A fun little tune for your links reading pleasure.
STARSHIP LAUNCH TOMORROW! Two-hour launch window opens at 8:00 EST, Friday, November 17. Glowing article here. Hot staging, baby. Watch it live here.
WHY WAS THIS NOT THE DC POLICE? While it is certainly interesting to watch the left engage in factional violence, it is noteworthy that the US Capitol Police (congress’ police force) not the DC government’s Metropolitan Police Department handled the incident yesterday. My tinfoil speculation is that they didn’t have confidence in the DC government. Here’s a piece I wrote about the myriad law enforcement agencies operating in the nation’s capital.
WHERE ARE THE FBI RAIDS, WHERE IS THE CONGRESSIONAL NOV 15 COMMISSION? Twitchy asks those questions. Red State makes observations about the two-tiered justice system on display.
NPR DISCOVERS US LAW LIMITS SATELLITE IMAGERY OF ISRAEL: “It’s not unusual for countries to attempt to restrict satellite imagery of sensitive locations on their own soil. But in this case, the law seeks to protect an entire — and separate — country.” Note how they confuse raising/lowering resolution. “[T]he CRSRA sharply lowered the KBA’s allowed resolution, from 2 meters to .40 meters.”
HOW MUCH DID THEIR CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE PAY FOR THESE? Detroit, Cleveland named among top travel destinations. I want a job writing puff pieces like this.
WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES NEW SPACE REGULATORY PROPOSAL: FAA would continue to regulate crewed spacecraft and DOC would regulate uncrewed spacecraft. NASA would still have a role, although the article is vague about that.
PRO-PALI PROTESTERS BLOCK ROADS IN SF, BOSTON: Assholes.
INFRAGREEN IS AN ACTUAL THING: Visible light, especially that of a greenish hue, might spur water to evaporate, researchers report in the Nov. 7 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In experiments, water evaporating under visible light showed a higher evaporation rate than possible based on heat alone, MIT mechanical engineer Gang Chen and colleagues say. Infragreen reference explained.
THE DAY HELL FROZE OVER: Snoop Dogg is quitting pot.
Special bonus tune, more silly brits doing empire cosplay.
Like Ed Sullivan?
There are too many police forces everywhere — town police, county sheriff, state police, FBI, DEA, BLM, DHS, etc. etc.
It wouldn’t be as bad if agency police forces only had jurisdiction on agency property. What are the Capitol Police doing away from the Capitol?
What is NYPD doing in the Middle East?
Smoking hookah?
Getting training from the IDF on how to deal with their domestic population.
I’m actually not kidding.
I’m assuming they have roaming jurisdiction wherever a congresscritter is located.
I know that the Virginia Capitol Police have jurisdiction in Capitol Square, and wherever the Governor is located.
We just have a county sheriff. Aint so bad though they handle property taxes…I swear there is a movie about that.
Not really — but you made me think of this one
And given the following quote… I really need to go watch it again:
Robin Hood..I was thinking if Robin Hood
If Robin Hood what?
/TedS
I don’t know of anything more than sheriff for the county. The state has more than the state police. I know the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority has police. There are probably more.
TN has the TBI. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
KY jelly.
Foshizzle, no smizzoke? Dizzamn…
“I want a job writing puff pieces like this.”
Virginia Is For Gay Lovers
I’m sure they’d report Florida is for the love that dare not speak its name….
That Florida loves Trump more than DeSantis?
Net neutrality just passed with a whimper under the name of DEI bullshit. I’m going to keep harping about this. Even in this little corner of the internet filled with cynics of government power it’s barely attracted attention. It’s like genuine apathy has set in for…everything.
I completely agree with you. I also believe this law bill be struck down.
I think this is agency rule making and not law so the bar should be a little lower to put a stake through its heart. Now if we can only find a fair judge.
The statute does not authorize this rule. It is in excess of the FCC’s statutory authority.
