The Astros won the division! The Padres locked up a playoff spot. The Royals stopped the bleeding. And the D-backs picked a terrible time to slump. Could be shaping up for a wild final weekend. I got nothing else so on to…the links!
Interesting headline. Seeing as the “exchanges” up until last week were almost exclusively Hezbollah lobbing bombs into Israel and Israel intercepting them.
I’m sure this report will be criticized as an “assault on the fine men and women of law enforcement.” Well, if they did that poorly, then they deserve the criticism. Me? I think they did their job exactly as they were supposed to do it. It’s just that the contract laborer failed in his role.
People who don’t take mass transit are missing out on all kinds of adventures. This guy was not gonna be outdone by those subway stabbers, was he?
I wish this became more common. In fact, I think it should be encouraged.
“He’s just like us! An everyman.” -retarded people
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. This should surprise nobody at all.
There’s a sucker born every minute. Newsflash: if it sounds too good to be true, it always is.
This is comical. I have nothing pithy to add.
We’re gonna rock today. Well, I am anyway. You should join me. Or not. That’s your choice. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
It was just pranksies, lighten up. Indiscriminately firing missiles into civilian centers is just something you have to live with as the cost of civilization. Except for other times when it’s genocide against innocent women and children. But that’s mostly when the missiles originate from Russia or the j00-occupied state of Palestine…
And didn’t suicide bomb the apartment? He shirks responsibility every damn time.
Smart marketing from the restaurant that tried to riff off In-N-Out. Free press is always welcome.
It’s a dangerous game to play. In-n-out could end up owning the place if they skirt too close to the line
*Yandy giggles and makes more copyright-skirting costumes.
https://www.yandy.com/products/beetle-bombshell-costume
NSFW, in case anyone is unfamiliar with Yandy.
Sounds like he was on speed or something.
Bullocks!
I know, keanu even believe it?
What kind of cretinous retard pens the phrase “nearly half a dozen?” Jesus Christ, half a dozen is 6. This isn’t your 4th grade book report where you have to pad out the word count. I fit was 5, say 5. If it was 4, say 4…
Now I’m hearing Pat as David Mitchell (one of his recurring type of quips on Would I Lie To You? is responses of that type: “It was between 11 and 13 years ago…” “So, 12 then.”)
Precision is a tool of the patriarchy!
From today’s WSJ.
Probably outsourced to India…
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/senate-report-details-security-failings-that-almost-got-trump-killed-4a81a6e2?st=kZnLuw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Hello, sir. I understand you are trying to secure a campaign rally. Please allow me 3 to 5 minutes to do the needful to research your issue.
Have you tried turning the rally off and back on again?
It might have been 7 or 8, which are also nearly 6. Probably too lazy to read and count, so guesstimate.
It’s a matter of using either terms or numbers, whichever makes your argument sound better. Saying a 300% increase in crime is a lot scarier than there was 1 incident last year, and 4 this year. Saying there are tens of thousands of missing records sounds better than saying less than 0.05% of inbound calls had info missing.
Yup. I wish more people realized this, but as Barbie has said, “math is hard!”
Yeah, a 4th-grade book report is far beyond the intellectual capacity of most fed staffers…
If only Kramer had been on the scene
– “Newsflash: if it sounds too good to be true, it always is.”
I was watching Pine Hollow Diagnostics on YouTube the other day. He was working on an old truck that just wouldn’t run right under load. Replacement engine with about 100k miles on. They had already installed 5 fuel pumps, sensors, plugs & wires, injectors etc. Turns out the guy bought “new” AC Delco injectors on eBay for about 1/4 the price at the dealer. They were Chinese junk.
Fraud needs to be easier to prosecute.
There’s a good chance the ones at the dealer were Chinese junk as well.
But they weren’t cheap junk.
Yeah – they were expensive junk.
So which retailers give you the best chance of getting real parts?
He said buy from the dealership or a trusted online seller. He actually ended up buying genuine AC Delco injectors through Rockauto. I have used Rockauto as well, and have been very happy.
Most importantly, avoid eBay and Amazon.
Amazon can work – check who the sub-supplier/manufacturer is.
“中國南方鍋金屬公司.”
Sounds like the place for high quality.
Yeah… these days I tend to feel “Such and such is suddenly under government investigation and oopsie… just killed themselves. Nothing to see here!” is altogether too common.
Since I don’t trust these corrupt assholes not to just be trumping up charges / leaning on their political enemies — the recurring lack of due process when these things just happen to go wrong (like oh… getting permission to go in guns blazing serving a warrant to find some documents?) is starting to reek to me.
Maybe people when faced with prison have always gone suicide-by-cop…. changes in reporting, etc… but given the breaking of the public trust and overt corruption, I’m not so sure.
They don’t make ’em like Budd Dwyer anymore.
There is something you can watch once and never again yikes.
