Cool and damp, supposed to clear up though. Temps in the mid 80s? Yesterday was warm and overcast, which kept it from getting too hot. I didn’t even break a sweat mowing the yard. Today should be warmer, and sunnier.
I did a few things yesterday but mostly got ready for D1’s birthday stuff. Met the “not a” boyfriend. His parents came to the door when dropping him off, and picking him up. Nice kid, kinda shy. The friend group went out and did stuff together, ate, and went home. D1 and X1 came back home and we had cake. At least at Casa De Nick, the cake is not a lie.
Today I’ve got auction stuff to do, some pickups might happen. Tomorrow I will probably head to my client’s house to finish up. The NVR came in over the weekend, a full 5 days early, so I can get it installed and invoiced this week. Client is coming back from a trip overseas so I may give them a couple of days to settle back in to daily life.
This is the last full day of ‘learning’ for the year. I don’t think there will be much ‘learning’ going on. T, W, Th they have testing and half days. Friday off… and we’re probably headed to the BOL for the long weekend. Our rec association will be having their summer kickoff and neighborhood open day for the weekend, but we won’t be there. We’re pretty disengaged from the association this year so far. Got our own stuff going on.
I hope we have a quiet summer, but I expect the violence to get worse, and to get organized again. We’ll see, and I want to be wrong, but if it’s a hot one, we’re going to see a bunch. Make your plans now with safety in mind. Think a bit longer term and consider what changes you will make if it does get worse. Figure out triggers for those changes, and make a plan.
Stack what you need to execute your plan so that you aren’t fighting with 10K others who have the same idea. Get prepped.
nick
(and globally, we’re sending fighter jets to Ukraine. What could possibly go wrong?)
Canned goods report: I opened a large can of New England style clam chowder (the kind made with cream) last night. Three years since I bought it. The cream was discolored, kind of brownish, and was a bit on the sour side when I ate it. Didn’t make me sick, but I have a very robust digestion. I’ll eat the other half today but wouldn’t offer it to anyone else.
The Florida NAACP helped create the current political situation in the state.
I saw a lot of “People of Color and LGBTQ Individuals” working jobs in the tourist related businesses the last time we were in Florida, and the city and county both went to extraordinary lengths to support the appearance of Janelle James at an educators’ conference the first Saturday in April, at the expense of the crowd heading to the much more lucrative comic expo across the street.
The NAACP didn’t issue any travel warnings for the weekend, and I didn’t notice any educator conference badges on the *city bus* I took to the convention center that morning.
The sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, come what may…
anyway, the sun is poking out this morning. It’s not raining. And coffee is brewing. Everyone else is still asleep. What more could I want?
n
Bacon?
Just reading that made me feel vomitorious, but then SteveF’s posts are known to have effects 🙂
I got a bad oyster recently. My colonoscopy prep had nothing on that…
(and globally, we’re sending fighter jets to Ukraine. What could possibly go wrong?)
EMP would be logical at this point for a combatant.
Some years ago it was suggested that I advertise SteveF’s Weight Loss Service. Talk to Steve before every meal and the pounds will melt right off!
Bacon was delicious. Despite being malformed. One of the consequences of moving down the quality/price curve is that bacon gets less uniform. Instead of strips of uniform dimension and thickness, this most recent package had variation in thickness (most common cost saving) and about a half inch of the slab that wasn’t full length.
Still tasty, and the cheaper bacon often has MORE meat in the strip. That’s why the packaging shows the strip btw, so you can pick a package the gives you the meat to fat ratio you prefer…
This trip to costco the shrink wrap plastic around the butter packages was noticeably thinner and more ‘brittle’ than in the past. I’m seeing other reductions in packaging to save money too.
Boxes now often have flaps that don’t meet in the middle. That cuts material and weight for shipping.
Stuff is in envelopes that used to be in boxes. Envelopes are cheaper material or thinner.
Manufacturers and shippers are trying to hold the line on prices and costs.
n
Strange occurrences last night with the TV system and the remotes.
The main remote, a Xfinity XR15 remote, stopped working. It would not control the volume on the sound bar or do anything on the TV. It would work the cable box. I started the process of pairing the remote to the TV and sound bar. None of the codes would work where normally a code is not required to pair the remote.
I tried using the TV remote. The light on the remote was just flashing constantly. I re-paired the TV remote (not the Xfinity remote) with the TV. I could turn the TV off, but the power light would continue flashing and the TV would turn on by itself.
I removed the batteries from all the remotes. The TV would still power itself back on. Almost as if something was transmitting a signal to the TV. The power light was constantly flickering.
