Back in action tonight!
The World Series has been fantastic so far, although I happened to be there when the Astros lost. But it was one hell of a game. Anyway, Game 3 tonight in Philly. Should be another good one. Some decent college football this weekend. Buckeyes eased away from Penn State through the entire second half and won handily in a very tough environment. A couple ranked ACC teams got their pants pulled down. And Jimbo Fisher is doing the exact opposite of earning his money. There wasn’t much good football on Sunday. And there wasn’t any good soccer this weekend as far as I’m, concerned. Liverpool sucks and everybody they should be chasing for trophies are pulling away from them. Oh, and Max won (again) in Mexico in a snoozfest of a Grand Prix. And that’s it for sports.
Two assholes we should all just ignore.
Wait, you were expecting him to do something different? I’ve never seen someone involved in a war continue to provide goods and services to people who are supplying his enemy with weapons. Expecting Putin to do so means you’er pretty fucking stupid.
Holy shit. I gotta get in on this. I don’t pay nearly enough in taxes, so I better waste some money.
Oh, boo-hoo. The alleged victim’s daughter wanted to thank Rand Paul’s neighbor. And you dipshits encouraged violence for the last several years. Go fuck yourself.
Thank God he was using Apple Maps. Had he been using the google app, he’d have made the correct turn and never been there.
“Dis is some good shit.”
This just gets better and better. I can’t wait to see what happens next. Because the reeeeeing from this announcement was fantastic.
This is absolutely tragic. I still can’t understand how it happened. Such a waste.
Well this sucks. Also, it sounds sketchy.
Relax, it’s a video game. Jesus H. Christ, people will look for anything to bitch about.
Something good from California. Such a good sound. And here’s my favorite. Mainly because my daughters love to sing it with me. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy a lovely Halloween Monday.
“The alleged victim’s daughter wanted to thank Rand Paul’s neighbor. ”
Really? CWAC
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1586001132991967233
Not that she was alone…
https://twitchy.com/fuzzychimp-313137/2022/10/29/its-the-hypocrisy-stupid-massive-list-of-leftist-love-for-rand-pauls-neighbor-with-receipts/
Lots of people came out of the closet when Rand Paul was attacked and the offensive, violence condoning tweets and articles are still up. Don’t forget when the GOP baseball game was shot up. The left celebrated then too. Fuck them.
I really hope the (fairly substantial) rumors that Pelosi hired a prostitute that webt nuts are true. Seems almost impossible for any other story to work. Naturally “the narrative “ is being pushed, hard this morning instead of asking questions.
The whole story is suspicious.
Why didn’t alarms go off when this guy allegedly smashed through a window?
Then Paul Pelosi apparently had a friendly chat with a hammer-wielding lunatic in his underwear who just broke into his home, before excusing himself to go to the bathroom.
Who was the third person who opened the door for the cops?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-did-paul-pelosi-call-attacker-friend-911-call
All kinds of holes in the story.
I saw the photos of the residence too and there are literally multiple cameras on every corner.
We may never know though.
We can only hope to see some sleazy reenactments on the web.
If the facts fit the story, then we’ll see the video.
If they don’t, then I doubt we ever will.
“I still can’t understand how it happened.”
Me neither, but it’s still sad af.
Google sends people to the wrong street when they ask for directions to my house. It isn’t even the same street name.
Google sends me down foot bridges, while I am driving my car.
Fuck that shit, WAZE!
I drove my car into a fucking lake…
“According to a report from The Verge, Musk wants to launch a pay-for-play verification system in which verified users are charged $20 per month.
The kicker is that engineers have until November 7 to launch the scheme or face being fired. Employees were only told of the project on October 30.”
How long could it take?
“Less active users mean less eyeballs for advertisers. During the court battle to acquire Twitter, Musk himself claimed that fewer than 16 million users are able to see the vast majority of ads.”
I’ve never seen an ad on Twitter.
I’ve gotten very good from isolating myself from ads.
Me neither.
Keep in mind most normies are using the app on their phone, not a browser with ad blocking.
I can’t even with that. Browsing any of the web on a phone is unbelievably painful.
This. I sometimes go to specific sites, like this one, when eating out, but that is it for browsing.
Reader View in Safari can help a lot.
I have some thoughts on that, which you will soon be hearing about.
I use my ragged iPhone to browse, read, and write articles on. Using it for commenting now. I estimate 90% of what I do here is done on the phone. Constant movement makes it difficult to sit in front of a PC and write.
Indeed, starting tonight…thank you , Pat!
Don’t thank me yet. I may drive away enough subscribers to put this place in the red. But really, thank *you* for hosting my ramblings.
Does DNC sponsored content count as an ad?
I’ve seen plenty of Fetterman ads disguised as trending topics.
Does Twitter have a billing schema for end users?
If they did, I would not find the $20 checkmark to be excessive. But if they don’t currently have a system in place for handling payment processing (even if it’s hooked into a thrid party payment processor) a week is not enough time to implement one. You’re asking for it to be buggy and insecure.
Sounds like he’s set them up to fail and intends to fire them regardless.
Firing them for being insufferable cunts would probably be illegal. Firing them for failing to meet a deadline is firing with cause. Strictly legal, doncha know.
Right, most of them are in Commiefornia. Definately need to come up with an acceptable cause in the toxic business environment there.
Yeah, 4 working days? LOL it’s ridiculous.
I am thinking that the pay for play is already developed and was just not implemented by the previous management.
In the end, they can’t hide what was going on, and they will be found out. Musk will now be able to seek restitution, including some sweet jail time for this gang of evil fucking crooks.
Oh cmon. You get the morning scrum going, order some pizzas, and focus on the deliverables during the sprint. This is why the techies get paid 8x the average American wage.
“Pelosi was previously sentenced to five days in jail in August after he crashed his Porsche while drunk this year, but there’s no suggestion that he’s gay or an alcoholic.”
Who doesn’t crash their car while drunk and wrestle guys in their underwear?
THIS….IS….SPARTA!
Wait, Corey Booker was there?
Doesn’t he live in San Fransisco? Isn’t his wife Nancy? I’m fairly certain he’s both gay and an alcoholic.
Young Nancy was pretty. But I assume she was still insufferable. Alcoholism confirmed.
I saw some wild claim this weekend that said there was a young man in the car with Paul Pelosi when he was nabbed for the DUI, but it was hushed up.
Why not? They let him detox for, what, six hours, maybe four, before they tested him, and he walked on a DUI with injury case. There were definitely shenanigans, so what’s a little (additional) coverup?
Makes me think about playing Postal again.
They did an updated version of Carmageddon in 2016, wherein you can mow down Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sprites. Still doesn’t quite capture the magic of the original, but good for a larf.
