Daily Tech News 21 March 2026

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Press X to doubt: Microsoft says it is fixing Windows 11. (Nerds.xyz)

Almost everything on the list is reversing changes that they push on users against vehement objections, or side effects of those changes.

I'll believe it when I see it. Or six months after that, really.

Meanwhile the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise Edition still exists (and there's a Windows 11 version that is also less broken than the Home edition, if you need support for recent features like Ethernet-over-Thunderbolt.)

Tech News

Opera GX is here for Linux. (Nerds.xyz)

This is not the browser you are looking for. Opera is now owned by a group whose primary business is payday loans in Africa. The entire technical team left and launched Vivaldi.

I'm not saying that Opera GX is actively scamming users; I'm just saying that I would not need to borrow Sarah Hoyt's shocked face if that turned out to be the case.
Blue Origin has filed an application with the FCC to launch 51,600 datacenters into space. (Tom's Hardware)

That seems to be rather a lot.
Suspicious compliance: The story of Delve. (Substack)

Who will certify the certifiers?
Trump's AI framework targets state laws, sifts child safety burden to parents. (Tech Crunch)

Well. I had mixed feelings about this: Tenth Amendment notwithstanding, state legislation on complex technical issues is usually bad, but federal legislation on complex technical issues is also usually bad. And in this particular case, the people working and reporting on the complex technical issues are also usually bad.

But if Tech Crunch is against it, I'm sold.
Another day, another state: Don't-call-it-gambling agency Kalshi is banned in Nevada. (Tech Crunch)

Not that Nevada is against gambling, just that the state demands its cut.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: You can always get what you want, though sometimes the minimum order quantity on Alibaba makes it infeasible.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 04:02 AM (7lOC+)

2 called the otters.

Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 04:04 AM (7lOC+)

3 But if you try sometimes you get what you need.

Posted by: Case at March 21, 2026 04:04 AM (pvf3X)

4 It all comes back to... if you do not pay for it, you are the product...

Windows 11... and all the AI crap.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 21, 2026 04:04 AM (mP0Kj)

5 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at March 21, 2026 04:04 AM (lJ0H4)

6 pixy, it did the blink and blink again. Just like yesterday. Was that the precursor of the blog going down later in the day?

Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 04:05 AM (7lOC+)

7 Had a bright idea-- going to get a cheapo burner phone, so don't need to give *real* phone number to mooch BIL.

Sound like a plan? I'm not gonna be his surrogate mommy!

Posted by: JQ at March 21, 2026 04:09 AM (rdVOm)

8 6 pixy, it did the blink and blink again. Just like yesterday. Was that the precursor of the blog going down later in the day?
Posted by: clarence

No, it does that pretty often for the first comment or two in a new thread. It's a caching bug that I need to sort out.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 21, 2026 04:10 AM (BLOW1)

9 Windows has 11 layers of geek bullshit.

Productivity has been degraded with each update, and there are endless updates and reboots.

Rearrange all of the icons, give endless provisioning for 3rd party popups, and increase the invasive, ridiculous security requirements.

The evolution is maddening.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 21, 2026 04:12 AM (LkMIg)

10 Win11 doesn't bother me. I have much bigger problems in my life, functional problems.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 21, 2026 04:15 AM (KAi1n)

11 'Night, horde...

Posted by: JQ at March 21, 2026 04:21 AM (rdVOm)

12 Well, Tech Crunch is showing its ass again. Yes, parental responsibility is key and should not be taken away lightly. However, State and Federal oversight is quite often ineffective and unnecessarily intrusive. On the other paw, parents these days are often too lax in the oversight of their children's online activity. A neutral policy is perhaps the best way to balance interests. The problem is too many people want to control what happens without regard to anyone outside of their clique.

Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 04:22 AM (7lOC+)

13 It's a caching bug that I need to sort out.
****

Ok. This is the only thread I can sometimes catch at the beginning, so have not seen that on other threads.

Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 04:26 AM (7lOC+)

14 Windows has 11 layers of geek bullshit.

Productivity has been degraded with each update, and there are endless updates and reboots.

Rearrange all of the icons, give endless provisioning for 3rd party popups, and increase the invasive, ridiculous security requirements.