I did the pairing process multiple times with no success on the TV or the sound bar. I finally removed all the batteries from the remotes, unplugged the TV and went to bed.
This morning I tried again. Plugged the TV back into power. The pairing between the Xfinity remote and the TV worked the first time without requiring any codes, the way it is supposed to work. I was also able to pair the sound bar with the remote. I then went to the other remote (other side of the room that the wife uses) and that remote was working as it should.
I suspect that the TV had a firmware update done by Samsung and something borked in the process. Powering off the TV overnight resolved the issues as the TV restarted, rebooted as it were. Why that affected the sound bar I don’t know. There is an HDMI cable from the sound bar to the TV and perhaps that communication was also borked.
With a “smart” TV, they control the horziontal … they control the vertical …
In the age of 5G, I have my doubts about whether any newer device with a 2.4 GHz transceiver in a dense urban environment is ever truly offline even if the WiFi password is not configured.
I just assume Amazon TVs are always online as long as they have power.
(and globally, we’re sending fighter jets to Ukraine. What could possibly go wrong?)
Entirely coincidentally, I can hear a soar (or is it an unkindness, a murder, a murmuration, or a banditry?) of F16s practising their attack runs. I can’t see them, as they are coming in low enough that the adjacent buildings are blocking my view. I know that’s the sound of freedom, but perhaps they could be free and quiet while I am writing.
What is the name of this school as written on its graduation certificate?
With Ukraine, call it a murder, as in the term for a group of crows. The only way F16s deploy to that situation in time to make any sort of difference is with US or NATO pilots in the cockpits.
Corn Pop is sure teaching Putin a lesson.
Requiring People to Work is Mean!
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/22/requiring-people-to-work-is-mean-n552374
Worth reading for the comments on how income is measured to obscure the effect of transfer payments.
I thinking “leisure” is overused in this case. A lot of it is covered by other terms like malingering, screwing off, and playing with your dingaling (aka smartphone).
What is the name of this school as written on its graduation certificate?
– well, waddaya know. Dozens of schools claimed to be called that. Back in the 80s it was the only one I knew of that made the claim, and it wasn’t even on the first page of results from gooogles.
“what university is lutheran affiliated, share the name of the town as the name of the university, and the name is also a city in spain. “
sorry, don’t want it keyword searchable.
n
Barnyard University
Because I don’t watch MSM, I missed most of this.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2023/05/nobody-is-safe-no-one-is-safe-no.html
Supercut of the psyop.*
n
*no matter what the wuflu is or isn’t, no matter what the vax is or isn’t, the video makes it pretty damn clear that the push to get the vax in your arm was a coordinated psyop
MSM?
Go back two years in the comments for this place and you’ll see the psyop at work.
The forum was hardly a hotbed of antivax sentiment in Spring 2021, with some regulars even advocating in favor of higher health insurance rates for the “risky” behavior of going jab free as I did.
I caught Covid in August 2022, and, despite being a member of a high risk group (asthma) the sum total of my healthcare expenditures was a test and a bottle of Afrin, both of which I covered out of pocket.
I believe that there are still regulars whose noses are out of joint or even MIA because I pushed back on the theatrics the entire time without waivering a bit. I’m still waiting for the promised knock on the door to hold me down for my jab.
You’ll takes yer mediciine, Skippy, and enjoy it, just like the rest of us. You’ll thank us once you gets yer mind right.
Continuing to live without my mind being made right. Feel free to choose to live how you want. I won’t laugh … much.
It was an EFFECTIVE psyop.
n
Hmm, just got a notice on my phone about my usage stats… I don’t usually bother to look but it implied I only used the phone 36 minutes last week and I know that’s not right.
It was 36 minutes MORE. I don’t talk on the phone anymore, so I looked a bit further.
Google counts using the MAP as ‘screen time’ wrt your “digital wellness” stats. Way to inflate the numbers google. It even conveniently offers tools to reduce my screen time by app, so I can stop using maps before I get to my destination, I guess.
It also seems to count the time that messaging is OPEN as screen time, even if you are only exchanging a ping every hour or two. Seconds for the message, an hour of “screen time” in between. Yeah, no. I’m not sitting there staring at the unchanging thread of a text message for an hour.
Idiots. But it serves someone’s agenda, or they wouldn’t do it. Question is “Whose?”
n
A few Good Germans are still wearing their armbands -er- masks, and many of those who aren’t still have one within easy reach, waiting for a return of “Ze Good Old Days”.
I will never apologize for equating it with the Nazis, no matter whose nose is out of joint. The US came very close to requiring the unvaccinated to wear a gold star in a figurative if not literal sense.
