Daily Tech News 4 August 2024

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Should we try cooling the planet with sulphur dioxide? (Japan Times)

I mean, we know that it works. What's the catch?
"The whole notion of spraying sulfur compounds to reflect sunlight is arrogant and simplistic," Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki said. "There are unintended consequences of powerful technologies like these, and we have no idea what they will be."
Yeah, we have no idea what would happen if large amounts of sulphur dioxide were suddenly released into the upper atmosphere because such a thing has never happened before.
Raymond Pierrehumbert, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Oxford, said he considered solar geoengineering a grave threat to human civilization.

"It's not only a bad idea in terms of something that would never be safe to deploy," he said. "But even doing research on it is not just a waste of money, but actively dangerous."
I'll just pause here to say that this is a wonderful case of nominative determinism, because this is precisely what you would expect to hear from someone named Raymond Pierrehumbert.
Opponents of solar geoengineering cite several main risks. They say it could create a "moral hazard," mistakenly giving people the impression that it is not necessary to rapidly reduce fossil fuel emissions.
In other words, I don't want to solve the problem. I want global communism.

Tech News

The Starbook from Starlabs is a 14" burger with the lot. Starlabs)

A 4k screen, the Four Essential Keys, a 16 core Intel 165H processor, up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, an M.2 2280 SSD (there's also what looks like an M.2 2230 slot but that may be for wifi), two Thunderbolt 4 ports, three USB ports, HDMI, a micro SD slot, and a headphone jack.

It comes with a choice of six flavours of Linux preinstalled, or you can load Windows onto it yourself.
The Ars commentariat is absolutely foaming at the mouth at the thought that Congress might have to write laws that actually say what they mean. (Ars Technica)

This is probably the craziest I have ever seen them.
Intel knew about its CPU oxidation issue in late 2022. (WCCFTech)

That's 18 months before the company told customers about it.

Some people have asked if Intel CPUs can be considered reliable once the new microcode update is out. Unfortunately, we don't know, because information from Intel itself has not been reliable.
Though Puget Systems says it has seen more failures with AMD chips than with Intel. (Tom's Hardware)

Sort of. Worth taking a look at the article if you plan to buy.

Failures in Ryzen 5000 CPUs seem high, but those are approaching four years old now, much older than Intel's 13th and 14th gen chips. Failures in Ryzen 7000 are also high, but those failures are almost all before systems are sold to the customer.

The best reliability on this chart comes from Intel's 12th gen chips, which you basically can't get anymore.
Zen 5 benchmarks show that hyperthreading provides 18% better performance for 2% more power consumption. (Tom's Hardware)

Intel is removing hyperthreading from its own chips to make the performance cores smaller. Instead the plan is to add more efficiency cores - which never had hyperthreading - in the space saved to get back that performance.

That will certainly work, but it's also part of why Intel's consumer chips don't have AVX-512 support right now. The efficiency cores don't have it, only the performance cores, and that made software support just too complicated. Moving a task from one core to another in the same chip could cause it to fail.

Disclaimer: Which is widely considered a bad thing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at August 04, 2024 04:02 AM (64Zez)

3 491 tinyurl.com/yfruamux
Top 20 Tweets Posts Tonight: Chicken-mala Harris Ducking Debate With Trump
Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 03:50 AM (fwDg9)

Thanks, Skip!

Posted by: m at August 04, 2024 04:03 AM (64Zez)

4 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tuna at August 04, 2024 04:03 AM (oaGWv)

5 tinyurl.com/yfruamux
Top 20 Tweets Posts Tonight: Chicken-mala Harris Ducking Debate With Trump

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

6 Somehow downloading the QR App the other day changed the way my phone looks.
Won't do that again

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 04:05 AM (fwDg9)

7 I shouldn't be hete, didn't get to bed until 10pm

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 04:06 AM (fwDg9)

8 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 04, 2024 04:06 AM (dg+HA)

9 The Pierrehumbert should be established as a recognized unit of measure like Hertz, Volt, or Tesla.

Perhaps as a measure of bullshit per cubic furlong.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2024 04:17 AM (dg+HA)

10 >>>In other words, I don't want to solve the problem. I want global communism.

Because me me me me me me me me me.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2024 04:23 AM (64Zez)

11 I emptied it other day but wasn't around all yesterday so no idea. Wife does take cate of it.
On other hand rained yesterday

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 04:27 AM (fwDg9)

12 PierreHumbert sounds like " Humbert Humbert" the awful character from the the novel " Lolita"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 04:29 AM (TgfuY)

13 I consider geoengineering and communism to be bad.

Embrace the power of "and."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 04, 2024 04:31 AM (+H2BX)

14 Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 04:06 AM (fwDg9

Have you tried magnesium gummies, Skip? It works better for me than melatonin which makes me groggy. It is hard for one's body to adjust on the days when one could theoretically sleep in if you have to be up 5:00 a.m or earlier on five other days .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 04:34 AM (4dxjP)

15 Good morning, Pixy and the Horde. I woke up over an hour ago and can't get back to sleep. I also have company, so I mustn't make noise.

The start-up "Making Sunsets", IMO a really punchable carbon-credit seller, pissed off the Mexican government with its unauthorized injection of sulphur particles into the local skies. The excuse the polluter gave for doing it was something like "I did it in Mexico because I live here". I thought my former neighbor was bad for throwing empty bottles and bags of human waste into his backyard! I never learned if he was deported into a vat of sulphuric acid.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 04, 2024 04:39 AM (MJP/n)

16 The Peugeot Pierrehumbert was a commuter vehicle introduced in the mid 70s in response to the Arab oil crisis.

With three cylinders, three wheels, and three doors it was gay as a three dollar bill.

Only two remain in existence and neither in running condition. One is a sideshow attraction in a traveling circus in Hungary and the other serves as a field obstacle in a paintball park on the outskirts of Bratislava.

Posted by: Car nerd at August 04, 2024 04:39 AM (dg+HA)

17 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:42 AM (a1415)

18 According to Insty, Lebanon may be about to have a bit of 'Bad Luck'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:43 AM (a1415)

19 BOING!

Kellyanne Conway, grifter:

https://tinyurl.com/pyac7484

About Conway's Viktor Pinchuk:

https://tinyurl.com/3u32cyy5

And Conway was a WH leaker:

https://tinyurl.com/yc584cpb

She and her husband, George, tricked us. They're a tag-team of grifters, playing good-cop/bad-cop. It's been in front of our faces all the time. The family name is Con-Way!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:45 AM (i5qaN)

20 So Humbert Humbert wants control of a girl and this Pierre Humbert, it sounds like, wants control of everybody,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 04:45 AM (4dxjP)

21 According to Insty, Lebanon may be about to have a bit of 'Bad Luck'.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:43 AM (a1415)
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We're all at the ready here. I only hope that Lebanon really gets what's coming to it, because Israel has done mostly nonsense up to now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:48 AM (i5qaN)

22 Baltimore, DC got hammered with storms yesterday.

MiL's neighbor's tree shed a limb right into the transformer serving her block.

Transformer shifted into' tin can on top of pole, with flames coming out of it' mode.

Perhaps later today they will get power back.

Friends were flying Lufthansa from Dulles to Frankfort at about the same time. They sat on the tarmac for over four hours, and now there is no record of the flight either being cancelled, nor completed. So I have no idea where they physically are at this moment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:48 AM (a1415)

23
I think that Pixy has been lying to all of you. I just heard Kamala Harris explain cloud storage. A better explanation is simple not available. She is the one for we who need a one.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at August 04, 2024 04:50 AM (RKVpM)

24 "We're all at the ready here. "

Stay safe.

