Daily Tech News 20 January 2022

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Disinformation is mostly bullshit. (Harpers)

If you read the article, note that much of it is biting satire. The point is that most of the claims being made regarding disinformation are themselves disinformation - or more specifically, utterly baseless, pseudoscientific garbage.
Not that this is going to stop anyone, or even slow them down much. (ZDNet)

Australia is demanding to know why Google and Facebook aren't censoring "disinformation" faster.

While our government is as shitty as America's in this respect and unconstrained by our constitution, I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Big Tech companies that gleefully dug this hole for themselves.

Tech News

Polygon implemented EIP-1559. It did not go smoothly.
Intel has announced 20 new mobile CPUs. (AnandTech)

Ranging from 5 to 14 cores (in various combinations of big and small cores) and 9W to 28W. There's only one 14 core part though, and everything below 28W has only one or two big cores. AMD meanwhile has eight big cores at 15W.
AMD's RX 6500XT is an overpriced, underwhelming budget GPU. (Tom's Hardware)

If it sold at MSRP it would be mediocre. It doesn't.
iMessage is a failure. (MacWorld)

If your measure of success is actually being a good app, sure. If your measure is locking idiots into a walled garden, it's doing that quite well.
DevToys is a desktop app for developers. (DevToys)

Not an IDE, but a collection of little utilities for formatting and converting data - that runs locally on your own computer.

What a novel concept.

And it's open source.
Google is upset about potential legislation that might not permit them to do whatever the hell they want. (Thurrott.com)

Oh no.

Anyway...
Intel meanwhile has told the US government never to let a crisis go to waste. (Bloomberg)

CEO Pat Gelsinger used almost those exact words when asking for a bigger handout in a time when is company is raking in record profits.
The EU wants to build its own DNS that will block naughty content. (The Record)

Sure. You do that. That will work perfectly.

Morons.

Party Like It's 1980 Video of the Day

Disclaimer: I will not mint this NFT. I will not list on OpenSea. I will not mine blocks on a boat. I will not send ETH to a goat. I think the blockchain is a scam. I do not like it, Sam-I-am.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Good evening Picy

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:00 AM (2JoB8)

2 Good evening Pixy

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:00 AM (2JoB8)

3 Good morning Skip

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 20, 2022 04:02 AM (MqQvv)

4 Still trying to figure how phone and Tablet are connected, looked up something on my YouTube app on phone so before I got home and in wi-fi range turned it off, and as soon as came in turned on Tablet and on YouTube app there it was.
,

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:05 AM (2JoB8)

5 Mornin', all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:06 AM (mQu4Z)

6 Coffee anyone? And good morning Skip and Pixy

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 20, 2022 04:06 AM (gXWAI)

7 as soon as came in turned on Tablet and on YouTube app there it was.
,

Skip are they both Apple products?

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 20, 2022 04:08 AM (gXWAI)

8 Skip, on your phone in settings, go into connections. Is there a button that says phone visibility? You can turn that off. Probably something similar on your tablet

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:11 AM (mQu4Z)

9 Morning and evening to Mr. and Mrs. America/Australia and all the ships at sea! Let's go to press! Flash!

I'm up earlier than I intended, again, though it's not too bad. It's warm outside, 62 F. We're supposed to get rain, though, and plummeting temps this midday; then cold and rain tomorrow, and cold through the weekend at least. Not Wisconsin cold, but chilly for here. I for one welcome our new ice-bucket overlords; how about you?

Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat is doing pretty well, for him. I checked with the vet and he is supposed to get his injection under the skin, not into the muscle. I'm glad to hear it. I'd be likely to hit an artery or a nerve, and hilarity would ensue.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:12 AM (c6xtn)

10 MLII! How is Lucky the cat doing?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:13 AM (c6xtn)

11 I was reading through the memorials for OM. What a nice tribute to him!

I was sad to see though, a comment (#847) mentioned redc1c4's passing. I missed that. Do any of you know what happebed and when?

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:15 AM (mQu4Z)

12 Both Samsung, both on Verizon.
Also get messages on phone for work assignments, rarely fails within 2 numbers and letter tied it immediately comes up on Google maps

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:16 AM (2JoB8)

13 *happened. Good grief, i need to proofread!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:16 AM (mQu4Z)

14 Good morning morons

The president is a dolt. But that's what happens when the losing candidate is installed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 04:19 AM (EZebt)

15 Hey Wolfus!

"Not Wisconsin cold..." ha! It is cold here this morning. 5 but feels like -15 says the weather app. I was outside for extended periods yesterday, the feels like -15 was pretty much correct. The wind was intense, as was the cold!

Lucky is doing great so far. He woke me up before the alarm telling me he was HUNGRY!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:20 AM (mQu4Z)

16 MLii your right about redc14c has been missing, he was a fellow commenter on LI it was.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:22 AM (2JoB8)

17 I've noticed his absence, but hadn't seen any word about him until that comment from earlier this.m.

Sad if true.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:25 AM (mQu4Z)

18 Suppose that's what everyone wants is all devices connected, frightens me

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:26 AM (2JoB8)

19 Lucky is doing great so far. He woke me up before the alarm telling me he was HUNGRY!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022

***
The late Marie-Antoinette, the smart black longhaired cat, used to do that. I swear she had a clock in her head. If you got up at 5 to feed her, the next day she would bug you at 4:30.

The late great Wolf, another black longhair, would climb on the bed and paw gently at my hair and scalp. I'd brush him away, but then I was awake anyway. I'd wait a half hour to feed him so he wouldn't think his tactics worked. Though of course, they did; he did it often, though not as annoyingly as Marie.

I miss them both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:27 AM (c6xtn)

20 uppose that's what everyone wants is all devices connected, frightens me
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022

***
Me too. I never connected my phone with my late BMW, and I haven't with the current Buick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:29 AM (c6xtn)

21 Also, haven't seen RickZ, or beanervt in a long time. I remember RickZ saying after the election he was staying away from commenting but would likely lurk.

I miss both of their input.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:29 AM (mQu4Z)

22 Grieving today.

Ev'ry time I see your face,
It reminds me of the places we used to go.
But all I got is a photograph
And I realize you're not coming back anymore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 04:30 AM (EZebt)

23 >>I miss them both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:27 AM (c6xtn)

Those annoying habits that help work their way into our hearts!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:31 AM (mQu4Z)

24 I miss them both.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:27 AM (c6xtn)

Those annoying habits that help work their way into our hearts!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022

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Then they'd do things like climb under the covers and sleep next to me (Marie) or follow me into the bathroom, sit on the counter, and paw gently at me if I stopped petting too soon (Wolf). There is something special about longhaired black cats, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:34 AM (c6xtn)

25 >>. There is something special about ~~longhaired black~~ all cats, I guess.

!

I get that though, our favorites do come through. Mine have mostly been orange or yellow tabbys. Leo is the only one we've had that wasn't overtly friendly. But he really is once he gets to know you. It just takes him a long long long time to figure out that he likes you.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 04:38 AM (mQu4Z)

26
If you read the article, note that much of it is biting satire. The point is that most of the claims being made regarding disinformation are themselves disinformation - or more specifically, utterly baseless, pseudoscientific garbage.

I clicked on the link prior to reading your disclosure beneath it, which I cut and pasted above. Anyway, I started reading the article and said to myself, "Why the hell would Pixy suggest this? It's all left-wing propaganda." At the end I saw that it was written by an author at Buzzfeed. I guess it's too early for me to see the satire in it.

