Daily Tech News 19 December 2025

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The unfortunately named Paris Buttfield-Addison bought a $500 Apple gift card at a major Australian brick-and-mortar outlet.

Turns out the card had already been redeemed, and when he tried to redeem it, it was rejected.

The outlet agreed to provide a replacement gift card, so all was well.

Then Apple terminated his account and bricked all of his devices. (Hey.Paris)
My Apple ID, which I have held for around 25 years (it was originally a username, before they had to be email addresses; it's from the iTools era), has been permanently disabled. This isn't just an email address; it is my core digital identity. It holds terabytes of family photos, my entire message history, and is the key to syncing my work across the ecosystem.

I effectively have over $30,000 worth of previously-active "bricked" hardware. My iPhone, iPad, Watch, and Macs cannot sync, update, or function properly. I have lost access to thousands of dollars in purchased software and media.
You might be thinking at this point that this guy is an idiot for giving a single company complete control over his personal and work life in this way.

You would be correct.

Tech News

Apple is not a computer company. (Thurrott)

It's a protection racket.
Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant doesn't work even in the company's own ads where the responses are fake. (The Verge) (archive site)

That would be embarrassing if Microsoft still had the capacity to feel embarrassment.
Intel looks set to release a big Battlemage. (WCCFTech)

This will be about 60% than the current B580, which is a fairly decent value at $250 since it offers 12GB of RAM. The new card will have 16GB of RAM.

Price and release dates are left to be generated by some random LLM somewhere.
TikTok has agreed to be sold to a US-led investment consortium. (Tech Crunch)

The parent company, ByteDance, will retain a 20% stake in the new join venture.

From the details given, 35% of the shares are unaccounted for.

Musical Interlude

Kiryu Coco of Hololive's Gen 4 invited Haachama of Gen 1 for a sleepover. Alcohol may have been consumed. The result was an epic karaoke session.

Disclaimer: Haachama-chama!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 19, 2025 04:00 AM (2Ez/1)

3 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

4 *waves*

Hello/Good night, all!

Posted by: JQ at December 19, 2025 04:06 AM (rdVOm)

5 I read that post the other day from Dr. Butfield-Addison.
Felt sorry for the guy the entire time I was reading it.
Apple has put him in a difficult position, and it's even worse they won't explain exactly what went wrong and keep giving him the runaround on how to resolve something that is locking him out of his data and his developer account.

Then I read his About page just to see who I was reading, and got to this at the bottom:

© Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison · I live on the land of the muwinina people. Sovereignty was never ceded.

I'm starting to see why this guy seems to completely trust B.S. from larger entities than himself, and why he has a hyphenated last name.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:06 AM (6ydKt)

6 This had to be expected, but Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, one of the most vocal critics of Apple’s walled garden, pointed out that Apple’s new App Store policies in Japan are still unfair to developers. “They’re charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments, and 15% for purchases made on the web,” Sweeney posted on X. “They’re imposing a new 5% junk fee on all revenue from apps distributed by competing stores, and intend to surveil all transactions within them using a mandatory reporting API,” the exec continued.

Well, he's not wrong.

Apple is gonna Apple and get their vig.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:10 AM (6ydKt)

7 Kiryu Coco of Hololive's Gen 4 invited Haachama of Gen 1 for a sleepover. Alcohol may have been consumed. The result was an epic karaoke session.

Sounds like the Swedish Chef from the Muppets.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:13 AM (6ydKt)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 19, 2025 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

9 You might be thinking at this point that this guy is an idiot for giving a single company complete control over his personal and work life in this way.

You would be correct.

Yes, indeed.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 19, 2025 04:16 AM (sAmhv)

10 5 I'm starting to see why this guy seems to completely trust B.S. from larger entities than himself, and why he has a hyphenated last name.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

Yep. I scrolled down too and any latent sympathy evaporated.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2025 04:17 AM (BLOW1)

11 Apple people are a special kind of adult children. I'd pray for them but...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 19, 2025 04:21 AM (mlg/3)

12 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 19, 2025 04:22 AM (bQ4nt)

13
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison

He said "butt"! Heh! Heh! Heh!

When he looks in the mirror, he sees a butt face!

Heh! Heh! Heh!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 04:23 AM (xG4kz)

14 Yep. I scrolled down too and any latent sympathy evaporated.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2025 04:17 AM (BLOW1)

I can't figure out how the $500 dollar Apple Card was compromised.

Over here those cards come with a scratch-off film over the validation number.

I'd love to know how somebody is cashing them in without having access to the card (so would Apple, apparently).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:23 AM (6ydKt)

15 Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, one of the most vocal critics of Apple’s walled garden

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:10 AM (6ydKt)

Epic is its own flavor of scummy. The want all the retail cut for themselves, but they have no intention of actually competing on the merits with existing platforms. So they went around buying exclusivity deals with publishers to monopolize games onto their platform in an effort to force people to switch to them.

Posted by: Sjg at December 19, 2025 04:24 AM (aqZN1)

16 Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison · I live on the land of the muwinina people. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Well, guess your going to have to cede it back, Paris. Live by the pretentious tag lines, die by the pretentious tag lines.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 19, 2025 04:26 AM (sAmhv)

17
© Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison · I live on the land of the muwinina people. Sovereignty was never ceded.

You are mistaken. You come from a land down under. Why aren't you at chunder practice?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 04:32 AM (xG4kz)

18 I'm not saying you would do this, but if you were to do, say, an image search on Dr. PB-A, well you might not be surprised at the result.

