Yes, it does seem to be a bit ironic. When glass recycling was first brought up, my instant reaction was, “Wait, there’s a shortage of sand???” But hey, it’s paying my salary. Here’s part of the conference description:
This year you can expect:
- Paper recycling bins
- Food composting bins
- No plastic silverware
- No plastic cups
- Download the Whova App to see the agenda or click here. A limited amount of paper agendas and those in large-print will be available at the Registration Table.
- Reusable name badges (return at the end of the conference)
You can participate by:
- Bringing your own water bottle or coffee mug for fill-up
- Download the Whova (pronounced Whoo-va) App to eliminate the use of agendas and to communicate with others at the conference.
- Bring your own carrying tote or bag to pickup promo items in the Exhibitor Hall.
- Bring your own washable cloth napkins to quickly wipe up spills, dry out your coffee mug to put back in your bag, or use when you go to dinner instead of paper napkins. Concerned you’ll forget them? Pack some in your car, purse or reusable bag.
- When dining out, order a smaller meal/portions to reduce food waste, or bring your own reusable take-home container to the restaurant. Ask if the restaurant is opposed to sharing meals.
- Taking pics with your phone of displays, business cards, brochures, and more.
- What other ideas do you have? Post them on the Whova Community Board.
OK, I’m going to ask about turning condoms inside-out and reusing them, washing tampons, and re-using toilet paper. This is a challenge and as Yahweh is my witness, I shall rise to it.
Speaking of rising, birthdays today include a guy who was neither holy nor Roman; a guy who goddammit every general ought to be like; a guy who was even more Irish than Jimmy Cagney; a guy who was witnessed; a guy who out-acted Lee Marvin; the favorite writer of every nerd teenager (and who wrote perhaps the most prescient short story ever conceived); the single funniest human to ever walk the planet; a true carbon-based lifeform; one of Tomb Raider’s heroes (and she actually was a Sandalista); a chick who would be a whole more if she wasn’t such a dimbulb; another standard-issue Hollywood dimbulb, this time male; and a guy who found a creative way to lose a football.
Let’s get to the reason for the season: Links.
On theme: totally not a racket.
The charade goes on, but at least it’s entertaining from time to time.
I have a new band name: The Electric Candiru.
Who decided, “This will convince people!”?
I love the idea of solving a meaningless panic with an even stupider approach.
The Old Man loves this band, and the song they cover was a favorite for my old band to cover. These guys do it better.
“We have seen a rapid rise in antisemitism on these college campuses, and we need to crack down on it,” Lawker said in a CNN interview Friday. “This is not a free speech issue. This is hate speech.”
Resign, since you don’t understand the Constitution you falsely swore to uphold and defend.
From the dead thread.
My Model 3 given its size holds an amazing amount. It’s very space efficient.
But the family hauler is our Acura MDX. It’s also what we usually take on trips. But around here it’s fairly easy to DC charge the Tesla.
I get a lot of Tesla hate, but I find (found) my M3 to be perfect for suburban living. Lots of chargers available, including free ones at work.
The main reason for Tesla hate is the fact that the government wants to force EVERYONE into EVs, and they just don’t make sense for everyone. If EVs were just one option among many, I don’t think anyone’s knickers would be in a twist about it.
That and the subsidies.
You are correct. I see an EV I start seeing red.
Were it not for the soon to be failed attempt to force us I wouldn’t give so much as a flea’s turd. Buy what you want. What you do with your money is none of my business.
I think the way they involve hazmat / catch on fire / get totalled out easily on accidents also contributes to skyrocketing auto insurance.
Not that regulators aren’t happily forcing IC based vehicles to load up electronics plus crumple so much they effectively total out as well to balance things, I’ll grant.
But otherwise, yeah — I’ve never had a problem with folks who need or want them having that option. More power to y’all.
The crumple makes sense. Much cheaper to replace a car than a human. The problem is the small accidents that cause $7,000 damage from airbag deployment that was just hitting that post while coming in a little hot at the 7/11 with no exterior damage. Yesterday, I saw an accident that should have severely injured all 5 people involved. Someone ran a light in a 60 MPH zone that crossed a 55MPH zone resulting in a high impact t-bone. The only obvious injury was the broken wrist of the driver in one of the 2 vehicles. And that was caused by the airbag. Both vehicles were done. All drivers/passengers walked away on their own, including an old man and 2 young kids.
Don’t hate Tesla, I just don’t want one as my only car.
The failure mode for running out of juice is “call a tow truck” vs “I need a gas can”. I’m not comfortable with that for longer trips.
