07 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 31, 2025 02:09 AM (XeU6L)
Mutilators should be taken out in the public square, making sure all other healthcare providers are in attendance, made to kneel and given more than a sternly worded letter.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Quotes from the report:
"more will be presented about religion, culture, tradition versus federal law that prohibits the cutting of the genitals of young girls to keep them from being sexually active later in life.”
“They do have a very strong religious belief.”
The doctors say the surgery was a “Shia Muslim religious practice”
‘“Shia Muslim religious practice” or rite-of-passage ritual’
Names: Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, the Burhani Clinic
We know who they are, we know where they come from, we know what they're bringing. HOW? I'll bet anything these doctors are naturalized citizens who got their asylum claims rubber stamped. HOW HOW HOW?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 02:10 AM (5e+/e)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 31, 2025 02:11 AM (a1415)
Oh my, then you read one comment down and find out the FGM case is from 2017, and all charges were dropped on the grounds that the law banning FGM is unconstitutional. A US District judge agreed, and the clinic is still in business.
So, never mind. It's settled.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 02:15 AM (5e+/e)
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Right?
And... just where in the hell is N.O.W.? Why are they not speaking out against this horror?
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:15 AM (rdVOm)
I'll think about that one a while! It's a poser.
Right off the top of my head, I think human idiocy/genius/whatever is accompanied by free will and is non-deterministic.
AI is governed by a finite algorithm running on predictable hardware, and is arguably completely deteministic (if you run it twice on the exact same inputs, you ought to get the same outputs.)
So which is more 'identifiable and tangible?' Human agency, or AI agency? I don't know, but let me get back to you.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 02:17 AM (7imtn)
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Not a peep from the N.O.W., then or now. They're really all about women, huh?
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:18 AM (rdVOm)
Make that "if you run it twice on the exact same inputs, AND it doesn't maintain any persistent state between runs, you ought to get the same outputs."
No, that's not right either, is it?
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 02:21 AM (7imtn)
It's always good to have another source for the late John Coltrane's jazz saxophone playing, even if he wasn't everyone's musical preference -- 'chacun a son gout', as the French say. Back to lurking, and a good evening to everyone here.
Posted by: gdgm+ at October 31, 2025 02:22 AM (C5GSe)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
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Not a peep from the N.O.W., then or now. They're really all about women, huh?
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:18 AM (rdVOm)
The only thing that N.O.W. has ever been for is abortion on demand whenever, wherever.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 31, 2025 02:23 AM (SRRAx)
So, never mind. It's settled.
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Well, you can't be for trans surgery and against this, so you may have found one of the few consistencies in leftoid logic.
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2025 02:26 AM (XGULh)
What about *that* precedent?
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mikeski at October 31, 2025 02:30 AM (XGULh)
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:36 AM (rdVOm)
Mike, I'll keep thinking about your question
Thanks folks! 73 and QRT.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2025 02:39 AM (7imtn)
Not really fond of DK, but that one (I won't call it a "song") seemed fitting at the time.
Sorry.
Posted by: JQ at October 31, 2025 02:44 AM (rdVOm)
Not a peep from the N.O.W., then or now. They're really all about women, huh?
Posted by: JQ
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Something strange, the feminists back in the early 1970s were on this. Then they dedicated themselves to leftism and that was it. Juanita Broaddrick was the poster child of the Rape Victim Whom No One Believes when Hillary was "championing" women's rights, but instead she got buried so Bill could rise. Leftism is this spiritual and social poison that destroys everything.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 02:49 AM (5e+/e)
Off to sleep for me. If I can. Good night, all!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2025 02:51 AM (5e+/e)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 31, 2025 02:23 AM (SRRAx)
The early "feminists" who were actually suffragettes, were so anti-abortion, pro-woman it all made perfect sense.
The modern "feminists" just kill off half of their own constituents before they can take a breath of oxygen.
And then they wonder when we find them batshit crazy.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 31, 2025 02:52 AM (urtE/)
When one of the pro-abort harpies is going after me, I always ask them how long it has been since their last abortion. It nearly always puts them on their back feet.
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