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Golden retriever puppy growing up.

German-engineered technique (of course) allows roads to clear tons of rain water, letting the water drip down to under-road pipes.

Dog was fascinated by seeing a dog on a trampoline on TV, so its owners bought it one.

I know a lot of these "bush-build" videos are fake in the sense that they have a pickup truck with a generator and lots of power tools just off-screen, but this is neat.

Seal has massive crush on a diver.

The bestest fetch-dog in the world.

ICYMI: Camel just wants to make friends with horses, who are skeptical because he's so weird-looking.

Big snake. So it's an AI "Cheapfake," as Cheapfake Tapper would call it. But it's a visualization of a legend about a giant snake, that legend also being pure bullshit. But this post nevertheless illustrates an important point about... something.

The Pete "Maverick" Mitchell of drone operators.

Sea otter (?) pops up in a vent in the ice.

Dogs that talk the talk but can't walk the walk.

Huskies start their Drama Classes early.

Summer's coming.

Dog enjoys the water slide.

Goofus and Gallant.

Spare a thruppence for film with added color and ambient sound of Victorian London in 1901, guv'nor?

That’s why they are best friends ❤️
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Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 16, 2025 07:31 PM (tA1/w)

2 1 1
Posted by: Next2Nothing

Nickname checks out.

Posted by: mikeski at May 16, 2025 07:34 PM (DgGvY)

3 The Audio of Biden Talking to Hur has leaked

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 16, 2025 07:35 PM (FCrpy)

4 I love those camera strolls through the cities of yesteryear, when even the bums were classy and wore battered tophats, fingerless gloves, and soiled spats.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 16, 2025 07:36 PM (kpS4V)

5 Time to change the duck water. Eccchhh!

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 07:38 PM (t8CWH)

6 'The Audio of Biden Talking to Hur has leaked'

The Dems are 86ing him.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 07:39 PM (t8CWH)

7 Bribe'em tapes., too late. Hur subjected the Country to the harm Joke did .

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 07:39 PM (NVNRw)

8
~~Anyone else hearing that song that goes...~~

Mystery Forgotten 80's Lyrics!

Modern medicine falls short of your complaint
Ooh, try a little harder
You're moving in circles won't you dilate?
Ooh, baby try

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 16, 2025 07:40 PM (ooCJz)

9
Busy day today.

TX-288 entrance ramp status: not open.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2025 07:40 PM (QnmlO)

10 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 07:41 PM (ypFCm)

11 Hi Skip.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 07:42 PM (NVNRw)

12 Soothsayer, pretty sure anyone who had the radio in 1983 knows that one

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 07:43 PM (gKWVE)

13 Legend has it that on certain nights like the one pictured up top, if one is still and listens intently to the stones, you may hear them say -

"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 16, 2025 07:43 PM (Aqu9a)

14 My dog shows his love by farting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 16, 2025 07:44 PM (rT96s)

15 I dropped Saijo off with the trainer this afternoon and I miss him already! 🙁

Posted by: Piper at May 16, 2025 07:44 PM (p4NUW)

16 Tree house looks legitimate to me

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 07:44 PM (ypFCm)

17
I was just looking at The Shat's X feed. He's really pissed about Pluto.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 16, 2025 07:45 PM (w6EFb)

18 "a porous asphalt base, made from crushed granite, absorbs over four tons of rainwater in under a minute"

Install this in the floors of the johns at the ballpark. It'll make the waiting lines a lot shorter.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 07:45 PM (t8CWH)

19 You could just post pictures of Golden puppies and lighthouses and I'd be entertained.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 07:47 PM (viF8m)

20 on topic of Kajagoogoo, I'm listening to "Hang On Now". Sounds more like Spandau Ballet than anything

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 07:47 PM (gKWVE)

21
When we lost poor Phoenix, Her Majesty took it hard. Diana did everything she could to comfort her. We're blessed with a very empathic breed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2025 07:47 PM (QnmlO)

22 "a porous asphalt base, made from crushed granite, absorbs over four tons of rainwater in under a minute"

But they don't specify the area needed to absorb at that rate. Could be ten square miles. And it assumes there's a reservoir of some kind underneath that can also absorb at least as fast, doesn't it?

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 07:48 PM (t8CWH)

23 Could not all those defunct windmill blades be converted into a road surfacing product ? There are places that use crushed glass in their road building.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 07:48 PM (NVNRw)

24 My dog shows his love by farting

As do I.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 16, 2025 07:48 PM (tGJ3W)

25 That "ice vent" looks a lot like a wading pool and the sea otter mother and her babies look curiously like Golden Retrievers. Still not sure I can trust them.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2025 07:49 PM (36PRH)

26 I'm sorry but...

A professor was arrested by Yale police for a "racist" statement she never made

Since when is it illegal to be a jerk? I don't like racism, I think its stupid and irritating, but how is it illegal, again?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2025 07:50 PM (2VST1)

27 Article from Axios on the Biden audio leaks:

https://tinyurl.com/yc4nzy5v

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 16, 2025 07:50 PM (6ydKt)

28 This night shift schedule has me out of sync, seems to me should be Saturday, that's why not a TGIF out of me all day.

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 07:51 PM (ypFCm)

29 Otter?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2025 07:51 PM (63Dwl)

30
Notice how Kajagoogoo's 1983 song uses the same beat as Pet Shop's 1983 West End Girls:

Shy Shy song: https://is.gd/QQlXI8

West End Girls: https://is.gd/iqJn2T

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 16, 2025 07:52 PM (ooCJz)

31 Taylor, for "disturbing the peace".

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 07:52 PM (gKWVE)

32 Teddy bear, what large claws you have.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2025 07:52 PM (63Dwl)

33 Rats! The sea otter vid is a big yellow doggie nursing her pups.

I AM SO SAD!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2025 07:54 PM (KuCfi)

34 >The Audio of Biden Talking to Hur has leaked
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it's a mashup of non sequiturs
this hollow man was PINO

President in name only

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2025 07:54 PM (AOsQT)

35 nurse, hi darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 07:55 PM (NVNRw)

36 The Audio of Biden Talking to Hur has leaked

Yeah his lawyers kept jumping in to "clarify" and fill in blanks, restate things

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 16, 2025 07:55 PM (2VST1)

37 I used to sleep on my side until about a year ago when my sister kitteh decided her sleeping spot would be between my legs when I went to bed where I would read for about 45 minutes. Because I’m a softie I didn’t move her when it was time to sleep. I think I sleep better and feel better sleeping on my back now that I’m used to it.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 07:56 PM (VofaG)

38 Oh but no one knew Sundowner's mental state wasn't shot to Hell

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 07:58 PM (ypFCm)

39 Biden Hur audio at Axios:
https://tinyurl.com/t3btyaaj

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 07:58 PM (t8CWH)

40
Anyone else suspect jim comey is secretly loving all the attention he's getting from G-Men? You know, like, he misses being around govt agents?

