Still not sure what is going on – so you get stuck with my Links. Emergency Links. A fair step down from SugarFree’s, but the cupboard, she is bare.
Here we go…tabloid style!
- Oh, I hope mexican sharpshooter wasn’t going to use this one!
- Uh, sure.
- You, sir, are terrible at your job.
Glibtrek III, the Search for SugarFree begins.
Yay!
Just to clarify, I mean good we’re back, but not good no one knows what happened.
Somebody forgot the Boxing Day gifts for the squirrels?
I’m going to be disappointed if the answer isn’t SF is on a coke bender.
I read that earlier. Not sure how having guns is trafficking. Sounds like her bf is drug dealer though.
“The suspect fled in the victimās vehicle before he crashed into a tree a short distance away, Durham Regional Police said in a news release.
The alleged carjacker attempted to steal the vehicle of another driver who stopped to offer assistance after witnessing the collision but was unsuccessful.
He fled the scene on foot but was arrested and detained nearby after a third carjacking attempt failed.”
Pathetic.
Yoot carjacker shot to death in Philly yesterday. Now he will never get to turn his life around by going to college
To say nothing of his aspirations to be a rapper.
Any mention of fathered children? Always another mentioned achievement.
No carjacking attempts in Feyenoord?
“Electra Schrock – nĆ©e Poag – is officially charged with ‘felony assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.’ An initial charge of ‘assault with a deadly weapon with force’ was dropped.”
So her first name was Electra, and she just happened to marry someone named Schrock?
Sounds like she needs therapy.
She looks nice.
I bet she smokes Lucky Strikes.
The contrast between her portrait photo and the ābehind barsā photo is remarkable. I donāt know that I would have said they were the same person.
“Mangled cars spotted at scene of Dixie Chicks founder Laura Lynch’s fatal head-on collision in Texas”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12904707/Laura-Lynch-wreck-aftermath-dixie-chicks-Texas.html
It’ll buff right out.
Head On Or Head On!
Sorry about going off-topic so soon, but I have a question.
I bought a multimeter and decided to test it out. I started by setting it to the Ī© symbol, which I assumed was measuring resistance and touching the probes to various metal objects. I was getting readings of 1.2Ī©. I then took off one of the plastic sleeves and tested a third object. In the awkwardness, I had to prop the back of one probe to my torso (I’m sitting at my computer, so I was also holding the object) and that time I go 0Ī©. I retested the first two objects and they were reading 0Ī© as well. Since they were all steel and/or aluminum, I expect the 0Ī© reading, but why was I getting 1.2Ī© at the start? More importantly, will that error come back?
1.2 ohms is very little resistance. I don’t know what plastic sleeves you mean. What does it read when you touch the probes together? Assuming it’s digital because you can read 1.2 ohms, touching them together will zero out the meter.
Sleeve is probably the wrong word. They’re caps that limit the exposed probe to a milimeter or two.
Touching the probes directly to each other results in the numbers constantly changing with “Auto Range” under it.
In ohmmeter mode? Check the manual.
It didn’t come with one.
The internet manual doesn’t say what that means.
There isn’t an auto/manual range select button?
Do you have a link?
Try measuring DC volts, such as a battery, what happens?
https://www.fluke.com/en-in/product/electrical-testing/digital-multimeters/fluke-101#resources-tab
I found that I only got the 0000 value when I had unintentionally switched to a different mode by pressing the yellow button.
A random 9V from my battery drawer gave 8.88 V DC I figure that’s within the margin of error for manufacture on the battery,
Probably an old battery. They’ll read over 9V with no load.
Looks like the range is always auto. Try putting it in ohms mode (makes sure it’s not in diode or continuity (although continuity showed resistance on every digital multimeter I’ve used)), press the probes together, and hit “hold”.
Putting the probes together gives a number ranging from 0.0 to 0.3 ohm, and hold works to freeze the number at the displayed value.
As for the battery, it might have come out of a fire alarm in some previous year. It wasn’t in any packaging, so I wouldn’t say it’s impossible that it’s almost used up.
“Putting the probes together gives a number ranging from 0.0 to 0.3 ohm, and hold works to freeze the number at the displayed value.”
That sounds like it works. Due to reactance, you aren’t going to be able to measure sub-ohm values with a regular multimeter.
in the old days when you had a DāArsonval coil, you’d short the leads together and turn a screw to zero out the ohms before you tested a circuit
I never checked before, but I wonder if I should have put the meter at some quasi-upright angle for zero and subsequent readings; I never needed accuracy*
* on a magnehelic gauge, you can watch the zero move several points just by changing the orientation at which the gauge is held; it should be held/mounted vertical
I’m not sure what mechanism this thing operates on, but there’s no manual calibration options.
oh, yours is PCB
I was just strolled in Memory Lane
Analog meters usually have a screw or thumbwheel. Digital meters don’t.
