JAPAN EXPERIENCING RICE SHORTAGE: Even though this lede refers to rice riots, there are no actual riots; the Japanese being an orderly people and all.
OHIO DISCOVERS NON-CITIZENS ON VOTER ROLES: Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said that[…] 138 were found to have cast ballots and 459 registered but did not vote. They were identified as part of a routine review and referred to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. Remember how we were repeatedly assured that voter fraud was a right-wing conspiracy theory, and that it was literally impossible for non-citizens to register to vote? Granted, this is a small percentage of voters, but a single vote can change the outcome in a tight race. And this is just the ones they caught in a routine audit. This does nothing to stop ballot harvesting. We all know that nobody will go to jail or lose their job for registering these people.
FORMER CHINESE DISSIDENT NOW ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR CHINA: Federal prosecutors in New York filed criminal charges against a Chinese dissident living in the U.S., accusing him of covertly working for China’s intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, and spying on pro-democracy activist groups, according to a criminal complaint obtained by CBS News.
OBLIGATORY DINGING ON BOEING (and NASA): Another hitch in bringing the crew of the ill-fated Boeing StarLiner mission back to earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule — the Boeing space suits aren’t compatible with the SpaceX spacecraft. I’m assuming this is the hoses for air, and the power connections. [NASA] “did not specify” that the spacesuits “needed to be cross-compatible,” a way “NASA controls risk” by keeping its options as wide as possible in case something went wrong with one option. IOW, they learned nothing from Apollo 13 where the incompatibility of the CO2 scrubbers between the Apollo Command Module (capsule) and Lunar Module was an issue.
STARTUP ASTROFORGE RAISES $40M FOR ASTEROID MINING MISSION: This is cool AF. I wish them well.
ROCKET LAB GEARS UP FOR FIRST MARS MISSION: Rocket Lab is going to launch twin satellites, named “Blue” and “Gold,” to Mars. I believe that this is the first private mission to Mars. By some definitions of private, since it appears NASA is funding part of the mission. Rocket Lab is known as a launch provider, not a satellite company; this mission will launch on a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket.
Rice riots? Sounds lacist.
Where are the rooftop Koreans?
They’d prefer their women stay uncomfortable.
Korea.
South Central LA.
Hanging with Santa?
Never fear the Japanese have import rice restrictions that Trump can only dream about.
I’m sure that will help the shortage situation.
Have they tried price controls? Sometimes you just have to ignore all the economists and do what feels right.
Price controls and production quotas.
I’m sure many Japanese agree with that!
The pressure to conform over there is amazing. Even as inflation squeezes margins the business that deal directly with consumers are very reluctant to raise prices.
Let them eat (wheat) cake.
Are you saying it’s a quiet riot?
White (rice) Riot
Hull of a thing to say.
Swiss is chaffing at all these bad puns.
Don’t try and paddy this joke section!
Black man got a lot of problems
But they don’t mind throwin’ a brick
Asian people go to school
Where they get excellent grades and pursue post-secondary education
Nah, it’s not quite as catchy
Anyone who didn’t think this was an excellent way to plant an operative and perhaps have them “consulted” on their home country giving indications of what the other side is thinking (or worse)…. seriously needs to go back to Espionage 101.
they learned nothing from Apollo 13
They didn’t pack enough plastic bags and duct tape?
“That Apollo Program was run by Nazi Scientists, we can’t learn from them!”
Quick! Send the next Cargo Dragon up with duct tape and square cardboard boxes!
More seriously — I thought they had at least one cargo mission before the intended Crew Dragon run. Surely Boeing still has their measurements on file and SpaceX could send up a couple of suits in advance. And bill Boeing.
Quick, someone call Tom Hanks.
Gary Sinise is the problem solver.
Interesting idea. I wonder if NASA is aware of it. Seriously.
I wonder if NASA is aware
Me too.
They discussed doing just that, but I haven’t read anything since.
My guess is they aren’t super comfortable with them self fitting brand new to them suits and resolving any issues.
It is a government agency. SOP is to look at the obvious solution then ignore it.
That and the ass covering should there be any issues.
IIRC, the space suits are tailored and fitted for the astronaut. That raises some additional problems. But they can wear an off-the-rack suit for a few hours.
Elon should insist that Boeing pay him with a paper check, and pose with that like a lottery winner.
Paper? I’m thinking a large novelty check.
Only if they give it to him with balloons and a bouquet of flowers, PCH style.
