Cool. Damp. Maybe raining. Then humid and hot later. It was overcast all day Thursday, but the rain held off. Until later, and at my client’s house.
I did my auction stuff in the morning, and waited to see if my piece of gear would arrive. Finally gave up and headed to my client’s house. I grabbed my shovel, pick, and underground wire locator and was on my way. It was hot, still, and humid. At least the sun wasn’t beating down.
I spent a couple of fruitless hours. Well, I did determine that the buried coax was unusable. I found about a 50 foot long air gap… When a second garage was added, the conduit and cable run was cut. I traced it from both directions and it ended at the foundation for the garage. The phone line was in the same conduit, which rules out that as any kind of option too.
So we’re back to using a wireless link. Should be fine, but I’ll get with the gate contractor today and see what was really driving the request for a hard line to the network.
My timing was pretty good. Just after I filled my last exploratory hole, and put my tools away, and went inside to look at other network stuff, the skies opened up and the rain came down. 40 minutes later the sun came back out and the temperature was 10-15F lower. Really cleared the air.
Cleaned up a few notes, had a nice chat with my client and his wife, and headed home. Found out it didn’t rain here… that’s Houston. And the wind was blowing hard and steady off the gulf, pushing the weather I saw earlier even farther away. It made for a nice cool evening.
Today will be working around the house. Wife and D2 will be doing a Girl Scout thing this weekend, so I’m debating taking D1 to the BOL. I’ve got lots to do here, but I’ve got lots to do there too. I’ve got a couple of auction pickups to do in town, nothing far away or on the way to the BOL. I think I’ll play it by ear. I have avoided cleaning up my canned goods….
Out in the world the dominoes continue to fall. More banks are at risk or are collapsing. Russians are advocating a decapitation strike against Ukraine… Crime and violence are escalating here at home, and the illegal invader crisis is about to explode.
Stay frosty my friends. And stack it high.
nick
(and a month or two of expenses in cash at home might not be a bad idea, just in case some Monday we wake up to a bank holiday.)
Anticipatory Schadenfreude.
The crazy neighbors are finishing up their entry area, which borders the street. Their property is set back several feet from the street, i.e., they can attach their driveway to the street, but have to leave the rest of the space, because it belongs to the town. Some of their work looked like it might not comply with that, so the town sent a worker out with a can of orange spray paint, and he painted the property line, going right across the work that is being done. That was a not-so-subtle hint.
So what are they doing? The orange line has been erased, and they are installing tall curbstones along the length of street, laying claim to several feet of property that is not theirs. Pissing off the town government, when you live in a town of 400 people? Very smart. This will not end well for them.
Nah, it’s core rope memory.
I have a real core memory board. I think it is 8K of 64 bit words. Incredibly tiny cores with three wires through each core. It was salvaged from an old (obviously) computer about 40 years ago. Probably really expensive in its time.
$60,000 per vehicle. I’m shocked. Shocked!
Gonna need more garage queens going out the door of “Ford Blue”. Ramp up the production on the $35,000 Mavericks, recalls be damned.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ford-loses-nearly-60000-for-every-electric-vehicle-sold/ar-AA1aEOzO
Overcast, humid, and warm. Gah.
Kids have STAAR testing today. We are getting near the end of the school year. Freaking time flies by.
I forgot that there is an in person estate sale I want to check out today. TONS of home workshop, ham radio, jewelry making, gem cutting, fishing, and all kinds of ‘manly’ antiques and vintage. There is just a crazy amount of stuff.
n
H/T Rawles blog…
n
Mercury delay line:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
@Ray Thompson
“I have a real core memory board. I think it is 8K of 64 bit words. Incredibly tiny cores with three wires through each core. It was salvaged from an old (obviously) computer about 40 years ago. Probably really expensive in its time.”
who was the manufacturer?
I missed a chance to tour the IBM assembly line in the early70’s. Always regretted it.
I remember there being an image of that in the ‘Space’ Time-Life book in the 60s series. I wore those books out.
Back when the Fukushima melt down occurred I was thinking something like that would still be useful in “hot” areas.
Amazing stuff for its time. I always marvelled at how it must have been manufactured.
