Daily Tech News 11 May 2024

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Earth is facing a Category G4 geomagnetic storm. (The Verge)

That's just one rating lower than the Carrington Event which was so energetic it knocked out telegraph lines across Europe and North America - except for some that heeded the warning and disconnected power in advance, which were able to keep operating even without any electricity.

What you can expect: Pretty lights in the night sky. (Axios)

Fiber optics are completely immune to this, satellites are shielded, and it's not strong enough to affect the power grid.

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OpenAI - creator of virtual encyclopedia salesman OpenAI - is not planning to launch it's own search engine next week. (The Verge)

Some positive news for once.
Just a year after Australian superannuation fund UniSuper migrated all its systems to Google Cloud, Google accidentally deleted them. (The Guardian)

"Oops", said Google.

The company had everything replicated to two geographically separated datacenters, and was safe from everything up to and including a direct meteorite impact... So Google just deleted both copies.

Not being complete idiots, they also had a full backup outside of Google and were able to restore from that.
The beatings will continue whether morale improves or not: The game Ghost of Tushima has been delisted from Steam in 178 countries and dependencies. (WCCFTech)

That's one more than lost access to Helldivers 2 when Sony demanded users sign up for a PlayStation Network account.

The reason is the same this time, but somehow they also made the game unavailable in Japan.
In a move evidently designed to make Sony feel better about themselves Electronic Arts is planning to put ads in AAA games. (Tom's Hardware)

The company promises to be "very thoughtful" about shitting up the product you paid for.
A Dell API used by its business partners was hacked and customer details including names and delivery addresses were leaked for 49 million people. (Bleeping Computer)

Ha. I don't live there anymore.
Intel's 14900KS. 6.2GHz. 400 watts. (AnandTech)

And often slower than the Ryzen 7900, which is 40% cheaper and uses 80% less power.
Speaking of AMD, the Ryzen 7940HS-powered Minisforum UM790 is on sale at a really good price right now. (Notebook Check)

Not in Australia, but - no, wait, there it is. Damn, that is a good price.

Vtuber Music Video of the Day

Today it's Ayanda Risu and Aragami Oga's song Harapan PanPanPan, which is a Japanese / Bahasa pun.

Disclaimer: Risu is a squirrel, and her parents are Okayu and Korone, who are a cat and a dog respectively. That's just how the Hololive family tree works. Bijou and Kobo are each other's mothers.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 04:05 AM (fwDg9)

2 G'day Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2024 04:07 AM (BLOW1)

3 Lovely, rain and electric storms

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 04:07 AM (fwDg9)

4 Risu is a squirrel, and her parents are Okayu and Korone, who are a cat and a dog respectively. That's just how the Hololive family tree works. Bijou and Kobo are each other's mothers.
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Okay, that's *too totally weird* for me... but thanks anyway for that info. I think?

Posted by: JQ at May 11, 2024 04:07 AM (njWTi)

5
They've upgraded this thing to a G5. Not a Carrington by a long shot, but well, it produced visible aurora at streamers here in Greenville SC area at 34.7N. And streamers directly overhead.

The last G5 was in 2003.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2024 04:08 AM (w6EFb)

6 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2024 04:08 AM (T4tVD)

7 The aurora here was awesome, but it's time for shut-eye.

Pixy, did you get to view any lovely aurora?

Posted by: JQ at May 11, 2024 04:09 AM (njWTi)

8 'Nite JQ !

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2024 04:12 AM (T4tVD)

9
NZ is lit up, I'm reading, right now. South Australia there may be as well. Don't know where Pixy is exactly, may be too far North.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2024 04:13 AM (w6EFb)

10 Damn, now I am hankering for some blueberry pancakes.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 11, 2024 04:14 AM (mH6SG)

11 7 The aurora here was awesome, but it's time for shut-eye.

