Hopefully, Tuesday night.
Reminder: We are going to try the site update on Tuesday evening. We will keep everyone up to date, as best we can.
Also reminder: We live on a dumb planet. Want to see proof?
- “French farming unions” – smdh. A handful of legit beefs (sorry about that) mixed in with the usual hatred of competition.
- I don’t think I want to get on a Boeing plane that was built in the last few years.
- *squints suspiciously*
- Switzerland hit. Next up, hooker and blackjack avalanche.
Music is up to you today, comment section is all yours.
Hot Fudge Serverdae comes on a Tuesdae. Let’s hope it is a little less disruptive….
Ok, everyone — *MASS NARROWED GAZE RIGHT BACK ATCHA!*
He said music is up to us.
Hot Fudge
Swiss is a man for all seasons after all….
Gorram stupid craptastic inability to link! Sigh.
You just want to avoid the CA link tax.
Jeez, don’t have a cow.
He deserves the cat butt. Steak your whole reputation on puns and this is what you get. Cheesy.
Calm down, displaying this level of self-awareness rarely done.
Well done.
I appreciate your searing insight.
As I understand it, bacon-magic has had plenty of time to come up with such humor. He went to visit OMWC and WebDom but got into a little trouble with the law when he went to a bar, not knowing that it was both for exotic dancing — and it was amateur night.
Things got a little out of hand, and he got involved in one heck of a brawl.
OMWC reported back that because things got so heated at the club — bacon-magic was now a New York strip.
That cow didn’t like my tip: if your udders hit the floor before your hooves you may need to be put out to pasture.
“The milk has gone sour!” – Rick James
Music, probably applies tomorrow night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by1A-eUjXq4
I was expecting this…
Not this?
I keed, I keed.
Is there just a mindering the first time? Never heard of a minder, just a reminder.
Pipe down there, Nightwing.
A minder is the North Korean chaperone one has if one ever can get to North Korea.
That’s a big nope. Micheal Malice is braver than I am.
I feel the same way about iteration.
It’s okay that any single cycle is an iteration, and there must always be a first of everything, but it seems weird to call the first article an iteration….it actually feels better to call a third or fourth as iterations and only the second as a reiteration.
As I was saying, I feel the same way about reiteration: it’s okay that………….
Makes me glad I’ve avoided flying since before the ‘Vid and moreso after.
Did anyone link thislittle gem as well?
But yeah — it really sounds like they let their quality control go downhill. If they were software, I’d say they were following the “Agile / Shift Left” trend of making your developers solely responsible for testing and getting rid of the “cost” of quality / test engineers. I can’t imagine a physical goods company doing that — but it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s some industry parallel (of Doom!) pushed to “cut costs and be more dynamic!”
Chrysler/Dodge.
“”The central point of these recommendations is that clinicians should order radiographs in moderation, to minimize both patients’ and dental professionals’ exposure to ionizing radiation,” Kumar added in an ADA news release. ”
Where is the money in that?
That they’re increasingly pushing depopulation schemes can’t help but cross my mind.
That’s how messed up the world is.
All I can think of on that topic.
I have a venture in Colombia that would be perfect for the vacationing European: Hippo Hunting while High on Colombian Hoover Dust™ (includes hookers and gun rental).
I haven’t seen a lead apron in use in forever. I can’t ever remember one in a dentist’s office. Not in a hospital setting either.
I had one last week.
They used them the last time I had x-rays. You are doing it wrong if the vest is blocking access to teeth.
^^ this
Maybe they use them more with female patients? They still ask if I could be pregnant too.
Oddly comfy for a short while.
“…protesting against rising costs, over-regulation and free-trade agreements.”
That middle one seems legit. If the article is correct, it ties with the last point. If French farmers are prohibited from using GMO crops and animal steroids, allowing the import of those products puts them at a disadvantage.
Yeah, that would be my take as well. In addition, if they’re being pushed to adopt “sustainable” farming which seems a somewhat nebulous process, then it would to the problem with competition.
Serious question: how does an unrestricted free-trader respond to this? I know that the argument is that most people would be better off. Does that mean one accepts that some farmers would need to find alternative income?
Let them use GMO and animal riods? As long as you label it (I try to avoid that stuff).
Farming, along with manufacturing factors into national security.
Drake is correct. The playing field must be leveled, preferably in the direction of removing restrictions. If Chinese farmers are allowed to skip restrictions with imported food, allow French farmers to make food without the restrictions as well. Otherwise it’s not free trade, it’s one-sided trade.
The one problem you cannot overcome with free trade is when slavery is used to produce goods. In that case, a moral stand must be made to not allow such goods in your country. We don’t do that very well either (see Nike footwear).
