Well, Sloopy is still stuck driving (I think in a roundabout in England?) and so you get some special db emergency links. It’s my fist time, so please be gentile!
I know there’s some international sports shit going on, because I’m having a hard time booking hotels and flights to places I need to get to, and when I was on the road in Texas last week, I saw a bunch of Euro-weenies gawking at a Buc-ee’s and buying Americana and brisket sandwiches. I love this country, and They Do Too!
SCOTUS continues a decent run on the Second Amendment with this gem of a decision. Imagine a world where fundamental individual rights aren’t stifled by government default!
I know a fair bit about firearms, and particularly machineguns, but I learned something new the other day. Did you know that the original 1921 Tommy guns had secret serial numbers that even gangsters didn’t know about?
Maybe not news to you, but a captivating story about a man who used a machinegun in lawful self defense. Imagine working for HK and using a Ruger to fend off rabid biker gangsters. Gee, whyever didn’t he just use an MP5, one might ask?
Here’s a metaphor for human governmental systems if I ever saw one (It’s going to take Jehanne Butler to cut this particular Gordian Knot):
Present-day models tend to produce code that is too defensive, too complex, too local in its reasoning. They avoid strong invariants. They add fallbacks instead of making bad states impossible. They duplicate code, invent bad abstractions, and paper over unclear design with more machinery. Worse though: I so far see very little progress of this improving. If anything, on that front it feels to me that we might even be making steps in the wrong direction. At least for my taste, present-day hands-off harnesses like Claude Code with ultracode produce worse code than what we were producing last autumn.
I love coming home after a week of traveling for work
And an obligatory music link. If you haven’t heard these guys in the last few months, what rock have you been hiding under? eh?
Prospect. The word is prospect.
Word..
AI doing the translation?
OMWC haz a sad! 😞
Because that’s not what he had on hand.
Gee, whyever didn’t he just use an MP5, one might ask?
He could have used an MP3. I understand the kids hate Barry Manilow.
1984 – the mp3 hadn’t been invented yet.
The link was to a video. I couldn’t be bothered to watch.
I watched it earlier this week.
I assume this is the Brandon Hererra one?
Getting a hit on the CNS is the only reliable way of stopping an attacker. Fortunately the guy not only got that, but five other hits. The DA seems like a horrible person and very much typical of the pre-Luby’s attitude toward guns in TX.
You assume correctly.
That’s rich. Who has time for that?
We test in production …
Meets quality standards: Compiles without errors.
Only place with real data…
Are you the devs from my old company?
“No, we can’t provide notice to customers when a new version is coming out. That’s not our department.”
I’m sure you love uncommented, bloated code.
Let that AI clean it up, don’t check it after, check it in, deploy it, and get fired cause the company is now liable to the tune of several million cause of some legal violation and exposure!
I have and do throw out blobs of that sort and re-write from requirements so that people can understand what’s there.
The consultants who wrote the crap I replaced thought their obfuscationary methods would result in job security. It did not.
I know nothing but all code seems to be bloated.
I downloaded some roms for DigDug, Joust, and PacMan. The three all together was close to 900 mb. Seems to me that that is about 100X too large.
The OS on my computer and phone are several gigs. Madness.
If AI is so smart, give it up some code to maintain, not to create from scratch.
AI is dumber than sand.
Eh. “AI” makes an excellent search engine. At least until SEO catches up.
My initial forays have found it to be very useful. I don’t know anything about code, but boy is it good at certain tasks.
And the voice command is great. I get to tell it to do things in Picard-voice.
AI is only as good as it’s prompter’s ability to be as accurate as possible, and then to have the expertise to spend more time going through whatever code the AI generated to make sure it didn’t create a massive problem. I see no chance of AI being put in charge of coding without a human in the loop. The first time it creates a massive security vulnerability and some noob checks it in and sends it to production, and the company suddenly has a security event and is liable to the tune of millions, every company will put humans in the loop and abandon this practice.
When you save the cat but then need to be saved yourself…
Lesbians are violent….
lesbian porn >> lesbian sports
I am an expert on lesbianism. I am after all a lesbian trapped in a man’s body…
Hey look kids, there’s Big Ben, and there’s Parliament… again.
Next time he passes it, it will have morphed in Big Ben and Funkadelic.
Grand Sharia Council
A new menace arrives: AI powered mobile toilets:
https://thepostmillennial.com/youve-seen-self-driving-cars-now-theres-a-self-driving-toilet
the robo toilet is pretty cool….. and $$$$
But does it have smart features like analyzing your waste?
“Smart Pipe Inc. is a registered sex offender”
This is how China is finally going to conquer India
Somehow the Chinese are one step ahead.
I’m going to need 2, unless it can climb stairs
Imagine the disaster of a loaded smart toilet falling down the stairs
Figures! I just spent all my money on this new Kohler toilet.
So that’s why you’re a sitzpinkler.
