Solo walks are much less exercise than walks with friends
Greetings! At this time I’ll be working a charity steel match, not because I particularly like the charity, but trying to build social ties in “the community.” Hopeful the current weather predictions for no rain are correct, because while the venue for the shoot has an impressive array of targets, the bay construction is second-rate.
As for the actual astrological content, the week starts off on an unstable note, with Saturn retrograde and the Moon being counterbalanced a bit by the sun in Libra. Potential wackiness on Wednesday with Mercury getting involved and general felicity on Thursday. For Libra in particular, the entire period of Wednesday through Friday is auspicious, so take advantage.
Libra: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Scorpio: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Sagittarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness.
Capricorn: The Chariot – Succor, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble, domination.
Aquarius: Temperance reversed – Things connected with churches, disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.
Pisces: The Fool – Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
Aries: The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
Taurus: Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, speedy intelligence; gold.
Gemini: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude
Cancer: 9 of Swords – Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.
Leo: The Empress- Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Virgo: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
Bonus science video:
Sagittarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny, sickness.
Woohoo!
Capricorn: The Chariot – Succor, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble, domination.
Let’s try the other side of Alabama next Saturday! – Kirby Smart
Libra: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril
and mentally disabled!
“Cancer: 9 of Swords – Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair. ”
That doesn’t sound right, at all.
I want a do over.
WHERE’S YOUR MANAGER?
deception!?! – George Santos
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!
Gold?
Gold.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.
Interesting mixed bag.
Help for WNC folkx
https://x.com/smcroasters/status/1840402393747292548
These guys are also really good
https://www.theyallsquad.org/donate
Are you suggesting that FEMA might not be the most effective or cost-efficient way of helping people in immediate need?
I can assure you, from personal experience, that FEMA is absolutely the most effective way to make a bad situation exponentially worse.
Saw that on twitter and gave some.
Also saw MoMac Brewing in Portsmouth is partnering with Operation Airdrop https://www.operation-airdrop.com/hurricane-helene
These guys from Danville, VA (https://godspitcrew.org/) are also involved.
There were a whole bunch of people dropping off supplies at the Wilmington NC airport to be transported into that area. When I first saw the line of cars at the FBO I said “These are not plane people”, then I saw the piles of water bottles etc..
exactly when was this? I am asking because I am wondering how long after you saw them before they were all arrested or had their supplies seized.
Sunday at 12:00.. This is quite normal. there are a number of private aviation groups that will airlift in emergency supplies,
It wasn’t this group, https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/operation-airdrop-volunteer-pilots-needed/
Yes sometimes the authorities have locked down the “main” airports.. but there are private ones around and they use those.. I remember it happening in the Keys… They closed Key West and Marathon to “prior permission”.. but the 2-3 private airports in the keys were accepting relief flights.
Is it as efficient as bringing in a C-130? No, but they do what they can.
Aquarius: Temperance reversed – Things connected with churches, disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.
Well, I will see my brother and mother on Friday…
Holy Hell, some of these astrological predictions are scary. I can’t wait to see what they are like for the week of the Elections.
Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Doesn’t sound sufficiently shitty.
Indeed. Uncannily accurate. Doubt and ignorance are my middle names.
“length of days the unknown”
Cryptic.
Our regional Publix competitor, Inlges (where I shop) had their only distribution warehouse destroyed. I don’t know how they survive. Maybe they can initiate an alternate supply chain, but that means their food will be more expensive than Publix and Walmart.
ZOMG price gouging!!!
Insurance, new DC, direct to store shipments.
right
the new DC is at least 12 months away unless it’s already in the works
fee warehousing will cover most of the gap
over a third of grocery delivery is already direct (Coke, etc)
they’ve got to dig out as many forklifts as possible (there’s just no inventory or build capacity like pre-covid)
trucking is the easiest part: a fractional hit, but supply is excellent and flexible
Direct to store and vendor managed. I’ve noticed when using the restrooms in back (older stores that don’t have restrooms in the main part of the store) a lot less pallets back there than when I used to hang out with a buddy who threw freight. Had a whole crew overnight doing it.
