Raining and wet, cool, and probably nasty out. It was like that when I went to bed, and the forecast was for worse today. Yesterday was overcast most of the day, with occasional light misty drizzle. Until dinner time, then the rain started in earnest. It would be nice if it wasn’t raining all day.
I did a bunch of running around yesterday. I bored everyone to death with it in comments, so I won’t repeat it. Just that I was busy all day, did a bunch of driving, and wouldn’t have liked to do it in an EV.
Today I have a couple of must do pickups in the afternoon. Then I have the kid taxi stuff, only more, because she’s doing extra stuff for a dance recital, as well as her normal Tuesday stuff. Some of the pickup is bulk medical, some hobby stuff. For some reason there has been a fair amount of medical stuff in the auctions lately. I’m a buyer when it’s cheap.
You can improvise many things, but it’s easy enough to have the right stuff in the stacks.
Make your stacks as comprehensive as you can. No one is coming to save you, you are on your own.
nick
72F and drippy. Overcast with some dark clouds, but not actually raining at the moment.
Lunch is made. Coffee is good.
Females are all warned about the time.
I get a few minutes now.
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Tyler Durden cowardice protecting a mainstream source on Delta’s solution to Trump tariffs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-delta-airbus-jet-makes-creative-detour-avoid-us-tariffs
No one asks why Delta buys Airbus now.
“And with California shutting down its refineries, that gasoline and diesel are going to get much more hard to get and more expensive as the additional gasoline and diesel will need to come from the Gulf Coast through the Panama Canal. Rental rates on Panamax carriers are going way up.”
1 in 4 chance gasoline prices in Cali hit $10 this year. Near certainty next year. Adjacent states with refineries should put a “green energy hypocrisy fee” on gasoline shipped to Cali. —just to help them stay true to their principles.
Hawaii’s gasoline price will track Cali’s at 2x.
Wonder if I could get a loan for a startup that does rickshaw conversions on bicycles? Maybe lobby for “rickshaw community service” as an alternative for incarceration for drug crimes? Metered IV with GPS tracking to dispense mg/mile.
Gah, precip turned to “light drizzle” from “misty drizzle.” Grey and nasty.
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@Mr. ATOZ: What software do you use to keep your Mac cleaned up? And is it worth it?
I use CleanMyMacX. They have moved to a subscription model, so I haven’t upgraded. They have a 7-day free trial. I’ll probably search the high seas like a true pirate. The last unsubscription version still works.
It works great and is for casual users like us (non power users).
I also use ClamXAV for virus/trojan but only because I try out a lot of janky software.
ClamXAV is subscription but I need the protection. Arrrr.
I looked at that software. A little pricey. They do offer a one-time purchase option for about $120 per machine. It is not clear if that is lifetime, including upgrades, or if it even includes any upgrades, and if so, for how long.
I loathe subscription plans. I use Adobe and really hate, despise, loathe, their subscription plans. Most, if not all, of the changes in the updated versions I really don’t use. Staying at one level for several years would work just fine for my needs. I am fortunate, if one can call it that, since I have been with Adobe for so long my monthly fee is $16.95 instead of $19.95.
Wait, what! According to the Mac Fan Bois, Macs don’t get viruses. The OS is so secure that nothing can compromise the system.
You may get a ticket to Elysium yet, Mr. Ray.
Elderly? ELDERLY???????
Elderly Walmart shopper hurled in jail after woman ‘falsely’ accused him of child abduction is FREED
Mahendra Patel, 57 ←—- NOT ELDERLY!
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First class, coach, or tight pack?
Sweet schadenfreude.
The British government may not survive the Summer, but the Mail readers can’t always count on the paper delivering the distraction.
“Clarkson’s Farm“ returns May 23 with a four episode block.
Electronically.
The brain and memory will be scanned, any bad-think excized, and a copy sent to iCloud. Another copy will be loaded into an AI database.
The remaining physical carcass will be sold to mainland China and there sent to hard labor in the mines for (green) energy materials.
One of my favorite lawyers on YT is Robert Gouveia Esq.. He’s been reviewing all the Dumbo lawsuits against tRump and DOGE. His conclusion on many is: Judge Roberts, get off your dead azz. SCOTUS could have fixed this a long time ago.
This one, Trump Files ‘EMERGENCY’ Appeal to SCOTUS!, the judge installs herself as supervisor over the SSA. Just unbelievable. This is lawfare by the Judicial and SCOTUS does nothing. There must be dozens of cases waiting on SCOTUS to act. What happened to three equal branches of goobermint.
The Dumbos have tons of NGOs filing lawsuits. I hope the spineless Redumblicans are taking notes on what to do when a Dumbos is President. Ha, ha. What am I thinking. Spineless.
