lucius septimius 5/12/2021 5:16:47 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 6:25:08 AM

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So Windows updated, and there, on the taskbar near the time, is the weather. Click on it and a box with "news" pops up - NY Slimes, Bloomberg, stocks, etc. Why? Are they trying to get more traffic by having Windows users forced to go there? 

Right click taskbar, "News and interests", brings up a submenu that includes "Turn off".

Occasional Reader 5/12/2021 7:22:32 AM

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In #2 Kosh's Shadow said: includes "Turn off"

Comrade, you can TURN OFF the telescreen?!!

Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 7:22:57 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: Comrade, you can TURN OFF the telescreen?!!

For now

doppelganglander 5/12/2021 7:49:45 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 1:

I slept with the window open and it was glorious.

JCM 5/12/2021 8:04:23 AM

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Homeless camp to be cleared from Seattle's Capitol Hill after series of fires

City officials say they had to take action after 10 fires broke out at the encampment over the past six months

Only 10 fires......

Occasional Reader 5/12/2021 8:08:04 AM

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Someone at Insty made an interesting observation yesterday.

In all of our “woke“ institutions, including academia, “‘whiteness’ is treated as a disease that must be eradicated”.

Of course, no other racial or ethnic group is treated that way. With everyone else, it’s “celebrate“ your heritage.

Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 8:25:07 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: In all of our “woke“ institutions, including academia, “‘whiteness’ is treated as a disease that must be eradicated”. Of course, no other racial or ethnic group is treated that way. With everyone else, it’s “celebrate“ your heritage.

Jews are also treated that way, but then, they also say Jews have "White privilege"

Occasional Reader 5/12/2021 8:28:15 AM

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In #8 Kosh's Shadow said: Jews are also treated that way

I would not say it’s quite the same. I have not seen examples of, for instance, academic curricula exhorting Jews to “be less Jewish”. On the other hand, one could say that Israel-bashing is used as a proxy for channeling the hatred in an “acceptable“ way.

buzzsawmonkey 5/12/2021 10:00:48 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: In all of our “woke“ institutions, including academia, “‘whiteness’ is treated as a disease that must be eradicated”. Of course, no other racial or ethnic group is treated that way. With everyone else, it’s “celebrate“ your heritage.

So, we need a "whiteness protection program?"

buzzsawmonkey 5/12/2021 10:01:40 AM

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In #6 JCM said: City officials say they had to take action after 10 fires broke out at the encampment over the past six months Only 10 fires......

That's a big ten-fires, good buddy...

Occasional Reader 5/12/2021 12:52:17 PM

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So I just had my first encounter with a gas station that was completely out of gas. I found another one that still had half its pumps working, fortunately. Saw a bunch of others along the way that were entirely closed.

And the response of our wonderful secretary of energy is “let them eat teslas“.

Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 12:57:09 PM

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In #12 Occasional Reader said: And the response of our wonderful secretary of energy is “let them eat teslas“.

Of course, with the blackouts because of the move to green energy (and the 5x cost increase - or more), there will be no way to charge them.

Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 1:01:34 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 12:
To be fair, the problem is due to a ransomware attack on a pipeline company.

Businesses do not pay enough attention to computer security - it costs money, with no visible benefit until something like this happens.

I do know of a Massachusetts state agency that was hit; did not pay the ransom - paid a security company instead (and was quite correct that they'd have to rebuild their servers even if they did get the data released paying the ransom, because they could not be sure some backdoor or other malware was not left behind) - and now sends out fake emails to their staff to see who gets caught. If I ran computer security for a company, I'd do exactly that - and if you clicked on the link, you would be taken to a computer security refresher training, that you would have to pass to get your account unlocked.

Occasional Reader 5/12/2021 1:19:15 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

yes, but the Biden administration‘s official response to this has been incredibly ham-handed. The energy secretary really did say “people should have electric cars” when I asked to comment on the phenomenon of people waiting on long lines to get gas. 

PaladinPhil 5/12/2021 1:43:01 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 1:51:23 PM

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Reply to PaladinPhil in 16:

First shot didn't do much to me; 2nd one did about 4-8 hours later. Got the shot around 11, was feeling tired by 3,had to go to bed by 7:30, but had other side effects and couldn't sleep for an hour.

The next day, around 3, started to feel better.

That was 2nd shot; first had only minor side effects.

lucius septimius 5/12/2021 1:59:28 PM

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In #12 Occasional Reader said: And the response of our wonderful secretary of energy is “let them eat teslas“.

Some moron tweeted that since all Dems have hybrids or EVs it's not a problem, and if the Rethuglicantrumpcultnazis would "get with the program" they'd have nothing to complain about.

lucius septimius 5/12/2021 2:00:04 PM

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In #15 Occasional Reader said: yes, but the Biden administration‘s official response to this has been incredibly ham-handed.

He knows his base doesn't care.

Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 2:14:22 PM

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In #19 lucius septimius said: n #15 Occasional Reader said: yes, but the Biden administration‘s official response to this has been incredibly ham-handed.

He knows his base doesn't care.

Ham-handed? You'd think he'd want to cater to the vegans in his base. Very dense tofu handed.

Kosh's Shadow 5/12/2021 3:49:37 PM

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In #20 Kosh's Shadow said: In #19 lucius septimius said: n #15 Occasional Reader said: yes, but the Biden administration‘s official response to this has been incredibly ham-handed. He knows his base doesn't care. Ham-handed? You'd think he'd want to cater to the vegans in his base. Very dense tofu handed.

Or worse, upset the Muslims

Occasional Reader 5/12/2021 4:08:45 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 21:

I KEEL YOUUUJU!!!!