Politics are annoying. Here’s some interesting stuff.
On Monday Space X not only landed their rocket but also managed to catch both the payload fairings.
I have no desire to do this, but I’m glad other people do.
There’s a comet out. Hang around after dark and look just below the big dipper. Binoculars help.
Perseverance is now powered up and ready to launch next week.
I love Rockets, Elon is a Mad Genius,
Another Mad Genius.
Better version.
He needs to read my poetry out loud, it’s perfect for him,
LOL!
Red rockets?
Rocket to Russia?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBnJv6rImVe_BGxxuyNf6WB1-YyP5pJR-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OobD4aP5Y
Well goddamnit I had to go and find this again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XaeR3P7pf4
It’s mesmerizing!
Now we’re getting somewhere. Look at that playlist. Not one song that’s 3 minutes long.
Now that is cool.
Kinda reminds me of the Voyager picture of Earth from the outer solar system.
V’Ger!
Mad Scientist is SPACE HAT.
Does that make HM ASS HAT?
Campfires on the sun
Those pictures are cool. But where are the campfire girls?
They burned up, dummy. C’mon!
Right, they were hot! /10-year-old me
“Federal agents violently clashed with about 2,000 Portland protesters overnight just hours after the Justice Department said it was investigating the use of force during demonstrations and President Trump threatened to send 60,000 officers into more cities.
The bloody standoff between protesters and authorities, which lasted into the early hours of Friday, marked the 57th straight day of unrest in Oregon’s largest city as residents continue to demonstrate against racism and police brutality.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8556899/Federal-agents-violently-clash-Portland-protesters-57th-night-unrest.html
What a complete shitshow. And no, they are not “protestors”, they are not “demonstrating”, and it’s not “against racism and police brutality”.
Andy Ngo is about the only journalist covering Portland. What’s happening is a nightly military assault.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo
Spread those lies DM! keep getting them clicks!
Fuck i hate that Rag!
It’s almost every outlet.
Of course they’re not protesting. They have no demands. They are being destructive just to be destructive.
Yeah, it’s preposterous that we are still expected to believe this.
Yet, people do, because they hear it constantly.
I couldn’t find how many showed up to the BLM standoff with Bundy, but the feds are rapidly approaching a “It doesn’t matter how legitimate you think your claims are, there aint enough of you to do anything about it”.
An African American described having Asian and white neighbors who wanted to engage with him to hear what he thinks of all this.
To his great annoyance, a white “protester” then came up and said “don’t talk to him! Fuck the police!”
He was rather miffed at the lefty white SJW telling him who to talk to and assuming how he felt.
This might be my white privilege talking, but I think I’d be pretty insulted right now if I were a black person, and people were out there doing this stuff “on my behalf.”
+3/5
You joke, but didn’t over60% of Native Americans polled not get offended by “redskins”?
Natives called Europeans “White Man” and now we’re supposed to capitalize black, but Native Americans are a people of color which cannot be uttered.
I thought it was 90%.
I’ve seen two polls from recent years. Both show 90%+ approval. Turns out the Indians like things named for them. They also prefer to be called what they call themselves. Indians.
I wonder about the charge that the Feds’ presence escalated the situation, because it seems to me that the Feds’ presence only made the media start paying attention to it.
Federal agents violently clashed
They truly do frame this as the feds being the instigators, piling onto a bunch of people just peacefully strolly down the road singing Kumbaya.
I wonder about the charge that the Feds’ presence escalated the situation
Well, the feds are fighting back. I guess in a sense that’s escalation.
From what I have seen (granted, the limited POV of videos), if they could kettle the “protestors” attacking the courthouse, I think they could (and should) arrest every single one of them. Antifa isn’t stupid, though. I have seen videos where they warn their goons against getting kettled.
Of course, the feds also have a ton of data from cell phones that they could use to arrest people. I’m the antifa shotcallers carry burners, but you might even be able to use data from those to locate or identify them.
It’s got to be a goldmine of useful data.
ASTHROS is tentatively scheduled to launch off Antarctica in December 2023.
Sloopy hardest hit?
Garbage cans hardest hit? 😉
I larfed.
LOL
Texas preparing for a flood of Covid deaths.
There will certainly be a large wave outbreak.
The tide will not be in their favor.
Water they going to do when that surge hits?
Drown their sorrows?
Now you’re sandbagging me.
“Sandmann did not reveal what the settlement was.
He settled a lawsuit with CNN in January for an undisclosed amount.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8557653/Kentucky-teen-settles-250m-lawsuit-Washington-Post.html
Dozens Gather In MAGA Hats In Hopes Washington Post Will Defame Them So They Can Become Millionaires
6 Reasons Franklin D. Roosevelt was the WORST
1. Literally Rounded Up 120,000 Japanese Americans, and put them in Concentration Camps.
2. FDR Outlawed Private Ownership of Gold.
3. FDR was Pen Pals With Mussolini, Whom he Admired.
4. The Roosevelt Administration was Infested with Soviet-Russian Spies.
5. FDR Hated the Press and Suppressed Free Speech.
6. The Roosevelt administration seized and destroyed crops while Americans starved
Alternate list title: Top six reasons FDR is a Progressive hero
7. During WWII Roosevelt was actively sending nuclear weapons plans and materials to the Russians.
How about the first federal gun ban?