Tyler Durden cowardice protecting a mainstream source on Delta’s solution to Trump tariffs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-delta-airbus-jet-makes-creative-detour-avoid-us-tariffs
No one asks why Delta buys Airbus now.
Money is money. Everyone has a self interest to save as much as possible.
Delta ran out of patience waiting for a 757 replacement.
First class, coach, or tight pack?
Landing gear compartment. Bring a space suit.
Delta ran out of patience waiting for a 757 replacement.
I thought that the 787 was a 757 replacement ? Or is the 787 too big ?
Federal Real ID Requirement Takes Effect Wednesday as Airport Delay Worries Grow
https://economiccollapse.report/federal-real-id-requirement-takes-effect-wednesday-as-airport-delay-worries-grow/
Crap , I am flying to Montana on Delta via SLC next Tuesday. This should be real good.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Is the Judiciary Weaponizing Itself? Rep. Jordan Sounds the Alarm”
https://economiccollapse.report/is-the-judiciary-weaponizing-itself-rep-jordan-sounds-the-alarm/
The problem is that the judges have no downside for issuing a bad TRO. They need to spend a week in the stocks for every bad TRO.
“Be very careful about believing any news out of Russia or Ukraine right now”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/05/be-very-careful-about-believing-any.html
“The propaganda erupting from both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war has grown to such stupendous volumes that it’s very hard to figure out fantasy from fact. Even experienced Western intelligence experts (?) are at odds over what this, or that, or the other “fact” really means.”
Yup. In fact, the propaganda machines are running at 120% worldwide. I am constantly astounded at the liberals prognostications here in the USA.
“Support S.137!”
https://speak4.app/lp/4f51ea
“S.137, the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination (FIND) Act has been introduced in Congress.”
“This legislation will end the ability of corporate entities to profit from taxpayer-funded federal contracts while discriminating against a Constitutionally-protected industry at the same time.”
“Add your information below to send a letter directly to YOUR lawmaker in support of this legislation:”
“Diamondback dropping three rigs, takes 10% bite out of 2025 capex”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/55288390/diamondback-dropping-three-rigs-takes-10-bit-out-of-2025-capex
“Outgoing CEO Travis Stice said Diamondback will need WTI’s price to climb back to nearly $70/bbl before it recommits capital to its previous growth pace.”
And here we go again. The oil patch is a victim of its own success. Boom and bust, boom and bust.
I put 29 regular unleaded US gallons in my truck last night for $75.00. That was $2.59 per US gallon.
Enjoy it while it lasts, there are very dark clouds on the horizon.
Finally some good news out of SCOTUS:
Supreme Court rules on Trump’s total ban on transgender troops
No more trannies for now. The PLT female Judges dissented.
787 is wide body, like the 767.
Canned Sunshine might be happening between India and Pakistan. Get your 1000PF sunscreen out.
I wonder how well maintained their nukes are? It would be a bummer launching a nuclear dud and the other side’s isn’t a dud.
wide body
– I’ll have you know, I have big bones.
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wide body
– I’ll have you know, I have big bones.
I have XXL bones. According to Fluffy’s scale: “Big”, “Healthy”, “Husky”, “Fluffy”, “DAMN!”, and “Oh, hell no!”, I am Healthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Iglesias#Influences_and_style
The “Oh, hell no !” on Fluffy’s scale is 6’8″ weighing 650 lbs. If you see this guy coming toward your elevator, you scream Oh Hell No ! and start pushing the door close button rapidly.
I wonder how well maintained their nukes are? It would be a bummer launching a nuclear dud and the other side’s isn’t a dud.
India has a tritium processing plant and Pakistan does not.
Don’t ask me how I know this. The CIA may be still pissed off at me.
Don’t know why they consider it a “shock”.
Supreme Court issues shock ruling on Trump’s trans troops banSupreme Court rules on Trump’s total ban on transgender troops
By KELLY LACO, EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF POLITICS and CHARLIE SPIERING, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON, DC
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“ICE Captures Violent Illegal Alien After Blue City Set Him Free Despite Child Abduction Charges”
https://thelibertydaily.com/ice-captures-violent-illegal-alien-after-blue-city/
Why are the big cities allowing these predators to run around ?
Are they concerned that they are going to lose their citizens murdered standings ?
“BREAKING: India Launches Massive Missile Attack on Pakistan as Full-Blown War Threatens to Break Out Between the Two Nuclear Powers (VIDEOS) UPDATE: Trump Responds”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-india-launches-massive-missile-attack-pakistan-as/
India is pissed. Will either back down ?
