Cool, then warming. Humid and stifling when the breeze stops and sun like a laser beam… or was that yesterday? Why yes, it was. Later in the day was actually nasty while it started ok. I’m going with more of the same for today. Nice orange moon though.
Well, like most weeks, I did do two pickups yesterday. One was some general stuff for the BOL, one was a pump for the irrigation system at the BOL. The current pump seems to work, but it WAS underwater for a week when the lake flooded. That can’t have been good for it. Usually the pumps in the auctions are returns fraud, someone buys a new pump and returns their old rusty POS for a refund. This one was in the box, with the shipping covers in place on the inlet and outlet.
Today I’ve got two pickups, on opposite sides of town. One is a couple of freeze dried meals. I didn’t look closely and it turns out they are not even worth $1 each to me. But I bid, so I’ll pick up the two lots I won. I can combine that part of the trip and grab another pickup nearby. Then it’s off to the north side of town and three invoices at one seller. It’s the seller who was going to pack it in, but decided to keep trying. He’s still not making much money in the auctions, but he’s pulling out good items and selling them elsewhere. Reselling as a business is NOT as easy as people think it is.
D2 has a football game to march in tonight, so I’ll try to make that as well. Where has this week gone? Starting a day late sure shortens the week.
Some parts I needed came in too, so I can do more work at the shop, which will help me work on getting a bunch of stuff out of here and sold. Baby steps. But still steps mostly moving forward.
Always be working. Always be stacking.
nick
Not much on the agenda today. This is our fifth day, fourth night, in one location. That is generally something that does not happen on these trips. A couple nights here and there, then on to a new location. I wake up to pee, have to stand for a minute or two to figure out where I am and where the bathroom is located. That is not happening at the current location.
Eleven more days at this location. We do have a day trip planned to go to Abensberg on Sunday.
Somewhere on this trip I damaged my MacBook screen. A small spot that did something. I know because the mark exactly matches the mark on the palm rest. Something got between the screen and the palm rest when I closed the display. Annoying but not enough to require a screen replacement. A small spot about the size of a period. Sigh.
Supposed to rain today but nothing yet. Everything is wet so it did rain some last night. It may even be a slight drizzle now as I have not been outside. The weather is cool, comfortable, although yesterday afternoon it got a little warm. A/C seems to be ignored for most residences. There are some places with A/C, but not many. All the units are split ductless units as there is no room to run ducts, and getting that size of an opening in a concrete wall is not easy.
The young girl’s English has improved slightly while we have been here. She is 9 years old and has had three years of English. The boy, 5 years old, understands some, but does not speak English really well. There is a some slight improvement. Both children learn quickly.
This has been an expensive trip. Aside from the airline tickets, upgraded seats so costly, but not the lay flat, there have been multiple small expenses. The credit card has worked at all locations except one. Neither credit card worked so there was something incorrect with the merchant’s system.
I get immediate notification of the charge via email so I can see the amount. Unlike my third trip where the charge was not posted for several days. Now the charge in Germany is immediately shown on my credit card website.
@ray, glad the trip is going well. I watch a few german guys on youtube who were all understandable, and they’ve all gotten better at english over time. They must have a pretty solid english program in school.
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Kids are moving, I’m up, and the day is slowly starting. It was still 84F when I went to bed. It’s currently 78F with 93%RH. Drippy.
n
They do. Mandatory classes in English starting about the 2nd year in school. In Germany anyone under the age of 60 understands and speaks some English, some people quite good. Lots of accommodations for English on the major train routes, the ICE. Displays in English, some announcements in English. Allow the German announcement takes 45 seconds, the English announcement is 15 seconds so I don’t know what is skipped.
The major train stations, Frankfurt, Essen, Munich, etc. have English on their signs. The DB train app is English as is the Eurorail app that is needed for the German rail pass. Restaurants offer English menus or a QR code that can be scanned to bring up the English version, although generally shortened.
The teens also listen to English music almost exclusively. Taylor Swift for example. There are few, if any, teen popular music artists. Most movies are in English although with German subtitles. Some are dubbed in German, with English subtitles.
Stores are different. Everyone brings their own bag as the stores do not provide them except at a cost. Shopping carts are non-existent in the stores I have a used. A small grocery store, packed in every usable space, aisles where only one person can fit, a maze almost to find products, shelves as high as a person can reach. It took awhile to find what I wanted, Coca-Cola, some eggs, and a package of Gummi Bears.
The traffic in Munich is horrible. Lots of vehicles, lots of bicycles, traffic lights that sometimes make little sense. On-street parking is full. Going 5 miles took us almost 40 minutes. Even in slack times that same 5 miles took 20 minutes.
Vehicles here really watch out for bicycles. Turning right requires a very careful look in the mirrors for bicycles in the lane to the right. There is no right turn on red for some reason, probably the bicycles.
