‘Tis the season.
Whilst you peruse the evening links, I am opening the cabin for the season. Gonna be a good year.
Links?
Diddy done dirty. Srlsy, what a complete shitbag.
“We don’t need them. It’ll be fine. What could possibly go wrong?”
I’m sure this won’t be abused.
I’m sure no one saw this coming. Interesting how they used a photo of Tesla.
Imagine being so fat at 27 that you need oxygen and wheelchair assistance.
Okey doke. I’m outta here. Feel free to lounge about!
Imagine being so fat at 27 that you need oxygen and wheelchair assistance.
How many women could move this mammoth around on a wheelchair? If the girl had herniated herself trying, what would this waddling wheezing mass of fat have to say about it?
—“Plus-size travel influencer”—
WTF is that. And, for that matter, is all of this “influencer” bullshit. How do you get that job? Do you just proclaim yourself an influencer or is the some program you have to complete? Or do you just post shit on X (formerly known as Twitter) and then you are an influencer?
To become an influencer?
Whore yourself out on social media to get followers, once you get enough followers, some brands will pay you to use/endorse their products. Congrats! You’re now a
shillInfluencer!(I’m mildly surprised the spellcheck in Firefox is saying influencer is not a word).
How does she get in/out of the rest room?. There’s a chance she will be drinking a lot of liquids and make many pit stops. In case of an emergency she will plug the aisle causing many more deaths. She’s too fat to fly.
An old co-worker used to say: “Did you know that people over 350 pounds or so can’t actually wipe their ass? When you see them at the pool, think about that.”
She was flying out of Seattle/Tacoma. She should have booked a DreamLifter out of Paine Field (north Seattle) instead.
It would be perfect for her.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Dreamlifter
She could book a JATO equipped C-17 and a pallet out McChord AFB.
Don’t worry, we’ll just pull it out of the magic hat
The world is facing a shortage of the minerals needed to make the electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, and other clean energy technologies essential to ending its reliance on fossil fuels.
The Paris-based International Energy Agency said in a report published Friday that steep drops in the prices of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and graphite last year were “good news for consumers” but discouraged investment in the mining of those critical minerals.
The world is on track meet only 70% of global copper demand and 50% of lithium demand by 2035, the agency added.
“The world’s appetite for technologies such as solar panels, electric cars and batteries is growing fast — but we cannot satisfy it without reliable and expanding supplies of critical minerals,” Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, said in a statement.
Are you sure ‘the world” really wants all that stuff?
I thought evs were a good thing,
Who needs cobalt and lithium, just plug it in.
—“The world’s appetite for technologies such as solar panels, electric cars and batteries is growing fast”—
No, it isn’t.
The government will ensure that the demand increases, comrade.
meet only 70% of global copper demand
Methheads standing by to do their part!
Another cabin song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQjQJF7vSQw
The IEA forecast that investors would need to pour $800 billion into mining projects between now and 2040 to stand a chance of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Demand for graphite, for example, is projected to quadruple by 2040 from the current level if the world takes steps to avoid warming above 1.5 degrees.
If A, then follicle.
Holy shit that’s dangerous lunacy.
Fortunately the fantasy will be over long before 2040.
If only.
It will be over because reality will intrude.
Reality better do something dramatic and not just, you know, move along gradually.
And yet communism is still on the menu in 2024.
Lighting up the new fire pit tonight! (weather permitting)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
The covid mask on top of the oxygen tubes is a nice touch. Shows that she cares about others.
Are you co-morbidity shaming?
You should be.
Based on my experience flying through Seattle, I’m guessing the person expected to push the fat lady was some 120 pound Somali dude who wasn’t going to put up with her.
I went to the Indy 500 Qualifiers with Dad and I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I had a good time and it was well worth the time. I was so lost in that damn place! Confusing.