Prayers for you, your family, and the nation of Israel.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:50 AM (a1415)

25 I just heard Kamala Harris explain cloud storage. A better explanation is simple not available. She is the one for we who need a one.
Posted by: Karen CheChe at August 04, 2024 04:50 AM (RKVpM)
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I've taken my privacy and security one step higher, thanks to Kamala's setting an example.

I salad-encrypt my data before uploading it to the cloud.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:52 AM (i5qaN)

26
Friends were flying Lufthansa from Dulles to Frankfort at about the same time. They sat on the tarmac for over four hours, and now there is no record of the flight either being cancelled, nor completed. So I have no idea where they physically are at this moment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:48 AM

Schrödinger's friends.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 04:52 AM (RKVpM)

27 Stay safe.

Prayers for you, your family, and the nation of Israel.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:50 AM (a1415)
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Thanks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:52 AM (i5qaN)

28 Friends were flying Lufthansa from Dulles to Frankfort at about the same time. They sat on the tarmac for over four hours, and now there is no record of the flight either being cancelled, nor completed. So I have no idea where they physically are at this moment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:48 AM
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Not flying over the Bermuda Triangle, are they?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:53 AM (i5qaN)

29 I have a young friend from NJ stuck in Florida with her boyfriend. She panicked because she thinks she will be fired if she's not back to work on Monday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 04:54 AM (ueLYj)

30 So, howz new UK PM der Starmer doing?

https://tinyurl.com/9exuvnz4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:57 AM (i5qaN)

31 Signs of Bidenomics are everywhere:

https://tinyurl.com/4956jcd3

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:57 AM (i5qaN)

32 I agree. This is BOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/3uxd4ket

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:57 AM (i5qaN)

33 "Schrödinger's friends. "

Lufthansa Pilot: Two Trophy Class Mitsubishi A6Ms in original condition, complete with all markings. I mean, they look brand new sir!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 04:58 AM (a1415)

34 In other words, I don't want to solve the problem. I want global communism.

The part where nothing climate-related has been proven to be a problem is a big deal here too. The Maldives aren't any smaller than they were, and the sea levels match today and 120 years ago in photographs of Sydney Harbor.

That's why Obama knows his beachfront house is perfectly safe. Unless you get hired as the chef.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 04, 2024 05:04 AM (noPDf)

35
Attended my niece's wedding yesterday afternoon outside Philadelphia. Outdoor ceremony. Big mistake.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2024 05:12 AM (rO3Tj)

36 "I'm just the driver"- a reflection from the Gospel of Matthew:

https://tinyurl.com/uuvh7wcw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:13 AM (ueLYj)

37
The knives are out for Josh Shapiro, covering up a murder, and covering up sexual harassment in his office. A deeply flawed, morally challenged running mate for Kamala. Perfect.

I mean, come one. Women slash a single wrist, or overdose. They don't stab themselves 20 times with a kitchen knife.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 05:14 AM (RKVpM)

38 I don't expect any thinking person actually wants to be Kamala's running mate, but somebody will be talked into it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:19 AM (ueLYj)

39 I don't expect any thinking person actually wants to be Kamala's running mate, but somebody will be talked into it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:19 AM (ueLYj)
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If Kamala resigns, the VP takes over.

https://youtu.be/7bF38rT7et0

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 05:24 AM (i5qaN)

40 I mean, come one. Women slash a single wrist, or overdose. They don't stab themselves 20 times with a kitchen knife.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 05:14 AM (RKVpM)
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Have you ever tried???

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 05:24 AM (i5qaN)

41 Good morning, good people. May all you do today result in benefit to you and yours.

An earnest prayer that the machinations of the deranged idiots proposing release of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere be permanently thwarted is needed.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 04, 2024 05:26 AM (hKoQL)

42 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2024 05:12 AM

I don't really understand why people do outdoor weddings. Yes; I know it can be beautiful but it can also be hot as hell or have torrential downpours. If people are not religious why not just get married in the hall where you're having your reception?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:27 AM (ueLYj)

43 Spent all day yesterday without internet. Very odd feeling.

Dogsitting grandpuppy since Wed night. Wonderful beastie (shepherd mix) but exhausting for someone accustomed to ancient dogs. Old Cat is still angry at the pup and pup tries to imitate the hiss and growl. Sounds like puppy is choking on something so first few times he tried it, I'm running to get something out of his mouth.

He leaves tonight and Old Cat and I will be able to sleep.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 04, 2024 05:29 AM (QdFsK)

44 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 05:24 AM (i5qaN)

Yes; I understand that. I don't think Kamala would resign and most of them can wait to be the "big cheese" in four years,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:29 AM (tn/Pf)

45 Don't take any sleep aid, if I get to bed on time it's not a terrible problem.
Just cat napping , should just get up

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 05:34 AM (fwDg9)

46 Time to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024 05:35 AM (a1415)

47 Lack of eye contact may make people ruder online:

https://tinyurl.com/yc2mn3b8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:40 AM (tn/Pf)

48 by: mustbequantum at August 04, 2024 05:29 AM (QdFsK

That does sound exhausting, but it was kind of you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:42 AM (tn/Pf)

49 Mrs. BD just called to tell me that they're heading back home after a quiet morning at the beach:

https://tinyurl.com/mwbs9r6h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 05:43 AM (i5qaN)

50 I've long maintained the anonymity of the internet is the single greatest testosterone enhancer yet discovered.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 04, 2024 05:45 AM (hKoQL)

51 Evening and morning for a scintillating Sunday to all the AoSHQ outposts! (I just typed that word to see if I could do it without too much fumbling. It's just Sunday, neither more nor less.)

I actually slept six hours straight last night. Some weird dream was in there about riding a motorcycle in the neighborhood where I work on a cold rainy night, driving it up a side street, and *leaving* it (??) to try to walk the rest of the way home. This path led me through the back entrances of some shops that, looking back, I've actually been inside of during waking life.

Just before I woke up, I was searching on that same side street for the abandoned motorbike.

The dreaming mind knows what the dreaming mind knows, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 05:48 AM (omVj0)

52 I've long maintained the anonymity of the internet is the single greatest testosterone enhancer yet discovered.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 04, 2024 05:45 AM (hKoQL)
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Even when not anonymous, the ability to not look someone in the eye when addressing them make one more susceptible to being more rude and vulgar than they would otherwise.

Of course in this generation, there's no lack of in-your-face people without the Internet. Education begins at home.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 05:48 AM (i5qaN)

53 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2024 05:49 AM (86W+h)

54 ime to get ready for the morning walk.

BBIAB
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2024

***
As must I, VIA. I didn't go on Friday, so today makes three days off. This morning I will carefully NOT look at the temp/heat index out there before I go. (I'll check afterward, and probably have a retroactive heat stroke.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 05:50 AM (omVj0)

55 The Killer Kittenz From Outer Space must be fed. And I need a second cup of coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 05:51 AM (omVj0)

56 Is testosterone the same as rudeness?

Have a good day everyone. I thank the less "overreactive" people here snd fortunately have
a service and can avoid some of the "mighty mind readers" ( " You think this " . "You think that ") or people who put in a fair amount
Of time at the
AS insult factory. This is really the best thread aside from speciality threads

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 05:53 AM (dv+mm)

57 I served with Pierrehumbert. I knew Pierrehumbert. Pierrehumbert was a friend of mine. You are no Pierrehumbert!

Posted by: Lloyd Bentsenhumbert at August 04, 2024 05:55 AM (PiwSw)

58
""The whole notion of spraying sulfur compounds to reflect sunlight is arrogant and simplistic," Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki said.