I’d love to see a full latest gen car combat game with pedestrians and buildings that can at least show some damage.
Kinda odd.
But I thought vast majority of people played it to shoot other gamers.
Modern Warfare? Yeah, that’s one of those endless churn franchises mostly bought for multiplayer. Not my bag, I play computer games to get away from other people.
I hate online gameplay.
*Hal comes on Siri*
You’ve killed a disproportionate number of POCs. Gaming privileges suspended.
Well, if you have Siri, you’re on an apple product, so you weren’t gaming there anyway.
How does one “happen to be” at a World Series game? We’re you in your underwear?
You’re just hoping your next leap will be the leap home.
How did that show end? Did he ever make it home?
Nope — met maybe-kinda-sorta-God in a bar that probably doesn’t exist, basically got given the choice to go home or continue doing good across the timeline (I think after fixing Al’s personal timeline so he never got divorced from his first wife and/or never was a ‘Nam POW [been a while]). So he kept going, but the changes to Al’s timelilne meant they couldn’t follow him with the project anymore or somesuch.
For some reason, that’s kinda depressing.
Better than sending all the ships into the Sun and mating with a bunch of early cro magnons and losing all your culture and science, I suppose.
It seems to me that scifi showrunners have a difficult time wrapping up their serieses in a satisfying manner.
Willingly giving up all of your tech…
The first two seasons of that show were great, the rest, not so much.
Isn’t the green movement the same thing as that? They want the serfs to willingly give up tech…
Well, in that scifi world everyone gave up their tech, not just the serfs – that’s how you know it was a fantasy show.
I watched about 5 minutes of the remake. He has a whole team in some lab-like location and the sidekick can go from him to them (I couldn’t tell where they were)
Lead is Korean? Sidekick is white female, team is white guy, black woman, Asian woman, over-the-top gay guy.
They all seemed like competent actors but there is some box-checking going on there.
The funny part is that the gay guy would make a better Al than the bland white chick.
That’s right, keep pretending it wasn’t a hookup or drug deal gone bad. Pay no attention to the security cameras all around the house or the 911 call or any of the other evidence, you fucking tools.
I don’t think they’re that stupid — they just know that their current spin feeds the narrative, and anything more critical or that doesn’t blame the Stupid Party doesn’t. Nothing else matters.
No, it’s the voters they think are stupid.
/insert relevant retort
I can not argue against that statement.
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
—Hitler
Creepy 80 year husband of kleptocrat would never do anything so gauche.
“We HAVE A NARRATIVE and we ain’t givin’ it up!”
https://twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell/status/1586017719912210440
Sure sounds like ignoring or belittling.
Why the fuck are the Capitol Police involved in this? It’s a little outside their jurisdiction, no?
How involved were they on the Rand Paul case, since he’s an actual member of Congress and not just a spouse?
There’s no field office in Kentucky.
That’s pre-1/6 thinking, bucko:
Gotta be near the beach.
Maybe their duties include protecting the Speaker of the House? That’s only a guess.
Well, the Speaker wasn’t within a thousand miles of the incident, so that would be stretching it.
Think of them as Cover-Up Patrol or Insurrection Enablers and it all makes sense.
the video game’s single-player story that has you committing what would be considered war crimes
If you ate ghosts like Pac-Man, you would have what would be considered a tummy ache.
I could go for some soul food later today….
As long as you aren’t eating Chinese souls…
Don’t let those people ever play Spec Ops: The Line.
These people are Games Journalists, they don’t play video games, and certainly not long enough to reach the white phosphorus scene.
Zelensky: Russia is “deliberately working to ensure starvation” with suspension from grain deal
Maybe it is long past time to come to the negotiating table.
But unlike the last time the Ruskies starved out the Ukes, the NYT will probably report it now, so that’s something I guess.
*snark*
But will it be Pulitzer worthy this time?
BOOOSH!
This “Zelenski will fight to the last Urkranian” is BS. He’ll fight to the second to last Ukrainian.
Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Better graphics than most of his green screens.
To be fair, they negotiated that grain deal.
Of course, the people here generally mean surrender table, not negotiating table.
How about the whateverthefuck you want to call table as long as it ends and we don’t get dragged into a shooting/bombing war?
^
Democrats criticize GOP after attack on Pelosi’s husband: ‘Many people have stayed silent’
“The Republican Party’s response is to either ignore it or belittle it,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
Curious how a deranged, drug-addict, hemp-jewely making, hippie leftist is the fault of the GOP. Never mind endless arguably violent (based on their own standards) rhetoric from the left.
Next it’ll be “Maga left the rabbit boiling on my stove!”
This is fun – I read that those mega MAGA racisty blogs they pinned on him – you know, the entire rationale for the left’s freakout – were fake. Someone 4channed the URL’s and there was zero activity previous to the day after the event.
That’s funny. Hype and I were saying on the zoom that even they wouldn’t go so far as to fake that shit. How am I still not skeptical enough?
Are you kidding? They faked a Russia collusion in an attempt to take down a president.
There is no length they won’t go to.
My problem is I trust the media too much. I did not think that was possible given my current trust level.
Too many people seem unable to accept that there is no media anymore. The legacy media is nothing but gaslighters doing the dirty work of a corrupt weaponized government bureaucracy and the political party that has decided to side with them in hopes of getting and retaining power.
Whenever you see one of these stories accusing MAGA people of something violent or corrupt, assume you are going to see the story go away in 48 hrs because the facts will be exactly the opposite. Same for stories about team blue and the deep state not being corrupt turning out to be exactly tat after 48 hrs or so.
“Some person, did some thing…”
Billionaire Elon Musk ‘plans to fire 25%’ of Twitter staff in the first round of layoffs at the social media giant: Comes amid plans to introduce $20 subscription feature for blue tick
Gotta be solvent after going private.
That’s what I was thinking. Now the company needs to be cash flow positive.
He still didn’t buy Twitter really for Twitter.
Over the years I’ve come to appreciate the music of the Beach Boy’s. Back when I was a young’un they fell into the “definitely not cool” category. One of my favorite BB songs is not from their 60’s hey days but from the 70’s – Sail On, Sailor.
https://youtu.be/Zx6dgEgbMNU
I never had a problem with the Beach Boys until all of the hipsters latched onto Pet Sounds. Now I feel obligated to hate them just to be contrarian.
This. And all of the faux BB sounds that started hitting around 10 years ago, like Best Coast, shit like that.
Heh, Best Coast opened for the Pixies when I saw them in 2014. Real Estate was doing the same type of thing back then, IIRC.
Critics drew a lot of comparisons between Merriweather Post Pavilion and Pet Sounds. I can see some influence, I guess, but not the extent it was hyped. Or maybe I’m in denial so I can maintain my affection for Animal Collective.
You lit The Hyperbole signal.