Posted by: Not that there's anything wrong with that at December 19, 2025 04:35 AM (2Ez/1)

19 18: I'm not going to search, because I believe you.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at December 19, 2025 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

20 Is there a point to todays video?

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:42 AM (Ia/+0)

21 16 Live by the pretentious tag lines, die by the pretentious tag lines.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 19, 2025 04:26 AM (sAmhv)

Harsh.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 04:43 AM (RuTUS)

22 This seems impressive, tho.

https://hey.paris

I’ve ... authored over 20 technical books on software development, game design, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 04:46 AM (RuTUS)

23 Not complaining its there, I just don't get it

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

24 18 I'm not saying you would do this, but if you were to do, say, an image search on Dr. PB-A, well you might not be surprised at the result.
Posted by: Not that there's anything wrong with that at December 19, 2025 04:35 AM (2Ez/1)

Yeah, f*ck they/them. Briefly owned an iPhone 3, and absolutely hated the ecosystem. Working on ridding myself of Microsoft at the moment. Why the hell is everything getting worse.

Posted by: resist_we_much at December 19, 2025 04:48 AM (cpys8)

25 18 I'm not saying you would do this, but if you were to do, say, an image search on Dr. PB-A, well you might not be surprised at the result.

Posted by: Not that there's anything wrong with that at December 19, 2025 04:35 AM (2Ez/1)

lol
I found one where he's wearing a bow-tie.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:48 AM (6ydKt)

26 Epic is its own flavor of scummy. The want all the retail cut for themselves, but they have no intention of actually competing on the merits with existing platforms. So they went around buying exclusivity deals with publishers to monopolize games onto their platform in an effort to force people to switch to them.

Posted by: Sjg at December 19, 2025 04:24 AM (aqZN1)

But they do give away free games - my several games library on Epic was all free.

Never seen Steam do that, but I don't know for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:50 AM (6ydKt)

27 23 Not complaining its there, I just don't get it

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

Just two Japanese girls having a great time singing karaoke in Spanish, badly.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:53 AM (6ydKt)

28 I’ve ... authored over 20 technical books on software development, game design, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 04:46 AM (RuTUS)

What's even worse for him is that he wrote a few books on programming for Apple.

Ingrates.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 04:55 AM (6ydKt)

29
https://tinyurl.com/24e6tvra

Acts 12:-5-11

Christian devotional on resting in God.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 04:55 AM (Nx5jP)

30 I didn't get much sleep since 1:45am

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:56 AM (Ia/+0)

31 It is stormy outside, rain instead of snow

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:03 AM (Ia/+0)

32 2025 Wildlife photo comedy Award winners:

https://tinyurl.com/2wuc4d68

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:04 AM (Nx5jP)

33 Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 04:56 AM

I'm sorry, Skip. Can you rest this weekend?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:04 AM (Nx5jP)

34 Yeah its Friday

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

35 No matter how undeserving of sympathy Pierre Buttsniff-Aspergers is, I'm still on his side. There are plenty of institutions that can ruin lives by dissolving accounts or credentials, and there's not much timely recourse for it. Ask the debanked.

Posted by: F Apple at December 19, 2025 05:09 AM (4MSjJ)

36 BBC (2 hours ago):
US suspends green card lottery scheme after Brown shooting

President Donald Trump has suspended the US green card lottery scheme in the wake of a mass shooting at Brown University last week in which two people were killed.
The suspect, a Portuguese man who was found dead on Thursday, entered the country through the diversity lottery immigrant visa programme (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 05:10 AM (RuTUS)

37 35 Pierre Buttsniff-Aspergers
Posted by: F Apple at December 19, 2025 05:09 AM (4MSjJ)

!!!

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 05:12 AM (RuTUS)

38
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

39 Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 05:10 AM (RuTUS

Good. Maybe the next thing we can do is find students who have overstayed their student visas and deport them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:12 AM (Nx5jP)

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

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at December 19, 2025 05:14 AM (PzBTm)

41 40 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at December 19, 2025 05:14 AM (PzBTm)

Yay! Thank you, Rosasharn.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 05:15 AM (RuTUS)

42 249 years ago - Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense":

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/events061219/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:15 AM (Nx5jP)

43 58 degrees and raining, snow is gone except piles

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:16 AM (Ia/+0)

44 Duet of Amazing Grace by two talented singers. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxvz496

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:20 AM (Nx5jP)

45 That would be embarrassing if Microsoft still had the capacity to feel embarrassment.

And if they did have the capacity, it'd be fake embarrassment.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

46
Good morning, Hordians. Woke up at 4:00 and determined immediately that I wasn't getting back to sleep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 05:23 AM (tgvbd)

47 From the details given, 35% of the shares are unaccounted for.

Minnesotan Somalis may be involved.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:23 AM (O7YUW)

48 Kiryu Coco and Haachama - Despacito

I watched the whole thing!

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 05:24 AM (RuTUS)

49 "Pierre Buttsniff-Aspergers."

Sounds French.

Posted by: Small hands. Smells of cabbage. at December 19, 2025 05:27 AM (2Ez/1)

50 Much Brown shooter news here:

https://www.browndailyherald.com

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 05:29 AM (RuTUS)

51 G'morning, all!

67.1 degrees outside.

And our son reports that Trump's $1,776.00 check is in the pending column for his checking account.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2025 05:30 AM (Ytdv9)

52 A paperlesspost Christmas card has just arrived in my inbox and you have to click View the Card to open it and I hate this so much. I guess the company already has me on a mailing list--thanks!--and that the click will confirm that that's a valid address.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 05:33 AM (RuTUS)

53 Greetings and good morning everyone. The day had an interesting start. I turned Winnie out in the backyard and while she was occupied, I went to my car to put the food for today's party in it.