Over 80% of the bicycles are electric. Some electric scooters with rentals stashed at various locations.
Overall, it seems like mayhem to me. What makes it work is here the drivers cooperate where in the U.S. the drivers compete. And if it were not for mass transit (busses, subways, surface trolleys), and the regular trains, there would be total gridlock 23.5 hours of the day.
We did see a speed trap. Officers on the side of the road, hidden from oncoming traffic (opposite our direction), with radar gun, several officers, three motorcycles and a couple of cars, targeting motorists. They had one person pulled over.
My, or Lynn’s, F-150 would have a hard time fitting in most locations. The parking garage for our hosts would never fit a F-150. Most certainly people here would complain and give ugly stares for a person driving such a vehicle.
It is also interesting that Diesel is being phased out for vehicles, especially in the cities, due to the emissions. Most new cars, including Mercedes, are mostly gasoline, hybrid, or full electric. Manual transmissions are on the way out and automatics, with few exceptions for high performance vehicles, are now all automatic transmissions. Much different than my first trip to Germany in 2001.
Can’t meet US emission standards with a manual transmission. One of the things that increases cost and complexity of automobiles.
n
Perhaps nothing was skipped. German generally takes more words, and thus more time, to communicate the same idea as English. DE is a verbose language compared to laconic EN.
You can see in multilingual texts (such as the Official Journal of the EU – identical legislation in 24 official languages) that EN generally takes up much less space on the page than the equivalent message in other languages.
Enjoy your stay!
Thanks. I hope ya’ll don’t mind my daily activity reports and the dull observations and sometime mundane trivial drivel about nothing significant.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/wiki-wars
Wikipedia is evil.
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Wikipedia is evil.
– the people allowing wikipedia to be used as a propaganda machine are evil. Trusting it to be unbiased is dumb. It’s convenient, but it’s on the web, and Vernor Vinge was prescient when he called the internet “The web of a million lies.”
n
I live on the Energy Corridor in Houston, near ConocoPhillips headquarters.
This is a setback. I suspect we’ll be feeling the effects locally.
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Wikipedia has always been evil. I still use it, but only for inch-deep information on non-political issues. And these days, politics has subsumed science and medicine and history.
My Kindle Fire seems to have died. I bought it in 2015 so I suppose it’s time. It doesn’t lay flat. Looks like the battery has put on that middle age spread.
Anyway. Ten years ain’t bad. It was one of a six pack which worked out to $45 each.
But fear not!!!! I have a spare! Brand new and unopened. And with a 0% charged battery. I’ve gotten as far as connecting to my wi-fi and Big River knowing I have another Fire on my account. It seems to be stuck a bit over a third of the way through updating before re-booting. It dies instantly when unplugged. Brand new with a dead battery. For now, I have an LG fast charger that came with my phone charging it for the moment. Maybe I’ll get lucky.
I’ll know more in a couple of hours if the “new” Fire takes a charge. If not, no big deal but there’s a guy over here with the rep of making buffalo nickels bellow.
Big River has a trade-in program. You get a $5 gift card and 20% off a new Kindle. I’m looking at this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD1MYLQ2?th=1&tag=ttgnet-20
In green. Simply because it’s not black.
paul, my Kindle Fire is the same vintage. Its battery is still good but the updates over the years have made the device practically unusable. Aside from removing features from apps such as the music and video players (no longer plays files from local storage, only from the Amazon account), the OS and required apps have bloated to the point that they consume almost the entire 8GB main storage and the device complains constantly about being low on memory. One must assume that this is deliberate, making perfectly-functional hardware almost useless.
Device batteries deteriorate over time, even sitting on a shelf unused.
This reality extends to electric cars as well.
Sure, you have an X year warranty on your car’s battery pack, but the manufacturer is not required to provide a new battery with full range.
Try side loading FDroid and installing VLC for media playback from the SD card.
I also install Fennec, but the browsing is slow.
Various FDroid apps make the Kindle Fire usable. I even install OsmAnd to browse local maps despite the lack of GPS.
Amazon’s next generation of Kindle Fire devices are supposedly going to be straight Android with pre installed software.
Well, after an hour on the LG fast charger (more juice!) I turned the new Fire on. Back to the “language and accouts” section of settings and then it did update itself. Instant Off when unplugged from the power supply. And went into updating itself again.
Bah. Life is too short.
I connected the old Fire to the charger and hah, it’s dead.
“Texas’ fastest-growing city is running out of homes. Here’s one builder’s fix.”
https://www.chron.com/homes/article/princeton-texas-tiny-homes-lennar-21032662.php
“Lennar debuts tiny, two-story homes in Princeton, where explosive growth is squeezing the housing supply.”
And here we have the modern version of the good old shotgun shack.
