Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - November 11, 2025 [Doof]

America - she has her flaws, but she's still the greatest!

Howdy, Hordelings - and Happy Veterans Day. The ONT proudly salutes those who served, past and present.

Note - I will be an absent host for an hour or 2 tonight. Many thanks to the Doggo for launching (and babysitting?) tonight!

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On This Date More Than One Hundred Years Ago

One of the most intense and profound moments in history. 11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent. This should be shown in every school. pic.twitter.com/zLyko3wqMV
— History Girl (@HistoryGirlBW) November 11, 2025

Profound comment in the replies

Silence fell on the land, on the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day or the eleventh month in the year of 1918. Birds chirps replaced the crack and thud of the cannons. Peace returned; but the seeds of war were already planted, even before the silence took over or could last.
Peace was a welcome respite. But it would be silenced in a too short few decades later. Lest we forget. Peace is like the fleeting chips of the birds—too easily lost. Too much money to be had on the other side of those chirps.

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Veterans Day 30 Years Ago

In 1995, the NYC Veterans Day Parade was in dire financial straits.

President Trump personally donated $200,000 and raised another $300,000 to save the parade.

God bless our Veterans and our great @POTUS! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Laae3nvsnf
— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) November 11, 2025

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Rhetorical Question?

From Brit Hume

“If we cannot as a nation decide not to continue a subsidy that was imposed, or was enacted, during a national health emergency and was designed to be temporary and that all the Democrats voted to have be temporary, if we can’t let that expire, what hope do we ever have of getting government spending under control?”

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Revolutionary!

New series begins airing on Sunday, November 16th

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down.
Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe.
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Filmmaker Quote: “The American Revolution is one of the most important events in human history,” said Ken Burns. “We went from being subjects to inventing a new concept, citizens, and set in motion democratic revolutions around the globe. As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, I’m hopeful that people throughout the country will come together to discuss the importance of this history and to appreciate even more what our ancestors did to secure our liberty and freedoms.”

Hit the link for video clips and episode guide.

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Review from The Hollywood Reporter

Ken Burns Tackles the War for Independence in Patriotic, Pragmatic and Familiar Form

Surprisingly decent write-up - with the exception of this unnecessary bilge

Though it’s hard to watch The American Revolution without awareness of the anti-monarchic sentiments shared at recent rounds of “No Kings!” protests — to hear the noble egalitarian sentiments that launched the American experiment without pondering the ways the fulfillment of our freedoms has fallen short of our loftiest aspirations — the doc does not overtly acknowledge Donald Trump.

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If you're able to get to Filth-adelphia...

I visited the Museum of the American Revolution ahead of America's 250th birthday. Here are the coolest things I saw.

America has a big birthday coming up.
The year 2026 will mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, a milestone also known as America's semiquincentennial.
Located down the street from Independence Hall, where both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is gearing up for the celebration with a special exhibition, "The Declaration's Journey." The collection features over 120 artifacts that chronicle the impact of the Declaration of Independence in the US and around the world.
"The Declaration's Journey" opened on October 18 and will remain on display until January 3, 2027, in honor of the anniversary.
The museum also features a permanent collection with artifacts focusing on the creation of America as an independent nation. The exhibits guide visitors through exploring four questions: How did people become revolutionaries? How did the Revolution survive its darkest hour? How revolutionary was the war? And what kind of nation did the revolutionaries create?

Pretty good article. Photos of some of the artifacts at the link.

Perhaps we could have a mini-MoMe at the museum one day in the spring when it warms up? Anyone interested?

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Not related, yet somehow related

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Booze News

One of the Largest Whiskey Distilleries in the U.S. Just Saw Its Sales Plummet Again

Just a few months ago, we reported that MGP, one of the biggest American whiskey distilleries, saw a drop in sales of nearly 25 percent. While that was bad news for the company, it also was in line with much of the other reporting out there detailing the slowdown that is currently affecting the whiskey industry. Well, some more bad news arrived late last week for MGP in terms of reduced sales and income, but the company is trying to put as good a spin on the situation as it can.
According to a press release issued by MGP on October 29, the third quarter of 2025 was bleak compared to that of the prior year. Consolidated sales decreased by 19 percent to $130.9 million, consolidated gross profit dropped by 25 percent to $49.4 million, net income fell by 35 percent to $15.4 million, and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) dwindled by 29 percent to $32.3 million. According to the report, the decrease in sales was mostly due to “expected declines in brown goods sales”—in other words, whiskey—directly leading to the drop in profit.

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When a "handle" of whiskey just isn't enough!

Jack Daniel’s Launches 3-Liter Whiskey Bottle — Because Why Not?

Want to impress (or overwhelm) your loved ones this holiday? Don’t buy them a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Instead, buy them a new three-liter bottle of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey, now available in the U.S. for the first time since Prohibition.
“Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey has been at the heart of everything we make at the Jack Daniel Distillery since the days of Mr. Jack himself,” said Chris Fletcher, Master Distiller, Jack Daniel’s. “We hope this bold new take will help create timeless holiday memories that last long after the bottle is gone.”
Right, but … three liters? That’s four times the size of a typical booze bottle and almost twice as much as the previous largest Jack Daniel’s offering (the distillery currently sells their Old No. 7 release in 50 mL, 100 mL, 200 mL, 375mL, 750 mL, 1 L and 1.75 L sizes). Then again, at $80, that’s somewhat of a bargain, given that the 750 mL bottle retails for about $25-$30.

That is a lot of whiskey!

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Long article for you whiskey nerds and/or insomniacs out there...

The U.S. Put Irish Whiskey Back on the Map. Now the Category Has to Evolve.

I'll be honest - TL;DR

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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
(from thisdayinmusic.com)

On this date in 2014: Big Bank Hank (Henry Lee Jackson), from The Sugarhill Gang died aged 58 from kidney complications due to cancer. The Sugarhill Gang were the first hip hop act to have a hit with the cross-over single 'Rapper's Delight' in the pop charts in 1979.

On this date in 1972: 24-year-old bassist Berry Oakley, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, was killed in a motorcycle accident. In a horrific coincidence, the crash took place in the same intersection where bandmate Duane Allman was killed just one year earlier.

Born on this date in 1953: English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer Andy Partridge best known for co-founding the band XTC

Why did I choose that particular song? Maybe today's date has something to do with it.

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1 Yo!

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (9OLXw)

2 hello!

Posted by: Mrs. IS ROTH at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (+zgjq)

3 Got a shot ready for all who served.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (snZF9)

4
Yay, ONT!

Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (3ek7K)

5 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 11, 2025 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

6 Yo

Posted by: Muchas buchas at November 11, 2025 10:02 PM (n1e6D)

7 Hmmm, $80 for a 3 liter bottle of jack? Might have to get me one of those. Would take me months to drink at maybe 1 shot per night, but I won't run out any time soon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:03 PM (snZF9)

8 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

9 "If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
-Rudyard Kipling [father of John, kia Sept 1915]

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 10:03 PM (gKWVE)

10 Yay, Veteran's Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 11, 2025 10:04 PM (lUFok)

11 I thank every veteran and family member.

For those who faced the dark side of this world, may God help you find peace and serenity in dealing with your pain.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 11, 2025 10:04 PM (S/Y4j)

12
A 3-liter whiskey bottle.
A 50-year mortgage.

This generation is thinking BIG.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 10:04 PM (0lgzA)

13 Perilous night may be long.

Posted by: mindful webworker - land of the home of the once and future upon a time at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (3ynhY)

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And once again, thanks to all veterans.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (0lgzA)

15 But I'm too old to need a babysitter!

Posted by: Old Man Adams at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (oftw2)

16 Hey everybody. Hey ONT.

Pleasantly surprised/shocked Ken Burns played it straight on his American Revolution series. Have a hunch someone must have put the fear of God into him. "No woke shit!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 10:05 PM (cQHrm)

17 Tetris blocks have names. Well there you go. Now my life is complete.

Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)

18 ok, might be a 2 shot night. The first one went down too easy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:08 PM (snZF9)

19 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

20 I have an original NES and the Tetris game. I don't remember getting a book with it. I had "other" names for the blocks. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (snZF9)

21 Thank you to all Veterans for your service.
Thank you to all Veteran family members for your sacrifices.
On this day we remember, never to forget...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)

22 That Tetris thing looks a lot like a puzzle my dad made for me when a kid.

Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (Q+gd/)

23 We've had 3 liter booze bottles in Canada for years, known as, get this, "Texas Mickeys".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (npFr7)

24 "The blocks have names."

Only one is close to what I called them. Line, block, T, S, Z, L, and..... backwards L, I guess.

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (nhCoE)

25 I've queued up a shot of Devil's Brigade for later.
Maybe two. Bless all those who have, do and will serve.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 11, 2025 10:10 PM (+iIfu)

26 THE BLOCKS HAVE NAMES!

Ha, very cool. Smashboy would be a great moron nic.

Posted by: mot at November 11, 2025 10:10 PM (fIPNY)

27 3 liters of whiskey? To reduce excess packaging, Mother Gaia demands that all whiskey should be packaged this way!

Seriously, I buy my preferred tipple in 1.75 liter bottles, and use it to refill the 750 ml bottle that I keep on the counter. There's a real economy of scale when buying the bigger bottle.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 10:11 PM (dXRTU)

28 That was a very cool audio clip from the Armistice.

Happy Veterans' Day, everyone.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 11, 2025 10:11 PM (lHPJf)

29 I think the puzzle came from a Popular Mechanics magazine.

Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 10:11 PM (Q+gd/)

30 That's a lot of whiskey.

There's an liquor store nearby that had huge bottles of rum and vodka. I just checked. I guess it was 3 liters.

They were big bottles....for the bender to end all benders.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:12 PM (Sco7b)

31 You can count me in on any Philly MoMe- I’m just a few blocks from Independence Hall.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 10:13 PM (hlNLQ)

32 23 We've had 3 liter booze bottles in Canada for years, known as, get this, "Texas Mickeys".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:09 PM (npFr7)

I miss the 1.75 Liter of 7.1% Labatt Ice beer.