I get to my car and the motion-activated floodlights were on. OK...maybe it's the local wildlife paying us a visit. Nope. It was Winnie. The gate had been blown open and she was standing around looking puzzled. Thankfully, she came up to me quickly and I got her back in the house.

So padlocks for the gates are on the to-do list.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2025 05:34 AM (lXoJ5)

54 @52/m: A paperlesspost Christmas card has just arrived in my inbox and you have to click View the Card to open it

It's that time of year when your defenses to poisoned clicks in email will be down if in the guise of a card or a gift.

Don't click on links in emails.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

55 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)

56 Actor David Suchet ( "Poirot") reads psalm 63 about God's love:

https://tinyurl.com/bdz673c9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:38 AM (rZCVI)

57 Here's my music offering of the morning:

https://youtu.be/xmn5dkjUyS0

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

58
Why the hell is everything getting worse.
Posted by: resist_we_much

The best part is finding out that some key you accidentally touched sent you and everything on which you were working to who knows where and your path to undo it is another puzzle to solve that you have neither the time nor the patience to deal with it. On/Off button, here we come!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 05:48 AM (xG4kz)

59 Regarding the video up above: When sombreros are brought out, things are going to get fun.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2025 05:49 AM (lXoJ5)

60 54 @52/m: A paperlesspost Christmas card has just arrived in my inbox and you have to click View the Card to open it

It's that time of year when your defenses to poisoned clicks in email will be down if in the guise of a card or a gift.

Don't click on links in emails.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

Probably!

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

61 Don't click on links in emails.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Or at least call the person who supposedly sent it and confirm it's legitimate.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2025 05:51 AM (lXoJ5)

62
And our son reports that Trump's $1,776.00 check is in the pending column for his checking account.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

That's good to hear and please thank him for his service!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 05:51 AM (xG4kz)

63 It is nasty outside, there are people who should not be driving in this

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2025 05:51 AM (dagd5)

64 @63/Skip: "It is nasty outside, there are people who should not be driving in this"

*looks at the weather warnings and the weather radar*

- An inch of rain in a short time
- 50 MPH winds
- Flash freeze to immediately follow

And I'm going to be driving in this because we haven't been cancelled.

Yaaaaaay.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

65 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 05:53 AM (O7YUW)

Will pray for your safety and for all the bus drivers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2025 05:58 AM (Nx5jP)

66
Much Brown shooter news here:

https://www.browndailyherald.com
Posted by: m

"Brown notes", if you will.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 05:58 AM (xG4kz)

67
Dr. Butterbean Butterball Butternut

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 05:58 AM (xG4kz)

68 Evening and morning, satraps and satellites of the AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Friday at last, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

It's 56 F. here, but with a 12 mph breeze out of the north, so working out may require a little more effort. Or planning, i.e., running in a southerly direction on the loop trail, walking in the northerly one.

Stirling is ranging back and forth like a black leopard across the living room floor, ready for breakfast. Little Dagny is sprawled on the kitchen floor; I know she's hungry too. In time, beasts, in time. Coffee first.

So what's on your roadmap today?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

69 @65/FenelonSpoke:

Much appreciated.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 06:02 AM (O7YUW)

70 So what's on your roadmap today?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 05:59 AM (wzUl9)
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Early morning root canal.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 06:03 AM (ESVrU)

71 G'mornin' everyone!

Thank you, Rosasharn!

and thank you everyone else for uncovering The Rest Of The Story of professor buttmunch-applelover. behold, my sympathy evaporates like a pool of spilled Freon!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 06:04 AM (Cjt/F)

72
Not complaining its there, I just don't get it
Posted by: Skip

Would it have helped for it to have been described as "Yoko adjacent" before you clicked on the Play button?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:04 AM (xG4kz)

73
Early morning root canal.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Now there's a good name for a heavy metal band!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:06 AM (xG4kz)

74 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Tenno heiko banzai!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 19, 2025 06:07 AM (qbLEp)

75 Early morning root canal.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Now there's a good name for a heavy metal band!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:06 AM (xG4kz)
--------
So would "Blunt Force Trauma."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 19, 2025 06:07 AM (qbLEp)

76 So would "Blunt Force Trauma."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

How about "Sharp Force Injuries" that LAPD used for the Reiners?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2025 06:09 AM (lXoJ5)

77 Good luck, Perfessor. Next week I have to deal with the medical profession twice, a blood draw on Monday (so no breakfast or coffee beforehand!), and a visit to a dermatologist on Tuesday. Yours sounds much more difficult. Ask for the good drugs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 06:10 AM (wzUl9)

78 So what's the backstory on the Portuguese murderer?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 19, 2025 06:11 AM (2Ez/1)

79 Good luck, Perfessor. Next week I have to deal with the medical profession twice, a blood draw on Monday (so no breakfast or coffee beforehand!), and a visit to a dermatologist on Tuesday. Yours sounds much more difficult. Ask for the good drugs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 06:10 AM (wzUl9)
---
Oh, yeah, I definitely plan on asking for the good drugs. Had a filling break recently and my dentist referred me to a local endodontist. Fortunately, he was able to squeeze me in this morning before the holiday.

