Sometimes when you (I) stay someplace very minimalist for a while, like, you know, a hotel room, upon returning to your (my) regular environs, everything just looks like you (I) have too much stuff? Yeah, I’m in that spot right now.
So, my mission this week, which I have already chosen to accept, is to start getting rid of stuff. Not useful stuff. Not heirloom stuff. Just the assorted stuff that accumulates when one isn’t paying attention. Like I very often don’t.
I have already managed to toss a collection of old bread packaging twist ties and rubber bands from produce. The house feels so much emptier!
Let’s see what I links I can toss out for your amusement this afternoon, shall we?
Do you think this matters?
So done with this.
Sure, this would work. (TW: NPR)
This seems like it might work.
Can’t wait to see what’s included in this.
Well, that’s all the fun I can stand for one afternoon. Have a good one, kids!
I need to mount some tires for my trailer, and I’m malingering.
Kinky!
Do you think this matters?
Depends on who’s money.
I’m not money.
I’m so money.
In the end, it’s always our money.
Yep
So, my mission this week, which I have already chosen to accept, is to start getting rid of stuff. Not useful stuff. Not heirloom stuff. Just the assorted stuff that accumulates when one isn’t paying attention. Like I very often don’t.
METOO.
There’s a lot of stuff around here which isn’t going to make the cut for The Big Move.
ISTR you were going to list your place just to see if someone would pay a ridiculous price, correct? Sounds like you got a taker?
We didn’t have enough time to sort through 14 years of housejunk before moving to California so it all came with us.
Then we sorted it out, gave a bunch away, and had garage sales.
Much lighter now.
Garmin is alleged to have paid millions to their ransomware attacker.
Every one of this reminds me, “do we have good backups?”.
maps?
Cities have been wiped off the map because there weren’t backups.
Sort of
https://www.wired.com/story/garmin-ransomware-hack-warning/
Wouldn’t a smart ransomware attacker delay the attack until after the ransomware had percolated through some of the backups? You might lose several weeks or even months of data that way.
They often do, as I understand, so good backups are just part of the strategy. In general, as long as you have an unencrypted copy of your data, you’re good; I wouldn’t trust backups of the operating system for the reason you suggest.
So it’s – re-image machine, restore data. Which is easier said than done, which is why you need to practice your disaster-recovery processes.
“Stay up to date on patches” is probably the bigger part – having computer A get encrypted is bad, having it jump to every other unpatched host is when disaster happens.
Properly set up backups should be write-once. Emphasis on the word ‘properly’.
“We have backups, but we have never successfully tested restoring from backups.”
^^^ this guy gets it ^^^
“…do we have good backups?”
The answer to this question is always, “No.”
The really evil ransomwares install themselves, and don’t do anything until 1-2 months later. Then they encrypt everything slowly, and another month or two later, they start popping up the warnings that your data is encrypted. That way, even if you’ve got good backups, they’re infected/encrypted already unless you can restore quite a bit of work.
Yep, there are some diabolical geniuses writing some of these. “Don’t get infected” is still your best bet.
“Don’t base critical infrastructure on computers” might be a better bet.
That ship has sailed.
“Air-gap your critical infrastructure” is more achievable.
Though I think someone pointed out it’s not the infrastructure that was hacked, it was the accounting system – they can still run the pipeline, they just couldn’t keep track of who to bill.
Where I worked in rhe 90s, we did daily/ weekly/monrhly backups.
I full week of dailies and one full month of weeklies were kept on site. Monthlies went to safe deposit box.
I had to pull monrhlies a time or three.
My workstation backs up to the diskstation hourly, using restic, with
–keep-hourly 24 –keep-daily 7 –keep-weekly 8 –keep-monthly 24
Once a day it also sends a backup the cloud (Backblaze). The Diskstation also backs up to Backblaze once a day as well.
I haven’t set any expiration for the cloud backups – a few years there now, I should probably start dropping the oldest.
I haven’t needed a restore yet, but I’ve tested it several times. It’d be “re-install OS, grab data from backup” if things went south.
* https://restic.net/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has amended its guidance for fully-vaccinated Americans, no longer recommending masks indoors or outdoors, including in crowds, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced at a White House briefing Thursday.
Oh, how wonderful. But I never participated in virus theater in the first place and I will not ever be taking the jab.
Should be easy enough to find an example card online and pick up some cardstock for the printer.
Visit the Forums!
The cardstock’s not fancy, a simple blank index card should work.
Do you think this matters?
I just hope they get hunted down and killed before they get to spend it.
ISTR you were going to list your place just to see if someone would pay a ridiculous price, correct? Sounds like you got a taker?
Confidence is high. I’ll be skittish ’til I hear the fat lady singing in the rear view mirror, but I have a signed and counter-signed offer, the attorney has a buy/sell ready.
Let’s just say I’m not selling at a loss.
Biden set to release first detailed budget of his presidency on May 27
By “budget” you mean “endless spending”.
Why do you hate social justice?
who’s money.
That’s just chumming the water for Ted’S.
A band of foreign pirates just seriously disrupted the U.S. economy – that can be called an act of war. The people making decisions for Biden seem okay with it. Other Presidents would probably make it a high priority to find these people and arrange a visit from Uncle Sam. Through law-enforcement if their country is cooperative. With the Air Force if he wants to make a public statement. A private meeting with Delta or a SEAL Team if he wants to be more subtle.
“Biden says Putin was NOT behind Colonial Pipeline cyberattack but admits hackers are in Russia and threatens retaliation: Company paid $5M ransom for unlock key that didn’t work
President Joe Biden has said the FBI does not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for the ransomware attack that paralyzed a key gas pipeline and spurred fuel shortages across the South.
‘We do not believe the Russian government was involved in this in attack. But we do have strong reason to believe that the criminals who did this attack are living in Russia,’ Biden told reporters on Thursday, citing an FBI report on the cyberattack.
Biden said the FBI believed Putin was not directly involvement in orchestrating the attack — though the U.S. president vowed that the criminals responsible would be prosecuted ‘to the full extent of the law’.
‘We have been in direct communication with Moscow about the imperative for responsible countries to take decisive action against these ransomware networks,’ he said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9575133/East-Coast-fuel-supplies-two-WEEKS-return-normal-say-experts.html
He’s probably right, but I doubt it would be reported that way if OMB were still President.
Did Biden look into Putin’s eyes and get a sense of his soul?
Hey, buddy, the 1980s called and wants their Cold War policies back.
Boy howdy, that is for sure and for certain. In assessing what we wanted to move 3,200 miles through another damn country, we applied the Great Filter, trying to keep it to heirlooms and stuff we couldn’t replace, and still have a lot of crap. Some of it sizalbe, like the heavy-ass seventeen-foot aluminum canoe I’ve had since I was fourteen.
You accumulate a lot in thirty years of married life.
Sort of makes me miss my Army days, when everything I owned in the world fit in the back of my pickup. Sort of. But not really.
“ Some of it sizalbe, like the heavy-ass seventeen-foot aluminum canoe I’ve had since I was fourteen. “
A big aluminum canoe seems like it might be handy in AK. No shame keeping that.
That’s my thinking on it, plus it’s kind of an heirloom itself. I’ve had it for forty-six years this summer and have covered a hell of a lot of water in it, including one red-letter trip of ten days alone through the Boundary Waters area, the summer I was sixteen.
If you look down the length of the canoe, you’ll see it’s a bit uneven. It got caught once when our trout stream flooded, I was probably seventeen or eighteen. We found it about two miles downstream, bent around a box-elder tree. So Dad, my brother and I hauled it back, chained one end to a big tree, the other end to the tractor, and Dad pulled on it with the tractor while my brother and I hammered it more or less straight with sledgehammers. It didn’t (and doesn’t) leak and has still given great service ever since.
Redneck Percussive Repair Technique never fails.
Of course, when we made the move from IL to AZ two years ago, we had a massive cleanout. 20 yard rolloff, packed to overflowing.
Not much left to cut beyond a couple of books, some rubber bands, and some twist ties.
Yup. We done did that, too.
