Are these real links? Yes, in light of the silly tradition surrounding the day, I want to make sure you are all aware the links below are all real links. They are no Rickrolls, they are not to satire sites like Newsweek, these are all real.
That said, I want to make sure everyone is aware, the official sneakers of the ¡Afuera! are now available at this link while supplies last. Unfortunately, I am still unable to locate the official ¡Afuera! Chainsaw, but I am sure some enterprising individual will get on that.
¡enlaces!
Having already disarmed the population, Mexico takes the final step towards going full Bloomberg.
Here I thought the entire purpose of the World Cup was for FIFA officials to grease their palms from the world’s governments in a tournament fueled entirely by nationalism.
I was assured by the smartest people the Orange Man is alienating friendly countries and further isolating the US on the world stage.
I’d suggest its the return of the Monroe Doctrine, but apparently law from the early 19th century is bad.
Somewheremon the internet, an American is wondering how much those Haitian cops want for that Hilux in the photo. Especially since this Corolla based abomination appears to be real.
This little dude had some pipes. Have a great Tuesday.
That’s the damned Schroedinger’s Meowth evolution, isn’t it?
“Somewheremon uses indeterminance! The enemy is confused!
Somewheremon uses Speed!
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Maybe.”
You dare…take Somewheremon’s name in vain?
Well, we’re goingmto miss SDF-7.
SPF-7 doesn’t really work in Haiti, Mon.
Sounds like Somewheremon will have another mark.
Gotta catch em all?
I choose you Somewheremon!
Somewheremon is a Rastafarian hitch hiker.
Given that the U.S. also is preparing to welcome the world for FIFA’s Club World Cup in June, golf’s Ryder Cup in September and the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, the question becomes: Will the world want to come?
Left unasked: and if they don’t, will anyone give a shit?
I’m sure John Kerry will weep himself horse over it.
I say neigh!
Since none of it is local I don’t have strong feelings.
OFFS, grab your fainting couch.
I don’t think even the powers of Donald Hitler are enough to foil the plans of mega sports events.
Looks more than a little rusty even in that photo. They may want the body style — but I suspect that particular one would quickly be a “Just Rolled In” candidate.
No. We want that one!
Appears to not be a Hilux (Taco in USA), but rather a Toyota IMV 0, base price USD $10K, not available in USA.
I’ll give you $500
A government-sponsored junk food ban in schools across Mexico took effect on Saturday, officials said, as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics.
And here I thought that the U.S. was the only country where the poor people were fat.
It’s like you’ve never met a Mexican.
“Especially since this Corolla based abomination appears to be real.”
Because it’s smart business to try to grab a part of the market currently held by the Subaru Baja, I guess. For those who need a vehicle with a cargo bed suitable for holding one pony keg.
The Santa Cruz looks better.
Oh…that’s not even a picture. NM
Damn, I didn’t know they still made those. There’s a Wilderness Edition for 2025.
Another from the little dude that I really enjoy.
*salutes MS with (root) beer*
*raises afternoon coffee*
This little dude had some pipes.
I guessed right, from the description.
33 degrees and chance of snow this afternoon. Not an April Fool joke.
Snowing in Podunkville. 8-9 inches forecast
I just assumed every day was Taco Day in Mexican schools.
*shrug*
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like the Army, the only daily certainty is chili mac.
Every day Breakfast was EXACTLY the same. A steam tray of bacon, a steam tray of sausage patties, harsh browns, and eggs to order.
Breakfast always had grits. It was my introduction.
Also had the assorted small box cereals.
I had tacos today.
I was looking at a couple of Car and Driver articles about Tariff-geddon a while ago, and I began to wonder: do those simpering clowns at the “car enthusiast magazines” ever do anything but kiss the manufacturers’ asses? Do they print articles about what a horrific unaffordable unrepairable clusterfuck modern vehicles have become?
If they are too critical they will jeopardize their relationships with their sources.
No, they don’t. And it’s the same with photography mags, computer mags, and I’m assuming every other type of product-related magazine.
This game was boring, buggy, and I wouldn’t recommend playing it.
