Monday Overnight Open Thread...PC Crisis Edition (8/17/26)

Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages,
And all the drop-scenes drop at once
Upon a hundred thousand stages,
It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

-- William Butler Yeats

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When the Kung Flu hit our shores what did Dr. ~~Josef Mengele~~ Anthony Fauci do other than cash his checks?

In May 2021, Janet Woodcock, the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sent an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, expressing concern about the large number of adverse events she was hearing about following COVID vaccinations.
The correspondence, released by Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday, expose how federal health officials ignored early safety signals.
Woodcock said she had personally received reports from people, including many healthcare professionals, experiencing hard to classify adverse events that were not being captured by existing surveillance systems like VAERS.
She said all three of the vaccines— Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson—were resulting in these injuries.
“The symptoms do not fit into a specific syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing,” she wrote, adding, “no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.”

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If the Muslim invasion didn't make the average Englishman mad. Perhaps this will.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to receive royal funeral despite being stripped of titles

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Yes. She came in through President Trump's big beautiful front door. But when it was time to leave, she plopped her fat ass on the couch and got married. Boo-frigging-hoo. Send her home to Russia!

He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

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Beard Meets Food!

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Well, that's all you are going to get this fine evening! You are going to have to entertain each other, but remember, no unwanted touching before midnight!
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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:20 PM

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1 "Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when it is asked for."

Advice is always implicitly asked for on AoS.

Right?

Right?

Posted by: mindful webworker - place your bests at August 17, 2026 10:20 PM (Cl/mc)

2 affirmative action

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 10:21 PM (iLKq8)

3 'Bout time, MisHum!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2026 10:21 PM (kpS4V)

4 I informed the others.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 17, 2026 10:22 PM (M/bUm)

5 Beard beat his meat yester... I mean, he finished in time to win. Guy never keeps the money, but he will keep gift cards and give them away.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

6 I could eat it all: just give me a few days.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 17, 2026 10:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

7 yo

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 17, 2026 10:23 PM (/+uur)

8 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Thanks for the ONT, MisHum! 💕💕💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 17, 2026 10:23 PM (SRRAx)

9 I'll never understand competitive gluttony.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 17, 2026 10:24 PM (vTZFs)

10 I do like Beard's food challenges.

Wonder if that Italian place has a vomitorium in back.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2026 10:24 PM (kpS4V)

11 That People cover: if only!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 17, 2026 10:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

12 Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages,
And all the drop-scenes drop at once
Upon a hundred thousand stages,
It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
-- William Butler Yeats

Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 17, 2026 10:24 PM (/+uur)

13 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 17, 2026 10:25 PM (sAmhv)

14 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2026 10:25 PM (hrOJm)

15 Layers and layers of fact checking.

Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Of course professional [Washington Post] "fact checker" Glenn Kessler rated the claim Swalwell acted improperly w/ his Chinese honeytrap "Four Pinnochios."

"There is no suggestion of impropriety on Swalwell’s part."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 17, 2026 10:26 PM (ndZc7)

16 Mr. MAGA did not know that you can't overstay a temporary tourist visa ?? Is he gonna whine how Trump betrayed him??

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2026 10:26 PM (g47mK)

17 Good evening good people.

==

*looks around

who you talking to ??

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2026 10:27 PM (g47mK)

18 ***Beard Meets Food!
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Yup, gluttony, that's why Britons are not up in arms. Fat, dumb and happy.
If you have a little money or you're making money, fook the dumb asses across the tracks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 10:27 PM (iLKq8)

19 Howdy all, what's shakin?

Nice day here, no rain for a change. And the dog didn't dig up the cat, Butterscotch, that I buried yesterday. That's a big plus, lol.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 17, 2026 10:27 PM (4Qj8V)

20 I'll never understand competitive gluttony.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 17, 2026 10:24 PM (vTZFs)

I don't care for it either, but he seems to be a nice guy. Always respectful to his fans and the owners of the places. And he's funny. Have no interest in watching any of the other eaters. Especially a woman. Won't watch Katina. It just doesn't seem right.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2026 10:28 PM (1Ff7Z)

21 I had a home made burrito tonight with black beans and Spanish rice. Nearly killed me.

*never mind the 4 shots of Tequila and a Modelo or two before hand.*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2026 10:28 PM (2Cry5)

22 Keep on reading that as fat checker.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 10:29 PM (iLKq8)

23 Good evening morons y gracias mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 10:29 PM (Aepnf)

24

After midnight
We're gonna let it all hang out

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2026 10:29 PM (Cqx++)

25 Nice day here, no rain for a change. And the dog didn't dig up the cat, Butterscotch, that I buried yesterday. That's a big plus, lol.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 17, 2026 10:27 PM (4Qj8V)
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Rest in peace, Butterscotch.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2026 10:29 PM (kpS4V)

26
“She came in Trump’s beautiful, big front door.”
Ms. Bobreneva arrived on a tourist visa in late 2021

F'ing NY Times. Just to be totally sure, I asked DDG Search Assist:
Joe Biden was the president in 2021, serving as the 46th president of the United States. He took office on January 20, 2021.

Joe's big saggy front gates

Posted by: mindful webworker - am I missing something here? at August 17, 2026 10:30 PM (Cl/mc)

27 Finally, the wondrous ONT!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 17, 2026 10:31 PM (D2ig8)

28 Rest in peace, Butterscotch.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2026 10:29 PM (kpS4V)

I buried butterscotch again today
WTF
3 feet was not enough

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 17, 2026 10:31 PM (/+uur)

29 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to receive royal funeral despite being stripped of titles

I don't know if that would outrage anyone. Not like he's dying soon. They have more important things to worry about than the funeral of Andrew Saxe-Coburg Gotha.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2026 10:32 PM (1Ff7Z)

30 Sitting in Sonoma Square on my last night away from the cold dark hell that is San Francisco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 10:32 PM (Aepnf)

31 "And the dog didn't dig up the cat..."

Just letting it age a bit first.

Posted by: Dog at August 17, 2026 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)

32 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

No way could I consume all that meat in one sitting.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 17, 2026 10:32 PM (D/6p1)

33 I'll never understand competitive gluttony.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 17, 2026 10:24 PM (vTZFs)

Nor the competitive crapping that follows.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2026 10:33 PM (2WIwB)

34 Evening all,

We have a Spacewalk in the morning. Coverage begins at 7 a.m EDT (1100 UTC, 13:00 CEST), but I have included the intended Spacewalk start time below.

NASA - ISS Spacewalk #282
International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Time: 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 UTC, 14:35 CEST)

https://youtu.be/OHXWCIT-Fa0

Posted by: Joyenz at August 17, 2026 10:33 PM (2F0/Y)

35 Sitting in Sonoma Square on my last night away from the cold dark hell that is San Francisco
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 10:32 PM (

Nice place!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

36 Mis Hum!
Are you going to take on the food challenge?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 17, 2026 10:34 PM (NnhvP)

37 Sitting in Sonoma Square on my last night away from the cold dark hell that is San Francisco
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 10:32 PM (Aepnf)

I can send you some heat if you want. 110 today.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2026 10:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

38 30 Sitting in Sonoma Square on my last night away from the cold dark hell that is San Francisco
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 10:32 PM (Aepnf)

Second real tradeshow was as Moscone in SF about 100BC (1990)
So my bud and I ride the cars over to a famous Mexican restaurant and then ride back.
We called it Margaritas and CableCars.
We were drinking 8 by the last night
ha

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 17, 2026 10:36 PM (/+uur)

39 Hope this isn't the last time b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 10:36 PM (Aepnf)

40 We have a Spacewalk in the morning

Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Leaky Seals for Easter at August 17, 2026 10:36 PM (Cl/mc)

41 Poor Butterscotch.

Posted by: Piper at August 17, 2026 10:37 PM (ZdaMQ)

42 When the Kung Flu hit our shores what did Dr. Josef Mengele Anthony Fauci do other than cash his checks?

He did the same thing he did in the AIDS case he oversaw: he protected those who spread it and told everyone they would get it and die, even though you wouldn't.

Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2026 10:38 PM (kU0PQ)

43 “She came in Trump’s beautiful, big front door.”
Ms. Bobreneva arrived on a tourist visa in late 2021

The good news for Mr. Jindra is that it is fairly easy to acquire Russian citizenship if you are married to a Russian citizen.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 17, 2026 10:39 PM (aD4fx)

44 >>>He did the same thing he did in the AIDS case he oversaw: he protected those who spread it and told everyone they would get it and die, even though you wouldn't.

Posted by: GWB
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The kids at work were fooking like rabbits, I asked aren't you worried? Nah, that's all govt bs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 10:41 PM (iLKq8)

45 >> Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?

Not so much seals, but little microcracks in that Rooskie module, likely caused by metal fatigue from the repeated docking.

The Rooskies just wanted to take a hack saw and cut something where they get to the area, NASA had a hissy fit that it was too risky and ordered our people into the Dragon, if you remember.

The Rooskies, thinking we were just a bunch of pussies, agreed to hold off on that. They're now just "watching" and doing some other tricks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 17, 2026 10:41 PM (w6EFb)

46 The former Prince Andrew is a scumbag, and I don't think his "explanations" would convince even a Harvard professor at this point.

But I can't help but feel the British are using his misdeeds to distract themselves from the much greater horrors happening in their country on a daily basis. Is there a single mosque in the UK with a lower victim count than His Highness?

Posted by: Dr. T at August 17, 2026 10:42 PM (lHPJf)

47 He Was a MAGA Patriot.

See, this is what equality under the law looks like. I don't care who he supported or what he's otherwise done. He married an illegal alien (overstayed) and she should be sent home. Since she didn't self-deport, she can be kept out of the country indefinitely. Good.

If you break the law (or help someone else break the law) I want you to suffer the proper legal consequences.

It's not really asking that much when it comes down to it.

Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2026 10:42 PM (kU0PQ)

48 vomitorium in back"

Probably does have a back door....

Posted by: man at August 17, 2026 10:45 PM (XuXeR)

49 The good news for Mr. Jindra is that it is fairly easy to acquire Russian citizenship if you are married to a Russian citizen.
Posted by: The ARC of History

Ha I think that may just test their whirlwind romance a bit much. Skew didn't leave Russia just to go back.

Posted by: Dandalo at August 17, 2026 10:45 PM (3QsZU)

50 She came in Trump’s beautiful, big front door.”
Ms. Bobreneva arrived on a tourist visa in late 2021"

Well, it is the NYT, so....

