Monday Overnight Open Thread - May 26, 2025 [Doof]

Gold Star Memorial - Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Welcome to the Memorial Day ONT. Please join in as we "salute the ones who died, the ones who gave their lives, so we don't have to sacrifice all the things we love."

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Remember and Honor

(from MAGAvoice on X)

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And The Trees are all kept equal...

Trees Synchronize Their Bio-electrical Signals During Solar Eclipses: ‘The Wood Wide Web in Action’

More evidence that trees display group cognition and communication has arrived from the Dolomites where a multidisciplinary team monitored a forest during a solar eclipse.
Their research witnessed two things, that the trees of the forest synchronized bioelectrical activity during the eclipse, and that the process of synchronization was started and directed by the eldest trees—a full 14 hours before the eclipse even started.
The results of their experiment, which was published in Royal Society Open Science, demonstrate both the incredible value of old trees to the forests in which they live, but also the extent to which our woody cousins respond to their environment.
Using rugged, custom-built, low-power sensors deployed across a forest in the Dolomites, the interdisciplinary team—comprising experts from Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Australia—recorded simultaneous bioelectrical responses from multiple trees.
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The electrical activity of all three trees became significantly more synchronized around the eclipse—both before and during the one-hour event. The two older trees in the study, about 70 years old, had a much more pronounced early response to the impending eclipse than the young tree. This suggests older trees may have developed mechanisms to anticipate and respond to such events, similar to their responses to seasonal changes, since solar eclipses occur on a cycle as well.

Not sure I trust the findings of any "experts" in any field - but kinda cool if it's really true.

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Extreme Identity Verification

Those hypocrites who think Voter ID is too onerous probably are fine with this.

Bank Sparks Outrage for Bringing Bed-Bound 96-Year-Old Woman to Branch to Verify Her Identity

A Mexican bank has been accused of lacking sensitivity after insisting that a bed-bound 96-year-old woman be brought to a physical branch to confirm her identity in order to release her pension.
Photos and video clips of an elderly woman being transported to a BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) bank branch in Oaxaca, Mexico, on an ambulance stretcher have been going viral on Mexican social media and sparking outrage among the general public. 96-year-old Fidelia Vásquez Nuño cannot move due to her advanced age and various illnesses, but despite her son’s attempts to file the necessary paperwork with the bank to verify her identity, she had to be brought to a local branch to correct a glitch in her biometric registration that had prevented her from cashing her pension for six months.
“It’s an outrage. We’ve submitted everything: official documents, powers of attorney, and her legal representative. Yet, they’ve demanded that she come in person, even though she’s clearly not fit enough,” said Gilberto Ayala, the woman’s son. “The BBVA branch manager told us that the pension payment is suspended and that we need to comply with more requirements to be able to reactivate the payment. It’s an ordeal.”
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Following their treatment by BBVA, the 96-year-old woman’s family filed complaints with the National Human Rights Commission, the Ombudsman’s Office of the people of Oaxaca, and the National Commission and Defense of Users of Financial Services.

Video segment at the link.

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Smiles and Tears of Joy

Childhood best friends reunions🥹 pic.twitter.com/Q4VIJyiocX
— Wholesome Side of 𝕏 (@itsme_urstruly) May 21, 2025

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DJ Doof - This Date in History Version
from thisdayinmusic.com

On this date in 2022: English drummer Alan White best known for his tenure in the progressive rock band Yes died age 72

Also on this date in 2022: Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher died age 60. Fletcher was a founding member of the band

Bonus Mode:

Halo

Behind the Wheel (Live 198 "Good evening, Pasadena!"

Born on this date in 1964: American singer, songwriter, Lenny Kravitz (son of actress Roxie Roker, who portrayed Helen on The Jeffersons)

Also celebrating a birthday today - Stevie Nicks (born in 194

What are your favorite tracks from these folks?

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 5-25-2025

Top 10 commenters:
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Tonight's ONT brought to you by perspective (this can never been seen too often)

Mystery click - included with utmost respect and appreciation

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1 Evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 10:00 PM (ypFCm)

2 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 26, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)

3 I'm number 6!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 10:00 PM (dg+HA)

4 I'm also #8!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dg+HA)

5 I got nothin'

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dDmld)

6 Almost. I’ll call the others

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 26, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

7 Damned dusty suddenly

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2025 10:02 PM (W/lyH)

8 Doof, Hey!

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:02 PM (77rzZ)

9 Yes is another bad never cared for

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 10:02 PM (ypFCm)

10 Lenny Kravitz is Roxie Roker's kid? I always thought he was the kid of Gladys and Abner??!!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 26, 2025 10:03 PM (0eaVi)

11 I never fail to call the udders if #1

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 10:03 PM (ypFCm)

12 Otters notified

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 26, 2025 10:04 PM (w3u3d)

13 Depeche Mode were a great live band because they had a back catalog most bands can't even dream of.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 26, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

14 Good evening morons y gracias al disco

I'm still friends with my childhood best friends and in our 60s it is still like that. This weekend, in fact.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2025 10:05 PM (RIvkX)

15 Tattoo granny with some MS-13 shit all over her face and punt her over the Rio Grande. She'll be treated like an Aztec Queen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 26, 2025 10:06 PM (BI5O2)

16 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:06 PM (bss/y)

17 Southcentral Alaska is a military place. The National Cemetery at Ft. Rich is a national treasure. Bondsteel Bridge over the Knik River is named for a Medal of Honor winner.

As a kid, I lived in a neighborhood with tiny two-bedroom houses, full of many, many kids. One house across the street had a 1964-1/2 cream colored Mustang in the driveway, and I watched a guy wash and wax it every weekend. I watched him put on his Army uniform and then he went away. He never came back, although that car sat there for a couple of years. And then it went away, too.

Vietnam was a cesspool and an abbatoir.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 26, 2025 10:07 PM (a4NoL)

18 "The electrical activity of all three trees became significantly more synchronized around the eclipse—both before and during the one-hour event. The two older trees in the study, about 70 years old, had a much more pronounced early response..."
Come on, come on, we're getting there, ...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:07 PM (nnVdx)

19 I'm going to call BS on the "trees anticipating eclipse" story. Main reason is "why?" What benefit is it to a tree to "anticipate" an eclipse? So the sky goes dark for half an hour. BFD. Photosynthesis resumes, sooner or later. If they are measuring anything at all, it's normal diurnal changes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:08 PM (S7t2a)

20 Sorry I'm late, I was out on the backrooms.

http://tiny.cc/ht3l001

Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:08 PM (VSht7)

21
Fine ONT, Herr Doof.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 26, 2025 10:08 PM (QnmlO)

22 So trees sync up their menstrual cycles like chicks?

Not buying it. But if the scientists are getting some do-re-mi from a grant I don't hate the players, I hate the game

Posted by: Minuteman at May 26, 2025 10:09 PM (47/pr)

23 14 That’s great, SanFranP. May you and your friends be blessed.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:09 PM (77rzZ)

24 19 I'm going to call BS on the "trees anticipating eclipse" story. Main reason is "why?" What benefit is it to a tree to "anticipate" an eclipse? So the sky goes dark for half an hour. BFD. Photosynthesis resumes, sooner or later. If they are measuring anything at all, it's normal diurnal changes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:08 PM (S7t2a)

Because they are alive man- and they talk to each other! It is like the neural network of Gaia, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:09 PM (bss/y)

25 In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

--John McCrea

Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:09 PM (VSht7)

26 Because they are alive man- and they talk to each other! It is like the neural network of Gaia, man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:09 PM (bss/y)

Ah! A murmur of dis-Ent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:10 PM (S7t2a)

27 Hope everyone had an enjoyable Memorial Day. I've spent most of it watching the Band of Brothers marathon on AMC. Also wishing it was 83 degrees outside, as God intended for late May, and not 63.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 26, 2025 10:10 PM (jGGMD)

28 ***Also celebrating a birthday today - Stevie Nicks (born? in 194_)
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Take another hit

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:11 PM (nnVdx)

29 Evening everyone. Thx Doof.
Not surprised the trees in the Dolomites talk to each other. We know trees in Fangorn Forest talked to each other.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 26, 2025 10:11 PM (eDGGN)

30 We should do a similar study on electrical activity of members of Congress, to see if it holds true there. Minor votes (naming things), major votes (budget), and recess votes.

If nothing else, watching them carry EKG and EEG devices everywhere would provide some entertainment.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 10:11 PM (VNX3d)

31 Thanks for the great content tonight, Doof.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:12 PM (VSht7)

32
Hi, all. Watching Gutfeld.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2025 10:12 PM (n7rxJ)

33 I see you Bulg and San Fran and H7.

Good evening from Sin City, everyone!

Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2025 10:13 PM (1biuY)

34 Very nice, ONT, Doof.

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 10:13 PM (pZEOD)

35 3 I'm number 6!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 10:00 PM (dg+HA)

4 I'm also #8!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dg+HA)

I am not a number. I am a free man!