Not pleasant, but much better than the alternative.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 06:12 AM (ESVrU)

80 LOL

Before this, your mother-in-law in Boise probably did not care much about politics. She just wanted to look at her niece's baby pics. But Zuckerberg made her look at ten ragebait articles to do so. And after 20 years of this, she's now a psychotic libtard. Now everyone's psychotic about politics. Thanks, Mark.

https://xcancel.com/NewRightPoast

and scroll down

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 06:12 AM (RuTUS)

81 This morning I have to run to Target and buy a phone card to renew my service, and I plan to stop by the pipe shop for some supplies. The car could use a bath, too, but I may put that off until tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

82
Regarding the video up above: When sombreros are brought out, things are going to get fun.
Posted by: NR Pax

I don't get it

-- Temu Obama

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:13 AM (xG4kz)

83 78 So what's the backstory on the Portuguese murderer?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 19, 2025 06:11 AM (2Ez/1)

https://www.browndailyherald.com

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 06:13 AM (RuTUS)

84

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 19, 2025 06:14 AM (DDJSl)

85 hey, isn't it cute how they get to lay off two separate antisemitic shootings on some guy who's already dead? CASE CLOSED!
NOTHING TO SEE HERE!

like I believe one word of their bs.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2025 06:17 AM (Cjt/F)

86
So what's the backstory on the Portuguese murderer?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 19, 2025 06:11 AM

he's from Portugal & he killed some people?

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2025 06:17 AM (tljrc)

87 It would appear that the Amazon Echo devices in stately VIA Manor do not wish to play well on the new tp-Link Mesh X60 system that I just installed.

Sometimes they work, other times they just seem to drop off the network.

Three days of major frustration.

And yes, they are all on the IoT network, running on the 2.4 band.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2025 06:17 AM (Ytdv9)

88 What you lot goin' on about then

Posted by: Don Black at December 19, 2025 06:18 AM (ZxPkt)

89 Second cup downed. Time I changed, stretched, and hit the trail!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 19, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

90 40 minutes tel Xcel Energy pulls the plug

Posted by: Don Black at December 19, 2025 06:20 AM (ZxPkt)

91 Yet another reason why being a member of the Apple cult is a horrible idea.

AND you get to pay a nice 30% markup for everything just for the privilege of saying you're a member of the Apple cult

I owned an iPod once. ONCE

Even then, the iTunes store, which was supposed to work with Windows, never really did. Absolute horseshit

Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 06:22 AM (jdWAw)

92 And yes, they are all on the IoT network, running on the 2.4 band.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2025 06:17 AM (Ytdv9)

You may have already done this, but if you left the WiFi on in your cable/fiber router it may be causing problems with signal interference on the mesh network.

I had to turn the WiFi off on my AT&T box when I installed the Decos.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 06:24 AM (6ydKt)

93

So what's the backstory on the Portuguese murderer?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Failed physics graduate student at Bruno twenty years ago. Greased the proper palms to get Resident status. Bummed around doing fuck all for two decades. Someone saw him and tailed him for a short time prior to the murders, and then ratted him out once his webble-like appearance was posted. Offed himself in a storage locker after authorities got his name, et cetera from the car rental company.

Here's the tell -- three names. The bad ones always have three names.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:25 AM (xG4kz)

94 Even then, the iTunes store, which was supposed to work with Windows, never really did. Absolute horseshit

Posted by: deadrody at December 19, 2025 06:22 AM (jdWAw)

Apple is famous for their well-designed user interfaces and software, but iTunes was the crappiest Media Player/Store ever designed, IMHO.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 06:27 AM (6ydKt)

95 "You may have already done this, but if you left the WiFi on in your cable/fiber router it may be causing problems with signal interference on the mesh network."

Spectrum modem with no router/WiFi ability.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2025 06:27 AM (Ytdv9)

96 59 Regarding the video up above: When sombreros are brought out, things are going to get fun.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2025 05:49 AM (lXoJ5)

Especially sombreros that stay pinned while the girls sway away.

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

97 Waiting for that C-note...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 06:28 AM (O7YUW)

98
AND you get to pay a nice 30% markup for everything just for the privilege of saying you're a member of the Apple cult

_________

It's worth it to be one of the Kool Kidz. Look! I ordered Chinese using my Watch! I must be a sophisticated tech bro.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:28 AM (tgvbd)

99
hunnert!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:29 AM (xG4kz)

100 The suspect, a Portuguese man who was found dead on Thursday, entered the country through the diversity lottery immigrant visa programme (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card.

The DV1 Program is an abomination to God and Man. Literally.

The world has spent untold billions of dollars in all kinds of psychological, sociological and anthropological studies, experiments and other research.

We know what happens when you have tribes mixing it up.
We know what happens when you inject hostile cultures into an otherwise homogenous one.
We know what happens when you dissolve a sucessfull credal society with those not only outside the camp, but hostile to it.

The idea of "assimilation" demands a Best Case Scenario where the foreign tribe drops their identity and merges with what is to them an alien identity. Except now, we are an Identity nation where it isn't just ethnic and family tribes, but whole new arbitrary and perverted distinctions.

Yet they deliberately set upon a plan that was absolutely guaranteed to weaken a society in many ways - with zero upside except for those who profit from chaos.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:29 AM (kHd4y)

101 Here's the tell -- three names. The bad ones always have three names.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
-----------------------

What are you trying to say?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton at December 19, 2025 06:29 AM (DDJSl)

102
hunnert!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:29 AM (xG4kz)

103
Damn! I would have had it iffn Pixy had not required that I post something different.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:31 AM (xG4kz)

104 I guess that Judge Dugan who tried to spirit away an illegal from her court in Wisconsin has been found guilty. I thought for sure there would be nullification. I've seen a few posts on X about it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:31 AM (cxFcK)

105 So m getting the hundred is like Schrodinger's cat. If you try to look at it before it happens, it isn't there.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 06:31 AM (O7YUW)

106 Spectrum modem with no router/WiFi ability.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2025 06:27 AM (Ytdv9)

If it's just Alexa causing problems then that's weird.

