What makes a good word list? If any of you work the NYT acrostics you may have noticed that the words they use are often related to the quote or the source of the quote in some way. If the quote is from ‘Dracula’ the words might include ‘BELALUGOSI’ and ‘STAKE’ and ‘MONSTERMASH’. Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon who have constructed every NYT Acrostic* are very good at this, me not so much. I try to select words that are Glib or pop-culture/current news related, also some of you may have noticed that I try and use one particular word in every puzzle of mine sorta like a signature. Lastly you don’t want too many obscure names, places, or things. The anagram program I mentioned last time has a lot of phrases (IMONIT, INITTTOWINIT, and the like) in its word libraries and I don’t like using too many of those either. The point is for the solvers to be able to solve the thing after all, you don’t want to make your puzzle too hard, or too easy for that matter. More on that next time when we discuss clueing. Now on to the Puzzle.
Music to work a Glibcrostic to
Correction: Both clues O and W should not be plural, should be ‘dog’ not ‘dogs’
*I would submit my puzzles but I doubt they’ll let me use “Shut the fuck up, ______!” as one of my clues.
Ok, THIS time I’ll see how far I get without looking anything up (referred to in some quarters as “cheating.” Sheesh! 🙄)
Good Luck, We’re all counting on you.
Got it! 😃
Would never have gotten J without “reverse engineering” it.
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Reverse engineering should be part of solving, If you can get it all from the clues alone I’m clueing it too easy.
If I took the time to write them down and do that, I could probably get more then half figured out.
Maybe next time, work has kept me jumping lately.
Have you tried the online version? It’s the only way to make the puzzle at all doable for me during the day when I’m limited to working on it on my phone.
I can get about half of them correct, and as always, I love the quote.
Thanks for doing these.
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American Inquisition
The pharma owned medical authorities went after Dr. Meryl Nass for treating covid patients and noticing vaccine side-effects.
One of the primary reasons I never got this vax – the Anthrax shot made me sicker than I’ve ever been in my life and did permanent damage to my digestive system.
Now they are backing off because they realize they are about to be sued.
See that vid of Rand Paul and Fauci where Fauci looks like he just shat himself. Priceless. I think we need new Nuremberg style trials.
Nobody I knew had any reactions to the Anthrax shot.
At the time, I didn’t understand why there was resistance.
I thought I was paying attention, but was still blindly trusting the medical side.
I think if I ever meet Jennifer McCarthy, I owe her an apology.
Nobody I knew either. Until I read Ozy’s series and realized that the worst flu I ever had 20+ years ago wasn’t the flu after all but a reaction to the anthrax shot(s).
I was in bed for week after that thing. Then had a low level cold for the next 3. Didn’t really get better until we got to Saudi Arabia and started taking Cipro. My stomach was never the same – still take a daily heartburn pill.
Why not work an Glibcrostic, what else you gonna do? Watch a shitty superhero movie?
I have to work, contrary to what Rufus thinks.
I like clue I.
I am trying to paint. In particular, I am trying out a new technique, but I may have to find even smaller brushes. I’m using the smallest size in the official line, and it feels like I’m trying to paint with a mop.
Personally (and I think the rest of TPTB would join me) – I am grateful Hype does these for us.
Sorry for OT, but I am hoping Not Adahn is reading… https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=52980 what say you?
If true, it gives China even more of a reason to take Taiwan.
An invasion is a lousy way to try and secure a high tech industry. Equipment is easily broken, the talent flees…
Slave labor is known for technical prowess and attention to detail.
It would seem that way. I don’t know how reliant china is or isn’t on us persons for their semiconductor business.
US, Taiwan and Japan.
1. I love these, and do them when time allows. Which is never Tuesday afternoon. But I very much appreciate Hyperbole for this and for my ubiquitous Tubi log in screen picture. I also really enjoy Mojeaux’s series. Been too busy to post in the afternoons, except for random days.
