so, Comer said that witnesses can say whatever they like about committee members during a hearing? I'm sure that won't ever come back to bite him in his banjo strumming ass.
I went to a show in a bar on Coney Island some ten years ago where people suspended themselves from hooks driven through the skin on their backs. Also there was this guy who would let you staple $10 and $20 dollar bills to his naked chest. But not his donger..
Every app in the App Store goes through automated testing to make sure it’s not accessing anything it shouldn’t. It looks at whether it uses code it shouldn’t, and that it asks permission to read files and user data, and to send data. And suspicious ones get tested by humans - I did that for a couple of weeks when the Apple Silicon Macs were about to come out, because they needed all hands on deck to retest iPad apps that could now run on Macs too.
I'll be digging holes in a field somewhere, which is perfect, since the holes are round. I'll line up my shovel accordingly and watch the shadow disappear.
Though being april there is a good chance we'll have rain that day and not see any of it
NASA says we only get 48% here, but that will probably be enough to make some animals do wonky things.. Not that you could tell, what with the normal behavior of animals around here.
Ta, Evan. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. I didn't sign off last night because my jaw hurt, so beloved fiancé Meccalopolis found us The Sandman to watch and held me. I'm feeling better.
Of all time? Way back in the day I got to do an archaic settlement site and found an entire cache of Brewertons knapped out of the prettiest chert (It oxidized all green and white and swirly) in a clay lined pit. That was AMAZING. There were over 20 of the things in there! And a clay lined pit! Fabulous feature.
Currently my favorites are the toys. Most of our sites are post-contact, which is not my favorite time period, but it is interesting especially in Virginia because of slavery (we have slave cabin sites as well as post-slavery farmsteads which I love doing because there is so little studied in that time period for a lot of reasons mostly all having to do with how their homes and farms were later destroyed for roads and racisms). And most of them are also homes and farmsteads, so I get a huge kick outta finding toys. Marbles, jacks, porcelain doll parts, even once a cast iron cap gun and though it is more modern, the die cast plane was pretty fun.
Had to look up Brewertons. My biggest challenge as a typologist continues to be the reality that there are only so many ways to design a point, and nothing causes (theoretical) fistfights as much as the side-notched dart points. Well, that and Noel Justice.
Also, I was on a dig one summer in the south of France and found a partial jaw of a pig which they seemed to think important as this was a neolithic site and it showed evidence of domestication.
Idiot republicans
Wonkette has gone somewhat weird on my android tablet, there's no spacing between content and edge. Hard to read
so, Comer said that witnesses can say whatever they like about committee members during a hearing? I'm sure that won't ever come back to bite him in his banjo strumming ass.
Comer going blank and having to repeatedly ask an aide "whaaaaaa?" is just delightful. It's probably more like "huuuuuurghnnnn?"
"...was a real exercise in Comer stapling his dick to the wall. It is his fetish, we do not judge."
Comer's fetish is harshing my fetish so i DO judge thankyouverymuch
I went to a show in a bar on Coney Island some ten years ago where people suspended themselves from hooks driven through the skin on their backs. Also there was this guy who would let you staple $10 and $20 dollar bills to his naked chest. But not his donger..
was it the Jim Rose Circus by any chance?
I've been trying since yesterday to remember the name of Jim Rose. Thank you. Lol.
I remember they were kind of a big deal back in the 80s and 90s. I think they were based out of Seattle
IIRC, Jim Rose's Circus Sideshow toured with Jane's Addiction for a while.
That's right!
i dont remember
Lev Parnas helping Comer nail his own dick to a wall should be made into a movie, titled "Revenge of the Chucklefuck".
sweet wonkette call back. what did liz (i think it was liz?) call degenova and toensing? something equally fitting.
This one? https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-hairball-lawyer-cancel-cultured-out-of-favorite-dc-social-club-unfair?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2FDegenova&utm_medium=reader2
Imagine what Vlad has on Dipshit Donnie's phone. This is pretty scary shit and one reason Apple has resisted allowing third party app stores.
𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮'𝘴 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦, 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 "𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳."
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀
At least 31,031 people affected last year
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/20/stalkerware_usage_surging_despite_data/
Scary.
How can it be downloaded onto your phone unless they have the phone?
Infected apps, infected links, etc etc.
And now, due to some whiny game companies, "alternative" app stores. Which, of course, won't EVER have any kind of evil apps in them. Dumbasses.
They have phone ... that's the old way.
The new way is you download cool new game app and the stalkerware is sideloaded. This is one of the safety things Apple's app store protects from.
this is why I never download anything onto my phone XD
edit: well that, and that I am not really sure how that all works
Every app in the App Store goes through automated testing to make sure it’s not accessing anything it shouldn’t. It looks at whether it uses code it shouldn’t, and that it asks permission to read files and user data, and to send data. And suspicious ones get tested by humans - I did that for a couple of weeks when the Apple Silicon Macs were about to come out, because they needed all hands on deck to retest iPad apps that could now run on Macs too.
