I’m must be allergic to fireworks, I feel like I’m hungover today.
Links?
Let’s get this out of the way. This is an absolute tragedy.
Let the hand wringing commence.
No, they’re not “abandoning the contract with SpaceX”.
Yes, MAGA has it’s own hacktavists.
And they’re going into the trades and ditching smart phones. Interesting generation, for sure.
That’s enough for the day. My lounge chair at the cabin is calling. Peace out, Glibbies.
Musk is the devil!!!
Oh, is the same ole think we have been cancelling groundbreaking technology for…
Texas….fucking hell man. I couldn’t imagine. Prayers, thoughts and all that jazz for those still not found.
+1. Heart-wrenching.
The timing couldn’t have been worse. 4th of July weekend and in the dead of night. It’s been raining on and off since Wed and the ground is saturated now as well. We’re on high ground where we live, but having tubed the Guadalupe many times, that can be treacherous terrain. It’s hard to fathom how picnic benches are stuck 20 plus feet up in trees a week or so later.
Its cold, its crass…but nature lets us know we are not top dog on this planet from time to time.
The story drove my wife to tears (and she’s not wrong). Camp mystic was apparently on her list as a place to send our daughter someday. Apparently there are a lot of people in her friend group that know someone that is dealing with this tragedy 😢
Shot of Love is a solid album. My favorite track is probably Every Grain of Sand.
Heat? OMG. Storms? They never used to happen. Mosquitoes as we all know are a government drone delivery system of pestilence. How dare we don’t treat people who broke the law and provide them with better care than our most destitute and downtrodden!
If Disney can do it…
Touché
Regarding the comments in the smoking article, ex-smokers apparently are there to tell us how bad cigarettes are. Nobody likes a quitter.
You don’t even need to read the whole article. First sentence says it all.
Like always, from our ancestors to the 90s…rebellion drives youth to forbidden objects, rituals and trinkets.
They’ll be ditching marijuana to buy tobacco from ‘bac dealers.
I strongly approve. Kids today need *some* way of rebelling in the corner. That’s kinda the point of being a teen. Fuck my generation for raising really pathetic kids. The parents are so damn *afraid.* Of everything.
Bro is full aboard the Orwellian ‘certain syllables are wicked’ train. That, particularly, rankles me. Forbidding thought. Hrm! That’ll end well.
Smoking is cool. I hope leather jackets make a come back too.
^^ This dude’s avatar gets it.
I’m not a fan of the smell of smoke, but I would like a good bomber jacket or duster without looking odder than I do.
Is this a silly fad like Pokemon chasing, or a large cohort giving the middle finger to the no-fun nannies?
History says, middle finger. From flappers to punks to chain-smoking poets. Nothing new under the sun.
Smoking’s bad, mmm-kay.
/ex-smoker, who wants one bad
Perfect for this
As I smoke a vanilla cigarello, I can say fuck cigarettes
Now I want a smoke.
Damnit.
And I am too fat now for either of my biker jackets.
Damnit.
Like that has stopped people from doing this…
A business opportunity reveals itself!
Gosh-good it!
Meatloaf mocks you is his too small leather jacket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRl55U0eDw
Also can’t fit in a too-tight leather jacket.
I stopped eating breakfast about four months ago. Down a little more than twenty pounds.
I probably fit in my motorcycle jacket again.
I dunno about you guys, but I have a Padron Maduro sticking out of my face right now.
Huh. That’s a different kind of euphemism.
Flag floods scare the piss out of me.
I’ve been in the foothills of the Owyhee Mts when flash floods come through the washes.
It’s quite the sight. From a distance.
*Flash
I came up to the cabin today. I won’t be fishing in the milk chocolate river.
I get “flash flood” warnings basically every time it rains. Was there really no warning in this case? Just seems odd.
Take this for consideration
Okay, solid info, forecasters and warning systems were alerted to potential
Given we are getting warning about 90 degree weather…interesting that the NWS who always errs on the side of caution thought “Nah, just a storm”
Now, that paragraph occurred much earlier but needed to be punchy and hit…so ya, we needed it to be true.