Me thinks ol' jim has been lonely and knowingly acted-out to get some govt attention.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 16, 2025 07:58 PM (ooCJz)

41 Could not all those defunct windmill blades be converted into a road surfacing product ? There are places that use crushed glass in their road building.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 07:48 PM (NVNRw)

I think it’s carbon fiber that can’t easily be made into tiny bits. They should be able to cut out various size panels and repurpose them though.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 07:58 PM (VofaG)

42 We all knew that Biden was decrepit.
We didn't need tapes to tell us that.

Posted by: coyne at May 16, 2025 07:59 PM (OaRnr)

43 The Hur report is something I want someone to ask Tapper about. It blows his ‘ The White House Staff Hid It’ excuse out of the water.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:01 PM (VofaG)

44 Nice of Axios to leak all this shit now and not in 2023 when they recorded it. I'm sure the Democrats are eternally grateful.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 08:01 PM (gKWVE)

45 41 You could probably do lots of stuff with it, if your energy cost budget was infinite. But as with many conventional 'recyclables,' you don't.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:01 PM (t8CWH)

46 I have no respect for Hur. He did a Comey with Killary.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 08:01 PM (NVNRw)

47 23 Could not all those defunct windmill blades be converted into a road surfacing product ? There are places that use crushed glass in their road building.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 07:48 PM (NVNRw)
----
Great, so you breathe in powdered glass, probably as bad as Blue Asbestos.

Posted by: Ciampino - a lot of work at May 16, 2025 08:01 PM (sPQoU)

48 >>We all knew that Biden was decrepit.
We didn't need tapes to tell us that.

Surprisingly, there are a few more people in the world than the people who comment on this blog.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:02 PM (viF8m)

49 Only Republicans could turn Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, into a Big Warm Bag of Piss. The current version does nothing it’s meant to do. Everything is one stretched out timelines. They even dropped chip shots like removing suppressors from the NFA. But hey, they’re giving NY big federally funded SALT giveaways. They suck.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 16, 2025 08:02 PM (kACBq)

50 @36
"He waxed on about:

How then-President Obama in 2016 didn't want Biden to run for president out of the belief that Hillary Clinton "had a better shot of winning the presidency than I did."

The walnut wood and seven different kinds of molding in refurbished rooms of his home.

The Corvette he drove with comedian Jay Leno.

The technological influence Gutenberg's printing press had on Europe.

The visual impact of Richard Nixon sweating on TV during his 1960 debate with John Kennedy.

And the time he shot a bow and arrow in Mongolia.

'Am I making any sense to you?' Biden asked at one point while discussing the classification process for sensitive documents."

No?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2025 08:02 PM (36PRH)

51 Ciampino, Israel has been using crushed glass in their road surfaces for years.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 08:03 PM (NVNRw)

52 House Republicans give useless turds a bad name.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 08:04 PM (gKWVE)

53 So Ace closes out the week with twenty cute vids, most with interruptive music tracks and misguided vertical orientation. As usual. How droll. What a time-suck.

Y'know, if it weren't for the café, we could start the ONT a lot earlier, at least on weekdays.

And without that Aussie's incomprehensible anime Tech thread, the ONT could run longer.

And if we folded the gardening thread and the pet thread and food thread together…

Oh, never mind on all of that. Wouldn't be prudent to mess with the Ordained Order of things.

But, now, if we eliminated the ONTs altogether…
😁🤔😶

Posted by: mindful webworker - casually intense at May 16, 2025 08:05 PM (byv8W)

54 You could probably do lots of stuff with it, if your energy cost budget was infinite. But as with many conventional 'recyclables,' you don't.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:01 PM (t8CWH)

Of course. I’m just thinking cutting out panels would be the least costly thing to do. They are cutting it up already to bury it in a land fill.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:05 PM (VofaG)

55 Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2025 08:02 PM (36PRH)

Of all the things Joe could remember at that point, it had to be his standard lies and typical bragging B.S.

Joe had all those stories and anecdotes memorized so well over the years that even the dementia couldn't touch them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 16, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)

56 '"Your answer is that you don't know," [Biden attorney Bob] Bauer instructed the president at one point.'

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:06 PM (t8CWH)

57 [Biden] waxed on about:
The walnut wood and seven different kinds of molding in refurbished rooms of his home.
The Corvette he drove with comedian Jay Leno.

With an onion on his belt - it was the style at the time -

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 08:06 PM (gKWVE)

58 I guess the blades are fiberglass. I always thought they were carbon fiber.

That what you get when you think and aren’t used to it.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:07 PM (VofaG)

59 That special water absorbing road sounds great. But what does it cost? What are the maintenance requirements? I’ll bet 10x a normal road. And can heavy trucks ride on it? A main issue with road deterioration in America is constant pounding by 100,000 pound 18-wheelers.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 16, 2025 08:08 PM (vGnQW)

60 Ciampino, Israel has been using crushed glass in their road surfaces for years.

==

don't tell Tucker Carson! Or he will surely find something repulsive and undesirable in that application.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)

61 I'm pretty skeptical that that was London.

But what do I know.

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 08:08 PM (0HaGk)

62 OH BOY! THE PARK!! I CAN KILL SOME DUCKS!!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2025 08:09 PM (3SJzV)

63 54 I'm still struggling with the guilt of throwing away well-made perfectly good glass Smuckers peanut butter jars. And I filched four nice long pieces of PVC pipe out of the neighbor's trash today.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:09 PM (t8CWH)

64 62 OH BOY! THE PARK!! I CAN KILL SOME DUCKS!!!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2025 08:09 PM (3SJzV)

Bastard.

Posted by: Tom Lehrer, when the world sings in tune at May 16, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

65 These sea salted caramels are especially good with the wine tonight.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 08:10 PM (NVNRw)

66 "Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
Posted by: Count de Monet

OOoh, we're in trouble
Terrible, terrible trouble
-Centauri

Posted by: mindful webworker - casually intense at May 16, 2025 08:11 PM (byv8W)

67 I was watching the Victorian video, and I'm pretty sure I saw Benny Hill walk by.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 16, 2025 08:11 PM (s8j++)

68 "Go to sleep Louis or I'll tell Mom about your Playboy collection."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2025 08:12 PM (Giba4)

69 I understand the PVC 😃 but not the glass peanut butter jars . You can buy a dozen canning jars at Michaels for cheap. And you don’t have to clean peanut butter out of them.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:12 PM (VofaG)

70 " My dog shows his love by farting"

The love of a dog is not like that of a square.

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 08:12 PM (0HaGk)

71 Rats! The sea otter vid is a big yellow doggie nursing her pups.
I AM SO SAD!
Posted by: nurse ratched

NURSE HATES DOGS!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2025 08:12 PM (3SJzV)

72
What happens if water freezes in the porous road structure? Does it crack the whole thing apart?

And, does the porosity make it clog with particles eventually?

Also, there is a increasing problem with streams and rivers flooding in regions where a lot of pavement has been laid down. Dropping the water into pipes doesn't fix that. It was already going to pipes.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 16, 2025 08:13 PM (fRwPn)

73 Evening, Cafe-goers, and to Ace! Nomming on the first fresh-picked stick of rhubarb of the season, and it is yummy! A week ago, the leaves had barely emerged, and now some stalks are nearly a foot long.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 08:13 PM (H26VX)

74 Facebook’s data scientists had quietly manipulated the feeds of 689,003 users—removing either all the positive posts or all the negative ones to observe the emotional fallout.

