Want.
I feel like a bear coming out of hibernation…WHERE FUD? Instead, I will climb on the elliptical and pretend I am not old for a bout 60 minutes.
Here are some links to read, if you are going to do anything similar;
- Roid rage?
- Oops.
- Doubt it.
- ZARDOZ IS DISPLEASED.
In lieu of music or Swiss news, we have a sports update that sloopy forgot this morning.
As always, the comments are open and yours.
The CHP said traffic was reduced to a single lane during clean-up operations and warned drivers to “expect major delays.”
“Major delays”. How is that different from normal driving in California?
I don’t know how anyone can tell what happened.
The photo was too grainy.
I barley got your pun.
STEVE SMITH HAVE ALIBI. WAS DRIVING LOAD OF RAPESEED.
These puns are corny.
These comments hang like a millstone around Switzy’s neck.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
Does our punning really grind your gears, Switzy?
Maize narrowed gaze.
The March 22, 2016 attacks claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group left 32 people dead and more than 300 wounded – Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre.
“Our country will never forget,” King Phillipe told a crowd of hundreds gathered around a monument to the victims. “We did not give in to fear, we did not give in to division.”
“We’re going to invite the jihadis in even harder now and give them more welfare, so that maybe they’ll kill us last.”
No sh*t. Europe learned nothing.
‘Learnt’.
Passive surrender voice.
Diversity is our strength! Once we are so diverse that Islamic fundamentalists are in the majority and have established a theocracy, we will no longer have to worry about them mass-murdering non-Muslims.
Thanks for the sports update. Now instead of my wife being happy about sports, it’s my brother who is doing a happy dance.
I was hoping for a CBU v SMC final.
Cockblocker University vs. Sadomasochist College?
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On the plus side, it wasn’t THAT much grain. And it wasn’t green grain.
Oops.
But it says “sterile” right on the package!
If it’s “bipartisan” it has to be good idea!
Bipartisan bill would ban prediction markets for sporting events
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/bipartisan-bill-would-ban-prediction-markets-for-sporting-events
I’m torn on that one. There’s clearly fuckery going on with all the gambling money sloshing around.
And all the gambling sites are in thick with teams and stadiums. No conflicts there, I’m sure.
Leagues should be the ones to make their own sponsorship rules. If they want to bar gambling sites from having financial deals with the teams then vaya con dios. This is the steroids in baseball shit all over again.
I’m torn on that one. There’s clearly fuckery going on with all the gambling money sloshing around.
Find the pea. It’s right there under the cup.
Roid rage?
If this account is true, the neighbor done FA and FO. If.
Jesus, the dude is the size of a gorilla. What was the neighbor thinking?
That’s a lot of speed thinking. Would also like neighbors’ opinion on “racing.” If he’s with his daughters on ATVs I seriously doubt he is racing.
In my younger days I was at a bar with one of the offensive linemen from the 49ers, a friend of a friend. It was fascinating to watch people acting passive aggressive toward him trying to provoke a reaction, and some of the guys doing it weren’t even that big.
It’s why Tyson always needed to have bodyguards (and may still). Some guys just can’t help trying to poke the bear.
https://youtu.be/UwrQb-G0iek
Jeremy Newberry?
TBF, it’d be great if the video didn’t start in media res.
But, yes, his kids being with him points away from him instigating it, absent some history of doing that sort of thing (which I have never seen mentioned).
TMZ has a video of the neighbor basically confirming this account. He was upset and went into the street to confront Ritchson about his riding. I just today had a workman jump out of the back of his pickup directly in front of my car as I drove down the street. Had a car been either coming or parked on the other side, I would have hit it. Had I been on a bike, I would have likely layed it down. Popping out in front of traffic is not smart and I could see how it caused a problem.
One of these things is not like the other.
I looked up the kids’ ages. They’re likely not riding harum-scarum through the neighborhood if they’re following their dad and most stock mini-bikes don’t go much faster than a neighborhood street limit. I mean, I’m making a lot of assumptions here, but I’m not looking for zebras.
In short, Reacher got waylaid by Karen.
Addendum: This neighbor probably already had beef with Reacher long before this. It’s an ongoing feud/campaign of harassment or he’s been quietly seething about something or he’s just generally an asshole who thinks the neighborhood ought to act the way he wants it to act.
If you are looking for zebras, they live in this stable. 7409–7445 Snake River Rd
Asotin, WA 99402
United States
Good news for the day
I’m not going to celebrate death of another person, but for this guy I’ll make an exception.
Indeed. Good riddance to that monster.
Agreed. And I hope to never read anything so horrific again.