I'd do a factory rest on all the devices and start the setup again on the new network, and if that didn't work I'd curse Amazon heavily and give up.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 06:32 AM (6ydKt)

107
What are you trying to say?

*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Yeah, buster -- what she said!

-- Old Lady Emhoff

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:32 AM (xG4kz)

108 And yes, they are all on the IoT network, running on the 2.4 band.

So does the microwave oven. One really loud messy signal.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:32 AM (rgGn5)

109 Good morning everyone

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 19, 2025 06:33 AM (WPL6O)

110 I guess that Judge Dugan who tried to spirit away an illegal from her court in Wisconsin has been found guilty. I thought for sure there would be nullification. I've seen a few posts on X about it.

I've been hoping for immigration fatigue growing.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:34 AM (rgGn5)

111 101 Here's the tell -- three names. The bad ones always have three names.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
-----------------------

What are you trying to say?

*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton at December 19, 2025 06:29 AM

---
Yeah. What are you trying to say?

Posted by: Just about every female Supreme Court Justice ever. at December 19, 2025 06:34 AM (2Ez/1)

112
I blame Henry the Navigator.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:34 AM (tgvbd)

113 Trump is addressing the nation AGAIN today at 1:00 ET?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:35 AM (cxFcK)

114 Yet they deliberately set upon a plan that was absolutely guaranteed to weaken a society in many ways - with zero upside except for those who profit from chaos.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:29 AM (kHd4y)

But it soothed their leftist imposed generational guilt because their great-great-great-great grandfather was mean to a PoC so it's all good.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

115 "I'd do a factory rest on all the devices and start the setup again on the new network, and if that didn't work I'd curse Amazon heavily and give up."

That is my next step.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2025 06:35 AM (Ytdv9)

116
Trump is addressing the nation AGAIN today at 1:00 ET?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:35 AM (cxFcK)

_________

He needs to do it from the Nightwatch plane.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:36 AM (tgvbd)

117 104 I guess that Judge Dugan who tried to spirit away an illegal from her court in Wisconsin has been found guilty. I thought for sure there would be nullification. I've seen a few posts on X about it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:31 AM

+++
Hey. Don't spoil my unblemished record!

Posted by: The person who always says nothing will happen at December 19, 2025 06:37 AM (n08cg)

118
Do not let Vasco Da Gama off the hook.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

119 I guess that Judge Dugan who tried to spirit away an illegal from her court in Wisconsin has been found guilty. I thought for sure there would be nullification. I've seen a few posts on X about it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:31 AM (cxFcK)
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Probably need a few more convictions of judges before the others start getting the message.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 06:38 AM (ESVrU)

120 I guess that Judge Dugan who tried to spirit away an illegal from her court in Wisconsin has been found guilty. I thought for sure there would be nullification. I've seen a few posts on X about it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:31 AM

+++
Hey. Don't spoil my unblemished record!
Posted by: The person who always says nothing will happen at December 19, 2025 06:37 AM (n08cg)
-----------
And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at December 19, 2025 06:38 AM (qbLEp)

121 Things are wet here this morning, which is going to be distressing to my bride when she wakes up, as she is organizing a giant Christmas open house and is hoping for weather where people don't have to track mud into the house when they arrive. Maybe I'll slip a little Irish into her morning coffee, so she won't notice the weather.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 06:39 AM (UQESC)

122 hotair.com has assembled a lot of info on the Brown shooter

https://tinyurl.com/3e7nj39y

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 06:39 AM (RuTUS)

123 Trump is addressing the nation AGAIN today at 1:00 ET?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:35 AM (cxFcK)

_________

He needs to do it from the Nightwatch plane.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:36 AM (tgvbd)
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At last we'll get the Venezuelan war! Tucker Carlson will be ecstatic.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 19, 2025 06:39 AM (ESVrU)

124 Good morning morons

"From the details given, 35% of the shares are unaccounted for."

Thirty five percent for the Big Guy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 06:39 AM (9ipOP)

125 If I were investigation Dr. Paris's case here, I would fabricate evidence that the dude who redeemed that gift card first was named Agamemnon.

It would be worth my job. 100%.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 06:40 AM (06Hmj)

126 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Kilmar Abrego Garcia at December 19, 2025 06:40 AM (2Ez/1)

127 How'd this Portuguese illegal shoot the poor Brown University girl, then two days later murder the MIT physicist? This seems weird.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:41 AM (cxFcK)

128
Hey. Don't spoil my unblemished record!
Posted by: The person who always says nothing will happen at December 19, 2025 06:37 AM (n08cg)
-----------
And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning

Someone wake up the "En fuego!" guy, who always says, "En fuego"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:41 AM (xG4kz)

129 > I thought for sure there would be nullification.
----

40 hours community service and $50 fine.

Next case!

Posted by: Don Black at December 19, 2025 06:41 AM (ZxPkt)

130 That is my next step.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 19, 2025 06:35 AM (Ytdv9)

Good luck VIA, I know how frustrating it is.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 06:41 AM (6ydKt)

131 I love that this totally evil Fascist Warmonger Blockade that will kick off the war to end all wars is still letting through all sea traffic that *isn't* drug-smuggling boats with little more than an "A'ight, have a good one".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 06:42 AM (06Hmj)

132 And so ends the beginning.

Posted by: The person who always thinks the beginning is just ending at December 19, 2025 06:43 AM (2Ez/1)

133 If Brown really did turn off its security cameras to protect foreign born rioting students, and caused the delays in finding this shooter, their endowment is going to deservedly shrink, paying legal settlements.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 06:44 AM (UQESC)

134
How'd this Portuguese illegal shoot the poor Brown University girl, then two days later murder the MIT physicist? This seems weird.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

I don't think that the mortar ghas dried yet on that house of bricks.

