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Monday Overnight Open Thread - June 2, 2025 [Doof]
Long Extension Cord? Electric Ferry Boat
An electric ferryboat has gone from Spain to Africa and back in the same day, proving decarbonization of strait crossings is possible. The Swedish-made vessel traveled from Sotogrande, Spain, to Ceuta, North Africa-a 24-nautical mile trip-in just over one hour, matching the speed of conventional fast ferries. After recharging, the vessel returned to the Spanish mainland the same day. GNN previously reported on the Candela P-12 electric ferryboat entering service in Stockholm's public transport system ahead of its mass-production roll out last year. In 2023, it had passed all of its performance tests with flying colors, achieving 30 knots per-hour with a battery life of 50 knots. *** Beneath the surface of the Candela, two hydrofoils-or underwater wings-lift the C-8 above the water, drastically reducing drag and cutting energy consumption by 80% over conventional fast vessels. This breakthrough enables the long electric range needed to cross the Strait of Gibraltar-one of the world's busiest shipping lanes-for the first time.What say you, boat-loving Hordelings? IS this actually a cool thing, or another electric fad?
I know the boys will appreciate this one pic.twitter.com/4n0Erlnv3B
— Giga Based Dad (@GigaBasedDad) May 31, 2025
Hell Yeah
Just an average day in America 🤣 pic.twitter.com/X7C8rOST2G
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) June 1, 2025
Every kid thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong. pic.twitter.com/sOmZLzSDse
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) June 1, 2025
A seasoned paraglider miraculously survived a rare and dangerous phenomenon that saw him being sucked up by clouds to an altitude of 28,210 feet (8,600 meters). Photos and videos of Chinese paraglider Liu Ge trying to keep his cool (pun intended) as he experienced dangerously low levels of oxygen and temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius (-40 Fahrenheit) went viral on social media this week. In them, the experienced paraglider's clothes and face are covered with ice, and he struggles to breathe and keep from passing out because of the low oxygen. On May 24th, Liu Ge took off from about 3,000 meters in the Qilian Mountains, on the border between western Gansu and northeastern Qinghai, but as he was paragliding, a cumulonimbus cloud appeared behind him and he ended up being lifted higher and higher, above the clouds. 'Cloud suck' is a well-documented phenomenon where paragliders and hang gliders experience a significant lift caused by the thermals under cumulus clouds, especially towering cumulus and cumulonimbus. It is typically associated with an increase in thermal updraft velocity near cloud base. Pilots who have experienced the phenomenon have reported being unable to descend in strong cloud suck, even after bringing the canopies of their gliders into deep spiral, which would normally result in a rapid descent. Because he didn't plan on going up to extreme altitudes - Chinese regulations restrict flights to below 16,405 feet (5,000 meters) - Liu Ge didn't have an oxygen mask or thick clothing to help him endure the freezing temperatures and low oxygen concentration. Still, he remained in contact with friends on the ground via intercom and was eventually able to descend. *** Although many were talking about his flight being a record-breaking one for paragliding, Liu Ge pleaded with social media users to stop making a big deal out of it. He probably fears that his feat could have serious legal repercussions.I saw Cloud Suck open for...
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2025 10:00 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 02, 2025 10:01 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Ciampino - we can do it wholesale at June 02, 2025 10:01 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:01 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Ciampino - we can do it wholesale at June 02, 2025 10:01 PM (sPQoU)
It got misdirected to Sheboygan by the airline.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:02 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 10:03 PM (144I4)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 02, 2025 10:03 PM (FPGXM)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2025 10:03 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 02, 2025 10:04 PM (NVNRw)
301 Can you imagine the freak out if we had a Krakatoa equivalent eruption in some God-forsaken part of the world?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2025 08:11 PM (ufFY
Like, say, Boulder?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 09:57 PM (Ij8jR)
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He said God-forsaken so New York City or New Jersey State.
Posted by: Ciampino - we can do it wholesale? at June 02, 2025 10:04 PM (sPQoU)
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (jGGMD)
Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
And you [Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller], dickwad, for all your tough talk, had four months to remove him [Boulder burner Mohamed Soliman] and you utterly failed. Blood on your hands, scumbag
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Remember The Kenosha Kickers? Very big in Sheboygan. They loved it, you know?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 02, 2025 10:06 PM (ufFY8)
This is how hail forms. Small ice balls that would melt before they reach the ground (rain) get lifted up and get another coating of ice. Rinse and repeat enough times and you get baseball or softball size hail.
Posted by: Gref at June 02, 2025 10:06 PM (aBgBM)
Five minute recharge? Five hour recharge? Funny, the story doesn't say. I wonder why??
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 02, 2025 10:03 PM (FPGXM)
9 You’ve been doing a great job with ONTs Doof.
Thank you for your efforts.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2025 10:03 PM (mT+6a)
10 Hands Doof two fingers of the best bourbon I have.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 02, 2025 10:04 PM (NVNRw)
Hello and thanks to 3 wonderful ettes!
Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2025 10:08 PM (UQakJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 02, 2025 10:09 PM (sAmhv)
Much better than watching an Electric Fairy Float at the Castro Street Fair...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:10 PM (ynpvh)
Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
And you [Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller], dickwad, for all your tough talk, had four months to remove him [Boulder burner Mohamed Soliman] and you utterly failed. Blood on your hands, scumbag
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (L/fGl)
Everything is Trump's fault, Example No. 47,299,678,351.
Posted by: Gref at June 02, 2025 10:10 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 10:11 PM (77rzZ)
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) June 1, 2025
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Just every 'kid'? How about every guy.
Posted by: Ciampino - my dog is WonderDog at June 02, 2025 10:11 PM (sPQoU)
There's a song for that the kids are listening to these days...
https://youtu.be/GR3Liudev18
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)
I just wanted to say Sheboygan. Never been anywhere near there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:11 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Piper at June 02, 2025 10:12 PM (p4NUW)
The errant firework must have set off the firework stash. I hope no one was hurt, but what a show! The camera man had the best viewing.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 02, 2025 10:12 PM (PcTds)
It's like the Electric 18 wheelers... unless you are adding generation capacity, AND transmission lines to get it where you will charge the trucks? all you are doing is creating brownouts... like California has during summers now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 02, 2025 10:12 PM (mP0Kj)
21 13 The wit and wisdom of Keith Olbermann.
Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
And you [Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller], dickwad, for all your tough talk, had four months to remove him [Boulder burner Mohamed Soliman] and you utterly failed. Blood on your hands, scumbag
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (L/fGl)
Everything is Trump's fault, Example No. 47,299,678,351.
Posted by: Gref at June 02, 2025 10:10 PM (aBgBM)
Oh, so now deportation is a good thing Keef?
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 10:12 PM (144I4)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)
22 hour recharge, max.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2025 10:12 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at June 02, 2025 10:13 PM (gqZXh)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 02, 2025 10:13 PM (0Htd1)
🤡
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 02, 2025 10:13 PM (sAmhv)
And you [Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller], dickwad, for all your tough talk, had four months to remove him [Boulder burner Mohamed Soliman] and you utterly failed. Blood on your hands, scumbag
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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And if Trump had been able to remove him, the dems would have fought like he'll to bring him back.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 02, 2025 10:14 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2025 10:12 PM (ufFY
Yeah, so with a diesel boat, you can make the round trip in about two hours, compared to one day.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:14 PM (0eaVi)
Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
And you [Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller], dickwad, for all your tough talk, had four months to remove him [Boulder burner Mohamed Soliman] and you utterly failed. Blood on your hands, scumbag
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (L/fGl)
Everything is Trump's fault, Example No. 47,299,678,351.
Posted by: Gref at June 02, 2025 10:10 PM (aBgBM)
Yeah... no mention of the Lawyers who fight every immigration policy, or the Judges who rule from the Bench which has slowed all of Trump's policies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 02, 2025 10:14 PM (mP0Kj)
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 02, 2025 10:05 PM (jGGMD)
Domesticated electric eels.
I wonder if they have a gas engine for backup? Probably not. It's really a good idea to have reliable power when you're on the water. Especially big water with wind, currents, and heavy traffic.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 10:14 PM (144I4)
Hi, Doc
Not The Onion:
WaPo reports that "sudden decline in Fentanyl deaths is something of a mystery."
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (kd60y)
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)
We just finished watching Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, w/ James Stewart and Doris Day. A fine film, beautifully paced and filmed. And unlike in today's movies, you can actually *see* what is going on, even in indoor scenes.
Contrast the glop that is The Little Stranger, a weird film set in 1948 Britain. Everything in it is murky and grim, misty, and poorly lit. Except for certain indoor scenes, where the windows glare with outdoor light but the room is not lit inside, so you can't make out faces easily there either. I am beginning to believe modern filmmakers do this to conceal some poor technique or cheapness of makeup or acting or sets. Plus Ruth Wilson, talented though she is, looks something like a frog.
I would not recommend this movie.
Posted by: Ox Head, House, Camel, etc. at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (VofaG)
Genuwine’s last name is Lumpkin. If that helps.
