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Wednesday Night ONT - July 15, 2026 [TRex]
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How do you do, fellow kids? Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open and freshly re-stocked. Free refills!
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are discouraged due to the heat. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're here for an argument, please go through the second door on the right and then close the door behind you. This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please. Will reading the content protect you from Taco Bell lettuce explosive diarrhea? Couldn't hurt, right? The ONT is not a miracle worker, so keep your expectations low.A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world's largest and most complete specimens sold for a record $50.1 million Tuesday. Sotheby's said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed "Gus," is now the most expensive set of dinosaur bones ever auctioned off, besting the almost $45 million price tag for a nearly complete stegosaurus sold by the same New York auction house in 2024. The previous record holder had been a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed "Stan" that sold for nearly $32 million in 2020. The auction house said the mystery winner outbid six other prospective buyers during Tuesday's 10-minute bidding battle.If the buyer is among the Horde, please send me a note. Your secret will be safe with me.
Tornyol combines ultrasonic sonar and intelligent control algorithms in a 40-gram drone to eradicate all the mosquitoes in your space.
Tornyol uses ultrasonic sonar and autonomous guidance algorithms to locate and grind mosquitoes in its propellers. A single Tornyol unit should be able to protect areas up to 5 acres.If one is good, why not a swarm of skeeter killers? I'd be interested to see the result after roaming around my backyard for an hour. Of course, there is always the old fashioned way...
Pophouse Entertainment, the investment firm co-founded by ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus, has announced a partnership with legendary British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, acquiring a stake in the publishing and master music rights, and the name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights. Billboard reports that Pophouse has acquired a 50% "stake" in the assets. The deal includes rights to the band's iconic mascot, the ghoulish character "Eddie." However, for the sake of context, Pophouse paid upward of $300 million for a similar deal with Kiss, although the percentage was unclear. The partnership, which has been structured and developed over the last year between Pophouse and the band's co-manager, Andy Taylor, "will enable Iron Maiden to pursue new creative ventures that connect with existing fans as well as bringing their extensive catalogue to new audiences," according to the announcement.Does this mean Iron Maiden concerts will continue for perpetuity with a holographic Bruce Dickinson singing Fear of the Dark with a holographic Eddie?
Police in Ontario are reminding residents not to bring explosives to police stations after an unexploded World War II grenade was turned in at an Ottawa station. The Ontario Provincial Police said a resident brought the grenade to the OPP Detachment in Ottawa on Friday. "The OPP would like to remind the public that if you find such items, please do not transport them to your local police station," OPP East Region wrote on social media. "This could obviously prove extremely dangerous to the person bringing the item and others around." Officials recommended residents instead leave any explosives where they are found and report the location to authorities.Of course, Ontario appears to be on fire at the moment, so maybe grenades have dropped down the priority list since Friday.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from the Danish National Symphony for the big ONT finish:
Did you know that IKEA operates a hotel in Sweden? It is the only one that exists. Anyway, correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly filed. Are you lurking ????
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Yes it is
Posted by: mindful webworker - chore is fun to bee here at July 15, 2026 10:00 PM (p+5Bi)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2026 10:00 PM (VmkSV)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 15, 2026 10:00 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 10:01 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 15, 2026 10:00 PM
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AZ! Good evening, Sir.
Posted by: TRex - Wed ONT host dino at July 15, 2026 10:02 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 15, 2026 10:03 PM (D4WJT)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2026 10:03 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 15, 2026 10:03 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: TRex - skeeter patrol dino at July 15, 2026 10:03 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: 496 at July 15, 2026 10:04 PM (sOtuf)
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:05 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 15, 2026 10:05 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2026 10:03 PM (gKWVE)
I'm sure Wayne Gretzky watched it once or twice.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2026 10:06 PM (/WQyy)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 15, 2026 10:06 PM (6lIrI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 10:06 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:07 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: 496 at July 15, 2026 10:04 PM (sOtuf)
Its interesting, but beware unforseen consequences.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 15, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 15, 2026 10:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 15, 2026 10:07 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 15, 2026 10:06 PM
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Howdy!
Posted by: TRex - friend of Gus dino at July 15, 2026 10:07 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 15, 2026 10:07 PM
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You're welcome!
Posted by: TRex - drone pilot dino at July 15, 2026 10:08 PM (XfIK1)
No housekeeping. You have to make your own bed.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2026 10:09 PM (vTZFs)
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2026 10:06 PM (/WQyy)
the Great One has some hellishly large choppers now. Like he's wearing a mouthpiece.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 15, 2026 10:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Does each guest have to re-assemble the furniture after checking in to their room?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2026 10:09 PM (R+iUD)
So sick of this. God, I know You've got a plan for everyone, but I'd love to have a clue what the next step for me is gonna look like!
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 10:09 PM (aJQbY)
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A better idea than, Bill Gates, releasing genetically altered mosquitoes. Everything he touches turns into a human killer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 10:10 PM (C0oZI)
So glad to hear that Gus went to a good home, even if it wasn't your home. Opportunity awaits!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 15, 2026 10:10 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2026 10:10 PM (edUvp)
The haul:
4x Andouille sausages
4x Knockwurst
1 each bone in Berkshire pork chop
2 ea thin cut bone in porkchop
1 ea thick cut boneless pork loin chop
hoo doggies
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2026 10:11 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 15, 2026 10:10 PM
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{crisp salute}
Posted by: TRex - bingo caller dino at July 15, 2026 10:11 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2026 10:09 PM (vTZFs)
Heh.
You know, I do not think I have ever bought an IKEA brand anything. I remember when I was buying book shelves for the apartment I found one that when put together was so far ahead of the others I had bought in quality and materials that it was plain as day. But I need a lot of books shelves so the cheaper, flimsier ones were the way to go in my mind. So I had one standout.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
Neither are Maiden.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (QaH55)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: pookysgirl, with missile facts at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (IpEsz)
4x Knockwurst
1 each bone in Berkshire pork chop
2 ea thin cut bone in porkchop
1 ea thick cut boneless pork loin chop
hoo doggies
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2026 10:11 PM (ZxPkt)
Reading from the bottom, at first I thought that was a recipe. I was thinking 'have no idea what it is, but sounds good.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 15, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (sAmhv)
Milei should have bet on it.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2026 10:13 PM (R+iUD)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:13 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:13 PM (GD0B3)
There was a great sock opportunity there...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (R+iUD)
Probably died of embarrassment.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (nDXEV)
Which is...true. I checked out what he is doing with his billion bucks instead of giving it to charity and found two things - he's got some grifting NGO in the US called FWD.us which is for legalizing all the illegals oh and he dumped his average looking Asian wife for a French woman with enormous knockers.
Funny how all these billionaires the left says they hate are the ones funding them.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 10:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: pookysgirl, with missile facts at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM
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Congrats on the swell wardrobe addition!
Posted by: TRex - dimiutive dino at July 15, 2026 10:15 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: moki at July 15, 2026 10:15 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2026 10:15 PM (/WQyy)
My boys and my DiL ate breakfast around it not too long ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (0c4bd)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (OPTvA)
Posted by: Joemarine at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Indiana Jones, Doctor of Archeology at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (zZu0s)
Also, England took possession of them 50 years before Argentina first existed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (edUvp)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner
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Women?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (C0oZI)
Today's morning art was rather, uh, revealing.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (sKqQm)
Better: "He dumped his fishhead wife for a Finance woman with huge cannons."
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: moki at July 15, 2026 10:15 PM
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Very kind. Thank you!
Posted by: TRex - taco bell lettuce tester dino at July 15, 2026 10:17 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (GD0B3)
I rule that the whole England team should get red carded.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2026 10:17 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 15, 2026 10:17 PM (nDXEV)
Posted by: Indiana Jones, Doctor of Archeology at July 15, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 15, 2026 10:17 PM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (R+iUD)
every comment is probably a great sock opportunity...
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:18 PM (GD0B3)
I imagine it will end up in one regardless. It isn't like you can have an entire T-Rex skeleton in your living room, even if it's a Bezos-sized living room.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2026 10:17 PM (gKWVE)
what can be worse than losing to Argentina in semis and having to play the French for the bronze ??