6 out of 10 %rating symbols%
Even before the car mags consolidated you could barely tell them apart.
Good god, it sure was true with the “American Rifleman” magazine that I used to get when I used to think the NRA did good work on gun rights.
Every single gun they ever profiled was just perfect. Just amazing. The best gun ever for every situation. And such good value for the money that you really can’t afford NOT to buy it.
The compact pickup-truck segment is heating up and now it sounds like Toyota is planning to get into the game with a Corolla-based truck.
I poked around. Speculation on the Corolla pickup goes back to 2023. I’ll believe it is real when I see it.
Well its still an abomination
Hear hear!
*Bangs a Corolla on the table
Ugly as sin.
Bring back the El Camino.
Yes!
Make it a ’69 and I’m in.
https://ccmarketplace.azureedge.net/cc-temp/listing/112/4997/12809349-1969-chevrolet-el-camino-std.jpg
There’s the Twoscore edition.
That… is downright beautiful.
Always liked the El Camino though I haven’t owned one personally (my Dad had one for a while… no idea why he sold it). I suspect realistically they’d just say “fold the seats down in your SUV, foolish mortal!” but it isn’t the same.
Be still my beating heart.
This just popped up a short while ago
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1964-ford-ranchero-17/
El Camino and Southern Comfort, together getting 15yo girls pregnant since 1965.
That would be Bitchin’
That would be a Camaro.
I ran over my neighbor
Be wary of what you ask for
https://www.mgprestigecar.fr/2025-chevy-el-camino-release-date-confirmed-with-price-details/
abomination
Eeeeewwww.
Rebadged Holden? They have El Camino like cars in Australia. I am surprised they haven’t come back yet. Also the artist’s rendering is unlikely to be it.
https://realtruck.com/blog/best-utes-australia/
When I was building police cars, Chevy tried to get into the Crown Vic market with a rebadged Holden. Called a Caprice, and it had an awesome 6 liter Holden engine. Thing was way to cramped inside, and barely sold.
Car companies have to build a sedan to be able to base a truck off it.
Ford has completely stopped and Chevy is killing off the last of theirs now.
I used my ’72 Ranchero this week for hauling away tree limbs.
Amateurs
Elon Musk has turned his attention to the Social Security Administration, the latest agency that his team of novice programmers has invaded for the apparent purpose of hobbling it. Wired magazine reported last week that the Department of Government Efficiency plans to replace the mainframes that power the agency’s mission and rebuild their functionality on new servers in a new programming language — with just a few months’ work.
Assuming Wired’s reporting is accurate, we know that such an effort will surely fail. The track record of decades of modernizations of thousands of software systems, in both the private and public sectors, makes that clear. This isn’t even an interesting-yet-flawed idea. It’s a hackneyed, clichéd bad idea that could only sound compelling to novice software developers. It’s like cooking a Thanksgiving turkey in 20 minutes by putting it in a blast furnace, or choosing to get measles instead of getting vaccinated against it: it sounds most convincing to the layperson who asks the fewest questions.
Why change? This is how we’ve always done it. It’s good enough for government work.
I’m not sure that something being written in COBOL is a disqualifier. But I am sure that this many years later, that code is going to have patch after patch, and fixes that fix the bugs introduced from other fixes. You can’t replace that line-for-line and you don’t want to.
Any rewrite would have to start with new specs, and that might take a while to produce, unless it functions like a really big payroll system. Is it worth a rewrite? I’m not sure.
Honestly, what most companies do is keep the old system limping along while building a new system, and migrating the necessary data over. There’s only so much cruft you can mask through virtualization.
Let’s get ready to Rumba!
The usual problem with replacing such a large legacy system, especially people HR related, is that so many exceptions and one off cases have been coded. an Elon will just go, nope.. exception revoked make it 5 buckets. Unless they make a “well this bucket is now worth more $$$” across the board you can’t get the modern/simple system. Now they may just be implementing a modern system to run the legacy code.. that at least gets you off costly to support old hardware.