Pixy, did you get to view any lovely aurora?
Posted by: JQ

Pretty solidly overcast here right now, unfortunately.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2024 04:14 AM (BLOW1)

12 Blueberry pancakes sound great. Or blueberry waffles.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 11, 2024 04:18 AM (w6EFb)

13 Here, you can watch Banff.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=dJdpRO0BwA8

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 11, 2024 04:19 AM (w6EFb)

14 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 11, 2024 04:25 AM (ju2Fy)

15
Here's NOAA's space weather 30 minute auroral projections (this is based on solar coronal fart measurements made by a satellite at L1 -- the light signal from there gets here about 30 minutes before the sun's fart plume does):

https://tinyurl.com/y9o3ral3

That's both poles. NZ got lit up in their morning as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2024 04:25 AM (w6EFb)

16 No aurora sighting here even though this site says it should be at its peak.

https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast

Better chance seeing an Oldsmobile Aurora driving by.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 11, 2024 04:28 AM (ju2Fy)

17 testing, testing. 1,2,3. testing.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 11, 2024 04:44 AM (ju2Fy)

18 Ok, not broken.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 11, 2024 04:44 AM (ju2Fy)

19 Got some great pics of the northern lights last night. Also I don't know if it's related or not but one of my UPS backups died late yesterday. Going to turn it back on later today to see if it's better.

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 11, 2024 04:48 AM (L9aEv)

20 I think we are using too many solar panels on Earth. They are sucking too much energy from the sun and destabilizing the corona, making it eject mass towards the planet.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2024 04:50 AM (P9xGM)

21
HPI index for the North polar auroral region is 277GW. That solar fart is dumping 277 GW of power into the earth's upper atmosphere. It's 282GW for the south pole.

A normal value is about 10GW.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2024 04:51 AM (w6EFb)

22 Mornin'

No aurora sighting here at work. It was cloudy and drizzly most of yesterday and this morning. I did go out in the courtyard at 0400 and it was clear. Could see the stars but no aurora. I'm in Arlington, across the river for Babylon DC, so lots of city lights to deal with.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 11, 2024 04:56 AM (Hpgos)

23 20 I think we are using too many solar panels on Earth. They are sucking too much energy from the sun and destabilizing the corona, making it eject mass towards the planet.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2024 04:50 AM (P9xGM)
Actual serious question... if you take heat energy from the country, and send it to the cities, where the use the electricity which produces waste heat...

does that not add to the Heat Island Effect? Are you not changing the environment by moving WHERE heat will have an effect?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 11, 2024 05:05 AM (xaFKb)

24 23 Actual serious question... if you take heat energy from the country, and send it to the cities, where the use the electricity which produces waste heat...

does that not add to the Heat Island Effect? Are you not changing the environment by moving WHERE heat will have an effect?
Posted by: Romeo13

Thermodynamically, yes, it will do exactly that.

I don't think the effect will be that large, though. Heat islands are more about construction than energy flows.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2024 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

25 https://tinyurl.com/y9o3ral3

That's both poles. NZ got lit up in their morning as well.
Posted by: publius,

Thanks for that!
Here in No Ill we still have some green coming thru the clouds. Bad enough we have light pollution from the shopping plaza nearby, but the old farts across the street, and the ones living next door, feel the need to run their garage and porch lights from dawn to dusk

Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2024 05:12 AM (8h3B6)

26
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 11, 2024 05:12 AM (tljrc)

27 feel the need to run their garage and porch lights from dawn to dusk
Posted by: Bruce

Oops, I meant dusk to dawn.

Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2024 05:13 AM (8h3B6)

28

358GW was the peak last night. That seems impressive. US grid demand varies, currently over the course of the day from about 350 - 550 GW for the lower 48.

So, the solar fart was dumping about 1 US grid worth of power into the upper atmosphere and ionosphere and all that.

But, total power received by ol' Sol is about 10^17W. That's 100,000 Terrawatts, a 100 Petawatts, or a tenth of an exawatt.

So, the US grid and this aurora is but a fart in a hurricane by comparison.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2024 05:15 AM (w6EFb)

29 Thermodynamically, yes, it will do exactly that.

I don't think the effect will be that large, though. Heat islands are more about construction than energy flows.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2024 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

Went to US Navy Nuclear Power School... even 1% change in a dynamic heat equation, it yuge.

Add in what we 'know' about the heat island effect, based on concrete and buildings retaining heat... and the extra 1 to 2% becomes problematic.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 11, 2024 05:17 AM (xaFKb)

30 It's only after 5, thought it was after 6am

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 05:17 AM (fwDg9)

31 Good morning, everyone.

FenSpouse and I are trying to sort things out for son's big move. What turned up was a Gideon's
Bible which I had rescued years ago because someone had tossed it out of a motel room in PA and it landed in the parking lot. As people know who have looked up a Gideon's Bible, it has suggestions for "help in times of need" in the front of the Bible. Here is one for "comfort in time of loneliness": " Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed: for I am thy God:,I will strengthen thee; yea I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee by my right hand of righteousness. ." (Isaiah 41:10)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2024 05:18 AM (jhXXl)

32 So, the US grid and this aurora is but a fart in a hurricane by comparison.
Posted by: publius

Yes, but a wet fart though.

Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2024 05:18 AM (8h3B6)

33
West and east is about equal brightness but heavy cloud cover here in SE Pennsylvania. View to the north is obstructed by forest.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 05:18 AM (RKVpM)

34 Passage is Isaiah 41:10

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2024 05:19 AM (KbBir)

35 Sorry; I had put the name of the passage before.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2024 05:19 AM (KbBir)

36 The Jesus gets us people want us to remember that umpires are people, too.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 11, 2024 05:21 AM (IG7T0)

37 The 'Jesus Gets Us' people have a tenuous grasp of Christianity.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 11, 2024 05:24 AM (Hpgos)

38
NZ and Tasmania ought to be really lit up right now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2024 05:26 AM (w6EFb)

39 It is the same amount of energy from the Sun, just distributed differently. Heat islands are slow to change temperature. Highs over time will peak at the same temperature and lows will rise from the retained heat. The overall heat will remain constant.

Posted by: Jamaica at May 11, 2024 05:28 AM (IG7T0)

40
The cannibals in Papua New Guinea might be able to hunt for prey tonight without torches.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 05:32 AM (RKVpM)

41 I'm up, 5 1/2 hours short of my goal

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 05:32 AM (fwDg9)

42
NZ, Tasmania, south Australia got a good light show about 12 hours ago, in the local morning. They should be getting another right now.

Look up some photos. Impressive photos from NZ and Tasmania.

Oh, in the South, it's called Aurora Australis, the Southern Lights.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2024 05:32 AM (w6EFb)

43 >>>Bijou and Kobo are each other's mothers.

"I'm My Own Grandpaw"

Posted by: m at May 11, 2024 05:35 AM (o3SCB)

44
The local news radio station for Philadelphia gives the daily projected high temperature and I always subtract three degrees for my location 20 miles away.

Except during the winter when temperatures are close to freezing. Then they pretty much coincide.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 05:35 AM (RKVpM)

45 The media should have made a bigger deal of the solar fart did they did for Y2K. Oh God, your car won't ever run again and we all could die.. They love to scare us, as they have no idea what's happening. Biden is on the West Coast to save us, what a great man.

Posted by: Colin at May 11, 2024 05:36 AM (/z/eU)

46 Biden is on the West Coast to save us, what a great man.
Posted by: Colin

I POOPED!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Savior at May 11, 2024 05:42 AM (Hpgos)

47 We are usually a few degrees cooler than Philadelphia

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 05:54 AM (fwDg9)

48 The passage from Isaiah which I posted above is the basis of a beautiful church hymn, "How firm a foundation"

https://tinyurl.com/mr2942d8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2024 05:57 AM (Dv6fb)

49 "Following Instructions"- A Christian devotional based on a passage from 2nd Timothy and gardening for our spiritual growth:

https://tinyurl.com/44ausa9t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2024 06:10 AM (1mEJS)

50 A story about a generous act from a stranger:

https://tinyurl.com/mpn79duv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2024 06:13 AM (1mEJS)

51 Good morning morons.

Risu is a squirrel, and her parents are Okayu and Korone, who are a cat and a dog respectively. That's just how the Hololive family tree works. Bijou and Kobo are each other's mothers.

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I don't want to know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:15 AM (+87un)

52 Good morning! Gonna be a warm and cloudy today here in Cowtown, and we didn't get to see any atmospheric effects from the solar storm. A friend of mine in N. Alabama sent me a photo of the lights in his AO. Pretty cool!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 11, 2024 06:17 AM (YRsIm)

53 Posted by: JQ at May 11, 2024 04:07 AM (njWTi)
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*fistbump*

I started to black out while reading that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:17 AM (+87un)

54 Not much out there for new news

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 06:17 AM (fwDg9)

55 Beau died in that geomag, geo, strrr, strom saving Democracy.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 11, 2024 06:23 AM (PiwSw)

56 Evening and morning to all the satellites out there! 'Tis Saturday morning at last. It's been a weird week.

I've fed the monsters, am sipping coffee (the real +chicory stuff -- decaf is $$$, even more than regular) and a pipe. Miss Linda says there is some kind of open-shop night on a main business street in uptown tonight. Normally I'd say, "Nuh-uh," but the humidity is down by 30%. And, unless you buy something in one of the shops, the event is free, with bits of cheese and snacks and wine available in a lot of the shops.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2024 06:26 AM (omVj0)

