Setting Up Your Dog's Email Account Cafe

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Nature is Amazing
@AMAZlNGNATURE
This is a stack of 32 shots by photographer Fendy Gan over 40 minutes during a lightning storm in Kuala Lampur. May, 2020.

All I can think of is "Puttin' on the Ritz."

Five more minutes, mom!

Not on my mouse-watch!

Saving dogs trapped on top of roofs after a major flood.

Not sure what's going on here but it looks like someone's riding a dirt bike across a lake.

We've got a real Pepe LePeu situation here.

Cats are evil creatures who want to ruin everything in your life but sometimes their evil will mars their own evil actions.

The. Absolute. Sass. of these good boys.

The deadly wombat. Thanks to bonhomme.

A little budgie from day one after he hatches to day thirty. They grow up so quick!

A dog's favorite toy is a Gumby plushie, so his dad did this for his birthday.

A polite good boy.

A big bruiser is also a big softie.

JOCKEY RACE IN PERU

ANDDDD THEY’RE OFF!!
(This appears to be 3 weeks ago) pic.twitter.com/IUGQUSYPfc
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) July 13, 2025

Reading fake email to my dog with his favorite words in it pic.twitter.com/vaDWebXkht
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) July 15, 2025

Don't worry, he doesn't drop it (which is what I thought was going to happen based on the caption):

this guy spent 21 years building a miniature version of nyc consisting of almost a million buildings, the full model is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he first announced it on tiktok like this: pic.twitter.com/JShpYt5AB5
— “paula” (@paularambles) July 15, 2025

33 original miles Corvette first wash in 42 years... pic.twitter.com/m218jLVlXO
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) July 15, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:40 PM

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1 Willowed:

Hodgetwins:

BREAKING: Federal Judge Tosses FBI Agents’ Lawsuit — Jan. 6 Names Could Be Released ⚖️

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by FBI agents trying to block the release of their names related to the Jan. 6 Capitol protest investigations.

The agents claimed they could be targeted if their identities were exposed.
But Judge Jia Cobb — a Biden-appointed judge — said the threat wasn’t “imminent” enough and called their concerns “too speculative.”
The DOJ hasn’t said they’ll release the names… yet.

Let’s be clear:
These agents helped carry out one of the most politically charged investigations in modern history.
American citizens have EVERY RIGHT to know who was behind it.
BREAKING: Federal Judge Tosses FBI Agents’ Lawsuit — Jan. 6 Names Could Be Released

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 07:42 PM (k3Vs9)

2 Criminy - read the CONTENT!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 18, 2025 07:43 PM (NcvvS)

3 We've got a real Pepe LePeu situation here.

Baby fart squirrels have no control over their farter.
They poot frequently in tiny amounts. But it is unmistakable.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 07:45 PM (k3Vs9)

4 All I can think of is "Puttin' on the Ritz."

Putin!

Stooge status: confirmed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 07:45 PM (zZu0s)

5 The jockey race made me lol!

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 07:45 PM (mADJX)

6 Nooded, sir. Well done, rickb223!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 18, 2025 07:45 PM (NcvvS)

7 Jockeys race was fun. Ran their little legs off. Like Piper at a shoe sale.

Posted by: Payless Petey at July 18, 2025 07:47 PM (G5+As)

8 Okay - we all know that I am full of sh*t and most of my tales are BS.

BUT, today my lovely wife and I went to a Social Security office and actually had our questions answered quickly and seemingly accurately.

Honest.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2025 07:49 PM (cYBz/)

9 The video of the '82 'Vette was amazing. What was the story, I wonder. The guy bought it new, drove it home from the dealer, parked it in the garage, then had a heart attack in his sleep? And the car has been there ever since?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 07:49 PM (omVj0)

10 The Golden and reading the email.

I like Goldens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)

11 We cackle and point at so-called 'fart squirrels'.

Posted by: Penguins of the World at July 18, 2025 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

12 I am a little bit surprised the doggo was able to recognize the Gumby costume.

And allow me to state for the record that I am highly disappointed the man in the costume didn't say "dammit" a single time.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 07:50 PM (FVLcK)

13
BUT, today my lovely wife and I went to a Social Security office and actually had our questions answered quickly and seemingly accurately.

Honest.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2025

***
I've never been to an SS office. But when I've called their 800 number, I've gotten good answers. True, I've had to sit on hold for nearly an hour even if I call first thing in the morning. But once I do get a human, everything goes well.

Same for Medicare, except I didn't have to be on hold more than about five or ten minutes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 07:51 PM (omVj0)

14 Seriously, you guys, never let Piper and AtC meet IRL - could be TEOTWASWKI - and I like them both!

Posted by: Nazdar at July 18, 2025 07:52 PM (NcvvS)

15 8 Okay - we all know that I am full of sh*t and most of my tales are BS.

BUT, today my lovely wife and I went to a Social Security office and actually had our questions answered quickly and seemingly accurately.

Honest.

You've got video, of course?

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 07:52 PM (mADJX)

16 I hate tourists.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 07:52 PM (iZaDk)

17 Seriously, you guys, never let Piper and AtC meet IRL - could be TEOTWASWKI - and I like them both!
Posted by: Nazdar at July 18, 2025

***
Does AtC ever post here any more? I'd gotten so I recognized her writing style even before looking at her nic. She was remarkable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 07:53 PM (omVj0)

18 Does AtC ever post here any more? I'd gotten so I recognized her writing style even before looking at her nic. She was remarkable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 07:53 PM (omVj0)

I think she got pissed off at the jackasses here, and went to do other things. Miss her input.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 07:54 PM (D7oie)

19 I hate tourists.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025

***
I hate Qantas. We should talk.

Posted by: Chief SpokesKoala of Queensland at July 18, 2025 07:54 PM (omVj0)

20 The NYC model guy was interesting and a little "tetched" in the head. I've known a few folks like that and they add to the rich tapestry of civilization. Besides, all the mental institutions are closed and this seems a harmless diversion.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at July 18, 2025 07:55 PM (G5+As)

21 @17

Wolfus, AtC is an occasional daywalker.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 18, 2025 07:55 PM (NcvvS)

22 I hate tourists.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 07:52 PM

We, on the other fin, love them.

Posted by: Pike Place Fish Market at July 18, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

23 I hate tourists.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025

***
Happens all the time at the disco on the outskirts of Frisco. The place is so boring when it's filled with out-of-towners touring.

Posted by: Sister Sledge, 1979 at July 18, 2025 07:58 PM (omVj0)

24 Does AtC ever post here any more? I'd gotten so I recognized her writing style even before looking at her nic. She was remarkable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 07:53 PM (omVj0)

I think she got pissed off at the jackasses here, and went to do other things. Miss her input.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 07:54 PM (D7oie)

We were insufficiently supportive of LGBTQMAP2S+ and she left because of it.