Suzuki is the definition of arrogant and simplistic.
Dr. Fruitfly knows no more about the environment than my dogs do.

He owns 2 waterfront mansions on the Pacific ocean and once, during a CBC interview, referred to his own children as bananas because, and I quote, "they were yellow on the outside and white on the inside."

Posted by: Speller at August 04, 2024 05:56 AM (pSotA)

59 Happy Sunday

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 05:57 AM (gbOdA)

60 Have a good day everyone. I thank the less "overreactive" people here snd fortunately have
a service and can avoid some of the "mighty mind readers" ( " You think this " . "You think that ") or people who put in a fair amount
Of time at the
AS insult factory. This is really the best thread aside from speciality threads
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024

***
Morning, Fen!

And just think: AoS is generally so much more civil and grownup than a LOT of places on the 'Net! Who else has a Pet Thread, a Gardening Thread, or a Book Thread on a regular basis? Where else would the Boss post cute videos of animals in an evening "cafe"?

I've never hit the tip jar for any other spot on the 'Net. Which reminds me, it's time for me to make a contribution.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 05:58 AM (omVj0)

61 Grit has 1966's Hombre w/ Paul Newman, Diane Cilento, and Richard Boone among others, starting right now. Based on one of Elmore Leonard's best Westerns. I wish I could stay and see the whole thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 06:01 AM (omVj0)

62
The air conditioners in the kennel can't seem to keep up with the heat and Her Majesty felt compelled to bring the senior dogs up to the house. Now I feel badly about making this trip and leaving her to face this by herself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2024 06:06 AM (rO3Tj)

63 The dreaming mind knows what the dreaming mind knows, I guess.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 05:48 AM (omVj0)
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I had some oddly entertaining dreams for a bit, but then they morphed into truly disturbing body horror...That's what I get for reading Dean Koontz, I suppose...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 04, 2024 06:07 AM (BpYfr)

64 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 04, 2024 06:07 AM (d5jDg)

65 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:09 AM (3Fz6p)

66 We're all at the ready here. I only hope that Lebanon really gets what's coming to it, because Israel has done mostly nonsense up to now.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:48 AM (i5qaN)
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The trebuchet was kinda cool, though.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:10 AM (3Fz6p)

67 Based on one of Elmore Leonard's best Westerns.
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The one in Edison NJ was pretty nice.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:11 AM (3Fz6p)

68
Going to Mass this morning in Conshohocken. My concerns are 1) getting there and 2) finding a place to park. It's a bit jarring coming from Houston to SE PA, where everything is right up against the narrow roads and the parking lots are tiny.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2024 06:11 AM (rO3Tj)

69 Took a 40 minute predawn walk on a nice August morning with a new moon. Avoided the new really upscale development in my AOR because the sidewalks are so close to the densely packed homes I would activate a whole series of doorbell cameras and set NextDoor aflame. Stuck to the older neighborhoods instead and listened to the chirping of the crickets.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2024 06:15 AM (dg+HA)

70
I would activate a whole series of doorbell cameras and set NextDoor aflame.

_________

I would walk there simply to do exactly that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2024 06:17 AM (rO3Tj)

71 Conshohocken?
On purpose?

Posted by: Shakes head in wonder at August 04, 2024 06:19 AM (dg+HA)

72 - solar geoengineering

For starters, SO2. Add an H and a couple O's...
Not to mention it's a cover for what they've been doing for over two decades. Know what the slang term for geoengineering is?

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2024 06:20 AM (ufMqE)

73 Sorry, 2 H's. Barely into 1st cup.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2024 06:21 AM (ufMqE)

74
Chinese factories: "We're not polluting, we're geoengineering!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2024 06:21 AM (rO3Tj)

75 One. Two. Whatever it takes.

Posted by: Non-chemist at August 04, 2024 06:22 AM (dg+HA)

76 >>> The trebuchet was kinda cool, though.

If we had a real press corps someone would have asked Mel Brooks for comment.

Posted by: fluffy at August 04, 2024 06:25 AM (86W+h)

77 Good morning to one and all. Appears that rioting and looting are the order of the day in Old Blighty.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2024 06:27 AM (5MvGY)

78 There once was a foolish young chemist
Of whom we shall hear no more
For what he thought was aitch two oh
Was aitch two ess oh four.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:29 AM (3Fz6p)

79 - H2SO4
Not a chemist either. 10 years of environmental lab teching. Last 4 running GCMS mostly checking ground water for gasoline fractions.
Take a real chemist to tell ya what conditions it would take for the combining reaction to occur.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2024 06:30 AM (ufMqE)

80 - Pretty acidic comment there Captain.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2024 06:32 AM (ufMqE)

81 Going to Mass this morning in Conshohocken. My concerns are 1) getting there and 2) finding a place to park. It's a bit jarring coming from Houston to SE PA, where everything is right up against the narrow roads and the parking lots are tiny.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2024 06:11 AM (rO3Tj)

FWIW, my buddy got married in Conshohocken years ago at a Catholic church (probably the same one you're going to) and as I recall, parking was completely unmemorable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2024 06:32 AM (BAEGB)

82 Take a real chemist to tell ya what conditions it would take for the combining reaction to occur.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2024 06:30 AM (ufMqE)
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We learned a little about that.

Posted by: Donora PA at August 04, 2024 06:33 AM (3Fz6p)

83 Hey, i have a 13th gen! I should get to backing evvvverything up. Fcking great.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 04, 2024 06:33 AM (KAi1n)

84 Good morning to one and all. Appears that rioting and looting are the order of the day in Old Blighty.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2024 06:27 AM (5M

And I think those rightfully pissed off folks are getting ready to get the J6 treatment. It’s mind boggling the extent both our governments go to protect the Muslim invaders.

Posted by: Spypeach at August 04, 2024 06:33 AM (UuB/1)

85 Spypeach, I don't know. The police are being overwhelmed at every turn. They are begging for water cannons.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2024 06:35 AM (5MvGY)

86 SFGoth, was it you or SanFranpsycho who worked for KH when she was DA in San Francisco?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:35 AM (3Fz6p)

87 25
I salad-encrypt my data before uploading it to the cloud.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:52 AM (i5qaN)
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Iceberg bit encryption or great lakes bit encryption? Also the whole head?

Posted by: Ciampino - Tech Stuff #01 at August 04, 2024 06:36 AM (qfLjt)

88 Captain Obvious, it is SanFranpsycho

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2024 06:36 AM (5MvGY)

89 Finally getting up

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 06:37 AM (fwDg9)

90 Captain Obvious, it is SanFranpsycho
Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2024 06:36 AM (5MvGY)
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Thanks! I could never remember which.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:37 AM (3Fz6p)

91 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:40 AM (3Fz6p)

92 I feel.like I got hot by a truck

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 06:40 AM (fwDg9)

93 James P. Hogan the science fiction writer is still a better scientist than the idiots we have now trying to bend Nature herself to suit their whims.