Well they did do him a solid and showed up at a reasonable hour.
No 5am SWAT raid for His Honor.
Which is why we promoted the guy who was in charge of ensuring protection details go off without a hitch.
Wow. I’m sure this will change 10s of votes for Harris.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/joe-manchin-wont-endorse-kamala-harris-president-filibuster-abortion-rights-a7e3b26f?st=nPrUrj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
If the GOP wins the Senate, expect Kamala to say that the filibuster is an essential check on government overreach.
100%
Same with censorship. Were the Republicans in any position to create their own “disinformation” system, you’d suddenly see the left become staunch supporters of the first amendment. Do they really think nobody notices how transparent they are?
Along those lines, I’d like to get “I stand with Dick Cheney” signs to put into yards with Kamala signs.
I’m still shaking my head at that. Cheney was portrayed as Darth Vader and a lot of lefties wanted him tried as a war criminal. Now their party is telling them what a swell guy he is! How people still support that party is beyond me.
a promised 3 per cent return per day
How does this not set off more alarms than the Great Fire of 1871?
Dude was dragged through a divorce so my guess any light, real or imagined, is inviting.
Yeah… for those who have not been there, it takes at least 2 years to become fully human again.
His divorce was apparently 5 years before this.
Ah then just an idiot.
That’s the problem with most frauds – the victims have some culpability, at least for gullibility.
The vast majority of cons will not work on an honest man. Part of the allure for the mark is thinking they’re the one getting something over on the con man.
Because people are bad at math, finance, and expected rate of returns?
I mean who wouldn’t expect 80%+ return per month (assuming they were just referring to business days, and not calendar days.)
Because people are bad at math, finance, and expected rate of returns?
This may be a good example of that… I’m in the process of refi’ing my mortgage, and another mortgage company (no clue where they got my info from) called me and offered a 3.9% rate “assuming I get approval from my higher ups”. She then asked for my social security number. Ummm no. Even with points, that’s well under market, and you called me. I’m not giving you my SS.
Ya they should have given you something like 5% with a possible 4.5% with points or something. Gotta make the carrot achievable
If that’s compounding, it’s well over 100% return per month.
5% with a possible 4.5% with points or something
Yup. That’s almost exactly what I was offered from the lender I contacted. 5% for no points. 4.625% with points.
Long article in the WSJ where it’s pointed out that logistics is a key component to warfare. Who knew?
U.S. Tackles a Military Vulnerability in the Pacific: Supply Lines
https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-tackles-a-military-vulnerability-in-the-pacific-supply-lines-26a1efd5?st=MSgzk7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Wait til they have to report on those logistics when everything is electrified
Govt-deep-thinker: Hey, how about we outsource more production to China – that way all of the supply lines actually get SHORTER!!!
Matt Bracken has been talking about for some time. The Navy is very thin on refueling and supply ships.
Yeah about that refueling…
We’ve almost reached parity in the Navy – every Admiral to have his own ship!
Every infantry, armored, and cavalry battalion in the Army could have a General commanding it and serving as XO with a few Generals to spare.
“Alex Soros, the 38-year-old son of the global philanthropist, was handed the reins of his father’s $25 billion empire in 2023 – and pledged to continue bankrolling left-wing causes.
Walz, who may be the least wealthy person ever to run for vice president, has now spent time with Soros and his wife, ex-Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, twice in the last month.”
Would the child of such a union be the anti-Christ?
I notice Mr Least Wealthy is now wearing multi thousand dollar suits
Hand-me-downs, they’re Hillary’s old pant suits. Turns out herself along with her exoskeleton was about the same size as Tim’s frame. Reduce, reuse recycle…
And they help Tim butch up a little.
What have you done to its eyes?
https://youtu.be/Kv3p8kIyqLI?si=fW3C2IepTi3oPhmz
Walz is not wealthy in the same way the Pope is not wealthy. It’s easy to be satisfied with few possessions when you live opulently on the largesse of others.
That tongue-bathing in that article almost made me ill.
Would the child of such a union be the anti-Christ?
SugarFree’s documentaries have assured me that Huma’s womb was a rocky place where Alex’s seed could find no purchase.
Hillary’s prehensile pseudo-penis had scooped it clean.
“Guerline Jozef of Haitian Bridge Alliance filed the suit. An Ohio statue allows private ‘having knowledge of the facts who seeks to cause an arrest or prosecution’ to file suit charging an offense with a clerk of the court.
The suit alleges that by spreading false claims, the candidates led to harassment of members of the community including a contingent of Haitians who have moved to Springfield to take factory jobs.
‘Their persistence and relentlessness, even in the face of the governor and the mayor saying this is false, that shows intent,” said attorney Subodh Chandra of the Cleveland-based Chandra Law Firm.