House o' straw is toast; house o' sticks is taking heat.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)

135 Do not let Vasco Da Gama off the hook.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:38 AM (xG4kz)

"He discovered the Mississippi!"

"Oh, like they wouldn't have found that anyway...."

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld Reference at December 19, 2025 06:45 AM (06Hmj)

136 37 35 Pierre Buttsniff-Aspergers

Of the Hampton Buttsniff-Aspergers?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 19, 2025 06:45 AM (+hevz)

137 https://nitter.net/nicksortor

another good site for info on the Brown shooter

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 06:46 AM (RuTUS)

138 I mean i'm not a big fan of a Panopticon State, but, you know, if we're gonna have cameras covering every square femtometer of the continental United States, can we at least leave the stupid things on and use them for something?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 06:47 AM (06Hmj)

139 "...their endowment is going to deservedly shrink..."

I was in the pool!!

Posted by: The Brown University endowment at December 19, 2025 06:47 AM (2Ez/1)

140
Funny how the Portuguese told the Line of Demarcation Pope to eff off.

Kinda like what happened to our very own Non-Temu Temu Obama

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 06:48 AM (xG4kz)

141 "I don't like feeling like i'm under scrutiny by Big Brother all day every day, but at least if something bad does happen, they'll have it on camera."

"We turned the cameras off."

"Oh, screw you, man."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 06:48 AM (06Hmj)

142
Dr. Paris Buttfield-Addison thinks he and Apple have some kind of classical customer-supplier relationship. Dr. Paris Buttfield-Addison would be wrong. He is a cow to be milked.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2025 06:48 AM (tgvbd)

143 I'm just here for the twirling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 06:49 AM (9ipOP)

144 I love that this totally evil Fascist Warmonger Blockade that will kick off the war to end all wars

I'm laughing because the Left instantly rushes to their Trigger Word Thesaurus to grab as many scare words and phrases and jam them all together like you demonstrate here.

With so many superlatives and hyperbole for daily, normal operations that they just happen to disagree with, what happens when a real threat comes along like Deeming Ukraine an Honorary Member of NATO and instantly invoking Article 5 - complete with comprehensive conscription?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:49 AM (pUU4E)

145 "We turned the cameras off."

"Oh, screw you, man."
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The Left ALWAYS turn off the cameras when they want to kill someone.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 19, 2025 06:50 AM (cxFcK)

146 mornin yall. "diversity lottery immigrant visa programme"

"Diversity is our strength" they said. Then diversity shot them.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

147 "I don't like feeling like i'm under scrutiny by Big Brother all day every day, but at least if something bad does happen, they'll have it on camera."

"We turned the cameras off."

Now do CBDC. You know that they will have targeted implementation too.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:51 AM (rgGn5)

148 Any dead celebrities this morning? Just asking.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

149 Couple of things due today:

There has to be a league of Portuguese-Ammericans, largely silent since the days of that one pool table gang rape case, who will speak out on the backlash they're about to suffer. We no doubt have a large hidden reserve of anti-Portuguese bias just waiting to be revealed. 'Watch This Space.'

What would you say the chances are for NCIS: Providence? Young FDR had a scandal there, in 1919.

Homeless Brown Resident Genius just became the new archetype for street people, perhaps deservedly so. I have not been boring you with tales of my homeless employees, but suffice it to say that Bob Dylan (or was it Silliphant, or Genet, or Francois Villon?) wasn't just a-woofin' when he wrote "to live outside the law you must be honest." What a script treatment!

Other Brown Victim will make for a trickier made-for-streaming-TV series, and I wonder if we have the writers any more to deal with it. Aspiring brain surgeon, brain cancer survivor, an All-American Boy whose parents had to cut short the Haaj to claim his body? I would not want to get that assignment.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 19, 2025 06:52 AM (zdLoL)

150 138 I mean i'm not a big fan of a Panopticon State, but, you know, if we're gonna have cameras covering every square femtometer of the continental United States, can we at least leave the stupid things on and use them for something?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 06:47 AM
We’re the target. The leftist thugs (their troops) don’t bear watching because the camera masters know what they’re doing.

Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2025 06:52 AM (o2ZRX)

151 The Left ALWAYS turn off the cameras when they want to kill someone.

What? No Zombie Epstein sock?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:52 AM (rgGn5)

152 141 "I don't like feeling like i'm under scrutiny by Big Brother all day every day, but at least if something bad does happen, they'll have it on camera."

..............

Several years ago I was in London, stopped at a little bar set up outside. There was a big warning sign letting us know that there were NO surveillance cameras on site.
Like that was a bad thing........

Posted by: Molly k. at December 19, 2025 06:53 AM (j/yko)

153 So on that Firefox shoving AI into their browser thing (over at The Register):

https://tinyurl.com/7en3w4vu

There's this gem:

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 19, 2025 06:53 AM (O7YUW)

154 Those cameras are not there for you.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

155 reading the ONT question about the foul mouthed Karen berating the elderly target worker, my question is why it became acceptable to start swearing at people in publec?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 06:54 AM (lIonU)

156 Neighbors say he was just turning his life around and had recently been attending a Bible study.

Posted by: The local media nobody watches anymore at December 19, 2025 06:56 AM (2Ez/1)

157 I mean i'm not a big fan of a Panopticon State, but, you know, if we're gonna have cameras covering every square femtometer of the continental United States, can we at least leave the stupid things on and use them for something?

