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New comment by ourmandave in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

ourmandave — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:49:07 +0000

Well, one of us is anyway. Sadly, he's sitting in the top office.

New comment by ourmandave in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

ourmandave — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:46:54 +0000

Every day is a new WTF? moment, but that's the point.

They keep pushing and pushing until the unthinkable is the new normal.

POTUS F' bombing on Easter? Sure, why not.

New comment by ourmandave in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

ourmandave — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:43:26 +0000

Makes you pine for the good old days when it was just QAnon and Pizza Gate.

Now we're fast tracking the Rapture.

Assuming that doesn't work out for them, who are they going to follow when the Chosen One doesn't get a 3rd term?

New comment by ourmandave in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

ourmandave — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:40:13 +0000

According to DeFlock.org, my local Lowe's store has 4 of them covering every entrance point.

https://deflock.org/map#map=17/41.468996/-90.483817

New comment by ourmandave in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ourmandave — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:54:31 +0000

But only some sort of sociopath would upend the world just to make a buck. Esp if they're already a billionaire with literally hundreds of other conflicts of interest.

New comment by ourmandave in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ourmandave — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:47:59 +0000

We threatened to invade Cuba unless they "make a deal", whatever that means.

Probably be the next Venezuela, except they help us against drug dealers, so I'm not sure what lies will be told to justify this one.

New comment by ourmandave in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

ourmandave — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:11:51 +0000

You can get a D5 on amazon.com. It would be amazing if one of the astronauts did a review explaining how it performs in space.

New comment by ourmandave in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

ourmandave — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:21:16 +0000

They had 4000 people cut in 2025 and big budget cut in 2026.

Maybe that included the camera crews and equipment.

New comment by ourmandave in "Snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists"

ourmandave — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:14:56 +0000

I was naively hoping they were stunned because it wasn't as much as they expected.

New comment by ourmandave in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

ourmandave — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:59:38 +0000

I would pay stupid money for a CERN Tunnel Rainbow Road track DLC.

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

ourmandave — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:20:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563384

Points: 443

# Comments: 204

New comment by ourmandave in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

ourmandave — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:32:12 +0000

At the end...

PS: I have an old friend whose dad still works at the Uranium plant in Oak Ridge. I told him that I was surprised that almost all of the facilities had been torn down, and he just looked at me straight in the face and said, “Who said it’s actually gone?” Noted.

New comment by ourmandave in "Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church"

ourmandave — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:10:45 +0000

Time for the next installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Jack Sparrow and/vs/saves the 3 Musketeers.

New comment by ourmandave in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

ourmandave — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:16:00 +0000

Do we have to wait for any appeals before the performative mail out settlement checks for $1 routine?

DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley into Nuclear Power Regulator

ourmandave — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:43:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500783

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by ourmandave in "Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US"

ourmandave — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:43:58 +0000

Especially in rural areas

Once while hot air balloon chasing, we saw a guy driving his 4 wheel drive in the ditches along a gravel road and found out later from someone he had a suspended license.

They said he figured the cops couldn't stop him if he stuck to the ditches and didn't operate on the official roadway.

New comment by ourmandave in "You are not your job"

ourmandave — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:39:25 +0000

The cynic in me wonders if it's because they were family members of the leader so got better health care.

New comment by ourmandave in "90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective"

ourmandave — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:08:14 +0000

I don't understand why they'd throw an election so the other pro-Israel side can win.

New comment by ourmandave in "Chuck Norris has died"

ourmandave — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:14:37 +0000

I loved that series, until the last book. Maybe the novelty had worn off.

It's been a long time since I read it, but didn't the current Death decide to retire and pass the role on?

New comment by ourmandave in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

ourmandave — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:22:30 +0000

Hoping it wasn't the SWAT guys. Those guys go hard and everyone is a meth terrorist until zip tied on the floor and proven otherwise. They also tend to shoot your dog. =(