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https://youtu.be/qiAyX9q4GIQ?t=2m22s
My second go round worked better, the horseradish was properly distributed so I didn’t have a big wallop in one spot.
This First…is for Gustave.
https://youtu.be/LukyMYp2noo?si=vmmrBglLNpWzboWv
Thank you Bro and MS. My day is compleat.
I was just getting ready to commence with the rioting and throwing rolls of burning toilet paper.
Thanks, MS. You’ve saved me from myself.
Don’t waste the toilet paper.
It’s not wasted. Ya just use the TP *after* it’s been burned for Ass Wednesday.
🤮
Saturday Evening (open) Post
Very nice.
The Rockewell cover really sells it.
Fuck you British taxpayers!
Britain pledges $2 billion loan guarantee for Jaguar Land Rover
India says thanks, but it doesn’t make up for history.
MG and Austin both have sads.
I thought they stopped making cars after the woke rebrand.
the only winning move is not to play
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09#success
Sorry I have an actual date tonight.
If you’re gonna love, use a glove!
Love glove?
My couch pulls out. I dont.
Your couch is bigger than three inches, too.
88M, we pull out.
How can I get one of those fancy pins?
I assume you were having issues accessing the forum?
Use this URL:
https://www.glibertarians.us/community/
Note, that this is on a different domain than the main site. It should be the same credentials you use to log in here, if that’s not working, let us know and I can pass along the issue to WebDom. She is a busy woman however, and I would prefer to stay in her good graces, so I’ll do what I can to help first.
Yes. In the forum is a topic post from Richard where you can safely leave info.
Thank you for your reply, but it doesn’t help. My password doesn’t work there. Nor does the “forgot password” link.
Oh wait maybe it is working now. Thanks
Nope, still no love.
Maybe if you showed your pretty face around here more often….
DenverJ:
Are you getting an error message? If so, what message?
If you are not getting an error message, what’s happening?
Give me something to work with here.
I’m getting a message that the password for my login is incorrect. I also see something about our newest member being The Spaniard.
DenverJ:
Thank you. I’ll pass that along to WebDom.
Chafed: it’s not my pretty face you miss…
DenverJ:
It’s the shiny metal ass.
FWIW can confirm that my here-credentials work there.
Denver J, if you are coming towards MN I have a few extra or you can rassle Jimbo/Kinnath/MikeS and take theirs
I’m skeptical because it’s China and a reconstruction, but fits with previous arguments on here.
Claim to have found 1 million year old human skull in China.
So, did humans really evolve first in Africa, and how the fuck were we around that long and only have “civilization” in the last 7000 years?
The definition of “human” is what’s throwing you. The skull in question isn’t homo sapiens, it’s much older, probably linked to Denisovans. There were at least 5 different lineages of early humans that evolved from home erectus, such as home sapiens and Neanderthals. The idea is that homo erectus evolved in Africa, and then spread across Eurasia before evolving into more modern populations.
No insight on any of that but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if everything we think we “know” is wrong.
As they say, Science advances one death at a time.
The science is settled!
It’s China, so I have serious reservations about believing them. They have long had a policy of making China appear more ancient and central than it actually is.
The archaeologists quoted in the story don’t seem to have those reservations about the research.
I believe the skull in question only extends the age of the Denisovans by 40k years, which ain’t nothing, but not really unbelievable, either.
Yeah, 中国 literally means “center country”. 🙄
We have civilization? Where?
I thought they stopped making cars after the woke rebrand.
Land Rover was/is the viable part of that entity.
I’m admittedly ignorant, but I don’t understand how JLR is still shut down.
After the cyberattack they are using tech support from India?
lol It didn’t occur to me what the initials stand for. JLR figures heavily in one of the two top-priority projects that is due in mid-October amid a bunch of company (((holidays))). Something about “way overdue” whatevz.
Too bad I just wasted two weeks trying to get the UK folks to unfuck the permissions they fucked up. What do you people even do around here?!
*clears throat*
It’s day 5 of the event at my work, they aren’t expecting to even be able to provide an update until Monday. Quite a few of our customers are at incandescent rage levels, which I completely understand and agree with. There’s a non-zero chance I’ll be going on vacation with it still going on.
I can’t imagine how big the charge backs are going to be for this month.
Was it a ransomware attack?
