Family friendly!
I found this list interesting; YMMV.
Just in case you needed extra incentive to get into crypto…
I guess Easter is coming up. Seems like it sneaks up on me every time. Any additional tips?
Spend a lot of time on Discord? This is relevant to your interests.
Apparently this is making the news today due to its NSFW-esque features…
And here’s a little mellow something for you to get into the weekend mindset.
You know what’s odd. The last two posts, Friday Morning Links and What We Are Reading weren’t visible from the front page until after I logged in.
Also, I was told there was going to be no math.
The website has been slow today. Yeah, when you get the math question it’s no bueno; never had a successful login after one of those.
It worked for me after I got the math question.
They are having some fallout issues from the massive caching system upgrade yesterday. They are already working on a fix.
OK, thanks đ
I’m surprised more countries haven’t banned crypto.
Wait… Polygon thought the boss battles in the Origami King were hard?
/reloads another boss battle in Bravely Default 2
“Before probing, ensure your thermometer is sterilised.”
That seems a bit excessive. Are the plates, utensils, and everything else sterile?
“Jeff recommends cooking them for at least 30 minutes at 200 degrees whilst checking every 10-15 minutes and giving them a shake to increase the crispiness.”
I think he means 400°F.
I just did my taxes this week. Turbo tax asked me if I bought or sold cryptocurrency. Good thing I haven’t been playing in crypto. I would hate to have to answer that question if I had.
this argues that question is a trap for the unwary.
Wait a second — “did you receive, sell, send, exchange, or otherwise acquire any financial interest in any virtual currency?”
*Any* virtual currency? So… everyone who bought PokeCoins (or whatever) for Pokemon Go? Because that is receiving a virtual currency. Or your Steam Wallet. Or an Amazon Gift Card. Glad I don’t remember TaxCut asking me — because I think the IRS lawyers made that form WAAAYY too broad.
I don’t remember the exact wording of the question on the form or the explanation provided by Turbo Tax, but I came away with the impression that it was limited to bitcoin, eretheum, and similar.
However, I could see in-game currency being in that definition too.
It’s on the front page of the 1040 this year. I am curious why they didn’t just say “buy” instead of “otherwise acquire any financial interest in” — perhaps the latter casts a wider net. I am also curious what gives them the authority to ask such a question (FYTW clause, presumably).
IRS says crypto currency is an asset like common stock. If you buy and sell, you must declare your capital gains or loses.
As the article above says, it’s a trap. If you say no and they later get data from coinbase (or someone else) showing a purchase or sale, then they have you on perjury.
The article notes that coinbase gave the IRS data on 13,000 users in response to an order from the IRS.
That seemed pretty obvious to me.
“Signed under penalty of perjury”.
Just another hammer over people’s heads.
Oh boy. I’m in trouble…
Yeah…
gamer nerds are some of the weirder nerds.
/scatters a handful of d4’s outside Hyperbole’s house.
[holds up notepad]
Pearls before swine.
I’ll bet $50 that you’re all kinds of weird. I’ll bet another $50 that 99% of the commenters here including me are weird.
I’m the benchmark for normal.
The Hyperbole in a nutshell?
WHAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA…..
Apparently Letitia James believes she has some kind of jurisdiction in Georgia:
Letitia James went down to Georgia, she was looking for votes to steal
She was in a bind ’cause she was way behind?
Fire in the precinct, run girl run
Tank’s in the house of the rising sun
“You have to actually prove who you and that you live in the voting precinct? You fucking racist.”
Somewhere recently (linked from here?) I saw a proposal to allow out-of-district voting. You know, only to be used in emergencies when poor people are trapped out of their districts as they so often are, even though cross-town travel is a problem for them.
The Left aren’t even hiding that they want to steal elections. And like everything else they propose it’s always under the bullshit guise of helping the less fortunate.
I wish the GOP would call them out on their bullshit but are too chicken shit to because they don’t want to appear as trashing the poor or minorities. They either need to push back or else they’ll lose their ability to be controlled opposition.
[waves handkerchief and cries from dock as ship sails over the horizon]
I wish the GOP would call them out on their bullshit but are too chicken shit to because they donât want to appear as trashing the poor or minorities. They either need to push back or else theyâll lose their ability to be controlled opposition.
Exactly. And, as with the election fraud, Biden once again comes out and says it. Saw the below on GP. They cite CBS news but someone else can click that link.
It’s kayfabe.
The Democrats are the faces, and the Republicans are the heels. They say the insults that are on the script. They generate cheap heat to get the crowd excited.
They are not actually going to have a real fight.
OFFS she is insufferable. Doesn’t she have Wall Street and Donald to destroy? That should keep her busy enough I would think.