Posted by: The Prisoner at May 26, 2025 10:13 PM (VSht7)

36 If nothing else, watching them carry EKG and EEG devices everywhere would provide some entertainment.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 10:11 PM (VNX3d)

'These sensors must be broken, we have no activity again.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:14 PM (bss/y)

37 Thank you to all the men and women who serve and have served.
Prayers to all those who have given the ultimate sacrifice that we may have the opportunity to help continue this great nation.
Thank you all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:14 PM (nnVdx)

38 Or, you know what? Have the old abuela join TdA.

Then Uncle Sam will airlift her to Aurora, CO and give her an entire fucking apartment complex to live in rent free. Actually, she can charge the Americans who live there, so it'll be a profit maker.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 26, 2025 10:14 PM (BI5O2)

39 Howdy smelltheglove and tankdemon

Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2025 10:14 PM (1biuY)

40 My cousin was killed in Afghanistan in 2011. His parents never really recovered, which strained their relationship with their daughter. The medic who tried to save him felt like a failure, and attempted suicide. Every casualty reported has a trail of other lives negatively impacted.

Thankfully, while I was deployed as a company commander to Iraq in 2008, if was more boredom than action, so all my troops came home...but even some of them snapped afterwards, and with one attempting suicide by overdose and another shooting himself under the chin (and surviving with no permanent physical injury).

Posted by: Military Moron at May 26, 2025 10:15 PM (ycI94)

41 Good evening from Sin City, everyone!
Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2025 10:13 PM (1biuY)

Well, if you are in Lost Wages, you owe it to yourself to visit the Museum of Atomic Testing! All Hail Eris will back me up on this fact.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:15 PM (S7t2a)

42 Also wishing it was 83 degrees outside, as God intended for late May, and not 63.

Imagine how cold it would be without global warming.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 26, 2025 10:16 PM (gKWVE)

43 I'm with AOP on trees even giving a care

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 10:17 PM (ypFCm)

44 40. I am so sorry. Bless your family.

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 10:17 PM (pZEOD)

45 I miss LauraW.

Not only was she smart and lovely she invented the Meet Up stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 10:17 PM (viF8m)

46 Went to a cookout hosted at a friend's house this afternoon. Almost all the men and at least one woman were veterans. We remembered those that couldn't be there.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 26, 2025 10:17 PM (lUFok)

47 Also wishing it was 83 degrees outside, as God intended for late May, and not 63.

Imagine how cold it would be without global warming.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 26, 2025 10:16 PM (gKWVE)

Got to 86 here today, which is warm for Alberta in May. Not complaining, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:17 PM (S7t2a)

48 When I was a kid if a guy had grabbed another guy like that there would have been a fist fight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:17 PM (nnVdx)

49 Evening, Horde. At Hrothgar's request, I am once more sharing this link to the incredibly stirring Memorial Day tribute written by our dear, departed Jim SND:

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=363653

Cheers, Jim! Hope you're enjoying a bourbon with all those you so eloquently honored.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 26, 2025 10:18 PM (gKOeD)

50 47 Also wishing it was 83 degrees outside, as God intended for late May, and not 63.

Imagine how cold it would be without global warming.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 26, 2025 10:16 PM (gKWVE)

Got to 86 here today, which is warm for Alberta in May. Not complaining, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It went down to 86 last night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:18 PM (nnVdx)

51 If nothing else, watching them carry EKG and EEG devices everywhere would provide some entertainment.

beeeeeeeeeeeep.....

Posted by: Joey B. at May 26, 2025 10:19 PM (/y8xj)

52 20 Sorry I'm late, I was out on the backrooms.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:08 PM (VSht7)

Backroads. I typed backroads. Autocucumber has the brains of a TBI ravaged Shar pei.

What a disaster. My copy editor WILL suffer for this egregious lapse of concentration.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)

53 47 Any temp above 85, anywhere, is cause for complaint.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:21 PM (77rzZ)

54 Sorry I'm late, I was out on the backrooms.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:08 PM (VSht7)

Backroads. I typed backroads. Autocucumber has the brains of a TBI ravaged Shar pei.

What a disaster. My copy editor WILL suffer for this egregious lapse of concentration.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)

At least it didn't correct it to "I was flying a porta-potty." That would have raised some eyebrows.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (VNX3d)

55 Thanks for a special Memorial Day ONT, Doof!

Because of their courage, we live in freedom. Never forget.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (rxCpr)

56 37 Thank you to all the men and women who serve and have served.
Prayers to all those who have given the ultimate sacrifice that we may have the opportunity to help continue this great nation.
Thank you all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:14 PM (nnVdx)

Well said, sir.

My sister in law texted me pictures of documents that showed my dad landed at Omaha, was part of the liberation of Paris, and then was captured at Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, and held in a POW camp that was part of the Dachau system. He never talked about it, but he made it out. God bless those who didn't, and may their families find comfort and peace.

Posted by: moki at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (wLjpr)

57 Very nice, ONT, Doof.
Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 10:13 PM (pZEOD)

Thank you, my dear friend!

Posted by: Doof at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (1biuY)

58
It's 56F now here, and tomorrow's forecast high is just 60F. Going rain too. Already got 5.86" for May, and they're forecasting over an 1" the next day or so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

59 Thankfully, while I was deployed as a company commander to Iraq in 2008, if was more boredom than action, so all my troops came home...but even some of them snapped afterwards, and with one attempting suicide by overdose and another shooting himself under the chin (and surviving with no permanent physical injury).
Posted by: Military Moron at May 26, 2025 10:15 PM (ycI94)

My Company Command was in peacetime. But my first combat tour was as a G-2 of a Corps Artillery. My section was 26 strong. Afterwards, one of my LTs went off the rails. A really sharp kid too. Likewise on of my troops. And my Section SGM lost himself into a bottle. But while in the war, we excelled in everything. We were awesome!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2025 10:23 PM (W/lyH)

60 52 20 Sorry I'm late, I was out on the backrooms.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:08 PM (VSht7)

Backroads. I typed backroads. Autocucumber has the brains of a TBI ravaged Shar pei.

Tankdemon, I think the first post has the makings of a very interesting tale of weirdness and woe. I say go with it.

Posted by: moki at May 26, 2025 10:24 PM (wLjpr)

61

wow

Nothing I can other thank you which is not enough.

But my sincere thanks anyway.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)

62 Because they are alive man- and they talk to each other! It is like the neural network of Gaia, man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:09 PM (bss/y)

Ah! A murmur of dis-Ent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
+++
Let's not be hasty.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 26, 2025 10:24 PM (Lo97M)

63 Another thing trees do- oak trees will, as a group, produce an excessive amount of acorns one year out of every so often, usually between four and seven years. Pretty much every oak in an area will do this, leading to squirrels gathering and burying so many that they become inadvertent farm labor planting the new crop of oaks.

Then, because of the abundance of food, the squirrels become more fruitful themselves, which doesn't work out very well for them the next year when food supplies return to normal, which is not enough to support the increased population.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:24 PM (VSht7)

64 Rained all day for the last four days and it never got above 53F. Oh well.

Posted by: Archer at May 26, 2025 10:25 PM (IDphi)

65 At least it didn't correct it to "I was flying a porta-potty." That would have raised some eyebrows.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (VNX3d)

Let's see if an AI or autocucumber can parse this one out:

https://youtu.be/qB0F_1Q5baA

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:26 PM (S7t2a)

66 64 Rained all day for the last four days and it never got above 53F. Oh well.
Posted by: Archer at May 26, 2025 10:25 PM (IDphi)

Is this the part where I tell you I went swimming the last 2 days? Sweet home Alabama!

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 10:26 PM (p4NUW)

67 At least it didn't correct it to "I was flying a porta-potty." That would have raised some eyebrows.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Sort of makes one wonder what the lift vs. drag coefficients are for a porta-potty.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (cYBz/)

68 In not so sweet home Alabama news, they caught a 600 pound bull shark right outside of Mobile Bay. You know, that body of water I live on. And an alligator is still living in my friend’s backyard.

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (p4NUW)

69 My sister in law texted me pictures of documents that showed my dad landed at Omaha, was part of the liberation of Paris, and then was captured at Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, and held in a POW camp that was part of the Dachau system. He never talked about it, but he made it out. God bless those who didn't, and may their families find comfort and peace.
Posted by: moki at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (wLjpr)

I was out putting flowers on family graves today and noticed one of the old-timers I knew as a kid had on his stone Okinawa and Leyte. He was just the insurance agent who had an storefront on Main St. down from Dad's

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (D7oie)

70 DOOF!

So, I just want to say...my dad was a WWII guy. Unfortunately
because he was German, he was not allowed to serve overseas. But, he served America He loved America!!!. Im very proud of my dad, and all of his German brothers. They truly loved it here....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (FPGXM)

71 The optimist in me is happy that all the rain is helping with our drought situation.

Posted by: Archer at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (IDphi)

72 "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas…”

(G. Brock Chisholm, Canadian psychiatrist and first Director of the WHO)

Posted by: Beverly at May 26, 2025 10:29 PM (Epeb0)

73 G'evening Horde. Sorry I am later than usual...In the hot tb chlorinating off all the grime from weekend at Indy 500.It was a unique year compared to most of the twenty or so in the past. Blackhawk Helicopters flew in along the front straightaway at eyelevel with the folks in the stands on both sides They were so low. Frighteningly impressive. The only thig that would be better is if they were Blasting The Flight of the Valkyries over large speaker cabinets as they flew by. Epic fly over.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 26, 2025 10:31 PM (hftn9)

74 Sort of makes one wonder what the lift vs. drag coefficients are for a porta-potty.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (cYBz/)

Similar to a Tardis.