It starts to get hard to imagine what a level playing field might be like, with all the distortions done to the markets.
I think it would partly work itself out into regional goods. Look at French wines, for example. And British cheeses. Areas would become famous for certain things and hence desirable. Right now everyone tries to produce the same things. Endless fields of soybeans and such.
If this is too much rambling feel free to ignore me. I am on work break and doing a mind dump.
Now do California ballot resolutions on eggs and pork, please.
Re; Nike footwear, is that really true? Or is it more that compared to western wages, it seems like slavery?
I know in some so-called sweatshops, workers were asked if they wanted better conditions or more take home pay, and the workers unanimously wanted more money.
I don’t know if that’s the case with Nike.
Found this on where Nike’s are made. No idea if it’s been vetted.
https://whattheshoes.com/where-nike-shoes-made/
I haven’t owned Nike sneakers since the 1980s.
Pandora served up this previously unknown to me music for me a few minutes ago.
Speaking of music and knowing the love for T-Swizzle round these here parts… have to say I was really surprised to hear Midnights got Album of the Year.
It is okay — but really only one decent song on it. The rest I have to say is eminently forgettable (the fact that I’m struggling to remember another song off of it besides “Anti-Hero” means I mean that literally….)
I didn’t go looking — but either that’s attempting to suck up to her fame on the Grammy’s part… or man, there must have been some craptastic albums nominated against her.
Speaking of Pandora, I am convinced this article was written about me:
https://www.theonion.com/desperate-pandora-employees-scrambling-to-find-song-are-1819571692
I hate Pandora’s algorithm.
It’s streaky for me. Sometimes it plays a dozen great songs in a row. And sometimes I run out of skips in 15 seconds. Maybe it’s just me.
“Lead aprons no longer necessary for dental X-rays”
Most men have a zero sperm count already so why bother.
“As cocaine floods Switzerland, snorting and dealing become popular sport”
I went to a 70’s themed murder mystery this weekend. At the murder scene they put out a mirror with white powder. Excellent attention to detail.
So — murder at the White House?
A handful of legit beefs (sorry about that) mixed in with the usual hatred of competition.
And the usual welfare queenery.
Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year.
Look, just like with the spider bites — I’m afraid you’re just not going to get those powers you wanted….
And exposure to high doses of gamma radiation isn’t going to make you into a big green rage monster, it is going to give you cancer, lots and lots of cancer.
They used a cool little toothbrush looking camera to map the inside of my mouth last time. No X ray needed.
how does an unrestricted free-trader respond to this?
Stop imposing extraneous additional costs and intentional inefficiencies.
Thank you sir! Latest draft post is backed up to LibreOffice.
Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year.
“You don’t want to look in there.”
*sigh*
I got the underlying code for the output working, I haven’t gotten the interrupt for the button press working.
I should probably verify that the buttons themselves actually work. Check.
So it’s the code.
Good luck. I still have to solve a problem with Ubuntu not allowing me to dim screen on a recently repurposed laptop. It’s like sifting through a pile of twisted threads to find the answer.
I still haven’t gotten it back to the most compact working version. I should have saved a backup copy before starting to add interrupts.
OT- I seem to recall you were running your 3D printer on a Pi.
If it’s the new Pi 5 – I just got one to mess around with and run PiHole. The current Raspberry Pi OS only clocks the thing to 2GHz out of the box. It’s default clock is supposed to be 2.4GHz without cooling. It’s supposed to automatically throttle at 80C.
I have no idea why the OS defaults that way, but you can change the config if you want to run at rated speed. I have a passive cooler case on mine and it’s been rock stable at 2.6GHz.
The Print Controller is a Pi 4.
I do have a 5 that I’ve been using with my electronics projects. Do you have info on where the config to uncap the CPU is at?
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/overclocking-and-underclocking-raspberry-pi-5
When you open this file in this location the latest os will tell you where it moved in this file.
Wouldn’t the razor scratch up the phone?
“polytoxicomaniac”
There is a new word for Tonio.
There’s a song about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1bAzqmyp0
I looked up music about server squirrels. I got this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5jDwZe9Zcg
“Non-binary activist Akiea Gross who founded controversial for-profit ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program that calls to abolish police and Israel now posts online rant saying ‘US has no right to exist'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13047455/Akiea-Gross-woke-kindergarten-non-binary-right-exist.html
CWAC
Technically, no country has a right to exist.
“Gross” indeed.
LOL the grift never ends once you get the game rolling.
“….Akiea Gross, who goes by Ki and uses they/them pronouns, posted the shocking video….”
