Aaaaaaaargh!
I had a MicroS0ft Co-Pilot (“AI”) training course today. The presenter was a bit…overenthusiastic. Maybe don’t slam two cans of Monster before starting a 90 minute session?
Be that as it may, the Links must go on.
- It is Free Agent Day! Check here for updates.
- Turkey learned from watch the US “Resistance”.
- Insert “Trainspotting” joke here?
- Compare and contrast?
Music is all yours, so are the comments.
BTW – we are out of posts again. HALP!
Inserted this late in the last link because the time change got me.
Sheep music.
Oh right… my entire department was assigned one the other day. Learned from a coworker who started it that the assigned course is three years old and out-of-date from what I already taught myself from the tutorial on GitHub. 🙄
The gubbermint is pushing hard to use Gemini, which I did some training on last week.
The training was very poor. Right up to US Army standards.
Yanked soldiers from their duties to roleplay? Those were some quality training videos.
My duties were to polish boots (which no one told me that was my duty, I had to figure it out on my own) and lean on a truck. It’s best not to be the only guy in the motorpool being where he is supposed to be.
This was after the IT head assigned six hours (!) of video to me, a recording of two randos from MS talking to 100 of my collegues all of them asking questions.
I quit that after 47 minutes and learning nothing useful. The online tutorials are way more useful than people jabbering.
Time change is killing me this year. GlibFlicks will be late, should be done Wednesday.
“Turkey learned from watch the US ‘Resistance’.”
The first time I heard the phrase Deep State was in the 90s in reference to Turkey. It was a way of keeping Islamists from gaining too much power, and was the reason Turkey has had a history of military coups. It’s also why one of the first things Erdogan did was fire a bunch of generals.
“Imamoglu”? Really?
“Oğlu” is Turkish for “son of”. With a name like that he should be a shoo-in.
Was I the only one up when 1:59 rolled over th 3:00 this past sunday?
I was there, watching TV.
Is that like waiting for the ball to drop on NY Eve?
In either case I missed it and it didn’t seem to matter.
No, I slept early and woke up around midnight or so.
I opted to stay up until regular bed time.
Used to be I always was but I think I passed out too early this year. It is not easy to stay up that late anymore.
A Sunday fire in a Glasgow, Scotland, vape shop has shut down the city’s neighboring central train station Monday morning, and services aren’t likely to resume for a while.
All those profits gone up in smoke.
Perhaps I should be concerned…
If you’re 39, I would say yes.
That would be the more concerning version. Not quite ready, as much as I’d enjoy not working.
The new program is “give us 6 months notice and you get to keep all your RSU, vesting on the normal schedule”, which isn’t bad, but not worth jumping this early.
“If you’re 39, I would say yes.”
Uh huh. I put in my two weeks at Meijer, but I turn 39 in SIX weeks. *Costanza’s concerned face*
To initiate the program you just have to deposit $500 into your account in Zimbabwe.
And now we know which baboon is on the block!
Corporate is forcing everyone to complete agentic AI training by the end of the month. Hopefully I can learn how to tie it into email and chat.
Teach it that taxation is theft and then watch the sparks fly.
Even better, can it generate realistic key-presses?
Swiss: did you catch the Saturday Six Nations scores? Much drama.
Nothing about the Constitutional right to exchange cash for goods and services?
Are the only opponents of that totalitarian bullshit being proposed in Helvetia leftist parties or is that just the media bias?
Don’t go in the water
Police in Australia’s Northern Territory warned of crocodiles “absolutely everywhere” on Sunday and said they had moved more than 1,000 people across the state into shelter after massive floods.
The state has endured heavy rains over the weekend, with the town of Katherine experiencing its worst flooding since 1998.
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“There is crocs absolutely everywhere. Please don’t go in the water. The message is quite clear,” he said. “Don’t swim in the water for two reasons: it’s a fast flowing river, and also, this is where crocs are most active.”
Assistant police commissioner Travis Wurst also warned residents of Katherine not to “do something silly” and jump in the water.
He warned of “crocodiles and other things that will make your life difficult.”
Australia is hazardous to your health.
Sounds like a job for Florida Man. Or Aussie Man.