America has a Bad Daddy complex, particularly among stay-at-home-mommy types who typically vote Dem, and Trump is the king of Bad Daddies in their minds.
Word came down from on high at work today – No more Go.
The current version of our product which is heavily dependent on the Hot Skillz for key features will not be “productized”.
Word came down from on high at work today – No more Go.
The current version of our product which is heavily dependent on the Hot Skillz for key features will not be “productized”.
Go, the software language ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)
Did they say why not ?
I actually considered translating my calculation engine into Go instead of C++ for a while.
No specific reason was given, but I believe the personnel involved were in over their heads and management finally had to admit what they had known since before Thanksgiving.
The only reason I wasn’t given mop duty was that I openly floated the word “illegal” in a meeting.
At the time, I regretted making the threat of going to HR for age issues, but I don’t regret it now.
I don’t know about CPU intensive chores, but Go was seriously I/O bound from what I saw.
Journalism:
MSNBC host floats WAR with Canada in shocking on-air comments
“War. What is it good for…”
The LSM has lost its influence. Even the sheeple have to realize this.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/05/sea-level-nasa-versus-noaa/
NASA JPL claims of accelerated sea-level rise are given another look by Willis, who finds, again, that the claims are 1) artifacts of changes in satellites, and 2) contradicted by the other U.S labs (NOAA and U of CO) and world-wide network of tidal gauges.
Willis is too much the gentleman, but at this point, four years after his initial analysis, I’d say it’s time to wonder about those NASA scientists. Could it be that someone at NASA has tweaked the gain pot a bit?
I leave the nuts-and-bolts data comparison to those curious enough to follow the link, but have copied his partial list of the spectacular predictions of cities drowning by now that have crashed and burned.
I don’t know about CPU intensive chores, but Go was seriously I/O bound from what I saw.
Go puts every variable in multicore protection. I think that you have to have a four core machine before Go is as fast as a single core C program. That applies to I/O as well.
Google is running 128 and 256 core servers. They use Go to use all of those cores.
It’s been raining steadily for a while now. Distant thunder and some lightning too.
Some other parts of Texas are getting HAMMERED though.
I’ve been head down working on adding a small store to my hobby club website. It’s straight forward if you don’t care too much about the look or functionality. There are plug ins to do the hard part.
But some programmers are making really stupid choices.
The “add to shopping cart” thing works great. The “show the shopping cart” from the same developer, not so great. Item names are sorted top to bottom ALPHABETICALLY. Which makes no sense at all. I can’t find how to change that either. And it truncates item names to about 8 characters… I want the items to appear in the same order they were added to the cart, member name, spouse name, kids name, etc. I think I can fix that by adding a number to the item name. That’s my next attempt anyway.
More poking at it will ensue. If this is like “vibe” programming lite, I’d hate to see the real thing.
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More retail armaggeddon.
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Rite Aid has been circling the drain for nearly 40 years.
I worked for them briefly when the company bought out Kroger’s SuperX in Florida. I walked out within two weeks of the merger closing when our paychecks failed to show up on time on the first payday under the new regime.
The new store policy manuals got Fedex shipments but not payroll.
The checks finally arrived at the store four days late, on the following Tuesday.
Rite Aid finally ran out of other failing drugstore chains to buy.
Anti-Israel Radicals Torch UW Building, Block First Responders, Chant ‘Death to Police’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/06/dozens-of-pro-palestine-antifa-agitators-arrested-at-university-of-washington-n2656649
Just toss them into the fires they set, preferably with lithium batteries strapped to their crotches.
Anti-Israel Radicals Torch UW Building, Block First Responders, Chant ‘Death to Police’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/06/dozens-of-pro-palestine-antifa-agitators-arrested-at-university-of-washington-n2656649
This is the start of the Civil War that we have been worried about.
UW.
The Museum of Flight in Seattle has the Greg Boyington statue which the university commissioned to honor one of their most famous Engineering program graduates but Japanese students objected to having on the campus. Of course the administration gave in to the whiners.
“Trump Just Made This Nation Drop its Tariffs to Zero”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/06/india-agrees-to-drop-all-tariffs-on-us-products-n2656634
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that India has agreed to remove all its tariffs on US goods entering the country.”
“Japanese students objected to having on the campus”
Considering the documented atrocities casually inflicted by the Japanese Army, objecting to Japanese students being on campus would be more appropriate.
>>While the Philadelphia headquartered public company looks for a new buyer, it says it has secured $1.94 billion in financing to keep stores operational during the transition period.
I’ll see your $1.94B and raise it to $2B…oh wait, I left my wallet in my other pants…
More speculative petty cash from the ‘point zero one’ percenters.
Gonna be a hot summer.