57 Anyone see jewells around, it's been a week or so I have seen her comment

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:30 AM (+87un)

58 The sun's OUT !

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2024 06:31 AM (T4tVD)

59
Uncle Bossie's remains attempted to regenerate in the ionospheric storm but unfortunately failed just short of success.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 06:32 AM (RKVpM)

60 I think been a few days since seen Jewells comment

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 06:37 AM (fwDg9)

61 It's only after 5, thought it was after 6am
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024

***
At ten I went to bed after True Grit (the original and still the better one) on Grit last night, but woke up coughing a little at one a.m. But then I got back to sleep for four more hours. Not bad.

Haircut and library today too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2024 06:37 AM (omVj0)

62 Looks like cleared out reast of day but only to get mid 60s

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 06:38 AM (fwDg9)

63 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 11, 2024 06:40 AM (Be/+i)

64 If your Skipping breakfast, today is blueberry pancakes and bacon

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 06:40 AM (fwDg9)

65 Thinking maybe to go to used book store, have nothing new to read

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 06:41 AM (fwDg9)

66 Speaking of VTubers and Cancel Culture...

Offkai, a convention, in San Francisco with less than a month before the con has Blacklisted fox girl Kirsche from participating in panels.

The reason the mewling weasels of Offkai gave was that spicy catgirl Kirsche made some of their volunteers 'uncomfortable.'

Just die already Offkai.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2024 06:42 AM (4ENgq)

67 Another plus for going to this street-level event tonight, one of the town's only pipe and cigar stores is located on the route and will be open until eight. Not that I need anything, you understand, either in leaf or pipes or supplies. But it'll be nice to stop in again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2024 06:42 AM (omVj0)

68 There are no blueberry pancakes happening this morning in lib little sister's house.

She doesn't even have coffee. Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:44 AM (+87un)

69 Anna - OffKai is generally very good at giving smaller vtubers a chance to connect with their fans and find a larger audience.

This is pretty disappointing, though not a surprise. Kirsche isn't called "spicy cat" for nothing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2024 06:45 AM (BLOW1)

70 San Franpsycho can I guess no meat whatsoever on menu?

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 06:46 AM (fwDg9)

71 Morning all. Overcast here in N IL. Hope to see something tonight.

What's up?

Posted by: Farmer at May 11, 2024 06:47 AM (R6yZF)

72 Pixy Misa

One of the 'problem' Tweets Offkai showed Kirsche was because she explained the differences between US and Canadian acronyms for the LGBTQAA/S++ communities.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2024 06:47 AM (4ENgq)

73 Anna - yep. Abject bullshit.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2024 06:49 AM (BLOW1)

74 There are no blueberry pancakes happening this morning in lib little sister's house.

She doesn't even have coffee. Sadz.

WTAF!?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 11, 2024 06:51 AM (YRsIm)

75 I have coffee in my house at all times and I don't even drink coffee.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 11, 2024 06:52 AM (BLOW1)

76 Skip a lot of takeout and frozen

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:53 AM (+87un)

77 I found breakfast tea so I'm not tearing the walls down

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:54 AM (+87un)

78 mornin yall. I just can't even even:

San Francisco is giving taxpayer-funded shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics in $5m program organizers claim 'improves participants' health'

Nurses assess patients and typically serve them the equivalent of 1-2 drinks between three and four times a day — handing out either 1.7 ounces of vodka or liquor (about a shot), 5 ounces of wine (1 glass) or 12 ounces of beer - about three-quarters of a pint.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

79 No luck on viewing the aurora here. Clouds to the south, clear to the north, but nothing out of the ordinary for us looking north. Ah well.

The ONT from last night contains links to pictures provided by some kind fellow Morons who shared the event with those of us who weren't lucky enough to experience it directly. (Thank you so much!)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 11, 2024 06:55 AM (O7YUW)

80 Four free glasses of wine a day. I think someone is being scammed.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 06:56 AM (vFG9F)

81 Pixy lib little sister doesn't [X] therefore no one should [X]

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:57 AM (+87un)

82 It *is* less hot and much less humid outside. Compared to most of this week (we had a 90 F. high yesterday), it's like being in a different climate entirely.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2024 06:57 AM (omVj0)

83 Thinking maybe to go to used book store, have nothing new to read
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 06:41 AM (fwDg9)
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I know a website that has lots of great recommendations:

https://www.libib.com/u/perfessorsquirrel/l/1384512

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 11, 2024 06:58 AM (BpYfr)

84 In the last couple of days I have seen ads for three more companies marketing "all over body deodorant".

I have seen the future, and it stinks.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

85 {46} ... I POOPED!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Savior at May 11, 2024 05:42 AM (Hpgos)

!!! Again?!