Posted by: man at August 17, 2026 10:47 PM (XuXeR)

51 Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Leaky Seals for Easter at August 17, 2026 10:36 PM (Cl/mc)

No idea. The news hasn't reported anything else about that since.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 17, 2026 10:47 PM (2F0/Y)

52
The spacewalk procedure is a PITA. The ISS atmosphere is 21% O2 and 79% N2 at 1 atm, basically sea level air. But, the spacesuit atmosphere is pure O2 at a little over 4 psi.

So, the bends would be a big problem if they jumped in the suits and went outside. They have to camp out inside the airlock over-"night", where they reduce the pressure to about 10 psi. That gets the N2 levels down on its own. Then they have to prebreathe pure O2 for a couple hours before getting in the suits and depressurizing the airlock.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 17, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)

53 Dude can eat. I can't eat like that now that I'm older. Maybe because I'm old and lazy and my metabolism has completely changed. Also, my body can't process that much food.

I still wish I could do it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 17, 2026 10:47 PM (tvdD1)

54 I buried butterscotch again today
WTF
3 feet was not enough
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 17, 2026 10:31 PM (/+uur)
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Uh....is Butterscotch actually dead?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2026 10:50 PM (kpS4V)

55 Dude can eat. I can't eat like that now that I'm older. Maybe because I'm old and lazy and my metabolism has completely changed. Also, my body can't process that much food.

I still wish I could do it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
I too used to be able to eat a lot, then the metabolism just slowed to nothing.
Oh well. I'm good.

oh well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 17, 2026 10:52 PM (NnhvP)

56 The former Prince Andrew is a scumbag, and I don't think his "explanations" would convince even a Harvard professor at this point.

But I can't help but feel the British are using his misdeeds to distract themselves from the much greater horrors happening in their country on a daily basis. Is there a single mosque in the UK with a lower victim count than His Highness?
Posted by: Dr. T at August 17, 2026 10:42 PM (lHPJf)

I'm surprised Cambridge hasn't given him a professorship in Female Studies.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 17, 2026 10:53 PM (qx7Zg)

57 yes, I agree with Oddbob, don't understand eating contests. Bobbing for apples, yes, seeing who can eat a pie the fastest without hands, yes, but most hotdogs, etc. just gross

Posted by: Iris at August 17, 2026 10:53 PM (286+n)

58 The KKK took my baby away.

Posted by: Joey Ramone at August 17, 2026 10:54 PM (JM9I6)

59 I had a home made burrito tonight with black beans and Spanish rice. Nearly killed me.

*never mind the 4 shots of Tequila and a Modelo or two before hand.*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2026 10:28 PM (2Cry5)

That would be a danged expensive way to go.

Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2026 10:55 PM (kU0PQ)

60 Sitting in Sonoma Square on my last night away from the cold dark hell that is San Francisco
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That's about the only thing I love about this place.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 10:56 PM (DZ9Lv)

61 Here's a shoe to get Piper going, after last night's fashion showcase.

https://youtu.be/kXJzZ5AyHmE?t=41

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 17, 2026 10:57 PM (qx7Zg)

62 I'm not gonna, I'm craving a really good steak now

Posted by: lin-duh at August 17, 2026 10:57 PM (VCgbV)

63 That's about the only thing I love about this place.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 10:56 PM (DZ9Lv)
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My wife and family depend on it for survival. I hate the fog.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 10:58 PM (JvZF+)

64 "There is no suggestion of impropriety on Swalwell’s part."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 17, 2026 10:26 PM (ndZc7)

Pfft. There was a lot more than suggestions. Most of the stuff in that new drop isn't even really new. We knew that back then (except, I think, for the attempted recruiting of Fang Fang).

Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2026 10:58 PM (kU0PQ)

65 61 Here's a shoe to get Piper going, after last night's fashion showcase.

https://youtu.be/kXJzZ5AyHmE?t=41
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 17, 2026 10:57

Cute! Lol

Posted by: Piper at August 17, 2026 10:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

66 Rest in peace, Butterscotch.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2026 10:29 PM

TY Eris, she was a sweet kitty. Showed up in the neighborhood 19 yrs ago. Little girls next door were eating butterscotch cookies that day, thus the name. They fed her and played with her.

Later that summer she had kittens in the neighbor's wood pile. We took them all in to protect the kittens. Eventually we found homes for the kittens and ended up keeping Scotches.

She ruled the roost thru 2 big labs who came and went during her tenure. Lately she allowed the latest dog, Flash, to share her home and frequently jousted with him.

She was a Tortie and according to Scottish tradition if a Tortie choses your home it is good luck. And that is true, we were lucky to have such a sweetheart for 19 yrs.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 17, 2026 10:59 PM (4Qj8V)

67 Good night, friends. Time for bed.

Posted by: Piper at August 17, 2026 11:00 PM (ZdaMQ)

68 My wife and family depend on it for survival. I hate the fog.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I wish we got snow once in awhile, but since the trade off is no Summer, I'm good. Right now I've got a hoodie on and it's slightly chilly b/c the cat wants to hang out on the front step.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 11:00 PM (DZ9Lv)

69 Mr. Jindra considered himself a MAGA patriot until his wife’s detention.
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Uh-huh. MAGA patriot. The most MAGAest patriotest Trumpety Trump Trumper there ever was. I'm sure of it.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2026 11:00 PM (vE0+H)

70
Sophie Adenot, the French gal who will be doing the spacewalk with our guy tomorrow:

https://t.ly/_BvAe

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 17, 2026 11:01 PM (w6EFb)

71 When he voted for Trump all three times he yelled at the California polling place, "This is MAGA country!"

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2026 11:01 PM (vE0+H)

72
*faces camera*
*assumes grave expression*
*holds blank papers*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2026 11:01 PM (O0L8i)

73 My Mom's twin sister in Norway whenever they had lobster or some mollusk would eat huge quantities, go vomit, and come back for more. Not with any other kinds of food-only those two items. The mollusk could be gotten on the rocks in the fjord at night. I think abalone is the closest relative in the US. They were good, but I've only vomited maybe 4 times in 70 years and really don't fancy it.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at August 17, 2026 11:03 PM (JM9I6)

74
That is gross

Posted by: four seasons at August 17, 2026 11:04 PM (/QHx4)

75 *faces camera*
*assumes grave expression*
*holds blank papers*

Good evening, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2026 11:01 PM (O0L8i)
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Hard to believe I once got news by watching Cronkite on TV for 30 minutes every night.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2026 11:05 PM (JvZF+)

76 I'll never understand competitive gluttony.
Posted by: Oddbob

Nor the competitive crapping that follows.
Posted by: Diogenes

No problemo.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at August 17, 2026 11:06 PM (oq9dX)

77 Blood Meridian is a book by Carlos Castaneda about Marvel's Kingpin who teams up with the banjo boy from Deliverance. They join up work Clint Eastwood and Doc Holiday and go down to Mexico and go Last of the Mohecans on a bunch of Apaches.

Posted by: Max Power at August 17, 2026 11:06 PM (TO3+g)

78 If you're hacksawing in the space station the saw particles are going everywhere....in your eyes. You're breathing them. It's a stupid idea.

Posted by: torabora at August 17, 2026 11:07 PM (vkHt0)

79 I think Stalin or Mao still has him beat. Hitler, depending on how you want to count these things.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2026 11:09 PM (Y/06r)

80 Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?

Do I have to say it?
Whooo-eee!

Posted by: Phil Swift at August 17, 2026 11:09 PM (oq9dX)

81 eat huge quantities, go vomit, and come back for more
_-_
Could be a sign of a food allergy.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:09 PM (cKOjp)

82 80 Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?

Do I have to say it?
Whooo-eee!
Posted by: Phil Swift at August 17, 2026 11:09 PM (oq9dX)

Flex. Seal. In. Space!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2026 11:10 PM (Y/06r)

83 Could be a sign of a food allergy.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:09 PM (cKOjp)
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That was my first thought. My eldest likes clams and mussels but always throws up afterwards. She doesn't eat them anymore

Posted by: 496 at August 17, 2026 11:11 PM (aK3Fj)

84 Evening, Horde.

Tired.

The heat drains ya.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 17, 2026 11:11 PM (aJQbY)

85 They join up work Clint Eastwood and Doc Holiday and go down to Mexico and go Last of the Mohicans on a bunch of Apaches.
_-_
I thought I told you guys to keep Castañeda out of the peyote. Some people just don't listen.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:12 PM (J4Alq)

86 Dude can eat. I can't eat like that now that I'm older. Maybe because I'm old and lazy and my metabolism has completely changed. Also, my body can't process that much food.

I still wish I could do it.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 17, 2026 10:47 PM (tvdD1)

72 ounce challenge at the now-gone Texas Cattle Co was a boneless sirloin. A 72 oz Tbone would go down a bit easier. TCC would also add a football-sized potato to the challenge, whereas he just had a handful of fries.

That steak looked gorgeous, and I'd want to linger over it for an hour or two. All for 100 bucks? Where do I sign up?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 11:12 PM (nbLIj)

87 Here's a shoe to get Piper going, after last night's fashion showcase.

https://youtu.be/kXJzZ5AyHmE?t=41
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 17, 2026 10:57

Cute! Lol
Posted by: Piper at August 17, 2026 10:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

***

Ha!
I missed last night but went back to check. Pipes was bringing it with the shoe stuff! Nicely done.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2026 11:13 PM (2WIwB)

88 >>>I've only vomited maybe 4 times in 70 years and really don't fancy it.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende

>Last time I vomited was a Jägerbomb about 15 years ago. And I can hold my liquor pretty well. Nasty stuff.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 17, 2026 11:13 PM (tvdD1)

89 Damn electricity went out around 8pm thanks to a thunderstorm, just now came back on. It wouldn't be bad except the temperature was in the 90's. So no A/C.
I hate August. Got the A/C back on and every fan going.
I should lower the temperature to 65 degrees, but I won't, I'm too cheap.

Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 11:13 PM (VrYHL)

90
When it comes to the most massive meal, the hottest food, the most disgusting plate of grubs, any challenge like that -- I say no. I have nothing to prove.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 17, 2026 11:14 PM (t1fZA)

91 Ain't got no AC here...most summers that is fine ..this one was a bit warm, some consecutive days over 100F.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:16 PM (J4Alq)

92 Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?