Joe Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook’s Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users Without Warning

Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2025 08:13 PM (GITLP)

75 That spectacular drone cam video was probably automatic tracking control

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 16, 2025 08:13 PM (vGnQW)

76 I don't know how old you guys are, I'm 54. In the last year or so I realized that I would say shit just to amuse myself without caring if the audience (family gathering, sports event, etc.) found what I said interesting. Turns out that I'm hilarious, according to the College Grad party I went to last weekend.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 16, 2025 08:14 PM (2cS/G)

77 These sea salted caramels are especially good with the wine tonight.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 08:10 PM (NVNRw)

Caramel anything is good. Are you having a Riesling wine with it.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:14 PM (VofaG)

78 I'm starting to doubt "ScienceGirl" (who tweeted the AI rendered giant snake video) is not all that sciencey.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2025 08:14 PM (36PRH)

79 69 I dunno. They ought to be good for something besides the landfill. They're so nice. I go through a lot of crunchy peanut butter.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:14 PM (t8CWH)

80 Wolfhounds are notoriously flatulent. You did not want to light a match around them.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 08:15 PM (NVNRw)

81 Bastard

Robt Williams reference.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 16, 2025 08:15 PM (3SJzV)

82 >>I guess the blades are fiberglass. I always thought they were carbon fiber.

>>That what you get when you think and aren’t used to it.

Tilitoson-Pearson was once one of the largest builders of recreational sailboats in the US both under the Pearson name and for other brands like J Boats. They were located up in Warren RI. Then came the luxury tax and the advent of green energy and the company changed their name to TPI and their focus toward build wind turbines and moved to Arizona.

And now they are going to go broke again thanks to more idiotic leftist policies. Too bad, they used to build some pretty nice sailboats.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)

83 polynikes, a merlot.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 08:16 PM (NVNRw)

84 Husky puppies are too adorable

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 08:16 PM (ypFCm)

85 >>>12 Soothsayer, pretty sure anyone who had the radio in 1983 knows that one

I didn't know it until I tried sounding it out.

Posted by: ace at May 16, 2025 08:16 PM (KRtlO)

86 "Joe Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook’s Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users Without Warning
Posted by: SMOD "

Corporations will just fuck with you because they can.

Confirmed.

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 08:16 PM (0HaGk)

87 I wonder who leaked the Hur tapes, probably Tapper.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 16, 2025 08:17 PM (sx6WT)

88 Watching some of these videos I can't help but think: humans must be the only species of mammal that beats affection and playfulness out of their offspring.

Posted by: Are we really as evolved as we think? at May 16, 2025 08:17 PM (TbWk/)

89 I think it’s carbon fiber that can’t easily be made into tiny bits. They should be able to cut out various size panels and repurpose them though.
Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 07:58 PM (VofaG)

They make shears that can cut steel I-beams. Ought to be possible to make one that could shear strips off windfan blades.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 08:18 PM (H26VX)

90 Beh Had!

Hello love. October can’t come soon enough! Miss you and am looking forward to the hugs !

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2025 08:18 PM (mT+6a)

91 It was not Tyrannosaurus Rex that built Stonehenge.

Up your game, Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Posted by: Bombadil at May 16, 2025 08:19 PM (MX0bI)

92 @88 They don't drive cars.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 16, 2025 08:19 PM (36PRH)

93 Houston roads are built to be part of our flood control but our under passes are lethal in heavy rains and subsequent flooding. That absorbing concrete sound almost like a solution in those limited areas.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:19 PM (VofaG)

94 Roly poly fish heads?

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 08:20 PM (0HaGk)

95
>>>12 Soothsayer, pretty sure anyone who had the radio in 1983 knows that one
----
I didn't know it until I tried sounding it out.
Posted by: ace

Also, because you're not a gay, Ace.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 16, 2025 08:20 PM (ooCJz)

96 Kinda hard to have any leverage since T Rex has such tiny arms.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2025 08:20 PM (Giba4)

97 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2025 08:22 PM (/Ghsb)

98 I didn't know it until I tried sounding it out.
Posted by: ace

Also, because you're not a gay, Ace.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 16, 2025 08:20 PM (ooCJz)

garret's going to be very disappointed

Posted by: The crocs, Vespa and messenger bag say otherwise at May 16, 2025 08:22 PM (TbWk/)

99 T-Rex never skipped leg day.

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 08:23 PM (0HaGk)

100 T-Rex is extinct. Loser.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:23 PM (g47mK)

101 Joe Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook’s Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users Without Warning
Posted by: SMOD at May 16, 2025 08:13 PM (GITLP)

I wonder if that falls under "unsanctioned human experimentation" which is a human rights abuse. Maybe it falls under "intentional shitty customer service" which should be concerning to the stockholders.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2025 08:24 PM (D7oie)

102 The world is shocked but not surprised to learn what the "P" in "P Diddy" really means. Testimony has revealed that the raunchy rapper's perverted parties frequently featured a mephitic mix of Sphenisciformistic sluts slathered in baby oil and anchovies.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 16, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

103 Jets-Stars turns into chaotic NHL line brawl with massive cheap shot

https://mol.im/a/14720685

Posted by: Ciampino - just hockey at May 16, 2025 08:25 PM (sPQoU)

104 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Night.

Posted by: Bulg at May 16, 2025 08:26 PM (77rzZ)

105 Soothsayer, pretty sure anyone who had the radio in 1983 knows that one

I didn't know it until I tried sounding it out.
Posted by: ace at May 16, 2025 08:16 PM (KRtlO)

I never understood a word of the lyrics at the time except for the chorus.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:26 PM (VofaG)

106 Facebook’s data scientists had quietly manipulated the feeds of 689,003 users—removing either all the positive posts or all the negative ones to observe the emotional fallout.

Joe Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook’s Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users Without Warning

==

Next, Joe Rogan's guest reveals truth about water.
It's wet !

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:26 PM (g47mK)

107 "a porous asphalt base, made from crushed granite, absorbs over four tons of rainwater in under a minute"

*zero tons in the winter. Also, zero tons in the fall, when it's covered in leaves. And zero tons in the spring, when it gets all stopped up in mud.

Posted by: t-bird at May 16, 2025 08:26 PM (emDE2)

108 It's all fun and games until mama bear shows up and rips your face off, gnaws your throat out, disembowels you, and nibbles on your innards.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 16, 2025 08:27 PM (XMwZJ)

109 "In the last year or so I realized that I would say shit just to amuse myself without caring if the audience (family gathering, sports event, etc.) found what I said interesting."

That sounds like me here.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:27 PM (vFG9F)

110 Ace, thank you for this site and for all you do to maintain it and keep a fun and interesting place to hang out.

It helps my sanity immensely.

Posted by: Bulg at May 16, 2025 08:29 PM (77rzZ)

111 ***Seal has massive crush on a diver.
---

Diver better watch out. If seals are anything like dolphins...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2025 08:29 PM (nO7cW)

112 It helps my sanity immensely.
Posted by: Bulg at May 16, 2025 08:29 PM (77rzZ)

Let us know if it worked.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:30 PM (g47mK)

113 91 It was not Tyrannosaurus Rex that built Stonehenge.

Up your game, Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Posted by: Bombadil

Awiens....

Posted by: Cute Fuzzy Kittuh at May 16, 2025 08:30 PM (aKh6S)

114 111 or otters…

Posted by: Bulg at May 16, 2025 08:30 PM (77rzZ)

115 " ... well-made perfectly good glass " jars are no good unless they are standard canning-jar-lid thread.

jus' sayin' ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2025 08:30 PM (/Ghsb)

116 Seal has massive crush on a diver.
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Diver better watch out. If seals are anything like dolphins...
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2025 08:29 PM (nO7cW)

Reminds me of another good King of the Hill episode.

My theory still holds that King of the Hill has an episode that covers anything that is discussed here.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:31 PM (VofaG)

117 >>They make shears that can cut steel I-beams. Ought to be possible to make one that could shear strips off windfan blades.