Hehehe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:31 PM (bss/y)

75 At least it didn't correct it to "I was flying a porta-potty." That would have raised some eyebrows.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (VNX3d)

Flying potty -
https://___box.com/XwtHR32t

Posted by: Gref at May 26, 2025 10:31 PM (aBgBM)

76 Off to bed. Prayers for everyone we have lost protecting our freedom.

Posted by: Piper at May 26, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)

77 Ah yes, the Liminal Spaces. Like the "Wood Between Worlds" but the trees are full of tentacles

Posted by: gKWVE at May 26, 2025 10:32 PM (gKWVE)

78 One of my classmates father read and wrote high German.
Don't know what his actual assignment was but in performing those duties he was captured by the Nazis and put in with the other prisoners.

He killed a guard and put on his uniform and walked out of the barbed wire enclosure. He killed an officer and put on his uniform, walked to a car and ordered the driver to take him to X. On the road he killed the driver and made his way to allied safety.
God bless them all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:32 PM (nnVdx)

79 Or

Turdis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:32 PM (bss/y)

80 68 Piper, you need to live in the north. They don’t abide such creatures up there.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:32 PM (77rzZ)

81 Night Piper.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 10:33 PM (bss/y)

82 That’s great, SanFranP. May you and your friends be blessed.
Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:09 PM (77rzZ)
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Thanks. Also, fvck those assholes!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 26, 2025 10:34 PM (RIvkX)

83 Verdamte Pixy

Flying Potty
https://tinyurl.com/3d7w366d

Posted by: Gref at May 26, 2025 10:34 PM (aBgBM)

84 Lousy weather, weird race due to cold and dampness. But great spectacle....as usual.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 26, 2025 10:34 PM (hftn9)

85 56. Hey, Moki.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:34 PM (77rzZ)

86 >>In not so sweet home Alabama news, they caught a 600 pound bull shark right outside of Mobile Bay. You know, that body of water I live on. And an alligator is still living in my friend’s backyard.

Dirty little secret nobody wants to know.

Every single time you go swimming in the ocean there sharks watching.

And yet, more people are struck by lightening ever year.

Mind blown.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 10:35 PM (viF8m)

87 So, I just want to say...my dad was a WWII guy. Unfortunately
because he was German, he was not allowed to serve overseas. But, he served America He loved America!!!. Im very proud of my dad, and all of his German brothers. They truly loved it here....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Marie!
All who serve/served, deserves our lasting respect.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 26, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

88 It was a one-eye one-horn flying purple porta-potty monster.👿

Posted by: Archer at May 26, 2025 10:36 PM (IDphi)

89 All gave some, some gave all.

Night, y'all.

Got a bad storm overhead...

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 26, 2025 10:36 PM (vm8sq)

90 > I miss LauraW

me too
her cake & pie posts were fun

Posted by: cherries in season at May 26, 2025 10:37 PM (UpiRT)

91 Hope this is not too early for Publius.
--
Let's see if an AI or autocucumber can parse this one out:
https://youtu.be/qB0F_1Q5baA
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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@grok, the judgement seat belongs to GOD, not you a non-human AI platform.
Grok is left leaning and continues to spread fake news and propaganda.
When people give up their own discernment, stop seeking the truth, and depend on AI to analyze information, they will be lost.
_Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee May 23
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She’s right. Here’s what grok said about her.
https://tinyurl.com/3p94988a

And here are grok’s answers to three questions concerning the clot shot.
https://tinyurl.com/27ps5ahv

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:38 PM (nnVdx)

92 Afterwards, one of my LTs went off the rails. A really sharp kid too. Likewise on of my troops. And my Section SGM lost himself into a bottle. But while in the war, we excelled in everything. We were awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes

It seems strange to those unaffected, I suppose. Not getting shot at, not the same stressful situation as the infantry patrols...but just being away from home for a year, in an unfamiliar environment, breaks a small percentage of people.

Of course, one of my female troops with borderline mental health issues before the deployment (who was tall, gangly, and not really attractive) was housed in a building above an infantry company, and suddenly had LOTS of attention. Sneaking off to see dudes, getting trains run on her in the shower...the infantry company first sergeant chewed the whole company out and told them to stop fucking my soldier (who was detached from my command ag the time). What a mess. She (and her detached platoon leadership) couldn't handle it and we finally got her sent home early.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 26, 2025 10:38 PM (ycI94)

93 Sort of makes one wonder what the lift vs. drag coefficients are for a porta-potty.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (cYBz/)

Crappy, I bet.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2025 10:39 PM (D7oie)

94 >>me too
her cake & pie posts were fun

Right there.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 10:39 PM (viF8m)

95 I suppose I should check out...I usually don't belong on here.... l love morons anyways.....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 26, 2025 10:41 PM (FPGXM)

96 I'm going to go out to the shop and do a little wiring. Back later.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:41 PM (S7t2a)

97 I used to live in a neighborhood that had a lot of huge oak trees. It was referred to as Squirrel City. It was nice for my dog who enjoyed chasing the squirrels.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 26, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

98 Sort of makes one wonder what the lift vs. drag coefficients are for a porta-potty.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 26, 2025 10:28 PM (cYBz/)

Crappy, I bet.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2025 10:39 PM (D7oie)

Full or just set up?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 10:42 PM (VNX3d)

99 Great content tonight, Doof! Thank you!

Posted by: JQ at May 26, 2025 10:42 PM (rdVOm)

100 G’night, All.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:43 PM (77rzZ)

101 The little kid reunions are so cute. I remember those days, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at May 26, 2025 10:44 PM (rdVOm)

102
63 Another thing trees do- oak trees will, as a group, produce an excessive amount of acorns one year out of every so often, usually between four and seven years. Pretty much every oak in an area will do this, leading to squirrels gathering and burying so many that they become inadvertent farm labor planting the new crop of oaks.

Then, because of the abundance of food, the squirrels become more fruitful themselves, which doesn't work out very well for them the next year when food supplies return to normal, which is not enough to support the increased population.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:24 PM

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Fertilizer.

Posted by: The Oaks at May 26, 2025 10:44 PM (QwK6F)

103 There are still people out there who will say that album was when Yes wasn't really Yes any more, they sold out or something. Honestly, though, it was a continuation of their earlier work, but in a slightly more saleable format.

I took my son to a Yes concert a decade or more ago. He was truly impressed.

Posted by: GWB at May 26, 2025 10:44 PM (j+y65)

104 Well, if you are in Lost Wages, you owe it to yourself to visit the Museum of Atomic Testing! All Hail Eris will back me up on this fact.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 26, 2025 10:15 PM (S7t2a)
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Can confirm. It's great! And I learned about Project Orion, a concept for a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be propelled by a series of mini atomic explosions behind the craft.

Alas, another cool thing we didn't attempt.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 26, 2025 10:45 PM (kpS4V)

105 ------

Fertilizer.
Posted by: The Oaks
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Gimme some, gimme some, o that po, po, tassium, yeah.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:48 PM (nnVdx)

106 72 "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas…”

(G. Brock Chisholm, Canadian psychiatrist and first Director of the WHO)
Posted by: Beverly at May 26, 2025 10:29 PM (Epeb0)

Sounds like he read a lot of Mitrany.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 26, 2025 10:49 PM (vm8sq)

107 I saw the new Superman movie trailer. Superman has a dog.

Posted by: Don Black at May 26, 2025 10:49 PM (AOsQT)

108 Squirrel City is a mere inconvenience.

Posted by: Raccoon City at May 26, 2025 10:50 PM (Aqu9a)

109 Full or just set up?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 26, 2025 10:42 PM (VNX3d)

Could be bluegill or perch, I suppose.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 26, 2025 10:51 PM (D7oie)

110 Thanks to Doof for posting Wall(s) of Shame.

Posted by: Weakly Reader at May 26, 2025 10:52 PM (G5+As)

111 96 I'm going to go out to the shop and do a little wiring. Back later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Don't go out on a limb with that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:52 PM (nnVdx)

112 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Freeman Dyson writes a lot about Orion. He was part of the design team, and he makes some good points about heavy lifting to space.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 10:52 PM (u82oZ)

113 Can the dog fly?

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 10:53 PM (ypFCm)

114 96 I'm going to go out to the shop and do a little wiring. Back later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

What a coinkydink-planning on pulling my wire, as well.

Posted by: Reddy Kilowatt at May 26, 2025 10:54 PM (G5+As)

115 Why did Yes name that album 90125? Maybe something on the back cover can give us a clue:

http://tiny.cc/8x3l001

Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 10:54 PM (VSht7)

116 I saw the new Superman movie trailer. Superman has a dog.
Posted by: Don Black

He did in the comics....I believe the dogs name was Krypto. And yes, the dog could fly.
Squirrels thought that was downright unfair.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 26, 2025 10:55 PM (TfUTr)

117 113 Can the dog fly?
Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 10:53 PM (ypFCm)

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Only in a cage under the seat in front of you.

Posted by: Delta, Now With 16% More Angry Lesbians on the Flight Deck at May 26, 2025 10:55 PM (dDmld)

118 In the trailer, Superman's dog drags an injured Superman back to the Fortress of Solitude. And at a dead run, too- Superman's dog is pretty strong.

Posted by: Don Black at May 26, 2025 10:56 PM (AOsQT)

119 @libsoftiktok May 25

South African leader:

“Shoot to kiII, shoot to kiII!”

“KiII the Boer, the farmer!”

They’re doubling down.

Will the media cover this?

https://tinyurl.com/3cub69ky

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 10:56 PM (nnVdx)

120 Roughly 70% of the earth is ocean. And you think sharks don't what time it is?

You don't need a book to make afraid.