Sulphur Dioxide. Indeed. These boffins need to bask in the pyroclastic glow of an erupting volcano.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2024 06:42 AM (5rlb6)

94 More AI generated art. Since I have been watching Star Trek: TOS movies:

https://tinyurl.com/bddsw6f5

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2024 06:45 AM (5rlb6)

95 Did you see that Nvidia is delaying release of Blackwell due to a design flaw?

Posted by: longwing at August 04, 2024 06:47 AM (EB/HL)

96 Isn't sulfur dioxide considered a pollutant by the EPA? Isn't it one of the more heavily regulated industrial emissions that is known to *actually* cause some nasty environmental damage if it's released willy nilly into the air?

We Are The Carbon They Want To Get Rid Of, to coin a phrase.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 04, 2024 06:47 AM (BAEGB)

97 Why would methane act as a reflective? Or CO2?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 06:49 AM (gbOdA)

98 Warai-otoko

Time to pattern the carbon units infesting Earth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2024 06:49 AM (5rlb6)

99 Maybe the CLOUD can protect us

https://tinyurl.com/yzkyxwta

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 06:51 AM (gbOdA)

100 SO2 == the acid rain of the 80s-90s. All the forests were going to die. The Great Lakes would become acidic and kill all the fish. Etc Etc Etc.
Isn't B. Gates one of the proponents for this SO2 into the sky?

Posted by: Ciampino - Tech Stuff #02 at August 04, 2024 06:54 AM (qfLjt)

101 Birdbath is up on its stand to wife filled it

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 06:54 AM (fwDg9)

102 Series of assassinations leaves Yahya Sinwar de facto Hamas leader and top Israeli target

Good news: you da king
Bad news: you da target

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 06:54 AM (gbOdA)

103 Iceberg bit encryption or great lakes bit encryption? Also the whole head?
Posted by: Ciampino - Tech Stuff #01 at August 04, 2024 06:36 AM (qfLjt)
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Kale-o-bites of it!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 06:54 AM (i5qaN)

104 I remember it as
Willy was a chemist
Willy is no more
What Willy thought was H 2 O
Was H 2 S O 4

Posted by: Ciampino - Tech Stuff #03 at August 04, 2024 06:56 AM (qfLjt)

105 Series of assassinations leaves Yahya Sinwar de facto Hamas leader and top Israeli target

Good news: you da king
Bad news: you da target
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 06:54 AM (gbOdA)
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Should've been carbonated Oct. 8. Instead, Mrs. BD and grandkids left the beach early today because of this:

https://tinyurl.com/mwbs9r6h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 06:56 AM (i5qaN)

106 89 Finally getting up

Ok, I'll go down.

Posted by: Mrs. Emhoff at August 04, 2024 06:57 AM (dg+HA)

107 Prospective tenant to landlord:
"What's that dark patch on the ceiling?"
"That's the previous tenant. He was a chemist."

Posted by: Ciampino - Tech Stuff #04 at August 04, 2024 06:58 AM (qfLjt)

108 107 Prospective tenant to landlord:
"What's that dark patch on the ceiling?"
"That's the previous tenant. He was a chemist."
Posted by: Ciampino - Tech Stuff #04 at August 04, 2024 06:58 AM (qfLjt)

Judges would have accepted bomb maker.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 07:00 AM (gbOdA)

109 mornin yall. This doesn't sound good:

"Cosmonaut who found blob growing outside International Space Station was told to leave area immediately after his discovery.

During the inspection, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko observed several holes in the radiator panel.

'The holes have very even edges, like they've been drilled through,' Kononenko told Mission Control.

After making this discovery, Kononeko was instructed to leave the area immediately after he saw the blob had made its way onto his safety tether - He had to perform a dangerous move while floating in outer space to fix this."

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

110 - I wonder if the story will ever be covered here. Really covered.
I doubt it. Back in, oh, 2009 - 2010ish I guess, just an icky, conspiracy theory. Per a weekday, mid-morning conversation.

The answer to my previous, slang term question...
Geoengineering = chemtrails

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2024 07:02 AM (ufMqE)

111 109 mornin yall. This doesn't sound good:

After making this discovery, Kononeko was instructed to leave the area immediately after he saw the blob had made its way onto his safety tether - He had to perform a dangerous move while floating in outer space to fix this."

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:00 AM (vFG9F)
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What is this about?

Posted by: Ciampino - Tech Stuff #05 at August 04, 2024 07:04 AM (qfLjt)

112
Maybe the CLOUD can protect us

If your file is in the cloud it's no longer in a physical place. That certainly keeps it much safer. You people who don't understand this are weird.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at August 04, 2024 07:05 AM (RKVpM)

113 SFGoth, was it you or SanFranpsycho who worked for KH when she was DA in San Francisco?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Franpsycho. I made my career suing S.F.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 04, 2024 07:06 AM (KAi1n)

114 *Cosmonaut who found blob growing outside International Space Station*

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Posted by: Standard chatroom response at August 04, 2024 07:07 AM (dg+HA)

115 "What is this about?
Posted by: Ciampino"

Ammonia coolant leak.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:07 AM (vFG9F)

116 ISS blob story is at uniladtech dot com.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:09 AM (vFG9F)

117 Decommissioning coal-fueled industry, then artificially injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, is sort of like taking pills to contract an STD at The Villages. You're going through all the motions, but there's really nothing productive to show for it.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 04, 2024 07:10 AM (zdLoL)

118 I have said often now, DJT and media mneed to keep Harris talking.
Just watch Bad Blue #14 to see what I mean

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 07:12 AM (fwDg9)

119
Ammonia coolant leak.

So "Mr. Clean" in other words.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at August 04, 2024 07:12 AM (RKVpM)

120 "blob"? ... "growing"?

that does sound ominous ...

g'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 04, 2024 07:15 AM (UWgy2)

121
I always got a kick out of OSHA regulations. You had to have 'Material Data Sheets' available for everything in the workplace, even for the most benign chemicals. Only exception? Household products like Mr. Clean.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 07:15 AM (RKVpM)

122 If there's a coolant leak on ISS, that means the junta better figure out quickly if they're gonna have worse publicity from killing two astronauts or letting enemy of the state Elon Musk save them.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 04, 2024 07:24 AM (t5upi)

123 So Intel is a lying scumbag that can no longer build chips that don't fail and apparently AMD has the same issue but at least they're honorable and tries not to ship them. And for extra credit, Microsoft has obsoleted all the chips that have been working fine for years and years because of their stupid windows 11 requirement. This is a joke right? What's that? It's not! Well crap now what am I supposed to do?

And so began our long computing nightmare, a winter of despair and the gnashing of teeth, a time of calculating the costs of the forbidden fruit, a period of knowing that not even the waddling animal with come hither eyes could offer us a pillow and sustenance.

Still, could it be that a champion has arrived with with qualities too green and a hidden dark soul filled with domination desires?

To be continued...

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at August 04, 2024 07:24 AM (9ICrH)

124 About that Starlabs thing? Yeah, it took me 8 months to get my Starlite Mk V. And I'm having a heck of a time using it as a tablet. The on-screen keyboard comes up when I'm logging in (if I don't have the physical keyboard attached), but it doesn't seem to come up with other software once you're logged in. (Also some trouble with even scrolling with some software.) I have yet to get it to work as a tablet.

However, I'm also learning Linux. So it might be me.

Posted by: GWB at August 04, 2024 07:25 AM (AWrpC)

125 Starbook link in the post is broken.

Here's the fixed one:
https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 04, 2024 07:27 AM (O7YUW)

126 I thought I recall a story about a wack job who drilled a hole in the space station. Great vetting of the specialists, sounds like.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2024 07:27 AM (8yWvW)

127 Those big inflatable bounce houses are dangerous. Kids get hurt in them all the time, they are nasty and germ infested, and have a tendency to take flight in wind gusts. A 5 year old in Maryland was just killed in one when it flew 20 feet into the air. I would avoid.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:28 AM (vFG9F)

128 - As a side note...