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:18 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2026 10:18 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Joemarine at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (y171U)
Like topless beaches or topless protests, the idea is far more intriguing than the reality.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2026 10:19 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 15, 2026 10:20 PM (D/6p1)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 10:09 PM (aJQbY)
Interviewing is so frustrating. I will be praying for you and hoping where you are supposed to be makes itself known asap.
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:20 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 15, 2026 10:20 PM (0c4bd)
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Well, there is one sitting in Ken Griffins living room, or wherever he is storing his Stegosaurus....
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:20 PM (GD0B3)
Yes it is
Posted by: mindful webworker - chore is fun to bee here at July 15, 2026 10:00
That's a good optimistic outlook. As for me I'm afraid with the passage of time I may end up dead. Seems to be a trend with my family.
Dad's cousin Bev died recently, it seems odd to be on the cusp of becoming the eldest generation in my family.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 15, 2026 10:20 PM (55Qr6)
polynikes - truly, it is art. Would hang.
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 10:20 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 10:09 PM (aJQbY)
Hang in there. Endeavor to persevere, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2026 10:21 PM (wVcYX)
Same reason I liked that Reagan told Argentina to FO back in the 80s.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 10:22 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2026 10:22 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:20
The conservatory seems the best spot.
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:23 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 10:23 PM (aJQbY)
Chicago, one evening years ago. Stopped at a stoplight and a young lady standing on the corner flashed me. MiladyJo in the passenger seat did not notice. It was a freebie.
Posted by: mindful webworker - that was no lady... at July 15, 2026 10:23 PM (p+5Bi)
Posted by: Piper
I'm not sure the Pittsburgh police department would be much help to you.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)
I want to know what would happen to me if I talked about Tucker, Candace, Megyn or pencil neck Kristol. Not that I plan to, I just want to know my punishment.
I own the thickest permanent record of our HS, by the way. I think the principal was afraid of me.
Carry on.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 15, 2026 10:24 PM (hzuYO)
==
..soon you will meet an interesting stranger...there is going to be a flood and ...an encounter with extraterrestrial beings!
Posted by: Baba Vanga at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (GD0B3)
The writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez described the Falklands War as "two bald men fighting over a comb."
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joemarine
Like topless beaches or topless protests, the idea is far more intriguing than the reality.
Posted by: Count de Monet
With what most panhandlers look like?
"Here's $5, just put it back on!"
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: pookysgirl, with missile facts at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (IpEsz)
A buddy and I visited there in 2017, think we were on our way to Devil's Tower. IIRC, there was another slogan that read, "If it's not there in 30 minutes, the second one is free"..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Piper
Caller says lady in workout clothes is assaulting owner of dog daycare center
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (/WQyy)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:18 PM
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Do an interweb search on "Nathan Myhrvold t-rex". I'll wait.
Posted by: TRex - interior decorator dino at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: davidt at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Piper
I'm not sure the Pittsburgh police department would be much help to you.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 10:24
We would be horde sourcing bail and one of our lawyers would need to brush up on criminal law. 😂
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 15, 2026 10:26 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:23 PM (Dd38x)
If I was a selfish billionaire who does not care about science, that is where I would display it, certainly.
Posted by: Baba Vanga at July 15, 2026 10:26 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 15, 2026 10:26 PM (OPTvA)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 10:26 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:26 PM (GD0B3)
The title of my first book is going to be 'The Man With No Name.'
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 15, 2026 10:27 PM (sYM3s)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 15, 2026 10:27 PM (nDXEV)
Cancer markers continue to be below the "threshhold"; I have been feeling pretty good. We hope that is a good sign.
Tomorrow, Mr. TiFW and I are headed to Minneapolis for a Puzzle Parley weekend - I have been collecting antique wooden jigsaw puzzles fir many years, and the gentleman who restores these puzzles is going to be in attendance. Meeting him has been on my bucket list for several years.
Mr. TiFW will be taking a Scrollsaw Cutting Workshop while we are there - it was my way of sweetening the pot ♥️♥️♥️
While at my dentist's office this morning, I mentioned that we would be in Minneapolis this weekend, and he asked if we had plans to go to The Mall. Well, my ears perked right up - I had forgotten that the Mall of America was in Minneapolis!
I told Mr. TiFW that he can tell our dentist "Thanks a lot" the next time that he sees him....😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 15, 2026 10:27 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: runner
As predicted:
billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin owns a massive, 150-million-year-old Stegosaurus fossil named "Apex". He purchased it at a Sotheby's auction for a record-breaking $44.6 million.
Rather than keeping it private, Griffin placed the 27-foot-long skeleton on a long-term loan at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where it is currently on public display
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:28 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bulg
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What do the people who live in the Falklands think?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 10:28 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Tonypete
Tired of the same old grumpy replies to this greeting.
🎶I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied, I'm on my way
I've seen all good people turn their heads each day
So satisfied, I'm on my way🎶
https://youtu.be/PB49uadFgYw
Posted by: mindful webworker - I am. Yes. at July 15, 2026 10:28 PM (p+5Bi)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 15, 2026 10:27 PM (nDXEV)
Heh. Works every time.
Posted by: Robert Wagner at July 15, 2026 10:28 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2026 10:28 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (/WQyy)
The problem: dragonflies are slow to grow and they are cannibalistic. So if you put a bunch of them in a small area they'll eat each other instead of the mosquitos
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: man at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (XuXeR)
Thank you Mr. T-Rex
Still in Yosemite. Leafink Friday.
Limited connectivity.
Full after action report if I make it back.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (Dy6gY)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 15, 2026 10:27 PM
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That sounds suspiciously like a hobby.
Posted by: TRex - camp counselor dino at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (aJQbY)
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which means he is getting a massive tax deduction, but still owns the thing
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2026 10:22 PM (ZxPkt)
I bought a bone-in pork shoulder and made 12 lbs of link sausage out of it. It is actually pretty good, but it is best that I made link sausage because it is a little lean otherwise.
I ground an onion in with the meat and I doubt I soaked the casings long enough because it is a tad bit salty. It is a lot of work, and it would be worse if I smoked it.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (RIvkX)
https://youtu.be/yvD3X3RcK3Y
Posted by: tankdemon at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (PMi3m)
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:28
….in the conservatory.
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (Dd38x)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (Riz8t)
Seems like you'd have to clean those gooey blades often.
🦟🦟🦟🚁
Posted by: mindful webworker - I am. Yes. at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (p+5Bi)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 15, 2026 10:17 PM (nDXEV)
We're making our way over there in about a week. Any bets on when Pooky is going to let slip in front of the kids what the name means?
Posted by: pookysgirl, place yer bets at July 15, 2026 10:30 PM (IpEsz)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (77rzZ)
If the UK gets much stranger, the Falklanders may wind up being in favor of it too.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2026 10:31 PM (rbvCR)
Maybe THAT explains the Obama monolith.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:32 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: davidt
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Purple Martins, barn swallows..
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 10:32 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Don Black at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (ZxPkt)
One of my favorite books as a kid was the one about the chicken that hatched out a triceratops.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2026 10:33 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Piper at July 15, 2026 10:33 PM (Dd38x)
At this point, I doubt the Brits could defend the Tower of London.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:33 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Case at July 15, 2026 10:34 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: pookysgirl, with missile facts at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (IpEsz)
Is that how Gus is getting delivered?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2026 10:34 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Joemarine
If this is the kind of woman who comes up to your car, flashing, in order to beg for money, you probably don't want to see what's under her shirt.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Dr. Varno
I guess that's "fun" if you're not the bassist from Loverboy.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (rbvCR)
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That's great, Achmed. Really. That's a very nice vest..with the red cylinder thingys crafted so perfectly, and the dead man's switch. But, I'm sorry, those guys at the station don't want to see it. I'll talk to them. Maybe tomorrow.
Hey, it's the Toronto area. What did you expect. Jurisdiction of..."just leave your car keys near the front door so the home invaders can get to they easier."
Posted by: Orson at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (wVcYX)
Teresa that is so wonderful. I was devastated at your initial diagnosis but you are a fucking inspiration. And Horde Prayer is a beautiful thing!! 🩷
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Piper
I'm not sure the Pittsburgh police department would be much help to you.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)
I suspect the dogs would be released outside, and the people locked in the schnauzer sized cages. If there's any leftover dog poop, it gets lit next to the cages, to enhance their experience.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2026 10:37 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Case at July 15, 2026 10:34 PM (IY9No)
He shouldn't have told people to drink and inject it and build little shrines to Clorox in a makeshift altar in their garage.