Well aware, hopefully the courts will piecemeal dismantle it but I won’t hold my breath. The right really dropped the ball not getting the word out ahead of time that this was coming down the road again.
Does this mean that the people killed by the repeal of net neutrality will become zombies?
Cyber Zombies is tonight’s movie.
/jk
There is a 5G zombies movie. I’ll save it for when we are all in government cages.
The surest way to get ultraliberal Cambridge and Boston residents to hate you is by making their traffic worse. Hopefully slumbrew gives us some on the scene reporting.
Seriously. Can’t think of ab easier non-violent way to make people despise you.
One could argue that blocking people’s freedom of movement is an act of violence. When you block a limited access highway it’s not like you can do a u-turn and escape.
I completely agree. It’s a form of unlawful restraint. When I see a video of ordinary people pulling Just Stop Oil protestors out of a roadway I want to cheer.
This, 100% I have zero problem with a car rolling slowly over the area where protesters have blockaded the right of way. Give them plenty of time to leave, but keep pushing them until you are free.
I sure hope that I do not encounter any of those types of protestors. I’m not certain I could or even would want to stop. I hate those bastards.
The car rarely moves during the week, so I wasn’t even aware of that going on.
If they had blocked the Mass Ave or Longfellow bridges, that would have _really_ enraged people – the BU bridge is not as heavily travelled as the other two.
Still, fuck those people. I find that shit enraging.
Also, Jews for Palestine are dopes – the people you claim you’re agitating for would not return the favor. Indeed, they’d happily defile your corpse. It maybe wasn’t always thus and might not always be thus, but that’s the current reality.
Pro-Palestinian protesters in the U.S. are essentially anti-U.S. protesters. Also, assholes.
This is 100% correct.
All protests are essentially pointless and the people who attend them are either useful idiots or paid actors.
I’m guessing 99% useful idiots.
Not that long ago I thought I was quite pro-Israeli. But this total identification with a foreign country by the entire US government and a large part of the US population doesn’t make me feel good at all. You sound like one these pro-Iraq war conservatives who condemned any anti-war protest twenty years ago as pro-terrorist.
So fucking tedious
Joe Manchin, the controversial Democratic US senator from West Virginia who is stepping down from Congress, has warned that if Donald Trump is sent back to the White House in next year’s presidential election “he will destroy democracy in America”.
Manchin delivered a withering attack on Trump a week after he announced that he will not seek re-election in 2024. He said that it would be “dangerous” if the American people gave Trump a second term as he would use the opportunity not merely to shake up the political establishment as he did first time round, but to break it.
“I guarantee if he comes back, he’ll break it now, because now he knows enough of what he needs to do to get everything he wants,” Manchin told reporters on Wednesday.
——-
“You can’t say that you’re going to take the most powerful office in the world and use it for vengeful purposes,” Manchin said.
“You can’t have this visceral hatred spewing out every time you give a speech, denigrating Americans: the only good American is the one that likes and supports you; the only fair election is the one you win; laws pertain to everybody but you; and January 6 was a walk-in-the-park visit to their favorite place, the United States Capitol. This is crazy stuff.”
Who are we talking about?
“You can’t say that you’re going to take the most powerful office in the world and use it for vengeful purposes,” Manchin said.
To be fair, the Biden administration won’t admit that they’ve weaponized the FBI, etc. for vengeful purposes. Hell, they don’t even have to worry about the TMITE raising the question.
You can’t SAY that.
But if you do it, well, who’s going to stop you?
Bitch don’t know what Freeze Peach is!
Stop Joe, I can only get so erect.
“DOGG TIRED Fans ask if Snoop Dogg is ‘OK’ after rap icon announces he’s ‘giving up smoke’ after talk with family
Published: 12:42 ET, Nov 16 2023”
Snoop Dogg, 52, Found Dead in his Home
Published: 12:42 ET, Dec 16 2023
I’d assume he’s tapering off and not quitting cold turkey.
After being baked for so long, he’s probably dried out.
