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Overnight Open Thread [03/28/2022]
Inflation is repudiation.-- Calvin Coolidge
There is only one place where inflation is made: that's in Washington...in response to pressures from the people at large...The voting public...ask their congressmen to enact goodies in the form of spending, but they are unhappy about having taxes raised to pay for those goodies.-- Milton Friedman
Inflation...sooner or later makes a more extensive inflation inevitable then that which policy was intended to prevent. It does so by drawing more and more workers into the kind of jobs which depend on continuing or even accelerating inflation.-- Friedrich August von Hayek
Social imbalance reflects itself in inability to enforce laws, including significantly those which protect and advance basic social justice, and in failure to maintain and improve social services...Over much of the world, there is a rough and not accidental correlation between the strength of indigenous Communist parties or the frequency of revolutions and the persistence of inflation.-- John Kenneth Galbraith
MIT recently decided to bring back standardized testing, and while their reasoning was redolent with academic Newspeak, I think it is pretty obvious why they did it. The SAT (and the ACT) show very uncomfortable things about our society; namely that minorities, in particular blacks, do much worse on them. And kids from wealthy and successful families tend to do better as well. And let us not forget those pesky Asians with their white-supremacist ideas about hard work and studying instead of playing video games! They do the best...even better than whites. You Aren't Actually Mad at the SATs: you're mad at what they reveal
[Hat Tip: Jay Guevara] And what they reveal (among other things) is that different ethnic groups value different things. Notice I said "groups." Because statistics describe populations, not individuals. I have met plenty of dumb Asians and plenty of dumb Jews (I am related to a few), and plenty of bright blacks. My experience with Pacific Islanders and Native Americans (the other groups who do poorly on the SAT) is vanishingly small, but I imagine it would be much the same. But it is what groups value that is important, because they will get more of it. Make scholarship and intellectual growth important and soon your kids will be doing well in school. Not all of them, but more of them. And if you value the ability to hit a curve and move to your left and cutting back and breaking tackles and Call of Duty scores more than differential equations and the sonnets of William Shakespeare? Well, guess what! You will be getting halfbacks and shortstops and couch potatoes, and not doctors and engineers. There are other factors in play, but as a famously misunderstood book called "The Bell Curve" explained, people are distributed according to intelligence on a normal distribution, and it is impossible to predict an individual's position on that curve. Imagine sitting down for a chat with Thomas Sowell and Ben Carson. Then compare it to a conversation with Maizie Hirono and Joe Biden.
From commenter "creeper" comes a pretty amusing and interesting video about lifting Chicago. Yeah...that's nuts, but worth a watch.
I was going to rant and rave about a Daily Kos headline I saw today: "Most Americans live around polluted waters, breathe unclear air," but then I decided that 1) I didn't want to give them the clicks, and B) it was too fvcking stupid to read in depth. So mostly I want to ask the readers of a certain age (29!) if they remember how damned dirty and polluted America was in the 1970s and 1980s, and how incredible a transformation we have made. Kos is obviously full of shit...a huge amount of the data being touted by the article and by our government fear mongers at the EPA is based on increasingly more sensitive tests and tightened maximum levels for chemicals and particulates. America is clean, and we are lucky to live in such a marvelous place!
17 minutes of lighting and smoking cigars! I'm not sure whether I am horrified at the pomposity or fascinated by a ritual that does slow down time and force one to enjoy the little things.
And a little bit of Dildo's taste in music. Eclectic, and probably ignorant of a lot of different kinds of music, but I know what I like. Mining For Gold by the Cowboy Junkies, and right into their cover of Lou Reed's Sweet Jane. John Mayall doing Room To Move. The Who, from their second best rock opera doing Tommy Can You Hear Me. But this is better: Christmas And Cat Stevens doing Wild World. Great song writer, he could play guitar and "[t]hat said, he could DIAF and I would laugh and laugh at him."* And let's finish with Jay And The Americans doing Come A Little Bit Closer Or maybe that Beethoven guy! Murray Perahia and Neville Mariner doing the 5th Piano Concerto *Garrett
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Iris at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (6lKe4)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (m+yM6)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (YglAn)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (iPbC0)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 29, 2022 10:01 PM (iPbC0)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:00 PM (m+yM6)
That statement implies he has a mind...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:01 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 29, 2022 10:02 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: wing at March 29, 2022 10:02 PM (PlW9M)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 29, 2022 10:02 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:03 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:03 PM (m+yM6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 29, 2022 10:03 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 29, 2022 10:03 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 10:04 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:04 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: mala at March 29, 2022 10:04 PM (fita1)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:04 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:05 PM (bNcG+)
America is clean, and we are lucky to live in such a marvelous place!
The air quality and water quality rules of Mainland China reflect the old saying, "Of course there are no smoke alarms in Hell"
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 10:05 PM (xhaym)
overcome Deep State.
They did this in '74 - 11.4% inflation
And they are doing it now - 7.+% inflation
and rising.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:06 PM (m+yM6)
Milton Friedman nailed the cause of inflation. Why will the so-called ruling class not listen? (Rhetorical question, no response necessary.)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:06 PM (XTpZy)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 29, 2022 10:03 PM (U2p+3)
Absolutely!
A Martini (gin of course) made with Dolin vermouth, then a couple of glasses of a nice Aussie Shiraz, which accompanied an excellent Sous Vide pork chop!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:07 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Infidel at March 29, 2022 10:07 PM (ou23q)
Total coincidence.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 29, 2022 10:07 PM (StY0w)
They are now in the 'using problems to secure more power' business.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 29, 2022 10:08 PM (LKTKP)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 29, 2022 10:08 PM (F0YaR)
Now this is not something I remember personally, rather what my mother told me about growing up in Milwaukee in the 30's and 40's. They did laundry the old fashioned way, and hung it up to dry, but she said you *never* hung anything white, or even light colored, outside because it would turn black from all the coal soot in the air, day and night. I'm sure almost every major industrial city of the era was the same.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:09 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: mala
I wonder if "The Bell Curve" was one of the first rigorous studies of an uncomfortable truth that was then pushed to the back of the stacks, so to speak.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:09 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:03 PM (m+yM6)
* * * *
Show me the lava! Or ash. Anything...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:10 PM (XTpZy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:10 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (n/szn)
Posted by: huerfano at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (MzKgG)
Green appliances? Braless women?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (LKTKP)
Unless you're talking online content. Way filthier now.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (UUBmN)
I grew up in NE Ohio - home of the Cuyahoga River and lived and worked around steel mills from the 50's to the 70s. Oh yeah, I remember.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 29, 2022 10:12 PM (StY0w)
Part of the way the left keeps itself going is to keep people ignorant of the past, but more importantly unable to tie things together.
Ask a Kossite "Was the Clean Air Act" a success? And the answer you'll get is yes. Ask them "So the air is cleaner now then before right?" And...they'll not know how to respond. Because the enviro-acopolypse is always just around the corner no matter how many laws we pass that are always sold as solving the issue.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 10:12 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:10 PM (XTpZy)
It was created at dawn.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:12 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: mala at March 29, 2022 10:04 PM (fita1)
Good point. People who were uncomfortable with the undeniable facts looked for facile points to make about the authors and their theories.
Fast forward 25 years and nothing has changed!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:12 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
----
I think she's considered more of a Pacific Islander
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (UUBmN)
Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First freedom, and then glory; when that fails,
Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last;
And History, with all its volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
Posted by: Byron at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (vrz2I)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: LRob in TN at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (jboH3)
The Black Book of Communism was another.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 29, 2022 10:14 PM (n/szn)
But yeah we dare not say this stuff. It must be cuz 1619 and shit.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 29, 2022 10:14 PM (StY0w)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (V13WU)
Her hands were cold!
Posted by: Mrs O'leary's Cow at March 29, 2022 10:14 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:14 PM (V13WU)
Last I was there it's a little brown on horizon and blue overhead. We're taxed enough at most in country. Stop there. Good enough.
Posted by: torabora at March 29, 2022 10:14 PM (KMK7G)
Posted by: Preznit Joey B. and/or "advisors" at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (QzkSJ)
* * * *
I remember visiting relatives in Pittsburgh before the 1970s and again in the 1980s. Huge difference in pollution - like night and day.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (XTpZy)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (0OP+5)
I think that album was the first one I ever bought.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (m+yM6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (U2p+3)
I grew up in NE Ohio - home of the Cuyahoga River and lived and worked around steel mills from the 50's to the 70s. Oh yeah, I remember.
Posted by: Tonypete
I grew up in NW PA (70s-80s). I 'memba.
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (UUBmN)
Japanese father and Japanese-American mother.
She has no excuse!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:16 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:15 PM (XTpZy)
Perhaps it was...
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (p40Pc)
Posted by: huerfano at March 29, 2022 10:11 PM (MzKgG)
So just look at her!
Duh.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (evAgx)
Thanks for the ONT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (F/J1O)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:16 PM (XIJ/X)
You cannot excuse someone there is no excuse for.
Posted by: Words of Wisdom at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: University of Miklos, applying for a bog-ole booty ass Federal Grant at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (QzkSJ)
Santa Clara valley was the same, just not as thick most days. There were times I couldn't see the foothills that I could walk to in a few minutes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:13 PM (UUBmN)
Japanese father and Japanese-American mother.
She has no excuse!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:16 PM (XIJ/X)
* * * *
Idiocy has no race.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:18 PM (XTpZy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:10 PM (FVME7)
Good point.