A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years.
Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the capital’s leisure district of Itaewon on Saturday night.
This strikes at the Seoul* of the nation.
*I know, I know. I’m going to hell.
Go through that door over there. Gilbert Gottfried is waiting to welcome you personally.
People are going to throw ROKs at you for such bad thoughts
Well, everyone can kim chee the carnege.
Nobody is sympathizing with Pelosi because his story sounds like bs.
There are 3 cameras on one side of Pelosi’s house…. And the cops were there (with body cams) before the assault started.If anything other than the official narrative is a “wild conspiracy theory,” let’s see the tapes.
Assume the story is far, far worse & seedier than anything you can imagine, whenever you see the media desperately try to pin the shit on the other side immediately like this. Damage control and gaslighting is the name of the game for these people.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11372889/Demi-Rose-showcases-peachy-bottom-black-thong-bikini-relaxes-Costa-Rica.html
Those camera angles……
Lady needs to start doing weight lifting.
Nope. Nymph things.
Even MAGA people are coming out saying “political violence is never justified!”
That’s seems a little hasty and not true at all.
There are times when it is not only justified, but necessary.
+1 Patrick Henry
I’m sure the GOP will all come out with support for Paul Pelosi as soon as Scalise let’s them finish their softball practice.
Daily Duotrigordle #243
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 05:54.82
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Monday meh.
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I’m just going to check myself into a inpatient facility for the mentally disabled…
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I am not even going to discuss chessle today.
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Shitty.
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Good score, but got delayed one turn becuase UL isn’t a word.
*small spoiler alert*
Let’s see, add an “r” to an verb, and you get a noun (something that does that action). Looks legit to me.
/pedant
I googled it. There is a niche application where that noun is valid. So, the dictionary is correct. Quordle is just being asshole for including that in the word pool.
Daily Quordle 280
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I, for one, am shocked.
Wachtell & Twitter board deliberately hid this evidence from the court. Stay tuned, more to come …
At this point this shit is criminal.
Ain’t no republic like a banana republic.
On Thursday, Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht of the election integrity organization True The Vote were held in contempt of court because they have refused to divulge a confidential source in a civil case brought by the election software company Konnech in a federal court in Houston.
They are scheduled to be jailed this Monday morning without bond.
The judge in the case, Kenneth Hoyt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect Konnech from legitimate scrutiny. First, Judge Hoyt granted Konnech’s request for a temporary restraining order against Engelbrecht and Phillips — which prohibits them from accessing, or attempting to access, Konnech’s computers or disclosing any of the company’s data. Then Hoyt demanded that True The Vote disclose the name of the person who helped them access Konnech’s data in the first place.
Say it with me one more time, there is no such thing as a secure electronic voting system.
The US has an election system that is by design unable to verify that the voter has the right to vote, is alive, and only votes once while also remaining impossible to audit after the fact for a reason. Guess what that reason would be in a world where the powerful want the serfs to think they have a say in things, but the system is run by those that count the numbers up after the fact…
And it’s been that way for a long, long time.
Incumbents benefitted from it in both teams…
“The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was carrying zip ties with him when he broke into the couple’s San Francisco home – and was calling out ‘Where’s Nancy?’, echoing scenes from the January 6 Capitol riot.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11370859/Pelosi-attacker-carried-zip-ties-Jan-6-echo.html
The Jan 6 person didn’t bring zip ties. He picked them up after the Capitol Police dropped them.
Also, this guy was carrying zip ties and a hammer, but was only wearing underwear? That seems rather oddly prepared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tP9yQVnQU4
I don’t do YT on this machine.
Fine…
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/8b0d1c51-284d-4e4a-8771-bce5e4203611
I could understand zip ties if it were a bondage thing, but the hammer?
Well, the first version of the story was that Pelosi is the one who had gotten the hammer, and the loony got it away from him in a struggle.
Why would Pelosi go get a hammer? Wouldn’t he just call the cops?
Hell no. Anyone who uses zip ties in a consensual BDSM scene should be dropped into an active volcano.
Because?
Because not releasable in a safe, efficient way.
Like putting live ammo in or anywhere near a prop gun…
The Golden God likes to bind… to be bound!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk3EVQnpQWs
“Because not releasable in a safe, efficient way.”
Neither is rope, duct tape, etc. But they are easily cut. Handcuffs aren’t, if the key is lost.
I can summarize for you: “pretty good weekend in Vegas with this”.
And he didn’t “break in” – he was let in.
That party Pelosi had planned quickly turned bad when the guy told him they were gonna hammer nails through each others sacks?
They’re saying now he wasn’t actually in his underwear.
I haven’t seen photographic evidence to confirm or deny and we may never.
Oh we’ll find out eventually, after the election.
In my mind’s eye, he looks a lot like Hunter Biden.
UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ
It’s probably just because Hunter Biden is the public figure I’ve seen in his underwear most.
Not Tom Cruise?
The only chance we will see that is if The Squad leaks footage when they depose Nancy from her leadership positions.
The silencing operation on this whole affair is going to be epic.
“Seattle’s bikini baristas WIN court case allowing them to wear skimpy coffeeshop outfits: City officials ordered them to cover up – but US district judge says limits on their attire were unconstitutional”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11372019/Seattles-bikini-baristas-WIN-case-allowing-skimpy-coffeeshop-outfits-city-officials-called-lewd.html
Libertarian moment?
So…..
In Seattle you can do drugs in the streets, smash storefronts for the hell of it – but no work for you if you want to wear revealing clothing?
Of course. It’s objectifying. Better you be one of the homeless street people than employed and ogled.
Well, now you can follow your dreams!
Me in skimpy clothing is nobody’s dream.
Rule 34
Revealing? It covers all the good shit.
In seriousness I don’t see how it’s different than when one wears a swimsuit.
Many, many restaurants in Dallas have that theme. Seattle proves it is nuts, again.
Thanks for keeping us abreast of the story.
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“You can’t condemn the violence unless you condemn those people who continue to argue the election was not real, that it’s being stolen, that all the malarkey that’s being put out there to undermine democracy,” he said.
Curious given that Democrats object to every election they lose, even going to far as to objecting the vote in every state they lose in presidential elections regardless of the margin and the the fact that Her Shrillness recently claimed that the GOP is going to steal the election in ’24.
“It affects people’s mentality. It affects how people think, particularly people who are not, maybe, as stable as other people,” Biden said.
Notably the average leftist is not stable.
We don’t call him meathead for nothing.
Donald Trump has been spreading The Big Lie for 2 years. The violent assault on Paul Pelosi and the attempt to murder Speaker Pelosi is directly related to that Lie. Donald Trump is 100% responsible for this and Jan.6. He must be indicted and never be allowed to hold office.
So much stupidity and/or dishonesty in such few characters.