The author did mention "Hidden Persuaders" which I read in my early teens. I think the movie 'Fight Club' paid homage to that concept in the movie theater scene where a single frame of a pornographic image was spliced into a movie.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 04:40 AM (dQvv7)

27 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 04:40 AM (arJlL)

28 Yes, we do have our favorite animal friends. I've loved them all, but Marie and Wolf are the two I'd most like to have back. Is it a coincidence that both were longhaired black cats? Maybe. I've had more than one red tabby, two tuxedo cats, a couple of tricolors, Chekov the baby panda, and others. All special, all individuals, all good friends of mine. But the two black cats stand out for different reasons. I suspect black cats tend to be more easygoing and adaptable, and possibly smarter, than the general run of feline.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:48 AM (c6xtn)

29 I'm really tired of not being able to fall asleep before Wolfus is up again and drinking his morning coffee.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at January 20, 2022 04:49 AM (2YyHh)

30 I'm really tired of not being able to fall asleep before Wolfus is up again and drinking his morning coffee.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at January 20, 2022

***
I dream of having an 8-hour stretch of sleep again. Sometimes I come close on Friday night-Saturday morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:52 AM (c6xtn)

31 I think overall, this debacle is the confluence of several different "trends" and developments, none of them very good.

We've seen the rise of "credentialism" in recent years. It stems from an emphasis on rule or leadership by experts, or technocracy. This goes back to at least the FDR days - the so-called brain trust, or maybe Wilson.

In any case Americans have long had it drilled into their heads that some subjects are just too difficult to understand, let the pros handle it. They've got you, and society, and everyone's best interest in mind. It's dangerous and silly, to let the hick rubes in flyover JesusLand decide anything, after all. Democrats, for all their speeches about Democracy, don't much care for voters, or voting, or representative government.

But the end result is we're seeing genuine, no-shit Scientific Experts, the stars in their professions with years and years of research and experience with infectious diseases, getting censored and kicked off the Internet for spreading "misinformation" - by some flunky at YouTube, who can't even balance a checkbook or change a tire. It is literally insane. Free speech, open inquiry and all that stuff is messy, but...

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 04:52 AM (psL96)

32 https://tinyurl.com/mr2fsf6h
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Picture of 24 yo Brianna murdered in California

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:54 AM (2JoB8)

33 6 Coffee anyone? And good morning Skip and Pixy
Posted by: Pete Bog at January 20, 2022 04:06 AM (gXWAI)

Yes, please. Thank you, Pete Bog.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 04:54 AM (yY8d6)

34 Remember Blondie was played a lot in 1980

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:55 AM (2JoB8)

35 I should point out, I'm not "anti-intellectual". Far from it, in fact I probably trend towards a kind of elitism, even if not a member. And I'm weird - I really do want what's best for society.

But that isn't what's happening. The "experts" aren't. They are grifters and con artists, wearing skin suits and demanding respect. It's a very real and difficult problem, because people are almost hard wired to seek out authority. And they have a multi-gazillion dollar propaganda program to dazzle everyone with smoke and mirrors. So you have to get people to think on their own, and they don't want to do that.

"Most qualified candidate EVAH!!"

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 04:58 AM (psL96)

36 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:59 AM (mD/uy)

37
Me too. I never connected my phone with my late BMW, and I haven't with the current Buick.

When we picked up our new lease last spring, the lease 'specialist' went back inside to get a screwdriver to attach the license plate. She came back outside, attached the plate, then offered to show us how to sync our phones with the vehicle. She was shocked that I had already done that in two minutes. Apparently that's a procedure beyond the capability of most car buyers. Heaven forbid that people don't get notifications of Facebook 'likes' while they drive.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 04:59 AM (dQvv7)

38 >> It stems from an emphasis on rule or leadership by experts, or technocracy.

Midwits at the peak of Mt. Stupid.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:01 AM (Mzdiz)

39 It is amazing me how one can connect and worry about people they never met.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:04 AM (2JoB8)

40 Yabut, at least in the days of say, FDR - there were at least some arguably highly intelligent people involved government, at least tangentially.

They still might have screwed things up at times, but let's face it - at one time, getting into College, almost any college, was really hard. Money didn't have that much to do with it. If you didn't have the chops, you didn't get in.

Now? Anybody that can fog a mirror. Get a "loan", get some phony-balogna degree in some made up discipline. Voila! Another "expert" is born.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 05:10 AM (psL96)

41 Midwits at the peak of Mt. Stupid.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:01 AM (Mzdiz)

Heard a good observation yesterday.

Those in the medical field that aren't good enough to be real doctors or legit researchers, go into government. Not our best and brightest.

Posted by: golfman at January 20, 2022 05:11 AM (hOMhY)

42 Off to shave and shower, in that order, and then breakfast. Back later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 05:12 AM (c6xtn)

43 Stroke of luck close to home rest of week as well.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:15 AM (2JoB8)

44 Truck should be warm by now so off to work for a bit then on to Grandma-day!

Hailey is 6 months old now, and if she's not crawling in a week I will be surprised. That little girl is determined!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 05:16 AM (mQu4Z)

45
Years ago, my father (in his late '60s at the time, somewhere around there) was on the board of a little local outfit (county Farm Bureau organization). They needed to hire a new receptionist and a secretary. The current ones were retiring.

So, on the board, they got all the resumes and written responses from the applicants. From that, they were to winnow it down and pick a few, which they would interview at the next meeting.

My father was aghast at how dumb these applicants with college degrees appeared from their written responses. He had only a high-school education himself, but was shaking his head at what passed for a college educated person. He sort of asked me, hey college boy, what do you think about this?

And there is the downfall of education right there. If everybody goes to college, a college degree becomes worthless.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:18 AM (Mzdiz)

46 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 05:19 AM (arJlL)

47
Doctors are not independent anymore. They're just employees of large corporate outfits. In the old days, doctors were some of the most independent, no-nonsense, no-bullshit types out there.

Not any more. Their drones, serving their corporate masters. They tell them what to do. It's these drones that determine you medical care, not the MDs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:20 AM (Mzdiz)

48
Once in a while I have to remind my wife the value of having someone around with some basic understanding of technology. The car company owner of our vehicle, as part of the lease agreement, wants to look at our driving record every year, but they need our permission. They send two emails. The first email provides a security code. The second, provides a link where the security code is required. The wife opens the second email first and flounders around openly cursing for ten minutes, but she's pissed at me so not asking my help. So I let her keep going. Finally the light bulb goes on and she opens the first email received and secures the security code. She wastes about 20 minutes total. Once she finished... finally... I went through the process on my email account in less than two minutes, opening the emails in the correct sequence. She saw I was finished quickly, without one curse uttered, and got even more pissed off at me for not helping her.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:22 AM (dQvv7)

49 39 It is amazing me how one can connect and worry about people they never met.
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:04 AM

Good writers--novelists and historians--can made you do that, too.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 05:23 AM (yY8d6)

50 They tell them what to do. It's these drones that determine you medical care, not the MDs.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:20 AM (Mzdiz)

Yep. ACA and malpractice insurance drove all of them out of their private clinics and to the hospitals.

Posted by: golfman at January 20, 2022 05:24 AM (hOMhY)

51 44 Hailey is 6 months old now
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 05:16 AM (mQu4Z)

That time flew!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 05:26 AM (yY8d6)

52 MLii 6 months?
Seems like 2

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:31 AM (2JoB8)

53 Yes the time has flown!

I seear this rock spins faster as we are getting older

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 05:34 AM (fInJv)

54 *seear = swear

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at January 20, 2022 05:34 AM (fInJv)

55 It's a balmy -6f here at Casa de SSI80. I hope it's warmer where you are at. Not looking forward to working out in this.