‘It’s knowing, willful flouting of criminal law,’ she added, the AP reported. She said the group filed as private citizens due to inaction by local prosecutors.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13887631/Haitian-charity-CRIMINAL-Donald-Trump-J-D-Vance-immigration-pets.html
No other politician has ever made a controversial claim against a group of people.
a contingent of Haitians who have moved to Springfield to take factory jobs
The new indentured servants?
That’s H1-B workers.
So they picked the place on the map? Moved there willingly and knowingly?
So towns in the rust belt doesn’t have people who want to work in a factory? Instead, they hire illiterate, uneducated, French speaking Haitians? Sure. I don’t think I want whatever they make.
Investigation into a similar town in PA. We’ll see if it amounts to anything.
https://x.com/America_2100/status/1838292705836691644
Drake:
At least up here in the rust belt are a bunch of people who think that the auto plants will open back up and they’ll get their high paying jobs back. We call those people morons.
Walter Kirn had an interesting take on this. The factories want to hire migrants because they are getting benefits from the government, and so they can afford to work for less. The Fed Gov is subsidizing cheap labor that undercuts citizens.
The Other Kevin:
That’s been a long standing left wing attack point on Walmart and the like. That they could pay low wages, and they would help their employees sign up for government benefits specifically so they could get by on the low pay that Walmart gave them.
Yup. And the Americans they put of work can just go on bennies.
Win-win.
@Neph: Once again the Dems do a 180 on an issue they’ve pushed for years. The list is getting really really long. It’s abundantly clear that they have no principles and all they care about is power. And many of their voters are perfectly fine with that.
It is a glorious plan. Bring in refugees and provide them SNAP/TANF which then makes employers eligible to claim the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), a federal tax credit available to employers for hiring and employing individuals from certain targeted groups who have faced significant barriers to employment.
So ya, FedGov straight up creating this and businesses taking extreme advantage of it.
“Refugees” needs to be put in sneer quotes.
Case dismissed with prejudice.
Next.
I mean, Alex Jones owes eleventy trillion dollars to a couple dozen people for expressing his opinion that they play acted a school shooting.
That judge should have been drawn and quartered for miscarriage of justice.
Noticing that InfoWars is being liquidated while Soros is fast-tracked to buy hundreds of radio stations. Just a coincidence.
No, let it go to discovery, which will mean subpoenas and depositions of the NGOs and companies that recruited them and brought them there.
Except that would have to lead to the top where Joe Biden signed an order deliberately legalizing them.
Which isn’t going to happen.
OwnBestEnemy:
UK rag disses US ATC, perhaps legitimately?
Completely legit. Look at the IG report and the length of time to get new/replacement systems from concept to baseline. I still have a DOS system that requires some 1980s proprietary image conversion software (into a format not known to anyone or any other program) that we cannot source so thus, cannot be updated.
It is a complete shitshow.
I’m shocked.
I expected the newest component to be 1960s vintage.
I feel your pain.
Err, GAO report that is. They omit the systems but I could probably rattle off the whole list of what is chronically underperforming, under-supported and underfunded.
@UnCiv. We do have some 60s components/systems which aren’t the ones that are underperforming, just under-supported due to knowledge of component level maintenance as we move further away from actual technician work.
When I worked as a co-op in a plant in the 1990s, the instrument techs there were bemoaning the fact that they were moving away from systems where they could replace a failed resistor or capacitor on a board in the control system, and instead were reduced to just swapping failed boards out with new ones. They felt their skills were being obsoleted, which they were, sadly.
@db Same thing happening here. Problem is we aren’t upgrading those systems to be the circuit cards as the lowest replaceable unit and the knowledge base is all but retired to actually do the maintenance. Add in that we dropped over $100 million during 2020-21 for ‘COVID cleaning’ I cannot even buy the specialized test equipment and components anyway to repair them.
Then because we need to prioritize our bloated budget, the top 30 airports get all the money while smaller/less busy airports get by with whatever we can scrounge up. The whole thing is just a failure of management and government bloat.
Sounds like the mainframe issues of yore.
When the EMP knocks out all those fancy new systems, the ATC’s Enigma machine will still be running.
“Who’s got the last laugh now!”
ATC modernization was a case study, in failure, when I was a grad student in the late 80s.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
FedGov “We want ideas! Send them in”
Me: I have a complete nerd that works for me and can develop a replacement that only requires 4 raspberry pis and some small touch screens for about $500 bucks and at about 500 towers, comes out to $250,000
FedGov “Nah, we are going with Raytheon and a $2 MM contract for that”
Let me guess: “Home-grown systems are always more expensive and difficult to maintain relative to third-party solutions that require you to sign decades-long service contracts for, and that trap you into using them long past their reasonable life.”