So anyway…..my wife wants to put our tax refund/covid handout money towards a new deck. I told her that it would be a better move to pay off all our credit card debt and get a home improvement loan at a much lower rate than the cards.
Why is this logic difficult for her to grasp?
“But I want a deck!”
I didn’t think she’d struggle with “9% is more than 7%”, but here we are.
So you’re the guy that married my ex. Poor bastard.
Assuming I’m reading it correctly, there’s a deck in both scenarios.
Yes, what we disagree on is paying cash for it or paying off debt with the cash and getting a loan for the deck at a lower interest rate than the cards.
“Why would we need to get a loan when we have the cash?”
Apply for a credit card with 0% APR. Between the new card and a few existing cards I have about 60k in the no interest credit line until October. On the other hand, maybe they give it me because I don’t need it.
Pay off the cards!
Throw in a mani/pedi if she does it your way.
Why not get a deck of cards and call it a day.
And then maybe poker.
Why don’t you politely ask her what her reasoning is? Maybe her reasoning is something other than “Now.”
You know, if he wanted a woman’s opinion on how to deal with a woman, he would have asked.
Jeez, you’d probably advise him to pull over and ask for directions too.
TIWTANLW
Ok, googled that, got a dang Reason link….
Que?
My exhausting client who is exhausting is a radfem. I’m working on a book now that is, how shall I say, not complimentary toward men.
She asked me for a blurb. I said no because I don’t agree with some of her premises and the reason I don’t is because I have a husband and kids, and she has never had either. She is late middle-aged, single, heterosexual but never had a serious relationship although she tried (oh, she did try), a tidge butch, no kids, distanced family, and as far as I can tell, very few friends (although really, I have very few friends, and she’s a hermit by choice, so that’s not saying much). (And get this, I am apparently one of her friends because she put me in her will so that I would continue to publish her work posthumously at the expense of her estate.)
Anyway.
One time, my mother said to me (about my ancient unmarried aunt) that often people who have never been married and/or had kids are selfish in ways they can’t help but be because that is their life experience. (I know! Not all single people are like that and present company excepted!)
Well, okay, but. That’s this woman. She does not know what it is like to commit herself to a significant other and to kids, so her outlook on men is super-skewed, and it shows a certain naivete that might be eyerolling in a 20-something but is utterly inexcusable in a 60-something.
Is she rich?
Let me help you out, buddy.
OuCh. I’m going to go sit in a corner now. Thanks.
Aw, don’t be upset, guy. It’s just an acronym from the old days!
I’m not upset. I think I’m turning into Biden. I think I’ve asked about it before… and forgot.
True.
So perfect with that avatar!
My wife is a very smart woman but she gets very angry when I try to explain something when she didn’t grasp it the first time.
I said ASK, not TELL.
LOL!
I thought it was Don’t ask and don’t tell.
Or am I mixing this up for some government nonsense from the 90s.
“Okay in that case I’m asking you why don’t you understand what I’m telling you.”
By the time you get a contractor out you may have already paid the cards off and saved cash for the deck.
If you’re doing a wood deck, I’d look at material cost first and see what other home improvement projects you can do. Lumber prices are through the roof.
Yeah, I’ve thought about that too. At a minimum though, the stairs have to be replaced now. Someone’s gonna get hurt on those things
I’ve got some rotten boards too and am just going to eat it.
May as well, my supplier doesn’t think the prices are going to drop any time soon.
Frustrating as heck to watch the volume of logs getting harvested from the fires yet lumber priced still rising.
I wonder how that would compare to Trex.
Resins are just as fucked up.
Lumber is way cheaper than Trex.
Compromise.
Hold the cash.
Get approval for the home improvement loan.
Then pay off the cards and build the deck.
Why don’t you just chart out the cost in Excel (or whatever)? Run the numbers side by side, and then the lower cost option should seem obvious, no?
“‘I can hear cartel members taunting us’: Ted Cruz leads group of 18 Republican senators on midnight hunt for migrants and smugglers trying to cross the Rio Grande”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9406881/Ted-Cruz-leads-GOP-senators-midnight-hunt-Rio-Grande-migrants.html
Wait, this isn’t the Bee? Ted Cruz actually did this?
I watched a part of that and was amused by the thought of Ted Cruz hiding in the bushes near a truck stop.
Truck stop… grassy knoll… always hiding in the bushes, that family….
HA!
“Pete Buttigieg says the Biden administration is considering taxing drivers by the MILE to fund their $3trillion climate-friendly infrastructure proposal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9407343/US-transport-secretary-says-mulling-mileage-tax-infrastructure.html
CWAA
MUST HAVE MOAR TAXES!11!!!1!