Dad was a grocer; I drove a route truck for Coke and learned more about this than I wanted to in the first Reagan administration. I think most of this was in place or well on the way even then.
But there’s no standard inventory in back today because there’s no inventory in front: nearly JIT. At this point I expect a given store to have no inventory of at least one SKU I want every trip.
I did the logistics part for Target for years. Big shipment of dailies sellers get broken down and directed X cases to the store, daily. Warehouse space(out in the hinterlands) is cheaper than store space(in town or city) so you keep bulk there. All of the filler (utensils, baking pans, and so on) is broken down from cases and shipped repak (needed but not every day). But, Target doesn’t have direct shipments from suppliers, everything comes via the DC.
That’s reminds me of someone my brother on the supply side mentioned. Market of Choice has all of his stock sent to their Eugene DC, even though the stores are highly idiosyncratic on what they actually will order and place on the shelf. He basically has to sell to a half dozen different stores/dept managers to get and keep his products on the shelf.
Dam – that’s my closest store too. Went by their today and their was a line out the door. Also a line around the building for gas. I decided I can wait on both.
Pisces: The Fool – Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
Dude… GlibsCruise isn’t for three weeks.
You mean you haven’t started training your liver for it yet?
For those of us who miss actual buttons and knobs on consumer products, there appears to be a reversal happening:
Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.
The switch back to physical interfaces is also, in many ways, a vibe shift. With touch screens ubiquitous, what was once viewed as luxurious is becoming tacky. Physical controls, done well, now signal the kind of thoughtfulness and exclusivity once attached to the original iPhone.
Take the knobs on the induction range from Copper. Made of walnut, they let cooks know, without looking, the level of heat they’ve set a burner to—just like physical knobs on a gas range. This is deliberate, says Calisch, who admits that in the past he’s put capacitive-touch sensors on other electronics he’s designed.
Physical controls are effective in part because of our sixth sense, known as proprioception. Distinct from the sense of touch, proprioception describes our innate awareness of where our body parts are. It is the reason we can know the position of all our limbs in three-dimensional space down to the precise position of the tips of our fingers.
Making good physical interfaces isn’t just about the utility of engaging our sense of touch; the big button comeback is also about joy. Think of the satisfying heft of the volume knob on a hi-fi stereo, or the way a proper ergonomic keyboard can make typing seem less of a chore.
NewWife misses her Blackberry’s keyboard.
I’ve argued here and elsewhere against the virtual interface. I continue to recommend Toyota’s HVAC control head design from the mid 1980 as a tour-de-force in elegance.
The virtual menu increases selection and resolution, but otherwise it just wastes money on human factors PhD.
Show NewWife the Unihertz.
I bought one (there are several variations) and am going to get a Mint Mobile $15:mo account so that T-mobile and their $100:mo ( and rising) can pound sand)
I got the full size Titan, but here’s the Titan Pocket.
https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket
I really enjoy turning the fan dial and waiting 5-10 seconds for the computer deciding what fan output I get.
Wow…which car does that? FWIW, at least you had the dial to twist; the interface was mechanical even if the actual adjustment was some slow algorithm.
When you change modes, the delay there is waiting on the fan to slow down so that you can wait on the doors to be moved with the cheapest, weakest stepper motors available: they (I’m not one of those guys anymore, but some of my stuff is probably still being installed on Swan Island) turn the fan down so the door is under as little load as possible to make it easy on the steppers.
Ford truck. There’s a noticeable delay on ignition start and some other times. My favorite is remote start where fan is already running along with engine. Insert key and turn to run, engine runs continuously without interruption but fan returns to low speed until it remembers the position and speeds up. Also fan seems to be variable on cooling where it will increase (with the controls in the same position) I guess to try to keep up with demand.
Also notice the newer refrigerant doesn’t produce air as cold as the refrigerant in my old 20+ year old truck (still had factory charge, untouched).
Someone send a memo to VW.
probably by Behr (now Mahle) or Valeo
I can imagine how it happened: we’ve found this great way to get rid of some structure/content by hosting the HVAC controls on some other computer! Move everything to brain central and live happily ever after!