Florida Man, with his Florida tan, driving his reptile abatement van.
Northern Territory; Australian for Floridah.
There should be a World Redneck Games or whatever the international equivalent of Redneck is. Florida Man, Aussie Man, Austrian Man (not that one), Russian dudes from some Siberian village, my in-laws…
Like this, but international. https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/mar/08/it-is-definitely-the-redneck-olympics-florida-man/
Florida Man, with his Florida tan, driving his reptile abatement van.
Does Florida Man hate Particle Man?
Year round tropical weather AND crocs everywhere. Where do I sign up??
You could make a little saddle and ride one to work.
Darwin at its finest.
Crockie!
I see what you did there.
Slap a prop 65 warning on the country.
Well, the markets went bananas today. The Dow fell something like 800 points out of the gate, Trump whispered to the sky that the Iran War is almost over, and the Dow rallied in the final hour of trading to end up 240 points in the positive.
He’s just fucking with us now, isn’t he?
Hope so. My bank stock is down $24k since the unemployment numbers came out and the war started.
If the back up camera on your Ford craps out will the car still be driveable?
You will be in violation of precious regulations! How dare you consider driving!
as long as you continue to pay the subscription
Things I learned last week…when cleaning one of these, it is best to wipe WITH the blade rather than INTO the blade. I swear I’m getting dumber every year.
I want to make a “worlds tiniest mandolin” joke, but, seriously, are your finger tips still there? My wife has one and I am always worried about that when I do the dishes.
Yeah, just sliced a piece of skin off. Of course, wife was out of town so the ensuing 60 minutes involved (retrospective) hilarity involving blood drops everywhere, fingers stuck together with superglue and other zany activities.
Yikes. Yes, I’ve drawn blood with my crappy Oxo mandolin. Those Japanese ones are much sharper.
Dad came home yesterday with a … bowel emergency. (I wasn’t home.) He rushed in and took care of particulars, hastily and recklessly. Afterward, he was in a panic. He couldn’t find his keys or wallet. They were in FL for three weeks and just off a three-day drive back to Carmel. Worry abounds. Mom and I searched the room and were gonna enlist the Boys if needed. (Such promising fingers for tiny machine work. Agile, craft, extremely smart. Obedient. Damn non-orphans.)
After hullabaloo, we found ’em both in the laundry. Post washing. Many things did Dad forget. I understand the urgency and panic of throwing things where they wouldn’t normally be. We’ve all been there. But he started the laundry post-emergency shit. So he must’ve felt Wally and his keys in the thin shorts they were in.
Let me tell ya about Wally. Not me ex-employer. His wallet is, was, will soon be full of not just cash, but pretty much every card he’s ever seen. He still had a 1950s baseball card in his last one a few decades ago. He had his brother’s phone number in it still, and they don’t talk, don’t plan to talk, and will never talk again.
Humans get smarter every year as long as they practice, IMO. But we unavoidably get dumber in really predictable ways.
I thought you were gonna find them both in his bowels. Laundry was way down on my list.
BABOON LIVES MATTER!!!!
Compare: Marginalized regions, pensioners, and businesses would be particularly affected. Sounds like the Swiss Government has already picked out the 10 baboons they’re going to eliminate.
I got the last spot in the next trucking class. Lucky me. It starts April 1st.
It’ll feel good to be busy again with something after so much down time.
Anyway, it’s better than more waiting for a welding spot.
Nice. Go Derpy!
Good luck!
*high five*
I strongly, strongly approve.
WTF?
Popular gun brand files Chapter 7 bankruptcy, faces liquidation
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Now, Umbrella Armory, a custom gun manufacturer in the recreational firearms space, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
While it was less likely that recreational guns, which do not fire lethal bullets, would be outlawed, the current slowdown has had a wide-ranging impact, including Umbrella Armory’s decision to liquidate.
A) never heard of them
B) “do not fire lethal bullets” Are we talking about an airsoft company?
C) The Street is apparently run by morons.
Popular toy maker (that no one has ever heard of) files Chapter 7.
The company operated in the airsoft equipment sector, selling high-end customized airsoft rifles and parts, according to Edhat.
So, no Street smarts?