That was one of those stories I deliberately didn’t read about, because I know I’d never get that out of my head. Justice was served on earth, and hopefully divine justice was also served.
It’s been a good month for bad guy deaths.
Bubbles doesn’t follow minor league basketball. His shopping carts hold wisdom.
A Lager a day
Perhaps the secrete elixir to agelessness is in the beer itself. Dilullo told the brewery that she drinks a lager a day to keep her young.
To help keep Dilullo on schedule, Yuengling gifted her a truckload of suds that she happily enjoyed with friends in a video posted to their Twitter page.
Cutting out alcohol doesn’t make you live longer, it just feels longer.
Ohio didn’t win any tournament games? I guess none of their opponents were coached by James Franklin.
EPA will expedite NH’s emissions testing waiver request
The EPA typically has up to 18 months to make a decision on state petitions, but it now says it will have a proposed decision by early summer and a final decision before the end of this year.
To me that means “yes.”
I still haven’t taken my stickers off. I wanted to see how the drama shook out. I think I’ll take them off soon.
Free that windshield!
Texas used to have not one, but two giant stickers you had to put on your car. It was retarded. We at least got down to one sticker under governor hot wheels.
Lol, the first year I moved here they had just repealed the inspection requirement, but it didn’t kick in until the following year. It was still just the one sticker though. $7 a year to have some schmuck tell me my lights and seatbelt work…
They’re in the process of repealing here. I have an ABS code that I haven’t fully diagnosed, so I need to find a shop that is less picky about what codes the truck throws.
@RJ, but they didn’t used to make you have to pass inspection to get registration. Most cops were sympathetic to a lapsed inspection with current registration.
I had a 63 GMC and a 69 Chevy pickup that had Idaho stickers in their windows. I didn’t know what they were for years. Idaho got rid of that crap before I was born.
NY is still at two stickers, PLUS you need to carry a paper document confirming one of the sticker’s authenticity.
the company contracted to do those tests has sued the state, saying New Hampshire needed federal approval to end the program
Exempt all but one vehicle …
Two. The judge also.
Gus: Do you happen to have a newsletter?
Stay classy, Chicago politicians.
She was asking for it.
Well yeah, I’m sure he was only psychopath illegal alien with a criminal record running around free in Chicago.
Doesn’t sound so bad.
Oh…
Don’t run backwards for the ball, people. Safety first.
Isn’t the better advice not to play pickleball?
That would be incorrect because pickleball is, in fact, a lot of fun. Which, funnily enough, is why it’s become enormously popular.
How many pickleball deaths a year? Could we have prevented this with common sense pickleball control?
Like
cornholebean bag toss, pickle ball is perfect example of the infantilization of American culture.Name aside, I’m unclear on how it’s infantalizing. It’s a racket sport, that can be played casually and can be played competitively.
Anything that gets people active is good. Tennis players think that everyone would just play tennis if pickleball were banned. That’s delusional.
Yeah, I don’t get the condemnation myself. Probably from people who live next to it.
Probably from people who live next to it.
That’s not without merit – the sound is sharper-pitched than tennis and I don’t know if I’d want to hear it all day. But I wouldn’t want to live next to a busy tennis court either.
Ping pong paddles and whiffle balls…
The Aggasi pickleball tournament was very entertaining last year – I’ll tune in again.
Aggasi is a perfect ambassador here – his back is too messed up to play tennis these days but he can handle pickleball.
I would try it out. Looks like fun.
Tennis is not fun unless you’re already good at it.
Eh. If I die during a freak pickleball accident, please tell people I choked to death on dick in a gay bathhouse. It would be less embarrassing.
Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with pickleball. Just dying while playing it.
I was thinking the other day, I wouldn’t mind taking up racquetball again, if I could find a convenient place. I wasn’t bad at it back in college.
EvilSheldon was killed in tragic kiln accident.
I think the big thing I have about pickleball is the sudden popularity feels like astroturfing to me.
Could just as well be a fleeting trend. Millennials in particular love a bandwagon.
I suspect aging boomers have a lot to do with the rise in popularity.
My neighbor is a serious tennis player, and she hates pickleball. All of her friends who aren’t as serious as she is at tennis are switching to pickleball, and they are changing the public courts over. Which isn’t surprising, as tennis has not been nearly as popular as when they put the courts in everywhere back in the seventies.
“This thing I like isn’t as popular as I think it should be.”
I don’t like having the taxpayers pay the fireguys in my hometown town to play it while on the clock, after driving an engine and an ambulance to the park to do so.
Thankfully I’m outside the fire district but 31,000 suckers are footing the bill for their games.
