And there was the great sea, unknown and eastward. We had no idea where to go, where it began or where it stopped. We heard of the tales, voyages that never returned, entire groups lost in the mist so we proposed another way.
From the dying trees, we built a raft large enough for our party and we prepared well. Most of our group decided that the light was enough and stayed on the Canon city shores, but the core was ready to move on.
After some consultation with the locals It was decided that we would run parallel to the shore northward until we could find a way eastward and a path to the other side of the unknown sea that we encountered.
Lasky decided to stay, with a woman and a good dose of fear, it was a good decision I suppose. My group still needed to find the answer. We were still alive, if a cold wet life is living, and there was just enough to get us through, but to what end? Some said it was a test while others thought it a way to eliminate humanity, but we all knew it was the work of an alien species with designs for our planet and that was our worst thought.
But what did happen? It was thought that the Earth stopped rotating but how? The moon stopped but why? The brightest of us spoke of a Kardeshev 2 civilization that wanted to keep humanity down, if so they got their wish. Others spoke of Gods wrath, one or many, to punish humanity for our sins.
And so we set off northward on a raft with some oars that we’ve built and a very crude sail to help us out. We didn’t know what we were gonna achieve or where we were going, but what else should we do? 1100 miles from home, trying to find the light and now a sea to cross, pray for us.
Bobbo 169877
2029
Aren’t winds partially caused by the Earth’s rotation?
We still know what happened, so we prepared just in case.
Dont know
Coriolis winds are created by the earth’s rotation.
I know that, this is fiction remember,
Jeez
I was answering his question. Unknot your panties.
Dont be a dick, ya fucking earth dweller
What about butterflies flapping their wings?
If a butterfly flaps his wings in Antarctica Ill shank my drive on 14 again…..
Nope, it’s the wind that causes the earth’s rotation. Otherwise we’d be static, 1/2 of the earth would be bright and sunny, the backside dark and cold.
You folks must have missed Cliff’s dissertation.
Dark Side of the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ynZnEBtvw
*lights lighter, sways back and forth*
*wags eybrows*
“I’m not wearing panties.”
/punchline to an old joke
If my last ‘best’ option was to set sail on a not-too-trustworthy craft into the relatively (wholly?) unknown, I -uh- would be calling in every favor I had left on The List. Yeah. ‘Member those $20? Yeah. Gonna need that back. Now-sies. Yep. Throw in that weed, too.’
I have never been fishing in any capacity. I know Grandpa didn’t take me out like he did w older Bro. Like golf, I imagine I’d absolutely despise it, while also taking it far too seriously. I don’t sit still well, though I reckon it’d be good for me.
I have put my feet in tubs where dozens of little fishies nibble and tickle-clean your feet in Vietnam. That’s kinda like fishing. *quizzical, aimles look*
Come play disc golf with me, or Mikey, or anyone. Its far more casual and fun than ball golf, cheaper, and the community is the best.
Disc golf is great. Have played a few times, but we had a high school meet-up on the weekend. Kinda ultimate frisbee / football but played with a frisbee. There was a perfect patch by my Jimmy Johns when I was a driver there, next to a farm and flat, clear grass to play on. Fantastic memories from that summer before Indiana University.
Putt-putt is fun! We took the 12, 10 and 4yos the other week. The littlest was far too much fun to watch chase his errant shots. *swoon* We may be going swimming with them tomorrow, perhaps Wed.
So are driving ranges! They have the big outdoor ones here, which I first saw on top of big department stores in Korea. Of great interest, the much-more introverted, borderline selectively-mute 10yo took it seriously. Golf seemed to mesh with his mind, interestingly. He also finally kinda proved today he really can, in fact, ride a bike. He had the strangest, and powerful, mind-block against figuring it out. (Was frustrating to watch. Uh. I think I learned when I was four or five. At one point, Dad *did* lock the door and I wasn’t allowed to come in ’til I could successfully ride. (Worked really well! I think I nailed it within 20 min of the embargo.)
I don’t think I have ever been so bored as the one time my mom and future step-dad took me golfing with them.
Live and learn, Mom. 🙂
Golf is boring until you start hitting a few pure shots.
Then it’s just maddening.