There is no love lost between Manchin and the leadership of the Democratic party which he has consistently defied, often in line with his own personal coal company interests. In such a narrowly divided Senate – nearly tied with 51 Democrats and 49 Republicans – he has wielded his vote as an axe to kill some of the signature efforts of the Biden administration, including a $2tn environment bill.
On Wednesday he reserved some of his criticism for Joe Biden and the Democratic party. He told Democrats: “Why are you upset with Donald Trump? You should be upset with yourself, to have the most flawed human being to be able to be accepted by how many millions of people to be president.”
Que?
Translation: “Why didn’t you explain better why Trump is the worst evil ever? Obviously, if you did a good job of explaining, no one would vote for that monster.”
“PRO-PALI PROTESTERS BLOCK ROADS IN SF, BOSTON:”
*makes mental note to put can of bear spray in car*
“House Republicans are demanding information to probe whether the rabble-rousing advocacy group Code Pink is unlawfully funded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The anti-war progressive group has advocated for the Pentagon to reduce its military budget as a way to fight climate change, among other causes. The letter, obtained by DailyMail.com and addressed to Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, raises concerns over her husband’s ties to the CCP.
Evans is married to Connecticut-born tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, a self-proclaimed socialist and mega-wealthy benefactor of ‘far-left causes’ who is based in Shanghai, China.
Code Pink is a 501(C)3 non-profit that frequently interrupts hearings and floor proceedings on Capitol Hill. As of late the group has been leading pro-Palestine protests in D.C. and across the nation.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12757643/GOP-probe-code-pink-china-evans-singham.html
woops, gilmored
“DID YOU ORDER THE CODE PINK?”
“YOU’RE DAMNED RIGHT I DID!”
Do they often protest right next to Code Stink?
I don’t mind code pink. they are a bunch of stupid commies on most issues, but they nail it on foreign policy. You take what you can get with the tankies.
Shouldn’t she be married to a woman?
Of course they are funded by the CCP. Just like the Soviets back in the day.
I’m not sure how that is “unlawful”.
Tonio – in my email requesting a particular time slot for the Sausage article, I said “midday, preferably thursday” and didn’t remember that thanksgiving is next week. I’m okay if it does end up being thanksgiving, if that spot needs something.
Okay, I’ll check that tomorrow. I’m behind on my email.
Have a section on turkey sage sausage and it would be topical.
I don’t have any turkey. I have chicken, veal, and… frozen duck.
Thinking of Gilmore, has anyone seen Scruffy?
No. I’ll email him tomorrow.
Or Tundra?
“NAACP demands investigation into Colorado middle school after a white student threatened to kill black people in racist video saying ‘cotton pickers should not be alive’ and ‘passes’ giving permission to use the N-word were circulated”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12758785/NAACP-Colorado-racism-Rocky-Mountain-middle-school.html
At least he didn’t call them “colored”.
Middle schooler?
Just an edgelord, shoot the NAACP grifters and ignore the idiot kid.
It’s okay to use pepperballs for the first step.
Just make it spicy.
Phrasing?
I give up. I just want punitive action against racist grifters who profit by sowing discord.
Sounds like they all got a race card.
Spontaneous combustion
Investigators have made a preliminary determination that the blaze was intentionally set behind a fence where businesses were storing materials under I-10, but they said they do not know yet who started it.
Mel Tillekeratne, an advocate for homeless people and founder of nonprofit The Shower Of Hope, said Saturday’s blaze could have been a horrible human catastrophe.
“We were lucky there that nobody got hurt,” he said. “But something like this could happen at any other encampment at any other time. It’s just a tragedy waiting to happen.”
Tillekeratne said he hopes disasters like this shine a light on how homeless resources and facilities need to be staged in more neighborhoods to keep people away from highways, where pollution from exhaust and traffic accidents are major hazards.
“We’re talking about one of the busiest freeways in the U.S.,” he said, speaking of I-10.