If you’re right and it’s just lifeline connector incompatibility, they don’t need completely new suits, just some adapters. Send someone down to the machine shop with some prints and they’ll be done by next weekend. Easy-peasey. This isn’t rocket science.
The problem is that with Boeing’s DEI push both sides of all connections are now female.
Heh. Nice.
*Golf clap*
Surprisingly, there are still lots of dongles.
*bows to Sensei
Well, then they are just going to need one that trans-forms, now don’t they?
Dang skippy. But I’m a known proponent of getting humanity off this rock and industry outside of the gravity well seems like it would help.
That is because you dont understand the gravity of having tools and parts staying put when you set them down.
I suppose it would have been too much to ask that they be sent up on a Booster Gold. Which, granted… would be better for a space company than another DC character…
Look, Booster is a Janitor, I don’t think he can design rockets.
Getting high using a BONG?
There’s an obvious DC Character name to be used.
But we don’t have any nuclear weapons for the project!
I thought about it — but I’m a Firestorm fan and already burned my 2 links allowed per comment.
UCS – what, was there some kind of quest for peace while I wasn’t looking?
We need those Nukes to threaten the other powers, we can’t go wasting them on propulsion!
Slightly off topic — if there is an Oscar for trailer editing, boy does that trailer deserve it… it actually makes it look like it would have been worth watching. That takes some serious effort with that stinker.
the Boeing space suits aren’t compatible with the SpaceX spacecraft.
They used those special parts to make their robot friends.
Just repeat to yourself it is just a side show…. I should really just relax?
I wish I could control when this movie begins or ends.
OMFG! They put me in a loaner car.
AN ELECTRIC LOANER.
HALF CHARGED.
🙁
Re-volting?
You can pay extra to avoid that.
Just like downtown?
Hopefully they gave you a charge cable!
I told the dude “This ain’t gonna work for me.”
They were out of IC loaners today, I’m supposed to go tomorrow and swap it out.
I did look in the trunk, and there is a cable.
Cable? Just plug it right into the power grid like they do in South America.
Well for piece of mind in case the ICE loaners don’t materialize and depending on you electricity cost you might want to plug it in.
At 120V you are going to want to leave it overnight.
Half charged in a Tesla is a lot better than half charged in a Leaf. So which is it?
It’s Sean – I’m assuming VW ID4 or something like that.
Correct Sensei.
If you can’t sell ’em, loan ’em.
Sounds like you aren’t amped about that.
Sounds like he’s resistant to EV’s.
Shocking.
He can go Faraday to his happy place… ohm… ohm… ohm
Sounds like he’s resistant to EV’s.
To be fair, I don’t want Ev to poke needles in my veins.
Well, Watt is he gonna do about it? They will just charge him more if he complains.
The last several times I’ve rented a car they’ve given it to me with the tank between 1/4 and 3/4 full.
That’s some bullshit to either soak me for gas fees or hope that I overfill it when dropping it off.
I was dumb enough to take a fake Mustang at the rental place. I was only going a short distance and it was fully charged. You have to bring it back at 70 percent or they charge you $35. I kept watching the ‘range’ drop and drop and ended up at fucking 60 percent.
Gas would have cost me ten bucks.
Watt? Inconceivable.
Shocking.
Sensei- re hubs – I mean the heavy duty 8 or 9 3-prong surge suppressors- I normally use 1 for all my PC gear, 1 for all my A/V equipment, etc.
In this case I need a transformer suitable to handle that many devices (via the single hub plug) – that preferably already has a Euro plug to minimize additional strain.
A stepdown transformer to power AV gear assuming it will work at 50Hz is going to be pricey! Chinese made 500W ones are $250+ First world and safety certified are going to be much more. They use a significant amount of copper.
My guess is you can buy a local surge suppressor and run most of the PC stuff at local voltage. The AV stuff is a completely different issue.
#BREAKINGNEWS There is a scheduled gap in tonight’s DNC schedule that the special guest is only known by a handful of people.
https://x.com/FordJohnathan5/status/1826677735814824100
The buzz is it’s Taylor Swift. We’ll see which of us Glibs called this one right.
Mike pence.
While that wouldn’t surprise me… for some reason that made my brain jump to special appearance by… Zelensky!
Since whoever is leading Hamas isn’t a big name these days like Arafat or Hitler would have been.
Well, she is always rooting for the anti-hero and all.
A celebrity endorsement? Well that seals it. I’m going out to vote Harris as soon as I finish buying all the celebrity endorsed products.