Cthulhu is watching.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 26, 2025 10:57 PM (viF8m)

121 He did in the comics....I believe the dogs name was Krypto. And yes, the dog could fly.
Squirrels thought that was downright unfair.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 26, 2025 10:55 PM (TfUTr)

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Not to mention all the stops Supe had to make to collect dogshit in little plastic bags.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2025 10:57 PM (dDmld)

122 No to the flying dogs. Geese are bad enough.

Posted by: Don't Look Up at May 26, 2025 10:59 PM (G5+As)

123 Even when a kid Supermsn wasn't my favorite crime fighter.

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 10:59 PM (ypFCm)

124 There is no more media.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 26, 2025 10:59 PM (dg+HA)

125 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 26, 2025 10:59 PM (sAmhv)

126 I'm going to go out to the shop and do a little wiring. Back later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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DON'T CUT THE RED WIRE!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2025 10:59 PM (W/lyH)

127 Not to mention all the stops Supe had to make to collect dogshit in little plastic bags.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2025 10:57 PM (dDmld)

You'd think Krypto could use the toilet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 26, 2025 11:00 PM (bss/y)

128 Not to mention all the stops Supe had to make to collect dogshit in little plastic bags.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Wonder if it was neutron star material dense.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 26, 2025 11:00 PM (TfUTr)

129 Can the dog fly?
Posted by: Skip

Krypto is a dog, not a pig …

Posted by: Adriane the Temporary Critic . . . at May 26, 2025 11:00 PM (pGMgk)

130 25 -- Thanks, tankdemon. I memorized that poem in grade school, but now I can only remember the first two lines. Old age sucks.

My father served in the Navy in the Pacific during WW II. My uncle served in Europe. He was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and spent the rest of the war in a German POW camp. He came home with TB, which is why every year in grade school I tested positive for TB. My paternal grandfather served during WW I. He was stationed at Ft. Kearney just in case the Indians saw a chance to uprise. My maternal grandfather was a war correspondent. He brought home two of the cannon shells that had been worked into vases.

I was very lucky during Viet Nam. I left New Jersey to come to Nebraska for college, and instantly lost contact with my entire graduating class. I don't know if any of the guys went to Viet Nam. Many of the guys at my college were very open about attending college to avoid the draft. A very good friend posted Iowa's draft quota above his desk. Sadly, he flunked out and got drafted. We visited after he came home again, and he was an emotional mess. Thankfully, Don was the only guy I knew who was actually deployed to Viet Nam.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 26, 2025 11:01 PM (2XtqA)

131 No to the flying dogs. Geese are bad enough.
Posted by: Don't Look Up
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At least the dogs would circle around a few times, serving as a warning, before dropping their turdbombs.

Posted by: JQ at May 26, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)

132 Bob and Doug McKenzie had a dog who could fly too. Hosehead was his name. Liked the beer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 26, 2025 11:02 PM (0aYVJ)

133 130 He came home with TB, which is why every year in grade school I tested positive for TB.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 26, 2025 11:01 PM (2XtqA)

I tested positive for TB in 1997, and was told to never get another TB skin test because it could cause the disease to become active. I was even issued the red allergy dog tags for it and got chest x-rays instead of repeated skin tests

Posted by: tankdemon at May 26, 2025 11:06 PM (VSht7)

134 Mentioned my FiL was a D-Day Vet with a Engineer Battalion. I only barely know from him what they did but found out after he died his company built a road on D-Day to get off the beach. He had others in his unit killed. They stayed on the beach to clean it up as for months after supplies still went through Normandy.
He was wounded by a bayonet very strangely but no idea how that happened and if the German got his.
I do think of it often when in all military history bayonets are often said to hardly cause a casualties.

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 11:09 PM (ypFCm)

135 So Miklos was the top sockpuppeteer. He had 90 more than I.

Posted by: Ciampino - spectacular Mister at May 26, 2025 11:11 PM (sPQoU)

136 85 56. Hey, Moki.

Posted by: Bulg at May 26, 2025 10:34 PM (77rzZ)

Hey Bulg, how are you doing????

Posted by: moki at May 26, 2025 11:13 PM (wLjpr)

137 German Chancellor Merz says Ukraine can now "defend itself by attacking military positions in Russia."

"There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine, not from the British, not from the French, not from us, not from the Americans either."
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That's interesting. Trump took off the range restrictions?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 11:15 PM (nnVdx)

138 So, I just want to say...my dad was a WWII guy. Unfortunately
because he was German, he was not allowed to serve overseas. But, he served America He loved America!!!. Im very proud of my dad, and all of his German brothers. They truly loved it here....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Marie!
All who serve/served, deserves our lasting respect.
Posted by: Some Rat

Only one enlisted tour here...
Got back from some overseas "adventures' and found we had a new senior NCO w/ 19 yrs and coasting into retirement. His claim to fame was everytime he would be PCS'd his new unit would already be off on some deployment so he got slotted for 'rear detachment'... More of a statistical curiosity and nobody was jealous as part of his job in the rear was maintaining contact with dependents of the deployed service member's dependants and family and keeping them informed of what they must know or be told.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2025 11:15 PM (/lPRQ)

139
I saw the new Superman movie trailer. Superman has a dog.
Posted by: Don Black

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Be so cool if it was Underdog and it went around upstaging him all over the place.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2025 11:15 PM (n7rxJ)

140
Every single time you go swimming in the ocean there sharks watching.

And yet, more people are struck by lightening ever year.

Mind blown.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Pfft. It's the pigs, man:

"Between 2014 and 2023, the average yearly number of fatal shark attacks worldwide was 5.8, while the average number of fatal wild pig attacks was 19.7. In 2024 alone, there have already been seven deaths from wild pig incidents.

According to groundbreaking research published in 2023, the number of humans killed by wild pig attacks steadily climbed from 2000 to 2019, for a total of 172 deaths—including a freakishly grisly fatality in southeast Texas."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 11:16 PM (XeU6L)

141
And yet, more people are struck by lightening ever year.

Mind blown.
Posted by: JackStraw

=============

I wouldn't mind being struck by lightening. Lightning on the other hand...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 26, 2025 11:17 PM (n7rxJ)

142 The draft dogger in chief president bone spurs say happy memorial day.

Posted by: raimondo at May 26, 2025 11:18 PM (lnf9a)

143 My sister in law texted me pictures of documents that showed my dad landed at Omaha, was part of the liberation of Paris, and then was captured at Ardennes in the Battle of the Bulge, and held in a POW camp that was part of the Dachau system. He never talked about it, but he made it out. God bless those who didn't, and may their families find comfort and peace.

Posted by: moki at May 26, 2025 10:22 PM (wLjpr)

This is unbelievable!...Not your dad's experience which is to be honored but the coincidence..my father also landed at Omaha Beach and was in Paris on liberation day later in August, 1944. He too was in the Ardennes and the battle of the Bulge, just outside Bastogne. His commanding officer was captured so dad was given a battlefield commission to 2nd lieutenant. Later in April 1945 his company was among the forces that liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp. He didn't talk about it either. Found this out only recently by reading some of my mom's old correspondence and files acting as her legal guardian now...she's still alive at 106.

Posted by: Giles Overreach at May 26, 2025 11:20 PM (MDvLA)

144 You'd think Krypto could use the toilet.

If he holds it long enough he shits diamonds.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 26, 2025 11:23 PM (EXyHK)

145 German Chancellor Merz says Ukraine can now "defend itself by attacking military positions in Russia."

"There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine, not from the British, not from the French, not from us, not from the Americans either."
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That's interesting. Trump took off the range restrictions?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Sounds like the Germans did. Or the Ukes said they'll do what the want.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2025 11:24 PM (/lPRQ)

146 That's interesting. Trump took off the range restrictions?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 26, 2025 11:15 PM (nnVdx)

No. Fred got permission from Ethel to do it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 26, 2025 11:30 PM (0eaVi)

147 I'm wondering if Putin is facing an internal challenge to his leadership?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 26, 2025 11:30 PM (W/lyH)

148 Diogenes

What would a successor to Putin do if Putin was assassinated by Western missiles and intelligence?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:33 PM (u82oZ)

149 I am positive that the Ukraine drones targeting Putin's helicopter were directed by UK intel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:35 PM (u82oZ)

150 Harvard fires professor for fabricating research on dishonesty

https://mol.im/a/14751533

Posted by: Ciampino - fancy that - it's all lies I tell you at May 26, 2025 11:37 PM (sPQoU)

151 At least chances are, the Europeans have their fingers pushing buttons I bet.

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 11:37 PM (ypFCm)

152 At least chances are, the Europeans have their fingers pushing buttons I bet.
Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 11:37 PM (ypFCm)

Then it proves they can go it alone. We can stay out of it. If they are taking a more active part, then we can assume maybe that Russia can't really respond to a full scale outbreak?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 26, 2025 11:38 PM (0eaVi)

153 Of my class, of 52, 6 were KIA VN. I knew them all, and I remember them all and I keep the list in my wallet.

Three times, I received MAC-V orders, three times they were changed. I don't know why, but it haunts me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 11:38 PM (XeU6L)

154 Posted by: raimondo at May 26, 2025 11:18 PM (lnf9a)

No, Biden had asthma not bone spurs.