With the added benefit of either mandating GPS tracking or sicking the IRS on you if you don’t get a notarized witness for your odometer or something. Probably the former knowing the Feds. And a new set of bureaucrats to mandate compliance.
Yeah, so nobody writing that story thought to ask how, exactly they’d accomplish that?
Yeah, no shit.
That’s why I got off the Nintendo train. I got tired of them demanding I buy new downloads of my old games because they go “compatibility? LOL what compatibility”.
“Jen Psaki defends Biden for using a cheat sheet at his first press conference and fires back at Fox News’ Peter Doocy’s complaint that he’s never on Biden’s list of reporters”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9407539/Jen-Psaki-defends-Biden-reporter-list-Fox-News-complains-theyre-not-it.html
“So much for the cue cards, Joe: Press conference fact check finds Biden made false claims about the border, sending back most migrants, and that Trump’s tax cuts mainly benefited the ‘top 1%'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9403721/AP-FACT-CHECK-Biden-skews-figures-border-taxes.html
Well, it’s not like dementia would make him more honest.
Then there was this:
It’s only bad to overturn an election when it benefits a Republican.
I’m getting the impression that we’re all supposed to think that a completely scripted and choreographed press conference is totally normal.
This is just elder abuse at this point.
Call me unkind, but in this life ’tis but a fraction of what he deserves. I, as most productive people in this country do, get financially raped twice monthly. The once a year I still get my annual beating. The least I deserve is the comedy of
errorscrimes.This is me too.
“aww poor old guy…wait, fuck him”
Joe Biden deserves whatever he gets.
But Joe Biden isn’t home any more.
So Joe already got is comeuppance.
It is time, however, to put that puppet away and start to deal with the sociopath that is going to take is position.
I disagree. He’s not completely gone yet. He knows he’s losing it, and has no respect from his handlers. He “soldiers” on because he’s been a pampered disgusting POS his entire life. He’s a narcissist blow-hole, just like his previous boss. I just hope for the day when his frustration consumes him in public, and he lashes out in pathetic disgrace. Then he will have his comeuppance.
I think you are right. Actually, he is doing remarkably well compared to several dementia and alzheimers folks I’ve known. All the dementia snark may just be as overblown as the “Hillary is about to keel over from some mortal disease” meme that we got five years ago.
I don’t think Kamala’s the one pulling the strings, though. She seems more like his caretaker/nursemaid/nanny.
I donât think Kamalaâs the one pulling the strings
Someone else is driving the Joe sock puppet. But Kamala is next when Joe goes away.
Which may be reason enough to hope he hangs on for a while.
I don’t get to cook lamb often (usually for a Burns Night supper), but I’ve always had success with grilling a leg on the Weber over charcoal and oak with Alton Brown’s rub — garlic, mint, salt, brown sugar, dijon mustard are the main ingredients.
It’s a little messy, and some of the rub will burn, but my guests adore it.
“Researchers have said the global pandemic is believed to have started when COVID-19 jumped from a bat to a human or through an intermediary species at a wet market in Wuhan.
Redfield, however, says that explanation doesn’t make ‘biological sense’ to him.
‘I do not believe this somehow came from a bat to a human and at that moment in time the virus came to the human, became one of the most infectious viruses that we know in humanity for human-to-human transmission,’ he said.
‘Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonot to human, it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient.’
He believes it started in a lab that was already studying the virus, which would mean COVID-19 was being exposed to human cell cultures.
‘Most of us in a lab, when trying to grow a virus, we try to help make it grow better, and better, and better, and better, and better, and better so we can do experiments and figure out about it. That’s the way I put it together.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9406675/Robert-Redfield-believes-COVID-19-escaped-Wuhan-lab.html
Even if this is true it will not be reported because the news would cause violence against asians.
âPete Buttigieg says the Biden administration is considering taxing drivers by the MILE to fund their $3trillion climate-friendly infrastructure proposalâ
That has been on the wish list for a long time.
Of course it has. Let’s push for more electric vehicles, then tax per mile to make up for the lost gas taxes. Oh, did we tell you that you’d save money driving an electric car?
Of course there will have to be some means of auditing that mileage… perhaps GPS tracking and logs… strictly for the mileage tax and will never be used for any other purpose…
Fuck Robert Poole and his tax hike schemes with a rusty chainsaw.
Yes, what we disagree on is paying cash for it or paying off debt with the cash and getting a loan for the deck at a lower interest rate than the cards.
Can you still write off the interest on a home improvement loan?
Hmmm….I actually don’t know, I’ve never applied for one before.
Three-day weekend w00t! My company has another one of its mysterious generic paid holidays Monday.