Posted by: Piper at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (p4NUW)
EXHILARATING !!!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)
This is how hail forms. Small ice balls that would melt before they reach the ground (rain) get lifted up and get another coating of ice. Rinse and repeat enough times and you get baseball or softball size hail.
Posted by: Gref at June 02, 2025 10:06 PM (aBgBM)
I think Kumala knows a slightly different version of cloud suck...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 02, 2025 10:16 PM (PcTds)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 10:14 PM (144I4)
Bet it carries an emergency diesel generator, just like old submarines did.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 02, 2025 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Kratwurst at June 02, 2025 10:16 PM (fcDpY)
Posted by: frozen chinaman at June 02, 2025 10:16 PM (z5QST)
Posted by: PaleRider at June 02, 2025 10:17 PM (bP/i4)
I would not recommend this movie.
Posted by: Ox Head, House, Camel, etc. at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (omVj0)
Probably have no lighting directors anymore. Whatever they're called, Wolfus. Or, whoever you are....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)
Genuwine’s last name is Lumpkin. If that helps.
Posted by: Piper at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (p4NUW)
Lumpkin? You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/2ErCXUyHVIY
Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2025 10:17 PM (UQakJ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 02, 2025 10:17 PM (p74to)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:17 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (L/fGl)
I didn’t remember that line. It seems out of place even though that’s the time period where the street lingo came from.
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
Yes. But his purpose is to deflect attention from the issue of hundreds of thousands of illegal alien criminals and terrorists in the US. So that Leftists don't think about that and direct more h@te towards the their true enemies, OrangeManBad and his lackeys.
Posted by: Gref at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (NVNRw)
I would not recommend this movie.
Posted by: Ox Head, House, Camel, etc. at June 02, 2025
*
Probably have no lighting directors anymore. Whatever they're called, Wolfus. Or, whoever you are....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025
***
HI, OE. That sig line was from an earlier reply today. Is my writing style here that clear-cut, or did you just recognize my hash?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (omVj0)
Napoleon had the right idea (right after the Terror) about how to control violent mobs: shoot the first 300, then you won't be able to find the second 300.
Posted by: Beverly
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There is almost no way this line of thinking can be justified. Within 300 people it is highly unlikely that they all deserved to be killed.
And even more unlikely that the next 300 also deserved to be killed.
And that's without getting into what constitutes a "violent mob."
Posted by: Thiker
We had similar situation with BLM rioters and Kyle Rittenhouse. Shot 3 people, all were convicted felons, with charges like domestic battery, sex crimes with children, and burglary. If you shot into a crowd of BLM protestors during the day, who weren't rioting, results may differ, but THAT crew, coming in during the evening? I bet the world would be a better place with the vast majority out of 300 removed.
Posted by: Based Moron at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (ycI94)
That's like making the Kessel Run in under 21 parsecs.
Posted by: GWB at June 02, 2025 10:20 PM (KoK5d)
Don’t even set a price
Don’t pay the ferryman
Till he gets you to the other side
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:20 PM (i5oKA)
Posted by: Piper at June 02, 2025 10:20 PM (/sySz)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (omVj0)
Both, W.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)
...
Posted by: Based Moron at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (ycI94)
Remember the folks that complained against grooming laws? The Venn Diagram of overlap for BLM, ATIFA, and paәdos is quite large...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:22 PM (ynpvh)
We got baseball-sized hail two years ago. That is some serious shit. Loud. Destroyed one of my windows. It was obvious if the barrage kept going the window was history and I momentarily considered going out to hang a blanket over it. Then considered what the barrage would do to me and decided to pay for a new window.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:22 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: GWB at June 02, 2025 10:22 PM (KoK5d)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 10:22 PM (OH5Gb)
1. Knot on your life
2. Knot in a million years
3. Knot further than 20 feet from the quay
4. Knot without rigorous North African illegal immigration ferry testing
5.
6..
Posted by: El Borak at June 02, 2025 10:23 PM (BSNnK)
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LOL if I didn't do my "yelling at Trump because he didn't deport" post regarding this today, I was going to. They will also laugh at him for it. Watch them laugh and see the true face of the Left. (olbermann is pretty much doing that)
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2025 10:23 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 10:22 PM (OH5Gb)
Did he float you some funds?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:23 PM (ynpvh)
I didn’t remember that line. It seems out of place even though that’s the time period where the street lingo came from.
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025
***
Before the cartridge era, didn't firearms require caps in order to fire? By the TG era, a lot of the old cap-and-ball pistols had been converted to fire cartridges, but surely Pepper -- who looked to be a hard forty if he was a day -- would have known and used guns of the earlier type.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:24 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Kratwurst at June 02, 2025 10:24 PM (fcDpY)
Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
And you [Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller], dickwad, for all your tough talk, had four months to remove him [Boulder burner Mohamed Soliman] and you utterly failed. Blood on your hands, scumbag
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at
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Words of Wisdom.
You gonna lobby hard for mass deportation now or just keep being a contrarian power bottom?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:24 PM (/lPRQ)
1. Knot on your life
2. Knot in a million years
3. Knot further than 20 feet from the quay
4. Knot without rigorous North African illegal immigration ferry testing
5.
6..
Posted by: El Borak at June 02, 2025 10:23 PM (BSNnK)
I find the word quay weird. Here in the States we don't call it the Florida quays...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
1200 AM --> 1159 PM is still "same day".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 02, 2025 10:24 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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First computer I ever owned had a 20 MB hard drive. Didn't cost 3400 dollars though. Late 80s. I thought I would never need more than that.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 02, 2025 10:24 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2025 10:15 PM (VofaG)
The Electric Boat Company of Groton, Conn. has been making them for years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (CvF0u)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHynPYIwwI
"Complicated Girl"
Posted by: browndog has a crush on Micki at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (OH5Gb)
I need to have two teeth pulled.
I'll get them replaced with implants.
This process will take six to nine months.
It will cost me, after insurance, more than I paid for my first new car.
First available appointment is three weeks away.
I will be living on bourbon and Advil until then.
"It could be worse. It could be raining."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (GM4rl)
Posted by: Ciampino - we can do it wholesale at June 02, 2025 10:01 PM (sPQoU)
It got misdirected to Sheboygan by the airline.
Sam Brinton stole it.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (vcPNM)
I started with a PC with 20MB Seagates, then 30MB (remember those RLL - run-length limited?) and eventually 40MB. I still have some of those!!
Posted by: Ciampino - the wonder days of early microcomputers at June 02, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)
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LOL if I didn't do my "yelling at Trump because he didn't deport" post regarding this today, I was going to. They will also laugh at him for it. Watch them laugh and see the true face of the Left. (olbermann is pretty much doing that)
Posted by: ... at June 02, 2025 10:23 PM (E0p3T)
Soliman was deported straight to Hell...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:26 PM (ynpvh)
I guess the anorexia cleared up -- she's put on some serious tonnage. I guess maybe she's not worried about her new buddies gang-raping her to death.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:26 PM (qpyNK)
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) June 1, 2025
Who the hell do those people think they are, the city of San Diego?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (QRFVs)
Nappy received the prodigious "thanks of a grateful nation" from The Directory for dispersing that mob.
He described it as a mere "whiff of grapeshot."
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (kd60y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (CvF0u)
Yeah, but how many of them ended up underwater, huh?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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First computer I ever owned had a 20 MB hard drive. Didn't cost 3400 dollars though. Late 80s. I thought I would never need more than that.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 02, 2025
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My first was a CompuAdd PC, 8088 processor, yellow text on black screen, no mouse needed, 40 MB hard drive. I think it cost $1500 or so, which in 1989 was a *lot* of money to me. (Still is.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (omVj0)
8. and Mary Ann
Posted by: El Borak at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (BSNnK)
Except the Slakovskis down the street from me-- you bastards had better learn to keep that mangy cur out of my petunias or there will be repurcussions!
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (OH5Gb)
Mark Steyn had a great rant about this on his website this morning.
…credentialed journalists are trained in headline-writing to replace long cumbersome descriptors with something punchier. If you want to make it big at NBC News, take out a long meandering confusing four-letter word such as J-E-W-S and replace it with something pithy and impactful like "Gaza-hostage-awareness marchers". Some of my best friends are Gaza-hostage-awareness marchers.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (EXyHK)
Lovely photo up top. The sunset seems to go on forever...
That elephant looks... weird. And not just because it is in a convenience store stealing snacks!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 10:14 PM (144I4)
Bet it carries an emergency diesel generator, just like old submarines did.
Posted by: Romeo13
Most boats I see around here have at least two outboards.
Four isn't even remarkable.
Even small inland lakes it is a good idea to have one main and a small trolling for backup.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Much better than watching an Electric Fairy Float at the Castro Street Fair...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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LOL.
Posted by: scampydog at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)
That's like making the Kessel Run in under 21 parsecs.