Do I have to say it?
Whooo-eee!
Posted by: Phil Swift at August 17, 2026 11:09 PM (oq9dX)

Flex. Seal. In. Space!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2026 11:10 PM (Y/06r)

If you really get the Russians mad, they drop your drawers while you sleep, and stick your butt against the leak. Skin seal.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 17, 2026 11:16 PM (qx7Zg)

93 Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?

Do I have to say it?
Whooo-eee!
Posted by: Phil Swift at August 17, 2026 11:09 PM (oq9dX)

Flex. Seal. In. Space!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2026 11:10 PM (Y/06r)

***

Sssssssssssssssssssssssss......

Posted by: Old Seals at August 17, 2026 11:17 PM (2WIwB)

94 I thought some russian chick lost her mind and tried to drill out.

Posted by: Reforger at August 17, 2026 11:18 PM (COjc4)

95
The Rooskies have some patented sealant compound called Germetall-1.

Epoxy and Kapton tape are used as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 17, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

96 Insanity in outer space would be...interesting...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:19 PM (J4Alq)

97 Another “life long Republican” who’s fucking an illegal?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 17, 2026 11:19 PM (dKrJA)

98 "Nah, it's just a little ice cream"

Posted by: 496 at August 17, 2026 11:19 PM (v3ONH)

99 Say, whatever happened with the leaky seals on the ISS Rooskie section?
-----------------

We surely have no idea.

Posted by: The Otters at August 17, 2026 11:21 PM (vE0+H)

100 The Rooskies have some patented sealant compound called Germetall-1.

Watch I saw boat in half...

Posted by: Vladimir Swift at August 17, 2026 11:22 PM (oq9dX)

101 Are we still sending money to Ukraine for the dwarf to steal it?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at August 17, 2026 11:23 PM (dKrJA)

102 Beard is a mad lad at these food challenges. He diets pretty stringently inbetween IIRC. The way some of these competitive eaters have said they stay at a reasonable weight is keeping their total average caloric intake within normal limits, exercise, and eating very very clean between challenges. There's a fair amount of discipline involved.

Posted by: Better them than me at August 17, 2026 11:24 PM (TbWk/)

103 >>>I've only vomited maybe 4 times in 70 years and really don't fancy it.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende

>Last time I vomited was a Jägerbomb about 15 years ago. And I can hold my liquor pretty well. Nasty stuff.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 17, 2026 11:13 PM (tvdD1)
====

Just the thought of paying for a liter bottle of Norsky aquavit would make me throw up.

Posted by: mrp at August 17, 2026 11:25 PM (rj6Yv)

104 >>>Insanity in outer space would be...interesting...

Posted by: Don in SoCo

>We need more of these movies, because it's going to happen. Somebody flips their lid over the dander in the vacuum apparatus, shit like that. Kill them all with a spork!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 17, 2026 11:25 PM (tvdD1)

105 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to receive royal funeral despite being stripped of titles

Tomorrow? Tomorrow works for everyone, yes?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 11:26 PM (nbLIj)

106 Are we still sending money to Ukraine for the dwarf to steal it?
_-_
No worries, Cocazio-whatever. 10 percent for big guy, no problems.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:27 PM (J4Alq)

107 Last time I vomited was a Jägerbomb about 15 years ago. And I can hold my liquor pretty well. Nasty stuff.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 17, 2026 11:13 PM (tvdD1)

Jaeger is nasty shit. Might as well drink Robitussin.

Posted by: Gross gross and gross at August 17, 2026 11:27 PM (TbWk/)

108 76 I'll never understand competitive gluttony.
Posted by: Oddbob

Nor the competitive crapping that follows.
Posted by: Diogenes

No problemo.
Posted by: Captain Splatter

Or the infinite capacity of humans to believe in the farce of fELON Musk?

Need an example? STARLINK the flagship that is keeping his empire inflated charges you 5x the size of what you actually would use if you use cable modem more mobile.

Imagine if the gas, electric, water or IRS charged you 5x more than you actually used? Taxes in the 90's Soviet Union were *only* 200% of your income, Starlink usage has that beat!one example, many more! powerwall? solar roof? grok? Just WOW! Yes, get yo a$$ to Marz!

Cue the Harry Lime fingers through the grate scene as the filth and corruption foam up around his waist.

LET's GO BRANDON!
That Hotel in Moscow is a better deal.
3Seas Accord, +Greenland, +Cuba and Ukraine drones to firebomb IRG for you.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 17, 2026 11:28 PM (9S4VS)

109 Another “life long Republican” who’s fucking an illegal?
-
She's Russian.

Trump works for Russia (TM)

Banging her = MAGA.

QED
-the media, probably

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 17, 2026 11:28 PM (vSvIl)

110 Happy-ish Monday Evening, all y'all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critically Critical Critic . . . at August 17, 2026 11:29 PM (3ZUWJ)

111 it's going to happen
_-_
No "safe" way to handle it other that push 'em out the airlock and sever the tether. Sorry, Pyotr, I'm afraid I can nyet do that.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:29 PM (J4Alq)

112 Uh....is Butterscotch actually dead?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 17, 2026 10:50

Oh that really is ironic. I've told the story of Sally the cat, her predecessor, here before. We came home from a trip, neighbor cared for Sally. Jules comes out while I unload the car...Sally is dead!

Well she's 20 but WTF is this to come home to? I check, no breathing, no pulse. Dig a hole, carry her to the backdoor and I hear something, like she exhaled.

Wait and chalk it up to the death exhale, no movement, no pulse. I place her in the cold ground, then her legs moved! Took Sally inside, laid her down, petted her and she started breathing noticeably.

Soon realized it was time to let her go, stopped petting and she was gone in a few minutes.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 17, 2026 11:30 PM (4Qj8V)

113 The humidity out west is usually low. But here in the southeast it's high especially this time of year. Also the older I get the worse it feels. But I'm a tough old grouch, I'll get by. Not long before September gets here and things should cool off a bit.

Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 11:32 PM (VrYHL)

114
They do extensive psych testing on astronaut candidates, trying to find their various buttons and seeing what happens when they get pushed. They subject them to all kinds of near torture stress tests.

You want people who can be Mr. Spock under life and death pressure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 17, 2026 11:32 PM (w6EFb)

115 105 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to receive royal funeral despite being stripped of titles

Tomorrow? Tomorrow works for everyone, yes?

Posted by: Joe Kidd

Wouldn't be the first Colby(tm) canoe drop shipped, this could rival the Clinton Body count but it is much too slow. need the Brennan rat to start to squeal and it will be over in a less than month.

Why? Because when Truth become a liability ALL (normal) People Become the Enemy and anything goes.

IT TAKES A VILLAIN: TO TELL US THE (obviousness of the) TRUTH
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhoRtheTargets
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-ctHARRIS19takedown
Not One Battle after Another; One LIB after Another.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 17, 2026 11:33 PM (A77eV)

116 5x the size of what you actually would use if you use cable modem more mobile
_-_
Your local options are likely waaay better than mine, but I replaced my rf line of sight link with Musk's deal, cut my bill in half, increased speed by a factor of 10, and greatly increased reliability....'course, I am in a rural area.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 17, 2026 11:33 PM (J4Alq)

117 I think the food I could eat the most would be deviled eggs. At least 24 of them. They just go down so easy. Though I expect after I finish they would come up just as easy.

Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2026 11:34 PM (KC5Lt)

118 Kinda painful off and on all day. That means I'm healing, right? It's tolerable. Mostly. Going to see if another night's sleep will help. Couldn't hoit, as Curly might say.

How about a little Spanish guitar to close out the night?
https://youtu.be/jc5w9sTvykQ

G'nite, y'all💤.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Cuchi Cuchi at August 17, 2026 11:39 PM (Cl/mc)

119 73 My Mom's twin sister in Norway whenever they had lobster or some mollusk would eat huge quantities, go vomit, and come back for more. Not with any other kinds of food-only those two items. The mollusk could be gotten on the rocks in the fjord at night. I think abalone is the closest relative in the US. They were good, but I've only vomited maybe 4 times in 70 years and really don't fancy it.
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at August 17, 2026 11:03 PM (JM9I6)
Somehow that story is missing a little something, like goblets or golden chalices of mead. And maybe those giant turkey drumsticks at renaissance fairs. Ok, I digressed a little there.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 17, 2026 11:40 PM (SjAWL)

120 Is The Beard a Scots? I have him in my Top Five list, but after a shower. Blue eyes and black hair was my goal for a man as a young girl. Adam checked some boxes for me.

I was hoping he did no aspirate. Goodness!

Somehow I fell in love and married a blonde with green eyes almost 50yrs ago. That's amore!

Saw these guys below in the middle of the week with a huge renal exam the next day. Had my study index cards with me in line for tickets for a small theater.

They were very good and I rocked with my posse.

My study method for eXams consisted of reading what I had to, some research, then highlighting the second time, and index cards from the highlights I memorized. I may look dumb but multiple choice I aced.

Nurse friends were worried about me going to this concert due to my reputation.

I made the highest grade in the class for this test and wondered if seeing a concert the night prior was the secret. I obviously did not party that night!

Night, y'all!

Two Lane Highway

https://tinyurl.com/5n7s24sd

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 17, 2026 11:41 PM (hzuYO)

121 G'nite, y'all💤.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Cuchi Cuchi at August 17, 2026 11:39

Sleep well mindful, time to heal.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 17, 2026 11:43 PM (4Qj8V)

122 Early night tonight.
Later Hordemates.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2026 11:47 PM (2WIwB)

123 Hmmm.... rather Trollish out tonight... eh whut?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2026 11:50 PM (mP0Kj)

124
>>Over dinner at a seafood restaurant in Redwood City the night before her appointment, Ms. Bobreneva barely touched her crab cakes.

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Trump is literally Hitler.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 11:50 PM (XJ22o)

125
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to receive royal funeral despite being stripped of titles

Tomorrow? Tomorrow works for everyone, yes?