Stay warm ya'all.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at January 20, 2022 05:34 AM (ItDAh)

56 Kudos to Starbucks for being less fascist than some other large companies.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4mxcdb

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 05:35 AM (yY8d6)

57 26 I clicked on the link prior to reading your disclosure beneath it, which I cut and pasted above. Anyway, I started reading the article and said to myself, "Why the hell would Pixy suggest this? It's all left-wing propaganda." At the end I saw that it was written by an author at Buzzfeed. I guess it's too early for me to see the satire in it.

Yeah, I had it open in one of my tabs after clicking on a link elsewhere, and when I got to it I was wondering why the hell I'd bothered.

But if you keep going you find comments like this:

Still, Big Disinfo can barely contain its desire to hand the power of disseminating knowledge back to a set of "objective" gatekeepers.

"Big Disinfo" being the people constantly bleating about "disinformation", the "fact checkers" and left-wing media types.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 20, 2022 05:36 AM (MqQvv)

58 I swear this rock spins faster as we are getting older
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Seems like it doesn't it? My mom told me this would happen. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 05:37 AM (mD/uy)

59
It looks like Omicron has shot it's load in Chester County, PA. Went from 1,200 new cases a day last week down to

Doesn't look like Joe has single-handedly "shut down the virus" yet.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:37 AM (dQvv7)

60 Not sure if I want to read this book by Dr. Mark Felton.

I had mentioned the BBC series called Tenko which is a fictionalized account of European women POWs of the Japanese. Had also referenced a book in the series The Dutch in Wartime that talks about the horrors the Dutch civilians endured as prisoners of the Japanese including being 'comfort women.'

Well Dr. Felton has a book titled The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese that was published in 2019.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2022 05:39 AM (S3u/T)

61 In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours of work and turn on his television and know where he stood in relation to his wife, and his children, and his neighbors, and his town, and his country, and his world. And that was good...

**

Let me add another unrelated thing that we've seen in our household and I'm sure is seen throughout the country.

When there wasn't boring crap on TV after school, when Saturday morning cartoons went away, when there was suddenly kids' programming available 24 hours a day every day? Shockingly, kids didn't want to go outside any longer. There was no need to. There was nothing to get away from.

And then smartphones and the internet hit.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 05:39 AM (K0X64)

62 https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/19/
is-america-heading-for-a-systems-collapse/

I'm thinking its all being done on purpose, collapse the system to replace it with supposed equally

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:40 AM (2JoB8)

63 G'mornin all. -14 here and still dropping.

Posted by: johnd01 at January 20, 2022 05:41 AM (uVQvU)

64 I saw a episode of that Anna I think, maybe YouTube?

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:41 AM (2JoB8)

65 45 And there is the downfall of education right there. If everybody goes to college, a college degree becomes worthless.

Pixy's First Law of Spam: Anything can become spam if you generate enough of it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 20, 2022 05:42 AM (MqQvv)

66
Somehow, because I had a less then sign the rest of that paragraph disappeared. Anyway the area my daughter lives in is trending down, while my sons county is off the charts - almost 8,000 new cases after being less than 50 for months on end. Did Typhoid AOC visit Tennessee lately?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:42 AM (dQvv7)

67 Not looked on YouTube, long long ago and younger had watched it on PBS. Apparently it ran for 30 episodes and a sequel edition.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2022 05:43 AM (S3u/T)

68
This rock has actually speeded up its spinning over the past couple of years. A mean solar day as of 2020 was 86,399.999s as opposed to 86,400.003s back the early 70s when the second was last defined.

If that continues, we'll need a negative leap second in a few years. It's not expected to, just a temporary speed-up caused by some mass redistributions which will smooth out and settle down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:44 AM (Mzdiz)

69 Assuming Apothis this year does not miss this rock

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2022 05:45 AM (S3u/T)

70 48 They send two emails. The first email provides a security code. The second, provides a link where the security code is required.... I went through the process on my email account in less than two minutes, opening the emails in the correct sequence.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:22 AM (dQvv7)

Although sometimes a second email cancels or corrects information in the first. So my rule is: read them both before taking action.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 05:47 AM (yY8d6)

71
This rock has actually speeded up its spinning over the past couple of years. A mean solar day as of 2020 was 86,399.999s as opposed to 86,400.003s back the early 70s when the second was last defined.

_________

Caused by the unvaxxed. And Trump.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 05:47 AM (/U27+)

72 Caused by the unvaxxed. And Trump.

And cow farts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2022 05:49 AM (S3u/T)

73 And, over in fascist France:

@ABCPolitics
France's parliament has approved a law that will exclude unvaccinated people from restaurants, sports arenas and other venues.

https://abcn.ws/33TfHDC

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 05:49 AM (yY8d6)

74
This rock has actually speeded up its spinning over the past couple of years. A mean solar day as of 2020 was 86,399.999s as opposed to 86,400.003s back the early 70s when the second was last defined.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:44 AM

I remember some claim a couple of years ago that a particular hurricane was so severe that it slowed down the speed of the planets rotation.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:49 AM (dQvv7)

75 Anyway the area my daughter lives in is trending down, while my sons county is off the charts - almost 8,000 new cases after being less than 50 for months on end. Did Typhoid AOC visit Tennessee lately?

*

So many variables. New HR manager at some point in the chain for county employees or healthcare admitting/employees or schools etc. probably. Same numbers, increased enthusiasm. I mean testing.

Deaths is the key, though, and I'm betting it's zero or just a handful even though there are 50,000 cases. Heck, Charlotte, NC has a population of 1.1M and only 66 deaths over the last two weeks. NC (10.5M) only had 507 deaths.

It's why there's such a huge focus on cases.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 05:51 AM (K0X64)

76 Clips if not whole shows are on YouTube, quite possibly came up as constantly looking for foreign war movies to watch.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:51 AM (2JoB8)

77 This rock has actually speeded up its spinning over the past couple of years. A mean solar day as of 2020 was 86,399.999s as opposed to 86,400.003s back the early 70s when the second was last defined.
_________

Caused by the unvaxxed. And Trump.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm not so sure H 7th. It's those damn moon rocks we brought back to earth. Them being here and not on the moon has upset the harmony in the Universe. Oh, and the last national election was honest and fair.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 05:51 AM (mD/uy)

78 @ABCPolitics
France's parliament has approved a law that will exclude unvaccinated people from restaurants, sports arenas and other venues.
**

And then it will be the unboosted when the numbers stay the same. It has to be. That's how this type of political structure works.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 05:52 AM (K0X64)

79 I really tried to read that Harper's article; alas, t'was not to be. Even I have minimum standards.
I do enjoy trying to match the Pixy Standard Unit, an internationally recognized measure of cynicism.

Posted by: The Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench at January 20, 2022 05:53 AM (Txle7)

80 It wasn't entirely voluntary.

I recall as a kid, when summer vacation arrived, Mom made it clear very, very quickly, that while I was free to hang around the house over the summer, that in exchange she was going to find chores around the house for me to do.

Playing outside from dawn to dusk became a matter of necessity. And every other kid in the suburban neighborhood was operating under similar regulations. Get out, or they'll put you to work!

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 05:53 AM (psL96)

81
Although weather porn is sometimes enjoyable for the mocking aspect. I remember some weather apocalypse movie where the characters put on snowshoes in a blizzard and trudged from Washington DC to New York City in an afternoon. Which would be about 20 miles an hour.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:54 AM (dQvv7)

82 Once the search for Kulaks starts, there will be no end to finding them.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:55 AM (2JoB8)

83 Playing outside from dawn to dusk became a matter of necessity. And every other kid in the suburban neighborhood was operating under similar regulations. Get out, or they'll put you to work!