They've been making boats around here out of carbon fiber for years. Virtually every high tech racing sailboat is carbon fiber and not just the hull but pieces like steering wheels and rudders and lots of other bits and pieces.

Cutting it isn't the hard part. Removing the resins and other fibers and then reshaping it has not be solved yet. It's amazingly strong, in one direction anyway, but also brittle and not easy to repurpose cheaply.

Lots of people are trying to find the solution but so far nothing that makes market sense.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:31 PM (viF8m)

118 Well, I should go to town and get my mail, and snag a carton of cream for tomorrow morning's coffee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 08:31 PM (H26VX)

119 A week ago, the leaves had barely emerged, and now some stalks are nearly a foot long.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 08:13 PM (H26VX)

Maybe they were just happy to see you.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 16, 2025 08:31 PM (Bq9VW)

120 Those porous roads don't work. The don't last because they are very intolerant to freezing and high pressure loads.

They say granite makes it stronger, but I am betting they are only talking about abrasion and not load. The granite will have the same problem as all porous surfaces with the reduced bonding area between the grains of aggregate making them both weak, and non-robust. That is, when they start to crack they just fall apart.

We need to go back to cobblestones -- Roman tech was peak roadbuilding.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 08:33 PM (vwD9r)

121 >>>Goofus

Now run in the house and shake yourself off.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 16, 2025 08:33 PM (p4nXC)

122 don't tell Tucker Carson! Or he will surely find something repulsive and undesirable in that application.
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:08 PM (g47mK)

Ol' Tuck is a bit of a heel, isn't he?

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 16, 2025 08:34 PM (a4NoL)

123 Next, Joe Rogan's guest reveals truth about water.
It's wet !
Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:26 PM (g47mK)

Rogan had Zahi Hawass on, and I discovered that a) Hwass is an Egyptologist who knows everything b) no one else knows anything c) Hwass is not a scientist D) Hwass is a scientist who knows better, E) No one else Hwass disagrees with is a scientist, F) Gobele Take is not real and is unimportant, F) No myth is important, but quotes them because someone wrote them down G) Hwass feels intensly about every side of each and ever argument he is on at that moment , and H) Hwass is definitely a scientist and knows what facts are important and no one else does.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2025 08:34 PM (D7oie)

124 Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:31 PM (viF8m

I got caught up watching the sailboat racing circuit. Last one I watched was in NY Harbor. The graphics they use make it exciting to watch .

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2025 08:34 PM (VofaG)

125
The Hur tape drops on a Friday night and no flaming skull?

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2025 08:34 PM (j4U/Z)

126 103 Jets-Stars turns into chaotic NHL line brawl with massive cheap shot

https://mol.im/a/14720685
Posted by: Ciampino

I'm at work and TNT isn't available, so no hockey. Have the Celtics/Knicks game on. Co-worker is watching.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2025 08:34 PM (aKh6S)

127 "A week ago, the leaves had barely emerged, and now some stalks are nearly a foot long."

We got pollen and maple seeds everywhere. At least the lawn stopped bolting up.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:35 PM (t8CWH)

128 We need to go back to cobblestones -- Roman tech was peak roadbuilding.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 08:33 PM (vwD9r)

Yeah, that works fine as long as your horses don't go over about 15 mph.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 16, 2025 08:35 PM (a4NoL)

129 118 *Diogenes sneaks in and steals AOP’s tomorrow-morning coffee while AOP is off getting his mail and cream*

Posted by: Bulg at May 16, 2025 08:35 PM (77rzZ)

130 Cutting it isn't the hard part. Removing the resins and other fibers and then reshaping it has not be solved yet. It's amazingly strong, in one direction anyway, but also brittle and not easy to repurpose cheaply.

Lots of people are trying to find the solution but so far nothing that makes market sense.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:31 PM (viF8m)

You can't "unbuild" a fiberglass or carbon-fiber layup. Once the resin has cured, it cannot be remelted or dissolved. But it will burn, and burn very well indeed. All that needs to be be done is to break it into pieces small enough to blend with the coal feed going into a power plant. Might also work to fuel a cement kiln; not sure about that, but might be worth a try.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 08:35 PM (H26VX)

131 Man, that yellow lab has some moves!

Posted by: Paco at May 16, 2025 08:36 PM (mADJX)

132 >>>Spare a thruppence for film with added color and ambient sound of Victorian London in 1901, guv'nor?

The men are mostly pretty stern looking but the women all have big grins on their faces.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 16, 2025 08:36 PM (p4nXC)

133 Jets-Stars turns into chaotic NHL line brawl with massive cheap shot

https://mol.im/a/14720685
Posted by: Ciampino - just hockey at May 16, 2025 08:25 PM (sPQoU)

WTF!! Deyy shoulda played us!

Posted by: Sharks at May 16, 2025 08:37 PM (Bq9VW)

134 110 Ace, thank you for this site and for all you do to maintain it and keep a fun and interesting place to hang out.

It helps my sanity immensely.
Posted by: Bulg at May 16, 2025 08:29 PM (77rzZ)

I second that. and the people that comment here

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 16, 2025 08:37 PM (FCrpy)

135 A main issue with road deterioration in America is constant pounding by 100,000...

And this too is the story of Kamala.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 16, 2025 08:38 PM (144I4)

136 So, the Hur tape confirmed that we had a.............

"President John Gill" as POTUS for the last four years !!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfal at May 16, 2025 08:38 PM (WKgpm)

137 So, the Hur tape confirmed that we had a.............

"President John Gill" as POTUS for the last four years !!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfal at May 16, 2025 08:38 PM (WKgpm)

138 That 1900 movie restoration is amazing.
What a sad lot of non diverse happy people.
Poor does not have to mean squalor.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at May 16, 2025 08:38 PM (ocrbo)

139 Zahi Hawass is the Neil deGrasse Tyson of Egyptology.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:38 PM (vFG9F)

140 Lots of people are trying to find the solution but so far nothing that makes market sense.
Posted by: JackStraw

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This is obviously because there is no market for used glass fiber waste, nor resin waste. In fact, both become hazardous waste once de-constituted.

The highest form of recycling would be to chop them up into little pieces and burn them.

Reuse is still an option -- maybe survival floats for the politicians that mandated and subsidized the damn things when we throw the commies out of the helicopters.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 08:39 PM (vwD9r)

141 Ace, thank you for this site and for all you do to maintain it and keep a fun and interesting place to hang out.

It helps my sanity immensely.
Posted by: Bulg at May 16, 2025 08:29 PM (77rzZ)

I second that. and the people that comment here
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 16, 2025 08:37 PM

What they said, Ace!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 16, 2025 08:40 PM (Wnv9h)

142 Rogan had Zahi Hawass on, and I discovered that a) Hwass is an Egyptologist who knows everything b) no one else knows anything c) Hwass is not a scientist D) Hwass is a scientist who knows better, E) No one else Hwass disagrees with is a scientist, F) Gobele Take is not real and is unimportant, F) No myth is important, but quotes them because someone wrote them down G) Hwass feels intensly about every side of each and ever argument he is on at that moment , and H) Hwass is definitely a scientist and knows what facts are important and no one else does.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 16, 2025 08:34 PM (D7oie)
Hwass is a perfect example of every 'expert' on History, Discovery, Learning, etc channels. Don't know their butts from a gopher hole.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2025 08:41 PM (LHPAg)

143 134, thirded!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2025 08:41 PM (/Ghsb)

144 >>>And now they are going to go broke again thanks to more idiotic leftist policies. Too bad, they used to build some pretty nice sailboats.
Posted by: JackStraw
---------------

Recollection has it that a well known powerboat/yacht company also tits up because of the luxury tax.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2025 08:41 PM (nO7cW)

145 But it will burn, and burn very well indeed. All that needs to be be done is to break it into pieces small enough to blend with the coal feed going into a power plant. Might also work to fuel a cement kiln; not sure about that, but might be worth a try.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

-----------

I glossed over this in my comment above.
Burning. this is a poor option because the glass chews up chopper blades, and then mostly just makes ash when burned. You end up paying for a bit of fuel 3 times over. No sane powerplant would want that crap. Bury it. Or better yet, don't make it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 08:41 PM (vwD9r)

146 >>>German-engineered technique (of course) allows roads to clear tons of rain water, letting the water drip down to under-road pipes.

