This assignment may be getting to me. A couple of nights ago I dreamed I made a last-minute change to the links which meant they were running late. Sloopy – whom I’ve never met – wanted to know if I was OK and could I please get my sh*t together.
Anyhow, let’s start, as is my wont, with birthdays: June 1: a woman whose writing enabled her to “live life on her own terms”; June 2: one of the finest cricketers of his generation; June 3: a man who represented the original intent of Australia (1. Wikipedia leads with December but see the footnote. I’m going with June 3 because it fits. 2. bonus music link from my FASB); June 3: Pine Tree, one of the greatest rugby players of all time; June 4: a damn good motorcycle racer; June 4: a theologian who really did try to do some good in the world.
This week in history under the Southern Cross:
- 1824, June 4: first free press in Australia begins publication
- 1859, June 6: my home state’s birthday.
- 1942, May 31 – June 8: Japanese submarines attack shipping in Australian harbors.
- 1953, May 29: Hilary Clinton born
- 1960, June 1: first television broadcast in New Zealand
- 1993, June 4: Shane Warne delivers the ball of the century
What’s going on under the Southern Cross?
- News of their demise was exaggerated. The Federal coalition has put the band back together.
- First they came for the guns and I said nothing. Then they came for the machetes…
- A very Australian sport
- Covidians return in Kiwi land.
- The original crime was about eight years ago but, for reasons many Glibs will understand, I couldn’t resist this one.
- How small is New Zealand? Well, this is a sad story, but this is national radio reporting on a single traffic accident.
- I’ll finish with some natural beauty: Lake Eyre is filling up for the first time in more than fifty years.
- The rainfall is of note, but the reason for this link is the pic about half-way down the page.
- Aurora Australis (the southern lights)
- Today’s news: Socceroos basically through to 2026 World Cup (New Zealand qualified weeks ago).
Music this week: from a quintessential Australian folk band with a great song about rebellion. Rather than one of their own youtube clips, I’m linking to this one for a reason. During Covid, I loosely followed the news from Australia. That gave me the impression that most Australians knuckled under. I had no idea until a week ago that protests of this scale took place (if you’re interested, here’s info about the historical event covered by the song).
If it makes you feel better, last week I woke up Thursday morning in a panic that I hadn’t even considered anything for the afternoon links… as I thought it was Friday.
Nothing like an unnecessary adrenaline dump to make waking up that much more fun.
I do enough of that crap for my real job. My hat is off to y’all who are regular contributors and willing to add additional schedule pressures to your lives.
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Well, the held the ’96 Olympic canoeing competition on the same river that Deliverance was filmed on, and nothing bad happened then. What do you think could go wrong this time?
I think those concerned merely have a reptile dysfunction.
They caiman saw the river and verified it.
Well thats a bunch of croc
I’m not sure of the facts here — they should call in an InvestiGator.
It seems some are worried this could turn out to be a croc of shit.
Problems suchus these can be hard to solve.
They probably need to scale back their plans.
I’m sure those most affected will take a bite at the problem, quite toothily.
on the same river that Deliverance was filmed
To be fair, there was a lot of squealing about that river.
Aren’t they boycotting the 2026 World Cup because Trump?
The what now?
Respiratory infections increase during late fall and winter. Details at eleven.
I see the bromance between Trump and Musk is on the fritz.
Trump did learn from his first get go….he learned to he a politician.
Musk for all his billions is going to show the world just excatly what FedGov is capable of.
Dan Goldman calls for the immediate release of the Epstein Files. Oh please, please let this be 5D chess.
https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1930721491580277043
In utter and complete honesty — this feels so much like “the popular girls are fighting!” junior high crap I can’t bring myself to care.
What files?
And thus in a fizzle of petty egotism and immaturity the tiny flickering spark of hope that we would fix our spending addiction is conclusively drowned. Order the tombstone, the US is done.
Yep. A successful distraction to the nails being hammered into our coffins
Iâm in agreement here. Musk will not win. He has lots of cheese. FedGov has more, and they have violence.
Yep. Trump may help with some problems like wokism and immigration, but more debt is really bad. Itâs still better than more illegals by the millions and more wokism, plus more debt, but itâs still not great.