Waldo Jaquith, former government technologist —- “naval aviator”
From his LinkeIn profile – Technologist, public servant, parent, antifascist
Holy crap, you’re not kidding. Who puts that in their LinkedIn bio? I’m guessing he got called Waldo Jackoff a lot as a kid.
“Novice programmers” is the latest lie they are pushing.
I caught that, too.
They might be young but they sure as shit aren’t novices.
Way on the right of the curve, I wager.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-notes/
Are they still biting off too much on this one? We’ll see.
The author’s bio at the end:
Waldo Jaquith was an Obama administration appointee in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, a Biden administration appointee at the General Services Administration, and a special government employee at the Treasury Department.
Only a little biased.
My gut tells me replacing SS’s systems is going to take longer than a few months and is not necessarily something that will end in failure.
If you start off looking for failure, then it will, by necessity, fail. If you start of looking for success, you have a much better chance of succeeding.
“It’s a hackneyed, clichéd bad idea that could only sound compelling to novice software developers.”
When I think naive and inexperienced about major software projects, Elon Musk is the first name that comes to mind.
I was reminiscing with my old college roommate this last weekend. We’re about to roll over another year on the odometer, and for some reason started talking about our junior year (’88, for those of you keeping score at home).
Neither of us had met our wives yet, but personal and professional success were something that we took for granted. Life was an endless party, the world was our oyster, and this banger was topping the charts.
It was a great time to be alive.
Wow. Florida was so different than California. In ’88 I saw these guys./a> in Santa Barbara.
I spent a couple months in Missouri in 88. Music options were limited. It was mostly singing a capella.
There are two possible explanations: either the DOGE programmers are so inexperienced and cocksure that they think this can actually work, or this is a cover for doing serious damage to the Social Security system. As a nation, we cannot afford the risk that either of these explanations are right, or the even greater and more likely risk: that both explanations are right.
That the SSA’s systems are old is not evidence of them being problematic — on the contrary, it is evidence of their reliability and sustainability. There is no “one neat trick” that will make a complete overhaul possible in the span of a few months. Hard things are hard. DOGE’s effort is likely to fail and threatens to bring down Social Security along with it.
I’m no fan of change for the sake of change, but this sounds like self-interested turf protection.
Resist, always resist. Mama don’t ‘low no change.
Until she gets a microwave..
It just depends on if the problems they are finding (dead people getting checks, illegals getting SSN’s) are easily fixed in the current code or not. Or if those are human-induced problems that don’t need a code change.
Engineers designed the SR-71 with slide rules and paper notepads, so that’s no reason to go changing how planes are designed today!
I loved that on the ground it leaked fuel like a sieve.
The airframe had to warm up and expand to seal the leaks.
*taps picture of Kelly Johnson in my office*
It also sounds like a classic attempt to frame the issue as a false choice, much like “don’t like cops, go call a crackhead.”
Any rewrite would have to start with new specs, and that might take a while to produce, unless it functions like a really big payroll system. Is it worth a rewrite? I’m not sure.
I don’t know nearly enough about this stuff, but I can’t help thinking there might have been some worthwhile changes in the structure of the process to make it worth looking at.
In most systems like this, everything is tied to some other part of the process/system. So the processes of how to do things get built up around the software (instead of designing the software to streamline the process). People will keep following a process even if it doesn’t make sense. I’ve told the story of a group in one place that used to received faxes they would file. When scanners came into being, they then would scan the faxed documents, save them to a share, and file the paper copy. When they moved to fax to e-mail (receiving a PDF with the faxed document in it), they updated the process to print out the document, scan it back in, and save the scanned copy to the share.
They had never considered just saving the PDF to the share.
For us if you don’t want to retain a paper copy of regulated crap you need to file on a WORM drive or documented provider of such. PITA.
My first after-college job involved writing a control system for part of a steel mill. I remember when the union operators came in to see what we’d written. We had changed a process so it took 4 commands instead of 6,and one guy got pissed about it. Something like, “My guys are used to pressing CTRL-C, 1, 3, 4, 4, 1. That’s going to confuse them.” He wanted us to add extra layers of menus so his guys didn’t have to learn anything new.