Quality meter or Harbor Freight?
Chinese made Fluke.
Real Fluke? Or clone?
Fluke site has pdfs of the manuals.
My guess is itās the leads. Use just one and test to the port in the meter with it. repeat with the other lead.
It was sold under the brand name, it claims to be a fluke. It looks like the device on their website.
Putting the leads into the port for the other lead gets a resistance of 0.1Ī©
Was the meter zeroed before you started? 1.2 ohms ain’t enough to worry about.
This was the first thing I did out of the box. There were no instructions, so I thought of a simple test I could run.
I was expecting you to get an electric shock.
As if disassociating yourself from the D-word was ever going to be enough. Why didn’t they just get it over with and toss themselves off a bridge?
Or the A word. Lady Antelbellum was a stupid name to begin with.
“A new MGM film forcing white liberals to confront their own hypocrisy in Hollywood and beyond is receiving critical acclaim from the same people it skewers.
Cord Jefferson’s ‘American Fiction’ is a commentary on the way the establishment tends to favor reductive portraits of blackness in the name of diversity and inclusion, often at the expense of quality.
The movie tells the story of a black professor, Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison played by Jeffrey Wright, who is fed up with his snowflake students and struggling to get any critical interest in his work, so jokingly pens a novel littered with racial stereotypes only for it to become an overnight success.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12904351/American-Fiction-plot-black-novel-woke-reviews.html
The trailer for that looks hilarious.
Nation’s White Liberals Wish Each Other Happy Kwanzaa
This is barely satire:
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-most-wanted-criminals-in-california
What? No love for this?
https://babylonbee.com/news/canada-requires-all-mens-rooms-to-have-tampons-in-case-of-justin-trudeau-visit
Funny, but too easy.
Oh, I hope mexican sharpshooter wasnāt going to use this one!
Dammit, I was going to link that.
Oh well.
Swiss, thanks for the emergency links. I enjoyed the music link in particular.
Seconded.
I couldn’t get any music, finally remembered the head phones were plugged in.
It ain’t Fat Domino
The alleged carjacker attempted to steal the vehicle of another driver who stopped to offer assistance after witnessing the collision but was unsuccessful.
I guess no editor looked at that sentence.
I’m wondering why the carjacking attempt was unsuccessful. Did someone try to defend himself in Canada? And wasn’t charged? Wow.
Couldnāt drive a stick shift? Itās practically an anti theft device these days.
“At least 26 anti-Israel protesters arrested for blocking traffic to JFK as agitators stage similar rally outside LAX”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/27/news/anti-israel-protesters-arrested-for-blocking-traffic-to-jfk/
Winning hearts and minds.
I can only assume they were arrested because this happened on Long Island, not in NYC.
JFK is in NYC.
Ackshually, you are both right,
Geographically: Long Island
Jurisdiction: NYC
Out on the street in time to do it all over again tomorrow.
Regarding the womanish person who attacked Charlie Sheen:
Buddhism: Youāre doing it wrong.
This isn’t Christian either
https://nypost.com/2023/12/26/news/florida-siblings-literally-kill-each-other-over-christmas-gift-exchange/
Old Testament, maybe.
Grinch crash
A driver in a Grinch costume crashed his car into The Word Barn Christmas night, smashing its sign, mailbox, lights and honey stand.
Exeter police and fire responded to the accident at 66 Newfields Road at 5:50 p.m. on Dec. 25 and discovered a silver Honda CRV on the front lawn. The driverās door was open, and the operator was in a full Grinch costume with his feet out of the vehicle on the ground, police said.
The driver, identified as a 31-year-old Exeter man, was uninjured, and police said the crash remains under investigation.
They need to measure his heart.
Exeter is probably about the same size as Whoville.
Well, fine. I’ll put it here, too.
Back from the grocery store. There was some sort of police activity in progress at the FBI complex. No shots fired of which I was aware. Fortunately, the area was not completely cordoned off.
Speaking of shrinkflation- I bought a package of Keebler Vienna Fingers cookies recently. Iād say there were 3/4 as many cookies in the package as the last time I bought them.
Damn elves.
South Korea trying to ban shrinkflation
That explains the warning label on the grundies my wife bought me in Daegu?
