I predict lots of music, alcohol, gift giving, feasting, and other indulgences.
The skies say that the week might start off with some stress and conflict with the Moon and Mars being bad influences from Sunday through Tuesday, but on Wednesday that breaks up to be replaced with a day of General Benevolence. Immediately after that, Christmas Eve looks like a good time for snuggling with the Moon and Venus bringing the Love. Capricorn gets a brief window of everything going my way before Mercury skedaddles on into Aquarius.
Sagittarius: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Capricorn: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Aquarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Pisces: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Aries: 4 of Wands – Country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of these.
Taurus: Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.
Gemini: 9 of Cups – Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage; satisfaction.
Cancer: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; the unknown, clandestine; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Leo: The Fool reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Virgo: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Libra: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.
Scorpio: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility; Holy Table
Libra: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side….
We shall see, monsieur; we shall see – Didier Deschamps
Taurus: Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold
now you see – Lionel Scaloni
Did you just hook up a random adjective generator?
I see a lot more nouns than adjectives.
Comfession, I only read Leo. And left confused.
I think it means that you will eat a lot of gummies, drink ad ignore responsibility.
Sagittarius: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
“Prudery”?
Well… and “bale”. So, yeah.
bale2
/bāl/
noun
ARCHAIC
noun: bale
evil considered as a destructive force.
evil suffered; physical torment or mental suffering.
A germanic word.
Baleful means menacing, doesn’t it?
It could be a fully loaded hayloft. 😛
Lily’s doppelgänger lives in my neighborhood. Her name is Daphne and she is precisely what God meant when he said “let there be Goldens.”
Great videos!
Leo: The Fool reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Lol. Sounds about right. Is it hubris to declare war on the stars?
Apathy… and vanity?
Absence… and distribution?
The stars lack precision this week.
Firster’s were the first men to look away from the stars and towards their own power to manifest their destiny through sheer force of will.
Firsters declared war on the stars. And won.
I predict lots of music, alcohol, gift giving, feasting, and other indulgences.
You’re really going out on a limb there.
Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Sufficiently shitty.
Nice dog videos.
Well, damn. Not sure what to do with that
AKA a nook?
inorite
*sideways squint*
Well, that all sounds lovely! (“Fertility” is no longer a concern.) Not sure what to make of “Holy Table” unless it suggests that we meet my sisters and BIL for our belated Christmas gathering at a restaurant in a converted church.
Of course, the current weather forecasts for next weekend may cause cancellation of our long distance travel plans…which means I may NOT have until after New Year’s Day to come up with something to give one sister and my very-hard-to-shop for BIL. 😳
Copying over from dedthred since this is the most exciting WC Final I’ve ever seen:
Soccer haters have always made little sense to me. Fine, you don’t like the sport. You don’t have to watch.
I happen to think basketball is incredibly boring and repetitive. But I don’t feel the need to throw myself on the ground and rend my garments screaming “BASKETBALL IS SOOPER CEREALLY AWFUL!!11!!!” anytime someone mentions it. Soccer haters are with sports like progs are with their politics; they MUST MAKE IT KNOWN TO EVERYONE how much they hate the sport to signal their bona fides.
Basketball may be an embarrassment, but it is an American embarrassment.
Soccer = communism of sports.
Agreed.
I played for more than 10 years and I loved it. I just don’t care to watch it.
It’s a silly argument.
Not all games are this world cup final. This was too dramatic to put into a movie. It would destroy the suspension of disbelief. That last minute was insane.
See also: the metric system
Same shit
I was not terribly invested in this one… no love for either team but modestly pleased that the correct team lost.
Soccerany sport haters are with sports like progs are with their politics…FIFY
You could probably drop music in there, too.
True. But Rush does suck.
😜
most exciting WC Final
The final stands on its own. I’ve only been watching a year and bring baseball and hockey biases to my viewing and have found futbol’s blend of simplicity and transparency comforting but a tad bit boring. That said, watching your team’s match every week for 90 minutes is an okay investment.
FRA I thought they would give a better fight; the scoring spurts hardly make up for underwhelming defense. Speaking of hockey, I keep notes on plus/minus, and, in the games I’ve watched the best French players were TCHOUAMÉNI and Theo HERNÁNDEZ.
ARG Again on +/-, I like Marcos ACUÑA and found him to be twice as effective as Messi.
Aries finally sounds good!!