I should put that in the post.
Oh...wait...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:18 PM (XIJ/X)
--President Brandon
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:19 PM (V13WU)
I'm fortunate to live on one of the most beautiful and bountiful bodies of water in the northeast. But in the 1960s it had become a polluted dump and was in danger of becoming much worse. It was too the point that eating seafood from the bay was kind of an iffy proposition.
In 1970 a citizens group started a campaign called Save The Bay and through real grassroots and volunteer work they turned it around completely to the point where Narragansett Bay produces some of the best shellfish and inshore seafood in the country and nobody even gives a second thought to swimming in the water.
And the tide hasn't risen an inch. Global warming my ass.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 10:19 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Tonypete
I will play Devil's advocate: How much of that is due to us outsourcing raw material manufacturing entirely? Is this a net positive or negative? I'd come down on the latter.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:19 PM (ZDXYb)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 29, 2022 10:19 PM (BjGT6)
*sheaths ka-bar*
damnit.
*forges waiver*
bif is allowed to have his knife out of the sheath.
- bif's mom
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:20 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:20 PM (evAgx)
But the CO2 thang is pure evil, and lies. The end of nuclear power hurts us, the war on coal maybe the worst (coal still increasing in China/India ... but we get shut off from cheap energy, which translates to a vibrant economy ... good for the low mid class especially.
But they Hate Us. Globalism means submission of the little people worker class ... i.e. the Majority. They control the majority with their enviro crazy lies, along with their lies of the Noble Elite Class, that pretend to only want the "Greater Good" (good only for the "Greaters" .. the pedo murderous elite.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 10:21 PM (Cus5s)
Thank you, CBD. I get kinda tired of the assumption that a person's skin color determines their intellectual capacity. I believe cultural habits have a much more significant impact. Cultural habits can change, but it's a lot more work than drifting along with the status quo.
Posted by: Emmie at March 29, 2022 10:21 PM (6RgRK)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (nxdel)
I stand corrected... see, I can admit it when I'm wrong! Don't listen to those other people!//
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (3TihK)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: mala at March 29, 2022 10:04 PM (fita1)
This. It challenged what people wanted to believe, but because they had no logical basis to refute it, they were left with shrieking "RACIST".
Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:17 PM (evAgx)
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Today, what socialism can do to sterling engineers and a competent work force.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (m+yM6)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (4I/2K)
CFCs!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:23 PM (ZDXYb)
. Posted by: IrishEi at March 29, 2022 10:23 PM (VhE0u)
Posted by: Eromero
It's a chicken/egg thing. Maybe he wanted to chop off people's body parts then found Islam.
Back in the summer of '72, some friends and I really liked the movie Harold and Maude with Cat as the soundtrack. He was good.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:23 PM (FVME7)
Los Angeles air in the late 70s, early 80s, was brown! Sometime later, Honda produced a small engine that emitted cleaner air than it took in, in SoCal.
Just drive a fleet of cars with those engines in LA and PRESTO!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2022 10:23 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:23 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Javems at March 29, 2022 10:24 PM (AmoqO)
Little Martha, most lovely guitar riffs. Thank you once again for Allmans!
You surely do kick it most every night
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 29, 2022 10:24 PM (9uqbB)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:20 PM (evAgx)
That and Jessica are incredible pieces of music.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:24 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:24 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2022 10:25 PM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: Lirio100 at March 29, 2022 10:25 PM (uFOGo)
18-1, thanks for your reading suggestions. The Eastern European situation is complex and can't be reduced to a hashtag. I appreciate you sharing the starting points!
Posted by: Moki at March 29, 2022 10:25 PM (JrN/x)
I love your music choices. Don't you EVER give me shit about being a hippie chick
Berkeley boy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 29, 2022 10:25 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:25 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:26 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (nxdel)
Hi Jewells! How's the weather up there? I hear it's been kind of rumbly.
Posted by: Dr. T at March 29, 2022 10:26 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:23 PM (FVME7)
Weird movie, but strangely appealing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:26 PM (XIJ/X)
I gotta go finish content...love ya all, and of course MH!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 29, 2022 10:26 PM (9uqbB)
And the cool cars.
Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2022 10:25 PM (F6Xpw)
Plymouth Superbirds!
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 10:26 PM (4I/2K)
We will also need energy from fossil fuels, and I sure hope we get that cranked up and going again soon!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:27 PM (XTpZy)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:27 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: JackStraw
It's toying with us.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:27 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:28 PM (m+yM6)
"Unusual side effect"? Try "intended result". The entire point of the project was to reverse the Chicago river
Posted by: Chuck C at March 29, 2022 10:28 PM (EughT)
There was also a DuPont dynamite plant that had a reddish blueish purple creek running out of it. Now clean.
Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2022 10:29 PM (z4BwD)
I am ashamed to say I did not. I'll have to drive it twice tomorrow to make up for that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:29 PM (SchxB)
I gotta go finish content...love ya all, and of course MH!
Hey! It's CBD?!
Where's Hum?!
No wonder it's crazy tonight....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 29, 2022 10:29 PM (9uqbB)
Posted by: Dr. T at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:27 PM (V13WU)
We've noted here before that the point at which most of the country started getting obese was right when most of the country started sitting in front of a keyboard all day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (evAgx)
Today was actually pretty nice. Windy but it got up to 70 degrees so I finally got all the dead crap out of my garden. Storms moving in later tonight so the rumbly stuff will start then.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (xxG/v)
Posted by: Catherine Bell curve at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (n/szn)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (mCh4j)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 29, 2022 10:29 PM (9uqbB)
That's him in the cigar lighting video....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (XIJ/X)
And the cool cars.
Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2022 10:25 PM (F6Xpw)
Plymouth Superbirds!
Posted by: Count de Monet
i want a purple road runner with the high spoiler and big ass engine. like this one, but purple. https://is.gd/xOjNJS
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Catherine Bell curve
You can't fool me Catherine! You had/have more than one!!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
I remember when you entered Birmingham's Jones Valley from the North on US31, you actually descended into a fog of steel mill smog.
Now the air is clean, but the steel mills are gone.
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2022 10:32 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 29, 2022 10:32 PM (9uqbB)
Posted by: Javems at March 29, 2022 10:32 PM (AmoqO)
Christina Sommers
@CHSommers
Oh no! @Forbes has an article by a critical race theorist who says white supremacy caused Will Smith to hit Chris Rock. Not a satire. It's real. "While Talking About Will Smith's Behavior, Don't Forget To Also Talk About The System That Helped Create It"
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Wonder if I could get him to slap Whoopsie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:33 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:33 PM (XTpZy)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
Hanging out watching tv.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:33 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (TdMsT)
Now the air is clean, but the steel mills are gone.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
Remember American art for a long time depicted progress and strength by showing billowing smokestacks?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
Hanging out watching tv.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:33 PM (7bRMQ)
Pong! It's the latest craze.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Dr. T at March 29, 2022 10:30 PM (tp+tP)
Cuyahoga River.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (mc/Yb)
Remember stop and go traffic exhaust air?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:28 PM (m+yM6)
I don't know how much removing lead from gasoline helped with reducing visible air pollution, I think that was mostly unburned hydrocarbons and various nitrogen oxides. However, lead is a nasty toxin and leaded gasoline was a major source of it in the environment. If you think about it, putting tons of lead into gasoline so when burned in vehicles, it would spread far and wide was a really terrible idea.
Posted by: a.moron at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (F6Xpw)
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 10:35 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2022 10:32 PM (63Dwl)
I think some of the submarine nuke plants could be considered such a thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:35 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:12 PM (XIJ/X)
Stupidity is eternal!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:35 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (TdMsT)
Finally! A Moron who reads the fine print!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:35 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Don Rickles at March 29, 2022 10:35 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2022 10:32 PM (63Dwl)
* * * *
Soon...
Hopefully before the end of the decade there will be some in Idaho providing power to the National Lab there and to some cities in Utah.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:36 PM (XTpZy)
what were people doing with themselves if not hanging out on the internets ???
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
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Hanging out watching tv.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez
Diane's sittin' on Jacky's lap, he's got his hand between her knees
Jacky say, "Hey Diane, lets run off behind a shady tree
Dribble off those Bobby Brooks slacks, now do what I please"
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:36 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (4I/2K)
Maybe. I go back and forth on that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:36 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (9X60i)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (TdMsT)
{{{Ladyl}}}
Wait, what did I miss?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (hOUT3)
Hanging a towel over it is pretty much the same thing, even if it is powered on.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (SchxB)
there are different classes in those cultures, and while the upper class may excel to great degree due to greater opportunity, that does not mean the Bell Curve did not show nations as a whole had higher or lower IQs.
imo same is true of China .. of course those sent here have higher than average IQ ... not so sure the nation as a whole is higher. Do they really test an average of the 1.4B people? (no) To some degree Of Course IQ is genetic. And nations with poor nutrition, poor environment, high crime, etc. they will have lower IQs. And some of that is surely translated into genetics, over the generations.
"Wealth of Nations" (isn't that a book/study) shows Wealthy nations have higher IQ on average. We should consider how to improve poor nations, their diet, their systems .. to improve the IQ. But inbreeding or bad health or other factors will show up in the genetics.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (Cus5s)
Hanging out by the dirty water of the River Charles.
https://tinyurl.com/2s3wwdhx
Being young was way too much fun. I couldn't survive it a second time.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
well it was the 70's, so hanging out at the mall and smoking skunkweed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
Installing Linux 1.2.5 on my 486DX, for which I paid the princely sum of $2500.