Solis, who represents the area where the fire began, said, “We know that more resources are needed in this area to help overcome the consequences of structural and systemic inequalities.”
More money. The answer is always more money.
The city government doesn’t care unless Xi is coming for a visit. A couple years back I took a video of homeless living along a bike path under a freeway in San Jose and sent it to the mayor’s office. I doubt he or anyone on his staff bothered to look, because he was he was at an environmental conference where he was advocating for a ban on gas stoves (even though we’ve been assured that nobody wants to do that).
And somehow when they get more money, there is always way more vagrancy.
You get more of what you reward?
Business owners who subleased the storage properties said they voiced concerns for years about fire danger and other hazards related to camps in an industrial zone under I-10.
Rudy Serafin said the number of homeless encampments in the neighborhood has grown steadily since he began storing supplies for his business under the freeway in 2009. He said Serafin Distribution, which provides office supplies and other items, couldn’t get insurance due to concerns about homeless people starting cooking fires. He said he and other business owners made multiple reports asking city officials to act.
Out of sight, out of mind.
FAA would continue to regulate crewed spacecraft.
What are they gonna do? Pull your space craft over. Regulate this dick, bitch.
SPACE FORCE!!
What ya gonna do
What ya gonna do
Sorry officer I didn’t hear your siren. Sound doesn’t carry is space.
Also, the only speed limit in space is the speed of light.
In Space, No One Can Hear Your Woop-Woop.
“FDA recalls MORE eyedrops over infection risk – and reveals they’re made at an Indian factory where workers are BAREFOOT and tamper with test results”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12758759/FDA-recalls-batch-eyedrops-safety-concerns.html
They better be sari.
Holi crap, what a mess.
Tika a breath, it could be worse.
Now you’re just trying to curry favor with Swiss.
(But he’ll have naan of that… he’s just going to run to the delhi).
Goan wit’ yer bad self!
Is he getting some Kolkatas?
Korma on now. It’s not that big a deal.
They missed the fine print: only for use in your third eye.
Don’t be Saag, it will soon be over.
“TikTok shredded as influencers promote Osama bin Laden’s ‘terrorist propaganda’ tirade dubbed ‘Letter to America’ after 9/11 attacks
The Guardian, which had published the full text of the letter in 2002, pulled it down on Wednesday, citing the fact in a statement that it was being “widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we have decided to take it down and direct readers to the news article that originally contextualized it instead.””
https://nypost.com/2023/11/16/business/tiktok-shredded-as-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-gets-viral-praise-terrorist-propaganda/
CWABOA
I can’t believe that there exists something too left wing for The Guardian.
Can’t have the unwashed masses reading the Bible without a priest to guide them.
Osama bin Laden’s argument why American citizens are responsible for the actions of the US Government has now been used by those who argue that Gaza residents are responsible for whatever Hamas does. Because Gazans had a single opportunity to vote 17 years ago.
The whole crowd of “Gazans deserve what they get because they voted for Hamas” people basically are in full agreement with Osama Bin Laden
Thus the text’s removal.
No. He hated us for our freedom
Well then, he shouldn’t hate us anymore
Well played
That came out like 20 years ago. if you haven’t figured out what osama was mad about by now, you probably aren’t ever going to.
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of rape, decades-long abuse by ex Cassie in disturbing lawsuit
According to court docs obtained by Page Six, the “Me & U” singer — born Casandra Ventura — claimed that after she met the Revolt CEO in 2005 when she was only 19, he allegedly began a pattern of abuse and control that included allegedly forcing her to have sex with male prostitutes while he filmed, physically abusing her and supplying her with drugs….
“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” the lawyer said. “For the past six months, Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail…
However, Cassie’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, told the New York Times that his client and Diddy spoke before she filed the lawsuit and the “Last Night” musician allegedly offered her money to remain silent.
