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Not strictly tech news and the blog has covered this but Sri Lanka just collapsed due to insufficient poop and it was all predicted back in March. (Foreign Policy)

Bubble-dwelling cretins decided to ban the artificial fertilisers essential to feeding the world (which is where Sri Lanka is located) and also to the country's economy, dependent as it is on agricultural exports, insisting that "organic" farming methods would survive, when everybody knows that this is quite literally impossible because there's not enough poop to go around.

Because that's what organic farming runs on. Everyone knew there wasn't enough poop and said so, but Sri Lanka's government insisted it would create that poop.
From the moment the plan was announced, agronomists in Sri Lanka and around the world warned that agricultural yields would fall substantially. The government claimed it would increase the production of manure and other organic fertilizers in place of imported synthetic fertilizers. But there was no conceivable way the nation could produce enough fertilizer domestically to make up for the shortfall.
They're just getting warmed up:
While the proximate cause of Sri Lanka's humanitarian crisis was a bungled attempt to manage its economic fallout from the global pandemic, at the bottom of the political problem was a math problem and at the bottom of the math problem was an ideological problem—or, more accurately, a global ideological movement that is innumerate and unscientific by design, promoting fuzzy and poorly specified claims about the possibilities of alternative food production methods and systems to obfuscate the relatively simple biophysical relationships that govern what goes in; what comes out; and the economic, social, and political outcomes that any agricultural system can produce, whether on a regional, national, or global scale.
"Organic" produce is food for the privileged (and indoctrinated) few. It is completely untenable as a substitute for modern scientific farming and everyone knew that.

But well-funded Western advocacy groups kept pushing for it - keep pushing for it - regardless, as we see right now in the Netherlands.

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A photographer catalogued everything she owned. (PetaPixel)

12,795 items. Now a book.
The total value of all the objects in Iweins' house is estimated to be €123,169, and 37 percent of her Playmobil figures are bald.
Playmobil pattern baldness is no laughing matter.
You will always have more problems than engineers. (Better Programming)

Because, as the article points out, the default state of the world is chaos. Any semblance of order comes from one of two sources: Never-ending hard work, and crystal formation.
A prebuilt gaming PC with a fast CPU and GPU, plenty of RAM and SSD, an attractive case, effective and quiet cooling, and immaculate cable management. (Hot Hardware)

What's the catch?

It costs $4799.

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:56 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 12, 2022 04:59 AM (RctME)

2 pizza sampler is a career?

Posted by: Ciampino - one way o get rid of the bots at July 12, 2022 04:59 AM (qfLjt)

3 Biden's dog? Does he have one?

Posted by: Ciampino - one way to get rid of the bots at July 12, 2022 05:01 AM (qfLjt)

4 3 Biden's dog? Does he have one?
Posted by: Ciampino - one way to get rid of the bots at July 12, 2022 05:01 AM (qfLjt)
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I was cut loose.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 12, 2022 05:02 AM (RctME)

5 Good morning (again).

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 05:02 AM (Msys3)

6 “Poop”. Back to kindergarten?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 12, 2022 05:05 AM (CdZ4i)

7 Back to kindergarten?
Posted by: Cow Demon

Maybe I could pass it this time around.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 05:06 AM (Msys3)

8 Hiya TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at July 12, 2022 05:07 AM (T4tVD)

9 Hiya

Posted by: JT at July 12, 2022 05:07 AM (T4tVD)

10 A prebuilt gaming PC with a fast CPU and GPU, plenty of RAM and SSD, an attractive case, effective and quiet cooling, and immaculate cable management. (Hot Hardware)
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Immaculate cable management becomes a rats nest after the first hardware addition.
Hasn't anyone noticed how neatly arranged cables (power, monitor, network, mouse, keyboard) somehow are an entangled mess a few months later when the tech guy visits again?

Posted by: Ciampino - immaculate cannot be used with computers at July 12, 2022 05:08 AM (qfLjt)

11
Sri Lanka

It's not funny how very bad ideas can spread so quickly while good ideas have to prove themselves before initiation.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2022 05:09 AM (dQvv7)

12 Organic farming is totally feasible if you simply construct compost bins the size of Australia and gather more vegetation than the Earth produces in a year to fill them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:10 AM (PMCor)

13 And, no, sadly, not everyone knows about modern scientific farming. GMOs are supposedly bad, yet every morsel you put in your mouth is, one way or another, a GMO and has been for about 6000 years. You can’t raise corn, for example, without massive human intervention, yet companies slap “Non-GMO” labels on corn products and much else besides because people in affluent societies such as ours turn utterly stupid in regards to food.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 12, 2022 05:11 AM (CdZ4i)

14 >13,000 items?
Poker, might have that in 1 room alone

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 05:11 AM (2JoB8)

15 "a global ideological movement that is innumerate and unscientific by design"

admirably concise and precise !

G'mornin' everyone !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra maga ftw ! at July 12, 2022 05:12 AM (a82Er)

16 Leftist do like creating a problem then saying they can fix the problem they made by creating more problems.
Drove the largest country on earth into the ground.

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 05:13 AM (2JoB8)

17 well, and good evening to you, Pixy !

I like " Any semblance of order comes from one of two sources: Never-ending hard work, and crystal formation." too !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:14 AM (a82Er)

18 13,000 items?
Poker, might have that in 1 room alone
Posted by: Skip

Tell me about it.

We are preparing the house for sale and the amount of crap we have accumulated over our, ahem, 29 years is staggering. We both are thinning out what our mothers' and grandmothers' saved, as well as the households we brought into the mess when we married.

Birthday cards from the 70's? Hell yes, we saved 'em. And on and on.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 05:14 AM (Msys3)

19 It's as if failure is a feature not a bug

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 12, 2022 05:15 AM (b+v9B)

20 Everyone going to organic farming would make their prediction of not enough food for the world's population come true.

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 05:15 AM (2JoB8)

21 I commented yesterday on the Sri Lanka debacle. How to poop on a different carrot plant each day. I used carrots for fun. But what to do with explosive diarrhea?
Rice grows in water - paddy fields - so were they flooding the rice fields with poop water? I wouldn't want to then have to wade in that lot. Typhoid and all sorts of other nasty diseases that way.
Now these Western mathematically-challenged NGOs and other advisors are probably the same idiots that think we can replace petroleum with wind and solar.