Subsidies for EVs combined with near universal bans on nuclear power construction sure is a winning strategy.
It’s almost like they’d prefer we not have personal autonomy.
I very much like my model y, which I got during the price cut this winter. Gas prices near me at $5 a gallon and always among the nation’s highest. Add in the tax break and fuel savings and maintenance savings over the vehicle life and it’s more cost effective than it looks.
That said, my other car is a small ice suv for road trips, outdoor adventures and trips to Home Depot.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
I think she would strenuously object to that.
a guy who was neither holy nor Roman;
Happy birthday Pope Francis?
*cues up Penn and Teller’s Bullsh!t! steps outside for a cigar*
I worked at a recycling center for about five months.
If it’s anything other than clean fibre or metal throw it away.
Glass and plastic take more energy to transport and clean than to make new.
a guy who was witnessed;
Happy birthday Lukas Haas!
a guy who out-acted Lee Marvin;
An IMDb search suggests Lee Marvin and Warren Oates were never in a movie together.
And you picked one of Marvin’s worst films.
Maybe Shelley Winters, since they were both in The Delta Force.
In all fairness, Lee Marvin should have been in Cockfighter.
For me, it tickles the same instincts as that guy in Panama. I wouldn’t personally do it… but honestly I think they’re playing with fire with this being the new “protest” paradigm.
Love the pretzel logic on college campuses.. call a man in a dress a man — literal violence through speech. Threaten Jewish students so they get shut out of the public space and fear for their lives, that’s just peachy keen political protest, man.
That said — of course, you’re right — and just like the idiotic Nazis and KKK we had pretty much laughed out of the public square by making it clear just how bone-deep stupid they are by the ’80s, these morons have every right to shout their stupidity. And not be hired because of it. But the universities should very, very much clamp down on anything that gets physical and expel or prosecute those who cross that line (which is what they aren’t doing and that’s why these idiots are out of hand everywhere…).
Yeah, I don’t want to interfere with these guys’ speech because it helps me to know who NOT to hire, support, associate with etc.
Side thought: Does being an antisemitic–sorry, anti-israel–sorry, pro-Palestinian–improve or harm one’s Social Credit score? And who would be in charge of setting that score? Some sort of Woke version of Experian, Equifax, and Transunion? It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
Assume the scoring outfits will be captured by the left and work from there.
The left is founding those social credit scoring operations. No need to capture them. Leftism is baked into the DNA of social credit.
True, duh
My gut responses: Yes, and whatever mutated fusion of social media and government agency currently feeds the self-evident Journolist 2.0 equivalent. They’ll decide if you’re Of The Body and what consequences you should suffer if not.
Given the level of idiocy these days, I’m sure they’ll farm it out to a bot living on the NSA servers so it can parse all of your data if they haven’t already.
I forget who it was, but I saw some well-known, supposed “conservative” yesterday calling for more hate crimes. I almost fell out of my chair.
Sure, Jan. 🙄
That old Norm Macdonald joke is going to be worn out soon.
It’s amazingly brazen. Here we have no-shit violence against Jews on American campuses, one death already of a Jewish man at the hands of a Pali protester, official memos from college administrators advising Jewish students to avoid this-or-that area or to keep a low profile.
But the narrative immediately switches to fretting about the straw man Islamophobia that will sweep over the country if we don’t all go hug an Arab and boycott Israel today.
Give me a break. Hey, guess what: you’re not lagging behind because you’re oppressed. You’re lagging behind because you suck.
And all the anti anti-semitism commercials popping up are blaming “white supremacy”. It’s insane.
If this goes on long enough, someone is going to form the modern equivalent of the Jewish Defense League. They will address what these universities won’t. Then the school administrators will notice what’s happening.
It’s the school’s refusal to deal with the physical stuff that really gets me
It’s on video. They simply refuse to do anything. I assume they support what’s happening.
This seems an apt reply.
“Mechanical cleanup” worries me a lot less than the geniuses who want to bioengineer bacteria to eat plastics. That reeks of “Ringworld superconductor eating bacteria collapsing their civilization” probabilities…
Absolutely
And I love the guy quoted in the article who says it can’t be done fast enough. Yeah, let’s not even try.
Cue failing dodge and Mercedes wiring harnesses.
Curious that every idea raised amounts to a not insignificant reduction in the quality of life for the voters. Of course they will go with the flapdoodle that the “fatcats are paying!” and the idiots will believe them.
My recycler doesn’t even take glass lol. That was a bit of culture shock.
Who is that? I can use that factoid.
The recycler? I dunno. I’m in an apartment and I don’t really know how it works here yet.