**

Yeah, we don't put ours to work all that much beyond cleaning their rooms or taking out the trash or helping with basic things around the house, but we turn the TV and screens off and they've got to figure out some other way to exist.

We as a country are raising generations who no longer know how to be bored. That's not going to be helpful to the poor little bastards when they get older.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 05:56 AM (K0X64)

84 I'm hoping Happy Camps will be like Australia's, they seem nice.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:56 AM (2JoB8)

85 >> I remember some claim a couple of years ago that a particular hurricane was so severe that it slowed down the speed of the planets rotation.

I'm not gonna say now, but I can't see a hurricane slowing changing things. You need mass redistribution to do this (think of figure skater pulling her arms in to speed her spin. We can't change mass, but we can change our moment of intertia -- momentum conservation requires the spin speed change).

Does a hurricane do anything to permanently move that much mass around. Massive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions do. Our ability to measure time with atomic clocks is so accurate that we can see these tiny little changes in the earth's rotational speed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 05:57 AM (Mzdiz)

86 80 I recall as a kid, when summer vacation arrived, Mom made it clear very, very quickly, that while I was free to hang around the house over the summer, that in exchange she was going to find chores around the house for me to do.

Playing outside from dawn to dusk became a matter of necessity. And every other kid in the suburban neighborhood was operating under similar regulations. Get out, or they'll put you to work!
Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 05:53 AM (psL96)

Nice move, mom! I can picture the neighborhood moms conspiring over this.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 05:58 AM (yY8d6)

87
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2022 06:00 AM (DUIap)

88 Sundowner put the number of unvaccinated heathens at 30 million, I would be shocked if it was that few.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:02 AM (2JoB8)

89 We often in summer were out until the 10pm curfew sounded.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:03 AM (2JoB8)

90 I'll make it 3 in a row so I have to leave
See you on the road.

Sill very sad about OM

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:04 AM (2JoB8)

91 Have a good one, Skip and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 06:05 AM (arJlL)

92
The Moon plays a big role in the slowing of the earth's rotational speed via a tidal spin-orbit interaction. The Moon is already in tidal lock with the Earth, keeping the same face towards the earth. The Moon is rotating, once per month, or orbit.

The Earth will eventually becoming tidally locked itself. This is the main secular slowing down of the earth's rotation. As it does so, to conserve total angular momentum, the Moon will be thrown in a higher and higher orbit.

However, the Sun will likely go red giant an maybe expand to the orbit of the earth before that happens.

And, there's a small non-zero chance one of the inner planets, including the earth could be ejected from the solar system by chaotic effects before then as well.

Chaotic effects limit long term solar system orbital calculations to about 200K years or so. After that, "anything can happen" with various probabilities.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 06:05 AM (Mzdiz)

93
Skip -
Got your ice skates ready? The canal at Lock 60 is pretty much frozen. Some kids had the hockey net out yesterday and were playing.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 06:12 AM (dQvv7)

94 And, there's a small non-zero chance one of the inner planets, including the earth could be ejected from the solar system by chaotic effects before then as well.

It better not. We're planning on visiting Grand Canyon in March. Why wasn't I informed of this!?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 06:12 AM (psL96)

95 Anyone watch our 'Greatest President' yesterday. I have to admit I didn't watch, but I hear that many weren't impressed. At least he kept going and whatever they injected into him worked.

Posted by: Colin at January 20, 2022 06:15 AM (x6McI)

96 ^

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 06:15 AM (geLO8)

97 >At least he kept going and whatever they injected into him worked.

maybe they have The Re-animator on staff

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 06:17 AM (geLO8)

98 Anyone watch our 'Greatest President' yesterday.

*

He's a fantastic speaker. And the MSM was almost immediately telling us that the problem is he's too smart for people to understand and not what everyone could see with their own eyes.

The best part was when someone asked something about if he was mentally fit and he responded "I have no idea."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 06:18 AM (K0X64)

99
I looked that up. The 200K year thing is "near absolute certainty". The actual "chaotic point" were you can't be sure of anything is anywhere from 5 to 200 million years.

So, after 200K years, your dynamical orbital ephemerides go a little fuzzy (you can be certain of the seasons and stuff like that, the shape of Mars' orbit), but you're not into "anything can happen" chaos yet.

That takes a few million years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 06:18 AM (Mzdiz)

100 DevToys looks nice -- kind of like what I've had with the Unix command line for a decade.

Posted by: Con Reeder at January 20, 2022 06:19 AM (/cox6)

101 Interesting watching the UK go one way on vid issues and France the other, the EU is a strange place.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 06:21 AM (ZtIV1)

102 You guys ever play pool drunk?

This is our universe.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 20, 2022 06:21 AM (SLHqt)

103 Got emails from the VA and of course the local county administrators eager to send me N95 masks and of course test kits for something. Can't wait, but so far I haven't even ask for anything. But I probably will get them anyway. Can my mailman handle all that mail, can he get close enough to my mailbox with all the snow the plows buried it. And God forbid he exits his mail truck to reach the mailbox, he never does.

Posted by: Colin at January 20, 2022 06:22 AM (x6McI)

104 Does anyone in Montana pay attention to Tester continually voting with Schumer on everything?

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 06:23 AM (ZtIV1)

105
That takes a few million years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 06:18 AM

So you're saying it's safe to buy green bananas?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 06:24 AM (dQvv7)

106 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:24 AM (u82oZ)

107 Dementia angry Joe is the best Joe.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 06:26 AM (ZtIV1)

108 Got emails from the VA and of course the local county administrators eager to send me N95 masks

**

Holy cow I can't imagine how many compromised vets are going to put on those respirators and struggle to breathe and potentially die or damage their lungs and brains further. I hadn't thought about them and their situations as a demographic in all of this.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 06:27 AM (K0X64)

109 'Morning Salty!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:27 AM (mD/uy)

110 >> So you're saying it's safe to buy green bananas?

Pretty much.

Like the old joke of the professor giving a lecture who said the Sun would go red giant in 4 billions years. A student freaks out and panics. The professors says, hey it's 4 billion years, that's like really a long time.

The student calms down, and says, "Wheeeew, I thought you said 4 million years".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 06:27 AM (Mzdiz)

111 Good way to get them off of the funding so the money can be redirected to illegals, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 06:28 AM (K0X64)

112 Trader Joe raining good and 38 degrees now, was expecting snow.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 20, 2022 06:28 AM (wXHCE)

113 Some COVID-19 Wuhan deaths are normal mortality, maybe advanced 6 months.

Some are deliberate, in hospitals without moral compasses.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

114 >>Got emails from the VA and of course the local county administrators eager to send me N95 masks

clearly, they are Doing Something

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 06:29 AM (geLO8)

115 None of the new Government policies will work as designed.

Those lunkheads in charge have been in an echo chamber for too long, and want to keep it up.

I aver that we can have strategic, operational, and tactical surprise, if we use OPSEC, and keep glowies out of small groups.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:31 AM (u82oZ)

116 hey y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 20, 2022 06:32 AM (Adlwz)

117
Holy cow I can't imagine how many compromised vets are going to put on those respirators and struggle to breathe and potentially die or damage their lungs and brains further. I hadn't thought about them and their situations as a demographic in all of this.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 20, 2022 06:27 AM

I was looking at a covid map a couple days ago and amazed about the lowest (almost negligible) cases directly along the coast line. Does salt air kill the virus? I remembered back when my sister was an inhalation therapist and my Dad kidding her about all her 'treatment' was was salt air.