Big Smile!
I still see kids at school wearing masks. Keeping in mind that our school has been back in person for two years. Saw a guy alone in his car with a mask on last week, and it’s not uncommon.
I’ve been wearing mine at goodwill because of the mold and the smell of the other shoppers… but even then, I haven’t worn it the last few times I went. People used to wear them at the bins even before the wuflu for the same reason. I won’t go without my gloves though.
n
n
Go back two years in the comments for this place and you’ll see the psyop at work.
–didn’t mean that I didn’t see the push, only that I didn’t see the shared script, the denunciations, and the vitriol, other than when linked or meme’d by the right. And frankly even then it was hard to take seriously when seen in isolation. But cut them all together and they were clearly very serious about it, and it was clearly coordinated and orchestrated.
n
Having worked in the industry for 30+ years, I’ve always seen BillG as something of a buffoon, a spoiled rich kid in the right place at the right time but not satisfied with the wealth, desiring more from history, regardless of how many lives he has to ruin or even end in order to be viewed as another Feynman.
As soon as Gates started flapping his yap about jabs, I knew the fix was in.
One of the upsides of the Covid psyop is the discrediting of Gates. Heck, if the jab news gets really bad, we may yet see him dragged out of the giant house in Medina by his hair, beaten, and set on fire in the driveway — really the only justice which will be acceptable if the “vaccines” really are going to doom a sizeable percentage of the population to untimely deaths.
Honestly, I don’t think they’ll tell us either way.
How Bad Was The Gaslighting?
”They are prepared to do it again, too,”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/22/how-bad-was-the-gaslighting-n552461
Screw “reparations” for crap that happened more than a century ago. We need reparations for things that happened three years ago. WRT kungflu, we need a large number of people removed from their jobs, and in many cases, stripped of their pensions. Anyone with a technical degree that accepted the mask kabuki or the redefinition of vaccination should br convicted of malfeasance and jailed.
Some of those should be jailed pending execution.
Part of the purpose has become evident: the woke takeover of the STEM side of campus. Anyone here think they could get through now?
The second phase is already happening, as Strom points out: climate and the war on natural gas and agriculture.
someone asked about reader glasses.
I have used a bunch from costco, buying the three packs first in the store, than at auction.
The quality optically has been fine.
The style with metal wire on the top, and screws that go thru the lens usually chips around the screws, but they are the lightest of the styles. I put mine on my brow ridge so I’m constantly tweaking them by moving them with one hand.
The ones with all plastic frames, that surround the lens, are fairly cheap feeling. They are light weight, but the arms bend and other than style, I prefer–
the ones with the steel frames that surround the lenses. They seem to last longer. They are also heavier.
All of them scratch fairly easily.
I consider them to be ‘expendables’ that need periodic replacement. They are usually scratched by the time they chip or break and could use replacing anyway.
n
Accepted? In light of the full-scale world-wide propaganda that this was actually a pandemic, and the absence of real science showing masks to be useless, I think a little bit of masking was prudent. Wrong, as it turns out, but it seemed common sense in the beginning.
We know better now on both counts. They killed patients with ventilators, inflating the death count, and redefined “pandemic” to make it fit. The latest studies on masks show how harmful they are to wearers, and how useless, even in operating rooms, to protect patients.
My hospital fired or forced out about 200 employees (including me), from 20,000. So 99% of doctors, IT techs, nurses, MAs, etc. accepted the jab.
By the way, our new lawsuit is going forward. We filed in the state court, and once again, Methodist got it moved to Federal. The new lawyer seems to actually know his stuff; he was prepared in advance for this.
Did HR show up at any of the TWC tribunal hearings when the fired people filed for unemployment and went through the appeals process?
Did anyone try a discrimination filing of any kind – age/race/gender/preference?
Around here, Dollar Tree. More variety and they cost less than Dollar General. Nicer store, too. Yes, cheap enough that if you lose a pair, “so what?”.
I wonder about that as well. Training takes months, plus you have to train the support staff. If F-16s transfer, I expect volunteers will suddenly find Ukrainian passports under their pillows.
I have no problem with that. Putin is indiscriminately bombarding civilians. The cruise missiles are air-launched. He needs to have fewer aircraft to do that with. I hope those F-16s come equiped with AMRAAMs and other fun things…
Yes. But not mine. It seemed hit-or-miss. I appealed my initial denial. They were no-show at the appeal, and I got my benefits. I presented a pretty strong case, even mentioning the Nuremberg Code and the fact that VAERS was already set up with categories for shock and carditis, and that Methodist denied my religious exemption. Several others were denied in the appeal, and some had to pay it back. Adding insult to injury.