Two or three of those and you were good. Well I was.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:14 PM (Sco7b)

33 Did you ever wonder why 3/4 of the ghosts in Ms. Pac-Man had the same names as Pac-Man, but "Clyde" turned into "Sue?"

Were there trans ghosts in 1982?

Posted by: zombie Andy Rooney at November 11, 2025 10:14 PM (nhCoE)

34 30 That's a lot of whiskey.
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Hic. Hold my vodka. More powerful than an HOA meeting.

Posted by: Kamala at November 11, 2025 10:14 PM (41CYW)

35 I am puzzled how audio from the WWI armistice exists, unless someone stuck a gramophone on the battlefield.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 10:15 PM (y171U)

36 Great and interesting ONT.

I was willowed below, but many thanks from me to all Veterans here, in the past and in the future. USA!

I didn't know the actual tent of Washington's remains. Amazing. Or am I confused (which is normal). Amazing man who loved this country, much as our President Trump does. We are a blessed nation.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:15 PM (MAl//)

37 "Big Bank Hank (Henry Lee Jackson), from The Sugarhill Gang died aged 58"

Urban legend has it the term "Hip Hop" music resulted from people going to record stores asking for "that hip hop record" citing the song's lyrics.

Also, three liters of Jack? There's seven fights in that bottle.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 11, 2025 10:16 PM (pIfcn)

38 As Idaho Spudboy noted above, there can be some value in buying bigger bottles. It's like almost anything else. Volume discount.

And it's not just for everyday stuff. I've noticed some fairly pricey bourbons and cognacs available in the 1-liter bottles, with a price break per ml compared to 750s.

Refilling 750s might have other benefits depending on the booze. The aeration it gets in the process can, in some cases, really change/open up a spirit. There are some aged sipping rums that people decant/rebottle just to start the aeration process, as it yields desirable results. I have one Guyanese rum I've considered for this, since I noticed the last 1/3 of my first bottle was better and much more interesting than the first 2/3 (which was fine).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:17 PM (U/Byj)

39 "We went from being subjects to inventing a new concept, citizens, and set in motion democratic revolutions around the globe."

The Constitutional Republic was a good effort, but the basis of the real fundamental revolution was this incredible breakthrough:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…

Posted by: mindful webworker - life, liberty, property at November 11, 2025 10:17 PM (3ynhY)

40 Aurora is still going like gangbusters here at Peon Manor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (npFr7)

41 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco (and Doggo)!

Posted by: TRex - global warming? dino at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

42 If it's Ken Burns, it's going to be all about racism. Thanks but no thanks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (CHHv1)

43 Evening, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

44 I'm up for a Philly MoMe.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at November 11, 2025 10:19 PM (Ws2ua)

45 40 Aurora is still going like gangbusters here at Peon Manor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (npFr7)

Very cool. Enjoy.

Everyone have a great night.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:20 PM (Sco7b)

46 They were big bottles....for the bender to end all benders.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:12 PM (Sco7b)
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Nancy P., Hillary C., and/or Kamala H. could polish off one of those easy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 10:20 PM (IBQGV)

47 The whiskey decline in sales are down from COVID heights. Just to keep things in perspective.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (EOjZq)

48 Philly mome, huh? I hate that frigging place, but maybe its something I would do.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

49 I didn't know the actual tent of Washington's remains. Amazing.

They put George Washington’s remains in a tent!?
Why didn’t they bury him, like at Mt. Vernon?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (uGI3N)

50 If there's a Philly MoMe we could possibly join...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

51 I am puzzled how audio from the WWI armistice exists, unless someone stuck a gramophone on the battlefield.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 10:15 PM (y171U)

I expect that is exactly what they did.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (npFr7)

52 The whiskey decline in sales are down from COVID heights. Just to keep things in perspective.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 11, 2025 10:21 PM (EOjZq)

That would explain things.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (snZF9)

53 I sure hope the Museum of the American Revolution; and the Liberty Bell, for that matter, have adequate security in place. With the attention focused on this in the next year, I really could see some concerted ANTIFA effort to vandalize both in the name of "Anti-Colonialism".

We've seen unhinged Climate Freaks throw tomato soup on priceless art. We've seen the crazy antics deployed against normalcy...and the current DA down in Filth-a-delphia is the same guy who sued Trump and Musk a number of times for nonsense. So, there would few repercussions for that sort of misbehavior in that city.

Sincerely,
A Pragmatic Chicken Little.

Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (dIske)

54 Regulars of the gun thread may know I've got some work to do in disposing (taking, or selling off) parts of a substantial gun collection. And ammo. I've noted that the estate includes 9K rounds of high-quality German milsurp 7.62x51 NATO.

In searching around the web for info, I've seen this kind of ammo has occasionally been on sale by the bigger online purveyors. Also, sort of encouraging, GunBroker has a very recent sale of this stuff at $.80=1.00/round. So at this point I'm hopeful I can get a local gun store in the remote location to buy it for a decent price (I'm assuming the usual retail ratios apply, vendor - me - gets about half of the expected retail price at which they sell it).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj)

55 Was today your follow-up doctor's appt, Teresa?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (+4S8X)

56 AOP, we're seeing the Northern Lights all the way down here in Boulder. That doesn't happen very often!

Posted by: Fritz (not fritz) at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (7+3Wz)

57 Thanks for the Tuesday ONT, Doof!

Fantastic photo up top. A heartfelt thank you to all our Veterans.

Somehow I managed to skip Tetris and other early video games. We couldn't afford them but didn't really miss them either.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (kB9dk)

58 Aurora here in KY. Fading a bit. Unexpected, but totes cool.

Re-post (good for a few more minutes)

https://ibb.co/Txf8LvqM

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (NwnyJ)

59 If it's Ken Burns, it's going to be all about racism. Thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (CHHv1)

Yeah, Burns has become a parody at this point.

Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 10:24 PM (GXAZS)

60 Interesting tidbit about the 1995 NYC Veterans Day Parade. Donald Trump has helped so many people in so many different ways, yet we rarely, if ever, hear about it.

Wonder why that is?

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 11, 2025 10:24 PM (kB9dk)

61 In searching around the web for info, I've seen this kind of ammo has occasionally been on sale by the bigger online purveyors. Also, sort of encouraging, GunBroker has a very recent sale of this stuff at $.80=1.00/round. So at this point I'm hopeful I can get a local gun store in the remote location to buy it for a decent price (I'm assuming the usual retail ratios apply, vendor - me - gets about half of the expected retail price at which they sell it).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj)

You are being very cagey about the remote location. Anything you can share with us?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:24 PM (npFr7)

62 Veterans in my families:

Grandfather
Father
5 Uncles
2 Cousins
Me
2 of my sons.

Seems to be a family thing. My personal salute to each of them and to all the Horde veterans, as well.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:25 PM (47diA)

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Yep, no visibility here for the nekkid eye. Some are getting some camera action, more sensitive than the eye.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 10:26 PM (w6EFb)

64 3 liter bottles...Why not go to a 1 gallon jug with a handle with a cork?

Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 10:26 PM (kUdqB)

65 I think alcohol sales in all segments is trending down, and substantially, last few years. Just saw another set of figures the other day but, of course, I didn't bookmark it and can't recall the exact numbers.

No idea what would be behind that.

I think there's a bit of (typical, expected) guns & ammo slump going on as well - current administration is obviously fantastic for the country, but very bad for panic- or concern-driven sales. Y'all will recall the posters of the affirmative action intern "president" in gun stores - "gun salesman of the year". That sort of dynamic.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:27 PM (U/Byj)

66 And once again, thanks to all veterans.
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Once again, not all of them. Fuck that shit, you want to thank Brad Manning? Reality Winner? Didn’t think so.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:27 PM (//5Rf)

67 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:27 PM (sAmhv)

68 Thanks for the ONT! Thank you to the Veterans!

And I love the idea of Philly MoMe.

Posted by: Iris at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (bOJ2I)

69 Where I am I'm up to my eyebrows in revolutionary war history. Washington literally marched his troops down the street my old house was on, right past where my house is, then he marched them down the road the one harley shop I work out of is on, which is right by the new house, and eventually to the battle of Monmouth, which is not that far from me. I was so tempted to wander around the woods by my old house with a metal detector. You never know. A lot of the farms are still here too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (snZF9)

70 AOP not trying to be cagey. Always stay general with personal stuff here. Just a preference.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (U/Byj)

71 AOP, we're seeing the Northern Lights all the way down here in Boulder. That doesn't happen very often!
Posted by: Fritz (not fritz) at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (7+3Wz)

Enjoy! I have seen brighter and more active auroras, but never have I seen so much red color, or solid red like this. I don't know if its the velocity of the particles, or the charge state, or what. When I went out just a few minutes ago, it was strongly red in the East and West, fading to faint pink overhead, with a greenish white halo over most of the sky, faint, but visible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7)

72 65 I think alcohol sales in all segments is trending down, and substantially, last few years. Just
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Doing my part to hold the sales up.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:29 PM (41CYW)

73 I can see the Northern Lights tonight! What the hell?

I understand in the proper local conditions, folks are seeing them as far south as Chattanooga.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

74 Ken Burns can eat a bag of dicks for all the disservice he did to the men and women of the Viet Nam war in his documentary. Retard revisionary leftist.

Posted by: DBCooper at November 11, 2025 10:29 PM (MhE0B)

75 Whisky sales declined because the COVID Karens were no longer cooped up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:30 PM (dxtDq)

76 >> I can see the Northern Lights tonight! What the hell?

Sol farted a big wet one in our specific direction a while back.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 10:30 PM (w6EFb)

77 Interesting tidbit about the 1995 NYC Veterans Day Parade. Donald Trump has helped so many people in so many different ways, yet we rarely, if ever, hear about it.

Wonder why that is?
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Takers rarely acknowledge givers.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2025 10:30 PM (TfUTr)

78 AOP not trying to be cagey. Always stay general with personal stuff here. Just a preference.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:28 PM (U/Byj)

Just wondering if there was going to be an -in-person sale at the site, that might attract members of the Horde within travel range.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:31 PM (npFr7)

79 Yeah scampy my purchases are always episodic, but overall my consumption trend isn't down. Well maybe lately, for no particular reason, but it's always like that. Will increase again soon.

