Daily Tech News 18 December 2025

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Micron says the memory shortage will get worse before it gets better, and also that it won't get better if they have anything to say about it. (Tom's Hardware)

Micron has two factories under construction in Idaho due to come on line in 2027, and another planned in New York to be operational in 2030.

Even with those three new factories churning out chips they only expect to meet half to two thirds of demand.

In the meantime, though, the company posted a revenue increase of 57% over last year, so they don't really care about you and your money, as indicated by them shutting down their Crucial consumer brand after nearly 30 years.
And the second of my two new mini-PCs arrived today. I set up the first one last night - just plugged it in, turned it on, lied and told Windows I didn't have internet, and it works. It's pretty fast too, with none of the lag I get with my laptop.

Partly because the CPU is nearly twice as fast as the one in my laptop, partly because it's a clean install of Windows and doesn't have about 200 different applications installed yet. I'll fix that.

It really does have 64GB of RAM. 64GB of Crucial RAM, apparently, which is now a collectors item.

It's available for sale now on Minisforum's US store, but the price is about 70% higher than in Australia even after a 20% discount, so it's no bargain.

Update: Unnamed computer #2 is plugged in and working.

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The Corsair MP700 Pro XT is the new fastest consumer SSD. (Tom's Hardware)

15GB per second and 3.3 million IOPS, the equivalent to a RAID array of 25,000 hard drives.

And it's not much more expensive than PCIe 4.0 models. Not because it's cheap, but because the price increases in flash memory have overwhelmed the price increment for the faster PCIe 5.0 controller.
GitHub is not charging you $0.002 per minute for using your own hardware. (The Register)

They were planning to. Users were not impressed.
Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the Senate as the new administrator of NASA, where he will do... Stuff. (Politico)

Or more accurately, hand money to SpaceX for them to do stuff.
AI-generated code contains 70% more bugs than human-generated, and is twice as likely to introduce security vulnerabilities. (The Register)

In my experience, if you can precisely specify the requirements, and the AI can crib from public code in another programming language, and you can run the code in a sandbox where break-ins can't happen, and you're willing to do the testing, and the job is the sort of annoying boilerplate work of plugging two things together that don't really want to be plugged together, AI is useful.

In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

But this kind of work wasn't much fun back when we didn't have AI, so I'm not sure we've made things worse.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Only -358 shopping days 'til last Christmas!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at December 18, 2025 04:02 AM (S3WL2)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 18, 2025 04:02 AM (sAmhv)

5 music is not.

Posted by: clarence at December 18, 2025 04:04 AM (S3WL2)

6 >>>In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:04 AM (RuTUS)

7 Good morning.

As a wise man once said three times fast: rubber baby buggy bumpers.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 18, 2025 04:09 AM (zO/xW)

8 Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?
Posted by: m

I've been saying that since self-driving cars were the new thing.

Ok, a car will drive itself 99% of the time, and just leave the most dangerous 1% for the human driver. Who now has the skills of your average 15-year-old at the age of 48.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 04:10 AM (nhCoE)

9 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2025 04:10 AM (bQ4nt)

10 Gipsy Kings - Bamboléo

Very nice! I had always thought the lyric was "jambalay-o."

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)

11 "Video not available in your country"

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2025 04:11 AM (bQ4nt)

12 Nevermind

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 18, 2025 04:11 AM (bQ4nt)

13 6 >>>In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?
Posted by: m

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

14 olddog in mo - Yeah, I found another link that is only blocked in Russia.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

15 13 6 >>>In other words, the stuff that you would dump on a junior team member so that one day they would be a senior team member.

Won't their being replaced by AI leave a dearth of trained junior team members who are prepared to be senior team members?
Posted by: m

Same as it ever was.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:12 AM (BLOW1)

Some corollary of the Peter Principle.

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

16 Maybe the junior programmers learn by debugging the AI code.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 04:14 AM (nhCoE)

17 Some corollary of the Peter Principle.
Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

Yes. Don't play with your peter at work. You'd be sexually harassing yourself, and that could make others uncomfortable.

Posted by: AI HR Advice Bot 6000 at December 18, 2025 04:19 AM (5F4PI)

18 I guess $159 for a 1TB and$249 for a 2TB version of that Corsair PCIe 5 SSD isn't a bad deal these days compared to the rest of the market.

If my motherboard even had a PCIe 5 M.2 slot I'd consider it.
Unfortunately mine only has one PCIe 4 slot and the rest are version 3.