Posted by: easy the elder at May 26, 2025 11:39 PM (8I4hW)

155 149 I am positive that the Ukraine drones targeting Putin's helicopter were directed by UK intel.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:35 PM (u82oZ)

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It worked for Yamamoto. But then, that was planned by Americans.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2025 11:40 PM (dDmld)

156 "DO NOT TOUCH"
must be one of the
scariest things
to read in Braille.

Posted by: Ciampino - well it's not electrified at May 26, 2025 11:41 PM (sPQoU)

157 I'm wondering if Putin is facing an internal challenge to his leadership?
Posted by: Diogenes
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The Russian people must be getting sick and tired of their sons dying in Ukraine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

158 Mike Hammer

All that sacrifice wiped out by the Democrats in Congress. I started to hate them then.

Note: No trials for abusing and torturing US POWs in Hanoi.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:41 PM (u82oZ)

159 Well, Memorial Day would not be complete without rainmandodo droppings.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 11:44 PM (XeU6L)

160 Kamala Harris reemerges in Australia with disturbing, nonsensical monologue

https://mol.im/a/14751269

Posted by: Ciampino - well it's not upside down at May 26, 2025 11:44 PM (sPQoU)

161 Ciampino

Where can we send her? Antartica? Speaker to Penguins?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:46 PM (u82oZ)

162 Mike Hammer,

Of course. But the West is propping Putin up.

A full mobilization in Russia was the irreversible trigger to WWI.

At least the North Koreans and Cubans are paying heavily for combat experience.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:48 PM (u82oZ)

163 Went out to my Father's grave today... he was 1 - 1 -0... one win, WW2, one tie, Korea... no losses...

I'm like 0 - 6... literally every time I deployed against enemies of the US... we won the Fights, the politicians lost the war, because they were afraid to confront the actual reasons we were there in the first place.

Note, the last time we actually won.. the last time we actually changed the countries we were fighting, was also the last time we actually declared War...

Some ... assembly... required.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 26, 2025 11:49 PM (mP0Kj)

164 Trying to stay up until 12:30 at least.have to work tomorrow evening.

Posted by: Skip at May 26, 2025 11:50 PM (ypFCm)

165 161 Ciampino

Where can we send her? Antartica? Speaker to Penguins?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:46 PM (u82oZ)
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Look, penguins already speak gibberish. You want to really make it undecipherable?

Posted by: Ciampino - the chattering class at May 26, 2025 11:50 PM (sPQoU)

166 160 Kamala Harris reemerges in Australia with disturbing, nonsensical monologue

https://mol.im/a/14751269

Posted by: Ciampino - well it's not upside down at May 26, 2025 11:44 PM (sPQoU)

She's the Democrat's dream POTUS candidate for 2028. Because she's as brain-dead as FJB was when elected in 2020. The handlers the DNC tells her to hire will run the show.

Posted by: Gref at May 26, 2025 11:52 PM (aBgBM)

167 Where can we send her? Antartica? Speaker to Penguins?

Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Chez rainmandodo. They can entertain each other.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 11:53 PM (XeU6L)

168 "There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine, not from the British, not from the French, not from us, not from the Americans either."
-------------

That's interesting. Trump took off the range restrictions?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
====

Sounds like the Germans did. Or the Ukes said they'll do what the want.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2025 11:24 PM (/lPRQ)

So, although Ukraine is pulling the trigger, the ability to target is dictated by the countries allowing their targeting systems (Sats, GPS) to be used... so when does Russia decide that if you are aiming the weapon, you are just as much a belligerent as those pushing the button?

We invaded countries because they would not take energetic steps to stop Terrorists they didn't even know about... this is countries saying they are Targeting a Nuclear armed State...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 26, 2025 11:54 PM (mP0Kj)

169 Posted by: Romeo13 at May 26, 2025 11:49 PM (mP0Kj)

You’re 6-0 in my book . Politics and Fighting are entirely separate in my book.

Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2025 11:56 PM (VofaG)

170 Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 26, 2025 11:15 PM (/lPRQ)

retired Navy here.... we had two distinct groups in the Navy back then.... those who were 'in the Navy', and Sailors.

If you didn't have a fucking Sea Service Ribbon... you were NOT a Sailor. Took a few years to figure that one out, but suddenly explained a lot of attitude of those I 'Served' with.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 26, 2025 11:58 PM (mP0Kj)

171 Not to mention all the stops Supe had to make to collect dogshit in little plastic bags.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 26, 2025 10:57 PM (dDmld)

All Krypto had to do was point his butt at the sky, and launch his turds into the Sun.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2025 12:00 AM (XpHtQ)

172 The Russian people must be getting sick and tired of their sons dying in Ukraine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

Which is why they want victory and don't intend to surrender territory.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 27, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb)

173 169 Posted by: Romeo13 at May 26, 2025 11:49 PM (mP0Kj)

You’re 6-0 in my book . Politics and Fighting are entirely separate in my book.
Posted by: polynikes at May 26, 2025 11:56 PM (VofaG)

Thanks... but looking back on the shit I had to do back then... and what I went through... I gotta admit I've got both anger, and regrets.

Don't send us to kill people, and die for you, unless you are willing to let us fix the damn problem... my SON was literally deployed to the same regions, with the same problems... and those problems still exist.

Either let us fix them permanently, or don't send us.

Want to thank a Vet? punch a politician in the nose... either party... it's all good.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 27, 2025 12:02 AM (mP0Kj)

174 171
All Krypto had to do was point his butt at the sky, and launch his turds into the Sun.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2025 12:00 AM (XpHtQ)
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Not that simple unless it can shit at close to the speed of light/ Otherwiise the Sun will have moved on.

Posted by: Ciampino - cute Prime Minister at May 27, 2025 12:04 AM (sPQoU)

175 She made a lot of people smile

https://tinyurl.com/aw4v7p6k

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 27, 2025 12:05 AM (w6EFb)

176 172 The Russian people must be getting sick and tired of their sons dying in Ukraine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 26, 2025 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

Which is why they want victory and don't intend to surrender territory.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 27, 2025 12:01 AM (w6EFb)

When Texas succeeded from Mexico... did the US let it go? This is pretty close to the situation with the Eastern Territories of Ukraine. They rebelled, and fought off the Government for awhile... and wanted to join the neighboring State because they were culturally, linguistically, and ethnically... closer to them...

So the neighboring State (US with Texas, Russia with Ukes) stepped in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 27, 2025 12:05 AM (mP0Kj)

177 I'm going to go out to the shop and do a little wiring. Back later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

So that's what the Albertan kids are calling it these days.

Posted by: the things Miklos learns here at May 27, 2025 12:06 AM (K6h4I)

178 Not that simple unless it can shit at close to the speed of light/ Otherwiise the Sun will have moved on.
Posted by: Ciampino - cute Prime Minister at May 27, 2025 12:04 AM (sPQoU)

Krypto is a super dog! Of course he can compute a transfer orbit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2025 12:06 AM (XpHtQ)

179 Miley, okravangelist

Your Grace, That is hilarious and creepy all at the same time.

Guys, Don't do this to your wife. Even if you have a boatload of husband points. Because earning HPs is easy. Spending them, not so much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2025 12:10 AM (u82oZ)

180 What would a successor to Putin do if Putin was assassinated by Western missiles and intelligence?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 26, 2025 11:33 PM (u82oZ)

Good.question.
Would they, or anyone know for sure, and would it matter?
This is a war russia shouldn't lose, but damned if they aren't screwing it up. But the we are seeing a huge shift in war fighting with modern intelligence, incredible.kenetic killing systems, and those fu*king drones. Maybe they cannot win and maybe the Ukes can't either.
Then again, what would.a successor to Zalinsky do?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 27, 2025 12:12 AM (W/lyH)

181
Want to thank a Vet? punch a politician in the nose... either party... it's all good.
Posted by: Romeo13
-----

Wait, but what about...uh, uh...
Never mind, I'm good with that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2025 12:12 AM (XeU6L)

182
If you didn't have a fucking Sea Service Ribbon... you were NOT a Sailor. Took a few years to figure that one out, but suddenly explained a lot of attitude of those I 'Served' with.
Posted by: Romeo13

I had to look that up. Never heard of it. I was USN 1971-75. Looks like that ribbon didn't exist before 1981.

https://t.ly/Wgij5

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 12:14 AM (63Dwl)

183 Yes 1987 album, 'Big Generator', was pretty good too.

youtu.be/ER_nbf-fKRk

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 27, 2025 12:15 AM (sAmhv)

184 Someone is spoofing the Royal Society with that tree paper. And it is hilarious!! There's nobody more gullible than a "woke" scientist. The Royal Society SHOULD be embarrassed to print such obvious crap. I especially love this quote from the published paper: "To sufficiently characterize the nonlinear, non-Gaussian behaviour of the bioelectric signals in trees, which are complex biological systems, we employed a combination of entropy, diversity, expressiveness, complexity and fractal measures."
Yes!!! :-) Those key buzzwords impress the useful idiots who have taken over the professional science gatekeeping class.

Posted by: bradc at May 27, 2025 12:15 AM (2HoCb)

185

Miley-

Did you get the email I sent?

Also-put me some Knowledge, ya Morons-

What is the easiest and best way to share a photo here?