Posted by: Joe Kidd

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lol

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 11:53 PM (XJ22o)

126 I think Beard is from Manchester.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2026 11:53 PM (1Ff7Z)

127 No, I was wrong. He said once he's from Leeds.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 17, 2026 11:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

128 Lifelong Republican is one thing, but is he rock-ribbed? That's equally important.

Posted by: Mega Ultra MAGA Man. at August 17, 2026 11:54 PM (JM9I6)

129 Oh yeah, I learned all about King Lear and that Somali Learing Center.

Posted by: Orson at August 17, 2026 11:54 PM (dIske)

130 Were David Doyle and Tom Bosley interchangeable?

Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at August 17, 2026 11:56 PM (JM9I6)

131
The only thing they are learing is how to steal.

Posted by: four seasons at August 17, 2026 11:57 PM (/QHx4)

132
103 >>>I've only vomited maybe 4 times in 70 years and really don't fancy it.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende

Twice in the last couple of years I’ve had something called a vertigo attack, which feels like either food poisoning or a horrible hangover, but has nothing to do with alcohol. The causes are very difficult to pin down. For me, day started off normal but then I started feeling dizzy and light headed; drove home quickly while I still could. (Hard to drive when the world is spinning)

Ended up laying on the bathroom floor for about 4 hours; even the slightest motion brought intensely painful attempts at vomiting. Finally lessened enough to sleep, and when I woke up I was back to normal.

Damned strange and scary event.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2026 11:58 PM (52Iog)

133 I watched dozens of those beard meats food dude vids. Frigging guy is a machine.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 17, 2026 11:59 PM (S41Gd)

134 64 "There is no suggestion of impropriety on Swalwell’s part."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Oh yeah? Well, You're Another One! at August 17, 2026 10:26 PM (ndZc7)

Pfft. There was a lot more than suggestions. Most of the stuff in that new drop isn't even really new. We knew that back then (except, I think, for the attempted recruiting of Fang Fang).
Posted by: GWB at August 17, 2026 10:58 PM (kU0PQ)

There was no way that the FBI was trying to recruit Fang as an agent with hopes of getting useful info on the CCP from her. Her parents were MSS agents, so there was never any chance of her defecting or becoming our double. They only 'tried' to recruit her to give a reason to keep Swalwell in office, in case that info ever got out. His usefulness to the Dems ended when they needed a couple of people thrown over the side to help the Dems in the CA governor race. At that point, they cut him loose to have him fend for himself.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 18, 2026 12:00 AM (M/bUm)

135 Damned strange and scary event.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Sounds awful. I probably would have called the Rescue Squad. Elvis was found on the bathroom floor.

Posted by: 49 years ago at August 18, 2026 12:01 AM (JM9I6)

136 >>Over dinner at a seafood restaurant in Redwood City the night before her appointment, Ms. Bobreneva barely touched her crab cakes.

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

Trump is literally Hitler.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 11:50 PM (XJ22o)

omfg

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 12:02 AM (vE0+H)

137 Hey, I heard if the Johnson & Johnson vax did not kill you outright within days you were good to go.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 18, 2026 12:03 AM (0JXW+)

138 The two best things about that comment Blondie were that I read it bottom to top which I very rarely do, and also I only skimmed the article so I never saw that sentence. LMAO

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 12:04 AM (vE0+H)

139 Over dinner at a seafood restaurant in Redwood City the night before her appointment, Ms. Bobreneva barely touched her crab cakes.
_-_
Reads like an NPR storym

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 18, 2026 12:05 AM (J4Alq)

140 I doubt Bletchley Park could have deciphered Blonde Morticia's cryptic Firsts.

Posted by: Ye Olde Code Breaker at August 18, 2026 12:05 AM (JM9I6)

141 Tom Servo - TIA(s), possibly?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, Not a doc at August 18, 2026 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

142
OH! Is that how it works? I just applied for a $100,000 loan. It hasn't been approved yet, but I'll just start writing checks for a home improvement project...

wait, what? The checks bounced? You're trying to sue me? But I had a loan application PENDING. omg now I'm afraid to even eat my crab cakes. (sob)

I understood that the law was for people who robbed old ladies using guns, not for well-intentioned people like me who intended to pay my bills... someday... as long as the loan was approved...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 12:07 AM (XJ22o)

143 I doubt Bletchley Park could have deciphered Blonde Morticia's cryptic Firsts.

Posted by: Ye Olde Code Breaker at August 18, 2026 12:05 AM (JM9I6)

The great thing about them is you never know for certain whether she banged them out in half a second or fretfully meditated over every keystroke. (don't spoil it for me)

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 12:07 AM (vE0+H)

144
The two best things about that comment Blondie were that I read it bottom to top which I very rarely do, and also I only skimmed the article so I never saw that sentence. LMAO
Posted by: ...

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Haha, I didn't know where to start with that article. Every sentence was enough to -- well, while we're on the topic of vomiting...

But the crab cakes.

I mean, I complained that I had no cane, until I saw a man who had no spats.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 12:10 AM (XJ22o)

145
The great thing about them is you never know for certain whether she banged them out in half a second or fretfully meditated over every keystroke. (don't spoil it for me)
Posted by: ...

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

What's best about them is the never-ending giggles I get from the responses. You guys are hilarious.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 12:11 AM (XJ22o)

146 ...Ended up laying on the bathroom floor for about 4 hours; even the slightest motion brought intensely painful attempts at vomiting. Finally lessened enough to sleep, and when I woke up I was back to normal.

Damned strange and scary event.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Had a major vertigo attack some years ago-- first and only, thank God-- and it made me so seasick! Had hubby take me to urgent care clinic. I couldn't stand up straight, barely could walk due to dizziness. Couldn't turn my head without being overcome with nausea. Awful.

Turned out to be a problem with my inner ear-- particles suspended in that fluid inside the labyrinth. The Epley Maneuver, coupled with Zofran, worked wonders.

Still, had to take a whole week off work before it resolved.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:12 AM (rdVOm)

147
141 Tom Servo - TIA(s), possibly?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Not a doc at August 18, 2026 12:07 AM (XeU6L)

I researched, and there’s a description of what’s called a “vertigo attack” that fits the symptoms exactly. Believed to be a disruption of the inner ear for some reason.

One of those things where the potential causes range from the deadly to the trivial.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2026 12:14 AM (52Iog)

148
Damned strange and scary event.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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

Vertigo is weird. I had a violent attack one Monday morning. I'll swear I vomited things other people had eaten, it was so much. It only lasted about an hour in my case. Four hours of that, agghh.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 12:16 AM (XJ22o)

149 But the crab cakes.

I mean, I complained that I had no cane, until I saw a man who had no spats.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 12:10 AM (XJ22o)

The couple were so upset by the ordeal had to give the gardener a week off. And while she was in holding, their personal chef cried so hard he couldn't keep the flambe for the Steak Diane from going out.

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 12:20 AM (vE0+H)

150 Keep calm, and ring Carson for tea.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2026 12:22 AM (XeU6L)

151 103 >>>I've only vomited maybe 4 times in 70 years and really don't fancy it.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende

Having gotten my college edumacation during the days of two-dollar Boone's Farm and six-dollar cases of Old German, I probably averaged four times per weekend.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at August 18, 2026 12:22 AM (8ILPt)

152
See BPPV, benign parox-something vertigo. Inner ear "disturbance". I had an attack of that a while back. Nystagmus -- rapid eye movement -- is a symptom of that.

The inner ear provides your brain's attitude and acceleration sensing system. It's well adapted for life on the ground under 1g. Not so well adapted for 3D motion as on an airplane.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 12:23 AM (w6EFb)

153 "Their personal chef cried so hard"

Am I going to have to handle this? Cuz I will.

Posted by: Barack Imgay Obama at August 18, 2026 12:24 AM (avzFa)

154 128 Lifelong Republican is one thing, but is he rock-ribbed? That's equally important.
Posted by: Mega Ultra MAGA Man. at August 17, 2026 11:54 PM (JM9I6)

Are you a confident Heterosexual?

Posted by: Patrick Wayne at August 18, 2026 12:24 AM (Y/06r)

155 Honestly, I figure their immigration lawyer is half the problem here. Dude was obviously still operating under the "Biden mindset", rather than giving them honest details about how to follow the letter of the law and stay out of trouble. For that matter, if they had driven instead of flown...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 18, 2026 12:24 AM (aJQbY)

156 Nothing good happens before midnight.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 18, 2026 12:25 AM (xVAOC)

157 Evening, MisHum, and ONT Horde. Back from a shopping trip to Punjab-on-the-Bow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 12:27 AM (1z8ji)

158 To clarify my intended point:
"They don't enforce *that*" is very plausible for them to have been advised. It's why having laws on the books that aren't consistently enforced is *bad*. Either enforce them as written, or change the law, or remove it.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 18, 2026 12:27 AM (aJQbY)

159
Sit in a swivel chair and have some rotate you one way or the other. Your brain can sense which way you turned and about how much.

But that sensing only works for a little while. Under steading rotation, the things in your inner ear that sense that equilibrate, and you loose the sense you are rotating.

The coriolis accelerations in a rotating frame also wreak havoc with that rotation sensing system. About 5 or 6 RPM is the limit. Although some people can adapt to higher, but it's a bitch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

160 Hi, AOP. Were you able to get all the electrical supplies you require?

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm)

161 Happy Monday Horde!

I have read content, not comments, I liked the food challenge, I am going to send it to one of my kids, he lost a Reeses' cup challenge many years back, I think he would like the video. Thanks MisHum for the ONT.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 18, 2026 12:28 AM (ibDUx)

162 Hi, Debby! Happy Monday

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:30 AM (rdVOm)

163 Hi, AOP. Were you able to get all the electrical supplies you require?
Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:27 AM (rdVOm)

I sure did, and my wallet is 600 Loonies lighter. Friggin' circuit breakers are 47 dollars each, now! I wonder if glass plug fuses will make a comeback?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 12:31 AM (1z8ji)

164 Had a nice visit with friends I had not seen since the Coof panic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 12:32 AM (1z8ji)

165 >>>Friggin' circuit breakers are 47 dollars each, now!

Yikes! That's robbery!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

166 Glass plug fuses.. pfft.

Just stick a penny in there. (And be certain your fire insurance policy is paid up.)

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

167 There was no way that the FBI was trying to recruit Fang as an agent with hopes of getting useful info on the CCP from her. ...

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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They could have convinced her that they would free, and bring her family over here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 12:36 AM (iLKq8)

168 Love the little lake dock & its view. Fabulous Led Zeppelin; so long ago.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. (French roots)

Watched a commercial this evening regarding an anti-viral for C19 exposure. That one clearly recommended it should not be taken by pregnant women as it might cause fetal harm. But also interesting, not all COVID-19 antivirals carry this same restriction as they work differently 'at the molecular level.' Though old, I was wondering if OB-GYNs nowadays are well trained to discuss the safest options for their young patients when new drugs (including anti-virals) are appearing rapidly. (More cans of worms.)

