Sorry folks, we have no internet tonight because Spectrum sucks.
Enjoy your Friday.
On the bright side, I have purchased everything to go to Honey Harvest.
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ron73440
What I told my wife when she said my steel Baby Eagle .45 was heavy, "Heavy is good, heavy is reliable, if it doesn't work you could always hit him with it."-Boris the Blade MOLON LABE
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Woo hoo!
Spectrum sucks Cox.
Re: Bowling alleys, the surveillance corpo-state gave me an ad for this:
https://www.shirepost.com/products/bowlerite-fidget-chunks
I do admire the hustle of “this is cheap, find a way to sell it.”
I would absolutely use those coins for XP tokens in a Cypher or FATE campaign…
I like that shop in general. Eventually I will get some of those.
I wish I had the budget to indulge myself in their knicknacks.
Today I learned that bowling balls are hollow.
My dad has a bowling ball cannon and we’ve broken several but never exposed the hollow core.
Not all, different balls have different cores. The girlfriend and I had a fun time watching Born to Bowl on Max.
I’ll relay the news to the bees and all others, as a matter of motivation, Ron. Kinnath is ready!
Absolutely.
There will be mead.
Spectrum’s failures are beyond your control, and therefore you must remain Stoic.
What would Marcus Aurelius say?
Quid?
Et tu, Spectrum ?
Hopefully nothing, considering how long he’s been dead…
I’m not going to go back for a link, but millions of bees will be thrown out of work by Del Monte’s closure of a processing plant in California. Farmers will chop down their peach trees because there is no place to send the peaches.
But don’t worry, the government will bail the farmers out.
How much do unemployed bees get?
Nothing. Unemployed bees are dead bees.
The bees can
learn to codepollinate the almond trees instead.The real question is why the farmers aren’t diversified?
Millions of peaches?
Peaches peaches peaches peaches peaches
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-IMIBnmuKw
Underrated band/album. The whole thing’s funny, purposefully cheeky, and there’s solid musicianship behind that 3-piece.
Nobody likes their peaches or wants to shake their trees?
Meanwhile, across the country, most of the Jersey peach crop has been destroyed by an early hot spell followed by freezing temps.
I guess there is no way to balance the two crops out.
ODOT- a model of efficiency.
Local bridge reopens after over 10-year closure
Next week “Local bridge closes for fresh maintenance”
You know it.
ODOT- a model of efficiency.
What’s the big rush? That river will still be there tomorrow.
From ded thread,
Best of luck, cyto.
Just saw that as well. Indeed, best of luck, and try to keep your spirits up. They carry far more than their non-existent weight.
Same. Best wishes cyto.
Hantavirus is no reason to panic.
https://x.com/redsteeze/status/2052430194095648846
Heh
If it really is the hantavirus (sorry for the crappy quality): https://youtu.be/9lMn8GZIBPw?si=NKuyq0TJKPMVpMi0&t=33
Blow me
Court rejects Virginia redistricting in a blow to Democrats’ counter to Trump, GOP
The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down the congressional redistricting approved by voters in April. The ruling is a major setback for Democrats’ attempt to counter the pro-GOP reshuffling of voting maps led by President Trump.
Commonwealth voters last month approved — by a 52% to 48% margin — a constitutional amendment to allow redistricting. But responding to a lawsuit brought by Republicans, the Virginia high court found that the Democratic-led legislature made procedural errors in how it placed the question on the ballot.
But it was approved by the voters! Overwhelmingly!
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CommonwealthDC area voters last monthapprovedoverrode the rest of the state— by a 52% to 48% margin”Do the “procedural errors” include the laughably transparent lie that the new map was the “fair map”…?
https://x.com/monsterhunter45/status/2052400721929347134
Steal $11MM in Medicare fraud? No jail time?
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2052417781673365707
Let me tell you how I know Brother Keith is dirty. That right there.
“a requirement to help track a missing fugitive co-defendant.”