Eclipse viewing PSA
https://open.substack.com/pub/tek01/p/how-not-to-look-at-a-solar-eclipse?r=2lkddo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I'll be digging holes in a field somewhere, which is perfect, since the holes are round. I'll line up my shovel accordingly and watch the shadow disappear.
Though being april there is a good chance we'll have rain that day and not see any of it
I watched the last partial via the shadows of tree leaves, it was rather awesome. Dozens of wee crescents shifting on the sidewalk
NASA says we only get 48% here, but that will probably be enough to make some animals do wonky things.. Not that you could tell, what with the normal behavior of animals around here.
Be sure to check out the shadows, e.g. of tree leaves on the ground. Very cool.
An old-school colander with the holes punched in star patterns makes for a magical eclipse-shadow viewing experience.
I have one of those.
Before anyone here gets carried away though, none of those 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire were Jen's doing.
*shifty eyes* yes, none of those
I knew that.
They were rather small, I'd expect Jen to do better.
Still, they were enough to fill the Albert Hall.
I think she’s going to fix one. Its where the rain gets in.
depends.
VA guidelines have us doing 40cm and that could be considered small
On yr birthday?
Who are you?
WHAT are you?
https://x.com/therickwilson/status/1770502174465778009?s=61
Walrus better.
https://x.com/pastoralexlove/status/1609334723259539456?s=61
Let a walrus sleep.
I am fine with him when he is eating his own. He helped create them afterall.
But he still gets to say nothing about What Democrats Should Be Doing.
oh but he does go ahead and say it.
Watched the Bob Marley movie this week. It was a nice tribute.
Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer doing their tribute to Marley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulZP8RUqpF4
Hey thanks, that's great, and I'd never heard it before.
Ta, Evan. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace. I didn't sign off last night because my jaw hurt, so beloved fiancé Meccalopolis found us The Sandman to watch and held me. I'm feeling better.
I am glad you are feeling better, Zyx :tender hugs:
Another tech company with a dumb ass move. Glassdoor started as an anonymous site to review companies and jobs.
𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/glassdoor-added-real-names-profiles-without-consent/
Oops.
Did they recently get bought out by someone who was butthurt about some bad reviews?
No, they bought another "anonymous comment" site that had a LOT of user info.
Are all tech companies run by Musk or Bankman-Fried clones?
That clone experiment went off the rails a long, long time ago. Dolly the Sheep would be a distinct improvement.
Yes. Those tech bros are bred in tunnels underneath the toxic fields in Silicon Valley where the original silicon chip fabrication plants were.
Well, most of them have a little more skill than either of those two, but basically yes.
Won’t you please help
Make Donald Great Again
RUSH all the money to Wonkette
We will see that the Man God Donald gets it
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And a living room set by Broyhill. Broyhill, the leader in cheap game show shit!
This week's Thursday Prompt writing trigger is the word 'char.'
Hmm. I shall get breakfast-like substances, and do some exercise while I mull this one over. Perhaps a poem . . .
=SEARCH($X5(CHAR(32))
Also this guy gets a nice char:
https://youtu.be/m23WnFOZlcc?si=vbsLmvL3RoqwhFat
Fan fiction about the Red Comet himself.
Have a cup of char and ponder.
I commonly come upon charred artifacts because people had burn pits and those tend to remain long after the house is gone.
Glass is my favorite, when it does not get all gunky, but when it just melts and runs together it is quite pretty
What's your favorite find?
Of all time? Way back in the day I got to do an archaic settlement site and found an entire cache of Brewertons knapped out of the prettiest chert (It oxidized all green and white and swirly) in a clay lined pit. That was AMAZING. There were over 20 of the things in there! And a clay lined pit! Fabulous feature.
Currently my favorites are the toys. Most of our sites are post-contact, which is not my favorite time period, but it is interesting especially in Virginia because of slavery (we have slave cabin sites as well as post-slavery farmsteads which I love doing because there is so little studied in that time period for a lot of reasons mostly all having to do with how their homes and farms were later destroyed for roads and racisms). And most of them are also homes and farmsteads, so I get a huge kick outta finding toys. Marbles, jacks, porcelain doll parts, even once a cast iron cap gun and though it is more modern, the die cast plane was pretty fun.
Had to look up Brewertons. My biggest challenge as a typologist continues to be the reality that there are only so many ways to design a point, and nothing causes (theoretical) fistfights as much as the side-notched dart points. Well, that and Noel Justice.
Also, I was on a dig one summer in the south of France and found a partial jaw of a pig which they seemed to think important as this was a neolithic site and it showed evidence of domestication.
Cool. Are those spear tips?
char **argv
Vocal fry chars my hearing.
"Broiling" that word around for a while is what I think that you really mean.
Now what's left of the cable subscribers will know how much they're paying for Fox "News" ... Traditional cable TV households continues its download slide: https://www.statista.com/statistics/612660/paid-services-broadcast-vod-programming-north-america/
𝗙𝗖𝗖 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗩 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆’𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲
Cable firms must advertise full price including Broadcast TV and sports fees.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/fcc-bans-cable-tv-industrys-favorite-trick-for-hiding-full-cost-of-service/
So glad I cut the chord.
Mine shows sports fees. What I want is a way to opt out.