Posted by: True story. Her flounce note said as much. at July 18, 2025 07:58 PM (TbWk/)

25 Now that he's finished modeling and placing all of NYC, what's his next act? Newark? Weehauken? Yonkers?

Posted by: Succasunna, NJ Is Nice at July 18, 2025 08:01 PM (G5+As)

26 H & I has the TOS episode "Doomsday Machine" just starting -- one of my "gotta stop and watch it" episodes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:01 PM (omVj0)

27 She does post regularly on X

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 18, 2025 08:03 PM (cuCUO)

28 Now that he's finished modeling and placing all of NYC, what's his next act? Newark? Weehauken? Yonkers?
Posted by: Succasunna, NJ Is Nice at July 18, 2025

***
Pittsburgh?

Or a fictional town like King's Castle Rock, Maine, or the town where the Finches lived in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:03 PM (omVj0)

29 Uh oh...so someone under Clapper is singing as a whistleblower.

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 08:04 PM (dIske)

30 Sal Iaccuzzo was from Yonkers.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 18, 2025 08:04 PM (FJKYQ)

31 Now that he's finished modeling and placing all of NYC, what's his next act? Newark? Weehauken? Yonkers?
Posted by: Succasunna, NJ Is Nice at July 18, 2025 08:01 PM (G5+As)

Add an N gauge subway/train system, above and below 'street level'.

That should take another couple of dozen years.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:05 PM (gKDq2)

32 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Spock is such a stickler for regulations he almost gets the Enterprise destroyed, twice.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2025 08:07 PM (vFG9F)

33 So the NYC model made little buildings for people who don't read good?
This sounds familiar.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 18, 2025 08:07 PM (FJKYQ)

34 Add an N gauge subway/train system, above and below 'street level'.

That should take another couple of dozen years.
Posted by: RickZ

NYC Subway System has 850 miles of track. I know it would be scaled, but you're right, it will take him a couple dozen years.

Posted by: The N Train at July 18, 2025 08:10 PM (G5+As)

35 We were insufficiently supportive of LGBTQMAP2S+ and she left because of it.

Posted by: True story. Her flounce note said as much. at July 18, 2025 07:58 PM (TbWk/)

I missed that. I suppose ATC didn't appreciate having all gays and lesbians tarred as kiddy diddlers every single day.
I also miss, little miss spellcheck, she was one of the cool kids (JJ's morning report logo), till she mentioned she was marrying her girlfriend.

Posted by: old chick at July 18, 2025 08:10 PM (F3Dlr)

36 30 Sal Iaccuzzo was from Yonkers.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

I've been in thousands of apartments in Yonkers, doing cable TV construction 1980-82.

Posted by: Seen Plenty at July 18, 2025 08:12 PM (G5+As)

37 NYC Subway System has 850 miles of track. I know it would be scaled, but you're right, it will take him a couple dozen years.
Posted by: The N Train at July 18, 2025 08:10 PM (G5+As)

Think of the track work under Grand Central and Penn Station, with Metro North and Amtrak lines.

It would take many many years. But Rod Stewart would be proud, so there's that.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:15 PM (gKDq2)

38 Top photo is what it felt like during last night's storm.

Daisy, our barks-at-anything Belgian Malinois is not bothered by fireworks or thunder.

However, we're dogsitting Daughter's two pooches while she and hub are on a belated anniversary vacation, and both of them (the dogs, not daughter & sil) burst into the bedroom at 4:30am.

Maya, the compact one, just ran under our bed and wouldn't have been noticed except for her whip-like tail thumping. Chowie, the shaggy setter wanted to crawl into bed with us.

Daisy had discretely exited the bedroom riot to go back to sleep on the couch.

I wouldn't want a steady diet of that, but it was chuckleworthy. It really was a loud storm.

Posted by: mindful webworker - weather goes kaboom at July 18, 2025 08:16 PM (RviYc)

39 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Spock is such a stickler for regulations he almost gets the Enterprise destroyed, twice.
Posted by: fd at July 18, 2025

***
That does not sound like "Doomsday Machine."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:17 PM (omVj0)

40 I think they're closer to badgers, specifically the aptlynamed Asian Stink Badger.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 08:17 PM (K7yuL)

41 Evening! Happy Friday!

Posted by: Iris at July 18, 2025 08:18 PM (bOJ2I)

42 Personally, being not only a connoisseur of Fail but also a producer of it, I'm looking forward to the Rockies / Twins match in twenty minutes.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 08:19 PM (K7yuL)

43 That does not sound like "Doomsday Machine."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:17 PM (omVj0)

Maybe because he let's Decker retain command even when it is obvious decker is off his nut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:19 PM (Yamow)

44 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Spock is such a stickler for regulations he almost gets the Enterprise destroyed, twice.
Posted by: fd at July 18, 2025

***
That does not sound like "Doomsday Machine."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:17 PM (omVj0)

Could be, he lets the insane captain take over the enterprise when kirk is off on the other ship. Not sure what the second incident is.

I don't think Naval Regulations let a random captain take over a ship he isn't designated captain of.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 08:20 PM (8avO+)

45 That does not sound like "Doomsday Machine."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:17 PM (omVj0)

Maybe because he let's Decker retain command even when it is obvious decker is off his nut.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:19 PM (Yamow)

That might require McCoy to act, not him.

Though he does relieve Kirk himself in the "Enterprise Incident" when they are play acting for the Romulan Lady.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 08:21 PM (8avO+)

46 I don't think Naval Regulations let a random captain take over a ship he isn't designated captain of.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 08:20 PM (8avO+)

He is a Commodore though. Kirk balls up and has him removed by his personal command of the enterprise.

I dunno how it works I'll though. Do admirals or commodores hitch a ride on aircraft carriers on their way somewhere?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:22 PM (Yamow)

47
Uh oh...so someone under Clapper is singing as a whistleblower.
Posted by: Orson

===============

Is there news already?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 08:23 PM (HL/Ld)

48 "That does not sound like "Doomsday Machine."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere"

Spock didn't have to give up command.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2025 08:23 PM (vFG9F)

49 this guy spent 21 years building a miniature version of nyc consisting of almost a million buildings, the full model is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide

That is freakin' amazing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 18, 2025 08:23 PM (mH6SG)

50 I don't think Naval Regulations let a random captain take over a ship he isn't designated captain of.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 08:20 PM (8avO+)

He is a Commodore though. Kirk balls up and has him removed by his personal command of the enterprise.

I dunno how it works I'll though. Do admirals or commodores hitch a ride on aircraft carriers on their way somewhere?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:22 PM (Yamow)

Still don't know if a Commodore can just take over a dozen ships assigned to another fleet or task force.

I'd think a Captain could hitch a ride on a vessel no problem. But he'd be a guest

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 08:24 PM (8avO+)

51 He is a Commodore though

Easy like Sunday morning?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 08:24 PM (K7yuL)

52 The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
4h
Winning: DOJ Announces They Have Arrested Man Responsible For Creating Microsoft OneDrive buff.ly/fup29Pn

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 08:25 PM (D7oie)

53 OK so they GI'ed that Corvette, but no joyride at the end?

what a gyp

Posted by: Don Black at July 18, 2025 08:25 PM (AOsQT)

54 Isn't Commodore an odd rank? It is meant for a guy in command of a small fleet of like 4 or 5 ships? (this is me remembering Horatio Hornblower.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:27 PM (Yamow)

55 Now that he's finished modeling and placing all of NYC, what's his next act? Newark? Weehauken? Yonkers?
Posted by: Succasunna, NJ Is Nice at July 18, 2025 08:01 PM (G5+As)

Detroit...just get a lot of brown astroturf.