I don’t even know how to dispose of, say, a piece of furniture. The city’s website is very light on detail. But the landlord gave the impression that the recycling is contracted out? Where I’m from only commercial businesses do that.
Electronics in general, but especially batteries are what get me. Definitely shouldn’t go to the landfill, but if you try following the bouncing links for the county recycling / disposal affiliates, you end up bouncing from site to site each insisting the other should take them and no one actually giving you instructions to do so.
So I have like 5 dead UPSs and a stack of backup batteries for the garage door opener just building up. And hoping that without them being charged for months or years there’s no chance of spontaneous combustion. Yay.
Meanwhile, living out in the farming areas of the state — I see people just dumping crap beside orchards — because obviously the almond grower knows what to do with your old monitor, washer… ratty filthy mattress…. people really disgust me some days.
I used to just put electronics out on the sidewalk and it would be gone within an hour.
Then I lived in a bigger building with a courtyard and everything just goes there and the helpers take care of it.
Here… who the hell knows. There’s a dumpster in back but it’s fenced and locked. Maybe I can just toss stuff over the fence.
Lead-acid batteries you should be able to take to either a metal recycler who will pay you a couple of bucks, or perhaps an auto parts store that recycles car batteries.
Electronics like flat screen TVs are recycled by Best Buy, but there may be a fee for some items, ie $25 for a CRT.
I just unloaded a raft of “electronics” (motherboards, power supplies, dead cordless phones, flashlights, cabling, LCD display, etc) at Staples, paid nothing and got a coupon even.
Interstate batteries paid me 0.18/lb for dead UPS batteries.
Speaking of which, I’ve got 20* 6V 5Ah lightly used UPS batteries that I don’t need anymore. Power controller croaked, had to replace the whole UPS and the new one uses different batteries.
*Plus one more that may be bad.
We have what we call a “morgue,” which is all electronics neatly stored in shallow tubs and labeled so we can find shit we need.
Ha! My area is the same way. I cannot find a way to recycle old batteries. Old fluorescent lights are also a mystery.
Mine claims single-stream recycling then tells me that this type of glass or this type of plastic is a no go.
I really appreciate their FAQ though
“…those items must be made again from virgin materials into new products.”
Yes, it does seem to be a bit ironic.
Since there’s no plastic silverware, at least you’re not getting 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
I was thinking that we can get back to the medieval practice of carrying our own spoon and/or knife around to just break out when needed. Progress!
lolwut?
He’s not very bright, is he?
Far left agitators aren’t very bright, are they?
They and most pols are sociopaths. Lacking empathy they are unable to predict ordinary people’s reactions to the things they do.
See: The shit that Hillary Clinton says
OMWC, were you able to pull off the Mule show in Rochester?
I’m a total Gov’t Mule freak. Conservative estimate, I’ve been to at least 80 shows and it never gets old. What I love is that you never know what to expect. I’ve seen them 4 nights in a row before and they never played the same song twice. The fifth night they did Soulshine for a second time.
Next up is Warren Haynes Xmas Jam in Asheville, NC on December 9th. It’s over 8 hours of non-stop live music for $110.00. That’s pretty good bang for the buck. It’s gonna be a rocker this year. Gov’t Mule, Billy Gibbons, Clutch, Slash with Myles Kennedy, Jason Bonhams Led Zeppelin, most of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, plus lots of other artists are always there. This is the first year I can remember where no country or bluegrass artists are on the main billing.
Sadly no. Tomb Raider and I have been tossing around doing a Midwest road trip (she has never been to most of it), so if they play WI and it’s a show you’re going to, drop me a note and that would give me a good excuse to make it happen.
I’m blown away by their ability to seamlessly play in any conceivable genre and do it superbly. After hearing a couple songs a few months ago, Spud turned into a major fan- they owe me a commission.
I’ll definitely do that.
They are just incredible musicians and they bring it every show. Funny anecdote- the band is named after the ass of James Brown’s former wife. Jamoi from the Allman Brothers said she had an ass like a Government Mule. The guys thought it was funny and named the band
How many active 46 year old men have sudden heart attacks?
Moschino’s creative director Davide Renne dead at 46, days after beginning new job
That said I do have one story. Acquaintance just got a a clean checkup, but wanted life insurance and needed another exam. As part of that exam was told he had a pronounced heart murmur. Long story short, mid 40s guy in very good health, winds up with mechanical heart valve. The issue was so pronounced he wasn’t a candidate for a pig donor valve. He honestly could have dropped at any time.
At 46, I would expect a reasonable amount actually. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s been an uptick since 2021 – but even before I wouldn’t have been all that surprised.