Those chemists and engineers that came up with theories on how gas chromatographs and mass spectrometry would work, and the subsequent advancements that increased sensitivity,,, I was in awe.
That's going back to the mid 80's and then 3 years 2004-07.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2024 07:29 AM (ufMqE)

129 "blob"? ... "growing"?

that does sound ominous ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 04, 2024 07:15 AM (UWgy2)
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One of the movies that gave me recurrent nightmares in my early childhood.

Thanks, Chiller Theater!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 07:30 AM (i5qaN)

130 Alteria Pilgram,

Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies.

Posted by: Linus Torvalds at August 04, 2024 07:30 AM (PiwSw)

131 You can turn off the TPM requirement to install Win11 on older CPUs but it's still garbage.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

132
I think 'Baltimore Bounce House' is in Urban Dictionary. If not, it should be.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 07:32 AM (RKVpM)

133 So Intel is a lying scumbag that can no longer build chips that don't fail and apparently AMD has the same issue but at least they're honorable and tries not to ship them.

The AMD 7xxx chips that are still current and on sale work 100% fine, and in #twoweeks there'll be faster ones. And once Intel ships the microcode update to make their chips stop burning themselves up to beat AMD on benchmarks they'll likely be fine too.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 04, 2024 07:33 AM (t5upi)

134 I hope the meteorologists are wrong about Tropical Strom Debby that’s formed over the Gulf and is moving over western Florida right now.

They are forecasting Debby will stall out once it reaches GA & SC. So here in SC the prediction is that it will be raining every day for a week, starting today and lasting until next Sunday or Monday.
There will probably be a lot of flooding from this thing.

Oh, and Wolfus, and everybody from East Texas to Mississippi, there’s an invest out in the mid-Atlantic that you guys need to watch. Long-range forecasts have this system possibly making it to the Gulf and coming your way in a week or so. Watch out for this one.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2024 07:36 AM (6ydKt)

135 Puxy, if you see this, the Starbook link is busted.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2024 07:36 AM (6ydKt)

136 "An Air Force veteran is calling on the Navy to permanently ground its iconic Blue Angels air displays in Seattle because the beloved performances are too loud and cause pollution.

Spectators’ risk for going deaf soars at the renowned air shows, where the noise levels are estimated to hover between 100 and 110 decibels, Dr. Breck Lebegue wrote in a Seattle Times op-ed ahead of scheduled demonstrations at the city’s annual Seafair Summer Festival."

How much you want to bet this guy wears a dress?

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

137
I was hoping Debby would do Dallas.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 07:38 AM (RKVpM)

138 Nevermind, Grumpy and Recalcitrant put up the link, thanks!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2024 07:38 AM (6ydKt)

139 We know Sulphur dioxide works because nominative warming has increased ever since requirements for low-sulphur bunker fuel for oceangoing ships has been implemented.

We were mitigating "global warming" all along with international trade!

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 04, 2024 07:42 AM (zrlyb)

140 Morning peeps

Weather related; yesterday was the first day in over a week here in KY it did not pour down rain. 3 1/4 inches since the 1st. Over 7" for the previous week.

I finished mowing the very wet grass yesterday afternoon and later today or tomorrow I'll have to pull the mower deck of the tractor and pressure wash it. It is caked with grass.

As for "Debbie"... that slut better stay away from us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2024 07:45 AM (Q4IgG)

141 RE: the Starbook thing, other people noted the broken link but you can search for it...

1) The site also has a link to a Starfighter model which seems a bit more powerful, with 13th gen processor instead of 12th. (tho I'd likely go for 7000 AMD processor instead, which does seem to be an option)

2) Unfortunately, both Starbook and Starfighter appear to be sold out.

My only annoyance is no ethernet port. Otherwise those come dangerously close to shut up and take my money material.

Posted by: Qwinn at August 04, 2024 07:45 AM (VmtEf)

142 I love the USSS excuse they deployed in trying to explain why they erased all of their Comms from the assassination attempt...

Well, we never save the Comms from Trumps events, why should this one be different?

I mean, right there, encapsulated in that one sentence, is so much to unpack, that you could probably spend weeks trying to sort through it all.

If this doesn't make people understand this was intentional, then nothing will.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 04, 2024 07:46 AM (XV/Pl)

143 >>This is probably the craziest I have ever seen them.

For my money, the stupidest commentariate is Slashdot's, followed closely by NR and then Ars.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 04, 2024 07:47 AM (XV/Pl)

144 >>How much you want to bet this guy wears a dress?
Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:38 AM (vFG9F)
****
Quick search shows he’s a psychiatrist, so yeah probably.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 04, 2024 07:47 AM (SQmE5)

145 I have a large black cat on my lap -- cradled in my left arm, in fact. Typing one-handed is no fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 07:52 AM (omVj0)

146 19 BOING!

Kellyanne Conway, grifter:

https://tinyurl.com/pyac7484

About Conway's Viktor Pinchuk:

https://tinyurl.com/3u32cyy5

And Conway was a WH leaker:

https://tinyurl.com/yc584cpb

She and her husband, George, tricked us. They're a tag-team of grifters, playing good-cop/bad-cop. It's been in front of our faces all the time. The family name is Con-Way!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 04:45 AM (i5qaN)

I never trusted the Conways - especially Kellyanne. She was definitely the big leaker within the WH. Around Oct 2020, when Trump came down with COVID, I wrote at the time that it was Kellyanne that gave it to him. She had already left the WH by that time, but somehow wormed her way back in for that reception for Amy Coney Barrett. Shortly after that, Trump had COVID. I suspected at the time that she exposed him to it on purpose, knowing that she had it. Tinfoil hat stuff at the time, I know. I stand by that statement now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 04, 2024 07:57 AM (yqw06)

147 'Mornin everyone. First cuppa coffee gone, now I need to get up and get the 2nd cuppa.

MegaRoy sez "mrrrpp" to everyone as well.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 04, 2024 07:57 AM (MsrgL)

148 Morning everyone. Thx Pixy. Golf at Olympics is good. Schauffele and Rahm -16, Fleetwood at -15.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2024 07:58 AM (+Fe1w)

149 I have a young friend from NJ stuck in Florida with her boyfriend. She panicked because she thinks she will be fired if she's not back to work on Monday.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2024 04:54 AM (ueLYj)

If it's that important, rent a car and drive. With two drivers, it's no problem. Made the trip many times in our younger days when we visited Florida.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 04, 2024 07:58 AM (iODuv)

150 "I never trusted the Conways - especially Kellyanne

Anybody that would stay with George is not to be trusted. Talk about weird...

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

151 118 I have said often now, DJT and media mneed to keep Harris talking.
Just watch Bad Blue #14 to see what I mean
Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 07:12 AM (fwDg9)

Trump's strategy is to continue talking to any and all interviewers to keep his name out there in free media. His goal is to get Kamala and him on the same stage, where the contrast between the two will be too stark for the electorate to ignore.