Posted by: Biden's suicidal underwear at May 11, 2024 06:59 AM (O7YUW)

86 San Francisco is giving taxpayer-funded shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics in $5m program organizers claim 'improves participants' health' . . .

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024

***
Paladin and Inspector Ironside wouldn't recognize the place today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2024 06:59 AM (omVj0)

87 I was watching some of Kirsche's stream on this. It is all BS. And Gator compared it to Monica Rial's cancel campaign against Vic but never mentioned Monica.

Spicy catgirl is a 'polarizing' figure according to Offkai and they prefer not to collaborate with such a figure.

Anyway I have spent enough time on this. I will simply keep enjoying the foxgirl Kirsche and her going absolutely bonkers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2024 06:59 AM (4ENgq)

88 I know a website that has lots of great recommendations:

https://www.libib.com/u/perfessorsquirrel/l/1384512
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 11, 2024 06:58 AM (BpYfr)
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I'm reading "13 Hours" - the story of the GRS contractors at Benghazi. Pretty good.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 11, 2024 07:00 AM (Be/+i)

89 San Francisco is giving taxpayer-funded shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics in $5m program organizers claim 'improves participants' health'
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Valu-rite has the contract. $30 per shot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 07:01 AM (+87un)

90 Do see at American Thinker that Michigan is another state Trump won't be able to beat the fraud

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 07:03 AM (fwDg9)

91 "Valu-rite has the contract. $30 per shot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

They pay a premium because it's plant based.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

92 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

93 "Valu-rite has the contract. $30 per shot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

They pay a premium because it's plant based.
Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:06 AM (vFG9F)
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I thought Valu-Rite was a petroleum product. Although that apparently goes back to plants. Never minds.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 11, 2024 07:07 AM (Be/+i)

94 San Franpsycho

Skiping the middlemen.

Imagine the government workers killing their golden goose egg.

No homeless, no bucks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

95 25 Here in No Ill we still have some green coming thru the clouds. Bad enough we have light pollution from the shopping plaza nearby, but the old farts across the street, and the ones living next door, feel the need to run their garage and porch lights from dawn to dusk
Posted by: Bruce at May 11, 2024 05:12 AM (8h3B6)

I'm cracking up over this.
Um, I mean, sorry; sad; must be awful for you.

Posted by: m at May 11, 2024 07:08 AM (o3SCB)

96 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight

Loy of ethanol sloshing around the economy is made from petroleum products, then distilled.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:09 AM (u82oZ)

97 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at May 11, 2024 07:10 AM (Be/+i)

98 Happy Saturday

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2024 07:10 AM (ENQN6)

99 rhennigantx

Any sightings of Max Max wannabees cruising Texas in search of oil, after the sun's attack?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

100 Happy Saturday
Posted by: rhennigantx

Thanks !

Backatcha !

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2024 07:12 AM (T4tVD)

101 It's classic.

Gavin Newsom said cutting street cleaning in half would make the streets cleaner. Sure, Jan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 07:13 AM (+87un)

102 So not cleaning the streets at all should be the cleanest with that logic

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 07:16 AM (fwDg9)

103 After sending Ukraine 60 billion dollars, Biden wants to send them another 400 million, as a garnish I guess.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

104 Morning peeps

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2024 07:17 AM (Q4IgG)

105
'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.'

-- 1984

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 07:18 AM (RKVpM)

106
A dreadful night. I think I got about 4 hours of sleep total between 10:30 and 5:00.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 11, 2024 07:22 AM (MoZTd)

107 Asna Tabassum is a Muslim-American student whose remarks were canceled last month over security concerns on University of Southern California’s Los Angeles campus

Let her talk. Let people see that Muslims really want a final solution.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2024 07:22 AM (ENQN6)

108 Time to face the chores.

May everyone have a serene day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

109 Hadrian the Seventh

Bragging or complaining?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

110 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 11, 2024 07:23 AM (dg+HA)

111 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Serving customers

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2024 07:25 AM (T4tVD)

112 I really don't want to go out to eat again, ever:

"Sicko steakhouse worker filmed himself peeing in pickles, rubbing his genitals on meat: cops"

From what I've seen lately, the majority of restaurant industry workers are either illegals or surly tatted and pierced unisexual freaks and I just don't want any contact with them that I can avoid.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

113 Time to face the chores.

May everyone have a serene day.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks Salty !