My mother grew up in a double shotgun shack in Freeport, Texas, five blocks from the Gulf of America. Christmas with her parents, her two sisters and their families, and our family was crowded in there. The largest room was the living room at 10 foot by 10 foot. The three bedrooms were 8 foot by 8 foot. Only one bathroom. We kids were told to get out of the house at all times.
Always be working. Always be stacking.
I am still down on my 32 cases of 24 water bottles stash from being away so much in June and July. I am only six cases down now.
“Climate Cultists Are Fumbling for Excuses After Study Finds That Sea Levels Are Rising at Natural, Normal Rates”
https://thelibertydaily.com/climate-cultists-are-fumbling-excuses-after-study-finds/
“The Journal of Marine Science and Engineering published the peer-reviewed study on Aug. 27, authored by Dutch engineering consultant Hessel G. Voortman and independent researcher Rob De Vos. The study concluded that the average rate of sea level rise in 2020 was well below other widely cited analyses, and that when projections were compared with local data, there was little evidence climate change was driving the acceleration seen in a few regions — a finding energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation challenges mainstream climate change orthodoxy.”
““Overall, this study indicates that in most places, sea levels are not rising unusually quickly. In the relatively few locations where sea levels are rising faster than average, the cause is almost certainly local factors such as land subsidence or ground compaction,” Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, told the DCNF. “Global sea levels are currently rising more slowly than they have for much of the time since the last ice age ended — a period during which seas rose more than 400 feet. Any possible increase in the recent rate of rise compared with the past century is small, within the margin of error, and not outside historical patterns.””
Once again the fear mongers have been proven wrong.
Our new Colonist masters wouldn‘t touch one of those homes.
Is the land an old trailer park?
Fixed it for you.
Based on what I was told during my high school years, TN should be under about sixteen feet of ice by now. We were all going to die.
Then we were rescued by Al Gore who said we were all going to burn up, the seas would flood any land currently below 500 feet above sea level, New York would no longer exist (still not a bad idea). Mr. Gore made a lot of money preaching his falsehoods. Speaking of Al Bore, what happened to that insane creature from Sweden? Netherlands?
Went to a mall in Munich. Big old sucker. 3 levels. Where you have to pay to park (that is most of Munich). Lots of stores about like the U.S. with many of the stores having no customers and one or two workers standing around or cleaning the glass on the cases.
Lots of clothing stores, three shoe stores, some speciality shops selling stuff I don’t recognize. The busiest store, it seemed to me, was the LEGO store. Names I did not recognize on the other stores but the content was recognizable.
We did eat at McDonald’s. Cost was about the same as the U.S. The food tasted a little different, well the Big Mac did. The fries and chicken nuggets tasted the same. What was strange was the age of the workers. All of them looked to be in their 50’s. Second job? Only job? Former career down the toilet? None seemed to happy and worked more like robots.
And I am rambling again. I will let myself out.
Can’t meet US emission standards with a manual transmission. One of the things that increases cost and complexity of automobiles.
n
Also the car manufacturers are under a federal mandate that everything in the car is to be controlled by an externally controllable computer. Manual transmissions cannot shift themselves.
Greta Thunberg has given up on the climate hoax, and is now cosplaying as a “palestinian”, and is currently on a boat headed to “break the Gaza blockade”. The Israeli minister for that part of the government is threatening to jail her as a terrorist, since she has already been deported once.
US oil titan fires a quarter of its staff as jobs bloodbath spreads from retail and technology
By ALICE WRIGHT, US CONSUMER REPORTER
Published: 01:35 EDT, 5 September 2025 | Updated: 01:38 EDT, 5 September 2025
Oil giant ConocoPhillips is laying off up to 25 percent of its workforce in a huge cost-cutting drive.
The layoffs will mean thousands of employees and contractors will lose their jobs within weeks.
A company spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that 20 to 25 percent of its global headcount of roughly 13,000 will be affected — roughly 2,600 to 3,250 workers.
Most layoffs are expected to take place before the end of the year.
The oil patch is dying again. Boom or Bust all the time.
The really sad thing is that junior engineers do not get jobs during these times and have to go to non professional jobs.
Greta Thunberg has given up on the climate hoax, and is now cosplaying as a “palestinian”, and is currently on a boat headed to “break the Gaza blockade”. The Israeli minister for that part of the government is threatening to jail her as a terrorist, since she has already been deported once.
Israel needs to put her in a cell with a dozen Palestinian men. Let her find out what muslims do with young women.
“More Than 4-in-10 Americans Have Given Up on Retirement and Expect to Work Until They Die”
https://thelibertydaily.com/more-than-4-10-americans-have-given-up/
““50 percent of people don’t think it’s realistic for the average American to expect to retire comfortably,” WalletHub said.”
““These concerns aren’t unfounded, given the heavy debt burden many households carry, the lack of adequate savings, and the uncertainty surrounding the future of government benefits.””