I realize that the NFA could be seen as simply being more even handed in trampling ALL rights rather than just focusing on a few of them. He was into equality – see?
“Three longtime SoulCycle instructors quit while slamming the fitness brand for remaining ‘silent’ on BLM, claiming it is ‘supporting racism and bigotry’, and ‘prioritizing profit over people’
Three SoulCycle instructors have publicly resigned from their roles while accusing the company of ‘supporting racism and bigotry’ and ‘using the bodies’ of black women in ‘performative activism’.
All three women – who have each worked for the fitness brand for more than five years – took to Instagram to call out SoulCycle for failing to promote inclusion and diversity within the company, while slamming its leadership for ‘prioritizing profit over people’.
One instructor – Mary Kate Hurlbutt – accused the popular spin studio of ‘passing over… qualified [Black, Indigenous and people of color] for promotions’, while one black instructor – Soeuraya Wilson – claimed that SoulCycle had consistently used her images in ad campaigns in order to appear more diverse, but continued to ‘support racism and bigotry’ behind the scenes. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8556785/Three-SoulCycle-instructors-quit-accusations-racism-bigotry.html
It sounds much like the CrossFit situation Ozy wrote about and that yoga studio in Denver. How is anyone supposed to able to run a business?
Mary Kate Hurlbutt??? Best timeline ever.
You’re not. Feature, not bug.
You bastard! My ass had been drug free for quite some time, too.
“How is anyone supposed to able to run a business?”
A feature, not a bug.
Oh. My. God.
The spin studio I went to has sent me zero political messaging, and hasn’t had any political messaging in the classes I go to (they do offer to do fundraising classes for different charities, I avoid those classes).
So… should I up my subscription with them?
Entrepreneurship be raciss.
“How is anyone supposed to able to run a business?”
You arent. BLM is an explicitly marxist/communist organization.
That’s classy.
PS. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
At least I can drink while working from home. Who the fuck has a meeting on Friday at 4:30 pm???
I hear you, brother! I have another 1.5 hours of meeting to slog through.
Not sure if (static noise) my phone signal can hold up…
Somebody in the mail room was having trouble with their printer all week, and the IT guy came in and “fixed” it twice, only for it not to work and constantly be out of paper when everybody could see the paper bin was quite full.
It turned out a faulty driver meant it was configured only to print on A4 paper instead of US letter-sized paper, so the printer kept giving error messages about not having paper.
Well, it was out of A4 paper.
+1 pc load letter
PC load letter? WTF does that mean?
Paper Cartridge empty. Load Letter sized paper.
+1 pc load
That’s the new .38 spl round, right? It squirts salty ham tears right out of the muzzle.
For Neph
https://tenor.com/bdNNo.gif
KK: I know what the reference is from, and it still annoys me that they had “IT People” claim to not know what it means.
He lives.
Because NA just had to link Taofledermaus this AM
And any visit to Taufledermaus is, by definition, worthwhile.
Man, how I’d love to go Out There. I’ve read about it, written about it, dreamed about it, but I’m never going to get to do it. But what an adventure!
I just want to see what’s out there.
Space, mostly.
Why do you think I want be a Cylon Raider? Off and Away!
Because maybe some day Starbuck might crawl inside and manipulate you?
I would be the one manipulating, IYKWIMAIKYD
Hold on, find out which starbuck he’s talking about first.
He’d be a robot starfighter, does it really matter if the pilot is male or female?
I could never get into that show. Was the bad acting on purpose?
I don’t even know who you are any more.
That’s just the drugs talking.
Are you feeling better?
I’m not on any drugs, so I guess?
One day at a time.
You got a shout out in last Sunday’s GlibFit Rhywun. Take a look.
?
Best scream ever.
We watched the entire thing, but only because we were so far in and heard that it was ending. As soon as it was clear that the writers had no idea what they meant when they said “These are the Cylons and they have a plan”, it was really just about the closure for me…kind of like how the family of the victim decides to watch the murderer get the chair.
Count yourself lucky.
Most of what is out there is likely lifeless hellscapes and where there is life it will probably be inhospitable and appear nightmarish to us.
Portland?
That would be the fun part.
We need to get off this rock, it’s the next step in our evolution.
Here is 10 minutes of high def video from the surface of Mars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEyAs3NWH4A
Easier to visit than a nearby solar system.
I was involved in SpaceX’s “return to flight” after their test fire disaster with Zuck’s satellite. It was amazing & emotional.
Now that’s freakin’ cool.
What you did there? It has been seen bby me.
Yes, but you can’t hear, with the Telephones down,
Yep. I can’t post links. Sry. Copy/paste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk
Pasting the link into the comment works. WordPress is weird.
“Record rainfall results in spike of COVID deaths.”?