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 10:37 PM (vE0+H)
Too late in the East, but those of you farther west, do check out the thin crescent Moon near the horizon after sunset. Venus will be up there putting on a bright show as well.
Leo the Lion is right near Venus, and Regulus is between Venus and the Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 10:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 15, 2026 10:38 PM (QCDKD)
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 10:38 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Count de Monet
I went to a topless beach near Venice. It's not just pretty, young women who are topless. And you should see what overweight, middle-aged men wear for bathing suits.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 15, 2026 10:39 PM (0Htd1)
The problem: dragonflies are slow to grow and they are cannibalistic. So if you put a bunch of them in a small area they'll eat each other instead of the mosquitos
Posted by: 18-1
Mosquitoes being largely nocturnal and dragonflies largely diurnal is also a problem.
Not sure how they ever got the moniker "mosquito hawk."
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 10:40 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 10:40 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2026 10:40 PM (GD0B3)
Posted by: ...
Ah, Clorox. The Greek goddess of laundry and murder scenes.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 10:40 PM (VHUov)
That being said, I'm not sure "The Golden Bone" is a good name for a kennel. A house of ill repute, maybe...
Posted by: Orson at July 15, 2026 10:41 PM (dIske)
https://youtu.be/pLgJ7pk0X-s?is=Z0a2y61SA9M31nbP
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 15, 2026 10:41 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Joemarine
If this is the kind of woman who comes up to your car, flashing, in order to beg for money, you probably don't want to see what's under her shirt.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)
He asks for Sydney Sweeney. He gets Nancy Pelosi.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2026 10:43 PM (qx7Zg)
The challenge was to look at the girls without my then-wife noticing.
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 10:43 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 15, 2026 10:14 PM (nDXEV)
Dude! Must find! I love IPAs, and Lagunitas is one of my favorite breweries, and...
UP THE IRONS!!
I am sporting a tremendous woody right now!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, so easily distracted at July 15, 2026 10:43 PM (0aYVJ)
It isn't like you can have an entire T-Rex skeleton in your living room, even if it's a Bezos-sized living room.
Posted by: Archimedes
It would probably fit in Citizen Kane's living room.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2026 10:45 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: LASue at July 15, 2026 10:46 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 15, 2026 10:38 PM (QCDKD)
We need to come visit you, I know.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2026 10:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Case at July 15, 2026 10:47 PM (IY9No)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 15, 2026 10:47 PM (4g5V+)
This lunation will be the Buck Moon, if you go by the common calendar month naming convention. I don't like that and prefer the seasonal convention. Under that, this will be the Sturgeon Moon, the second full Moon of astronomical summer. They will be out of sync until May of next year when the true Blue Moon resets it.
The last lunation was the shortest of the year, and this one will be one hour and 3 minutes longer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 10:48 PM (w6EFb)
The challenge was to look at the girls without my then-wife noticing.
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 10:43 PM (RCjYY)
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So the eyes popping and the aah-OOOOO-gah horn weren't dead giveaways then?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2026 10:48 PM (u/oMr)
And yeah, the paunchy balding 39 year old men in speedos were there.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2026 10:48 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 15, 2026 10:48 PM (2NHgQ)
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Are they in the nude?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2026 10:49 PM (u/oMr)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 10:49 PM (77rzZ)
And how much of that is retailers struggling to maintain their already slim margins in the face of state legislatures cranking up the minimum wage?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 15, 2026 10:49 PM (D4WJT)
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 10:49 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2026 10:28 PM (Riz8t)
How long before it, too, relocates to Florida.
Posted by: LASue at July 15, 2026 10:50 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 15, 2026 10:27 PM
***
That sounds suspiciously like a hobby.
Posted by: TRex - camp counselor dino at July 15, 2026 10:29 PM (XfIK1)
Well, it would be more of a hobby if I actually put them together once in a while, rather than just hoarding them.
I spend most of my hobby time working on needlework projects (cross stitch and crochet).
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 15, 2026 10:50 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Orson at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (dIske)
Where they will punish YOU for making it easier for thieves to enter the vehicle. Now, common sense should tell us not to do that, sure, but is it not interesting the police will come after YOU for that, not the perp?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 15, 2026 10:51 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: LASue at July 15, 2026 10:51 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 15, 2026 10:52 PM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 15, 2026 10:49 PM (D4WJT)
Not an issue in TX for there is no state minimum wage here, fortunately.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 15, 2026 10:52 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Don Black
Well, sure. All the sawdust on the floor and lips and assholes are put to good use.
Posted by: Waste Not, Want Not at July 15, 2026 10:53 PM (hVCM7)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 15, 2026 10:53 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: TRex - interior decorator dino at July 15, 2026 10:25 PM (XfIK1)
* * * *
What a great story and an amazing home!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 15, 2026 10:53 PM (D/6p1)
Teresa that is so wonderful. I was devastated at your initial diagnosis but you are a fucking inspiration. And Horde Prayer is a beautiful thing!! 🩷
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (vE0+H)
Don't know that I am so much "inspirational", rather than f***ing lucky that so far medications have been working for me. So many people with this type of cancer are not as fortunate as I have been.
I do know that Horde prayers have definitely helped! ♥️♥️♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 15, 2026 10:53 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Piper
… with a lead pipe.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
No, with a dinosaur bone. Haven't you been following along?
Posted by: Professor Plum at July 15, 2026 10:54 PM (VHUov)
New York lawmaker, Nikki Lucas, proposed a 10% discount for shoppers who use the self-checkout lane. The bill, which was introduced in May, would only require retail establishments that also sell food to provide the discount.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2026 10:55 PM (Cqx++)
I say "true" Blue Moon, but all this stuff was invented in the early 20th Century by an editor of the Maine Farmer's Almanac. There's no ancient tradition of any sort with it.
But, the seasonal convention does do the most astronomically and logically consistent job of fitting the occasional oddball 13th full Moon in tropical year into thing while respecting the real old traditions.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 10:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2026 10:56 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 15, 2026 10:57 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 15, 2026 10:58 PM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 15, 2026 10:58 PM (SRRAx)
DAYLIGHT STUPID TIME
House passes Daylight Saving Time reform as Trump signals support for ending clock change
"For decades, we have accepted this ritual of springing forward and falling back, even though it disrupts routines, throws off our sleep and creates unnecessary frustration for families across the country," Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said Tuesday, detailing how the clock changes have disrupted her infant daughter's sleep schedule. "Let's stop asking Americans to reset their clocks every March and November," she continued. "Let's provide some certainty and consistency and a little more sunshine at the end of the day.🤦♂️
h/t MJA, IOTWreport
iotwreport.com/
house-passes-daylight-saving-time-reform/
Midwest Chick: I don’t care as long as the time changes stop
For my part, I like DST. I like having extra time after work to get stuff done.🤦♂️
Apologies to those who like DST, but it's as ignorant as needing the government to tell you to breath.
Daylight Saving Time: The Simple Alternative
How free people would handle the seasons
mindfulwebworks.com/radical/daylight
Resume frolicking
Posted by: mindful webworker - I am. Yes. at July 15, 2026 10:59 PM (p+5Bi)
My only slight criticism is that the Soprano in Ecstacy of Gold had a nice voice, but when Enrico Morricone directed it himself, he got an Italian Opera diva who could out punch the entire brass section by herself. The part kinda calls for that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2026 10:59 PM (wLnmp)
Posted by: Professor Plum at July 15, 2026 10:54 PM (VHUov)
I obviously haven’t a Clue.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 15, 2026 11:00 PM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: Doof at July 15, 2026 11:00 PM (QLC6i)
The challenge was to look at the girls without my then-wife noticing.
Posted by: mnw
So the eyes popping and the aah-OOOOO-gah horn weren't dead giveaways then?
Posted by: Cicero
He said "French" women. The weedy little Citroen horn sound wouldn't alert anyone. As long as she's not looking at you when your beret pops off your head and spins around, you're fine.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 11:01 PM (77rzZ)
As was the case in the early '70s when we tried permanent DST, this will last one winter. The higher latitudes in the western edges of the time zones (looking at you Michigan and Indiana) will have sunrise times as late as 9:30AMish.
