Daily Tech News 13 December 2025

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In April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple had wilfully violated her 2021 order to open up the App Store.

Apple appealed.

The Ninth Circuit just upheld the decision, ruling that Apple has been acting in bad faith, as everyone paying attention already knew. (Ars Technica)

"But we're only worth $4 trillion! We need that 30% cut of transactions that don't even take place on the App Store!"

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Can the Steam Machine really run games at 4k 60Hz as Valve claims?

In many cases, yes. (Hot Hardware)

The Steam Machine isn't out yet, but the specs are public and they're very close to an existing AMD CPU and GPU so it is possible to build an equivalent system and test performance right now.

On indie titles like Hollow Knight: Silksong it delivers 4k at 120Hz, or close to it. That's not a particularly demanding title so it's not a huge surprise.

On big-budget titles like Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, and Monster Hunter Wilds you can expect 60Hz at 1440p, but at 4k only two of these titles achieved a consistent 60Hz.

And this is with graphical settings and upscaling tweaked appropriately, not with everything simply set to maximum quality. But this is not a high-end system, and isn't expected to have a high-end price. It's supposed to just work.

Will I buy one when it comes out? Maybe. Depends on the price. I just picked up that mini-PC with a faster CPU (though a slower GPU) and a lot more memory for around $600, so it would have to compare well with that.

Edit: Now that I compare those benchmark scores, the Steam ~~Deck~~ Machine doesn't offer me that much. The processor on my new mini-PC is 39% faster and the graphics 36% slower than the Steam Machine, and it has 64GB of shared memory rather than 16GB plus 8GB of DRAM. Since I also have a full desktop system and an Xbox (gathering dust) I think I'm good.
Framework has increased memory prices by 50% on its DIY laptops. (Framework)

That doesn't seem too bad given that retail prices have increased by around 300% in the past couple of months.

Pre-built laptops and the Framework Desktop which comes with up to 128GB of RAM have not increased in price, nor have prices changed for existing pre-orders.
Russian hackers have deployed new ransomware that encrypts all of your files - with an interesting twist. (The Register)

The twist is that the decryption key is hardcoded into the ransomware so you can just decrypt all your files youself.
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come on and join the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands. (Reclaim the Net)

Berlin's regional government has brought back the Stasi.
I planted my plants. I had 16 native shrubs of various sorts sitting in pots waiting - several different bottlebrushes and grevilleas, a westringia, a boronia, and a babingtonia, plus a few kangaroo paws in various colours.

All but the kangaroo paws got planted today.

Needed to wait for it to rain to break up the ground where I planned this - it had been dry for a while and the soil was rock hard - and then wait for it to stop raining to get some supplies delivered. Then it rained again and that ground got covered in weeds.

So today I pulled out all those weeds, dug out some regular grass which I didn't want growing into this area, dug out some patches of native tussock-grass which is not technically a weed but which I also didn't want there, dug in some gypsum to help break up the soil and some potting mix tailored for native plants to improve it, and then dug eleven holes (hitting rocks several times and on two occasions large metal staples left behind by the builders), filled those holes with more potting mix, and planted everything but those kangaroo paws, which will go in another part of the garden.

Which will all look great in a year or so as it grows in but right now, ouch.

Need to go back and cover it with bark chips, but that will definitely be another day.

Apple Bacon Interlude

Turns out that bacon-flavoured apples taste bad. Who knew?

Musical Interlude

Song is King by Kanaria, covered by Hololive's Mori Calliope and Gawr Gura. Gura wasn't the most technically skilled vocalist in Hololive (she now streams independently but still as a fish, having found her niche there) but she has a way of putting her emotions into a song that makes her stand out.

Disclaimer: Sameko Saba? Literally shark-girl mackerel?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

2 Poke.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 13, 2025 04:03 AM (+YRf1)

4 Maybe it's the caching logic. I could see your comment, then it disappeared, then when I poked it reappeared.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

5 >>>Which will all look great in a year or so as it grows in

Yay!

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:05 AM (RuTUS)

6 4 Maybe it's the caching logic. I could see your comment, then it disappeared, then when I poked it reappeared.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:04 AM (BLOW1)

And it "knew" my comment was there, because I'm still FIRST.

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)

7 HALP!

Pixy, if you have a moment to spare, I'm told Miklos has inadvertently gotten himself banned impersonating the troll raimondo again.

Miklos's hash is (N7hqt), if that helps.