Posted by: Ciampino - you can't poop your way out of this mess at July 12, 2022 05:15 AM (qfLjt)

22 Modern scientific farming can and should adopt concepts from organic gardening like maintaining healthy soil life (worms, microbes, microrhizal fungi, etc.) Helping to grow better crops while minimizing the synthetic or simply exogeneous inputs to the system is just plain good economics. Pretending you can do that right out of the gate by simply not using synthetic products is utterly stupid. Let's not even get into how half the products used in so called "organic farming" are actually synthetic chemicals, only "nice" synthetic chemicals that some prick with a laptop decided are nice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:15 AM (PMCor)

23 Piker stupid tablet

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 05:16 AM (2JoB8)

24
Sri Lanka just didn't do it right. We'll get it right this time.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at July 12, 2022 05:17 AM (dQvv7)

25 well, they gotta do something to get the population down to Georgia Guidestone levels ... famine is a proven method.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:17 AM (a82Er)

26 The other half of organic farming is just bribing that prick with a laptop to say your farm is organic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:19 AM (PMCor)

27 Mao tried making everyone into a organic farm worker, killed millions but Leftists never learn

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 05:19 AM (2JoB8)

28 Stop blowing the margins with links. Use tinyurl or one of the other services. [CBD]

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 12, 2022 05:21 AM (RctME)

29 Mao tried making everyone into a organic farm worker, killed millions but Leftists never learn
Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 05:19 AM (2JoB

Mao tried making everyone into organic farm fertilizer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:25 AM (PMCor)

30 Just in passing, and not to be pedantic but artificial is not the same as synthetic.
Yes ammonium nitrate is synthetic by source but the correct terminology is inorganic fertilizers as opposed to organic fertilizers.

Posted by: Ciampino - artificial fertilizer is not a fertilizer at all at July 12, 2022 05:26 AM (qfLjt)

31
We're willing to bet your bottom dollar we can make it work.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at July 12, 2022 05:28 AM (dQvv7)

32 27 Mao tried making everyone into a organic farm worker, killed millions but Leftists never learn

Posted by: Skip at July 12, 2022 05:19 AM (2JoB

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Isn't that similar what Pol Pot did in Cambodia, tried to turn everyone into a farmer?

Posted by: Ciampino - politicians are the death of nations at July 12, 2022 05:29 AM (qfLjt)

33 Isn't that similar what Pol Pot did in Cambodia, tried to turn everyone into a farmer?
Posted by: Ciampino - politicians are the death of nations at July 12, 2022 05:29 AM (qfLjt)

Pot farmers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:30 AM (PMCor)

34 I laugh at “organic” products on food shelves anyway. I like paying, say, 75 cents for a can of kidney beans, not $2 for “organic” kidney beans. It’s a perfectly legal scam and as is said, there’s a sucker born every minute.

I am going to take full advantage of the modern age by eating cheaply produced food like the 75 cent can of kidney beans, and I will even indulge in some evil processed food. And I won’t remotely care if it is LOCAL or not - coffee doesn’t grow here so it has to be imported and that’s okay. The area is too arid for wheat. The apples can come from - wherever. And so on. Just cut my costs and give me food I like that tastes good. And praise be to the farmers and ranchers that make it happen.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 12, 2022 05:31 AM (CdZ4i)

35 Pol Pot tried that too, Skip

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:32 AM (a82Er)

36 Immaculate cable management becomes a rats nest after the first hardware addition.
Hasn't anyone noticed how neatly arranged cables (power, monitor, network, mouse, keyboard) somehow are an entangled mess a few months later when the tech guy visits again?
Posted by: Ciampino - immaculate cannot be used with computers at July 12, 2022 05:08 AM (qfLjt)

Because you can cable manage as you go and get everything lined up to be tied down. And then when you make a change you have to get all those perfectly organized cables out of the way to switch out your hardware.

Oh check out the Gamers Nexus in depth report on Artesian Builds mismanagement and collapse. They showed a build that their fame chasing CEO built and then they showed it after they sent it to the east coast office wow they could go over it. And fix the cable management.

Posted by: Buzzion at July 12, 2022 05:33 AM (09aMc)

37 I gave up on cable management and just learned to embrace the spaghetti.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:34 AM (PMCor)

38
I live close to a farm with a pile of 'organic fertilizer'. The most hideous and huge weeds imaginable grow out of it. Other-worldly looking almost.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2022 05:35 AM (dQvv7)

39 >>>Bubble-dwelling cretins decided to ban the artificial fertilisers essential to feeding the world (which is where Sri Lank is located)

It's a war.

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 05:36 AM (8rTNG)

40 @37 - there speaks the voice of wisdom gained by experience !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:37 AM (a82Er)

41 Have you met your poop quota for the day comrade?

We must all poop together or we will poop separately.

Poop, It's what's for breakfast!

Before you go, is this poop really necessary?

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 05:38 AM (vd8XM)

42 From what I've ever seen in the ag world, rightly or wrongly, the antonym of organic is not inorganic, but synthetic or (worse) "chemical". It's mostly a bullshit word anyway in that context.

Salt is inorganic and necessary for life. Phenolic acid is very nicely organic and will very nicely ruin your plans for the weekend.

Wax fruit is, technically, organic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:40 AM (PMCor)

43 >>>Will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde

!!!

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 05:41 AM (8rTNG)

44 I also enjoy the "farm to table" restaurants.

I'm sorry. It's January in Chicago. That is not a locally grown tomato.

And I believe the Pacific Salmon is not a regular visitor to Lake Michigan.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 05:41 AM (vd8XM)

45 lotta poop goes back into the earth in non-organic farming, too ... lots of dairy operations raise some portion of their own feed, and they spread the winter's accumulation of manure on the fields in the spring.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:41 AM (a82Er)

46 That is not a locally grown tomato.
...
Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 05:41 AM (vd8XM)

Buh buh buh... if we set up a poly tunnel and a shitload of heaters, Mother Gaia will love us!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:43 AM (PMCor)

47 Right across the river in OK there's some really fertile acreage. It's right next to the Fort Smith stock yards and cattle auction. Endless fertilizer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2022 05:44 AM (lz5hY)

48 LOL, Bruce, affirm !
now in rural WI in high summer you can actually get pretty close to that local-farm-to-table ideal ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:45 AM (a82Er)

49
Truth to power: "Sustainable", "organic" farming cannot support the current population. You need all them chemicals and shit. You can look at the "farmers to population ratio". The number of people doing the farming to the total.