Plus one of those Jesus-holidays on Friday.
That sounds like a good week.
It will be interesting, with boss and boss-boss out all week. And quarterly close coming which means I run the show all day and then watch finances at night to make sure nothing blows up.
“I found this list interesting; YMMV.”
Does Nintendo making anything else but Mario games? JFC.
Zelda and Pokemon both come to mind.
And Metroid. And I think Castlevania?
It’s a lovely day here in RVA-land. Mid-eighties. Turned on the AC just to get the moisture down. Was able to work on the back porch in shorts and a tee. Finished a serviceable draft of a story I started earlier this month.
Took the dog to the vet with all the windows down in the truck, which was delightful.
I’m looking out my home office window and watching metal roofs blowing around in the courtyard after they tore off a shed that’s there.
Well all, some things have become tradition in these annoying times, so here’s the link for the Happy Hour/Zoom/KK bragging session. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Looking back at the calendar, the first of these was held on April 3rd of 2020. So next week will be the one year anniversary of these.
We should do something special next week. [calls wardrobe and tells them to run up a sexy little outfit with cha-cha heels]
There’s a reason I provided the heads up.
Uh . . .
. . . I, uh, have a . . . thing that evening.âYeah, that’s it, a thing.
Do they have different sizes?*
*Asking for a friend
Thanks, Neph!
Thanks Neph!
I have to join next week then.
I don’t know if I’ll join tonight or tomorrow. Some interesting news came up this week, so I’m putting together a new edition of Too Local News. Tomorrow there are some maskless events and I’d like to attend at least one, preferably both.
Thanks for running these.
Ugh. I guess I should have paid attention to what Nephilium wrote. Since it is a KK bragging session, I’ll join, but only after I get the first pass on Too Local News done.
I guess we pissed Tulip off.
I tend to feel that I did my part.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘She was scared I would harm myself.’ Hunter Biden’s texts to his therapist tell why lover Hallie took his .38 and reveals Secret Service DID step in to handle the investigation after she threw his handgun in a grocery store trashcan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9403757/Texts-Hunter-Biden-therapist-Hallie-Biden-leaving-gun-trashcan.html
WTF??
The Biden family is just white trash with money, much like the Kennedyâs.
It was enlightening when I figured out that most big law partners were just white trash with money. It really put things in perspective. It’s not surprising that politicians are the same.
“Duke University launches investigation after a printout of George Floyd’s toxicology report was pinned to a Black History Month display”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9406225/Investigation-printout-George-Floyds-toxicology-report-pinned-display.html
SPOILER ALERT: Everyone in this story is despicable.
Quaint idea: Just take the toxicology report down, throw it away. No stupid investigation needed.
Friday Funbags’ busty broads of beauty.
https://archive.is/YlOOC
The bipartisan Do-Something-ism caucus
There were other, more divisive issues as well. Some Republicans resurfaced allegations that the platforms systematically censor conservative voices, which the CEOs have all denied, and Democrats tried to assess the platformsâ roles in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
By the end of the hearing it was still unclear whether lawmakers have moved any closer to passing substantive reform. But the sense of urgency among members was palpable.
As Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., told the CEOs at the start of the hearing, âSelf-regulation has come to the end of its road.â
Ongoing social media Congressional hearings will get to the root of the problem.
One of the signs of a scam is a manufactured sense of urgency. Just putting it out there for no particular reason.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky is a commie piece of shit from the North Suburbs whose solution to every problem is moar money and moar government.
If one of them has the balls to call for shutting down Facebook and Google the way they shut down Parler, I will have some tiny amount of respect for that person.
I won’t hold my breath.
“We don’t want to stifle speech, we’re just asking politely that the private companies regulate hate speech. And if they don’t I’m not saying that something bad will happen, but something bad will happen.”
Shorter Ed Wuncler:
“Nice social media website you’ve got there.âBe a shame if something were to happen to it.”
“USA Today fired the publication’s race and inclusion editor [Hemal Jhaveri] on Tuesday after she tweeted “it’s always an angry white man,” in response to Monday’s mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado….
“”I wish I were more surprised by it, but I’m not,” she wrote. “Some part of me has been waiting for this to happen because I can’t do the work I do and write the columns I write without invoking the ire and anger of alt-right Twitter. There is always the threat that tweets which challenge white supremacy will be weaponized by bad faith actors. I had always hoped that when that moment inevitably came, USA TODAY would stand by me and my track record of speaking the truth about systemic racism.”…
“”Sending one wrong tweet that ended up in the hands of Sean Hannity on Fox News though, was enough for this publication to turn tail,” she added.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/usa-today-fires-race-and-inclusion-editor-after-tweeting-its-always-a-white-man-during-boulder-shooting/ar-BB1f0tZV
You may remember her from the Oral…Roberts article of hers that I linked:
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/03/oral-roberts-ncaa-anti-lgbtq-code-of-conduct
There can be no corner of human life that is free from Hemal Jhaveri’s way of thinking.