Thanks for anything you can do.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 04:07 AM (z5QST)

8 You know what tastes fantastic? My apple bacon onion jam. Don't fuck with the apples, cook with them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 13, 2025 04:10 AM (6Bc88)

9 In case anyone missed it: In the righthand sidebar, in the post about Megyn/Candace, the second stretch of red-highlighted text ("Candace Owens says") links to a video of a woman (I don't know who) mocking Megyn Kelly's failing to hear anything negative that Candace Owens says. I think it's very well-done.

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)

10 Just reading the gardening prep and planting routine made my back and shoulders sore. There can be a lot of satisfaction in gardening. But I sure don’t find it in weeding.

Especially when you can use power tools. And chemicals.

Good morning horde.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 13, 2025 04:15 AM (EU9xD)

11 7 HALP!

Pixy, if you have a moment to spare, I'm told Miklos has inadvertently gotten himself banned impersonating the troll raimondo again.

Miklos's hash is (N7hqt), if that helps.

Thanks for anything you can do.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

I can't see a ban against Miklos's most recent IP address, so I'm not sure what happened there.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:21 AM (BLOW1)

12 I can't see a ban against Miklos's most recent IP address, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Posted by: Pixy Misa
---------

It happened after he socked as 'raimondo on tap'

Do we still have the "TB3K" (of olden times) here?

Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 04:25 AM (rdVOm)

13 Ok, really g'night now!

Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: JQ at December 13, 2025 04:29 AM (rdVOm)

14
bad news: dickhead van dyke, who is a pervert shill for the Democrat party, made it to 100

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2025 04:30 AM (zlW+y)

15
Incidentally, in Australia, he's known as Dyke Von Dick, because everything is backwards there.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Amusing International Facts at December 13, 2025 04:32 AM (zlW+y)

16 Back to the Somalis. We know they are illegal more ways than one. A C-5 Galaxy set up as air bus will carry 270 passengers. Five Galaxy's is 1350 people.

Round them up at night, fly them to Somalia and leave. Let the judges argue in court why they should come back. One at a time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 04:38 AM (OfmEX)

17
lolnvidia: "To put a number on it, the rumor mill is pointing towards the RTX 6090 having at least a 40% uplift in performance over the RTX 5090, along with the watts being pumped through it going up again in excess of 600W."

Sure. I believe the watts parts.

So all the rumor-mongers have been wrong about the 50-eries "super" models, and now they'll be wrong about the 60-series, which we probably won't see, (my guess), for another 2 years, October '27.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Amusing International Facts at December 13, 2025 04:40 AM (zlW+y)

18 haha @aelfred_D

Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy

What is your favorite opening line of a book?

THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS

1.1. INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:43 AM (RuTUS)

19 This happened in Paris . Flashmob turns up to sing "Carol of the Bells. " Maybe there is hope for them yet:

https://tinyurl.com/2bw2he6p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 04:45 AM (PFs9e)

20
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 13, 2025 04:47 AM (tljrc)

21 G'Day everyone
If I didn't stay up a hour later I would have been on time

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 04:48 AM (Ia/+0)

22
Skip, I don't know how you do it. Getting up in the middle of the night on days you don't have to.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Amusing International Facts at December 13, 2025 04:50 AM (zlW+y)

23 Joy and strength in the Lord. Nehemiah 8:5-6, 8-12:

https://tinyurl.com/56pc48tw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 04:52 AM (PFs9e)

24 What's happening to Germany should be a lesson to us but I doubt that the middlings are aware and the one's who are don't understand how close we are.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 04:55 AM (OfmEX)

25
Mr. Coffee machine killed the Percolator.
And that marked the beginning of the downfall of the USA...

Clearly a plot devised by the Kremlin, Mr. Coffee debuted in 1972 and quickly became a huge hit. Here is former Baseball player Joe Dimaggio, obviously a Soviet agent, in a TV ad for the commie coffee maker in 1974:

https://is.gd/Q3Ydzy

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 13, 2025 05:00 AM (zlW+y)

26 Actually last night didn't get up once, that is very rare

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

27 Plants bring a house to life. Before you know it you will have a wonderful view.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 13, 2025 05:01 AM (OfmEX)

28 I still do percolator every day, big pot today. Have a small one that makes not much more than my big cup, 24 Oz I think

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

29 To me, hands down, at this time, the most sensible US news-oriented twitter account is

@bonchieredstate

He's got a top research team checking everything before it gets posted, is my guess.