I’d say a good bit of the sudden cardiac arrests I respond to are men in their 40’s.
Gee what’s a more established market? What could go wrong?
As Chinese Tastes Change, Farmers Everywhere Rip Up and Replant
And apparently even reporting on it is a repeated cycle… 😉
Chinese mango cult
Still getting messed up by words I swear should be bonus words (“Ain’t” for example… some days it is a bonus word. Some days it isn’t. Bleah. Certainly “ain’t ain’t a word”… but be consistent, you weasels!). But at least better than yesterday’s mental block and all.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/11:
*26/26 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 In the top 16% by accuracy
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🔥 Solve streak: 99
And just because it dropped yesterday, I just stumbled across it and some of y’all seem like you might enjoy it….
On the campuses, I think there’s a distinction to be made between the usual anti-israel/pro-palestine stuff that was going on decades ago when I was there – the same protests in the quad every week, etc – and the stuff we’ve seen recently which has gotten vastly more intimidating/threatening to the point where the admin is locking Jewish students in libraries and telling them to hide in the attic till the protesters (their fellow students) get bored and move on.
Some of these stories don’t do a great job pointing out that distinction – or going out of their way to avoid it – to make comments look extreme when the context should be clear.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/jews-get-kicked-out-of-the-progressive-club/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=header&utm_content=popular&utm_term=first
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/in-response-to-antisemitism-outrage-is-not-enough/
“contemporary left-wing antisemitism so often treats Israel as its subject but American Jews as its object”
And this is why anti-Zionism and antisemitism can’t be disentangled. Any Jew or person who’s spent significant time among Jews knows that the concept of Israel and Jewish theology and identity are intertwined; there’s a reason that it’s “next year in Jerusalem!” every Passover. Further, substitute any other country into the argument (I don’t have a problem with the Japanese people, I just think Japan should be wiped out) and you’ll see that Jews are being held to a different standard, one of the most common definitions of antisemitism.
NB: When I say anti-Zionism, I’m using the definition of the current campus Nazis in which Israel doesn’t have a right to exist; Israel as a political entity is subject to criticism the same way any political entity is, but that doesn’t extend to “from the river to the sea”.
I mentioned the guy who taught our Tavor class was Israeli (IDF sniper) and had, of course been called up. His first communique was that he had been issued a short-barreled and clapped-out Tavor (and presumably assigned to some regular infantry unit).
Looks like somebody woke the fuck up at the IDF. Here is his update:
https://www.tacticalfitnessaustin.com/behind-the-frontlines-israel/
In a nutshell, he now has a bangin’ sniper rifle and is leading a sniper unit getting spun up to go into Gaza. I expect he is a somewhat unusual reservist because he has stayed in very good shape and trains with weapons constantly.
I dunno how much of this is rah-rah for the IDF censors, but since he saw first hand a kibbutz wrecked by Hamas, maybe not much at all.
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🎯 In the top 32% by accuracy
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I’m an utter moron who posted my scores and then thought — “Hey… there’s a music link some folks might like, I should tack it on now that it has been 1 hour!”
Forgetting that the scores contain links… so now it is in moderation. ;P So maybe you’ll see them eventually — maybe not. I don’t want to clutter things up with a duplicate (short version: Ok, not great) so that is what it is.
I played https://squaredle.com 11/11:
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Somebody has to paste it. I’ll do it.
Set to music
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmMqZlLFVc&pp=ygUXaW4gZmxhbmRlcnMgZmllbGRzIHNvbmc%3D
Recycling and Ocean trash:
Economically feasible for some glass and metals to be recycled. Tires? Grind them up to make mulch/anti-erosion stuff.
Everything else…landfill. As for the ocean trash STOP PAYING CHINA TO DUMP IT IN THE OCEAN. Bury it.
When I grew up we dug a pit and burned all of our trash in that. When it filled with ash we buried it back and dug a new pit.
I can just imagine the heart palpitations CARB would suffer given they’re currently trotting out “microparticulates” from gas fireplaces/furnaces/hot water heaters. The traditional “steel drum to burn trash” I remember from growing up (seen both in the south and visiting relatives in the midwest) would give them the vapors.
And I think China dumps more than enough that we don’t even pay them for (i.e. stuff they generate on their own) from what I remember the proportions of the ocean trash. So even if we did, not sure it would matter much.
We shouldn’t be burying trash, but sending it to be incinerated.
Another reason we need to up our nuclear game.
Three new web streams from the Icelandic volcano that hasn’t quite erupted yet
Right now, only the one in the top right seems to be working.
The leftist ones are just getting government subsidies?