That didn't fly then, and it won't fly now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
The survey also found that 17% of Black Protestants hold a favorable view of Hamas, 8% of Catholics, and 4% of White evangelical Protestants.
Only 26% of Muslim Americans said they view Israelis favorably, compared with 74% of White evangelical Protestants, 55% of Black Protestants, and 51% of Catholics.
The poll also found younger Americans across religious groups are more likely to view Palestinians favorably than Israelis, with favorable attitudes toward Israelis declining among both Republicans and Democrats over the past decade.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies researcher Hussain Abdul-Hussain said the findings resemble polling among Palestinians.
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They call it a Pew poll for a reason...
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 11:02 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2026 10:55 PM (Cqx++)
Do those shoppers also get invited to company events? Free food and drinks? Shop from the stockroom?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 15, 2026 10:35 PM (rbvCR)
Dang, I read that in fourth grade. Won't spoil it though.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 15, 2026 11:04 PM (nDXEV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I appreciate her effort to kill the things off entirely.
DDGAI: "In 2024, the average net profit margin for food retailers was reported at 1.7%."
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 11:04 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 11:01 PM (77rzZ)
Breaking down the word Boob.
B - top view
oo - front view
b - side view
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2026 11:04 PM (qx7Zg)
The whole idea of DST was stupid to begin with.
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 11:04 PM (77rzZ)
B - top view
oo - front view
b - side view
Not going to add anything to this, you can't improve on perfection.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 15, 2026 11:05 PM (D4WJT)
Posted by: Braenyard
7% misheard it as "Ham Mass."
The other 1% was the Pope, with sockpuppets.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 11:06 PM (VHUov)
I suspect it's higher for Catholics.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 15, 2026 11:07 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Doof at July 15, 2026 11:07 PM (QLC6i)
Michigan the whole of it, should be on Central time. I think it was originally, but some Detroit bunch wanted to do the equivalent of well, permanent DST (which didn't exist then, so they shifted one time zone east). There was also a claim of some motivation to be on the same time as NYC, but I don't think that was really the main reason.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:08 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: cch at July 15, 2026 11:08 PM (dSco/)
A few of us were talking about this late last night: If you are interested in 2 astonishing musical numbers where the diva sure as hell better be able to SING!
Queen of the Night aria, and Un Bel Di Vedremo aria.
Not suitable for Nancy Sinatra.
YouTube has many different versions of both.
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 11:09 PM (RCjYY)
40 000 Poles, Lithuanians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Moldovans & Tatars defeated 30 000 German knights
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Germans; organizational skills like none other.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 11:10 PM (C0oZI)
See time.gov for the current time zone boundaries. It's sort of crazy for a state to have multiple time zones, IIRC, but you can make the case for a state with wide longitude extent sort of straddling the 1 hour meridian boundaries.
But look at Indiana. That's just crazy. And NE, KS and the other midwestern states.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:11 PM (w6EFb)
Right now, it's a Wespe. Besides using heavy duty tools, they do use hammers when needed for alignment.
https://youtu.be/KvdVdl-harY
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2026 11:12 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: gKWVE
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Polls exist to shape public opinion.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 11:13 PM (C0oZI)
They had other songs than "For What It's Worth"
https://youtu.be/jyc0JSd5q7U
G'nite, y'all.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - strange days doctor at July 15, 2026 11:14 PM (p+5Bi)
I’ve never cared too much, just quit fucking with the clocks every 6 months. Just retarded.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 15, 2026 11:19 PM (OPTvA)
Posted by: publius
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OTOH, one could celebrate New Year's eve, drive up the road, and do it again an hour later.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2026 11:19 PM (XeU6L)
Posted b IRLy: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 10:48
Thanks or the update. I'll have to tell J this is the Buck Moon, Buck is my nic IRL.
Admire your persistence in staying w/ Momma. You have to look after your own, they had no right to stop you from doing so.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at July 15, 2026 11:19 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: publius
And look at Idaho-- if there's got to be a time-divide, why not draw the line N/S instead of E/W?
And that stoopid little chunk of eastern Oregon... why not let the whole state be Pacific Time?
Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2026 11:19 PM (rdVOm)
https://tinyurl.com/6dwp7rby
recorded at a club my late BIL owned for a short time
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at July 15, 2026 11:20 PM (y7zkd)
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2026 11:21 PM (/WQyy)
Posted by: Braenyard
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"Tell me the results that you want, and I will formulate a poll that produces those results" - Charles Krauthammer
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 15, 2026 11:21 PM (XeU6L)
I think I recall some time-zone hopping flight, maybe the Concorde back in the day, where they crossed several time zone boundaries and rang in the new year several times. It was going west from Europe to the US.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:22 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 11:22 PM (RCjYY)
Also, England took possession of them 50 years before Argentina first existed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2026 10:16 PM (edUvp)
You can colonize uninhabited places. Iceland had no people until the Vikings colonized it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2026 11:24 PM (1z8ji)
But look at Indiana. That's just crazy. And NE, KS and the other midwestern states.
Posted by: publius
Until 1960, Bismarck and Mandan ND were in different time zones, even though they're sister cities on either side of the Missouri river. Mandan voted to move to Central time, and now is in a different time zone than the rest of Morton County.....
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 11:25 PM (VHUov)
He would also be 216 years old.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2026 11:25 PM (/WQyy)
Lucky, blessed, inspirational, any way you want to slice it is fine by me. I remember you wanting that photoshop of you doing the Fight Fight Fight meme. You inspire me, babe, and happy you are doing so well.
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 11:25 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15, 2026 11:25 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Braenyard
I left my Catholic congregation because the pastor was giving a proPalestinian commentary at the end of the service (wasn't part of the homily but still).
Nobody's asked why I left, since. This was over a year ago. They are aware I'm a "Zionist" and that I don't denounce the Talmud (well, any more than the Talmud denounces itself admittedly a low bar).
So I'd put the Hamas-better-than-Israel mark maybe 15%, the priesthood some percentages higher. Not as bad as the Episcopalian priesthood.
Posted by: gKWVE might be coming down with a case of the sads at July 15, 2026 11:26 PM (gKWVE)
If Kindltot is here, he can tell the details. That little green area might as well be in Idaho. They are very linked economically.
That's a big part of it. If some local region is tied to another region strongly with commerce, economics, they like to be on the same clock time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:26 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
That makes sense. Thank you.
But it sure looks odd on the map, LOL
Posted by: JQ at July 15, 2026 11:29 PM (rdVOm)
All 5 just garbage to "shape public opinion"?
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 11:29 PM (RCjYY)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:26 PM (w6EFb)
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Like Wendover UT and West Wendover NV same town straddles the state line.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2026 11:31 PM (RIvkX)
All 5 just garbage to "shape public opinion"?
Posted by: mnw at July 15, 2026 11:29 PM (RCjYY)
Of course, this happens literally all the time during election season. If you want to spend time trying to figure out which polls or averages are good or bad when most of our elections are filled with fraud to begin with, go for it. I don't even know what you're arguing here because I just saw this, but I can already tell it's annoying.
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 11:31 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Vice President Sarah Palin at July 15, 2026 11:35 PM (BXKqN)
Posted by: RandomDave at July 15, 2026 11:36 PM (aJQbY)
All 5 just garbage to "shape public opinion"?
Posted by: mnw
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How many polls said that Trump was going to lose the election?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 11:36 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Vice President Sarah Palin at July 15, 2026 11:35 PM (BXKqN)
Polls are for gondolas!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 15, 2026 11:36 PM (qx7Zg)
Neither are Maiden.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (QaH55)
And they are worth every penny. Maiden, that is.
UP THE FUCKING IRONS!!!
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 15, 2026 11:36 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 11:37 PM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Bulg at July 15, 2026 11:01 PM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/eya5s3jr
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 15, 2026 11:38 PM (w/O5Q)
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 11:38 PM (vE0+H)
At Mach 2, you can "beat the earth's rotation" going westward, and you don't have to be at too high a latitude to do it. If interested you could run the numbers.
Letting Grok do the work, yep the Concorde could beat the earth's rotation, barely, even at the equator.
So, what you could do is just exactly cancel the Erf's rotation at a given latitude, and have local mean time at your exact location hold constant at 12:00 midnight, and be at New Year's instant for the duration of the flight.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:38 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Vice President Sarah Palin
And Poland is for Poles, so by the transitive property, Poland is for strippers.