Crazy person says crazy things. That is shocking.
Worth pointing out that if any settler colony has no right to exist then…who is left? Every culture and country today fits that definition.
Something different for music:
The Captain, who does the music for the podcast “True Crime Garage”.
The LISK theme: https://youtu.be/UjkDcmA5bGU?si=JJGd91AMADlwDRXc
The Texas Monster theme: https://youtu.be/ziva9fl5Wuc?si=E2PzUBUUT0WwL1fu
Big Bad Wolf watch
When Jill Habig had an office down the hall from Kamala Harris in California, Barack Obama was US president, abortion was a constitutional right and January 6 was just another date on the calendar. A lot has happened since then.
On Thursday Habig, now president of the non-profit Public Rights Project (PRP), hopes her arguments will persuade the supreme court that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist who should be disqualified from the 2024 presidential election.
Habig has filed an amicus brief on behalf of historians contending that section 3 of the 14th amendment to the constitution, which bars people who “engaged in insurrection” from holding public office, applies to Trump’s role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
The brief gives the supreme court’s originalists, who believe the constitution should be interpreted as it would have been in the era it was written, a taste of their own medicine. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are self-declared originalists while Samuel Alito has described himself as a “practical originalist”.
That makes perfect sense, as long as you use the Humpty Dumpty Dictionary definition of insurrection.
“abortion was a constitutional right”
No, it wasn’t.
I caught that too. Did a spit take.
Yup.
“Agreeing to look the other way” doesn’t cut it in my book.
Well, Alice in Wonderland was written around the time of the 14th Amendment so they would understand “verdict first”.
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t staged a criminal trial in DC (given the juries and courts there) just to add to this argument. Because otherwise, it would be / should be really easy for the Court to say “You don’t get to just decide that base on your feelings, idiots. Due process and all.” — dodges any larger question, which seems very Penaltax likely.
She is trying to get some people on the Right riled up enough to do something stupid.
Well, Mitch and that OK Senator already met that quota for the week.
“on behalf of historians”
HISTORIANS IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS
January 29, 2024
JONATHAN B. MILLER: BA (no major listed in profile), Dartmouth
JOSHUA A. ROSENTHAL: BA (no major listed in profile), Brandeis
MICHAEL ADAME: BA (no major listed in profile), Columbia
EUSHRAH HOSSAIN: BA (Cognitive Science, minor in philosophy), Occidental
Habig BA (no major listed), Georgetown
I eagerly await the outcry from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and other groups explaining that a BA doesn’t qualify one as a “real” historian.
I would think the brief might get tossed if there are no credible people behind it.
My copy of constitution seems to indicate insurrectionists can hold office if 2/3 of Congress agree. Congress has final word on it, not some yahoos in Colorado or Maine or even the Supreme Court.
Living. Document.
Congress would do that, if the damn Republicans would get out of the way. Since they won’t, we in other capacities must act.
Then there’s that pesky Section 5 that gives Congress the authority to determine what constitutes insurrection. Which they did by passing a federal insurrection law, which nobody has been charged with.
The more interesting angle for Trump is the notion that the POTUS is not an officer of the government, and therefore the 14th doesn’t apply.
If the media and the opposition party leadership call it insurrection, insurrection it shall be! What do you need, a law or something. The partisan pronouncement is GOD’s word.
—“The more interesting angle for Trump is the notion that the POTUS is not an officer of the government, and therefore the 14th doesn’t apply.”—
The 14th amendment specifically states “…having previously taken an oath…to support the Constitution of the United States…”
The Presidential Oath “…will to best of my Ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution…”
Legal cases are very often decided by splitting hairs. Trump, as President, took no Oath to support the Constitution.
Since a trial would expose that the Jan6 nonsense was kabuki theater cooked up by Pelosi and who know else and was coordinated by the FBI they cant charge him.
“Gen Z and Alpha Are Being Brainwashed By Woke Cartoons”
https://youtu.be/eFbjXjld1J8
Cartoon animals with top surgery scars? Blues Clues collaborating with RuPaul’s Drag Race? This shit is getting way out of hand.
My kid and most kids I know watch old Bugs Bunny on MeTV. Very little modern TV is watched at all.
He started all this shit, remember when he dressed in drag and seduced Elmer in What’s Opera Doc?He was a Jimmy Saville level perv, never wore clothes either.
“Neither did I. I was just checking.”
I remember the first few seasons of Drag Race – it was kitschy fun. And as the years went on I tired of it, but it seemed like Ru had the business sense to stay out of politics.
The commercials for the latest season which just started make it very clear that the show is now all about politics.