In the '30s, that was about 1 to 4. One farmer could support about 4 people. By the '70s that number was up to about 1 to 70. Now it's well over 100, maybe double, close to 1 to 140.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 05:45 AM (Mzdiz)

50 37 I gave up on cable management and just learned to embrace the spaghetti.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:34 AM (PMCor)

There's dust therein.

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 05:46 AM (8rTNG)

51
The reason for the incredible increase in that ratio is mechanization, chemicals, and science.

You want to go back the '30s, which is what the greenies want to do, you're gonna have to reduce the population greatly, then a whole lot of people are going to have to get their asses to work.

Like I was talking about the old days in the ONT. I laugh at the thought of that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 05:48 AM (Mzdiz)

52 LOL, Bruce, affirm !
now in rural WI in high summer you can actually get pretty close to that local-farm-to-table ideal ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

True. All the good stuff is showing up at the farmers markets or roadside stands.

I like how in August and September the restaurants in this area still put a slice of a barely pink, mostly taste free tomato on your hamburger.

Probably still a product of Florida

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 05:50 AM (vd8XM)

53
The elites have no idea how any of this works. The current leader class in Washington has no clue how food is produced, or how energy is produced.

Not a single fucking clue. They're blithering idiots. Sri Lanka is the example.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 05:50 AM (Mzdiz)

54 Posted by: Ciampino - one way to get rid of the bots at July 12, 2022 05:01 AM

What is one way to get rid of the bots?

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 05:50 AM (8rTNG)

55 50 With satellite navigation on farm machinery like combines, we're close or at totally unmanned equipment at least during harvest. If the thought of a driverless Uber scares you, think of a massive robotic combine going rogue.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2022 05:51 AM (lz5hY)

56 I gave up on cable management and just learned to embrace the spaghetti.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"Everything I have, I owe to spaghetti."

Posted by: Sophia Loren at July 12, 2022 05:52 AM (thbCK)

57 "Organic": The ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 was a chemist. She sneered at the "organic" labels that were starting to pop up then. "Organic? Of course it is. It has carbon in it!"

To this day when I see "organic milk" or whatever, I say, "As opposed to all that silicon-based milk you see in the stores now."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 12, 2022 05:52 AM (c6xtn)

58 spot-on, Publius ... insofar as that change tracks fairly closely to the rise of many of the ills afflicting us today it's enough to make one wonder if Jefferson's ideas about civic virtue coming from the self-sufficient agricultural life weren't founded on something real.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:52 AM (a82Er)

59
Tomatoes are interesting. Back in the old days, Rutgers was at one time the most popular variety. Had a majority market of all the tomatoes commercially sold in the US.

But they didn't do good with the modern mechanization and transport. Short shelf life after picking, and couldn't handle mechanical handling and transport.

Commericial tomatoes were bred for longer shelf life and robustness to mechanical handling. Taste was not the priority.

And that's where we are. You want everyone to have tasty tomato? Well, they're gonna have to grow the older varieties themselves.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 05:53 AM (Mzdiz)

60 A meme I had seen about restaurants...

Restaurant website designer: You know what your website needs?

Restaurant owner: A clear way to contact us and reserve a table?

RWD: A 3,000 word 'our philosophy' section.

RO: (nodding) Let's not even put our phone number on the website.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 05:54 AM (vd8XM)

61 Now it's well over 100, maybe double, close to 1 to 140.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Above 1 to 300 in the US

Posted by: don't ask how Miklos knows at July 12, 2022 05:54 AM (thbCK)

62 not sayin' your other points are wrong, either, just a random observation on #50

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:55 AM (a82Er)

63 I gave up on cable management and just learned to embrace the spaghetti.

Sounds like our IT guy.

Posted by: Case at July 12, 2022 05:55 AM (tmQgQ)

64 Think of a massive robotic combine going rogue.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Now think of them going thru a Antifa/BLM demonstration.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 05:56 AM (vd8XM)

65 Rutgers, huh ?
have to try that in the garden next year ... if I can find seeds ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 05:57 AM (a82Er)

66 I would say there is a healthy middle ground between "Fert Spreader go brrrrrr" and "have you tried putting more poop on it". Let agriculture be agriculture. Let all of science contribute to making farming more productive, from soil food web to genetics to harvesting techniques. Stop with this bullshit distinction between Good farming and Bad farming. The only question is, "Does it work, here, on my farm, and do the positives outweigh the negatives?"

It's just like the electric vehicle nonsense. Don't idiotically scrap what exists before there is a feasible replacement, but also don't stop looking for feasible replacements or improvements. Stop this deathmatch Face vs. Heel mentality with every single open question facing humanity. Stop bossing everyone around and maybe human ingenuity could start to flourish again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 05:57 AM (PMCor)

67 To this day when I see "organic milk" or whatever, I say, "As opposed to all that silicon-based milk you see in the stores now."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Same as the cooler section at the local store with "plant based milk" on it.

hey guys, MILK is plant based milk

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 05:58 AM (vd8XM)

68 Think of a massive robotic combine going rogue.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Now think of them going thru a Antifa/BLM demonstration.
Posted by: Bruce

Now see?

We can have nice thoughts.

Posted by: Copascetic Miklos at July 12, 2022 05:58 AM (thbCK)

69 I gave up on cable management and just learned to embrace the spaghetti.

Sounds like our IT guy.
Posted by: Case

A millennia ago I saw a talk by RADM Grace Hopper on that very thing. It turns out that even at the speed of light, the length of the path electrons take is important.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 05:58 AM (Msys3)

70
The elites have no idea how any of this works. The current leader class in Washington has no clue how food is produced, or how energy is produced.

Not a single fucking clue. They're blithering idiots. Sri Lanka is the example.

====

They know with great certainty. Today, food and energy come from Subsidized Greed. Removing those factors will speed the arrival of Better Ways.

Posted by: Pure Evil at July 12, 2022 05:59 AM (79xsp)

71 I'm among the worlds worst gardeners. Ex wife called me Agent Orange when it came to anything involving it. I put some tomato plants in a sunny, never used space behind the garage, and it looked from the start that they wouldn't make it. Dumped the kids' sandbox back there, and then ignored it. Some weeks later, totally unattended, there were some of the best tomatos due to me staying away.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2022 05:59 AM (lz5hY)

72 Offf old sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 12, 2022 06:00 AM (79xsp)

73 67, yes ! this !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:01 AM (a82Er)

74 I saw that same one, or similar, Tonypete, and about that long ago, too ... two pieces of wire as exhibits, right ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:03 AM (a82Er)

75 >> have to try that in the garden next year ... if I can find seeds ...