I do, however, wish theyâd keep their little bitch spats private. Itâs serves no one. Musk will not win. He canât. He has an even larger following than before because of Trump. Heâll lose all of it.
“beginning of a wave.â
A tsunami of death!
“All that was left of his body were the legs”
This is why you always start with the legs.
I try to start with the breast, but you do you.
@ron WHY ARE YOU IN THE HOSPITAL??? I’m sorry I haven’t been paying attention. Let me know if you need something to read. No, not mine.
He had an intestinal bleed which has since been cauterized. I think that’s stopped it, but if there’s been an update after that, I haven’t seen it.
He gets a sandwich tonight.
Last I recall he’s hoping for more substantial food for lunch and if it works out a discharge soon…. if there’s no discharge, of course.
I’ve seen it only in dead threads — so since I don’t think I’ve caught Ron to say it (and assume he’ll read here at some point) — best wishes, hope it works out.
They’re giving him real food for dinner, and if that goes well he’s going home tonight.
Yeah, I saw the mentions of his being in a hospital and having a liquid diet, but wasn’t sure what happened.
Too much Chipotle?
Asses of Fire
Chipotlaway
Oh god, isn’t he the one I offered Princess Mary’s “special” blackberry pie to???
I was capping straight blood, after 4 days in the hospital, they have cauterized it and sent me home.
I ate my sandwich and had no adverse effects.
Thanks for all of the concern everyone.
*crapping*
*toots horn. throws confetti*
That is what we call winning!
Glad you are OK
Relieved that you, like King Edward, survived Princess Mary’s blackberry pie
Chipping away at random tasks on the to-do list. I sharpened the blade of my shovel and cut through the roots of a bunch of the giant space cabbage thistles.
The fucking “grass” won’t stop growing. Everything grows like mad here. Maybe that’s why there are so many farms. I had 20 acres in Montana and it was about 97% maintenance free.
Aired up the right rear tire and put the battery charger on the truck, which I haven’t driven in a year. I’ll check the oil and fire it up later.
Plenty more where that came from.
Lake Eyre is filling up for the first time in more than fifty years.
Let me guess: it were global warming wot dunnit.
Yes, it was the glaciers melting that filled Lake Erie.
I don’t know why RavenNation used some UK spelling for it. đ
https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1930691134138855638
Ashley St. Clair
@stclairashley
hey
@realDonaldTrump
lmk if u need any breakup advice
https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1930709557879439628
Ye coming in hot with deep thoughts on Musk/Trump
Musk for all his billions is going to show the world just excatly what FedGov is capable of.
THIS IS WHY YOU KEEP UNELECTED PLUTOCRATZ AWAY FROM POLITICS!
Trump Torches Tesla Dealership
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-torches-tesla-dealership
Are Tesla owners now safe from the left?
There is the 5D chess…Musk will clean up in the Trump hate rage
Musk is pulling an autistic Galt it seems. Bezos is salivating in the wings
Galtistic?
He certainly seems to be on a warpath. It will not end well.
NJâs affordable housing crisis is over!
https://gothamist.com/news/nj-opens-first-green-affordable-housing-there-might-not-be-more-like-it
10 years..so 15 year old “green” technology. Success!
Heh
Nothing makes things more affordable quite like taking a decade to build it
The poor developer is sad that Trump is cutting his graft.
Day two of fishing in Appalachia was completed without incident. Today we fished Hiwassee Lake near Murphy, NC.
Striped bass were once again the order of the day. While yesterday was about numbers to get some fillets in the cooler, today was trying to get the occasional big boy. It worked. Half as many fish, but twice as big. KK even landed the biggest fish she’s ever caught.
Tomorrow is Lake Chatuge for smallmouth, spotted bass, hybrids, and maybe a walleye — assuming the weather holds.
My goal is sell Vegas home…find a nice patch of land with wooded area and a pond…and tell the world to fuck off
No buttload of pistols and rifles lost overboard in an unfortunate accident?
That’s a great catch.
Dat bass!