I'm willing to bet that the cameras were on - it is just far too tempting to have a snuff film in the making and not sit back with some dope, hand lotion and kleenex and watch it unfold.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 06:56 AM (c3sdc)

158 reading the ONT question about the foul mouthed Karen berating the elderly target worker, my question is why it became acceptable to start swearing at people in publec?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 06:54 AM (lIonU)
====

I grew up in nyc, so...always.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 06:57 AM (9ipOP)

159 I really don't think anyone pushing for comprehensive conscription in the US is thinking through the strategic liabilities of taking a bunch of pissed off normies, yanking them out of their normie lives that they're desperately trying to hold together over their crooked p3do burisma board boondoggle, organizing them into a massive army, and shoving top tier weaponry into their hands.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 06:57 AM (06Hmj)

160 "154 Those cameras are not there for you.
Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 06:53 AM"

The Lives Of Others is one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: Quarter y at December 19, 2025 06:58 AM (2Ez/1)

161 "Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan faces up to five years in prison following her misguided attempt to assist Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz"

"Misguided"? By who? Throw the misguiders in jail too.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 06:59 AM (vFG9F)

162 Oops. Typo in the Name field.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 19, 2025 06:59 AM (2Ez/1)

163 153 So on that Firefox shoving AI into their browser thing (over at The Register):

https://tinyurl.com/7en3w4vu

There's this gem:

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

LOLOLOL!!!!!

Firefox is the default browser for Linux Mint, so I do use it. I also use Brave.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 19, 2025 06:59 AM (sAmhv)

164 She was just misguided. Poor misguided Judge.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

165 The Left ALWAYS turn off the cameras when they want to kill someone.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Not as effective anymore since everyone has a phone with a camera ready to go.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 19, 2025 07:00 AM (lXoJ5)

166 Really liked Ben Shapiro's speech at TPUSA

Very thorough and undramatic skewering of Candace and Tucker, Inc.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 07:01 AM (9ipOP)

167 JJS calls Newsom "Gavin the Greaseball" which is an entertaining reference to Newsom's heavy use of hair gel.

Sefton is a great American.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 07:01 AM (7UBWW)

168 The Brown president snarkily said at a presser that they're not gonna release a map of where the cameras are on the Brown campus. I'm betting that 4chan could produce that within an hour.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 07:01 AM (RuTUS)

169 I'd love to know how somebody is cashing them in without having access to the card (so would Apple, apparently).
Posted by: SpeakingOf

My daughter explained to and I forget the details.
Basically if the gift card is on a display rack there is a good chance a thief has already copied the number.
As soon as the gc is activated they get an alert and they use it.
Some stores now have cards which don't even get a number assigned until activation to combat thus.
However I suppose the thief could guess a bunch of numbers.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 07:02 AM (tcsrY)

170
Typo in the Name field throwing off Q
Whaazzat? you say. 'T'weren't talking to you!
Pull out some flour, mix up some goo
Skip to my Lou, my darling!

Now, bow to your pardner
And bow to your own

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 19, 2025 07:03 AM (xG4kz)

171
Several years ago I was in London, stopped at a little bar set up outside. There was a big warning sign letting us know that there were NO surveillance cameras on site.
Like that was a bad thing........

Posted by: Molly k. at December 19, 2025 06:53 AM (j/yko)

There may not have been any cameras on that site, but it's London so you can be sure there were probably 50 cameras on nearby sites picking up the slack.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 07:04 AM (6ydKt)

172 Mexico is so effed up that a cartel can descend upon a village, murder the entire local police force and government, then realize they sort of have to take on some degree of local law enforcement themselves now, the Federal District yawns and ignores it all, and then the stinking cartel winds up being somehow *less* corrupt and unjust than the original "real" government so that the people start to like them more and want them to stick around.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 07:04 AM (06Hmj)

173 Unhammered Dicks was a light hearted musical romp that enjoyed moderate success off Broadway in the mid-90s. Focused on the shenanigans of a hapless private eye trying to sober up and his on again off again relationship with a bisexual woman almost ten years his senior.

Posted by: Snooty Theatre Critic at December 19, 2025 07:05 AM (2Ez/1)

174 I use Brave, unless some site requires Firefox. Like the NJ online ticket payment site, which only supports a few named browsers. A certain female of my acquaintance (who shall go unnamed) believes the parking ticket writers never notice her illegal parking. She thinks she's invisible to them. I have documentary proof she is wrong.

Anyway, Firefox sometimes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 07:06 AM (XR7sA)

175 An insult is born:

"That bitch is uglier than hammered dick."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 07:06 AM (06Hmj)

176 The Lives Of Others is one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: Quarter y at December 19, 2025 06:58 AM (2Ez/1)

A film that should be shown to every lefty numbskull who thinks Socialism is Great, it just hasn't been implemented correctly yet.

It wouldn't do any good, but at least they can't claim they weren't warned by example.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

177 Reiner said he was afraid his son might hurt him so he brought him to Conan O'Brian's Christmas party. Great judgement there, Pop.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

178 A film that should be shown to every lefty numbskull who thinks Socialism is Great, it just hasn't been implemented correctly yet.

It wouldn't do any good, but at least they can't claim they weren't warned by example.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

Please, no.... these dildoes already think 1984 is a salutary tale of The Things We Do Together.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 07:09 AM (06Hmj)

179 A film that should be shown to every lefty numbskull who thinks Socialism is Great, it just hasn't been implemented correctly yet.

Most of what passes for political debate centers around which institutions are to be trusted and which of them are corrupt.