The same “scientists” claim that hurricanes are increasing in number and intensity and that is just a flat-out lie.
I think people are catching on to the bullshit, albeit slowly.
Ryan Hall was warning about this on his Thursday forecast. Of course, you can’t know exactly where in advance.
My understanding is that the warnings did happen. Whether they were heeded is another thing. Frankly, I think the NWS needs to back the fuck off with the advisories weather statements and watches and warnings and emergencies. It’s all noise at this point, and nobody knows when they’re actually in danger.
Good point.
I sure don’t pay any heed to the noise.
Now do Amber Alerts
Flag floods scare the piss out of me.
Fag floods scare the shit out of me.
Suspension of disbelief. It has limits. The dem narrative has exceeded those limits quite a bit.
I see the new detention center is a ‘concentration camp’ somehow different from all of the other detention centers operated by Biden and Obama.
“Alligator Auschwitz” is what the commies are running with.
Edgy.*jerk off motion*
Poison that well…its our national past-time it seems.
Seriously? JFC they have no shame.
Nice. I am a little beat or I would join you.
I got some Drew Estates Factory Smokes Maduros. $3.99 a piece! They are quite good.
Well, today will mark my first week sober in a while. Several months, not sure. Though not really surprised, I’m rather pleased it wasn’t difficult. Never thought about anything. Again, I don’t believe in the ‘cravings’ theory. It’s habit. Happy my mantra took hold.
Family is in Virginia, and I’ll join them tomorrow. I get off work at 2 and’ll head straight to IND for a 17:16 to Charlotte, then Norfolk. Busch Gardens with the bro, SiL and 12 and 10yo on Monday. Then Virginia Beach for a few days, returning the 11th.
The biggest ‘play’ is time with the 12yo, the last semi-official year of childhood. I saw him curiously eyeing some Elvira art on an old pinball machine a while back. *Insert Sean’s avatar here* I get along with all of ’em, and I say and do subtle things to show ’em how different brothers can be.
On our way back, Dad wants to drive through Abingdon, VA, his boyhood home. It’s a fun, old-timey, upper-middle class rural hamlet, maybe 30min from Bristol, TN. Should be a fun trip. Mini-Me is far too delightful, and interestingly, is by far the most verbal of the three boys. He’s picked a couple of my phrases, which I wasn’t expecting nor planning, but damn do I encourage it. Teehee!
(‘Now, I can teach him to hate the things *I* hate!’)
*raises fits* Stay strong brother!
Ask if he remembers the “Virginia Creeper” train that ran up the mountain to West Jefferson NC. My Dad was persuaded to take teenaged me to ride that fabulous N&W steam train back in 1957.
Vabeeotchay by Keller Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyNdyAAYtNo
Train it right, lead it down a certain path and you get this out of ChatGPT
“Now streaming: The Salem Witch Trials: Interactive Edition
Brought to you by RageFlix. Choose your side. Burn accordingly.”
We took one of the darkest moments of hysteria in our history and put a UI on it:
Swipe left to label your neighbor a fascist
Swipe right to cancel a professor for citing data
Bonus points if you find a 10-year-old tweet and declare them unfit for society
And the best part?
You don’t even have to prove guilt anymore—just accuse with the right hashtags.
Choose Your Own Adventure:
Page 1:
You see someone express concern about government overreach.
If you’re Team Red, nod solemnly.
If you’re Team Blue, call them a domestic terrorist.
Page 14:
A whistleblower exposes wasteful spending.
If it hurts your side, call it Russian disinformation.
If it helps, call it heroic—until next week when it doesn’t.
Page 42:
A scientist raises a question.
Are they funded by the right group?
No? Burn ’em.
Heroic Mulatto is actively trying to drive ChapGPT insane. I would say he’s made some inroads.
I meant to ask you how ATC handles large fireworks displays for incoming/departing flights. I dont meant the backyard type of display, but the heavy-duty shit that municipalities pay big money for. Like the annual WEBN labor day fireworks in Cincinnati.
