Hot again. Sunny still. Like yesterday. I ran out of time to procrastinate some of the outdoor work so I was out in the sun and heat yesterday. No sir, I didn’t like it. But it needed to be done. More will need to be done in the coming days too.
I didn’t do much in the morning. Took more rest than I’d intended actually. Felt good. But I knew I had to do some stuff on the list. So I did outdoor work. I fixed my mower and cut the grass in the back yard. I did some weeding and killed some ants in the raised beds. Grapes are developing well on the remaining vine. I didn’t cut any shoots back this year, so maybe it’s lighter than it should be, but hey there are grapes. I think it’s whatever variety the root stock is though after the die back of a few years ago. The skins are tough and thick.
The perennial collards are doing very well. I’ll harvest some soon.
I did some clean up along the fence line and pruned some of the foliage along the fence. Checked on the apple trees, and I’ve got apples on the older tree for the first time ever. I think the cooler spring might have helped there.
Did some work on the sprinklers and tested the zones. Some more work will be required as one of the heads was just shooting water into the sky… but I’ll get to that later this week.
I even moved a few things around the house and yard to sort and put stuff away. And don’t forget the domestic bliss, two loads of laundry! Now folded and put away.
I got a surprising amount of stuff done in half a day. If only I could keep that up for a week or two.
We’ll see, but I think my other responsibilities will derail the effort.
Call it ‘always be working’ and improving my situation. Or what it really is, finally getting to some of the stuff I’ve been putting off for too long.
In any case, stacking is easier than doing without…
nick
I dont think it matters to my opsec: I’m from South Africa !
And first post ! đ
Is that supposed to be some variation of a monkey rocker?
Americans need to get a grip with regard to what they buy through the De Minimis arrangement.
@greg, it’s a machine that âthrustsâ in and out, with adjustments for angle, height, stroke length⌠which is positioned near the intended user⌠note the brand name visible in the picture.
It actually took me a couple looks to be sure as I’ve never seen that particular modelâŚ. used to see some homemade looking versions with a modified sawzallâŚ
I guess the rise in OnlyFuns is fueling the rise in âtoysâ in the retail market?
n
(all research into the state of society, btw. Some trends are very disturbing. )
Vertical. Moving.
Ran out of heavy cream for my coffee, but fortunately I’m a prepper, so I opened a backup can of cream. It’s not the same but it’s passable.
I didn’t look at the thermometer but it looks like it will be part sun or even full sun later today.
Kid must have something special at school today since she’s moving too, and without much prompting.
Youngest is even up, and I think she stayed up late Friday night, and didn’t catch up on sleep, staying up for a game of D&D with friends. I wish I still had their energy, although I am glad to be past the attitudeâŚ
n
âdoesn’t make senseâ unless you look at the bigger picture, DocâŚ
â I’ll just note that âfit to serveâ very carefully doesn’t mean âhealthy and disease freeâ.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14726001/Biden-cancer-doctors-cover-up.html
n
Even big mike probably gets the PSA screeningâŚ
78F and pleasant at the moment. Not going to last though. I’ll be sweating thru my socks later.
n
Monkey rockers have been around for centuries, but they have never been a mass market item. Iâm not sure that an electric motor is all that smart.
The De Minimis packet limit going to $800 opened the floodgates of Americans indulging stupid whims.
Yes. Standard of care.
âConfirmationâ surgery does not remove the prostate so the risk is still present. The massive amount of female hormones involved in the process limit the speed of growth of any tumors, however.
My wifeâs trans women patients who are gung ho ex-special forces types also want the complete gynecological experience even though it means nothing. For now, the VA doesnât cover the exams, but the Vets never stop pushing the boundaries.
Speaking of *aluminum* hats, this is strange:
https://maritime-executive.com/article/salvage-tow-begins-for-maersk-ship-after-three-weeks-adrift-in-the-atlantic
Maersk is willing to sideline an 8,500 TEU containership from operations for a month (before even starting repairs) rather than use a tug from the USA to tow it to a closer US port for repairs. Or even use a tug from Bermuda, 75 miles away.
Instead they are using a tug sent from Norway, to tow it to the Bahama’s nearly 1,000 miles away.
Either there are costs of re-applied tariffs that are huge, or there is something they really, really, don’t want US Customs authorities to see.
more:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/05/19/zeke-emmanuel-biden-certainly-had-cancer-for-many-years-n3802907
Get Bidenâs doctors in front of a House inquiry, and make it clear that they either come clean about everything or go immediately to jail.