The evolution is maddening.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Is this the I hate computers and chanting for emotional processing and spiritual growth support group or am I in the wrong room again?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 21, 2026 04:30 AM (cqXG5)

15 Is this the I hate computers and chanting for emotional processing and spiritual growth support group or am I in the wrong room again?
****

This is the "I hates windblows and billy gates" poo-flinging room. Baboon out front should have told you.

Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 04:34 AM (7lOC+)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 21, 2026 04:38 AM (DqJmd)

17 w00t

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 04:41 AM (+YA9H)

18 15 This is the "I hates windblows and billy gates" poo-flinging room.
Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 04:34 AM (7lOC+)

heh

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 04:43 AM (+YA9H)

19 This is the "I hates windblows and billy gates" poo-flinging room. Baboon out front should have told you.

Posted by: clarence

Sitting back from the computer screen, I miss read that as billy goats, and wonder who could hate billy goats.

Posted by: Colin at March 21, 2026 04:45 AM (e8qy3)

20 This is the "I hates windblows and billy gates" poo-flinging room. Baboon out front should have told you.
Posted by: clarence

Baboon was busy spanking the monkey. I didn't want to interrupt.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 21, 2026 04:46 AM (cqXG5)

21 Thank you, Pixy, for fixing stuff.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 04:46 AM (+YA9H)

22 Sitting back from the computer screen, I miss read that as billy goats, and wonder who could hate billy goats.
Posted by: Colin

I see by your comment you have never owned any goats.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 21, 2026 04:49 AM (cqXG5)

23 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Saw Jeff Dunham in concert tonight - he was GREAT!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 21, 2026 04:57 AM (OB8ow)

24 I have a friend who did live in Baltimore and raised goats. The city told him to either leave and take his goats with him or they would serve them in the school lunch program. He left that beautiful city and now lives in rural PA. Baltimore isn't the same city it once was where you could even have chickens. Now you need a armed guard to protect any live animals.

Posted by: Colin at March 21, 2026 04:58 AM (e8qy3)

25
Sound like a plan? I'm not gonna be his surrogate mommy!
Posted by: JQ

Our two kids (biologically, the missus') are taking care of their biological father, who is afflicted with terminal cancer fueled by him failing to see a doctor for over a decade. He basically spent his retirement years (a decade or so) voluntarily shut in, while playing video games. That, and occasionally teaming up with the son's idiot in-laws to mindlessly parrot leftists' talking points.

Anyway, both kids are taking turns tending to him at his home. Son took a leave of absence from work under the Family Leave Medical Act, through which his wife assured him his workplace will be required that his employer will take him back without let or hindrance. So income stream lessened at his home, the domicile of the two gKids, of whom I speak here fairly often.

The stricken father, now home bound and incapable of moving himself, has become an anchor who will bring down both of his kids futures, because assisted living facilities won't cater to his every need on the spot and they are something with which he and his two kids will not abide. He is being a selfish asshole and his kids will be the victims.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:00 AM (P8t9A)

26
Well, that was infested with incoherence.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:02 AM (P8t9A)

27 Baltimore is not necessarily wrong on that particular thing. Raising goats in an urban environment is a recipe for chaos.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 21, 2026 05:03 AM (cqXG5)

28 Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

How horrible for them.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 21, 2026 05:11 AM (cxFcK)

29
The orchard and farm adjacent to our neighborhood once had a variety of farm animals on view. A horse and pony, a pig, a hutch of rabbits, a peacock, several goats, and a cohort of ducks and chickens. Over the course of two decades that collection, outside of the cohort of ducks and chickens, had dwindled down to the peacock and one goat as of last fall. I'll have to go pay a visit soon to see who is still with us.

It was a great place to take the gKids on our walks when they were younger.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:12 AM (P8t9A)

30 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 21, 2026 05:12 AM (2Ez/1)

31 tech:
Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
3h
Happy Friday.
Testing a new feature.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 05:12 AM (+YA9H)

32 heh
in the Nikita Bier comments:
Abhishek Yadav
@abhixh
3h
brother launches new features on weekend so devs don’t get weekend off

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 05:15 AM (+YA9H)

33 Waiting on transport for my mom to another hospital for surgery for ischemia. Prayers welcome

Posted by: tintex at March 21, 2026 05:16 AM (3x5AN)

34 33 Waiting on transport for my mom to another hospital for surgery for ischemia. Prayers welcome
Posted by: tintex at March 21, 2026 05:16 AM (3x5AN)

Prayers up, tintex!