“Mr. Combs offered Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and prevent the filing of this lawsuit,” Wigdor said. “She rejected his efforts.””
https://pagesix.com/2023/11/16/entertainment/cassie-accuses-ex-diddy-of-rape-in-new-lawsuit/
I heard a rumor too that all he did for his songs was re-mix platinum hits and put stupid hip hop lyrics over some of the parts.
He also helpfully mumbled “uh huh” and “come on” throughout the songs.
The Godzilla theme song was objectively one of the worst rap songs ever done by anyone ever. How he managed to get Jimmy Page to participate in that i$ beyond me.
The same way that Michael Caine is in Jaws 3D.
I respect an actor who will literally appear in anything.
Hit the wall, wants to get paid.
Eight figures? Sure, it proves nothing, but that’s a lot of water to pour on a fire that you deny is lit.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/cruise-suspends-employee-share-program-citing-need-to-revalue-the-business-b90e7a3f?st=k58ve6fnhalka40&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Who would think the market for an unlisted security could dry up?
Water evaporates faster in light than with heat alone.
No, it doesnt. Upon coming into contact with the water light energy is converted into heat energy. Naturally, given the molecular structure of water, different wavelengths of light will convert more easily than others.
Infragreen sounds like a lawn care company.
As promised during the midday post, here’s the view from 4(20)’s deer stand. Now wouldn’t you love to spend many happy hours enjoying that vista?
I have been spending time there lately but seems to be for naught. Looks different without the leaves
Sweet setup, 4X.
It looks pretty closed in for shooting with all the leaves on. I could see some pretty tricky shooting with the leaves off, too.
For some reason, I can sit in a stand for hours. If I have a gun. Without one, I would start to get twitchy. I guess because I wasn’t hunting unless I had a gun. I was just sightseeing.
Good luck! Pater Dean caught the biggest trout he ever caught on our last trip. Hope you have the same luck.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hDun1yn
Credit Hamas with one thing, they seem to have helped end the U.S. involvement in Ukraine.
Back from a little jaunt to Home Depot. Prices might have come down a little, but holy shit lumber is expensive.
*looks put at deck* Yep
The channel is socked in with fog, there will be no launch tomorrow
Saturday morning it is.
I guess something is gonna stop them now.
lol
They were also de-stacking earlier to fix a whozeewhatsit (fin actuator IIRC)
Yepper.
A quick number crunch reveals if an Intel 13900K chip can do 4 GHz with 300 W, a regular household outlet with 1500 W should be able to boost it to 20 GHz with proper cooling. I could buy such a set-up for $500 plus some peripherals. I think I found my new computer project. Bing says temperature increases linearly with clock speed, so that’s good.
P = C*F*V^2
1500 = C*F*110^2
300 = C*4 GHz*110^2
5 = F/4
F = 20 GHz
I’m pretty sure if I got a chip to run a 20 GHz in mineral oil, that would get my name in the papers.
I’d play lotto and get better odds.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/intels-core-i9-13900k-processor-gets-overclocked-to-9ghz
Power draw is 125 W for that 9 GHz. Not sure I believe the temperature readings given that liquid nitrogen evaporates at -195 degrees C or so.
https://youtu.be/CzAZxx_aLdo?si=o4xd55u6pBgCwMSD&t=189
Anyway, liquid nitrogen is dangerous, expensive, and not a very good heat transfer medium.
Well, if it scales, I could get 90 GHz from the same chip for 1250 W.
[Homer Simpson woohoo!]
Liquid nitrogen blows up good when confined in a soda bottle. Makes pretty frost dandelions in the air.
music for overclocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnAQQEHtoW0
Food Lion chicken thighs are only 3 to a pack 😠
Shrinkflation.
Also the chicken breast is an only an A cup. .
Just bought cranberry sauce for post-Tday Tday dinner. Cans are smaller this year.
Oh, how I laughed: Grandpa Simpson’s Soylent euthanasia request
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWh1neO2_4U
“Glenn Miller and cops beating up hippies!”
Zombies Simpsons still hits a homerun once in a while.