Here we are again on Monday, and I’ve got a dead hot water heater and a bunch of shit at work that needs 3-4 hours of uninterrupted thinking time, and an afternoon full of meetings. Plus side, the thing that needs thinking about is actual code, and I don’t get to do that all the time today. What I need is a script, but if I hand that off to my developers, they’ll want to overthink it, and add it three sprints out. I just need to automate something because I spent an hour doing it by hand on Friday, and it was a complete pile of “why in the fuck isn’t there a script for this”?
Anyhow, enjoy the picture of my oldest molesting a donut and here’s some links
A famous house near me is for sale, aliens not included. If I found a powerball ticket on the ground and it was the winner, I’d totally buy it.
“we love taking risks and blurring the lines between shows and sponsorship” — I think this is known as the Hasbro model.
This isn’t a bad way to go if you’re terminal.
Maybe of use to some of you here.
This will probably make a few of you tingly in your bathing suit area.
That pic is huge.
The facial mess….
I have had to clean it up too much.
Why is that child eating a turd?
Your screen is small.
A bigger screen would make it even bigger.
Depends on the pixel density
I don’t even have HD. Kid’s face is 15″ across on this laptop.
The pixels on phones today are ridiculous. I have to shrink anything down about 10x before sending it anywhere.
“I’ve got a dead hot water heater”
Gas or electric?
Or euphemism?
Nobody’s asked if he checked the thermostat.
Or why he’s heating his hot water.
Such a waste of money, he must be a human ATM machine.
Electric. The upper thermostat housing has rusted out and is leaking. I’m less pissed now that I know it was 17 years old. But still not excited to pay a bunch of money to get one that will only run 10 years.
If you swap out your anode at 5ish year mark, you can get a longer life out of it.
“Electric. The upper thermostat housing has rusted out and is leaking.”
Yeah, sorry, you’ll have to replace it.
“The pool house did not exist at the time of filming. Production built a temporary structure over the outdoor pool. The Babats later erected the pool house based on the movie design.”
Huh
There’s a house a couple blocks from me that has a big pool house building behind the house. it’s not like I live in a “rich” neighborhood. The house itself apparently started as a modest brick Cap Code story-and-a half (similar to our house), but has additions to it. They have a large piece of property – probably an acre, whereas most of the lots in the neighborhood are half or a quarter that size. We walk by it all the time.
Have they put out the pink flamingos yet?
Lol. I’ll have to check next time we walk by.
Ryan Reynolds trying to beat Paul Rudd at his own game?
Alf and Reynolds do have the same hair.
Reynolds seems to be on his way to owning everything but Alf?! JFC that was the worst fucking sitcom of the decade.
Aw, I liked it, she said sheepishly. There was a lot worse. Remember Small Wonder (et alia)?
Hello Larry.
NBC Sitcoms : “Here’s Boomer” and “Breaking Away”.
Carson (as Karnak): “What are two bad names for a laxative?”
I was going to mention Dinosaurs, but that was the next decade, I guess. My step-brother loved ALF.
I liked Dinosaurs too. Jim Henson ties. Mr. Lizard, “Looks like we’re going to need another Timmy!”
To be fair, Full House also aired during the 80s.
+1 “How Rude!”
Joanie Loves Chachi?
I liked ALF. My freshman year, I always did my calculus homework during ALF.
I wonder if the lawn flamingo story is as factual as the “Loofa code”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/03/swingers-swap-upside-down-pineapples-for-loofahs/
I think that’s cultural appropriation from teh gheys.
And the punks.
Yikes! My neighborhood has a Flamingo. On Friday night we drink beers in the driveway of the house with the flamingo. Pretty sure that’s all it means here.
They’re just trying to ply you with drink before making their move.
Sounded like a rainbow party to me.
Exactly. One old bint puts a colored loofah on top of her white CUV to distinguish it from the 224 other white CUVs in the Publix parking lot. Others follow suit, and some wag jokes that the different colors represent various kinks.
Now there are rubes who insist that The Villages is filled with randy retirees hosting orgies nightly after Happy Hour and the Early Bird Specials.
It isn’t? 😧
::revises retirement plans::
So, between the hot water heater and your work, you aren’t…
(puts on sunglasses)
Up to code.
If he doesn’t get them both finished, he’s going to be in hot water.
“The spots will begin airing during an ALF marathon July 29, dubbed “Caturday.””
Because 4chan?
I posted that video a couple of weeks ago. Awesome
About a third of the way through it, I hear someone say “rawwr”. Absolutely.
The pink flamingo means the person is from Parma.
More likely.
Yeah, I think the author of that article has been punk’d.
