As we move into the end of June, I have learned of an insidious expansion of shrinkflation. Stopped at the liquor store, and chatted with the clerk about the strange spate of good bottles on the clearance section (Ohio does Last Call for discontinued bottles). He let me know that quite a few of them would be coming back, albeit in a different form factor. 700 ml bottles instead of 750 ml, at least it’s better than the Jack Daniels method of lowering the ABV every once in a while. But enough about that, let’s get to the links…
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Climate Change: Is there anything it can’t do?
Wearing the skin of your enemy.
Has Meta EVER came up with something unique?
My opinion on this is IFF the custom build rigs run with as few issues as the Steam Deck, Windows may be in trouble in the home market.
Sure… let’s do side by side comparisons of the January 6th ‘rioters’.
Read upon the future of the Democrat party.
I blame (((them))).
You know who doesn’t use air conditioning? Third world countries.
Someone’s started doing the digging into USAID.
You know how to not worry about being blackmailed?
This is likely of interest to the people here.
For the cocktail choice this weekend, I’m going to stay with tropical notes and going back about a hundred years to bring you:
The Algonquin
- 2 part (1.5 oz) rye
- 1 part (0.75 oz) dry vermouth
- 1 part (0.75 oz) pineapple juice [preferably fresh with no added sugar]
To make this drink, add the ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake until chilled and combined. After that, double strain into a chilled coupe or Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a pineapple wedge and a brandied cherry.
With that, I’ll let you get out there and enjoy the fact that here in the US, we have air conditioning.
That climate change article can fuck off with chart showing the number of “heat stress days“. Show me the number of days over 38°C per year.
You know what? They’ll never show you. Because it’s gonna show flat. They have a big heat wave about once a decade.
I linked a news story one AM about the heat wave in Paris. It’s breaking records! Apparently some how France’s temperature records only start in 1947; them Nazis musta destroyed all them records ur somesuch.
Is that like the paper that said Germany is experiencing the most antisemitism in its history?
Even then they play up the “hottest this or that on record” bullshit. It could be like one of the top 5 or 10 hottest days recorded or they’ll use an even more selective time period to make their point. They use vague terms.
The measurements themselves are dubious when comparing across long timelines for reasons that have been discussed here in the past.
So even this heatwave was described as the hottest national temperature recorded over day and night. It’s an average for the whole country.
I think I heard that Dresden once had a much much hotter day.
Show me the number of days above 130°F per year
100.5 real heat units?
That’s a perfect summer day.
Cry harder, bully. Don’t you have a pro-terrorist rally to attend?
You can only drink it at a round table?
Only if you hold to the knightly vows. Those of us who eschewed the vows can do what we want.
No knigits required.
CPRM:
No worries, I caught the reference. For that I may have to start going with some of the old punch recipes for you. Most of which may fall to the shrinkflation of bottles.
“The government wants to take her entire life away because she attended a protest. Nobody died,” Lydia Koza, whose wife, Autumn Hill, was sentenced to 50 years in prison, told the Associated Press.
Nobody died… but not for lack of trying.
Someone should’ve clued them in that governments get really annoyed when you attempt to murder their law enforcement officers.
Not just the shooter, but everyone who conspired with and materially advanced the shooter’s malicious act. They all get the hammer.
Shooting someone in the neck is protected speech!
The government took away Ashli Babbitt’s life because she attended a protest.
Ted, Ted, Ted. That’s different Much different. So different. Besides, those poor misunderstood youngsters were aiming at the ground, which makes all the difference.
But she was on Sacred Ground and about to rape and murder AOC.
Wait you can get put in jail for ATTEMPTING murder? When did this shit start?
“Lydia Koza, whose wife,”
Ima stop you right there.
Good God, there are still Mrs. Roper fans? That show was terrible enough when it was current.
Some people have an unhealthy fascination with kitsch.
Taps out before the end of the first sentence yet again.
How about asking her something relevant? Like, why does she hate white people, business people, and productive people so much?