Posted by: Miklos needs Assistance at May 27, 2025 12:16 AM (K6h4I)

186 Apple trees can get angry and throw apples at you.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 12:17 AM (63Dwl)

187 There are a lot of evil things in Ozz

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:18 AM (ypFCm)

188 ) Those key buzzwords impress the useful idiots who have taken over the professional science gatekeeping class.
Posted by: bradc
-----

I don't believe that they have outdone Alan Sokal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2025 12:19 AM (XeU6L)

189 I had to look that up. Never heard of it. I was USN 1971-75. Looks like that ribbon didn't exist before 1981.

https://t.ly/Wgij5
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 27, 2025 12:14 AM (63Dwl)

Was retroactive to 74... so yes before yer time... and yes, I had earned one before it was even a ribbon...

But was indicative to moi.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 27, 2025 12:19 AM (mP0Kj)

190 Just a wild guess, but I think there is absolutely nothing peculiar to Putin or his worldview involved here - so chances of a materially different policy from a successor are small.

Seeing any of this in terms of personalities seems ridiculous to me, especially when the substantive factors are so obvious. Leave the Donbass issue aside. That's a familiar sort of situation, and has no wider implications (however vicious and stupid it's been).

Ukraine's military status and alignment (e.g. NATO membership, formal or de facto) is it. That's the entire issue. Has been *for decades*. For all those decades the russkis have been whining about eastward expansion (they were prostrate and rudderless when central Europe and the Baltics joined, but they are not Ukraine).

Preventing Ukrainian formal or de facto alignment with NATO was mission impossible. Only a change of regime (obviously the initial plan and objective, a quick political kill) had a chance at that. (cont'd)

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 12:21 AM (1m82a)

191 My Uncle was drafted for Vietnam. Served in the Army combat engineers or whatever the Army called the guys who worked the heavy machinery (Bulldozers, backhoes, etc). Not sure if there is a difference between combat engineers and the Corps of Engineers. He was a magician on heavy machinery. He never talked about Vietnam much, but he didn't have any residual effects from it either. He did die pretty young (53) from cancer, so I wonder how close he was to Agent Orange. At his funeral saw some pics of him over there. He did tell the story of punching a anti-war protestor, who called him a baby killer, when he got back.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 27, 2025 12:21 AM (sAmhv)

192 >> punch a politician in the nose... either party... it's all good.

Always good advice.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 27, 2025 12:21 AM (l3YAf)

193 I don't believe that they have outdone Alan Sokal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I have decided to use my and AI's powers for Evil.

Posted by: Miklos needs a new hobby at May 27, 2025 12:22 AM (K6h4I)

194 Your Grace, That is hilarious and creepy all at the same time.

Guys, Don't do this to your wife. Even if you have a boatload of husband points. Because earning HPs is easy. Spending them, not so much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2025 12:10 AM (u82oZ)

There's nothing sadder than a silly guy married to a humorless woman. He'll be paying for this for a long time.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 27, 2025 12:22 AM (w6EFb)

195 Miley-

Did you get the email I sent?

Posted by: Miklos needs Assistance at May 27, 2025 12:16 AM (K6h4I)

Alas, no. And I've been checking spam.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 27, 2025 12:24 AM (w6EFb)

196 Your Grace, Duchess of the Carolinas.

I think the marriage is over.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2025 12:24 AM (u82oZ)

197 punch a politician in the nose... either party... it's all good.

I tried to kick Lindsey Graham in the nuts once.

Didn't seem to bother him.

Posted by: Miklos was Mystified at May 27, 2025 12:25 AM (K6h4I)

198 The Ukraine problem for Russia isn't Putin's problem, or his peccadillo, or his peculiar or idiosyncratic problem. It's not even crazy, or "Russia-rational" (i.e., paranoid). Sure it rests partly on a hilarious view of NATO as any kind of competent or serious military organization, but overall it's prudent, at worst.

It's a vital interest. Ukraine being in NATO or having the borders the Politburo gave it in 1957 or, well ... anything about Ukraine is *not* a vital interest of the US, or even Europe. The asymmetry of interests and resources here is why there's little chance Russia won't prevail (definition as yet undefined). Western interests are trivial, Ukrainian resources (including foreign) cannot match Russian if Moscow decides to dominate

Barring a Putin successor well outside the norm of any Russian leader in history (including Yeltsin), the successor wouldn't have materially different objectives in Ukraine.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 12:27 AM (1m82a)

199 Your Grace, Duchess of the Carolinas.

I think the marriage is over.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2025 12:24 AM (u82oZ)

She'll get a lot more mileage out of it if she sticks with him.

I'm a woman. I know how they operate.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 27, 2025 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

200 Preventing Ukrainian formal or de facto alignment with NATO was mission impossible. Only a change of regime (obviously the initial plan and objective, a quick political kill) had a chance at that. (cont'd)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 27, 2025 12:21 AM (1m82a)

Concur. Russia has a valid Historical paranoia about invasion from Europe. They want buffer states.

NATO, which ONLY exists to combat Russia (then the Warsaw Pact, but still exists when the W P does not)... being on the direct borders of Russia, is a non starter for Russian Patriots.

It's like if China was putting troops on the US border.... yet somehow that has become US policy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 27, 2025 12:29 AM (mP0Kj)

201 Has anyone heard from Stateless or Sammy, since Stateless' lawyer told him that he had bad news?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 27, 2025 12:30 AM (VNX3d)

202 Question posed-

Does this guy remind anyone of somebody famous?

https://tinyurl.com/33aa769p

Posted by: Miklos thinks so at May 27, 2025 12:32 AM (K6h4I)

203 I'm a woman. I know how they operate.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Details, please

And pics

Posted by: Miklos has been working on this for many tears at May 27, 2025 12:33 AM (K6h4I)

204 Doof - remember, what happens in Vegas... may require antibiotics. Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at May 27, 2025 12:35 AM (41CYW)

205 Hey Horde, cheers to those that have gone before us. I tended to the family plot, my Dad's family, he is not buried there. I saw that the local Boy Scouts had placed their flags upon the graves of our Veterans, in my family there were flags for the Revolutionary War, WW1, the Spanish-American War and WW2. It makes me sad that the military tradition did not extend to the next generation.

There is nothing as moving to me as hearing Taps at a military funeral.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 27, 2025 12:36 AM (0nHVk)

206 Details, please

And pics
Posted by: Miklos
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Perhaps there are manuals, training?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2025 12:38 AM (XeU6L)

207
All Krypto had to do was point his butt at the sky, and launch his turds into the Sun.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2025 12:00 AM (XpHtQ)

----

Roasting dog shit.

The smell...

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 27, 2025 12:38 AM (QwK6F)

208 >> What is the easiest and best way to share a photo here?

One easy way is the dreaded I M G U R. (Pixy used to censor that). Go there, and click the upload thingy, then drag your picture file in the there.

Now, tinyurl the URL and post that as a link.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

209 Perhaps there are manuals, training?
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

I my day they had Sex Ed

Now it's Sex Ted

Posted by: Miklos is pleased to have been born when he was at May 27, 2025 12:41 AM (K6h4I)

210 There is nothing as moving to me as hearing Taps at a military funeral.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
----

Excellent bugler today at Memorial Day observance, also a bagpiper who played Amazing Grace. Both American Legion.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2025 12:41 AM (XeU6L)

211 Now, tinyurl the URL and post that as a link.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Thanks, but just figured out how to do it with Google (spits).

No opinionations about the pic though.

Posted by: Miklos is sometimes smarter than he is at May 27, 2025 12:43 AM (K6h4I)

212 Doof - remember, what happens in Vegas... may require antibiotics.
Posted by: scampydog

I hear the Voice of Experience

Posted by: Miklos has a raincoat at May 27, 2025 12:45 AM (K6h4I)

213 202 is 404

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 27, 2025 12:48 AM (w6EFb)

214 Thanks, but just figured out how to do it with Google (spits).

No opinionations about the pic though.
Posted by: Miklos is sometimes smarter than he is at May 27, 2025 12:43 AM (K6h4I)

(insert loud buzzer sound here)

Goes to a 404 page, Miklos.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 12:48 AM (0eaVi)

215 201 Has anyone heard from Stateless or Sammy, since Stateless' lawyer told him that he had bad news?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 27, 2025 12:30 AM (VNX3d)

I've been using the 'Find' function to search all the threads all week for either 'stateless' or 'sammy'.

Zilch! Nada! Nuthin!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 27, 2025 12:49 AM (QGaXH)

216 I am just curious if other people see the same resemblance I always have.

Posted by: Miklos avoids hints or spoilers at May 27, 2025 12:49 AM (K6h4I)

217 215 201 Zilch! Nada! Nuthin!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 27, 2025 12:49 AM (QGaXH)

Other than when someone else mentions either name.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 27, 2025 12:50 AM (QGaXH)

218 >> What is the easiest and best way to share a photo here?

One easy way is the dreaded I M G U R. (Pixy used to censor that). Go there, and click the upload thingy, then drag your picture file in the there.