I wonder if he did that on his own, or the pressure to politicize it was so great?
Yeah, I was wondering that. Decided I didn’t care.
Someone believes that getting political now makes good business sense?
There were a few years there…
I like those lead aprons.
Looks like you can get one surplus now. Cheap!
Maybe I’ll just walk out with one on my next visit to the dentist. Does this apron make me look heavy?
Last time I went to the dentist, I had them leave the lead apron on me the whole time.
They are comforting, aren’t they?
Like a big high density hug.
I’ve thought about getting one of those weighted blankets. Something about that is comforting.
“Kristi Noem tears into South Dakota tribe for banning her from its reservation and claiming she only went to southern border to help Donald Trump win the White House”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13047439/Kristi-Noem-tears-South-Dakota-tribe-banning-reservation.html
CWATOA
That reservation is one of the most depressing places I’ve ever been. She should be grateful.
If I’m Noem, I’m on the phone to Abbott tomorrow.
“Hey, Greg? Kristi. Say… I need four or five buses full of Haitians and Senegalese, as soon as you can round ’em up. I got a place up here for you to send ’em.”
Let’s see how the Oglala like it when someone comes to their “oyate” uninvited (again) and they’re powerless to do anything about it.
What are they going to do… Sioux?
I think the Sioux showed us what they thought of open borders when they threw a party for the 7th Cavalry in 1876.
Aren’t the Sioux the ones claiming the moon?
They like the moon! 😃🌛
Navaho, wrong Quarter of the country.
Habig adds: “It was intended to apply not only to the civil war but also to future insurrections and it bars anyone who has betrayed an oath to uphold the constitution from becoming president of the United States.”
How did Joe Biden slip through the net?
Most presidents betray their oaths of office in the first day or so. Funny how the current occupant is totes OK despite daily violations of said oath.
Given how he mumbles, who knows what he actually said on Jan 20th, 2020.
gack 2021
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Ok, sure… why not. I wasn’t going to post them because I was too busy this morning to participate in links… but since you broached the topic…
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Hasn’t budged.
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Fiddling with the cover of my next book a little bit. The more I look at it, the more I hate it.
Well, I don’t hate it.
I knew it sucked!
I wasn’t being sarcastic or anything.
I rather like the cover.
Although, I agree a different font might be better.
What bothers you the most?
My first thought was put the crow on the other side so it isn’t looking off the cover. It was also balanced the snow on the left.
More dramatic as is, otherwise I would agree.
The story of a bird in a blizzard?
How about a lizard in a blizzard? It rhymes that way.
Easier to catch that way
A lizard in a blizzard eating gizzards.
A besieged castle called “Raven” with our heroes out in the cold and fighting for their lives against the winter while they quest from northern England to Italy.
Seems kind of like a Game of Thrones tie-in.
Examples of a Raven- Heraldry Symbol
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ravens_in_heraldry
I know it’s the castle and not the family.
Yes, just the castle is called Raven because of the plethora of them that have been pretty much trained to gather there, and also because they’ve been trained to harass enemies. It’s not Game of Thrones. I’ve never seen GoT. So if that’s what it looks like, then I really gotta do something here.
Ravens are the messenger doves of GoT.
But Ravens are Poe as well.
So, don’t worry about it.
The title is from a curse laid upon the heroine in book 1. “May you find yourself at the mercy of a babe in winter.” The babe in question is
EdwardHENRY VI, who was 9 months old when he ascended the throne, and he did it in December 1422.Illustration? Font? Layout?
Font, most likely. If I change the font, I’m going to have to change book 1, too, which I’m not averse to doing.
The W looks a little funky. At least I think it’s a W. But then one should not take artistic advice from me.
Maybe color the font?
I like the cover…maybe change it up by making the crown gold, should be a good contrast.
“Regardless of this particular case, the threat isn’t over. It’s actually intensifying. We’re just seeing an array of efforts to rig the rules of the game against our democracy and it’s part of why we’re investing a lot of resources into protecting election officials this cycle, and to litigating and advancing voting rights and free and fair elections this year.”
I particularly like and admire her pre-emptive claim of ownership. “It’s my democracy, and only I get to decide how it works.”
And the only way to know for certain if an election was fair is if your preferred candidate(s) won.
I read that as “we’ll fight any attempts to stop us from cheating.”
We’re seeing plenty of election rigging. Just not the way they’re implying.
The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.
Holes drilled where they shouldn’t be. I see. Let me guess, done by. a DEI hire. Mission accomplished. Incompetence was always the end sought by DEI.
Fuck them. You have a lead apron? Put it on me. Doesnt cost anything , doesnt hurt anything.