Well, I’ve looked everywhere, the learing centers, the school lunch rooms, the autistic centers. No one even knows this guy.
Can I go now, Brother Ellison?
Like OJ searched for the “real killer” on all those golf courses?
Nuke it from space.
Today’s workplace lol:
The processes on wafers are almost universally performed out of sight, the wafers are transported in opaque clean containers and to maintain that cleanliness very few people have access to open them. On top of that most of the managerial-ish engineers that design the process flows/transport/protocol zones and the like don’t even work in the fab. They don’t need to be there so we keep their filthy mammalian bodies out.
Anyway, I got the wrong wafers, and I can tell they’re wrong because I can visually see them and recognize that this is not the specified surface. So I’ve got someone sending me documents that these are absolutely the right wafers, so I sent him a pic of the war surface to counter his documentation.
“Paper Sez iz right wafer. Iz Right Wafer. Yur pic iz wrong!”
Reminds me of an “argument” I got in with USPS:
“Our tracking software says we delivered it too you.”
Zwak drives across town, knocks on door of house with almost the same address, gets package.
“No you didn’t. But you did just lie to me.”
Plant a little garden
eat a lot of peaches
When do we get to blow up our TV?
Happy birthday to Friedrich Hayek!
https://integratedskillsgroup.com/tier-none/
An interesting article on preparedness and capability in crisis, by some of the original gangstas of civilian combat training.
My unit was Class 6.
Range once a year if you were lucky. And some hood to NCO program ass running said range.
This is too awesome not to share. Sob stories about fired USAID “workers”
Apologies if already posted and also if I post the link incorrectly.
https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/unemployed-usaid-linkedin-flexing?utm_medium=email
No worries, we picked over the initial story when it was published.
What on earth is the deal with this, OMWC?
NO COKE, PEPSI!
I bet that dude is a pussy eating champ.
Hah!
That is some amazing talent in display.
And now we know how OMWC gets dates.
Cal is losing. Just thought I’d update you on the score since your internet is out.
It’s not too late
https://www.theverge.com/tech/918011/trump-mobile-t1-phone-real-redesign-release-date
America, World Police
Four South Florida men were convicted on Friday of plotting to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021 by hiring mercenaries to assassinate him at his Port-au-Prince home, according to CBS News and other media.
Prosecutors argued during the nine-week trial in a Miami federal court that the men assembled two dozen former Colombian soldiers and supplied them with money, guns, ammunition and tactical vests in a conspiracy to kill Moise. The 53-year-old president was shot dead in July 2021 at his private residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince, a killing that left a gaping political vacuum in the Caribbean nation and emboldened powerful gangs.
Standing trial were Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, 53, a former FBI informant, Colombian national and U.S. permanent resident; Antonio Intriago, 62, a Venezuelan American owner of a security firm; James Solages, 40, a Haitian American handyman; and Walter Veintemilla, 57, an Ecuadorean American.
Why were they on trial here and not in Haiti?
Do they have actual trials in Haiti? I figure that undesirables just get raped, killed, and eaten (hopefully in that order…)
I think the victims might prefer a different order.
Raped – Eaten – Killed?
Hiring assassins is a crime here, even if they go and kill someone over there.
I’m guessing they planned it all here.
I want to know why 3 non-Haitians wanted to kill Haiti’s President. That’d be like me or you moving to Canada and hiring someone to kill Brazil’s President.
I remember that incident. Totally bizarre, never properly explained when it happened.
I’m guessing that right there has something to do with it. He was on their radar.
Today has been a real joy in understanding things I’m supposed to be an expert in.
I’ve been working on/with these ion chromatographs since I was fresh out of school, and for the last 20 years I’ve been working with the luxury of having them directly plumbed into ultrapure, no dissolved gas water systems. And for those 20 years I have blithely disregarded the big screaming error message that my inlet water vacuum degasser has failed because I don’t care, and that part is unnecessary. Occasionally I’ve wondered why they’ve all failed, especially when people tell me the part is trouble free and rarely needs maintenance. The fifteenth and sixteenth of these degas units failed within the first week of a new tool install back in 2024, but again, I don’t care. While talking with the applications guy for purchasing enough new ICs to get my degas units up to 24 total (soon to be) failing ones, on a completely unrelated subject I learned that they blow up if the inlet pressure is about 1 bar. We run at 3.