Don’t mind him. He’s just working himself up to justify the inevitable crackdown on people not associated with the Democrat’s depravity in any way whatsoever.
Insert pics of GWB’s head on a stake in a popular tv series and a D list comedienne holding Trump’s severed head.
Which for a moment elevated her to C list.
What was the W example? I don’t recall.
Game of Thrones
You either agree with everything I say, or you’re a dangerous criminal who must be stopped at any cost.
How Did The Ukrainian Flag Enter The Pantheon Of Leftist Virtue Symbols?
Cool link, bro
Simple. The hive mind decided that it should be so. It doesn’t have to make sense or anything.
It does make sense if you understand that the Donbass region has the largest Lithium deposits currently known on the planet and that the green energy crime syndicate and the Russian oil oligarchs have been battling over owning that since the discovery in 2012. In addition to the fact that Ukraine was one heck of a place to launder dirty money both sides involved in this conflict were using and whomever ran the country was the one benefitting from it (and Putin’s oligarchs wanted it back). The NATO shit is all distraction to the fact that team blue has us in a war to profit themselves and their global green crime syndicate against the Russian’s side criminal elements..
While not disagreeing that the money is of significance here, sometimes the reality is far more pathetic and mundane.
I was talking to a Navy guy who had met Wesley Clark at a gathering in the 00’s. He asked him why we had gotten involved in the Balkans.
Clark’s response was “NATO needed to justify its continued relevance.”
I’m certain that a large part of State’s pushing for the Ukraine debacle has to do with their dreams of a post-nation society where everybody reports back to the USA and it’s “rules-based order.”
NATO needed to justify its continued relevance.
And by NATO mean US DoD.
These days the US DoD is also part of the green energy cabal. What sane military leadership would have started degrading their capability by adopting useless green energy shit?
Just read the public version of the new National Security Strategy. biden’s campaign promises, DEI, green shit, and LBGTQXYZ+++ throughout. Modernizing forces and rationalizing what we should defend gets few mentions.
rationalizing what we should defend
That’s pretty standard for NSSes. Which makes sense since we’re not so much into defending as we are dominating.
What could possibly go wrong (paying particular attention to the first picture in the article)?
“tactical microgrids”
Literal LOL
We ran extension cords to a 5kW generator. Does that count?
[Sam Kinison mode] You tested it in a fucking desert, OF COURSE THERE’S SUNSHINE. How’s that gonna work in a jungle, in the pouring rain, or in a sub-arctic forest? [/SKm]
Not much use at night either.
walls of batteries, man
We did go through a lot of batteries for the radios, crypto and intercept equipment.
Yeah, soldiers love carrying more batteries than bullets. /s
You will need a gas powered vehicle to carry the weight of these batteries..
I think batteries are replacing turtles in the new cosmology.
Sounds like a) lots of buzzwords to cover this is mostly/all for installations, b) setting up installations so they’re not dependent on the local grid, c) able to centrally control all installation power usage (fuck you PVT, no AC for you. Yes sir installation commander, your wine cellar is perfectly chilled), and d) great to have unlimited DOD budget to piss around on whatever, particularly on the current civilian leaderships pet green BS.
So they want to go all-electric for non-tactical vehicles. Meh. Start by swapping staff cars with golf carts.
According to the strategy’s implementation plan, released Oct. 5, $5.2 billion of that will go to the installation line of effort, wherein the service wants to field fully electric non-tactical vehicles and reduce greenhouse gasses. The Army also wants to operationalize 55 microgrids on its installations (20 microgrids by fiscal 2024, 15 more by FY26 and then 20 more in FY27) with a total cost of $1.6 billion. (The training portion is expected to cost far less.)
This is several levels of retarded.
PM for a few weeks Liz Truss is not the brightest bulb on the tree. She decided to pull a Hillary and do some business on her iPhone. Brought it with her to Russia where of course it was hacked.
Geezus. Our company’s policy is not to take any electronic devices other than one time use to certain countries, including Russia. Are the Brit security services that incompetent?
The rumor is that she sent a text to Blinken right after the Nordstream bombing that read “It’s done.”
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/is-this-the-real-reason-liz-truss
LOL. Oh, they’re not kidding? Still a LOL.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgSccOJXEAELRST.jpg
OFFS!
And to think, only last academic year masks were required.
Clown. World.
But what if my costume is panic-stricken virus-fearing wine mom?
Paul Pelosi and the violence we care about
Several stolen bases there, but the media hypocrisy is, of course, tiresomely obvious.
I don’t care about Paul’s lover’s spat. I barely cared about his DUI insofar as he was endangering members of the public.
People are rightly horrified by what happened to Paul Pelosi on Friday.
I’m not.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
My name is David and I’ll be your server tonight. Can I start you off with a tossed salad?
https://twitter.com/FrischReport/status/1586050516710195203
I’m thinking this might be fake,
All of that was reported on already. And more. Follow the link Elon posted on Twitter to this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221029193056/https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/29/news/the-awful-truth-paul-pelosi-was-drunk-again-and-in-a-dispute-with-a-male-prostitute-early-friday-morning/7191.html
Follow up
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586871691686223872?s=20&t=XkLpLphvruG5T0e0GgM_fg
“site known to publish false news.” Prove it, NYT.
Yeah – what is the exact sourcing on that one report?
It was already reported a reporter was told not to report it?
It’s reportedly in the report.
Ye shan’t apologize for telling the truth.
Kanye West went on a bizarre rant on Friday night in front of gathered paparazzi in which he apologized for falsely claiming George Floyd died from the narcotic drug fentanyl rather than the reality which saw a Minneapolis police officer suffocating him by placing a knee on his neck for nine minutes.
West, who now goes by Ye, engaged with photographers for a lengthy conversation in which he also said he did not realize he was being anti-Semitic in earlier comments.
Two different coroners reports established that Fentanyl Floyd died of fentanyl.
I have a policy of not appologising to anyone who simply seeks another weapon with which to attack me.
Appologies are for when A: I’ve done something wrong, and B: the other party is likely to accept an appology in the spirit in which it is given.
Though I thankfully have no dealings with the press, their attitude towards an appology is like sharks smelling blood at a feeding frenzy.
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
…P.G. Wodehouse, “The Man Upstairs and Other Stories”
Speaking of Democratic rhetoric in favor of violence and intimidation…
I can’t seem to get a straight answer from a search engine, and everyone in my life who might have known is dead, so I would like to ask you all two questions:
What’s the best oil to use for seasoning cast iron?
And
How bad will oatmeal stick to a stainless saucepan?
I’m replacing my largest non-stick skillet with cast iron, and my non-stick 1 quart saucepan that I use to cook my morning oatmeal has been overdue for replacement for about a decade, and I’m trying to decide if I should get another chemically coated model or go for stainless.