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 05:19 AM (+YA9H)

35 in the Nikita Bier comments, commenters are guessing:

gregs mom
@greggoriesmom
3h
only some accounts can reply

PostedGo
@postedgo
2h
The replies are so clean with the regions you blocked

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 05:22 AM (+YA9H)

36 and

Phil
@philofsurprises
3h
(Almost) everyone replying has 1000+ followers.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 05:24 AM (+YA9H)

37
I can empathize with our kids wanting to care for a parent as he is leaving this life. My sister and I did that for our own mother over the course of six months and it was tough as we were not trained for the totality of what care meant. Mom also was ambulatory, by and large.

However, both my sister and I were retired, financially sound and not responsible for anyone other than our selves and our spouses. We were not subject to the judgement of an employer for our continued financial well being. Nor were we afflicted with beliefs that an outside force -- the gubmint -- had matters in hand and would "take care of us", to use that simp in the audience's phrase from the Bush / Clinton / Perot debate at the University of Richmond in 1992.

I do not think that our two children are reading the room well for these times. That is the nub of it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:26 AM (P8t9A)

38 Prayers said tintex.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at March 21, 2026 05:28 AM (cqXG5)

39 Here's some happy news:

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
7h
CNN Execs: “Do we replace our failing on-air talent that has driven our ratings into the ground?”

Intern: “What if we just stick Jake Tapper on a goofy podcast set?”

CNN Execs: “Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.”

The Lead CNN
@TheLeadCNN
9h
CNN's Jake Tapper on why he's anchoring The Lead from his office

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 05:30 AM (+YA9H)

40
Abhishek Yadav
@abhixh
3h
brother launches new features on weekend so devs don’t get weekend off
Posted by: m

"We roll grenades of the smoke and flash-bang varieties into our customer's lives at inconvenient times for all of us."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:31 AM (P8t9A)

41 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 21, 2026 05:33 AM (bQ4nt)

42 Evening and morning for the Saturday toilers, errand runners, and early risers! What have you got on tap for this first full day of spring/fall?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

43 Baltimore isn't the same city it once was where you could even have chickens. Now you need a armed guard to protect any live animals.
Posted by: Colin at March 21, 2026

***
And yourself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 05:40 AM (wzUl9)

44 The way I heard it, “if you can’t figure out what a website is selling, then the product is YOU”

Posted by: Common Tater at March 21, 2026 05:41 AM (kmhyd)

45 G'Day everyone
Late for me here,
Anyone save me something for breakfast?

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 05:42 AM (Ia/+0)

46
Anna Bower
@AnnaBower
An absolutely excruciating moment at the Georgia Supreme Court this week.

Justice Peterson pressed state attorney Deborah Leslie over her citations to cases that apparently don’t exist.

https://x.com/annabower/status/
2035059208010207433?s=12

AI is your legal case drafting pal! Toss DEI into the mix and everything goes sideways, fast.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:43 AM (P8t9A)

47 Good morning! Gonna be kinda warm (mid 90s) over the weekend so it's get out in the garden and get the landscaping done time. Gotta renovate the front garden and finish the last two areas around the pond. Seems like summer is here early this year.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2026 05:43 AM (3Ope8)

48 Yesterday afternoon I made my reservations to travel to Kansas in April, using basically the northwestern route Teej suggested a few days ago. I'll get to see NW Arkansas, SW Missouri, and a portion of eastern Kansas too, including a stop at a non-chain hotel in Fort Scott, KS. It bills itself as a "hotel and day spa." Gonna be interesting.

Leave it to me to set out on a road trip as gas costs are rising. By then the $$$ of fuel may equal the $$$ of the hotels. But . . . I gotta do it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

49 Wolfus, what's keeping you in Cajun country?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2026 05:46 AM (2Ez/1)

50 Oops. Timing!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2026 05:46 AM (2Ez/1)

51
What have you got on tap for this first full day of spring/fall?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

It is our last full day hanging out with the two gKids at Great Wolf Lodge, where chaos goes to let fly. That said, it has been fun to be with them here so far.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:46 AM (P8t9A)

52 Wolfus, what's keeping you in Cajun country?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2026

***
Until a year ago, a job. Since then, there was straightening out my finances, then a surgery and recovery from it, then the usual sluggishness of winter. And . . . I keep hoping that Miss Linda will see the light and realize life will be better, or at least as good, in a better climate and environment. Clearly it ain't gonna happen.