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 10:38 PM (yQpMk)
I think some of the submarine nuke plants could be considered such a thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo
I believe those would be all of older design. I keep hearing NEW technology modular plants are the up and coming thing. If they are ever allowed.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2022 10:38 PM (63Dwl)
Several years ago there was an incident with the EPA someplace I can't recall. The town got its water from a small river with no polution. I think there was a fresh water spring at the very start of this little river. There were no factories, no sanitation facilities, no nothing coming into this river before it reached the town. The EPA tested the water and told the town the river was polluted and the town had to clean it up before it could use the water again.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- bitterly clinging to the deplorable life '70s style! at March 29, 2022 10:38 PM (vMM2s)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (m+yM6)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (TdMsT)
{{{Ladyl}}}
Wait, what did I miss?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (hOUT3)
{{{Hrothgar}}}
If you missed it, I'm not telling!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (4I/2K)
Maybe. I go back and forth on that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:36 PM (7bRMQ)
Galaga Rulez!
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (yQpMk)
If I remember correctly, Murray suggests that intelligence is about 80% genetic and 20% environment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (XIJ/X)
Wait, what did I miss?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
Nothing!! As Morons in good standing, it is incumbent upon us to avert our eyes at the appropriate moments if the 'ettes are disrobed.
Especially during the strip cribbage tourny in Corsicana.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:31 PM (V13WU)
I guess we know what Pete was doing....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: sockamster at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (OuH7W)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (0OP+5)
Hanging a towel over it is pretty much the same thing, even if it is powered on.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (SchxB)
Guilty...
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:40 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Javems at March 29, 2022 10:40 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: Tonypete
There's a 19th century photo of Happy Valley onto which black smoke has been crudely drawn coming out of smokestacks to show that we were a vibrant and progressive town.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:40 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 29, 2022 10:14 PM (StY0w)
It's not really "black" culture, entirely. Read Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". It's very interesting.
Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2022 10:40 PM (D/wPf)
If you hum a few bars Teh Horde may be able to figure out which song it was.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:40 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (TdMsT)
Darn it, now I have to go search the entire internet!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:40 PM (hOUT3)
Hopefully before the end of the decade there will be some in Idaho providing power to the National Lab there and to some cities in Utah.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:36 PM (XTpZy)
Karl Denninger at Market Ticker has had some interesting articles lately on the use of thorium to power nuclear plants. It's an abundant and stable source of fuel and produces way less radioactive waste than the current process
Posted by: Dr. T at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (tp+tP)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:40 PM (SchxB)
oh yeah, THAT one! That was good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (ZDXYb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (SchxB)
Especially during the strip cribbage tourny in Corsicana.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:39 PM (bNcG+)
I understand there will be strip poker in October. I will remain on the sidelines, as appropriate for the elderly!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (m+yM6)
Posted by: Dr. T at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (tp+tP)
The chinese supposedly completed the first Thorium power plant- but I have not heard anything about it since.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (ZDXYb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
don't know why i immediately thought of Clown, by Korn fror that post. not dissing you, just think we should get on with it and build the damned things.
Hey, we're recording, now start. Just fucking do it damn it!
[Click click]
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:34 PM (TdMsT)
{{{Ladyl}}}
Wait, what did I miss?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (hOUT3)
***
Need to be at the Tin Foil level of membership to get the link.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (axyOa)
Gonna practice up on cigars and when you guys see me in October you'll think I smoke a cigar like Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo.
Posted by: Eromero
In the bath tub?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (ZDXYb)
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Posted by: Big Mind at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (n/szn)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (TdMsT)
I am reliably informed that there will be strip tic-tac-toe over in the elderly and infirm corner!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (hOUT3)
If you hum a few bars Teh Horde may be able to figure out which song it was.
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yeah yeah, I know, I did a great comment. I am going to ask the person who played it...but the point was, yesterday I learned that Cat Stevens has talent and was more than the cats in the cradle guy
Posted by: sockamster at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (OuH7W)
Their cigars are legend. But I bought a "bundle" (25) of handmade sticks from a small Nicaraguan farm this past winter that were pretty good and about $2.75 a stick compared to a $25 or more Davidoff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:44 PM (mc/Yb)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (TdMsT)
I knew I should have upgraded from the tissue paper membership, but it was seemingly such a bargain!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:44 PM (mc/Yb)
You have no idea...
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (TdMsT)
Mom says "what are we going to do?".
Dad says "well, we can't spank him"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (yQpMk)
Or near any race track.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (n/szn)
And it kills catalytic converters!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (n/szn)
Celiac disease? It's a ubiquitous plague.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (ZDXYb)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:44 PM (mc/Yb)
You have no idea...
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (TdMsT)
"Fun" is an inadequate descriptive word
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:19 PM (ZDXYb)
A lot of t he older industrial plants were dirty because production was important, but a lot of what we used to call pollution is actually stuff that can be captured and used for other processing, though maybe not as profitably as using raw materials.
And cleanliness costs money too.
And sewerage too. That is a huge thing for waterways
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (hOUT3)
There will be other "activities" for "lower" members!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (hOUT3)
I think Bluebell is arranging it...if she can remember.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:47 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: boynsea at March 29, 2022 10:47 PM (sshap)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (ZDXY
I commented on this on an earlier thread. The guy they have posting pieces now is a Ukraine/ Zelensky cheerleader.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:47 PM (mc/Yb)
actually a spongiform body of an uncertain state of decay
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 10:47 PM (qfLjt)
Did a group or Russians drive into enemy territory to rape this one particular woman? Seems...pretty unlikely.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: sockamster at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (OuH7W)
Cat Stevens really was quite an artist before he chose to go muzzie. "Teaser and the Firecat" was an album I liked a lot back in the day. Same with Tea for the Tillerman.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (TdMsT)
So you're saying I should upgrade?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:43 PM (hOUT3)
Right after the strip horseshoes.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (z4BwD)
And cleanliness costs money too.
And sewerage too. That is a huge thing for waterways
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (xhaym)
Agreed, but we did not do the smart thing and modernize- we eliminated. The jobs went away and I doubt the chinese are worrying too much about their pollution except during the Olympics that they have twice a year it seems.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (ZDXYb)
There will be other "activities" for "lower" members!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (TdMsT)
not it.
piss boy, is still open y'all.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: Dr. T at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (tp+tP)
* * * *
Thorium and sodium are among the advanced fuel reactors under development. Solving the waste problem would be huge. Preliminary designs for one of the small modular reactors have been approved by the U.S. and are under review in Canada and the U.K. The developer has already found a way to increase the output for the U.S.-approved design.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 29, 2022 10:49 PM (XTpZy)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:47 PM (XIJ/X)
Remember what?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:49 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:49 PM (mc/Yb)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (ESjRY)
Maybe she was the only one left?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:49 PM (7bRMQ)
He was a fantastic guitar player. Check out Tea for the Tillerman on youtube or some other music site. Before he lost his mind he wrote great songs and was an excellent acoustic guitar player.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 10:49 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 29, 2022 10:22 PM (3TihK)
Almost like the smog coalesced into human form and settled out on the CA sidewalks.
Posted by: GWB at March 29, 2022 10:50 PM (D/wPf)
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 10:50 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 10:50 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:50 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:48 PM (TdMsT)
I'm convinced, I am signing up for the titanium membership tonight!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:51 PM (hOUT3)
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Which people? The Left it was, as they deemed it racist but then they insist in telling us that 'those people' are too dumb to get I.D.s, do standard tests, etc. so get rid of those obstacles.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 10:51 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:49 PM (mc/Yb)
You must.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 29, 2022 10:51 PM (TdMsT)
Amusingly though the FNM pretends it doesn't happen...at least to militaries they like. Remember how they made the death of Tillman from friendly fire out to be a some sort of dark conspiracy?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 10:51 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 29, 2022 10:51 PM (S3EUx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 10:51 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 10:51 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat everyday at noon
They could feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys
They fry it real crisp in dough
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (UgAdJ)
Posted by: Ladyl
Where the term 'ringer' has an unusual meaning.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (StY0w)
Posted by: Javems at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (AmoqO)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 10:49 PM (ZLI7S)
In his early days, I really liked him as an artist, but the muz affection did it for me forever!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 10:50 PM (rF64X)
Which bolsters the idea that it is impossible for everyone to be equal.
Japan has street cleaners and bums and people who can't manage the subway system.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (XIJ/X)
I am very embarrassed that I did not read the fine print.
I love what you did with the ONT!
Please pardon my stupid ignorance.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (9uqbB)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:53 PM (UUBmN)
I'm...gonna go with the latter.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 10:53 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Ladyl
Where the term 'ringer' has an unusual meaning.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 10
Or leaner.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:53 PM (mc/Yb)
They are now in the 'using problems to secure more power' business.
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That!
Concisely put.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 10:54 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 10:46 PM (V13WU)
That happened a lot in the American Civil War. I recall reading of one battle where two Federal regiments shot the hell out of each other across a little wooded ravine for nearly an hour before some officer figured out they were all on the same side.