So swatting. Looking like a coordinator effort as a slew of local Ohio officials were swatted too.
Iām wondering why the carjacking attempt was unsuccessful.
“GET OUT OF THE CAR.”
“No.”
*drives away*
“Sorey.”
Heinous
A video by transgender actress Tommy Dorfman, in which she accuses Delta Air Lines Employees of “intentionally” misgendering her, quickly went viral and sparked a fiery debate on social media.
Dorfman, who played Ryan Shaver in the Netflix drama series 13 Reasons Why, came out as a transgender woman in 2021. The 31-year-old actress shared a roughly 30-second clip to her TikTok over the weekend, showing part of the altercation. In the video, Dorfman said while at LaGuardia Airport in New York City several Delta employees, including one she identified as “Tristan,” intentionally misgendered her “multiple” times.
“When you try to advocate for yourself at @delta and are met woth [SIC] even more transpbobia [SIC] and threats of being arrested at LaGuardia [SIC],” Dorfman said in the post, which included the video of part of the incident. “Tristan, the employee, said he was fine with me posting this. didn’t realize it was condescending to flag a human rights violation after another employee misgendered me incessantly.
Grow up, sonny.
It’s a human right to impose your mental instability on everyone you encounter in life.
Alright, so Iām assuming Dorfman is a man, on account of the ācame out as a transgender women in 2021).
ā When you try to advocate for yourselfā
Ah, so Dorfman was being a raging asshole. Iāve wished more than once that airline employees would have security remove raging assholes.
Both sides were being assholes.
Interview with the owners of The Crack’d Egg, a business in Pittsburgh, PA that defied Wolf’s Lil Rona Panic orders.
The Anti-Defamation League states that because names and pronouns are two ways people refer to themselves and others, both are “personal and important.”
“They are also key facets of our identity,” the anti-hate organization said on its website. “Therefore, calling someone by the wrong name or ‘misgendering’ them by using incorrect pronouns can feel disrespectful, harmful and potentially unsafe.
By all means, let’s get the ADL involved. That’s always productive.
They are a shit organization.
-T-Mobile introduce fines from Jan 1 for “Code of Conduct” violations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761131
Including for SHAFT:
SHAFT is a handy acronym to help you remember types of content which is either forbidden or subject to special rules.
S: Sexually inappropriate content
H: Hate speech or profanity
A: Alcohol
F: Firearms, and depictions or endorsements of violence
T: Tobacco (including vaping), or endorsement of illegal or illicit drugs, including marijuana and cannabis
Apparently this is for mass mailers (for now) but they have to be technically capable and willing to read texting traffic in order to enforce this. Sayanora T-Mobile.
But we’re talkin’ ’bout Shaft!
If it is for mass mailers it could be triggered after a complaint and investigation, not by reading the texts. I canāt imagine how reading the texts to find offenses could ever be profitable or a good business practice.
Your agreement with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, sir. Do read the fine print. Somebody needs to; we certainly donāt.
Thatās a crap acronym. The H gives you no clue for āprofanityā. The F gives you no clue for ādepictions or endorsement of violence. The T gives you nothing for illegal or illicit drugs.
A crap acronym from a crap company. When I go looking for a cell provider, T-Mobile is definitely off the list.
Husband’s oxygen levels are shit. They took a chest x-ray (not read yet) and are admitting him. He’s got really bad sleep apnea, and I think he’s just used to functioning on that level. Good luck getting them any higher.
Yikes. CPAP?
He should have it but he refuses to sleep in one. He doesn’t mind that they had him on it while he was awake. (Narrator: he dozed)
*Sigh*
Been using one for about 17 years now. Falling asleep at the wheel on the commute home was the “wake-up” call. I do not need that shit.
I wish he would, but he’s stubborn.
Tell him The Shat uses one, so it’s officially cool! š
No offense, but heās an idiot. Sleep apnea = brain damage. āI don wannaā is a poor reason for inflicting brain damage on yourself, every night.
Clicked too soon.
I hope itās nothing serious, and heās out and about in no time. I was barely restricted for a couple days after my eye procedure. Iāve never had surgery more serious than wisdom tooth removal (that I recall; I had open heart surgery when I was 18 months), so I canāt imagine how much worse it is than my little thing.
Sorry. Best wishes.
Ruh roh! Extra good that he got in for his surgery when he did! š³
I’ll say a prayer.
Does anybody know a website or app where I can combine a photo of my niece and her boyfriend with American Gothic? They sent me such a posed photo standing in front of the Christmas tree with somber faces, I just want to do it.