I’ve been fishing multiple lakes around my hometown. Bunking with my son and his wife. They are getting sick of me, but are putting up with me because I promised to dog sit for them this weekend.
Lots of panfish, but not a lot of size. I missed the spring spawn this year. That is normally when I stock the freezer up with crappies, blue gills and sunnys.
I’m happy to see Double-K out fishing and having some success.
“For all but a fraction of the past century, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre has mostly been an expanse of dry, crusty salt.”
Then, I put it to you Ladies and Gentlemen that this is not, indeed, a lake, but rather a salt flat which very occasionally floods.
But…you cant sell climate-change in your articles if you accurately describe something that occurs naturally in our wolrd.
There are a bunch of rivers in Arizona that carry water a few days each year.
and when they do, like mosquitoes, they make up for lost time.
While we were in Minnesota last weekend, we had a discussion about the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, and what is the difference between a lake and a pond. I looked it up, and it seems there are some general guidelines but ultimately it’s up to the locals to call a body of water whatever they’d like. My teammates and I envisioned someone counting 9,999 lakes, spotting a puddle, and saying “Sure, that’s a lake. 10,000 it is.”
Well there are supposedly 412 lakes within 25 miles of my home town. So we did our part. I don’t think many of them are puddles that were jumped up to lakes either.
Motivation you ask? just ask Massie for a debt counter pin he passes out.
Fuck you, cut spending /saved libertarian screed
Fuck you, cut squirrels.
Motivation you ask? just ask Massie for a debt counter pin he passes out.
Fuck you, cut spending /saved libertarian screed
Iâd bet he is mostly silent on this. Other makers need this much more.
Imo itâs heâs been public in the past about wanting to do away with subsidies because he knows the competition canât survive without them, and he (allegedly) will do just fine.
I know, not imo.
If electric cars were any good they would be their own incentive. If they were an improvement over current IC cars people would be lined up on a waiting list.
MWC, I liked Chromaplane: IMO sorta Philip Glass x Wendy Carlos. Would be good accompaniment at the dentist. Will have to check out more.
#numberwang, heh.
Thanks!
*pulling hair*
So, Windwaker on Switch 2. Some parts are great, I just need more granular control of the control scheme to make it perfect.
So many of the Analog stick inputs are inverted. Left-right on the camera control was the worst, I had to remap the inputs in the program to do the opposite direction so that I can now at least look around without losing my mind. But now I’m getting tripped up on the silly conductor’s wand thing because the inputs in the original there were not inverted and I keep pushing in the intended direction, which is then the wrong direction. The fact that the target inputs are on the bottom of the screen while the metronome and the results of your inputs are at the top doesn’t help, because I keep missing my window for the next input.
I’m playing Wind Waker on my GameCube right now, coincidentally
The King of Red Lions got annoyed with me quite a few times until I worked out a way to get the inputs more or less in order.
I never owned a GameCube, so this is my first go at the game.
Yeah I literally just did the part you’re talking about last night. This is my first time playing it, too, I got it years ago but never played it, so I had no clue what to expect. The metronome is not less frustrating on the GameCube, I wound up saving the game and turning it off once I finally managed to get it done enough that the boat stopped yelling at me đ€Ł
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I loved that game. Emulation has a lot of slow downs and hang ups with it so I am curious how Nintendo solved that issue.
OH ALSO: there is armor in Rito Village that protects you from the cold so that you don’t have to use so much fire fruit. So I think maybe go back to it after you’ve beaten the air/bird boss and you’ll find it a lot easier.
I didn’t know there’s a remake. Ahh GameCube games have been added, interesting.
Prolly my favorite of the Zeldas. I haven’t played it since the GameCube days.
Just reached the Gohma fight, but the inverted controls combined with the jankiness of trying to aim with an analog stick makes using the grappling hook (required for the fight) nigh impossible. then you add in the fact that the controls for said hook are themsevles additionally janky…
In short, I’m getting frustrated. I know what I’m supposed to do, but just can’t get the aim on target in the half second before I get smacked around
I walked away, calmed down, then came back and won.
I still want a non-inverted stick
FWIW I finally hit the first (?) boss in Breath of the Wild (the flying worm thingie in that frozen vortex), failed multiple times, and rage quit. This was about six months ago.