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 05:13 AM (RuTUS)

30 Bizarre Tik Tok trend using ChapGPT encourages a young woman to commit suicide. Maybe it's a really , really bad idea to use Chap GPT and " talk to the devil. " From NY Post:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8paum8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 05:14 AM (rZCVI)

31
We have several bottlebrushes in our little garden. Bees and hummingbirds love them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 05:17 AM (tgvbd)

32
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.
Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 04:43 AM (RuTUS)

_________

I studied Stat Thermo for my P Chem course and I frequently wanted to kill myself. Because I'm no mathematician.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 05:21 AM (tgvbd)

33 Turns out that bacon-flavoured apples taste bad. Who knew?
----
I refuse to believe this.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2025 05:28 AM (ESVrU)

34 I think my parents had the GE Avocado green complete set of 3 appliances, toaster, percolator and combo can opener, knife sharpening & kitty cat attractor.

One problem with the Mr. Coffee style, with the water reservoir is hard water will build up scale and sediment over time. This very gradually lowers the water temperature that can be achieved and the coffee isn’t very good. The manufacturers recommend running vinegar through periodically but I could never see any results with that. A pour through does make a tastier cup.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 05:35 AM (ebWKH)

35 I am not one who thinks bacon can fix anything

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:40 AM (Ia/+0)

36 Good morning! I bet that backyard is gonna be great, PM. Any day working in the garden or doing landscape work is better that the best day at the office.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2025 05:44 AM (3Ope8)

37 G'mornin' everyone, LOL!

still using my 40 year old Melitta cone for coffee; in fact I should do so immediately!

We use strong citric acid solutions for lime scale removal, seems to work better than vinegar (typically 5% acetic acid)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 05:44 AM (Cjt/F)

38 https://tinyurl.com/2ess65ez
The Democrats war room
How they get their talking points out fast and universal

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 05:50 AM (Ia/+0)

39 Yeah, the water at the AO was pretty tough, ordinary vinegar didn’t even phase it in the slightest.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 05:50 AM (ebWKH)

40
Can the Steam Machine really run games

Two "The Longest Yard" movies say, "Yes"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 05:53 AM (xG4kz)

41 Frankenstein apples. What's wrong with an apple-flavored apple?

These next-gen mad scientists are dabbling in the black arts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 05:54 AM (1zOXE)

42 Evening and morning, Saturday toilers and early risers! * Blinks * * Blinks again * Eleven days to Christmas Eve. How'd it get to be so late already?

Miss LInda is getting over her cold, I think. I haven't caught anything -- yet. I'm awake, partly, drinking my coffee, and trying to shift the furry thugs' feeding time down the line a bit so Stirling won't be inclined to wake me at four am.

Whassup?

("Kangaroo paws"? Got to follow Pixy's link)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

43 I woke up laughing this morning.

I must've slept funny.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 13, 2025 06:03 AM (cxFcK)

44 One problem with the Mr. Coffee style, with the water reservoir is hard water will build up scale and sediment over time. This very gradually lowers the water temperature that can be achieved and the coffee isn’t very good. The manufacturers recommend running vinegar through periodically but I could never see any results with that. A pour through does make a tastier cup.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025

***
I do the vinegar run-through when my Braun coffeemaker turns on the "Clean" light. A half-pot of white vinegar, then two full pots of fresh water. I like being able to set the whole thing up the night before. Then I get up, turn the coffee on, stumble back to the head, and when I return the coffee is ready to pour.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

45 I can't see a ban against Miklos's most recent IP address, so I'm not sure what happened there.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 13, 2025 04:21 AM (BLOW1

Thanks for checking. Sorry for the goose chase.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 13, 2025 06:04 AM (+n72I)

46 Turns out that bacon-flavoured apples taste bad. Who knew?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, if the apple tastes bad, it doesn't taste like bacon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2025 06:04 AM (ExV1e)

47 The Vermont Country Store still offers a coffee percolator. I've considered getting one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

48 bad news: dickhead van dyke, who is a pervert shill for the Democrat party, made it to 100

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 13, 2025 04:30 AM (zlW+y)

https://youtu.be/Crif5E67ar0

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2025 06:06 AM (ExV1e)

49 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Gojira = gorilla-whale

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 13, 2025 06:08 AM (yNJrI)

50 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 13, 2025 06:08 AM (2Ez/1)

51 Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:09 AM (Ia/+0)

52 Bill Maher?

AG retweeted
@aghamilton29
Blue Georgia
@BlueATLGeorgia
Nov 8
Bill Maher: "Tucker Carlson was like the old-school country-club Republican. Then he became the world’s oldest Groyper — having on Holocaust deniers and asking, 'Who do you think were the good guys in World War II?' So now he had on this Nick Fuentes guy, and never challenged him."