And put a bounty on Axelrod.
Well, this explains a lot of things.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14727891/Dilbert-creator-Scott-Adams-cancer-Biden-same.html
n
I’m going to be a devil’s advocate here.
Sure, Biden’s a dirt bag, and actually deserves cancer, but on what grounds?
That they lied about his health? Presidential doctors have been doing that since the sainted Franklin Delano, or even Wilson, earlier.
Cancer is ugly, but it isn’t in and of itself grounds for the 25th amendment. My father had prostate cancer for many years & was quite sharp.
Doctors aren’t legislative or executive officers, as far as I know they have no duty or grounds for breaking their doctor-patient confidentiality about something like this just because their patient is a jerk.
The VP, arguably, had a duty because of the mental condition and did not perform it, but that’s another matter.
Does Joe Biden even HAVE prostate cancer, or is this a plea for sympathy to go easy on a dying man?
If it’s cancer, was it a “turbo cancer” caused or worsened by the Covid “vax”?
And if it’s that advanced, why didn’t the WH doc find it when he said that Biden was still sharp?
All of which means that last summer, when Dr. Kevin O’Connor gave Biden a clean bill of health, he was LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH. THEY ALL KNEW THAT BIDEN WAS ON HIS LAST LEGS THEN!
Everybody from the quack to Jill to Commie Harris need to go to prison!
Ah, The Mail. They ruin a piece of legitimate reporting with expert quotes from known loose screwâZekeâ Emanuel.
Adams crushed the value of his IP beyond the annual calendar.
Please. Biden never got a real jab.
Pandemic Kabuki.
My wife saw one of the White House physicians speak at a conference two years ago. It may have been OConnor.
The speaker didnât go into details, but he did disclose that he told Corn Pop not to run in 2020 when Biden floated the trial balloon in 2019.
Of course Biden invoked Beau ⌠Beau ⌠Beau and that was the end of the discussion.
Adams crushed the value of his IP beyond the annual calendar.
â with a death sentence hanging over him, I don’t expect that he cares much, which is what I meant by âexplains a lotâ. Everyone wondered why he made the crazy changes to his career and re-invented himself. Remember how weird that was?
So he either got a wakeup call, and went âf it, I’ll live the way I want to liveâ, or he got the diagnosis and went âf it, I’ll do what I want with the time I have left.â
n
Adams probably wanted âDilbertâ to end when he died.
Peak âDilbertâ was 25 years ago, and the Pointy Haired Bosses in middle management at PacBell who inspired the strip now run AT&T.
They won.
The family would have licensed âDilbertâ toilet paper.
So a bit of âF youâ as well as âF it.â
n
On the gripping hand, I’d bet 90% of the people who remember Dilbert fondly and would buy a collection book, or some other IP don’t remember his opinions, and maybe 80% don’t even know he went off on his own. An unknown but large percentage approve or applaud his decision.
he was only toxic to woke trad publishing.
n
Why?
Because it’s there??
Ot because he’s literally âMr. Coolâ
Ainât no mountain high enough
A British mountaineer broke his own record for the most ascents of the worldâs highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide when he scaled Mount Everest on Sunday for the 19th time. Kenton Cool, 51, first scaled the 29,032-foot peak in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since.
It’s all Trump’s fault. Poor old Joe. Not more name calling or questions about anything. He’s still sharp as a tack no matter what your lyin’ eyes or ears tell you.
My guess is they’ll keep him alive until about next March, then the big funeral for one of America’s greatest leaders. Please vote for all the dems you can in November so we can get get the house and senate to throw Trump out and fix SCOTUS.
The Real Tragedy of Joe Biden
âplea for sympathy for an old manâ
Well.. um.. donning my aluminium, (correct spelling btw :P), beanieâŚ
He will be gone in 6 months.. Dead men tell no tales.. etc..
https://slaynews.com/news/top-experts-respond-cover-up-bidens-aggressive-cancer-inconceivable-presidency/
My maternal grandfather lived with stage 4 prostate cancer for five years before passing away in 1981. We got to love on him all that time. He was a 6’1″ mostly German guy who weighed around 200 lbs at 59 and smoked 2 to 3 packs of Camels a day. He was 80 lbs when he passed away.
He was peeing blood all the time before he went to a doctor. They operated on him to remove the massive tumors in his abdomen when they found it in 1976. The surgeon came out covered in blood and told my mother and grandmother that he had removed over 30 tumors and that my grandfather had survived the surgery.