Kamala's strategy is to stay as invisible as possible and let the MSM do her campaigning for her. Her goal is to avoid any forum where she's forced to speak and have DJT respond in real-time. She needs to run out the clock to win.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 04, 2024 08:01 AM (yqw06)

152 I remember when diesel was cheaper than gasoline, before they took the sulphur out of it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2024 08:02 AM (ZACBQ)

153 When your mic drop leaves a half-mile wide crater:

https://is.gd/wqxK1S

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 04, 2024 08:02 AM (PiwSw)

154 In the infamous ClimateGate emails they spoke of SO2 emmissions from Chinese coal power plants causing localized cooling

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2024 08:06 AM (GITLP)

155 Jimmy Carter is trying to stay alive so he can vote for Harris:

"Less than two months until his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter reportedly has something other than his personal milestone to look forward to: voting for Vice President Kamala Harris."

At the AJC.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

156 67 Based on one of Elmore Leonard's best Westerns.
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The one in Edison NJ was pretty nice.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024

***
I knew that was coming as soon as I hit Post.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 08:06 AM (omVj0)

157 FU Jimmy. Just FU.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

158 Oh, and Wolfus, and everybody from East Texas to Mississippi, there’s an invest out in the mid-Atlantic that you guys need to watch. Long-range forecasts have this system possibly making it to the Gulf and coming your way in a week or so. Watch out for this one.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 04, 2024

***
Charming. Let it go to Mexico; I'm sure they need the rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 08:08 AM (omVj0)

159 > Kamala's strategy is to stay as invisible as possible and let the MSM do her campaigning for her.
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She pulled out of the proposed debate, didn't she?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2024 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

160 152 I remember when diesel was cheaper than gasoline, before they took the sulphur out of it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2024 08:02 AM (ZACBQ)

The Sulphur was also a lubricant and helped reduced valve wear.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

161 I appreciate the mic drop video clip about "Mrs. Willie Brown" but if you go ask wiki (I know) you'll see he married Blanche Vitero in 1958 and they divorced in 1982. Then he "dated" Comma Lah in 1994 and 1995.
So not exactly contemporaneous.
But still, all involved have the morality of, how you say, alley cats.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2024 08:10 AM (dg+HA)

162 I remember when diesel was cheaper than gasoline, before they took the sulphur out of it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2024

***
Mercedes-Benz remembers. In the '70s and '80s, they sold more diesel sedans in the US than they did gassers. People saw that diesel was cheaper, AND you got better mileage.

Now it's hard to find a diesel sedan by them or anybody. Maybe trucks, but no sedans. BMW might have some.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 08:11 AM (omVj0)

163
To put Josh Shapiro's height in perspective he's pictured with Fettermonster and his wife:

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/
1819720211659915691

/ unbelievable, they can't even get all of Fettermonsters head in the picture

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 08:12 AM (RKVpM)

164 GM tried to diesel cars and botched it terribly. At one time, diesel was the future, 'cause that's what they do in Europe.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

165
☕️

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2024 08:17 AM (/7KEl)

166 I have a large black cat on my lap -- cradled in my left arm, in fact. Typing one-handed is no fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 07:52 AM (omVj0)
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Penny decided to take a nap on my desk using my right arm (my mouse arm) for a pillow. Naturally, my arm fell asleep...

I wonder if cats' limbs ever fall asleep like human limbs do....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 04, 2024 08:18 AM (BpYfr)

167 Jimmy will go meet a vengeful God sooner or later

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 08:18 AM (fwDg9)

168 I'm amazed that people were able to find things to do before they had access to long range weather forecasting displays with fancy graphics.

I remember when people used to stare at the status window while their hard disk defragmented.

Those were the days.

Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2024 08:19 AM (QB+5g)

169 Does anyone have a link to Kamala talking about the cloud? Everyone talking about it last night, but I can't see a link anywhere. Thanks.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 04, 2024 08:19 AM (0QFnr)

170
According to the 'net John Fetterman's wife Gisele is 5' 6".

According to Google Shapiro is 6' tall.

Sure.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 08:19 AM (RKVpM)

171 When your mic drop leaves a half-mile wide crater:

https://is.gd/wqxK1S
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 04, 2024 08:02 AM (PiwSw)
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That would be comment no. 32.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 08:20 AM (i5qaN)

172 Does anyone have a link to Kamala talking about the cloud? Everyone talking about it last night, but I can't see a link anywhere. Thanks.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 04, 2024 08:19 AM

Comment #99 in this thread.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 08:21 AM (RKVpM)

173 Diesel was less expensive than gasoline. By quite a lot, actually. Why would it not? It is a less refined product.

However, it contains more energy density per gallon than gasoline. This is sometimes claimed for part of the reason for price hikes. One of the motor pools at a unit I was around still had some of the old school "multi-fuel" deuce and a half trucks. They would run on either gasoline or about anything else, with minor adjustments. They didn't care too much about the particulars of the fuel.

One old guy said they ran a mixture of MoGas (low octane government gasoline) and 90 weight gear oil when no other fuels were available to run in trucks over in Viet Nam. Said it smoked pretty bad, but ran fine. Kills mosquitos too, I betcha.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2024 08:22 AM (8yWvW)

174 There must be an embargo on the cloud story. Searches for it come up with stuff like this:

"Republicans built a campaign around assailing Joe Biden. But now he's out and Trumpworld can't seem to figure out how to hit Harris besides warmed-over racist and sexist insults."

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

175 Didn't we spend trillions retrofitting power plants and industrial smokestacks with scrubbers to REMOVE sulfur dioxide because of acid rain?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:23 AM (d9LQi)

176 Good morning morons

Slept past 5 for the first time in months.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2024 08:25 AM (JvZF+)

177 "blob"? ... "growing"?

that does sound ominous ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at August 04, 2024 07:15 AM (UWgy2)
-
One of the movies that gave me recurrent nightmares in my early childhood.

Thanks, Chiller Theater!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 07:30 AM (i5qaN)

Saw the original "Blob" with Steve McQueen in the movies in 1958 when I was 11. Scared the hell out of me.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 04, 2024 08:25 AM (iODuv)

178 BREAKING REPORT: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals BLOCKS MANDATE FOR PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP to vote in Arizona..

the steal is ON

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2024 08:26 AM (/7KEl)

179 We giant sub zero freezer warehouses. Just open the doors and let the cold out. Geez. It isn't hard, people.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:28 AM (d9LQi)

180 Yeah Kamala has become the perfect mold candidate

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 08:28 AM (fwDg9)

181 The Troglytes know nothing of the clouds. Their role is to mine Zenite, so that Stratos may enjoy the best of what our Democracy has to offer.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a STOS episode at August 04, 2024 08:29 AM (vFG9F)

182 I don't understand the AZ situation. I thought a 3 judge panel ALLOWED citizenship verification a couple months ago. It seems like they went to a different 3 judge panel to vacate that decision. How does that work?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:29 AM (d9LQi)

183 I remember when people used to stare at the status window while their hard disk defragmented.

Those were the days.
Posted by: pawn

Defragment is indeed a blast from the past.

Posted by: Tuna at August 04, 2024 08:31 AM (oaGWv)

184 If you can prove citizenship, you can vote in tbe AZ state election. If you can not prove citizenship, you can only vote federal. What?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:31 AM (d9LQi)

185 I remember when people used to stare at the status window while their hard disk defragmented.

I still watch clothes agitate in the washer.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2024 08:32 AM (ZACBQ)

186 It would be illustrative if somehow an easily verfiable and auditable trail of ballots and votes and QC against official vote tallies as "delivered" for every state. "Here's what the secretary of state has published"

The only way would be paper ballots that could be associated with a voter, and nobody is set up to do that any longer.