A good walk spoiled. The only good balls I hit are when I step on the sand bunker rake.
My dad quit ball golf out of frustration. Too hard on the clubs.
A round of trap or skeet will allow a person to vent their frustrations and like golf you’re competing against your self.
I find that if you let the clay pigeon hit the ground, then run up on it, and shoot it point-blank, your accuracy improves. The taste, though, does not. No amount of onions or garlic are going to make a clay pigeon taste good.
/I need to go to the gravel pit.
That’s the only pigeon I would eat.
@toxteth,
Theres nothing like watching a disc hit a tree at 60 mph and exploding.
Yes, I imagine the financial loss is more bearable.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WOtMXyc9OoE
Unrepentant tales of childhood, daredevil edition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lysStR5ZGzM&t=120s
how to weld with a pencil, wires, and a car battery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-UGBmbHL0
Ok MacGyver.
pop a locked hood barehanded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2etoBVpnXA
start the car with a screwdriver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HzJh5s2k0
I have to admit this is all pretty impressive.
clever wrench tricks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HSjtQx16w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8154zT67I
Tradesmen laugh at your pedestrian “tricks”
how about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf3VPvfcNiU
fixing an AK with a rubber band and a toothpick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za-h5AIbK_0
use a rubber band to make a semi-auto fire like a machine gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4274_qsjLkk
Wow. I’ve seen a similar thing done with a shoestring.
As cool as machine guns are, I can’t afford the fucking ammo. It’s costly enough to shoot one round at a time, and things probably get really painful at 600 rounds per minute.
cat’s out of the bag…
Gen. Wesley Clark reveals 2001 plan to attack Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv87ekPeIuk
How Israel Censors the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xl30Re1EUI
Going toe to toe with the Ruskies?
a fierce debate between 2 ex-CIA spies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeQcPfx2MPM
You have to graduate from Dream Academy to be able to play in Dream Theater.
Is that in a northern town?
I went to a Dream Theater in a western town but Dream Academy wasn’t playing.
Morning Slackers.
🤨
Wakey, wakey y’all miscreants!
🛌💤🥱☕️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M02bAWDFkI
🎶🎶
https://www.nj.com/somerset/2025/07/gov-murphy-declares-state-of-emergency-as-flash-flooding-wreaks-havoc-across-nj.html
Soon, my place will be beach front property…
I blame Trump’s budget cuts.
Texas says “Hold my beer.”
That was in response to the NJ flood link.
Ɩ ƊⰙƝ’Ƭ 𝕎𐤠ƝƝ𐤠 ƓⰙ ƬⰙ 𝕎ⰙⱤƘ ƬⰙƊ𐤠Ƴ.
I don’t want that font.
ㄒ卄丨丂 丨丂 山卂ㄚ 山ㄖ尺丂乇.
dude.
🤪
Unrelated, They shouldn’t have included the english translation
Thank you, Todd Rundgren.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/bitcoin-hits-new-all-time-high-above-120000-fueled-by-etf-inflows-crypto.html
Meanwhile, in crypto…
All this tells me is that the concept of currency is built on a mountain of lies.
I don’t like the blockchain lie, so I’m not going to engage with it. But I have to exist in this world, so I can’t escape the Fiat lie.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/07/14/chipotle-lip-stain-lipotle-wonderskin/85192049007/
Why?
I’m going to go get breakfast. It’s past 23 hours since I last ate, and that’s not good for me.
🥓🍳
Examine the bacon closely? Yes, I should think so – wouldn’t want phoney bologna.
What you did there- it was seen.
And I would’ve used the “baloney” spelling. But thats just me.
No, we won’t stand for baloney.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3RwxdzP8rG4 (Seven whole seconds.)
suh’ fam
whats goody
TALL (419) CANS!
Good morning, homey, U, Sean, Donny3F, Ted’S., and Teh Hype!
Morning, how goes?
Fine so far, thanks. Have to finish reviewing payroll today, checking extra carefully to make sure everyone’s incentives are correct. After work, a trip to the rec center to exercise.
How are you? And why so long without eating? 😟
I ate half of breakfast yesterday, didn’t eat anything else at the office, then fell asleep when I got back to the house, waking up after my alarm this morning.