When I worked on the F-15 program back in its early days, it still used core memory. Which was pretty insanely late to still use the stuff, but the excuse was that it was more EMP resistant. Not sure I believe that, but whatever. The tiny amount of memory, and its slow speed, put serious constraints on the software, and the programmers worked to save every cycle they could…
I do trust the new F-15s have moved on…
Uncertain. The board was a removed from a Burroughs B-5500, so I was told. The bank was buying some new equipment and the place they were purchasing from had received some old equipment.
Very cool.
I have a round patio table with wire hairpin legs. It’s made from a platter from the largest disk drive ever manufactured—about 38 inches in diameter.
I sold some vintage computer mags to a university professor a few years ago and gave him a photo for his history of computing class.
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Quote lifted from “Sheldon Whiteboy plays Elmer Fudd” on Powerlingblog
WHO has stated the global emergency over Covid is over and people can go back to normal lives, still using caution. WHO also stated that nations should not let their guard down or dismantle procedures used during the pandemic. You know, in case some election outcome is close, some nefarious happenings in the US administration, Covid to the rescue. Something to divert people’s attention.
The Good Germans should keep their armbands -er- masks at the ready, preferably within arm’s reach, should the old days return and citizens once again need to signal their party affiliation.
A gold star awaits for you, Skippy, along with all of your other jab denier friends.
Big Smile!
I state that the WHO can plant a big smooch on a flatulent cow’s backside.
I state that the WHO can suck a big one on a flatulent cow’s backside.
Fixed it for you.
So this explains why that crazy jobs report came out…
– birth death model. Sounds like a fudge factor to be manipulated at will to me. BOOMING economy, right? No layoffs in tech, or finance, or anywhere else, right? Oh. Yeah right.
n
Hey, folks.
Really, really long time lurker here. I look forward to the daily discussions and have learned so much over the years. I’m not much of a joiner, but I’m actually joining in for the first time.
COFFEE:
A while back there was a discussion about growing one’s own coffee for fun and personal satisfaction:
As far as the plants go, they are a bit tricky; however, if you have the right climate and can figure out the proper place to put it, they will grow.
Note that the wild coffee plant (Psychotria nervosa) that is native to Florida and elsewhere looks like the fruit that gets us moving in the morning, but it does not contain caffeine. Sad. I suppose one could grow their own decaf, but I have no idea how it would taste. Mostly, you’ll want to go with an Arabica plant (coffee arabica). I’ve seen them for sale on etsy and such. Or find someone in your area and take cuttings from their plant.
Roasting: go to an Ethiopian restaurant and order a coffee. The ones where I have been roast their beans in a cast iron pan on the stove. Tastes good and dark.
FORTRAN:
F77 controls a whole lot of life-threatening processes in the primary manufacturing, energy, and .mil arenas. Since it has native exponentiation, matrix multiplication, and more importantly COMPLEX() support of imaginary numbers, it excels at complicated mathematics that either keep things contained or enable extreme rapid disassembly. In one location, the management knew better than the math folks and said that we had to move to C. We did the migration, ran the result set through the simulator, and the opposite reaction occurred than what was supposed to happen. It turned out that the results of complex calculations were slightly different in a number of stages, and when multiplied and integrated, it led to radically different results. Needless to say, the management thanked us and then shelved that migration. It’s been a minute since I did work in that realm, but I believe those core routines are still running in F77, and pretty interfaces to it have been built in other languages.
ROPE CORE MEMORY:
When I first read that, I thought it was truly old school and referencing the Incan quipa: https://www.machupicchutrek.net/inca-knots/
This is a great community and I have enjoyed watching it over the years.
In high school in 1972, I had a debate assignment, and my premise was that the way to improve the lot of Indians (feather) in America was to create incentives for industry to come to the reservation. I found an example, too: Manufacturers of core memory were using Indian women to make the memories, using their pre-existing weaving skills. My argument was that jobs are better than welfare.
In 1983 I was working as a system administrator/programmer at a manufacturing company, and we had exactly 1 computer, a PDP-11 running RSTS/E operating system. Boot sequence was to type “70, 17765000G” on the console… Because we upgraded away from the paddle switches front panel.
I personally replaced the core memory module with non-DEC semiconductor memory one day, with the DEC field service engineer looking over my shoulder. He was prohibited from helping me, but still concerned that it should come out right.