If only they had DOD contracts …
That may be the dumbest article I have ever read. The person who wrote it should be tied to a fence post and whipped with a knotted rope.
Got rear ended at light today. Luckily low low speed. No apparent damage to either vehicle other than a little dent in others license plate. And I was going to take my trailer hitch out soon.
Congratulations on getting rear ended? o.O
NTTAWWT.
That’s a creative euphemism.
The last time I got rear-ended (over 20 years ago) my car ended up a foot shorter. New Year’s day early morning, first traffic accident of the year for the local municipality. Thankfully no injuries to me or the other driver (She was very very drunk and moving quite fast). Amazingly the car could still drive, I was able to slowly scritch it across the road to a nearby parking lot so it was off the street. It had been sideswiped a month earlier (crushed the left front panel and door but amazingly the window didn’t break) and was due to get in the body shop that week.
Hopefully your rear-ending doesn’t result in you needing a new ride.
Sorry.
If the car is modern… there might be a whole bunch of damage under the bumper cover that you won’t see until the cover comes off.
“Maybe don’t slam two cans of Monster before starting a 90 minute session?”
Caffeine is a scam. Ritual, yes, but that’s it. “This is what I associate with morning wakefulness!” It’s also true stimulants calm me down. Up the ante to coke? No, that is not a scam. (Feed me.) But otherwise. Hrm.
Likely best to ignore my Lived Experience, but I wanna let you know, I’m aware of it.
Caffeine a scam?
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!!!
Here, babe, take some o’ these pills I got for ya. Cheer up, buttercup! You go and STRUT that pretty ol’ whore mouth of yours! And only open it AFTER they front you the $20. Ya got CLOSED borders ’til then. ‘Stood?
Bizarre story
The family of a Georgia teacher who died over the weekend after a high school student prank gone wrong say they fully support dropping criminal charges against the five teenage students who were involved in the prank.
In a statement to ABC News, the family of North Hall High School math teacher and coach Jason Hughes said, “We are thankful for the outpouring of prayers and support as we grieve the loss of Jason. We ask that you continue to pray for our family and also for the students involved in the accident along with their families. Please join us in extending grace and mercy to them as Christ has done for us.”
The family also said Hughes knew the students were coming to his house and was excited to catch them during the prank.
Mercy is not bizarre.
The worst imagineable sort of stupid bad luck is.
Normally I think that people who do ‘pranks’ should be stoned to death and buried in a convenient landfill.
But accidentally killing someone isn’t really a foreseeable consequence of TP’ing someone’s house.
But again, running over a pedestrian under *any* circumstances requires either considerable carelessness or deliberate malice.
I’m not just of two minds here, I’m of three minds…
“On the gripping hand…”
The teachers I worked with considered it a badge of honor. My house was TPed a couple times, a hose solved the problem. OTOH with 2 teenagers at the time TP control was an occasional problem.
TP’ing is a time honored tradition and not worthy of being stoned to death over. That said, when we got TP’ed, the mother of the kid who did it got all upset when we asked her to send her kid over to help clean it up. She acted like we were miscreants for even suggesting such a thing. I’d have been ok with stoning her and taking her to the landfill.
If I saw that in a movie, I would call bullshit. Or I’m watching Final Destination.
“First-degree vehicular homicide” seems excessive unless there’s something they’re not telling us.
Yeah, it doesn’t jibe. I heard he was running after them and slipped (it had been raining!) and then got run over. Uh. The car’s going backwards and he fell behind it and got run-backwards-over in his driveway? Seems fishy, even when I suspect much alcohol and more was involved. (Why wouldn’t it be?)
Final Destination: The log falling off the truck and going through the driver’s windshield. I think everyone still thinks about that one.
I like that stupid series and I am pleased there is a new one I haven’t seen yet.
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 sites, revealing the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored these areas.
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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10818
I suppose the conspiracy theorists retorted that those images were also faked by NASA.
To see the landing sites from earth would require a telescope with a 200 m wide aperture. The Extremely Large Telescope now under construction will have a 39 m aperture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obedwzoleIQ
Then we need a Telescope of Unusual Size.
“We need a Telescope of Unusual Size, humongous. We need the biggest TUSH we can get. No one can stop us. We’ll just grab them by the tushy.”