From the Supreme Court article:
“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who dissented, countered that the law “fairly applies a first principle of property law—the right to exclude…”
So I can now decide who sits at my lunch counter?
Let me guess ms. “Not a Biologist” doesn’t realize that the right of the property owner to exclude is not impacted by telling the state they cannot decide on behalf of the property owner.
Whoa, whoa, hey there, that’s a level of consistency I’m not sure she’s prepared for. I’m not sure she has the mental capacity to consider first order consequences, much less second-order.
Where logical people go wrong is that you thinks she cares. When her own logic applied to a problem so she gets the result she wants works against what she wants in another situation, she just ignores it and applies a different logic. Her primary ability isn’t logic. It is acquiring and abusing power for the marxist cause.
Oh that’s obvious. The same goes for Sotomayor, and also Kennedy when he was still around. I listened to the oral arguments on the vaccine mandate case a few years ago and was struck at how Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kennedy avoided speaking of the law entirely and focused only on outcomes.
You fuckers, your job is THE LAW. Leave outcomes to Congress and the Executive.
She really is a special one.
In an alternate universe we had Janice Rogers Brown instead.
I’ve decided to exclude my property tax…
I was impressed she used an actual legal argument this time instead of her usual “I just can’t even.” Naturally, she couldn’t think it through.
Baby steps…
So I can now decide who sits at my lunch counter?
In fact, the state of Hawaii cited the Black Code from antebellum Louisiana as precedent!
Speaking of the Supreme Court, I see the stupid team has decided to wait until after they get butchered in the mid-terms to swap out their 2 aging justices.
I thought those 2 would have been smart enough to not RGB themselves.
So I can now decide who sits at my lunch counter?
No, but you can tell (((customers))) that they can’t get a coffee at your coffee shop.
From the dedthred, Mechanicville (only one mechanic in Mechanicville) is an odd place in that it’s like two miles from me but takes 20 minutes to get there ’cause geography.
Same as Podunksville. Takes me 20 minutes to find my car keys.
That’s like Jamaica Plain here. Always an hour to go a few miles.
It’s very white, but not affluent?
But their privilege is off the charts.
The Heights – 20 minutes from anything. The Heights – 20 minutes from EVERYTHING!
A house in my neighborhood is a half mile away but a seven mile drive.
Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
NJ says – the place is 3 miles away, but it is still going to be a 25 minute drive.
My brother commute to work when he worked for Origin was 8 minutes. His commute from work was 45. Limited-access freeways FTL.
Great 1st time. Glad you popped your cherry!
It’s my fist time
That’s popping the cherry the hard way.
To much gun. I feel othered.
Do we need to take you to a range?
I mean I can shoot at a range here. I even posted some results a while back.
But I guess it is not the same with a rental. When you have your own gun and shoot it repeatedly and you know get to know it.
The occasional hooker can be nice but there is a place for a wife. To use a analogy.
That raises an interesting question that might be worth an article – what sort of hoops would you have to jump through over there to become a gun owner?
you cant have one just because. And not for self defense in general, you need to provide a justification.
The easiest way to get a rifle is to become a hunter (member of a authorized club) or a collector (member of a authorized club) .
I think you can join a shooting club and get a pistol that way.
I take for granted the awesome gun culture we have here. I will atone by purchasing another. Maybe a 10/22 backpacker with Magpul stock or a 9mm carbine.
The occasional hooker…
Winston’s Mom ears perk up.
I’m reducing my spending as much as I can so I can pick up a TS3 when they’re released. A lefty-friendly race gun?
you cant have one just because. And not for self defense in general, you need to provide a justification.
So heading down the road to take part in this auction isn’t an option? Sad.
you might if you are registered as a collector.
Do we need to take you to a range?
Pie would love to see deer and antelope play!
Jimbo, I hate to break it to you, but despite what the song says, there are no antelope in North America. The Pronghorn isn’t actually an antelope.
“Too much gun” does not compute.
He needs more ZARDOZ.
I might be legally transporting some of my guns when you’re in Butlerville. No idea if there’s a shooting location there. It would be illegal for me to let you shoot any of my handguns, but committing a felony is a pretty American thing to do.
Three felonies a day!
What state are you in that it’s illegal to let someone target practice with your firearm?
Someone who does not have a NYS carry permit. Unless I’m a bona fide instructor according to the State Police.
F’n commies. I’m in Illinois and that is too far even for this bitch-ass State.
And an obligatory music link.
how do you know this obscure music.
that is a horrible song.
Enjoy! – Upper middle here as expected. But because I refuse to get on an airplane for vacation “middle” there.
See What Your Lifestyle Says About Your Economic Class
A paycheck isn’t the only determinant of where Americans place themselves on the socioeconomic ladder
https://www.wsj.com/articles/working-middle-upper-class-quiz-85687f19?st=h5y4bY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I am a single guy in an apartment in the city – many of the questions were irrelevant so I tapped out.