"Winter" time is more wine, and calvados and cognac along with rum rye and bourbon (without ice), and less beer.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (U/Byj)

80 Took a drive to check out the Aurora Borealis. Pretty neat
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Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (sV8wY)

81 NY Post: IOC to ban trans women from all female Olympic events.

I'm not surprised. Likely greatly pressured by the Trump Regime to do so. it's gonna be a cluster anyway when ICE detains every brown athlete trying to enter the US

Every day I read the news and discover a new right that I don't have anymore. The IOC itself is transphobic but there’s almost certainly international politics being played here too.

Doing all this to stick it to the *checks notes* zero transgender women who competed in last year’s summer Olympics. I hate it here

There is no valid reason at all to exclude all trans women from women's sports. At all period. Trump also wants to ban medical transition for minors (up to 25 for some fucking reason)

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (ycI94)

82 Thanks for the post, Doof. Especially the 11/11/1918 recording. Been a while since I heard that. Still astonishing.

In similar spirit, the words of Gen. McArthur, Sep 2, 1945.

Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death. The seas bear only commerce. Men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed.

And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way. I speak for the unnamed brave millions homeward bound to take up the challenge of that future which they did so much to salvage from the brink of disaster.

& (h/t bluebirdofbitterness.com):

Reveille (11:30)
https://youtu.be/te-cKxsBapM

Posted by: mindful webworker - The entire world lies quietly at peace. at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (3ynhY)

83 Skip Ken Burns.

Watch 1776 and April Morning instead.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (dxtDq)

84 Oops, fucked it up. He camped in my old town on his way back from monmouth. He used it as a temporary field headquarters where he signed the order to court marshal some general after the battle of Monmouth.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (snZF9)

85 Can you see three or four Northern Lights Jean Luc?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:34 PM (dxtDq)

86 Every day I read the news and discover a new right that I don't have anymore. The IOC itself is transphobic but there’s almost certainly international politics being played here too.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (ycI94)

Exactly dickhead. Its a "new" right you leftist assholes made up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:35 PM (snZF9)

87 79 Yeah scampy my purchases are always episodic, but overall my consumption trend isn't down. Well maybe lately, for no particular reason, but it's always like that. Will increase again soon.
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Yeah, jokes aside - similar here. Just depends on how much entertaining, goofing, etc. Social stuff drives most of my purchase pattern.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:35 PM (41CYW)

88 Yes, some celebrities get no credit for helping others, like Trump, but on the other hand everyone is well aware of Kim Kardashian's largesse.

Posted by: Life Ain't Fair at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (oftw2)

89 I am imagining the actual sounds of the guns before a big push, say The Somme, was not something that can really be replicated. Sounds you'd feel in your bones. Relentless.

I suspectbit was not something that was ever replicated again at that concentration.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (eEALH)

90 Skip Ken Burns.

Watch 1776 and April Morning instead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (dxtDq)

Have to admit, "The Patriot" is pretty good, too.

"Aim small, miss small."

Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)

91 The Enola Gay, the B-29 piloted by then Colonel Paul Tibbetts and crew was eventually slated for display at the Smithsonian in the early 1990s, but the clowns at the Smithsonian couldn’t help themselves and had to imbue the whole display with their pseudo-intellectual war revisionism. They are like termites.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (//5Rf)

92 AOP actually I'm somewhat jumping the gun on the whole thing. Until the lawyers advise, whole estate is just being secured and mapped, of course. So not sure exactly how any of this will unfold.

I will probably not be physically present for any sales other than to gun stores, due to logistics.

I'm aware of a handful of morons in the general vicinity of the place. Figure I'll communicate with Weasel about possibility of any sales to the horde. As you can imagine the ridiculous gun laws and shipment issues make a remote selling operation a no-go. I'd love to take the entire trove of primers, but fuggetaboutit (regardless of legal/estate issues). Might be able to bring back small amounts of high-end self-defense ammo in airline luggage.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (U/Byj)

93 In case there are folks who have not heard of or read this classic war memoir, Eugene Sledge's "With the Old Breed" is a searingly powerful and eloquent account of his fighting in the Pacific campaign.

You can also see some interviews with Sledge and a handful of his fellow Marine veterans talking about how horrific it was to fight the Japs, who were far more vicious in battle than the Germans.

God bless our fighting men.

Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (Epeb0)

94 Watch 1776 and April Morning instead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (dxtDq)

+1

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (eEALH)

95 Watch 1776 and April Morning instead.

Allen Guelzo did a nice series called America’s Founding Fathers. I downloaded it from The Great Courses a while back.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (EXyHK)

96 Burns did a documentary on the Dust Bowl that was very good. Lately, I haven't cared much for his shows.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:40 PM (47diA)

97 To be truly technical, the last shots of the War to End all Wars did not happen until the Allied intervention units withdrew from Murmansk and Archangel in 1919.

Cf the US Polar Bear division.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:40 PM (dxtDq)

98 Beverly, breaking the snarky code - just wanted to mention that your recommended reading have been some of the best over the years. Thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:40 PM (41CYW)

99 What ever happened to quarts, fifths, and gallons?? I hate all this Frog crap.

Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 10:41 PM (Epeb0)

100 what hope do we ever have of getting government spending under control?”

—

None of course.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 10:42 PM (F2Ar1)

101

Newly constructed bridge in China collapsed today.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (3ek7K)

102 Evening.

The audio on that "History Girl" Twatter clip sounds suspiciously modern. Also, it seems to use the exact same sound several times.

Guys, I suspect that that clip is bullshit.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (cRnmE)

103 I'm aware of a handful of morons in the general vicinity of the place. Figure I'll communicate with Weasel about possibility of any sales to the horde. As you can imagine the ridiculous gun laws and shipment issues make a remote selling operation a no-go. I'd love to take the entire trove of primers, but fuggetaboutit (regardless of legal/estate issues). Might be able to bring back small amounts of high-end self-defense ammo in airline luggage.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:37 PM (U/Byj)

Ah, OK. Sounds good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (npFr7)

104 What ever happened to quarts, fifths, and gallons?

A momentous event related to a quart of Jack in one evening led to the younger LRob significantly reducing alcohol intake. It was fun while I was conscious, but then . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (47diA)

105 Newly constructed bridge in China collapsed today.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (3ek7K)

Let me put on my surprised face.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (snZF9)

106 91 The Enola Gay, the B-29 piloted by then Colonel Paul Tibbetts and crew was eventually slated for display at the Smithsonian in the early 1990s, but the clowns at the Smithsonian couldn’t help themselves and had to imbue the whole display with their pseudo-intellectual war revisionism. They are like termites.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (//5Rf)

As America's first openly gay airplane, it must have been hard for Enola.

Posted by: Sprung Boingman at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (Wcdbq)

107
Reveille (11:30)
https://youtu.be/te-cKxsBapM
Posted by: mindful webworker - The entire world lies quietly at peace. at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (3ynhY)

I had two great-uncles (brothers) who served together in the Army in France. One bullet hit them both in the trenches...one brother was ok, the other lost his leg but lived. How I am unsure, as no antibiotics. Both were wonderful men from north MS, & one a wacky English professor at Ole Miss.

My grandmother's half brothers. 10 siblings, 3 wives after one would die to raise the rest and hatch another.

The uncle with his wooden leg remained a bachelor til his death. Living in an old white Victorian house outside of Oxford. Wrap around porch with giant oak trees & the entire family would meet, over 100+, in August there. I remember the porch swing, food, family and the huge, huge oak trees as the adults played croquet.

Double seater outhouse.

He would always get us kids together to eat watermelon off the east coast and see how far we could spit seeds.

He left all of his money to his nieces and nephews.He was quiet and kind. His sisters said later that he had PTSD, but they did not call it that...sometimes nightmares at night.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (MAl//)

108 >>OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.

Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the 140 dollar sff pc, it will get you pretty much everything you need.

So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a precision timing microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features.

The PC/Arduino combo is better than the RPI in every dimension.

Having said that, the RPi still has certain advantages if you are building a projects that needs an all-in-on SBC with hdmi output with a small form factor.

For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)

109 So they were fighting until literally 11am? Thats so crazy. I thought a 11 was just some ceremonial time but the fighting ended when all the parties agreed to it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (F2Ar1)

110 A momentous event related to a quart of Jack in one evening led to the younger LRob significantly reducing alcohol intake. It was fun while I was conscious, but then . . . . .
Posted by: LRob

.....the event that led to you being a pioneering patient in laser tattoo removal?

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE)

111
And this was a cannibal CME (coronal mass ejection) that is currently hitting Erf.

A cannibal is when two CME's, one faster, merge right when they hit Erf. So Sol farted a slower one, then a faster one, and the two farts merged and hit us in the face at the same time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

112 The audio on that "History Girl" Twatter clip sounds suspiciously modern. Also, it seems to use the exact same sound several times.

Guys, I suspect that that clip is bullshit.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 10:43 PM (cRnmE)

That's been around for a number of years; longer than AI has been, for sure. I think it is legit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

113 I lived in Philly for a few months about 30 years ago. The only way I'd return is if I were appointed Military Governor and given carte blanche to clean it up. I'm not meant to live in big cities, apparently.

Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (I8S3t)

114 Country Joe McDonald put the War Poetry of Robert W. Service to music in a 1971 album titled "War, War, War". It'svery well done and is on Youtube, both the album and some later live performances.
Service led an interesting life in several chapters, Yukon Gold Rush, WW1, later moving to France. He went to serve as a medic/ambulance driver and had to recuperate in a hospital in England for a long spell, which i when he wrote his War Poetry.

Posted by: The Man From Athabaska at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (oftw2)

115 OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.

Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the 140 dollar sff pc, it will get you pretty much everything you need.

So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a precision timing microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features.

The PC/Arduino combo is better than the RPI in every dimension.

Having said that, the RPi still has certain advantages if you are building a projects that needs an all-in-on SBC with hdmi output with a small form factor.

