Hope your family yesterday was better looking than these folks.
Mining a landfill? Now I’ve heard it all.
I’ve certainly linked this song before, but my dad loved it, so enjoy it again.
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Why not mine a landfill?
When I was little I already came to the conclusion that landfill would be mined in the future.
I guess the future is now.
It will make it harder for future archeologists to analyze our middens?
But yeah — similar to what a Nuke E prof said to me when I (as an idiot freshman) bewailed burying the waste instead of more permanent (like subduction) solutions) — “It just puts it in one nice spot for someone to use later.”
I haven’t listened to the Dr. Demento show in a while — wasn’t aware he added sidekicks.
He’s paid podcast only:
https://www.drdemento.com/online.html
Dr. Demento is still alive?!? I was listening to him 50 years ago.
40 years ago for me, and I think the album was at least a decade old by then.
“The simple reason mining does not occur is economics: for multiple reasons, the costs to mine a solid waste landfill are currently greater than the value of recoverable materials.”
OK
“Environmental, social and governance pressure is ramping up but isn’t as mature as in other parts of the world. ESG will certainly affect our transition to a more circular and sustainable economy, but it likely won’t initiate widespread landfill mining and reclamation activities. Greenhouse gas emission reduction is not a strong motivator as well.”
Fuck off.
“ESG will certainly affect our transition to a more circular and sustainable economy”
Wrong on all counts.
If someone can make money on mining landfills they can knock themselves out. If it were feasible they would be doing so now.
Yeah. Too bad the mention of ESG makes it clear that this stuff doesn’t have to be feasible for us to be throwing trillions of dollars at it.
Witness the entire “climate crisis” hoax.
Many other places is Mine as You Go. Dump a load and the scavengers are right there, picking through stuff. In days gone by I saw the “pickers”, things like car batteries, salvageable lumber and rags got resold.
Back In The Day™ when I was but A Wee Lad™, my parents (and others of their generation) used to refer to such people as “pearl divers.”
They were omnipresent in our neighbourhoods the morning of trash collection day.
“Mr. Beast’s philanthropy, which is all voluntary and profit-driven, surpasses government-led efforts by miles. And that’s what his critics can’t handle.”
Exactly.
Remember people screaming about crowdfunding because it wasn’t regulated by the government?
“Doctors/nurses don’t exploit their patient’s dignity for profit.”
LOL
Well, whatever they’re doing for profit, its not really exploiting their patients’ dignity, anyway. What does that even mean?
They are upset because he is cutting into their graft.
“Inspiring people to help others is great, but encouraging young [people] to exploit vulnerable communities for content which they can then profit off of enormously, is the issue,” tweeted the Washington Post’s grievance correspondent Taylor Lorenz.”
Her entire career has been exploiting vulnerable people for content.
More progjection. That is all it can be, nothing else makes any sense.
One can only wish progjection would cause excruciating pain.
“Grievance correspondent”. LOL
The morons who think the rich should be ‘paying their fair share’ of taxes in order to get projects like this done are pissed because a single rich guy is paying for these projects himself and is still getting richer. Seems like their bigger interest is in eliminating wealthy people as opposed to helping poor people.
A Chinese company stealing IP? That’s preposterous.
We are overdue for a Firstington Event. One that will crash all of the modern trinkets of the seconder world.
I was going to rag on that perma-pedo-smile but I guess I’d be wearing one too if I fell into that pool of money.
“Turkeys would eat us if they could! Hilarious moment PETA is fact checked over viral tweet claiming birds ‘would never’ feast on human meat at Thanksgiving”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12788059/PETA-Thanksgiving-tweet-turkeys-human-meat.html
PETA is just preaching to the choir at this point.
“Anti-Israel protesters target Macy’s AGAIN and target Black Friday shoppers after disrupting store’s NYC Thanksgiving parade – on same day hostages are released amid temporary ceasefire”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12788499/Anti-Israel-protest-nyc-massive-Palestinian-flag.html
Happy Friday of Color!
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that – while sure, they are anti-Israel – they’re more anti-freedom, anti-capitalism, anti-west, etc. etc. Basically all the lefty shibboleths. Hamas kindly gave them a hook to hang all this bullshit on and they’re running with it.
I didn’t live through the sixties but from what I’ve heard this has the same feel.
G20 protestors, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, BLM, and now this, is all “Free Shit and Kill The Jews!”
I didn’t live through the sixties but from what I’ve heard this has the same feel.