So why exactly were they spending millions on a new system if they wanted it exactly the same as the old one?
We had a similar situation where emailed documents were printed, re-scanned, and re-emailed. The stupidity, resistance to change, and lack of accountability of (some) government workers is a big part of the problem.
TOK, sounds like there were two different “theys” in your story, each with a different agenda: they, the steel mill, wanted a new, better control system; they, the union didn’t want to have to learn anything new.
The Other Kevin:
My favorite for that was when we were migrating a call center over to a new phone system. We had done the preliminary tests, and we were ready for some UAT (User Acceptance Testing). We bring in the hand selected (by the call center management) agents and get them logged in, and start testing. They’re all sitting in available, we place a test call, a phone rings, the agent sitting at the system with the ringing phone asks, “What do I do now?”
Answer it. You answer the phone.
I’m surprised that they had enough initiative to ask.
Engineers designed the SR-71 with slide rules and paper notepads
It looks right. Build it.
Be wary of what you ask for
Ack!
Today I got a new work laptop. I appreciate the speed increase and 32gb of memory. Corporate spyware and our dumb default install of Outlook and Teams chews up 11gb before you load a browser. It sucked with only 16gb on the old one.
But WTF are they making these new laptops out of? Lead? I assume they squeezed a massive battery in there, but I’d rather it was lighter.
I wish they would just give me a desktop back. I never travel and most of my work suffers bandwidth strangulation when I have to VPN.
But I’m likely to get a new laptop tomorrow.
Years ago I ditched a corporate laptop and replaced it with a VDI. In general the entire enterprise is virtual desktops. Shared cloud ones for regular users and dedicated Vmware VDIs for developer/power users.
I care less about the laptop than how locked it is. The previous company allowed me to run Linux bare metal. Now I can’t run it virtually even in Hyper-V.
They locked out WSL2? Because that’s really just Linux in HV these days… They’ve even made nested virtualization easy — I spun up a 3 node virtual cluster of our storage product under WSL2 on my corptop a couple of weeks back as a dev environment experiment (I really want to figure out integration with a build node then spin up a test cluster and have it scripted via VSCode since that’s the current environment they’re pushing…)
Yes they did. I was initially grandfathered when we were acquired but they revoked approval this year. It’s all part of customer restrictions for access to their data.
My condolences and sympathies then. Why don’t they just make you do everything on a virtual PC on a server they control and mandate you can’t keep anything on your laptop client? Makes as much sense…
Too much of my work is already remoting in. At least they still let me code locally.
I can’t imagine — all the laptops these days feel like feathers.
This was my work beast for some years. A trivial seven and a half pounds supposedly (I know mine didn’t do the DVD ROM — I think I had 3 SSDs in it instead…) Loved the screen size, resolution and core count back in the day.
I walk 2.5 miles with the damn thing on office days.
I carry a big chongus laptop for game development, but I consider it more of a desktop that I can relocate from time to time.
My laptop is locked down hard. But I only need business applications.
I’m happy that Chrome isn’t totally borked.
The best news story of the day.
That guy’s been playing mean jokes all day.
Today I learned the state park and swimming hole 8 miles from me has free admission after 5 pm. Yay! Alas, the swimming hole was closed again because of a gator.
The water is clear, and the gator was on the shore next to the gator warning sign and behind the plastic rope. Maybe gators can read.
Still open to people who aren’t little wussies.
That sounds like the typical Florida gator community. I bet they have an HOA.
What are the odds that this actually happened? https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/go-back-mexico-racist-note-shakes-server-20253187.php
The chances of a marxist fuck trying to start something with a fake note is 100%.
And the chances of a marxist outfit like SFGate falling for it are 100%.
I am sure that they just wanted to start of conversation.
We havent had takeout food in ages. We just made some chicken mei fun. Farm to doorstep orders, eggs at way better prices than store…this life is awesome
Same but with pork
PSA tempting me with a little CZ clone at ridiculous low prices.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/sar-usa-b6c-9mm-pistol-blk-b6c9bl.html
Holy cheap, Batman!