I wish our medical establishment was given free reign to try some experimental therapies. Instead it's give the patient a "Run deaths near" pill until ventilator time and then death.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 06:34 AM (dQvv7)

118 The kids I deal with at school get it. Masks are not working, nor is the propaganda.

It hurts me to see the boys sniffled. Most public schools exclude men, but here the Coaches make up for the lack. We even have dodgeball.

In Reston, Virginia, a sub that taught dodgeball was fired. Back over a decade ago.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

119
Long before the Sun goes red giant, the Earth will have experienced one of the periodic major extinction events. Time maybe just 100 million years.

In about 600 million, due to increasing luminosity of the Sun, complex life will be killed off. 99% of plant species can't do photosynthesis. After about 1.1 billion years, life of any kind will be impossible.

Long before the Sun goes red giant.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 06:34 AM (Mzdiz)

120 Wife says the live fillibuster is on.

Not sure her source, but she has some good inside contacts.

If so, let the games begin.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 20, 2022 06:35 AM (5aFbR)

121 AP: "A group of Girl Scouts tied to a southwestern Iowa cabin since it was built nearly 100 years ago is hoping to save the building from being demolished."

Sounds like elder abuse to me.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 06:36 AM (psL96)

122 publius, Rascally Rapscallion

600 million years. OK.

So we got time. Time to make algae photosynthesis stronger, and to move about the Universe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:36 AM (u82oZ)

123 >>"A group of Girl Scouts tied to a southwestern Iowa cabin since it was built nearly 100 years ago

that's a long time to be tied up
good on them for toughing it out- maybe they have merit badges for that sort of thing

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 06:38 AM (geLO8)

124 DB

Snort.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

125 Y'all notice that with all this war talk about Ukraine and Taiwan, I don't seem to recall yet a single news article about how Biden is trying to wag the dog as we saw during the Bush and Trump years?

Posted by: CDR M (Retired) at January 20, 2022 06:40 AM (K8LFj)

126 "So, after 200K years, your dynamical orbital ephemerides go a little fuzzy (you can be certain of the seasons and stuff like that, the shape of Mars' orbit), but you're not into "anything can happen" chaos yet."

Hmm... So ... What you're saying, don't cancel the trip to Wally World just yet? Still a "Go"??

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 06:40 AM (psL96)

127 Time for work preps. 1℉, with wind. Please do not tell me the wind chill.

Have a great day, everyone. Be that swan gliding serenely though choppy water. Never let them see the feet moving fast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:40 AM (u82oZ)

128
At some point in the billion year+ progression, Mars will become much warmer and earth-like. So, there's a lifeboat. For a while.

And the funny thing is, Andromeda and the Milky Way will have collided and merged before the Sun goes Nova.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 06:41 AM (Mzdiz)

129 117 Experimental therapies. Didn't PDT issue a "right to try" EO? I remember something like that and it disappeared.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2022 06:43 AM (lz5hY)

130 Our genes were carved out of past near life extinction events.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 20, 2022 06:44 AM (SLHqt)

131 >>Time for work preps. 1F, with wind. Please do not tell me the wind chill.

21F here in west metro Denver
but at least the roads are icy

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 06:46 AM (geLO8)

132 was looking at a covid map a couple days ago and amazed about the lowest (almost negligible) cases directly along the coast line.

*

Wealthy people aren't at their beach homes while it's cold.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden allows minor incursions at January 20, 2022 06:46 AM (wklve)

133
Temperatures in the 40s with a strong northerly wind. So of course the fencing is being replaced today.

Still, considering how many people have ghosted us, given us absurd quotes to get rid of us or told us the job was too small for them to do, we're happy that someone is coming out. Instead of a fence company, it's a handyman. We gave him a long list of little repairs to do around the house.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 06:46 AM (/U27+)

134 Live filibuster? Confused, I thought that flamed out yesterday

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 06:46 AM (ZtIV1)

135 Good morning. I woke up feeling a bit meh this morning. I've had everyone here at work coughing and snotting all over me for two months now - they all tested and nobody was positive. I was speechless when I first got up, but can talk now. Not really sick, just... meh.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 06:48 AM (yEBFM)

136 FBI is throwing a brushback pitch at Harry Cuellar, the democrat border rep who criticized FJB over the border crisis.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:48 AM (F4b8f)

137 G'mornin' everyone !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 20, 2022 06:50 AM (9CuDT)

138 "City Officials Warn of Geese 'Loafing' in Muscatine, Iowa"

LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 06:50 AM (psL96)

139 Recap of the big annual presser on. Retardo was really lying his ass off. Supply chain is fixed so good I couldn't get a box of saltines yesterday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2022 06:50 AM (lz5hY)

140
Experimental therapies. Didn't PDT issue a "right to try" EO? I remember something like that and it disappeared.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

If he did Biden probably EO'd it out of existence on Day One. The Brits are the only ones I see trying anything different - one case of a woman near death recovered with viagra.

There are so many possibilities for treatment it boggles my mind. Except for the very old, or those with a huge number of comorbidities there is no excuse for this to be lethal.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 06:51 AM (dQvv7)

141 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at January 20, 2022 06:51 AM (UnQlg)

142 Morning fluffy!

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 06:54 AM (yEBFM)

143 We want to encourage them to find food on their own, Jones said in the article

Yeah, sure. Now apply that to people, m'kay?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 06:54 AM (psL96)

144 I swear this rock spins faster as we are getting older
Posted by: My Life is Insanity

Seems like it doesn't it? My mom told me this would happen. . .

I can tell you why that happens, and how to reverse the process, sadly you won't believe me...

1. The brain uses the muscles in the face and scalp as part of it's timing apparatus. When it starts a "clock cycle" it waits until it gets a signal reflection back from those muscles to start the next cycle. As we age those muscles become weaker and flabby, and the "clock speed" of the brain slows down. As a result of that slowed down clock speed time seems to pass faster.

2. When you lift weights to build muscles, what you are actually doing is stressing the tendon attachment points to the bones. (Tendons attach muscles to bones). This stressing of the attachment points sends the nervous system a signal to grow the muscle. All you have to do is massage the attachment points of the facial and scalp muscles, and those muscles will grow, and time will slow back down. Get an anatomy book and find where the muscles attach to the skull.

3. Time now passes as slowly for me at age 73 as it did as a child.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 20, 2022 06:55 AM (ZEHVO)

145 "City Officials Warn of Geese 'Loafing' in Muscatine, Iowa"

What this country needs is goose midnight basketball!

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 06:56 AM (yEBFM)

146 Killing the filibuster is dead, now a """"bipartisan""""" group, including boneless pork rectum are negotiating the "talking" filibuster.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:56 AM (F4b8f)

147 Also, the stronger muscles make my face look much younger.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 20, 2022 06:57 AM (ZEHVO)

148 "City Officials Warn of Geese 'Loafing' in Muscatine, Iowa"

What this country needs is goose midnight basketball!
Posted by: Rosasharn

We need common sense geese control!!