The 3rd party board didn’t seat correctly, and because he liked me and I was always good to him, he violated company policy and took a file to the board and altered it so it would fit. He called it “an undocumented FCO”, for Field Change Order. I seated the board, and we booted into diagnostics “50,17765000G”. 50 means boot to tape drive, not 70 for disk.
To truly comprehend how expensive core memory was, you’d have to realize the cost of semiconductor memory, and the risk involved in going 3rd party at the time. Fortunately, it all worked out.
>> “Westinghouse Electric announces new small modular reactor borrowing from its AP1000 nuclear technology”
Nice. Build a dozen of them right now !
And we can put the first one in your backyard??
Too late. The South Texas Project (STP) in Bay City, Texas, two of world’s biggest nuclear reactors with the world’s only triple loop cooling system, is about 25 miles away from my house.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Nuclear_Generating_Station
And Dow Chemical in Freeport, Texas has announced that they are going to replace several of their 50 year old gas turbines and steam generators with a SMR before 2030. That is about 30 miles away from my house.
I do have one of the largest fossil fuel power plants, 4,300 MW (4.3 GW), in the world only 6 miles away from my house and 4 miles away from my office complex. The plant has four 600+ MW western coal units that put over 200 lbs of vaporized mercury in the air every year. The other 13 ? power plants use natural gas and diesel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WA_Parish_Generating_Station
The Houston metropolitan area has around eight million souls living in the nine Texas counties it occupies. We use a tremendous amount of electric power in both residential, commercial, and industrial usage. Millions of homes, thousands of restaurants, thousands of schools and office buildings, eight ??? refineries, dozens of chemical plants.
How many people how been killed by nuclear power plants again ?
Oh yeah, I forgot. There is a super secret nuclear reactor on the Rice University campus that makes nuclear medicine for medical testing. I have used its products personally several times.
I attended a university that styles itself “The Harvard of the Midwest” for a while in the 80s. We had about 5000 students? Maybe less. And a nuke in the physics building.
@crawdaddy, welcome! Thanks for the kind words and being a repeat customer. Always warms my heart to see someone de-lurk. Thanks for the inca knot link. Author John Ringo has a character in his zombie apocalypse series use knotted string to keep track of his time trapped aboard ship by the zombies. I just grooved right past it at the time I read it. I’ll have to take a deeper look as the idea is pretty dang cool.
Speaking of checking in, DADCOOKS {{{{{{ping}}}}}}}
n
“I’ll have to take a deeper look as the idea is pretty dang cool.”
Technological progress is serial and depends on communication and having societies rich enough in food resources that they can support people who are not growing food. Many other factors, too, of course. The more innovators your society can support, the higher the chance that you can select from the RHS of the bell curve for the geniuses.
But the daily implementation falls to the bulge on the RHS of the curve. AFAIK, there is no research that shows that modern humans are any smarter than our recent ancestors of the past few thousands of years, and there are many examples of day-to-day solutions to problems that show extraordinary cleverness.
The sad thing is that when you look at the population of the 13 colonies in the late 18th century and start counting the number of geniuses that took part in shaping our country, you have to wonder what we are doing wrong now. They are certainly not going into politics, and we need some of them desperately. Is it simply a Gresham’s Law of politics, that bad pols drive out good?
The sad thing is that when you look at the population of the 13 colonies in the late 18th century and start counting the number of geniuses that took part in shaping our country, you have to wonder what we are doing wrong now. They are certainly not going into politics, and we need some of them desperately. Is it simply a Gresham’s Law of politics, that bad pols drive out good?
Along the same lines, a long time ago I read somewhere that the reason why infrastructure in the USA was better managed during the Depression was that many intelligent people couldn’t afford college. Instead of joining the elites as lawyers or stockbrokers they used their smarts to keep things running in more mundane and less glamorous occupations.
Given current trends, it’s not inconceivable that similar opportunities may arise again..
>> so I’m debating taking D1 to the BOL.
Would D1 plus one friend equal more work time for nick?
“Astros’ Jose Altuve lost $1 million in jewelry during Opening Day heist”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-astros-jose-altuve-texas-18081704.php
There is a lesson here but I am not sure what it is. Oh yeah, don’t store your stuff in the open ?
The sad thing is that when you look at the population of the 13 colonies in the late 18th century and start counting the number of geniuses that took part in shaping our country, you have to wonder what we are doing wrong now. They are certainly not going into politics, and we need some of them desperately. Is it simply a Gresham’s Law of politics, that bad pols drive out good?