Heh. Last time I moved, it almost ended in divorce.
I kept lugging stuff out to the curb, and Mrs S. kept bringing it back in.
After about 30 hours of that shit we were both furious and exhausted, so we compromised.
It’s all occupying the garage now.
That was in 1994. I have not had the strength or the courage to attempt a move since then, even though we could afford something more upscale.
On the plus side, my house is paid for.
And some tin can lids, right?
Not much left to cut
OMWC confirmed government agent.
By “budget” you mean “endless spending”.
“Spend like there’s no tomorrow!” doesn’t really qualify as a budget, does it?
it’s both hilarious and sad that my participation in a grade school invention competition has exposed me to more well spoken, enthusiastic, and well researched inventors than I usually encounter at my day job.
Hilarious and sad, but is it surprising?
Not even in the slightest. 2 paragraph does not an invention make.
Look, do you think those patents used solely to stifle competition and not actually put into any product just make themselves?
*nods surreptitiously*
What’s the latest patent angle? X on (a computer, the internet, the cloud) has to be used up. Is it X using blockchain?
X using AI, X on blockchain, etc.
Mostly, I try to stay out of that fray. If my inventors aren’t actually improving the technology, I don’t want to waste 5 figures getting a shitty patent that is only valuable to trolls.
Whoa! Hold on. There’s the other category of defensive patents so when sued, you can counter sue.
Usually, yes. This adventure just past? Not so much.
The last time I decluttered, I threw away stuff I am now regretting having thrown away.
Aw. A great fear of mine. And GT, I also have quite an assortment of flattened boxes.
Mo, did you see my comment earlier? ¡Travel travel travel!!
I did not see it. Let me go back and find it.
Mr Mojeaux and I have talked about traveling when the kids have flown the nest, but no plans have been made. XX is going to have to do that on her own time and dime if she wishes. If I could go back in time I would take a gap year and travel.
I always do that.
I am very much a minimalist BUT I also get very attached to my things. So I’m careful about what I bring i to the house.
See?? Never throw away anything but empty envelopes, papers that have been scanned, and receipts that don’t matter!
TO’G – ::tilts head like perplexed Irish Setter:: You flatten boxes? It’s more of a challenge to see how many you can nest together and how high you can pile them.
At work, I can’t bring myself to throw away the boxes our paper supplier brings our stock in. He’s kinda like a Big/Odd Lots of office paper, and he’s taken to bringing our copier/printer paper in cases of five reams, which are an ideal size for things like books. The boxes are sturdy as all get out, and you can pack them full of paper but still lift them. I leave them in the supply room with the sign “Free to good home.”
I break down boxes to see how many I can fit in a decent box. Because I can’t nest too many assembled boxes, and I have a lot to get rid of.
I just take the box of boxes to the curb and they take it away.
Please god make it stop.
Marine Officer Arrested, Charged Over Capitol Attack
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/capitolattack-marine-officer-arrested/2021/05/13/id/1021299/
I like how the Marine spokesman calls him a racist. None of the charges have anything to do with race and I thought everyone was assumed innocent until proven guilty. Of course Major Warnagiris could be found not guilty on all charges and they” still end his career.
WTF?
“Hernandez said, ”Participation with hate or extremist groups of any kind is directly contradictory to the core values of honor, courage, and commitment that we stand for as Marines and isn’t tolerated by the Marine Corps. We are proud of the fact that Marines come from every race, creed, cultural background and walk of life.”
Supporting the President is extreme.
The event was racist, so all participants are racist. Due process is for the innocent, not racists.
Hopefully his torture resistance training is fresh in mind.
The ransom speech they should have made.
Huh… I was expecting this. Of course, not having seen the Mel Gibson movie, that did fit nicely.
It’s a good flick, as I recall.
Perhaps the VA GOP is not quite as stupid as I thought.
“Once a Marine, always a Marine.” That’s how Winsome Sears, who is the GOP’s first black female nominee to become Virginia’s lieutenant governor, describes herself.
Sears appeared on Fox Thursday and took sharp aim at critical race theory, the Marxist doctrine that posits that all white people are racist no matter their character, beliefs, or what choices they make.
“We are all about school choice. We must have parental school choice,” Sears tells Fox. “I just heard the segment on critical race theory. It’s nonsense. And it says that it’s prima facie evidence that, on its face, as soon as we see a white person, well, ‘They are racist, clearly. And so is everybody else in their family.’ It’s going to be detrimental to our schools and not what we want. It supposedly is to help someone who looks like me and I’m sick of it, I’m sick of being used by the Democrats and so are many people who look like me.”
I’m not a racist. I’m a misanthrope. (Present company excepted, of course.)
“New York Yankees have seven cases of COVID-19 among FULLY VACCINATED coaches and staff – but manager Aaron Boone says the injections ‘kind of blunt the effects of the virus'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9575491/New-York-Yankees-seven-cases-COVID-19-FULLY-VACCINATED-coaches.html
What?
Either the tests are crap, the vaccines are crap, or both.
“Pouring gasoline on a crisis: Panic buyers send cost of gasoline to as much as $9.99 a GALLON as pictures emerge of people filling buckets and barrels in ‘scenes out of disaster movie'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9576081/Desperate-Americans-hoard-fuel-buckets-giant-barrels-amid-gas-crisis.html
Not Zoolander?
By next week it will start looking like Road Warrior.
Buckets and Barrels??? What could possibly go wrong?
“Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has unveiled a new $1million a week lottery system to encourage people in his state to get vaccinated.
Adults who have had at least one vaccine dose will be automatically entered into the draw each week, while minors will be able to win full-ride college scholarships in a bid to overcome vaccine hesitancy in the state.
The money will come from federal pandemic relief funds and it is hoped the prizes will reverse a recent lull in vaccine take-up.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9574363/Ohio-governor-unveils-state-lottery-away-1-MILLION-week-vaccinated-adult.html
OFFS!
Russia: NYET to vaccine passports.
To the poll question, “Shops, restaurants, and offices should require a vaccine passport,” Russia completely stands out among a sea of neutered nations.
Former subjects of communist nation reject internal passports. Who’d thunk?
“Trump returns! Former president will hold his first three rallies since Jan 6 as he seeks to capitalize on crises engulfing Biden and lay down a marker for 2024”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9575705/Trump-relaunch-rallies-two-outdoor-events-June-tries-hit-Biden-crises.html
Does anyone think he has a chance?
Cripes! These people don’t even understand their own claims. Even the mask obsessives never claimed wearing a mask protects you. The claim was always that it protected other people in the event you were sick. Are they trying to claim the COVID viruses just congregate to him cause they want to be around important people?
These people are a joke.
Even the mask obsessives never claimed wearing a mask protects you.
The rationale has flopped back and forth between wearing it to keep from getting infected, and “My mask protects you. Your mask protects me.”
Besides, just look at the people wearing masks when no one else is around. Although those are probably mostly virtue signalling, which isn’t a list rationale, but is probably the prevalent one now (supported by the “My mask protects you. Your mask protects me.” mantra).
I actually think that’s a good thing.
Stupid people should be conspicuous.
No.
He should stick to a kingmaker role.
In a fair vote? Yes, he would easily win again.
The audit coming out of Arizona is disturbing to say the least. Maricopa election officials initially refused to hand over anything. When they finally did hand it over to AZ Senate’s audit, the auditors found the machines had been wiped of all data and the seals had been broken on the ballot boxes.
The point being the next election will just be “fortified” again. Doesn’t matter who the GOP puts up.
Correct. The resumption of politics as usual shows me that it has been “fortified” for a long time, to various extents.
Remember when they did recounts in 2016 and found that Trump won by even more?
So no evidence of any wrongdoing.
— news media
Also update on that Maricopa thing.
There have already been boxes not matching reports with almost 20% of the ballots missing.
Conservative news outlets are now starting to touch this one with a 10 foot poll. Until they get censored again.
linky?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArizonaAudit/status/1392656033496006656
How is it possible that Maricopa County officials did not have the router passwords?
That means that Maricopa County officials did not actually run the 2020 election. That’s illegal.