There’s a young, charismatic couple (Mason and Kaylee) in the competitive shooting world that I worked a stage with at SIG two years ago. It was typical Augusty temperatures. Whenever we didn’t have a squad, they’d break out the pickleball gear and play. That’s why they’re better than me. ‘Cause they’re freaks.
As if he was a Spinal Tap drummer.
Is it one of those weird pickleball incidents where you accidentally fall violently headfirst onto a pair of bullets?
It is her turn, after all.
“I feel like a bear coming out of hibernation…”
Ahem!
Don’t you just hate it when your fur gets all wrinkley?
Kinky, not wrinkly.
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That has got to hit multiple squares on someone’s BINGO card.
Following in the blade steps of Oscar Pistorius. Us disabled people just want to be like everyone else, but some people take it too far.
Uhh.. wut.
Holy shit, I was down that way for a match, that very Sunday.
Pretty sure I didn’t shoot anything except cardboard though.
…Have you and Maryland Man ever been seen in the same room?
I’m with rhy on this one. There’s a lot of movement and finger-y things going on there for a quadriplegic. You could also be Alleged Accomplice of Maryland Man.
“Quadruple amputee pro cornhole player” Dayton James Webber, 27, is facing charges of first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells… According to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭-𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭… Webber pulled over and asked the two other passengers to help remove Wells from the car, deputies said, but they refused, left the scene…”
Um. Huh. Gotta say. That’s a helluva story. Damn.
He was also eating a hoagie and learning Icelandic from Rosetta Stone over the car radio, all at the same time.
He’s not always into beer but when he is, it’s Dos Equis.
Did he pull the trigger with his tounge?
Propaganda mill
A handful of journalists have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allegedly seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote propaganda and censor news coming out of the White House.
Two VOA journalists alongside two past reporters signed on to a Monday complaint in the U.S. District Court for D.C. with Pen America and Reporters without Borders, both press freedom groups, alleging their First Amendment rights were violated.
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“The importance of reliable, accurate, and comprehensive programming from USAGM and its networks is most pronounced during major international conflicts, crises, and regime changes, like the recent Iran War,” the complaint says.
“The availability of accurate and transparent reporting is not merely a matter of good journalistic practice; it is a fundamental safeguard against propaganda, misinformation, and the manipulation of public understanding during international crises such as these,” it continues.
Plaintiffs are urging the court to grant relief from viewpoint discrimination, award nominal damages and cover their attorney fees in addition to any other relief deemed just.
Strangely enough this piece is pretty much devoid of actual information other than the usual vacuous platitudes about “press freedom”.
The very existence of VOA is to promote propaganda. There’s no “… only when the president is a Democrat” clause.
“seeking to use the Voice of America (VOA) to promote propaganda”
Wasn’t that the entire point of VOA?
*fist bumps TOK*
I guess we’re pretending that VOA wasn’t always explicit propaganda.
Whee!
*sigh*
Name the plaintiffs, fuckheads. I bet it includes the one from the last lawsuit that isn’t even an American. Truly rich that VOA is hiring non Americans to do official propaganda. Lost the plot.
“Freedom of the press” apparently means that the government has to provide you with a job to do your journalisming.
This is a week old, but considering that the source is Al Jazeera, I have to scratch my head and say “hmmm.”
When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.
The Arabs aren’t unhappy that the Persians are getting whacked without being directly involved.
This. Even they are sick of Iran’s shit.
Isn’t Al Jazeera Qatar, which was generally closer to Iran than the other Gulf states?
Bahrain is 45% Shia, and they are the ones friendly with Iran. Qatar is 5% Shia.
Iran struck Bahrain anyway because of the US Navy base there.
Is anybody surprised that this was a military success? Iran was and is outmatched, as all sides knew they would be. The “failure” comes when some knucklehead drives a truck through a parade in Louisville or shoots up a bunch of Jewish ambulances in London. The “failure” comes when we can no longer squash the remaining cockroaches with cruise missiles and bomber planes and we have to insert an occupation force. The “failure” comes when the Iranian equivalent of ISIS forms and starts causing trouble anew across the region.
Hardly anybody is dumb enough to think Iran was a bad idea because we were somehow going to fail to gain air superiority or fail to degrade their traditional military capabilities. It’s bad because we’re thisclose to doing Iraq and Afghanistan over again, and all we get for it is $4/gallon gas.
the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.
Whaaat? Those poor peace loving Iranians were just minding their own business, building a prosperous cohesive nation when Trump snuck up and dropped the hammer on them for no reason other than Netanyahu threatening to tell everybody what a pussy he is.
Don’t forget kids, Trump is a rabid anti-Semite Nazi, except when he’s a Zionist puppet under direct control of Jewish space laser tricknology.
It’s a floor cleaner and a dessert topping.