Posted by: GWB at June 02, 2025 10:20 PM (KoK5d)
And you don't sail at "30 knots per hour", either. A "knot" is a rate, already.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (CvF0u)
I started with a PC with 20MB Seagates, then 30MB (remember those RLL - run-length limited?) and eventually 40MB. I still have some of those!!
Posted by: Ciampino - the wonder days of early microcomputers at June 02, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)
Bought a 20MB HD for $200 when building my 486DX-50. 50MHz bus baby!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)
That's like making the Kessel Run in under 21 parsecs.
Posted by: GWB at June 02, 2025 10:20 PM (KoK5d)
And you don't sail at "30 knots per hour", either. A "knot" is a rate, already.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (CvF0u)
I thought a knot was a distance a bit longer than a mile...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:30 PM (qpyNK)
301 Can you imagine the freak out if we had a Krakatoa equivalent eruption in some God-forsaken part of the world?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2025 08:11 PM (ufFY
Like, say, Boulder?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 09:57 PM (Ij8jR)
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He said God-forsaken so New York City or New Jersey State.
Posted by: Ciampino - we can do it wholesale? at June 02, 2025 10:04 PM (sPQoU)
I was expecting LA, DC, or Madison, Wi, where Dims are again trying to replace mother and pregnant woman in the legal code.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:30 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 10:30 PM (77rzZ)
The occasion? I think I have symptoms of a mild hernia. No pain or discoloration, but it's sort of noticeable to me. I'm hoping the surgery will be as mild and that there'll be no real discomfort afterward. Anyhow, I'll see what the dr. has to say.
I'd made an appt. with the Oak Street Health people this weekend, but it's not until the 10th. If my regular guy doesn't reschedule, I'll call OSH on Wed. afternoon and cancel. Anybody ever use them?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:31 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (CvF0u)
Yeah, but how many of them ended up underwater, huh?
All of them.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 02, 2025 10:31 PM (vcPNM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHynPYIwwI
"Complicated Girl"
Posted by: browndog has a crush on Micki
I was very confused. I'm thinking this guy: https://tinyurl.com/34ksvjbf
And was thinking "He was kind of a whiny bitch as the GOP chairman, but AFTER he got a serious case of TDS and jumped ship to MSNBC, he isn't quirky OR cute!"
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (ycI94)
The electric boat would make a great homecoming parade float! I can see her humming down College Avenue now! Ahoy, sailor!
Posted by: El Borak at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (BSNnK)
Posted by: Guy looking at ASCII pr0n at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)
Water...electricity...???
Hmmmm.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (W/lyH)
Sorry to hear this Idaho Spudboy, hope your proposed pain relief works for you!
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (PcTds)
That was no mean feat, because the military static-line parachute is designed to deliver large numbers of soldiers from the airplanes to the ground with a uniform drift (so they don't get entangled with each other) as quickly as possible (so they don't get shot in the air) with an acceptable percentage of injuries. So it's fairly porous and you fall pretty fast.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (eStot)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 02, 2025
***
His stern looks like he sat on another elephant, and part of that one stuck to him. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:31 PM (omVj0)
Any bulging anywhere? Unless you mean hiatal. Wife has one, gastro doc says nothing to worry about.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Trust the Groton Fisherman!
Posted by: The Mandela Effect at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (ycI94)
I am thinking me and the missus are the oddities in this establishment. Well. We have 8 months left on our lease.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ciampino - the wonder days of early microcomputers at June 02, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)
If I remember right, the 30MB RLL Seagates were the exact same hardware as the 20MB MFM ones, but had software on the controller that resulted in a de facto capacity increase.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (qpyNK)
Some writer doesn't know what he's talking about. Knots means nautical miles per hour, so you don't say 30 knots per hour. And I think he means the battery range (not life) is 50 nautical miles, not 50 knots.
Posted by: Ralph at June 02, 2025 10:34 PM (8WZD4)
Sorely lacking in brilliance and wit at the moment, but I do have a few newbie-commenter/comments-reader questions I'm confident the brilliant and witty horde will help me with!
First, why in the world did I end that previous sentence with a preposition?
Just kidding. :-) Here are my real questions:
1. Why do the numbers/letters/symbols in parentheses -- is that called the hash? -- change for me every day when I keep the email address and device the same?
2. When is JJ's birthday? Tomorrow? Today? Yesterday? All of the above?
3. What does NOOD stand for? New One On Deck?
4. The "don't comment on old threads" business: how old is too old? Is it too late to comment on the ONT, for example, after JJ's Morning Report is up?
Thanks!
Posted by: Official Delurker, a curious nightowl at June 02, 2025 10:34 PM (27whE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (CvF0u)
True, but no one would really describe those as "pleasure boats", despite what the other services say about the Navy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:34 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:35 PM (i5oKA)
I bought my first computer used in 1980. I remember seeing those drives advertised in magazines and thinking, boy, that would be nice. Now I start getting worried when I only have a hundred gigabytes left.
If you ever feel like a laugh, go research all of the tools we used for organizing shelves filled with floppies and cassettes. There was software for labeling, software for categorizing, all sorts of different kinds of storage containers and sorting mechanisms.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:35 PM (EXyHK)
I put off cataract surgery way too long. It was easy and the results are great. Horde, if you are doing like I was and stalling on your eye doctor, just do it now. You'll be glad you did.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2025 10:35 PM (eStot)
It's like when someone tries to use a "light year" as a measure of time, rather than a measure of distance.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:36 PM (qpyNK)
Couldn't a wind-powered ship make a 24 nautical-mile journey there and back in a day? Completely carbon free, unlike this thing that is probably recharged with fossil fuels (and doesn't require tons of rare earth minerals mined by slave children).
Posted by: Green Moron at June 02, 2025 10:37 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (CvF0u)
Nautical acceleration.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 10:37 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 10:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)
That's also a common reaction... my late mother started badgering her doctor to do the other eye almost as soon as the bandage came off the first one.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:37 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025
***
No, not like that. This is a mild bulge down, ah, well, let's just say it's down low and let it go at that, shall we?
Last week during my workout of trot/walk, it seemed a bit harder than usual, as if the jarring was working something loose. No pain, and the hardness vanished after the workout. Still, it's concerning. Need to get a pro opinion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:39 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: LASue at June 02, 2025 10:39 PM (lCppi)
1. Knot on your life
2. Knot in a million years
3. Knot further than 20 feet from the quay
4. Knot without rigorous North African illegal immigration ferry testing
5.
6..
Posted by: El Borak at June 02, 2025 10:23 PM (BSNnK)
7. Knot without Ginger
8. and Mary Ann
Posted by: El Borak at June 02, 2025 10:27 PM (BSNnK)
9. Knot with your dick
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 10:39 PM (144I4)
>>I put off cataract surgery way too long.
I second that to not putting it off, I noticed my left eye going for a long time and then it hit that cliff where it could no longer be corrected and it's a real pain in the ass trying to code with one eye, actually, doing anything with one eye is a pain in the ass.
I would say if you can swing the funds, go for the multifocal lense.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2025 10:39 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:25 PM (CvF0u)
My 'ol man was on subs for most of his twenty years in the navy to include being at Pearl Harbor. I told him no way I'd do that. Deliberately sinking your boat is doing half the enemy's job for them.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (W/lyH)
It's like when someone tries to use a "light year" as a measure of time, rather than a measure of distance.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:36 PM (qpyNK)
I'm waiting for someone to start using "dark years". I have no idea what it would measure.
It's 7 light years away, but 49 dark years?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
The hash is based on your IP address. It will change whenever your internet connection changes. Use WiFi on one post and cell on the next, and you’ll have a different hash. Etc.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:39 PM (omVj0)
Inguinial. Needs surgery to repair. Did one in '09. Got another one a couple years ago. Will have to wait until Medicare kicks in.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (kd60y)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Lol..."dull and yellow?" Sounds like a sepia filter. You can walk around with just your right eye open, and after the cyclone takes you to a distant land, you look around with just your left eye, and it's all in bright colors!
Posted by: IT'S A WIZARD OF OZ REFERENCE at June 02, 2025 10:41 PM (ycI94)
I am thinking me and the missus are the oddities in this establishment. Well. We have 8 months left on our lease.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Boise is to Idaho as Austin is to Texas.
Badger out front should have told you.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 02, 2025 10:41 PM (GM4rl)
Posted by: Guy looking at ASCII pr0n at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (l3YAf)
Back when static gifs were only a 100KB max...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (CvF0u)
Nautical acceleration.
call worthington and his dog spot > naughty cal
Posted by: anachrodna at June 02, 2025 10:41 PM (edU/H)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
Dogged if I know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
I am thinking me and the missus are the oddities in this establishment. Well. We have 8 months left on our lease.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Boise is to Idaho as Austin is to Texas.
Badger out front should have told you.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 02, 2025 10:41 PM (GM4rl)
Seriously? I know it's a college town, but I didn't realize it had gotten that bad.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (QRFVs)
The Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Ministry) is pronounced "kay."
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (kd60y)
The Brits pronounce it as Kee. I here it here mostly as Kee as well.