(Ackshully, that wouldn't be a bad idea!)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:58 AM (mD/uy)

149 I can deadlift 80lb with my lower eyelids.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:58 AM (F4b8f)

150 Pain. Anger. Screaming are my facial exercises.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 20, 2022 06:59 AM (SLHqt)

151 I can deadlift 80lb with my lower eyelids.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

My granddaughter's eye rolls raise my ire to previously unimagined heights.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:59 AM (mD/uy)

152 Also, the stronger muscles make my face look much younger.
Posted by: An Observation

Trimming your shrubs makes your deck look bigger.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:59 AM (F4b8f)

153 "Unctuous" and preferably mostl likely, "Odious" are supposed to precede any mention or description of the boneless pork rectum from Utah

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 07:00 AM (psL96)

154 Morning peeps. It was supposed to snow last night and we did get some flurries in the early evening but even tho' it's dark I don't see any snow on the ground. The wind's blowing at a steady 10-15MPH making it feel like it's in the teens.

I'll be (mostly) staying inside today. Except for taking the trash bin down to the road. As one gets older the chores become tasks which them morph into projects.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 07:00 AM (BFigT)

155 145 I was over at Fort Chaffee awhile back, and a bunch of geese had an intersection blocked. Wouldn't even waddle out of the way for some troopers in a Humvee. They had to get out and give them the size 11 treatment.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2022 07:01 AM (lz5hY)

156 Trimming your shrubs makes your deck look bigger.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Okay - now I'm sitting here giggling. If I wake my wife, I'm blaming YOU CAT.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:01 AM (mD/uy)

157 I'm not into time, man

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 20, 2022 07:02 AM (HaPdD)

158 Alaska Supreme Court has validated use of no party primaries and rank choice voting in a single open primary. Murkowski will never be defeated now.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 07:06 AM (ZtIV1)

159 Fuck you pieces of shit.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 20, 2022 07:08 AM (ZEHVO)

160 The EU wants to build its own DNS that will block naughty content.

Are all former Western governments competing to see who can oppress their subjects even more than the CCP?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 07:08 AM (AFDLS)

161 45 and howling wind down here by NASA

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 07:08 AM (yrol0)

162 We need common sense geese control!!

(Ackshully, that wouldn't be a bad idea!)
Posted by: Tonypete

Morning Tonypete!

Yeah, we are about knee deep in geese in central Ohio.

Are they delicious? hmmmm...

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 07:09 AM (yEBFM)

163 Tempest

A Christian devotional on Gods presence from a man from the great state of Georgia:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8eufa5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 07:09 AM (81K7o)

164 107 Dementia angry Joe is the best Joe.
Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 06:26 AM (ZtIV1)

For some values of "best."

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 07:09 AM (vF+oW)

165 Killing the filibuster is dead, now a """"bipartisan""""" group, including boneless pork rectum are negotiating the "talking" filibuster.

That will be an ADA violation. Those with weak bladders and other physical maladies will be disadvantaged.

I thought we were all about leveling the playing field.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 07:11 AM (AFDLS)

166 Thank you FenelonSpoke, that was soothing.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 07:12 AM (yEBFM)

167 Are they delicious? hmmmm...
Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 07:09 AM

Ive worked with a few guys that just hunted them for their breast meat. I live in Mid-Ohio.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 20, 2022 07:12 AM (DB16e)

168 Are they delicious? hmmmm...
Posted by: Rosasharn

Good question - I never had it. I do know that they will get out of the way if you slowly keep the car moving contrary to popular belief.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:14 AM (mD/uy)

169 Ranked choice voting gets you Chesa Boudin.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2022 07:15 AM (KAi1n)

170 Gods of silver and Gods of gold - A devotional from the rabbis daughter at the International Assn of Christians and Jews

https://tinyurl.com/vmexja63

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 07:16 AM (81K7o)

171 Alaska Supreme Court has validated use of no party primaries and rank choice voting in a single open primary. Murkowski will never be defeated now.

It does tend to change the election process from Party funding to more direct sponsorship. Why go through Mitch McConnel and the other corrupt doorkeepers for financing?

Just have Soros / Alphabet / Meta make you an employee and arrange for your "election".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 07:16 AM (AFDLS)

172 They are both VERY greasy; the fat keeps them warm and able to float;

I prefer duck.

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:17 AM (arJlL)

173 monin yal . Teslas in Alaska and Canada are failing to heat the interiors of the vehicles. Maybe the owners can put a Little Buddy in there.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:17 AM (vrz2I)

174 Canadian truckers: "Our goal is to shut down the country until they dissolve Parliament."

1. Hope they succeed
but
2. This is bound to fail

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 07:17 AM (BFigT)

175 You are welcome, Rosasharn. May you feel the love of God with you today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 07:17 AM (81K7o)

176 monin yal . Teslas in Alaska and Canada are failing to heat the interiors of the vehicles. Maybe the owners can put a Little Buddy in there.
Posted by: f'd

Gilligan ?

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:18 AM (arJlL)

177 > I do know that they will get out of the way if you slowly keep the car moving contrary to popular belief.

I drive my school bus right at them- they take to flight immediately- they're stupid and shit everywhere, but they don't want to be crushed

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 07:19 AM (geLO8)

178 Mr Heater Little Buddy propane gas heater. It will warm your butt right up.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:19 AM (vrz2I)

179 monin yal . Teslas in Alaska and Canada are failing to heat the interiors of the vehicles. Maybe the owners can put a Little Buddy in there.

Anyone who is stupid enough to have a BEV in those sort of climates and expect to use them more than a few months out of the year deserve all of the misery that they have earned.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 07:20 AM (AFDLS)

180 I drive my school bus right at them- they take to flight immediately- they're stupid and shit everywhere, but they don't want to be crushed
Posted by: DB

It just frosts my behind to no end when someone just stops in the middle of a busy street to let them (slowly, ever so slowly) pass and blocks everyone else.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:21 AM (mD/uy)

181 I've tried to hit those damn geese with my truck. It's like trying to catch a fish with your bare hands.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:21 AM (vrz2I)

182 158 Alaska Supreme Court has validated use of no party primaries and rank choice voting in a single open primary. Murkowski will never be defeated now.
Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 07:06 AM (ZtIV1)

This is not a good outcome. It was also completely predictable.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 07:21 AM (1nooD)

183 What if they had an Olympics and nobody came?

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:23 AM (vrz2I)

184 Alaska is fucked. No party primaries is what doomed CA to permanent D supermajority. They know how to game the system so that only D makes it to the general.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 07:23 AM (F4b8f)

185 Teslas in Alaska and Canada are failing to heat the interiors of the vehicles.

*

Seems like that could kill some people.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden allows minor incursions at January 20, 2022 07:25 AM (wklve)

186 G'morning, all.

Interesting political news out of Montgomery County, Maryland.

https://tinyurl.com/373muyt6

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 07:26 AM (3D/fK)

187 Winnebago showed off a new electric RV, 125 mi range. That's a long trip for the snowbirds. I'm sure it's lower if you have to heat it on your way south too. Should be no problem finding a charging station every 100 miles huh?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 20, 2022 07:26 AM (HaPdD)

188 Post 177 My husband is a school bus driver. He doesn't see geese but out in the field. Your post made me laugh, DB. Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 07:26 AM (81K7o)

189 Teslas in Alaska and Canada are failing to heat the interiors of the vehicles.

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Seems like that could kill some people.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden allows minor incursions

Unless....the owners get St. Bernards and feed them only beans.....

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:27 AM (arJlL)

190 Winnebago showed off a new electric RV, 125 mi range
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Hahaha

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden allows minor incursions at January 20, 2022 07:28 AM (wklve)

191 Well yeah.

Tyler Selvig explained in a tweet that the heat stopped working in his Model Y while temperatures had dropped to -40F.