“Aries: 4 of Wands – Country life, haven of refuge, a species of domestic harvest-home, repose, concord, harmony, prosperity, peace, and the perfected work of these. “
Not sure how to square that with the horoscopes of the main men in my life (Capricorn and Aquarius, both of which sound somewhat ominous).
I turned on Fox expecting football, and all I got was futbol
I think you got Futbol!!!
Holy crap, my daughter hasn’t played since she was 7 (too boring .. don’t they have a game where girls can hit? Do they have rugby?)
She was going nuts. I don’t think she ever watched a world cup match before. But the excitement of this one was off the charts.
There is women’s rugby. In college I dated for several months that rarest of animals- a straight women’s rugby player.
Oh finally a good one. I’ll take it
Virgo: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Security….. and liberty?
Ok, now they are just trolling.
The two are not necessarily exclusive. If you give up liberty you can lose security as well. A free polity with responsible citizens can be secure.
physical bien-être;
I don’t know what that means and don’t care enough to look it up. I will soon be putting chicken wings in the oven for football time snacks. I have a ribeye in the sous vide for later so my meat quota shall be met today. I have successfully not gone outside for anything other than firewood so it has been a good Sunday.
Sounds amazing!
Cold here too. Was able to sit in the sun on the patio enjoying a cup of coffee with my dog without getting hot and sweaty. Might not have been much above 70.
70? ya, we are not going to break 40.
I’m about to find out how many pellets my grill goes through smoking ribs when it’s below zero.
Good luck. The older I get the more I wonder why I haven’t moved back to FL. And we don’t get close to zero here. Occasional single digits but that is it.
Maybe you know all this already. Most of the heat lost from the process is proportional to the difference between the temperatures: just inside and just outside your grill’s shell. While you’re cooking at, say, 500°F on a fall day at 50°F, that delta is 450. At 0°F in winter, the delta only rises to 500: an 11% increase.
But that’s just while cooking which is maybe only a third of the process. While you’re heating up the grill, its inside temps are even lower, so the deltas in play are going to change even less than the 11% we expect at wide open throttle.
Some of the heat lost will be due to radiation. On a clear day, some (one fourth?) of your grill will be exposed to deep, deep, dark space directly above it extending forever and to pretty much absolute zero (-460°F). Radiation is proportional to the fourth powers: Tgrill^4 – Tspace^0. With various surface parameters, that might be significant (I’m too lazy to estimate it for you), but, whatever it is, it’s the same summer and winter and so can’t contribute to the delta.
You do need to heat the grill’s metal up a few more degrees, but again that’s only 11%.
Last, if it’s windy all bets are off. Convection rates sky-rocket with a little surface cross-velocity.
Imagine figuring these same considerations for a huge outdoor industrial op like a process heater and then watching the old boiler’s natural gas meter spin.
Supposed to hit 42 here. Almost no wind so really nice!
Virgo: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
@cyto, from dedthred, 2 things:
1. In many sectors, Twitter is a female thing, but conservative Twitter politics is a man’s purview, which is on brand. I do not participate in the cliques. I fit everywhere and nowhere. The thing I loved about Twitter in the early days was that you could see all convos and just jump in with people you didn’t know, and totally make friends. It was a big cocktail party. The one day I woke up, jumped in a convo and got asked, “Who are you?” and blocked. Well. That was the turning point for me.
2. Breitbart stopped being good and/or funny the second Andrew died. Watching it (on Twitter, even) in real time was eye-opening. There was NO ONE who could carry his torch, which is what’s going to happen to Twitter when Elon is no longer in charge, which may be sooner rather than later.
Also, I think the way Breitbart tanked without him is instructive to the entire libertarian/conservative landscape. There are only a few people with the personality AND philosophy who can cut through proggy bullshit and push the interests of liberty. Then there is no one who can take that up seamlessly when that personality is no longer there. It’s the hazard of the cult of personality.
The tree of liberty is in no danger of being watered.
This is sooo true. Never really read breitbart much… but it is clear that without him it isn’t the same thing. Same goes for DrudgeReport.
And watching the implosion of Reason really makes me worry…there is no good training ground for the next voice of liberty.
Elon Musk (whom I fear will be suicided any day now, since he speaks blunt truth about the media) just called out Wikipedia in a tweet.
Wikipedia used to be great (their tech articles can still be useful). but they have gone woke and I no longer am a donor.
I dunno if it is “controlled by the MSM journalists” but it is very much a reflection of the Hive Mind.