They just spent twenty million euros moving everything; at least it will be easy to create the new brainless panel.
There’s a much simpler argument about it. Look at computer keyboards. The ones that are considered the worst are the on screen ones, and the ones that are the best are high quality MECHANICAL keyboards. They also have this amazing ability where you can repair them by swapping out a broken switch instead of the membrane keyboards that just need to be replaced if there’s an issue.
What I’m typing on right now.
Another voice of reason
After endorsing Kamala Harris on X Sunday, former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona praised the vice president’s grasp of foreign policy and her proposal for tougher border restrictions on ABC News’ “This Week.”
With 37 days until Election Day, Flake said he made his endorsement now since he couldn’t participate in political activities in his role as ambassador to Turkey, which he stepped down from on Sept. 1.
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In his endorsement, Flake wrote that he believes Harris will unite the country and “respect the will of voters.” He also discussed his endorsement in an interview with the Arizona Republic.
The former congressman and senator joins other prominent Republicans who have endorsed Harris, including former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
Didn’t he used to be some sort of libertarian hero?
Payback for his ambassadorship.
And if he ever wants a political job again.
It’s obvious that Kamala is the deep state/uniparty candidate. RepE wants trump to be defeated along with a potential for populist challenge so they can go back to business as usual.
We seldom disagree….but
I think this is business as usual, just across party line. Loyal Republicans have the latest Trump nomination itself to blame if they don’t like how unloyal Republicans have reacted.
I’m open to the possibility that a possible Flake-Harris collusion contrasts with a pure-hearted DJT45 administration that achieved the least political slate of ambassadors of all time, but I doubt anyone will produce such data. I strongly suspect that a disinterested (I trust any Glib with this research) study will show one of two things:
a) Trump let Republican operatives choose most of his ambassadors, and therefore they of as a political stripe as any other slate ever, or
b) Trump did it directly in his own stupid, ham-fisted way, and they are of as transparent a grifter-hood as any other slate ever.
But I’m willing to be wrong on this.
Ambassadorships are one of the last patronage positions left. The lesser posts get career civil servants.
unite the country and “respect the will of voters.”
Sure, just like Biden did, amirite?
Well if Jeff Flake and the Cheney’s have endorsed her, she must be something special.
She is and those endorsements say volumes about just how special.
Speaking of RTO…
https://youtu.be/8NFSAyk0B_4
They should make him jog back to MA.
The death penalty seems a little extreme for what he did.
Spud mightily approves of Talisker 18.
Well this is new. To me at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMEegb-IrRQ
Uhhhh….was meant to be a pretty link.
Understanding Porsche’s New Six Stroke Engine Patent
Six stroke? Whycome Porsche hates Gaia?
That six stroke link popped up this morning. I haven’t watched it yet. I’ll need to psych myself up.
I should look and see if D4A did a video on the Nissan monkey motion motor.
*variable compression ratio nightmare
Good gravy. *headdesk*
The Chiefs’ perennial sloppiness has been noted and is being used against them.
Out of line
“I think all of that is outrageous and unacceptable and I’ve already called him out when he had the one interview where he was questioning her racial identity and now he’s questioning her mental competence and I think that’s insulting not only to the vice president, but to people that actually do have mental disabilities,” Hogan said. “I’ve said for years that Trump’s divisive rhetoric is something that we could do without. I think he’s his own worst enemy.”
Calling her a retard is an insult to honest hardworking retards everywhere.
“Divisive rhetoric has no place in a contested election!”
The implication, of course, is that elections shouldn’t be contested. In public, at least. Sort this out in the salons and cocktail parties of the Imperial Capitol, ladies and gentlemen. Don’t be getting the grubby plebes involved.
“Hold my beer while I pander to voters in a deep blue state”
No one should ever call one quarter of the country Deplorable. No one should say “I’ll keep those niggers voting for us for 200 years”, no one should say “pink down to her panties”, and so on.
No one should say things I don’t like about the people I do like.