“Three longtime SoulCycle instructors quit while slamming the fitness brand for remaining ‘silent’ on BLM, claiming it is ‘supporting racism and bigotry’, and ‘prioritizing profit over people’
*tunes tiny violin*
Narrative, set, match.
Pelosi said, “Let me say this president has been the biggest failure practically in the history of our country. A pandemic that is rolling. Trump virus I call it, it’s rolling like a freight train. It took nearly 100 days, just about 100 days to get the first 1 million. Just under 50 days to get to the second million, just over 25 days to get to the third million and now, just, what, 14, 17 days to get to the 4 million mark of people infected.”
She added, “Just think if he had thought that these overrated tests weren’t overrated a long time ago how many lives could have been saved. But you said it very well, 4 million people, 18 straight weeks of people filing for unemployment insurance, a time when people are—millions of children are food insecure. Just so many people going to food banks who never thought they would. Evictions imminent because the moratorium will end. People are hungry. They’re concerned about their housing, the jobs, and the rest, and the Republicans are saying, well, let’s just wait around until Monday to see what we might be able to come to terms with among ourselves. Two months and eight days ago we put forth the HEROES bill, very responsible, lean and mean, exactly what we needed to open up our economy by testing, testing, testing, rewarding our heroes with assistance to state and local government and money in the pockets of the American people. In a very strong way. This all will expire in, like, a week.”
All Must Be Infected! Even if your not………………
Fuck you, you mendacious cunt. Could the massive amounts of people filing for unemployment have anything to do with the fact that the governors closed THE FUCKING BUSINESSES!
You silly boy. Don’t you know governent creates jobs? What do businesses have to do with anything?
It took nearly 100 days, just about 100 days to get the first 1 million. Just under 50 days to get to the second million, just over 25 days to get to the third million and now, just, what, 14, 17 days to get to the 4 million mark of people infected.”
now do the debt, oh expert of the exponential
lol. Beat me to it.
That is how exponential things work.
Now let’s list some other exponential trends that also don’t involve any people dying.
She chose the wrong career. Evil witches abound in every film genre, she could have made bank without even taking acting lessons. But instead she chose DC over Hollywood.
I believe lich is the term for an evil undead witch
Oh, she’s making bank.
In a sort of Robin Hood way, robbing the
richtax cattle and giving to thepoorconnected. As opposed to actually earning a living.How’s it going?
Shorter Pelosi: “Look what you made us do!”
The DNC should be ashamed of itself for parading her in front of the cameras instead of letting her get the mental help she so obviously needs.
They consider themselves lucky to have someone that sociopathic in charge.
Well….she did pal around with Jim Jones. That is pretty difficult to top.
I’d bet $200 she’s either on anti-depressants or has a cocaine habit
Why not both?
Damn your nimble fingers!
Do we live on the same planet? That bill is anything but lean and mean. Testing doesn’t stop a virus from spreading. People are in financial distress in part from the virus and in larger part from state governments shutting down businesses.
People are in financial distress in part from the virus
I live on a planet where this statement is not true.
Gotta start the indoctrination young.
A shocking video shot in Portland, Ore., and posted on Facebook Thursday afternoon, shows young children carrying signs reading, “F*** The Police,” “Eff Trump’s Goons,” and “F*** Ted Wheeler [Portland’s mayor].” This happened as part of the Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of the Justice Center in downtown Portland. The children appear to be pre-kindergarten age. When prompted, they raise their fists in the style of a Black Power protest and say, “F*** the police!” The caption says this occurred outside federal courthouse in Portland, scene of nightly protests against police brutality that have deteriorated into riots for almost two months.
I despise people who do that to their kids.
Did Hitler ever use children as human shields? Nikki prolly has, so this can’t be The Worst, I guess.
does anybody have the link to the glib astronomy article from a few months back? I couldn’t find it in a cursory ddg search.
I want to buy a telescope to use this fall, and want to make sure I’m taking the right considerations into account.
This one?
that’s the one! thanks!
What price range?
sub-$700 with a manual mount, and I’m fine buying used. I couldn’t care less about it being super portable, but I’m not getting anything super big in that price range.
For those looking for a small oasis of a special brand of insanity, I’ve set up a happy hour for tonight.
As a heads up, I’m currently planning on being on an island next week, far away from my home computer. So someone else will need to step up to host. I may try to join in, from an island, with a drink in hand.
*sigh*
I’ll kick it off tonight at 19:30 Eastern.
Thanks Neph!!
Palomas tonight again
I’ve got two options for ice cream maker cocktails in the fridge at home. Tom Collins and Greyhounds. The choice is up to the girlfriend. Currently getting wings and beer at a local bar.
Wings aren’t real food.
That’s why I got them. I decided to try one of the places dry rubs. I need to remember not to do that again.
Goldie Hot or Fricken Stupid Hot FTW.
thanks! I’ll try to drop by.
What did Yoda say about trying?
“Hypocritcal, I am.”
Something something midichlorians?
Midiclorians was the shark jump of the Star Wars franchise.
*applause*
My reaction when I heard “midiclorians” was the same as when I heard “the planet Zeist”
How did any of you get that far? I saw the ewoks and bailed. It was clear Star Wars was no longer about storytelling. It was just about merchandising.