Celebrate Silicone Sabbath with some shiksa eye candy.
https://archive.is/3RvGN
Titties save lives.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/lifestyle/doctors-use-breast-implants-to-save-former-vaper-who-nearly-died/
PS: What the fuck does the vaping have to do with anything? Let’s just toss in a Philip-Morris approved cheap shot for no reason.
Vaping causes the flu?
My spidey senses are screaming “propaganda”.
Flu is the new buzzword for the mask class.
Fried Rice in a 3 Michelin Star Chinese Restaurant in Hong Kong (plus Culinary Tribute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDoc0vu3nCc
I went to the local whisky fest and there was also a local craft beer maker with some Quadrupel aged in either lagavulin, oban, or pedro ximenes casks for 12 months. Sounds interesting but unfortunately it is a Quadrupel .
Thank a Veteran.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/model-goes-date-soldier-bonks-31411460
There’s something incredibly depressing about this.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-make-millions-sleeping-oaps-31392162
transcript of Patton’s famous speech before D-Day, as best as witnesses remembered it
***
Be seated.
Men, all this stuff you hear about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost, and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because very thought of losing is hateful to America. Battle is the most significant competition in which a man can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would be killed in a major battle. Every man is scared in his first action. If he says he’s not, he’s a goddamn liar. But the real hero is the man who fights even though he’s scared. Some men will get over their fright in a minute under fire, some take an hour, and for some it takes days. But the real man never lets his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
All through your army career you men have bitched about what you call ‘this chicken-shit drilling.’ That is all for a purpose—to ensure instant obedience to orders and to create constant alertness. This must be bred into every soldier. I don’t give a fuck for a man who is not always on his toes. But the drilling has made veterans of all you men. You are ready! A man has to be alert all the time if he expects to keep on breathing. If not, some German son-of-a-bitch will sneak up behind him and beat him to death with a sock full of shit. There are four hundred neatly marked graves in Sicily, all because one man went to sleep on the job—but they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before his officer did.
An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, and fights as a team. This individual hero stuff is bullshit. The bilious bastards who write that stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know any more about real battle than they do about fucking. Now we have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit and the best men in the world. You know, by God, I actually pity these poor bastards we’re going up against, by God I do.
All the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters. Every single man in the army plays a vital role. So don’t ever let up. Don’t ever think that your job is unimportant. What if every truck driver decided that he didn’t like the whine of the shells and turned yellow and jumped headlong into a ditch? That cowardly bastard could say to himself, ‘Hell, they won’t miss me, just one man in thousands.’ What if every man said that? Where in the hell would we be then? No, thank God, Americans don’t say that. Every man does his job. Every man is important. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns, the quartermaster is needed to bring up the food and clothes for us because where we are going there isn’t a hell of a lot to steal. Every last damn man in the mess hall, even the one who boils the water to keep us from getting the GI shits, has a job to do.
Each man must think not only of himself, but think of his buddy fighting alongside him. We don’t want yellow cowards in the army. They should be killed off like flies. If not, they will go back home after the war, goddamn cowards, and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the goddamn cowards and we’ll have a nation of brave men.
One of the bravest men I saw in the African campaign was on a telegraph pole in the midst of furious fire while we were moving toward Tunis. I stopped and asked him what the hell he was doing up there. He answered, ‘Fixing the wire, sir.’ ‘Isn’t it a little unhealthy up there right now?’ I asked. ‘Yes sir, but this goddamn wire has got to be fixed.’ I asked, ‘Don’t those planes strafing the road bother you?’ And he answered, ‘No sir, but you sure as hell do.’ Now, there was a real soldier. A real man. A man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how great the odds, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty appeared at the time.
And you should have seen the trucks on the road to Gabès. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they crawled along those son-of-a-bitch roads, never stopping, never deviating from their course with shells bursting all around them. Many of the men drove over 40 consecutive hours. We got through on good old American guts. These were not combat men. But they were soldiers with a job to do. They were part of a team. Without them the fight would have been lost.
Sure, we all want to go home. We want to get this war over with. But you can’t win a war lying down. The quickest way to get it over with is to get the bastards who started it. We want to get the hell over there and clean the goddamn thing up, and then get at those purple-pissing Japs.[a] The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. So keep moving. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler.
When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a Boche will get him eventually. The hell with that. My men don’t dig foxholes. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. We’ll win this war, but we’ll win it only by fighting and showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have or ever will have. We’re not just going to shoot the bastards, we’re going to rip out their living goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket.