Or pink’d. (dammit)
Would this mean I am a swinging necrophiliac?
https://www.biglots.com/product/led-flamingo-skeleton-36-/p810388784
Well, I’ve got one of these that I put up some years for Halloween. The problem is that it doesn’t stand very well.
For you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycxQtir9iSM
Careful now… this site is family friendly
Is that kid eating a shit sandwich?
“The crew was notified by his traveling companion late in the afternoon about his missing status after he had not been seen all day,” a Carnival release said. “Sadly, after an exhaustive on-board search and a review of security camera video it was determined that he jumped.”
Jumped rather than go to Florida. Huh.
And, it seems like swinging is for people of all ages — in February, The Post reported that residents from the Florida retirement complex the Villages were using different colored loofahs to distinguish their different swinging preferences.
Kids today and their loofahs.
Shit sandwich in, shit sandwich out. There is no winning for parents.
‘Jumped rather than go to Florida. Huh.’
He heard from the NAACP how dangerous it was and figured he was safe taking his chances with the sharks.
By the way, if you purchase that house, you have to remember that children don’t rule the night. They just don’t, nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. While they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with them. It puts them on edge. It might put them on bezerker mode.
Now, who wants cake?
Me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZzUh9hcTo
Hi Brett!
This will probably make a few of you tingly in your bathing suit area.
Susanna is still a 10.
Bingo.
I need to find out about Elon’s deep-seated loathing of birds. I mean, I know they’re not real and all, but…
Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America
A manufacturing story so fucked up there had to be MBAs involved.
That’s great.
Something something, non-linear, 150-pound servomechanical system which can be mass produced by unskilled labor…
Somehow, Harbor Freight succeeds.
When your tolerances can be within the diameter of a 12 year old Asian kid’s index finger…
It’s a mixed bag. In addition to big differences in labor costs there are also significant environmental compliance costs.
This is great channed for no BS tool reviews.
https://youtu.be/DzY4jg7NmKw
https://youtu.be/JyfkQBQuvBM
He looks at US, Europe and Asia.
I bought a couple sets of Tekton sockets and ratchets a couple years ago that serve my needs pretty well at their price point.
“Stanley’s plan for the Craftsman plant centered on automating much of that process, as seen in a YouTube video uploaded by a Belarusian company that supplied some of the machinery.”
I think I found the problem.
Yeah… WTF?
Can we not build one single fucking thing ourselves anymore?
I got “server not found” when I clicked the link. Obviously others did not. A mystery.
Try this
I can’t view any archive links in Brave or safari on my iPad.
Fascinating.
I would have thought all that was 100% automated by now, or near enough.
Trying to compete with China on the low end… oof, I’m not a big business brain but even I would nope out of that.
Always live like there’s no tomorrow, because… you’re a dipshit.
Apparently he was uninjured. Very, very lucky.
Mountain Dew Commercial.
The new “Shit Mah Pants!” flavor.
There has been a development in the Barbie movie saga.
So,13 year old XX wanted to go so bad… And now 16 year old XY’s girlfriend is going with her friends.
So XY says he will take XX tonight. He and his buddy are going to dress up in all pink so they can embarrass the girlfriends. Because of course they are.
So much for the boycott. But at least XY is being nice to his little sister.
My wife and kids are going tomorrow. She’s ignoring the warnings about the woke, because we heard it all before the Indian Jones movie, and the warnings turned out to be overblown.
Keep that in mind the next time you ask yourself “Why does Hollywood keep putting out this woke shit?”
Because you’re making them billionaires, 15 bucks at a time.
Or maybe those that claim everything is woke should be more discerning with their labels. Otherwise woke will become another meaningless word like racist or homophobic.
To be fair, the definition isn’t necessarily precise, and some are going to be more sensitive to it than others. Because Neiman Marxist Hollywood didacticism has been subtlely embedded into movies for 30 years or so, it really has to be bludgeoningly blunt for a lot of people to even take notice, while activist types are going to hang on every Trump joke or reference to the patriarchy. Without having read a single review or seen a single trailer, I can pretty well guarantee you no Barbie-themed moving releasing in 2023 is going to be anything less than a gender studies shit fest.
I read the plot summary. It’s a gender studies shit fest.
So, IJ was OK? I hadn’t read much about the woke stuff (although I knew it was there) – I just heard it wasn’t a great movie and didn’t do the title character justice.
The move was ok. I was expecting it to be woke, but I didn’t really see anything.
So, the results of the Barbie sojourn are in.
First: thr reviewers: the boy is 16, he wore a hot pink shirt, neon pink board shorts with pineapples on them and white crocks to go with his shoulder length blonde mullet (a holdover from lacrosse). His girlfriend, also 16, is a quiet, stunning, lean, brown haired dancer. The third wheel is my 13 year old daughter, sporty spice, not yet interested in boys, never was into dolls. They went with other girls and one other couple. They all hit Taco Bell on the way home because the girlfriend wanted taco bell.