NYT, 'He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away.' And it was lousy journalism with the worse color commentary. (A freezing holding room, hot van, she sent her engagement ring back to him for holding, lack of sleep - like a hospital, crabcake dinner, etc.) I hope the Asian tech guy does find true happiness in Cleveland, OH when he finally leaves Cali. 🤨

(Philly had a similar story of some guy who was flying his girlfriend to see a FIFA game featuring her country of origin. BS.)

Thanks for the ONT, MisHum.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 18, 2026 12:37 AM (NFX2v)

169 Glass fuse....$10.00? $12.00?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2026 12:37 AM (XeU6L)

170 The Chinese leadership are dreadful the way they treat their people. We should nuke Peking and the places where we know leadership will be. Throw the nation into chaos and like the Brits of old if we see a bad person growing into power, nuke him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 12:39 AM (iLKq8)

171 Glass fuse....$10.00? $12.00?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2026 12:37 AM (XeU6L)

A penny only costs one cent...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 18, 2026 12:41 AM (UdecX)

172 Just stick a penny in there. (And be certain your fire insurance policy is paid up.)
Posted by: JQ
------
Hmm. Probably a good idea to use a pre-1982 penny. Conductivity of copper being higher than zinc.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2026 12:41 AM (XeU6L)

173 101 Are we still sending money to Ukraine for the dwarf to steal it?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Always built into the plan.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 18, 2026 12:41 AM (NFX2v)

174 I will weigh in because really everything is about me. I had a very similar vertigo bathroom attack - I guess it was vertigo, no idea. Was vomiting for hours from about 9pm. Finally at 2am I realized I had these old prescription anti-nausea tablets from surgery and would you believe those little tiny fuckers saved me a trip to the emergency room. Zofran. It has saved me a number of times.

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 12:42 AM (vE0+H)

175 The Chinese leadership are dreadful the way they treat their people. We should nuke Peking and the places where we know leadership will be. Throw the nation into chaos and like the Brits of old if we see a bad person growing into power, nuke him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 12:39 AM (iLKq

Interesting concept. Maybe we should try it on the Iranians first and see if it works.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 18, 2026 12:43 AM (UdecX)

176 Cheers, JQ, I'm buying if anyone is thirsty.

I should confess that I went to a local pub for dinner on Saturday and I got in a conversation that started out fine until this guy discovered that I was conservative, after that the shit pretty much hit the fan. He is a town councilor and he is an asshole.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 18, 2026 12:44 AM (ibDUx)

177 Glass fuse....$10.00? $12.00?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2026 12:37 AM (XeU6L)

$10.99 for a pack of two, 15 amp, at Canadian Tire. In my youth, I think they were 50 cents or so. Old electric ranges were full of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 12:45 AM (1z8ji)

178 49. Ha I think that may just test their whirlwind romance a bit much. Skew didn't leave Russia just to go back.
Posted by: Dandalo

You're right. But maybe she only left their future dream house in Cleveland, OH and flew to Cali to meet him.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 18, 2026 12:46 AM (NFX2v)

179 The great thing about them is you never know for certain whether she banged them out in half a second or fretfully meditated over every keystroke. (don't spoil it for me)
Posted by: ...

What's best about them is the never-ending giggles I get from the responses. You guys are hilarious.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

It's still my headcanon that you don't care about firsts, but your pet cat is feuding with Sponge and Elric.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 12:51 AM (VHUov)

180 ===============

Vertigo is weird. I had a violent attack one Monday morning. I'll swear I vomited things other people had eaten, it was so much. It only lasted about an hour in my case. Four hours of that, agghh.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---

Promethazine, get a script then keep the bottle on hand.
Good for a minimum of 5 yr.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 12:51 AM (iLKq8)

181 A penny only costs one cent...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

.....for now. Since they stopped minting them, scarcity will drive the cost up.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 12:53 AM (VHUov)

182 Sorry you had to deal with a jerk, Debby.

Everything was fine until he discovered that you're not a sheep... typical leftard.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

183 Interesting concept. Maybe we should try it on the Iranians first and see if it works.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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We've been doing that rapaciously but they are like lizards; cut one up and it comes back as three.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 12:54 AM (iLKq8)

184 Greenland - we need to buy it.

Cap Susi weather station, Greenland, 1944
Operation Bassgeiger @11:35

[The Germans] built a small wooden hut among some rocks to house their important radio equipment which was vital for the continuing operation of the weather station.

April 1944, a six-man team from the Danish Sledge Patrol attacked the Germans who fought back. The Danes fleeing, but one German officer was killed in the exchange.

The remaining 26 Germans then radioed home, requesting evacuation. The Luftwaffe decided to evacuate the men by air. The Germans found a stretch of firm level sea ice some 5 to 6 km south of the base.

And on the 3rd of June 1944, a large Ju290 piloted by Hauptmann Schlack-Lebahn flew from Monazan in southern France, landed and rescued all 26 Germans, and then flew back to France without incident, a round trip of about 5,000 mi.

https://youtu.be/Ufig2ip-_PI?t=694

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 12:58 AM (iLKq8)

185 In my youth, I think they were 50 cents or so.-AOP

In my youth everything was a lot cheaper. But then money was worth something.

Posted by: Case at August 18, 2026 12:59 AM (VrYHL)

186 I had my first suspected vertigo attack a few months ago. I could barely walk. Ended up at urgent care, then the ER. I've had a few since then, but nothing as bad as the first. My visit with the ENT doc is later this week.

Posted by: PabloD at August 18, 2026 01:00 AM (zDDmD)

187 Everything was fine until he discovered that you're not a sheep... typical leftard.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 12:53 AM (rdVOm)

I was sort of throwing stuff at the wall today and realized something I knew but had never thought about. The Left (leftists, not leftards) doesn't care about ideology at all. One of the reasons they always end up killing each other. All they really care about is that they can make you lie for them.

Because whether you're a big dummy or a very low personality, if you will repeat their lies, they know you are controllable. That's one of the reasons (besides the obvious) that lying is so integral to everything they do. Anyone can tell the truth about something, even accidentally, or when it suits them. But if you are willing to repeat a particular lie, or set of lies, you are temporarily useful.

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 01:00 AM (vE0+H)

188 JQ, the odds of meeting a conservative in this state are astronomical, makes it all the more special when you do meet one. He was an ardent supporter of Anthony Fauci and when I brought up some cold hard facts about Fauci he went ballistic and called me ignorant, I told him that I was glad that he was not my councilor. Unfortunately my councilor is the lesbian from out of town who he thinks is just wonderful. Oh well.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 18, 2026 01:01 AM (ibDUx)

189 Have many copper penny's. They are the perfect anodes for aluminum boats. Don't know about the zinc one's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 01:01 AM (iLKq8)

190 My visit with the ENT doc is later this week.
Posted by: PabloD

Hope it gets resolved!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm)

191 Another possibility for vertigo (mine) is Meniere's Disease.

The chambers of the inner ear each have their own fluid supply that's being constantly created and destroyed. In most people, that balances out. If you have Meniere's, it doesn't, and eventually the pressure breaks the flimsy membranes between the chambers, and the "wrong" fluid winds up in both chambers.

That causes instant-onset vertigo if the chamber dealing with balance gets hit. So instant that some people just drop to the floor when it happens. Thankfully mine isn't that bad, but it does send me stumbling in a zig-zag line for the commode. I called myself an ambulance the first time it happened in my 40s; thought I had a brain tumor or something.

It also causes progressive hearing loss when the chamber dealing with hearing gets hit.

In 80% of people, it only hits one ear. Nobody knows why. And nobody really knows what causes it in the first place, despite it being identified in the mid 1800s. "Stay hydrated" is the only thing the ENT could say. Cut down on caffeine & salt.

Thankfully, I'm a one-ear person, so I can still hear fine on one side. Huey Lewis has the 2-ear version, and it ended his singing career.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 01:02 AM (VHUov)

192 Leftist, leftard, whatever... not my people.

Should I GAF about the labels? That seems... left-ish.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

193 Have many copper penny's. They are the perfect anodes for aluminum boats. Don't know about the zinc one's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 01:01 AM

Uh, you might want to look at the Electromotive Series. Aluminum boats are perfect anodes for copper pennies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 01:06 AM (1z8ji)

194
Thankfully, I'm a one-ear person, so I can still hear fine on one side. Huey Lewis has the 2-ear version, and it ended his singing career.
Posted by: mikeski
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Completely deaf in my right ear. I refer to my left ear as my 'better' ear

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2026 01:08 AM (XeU6L)

195 Uh, you might want to look at the Electromotive Series. Aluminum boats are perfect anodes for copper pennies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------

Are you positive?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 18, 2026 01:13 AM (XeU6L)

196
Alan Shepard had Meniere's, which kept him grounded until they developed some surgical procedure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 01:14 AM (w6EFb)

197
Shepard was the oldest man to leave earth orbit until Artemis II, when Reid Weisman took it. Shepard remains the oldest man to walk on the Moon. Charlie Duke is the youngest.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)

198 22 Keep on reading that as fat checker.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 10:29 PM (iLKq

{image search}

Glenn Kessler has a soft face -- I wouldn't be surprised if little old ladies were still pinching his chubby cheeks until his own hair went grey -- and he avoids full-body shots, but no double chin. Fat check: soyboy.

Posted by: SciVo at August 18, 2026 01:17 AM (L3Npt)

199 Every now and then I find a wheat back penny in my change.
I always put it with my other wheat backs, never spend them. I don't know why I collect them, I just do.

Posted by: Case at August 18, 2026 01:18 AM (VrYHL)

200 Been looking for a bar in town. Gonna' try out this one.

No Excessively Baggy Clothing
No Pants Worn Below the Waist
No Basketball Shorts
No House-shoes or Slides
No Tank tops or Sleeveless Shirts (Men)
No Beanies, Bandanas, or Du-rags
No Sunglasses
No Hoodies Worn on the Head
No Clothing with Offensive Prints, Images, or Words
No Cuts, Colors, or Insignias
No Weapons Including but Not Limited to Guns: Knives, Multi-tools and Box Cutters, etc.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 01:24 AM (iLKq8)

201 Should I GAF about the labels? That seems... left-ish.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

It's shorthand, not labels. I use leftist for the movement people. These are the ones who will do absolutely anything for power. They are the ones running the country for the most part. Any elected official with those leanings is leftist.