That’s all the proof you need.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1392222366554546177
Again, as I asked Urthona, any collaborating linkys? This is the same as ‘sources say…’ or ‘people close to the President…’
I don’t really care for him, but I think if the election were held today he’d win.
Biden’s three months have suuuuuuucked.
Trump would win by even more.
Um…ok.
Biden COVID adviser Andy Slavitt: Biden Violates CDC guidance to always wear a mask because he’s “very important”
He’s also very super famous.
Other Presidents would probably make it a high priority to find these people and arrange a visit from Uncle Sam.
Can the president offer a pre-emptive FCPA pardon for the company putting out a contract on the hackers?
Go old school. Letters of marque and reprisal.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9575225/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-wearing-black-bikini-gets-hair-curled.html
Nope. Bouncy new curls.
I’m sure it will be fabulous.
New crew coming through to #TheProudFamily: #LouderAndProuder! Meet Maya’s parents, Barry & Randall Leibowitz-Jenkins, voiced by @ZacharyQuinto & @TheeBillyPorter. Plus, Penny’s best guy friend Michael Collins, voiced by EJ Johnson. Original Series coming soon to #DisneyPlus.
Hard pass.
They lost me with “Louder.” I fucking hate loud people. I don’t care what they’re being loud about. I just want them to shut the fuck up and stop annoying me.
They lost me with Zachary Quinto. How in the fuck did that talentless little insect ever manage a film career?
He was pretty good in Heroes.
I thought he did a good job in Heroes.
I heard he was good in Heroes.
He wasn’t bad as the voice of Robot on Invincible.
WHAT? SPEAK UP! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!
He never played defense anyway.
The NBA announced Thursday the creation of a new award — the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award — to recognize players who are making strides in the fight for social justice. Each NBA team will nominate one player for consideration; from there, five finalists will be selected and ultimately one winner.
“I’m really proud of what the NBA has been doing all along in terms of activism and their efforts for equality and inclusion,” Abdul-Jabbar said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I think they’ve done a great job. I’ve always felt that was something important and teaming up with them to be involved in this award is very meaningful.”
The winning player will receive $100,000 for the charity of his choice; the other four finalists will receive $25,000 apiece, also for charity.
“In addition to being one of our greatest players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has devoted much of his life to advocating for equality and social justice,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a release announcing the award’s creation. “With this new award, we are proud to recognize and celebrate NBA players who are using their influence to make an impact on their communities and our broader society.”
The hell I don’t! LISTEN, KID! I’ve been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I’m out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
+1 pilot knee pads
“I’m really proud of what the NBA has been doing all along in terms of activism and their efforts for equality and inclusion,”
It’s equity, not equality. Get with it.
I demand equity in the NBA. Every team should have a .500 record.
I demand equity in the NBA.
Me too! Show me the money!
Alternatively, an NBA team has 15 players. So “equity” would mean they are limited to two black players, two latino players, etc. And I suppose half the players would have to be women.
And half the players should be below average height, otherwise they are being ableist.
“What Women Want: To Keep Wearing Masks to Thwart the Male Gaze
For many people, a preference for continued mask-wearing isn’t about science or safety, but simply a desire to remain unseen
You know what they say, girls just wanna cover up their faces to avoid the burden of unsolicited male attention.
That’s what plenty of women told the Guardian, anyway, about their desire to continue rocking a face mask outside even if science has declared it no longer medically necessary. The most recent manifestation of the ongoing mask vs. no mask debate hosts two main camps: on one side, there are those who would like to continue wearing masks outdoors out of an abundance of caution and as a sign of respect for their fellow man, while on the other are those who argue that if medical experts say we need mask no longer, then unmask we must out of respect for science.”
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/women-keep-face-masks-male-gaze
Have they tried a burka?
To Keep Wearing Masks to Thwart the Male Gaze
It’s not like am necessarily looking at you face…
I* am…
Fine, keep wearing masks. IDGAF.
Wait, this isn’t about your agency or choices. This is about your pathological need to be validated for every pathetic choice you make.
Does anyone else read these things and imagine the otters from South Park ? “Hail Science”
/raises hand
I will smash your soul like a clam on my tummy.
Because if there’s one thing that’s obvious about human societies — it is that women never, ever would drive cosmetics, jewelry or other ways of changing their appearance.
Could you imagine such an alternate timeline? Why, our booming burlap sack industries would be gone!
My guess is that, for most of these people, letting the rest of us not see their face is a favor.
I was thinking of that the other day. There are a lot of people with bad teeth who are getting a second look who normally wouldn’t.
I guess that explains why the article referenced The Guardian.
Sorry to double post. But, they could have stopped dancing around the core issue – wearing masks makes them feel like they’re part of the “in” crowd. They’ve convinced themselves that if they don the face diaper, they’re smarter, scientifically-minded enlightened individuals who respect their fellow man (that’s literally what the article frames the decision as), as opposed too the Neanderthals who just don’t get it.
My choices are wear a mask “out of an abundance of caution and as a sign of respect” (for random hypochondriacs) or don’t wear a mask “out of respect for science”?
Less than 1% of Americans set foot in Iraq and Afghanistan in the two decades of war that we have fought. Starting with GW Bush no president asked Americans to sacrifice for the war effort. In fact, days after 9/11 Bush explicitly told the American people to carry on life as before the attacks. Ahhhhhhh but COVID gave these same people the chance to feel like they were part of something bigger than themselves. As a bonus they could be part of TWO big things at once- they could “stop” a virus that spread into the general world population, AND stop OMB. PLUS as a super bonus they could wear a talisman to show they were part of the “good guys”. Not something icky like an armband, but something kewl and medical, a face mask.
I agree that there are 10’s of millions of US citizens fucked up by fear from 2020. I also think the opportunity to be part of something bigger than themselves, and at low personal risk, is part of the reluctance to let go of VID theater. I would like to see a scientifically valid study looking at perceptions about VID risk between combat* vets and the general population.
*combat vets being defined as those in any war who actually actively participated in combat with an armed enemy. e.g. Being on a ship that fired cruise missiles at the enemy, or maintaining aircraft in Bahrain gets you “combat veteran” status. But the personal risk is orders of magnitude less than for an infantryman, or a truck driver / MP who were driving up and down Route Tampa for a year dodging IED’s and ambushes. My gut perception is that those two types of combat vets may view risk differently.
My whole career has been related to insurance. I like to feel I have a pretty good handle on risk from multiple angles.
OTH, my uncle, who I love dearly, is Vietnam era combat vet. You don’t want to get him started on the risk calculation here.
Yeah, when the coolers broke down at the club and we had to drink warm beer there was hell to pay. No one should be expected to be that hardcore.
If, hypothetically, there was a culture that called for women to cover their faces, I wonder how women would be treated in that culture?
Hypothetically, and all.
Two main camps, my ass. They did allude to the virtue signalling aspect of the maskers (“as a sign of respect for their fellow man”), although traditionally hiding your face was the exact opposite. Nobody is saying we should take off our masks because Science Says they aren’t useful. Science isn’t Saying to take them off at all, only that they are useless and so that is not a reason to wear one. The non-maskers are mostly people who just don’t want to wear a mask without a damn good reason. They aren’t saying they won’t wear a mask because Science Says not to. They are saying they won’t wear a mask because there is no good reason to, which is different than Science Says not to.
“If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic,” Walensky said, announcing the sweeping change. “Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing.”
Funny, I’m not vaccinated and I’ve been living life for a while. Fuck the CDC.
You took the words right out of my mouth. That’s unsanitary.
we can’t defeat the coof if you don’t get the prick
Archive to get around the paywall
The author should have been included in this video.
You may not want to listen to him, he’s not a qualified physician.
Dr. Ring Ding – The Needle
Don’t blame him for where the needle goes.
But those are useful!
Now, if you have a pallet of each, I could see getting rid of some.
The lid of our ceramic sugar bowl has a wide knob that’s too shallow to grip. One of those small, wide rubber bands used for broccoli is just perfect for getting hold of it.