Asshole
I want an island too.
I don’t own it. Just taking the girlfriend there next weekend. It’s technically in Ohio.
Wait, Put-In-Bay?
You must wanna get R A T C H E T.
Yep. The girlfriend has never been there. As all of our other trips have been cancelled this seemed like an appropriate time. We may fit a trip in to go to Cedar Point. They’ve dropped the reservation system due to lower than expected attendance.
Nice! If she’s never been before, she’s in for a treat.
Do I need a password?
One is by default required. The link should get you in with it (it’s embedded in the link).
Meeting ID: 862 4926 3447
Password: 779976
That cake idea was stolen from the Hannibal tv series. But that would have sounded too uncultured.
Dr Lecter was very cultured, though. Even when he ate people, he managed to turn them into haute cuisine.
Season 3 was such a letdown
Got this by email from Zagat.
The link: https://stories.zagat.com/posts/a-portland-chef-organizes-restaurant-workers-as-chef-bloc-protest
The feds ought to relocate the federal courthouse and their offices to the suburbs. After that, the denizens of the Portland can do what they like. It seems as if they really want the place to go to hell.
That is some mendacity there.
Are we over run with commie cockroaches?
*Searches for can of Raid*
We aren’t, but Portland certainly is.
I cannot possibly roll my eyes enough.
“issues that are specific to our industry”
Cheapskate customers don’t tip 50%?
I wonder what he will have to say while he is slinging gruel in a camp for deplorables while he waits for his turn against the wall.
Thanks buddy! We’ll be sure to burn down your restaurant last!
“Hey, Sully. Remember when I said I’d kill you last? I lied.”
You need more of a pause so the other person can respond.
Well, he did let him go.
When Portland implements commonsense knife control he’ll be unemployed.
No, he’ll get an exemption. But he’ll be required to cut each customer’s food to their liking.
LOL
Normal Portland childhood, I guess.
Ahh, the heady days of the WTO riots.
Five says he didn’t even grow up in Oregon.
No bet.
/remembers stories from older SHARPs.
This whole situation is confusing to me because I hate both cops and rioters, and for the same reasons.
Rival gangs.
One has spiffier uniforms tho.
Are we the bad guys?
Well, we are outnumbered, so yeah. Wait, do we have uniforms?
A hero will rise
Bike brigade? More like bitch brigade. I thought the whole point of joining a gang was so they would have your back when someone kicks the shit out of you.
It’s more like a gang from a cartoon. “Let’s go Teen Gang!”
“6Th Graders!!!!”
Scooters, assemble!
I cannot comprehend living in Portland or Seattle. The day I snapped I would make the news.
Inspirational.
I will donate to that guy’s legal fund.
#MeToo
Looks like WaPo settled with Sandmann
He can’t tell how much he got, but it would be hilarious if he donated a specific high-dollar amount to the Trump campaign.
Free Amazon Prime for five years!
Enjoy that sweet Bezos cash!
Epic….(and fan-made)
https://youtu.be/TBO9ANTBCjM
I like how those brave bikers all immediately jumped to their brother’s aid.
“Whoa, doood.”
Peace out.
Cops will track him down and arrest him for assault.
That’s a big ass Zeppelin.
Fun Zeppelin
Yeah, the guys is guilty of assault, but that dude’s comrades are straight-up cowards.
Looks like I’ve found my next computer case…
https://youtu.be/NPe2oXxOhLg
Or perhaps not.
“Pinkflow Cooler”. Should be a big hit with the incel community.
I’ve given up trying to find retail motherboards and GPUs that don’t have RGB LEDs.
My case is totally closed so I don’t seem them. And they can be handy for illumination when troubleshooting.
That crap is annoying
Ok. WTF is with Youtube trying to show me an ad for a Kickstarter to “sanitize my phone” before every video now?
It knows…
They must have just changed their ad code because I get ads before every video now whereas before they were blocked.
Yeah. Rare ads for a long time, now a Kickstarter ad before every video I try to watch.
Not from the Bee
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/portland-officials-demand-feds-remove-courthouse-fence-in-bike-lane.html
Just leave already. Let Portland own their problems.
“The city has also constructed fences during the nearly two months of protests in Portland following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The first such fence was erected May 30 around the downtown Justice Center and gained a cult social media following as orders to not damage the fence were regularly given by officers.”
??
Every week I get a summary mailed by microsoft about activity drawn from the set of our corporations Yammer pages which consists of the ones to which I haven’t subscribed.
For the past three weeks this summary has been dominated by links to conversations happening the in LGBTQ + Allies yammer page or the African American Kinship Village page. The SJW rot is spreading. Words like “privilege”, “whiteness” abound.
There are three affinity groups our corporate overlords have seen fit to create: The LGBTQ++, the African American Kinship Village & the Veterans group. I have quietly discarded every email inviting me to join them (the previous two allow non-members in as allies). The veterans group is whiny too – albeit at about 5% of the whininess in the other groups.