Many of the modern geniuses are potheads and/or alcoholics and cannot get jobs due to drug testing ?
BTW, it is not so much geniuses as much as common sense. Many people back then grew up on farms and knew where breakfast, lunch, and dinner came from. They protected the farmers and did not legislate them out of existence like the current administration is hell bent on doing. Emissions equipment on tractors, are you kidding me ? Converting tractors to batteries, are you kidding me ?
>> I missed a chance to tour the IBM assembly line in the early70’s. Always regretted it.
I’ve never been disappointed with any of the assembly line tours I’ve gone on over the years. Haven’t done any recently but I suspect there are fewer available now for a variety of reasons and some are probably simulated.
The US Mint in DC was cool but the best one was a private tour of the HP RPN calculator line that my dad somehow managed to wrangle. It was interesting to see how the keys were injection molded with the legends fully through the keys so they could never wear off.
“Texas energy demand may exhaust supply this summer, ERCOT warns”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-power-grid-ercot-18079543.php
“Texas’ energy grid operator warned that extreme scenarios may lead to rolling blackouts this summer.”
“During the conference, Lake explained that the grid only added about 1.5 percent in dispatchable power capacity, or power produced by coal plants, nuclear energy and natural gas. Texas’ population has grown by about 24 percent during the same period, however. The grid has added significant renewable resource capacity from 2008 through 2022, but because renewable supply is dependent on wind and sun conditions, it can’t be relied on during periods of high-demand.”
Got a generator and fuel ?
Good reason to believe that average IQ is dropping in the industrialized West. Combination of differential birthrates (that is, dumbasses have five children while the bright have zero or one) and importing the low-IQ third world.
The US Mint in DC was cool but the best one was a private tour of the HP RPN calculator line that my dad somehow managed to wrangle. It was interesting to see how the keys were injection molded with the legends fully through the keys so they could never wear off.
My old 1991 Northgate Omni key/102 Gold keyboard has those keys with the legends that go all the way through. All of the keys are still perfectly readable even though they are over 30 years old and in serious usage every day.
What is really rough on keyboards are fingernails. Most men have short fingernails and use the tip of their fingers to press the keys. Females and FAGS use their fingernails and that wears down the keys really fast.
That would have been awesome. HP made some really good stuff back then. Top of the line. Now most of the stuff is average, or below, junk.
I had a private tour of a water storage system in Alabama. A friend worked on the design. I was inside the control room, some large power switching areas with 3″x6″ copper bus bars switch with hydraulics, inside the turbine cage. Big stuff. The turbine cage was under maintenance as one of the pins on the deflector blades had been bent by the force of the water. That pin was 3″ in diameter and had a nice bend in two places.
When the pumps started the entire facility vibrated. There was some serious power involved.
Not as long as hiring quotas exist.
I am aware that Airbus in Mobile started offering tours of their assembly line. I haven’t researched it in depth, however, since we haven’t had a reason to drive through the area.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth had a really excellent self-guided tour of the money printing plant pre-pandemic, but we haven’t been out there in a while.
BTW, no cameras/phones at the money printing plant, which greatly enhanced the experience IMHO.
I agree in principle, but I also suggest replacing diesel tractors with horses like 200 years ago.
Oh yeah, I forgot that horses exhale CO2.
“Baker Hughes: US rig count down 7 units to 748”
https://www.ogj.com/drilling-production/article/14293436/baker-hughes-us-rig-count-down-7-units-to-748
“The US drilling rig count dropped 7 units to reach 748 during the week ended May 5, data from Baker Hughes indicate. The report shows an overall increase of 43 units from year-ago levels.”
The crude oil and natural gas production in the USA is fading away. I hope that we don’t need fossil fuels all of a sudden in the future.
I agree in principle, but I also suggest replacing diesel tractors with horses like 200 years ago.
One of my great grandfathers was killed while plowing with two mules in a field 20 miles south of here back in 1945. Using animals for power is dangerous. One of the mules kicked him in the stomach and ripped the artery loose from his stomach so he internally bled to death.
I had the idea to make chili. Bought a 3.5 pound or so package of stew meat at the grocery store. What was about $8 a couple of years ago was $23 yesterday. Let’s Go Brandon!!!
