Episode 542: Election Day Horrors

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss computing and...much of it is the election. Trump. How is Trump still a candidate? Why? Are his supporters pretending they don't understand why he's terrible? Are they just knowingly lying? Or are they legitimate fascist morons? Also a local celebrity squirrel is murdered by New York State and people are not happy about it.

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Show Notes:

• Food is better from the fridge
• Ads load great, the content I'm actually trying to view, not so much.
• Bird flu farm animals
• MS Teams migrated away from Electron to something that seems worse unless you're running Windows...
• That time Dude almost got himself murdered
• Computing and the "children of plenty"
• Election coming up. Trump. You knew that would happen.
• NYS murdered a squirrel
• Parody: I Kissed a Squirrel (And I Liked It)
  

Episode 541: Ballot Box Burnings

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss MS Teams, McDonald's just happens to spread E. Coli after the Orange Man serves hamberders to his cult followers, election results are in the air along with ashes of ballots in at least 3 states, and Jimmy Pesto goes to jail!

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Show Notes:

• Microsoft Teams takes up 1 GIGABYTE on the hard drive...WHY?
• Spam/scams in email and filtering
• Celebrities writing children's books...
• McColi - obviously a conspiracy to make Trumps McCosplay look bad?
  
• Standing desks are healthy except when they aren't
• Ballot box burnings
• Apartment manager commits fraud to vote Trump multiple times
• McD's flurry machines broken?
• Right to repair talk (mostly copiers)
• Jimmy Pesto actor sentenced in insurrection participation
  

Episode 540: Reagan Was Terrible

Kitten is visiting. Bart hates college costs. Bart blames Reagan, because it's his fault. The others act like Bart's insane and women have always had college opportunities, which Bart thinks is insane. Also the US government helped fuel the early prepper culture.

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Show Notes:

• The Bunker book Bart referred to
• CVS/Walgreen's woes
• EV car battery disposal/recycling
• Haunted castles around the world
• "Flavored gay people"
• Gender and "effective communication"
• Paying for college is a pain. WHY?
  
• Reagan and his obsession with destroying education
• Plane boarding strategies
• Trump cosplays McD's worker, gets roasted because he's a moron
• Seems Cards Against Humanity has ended their http://apologize.lol campaign, their lawsuit against SpaceX is ongoing...
  

Episode 539: Democanes! Democrats Control the Weather!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the Democrat Hurricane Machine, credit stuffs, organ donations and some information on flying without seeing where you're going. Oklahoma confounds Bart with blatant corruption by sending millions of taxpayer dollars to Donald Trump in exchange for Bibles in schools. And a PA school adds windows to middle school student bathrooms because Conservatives are obsessed with underage perversion?

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Show Notes:

• Marjorie Taylor Greene insists, despite backlash, that liberals are controlling the weather in an effort to stop Trump from winning election (hurricanes are created by Democrats!)
• Financial/debt/credit/etc. discussion
• Flying/piloting discussion
  
• Soap opera and child actor discussion
• Vaccinations
• TikToker passed away at 25...
  
• Oklahoma Department of Education wants to purchase three million dollars' worth of Bibles for school curriculum, but purchase requirements suspiciously only match Trump Bibles
• Trump promised Musk a position as head of his own "efficiency commission" if elected
• Melania's book tour and promotion are...different.
• Republican candidate claims the wrong side won WWII
• Flood insurance discussion
• A Pennsylvania school district puts windows into student bathrooms
• There's a holiday next week...no show!

Episode 538: Hacking the Kia!

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss shots for the season, language models actually being helpful when condescending programmers aren't, more people passed away who were important in shaping entertainment, and how you can hack Kias from the comfort of the keyboard!

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Show Notes:

• Sometimes you just want the $%^# question answered...and this is why language models endanger average programmer's future (in part, at least...)
• Adam Savage - eliminate "why don't you just..."
   
• Maggie Smith of Harry Potter fame passed away
• Kris Kristofferson passed away
• RSV in adults
• "Gen Z are unhireable" say employers who don't like change
• Hacking a Kia via the web
  

Episode 537: OctoGrandma

Bart and Norma discuss Octomom becoming a grandma, school cop has a gun whoopsie, and someone is peeing in scented candles...

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Show Notes:

• What storms are out there now? Anything?
• Pee-scented candles
• "Octomom" now a grandmother
• School Resource Office (school cop) shoots self in whoopsie-doodle incident
• Melania is getting paid to speak. Don't know why or how, so it's all suspicious, but she is...

Episode 536: Tay-Tay Doesn't Like Trump Trump

Bart and Norma discuss a little gun in the oven and a lot of Taylor Swift hate from GOP weirdos who have no problem with celebrities like Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock playing at their rallies so that seems even more super weird. Also a local-ish comic-con event will have Atreyu from Neverending Story coming to the area, so that might be neat?

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Show Notes:

• Is it a kitten or a small horse?
• Storing your guns in the oven
• Airplanes go *boop* on runway field
• Jeremy Renner's family evacuated due to wildfires
• Tito Jackson died
• Taylor Swift and other celebrities regarding advertising, platform to the people, and politics (Trump bigly mad)
• Someone tried to kill Trump again, supposedly, and again, didn't accomplish anything other than headaches and fundraising opportunities for Trump
• When "Leon" fired his personal handler...
• local comic-con information, featuring Atreyu
• Wednesday season 2 isn't coming until 2025?!