For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)

What frigging language was THAT? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

116 Enola Gay fiasco was '95, 50th anniversary of Hiroshima. Think there was quite a division within the Smithsonian staff responsible. Thankfully common sense won out, plus it kicked off a substantial movement of real historians to debunk the ridiculous "revisionist" crap being pushed about the war's end. Unfortunately for the "revisionists", they seemed unaware of much of the basic material related to these questions. The Japanese ambassador to Moscow in 1945 provided, all by himself, a repudiation of their ludicrous claims, in his intercepted communications with Tokyo.

Was at State at the time. So I decided to go see what their library had on the subject. Found "Behind Japan's Surrender" by Lester Brooks (1967). It had been checked out *one time* (!!!!). It was pre-1974 so definitely didn't have Purple/Ultra material in the mix, but still enough was known to sketch out what a crazy near-miss CF the whole process was (which of course invalidates "revisionist" assumptions and conclusions).

Much later I read "Japan's Longest Day" (1964), a must-read for anyone who wants to know just how chaotic, uncertain, and dangerous the Japanese internal process was that led to surrender.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (U/Byj)

117
I think i read today that Elon Musk said China is better at some things than we are. Maybe not bridges, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (3ek7K)

118 91 The Enola Gay, the B-29 piloted by then Colonel Paul Tibbetts and crew was eventually slated for display at the Smithsonian in the early 1990s, but the clowns at the Smithsonian couldn’t help themselves and had to imbue the whole display with their pseudo-intellectual war revisionism. They are like termites.
Posted by: Common Tater
................................................
I visited there about 15 years ago. Did not see any of that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (sAmhv)

119 Newly constructed bridge in China collapsed today.
Posted by: fourseasons

Shourd risten to me!!

Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)

120 Elon Musk said China is better at some things than we are. Maybe not bridges, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (3ek7K)

stealing technology from your enemies. Nobody beats China there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 10:48 PM (F2Ar1)

121 Fortunately not, mikeski! Primarily it was driving about 15 miles home, parking in the front yard AND I still have no recollection of doing so. I was told by my now former wife who was stupid enough to (a) let me do it and (b) rode along anyway!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:48 PM (47diA)

122 What frigging language was THAT? lol
Posted by: Berserker

Nerd.

Posted by: mikeski, nerd at November 11, 2025 10:48 PM (nhCoE)

123
IGTD,

Yep

Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 10:49 PM (3ek7K)

124 The US converted some battleship guns into railway guns. They were duly shipped off to France and saw extensive action.

One railway gun crew timed their last shot to fall just before the 11am cessation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 10:49 PM (dxtDq)

125 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:49 PM (U/Byj)

126 117
I think i read today that Elon Musk said China is better at some things than we are. Maybe not bridges, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons
.......................................
He's been toutiing the ChiComs solar energy for a while now. He is a bit naive to believe anything coming out of the PRC.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:50 PM (sAmhv)

127 40 Aurora is still going like gangbusters here at Peon Manor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (npFr7)

Quite visible from my suburban backyard in central Iowa. Even somewhat visible in the front, with the street lights and neighbors garage lights.

Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 10:50 PM (X5Jzz)

128
Reveille (11:30)
https://youtu.be/te-cKxsBapM
Posted by: mindful webworker - The entire world lies quietly at peace. at November 11, 2025 10:32 PM (3ynhY)

My father, who downplayed his experience in WWII as a Marine on those islands, said they were first sent to Peleliu to guard an airstrip. One night while they were sleeping the Japanese walked right past them vs being shot. They also were clearing caves and burying many of their own after the first push. He was in the second landing.

His job was to figure out where the big guns would be fired. Claims his missed targets, etc, as he was always joking. He did not joke, though, about losing his buddies. My mother said on the Marine's birthday he'd call his friends across the nation who survived with him. He got malaria but came home whole, married years later and had me, his little replica in female form.

My hero in life in many ways.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:51 PM (MAl//)

129 Chevy Chase Rapper’s Plight:

https://youtu.be/cXSTDDeCiMA?si=UjGHuIxbFqIltYNS

Posted by: Wiserbud at November 11, 2025 10:52 PM (1vvKU)

130 Didn't know the US had railroad guns in WWI. Cool.

Armored trains still take pride of place in cool if not very effective military systems of that era.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:52 PM (U/Byj)

131 Part of me suspects they kept lobbing shells until the last second so they didn't have to haul them back to a depot.

Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2025 10:53 PM (I8S3t)

132 Quite visible from my suburban backyard in central Iowa. Even somewhat visible in the front, with the street lights and neighbors garage lights.

Posted by: a.moron

Same here (central Iowa). We drove outside the city a few hours ago, but could easily see it from our house a little later as it strengthened.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 11, 2025 10:53 PM (ycI94)

133
[renders a sharp salute]

To you Vets.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 10:53 PM (XeU6L)

134 What’s weird, the IOC has to be re-outlawing chicks with dicks.

Those with long memories can recall the scandal in the 1970s that blew up, involving Soviet bloc countries trying to gain an advantage in winning the gold medals. Everyone knew back then that was dirty pool. Cheating.

How, and when, were they pressured to change in the first place? Who was dumb enough to agree to that? “Yes, this sounds like a good idea”. Usually these sorts of atrocities are done by a committee.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 10:54 PM (F3yTM)

135 If it's Ken Burns, it's going to be all about racism. Thanks but no thanks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 11, 2025 10:18 PM (CHHv1)

I watched his documentary on WWII and was shocked to hear that there was racial prejudice and discrimination in the south during the 1940s.

Posted by: Sardonicus at November 11, 2025 10:54 PM (8I4hW)

136 88 Yes, some celebrities get no credit for helping others, like Trump, but on the other hand everyone is well aware of Kim Kardashian's largesse.

Posted by: Life Ain't Fair at November 11, 2025 10:36 PM (oftw2)

That's because there were pictures of her largess plastered all over the internet.

Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 10:55 PM (X5Jzz)

137 108 >>OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.

Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the 140 dollar sff pc, it will get you pretty much everything you need.

So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a precision timing microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features.

The PC/Arduino combo is better than the RPI in every dimension.

Having said that, the RPi still has certain advantages if you are building a projects that needs an all-in-on SBC with hdmi output with a small form factor.

For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)

This is exactly what I was just saying to myself.

Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (e8mjv)

138 Britains first and last WW1 dead coincidence. Ended up buried in the same cemetery less than 25 feet from each other. Parr and Ellison. RIP

https://youtube.com/shorts/aKxuYlr_pUQ

Posted by: Rex B at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (CzhWp)

139 99 What ever happened to quarts, fifths, and gallons?? I hate all this Frog crap.

Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 10:41 PM (Epeb0)

Make gills great again !

Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (X5Jzz)

140 Rappers Delight was fun in its day. I recall the first time hearing it at a party.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 10:56 PM (41CYW)

141 Tater, I thought the Commie stuff in gymnastics back then was loading the young ladies up with massive testosterone doses for years to retard/eliminate the onset of puberty and add muscles girls don't usually build. I didn't know they had men competing in events as women.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 11, 2025 10:57 PM (47diA)

142 Enjoy the light show! Anyone trying to take photos?

Posted by: TRex - East German gymnast dino at November 11, 2025 10:57 PM (IQ6Gq)

143 Enola Gay was Tibbetts' mother's name of course.

For the 2nd mission, which ended up hitting Nagasaki - and was a general CF from the get-go, in contrast to the impossibly perfect Hiroshima mission - they switched planes. Sweeney's plane was the Great Artiste (named for their bombardier, considered a master at his craft). But it was outfitted as the instrumentation plane for Hiroshima, and instead of doing all the work to change things in the short time between the two operations, Sweeney just took Bock's Car (named for Capt. Frederick Bock) for the mission.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj)

144 I visited there about 15 years ago. Did not see any of that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 10:47 PM (sAmhv)

Public pressure made them remove that display and redo it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 10:58 PM (EYmYM)

145
Make gills great again !

Posted by: a.moron

Go Biblical!

Posted by: Firkins at November 11, 2025 10:59 PM (oftw2)

146 Anyone interested?
Yes.

Also, might try to arrange a group trip if our office goes to Harrisburg for a conference, again. Will have to look up the logistics of that journey.

Posted by: GWB at November 11, 2025 10:59 PM (tp7Jn)

147 Elon needs China to sell Teslas. He’ll say just about anything Xi wants him to say.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 11:00 PM (F2Ar1)

148 I'm not sure I'll see the Aurora Borelius. Lots of city lights around. Plus, the northern horizon is blocked by a hill.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:00 PM (sAmhv)

149 I visited there about 15 years ago. Did not see any of that.
——

Well, that’s because 15 years ago was …. 2010

The 1990s was a long time ago. The plane was not considered something to save, necessarily. I think it spent a lot of time in the 1950s stored outside. It was in sad shape. Then it was disassembled and sat disassembled for many years in a warehouse.

The controversy at the time was huge. Veterans groups were royally pissed off. The crew was still alive at that time, and they were not happy either.

My point was to illustrate the assholes have been assholing for a long, long time. “Bring the War home!” they said in the 60s.

Well they did, that’s what we got goin’ on right now.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (F3yTM)

150 That's been around for a number of years; longer than AI has been, for sure. I think it is legit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

Skimmed the comments. It's a recreation. I thought maybe it was some idiots idea of a joke using sound effects from a video game or something. History Girl just wasn't clear on that point.

The physical reel shown in the clip is real, at least.

Anyway, audio recording back then were hard to make and they all sounded like shit. Everything is muddled together. Think of a big band recording in an old Hollywood movie from the '30s. You can't really make out individual instruments. It's just sonic mush.

Mmmmmm.....I better quit now. I'm going to start kvetching about vinyl very quickly at this rate.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (XfDq7)

151 Though it’s hard to watch The American Revolution without awareness of the anti-monarchic sentiments shared at recent rounds of “No Kings!” protests — to hear the noble egalitarian sentiments that launched the American experiment without pondering the ways the fulfillment of our freedoms has fallen short of our loftiest aspirations

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STFU

GTFO

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (0RiMX)

152 We have the lights here in Southern Illinois. Can see them without a camera.

Posted by: Joyenz at November 11, 2025 11:01 PM (2F0/Y)

153 ....the event that led to you being a pioneering patient in laser tattoo removal?
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (nhCoE)

The generations that lead in in tattoos will also lead in tattoo removal. I guess it will be in someway both ironic and appibproe.

Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (GXAZS)

154 I watched his documentary on WWII and was shocked to hear that there was racial prejudice and discrimination in the south during the 1940s.
Posted by: Sardonicus

That’s because you live in a news desert now that NPR is not funded.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (F2Ar1)

155 Brit Hume may be some kind of a nerd but he's not a communist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (dveO7)

156 The Enola Gay kerfluffle coincided with that wanker Ford's revisiting and revising the history of the AVG, CATF, 14th AF in China.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 11:02 PM (dxtDq)

157 Yeah, jokes aside - similar here. Just depends on how much entertaining, goofing, etc. Social stuff drives most of my purchase pattern.
Posted by: scampydog
*******
ie, Golden Birthdays!!!!

Posted by: The Grateful at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

158 No audio exists of the WW1 big guns, but what does exist is seismic data used to triangulate the location of enemy artillery (aka "sound ranging").

At least one bit of film was saved recording the last few minutes of World War I.

The Imperial War Museum commissioned a company to recreate the type of weapons being used at the end of the war and used the film strip to recreate the sound of the blasts.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (y171U)

159 ItsGoTimeDonald, I hope Elon has a plan in place for when China seizes/nationalizes all their Tesla facilities.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (cQHrm)

160
God bless the Veterans. Thank you for protecting this nation.
Thank you for saving my ass.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (dveO7)

161 Ken Burns can eat a bag of dicks for all the disservice he did to the men and women of the Viet Nam war in his documentary. Retard revisionary leftist.
Posted by: DBCooper

Netfux has a show, "Turning Point: Vietnam", that is like a bibliography of every derogatory trope about the war. A sort of study into propaganda.
Quite entertaining if viewed from that perspective.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (/lPRQ)

162 Also sometimes saying a competing country does something better lights a fire under America’s ass . At least it used to.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (EYmYM)

163 148 I'm not sure I'll see the Aurora Borelius. Lots of city lights around. Plus, the northern horizon is blocked by a hill.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:00 PM (sAmhv)

Here in central Iowa they are quite high in the sky, almost overhead. Don't worry about the hill.

Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2025 11:04 PM (X5Jzz)

164 A Gill (pronounced Jill) is technically 5 ounces if you believe in Imperial measurement (and you should).

Whiskey used to be part of a soldier’s pay and allowances. Some fag in the Navy rescinded the Rum ration too. Not sure about the lash, and sodomy.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 11:04 PM (F3yTM)

165 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns,...
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Ken Burns can KMA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:04 PM (dveO7)

166 Though it’s hard to watch The American Revolution without awareness of the anti-monarchic sentiments shared at recent rounds of “No Kings!” protests — to hear the noble egalitarian sentiments that launched the American experiment without pondering the ways the fulfillment of our freedoms has fallen short of our loftiest aspirations
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Actually, it's very easy to watch as long as you're not a smug, condescending, douchebag.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:05 PM (sAmhv)

167 Publius, thank you so much for mentioning that you could see the Aurora! I figured if you could we could, and sure enough! And thank you, AOP, for mentioning they were red, or I might not have realized I was seeing them. They were faint, but distinctive. We're in a holler, and the tree line prevents us seeing a lot of astronomical things, but tonight we saw the glow!

I had no idea this was even happening, so, again, many thanks to both of you!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:05 PM (Vvh2V)

168 My hero in life in many ways.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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That is beautiful. Thank you for sharing

Posted by: The Grateful at November 11, 2025 11:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

169 The Left is so ignorant of history and the Left’s history ‘experts’ want to keep it that way.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (EYmYM)

170 I will not be disappointed if the price of Buffalo Trace goes down.

Posted by: no one at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (W7XSX)

171 I still remember a number of the Vietnam documentary series on PBS (and other networks) in the 1980s.

In particular, I remember "The 10,000 Day War." Supposedly it went into crazy detail about everything that happened there, going all the way back to the French.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (cQHrm)

172 >> Publius, thank you so much for mentioning that you could see the Aurora!

No, I can't see it here. Looking around locally, it's camera only. Some can get some colors with their cameras, being more sensitive than the eye.

The last one I was able to see was the big G5 event on May 10, 2024. That was quite a show here.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

173
And thanks to whoever first mentioned in during the last thread. I hadn't been paying any attention to the Sun goings on. Should have, or I would've seen the predictions for tonight!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

174 No audio exists of the WW1 big guns, but what does exist is seismic data used to triangulate the location of enemy artillery (aka "sound ranging").

At least one bit of film was saved recording the last few minutes of World War I.

The Imperial War Museum commissioned a company to recreate the type of weapons being used at the end of the war and used the film strip to recreate the sound of the blasts.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (y171U)

So what we hear now, from the recreation, is what the troops on the ground near the sound ranging apparatus would have heard. Close enough.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:09 PM (npFr7)

175 No audio exists of the WW1 big guns, but what does exist is seismic data used to triangulate the location of enemy artillery (aka "sound ranging").

At least one bit of film was saved recording the last few minutes of World War I.

The Imperial War Museum commissioned a company to recreate the type of weapons being used at the end of the war and used the film strip to recreate the sound of the blasts.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 11:03 PM (y171U)

Ah! There ya go. Thank you!

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 11:10 PM (XfDq7)

176 For instance EVS CTP-2003-web panels use RPi's to drive the display and act as a logging device.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)

How often have I said the same. 😉

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:10 PM (Vvh2V)

177 On the date of the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. had three fleet carriers in the Pacific. The Japanese had six.

By late 1944 America had 18 fleet carriers in the Pacific, plus light carriers and escort carriers that brought the total to over 100 carriers. 100. The world had never seen such an incredible explosion of productivity.

The Japanese were never able to deploy more than six fleet carriers at any time during the Pacific War because the U.S. sank their newly-commissioned carriers as fast as they could be commissioned. They had no idea what they had gotten themselves into.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:11 PM (0RiMX)

178 Good evening morons y gracias al Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 11:11 PM (A0sqA)

179 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

Well, I'm glad I misread your comment! 😁

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:13 PM (Vvh2V)

180 Went outside to see if I could see the Northern Lights. No. Its cloudy. The weather witch doctors lied!! Oh well.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 11:13 PM (sAmhv)

181 According to a member of my astronomy club, the aurora is/was visible in Mims, FL.

So some of you southerners might be surprised if you wander outdoors. Look to the north.

Posted by: pawn at November 11, 2025 11:13 PM (sPsWv)

182 Think of a big band recording in an old Hollywood movie from the '30s. You can't really make out individual instruments. It's just sonic mush.
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Bing Crosby and Ampex, the Germans had improved recording technology and was considered “intellectual reparations” or something like that, so there was a big jump in music fidelity right after the war. They had learned how to record on magnetic tape, with a bias in the carrier frequency.

No royalty payments (like there had been during World War One) were envisioned, whole companies of troops advanced along the fronts and hoovered up everything. Tons and tons of documents, blueprints, processes were mimeographed. It all went to the US, Britain, Soviets, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (F3yTM)

183 Robert, I would love if somehow an audio recording could be found of that, as well as what Abraham Lincoln's voice sounded like. Obviously it can't happen however.

I have heard Lincoln's voice was surprisingly high-pitched, whereas everyone assumes he sounded more like Santa Claus.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (cQHrm)

184 Gutfeld does a great job busting on Brit Hume. I have nothing to add.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (A0sqA)

185 So I'm teaching a night class (300 level) at the local university. Right now I have them on a group in class project. But I will end with the tape of the end of the artillery. I doubt these kids know what the 11th minute/hour/day/month even means.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2025 11:15 PM (CiZaq)

186 >>>Seriously, I buy my preferred tipple in 1.75 liter bottles, and use it to refill the 750 ml bottle that I keep on the counter. There's a real economy of scale when buying the bigger bottle.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Oh, noes ! I don't do display but do buy 1.75 handles of potato juice then pour into an old pint bottle putting the rest in the freezer.
_Great Minds

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:15 PM (dveO7)

187 The old lady from next door visited yesterday and needed some Amaretto. I gave her what I had.

This afternoon, there was a surprise couple of jars of Amaretto Apple jelly sitting on the porch.

Dayummmm! Yummy.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2025 11:15 PM (cYBz/)

188 I have heard Lincoln's voice was surprisingly high-pitched, whereas everyone assumes he sounded more like Santa Claus.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (cQHrm)

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I heard his voice at Disneyland. Surprisingly, he sounded just like Tony the Tiger.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (0RiMX)

189 The Left is so ignorant of history and the Left’s history ‘experts’ want to keep it that way.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 11:07 PM (EYmYM)

The American Left is a destruction machine. It wages war against everything that is good and for everything that is bad.

Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (GXAZS)

190 I'd like to put Ken Burns to the test and see if he is in fact flammable.

Posted by: firebug at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (xYacU)

191 I've seen some stunning pictures taken in Mountain Home and Harrison I bet if I'd gone out earlier, I'd have seen a better show, but it was still thrilling!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:16 PM (Vvh2V)

192 Robert, true that audio recording pre-1940s was pretty bad. In particular, motion picture production relied on recording direct to discs, or to optical strips on the celluloid. No one really knew how to optimize the sound.

Whereas after tape was discovered, it's unreal how fast fidelity increased. IMHO some of the recordings of the 1950s have never been matched in terms of quality.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:17 PM (cQHrm)

193 The collection of Axis aircraft can be traced back to Gen Hap Arnold who set them aside after World War II for a future Smithsonian museum.

The collection was originally stored inside a disused aircraft factory near Chicago. Korea reactivated the factory and the planes were moved outside.