So no go here until I get a new motherboard... around 2030 by the looks of things.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 04:28 AM (6ydKt)

19 The price gap between the best SSD on the market and a complete piece of crap has suddenly become very small.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:30 AM (BLOW1)

20 BOING!

l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 18, 2025 04:31 AM (VxQkd)

21 I was toying with adding more RAM to my desktop PC, but in just a few months it has more than doubled in price, and it just isn't worth it.

Plus there has been an explosion of new brands, which makes me deeply suspicious.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2025 04:41 AM (n9ltV)

22 19 The price gap between the best SSD on the market and a complete piece of crap has suddenly become very small.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2025 04:30 AM (BLOW1)

I'm perfectly happy with my main drive running at 7Gbps.
I can transfer a 4GB file in about 2 seconds if everything isn't running hot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 04:42 AM (6ydKt)

23 21 I was toying with adding more RAM to my desktop PC, but in just a few months it has more than doubled in price, and it just isn't worth it.

Plus there has been an explosion of new brands, which makes me deeply suspicious.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 18, 2025 04:41 AM (n9ltV)

I had the same idea about a month ago.

Then I looked at the price of a 64GB kit and said; "It'll wait."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 04:45 AM (6ydKt)

24 Pixy should have the Pixies for a musical interlude

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2025 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

25 Where does the nic Pixy Misa come from anyway?

Anime?

Australian lore?

Whiskey?

Posted by: Inquirer at December 18, 2025 04:50 AM (5F4PI)

26 California, Washington State, and Oregon are about to achieve their fossil fuel-free utopia because Phillips, Chevron, and Valero are shutting down refineries in California. This will reduce gasoline output by at least 20%.

Phillips pulling out of California has a knock-on effect in Washington state that's causing their Ferndale refinery to be shut down. This has a further knock-on effect because Oregon has no refineries and gets all its gasoline out of Washington State.

All of this is self-inflicted by stupidity in the state governments with regulations and hostile government environments that have made it impossible for these companies to operate. They wanted feudal states they got them. Worse is there's no easy way to replace that gasoline shortage from other sources domestically. They will be forced to buy it from China, India and Saudi Arabia and then have to ship it to the United States.

The prediction is gasoline prices in those three states will hit at least $8 a gallon by mid 2026 and only go up from there. Of course shortages will be part of the deal.

A couple of good videos discussing this situation.

https://youtu.be/nTzKU7TZ0_A

https://youtu.be/thVNDsPKQv4

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 18, 2025 04:51 AM (HTCU3)

27 Just looked on Amazon to see how bad it's gotten.
This is DDR4 not, 5:

G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Series DDR4 RAM (XMP) 64GB (2x32GB) 3600MT/s CL18-22-22-42

Granted that's a RGB version so it's a little more, but that kit is going for - $409.99

Another G.Skill Ripjaws kit, without the RGB - $379.99

That's more than I paid for my CPU last year this time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 04:54 AM (6ydKt)

28 Where does the nic Pixy Misa come from anyway?

Anime?
Posted by: Inquirer

Yes. She's the dark magical girl from the Pretty Sammy spinoff(s) of Tenchi Muyo.

Posted by: mikeski at December 18, 2025 04:54 AM (nhCoE)

29 Video report at Revolver News Ella was the dirrect target, all others were collateral. Wondering either got in the way or tried to defend against the Gunman.
So if directly, either knew the woman, of the woman , a professional hit or some very H8 going on.

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2025 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

30 The prediction is gasoline prices in those three states will hit at least $8 a gallon by mid 2026 and only go up from there. Of course shortages will be part of the deal.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 18, 2025 04:51 AM (HTCU3)

It's still going to be Trump's fault for about 60% of the population there.

But, they're saving the world from CO2, so having to get a loan to fill your car up is more than worth it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 05:02 AM (6ydKt)

31 International Fellowship of Christians and Jews: "He moves in mysterious ways" Genesis 42:5-6

https://tinyurl.com/3pdxc2yu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 05:08 AM (rZCVI)

32 This discusses the LA Phillips refinery shutdown. The CA refinery shutdowns will also whack Nevada and Phoenix.

https://youtu.be/QKgaSypw-sk

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 18, 2025 05:11 AM (HTCU3)

33 Gifted by God- Our Daily Bread devotional . Exodus 31:1-11

https://tinyurl.com/562j9m4d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 05:12 AM (rZCVI)