So, a diverse crew.
They walked in laughing, having long settled the dispute over my daughter’s blanket that sent the wife dozens of texts during the previews.
How was the movie?
“It sucked!” exclaimed my daughter.
I raised my eyebrows at the girlfriend, questioningly. “It was terrible”, she said.
“It was the worst movie, ever.” added the boy.
They laughed and walked to the boy’s room. Apparently he was desperate to play a video game to get the stink off. The girls were giggling profusely as my daughter tried to convince my mom to let the girlfriend have a sleepover with my daughter… “she’ll sleep on the couch with me!” … yeah, that is always going to be a flat “No!” The daughter really likes her because she has an easy laugh, and there is nothing she loves more than an audience that appreciates her humor.
“So, what was so bad?” I ask the room.
“It was all feminist crap”, answered the boy without pause.
The girls giggled their agreement as my daughter continued to work on getting the girlfriend to hyperventilate from giggling about her mom being fine with her sleeping over.
The wife offered that there was going to be a Barbie drinking game… you have to take a shot every time they say the word “patriarchy”.
The unanimous concensus of the 3 carloads of kids was that it was unfunny crap.
Caveate… they are the gifted kids. The kind of kids where the boys dressed up in pink for a laugh and the girls didn’t. Only a couple of minorities were represented. They are still too young to be political, and too teenager to be politically correct.
But the over-the-top man-hating was neither lost on them, nor was it appreciated.
I’m going to see the Barbie movie as soon as it hits streaming. I’m not interested in it enough to go to the theater to see it, but I’d rather see that than Indiana Jones, which my husband wants to see. So he’s going to wait for streaming also, for that.
It’s not often we diverge so greatly on movies, but Indiana Jones is old and tired and dark, and the Barbie movie is new and different and sunny. I mean, I love “Walking on Sunshine” and “Perfect Day,” so yeah, I’mma watch the Barbie movie. (Point of order: Yellow is my favorite color [sometimes red]).
So girlie.
There is probably no movie made in last generation that I have less desire to see, and that’s before I read anything about it.
Let me show you my craft supplies.
I am not going to see Indian jones, Barby, or anything else for that matter. Going to the movies is expensive enough, and I don’t want to watch stupid. Woke or not, they all look stupid.
“Trump recently appeared on the “Full Send” podcast, whose YouTube page counts more than 2 million subscribers.
The “Full Send” interview with Trump generated millions of views, though the YouTube video of it was removed by parent company Alphabet because the former president repeated his claims that the 2020 presidential election was fixed.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/joe-rogan-keeps-turning-down-donald-trumps-requests-for-podcast-interview-report/
OFFS!
LOL… proof that the 2020 presidential election was fixed.
Not to sound all snobby, but would you really want to swing with someone in a trailer park? They don’t send their best.
There are those among the glibs who prefer a double-wide.
Yeezy shoes, back in the news. So who bought all of that? And why?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/adidas-scores-win-huge-demand-unsold-yeezy-shoes
“I’ve known Kanye for a very long time. He’s a great, great friend. Of all the blacks, he’s one of my favorite. A really, really talented guy. So when I saw that all these shoes were available, I said ‘I have to help a brother out’ as they say. They all say that. They are all saying it’s a great thing for me to do. And they really go well with my hats and my hair. Everyone says so. I’m going to take those shoes out of their boxes and store them at Mar a Lago, and with the empty boxes I’ll build a wall on the border. A big, beautiful Adidas wall. That’s the art of the deal.”
Bravo!
It’s almost like people don’t care about the shit celebrities say when it comes to overpriced sneakers with the right name attached.
A month ago my mom broke a bone in her foot on the way to visit me. She went to urgent care where an X-ray was taken, a fracture discovered, a splint was placed and crutches given. My mom has no insurance in the US. Since then I’ve received three bills for more than $1100 including $49 for crutches. Is this something what a visit to urgent care costs without insurance? I honestly have very limited experience with urgent care in this country. Plus, I’ve always had insurance. Seems too high to me. And presumably I haven’t yet received a bill from the doctor’s office that my mom visited three days later. I’m kind of tempted to tell them that my mom has returned to Russia. Call her there.
Seems a little bit high for urgent care, but not significantly so. Was the clinic associated with a hospital? Because that would explain it.
Yes, the clinic was associated with a hospital.
That’s your explanation.
Billing the living shit out of you is what hospitals do best.
Just had to argue one recently where four doctors got their billings in while my wife was in the ER and she saw none of them.
They saw her as the walked by.
Good catch. Also, they don’t expect that people without insurance will pay, so they jack the prices up to the max to maximize the write-off.
Call to negotiate.