I’ll tell you something, boys and girls- mounting brand new tires (tires still made of soft, pliable rubber, instead of whatever godawful plasticine nightmare innumerable heat cycles and years of UV radiation turns rubber into) is a pleasant change of pace.
I got that going for me.
A happy ending?
A caramel edition of Thot Thursday.
https://archive.is/AI9kl
A number are quite glib-fit
Yes.
It’s a good gallery overall.
No face diapers too.
https://twitter.com/titsthetruth/status/1392492131286228996
“The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.
The choice is yours.”
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1392935847863934987
CWAA
Fuck off, Gropey Joe.
Shove. It. Up. Your. Ass. And. Fuck. Off.
That asshole has a knack for ruining half decent news too. The CDC is way late, of course, but even they have to acknowledge the science now.
Exactly my thoughts. Sigh…
Go smoke crack with Hunter and touch little kids, you commie rat fucker.
So Gropey Joe is now on record that mask mandates for the unvaccinated are perpetual, regardless.
I wonder whatever happened to “herd immunity”, anyway?
OBEY, PLEB!
Nah, I think I’ll continue to do what I like. Thanks though.
Fuck off slaver.
Wait… Biden is Jigsaw?
How about a little happy news.
Bose built a hearing aid that could save you money—and a doctor’s visit
For the longest time people with hearing loss had two choices. 1, Spend boatloads of cash and go to the audiologist and get a set of hearing aids. Usually for thousands. 2. Do without.
Despite screams bodily injury from those invested in the current system our overlords in DC have relented and allowed people to OVERTLY sell and design hearing aids. Prior to this they were usually crap and designed as “hearing enhancement devices” for those with normal hearing.
That’s cool. Their test says I have ‘mild hearing difficulty’, which seems about right for a 50 year old who wasn’t careful with his ears when he was younger.
My sister’s FIL was an engineer who quit his job to do charity work fitting third worlders with cheap hearing aids, back in the 80s.
“Fully vaccinated Americans can return to life without masks, CDC says”
This has nothing to do with the drawing eyes away from the fact that the Biden admin is screwing up from every angle…I’m sure they had some polling done to make this decision.
That’s an incredibly cynical and accurate take.
60% approval rating, bitches!
(72 Democrats and 1 Republican polled)
I had a discussion with an emergency room doctor yesterday. He says there is plenty of scientific literature now that clearly indicates COVID-19 was likely enhanced in a laboratory and it isn’t coincidental that Wuhan has such a laboratory program. He did say, regarding masks, that “they are better than nothing.” While individual COVID-19 viruses are small enough to pass through even N-95 masks, those present in large droplets – like from a sneeze – will be trapped by the mask. Also, six feet distancing works, but not as well as 12 ft. or 20 ft. or 100 yards. But if you aren’t sneezing (which you can’t really control if dust or some pollen or something enters your nose unexpectedly) then you can be within normal “personal spacing” distance without always infecting others if you have COVID.
All that is true.
Masks are better than nothing…
Bullshit. Your doc didn’t independently rewrite the science of face mask wearing of the 100 years from the Spanish Flu to April 2020. It was known that there was no significant positive benefit of face mask wearing outside of hospitals. Everything during the covid pandemic confirmed it. In the US the states with the highest covid deaths per capita are the ones with the most universal mask wearing in the last 12 months: NY, NJ and MA. If masks help a little, why is MA worse than almost any country in the world?
You people tell yourselves that masks are better than nothing because you don’t want to admit how much you were scared. You obeyed. You’ve been complicit for the last 12 months. Your mask protects you or me as much as a swastika armband that you’ve been wearing everywhere.
Remind me again, how much in fines and how much jail time you did you pay/do for not masking?
As you well know, Hype, the mandates were directed mostly at businesses. And some well-publicized scalps were taken early, pour encourager les autres.
Yeah, I know that, I’m just tired of Grrizzly’s “if you wear a mask you’re a pussy” tuff-gai posturing, especially since he’s admitted that when “work” or “travel” required it he caved and obeyed as well. He can lecture me about the hill I chose to die or not die on when he takes a stand of his own.
I live in the most mask-crazy town in fucking Massachusetts. And I was able to live a normal live without donning a mask for months at a time. If someone didn’t even make an effort to ignore the masquerade, if someone behaved like a good, brainwashed sheep the entire time, then I will treat his claims that “masks help a little” as self-serving bullshit.
If I could do this in Somerville then people in less fascist parts of the country could do as well. But most of them didn’t. I think of them accordingly.
This entire time, I’ve only worn one at work (required, now until Sept. 13th thanks creepy uncle Joe!) and in businesses. The law is that the business gets fined/sanctioned if they allow patrons to be maskless. Never once otherwise. Even walked the streets of San Francisco without one, to the consternation of my wife. I’ll wear one if my paycheck is on the line or to prevent the harassment of a business I patronize.
There was one instance of a person being cited for violating Nashua’s mask ordinance. As far as I know, that’s the only instance of enforcement of said ordinance at all. I do not know about enforcement in other NH municipalities.
I know of no attempts to enforce the governor’s general mask order on individuals when it was in effect. The order was riddled with holes.
I know of many enforce actions for his other orders, which included requirements that employees of business wear masks. Businesses were fined for not making employees wear masks, among other violations (spacing, capacity, and some “unspecified” violations). I know of no enforcement action because the business did not make customers wear masks. The state AG’s office imposed fines for violations. The NH Liquor Commission yanked liquor licenses for at least two businesses.
And Hype, I’ve ignored mask orders and mask ordinances for almost the entire duration of the insanity. There are a few cases where I’ve masked up, but those are by far in the minority. No fines issued to me.
https://twitter.com/FallerForIt/status/1392843051605893120
que?
Nope. Not clicking. Nope. No need. It’s Twatter, so I’m assuming it’s just morons, moroning.
How did they get my home videos?
Thanks SP. You touched on something that is closing in on the us. Like most folks, we have accumulated stuff that was important and thought to be necessary at one time or another.
I’ve been trying to figure out who wants/needs/will enjoy/maintain a few things that are still in the bottom of the river. While not collectable still useful and expensive and in good shape. Tools and other outdoor sporting goods stuff. 35 mm cameras that haven’t been used in 20 years, still with a 1/2 roll of film in them. Lots of similar things. My kids don’t want them, grand kids have no interest.
The missus has taken pictures of her jewelry and named the heirs. I want her to give them those things now but her family is generally not interested. Her SIL gave her some very expensive jewelry, after a few years I convinced her to return it to her SIL, Podunkville people don’t wear those things.
I’m giving my AK grand daughter my old low mileage F150, filling it up with ‘necessities’ but the problem is they will have is sort of like Animal’s, only in reverse. Barging the stuff out, when they leave the village. I f they return to the lower 48 in a few years what do they do?
We could sell the excess but our wants are limited at this stage in our lives, particularly after the recent trials. We gave a niece 2 pieces of property, about 12-13 acres, with the caveat not to sell until we’re gone. I was hoping she would want to build and retire here but no way is a city girl gonna move to the woods. My kids are Texans, for better or worse and would have a tough time adjusting to the woods. Woe is me.
Thanks for kicking me in the butt, SP.
This may be random, but when I hung out at dvdtalk.com 20 years ago, there was a trade forum that actually worked pretty well for swapping rare/expensive/[un]wanted flicks. A more general option here may not be the worst concept within the community – even if the process is slower and probably a little pricier in terms of shipping, etc. But might not be a bad option benefiting all parties concerned.
My kids are Texans, for better or worse and would have a tough time adjusting to the woods.
This is a not insignificant part of the reason why we’re back in TX. Wife is a Texan and had a hard time with “all the clouds and claustrophobic woods”
But…but… I’ve been to east Texas – there’s nothing there.
A huge ass struggle of ours is trying to find something in all the “nothing there” of East TX. We don’t want to be living in close proximity to Dallas or Houston, and I refuse to live west of I-35 (I hate the prairie), so we’re stuck trying to find signs of civilization in East TX.
Dripping Springs/Bee Caves/Driftwood etc. are all west of I-35 IIRC. I don’t know if you condiser Buda or San Marcos “civilized.”