Biden wonât get a Reagan-level state funeral if that is what youâre thinking. That was a carefully choreographed and privately funded event planned from the moment Reagan left office.
It varies a lot and there’s an increasing number of drugs that are designed to extend lifespan WITH cancer as opposed to eliminating the cancer (though, those are out there too).
Close friends of ours had their cousin move in with them because she was a widow with no children and had Stage 4 Breast Cancer. So, she moved in to live out her remaining 6 months surrounded by family. 6 months turned into almost 5 years when she finally succumbed.
Fuck cancer.
@EdH
The cancer is just the last bit. The primary impetus is the coverup of the senility, and the evident use of drugs to jack up the traitorous bastard for public appearances, with the inevitable later reaction that most certainly left him diminished and unable to perform his duties.
The totality of the deception and the myriad ways it was perpetrated needs to be exposed. Then we need a public discussion about whether the country is okay with having the big chair occupied by a rotting meat puppet with no mental facilities. Be a good time to review the history of the 25th Amendment and the previous deceptions perpetrated by Wilson, Roosevelt, and Kennedy. Funny how those three, and Biden, were all Democrats willing to put the country at risk for their own vanity and avarice.
The president should have his personal physician. The country should have medical oversight of POTUS in the form of a doctor who is fully integrated with the care team, is present for all exams and procedures, and has as a primary duty the obligation to report any debilitating medical conditions to the VP, Cabinet, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, and both minority leaders. Part of the acceptance of those offices should be the clear signed agreement that leaking any of medical information received is treason and punishable by death. (The law authorizing that agreement should also make reception of such information without reporting the source a treasonous offense–we’ve had years of demonstrations that the press has abrogated any claim of First Amendment protection.) If they want to stand up in the House or Senate and divulge it, fine–there’s only so much we can expect–limit that to felony disclosure of Top Secret information.
The investigation should continue with examination of the VP and all the Cabinet officers who ignored their oaths of office and their 25th Amendment responsibilities. Harris has a room temperature IQ at best and can’t recognize her own stupidity, so is probably incapable of recognizing senility. The Cabinet entire should be brought up on charges and prosecuted. Treason? Maybe. They were all incompetent in their positions, too, and deserve to hang for their part in malgovernance, much less the coverup. Settle for ruinous legal fees, loss of pensions, and enough felony convictions to keep them out of office and out of board rooms.
âBiden wonât get a Reagan-level state funeral if that is what youâre thinking. That was a carefully choreographed and privately funded event planned from the moment Reagan left office.â
The planning needs to start to deny Biden anything but a traitor’s funeral–preferably a shoebox with his ashes carried to the bottom of the ocean manacled to Jill on one side and Hunter on the other.
Maybe we could start by pulling his USSS protection and giving him the same crack detail that almost got Trump killed.
On the cruise. Purchased WiFi for one day as there is not much to do on this day that I want to do.
The Scopolamine patch seems to be working well. The ship is rocking side-to-side as there is some fairly rough water. Walking down the hallway a person has to be careful.
Lots of food, way too much food. A decent variety and generally well prepared. The seasoning is lacking which is to be expected. The ship has to allow for many people. Removing seasoning is difficult, adding seasoning is easy.
Slept OK last night as the bed is not bad. We have a decent sized stateroom where the space adequate. Shower is small but useable. Lots of hot water and general water flow.
The wife’s phone has cellular service, mine does not. The settings are the same. I suspect I cannot connect is because we have to use another network and my phone is still locked to Xfinity. Annoying. I hope there is Xfinity (Verizon) wireless in Alaska. Where we should arrive sometime tomorrow morning.
Pearls Before Swine: Ammo Check
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/05/12
You really have to check the caliber and ammo of a gun before you buy it.
Well I’m sure I have the sarcasm knob up to 10 – not really needed with this group. The funeral isn’t the point of course – the political equine manure is. The social scum democratic party (is that redundant?) will be trying to up the TDS for gains in the Nov 26 election cycle. What else do they have to offer? Maybe Jefferies during the SOTU making monkey faces behind Trump.