Pretty much. Our Technical Center out in Jersey was developing in-house, a ‘stripless environment’ for towers. Flight strips would be electronic. The one program that is severely over budget and way over on deliverables is a Leidos contract that will do the same thing. The in-house one was operational and just needed to be implemented.
Instead, we spent millions developing that one only to trash it for the contract. The amount of fraud, waste and abuse is astounding.
About six years ago, we were doing some due diligence about a company that had a huge contract with the VA.
The system was butt stupid and the money was pretty good. As we dug in why they were going to go out of business we realized that they were 100% hamstrung by FedGov technical requirements that mandated they use junk.
For example, their servers had to be running Sun Solaris because linux hadn’t been certified as “secure” by the Feds at that time. So great, you get to pay tons of extra money for really old shit.
That was close to where I grew up. It was a piece of epic pork. I can’t tell you how many families I knew that had people that worked there. I remember a tour I took as a kid, but can’t remember if it was with school or family member who worked there.
Pretty much in the 1980s the tech there was just about to be finished, but still never rolled out.
Hey we are finally moving to RHEL! Sun and Cent are still very prevalent in our systems though.
This is why I don’t worry too much about AI. The FedGov will issue some sort of regulations, which will bring all development to a screeching halt for decades.
I’m more worried that they’ll declare war on AI the way they’ve declared war on Drugs.
Current AI is mostly large language models, which I believe are well adapted to information control.
That’s why I worry about AI, and why I am confident that government regulations about AI will be to weaponize it as a tool of the regime.
Will be?
They’ve already weaponized it. AI is everywhere right now.
“White House ‘supplements czar’ reveals the three dietary products you should take to stay healthy
Despite his role as director of the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health, Dr Stefan Pasiakos does not recommend people use supplements every day.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13886943/joe-biden-supplements-stay-healthy.html
What is it that you do here?
Dioxin, Asbestos, and Sugar.
director of the Office of Dietary Supplements
Nothing left to cut.
The best is that when a new director is appointed to this vital position, they will order all new office furniture, carpet and drapes for their office.
Can’t have an important person not get new stuff. The serfs are happy to pay for it.
“Your procurement has been declined, and your agency budget has been reduced by $100,000 for attempted wastage of funds.”
His advice isn’t horrible. The pea protein thing is definitely questionable – pea protein is about as bio-available as aquarium gravel. But most people would benefit from more protein, vitamins, and fiber in their diet, and while it’s always better to get that stuff from real food, supplements can be a legitimate alternative.
Funny how I learned all this without even being aware of the existence of an Office of Dietary Supplements at the NIH…
Agreed. Prioritize protein (including red meat), only eat whole foods, avoid processed oils, get plenty of sun (without sunscreen). The body will take care of the rest
Whycome you tryna kill the redheads??
I’m not. You don’t need to be out there for hours but you absolutely need sun on your skin. 15 minutes of full nudity and all will be well 😉
Because he’s evil.
get plenty of sun (without sunscreen)
Fuck you and your non-ginger ass. I’m using sunscreen.
I spent a childhood of summers walking around looking like a kid leper because I was constantly peeling from yesterday’s sunburn. Not only did we not use sunscreen back then, we added oil to get a deeper tan.
Because of sunscreen, I don’t burn up like a cinder anymore. By the end of summer, I can actually use only a dab or two of sunscreen.
Why would you want a tan?
GT: You nailed it. Tundra is flaunting his non-ginger privilege.
Tundra: If I bared my big pale ass, the massive amount of reflected sun would knock out the optics on the Hubble telescope.
In addition to having pale skin you apparently can’t read. Use all the sunscreen you want, but some sun exposure every day is the only way your body can make all the different flavors of vitamin D. Supplementing D3 isn’t enough.
Also, mineral based sunscreens only. That other shit is toxic.
If it’s not toxic, it doesn’t work.
“Sunshine on my butthole makes me happy”
https://preview.redd.it/dont-hate-it-before-trying-it-thats-all-im-saying-v0-ddjv0njtbyga1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=fef570b23c379eaeca2aee7982f4e0006057cc54
That would definitely get me a letter from the HOA.
What’s his take on seed oils?
Fairplay, a San Diego sports bar, received a cease and desist letter from In-N-Out regarding some of the restaurant’s key menu items, including a “double double” and “animal fries.”
I was surprised at how tame the copycat was.
But In-N-Out did trademark the stupid way they name their menu items, thus is legally obligated to make an attempt to defend the trademark when someone else uses it. A “Cease and Desist” letter is probably the tamest response possible under trademark law.
My take. They named them that on purpose in hopes they’d get a cease and desist and make it to the news so it drives traffic to their bar. Nice roll of the dice and probably has netted an increase in sales/patrons.
I’d also wager than In-N-Out didn’t really care.
I wasn’t talking about the In-n-Out response being tame.
WTH?
Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
‘Kingmaker’ Review: Pamela Harriman’s Ambition and Allure
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/kingmaker-review-pamela-harrimans-ambition-and-allure-781a6c2d?st=q2nyxi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, who was the U.S. ambassador to France from 1993 until her death in 1997, had many names and was called many things. Among them: “Spam,” “that red-headed tart,” “the greatest courtesan,” “gold digger” and “the widow of opportunity.”
Someone, I forget who, called “the last of the grandes horizontales”.
Called HER the last of the Grandes Horizontales.
A 30% raise is slave labor
Boeing
on Monday sweetened its contract offer and said it was its “best and final” proposal for its more than 30,000 machinists as their strike, which has halted most of the aerospace giant’s aircraft production, entered its second week.
The labor union criticized the offer, saying Boeing didn’t negotiate it, and called it an attempt at bypassing the union.
Boeing’s new offer would boost general wages by 30% over four years, up from a previously proposed 25%. It also doubled the ratification bonus to $6,000, reinstated an annual machinist bonus and raised the company’s 401(k) match.
A thirty percent raise over four years? What a pittance!
NPR was yammering about this on the way to work this morning with a union rep saying how Boeing is trying to make it look like the workers are greedy after refusing their first 25% raise offer by a vote of 90% to reject. They’re totally not greedy, everyone! They just want to be paid fairly, he said.
Fuck. I’m lucky to even see a 2% raise in a year.
With a burst of real inflation of up to 25%, expect to see more of these incidents going forward.
Which should result in a second round of inflation as an echo to the first round, driven by labor costs.
Yup. Already a couple around here this year.
I’ve always enjoyed how some guy who installs seat assemblies in an aircraft is a “machinist”.
Also they want that defined benefit pension back “toot sweet”!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, you can’t just give him Millwright pay!
My best contract in decades has 9.27% over three years.
30% over three years is slightly over 9.1% per year
I can’t remember the last time my factory robots asked for a 30 percent raise. Boeing will be looking to hire more robots even before the ink is dry on any new Union contract. And robots may not forget to put nuts and bolts on the window hatches either.
It wouldn’t surprise me if “You can’t ever replace us with robots” is a line item the union is demanding.
Somebody has to be there to supervise each robot’s work.
Just set up a master-slave system and a robot can supervise the other robots.
*clutches chest, faints*
30% over 3 years. That’s pocket change.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/09/east-coast-dockworkers-could-strike-beginning-next-week/
The ILA needs to be broken up, and its leadership hanged, drawn, and quartered.
When I was a kid in Spokane, the white trash blue collar wet dream was to get on as a union guy at Kaiser aluminum. The pay was about double what anybody in the trades was making, plus full benefits. So naturally, the union wanted more. They ended up striking for something like 3 years, IIRC. When the plant finally opened back up it was employing less than half as many people, at about the wage they were demanding 3 years prior…
I think ours is 1.6% per year plus any GS pay scale increase. The 1.6% was a terrible idea as it took us from having to perform well to earn an additional raise to just show up to work.
Exactly
having to perform well
You’re just trying to make the rest of us look bad.
“Graves “never recovered” and her emotional wounds were reopened on Nov. 27, 2023, when she discovered her attackers made a video that they showed “to multiple men, seeking to publicly degrade and humiliate both [Graves] and her boyfriend,” the court documents claim…..
In her suit, Graves is asking for a judge to issue an injunction, ordering the video to be destroyed and permanently barring anyone from distributing it again. She is also seeking unspecified damages.”
She’s asking for the evidence to be destroyed?
“Plaintiff lawyer Gloria Allred”
Oh, never mind.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-sued-by-woman-claiming-he-raped-her-recorded-sexual-abuse/
I’m still puzzled about Diddy’s arrest. “Why now?’ is what gnaws at me. My wife says this is just incidental timing because the lawsuit against him by his ex(?) – the one he beat up in the hotel that’s on camera.
Anyway, what a complete piece of human excrement! Interesting how quiet Hollyweird has been about it (versus Weinstein, for example).
We should have a betting pool like march Madness with a list of 65 names you can pick from to make out a bracket for those who will eventually be outed.
Anyone got Big Mike in their Final Four? 😀
+ 1 Roman Polanski
The FBI thought all that great blackmail material might escape into the wild so they grabbed it for themselves.
Back to the roots of the FBI.
Probably to stop a Trump endorsement. They’re already linking Diddy to Trump in other articles, just like with Epstein.
I don’t think a Trump endorsement would have moved the needle.
Agreed. Who does Diddy really appeal to anymore?
RJ, are you saying that his celebrity endorsement is worth Diddy squat?
Show people have always been that way.
Ballet theaters were traditionally high class cat houses…the dancing was just the warm-up. Really all theaters were. Traveling gypsy shows were reviled because they hosted the local men after the official shows were over…on and on.