Related; both sides tried night attacks at various times in that war; but those usually ended up with the attackers shooting more of their own men than their enemy, so everyone gave up on the idea.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:54 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 10:55 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:55 PM (XIJ/X)
Posted by: free tibet at March 29, 2022 10:55 PM (6cuy5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (ZDXY
I commented on this on an earlier thread. The guy they have posting pieces now is a Ukraine/ Zelensky cheerleader.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:47 PM (mc/Yb)
I assume any reportage about Russia versus Ukraine is bullshit propaganda until convincingly shown otherwise. It's the Propagandalympics.
Evening, all.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 29, 2022 10:56 PM (II3Gr)
But yeah we dare not say this stuff. It must be cuz 1619 and shit.
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More accurate to say black inner city culture and the new black woke culture are poison. Lots of decent black folks about.
The woke black folk say a lot of insane things that I don't think decent people of any race agree with. Same as the woke white, Asian, etc. folk.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 10:56 PM (rF64X)
The place that I eat everyday at noon
They could feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys
They fry it real crisp in dough
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (UgAdJ)
ok that's good, that's really good. I can hear it in my head now!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 10:56 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 29, 2022 10:57 PM (qAR6u)
Zactly.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 10:57 PM (mc/Yb)
Are you coming to the TXMOME this year?
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:57 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Harry Chapin at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (XIJ/X)
Thanks for your wonderful content CBD...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (9uqbB)
I lived near Princeton University when I was a kid and my best friend had an older sister who would help us sneak into some of the concerts at the school. I saw him play there but yea, once he lost his mind I lost interest.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2022 11:00 PM (ESjRY)
Not sure at this point.
I could keep things fresh by changing my nick to clique. Hmmm.....
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:00 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 10:50 PM (rF64X)
Which bolsters the idea that it is impossible for everyone to be equal.
Japan has street cleaners and bums and people who can't manage the subway system.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 10:52 PM (XIJ/X)
Even apolitical sentient beings have trouble understanding statistical distributions, but they apply across all races, nations, and religions, and every conceivable grouping. In every identifiable group there will always be brilliant people, just as there there will always be idiots!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:01 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:02 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 10:53 PM (UUBmN)
Most of the people at nudist beaches/colonies would be great disappointments to the hopeful, but I'm sure the TXMoMe will be different.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:02 PM (rF64X)
I hope you come, it was nice talking to you last year.
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 11:02 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: chique
Quite!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 11:02 PM (bNcG+)
New hotness : Trans cyclists !
"Emily Bridges, 21, will compete against the likes of five-time Olympic gold medallist Dame Laura Kenny at the National Omnium Championships on Saturday.
Bridges, who used to go by Zach rather than Emily, was the national junior cycling champion over 25 miles and was picked for the elite British Cycling senior academy in 2019. The academy is the pathway was future Olympians.
Bridges' 25-mile junior record is two minutes quicker than the senior female record, set by Hayley Simmonds."
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 11:02 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:00 PM (rF64X)
Well it appears that you nic is evolving, so do I detect expansionist plans for a new and greater chique empire.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:03 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 10:37 PM (Cus5s)
You may be thinking of Montesquieu and not Adam Smith. Montesquieu thought that the types of governments and cultures fitted the environments the people living there faced.
Wealth of nations was the seminal study of classic liberalism and considered that economies functioned best when they focused on doing what they did best and trading with other economies with other skill sets.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 11:03 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Harry Chapin at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (XIJ/X)
You're also not breathing.
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 11:03 PM (yQpMk)
I hope you come, it was nice talking to you last year.
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 11:02 PM (UUBmN)
Same here! I was recently in Austin, but it was for a funeral and for a short time. I plan to visit at some point again, and I'll hit you up - would be nice to have lunch or coffee.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:03 PM (rF64X)
But they did offer me a brand new engine, just in case the rings go later.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:03 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:01 PM (hOUT3)
Well, excepting here in the AoSHQ Commentariat where we all, all, are way above average.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 29, 2022 11:04 PM (4I/2K)
More accurate to say black inner city culture and the new black woke culture are poison. Lots of decent black folks about.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 10:56 PM (rF64X)
The Harlem Renaissance starting in the 20s really had the potential to propel Black America into equality with the rest of the US in every sense of the word. Which is why the commie cocksucker Donks had to destroy it, and LBJ's Great Society bullshit was the final bullet in it's brain.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 29, 2022 11:04 PM (KYKwc)
*turns and walks away*
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 29, 2022 11:04 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 11:05 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura)
Make and model?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:05 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: 18-1
Stonewall was extremely security conscious and never told anybody any more than they needed to know. Those Confederate pickets didn't need to know he was out front reconnoitering at twilight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:05 PM (FVME7)
Fuckin' wizardry -- Proof of time control machinery.
Can I get a few numbers from the 2022 Lotto drawings?
From April, of course. I'll responsibly buy a small Caribbean island, and invite a few favored Morons that haven't yet pissed me off to come aboard.
Don't worry, the list of invitees is quite small.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 29, 2022 11:05 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:03 PM (hOUT3)
I usually post from my phone and was too lazy to type in the same nic on my laptop (there's formatting, and that could risk an embarelling), so here we are.
But yes, I will be discussing my expansion plans with the members of my council such as yourself, most faithful Commissar.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:05 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 29, 2022 11:05 PM (UUBmN)
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My one and only visit was in September 1974. As we drove over the mountains from Nevada, we could see the brown haze (inversion) over the city and our eyes smarted somewhat. Never had that problem in Cambridge MA while I lived there.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 11:06 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 11:05 PM (V13WU)
But that wouldn't be fair...
Oh wait!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:06 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:07 PM (0OP+5)
2007 Ram 1500. 4.7 liter V8. Cheaper to get the heads done than buy a replacement engine or truck.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:07 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: runner at March 29, 2022 11:07 PM (V13WU)
*turns and walks away*
*tries to figure out how to sell Insomniac nose art.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:07 PM (0OP+5)
And LBJ and the Democrat party shut that down with The Great Society.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (XIJ/X)
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Nude beaches are like communism; very good in theory.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (FVME7)
I'll have a first draft for the mostly peaceful conquest of Iceland in the morning!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (hOUT3)
2007 Ram 1500. 4.7 liter V8. Cheaper to get the heads done than buy a replacement engine or truck.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:07 PM (SchxB)
I had a 2004 with the same engine for about 12 years, I liked that truck a lot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 29, 2022 11:09 PM (evAgx)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:10 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (hOUT3)
Fantastic! I love Iceland and would love to establish a vacation kingdom for myself and my select group of favored subjects.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:10 PM (rF64X)
They are a lie, because college admissions are now solely about demographics. My 3 spawns' average ACT score was 35. All with the "well-rounded" HS resume ostensibly beloved by colleges. Music, Varsity sports, you name it.
Still no scholarship offers fro the "best" schools.
Alas, they are white, Christian, an we sacrificed to keep them out of public schools from Day 1.
And I don't regret anything.
Posted by: RS at March 29, 2022 11:10 PM (1XDfN)
Narrator: every group got the question right in the same proportion
Posted by: sockamster at March 29, 2022 11:10 PM (OuH7W)
OK, not the reference I was trying for, but kinda applies. Competition encourages use of mental facilities, may the greater (IQ) man win. Maybe I was just thinking of The Bell Curve or some follow up ... that showed the higher average IQ, the greater success of the nation.
Economic wars are currently the highest way to leverage war .. but certainly the factors China uses are powerful, coercive bribery and infiltration of nations by building their infrastructure, under conditions of allowing infiltration of systems. USA has tended toward malevolent generosity, China/Iran/Russia understand evil infiltration and control. (As does our own DeepState against our free Republic)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 11:10 PM (Cus5s)
Mine's been good for the most part. Little problems here and there, but as long as I had jumper cables it's never left me stranded.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:12 PM (SchxB)
Narrator: every group got the question right in the same proportion
Posted by: sockamster at March 29, 2022 11:10 PM (OuH7W)
I took my SATs in *Africa*. I studied for it, like everyone else who was taking it there. I've always despised the excuse of it being racially biased. Read a book.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:12 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (XIJ/X)
The abuse of power by the Democrat party has to go down as one of the greatest tragedies to ever befall this nation!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:12 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 10:58 PM (rF64X)
"Three on a road flare" has always been bad luck
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 11:13 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:13 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: A Hairless Mouse at March 29, 2022 11:13 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:12 PM (hOUT3)
How different might things have been had the Federals hung all Democrat politicians after The Late Unpleasantness and outlawed the party.
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 11:14 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:14 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:15 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (XIJ/X)
The abuse of power by the Democrat party has to go down as one of the greatest tragedies to ever befall this nation!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten
I'd say that the road to hell was paved with good intentions but I don't think they had good intentions. They wanted a captive voting block they could exploit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:15 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:16 PM (SchxB)
You forgot butter and honey for them biscuits, but you are spot on!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:16 PM (hOUT3)
I, uh, learned stuff. I guess it is forbidden stuff.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 29, 2022 11:16 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 11:03 PM (yQpMk)
I am so!