I also bought a couple of 8oz boxes of whole mushrooms and a tub of sour cream.
So. A big pot of chili. “Eww the weather is too hot” says the folks that happily go to a Mexican restaurant at the drop of a hat. Ok….
After the chili, a batch of Beef Stroganoff. I forgot the onions. Again. I’ll take care of that tomorrow.
I had a Plan A and a Plan B. The vac sealed tamales I discovered in the freezer will keep.
I’m going with Plan C. Stroganoff made with the stew meat. That’s for Sunday. If I get lazy, Monday.
I have most of the parts for a small lasagna later in the week, too.
It works.
The local HEB is “interesting”. They’ve added about 20 feet to the back of the building. They are starting on what looks like a 40 foot push out on the front of the store. The beer aisle is on the back side of where the bread aisle was. The side of that new refrigeration unit , that faces the deli, is where all of the various things like sandwich meats and cheese are. For now. Bread is over there where aisle 15 was. Eggs are in a cooler at the end of what is currently aisle 3 for some weird reason. The rest of the dairy type stuff is on the outside wall where junk like frozen pancakes were.
It looks like they are going retarded ala the Marble Falls store. You want frozen fish sticks… that’s over with the so-called fresh fish… that area smells bad to me and the fish section is on the other side of the store.
Chicken, same way.
I get it. You want chicken? Fish? “All varieties we sell are all right here.”
I really think they need to follow through with this idiocy and put the frozen french fries and various frozen veggies in the produce department.
What could be better than to do your shopping and all of your frozen stuff is thawing as you shop? As opposed to “get the frozen stuff last and get home”?
Ah, well, maybe they’ll replace the vinyl tile flooring. Because the current polished concrete looks dirty and ghetto.
Yeah. This.
>> $60,000 per vehicle. I’m shocked. Shocked!
Was gonna go with “yeah, but we make it up on volume,” but they only delivered 12,000 EVs in Q1.
Tony delivered 423,000 vehicles during the same time period… just sayin…
Hmm, maybe Ford needs to ‘splode some rockets…
“A.F. Branco Cartoon – Uncle Samantha”
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-uncle-samantha/
“The Navy revealed that it approached a “drag queen influencer” to help persuade new recruits to join the military. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2023.”
“Xi Calls for Population-Plan Revamp as China’s Demographic Crisis Builds”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xi-calls-population-plan-revamp-163325069.html
“The country’s workforce has fallen by more than 41 million people in the past three years, reflecting the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the economy and a decline in the working-age population.”
So how did that one child communist policy work out for y’all ?
“Natural gas and electric compressors – a marriage made in freezing hell?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/natural-gas-and-electric-compressors.html
Yup. I was involved in this at the periphery and did not like it then. I was working on a project with Amoco when they bought the first 35,000 hp electric pipeline compressor motor in south Texas since the EPA would not allow them to install a gas turbine for the compressor. I told the engineer in charge that they would regret that and he agreed with me. But, they were between a rock and hard place.
A nation of Number One Sons without girlfriends or Number Two Sons to boss around.
“The Stones of Silence: Cochrane’s Company Book 1” by Peter Grant
https://www.amazon.com/Stones-Silence-Cochranes-Company-Book/dp/1720406847?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a three book military science fiction series. The series is set in a universe with seven other books by the author. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published by the author using CreateSpace in 2018. BTW, this book was dedicated to Larry Correia for his encouragement and enthusiastic support. I have ordered the other two books in the series.
The Mycenae system is a frontier star system with an planet and asteroid belt rich in minerals. There is a legitimate discoverer and owner of the star system but two other claim jumpers are in the system now. Captain Andrew Cochrane is sought out by the Mycenae system owner to build a patrol space force and writes a sharp contract where he gets to keep all bounty recovered from the claim jumpers. First, he raids an existing space ship junkyard on another star system for seven obsolete and worn out patrol space ships along with a maintainer ship. Then he uses the recovered bounty asteroids to not only rebuild the worn out patrol space force but to buy new frigates and corvettes. But, the claim jumpers are bound for revenge.