Brat on a train!
So Oprah wasn’t enough for you?
Speaking of the Big O
Whoops!
If she sings “I knew you were president when you walked in..”
Japan is going to implement rice rationing based on household size.
For example: two girls, one cup
Bazinga.
JAPAN EXPERIENCING RICE SHORTAGE
I warned them about letting Pope Jimbo into the country.
Shit! Great detective work.
Thankfully nobody is home to hear me cracking up.
ALOL
HEY!
I’m probably late to have anyone see this, but I am definitely not to blame.
We have been talking about the rice shortage here lately, but sister-in-law says it is because there was an earthquake a couple weeks ago and now there is a quake warning in effect. So everyone went out and panic-bought the rice. My niece got an earful because she went to visit her in-laws – where there was a ton of rice in the stores – and came back empty handed.
I do have rice with most meals, but nothing like everyone around me. The little kids eat more rice than I do. Honestly, bread is the thing I miss the most. Sister-in-law has bread on hand, but it is Japanese bread. Super white soft inside with a big tough crust on the out side.
Well. now that I think about it, I might be the cause if the Japanese are making beer out of rice. Then you could have a point.
“the spacesuits “needed to be cross-compatible,”
So just go down to ACE Hardware and get a handful of adaptors to bring along. I dont think ACE has gone woke yet so they will probably sell the proper adaptor.
*tin foil hat* NASA purposefully didn’t request a standardized means between ships for a universal suit
Okay, not really tin foil. The advent of private space flight isn’t new; this should have been in the works for at least…since 2000?
Having not read the comments.. has this been mentioned?
Jack Daniel’s has become the latest all-American brand to scrap its diversity efforts in the face of angry conservative customers and a potential damaging boycott.
The whiskey maker, Brown-Forman, wrote to employees on Wednesday saying it was reversing course on its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) schemes.
The Kentucky-based firm said it would stop linking executive pay to DEI progress and exit an annual ranking of LGBTQ-friendly firms.
It also vowed to cut its diversity rules for suppliers and end woke corporate training sessions.
That’s according to a copy of the letter shared on X by anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck and confirmed by Brown-Forman.
They’re gonna fire all the gays and coloreds!
“it would stop linking executive pay to DEI progress ”
This is the reason DEI is so destructive. It’s not that people of certain races are all unqualified, it’s that there aren’t ENOUGH qualified people of those races. The executives don’t want to lose out on pay so they hire unqualified people that fit the DEI profile. Then you get inferior whiskey and doors flying off planes.
I supply some massive companies. I’m a little shocked that they haven’t added that shit to their vendor requirements.
I dont give a damned who they hire or fire or whatever. How about just stick to making good whiskey and keep the people who know how to do that around. It’s real fuckin’ simple.
*Having good, productive employees is the toughest part of keeping a business successful. DEI is calculated to destroy businesses, plain and simple.
Jack Daniel’s spokeswoman Elizabeth Conway told The Mail that the company had decided to ‘evolve our diversity and inclusion strategy.’
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The decision follows similar moves in recent weeks from Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply, and John Deere, which were all targeted by Starbuck.
Corporate America rolled out DEI schemes to help reverse historic injustices amid the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, but they’ve increasingly stirred divisions and fallen out of favor.
No more white guilt struggle sessions? Oh, woe. Oh, infamy.
Advocates of DEI say it helps get more women and minorities into jobs and colleges, but critics say it too often denies opportunities to straight, white men, even when they’re better candidates.
Don’t mention the damage done to truly qualified “minority” individuals by casting a shadow over their legitimate achievements.
DEI has fuck-all to do with any of that.
People who cant identify or solve problems cant defend themselves. DEI is about producing a culture of helpless people who are enslaved.
To Avoid DOJ Entrapment, Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Intel Briefings
Is he actually learning?!?
Everybody wakes up when they start shooting at you.
It’s Sean – I’m assuming VW ID4 or something like that.
He should ask for one of those cutesy fake buses.
It’s the top trim model – AWD pro s. Msrp is just shy of $54k.
I hate it.
Good news, everyone! https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/08/22/this-years-new-covid-shot-has-been-approved-by-fda/
Okay take my money.
It would be more entertaining if it were Astroglide doing it.
They are just staking their astroturf.
Is it just me or is it starting to look like everything about the Dems is fake and that they never act or talk in good faith? I dont know what it is, just this little voice in the back of my head I guess.
It’s not you.
They are as real and authentic as those phone calls between Kamala and Walz.