ââStart Up the Planes!â: Supreme Court Green-Lights President Trumpâs Deportation of Hundreds of Thousandsâ
https://thelibertydaily.com/start-up-planes-supreme-court-green-lights-president/
â(WND News Center)âIn a stunning decision Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court, with support even from leftists like Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, gave a green light to President Donald Trumpâs efforts to deport hundreds of thousands of individuals given special protected status by Joe Biden.â
âThe courtâs only leftist to oppose the move was Ketanji Jackson, Bidenâs appointee and a known opponent to just about anything that Trump proposes.â
âThe Star-Advertiser explained decision allows the White House to strip temporary protected status from Venezuelans living in the U.S., who under Bidenâs leftist ideologies, had been protected.â
âBiden wonât get a Reagan-level state funeral if that is what youâre thinking. That was a carefully choreographed and privately funded event planned from the moment Reagan left office.â
The planning needs to start to deny Biden anything but a traitorâs funeralâpreferably a shoebox with his ashes carried to the bottom of the ocean manacled to Jill on one side and Hunter on the other.
Maybe we could start by pulling his USSS protection and giving him the same crack detail that almost got Trump killed.
Joe Biden will have to serve as a placeholder one last time. The weeping will be immense and the prognostications will be endless.
BTW, out of the 10 or 12 times that I used Grok on our trip, verbally discussing weird crap with my brother and nephews, Grok was only wrong once. So, Grok is usable if you know a basis of your subject matter.
https://grok.com/
Jefferies will be restrained. Pelosi didn’t get a pardon.
âChinaâs Economy Stumbles as It Fails to Shake Off Trumpâs Tariff Gut Punchâ
https://thelibertydaily.com/chinas-economy-stumbles-as-it-fails-shake-trumps/
âRetail sales, which track the sale of new and used goods to the general public, slowed to 5.1% in April, missing official projections for a 5.5% expansion, according to numbers from Chinaâs National Statistics Bureau reviewed by Reuters. Chinaâs industrial output fell to 6.1%, down from 7.7% the month before, as tariffs keep biting Chinese factories.â
âFollowing Trumpâs tariffs taking effect, 16 million Chinese jobs were put at risk of vanishing, leading to layoffs and worker protests. Even though recent talks led to Tariffs being lowered from 145% to 30% over the next 90 days to allow for further trade talks, experts say Chinaâs economy is not likely to rebound quickly.â
And I do not believe any numbers from China. I suspect that the real numbers are far worse.
Arguing with your number one customer is dangerous. And doing so in public causes your other customers to watch and take actions themselves.
âCrooked Hillary to American Women: Donât Have Children; Thatâs What Illegals Are Forâ
https://headlineusa.com/hillary-clinton-smears-gop-women-as-handmaidens-to-the-patriarchy/
Hillary is getting whackier by the day.
The Starlink antenna wall mount arrives Wednesday if UPS comes through.
I have the dish/slab sitting in my wagon/cart. Hopefully the cows will leave it alone. The supplied cable is plenty long. Set-up was mechanically simple . Aim the dish to the North. I was almost perfect just by guessing.
Set-up an account on the phone? Forget it. Why is Google insisting I use a password it generates? WHY DO I NOT HAVE A KEYBOARD? On the phone. So I used the e-mail link and did that part on my PC. I did the CC on the phone a few minutes later. Not bugs, featuresâŚ.. yeah.
The system downloaded an update to install tonight. By the phone app it’s still scanning the sky. I disconnected the wISP from my router and connected the Starlink. Didn’t re-boot the router. Easy enough.
The two PC’s, both wired, are showing speeds of about 225 Mbps down with peaks of 290 showing while the speed test is running. Upload speed is generally around 15. It’s a cloudy day with a few sprinkles. But it’s still scanning the sky.
I swapped routers yesterday. The now spare router ports are 10/100. The new router, same as the one that fried last year, a DLink dir647, has 10/100/1000 ports. I’m not going to try the spare router to see if it has an affect on speed.
The NanoBeam bridge is chugging along at 520 to 600 Mbps. No bottleneck there.
The app knows who I am, I created my account on my PC so I know stuff is talking to each other. Yet it says I need to activate. I’ll worry more tomorrow.
So I’m going to let it update and look at the directions I can find for a few days. Install the dish on the mount. Give it all a few days to tweak the aim if possible. Then I’ll slide the bypass switch to turn the Starlink wi-fi radios off. My phone can connect through my existing wi-fi.
The app says the system is drawing 40 watts. My UPS confirms. Turning the radios off might save a few watts.