The same people probably think Capricorn One was a documentary.
Following up on comments from this morning, I am going to make a somewhat controversial statement.
Not only is DST stupid (which we mostly all agree on), so are time zones. We have computers, we can use local time.
use local time.
At what resolution? Is my computer 20 feet west of my office computer at a different time? How about if I walk from one end of my palatial mansion with my laptop? Lim(dTimeZone)->0?
I would do it county by county, maybe to the nearest minute, for center of county. Or it could be town by town.
But nearest minute I think is good enough.
And, yes, I realize that technically isnt getting rid of time zones, just making a lot more of them.
time zones [are stupid].
But nearest minute I think is good enough.
So time zones are not stupid, you just disagree with the resolution?
technically isnt getting rid of time zones
Heh, I snarked too slowly.
My house, if we go to the nearest hour would be UTC-7, to the nearest minute, UTC-7:00, to the nearest second, UTC-7:00:04.
I am almost exactly on longitude 105W.
China has only one time zone. It causes goofiness.
That’s stupid.
Time zones are not about you. They’re about coordinating with other people, and that is almost never done by calendar invite. It’s done by voice or text with no translating of time/date variables in between.
Also in hours of operation of a business, all other manner of scheduling.
Increasing granularity of time zones to reflect the arbitrary local solar position provides no benefit.
Time zones are all about white-centric colonialism rammed down everyone’s throat by greedy heartless railroad capitalists.
No one, except trains, had a problem before time zones. And trains can run on UTC.
Because people did business in walking distance.
Those days are gone.
Time zones were invented to keep trains from crashing into each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_time_in_the_United_States#Railway_time
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One of the first reported incidents which brought about a change in how time was organized on railways in the United States occurred in New England in August 1853. Two trains heading towards each other on the same track collided in the Valley Falls train collision because the train conductors had different times set on their watches, resulting in the death of 14 passengers. Railway schedules were coordinated in New England shortly after this incident[3] Numerous other collisions led to the setting up of the General Time Convention, a committee of railway companies to agree on scheduling.[4]
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The Chinese decided to simply things even more. The whole country is the same time zone.
This is the first time DST has caused internal goofiness. Still dusk around 20:30 and we got three more months of ‘growth’ to go! Goofy, but I strongly prefer this, as the morning is supposed to be dark. To remind you of how shitty the morning is. It will always suck so best get the shittier parts out of the way with it. Don’t waste daylight at work. <– My final take.
I think I got screwed cuz of my internal time shift from second-shift duty.
69th.
I would like to award myself this award, awarding me for… … something or other.
Your humpty nose will tickle her rear?
Two cans of Monster would give me a heart attack.
This is even more stupid than the start/stop nonsense:
https://www.theautopian.com/heres-what-that-strange-12v-battery-reset-button-on-many-hyundai-kia-hybrids-actually-does/
WTF?
Alright….watch carefully….the pea is under this cup…..
“I’ll be there at noon.”
“Noon where?”
In most hybrid or electric or even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, there’s still a separate 12-volt battery of some sort to power all of those old-school vehicle accessories that aren’t worth re-engineering for higher voltages, like windshield wipers, lights, and audio system components, and so on.
Oh, come on. Who hasn’t wished for a 400V cigarette lighter?
I just need 240 for the clothes dryer.
They can’t define woman, and now they can’t define meat. https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/berkeley-bowl-lab-pork-21955205.php
Doesn’t the meat define the woman?
“I can still taste the aftertaste of pork fat,” Pages told SFGATE moments later, “and it reminds me of all the times I ate pork products before going vegan.”
When you’re so insufferable that you bitch if the taste of fake meat is too much like real meat.
Careful, that is an OldManWithoutMeat favorite!
(fortunately, in Berkeley there is a great Szechwan place on Solano, and a really good Indian joint below San Pablo. so normies will not starve.
“I want to eat food that tastes just like the animals I don’t want to ‘murder.”‘
Doesn’t it remind them of their naughtiness? Or is that the kick?
Yeah, I don’t get that at all. No offense to our vegan* friends but it all has a whiff of religious fervor to me.
*or religious 😘