Some of you men are wondering whether or not you’ll chicken out under fire. Don’t worry about it. I can assure you that you’ll all do your duty. War is a bloody business, a killing business. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them, spill their blood or they will spill yours. Shoot them in the guts. Rip open their belly. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt from your face and you realize that it’s not dirt, it’s the blood and guts of what was once your best friend, you’ll know what to do.
I don’t want any messages saying ‘I’m holding my position.’ We’re not holding a goddamned thing. We’re advancing constantly and we’re not interested in holding anything except the enemy’s balls. We’re going to hold him by his balls and we’re going to kick him in the ass; twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all the time. Our plan of operation is to advance and keep on advancing. We’re going to go through the enemy like shit through a tinhorn.
There will be some complaints that we’re pushing our people too hard. I don’t give a damn about such complaints. I believe that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing harder means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that. My men don’t surrender. I don’t want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he is hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight. That’s not just bullshit either. I want men like the lieutenant in Libya who, with a Luger against his chest, swept aside the gun with his hand, jerked his helmet off with the other and busted the hell out of the Boche with the helmet. Then he picked up the gun and he killed another German. All this time the man had a bullet through his lung. That’s a man for you!
Don’t forget, you don’t know I’m here at all. No word of that fact is to be mentioned in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell they did with me. I’m not supposed to be commanding this army. I’m not even supposed to be in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the goddamned Germans. Some day, I want them to rise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl ‘Ach! It’s the goddamned Third Army and that son-of-a-bitch Patton again!’
Then there’s one thing you men will be able to say when this war is over and you get back home. Thirty years from now when you’re sitting by your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks, ‘What did you do in the great World War Two?’ You won’t have to cough and say, ‘Well, your granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.’ No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say ‘Son, your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!’
All right, you sons of bitches. You know how I feel. I’ll be proud to lead you wonderful guys in battle anytime, anywhere. That’s all.[23]
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Good stuff. Can’t imagine why they abbreviated it for the flick.
This song is one of my jams. Patton’s actual voice can be heard at the 3:55 mark.
https://youtu.be/OkDYrCCmUIA?si=mTE5fNtsodp8ydNL&t=57
Patton’s voice reminds me of the Bald Eagle.
Both have a Lee Marvin body and a Jerry Lewis voice.
The movie is 170 minutes as is.
Whaddup doh’
whats goody yo
Hey from Vancouver, WA
Meet muonium, the element lighter than hydrogen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrabgulN1L8
from the comments
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I just want to take a second to appreciate the phrase, “fairly easy to create in particle accelerators.”
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Lol. He’s right. This isn’t Star Trek.
You have to bring your own damn tote bag??? Hard pass.
Test
Human growth hormone
Every story about eco-nonsense I see lately has nothing to do with rational problem solving, or workable solutions. They are all full of good-vs-evil absolutist religious fanaticism. Carbon capture, pointless and dumb though it may be, satisfies the basic premise of solving the problem of too much CO2 in the air. But to the eco-fanatics, it’s bad because it has the effect of offsetting new hydrocarbon fuel use when we all know there must be an immediate and total end to drilling and extraction. I’m surprised they aren’t dancing around shrieking about killing the planet by stealing its lifeblood. Hell, maybe they are.
You know it’s about control because China is not playing along, India is not playing along, and you have growing populations in Africa and Asia that are not going to settle for a second-class lifestyle when they get around to getting their acts together and start industrializing.
A group of Canadian scientists were researching the feasibility of seeding the oceans with iron in order to cause a phytoplankton bloom which would pull carbon out of the atmosphere. They were forcibly shut down by the Canadian government for some inexplicable reason.
This guy did something similar.
Actual NYT headline: A Rogue Climate Experiment Outrages Scientists
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A California businessman chartered a fishing boat in July, loaded it with 100 tons of iron dust and cruised through Pacific waters off western Canada, spewing his cargo into the sea in an ecological experiment that has outraged scientists and government officials.
The entrepreneur, whose foray came to light only this week, even duped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States into lending him ocean-monitoring buoys for the project.
Canada’s environment ministry says it is investigating the experiment, which was carried out with no government or scientific oversight. A spokesman said the ministry had warned the venture in advance that its plan would violate international agreements.
Marine scientists and other experts have assailed the experiment as unscientific, irresponsible and probably in violation of those agreements, which are intended to prevent tampering with ocean ecosystems under the guise of trying to fight the effects of climate change.
Though the environmental impact of the foray could well prove minimal, scientists said, it raises the specter of what they have long feared: rogue field experiments that might unintentionally put the environment at risk.
The entrepreneur, Russ George, calling it a “state-of-the-art study,” said his team scattered iron dust several hundred miles west of the islands of Haida Gwaii, in northern British Columbia, in exchange for $2.5 million from a native Canadian group.