Nice how you implied, correctly, that unemployment is two steps. Apply and get denied, then appeal and maybe get benefits.
Several went the EEOC route when their religious exemptions were denied, but the EEOC is a paper tiger. I already knew that, from the time I filed a complaint in 2009 against the Jesuit school that fired all the over-40 white guys on my team on the same day. When I asked the investigator point-blank what the best outcomes were, he said maybe $3000 to $6000, and you don’t get your job back. I was in the depths of my traumatic depression at the time, so I just let it drop.
The US isn’t sending the jets. They are being provided by allies in Europe, we might do some training of the pilots, much like the US and Brits trained tankers on tanks we provided.
Despite what people are throwing around, we aren’t sending cash to Ukraine, we are sending equipment and paying for equipment for them. The Ukrainians have effectively destroyed the regulars in the Russian army. Their regular Army units (and naval infantry, etc.) have had huge casualties – a paratroop unit of professionals had 50% deaths when thrown into the line. If the pressure is kept up, I expect Putin to have an “accident”. Good.
@lpdbw
“Accepted? In light of the full-scale world-wide propaganda that this was actually a pandemic, and the absence of real science showing masks to be useless, I think a little bit of masking was prudent. “
You have it backwards:The idea that anything less than an N95 respirator would filter viruses was and is counter to the science. A surgical mask—bit of fabric—was never more than a sneeze shield. Having a govt official with a medical degree do a video on how to fold a scarf to protect against a virus was ridiculous, offensive, and criminal. Encouraging people to go to JoAnn Fabrics and get material to make masks was likewise.
The analogy I used at the time was expecting a chain link fence to stop bb’s. A few will get deflected, but most will be unimpeded. Elementary filter theory.
And if viruses are stopped, what happens to your viral load when you inhale and the viruses are on your side.
No, sorry, bullcrap all the way down.
The new science that was relevant were the studies that showed that no masking and no respirators—specifically the disposable N95 half facepiece respirator—did significant good. Other N95’s, the pro-level gear and the high-end disposables, were doomed for the use because of the exhalation valve bypass. Note that surgical N95’s do not have such.
And note also the ferocity with which respirator studies were greeted if they didn’t bless the kabuki. Almost as bad as anything showing alternative treatments worked.
Yes, a paper tiger, but HR/legal may have been sloppy responding to the complaint and slipped up coordinating the story with the people handling the unemployment tribunal response.
I’m sure your lawyer is way ahead of me on this one, but anyone who filed EEOC wants to use a Freedom of Information request to obtain all of the investigation paperwork from the city/county agency who fielded the initial complaint. Something useful might be in there.
I don’t talk about everything I’ve done with regard to my termination from the tolling company, but the pandemic delayed my TWC tribunal for more than a year, and the HR – former Chipotle (!) and WalMart (!!) store management – got careless in the mean time dealing with the various government agencies as well as their own legal team. Mistakes got made, from which I benefited in the end.
NATO pilots is a line that shouldn’t be crossed.
Ukraine is not worth a nuclear war.
The F16 is not an air superiority fighter. I don’t believe they can deploy AMRAAMs since that is a big missile.
I came up to speed on that process real fast.
The only reason I have my current job is that when the question came up on the initial application, I was able to respond with the TWC tribunal case number referencing the decision that my termination in 2020 was judged to be “without cause”.
My LG phone has a feature called Digit Blocking. You can block, for example, everything from 1 855. Where the call goes is unknown. VM or some perhaps some “this number is not in service” place. But I won’t see or hear it.
There goes 90% of my junk calls.
“Where the call goes is unknown.”
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The unemployment stuff is interesting. I’ve never used it. I’ve worked at a couple of places that went out of business but they gave a couple/three weeks pay. I’ve quit a few places. Some with notice which was greeted with “bye you’re off the schedule as of now”. After that happened a couple of times, then the rest by ghosting.
When I had my store, I had a guy that stopped showing up. The other two employees (not counting me) were ok with it once we all figured how to change shift hours… Like, it’s a 10 hour shift and no days off. More or less. We made it work and hey, they liked the overtime.
After a week or so, Val went by the guy’s apt. A couple of times. His car was there but he didn’t answer the door. So after three weeks I sent him a letter with his final pay check. I hired his replacement a week later.