If you’re willing to pay something.
The insurance company never pays what they charge, why should you?
The 3 weeks my dad spent in the hospital dying from sepsis were billed to Medicaid at around $550k. This was back in 2015. All said and done, I think the actual repayment was something like $40k.
Billing the living shit out of you is what hospitals do best.
I firmly believe that once they find someone who will pay, they make shit up and continue to milk that teat for all it is worth.
Yes. It is a jillion dollars without insurance. Sometimes you can call and negotiate down the bills. Huge, huge pain in the ass perpetrated by career bureaucrats who twisted our healthcare into the shit show it is today.
That sounds right for urgent care in my neck of the woods. I don’t really like urgent care, tbh. They do a little more than a doctor’s office and you can get in quicker. But they don’t do nearly as much as an ER. If they say, “Go to the ER,” then you’re stuck with their bill AND the ER bill.
Last time I got an X-Ray at urgent care, the x-ray was $66. I didn’t have a fracture, so no splint or crutches.
$50 for crutches sounds almost cheap.
So where’d most of the $1000 come from?
Obamacare? (You paying for everyone who can’t / won’t)
The most suspicious is the bill for $700. I called the customer service today to complain, they said that this bill is for doctor’s (professional) services. Perhaps, some sort of doctor examined the X-rays while we were waiting.
Yeah I would have them go through each of the billed codes. I had a children’s hospital try to bill my insurance for $750 for children’s Motrin they administered to my son.
The physician I used to see operates on a walk-in basis with on-site X-ray, ultrasound, and EKG available. I haven’t been in for a few years, but the office visit was around $200, which included EKG. X-rays $150. Ultrasound the same. Lab work was steeply discounted. Think it cost me about 80 bucks for the full annual physical workup. I’d imagine everything is probably around 50% more now. That’s still around $675. Plus $50 for the crutches, I guess.
Without insurance? That’s what we paid WITH insurance for my kid. We have a high deductible plan. A few months ago she twisted her ankle, and despite us telling her to wait a few days, she decided to go to urgent care. The visit + crutches + x rays were about $3000 and we’re still paying it off slowly. And her ankle was fine 3 days later.
The upside was I broke a crutch the other day, and I was able to use hers until my new set came in.
That seems really high. Was it out of their network or something?
Maybe it was 2k? I just know it was expensive, and we are having to make payments.
Our urgent care here put over a grand on the bill to take a fish hook out of my son’s thumb. Used novacaine and a pair of pliers.
They have a cap of $500, so that is what they ended up charging me (without insurance). I suppose they would have billed insurance the $1,200 and then insurance would have paid $137.50.
The $500 cap was a couple of years back, so they have probably doubled that.
Fun with graphs.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-907/
This one is not so egregious. But it still pisses me off. Put solar, wind and even “other” above your primary generation resources. Either put your damn chart in order of capacity, or in alphabetical order. The current order is simply stupid.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/fuelmix
The color choices are also shite.
This one is not so egregious. But it still pisses me off. Put solar, wind and even “other” above your primary generation resources. Either put your damn chart in order of capacity, or in alphabetical order. The current order is simply stupid.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/fuelmix
Are the squirrels the first item on the list?
I would have been flunked out of high school statistics for pulling that shit.
“The deputy added he stopped Brock after he noticed an air freshener on the Honda Civic’s rear-view mirror, which he said was obstructing Brock’s view of the road.
“His rejection of my traffic detention and his apparent intent to distance himself from his vehicle further raised safety concerns,” Benza wrote in an 11-page report. “I know from my training and experience that those who possess contraband items inside vehicles commonly attempt to disassociate themselves from their vehicles when law enforcement is present.””
https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/transg-man-claims-los-angeles-deputy-beat-him-after-he-flipped-him-off/
CWAA
This is why I luvs me some utilities.
Is that her Joe Cocker impression?
Lizard person spotted.
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1683294431691124738
That is weird.
We Red Lectroids are a bit… different
I’m a bit of a skeptic, but ChatGPT has been decent at producing scripts if you can specify your task correctly.
It’s been good when I need to do something in Bash for some reason but I can’t remember the exact syntax – much easier than wading through the man page or Stackexchange.
It’s M$, so the hardest part is finding the CLI to use for the script.
Ewwwww.
/teen girl
Yeah, I use it for that kind of thing all the time.
Huh. I’ll have to try that next time the urge strikes.
I had ChatGPT, Bard and Bing do a code-off. They all came up with varying answers and then had each make the other’s more efficient. Quite fun.
Actually, that would be worth a writeup. That is really fun.
Takes me back to my youth. Working on variations of recursive sort algorithms and binary tree data structures, I began testing binary sort against trinary sort against quaternary sort…
This was on a 3 machine Sun unix cluster. So after testing on 10k items,I made a 10 million item random data set to sortand turned it loose.