Leftards on the other hand are the people who believe them or buy enough of the story or are just ignorant enough (BIRM) to stay on the plantation. They have no idea that it ends with killing fields even if many are so weak and spineless and dumb they would go along when it came to that.

Leftists, OTOH, know the killing fields are what is ahead.

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 01:26 AM (vE0+H)

202 Well, 11:20 PM here, and I am getting sleepy. Had a weird thing happen at the gas station in Calgary today. Put card in pump, selected $100 as the fill amount, authorized card, and began filling. Pump kicked out at $25, and the lamps behind the three fuel grade buttons began flashing. I hit "regular" again, and the pump tally went to zero, put the nozzle back in the tank, and ran it up to $74 and change. No receipt printed. Went into the office, told the counter guy what happened, and he said, "my display shows only one sale for $74.76" I said "did I just get $25 worth of free gas?" "Maybe you did."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 01:26 AM (1z8ji)

203 Today was a good Monday. Trash day. Checked the doormat first thing, in case Cat had left another carcass-- wanted to get it into the bin before pick up, LOL!

Nope, just a blob of... more than *the green part*... but he'd eaten all the rest. Yay! :green: Swept it into the flowerbed.

Critters, sheesh.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

204 Nomenclature

>>Uh, you might want to look at the Electromotive Series. Aluminum boats are perfect anodes for copper pennies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Whichever way would it not result in no structural corrosion?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 01:27 AM (iLKq8)

205 Many administrators and neighbors are leftist. I don't mean it's only politicians. But the vast majority are just leftards. They can be shocked out of it but it takes a lot. Leftists will never come out of it without Jesus.

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2026 01:27 AM (vE0+H)

206
Well, I'll be. Margaret Hamilton, whom we talked about a while back of Apollo Guidance Computer code fame, just turned 90 today:

https://t.ly/vMaED

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 01:29 AM (w6EFb)

207
Critters, sheesh.

Posted by: JQ
---

Good cat.
In the country, neighbor asked me if I wasn't worried about sneks.
Nope, cats and dogs get all of them. Rabbits too. ... no telling what else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 01:30 AM (iLKq8)

208 Okay, I'll buy that description of -ist vs. -tard.

Thanks for breaking it down for me!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:30 AM (rdVOm)

209
And Gene Kranz' birthday was today as well. He turned 93.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 01:31 AM (w6EFb)

210 Soon realized it was time to let her go, stopped petting and she was gone in a few minutes.
Posted by: Farmer

Wow. That's a memory.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 18, 2026 01:34 AM (DZ9Lv)

211 Whichever way would it not result in no structural corrosion?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 01:27 AM (iLKq

I just did a search. The recommended anodes for aluminum boats are, get this, aluminum. There is also something called "navalloy". Anodes are most important if your boat is moored in salt or brackish water.

Seriously, this is something, that if done wrong, could destroy the value of your boat. I'd recommend seeking advice from your boat's manufacturer, or a long-established marine hardware dealer in your AO.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 01:36 AM (1z8ji)

212
Okay, I'll buy that description of -ist vs. -tard.

Thanks for breaking it down for me!
Posted by: JQ

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

I thought it was a good explanation, too.

What I don't care about these days is labels like communist, socialist, Marxist, Islamist, because lefties proudly cop to those now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 01:37 AM (XJ22o)

213 Off to the rack for me. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 01:38 AM (1z8ji)

214 Lil bro left yesterday & got home early this morning.

The whole time he was here, I wondered about his little rat-dog (10lb terrier mix, very old) as she didn't interact much with anyone.

Poor thing just walked in circles when they first got here. By the last day, she was sleeping all the time. Had to keep looking carefully to see whether she was even breathing. I'm surprised the little thing was still alive-- she looked awful last summer and seemed sick.

Just glad she didn't poo in the house!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

215 Night AOP.

Sweet dreams Horde, trash day eve here, those barrels are going to be heavy to roll in the morning, I got rid of some stuff!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 18, 2026 01:41 AM (ibDUx)

216 Night, Debby & AOP!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

217 The Iran war is one draft dump won't be able to dodge by claiming bone spurs. Now doofus wants to bomb our ally Oman! From 1973 Impeachment with honor!

Posted by: raimondo at August 18, 2026 01:43 AM (uEmae)

218 Speaking of -tards....

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

219 Speaking of -tards....
Posted by: JQ

That's insulting to the average -tard.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 01:55 AM (VHUov)

220 Heh. You're right, mikeski.. Sorry!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

221 Slow night around here it seems.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2026 02:03 AM (S41Gd)

222 Howdy, Bers!

Yeah, I guess plenty of Morons still have jobs or somethin'

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

223 ... or "lives"

or some reason to wake in the A.M.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm)

224 Finally off work.
Days with not much to do are really long. 8 hours seems like 11.
4 days left until vacation. Man do I need a break.
Beer's cracked. Off to catch up on comments.

Posted by: Reforger at August 18, 2026 02:06 AM (COjc4)

225 Donald dump has got himself in a terrible jam way down yonder in IRAN. This is one draft he won't be able to dodge! You can call names ;but can't refute what I say!

Posted by: raimondo at August 18, 2026 02:08 AM (uEmae)

226 Vodaphone is supplying thousands of free SIM cards loaded with six months of data to a charity that hands them out to illegal migrants arriving in the UK via boats

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 02:10 AM (iLKq8)

227 I could really go for a 6- or 7-figure, no-show, do-nothing "job" right about now!

But just can't fake the ideology required to enter that circle of demons.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

228 This is one draft he won't be able to dodge! You can call names ;but can't refute what I say!
Posted by: raimondo

He's too old to be drafted.

There is no draft if even if he was of age.

What are we supposed to "refute?"

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 02:14 AM (VHUov)

229
There's that old saying, often attribute to Mark Twain: Never argue with a fool, onlooker may have trouble telling the difference.

And then another one sort of similar as never drop down to a fool (or idiot's) level -- they've had far more practice than you down there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 02:18 AM (w6EFb)

230 Didn't BJ Clit-on pardon all the draft-dodgers?

Nontroversy.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

231 @228 try and refute donald dump has got himself in a terrible jam way down yonder in Iran. You can't and you know it!

Posted by: raimondo at August 18, 2026 02:22 AM (uEmae)

232 You know, one sign of dementia is-- repeating one's self...

Stuck in a loop.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

233 Because that's a value judgment, and not a verifiable fact, Einstein.

"Refute that Sydney Sweeney is hot."

Can't be done.

Maybe you think it can, since your side, in their own words "chooses truth over facts."

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 02:26 AM (VHUov)

234
I dispute "down yonder". It should be "over yonder", I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 02:28 AM (w6EFb)

235 You know, one sign of dementia is-- repeating one's self...
Stuck in a loop.
Posted by: JQ

History, it repeats itself
It repeats, it repeats itself
And they’ll come for you too, in the end

https://youtu.be/VICAjO51wPw

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 02:28 AM (VHUov)

236 Howdy, Bers!

Yeah, I guess plenty of Morons still have jobs or somethin'

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:04 AM (rdVOm)

Originally I wasn't doing shit tomorrow. It was supposed to be nice, but now it looks like rain here and there. I was going to give Mrs B's bike a service and going over, and then a ride. Not taking it to the shop if it's going to rain. I might end up there anyway to tinker with other shit if it's going to rain.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2026 02:30 AM (S41Gd)

237 Rain... ah, yes... I remember rain...

We had a tiny bit last week. There was some back in June, too.

Alas, none in our immediate future. Sad.

Mid- to high-90s for the next couple of weeks, ugh!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

238 I dispute "down yonder". It should be "over yonder", I think.
Posted by: publius

Depends where you live. Iran is "down yonder" from Russia and some of the former-soviet 'stans. I guess we know what bot farm Rainman works on.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 02:33 AM (VHUov)

239 Rain... ah, yes... I remember rain...

We had a tiny bit last week. There was some back in June, too.

Alas, none in our immediate future. Sad.

Mid- to high-90s for the next couple of weeks, ugh!

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

August here has been shit. A nice day, then a rain day, a nice day, and a rain day. Its not really that hot though. July was beautiful, cooler than normal, maybe rain a couple days. August..is..shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 18, 2026 02:36 AM (S41Gd)

240 August is shit here, too. Every year. And so is July.

I'm ready to sell *everything* and move to a cooler place. Heat and blazing sun is depressing to me. Debilitating.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:40 AM (rdVOm)

241
Something I didn't know, or didn't remember that I'm going over now is the Ancient Greek Homos estimated the distance to the Moon pretty damned accurately. They came up with 60 earth radii.

They also estimated the distance to the Sun, but were off by a factor of 10. They couldn't measure an angle close enough and the distance varied greatly with small changes in an angle they were trying to measure, and came up with about 1200 earth radii.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)

242 Sam Kinison had the right idea:

"Move out of the fcuking desert!"

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)

243 Good night, horde.

Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

244 But how many turtles did the Greeks estimate were holding up the Earth?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 18, 2026 03:06 AM (DZ9Lv)

245 Something I didn't know, or didn't remember that I'm going over now is the Ancient Greek Homos estimated the distance to the Moon pretty damned accurately.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 02:43 AM (w6EFb)
-

So... Greek homos were into mooning.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 18, 2026 03:14 AM (vUecY)

246 Up early

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2026 03:17 AM (Ia/+0)

247
So... Greek homos were into mooning.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

And spooning, by many accounts.

Jeez, not even to 250 ejaculations by 3:30 AM -- this place has gotten soft.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:26 AM (trSL4)

248 I wish the Spanish would just issue shoot to kill orders in Ceuta.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:28 AM (jPziU)

249
They knew the earth was a sphere, but had a geocentric view, thinking the earth was at the center of the cosmos, and the heavens just rotated around it. They didn't have a notion of gravity as we think of it. There were the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire. Everything had its place, with earth at the lowest, water above it, then air and fire. The earth was at the center, and closest to the center, where "it wanted to go". So nothing needed to hold it up, because it was at the center.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 03:29 AM (w6EFb)

250 242 Sam Kinison had the right idea:

"Move out of the fcuking desert!"
Posted by: JQ at August 18, 2026 02:48 AM (rdVOm)

MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:33 AM (jPziU)

251
It finally happened after finding connections among over five thousand folks that are associated in some way in my family tree -- there now are two murderers firmly in it.

