Looks like they opened the box, and the fat little dictator is dead.
Unfortunately, no reason to think that whoever replaces him will be better.
Computer Fun
Patricia’s machine has been acting up for months, dying unexpectedly. I tried replacing CPU, memory, and power supply. Also cleaned the CPU heat sink. But to no avail, and now it shuts down almost immediately after boot. So it’s probably the motherboard.
And of course you can’t buy new FM-2 mobos any more, so it means new processor and memory as well, plus a graphics card, because the Ryzen doesn’t support on-board integrated graphics. So we just had to lay out about $600 for an upgrade, but it will be a much better machine, with a Ryzen 5 3600X (same as mine) and 32G of RAM in a single stick (upgradable to 128G). It will also be able to support multiple monitors. Unfortunately, it won’t be here before Tuesday.
[Sunday-morning update]
Wow, time flies. I just realized from an old blog post that her mobo was five years old.
States
…should not receive bankruptcy protection.
Cocaine Mitch should offer states a bailout of their pensions, only on condition that they no longer be states, and become territories, pending better behavior in the future. And the sensible parts of them, like downstate Illinois, should be able to petition for readmission immediately.
Brave Reuters Journo
…is super pissed that the Free Beacon did the MSM’s job for them.
Flynn Was Framed
…and his attorneys are seeking immediate dismissal for a blatant Brady violation:
They should be the ones going to jail.
Nutrition Labels
Why there’s a frozen-fry shortage.
Nutrition labels, to the degree that they provide calorie information, are worse than useless, because calorie counting is stupid. FDA should not only suspend them, but eliminate them.
Death By Meteorite
The first credible evidence of it. These aren’t the ones we really need to worry about, though, and there’s not much we could do about them if we did. We need to focus on the city killers (or worse).
Ventilators
Nearly everyone put on them in New York died.
So much for “life saving.” Of course, the problem is that by the time it’s so extreme that they decide to put you on one, it’s probably too late. But this shows that the ventilator panic was probably pointless.
We’re learning rapidly how to deal with this, but we’ve unfortunately lost a lot of unwilling guinea pigs. It reminds me of what I say in the book: Every aviation regulation is written in blood. People always have to die or be injured for us to learn.
Biden And China
He’s taking flak from the Left for his latest idiotic campaign tactic. Hilarious.
You’d think by now that people would realize that if you want to judge Trump’s actions toward another country, you have to actually observe what he does, not listen to what he says about their leaders. But they’re idiots.
The Second Amendment
Virginia Democrats complete their shredding of it.
Let the lawsuits commence.