Poor baby. A total lack of journalistic ethics got her fired from a barely journalism job. Such a tragedy.
Criticism = weaponization
“My editors expect me to be honest and write articles in good faith? This is all the alt right’s fault!”
“Race and inclusion editor”? WTF is that even supposed to mean?
BTW I think Syrians are “white” anyway. What other box are they supposed to check…?
It depends on the context – Arabs are white for purposes of some federal statutes, not for others (eg, Civil Rights Act of 1866)
At Volokh, David Bernstein has been previewing his new book on racial classifications which would probably go into as much detail as anyone would want.
forthcoming, not new
Mlech… the whole thing distasteful. In most incarnations it’s just a ruse by the government to pigeonhole people into boxes for grievance purposes.
Oh, indeed. I’m kind of looking forward to the release of Bernstein’s book in a few months, which will show in detail exactly how this works. His working title: Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
(I’m not affiliated with Bernstein or any group linked to him – this is not a paid promotion. Add extra disclaimers as warranted.)
Ummmmm….is this some research for a future Joemala episode?
Could be worse. Could be Stuxnet.
“Iâm getting the impression that weâre all supposed to think that a completely scripted and choreographed press conference is totally normal.”
I keep shaking my head over this. Presidents give scripted speeches all the time. I would imagine some were even given questions ahead of time, or planted questions. But to stage the WHOLE THING?
Cui bono?
For the past year, an assumption â sometimes explicit, often tacit â has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some point, it will be over, and then weâll go âback to normal.â
This premise is almost certainly wrong. SARS-CoV-2, protean and elusive as it is, may become our permanent enemy, like the flu but worse. And even if it peters out eventually, our lives and routines will by then have changed irreversibly. Going âbackâ wonât be an option; the only way is forward. But to what exactly?
Most epidemics disappear once populations achieve herd immunity and the pathogen has too few vulnerable bodies available as hosts for its self-propagation. This herd protection comes about through the combination of natural immunity in people whoâve recovered from infection and vaccination of the remaining population.
In the case of SARS-CoV-2, however, recent developments suggest that we may never achieve herd immunity. Even the U.S., which leads most other countries in vaccinations and already had large outbreaks, wonât get there. Thatâs the upshot of an analysis by Christopher Murray at the University of Washington and Peter Piot at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
We have this marvelous new club with which to bludgeon the plebs into submission. Why on earth would we willingly lay it aside?
Doin’ right ain’t got no end.
T Woods had Ivor Cummings on his podcast. That dude has called this shit show straight since the beginning of the idiocy. I can’t quote his remark made during the interview but it made sense, that being 80 to 90% of people are already immune to Sars Covid2. I used that line today when I was confronted unmasked. “I’m immune just like 90% of the people on the planet.” (I am using my new found definition of immunity as in the shit aint going to kill me because I am not in the highest of risk groups) I am immune to all kinds of shit at this point in my life. Odds on the other hand, there might be a bus tomorrow but we don’t have much public transit so I am betting I am immune to busses too.
The main reason is the ongoing emergence of new variants that behave almost like new viruses. A clinical vaccine trial in South Africa showed that people in the placebo group who had previously been infected with one strain had no immunity against its mutated descendant and became reinfected. There are similar reports from parts of Brazil that had massive outbreaks and subsequently suffered renewed epidemics.
And what about the symptoms? How many died or were hospitalized?
I know, that’s not relevant, and I’m just muddying the waters by asking about it.
Consider two alternative evolutionary paths. In one, a virus becomes more severe but not more transmissible. It will cause more disease and death, but the growth is linear. In the other path, a mutating virus becomes neither more nor less virulent but more contagious. It will cause increases in disease and death that are exponential rather than linear. Adam Kucharski at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explains the math here.
If this is the evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2, weâre in for seemingly endless cycles of outbreaks and remissions, social restrictions and relaxations, lockdowns and reopenings. At least in rich countries, we will probably get vaccinated a couple of times a year, against the latest variant in circulation, but never fast or comprehensively enough to achieve herd immunity.
“Gee, I wish we had one of them Doomsday machines.”
Either way, time to open up.
“No” to all of that, thx.
“Dominion Voting Systems, a company subject to a torrent of conspiracy theories from President Donald Trump and his allies seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has sued Fox News for $1.6 billion, alleging the network falsely claimed Dominion rigged the 2020 election.