The author has a very active website at:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (395 reviews)
And here we go ! ERCOT almost hit 69,000 MW demand today. We may get to pass that 80,000 MW peak demand set last summer as ERCOT is predicting.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Right now, solar is making 9,662 MW, wind is making 10,427 MW, hydro is making 89 MW, batteries are making 310 MW, natural gas is making 30,839 MW, coal is making 9,424 MW, and nuclear is making 3,858 MW.
The rain hasn’t even stopped yet. Usually, Memorial Day Weekend in Austin is it for the Summer.
“SpaceX’s Starlink Now Has Over 4,000 Satellites in Orbit”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacexs-starlink-now-has-over-4000-satellites-in-orbit
“As capacity for the first-gen Starlink constellation reaches its limit, SpaceX also signals that it’s preparing numerous launches for the second-generation network.”
“The milestone also shows SpaceX has been able to complete most of the first-generation Starlink network in four years, after an initial launch in 2019. According to McDowell, SpaceX has since launched 4,340 Starlink satellites, though over 300 of them were later deorbited, likely due to system failures.”
Already in Gen2. NASA would be still planning everything and launching one satellite per six months.
FORTRAN:
F77 controls a whole lot of life-threatening processes in the primary manufacturing, energy, and .mil arenas. Since it has native exponentiation, matrix multiplication, and more importantly COMPLEX() support of imaginary numbers, it excels at complicated mathematics that either keep things contained or enable extreme rapid disassembly. In one location, the management knew better than the math folks and said that we had to move to C. We did the migration, ran the result set through the simulator, and the opposite reaction occurred than what was supposed to happen. It turned out that the results of complex calculations were slightly different in a number of stages, and when multiplied and integrated, it led to radically different results. Needless to say, the management thanked us and then shelved that migration. It’s been a minute since I did work in that realm, but I believe those core routines are still running in F77, and pretty interfaces to it have been built in other languages.
The big problem with Fortran is that there was a disjointed jump from the F77 compilers to the F90 compilers. It is difficult to move large programs like mine from F77 to F90, the code rules got a lot tighter and the zero initialization kinda went away.
There are only two Fortran compilers today of note in Windows: The Intel Fortran compiler and the GCC Fortran compiler. Intel is desperately trying to drop their compiler in favor of the upcoming but not finished and not backwards compatible with F77 LLVM compiler. The Fortran compiler market is not what I call stable.
$60,000 per vehicle. I’m shocked. Shocked!
Gonna need more garage queens going out the door of “Ford Blue”. Ramp up the production on the $35,000 Mavericks, recalls be damned.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ford-loses-nearly-60000-for-every-electric-vehicle-sold/ar-AA1aEOzO
So the gasoline and diesel vehicles are going to need their prices raised by $60,000 each in order for Ford and other manufacturers who are not Tesla to be able to sell EVs for less than $100,000. There is a serious problem with that logic there.
>>The sad thing is that when you look at the population of the 13 colonies in the late 18th century and start counting the number of geniuses that took part in shaping our country, you have to wonder what we are doing wrong now. They are certainly not going into politics, and we need some of them desperately. Is it simply a Gresham’s Law of politics, that bad pols drive out good?
There are no “good ones” left. The ultra-partisan politics has done its job. That they can sleep at night is just more evidence of their lack of consciences.
We’ll see at what pricepoint Tesla delivers the Jesus Truck.
“Due to inflation” my business bank is going to start charging an additional “cash handling fee” of 15c/100$ after the first $3000 deposited per month.
Things that make you go ‘hmmmm’.
n
“New Footage Shows El Paso Engulfed In ‘Mass Migration Dumpster Fire’ As State Of Emergency Declared”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-footage-shows-el-paso-engulfed-mass-migration-dumpster-fire-state-emergency-declared
Oh my.
We’ll see at what pricepoint Tesla delivers the Jesus Truck.
Tesla ain’t got no gasoline or diesel vehicles to subsidize their EVs. But, Tesla does have two battery plants. Ford does not have their own battery plant, they buy their battery packs out of South Korea.
“Due to inflation” my business bank is going to start charging an additional “cash handling fee” of 15c/100$ after the first $3000 deposited per month.
Things that make you go ‘hmmmm’.
Are they still going to wait for the $10,000 level of cash to write the variance report ?
I got a variance report written on me by Wells Fargo when I gave my son $7,000 to help with his school expenses when the DOD stiffed him on his GI Bill money. We went and got cash out of my bank and then deposited the cash at his bank. The teller called the manager up and the manager wrote us up.