Posted by: Dr. Klahn at July 18, 2025 08:28 PM (R/m4+)

56 Fun fact: If a Naval Captain (O-6) or Marine Captain (O-3) comes aboard a ship, they are addressed with courtesy titles one rank higher (Commodore or Major), since only the Commanding Officer is addressed as Captain.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2025 08:28 PM (0sNs1)

57 Ryan Trahan is knocking it out of the park on his tour of America AirBnB. So far has raised $5 million for St Jude.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 18, 2025 08:28 PM (Vh9CX)

58 Maybe because he let's Decker retain command even when it is obvious decker is off his nut.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025

***
Spock takes every opportunity to point out to Decker the folly of his attack plan, and at last manages to get him to veer off. "You're bluffing." "Vulcans never bluff." ". . . No. No, I don't suppose that they do. Very well, Mr. Spock; the bridge is yours."

Decker was not only a ranking officer, as a commodore he outranked Kirk. The presumption of a court martial would be to start with the idea that the commanding officer, Decker, was right and in his right mind. Spock would have to convince the board otherwise; tough to do, as we saw in The Caine Mutiny.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:29 PM (omVj0)

59 An English guy is building a 1:25 scale TOS Enterprise in a hangar in Manchester.

https://tinyurl.com/5f4f58x3

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 08:31 PM (fV+MH)

60 Commodore is a senior naval rank used in many navies which is equivalent to brigadier or brigadier general and air commodore. It is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. It is either regarded as the most junior of the flag officers rank or may not hold the jurisdiction of a flag officer at all depending on the officer's appointment. Non-English-speaking nations commonly use the rank of flotilla admiral, counter admiral, or senior captain as an equivalent, although counter admiral may also correspond to rear admiral lower half abbreviated as RDML.
Traditionally, "commodore" is the title for any officer assigned to command more than one ship, even temporarily, much as "captain" is the traditional title for the commanding officer of a single ship even if the officer's official title in the service is a lower rank. As an official rank, a commodore typically commands a flotilla or squadron of ships as part of a larger task force or naval fleet commanded by an admiral. A commodore's ship is typically designated by the flying of a broad pennant, as compared to an admiral's flag.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 08:32 PM (k3Vs9)

61 He is a Commodore though

Both Fawlty Towers and Keeping Up Appearances had to make do with just a Major.

Posted by: Rank Organization at July 18, 2025 08:32 PM (G5+As)

62 14 Seriously, you guys, never let Piper and AtC meet IRL - could be TEOTWASWKI - and I like them both!
Posted by: Nazdar at July 18, 2025 07:52 PM (NcvvS)

Aww, thank you. I have no idea what all the letters mean, but I going to assume positive. That said, I am no AtC. We do interact every now and again on x, I really like her, too. She is saucy and smart, what could be better?

Posted by: Piper at July 18, 2025 08:34 PM (p4NUW)

63 He is a Commodore though
----

Both Fawlty Towers and Keeping Up Appearances had to make do with just a Major.
Posted by: Rank Organization at July 18, 2025 08:32 PM (G5+As)

Catch-22 had to make do with just a Major Major.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:35 PM (gKDq2)

64 "TEOTWASWKI" is usually written as TEOTWAWKI: The End of the World As We Know It.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:35 PM (omVj0)

65 Aww, thank you. I have no idea what all the letters mean, but I going to assume positive. That said, I am no AtC. We do interact every now and again on x, I really like her, too. She is saucy and smart, what could be better?
Posted by: Piper

IRL - in real life
TEOTWAWKI - The end of the world as we know it
TANSTAAFL - There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 08:36 PM (k3Vs9)

66 7 Jockeys race was fun. Ran their little legs off. Like Piper at a shoe sale.
Posted by: Payless Petey at July 18, 2025 07:47 PM (G5+As)

🤣

Posted by: Piper at July 18, 2025 08:37 PM (p4NUW)

67
I'm adding:

IVFT - I voted for this

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 08:37 PM (HL/Ld)

68 Spock could have dropped Decker with a neck pinch and the crew would have been grateful.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2025 08:38 PM (vFG9F)

69 like her, too. She is saucy and smart, what could be better?
Posted by: Piper

Saucy and smart are fine, but I hate spunk!

Posted by: Lou Grant at July 18, 2025 08:38 PM (G5+As)

70
Jockeys race was fun. Ran their little legs off. Like Piper at a shoe sale.
Posted by: Payless Petey at July 18, 2025 07:47 PM (G5+As)

🤣
Posted by: Piper

=============

I wish they'd had little stuffed-toy horses on their backs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 08:38 PM (HL/Ld)

71 Watching people say key words around dogs is funny . The dogs only know association and nothing about context

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 08:38 PM (egMwa)

72 Thank you for the explanations! I do believe we could cause a little trouble out there in the world. In a “wait until we tell you this story” kind of way.

Posted by: Piper at July 18, 2025 08:39 PM (p4NUW)

73 Corvette video is total bullshit

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 18, 2025 08:42 PM (bcKER)

74 Isn't Commodore an odd rank? It is meant for a guy in command of a small fleet of like 4 or 5 ships? (this is me remembering Horatio Hornblower.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:27 PM (Yamow)

In England in the age of sail the rank was an ad-hoc temporary rank if there were no admirals around or needed. When the task was done the squadron would break up.

In the US it was an official rank between Captain and Rear Admiral. Possibly because having large fleets was so rare.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 18, 2025 08:43 PM (8avO+)

75
Do we know Blaire White? She's contemplating a run for office in California. MAGA transwoman.

I can't help calling Blaire "she." I use the pronoun that causes me the least mental friction.

youtube.com/shorts/RC3IUEzp0FM

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 08:44 PM (HL/Ld)

76 I question the lightning.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 18, 2025 08:45 PM (MX0bI)

77 Don't tell Mary C about the Fart Squirrels !!!!!

Posted by: Wally at July 18, 2025 08:46 PM (BltCC)

78 Back in the 70's Commodore and Five Star Admiral were war time ranks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 08:48 PM (63Dwl)

79 75 Isn't Commodore an odd rank? It is meant for a guy in command of a small fleet of like 4 or 5 ships? (this is me remembering Horatio Hornblower.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:27 PM (Yamow)

In England in the age of sail the rank was an ad-hoc temporary rank if there were no admirals around or needed. When the task was done the squadron would break up.

In the US it was an official rank between Captain and Rear Admiral. Possibly because having large fleets was so rare. - Oldcat

The Pond Committee in our development is looking for a new chief. I thought I'd apply, on the conditions that I could call myself Commodore, and wear a Bolivian admiral's uniform.

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 08:49 PM (mADJX)

80 I got nailed by a group of fucking skunks while in PA in college. They are nasty animals. I hate them. They are quite pretty tho. Until they spray you.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 18, 2025 08:49 PM (bcKER)

81 Watching people say key words around dogs is funny . The dogs only know association and nothing about context
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025

***
The late big red tabby Arizona knew three words: His name, "No," and "Feed." The first and especially the third were the most important to him. The second he knew -- his ears would twitch -- but he usually ignored me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 08:49 PM (omVj0)

82 Don't tell Mary C about the Fart Squirrels !!!!!"

I do believe the Fart Tubing Festival is coming up shortly. Maybe they should invite the skwirrells.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 18, 2025 08:50 PM (89Sog)

83 Don't tell Mary C about the Fart Squirrels !!!!!
Posted by: Wally at July 18, 2025 08:46 PM (BltCC)

No, tell her they're great animals to have around. They're so cute.