Good thing we aren't French like the Quebecois...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (VNX3d)
"Things are going to start happening to me now..."
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (0eaVi)
I thought that was a type of pasta.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025
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So my research indicates. The surgery sounds pretty minimal, as long as they knock me out thoroughly beforehand.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (0eaVi)
I thought that was a type of pasta.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (qpyNK)
No, that's cannula. You know, the one you take but leave your gun.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)
-----------------------------------------------------
That's one reason most people have the surgery for both eyes within a couple of weeks.
Posted by: Ralph at June 02, 2025 10:45 PM (8WZD4)
HAPPY PRIDE! And if you leave because of your neighbors, you're a bigot!!!!
Posted by: The Gaystapo at June 02, 2025 10:45 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:39 PM (omVj0)
Inguinial. Needs surgery to repair. Did one in '09. Got another one a couple years ago. Will have to wait until Medicare kicks in.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (0eaVi)
Had a hernia patched in my crotch...had to stop doing dialysis for about a week until it healed, so had to watch what I ate and drank very carefully.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 02, 2025
***
Official Delurker, that's another of the answers to odd questions here. Feel free to replace "badger" with "moose" or the appropriate animal of your choice.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (omVj0)
The hash is based on your IP address. It will change whenever your internet connection changes. Use WiFi on one post and cell on the next, and you’ll have a different hash. Etc.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (EXyHK)
Sometimes the hash seems like it's meant to insult you...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (omVj0)
I was cut open. Laid up for two weeks, first week in bed. Now, they'll do micro surgery with maybe one or two small incisions. Thing is, the old way let me lose twenty something pounds!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 02, 2025 10:32 PM (ycI94)
***it was a trap***
Posted by: browndog has a crush on Micki at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (TTAGa)
and a whole ocean of salt water.
Definitely a winning combination.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (qYIey)
I had a detached retina once. The way they fix it is to fill your eye with pressurized gas to push the retina back onto the back of the eyeball. But your eye is accustomed to focusing through fluid and it can't see through gas. So at first, you have one eye that can see and one eye that can't -- everything is just gray.
Then the eye with the gas starts to fill up with fluid over the next few weeks. Now, we're not aware of it, but the lens projects what it sees upside down on the back of the eyeball, and the nerves/brain correct it. So as the fluid starts to fill up the eyeball, it seems like it's filling up from the top down. And you get to a point, after a couple of weeks, when the eye is about half full, and you can tilt your head back and see through the top half of your eye, while the bottom half is still opaque. It take a lot of getting used to.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (eStot)
lulz, Ace would like this ---
Racist "black twitter" is having a fresh freakout over federal DEI hires layoffs and a Youtuber titled his video about it "The Most Educated Mass Layoffs Ever."
Get it? Probably not.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (kjEVu)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
Dogged if I know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)
Surely you’re not Sirius!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (i5oKA)
given recent advances in dark photon theory, i bet we'll have them in fewer than twelve parsecs.
Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2025 10:48 PM (edU/H)
Badger out front should have told you.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 02, 2025 10:41 PM (GM4rl)
I know that. Knew that going in. But I have a great job, and we are already looking ahead. I have no problem commuting. And Boise is way better than Fort Fucking Collins. We good.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 02, 2025 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
Dogged if I know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)
Surely you’re not Sirius!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (i5oKA)
I think he pulled that factoid out of Uranus.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I get slash prick now
Cock fork before that
Alwys with the dick jokes...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (i5oKA)
No. It's never lupus.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I get slash prick now
Cock fork before that
Alwys with the dick jokes...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Someone had the last part: 4FaG...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Maybe you could antagonize the trannies, and have the landlord cancel your lease...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
Dogged if I know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)
Surely you’re not Sirius!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (i5oKA)
I think he pulled that factoid out of Uranus.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh
***
The space puns are comet at ha fast and furious!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025
*
I was cut open. Laid up for two weeks, first week in bed. Now, they'll do micro surgery with maybe one or two small incisions. Thing is, the old way let me lose twenty something pounds!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025
***
Sorry to hear that . . . but at least there was an upside.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
I get slash prick now
Cock fork before that
Alwys with the dick jokes...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Someone had the last part: 4FaG...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh)
And it wasn't Garrett...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:51 PM (ynpvh)
Joking, I know, but the switch from cassette to floppy really was a game-changer. The difference between a floppy and a 4 terabyte drive is a matter of size and longevity (as The Paolo might say). But moving from cassette to a device that had built in directories and file management was Stone Age to space age.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:51 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (N8p1V)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025
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So my research indicates. The surgery sounds pretty minimal, as long as they knock me out thoroughly beforehand.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (omVj0)
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I had this surgery about 4 years ago. They have to cut into your abdomen and pull your intestine out of your scrotum, assuming you're male. The surgery is pretty routine, but your balls and your abdomen still hurt like hell for several weeks.
Posted by: Ralph at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (8WZD4)
Posted by: Ciampino - bad toys in incompetent hands at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (sPQoU)
I've noticed an emerging trend in pronouncing foreign words.
The trend is toward pronouncing a word the way it's pronounced in its country of origin.
"Van Go" is substandard today. It's "Van Gok" now, because he was a Dutchman & that's how he pronounced it himself.
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
Impractical for cars, again because people are terrible (and no doubt there are about a million snags that would need to be worked out), but it might be feasible in limited application, and a ferry might be one of them.
Oh, and 30 knots per hour, with a battery life of 50 knots? They don't quite get what a knot is, do they?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (omVj0)
The upside was two weeks of guilt free milkshakes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Jonah at June 02, 2025 10:53 PM (YCxFk)
Joking, I know, but the switch from cassette to floppy really was a game-changer. The difference between a floppy and a 4 terabyte drive is a matter of size and longevity (as The Paolo might say). But moving from cassette to a device that had built in directories and file management was Stone Age to space age.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:51 PM (EXyHK)
Yeah, Trash-80s at my HS used cassettes. Used computers that had 8" floppy drives, then 5 1/4", the 3 1/2". The evolution was really something: 1.44MB! Wow, what storage! And getting all the programs running on the 540K of executable memory was sometimes a challenge, so all the drivers were loaded to the high part of memory, contiguously to make a large chunk for executables...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)
Then I realized it was 6:30 pm, that I had a show to do (maybe that was the reason for the MI jokes) at 7:00, and my watch had not only stopped, the crystal had come loose and the minute hand was dislodged. Then I woke up.
I can dream weird stuff without melatonin.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:54 PM (omVj0)
You see, black women are "the most educated" demographic in this country.
So firing all these Sub Saharan woman with "degrees" is like firing The Most Educated people in America!
Who would do such a thing?? Only a racist, that's who.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 02, 2025 10:54 PM (kjEVu)
Posted by: Jonah at June 02, 2025 10:55 PM (YCxFk)
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
It’s “Van Gok” now because there’s a lot of pretentious dicks in the world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:55 PM (i5oKA)
---
Used to go out and drag a net all day and make it back on 12 gallons of gasoline with that old Evinrude Lark.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 10:55 PM (8nkXx)
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
If van not go, putum gas in.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:55 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Ralph at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (8WZD4)
That's the way the first was done. Before Fraudvid killed my job, I was about to get the other one done, but they said my insurance was being cancelled. So, I nixed the surgery, then they said, whoops, you can have it for another two months. Too late.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:55 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (H/u99)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (qpyNK)
How long did it recharge for? And a distance of 50 nautical miles (I assume that’s what this fin clueless retard meant) is useless.
I’m calling bullshit on the paraglider guy. Who took the pic from 20 feet in front of him? 28k feet at -40 degrees F? Get the fuck out. He’d be a suffocated popsicle. Experienced extreme mountain climbers couldn’t survive that without specialized gear and probably supplemental oxygen.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (iYnO1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)
and a whole ocean of salt water.
Definitely a winning combination.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (qYIey)
In the 1920s the US Navy believed it was oh so clever installing turbo-electric propulsion in battleships and battle cruisers. The battle cruisers were mostly canceled due to naval treaties. Two were modified into aircraft carriers, the USS Lexington and USS Saratoga. Saratoga was torpedoed by Jap subs several times in 1942, shorting-out and messing-up the electrical stuff. Back to a West Coast port each time for the necessary repairs. This is why Saratoga was not available for Midway, one of the carrier battles off Guadalcanal, and other missions in the latter half of 1942. Clever.
Posted by: Gref at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (aBgBM)
I've noticed an emerging trend in pronouncing foreign words.
The trend is toward pronouncing a word the way it's pronounced in its country of origin.
"Van Go" is substandard today. It's "Van Gok" now, because he was a Dutchman & that's how he pronounced it himself.
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
Sorta that Scottish guttural sound?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)
A majority of countries at the IMO (That's the UN Extortion Entity) voted on Friday to approve a scheme that from 2028 will charge ships a penalty of $380 per metric tonne on every extra tonne of CO2-equivalent they emit above a fixed emissions threshold, plus a penalty of $100 a tonne on emissions above a stricter emissions limit.