I fly if I have to, but if attached to the same land mass, I’m driving till the kids take my keys.
Oh-Oh, can they do that?
Not if you’ve alienated them!
i don’t see a quiz but am not american anyway.
I live middle class so my kids can live upper middle class some day. That assumes, of course, that the socialist wave doesn’t sweep over the land before the majority of voters wake the fuck up.
Middle/Upper-middle, about where I expected.
Financially, middle class
Socially, lower class
Works for me
My income is upper middle, my recreation is working, all others are upper.
Their methodology is terrible. They claim I have upper class finances, middle class leisure, and lower class anxiety.
Seems on point to me! 😉
I tagged “upper” on retirement because I’ve lived modestly to save for it.
FWIW I live below my means. I don’t travel, I don’t eat out, I don’t have a maid. I could do all of those things but none of them appeal to me so *shrug*.
So cocaine and rent boys?
The ‘eating leftovers’ question was weird.
I do meal prep Sunday night for the upcoming week, because it saves time and energy. It doesn’t have anything to do with my budget.
If I’m working at home – the remains of last night’s dinner is frequently lunch.
But for the truly wealthy I think that’s generally not the case.
“Important to me budget” meant I answered no. I could afford to eat extravagantly for every meal and have the waistline to prove it. It’s not budgetary reasons which drive my meal planning decisions.
If I were wealthy, the first thing I’d do would be to hire a housekeeping service. The second thing would be a private chef.
Eating out is convenient (and a good way to flash your wealth around) but it’s not good for your overall health.
Screw that, cooking is fun!
But yeah, housekeeping service and a scullery maid or two to clean up after my cooking.
I do the same. If I don’t meal prep I end up eating like crap.
I would hire a twice weekly gardener and a laborer to aid him along with a house keeper twice a week.
But then I’d be broke at my current income level.
“Other people see you as upper middle class”
No. They think I’m a broke loser.
“The hoarder parents of an obese 7-year-old boy who weighed 255 pounds when he died of heart failure have been charged with his murder for their “extraordinary, terrible neglect,” according to prosecutors…
He was 4-feet, 2-inches tall and weighed 255 pounds when he died — far exceeding what the CDC considers a healthy weight for a 7-year-old boy of the same height, which is between 50 and 73 pounds….
The O’Briens were charged with second-degree murder, child abuse and torture this week.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/us-news/hoarder-parents-charged-with-murder-of-7-year-old-son-who-died-weighing-255-pounds/
Yikes!
Only in the US can you abuse a child by overfeeding.
Obviously more food subsidies are in order.
A desert of healthy food!
How the *bleep* do you get that fat at SEVEN?
I may be 27 pounds heavier, but I’m also twenty five inches taller than that.
You’d have to be trying intentionally to overfeed the child.
I bet the kid had something like Prader-Willi syndrome where there’s a disconnect between your brain and stomach that says you’re full.
Maybe it was some sort of disorder, but I know a lot of parents who say things like “I just can’t get him to eat healthy”, or “I just can’t get him to put down his phone.” Like, which of you is in charge in this relationship?
At seven he could not have been buying his own food.
Like, which of you is in charge in this relationship?
“But my child won’t like me if I’m so authoritarian.”
I got told I was mean last week because one of the ladies in the office said her kid won’t eat a lot of things and it’s tiring cooking a separate meal for them.
I told her in my house the rule was that it didn’t matter if you like it, if somebody makes you a meal you eat it.
If you didn’t eat it that night, it would be your breakfast.
I told her i knew it was working when my son said to me at dinner, “Dad, I don’t like this, but I’m gonna finish it because I don’t want it for breakfast”.
Mottainai – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottainai
I just looked at the parents’ mug shots. They look as unkempt and unhealthy as my oldest. Thank the Lord she has a birth control implant. If she were to have a kid I could see something like this happening.
I thought you were going to tell the **** to be more stoic.
@Ron, that’s exactly it. My wife babysits kids during the day, and she’s had parents say “my kid just won’t take a nap for me”. We don’t give them a choice. They get put in a crib at nap time and surprise surprise, after a day or two they no longer put up a fight.
Ron:
I’m on your side, but I lost that battle to my wife.
She grew up hungry and to her and everyone else around that age, food is sacred. Feeding someone is the biggest way to show love that you can do.
Even when I’d rage and forbid that she cook a separate meal for one of the Altar Kids, she’d go behind my back at some point and feed them something they wanted.
I eventually gave up. If she wanted to be a short order cook, I wasn’t going to stop her.
On the plus side, she fed them healthy things. So they are all doing OK.
That’s enraging.
Big gulps and Xbox.
They look like I expected.