Those are usually long term attacks, as in set in motion months (if not years) before they’re triggered. So if the business hasn’t been maintaining their security policies, and checking their data backups (I’ve never seen this done in any data center I’ve worked in), they can either recreate all of their data from what physical records exist, or pay the ransom.
I haven’t read that, but I assume so.
Bonus possibly related rhywun’s comment above they were negotiating their cyber insurance, but failed to bind it right before the attack.
We don’t do that kind of insurance thank g-d.
I’ve been joking about the Butlerian Jihad lately and I’m not even joking. I think the notion you can prevent any of this shit is a complete fantasy. Passwords, encryption, und so weiter… it’s all wishful thinking. Everyone crosses their fingers hoping they won’t be the next target because that is basically the best you can do. The “bad guys” will *always* be one step ahead.
rhywun:
I’ve been noticing over my career that basic security has been going downhill at a frightening pace. All while they add more security theater bullshit that makes things worse. The fact everyone has been moving from discrete apps to browser based interfaces just compounds it all, because now you’re outsourcing a major part of your security to the browser that you INVITED IN.
/serenity now!
But then the stupid users don’t have to install anything!
Plus you can let them do all their work from a phone on any wifi regardless of who’s listening!
We just had a company-wide security “town hall” or whatever. The head IT dude presented a fake AI “phish” thingie which was admittedly fun but…. it drove home the idea that a *single* fuck-up (or malicious act) from one of thousands can basically destroy us.
It’s nuts.
On call this weekend. This evening, I got a call about ceiling dripping above fridge. Knowing the asinine layout of these places, I diagnosed AC condensate drain line. Lady says “I’ve lived here for 10 yrs and never had this problem”. I cleared the line and explained what the problem was, to which the lady replied “that should be done every year for maintenance!” I did not reply that she had lived there for 10 years and never had a problem. People are stupid. Architects are stupid. Who puts the water heater and AC upstairs?
My AC unit failed due to condensation, 13 years in the house, one port was wide open, the other got plugged, it drained into the unit which had the circuit board directly under the drain ports.
Poor design and dumb me I didn’t know I needed to be checking on the drain line.
I do now and I built it back as a serviceable unit, before it was all glued together.
And yeah, it should be in the crawl space too.
My apartment building. 🫤
We have that stuff in each apartment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
AI translation of Japanese is getting better. I use it for subtitles on videos. It’s helpful as it sometimes picks up words I don’t know, but it really fucks up quite often.
Latest example is “gohan zoon”. It means food zone where catering for performers is available.
Gohan can mean food or specifically just cooked rice. The AI is translating it as rice statue. It is mishearing “zone” as “zou” which means statue.
Been learning some Mandarin using Duolingo. Did you know the mandarin for tofu is “tofu”?
Japanese too. Japanese has a fair amount of Chinese in it, but as heard by a Japanese ear AND as spoken 2,000 years ago.
I, for one, am shocked to find that English contains loanwords for foods not made originally by English speakers.
The only mandarin I know is oranges.
So you’re a Cantonese speaker?
“as heard by a Japanese ear AND as spoken 2,000 years ago.”
So, like German and English then.
Also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(bureaucrat)
ZWAK, and with less Norman influence I suppose.
The Northern Mandarin Speakers conquered the Southern Cantonese speakers, and the Imperial Bureaucracy favored Mandarin speakers, so when the Europeans arrived on the souther coast they found a people speaking Cantonese with bureaucrats who spoke Mandarin, and so Mandarin and Bureaucrat became used interchangably among those dealing with the trade ports.
Interesting.
Yeah, the two languages/dialects sound *very* different even though they mostly use the same written language. I have taken a few semesters of the one and the other one is completely unintelligible to me.
IIRC it is only recently that a lot of Mandarin speakers migrated to the US – historically it was all Cantonese.
The written language is mostly interchangable because it came from a single source. This pictogram means this concept applied to both spoken languages. I think the writing came from the north given where the oldest inscriptions turned up, but I may be mistaken.
Relevant
Yup it was originally all “pictorial” but a surprising amount of writing is based on “sound” these days. Like two homophones will share the same “radical” or base character but each with a different combining mark that tries to convey “meaning”.
And Mandarin has a *lot* of homophones.
I, for one, am shocked to find that English contains loanwords for foods not made originally by English speakers.
Just a skosh!
Even within Mandarin there’s northern (Beijing) and southern (Cantonese dominant areas) accents.
Japanese has less than 500 sounds compared to well over 10,000 in English.