There are still "Rutgers" around here. But they are a long from the original. Many, many generations of local breeding.

Rugers University, along with Campbells Soup Co, for Ruther's 250th anniversary (founded in 1766), recreated the original Rutger's tomato. Or so they say.

It's called "Rutgers 250". YOu can get the seeds online. It is claimed that's as close as they can get to the original Rutgers, which was dominant in the '40s to the '50s. The original much more acidic balance.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 06:05 AM (Mzdiz)

76 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 12, 2022 06:07 AM (ju2Fy)

77 I saw that same one, or similar, Tonypete, and about that long ago, too ... two pieces of wire as exhibits, right ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Yep - that's the one!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 06:08 AM (Msys3)

78 “Plant-based”: because saying vegetarian is JUST TOO HARD.

(On some info I got from a clinic yesterday it lists some people simply as “provider”. I have no bloody clue what that means. What was provided? I so loathe the dumbing down of language…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 12, 2022 06:09 AM (CdZ4i)

79 Bill Gates said Sri Lanka didn't work because he wasn't in charge. But he'll be happy to roll out version 12 because he's always improving and innovating.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2022 06:09 AM (0ocXn)

80 heh

Rutgers Tomato Seeds Non-Gmo From Sri Lanka 300+Seeds
$15.50
eBay

Posted by: Miklos likes his 'maters at July 12, 2022 06:09 AM (thbCK)

81 75 I saw that same one, or similar, Tonypete, and about that long ago, too ... two pieces of wire as exhibits, right ?

The speed of light is almost exactly a one foot per nanosecond. Grace Hopper liked to hand out one foot lengths of wire to illustrate the point.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 12, 2022 06:10 AM (JemV7)

82 I think that woowoo marketing term "plant based" is partially because they can't call that gunge vegetarian, because it does have some animal based something or other in it (who the crap knows what), so it can't be called vegan or vegetarian. I don't know. I'm just rumor mongering here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:12 AM (PMCor)

83 Grace Hopper's words about management vs. leadership have been a guidepost to me ever since I heard them.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:12 AM (a82Er)

84 “You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.”

--Grace Hopper

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 06:14 AM (8rTNG)

85 that's the one, Pixy !
she also had a coil of wire that represented a microsecond.

(let's all agree to skip over velocity factor, ok ?)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:15 AM (a82Er)

86 >> The speed of light is almost exactly a one foot per nanosecond.

The speed of light is now a define quantity, and has been for decades. The meter is defined in terms of the second and a defined speed of light.

Indeed, as of 2019, with the rejiggering of the SI units, the second is now the only "arbitrary" unit. The kilogram is now defined by fixing Planck's constant to a define value. The "Kibble" or watt-balance is the mechanism for determing mass that way.

The Kelvin is also now defined by fixing Boltzmann's contstant. Everything now is defined in terms of the second.

And you can go beyond that and define every physical constant, and let physical measurement then determine your base units. The only problem is the precision of measuring G, the gravitational constant. Tech does not exist that will allow that to be measured with enough precision to complete the circle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 06:15 AM (Mzdiz)

87 that was it, m !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:16 AM (a82Er)

88 I think the HQ should maliciously appropriate Goolag's "doodle" idea, but with the decent people who occasionally pop up as our (deserved) Hero of the Day.

Today could be Grace Hopper. Yesterday could be that pilot guy. Et cetera, et cetera.

I'm sure we have enough decent graphic artists here to source material from.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:16 AM (PMCor)

89
Even the original '30s Rugers back in the day was "genetically engineered". Just the old way, selective breeding of base stocks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 06:16 AM (Mzdiz)

90 “You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.”

--Grace Hopper
Posted by: m

So concise, so clear, and so true.

And yet, still a mysterious concept to most folks in supervisory positions.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 06:16 AM (Msys3)

91 Nappy headed tomatoes?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:18 AM (PMCor)

92 And yet, still a mysterious concept to most folks in supervisory positions.
Posted by: Tonypete

We need to discuss this at the Friday afternoon meeting. Then break up into teams.

Phew, solved it.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:19 AM (vd8XM)

93 Indeed, as of 2019, with the rejiggering of the SI units, the second is now the only "arbitrary" unit. The kilogram is now defined by fixing Planck's constant to a define value. The "Kibble" or watt-balance is the mechanism for determining mass that way.

The Kelvin is also now defined by fixing Boltzmann's constant. Everything now is defined in terms of the second.
Posted by: publius

A 'RCH' will never be defined with that much precision but everyone knows the value.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 06:20 AM (Msys3)

94 Phew, solved it.
Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:19 AM (vd8XM)

I'm on vacation Friday. Can we reschedule?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:20 AM (PMCor)

95 also her next sentence:
"there is only one principle of leadership. Loyalty up, loyalty down."

wow, talk about a lost concept, amirite ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:21 AM (a82Er)

96
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 12, 2022 06:22 AM (ENBF0)

97 I'm on vacation Friday. Can we reschedule?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

No problem.
We can have it Monday morning. Plan on me being 15 minutes late to the meeting...oh, and I'll forget to reserve a room.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:22 AM (vd8XM)

98 Phew, solved it.
Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:19 AM (vd8XM)

I'm on vacation Friday. Can we reschedule?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Diversity Workshop is mandatory

Posted by: Miklos from HR at July 12, 2022 06:22 AM (thbCK)

99 RCH will always remain a SWAG.

but MIL-TFD-41 still applies !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:23 AM (a82Er)

100 So ban chemical fertilizer and the animals that provide manure? These people need to be stopped, locked away , their billions used for reparations for what they've done out of arrogance, ignorance, and a list for control

Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 06:23 AM (ONvIw)

101 meeting...oh, and I'll forget to reserve a room.
Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:22 AM (vd8XM)

That's fine, I'll just zoom chat in using the laptop i will have left at the office on Thursday.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:24 AM (PMCor)

102 Diversity Workshop is mandatory
Posted by: Miklos from HR

My diversity is I don't like going to meetings.
Can you accommodate that?

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:24 AM (vd8XM)

103 That's fine, I'll just zoom chat in using the laptop i will have left at the office on Thursday.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

HA!

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:25 AM (vd8XM)

104 50% of citizen now dead ass poor and broke.