Posted by: Harry Chapin Carpenter at March 29, 2022 11:16 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:14 PM (0OP+5)
I put on 5 lbs just reading that. But it was a happy 5 lbs.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:17 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:14 PM (0OP+5)
Gramma Aspirin Factory made bestest squirrel.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 11:17 PM (mc/Yb)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:18 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: Pete Bog at March 29, 2022 11:18 PM (Jzz++)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist(FVME7)
And it just seemed like too much work for decent people of all races to unite and shut this crap down, so NOW we are seeing the results of inattention to fundamental evil and allowing it to flourish!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:19 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Javems at March 29, 2022 11:19 PM (AmoqO)
*tries to figure out how to sell Insomniac nose art.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:08 PM (SchxB)
Paint scantily clad women on it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 11:19 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 11:19 PM (ZDXYb)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer
I think the problem is values (often arising from culture). The sad thing is that you can't make people stop wanting what they want or start wanting what you think they should want.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:20 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:20 PM (rF64X)
What we lack is kids who can think critically. We don't teach that skill nearly enough anymore.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 11:20 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: apple butter and pancakes at March 29, 2022 11:20 PM (cupoy)
We all should acquire such knowledge and skill, and practice such, diligently.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 29, 2022 11:21 PM (QzJWU)
thanks, yeah, I'm lacking in that broad spectrum ... but I don't know Montesquieu either. I maybe was thinking of another Murray work, idk. (High IQ nations are wealthier)
I appreciate those well read enough to have such broad spectrum understanding. (usually the vodka makes me smarter, there is a glitch in the system)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 11:21 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:15 PM (9otr5)
Quasi-Woke
Wonder if their reputation will be enough to give them a pass...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:21 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: azjaeger at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (3/XaG)
Then we went to the engineering school's program. Not in these exact words, but they said "everything that guy just said is bullshit."
They said their average score was 1380 and you needed to work hard.
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (9otr5)
Wow.
Little bastards chew up house and car wiring, fair's fair.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (rF64X)
Suffice to say it's way moar funnier than what made it to the TV. AoS level humor.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (SchxB)
Didn't know people ate them, though. Interesting.
(I'm not being a snob - being a furriner, I eat things y'all will find strange.)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:23 PM (rF64X)
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So it's like casting a contemporary young adult sitcom?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:24 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (9otr5)
Back in the day, I seem to remember an orientation where the prof said "Look to your left, then look to your right, only one of you will still be here in four years!"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:25 PM (hOUT3)
Utter BS. There are no studies that actually show this and any that do have massively manipulated the data to make it seem feasible and applicable to all situations (example: looking at a school with lots of Asians kids an counting them as students color or looking at improvements of select groups of black kids scores when pulled out of the hood and sent to learn with white kids.) Yet the lie is passed off again and again until it becomes something everybody knows and repeats mindlessly. Just don't believe your lying eyes and definitely don't look at the data too closely. That would be racist.
Posted by: Ripley at March 29, 2022 11:26 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: chique
Pig snouts, scrapple, tripe and hog maw were served at Grammi's.
You don't scare me.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 11:26 PM (bNcG+)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:15 PM (9otr5)
Actually quite encouraging. You 'get' math or you don't. Math is colorblind. Those that don't get this fundamental concept do not belong at MIT.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 29, 2022 11:26 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 11:27 PM (mc/Yb)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:27 PM (7SwmH)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 29, 2022 11:27 PM (lgeFv)
(I'm not being a snob - being a furriner, I eat things y'all will find strange.)
Times get tough and people will find something to eat. If that's all that you got for a few generations then it's a traditional food.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:27 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:25 PM (hOUT3)
Definitely true of my high school graduating class honors program guys who went to IU. We lost the salutatorian because, IIRC, she did not like the lack of personal attention. The co-valedictorian decided school was not for her and moved home to have kids. A lot got into partying and forgot about class.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 11:27 PM (ZDXYb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
I am treating my backup truck for exactly such damage, fortunately it looks like they just feasted on the AC wiring and the thing still runs. Very destructive and very clever!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:28 PM (hOUT3)
You don't scare me.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 29, 2022 11:26 PM (bNcG+)
Never had pig snouts or hog maw. Discovered scrapple, which I like, in PA. Love, love, love tripe.
Believe it or not, when I was growing up, chicken gizzards were a delicacy and my dad used to say it was traditionally only for adults. But being a softy at heart, he would allow us to hae some.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:28 PM (rF64X)
I'm acronym challenged tonight! What's DIAF?
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:27 PM (7SwmH)
Die
In
A
Fire.
I think. Context matters.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 11:28 PM (ZDXYb)
(I'm not being a snob - being a furriner, I eat things y'all will find strange.)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:23 PM (rF64X)
Wait until you find out about hog jowls and possum innards.
Posted by: The Clampetts at March 29, 2022 11:28 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:29 PM (0OP+5)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:29 PM (7SwmH)
I'm acronym challenged tonight! What's DIAF?
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:27 PM (7SwmH)
I believe it's "die in a fire". which is exactly what Stevens advocated for Salman Rushdie.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 29, 2022 11:29 PM (cupoy)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:29 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:29 PM (moyY2)
Posted by: Eromero at March 29, 2022 11:29 PM (0OP+5)
Thanks.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:30 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:30 PM (moyY2)
What we lack is kids who can think critically. We don't teach that skill nearly enough anymore.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 29, 2022 11:20 PM (ZLI7S)
Actually, no. The SAT is a pretty good test of critical thinking. Those analogies we hated were decent at that but they have been removed and their replacements are better for critical thinking. It's not a memorization test.
Way back in the day I had some time on a minicomputer and a stats program and 30 or 40 years of extremely good student candidate and ranking information. Like most schools this pool of students were selected on a number of factors, including SAT/ACT and GPA, plus lots of other scores for extracurricular etc.
1/2
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:31 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2022 11:31 PM (XG2Fi)
Of course there are issues with the data - like what about drop outs, and GPA is a measure that isn't necessarily "success" as a student.
2/2
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:31 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 11:31 PM (qfLjt)
Afraid to ask about CalTech. A few years ago the then-president of CalTech had a connection to a good friend, from whom I learned there was awareness and concern about the Idiocy Mob roaming and trashing the national countryside. Fear that it would finally come for CalTech as well.
Impossible to take the country as currently populated and constituted seriously, or to much care about what befalls these people living around us.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 29, 2022 11:31 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:23 PM (rF64X)
I read furrier. Thought surely she's eaten squirrel.
Posted by: Javems at March 29, 2022 11:32 PM (AmoqO)
There may be a disconnect between his larynx and his brain stem, but he makes up for it with all that Irish charm.
Posted by: Paco at March 29, 2022 11:32 PM (njExo)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2022 11:31 PM (XG2Fi)
Possum is for pie.
Posted by: The Clampetts at March 29, 2022 11:32 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms, on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:32 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:32 PM (moyY2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:22 PM (9otr5)
Back in the day, I seem to remember an orientation where the prof said "Look to your left, then look to your right, only one of you will still be here in four years!"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:25 PM (hOUT3)
This wasn't at a small, select engineering school in upstate NY founded in 1823? 'cause that's where I heard it - only it was 'one of you won't be here next year'. It was almost me....but I made it out in 4 years and had a great 40+ year career.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (7SwmH)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (mc/Yb)
It's more than that, it's a source of revenue.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (FVM
Plus, those rockets are built by the lowest builder.
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (moyY2)
In
A
Fire.
I think. Context matters.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 11:28 PM (ZDXYb)
Thank you Aetius. Works for me.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:34 PM (7SwmH)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:32 PM (moyY2)
Was it blazing hot?
I went in November. Weather was perfect and I was blown away. Took lots of pics.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms, on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:34 PM (rF64X)
Posted by: MammaB at March 29, 2022 11:35 PM (3o22N)
[ . . . ]
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 11:21 PM (Cus5s)
Montesquieu had wonderful ideas but had trouble supporting them. Part of it was from living in 18th century France of course. And being a snobbish French noble and leader of men, of course.
If you are interested in reading about cultural change and modernity, Carlo M Cipolla wrote this great book called Guns Sails and Empire, and Joel Mokyr has a number of books in this area as well. Cipolla is more accessible by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 11:35 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (moyY2)
Like overpasses in Florida?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:36 PM (hOUT3)
I went in November. Weather was perfect and I was blown away. Took lots of pics.
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms, on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:34 PM (rF64X)
We got there right when the park opened, at 7 am, and it was cool enough that I needed a sweater. There weren't many other people there at that time, it was nice. We left when it started getting warm, about 10 am, and the tourists where flocking in by then.
Timing is everything.
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:36 PM (moyY2)
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It is currently melding with Earth's core after that slight (unreported) mishap .....
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 11:36 PM (qfLjt)
Calculus in high school, tested out of 8 hours of college calc, some kind of radial calculus (?), took the test and passed. ... Aced Calc ? 108. That was all I needed, then the dorm floor dealer fuckin A Lee (Mexican dude) sold me the MaryJoe, I was stoned for a year. I used to say it killed my young brain calculus cells. ... idk, but May Be true.
I think maybe math would have been a better route to "The Truth" for me, or maybe not. But I went with the Bible thing ... deep study Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic. Well, not syntax, but enough to review interlinears and a little culture.
Science has found ? Dark Matter? Gravity as a wave? God particles? They seem as lost as religion that adopted paganism. But fear not, I will come up with The Answer ... may need another year or two.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 11:37 PM (Cus5s)
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“We are going to spend and spend and spend, tax and tax and tax and elect and elect and elect.” -- Harry Hopkins, WPA Head, and New Deal fellow traveler of FDR
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2022 11:37 PM (W66RU)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:32 PM (moyY2)
But a big beautiful hole in the ground!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:37 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (FVME7)
It's worse than that - a million parts all made by the low bidder....