Spoiler Alert - none are to be trusted.

Posted by: Snowball Headed for Hell at December 19, 2025 07:11 AM (4svSc)

180 Watching Piers interview Candace where she denies what she herself said only moments earlier.

Girl is cray.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 07:11 AM (9ipOP)

181 We're one generation away from vacuum-skulled Thought Leaders in their mid to late teens watching Downfall and rooting for Hitler.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 07:11 AM (06Hmj)

182 I really don't think anyone pushing for comprehensive conscription in the US is thinking through the strategic liabilities...

Replace "US" with "UK" and we are about to find out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 19, 2025 07:12 AM (c3sdc)

183 My daughter explained to and I forget the details.
Basically if the gift card is on a display rack there is a good chance a thief has already copied the number.
As soon as the gc is activated they get an alert and they use it.
Some stores now have cards which don't even get a number assigned until activation to combat thus.
However I suppose the thief could guess a bunch of numbers.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 19, 2025 07:02 AM (tcsrY)

Ahh, but how are they getting the verification numbers without scratching off the foil to see the number?
That's where I don't get it.

I guess I don't think like a thief hard enough.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 07:12 AM (6ydKt)

184 I hope whatever PDT has to say today send the leftys into a frothing frenzy. God protect him.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

185 Susie Wiles and her office mates apparently allowed Vanity Fair to picture them in a negative light, but Nellie Bowles at Free Press decided she loves Susie Wiles, who sounds just like a plain spoken woman should sound.

I love Susie Wiles: Members of President Trump’s close team met with Vanity Fair at the White House. I don’t know why they did this, but that’s not my job. Among the interviewees was one Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, my instant favorite of the lunch bunch. She said Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” and that Elon Musk is an “avowed ketamine [user]” and an “odd, odd duck.” J.D. Vance? That old queen? He’s been a “conspiracy theorist for a decade,” says Suz. Talking to Susie Wiles sounds exactly like talking to about half a dozen older women in my life, like I swear to you if you called my mother-in-law today this what she would say about me. It’s as though all women, at a certain age, converge on an omnipolitics in which there is no left and right, there are only odd ducks, kooks, out-to-lunchers, and real sick puppies. Susie Wiles, please come over for dinner, you remind me of my Yaiya; your wisdom is deep, your judgment is final.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 19, 2025 07:12 AM (XR7sA)

186 "I think you're not holding onto your thoughts."
-Candace to Piers

It's like watching two toddlers bonk each other with building blocks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 07:13 AM (9ipOP)

187 " is why it became acceptable to start swearing at people in publec?"

I blame Samuel L. Jackson and R-rated movies.

Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 07:13 AM (W7XSX)

188 ISTR the thing about hitting your head with a hammer
was that it felt so good when you stopped. You're up, Firefox.

Lenny Bruce had a routine about Slamming The Window On It.
I never hear the "Overton" ploy without remembering Lenny.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 19, 2025 07:15 AM (zdLoL)

189 I blame Samuel L. Jackson and R-rated movies.
Posted by: no one at December 19, 2025 07:13 AM (W7XSX)

I blame Comedy Central.

Moving comedy out of the comedy club and into the living room.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 19, 2025 07:15 AM (06Hmj)

190 There are two pictures of David Brooks in the Epstein files. Also pics of Bezos and Brin. That guy sure got around.

Posted by: fd at December 19, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

191 "Replace US with UK and we are about to find out..."

Mademoiselle from Armentieres,
Parlez-vous!

Posted by: They shall not grow old at December 19, 2025 07:17 AM (2Ez/1)

192 Watching the Today Show for the first time in years and am laughing out loud over the Trump hate

Posted by: Auspex at December 19, 2025 07:17 AM (vhs4j)

193 via Nick Sortor:

William Van Landingham III
@WVL3rd
8h
So the important thing to know is that now there will be a debate about whether or not Portuguese is "white."

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 07:18 AM (RuTUS)

194 Got to love Australians. There has not been a Labor or Green politician who has had the nerve to appear at the Bondi memorial without getting an earful from the public. Many have not had the nerve like Palestine Penny.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2025 07:19 AM (9ipOP)

195 184 I hope whatever PDT has to say today send the leftys into a frothing frenzy. God protect him.

Posted by: fd

Trump: Hello.

Lefty's: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
(starts throwing feces around)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 19, 2025 07:19 AM (sAmhv)

196 so he brought him to Conan O'Brian's Christmas party.

This works as a punch line for almost any story you can imagine.
I cannot wait for Gutfeld to get hold of this one.
It's -- literally -- right out of TV's Golden Age. JohnnyWorthy.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 19, 2025 07:20 AM (zdLoL)

197
JJS

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

198 The UK is going to have some real problems trying to get their young men to die in Ukraine for Zelensky and the EU.

France is going have to trick a bunch of students and farmers into thinking there's a protest in Kyiv over university fees and agricultural subsidies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 19, 2025 07:24 AM (6ydKt)

199 199

Posted by: m at December 19, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)

200 >>>I effectively have over $30,000 worth of previously-active "bricked" hardware.

Apple is iAsshoe.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 19, 2025 07:39 AM (dK+Kv)

201 >>>Kiryu Coco of Hololive's Gen 4 invited Haachama of Gen 1 for a sleepover. Alcohol may have been consumed. The result was an epic karaoke session.

Apparently, I'm too old or too dumb for whatever that is. Playing Marshall Tucker Band and singing along to "Can't You See?" makes my soul happy. Is that karaoke if you do it in your car?

Posted by: AlecK at December 19, 2025 09:54 AM (cMlC1)

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