Nice little Republic if you can keep it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:25 AM (ex2Cx)

105 That's fine, I'll just zoom chat in using the laptop i will have left at the office on Thursday.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Paradigm Change Agents ACTIVATE

Posted by: Miklos from McKinsey or similar at July 12, 2022 06:25 AM (thbCK)

106 102 meeting...oh, and I'll forget to reserve a room.
Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:22 AM (vd8XM)

That's fine, I'll just zoom chat in using the laptop i will have left at the office on Thursday.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:24 AM (PMCor)

You just triggered me.

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 06:25 AM (8rTNG)

107 80 arrogant, ignorant, bastard needs to be punished. Extradition?

Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 06:25 AM (ONvIw)

108 I identify as a having-gone-to-the-diversity-meeting-exual.

(Where/When)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:26 AM (PMCor)

109 109 I identify as a having-gone-to-the-diversity-meeting-exual.

(Where/When)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 12, 2022 06:26 AM (PMCor)

Be sure to see the Shoe0nHead video in the ONT.

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 06:26 AM (8rTNG)

110 My diversity is I don't like going to meetings.
Can you accommodate that?
Posted by: Bruce

*consults Inclusion section of Policy manual*

No

Posted by: Miklos transitioning from HR the Chief People Officer at July 12, 2022 06:27 AM (thbCK)

111 I identify as a having-gone-to-the-diversity-meeting-exual.

(Where/When)
Posted by: Warai-otoko

But...we'll have warm soda and cold pizza! It'll be great.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:27 AM (vd8XM)

112 111 Inclusion section of Policy manual
Posted by: Miklos transitioning from HR the Chief People Officer at July 12, 2022 06:27 AM (thbCK)

Ahem: Inxlusion sexion of Polixy manual

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 06:28 AM (8rTNG)

113
Another example of the wonders of modern farming and tech to get you nice vegetables and shit at the supermarket. Well, nice enough to keep you alive and fed, so to speak.

Sweet corn, "roastin' ears" in the local vernacular. A while back, there was something about a "corn cooler". Some lady was using a cooler to buy corn. That was mocked.

Well, let me tell you. Sweet corn needs to be cooled. Pick ears of corn in the roastin' ear stage. You need to get the cooled down quick. Ears of corn have the highest respiration rate of just about any common vegetable. [cont]

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 06:29 AM (Mzdiz)

114 *consults Inclusion section of Policy manual*

No
Posted by: Miklos

Crap...okay I'll show. But I'll be eye rolling so hard you'll be able to hear it.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:29 AM (vd8XM)

115 Biden WON'T shake hands with Prime Minister Yair Lapid or other ministers when he visits Israel on Wednesday due to surging COVID cases in the country

Stupid, just plain fucking stupid!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:29 AM (ex2Cx)

116 but MIL-TFD-41 still applies !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

HA! I had forgotten that one! Thanks for the reminder.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 06:29 AM (Msys3)

117 Well, let me tell you. Sweet corn needs to be cooled.

At the State Farmers Market, "pre-cooling" is included in the wholesale price.

Posted by: Miklos knows this at July 12, 2022 06:31 AM (thbCK)

118 Biden WON'T shake hands with Prime Minister Yair Lapid or other ministers when he visits Israel on Wednesday due to surging COVID cases in the country

Stupid, just plain fucking stupid!
Posted by: rhennigantx

He was doing them a favor. Joe just got done mining for butt nuggets

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:31 AM (vd8XM)

119 Some people can manage but not lead. Nobody really knows what I do, they just see results, so they should just facilitate and I will show them the way.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2022 06:31 AM (0ocXn)

120 Psalm 5- A morning psalm

https://tinyurl.com/3487w9z4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 12, 2022 06:32 AM (iZEsp)

121
Now a commercial roastin' ear operation. You have to pick the corn at the correct stage, early in the morning, when temperatures are at their lowest. You load it up on trailers and trucks, packing it together. YOu can't spread 'em out, cause you don't have enough room.

But, due to that high respiration rate, they're gonna generate a hell of a lot of eat. So you get them trailers packed with green ears of corn to the packing shed quick. YOu then flood them with as much cool water as you can. You need to keep them cool and try to keep the temperature at 60F.

Then you pack them in crates. Then you refrigerate them. TO 32F. Corn freezes at 31F. 32G is the ideal temperature. Respiration is killed pretty much there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 06:32 AM (Mzdiz)

122 "The government claimed it would increase the production of manure"

That's about the only thing the government does produce.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2022 06:32 AM (sn5EN)

123 but MIL-TFD-41 still applies !

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Today's fun includes delaying a prototype build due to a Diverse Engineer from The Land of Tech Support using a green wire for a non-grounding circuit.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 12, 2022 06:33 AM (79xsp)

124 Some people can manage but not lead. Nobody really knows what I do, they just see results, so they should just facilitate and I will show them the way.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

My manager wanted be able to assist me. Problem was, I had to show her how I did the job first. The entire 2 hours I spent with her she would constantly ask...why do you do it that way.

Because that's the way it works when you do the job!

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:33 AM (vd8XM)

125 Texas death row inmate awaits Gov. Greg Abbott's decision on delaying his execution by 30 days to donate a kidney before his execution 'to atone for his crimes'

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:33 AM (ex2Cx)

126 "The government claimed it would increase the production of manure"

That's about the only thing the government does produce.
Posted by: fd

Yes, but, in true governmental fashion, their manure is unusable.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 06:33 AM (Msys3)

127
Now, when you do that, your shelf life for them roastin' ears is around 4 to 8 days. Again, provided you get them roastin' ears down to 32F.

To do that, you need a hell of a lot of fossil fuel powere equipment.

Those ears of corn in the grocery store? They're put out there right out of the reefered truck that are in the back.

The result is, as close as they can get it, to say picking some ears out of the field, waiting a day, and putting them in the refrigerator.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 06:34 AM (Mzdiz)

128 126 Texas death row inmate awaits Gov. Greg Abbott's decision on delaying his execution by 30 days to donate a kidney before his execution 'to atone for his crimes'
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:33 AM (ex2Cx)

That sounds really close to organ selling.

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 06:34 AM (8rTNG)

129 Pennsylvania dentist and big game hunter, 67, goes on trial for 'shooting and killing his wife on African safari to get her $4.8million life insurance and be with his mistress'

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:35 AM (ex2Cx)

130
Now, that is still nothing like fresh picked corn right out of your garden, which you process quickly.

The difference in taste is substantial, believe me.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 12, 2022 06:36 AM (Mzdiz)

131 He sounds nice.

Posted by: Infidel at July 12, 2022 06:36 AM (mn1Pi)

132 That sounds really close to organ selling.
Posted by: m

Gee, dad. It's a Wurlitzer.