No, it doesn’t feel the same. The 60s had turmoil, but it was a mixed set of fears and hope for positive change. Now it’s just fears about lots of bad things that are gaining steam, and there is little to hope for.
That’s the spirit!
He’s not wrong about the feelz.
The 1970s were worse – no direct or hope, Apollo goes away, Vietnam falls, Africa is colonized by Cuba and China, Inflation, Oil Shock, Japan beating down on the Big Three…and we had Jimmy Carter, Disco, City burning riots that made BLM look like a gradeschool fight, Inflation that WIP’d the crap out of rates now, crime even worse than at present…bombings everywhere, kidnappings, people shooting up Congress (OK, maybe one bright spot) 2 close calls for Prez Ford). This is not good, but nowhere that bad….yet.
I was meaning to look for news archives on opinions when the congressional shooters were pardoned. I will have it in my back pocket for when the J6ers get pardoned.
Agreed. Rough times. During an 18-month period in the early 70s, the “Days of Rage,” something like 2,000 bombs were set off in the U.S.
Also, the band Bread was at the height of its nefarious activities.
A lot of that is exactly what I’m afraid is coming again.
The 70s were rough. It is my yardstick for measuring the current situation.
Bidenomics has not equaled the Carter years (but for a while, it looked like it would surpass them).
I remember the bombings in the early 70s, Kent state, Watergate, and all the other things you mention.
But, the 70s had great porn going for it.
I’m an eighties kid. I lived through the seventies but didn’t know what was going on until I heard about it later.
I got married in the 70s. Mortgage interests rates got up around 15% or so. I didn’t think I would ever own a home.
The Reagan and Volcker throttled the whole economy and got inflation to a reasonable rate where it stayed until Fuck Joe Biden took over.
+ mustaches & full bush
Also, internationally the seventies were mucho bado. Terrorism was out of control, what with the IRA, Baader-Meinhof gang, the Red Brigades, etc., all ramping things up in Europe, while the PLO was doing its level best to make the middle east the shithole it is today. The Shining Path, Tamil Tigers, and so on were doing what they could in every other part of the world.
Musically though, CBGB’s. So at least one win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGrN0qfB5GQ
Interesting.
Attack on migrant encampment leaves one dead…
https://kdvr.com/news/local/migrant-encampment-attacked-by-knife-wielding-man-1-dead/
The ultra-MAGA folks in Denver have finally risen up and initiated their nativist ethnic cleansing. Oh wait…
“The migrants say they are from Venezuela and the attacker was telling them they were not welcome here and for them to return to their country. They told FOX31 they believe the man is from Cuba and spoke English and Spanish.”
Things have gotten interesting in Denver.
I’ve had about enough of the interesting times already.
Oh, no doubt. Tranquil and boring ain’t so bad.
“Embattled Susan Sarandon’s son begs fans to stop sharing video ‘with her honkers out’”
https://pagesix.com/2023/11/24/entertainment/susan-sarandons-son-miles-robbins-begs-fans-not-to-use-busty-video-clip/
LOLOLOL
“Don’t look now, momma’s got her boobs out, showing everyone in town”
I haven’t heard that song in a while.
Miles’s mom has got it goin’ on?
I like how the video and photo closeups were posted in the article pleading for people to STOP LOOKING AT THE BOOBIES.
It’s Page Six, boobies are their bread and butter.
+ Rodney Carrington
Barbara Streisand gives a big thumbs up.
Holy frijoles! Those are some nice tatas, specially for a 77 year old.
I wonder what his claim to fame is that he needs to use her butter-bags to try to appear relevant in the media.
He appears to share her politics so that’s all that’s needed for the attention-seeking.
I see Hamas released less than half of the hostages they promised. Do I have that right? The deal was for 50, they released 24.
X amount per day I think was the deal. Can’t remember.
Annual post Tday Tday dinner done and on the buffet line for my little family to have MOAR TDAY and for me to have leftovers.
Excellent. Let the holiday continue. My tribe managed to knock out its annual Thanksgiving triple feature: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles; the Starvin’ Marvin episode of South Park; and the turkey drop episode of WKRP.
I was trying to reach out to the LA Kings organization to honor my dad (stepdad if we want to be technical correct). I just found out has macular degeneration and obviously watching a sport like hockey is tough. Luckily they have signed a contract to do a simulcast of both radio and TV with their long-time radio announcer being the play-by-play. He is a radio guy (the announcer and my dad) so the comfort level is there and also someone calling the game who knows how to paint a picture for those who don’t have eyeballs on the actions really helps.