And they have classes on inclusion and cultural sensitivity that have appeared on our company training portal. I expect the announcement that we all have to take them is coming soon.
The nice thing about working from home is that I can keep the webcam off, play the stuff in the background and get actual work done.
But starting my own business is looking ever more attractive.
How do companies have time to allow that crap?
People with 5% of a FTE job trying to justify not being laid off.
They fear if they don’t the employees will lose even more productivity. I mean, I work for a company that employs a huge number of Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Viet Namese, South Africans, Germans, Irish, Ukrainians, etc., etc. There are some Muslim guys that come into my server room a few times a day, roll out their carpet thingies, and pray facing Mecca. No one cares. I’m not sure how we could get more diverse, and yet we have these inclusion and diversity training programs annually.
Yes, I wrote about this a couple weeks ago. Our company (in the fortune 50) has these Employee Diversity Groups. Essentially, once a CEO hires a Chief Diversity Officer, and they have the EDGs in place, you have lost the company. The CDO has built a network of activists that know how to weaponize HR against any person who crosses them or pushes back against their increasingly marxist nonsense.
Two years ago, these diversity groups were hosting Kwanza and Pride mixers. Today they are having White Fragility struggle sessions every lunch hour. And there is nothing that anyone can do about it. If you push back, they will complain about a hostile atmosphere. And if the CEO decides they have gone to far, they have to deal with the PR nightmare of all these people turning out to condemn said CEO on the Twatter.
It is the Soviet Union’s Political Commissars.
Unions must be jealous of that power. They used to have it.
this… but what many don’t realize is how much most of these c-suites are true believers. They’re not doing this to placate the mob. they’re doing this because they think it is the right thing to do.
I don’t have to say this often, but I was wrong. The results were not what I was predicting.
Not the link I was expecting.
Oh?
What I think of when I see I Was Wrong as a link.
You are strange.
Hell. I keep getting this stuck in my head after every mention of True Believers.
Very cool
Me neither.
I knew he was a vet, but not an armadillo whisperer.
OT. From our conversation earlier. Intel has completely fucked up 7nm and today announced it may have to outsource. Stock got crushed and multiple downgrades.
Considering a single scanner at that node will run you north of half a billion…
oopsie.
When we scrapped our 7nm program, a lot of people were pretty livid, considering that we had spent 4 years and had yielding die.
But the number crunchers said we couldn’t make a profit on it.
They’re having a bad decade it seems.
Huh, the YouTube walk now has me watching a cooper making a wooden bucket.
Helpful guidance from Pennsylvania.
This is from the Alcohol Control Board. This has NOTHING to do with covid and everything to do with MOAR GOVERNMENT CONTROL. From the party that is “liberal” and “tolerant.”
Irish coffee hardest hit.
I don’t get the casino one.
It’s the alcohol control board. They are pushing the STOP button on everything in their jurisdiction. None of it makes sense.
Ah
The alcohol commissioners are typically wannabe tyrants with power complexes. That makes more sense.
PA has some insane alcohol laws already. So why am I guessing that every bar patron in PA is going to leave a bite of food on their plate as they drink all night?
“Are you finished with that?”
Not for at least two years. HANDS OFF!
PA bars institute place holder food.
/thinks of story of the PA bars that “technically” offer food. But you’d have to be dead drunk to order it.
placeholder food
“Hey, don’t put your finger in my ice cream.”
“That’s Crisco, $5,000 fine.”
“Crisco is food.”
None of that makes any medical sense.
It is not intended to. It is meant to control your behavior.
It is interesting that leftists favor such social and economic regimentation while calling people who disagree “fascist”.
Projection is not “interesting”.
(unless we’re talking, like, laser dots on the moon. then I’m listening…)
“Outrage as Cuomo tightens NYC outdoor dining rules to force struggling bars to sell a ‘substantial amount of food’ with drinks and not just $1 snacks after threatening to close ALL restaurants”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8548801/Cuomo-tightens-NYC-outdoor-dining-rules-force-bars-sell-substantial-food.html
“Beware the COVID menu police: California cracks down on outdoor restaurants with new rule that requires customers to order a ‘meal’ with alcohol – and wings, cheese sticks, calamari and fries are NOT considered meals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8550183/California-lists-foods-arent-meals-COVID-dining-guidelines.html
SCIENCE!!!!!
I have a long history of eating items from the appetizer menu as a meal.
FUCK. OFF. SLAVER.
maybe that the way to attack it. good job you sexist assholes, you just banned something that disproportionately impacts women!
My typical chinese takeout order consists of two quarts of soup and some combination of appetizers.
No Bento Boxes!
So a dessert cocktail is no longer acceptable? Or are fine dining exempt from these rules…
Once I’ve ordered a meal, my drinking is done anyway.
Isn’t this the whole mechanism of casino profits? You get $40 worth of “free” drinks. Drop $1000 in the slot machine that pays out $34 in winnings.
It’s like they are trying to crash the economy, or something.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
The Feds appear to taking the insurrectionists seriously.