Once I find a house and plunk down the down payment, I'm heading out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

53 A TikTok content creator recorded a now-viral video this week claiming he received an email from "someone who works at Alo" who looked up Kirk’s account and found that she spent over $1,000 the day after her husband was assassinated. The TikTok creator, who displayed the receipt online, mocked Kirk over the timing of the "shopping spree."

Never heard of Alo but I think this is an old story that someone on TPUSA got clothes as the trip to Utah was a day trip and she had no clothes.

Alo sucks so there is that.
If it happened in Utah there are some pretty good privacy laws.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 05:51 AM (gbOdA)

54 Wolfus, where do you think you'll find your forever house?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2026 05:51 AM (3Ope8)

55
Among the replies in the "What's with these non-existent citations?" case was this gem:

How many nuffins did a dindu do, if a dindu dindu nuffin?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 21, 2026 05:53 AM (P8t9A)

56 Wolfus, where do you think you'll find your forever house?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2026

***
Salty and Notsothoreau have been cheering the qualities of north central Kansas for a while. Looking at KS houses on Realtor, I find I like the entire look of them better than I did the ones in Indiana and Kentucky. So, maybe there.

I ask little: a nice cottage, 2-3 beds, no fixer-upper, with a bit of a porch and a garage for my car to sleep in. Maybe an eat-in kitchen with a back door out onto a small yard. And neighbors, I hope, who don't drive their cars blasting (c)rap music all the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

57 - Wolfus

What highway(s) is it again you're taking from Ft Scott to hwy 75? I remember from there to Salina.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026 05:59 AM (Gk2Bn)

58 Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 05:51 AM
------------------
Ace reposted this link yesterday about that.

https://x.com/elizakmccoy/status/
2034794569209192801?s=20

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 21, 2026 06:00 AM (bQ4nt)

59 What highway(s) is it again you're taking from Ft Scott to hwy 75? I remember from there to Salina.
Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026

***
I was going to run along US 54, to Yates Corners -- the junction with US 75. I'll drive up from here to Pine Bluff, AR, for the first night; join I-40 near Little Rock and head west; north on I-49 to Nevada, MO, then left on US 54. A distance/time calculator on the 'Net says each leg should be about 6.5 hours, which probably means 8.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

60 haha an 𝕏 "Readers added context"
via @beyondreasdoubt

Variety
@Variety
3h
Chuck Norris Was a Great Action Star -- but Politics May Overshadow His Legacy

Readers added context
Chuck Norris killed his shadow while shadow boxing. That's why you never see his shadow when
he comes up behind you. Chuck Norris can never be "overshadowed"...

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 06:10 AM (+YA9H)

61 - Wolfus
Ok. I'll have a look at where that 54 hwy goes. I think that may be Yates Center.
You should be going through Burlington, I think.
North of there a bit you'll see a nuke plant to the east.
Pretty nice truck stop on SE corner of I-35 junction if you need to stretch your legs, etc.
You're gonna be driving through stomping grounds.
More...

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026 06:11 AM (Gk2Bn)

62 - When you get to Topeka you're actually going to want to get on I-470 west which will take you around the S and W sides (with city on both sides of hwy) to get to I-70.
You will want left hand lane for getting onto both I-470 and I-70.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026 06:18 AM (Gk2Bn)

63 Pretty nice truck stop on SE corner of I-35 junction if you need to stretch your legs, etc.
You're gonna be driving through stomping grounds.
More...
Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026

***
The frequent truck stops are part of the reason I was considering mostly Interstate travel. Right, I was misremembering: Yates *Center* at the junction of US 54 and US 75.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

64
currently at @Variety, many many comments on the Chuck Norris post

Chuck Norris Was a Great Action Star — but Politics May Overshadow His Legacy
During his movie career and work on "Walker, Texas Ranger," Chuck Norris was a great screen presence. But his roles were always dark American tales.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 06:23 AM (+YA9H)

65 The US Justice Department charged Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, sales manager Ruei-Tsang Chang, and contractor Ting-Wei Sun with running a scheme to route US-made servers through Taiwan to Southeast Asia. There, the products were repackaged into unmarked boxes and smuggled into China.

there must be a common denominator

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:24 AM (gbOdA)

66 Other thing made yesterday weird besides no connection here was at Dailytimewaster.blogspot.com no Friday posts including Open Road. So thought it was something wrong here.