Tesla has carbon credits to sell to subsidize their vehicles. Last I heard they didn’t make money on the cars themselves, only the credits.
It’s all pretend numbers in the aether anyway.
n
Tesla will also be the first manufacturer to deal with the battery “recycling” issue.
Quotes because there isn’t any viable process at scale.
How did they know that he didn’t sell a bass rig?
Tesla will also be the first manufacturer to deal with the battery “recycling” issue.
Quotes because there isn’t any viable process at scale.
Sure there is a viable process. Slice the batteries up into 1/8 inch slices and landfill them. It is done today. My buddy designed and built several automated slicers for his customers.
However, the battery recyclers are testing the batteries first and evaluating the bad cells. If there are just a few bad cells (won’t hold a charge of 80%), they replace them and resell the battery as used for half price. However, if the battery computer is fried, to the dump they go.
There are people working on recycling the battery cells themselves. That is the eventual goal but the energy requirements are amazing. Probably a 30 year window, just like Fusion.
How did they know that he didn’t sell a bass rig?
It was the 70 one hundred dollar bills that freaked them out. The teller said that he had never seen that many 100 dollar bills before.
BTW, that is not the last variance report I had written on me. I just got one for getting a wire transfer from Russia about six months ago.
Strange. I don’t use that much cash personally, but I know old car guys that wouldn’t blink an eye.
I am coming to you via Starlink right now. The ping times are good, except Microsoft is 200 ms. My website is 70 ms as usual (Houston to Pittsburg). Google ping is 26 to 78 ms. Traceroute is a failure, I suspect that they use an internal low overhead between the satellites. I just watched several Youtube videos, no stuttering.
“What is really rough on keyboards are fingernails. Most men have short fingernails and use the tip of their fingers to press the keys. Females and FAGS use their fingernails and that wears down the keys really fast.”
You could tell what keyboards were used by females at work. I was in IT and replaced so many keyboards because their hand creams had eaten the letters off the keys.
My rough hands ‘polish’ the keys. The space bar has a shiny spot from my thumb. I’ve never worn off a label, but the keys do get deformed.
This gaming keyboard (coolermaster) I switched to some time ago has held up pretty well and the clickiness is still good.
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“$50 Trillion For What? Kennedy Dumbfounds Biden Climate Peddler In Fiery Exchange Over ‘Carbon Neutrality’”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/50-trillion-what-kennedy-dumbfounds-biden-climate-peddler-fiery-exchange-over-carbon
“Biden Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk highlighted the absurdity of the climate grift this week during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, when Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) couldn’t get a straight answer out of him over the cost of going ‘carbon neutral.’”
“When Kennedy asked whether some of the “experts” Turk referred to earlier were correct in a $50 trillion estimate, Turk nodded his head, and said “It’s gonna cost trillions of dollars, there’s no doubt about it.”
The USA is broke. We don’t have $50 trillion to spend on overpriced electric vehicles that people do not want. If you want an electric vehicle, go for it. Just don’t ask me to subsidize your vehicle. And, I expect you to pay for mileage on our roads like I do at 38 cents per US gallon.
And for converting gas furnaces to heat pumps. And for converting gas stoves to electric stoves. Etc, etc, etc.
I would much rather we pay the Social Security checks rather than giving somebody a $7,500 discount on an electric vehicle. That choice will be coming up soon, maybe next month in June, maybe in five years when the national debt is $40 trillion and nobody wants to buy tbills.
I wouldn’t have one myself, but I do love to see the guys “rolling coal” with giant diesels, and 5 gallon buckets for exhaust tips… the freedom and ‘thumb in the eye’ appeal to me.
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Somebody get this kid a GoFundMe to pay for his attorneys…
https://www.foxnews.com/media/7th-grade-student-fights-back-school-told-him-change-there-are-only-two-genders-shirt
Electrified Compressors and the Great Texas Blackout
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/05/electrified-compressors-and-the-great-texas-blackout-a-threat-to-grid-reliability-everywhere/
Idiots making decisions that can kill people, based on pressure from other idiots.
Biden Regime Approves Nation’s First ‘Congestion Pricing’ Tolling Plan For New York – Drivers Entering Manhattan at Peak Hours will be Charged
– turning the US into all the bad parts of europe.
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