Set in the sweeping landscapes of eastern Idaho, Leadore Angus Ranch represents one of the Rocky Mountain West’s most remarkable legacy ranch holdings. Spanning approximately 148,000± total acres, including 13,000± deeded acres and more than 135,000± acres of leased grazing lands, this extraordinary river-to-mountain operation stretches from the fertile banks of the famed Lemhi River to the rugged peaks of the Continental Divide. Defined by its immense scale, natural beauty, and productive capability, the ranch offers a rare combination of premier cattle operations, exceptional sporting opportunities, and authentic Western heritage.
At the heart of the ranch lies a highly efficient and fully integrated cattle program capable of supporting more than 2,000 cow/calf pairs year-round, along with replacement heifers and herd bulls. The property features approximately 2,900± irrigated acres, including productive center pivots, native meadows, and fertile river bottoms that contribute thousands of tons of annual hay production. Home to the respected Leadore Angus Bull Sale, the ranch has built a strong reputation for quality registered Angus genetics and long-standing ranching tradition.
Equally impressive is the ranch’s recreational and wildlife appeal. With over eight miles of both banks of the Lemhi River flowing through the property, the ranch offers exceptional trout fishing in a truly private setting. Expansive wildlife habitat supports trophy bull elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, antelope, moose, bighorn sheep, upland birds, and waterfowl. Framed by panoramic views of the Beaverhead Mountains and Lemhi Range, the ranch captures the enduring spirit, scale, and beauty of the American West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2wtZU431eU
$40,000,000 | Leadore, Idaho | 13,005± ACRES
There is something that I don’t trust about leased aces.
Are all these fantastic ranches for sale because “Yellowstone” and the “Dutton Ranch” created a lusty real estate market? I don’t think your purchase will include wild hot cowgirls and comely Native maidens.
I have a feeling if you can drop $40MM for a place that attracting/obtaining hot or comely maidens of whatever ethnicity you choose will not be a problem.
No, you’re more likely getting someone like this asshole.
I read that as “wild hot catgirls”
Corner crossing is an issue. Created by government.
My solution.
Deed and sell the government land. Problem solved.
I drove through there two years ago.
Winter there…
If a codebase is produced by loops, reviewed by loops, patched by loops, and kept alive by loops, what happens when you no longer have access to the same class of systems? What happens when some trade restrictions take away access to the most powerful models? What if just the cost becomes unbearable? What if you and your team just lose the last remaining ability to understand the code without using the machine?
I’ve seen that happen in the past when everyone that knew a bit of code was laid off but the code was still in use.
What could possibly go wrong?
We needed something new to replace the compiled COBOL with missing source problem!
“Sultry nude of working class Londoner painted by Sigmund Freud’s grandson fetches $39M at auction
A painting by the grandson of the famed psychologist Sigmund Freud featuring a London clerk in the buff sold for a mind-bending $39 million at auction Wednesday — and the curvaceous model couldn’t be happier.
“Mona Lisa wasn’t alive when she became famous — but I am,” Sue Tilley, 69, told the Wall Street Journal after “Sleeping by the Lion Carpet” by Lucian Freud sold at Sotheby’s London.
The portrait, painted between 1995 and 1996, depicts a then 35-year-old Tilley sleeping in a chair with nothing left to the imagination — one of four portraits the British socialite, nepo baby painted of her.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/world-news/sultry-nude-of-night-club-cashier-by-sigmund-freuds-grandson-fetches-39m-at-auction/
Sultry?
*clicks*
oh dear god
Fat.
The word you’re looking for is fat.
Paging Trey…Trey to the white courtesy phone.
I would be in my bunk but I’m currently at 34,000 feet heading to Chicago.
Plus there is now crowbar to pry you off her, right?
It’s your chance to join the Miley High Club!
That’s a big bitch…
+++++++++++++++
Started out as a 255 lb 7 year old girl and grew from there.
bri love🇵🇸
@mclovenxoxo
sorry you’ll never convince me that the “lateness is a moral failing” isn’t rooted in colonization and capitalism, it’s CONTROL!!! and I get we live in a society blah blah blah but if it’s ur friends you know is always late tell them an earlier time or whatever but acting like it’s a moral failing is so puritanical and silly sometimes you just got to accept people as they are
lex
@lexisoupertramp
yall are getting so mad at bri for this but there are countless studies and articles and history books you could read that very clearly discuss punctuality as a primarily western value that half the world doesn’t see as some vital pillar of friendship and morality! it’s cultural!
https://x.com/lexisoupertramp/status/2070126386103144586
It is easy to make fun of stupid shit like this, but I am actually curious how these people think an advanced economy can function without punctuality.
Bribery?
The Pali flag is a sure sign that some commie trash is coming. But to answer the question, those types don’t want to live in an advanced economy. They want to tear everything down and live like cavemen or some shit.
They want to live without care while everyone else follows the rules
I don’t understand it, but for most of our time together my wife has been consistently a half hour late for anything not an official appointment.
I almost left the spot of our first date because I thought she bailed on me.