He filed for unemployment. Texas came after me. Me? I had copies of everything. But it all went away when I said “he vanished, he doesn’t answer his phone, he doesn’t answer someone knocking on his door, he doesn’t show for work, this went on for six weeks pushing two months, what am I suppose to do? We are tired of working double shifts with no days off.” As far as I know, he didn’t get any unemployment and my rates didn’t go up.
I’ll just add for anyone with a giant head that cannot use the drug store readers, I have found two options:
Both of these are available on the big river, but they may be available through other sources, too.
Of course, if you have big glasses, they may poke your chin if you put them in your shirt pocket. The magnetic ones win the portability war for me, so they are in the car, in the shop, and with my church music; however, the Fatheadz glasses are in my desk drawer, next to my work bench, and on my bedside table.
Scientific American is now the Bud Light of Science Journals
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/05/scientific-american-is-now-the-bud-light-of-science-journals/
They’ve been less than fish wrap for at least twenty years.
Who originated this?
It pretty much sums up Scientific American since about Reagan. And the CDC and EPA since forever.
Martin Gardner was the only reason I looked at it for years, and I couldn’t take much of him.
My bad. Still, that is awkward.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/first-aim-120-amraam-and-u-s-f-16-kill-happened-30-years-ago
NATO pilots is a line that shouldn’t be crossed.
Ukraine is not worth a nuclear war.
The F16 is not an air superiority fighter. I don’t believe they can deploy AMRAAMs since that is a big missile.
I was not kidding about Putin EMPing the USA. He is crazy enough to believe that we would not respond in bigger measure. He may be right.
And if Putin EMPs the USA and destroys our infrastructure and computers, there goes the world support for Ukraine. The entire world would be scared of like treatment.
“Senators issued satellite phones, offered demonstrations on upgraded security devices”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senators-issued-satellite-phones-new-security-measures/
“Amid growing concerns of security risks to members of Congress, more than 50 senators have been issued satellite phones for emergency communication, people familiar with the measures told CBS News. The devices are part of a series of new security measures being offered to senators by the Senate Sergeant at Arms, who took over shortly after the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
Getting ready for an event.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
Neck tattoos. Why do they always have neck tattoos?
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2023/05/22/pasco-uber-eats-driver-killed-dismembered-food-delivery-death-penalty/
MS-13 too.
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pasco/this-was-demonic-pasco-sheriff-details-horrific-murder-of-uber-eats-driver-in-holiday
Putin is not crazy. He will wait out Corn Pop.
Think the Russians don’t know how Blinken got his job?
Information Warfare in New York
Andrew Parquette
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/information_warfare_in_new_york.html
How do you get to 83 million? One fabricated vote at a time.
Me, so far as I know. It’s entirely possible, even likely, that someone else has said it but I don’t recall seeing it elsewhere before I started saying it.
New York City is quietly pulling up the drawbridge for illegals
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/new_york_city_is_quietly_pulling_up_the_drawbridge_for_illegals.html
The survey should have one qualifying question and two dependent questions:
Do you support Joe Biden’s open borders policy?
If so,
How many new alien invaders can you welcome into your home?
Provide your social security number so we can adjust your tax rate to pay for the programs you endorse. (If you are drawing public assistance those payments will be divided among you and your share of the alien invaders)
Please provide your daughter’s age, weight, and measurements so we can match her to her rapist…
And your son for any boy under 12.
n
“age, weight, and measurements”
b. 1911
230-grain
0.45″
“The 14th Amendment ‘option’ is tantamount to a debt default, which Biden cannot afford”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-14th-amendment-option-is-tantamount-to-a-debt-default-which-biden-cannot-afford
“And yet the tables have turned dramatically since, with McCarthy coalescing his razor-thin Republican majority to pass a debt ceiling bill that shaves just $4.8 trillion off the $51 trillion national debt projected by 2033. Now, it is Biden who is blustering, and in a crucial early win for McCarthy, the Californian has called his bluff, offering the president a deal he cannot afford to refuse.”
Both sides of the War Party whistling past the graveyard of no ideas.
Sorry, but that’s nonsense. You can commission a study to prove anything you want. There are also plenty of studies showing the efficacy of masks. Anyway, for the layman, the evidence is plain without any studies at all: when we were all wearing masks, the usual “flu season” completely failed to materialize:
Zero deaths. That is absolutely unheard of, and that alone saved a lot of lives. Of course, masks were not the only factor in play, but they were a big one.
The mask recommendations may have been poorly formulated and poorly communicated. That’s a different issue. But masks obviously help reduce the spread of disease. If you don’t believe that, just ask the surgeons to stop wearing masks when operating on their patients.
I’ve got a satellite communication device, SMS only, no voice.
Anybody want to borrow it?