34 Greetings and good morning one and all. I am sorry to say that Kroger had to be put to sleep yesterday. The radiologist confirmed that not only was there signs of osteo, there was also a fracture. He's not in pain any more but the house is a lot quieter.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 05:12 AM (RjOoY)

35
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 18, 2025 05:14 AM (tljrc)

36 Greetings and good morning one and all. I am sorry to say that Kroger had to be put to sleep yesterday. The radiologist confirmed that not only was there signs of osteo, there was also a fracture. He's not in pain any more but the house is a lot quieter.
Posted by: NR Pax

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Posted by: Tuna at December 18, 2025 05:18 AM (lJ0H4)

37 Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 05:12 AM (RjOoY

Sorry to hear that. Were you there with him? If so, I'm sure he felt your love. Our dogs and cats do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 05:18 AM (rZCVI)

38 Condolences to you NR Pax.

It's tough losing a good doggy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 05:18 AM (6ydKt)

39 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 18, 2025 05:20 AM (2Ez/1)

40 Not as bad outside this morning, maybe around freezing point
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at December 18, 2025 05:21 AM (Ia/+0)

41 We were there for him which is something I'm grateful for and we made sure that we told him how loved he was.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 05:21 AM (RjOoY)

42 Condolences from Chateau D'Eez to you & yours, NR Pax!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 18, 2025 05:22 AM (Cjt/F)

43 @ 26 - "All of this is self-inflicted by stupidity in the state governments "

no, it's malice aforethought with intent to kill us all

(well leaving a few peasants for slaves ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 18, 2025 05:25 AM (Cjt/F)

44 Any advice for a kid just graduated from a great school with a CS degree who is finding it really tough to find work?

Posted by: Burton M at December 18, 2025 05:25 AM (TCXst)

45 44 Any advice for a kid just graduated from a great school with a CS degree who is finding it really tough to find work?
Posted by: Burton M

Change their name to something Indian?

Snark aside, are they looking out of state as well as within the local area? And as much as I might hate suggesting it, the military would be a good option.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 05:29 AM (RjOoY)

46 decades of thinking it's stupidity has allowed them to push us ever closer to the abyss.

they know that they are in a war, and act like it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 18, 2025 05:30 AM (Cjt/F)

47
I am sorry for your loss, NR Pax.

"Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives. Yet, if they find warmth therein, who would grudge them those years that they have so guarded? Nothing else of us can they take to lie upon with outstretched paws and chin pressed to the ground; and, whatever they take, be sure they have deserved."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025 05:32 AM (tgvbd)

48 they know that they are in a war, and act like it.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

"They want to burn down the world and rule over the ashes."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 05:34 AM (RjOoY)

49 A nice quote, Hadrian. Thank you.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 05:35 AM (RjOoY)

50 Don't bother ordering any Crucial SSDs on Amazon. They never ship. I figured they'd want to sell off the old stock but I guess not.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 18, 2025 05:35 AM (+mUZM)

51 Sorry for your loss, NR Pax. They leave such a hole in our hearts.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 18, 2025 05:38 AM (+mUZM)

52 Evening and morning, all. It it really Thor's Day already? Only a week until Christmas? The holiday, the Big Day, used to take *forever* to get here after Thanksgiving. Now the four weeks flash by, faster with every decade. Is it because the processing power of your brain improves (well, I *hope* it does) as you grow up? Or is it, as someone suggested, that a day or a month is a much larger proportion of your life when you are ten than it is when you are sixty?

Maybe both. Lemme have my coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

53 Sorry for your loss, NR Pax. In the book about C.S. Lewis I just finished, there is a quote by him -- something to the effect of "We humans must do for animals the things they cannot do for us." You took care of Kroger when it mattered.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 05:43 AM (wzUl9)

54 @26/Alteria Pilgram: "because Phillips, Chevron, and Valero are shutting down refineries in California."

Do those refineries serve only the three states you mentioned, or the entire market? If the latter, the price shocks will be felt everywhere.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2025 05:43 AM (O7YUW)

55 "Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives. Yet, if they find warmth therein, who would grudge them those years that they have so guarded? Nothing else of us can they take to lie upon with outstretched paws and chin pressed to the ground; and, whatever they take, be sure they have deserved."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025

***
Hadrian, who is that quote from?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

56 NR Pax,

https://tinyurl.com/5n8jsfy8

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 18, 2025 05:44 AM (lQzuA)

57 @34/NR Pax: I cried (a lot) every time I had to have that final day with one of my pets. I am so sorry.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2025 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

58 *Change their name to something Indian?*

And apply to the nearest 7-11.