Also, with the Dayton Air Show a couple of weeks behind, how do they schedule commercial flights around air show traffic, specially when its something like the Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, or (back in the day) and SR-71 flyover ?
The Duloot Airshow is this weekend. Everybody clapped when the 3:00 United flight to Chicago took off.
“Young adults today seem to be saying that smoking is a way to channel “main character energy,” a way to stand out from the hordes of wellness-obsessed, yoga-posing, vegan millennials.”
I’m beginning to like Gen Z.
Maybe they could put down their phones and stand out even more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUW1wjlKvmY
Honey fraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKvNp0fAaZ8
Holy crap!
One more reason to come to the Honey Harvest. 100% for sure that Fourscore doesn’t dilute his honey.
Mostly because he puts me in charge of adding the Karo syrup and as we all know, I don’t work at the HH. So it remains 100% undiluted and the old ladies all go home giggling at my flirtatious comments.
When I was about a 1/4 of a mile from my apartment today, a guy was tailgating me and then passed me a on double yellow. Then he turned left which indicates he could have turned left earlier rather than follow me. Probably just some punk. Good thing I live 1/4 away from a cop shop (hobo slang for police station).
Spudz Salacious Silicone Saturday Slootz.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
All too skinny, where are the women at?
This is Saturday Slootz. You’re looking for Tres in Room 24. Look for the extra-wide door.
I don’t care about too skinny. I’d like to put in a request for uninked gals.
In the Olden Days tats provided an easy marker for wild and easy gals. Now that every gal has one, it is just ugly.
Hello!
College grad unemployment surges as employers replace new hires with AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdUMQyB83H8
Player Piano is happening…
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Player Piano is the debut novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation partly inspired by the author’s time working at General Electric, describing the negative impact technology can have on quality of life.[2] The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers.
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCPhbN1l024
As Mojoeaux put in a post some time back:
The still-working boomer and GenX middle and upper management is spending its time appeasing the greedy little twats in the workplace, and the twats aren’t workers worth their salary. They haven’t been taught much in high school or college, so they can’t really do the jobs anyway. By the time GenX retires or dies, all the managers will be these people who were catered to and their social media barely registering because they all said the same stupid shit.
This is a twilight time where your social media can wreck you, and only GenX has managed to thread that needle. Soon it won’t be necessary to thread it at all.
And then everything collapses because the people running it are empty shells of human beings. They make nothing important, they contribute nothing of value, they know nothing of worth.
I’m reminded of the plethora of social media videos these young college grads post (mostly hot females who were hired to fill quotas) about their time working at tech giants. They do no actual real work and spend most of their day enjoying absurd perks that would make any honest person blush.
The tech giants seem to have become make-work or daycare centers for the adult-children coming out of college. Those with connections who check boxes and piggy back on the small percentage of workers who are actually productive and keep the shit running.
College was always more about building networks and it’s why the Ivy’s have actual value. It isn’t that what they teach you is special. It’s that the rich kids get to meet other rich kids and hook themselves up with lifetime support networks.
I’m going to gleefully watch as the laptop class and up get theirs. I will never get over the covid bullshit when they marked half the country as “essential” (read – expendable peons who do actual work to keep the country going) while they sat on their asses and supported lockdowns that destroyed the economy. It was disgusting self-serving bullshit. The biggest attack on freedoms of my lifetime hopefully.
Connect what I’m saying with the below comment about UBI. Now that it’s the children of important people being put out of work, you’ll see real uproar.
” I will never get over the covid bullshit when they marked half the country as “essential” (read – expendable peons…”
BOOM. When I have ventured to dare mention the evils of COVInsanity, I loudly mention that bit. No immediate comeback is ever volleyed. Seemingly, they sink into a level of shame where they *know* it was wrong and bullshit, but there’s no anger inside ’em about it, of being used. (‘It was all for the greater good,’ is surely repeating over-and-over inside ’em. (They brush that aside right quick, as well.)
They don’t like being poked with the reality that they’re reacting to govt edicts the same way, say, Nazis did. Revealing. Sadly, it makes ’em further hermit. Can’t confront it, rather, dress it up with predictable platitudes.