That campaign to overturn the election â which was roundly rejected by courts but embraced by pro-Trump media â culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in which a horde of Trump supporters violently interrupted the certification of the 2020 vote by Congress.
Dominion accused Fox, which is facing another $2.7 billion lawsuit from election technology firm Smartmatic, of spreading false claims that the company helped rig the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden.”
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/breaking-dominion-sues-fox-news-for-1-6-billion-over-2020-election-lies/
Source code or GTFO.
This x 2,020
Can we party like it’s 1999. Did anyone else do stickers? “This has electricity. It could freak out at midnight and kill us all! Tag it.” True story.
*SMDH.
While it’s mind boggling that the customers didn’t audit the source code, I still think it’s unlikely that Dominion is the problem assuming there is a paper trail. The problem is with mail-in voting and zero signature validation. The Dems read their Art of War and did a good job preparing the battlefield.
The people are almost always going to be the bigger risk than the computers.
Fox needs to put this into evidence.
https://xkcd.com/2030/
I’m honestly surprised that hasn’t been memory-holed.
Nice.
Also, software: It’s what makes planes fly.
/737 MAX
737 max was not a software failure.
If you mean the software error itself was the least important part of the fiasco, then I agree.
But the root cause of the planes crashing was indeed a software error.
I disagree, but I won’t discuss details in public.
Ok, I based my judgment off what has been made public.
I’ve heard/read too many design changes. Can I get a yes/no?
Given the public information:
1) A single threaded system was used in the past to perform automatic trim functions. The system moves the elevator slowly to minimize the aerodynamic forces on the elevator (talk to one of the pilots here).
2) AOA vane failures are a known problem. If the AOA vane fails, the auto trim function will misbehave. However, the crew had time to recognize the problem and take appropriate actions.
3) A new function was added for the MAX to deal with the more powerful engines that could cause an unwanted pitch-up motion when the throttle are advanced (quickly).
4) To avoid retraining the crew, the auto trim function was used to move the elevator to counter act the pitch-up motion caused by the engine. (I don’t remember the acronym for the new stability system)
5) During flight test, the test pilots didn’t like the performance of the new system, so the authority of the auto trim system was increased (giving it the ability to move the elevators faster).
6) However, the system is still single threaded. An AOA vane failure can cause the auto trim to move the elevator and can now move the elevator much faster than before.
7) No training was provide to the crew about the new function or how to cope with rapidly moving elevators if there was an AOA vane failure.
The software performed as designed. Thus not a software error.
The system, however, . . . . make your own judgement.
The problem, whatever it might be, was somehow corrected in software. Again, make your own judgement.
At least one mistake in there.
The trim function moves the horizontal stabilizer to minimize the forces on the elevator.
There are probably others too.
6) However, the system is still single threaded. An AOA vane failure can cause the auto trim to move the elevator and can now move the elevator much faster than before.
This scares me. The vertical stab trim is too slow to compensate?
The system present on the two crashed airliners was single-threaded.
The fix is field loadable software (as far as I know, the news has not reported that any wiring changes are required to put the MAX back into service).
I have seen no details on what is actually being fixed. Just that the fix is approved by the FAA and EASA.
I was being facetious (AS ALWAYS). Software cannot easily overcome bad aerospace engineering. Or that is what I was told anyway.
Both the FAA and EASA have approved the plane to fly (again). Of course, there’s lots of money involved so their decision may be biased. I wouldn’t be all that surprised if a number of countries keep it out of service, though, especially Indonesia and Ethiopia.
Where training is not a priority?
https://twitter.com/websiteidi0t/status/1374518610752806915
Are they just using his name, or is Trump behind this?
Either way, time to open up.
What we’re doing isn’t making a difference, because we’re not doing it hard enough!
q-ette was majorly colicky last night and I’m zombiefied. This is much, much less fun than other times I’ve been kept up all night by a girl.
Did I miss a pic of the baby q? (If you don’t put pics online I understand) but GLIB BABIES ARE THE BEST CUTIES.
WebDom was a colicky baby and look how SHE turned out!
You just hang them out the window of the ambulance.
Baby sloper slept through the night most nights when he was a wee one and never colicky. Kid doesn’t talk to his dad anymore so maybe he would not be such an asshole if he was colicky.
“The Republican who is sitting in Stacey Abramsâ chair just signed a despicable voter suppression bill into law to take Georgia back to Jim Crow. The Senate must pass the #ForThePeople Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act immediately â our democracy is at stake tonight.”
https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1375276181034045441
That was nice of her to donate furniture.
Why is she doubting the results of an election? Insurrectionist!
I’m sorry, the country has reached its quota of sanctimonious twats, you’re going to have sit this one out Senator Pocahontas.