The iron spawned the growth of enormous amounts of plankton, which Mr. George, a former fisheries and forestry worker, said might allow the project to meet one of its goals: aiding the recovery of the local salmon fishery for the native Haida.
Plankton absorbs carbon dioxide, the predominant greenhouse gas, and settles deep in the ocean when it dies, sequestering carbon. The Haida had hoped that by burying carbon, they could also sell so-called carbon offset credits to companies and make money.
Iron fertilization is contentious because it is associated with geoengineering, a set of proposed strategies for counteracting global warming through the deliberate manipulation of the environment. Many experts have argued that scientists should be researching such geoengineering techniques — like spewing compounds into the atmosphere to reflect more sunlight or using sophisticated machines to remove carbon dioxide from the air.
But tampering with the environment is risky, they say, so any experiments must be carried out responsibly and transparently, with the involvement of the scientific community and proper governance.
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How dare he. Truly history’s greatest monster…
When I become a billionaire, I’m going to build my own company town. With 2 factories; one factory makes metal barrels, the other recycles metal barrels. The barrels never get used, The brand new barrels are shipped to the recycling plant, and the recycled material is shipped to the barrel plant. It’s a perpetual
motionjobs machine!You are gonna be so rich!
UCS – some more test paints. I like these shades a lot. I think I can work with this color combo for the rest of the army and then fill in the details (speed paint for leather/metal and then maybe some more opaque paints for shoulder edges, eyes, etc).
https://ibb.co/XbNstnF – see the comparison between the solid white primer from a traded mini from my buddy and the “zenithal” attempts I made.
https://ibb.co/gwdVMNr – a few more from the base army
I was using Vallejo Xpress Storm Blue for the legs, Vallejo Xpress Red Velvet for the left arm, and Speed Paint 2.0 Runic Grey for upper body.
https://ibb.co/DQzr30q – another comparison between the white primer from my buddy and my attempts at zenithal. I’ve been doing solid black priming and then standing over my models and priming white – which I think may be falling a bit short given some of the specking I get. I think it looks pretty good post colors and drying – may do a second coat – but I think zenithal is supposed to involve a lot more white from different angles above 90 degrees, not just directly above. Expect to get an airbrush a little later, so that’ll probably make it easier going forward.
Here is the Xmas present that OMWC NEEDS!!!
https://dissentpins.com/collections/secret-jewish-space-laser/products/secret-jewish-space-laser-corps-enamel-pin
Imagine an entire sociopolitical ecosystem based on learned helplessness
Imagine going to work every day knowing that people you’re trying to help might hide from you. And even when they ask for help, you’re likely not able to offer the thing they most need. And no matter how hard you work, the ultimate problem you’re tasked with solving keeps getting worse.
This is the challenge for hundreds of homelessness outreach workers who fan out every day across Los Angeles. As the number of unhoused people keeps going up, L.A. has hired more such workers to try and connect them with social services, and eventually permanent housing. Although there’s not nearly enough of that to go around.
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Los Angeles County has 55 full-time outreach teams — up from 34 two years ago — plus 14 others that focus on mental health. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority also funds 104 smaller outreach teams. All of them are expected to keep expanding. But not everyone is sold on their growing role.
“I’m going to call it the outreach industrial complex,” says Pete White, executive director of the nonprofit Los Angeles Community Action Network. He calls outreach a kind of smoke and mirrors, designed to make it look like the problem is being solved.
“Why do we invest so much into thousands of outreach workers if there aren’t thousands of units to put people in? That money … has to be spent toward permanent housing.”
Why look for solutions when there is so much money in prolonging the problem?
I can’t imagine why there isn’t “enough” permanent housing just sitting around waiting for a junkie to take loving care of it at taxpayer expense.
If it is free, expect it to be perpetually not “enough”. It’s the same mentality proclaiming an “unaffordable” housing crisis, then implementing “solutions” that inevitably worsen the situation.
1.5 hours later replacement garbage disposal installed. Only three extra trips to the basement for different tools.
Old one lasted roughly 15 years can’t complain. The difference between the US and Chinese made insinkerator is like $80. I paid it.
Worth it every time, and I always go for the more powerful motor.
But tampering with the environment is risky, they say, so any experiments must be carried out responsibly and transparently, with the involvement of the scientific community and proper governance.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
– we need our cut
At the team’s last stop of the day, Johnson walks down an alley of tents and makeshift shelters, with mounds of discarded items and trash in between. There are several takers for the needles, pipes and condoms he’s handing out.