The next morning I got a call from the system administrator. I brought the entire cluster down, spawning millions of threads across the entire cluster. It took him a good 5 minutes to even pull up the process tree to see what was happening. Ooops.
lol good times
I’m really tired of these cooking show contestants who go “I’m here to prove that [Identity Group] can cook/hold our own in the kitchen/etc”.
Unless you’re having serious physiological issues with your senses and/or motor control of course you can cook. The only cook who’d prove anything would be the blind amputee who has only a finger and thumb to work with.
My wife and I laugh when that happens. Especially any newer ones after watching a slew of female minorities win Hells Kitchen
Over the course of two shows, no less than four contestants pull this crap. I’m going to turn it off and cook dinner.
I once saw a dude on Top Chef talk about “gay representation on the professional kitchen”
I thought “isn’t that, like, 1/2 of the people in culinary arts?”
It’s like talking about gay representation among airline stewards or female athletes.
There are probably fewer gay chefs you’ve heard of than you might think.
Sure, the kitchens are full of them but not so much at the highest levels. Not that I give a fuck.
Well see – they are being denied STATUS!!!
IIRC, they actually had a blind woman win one of the US MasterChef seasons.
Yep. And it wasn’t tokenism, either. She was really good.
She was fun to watch and even more fun to watch our stupid media claim Ramsey was shaming her and calling her a liar or some shit.
Wat? That didn’t happen.
Good season. That chick was great.
The ones I hate are when a vegetarian complains about a meat challenge. Or a Muslim complains about a pork challenge. There are lots of things I won’t eat which is one reason I don’t go on cooking shows.
Whenever they throw bugs in the required ingredients I keep hoping one of the contestants just throws them away and says “I only serve food.”
Since they don’t, I typically skip those episodes entirely. I will not be propragandized so blatantly.
That sounds like something Chopped would pull. I don’t like that show because they do that sort of thing.
Ramsey doesn’t pull that, thank goodness.
I think I saw something like that on Fear Factor! Someone basically said “no, I ain’t doing that” and walked off. I lOLed.
LOL My first year at my church’s girls camp, I was 13. Hazing and pranks were attempted. I said, “Yeah, no. Not participating.” Hazing and pranks did not ensue. Much fun was not had by the older girls.
Now there’s someone who proved something.
I like the cooking shows that aren’t contests, but rather a little bit of travelogue, history, how to actually cook the dish, etc.
That format relies heavily on having a presenter I can listen to for the duration.
Those are in short supply. The contests at least have oddities, and if there’s an annoying contestant, they won’t be back later.
I can’t watch that fucking Zimmern because he doesn’t turn off the fucking mic when he’s fucking eating. It’s an instant channel-changer
LOL I don’t remember that. I used to watch him ages ago.
Yeah, it’s his earlier stuff with the ASMR chewing. I seriously wanted to damage my TV
The Great British Bake Off used to combine travelogue/history/how to cook the dish segments with the competition part of the show, but they changed the format years ago, even before it changed networks and hosts. MasterChef Australia also used to have “MasterClass” segments where the hosts and celebrity guest chefs would put on classes and demonstrations, but that also disappeared years ago (and the show turned into yet another grievance olympics). While looking that up, I also just found out Jock Zonfrillo dropped dead at 46 right as the current season of MasterChef Australia started airing.
Ramsey does brief demos during some of his shows but man, I’m drained from that stuff. I’ve seen probably dozens of seasons all told and they don’t change all that much. I tapped out after a few episodes of the latest Master Chef – I just can’t take it any more.
I watched the first few seasons of the US MasterChef with my parents, then started watching the Aussie version, which at the time was much more entertaining. But the format does wear thin fairly quickly. Especially when they start doing the “cast for every stereotype” thing.
I also dropped Top Chef – got wayyy too woke.
And most of the others I used to watch.
I might watch the upcoming Hell’s Kitchen – those can be fun.
Last season of Top Chef was pretty damn good – World All-Stars, winners or runners-up from the various worldwide franchises.
Some amusing bits, like the fact that Top Chef France never had less than 2 hours to prepare something 😀
I like the concept. It would have to be spectacular to make me sit through a season of Padma. Gawd she is insufferable.
Looks like I’m about 11 years behind, but I am ALOLing my ass off
Try this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORDRUhPexo
Great. I don’t have to go to work tomorrow.
hahaha
Chadwick the 9lb Chihuahua mix apparently thinks he can take on deer
I knew one who bit a coyote on the heel.
Well, he thinks he’s a moose.
Maybe Craftsman could use “We might not suck as much as you think” as a motto.