My body, your choice
The push to mandate vaccinations as a condition of employment is underway. See, there is this thing in the Constitution that gay-rone-tees employers right to fire anyone who doesn’t tow the company lion. It is called the Right of Association.
Fuck, I’m so sick of people claiming that people have to get vaccinated to “protect others”. If I’m responsible for other people’s health, I’m going to go start slapping people in the Chip Aisle at the local supermarket. Maybe abduct some fatties and lock them in my basement until they lose enough weight so that they won’t die from the Rona.
Bullshit. At least in all the states I have ever had to manage people. If you want to get rid of an employee you better have a lot of documentation ready. That will include all the times you put together a Performance Improvement Plan.
Agree or not, isn’t the rule of thumb employees can be fired for a good reason or no reason but firing for a bad reason is a particularly dangerous no-no?
I’ve told the wife that I’m dying on that hill.
Seems that hill will be crowded. EEOC + Bidens tweet most likely means I will be forced to choose.
Ditto. Doubly so if they try and force it on our kids.
I’m sure they’ll get full approval on a few, but at the moment I’d love for an employer to require something not FDA approved.
when the employee has a “sincerely held” religious belief
Why, the government requiring employers to give exemptions to people based on their religious beliefs isn’t an establishment of religion at all, nosireebob.
Clearly. ?
Look for the vacc to be taken off of “Emergency Use Authorization” and go to “Approved” soon. Nobody can force someone to participate in an experiment but forcing “approved” vaccinations has a long and lasting history around the world. And as a side not, I am not an anti vaxxer. My shot record is as thick as my passport. I have been shot up with everything out there because they would pay me good money to work in some shit hole that required I be vaccinated against X. So I did it. This is new territory.
Hooray! Yet another 12 days of stay-at-home order in Ontario! No fishing trip in a couple of weeks! Probably no vacation a couple of weeks after that!
I would say that it is all but guaranteed to be longer than that too given that Doug mentioned “July and August” and left out June entirely during the brief time he talked about the possibility of loosening the restrictions.
I am redoing my kitchen and going through all the cupboards. I’m taking advantage to get rid of stuff, including things I have carted around the country. I have some crystal champagne flutes and crystal margarita glasses (who uses crystal margarita glasses? Not me), and it’s time to just get rid of them.
who uses crystal margarita glasses?
Rich people who don’t know how to drink margaritas. Shit gets broken when done right.
Pretty sure our glassware reproduces when we’re not looking.
/looks at the free glasses acquired last week.
What do you mean?
What do you want for a crystal margarita glass? I need to class my place up a bit. When I need a new drink glass I go get a fountain drink at the corner store.
I’ll show them to you on zoom and we can talk
kinky.
Reading some of the replies, I am reminded of those Japanese soldiers who remained holed up on South Pacific islands for 30 years after WWII ended
Iowahawk regarding CDC mask thing. He ain’t wrong.
The people on Twitter are the same people who think the hospitalization rate is 30% to 50%
My youngest stepson’s gal is pregnant with my hubby’s first granddaughter.
Her water just broke. Here goes nothing!
Hopefully, here comes a healthy baby.
I remember that!
Congratulations!
I was not making an intentional reference, I was trying to play off the “here goes nothing”
I remember the reference to the pregnancy, if you mean me.
Ah, that makes sense now.
Hopefully things go well.
Congratulations to them! I hope everything goes smoothly and the baby is healthy!
Yay, a baby!!!!
More importantly, someone ELSE’S baby.
Good luck to her!
Congrats, ‘Splosives, you are a Grandma by default. Babies don’t know the difference. Even UCS’s heart would melt with a baby in his arms.
Grats. Babies are huge fun when you can give them back to the parents for the hard part.
I have an alibi.
Congrats and best wishes for a safe delivery!
Gtats granny!
I figured Biden would agree with the hackers and shut the pipeline down. Pipelines are evil.
Seems like the darkside is encroaching on Joe’s territory
That narrative change gave me whiplash.
You’d think people would remember us here at cassandras dot com, especially after the radio campaign.
I don’t know what that means.
Uh, that we here always knew (know) better, is all. Accurate bollocks meter.
*not a real site, that I know of
If we’re Cassandra, nobody is going to listen to us, by definition…
Wha?
Cassandra was cursed to utter true prophecies but never be believed.
?
I made the joke; what are you telling me for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
Miss Mo, a couple of years ago I would have counseled XX to do a hostelling tour of Europe. But I still recommend some sort of travel.
I probably sound like the dog in the Beggin’ Strips ad. “Bacon bacon bacon, it’s bacon!!”
We just had to have a come-to-Jesus meeting and we all agreed she could chill for a couple of months before we start easing her into real life on her own.
Travel is probably not going to be part of that. That said, if it is, we will have no say, and we can only pray she’ll be safe.
Oh, sorry, only if she’s interested. Didn’t mean to assume.
Oh, and hope you’ve been checked out for whiplash.
Naw. It was a close-quarters, low-speed deal.
OK hun.
I forgot to note the make and model of the new car that I mentioned I saw get lightly but redeemably crunched yesterday! Jeep!
I was lucky to have the money to go to college. A “tour of the continent,” even a low-budget one either before after that, wasn’t in the cards.
These days, my only interest is in seeing more of my native country – except for the large cities on either coast.
*Jeep?
Jeep. Jeep? Jeep!
sigh
Sorry, I was trying to remember which new-model cars were particularly resistant to minor crunching. Paid too much attention to offender and not victim, but it seemed trivial.
I’m just a Jeepster!
Thank you Blackjack for Jeepster.
Cool version, huh? His Les Paul reminds me of mine. I have a TV yellow 2012 Melody Maker with two p90s.
I was just woman splained. This is some kinda bullshit right here!
Well, ackshually…
Don’t get hysterical Slope.
Listen to Handy…
READ A BOOK!
Thank you for that. That runs through my head with regularity.
That and “Not baked goods, Professor – baked bads!”
READ A MUTHA F***KIN BOOK!
Now that is going to be going through my head for two days. The best ear worm.
I was reading a book the other day….
I already knew it was the nuttiest sort of book.
I’m sorry you have to worry.
So the science changed overnight. Got it.
Except last week when things were exactly the same.
So the science changed overnight.
Yup. Absolutely no reason they couldn’t have made this announcement the day vaccines were approved.
I think the real justification for keeping the mask mandate at the beginning is that the vaccine is new and we don’t really know how the virus will behave in vaccinated people, but that’s not a message they wanted to go out. I’ve been shadow banned on Twitter for pointing that out.
They knew everything they know now back in March of 2020. We have studied masks and viruses for centuries. This was a fairly minor virus that was in the right place at the right time. It was used as a political tool and so were we. The biggest question is, why are they wrecking literally everything they touch with all the power they stole? The stupid things they are doing have blatantly obvious outcomes. They knew all this was going to happen and did it anyway. Why?
Btw, I am old enough to remember Aids, which is the closest thing to this. It killed magnitudes more people and we actually didn’t know anything about it at first. If they had tried to shut down the world’s economic engine and take away all of our rights back then, they’d have never lived long enough to regret it.
I would love to know how employers and business are expected to violate HIPA rules by requiring vaccination proof.
The FYTW clause?
Are they really violating the law if prosecutors refuse to prosecute?
How many Lowes would Rob Lowe rob if Rob Lowe would rob Lowes?
Hometown boy! 😀
I know it’s all wrong, but when I read The Proviso, I got an image in my head of Knox looking like Rob Lowe.
It’s not wrong, just not in line with what’s in my head and what’s in my head is a karate teacher I had once. ?
In a pinch, Aaron Eckhart will suffice.
*deletes comment*
Cue RC Dean to tell us that it’s not a HIPAA violation.
I think I’m going to avoid grocery shopping tomorrow.
Why’s that? I just did my weekly Wmart lazy ass thanks for loading that in my car shopping this afternoon. I love grocery pickup. Shopping used to seriously cut into my sit on my ass time.
https://twitter.com/LikeAndBlock/status/1392640160655945729
A large-breasted female in a Kansas City Chiefs bikini?