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:37 PM (7SwmH)
The US can't buy Russian rockets any more, and Bezos company can't fly over 60 miles up, and Boeing, well, they can't fly at all.
Go ahead. Tax me, bitches. I will tax you too!
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:38 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:36 PM (hOUT3)
Yep.
The Romans built roads that are still intact, 2000 years ago. The difference is that roads today are built with materials that cars can drive on, like asphalt, which deteriorates, unlike the rocks the Romans used.
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:38 PM (moyY2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (FVM
Plus, those rockets are built by the lowest builder.
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (moyY2)
Awwww...beat me to it...
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:39 PM (7SwmH)
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 29, 2022 11:39 PM (7SwmH)
Timing.
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:39 PM (moyY2)
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I particularly like 'The Lady D'Arbanville'
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 11:39 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: davidt at March 29, 2022 11:40 PM (z4BwD)
Posted by: ALH
I was in law school shortly after the Challenger disaster. A professor had us read a case about a stagecoach crash caused by a broken single tree (which is the pole that runs between a team of horses). He asked a girl what a single tree was. She responded it was like a low tech O ring.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I'm Not a Biologist at March 29, 2022 11:40 PM (FVME7)
https://tinyurl.com/2uraff5t
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:41 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 11:41 PM (mc/Yb)
Ha, I was in no way qualified ... except they liked my outreach efforts I guess, and stole some of my ideas. But the real deep language scholars were leaving them ... ah, the old days of trying to save the world.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 29, 2022 11:42 PM (Cus5s)
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Seattle schools say that math is racist: https://tinyurl.com/ypry7xc9
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (W66RU)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Ripley at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: chique the Viking Math Overpersyn of Greenland and other kingdoms on xer computer at March 29, 2022 11:28 PM (rF64X)
Chicken gizzards cooked slow and long are wonderful I like them on rice and in stew. You used to be able to get them deep fried at the delis and I loved them even though there they were like chewing deep fried chunks of tire.
I eat odd things, but my wife does not like the odd things. She prefers dried squid.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (9otr5)
They'd all be working for Musk, with NASA in their rear-view mirrors. Those were engineers, scientists and physicists with purpose, drive and committment.
Not knockin' the talent that today's NASA may or may not have. But the dampening effect of H.R., Affirmative Action, Sensitivity Training and the Cancel Culture is real, and surely affects the product, the pace, and the deliberate mis-purposing of the agency.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 29, 2022 11:44 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (9otr5)
All the incriminating paperwork has been burned so...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:44 PM (hOUT3)
I dropped back into regular calculus after a week.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 29, 2022 11:44 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (hOUT3)
FDR was a piece of shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 29, 2022 11:44 PM (mc/Yb)
https://tinyurl.com/2uraff5t
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:41 PM (hOUT3)
I thought it was Gus Grissom
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 11:46 PM (xhaym)
There will be other "activities" for "lower" members!
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You mean my feet will not be as adequately entertained as my hands? That's racyss!
Posted by: Ciampino at March 29, 2022 11:47 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:43 PM (9otr5)
I think the Russians might be. too. Things have not worked out according to plan.
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:47 PM (moyY2)
https://tinyurl.com/2uraff5t
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:41 PM (hOUT3)
I thought it was Gus Grissom
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 11:46 PM (xhaym)
What movie was that in?
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:48 PM (moyY2)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 29, 2022 11:48 PM (bW8dp)
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Heh. Felisa Wolfe-Simon, poster child for bad science, was a NASA person.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2022 11:48 PM (W66RU)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:47 PM (moyY2)
Or maybe they have.
This is the weirdest war. I don't believe anything I hear about it. From either side.
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:48 PM (9otr5)
The ONT and the Horde are what keep me sane.
So far, it is sorta working.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 29, 2022 11:48 PM (r1z5A)
Friend told me today that his son's company wants to expand and go public, so in a preemptive move they hired a Diversity Manager.
First email from the Office of Diversity Management contained the phrase
Hello, I am Jo "Smith", and my preferred pronouns are "they/them".
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:49 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2022 11:49 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:49 PM (moyY2)
Well, it's been quite a while since the last time the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught on fire...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 29, 2022 11:49 PM (bW8dp)
They send video of smoke coming from a dock.
Okay. Every dang person in the world has a high def video camera in their pocket. You don't have a video of a sunk ship to show when you say you sunk a ship?
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:50 PM (9otr5)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:52 PM (hOUT3)
Astronautics, not so much.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2022 11:52 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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But, but, icon of the Democrats.
Also, as an aside: Event: A Dinner Honoring Harry Hopkins | Living New Deal
https://tinyurl.com/2p845dyz
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 29, 2022 11:53 PM (W66RU)
Posted by: Fred Flintstone at March 29, 2022 11:53 PM (XG2Fi)
Coloring box, and the 128 ct. box of Crayolas. It's more Diverse than the 64 ct. box.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 29, 2022 11:53 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:54 PM (hOUT3)
Jest not! When I go back to Michigan, my siblings rave about the gizzards at some fast food chicken chain I can’t remember the name of. One of those names like Famous Joe’s or something. Lee’s Famous Recipe, maybe.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 29, 2022 11:54 PM (U+Oxn)
But you know what? I still knew the word "regatta".
Why? Because I read motherfucking books, that's why.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 29, 2022 11:54 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, likes Chicken of the Trees at March 29, 2022 11:55 PM (n/szn)
“I’m being followed by a big Muslim. Big Muslim, big Muslim!”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 29, 2022 11:56 PM (U+Oxn)
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Grew up in Las Vegas. Dad took me with him to Los Angeles as a young boy about 1968. Couldn't see anything because the smog was so thick until we arrived in downtown and were passing the tall skyscrapers.
Went to a college in Claremont in '79. Didn't know that Mt. Baldy was just a short distance behind it (owing again to smog) until the first big wind blew through. Played football, and they'd routinely cut practice short as some players and coaches would start vomiting from breathing in the smog.
After moving to Orange County, it was rare to see smog there in L.A. in the 2000's.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 29, 2022 11:56 PM (cjvQp)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 29, 2022 11:58 PM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: ALH at March 30, 2022 12:00 AM (moyY2)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, likes Chicken of the Trees at March 30, 2022 12:00 AM (n/szn)
New hotness : Trans cyclists !
256 Old and busted: trans swimmers
New hotness : Trans cyclists !
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Naked trans cyclists? Ouch and double ouch!
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:00 AM (qfLjt)
Is it me or does it seem like we are kind of over this Ukraine thing?
Posted by: blaster
Yes and as soon as Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court then Omicron returns.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2022 12:01 AM (63Dwl)
And if I ever lose my mind
Psychotic cult, with hatred blind
And if I ever lose mind...
Oh i-i-if...
I won't get to fly no more.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:03 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: blaster
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I'm not a historiographer.
Posted by: Ketanji "Not A Biologist" Brown at March 30, 2022 12:03 AM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2022 12:05 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:00 AM (qfLjt)
Remember using a clothespin to set a baseball card in your spokes so you would sound like a motorcycle pedaling down the street?
Well . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2022 12:06 AM (xhaym)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 30, 2022 12:05 AM (xhaym)
That sounds tasty. With homemade tortillas and some pico.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 30, 2022 12:07 AM (mc/Yb)
My first real job was in a restaurant, and one of my first duties was separating chicken gizzards, livers and necks into separate bags.
Posted by: Paco at March 30, 2022 12:08 AM (njExo)
Posted by: Paco at March 30, 2022 12:08 AM (njExo)
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The Bag O' Necks Co. later branched out into Bag O' Dicks, and thus history was made.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2022 12:10 AM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 30, 2022 12:10 AM (mc/Yb)
I especially like Part III, "On the Trail", which brilliantly captures the clip-clop gait of the mules.
Posted by: Paco at March 30, 2022 12:13 AM (njExo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2022 12:14 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (moyY2)
Like overpasses in Florida?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ every book has been rewritten ~ at March 29, 2022 11:36 PM
You would be shocked at how much money they spent on that bridge. "New Concrete Truss Bridge design." FIGG Bridge group who was responsible still has "Creating Bridges as Art(r)" on their home page. Idiots. Bridges are utilitarian structures first, art a distant fifth. For about 25% of what they spent they could have had a steel pedestrian bridge. It's a bridge, not a holistically, feng shui designed meeting area. People want to get across the equivalent of an eight lane highway.
Posted by: Chuck C at March 30, 2022 12:14 AM (EughT)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:16 AM (bW8dp)
Yep. Gotta seize those investment opportunities whenever they, er, arise.
Posted by: Paco at March 30, 2022 12:16 AM (njExo)
Posted by: chique
Pig snouts, scrapple, tripe and hog maw were served at Grammi's.
You don't scare me.
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Of all those I only know tripe and done right in a sort of stew, it's great. The others I wouldn't care to try as I'm not a liver or kidney eater.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:17 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 12:18 AM (KAi1n)
There were four big-ass black bears in the yard just now. FOUR. All at once, just hanging out. Looking spooky. This is the only reason I miss Michigan. I could go outside and just relax. Look at the stars. Take lightning pics all night if I wanted to. Not here, where you have to have eyes on all four sides of your head, if it's any time past sunset.
Oh well. At least we have a sane government. I pray that it lasts.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 30, 2022 12:19 AM (OssQ4)
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IIRC MIT also has languages and other more non-Math courses and majors, right?