2. Not sure what to say here regarding the chip decision. I mean, dang I dislike the Chinese government. And I support moving processes elsewhere. But this seems quite ham fisted like everything Biden does. And it will hurt everyone everywhere. It’s as stupid as saying “by 2030, we will all have electric cars or no cars.”
Yeah, we were chatting about that yesterday. I reached out to a couple buddies in the industry and it appears this caught most people by surprise.
It seems like a terrible time to do something like this.
That’s a Democrat campaign plank.
I used to roll my eyes at the ‘they are trying to destroy the country!!” shit. I don’t anymore.
#metoo
Not if you’re prepping your industry for a war.
Since when has DC been against globalization? The biggest reason for them to do this is to rehome necessary manufacturing capabilities at high speed in advance of a total separation.
I imagine this also has to do with Ukraine and China’s support of Russia. The neocons are lashing out.
I work in the semiconductor industry, and the business unit I’m in alone will lose, at minimum, tens of millions in revenue for this quarter and the next. Across the whole company it could top a billion dollars in lost revenue in the same time span. I was hoping to have a nice budget to work with for bonuses and raises in December for the technicians who work under me, but I suspect that’s in serious jeopardy now.
FJB
I knew there was at least one other of you in the biz – thanks Grumbletarian!
Sorry, dude.
Although if history repeats, even those of us in low tech manufacturing are gonna get crushed shortly.
And those of us in tertiary industry’s are already dead. That was a huge part of my decision to close down; I couldn’t offer my remaining clients a product worthy of the fees I would need to charge to keep the product on life support even.
I’m sorry, Zwak. My old company got killed in the last clusterfuck. It’s a terrible decision.
Obviously let me know if I can help in any way.
Thanks, but the wife pretty much declared that I was retired (I am in my 50s) and can just take care of the house and domestic stuff. Now I peddle a little bit of antiques like Humongous does for extra cash.
Living the dream.
That seems odd. Twenty-five years is more than enough time to educate and train people and give them experience in the industry. What prevented them from developing native talent?
They did.
Astute. Chinese companies are adept at copying other people’s designs and producing lower quality versions. I have railed against that for years. And yes, this is a generalization. There are many interesting companies over there cranking out original products. Yell at me later.
But why can China not develop talent, you ask? Progress comes when initiative is rewarded. That only happens under capitalism. Never under communism. Central planning is the death of creativity and adding value.
What’s going to keep this limited to the semiconductor industry?
Saw yesterday that the Biden admin is going to release cybersecurity regulations from the FCC, HHS, and EPA or or less simultaneously. Yay.
I expect no less. Why do it now, right before the election? All of it is going to piss people off.
The good news is it will make EV’s way more expensive.
Ha!
Our glorious electric future awaits!
What I saw in another article were quotes from people (purporting to be) from AMAT and Applied. These are companies that manufacture particular pieces of equipment that semiconductor fabricators use. The industry is “I, Pencil” writ large.
Apple has no idea how to manufacture their high-end chips. They need foundries for that.
Foundries have no idea how to build steppers/scanners. They need Applied/AMAT/TEL etc. for that.
Scanner manufacturers have no idea how to formulate photoresists, they need EKC et. al. for that.
And it’s not even about developing your own talent. The GF employees will be able to keep a scanner running longer and maintain it more efficiently than the original manufacturer, but we don’t have the tooling needed to produce arts for it and we sure as fuck aren’t doing R&D on the next generation of the tools, that’s all effectively outsourced to the OEM. At the same time, those guys may understand the photolithography process, the rest of the die manufacturing process will be complete voodoo to them.
Shitty brain teasers are the seconds of games.
We need a purging fire.
I’ll rely on MikeS for a real firsters take on shitty brain teasers.
Nothing tests the brain like Firsting. And anything even implying otherwise is pure blasphemy.
K is obviously a trick clue as there are no good songs on that album.
“Third best” doesn’t mean it’s necessarily any good. The best of the worst is a thing, just look at Bro.
