57 thoughts on “It’s All In The Memes”

  2. The image of the coffee pot walking away was not appreciated by the Reader on this Saturday morning. Fortunately, the Reader amputated the legs on his a long time ago.

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    1. I’m more worried about that coffee pot crashing through the wall and spilling coffee all over the room. [Twisted Grin]

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  4. The thing about apt and Arch Linux is obscure, but funny if you recall that pacman is the package manager that comes integrated with Arch.

    I’ve never used pacman on Arch, but it worked well enough on Windows.

    (Pacman comes along if you install msys2 on Windows 10, and there is a learning curve if you are as retarded as I am.)

    Conda is a pretty nice package manager, but I think it might not run on literally every single operating system. I imagine the command line experience on a smartphone might be awkward. Beyond that, I am fairly sure that it might be tricky to install conda on DOS and on multics. Last week, I got the experiences that in hindsight may explain why so many instructions this year said ‘use miniconda’.

    The meme is also funny if you recall that apt is what the Debian distributions use, and that ARch is a different family from Debian.

    So I won’t have the UK speech police come arrest me in my flat, Kier Starmer’s basic legal competence qualifies him to direct these internet and law enforcement policies the same way as his technical competence does, and he almost certainly uses computers well enough that the Linux From Scratch installation experience, the Slackware package management experience, and the non-functioning toaster hardware experience would perfectly satisfice all of his real daily needs for computer use.

    (I think many politicians would have an adequate for them computing environment in an oubliette with a typewriter. Typewriter might not be truly necessary, but I am feeling generous.)

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    1. Helpfully, you didn’t suggest giving them paper or ribbons for the typewriter. Restricting their computing access to only /dev/null is a fine idea.

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    2. I like the idea of having Two-tier Kier doing a Slackware install. Then again, I’m not always a very nice person… (Perhaps Linux from Scratch is even more intricate. I’ve run the Slackware package tools (all many of them) enough to know when Thay’re Be Dragons. I’m trying to maintain complete ignorance of LfS.)

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  5. “Oh sh*t! CM is back!” 😁

    “Waitaminnit, let’s send CM to Portland! He’ll straighten that hellhole out in no time.”

    “But…the things he’ll do to Antefa are unspeakable!”

    “And?”

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    1. Literally unspeakable. We are contractually obligated by the fae not to speak about what operator CM does while on a op. It’s not in the fine print, it’s in great big, stylized letters written in your own blood.

      We don’t talk about what CM does on the op. Period.

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      1. Believe it or not, CM has occasionally left survivors among America’s enemies. Scarred, traumatized, scurrying furtively in the dark places of the world, their nightmares forever haunted by an awful blue plush figure stalking them through the shadows. Even the sight of a harmless milk jug can cause them to cry and wet themselves.

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        1. Nod, CM is a terrible being to be hunting you but don’t forget about the Count.

          He’s worse than CM because he’s been at the “game” for centuries. [Twisted Grin]

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        1. My SWAG is html scripts that already got the strike and /strike features added. Assuming WP doesn’t go spastic on me: (ordinary HTML: <strike>This would be stricken through, like the <b> and/or <i> attributes</strike>)

          Ain’t going to try an example. Pizza night, and I have stuff to prepare while $SPOUSE starts the dough.

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        2. If the text is struck-through in your editor, it has the strikethrough attribute. If you drag-and-drop, and the text in the WPDE text frame is struck-through, it should post that way. The HTML code is <s> and </s> but they don’t work in the WPDE frame.

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    2. Some wag at Flat State U put up a sign saying “The Procrastinators Anonymous meeting has been postponed.” It stayed up for a couple of weeks before someone in admin caught on and removed it.

      Thpoil-thports.

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  9. Yeah, the one time I worked as an election judge, I asked about the non-English ballots. I was basically told, ‘Shut up, Hater!’

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    1. Ah, but there is no requirement that US natural born citizens be able to speak English.

      But there is a requirement in the Voting Rights Act Section 203 that in counties where more than 10,000 or 5% of all total voting-age citizens who are members of a single language minority group, have depressed literacy rates, and do not speak English very well, election materials that are available in English must also be made available in the language of particular minority group.

      Then here in The Formerly Golden Now Singed With Still No Rebuilding Permits State (see Adam Corolla’s latest Malibu video on YT) state law goes yet further, requiring “… county elections officials provide a translated facsimile ballot and related instructions in a conspicuous location in precincts where 3% or more of the voting-age residents are members of a single language minority and lack sufficient skills in English to vote without assistance.”

      So between the Voting Rights Act and CA law there’s really quite a whole lot of ballot languages here.

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      3. Ignoring, of course, that back in the ’90s, voters in that state passed a ballot measure making English the official language of the state.

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  11. Google foo is failing. FB (no ability to link to specific videos) video and reels are teeming with shutdown memes.

    • Trump “Grim Reaper of program cuts”
    • Sombrero with mariachi Trump band in background
    • Trump 2028 sombrero replacement meme
    • “We’re idiots” memes featuring Jeffrey’s, Schumer, AOC, and other usual suspects.

    Then there is the Babylon Bee: “Jan 6 crowd FBI now estimated to be 4 of 5 in the crowd … and rising …” Or something like that.

    Then there is the truth of President Trump: “Did not want a shutdown. ‘Since the democrats’ … handed to me on a platinum platter in gold and silver … Elon! Where is the current DOGE list? Keep them coming!”

    Okay, maybe only the first sentence was stated, and everything after the … is my “interpretation”.

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  18. So about that Dracula pencil sharpener…
    …I recently did a lengthy watch of Universal Monster Movies in preparation for a reread of Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October…
    …and all I can say is, that looks like a John Carradine Dracula. It’s definitely not Bela Lugosi.

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  23. The Lieutenant says:

    “What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”

    But the British Met Office and NOAA say “Facts are what we say they are, peasants, and you can’t prove otherwise. Nyah!!!!”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/10/06/met-office-deletes-huge-chunks-of-historic-temperature-data-after-fabrication-claims/

    No explanation has been provided but in a shock unannounced move the Met Office has now withdrawn all the Lowestoft data from its historical record back to when the site closed in 2010. Similar withdrawals of data have also occurred in the stations at Nairm Druim and Paisley.

    The practice of inventing temperature data from non-existent stations is not confined to the UK. In the USA, the weather service NOAA has been charged with fabricating data from more than 30% of its reporting sites. Data are retrieved from surrounding stations and the resulting averages are given an ‘E’ for estimate. The addition of the so-called ‘ghost’ station data means NOAA’s monthly and yearly reports are “not representative of reality”, states meteorologist Anthony Watts. If such evidence was presented in a court of law it would be thrown out, he adds.

    Laughs in Leftist judge Oh, you sweet summer child…… 🙄🙄🙄

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