This week we see the skies mainly concerned with where Jupiter retrograde and MERCURY RETROGRADE are in relation to the Earth. There are signs of familial gatherings and unfortunately (due to Jupiter being retrograde) family squabbles and fights, with these culminating mid-to-end of the week. Unusually high activity in those constellations corresponding to food (Pisces, Aries, Taurus)
The sun is really low in the mornings now.
Sagittarius: 5 of Cups – Yeah, you spilled it. But there’s more!
Capricorn: Knight of Swords reversed – Talking smack ends poorly.
Aquarius: The Chariot reversed – Shitty time for transportation issues.
Pisces: Ace of Cups – Thy cup runneth over. This is different than the 5 of Cups because there is no implication of loss in this one.
Aries: Queen of Coins – Paying attention to the whole “money” thing is advised.
Taurus: 2 of Swords reversed – Don’t get blind drunk (or equivalent).
Gemini: 3 of Wands reversed – Telling stories about medical issues is a bad idea.
Cancer: The World – Everything. All here.
Leo: The Blank Card – Please disperse. There’s nothing to see here.
Virgo: The Emperor – A nice and easy life.
Libra: 4 of Swords reversed – No there, but not forgotten.
Scorpio: Page of Cups – Make sure the glasses are kept full.
My first Winter Steel shoot is today! The Board of Trustees wants me to bring in 100 shooters this season. We’ll see.
So I need to login to my trading account and do some shit tomorrow?
Nice dog videos
Please disperse. There’s nothing to see here.
Not sure if this is sufficiently shitty.
While there is no universe in which I would ever contemplate or countenance a dog in my house, I do think labradoodles are adorable.
“Cancer: The World – Everything. All here.”
Oh, it’s gonna be some *wild* sex! Woohoo!
“Make sure all of the glasses are kept full.”
Gosh, that sound ominous. I will stock up.
From the dead thread – ‘I am an idiot’ edition:
Same goes for the groundwater horseshit. Do the math. How much of the earth is crust…how much crust has groundwater…
A decent to-scale representation of the earth’s crust would be a solid ball of iron about the size of a basketball with a single layer of onion skin paper on it for skin. Ground water only goes a small percentage down into that sheet of paper.
Rough numbers – earth’s diameter ~8000 miles, thickness of crust ~10 miles.
10/ 8000 = 0.00125
The groundwater these people are talking about only goes down a fraction of that 0.00125
The proposition is a) unfalsifiable and b) completely absurd. Like the global warming scam you dont really have to go past a). You can shitcan the whole thing right there.
*Crust….2x.
20 / 8000 = 0.0025
Maybe I should think and take my own advice before popping off
*Worth taking into account cuz it kinda matters:
inner core 12.9g/cm^3
outer core 11g/cm^3
lower mantle 5g/cm^3
upper mantle 3.9 g/cm^3.
crust 2.5 g/cm^3.
Oh yeah…density of water 1g/cm^3
But of course there was one thing you could get out of that study – we have decided we need to control you rural people and your wells.
Wait. We’re using our local water so you city people don’t have to worry about subsidizing.
Most cities are supplied by wells also. Of course when you pump ground water you are only moving it a few feet up from where it was anyway. Also, the constant uplift and subduction of the various plates of the crust means that the pumping of ground water is meaningless.
Absurd doesnt begin to describe this assertion. It really is something from crazy land.
It really is something from crazy land.
Whinging about a tiny fraction of a degree of effect when the normal variation is 2.4 degrees. No, that’s not crazy at all.
Sagittarius: 5 of Cups – Yeah, you spilled it. But there’s more!
No use crying.
Speaking of the earth, I seem to remember seeing, somewhere along the way, something about how, taking into account features like the Marianas trench and the Himalayas, if you scaled the planet down to “X relatable diameter” it would have a smoother and more perfect surface than anything man can produce.
Finish isn’t specced in a way that can draw comparisons, but let’s play with the figures a moment.
The Marianas Trench is on the order of five miles deep in a radius of about 4,000: so a ratio of 0.00125….an eighth of a per cent.
My choice of radius is arguable: one seldom produces radii except as a detail on a larger part….whereas the earth is a sphere that was produced by, let us call them, spinning and shot-peening. To give your speculator his best argument, we’ll pretend that the goal of machining out our earth was producing an 8,000 thick diameter, so, okay, a sixteenth of a per cent.
Manufactured surfaces don’t care how thick the overall component or assembly are. It’s hard to explain, but the datum feature of the surface being qualified is generally the surface itself, or, more mathematically, the project surface such is projected by its prominent surfaces. This is long-winded, but to measure the surface, one must fixture it….against something…which is itself (otherwise we would be measuring the variation in the thickness and not in the surface per se).