The deal is expected to generate up to $40bn in fees from 2030, some of which will go towards making expensive zero-emission fuels more affordable.
Posted by: Orson at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)
"Van Go" is substandard today. It's "Van Gok" now, because he was a Dutchman & that's how he pronounced it himself.
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
Screw that. Speak English like God intended!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (0eaVi)
Maybe you could antagonize the trannies, and have the landlord cancel your lease...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (CvF0u)
Ha! Funny thing is that's sort of what happened to the shit-bags upstairs. We only had to endure them for a couple of weeks. We only saw a little bit, but apparently they were so awful that the company said, after numerous complaints and police visits; last month is on us, and don't worry about the deposit.
Apartment living is kind of dumb, but it's temporary for us. Old house is sold, we're good.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Keith Olbermann, like Rick Wilson, is notably pear-shaped, and prefers to be seen only from the waist up.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (ES1Rb)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (qpyNK)
Yes, specifically when both batteries are owned by the same person or company. The whole idea of stopping at a gas station and getting a battery that was exchanged earlier by someone else and recharged could only have come from someone who never expected to use an electric car themselves.
Such a system would quickly divert all good batteries to a grey market, leaving only failing batteries in the “legit” pipeline.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
If van not go, putum gas in.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:55 PM (CvF0u)
The tank get low, says "Green...Greeen...Green..."
Posted by: Apu at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025
I had three itty bitty incisions.
Then they shove a spatula in there and separate everything.
Next comes the nitrogen and they blow you up like a balloon.
The big tent makes it easier to work with minimal readily apparent cutting. They shove your ass out the door (outpatient) because it was 'only two or three little incisions' but don't bother to tell you it will still take just as long to recover.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (qpyNK)
EweToob vid has it like that...
Posted by: Apu at June 02, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh)
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For some reason one of the first videos I remember (trying to) see was the infamous Oregon Whale Detonation by their DOT. “I’ve got to see this!”. With a dial up modem it took about 3 hours and it still didn’t work. It also seemed that I every time I upgraded my computer and/or connection speed the video requirements had also increased. So it wasn’t until late in the game that I could mostly watch the whole Whale episode. Worth the wait!
Posted by: Common Tater at June 02, 2025 10:58 PM (9EbSF)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Ralph at June 02, 2025
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Great, Ralph. Now I'm gonna have nightmares. This mild small bulge is higher up, on my belly near my crotch hair, not down into my scrotum (at least I hope it's not, and I think I'd know). The weird thing is that I've always kept my gut muscles in good tone with exercise, and I am not overweight in the least, so whatever weakness of abdominal wall must be genetic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:58 PM (omVj0)
Is that top photo, by any chance, the Great Smokey Mountains?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 02, 2025 10:59 PM (ES1Rb)
And you don't sail at "30 knots per hour", either. A "knot" is a rate, already.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (CvF0u)
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It must be acceleration then - Wow!
Posted by: Ciampino - bad units at June 02, 2025 10:59 PM (sPQoU)
He did a beautiful job.
There are a lot of nice people around here...
Posted by: sal at June 02, 2025 10:59 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (JkO4W)
Gerbil. Or so I hear..
Posted by: Richard Gere at June 02, 2025 10:59 PM (l3YAf)
—-
For some reason one of the first videos I remember (trying to) see was the infamous Oregon Whale Detonation by their DOT. “I’ve got to see this!”. With a dial up modem it took about 3 hours and it still didn’t work. It also seemed that I every time I upgraded my computer and/or connection speed the video requirements had also increased. So it wasn’t until late in the game that I could mostly watch the whole Whale episode. Worth the wait!
Posted by: Common Tater at June 02, 2025 10:58 PM (9EbSF)
AOL and a 14.4K modem. Was better than the 9.6K baud modem.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 02, 2025 11:00 PM (SFhY1)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 02, 2025 11:00 PM (SFhY1)
AS long as I'm not the one who finds it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Ralph at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (8WZD4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Fastly Strokewater at June 02, 2025
***
I hope so. I don't do well with pain and don't want to get hooked on pain killers.
Probably this means I will have to delay my scouting trip to Indiana until later this year, if I'm going to be recovering.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
When your name is Van Gok
Ain't that a kick in de Kok
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Ciampino - bad units at June 02, 2025 10:59 PM (sPQoU)
That would be pretty slow on a one-hour trip. Slower than 30 knots.
How long would the trip have to be for it to be faster (assuming deceleration is equal between both boats.)
Posted by: Richard Gere at June 02, 2025 11:02 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (qpyNK)
Reminds me of the term Least Common Denominator used in English...means the opposite on Math...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 11:02 PM (ynpvh)
btw, thanks for ruining King Of The Hill for me, whoever said John Redcorn was a pickle smoocher in real life.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 02, 2025 11:02 PM (CEIO6)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 02, 2025 10:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Well, it'll be two years before I can even consider gettting it done. I hope the small incision way is the preferred method then. That one long cut hurt for a year.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 11:02 PM (0eaVi)
If the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam pronounces it "Van Gok," and they do, I'm agonna have to go with that.
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 11:03 PM (kd60y)
btw, thanks for ruining King Of The Hill for me, whoever said John Redcorn was a pickle smoocher in real life.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 02, 2025 11:02 PM (CEIO6)
I guess the pickle slicer wasn't a woman...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 11:03 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (OGOaV)
You'd pretty much need a forklift and an overhead crane to change out EV batteries, they weigh about three Lizzos each. Too much cost for too little benefit. I would imagine a ferry boat battery bank to be an even bigger PITA to replace.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 11:04 PM (OH5Gb)
And you don't sail at "30 knots per hour", either. A "knot" is a rate, already.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 10:28 PM (CvF0u)
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It must be acceleration then - Wow!
Posted by: Ciampino - bad units at June 02, 2025 10:59 PM (sPQoU)
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Pretty damn slow acceleration at that!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2025 11:04 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 02, 2025 11:05 PM (MZ+PY)
Probably this means I will have to delay my scouting trip to Indiana until later this year, if I'm going to be recovering.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (omVj0)
I spent the first week after just lying in bed. I was able to get up and around the second week, but I used a cane when I went back to work in week three.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 11:05 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Ralph at June 02, 2025 11:01 PM (8WZD4)
Crowd source the power for the ferry from all the EVs it's carrying.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:05 PM (144I4)
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 11:03 PM (kd60y)
Doesn't matter. The man himself can't ear you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:05 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2025 11:06 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Emily Buttigeig at June 02, 2025 11:06 PM (OH5Gb)
Posted by: Ciampino - the wonder days of early microcomputers at June 02, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)
If I remember right, the 30MB RLL Seagates were the exact same hardware as the 20MB MFM ones, but had software on the controller that resulted in a de facto capacity increase.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:33 PM (qpyNK)
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Yes, it was all just using a different encoding to save space. They did pick the better 20MB for the job though, so quite reliable.
Posted by: Ciampino - that's right at June 02, 2025 11:07 PM (sPQoU)
You'd pretty much need a forklift and an overhead crane
________
Both electric, of course. Which need batteries replaced...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2025 11:08 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 11:04 PM (OH5Gb)
You just have 5 boats instead of three. Two sailing, two charging, and one fully-charged, as backup. All with union crews, of course.
Posted by: B.C. Ferry Corporation at June 02, 2025 11:08 PM (CvF0u)
The modern tendency is to pronounce it as "fun," not "von."
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 11:08 PM (kd60y)
Buy the 10 MB hard drive and they'll throw in a 300 baud modem, free!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2025 11:06 PM (QnmlO)
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Act now, and they'll also include a 1 MB stick of memory. You'll be future-proof!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2025 11:08 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:08 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:09 PM (l3YAf)
Heh, got a badger reference in. :-)
Wolfus, hope everything goes well and you're pain-free soon. My husband has had hernias before, and surgery really helped him.
Good night, all.
Posted by: Official Delurker, a curious nightowl at June 02, 2025 11:09 PM (Swa/2)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (OGOaV)
You'd pretty much need a forklift and an overhead crane to change out EV batteries, they weigh about three Lizzos each. Too much cost for too little benefit. I would imagine a ferry boat battery bank to be an even bigger PITA to replace.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 11:04 PM (OH5Gb)
Milwaukee M18...million
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:09 PM (144I4)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 02, 2025 11:10 PM (OH5Gb)
I have had the trifecta: hernia surgery, cataract surgery, 3 teeth implants. Not all at once. All successful in the long run. But the first work in i.plant preparation got infected. They had to remove it and start over that was 2020, horrible year.
Thanks for your work Doof.
Posted by: CapeFear at June 02, 2025 11:11 PM (hogu0)
Posted by: Ferry Boat Master at June 02, 2025 11:12 PM (Aqu9a)
It was sacred to his people.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2025 11:12 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Common Tater at June 02, 2025 11:12 PM (9EbSF)
So...ferries wear boots?
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:12 PM (144I4)
I just royally pissed off the wife by mistaking my headphones for my phone charger and blasting her awake with my music.