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

133 Pennsylvania dentist and big game hunter, 67, goes on trial for 'shooting and killing his wife on African safari to get her $4.8million life insurance and be with his mistress'
Posted by: rhennigantx

She'da made it if he hadn't field dressed her.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 06:36 AM (Msys3)

134 What earns Chicago the silver medal? For starters it gets the second-highest food-and-drink-scene rating in the world, with 96 per cent saying there is 'great choice', Time Out reveals.

Ninety-five per cent of those polled say there is always something to do in the art and culture scene too, we're told.

And there is the shooting range. AKA the City itself!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:37 AM (ex2Cx)

135 Pennsylvania dentist and big game hunter, 67, goes on trial for 'shooting and killing his wife on African safari to get her $4.8million life insurance and be with his mistress'
Posted by: rhennigantx

Shoulda taken her for dinner at this quaint "ethnic" place in Chicago....

Posted by: Miklos knows better at July 12, 2022 06:38 AM (thbCK)

136 Tex and Edna Boil's organ emporium

A great SCTV bit.

https://tinyurl.com/yft3m866

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:39 AM (vd8XM)

137 Gee, dad. It's a Wurlitzer.
Posted by: Bruce

Needs work

Posted by: Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium at July 12, 2022 06:40 AM (thbCK)

138 Needs work
Posted by: Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium

Great minds

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:40 AM (vd8XM)

139 Damn Damn Dammit

Posted by: Tex and Edna Boil's Horde Mind Emporium at July 12, 2022 06:41 AM (thbCK)

140 Good morning morons.

Bad outcomes are due to Bad Luck, not leftist policy. If you do not agree, you are a white supremacist.
-Canadian PM, Dutch PM, Sri Lankan PM, Albanian PM, and FJB

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2022 06:42 AM (EZebt)

141 But well-funded Western advocacy groups kept pushing for it - keep pushing for it - regardless, as we see right now in the Netherlands.

Hey, they've learned their lessons. In the Netherlands they want to eliminate the poop also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 12, 2022 06:43 AM (GYIa4)

142 Pixy, did you see your girl is graduating?

Posted by: Ace's liver at July 12, 2022 06:43 AM (wGeit)

143 An act of kindness- Story from "Sunny Skyz"

https://tinyurl.com/uwbz4wyk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 12, 2022 06:43 AM (znmNm)

144 Breakfast time!

Posted by: Bruce at July 12, 2022 06:44 AM (vd8XM)

145 In local news, a murder suspect is released from jail on $50K bond.

The judge noted Quindray Threatt poses no significant threat to commit a felony. Last time he bailed out, he was arrested for three separate felonies.

No I am not making that name up.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2022 06:45 AM (sn5EN)

146 28 Stop blowing the margins with links. Use tinyurl or one of the other services. [CBD]
-

OK. Had no idea. Always view on Windows where I've never seen a "margins" problem.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 12, 2022 06:46 AM (RctME)

147 Huh

Odd email-

"Mr. Miklos-In due to your respected personfulness, The President and Prime minister are offer the Crown and Throne of Albania for Your Respected Person. Please respectfully submit Certain Sums for required Modalities."

Posted by: Miklos barely even speaks the lovely language of Sqiper at July 12, 2022 06:47 AM (thbCK)

148 Farming: You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes corn.-Bloomberg

Posted by: Case at July 12, 2022 06:47 AM (tmQgQ)

149 Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:29 AM (ex2Cx)

It could be as simple as Biden's natural antipathy toward Jews.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2022 06:48 AM (XIJ/X)

150 sad part is, bloomberg has a better grasp of it than most !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 06:49 AM (a82Er)

151 Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 12, 2022 06:46 AM (RctME)

Lots of people read AoSHQ on their phones, and blown margins makes it difficult.

Thanks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2022 06:50 AM (XIJ/X)

152 142 Pixy, did you see your girl is graduating?

Yes. Sad but not entirely unexpected.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 12, 2022 06:50 AM (JemV7)

153 >>>Pennsylvania dentist and big game hunter, 67, goes on trial for 'shooting and killing his wife on African safari to get her $4.8million life insurance and be with his mistress'

>Dumbass should have just let a charging lion taken her out. Or would that violate the policy?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2022 06:51 AM (0ocXn)

154 Good morning

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 06:52 AM (Q9YUL)

155 Are blown margins still 25 bux?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:53 AM (ex2Cx)

156 Pennsylvania dentist and big game hunter, 67, goes on trial for 'shooting and killing his wife on African safari to get her $4.8million life insurance and be with his mistress'

I'm a bit disappointed in the DailyMail. Usually they also have a picture of the mistress.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 06:53 AM (Msys3)

157 It could be as simple as Biden's natural antipathy toward Jews.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

NO ANTHIPATY

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at July 12, 2022 06:53 AM (thbCK)

158 Adam Kinzinger — ‘There won’t be a single Trump supporter in 10 years

Dude no one will remember you come 11/8.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:54 AM (ex2Cx)

159 Biden WON'T shake hands with Prime Minister Yair Lapid or other ministers when he visits Israel on Wednesday due to surging COVID cases in the country

Stupid, just plain fucking stupid!
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:29 AM (ex2Cx)
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Mm hmm.

I wouldn't shake Biden's hand either.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2022 06:54 AM (EZebt)

160 Are blown margins still 25 bux?
Posted by: rhennigantx

Don't know.

Costs too much to drive into town.

Posted by: Miklos, hick in the sticks at July 12, 2022 06:54 AM (thbCK)

161 well duh!

BREAKING: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost says there is "not a whisper" that a 10-year-old child was raped and impregnated, there has been no request for crime lab results, and that Ohio's heartbeat law would have allowed such a young girl to get an abortion in the state.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 06:55 AM (ex2Cx)

162 148 Billionaires' school of agriculture. Have they got the informed consent from those they plan to starve during their experiments?

Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 06:56 AM (ONvIw)

163 Under the impression that using human feces for fertilizer caused cholera and other nasty diseases.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 06:56 AM (Q9YUL)

164 I wouldn't shake Biden's hand either.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Shake this?

dad will send 5k

Posted by: Hunter at July 12, 2022 06:56 AM (thbCK)

165 Toddler in underwear attacks Minnesota police as they try to serve a murder warrant. The kids punched, kicked, cursed, and threw rocks at the police and appeared to be encouraged by bystanders. One aspiring rapper of about 6 wearing only underwear hits cops and tells them to "Fk off!".