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 06:25 AM (Ia/+0)

67 When you get to Topeka you're actually going to want to get on I-470 west which will take you around the S and W sides (with city on both sides of hwy) to get to I-70.
You will want left hand lane for getting onto both I-470 and I-70.
Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026

***
Yes; the map says US 75 meets I-470 and runs along with it toward the west and then northward. I'll use the same ring road strategy for Little Rock, the only other big city I'll encounter, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:25 AM (wzUl9)

68 Its foggy out

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 06:25 AM (Ia/+0)

69 - They're replacing a bridge deck over small river that comes out of Melvern lake. Using a traffic light to control one lane traffic over the bridge.
Shhhh, don't let this get out. Prepare for pretty country.
I call it The Shire. And when I said stomping grounds, I've got about a 10 min drive to Melvern lake here after 2nd cup.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026 06:29 AM (Gk2Bn)

70 60 F. here, high-ish humidity, no wind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

71 Why does the world let a shithole asshoe country control open sea lanes?
Make zero sense to me.
We make the Gulf of America safe for everyone.
I do not understand.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:33 AM (gbOdA)

72 Oh, and I'll need to have the car looked over before I head out. The LF tire is close to five years old, the others less than two, and then belts and hoses need to be inspected. And the cabin filter and engine air filter, maybe.

It's funny. I hate paying for auto maintenance while I write the check. But as I drive away, I love my car all over again. Not just this Buick; it's been true of nearly all my cars. (We shall not discuss the '84 Ford Escort at these proceedings.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:35 AM (wzUl9)

73 Damn. Had to start watering the lawns last week.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2026 06:35 AM (3Ope8)

74 72 Oh, and I'll need to have the car looked over before I head out. The LF tire is close to five years old, the others less than two, and then belts and hoses need to be inspected. And the cabin filter and engine air filter, maybe.

It's funny. I hate paying for auto maintenance while I write the check. But as I drive away, I love my car all over again. Not just this Buick; it's been true of nearly all my cars. (We shall not discuss the '84 Ford Escort at these proceedings.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:35 AM (wzUl9)

I would actually freak out not having matched tires.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:37 AM (gbOdA)

75 The foreign minister of the IRGC threatens Starmer and launches an attack on Diego Garcia.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 21, 2026 06:37 AM (+nEug)

76 They're replacing a bridge deck over small river that comes out of Melvern lake. Using a traffic light to control one lane traffic over the bridge.
Shhhh, don't let this get out. Prepare for pretty country.
I call it The Shire. And when I said stomping grounds, I've got about a 10 min drive to Melvern lake here after 2nd cup.
Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026

***
I'll be driving right by there. Yes; I need some pretty country after long years and decades of endless wet greenery. I loved my time in CO, hot or cold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:38 AM (wzUl9)

77 So I like numbers.
In the US we know the Citizenship of 14 Million voters.
That is from the States that actually collect the data.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:40 AM (gbOdA)

78 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: But if you try, sometime...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 21, 2026 06:41 AM (4dRUc)

79 71>> Seems like we could do something like say petroleum extracted here gets refined here and sold here. Ditto with gas. Petroleum from other parts of the world can be imported for refining, and petroleum and/or petroleum products can be exported but only after domestic (civilian and military) are met. The rest of the world can police it's own supply routes.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2026 06:41 AM (3Ope8)

80 CNN AC360 now looks like a podcaster table.

The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:43 AM (gbOdA)

81 I would actually freak out not having matched tires.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026

***
In late '20 I bought four Continentals for the Buick. Only one has survived. I killed one in early '24, hitting a spur-like curb near my work; then two more a month later in a nasty rain-covered pothole at my apartment complex. So the RF Continental and the two Kellys on the rear are only two years old; the LF Conti is five and more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:43 AM (wzUl9)

82 Petroleum from other parts of the world can be imported for refining, and petroleum and/or petroleum products can be exported but only after domestic (civilian and military) are met. The rest of the world can police it's own supply routes.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2026 06:41 AM (3Ope

I think Adam Smith pointed out about 250 years ago that saving your lamb, goat, cattle, etc for domestic prodcution does nothing to increase domestic production.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:45 AM (gbOdA)

83
Jarvis
@jarvis_best
19h
I don't think we're going to have two quarters of negative growth, and even if we do have two quarters of negative growth like in 2022 Trump can just pull a Biden and say it's not a recession even if it is.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 06:45 AM (+YA9H)