Very good point.
late to the game as ever.
Daily Quordle 267
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Sad face…
Meta Forced to Sell Giphy After British Antitrust Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asNhzXq72w
Election denialism
Employees at an Amazon
warehouse near Albany overwhelmingly rejected a unionization effort on Tuesday, delivering a blow to an upstart labor union seeking to organize workers at the retail giant.
The tally was 206 votes in favor of the union and 406 votes opposed. Officials said 949 workers at the ALB1 warehouse were eligible to vote on whether they should become part of the Amazon Labor Union. Four ballots were voided. The results of the election still need to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board.
The results mark the latest setback for the Amazon Labor Union, a grassroots organization of current and former Amazon employees, which had a historic win in April at the JFK8 warehouse on New York’s Staten Island. The group also lost a vote in May at a nearby warehouse on Staten Island.
Chris Smalls, president of ALU, said in a statement that the voting process “wasn’t free and fair,” suggesting the union may seek to challenge the election results. Lawyers for the ALU have already filed 27 unfair labor practice charges against the company with the National Labor Relations Board.
“It was a sham election where workers were subjected to intimidation and retaliation on a daily basis and even the workers who volunteered to be election observers were faced with threats of termination,” Smalls said.
Cry more, loser.
Just up the road from me, the IBEW is protesting a construction site with a giant inflatable rat.
You don’t see many of those anymore. At one point I thought renting giant inflatable rats might have been a good business venture.
Someone needs to nail a rat to that rat.
Election denialism!
I know from experience that the NLRB has been completely captured and weaponized by the unions. Any election the unions lose is, by definition, illegitimate. I will be very surprised if Amazon wins this one.
Is it really ‘captured ‘ if it was designed that way?
Good puzzle, and I really need to get my brain focused better. It took me far too long.
Oooh. I like the online thingy.
I only got 9 correct (no cheating), but I’ll do better next time. These are fun – thanks, Hyp!
Really like the pausable timer. Nice touch.
American cultural appropriation at its finest. Thai owned Power Ranger themed ramen shop.
Servers dressed as Power Rangers at California restaurant fend off attacker who was choking woman
Was it Wayne Brady?
Apparently he DID need to choke a bitch!
Run BITCH RUN!
“the Yellow Ranger dragged him out of the restaurant by the collar”
Man, I wish someone had videoed that.
Needs a TKO from the Pink Ranger.
Cease and desist inbound 3..2..1..
Wow, I actually finished this time, and no cheating. Must be an easy one. 🙂
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First one I’ve found the time to do, and yeah — got a few of the clues and that gave me enough to start getting the gist of the quote. I’ll take whatever victories I can. 😉 Thanks, Hype.
Three weeks out and the polling looks worse and worse for the dems. So what are your bets on the October Surprise?
The SPR is already getting tapped AGAIN…because reasons.
15 million barrels this week. Unreal.
That’s the best October surprise the Dems have. Were they thinking the China chips decision was some kind of awesome surprise? Wreck some more industries right before the election?
It usually takes a second or two to realize that’s piss on your leg, so they’re gambling on people not figuring it out right away.
Let’s just say our friends over at “the agency” have been very busy with raid training lately. Flashbangs and automatic weapons fire have been a daily occurrence for a couple of weeks now.
InSUrReCtiOnz!
Not the FBI, the other ones…
I figured they were prepping to off MBS.
Morristown Beard School?
And I say it’s well past time to get rid of those assholes.
I keep going back to the idea that they’ll arrest a bunch of Republican candidates for supporting Jan. 6 and declare them unfit to run for office. Oops, too late, ballots are already printed so I guess the Dem wins.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/shot-joe-biden-right-pushed-hard-finally-got-changed-marry-couples-privacy-bedroom-video/
That’s some top shelf cringe right there.
I can’t even figure out where he meant to go with that.
He sure was eager to get hands on that short girl though.
He was height testing for beer placement.