Dig up the lore from Vaudeville days…exact same thing as now. Circuses…dont even get me started on them.
They are no different now other than the very thin veneer of respectability that they somehow conjured up out of thin air. They are professional pretenders, aren’t they.
They will Epstein this list faster than they did Epstein’s list.
At most, we get 3-4 people of moderate fame, probably mostly washed up entertainers sacrificed as fodder.
I said it a while ago, Diddy is gonna make Epstein look like a choir boy in comparison. He is an evil, evil man. Hollywood is being quiet about it as he has tapes of lots of them doing some serious compromising shit. Very likely his ass gets suicided before trial.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Lol. Perfect
—“I got nothing else so on to” the Presidents Cup
Suthen, want to make a couple million? Come teach Minnesodans how to collect tree seeds.
That is $20M just sitting there for a tree person.
This is the sweetener that will make Suthen the odds on favorite to land those big contracts:
Coming from the south, you could be Suthen Climateseed, bringing those
invasive speciesassisted migration species with you.Red Oak, huh?
/looks at acorns all over the yard
They can have as many acorns as they can carry, but they’ll have to fight the chipmunks and squirrels for them.
Climate change, my ass. Oaks make acorns heavily one year….then a few to zero for a number of years, the number depending on the species, before they bear again.
The gene that produces low-tannin acorns is recessive. Only about 1 in 20K trees have it. With red oaks I know of one within ten miles that makes them and every year, despite my best efforts, the blackbirds get them. I dont mean most of them…I mean the flock sweeps in (they know where the tree is and go straight to it) and within 15 minutes every single acorn is gone.
Maybe they should stop cutting them down and not plant mono-culture anymore. They wouldn’t be short of trees.
Suthenboy:
The oaks in my yard had the mast year last year. You couldn’t walk on the yard without risking a twisted ankle from stepping on acorns. This year there’s still a lot, but less than last year. The days (and nights) have been filled with the thumps, tings, and plonks from acorns falling onto the house, gutters, patio furniture, siding, and cement.
Neph:
Mrs. Holiness makes dotorimuk (도토리묵) every fall from acorns she gathers. (To me it tastes like grubby non-flavored gelatin).
One year she was at a local community college picking up acorns and a herd of about six whitetail deer were there too and they fought over the acorns. (Of course Mrs. Holiness won, she’s super stubborn and has the Pope on her side). But the deer came to within 10 feet of her and were huffing and stamping their feet.
Some plant species depend on critters eating their seed to germinate. Other pecies behave differently but most alter their seed production by year. They try to make their seed production out of sync with the population variations of the critters that eat those seeds. The idea is that in years where the critter population is low the tree produces more seed than they can eat, when the critter population is high the trees starve them down to a lower population. For some species, like red oak, that means long periods between high seed production.
What about you? Shell out a few thousand on one of these: https://www.arcusin.com/en-usa/nut-olive-shakers/
a tractor and a bunch of cheap tarps. 6 people with you driving the tractor could gather enough seed in one season to replant the entire state of MN.
Want a nursery? That is a different story. 20M would get a decent nursery started.
After a few embarrassing incidents Mrs. Holiness has forbidden me from using the vacuum cleaner. No way she is going to allow me to buy an industrial grade nut shaker.
*Winston’s Mom has entered the chat*
I blame women’s clothing manufacturers.
Big Pharma to the rescue of Big Women.
Poor Tres…
Probably there’s no problem for Q.
the epidemic of the chronic disease linked to a host of health problem
I’ve been assured that is just fat-shaming and it’s perfectly healthy to be be 100+ lbs over-weight.
Obesity isn’t the problem, the problem is people fat shaming and spreading disinformation about how obesity is unhealthy. Once our censorship system is up and running the problem will go away.
I guarantee you in a few years we’ll be seeing ambulance-chaser ads about Wegovy, etc.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the pop up compounding pharmacies that sprung up and started selling all of the weight loss drugs.
1. Turn signal? Nope!
2. Change lanes blindly? Yup!
3. OMG it’s coming right at us!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1fp3rv4/oc_they_told_the_cop_that_they_had_to_swerve_to/
Multiple idiots missing the big obvious turn signs over the lanes.
I will wager $100 the driver had a phone in their hand.
Who the fuck still does that? Cars have had bluetooth connectivity, voice activation, apple carplay/googleplay for a fucking decade at this point.
Nearly everyone in N. Kentucky does it.
Who the fuck still does that? Cars have had bluetooth connectivity, voice activation, apple carplay/googleplay for a fucking decade at this point.
Have you been on this website when the subject of car tech comes up?
Everybody in metro NYC.
Bluetooth never worked in my car, and those other features were not available.
Plus I do not talk to computers.
You don’t even swear at them?
I try not to swear verbally.
Cars have had bluetooth connectivity, voice activation, apple carplay/googleplay for a fucking decade at this point.