You can’t make me click – that’s going to be a picture of Andy Reid
Where’s Q work again?
A variation of the Anna Kournikova virus from twenty-some-odd years ago.
Can’t judge till we see the pic.
^ this man gets it.
Well, there are bunch of them on this site:
https://www.tonyskansascity.com/2012/12/a-more-typical-cowtown-football.html
But they are just red, no logos.
Tonys Kansas City was good to me in the early days of my self-publishing when I was blogging regularly.
Of of my junior high girlfriends was a regular on that site until a few years ago.
Blue eyes, blonde hair, a strictly regimented workout routine and fake boobs purchased by the first of your three husbands can get you a bit of press in podunk KC.
In an effort to clean up some ilder models which are in a state where I can’t properly paint them without removing the existing paint job I bought a bottle of specialized paint remover for plastics that won’t hurt the details. It’s “AK Paint Stripper” and on the bottle there is a silhouette of an… ‘entertainer’ with a pole. I didn’t know it was there until the bottle arrived. It’s even more SFW than Q’s Chive pics, so I guess it’s a joke.
How about Reddy should know better than to mess with a wire stripper.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/686521980/reddy-kilowatt-the-wire-stripper-4-vinyl
Balancing act burlesque showgirls… wire strippers.
my money it’s pyrrolidone
aircraft remover was methylene chloride; it wouldn’t strip your plastics . . . . it would devour them
The bottle… doesn’t say.
It has caused no damage to any of the test models I’ve used it on. And it’s very quick at removing the stubborn primer layer.
*two thumbs up*
oh
“very quick” pyrrolidone
One of my favorite things is the Kleen-strip brand “aircraft paint stripper”. It comes in a sky blue jug with the word AIRCRAFT and an airplane prominently displayed. The first thing it says on the side label is “NOT FOR USE ON AIRCRAFT”.
“It is high time there was a carbon tax!”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392947696470659072
Oh Elon, please shut up.
How about a tax on proposing taxes.
A tax on being a rent seeking attention whore would be nice (I realize the man’s a genius but damn).
Is that trolling? What is the carbon footprint of a rocket?
Remember the kid in Peanuts whose name was 5?
Wasn’t there a girl named Six on some TV show?
Yep…Blossom’s friend has a fat, round ass.
I just looked. Short, not that pretty, but she had an ass.
Australia tried it.
Prices rose across the board.
They ditched it.
It does work for his interests though with his electric auto company and all. I’m sure he could get an exemption for his research and testing with national security implications (SpaceX).
Canada is rolling along nicely with it.
Well, thanks to Elon I now know that bitcoin is run by burning coal. Why can’t they make zero emission cryptocurrency like Elon’s cars? They don’t run on dirty coal. Elon says that coal is the dirtiest form of carbon energy. I have doubts as to his level of genius.
And all the steel in the cars just magically appears.
NJ is still about 50% nuclear so I like to tell people my car is atomic powered.
Hey, you’re right. Good catch.
Good thing they paid off those pipeline hackers. Now that they have all that money there’s no reason to do it again. Especially now that they know how to do it without getting caught,
Perverse incentives are perverse.
The problem with getting paid off for a crime of that scope is living to spend it.
It’s all in Bitcoin, so just look out for someone buying $5M worth of pron.
If I ran the zoo I would be I would be issuing a Letter of Marque to some Triple Canopy-type organization to put together a team of hackers, linguists, and finance people to find out who did this.
If they really are in Russia they’ll be just fine unless certain elements there decide there’s too much heat from the job. If that happens it won’t be us meting out justice though.
Old man Getty is rolling in his grave.
Some flunky probably had their password-protection policy changed from every ninety to every forty-five days and said “Done.”
Apparently, it was phished.
Maybe the put some explosive dyes in the bitcoin they sent.
My wife and I are at a transition point where we are paring down on a lot of stuff. We’ve been living in our current place for 15 years so a lot has built up.
The transition is as follows: My f-i-l owns the building immediately adjacent to our building. We – both he and us – will be tearing down our buildings to re-build a larger, taller apartment building on the joint property. This process will take about two years so my wife and I are buying a condo nearby to live in for the duration. That will become rental property after the new building is done.
So we have some things that will go to the new condo, some that have to go into storage, and a lot of other stuff that has to go away. Japanese don’t do garage sales so a lot of the furniture we have to pay to dispose of. I have some items which I hope to get rid of on a local military base – like a Versa-Climber and some tools. I don’t care to make money on them as much as find a good home for them. It would be a waste to just have them disposed of.
Japan, where an empty urban single family lot has more value than one with a 20 year old house on it.
I like my 110 year old house.
Admittedly, it has been rennovated.
My home is from the late 20s. Horsehair plaster walls in most rooms still.
I won’t miss it when I flee the state.
The land is worthless without the house because it’s such an odd lot. It’s barely any bigger than the foundation. I’ll bet you* a house you can’t build within X feet of the property line anymore. You wouldn’t be able to build a shed on the lot of this house burned down.
*Not really.
I considered buying an $18k, , 900+/- sqft lot, even went as far as designing a home small enough to sit on it, but man, that’s crazy. Might as well be living in a townhouse.
When I move out of this house, I want a lot measured in acres. Even if it’s 1/4 or 1/2 acres.
I grew up on 3/4 of an acre, and now I’m thinking that’s not nearly enough.
Recently been reading about how to bury a quonset hut.
Horse? I thought most houses in the U.S. used goat.
Anyway, real plaster is better than sheetrock.
I lived in a house that had nipples on the wall because it used to have gaslights.
This lot steps away from my home in Brooklyn has been empty for six or seven years. Meanwhile, around my old home in Astoria, Queens, they couldn’t tear down old houses fast enough to put in new condos. I went back after a few years and half the buildings around my house had been replaced.
Zoning FTW.
PS. I totally want that mini-palazzo across the street.
There is a strong preference for new housing in Japan. Large parts of it are premanufactured.
My friend just rebuilt her house in metro Tokyo in preparation for retirement.
Naturally, she suffered a stroke not soon after it was done. Fortunately, doing surprisingly well with just minimal permanent paralysis.
As best as I can tell fro around the world little to no cognitive issues.
There is one house in my neighborhood from the 1930’s. That is totally an outlier – not just here but in the entire country. Even the oldest structures are only about 50 or 60 years old.
Japanese have a total disregard for old buildings. Only temples and shrines are allowed to stand for a long time and even those are rebuilt periodically.
They don’t really build things to last. Even their chain link fences are not galvanized, like they expect to have to replace them by the time they get completely rusty – so they get completely rusty and have to be replaced sooner than we would in the US.
You mean Osaka Castle didn’t originally have an elevator?
Wait, it wasn’t home of the Otis clan?
PS. I totally want that mini-palazzo across the street.
ZOMG – WANT.
Yeah, our building is about 50 years old so not much life left in it anyway.
The teardown is going to cost somewhere between $100k – $200k (f-i-l is paying for his so I’m estimating the total).
I am hoping to keep one apartment set aside to run as an AirBNB – that way we will have a place for visitors to stay without having to set aside what could be living space for an empty room.
At least I will have a place to park my car without have to pay $250 a month for that. And we will have a monster rooftop BBQ area.
Sign me up!
You should be built by the time I can actually get back to Japan and see my friends.
Sigh…
My apartment building is 66 years old and it’s one of the newer buildings on the block.
My house was built in 1947. It could use some upgrades, but it’s not bad for us. The majority of our street has been mcmansioned already. We’re probably the 4th or 5th worst house on a block with about 20.
yeah, when we sold our old house in West LA a few years ago, we were the last in our neighborhood with the original footprint of our 1948 house ~ 850 sq ft.
*checks YouTube feed against my better judgment*
Wow. Youtube is really going full tilt on the Anti-Isreal propaganda videos..
Fuck the Jews, right TPTB?….
*coughs nervously*
I’m not the least bit surprised. No doubt intersectionality is involved.
We’re moving. Getting rid of shit is the most cathartic experience there is.