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 11:39 PM (VHUov)
Things will work out. The Lord provides and answers our prayers.
Teresa, if you’re still here, keep kicking ass and taking names.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 15, 2026 11:40 PM (/79St)
Heh, with the Concorde, the Sun could rise in the west and move eastward. Take off heading west from Europe near sunset, and "time would move backwards", the sun rising up from the western horizon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:41 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: dum dum with the insights at July 15, 2026 11:41 PM (/dcbg)
How many polls said that Trump was going to lose the election?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 15, 2026 11:36 PM (C0oZI)
I keep going back to one of my favorite events of the year: the moment Canada got punked for gold in men's hockey. How many people predicted Team USA would win gold? Because Canada was so much better and they were just going to walk to a gold medal...
Except for one minor detail. The game had to be played, and the IOC insisted it be played, just to make sure Canada deserved it. And...well...they didn't.
Same thing with elections. Polls can go on and on and on all day. Didn't these same polls which confidently predicted Trump's defeat show Carter getting a second term handily over Reagan? OK...but we still had to do one little thing: hold the election anyway, just in case. And...the election was held and the polls were wrong.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 15, 2026 11:41 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2026 11:24 PM (1z8ji)
You and I know that, but I was sparring on X with some idiot leftist who thought that all Colonization was Eevil! And must be reversed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2026 11:41 PM (wLnmp)
Posted by: ... at July 15, 2026 11:43 PM (vE0+H)
At high latitudes, Mach 2 is really outrunning Erf's rotation, and that "sun rising in the west" effect was quite pronounced.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2026 11:43 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2026 11:46 PM (wLnmp)
The Mountain Time bulge into Oregon is so the folks there can be on Boise time. You have to drive another hundred miles west to get to the next real town in Oregon.
The Pacific Time takeover in the Idaho Pan handle is so those folks can be on Spokane time. Again, it is a hundred mile drive south down a single two lane blacktop road to get to the Boise area.
Of course, there are those who just want to live on Tulsa Time...
https://youtu.be/Hrd5xU_tO_I
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 15, 2026 11:48 PM (53lW4)
I think my mother is going to be fine tonight. Here's my theory on what happened. That anesthesia for the emergency leg surgery just knocked her brain for a loop, causing that insane behavior. This has happened before with her. But we had to do it to save her life.
As crazy as it sounds, that big fall and knock on the head may have been a crude "shock treatment" and knocked her brain out of that crazy loop.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15
When I lived in France all the beaches were topless and the scenery was mostly gorgeous. That was before they had culturally enriched themselves like today so not sure if that still holds.
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at July 15, 2026 11:49 PM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 15, 2026 11:52 PM (53lW4)
I tell you this. Saturday, right after the fall, the docs and nurses were telling me there wasn't much hope, poor quality of life, and didn't think treatment was viable. I told them to treat her one more day, Sunday.
If I had not done that, she wouldn't have made it. Monday, while still dragging my feet, I was about to well, you know. Dragging my feet and dreading it.
But then that miracle occurred. Always keep that mind. There is always hope, and one more day or two or three can make a difference.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:52 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at July 15, 2026 11:49 PM (y7zkd)
Oh yeah, I'm sure the Mohammedans are down on the beach baring their Saracen titties for all to see.
Posted by: Mo is a pedo at July 15, 2026 11:53 PM (/dcbg)
There were Irish monks there first.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 11:53 PM (sKqQm)
Persian women can be quite good looking. Arabic ones less so.
I imagine Berbers look a lot like southern Europeans.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 11:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: publius
Time Control, or Controlled by Time?
https://youtu.be/DtVrXTdEbF0
Posted by: mikeski at July 15, 2026 11:57 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: stabby even at July 15, 2026 11:58 PM (/dcbg)
The original, logical notion of time zones was as follows. 15 degrees of longitude is 1 hour of time. Meaning 1 degree is 4 minutes of time.
So, time zones were to be 15 degree wide, centered on every 15 degree meridian, that is +/- 7.5 degrees ib either side. Eastern time is thus centered on 75W, running from 67.5W to 82.5W. Here in SC, that western boundary is somewhere a little east of my own Clempson Cow Collidge.
So, eyeballing that on the map running northward, that's the "proper" western boundary of EST.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 15, 2026 11:52 PM (53lW4)
Seriously, Milei and Argentina should launch a charm offensive on the Falklanders. Something like: "England ain't what it used to be. Crawling with deranged muslim rapists, and cops that aid and abet them. And, guess what? Argentina is no longer a Peronist shithole. We have gotten smarter, and kinder. We have an offer for you. Become an Argentine protectorate, and we will guarantee your English language rights, and local laws."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)
To really make that "stopping time" with the Concorde a challenge, I would try to hole Apparent Solar midnight constant. You would have to adjust speed to match the derivative of the equation of time, the true apparent solar day "sped" at that point.
Anyway, keep the sun directly under your local nadir the whole time. You'd have to vary your speed a little to do that to high precision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
Re: Iron Maiden.
Pop House is co-owned by one of the guy's from ABBA.
Maiden is obligated to cover Dancing Queen.
ABBA must cover The Prisoner.
As it is written, so shall it be done.
Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 12:03 AM (hjusQ)
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 15, 2026 11:40 PM (/79St)
Now that my hair is starting to grow back, I occasionally feel puckish and wear a baseball cap that has "Stronger Than The Storm" embroidered on it 😊💕
And Huzzah! My permanent tooth implants came in, and the dentist put them in place this morning, so now I won't look like a gap-toothed hillbilly when in polite company 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 16, 2026 12:04 AM (SRRAx)
The original, logical notion of time zones was as follows. 15 degrees of longitude is 1 hour of time. Meaning 1 degree is 4 minutes of time.
So, time zones were to be 15 degree wide, centered on every 15 degree meridian, that is +/- 7.5 degrees ib either side. Eastern time is thus centered on 75W, running from 67.5W to 82.5W. Here in SC, that western boundary is somewhere a little east of my own Clempson Cow Collidge.
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Clemens wrote a piece about that on a sea voyage, the professionals wondering, every morning, what was wrong with their watches not being in sync with the ship's clock.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 12:04 AM (C0oZI)
This should illustrate a subtle little point about solar time vs uniform or "real time". Solar time, mean or apparent, is actually a count of the Erf's rotations relative to the sun(mean usually) over a meridian of reference.
Insofar as the earth's rate of rotation is constant (it isn't), and the sun's apparent motion (really earth's orbital motion) is constant (it isn't, but mean time averages that out), then it is a proxy for real time.
But it isn't. It's a count of those synodic rotations.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: pookysgirl, with missile facts at July 15, 2026 10:12 PM (IpEsz)
A&SFA has something similar that I need to get.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:06 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:07 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:52 PM (w6EFb)
Wise words, indeed!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 16, 2026 12:08 AM (SRRAx)
Re: Iron Maiden.
Pop House is co-owned by one of the guy's from ABBA.
Maiden is obligated to cover Dancing Queen.
ABBA must cover The Prisoner.
As it is written, so shall it be done.
Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 12:03 AM (hjusQ)
ABBA must cover "Number of the Beast"
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:09 AM (4g5V+)
That's a big part of it. If some local region is tied to another region strongly with commerce, economics, they like to be on the same clock time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 15, 2026 11:26 PM (w6EFb)
Ontario, the entire Treasure valley, and Malhuer county are more involved with Idaho and Boise than with Salem. Seriously, I worked there and travelled home to the Salem area, and there is no fast way to get there.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Gap Toothed hillbilly?
You’re a warrior. A grandma. A wife, a mom a friend and a survivor.
And a hillbilly.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:11 AM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)
Not gonna work.
You know what really pissed them off? The first thing the Argentines did was have everyone drive on the right side of the road.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:11 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Robert
ABBA must cover "Number of the Beast"
Posted by: Cow Demon
The must tour together, and the encore shall be both bands on stage, playing the mash-up "Dancing Beast."
Posted by: as long as we're being weird at July 16, 2026 12:12 AM (VHUov)
And on the flip side, if you were going to hold a gunfight on the Concorde, you could hold High Noon constant for hours.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:12 AM (w6EFb)
Re: Iron Maiden.