84 - Can't remember if you've got a date set for your trip.
Maybe think about posting when and where at when you stop for a break.
Or, especially if you run into trouble up this way.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026 06:47 AM (Gk2Bn)

85 California has about 300 signs and stuff that says Cesar Chavez.
Millions to fix.
Solution:
Stickers
Pedophile and Illegal Alien Hater

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:51 AM (gbOdA)

86 - Can't remember if you've got a date set for your trip.
Maybe think about posting when and where at when you stop for a break.
Or, especially if you run into trouble up this way.
Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026

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I'm leaving on Fri. 4/17, Fort Scott on 4/18, and Salina on 4/19. Coming back about a week later. Yes, I see there are some long stretches on US 75 without any exits or towns, at least on the map. I'll make sure the Buick's tank is full before I leave I-49 in Nevada, MO.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

87 Pedophile and Illegal Alien Hater
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:51 AM (gbOdA)
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But mostly Illegal Alien Hater.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 21, 2026 06:53 AM (4dRUc)

88 Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026 06:47 AM (Gk2Bn

That's really nice of you to think of that!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2026 06:53 AM (ix8EF)

89 85 California has about 300 signs and stuff that says Cesar Chavez.
Millions to fix.
Solution:
Stickers
Pedophile and Illegal Alien Hater
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:51 AM (gbOdA)

; )

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 06:54 AM (+YA9H)

90 82>> Just saying domestic production needs to be directed first to domestic consumption, then the excess can be directed to export.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 21, 2026 06:54 AM (3Ope8)

91 I only made small pot of coffee, won't be enough

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 06:56 AM (Ia/+0)

92 Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026
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That's really nice of you to think of that!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2026

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Ace's Club is the best.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:56 AM (wzUl9)

93 Never was a Stones fan

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 06:57 AM (Ia/+0)

94 85 California has about 300 signs and stuff that says Cesar Chavez.
Millions to fix.
Solution:
Stickers
Pedophile and Illegal Alien Hater
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 06:51 AM (gbOdA)
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With all the grift in play, it'll cost more than a high-speed rail to nowhere.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2026 06:59 AM (ESVrU)

95 Come to think of it, this trip is taking place on almost the same dates in April as did my big move to CO twenty-nine years ago. That was also a three-day trip, but it took nearly twelve hours a day thanks to the Ryder truck being governed to 55 (!). The Buick is loafing if I do 55 and nags me to go faster.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

96 And I passed through Topeka, KS, in '97 as well. Leaving I early my last morning, I saw tumbleweeds blowing across the avenue. I thought, "I'm in the West now."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

97 Good morning to everyone.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 21, 2026 07:03 AM (fJeEs)

98 https://tinyurl.com/52uuz32v
Powerline week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 07:04 AM (Ia/+0)

99 “ Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and he relents from sending calamity.”

Joel 2:13

Posted by: Marcus T at March 21, 2026 07:05 AM (Cuw0G)

100 100

Posted by: m at March 21, 2026 07:05 AM (+YA9H)

101 - Ok. I imagine you'll let us know when you're leaving Ft Scott.
And I meant it about if you need anything.
I'm close to 75. Real close. The hitch will be only one, sometime day walker here has my contact info. NaCly and I have lost each other's over the years as well as Ben Had.
And, call me crazy but I've given out more info about me on this thread than I probably should've. I'll just keep my eyes on comments through morning of 18th.
Now, we gone, bye-bye.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2026 07:08 AM (Gk2Bn)

102 mornin yall. The new local mug shots are out. We've got a Randavious, a Donquavius, Shel’Vonta, and some guy named Mukal Mukal. Just another week in a mid sized city full of lefty nitwit Democrats and misguided souls who fell in with the wrong crowd.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

103 'Bout time I shaved and showered. Once it gets light, I'll take the Buick for a bath and spray-waxing, and doll up the tires. The big car will look good for a day until the pollen lands on it again.

I have to pick up some dry food for the furry thugs, too.

The 1953 Titanic w/ Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck is on Movies! tonight, so if we go out to eat, I want to be back before 7 pm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2026 07:11 AM (wzUl9)

104 Is this a thing?

"The sinister dating trend where women say men abandon them in the wilderness"

Now I admit that Mrs fd has accused me of leaving her behind when we are hiking, but I swear I am not abandoning her. I even leave a trail of breadcrumbs.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

105 It's called an "alpine divorce".

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

106 Speaking of divorce, next Monday will be our 30th anniversary of not getting divorced.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

107 "The sinister dating trend where women say men abandon them in the wilderness"
****

Must not have been very deep if the women are complaining after getting out.