'Our Model Y could have killed my family today when the heat stopped working in -40c Called service and the reset and auto didn't fix. Hour away from any service,' reads the tweet.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:28 AM (vrz2I)

192 "Winnebago showed off a new electric RV, 125 mi range"

Wow that would get you to a State park next county over where you could plug in and charge up for the trip home.

A trailer full of batteries would at least double the range.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:31 AM (vrz2I)

193 Our Model Y could have killed my family today when the heat stopped working in -40c

Heat is now a $5000 subscription

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 07:32 AM (F4b8f)

194 > Interesting political news out of Montgomery County, Maryland.

I grew up in Montgomery County, MD. The name "Mandel" rings a bell.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 07:32 AM (BFigT)

195 I had a 1966 VW Squareback that had non-functioning heat. Some of those MN morning required heat. At least it was a lot cheaper than a Tesla.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 20, 2022 07:33 AM (flINI)

196 Teslas apparently use a heat pump for a heater. Those work really well when there is heat to pump.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:33 AM (vrz2I)

197 Winnebago showed off a new electric RV, 125 mi range

Wow. For people who like to camp in their driveways.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 07:34 AM (yEBFM)

198 "Our Model Y could have killed my family today when the heat stopped working in -40c "

New Tesla models will come with kerosene space heaters.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 07:34 AM (MxEKc)

199 "Wow that would get you to a State park next county over where you could plug in and charge up for the trip home. "

Most Motor Homes are equipped with an onboard generator, for when camping with no external power available.

Just recharge it as you go.

Sort of like the Tesla dragging a diesel generator behind it to charge it.

Stupid?
Sure, but what the heck.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 07:34 AM (3D/fK)

200 Teslas apparently use a heat pump for a heater. Those work really well when there is heat to pump.
Posted by: f'd

An engineer from CA wouldn't understand that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 07:34 AM (F4b8f)

201 Sidebar item on facial recognition for IRS docs. Where is the ACLU? So don't need a picture id to vote, but need one to pay taxes. Madness

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 07:34 AM (ZtIV1)

202 Our Model Y could have killed my family today when the heat stopped working in -40c Called service and the reset and auto didn't fix. Hour away from any service,' reads the twat.

No... YOU almost killed your family, because YOU think a car powered by a shitload of flashlight cells is a reasonable idea in January. In Canada. Have to go to school for a long time to get that stupid.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 07:34 AM (psL96)

203
Tyler Selvig explained in a tweet that the heat stopped working in his Model Y while temperatures had dropped to -40F.

'Our Model Y could have killed my family today when the heat stopped working in -40c Called service and the reset and auto didn't fix. Hour away from any service,' reads the tweet.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:28 AM

Mix of Fahrenheit and Celsius. Wait a minute - they equal each other.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 07:34 AM (dQvv7)

204 "Heat is now a $5000 subscription
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy "

Tesla says a firmware update will fix it.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM (vrz2I)

205 -40 Celsius = -40 Fahrenheit

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM (1nooD)

206 New Tesla models will come with ~~kerosene~~ charcoal space heaters.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM (3D/fK)

207 "Unctuous" and preferably mostl likely, "Odious" are supposed to precede any mention or description of the boneless pork rectum from Utah

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There are some words, no matter how many times I look up their definitions, that I can't seem to remember their meaning. Unctuous is one of those words.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM (sVtYq)

208 201 Sidebar item on facial recognition for IRS docs. Where is the ACLU? So don't need a picture id to vote, but need one to pay taxes. Madness
Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem

There is zero chance the govt isnt going to use this system for further fascism

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM (lCui1)

209 146 boneless pork rectum
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:56 AM (F4b8f)

?

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM (vF+oW)

210 boneless pork rectum =Mitt Rumney

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 07:36 AM (F4b8f)

211 195 Heh. Back when I was into VWs, I sold a beetle to a friend. Early 60s model, gas heater. He defeats the heater timer, leaves it running while getting drunk in the local bar. Heater exhaust pipe caught the right front tire on fire.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2022 07:37 AM (lz5hY)

212 "Most Motor Homes are equipped with an onboard generator, for when camping with no external power available. "

I'm not going to figure it out right now but I bet it takes more than 6KW to keep a motorhome moving.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:37 AM (vrz2I)

213 You fellas can all go STRAIGHT to Hades... Gosh darn it

Posted by: Mittens Rombley at January 20, 2022 07:37 AM (flINI)

214 21F here in west metro Denver
but at least the roads are icy
Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022

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I'm hoping we'll see enough icing on the roads tomorrow that I can call my boss and say, "Can't make it in! Have to work from home!"

Sadly for me -- and luckily for all the hapless Lousy-ana drivers who can't drive in the dry, let alone the wet -- it probably won't ice in the city.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:38 AM (txdEq)

215 There are some words, no matter how many times I look up their definitions, that I can't seem to remember their meaning. Unctuous is one of those words.

Right - so just think of Mitt Romney, and you got it.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 07:38 AM (psL96)

216 Looks like we had another mass shooting in B'More

https://tinyurl.com/29ybmfw3

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 07:39 AM (3D/fK)

217 You fellas can all go STRAIGHT to Hades... Gosh darn it
Posted by: Mittens Rombley at January 20, 2022 07:37 AM (flINI)

You just know that phony bastard drinks like a fish and cusses like a sailor with tourette's when there's no cameras around.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:39 AM (6FeV1)

218
Heat pumps are good to around 40 Fahrenheit in my area. Below that useless. There are some newer models with a new refrigerant which claim to be good down to 5 degrees Fahrenheit but in time that refrigerant will be found to kill snail darters or some such.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 07:39 AM (dQvv7)

219 The motorhome will come with a 500hp CAT Diesel to drive an 80kw generator to recharge the battery.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 07:39 AM (F4b8f)

220 Elon be like, "they hate it when there is no heat and they hate it when these things catch fire, make up your minds people!"

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 07:39 AM (ZtIV1)

221 I had a heat pump in my house in DE. It sucked balls below 40. Would give Kamala a run for ber money.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 07:40 AM (F4b8f)

222 6KW to keep a motorhome moving.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:37 AM (vrz2I)

A kW is in the ballpark of one horsepower. Less than a factor of ten off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:41 AM (6FeV1)

223 There are some words, no matter how many times I look up their definitions, that I can't seem to remember their meaning. Unctuous is one of those words.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022

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Think of "extreme unction," which as I understand it involves anointing the dying person with oil of some kind. Slippery and possibly greasy. Perfect word for a car salesman, or for Romney.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:41 AM (txdEq)

224 Never push the emergency heat button.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM (CKzTZ)

225 Baltimore using "violence interrupters" on its streets. Public policy via SNL

Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM (ZtIV1)

226
I'm not going to figure it out right now but I bet it takes more than 6KW to keep a motorhome moving.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:37 AM (vrz2I)

It's to run the appliances and lights in the RV, not provide motive power.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM (/U27+)

227 I have a heat pump in my townhouse. The renters call me ALL THE TIME complaining about being cold. I think I am gonna sell the damn thing.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM (flINI)

228 Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM
(1nooD)

That hash keeps causing stampedes. Very dangerous.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM (vrz2I)

229 "I'm not going to figure it out right now but I bet it takes more than 6KW to keep a motorhome moving."

Cover the roof with solar panels.
And add a wind turbine.