Anyhoo, it is entirely possible to create a surface where the largest defect is only half of a millionth of an inch: one part in two millions. Not that it means anything, but if that surface were finished onto a component that was, oh, say, 1 inch thick, we could contrive a ration of defect to depth such as the Marianas math, that argues that said finish is orders of magnitude finer. But, obviously, that is folly: we could double the thickness of the component to arguably halve the ratio to even better beat Marianas…or we could get silly by affixing the surface to a space shuttle or the Empire State Building or the Great China Wall to achiever ever-greater “performances.”
I write all of this not to dispel the argument but to encourage the proper mindset of design, manufacture, measurement, and control. The very question of measuring itself has quite the legacy. Not that you would ever write something as silly as “exactly X,” but some people think that way. Check out this fabulous image of how I see components in my mind:
https://www.efunda.com/designstandards/GDT/images/3_1_3D_datumstart.gif
But, yes: the Earth is quite smooth.
and here’s a simple, 2D way of looking at one surface
https://bwl-gdandtbasics.imgix.net/2023/08/Planar-datum-simulator-fig-1.png?auto=format
where you can see that the “surface” isn’t even some nice least-squarees caluclation of where the mean surfaces is…….
because that is of no use and can’t be fixtured for measuring in any regard, so…….
the “surface” is actually whatever projection the highest three points contrive to create
notice the problems we get in fixturing: the fixture isn’t “exactly X” either…..
which takes us down the long and winding road of gage R & R……………..
One of my favorite horror novels (very re-readable) is “The Descent” by Jeff Long (and its sequel “Deeper”). May have been the inspiration for the movie (very loosely), but a great premise including a long trip under the floor of the pacific ocean along an underground river. Very deep comparatively – but still just a fraction of the onion skin. (some maps for reference, etc).
Recommended read.
Makes perfect sense to me having worked a lot of wood.
@ksuellington from the dedthred: Fubo has the same weird-ass blackout and availability policy as YouTube and, as you noted, ain’t cheap.
Huh. Maybe it’s because I’m just watching local teams that I haven’t had any blackout issues (aside from Apple TV taking a few Friday nites of baseball away). I agree that the streaming model for sports sucks tho.
I use ESPN+ to watch Wild games. Of course the Avs are blacked out.
This brave new world of st
I use ESPN+ to watch Wild games. Of course the Avs are blacked out.
This brave new world of streaming is kind of weak.
It blows chunks.
I broke down and paid for ESPN+ again because it does have a lot but I refuse to pay for any more.
Good gravy, this cohort is broken.
…and/or the screaming freakout meltdown long past toddlerhood is becoming normalized thanks to years of indulgent parenting and social media, so it’s considered an acceptable and effective response when anything doesn’t go the way you want?
As I said, broken.
thecoddling.com
My question is – can she turn it on and off at will? I’m reminded of working at daycare centers where many an inconsolable distraught tot pulled out all the stops when Mommy said bye-bye, but was right as rain playing happily the moment Mommy finally shut the door behind her.
Gender Traitor:
I called out both of my nephews for trying that when they were younger. I saw them fall, look around, run closer to the adults, “fall down” again, and start screaming.
Wow. And even more wow is a -thankfully small- number of people feeling sorry for her and even defending her. Because she’s “broke” and it’s sad that people can’t get a livable wage. 😢
I’ll give this a 90% chance of being fake.
It’s telling that it’s believable, that a whole lot of satire/parody can’t be differentiated from shit people believe. I’m sure the Bee has a hard time coming up with absurdities.
Mojeaux:
Poe’s law is a harsh mistress.
No. Just flat out, no.
I have a heart, but you don’t appear to have a soul, a brain, or a conscience. If you’re broke, drive better.
Drugs.
If that is even slightly generationally representative, we aren’t going to get a responsible government – we’re going to get a soul-crushing tyranny.
Only a very small subset. My kids point and laugh at people like this.
Pisces: Ace of Cups – Thy cup runneth over. This is different than the 5 of Cups because there is no implication of loss in this one.
Awwww, yeeeeah.
Wait, exactly what is in that cup?
There were two girls involved, hope that helps.
😳🤮
The stupid elections are happening and there is a stupid rule of no alcohool sold within 500 meters of polling station. Polling stations here are in school buildings and i live next to a highscool so i cannot buy beer at any store or restaurant around my house and i did not buy yesterday because i forgot about the stupid rule stupid shiy goddamnit anyway hiw is the horoscope
We have 3 consecutive stupid election Sundays for no goodam reason … I blame the (((well you know)))
Apparently fewer eligible voter voted today by 19:00 than in 2019. 44.95% vs 45.08%
You know… here in America, the earliest polls were barrels of whiskey with candidates names on them.
Sucks to be European it sounds like. 🙂
Cancer: The World – Everything. All here.
Everythibg except beer it seems.
Then again i have plenty scotch. But i wanted something low in alchi-hol. I did buy a couple of bottles at the fest.
Pop quiz.
a) 4 . There is an order in which to use them, but in busy times all should be used. Also the initial person is a dumbass.
In a busy nightclub i saw two guys using the same urinal.
Pie:
It’s not really busy until you see people using the sinks.