“Procrastination Awareness Month”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6CCl57u2T4p9JUsC-wiGkpYLFf8ZUPczaHxc9mp9OeSqZiZcHJXgFXokWuCBW3yVE9g45crbvDO55DfTn5ORfFZe7EdotlzL8vo0ASEQIlHClJ7Qde-cSSQXsckaNtIq4auNUcoMdSTlO3FAYC7j3TRQ69A2o1nJtdQ3-Djdsp1k5roCUm7RaPt07rQ/s600/Meme%20-%20procrastination%20awareness%20month.png
From:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/05/memes-that-made-me-laugh-262.html
Lynn; I’ve had excellent results with Grok. I’ve even pasted a photo of an unidentified duck into the interface and it has ID’ed it. And you can ask more detailed questions, because it also remembers your previous questions.
I have the dish/slab sitting in my wagon/cart. Hopefully the cows will leave it alone. The supplied cable is plenty long. Set-up was mechanically simple . Aim the dish to the North. I was almost perfect just by guessing.
The steers ? Aren’t cows female ?
Lynn; Iâve had excellent results with Grok. Iâve even pasted a photo of an unidentified duck into the interface and it has IDâed it. And you can ask more detailed questions, because it also remembers your previous questions.
Yes, it keeps on asking me to clarify my questions. I tried âtaylor vargaâ a little while ago and it asked if it was the fanfiction or a person named âtaylor vargoâ. Very smooth if you ask me.
aren’t steers bulls that are mid âtransitionâ?
n
âThe arrogance is unbelievableâ
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-arrogance-is-unbelievable.html
âBy now I’m sure most readers have seen, or read about, former FBI Director James Comey’s social media post that appears to call for the assassination of President Trump.â
I hope that Trump is keeping his inner core of former Mossad agents as his primary protectors. I do not trust the Secret Service.
@paul, I can’t remember the details of my starlink install, but the phone app is useful. It gives you stats about the satellites and sky view, and other things. I think my wife did the account stuff, which might be why I can’t rememberâŚ
n
The two PCâs, both wired, are showing speeds of about 225 Mbps down with peaks of 290 showing while the speed test is running. Upload speed is generally around 15. Itâs a cloudy day with a few sprinkles. But itâs still scanning the sky.
Dude ! I only get 35 / 15 mbps here in congested Fort Bend County, Texas. So much better than the 12 / 1 mbps from my two DSL lines.
Paul may be the only Starlink customer out that way.
Never heard of this company, but Subway is shutting stores in the US too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14727457/noodles-company-closes-locations-us.html
n
Ah gaslight, it makes everything look betterâŚ
That would be tariffs from YEARS AGO? And I thought we didn’t have a problem with inflation according to the Bidden administration.
n
I think crazy high minimum wage requirements, and easy money allowing too much growth might be part of the equation. And the little thing called wufluâŚ
Go back a decade, and that was a huge IPO. Now they’re facing delisting.
All of the locations around Austin closed about ten years ago.
yep, financialization. Someone sucked a lot of money out of it.
n
âCowsâ is easier to type.
I’m surprised that Buca di Beppo is still around.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-13711263/italian-restaurant-chain-files-bankruptcy-closures.html
My daughter saw that Chi Chi’s is attempting a comeback starting in their original home base in Minneapolis.
What’s this about Dutch Bros.?
More details in the Dallas shooting, where the beligerent [drunk] male tries to pick fights with people on the street, and finally messes with someone’s car as it drives by. He FAFO, unfortunately the pretty young white girl with him caught a round and died.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14727963/Ashlee-Long-Texas-realtor-shocking-turn-family-demands-answers-Kenrick-Finch.html
The part about âdon’t be around stupid peopleâ somehow got missedâŚ.
â she’s out in the bars drinking with âa handsome mystery manâ partying away from home. She’s carrying his gun in her purse, making her a criminal too if they went into a bar. Unfortunately for her fiance, it looks to me like she was âliving her best lifeâ trying to hook up with a stranger while out of town, before settling down to get married. Poor choices led to her death.
So much fail.
n
My friend’s divorce attorney always starts by having a forensic accountant take apart the credit card statements for any âladies onlyâ trips out of town, especially Vegas.
In my friend’s case, the accountant’s report got the judge recused because he (the judge) was having an affair with the woman married to the guy having an affair with my friend’s wife.
Ya foller me?
The report had enough documentation about the trip that the attorney working her PI contacts in Vegas could connect all of the dots.
SCOTUS poised to decapitate the legal viability of DEI âreverse discriminationâ
Next question: What is the statute of limitation on damages?
There are potentially thousands of suits out there.
ââFrom the frying pan into the fireâ: Geo-engineering climate fix turns catastrophicâ
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/back-to-the-people/from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire-geo-engineering-climate-fix-turns-catastrophic
Who is spraying aluminum nanoparticles into the atmosphere ???