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/dhs-faa-issue-temporary-flight-restriction-over-city-of-portland.html
I’m surprised it’s not already illegal to fly a drone in Portland.
Surprised they haven’t shot anyone with a laser after a couple of them were blinded. This shit is getting way too real – turning into Khe sanh.
The Feds appear to taking the insurrectionists seriously.
Clearing airspace for the
dronespig-shit-dumping choppers.Soon to be followed by the commie-dropping helos?
Good, now let’s clarify treason and sedition.
“Trump signs executive orders aimed at lowering drug prices”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/508953-trump-signs-executive-orders-aimed-at-lowering-drug-prices
So how much is an eight ball?
Well you see an Eight Ball is slang an…………ooohh
Nevermind
You made me look that up. One extra tall can for you.
Thankee!
Asking for Belushi? He knows the price he paid.
Biden commercial touting his Ebola response as an accomplishment. ?
Proper Ebola response: cancel travel plans to affected village in Africa.
That bug burn itself out too quickly to be a real epidemic threat.
Mad Scientist- know anybody with a Datsun Z or 510 (roadster, maybe) who wants set of period-correct slotted “mags”?
I know a few. Got a photo? How much?
High capacity? *ducks*
oh wow, memories. I drove my mom’s 69 Datsun 510 during high school. I remember the speed topping out at about 75 (pedal on the floor, car shaking like it’s about to fall apart), even though the speedometer went to 120. lol
I had a question from the morning links, RE: UFOs
Top secret aircraft being tested out of the Skunk Works.
Do military aircraft have to have FAA-mandated lights on them, specifically brand-new ultrasecret machines.
I can’t imagine what seeing a B2 in a dark (even dark-ish) sky with no typical blinking lights would be like. Freaky, at the least.
They’re generally limited to military airspace. I don’t know about the lights. I imagine the military thumbs its nose at the FAA because they can.
I didn’t realize military air space was a thing. Like, in the sense that it restricts where military aircraft go. I figured it was for restricting non-military aircraft.
It’s usually an altitude exclusion for non military aircraft. Sometimes it’s a geographic area across all altitudes.
IIRC everything over 60,000 is considered military.
Not necessarily. It must be designated via TFR or via normal airspace maps.
So Groom Lake is permanently a restricted airspace and they may expand it with a TFR if exercises are going on.
I’m not aware of any civilian aircraft with a service ceiling over FL450. I could be wrong, though.
True…FAA only regulates up to FL600
All aircraft have the lights but don’t always mean they will use em. If military craft are in anything other than military controlled airspace, they are supposed to use them like any deplorable flying a plane.
Out in restricted airspace it becomes more complicated.
FAA and military have an actually good relationship so long as they each follow the rules.
They all ‘have’ the lights, but probably do not use them if they are secret projects.
It is, especially on a clear night in the high desert in the American West. You are looking at the perfect starry sky.
Suddenly a slight shimmer catches your eye, and you realize you are looking at the absence of starlight.
Freakiest are the quiet helicopters, because they hover. First one, then another, and another.
The perfect starry sky. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. Sigh.
It’s Awesome, literally
But not ‘fantastic’.
No, it’s quite Real looking……………
This guy gets it.
NOT EVERY FUCKING WORD MEANS ‘GOOD’, GODDAMIT.
Get out to sea. Floating on the equator a few hundred miles off the coast of Panama (minimal onboard lighting) – you can see everything. Even better than lying on the beach on Mindoro.
I’ve never been to sea either. Rowboat on a manmade lake, tourboat on the Chesapeake. That’s the entirety of my watercraft experience. Unless tubing counts.
I’m not a fan of water I can’t see the bottom of.
A moonless night far from shore is amazing. There are so many stars visible it is hard to pick out the constellations. Then the moment you realize you see the Great Andromeda Galaxy with your unaided eyes is “Wooooooh”.
I will follow up with pics and price tomorrow. And a contact method.
I’m thinking they ought to be worth $75/ea.
This is an unfortunate post to use the signature “Late P Brooks” unthreaded format..:
Only if there’s more than one “anybody want this thing/stuff” post above it.
OK. I know a guy who does restorations on Zs. I’ll forward to him.
Central Planning, Arizona gym edition:
https://ktar.com/story/3427706/arizona-releases-draft-of-requirements-for-gyms-to-reopen-but-no-date/
Anyhow, looking for suggestions for escape trip out of town. Think I’ve narrowed it down to either the Pensacola general vicinity or Sioux Falls, SD. Pensacola could be riskier because who knows what could be going on with COVID madness by the time I fly out. South Dakota seems like it’s just gonna be South Dakota regardless.
I lived in Navarre/Ft Walton Beach area for a couple years, it’s about 45 minutes up the road from Pensacola and I’d go there on occasion if I had friends or family in town. It’s clean and fairly casual and there are plenty of good restaurants and bars (that hopefully are not defunct right now). One of our other commenters may be able to give you more up to date info though.
Rapid City, SD, nice town, nice location
This might be interesting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/24/uncw-professor-mike-adams-retired-tweets-found-dead/5500318002/
Yikes! It’s been a while, but I remember reading some of his columns at Townhall some time ago. Did he ever write anything about the Clintons?