I used peanut oil to season mine. Not sure if it was the best, I just had it and it had a higher smoke point so the high baking temp wouldn’t set off the alarms. It seems to have worked.
Season with flax oil – has highest smoke point.
After serving the oatmeal, fill the pan with HOT water. You won’t have anything stick then.
Flax oil has a very low smoke point. Shockingly low.
Flax oil, which isn’t always easy to get or fresh, would be #1. You want a high heat oil. Or from one of the sources, https://www.lodgecastiron.com/cleaning-and-care/cast-iron/oils-cast-iron-cooking-and-seasoning
Used to make oatmeal & other hot cereals in a stainless pot and still make rice in it, no real issues with sticking unless you cook the crap out of it or leave it out overnight. Still, just soak in water for a little bit and it comes right off.
I’ve got it backwards, low heat oil for seasoning. Link has it the right way.
I’ve heard it both ways, hence my confusion. Thank you all for the advice. I’d probably have to order flaxseed oil or drive an hour and a half to get some. Some folks also seem to swear by avocado oil, while others said it should never be used.
I’ve used that, refined coconut oil and ghee.
I think people overthink cast iron.
Yes.
Ditto.
Smoothed the inside with a sander, seasoned it, and it’s been great ever since. No issues washing with soap and water once polymerized. I do dry it on the stove and a very light layer of oil on the surface.
That would be me. This will be my first one. I know it’s hard to irrevocably fuck them up, but I don’t want to make a hassle for myself either. Appreciate the tips and the link below as well.
peanut oil
My great-great grandma seasoned her cast iron (now mine) with bear fat. Those are a little more difficult to procure than peanut oil.
bear fat
Several Glibs chuckle nervously.
“How bad will oatmeal stick to a stainless saucepan?”
It won’t if you know what you are doing. Obviously, you need to stir it while it’s cooking. Then when it’s done, put a lid on it, remove it from heat, then let it sit a few minutes. That will steam away any oatmeal stuck to the pan.
Thanks. Being a lazy bastard, I just make 1-minute quick oats, so they don’t usually spend long in the pan anyway. Stainless should probably work then.
Quick oats, 2 minutes in the microwave in the bowl, milk, honey, eat, rinse.
All the Lodge cast iron which you buy pre-seasoned is seasoned with soy oil. This is fine, especially if you are a vegetarian. It provides a fairly good layer. My Lodge I have has since the 70s was seasoned with lard originally. To my eyes, the lard seasoned pan has held up better. You could use vegetable shortening too.
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-truth-about-cast-iron
Some good info here.
Drying it after washing is the big takeaway. Rust happens when you wash it and put it away without heating. Even if it looks dry, there is some moisture in there waiting to eat the skillet into rust. Heat it dry on the stove!
Call me crazy for asking, but wouldn’t heating cause a more rapid oxidation process?
Grapeseed oil. One of the cast iron makers recommends it. I think it polymerizes better? And has a high smoke point, which is what you want. I started using it, and it works a treat. Best seasoning I’ve ever had on our cast iron, which gets a workout.
I used cast iron for many years before switching to stainless steel. I don’t think the type of oil matters. The patina will develop naturally from cooking or from artificial seasoning. It takes time to develop.
Because I’ve recently gone through an obsessive phase on seasoning cast iron:
How you clean it is critical to maintaining the seasoning. We’ve gone with chain mail scrubbers, which are easy on the surface but get the gunk off well. No soap (of course). The finer the chain mail links, the better. My favorite has a silicone insert so it looks like an armored sponge.
I put a thin layer of grapeseed oil on it (not much more than a few drops) almost every time after I clean it. Periodically I reheat it until I can smell the oil, and I use a paper towel to wipe out any excess and get an even layer. I tried avocado oil, vegetable oil, and bacon fat, and I thought the grapeseed oil worked the best.
Good to know. I’m bookmarking this thread for reference later.
SEED OILS!!?!?!?!?!!
Just kidding.
Cleaning is definitely critical.
Also, I think you’re the one who recommended the Work Sharp Knife & Tool Sharpener? Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up buying the Ken Onion edition a couple weeks ago for the 15 degree angle. A bit of a learning curve but works really well.
Yup. That’s the one I have. The first time I’ve ever gotten knives too sharp. You can tell when I’ve been sharpening knives because my left forearm is partially shaved.
If you’ve got a gas stove, carbon steel is a happy median between cast iron and nonstick skillets.
Currently on old-school electric coils, but I’m going to be moving soon anyway.
Use a high smoke point oil to season cast iron, it doesn’t matter all that much. I have used coconut oil and avocado oil as that is what I use for high smoke point cooking. If you got peanut or flax or something else, use that.
I cook oatmeal 5 days a week for the kids in a stainless steel saucepan. Use one with a heavy bottom and you won’t have nearly the sticking issues (and of course stir a lot).
Search engines have been rendered useless.
It’s definitely harder to get good results nowadays, even with operators and quotation marks. Even for completely non-political topics. Take me back to Altavista…
10w30. And you get it from the same place that cast iron goes – the dump.
Zwak throws down the gauntlet at the feet of The Hyperbole.
Sure, with the overlap and comparisons ‘n such: Kamala Harris: “I Love Venn Diagrams”
Stop picking on Paul Pelosi. He’s under a lot of stress.
Lula won?
The planet is saved
Charging for Twitter services is a genius move. If Facebook had done that, they could have made a shit ton of money without treating their customers’ data as a commodity.
They would have still treated the data as a commodity. TWO income sources.
In any case, charging for Twitter has been called for for years, to have a verification of sorts. I would have paid for Twitter back then.
The powers that be have ensured this.
Two years of sustained disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election are causing disruptions and instability as early voting for the midterm election continues in most states.
In Arizona, people who believe the lies of former President Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen are filming and harassing voters, looking for supposed “mules” stuffing ballot boxes. Some of the self-appointed election watchers there have been armed. …
Meanwhile, election-denying candidates are vying for secretary of state, county clerk and other positions of election administrative leadership in multiple states. If they win, they could use false fraud allegations to overturn future election results.
Election officials and experts are increasingly concerned that lies and falsehoods have left the U.S. election system vulnerable to disruptions and a crisis of confidence. But they also emphasize that voters have the power to see through the curtain of misinformation and ensure American democracy survives.
Maybe try having some semblance of election security and this wouldn’t be a problem.
Ah disruption of the election – there’s your new narrative explaining why Democrats lost.
*grumble*
Why send an email asking for the status of something if you’re just going to walk over to my desk the instant you hit send and ask about the same damn thing? I haven’t even had time to look into it yet.
I had a high-priority, short-suspense task on a previous project. It took longer than estimated because management kept interrupting asking for status reports.