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2022 06:57 AM (sn5EN)

166 Billionaires' school of agriculture. Have they got the informed consent from those they plan to starve during their experiments?
Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 06:56 AM (ONvIw)

Consent? Do you ask your dog for consent?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 12, 2022 06:57 AM (GYIa4)

167 Mornin'
(Sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 12, 2022 06:59 AM (sAmhv)

168 166. Nobody should rest till the billionaires club is on shackles.

Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 06:59 AM (ONvIw)

169 Up in the country a hay farmer used some mixture from the sewerage plant to fertilized his field. The flies were so bad the county nixed the use.

Could smell it for a couple of miles too.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 06:59 AM (Q9YUL)

170 Rebel News Canada asks people from Amsterdam if they support the farmers;

https://tinyurl.com/24p7m7m6

Rebel News is a good place to go for other coverage of the Farmers actions as mainstream media is covering this story-with a pillow over its face-till it expires.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 12, 2022 07:01 AM (LwsYA)

171 Biden's trip is going to be gaffe-tastic.

I give 60-40 odds he starts a war.

His administration, especially national security and foreign policy apparatus, is rife with foreign and leftist Jew-haters. Just ask Valerie Jarrett.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2022 07:02 AM (EZebt)

172 Mm hmm.

I wouldn't shake Biden's hand either.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Like father like son and we saw sonny in the pool.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 07:03 AM (Q9YUL)

173 The foundational skills for learning need to be retaught,” said Georgia middle school counselor Tierney Langdon.

Counselors “described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started,” according to the Times.

What are things well have known since 2020 Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 07:03 AM (ex2Cx)

174 My question on the Ohio story centers on why the hell didnt Dewine, who has the AG and the State Police at his disposal, have this story checked out completely before going on that interview and looking like an idiot? Why, because he's on the side that wants to perpetuate this shit.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 07:04 AM (oWBc3)

175 Good morning all. Mmmmm. Coffee...

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 12, 2022 07:04 AM (yEBFM)

176 The deal constructed quickly in April includes a mediocre $1 billion fee that would be paid by Musk if he walks away, assuming certain criteria are met.

Why the hell would nasdaq.com allow this kind of bullshit from their writers??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 07:05 AM (ex2Cx)

177 158 Adam Kinzinger — ‘There won’t be a single Trump supporter in 10 years

Dude no one will remember you come 11/8.
Posted by: rhennigantx

They barely know who he is now.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 12, 2022 07:06 AM (sAmhv)

178 before going on that interview and looking like an idiot?
Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022

Uhhh, because he is an idiot?

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 12, 2022 07:06 AM (yEBFM)

179 Kids are resilient, unless they are getting pounded with fear porn at home and then at school on a continuous basis.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 07:06 AM (oWBc3)

180 174 My question on the Ohio story centers on why the hell didnt Dewine, who has the AG and the State Police at his disposal, have this story checked out completely before going on that interview and looking like an idiot? Why, because he's on the side that wants to perpetuate this shit.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 07:04 AM (oWBc3)

My guess is that the Progressives throw out 50 to 100 stories like this weekly knowing 1 or 2 will have stickiness.

Point is, read and hear everything with a healthy grain of salt!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 07:07 AM (ex2Cx)

181 There won't be a single Trump supporter in 10 years. I'll take, "Riffs on things King George said about Jefferson in 1776 for a thousand, Alex".

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 07:08 AM (oWBc3)

182 Abe called for a “broader Asia” spanning not only the Pacific, but the Indian Ocean as well—“seas of freedom and prosperity, which will be open and transparent to all.”

CCP did not like this at all!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 07:09 AM (ex2Cx)

183 Dutch boaters in Urk react to nationwide farmer protests
By Rebel News
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Well, I'd be irked too.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 07:09 AM (Q9YUL)

184 My nomination for best headline of the week:

US tourist fell into Mount Vesuvius after taking selfie and ignoring signs

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 12, 2022 07:09 AM (yEBFM)

185 Dewine being able to say, "that's a damnable lie", would have been more than useful, and it's his job to know.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 07:09 AM (oWBc3)

186 Miklos, finally King of Albania.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2022 07:10 AM (EZebt)

187 Everyone have a lovely day! back to work...

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 12, 2022 07:10 AM (yEBFM)

188 CCP did not like this at all!
Posted by: rhennigantx
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Wouldn't be surprised if CCP finger prints and whispers were found close to that nitwit.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 07:11 AM (Q9YUL)

189 184 My nomination for best headline of the week:

US tourist fell into Mount Vesuvius after taking selfie and ignoring signs

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 12, 2022 07:09 AM (yEBFM)

Darwin Award candidate.

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 07:12 AM (8rTNG)

190 Pennsylvania dentist and big game hunter, 67, goes on trial for 'shooting and killing his wife on African safari to get her $4.8million life insurance and be with his mistress'

Wasn't that a James Thurber short story?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 12, 2022 07:12 AM (2JVJo)

191 Well, I'd be irked too.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12

Thanks. Good job. My first chuckle of the day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 12, 2022 07:12 AM (LwsYA)

192 All the local women, and about 80% of the men, adore organic ag, and serious nonorganic lawn chemicals . They're so ill informed and yet they'd tell you they're intellectuals. I want to see academics hoeing fields

Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 07:13 AM (ONvIw)

193 VDH Nails it:
Indeed, when various pollsters recently asked the public what their chief worries were, they found the culprits were the prohibitive price of gasoline, the ruinous effects of hyperinflation, supply chain shortages, the nonexistent southern border, or the escalating violent crime wave—all of which concerns are of apparent little interest to left-wing billionaires.

In other words, the worries of the Antoinette liberal elite—climate change, abortion on demand, transgenderism, strict gun-control—are not those that terrify the middle and lower classes. The latter, for some reason, first want to survive one more day with enough affordable food and energy and to be safe from criminals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 07:13 AM (ex2Cx)

194 I want to see academics hoeing fields
Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 07:13 AM (ONvIw)

Many academics are hos!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 07:14 AM (ex2Cx)

195 Loaded the car while it's still cool. Boxes to the dumpster. You get a delivery, and say that box might come in handy. Into the closet. Another, and under the sink. A couple under the bed. Enough of this, to the dumpster they go.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 12, 2022 07:14 AM (lz5hY)

196 12,795 items. Now a ~~book~~ kook.