Posted by: Creepy Joe at December 18, 2025 05:49 AM (2Ez/1)

59
Hadrian, who is that quote from?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

"Memories" by John Galsworthy

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025 05:50 AM (tgvbd)

60 My most recent goodbye was for Chekov D. Siberian cat. I chose to have a mobile vet come to my place and take care of him here, amid his familiar surroundings, so there would not be the stress and fear for him of traveling to a strange place. We were right there, holding him and talking to him at the last.

Darn. It's gotten dusty in here. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

61 This is a good quote from American Thinker about Gavin Newsom:

"He's from a slimy old-school variety of perpetually smiling politicians who promise a bridge when there is no river. "

Full article:

https://tinyurl.com/46hy7r93

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 18, 2025 05:52 AM (lQzuA)

62 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025 05:50 AM (tgvbd)

Thanks. That was a nice quote.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 05:53 AM (ix8EF)

63 Excellent little video explaining why the U.S. has it a lot better than we realize; our geography.

America Will Be the Last Superpower, Here’s Why

https://youtu.be/0O2EolPa2NM
(Maxinomics)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 05:53 AM (6ydKt)

64 Anyway . . . It's warm here, 62 F. and super-humid. Fog may appear, which means there is almost no wind. We still have a chance of rain. Yesterday morning I got caught in a shower during my workout -- which was going really well until that point. I knocked off five minutes early and still got a lot of rainwater in my eyes, which I hate.

Radar shows some rain still approaching. Probably better if I take it easy today. We don't expect rain, or cold temps, for another week after this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

65 Linda wants to go out to the big mall in the suburbs today, to look at the decorations. Normally, a week before Christmas, I'd say nooooo. But it's the middle of a weekday -- so it'll be, maybe, less crowded. And despite the fact the reindeer are sweating like everybody else outdoors, I do get somewhat into the mood while looking at the trees and baubles.

I can stop by the nearby pipe shop and pick up some supplies, and at Target for a phone card too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

66 Teen baker and entrepreneur recovers give of a new over from Secret Santa. Faithpot siite:

https://tinyurl.com/4wdttp2u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 06:06 AM (ix8EF)

67 66-"Receives gift"

I can't stand autocorrect

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 06:10 AM (ix8EF)

68 I can't stand autocorrect
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Dear autocorrect:

It's never duck.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 06:11 AM (RjOoY)

69 @67/FenelonSpoke: "I can't stand autocorrect"

Autocorrupt. I saw this term for it recently and immediately adopted it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2025 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

70 From the GitHub article:

“We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.”

Notice they implied that they are still going to do this.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 06:13 AM (RjOoY)

71 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2025 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

Clever and appropriate term.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 06:19 AM (PFs9e)

72 FenelonSpoke: "I can't stand autocorrect"

Autocorrupt. I saw this term for it recently and immediately adopted it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2025

***
People here call it autocucumber. I've altered that to autopickle. (Though I love sour pickles, by the way)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

73 Pixy, I'm looking at picking up one of those mini PCs you linked. I have an unused 1TB SSD. Would I be able to install that into the PC as an additional drive, or is that a non starter with a mini PC?

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at December 18, 2025 06:24 AM (Xz6B4)

74 I know nothing about computer systems or platforms , but "Git" seems an odd term for a a computer hub thing since it's a mild sort of Anglo insult.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 06:25 AM (PFs9e)

75
GitHub has a billing problem?

How am I supposed to get my fast food delivered?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 18, 2025 06:25 AM (azNOR)

76
"Arby's Order Flung Into Street In GitHub Billing Dispute."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 18, 2025 06:29 AM (azNOR)

77 73 Pixy, I'm looking at picking up one of those mini PCs you linked. I have an unused 1TB SSD. Would I be able to install that into the PC as an additional drive, or is that a non starter with a mini PC?

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at December 18, 2025 06:24 AM (Xz6B4)

The one Pixy linked to has two M.2 slots so you can add a second drive.

The second M.2 drive slot is also used to the Occulink port, though, as it slots in there.