She always called it “Okinawa time” and it was consistent in her friends and family.
When we moved here 8 years ago she made friends with an Okinawan lady that lives a mile away and was SHOCKED when that lady said she would pick my wife up at ten, she would actually show up at ten.
Now my wife is much better at being on time.
Weird that 20 some years with me could not get my wife to be on time, but her friend managed to do that in a couple weeks.
Weird that 20 some years with me could not get my wife to be on time, but her friend managed to do that in a couple weeks – I will be mature and and not make a sex joke
I have some friends (both sexes) who are so bad at being on time that I give them a different, earlier time than the rest of the group. Usually 45 minutes prior to when everyone else will meet. It works, most of the time.
In Transylvania there was a joke: village meeting tomorrow, 7 45 for the Romanians and Hungarians, 8 for the Germans.
So they all get on time.
We called it Indian Time growing up.
All the Natives from the nearby rez could be counted on to not show up on time.
To be fair, a lot of us white eyes dipped our toes into adopting Indian Time in our own lives. We sometimes show up on time. Especially for work, but personal stuff is a crap shoot.
From my reading that’s legitimately part of Okinawa culture.
It definitely is, that’s why she was so surprised her new friend was punctual.
Yeah, obviously you being late is empowering, but never mind that your inconveniencing EVERYONE that managed to get there on time you self absorbed cunty fuck.
But being lackadaisical about punctuality is so exotic!
Being constantly late shows a complete lack of respect for other’s time.
Don’t complain if you call 911 and the ambulance takes two hours to arrive. Punctuality is totes white supremacy.
They don’t think. That’s the problem. They’re people wandering around with nothing but midbrain.
“A former Facebook policy executive is suing Meta over an arbitration order that has barred her for more than a year from speaking about her explosive memoir detailing her six-year tenure at the tech giant.
Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta has used an invalid arbitration agreement to seek financial penalties of $50,000 for each purported violation of the gag order – including each book sale, according to a suit filed Thursday in US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Her book, “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, alleged Facebook executives and “careless” CEO Mark Zuckerberg were willing to share data with the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for access to the Chinese market.
Wynn-Williams also accused her former bosses of sexual harassment, alleging Joel Kaplan, Meta’s president of global affairs, pressed against her on the dance floor at a work event and called her “sultry.””
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/business/ex-facebook-policy-chief-sues-meta-to-overturn-order-barring-her-from-speaking-about-explosive-memoir/
Word of the day?
Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ biggest city is divided by a saltwater strait.
Istanbul straddles the Bosporus. New York is split by the East River which, despite the name, is a tidal strait, not a river.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
https://x.com/theiaincameron/status/2070295981241803069
Constantanople is the capital of Occupied Byzantium.
Stop fake-naming the city.
I would thing Constantanople is the capital of the Roman Empire.
Only once we Free Byzantium!
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
Bullshit. The Turks don’t belong there.
to be fair genetically they are not that Turkish 🙂
4 lads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk
Bullshit. The Turks don’t belong there.
That’s about the dumbest take you ever had, even if you’re playing it for yuks.
Quite the contrary, JI. Every taint of Islam needs to be expurgated. It is an evil no less malignant than communism.
*the mostly genetic Greek populace of Asian Minor can go back to being Greeks.
The devil foisted two evil ideologies on mankind to taunt heaven. The first was sold by the devil pretending to be a different archangel. He did it to a immoral and brutal man, with delusions of grandeur, and is based on sexual frustration. This evil ideology basically boils down to the promise that those that commit the most evil things in the name of spreading that cancer getting hot sex in the afterlife. Pure lust. The second was sold by a life loser that felt the world didn’t give him his props. It is basically a vehicle for prospective new feudal lords, whipping of the masses by appealing to their envy, to overthrow the current feudal lords and take power. All while promising the idiotic notion that all property will be held by these new feudal lords in the name of the people. Unfortunately, because these new feudal lords understand the process used for them to take power, they must have a brutal authoritarian state to keep an eye on others that might want to replicate that move. And they also now that leaving their shock troops around is a recipe for disaster, and thus, the piles of bodies.
Anatolia has been a human crossroads for millennia; the Greeks were fucking latecomers themselves, and the Turks were Islamicized long after taking residence.
Your idiot logic says we should all still be in Europe somewhere.
The devil…
Is a metaphorical construct, and he too was created by God – which means God’s creation was never perfect.
You’ve got your history of Asia Minor out of order.
The Turks arrived after being brought to Islam by the sword.
“Is a metaphorical construct, and he too was created by God – which means God’s creation was never perfect.”
To have good, you must have evil… And free will is a bitch..
UCS never forgets a fez.
As for your incorrect extrapolation of the principles behind my stance that the Turks don’t belong in Occupied Byzantium, it’s much less blood-related – conquests by the enemies of my civilization are not to be recognized and should be reversed.