I thought twitter banned all the talk of stolen elections.
But we’re not allowed to question the presence of the Democrat in Donald Trump’s chair.
Is that how this works?
I fucking hate Stacy Abrams. She’s like someone who made it to the finals of the spelling bee and lost but still pisses and moans about it while blaming the judges because in her mind, they mispronounced the word.
They can pimp out Russian election interference conspiracies for four years but the moment anyone questions the amount of mail ballots for the general election, suddenly they are conspiracy theorists.
But she’ll always have those four touchdowns against Andrew Johnson High.
“Ben Shapiro Produces EDM EP Using Logic And Reason”
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/ben-shapiro-produces-edm-ep-using-logic-and-reason/
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLL
Still in a wonderful mood! Peas have sprouted, radishes have sprouted, lettuce has sprouted, peppers have finally sprouted. Oh joy, oh happy day!
Spring weather does tend to do that to a person, does it not?
Atomic grape seeds have sprouted.
asparagus has sprouted.
Life is ok.
I’m trying to figure out what’s so horrible about the GA voter law. There’s still early voting. Drop off boxes have to be in secure locations. Voter ID. The water thing seems to be a bit of a red herring since all gifts, including food and drink are banned.
I also wonder why the lines are so long in some jurisdictions. I’ve seen allegations that the governor has reduced the number of polling places, but aren’t elections run by the counties? Do the counties in question not have enough voting locations? Do they not have enough voting machines? I’ve rarely had to wait more than about 15 minutes here in CA.
It’s all part of the narrative.
The Dems are lying. It’s as simple as that, as usual.
I’m not black*, but if I were, I think I’d find it offensive that they are calling these changes worse than Jim Crow.
*according to 23andme I’m as black as Elizabeth Warren is Indian.
Husband and I got our covid tests back to prep for Hawaii on Monday. Amazing what a relief it is – even though neither of us are sick at all, so there OUGHT to be no reason we can’t go, but it’s been a perpetual fear/stress (what if one of us pops a negative? I made sure to do the tests early so we’d have time to try again, just in case) since deciding to just do it (this is the trip that was supposed to be for LAST spring). Now the kid’s test just has to go through and we’re in the clear. *crosses fingers and toes* Just one more test and we’re on the way.
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Hope your trip goes well.
lol, I mean “pops a positive”. It’s the positive you don’t want
Don’t you miss the days when we thought tests ended when we graduated? I know I do.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/coming-guns-white-house-confirms-biden-will-sign-gun-control-executive-orders/
Wut?
I expect to hear a lot about states rights real soon.
Hopefully followed by a convention of the states.
So glad he gave the democratic and legislative process the time they needed. What a piece of shit Joe is.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/man-says-he-agreed-to-meet-underage-girl-only-to-prove-she-was-a-hoax/article_cdd15bf4-8e6c-11eb-909e-4fb1584a06fe.html
Uh huh. Clever ruse. ?
“Woke ideology is surprisingly prominent, especially in publishing.
We took a walk around a bookstore and found leftist propaganda everywhere.
This stuff isn’t just on tumblr anymore, so be careful about what books you’re buying your kids!”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1375097145087438854
“WOKE Books ARE EVERYWHERE! Peak CRINGE”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjkDp0i7dg
No shit.
My daughter is not on board, thankfully
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/krIZ_UpcTWWbqEyRWXRmQg.qY56OeVef5AZyI4UeQfNnN
My mom snapped this pic and sent it to me today. ?
#MADB #MothersAgainstDementedBiden #trunalimunumaprezhure
Your Mom is awesome.
I saw this sign on a boat in Naples, FL.
https://twitter.com/PiggPunished/status/1375150607431045122
I would have made a different hand gesture for that.
As expected, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Friday that Biden will sign gun control executive orders into law.
This authoritarianism and usurpation of Congress’ designated duties will result in a Constitutional crisis and consequent impeachment, right?
RIGHT?
That’s not how this works… that’s not how any of this works!
I’m Back!
đ
Zagat email. Fascism is awesome.
Joe Biden Is Calling You About Ice Cream
The Ice Cream Shop View On Government Aid
“Kendra and I were working more than a hundred hours per week, so we decided to hire more staff. And by the end of our second month, we had a dozen employees. To be able to start the business of our dreams in a harsh economic environment was awesome. But to be able to create jobs for people during that time? That was special.”
Keep in mind that Zagat got purchased by Google several years back.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1374873534212702208
LOL
Nothing outside the state
Under current rules, individuals who sell goods or services via platforms like Uber, Ebay, Etsy and others that use third-party transaction networks (i.e., PayPal) generally only receive a tax form if they engage in at least 200 transactions worth an aggregate $20,000 or more. That form, called a 1099-K, also goes to the IRS.