It gets so much worse.
She won’t even say murders and rapists should be incarcerated.
People that commit crimes go to prison, ergo if you get rid of prisons there are no people committing crimes. It’s just basic science.
Yes, she is known to be explicitly pro-crime. Not just anti-cop or some such.
She will immediately rise to become the absolute worst person ever elected to Congress with the possible exception of the other two communists that the communist mayor has blessed this cycle.
Whether a murderer and rapist should be jailed is highly situational obviously. The situation being you have to assess whether the person who killed someone is a minority or member of some protected class or a white man.
Obviously we can’t have white men going around killing and raping.
She holds the most luxurious of luxury beliefs.
Luxury belief systems for the win, TOK.
Ditto.
Nerdrotic Just Acquired A Piece Of The Franchise He Helped Bury
That’s great. I never followed any of other than reading in the background that it was a dumpster fire.
Nerdrotic, watching this number, ran an experiment. On January 15, 2026, he set up a camera pointed at a plastic Spock action figure sitting in an empty chair and started a livestream. He beat the Starfleet Academy premiere’s peak concurrent viewership in under three minutes. His stream ran 52 minutes and peaked at 3,389 concurrent viewers — nearly three times what Paramount’s flagship franchise launch managed with no barrier to entry. He posted his own summary afterward: “My live stream with a Spock action figure in an empty chair beat Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s 1300+ peak live viewers on YouTube in under 3 minutes.”
The math is simple. Today’s heat deaths reflect today’s level of AC coverage. Raise the coverage, and a share of those deaths are eliminated — in proportion to how protective AC is and how many more households gain it.
Fortunately for Europe, the people who are being brought in to replace Europeans have quite a natural tolerance for warm weather.
Asians?
The app, internally called “Arena” won’t let users wager real money, but instead will “probably rely” on allowing users to bet with points, the NYT says — though Meta apparently hasn’t ruled out eventually allowing people to bet with real money.
Well that’s going to attract nothing but the best minds, unlike say, Wall St and professional gamblers.
Can you make these wagers in The Metaverse?
Interesting how the Dems loved BLM, Antifa, trans activists, and commies when they were getting people riled up over Trump. But now they’re shitting their pants because the useful idiots suddenly grabbed a little power.
They’re both completely ignorant the founders were a) self-acclaimed “trained Marxists” b) ‘caught’ buying mansions with BLM+ money (cuz it really, purposefully(?!) wasn’t reported) and c) if pointed out, especially the mansion part, they brush it off and move along.
Here’s what I want and won’t get: (Other than Fetterman? Again, he’s pushing for ’28 in a reasonable way) I want Dems to get UPSET they got played by geriatric abusers who wheeled Biden out for Round 2, upset at the fraud, and perhaps be REALLY pissed the SPLC was funding racists specifically to show they exist (in great, powerful numbers!) in the US.
This won’t happen, cuz that’d mean criticizing the very clergy and church they worship. Far too much of Themselves has been invested to snap back in hatred of being used. (See also: Vichy France. Many others.)
I ran into someone who thinks Musk’s data centers will be used to track and monitor the trans.
I said of course comrade. We all know he who controls the trans controls the world.
Maybe he’ll make the trans run on time.
^ There it is.
*slow clap
Start a rumor that Musk owns Hinge…
Valve gives its blessing for your home-made Steam Machine
I’m going to be curious how the Nvidia versus AMD GPU shapes out on SteamOS. I’ve no issues with giving AMD more market share and incentive to keep developing its GPUs.
My expectation is they optimize and spend more money on AMD as that is what the Steam Machine is using.
This is Valve’s third attempt (by my reckoning) of making a run at this. There was Steam Machine 1.0, which flopped and faded (along with the Steam Link and the original Steam Controller), then the Steam Deck (which worked and provided a target for devs to aim for), and now Steam Machine 2.0.
I do like the controller.
Holy frijole.
Time flies when you’re fucking off.
It’s crawling over here, man.