Folks murdered and folks suicidal have been in the melee for some time now. In any of these cases my reaction is usually the same: a disappointed, "Oh...", followed by a long pause to reflect on human nature, which is flawed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:34 AM (trSL4)

252 Spanish as well as other Europeans are a blood thirsty bubch, we will see if the Leftists got that out of them

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2026 03:34 AM (Ia/+0)

253 231: read the Vienna Convention of 1961 if your programmers will let you. Read it. Slowly.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:34 AM (jPziU)

254 So... Greek homos were into mooning.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole l

That's no moon

Posted by: Miklos, because somebody had to at August 18, 2026 03:34 AM (XOG/m)

255 trumpf child in fraud he holliday is texas libertarian parking tickets, fines warren was arrested for free marylin fowler butch lesbian who the fraud found in west virginia! gov. norman. The green party. Talk show she has been look what hanger against the antifa is press have stopped as malcolm X not enough. Bye bye war mongers.

Posted by: raimondo on tap at August 18, 2026 03:35 AM (XOG/m)

256 226 Vodaphone is supplying thousands of free SIM cards loaded with six months of data to a charity that hands them out to illegal migrants arriving in the UK via boats
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 18, 2026 02:10 AM (iLKq

The sooner we stop calling them “migrants”, the better.

What I wouldn’t do for Queen Letizia to kick the Spanish PM right in the balls, while she is in her stilettos. Actually, on second thought, it would probably do nothing to him.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:38 AM (jPziU)

257
255

I encountered Machines for Sale. I read Machines for Sale.

Machines for Sale was like a close friend to me.

You, ray-ray, are no Machines for Sale.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:38 AM (trSL4)

258 I dispute "down yonder". It should be "over yonder", I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

"Way Down Yonder" properly refers exclusively to New Orleans.

Posted by: Miklos adduces numerous musical compositions as evidence at August 18, 2026 03:39 AM (XOG/m)

259 The earth was at the center, and closest to the center, where "it wanted to go". So nothing needed to hold it up, because it was at the center.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 03:29 AM (w6EFb)

How much does a star weigh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:40 AM (Ot/FD)

260 You, ray-ray, are no Machines for Sale.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle

Nor even a Tickled Pink

Posted by: Miklos sees psychological similarities though at August 18, 2026 03:41 AM (XOG/m)

261
n those parts of the country that recognizes "hollers", the phrase "up yonder" was decidedly appropriate.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:41 AM (trSL4)

262 How much does a star weigh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Before or after Wegovy?

Posted by: Hollywood Agent, paid by the pound at August 18, 2026 03:42 AM (XOG/m)

263 “He Was a MAGA Patriot. ICE Took His Wife Away.
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.”

Overstaying/violating the terms of your visa is most certainly a crime, even though that makes the media VERY UPSET. The idea that people need passports and visas to enter the United States is just so horrifying to them. Never mind every other country in the world does the same thing.

Send her ass back.

And we need to check people’s passports coming AND going specifically to make sure people are following the terms of their visas and are leaving when the visa says to leave.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:42 AM (jPziU)

264 But how many turtles did the Greeks estimate were holding up the Earth?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 18, 2026 03:06 AM (DZ9Lv)

Just one very big guy named Atlas.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 18, 2026 03:42 AM (ZVgZ4)

265
How much does a star weigh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko

$20, same as in town.

(Always appropriate, not always coherent!)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:43 AM (trSL4)

266 How much does a star weigh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:40 AM (Ot/FD)

A lot.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:43 AM (jPziU)

267 The migrant craze is just Colonialism with a different travel agent.

If a country is a craphole and the people who live there shouldn't even live there but instead "deserve" to submit to your rule and be One Of You, what's the difference between shipping them all in to your own country's borders to exploit them, or just moving a bunch of your own people there to exploit them?

Either way, you're simply claiming the ethnos of entire regions of the world as your own property to dispose of as you will.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:43 AM (Ot/FD)

268 n those parts of the country that recognizes "hollers", the phrase "up yonder" was decidedly appropriate.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

"Up" is for Bug Tussle; "Over" is generally used for Pixley

Posted by: Hank Kimball, County Agent at August 18, 2026 03:43 AM (XOG/m)

269 Either way, you're simply claiming the ethnos of entire regions of the world as your own property to dispose of as you will.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Dibs on Iceland

Posted by: Imperial Austro-Hungarian Miklos at August 18, 2026 03:44 AM (XOG/m)

270 255: quit posting drunk.

Go read the Vienna Convention of 1961. Very. Very. Slowly. Don’t come back until you are done.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:44 AM (jPziU)

271 And we need to check people’s passports coming AND going specifically to make sure people are following the terms of their visas and are leaving when the visa says to leave.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 03:42 AM (jPziU)

Has there ever been a successful legal defense of a bank robbery by claiming No Take Backsies because you manage to clear the front threshold with the cash before you got arrested?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:44 AM (Ot/FD)

272 But how many turtles did the Greeks estimate were holding up the Earth?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 18, 2026 03:06 AM (DZ9Lv)

Just one very big guy named Atlas.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Charles Atlas

Patron Saint of 98 pound weeklings

Posted by: Miklos thinks you had to send money though at August 18, 2026 03:46 AM (XOG/m)

273 Charles Atlas

Patron Saint of 98 pound weeklings
Posted by: Miklos thinks you had to send money though at August 18, 2026 03:46 AM (XOG/m)

Defender of Sand Castles

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:46 AM (Ot/FD)

274
It's a more modern corruption that Atlas was condemned to hold up the earth. His task was to hold up the sky, the celestial sphere. Early depictions had him holding a globe, which came to be thought of as the earth. That globe was originally the sky.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 03:48 AM (w6EFb)

275 Go read the Vienna Convention of 1961. Very. Very. Slowly. Don’t come back until you are done.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Not sure what country would grant raindoodoo Consular Status

Posted by: Miklos Plenipotentiary (bonus points for using that word) at August 18, 2026 03:48 AM (XOG/m)

276 Defender of Sand Castles
Posted by: Warai-otoko

But somehow the 98 pound weaklings always had the chicks at the beach

Posted by: Miklos was confuselated at August 18, 2026 03:50 AM (XOG/m)

277 That globe was originally the sky.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 03:48 AM (w6EFb)

Wasn't there some thing in various mythologies where Gibraltar and the Bosphorus were where Atlas placed his feet, or something? I remember something like that being a thing. Maybe Hesiod or one of those dudes, but I'm not sure how good their cartography game was at the time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:51 AM (Ot/FD)

278
From Half-Wiki Pedophilia:

Bug Tussle [Texas] has been noted for its unusual place name. More than seventy Bug Tussle highway signs have been stolen.

The most accepted origin to Bug Tussle's name was from an incident in the 1890s when a swarm of insects spoiled an ice cream social. Another possible origin of the name comes from picnickers, who watched bugs fight after eating. Another possible origin comes from two residents who wanted to change the name. During an argument, the town got distracted by the sight of two dung beetles fighting.

That last origin is "Squirrel!" adjacent and thus most credible, IMHO. That the fight involved two dung beetles is just * chef's kiss *.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:52 AM (trSL4)

279 276 Defender of Sand Castles
Posted by: Warai-otoko

But somehow the 98 pound weaklings always had the chicks at the beach
Posted by: Miklos was confuselated at August 18, 2026 03:50 AM (XOG/m)

My big confusion was wondering why I should bother to pay a guy to get jacked to impress some chick who would leave me at the drop of a hat like that as if she was throwing out a half eaten candy bar that wasn't to her liking. Good riddance, really. Thank you, Beach Meathead. You just saved me from canoodling with a horrible person.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:54 AM (Ot/FD)

280 To counter Aristotle and Ptolemy I present Aristarchus of Samos who postulated a heliocentric model of what we now call the solar system, including a rotating Earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 18, 2026 03:55 AM (ZVgZ4)

281
"Beach Meatheads" would be a great name for an all-male beach volleyball team.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:57 AM (trSL4)

282 "Beach Meatheads" would be a great name for an all-male beach volleyball team.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:57 AM (trSL4)

Just don't call it "banana league".

...

Or at least make them wear full trunks if you do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 03:58 AM (Ot/FD)

283
Dung beetles are one of Nature's miracles -- creatures who never get tired of others' shit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 03:59 AM (trSL4)

284 >> How much does a star weigh?

A sanctified shit ton.

One solar mass is about 330K earth masses (or about 1000 Jupiter masses). No, in the Milky Way, the mass range of stars goes from about .08 to 100-150 solar masses. Anything less than that can't be a star, as it doesn't get "heavy" enough to fuse hydrogen. More massive stars have shorter and shorter lifetimes. At some point, they just can't get any bigger.

Now, the distribution of those stars. The majority of stars are less massive than the sun, being red dwarfs up to about 0.5 solar masses. The mean mass is somewhere around 0.3 - 0.4.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 03:59 AM (w6EFb)

285 But if Atlas is holding the Sphere of the Heavens, wouldn’t the Earth be inside it? Where would this big guy stand anyway? On the place where Archimedes would stand to use a lever to move the Earth? And where would the fulcrum be?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 18, 2026 04:00 AM (ZVgZ4)

286 The mean mass is somewhere around 0.3 - 0.4.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Sounds like Darleen all right

Posted by: Miklos is somehow attracted at August 18, 2026 04:02 AM (XOG/m)

287 Had instant oatmeal and a bacon , egg and cheese on English muffin

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2026 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)

288
If one of Atlas' feet was set beside the Strait of Gibraltar and the other was beside the Bosporus, than what part of the ancient world was situated directly beneath Atlas' dangley bits?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 04:04 AM (trSL4)

289 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 03:59 AM (w6EFb)

Weight.... not mass

Getting at the mythological cosmologies that viewed the heavens as weightless and floating in a big sphere with the heavy earth at the middle... they really weren't far off from the truth. From a terrestrial perspective, the heavenly objects really don't have "weight", in spite of being so massive. What's pulling on them? The Earth? Not significantly. So they look like they're just floating. Because they kind of are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 04:05 AM (Ot/FD)

290
288

then, dammit

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at August 18, 2026 04:06 AM (trSL4)

291
The Atlas myth goes back before they realized the earth was a sphere. His stood in the far west at the Garden of the Hesperides.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:06 AM (w6EFb)

292 If one of Atlas' feet was set beside the Strait of Gibraltar and the other was beside the Bosporus, than what part of the ancient world was situated directly beneath Atlas' dangley bits?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

The Isle of Lesbos

Not that they would care

Posted by: Miklos thinks the shadow might provoke merriment at August 18, 2026 04:08 AM (XOG/m)

293 Today, we fight in the shade of Atlas's balls!

Posted by: Testicles, Ancient Greek Homo at August 18, 2026 04:11 AM (Ealv7)

294 What would happen if you "turned off gravity"? Well, everything would just start flinging off in a straight line! But what is gravity? What does it act on? Mass. To remove gravity, you'd have to remove mass. So now you have a bunch of massless objects. And massless objects have no inertia, so they wouldn't keep going in a straight line, they'd just stop.