“Of the shutdowns caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Adams tweeted, “This evening I ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seat table top. I almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina.”
Adams, who is white, ended the tweet with: “Massa Cooper, let my people go!”
Several Change.org petitions calling for his removal from the university gained thousands of signatures. UNCW issued a statement in June calling Adams’ tweets “vile” but stopped short of firing him.”
It’s all so tiring.
Wait, he was fired for THAT?!? That is considered a vile tweet on a platform that encourages women to celebrate their abortions?!?’
Isn’t is obvious he was drawing an analogy? When I heard “vile tweet” I assumed he said some David Duke level stuff.
He settled with the University and got a pretty hefty retirement boost.
After the controversy, Adams announced he’d be retiring early and recently reached a $504,702 settlement with the university for lost salary and lost retirement benefits.
While not millions, it’s still comfortable enough not to feel desperate. Suicide doesn’t seem likely.
https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/black-lives-matter?ref=section-homepage-promo-black-lives-matter
useful idiots
Friday Funbags make the world go ’round.
http://archive.li/G4SpB
Every time you post these, I have the same thought. Why is the world afraid of female nipples?
I’m not.
http://archive.li/qav1A/9f8d6b51506d376a63bff9849f6f7b4f8e9934da.jpg
NSFW.
*runs away while flailing arms*
I just bonked my face into my new monitor, asshoe. I don’t care about my face, but I almost knocked it off my desk. I don’t want to buy a another right now.
I have that same thought every weekend when I want to put on a tee shirt or other knit top and go out in public. #FreeTheTaTas
It’s not the entire set we take issue with, it’s that most of those that are freed we wish would not be. For the record, I am also opposed to bare moobs.
#putonashirtman
Pro tip: A tie-dyed tee shirt with a large screen-printed graphic hides a multitude of sins. Or at least two.
Tape on a couple roman candles, a boombox blasting a recording of some dude yelling “chicken spears” and you’re good to go!
Agreed. When I am over 200 pounds; shirt,always.
Anybody got a funny headline idea? I was thinking something along the lines of: Chuck E Cheese Wants Federal Aid to Flatten Whack-a-Mole Curve
1940s Lumberjacks felling Redwoods in Northern California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f_FjfIQQfo
Turns out they used to grow in many places, but then climate change and logging took a toll. The coastal ones were used for construction because they resist fire, termites, etc. The Sierra Nevada ones were protected from logging, even at the time.
It would be cool if genetic engineering could be used to make a smaller, faster growing tree with the characteristics of a redwood.
Sears wishes it had held out for another year to get a Federal Bailout.
Punk concert promotes social distancing with individual mosh pits
Buffalo strikes back against Cuomo with Buffalo Sandwiches
Order Restored in Portland After Mayor Blows Conch
Ore-Ida Renames Redskin Potatoes ‘Potatoes of Color’
Biden Announces Running Mate: Alligator Hand-puppet Named Snappy
Math Declared Racist Because Answers Are Forced to the Back of the Book
I like the last one. You could probably work in a 3/5ths joke in that as well.
[scribbles on notepad]
5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.
With COVID-19 testing showing a positive rate increase of 150%, everyone has been infected.
If present trends continue, 10 billion people will be infected with COVID by the year 2000!
Derp:
Obligatory
my fav xkcd
https://xkcd.com/882/
P values! Significant!
9 out 5 schizophrenics?
9 out OF 5
Scientists Create Woke Singularity In Lab, Discover New Queer Particle
There is an Oh-my-god particle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
***
The Oh-My-God particle’s energy was estimated as (3.2±0.9)×1020 eV, or 51 J. This is 20 million times more energetic than the highest energy measured in electromagnetic radiation emitted by an extragalactic object.[4] It had 1020 (100 quintillion) times the photon energy of visible light, equivalent to a 140 grams (5 oz) baseball travelling at about 26 m/s (94 km/h; 58 mph).
***
Maybe it would be better as “Gender Scientists”
Retail Outlets Minimize Overhead Costs By Giving Product Away To Mobs
“We found that it was much cheaper since we didn’t have to pay a cashier or replace any broken windows.”
Student’s given ‘A’ for Critical Studies essay, but is expelled because essay was plagiarized from a Klan pamphlet.
I like the premise.
Uganda Changes Its Name to Wakanda to Boost Tourism
“Really, it’s just 3 letters. Why not give it a try?”
CNN mistakenly accuses rioter of cultural appropriation after mistaking galvanized pipe for a peace pipe
mistakenlyOne problem is young trees have much wider grains (really growth rings). Faster growth is the opposite of what make those redwoods and other old growth so good.
Here’s a now old timer using a spring board, like seen in the video, today
https://youtu.be/oESB6Fw5wHk
Our house was built in the early seventies. The house is crap, but the tight grains in the dimensional lumber is amazing. Cannot buy it at the lumber yard or at Home Depot today.