In every car I’ve had, that technology has been sketchy at best. I’d trust one of those cigarette lighter FM converter things over carplay/android auto any day of the week.
My van has an issue where if you get too close to certain cell towers, the interference kills the Bluetooth in a way that fucks up the software. You have to reset the entertainment system and reconnect. It’s predictable exactly where it happens, down to the stripe on the road.
It’s texting that’s the biggest problem. Which at the very best puts a text on a screen on your dash, taking your eyes from the road, and even if you can dictate a reply, doing that is a massive distraction.
Mine gets read to me in both vehicles.
*shrug*
Mine might do that. I know it puts it up on the screen. I really don’t know, because I don’t do anything at all with texting while I’m driving. Period. Full stop.
Walz probably had to lay down on Soros’ gilded fainting couch. After all, he was actually fact checked by CNN who called him a liar.
Before anyone gets too carried away, be assured that CNN fact checked Walz’s crazy points, but still kept pretending that Trump either wrote Project 2025 or at least loves every single bit of it.
Meanwhile at Hooli…
Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration
Amid debate on whether tech companies are overspending on AI, Google’s pricey reunion with Noam Shazeer draws attention
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/noam-shazeer-google-ai-deal-d3605697?st=fnrFVB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What the monkey choses to do with the tech… Straight out of Silicon Valley.
I did not know that was Mike Judge.
But I don’t pay for HBO so that’s no surprise.
Like a lot of Judge’s stuff, that show is looking ever more accurate as time goes by.
https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/1ebbd868-c045-4038-ae6b-1b5aa90a1d8c
(Slightly NSFW audio)
I’m cautiously optimistic about the reboot/continuation coming out next year.
“… passed away at 64…”
*pours one out for Rusty Shackleford*
Who is doing the reboot?
Never mind. I should read first.
Hulu… does that mean I have to pay extra?
I never know with this shit.
Always assume you have to pay extra.
rhywun:
It’s Hulu themselves, so if you have a Hulu subscription, you should be able to watch the reboot when it comes out. They also have the full original run of King of the Hill.
I’d highly recommend picking up Silicon Valley if you haven’t seen it. Whole series is available on DVD/Bluray.
Brilliant! No other tech company ever considered doing something like this.
CrowdStrike apologizes for global IT outage in congressional testimony
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/24/crowdstrike-outage-microsoft-apology
Legit LOL!
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/lapd-cannabis-mri-raid-19789448.php
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that SFGate has a Cannabis Editor.
Does the Springfield Journal have a Cannibal Editor?
OFFS.
It’s “amazing” how respectable dope has become since government figured out how to profit off it.
Pretty sure the local rag up here has a cannabis editor as well. They’ve got columns running weekly on “best bets for the Browns/Buckeyes”.
Don’t know, but I’m a little concerned about their recent “reduction in staff.” 😳
He probably did tens of thousands of dollars of damage to the machine. Fortunately cops aren’t held liable for any indiscriminate damage they cause.
Our chemistry faculty would have dissolved him in a vat of acid.
They secured the facility and released the one staffer and found nothing. So they decided to snoop around and pay no attention to any of the signs.
I was hoping that one of them would have been attached by all of the tacticool gear and kissed the machine first.
Same thought – that was likely thousands in damage of which they will have no liability for causing.
Why was the machine on?
Tundra – I’m sure here other folk can give a better answer, but the magnetic portion is usually always on.
The way field is generated makes turning it off and on impactable to do in between patients.
The magnet is always on. At the hospital, we had somebody nudge a metal cart a little too far into the room (over the yellow stripe on the floor) when there was nobody in there, and it flew into the machine. And I mean, it hit hard. I don’t recall what the repair cost, but it was a lot.
Thanks, guys. That makes sense.
One more question: are people with metal parts in them precluded from getting MRIs?
My wife has had an MRI with artificial knees. I presume that titanium and which ever other fancy metals are involved are not magnetic. But all piercings are forbidden.
Why was the machine on?
Pretty sure it is in the nature of the MRI machine that the magnet is always on.
They did a pot raid on an imaging center. Gosh what could that “higher-than-usual energy use” have been for? Oh, and the ever-convenient “distinct odor” of cannabis plants”.
They were indoors. Why did he have a rifle in the first place? Wanted to be good and sure he shot through every wall? Didn’t think he could he could hit a target at 3 yards with his handgun?
Oh, and the rifle wasn’t secured with its strap. Good training there, LAPD. In this case, it probably saved him from injury, although it would have absolutely been a Darwin Award type injury.
Yeah, the damage on that MRI is likely to be in the six figures.
“Just a training issue.”
🙄
No perjury charges for whoever swore out that warrant?
The magic incantation “training and experience” covers everything.