But if you don't need to use an external GPU then you don't need that Occulink port and can just remove it and keep it if you ever need it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 06:30 AM (6ydKt)

78 74 I know nothing about computer systems or platforms , but "Git" seems an odd term for a a computer hub thing since it's a mild sort of Anglo insult.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 06:25 AM (PFs9e)

It's like programmer slang, a cooler way to say "get":

Git is a distributed version control software system that is capable of managing versions of source code or data. It is often used to control source code by programmers who are developing software collaboratively.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

79
Woke up at 3:45 this morning and determined I was never getting back to sleep. Some people have trouble falling asleep. I, on the other hand, fall asleep quickly but have trouble staying asleep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025 06:37 AM (tgvbd)

80 Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

O.K. Thanks. Those of us who are not computer programmers 😉 thinks it's a mild form of insult "You stupid git" a la Monty Python.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 06:39 AM (PFs9e)

81 Woke up at 3:45 this morning and determined I was never getting back to sleep. Some people have trouble falling asleep. I, on the other hand, fall asleep quickly but have trouble staying asleep.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025

***
Same here, Hadrian. Especially when a fourteen-pound black cat leaps over you and hits you in the ribs with his hind paws as he goes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 06:42 AM (wzUl9)

82 Woke up at 3:45 this morning and determined I was never getting back to sleep. Some people have trouble falling asleep. I, on the other hand, fall asleep quickly but have trouble staying asleep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025 06:37 AM (tgvbd)

Me too.
It used to be the exact opposite for me for decades.
But over the last two or three years it's been harder and harder for me sleep more than four hours at a time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 06:45 AM (6ydKt)

83 Sleep and I are old enemies.

I also have a 14 pound black cat who aggressively insists on being petted at random hours during the night

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 18, 2025 06:46 AM (WPL6O)

84
Especially when a fourteen-pound black cat leaps over you and hits you in the ribs with his hind paws as he goes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 06:42 AM (wzUl9)

In my case, the situation was not helped by a 63-pound Borzoi kicking me while stretching out to take over much of my side of the bed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2025 06:47 AM (tgvbd)

85 Ah, summertime Christmas in ETEX!

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2025 06:48 AM (o2ZRX)

86 Thanks, SpeakingOf! I appreciate the help.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at December 18, 2025 06:48 AM (Xz6B4)

87 {{{{NR Pax}}}}

I prayed for Kroger yesterday- I asked St Francis to help him in whatever way he can.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 18, 2025 06:49 AM (6U1c2)

88 @80/FenelonSpoke: {{ "You stupid git" a la Monty Python. }}

30 years of tech and that's exactly how I took it. Always thought it was a stupid name. Same way I looked at "twitter" - bunch of twits.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2025 06:50 AM (O7YUW)

89 I also have a 14 pound black cat who aggressively insists on being petted at random hours during the night
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 18, 2025 06:46 AM (WPL6O)
----
Must be contagious because I also have a 14-pound black cat who insists on attention in the middle of the night.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2025 06:51 AM (ESVrU)

90 I asked St Francis to help him in whatever way he can.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Thank you very much. I think he helped by making sure my wife and I were there for him at the end.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 06:51 AM (RjOoY)

91 for those jonesing for a midweek chuckle in the vast wasteland, I commend the Thursday Meme Drop at

https://midwestchick.com

to your attention.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 18, 2025 06:51 AM (Cjt/F)

92 There's an old French phrase, "ci-git," which apparently means "here lies" -- the translation into French of "hic jacet." Steinbeck uses it in Travels with Charley to refer to someone he calls "Monsieur Ci-Git."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

93 @81/Wolfus: "Especially when a fourteen-pound black cat leaps over you and hits you in the ribs with his hind paws as he goes."

Dad! Wake up, it's zoomy time!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 18, 2025 06:53 AM (O7YUW)

94 Well, I spent a lot of years rising early to work out and then get to my office early, so I could park and then relax before my workday really began. Rising at five or even four am is no big deal.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 06:55 AM (wzUl9)

95 RESIGN ALBANESE!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2025 06:58 AM (sF9Ts)

96 Too weak too spineless too guilty to show his face.

What a fcking fag.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2025 06:59 AM (sF9Ts)

97 Skybrows has dropped a new video playing off the Home Alone movies called "Home Stallone II"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZ1Fe1rsug

Lots of cameos.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2025 07:01 AM (2GVsD)

98 Any advice for a kid just graduated from a great school with a CS degree who is finding it really tough to find work?
Posted by: Burton M

Cyber security companies are still growing. If your kid is at all interested in the field tell them to start self educating, do CTFs online research and learn.