Desert topping?
I did my own study on beer & longevity.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/03/beer-and-longevity.html
It’s interesting that there are some countries with higher annual per capita beer consumption and life expectancy than the US. Consumption in the Czech Republic amounts to about a pint per person per day. I suspect a scatter plot with more countries would show a positive correlation between beer consumption and longevity. The simplest explanation for that is countries that spend more on beer can also afford more healthcare.
Counterproductive?
To date, he noted, policy measures being talked about to keep the prices down at the pump, such as no-tax holidays, are in a sense almost perverse measures because they seek to support demand. “In a situation like this, we kind of want demand destruction to allow the price to stay stable, or maybe even go back down, because of how problematic this is for the consumer,” he said.
Who’s going to tell the voters?
demand destruction . . . for the consumer
🤔
The green agenda in a nutshell, but at least this guy’s honest enough to state the reality.
WHERE CHEEZ?
To be fair adjacent to Mr Richardson, who hasn’t wanted to beat up a neighbor.
ZARDOZ commands the brutals responsible for grain wastage be punished by Zed. Vigorously.
The fuck is the letter “Z” gonna do?
@Richard: Thanks for the USB w QI! Tremendously thankful, am I. And for the dessert hearts! (Anything I should know in advance…?)
Universal Serial Bus with Qualified Immunity?
Un Sexy Bitch with Queef Issues.
Unqualified Sentience Barrage with Quinces Incoming!
More of a warning to those fearful of fruit, umbrella-less.
If the U.S. or Israel hit more Iranian oil export facilities, “I would expect them, with whatever they have left, to asymmetrically go after oil production facilities in all the surrounding countries,” Kilduff said. “The UAE is sort of the closest and easiest to hit. So that’s why they’re doing that.”
“This was one of the unknowns. What would Iran do in response? Would they go after their neighbors? Would they be like what I call ‘the drowning man syndrome,’ where you go to save somebody and they take you down with them? It looks like that for the Iranians. They are looking, in fact, to take everyone down with them,” Kilduff said. “It’s clear that the Iranians are looking to spread the pain, and they’ve turned out to be fairly good at it,” he added. “If you were to hear about a successful Iranian attack on meaningful Saudi or Kuwait or Iraq infrastructure, then this price jumps up $20 a barrel in no time. It’s ‘buy now, ask questions later’ mode for traders in the market.”
I think the question is, “How completely suicidal is whoever is in charge in Iran?”
What happens when they start taking out the water desalinization plants in the region?
Don’t care.
No one in that area is my friend.
rules for gunfights by a combat infantry veteran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXyg8dnhtPk
It’s solid advice, though I suspect most of us here know it all already.
gist: have a gun, don’t go it alone, see them first, it’ll be over fast, get behind cover, run for better cover, tracers work both ways, call for backup, longer fight = more casualties, rifle >> pistol, shoot from the hip, flank them before they flank you
Some of it is not applicable to 1 on 1 street gunfights. In those cases, you are either quick or dead. The only way to win is to draw faster and shoot straighter than the other guy.
I don’t blame cops too much for not using their pistols to take down a guy with a rifle, though many cops have rifles in their cars these days.
Staying Swiss themed.
Sennheiser’s headphone division is for sale
This is interesting. Wired headphones are enjoying new popularity. So this may be them trying to get out when the going is good.
They are high end standard used in professional applications across the world. The danger is somebody buys them cheapens them, stops R&D and rides the brand into the ground. An example of that would be Fisher. From amazing U.S. receivers and top shelf stuff in the 60s to all in one rack systems in the 80s and 90s to death.
In those days it took 20 plus years. I bet PE can do it in under a decade today.
My venerable HD-280s lasted me from 2004 to ~2020 when the headband finally snapped. The first couple years were hard usage for live audio. They were awesome for noise isolation and flat reference. Ended up replacing them with the ATH meme50x’s, which are more pleasant for listening. They don’t isolate sound as well, but since I’m not using them in 120 db live concert environments anymore they’re perfectly suitable to their task.
I have a pair of HD600s and Massdrop HD6XX which are white label 650s.
They are basically an audiophile baseline headphone. I like the sound because they are absolutely smooth and inoffensive. I don’t like the comfort. A bit tight and not enough relief for my ears.
Still an easy recommendation, but hard to drive for most people because of an old fashioned 300 ohm impedance.
For whatever reason, I just can’t do open back cans, and I’m way too cheap to spring for a $300 set of headphones anyway, but I did try the HD600s at a Guitar Center once and they’re nice. Shame to see the division being sold. I definitely don’t have high hopes for the quality remaining high.