I fucking hate clutter.
It’s like I don’t even know you, Tundra!
I SAVE EVERYTHING!
Just yesterday, I was asked do you have at work. You know what, I did! It took me a few seconds to remember where I stored it, but it saved the company over $500 in parts and labor.
I regularly scrounge through the metal recycling bins at work. It is amazing what people throw away. I will probably never have to buy another drill bit or washer in my lifetime.
Argh! The thought of all that stuff is giving me hives.
It’s like I don’t even know you, Tulip!
That’s what I’d like to think too, but then I need a special bit or endmill. I almost always get frustrated looking for hardware and go to the surplus place and buy a whole bag of whatever I need. I have 5 Harley magnetos. I still buy them when they come up for sale cheap. I only have three bikes that can use them.
My boss was writing a test report. During the actual test, he wrote down some load readings on a piece of folded paper. Six weeks after the test I still had that piece of paper in a pile on my desk. It saved the day.
/Not sorry for my messy looking desk. A messy desk is a sign of an intelligent mind. *taps temple
/My stepdad is also a hoarder. He has a farm with at least 20 outbuildings. I helped him build the largest one which is the size of a football field. He knows where everything is. It might take him a half a day to extract it from where it is located…
/ I scoff at these “Just In Time” strategies.
I admire people like you who who remember what and where. I’m not that person.
we finally disagree
You can always have notes and tidbits . . . wherever those might belong.
But that’s got nothing to do with a mess. I’ve been 5S for over two decades for a simple reason: I’m the laziest son of a bitch you ever met. I’m too lazy to move something twice, to step over something, to lose something, to knock something in the floor and destroy it because gee I didn’t remember that was there, to burn half a day in the emergency room because I tripped over something in the way or out of place. The way to throw out the batter isn’t to toss it to center field first; if you move a bishop four times before you swap it for a knight, the other side is three moves ahead of you.
Do precisely what you should with every move; always create and maximize clarity and value. This is my prayer for everyone.
https://archive.li/cag8B/c25e1a7e1147a0f1172eb43462473d4edf5e2131.png
NSFW.
https://archive.li/k61mR/04099c7562bc5c8d4a65dbafce8f3d674d5ffe20.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/hY2kM/2c938198f3f730806e676c5924a754958aed54e3.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.li/cUc4W/d06d2bfb986e6567e58775e8605c6e41ccc5e64a.jpg
NSFW.
Lol.
From a show that deserved to live.
No hair below the eyebrows.
She gets me.
I have ten Harleys, A 1962 Chevy truck, a mill, a lathe, an air over hydraulic press, a blast cabinet, a giant Matco toolbox, a massive collection of parts, two small block Chevy motors, a Motorcycle lift, two air compressors, a large welder and a bunch of other stuff. Moving is something I will resist with all my might. I really should start paring some of it down, but things are going to be more valuable than money soon, and all of my stuff has more than tripled in value.
That’s before the normal household stuff. And we have the Saturn Sky, a 2002 Camaro z28 and the Saab-rolet. I’m getting stressed just talking about the not likely possibility of moving.
I’ve already unloaded a ton of stuff. It’s easy once you get going.
Well, I sold my trailer (which would have been useful if I ever move. Dammit I shouldn’t have sold that!) and I sold my 1972 Nova. So i got somewhat lighter. They were blocking my driveway and I tripled my money on both, so there’s that.
Btw, I bought two bikes and the trailer for one price, used the trailer to bring it all home, used it a few more times and then sold the trailer for what I paid for the bikes and the trailer. Those two are now free bikes.
but things are going to be more valuable than money soon
Minimalism is a luxury of a well functioning economy. Otherwise, it’s called grinding poverty.
You call it starvation, I call it weight loss!
There’s things, and there’s clutter. Nothing wrong with getting rid of clutter.
We’re savers, I’ll save a 1/2 length of stove pipe, a piece of chain I found long the road. Enough telephone wire/coax cable to use in a half dozen new houses/garages. Occasionally I’ll use a small part of something.
I did find an almost new 300 ft tape measure, in case I’m building a football field.
Some talk about losing a sock to the wash machine, I look at it as finding a sock. I will wear 2 odd socks but my feet never seem to know the difference. Some will laugh but I don’t care.
I’ve been re-gifted stuff that the previous owner didn’t want. I find a wall somewhere to hang that garage sale item on out in the garage.
OTOH my yard has no junk. Rarely do I leave a tool overnight in the garden.
Clearly the hackers havent read REAMDE.
Neither have I. Is it any good?
I don’t remember a lot of it, but I don’t remember hating it. I just read Cryptonomicon for the fourth or fifth time. I doubt I could do that with REAMDE. Hell, I’ve read Zodiac at least three times, and that always felt like his weakest book.
Maybe weakest, but still entertaining and not a months-long commitment.
I really enjoyed rereading it. I tried getting dad into the Baroque Cycle books, and he flamed out in the middle of Quicksilver. I should have started him out with Zodiac, it’s a relatively simple quasi-techno environmentalist thriller, and also doesn’t take up hours of your free time talking about fucking women in stockings, or Captain Crunch, or bizarre psychotic hallucinations semi-involving the German military hierarchy.
I struggled my way through Cryptonomicon once but I’ve read some of his others multiple times. He definitely has his ups and downs IMHO.
Just a big, damn cat.
Is it a thing among communications majors that they learn to parrot back at someone something they just heard explained, in slightly different or sometimes exactly the same words they just heard it explained to them? Every time I explain something to this twerp he has to recite it back at me. It’d be one thing if he’s asking me questions or to elucidate something I’d said, or to clarify some point I’d made and maybe mildly upbraid me for being opaque, no, it’s literally just repeating what I’d told him in a way that makes me think he’d gotten his degree by slightly rewording the essay prompts and fluffing the other 450 words with minor variations on same. It is really, really difficult to take him seriously. But he’s the CEO’s son and I can’t call him a fucking twerp.
Supposedly it’s to make sure that you know they were listening and understood.
What, like if he stood there a dumb mute and I had to rap on his head a few times I wouldn’t get that
I don’t even know what to say. It’s so fucking sterile and unsettling when he does it, I feel like I’m talking to HAL, but not the HAL that controls the computers but HAL I’m trying to train.
I feel bad for so many reasons about this situation. Here’s a kid who graduated from a four-year program at an out-of-state college, probably not cheaply, coming to work for his dad’s company as basically an intern, doing work I started doing with an associate degree from a cheap in-state diploma mill.
And then I think, here’s a kid doing the shit I do who had the full college experience, and he’s ten years younger than I am, and I struggled through a two year degree program.
And then I think: lulz that Terminator LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND line, that’s pretty funny.
We all feel inadequate some days, up against some people.
Mojeaux knows how to throw shade.
I was not throwing shade. I was trying to commiserate.
Basic human decency.
Um… not shade.
Yes well EVEN STILL
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Yea, I’ve read about that in a lot of sales/persuasion/negotiation psychology books (I think they call it “mirroring” or “active listening”). The way I interpreted it, you’re supposed to respond in your own words but throw in a few restated fragments of what they said, not just repeat in slightly different words like what Commodius is describing.
Send me his deets. I’ll tell him.
“I apologize. Doesn’t it sound like I just repeat things without thinking about it?”
Gaijin salaryman gets it.
I would guess that it’s his way of cementing the information in his own mind. Schools make you write notes of what you’ve heard because the more interaction and the more different ways of interacting with a given piece of info, the more apt it is to stay in your memory banks. Kid’s probably trying to do that.
Accents of North America. Aside from the woke shit, it’s damn fascinating.
It was going well until Part 3 then it was like he just wanted to skip through the rest.
The a drugs/ass situation?
Adorbs: https://notthebee.com/article/this-meteorologist-started-multiplying-on-screen-and-she-handled-it-like-a-boss
Someone needs to get out more often.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/05/13/new-yorker-sociologist-says-christian-is-the-greatest-ethnic-dog-whistle-the-right-has-ever-come-up-with-because-it-means-white/
That’s an impressively stupid take, even for the New Yorker.