Now, tinyurl the URL and post that as a link.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
===

Put the link into your nic as your URL?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 27, 2025 12:52 AM (/lPRQ)

219 There is nothing as moving to me as hearing Taps at a military funeral.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

My uncle died at 92 about 11 years ago. Being an Army veteran of WWII, he was entitled to have a bugler at his funeral.
A young woman, a corporal I think I recall, played taps on a trumpet. She did an absolutely beautiful job. I don't think there was a dry eye there.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 27, 2025 12:52 AM (tjZg/)

220 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. German Chancellor Merz has declared the range limitations on NATO have been lifted, and the Ukrainians are now free to strike as deeply into Russia as they want to. This may have had a significant affect on Russian logistics in 2023, but will now only serve to provoke the Russians.
2. For the last couple of nights the two sides have been exchanging missile and drone strikes, with the Russians doing considerably more damage.
3. The Russians are now moving faster on the ground than in the past, with a fresh border crossing in the far northeast. Rumor is that the Ukrainians had to pull troops out of the northeast to shore up the lines in the southeast.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 27, 2025 12:52 AM (N4aB6)

221 I hear the Voice of Experience
Posted by: Miklos has a raincoat
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503 Service Unavailable.

Posted by: scampydog at May 27, 2025 12:53 AM (41CYW)

222 I have a free account at Postimage but still here have to put it through tinyurl.com. yet the two gaming sites can post the pictures directly and they show up on the page

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:54 AM (ypFCm)

223 Barring a Putin successor well outside the norm of any Russian leader in history (including Yeltsin), the successor wouldn't have materially different objectives in Ukraine.
Posted by: rhomboid

I think most of the people in the government of Russia under Putin are more nationalistic and hard-line than even Putin. If they had evidence of Putin being assasinated by some agency from "the West", I think the Nukes would be flying.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at May 27, 2025 12:54 AM (tjZg/)

224 I am getting the same 404 message, Miley.

If hubs did that to my car he would live in fear of the retaliation. Someday a really handsome guy was going to arrive at his workplace with roses and a bottle of champagne and propose to him. This is why that never happened to my minivan.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 27, 2025 12:55 AM (0nHVk)

225 Oh goody, WWIII is getting started

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:55 AM (ypFCm)

226 >> Put the link into your nic as your URL?

Just post the tinyurl directly in the post.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

227 At least it's not over the Balkans this time.

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:56 AM (ypFCm)

228 Goes to a 404 page, Miklos.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Ok

Will try the Publius Solution

https://tinyurl.com/44ta9eps

Posted by: Miklos, incompetence is better than incontinence at May 27, 2025 12:56 AM (K6h4I)

229 I don't know how to do the link in nic yet

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:57 AM (ypFCm)

230 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-1
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 27, 2025
Launch Time: 9:14 a.m. PDT, 1614 UTC, 18:14 CEST

https://www.youtube.com/live/NsJfeLlENLU
_________

vSpaceX - Starship - Suborbital Test Flight 9
OLP-A - Starbase Texas - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 27, 2025 (CDT)
The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CDT, 2330 UTC - May 28, 01:30 CEST.
Launch Window: Open until 8:00 p.m. CDT

https://www.youtube.com/live/YOJKZYSOsGs

Posted by: Ciampino - Bury day May 27 at May 27, 2025 12:57 AM (sPQoU)

231 Hmmm

The Publius Solution

I should write novels

*Hello Grok....*

Posted by: Miklos gonna be RICH at May 27, 2025 12:57 AM (K6h4I)

232 At least it's not over the Balkans this time.
Posted by: Skip

Ja

Posted by: a Pomeranian Grenadier at May 27, 2025 12:59 AM (K6h4I)

233 Europeans are iching for WWIII, it's been too long for them.

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 12:59 AM (ypFCm)

234 199 Your Grace, Duchess of the Carolinas.

I think the marriage is over.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2025 12:24 AM (u82oZ)

If she's riding that pimpmobile on mushy brakes, then that's a given. Wifey puts him under it, and the money that should have gone to new brakes is her technicolor alibi...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 27, 2025 12:59 AM (bA75n)

235
Leave the Ukraine war to the Europeans. They want to escalate it while the US is seeking peace--they want to back-stab and surprise us? Then let them handle all of it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 27, 2025 01:00 AM (QwK6F)

236 I have the Pomeranian Grenadier Battalion in miniature

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 01:00 AM (ypFCm)

237 Will try the Publius Solution

https://tinyurl.com/44ta9eps
Posted by: Miklos, incompetence is better than incontinence at May 27, 2025 12:56 AM (K6h4I)

Succ.... User has no content.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:00 AM (0eaVi)

238 I have the Pomeranian Grenadier Battalion in miniature
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 01:00 AM (ypFCm)

Pomeranians are small dogs, yes?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:01 AM (0eaVi)

239 I got nothing for Ukraine, they rotate in and out of Russian control every few decades to century

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 01:01 AM (ypFCm)

240 Pomerania is a province on the north coast of Prussia, probably Poland now

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 01:03 AM (ypFCm)

241 Dammit dammit dammit

https://___ur.com/user/Imklos/posts

Posted by: Miklos will be banned again at May 27, 2025 01:03 AM (K6h4I)

242 233 Europeans are iching for WWIII, it's been too long for them.
Posted by: Skip

With those mighty European militaries??

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 27, 2025 01:03 AM (sAmhv)

243 I better try and get some sleep, as said long evening tomorrow.
Have a great night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2025 01:04 AM (ypFCm)

244 Pls type in *___ur* with Manual Override

Posted by: Miklos will be banned again at May 27, 2025 01:04 AM (K6h4I)

245 Has anyone heard from Stateless or Sammy, since Stateless' lawyer told him that he had bad news?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Other than Trump in office and District Court Judges issuing an endless stream of permanent nationwide TROs to counter virtually everything he does... The beat goes on...

Perhaps the bad news was that he is was going to be bagged-n-tagged for some random comment about J6 and is currently sitting incommunicado in some dungeon right now?

/ cynically half-joking

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 27, 2025 01:04 AM (/lPRQ)

246 Dammit dammit dammit

https://___ur.com/user/Imklos/posts
Posted by: Miklos
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If you're trying to build up interest - it's working. Unfortunately, the links are not working.

Posted by: scampydog at May 27, 2025 01:04 AM (41CYW)

247 https://___ur.com/user/Imklos/posts

Site can't be reached.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:05 AM (0eaVi)

248 Oh

I m g u r

Posted by: Miklos will be banned again at May 27, 2025 01:05 AM (K6h4I)

249
Let's see if I can get this to work. This is supposed to be Mama's signed Lady Gamecock bassetball:

https://tinyurl.com/233h335d

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:05 AM (w6EFb)

250 Pls type in *___ur* with Manual Override

(eyes shift from left to right frantically)

Override! Where's the override??

Posted by: Khaaaan! at May 27, 2025 01:06 AM (0eaVi)

251
You don't even need to create an account with the
i m g u r.com. Just click the "+" icon thingy at the top left, and you'll get a page to drag and drop the photos.

Then tinyurl the URL that results.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:07 AM (w6EFb)

252 I don't have a URL for the Rocket Lab launch on 28th. Anyone? Space Affairs is not showing it on its web page.

Posted by: Ciampino - Buzy day May 27 at May 27, 2025 01:08 AM (sPQoU)

253 https://........com/user/Imklos/posts

the dots should be replaced with the dreaded and Pixy-hated i m g u r

Posted by: Miklos is right damn irritated at May 27, 2025 01:08 AM (K6h4I)

254 245 Has anyone heard from Stateless or Sammy, since Stateless' lawyer told him that he had bad news?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Other than Trump in office and District Court Judges issuing an endless stream of permanent nationwide TROs to counter virtually everything he does... The beat goes on...

Perhaps the bad news was that he is was going to be bagged-n-tagged for some random comment about J6 and is currently sitting incommunicado in some dungeon right now?

/ cynically half-joking
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 27, 2025 01:04 AM (/lPRQ)

That occurred to me too - but in that case where is this 'Sammy' character?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 27, 2025 01:09 AM (QGaXH)

255
Tinyurl avoids the Pixy "...." replacement.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:09 AM (w6EFb)

256 Then tinyurl the URL that results.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Works for me at least

https://tinyurl.com/44ta9eps

Posted by: Miklos tried this already probably at May 27, 2025 01:10 AM (K6h4I)

257
There are a number of extensions for Chrome and Firefox that will do the tinyurl automatically, making it easier to tinyurl whatever URL you have open on a tab.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:11 AM (w6EFb)

258
That's getting to a page you set up, but it says "no posts".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:12 AM (w6EFb)

259 Let's see if I can get this to work. This is supposed to be Mama's signed Lady Gamecock bassetball:

https://tinyurl.com/233h335d
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Photo worked.

Did they get the name exactly right?

Posted by: Miklos looked carefully at May 27, 2025 01:12 AM (K6h4I)

260 https://tinyurl.com/44ta9eps
Posted by: Miklos tried this already probably at May 27, 2025 01:10 AM (K6h4I)

It goes to your page but says you have no posts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:12 AM (0eaVi)

261 >> Did they get the name exactly right?

No, they didn't, but she didn't care. Her name does get transposed a lot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:13 AM (w6EFb)

262 Did they get the name exactly right?
Posted by: Miklos looked carefully at May 27, 2025 01:12 AM (K6h4I)

That's not how Jackie Robinson spelled Jackie!

Posted by: Fred G Sanford at May 27, 2025 01:14 AM (0eaVi)

263
Attempt # 17 or so

https://tinyurl.com/343ehn7j

Posted by: Miklos tries and fails agian at May 27, 2025 01:17 AM (K6h4I)

264 That's working!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:18 AM (w6EFb)

265 JUST IN: Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey was denied access to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia after flying to El Salvador on Memorial Day.

https://tinyurl.com/3evnhkj4

These congress critters think they can just waltz into a foreign country and make demands.