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:20 AM (qfLjt)
Wine plus bourbon plus rum serially do not work well on this 29 year old self.
Posted by: sinmi at March 30, 2022 12:20 AM (A5IVt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 12:21 AM (W66RU)
The MIT Sloane School of Management used to be well-thought-of, I believe.
Also, if you take the sailing, pistol, and fencing PE electives, they'll give you a Pirate Certificate.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:22 AM (bW8dp)
There are people who eat salmon milt.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:16 AM (bW8dp)
There are plenty of us who eat sperm!
Posted by: Don Lemon at March 30, 2022 12:22 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 12:21 AM (W66RU)
and comparing snuff boxes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2022 12:22 AM (4I/2K)
https://tinyurl.com/2p8f64f6
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 30, 2022 12:22 AM (OssQ4)
You don't scare me.
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Pickled pig's feet were one of my mother's great favorites.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 12:23 AM (W66RU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 12:21 AM (W66RU)
and comparing snuff boxes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2022 12:22 AM (4I/2K)
Sink me, if that's not twue!
Posted by: Sir Percy Blakeney at March 30, 2022 12:24 AM (7bRMQ)
And having a special room in the house where the butler irons the newspaper every morning.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:24 AM (bW8dp)
There's probably room for an adaptation set in modern times where he goes by "The Scarlet Pimp".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:27 AM (bW8dp)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:26 PM (7bRMQ)
Why, yes, I did. The Jeep failed to start, so I drove my Studebaker Lark to the parts store and to a friend's place to snag a used starter. On the way, I had a real nice Reuben sammich.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 12:29 AM (P3gRi)
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That's to get the fur off, right?
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:31 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:27 AM (bW8dp)
Yo dawg! Let's cruise Paris, grab some ho's and sell 'em to some A rabs!
Posted by: Sir Percy Blakeney at March 30, 2022 12:32 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: blaster at March 29, 2022 11:48 PM (9otr5)
The Ukraine War reminds me of the Iran-Iraq War in the '80s. Both Zelensky and Putin are bad guys. It's a tossup on whom to root for to lose.
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 12:33 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 12:29 AM (P3gRi)
Good weather?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 12:34 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2022 12:35 AM (SKVme)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at March 30, 2022 12:41 AM (5pTK/)
I wonder if today's DEMs would have any use for either JFK or Galbraith? They were cold warriors, with all that that entails.
I doubt they'd be welcomed by today's leftists.
That era (I'm old enuf to remember it) seems as remote as Andrew Jackson's administration today.
.
Posted by: mnw at March 30, 2022 12:43 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Dr. T at March 29, 2022 10:41 PM (tp+tP)
Thorium is a stalking horse, set out by the greentards, to stop or delay development of perfectly viable uranium fueled reactors. Thorium is currently produced only in relatively small amounts, because the market for it is not large. Mostly, it comes from certain beach sands in India, where the thorium-containing mineral monazite is recovered from heavy mineral concentrates in those sands. Some thorium can be recovered as a by-product of rare-earth mineral mining. I know of no place in the world where primary thorium minerals can be mined for in hard-rock mines like we do lead, gold, copper, uranium, and even diamonds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 12:44 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 30, 2022 12:45 AM (XG2Fi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 29, 2022 10:42 PM (ZDXYb)
India, which basically has the world's best supply of thorium, built thorium fueled reactors, to prove it could be done. They also built and exploded at least one thorium A-bomb.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 12:46 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: azjaeger at March 30, 2022 12:46 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 30, 2022 12:48 AM (S971x)
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Cipolla is the word for onion in Italian. Change the a to an e for plural.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:48 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: G'rump928(c), not an Ace endorsed commenter at March 29, 2022 10:45 PM (yQpMk)
Uh-oh! Some of the folks here were involved in financing that effort.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 12:48 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: ALH at March 29, 2022 11:33 PM (moyY2)
Like overpasses in Florida?
---- Wasn't that a 'diversity' bid that was chosen? All wymyn or am I thinking of a different overpass?
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:50 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 30, 2022 12:51 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 12:51 AM (bW8dp)
---- Wasn't that a 'diversity' bid that was chosen? All wymyn or am I thinking of a different overpass?
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:50 AM (qfLjt)
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GFY
Posted by: The Florida All-Female Footbridge Engineering Staff at March 30, 2022 12:51 AM (XG2Fi)
That movie was horrible, and worth every penny I put into it.
"Did you have corn last night?"
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 30, 2022 12:52 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 30, 2022 12:54 AM (S971x)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at March 30, 2022 12:54 AM (XG2Fi)
I doubt they'd be welcomed by today's leftists.
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Had JFK been a candidate at the Dem debates, and uttered, "Ask not what your country can do for you...", he would have been booed off of the stage.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 12:56 AM (lDew/)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at March 30, 2022 12:54 AM (XG2Fi)
As a design professional and an 'ette, let me tell you, Sherrif, that you an ignorant ass. As is the horse you rode in on.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 30, 2022 12:58 AM (LOVUx)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 30, 2022 12:51 AM (LOVUx)
I cannot lie.
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at March 30, 2022 01:00 AM (4I/2K)
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Seattle schools say that math is racist: https://tinyurl.com/ypry7xc9
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There is a Latina woman 'Math' prof at Urbana-Champain that claims Math is racist. (note the quotes).
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 01:01 AM (qfLjt)
Out badding Sharknado is quite the accomplishment. FanboyFlicks on YouTube does reviews of this type of movie and he is the excellent. In fact, his my go to source a good chunk of my movie viewing.
I just started Range 15. OMG, William Shatner is in it. I am hooked.
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 30, 2022 01:04 AM (S971x)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 30, 2022 01:06 AM (bW8dp)
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You forgot all the misspent funds that are used for those useless dead-end paths, instead of funding better rocketry. I'd love to see what percentage of NASA's budget is used for those cretinous endeavors. Anyone know?
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 01:07 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 29, 2022 10:26 PM (7bRMQ)
Not today. It was a tad cold out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2022 01:09 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 01:10 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 01:10 AM (KAi1n)
But at least you're living in that great, friendly city!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:12 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 12:00 AM (qfLjt)
Remember using a clothespin to set a baseball card in your spokes so you would sound like a motorcycle pedaling down the street?
Well . . .
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LOL that's funny to picture.
But those trans-morons probably are a little short in the .....
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 01:15 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2022 01:18 AM (jYQlA)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 12:34 AM (7bRMQ)
Showery, but the showers tapered off later in the afternoon. I accomplished the starter replacement without getting rained upon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 01:21 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 30, 2022 01:18 AM (jYQlA)
What is it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:22 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: JM in Florida - Biden the Moscovian Candidate at March 30, 2022 01:22 AM (L7jyl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 12:46 AM (P3gRi)
Ooooo. Cool. I'll have to look that one up. I thought thorium did not work for atomic bombs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2022 01:22 AM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 01:21 AM (P3gRi)
Had the other side of the front here. Got nothing but clouds.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:22 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 01:24 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:22 AM (7bRMQ)
There were some brief hard showers, but not enough to flood the roads or the washes. Less than a quarter inch total, I reckon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 01:26 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: azjaeger
Grohl also played Satan in The Pick of Destiny, a Tenacious D/Jack Black movie. Black always gave me an evil vibe, too, FWIW.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 30, 2022 01:27 AM (OssQ4)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I am?
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 01:24 AM (KAi1n)
Well, heroin needles, feces and crime can be friendly.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2022 01:27 AM (dNqv+)
In the Las Cruces area the winds fussing quite a bit. No rain but lots of spectacular clouds in all directions. Plus it was fatally cold, 50 degrees or so.
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 30, 2022 01:29 AM (S971x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2022 01:27 AM (dNqv+)
You damn right they are!
Posted by: San Francisco Woke Tourism Board at March 30, 2022 01:29 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2022 01:27 AM (dNqv+)
It's the flowers in your hair.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:30 AM (7bRMQ)
It's an old joke:
You know the son of an Asian immigrant can only be called three things?
A doctor, a lawyer, or a failure.
Meanwhile inner city blacks actively attack and denigrate any black kid that actually studies and wants a good education as 'acting white'.
And it's not going to change any time soon.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at March 30, 2022 01:30 AM (setIA)
Posted by: Jmel at March 30, 2022 01:30 AM (bVhJi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I'm in the wrong neighborhood for that stuff.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 01:33 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: La2la at March 30, 2022 01:34 AM (wfrSv)
College course:
History of the Pittsburgh Region
guest speaker shared facts
from Steel Mill Era
1. Street Lights were ON in "daylight"
2. Industrial Accidents, 140# of
Steel was shipped to widows for
Burial. He had seen workers "melt".
Posted by: zigzag at March 30, 2022 01:36 AM (GY8wk)
Posted by: Lost In Space at March 30, 2022 01:29 AM (S971x)
Cleared up two states over, was warmer than 50.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:36 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: klaftern at March 30, 2022 01:49 AM (taPSh)
Thorium is a stalking horse, set out by the greentards, to stop or delay development of perfectly viable uranium fueled reactors.
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Those proposed small Th reactors out in one's yard, supposedly would be cooled by molten sodium metal. I'd hate to be around if it ever leaked, particularly if someone thought the garden hose may help with the fire. I saw a magnesium factory go up and the effect of water on that!