More old timey lumber porn
https://www.thisiscarpentry.com/2011/02/25/hull-oakes-sawmill/
During the military camp building boom during WWII local woods were often used. The standard WWII barracks had single beams of wood running the entire distance of the floors and roofs. Each barracks was ~90 feet long and thousands were constructed. These tight grained long beams are often no longer available at any price- the trees just don’t exist.
NC used the heart of Long Leaf Pine, in California is was redwood, Washington and Oregon . When the Army decided to finally get rid of the last of these about 10-12 years ago (less some for historical purposes) each state decided a different path. NC permitted the resale of the wood. So Ft Bragg etc. sold the barracks at a profit- the buyers touched up the wood and resold some glorious timber.
California prohibited the sale because lead based paint, and worse than that lead based paint thinned out with lead based gasoline was used. The wood was also prohibited to burn or to place in a standard landfill. So the California taxpayers (with generous Fed assistance I am sure) constructed special hazardous material landfills to take the debris and seal it. Millions were spent on burying millions of dollars of valuable redwood.
Idiots.
Fat riot cops.
This guy makes me feel lazy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ScottPresler
Dave Portnoy interviews Trump. 2020 keeps delivering.
Guess I should have included a link. https://breaking911.com/watch-barstool-sports-dave-portnoy-interviews-president-trump/
I wore a bandana mask to Walmart today, told the greeter the last time I wore one was when I was 10 years old and needed to help Roy R at the Saturday matinee. Shit, then I remembered it was only the bad guys that wore masks…Gabby Hayes could have kicked my butt.
Did you get yourself some Trigger burgers?
Roy Roger’s is basically the same as Arby’s but I like RR better.
Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, was a cargo plane pilot in WW2. He flew over the Himalayas many times.
Himalaya means home of snow in Sanskrit. The correct pronunciation is hi-MAH-lah-yah.
Derp is our very own Cliff Claven
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I tried to work for the Post Office? I think I did.
“ NASA to send football stadium-sized balloon to study light from newborn stars”
NOTHING. LEFT. TO. CUT.
It is not cost-effective for NASA to send people into space. Let the private guys do it.
SLD aside, NASA unmanned probes have mostly worked out to be science treasure troves, generally for the cost of a few days of our continuing war effort.
/science geek
From https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/11/whats-up-doc/
Now make a closed fist and extend your arm. Place it just below Jupiter and look at 5 o’clock.
For clarification, my arm is on axis to Jupiter and the clock face is normal to the axis?
The planets have changed relative positions since that was published. Around 9pm local time look in the southeast. You’ll see a really bright star, that is Jupiter. With Jupiter as the middle of a clock look around the nine o’clock position about two-three spread thumb- pinky distances away. There will be a bright star (about 1/3 as bright as Jupiter) there. It is often a bit yellowish- that is Saturn. (Neither Jupiter or Saturn will twinkle like a star often does.)
Mars comes up a bit later and is very red. Venus is in the morning now.
Gods damn it. Someone set a world record this weekend. They climbed over 68,500 feet in 24 hours. All by riding up one hill over and over.
I can think of better ways to spend 24 hours.
I can certainly think of better hills to climb.
Most importantly, did they survive?
Clearly a Sisyphean effort….
Life’s challenges, Neph, now you have a goal. I’m convinced you are the person that could best that number,
even if it took you all day. Must also have unclimbed 68.5K feet, as well.
Where is the rest of him…?
“a little chaos goes a long way ✨??”
https://twitter.com/TeenVogue
That’s their tagline.
“Smash the system” is catchier.
Nearly 40 and I just participated in my first medical research study. It’ll all be worth it when I get that $150.
https://uvahealth.com/clinicaltrials/brain-research-study-healthy-volunteers
I did get to watch netflix while lying in the MRI for 90 min.
This project is actually a partnership with a few other universities across the country – Utah, etc as well as a USAF medical unit – so might show up in your local area if you search for open projects.
I made some scratch in college at NIH.
Heh….way back when I was a UVA student, a friend of mine used to make extra money by doing those medical studies all the time.
https://mobile.twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1286747570572845058
Lol. She be crazy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1286815426903605248
Hawt.
I just saw Biden’s mask-porn commercial. Good grief… he’s angling for the Karen vote, isn’t he.
And he will get it.
I apologize for womenkind.
https://mobile.twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1286746702133641216
???
Green AF.
Pure awesomeness.
That is awesome.
Robby and his hair are on Tucker again tonight.
The hair was extra dreamy.
You know… I’ve never seen Robby’s hair and Donald’s hair in the same room.
This is how you do it.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/07/24/uncancel-culture-after-threatened-lawsuit-charity-boss-who-criticized-blm-is-reinstated-n2573046
Nice.
Good.
no zoom that I can find ?
Don Escaped Zoom?
well played
Neph always calls it “happy hour” see comment 19
Whoever it was who was asking about Pensacola…..I lived there for years, though I moved away in 2011. I’ll answer any questions I’m able to.
Personally, if I was headed to the region for a vacation, I’d head further west to Baldwin County AL and go to Gulf Shores or Orange Beach (where I also lived for a little while).