Me neither. I use Audeze RCD2 (og version). I have 2 sets that I use to record my synth. They’re not great at that job because they tend to smooth over harsh frequencies, but I still love them. Only way I’d ever get rid of them is if I got a pair of LCD-X.
LCD-2.
My current main set is:
https://danclarkaudio.com/aeon-rt-new-1.html?srsltid=AfmBOorirH2khZB3CwGG3BHANxaSpqRFY5zFjfPJwY90MOWR9y5g6rV7
That said I am the rare person that prefers IEMs. High quality can be had there for much less.
Current favorite
https://crinear.com/daybreak
Going to make a crack about my low end Sennheiser headset but I believe that was sennheiser communications that became EPOS when their joint venture ended.
That feeling when you realize your parents were right about their wires and physical media.
The battery isn’t flat and if the wires aren’t broken it always connects.
That feeling when you remember your parents had 78 RPM records.* 😞
*Not exclusively
When it comes to physical media, my mindset never left the 90s. The only way I buy digital music is if that’s the only format available. Otherwise it’s either vinyl (less often these days because it’s become very expensive), CD (the perfect physical format), or cassette (only for electronic ambient).
My grandfather had the 78s. Also had a few of the 16 RPM records too.
About 15 years ago I had a pair of Sennheiser wireless headphones. To say they weren’t reliable is too nice to them. Never could get them to work on a consistent basis.
I want a pair of headphones I can wear while mowing the lawn that don’t mash my ears.
Headphones should completely enclose the ears and clamp on your head. They all smash my ears.
Amputee gets double arm transplant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYj_in5uDc
It’s also a good reminder of what happens when boots on the ground meet a pressure plate.
Today I learned: German has taken the word lost in the sense of “clueless” directly from English:
https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/nach-wahlschlappe—wie-lost-ist-die-spd
Five years after freed from prison, “Jury finds that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted woman in 1972, awards her more than $19 million”
Cosby did many bad things and we can add another! This shit is concerning and I’m worried we haven’t hit the wall yet. Russell Brand’s accusers and plenty more. Uh. Statutes of limitations are there for a reason. Ya can’t just keep poking everyone until you eventually find some naughty things they did.
Bill Clinton got a pass, mostly. I’m not sure who they could poke who could really poke back that hasn’t already been poked. Trump kinda dismissively paid ’em off and ya don’t hear much about that, other than Epstein shit, which won’t end.
You are not still traumatized 50yrs later, or not to the tune $19M won’t heal! https://apnews.com/article/bill-cosby-verdict-sexual-assault-motsinger-83b384df93fd9bf862b553b19b5aa4f9
I’d take a chub for half that, tbh.
STEVE SMITH PAY IN PINE CONES
No shit.
Bill Clinton gets a pass because he’s charismatic AND he
iswas generally held to be attractive. The cleanup crew takes care of the women who don’t want to play.This is the same psychology as the incompetent but very warm and caring and cozy doctor who listens to you not getting sued for malpractice as many times as an asshole who never makes mistakes.
Indeed. He’s also a link to Hillary which couldn’t be broken. Now, though, I think (with no evidence) he’s not being destroyed, 1) in order to ‘save’ Hillary a spot for some plum sinecure, and 2) to have a place in Democratic history to still look fondly upon.
Bill was extraordinarily charming and good at his job. (’94 elections meant he couldn’t do much, and end of Soviets and rise of internet = damn good decade.)
He’s kinda been hidden. I wonder if that’s part of the deal. Or maybe he just wants to fuck on his own time, to hell w Hillary and the DNC. *shrug*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Perrine
Rip
RIP. She got her start in Slaughterhouse-Five, which I’d forgotten was made into a film. Also, surprisingly, Vonnegut loved it. “I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen. I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book.”
Never seen it and doubt I will, cuz I love that book.
On Perrine: “While living in Las Vegas, Perrine became engaged to gun collector and importer Bill Haarman, who died in a gun accident in January 1969, one month before the scheduled wedding… “‘If you don’t like somebody, fix them up with Valerie and he’ll be dead within three months,’ cracked one of the male singers at the now-demolished Stardust.”
So it goes.
I’m glad I got to see the stardust before it was torn down.
Howdy, fellow Glibertarians, who are in no way Feds.
For those following from home, I recently had some cancer screening, and the oncologist said I’m fine.
But my Primary Care Physician didn’t agree and sent me to a GI doc based on an MRI. GI doc scheduled colonoscopy for today. As I was waking up, doc said he couldn’t finish the procedure because of the big ol’ tumor in there. Didn’t avoid the use of the terms cancer and tumor.
They are moving immediately on with more tests.
I’ll keep ya posted.