OMG remore CEO
Niccol will be allowed to fly on the company plane for “business-related travel in accordance with the Company’s travel policy” and “your personal travel in accordance with the Company’s policies, up to a maximum amount of $250,000 per year,” too, according to the filing.
Starbucks told FOX Business that Niccol will use the company’s Seattle headquarters as his main office and work out of that location three days per week other than when he is away for work-related travel. That time in-office will be in line with the company’s hybrid work rules.
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Niccol will have a “small remote office” in Newport Beach, California, which the company will work with him to get up and running, according to Starbucks’ SEC filing.
The company also told FOX Business that Niccol will be on the road visiting stores and other locations related to Starbucks’ business or at its headquarters most of the time. He also plans to maintain a home in the city, according to Starbucks.
Whatever. A secretary and a couple of accountants should do the trick. After they get the remote office up and running, they can fire three quarters of the Seattle office.
And after he gets canned for his poor results, it will turn he never went into the office.
I would expect any bigtime CEO to have a fully tricked out home office, even if they go into the main office 5 days a week. When you’re making that kind of scratch, you should be on call 24/7/365 with a response time measured in minutes.
Trust us
Vice President Kamala Harris’ allies in the business community are privately making a pitch to CEOs about why they should back her over former President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
At private parties and meetings during the Democratic National Convention, corporate executives close to Harris told CNBC they are delivering a message tailored to major players in finance, tech and law.
Their pitch argues that a Harris presidency will be good for business because she wants to create a strong economy that will help the middle class. They also make the case that a Harris administration would provide business a degree of certainty on public policy front that would not exist in a Trump White House, these people said.
We’ll let you know what those policies will be right after the election.
Taxing unrealized capital gains will do wonders for stock prices.
“degree of certainty on public policy ”
The same kind of certainty STEVE SMITH provides for hikers.
If she wants to create a strong economy that will help the middle class, then she should support policies that will create a strong economy that helps the middle class.
Not to be confused with her platform, of course.
I’ve been getting that microwave-in-container rice lately. It’s way better than any rice I’ve attempted to make from scratch.
I’ve been watching that MFing volcano for DAYS, and it decides to go off when I’m not looking 😠
That’s too bad. I bet you lava good eruption.
You need to cone it down a little
I used to have that problem too!
Obligatory.
American geologist livestream. He will probably be doing a drone flight soon (remotely in Iceland from Idaho). Sometimes technology is cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CymhYbrF3DI
Mesmerizing. Thanks for the link!
And obligatory.
*ahem*
XY’s new-to-him car is now tagged. Dude off teaching him finer skills like parallel parking and suchlike. We may actually beat this deadline his work has given him (the 1st). Downside: Now that he’s got a car and soon to have a driver’s license, there is talk of making him a regional hammer, which is great for him, but hard on my worrywart soul. We haven’t gotten to crowded interstates in a GMC Envoy yet. I don’t even remember being taught how to drive on an interstate.
Definitely would get him out on the interstate, at least when it’s light traffic. But I always found parking lots to be a lot scarier, and you’ve already had him out doing that.
He’s got a heavy-traffic short-lane cloverleaf to navigate on his way to work, so tomorrow I’m going to take him out on the metro’s interstate loop and practice cloverleaves there first.
An oration for the ages
In her speech Harris, 59, plans to talk about her life as the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother and lay out her plans to tackle rising costs and advance personal freedoms, including abortion rights, aides said.
They said she will also deliver a robust denunciation of former President Trump.
Denounce the Bad Orange Jumpsuit Man? No way.
I wonder what she’ll have to say about my personal freedom to be left the fuck alone.
Advance personal freedom as long as you don’t want to by a normal car or a gas stove or have a foreign bank account or refuse a vaccine…
NASA needs to take a box of spare parts down to the local firehouse, and hand them to the Engineer. Tell him what you need and give him half a hour. He’ll have a pigtail made up in no time.
I don’t even remember being taught how to drive on an interstate.
GET TO TRAFFIC SPEED ON THE ON RAMP.
Oh my gawd. So much this. Also:
STAY AT TRAFFIC SPEED UNTIL YOU’RE ON THE OFF RAMP
PLAN AHEAD. IF YOU CROSS THREE LANES OF TRAFFIC TO GET YOUR EXIT GOD WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN.
Also, if you miss your exit it’s not the end of the world. Loser.
I will never understand the need to drive below the speed limit two miles before a left turn.