My Chinese, black, and Indian coreligionist friends are gonna be happy to find out that they’re really white.
White adjacent.
Hoh-Leeee-Faaooque…
Not even aware there are black southern Baptists. Like, millions.
That’s what I think of every time I hear a “progressive” ranting about all those damn Bible-thumping rednecks down South who vote against their various utopian schemes.
It’s stunning. There is no, I mean NO, appreciation for the wide variety of people in the US.
I strongly suspect they think “they’re Baptists, not Christians”. They understand nothing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue
Someone should tell the local vietnamese Presbyterian churches too
Middle Eastern Jewish dude from Nazareth is white.
Got it.
The teens have helped my wife and me decide how to cut back on someBill’s. Day two of me making dinner for the family and day two of them not eating it and instead buying supermarket sushi.
Problem solved. Dinner for two from here on out and no more catered items that we know they enjoy.
We just recently we got to the point where our 12 year-old and 10 year-old willingly eat “pizza” (store bought or Pizza Hut take out). So we now have that as an emergency option when required. My wife had always catered to their desires until a few months ago when I finally got her to realize that it isn’t worth the stress of always trying to come up with three different dinner menus to please two different children and two flexible adults.
I’m reading “Fool’s Errand “ by Scott Horton, on the war in Afghanistan.
I’m not sure what to think about Mr Horton. Some of what he says makes total sense, but it irks me that he’s a bit of an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists and bin Laden.
I have heard Horton on the Tom Woods show and he brought out the same mixed reactions in me when talking about Iran.
I also get the feeling he’s a bit anti-Israel.
Do any of you guys have thoughts on Horton?
Is he the one who said “A person’s a person, no matter how small”?
*smacks forehead*
Here’s a rebuttal to Scott Horton’s Israel/Palestine positions.
https://steemit.com/news/@libertylol/a-rebuttal-against-scott-horton-s-israel-palestine-position
Scott’s great but he does cut others slack for things he’d condemn us for. He definitely believes that Israel has outsize political influence here and he’s correct but he’s sometimes unfair in assigning blame for various international occurrences. On balance he’s alright in my view.
Happy Friday everybody, let’s see the sun rise and the Covfefe flow….
Indeed.
Prosit! (but with Java)
Mornin’, early Glibs.
Good morning, TARDy! ::raises travel mug::
Re: clutter
It’s gotten bad here since the commie cough apocalypse. It’s not me, it’s the gf (mostly) and all the shit from DeadAunt.
I really would like to clear a bunch of stuff out. ?
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
https://news.sky.com/video/cat-leaps-from-5th-floor-of-burning-building-12305949
Nope, it’s a cat.
Unlike Turkeys, Cats can fly, this is known, they have great landing gear,
“The turkeys are hitting the ground like bags of wet cement!”
-WKRP in Cincinnati
+1 Les Nessman…that was a good show.
Concur. And the call letters are perilously close to actual Cincy stations. There’s a WKRC TV station and a WKRQ radio station. I often listened to the latter while I was at Miami U. Sometimes wondered if the writers knew the jocks there.
Good morning, Stinky.
I went in to work early, got home early, and Im on Tall Cans® numero dos
suh’ fam ?
Woke up too early again. Draggin’.
And Jugsy makes her triumphant return to the Palatial 2X-Wide from NYC tonight.
There’s gonna be cellulite all over the place once I get ahold of her.
Huzzah!
She’s staying in midtown next week. Im 1 stressful night with surly union assholes away from telling them to kiss my dick, and go with her.
How ya gonna keep her down in the township after she’s seen the bright lights of the big city? 😉
Good morning, homey, rhy, Teji, Sean, & Yu!
sup’ pimp-juice
You see our most recent shooting ?
I don’t think so – I haven’t checked the local news yet this morning.
::checks local news::
Well, crap. They’re not even waiting until after dark now. 🙁
*waves*
I’m on the train heading home. Friday evening. I had four short cans with the guys at work.
Morning, glibs.
what goody, fam
I donno.
My whole darn day is interviews and knowledge transfers from retiring employees.
A whole day of manditory social interaction… *shudder*
Don’t worry – you always have us to counteract it with antisocial interaction. And with any luck, the soon-to-be retirees won’t give a shit.
Good morning, U.
But we need the knewledge transfer, because we’re taking over part of their work. I’m just hoping there’s enough motivation for them to complete it.
Ill interact with you anytime.
/wink wink
/nudge nudge
Ick.
Thats why I prefer overnights on this gig. Limits my exposure to akshual people. Ironically, I dont mind presenting before a group.
When I worked for the steel mill, I was punished with providing environmental training to the new hires. Every other week I had to spend 3 hours discussing our environmental policy and employee responsibility over 3 areas- air, water, and waste. (Sometimes radiation, too).
It was challenging to keep a room full people with no interest or care about environmental issues awake and engaged over that time.
Presenting is more like performing than interacting. Unfortunately, there’s some material that you’d be hard-pressed to make entertaining.
I found it tricky to run Excel training classes – the presentation was a piece of cake, but then there was the running around trying to help each person as they were actually trying to do something with it.
At least when I “performed” I was allowed to talk….
Heh.
/laughs @ own joke
Had a bear of a night at work. Someone’s box of paint exploded on the line and by the time I arrived it had already been sucked up by the concrete. The best I could do was crawl about on my knees scraping the worst of it off with a razor. There were about 60-70 unrelated packages affected and a whole shit load of equipment but thankfully, not in my purview. I am cranky. I’ll try to keep to my new regimen but today will be a challenge. On a brighter note, Grandson turns 17 today!
Is it at least a good color for concrete?
White line-marking paint is my guess. The floor damage was minimal but the rest of the mess was a sight to behold. Paint on the floor basically for eternity. I don’t care, I’ll treat it like every other stain and disregard it after a bit. The crawling about made my back and knees very unhappy.
Yikes! What sort of paint was it? I’m not familiar with any formula of paint prone to blowing up. What a nightmare! ::thinks with dread about old cans of paint in garage::
Good morning anyway, Fes, and Happy Birthday to your GrandFes!
Good Mornin’ to you! GrandFes turned into a cool kid. Working, driving, steady girl, learning guitar and still in school. He has a HD mechanic apprenticeship waiting for him at his Step-Dad’s company but only if he finishes High School. That boy has drive and purpose. I wish that I’d been a better mentor for him when he was growing up but he’s turned out better than anyone expected.
High Definition Mechanic ?
He’ll change your clutch in 1080p ?
4k, and charge you 4k.
What I mean to say is that his behavioral issues and his Mother’s antics at the time irritated me to no end. She settled in and he has settled down. Now she’s a semi-wealthy hobby farmer and their blended family is very happy from all available evidence. Plus he shovels my roof in the winter…
O RLY
Have you ever witnessed a package line? That’s how.
Good Morning, Festusglob. Sounds like you’re having a colorful day.
White isn’t a color, Racist!
Sets color to RGB(255,255,255). OMG Windows is racist! It’s not me, I swear!
Still a bit cool, but looking lovely outside, with the prospect of a beautiful day in store. Payroll has hit our accounts, so with any luck my co-workers won’t have blown up my voice mail, at least about THAT. And so far (knock wood,) no accidents or slowdowns showing on the traffic map for my commute. Fingers crossed that it’ll be a good day.
High 60’s yesterday. The shorts are donned until November because I never need to dress for the occasion.
Two days in a row now, I’ve had people get mad at me for passing their ass on the right hand side.
GTFO of my way. Your car sucks and your face is stupid.
My commute is just over year 1 of a four year construction
projectnightmare. It’s almost 50% of my drive. Surly, I am.*salutes*
I hate moving roadblocks. Passive aggressive shit weasels they are.
I read that as “grabbing their ass”. Lefty, are you?
I do grab a lot of ass, but only my gf’s.
https://www.wavy.com/news/national/9-people-injured-in-drive-by-shooting-in-rhode-island-police-say/
Do we have RI Glibs?
Why is Rhode Island even a state?
“It’s not even an island!”