Non-Fed here: Damn. Immediate testing is good in this instance.
*BIG online hug from afar*
Fuck cancer!
Keep us posted and know we are thinking good things for you.
Wishing you the best thoughts.
Also stay away from STEVE SMITH.
Always good advice!
Not a Fed, Fed. I hope your colon feels better after they cut the cancer out.
I would think so.
Best of luck in getting ahead of this and getting it taken care of.
“Doctors make mistakes”
Good to get a second opinion for something serious. A road I’ve traveled and just today I’ve been referred to a dermatologist.
Good luck Hayek!
Stridex pads will help your adolescent acne, 4X.
I got new glasses today, $900 and I furnished the frames.
If you look at me straight on you’ll think this is weird . The glass is thin at the nose, gets thicker towards the sides then is beveled and gets thin at the outer edges.
They had to thin the glass down to fit into the frames but the result is a crescent towards the ear on each lens. Its hard to describe but you’ll think, “Man, that’s weird, how can a guy see with glasses like that?”
Then you’ll try them on and get queasy right away. The optometrist says this is the last prism that can be used, these glasses are really a work of art. Not perfect, distance is a bit fuzzy but the trifocals are pretty good and no double vision.
Transition so they get dark outside in the bright sun, that was a problem with the last year’s prescription, no transition
Thanks, man! Technically this next phase WiLL be the second opinion,
The after visit summary from today says “likely malignant” right in black and white. I’d have guessed they would go in gently. But then again they did just have a camera up my butt.
They took a biopsy so I should know something in a week.
Thanks, 4 score!
Sorry to hear that. My wife learned of her tumor when it attempted to leave her. They got it out of her ASAP. There was a tiny core of cancer in the monster but they believe they got it all out. That was three years ago and nothing has shown up in subsequent colonoscopies.
Sounds like you have what my sister had, a tumor higher up. If so they might be able to cut out the bad and sew the two sections together. Recovery would be slow, on a bland restricted diet. but it’s been over four years for my sister and she’s pretty much back to usual.
Hope everything goes well for you.
Thanks!
Thats wild about the wife’s tumor!
Fuck.
Damn it.
Oof. Yah the way my doc slid that in there it seemed practiced.
Best wishes.
I was actually supposed to be “prepping” tonight but I couldn’t find a ride home in this godforsaken town so I bailed and decided to take my first vacay day since I returned from disability in June instead.
I’ll schedule another go in a few months when I move back to civilization.
Good luck with the reschedule and results.
I just got a late breaking message from my doc saying it’s metastasized, off having a merry romp through my body.
Looks like I’ll be getting my money’s worth from insurance this year.
Gay Star Trek is dead. We, the viewers, killed it with our white privilege.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/23/paramount-puts-gay-star-trek-out-of-its-misery-n4950980
We didn’t deserve it.
Gay Klingons in dresses were a gift to help you get over your toxic masculinity.
lol
To be fair, I never for a minute bought the notion that all Klingons everywhere were the fierce warrior assholes we always saw on screen.
Like… where are the Klingon scientists who somehow managed to discover the warp engine and transporter technology – how did they find time to do that in between beating the shit out of each other and getting piss drunk on blood wine all the time?
+ suspension of disbelief
Fat Klingon with the restaurant in DS9.
From earlier, here is the quadruple amputee loading and using his gun:
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2036205073618051158
1. Damn. Impressive on multiple levels.
2. I can do that but I don’t wanna. (I may be cheating.)
3. The deceased isn’t a spry creature if they couldn’t avoid that build up + aiming inside a car.
I used to have access to pull up certain replays of various equipment at different airports.
This statement below will be quite interesting on what the playback shows.
The ASDE is a surface movement radar for both cooperative and non-cooperative targets.
It interfaces with remote units, ADS-B, and Mode S secondary radar and in the case at LGA, runway status lights.
With an aircraft that short on final, it was well within its safety logic and should have alerted the controller with a quite loud voice command “Runway 4 occupied, go around”. Status lights on the airport hold-short line should have lit also prior to the aircraft actually touching down.
Ill have to try and track that playback down. Im calling massive fuckup by a controller thinking they could handle all he was handling and not taking command of his airspace (hindsight I know).
All the preliminary stuff I read seems to point to the controller.
Sucks. Pilots dead and flight attendant ejected and injured. Have you read anything about passengers and people on the truck?
40 passengers taken to hospital, some released.
Two fireman in truck, both taken to hospital.
Yes its pointing to controller. I checked equipment logs, nothing major out of service.
It appears he split his attention. Again, that surface radar playback will be real telling. It has prediction logic coded in and can detect forward movement of the fire truck versus landing aircraft and easily would have alerted from the video I have seen and timestamps of audio
Surely AI will solve all this kind of problem.