Pop House is co-owned by one of the guy's from ABBA.
Maiden is obligated to cover Dancing Queen.
ABBA must cover The Prisoner.
As it is written, so shall it be done.
Posted by: Robert at July 16, 2026 12:03 AM (hjusQ)
ABBA must cover "Number of the Beast"
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:09 AM (4g5V+)
Ghost covered I'm a Marionette.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 16, 2026 12:12 AM (zMwmR)
Ontario, the entire Treasure valley, and Malhuer county are more involved with Idaho and Boise than with Salem. Seriously, I worked there and travelled home to the Salem area, and there is no fast way to get there.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
How about detaching that whole area to form its own state? Maybe merged with the more based portions of Northern CA.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:13 AM (4g5V+)
I think the Persians are an unusually good looking race, both men and women.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 12:14 AM (wLnmp)
Posted by: Cow Demon
*snort*
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:16 AM (yEz+x)
Find and Avoid Flock ALPR Cameras Near You - State of Surveillance
2 days agoFlock license-plate cameras are spreading fast. How to spot one, map them with DeFlock, understand the 30-day data rules, and the limited ways to actually opt out...
https://tinyurl.com/3b2hk2su
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 12:16 AM (C0oZI)
Gap Toothed hillbilly?
You’re a warrior. A grandma. A wife, a mom a friend and a survivor.
And a hillbilly.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:11 AM (yEz+x)
Well, I was missing one of my two front teeth - I had an Essex mouthpiece that would do the trick, but I had to remove it whenever I wanted to eat. And I hated hearing the darn thing, so I didn't smile much when out in public.
I have a hilarious pic of me last Halloween when my hair was quite sparse and my tooth was gone - I joked that I didn't need to buy a costume to scare all of the neighborhood kiddies 😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 16, 2026 12:17 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:11 AM (4g5V+)
Well, that was the Peronists did that. Milei is a different breed of cat. Thing is, do a selling job on the Falklanders. Pitch the idea to them that England is lost, and that Argentina can better protect their heritage.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 12:19 AM (1z8ji)
Find and Avoid Flock ALPR Cameras Near You - State of Surveillance
2 days agoFlock license-plate cameras are spreading fast. How to spot one, map them with DeFlock, understand the 30-day data rules, and the limited ways to actually opt out...
https://tinyurl.com/3b2hk2su
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 12:16 AM (C0oZI)
I've seen the deflock.org site. Awesome site. Even it is missing cameras I know exist near my rural locality.
They need to be banned. The Flock CEO whines it is "terroristic" for me and others to know where his cameras are. Fuck him. He can go to the PRC or DPRK.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:22 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 12:13 AM (4g5V+)
The drive to create the state of Jefferson, which was to be comprised of parts of Southern Oregon and Northern California was scheduled to kick off on Monday, December 8 1941, and for some reason delayed and never revisited.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 12:22 AM (rbvCR)
Thinking about the Concorde going west example, which will show how it works easily, consider circumnavigating the globe westward. Assume you're counting days by sunrises and sets?
What happens when you get back to your starting point? Now, do the same eastward. What happens to your calendar date then?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:23 AM (w6EFb)
Magellan's crew were blown away by that effect.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:26 AM (w6EFb)
LS Dynasty 31". It's a contact hitter.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 16, 2026 12:26 AM (ByO+m)
You’re so much braver than I was.
I hid. I didnt allow anyone to take pictures of me. I have not one picture of me bald and swollen from the steroids.
You are amazing. Good for you!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:27 AM (yEz+x)
Remember you calendar day/solar time is really just a count of the number of rotations relative to the sun. When circumnavigate westward, what happens to that count? Doesn't matter how fast you're going, just that you go all the way around.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:28 AM (w6EFb)
I don't care. I'm retired. What day is it anyway?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 12:31 AM (2WIwB)
That of course does not mean you weren't brave. You know what you went through and that you got out the other side. I don't care if you had to be dragged kicking and screaming through it every second of every day and sleepless night, you were brave. (granted you didn't say you weren't brave, I'm just covering bases and making sure we all know where we stand).
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 12:33 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 12:34 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:28 AM (w6EFb)
I'll go with: the date is what the local calendar says it is, and the time is what the clock in the bank lobby says it is. Calendar date and clock time may be based upon Earth's motions, but that choice is basically arbitrary, and we have to have some sort of agreed-upon time metric in order for society to function well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 12:35 AM (1z8ji)
I didn’t have the energy to kick and scream. My boys were in high school and 8th grade. I went to work every day.
It was me and my boys and my Fink. It was not fun. And I hid from everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:38 AM (gZceY)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:28 AM (w6EFb)
In one of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels (set in the Age of Sail) two ships planned a secret rendezvous in the South Pacific, one ship having sailed east around Cape Horn, the other west around Tierra del Fuego.
The crew of one ship was inordinately pleased that (by their reckoning) they got one more day of pay than the sailors on the other ship, even though they'd both left England at the same time.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 12:40 AM (IG3/x)
That's exactly what it is, as for atomic time and true uniform time. The second is defined entirely independent of the earth's rotation. It is just chosen to be as close as possible to the earth's rotation reference of about the mid 19th Century.
The circumnavigation thing is just a little cute "illusion" that blew away Magellan when they got back.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 16, 2026 12:17 AM (SRRAx)
The problem with that description is that you are beautiful no matter what you happen to be sporting any particular day.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 12:41 AM (bl07w)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 12:31 AM (2WIwB)
The only place I have to be nowadays is doctor's appointments (too damned many of those) and my phone reminds me so I don't have to worry about it.
Oh, and I go over and have dinner with my family on Fridays.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 12:43 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 12:43 AM (C0oZI)
I didn’t have the energy to kick and scream. My boys were in high school and 8th grade. I went to work every day.
It was me and my boys and my Fink. It was not fun. And I hid from everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:38 AM (gZceY)
Ditto what I said about Theresa. You are beautiful no matter what you happen to be sporting any particular day. If people don't see that, then they are blind.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 12:43 AM (bl07w)
You’re so much braver than I was.
I hid. I didnt allow anyone to take pictures of me. I have not one picture of me bald and swollen from the steroids.
You are amazing. Good for you!
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:27 AM (yEz+x)
Oh, that was the ONLY picture of me looking like that! 😂😂😂. I did post it on Facebook, and everyone got a good laugh from it -
Instead, I found that cute wig and hat and rocked the Hell out of them - there are lots of pictures of me wearing those. I always thought I would be a darling redhead, but I was too scared to dye my hair 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 16, 2026 12:43 AM (SRRAx)
Okay, if you circumnavigate westward, you lose one day. If you do it east, you gain one day.
When Magellan returned, the local date was one day ahead of the ship's reckoning.
When you make one loop west, you have rotated one less revolution relative to the sun than your starting point. When you go east, you make one more revolution that your starting point.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 12:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 16, 2026 12:31 AM (2WIwB)
The only place I have to be nowadays is doctor's appointments (too damned many of those) and my phone reminds me so I don't have to worry about it.
Oh, and I go over and have dinner with my family on Fridays.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 12:43 AM (IG3/x)
DH is still working, while I am retired. It is my job to remember Taco Tuesday, and of course Mass on Sunday. Other than that, I really don't give one fat rat's tukis what day it might be.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 12:44 AM (bl07w)
Posted by: Braenyard
Here, too. Not many, but at *every* entrance/exit road around the community.
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Keeps planes and trains from running into each other.
Grandpa was a timekeeper.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 12:46 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Braenyard
Here, too. Not many, but at *every* entrance/exit road around the community.
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
In the 1970's, when Anchorage was starting to get big from the pipeline, there was an old crusty dude living on his homestead way out the highway, and he very much objected to the stop light the borough had installed near his house. So, he would come out pretty much every night to blow it away with a shotgun. He had lived waaaaaay out of town, but town was creeping up on him, and he didn't like it.
After about three months of this, replacing the light and having it blown away before the wire nuts were set, it suddently stopped, and nobody knows where the old coot went, but he was just plain gone.
I think the city finally took his homestead since he had abandoned it.
Civilization comes slowly to some folks. Not at all to others.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 12:48 AM (bl07w)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 12:44 AM (bl07w)
Hope he's getting close so you can both have your freedom.