It’s a shame no one is putting fentanyl in the coke. They want us dead. Someone should return the favor.
We live on a dumb planet?
So you’re saying it’s speechless. I can empathize. I don’t know what to say about stuff all the time.
Say wut?
The bill would force the Department of Homeland Security to shutter the border if daily illegal crossings top 5,000 migrants on average or 8,500 in a single day. Unaccompanied minors from countries other than Mexico and Canada wouldn’t count toward that total.
The administration could only reopen the border if encounters of illegal crossings drop to 75 percent of the number that initially triggered the closure.
DHS would also have the power to shut down the border if crossings average more than 4,000 a day for a week, and Biden has signaled he would aggressively use that authority.
What does that even mean? Shutter the border. Where? How? Are they going to close the gate at Lukeville Arizona again, while the stream of “refugees” crosses the desert unimpeded?
So they’ll have a guy with a clicker counting people walking over and when he hit 5000 they just close the shutters. Sounds legit.
It means precisely nothing. And the stupids will go wipe sweat off their brow and happily go along because they hate their own voters.
Alright, between the excess lead aprons that’ll be floating around and the expired iodine pills I got hold of (iodine expires?) I just might manage to survive the nuclear holocaust that seems to be coming around the bend. All I need now is more ammo and a case of Everclear to use to barter with the other survivors and I’ll be all set.
The plan would set a goal of speeding up the review of asylum claims, striving to let no cases last more than six months — often by allowing asylum officers to close out a claim rather than going through immigration courts. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would get nearly $4 billion to help shoulder that new workload, including for hiring more than 4,300 asylum officers.
Sounds just like a WPA project.
The bill would also give DHS more flexibility in hiring Border Patrol agents and create yearly training requirements for non-lethal force, protecting due process and preserving civil and human rights.
Just don’t call it DEI.
Barbara Streisand to the courtesy phone…
Dearborn mayor blasts ‘inflammatory’ Wall Street Journal op-ed calling city ‘Jihad Capital’
Like that’s news…
And now we know their “faith leaders” can grandstand with the best of them.
It’s Monday, yet I’m feeling great. What gives?
I am also feeling awesome. Chipping away at personal projects that have been on my to-do lists for decades.
That’s a great feeling!
Was the RV serviced recently? That might explain it.
No comment
Mystery solved 😉
Are you sure it was the RV?
Went to the orthopedic doctor that urgent care referred me to. Idea was to check out why my knee is unstable and popped out recently, leading to a fall that sprained my foot.
He thinks knee is a kneecap issue that can be fixed by physical therapy, so that’s cool. But he also thinks the foot might be fractured despite the X-ray not showing an obvious fracture. The pain and swelling have not improved.
I’m supposed to come in for more X-rays after a couple of weeks to see if a fracture “has shown up.” Sounds weird to me, but he’s the doc! Is this s common practice? I’d have thought an MRI might make more sense.
Mrs. Time has made another amazing cookie. Pecan Praline
1 Large Egg White
1c Packed Brown Sugar
1tsp. Vanilla (mexican if available)
2c Pecans
-Beat egg whites to a stiff peak
-Mix in brown sugar
-Fold in pecans and vanilla
-Drop in heaped teaspoons
-Bake 23-28 min until puffy and cooked (test)
-Let cool and transfer to cooling rack
They are essentially an airy sugar that hold the pecans together.
I forgot to add:
Bake at 275F
Why can I not find a video online of Joni Mitchell’s performance at the Grammys that shows THE WHOLE THING?? 😒
How was it? She must be getting up there. I did see Willie Nelson play in his 80’s, and he was still great.
So far, the most complete video I’ve found was this, with not-great audio quality – looks/sounds as if someone just pointed their phone at the TV. But at least it seems to have the full song.
Bless her, she’s 80, but most significantly, she’s recovering from a brain aneurysm she suffered in 2015. Does OK for the shape she’s in.
Speaking of Willie, recently heard a great line – can’t remember if Willie himself actually said it, but the gist of it was that kids today need to think about what kind of world they’re going to leave behind for Willie Nelson and Keith Richards. 😄
Hello all,
I haven’t been posting anything lately. I’ve been getting my ass handed to me for the past few weeks, both at work and home. Busy and frustrating at work and busy but not frustrating at home.
Tonight, i’m on a call for work that I need to attend, but will contribute nothing but my approval. So i’m able to post some. I’ve been focused on my truck’s rust conversion, applying protectant/undercoating, and replacing the warn out components.
Damm, yet another concert I want to go to in June.
The Church and The Afghan Wigs.