Good afternoon, y’all. I am taking a long weekend with the family to go up to the parts of Florida that would make a great Rednecks in the Mist horror film. We rented a — whatever you call a mansion of cabin, cansion? — for Friday and Saturday night. Its right on a set of springs, and there are several other publicly accessible springs in the area. Oh, and apparently it is alligator mating season, for that extra Florida spice. I’m definitely faster than 3 of my 4 boys. The wife and I have already decided each day, we’re going to pick the sacrificial one based on behavior. Hopefully, it doesn’t come to that, but you should always have a plan.
Also, don’t forget that Sunday is Mothers’ Day, for those of you who still have one around, or if you don’t want to hear a bunch of moaning from your female partner about your spawn are inconsiderate and don’t love their mother.
This is a long read, but worth it, recommended by Tonio.
Yo Louie, I wanna dip my balls in it!
Break out the Rubio memes with a Pope hat.
Any bets on the sex of the partner being domestically abused by this female cop?
I think they just call that “Florida.”
I see you understand that anything West Palm county and south isn’t Florida.
Mine having departed this mortal coil, I’m saving a fortune on flowers. (And my mom would have laughed at that).
But on the plus side… yeah, I got nothing.
Claire, you wanna see a picture of a guy with elephantitis of the nuts? It’s pretty tasty. Would you ever consider dating a guy who looked like this? I mean even if he had a nice personality and a cool car… although you’d probably have to ride in the backseat because his nuts would ride shotgun
You’ve always got something to talk about in the sauna?
I’m glad on hovered on the link cuz there is no way I am clicking on that.
It makes me strangely happy that there are still fetishes out there that I simply don’t understand.
Some people haven’t watched enough South Park.
(I couldn’t find a good clip of the bouncing balls alone).
That one is classic.
I’m still unsure why any member of the US government, in their official capacity, would need to meet with a religious leader half way across the world who has no political power.
Enh. He has power. That’s why totalitarian governments like the CCP hate him so much.
I mean, he’s got vestigial authority over Vatican city, but I don’t the Swiss guard becoming problematic to US interests any time soon. If you’re a Catholic and want to kiss the ring on your own time and dime, vaia con dios, but let’s be honest, having official diplomatic relations is like sending an ambassador to Sealand. He’s a problem for the commies owing to their atheistic Year Zero bullshit, but that’s none of our concern.
It took me a second to realize they were indicating the information in the headline came from the Bradenton Police Department, and not that the officer had Borderline Personality Disorder.
Well… are we taking bets on that as well?
Its [sic] right on a set of springs
If this cabin’s rocking, don’t come knocking!
Today is (would have been) my mom’s birthday.
Condolences.
Sorry for the early OT, but I have to head out to get my hair cut. I’m getting my slanty shanty releveled, and evaluating 3 quotes. Soliciting input from randos on the internet helps my thought process, so that’s where you come in.
Tl;dr, I’m on a pier and beam foundation with a poured concrete perimeter wall. West side of the house is essentially fine, east side is about an inch low. Most likely reason being that the current beam running down the center of the house is about a foot off-center from the interior load bearing wall dividing the house.
Contractor A wants to place 14 new concrete piers with steel shims to elevate the poured concrete porch, east perimeter wall and laundry/mudroom add-on to match the west side, then place 3 new beams on new pads and concrete piers – with one of the beams being placed directly beneath the load bearing wall for structural support. Total price: $10.4k. 10 year transferable warranty on piers, 4 year on beams. Contractor B wants to place 8 new concrete piers with steel shims to elevate just the east perimeter wall and mud room, and add 2 new beams on new pads and concrete piers, leaving the current central beam in place. 5 year warranty. Total price: $5.9k. Contractor C wants to just place 2 new concrete piers with steel shims to level the add-on, but doesn’t think a 1 inch drop is worth elevating the perimeter wall, and would slide the existing central beam over to the load bearing wall on new pads and concrete piers, while adding 2 new beams on each side. 4 year warranty. Total price: $4k.
Contractor A’s solution may be a bit overengineered, but it’s probably what I’d do if I had no limitations on resources, because I feel like you should splurge on structure. At the same time, I’d like to hope I won’t still be living in this place 10 years from now, and maybe it’s not worth spending the $6k that would buy me a mini split, new kitchen, and new bathroom that would make the place more saleable when the time comes.
“[…]I have to head out to get my hair cut. I’m getting my slanty shanty releveled[…]”
For a second there I thought slanty shanty was some type of new haircut.
I thought it was way more racist, with some new (to me) kink attached to it.
“Give me the Vanilla Ice”
“I gotchu fam”
The Losertarian article was an interesting read. I think I generally agreed with most of it. But, I’m don’t completely buy into the “fuck principles; be a predator” concept.
It’s more identifying the blob as the enemy instead of the state. At least that was my take from it, with a dash of ‘don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good’.
identifying the blob as the enemy instead of the state.
I caught that. He notes that the blob has the ability to enforce it’s goals outside the state. And I partially agree. But the blob cannot do most of the damage it does today without depending on the violence the state controls. So, I still think the primary focus on the excessive power held by the state today.
I do agree that nothing can be accomplished without winning elections. Many elections. Winning POTUS alone is not enough to solve the major problems.
kinnath:
I think the real tell is what’s going to happen with the higher education and LLM bubbles. There’s also the issue that the younger generations are now much more in favor of moving to violence faster (based on polls at least, it may match the 60s/70s).
But the blob cannot do most of the damage it does today without depending on the violence the state controls.
Maybe true, but this is exactly his point. The reality on the ground today is that they control much more than just the state, and a myopic focus on reducing government is foolish when they have 100 other kinds of institution to flex their might with.
Soliciting input from randos on the internet helps my thought process, so that’s where you come in.
I’m no help. That sort of work/expense would be completely unjustified on my current abode. I not-so-secretly wish a tornado would carry it off and drop it on some deserving witch.
Thanks, Brett, for linking to “The Losertarian Problem” (first link).
The author dishes dirt on the Libertarian party and makes some good observations. I like how he separates Government and the power structure (predators) which uses government to enforce and maintain power. The concept of “extraction” in Chapter (Act) 6 is something I’ve been trying to articulate, but he did it perfectly.
Nice kid. Give him a read and some love. And by “love,” mean subscribe to his newsletter.
Gas over $5.
Thanks Trump. #attach I did that sticker to pump.
How many divisions does the Pope have?
I drove the truck around town today. There was a lot of upshifting, downshifting, and turning. I’m getting pretty good at about the halfway point of the course. A job I can keep is worth more to me than a job I enjoy, but I think I will like being a trucker.
I was playing around with making a random number generator. The calculator on a smartphone can evaluate common functions to 10 decimal places. My idea was taking a 2-digit seed value for say sin(x), then iterating using the last 2 digits of the decimal. It turns out that can get you stuck in a loop, like sin(42), sin(64), and sin(63). I then tried doing the same thing, but alternating ln(x) and sin(x) and starting with a 3-digit seed. When iterating with 2-digits, this prevents a loop back to the seed value. Every iteration produces a random 10-digit number, which can be divided into five 2-digit random numbers with the last being the new seed. It’s perfect for one-time pad encryption.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/05/one-time-pad-encryption-example-using.html