Wow! At least you caught up on your sleep! 😦
I suppose… 🙁
An overlooked aspect of SHTF scenarios – the large proportion of obese Americans unaccustomed to farming, hunting, or foraging. The experience of Venezuela suggests that economic collapse puts everyone on a diet.
Every current famine today is the result of war. I don’t see invasion or civil war as likely scenarios in the US. Whatever violence might occur will be confined to the cities.
Current famine zones include Gaza, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Haiti.
Every famine in my lifetime was inflicted by humans on other humans.
Naturally occurring famines? Let’s see…little ice age in Europe? 1816, the year without summer? Can anyone think of other naturally caused famines? They are usually caused not by the ebb and flow of climate but by sudden anomalies.
I’m listening to a news podcast, and the interviewee sounds like he’s got a smoke detector chirping in the background.
Just don’t change the batteries and it’ll go away eventually. I don’t know how people can stand that.
I thought it was one of mine until I turned off the MP3 player to find the source.
I can’t. It’s the perfect combination of pitch, volume and frequency to be impossible to tolerate.
I went to a dive bar about ten years ago and there was a smoke alarm chirping that irritated me so much I had to leave, two weeks later I went back and it was still doing that. Apparently it doesn’t raise the hackles on most people
One of Adam Carolla’s favorite rants.
UCS: Forgetting to eat or sleep; are we related?
Mornin’, GT!
Good morning, TO’G!
They are like canaries in a coalmine, right? You are safe as long as they are chirping.
It’s a meme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTC9wf3K6Lc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding
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Waterboarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals in the Vietnam War.[119] On 21 January 1968, The Washington Post published a controversial front-page photograph of two U.S. soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier participating in the waterboarding of a North Vietnamese POW near Da Nang.[9] The article described the practice as “fairly common”.[9] The photograph led to the soldier being court-martialled by a U.S. military court within one month of its publication, and he was discharged from the army.[119][120] Another waterboarding photograph of the same scene, referred to as “water torture” in the caption, is also exhibited in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.[121] After reports by Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Herbert, investigators confirmed that military interrogators of the 173rd Airborne Brigade “repeatedly beat prisoners, tortured them with electric shocks and forced water down their throats”.[122] Interrogators employed a technique called the “water rag”, which involved pouring water onto a rag covering the captive’s nose and mouth.[122]
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According to Herbert, “War crimes are infinitely easier to overlook than to explain to an investigating committee. Nor do they do much for promotion among the ‘West Point Protection Society’ of the Army’s upper-echelon career men. So when I kept bringing up the matter, I kept on making enemies and getting answers such as, ‘what the hell did you expect, Herbert? Candy and flowers?’ I reported these things and nothing happened.”[3]
Some commentators have opined that Herbert’s allegations were exaggerated or unsubstantiated.[4][5] The Army also released a statement to the effect that Herbert had raised the war crimes issue for the first time in September 1970, eighteen months after he was relieved of command in Vietnam and only after he had exhausted other means of salvaging his military career.[6]
Herbert was accused of exaggeration and outright lying in his filed reports. In April 1969 he was relieved of his command of the Second Battalion, despite its outstanding record under his leadership.[3]
“I know now it wasn’t just the Army”, Herbert says. “It was General Westmoreland in particular. He did everything he possibly could to keep my case covered up because of the heat being placed on the Army from the My Lai case.”[3]
The U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) produced several reports on Herbert’s claims. A report dated August 23, 1971, reviewing Herbert’s allegations stated: “technique employed included the transmission of electrical shock by means of a field telephone [used to a Vietnamese girl] a water rag treatment which impaired breathing, hitting with sticks and boards, and beating of detainees with fists.”[3]
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Some years after his retirement from the Army, he was asked in an interview how he felt about leaving the Army after all that had come to pass. He remarked, “If you stick by your guns, if you stand by the truth, you win. I feel good about my time in Vietnam and my time in the Army. As my friend Sgt. Maj. John Bittorie once said, ‘There are two kinds of military reputations. One is official and on paper in Washington DC. The other is the one that goes from bar to bar from the mouths of those who served with you there.’ That is the only reputation I ever really cared about.”
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Amen to that.