Come on guys...this is gonna work!!
Trust me!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM (3D/fK)

230 Emergency heat drives an iron spike through the battery cell.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 07:43 AM (F4b8f)

231 "Looks like we had another mass shooting in B'More

https://tinyurl.com/29ybmfw3
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

MAGA strikes again no doubt. I see one of the victims was a Safe Street Worker, sort of a street counselor to defuse gun violence. Another great lib idea ruined by reality.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 07:43 AM (MxEKc)

232 Looks like we had another mass shooting in B'More

https://tinyurl.com/29ybmfw3
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Hahaha

One of the victims was a "safe streets worker" (you know how we joked about them sending social workers to get killed? That)

From the article :
"The city's Safe Streets program aims to reduce gun violence and homicides using" violence interrupters." Members are trained in conflict mediation, counseling and mentorship."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden allows minor incursions at January 20, 2022 07:44 AM (wklve)

233 That's hilarious.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden allows minor incursions at January 20, 2022 07:44 AM (wklve)

234 Come on guys...this is gonna work!!
Trust me!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM (3D/fK)

Man.. a motorhome with a jib and mainsail.... tacking down the interstate... now i want one!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:44 AM (6FeV1)

235 NOOD JJ

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (sVtYq)

236 I've got 2 heat pumps and they are great but I'm in Georgia. We rarely use the strip heat.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (vrz2I)

237 FeSpouse had a Datsun that was about ten years old at the time in the mid 80s. He had to go up the turnpike which is a terrible road with lots of big triucks going fast. He had some little gadget that blew hot air into his windshield and made a hole just about the size of a fist. So he drove through snow and ice storms like this. We are blessed that he survived since at the time he couldn't afford to get it fixed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (Wqtnu)

238 Come mock the slanties before he fixes it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (EjmvJ)

239 I have a heat pump in my townhouse. The renters call me ALL THE TIME complaining about being cold. I think I am gonna sell the damn thing.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 20, 2022

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Yesterday I was looking over house listings on Zillow for Virginia. I checked the box "must have A/C," but most of the listings said "heat pump." Does that work in hot, humid conditions? If not, and it also doesn't work below 40 F., why would you have it (aside from, I guess, it's cheaper to run)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM (txdEq)

240 234 And a giant industrial fan on the back to fill the sails.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM (lz5hY)

241 Well... He did interrupt the violence by taking a bullet probably meant for someone else. That's a policy success.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM (flINI)

242 Thomas Sowell said "Liberalism is replacing what works, with what sounds good."

Now, it is true, that the Police are not in the business of being mental health therapists.

But I predict that giving guns to social workers will be a debacle of epic proportion, and that's what they will have to do. If the solutions were easy, we wouldn't have these problems in the first place. All these lunatics talk about "failure of the imagination" and all this other BS. They wouldn't last 5 minutes.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM (psL96)

243 Sidebar item on facial recognition for IRS docs. Where is the ACLU? So don't need a picture id to vote, but need one to pay taxes. Madness
Posted by: Indignatio Vindicatorem

There is zero chance the govt isnt going to use this system for further fascism

Look to see if you have the official Yellow Star on your government ID. If you do, your face is already in the system.

Fun facts though. Having your identify photo taken then losing a lot of weight on a low carb diet makes your facial ID fail. Changes a lot of the defining characteristics.

Thing is, facial ID isn't anywhere as good as fingerprint or iris or retina sans.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM (AFDLS)

244 I see one of the victims was a Safe Street Worker, sort of a street counselor to defuse gun violence. Another great lib idea ruined by reality.
Posted by: Ripley

I read the article and laughed out loud. Am I evil?

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM (yEBFM)

245 Come mock the slanties before he fixes it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (EjmvJ)

Wow, dude. Racist much?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:47 AM (6FeV1)

246 "Does that work in hot, humid conditions?"

Yes that's the best condition for a heat pump. Ours work well until the temp gets into to the 20s. That's when the more expensive electric strip heat kicks in. Doesn't happen often here and our bills are much lower than when we had gas furnaces.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:48 AM (vrz2I)

247
Yesterday I was looking over house listings on Zillow for Virginia. I checked the box "must have A/C," but most of the listings said "heat pump." Does that work in hot, humid conditions? If not, and it also doesn't work below 40 F., why would you have it (aside from, I guess, it's cheaper to run)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM

Heat pump can be either heating, or cooling. Fairly cheap to run. Cooling wise - they become pretty worthless at 90 degrees and above. Heating wise - pretty worthless at 40 degrees and below. In Virginia you can have both of those temperature extremes.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 07:51 AM (dQvv7)

248 "Cooling wise - they become pretty worthless at 90 degrees and above"

Not so. I'm in Georgia and the modern ones work great past 100 and down to below 30.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:54 AM (vrz2I)

249
Not so. I'm in Georgia and the modern ones work great past 100 and down to below 30.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:54 AM

How new is yours? I've read of the new refrigerant but thought it was still down the road.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 07:56 AM (dQvv7)

250 165 Killing the filibuster is dead, now a """"bipartisan""""" group, including boneless pork rectum are negotiating the "talking" filibuster.

My hope is that the word "bipartisan" ultimately becomes as widely loathsome an epithet as "pedophile."

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 07:56 AM (H8QX8)

251 "Cooling wise - they become pretty worthless at 90 degrees and above"
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Not so. I'm in Georgia and the modern ones work great past 100 and down to below 30.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022

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If I move to an area where those extremes happen, I'd probably do well to have at least one window A/C unit for the summer, and some kind of gas heat for winter, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (txdEq)

252 "How new is yours? "

Both are pretty new. One is 3 and the other about 6. I got the higher efficiency models.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (vrz2I)

253 "How new is yours? "

Both are pretty new. One is 3 and the other about 6. I got the higher efficiency models.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022

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Are they cheaper to buy and install than central A/C units?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 08:01 AM (txdEq)

254 "Are they cheaper to buy and install than central A/C units?"

No but you don't have to have a furnace.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 08:05 AM (vrz2I)

255
Virginia in my opinion is a four season state with a little bit longer summer, and a little bit shorter winter. Heat pump should work well except in the extremes of summer or winter.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (dQvv7)

256 Virginia in my opinion is a four season state with a little bit longer summer, and a little bit shorter winter. Heat pump should work well except in the extremes of summer or winter.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022

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It's the exceptions that scare me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 08:24 AM (txdEq)

257 From the disinformation article, because it bears repeating:

However well-intentioned these professionals are, they don't have special access to the fabric of reality.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at January 20, 2022 08:33 AM (ezpv1)

258 205 -40 Celsius = -40 Fahrenheit
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM (1nooD)

I did not know that!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (vF+oW)

259 228 Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 07:35 AM
(1nooD)

That hash keeps causing stampedes. Very dangerous.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:42 AM

Wow!

Posted by: m at January 20, 2022 08:53 AM (vF+oW)

260 On the very day that McAfee announced their new name (Trellix) they release a daily DAT update bomb which causes a 100% CPU spike on Linux servers. Espionage? Mwahahahaha....

Posted by: johnnyjava at January 20, 2022 09:50 AM (JktDe)

261 "I should point out, I'm not "anti-intellectual". Far from it, in fact I probably trend towards a kind of elitism, even if not a member. And I'm weird - I really do want what's best for society."

One of the biggest lies of our time - and one of the most destructive - is the idea that self-proclaimed "intellectuals" have a monopoly on the intellect. My family straddles class divisions - my mother's brother taught biochemistry at Harvard, and my father's brother ran a bowling alley in Fond du Lac - and I can tell you from experience that intelligence, as defined by the ability to analyze complex problems rationally, is spread across the board. I will say, too, that some of the most credulous people I've known are in academia and government, the reason being that they only talk to each other - and as any engineer will tell you, positive feedback is always destructive.

Posted by: Nemo at January 20, 2022 12:01 PM (S6ArX)

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