My dad coached while he could until sometime in the early 90s USA Hockey made a rule that coaches must skate. Even at a young age, I thought it was silly. If the man knows hockey, can teach hockey, can coach hockey, why do they need to skate? We got around that by having my older brothers who could skate be head coaches, but really, they were not. He taught me the love of the game. The finesse, the grit, the hard work, the elegance. I remember at one point I had so much pent-up rage that I did the unthinkable, I hit another player over the head with my stick. I was benched and then while not penalized from the league, my coach suspended me. Even though my dad was paying the extraordinary fees it cost to play in California, he looked at me and said “Won’t do that again now will you?”
Anyway, the Kings organization has reached out to me and asked what I wanted to do. Well, I didn’t think that far ahead! Now time to think of something simple, maybe a shout-out on TV as his birthday nears. I dont know.
I think a birthday shout out sounds great. Maybe with a brief sentence or two (which you write) to go with it.
If you don’t write it, you might get a shout out to “An old cis-white colonizer.”
Your efforts will be greatly appreciated by the hockey old-timer, I’m sure.
One of my teammates chopped another player in the head with his stick one time. He got 2:00 but he’s lucky he wasn’t ejected.
It was a turning point in my teen years. I was always under the shadow of my older brother. Angry all the time. I was the star player and at the time, our coach (not my dad) an old college player who would have gone pro if his knees didn’t blow out had no problems benching me. We had a reunion back in 2018 and we almost broke the old man by presenting him a jersey from our youth with all our signatures with the nameplate “Coach Staley”. He kept saying “I’m not your coach, call me blah”. Nope, you were and are our coach.
I remember one time we were in I think Missouri in a tournament and I thought “This is the time I will pull off the behind the back between the legs move to deke the defense” Didn’t work out for me as the defense did their job and squarely put me on my ass but I guess the puck made its way to my teammate who netted the goal. Afterwards coach was lamenting and saying “My god! Why is he trying that!” I said, “Cause we scored a goal coach!”
Get pics of him coaching, skating or anything hockey – maybe a quick 30 second thing on the video board with a shout out?
Swiss has the right idea.
Good idea! Thanks Swiss. Seriously I cannot even think of what would be more awesome than the announcer just saying his name and saying thank you for being a fan and an unofficial ambassador to the game. He taught me hockey first, team second.
Some good news for old nerds. All of the classic Doctor Who have been posted on Tubi. I scan through Baker, I didn’t see any omissions.
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A significant amount of Three Stooges is out there too. Hard to verify if it is everything.
Is it very bad that almost every time I try to watch classic Who I fall asleep? 😴
No. It used to be on KERA PBS at 10:00, they would run a whole story arc. I did the same.
I assume you mean 22:00 – same here. Every Saturday night.
Yes.
There are some permanently missing I believe (but I know what you meant): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
Yes, and I do not see the reconstructed ones. I bought some, I think it was from Troughton. New animation filled in the missing bits. It was very cool.
Ah! It was “Shada” from the Baker years I was thinking of.
😮
Pluto was skipping so many of my favorites.
LOL
lol yup
A few hours on the beach casting in the surf and watching doggies chase balls and I have 4 nice Dungeness crabs in the bucket and a couple more undersized ones released. Gonna be a nice traditional Friday after Thanksgiving dinner tonite.
I’m sorry you have crabs.
Got my green bean casserole ready for tomorrow’s full-family Thanksgiving.
Work also starts on Monday as well. Pretty perfect scheduling and pay. I’ll mostly be baby-sitting…teaching K-6 kids again, but that’s just fine. It’s a great six-month+ option to get structure, stability and some pocket money. Been crutch-free for a couple of weeks now.
In their own way, things are movin’ on up. Right now, Everything coming up Milhouse, for now. Gotta keep it straight. Great incentive to do so. The better I do, better chance of things raising further…and another Lady is involved. Not romantically and we’re both cool w that. Teammates. Stability, so necessary for me, are coming soon. Perfect angle. Not too steep like the last several burnouts.
Upward! Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving!
I definitely did. I hope you do as well.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I am D-E-D dead sir. I will abstain. Two cars to return today post-party, and I have yet to clean the house. Somebody set my portable TV antenna on the outdoor heater and it melted. Oy! What a mess. Good party though.
I hope you start to feel better. I will have a glass of whiskey to your health.
For landfill mining to work, a lot of people have to throw away stuff that is worth nothing to them. Then, enough time has to pass for that previously worthless stuff to become valuable enough to sift thru the still worthless stuff to recover it.
Seems unlikely to be a profitable enterprise often.