The steam machine is cool. But, a cheap windows box will run steam. You can buff it up a little over time if you wanna run the AAA games. Meanwhile, if you buy a steam box for 1000 bucks, that’s all I can do is run steam. You can’t do word processing, you can’t do your bills. You just got a steam box for 1000 bucks. I’m just not seeing how this is gonna take off. The handheld was great, but even the handheld now you can find Windows based handhelds for about the same price to give you more functionality and access to more markets.
I haven’t followed it closely – are you sure you can’t get to underlying Linux and use OpenOffice?
Maybe you could. Everything goes back to Linux. Even Chrome and Android. Sometimes it gets so custom that you can’t do that.
Valve has said they will support home build Steam machines. That’s where my interest lies. I can see a target for dual boot machines, SteamOS for gaming, *nix for other uses. Or Chromebook for web stuff, and Steam machine for gaming.
But like…why not just get a computer at this point? And how many serious gamers are there out there who don’t already have a computer on par or better than this? Because I can’t see the ‘casual’ player coughing up that kind of money on something that’s not even stronger than a modern console and not really cheaper than a decent computer.
That was my point above. Why buy this? The handheld has something going for it, because it’s portable. It’s kind of like a Nintendo Switch. This cube doesn’t have anything going for it.
And the casual player isn’t gonna wanna fart around with Linux, either.
The whole idea is niche AF.
I think they really got fucked by the rise in prices on component parts. I can’t imagine their original plan was for the top end to cost up to $1500.
The whole mantra of the PC Master Race was being able to build machines better and more upgradable than a console. So I don’t see why that demographic would want to buy a Steam console.
That’s the other aspect of this. Are the designers of games for PC’s going to hold back so it works on a Steam Machine? It’d have to be wildly popular for that and actually expand the market and I don’t think the numbers work there.
So the people who *do* buy this will probably run into an issue where it eventually they can’t play some games anyway at top performance. It’s a very expensive system that could conceivably have a shorter shelf life than a console.
You could get a basic gaming computer and upgrade over time. I don’t think that’s an option for the core parts of the Steam Machine.
Also, just looked into it. Apparently the original plan was for this thing to cost $700-800 which is obviously a bit more reasonable. The AI bubble fucked them completely.
There doesn’t even seem to be a ballpark figure on how much they spent to develop it and what they’re break even point would even look like.
But yea the thing will probably sell out because the initial produce and run of this seems to be just 20k units globally.
OK, what in the fuck is a steam machine, no snark nor euphemism. (I’m not researching, just going on what I’ve ‘gathered.’)
It’s a physical box like a Roku, but instead it has a video game library you get some access to (‘Included w Steam’) and (the main part, methinks) games ya ‘buy’ that you now have access to, which apparently means being constantly connected to Steam, which sometimes big-time changes to the displeasure of those who steam.
^^ Huh. I think I did a pretty good job, just there. *proud face on* I have very, very little clue of what that means past the Steam app to look at shit to ‘buy.’
NOW! The issue is Steam actually runs on your computer or one’s specific gaming machine. Games have gotten lots ‘better’ (higher CPU usage), developers are adding all they can to utilize as much CPU to make bright and shiny things look brighter and shinier. THEN, these developers have outpaced the gamers’ machines ability to process said bright and shiny things. Bickering ensues.
I’m sure I’m quite off, but hopefully in the ballpark. I like that game where ya organize blocks on the way down, and when you build a really good floor, the game eats it. That’s a good one.
Get your mind off global warming
If I were more of an asshole I would go there waving a KKK flag if there is such a thing and see how that plays out.
It’s cute that they think rainbow flags aren’t “political”.
I thought flagpoles were deadly weapons?
https://youtu.be/v0fFKNCKIhE?t=294
Counts me out. I’m only a fan of some sexual orientations and gender identities.
Doggy style? So you both can watch hockey?
KKK flag is too easy. They’d kick you right the fuck out if you even got in with it.
NAMBA flag. Or something that makes reference to being a “minors attracted person.”
