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VCRPlus+
Patented incremental usability tweak
Admiral when it was the Montgomery Ward brand

Go home, Reuters, you are drunk.

This is a hate-link. I am linking to something that I hate. I do not endorse this article. I want Reuters to get flamed for shilling for crypto.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/on-the-money/why-this-30-year-old-swapped-cash-crypto-2026-02-19/

We're all getting morged

OTD 1930, the search for Planet X was derailed by the misidentification of Pluto, one tiny dot among many in the outer solar system. Planet X was not actually located until the 24½th Century, when it was destroyed in a territorial dispute between Earth and Mars.

I don't think y'all are really appreciating the potential of Advanced Anti-Plumber-Butt Technology. This could fix our trade imbalance! The whole world needs it!

Well maybe not the whole world but we can export butt enhancing technology to the others and THEN sell them Anti-Plumber-Butt Technology.

Give me money, I am entrepreneur inventor economic genius

With InputPlumber and WirePlumber now widely deployed, Linux needs Advanced Anti-Plumber-Butt Technology

@SecureOwl there oughtta be a standard. We must petition CGPM to add spicy hotness to SI and refuse to take no for an answer. Scoville is not a real unit.

The reason I created a LinkedIn profile in the first place was just fear that if I didn't, someone would do it for me

LinkedIn

ICE is halting operations in Minneapolis in exactly the same way that Israel halted operations in Gaza

When society forms, hierarchy soon follows. When there is hierarchy, abuse of power soon follows.

tl;dr another asshole put in charge
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/trump-nominates-scott-socha-national-park-service

JFC congress is overturning DC local tax code for tax year 2025

@chetwisniewski @SecureOwl maybe it went to the People's Republic of California

Re the voter-suppressing "Save America Act":

A "Real ID" compliant state ID is the first thing on the list in both the house and senate versions. This is as much trying to break the states that are still resisting Real ID as it is voter suppression.

In Real ID states, everyone already has been through the BS of proving their existence with a birth cert and marriage cert just to keep their state ID. Yes, it did suck. Yes, if a state tries to reregister all voters all at once under these criteria, there will be a train wreck. Real ID was phased in over years.

If Save Act passes the senate and becomes law, it will immediately be challenged on constitutional grounds by multiple states and on "this isn't doable" grounds by others.

Bondi's conduct toward Democratic members of congress was beyond disrespectful. She is flaunting her impunity. Impeach||GTFO. #uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/pam-bondi-democrats-epstein-hearing

2030: Xfinity and Verizon cause the Kessler syndrome apocalypse with satellite launches that "accidentally" destroy each other's previously deployed satellites

What's worse than Starlink? How about *two* Starlinks?
CNBC:
The FCC authorized Amazon to deploy 4,500 additional Leo internet satellites.
The new tranche would bring Amazon’s planned constellation to roughly 7,700 satellites.
Leo is poised to rival SpaceX’s Starlink, which has more than 9,000 satellites in orbit and roughly 9 million customers.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/amazon-gets-fcc-approval-to-launch-4500-leo-internet-satellites.html
https://apnews.com/article/rocket-launch-ariane-france-spaceport-spacex-a5df8de5daba5108dcc3fb626a2666ef

@BlytheCycles I really wanted that sound bite but it doesn't exist.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system-collapse/

#LowQualityFacts scp came about because no one could decide between stp (ssh-tar-pipe) and tsp (tar-ssh-pipe)