So stopping Gravity would look just like stopping Time.

*bong rip*

Dude.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 04:12 AM (Ot/FD)

295
Pythagoras and some other first proposed the earth was a sphere around the 500s BC. This was just because a sphere was a perfect shape.

Then Aristotle came along and noticed that ships disappeared bottom first on the horizon, and that the earth casts a round shadow on the Moon during the partial lunar eclipse phases.

And then Eratosthenes did the shadow and stick thing and came up with a pretty good estimate of the radius of earth.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:13 AM (w6EFb)

296 There was a guy who thought the world was a cylinder. Hera-something or other. Not Heraclitus, I don't think.

But from the same neighborhood.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 04:16 AM (Ot/FD)

297 And then Eratosthenes did the shadow and stick thing and came up with a pretty good estimate of the radius of earth.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Ima try that on Darleen next time she passes out in the inflatable pool

Posted by: Miklos risks his life for Science at August 18, 2026 04:16 AM (XOG/m)

298 So stopping Gravity would look just like stopping Time.

*bong rip*

Dude.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

But, like, how would you even know?

Maybe it's happening right now

Posted by: Miklos passes the bomg at August 18, 2026 04:17 AM (XOG/m)

299
Had instant oatmeal and a bacon , egg and cheese on English muffin
Posted by: Skip

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

I wonder if breakfasting like that would help me detox from coffee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 04:18 AM (XJ22o)

300 I wonder if breakfasting like that would help me detox from coffee.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

HEATHEN

Posted by: *invokes the mighty Bustelo for protection* at August 18, 2026 04:20 AM (XOG/m)

301 You know it's hot and humid when you need the AC at 4 AM

Posted by: Miklos, hot but unflustered at August 18, 2026 04:23 AM (XOG/m)

302 >> What would happen if you "turned off gravity"?

There was some woo-woo nonsense that spread on Tik-Tok that gravity was going to turn off for a few second during the recent solar eclipse.

Now, the current best theory of gravity is General Relativity, the Einstein Field Equations. Big 'G', Newton's gravitational constant is in there as a coupling constant.

However, the mathematical form of the EFE does not allow for G to be anything but a constant. IOW, saying turning off gravity is a mathematical contradiction there.

People have proposed something like a time-varying G, but to do that, you've got to add something else to the equations, making it different from GR. And, the more and more they look, the tighter and tighter the constraints on how much different the true theory of gravity can be from Einstein.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb)

303 Most weekends I have coffee first but don't have anything to eat for a couple hours.

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2026 04:24 AM (Ia/+0)

304 People have proposed something like a time-varying G

Darleen's G spot varies over time

It's in there somewhere, but where

Posted by: Miklos repeats experiments because inconsistent results at August 18, 2026 04:25 AM (XOG/m)

305 If you approached masslessnes as a limit m-> 0, you will get a lot of acceleration for very little, almost no force. In a Newtonian world you could travel at near infinite speed. Hence the inertialess drive of some very early scientifiction stories. In Einstein’s world you could travel at near lightspeed. Put that in your bong and smoke it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 18, 2026 04:25 AM (ZVgZ4)

306
massless objects have no inertia, so they wouldn't keep going in a straight line, they'd just stop.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

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

(sits up, dizzy)

Wait. Don't you mean massless objects have no momentum? Because, if they have no momentum, that's why they would stop.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 04:27 AM (XJ22o)

307
Most weekends I have coffee first but don't have anything to eat for a couple hours.
Posted by: Skip

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

That's the kind of toxicity I'm trying to rid myself of.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 04:28 AM (XJ22o)

308 And, the more and more they look, the tighter and tighter the constraints on how much different the true theory of gravity can be from Einstein.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:23 AM (w6EFb)

If G were not constant, then some mass would have to be more mass-y than others. As if one electron could be more charge-y or spin-y than another one.

And yet mass is "floopy". It's not absolute or constant, it changes based on how fast it's going, or how close it is to other masses.

And yet another yet.... G stays constant.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 04:29 AM (Ot/FD)

309
I wonder if breakfasting like that would help me detox from coffee.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

HEATHEN
Posted by: *invokes the mighty Bustelo for protection*

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

It's in the discussion stage.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 18, 2026 04:30 AM (XJ22o)

310 In Einstein’s world you could travel at near lightspeed. Put that in your bong and smoke it.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

In college, I knew some guys who, after a few few bong hits, were smarter than Einstein.

They solved ALL the world's problems

Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers Marx being part of that at August 18, 2026 04:31 AM (XOG/m)

311 They solved ALL the world's problems
Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers Marx being part of that at August 18, 2026 04:31 AM (XOG/m)

The Labor Theory of Chromodynamics.

Quarks of the World, Unite!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 04:31 AM (Ot/FD)

312 What if momentum is conserved, but rest mass goes to zero? Better, consider the momentum-energy four vector… Oh never mind, it requires maths…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 18, 2026 04:31 AM (ZVgZ4)

313 >> It's not absolute or constant, it changes based on how fast it's going, or how close it is to other masses.

That's the distinction between rest mass and relativistic mass. You can think of the mass of a particle as being multiplied by gamma. But that view is sort of problematic.

Energy is mass and mass is energy via mc^2. And mass is inertia. Energy gravitates and has inertia. A box containing light bouncing back forth has more inertia than an empty box. And it gravitates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:38 AM (w6EFb)

314
And it gets even more than that. In GR, the source of the gravitational field (which is the curvature of spacetime), is the stress-energy tensor. The math here, well, hoo-boy.

But this means the source of the gravitational field is four things. Mass-energy, the currents of said mass-energy, plus *momentum* and the currents of that momentum.

The momentum part means that gravity depends on *pressure*. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. That pressure term contribution goes as p/c^2. That is the mass equivalent of pressure. For most matter, that is vanishingly small. But when you get really, really dense objects, like neutron stars, that becomes significant.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:41 AM (w6EFb)

315 A box containing light bouncing back forth has more inertia than an empty box. And it gravitates.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:38 AM (w6EFb)

"Awww, dang it, stop leaning on the science box, Larry, we're trying to measure it here!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 04:42 AM (Ot/FD)

316 Heading out
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

317 gravity depends on *pressure*.

I haven't had gas bad enough to alter gravity in quite some time.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 04:45 AM (VHUov)

318
That pressure thing makes for a interesting runaway effect. Imagine a spherical mass distribution and you start packing more and more mass onto it, and you hold some constant density requirement (artificial, but this would be a perfect incompressible fluid).

Now, as you pile more and more mass on it, the pressure in the center increases. But, that pressure increases the gravity. So the pressure required to resist the gravity increases the gravity even more.

The result is that for a spherical mass distribution of constant density, the radius can be no less than 9/8 of the Schwarzschild radius. At that point, the pressure at the center goes to infinity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:46 AM (w6EFb)

319 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 18, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

320 Nice picture up top, and I hope you're asleep now, Miss Hum, but thanks for your efforts on all the ONT's which you do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2026 04:50 AM (JrHfD)

321 The result is that for a spherical mass distribution of constant density, the radius can be no less than 9/8 of the Schwarzschild radius. At that point, the pressure at the center goes to infinity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 18, 2026 04:46 AM (w6EFb)

Wouldn't it' be poetically silly if that's how anti-matter is made?

Squish the snot out of Regular Universe until it gets so pissed off it turns into Extra Spicy Universe and starts running backwards....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2026 04:58 AM (Ot/FD)

322 191 Meniere's Disease
The chambers of the inner ear each have their own fluid supply that's being constantly created and destroyed. In most people, that balances out. If you have Meniere's, it doesn't, and eventually the pressure breaks the flimsy membranes between the chambers, and the "wrong" fluid winds up in both chambers.

That causes instant-onset vertigo if the chamber dealing with balance gets hit. So instant that some people just drop to the floor when it happens. Thankfully mine isn't that bad, but it does send me stumbling in a zig-zag line for the commode. I called myself an ambulance the first time it happened in my 40s; thought I had a brain tumor or something.

It also causes progressive hearing loss when the chamber dealing with hearing gets hit.

In 80% of people, it only hits one ear. Nobody knows why. And nobody really knows what causes it in the first place, despite it being identified in the mid 1800s. "Stay hydrated" is the only thing the ENT could say. Cut down on caffeine & salt.

Thankfully, I'm a one-ear person, so I can still hear fine on one side. Huey Lewis has the 2-ear version, and it ended his singing career.

Posted by: m at August 18, 2026 05:47 AM (odBC9)

323 Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2026 01:02 AM (VHUov)

THANKS for that description, mikeski!

Posted by: m at August 18, 2026 05:48 AM (odBC9)

324 Not sure what country would grant raindoodoo Consular Status
Posted by: Miklos Plenipotentiary (bonus points for using that word) at August 18, 2026 03:48 AM (XOG/m)

Yeah but it would explain to dummy (and others, really) one of the rationales for doing what we are doing in Iran.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 18, 2026 06:10 AM (jPziU)

325 I just did a search. The recommended anodes for aluminum boats are, get this, aluminum. There is also something called "navalloy". Anodes are most important if your boat is moored in salt or brackish water.

Seriously, this is something, that if done wrong, could destroy the value of your boat. I'd recommend seeking advice from your boat's manufacturer, or a long-established marine hardware dealer in your AO.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2026 01:36 AM (1z8ji)

Magnesium if your aluminum boat is exclusively used in fresh water.

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