The great flight from heterosexuality
Actual gays are less than 3% of the population. Most of these people will end up with an opposite sex partner when they drop the effort to appease their abusive teachers.
Also, Brown university has long has a severely abusive Political Lesbian culture.
I recently mentioned a friend’s youngest has declared he is trans and is now a she. “I’m gay” would have been the least shocking thing to hear from him and his parents would have been fine with it, but I suspect that’s part of the appeal. I just hope that he-now-she doesn’t go down a medical route anytime soon.
There is some push back from gay groups that say that as soon as a kid says they’re attracted to the same sex, they’re declared “trans”. So the T is trying to erase the LGB.
They’re all Queer now.
You don’t even have to be any flavor of “gay” to be “queer” now. It’s just a cool label.
How Odd.
True… “I like a little light bondage” seems to count as queer now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_exvKnrK6g
It’s social currency
Brown University
Talk about unrepresentative sampling of that demographic.
My shop vac has been sitting with water and who-knows-what-else in it for, like, a while. I dumped it out in the driveway, and now it smells like a sewer out there. I hope I didn’t inhale any flesh eating bacteria.
Don’t worry, the flesh eating bacteria infects the subdermal fascia. So it’ll start on your limbs, not your lungs.
So you got that going for you.
Which is nice.
You’re soaking in it!
legionairs disease.
A bar of steel called a billet was sliced from a coil by a guillotine-like device, then carried by conveyor belt through a heater. A machine rolled the glowing red billet into a shape resembling a lollipop and a robot placed it onto a press, where mechanical fingers moved it through several stations until it was pounded into a fully formed ratchet.
If you watch a few videos of men working at forges, there are a lot of subtle complex adjustments made between strikes. The sort of thing it would take years to get really good at. I don’t think a machine would be better at it.
Can it forge a wrench 90% as good for a tiny fraction of the cost?
Mmm, tool makers have been using trip hammers for over a century. Hand forged tools went the way of the Dodo, and I think Cornwell was the last biggie to do it.
“Sometimes the ease of installing automation is a little bit overestimated,” he said. “Where that comes from is, people don’t really understand how the product is made in the first place.”
No shit, Shirley?
Can anyone here help me understand the psychology of people who respond to online classified ads, ask a series of questions that were answered in the body text of the ad, then disappear never to be heard from again? The scammers I can understand. At least they’re spending the time on a productive grift.
Phishing maybe? Confirm a valid email (for those that use their normal email to post classified ads; which you shouldn’t)
This would mostly be Facebook Marketplace. I found the login for my dad’s old account, so I’ve been using it to offload some stuff before my move.
I don’t bother to try to understand it. I just want to get rid of shit.
I’m having a helluva time selling an antique bed. Had it appraised at $150 because nobody wants to buy antique beds anymore (especially full/double). People are “minimalists” with regard to beds. I have that much money wrapped up in its repairs and the tarps/blankets I had to buy to wrap it in.
That’s pretty much me. I’m debating whether to take my crappy, 10 year old, $200 mattress-in-a-box with me. It’s not the best mattress I’ve ever slept on, but not the worst either. I could replace it for $250-$300, but it would just be with another crappy mattress-in-a-box, and it seems like for the cost I might as well stick with the devil I know. I’m retaining the conveniently-collapsible metal frame with its gloriously utilitarian 14 inches of under-bed storage though.
My husband brought an expensive cal king mattress to the marriage, so we had a captain’s bed specially built. It’s about 18″ high (not including the mattress), with 3 drawers on each side, 12″H x 18″W x 24″ deep. When XX was born, I made a little mattress, mattress pad, sheets, and bumpers for one of the drawers and she slept in that for the first 3 months of her life (XY outgrew it in a month). Then husband won a Saatva mattress, which is, by the way, sublime.
Saatva sounds like a name for a brand of artificial sweetener
They didn’t have mattress-in-a-boxes when I got mine. It’s sixteen years old and that POS is going on the donate truck when I move.
I don’t know what I’m going to do – not sure if I should mail order or just go to a bed store. It’s been so long I don’t know what’s the best option these days.
Bed store. Take your time. Wear comfy clothes.
To whoever posted this relevant link a few weeks ago, I think you.
So great.
Knew what it was before I clicked.
This is still my favorite though.
https://youtu.be/bmTNBVeThhE
si, papi
LOL
Bed store it is.
I’m taking the week off so I have plenty of time to looks through the two or three or four shops in town.
I like foam + no springs, but maybe not right for sweaty sleepers.
I’m just afraid of getting ripped off at a store. They’re like used car dealers, aren’t they?
I am sweaty. Maybe a shop would ask me stuff I wouldn’t think of like that.
Ours is natural latex and actually sleeps pretty cool. Heavy MF’er though.
That is news I can use!
Nope, sorry.