She'll be fart-tubing her way through the car wash in no time.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:50 PM (gKDq2)

84 I waited and waited for them to start the Corvette.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 08:51 PM (jc0TO)

85 I always get a chuckle out of alternate names for critters:

Trash panda
fart skwerl
tree rat
whistle pig
flying raisins - flies
Spicey flying raisins - bees
Flying teddy bears - bumblebees
Chupacabra -naw, that one is scary

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 08:51 PM (0aYVJ)

86 Brick House!

Posted by: The Commodores at July 18, 2025 08:51 PM (wVcYX)

87 Watching people say key words around dogs is funny . The dogs only know association and nothing about context
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 08:38 PM (egMwa)

Sometimes they can go beyond it. I could tell Ajax to 'Go find your ball.' And he would systematically search the apartment until he found a ball.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

88 and wear a Bolivian admiral's uniform.
Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 08:49 PM

with more medals than a Russian Fieldmarshal.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 08:52 PM (jc0TO)

89

my ex legal spouse owned two felines. They learned to haul ass to the food bowls when I said the word 'fresh'

Posted by: Don Black. Message: dude there's no message at July 18, 2025 08:53 PM (AOsQT)

90 I always get a chuckle out of alternate names for critters:

Trash panda
fart skwerl
tree rat
whistle pig
flying raisins - flies
Spicey flying raisins - bees
Flying teddy bears - bumblebees
Chupacabra -naw, that one is scary
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 08:51 PM (0aYVJ)
——

Cocksucking Faggot Shitbirds — Democrats

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 18, 2025 08:53 PM (bcKER)

91 Pug Mahon,

My Mom grew up in the country. She always called skunks polecats. Have no idea why.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:54 PM (gKDq2)

92
Corvette video is total bullshit
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

============

People put so much energy into internet bullshit it's crazy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 08:54 PM (HL/Ld)

93 "Corvette video is total bullshit
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade"

Why do you think so?

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 08:54 PM (fV+MH)

94 Back in the 70's Commodore and Five Star Admiral were war time ranks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

But now-a-days all Police Chiefs are 4 or 5 star officers.

If they added feather boas I couldn't have any less respect for them than I already do.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2025 08:54 PM (cYBz/)

95 My Mom grew up in the country. She always called skunks polecats. Have no idea why.
Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:54 PM (gKDq2)

yeah, that's a legitimate regional name for them. had an uncle who called the polecats. he was one of them Southrens.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 08:56 PM (0aYVJ)

96 No matter what happens with the information, we now live in a world where there is proof that Obama told his administration to push a fake Russia hoax to try and take out his successor. And the entire world knows it.

I don't think there are many other people on the planet who could have survived and ultimately won in that situation besides Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m)

97 '82 would have been pretty much the nadir of the American sports car, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 18, 2025 08:57 PM (/y8xj)

98 I have a car story that sounds as believable as a Penthouse Forum letter but I believe it as I saw the car.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 08:57 PM (jc0TO)

99 Squirrels are not tree rats.

I think they're nice.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 08:57 PM (fV+MH)

100 The Pond Committee in our development is looking for a new chief. I thought I'd apply, on the conditions that I could call myself Commodore, and wear a Bolivian admiral's uniform.
Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 08:49 PM (mADJX)

Personally I would opt for "Paraguayan Navy Admiral uniform" since they are pretty much still using the Kreigsmarine styling for the dress whites.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 08:58 PM (D7oie)

101 My apologies, Jack, but this is not earth shattering to me. I knew he was fucking part of it anyway.

Unless he is thrown in a deep dark hole or hung from the neck until dead, it means nothing. Just like his mentor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 08:58 PM (zZu0s)

102 "'82 would have been pretty much the nadir of the American sports car, wouldn't it?
Posted by: Oddbob"

The Mustang got demasculated beyond belief in that era.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 08:59 PM (fV+MH)

103
Well, I can't find any hate-watches re the Tulsi bomb, but I am drinking the tears of Nicolle Wallace over the termination of Colbert. She really truly is fighting tears.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 08:59 PM (HL/Ld)

104 Pigeons are feathered rats.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 08:59 PM (k3Vs9)

105 Watching people say key words around dogs is funny . The dogs only know association and nothing about context
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2025 08:38 PM (egMwa)

I have to disagree. Some dogs do understand.

My friend had a purebred Pekinese. Smart, cocky bastard. He had a box full of colorful stuffed toys in various shapes, star, tree, bird, etc. My friend would tell Sniffles 'go get the star' and he'd go to his toy box and root around until he came back with the star. If I didn't see him do it, I'd never believe it.

He knew the names of every one of his stuffed toys. It was incredible.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:59 PM (gKDq2)

106 The Bolivians are doing the British Naval style, you see.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 08:59 PM (D7oie)

107 with more medals than a Russian Fieldmarshal. - toby928

I think I know where I can lay my hands on some old NYC taxi medallions.

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 09:00 PM (mADJX)

108 The Mustang got demasculated beyond belief in that era.
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 08:59 PM (fV+MH)

I learned to drive on a 4cyl mustang 2. Manual transmission and steering.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 09:00 PM (zZu0s)

109 Squirrels are not tree rats.

I think they're nice.
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 08:57 PM (fV+MH)

I have no problem with skwerls. They can be pretty derpy though. And folks who have bird feeders may have far less generous opinions.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:00 PM (0aYVJ)

110 The climactic scene of "Doomsday Machine" always gets me -- everything about it, from editing to music.

One point I wish they had addressed. If they couldn't read through the thing's neutronium hull, how could Kirk have beamed out through it? Spock would have had to make sure the Enterprise was in line with the other ship, without the planet-killer's hull between them -- a line-of-sight arrangement (though there'd have been thousands of miles between the ships).

James Blish's adaptation of it has Spock suggest that the very existence of one planet killer implies at least one more -- a much more chilling ending than in the aired episode. Someone years later wrote a pro novel suggesting that the planet-killers were developed to fight . . . the Borg!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:01 PM (omVj0)

111 The Pond Committee in our development is looking for a new chief. I thought I'd apply, on the conditions that I could call myself Commodore, and wear a Bolivian admiral's uniform.
Posted by: Paco

Stand on the bank:

https://tinyurl.com/y7xu6pss

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:02 PM (k3Vs9)

112 102 Personally I would opt for "Paraguayan Navy Admiral uniform" since they are pretty much still using the Kreigsmarine styling for the dress whites. - Kindltot

That's a thought. It would look nice hanging in the closet next to my Guatemalan Field Marshal's uniform.