I can’t begin to tell you the number of homophones.
lol Your numbers are… interesting. Not sure how you are defining “sounds” – I have a linguistics degree biatch! – but yeah your point stands that there are huge differences in the size of the phonetic inventory across languages.
The craziness in Mandarin is cuz they dropped most final consonants that were present in earlier eras. That did not happen in Cantonese so there you can end a word in “p”, “t”, “k” and so forth but not in Mandarin.
Do you mean syllables? I don’t think English has 10k sounds.
It has been years since I read the article.
Not syllables, but “sounds”. Like the (hypothetical) 10 ways in English the “a” vowel sounds. It’s influenced by the sounds next to it as well as accent in addition to being long and short.
Japanese is much more “pure”. Far fewer sounds mostly just changed by pitch. It’s not tonal like Chinese.
But also tonal differences that make homophones not quite homophones!
shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.
shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.
shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì.
shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì.
shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì.
shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.
shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī.
shì shì shì shì.
(In a stone den there was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict and resolved to eat ten lions.
He often went to the market to look for lions.
At ten o’clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market.
At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market.
He saw the ten lions, and using his trusty arrows caused the ten lions to die.
He took the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den.
The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it.
After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat the ten lions.
When he ate, he realised that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses.
Try to explain this matter.)
Was it a ransomware attack?
I don’t think anybody has really fessed up to what exactly it is, based on what a presumed knowledgeable source said on the Chris Harris podcast a couple of weeks ago.
I did some support work for a very large company that had gotten burned with a ransomware attack in the past. Their entire culture was around security even years later. If their IT-SEC group said upgrade, you had a week at most, sometimes as little as 24 hours. And that was to confirm the upgrade doesn’t break anything, plan the upgrade, and deploy it.
That caused several long days for me when there was a glut of Apache and Java 0-days being discovered.
😱
I am so glad I no longer have outside facing interfaces. I still keep updated but the number of panic patches is way down.
Grrrrr. I am so sick and tired of dealing with this shit.
I am a programmer. I don’t give a flying fuck about all the security theater that is a constant intrusion on the work I am trying to do but it sure gives a flying fuck about me.
Other infrastructure crap too. All of my time is being sucked up by data center moves too…. I’m gonna stop now before I blow a gasket.
Busting my ass on my new work truck and it feels like I’m accomplishing nothing.
Work is about to get busy (we’re partly seasonal) and I was hoping to have this thing on the road by the end of October.
Not happening.
I have to modify everything, and since no one makes brush guard mounts (or a brush guard for that matter) for this truck I found some mounts that were close and cut them up, made them longer, mined the mounting holes, doubled the thickness of the shackle eyes and completely voided the warranty on brand new parts.
https://ibb.co/hRC8YdS1
https://ibb.co/vv4JGN6p
https://ibb.co/4nsy7ZcC
https://ibb.co/F4k8P21n
https://ibb.co/4wSTvqcy
Back at it tomorrow
Sound deadening in my todo wishlist. Some many other things that needs to be done first.
It’s a big project. I spend about 20,000 miles in my work truck a year. I want it to be comfortable, as comfortable as a tractor like this can be.
Charlie Sheen is the spirit animal of GenX.
It’s all the lube.
Not this Gen Xer.
Which was sort of the point of “an X generation” – hard to make generalizations about us.
inorite
I could never stand that idiot. He peaked in Ferris Bueller and thereafter never did anything remotely interesting.
Wut?
Agreed on Matthew Broderick. But that is an entirely different person than Charlie Sheen.
Charlie was in Ferris Bueller.
“You wear too much eye makeup.”
To be fair, maybe he did something interesting between Ferris Bueller and the aggressively, willfully awful Two and a Half Men but if so – I don’t recall it.
LOL as if he could top his work in Ladyhawke.
Nah. I felt more Cusack from Better Off Dead.
Cusack is near the top of my list of “actors I think are pretty good but damn I wish they would STFU about politics already”.
He pushes it. I still enjoy a lot of his work but dayum.
Reading Eugene Vodolazkin’s Laurus. You wouldn’t know it from the cover, because it’s a humongous wolf covering most of the cover, and the SWORD is meant to be the L, but the hilt makes it definitely a T, but apparently it’s meant to be an L. This is a prestige Russian novel.