However, i should note that the aircraft it appears was already landed given location and speed versus where taxiway Delta is. Which is approx. halfway the length of Rwy 4.
Fire 1 can still be at fault here even with his approved clearance from ATC to cross given runway status lights on the ground and failure to gain situational awareness before crossing even with clearance.
I can tell you from our driving training at the airports I worked, we double check the active lander before proceeding.
Just a screwed up accident
Fire guys fd up too.
Look both ways before crossing. https://funker530.com/video/air-canada-collides-with-fire-truck-2-dead
The controller admits he f’d up in one of the comms I saw.
Seemed like a normal adrenaline statement IMO cause he say the accident…I wouldn’t put too much on that.
Yeah, probably just that, but you can bet an injury attorney is going to jump all over that statement.
I had no idea there was a surface radar.
Interesting
My love for you is like a truck.
Berserker.
Would you like some making fuck…
Berserker!
You know it took a while to sink in. There are professional corn hole players?
STEVE SMITH AMATEUR. NO NEED CORN HOLE MONEY.
STEVE SMITH PROFESSIONAL. HIM ALWAYS HIT CORN HOLE!
Pro gaming is a weird one for me. Long ago, I was in the habit of watching Warcraft tourney games online. IIRC for big tourneys, winners getting $200k to a few million $. And they played live in a room with an audience of maybe 200+. Bigbig business. But, hey. I enjoyed ‘watching’ it.
Darts was on ESPN the other day. Strange creatures, humans.
If they can make a living of it, fantastic! It has to be better than being a cubicle mushroom.
People are strangers when you’re a stranger.
– Philosopher Jim Morrison
ESPN 8 needs content too.
El Ocho!
That’s a bold statement, Cotton.
Had my trucking orientation today. I feel like it will be smooth sailing. It’s 7 weeks with 3 weeks in a classroom and the rest on the road. Supposedly, Missouri has a 4-week CDL program and you get one in Iowa after a 1-day class. I get the feeling even those have a higher standard than Minnesota or California.
The instructor said it’s easy to get a local job delivering soda. That would give me exercise and plenty of home time. I’ll take what I can get, probably whichever job pays the most.
At my last engineering job 12 years ago, my boss once asked if I liked working there. I was tempted to say something like: “I have bills to pay, and this is the highest paying work I’m qualified to do.” I can’t remember my actual response. I might have just sat there in stunned silence for a moment and changed the subject. What was he expecting? “Oh yes, boss. I just *love* working in this plastic bag factory.”
At the boat factory last summer, when I was asked the same question, I just shrugged and said I have to work somewhere.
Hopefully my general lack of enthusiasm will not be an issue with trucking. Just get the stuff from A to B on time and don’t stick your dick in the customer’s mashed potatoes. I can do that. Probably.
The school trucks are 10-speed freight shaker (Freightliner) and a 10-speed Volvo.
Maybe my callsign can be Droopy Dog. Or Eeyore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JWotX1ymGQ
Movng shit from point A to point B aint nothonin.
Moving shit from point B to point C also aint nothing.
On the one hand, it seems like a waste of my 20 years of education. On the other hand, a job I can keep is the most useful one. A nice thing about getting older is I no longer desire to impress people because I have nothing left to prove.
Pretty much everybody is forgotten after 3 generations. I thought that maybe I could beat the odds somehow. At this point, if my legacy is merely my blog, I’m OK with that.
One of my great-grandfathers said that it wasn’t gambling when he played cards, because he knew how to win consistently. 3 generations later, that saying is all that’s left of him. He started out as a truck driver for Wonder Bread quickly moved up the ranks. His son also worked as a Wonder Bread truck driver and gave me a toy Wonder Bread truck I still have. So I guess that truck is also something that’s left of both of them.
I see plenty of trucks at the local bakery. After skipping a generation, my family’s back to trucking.
Tucson to Tucumcari = 600 miles
Tehachapi to Tonopah = 300 miles
Lowell George was a lame-ass trucker.
Hmm. The google machine says the average trucker drives between 100k and 150k miles per year vs. 14k for the average Murican driver, so about 10x as much.
I plan on buying cassette tapes and CDs to stay entertained as my laptop’s internet periodically flakes out.
It makes me wonder how the old breed stayed sane on the road. I’ve taken many long road trips where I didn’t listen to the radio much. You just get used to it I suppose. I’m surprised there aren’t more Buddhist truck drivers. Seems like you can get paid to meditate. Sikhs meditate (simran). Maybe that’s their secret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-c8bsdkcC0
trucking in the Himalayas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITZpJY6K4wk
Seven weeks?!