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 09:02 PM (mADJX)

113 Someone years later wrote a pro novel suggesting that the planet-killers were developed to fight . . . the Borg!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:01 PM (omVj0)

Yeah, the Peter David novel. It lost some of its cool factor by explaining the doomsday machine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

114 "Well, I can't find any hate-watches re the Tulsi bomb, but I am drinking the tears of Nicolle Wallace over the termination of Colbert. She really truly is fighting tears.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"

Hah. Fucking Colbert. Such an inauthentic poncing twat.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:02 PM (fV+MH)

115 "Corvette video is total bullshit
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade"

Why do you think so?
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 08:54 PM (fV+MH)
——

‘Barn find’ is the current fake bullshit where everyone is finding rare cars in barns. It’s like every barn or garage in America has some classic car tucked away.

The temp license plate is totally fake. They didn’t use temp plates like that in early 1980s. And it’s in way too good condition for a piece of paper sitting there for 40+ years.

The car would be under literally inches of dust in 40+ years. That car looked like someone tossed some dust on it.

That 1982 vette is a very rare car. They sell more Lamborghinis in a year than they sold that car. The odds that someone has one sitting there unused for 40+ years is zero.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 18, 2025 09:03 PM (bcKER)

116 One creature I loathe is the Canada goose. Petulant, nasty bastards. Fortunately there are fewer here than in Colorado. We have more mallards. Prettier, and much less angry at the world.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:03 PM (0aYVJ)

117 113 Stand on the bank:

https://tinyurl.com/y7xu6pss - rickb223

Haw!!!

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 09:04 PM (mADJX)

118 98 No matter what happens with the information, we now live in a world where there is proof that Obama told his administration to push a fake Russia hoax to try and take out his successor. And the entire world knows it.

I don't think there are many other people on the planet who could have survived and ultimately won in that situation besides Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m
___________________________________

The thing that raised my eyebrows is that they turned someone. According to Matt Taibbi they have a canary:

"The material is bolstered throughout by explanations of a whistleblower from then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office."

That's a big deal in determining context and "intent." Can't wait to see how the RINO's run interference on this one.

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 09:04 PM (dIske)

119
my ex legal spouse owned two felines. They learned to haul ass to the food bowls when I said the word 'fresh'
Posted by: Don Black. Message: dude there's no message at July 18, 2025

***
Tatiana the Wonder Siberian knew what I meant when I threw her ball, she raced after it and seized it, and I told her, "Bring it to me." And she would do that, dropping it right by my feet so I could continue the game.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:04 PM (omVj0)

120 huh, didn't know polecats were skunks. I thought they were ferrets or mink...
*looks it up*
Southern American dialect.

Susan Cooper really fucking hated minks and polecats. No idea why

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 09:04 PM (K7yuL)

121 >>My apologies, Jack, but this is not earth shattering to me. I knew he was fucking part of it anyway.

Did you have the proof? Because nobody else did.

Proof actually matters. I've know for a very long time he was behind it but there was never proof. Now there is.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 09:04 PM (viF8m)

122 In the United States, the term polecat is sometimes applied to the black-footed ferret, a native member of the Mustelinae. In Southern United States dialect, the term polecat is sometimes used as a colloquial nickname for the skunk, which is part of the family Mephitidae.

- One of the few wiki entries not debased by politics and globohomo.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 18, 2025 09:04 PM (/lPRQ)

123 "I have no problem with skwerls. They can be pretty derpy though. And folks who have bird feeders may have far less generous opinions.
Posted by: Pug Mahon"

The thing about bird feeders is they're also squirrel feeders.

How are the squirrels supposed to know?

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:05 PM (fV+MH)

124 107
He knew the names of every one of his stuffed toys. It was incredible.
Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 08:59 PM (gKDq2)

Saijo is up to 4 toys he absolutely knows. However, he has 2 favorites, so he will bring you the one you asked for, but he will also try to bring his favorite. We haven’t gotten to the put it away stage yet. He has drop it really well which is the precursor to it. We will get there!

Posted by: Piper at July 18, 2025 09:05 PM (p4NUW)

125 Peter David deserved better.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 09:05 PM (K7yuL)

126 Hah. Fucking Colbert. Such an inauthentic poncing twat.
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:02 PM (fV+MH)

That may be so but he took a side character/running gag on The Daily Show and made millions off of it.

I think he'll survive the trauma of being shitcanned.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:06 PM (gKDq2)

127 The thing about bird feeders is they're also squirrel feeders.

How are the squirrels supposed to know?
Posted by: eleven

Give squirrels their own feeders that they don't have to work so hard to get to and they'll leave most bird feeders alone.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:07 PM (k3Vs9)

128 That whistleblower better have good security, especially since the entire Russia bullshit started with Hillary.

Posted by: davidt at July 18, 2025 09:07 PM (i0F8b)

129 Funny thing about the backfooted ferret. Believed to be extinct, until a colony was found on the Pitchfork Ranch in the Greybull river valley. We used to camp there, up on the south side of Carter Mountain.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:09 PM (0aYVJ)

130
The James Webb telescope is producing some amazing discoveries. From a chemical signature it detected a while back, they were able to zoom in on the location with the big ALMA array.

They discovered a solar system forming in the very first stages, where silicates are first condensing down to solids. This very early state has never been seen before:
https://tinyurl.com/28meonzq

This is the very first stage of what will eventually form planets around the proto-star. This is the moment of birth of a baby solar system.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:09 PM (w6EFb)

131 125 "I have no problem with skwerls. They can be pretty derpy though. And folks who have bird feeders may have far less generous opinions.
Posted by: Pug Mahon"

The thing about bird feeders is they're also squirrel feeders.

How are the squirrels supposed to know?
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:05 PM (fV+MH)
______________________________

Oh man, maybe I ought to patent this. I took one of those solar ground lights and hooked up the solar cell to a metal pole supporting a wooden bird feeder. As a result, the birds just fly to the feeder and "good eatin". The squirrels on the other hand get a nice sized shock every time they try to shimmy up the pole.

Also, fun to watch from the window.

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 09:09 PM (dIske)

132 Boobs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 18, 2025 09:12 PM (xcxpd)

133 I'm raising polecats for peace!
Posted by: Ken Shabby at July 18, 2025 09:10 PM (rAovp)

You go right ahead.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:12 PM (gKDq2)

134 No i kind of want coffee cake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 09:12 PM (zZu0s)

135 ( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 18, 2025 09:12 PM (xcxpd)

136 This is the very first stage of what will eventually form planets around the proto-star. This is the moment of birth of a baby solar system.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025

***
We need to get ready to claim it!

Of course it could be three or four billion years before an Earthlike planet even forms, let alone is habitable. I guess we have time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:12 PM (omVj0)

137 Boobs
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 18, 2025 09:12 PM (xcxpd)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 09:12 PM (zZu0s)

138 "Oh man, maybe I ought to patent this. I took one of those solar ground lights and hooked up the solar cell to a metal pole supporting a wooden bird feeder. As a result, the birds just fly to the feeder and "good eatin". The squirrels on the other hand get a nice sized shock every time they try to shimmy up the pole.

Also, fun to watch from the window.
Posted by: Orson "

Genus.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:13 PM (fV+MH)

139 This is the very first stage of what will eventually form planets around the proto-star. This is the moment of birth of a baby solar system.
Posted by: publius

How big are it's tits?