It was clearly something they were deliberately doing, as all the other photos are happy and natural.
I wonder if they were inspired by this ad.
One of the AI programs probably could?
Speaking of disturbing AI, has anyone posted this yet?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQY63RPB?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_ZYJ39JBGHJNDD1RRHDAF&peakEvent=4&dealEvent=1&language=en_US
āPerverted Beauty and Strange AIā
NSFW.
In 10 years we’ve all become bi-racial.
Local proggie site has long article on how brave and daring Cheerios was for having the first bi-racial couple ever to sell stuff on TV.
I’d want to see the data before I buy the 1/5 newlyweds are interracial. My guess is that a lot of those interracial marriages involve “Cherokee” white people.
I would also have guessed that the deluge of interracial couples in ads is much older than 10 years. I was giving a friend crap recently about the fact that his marriage is an outlier because they were both white. Based on TV, I told him, everyone was like me and in an interracial marriage.
I find that claim suspect.
Unless interracial couples have a much higher divorce and remarriage rate, thus becoming a higher percentage of newlyweds than of the population at large.
Looked it up. 20% is correct. Almost half, though, are white /Hispanic marriages. Last I checked, Latinos are basically this close to becoming the latest group to be considered white.
Among my in-laws, 100% of the marriages were interracial.
Hispanic is not a race.
70% of them are white.
Do the Irish count?
Only to 10!
I will not stand for such slander!
It’s at least 21.
Fingers, toes and… Ahem.
26 + 6 = 1?
Buffer overflows are a thing.
Eh, I could believe one in five.
Most Asian women for quite a while have dated and married whites. But about 75% of couples in ads are interracial these days so still way outside of reality.
And it’s mostly white/black, not white/East Asian.
I was wondering if East Asians count as “white” for the purposes of that phony statistic.
Mostly white / Hispanic, actually.
“venomous outrage”
Sure, Jan.
2013 was just like 1955.
I can’t imagine giving a fuck one way or the other.
I, I, donāt know how to say this, but . . . I agree with The Hype.
I’ve been giving a fuck in interracial marriage for about 5 years now. š
Prayers for your early parole.
It happens to everyone, I have a book where I keep all the “The Hyperbole is right” posts.
I doubt same local proggie would be quick to identify The Shat/Roddenberry/Nichelle as “brave and daring” for the 1st interracial kiss on TV.
It’s my day off and I need to let off some steam, so come one come all to the Wednesday night zoom! See the spectacle and the terror!
Folks usually wander in around 7pm Central
drinkin go away
We canāt have that.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4377537-the-armys-first-ever-lead-special-trial-counsel-is-being-fired-for-behaving-ethically/
That’s fucked.
Maybe itās the warm welcoming climate for businesses in the state?
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2023/12/26/new-jerseys-rising-unemployment-makes-economic-future-uncertain/
New Jersey: Come for the strict business licensing policies, stay because youāve been shut down by the latest pandemic and you canāt afford to leave.
“We legislators are here working hard for you. We are raising the minimum wage to $15.13 in 2024. Just think how much more money people are going to have to spend on your products!”
Vivek should advertise on Tubi and Pluto.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/vivek-ramaswamys-campaign-halts-idiotic-tv-ad-spending-ahead-iowa-caucuses-new-hampshire
Well, the campaign consultants handle the advertising, and get a commission, in effect, on advertising spend. If you ever wondered why political campaigns have such absurd levels of advertising, thatās a big reason why.
Vague recollection, from that period in my past (weāll say, 20 years ago) when I was a part-time lobbyist and spending too much time with political people.
The campaign consulting firms are also ad agencies. Ad agencies get a commission on ads placed. 20%, if memory serves.
Look how successful the Libertarian Party has been without running ads!
Zero ads and zero successā¦itās paid off.
Oh, Newsweek…
Why So Many Young Men Are Abandoning College Degrees
Maybe because Mike Rowe had a much deeper impact and people that are good with their hands are realizing that theres no shame in a trade? Or they’re beginning to dummy-up to the college loan scam ?
Or that’s where the money is and chicks want a man with money not a poor boy.
A good friend of mine is a welder. While he did go to “school” (Hobart Technologies in Troy), he put in about 5 years before he was making 6 figures.
And that was 15-20 years ago. A man of considerable means now, he never fit into the mold of the “”anyone for tennis?”, cocktail-quaffing, pseudo-pedant””.
-props to IJ Reilly
Letās see, 20 years ago I was in my first six figure job. With a Harvard Law degree.
The math on higher ed has been . . . misrepresented for a generation now.