At the end of the day it is the perfect way to show either how full of shit people are in saying that they accept any and all sexual preferences/orientations, or you show they are sick depraved fucks.
Never forget that sites like Slate and Salon really tried to normalize that shit post Obergefell.
True, he did not say anything like “fans of all beliefs are welcome” because we all know that would be a bald-faced lie.
We should come up with a new gender identity, something like “Caucasian attracted person” but more cryptic. See if we can get it on The Flag.
I wonder if they allow British flags. Britain doesn’t.
Egypt is way gayer than Iran.
Drunk babes do, in fact, know how to party.
https://archive.is/BGfXv
Friday Funbags.
Does Mick Jagger have air conditioning in his stately home?
His lips act as a heatsink.
“Fans of all sexual orientations and gender identities are welcome at matches and events”
That’s frightfully white of them.
The researchers collected seismic data on 27 faults below Turkana, looking back over the course of the past 10,000 years—a time horizon that saw a lot of changes in East Africa.
Sounds legit.
Gotta love a woman with a sense of humor.
“Someone’s started doing the digging into USAID.”
And not some random person, but a very effective person who has done so much to uncover shitbaggery.
Yeah, I mean, the thing about that is that a lot of the community felt that it was left out. I went to the community board meeting about that, right? And what kept coming up was that we were left out of that conversation until it was pretty much too late, right? And so I think my point here is that so often these conversations around development, around new builds, leaves out so much of the community. And in that development in particular, that was not truly affordable housing, right? And the impact that that would have on the residents in the surrounding community is that they would then get priced out of the community.
And so I think when we talk about how do we address this housing crisis, how do we fight to make sure that New Yorkers who have been here, who have been here, many of them for generations, how can they stay in their homes? We have to think about housing policy that actually supports them, right? And makes it so that people can actually have truly dignified and affordable housing. Part of that has to do with making sure we are fighting for a Green New Deal for NYCHA, making sure that we are pushing back on bad landlords, making sure that we are also creating pathways to homeownership, investing in community land trusts and HDFCs, and making it so that people can actually stay in the city that they helped build.
Abolish private ownership and turn all decisionmaking over to the People’s Collective on Food and Shelter.
JFC she is so dangerously stupid.
NYCHA buildings are falling apart and nearly $100BB behind in repairs. But yes, let’s do more of that. And throw expensive klimate religion into the mix.
On development, do you see market-rate housing as part of the solution or the problem?
I wonder.
Shoot one cop in the neck and get prison time, I thought this was America?
copcolonist oppressorThose are NED’s foreign democracy categories — democracy defense, election integrity, government accountability and transparency, combatting disinformation — applied domestically, word for word.
Good. She’s looking at NED too.
Mike Benz has been looking into USAID and NED for a while but all of his stuff is in video format.
Gary Buechler, known online as Nerdrotic, posted a photo this week of a shuttlecraft seat from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy now sitting in his home. His caption: “I have taken possession of a screen used shuttle seat from Starfleet Academy. You can call it a trophy. I would call it a scalp.”
🙂
I hope he takes a picture of his Spock action figure sitting in it. Maybe livestream it and invite comments.
Oh, you need to send him that idea
NYCHA buildings are falling apart and nearly $100BB behind in repairs. But yes, let’s do more of that.
But they are one thousand times better at making good long term investment decisions than private owners.
Whats up party people
Paaaarrtaaaaay!
I wanna throw a mama-jamma bbq this summer.
Where would this BBQ be?
NKY of course. Polebarn and all
…I’m just up the road.
GT can drive since she’s not a drinker.
There is enough room for the double wide
Serious question are double wide to actually mobile or once they’re down the they’re down forever?
My mom and stepfather had a double-wide. That sucker wasn’t going anywhere.
New Kentucky?
Double wides usually get the axles, suspension and hitch pulled when they are dropped off.
Old single wides usually are left with the axles and hitch attached.
After spending all day in airports Im back in the (937) at the Palatial 2X-Wide®