It’s the same principle behind the reason the Maoist rebels in Beijing are not China.
The Turks arrived after being brought to Islam by the sword.
So I did, I stand corrected on that. I was thinking of the Mongol conquest that Islamicized, but that was post Turkic.
To have good, you must have evil…
Sure. That just doesn’t go with a God that is pure, perfect and omnipotent.
People across the UK would have had their windows open and fans on to try and keep cool in the midst of the third heatwave of the summer.
But there would likely have been few trying out one university lecturer’s alternative method to lower the temperature in a building.
Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows could lower the temperature by up to 3.5C.
He has pointed to the results of a month-long experiment to show the method has brought results.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4rg3nqq7go
That sounds like a reliable way to get a rancid aroma rather than a cooler temperature.
What will that do when is 104? My guess is jack squat.
Growing ivy on the walls actually works.
but ivy looks so ugly compared to yogurt.
The former owner of my house decided that English ivy was a good ground cover plant.
I hate them.
It climbs walls like crazy. I had that, felt the same about it after a few years.
It also damages the walls it digs into.
Our council has just sent out an email warning parents to keep their baby’s room at 16-20C. It’s 30C in our house right now, 33C outside. What is that advice, with no further detail, going to do other than freak people out?
https://x.com/LNJStokes/status/2069863970035388851
I realize I comment too much about the Europe heat situation, but seriously 30C inside sounds like hell to me. I would not sleep at all.
30C is 86F, that would be miserable now, but growing up, that was just how is was in the summers during the day.
AC has definitely spoiled me.
Even before I had AC i suffered greatly in the heat. My parent bought AC the first time when I started university because exams were in July and they feared I would study poorly due to the heat. My bedroom was the only room in the house with AC. As a kid I had sleepless nights do to heat. I have a cousin and she has AC but never turns it on the heat does not bother her at all.
And honestly this no AC bullshit is not the same for everyone. Some function fine without it. I do not.
Just like I keep 19C in my house in winter and many keep 24C. If there was a energy saving law no more than 16C in winter I would be fine. Others would suffer more.
I never had AC growing up – in that time and place (Rochester, NY) only rich people had it. Maybe five to ten nights a year were unbearable for sleep but you dealt with it.
Some places just don’t need it and NW Europe is one of them. Maybe a cheap window unit for the rare heat wave. San Francisco was another place where nobody had AC when I lived there.
When I lived in NYC it was the first thing I purchased the day after I moved there because it is utterly unlivable without AC.
Texas is unlivable without AC. The state would be abandoned. Houses without AC seem to rot inside from humidity.
No AC for us either growing up, but it was Minnesoda so not a lot of need for it. Especially since back then (’70s) we were being told that mankind was causing a new ice age.
On super hot nights, the parents would bring us to the movie theater. Didn’t really matter what was showing, we were there for the AC. My sister and I would mostly fall asleep in a few minutes anyhow. We weren’t the only family there either. I think the poor theater owner prayed for heat waves. (Especially since most of us cheap charlies brought our own popcorn).
Some places just don’t need it – for 300 bucks i would rather have one and use it only a week a year. If I need it a week per year then I need it.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Arriving at Honey Harvest, Jimbo discreetly makes his way to the Glib table…
You know that the Honey Harvest Honeys demand a show.
I can’t disappoint those gals.
Nothing with that sort of open captioning is a ray of sunshine.
Life in a Scottish Rainforest | Exploring the Wild West Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uwURE6gTA
Faaake.
Soctland doesn’t have any trees left.
OT: Sorry folks, Team America leaves TUBI before Thursday. Glad I caught that. I will find another film for July 4th.
😥
It is on PLUTO, but I cannot see end dates on PLUTO
Pluto sucks ass!
Can’t Stop the Music is on Tubi. I don’t see a message that it’s leaving.
It’s like horror films disappearing to pay services as Halloween approaches.
I see food??
A DISGRACED German GP dubbed “Dr. Death” has admitted to killing 12 of his “suffering” patients – as cops probe 76 more potential murders.
Johannes M., 41, was arrested in August 2024 on suspicion of killing his palliative care patients and attempting to set fire to their flats to cover up his crimes in Berlin.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39550613/disgraced-doctor-admits-killing-patients
You would think the name Dr. Death would give it away.
You know who else set fires in Germany?
the RAF?
I believe Dresden was USAAF.
There were more fires than just that one city.
Let me guess. This asshat says he is doing humanity a service?
“Hyperwoke NYC congressional candidate who called for all rental properties to be seized by government is daughter of a LANDLORD”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15932245/woke-democrat-darializa-chevalier-New-York-landlord-socialist.html
daddy issues?
Asshole.
Be interesting if he suddenly keeled over and she inherited all of that. Walk the talk or change in tune?
Neither, just ignore it and if someone brings it up, deflect to other issues.
Ah like the question about what justice do you serve on murderers.