What happens in the winter when it dips below freezing?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 16, 2025 08:41 PM (p4nXC)

147 "Reuse is still an option -- maybe survival floats for the politicians that mandated and subsidized the damn things when we throw the commies out of the helicopters."

IDK if it's true, but I heard that the Big Beautiful Bill will not shutdown the Green New Deal alt energy subsidies until the "out years." IOW, not now.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:41 PM (t8CWH)

148 >>I got caught up watching the sailboat racing circuit. Last one I watched was in NY Harbor. The graphics they use make it exciting to watch .

You ever make it up this way let me know. There's a regatta of some sort pretty much every week most of the summer.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:42 PM (viF8m)

149 Next, Joe Rogan invites musician, stumps him with questions about properties of transverse and longitudinal differentiated waves! stay tuned!

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:42 PM (g47mK)

150 Yeah, Limahl was a shirt lifter. But not in-your-face about it.
His best song was "Neverending Story" which he had to do solo, after Kaja fired him. Kaja stumbled on toward obscurity without him.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 08:42 PM (gKWVE)

151 *bad bad musician !

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:43 PM (g47mK)

152
Spare a thruppence for film with added color and ambient sound of Victorian London in 1901, guv'nor?

________

Lookit all the hijabs the wimmin are wearing!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2025 08:44 PM (QnmlO)

153 You could just make a big pile of windmill blades in the desert somewhere for some future generation to figure out what to do with them.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:44 PM (vFG9F)

154 What happens in the winter when it dips below freezing?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 16, 2025 08:41 PM

Kraut Space Magic (TM).

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 16, 2025 08:45 PM (Wnv9h)

155 Kindltot I think I know who that Egyptian is

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 08:45 PM (ypFCm)

156 Hawass was a huge disappointment on Rogan. I expected to learn something about Egyptology, all I learned was that he's a thin-skinned bitch with a huge sense of entitlement.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 16, 2025 08:46 PM (2cS/G)

157 IDK if it's true, but I heard that the Big Beautiful Bill will not shutdown the Green New Deal alt energy subsidies until the "out years." IOW, not now.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag
-----------------

Heard they said they did it in the future tense.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2025 08:46 PM (nO7cW)

158 Assmann > Hawass

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 08:47 PM (gKWVE)

159 Hawass doesn't believe there is a vast complex 2000 feet below the pyramids the aliens built. What the hell is wrong with him?

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:47 PM (vFG9F)

160 152
Spare a thruppence for film with added color and ambient sound of Victorian London in 1901, guv'nor?
________

Lookit all the hijabs the wimmin are wearing!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
----------------------------------------

Back to the future.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2025 08:48 PM (nO7cW)

161 >>Recollection has it that a well known powerboat/yacht company also tits up because of the luxury tax.

Boat building has been a thing in Rhode Island since the colonies. Some of the most well known sailboat builders in the country built them here. And then Democrats decided that we needed a luxury tax to punish rich people forgetting who built those boats. It devastated the boat building industry here and sent some builders who survived to places like Taiwan where the tax didn't apply.

John Kerry, who voted for the idiotic tax, had $4 million dollar sailboat build in New Zealand to avoid the tax. Because he's a leftist scumbag who is not just stupid but doesn't give a shit about what his policies do. Also, scumbag. That can't be emphasized enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:48 PM (viF8m)

162 So, the Hur tape confirmed that we had a.............

"President John Gill" as POTUS for the last four years !!!!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfal at May 16, 2025 08:38 PM (WKgpm)

That explains the Death to Zaon speech

Posted by: Oldcat at May 16, 2025 08:49 PM (8avO+)

163 Hawass doesn't believe there is a vast complex 2000 feet below the pyramids the aliens built. What the hell is wrong with him?

==

not enough protein powder and squats

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

164 IDK if it's true, but I heard that the Big Beautiful Bill will not shutdown the Green New Deal alt energy subsidies until the "out years." IOW, not now.
Posted by: Please Place The gp

----
The very worst part is that in the GND and previous, the tax credits were for 10 years after being built or "renovated." So the windfarms have been replacing turbines and blades that are only 10 years old, even though they should last 25 years or more depending on design and use. The tax credits are worth more than they cost so we are just paying them to make scrap at this point.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 08:50 PM (vwD9r)

165 @fd, did you watch the show? The stupid subterranean tower theory was dismissed outright. It was his (Dr. Hawass') absolutely dismissive attitude and his inability/unwillingness to address modern questions that made him such a bad guest.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 16, 2025 08:51 PM (2cS/G)

166
Hur: "Where did you keep the papers?"

Biden: "I don't know. In that time 2017...20, Beau, people encouraging me to run... except the president..."

WHY ALLOW A FRIDAY NIGHT NEWS DROP?

We spend a week on Tapper's lying while this tape has been out there?

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2025 08:51 PM (j4U/Z)

167 >>You could just make a big pile of windmill blades in the desert somewhere for some future generation to figure out what to do with them.

You mean somewhere like Sweetwater, Texas?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 08:52 PM (viF8m)

168 "It was his (Dr. Hawass') absolutely dismissive attitude and his inability/unwillingness to address modern questions that made him such a bad guest.
Posted by: Lincolntf "

He's always been an asshole with too much power.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:53 PM (vFG9F)

169 couple links on turbine blades

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-poli
tics/sweetwater-wind-turbine-blades-dump/

or video -

https://twitter.com/i/status/1898701673784041885

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 08:54 PM (vwD9r)

170 "You mean somewhere like Sweetwater, Texas?
Posted by: JackStraw"

I mean in the middle of nowhere on a salt flat.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:54 PM (vFG9F)

171
He's always been an asshole with too much power.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:53 PM (vFG9F)

_________

I'd never heard of the creature until now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2025 08:55 PM (QnmlO)

172 164 I see big new solar installs all around N IL. AFAIK they are economically unfeasible without the subsidies. If we don't shut down the subsidies now, when we have both Houses, we may never get it done. Promises of cuts for the out years are worse than worthless; they are lies.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 08:55 PM (t8CWH)

173 It would be fun to tell Hawass that black tribesman from Zimbabwe built the pyramids. Just to watch his head explode.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 16, 2025 08:56 PM (sx6WT)

174 168 "It was his (Dr. Hawass') absolutely dismissive attitude and his inability/unwillingness to address modern questions that made him such a bad guest.
Posted by: Lincolntf "

He's always been an asshole with too much power.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:53 PM (vFG9F)
I quit watching tv, except for election results, years ago.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2025 08:57 PM (LHPAg)

175 It would be kind of hilarious if the something under the pyramids was an alien landfill for used wind turbines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 16, 2025 08:57 PM (SZhzZ)

176 I guess so, fd. I used to think of him as the Jacques Cousteau of the pyramids. The guy who was alwas there and knew everything. He came off as an arrogant asshole, ignorant of his own asshole-ishness.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 16, 2025 08:57 PM (2cS/G)

177 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 08:57 PM (g47mK)

178
O.K., Friday news drop.

Why aren't we hearing about John Roberts "unusual" foreign adoptions and trips to pedo island tonight?