Trained professional
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) held a press conference Monday afternoon to give an update on the self-inflicted shooting of Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass confirmed Ramirez suffered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. “No one else was injured in the shooting.”
He needs more range time.
Drugs win a battle in the War on Drugs…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/kansas-highway-patrol-two-step-tactic-unconstitutional/73-75515d1f-7424-476e-9bb5-debae7c8bf0b
“A tactic known as the “Kansas Two-Step” that’s been used by the state Highway Patrol for years to detain out-of-state motorists long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs violates motorists’ constitutional right against unreasonable searches, a federal judge declared Friday.”
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“With the “Two-Step,” troopers finish the initial traffic stop, issuing a ticket or a warning, and start to walk away, then turn back to talk more to the motorist. That allows them to keep looking for grounds for a vehicle search or to buy time to get drug-sniffing dogs to the scene.”
It’s like some of you people have no idea what a Sloppy Joe is (not the president, the sandwich!). That’s a Sloppy Joe extra sloppy.
Eh, I don’t really. My mom used to make “sloppy joes” which were just hamburger mixed with ketchup. Not bad, but I don’t think that’s really a sloppy joe.
Get it while you still can before it’s cancelled because patriarchy or some non-binary nonsense. [Disclaimer: Not made with real men.]
isn’t a man-witch just a warlock?
Apparently, Contemporary Wiccans
begdemand to differ,Like they can even get their terminology right.
I see green pepper. Nope. Nope nope nope.
Carolina Reaper or bust?
The Bourbon BBQ variety does not appear to contain bell pepper in any form.
Potential downside for you: it contains an eensy weensy tiny little bit of bourbon. I imagine any trace alcohol – if there’s even any left by the time it’s canned – would cook out during preparation.
When I was a kid we ate Manwich-based sloppy joes at my aunt’s house, and I ended up puking like a geyser. Made me queasy just looking at one for years after. I can’t recall having eaten one since then, although I wouldn’t be opposed to it anymore.
You get weird associations if you get sick after eating something as a kid, even if it was unrelated.
It was corned beef for me – got super pukey after eating some but I was most assuredly already ill before I ate it. But still, no corned beef for me for years and years.
I still can’t eat a French Dip sandwich.
*stomach gurgles*
That’s a damn shame.
Cream of chicken soup for me.
Sloppy joes were frequent at home and school. I must not like them cuz I forgot about that.
Oof. Too bad. I make some fabulous sloppy joes, areal favorite when we do group vacations.
I have the same issue with watermelon. I was 3. I still remember the watermelon, my first. It was a birthday party. I ate a ton of watermelon. I puked so hard….
And to this day I cannot eat any melon relatives. No watermelon. No cantelope. No honeydew. Not even fresh cucumber. It really sucks, because that is a lot of goodnessto miss out on.
Huh. I wonder if I had a melon incident cuz I don’t like any of ’em.
Especially the orange one – honeydew? Blech.
Oh and cucumbers are a major gag reflex. Which is weird cuz I love pickles.
I thought it was something like a Dirty Sanchez.
Did a WTF when I first moved here even though I’m from NJ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloppy_joe_(New_Jersey)
HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT.
I just got out of a week in medical jail. A lovely one.
Is anyone still around? I’ve got a story to write. But not today. Celebration time is on. With no booze at all. And I’m happy to have it out of my life.
Welcome back.
And please do keep off the sauce.
Yep. Weed, yes. Booze, no.
It’s remarkable how much more clean my daily brain is. Freedom felt so strange and wondrous.
I’ve still got outpatient and I have to see my neurologist pretty badly. Now and to every doc/nurse/etc I saw, I’ve truthfully described my mood and outlook as “chipper.”
My life is many things. Boring and uneventful, it is not.
Onward. Upward. Always.
Congrats! Glad you made it out.
Nope. Nobody’s left.
These hallucinations are getting more intense.
It’s just TedS. And now me. I am not a hallucination, as much as my coworkers wished I was.
Stop imagining me!
I never asked for this!
You’re a figment of your own imagination.
Congrats! Easy does it, one day at a time, etc. etc.
Hope you’re able to make it stick.
Congrats! 🎉
Evan! Some recent local wondering about you.
Ope! I see Twitter turned its bird into an X now.
I heard scuttlebutt Musk was going to rebrand it. I remember when X.com was still the beta version of PayPal…
I wonder if X.org will see a traffic bump.
Huh. It actually does look a lot like the X.org logo too.
Exene Cervenka hardest hit.
I’m a business r-tard so contrary to my first instinct, watch this move be wildly successful.
Yeah… Twitter/tweet kinda rolls off the tongue.
X? Not really anywhere to go with that as a messaging label.