There’s been articles for over ten years about how Wikipedia doesn’t really need the donations to operate the actual site but is using it for (increasingly) other purposes.
By “female” I mean the dynamics at play… “look, I got 1,500 likes! That means I am right and you are wrong” . It is nakedly political. No amount of “but this article in PNAS proves you are wrong” can overcome “I got 1,500 likes and you got 23 likes.
The male dynamic would be “here is the answer in the NFL rulebook. I am right and you are wrong”. No number of “all these people agree with me” will overcome that. The juvenile version of the male next step is resolving it with a physical confrontation. .. after which the winner is settled and you go have a beer together.
I have no doubt that Mojeaux can move easily in either context. Winning in guy society is much easier than winning in Heathers.
That probably works a good of the time.
In a related space, what I find problematic is guy logic saying that guns are used by a good guy eleventy hundred percent more often than by a bad guy, so guns are good. My fear is that normies think that data, polls, or analysis have anything to do with rights, the most important part of principled thinking. Even if the stats say guns are bad, I still have a constitutional right to have one: “here is the answer in the 9A.”
I think you’re misinterpreting the ❤️ button as “like.” It is most often used that way, yes, but it’s not necessarily so. Often, it’s “saving this for later because the bookmark feature sucks big fat donkeyballs.”
LOL.
I need you to run wingman for me, explaining how to do it right.
Soccer haters have always made little sense to me. Fine, you don’t like the sport. You don’t have to watch.
Everything is a to-the-death struggle of good versus evil.
Thanks for sharing the existence of the “War Factories” series, man. Really enjoying it.
Coolidge is held in less opprobrium than most POTUS by this group for good reason. But Cleveland is no slouch in not spending other people’s money either.
https://www.aier.org/article/a-president-who-warned-americans-what-extravagant-federal-spending-would-do-to-character/
Silent Cal! As it should be.
My American History professor in the required Freshman history class was a total commie and really, really hated Coolidge. That indicated to me that he was worth more researching.
Even in an Oklahoma college the history professors were commies. Crazy, no?
Bizarre. I can’t find an on line over-the-air teevee guide site (which works).
https://www.silicondust.com/
Stayed up too late, got up too early. Hubby still in his gummy coma.
A nap (for me) during football is inevitable.
Andrew Siciliano cracks me up.
You’re turned on by those ears, aren’t you?
LOL. Shhh! He can hear you from here!
No, I like his obscure references to TV addictions I share such as Psych, Resident Alien, etc.
Also I like his thinly veiled disdain at wokeness and stupid non-football related things that the NFL insists on pushing.
*tap tap tap*
Wow, those are something else.
The Pahrump woman that shot an intruder had me concerned. Glad to know it wasn’t you but you would have handled the same as your neighbor, I’m sure. You probably have a new friend
Thanks for your concern. I was a bit rattled too; I don’t always lock my doors. I’m in a nice neighborhood but it’s not gated and the economy is driving people to desperation. The scum that can’t make it in Vegas are starting to trickle into Pahrump.
Fortunately I have a gun in just about every room in the house. I even have one in the kitchen fruit bowl, as a nod to Detective Lassiter in Psych. (Episode “Lassie Did a Bad Bad Thing”)
“Fortunately I have a gun in just about every room in the house. I even have one in the kitchen fruit bowl, as a nod to Detective Lassiter in Psych. (Episode “Lassie Did a Bad Bad Thing”)”
😃 💟
PSYCH FANS UNITE!!
“YOU’RE prophetic!”
Lol
Cusak needs to go ski the K12 or something.
His takes are painful.
That is what happens when you swim in that water your whole life. He doesn’t even know he is wet.
He is such a smug prick. I can’t imagine having to put up with his shit.
JUSTIN FIELDS!! If the Bears can build a complete team around him in the next year or so, maybe we can stop having to coast on 1985…
If it’s not one thing it’s another. My water is froze. There was water for coffee this morning, fortunately (who knows, maybe it was just residual pressure, but I don’t think so). But a little while ago, I turn on the kitchen faucet, and nichts.
So I start thinking: maybe there is a heat tape down there which should have gotten plugged in some time around Halloween. I go out back and crawl around in the snow, and… whaddaya know, there’s a power pigtail for a heat tape. Plugged ‘er in, and there is a power indicator light.
Now… we cross our fingers and wait.
🤞🏻
Capricorn: 2 of Wands reversed – Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Emotion? Not bloody likely from this old Dutchman.