They are stretching that out an extra month.
Meh, 88M (truck driver) AIT is 6 weeks.
https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/support-logistics/transportation-inventory/88m-motor-transport-operator
Probably only 3 weeks of that is actually driving.
To this day, I instinctively feel duty-bound to pull over into the weigh stations if I’ve been on a long monotonous trip!
And I only drove one year.
I strongly approve. It’d almost assuredly be what I’d dive into next, but TBI+epilepsy kinda disqualifies me. (If I didn’t speak English, I’m sure I’d still be fine in MN/CA.)
Your classroom /road training will overlap considerably with my reentry into scoring standardized tests. I’ve got a vocational rehab dude, which didn’t turn anything up, but I’m also doing intake with another org on Wed that does ‘helping disabled folk’ stuff. They may be able to get me with a pro-methamphetamine salt MD, and be another set of eyes to look out for ‘meaningful’ long-term work.
I’m with you on the ‘no need to impress’ people front, but I am still greatly pleased that my resume’ll have something other than grocery store +gas stn on top. Internally, it does feel better. I’d feel fantastic about a trucking gig. On the road, by myself, plenty of audio to absorb, world to observe.
Well done.
chatgpt fed me Ken Follett as a new author because I wanted another series like the Baroque Cycle.
Ken Follett is a more boring Michener. Which isn’t to say I’m not enjoying Fall of Giants, but he’s no Stephenson.
FWIW, I’m enjoying the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron.
Insomnia.
It’s a bit h, ain’t it?
Good morning Glibs (in the afternoon links – WTF?)
😳 🛌🥱
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVXIK1xCRpY
🎶🎶
To be fair, it’s almost afternoon in Pie-land.
It’s 5PM somewhere.
Mornin’. Went to sleep ’round 1 and got about three hours sleep. Wasn’t able to dive back into it. At this point, might as well stay up. (For a bit, at least.)
Watching QI, courtesy of Richard (much thanks, again!) and figuring out how to make today productive. I have things to do, but this is the first day off work when I’d normally be scheduled. Eldest nephew (12) has a volleyball game tonight we’re going to. Like his dad (and me), he’s remarkably athletic and is also diving into music.
Trying to sort my lede for my lottery story to organize it.
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., Roat, EfE, homey, and hayek (if you last two are still awake. Best wishes, hayek! Hope all turns out well!)
Morning, GT.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
I got shockingly little sleep last night, and am worried about when I’m going crash and zonk out for an extended period.
Oh no! Again? 😧 Are you at least working remotely so you don’t have to drive?
Today I’m remote. Tomorrow is an office day.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/s/NJ70txJM1b
Respect.
That’d blend in well in the land of pink trees, where your rifle must also double as a shovel’s handle.
But it’s a gun. Zardoz would be pleased.
Or any major city thats tagged up…might be on to something here
Good morning.
Gordilocks on TOS.
https://reason.com/2026/03/24/welfare-on-wheels/
Good morning, Grumble!
Oooh, thanks. I don’t go there no more, but will for that.
The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Fi Router Models Made Outside US
How much is that going to raise the price of routers?
Fucking what? What wifi routers ARE made in the US? What a crock of shit.
I wouldn’t call it a terrible idea but ya, our domestic production is lacking.
Applies to all new sales (whatever or however that is defined) so the (insert your ISP) warehouse full of them will still be utilized most likely unless consumer demand switches with this news.
Netgear makes one so instead of a Chinese backdoor, it has a FedGov backdoor (really 5 Eyes backdoor).
I wonder if Netgear was a stakeholder who was intimately involved with crafting this rule. This is power the fedgov should not have and I don’t like seeing choices restricted at the flick of a pen.
5 Eyes backdoor
The US hasn’t liked the Kiwis for a long time.
Make plans now to get to SW OH tomorrow for the closest thing we may get to a libertarian holiday! [TW: carbs]
4chan for the win
That makes me proud to be an American! ::searches in vain for U.S. flag emoji::
🇺🇸
Preferably, one with drugs falling out of its ass.
Thank you! That’s the one thing I don’t like about my switch to Linux Mint: fewer emojis.
/gif FTW.
/b was introduced to me by a roommate at IU. He’s kinda got his lifelong dream of being a bike mechanic, IIRC. Our updoor neighbor was our dealer.
I’d like to know more about 4chan actually works.
I went to sleep earlyish and woke up around 4 and couldn’t get back to sleep by 5. My brain’s still on Walmart timing, apparently. So I got about four hours. Gonna try to slink back into it. This may be successful.
Do well all.
Apparently, has just reached one billion streams on Spotify….