I get that the intent is to become a media juggernaut and a payment processor and, and, and…
But still. Tweet works pretty well.
For our competitive shooting Glibs a new choice.
USPSA with a 105-Year-Old Artillery Luger Rig
32 round magazine. Detachable shoulder stock. German army….. He is just asking to get the death penalty in NY state.
Probably already covered, but the behavior of the U.S. women’s soccer team during the national anthem the other day apparently didn’t comport to the expectations of some…
https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/uswnt-players-largely-silent-during-national-anthem-in-world-cup-opener/
Back when I was coming up, if you stood respectfully still and faced the flag, you were good to go. The more enthusiastic ones, maybe a majority, sang or mouthed the words. Somewhere along the way (9/11?) the hand-over-heart thing came in to fashion, although I know its history goes back to WW II. The Vietnamese seem to have done better…
“All 11 Vietnam players passionately sang along to the anthem in unison, with their right arms held over their hearts.”
The Gulag really does inspire fits of patriotism.
On the other hand, Megan Rapinoe can continue to kiss my ass.
It’s been hand-over-heart my entire life, including grade school (long before 9/11).
But… ugh. I hate that this is a thing that people write about.
Same. At least she isn’t kneeling anymore. I’m fine with absence of displays of patriotism, but disrespect is too far.
Agree on hand over heart. At some point just standing at attention became OK.
But Rapinoe is the one who made this an issue. She said she would never sing the anthem or stand for the anthem again… So that out a bullseye in their behavior.
Brutal
https://twitter.com/FromKulak/status/1683537683711180813
“That’s a cancelin’”
Panic.
Looking at the World Health Organization slide, I’m definitely not getting a camel.
It appears that if you don’t fuck it you should be fine.
Well… shit
Panic
(I had to)
Best reply: “Still too early for an election year pandemic virus. Wait until Jan-Feb to worry”
Suggested attack ad #1
A split screen of this and
this.
Suggested attack ad #2
A split screen of this and this.
Now that’s dedication to the grift
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1683550025601761282
Wow.
“Damn good job”. Two movies, one screen.
The youtube algorithm seems to think I want to see beleaguered UK motorists smacking around Just Stop Oil protestors.
It’s not wrong.
No, it’s not wrong.
Oi, me barnet! 👱🏻♀️
I don’t have a spare $12M for the Cocoon house, but I think I’d try every avenue to finance it if the place came with 23-year old Tahnee Welch. (mildly NSFW)
Damn, those are some good genes.
Surprised she didn’t end up doing more.
Li’l rhywun did appreciate Guttenberg’s dopey charms and nice bod. But damn, I think I have only seen that movie once and it was in the early 90s.
This one is for Derpy
https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1682589984581115904
I cannot believe that I am agreeing with him
Well, good on him for saying something smart for once. Maybe someday he will apply the same logic to so-called hate speech.
Suggested attack #3
This song playing while this clip is slowed down by 50%.
OK, I’ll stop for now.
The original title of my novella was I, Rambo. I meant it as an homage to I, Robot, which in turn was a nod to I, Claudius. I wrote to David Morrell, creator of Rambo for permission to use his character and he was kind enough to respond. He said fan fiction is OK, but since Rambo is copyrighted, I can’t publish a story with that name. OK, no problem. I re-wrote the story to remove any mention of Rambo, though a brief portion of the story was similar to the First Blood movie. The new title is I, Soldier.
He said I wrote the story not because I liked the name, but because I liked the character. It was cool to get free writing advice from a best-selling novelist.
In my last email to him, I asked if he thought Hercule Poirot was a rip-off of Sherlock Holmes or if Jack Reacher is a rip-off of John Rambo (both are loner Army vets with violent tendencies and even have the same initials). My point was that when writing fiction, it’s inevitable you will create a character or plot similar to something that already exists. Picasso said: mediocre artists imitate; great artists steal. I’m sure he meant that as a joke, but there is truth to it.
Anyway, I got some writing practice. The story is about 45,000 words long. It’s the longest piece of fiction I’ve ever written. I take some pride in that.
My new writing project is a kind of rambling memoir. I wrote my autobiography last year. The feedback has been interesting.
Just watched an ACLU commercial. They can screw off. “Constitutional rights” my ass. Not a damn thing spoken was an actual constitutional right.
The 1787 Project.
I have ordered craft supplies twice from Temu and been happy with both orders. Also returned something and am happy with that process. You get lots for cheap if you’re willing to wait.
I keep seeing ads for that
Yeah, they are all over the place and frequent, too. I finally went on YouTube for some unboxings and everybody was happy, so I decided to give it a whirl, and what do you know. I like the stuff. I like the price (cheap!). And I’m willing to wait a few days.
Shit, I pay for Prime and can’t get anything overnight anymore.