Only later would the collection move to the Paul E. Gerber facility. Thanks to Arnold's forethought, the US has the only surviving complete examples of the He 219, Do 335, and Japan's Seiran seaplane.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 11:18 PM (dxtDq)

194 Cicero, LOL.

"I just ordered the Emancipation Proclamation into law and that's grrrrr-eat!!" :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:18 PM (cQHrm)

195 "109 So they were fighting until literally 11am? Thats so crazy. I thought a 11 was just some ceremonial time but the fighting ended when all the parties agreed to it."
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My Dad was in Korea in 1953. He said that the Chinks shot off their artillery at our lines right up to the last minute before the truce.

Posted by: Cosda at November 11, 2025 11:19 PM (FXRLM)

196 Aurora is visible tonight via camera on the Arizona/Mexico border. Just a slight pink via Mark 1 Mod 0 eyeball.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 11, 2025 11:19 PM (TQmWD)

197 I would bet George Washington sounded something like John Cleese. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:19 PM (cQHrm)

198 Publius, thank you so much for mentioning that you could see the Aurora! I figured if you could we could, and sure enough! And thank you, AOP, for mentioning they were red, or I might not have realized I was seeing them. They were faint, but distinctive. We're in a holler, and the tree line prevents us seeing a lot of astronomical things, but tonight we saw the glow!

I had no idea this was even happening, so, again, many thanks to both of you!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:05 PM (Vvh2V)

When I first saw it, it was at 6:05 PM, and the afterglow of the sunset was still bright on the western horizon. My first thought was, gee, looks like a band of high cirrus cloud, or maybe a jet contrail, lit up by the Sun below the horizon. But as I drove north, and kept watching it, I could see it resolve into the streaks and curtains typical of an Aurora.

Still going on here. Most of the sky is faint blotchy pink. You can see the stars right through it. You know the cloud pattern they call a "mackerel sky"? Like that, but faint pink.

Maybe we are all going get zapped by radiation, and grow wings, or a third eye.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7)

199 PBS and Ken Burns?

No thanks. I'll pass.

Posted by: Archer at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (YGRGv)

200 I like the 'done shooting at 11, let em rip till then' How much would that suck getting fragged by the last shell of the war?

Posted by: a dude in MI at November 11, 2025 11:21 PM (+I6Y/)

201 >>>The Japanese were never able to deploy more than six fleet carriers at any time during the Pacific War because the U.S. sank their newly-commissioned carriers as fast as they could be commissioned. They had no idea what they had gotten themselves into.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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It's called Can Do. Killing of it started with LBJ and they've been trying to kill it ever since. The Trump revival along with that damned Christian revival thing is driving them berserk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 11:21 PM (dveO7)

202 Found a little something something regarding that WWI clip.

Smithsonian Mag: Listen to the Moment the Guns Fell Silent, Ending World War I
A new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum uses seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect

https://tinyurl.com/yau7j7rw

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 11, 2025 11:22 PM (XfDq7)

203 And my deepest gratitude to all of our Veterans, past and present. Thete aren't enough words to say thank you properly.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:22 PM (Vvh2V)

204 199 PBS and Ken Burns?

No thanks. I'll pass.
Posted by: Archer at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (YGRGv)

#Wisdom

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at November 11, 2025 11:22 PM (EOjZq)

205 That bridge in China had one end spectacularly destroyed by a landslide, the rest of the bridge looks to have survived.

How, you may say, could they have not recognized the danger of a landslide? Go look up dam disasters on EweTube, and see how often it happens to round-eyes too.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (dXRTU)

206
Refilling 750s might have other benefits depending on the booze.
Posted by: rhomboid
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One nit.
It's highly unlikely that any private party will be arrested, but be aware that refilling booze bottles is illegal in almost every state. The law is aimed at bars that load cheap booze into top shelf bottles, but the laws don't make any fine distinctions. Refilling aliquor bottle is illegal regardless of who does it or what brand is put in it.
You should be ok as long as you don't brag about it.😁

Posted by: buddhaha at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (AQgeI)

207 >>>>>I have heard Lincoln's voice was surprisingly high-pitched, whereas everyone assumes he sounded more like Santa Claus.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:14 PM (cQHrm
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The same with Gen. Patton. He had a similar high pitched voice but now we hear George C Scott.

Posted by: Cosda at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (FXRLM)

208 Philly MoMe? Do it in August 2026. I am planning for one final trip back East. I want to spend a day at the beach and Boardwalk. I want to eat real seafood, not the frozen crap that costs an arm and a leg. Peaches and other fruit will be ripe, and blue crabs will be in season. I already have four ducks lined up; the rest will have to wander aimlessly until Spring.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (DK5Sh)

209 Maybe we are all going get zapped by radiation, and grow wings, or a third eye.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7)

It is the aliens aboard 3/I Atlas.

Posted by: Archer at November 11, 2025 11:23 PM (YGRGv)

210
Here's a little movie graphic of the solar wind, showing Sol's double fart hitting us tonight:

https://is.gd/8Zj27R

That's looking down from ecliptic north, rotating with the earth's orbit. The green dot is the Erf, and the orange dot is the STEREO A spacecraft (STEREO B was lost in 2014)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 11:27 PM (w6EFb)

211 The PRC had a spectacularly bad dam failure in 1975. Their thousand year rain event calculation was 11in in 24 hours. Due to a tropical storm they got over 40in. Then no one local was willing to open the flood gates on their own, phone lines washed out, so the dam failed.

Official death count was just over 20,000. Unofficial estimate is 10x that.

Bing hao.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 11:28 PM (dxtDq)

212 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7

I coukd use a third eye! 😂

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:29 PM (Vvh2V)

213 There are differing accounts on Lincoln's voice. It's crazy that we'll never really know. Maybe AI will take us back to that time LOL.

Posted by: Shani at November 11, 2025 11:30 PM (GXAZS)

214 Robert, true that audio recording pre-1940s was pretty bad. In particular, motion picture production relied on recording direct to discs, or to optical strips on the celluloid. No one really knew how to optimize the sound.

Whereas after tape was discovered, it's unreal how fast fidelity increased. IMHO some of the recordings of the 1950s have never been matched in terms of quality.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 11:17 PM (cQHrm)

All audio recording was done acoustically up until the late 1920's. Sometimes the fidelity was pretty good, often it wasn't. Many jazz bands used wood blocks instead of drums, because drums were loud enough to jump the recording needle right off the wax. Listen to a Louis Armstrong Hot Five recording to hear the wood blocks. By the early 1930's electronic recording was nearly universal. Sound on film became pretty good, too. In theory, it could beat vinyl records or tape for bandwidth.

If you watch a 1930's movie now, you are probably watching a dubbed copy with inferior recording techniques for the sound. "High Fidelity" in the 1930's did not have the frequency range that it does now, but it was not in any way crap. It was as good as could be

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:32 PM (npFr7)

215 Their thousand year rain event calculation was 11in in 24 hours

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That seems very low for a thousand year event. We get that here every couple of Springs!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 11, 2025 11:33 PM (Vvh2V)

216
That's because there were pictures of her largess plastered all over the internet.
Posted by: a.moron

Extra large. Maybe even Jumbo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 11:34 PM (pkeXY)

217 I hope tomorrow to see the Northern lights. We have too much light here by stupid neighbors. We don't have to even turn on ours.

Do you think they will notice if I shoot the lights out tomorrow?

Nah...if I remember I'll have my guy drive me a mile up the mountain earlier than 9pm when I first looked.

I am BUMMED OUT!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 11:36 PM (MAl//)

218 No visible aurora in southern Oregon, or at least nothing visible from my neighborhood which has numerous street lights (and at least one person who went rogue and put up Christmas lights early). Time to head to bed. Good night, miscreants.

Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2025 11:40 PM (I8S3t)

219 Here is an interesting little book, published in 1950 by Gernsbach: Hi Fidelity Techniques, James Langham.

It was written with the home audio enthusiast/set builder in mind, but it contains many interesting vignettes by a guy who was there for it. Some humorous stories, too.

https://archive.org/details/High-fidelityTechniques

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7)

220 I like the 'done shooting at 11, let em rip till then' How much would that suck getting fragged by the last shell of the war?
Posted by: a dude in MI

Yeah, Peter? That was kinda weak. Let me go back and haunt that artilleryman for a couple years. I'll be back.

Posted by: that guy at November 11, 2025 11:43 PM (nhCoE)

221 I imagine enforcement of the no-rebottling booze laws is performed by the same outfits that enforce the laws about removing tags from mattresses.

In one's home, for one's own use, cannot imagine it even theoretically being an actionable violation of law.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 11:43 PM (U/Byj)

222 There is no valid reason at all to exclude all trans women from women's sports. At all period. Trump also wants to ban medical transition for minors (up to 25 for some fucking reason)

It's so that the freaks have to get their bits altered on their own insurance, not their parents'.

You do remember that Obamacare made allowed people to stay on their parents' insurance until that age, right?

Or is that too long ago for the liberal goldfish-brains to remember?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 11:43 PM (i00+Z)

223 Crosby became very interested in the Kraut advances in tape recording mostly because he saw that he could be freed from not having to broadcast live on his very popular radio show. Invested in Ampex and it allowed him to make records and star in movies not being as tied down to the radio show. He was a very hot commodity in the mid 40s, Academy Award, top radio show, #1 records.

Posted by: Pride of Gonzaga at November 11, 2025 11:44 PM (oftw2)

224 There are recordings of the sound of large Katyusha barrages in WWII by the Red Army. You get a bit of an idea where the "Stalin organ" nickname came from.

As to barrages, I imagine the opening artillery prep of Operation Bagration in 1944 by the Red Army would be hard to match in scale.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 11:45 PM (U/Byj)

225 As to barrages, I imagine the opening artillery prep of Operation Bagration in 1944 by the Red Army would be hard to match in scale.

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Pyotr would have been humbled.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 11, 2025 11:47 PM (0RiMX)

226 I have been watching some of the Sean Ryan show on you tube. Former navy seal that interviews a lot of Tier 1 guys (Seals, Delta, etc). Man, if you want to see the size of the big planet size brass balls these tier 1 guys haul around its definitely some cool shit. Great interviewer too, he just lets the dudes talk. This one is a favorite-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6pigjVPdAc

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)

227 "They had no idea what they had gotten themselves into."