Did the add-sodium-to-water many times in the lab but not on a big scale. At boarding school someone stole a big lump of sodium, went into one of the boys' bathrooms and threw it into a washbasin full of water. The resulting small explosion broke the porcelain in two and spewed pieces of burning metal everywhere. Fun!
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 01:49 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2022 01:53 AM (S3EUx)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2022 01:53 AM (S3EUx)
WTH?!? Will Smith's father is President Trump!?!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:58 AM (7bRMQ)
Now the homeless have moved in and the streets, parks & sidewalks are far more filthy then they ever were when I was a kid and the environmentalist couldn't care less.
They want to destroy our economy to prevent warming that may or may not happen in 100 years but don't mind every day walking through trash, needles and human waste.
Posted by: 29Victor at March 30, 2022 02:01 AM (BJKQV)
Posted by: 29Victor at March 30, 2022 02:01 AM (BJKQV)
They don't mind if you do, but they don't walk anywhere, they get chauffeured.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 02:03 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 01:49 AM (qfLjt)
In high school, this other guy and I were pissed at some girls for overstaying their allotted time in a room we had booked after them and they weren't leaving. So we put some chemical, maybe nitric acid, into a beaker and added, I believe it was, zinc. The result was a heavier than air cloud of orange gas that boiled up and over the top of the beaker, rolled across the table and 'waterfalled' onto the floor. The girls got scared and opened a window. The air then blew in, stirring up the gas in the room, out into the hallway and through the now open window. It was a bit of a choke-fest in the room and it looked like the room was on fire with that orange gas billowing out the window. We got into a wee bit of trouble for that.
I was never very good at chemistry.
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 02:07 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 01:49 AM (qfLjt)
I believe that molten sodium is used as a heat-transfer fluid in some uranium reactors, too. Safe enough, if properly contained. The greenies love thorium partly because the daughter products of its fission contain fewer nasty actors than those of uranium fission, but mainly because, like hydrogen fusion, it's been "just around the corner" for the last 50 years, and serves well as an excuse to delay uranium reactors, which do work from being built.
The "waste problem" is entirely political, not technical. Sequester it on-site for a few years, until most of the hottest shit has burned itself out, reprocess it to recover useful products, and bury the rest a thousand meters deep in in deep mines dug into ancient stable parts of the continental craton.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 02:07 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 01:58 AM (7bRMQ)
MAGA. What can't it do?
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 02:10 AM (ldL4g)
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2022 02:12 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 02:07 AM (ldL4g)
High school chem class: lecture time by the teacher and a smart aleck exchange student was sitting here grinding chemicals with a mortar and pestle. Everything was fine until the explosion.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 02:12 AM (7bRMQ)
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You missed the air/water pollution; and Thorium.
ThO, thorium oxide, was used in lanterns in theaters before electricity - hence the term limelight, from earlier when lime was used.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 02:15 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Well, since the engine is on a stand, no.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 02:17 AM (lDew/)
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I used pieces of copper with concentrated nitric acid. The column then poured out of the test tube and down to the floor. Very cool. Literature teacher never figured out why so many kids were sitting in strange positions (in order to see). Then there was lye and aluminum desks with no longer used inkwells.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 02:20 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 02:22 AM (lDew/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 30, 2022 01:27 AM (dNqv+)
It's the flowers in your hair.
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I still like that song.
Don't let the cows trip over the barn sill.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 02:23 AM (qfLjt)
Hard day here at Ranchero Webworker. Mighty hunter, true Godsend*, dear companion, and devoted friend, Charlie the golden breathed his last at about 12:30pm CST today, after several weeks of failing health.
More memorial on the pet thread. *He was sent to us as a kitten when a spiritual comfort kitten was desperately needed.
Good kitty.
Posted by: mindful webworker - many pals waiting on the rainbow bridge at March 30, 2022 02:27 AM (nnynb)
Morons in training, I guess. Who knew?
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 02:27 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 02:27 AM (ldL4g)
Had to start somewhere....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 30, 2022 02:29 AM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 02:15 AM (qfLjt)
Uh, not quite. Thorium oxide is still used in mantles for gas lanterns, like Coleman lamps and gas lights used in RV's. Limelights were cylinders of calcium oxide (quicklime) that were heated to brilliant white incandescence by an oxy-hydrogen flame. In both cases, there seems to be brighter light emitted than can be accounted for by classic black-body radiation from a heated object.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 02:30 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 02:30 AM (lDew/)
Posted by: mindful webworker
Very sorry to hear that. There's been a lot of that around here lately. Losing a beloved animewl is hard.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 02:32 AM (KAi1n)
Morons in training, I guess. Who knew?
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I have 'marked' the ceiling of every lab have I worked in, starting with an explosion at high school and progressing to much quieter but vigorous reactions later in life.
Posted by: Ciampino at March 30, 2022 02:32 AM (qfLjt)
Good kitty.
Posted by: mindful webworker - many pals waiting on the rainbow bridge at March 30, 2022 02:27 AM (nnynb)
Please accpt my condolences on the passing of your furry buddy, MW. May his memory continue to be a blessing to you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 02:34 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 02:38 AM (lDew/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 02:38 AM (lDew/)
I wonder if uric acid, or urea, could be used for case-hardening steel. seems both nitrogen and carbon are needed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 02:40 AM (P3gRi)
Lovely example of Aristotle's concept:
What is honored in a country is cultivated there.
Posted by: Anne R. Abler at March 30, 2022 02:48 AM (AcC8c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Further data and empirical experimentation needed. Sounds like a Mome project.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2022 02:48 AM (lDew/)
Yes, just lost our oldest cat, Spirit, only a few months ago - so hard. Down to one cat, for the first time.. ever.
There's been a lot of that around here lately. Losing a beloved animewl is hard. Posted by: SFGoth
Was a beautiful warm day which Charlie would have been happy to prowl around in, except for the wind.
May his memory continue to be a blessing to you. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
For all the rest of my life, AOP.
Saving a piece of bacon from breakfast to bury with him tomorrow. Maybe some salmon, too. A Pharoaic send-off.
Posted by: mindful webworker - many pals waiting on the rainbow bridge at March 30, 2022 02:50 AM (nnynb)
https://tinyurl.com/yt8a9em3
Posted by: davidt
Not easy to capture in music such grandeur. Nice effort.
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is grand at March 30, 2022 03:00 AM (nnynb)
Posted by: mindful webworker - many pals waiting on the rainbow bridge at March 30, 2022 02:50 AM (nnynb)
Pharaohs had their servants buried with them.
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 03:01 AM (ldL4g)
Posted by: RickZ
A piece of our hearts will go with him.
Daffodils are blooming on old pet graves. Death in springtime is strange.
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is grand at March 30, 2022 03:03 AM (nnynb)
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is grand at March 30, 2022 03:03 AM (nnynb)
That's a reminder of how beautiful they were, of the joy they gave with their presence and affection, of the memories they left with their trodding lightly over the Rainbow Bridge.
(Sorry for getting all poetic there.)
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022 03:13 AM (ldL4g)
"What do a cigarette and a hamster have in common?"
"Both are totally harmless until you stick one in your mouth and set it on fire."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 30, 2022 03:17 AM (c6xtn)
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is grand at March 30, 2022 03:03 AM (nnynb)
That's a reminder of how beautiful they were, of the joy they gave with their presence and affection, of the memories they left with their trodding lightly over the Rainbow Bridge.
(Sorry for getting all poetic there.)
Posted by: RickZ at March 30, 2022
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Someday, if I ever have a yard, perhaps one of my cats will lie in state in it. In the meantime, their urns with their ashes are up on my bookcase. Arizona the part-Maine Coon's ashes are up in Colorado; he always thought he should have been a bobcat, and somebody made a mistake at the Cat Factory.
Speaking of which, Chekov the Codger Cat's ashes are ready; I'll pick them up on Friday. The place is too quiet without him. I found myself looking at images of Siberian cats online last night. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 30, 2022 03:21 AM (c6xtn)
@disclosetv 6 m
JUST IN - Germany triggers the first stage of the gas emergency plan to secure supplies. Vice-Chancellor Habeck appeals to consumers: save energy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 30, 2022 03:27 AM (p6Md5)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
:-> They are beautiful creatures.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022 03:34 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 03:38 AM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2022 03:39 AM (S3EUx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
:-> They are beautiful creatures.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 30, 2022
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Chekov was the third I've had or known well. The thing about a purebred is that you know what you're getting -- if you get a kitten, you're pretty sure what the adult will look like. And within a range, you can be pretty sure of the general personality.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 30, 2022 03:51 AM (c6xtn)
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2022 03:58 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2022 04:02 AM (2JoB8)
Posted by: m at March 30, 2022 04:08 AM (CRS/E)
Posted by: m at March 30, 2022 04:12 AM (CRS/E)
ai.mee.nu
Posted by: m at March 30, 2022 04:15 AM (CRS/E)
Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2022 04:16 AM (2JoB8)
Mornin', all
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 30, 2022 04:17 AM (dc9TV)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 30, 2022 04:18 AM (dc9TV)
Posted by: m at March 30, 2022 04:18 AM (CRS/E)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at March 30, 2022 04:18 AM (dc9TV)
Call to complain, and maybe they will knock something off your bill?
Posted by: m at March 30, 2022 04:19 AM (CRS/E)
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Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2022 04:35 AM (2JoB8)
I hate what these people do to beautiful places. I am glad I have never been to Idaho or Montana to see the vultures swoop and sh!t.
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