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 06:10 AM (RuTUS)

53 Tucker is chasing the dragon. He's well off enough to just retire and enjoy life but there's a nagging hole in his soul driving him to be a force in this world. I used to listen to this dude but he's gone around the bend and I could give two fucks about any of his mindthoughts.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 06:16 AM (1zOXE)

54 Yeah, I penciled out the cost and hassle of all that vinegar, it’s cheaper to chuck the damn thing out and buy a new one.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 06:22 AM (ebWKH)

55 Powerline Week in Pictures is up!

also this, via Sarah Hoyt over @ Insty:

https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/a-new-christmas-fable

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 06:23 AM (Cjt/F)

56 These federal judges are out of control! Who do they think we are, Trump? Go piss up a rope Judge, we got all your pictures...nice family you got there. Be a shame, ya know?

Posted by: Apple, Inc. at December 13, 2025 06:24 AM (R/m4+)

57 The word is out there Marxists want the country flooded with 3rd world people.

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:27 AM (Ia/+0)

58 Reg’ler Sherlock Holmes they are, they cracked the code! Extraordinary.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 06:29 AM (ebWKH)

59
The word is out there Marxists want the country flooded with 3rd world people.
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:27 AM (Ia/+0)

I sometimes wonder if it was an act of actual malevolence (we want to replace our native population) or just another left-wing cock-up. I mean, you could, if you were so inclined, think the Left took that "all cultures are equal" stuff seriously, combined with a total lack of understanding of the existing culture in this country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 06:32 AM (tgvbd)

60 Lookin like we're heading for some cold wind outta the north and some much cooler temps later on today. Gah! Better break out the blankets for the patio.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 13, 2025 06:33 AM (3Ope8)

61
I loved both Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, up to a point. As both were an integral part of a year-long Physical Chemistry course, they were integral parts of the virtual threshing machine that separated those who could hack it and those who could not.

Our class was almost all Chemistry majors and Chemical Engineering majors. The ChemE majors dreaded this class, so much so that I came to believe that the "duh duh duhhhh!" sound effect ought to be a mandatory teaching "aid" for the curriculum:

https://youtu.be/_zrMykBnidM

As for the instructor, Dr. Leslie Leifer, he was a curmudgeonly legend in his own right. Perhaps my favorite moment in the year happened right near the start. We were taking our first exam. During it, Dr. Leifer, who rocked a pair of coke bottle bottom eyeglasses, stopped at the desk of my roommate and asked him, "Are you in this class?" As if someone would simply drop in to have a go at a P Chem exam for shits and grins! I still laugh at the absurdity of that question.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:36 AM (xG4kz)

62
Please. They are Frankenapples.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:40 AM (xG4kz)

63 It doesn't take much hardware by today's standards to do 4K@60Hz. That is, if you don't what looks like an upscaled PS1 game. without a specific game in mind it's a meaningless question.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 13, 2025 06:41 AM (/0z9K)

64 I sometimes wonder if it was an act of actual malevolence
——

Don’t. They have explained themselves for decades, what they wanted to do, what they were going to do, and why. Malice aforethought.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 06:41 AM (ebWKH)

65
The word is out there Marxists want the country flooded with 3rd world people.
Posted by: Skip
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I sometimes wonder if it was an act of actual malevolence (we want to replace our native population) or just another left-wing cock-up. I mean, you could, if you were so inclined, think the Left took that "all cultures are equal" stuff seriously, combined with a total lack of understanding of the existing culture in this country.
Posted by: Hadrian

It's easy to look at them as though they are ignorami. I belive they honesty are stupid enough, but the hatred and evil inside them and loathing of America as founded are what cause them to do what they do.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 13, 2025 06:43 AM (QVmho)

66 well put!

malice aforethought, beyond any shadow of doubt.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 06:44 AM (Cjt/F)

67 A very good WiP

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:49 AM (Ia/+0)

68
"I am Professor Harris. I work with systems where the number of particles is..." ( writes this on the chalkboard ) "... zero or one. If you want to work with systems to two or more particles, go sign up for Professor Miller's course."

-- actual "welcome to this class" statement from the UC Berkeley Chemistry graduate program in the autumn of 1976. It was a world apart.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:49 AM (xG4kz)

69 Flying Down to Rio, the first pairing of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, is on Movies! right now. The startling thing is that neither is the actual lead. An actor named Gene Raymond plays a pilot (thus the "flying" part of the title). I swear he sounds *exactly* like Jason Alexander!
Every time I hear his voice in this film, I think, "What is George Costanza doing in a 1933 musical . . .?"