It’s not that bad at my company thank goodness.
We’re all in IT and I’m pretty satisfied with everyone I work with, even most of the “international” help – some of whom are “rock stars”.
Though to be fair, most of us seem to be Gen X or Millennial. I’m not aware of many younguns that I might be working with.
I didn’t even recognize that as me until the last couple of sentences. Damn, I’m smart.
I THINK I was riffing off a meme I saw:
Further! (Now, this doesn’t really apply to my kids, because we are a VERY techy family) People my kids’ age and younger just do not know anything about computers, or even much about the software that has powered the world since IBM. “Digital native” isn’t what they said it would be. Not only do they not know anything about computers, they don’t use them for that much. They don’t even use tablets. They use their phones. I’m not saying this to rip on them because I can’t go outside with a ratchet and learn how to fix my car because it’s far too complex. Computing just didn’t shake out like anybody thought it would.
“Cornelius, how old are you; forty?”
“No! I’m twenty-eight and three quarters!”
“Is that all? That’s a foolish age to be at. I thought you were forty. A man’s not worth a cent until he’s forty; we just pay him wages until then to make mistakes.”
Western civilization depends on generations of hyper-competent white men who keep complex infrastructure systems running. Right now these men are either 1) retiring, 2) getting fired for being white, 3) not getting hired for being white, 4) not getting into STEM programs for being white. The infrastructure you thought was reliable as the air you breathe will begin failing because of this.
I don’t buy it.
The mix of engineers has certainly changed over the last 40 years. White men used to be the overwhelming majority of engineers. Women were few and far between.
Now it’s about 3/4 men and 1/4 women. Whites continue to be a plurality if not outright majority of engineers (at least in my field). The non-whites are predominantly Asian or South-Asian.
The one demographic that continues to lag is American-born black engineers. We see more African immigrants than black Americans.
But the important thing is that basic engineering competency hasn’t changed that much with the switch from white to non-white engineers.
The single biggest impact is youth. The current generation of new grads have no real capability for independent thought. They need lots of hand-holding. It takes a lot of time and effort to turn them into productive engineers. But they can be salvaged.
If AI proves to be as disruptive as we all think, we’ll end up with UBI. I don’t know what the libertarian solution is.
Garden robots.
Everybody gets one.
Everyone has a robot that grows food for him.
Your attention please…soft rains are coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP3TyuQx0
Tender rain
Perhaps time travel will save them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_1YHHhry0w
“Are Cigarettes Making A Comeback? How Gen Z Is Staging A Smoking Rebrand”
Well, if you want to look cool…
Cigars and good beer, Bobbo is coll
Or cool
HEY YUFUS!
TALL CANS!
Rescuers scoured a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris Saturday in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors, including 27 girls who have not been seen since their camp was slammed with a wall of water in a historic flash flood.
I thought NH was getting a lot of rain. The rain here is nothing compared to that. Hoping for the best for those affected.
“Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” Mamdani told the NYT.
Seems as legit as a wooden nickel.
Despite its decline, cigarette smoking never completely disappeared. Among older generations, smoking persisted in certain communities and cultures. Among Gen Z, smoking has been quietly evolving into a symbol of defiance and a return to rituals from the past.
A friend of mine started growing his own tobacco. He turns it into cigarettes to use in barter.
Music choice for the night is good.
Would colleges 15 years ago have had a “two or more races” check box?
*swoon*
I thought Gavin was the glibbest motherfucker the left could come up with but this guy show’s how it’s really done.
I’m just sitting back and enjoying the left freaking out and blaming Trump for this because he defunded NOAA. Or is threatening to. Or whatever their bullshit narrative is.
I’ve seen no end of that on the social media today. It’s easily refutable, but that gives no succor from the folks who get a dopamine rush from their moral outrage. Funny how most of that type know that indignation is intoxicating, but haven’t yet realized that like most intoxicants it eventually makes you stupid.