Wow he just lingers and lingers. Even when he’s talking to other people he doesn’t let her go.
Cue the usual “what he MEANT to say was…” This one’s going to be a little more challenging.
They’ll just ignore it.
At one point she seems to mouth something to her friend, maybe’what’s he doing?’
What the fuck?
This is insanity.
How many wars do these fuckers want?
Once again, what prompted that change? It couldn’t possibly have been a recent particular shift in US foreign policy, could it?
Interesting.
Makes the semiconductor move understandable now.
We’re sick to blame the president for escalation, but similar warnings happened right before Ukraine kicked off. Either he’s weak or he’s escalating tensions, not sure we can have it both ways. Personally I lean towards ‘weak’.
Guess we get to test out the whole two theaters of war theory.
Why not? We’re flailing around like a dying empire trying to take everyone else down faster than we’re sinking.
Weakness/ insecurity and escalating tension are not mutually exclusive.
Y’all need to up your refresh rate. *Points down*
Navy wants to showcase the carrier groups one more time.
Now I remember, pelosis visit and Biden’s throwing away if strategic uncertainty on Taiwan… Okay maybe it is both ways.
War is business. And business is good.
Same damn playbook. Escalate, escalate, escalate. Our very planet is in peril unless we go to war!
It’s escalate, escalate, escalate, then “Why you do that?”
Opportunism by China while they perceive the US as distracted and weak. And a domestic distraction as the world ecomly and by extension China’s plummets. Plus the “one country two systems” lie isn’t very believable after Hong Kong.
You think the bond market might have been telling you something?
Wedbush downgrades Carvana on ‘bloated costs structure, high cash burn’
Although to be fair EVERY sell side analyst has been stuck in one these calls. If you though it was cheap last quarter it’s an even better value this quarter…
October surprise: nuclear winter?
The Climate Change Solution
“Brilliant Biden solves concrete change and delivers on cancer moonshot, free chemo therapy for all, cool weather expected” /legacy media
Brilliant Biden solves concrete change and delivers on cancer moonshot, free
chemoradiation therapy for all, cool weather expected”Damnation. Fucked up twice in one comment. Ah well.
Dirt roads for everyone!
Libertarian moment!
Where we’re going we won’t need roads.
The 536AD project.
French Cement Company to Pay $780 Million Over Payoffs to ISIS
Somebody must have read Bonfire of the Vanities.
Jesus. These French companies are always up to shady shit. SNC lacalin, and this is hardly the first time for lafarge.
LOL I decided to check out who’s on my ballot this year and saw Schumer – I didn’t even know he was up again. I have never heard of the GOP opponent – way to get out the vote, dude – and the third candidate is some LaRouche chick.
Moving along…
Oh my.
Bravo, meme guy. Bravo.
LOL
Fetterman is the Caligula’s horse of American politics.
He’s as strong as a horse and almost as smart as one!
L O L
The Atlantic presents “50 Shades of Lake”
I can’t wait to read the episode with Tulsi.
“Black tea with honey”
I remember when it was Maddow generating the erotic fan-fic.
Ew! That’s disgusting.
I seem to recall that particular fanfic didn’t really have any sex. Just Rachel doing the crossword (in pen!), while one of her bitches adores her from across the room…
Does the successful delivery of new whiskey glasses justify having an old fashioned before 4pm?
I missed the part where having an Old Fashioned before 4 pm needed any justification.
Well, it depends on if you’re at work and what your job is.
Fair point, I may be technically ‘working’ but I’m not operating heavy machinery or anything.
No. I think it has to be a Manhattan. EST and all.
I take that into consideration.
Only if they didn’t arrive until just before 4. Otherwise you’re late.
The 2024 Cadillac Celestiq EV Will Be the Most Expensive Cadillac Ever Built
That will be sold to you by some clueless salesmen at Smith Cadillac and you’ll be in the same service line as the guy with $35k CT4.
That’s going to work.
*outright, prolonged laughter*