Posted by: Dirty Frank at July 18, 2025 09:13 PM (pJ3p2)

140 "They discovered a solar system forming in the very first stages, where silicates are first condensing down to solids. This very early state has never been seen before"

If we, in our primitive state, can see this stuff, if there are more advanced civs, they gotta be able to see us.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 18, 2025 09:14 PM (KAi1n)

141 "You go right ahead.
Posted by: RickZ"

That sounds ominous.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:14 PM (fV+MH)

142 Hey, if Trump can bring back Mexican coke... im just saying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 09:14 PM (zZu0s)

143 >>>Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office."

That's a big deal in determining context and "intent." Can't wait to see how the RINO's run interference on this one.
Posted by: Orson
---

Let's clamp Clapper too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 09:14 PM (vV6Uu)

144 This is the very first stage of what will eventually form planets around the proto-star. This is the moment of birth of a baby solar system.
Posted by: publius

*looks at watch*
*sighs*
How long will I be here? I have a meeting with the boss in thirty minutes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:16 PM (0aYVJ)

145 Hey, if Trump can bring back Mexican coke... im just saying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

$33.68/case of 24 at Sam's. Our Mexican restaurant sold them.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:17 PM (k3Vs9)

146 >>>If we, in our primitive state, can see this stuff, if there are more advanced civs, they gotta be able to see us.
Posted by: Dark Litigator
----

youtube.com/watch?v=eyCuIBDjehg

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 09:17 PM (vV6Uu)

147 I thought Musk was going to bring back Colombian coke

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 09:17 PM (K7yuL)

148 The nascent solar system is only 1300 light years away. As ee cummings said, "there's a hell of a nice universe next door . . . let's go!"

What we're seeing now, of course, happened in the year 725 AD on Earth. A lot could have happened out there in 1300 years. Though on galactic time scales, that's not even a fraction of an eyeblink.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:19 PM (omVj0)

149
This baby star, a proto-star (not yet initiating fusion) is known as HOPS-315, and is part of M78, the Orion Nebular.

Orion has disappeared into the sun now, but it's first hints of morning appearance will be around late July to early August for us here.

Anyway, when you see Orion, draw a line from Betelgeuse to Alnitak. M78 and HOPS-315 lie a little to the left of that line, a little above Alnitak.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:20 PM (w6EFb)

150 An unpopular but likely thought: if it is not possible to exceed the speed of light - and so far, in spite of all the cool sci-fi shows, there’s no scientific model as to how it could be done - then any intelligent race that develops, not just ours, is stuck in its own solar system until it dies out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2025 09:21 PM (I5+UQ)

151 Pigeons are feathered rats.
Posted by: rickb223

Inland Sky Rat: pigeon
Coastal Sky Rat: seagull

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2025 09:22 PM (DgGvY)

152 Trump said he doesn’t draw pictures of women, the sketches sold at auction and donated were of the Manhattan skyline. None of them have writing in them as part of the art. But details.

Posted by: Piper at July 18, 2025 09:24 PM (pZEOD)

153 That sounds ominous.
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:14 PM (fV+MH)

You wanna raise polecats, you go right ahead. I ain't stoppin' ya.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:25 PM (gKDq2)

154 Just don't raise them near me.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:26 PM (gKDq2)

155 Inland Sky Rat: pigeon
Coastal Sky Rat: seagull
Posted by: mikeski

Oooooh. Good one!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:26 PM (k3Vs9)

156 What we're seeing now, of course, happened in the year 725 AD on Earth. A lot could have happened out there in 1300 years. Though on galactic time scales, that's not even a fraction of an eyeblink.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:19 PM (omVj0)

This kind of enormous span of time is what both fascinates me while poking at my primitive monkey brain. But what it comes down to: the universe is not an accident.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:26 PM (0aYVJ)

157 I always get a chuckle out of alternate names for critters:
Trash panda
fart skwerl
tree rat
whistle pig
Posted by: Pug Mahon

"Danger noodle" is one of my favorites, though I've only heard it recently. "Trash panda" and "tree rat" are old as dirt.

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2025 09:27 PM (DgGvY)

158 An unpopular but likely thought: if it is not possible to exceed the speed of light - and so far, in spite of all the cool sci-fi shows, there’s no scientific model as to how it could be done - then any intelligent race that develops, not just ours, is stuck in its own solar system until it dies out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2025

***
In a globular cluster, though, if the average distance between stars is much less than our four light years to the nearest star, they might be able to achieve limited star flight. It would help if they were naturally long-lived beings or had developed life-prolongation methods, or did cold sleep for the years it would take to get to the next star.

But they could well be limited to only those stars in their cluster. If the next stepping stone was, say, forty or more light years away, they would be stuck -- like an explorer on Earth who has skipped from island to island, but now stares out across the entire Pacific.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 09:27 PM (omVj0)

159 "An unpopular but likely thought: if it is not possible to exceed the speed of light - and so far, in spite of all the cool sci-fi shows, there’s no scientific model as to how it could be done - then any intelligent race that develops, not just ours, is stuck in its own solar system until it dies out.
Posted by: Tom Servo "

Yea. Even if you could go very near the speed of light you would STILL only be able to explore your own solar system.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:28 PM (fV+MH)

160 So this week has brought into total focus the psychological operation that is going on under Trump II. At a time when we should be happy, celebratory, elated - Kamala lost, Trump won, the media sucks, woke is on a downturn.

There is an op going on under our noses.

The op is to divide "MAGA" - right wing - support. I know we have always argued here - duh - usually when losing. But lately there is a fracture in each story jussst in a place where "both sides" only seem to have half of it. And "both sides" of that argument feel equally strongly, and want to kill each other.

It has happened enough times now that I know it's engineered. Two would be coincidence. Three is a trend.

My guess is they're using a combination of AI to come up with schisms, setting media narratives to press along the fault lines, and then using paid disruptors to distribute narratives that will appeal to each faction.

Why divide us? Because it's the only move that makes sense in a Trump II world. It explains why in some ways they have been letting Trump cook. Taking him on too directly would unite his side more. Instead they are starting with paper cuts, and digging until they become wounds.

Posted by: ... at July 18, 2025 09:28 PM (E0p3T)

161 After watching the Corvette vid, I'm thinking maybe I ought to give the truck a wash...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2025 09:28 PM (XeU6L)

162 Sneks are danger noodles!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 09:28 PM (mT+6a)

163 I feel sorry for gay conservatives, I know a couple here and we talk politics because they cant find anyone in the gay community to talk to them. They’re fish out of water; they know that the tranny bullshit is killing what they thought of as “their” movement, but they don’t know how to speak out against it.
Kinda like so many women staying silent about tranny’s killing women’s sports.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2025 09:29 PM (I5+UQ)

164 Inland Sky Rat: pigeon
Coastal Sky Rat: seagull
Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2025 09:22 PM (DgGvY)

I'll say this, too, pigeons aren't the thieves seagulls are. Brazen bastards those seagulls.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:30 PM (gKDq2)

165 A wormhole is a hypothetical structure that connects disparate points in spacetime. It can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both). Wormholes are based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations.[1] More precisely they are a transcendental bijection of the spacetime continuum, an asymptotic projection of the Calabi–Yau manifoldmanifesting itself in anti-de Sitter space.[2]

A wormhole visualized as a two-dimensional surface. Route (a) is the shortest path through normal space between points 1 and 2; route (b) is a shorter path through a wormhole.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:30 PM (k3Vs9)

166 Wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity, but whether they actually exist is unknown. Many physicists postulate that wormholes are merely projections of a fourth spatial dimension, analogous to how a two-dimensional (2D) being could experience only part of a three-dimensional (3D) object.[3]

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:30 PM (k3Vs9)

167
Squirrels are cute. I swear, they play. They run around and up and down the trees all day, all happy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 09:30 PM (HL/Ld)

168 Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2025 09:21 PM (I5+UQ)
________________________

I hear you. Einstein was pretty clear. But, we can always hold out hope, because the medical experts in the UK in the 1800's thought the best treatment for a migraine was to put a metal pot on the patient's head and hit it with a hammer.