Posted by: Ciampino - Ha Ha Ha at May 27, 2025 01:19 AM (sPQoU)

266 That's working!
Posted by: publius
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Whew! At last. My mouse battery is running low.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2025 01:20 AM (XeU6L)

267 Attempt # 17 or so

https://tinyurl.com/343ehn7j
Posted by: Miklos tries and fails agian
-----------
Success!

Posted by: scampydog at May 27, 2025 01:21 AM (41CYW)

268 Whew! At last. My mouse battery is running low.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Some blinker fluid will extend mouse battery life

Posted by: Miklos knows this One Wierd Trick at May 27, 2025 01:22 AM (K6h4I)

269 Some blinker fluid will extend mouse battery life

Posted by: Miklos knows this One Wierd Trick at May 27, 2025 01:22 AM (K6h4I)
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Yes but yellow or green? It is Summer approaching.

Posted by: Ciampino - Ha Ha Ha Ha at May 27, 2025 01:23 AM (sPQoU)

270 >> I don't have a URL for the Rocket Lab launch on 28th. Anyone?

The Rocket Lab mission page is the only thing I can easily find:
https://tinyurl.com/2284ngfb

That at least should give you a link close to the launch time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

271 Hoagy Carmichael?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:25 AM (0eaVi)

272 It goes to your page but says you have no posts.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Then I met a man who had no shoes.

Posted by: Humble Miklos at May 27, 2025 01:25 AM (K6h4I)

273 Some blinker fluid will extend mouse battery life
Posted by: Miklos knows this One Wierd Trick
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*sheepishly raises hand* We pulled the blinker fluid move/joke a few/several times. And it's still funny.

Posted by: scampydog at May 27, 2025 01:26 AM (41CYW)

274 Then I met a man who had no shoes.
Posted by: Humble Miklos at May 27, 2025 01:25 AM (K6h4I)

The man with no name. Because he wouldn't come when you called him.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:29 AM (0eaVi)

275
Somebody mentioned Krypto the Superdog shitting his turds into the Sun.

It takes a surprising amount of delta-v to get close to the Sun. Suppose you launch something at escape velocity from Erf. Well, all you've done there is just get out of Erf's gravity well. You're still moving relative to the Sun at earth's orbital speed. To fall into the Sun, you've got to slow that down, requiring a good bit more delta-v.

See the long, winding trajectory of the Parker Solar Probe. It did a total of 7 flybys of Venus over 6 -7 years to bleed off enough speed to get very close to the Sun. But only briefly.

It's at its lowest perigee now, another one due June 19.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:29 AM (w6EFb)

276 That is a picture of my uncle, for whom I am named, as are two (2) serving members of the US military (my cousin's son and grandson).

Killed 31 December 1943 when his Liberator bomber was shot down over occupied France.

Still rests in a military cemetery in the south of France.

I have been looking at that picture my whole life, and thought he looked kinda like a famous movie actor.

Posted by: Miklos put up the flags today at May 27, 2025 01:32 AM (K6h4I)

277 Some blinker fluid will extend mouse battery life
Posted by: Miklos knows this One Wierd Trick

The factory may specify that you use 0W-20 oil in your mouse, but its longevity will be greatly increased if you use 0W-40 instead, though you may see a slight decrease in your MPG.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 27, 2025 01:32 AM (N4aB6)

278 It goes to your page but says you have no posts.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:12 AM (0eaVi)
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So you didn't see any turtles either then!

Posted by: Ciampino - the McConnell joke at May 27, 2025 01:32 AM (sPQoU)

279
Perihelion, not perigee, I mean. Geez.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:33 AM (w6EFb)

280 The factory may specify that you use 0W-20 oil in your mouse, but its longevity will be greatly increased if you use 0W-40 instead, though you may see a slight decrease in your MPG.

That would invalidate the Warranty, Sir

Posted by: "Greg" from Bangalore at May 27, 2025 01:33 AM (K6h4I)

281 Perihelion, not perigee, I mean. Geez.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:33 AM (w6EFb)

Wait. Is he wearing a wizard hat?

think back to yesterday morning

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:34 AM (0eaVi)

282 Then I met a man who had no shoes.
Posted by: Humble Miklos
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Reminds me of a P.J. O'Rourke crack:

"You should never criticize a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way, if you do, you will be a mile away...and, you will have his shoes.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2025 01:36 AM (XeU6L)

283 The man with no name. Because he wouldn't come when you called him.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Now hold on there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqh5ROtQRg

Posted by: Raymond J. Miklos at May 27, 2025 01:36 AM (K6h4I)

284 The factory may specify that you use 0W-20 oil in your mouse, but its longevity will be greatly increased if you use 0W-40 instead, though you may see a slight decrease in your MPG.
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Synthetic? Blend? Straight petroleum?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2025 01:38 AM (XeU6L)

285
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met the man who sold them.

Posted by: Alternate Universe Al Bundy at May 27, 2025 01:38 AM (ES1Rb)

286 Now hold on there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqh5ROtQRg
Posted by: Raymond J. Miklos at May 27, 2025 01:36 AM (K6h4I)

koff, koff hack.... spit

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 27, 2025 01:39 AM (0eaVi)

287 Perihelion, not perigee, I mean. Geez.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Easy mistake

Did it myself once

Posted by: Kamala H. at May 27, 2025 01:39 AM (K6h4I)

288 287 Perihelion, not perigee, I mean. Geez.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Easy mistake

Did it myself once

Posted by: Kamala H. at May 27, 2025 01:39 AM (K6h4I)
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In a Venn diagram I bet.

Posted by: Ciampino - the McConnell step at May 27, 2025 01:43 AM (sPQoU)

289
The Parker probe is now the fastest (relative to the sun) spacecraft every launched. At perihelion, it's speed is 192 km/s or 430,000 mph.

It has three more planned perihelia passes, ending in Dec of this year. That will be the official end of mission. It will still have some fuel, and the plan is to keep it going until it runs out of fuel.

At that point, they're going to turn the probe to expose its sensors and instruments directly to Sol's full radiative glory. The Probe will look directly at the Sun until its eyes burn out. This will give us direct data on Sol's output that close.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

290 The Publius Solution

The Parker Probe

Lotsa good book titles tonite

Posted by: Aspiring writer Miklos, avoiding Parisian garrets at May 27, 2025 01:48 AM (K6h4I)

291
Closest approach to Uranus: periuranion.

The peri- for Venus is dubbed pericytherion. The proper word would be perivenerion, or using Greek periaphrodision (or something close).

At the time, they thought those were too dirty sounding, you know venereal and aphrodisiac, so they used Cytherea, the island where Venus was supposed to have been born.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 27, 2025 01:54 AM (w6EFb)

292 I am off to bed, Horde, it has been a nice weekend though. Very different from times of Olde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 27, 2025 02:05 AM (0nHVk)

293 *tip-toes in*

*looks around*

*quietly unlocks liquor cabinet*

*pours a drink*

hmmm...

Posted by: JQ at May 27, 2025 02:05 AM (rdVOm)

294 Hi/bye, Debby.

Good night!

Posted by: JQ at May 27, 2025 02:05 AM (rdVOm)

295 Anyway, I always thought my uncle looked a bit like John Wayne (or vice-versa).

Posted by: Probably just Miklos at May 27, 2025 02:07 AM (K6h4I)

296 Closest approach to Uranus: periuranion.

Periurination

*heads to the middle of the back porch*

Posted by: Miklos hears Nature calling at May 27, 2025 02:09 AM (K6h4I)

297 hmmm...
Posted by: JQ

One Solo cup per customer, Miss

Put your name or initials on it with lipstick or a Sharpie

Posted by: Miklos is trying to cut down at May 27, 2025 02:12 AM (K6h4I)

298 The Russian people must be getting sick and tired of their sons dying in Ukraine.

https://is.gd/PJtBZu

Do you think the Russians are ever backing out of the Ukraine? Yes, the Ukraine, not a nation but a place.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 27, 2025 02:21 AM (LWsa7)

299 She gave herself to a man who spurned her.

I would never want to be that man.

This from a self proclaimed starveling wolf cub!

https://is.gd/XaV7Oh

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 27, 2025 02:27 AM (LWsa7)

300 She calls herself that in one of her biographical revelations.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 27, 2025 02:39 AM (LWsa7)

301 Diana confesses a fascination with the horror movie Case 39. Go look it up for yourself.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 27, 2025 02:50 AM (LWsa7)

302 Good Night!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 27, 2025 02:51 AM (LWsa7)

303 Darn! 0045 already. Went down a rabbit hole watching crazy Russians torturing Ladas to death.

Anyway, time to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 27, 2025 02:52 AM (XpHtQ)

304 knock knock

Posted by: Ciampino - the who'se there gambit at May 27, 2025 03:17 AM (sPQoU)

305 304 knock knock
Posted by: Ciampino - the who'se there gambit at May 27, 2025 03:17 AM (sPQoU)

Nobody's home, not even us.

Posted by: didn't you see the no soliciting sign?!? at May 27, 2025 03:38 AM (4/BuS)

306 "Remember and honor."

Always and ever.

RIP, Richie and Don.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 27, 2025 04:36 AM (hKoQL)

307 Niid.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 27, 2025 04:38 AM (hoCmQ)

308 i remember butthead saying, "depeche mode is french for we suck."

Posted by: cmeat at May 27, 2025 01:51 PM (8HmRF)

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