I only know Raymond from his guest turn on a Man From U.N.C.L.E. years later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

70 I am hoping to get outside asap to do some metallurgy
It's in the 20s but still Air now

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:50 AM (Ia/+0)

71 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 06:52 AM (9ipOP)

72
I sometimes wonder if it was an act of actual malevolence (we want to replace our native population) or just another left-wing cock-up.

There is a substantial component of mental illness involved, else why would white people wander about and curse the existence of white people? Self-awareness approaching "zero", right there!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:53 AM (xG4kz)

73 Coming soon...Gwyneth Paltrow Apples.

Take a bite, feels so right!

Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at December 13, 2025 06:53 AM (R/m4+)

74
Gwyneth Paltrow Apples

"You got apple in my pussy!"

"You got pussy in my apple!"

The irony here is that G does, indeed, have a daughter named Apple.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:57 AM (xG4kz)

75
Tastes like cooter!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 06:57 AM (xG4kz)

76 Hi, my name is Adam, and I've come here for Gwynyth Paltrow's vagina apple.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 06:58 AM (1zOXE)

77 5 below zero here.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 06:58 AM (Cjt/F)

78 Getting one to H8 oneself is a trick.

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 06:58 AM (Ia/+0)

79 I think Tucker is right (hold on a second!) when he said, the other day, words to the effect of: if you disagree with how I handle a podcast guest, do your own podcast. He's intentionally not asking some questions, and he's intentionally "just asking" some other questions. Some of these choices look like revenge against the MSM and sour grapes about his being kicked out of the MSM. His audience likes what he does.

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:00 AM (RuTUS)

80 Cotton candy grapes are pretty good. Not through artificial flavors but through genetics somehow.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 07:01 AM (luNjk)

81
Tucker has reverted to being the smarmy kid in grade school whose face was badly in need of a fist. His girlish glee at Ted Cruz not knowing the population of Iran was evidence enough for me to drop him to the bottom of my "listen to this" list.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 07:04 AM (xG4kz)

82 I'm seeing 60 F. here, expected high today in the '70s (ugh). It's true that conditions like this mean I need to run neither the A/C nor the heat; my power bill will look nice next month. But it *feels* nothing like December!

I'll run out today to feed the car, have my hair cut (all of them) and give my barber his Xmas present, pay my Internet bill, and maybe visit the library. Linda never says anything, but I'd like to think she's amazed at how I fast I can move and get errands done in a morning. It's easy out in the western suburbs, though, a big street grid. I'd hate to deal with it all in the city proper.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

83 Brawndo.

Posted by: Plants love it. at December 13, 2025 07:08 AM (2Ez/1)

84 81
Tucker has reverted to being the smarmy kid in grade school whose face was badly in need of a fist. His girlish glee at Ted Cruz not knowing the population of Iran was evidence enough for me to drop him to the bottom of my "listen to this" list.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 13, 2025 07:04 AM (xG4kz)

I'll go find that Ted Cruz thing. Meanwhile: A long-ago friend told a story about going to a kind of early speech-masters talk, live, where the speaker got really haughty and said, I think there's probably not anything you could ask me that I couldn't answer. And the guy I knew shot off, "What's the square root of [some random number]?"

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)

85 There was a restaurant here that had a great salad with a sweet vinaigrette dressing that was emulsified with bacon grease. And they always gave you two warm buttery croissants on top. I think Covid killed them.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM (luNjk)

86 mornin yall. Shideh Poormoghaddam.

Posted by: Guy who always says at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

Posted by: Guy who always says "mornin yall" at December 13, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

88 There was a restaurant here that had a great salad with a sweet vinaigrette dressing that was emulsified with bacon grease. And they always gave you two warm buttery croissants on top. I think Covid killed them.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025

***
My morning chow included two mini-croissants, oven-toasted for a bit, with some butter and honey, along with two scrambled seasoned eggs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 07:10 AM (wzUl9)

89 Later today I'm taking Boy F. to a Christmas party where he and 50 other Tylenol-Americans will dance like whirling dervishes for 2 hours then gorge on pizza. It is a sight to behold.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:11 AM (A0sqA)

90 89 Later today I'm taking Boy F. to a Christmas party where he and 50 other Tylenol-Americans will dance like whirling dervishes for 2 hours then gorge on pizza. It is a sight to behold.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:11 AM (A0sqA)

Yay!