Posted by: Auspex at May 16, 2025 08:58 PM (j4U/Z)

179 169 couple links on turbine blades

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-poli
tics/sweetwater-wind-turbine-blades-dump/

or video -

https://twitter.com/i/status/1898701673784041885
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 08:54 PM (vwD9r)
Rattlesnake Condo.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2025 08:59 PM (LHPAg)

180 Worse was all the pyramids were built with union labor, 32 hour work weeks and heath insurance paid.

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 08:59 PM (ypFCm)

181
He came off as an arrogant asshole, ignorant of his own asshole-ishness.
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 16, 2025 08:57 PM (2cS/G)

__________

*polite cough*

I believe the correct term is "assholity".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2025 09:00 PM (QnmlO)

182 180 I applied to be a whipper, but those jobs get snapped up quick.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:00 PM (t8CWH)

183 So, the Hur tape confirmed that we had a.............

"President John Gill" as POTUS for the last four years !!!!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfal

It didn't confirm an already well known. Those saying otherwise (Tapper, etc.) are lying trash that should be shredded, burned, thrown into concrete and tossed into the ocean.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2025 09:00 PM (aKh6S)

184
Worse was all the pyramids were built with union labor, 32 hour work weeks and heath insurance paid.
Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 08:59 PM (ypFCm)

_______

And a generous work-from-home policy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2025 09:00 PM (QnmlO)

185 The ancient Egyptians were Irish.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 16, 2025 09:01 PM (A2D3h)

186 Assholishness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 16, 2025 09:01 PM (SZhzZ)

187 "The guy who was alwas there and knew everything. He came off as an arrogant asshole, ignorant of his own asshole-ishness.
Posted by: Lincolntf "

I've seen him speak live and on TV shows. On one show he was a complete jerk to some interns and that solidified it for me. His reputation as you described is well known.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 09:01 PM (vFG9F)

188 86 "Joe Rogan Guest Reveals Facebook’s Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users Without Warning
Posted by: SMOD "

Corporations will just fuck with you because they can.

Confirmed.

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 08:16 PM (0HaGk)

Ethics? Morals? The Golden Rule? What are they? Never heard of them. Hey team, let's go get some free snacks and Red Bulls in the 14th floor breakroom!

Posted by: Twenty-something MBA Facbook manager who idolizes Taylor Swift and Taylor Lorenz! at May 16, 2025 09:02 PM (aBgBM)

189 I don't get why the blades don't last

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 09:02 PM (ypFCm)

190 There's a whole book about the "red sea scrolls". Papyri from the Old Kingdom on how the pyramids were at least quarried, if not built. There's even a diary by Merer who oversaw the quarry.
Herodotus' story is funnier though. The "father of lies" claimed that one of the pyramids was built because daddy Cheops pimped out his own princess for funding.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

191 " I don't get why the blades don't last
Posted by: Skip"

Like razor blades. The manufacturers don't want them to.

Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 09:03 PM (vFG9F)

192 Casual Geographic guy's latest video (12:4

100 Men vs 1 Gorilla: Everything You Need to Know
https://youtu.be/cFf6YowOm7o

Posted by: mindful webworker - casually intense at May 16, 2025 09:03 PM (byv8W)

193 Built to code, Pakistan.

https://tinyurl.com/6ctrkky9

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2025 09:04 PM (nO7cW)

194 Game's not over yet of course, but what's looking like the impending failure to completely and aggressively zero out every bit of the looting ("green new deal" subsidies) by Congress is kind of a big deal. Or not, if GOP performance since 2010 is considered.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2025 09:04 PM (1m82a)

195 That wind farm off the 10 in Cali NEVER worked.

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 09:05 PM (0HaGk)

196 how many archeological, paleontological digs has Rogan been on? Zero!
how many Khufy pyramids did Rogan discover ? Zero !
how may mummies has Rogan studied ? Zero!
how many ancient languages does Rogan know ? Zero!
how many ancient tombs did Rogan open ? Zero!

BUT! now worries, he is the ultimate arbiter or antiquities and archaeological, you know , stuff. he is qualified - he has a radio show that appeals to dummies, and he read wiki and other important material , about ..well stuff.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 09:06 PM (g47mK)

197 I don't get why the blades don't last

Doesn't matter - all the servos in the turret grind apart as well. Its just a shitty idea all around.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 16, 2025 09:06 PM (/QWYB)

198 185 The ancient Egyptians were Irish.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 16, 2025 09:01 PM (A2D3h)

They invented beer.

Not whiskey.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:06 PM (yvnLa)

199 IF Zahi Hawass get's any more narcissistic he's going to have to enroll as a Women's Studies major at Colombia

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 16, 2025 09:07 PM (pIfcn)

200 "They invented beer."

Papyrus beer. And thus was born Coors.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:08 PM (t8CWH)

201 >>I don't get why the blades don't last

They do. That's why they are a huge problem to dispose of.

What doesn't last isn't wind turbines. The math almost never works other than in very unique circumstances.

Many EU countries who championed wind energy and particularly offshore wind turbines have thrown in the towel after years of government subsidies keeping them going because they cost more to sustain than they produce.

Because, duh?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 09:08 PM (viF8m)

202 200 "They invented beer."

Papyrus beer. And thus was born Coors.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:08 PM (t8CWH)

"The little pyramid turns blue when it's cold!"

"What's 'cold'?"

"No idea!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:10 PM (yvnLa)

203 Don't you just know Elon already has the Mars energy source patented and in production.

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2025 09:10 PM (LHPAg)

204 Guys, you so silly! Rogan does not need to know all that stuff. His opinions are just as valid as knowledge of history and ancient languages. Because everyone is entitled to an opinion. Marxist experts (that you should have known were marxists, so shame on for listening to their stupid ass) failed you about Ivermectin and covid. So let's listen to Rogan, and the like. They are the experts now.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 09:11 PM (g47mK)

205 You could just make a big pile of windmill blades in the desert somewhere for some future generation to figure out what to do with them.
Posted by: fd at May 16, 2025 08:44 PM (vFG9F)

Maybe next to all those giant mountains of glass that people "recycled". Unlike windmill blades, glass is 100% recyclable but because of either the cost or lack of a market, it just piles up.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 16, 2025 09:12 PM (144I4)

206 189 I don't get why the blades don't last
Posted by: Skip

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They do last, but the tax credits are renewed if you replace them every 10 years.

They last longer, but not really since the manufacturers understand this so why bother? 20 to 25 years used to be the standard, but much longer than that gets hard just due to stress cycles, etc.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 09:12 PM (vwD9r)

207 Isn't glass the most common thing on Earth?

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 09:13 PM (0HaGk)

208 JackStraw: at least we got to learn about "inertia". Not being an energy buff I didn't know what that meant, but apparently it's a thing with steam (that is, heated from coal or gas - or nuclear) turbines.
Turbines spin. When heat goes out, they still spin - that's inertia. This offers a little bit of time before the workers can turn the heat back on (preferably without blowing everything up like at Pripyat but that's another story).
When the wind no blow, and the windmill stops - that's all the inertia you get. The electricity turns off IMMEDIATELY.
As Abbott's serfs learnt in Texas a few years back.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 09:13 PM (gKWVE)

209
Isn't glass the most common thing on Earth?
Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 09:13 PM (0HaGk)

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No. Opinions are.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 16, 2025 09:14 PM (QnmlO)

210 "Isn't glass the most common thing on Earth?
Posted by: eleven"

Nope.