Note to self: Albert Ketelby does not charge your phone.
Posted by: Bulg at June 02, 2025 11:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 02, 2025 11:13 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at June 02, 2025 11:13 PM (ZgYXP)
So...ferries wear boots?
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:12 PM (144I4)
But they ain't made for walkin'.
Posted by: Nancy Sinatra at June 02, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:09 PM (l3YAf)
Well, he's dead, so....
Some guy whacked him a day or so ago. No, not that kind of whacked.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 11:14 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:15 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at June 02, 2025 11:13 PM (ZgYXP)
Greta Thunberg may have a career yet!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:15 PM (CvF0u)
It’s kinda my barometer. Like if I spent a week camping without Internet and cane out of the woods and the top MSM stories were about Islamophobia, I’d know there was another Muslim terrorist attack.
If people are made at Massie, it must mean it’s about time for the GOPe to knife us in the back again.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:16 PM (l3YAf)
ONCE
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:15 PM (JkO4W)
Took one as well, but a different destination. Was pretty quick on the water. From Shenzhou to ...don't quite remember...was a couple of decades ago now.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh)
Makes no sense. Should have been something like "Judge Boasberg says..." but maybe their usual clientele wouldn't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2025 11:17 PM (/y8xj)
Makes no sense. Should have been something like "Judge Boasberg says..." but maybe their usual clientele wouldn't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2025 11:17 PM (/y8xj)
Joke Punchline: She has seniority.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 11:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (0eaVi)
I thought that was a type of pasta.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 10:44 PM (qpyNK)
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Ah the linguine imbroglio. Last time it was the cannoli gambit.
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't care, just pour that sauce on it at June 02, 2025 11:20 PM (sPQoU)
I don't have charging, on a cloudy day
When it's gray outside, at the pier I'll stay
I guess you'd say
What can make me fail this way?
[chorus]
EV, EV, EV
Talkin' 'bout EV, EV
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:20 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2025 11:17 PM (/y8xj)
"Trump deported all the cute ones."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:21 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:22 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Kami Harris at June 02, 2025 11:22 PM (1Ymb4)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:22 PM (l3YAf)
Well, at least you know the plumbing works.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:25 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:09 PM (l3YAf)
His husband is claiming the killing was a hate crime.
So I'd imagine he's pretty fucking gay. The full feather boa, chaps, and Cher albums gay.
Was anyway.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2025 11:25 PM (z5QST)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 02, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)
Dogged if I know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)
Surely you’re not Sirius!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 10:47 PM (i5oKA)
I think he pulled that factoid out of Uranus.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh
***
The space puns are comet at ha fast and furious!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (W/lyH)
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We need a pole star to run a survey of the crowd.
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't care, just pour Bolognese over it at June 02, 2025 11:27 PM (sPQoU)
So I'd imagine he's pretty fucking gay. The full feather boa, chaps, and Cher albums gay.
Was anyway.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2025 11:25 PM (z5QST)
Maybe the "husband" did it? Lots of violence in same-sex "marriages".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:28 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 02, 2025 11:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh
***
The space puns are comet at ha fast and furious!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2025 10:50 PM (W/lyH)
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We need a pole star to run a survey of the crowd.
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't care, just pour Bolognese over it at June 02, 2025 11:27 PM (sPQoU)
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Bunch of Andromeda queens, you are.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:30 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:28 PM (CvF0u)
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The problem with two-male marriages is that the spouses are evenly matched.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:31 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:31 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:32 PM (144I4)
The proponents doesn't really understand that having electric motors on vehicles doesn't auto reduce carbon emissions. Unless you're getting your electricity from "renewables" (Wind, Solar, Hydro) they burned hydrocarbons to produce it - you're just moving the location of the emission from the vehicles to a central plant.
Depending on where you live, on average 20-30% of your electricity is "renewables" sourced. That really can't be increased much more with current (no pun intended) tech because hydro is actually being curtailed for environmental reasons (usually an endangered species) and Wind & Solar are intermittent - so over-reliance results in brown and black-outs.
Posted by: BobM at June 02, 2025 11:32 PM (pI6NY)
Posted by: BobM at June 02, 2025 11:32 PM (pI6NY)
And Spain just recently recovered from a nation-wide blackout caused exactly that way.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:34 PM (CvF0u)
Hasta banana.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:35 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 02, 2025 11:35 PM (GM4rl)
God is handling all of my problems. That's helped turn things around.
My brother is coming for his share of stuff but isn't taking much. I am fine with this. God is protecting me.
If there's truth in wine, there should be truth in edibles....
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 02, 2025 11:37 PM (jvJvP)
https://shorturl.at/Ftzbu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Being All He Can Be at June 02, 2025 10:19 PM (L/fGl)
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"GHAM".
Well why didn't you say so in the first place!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 02, 2025 11:37 PM (KbuES)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 02, 2025 11:38 PM (VYKOS)
“Stare until you share” lol
Posted by: Common Tater at June 02, 2025 11:38 PM (vOk4U)
Posted by: Stateless.. 12% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 02, 2025 11:37 PM (jvJvP)
In vino, very tits.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:38 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 02, 2025 11:35 PM (144I4)
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So cya in 72 hours?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 02, 2025 11:39 PM (KbuES)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:31 PM (JkO4W)
When things go bad they get ultraviolent real fast. Murder in my neighborhood a few years back, msn in his 50’s, young man early 20’s. Young dude got sick of it, stabbed him 50 times with a kitchen knife.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 02, 2025 11:39 PM (i5oKA)
https://www.youtube.com/live/o75LJrSmh_k
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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In ~4 minutes
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:39 PM (Fhkrw)
So I'd imagine he's pretty fucking gay. The full feather boa, chaps, and Cher albums gay.
Was anyway.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2025 11:25 PM (z5QST)
This is the first I am hearing he was killed. Whoa.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:40 PM (l3YAf)
The deal is expected to generate up to $40bn in fees from 2030, some of which will go towards making expensive zero-emission fuels more affordable.
Posted by: Orson at June 02, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)
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What are these zero-emission fuels (ZEF)? Possibly Hydrogen? One can write a thesis on the non-viability of H2 for general use.
- How are you going to make it.
- How are you going to store it.
- How are you going to distribute it.
- How to handle the fires ---> explosions.
Do we have engines that can use ZEFs?
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't worry at June 02, 2025 11:42 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:42 PM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 02, 2025 11:43 PM (VYKOS)
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 11:03 PM (kd60y)
Doesn't matter. The man himself can't ear you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:05 PM (CvF0u)
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Enough already!
LEAVE VINCENT A LOBE!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 02, 2025 11:44 PM (KbuES)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:45 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:40 PM (l3YAf)
Why, I told you at 253!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 11:45 PM (0eaVi)
253 Wow, John Redcorn is gay? Or are these just rumors? He’s 36, he doesn’t need this crap.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 02, 2025 11:09 PM (l3YAf)
Well, he's dead, so....
Some guy whacked him a day or so ago. No, not that kind of whacked.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 02, 2025 11:14 PM
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His neighbor shot him multiple times after an argument. Married to a man. Their gayness led to
years of harassment in the neighborhood.
I'm thinking, Hispanic neighborhood. The hombres in the hood, their machismo became muy inflamo. Muy inflamo.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 02, 2025 11:46 PM (ES1Rb)
Posted by: Beezelbub at June 02, 2025 11:47 PM (D0HYP)
knots = nautical miles per hour.
Thus, there is no such thing as "knots per-hour."
A battery life of 50 nautical miles per hour ("50 knots") makes no sense.
The GoodNewsNetwork.org author is ignorant of things nautical and battery.
Posted by: LibertyDefender at June 02, 2025 11:48 PM (Doqm9)
Put the tank on my redneck firepit, loaded with dry wood. Got a burn going, and the tanked boiled merrily for about an hour until the wood burned down. Dumped out the hot caustic, now a nice shade of diarrhea brown. Three rinses of cold water and it ran clear. You can now see bare metal on the bottom inside!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2025 11:48 PM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Out on the water you can see the storm coming (usually).
That's when it's time to fire it up and head on in.
Twenty four mile range is, well, you don't want to cruise
the Straits of Hormuz.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:49 PM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2025 11:31 PM (JkO4W)
Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, lesbian couples are the ones with the highest rate of domestic violence.
This, of course, is never, ever, ever mentioned.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 11:55 PM (qpyNK)
https://www.youtube.com/live/o75LJrSmh_k
45 minutes out
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 02, 2025 11:57 PM (GM4rl)
People keep saying that "batteries are bad" because:
"batteries don't create energy. batteries consume energy."
Nothing. Creates. Energy.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed.
"Energy production" and "energy consumption" are economic terms — not physics terms.
We don't actually produce or consume energy.
We direct energy.
The function of a battery is not upstream energy harvesting, but that's also not the function of a thermal generator.
The energy doesn't come from the generator.