Getting old sucks, but it does have a few benefits.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 12:49 AM (IG3/x)
It was me and my boys and my Fink. It was not fun. And I hid from everyone.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:38 AM (gZceY)
Wow.
But doing what you had to do to get through is not hiding. It's keeping your business your business which anyone is entitled to do at any time.
I understand what you're saying and have no intention of trampling on it, not that you'd let me. But I do reject it on the basis that it had some footing in a sort of cowardice.
I don't begrudge you an iota of privacy. You may have felt like hiding, you may have not wanted *anyone* to see you the way you were, you may have pushed people away, felt like you were somehow lowered by the illness or your desire to keep your shit yours, but it was your right, and no compassionate soul would consider it anything but your own informed, reasonable and rightful choice. You don't have to allow yourself that compassion if you still don't feel like doing so but I will.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 12:50 AM (vE0+H)
Posted by: Braenyard
Here, too. Not many, but at *every* entrance/exit road around the community.
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
It's time to train seagulls to deal with them.
In today's news, A Flock of Seagulls stole every Flock camera in the city. It's rumored that they were humming I Ran as they escaped.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2026 12:51 AM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 12:48 AM (bl07w)
I remember when there were still sled dog kennels in town, and a whole bunch in the Valley.
That stopped when "civilization" arrived and the new neighbors started complaining, never mind that the dogs had been there since before they were born.
Other than Martin Buser at Big Lake I don't think there are many much closer than Willow nowadays, and many have moved way the hell up to Two Rivers country.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 16, 2026 12:53 AM (IG3/x)
At this age, I figure I'm not the one who has to look at my face; it's the rest of the poor schmucks who are subjected to that vision 😂
I just point to the wrinkles and grey hairs and tell our girls which ones they are responsible for!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 16, 2026 12:53 AM (SRRAx)
In today's news, A Flock of Seagulls stole every Flock camera in the city. It's rumored that they were humming I Ran as they escaped.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 16, 2026 12:51 AM (qx7Zg)
Train the seagulls to shit on the solar panels. Problem solved. Seagull shit has great coverage properties.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 12:55 AM (1z8ji)
Thank you.
It was embarrassing to be so ugly. I didn’t want my boys to have to be seen with me in pictures. I wore those thin cotton turbans and hats and tried not to be noticed.
Thank goodness it was only for about five months. Then my hair sprouted back white. Not the chestnut brown it had been. I was 46 and had white stubble. So. I took my boys to Disneyland for spring break. We had never been.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 16, 2026 12:57 AM (yEz+x)
When Magellan returned, the local date was one day ahead of the ship's reckoning.
When you make one loop west, you have rotated one less revolution relative to the sun than your starting point. When you go east, you make one more revolution that your starting point.
Posted by: publius
That's the trick to Verne's "Around The World In 80 Days."
p.s.: spoilers.
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 01:00 AM (VHUov)
... President Trump plans to announce in Thursday's primetime address, ... includes evidence China interfered in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win,[SHOCK]
- hacking into state voter registration databases
- stealing information on tens of thousands of voter
- to manufacture mail-in ballots for Biden.
The evidence, details vulnerabilities" of election infrastructure, based on four (4) sets of declassified documents (set for release Friday) ...recently unearthed from suppressed FBI, CIA and ODNI records, [Gabbard?] The intelligence ...in a cover-up" of Beijing's hacking capabilities and influence operations aimed at supporting Biden.
Other vulnerabilities compromising the U.S. election system, according to a draft of the president's speech, include the existence of more than 100,000 non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, on voter rolls
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Trump's two major goals, #1 Clean Elections, #2 no Uranium for Iran.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 01:04 AM (C0oZI)
I'm sorry for what you went through. I don't have huge frame of reference other than a few close people I watched die. One, your same age, got a black wig that was somewhat like her own. And a blonde one for a day and had a laugh inasmuch as she felt like laughing while she was dying. And she didn't wear them much because they itched.
I miss her like the dickens.
My only real sense is what it would have done to my wife at that age, or any age really, especially the white hair coming back, and I know it would have killed her. So I get it to some degree.
Any comment or specifically refutation I make on "ugly" is going to sound twee plus we've never met. So let's call it battered, not ugly. You were battered and bruised. Not ugly. There is a difference.
Posted by: ... at July 16, 2026 01:05 AM (vE0+H)
Now, per AOP's point above, that little circumnavigation day count thing is just an illusion. If you were carrying an accurate clock with you, it would keep accurate true uniform "real" Newtonian time, and you'd see you didn't loose or gain a day.
But guess what? That notion of absolute time, Newtonian time is not really the case. With relativity, you find the notion of what is dubbed "proper time", the actual time experienced by an observer moving through space and time is indeed path dependent. If you and I start out at the same place and time, and then go around different paths through space and then come back together, we'll find our clocks don't agree.
As long as relative velocities are low compared to c, and gravitational fields aren't too strong, time is very close to Newtonian and that difference is very small.
At the level of accuracy we can measure time now, and the level accuracy of high precision solar system ephemerids and navigation, those relativistic effects are very significant.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 01:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 01:07 AM (VHUov)
This is a major vulnerability confronting the US military and allied forces as drone threats proliferate across modern battlefields that Picket plans to solve.
-ZH
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It looks like a large practice golf ball.
https://tinyurl.com/2dzreska
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 01:08 AM (C0oZI)
The current time standard for the Erf is dubbed Terrestrial Time (TT). UTC and all that is something different, but TT is the standard. This is defined as the proper time experienced by a perfect clock at sea level (relativistically, all clocks at sea level share the same gravitational (and centrifugal) potential, and tick at the same relative to TCG, geocentric coordinat time, the time of an observer moving with the earth, but "at infinity" in the sense of the local gravitational potential).
That's a damn mouthful, and is confusing as hell at first blush.
But TT is the time standard. Atomic clocks, adjusted for their elevation, keep this. It's possible to do sanity checks based on other astronomical observations, mainly pulsar tick rates, to keep it as close to the true relativistic ideal of that proper time at sea level.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
2 oz. Bourbon
1/2 oz. Orgeat
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Garnish: Lemon twist
Btw is it just me, or do you have to double/triple the bitters in every recipe? Same thing for the crème de violette in an Aviation.
Posted by: frammish at July 16, 2026 01:19 AM (rcENI)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 16, 2026 12:22 AM (rbvCR)
Psst! The war’s over.
: )
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 01:22 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
In the 1970's, when Anchorage was starting to get big from the pipeline, there was an old crusty dude living on his homestead way out the highway, and he very much objected to the stop light the borough had installed near his house. So, he would come out pretty much every night to blow it away with a shotgun. He had lived waaaaaay out of town, but town was creeping up on him, and he didn't like it.
After about three months of this, replacing the light and having it blown away before the wire nuts were set, it suddently stopped, and nobody knows where the old coot went, but he was just plain gone.
I think the city finally took his homestead since he had abandoned it.
Civilization comes slowly to some folks. Not at all to others.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 12:48 AM (bl07w)
Having moved to Anchorage in 2002 it’s kind of hard for me to imagine it being that small.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 01:24 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: ChE99 at July 16, 2026 01:24 AM (GijjF)
I've come across Susskind's name before, but I can't remember where.
Posted by: frammish at July 16, 2026 01:26 AM (rcENI)
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We've apparently run this experiment with aircraft going opposite directions around the globe. The difference wasn't enormous, but it was measurable.
Among other things, this explains how God's prophets work. Time is a property of Creation, and while He may have something like it, He is independent of *our* time. So prophecy isn't predictive in the way we think of it, He can literally see the end from the beginning all at once because He's outside all of it.
Posted by: Methos at July 16, 2026 01:29 AM (vSvIl)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2026 01:31 AM (CHHv1)
The three girls are going to church camp, and the almost-17yo is going hiking in the Sierras with his cousins and their extended family from Michigan. I wish I could skip work for two weeks and go myself!
But we are already planning a two-week road trip to California in August. We're planning to see the Red Woods and Yosemite. He and I have permits to hike up Whitney from Onion Valley. It's the same route I did three or four times in the 90s with Scouts.
Posted by: frammish at July 16, 2026 01:32 AM (rcENI)
“While we invest heavily in our weapon systems, platforms, and gear, our most decisive tactical advantage will always be the individual warfighter,” Hegseth said in a video, titled, “The High-T Department of War,” released on X.