Some did, such as Yamamoto and probably Kurabiyashi, who'd both spent time in the US and knew our industrial potential.

But wishcasting and reckless assumptions were foundational parts of all Axis power calculations at some point.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2025 11:55 PM (U/Byj)

228 According to a member of my astronomy club, the aurora is/was visible in Mims, FL.

So some of you southerners might be surprised if you wander outdoors. Look to the north.
Posted by: pawn

Further south, pink - red color. No dancing lights.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 11:55 PM (/lPRQ)

229 Those 4 quarters and 4 dimes I had in my pocket after football practice in 1964, and that I put into a piggy bank and never spent, are now worth $50.53 in silver value. Most young people have no idea that US money used to actually be worth something.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 11, 2025 11:56 PM (Da7Vv)

230 That would exclude saw off your tweeter treatment for family plans.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 11:56 PM (MXjT6)

231 Saw Off Your Tweeter opened for the Stones in '83.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 12:01 AM (cQHrm)

232 That would exclude saw off your tweeter treatment for family plans.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 11:56 PM (MXjT6)

Sawing off your tweeter sort of precludes having any family, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 12:05 AM (npFr7)

233 Maybe we are all going get zapped by radiation, and grow wings, or a third eye.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ground Level Event.
Hold your hand over your eyes and you should see your finger bones. Even with your eyes closed

.. or so some crank on the internet says.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 12:05 AM (/lPRQ)

234 The PRC had a spectacularly bad dam failure in 1975.…
Posted by: Anna Puma

The History Guy recently covered that:
1975 Banqiao Dam failure: The River Dragon has come.
https://youtu.be/miV7udgu_FY

"the single most deadly infrastructure collapse in human history."

Three Gorges says, soon, hold my Tsing Tao.

Posted by: mindful webworker - vely sroppy wolkmanshippy at November 12, 2025 12:08 AM (3ynhY)

235 >> Ground Level Event.

Recalling the thread before last, Younger-Dryas and all that, that's an actual alternative disaster theory as opposed to the comet shotgun blast one. That there was a massive solar flare event, protons on the deck, that wreaked the havoc.

Robert Schoch is a big proponent of that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:09 AM (w6EFb)

236 Well no Carrinton event, darn it.

Posted by: Archer at November 12, 2025 12:12 AM (YGRGv)

237 Carrington

Posted by: Archer at November 12, 2025 12:13 AM (YGRGv)

238 One nit.
It's highly unlikely that any private party will be arrested, but be aware that refilling booze bottles is illegal in almost every state. The law is aimed at bars that load cheap booze into top shelf bottles, but the laws don't make any fine distinctions. Refilling aliquor bottle is illegal regardless of who does it or what brand is put in it.
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Because of shortages of bottles during the sniffle scare, the Montana legislature approved a revision in the liquor regulations. You can use a larger bottle to refill smaller bottles but the smaller bottle must be an original bottle to the larger.
So, you could use a 1.75 liter bottle of Nikolai Vodka to refill a 1 liter bottle of Nikolai Vodka.

I was still running a bar when this went into affect.

Posted by: clarence at November 12, 2025 12:13 AM (kUdqB)

239 I saw nothing in central IN.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2025 12:14 AM (pkeXY)

240
What Schoch is proposing would make the Carrington event look like a fart in a hurricane. YUGE solar outburst, ionizing radiation at ground level sort of thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)

241
What Schoch is proposing would make the Carrington event look like a fart in a hurricane. YUGE solar outburst, ionizing radiation at ground level sort of thing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Everyone gained super powers and flew off into space.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2025 12:18 AM (pkeXY)

242 All this talking about aurora, I said, "What the hell," and went outside.
9:50 PM.MST. 6000' elevation NE AZ (around 34.5° latitude), pretty dark sky, closest town w streetlights is >10 miles.

A dull red-orange glow encompassing ~100° of the northern sky, extending 40° above the horizon.

I brought the wife out, she says, "That's neat," went back inside and got ready for bed.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 12, 2025 12:18 AM (AQgeI)

243 What Schoch is proposing would make the Carrington event look like a fart in a hurricane. YUGE solar outburst, ionizing radiation at ground level sort of thing.
Posted by: publius

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is actually an X-ray image of Earth's core?

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2025 12:19 AM (nhCoE)

244 I brought the wife out, she says, "That's neat," went back inside and got ready for bed.
Posted by: buddhaha

Central Florida here.

Took wife out. Always with cell phone camera. Really enhanced the color.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 12:23 AM (/lPRQ)

245 I have been watching some of the Sean Ryan show on you tube. Former navy seal that interviews a lot of Tier 1 guys (Seals, Delta, etc). Man, if you want to see the size of the big planet size brass balls these tier 1 guys haul around its definitely some cool shit. Great interviewer too, he just lets the dudes talk.

Yeah, I went way down a rabbit hole a while back watching just about everything he's posted. Awesome stuff.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 12, 2025 12:23 AM (mH6SG)

246 Hey y'all - glad to see the place is still standing!

Posted by: Doof at November 12, 2025 12:25 AM (QMAsf)

247 .>>>It's so that the freaks have to get their bits altered on their own insurance, not their parents'.

You do remember that Obamacare made allowed people to stay on their parents' insurance until that age, right?

Or is that too long ago for the liberal goldfish-brains to remember?
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Wrong think. There are no natural freaks. It's the Dr.s, facilitators, thought leaders and politicians who create this problem. The way to solve it is to segregate these people, totally, from civil society. Your choice.
Then, those frail persons who have been misguided by these physical and mental mutilators will also be segregated from civil society into a controlled environment designed to reorient them into common society. For them and other unfortunate souls that cannot adjust there will be places for them. They were formerly called asylums. New think being eliminated they will now be called, asylums.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 12:26 AM (dveO7)

248 Had another look outside. Entire sky is faint blotchy pink.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 12:27 AM (npFr7)

249
It's an ongoing question about whether Sol is capable of an extinction level "superflare", energies 4 or 5 orders of magnitude above the largest ones we know about.

The answer is probably not, but they can't be sure. They've found a few sun-like stars out there that do produce these superflares, but they think they are different enough, something crazy, that means the Sun probably can't do that, at least at the current point in it's lifespan.

I think all that can be said for certain is the Sun hasn't produced a superflare in the last 10,000 years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

250
Look up the 774 AD carbon-14 event. That was probably the biggest solar flare event that can be detected. It would make the Carrington look weak, but not anything close to "protons on deck".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:32 AM (w6EFb)

251 Hey y'all - glad to see the place is still standing!
Posted by: Doof
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Disco! Thanks for the ONT. Welcome home.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 12:33 AM (41CYW)

252 229 Those 4 quarters and 4 dimes I had in my pocket after football practice in 1964, and that I put into a piggy bank and never spent, are now worth $50.53 in silver value. Most young people have no idea that US money used to actually be worth something.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump
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Up in the country Charlie owned the Cross Roads Tavern. It was pre-7/11 store at a black top cross roads. You could sit and have a beer or pick up canned goods, mustard and bread.
Anyway, it was a year before they took up the Silver Certificates and when Charlie made change he put the Silver Certificates in a stack by themselves.
He cashed them in for silver before deadline.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 12:36 AM (dveO7)

253 I was in the Smithsonian in the 1990's. I remember seeing Glamorous Glennis (Bell X1) the Spirit of St Louis and the Enola Gay there.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 12, 2025 12:36 AM (Da7Vv)

254 Heh. I did manage to take one pic of the aurora with my phone. Shows very red, indeed. Then the next frame shows this giant floating head, Zardoz-style, all lit up red. WTF? Oh, it's me. I hit the selfie button by mistake, and the only light on my face was the aurora ( a little), and the tail light of the Suburban, seeing as I was seated on the front frame of my trailer. The phone casts a shadow on my face. Very spooky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 12:38 AM (npFr7)

255 After the solar event AOP and those guys with the dimmer switch on the floor board will be the only one's driving around.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 12:38 AM (dveO7)

256 IIRC there actually was a wax cylinder recording of Lincoln reading the Gettysburg Address, but it's since been lost.... :-(

Posted by: As not seen on TV at November 12, 2025 12:46 AM (U/2d2)

257
Here's a (2 hr!) presentation from Robert Schoch on this superflare thing:

https://is.gd/w4Hmmo

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

258
What blew my mind is you know some of those crazy ancient petroglyphs? Stick figure rock drawings and all that. Maybe those ancients were tripping on the equivalent of acid back in the day is one theory.

Now, what if that was something they actually saw. In the sky. Turns out the plasma display in the sky due to a really energetic solar event would produce images that look similar....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 12, 2025 12:49 AM (w6EFb)

259 AOP, I am laughing really hard here!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 12, 2025 12:50 AM (0nHVk)

260 I drove a few miles to a spot with no streetlights.

Here at 44 degrees north, I saw a glowing cloud directly above me. My partially colorblind eyes couldn't see any colors in it. I forgot my phone, so I didn't get any enhanced pictures.

This is the first time I personally have seen the aurora here.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 12:50 AM (dXRTU)

261 Didn't figure I'd see any aurory boris out there tonight, and I didn't, but it was nice to step outside into the mild-temperature night.

And with that, I'll wave aw revwah to the Horde. Didn't get my beauty nap today, but at least that means I'll probably sleep well. Probably.

https://youtu.be/uexT8XC5qL4
https://youtu.be/nSzlcMHRc1U

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - shinin' down in dallas at November 12, 2025 12:51 AM (3ynhY)

262 And here I was worried about wasting my life. Reddit link.

Unknown man died in Nevada in 1908... eating library paste (and they mentioned it on his gravestone)

https://tinyurl.com/yykud2n3

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 12:53 AM (cQHrm)

263 My Spanish teacher, who had taught Spanish at the USAF college or something. Believed that trade was common between the Egyptians and the Mayans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 12:53 AM (dveO7)

264 IIRC there actually was a wax cylinder recording of Lincoln reading the Gettysburg Address, but it's since been lost.... :-(
Posted by: As not seen on TV at November 12, 2025 12:46 AM (U/2d2)

That would have been a neat trick, since Edison didn't invent the phonograph until 1877.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 12:55 AM (dXRTU)

265 Here at 44 degrees north, I saw a glowing cloud directly above me. My partially colorblind eyes couldn't see any colors in it. I forgot my phone, so I didn't get any enhanced pictures.