It’s never too late to learn something new!
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Grok is having trouble animating a farmer milk a whale. I tell ya, AI aint taking over the world.
To be fair, I’m having trouble figuring out the proper logistics for that.
Whale gives milk, man takes milk. It’s easy.
Clarify that by “whale” you meant “fat liberal chick with green hair and face metal.”
Non-AI art I did years back.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Whale-milk.jpg
Wouldn’t that result in seawater contamination?
I’m imagining a sealed vacuum unit would do the pumping, and it would probably have a hose running to a ship, a whale cow can give hundreds of gallons a day.
AI is still fooled by picking out 3 pictures of a motorcycle.
I think we will be fine.
But does the mirror of the motorcycle that’s bleeding into one of the squares count? Am I supposed to click that square to?
Scooters are not motorcycles and reCaptcha should be able to tell the difference.
I ran into that conundrum just last night, actually.
@CPRM
I SAID TO PROVE YOUR HUMANITY!
I think the moderation thinks if the teats are on the bottom it would look like jacking the whale off? It keeps putting them on the whale’s ‘chin’.
Aren’t they in the armpits? Er, flipperpits?
they blow up if the inlet pressure is about 1 bar. We run at 3.
Needs more boost.
Break #2 and finished in 90 min. Planning to go to Meijer to suss out if I’m still working tomorrow. (I am, but I can’t login into our Zebra handhelds and last time I got kicked out of the Pickup Dept cuz we were too busy to add a fairly fresh newcomer that day, apparently.
I’m gonna try and slink back into grocery picking, cuz frankly, it’s better. You’re walking through the aisles without anyone over your shoulder. Talent walks by, and the one time I was vaguely on the main floor, folk *loved* asking me questions about where shit was. (Like I knew, at the time.)
^^ That wouldn’t be bad, but immaterial. This contract is theoretically wrapping up May 27 and I need to get myself onto their schedule a bit until then. (Or *DO* I? I fucking would love to have an actual week off to think and prepare for reentry to a Meaningful Work Search.
If I could do this gig full-time, I’d dive my body on that happy grenade as a damn party trick. (So it goes, but it’s a remarkably sweet gig for me.)
More from today’s workday:
These ion chromatographs have a Secret Service Mode. To access it on the ones you’re replacing you need to go to one of the submenus, type ctrl+shit+0 and a field will pop up. The last bit of text on the page will have also changed into a six digit number. Type that into the field backwards and you have free reign to change any and every setting on the system. I learned that be being friendly with a FSE in 2014.
Anyway, today I got a copy of the Super Secret Not For Customers Service Manual for the new systems because social engineering is the ultimate hack. This generation of Secret Service Mode access is as follows:
Also amusing in this manual:
They wear sunglasses and scan the room for suspicious activity?
I really want to see what happens if I lubricate the motor.
I have a pump I’m curious about if it would last if I used it to pump water instead of diesel. I’m assuming the diesel lubes it.
DO NOT EVER LUBRICATE THE DILDO OF CONSEQUENCES
STEVE SMITH TOO APPRECIATE BACK DOOR
I’ll flip shit back to political text messages never expecting to get a response from a person as I assume they are bots. I’ve gotten one response prior to today.
https://ibb.co/d442RJkk
https://ibb.co/mC48qLCB
I get so tired of those
If you type “STOP” you get 10x more.
R.J.:
Yeah, you’ve confirmed that it’s a live number that reaches a person. They drop you from that list, and sell it to all the other people as a verified live number. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that most of the text scammers get more money on that side of it than responses.
My general response is “fuck off slaver”
Our phones got blown up after we had our first child.
Damn hospital sold all our days.