CyberSimian 12/9/2022 5:08:21 AM

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Yesterday in #18, @PBJ3 said: I was so happy to see Cyber simian was posting here again…

I’m just trying to relive the good old days, when I was occasionally right about things.

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 5:28:18 AM

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lucius septimius 12/9/2022 5:41:38 AM

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Reply to CyberSimian in 2:

Perhaps you're running because it's wicked cold.

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 5:42:55 AM

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In #3 lucius septimius said: Perhaps you're running because it's wicked cold.

As someone raised in New England, I cannot argue with your logic, sir.

Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 6:53:17 AM

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Reply to CyberSimian in 1:

I was probably drunk. 

Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 6:54:04 AM

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Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 6:55:26 AM

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In #4 CyberSimian said: As someone raised in New England, I cannot argue with your logic, sir.

Someone should open a Christian-oriented dog grooming salon somewhere in New England,  "The Wicked Flea". 

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 6:59:05 AM

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In #5 Occasional Reader said: I was probably drunk. 

No take-backs!

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 6:59:53 AM

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JCM 12/9/2022 7:39:21 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

Fair trade, pot head for a war head?

vxbush 12/9/2022 7:55:13 AM

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vxbush 12/9/2022 7:56:33 AM

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In #10 JCM said: Fair trade, pot head for a war head?

While I can appreciate trying to get Griner back in the US, this seemed just about the worst way to do it. 

doppelganglander 12/9/2022 8:06:59 AM

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Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 8:10:01 AM

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Via Insty:

CPS: Mom Can’t Let Her 3 Kids—Ages 6, 8, and 9—Play Outside by Themselves. “Pearisburg, Virginia, social services says kids must be watched—at all times—until they turn 13.”

Which reminds me of a song for the holidays, which I composed a few years ago in response to a post from RoboMonkey (IIRC) about a similar phenomenon in Montgomery County, MD:

In the meadow, our kids build a snowman
But it happens when we're not around
Is it legal? Local law says "no", man!
Because our city councilmen are clowns

So we're charged; we conspired
That the kids who we sired
Would learn to be free
And that they would be
Walkin' 'round this fascist wonderland

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 8:10:21 AM

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In #12 vxbush said: While I can appreciate trying to get Griner back in the US, this seemed just about the worst way to do it. 

So, business as usual for the Biden Administration.

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 8:12:49 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: Walkin' 'round this fascist wonderland

But this is more appropriate in the current climate: Jukebox.

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 8:33:19 AM

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In #11 vxbush said: Public service announcement: I hate Microsoft because their documentation is horrible. That is all. 

Wait ... wait ... someone actually READS the documentation?!

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 8:34:14 AM

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Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 9:48:25 AM

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vxbush 12/9/2022 10:25:53 AM

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No one wants to talk about the shadow banning details that Bari Weiss has posted? I'm sure we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg here, but I thought folks would want to discuss this. (Of course, I ask when I am absolutely swamped and I'm sneaking in over my lunch hour.)

And yes, Cyber, I *do* read the documentation. It's surprising what you will learn that way--at least, when it is written well. Microsoft does NOT write good documentation anymore, although once I think they did a decent enough job. 

JCM 12/9/2022 10:41:49 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 12:

I don't have a lot of sympathy for Americans who ignore or are ignorant of laws in countries they visit.

Growing up overseas, I saw first hand the "ugly American" syndrome and how it turns people off.

American's being used as political pawns is another thing, or those weird cases where things are so off the way there is almost no way for an America to know about it.

Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 10:42:14 AM

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Mithril Invented; Orcs, Cave Trolls Hardest-Hit

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-toughest-material-earth.html

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 10:42:58 AM

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In #20 vxbush said: No one wants to talk about the shadow banning details that Bari Weiss has posted?

I've been following that, but it's not anything we didn't already know.  And the people who ignored and denied it then are still ignoring and denying it now,

JCM 12/9/2022 10:43:43 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

Petty tyranny lays the ground for the "real" thing.

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 10:44:22 AM

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In #22 Occasional Reader said: Mithril Invented

Excuse me, I have some rings to make.

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 11:40:38 AM

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In #20 vxbush said: No one wants to talk about the shadow banning details that Bari Weiss has posted?

I'm more concerned with all of the times Twitter execs denied this -- under oath, in front of Congress -- and whether or not anything will ever come of that.

I think we all already know the answer.

Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 11:43:02 AM

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Reply to CyberSimian in 26:

Is the answer, “Bupkes”?

JCM 12/9/2022 12:04:25 PM

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Reply to CyberSimian in 26:

If that is not bad enough, the Federal employees at various agency who were directing these activities.

Direct violations of the First Amendment. Those folks should be tracked down and charge....

... never happen... but still.

Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 1:00:04 PM

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So, there was nearly a bench-clearing brawl a few minutes ago in the Argentina-Holland World Cup match.

Am I a bad person for thinking, "that would have been entertaining"? 

CyberSimian 12/9/2022 1:16:56 PM

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In #29 Occasional Reader said: Am I a bad person for thinking, "that would have been entertaining"? 

No. Of course, I've seen soccer players rolling on the ground pretending to be mortally injured from the faintest touch, so I can't imagine their "brawl" lasting for very long.

Kosh's Shadow 12/9/2022 4:53:39 PM

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In #11 vxbush said: Public service announcement: I hate Microsoft because their documentation is horrible. That is all. 

Documentation? What documentation? If the code was hard to write it should be hard to use!

(Variant on an old programmer's saying)

Kosh's Shadow 12/9/2022 4:59:00 PM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: CPS: Mom Can’t Let Her 3 Kids—Ages 6, 8, and 9—Play Outside by Themselves. “Pearisburg, Virginia, social services says kids must be watched—at all times—until they turn 13.”

Jukebox

Kosh's Shadow 12/9/2022 5:19:14 PM

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I'll post a full review of this book later; it really needs a proper review - well worth the read

People Love Dead Jews

One section is about The Merchant of Venice, and how the speech which most critics say humanizes Shylock does not

Her 10-year-old son insisted on listening to the play, and when it got to this:

 I am a Jew. Hath

not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,

dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with

the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject

to the same diseases, healed by the same means,

warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as

a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?

if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison

us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not

revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will

resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,

what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian

wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by

Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you

teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I

will better the instruction.

her 10-year-old son said that this doesn't humanize him. It is the evil villians's monologue Mua-ha--ha

The wisdome of children.

Kosh's Shadow 12/9/2022 6:21:45 PM

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In #33 Kosh's Shadow said: The wisdome of children.

wisdom. PIMF

Occasional Reader 12/9/2022 9:00:49 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 12/9/2022 9:01:53 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 34:

Wisdom is the domain of the Wiz, which is extinct

--Frank Zappa

Kosh's Shadow 12/9/2022 9:03:25 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 35:

But they did not have the ability to de-age digitally Bogart.

Apparently they are doing that for this Indiana Jones movie (We named the dog Indiana)