Elections probably haven't been secure since they sent all the VoteMatic machines to the scrappers. A big lever opened the booth up with a curtain. Flipped the levers with who you wanted to vote for. By pulling the lever open, this cast your vote, the curtain opened with a nice "DING" bell. At least it seemed like you must have voted anyway.

Now they take your ballot and stuff it in what looks like a shredder. Hm.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2024 08:32 AM (8yWvW)

187
Counsel defending DPOC for state voter registration forms informed AZ Free News that they intend to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court at some point within the next week.

The steal is not yet official.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 08:32 AM (RKVpM)

188 "I don't understand the AZ situation."

Me either. F'n lawyers.

I'm sure Trump's lawyers and the RNC on this. They knew this crap was coming. What they can do about it I don't know, but I don't think it will be like last time where they did nothing

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

189 Windows: let me take over your hard disk for the next 6 hours to defragment and make your system 1% faster.

Let me also take over your system for the next 8 hours to reorganize your swap file to make your system another 0.5% faster. See! Done! Oh, you closed a program. I am going to have to reorganize your swap file again. Why don't you take a long lunch and come back tomorrow.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:33 AM (d9LQi)

190 That's why Obama knows his beachfront house is perfectly safe. Unless you get hired as the chef.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 04, 2024 05:04 AM (noPDf)

Yeah, that sure disappeared quick. Morning all. Have a blessed day.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 04, 2024 08:34 AM (HOzhd)

191 Jimmy will go meet a vengeful God sooner or later
Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2024 08:18 AM (fwDg9)

We have some commemorative carter stuff. Waiting for the value to go up before selling.

Posted by: Shaun Cassidy at August 04, 2024 08:35 AM (0eaVi)

192 I don't understand the AZ situation.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:29 AM (d9LQi)
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Get your guns ready. I've been saying it for years now. Oh, and 30 million illegal invaders who can register to vote at a local DMV.

Wake up, sleepyheads!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2024 08:36 AM (i5qaN)

193 The Sulphur was also a lubricant and helped reduced valve wear.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

That's what SHE said.

Posted by: Here til Thursday-try the waitress and tip the veal at August 04, 2024 08:36 AM (iODuv)

194 I tell you, court actions can be confusing- this court overrules that court, who outranks who, injunctions and stays left and right

I thought an AZ court ruling said you have to be citizen to vote- then this other court swoops in and says 'nah bro'

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2024 08:36 AM (/7KEl)

195 Posted by: Divide by Zero

Thanks, DbZ

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 04, 2024 08:36 AM (0QFnr)

196 Nobody has been harmed by an illegal voting yet!!! No Standing!!!

-Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, Sotomayor,
Kagan, Jackson, Roberts.

Thomas Dissenting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:38 AM (d9LQi)

197 Sulphur is kinda my thing

Posted by: Be'elzebub at August 04, 2024 08:39 AM (1FWWQ)

198 Beginning two days ago my “for you” timeline on Twitter started showing me tons of leftist garbage - trash never previously displayed. Today I blocked or muted all of it.

Elon needs to fire a few more leftist twerps.

Posted by: 13times at August 04, 2024 08:39 AM (3wUgC)

199 If you are a bona fide American citizen, you have no standing

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2024 08:39 AM (/7KEl)

200 There is fine print written in english only on the back of the registration form that says you must be a US citizen to register.

But the county clerk is absolutely forbidden to verify because that would be a violation of civil rights.

And we allow this.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:41 AM (d9LQi)

201 If you can prove citizenship, you can vote in tbe AZ state election. If you can not prove citizenship, you can only vote federal. What?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:31 AM (d9LQi)

Yep. Last election Heidi worked the poles. Yeah, I know,,,shut up. Non English speaking wanting the presidential ballot only. wtf?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 04, 2024 08:41 AM (HOzhd)

202 There must be an embargo on the cloud story. Searches for it come up with stuff like this:

"Republicans built a campaign around assailing Joe Biden. But now he's out and Trumpworld can't seem to figure out how to hit Harris besides warmed-over racist and sexist insults."
Posted by: fd at August 04, 2024 08:23 AM

ALL the search engines are broken. I've been looking, for an argument's sake, for a list of LGBT and trans mass shooters, in the past ten years. No existing search engine will give me the information I know exists. Not brave, bing, quant, google, ddg. And Yandex is blocked by CenturyLink.

If you want that info, better save the stories *as they happen*, locally, because search is officially DEAD.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 04, 2024 08:42 AM (0QFnr)

203 The Sulphur was also a lubricant and helped reduced valve wear.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2024

***
I test-drove a modern (2007 or so) diesel E-Class Benz some years ago. It was very nice, and there was not the clatter of the Eighties diesels. For some reason or other I didn't buy it. When I mentioned it to my regular mechanic, he said, "Yes, they're reliable and tough. But they're better for long highway running than for driving in the city. We've had to clear up problems with a lot of them that are only driven in commutes and short trips."

He didn't specify what kinds of problems, though. Clogging in the injectors, maybe?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2024 08:42 AM (omVj0)

204 Thanks! I could never remember which.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 04, 2024 06:37 AM (3Fz6p)
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How dare you!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2024 08:42 AM (JvZF+)

205 Ok, 1 million illegals were registered to vote on election day and 950,000 voted.

Still no standing because you can't prove that you personally were harmed by the outcome of the election.

And the suit is moot because the results were certified.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:43 AM (d9LQi)

206 Elections probably haven't been secure since they sent all the VoteMatic machines to the scrappers.

Special Moron Humor rules? A mere drive-by observer might not realize that it's high larity here to make up ridiculous shit, and then lick your upper lip.

The paper-tape curtain and lever machines were the most notorious stolen vote source in the history of US elections. They are the reason we got all the credit-card coders and Chinese wi-fi. Honest to Christ, nobody is this stupid.
Who is paying you? God Damn It to Hell.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 04, 2024 08:44 AM (zdLoL)

207 To my mind, you are either for clean fair elections, or you are for cheating

no middle ground
IMO

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2024 08:44 AM (/7KEl)

208 XX-XY Athletics
@xx_xyathletics
IOC President Thomas Bach: “Some want to own the definition of who is a woman.”

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Reality, m*th*rf*ck*r! Do you speak it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 04, 2024 08:44 AM (L/fGl)

209 > If you can prove citizenship, you can vote in tbe AZ state election. If you can not prove citizenship, you can only vote federal. What?
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I guess states have "some" control over their internal elections (governor, etc.) but the feds control the election at that level (Prez/VP).

My guess. Because the feds do not give a fuck who votes for prez so long as it's the right prez.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2024 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

210 I want vote for de kamala. What form I need?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:45 AM (d9LQi)

211 >>> 208 XX-XY Athletics
@xx_xyathletics
IOC President Thomas Bach: “Some want to own the definition of who is a woman.”

-
Reality, m*th*rf*ck*r! Do you speak it?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 04, 2024 08:44 AM (L/fGl)

To be fair, he's not wrong, he's projecting like a fcking drive-in theater.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2024 08:45 AM (FnneF)

212 >IOC President Thomas Bach: “Some want to own the definition of who is a woman.”
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Biology owns it

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2024 08:46 AM (/7KEl)

213 In other words, I don't want to solve the problem. I want global communism.

Which 'problem' are they trying to solve?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2024 08:47 AM (FnneF)

214 Why have any gender specific events, then?

Olympics should just be the olympics.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 08:47 AM (d9LQi)

215 Maybe the CLOUD can protect us

https://tinyurl.com/yzkyxwta
Posted by: rhennigantx
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Excruciating.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 04, 2024 08:47 AM (XeU6L)

216 Senator Tim Scott got married in a religious ceremony citing the Bible and the left can't deal.

https://is.gd/Nb9j2s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 04, 2024 08:49 AM (L/fGl)

217
198 Beginning two days ago my “for you” timeline on Twitter started showing me tons of leftist garbage - trash never previously displayed. Today I blocked or muted all of it.