Posted by: CanuckJack at December 18, 2025 07:02 AM (1cCGi)

99 97: Anna, it is really tough to stop from laughing like a madman when I see things like this at work.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 18, 2025 07:03 AM (RjOoY)

100 San Franpsycho

I am not familiar with this man from Australia, but it sounds like he spoke up when Albanese didn't :

https://tinyurl.com/3pxuth7u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 07:03 AM (rZCVI)

101
MegaRoy used to do the zoomies across the bed when he was maybe younger than two. He's just too damned big to be effective at the parkor aspects of that. He'll run back and forth through the house breaking traction on the turns as we have hardwood floors.

Monster sounds like a damned pony galloping through when he does that. Sadly, he's 13 this year and slowing down at an alarming rate. Now it's a kinda high trot sometimes. When he wants midnight pets, it feels like copd standing with four fuzzy paws on my chest.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 18, 2025 07:04 AM (QVmho)

102 NR Pax, the Citizen Kane cameo gets me everytime I watch. Well along with the chibi Smug Alana. Kirsche goes without saying, she is the real star with Stallone.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 18, 2025 07:09 AM (2GVsD)

103 Lily the corgi is 7 years old, a 20-pound muscular sausage, not an ounce of fat, and she gets me up each day, pre-dawn, to be let out and then fed. Her technique is to pounce on my head, chest, shoulder, whatever, and keep it up until I roll out. Paws, claws, and nose in my face. There's no saying no.

Posted by: M. Gaga at December 18, 2025 07:10 AM (KiBMU)

104 https://tinyurl.com/3pxuth7u

He is a good guy but belongs to Labor just like Albanese. As far as I know he has not called for Albanese to go.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2025 07:12 AM (7nrYO)

105 We're not all like that!

Posted by: The people of Albany at December 18, 2025 07:14 AM (SATsO)

106 It's typically very dark in our rural little town. After 70 mile per hour winds yesterday 90% of the area is without electricity. Right now it's incredibly dark. We have a generator, an early Christmas gift from Mr. nec and it's been running for hours. So many others don't have our luck and are in the dark and without heat and water. There isn't a water system and wells are used. This is the second high wind damage in a week and they are predicting another round late today of high winds above 5000 ft.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 18, 2025 07:15 AM (LsSud)

107 Could he be changing parties

Josh Frydenberg — who may yet return to Parliament to lead the Liberal Party if he decides to run again in Victoria — spoke from the heart.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 18, 2025 07:15 AM (Nx5jP)

108 Thank you, Anna!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 18, 2025 07:17 AM (Cjt/F)

109 Noodus JJS

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

110 Evening and morning, all. It it really Thor's Day already? Only a week until Christmas? The holiday, the Big Day, used to take *forever* to get here after Thanksgiving. Now the four weeks flash by, faster with every decade. Is it because the processing power of your brain improves (well, I *hope* it does) as you grow up? Or is it, as someone suggested, that a day or a month is a much larger proportion of your life when you are ten than it is when you are sixty?

Maybe both. Lemme have my coffee.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

Just three more days and the daylight hours start to become longer. Tired of winter's short days.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 18, 2025 07:22 AM (g8Ew8)

111 mornin yall. Another illegal truck driver has killed someone and THEN THEY LET HIM OUT. This guy came in illegally in 2023 and got a commercial license in California. Killed a father of two. People mourning the Reiners should remember that this is the kind of thing they did to our country. Will there be days of stories about the family who lost their father? No, because commie leftist Hollywood assholes are more important.

Posted by: fd at December 18, 2025 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

112 Just three more days and the daylight hours start to become longer. Tired of winter's short days.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 18, 2025

***
I dread the long summer days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 18, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

113 104 https://tinyurl.com/3pxuth7u

He is a good guy but belongs to Labor just like Albanese. As far as I know he has not called for Albanese to go.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2025 07:12 AM (7nrYO)

Reading the comments on that page and I suddenly realize it's just like here.

Labour vs. Liberals (Ds vs Rs) and the Labour supporters all have their heads in the sand complaining that Frydenberg is making an overtly political terrorist act political by condemning Albanese for being completely AWOL along with a complete lack of spine.

Then the rest of the comments are mostly whataboutism and the blame game.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 18, 2025 07:30 AM (6ydKt)

114 95 RESIGN ALBANESE!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2025 06:58 AM (sF9Ts)

96 Too weak too spineless too guilty to show his face.
What a fcking fag.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 18, 2025 06:59 AM (sF9Ts)

Hear, hear!

Posted by: m at December 18, 2025 09:57 AM (RuTUS)

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