So, I have to think (even with how smart Einstein was) there will be physics updates down the road.

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 09:30 PM (dIske)

169 The guy who spent 21 years building the model of NYC appears to be unmarried. Go figure.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 09:30 PM (Riz8t)

170 Piper: all trolls are Average Joe, and there is something he does by choice... with his mouth

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 09:31 PM (RRmX0)

171 "Danger noodle" is one of my favorites, though I've only heard it recently. "Trash panda" and "tree rat" are old as dirt.
Posted by: mikeski

Nope rope - venomous snake

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:32 PM (k3Vs9)

172 medical experts in the UK in the 1800's thought the best treatment for a migraine was to put a metal pot on the patient's head and hit it with a hammer.

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 09:30 PM (dIske)

Then they figured out that wasn't the cure for a migraine, it was the cure for being an idiot.

Posted by: ... at July 18, 2025 09:32 PM (E0p3T)

173 And.
Neener Neener Neener.

I got a new gun.
Gonna take it for a spin tomorrow morning. 1911.

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 09:32 PM (mT+6a)

174 Nope rope - venomous snake
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 09:32 PM (k3Vs9)

"Jake-no-shoulders"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2025 09:32 PM (D7oie)

175 Yea. Even if you could go very near the speed of light you would STILL only be able to explore your own solar system.

Why? If you could go SOL, you'd be at Alpha Centauri in 4 years. Of course, that would be extended by acceleration and deceleration, but still.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 09:33 PM (Riz8t)

176
HOPS-315 is just 100 - 200K years old. It'll be several million more years before main fusion will start. There is a brief deuterium burning phase that happens early on in stars of this size and makeup class (our Sun was one as well). HOPS-315 may have just started that, or is about to.

This system is so interesting all eyes will be on it and they'll be getting all sorts of data, and all this will be known soon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:33 PM (w6EFb)

177 Danger noodle is now a part of my lexicon.

No step on danger noodle!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:33 PM (0aYVJ)

178 Next time you get a migraine.

Get a slurpee. Drink it as fast as you can. The “brain freeze” kills the migraine.

It actually works.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 09:33 PM (mT+6a)

179 I want the back story on the Corvette. I would think the tires and all the rubber parts would have rotted somewhat

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 09:34 PM (VofaG)

180 I had a married female co-worker who would get migraines.

Asked her if sex made it feel better because I'm an intrusive asshole.

She said yes.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:35 PM (fV+MH)

181 Next time you get a migraine.

Get a slurpee. Drink it as fast as you can. The “brain freeze” kills the migraine.

It actually works.
Posted by: nurse ratched

So, slap really cold iron to it?

This could revolutionize Horde medicine!!

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2025 09:37 PM (DgGvY)

182 I learned to drive on a 4cyl mustang 2. Manual transmission and steering.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Mustang II
Boredom Zero!

Posted by: FoMoCo at July 18, 2025 09:37 PM (G5+As)

183 This system is so interesting all eyes will be on it and they'll be getting all sorts of data, and all this will be known soon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I am amazed at your level of knowledge about these things.

Posted by: Piper at July 18, 2025 09:37 PM (pZEOD)

184 Yea. Even if you could go very near the speed of light you would STILL only be able to explore your own solar system.

Why? If you could go SOL, you'd be at Alpha Centauri in 4 years. Of course, that would be extended by acceleration and deceleration, but still.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 09:33 PM (Riz8

Yeah Pluto is only about 3 billion miles away. You can travel about 6 trillion mile in a year at the speed of light. So we’re taking light hours for our Solar System.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 09:38 PM (VofaG)

185 I had to look up the story about Trump’s supposed drawing of a young girl. He said “I don’t do drawings” and the New Republican ran pictures of some of his drawings that sold at auction.

But guess what - every single one of his drawings is of buildings, or the NYC skyline. Not a single picture of any people at all, much less what he’s now accused. It’s the kind of “proof” that makes it obvious that the entire story is idiotic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2025 09:38 PM (I5+UQ)

186 Yeah Pluto is only about 3 billion miles away.

Ah hell, I got my car fixed this morning, let's gooo

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 09:39 PM (gKWVE)

187
medical experts in the UK in the 1800's thought the best treatment for a migraine was to put a metal pot on the patient's head and hit it with a hammer.

Posted by: Orson

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That would cure them of everything, I'd expect. Like, they'd never get sick or injured ever again.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 09:39 PM (HL/Ld)

188 HOPS-315 is just 100 - 200K years old. It'll be several million more years before main fusion will start.

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And Saturday Night Live still won't be funny.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:39 PM (JkO4W)

189 So 4 years to Alpha Centauri.

One year there and 4 years back.

So you've only been away from everything you've ever know for 9 years.

Talk about not being married!

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:41 PM (fV+MH)

190
I had to look up the story about Trump’s supposed drawing of a young girl. He said “I don’t do drawings” and the New Republican ran pictures of some of his drawings that sold at auction.

But guess what - every single one of his drawings is of buildings, or the NYC skyline. Not a single picture of any people at all, much less what he’s now accused. It’s the kind of “proof” that makes it obvious that the entire story is idiotic.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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The other thing: We know how Trump writes. Or should I say --

We KNOW how Trump Write's!! Thank you for your Attention to this matter!

The proposition that he said something wry about an "enigma" is enough for me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 18, 2025 09:41 PM (HL/Ld)

191
Also some interesting stuff about 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar bat out of hell shooting through the solar system. It's just the third confirmed interstellar object. Vera Rubin will likely find a lot more.

At any rate, 3I is likely about 7 billion years old, far older than the solar system, and originated from an ancient star in the "thick disc" (wider disc above and below the denser "thin disc" in which the sun resides).

https://tinyurl.com/yqb9hlhb

They've got some plots there showing 3I's galactic trajectory. This is true galactic wanderer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:42 PM (w6EFb)

192 But guess what - every single one of his drawings is of buildings, or the NYC skyline. Not a single picture of any people at all, much less what he’s now accused.

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You know who else drew buildings but never drew people?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 09:43 PM (JkO4W)

193 So 4 years to Alpha Centauri.

One year there and 4 years back.

So you've only been away from everything you've ever know for 9 years.

Talk about not being married!

You could put a few Corvettes in barns, then come back in 50 years, and you'd be RICH!

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 09:43 PM (Riz8t)

194 182 Next time you get a migraine.

Get a slurpee. Drink it as fast as you can. The “brain freeze” kills the migraine.