You don’t have to do them in any particular order. I did the water temple first. And yes, it took many tries there.
My advice – find as many of the fire friut as you can and go back, the fire damage hurts the crystal more and you don’t need as many shots to open it up to do actual damage.
I remember that. Yeah, I ran out long before I could defeat the thing.
I did get the sense that that was the “first” boss I was supposed to beat so I was hesitant to return to the game. But I do like the game a lot so maybe I will try a different boss.
Rhywun: the dragon is actually optional I think. The main bosses are in the divine beasts. That said, the lightning boss in the desert might be harder than the dragon, so… đ€Ł But yeah, if you do water boss (elephant divine beast), then the air boss (bird divine beast, then the fire boss (lizard divine beast), and then the lightning boss (camel divine beast) in that order, I think that’s the easiest.
If I remember right, the only reason you need to beat the dragon at all is that you get a Zelda memory out of it. It also makes the dragon start spawning so you can farm it for resources for upgrading your armor. But it’s not a mandatory boss for defeating Calamity Ganon, and you can do it at any point.
Ugh, I replied to the wrong thread so just going to copy this here so you see it: OH ALSO: there is armor in Rito Village that protects you from the cold so that you donât have to use so much fire fruit. So I think maybe go back to it after youâve beaten the air/bird boss and youâll find it a lot easier.
Okay, we gotta clear this up – Rhy which game was it, because the cyclone worm near Rito Village was Tears of the Kingdom, where my advice was valid. I had missed that you’d said Breath of the Wild.
Oh fuck, you’re right. Tears of the Kingdom.
I didn’t like the other one and never got very far in it.
Then, I put it to you Ladies and Gentlemen that this is not, indeed, a lake, but rather a salt flat which very occasionally floods.
Do they race on it?
âElon is a good friend. We texted late last night. Weâre going to talk this morning,â Johnson said. âHe seems pretty dug in right now, and I canât quite understand the motivation behind it.â
I know it’s far-fetched, but maybe he has a principled objection to increasing the debt.
BAM. Principled opinion is a mysterious concept for pols.
If electric cars were any good they would be their own incentive. If they were an improvement over current IC cars people would be lined up on a waiting list.
There is a legitimate niche market for them. They are a novelty, and have a narrow window of usefulness. I don’t want one. I don’t want a Bugatti or Koeniggsegg, either. Take away the subsidies and forcible incentives and have at it.
This. Niche market. Mostly golf courses.
Newsflash, I had to wait 3 months for my Tesla in 2023.
You can hitch a ride into space anywhere
Elon Musk on Thursday said that his company SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft âimmediatelyâ because of threats by President Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Muskâs businesses.
Muskâs announcement, on his social media site X, came amid an escalating war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla
CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.
âIn light of the Presidentâs statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,â Musk wrote.
I’m sure the Russians would be willing to take up the slack.
They do lots of DoD stuff. This is him posturing back with the more headline grabbing stuff.
What are the chances that Musk will no longer be a Nazi to the correct thinking morons.
Instead I imagine he will be ridiculed and laughed at.
LOL
https://x.com/RepSwalwell/status/1930705998718865618
If Swalwell is demanding the release we can be sure of two things: 1. They wont be released and he knows it. and 2. Swalwell is almost certainly in them.
Well I know who you aren’t, they dont have an X account so,
Fuck Off Tulpa!
Don’t we already know that Trump was there at least once and obviously it was a nothingburger or the Dems would never shut up about it.
You familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction?
I am pretty much on Elonâs side of the schism but that was a pretty lame blow by Elon.
Anyway, looks like this tenuous republican coalition has already blown up years early.
Your avatar needs a top hat and monocle.
You kiss Winston’s Mother with that mouth?
Awwww, s/he’s back!
Who?
SIV?
Fuck off Tulpa
Canât Musk and Trump just fuck and get it over with? This is downright unseemly.
I can’t believe it but I think Donald is taking the (very relatively) higher road here.
What are the chances that Musk will no longer be a Nazi to the correct thinking morons.