Success.
Did Torquemada have a bunch of peons looking over his shoulder?
Donald Trump is endorsing an effort by news organizations to provide live television coverage of his trial on federal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In a bombastic legal filing submitted late Friday to the judge who’s scheduled that trial to begin in March, Trump’s attorneys argued he’s the victim of political persecution by President Joe Biden’s administration and should be allowed to use the platform of TV to showcase the proceedings’ unfairness.
“The prosecution wishes to continue this travesty in darkness. President Trump calls for sunlight,” defense attorneys John Lauro and Todd Blanche wrote. “Every person in America, and beyond, should have the opportunity to study this case firsthand and watch as, if there is a trial, President Trump exonerates himself of these baseless and politically motivated charges.”
The five-page submission to U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan makes no mention of a federal court rule that has been in place for decades prohibiting broadcasting of criminal court proceedings.
Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s team cited that rule last week in opposing the effort by an array of news outlets, including POLITICO, to win permission to offer video and audio coverage of the historic trial of a former — or current — president on criminal charges. Smith’s team also said TV coverage would present risks to the trial, potentially intimidating witnesses and jurors.
If there’s any witness intimidation to be done around here, we’ll do it.
Trump, who is facing four criminal prosecutions as well as several civil lawsuits, has been trying in recent weeks to leverage those proceedings to amplify his message to voters. The filing Friday night signaled that he hopes to use the Washington trial, scheduled to be the first criminal case against Trump to go to a jury, to re-air false claims that fraud caused his loss in the 2020 presidential race.
Those dumb motherfuckers had better make some clean and compelling arguments.
It may be my hard inclination to not waste things or … something, I don’t know, but it bugs the shit out of me to put cardboard in the trash when it can be recycled. I shred every piece of paper I or the mailbox generates (except catalogs, which go in the recycle bin). The intent used to be security and to use it as mulch, but I never got that far in my prepping, so it’s just a habit now.
@Rhywun, yeah, suddenly, our recycling told us no glass. That was very recent. Also, the only reason I don’t always use my own totes is because I need some plastic bags for trash and cat litter.
@OMWC, I have been reading articles on places running out of sand. We get our sand from the bottom of the Missouri River. Sand barges up and down it all day long, dredging.
@SDF-7, you laugh about carrying around utensils a la medieval days, but I do this. I also have a cup. One day I’ll spring for a filtering water bottle.
@dbleagle from last night: KC has a long history with the mob, particularly in the 70s and 80s, with ties to Vegas. My grandfather was an FBI agent on the mob squad. He would never allow his family to buy Roma bread because he said it was a mob front. (But he died in 1970 of a brain tumor, so I don’t know how much he could really be involved.)
Last time in 2021 Israel folds and ensures the killing will start again.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2734438/Fireworks-replace-shells-Gaza-Palestinians-celebrate-cease-fire.html
Make sure to scroll long enough to see the kids.
Fast forward to October 7, 2023
https://www.timesofisrael.com/street-rallies-celebrate-hamas-onslaught-in-west-bank-and-throughout-the-middle-east/
What the Gazans started saying on October 9th isn’t key. Their reactions on October 7th were. There are plenty of videos online if you want to watch an evil society celebrate their “victory”.
Now go find any picture you want of Germans celebrating the fall of France in 1940. The pictures of Germany are the same jubilant crowds, though with more blondes and no AK’s. Now find pictures of Germany from May 1945. Those faces are of a society that knows an evil ideology got them to that place. Plenty still support the NSDAP, but the will to fight is gone.
The Gazans overwhelmingly support HAMAS, just like the Germans overwhelmingly supported the National Socialists. The fact that both societies had some dissidents is unimportant. The Gazans will never break faith with HAMAS until the survivors realize their lives were destroyed by an evil ideology. The solution to that problem set in the real world is the same. The Gazans will need to be pounded without let up until their entire societal infrastructures are in ruins and uncountable numbers of their people are dead. The Gazans already know of HAMAS’s militarization of protected sites and that it is HAMAS that is shooting internally displaced persons trying to flee Gaza City. Let the lessons continue.
The USA should never again provide even a penny of taxpayer to Gaza. That goes for indirect funding through the UN or any NGO. The arab states want to use the Pali’s as a domestic safety valve so let them pay. Israel should be able to BUY arms (and high capacity pumps to flood the tunnels), but again no US taxpayer freebies.
Will the destruction bring long term peace? Nope. People have been fighting civilization battles over that pile of rock and sand for millennia. But if fought to a conclusion and not to a pause, it lends a situation that could lead to a few generations of reduced conflict.