Posted by: Stupidity at May 16, 2025 09:14 PM (vFG9F)

211 Many EU countries who championed wind energy and particularly offshore wind turbines have thrown in the towel after years of government subsidies keeping them going because they cost more to sustain than they produce.

Because, duh?
Posted by: JackStraw

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Offshore is insane, and that is obvious to anyone who knows marine environments. The only thing worse than offshore are deepwater (floating) offshore they plan on the West Coast.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 16, 2025 09:15 PM (vwD9r)

212 207 Isn't glass the most common thing on Earth?
Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 09:13 PM (0HaGk)

It think it goes aluminum, then iron, then silicon. All oxides, because Oxygen is a bitch and there's more of it than any of those other things.

I probably have the order wrong though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:15 PM (yvnLa)

213 re Hur interview tape - We all heard that raw version of FJB before. In the June '24 debate with Trump. No wonder Jill and the Handlers drugged him-up for public appearances and kept non-White House insiders as far from FJB as possible, all day every day.

Will Macron or any foreign leaders ever spill the beans about how appalled and scared they were during and after meetings with The Leader of the Free World/The Most Powerful Man on Earth? Doubtful.

Posted by: Gref at May 16, 2025 09:15 PM (aBgBM)

214 207 Isn't glass the most common thing on Earth?
Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 09:13 PM (0HaGk)
Are you counting sand?

Posted by: Eromero at May 16, 2025 09:16 PM (LHPAg)

215 legend tells us that glass was discovered Phoenician sailors when they made bonfire on sand

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 09:16 PM (g47mK)

216 "Are you counting sand?
Posted by: Eromero"

Well silicon.

Isn't the Earth mostly silicon with a big nickel iron core?

Posted by: eleven at May 16, 2025 09:19 PM (0HaGk)

217 "Isn't glass the most common thing on Earth?"

Silicon and oxygen. I'd guess in the top five anyway. In the crust at least.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:19 PM (t8CWH)

218 I have no respect for Hur. He did a Comey with Killary.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 16, 2025 08:01 PM (NVNRw)

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Ben Had > Ben-Hur.

Posted by: ShainS -- Whites Have No Home Here! at May 16, 2025 09:20 PM (n+Gtf)

219 If at least the blades were out of aluminum they could be reused

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 09:22 PM (ypFCm)

220 > Anyone else suspect jim comey is secretly loving all the attention he's getting from G-Men?

Well, he's getting plenty of it.

Latest word is that he's being "escorted by the Secret Service" to DC for questioning.

"Escorted". Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 16, 2025 09:22 PM (W5ArC)

221 201 >>I don't get why the blades don't last

They do. That's why they are a huge problem to dispose of.

What doesn't last isn't wind turbines. The math almost never works other than in very unique circumstances.

Many EU countries who championed wind energy and particularly offshore wind turbines have thrown in the towel after years of government subsidies keeping them going because they cost more to sustain than they produce.

Because, duh?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 09:08 PM (viF8m)

Yup, its the bearings, because unlike yer car, they don't change the oil it takes to lubricate them... its not 'cost effective'.

Go through Tehachapi Pass between Bakersfield and the Desert in Calif... you will see HUNDREDS of non moving windmills... not because the wind aint blowing, but because they seized up due to non maintenance.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2025 09:22 PM (mP0Kj)

222 220 > Anyone else suspect jim comey is secretly loving all the attention he's getting from G-Men?

Well, he's getting plenty of it.

Latest word is that he's being "escorted by the Secret Service" to DC for questioning.

"Escorted". Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 16, 2025 09:22 PM (W5ArC)

He has a book coming out... and as Hollyweird once believed, no publicity is bad publicity.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2025 09:23 PM (mP0Kj)

223 Trump called Comey a "dirty cop". and that is what he is. He knew him since NY.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 09:23 PM (g47mK)

224 >>Offshore is insane, and that is obvious to anyone who knows marine environments. The only thing worse than offshore are deepwater (floating) offshore they plan on the West Coast.

One of my favorite place on the planet is Block Island.

Don't go there. You will hate it. Seriously, horrible place. o somewhere else.

The island used to get virtually all power from an undersea cable from the mainland and had some of the highest electricity rates of anywhere in the US. A few years ago they put up a few turbines east of the island right in the middle of some prime fishing and sailing ground and it did bring down the rates a bit at the expense of fishing, sailing and beautiful views. Bad trade. And that's one of the instances where someone can even attempt an economic case.

I hate offshore wind turbines with a passion. They are a blight and an economic boondoggle.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 09:24 PM (viF8m)

225 dirty cop : A corrupt or unethical police officer, such as one who accepts bribes, falsifies reports, or abuses the power of their authority for personal gain.

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 09:25 PM (g47mK)

226 This guy...

@Comey
Apr 21
Just got my copies. Everybody else May 20. Nora and Benny battling right-wing domestic terrorism fueled by well-funded demagoguery. I wish it weren’t so real. Hope you’ll like it.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 16, 2025 09:26 PM (3ImbR)

227 Comey used to love quoting Scripture even more than the Devil himself.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 09:26 PM (gKWVE)

228 corrupt to the core

Posted by: runner at May 16, 2025 09:27 PM (g47mK)

229 I kind of hope they make Comey cry.

Like a good, solid, phlegmy ugly-cry.

I hope he breaks so hard he gives up everything he knows about the Clintons that he didn't put in his Reasonable Prosecutor's Report.

I hope he breaks so hard he confesses to shooting JFK.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:27 PM (yvnLa)

230 Goucher College, the alma mater of Jonah Goldberg has partnered with a retirement community to get students. As the number of college kids drops, colleges are getting desperate. They’re looking at geezers now as customers.

Out: Hot 18 year old freshmen
In: Hot 81 year old freshmen

😄

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 16, 2025 09:28 PM (7YTFo)

231 I kind of hope they make Comey cry.

Like a good, solid, phlegmy ugly-cry.

I hope he breaks so hard he gives up everything he knows about the Clintons that he didn't put in his Reasonable Prosecutor's Report.

I hope he breaks so hard he confesses to shooting JFK.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:27 PM (yvnLa)

The fbi agents interviewing him most likely also want Trump dead. It’ll be the easiest “interrogation” in the history of interrogations.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 16, 2025 09:29 PM (7YTFo)

232
It didn't confirm an already well known. Those saying otherwise (Tapper, etc.) are lying trash that should be shredded, burned, thrown into concrete and tossed into the ocean.
Posted by: Puddleglum

They might make good road building material.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 16, 2025 09:30 PM (63Dwl)

233 The fbi agents interviewing him most likely also want Trump dead. It’ll be the easiest “interrogation” in the history of interrogations.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 16, 2025 09:29 PM (7YTFo)

Until the secret service gets to him.

A lot of them are pretty happy with current management, if i'm not mistaken. Quick Draw McFupa not withstanding.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:31 PM (yvnLa)

234 Yup, its the bearings, because unlike yer car, they don't change the oil it takes to lubricate them... its not 'cost effective'.