She even admits it. From her "About the photographer"...

"As a neurotic collector..."

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 12, 2022 07:15 AM (8C7+r)

197 "As a neurotic collector..."
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

Why would anyone collect neurotics? That seems odd.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 07:16 AM (Msys3)

198 My guess is that the Progressives throw out 50 to 100 stories like this weekly knowing 1 or 2 will have stickiness.

Point is, read and hear everything with a healthy grain of salt!
Posted by: rhennigantx

The Obamian term was "stray voltage"

Posted by: Miklos does recall at July 12, 2022 07:16 AM (thbCK)

199 "12,795 items"

She lives simple. I think our house must be close to 1,000,000

Posted by: Ripley at July 12, 2022 07:16 AM (MxEKc)

200 200!

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 07:16 AM (8rTNG)

201 185 Dewine being able to say, "that's a damnable lie", would have been more than useful, and it's his job to know.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 12, 2022 07:09 AM (oWBc3)
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Every day, somewhere, a Republican official has an opportunity to hand it back to them DeSantis/Trump style but choose to tuck their tail and walk away.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 07:17 AM (Q9YUL)

202 Miklos, finally King of Albania.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

The Albanian People cry out!

Posted by: King Miklos makes appeal for much needed vowels at July 12, 2022 07:17 AM (thbCK)

203 And its usual even handed journalistic fashion some site reporting on the murder of the dentist's
Wife asks, "Did this Trump loving, leopard hunting dentist kill his wife?"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 12, 2022 07:17 AM (LwsYA)

204 Bucks Up!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 12, 2022 07:17 AM (ex2Cx)

205 99 I hope you’re not inferring that MIL has RCH…

Posted by: forgot my nic at July 12, 2022 07:19 AM (fuuzQ)

206 Dewine being able to say, "that's a damnable lie", would have been more than useful, and it's his job to know.

I would bet dollars to donuts DeWine would whimper, "but that's not who we are!"

Nickelfucking assholes like that need to be driven out of the party and told to FOAD.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 12, 2022 07:20 AM (2JVJo)

207 194. Nearly all

Posted by: CN at July 12, 2022 07:21 AM (ONvIw)

208 Dewine being able to say, "that's a damnable lie", would have been more than useful, and it's his job to know.
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Sworn law enforcement officer is a 'mandated reporter' just like health care professionals. (definitions of officer and professional used advisedly)

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 12, 2022 07:25 AM (MIKMs)

209 Ha Ha Ha, this is too funny,

Britain begins to BURN:
Blaze breaks out at SOLAR FARM, wildfires rage and roads melt ... as UK heads for deadly three-day heatwave 100F from Sunday
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It's going to be 100 for three days, ... come to Arizona.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 07:34 AM (Q9YUL)

210 "Every day, somewhere, a Republican official has an opportunity to hand it back to them DeSantis/Trump style but choose to tuck their tail and walk away.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 12, 2022 07:17 AM (Q9YUL) "

and that's at best; at worst, they broadcast their wholehearted support !

we need 300 MTG's, Boeberts, and that guy with the 'make rifles great again" ad !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - now with extra enthusiasm because COFFEE ! at July 12, 2022 07:38 AM (a82Er)

211 Of any group of people, you'd think the Navy would be able to lash something down to a ship so it wouldn't blow overboard.

Posted by: Semper Why at July 12, 2022 07:40 AM (lGiFs)

212 Love that kitteh video

Posted by: Draki at July 12, 2022 07:43 AM (oJyfm)

213 TonyPete - I saw that lecture as well. One of the greats.

Posted by: Semper Why at July 12, 2022 07:50 AM (lGiFs)

214 The Sri Lanka thing is flat out false and you people should stop repeating it all over the place. What happened is that the government was controlled by a corrupt nepotistic dumbass and his incompetent brother, which caused assorted economic problems meaning they couldn't pay for the fertilizer inputs, so they proclaimed the green policy as a way of covering their own asses and pretending it was all on purpose. It was entirely and totally a cover story to divert from screwups that had been going on for years.

Posted by: rold at July 12, 2022 08:23 AM (8baoY)

215 18 Birthday cards from the 70's? Hell yes, we saved 'em. And on and on.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 12, 2022 05:14 AM (Msys3)

Me, too.

Posted by: m at July 12, 2022 09:08 AM (GkGYg)

216 At the back of the organic farming shortfalls is something worse than loopy pipe-dreaming about the preferred "natural" method of farming.

The ugly unsaid is a desire to reduce the number of people that can be fed. Climate cultists toss out words like "sustainable". But what they mean, at the end of the day, is to reduce the capacity for population growth. iIf they can't get Malthus to come to us because we keep fixing him with increased food production, they will go an fetch him by breaking that capacity.

They view the ability to expand food production like building a new highway commuter lane, you are just asking for more commuters to fill it up, so better to break the ability get around by car instead.

They want to kill you. That's all there is to it.

Posted by: Sarahw at July 12, 2022 10:07 AM (g1vnC)

217 Rathergood!!!!!

First Drink Of The Day, We're All Winning, and the Axolotl song are my personal favorites.

Posted by: Happy at July 12, 2022 10:18 AM (zDTN3)

218 The speed of light is almost exactly a one foot per nanosecond. Grace Hopper liked to hand out one foot lengths of wire to illustrate the point.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 12, 2022 06:10 AM (JemV7

She also had some poor seaman carrying around various other lengths of wire to represent different time durations. Don't think she could have gotten further than a couple of hundred nanoseconds, though, Maybe a millisecond? How much would a thousand feet of says 14 gauge weigh? How large of a spool would that take?

Posted by: Fox2! at July 12, 2022 11:06 AM (Aw7iX)

219 Rathergood.com had all kinds of funny kitten memes.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 12, 2022 11:26 AM (Mzdiz)

220 219 Rathergood.com had all kinds of funny kitten memes.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 12, 2022 11:26 AM (Mzdiz)

they do, for sure. I was a fan as soon as I saw that initial Quiznos commercial.

Posted by: Happy at July 12, 2022 11:47 AM (zDTN3)

221 "Sri Lanka's government insisted it would create that poop."
Well, you have to admit that was at least a credible statement.

Posted by: GWB at July 12, 2022 05:45 PM (QHHuJ)

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