I don’t know why the media bother questioning her about her communist views or why she is filled with so much hate when everybody knows she is going to win in a landslide.
“daddy issues?”
With these trust fund assholes it is always guilt and some Freudian mental disorder.
New York City Board Approves Mamdani’s Rent Freeze
In annual vote, the Rent Guidelines Board passes 0% rent increases for rent-regulated apartments
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/new-york-city-board-approves-mamdanis-rent-freeze-d6d42df4?st=AaWY88&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Inflation at 3.5% – why won’t landlords maintain and invest in their properties? Of course many of the slumlords in NYC are…
would be easier to just ask the airforce to bomb the place, in the long run
The previous commie (Deblasio) also stacked the board with his friends to get two years of rent freezes. I think everybody knew this was coming because it is one of the easiest ways to reward the far-left base that voted for you. It is one of the few monetary things the mayor has control over and it has no personal downside.
I think this is Step 1.
Step 2 is to declare those properties distressed and unsafe and seize them from the landlords. Step 3 is to distribute those seized properties to Citizens who will properly manage them for the benefit of humanity (aka cronies).
Yes, that is the new plan. Even Deblasio did not come up with such a villainous plan.
The new crop of commies are much more slick, and dangerous.
Bring on the favelas!
‘Lovely family home’ listing removed over Nazi memorabilia
https://x.com/thetimes/status/2070270851669172453
Platner should wait until he is elected.
This is the kind of stuff the just makes me shake my head. How long has the drone war in the Ukraine been going on?
SEOUL—South Korea will train hundreds of thousands of troops to become “drone warriors” to counter the threat from North Korea, as unmanned systems reshape modern warfare.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/south-korea-to-train-all-active-duty-soldiers-to-operate-drones-28ddcceb?st=cJAiiW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Peacetime armies move at the speed of bureaucracy.
I mean given their penchant for video games, I say Korea has a head start in the drone war.
Will their drones have big titties?
Cue up some Dokken!!!
Oh, DRONE Warriors. Nevermind.
Young couple being cute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zowska5cMDg
The family that shoots together….
Funny thing is, they both come from literally, families of shooters. I suspect any offspring they produce will be able to bend bullets like in Wanted.
And they are a cute couple.
Absolutely horrifying story:
Young, naive Instagram girl gets stuck in Dubai with a violent man who hides her passport and starts pressuring her to do “photoshoots”
Kills him in self defence while trying to escape
Faces death by firing squad if she’s convicted
https://x.com/moveincircles/status/2070190634569248973
these naive chicks need to be told not to do this Dubai shit. 20 years back there was a thriving business in Romania to get naive young women to go west with promises of jobs and force them into prostitution. There needs to be some sort of education or something about this type of thing. I mean it probably won’t work, still. Sometimes you need to do some pointless things.
Assuming facts as presented rather than actions of psycho bitch:
This situation calls for a bit of old school Charles James Napier diplomacy. If the Brits hadn’t neutered themselves 6 ways to Sunday anyway.
Yeah, I dunno how you can reach that age and not know to avoid that region and anyone from it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Infidel kills member of the faithful in country of the faith – yeah, that’s not a great idea.
And anyone who’s claim to fame is being an influencer, yeah, death is deserved.
I received a gift of an absolutely gorgeous, mirror-polished set of… kitchen shears.
Why would you make a tool designed for the worst jobs a piece of jewelry?
I still love looking at them though.
Do they at least separate so you can clean them?
https://www.ernestwright.co.uk/product/turton-left-handed-kitchen-scissors/
Sad mustache…
Live updates: Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty in classified information case
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-john-bolton-epstein-leon-black-congress-iran-live-updates-rcna351855
It will be interesting to see the sentencing deal.
https://babylonbee.com/news/john-bolton-pleads-guilty-sentenced-to-5-year-imprisonment-at-seaworld
Has he become a hero on the left yet? Like the Cheneys once they showed their true colors?
Will his moustache also have to go to prison?
Take the Glib Quiz – Do you have an “massive arsenal”?
Records reveal the massive arsenal Ohio man allegedly built to attack White House UFC event
https://www.foxnews.com/us/records-reveal-massive-arsenal-ohio-man-allegedly-built-attack-white-house-ufc-event
That line of glow sticks… 🤣
Purchases need to be limited to one per month.
There’s a reason for them, but I didn’t see any night vision gear among his purchases.
I don’t have any chem lights.
rifled slugs?
Those I have.
Oh, were you asking what they were? These:
https://www.targetsportsusa.com/brenneke-ats-12-gauge-2-3-4-ammo-1-oz-anti-terror-slug-shot-sl122ats-p-81785.aspx
If you give them armor, do they become rifled snails?
I took possession of 2000 rounds of zinc-plated steel cased 9mm. Since the CZ ate the lacquered steel case, I’m optimistic these will be no problem.
stockpiled the two firearms
JFC, take a xanax.