Reminds me of when my Mom would send me some stupid email (forwarded by one of her friends). She’d call and say “have you seen the email I sent you?” *
this was in the AOL/dial-up days
That was me, Tres, and I’m not your Mom!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My wife does those. She also does Spartan races. I can confirm, almost everyone on the course will help each other over obstacles. It’s basically treated as a big team event.
She’s been trying to get me to do a race. They have an adaptive version, where you go with an able bodied partner who helps you on the obstacles, and helps you get from one obstacle to the next.
Do you get a riding crop to whip the person helping you? So they go faster?
Can’t find it on YouTube, but that reminds me of the Benny Hill granny riding race.
Whoever implied Mormons don’t do Halloween is wrong. We do Halloween; we just don’t allow masks and candles inside the building because of insurance reasons.
My church didn’t really have much to say about it. The pastor basically told people, as long as you’re not actually trying to conjure the dead the Bible is silent about it, do whatever you want. But when my step-brother was going through his high school theologian phase he insisted we call it “harvest” and put out stupid non-scary hayseed decorations, which my dad went along with to appease him. That lasted until I was too old for Halloween anymore.
I found out something interesting during my research for Cods & Cuntes. The Catholic church at that time (~1420) was of the opinion that thinking about witchcraft or sorcery was merely a waste of time because IF it existed, it was few and far between, but most likely there was some normal explanation for what people saw as suspicious activity. The Middle Ages were quite enlightened, in fact. Or at least, they weren’t ignorant idiots.
Yeah, it’s quite an irony that the Renaissance was coincident with an increase in fear of witchcraft.
You needed to science out those witches! They’re tricksy folk.
Indeed, there’s been a bit of revised thinking by anthropologists, historians, and theologians about that period in light of new evidence. Some of which may be revisionism, of course, but I suspect it’s equally true that the Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers did a job on the middle ages in order to advance their ideology.
Another fun one is to point out to both the die-hard young earth creationists and the fedora-tipping reddit atheists that it was St. Augustine who first pointed out the Biblical creation narrative can’t possibly be literal since a 24 hour day has to be defined by the sun, which doesn’t feature in the narrative until day 4. You’ve got people building entire theologies and anti-theologies that hinge on something the church pretty well resolved 1600 years ago.
The Catholic Church wasn’t so much enlightened, as it was for replacing existing beliefs.
+1 Cult of Mary
Christianity offered to replace the malevolent Hairy Thunderers of the pagans with a really nice good who offered a beautiful afterlife for people who believed a few things and tried to be nice to each other.
Seemed to work.
“…because of insurance reasons.”
Too Jewish.
We have a cultural crush on Judaism and, as one friend disgruntledly put it, “Mormons can spin gold out of straw.”
That’s right. We’re a bunch of Rumpelstiltskins.
Like… Rumpelstiltskin
Those bongos, tho!
Mormon (ish) Rumpelstiltskin.
You’re the OG preppers, too.
/mad respect
Baseless conspiracy theories rampant on Twatter
Elon Musk on Sunday gave credence to a fringe conspiracy theory about the violent attack on Paul Pelosi.
The new Twitter owner tweeted a link to an article full of baseless claims about Pelosi. The article was posted on a website that purports to be a news outlet.
Musk, who has 112 million followers on the platform he now owns, posted the baseless story about Pelosi in response to a tweet from Hilary Clinton at 8:15 am ET. He later deleted the tweet around 2 pm, but not before racking up more than 28,000 retweets and 100,000 likes.
Linking to a Los Angeles Times story about Pelosi’s alleged attacker, Clinton wrote, “The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow.”
In response, Musk linked to the baseless story, and wrote, “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.”
It all makes perfect sense. Why must we question the official narrative? Trust authority.
fringe conspiracy theory about the violent attack on Paul Pelosi
I.e. “Questioning the narrative because it is inconsistent with observable facts.”
There are four lights.
What if voting were conducted on random days during a two-month period? Registered voters get contacted with a week’s notice of their first voting date, with options for 3 other days. Voter selects a day and shows up to vote on that day. If they don’t, they forfeit their vote. Accomodations to be made for voters at same residential address.
Would this have any positive effect on the lame attempts at October Surprises?
I understand this is entirely unworkable, but the question is would random voting days have any effect on media campaigns? I’m guessing “no” because we effectively have that situation already with ubiquitous mail-in voting.
Sounds to me like a fantastic way of finding out how many fake votes you need to fabricate.
I was never a big fan of election day being a day off (with the bars shut down until 8pm), but as an alternative to all of this other stuff, I’m coming around on it.
I’m ok with election day being a holiday, but with the bars open.
Also, that’s where you vote.
Free drinks when you vote one way?
Each political party must pick up a round of drinks … rotating until at least one of the platforms starts to make sense.
We’re all gonna die!
Boss Tweed says, “Hello.”
Why shut down the bars? Instead of a stupid “I Voted” sticker, you should get a voucher for a free drink.
See the other branch of comments.
I dont disagree, but who pays for it?
Each party?
True. TANSTAAFL.
I’d need a drink before I could vote
Mammary Monday’s titillating top-heavy temptresses grant generous gifts to your gonads.
https://archive.ph/jlQG3
Its sort of funny, this was posted in 2009.
The one thing that we can recycle is…… Porn and T&A.
Mind blown.
Hmm, a before (then) and after (now) comparison would be interesting to see how well they hold up.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgL3WjuWAAEDyH2.jpg
All this right-wing violence.
“they will forcefully detransition…”
Wherein not providing the treatment is the same as detransitioning.
That post glows, brightly.
Yeah…but I but someone takes the bait.
Seems real enough to me. Maybe it’s just juvenile bluster, but there are plenty of unhinged TRA’s, such as antifa, that commit real violence.
“Gender-affirming care”
More newspeak from the Cathedral.
Cutting off a guy’s *, gouging out a * in its place, stuffing his chest with silicone and shooting him full of biology-opposing hormones is destroying his gender, not affirming it.
Also, not to go against the grain or anything, but … WhY DiD pElOsI hAvE a HaMmEr?!
Do you people not keep a hammer in your kitchen junk drawers?
No, I keep my hammers on the front shelves with the rest of the tools.
I keep it in my pants until something needs nail in’.
I keep mine in the liquor cabinet. When I want to get hammered, literally or figuratively, I have one spot to go.
A young couple on their honeymoon are on a cruise. At one port of call they go to a cabaret and the act is a man with a huge cock who comes out and uses his giant cock to smash open walnuts. The couple is really impressed and go home and always talk about what they saw.
After 50 years of marriage the couple decides to go on a second honeymoon. They end up back at the same cabaret. Sure enough the same guy with the same huge cock (although he is much older now) comes out. This time instead of smashing walnuts with his dick, he cracks open coconut after coconut.