“We have a sacred duty to maintain that advantage, which is why we must constantly look for new ways to optimize your performance, your resilience, and your long-term health.”
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Big Pharma? Wafting through the air it is.
They've been selling this crap idea on the radio for about 3 years.
Discounting other hormones that work in concert with testosterone and little things like the ”pituitary, adrenal, thyroid and other glands.
Bad idea. Ask Lyle Alzado.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 01:33 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: ChE99 at July 16, 2026 01:24 AM (GijjF)
Seems like the energy cost per dead mosquito would be way too high. Seems to me that traps, baited with some kind of mosquito attractant, would get more bang for the buck. What about dummy humans, soft plastic bags filled with saline solution, laced with a poison? Mosquito lights, sticks its proboscis through the soft plastic, sucks up some warm salt water laced with poison, takes off, and croaks. Bingo! One female mosquito that never lays her eggs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 01:34 AM (1z8ji)
These effects, SR and GR (special relatively and general/gravitational) have been experimentally verified many times, six ways to Sunday. To work, GPS has to take all of that into account.
One us of clock error would translate to 300m of position error. You've got to have clock accuracy in the nanosecond range.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 01:35 AM (w6EFb)
There were Irish monks there first.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 15, 2026 11:53 PM (sKqQm)
How many children did the Irish monks have in Iceland and who were their mothers?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 01:37 AM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 01:37 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 16, 2026 01:38 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Methos at July 16, 2026 01:29 AM (vSvIl)
I came to the same realization some time ago. It’s another of way of saying that Time is one of the properties of this universe; but this universe is just a four dimensional bubble inside some greater dimensional reality. And that which is external to this universe is not subject to the physical rules of this universe.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 01:41 AM (wLnmp)
The ISS proper clock ticks slightly slower than TT. While it's higher up in the gravitational potential, and thus would be ticking faster, it's moving so fast at LEO orbital speed, the net clock rate is slower.
The ISS looses about 10 ms per year compared to TT.
Now, on the Moon, the gravitational effects dominate, and a clock on the surface of the Moon ticks about 20 ms faster per year than TT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)
A single barn swallow can eat up to 850 mosquitoes per day.
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Robyn Bailey, project leader at Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s NestWatch, sets the record straight for us: purple martins do not, in fact, regularly eat mosquitoes.
There are several reasons that stat is wrong. As she points out, purple martins are out hunting for food during the day, while mosquitoes emerge during the evening. There isn’t much overlap in their schedules, and it certainly isn’t enough for the birds to eat thousands of them!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 01:42 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 01:37 AM (Jc9BQ)
The dreaded race of seal blubber people is something that we dare not talk about to this day; although if you watch you will see one from time to time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 16, 2026 01:43 AM (wLnmp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 01:45 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 01:52 AM (Ia/+0)
The “Irish monks” in Iceland are generally identified as the papar, described in sources as Irish monks/clergy/holy men who lived there before the Norse settlements.
Wikipedia
But there’s no reliable historical record that names any children they had or any mothers of children they might have had—because the sources describing the papar are about religious “holy men”/monks, not family life or descendants.
historyireland.com
So the actionable answer is: we don’t know how many (if any) children the papar had, and we don’t have mothers’ names.
historyireland.com
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 01:57 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 02:05 AM (Jc9BQ)
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Hey, Ohhhhhhh!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:08 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: frammish
More bitters? Usually.
More Violette? Nope, starts to taste like Chanel #5.
I suppose both depend on what brand of liquor you're using with them.
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 02:10 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 02:12 AM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 02:14 AM (Jc9BQ)
Americans are not a collective race, its supposed to be collective ideas
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 02:14 AM (Ia/+0)
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Oh please oh please oh please!
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 02:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2026 02:18 AM (CHHv1)
Seriously. If they don't like it here, they are free to fking LEAVE! Bye!
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 02:20 AM (rdVOm)
Disagree re taste. But also: if you're making Aviations, how is your color? With the recommended 1/4 oz violette to 2 oz gin, it looks like dirty dish water---nothing like the vibrant photos online.
Posted by: frammish at July 16, 2026 02:24 AM (rcENI)
@tperkins
10h
Finnish MP @PaiviRasanen was denied a layover in England's Heathrow airport. Why? Because she was found guilty of "hate speech" for expressing biblical views on marriage and sexuality
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 02:34 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 16, 2026 02:35 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 02:40 AM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
80% of "taste" is actually "smell."
nothing like the vibrant photos online.
Posted by: frammish
I've never had a bright blue one in a bar, either. I assume the vibrant photos are photoshop or extra food coloring. Or an undrinkable amount of crème de violette.....
Posted by: mikeski at July 16, 2026 02:41 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 02:42 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, with all the Moon base and expanded lunar operations talk, they're working on a time standard for the Moon, which they'll call TLC, coordinated lunar time. Or something close.
This won't be like UTC, as there's no plans for time zones and crap on the moon, but something like TT for the Moon. Navigation on and around the Moon, and orbital operations require it.
Using earth based time references is a bit problematic. Better to have a lunar based standard. Atomic clocks on the Moon will keep it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 02:45 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: raimondo at July 16, 2026 02:45 AM (cy8Ux)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 02:47 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 02:48 AM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: raimondo at July 16, 2026 02:53 AM (cy8Ux)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 16, 2026 02:56 AM (Jc9BQ)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 03:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
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We have to sort them out: American / un- American, the way the Israelis check us out at the airport. Intuitive cognition.
Maybe we should hire them to be on the safe side.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:03 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Good to see you and thank you for your contribution.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:06 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 16, 2026 03:12 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: Debby
Hot here, too. Maybe t-storms overnight. Area is a tinderbox, so... ugh.
It's "that time of year" and we usually choke on smoke for a few days or weeks every summer.
Sorry you're dealing with that!
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 03:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 03:20 AM (Ia/+0)
My poor little a/c unit can only keep one room comfy, so I run it during the day. Open windows at night & run multiple fans to get heat out/cool air in.
Guess I'll keep staying up late because it doesn't really cool off until 10 p.m.-- midnight. At least it *does* cool off!
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
Here's the way that is likely to work: Just like in AK, we adjusted our time zone to work better with the markets in NY. At one point, part of AK was six hours from NY, so the overlap in working hours was nearly nil. Made business not so easy to do. So, AK shitcanned the four time zones we used to have, and moved it all to one hour from Seattle, so we had at least half a day overlap with the NY markets.
The moon time zone will be similar. If we want to have a working relationship with folks on the moon, we will have to adjust the time zone to work with that, whomever they decide to work with.
It's not like the light/dark issues matter up here. It's light in the summer and dark in the winter. Who cares what sidereal time is if the clock says what it says?
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:30 AM (bl07w)
Posted by: Skip at July 16, 2026 02:45 AM (Ia/+0)
Maybe not, but we hates 'em anyway. Fuckers.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 16, 2026 03:31 AM (bl07w)
JQ, how is the humilarity (as a redneck here used to say it) up there during those 100F+ days?
Dew point here hit 82F on 7/2 and that pushed the heat index to 121F here at one point that day, which blew away my previous heat index highs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 03:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 03:37 AM (rdVOm)
The moon based time standard is about the precise, nanosecond precision level required for lunar PNT, position navigation and timing using the jargon.
Now, what people time will be can be something else.
The ISS just runs on UTC. They schedule themselves on that. Everyone on the ground working with it just has to adjust to that.
On the Moon, I doubt any notion of solar time would ever be used, since a solar day on the Moon is one month long. Two weeks of sun, and two weeks of night. So people time there will probably be like UTC, but with the reference being the lunar time. The drift rate with UTC will be so small it won't matter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 16, 2026 03:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 03:41 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 16, 2026 03:45 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 16, 2026 03:49 AM (ibDUx)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 03:49 AM (rdVOm)
Maybe we should hire them to be on the safe side.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 16, 2026 03:03 AM (C0oZI)
And check passports when they leave, as they do in Japan the ROK, Australia, the Schengen Zone...
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 16, 2026 03:52 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: JQ at July 16, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Tahoe is awesome. The people there... not so much. I've done a lot of work up there over the years. Got paid for three years to work on a ski resort. I've seen what you are describing hundreds of times. It never gets old. I've driven up there after work just to see it a few times.
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