Backatcha !

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2024 07:26 AM (T4tVD)

114 "I knew these vaccines were not going to protect against infection, and I think we overplayed the vaccines."

-Dr. Deborah Birx

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2024 07:26 AM (ENQN6)

115 Skip that was my main point during the "Fight for $15"

Why stop there? Why not $20? Why not $50?

But this was lost on most people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 07:26 AM (+87un)

116
When Trump was in office a single person, or two earner family with $60,000 a year in earnings could buy an average home. Two people each earning $15.00 per hour could reach that.

It now requires more then $106,000 a year. Fight for $53.00 per hour!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 07:29 AM (RKVpM)

117 Joe has been crowing about how much money he is going to save folks with his "junk fee" caps. Well,

"A federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new rule for an $8 cap on credit card late fees, a victory for business and banking groups that said the regulator exceeded its authority."

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:30 AM (vFG9F)

118 Watching Death Valley Days, an episode set in 1870s San Francisco. People then had more class than to poop or pee on the street. They used the alley along the saloon or behind the oyster house.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 11, 2024 07:30 AM (V5eKu)

119 Almost like fog with sun trying to get rid of all the wet ground

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 07:31 AM (fwDg9)

120 Wet streets cause rain.

Posted by: The Experts at May 11, 2024 07:33 AM (dg+HA)

121 68 ... in lib little sister's house. She doesn't even have coffee. Sadz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:44 AM (+87un)

!!!

Posted by: m at May 11, 2024 07:33 AM (o3SCB)

122
Bragging or complaining?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 11, 2024 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

Complaining. Her Majesty is in no condition for my bragging.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 11, 2024 07:34 AM (MoZTd)

123 If Mrs fd thinks we are going somewhere without coffee, the Keurig is going with us.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

124 68 ... in lib little sister's house. She doesn't even have coffee. Sadz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 06:44 AM (+87un)

That's like a crime against humanity.

Posted by: dantesed at May 11, 2024 07:36 AM (Oy/m2)

125 Well pan pan is a distress signal from aircraft with problems but not yet at the level of Mayday.

Posted by: Ciampino - raining icebergs in Texas at May 11, 2024 07:36 AM (qfLjt)

126 I've realigned my morning plan. Breakfast first, then a shave & cleanup. I'll wash the car on my way to the barbershop! Brilliant!

Normally at this time of year I wouldn't do that; it would be too hot and humid, and I'd be a walking swamp under my clothes all morning. The (relatively) pleasant temps and moisture this morning make it possible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2024 07:39 AM (omVj0)

127 Who doesn't have instant coffee?

https://youtu.be/uDrh5pujB9I

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 11, 2024 07:39 AM (dg+HA)

128 There is that cycle, rain brings more rain, dry brings more dry

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 07:41 AM (fwDg9)

129 Gavin Newsom said cutting street cleaning in half would make the streets cleaner. Sure, Jan.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2024 07:13 AM (+87un)

Well, not prosecuting crime has made the number of prosecuted crimes drop.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 11, 2024 07:44 AM (CmpAx)

130 It's worth driving to an area where there's no light pollution to see the aurora.

It's also comical that the same people who tell us they know how to stop Global Warming also can't tell us how long they'll be visible.

Funny, that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 11, 2024 07:45 AM (1IRF+)

131 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2024 07:39 AM (omVj0)

My morning plan has been to get up, take shower, get dressed, then take a walk for about 20-25 minutes or so. Eat breakfast (bowl of cereal plus English muffins) then make coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at May 11, 2024 07:45 AM (Oy/m2)

132 127 Who doesn't have instant coffee?

https://youtu.be/uDrh5pujB9I
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 11, 2024 07:39 AM (dg+HA)

Good lord that was funny!

Posted by: m at May 11, 2024 07:47 AM (o3SCB)

133 52 USC 20511(2) makes it a felony to fraudulently register or vote.

18 USC 911 makes it a felony to make any claim of false citizenship, period.

18 USC 1015(f) makes it a felony to make any false claim related to citizenship.

Each of these is fines and 5 years. By the way, 52 is written in a way that actually makes it a crime to submit the registration. So most of these NGO people should be looking at jail time too.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2024 07:47 AM (ENQN6)

134 " Gavin Newsom said cutting street cleaning in half would make the streets cleaner. Sure, Jan."