Posted by: clarence at March 21, 2026 07:20 AM (7lOC+)

108 Cleaned out Opera from the OS.
Installed Vivaldi. It's nice and smooth, not a heavy load either.
Options, one must go to settings, having set aside time, for all the options. Think I'll like it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 21, 2026 07:23 AM (y4IaC)

109 Just checking

Posted by: Don Black at March 21, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)

110 The sinister dating trend where women say men abandon them in the wilderness

Wouldn't it have been easier not to go on the date to begin with?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2026 07:26 AM (+hwtP)

111 "I'll get to see NW Arkansas [....]"

That's the land of Walmart. More expensive than Dallas, to my surprise.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 21, 2026 07:26 AM (xFpB3)

112 Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 07:19 AM (vFG9F

Congratulations and God bless you both!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2026 07:27 AM (+hwtP)

113 On the moronic California law requiring age verification on Linux. This is a Conspiracy in restraint of trade from Microsoft with the CA government. That is a felony violation of 15 USC 1 which fines conspirators $100,000,000 and individuals involved in the conspiracy $1,000,000 each plus prison sentences. Anyone who doesn't think President Trump would love to fine and imprison the members of the CA government for this does not understand El Presidente.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at March 21, 2026 07:29 AM (Da7Vv)

114 The price to have ICE docced and body cams is 3 hour TSA lines.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:29 AM (gbOdA)

115 Thank you Fenelon. If we get 30 more I will have no complaints.

You know what's amazing? My Dad has outlasted Chuck Norris. Now that's badass.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

116 106 Speaking of divorce, next Monday will be our 30th anniversary of not getting divorced.
Posted by: fd
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Congratulations to the both of you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 21, 2026 07:32 AM (y4IaC)

117 We want to protect illegal aliens.

Enjoy your 3 hour TSA lines.

And TSA employees can suck it.

Posted by: The Democrats at March 21, 2026 07:33 AM (+ffGB)

118 UNT is also cutting a bachelor’s degree in Latino and Latin American studies and a master’s program in women’s and gender studies, along with 25 undergraduate minors and more than 40 certificate programs.

The minors being eliminated include women’s and gender studies, LGBTQ studies, Mexican American studies, Africana studies, Asian studies as well as dance, geology and special education.

When the Great Grift Ends it is the bottom feeders that get left on the Ice Floe.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

119 We also want illegal aliens to vote.

When we get back in charge, we are going to flood the country with 50 million of them. We just said it again. Believe us.

Bonus. We will give them more free stuff, paid for by you.

Posted by: The Democrats at March 21, 2026 07:36 AM (+ffGB)

120 Mornin' all. Slept in. Time for coffee.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2026 07:36 AM (O7YUW)

121 Have used Vivaldi for a couple of years in conjunction with Adblock Plus and it's been a winner. That reminds me, need to hit the tip jar at the HQ.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 21, 2026 07:36 AM (2NHgQ)

122 Bonus. We will give them ~~more free~~ YOUR stuff, paid for by you.
Posted by: The Democrats at March 21, 2026 07:36 AM (+ffGB)

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

123 I like Chrome with Adblock

mem hogg though

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

124 Thorium isn't a bad browser on the Linux side of the house.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 21, 2026 07:41 AM (xFpB3)

125 Anybody seen VIA (Village Idiot's Apprentice) posting lately?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2026 07:42 AM (2Ez/1)

126 I hope they didn't call it Vivaldi because it feels like it takes four seasons for your page to load....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2026 07:44 AM (Ot/FD)

127 I'm so fucking sick and tired of these dickheads, Cook, Gates, Pichai, Corporations, etc. with their shitty products and their shitty updates.

Posted by: Joe at March 21, 2026 07:45 AM (rzwGB)

128 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

129 The whole battle of DHS not funded is childish tantrum because they sre throwing Illegals out

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 07:46 AM (Ia/+0)

130 Thank you, Braenyard!

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

131 Quarter Twenty

Negative. I'll give him an off-line wakeup today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

132 Got a road trip to help NotSoThoreau today. Soon.

Have a great day, and may there be thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 21, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

133 Good morning morons

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at March 21, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

134 I'm so fucking sick and tired of these dickheads, Cook, Gates, Pichai, Corporations, etc. with their shitty products and their shitty updates.