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

91 Fat is flavor.

Posted by: As any chef can tell you at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (2Ez/1)

92 Oh, this looks tawdry:

Jun 18, 2025 — "I don't sit around memorising population tables," said Cruz. "They have 92 million people," Carlson responded.

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

93 It’s 36 here now but will get colder and by Monday be in the teens.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2025 07:13 AM (luNjk)

94 When you grow up living a prep-school, bowtie wearing preppie childhood, having never been in a fistfight, don't be surprised if your street cred is mocked and ridiculed.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 07:13 AM (1zOXE)

95 Fat is flavor.
Posted by: As any chef can tell you at December 13, 2025 07:12 AM (2Ez/1)

Coming soon...Lizzo Apples.

About Damn Time!

Posted by: Lizzo at December 13, 2025 07:14 AM (R/m4+)

96 Kathy Griffin says Trump is disgusting to look at. This is something coming from a baboon colony one. Medusa took a look at KG and her hair fell out.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:14 AM (vFG9F)

97 Neo has a video take down of Tucker lying about Ted Cruz

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)

98 here's a clip:

Tucker Carlson clashes with Ted Cruz over Iran | REUTERS

https://youtu.be/e06RZnNfUVY

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:15 AM (RuTUS)

99 As if Tucker Carlson knew the population of Iran before looking it up on Wiki in preparation for the interview with Cruz.

Posted by: one hour sober at December 13, 2025 07:19 AM (Y1sOo)

100 100

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)

101 97 Neo has a video take down of Tucker lying about Ted Cruz
Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)

Thanks!

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:20 AM (RuTUS)

102 96, LOL, truth!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 07:21 AM (Cjt/F)

103 "86 mornin yall. Shideh Poormoghaddam.
Posted by: Guy who always says at December 13, 2025 07:09 AM"
+++

Ok, I was wondering if this was some sort of Yiddish greeting so I naturally decided to ask Al Gore's Amazing Internet.

Turns out to be some flavor of female in trouble with the local constabulary:

https://tinyurl.com/mr25ts7h

Posted by: Person unafraid to ask Al Gore's Amazing Internet at December 13, 2025 07:22 AM (2Ez/1)

104 >>>As if Tucker Carlson knew the population of Iran before looking it up on Wiki in preparation for the interview with Cruz.

Posted by: one hour sober

>Silly. As if Cruz is the General spearheading the operation. Cruz is a legislator approving or not approving action. Roles, people. Know your fucking role.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 07:23 AM (1zOXE)

105 Morning peeps.

29F this morning. Supposed to drop to 7F tonight and only get into the low teens tomorrow. Monday morning will be bitterly cold. Just above, or below 0F.

Add in the wind Sunday and it will "feel like" below zero.

And it's not even winter yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2025 07:24 AM (NwnyJ)

106 My Christmas wish is that little fag that murdered Charlie Kirk gets his smirk kicked down his gayass throat.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

107 "Turns out to be some flavor of female in trouble with the local constabulary:"

I just like saying "Poormoghaddam".

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:26 AM (vFG9F)

108 here's a listing of newneo entries on Tucker:

https://thenewneo.com/?s=tucker

Posted by: m at December 13, 2025 07:26 AM (RuTUS)

109 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

110 You just know they have to keep him in a solitary cell, and with all sorts of extra-special (read: expensive) procedures every day. Otherwise he’d get shanked or set on fire within about 10 minutes. It is to laugh.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 07:29 AM (d6jY2)

111 I think Poormoghaddam was the name of some minor character in a Tolkien novel, possibly a chambermaid. But this isn't the book thread.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 13, 2025 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

112 Fox "News". It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"" at December 13, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

113 Time for me to clean up and shave, all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 13, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)

114 *112 Fox "News". It's garbage.*
###

That's why you turn it off.

Posted by: Person who never watches Fox News at December 13, 2025 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

115
5 below zero here.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 13, 2025 07:33 AM (zlW+y)

116 That is a Persian name.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (A0sqA)

117 m

I studied Stat Thermo for my P Chem course and I frequently wanted to run away and join the US Navy. Because I'm no mathematician.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

118 Where Pixy lives reminds me of Arizona.

Caliche hard as rock, some water and it is mud.

Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:35 AM (W7XSX)

119 "I think Poormoghaddam was the name of some minor character in a Tolkien novel, possibly a chambermaid. But this isn't the book thread.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

She was cut from "The Silmarillion" her third DUI.