After the show the couple go back stage and tell the guy about seeing him 50 years ago.
“Your act was amazing way back when! You smashed walnuts! We’ve never stopped talking about it, and now here you are smashing coconuts?!?!”
“Well, my eyesight ain’t what it used to be”
Most tools are in the garage, organized. I have a small set of emergency tools in the house in a tool box. My first grab for a way to deal with a crazed intruder would be a more significant item than a hammer.
It was (is?) Sen. Feinstein with the CA Carry Permit, not Pelosi. No good San Franciscan would soil their hands with some horrid handgun!
For all the dislike of Feinstein’s politics, she was born in SF, started off on the city council (Board of Supervisors), and became mayor when Moscone and the other guy got shot.
It was SF that was once known for it’s vigilantism too, but that’s only slightly older than Dianne.
These days “Dirty Harry” has a completely different meaning….
“That’s Dirty Harry… Sanchez to you, Punk.”
Obligatory
Bring back Quentin Kopp the Kosher Cowboy!
Kitchen drawers are for knives and guns. The hammers are in the bathroom.
I see your logic.
So is one long knife.
Seriously though, we’ve always had a little tack hammer in the kitchen drawer.
Does a meat hammer count?
Euphemism?
Way to tenderize the thread.
None of the story makes sense
Hanging from pegboard on inside of pantry door. As RJ said, not first choice of weapon.
I haven’t been paying attention but I cant believe any of us has done THIS
Heh. So true.
Maybe someone was doing some work in the kitchen and just left it on the counter. Sometimes people don’t put shit away.
Are you calling me out? It sounds like you’re calling me out. At least, I feel called out.
There’s a little piece of counter in my kitchen that’s near the door to the garage. That’s where we accumulate all the stuff that people are too lazy to put away. There’s always tape or screw drivers or recyclables on it.
All 4 of my hammers are in the same tote with the rest of my hand tools in the spare bedroom/utility room, so that every time I have to perform a household project I end up emptying the entire damn bin amid a flurry of profanity.
I have a bucket.
Invented in Doloot, MN
https://bucketboss.com/pages/our-history
*beams*
No. It’s in the tool chest in the garage, where it belongs.
You don’t have more than one hammer?
All 3 are in the same drawer.
Prolly a dozen. All in the tool chest.
Where they belong.
Yeah, one is the night stand anchored to a Smith, another labelled M1911 near my computer, one in the garage with a long handle (13 1/5 triggerp…oooops handle).
Ours usually gets left wherever I was using it last, until Mrs. Animal yells at me to put it away. Then it’s in the toolbox in the garage.
Sounds familiar…some truths are universal
Third drawer from the bottom of my tool chest, but they are mostly ball peins or brass hammers.
To hammer in the morning, the evening and all over this land.
Obama goes on the campaign trail and gets heckled by anti-war protestors.
Although I think Obama’s a piece of shit, I will say at least he’s more genuinely anti war than the current democrats.
True. The Iran deal was almost decent.
Obama at least had some control over the agencies, even if it was finite and limited.
Ever since Trump got elected, they’ve gone completely rogue.
Control or merely alignment?
Oh they definitely cut his balls off when he took office. He obviously acquiesced to most of what DC wanted.
But he did resist some of the arms shipments to Ukraine. The same arms that they impeached Trump over for putting up mild resistance.
He was more “moderate” in several ways than the current party. He probably could not get nominated today, unless he made a backroom deal with whoever’s running the show to follow orders, like Biden did – and yeah, I can see Obama doing exactly that.
The hateful dyke running for governor has Obama endorsing her in an ad. Except the thing is more edited and cut heavy than a random YouTube video. Is he that incompetent at delivery of his lines or what was left out?
He was in Milwaukee stumping for Mandela Barnes against Ron Johnson. The whole appeal is to get the Machine Vote out in Milwaukee to throw the state to Barnes.
The lady yelling is correct – It was Obama’s State Department that sponsored the coup in 2014, killed a whole bunch of innocent people, started the civil war, and set them on the path the leads directly to this war. An explanation would be appropriate before we listen to his campaign rhetoric.
Libya, Syria, the coup in Ukraine we sponsored… I’m sure I’m forgetting two or three more.
Drone-bombed funerals and weddings when he was in the mood. ISIS was a CIA creation.
He was an empty-suit technocrat. The progs hate him because he didn’t do enough and the cons hate him because they think he’s the 2nd coming of Muhammad or something. The guy made bank.
Definitely racists.
This supply chain stuff has gotten serious! It’s Halloween and I haven’t been able tho find any Brach’s Candy Corn!!
There’s probably a national glut on ear wax.
Really? It’s the brand that counts?
Uncle Joe says to fight inflation and buy knock-off brands of candy corn instead.
I only like the white band. I discard the other two color bands.
You want to be called out as a racist pickle, don’t you?
I’m just not attracted to the other two stripes. Can’t change how God made me.
I have proof that Urthona is just posing as a racist in an attempt to infiltrate us! He is really a glowie!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU6S3-cXtKs
Dry roasted peanuts mixed with candy corn is the the proof that the sum is greater than the parts.
The ideal ratio for me is about 10 peanut halves to one candy corn.
Candy corn is in a three way tie with Necco wafers and Almond Joy as the worst Halloween candy out there.
Saltwater taffy.
Horehound candy (Yes, that’s the correct spelling.)
Yup, top 4 there. Do we have a number 5?
Good and Plenty?
Circus Peanuts
I used to impose a Snicker’s tax on each of my kid’s Halloween haul. Gotta condition them to pay their fair share.
Proper libertarian parenting technique and how taxation is theft. I also did a redistribution exercise one year with then, by giving the browner child more in the end.
Phrasing?
Orphan living is tough living, man.
Some just get screwed…lessons need to be learned
I like Necco wafer because I’m fucking dope.
My man.
If we ever share a roll, you can keep the chocolate ones though.
Have some Mounds.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Candy corn is neither.
I bought Halloween candy yesterday (nothing like waiting until the day before) and half of what they had left was candy corn — obviously not a top seller.
I’m ok with election day being a holiday, but with the bars open.
They let women vote. Why not drunks?
I got in trouble for saying that, once upon a yime.
What about drunk women?
A hammer in the kitchen? Maybe they were crushing ice for daiquiris, and got in an argument over strawberry vs peach.
Maybe it was a tenderizing hammer and Pelosi just wanted his meat pounded at 2am.
That’s not a euphemism!
Sounds like a real sausage party.
The knives are coming out in Wisconsin!
Sounds like the polls are all moving Johnson’s way. There is no more gap between him and Barnes. Still makes me smile that the turncoat GOP lackeys are getting their comeuppance now.