Ellen DeGeneres’ Unfunny Netflix Special Leaves So Much Unsaid
Soon, she’s lamenting that men are allowed to be mean bosses, but women aren’t. (A world where bosses of all genders get to act like dictators is probably not what Simone de Beauvoir had in mind.) “We have all these unwritten rules, based on gender, of acceptable behavior,” she says. Gender-atypical behavior makes people uncomfortable, and “when people get uncomfortable, there are consequences.” For Your Approval climaxes with DeGeneres reflecting that she’s “happy not being a boss or a brand or a billboard—just a multifaceted person,” then proclaiming “I’m a strong woman” to thunderous applause. By the end of the sermon—this part of the special is not even trying to be comedy—I was powerless to stop myself from mentally inserting Katy Perry’s “Roar” as a soundtrack.
At least no dancing.
Tell me you’ve never held a real job without telling me you’ve never held a real job.
“Soon, she’s lamenting that men are allowed to be mean bosses, but women aren’t.”
*guffaws, slaps knee*
No links for Milei at the UN. Boy spitting fire again.
Link with English voiceover: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1bgfuqsqs
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bastiat-in-turtle-bay-mr-milei-goes-to-the-u-n/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=fourth
I never thought I’d see a world leader like this. That guy’s a walking, talking white pill.
Keeping us safe from innovation
Oklo, however, still needs approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build and operate the plant after its first application was rejected in 2022. The CEO acknowledged there’s a risk the 2027 start date gets pushed out depending on how long the NRC review takes.
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Electric demand is projected to surge. The tech sector has been feverishly building data centers to handle the power-intensive computations needed for artificial intelligence, while domestic manufacturing is expanding and the economy becomes increasingly electrified.
The company’s microreactors, called Aurora, promise smaller and simpler designs that will range in size from 15 megawatts to as much as 100 megawatts or more. The average nuclear reactor in the current U.S. fleet is around 1,000 megawatts, according to the Department of Energy.
One giant plant is better than a bunch of small dispersed plants, I guess.
Sensei’s 3. OMG it’s coming right at us!
He hit a patch of black ice.
Layers of editors and fact checkers.
Apparently a mixture of water and oil is not good for your engine.
Merrillville Police Department forced to sell defective Dodge patrol cars due to design flaw
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/merrillville-police-department-selling-defective-dodge-patrol-cars/
In the post apocalypse, a Crown Vic will be pulling off a Beetle.
But the nuclear “industry has radically fallen short of its ability to keep up with the market interest,” DeWitte said. ″The challenge has just been the industry’s offerings in terms of product, the business model and ability to execute, have just been horrible,” he said.
“All of that is elements around which disruption has needed to take place to sort of change the paradigm,” he said. “And that’s where we really taken a different angle.”
Why don’t the nuclear guys pull their thumbs out of their asses and get busy building generation capacity? What’s stopping them?
“We’ve only demonized the crap out of you guys since Three Mile Island, so why are you so lax in responding with new product ideas?”
A design flaw? Who could possibly have predicted a plastic heat exchanger might not survive in such an environment?
Our company has updated “high risk/threat countries” and is going to block VPN access from them. Usual countries but also Israel (but not any other Arab countries). Our IT/”security” group is dominated by south Asians of course (conveniently, Pakistan is on the list but India isn’t).
Fuck, two of our cats got out last night, inside cats I might add, and one was easy to find, but the other took four or five hours to find, which only happened after the sun came up. He was tucked under the wheel of the neighbors truck, and moved to the center of the vehicle where my wife couldn’t grab him.
We finally got him inside a few minutes ago, but we only knew about it as I woke up at 3 AM.
Yikes! I’m glad they are OK.
Ditto! Poor little kitty!
It’s what cats do. It doesn’t help your mood however. Glad everybody was safe.
Underhanded
“Your Negotiating Committee did not have any discussion or input on this offer,” the union told its members. “We have said all along that the Union would be available for direct talks with Boeing or, at a minimum, expected to continue mediated discussions when the company was ready. These direct dealing tactics are a huge mistake, damage the negotiation process, and attempt to go around and bypass your Union negotiating committee.”
The phrase “direct dealing” is important because it suggests Boeing is trying to do an end-run around its employees’ union in contract negotiations. That’s forbidden under federal labor law because it undermines the collective bargaining process. The IAM is seeking to get closer to its sought-after 40% wage increase; its 30,000 members voted down a contract that offered a 25% bump.
You can’t talk to the workers directly. That makes the union bigwigs look unnecessary.
Why do all these motors suddenly need oil coolers? It couldn’t have anything to do with turbochargers, could it?
In this case my guess is that cooler is only used on the police versions. It’s how they meet the severe service requirements. That one has the 5.7 V8 I believe.
I bet it does have the lifter sticking cam destroying cylinder deactivation, however.
https://www.stellantisfleet.com/dodge/durango-pursuit.html