Posted by: Guy who always says at December 13, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

120 I say one thing for the Wolfus man, his morning routine is rock solid.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 07:35 AM (1zOXE)

121 from your mouth to His ears, fd!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 13, 2025 07:36 AM (Cjt/F)

122 "That is a Persian name.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

She's named after a cat?

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

123 "I'm told Miklos has inadvertently gotten himself banned impersonating the troll raimondo"

What have you kids been doing overnight?

Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:38 AM (W7XSX)

124 "5 below zero here.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"

That is intolerable. I would have to go into a drunken hibernation.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

125 Happy gardening, pixy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 13, 2025 07:40 AM (OTdqV)

126 The heat wave of temps above freezing is going away later this afternoon.

Kills chiggers and other bad insects, so I'll take that trade,

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

127 I studied Stat Thermo for my P Chem course and I frequently wanted to run away and join the US Navy. Because I'm no mathematician.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

And then you ran away and joined the US Navy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

128 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be thriving with someone that has some body heat to share.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

129 I used to have a different nic

Smartest move I ever made, except for my marriage proposal.

Blessings on you and yours.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

130 We don't get no respect.

Posted by: Chiggers and other bad insects at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)

131 Who cares what Iran's population is?

Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (W7XSX)

132 May you be thriving with someone that has some body heat to share.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:44 AM (u82oZ)
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We are dogsitting our cousin's cavapoo who is a major cuddler so there's that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (A0sqA)

133
I studied Stat Thermo for my P Chem course and I frequently wanted to run away and join the US Navy. Because I'm no mathematician.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 13, 2025 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

I went to a small college. My second semester of P Chem, where we had Stat Thermo, I was one of two people in the class. And if the other guy didn't show up, I got the full lecture anyway.

The other guy was your basic C student who graduated without any great distinction. But the professor wasn't hard on him, he was hard on me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 07:47 AM (tgvbd)

134 23 degrees out but playing outside anyway

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2025 07:49 AM (Ia/+0)

135 One of the reasons Tucker was so adversarial with Ted Cruz is because his Qatari paymasters have targeted Cruz and Tom Cotton as influential Christian supporters of Israel

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:50 AM (A0sqA)

136 It's supposed to be 68 here today but I will be ok because I just got some new thermal underwear.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

137 And now there's a cavapoo in my lap.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:54 AM (9ipOP)

138 Anyone have a recommended method for cleaning DVD that start skipping?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:54 AM (sDNVV)

139 Ben Had I would start by wiping it with a clean soft cloth from the center outward

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:56 AM (9ipOP)

140 A long standing member of Ted Cruz's staff is an Israeli that used to have a blog

Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:56 AM (sDNVV)

141
Anyone have a recommended method for cleaning DVD that start skipping?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 07:54 AM (sDNVV)

Spray some alcohol on a soft cloth or paper. Wipe the disc straight from the center to the edge, not in a circle. That's how I did it with CDs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 13, 2025 07:58 AM (tgvbd)

142 I have a Blu-Ray DVD of a favorite film. Apparently, I wore it out. There is a place in the story that it freezes and skips over.

Nothing can be done to repair it.

Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 07:59 AM (W7XSX)

143 Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:54 AM (9ipOP)

The name cavapoo makes me laugh. FenSpouse makes up pretend names for mixed breed dogs and insists we go out and get one.

Cavapoo is obviously real . Is a cavalier spaniel and what else?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2025 07:59 AM (rZCVI)

144 Oh. I messed up. I used rubbing alcohol, but I rubbed it in a circle.

Posted by: no one at December 13, 2025 08:00 AM (W7XSX)

145 I rubbed it in a circle"

That's fine.

Posted by: Nanook at December 13, 2025 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

146 Spaniel and poodle

This dog has a face that is heart-melting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:02 AM (9ipOP)

147 Thank you all for the suggestions.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:05 AM (sDNVV)

148 Kathy Griffin says Trump is disgusting to look at. This is something coming from a baboon colony one. Medusa took a look at KG and her hair fell out.

--

She obviously doesn't own a mirror. I can't say I blame her because I've seen a recent picture of her extolling her happiness at her 4th? facelift. She looked appalling. Not that she was ever the least bit attractive, because she's never been. But she looked so, so terrible. Like an alien freak. Perhaps that's why she's always such an angry lunatic. If I looked like that, maybe I would be too...if I didn't jump out of a 10-story window beforehand just to make that mirror reflection go away.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 13, 2025 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

149 Don't the koalas and the 'roos munch on all those native plants? Is planting them an exercise in futility?

Posted by: Deer munching On Expensive Shrubbery at December 13, 2025 08:05 AM (oftw2)

150 One of the reasons Tucker was so adversarial with Ted Cruz is because his Qatari paymasters have targeted Cruz and Tom Cotton as influential Christian supporters of Israel]]

I can believe that.