We also went to the OTB. I think he put something down on the Preakness, though I think $40 and he doesn’t give a shit. Mostly he was there to give me $20 to have some fun myself. I had an idea for pure shits about the Edmonton v Vancouver game coming on soon. I found out at the door my fucking ID expired on my bday 2 weeks ago! I said I’m gonna go out for a smoke with a wink he understood. I’ve got $10 on Edmonton. To add some novelty, I bet the Under 6. They’ve mostly been low scoring games, with both defenses outplaying, IMO.
Should add a new spark to my eve
I managed to secure 4 tickets to an event the Browns are holding for Father’s Day (but not on the day, due to scheduling issues). My dad, who turned down going to any of the games last year, agreed to go to the event. I also invited my brother-in-law and his dad, so it should be a good time.
My look at the online book said it was a 7.5 under. That’s what I told him, but meh. I know little and ’tis of no matter to me.
Good luck.
The Rangers win the other day was a classic. I bet there were some good payouts on that comeback.
There’s been a couple times I’ve been at/watching a game, and joking about the losing team coming back (usually at +8,000-+10,000). Twice it’s happened.
I’m still looking for the next Leicester City.
Ah, the Saturday evening kinks.
Nice weather, good time to read them outside.
That’s not even a euphemism.
My fingers are fat.
Wait…
Raining here and occasional thunder. The jet stream kink is dragging up the moisture.
The land whale can fuck right off. It is your responsibility to take care of your needs when you travel. Just because you want to stress test a wheelchair it is not up to a company to coddle you. You want to be pushed around? Contract with a couple of companies to do it for you.
There’s a couple of body builders in Chicago that have been out of work for a few years.
Using the term “plus sized” is not descriptive of that person.
I am “plus sized” in the usual (old?) meaning of the word (as in, im overweight but do not give small children nightmares) but can still fit in a regular plane seat. However, I buy first class tickets for my own comfort and that of others.
When I have a foot injury or something that keeps me from walking all over the airport, I arrange in advance for a cart to get me from one gate to another (especially if there is a tight connection).
Flying is not a right.
As for the “influencer” thing, ya gotta admit she exerts strong gravitational pull on stuff.
Exponent-sized.
Relevant
Hey! I resemble that.
You know what they say about fat fingers
Pull my finger and find out.
They were conducting a control burn in Lowman today, so it was pretty smoky. But still a lovely day.
Wow, the propaganda filling the right column of that page is something else.
Oh, and yeah – the story itself is hilarious. Whycome the subjects not buying the vehicles we tell them to? The whole charade collapsing is going to be amusing AF.
A plus-size travel influencer.
Barf.
Useless as a band name and would make a horrible album name.
Might work as a disease. *ahem*. ‘You, sir or madam or whatever have a clear and debilitating case of Plus-Size Influencer’.
She misspelled flatuencer
If someone tells you they are a bad boy for life, you best believe them.
Those drones are probably cheaper and easier to deploy than the older ghetto birds. Also, will be easier for the pilot to window peep since not as loud as a chopper. I doubt the choppers had stealth mode like in Blue Thunder.
My brother was a volunteer firefighter and I have several customers who are firefighters and they have confirmed something my brother had told me years ago about the most common call they had was for a “lift assist” or “service assist” for getting morbidly obese people from their house to either the ambulance or hearse. He said you don’t see them because they can’t leave their house. Pretty soon we’re going to be getting calls for “service assists” over the airport intercom.
Mrs F is a smaller person, weighs in at 100 lbs. She should get a discount when she flies. She could be a Minus-Size Influencer.
I went on many lift assists.
“The protest left local residents annoyed.”
One of the pics is from next door to my old NYC apartment.
This kind of shit was a regular occurrence during warm weather in recent years. Now with less mostly-peaceful!
“The cabin needs a little tlc.”
A couple days and you’ll have the cabin right where you like it.
We got the chicken coop cleaned out, freshly limed, freshly wood chipped. It smells a lot better. I was dreading it, and it was not pleasant, but I’m glad it is done.
We got the hummingbird feeder out. Saw several hummingbirds though out the day.
Planted marigolds to ward off the skeeters.