The energy comes from the fuel.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 02, 2025 11:58 PM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 02, 2025 11:05 PM (MZ+PY)
Yeah, she was out there in young Phoebe Cates supernaturally-cute territory.
She was still pretty easy on the eyes the last time I saw her.
So was Phoebe, for that matter.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 02, 2025 11:59 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Common Tater at June 03, 2025 12:00 AM (uBmgH)
Without a man to make sammiches for, females’ natural aggressiveness takes over. Kinda like when somebody goes blind so they hear really well.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 12:00 AM (l3YAf)
Energy is neither created nor destroyed.
"Energy production" and "energy consumption" are economic terms — not physics terms.
We don't actually produce or consume energy.
We direct energy.
***
Umm..
Posted by: Nuclear reactors at June 03, 2025 12:01 AM (l3YAf)
Buy the 10 MB hard drive and they'll throw in a 300 baud modem, free!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 02, 2025 11:06 PM (QnmlO)
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Damn, I was only offered the 96 baud modem! Got gypped.
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't even at June 03, 2025 12:02 AM (sPQoU)
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Harvard’s ties with China’s regime, at a time when that regime is moving aggressively against America, are particularly disturbing.
_GordonGChang
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:03 AM (Fhkrw)
Incidentally, the Isletas de Granada is a magical place. Old lava flow from a volcano ran out into the big lake, and broke up into hundreds of tiny islands, all now luxuriantly forested. Many have homes on them. The big lake is choppy and muddy, but between the islands, the water is calm and clear. Simply amazing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:04 AM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Nuclear reactors at June 03, 2025 12:01 AM (l3YAf)
The energy in a nuke reactor comes from destroying matter. When a uranium atom fissions, a few subatomic particles bite the dust.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:06 AM (CvF0u)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:08 AM (CvF0u)
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Xi Jinping’s disappearance from People’s Daily is an indication he has lost power.
_@GordonGChang
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:09 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:13 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:06 AM (CvF0u)
Yes, so it is actually creating energy. When people want to get pedantic and say we can’t create energy, I out-pedant them.
*sits backs and waits for someone to point out all matter is energy*
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 12:15 AM (l3YAf)
The trend is toward pronouncing a word the way it's pronounced in its country of origin.
"Van Go" is substandard today. It's "Van Gok" now, because he was a Dutchman & that's how he pronounced it himself.
Posted by: mnw at June 02, 2025 10:52 PM (kd60y)
Except Spanish television.
Nueva York. Inglaterra. Just to name two.
Posted by: RickZ at June 03, 2025 12:16 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 02, 2025 10:31 PM (omVj0)
Don't know if you are still around. I've been cut on at EJGH and Turo but not Oshner. What experience I've had with them has been first rate.
Posted by: javems at June 03, 2025 12:17 AM (8I4hW)
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Would it be legal for the USN to perform an interdiction?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:19 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:13 AM (Fhkrw)
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Nope. Still ain't happening.
Posted by: Your Friends in the TSA at June 03, 2025 12:20 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:22 AM (Fhkrw)
_@GordonGChang
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:09 AM (Fhkrw)
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One knows not where or when the dreaded Trump Curse might strike.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 03, 2025 12:23 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: a dude in MI at June 03, 2025 12:23 AM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:22 AM (Fhkrw)
The same is true of chemical bonds, too.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 12:23 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 03, 2025 12:25 AM (z5QST)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 12:23 AM (l3YAf)
But in a nuclear reaction, there is a net loss in mass associated with the release of energy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:26 AM (CvF0u)
Posted by: No Sane Person, Ever at June 03, 2025 12:28 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at June 02, 2025 11:13 PM (ZgYXP)
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That would be a lefty judge and not DOGE.
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't even know where to begin at June 03, 2025 12:29 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 03, 2025 12:29 AM (bss/y)
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Looks like paper is going the way of buggy whips.
Although, if properly stored paper and ink will outlast
anything else we have.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:30 AM (Fhkrw)
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"It's actually not a terrible message so much as an accurate one," I further explained, "the message is that I'm a huge sissy and total fag."
Posted by: Greg Rosen at June 03, 2025 12:31 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Isn't that against the rules?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:32 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Greg Rosen at June 03, 2025 12:31 AM (BI5O2)
Fake and lame too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 03, 2025 12:33 AM (bss/y)
No. The binding energy in heavy elements was "stored" there when those elements were synthesized in supernovae, and came from the energy of the supernova.
All energy comes from the Big Bang. None has been created or destroyed since.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 12:34 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:34 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:32 AM (Fhkrw)
Nope. Albert told us that mass and energy are the same thing, and can be converted one to the other.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 12:34 AM (qpyNK)
Monday, Jun 02, 2025 - 08:20 PM
Western Intelligence agencies have long raised concerns over the potential for adversaries to hide and deploy missile systems inside standard shipping containers, making virtually any cargo ship, truck, or rail car an undetectable covert mobile launch platform.
$1Billion in damage, $1Million in cost.
_zerohedge
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:37 AM (Fhkrw)
That close in they could have done it with mortars.
BUT, we are trying to sell drones and FUD here, but mostly FUD.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 12:39 AM (/lPRQ)
Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk tract 28A. It was rented for 350,000 rubles. That's why the truck in the Amur region had Chelyabinsk license plates - they were leaving from there.
The mobility, deniability, and camouflage of these containers made it a nightmare for Russia, with several long-range bombers at various air bases destroyed by $100 drones with warheads.
"Ukraine just mounted an attack that marks a turning point in the history of warfare Hundreds of drones were pre-deployed and then struck 40+ aircraft 1000+ km inside of Russia >$1B in damage by
https://tinyurl.com/bdfw47xa
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:40 AM (Fhkrw)
All energy comes from the Big Bang. None has been created or destroyed since.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 03, 2025 12:34 AM (qpyNK)
Right, nobody’s claiming energy conservation is being violated. Saying “No energy is created” when discussing various energy sources is as meaningless and needlessly pedantic as saying “Nobody created a house: the atoms were already here, we just rearranged them.”
tl;dr: Mass and energy have different meanings depending on context, and pretending to not understand context is a trick people employ to look more clever than they are.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 12:41 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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But, but, he said some is lost.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:41 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:42 AM (Fhkrw)
It has a range of 50 knots? It made a 24 knot round trip in an hour, then needed 4 hours of recharging? Bogus.
Any idiot can build a hydrofoil, it isn't rocket science.
Posted by: 5cats at June 03, 2025 12:43 AM (hv5ip)
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What, pray tell, was the wholesome and cheerful inflection point in the history of warfare?
Drones are just another weapon we use to murder each other on a wholesale basis in battlefields.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 12:44 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:26 AM (CvF0u)
Chemical reactions also affect mass, but it’s such a minuscule amount that it’s usually safe to ignore. Otherwise mass and energy wouldn’t be conserved when chemical reactions take place.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 12:44 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 03, 2025 12:45 AM (VIG9d)
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Xi Jinping’s disappearance from People’s Daily is an indication he has lost power.
_@GordonGChang
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:09 AM (Fhkrw)
Wasn't he "on vacation" for a couple weeks around the middle of last year, too?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 03, 2025 12:45 AM (QRFVs)
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"It's actually not a terrible message so much as an accurate one," I further explained, "the message is that I'm a huge sissy and total fag."
Posted by: Greg Rosen at June 03, 20
Lol
Posted by: LASue at June 03, 2025 12:45 AM (lCppi)
Went to the hospital friday for a cat scan on an intestinal hernia. Doc calls, says, come in to the ER immediately. Turns out I have blood clots in rt leg & lung. On blood thinners. Now Monday night. Having a thromboidectomy tomorrow. Thinners for weeks ahead hoping to dissolve other clots.
Oy, yeah: do have the hernia. We'll get to that... eventually. Just one thing after another.
Glad to be alive. Miss my doggy.
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker's cell in hospital at June 03, 2025 12:46 AM (0bE/L)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 03, 2025 12:46 AM (/lPRQ)
Probably when the pointed stock supplanted the blunt stick. Less monkey brains on your pelt that way.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at June 03, 2025 12:47 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 03, 2025 12:49 AM (QRFVs)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 03, 2025 12:50 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 03, 2025 12:51 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:52 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:53 AM (CvF0u)
Went to the hospital friday for a cat scan on an intestinal hernia. Doc calls, says, come in to the ER immediately. Turns out I have blood clots in rt leg & lung. On blood thinners. Now Monday night. Having a thromboidectomy tomorrow. Thinners for weeks ahead hoping to dissolve other clots.
Oy, yeah: do have the hernia. We'll get to that... eventually. Just one thing after another.
Glad to be alive. Miss my doggy.
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker's cell in hospital at June 03, 2025 12:46 AM (0bE/L)
You're really not 29, are you?
Thinners may be longer than 'for weeks'. Depends on family history and whether your blood likes to make clots, like mine does (there's some medical name for the negative ability to be a blood clot factory).
I'm on blood thinners for life. Besides all the other heart issues.
Have had a clot in the lungs (and heart) before. Takes time until the hospital is comfortable the clot is dissolved.