Aside from all that it’s been touching for the first sixty pages. Find your own way home.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation”
Well that’s never happening
Too many links?
Neph has powers, I believe.
Five pictures.
My bad.
I’m just some guy, you see…
And booze
Fucking weridos I’m taking my book club elsewhere
Busting my ass on my new work truck and it feels like I’m accomplishing nothing.
Work is about to get busy (we’re partly seasonal) and I was hoping to have this thing on the road by the end of October.
Not happening.
I have to modify everything, and since no one makes brush guard mounts (or a brush guard for that matter) for this truck I found some mounts that were close and cut them up, made them longer, moved the mounting holes, doubled the thickness of the shackle eyes and completely voided the warranty on brand new parts.
No bling yet.
https://ibb.co/4wSTvqcy
Are you getting ready for the apocalypse?
What sort of truck and what’s it for?
This sounds like an article…
Oh Slum.
That’s not a bad idea…
Carving into my brackets. https://ibb.co/hRC8YdS1
Brackets stretched and redrilled.
https://ibb.co/vv4JGN6p
That’s what my dumptruck is for Chafed.
Said dumptruck. https://ibb.co/nsBZ89cN
Where’s the traffic plow?
Slum, it’s a 2005 Freightliner M2 112, single rear axle tractor I’m converting into a box truck for my welding busisness.
425 hp Caterpillar 13L, ten speed, no DEF, no DPF, only 98950 miles on it, should last the rest of my career.
Brackets stretched and redrilled
These euphemisms…
That’s a cool looking truck.
I would read the hell out of an article about the conversion.
Needz a drain line and USB port.
Is that dump on a M35 chassis?
M929 Gustave, 5 ton, low output 8.3L Cummins. Allison automatic.
I have 95% of the parts to make it into a M930, winch kit. But I’m busy.
tPSU and Franklin exposed again against a ranked opponent.
Sloopy is going to be insufferable on Monday.
I’m dancing on the ceiling… courtesy of wireless headphones holy CRAP these things are a godsend.
Sweatin’ to the oldies.
I rock the wired ones. Too cheep.
Rest well, folk. May there be dead aisles and pretty ladies. (Not the other way ’round. Awkward, would that be.)
CNN’s story on why Trump v. Comey is totally different than the lawfare against Trump is precious.
“The charges were brought by a special counsel that was independent even of Biden’s appointed attorney general, Merrick Garland. Both said they did not feel pressure from Biden.” Yeah. Perhaps cuz Biden was never home. How ’bout that?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/politics/indictment-comey-trump-difference
So they were just praying their own personal political and instead of the president’s?
Not that I really believe the liars about that, but it hardly makes it much better.
The best underlings know what to do without being told. As for there not being orders handed down, what sucker thinks there weren’t? They were just off the books, that’s all.
Gluten morgen Glibs.
🇩🇪🧀🥓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XUeB3eO9qU
🎶🎶
Having croissants?
Nice song
lol. Silly autocorrect.
I figured you were just punning.
I had a two-egg omelet with turkey and cheese. Not much in the way of gluten or carbs.
Morning All,
The leaves are at peak color, the best that I can remember. Just a reminder that when they’re gone so too will the last remnants of summer be history.
45 American this morning, only 6 more months ’til Spring. The new snow blower calls out for a trial run.
Good morning, 4(20), JI, Ted’S., TAFKALack, Sean, and EfE!
Morning.
Good morning, U. How are you today?
When I woke up I went “Let me guess, it’s after noon” but it didn’t turn out to be.
🙂👍🌅
We’ve been having a bit of a drought down here in SW OH, so the weather prognosticators have warned us that the fall foliage may be less than spectacular this year. Still, the backyard tulip poplar, always an early dropper, was very pretty as its leaves turned bright yellow. Mixed with those that were still green, it looked like an Impressionist painting.
I thought dry was usually good for fall color? Not much down here yet, but we’ll be back in a couple of weeks.
Yeah, we’ve had a pretty substantial drought here in the Catskills. Some of the creeks I got up close to on my hikes were running very low.
Apparently one of the effects is different tree varieties changing and dropping at different times, so the fall color season may go on longer than usual but never have a real “peak.”
Good morning Glibs from SW VA.
Morning.
What are you doing out there?
Down at our property. Looks like I’ve got some guys to run a few head of cattle on the pasture, after some fence work. Very happy about that.
I’m envisioning the running of the bulls rather than ranching.
😀
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!