Growing up in Los Angeles…ya we went on the highway/freeway for the test. And all that you said is true…
15 yr old me “Speed limit is…”
Instructor “Don’t care, match the speed of traffic and go 5 mph faster”
My dad sat me in his lap to steer while he drank a beer…aah, the ‘70s.
The punk who punched me back in May will have his 3rd court appearance soon. In it, he may change his plea as he prepares to stand trial. In this case, I approve of the process being the punishment, though I am beginning to see the merits of the Singapore way.
Charter School Chronicles – part 3
Today’s videos included Soviet propaganda for Africans and Schopenhauer’s view on intellect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9CKXz24pxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci7VK75sMsY
After the Africa video and my brief lesson on colonialism, a quiet student from way in the back asked me why there are a bunch of countries named Guinea. I explained that “guinea” is a word from an African language called Berber that means a dark-skinned person, and this word passed into European languages as a synonym for African/black person.
I plan on finishing the geometry book in 3 months by doing the unit tests (they’re short) then reviewing the harder
stuff for the rest of the year. It annoyed me that a 500-page geometry book does not include Heron’s Formula for the area of a triangle even though that formula is more useful since it does require knowing the triangle’s altitude. People who write math books are mediocre at math at best.
The students, parents, and admin all seem to love me, so that’s good.
For one, Starliner’s spacesuits aren’t compatible with those used on board SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. That means if the pair were to return on board the SpaceX capsule currently docked to the station, which is one rescue plan under consideration by NASA, they’d be flying without wearing a suit
“So yeah, if we have decompression and loss of control at 150,000 feet and Mach 22, you guys are gonna die a few microseconds before ours will. You better think it over long and hard.”
The principal asked me to write a syllabus. Hope he’s satisfied what I wrote. At this point, if he told me to stand on my head and gargle peanut butter, I’d do it to keep my job.
the process being the punishment
Oh my god Walz’ kid has teh neurodiversity!
I give it 10 days until that comes out as a lie.
Nah. While “candy-ass Nancy-boy who’s doomed to get wedgies every day until he sacks up and quits being a weirdo” doesn’t get you any victimhood points (especially for a white male), “neurodiverse” does. So “neurodiverse” it is.
I also would have accepted “introvert doomed to daily harassment until he puts the fear of god into his tormentors.”
I keep getting texts and hearing elsewhere Kamala is going to unveil her platform tonight!
I dont know what they are talking about. She has done that already one plank at a time. No matter what she says tonight her revealed preference will be “I am a hardcore commie and I will grind you all under my heel until this is no longer a country you recognize. I am just going to do it!”
What is the big mystery?
The platform is “Free shit”, “Profits are bad”, and “White folks suck.”
Hopefully it doesn’t carry the day.
That is part of the strategy, not the goal.
a cousin asked me today why they should vote Trump.
“Ask yourself this: Do you like food?”
Vote for THICC Thursday.
https://archive.is/TFxvR
How did it get to be Thursday already?
I better get ready and make a martini.
Thirsty Thursday, drink up!
VelociPastor is tonight’s movie.
I know you don’t normally recommend “serious” movies, but in honor of Gena Rowlands who died recently I saw that her Oscar-nominated turn in Gloria is on Tubi.
Nice. You never know, I may take a turn for the serious.
I knew the Dems were unhinged, but this is just disturbing as hell:
https://x.com/arjunswritings/status/1826117719210467832
Very 1984, no?
I saw that yeaterday. Crazy that they’d put that out in public ain’t it?
But it’s more Brazil than 1984 only way shittier.
Gay.
W T F ?
Look, the left can’t meme. That is what happens when they try. It’s just a lame-ass attempt to be funny and push their agenda.
Given what I have seen of them so far that is not surprising but yes, very disturbing. It is insane. I dont mean that as hyperbole.
Somewhat hyperbolic: We thought it could never happen here but what we are seeing is that Americans do everything better, including insanity in culture and, dare I say, murderous totalitarianism? What does a MAGA-free America look like and how do we get there?
Keep your powder dry people.
Anyone interested in a Thursday night watch Kamala Kackle Zoom?
No. I plan to collect the last two snow globes in Fallout: New Vegas, sell them to Mr. House, and then kill him. I’ve got implants to buy, and a city to take over.
If you need implants, why not just use the snowglobes directly?
/sorry. (._.)
Simmering a batch of BBQ sauce made from pepper puree.
I hate reducing sauces, always takes forever and send the humidity by the stove skyrocketting.