4. But the next guy in only has 1 correct option (a second one is arguable).
there is nothing arguable. you always take the one next to the wall.
Pie:
As long as there is a one urinal gap between the people, that can be the correct choice. The first pisser chose poorly, which impacted late comers, but they may assume that he was forced into that bad position.
You don’t take the one next to the wall unless it is the only option that doesn’t put you right next to another guy. Being jammed up next to the wall is poor tactical positioning.
There is one optimal urinal left in the posited situation, which 90% of guys will take. The one against the right wall is acceptable, but suboptimal.
The first pisser chose correctly – he left another optimal urinal available without compromising his tactical situation.
This is also the 7P for dinner counter spots.
Easy. The one in the middle on the right. No real man wants to stand next to another.
Or the one on the extreme right, canceling out the two middle ones. In any case only one is still available
No real man wants to stand next to another. — No. But when you are 6 beers in at a very busy bar you take whatever is available.
What Pie said. Also, Pie – the first guy is that same guy that stops at the first gas pump in a row of not being used pumps.
2, duh.
Real men pee in a trough.
https://www.flintexpats.com/2014/09/tiger-stadium-who-could-forget-these.html?m=1
Real men slide in troughs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpJDTNCNr5E
The bar I drink in still has these. Also the sign above it warns that “The hands that pick gum out of the ice in the trough are the same hands that make your drinks.” I have not seen gum in the ice in the trough.
Gee, carrying on a conversation about your dreams with the AI in your phone isn’t at all creepy. 🙄
Now that I am back I retract what I said earlier about the groundwater farce. Words can describe it. I will tell an anecdotal story from my days working in a mental hospital.
We had a female patient that was very upset about how awful the world is, how bad people are. She was convinced that the reason for all of. the world’s horrors is that the earth is out of balance. The fix for this, of course, was to get everyone to walk to one side of the earth to get it back in balance. As long as the population of the earth refused to believe her and would not do that the fear and sorrow of life would continue.
The groundwater thing and the out-of-balance delusion are exactly on par regarding grasp of the situation. The difference is that the poor woman patient was one of those too good for this world, well meaning people and the people who are pushing the groundwater hoax are exactly the opposite. As Don might say – equal imperfections on the surface of sanity but one a rise (point of contact) and the other a fall (point of non-contact)
“The Chariot reversed – Shitty time for transportation issues.”
Well, the plumber just left, and it looks like I am gonna need an entirely new kitchen drain line. See, nothing is being transported.
son of a bitch.
Ugh! Not just a clog?
That’s odd. Too much garbage disposal action or is it an old house?
Ideal house: inside walls of aerated concrete wainscoted with removable panels, plumbing/electric supply lines inside groves cut in the wall. Waste lines in trenches cut in the slab covered by with removable tiles.
Most people think of houses as permanent structures. They are not. They require constant maintenance yet they are built as if nothing ever needs fixing.
We have been thinking very casually about building a house. Access for maintenance of all household systems (plumbing, electrical, HVAC, networking) is definitely something I will want to build in.
You may want to consider the extra cost vs the fact that drywall is cheap and easy to repair. Most of the stuff will be accessible from the basement, if you want to finish jusst use a dropped ceiling, (although I’d still drywall it see above) Most maintenance is done at the accessible parts anyway, you rarely have problems with the conduit, ducts, and pipes running up and around the walls, might have frozen pipe on an outside wall if installed improperly but with pex that’s even becoming less of an issue. If it’s going to cost a lot more I’d say you be better off just fixing any damage you may do. Also how often are you going to need to access the wires and pipes it’s usually the recepticles and switches and fixture that you can get at. Only exception is the valve body for your tub and shower you may want to design it so there’s a closet on the other side and leave an access panel for that.
Couldn’t agree with Hyp any more.
Answer to everyone; it is a 110yo house, and this is the one line that hadn’t been replaced when we bought. So, clogged with 110 years of rust. Ran a plumbers snake all the way, no bueno. Fortunately, full basement so easy access to the pipes, to a point. and then is when it gets expensive and needs a real plumber.
Dream house, living the dream.
Oh, other bright spot in all of this, all of the other drain lines are separate from this, and had been replaced at some point.
So, I got that going for me, which is nice.
People who say “May all your dreams come true” forget that nightmares are also dreams…
My Grandfather: “Hell is having your dreams come true”
Was just perusing the college football standings and noticed that FSU is dead last in the conference (ACC) that wasn’t good enough for them – at least during the last off-season discussions.
God I love irony.
To the university administrators “good enough” is based on revenue, not competitive games or win-loss records.
Everything has been monetized, to our sorrow. If I was to try to identify a single root cause of our current social, political, and economic issues, that would definitely be on the short list.
My favorite part of reading comment sections in TMITE is watching leftist yell about how all Trump voters are misinformed drones, immediately followed by a patently false and easily looked up assertion.
This one was the tired “Republicans are the party of the rich”, which hasn’t been true since at least 2016.