Unlike Minx 0.8 beta.

Posted by: william gibson's swollen cybergoiter at March 21, 2026 07:49 AM (Pjp4y)

135 /precocious sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

136 Midwest Chick's Saturday meme drop:
https://tinyurl.com/27ru77tb

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2026 07:50 AM (O7YUW)

137 Sarah Hoyt's Saturday memes:
https://tinyurl.com/yc25ekdb

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2026 07:51 AM (O7YUW)

138
*with their shitty products*

The Chevy Vega
Sea Monkeys
The AMC Pacer
X-Ray Glasses
The Yugo
Temu anything
Cheerwine
The Thighmaster

Posted by: Like us? at March 21, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

139 129 The whole battle of DHS not funded is childish tantrum because they sre throwing Illegals out
Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 07:46 AM (Ia/+0)

I do not think 1 out of 100 realize the Great Replacement is the entire plan of the Progressive Left.
It is not The Holodomor that killed 5 million in Ukraine but it is the exact same idea.
Create a population that you offer a minimal existence in exchange for votes and power.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

140 G'mornin' everyone!

34 degrees, overcast, going for a hike!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 21, 2026 07:53 AM (MIIRH)

141 64 going to 84 down here by the Bay.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

142 Good morning! 10-day stretch ahead where the sun shines most of the time, just like the song says. Upper 80's and mid 60's temp range with no rain.

Spring has sprung! Young-old man's fancy and all like that.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2026 07:56 AM (wVcYX)

143 I'm so fucking sick and tired of these dickheads, Cook, Gates, Pichai, Corporations, etc. with their shitty products and their shitty updates.

And they also seem to be shitheads.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:57 AM (gbOdA)

144 *with their shitty products*

The Chevy Vega
Sea Monkeys
The AMC Pacer
X-Ray Glasses
The Yugo
Temu anything
Cheerwine
The Thighmaster

Posted by: Like us?

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Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The Cleveland Browns at March 21, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)

145 The NY Post had a good headline today:

"Ground Chuck" with an inset of
Schumer and people standing in line at the airport , and another line, "Airport lines stretch hours as Schumer, Dems refuse to fund TSA

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2026 07:58 AM (+hwtP)

146 There were about 1000 great ideas in the Vega.
My guess lawyers and Accountants fucked it up.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 07:59 AM (gbOdA)

147 Morning peeps.

Regarding the DHS funding dispute; the media's been slow to acknowledge the massive travel issues created by Democrats voting to withhold funding. Not that they ever would... but still.

Just yesterday I saw video of (IIRC, Houston) were the TSA lines were out the terminal doors. I don't see much of that on CNN or any of the other cable outlets.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2026 08:01 AM (AkEZC)

148 Do we know what happened yesterday

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)

149 Trump should not have provoked the Democrats into holding up funding for TSA.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

150 Regarding the DHS funding dispute; the media's been slow to acknowledge the massive travel issues created by Democrats voting to withhold funding. Not that they ever would... but still.

Just yesterday I saw video of (IIRC, Houston) were the TSA lines were out the terminal doors. I don't see much of that on CNN or any of the other cable outlets.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2026 08:01 AM (AkEZC)

ICE is funded thru 2029.
This is bad kabuki (or bukakee) theatre.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 21, 2026 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

151 "Do we know what happened yesterday
Posted by: Skip"

Are you kidding? I can't even remember what I had for lunch.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 08:03 AM (vFG9F)

152 My buddy inherited his dad's Vega and he was so excited for his first ride. So we took it for a spin and after a few minutes began to notice a smell. Then I turned around and saw there was a plume of smoke trailing the Vega.

He was driving at speed with the parking brake on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2026 08:03 AM (RIvkX)

153 Noodlage.

Posted by: Nooder at March 21, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

154 Did find a interesting website that checks a connection to a picked website all around the world.
And in the downtime AoSHq was out

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 08:05 AM (Ia/+0)

155 "There were about 1000 great ideas in the Vega."

Can you name a couple? It wasn't that bad of a car, but I can't think of any specific innovations. The aluminum block was not so durable as I recall.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2026 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

156 Well everyone, get upstairs then

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2026 08:07 AM (Ia/+0)

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