Starting next year, the federal threshold for issuing the 1099-K will drop to $600 with no minimum transaction level, due to a provision in the recently enacted American Rescue Plan Act. (Some states already have lower minimums.)
This means that in early 2023, you could receive a 1099-K for online sales you make in 2022. And this would be the case whether youâre an occasional seller or are operating as a business, as long as you sold more than $600 worth on a single platform. It doesnât necessarily mean youâd be taxed on the money, but you would need to account for it on your tax return.
Big Brother had better get his cut.
*rage*
*red-eyed rage*
I think I’m going to start asking my clients to pay by check.
Cash only. Thank you.
Not gift cards?
Someone didn’t read Web Dom’s article from a couple of weeks ago.
… in order to issue a 1099-K, a Social Security number is required, which makes some of the affected companies worry the requirement would be a turnoff to sellers, said Garrett Watson, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation. Not all of these platforms routinely collect that information.
However, because of the current high threshold applied to the 1099-K, even sellers who have a clear profit motive may not receive the form â meaning neither does the IRS, which can lead to underreporting of income.
“It’s like stealing from the government!”
due to a provision in the recently enacted American Rescue Plan Act.
Don’t you want to help people suffering from the pandemic?
Say what you want about fascism, but if they have champagne both in the lounge and in the air then it’s not so bad. They used to have champagne in the lounge that I didn’t like at all–now it’s Taittinger.
Hmmm…a privately-funded racist program which is promoted (and devised and administered?) by government officials:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9399137/Oakland-California-exclude-white-families-living-poverty-500-month-checks.html
That’s the good kind of racism.
Yay. Another TP shortage. The media fuckers are hyping Suez. No differentiating between Europe and the US. No west coast ports either. Everything from China and Asia transits the canal.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. Film at 11.
What, what? Most toilet paper is made in the U.S.
The media is talking up TP shortage (while ignoring it is elsewhere). People are going to panic buy again. Guaranteed.
That’s just annoying. Many products still aren’t back to pre-pandemic availability.
If my non-news junkie wife heard about the coming TP shortage, it’s in widespread release already.
Fuck.
RIP Beverly Cleary
Pretty good run, though.
Deliver de letter de sooner de better. De later de letter de madder I getter.
RIP. She is the Portland and Oregon I grew up with.
I hate women authors.
*misty eyed*
Should I tell the flight attendant to shove her mask up her cunt when I’ll be exiting the aircraft? Can’t make up my mind.
Yes! I want to see you on a viral video!
Preferably not in shackles.
“…and that, boys and girls, is how I ended up on the No Fly List.”
I’m already on some list with this airline, but on the black list yet.
But not
No. Just give her the universal asshole signal.?
“WWE Star turned Texas GOP Congressional candidate rides bull named âNancy Pelosiâ for campaign ad – âShes a beast!â ”
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1375428821969670145
That’s some commercial.
Razor-sharp tongue, vicious claws, and never-ending hunger for flesh… Lickers are one of the most disturbing creatures you can ever imagine encountering.
Yeah, I can see that being worked into a porn.
I had some drinks tonight with a now-former-coworker. Today was his last day. He and I worked together for several years. I asked him if anyone was taking him out for his last day. He said probably not because everyone is afraid of the ‘Vid. I told him Happy Hour starts at 4. He said he’d meet me at one of the local brewpubs. Done. I paid for him. He’s s good guy.
Driving over there I was surprised and disgusted by all the masked up zombies walking around outside on a 70-some-odd degree Spring day with masks on. Barf. On the other hand, I did cave and put my bandanna on to go to the men’s room since based on the conversation of the folks sitting next to us at the bar, I was afraid those folks would rat out the place if I went to the men’s room without my bandanna on.
As the lesbians start to become extinct, we’ll have to refer to them as ” Lickalottapus”
Some asshole at Drexel thinks indoor dining should be banned
Dr. Usama Bilal, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University, wants officials to shut down all indoor dining right away.
“I’m recommending stopping indoor dining altogether. The evidence is very, very clear,” said Dr. Bilal.
He says he’s compiled stats from 20 studies conducted both here and in Europe. But he specifically cited a CDC study that focused on restaurant dining published on March 5 that claims, “Allowing on-premises restaurant dining was associated with an increase in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 41-100 days after implementation and an increase in daily death growth rates 61-100 days after implementation.”
Bullshit. What study? Name it? I guarantee it has been debunked as fraud.
Fuck. Your. Cases.
Tell me about the patients being triaged and the dead bodies left to rot in homes because health services are so overwhelmed.