Giving alcohol to alcoholics saves money. Anything can be true in Fantasyland.

Posted by: the bear at May 11, 2024 07:48 AM (vFG9F)

135 Well, not prosecuting crime has made the number of prosecuted crimes drop.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 11, 2024 07:44 AM (CmpAx)

And changing rules on submission so that big cities (eg Houston) do not report.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2024 07:48 AM (ENQN6)

136 Help. I'm looking at buying a vintage race car with extra engines, two sets of wheels, and a bunch of parts. 1967 MGB. Real cheap. Somebody stop me.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

137
That's one way to keep 'Law and Order' type candidates off the ballot - stop reporting crime statistics.

I cannot believe the reality we live in. This has to be a simulation run by pot smoking teenagers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 07:52 AM (RKVpM)

138 I got lucky last night with the aurora. It had been mostly cloudy all day but they cleared out just after sundown. Then, around 10:30-ish I went out and could just barely make it out looking north.

The photo I posted last night was taken about that time. Here, by midnight, it had really subsided.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2024 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

139
There is that cycle, rain brings more rain, dry brings more dry
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2024 07:41 AM (fwDg9)

In Texas, droughts are ended by floods and vice versa.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 11, 2024 07:53 AM (MoZTd)

140
Help. I'm looking at buying a vintage race car with extra engines, two sets of wheels, and a bunch of parts. 1967 MGB. Real cheap. Somebody stop me.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:51 AM

Buy it and it will be the happiest day of your life. Until you sell it, and that day will be the happiest day of your life.

They say that about boats, too.

In my case, I enjoyed buying and was sad to sell.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 07:54 AM (RKVpM)

141 I cannot believe the reality we live in. This has to be a simulation run by pot smoking teenagers.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2024 07:52 AM (RKVpM)

This is your life.

This is your life on communist/technocratic oligarchy.

Any questions?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 11, 2024 07:54 AM (CmpAx)

142 136 Help. I'm looking at buying a vintage race car with extra engines, two sets of wheels, and a bunch of parts. 1967 MGB. Real cheap. Somebody stop me.
Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

Stop. Don't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 11, 2024 07:55 AM (CmpAx)

143 91 "Valu-rite has the contract. $30 per shot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

They pay a premium because it's plant based.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:06 AM (vFG9F)
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Well, the only known way to make meat-based alcohol is to dry distil a wino.

Posted by: Ciampino - disappearing winos in SF at May 11, 2024 07:56 AM (qfLjt)

144 "Buy it and it will be the happiest day of your life. Until you sell it, and that day will be the happiest day of your life."

I don't do boats, but I already have some holes to throw cash into. This is a real barn find though. I hate to pass it up.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

145 136 Help. I'm looking at buying a vintage race car with extra engines, two sets of wheels, and a bunch of parts. 1967 MGB. Real cheap. Somebody stop me.
Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

Go for it!

Posted by: m at May 11, 2024 07:59 AM (o3SCB)

146 > Help. I'm looking at buying a vintage race car with extra engines, two sets of wheels, and a bunch of parts. 1967 MGB. Real cheap. Somebody stop me.
Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)
____________

Do it. Play with it. When bored sell it. Got a track nearby to run it at?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2024 08:00 AM (Q4IgG)

147 Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

You've been riding around with those guys from American Pickers, haven't you?

Posted by: dantesed at May 11, 2024 08:00 AM (Oy/m2)

148 Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

Do you have space in the garage to wrench, and some electrical capability? If so, do it!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 11, 2024 08:02 AM (YRsIm)

149 Help. I'm looking at buying a vintage race car with extra engines, two sets of wheels, and a bunch of parts. 1967 MGB. Real cheap. Somebody stop me.

[ WonkaVoice ]

Stop. Don't do that.

[ /WonkaVoice ]

Posted by: Oddbob at May 11, 2024 08:03 AM (/y8xj)

150 Over 29 years ago, I used to buy cars for $500-$1000, fix them up and drive them for a while, and then sell them. Nowadays the sweet spot is $3000 to $5000. There is not much of a market for a 67 MGB race car with a roll cage though. A car like that I would have to keep.