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The shopping cart add on for Word Press has good support… I’ve already had an email from them explaining that the item names shouldn’t truncate and asking for copy and paste of my page.
I was able to work around by adding a number first and replacing all spaces in the item names with underscore characters. It looks like ass in the shopping cart checkout page, but at least it works.
Now I’ve got to get my paypal sandbox stuff together so I can start testing. It seems to be working, but the email notifications aren’t going out, or aren’t getting to me. Since it’s a registration for our convention in August, getting an email of the details is pretty critical for knowing how many people, and what they’re paying , etc.
For the weird parsing putting a \ in front of apostrophes I figured using the html code for the “ ‘ ” would work, and it did. Why I had to do that in a text field is a mystery.
It all goes to show that it isn’t simple or automagical. Even simple things take a lot of poking at them, because the freaking programmers built in a ton of un-disclosed krap. And if I didn’t have decades of mental model of how to work around the issues, what would I have done?
nick
Gonna be a hot summer.
I am gonna be cold on the Missouri river next week. The forecast for Cascade, MT is high 50s and high 30s. I am taking my knee length insulated XXL rain jacket again, it did a great job for me last year. Our jon boats on the river are always 10 F lower than the towns.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/mt/cascade
The good thing is that the rainbow trout love the cold ! And the snow melt slows down with the cold weather. Shoot, it might be snowing in the mountains.
Ah, their support got back to me with a possible cause for the truncation.
I copied and pasted the “shortcode” from their docs.
There is a very subtle difference between
[wp_cart_button name=”PRODUCT-NAME” price=”PRODUCT-PRICE”]
and
[wp_cart_button name=”PRODUCT-NAME” price=”PRODUCT-PRICE”]
See if you can spot it…
The first one breaks their tool.
The second works correctly.
Now I can fix it where I pasted the one from their docs and my Order Summary with have complete item names… they still won’t display in the order I want them to, but I can solve that with leading numerals.
Aren’t computers FUN?
nick
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Answer– the copy and paste has “curly” double quotes, while the add in syntax requires “straight” double quotation marks, or the code will partially fail in weird ways.
added– t he stupid comment editor here replaced my straight quotes with curly quotes… so the example fails.
added– even worse, when I look at this comment with the built in WP admin level editor, I can see that the curly quotes are there in the original quote, but the second example with straight quotes gets DISPLAYED in the comment, after it posts, as curly quotes. THat is down to either the comment editor programmer, or the comment box style sheet applied by some other programmer…
Now I’ve got to get my paypal sandbox stuff together so I can start testing. It seems to be working, but the email notifications aren’t going out, or aren’t getting to me. Since it’s a registration for our convention in August, getting an email of the details is pretty critical for knowing how many people, and what they’re paying , etc.
I just had to modify all of my command line scripts and programs to use the email relay on my web server instead of my gmail corporate account. Gmail used to allow encrypted passwords if you checked your email in the last 15 minutes using OAUTH2 which is a tokenized password. Gmail changed to OAUTH2 on everything last week.
>>And with California shutting down its refineries, that gasoline and diesel are going to get much more hard to get and more expensive as the additional gasoline and diesel will need to come from the Gulf Coast through the
PanamaAmerica Canal. Rental rates on Panamax carriers are going way up.Did anyone let POTUS know to change this?
@drwilliams: Yeah, the climate alarmism has been totally exaggerated for a long time. The problem is: you have to be old to really be aware of this. The continual panic-filled headlines work on the young, because they haven’t seen literally decades of them.
Sea-level has been rising since the Little Ice Age. An additional millimeter/year due to AGW may be present, but is negligible compared to the subsidence of major coastal cities. Coral islands adapt themselves to sea level – their problems come from overdevelopment. Coral reefs have survived just fine over millions of years, including much warmer periods than we have now. Etc, etc.
In Swiss news, the government claims to have finished – last December – negotiating a new round of contracts governing our relationship with the EU. However, they are not releasing the text of the agreements until June. At that point, the population will get to vote on them.
However, the government is trying to push through a shortcut vote, where only the popular vote counts, and not the cantonal votes (think: a bill that only passes the house, and not the senate). That is a much lower bar to clear, because it means that only the big cities will really have a voice. Rural areas (think: Wyoming, Idaho, Montana) will have essentially no voice.
The biggest sticking points are likely to be: Some contracts give the EU the right to dictate our internal policies. One tiny example: Switzerland is building out hydro-pumped storage to provide more electricity in the Winter and to generally stabilize the grid. Some of this is marked exclusively for domestic use, not to be used to bail out neighbors. Oh, the EU doesn’t like that, not allowed…
I wonder what other surprised await…