Ted Cruz doesn't represent Texas, he represents the best interests of Ted Cruz. If Quatar would outbid AIPAC, then Cruz and Carlson would be friends.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

151 @147/Ben Had: I always just took them to the kitchen sink, got the playable side wet with warm water, then put a bit of dishwashing solution on them, and very gently in small circles worked that in over the playable area, then rinse thoroughly and pat dry with a soft towel.

Let it dry for a while longer to the air, and (if it was just smudges) then you should be fine.

If it's scratches, you need a CD/DVD resurfacer.

Lastly, if it's the reflective layer that's starting to break up, there's no fixing that.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (O7YUW)

152 This cold spell hits most of the country and Sunday and Monday are the cold days. Snow in the same areas recently hit with snow. It does move on through and you get a warming trend through Christmas. You should watch Ryan Hall

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (+mUZM)

153 Obviously you want non-abrasive dish-washing solution. I use Sunlight. Dawn should work nicely.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2025 08:09 AM (O7YUW)

154 If all else fails, slap hot iron to it and find another copy.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

155 >>>She obviously doesn't own a mirror. I can't say I blame her because I've seen a recent picture of her extolling her happiness at her 4th? facelift. She looked appalling. Not that she was ever the least bit attractive, because she's never been. But she looked so, so terrible. Like an alien freak. Perhaps that's why she's always such an angry lunatic. If I looked like that, maybe I would be too...if I didn't jump out of a 10-story window beforehand just to make that mirror reflection go away.

Posted by: Lady in Black

>Full confession: I've never seen the back side of Carrot Top's nutsack, but I imagine that Kathy Griffin's face resembles a gooch and testicle pouch deprived of decades of sunlight.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 13, 2025 08:12 AM (1zOXE)

156 Speaking of hot iron, I ran across this in my readings:

"There is also many a bold spirit among the Aarab, of men and women, that being hurt, snatching a brand from the hearth, will sear his wounded flesh, till the fire be quenched in the suffering fibre : and they can endure pain (necessitous persons, whose livelihood is as a long punishment,) with constant fortitude"

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

157 The hot iron thing reminds me of the scene in Braveheart

Posted by: Ben Had at December 13, 2025 08:16 AM (sDNVV)

158 Later today I'm taking Boy F. to a Christmas party where he and 50 other Tylenol-Americans will dance like whirling dervishes for 2 hours then gorge on pizza. It is a sight to behold.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 07:11 AM (A0sqA)
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I love your sense of humor. I hope your son has a wonderful time at the party.

Today is a big cookie baking day for me, with maybe a bit of gift wrapping thrown in. I'm looking forward to it.

Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2025 08:18 AM (79pEw)

159 142 I have a Blu-Ray DVD of a favorite film. Apparently, I wore it out. There is a place in the story that it freezes and skips over.

Nothing can be done to repair it.
Posted by: no one

Maybe Debbie just wants out of Dallas.

Posted by: Film-Flam at December 13, 2025 08:19 AM (oftw2)

160 Kathy Griffin is a stupid person. What a stupid thing to say.
She is really stupid.

Posted by: Case at December 13, 2025 08:21 AM (G1OIb)

161 I had a bunch of CDs that were subject to a flood in the barracks in Korea, I happened to be on leave out of country, they did not fare well in the ordeal.

The aluminium substrate suffered “pinholes” and these strange looking squiggly line voids, almost like a type of critter that eats metal. Edison cylinders and vinyl LP will still be rockin’ after the last CD has rotted away.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2025 08:22 AM (d6jY2)

162 Ted Cruz doesn't represent Texas, he represents the best interests of Ted Cruz. If Quatar would outbid AIPAC, then Cruz and Carlson would be friends.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)
====
That gives new depth of meaning to "cynicism"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:23 AM (A0sqA)

163 Thanks bluebell

The cavapoo and the boy are now snoring on the couch.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:25 AM (A0sqA)

164 151 @147/Ben Had: I always just took them to the kitchen sink, got the playable side wet with warm water, then put a bit of dishwashing solution on them, and very gently in small circles worked that in over the playable area, then rinse thoroughly and pat dry with a soft towel.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2025 08:07 AM

+++

You mean like with a cloth?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 13, 2025 08:25 AM (2Ez/1)

165 Nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 13, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)

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