*Golf clap
If you give them armor, do they become rifled snails?
What you are referring to is es-tank-got.
Not a chance Tulpa.
Nice try, fed boi!
“Andrew and Tristan Tate’s bid to force the Crown Prosecution Service to disclose the names of their alleged victims in UK criminal proceedings has been thrown out by a High Court judge….
The pair are facing legal proceedings in Romania, where they currently live, but will be extradited to the UK upon their conclusion to face a combined 21 charges, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking….
Lawyers for the brothers told a hearing on Tuesday that the CPS’s decision not to disclose the names of the alleged victims until they appear in a British court was wrongly based ‘on the alleged vulnerability of the complainants and predicated on the “notoriety” of the claimants and the size of their social media following’….
Reading a summary of his ruling, the judge said: ‘The claimants will be provided with the identities of the complainants if and when they are surrendered to and prosecuted in this jurisdiction.
‘In general, that is the point when an accused person is expected to answer the case against him and, therefore, the point when, as a matter of fairness, he needs to be given the information necessary to enable him to provide that answer.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15932235/Andrew-Tristan-Tate-bid-prosecutors-names-alleged-victims.html
Not to defend Tate, but that’s bullshit.
The bullshit is the assumption this has anything to do with the law or justice. I have very little respect for the Tates, but I am well aware this prosecution is political.
Funny how the UK is so keen to protect some rape victims, and not others.
The elite are protecting themselves as their game to punish the rubes for Brexit is reaching its climax…
Talk about strange bedfellows, Jackson and Gorsuch join in dissent. They would uphold state law claims against Roundup, while the majority backed the relevant federal law as preventing such.
I watched Custer of the West last night, featuring Captain Quint as Custer.
“We’re gonna need a bigger army.”
The old joke:
Custer assembled his men and told them “I have good news and bad news”.
The bad news is that we are marching to our doom. We will be wiped out to the last man by the Sioux.
The good news is that we won’t have to march back across North Dakota.
He wasn’t wrong. That is a historical marker in Sentinel Butte, ND. It was there in 1977 when I first started hunting in the Badlands and it is still there today.
Always making fun of them NoDaks, huh?
“According to Deputy Director for the National Park Service Frank Lands, the incident took place shortly after the resurfaced pool was filled again with water on June 9, ABC News reported.
“The U.S. Park Police responded to an NPS report of damage to the reflecting pool, including a caulk over the foam sealant that was cut with a sharp knife or razor and destruction of delaminating surface material. In addition, approximately 70 fence post tops were thrown into the pool,” Lands said in a declaration….
As of Thursday afternoon, there have been seven arrests, seven federal citations and 18 police reports filed related to intentional damage to the pool, according to the Interior Department.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/caulking-reflecting-pool-was-cut-and-tops-fence-posts-tossed-water-court-filing-says
How are people so broken?
This is getting beyond my ability to put myself into the mindspace of others to try to understand their perspectives.
The damage that the entire MSM kept claiming that Trump was lying about?
Those people are easy to understand – they are filled with hatred of America and Americans and act accordingly.
Friday Funbags is most likely feeling very gentile.
https://archive.is/b4Y5s
“How long can this “Weekend at Bernie’s” presidency go on?”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/26/how-long-can-this-weekend-at-bernies-presidency-go-on/
Most ironic headline ever?
They are actually not talking about the Biden/Obama 3.0 admin, are they?
Shut the fuck up, Salon. Adults are in the room.
How are people so broken?
It’s cult totemism. Voodoo doll politics.
Insurrectionist defiance
It was not immediately clear if Kerwin’s exhibit, which was axed before it ever opened to the public, would also be reinstated. But the Resistance Rangers are done waiting for officials to act. They’ve printed copies of banned pamphlets and made plans to bring information the government wants out of federal parks directly to visitors.
The Resistance Rangers will set out again Saturday for a national protest of Trump’s vision of the 250th celebration. Organizers intend to solicit signatures onto a “declaration of interdependence” that advocates for safety, dignity, living wages and access to a clean environment for all.
Trump is putting history down the memory hole, but these brave patriots will save it.
🤣😂
I hope they get clocked by some actual patriots.
A stone obelisk bearing the words “John Brown’s Fort” marks the spot where, in 1859, abolitionist John Brown and more than 20 of his followers captured a U.S. military armory. The plan was to seize the weapons and then hand them out to enslaved people who they hoped would revolt and join their cause.
But the mass rebellion Brown predicted never materialized, leaving him and his comrades trapped inside the arsenal. Days later, the U.S. Marines snuffed out the uprising, captured Brown and ultimately executed him.
More than 160 years later, Brown is still remembered for giving his life to the cause of abolition. But the Black men who joined him in this battle typically get second billing.
Kerwin said she hoped her exhibition might help change that.
She shows how those people were manipulated and victimized by Brown and his fanatics?