Aluminum is a light heavy metal. The nanoparticles will kill everything that ingest them.
The Real Tragedy of Joe Biden?
That he and Jill didn’t die of AIDS.
This Is the Man Behind the Curtain of Biden’s Health Coverup
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/19/the-real-criminal-behind-joe-bidens-health-cover-up-n4939953
Save time: Strip him and epoxy his privates to the anvil before testifying.
More retail apocalypse.
n
Finally moving to tax remittances:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/taxing_remittances.html
It’s a beginning. The follow-up should be a requirement for a taxpayer ID. No proof, tack on another 25% (15% for FICA and 10% U.S. income tax). The law should have a provision for states to piggyback another 5% for state taxes. Do you think Cali will pass that up?
5% is minimal. IIRC PayPal charges 3.9% off the top if you accept a payment from OUS. What does Western Union charge?
Growth of wind âfarmsâ put Golden Eagle on âpath to possible extinctionâ
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/growth_of_wind_farms_put_golden_eagle_on_path_to_possible_extinction.html
All within the purview of the federal government, which issues permits to allow this despicable shiite to go on in the name of âgreen energyâ. It ain’t green, it’s red–blood red.
The numbers have been hidden, covered up, and the collection of data purposefully designed to under report. Don’t look too closely or too frequently and the evidence disappears. In fact, here’s a free suggestion for an animal ecologist looking for grant money: Test the hypothesis that the concentration of scavengers in the footprint of a wind farm is a proxy for the bird kill.
Publicize all the permits and data and improve data collection, then start issuing heavy fines to the bird harvester owners. Some states need to be investigated for conspiracy to interfere with and kill migratory birds.
I’ve started working on my âto be rippedâ pile of DVDs and CDs again. Got half a dozen movies done tonight. It really just takes doing. Which is true of so many things.
I’m headed to bed. I’ll try some reading first, but I could use the sleep. Tomorrow has me running around all day.
n
Saw a show on the ship that was surprisingly good and well performed. Tonight we sleep, arrive in Sitka Alaska tomorrow about none. We will take a shuttle from the pier to downtown. It will interesting to see if my cell phone has coverage again. If Verizon/Xfinity is not in the area then I probably won’t have service.
I think I will take lesson from this to night buy a phone on the monthly payment plan just to get the rebate. Yes, I save several hundred dollars. Going forward I will have to rethink that plan. Before I travel to Germany in the middle of August I am going to pay off the phone but in the process will lose a couple months of the rebate.
It is well after midnight according to my biological clock at my home. I took a three hour nap today and will stay up late to force the biological clock to reset itself.
>>Last month, reports indicated OâConnor was on the short list of witnesses House Republicans want to question over his role in concealing the presidentâs cognitive decline. That testimony is long overdueâand more necessary now than ever.
Can’t O’Connor hide behind doctor / patient confidentiality and refuse to answer?
“A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up.”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/a-fraction-of-proposed-data-centers-will-get-built-utilities-are-wising-up/748214/
âOne expert estimated that speculative interconnection requests were five to 10 times more than the number of actual data centers, but the scale of the problem remains elusive.â
“Elon Muskâs Memphis-area xAI hub, where its Grok model trains, runs 35 gas turbines behind the meter, according to a lawsuit filed in April by an environmental group. Energy Secretary Chris Wrightâs former company, Liberty Energy, could eventually deliver 1 GW of off-grid gas-fired generation to data centers and other large industrial loads at a planned business park near Pittsburgh. Data center customers account for about a third of gas turbine manufacturer GE Vernovaâs 21-GW reservation pipeline, CEO Scott Strazik said in April.”
So the electricity usage in Texas is not going to triple in the next ten years ?
Late â80âs Ontario, a court determined that hiring discrimination against males was a legally nullity. The event in question was a private school hiring a much less qualified female applicant versus a qualified (or overqualified) male for a position as an art teacher. They both applied, she was hired (with, IIRC a BA(general program and a teaching certificate) over his qualifications (which I think included a BA in Education and a Masters in Arts) and he sued for discriminatory hiring. The Ontario court ruled against him, on the grounds that you cannot discriminate against a male due to gender, which seemed to suggest that hiring males is the default against which even less qualified women were protected.
Several years ago, I started buying my iPhones outright so I can pick any plan I want. It costs more outright, but I save up during the year to make it less painful. I’m not going back to buying a phone through a provider.