Removed a screw from my tire and installed a plug. It seems to be holding air pressure.
Installed the fog light panel in my girlfriend’s Impreza.
I sewed patches in the butts of two pair of pants and sewed a grocery bag handle.
I planted 3 deep burgundy dahlias in stainless steel washing machine drums/now used as planters.
Tomorrow we plant the rest of the vegetable garden.
/what’s happening on pistoffnick’s farm
Thanks for the update. PONick. You are getting a lot done. A farmer works from sun to sun.
Got the garden tilled X2. Gonna start planting tomorrow.
There may have been a 1 hour power nap within that time.
She has excellent taste in…cars. 😉
The local German Baptist farm market’s greenhouse was a madhouse this afternoon, but I managed to find my favorite variety of fuchsia (“Dark Eyes,” with deep purple inner petals next to the bright pink outer petals) plus a rosemary and a basil plant. (No oregano, dag nab it!) Hung the fuchsia out back at Tranquility Base next to the newly-filled hummingbird feeder, so I hope to have hummingbird turf wars soon!
I kinda steered her in that direction. She get’s 35-36 miles per gallon.
I will probably buy it from her. She wants something less low to the ground.
That’s my only quibble with mine. TT has a Forester that sits higher, so that may be my next model.
Same deal here. I had an Impreza, traded for a Forester. So much happier sitting higher off the ground.
Marigolds deter skeeters? Good tip!
For reasons I don’t quite understand, we don’t have skeeters where I live.
Slacker.
My current favorite Billy Strings tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFEZOjtrwls&ab_channel=LowerStandards
Dust in a Baggie – Billy Strings
“I’m sure no one saw this coming. Interesting how they used a photo of Tesla.”
Journalists are so fucking lazy it just boggles.
lazy or malicious. some days it’s a toss up.
Warum nicht beides?
Don’t rule out stupid.
Malicious. For the same reason that Biden throws shade at Tesla.
Elon doesn’t allow unions.
And he is a proponent of free speech.
Yeah, it was amazing to see lefties turn on Musk on a dime when he started releasing the Twitter Files.
Not really, he criticized the glorious, all-knowing state.
I didn’t say it was a surprise, just amazing how suddenly the shift happened.
It’s like the way America’s Communists suddenly became isolationists after the signing of the Molotov-von Ribbentrop Pact, and then suddenly became interventionists again after Hitler invaded the USSR. And in the decades since have acted as though they were always in the vanguard of warning America about the dangers of Nazism.
And may of them claim the west forced Stalin into the pact with Hitler somehow.
I’m going to take a wild guess and say that ESPN does not regard Edmunton-Vancouver as a premier matchup. Certainly the clowns they have covering that series are not their A talent.
Y’all this is an all-time classic Zoom
Beaver squeezins and scrimshaw dildo
“My hole is real and there is no ambergris in it.”
Y’all
RJ…we have questions. Please turn yourself into Zoom ASAP. We know who you are.
Damn. Just left a bar, one moment
This phone sucks ass
I will be home in 30 and log on
Get Your ass on here JR!
Hurry up!
Spoiler alert: RJ’s real initials are JR
Yep. All-time.
Thanks for joining us, Jaret Whatisface!
Good morning all!
How about a little Sunday morning Jethro Tull?
Pibroch — Cap in Hand
Share and enjoy!
Good morning Glibs!
I set my alarm as if it was a weekday. *grumble*
😧⏰🌄
So I lost some sweet weekend sleep.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGEjz12YLiM
Good tune. 🎶🎶
Morning…ugh it’s already Sunday
I work 6-2:30, so even without an alarm clock, I woke up at 5:15 AM.
At the festival we went to yesterday the Libertarian Party of Kentucky was out in full force seeking signatures. Not registered in KY so didn’t sign but looking at his clipboard, goo’s amount of sigs obtained for the day.
Turns out the dude we spoke to was I guess trying to be the presidential candidate?
This may be… entertaining.
“Is that you, Corn Pop?”
-Gropey Joe