Not until he “reconciles” with his “daughter”.
This place is a nice counterexample to the saying:
don’t tell other people about your problems, because 90% of them won’t care and the other 10% are glad you have them
Just wanted to say that.
Disagree
I should have seen that coming and retort thusly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCsiWL6gn0
internet comment gold:
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Other characters run away, use disguises or try to outsmart their foe.
Foghorn just beats them condescendingly and asserts his dominance.
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I’ll see your driving finger and raise you two V-signs.
https://www.lazerhorse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Young_ones_bambi.jpg
Derpsy,
I agree. This place was a huge help to me when both of my parents passed. I appreciated the space to vent about my feelings and the warm thoughts everyone sent my way.
I’ve also been happy to help out fellow Glibs when I could. This is the one charity space I know it will do some good when I contribute.
Good works abound.
This reminds me I need to donate some Glib Bucks.
A stoic thought: if a butterfly can survive a thunderstorm, how much easier it is for a person to get by
Storming currently here. Temp drop almost 20 degrees is very welcome and I hope it stays.
A rat can fall of of a ten story building, but a horse cannot.
I think they both fall equally well.
If a cow can jump over the moon why can’t a rich man pass through the eye of a camel?
If a rich man could pass through the eye of a camel, he’d have been drafted much higher and wouldn’t have dropped to the 5th round.
If a tree falls,,
Oh nevermind
He probably would have done better than the Browns too.
Does anyone here have a pickup winder?
I have a new instrument that uses old telephone tapping mics, which is just a small magnetic pickup. Iâm interested in seeing about spinning my own.
Bringing this over from dedthred because I’m still kinda dizzy by Cunty Aunt Susie’s inability to accept that reality applies to HER too, and I posted it at 2:56p.
The Glue Factory is under contract, but doesnât close until July 2. (I don’t know what happened to Elmer and Gorilla.)
It was originally to close on June 2 and the buyers had offered to allow Susie and Millie to live there until July 2 free of charge (well, $1,500 refundable deposit).
Susie said, âI need to sleep on this. I donât want to make any rash decisions.â
Susieâs daughter [Heather] said, âWhatâs to think about? You get your money, you get to live rent-free for a month, and have that whole month to find a place to live and buy if you want to.â
Next day, Susie decides that âIâm uncomfortable living in a house someone else owns, so I want to close on July 2.â đ€
Heatherâs like, âUh, that means you wonât have any money to find a new place to live.â
Susie: [Stubborn silence.]
Heather went home. I like to imagine she threw up her hands.
SOOOOOOO Susie had the closing date changed from June 2 to July 2, and told Mom if she didnât agree, MOM was the one holding things up. đ
Her wants (besides keeping the house):
â buy a house within their ward (congregational) boundaries
â refusal to rent
Her problems:
â there are no houses for sale within the ward boundaries
â the few houses available for sale in the general vicinity are way above what she can afford
â a bank is probably not going to give an 80yo woman with no collateral, a house under contract, with insufficient income to support a mortgage for what prices are around here now
â she is solidly refusing to believe any of this (as per usual)
This woman lives in some la la land I donât understand. In 80 years, has she NEVER been stymied by the world in general and other people in particular?
Anyway, at the beginning of all this Millie was fussing about what to do about all their stuff. They were going to sort through it and take what they want and take the rest to Goodwill.
I told her to hire an estate sale company, let them catalog it all, take what you want to keep, let them sell what you donât want to keep, and theyâll haul the rest off and give you a check.
âNO.â đ Gee, could you have THOUGHT about that for more than a millisecond?
Anyway, this is how theyâve both conducted this entire affair, and I honestly am completely discombobulated by this refusal of two very old women to conform their plans and expectations to reality. They can be looking straight at a Zillow listing and not believe that price applies to them, then be all *shocked Pikachu* when someone tells them it DOES, and then gasp, âWhy werenât we told???â. đ«
Addendum: I’ve been convinced Susie’s going to find a way to toss a spanner in the works, but they had to fix the septic and she didn’t put up a fuss, so maybe I’m just gunshy.
Good luck Moj, I’ll bet you are counting down the days.