This is the first time I personally have seen the aurora here.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 12:50 AM (dXRTU)

You somewhere near Rexburg?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 12:56 AM (npFr7)

266 My Spanish teacher, who had taught Spanish at the USAF college or something. Believed that trade was common between the Egyptians and the Mayans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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No Great Overlap. Sand, jungle, calendars, history doing its own thing.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 12:58 AM (41CYW)

267 My Spanish teacher, who had taught Spanish at the USAF college or something. Believed that trade was common between the Egyptians and the Mayans.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 12:53 AM (dveO7)

Well, as far as we know, the Mayans weren't seafarers, at all. The Egyptians had ships that could ply the Med, but did they ever venture beyond the Pillars of Hercules? And if they did sail to Mexico, and traded there, regularly, why have no Egyptian shipwrecks ever been found in the Caribbean?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:01 AM (npFr7)

268 I believe historians have written that sure, it's possible the Egyptians and Mayans traded, but it's strange that there's no records of it anywhere.

From what I understand, the Mayans were as advanced as the Aztecs were backwards.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 12, 2025 01:01 AM (cQHrm)

269 Pyramids are simply a handy way to make a tall pile of rocks that won't fall over.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:04 AM (npFr7)

270 For novels about life after a future Carrington Event, I can recommend the "Fire from the Sky" series by N.C. Reed on Amazon Kindle.

Overview: Gather your Special Forces team, go back to your hometown, and build a fortress on your family farm.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 01:05 AM (dXRTU)

271 You somewhere near Rexburg?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 12:56 AM (npFr7)

A little Southeast of Boise.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 01:07 AM (dXRTU)

272 Pyramids are simply a handy way to make a tall pile of rocks that won't fall over.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:04 AM

They are also good for storing tachyons for use in the FTL drives in our star cruisers.

Posted by: Kang and Kodos at November 12, 2025 01:11 AM (dXRTU)

273 A Gill is four fluid ounces in the American system: so advantage Imperial system (only they gave it up, and we kept our units!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 01:12 AM (uGI3N)

274 Well, as far as we know, the Mayans weren't seafarers, at all. The Egyptians had ships that could ply the Med, but did they ever venture beyond the Pillars of Hercules? And if they did sail to Mexico, and traded there, regularly, why have no Egyptian shipwrecks ever been found in the Caribbean?

You expect a reed ship to leave much in the way of remains? Assuming it could cross the Atlantic, of course.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 01:16 AM (uGI3N)

275 A little Southeast of Boise.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 01:07 AM (dXRTU)

Ah, OK. I know Rexburg, Dubois, and Blackfoot are big time spud country.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:18 AM (npFr7)

276 Pyramids are simply a handy way to make a tall pile of rocks that won't fall over.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Money, my friend, money.

Posted by: Bernie Madoff at November 12, 2025 01:18 AM (XeU6L)

277 C'mon, there are no tacos in hieroglyphs. QED.

Posted by: That's retarded, sir. at November 12, 2025 01:19 AM (BrQ/H)

278 Pyramids are simply a handy way to make a tall pile of rocks that won't fall over.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not much more complex than a pile of dirt..
... Actually, the dirt pile is probably more complex.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 01:20 AM (/lPRQ)

279 You expect a reed ship to leave much in the way of remains? Assuming it could cross the Atlantic, of course.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 01:16 AM (uGI3N)

Well, there ought to be amphorae, and trade goods, and maybe masts and booms, and oars made of wood. I really doubt a reed ship could cross the Atlantic...and make it back. Thor Heyerdahl's voyage on the reed raft Kon Tiki very nearly met with disaster.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:21 AM (npFr7)

280 If the Egyptians traded on the regular with the Mayans, wouldn’t all the diseases have been traded way back when instead of later when the Europeans came along?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 01:21 AM (uGI3N)

281 Not much more complex than a pile of dirt..
... Actually, the dirt pile is probably more complex.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 01:20 AM (/lPRQ)

Typical shape of a dirt pile, or a sand pile, or a gravel pile is a cone. IIRC, some of the Egyptian pyramids were just stone block shells with a core of rubble.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:23 AM (npFr7)

282 Well, nearly 11:30 here, and I am off to the rack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:25 AM (npFr7)

283 Pyramids were pure brute force monuments.

Who can build the bigger stack of blocks were are pretty sure won't collapse.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 12, 2025 01:28 AM (/lPRQ)

284 I am VERY conservative and a big supporter of Trump ( I voted for him and donated to his campaign three times) but I insist on truth in EVERYTHING. Here is what is being reported about that cemetery, is it true?

Dutch News confirmed that the right-wing Heritage Foundation complained earlier this year that the American Battle Monuments Commission violated President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity orders, and the commemorative plaques were subsequently removed.

Posted by: anon2020 at November 12, 2025 01:28 AM (RqMDa)

285 Pyramids aren’t cones. Originally the later ones were faced, on all four sides, with flat stones to make each side a plane. These were removed, in later times, for building projects elsewhere.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 01:31 AM (uGI3N)

286 You expect a reed ship to leave much in the way of remains? Assuming it could cross the Atlantic, of course.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Thor Heyerdahl did it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 01:31 AM (dveO7)

287 Dutch News confirmed....that they are lying sacks of shit.

Ace wrote about it earlier today. Hoax.

Posted by: clarence at November 12, 2025 01:33 AM (kUdqB)

288 There is evidence of failure and improvement in the history of building pyramid. IIRC the oldest was a stepped pyramid, and there was one that changed angle before completion. I am not a pyramid buff, so this is going by memory from past occasional reading.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 01:34 AM (uGI3N)

289 @287

Thanks, I read ace's post earlier and I wondered if this information was new and accurate.

Posted by: anon2020 at November 12, 2025 01:36 AM (RqMDa)

290 The Caddo Indians built big dirt mounds as I recall.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 01:36 AM (dveO7)

291 All of a sudden, there's a slew of videos showing some "thief" grabbing a box from a porch that promptly explodes in a cloud of red or blue dye.

Are these a) staged b) AI generated or c) real?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 12, 2025 01:37 AM (Ep3eI)

292 284 I am VERY conservative and a big supporter of Trump ( I voted for him and donated to his campaign three times) but I insist on truth in EVERYTHING. Here is what is being reported about that cemetery, is it true?

Dutch News confirmed that the right-wing Heritage Foundation complained earlier this year that the American Battle Monuments Commission violated President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity orders, and the commemorative plaques were subsequently removed.
Posted by: anon2020 at November 12, 2025 01:28 AM (RqMDa)

He's just a rock-ribbed Republican asking questions, y'all!

Posted by: kunt says wut? at November 12, 2025 01:37 AM (4oAsw)

293
Dutch News confirmed that the right-wing Heritage Foundation complained earlier this year that the American Battle Monuments Commission violated President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity orders, and the commemorative plaques were subsequently removed.
Posted by: anon2020

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Odd, considering other parts of the story:

'"We have to guess for the reasons," said Theo Bovens, a Dutch lawmaker who also serves as the president of the Black Liberators.'

Updated to this:

'The ABMC told Newsweek in a statement that the visitors' center at Margraten had 15 magnetic panels "designed to be removed and rotated throughout the life of the exhibit to highlight as many individual stories as possible."'

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2025 01:38 AM (0lgzA)

294 280 If the Egyptians traded on the regular with the Mayans, wouldn’t all the diseases have been traded way back when instead of later when the Europeans came along?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Tanna leaves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 01:41 AM (dveO7)

295
My Spanish teacher, who had taught Spanish at the USAF college or something. Believed that trade was common between the Egyptians and the Mayans.

Posted by: Braenyard

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Like, what did they trade that was worth a trip across the Atlantic?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 12, 2025 01:41 AM (0lgzA)

296 Whelting along, when it becomes necessary to shut one eye in order to read or type it's time to go. It's been fun, yall have a good one. 'night

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 01:44 AM (dveO7)

297
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Like, what did they trade that was worth a trip across the Atlantic?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It was a Spanish class, the thought was thrown out as an interesting aside. He was into the whole thing so it meant something but his focus was Spanish.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 12, 2025 01:47 AM (dveO7)

298 Pyramids are simply a handy way to make a tall pile of rocks that won't fall over.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 12, 2025 01:04 AM (npFr7)

The pyramid of Meidum says hold my beer. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 01:47 AM (snZF9)

299 I have an uncle buried in Margraten. How are you Blondie?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 12, 2025 01:49 AM (0nHVk)

300 Are these a) staged b) AI generated or c) real?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 12, 2025 01:37 AM (Ep3eI)

There was a guy on EweTube a few years ago that did a series of glitter and stink bombs versus porch pirates.

The current ones with clouds of powder are definitely AI. One I watched had the package sticking to the back of the pirate's hand. As he runs away, he shrinks into the distance, but his getaway car is disportionately larger than he is. Finally, the pirates are invariably fat, white people.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 12, 2025 01:50 AM (dXRTU)

301 There is evidence of failure and improvement in the history of building pyramid. IIRC the oldest was a stepped pyramid, and there was one that changed angle before completion. I am not a pyramid buff, so this is going by memory from past occasional reading.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 12, 2025 01:34 AM (uGI3N)

The bent pyramid of Sneferu. The story goes that it was being built at the same time of the meidum pyramid, and the meidum pyramid collapsed during construction. This brought about an "oh shit" moment, and they decided to reduce the angle of the bent pyramid during construction, so thats why halfway up it changes angles.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 12, 2025 01:51 AM (snZF9)

302 @292 Thanks for the additional info

@293 -yawn-

Posted by: anon2020 at November 12, 2025 01:53 AM (RqMDa)

303 Court in the morn. Should be responsible - adult. G'night, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2025 01:57 AM (41CYW)

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