Elon needs to fire a few more leftist twerps.
Posted by: 13times at August 04, 2024 08:39 AM (3wUgC)

I find the same thing. Sadly I think much of that is now run by AI which does whatever, in spite of Elon. I learned from Larry Corria to block people not because they’re offensive, but because they’re just an annoying waste of your time. Everything that pops up in my feed that is stupid crap I block. I’m probably up to about 2,000; Larry brags that he’s got 20,000 blocks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2024 08:50 AM (W4qJF)

218 > Why have any gender specific events, then?
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I've been saying this for years. Do away with gendered sports. Everyone competes to be on the team.

You're either on it, or not. Period. End of discussion.

Want an "all girls" team. Make it private, take no public funds and compete behind closed doors. Same for the men.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2024 08:52 AM (Q4IgG)

219 The AMD 7xxx chips that are still current and on sale work 100% fine, and in #twoweeks there'll be faster ones. And once Intel ships the microcode update to make their chips stop burning themselves up to beat AMD on benchmarks they'll likely be fine too. Posted by: Ian S.

"Likely be fine." That's rich. Intel has stepped up and become the 1970s to 1990s GM. It has managed to become a shrinking business at a time when demand for their products has never been greater. I have used Intel products for decades and they worked, for my purposes, flawlessly. Beginning in the Skylake period something went off the rails and they have been a different company since then with this latest cock up being an textbook business school example of how not run a company. I have my stink eye on when it comes to Intel now. As a person who could but doesn't want to deal with building PCs finding acceptable AMD machines from my preferred vendors is non starter. It is a mess. I have until Windows 10 EOL for this to get sorted out. I am getting a wee bit antsy. It would be sweet if metor/lunar lakes solves all this but since we are dealing with modern Intel...well, the winter of computing discontent...

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at August 04, 2024 08:52 AM (9ICrH)

220 The Paolo, he takes steps to, how you say, reduce valve wear.

Posted by: The Paolo at August 04, 2024 08:55 AM (dg+HA)

221 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. See you on the book thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 04, 2024 08:55 AM (Q0kLU)

222 Only sexists oppose men punching women in the head!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 04, 2024 08:58 AM (L/fGl)

223 looks at clock. of course I have to go somewhere, the book thread is almost ready to start.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2024 08:58 AM (0eaVi)

224 NOOD

books

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2024 09:00 AM (FnneF)

225 Counselor, my comments were tongue and cheek a bit - but if your contention is that elections today are more secure, then we would be in disagreement.

They could hack those machines back in the day, and I'm sure they were, especially in the machine precincts that reliably "deliver the vote" in Chicago and Philadelphia etc. Kind of like now.

Are Americans allowed true and accurate elections, or not?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2024 09:00 AM (8yWvW)

226
My apologies to Kamala's husband Doug for suggesting he is a beard; turns out he's a tomcat in the sack!

Posted by: Auspex at August 04, 2024 09:02 AM (j4U/Z)

227 Concerning the idea of sulfur dioxide sprayed to help cooling the Earth, I seem to recall a big concern not to long ago about acid rain from all the sulfur dioxide pollution. So they want to trade one set of environmental problems for another. Why don't we just stop trying to manipulate and just concentrate on mitigating the effects of what comes at us naturally.

Posted by: Miami Grandpa at August 04, 2024 09:24 AM (tlQD8)

228 Some dem operative on X made up the story of Vance having sex with a sofa then deleted his burner account. The Guardian is trying to say Vance has created a debacle and should be dropped by Trump.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Weird Dude at August 04, 2024 09:24 AM (d9LQi)

229 Which 'problem' are they trying to solve?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 04, 2024 08:47 AM (FnneF)

You.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2024 09:54 AM (aD39U)

230 Yay! My somewhat-new Boxx computer has a 12th generation Intel chip (12900).

Purchased according to my First Law of Hardware Selection: Identify the cutting edge of the hardware, and then take one step back. Sometimes it's two steps.

Posted by: MartynW at August 04, 2024 10:23 AM (sHP7b)

231 "The whole notion of spraying sulfur compounds to reflect sunlight is arrogant and simplistic," Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki said.

Suzuki is the definition of arrogant and simplistic.
Dr. Fruitfly knows no more about the environment than my dogs do.

He owns 2 waterfront mansions on the Pacific ocean and once, during a CBC interview, referred to his own children as bananas because, and I quote, "they were yellow on the outside and white on the inside."
Posted by: Speller at August 04, 2024 05:56 AM (pSotA)

Suzuki is a POS, but in this instance he's right, for the wrong reasons. The whole rationale for spraying SO2 into the air is to "correct" Global Warming, but "Global Warming" is a damned lie. Spraying SO2 into the atmosphere is nothing less than eco-terrorism. Any aircraft being used for such purposes should be shot down by patriots.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 04, 2024 11:04 AM (qSmRQ)

232 I mean, come one. Women slash a single wrist, or overdose. They don't stab themselves 20 times with a kitchen knife.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2024 05:14 AM
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You'd be surprised at how many ways inconvenient people, um, kill themselves.

Posted by: Hillary! at August 04, 2024 11:30 AM (fs1hN)

233 I don't know why you shared an Ars Technica link, but please never do that again. You are no better than the enemy when you help them like that, and I don't want that trash fouling up my browser ever again. What the heck is wrong with you for including something like that? Wtf?

Posted by: Scott at August 04, 2024 11:52 AM (szwmn)

234 Seen this yesterday, a Logitech forever subscription based mouse. Is this where we are headed with everything?

I don't know how to add a link, a search will bring it up.

Posted by: MH-53J at August 04, 2024 12:44 PM (7NmRg)

235 @172: Winnah, winnah cricket dinnah.

Yep. Sulfur dioxide does in fact result in sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. Our genius thinks his approach will put it high enough up that it won't rain out. At least right away.

But wait, there's more: When volcanos (like Mt. Pinatubo which inspired our genius here) put sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere where our genius wants to put it, it damages the ozone layer.
https://tinyurl.com/3w3p5snv

Posted by: Peter B at August 04, 2024 02:17 PM (sCwkm)

236 The Hunga-Tonga 100% natural Volcanic eruption in '22 placed 400,000 metric tons of Sulfur Dioxide into the atmosphere...yet they tell us global warming increased rapidly soon after.
Part of the reason is that in that one day period it also increased the entire global water vapor amount, at all levels of the atmosphere, by fully 10% which will take between 5-8 years to precipitate out, it also caused the largest ever increase in the Ozone Hole in the southern mishear...EVER. Undoing/erasing ALL of the verrrry expensive global "science" efforts that shrunk it to the point of "Not an issue anymore".
Oh, by the way, they are also saying that the global ocean temps are now higher than ever in anytime of History...62.8 degrees! A human in 63degree water will be incapacitated by the cold in 2 minutes, dead in 2 hrs from Hypothermia...freezing to death.

Posted by: birdog at August 04, 2024 02:48 PM (lWs+l)

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