Uh yeah. Barnes is just awful and probably not gonna win.
Johnson is the only guy that is even giving lip service to going after these vaccine companies. They will do their best to oust him.
Note how it’s only the GOP who has “attack ads”, even though Barnes is running ads like this.
I heard this argument locally….repub ads are dangerous and attack ads and dem ads are issue ads highlighting the dangerous stances of Republicans. Quite literally a coin with two heads for them
Pretty hilarious that the Pelosi story comes out the same day as Elon takes over Twitter. This is exactly why there were buckets of lefty tears about the new owner. On Friday and Saturday aside from some random commenters on websites no one was talking about the obvious flaws in the official story. I highly doubt we will ever see any police body cam, Pelosi security cam or the myriad cams from their neighbors that would have caught a nutball in his Fruit of the Looms sauntering around Pac Heights at 230am with a hammer.
What happens in
VegasPacific Heights stays inVegasPacific Heights.They’re still trying hard to push the ultra-MAGA angle but I don’t think it’s going to buy them any votes.
Yeah, you have to be hitting the Dem pipe really hard to buy the “Berkeley, nudist, hemp jewelry making, druggie, MAGA man” story.
Harder than the Smollet defenders?
Speaking of hammers, anyone know if a 4 ft/lb impact force hammer drill can go through a few inches of rock? The 35 ft/lb jack hammer I rented went through like butter, but renting is becoming a hassle. Cost to buy a hammer drill is much more reasonable than buying a jackhammer.
Jackhammer might be overkill, but a hammer drill may not be powerful enough despite the very small area of rock I need to go through to deepen a post hole (a few inches wide, a few inches deep). Searching online has not been much help.
What type of rock? All stone is not created equal.
I’m not really sure what kind of rock. It’s soft enough that I can pulverize a bit of the surface with a pry bar. I might be able to split it with a sledge and chisel, but would need to find someone
dumbbrave enough to hold the chisel.Not it.
Sandwich the chisel between a couple boards. Let er rip with the sledge.
That’s a good idea. I’ll give that a try first.
[shudders at prospect of multiple Glibs offering to STEVE SMITH rock for SSD]
STEVE SMITH KNOW HOW TO POKE HOLE!
/+1 Thanks for the setup
I’m assuming it’s granite.
How big is the hole?
If it’s granite I’m not sure it matters the size of the hole…
I can’t believe you didn’t just take that opportunity to instead type “I’m taking it for granite.”
My father in law is expressing his disappointment in me from beyond the grave.
He did not, because Swiss would think it not gneiss.
I don’t know if it’s granite. It is soft enough that I flake off pieces by hitting with a prybar.
The post hole is 6” diameter and needs to go 3.5 feet deep. I’m hitting rock about a foot and half down. The auger’s kicked up 3 fist sized pieces so far. It’s stuck on the 4th rock though. I’m hoping just a few inches based on the size of the others.
The short answer is no to your hammer drill question.
If you’re driving the posts into rocky soil (not solid rock obviously) you may be able to rent a hydraulic post driver that will get it done a lot faster instead. The per day rental cost is higher but you’ll be done a lot sooner.
Thanks, I can save the cost of a hammer drill then.
I have a large excavator coming to drive the posts in. The wood posts are about 7” diameter. It’s a neighbor doing me a favor, so I augured out the holes ahead of time to make it as quick and easy as possible. Maybe the auguring wasn’t needed at all.
It can be done at very small diameters, but anything of significance will require a larger tool.
I’m not clear on the job requirements though. Are you trying to drill a hole in the rock or break it?
Well which one was it…a rout or narrow victory
“Trucks, Protesters Block Brazil Highways After Bolsonaro Rout”
“Bolsonaro has yet to comment on Lula’s narrow victory of less than two percentage points…”
When leftists win it is always a landslide historic mandate.
I just laughed cause that was in the same article and not a point of view quoted but the journalists words
^
And when someone passably right-wing wins it is illegitimate and he/she should not be allowed to govern.
Lula won but the Bolsonaro faction still owns the courts, etc.
Just saw that Bolsonaro is out. Waiting for the next several years of ‘Brazil isn’t real socialism articles’, I guess once lulu is fine raiding anything of value.
Now some other Glib contended that Lulu was convicted by a dishonest judge. Brazil is almost as confusing as our own country.
Well a 1.5% margin if victory is a clear mandate to veer the ship of state hard to port.
Funny how the NYT makes a story of Musk linking to a site and implying that the Pelosi story is completely aboveboard while ignoring that he was replying to Hilary Clinton’s tweet blaming Republicans for the attack. Funny.
The NYT and WaPo are neck and neck for America’s premier birdcage liner. It’s all propagandistic garbage all the time from those two.
The sad part is that off the front and op-ed pages the NYT often does very good in-depth journalism (as long as there’s no real political angle to the story).
MAJESTIC CASTLE WITH VIEWS OVER FLORENCE, FOR SALE IN FIESOLE TUSCANY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXkujefJJ2s
sometimes wordpress posts comments for no fucking reason
Only $600 million lira!
(Bummer to find out Italy uses the Euro)
The game forces you to shoot at people climbing over the Texas-Mexico border wall,
Forces? Oh boy.
I was tied to a chair by my computer and forced to play a game I was forced to purchase for $70!
Why won’t you monsters leave Omar alone? How dare you pounce on her for hiring additional security for herself?!
That is right! You right wing nut jobs not only endanger Ilhan, but you make it unsafe for people who want to marry their brother.
Shoulda just bought a mobile “No Guns” sign. That would be a lot cheaper.
my guess is that journalists are panty-twisted on account not of having to shell out $20 which is frankly negligible for an essential work tool, but because its /egalitarian/
anyone who cares to can shell out $20/mo
so theres no status to it any longer
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1586919670887710722
i would not pay 20 fucking bucks for no blue check
It’s a great way to weed out bots.
The depravity of our ‘elites’ is really quite spectacular.
This thread from Martyr Made is absolutely insane.
The linked interview with Pete Quinones was really good as well.
If you have the stomach for it, his series on Epstein is now available for free. Link is for parts 1&2.
Jesus…
That shit boggles the mind.
It’s amazing to me that reality is so much worse than the conspiracies.
Just Podesta’s self-advertised taste in artwork ought to exclude him from polite society. That shit is fucked up.
“I remember when @RandPaul was viciously attacked and an MSNBC anchor accidentally let her true feelings come out:
“…the incident that left Senator Rand Paul with six broken ribs, this might be one of my favorite stories…””
https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1586107083459543040
These aren’t mistakes or them being hypocritical. These are their principles. They believe their opponents should suffer and that they should be protected.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1586959696874774528
WTF??????
The boats.
Deranged
Can I get extra nipples?