Go through Tehachapi Pass between Bakersfield and the Desert in Calif... you will see HUNDREDS of non moving windmills... not because the wind aint blowing, but because they seized up due to non maintenance.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 16, 2025 09:22 PM (mP0Kj)
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I've seen this in other projects. Someone gets a grant to build some new fancy gizmo or renovate a space, but they almost NEVER EVER include a long-term maintenance/support plan. After a few years, the new toy is broken and there is no money to fix it.

Rinse and repeat with the next bright and shiny object.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2025 09:32 PM (GlyvH)

235 Rinse and repeat with the next bright and shiny object.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 16, 2025 09:32 PM (GlyvH)

Built in emergency.

Because nothing makes money move quicker, and with less oversight, than an emergency.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:33 PM (yvnLa)

236 "Promises of cuts for the out years are worse than worthless; they are lies."

THIS!

how many times have we seen this?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2025 09:34 PM (/Ghsb)

237 236 Gosh I'm glad a couple of you agree with me on this. I've been a Panican lately.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:36 PM (t8CWH)

238 Isn't the actual "cycle" of all "renewable" energy sources simply the tax credit schedule and calendar? Nothing to do with market factors or actual technical realities?

Almost as if - go with me here just for a second - these things are completely artificial creations of government activity and distortion?

And of course they meet none of the criteria of an actual "public good" (a key distinction that's apparently some kind of classified thing, as not even "skeptics" of guvamint boondoggles seem to use it or understand it). So histrionic government manipulation and subsidy have no defense of any kind.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2025 09:37 PM (1m82a)

239 I hope he breaks so hard he gives up everything he knows about the Clintons that he didn't put in his Reasonable Prosecutor's Report.

I hope he breaks so hard he confesses to shooting JFK.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 16, 2025 09:27 PM (yvnLa)

Transport him to Gitmo, and water-board him. With Diesel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 09:37 PM (sCUBT)

240 227, 228, !

g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2025 09:37 PM (/Ghsb)

241 > The fbi agents interviewing him most likely also want Trump dead. It’ll be the easiest “interrogation” in the history of interrogations.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 16, 2025 09:29 PM (7YTFo)

It's the Secret Service that has him in custody...err..."under escort", not the FBI.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 16, 2025 09:38 PM (W5ArC)

242 Obsidian is the best natural glass. In Arizona my dad and grandpa knew a place in the desert where they could dig up “Apache Tears” in a volcanic ash bed. They were large drop shaped pieces of obsidian, they were made when lava was blown up into the air by a violent explosion, and it would cool into glass as it flew threw the air.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 16, 2025 09:38 PM (sx6WT)

243 229 - 239, endorsed!

& now rly g'night!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 16, 2025 09:40 PM (/Ghsb)

244 So is DOJ going to actually do anything about the congressthing committing multiple felonies at the NJ detention center? Or nah?

First Trump administration was disastrously passive in response to assaults on federal personnel and facilities and ability to carry out their duties. Remember the ICE office in Portland, or the federal courthouse there? Any light at the end of this tunnel, Don, Stephen, Pam, Kash?

How about that colossus on the Hill, Speaker Johnson. Anything in store for her, Mike? I seem to recall the House expelling the guy from Long Island over what are obviously puny transgressions, by congressional standards. Anything afoot here with the vile cretin congresswoman?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2025 09:41 PM (1m82a)

245 I had a really good week. I hope you all did too.

https://tinyurl.com/4zjrvrdk

Posted by: JackStraw at May 16, 2025 09:42 PM (viF8m)

246 18
'"a porous asphalt base, made from crushed granite, absorbs over four tons of rainwater in under a minute"'

I like the idea but much does crushed granite cost to produce?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2025 09:42 PM (3wi/L)

247 Anything afoot here with the vile cretin congresswoman?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 16, 2025 09:41 PM (1m82a)

Put her on the sex offender registry, on the grounds of being a stupid c***.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 09:44 PM (sCUBT)

248 There was a Coup D'etat in 2020 with hundreds of conspirators and not 1 indictment

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2025 09:44 PM (ypFCm)

249 >Obsidian is the best natural glass. ...

Posted by: Tom Servo

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I used to collect
found a nice area in west central Utah called- really- the Black Desert. Found a lot of nice pieces, even a few of mahogany obsidian.

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2025 09:45 PM (AOsQT)

250 Okay, the porous asphalt is neat, but it makes me wonder about its durability. What happens when it drops below freezing? When it snows? Or sleets and then gets colder? Will the freeze-thaw cycle rip the asphalt apart? And will it silt up as dirt and dust (and gunk falling off of vehicles) falls into the cracks?

Yeah, show me how it holds up after ten years. Or longer.

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 16, 2025 09:46 PM (Lhaco)

251 Leafs-Panthers no score after 2

Posted by: Don Black at May 16, 2025 09:46 PM (AOsQT)

252 I like the idea but much does crushed granite cost to produce?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 16, 2025 09:42 PM (3wi/L)

I searched. One quote, for bulk crushed granite: 25 to 50 dollars per ton. Transport is a big factor, if there is no local source for granite.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 09:49 PM (sCUBT)

253 At WSJ: "The Next Frontier to Treat Cancer: Electricity"

Take 1 tablet at bedtime. Do NOT take with water.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:49 PM (t8CWH)

254 226 This guy...

@Comey
Apr 21
Just got my copies. Everybody else May 20. Nora and Benny battling right-wing domestic terrorism fueled by well-funded demagoguery. I wish it weren’t so real. Hope you’ll like it.
Posted by: IrishEi

LOL!! Little Miss Drama Queen!! Keep clutching those pearls, moron. I know nothing serious will happen to him or Nora and Benny, but seeing them being dragged is a nice change. Ideally, Scaphism would be acceptable punishment on these traitorous parasites. Was watching a video explanation of this particular form of punishment/torture. Yikes!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2025 09:50 PM (aKh6S)

255 At WSJ: "The Next Frontier to Treat Cancer: Electricity"

Take 1 tablet at bedtime. Do NOT take with water.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:49 PM (t8CWH)

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg never contracted cancer. It must work!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2025 09:51 PM (sCUBT)

256 At WSJ: "The Next Frontier to Treat Cancer: Electricity"

Take 1 tablet at bedtime. Do NOT take with water.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag

They need to work on their clickbait game. How was that not the perfect place for the old "the answer will shock you!"

Posted by: mikeski at May 16, 2025 09:51 PM (DgGvY)

257 If you really want to torture someone, tie him in a chair and make him listen to Comey's audiobook.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 16, 2025 09:54 PM (gKWVE)

258 Each tablet contains 1 coulomb of excess free electrons.

Avoid counterfeits: old coin cell batteries painted to look like pills.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:55 PM (t8CWH)

259 Hey FYI here is a pic of Crooks.

https://tinyurl.com/3j7p5nu4

It is not any other pic you have seen.

The rest are lies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 16, 2025 10:03 PM (gbOdA)

260 Each tablet contains 1 coulomb of excess free electrons.

Avoid counterfeits: old coin cell batteries painted to look like pills.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at May 16, 2025 09:55 PM (t8CWH)

Free electrons? Gimmedat!

Posted by: LeMonica McIver at May 16, 2025 10:03 PM (sCUBT)

261 The Biden tape are real real bad

He does not have a fucking clue

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 16, 2025 10:04 PM (gbOdA)

262 👍

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 16, 2025 11:43 PM (nO7cW)

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