It might be good for the burning times though, with a wood gas generator on hanging the back and a Maxim mounted on the hood.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

151 Got a track nearby to run it at?

Hey now, it's a 67 MGB... probably just need some local highways every other month....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 11, 2024 08:04 AM (YRsIm)

152 Help. I'm looking at buying a vintage race car with extra engines, two sets of wheels, and a bunch of parts. 1967 MGB. Real cheap. Somebody stop me.

Posted by: fd

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If it's already running I can't think of a good argument against it.

Maybe you'll get too much attention when you take it to events?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 11, 2024 08:04 AM (1IRF+)

153 "Got a track nearby to run it at?"

Yes, and autocross events too.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

154 Giving alcohol to alcoholics saves money.

Four drinks a day to every alcoholic who signs up -- at San Francisco prices? That grant money won't last long.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 11, 2024 08:05 AM (zdLoL)

155 "If it's already running I can't think of a good argument against it."

It's not. Engine and tranny are not in it. There are extras of both.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

156 I have a cousin who was a pro stock car driver. Is office is full of plaques and trophies. He has aged out, but still has his last car in his pole barn along with lots of tools. His son who was going to replace him died in a truck accident, last year. I feel for him, as his glory days are over, as it happens to all of us.

Posted by: Colin at May 11, 2024 08:07 AM (/z/eU)

157 "He has aged out, but still has his last car in his pole barn along with lots of tools. His son who was going to replace him died in a truck accident, last year. I feel for him, as his glory days are over, as it happens to all of us.
Posted by: Colin"

Similar situation. This car has been an SCCA racer for years, passed down from one driver to another. It languishes now in a barn.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

158 138 I got lucky last night with the aurora. It had been mostly cloudy all day but they cleared out just after sundown. Then, around 10:30-ish I went out and could just barely make it out looking north.

The photo I posted last night was taken about that time. Here, by midnight, it had really subsided.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2024 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)
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Initially I stopped at 'I got lucky last night' and thought you were bragging ...... LOL

Posted by: Ciampino - to be so lucky at May 11, 2024 08:09 AM (qfLjt)

159 I don't want to insult the guy but I don't think I'd pay more than $2000 for the whole mess. He wants $3K.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

160 > "Got a track nearby to run it at?"

Yes, and autocross events too.
__________

I used to live not far from Laguna Seca. I bought a Porsche 914 for $3K that was already setup for autocross but with a little work it was track-able.

Not very fast, but it was a go cart for adults.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2024 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

161 "If it's already running I can't think of a good argument against it."

It's not. Engine and tranny are not in it. There are extras of both.
Posted by: fd

-

I mean, for the most part it's mostly a normal MGB purchase then.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 11, 2024 08:14 AM (1IRF+)

162 "I mean, for the most part it's mostly a normal MGB purchase then.
Posted by: Moron Robbie "

I've never been much of a British car fan, but they do have their charms.

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2024 08:17 AM (vFG9F)

163 138 I got lucky last night

The Paolo he does not know about this, how you say, luck...

Posted by: The Paolo at May 11, 2024 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

164 A lot more quirks than charms.

Posted by: The Voice Of Experience at May 11, 2024 08:20 AM (dg+HA)

165 If you like to work on cars, British cars are the cars for you!
- Potential British car billboard

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 11, 2024 08:22 AM (1IRF+)

166 156 I have a cousin who was a pro stock car driver. Is office is full of plaques and trophies. He has aged out, but still has his last car in his pole barn along with lots of tools. His son who was going to replace him died in a truck accident, last year. I feel for him, as his glory days are over, as it happens to all of us.
Posted by: Colin at May 11, 2024 08:07 AM (/z/eU)

Aw, man.

Posted by: m at May 11, 2024 08:24 AM (o3SCB)

167 I got lucky last night with the aurora.

Me too. The electronic diagnostics program had read out "Low Oil Pressure," and putting a new oil pump into a baby North Star is practically easier if you pull the engine. It wasn't the sending unit (you find that out by putting in a new sending unit). After extensive road-going research involving taping an S-W analog gauge to the outside mirror, restomod mechanic traced it to the ultra-modern chip circuit, so I now have a sleek round oil pressure gauge (with braided high-pressure sensor hose) where the ashtray/gumholder used to be. We managed to save the "cigarette lighter" phone charger jacks.

That engine will deliver 120 pounds of oil pressure at speed.
I have a mental image of a lot of cars from that era ending up with a whole row of hotrod gauges and toggle switches across the dash, probably in three-ply lauan plywood.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 11, 2024 08:30 AM (zdLoL)

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