Anyway, I was going to post this tomorrow morning when there’s a somewhat bigger audience, but I’ll just re-post in eleven or twelve hours.
I mean…that is what the ‘other’ box is for or ‘I prefer not to answer’
Discussion of inspections related to NH doing away with car inspections.
Draft submitted with art. The first few pics even copied the alt text I wrote in docs for me! I wrote the others as well, but they didn’t go through the same. (Meh.) The pics look yuuuuge on the preview, and I’m happy I killed the wrap-around text. Will see if I can address that later.
Just a light-hearted look at my professional spread, and hopefully is bait for others to add their own stories. We have so many, and content is needed. I introduce a project that I’ve begun working on, taking notes around work, aiming to use that material with humorous intent, as well as light on my industry and ‘more important’ things I notice.
Perhaps most importantly for me, just a simple way to stay busy in a productive way. We have an Iron Rule covering it, but I’m glad I was taught to keep my eyes open and observe the world. There’s so much out there. (You’ll find it if you look hard enough…) Damn kids.
4 Yusef.
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NSFW.
I’m reading a story about Jerome Powell being questioned by Congress about renovations to the Federal Reserve building.
I’m curious why, because I’ve been repeatedly informed that the Federal Reserve is a private organization—that “it’s as Federal as Federal Express”.
Why does Congress get to interfere with the building projects of this private organization?
For the same reason they investigated major league baseball?
Re cigarettes making a comeback. I don’t know whether the cig is to gild the lily on midcentury diner waitress/Grand Ol’ Opry fashion or if she’s trying to be edgy. ¿Por qué no los dos?
“Main character energy” is probably on point, but that’s not necessarily a good thing.
Main character energy…hmm…sounds like attention whore to me.
The Buddhists and Hindus are really on to something with the whole “the self is an illusion” thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80tman_%28Hinduism%29
You have a real self, but it’s not what you think it is.
Dexter predicts the (my?) future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_0RWFQaeAQ
It amused me that the Death Star engineers were revealed to be a bunch of middle-aged white men. So much for diversity.
https://youtu.be/eCN7zF1BMIQ?si=CLOb7eicGed8zKnA&t=51
In times of trouble (End of democracy) and turmoil (Alligator Alcatraz), I turn to the funk:
Funkadelic – Swing Down Sweet Chariot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4p8Rsm1pM
Parliament-Funkadelic – Give Up The Funk / Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples – 11/6/1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRTmP-UJcT4
Forget about the “Firsters” (those weirdos), where are my “Funksters”?
Parliament Funkadelic – Cosmic Slop – Mothership Connection – Houston 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eR4aQrYozY
I just woke up and got dressed for golf then noticed it was still night time, oh shit….
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed takes a NY vacation in 2016
Enjoy your Sunday. I head straight to the airport after work and should arrive in Norfolk by 10pm. This’ll be my first domestic flight in my three (?!?!?!) years back stateside, if I’m not mistaken.
The holiday continued last night, with locals getting their last fireworks off. Good vibes in the air. Hope it carries over to you and yours.
We had three more neighborhood shows. Last one ended around 11ish I think.
Must have been coordinated between them cause they had drones and everything.
Morning Slackers.
Happy national fried chicken day!
🤗🍗☀️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrqKE1iqqo
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., OBE, Teh Hype, and EfE!
Oh frabjous morning, power is out here.
Current estimate to restore power, 8AM.
And as I posted that, the power came back on. 🙂
Obligatory 😁
Also obligatory.
For Tres regarding ATC and firework/photo missions/air shows
Its all NOTAMS, TRF (temporary flight restrictions) and scheduling. Typically months in advance.
Not that complicated when you’ve seen it happen in the background.
Morning all!
Good morning, Beau! How are you today?
So far so good 😉
But it’s early, I’m sure I’ll be grumpy before long lol.
The good news is I’m about 95-98% recovered from the hernia surgery, and generally pain free.
That is outstanding news! Onward and upward. Worst is past.
Go you!
Thanks EfE! I never expected to be doing this well 2.5 weeks after surgery. 74 and my first invasive surgery smdh ;-\