Posted by: RickZ at June 03, 2025 12:54 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:55 AM (Fhkrw)
You need someone to teach doggo how to FaceTime, so you aren't quite as separated.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 03, 2025 12:57 AM (VNX3d)
Thought I had one pulmonary, he says a bunch. So we're going to let it ride for a while with thinners. Then see. I don't mind the thinners but miss the anti-inflammatories.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:59 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 12:55 AM (Fhkrw)
The 4 or 5 a.m. vampires, coming around because 'they vant your blood'. He'll be first on Pixy's thread.
Posted by: RickZ at June 03, 2025 01:02 AM (gKDq2)
Wasn't he "on vacation" for a couple weeks around the middle of last year, too?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Don't know but this time there's no memo, he's just not there. Very much like what's been happening to his hand picked men.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:02 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 03, 2025 12:04 AM (CvF0u)
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gas turbine = gasoline OR propane gas?
Posted by: Ciampino - gas is ambiguous at June 03, 2025 01:04 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at June 03, 2025 01:04 AM (CuoD9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:02 AM (Fhkrw)
Has Xi been airbrushed out of any photos yet?
Posted by: RickZ at June 03, 2025 01:04 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 01:05 AM (VoK2l)
Posted by: Mark in SC at June 03, 2025 01:06 AM (hBDSK)
Department of National Defense - Philippines, Sec. Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr., sticks it to the Chinese. He did it well.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:08 AM (Fhkrw)
Ponder a shipping container full of drones and each has a radioactive payload.
Now try to sleep easily.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 01:09 AM (VoK2l)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:10 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 01:14 AM (VoK2l)
Ponder a shipping container full of drones and each has a radioactive payload.
Now try to sleep easily.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 01:09 AM (VoK2l)
Imagine a hundred such shipping containers on a cargo ship parked at the Port of Los Angeles.
Now imagine that they’re already there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 03, 2025 01:15 AM (i5oKA)
Just enough radiation to trigger the alarms and scare people.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 01:16 AM (VoK2l)
Now imagine that they’re already there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 03, 2025 01:15 AM (i5oKA)
Can't do much more damage than me.
Posted by: Crack smoking hobo in an unremediated public forest plot at June 03, 2025 01:18 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:02 AM (Fhkrw)
I’ve followed some claims that he’s lost an internal power struggle and is on the way out, but so far those stories are too thinly sourced for me to buy into them yet.
But one China specialist has written that Xi will be gone by the end of summer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 03, 2025 01:18 AM (i5oKA)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at June 03, 2025 01:04 AM (CuoD9)
It’d be kind of funny if they were all singing Kanye West’s latest song.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 03, 2025 01:20 AM (i5oKA)
Ukraine just broke a serious nuke treaty by targeting those bombers, and Russia will begin guarding them, hiding them/
The US is tacitly backing Ukraine, and by that support, has broken one of the basic requirements for the nuke deals we have with Russia.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 03, 2025 01:22 AM (D7oie)
Ponder a shipping container full of drones and each has a radioactive payload.
Now try to sleep easily.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 01:09 AM (VoK2l)
Imagine a hundred such shipping containers on a cargo ship parked at the Port of Los Angeles.
Now imagine that they’re already there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 03, 2025 01:15 AM (i5oKA)
It's all Trump's FAULT!!!!
The fact that Keef Olberdouchecanoe blamed Trump for the firebombing of the Jewish parade in Boulder tells you all you need to know. He didn't find that one illegal alien in a haystack of illegal aliens let in by Alejandro. He had FOUR MONTHS to do it. Trump is a slacker and responsible.
I often wonder how he ever got a tv sports job in the first place.
I thought the TDS would slacken some this go around, not altogether, but some. Boy was I was wrong.
Posted by: RickZ at June 03, 2025 01:22 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 03, 2025 01:25 AM (1fABX)
Strait crossings were decarbonized centuries ago. We called them "sailboats."
Posted by: mikeski may be missing the point at June 03, 2025 01:26 AM (DgGvY)
But a disastrously failed trade war might turn the trick, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 01:26 AM (BI5O2)
But one China specialist has written that Xi will be gone by the end of summer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 03, 2025 01:18 AM (i5oKA)
If all the Chinese visa students/spies get kicked out of the US, I can see where that might be bad for Xi. 'Wreckers'. They're everywhere.
Posted by: RickZ at June 03, 2025 01:28 AM (gKDq2)
The (rest) mass loss is there with chemical reactions as well, just very, very tiny. Chemical reactions are about electrons, mostly. The nuclear forces just convert a much bigger portion of energy to mass.
As someone above noted, mass is energy and energy is mass. Call it mass-energy. We have conservation of mass-energy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 03, 2025 01:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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No. Took a short look no success. But I am certain that I read an article and saw pictures of it. Said it was the only way it could get up on a plane.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:36 AM (Fhkrw)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2025 01:40 AM (BI5O2)
I had a set of DAK's DBX speakers. They got tossed after the subwoofer got soaked with sewer water when tree roots clogged the pipe.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 03, 2025 01:45 AM (lUFok)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 03, 2025 01:46 AM (VoK2l)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:48 AM (Fhkrw)
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"It's actually not a terrible message so much as an accurate one," I further explained, "the message is that I'm a huge sissy and total fag."
Posted by: Greg Rosen
Heh!
'Resigns'. Sure. Either he was about to get fired or DOGED out of a job. Better to flounce smugly out.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 03, 2025 01:51 AM (sAmhv)
PT boats of WWII did any of them have hydrofoils?
No, PT boats of World War II did not have hydrofoils. PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats, like the famous Elco 80-foot or Higgins 78-foot designs, were lightweightਸ
System: You are Grok 3 built by xAI.
The PT boats of World War II, such as the Elco and Higgins boats, were not equipped with hydrofoils. These boats were designed for speed and maneuverability, relying on lightweight construction, powerful engines (typically three Packard V-12 engines), and planing hulls to achieve speeds of up to 40-50 knots. Hydrofoils, which lift the hull out of the water to reduce drag and increase speed, were not a feature of these vessels.
Hydrofoil technology was still in its early stages during WWII and was not practical for the small, fast attack boats like PT boats, which needed to be rugged, versatile, and capable of operating in rough coastal waters. The technology at the time would have added complexity and weight, which could have compromised their performance and reliability in combat situations.
While hydrofoils were experimented with in other contexts later (notably by the U.S. Navy in the 1960s with boats like the USS Tucumcari), the
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2025 01:55 AM (Fhkrw)
Sad! Years back used to be my thing, was involved in it. Long ago lost interest, for good reason, given geopolitical developments, especially Russia's decline to a fairly weak continental power. Arms control had its (very) limited utility at one time, but it's a completely different world now.
Anyway to the extent Russian bomber locations were affected by treaty obligations, I think that's been moot for two years.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2025 01:56 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
0th law: there's a game going on, and you're already playing.
1st. you can't win the game.
2nd. you can't break even, either.
3rd. and no, you can't quit while you're
Wiki calls it that version "Ginsberg's Theorem," after some poet, but there's no record that he came up with it.
Posted by: mikeski at June 03, 2025 01:58 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 03, 2025 01:59 AM (1m82a)
I had a set of DAK's DBX speakers. They got tossed after the subwoofer got soaked with sewer water when tree roots clogged the pipe.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Got an all-in-one "stereo system" from them in the early 90s before they went kaput. AM/FM, phono, dual cassette, CD. So, a boom box with a record player, designed to look like a stack of component electronics. Still seemed nice to a college kid.
Posted by: mikeski at June 03, 2025 02:04 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mikeski didn't mean to kill it at June 03, 2025 02:42 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 03, 2025 02:48 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: m at June 03, 2025 02:52 AM (CQE5S)
I'll put in for 395.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 03, 2025 02:57 AM (w6EFb)
@SkyNewsBreak 1h
Gaza Health Ministry says 24 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid distribution in Rafah – the IDF denies preventing Gazans from reaching aid
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https://youtu.be/dCplcb8NaJA
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Posted by: Ciampino
Smooth move, Ex-Lax.
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Another smack in the face!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 03, 2025 03:16 AM (KbuES)
I would conjecture that the class of 2025 has some fine prospects upward for greatness.
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Posted by: Ciampino - have fun with it
"When the figure was created in 2018, even museum staff admitted the Macron waxwork did not look much like Mr Macron"
If you showed it to me and told me to guess who it was, I woulda said Jim Carrey.
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Posted by: Ciampino - we can do it wholesale? at June 02, 2025 10:04 PM (sPQoU)
Nah, they'd be missed. Some "nothing" state like LA, Mississippi, Tenn, or WV. Texas can be part of Mexico. Pretty much is now.
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It's pretty neat. But it's not a ferry; at that size it's a taxi. Which means, of course, that one would need a boatload (PI) of them to replace ferry service, each being charged by what will inevitably turn out to be "non-green" power plants, resulting in all likelihood in more greenhouse emissions that just running a regular ferry.
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John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)