It actually works.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 18, 2025 09:33 PM (mT+6a)
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I don't know, nurse. That sounds suspiciously like my hangover cure. Just stand in front of a speeding truck and for that brief moment before you decorate the bug shield you don't notice the nausea or the headache.

That suggests to me that a hangover is mostly psychological because you focus on your discomfort so much.

And, my hangover cure? Unfortunately, you can only do it once. But, it works.

Posted by: Orson at July 18, 2025 09:43 PM (dIske)

195
Soon, they are likely going to be able to start seeing exoplanet atmospheres in enough detail to see any earth-like signs of life.

Who knows, but I'm hoping there will be some very interesting discoveries soon to be found.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:43 PM (w6EFb)

196 So 4 years to Alpha Centauri.

One year there and 4 years back.

So you've only been away from everything you've ever know for 9 years.

Talk about not being married!
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:41 PM (fV+MH)
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How much time would have passed in your frame of reference compared to Earth?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 18, 2025 09:44 PM (IBQGV)

197 It’s the kind of “proof” that makes it obvious that the entire story is idiotic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2025 09:38 PM (I5+UQ)

Instead of 'idiotic', I prefer the tried and true 'bullshit'.

It's true. Trump is lucky to have such incompetent enemies.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:45 PM (gKDq2)

198 Publius - thunderstorms rolling through this afternoon, evening. Looks like you may have gotten a little down your way.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2025 09:46 PM (XeU6L)

199 Soon, they are likely going to be able to start seeing exoplanet atmospheres in enough detail to see any earth-like signs of life.
Posted by: publius

What signs are those, beyond "hey, free oxygen that hasn't glued itself to iron, or silicon, or any other element!"

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2025 09:46 PM (DgGvY)

200 Raising polecats for peace is a monty python quote....
Posted by: Be Better at July 18, 2025 09:38 PM (rAovp)

Welp. Never heard that one.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:47 PM (gKDq2)

201 10 The Golden and reading the email.

I like Goldens.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)

He's a deep thinker. They are all very great doggies!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 09:47 PM (6PCLE)

202 "How much time would have passed in your frame of reference compared to Earth?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel "

A little over one year.

Everyone and everything on Earth would be 9 years along.

I would not be willing to make that sacrifice.

I suppose robots would though.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 09:47 PM (fV+MH)

203 >> How much time would have passed in your frame of reference compared to Earth?

This is what Grok is good at. You'll have to specify a trajectory profile, but Grok can tell you, and even do the accelerating (Rindler) coordinate system transforms that will tell you what the occupants of the spaceship would think of time passing on earth in their frame as the mission progressed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:47 PM (w6EFb)

204 @RichardGrenell . 1h

@GavinNewsom and his Democrat friends in Sacramento have now chased the iconic In-n-Out company out of California.

They are leaving California and going to Tennessee.

It’s Infuriating.

Stop voting for Democrats, California!

They are ruining our state.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 09:48 PM (vV6Uu)

205 We have read plenty about otherworldly people visiting us. But, what if we are the people who will some day visit other worlds? Are we the alpha beings? We inhabit a planet in a solar system on a very friendly ring of the galaxy. Go toward the center of the galaxy, and it's unbelievably violent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:50 PM (0aYVJ)

206 I want to know how the dirt bike went over the water.

I kept waiting for him to flop over. This is going to bug me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 09:53 PM (6PCLE)

207 >> What signs are those, beyond "hey, free oxygen

The big one are methane, N2O, phosphine. Now, any one alone, but if you have a rocky planet with water, and you find all of those in the atmosphere, you've got a hit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:53 PM (w6EFb)

208 We have read plenty about otherworldly people visiting us. But, what if we are the people who will some day visit other worlds? Are we the alpha beings? We inhabit a planet in a solar system on a very friendly ring of the galaxy. Go toward the center of the galaxy, and it's unbelievably violent.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2025 09:50 PM (0aYVJ)

I always we're at the ass end of our Milky Way galaxy which is at the ass end of what we know as the Bigger Picture.

Any alien coming here is slumming.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:53 PM (gKDq2)

209 >> Looks like you may have gotten a little down your way.

Nothing right here yet, but I'm hopeful for 11 - midnight.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 18, 2025 09:54 PM (w6EFb)

210 I should have pulled over and took a hap, was falling asleep most of way home

Posted by: Skip at July 18, 2025 09:55 PM (5clMv)

211 I want to know how the dirt bike went over the water.

I kept waiting for him to flop over. This is going to bug me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 09:53 PM (6PCLE)

Read down the thread. One pic zooms in on what looks like small hydrofoil fins under the frame. But what do I know? That's a Beserker question.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:55 PM (gKDq2)

212 I'm thinking maybe I ought to give the truck a wash...
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

If it should be clean God will clean it with rain.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 18, 2025 09:56 PM (2w9EZ)

213 If it should be clean God will clean it with rain.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 18, 2025 09:56 PM (2w9EZ)

Sounds like someone who's into being Green.

And Moldy.

Posted by: RickZ at July 18, 2025 09:57 PM (gKDq2)

214 want to know how the dirt bike went over the water.

I kept waiting for him to flop over. This is going to bug me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 09:53 PM (6PCLE)

It had a ski on the front wheel.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 09:58 PM (VofaG)

215 if you have a rocky planet with water, and you find all of those in the atmosphere, you've got a hit.
Posted by: publius

And if you find 11-COOH-THC in the atmosphere, then you've really got a hit.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 18, 2025 09:59 PM (KAi1n)

216 And if you find 11-COOH-THC in the atmosphere, then you've really got a hit.
Posted by: Dark Litigator

You get a hit , and you get ahit,soon everyone is lit.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 18, 2025 10:01 PM (2w9EZ)

217 NOOD ONT ready for your enjoyment
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=415725

Posted by: mindful webworker - that time again at July 18, 2025 10:01 PM (RviYc)

218
It had a ski on the front wheel.
Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 09:58 PM (VofaG)

Ah. I didn't see that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 18, 2025 10:02 PM (6PCLE)

219 So 4 years to Alpha Centauri.

One year there and 4 years back.

So you've only been away from everything you've ever know for 9 years.

Talk about not being married!
Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025

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Time dilation effect. Nine years will have passed for you, but much longer has passed for people back on Earth. I don't know the calculation factor, but say it's been twenty years. Half the people you know have died and the other half have moved; the slang and music is all different, etc.

It would take a special type to be a light-speed astronaut.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:07 PM (omVj0)

220 Time dilation effect. Nine years will have passed for you, but much longer has passed for people back on Earth. I don't know the calculation factor, but say it's been twenty years. Half the people you know have died and the other half have moved; the slang and music is all different, etc.

It would take a special type to be a light-speed astronaut.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 18, 2025 10:07 PM (omVj0)

And if you're Charlton Heston, the apes will have taken over when you get back.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 18, 2025 11:32 PM (wVcYX)

221 If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at July 19, 2025 01:39 AM (Pce4l)

222 150 An unpopular but likely thought: if it is not possible to exceed the speed of light - and so far, in spite of all the cool sci-fi shows, there’s no scientific model as to how it could be done - then any intelligent race that develops, not just ours, is stuck in its own solar system until it dies out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2025 09:21 PM (I5+UQ)

“Island hopping”

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 19, 2025 01:43 AM (Pce4l)

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