“For instance, the average American household held $152,653 in debt by the end of the second quarter of 2025, WalletHub said last month, based on data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.”
I’ll bet most of that debt is cars and medical care.
Geeze. It’s usually simple.
Choose free shipping and get it on Wednesday. Hey, $6.99 shipping plus tax on shipping (which is a nasty scam), adds up.
I ordered. Nope, no free shipping applied. So I did the chat. Turns out he (?) (Simamkele) is in South Africa. I canceled the order. Then I reordered and free shipping was applied.
Ok, $114 (including the No Ads option) minus a 20% discount for tablet trade in (that’s $23), plus sales tax comes to $97.74. Add the $5 gift card credit for the old Kindle and call it $93.
I suppose that’s a good price.
Plus a UPS label to ship the old Kindle to Big River.
Not bad I suppose. A slightly larger screen, more CPU and RAM, and a brand new battery.
Yes. I did a cursory shopping for Kindle batteries. $44 for a kit with tools to peel the machine open. A ten year old $45 machine. Yeah, I’m going to upgrade.
VW engineers who designed the “clean” diesel engines which did not use the horse pee.
I feel sorry for Turdberg. The scum grifters around her are making her do this. She has lost her childhood and is now going to lose her adulthood.
I wouldn’t FAFO with Israel. Especially when it comes to Palestine at this point in history.
“Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4)” by Jack Campbell
https://www.amazon.com/Valiant-Lost-Fleet-Book-4/dp/0441016197?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number four of a six book military science fiction series. Plus several sequel series consisting of fourteen books total. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 2008 that I bought on Amazon. I have purchased the two sequel books in this series and plan to read them soon.
I did not know John G. Hemry was the real name for Jack Campbell as I purchased the Stark series quite a while back and enjoyed it also.
The Alliance sent a war fleet into the Syndic home star system via the new FTL network to defeat the Syndics once and for all. However, the Syndics knew that they were coming and destroyed many of the Alliance space warships. Now the Alliance warships need to leave or be destroyed one by one.
The Alliance admiral left Captain John “Black Jack” Geary in charge of the Alliance fleet before he and his staff were murdered by the Syndics in the negotiations. Captain John “Black Jack” Geary was found by the Alliance fleet on their way to Syndic space, in stasis in an old emergency pod. A hundred year old emergency pod. Captain John “Black Jack” Geary may be a hundred years out of date but some things like tactics of war spaceship fleets never go away.
Captain Geary is leading his fleet of warships and supply ships through old wormholes, trying to anticipate Syndic attacks and gather raw materials and feed his crews. After they exit the wormhole from the Lakota star system, he turns the fleet around and goes back. What they find surprises them greatly.
The author has a website at:
https://jack-campbell.com/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (3,388 reviews)
Lynn
Arrest her and discover a written declaration declaring gender as male.
Incarcerate with male Palestinians.
VW engineers who designed the “clean” diesel engines which did not use the horse pee.
The clean diesel engine systems were designed by Bosch. The urea generation reactor was undersized by Bosch management trying to save $100 per reactor. Bosch sold the undersized reactor system to VW, Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, etc. along with the computer management system.
“WINUX: The Linux Distro Giving Windows 11 Users a Familiar Experience Without Red Tape
News” By Kevin Okemwa
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/this-windows-style-linux-distro-lets-you-enjoy-a-windows-11-experience-without-microsofts-red-tape-as-windows-10-nears-its-end
“Microsoft is set to pull the plug on Windows 10 next month. If you can’t upgrade to Windows 11, you might want to consider this Windows-inspired Linux distro.”
Why do I doubt that Winux will work seemlessly across the myriad of PCs with weird parts needing hundreds of device drivers ?
“Gas turbine manufacturers expand capacity, but order backlog could prove stubborn”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/mitsubishi-gas-turbine-manufacturing-capacity-expansion-supply-demand/759371/
“One expert said the industry moves are unlikely to “drastically reduce” wait times, which can stretch as long as seven years.”
200 new gas turbines have been installed in Texas in the last 6 or 7 years. I have heard that 400 are on order.
Kindles are not Everything. But when Someone who has since died went on a Viking River Cruise to the Baltic, he had his Blackberry phone and the Sony camera and his Kindle. He wanted to take the Tosh laptop but I said no. The other guy had his fancy new laptop and whatever else.
Who could check their e-mail and surf a couple of websites while in Europe? Yeah…. the laptop that one had bought just for the trip, with both of them looking at settings, never connected to any wi-fi.
The Kindle just did it. The Blackberry? Lot’s of pictures but the locally bought SIM was a dud. That card was a dud in my phone, here. Dud card, $20.
Kindles are pretty cool for other than reading books.
“‘You’ve Taken $855,000 From Pharmaceutical Companies”: Kennedy Spars With Senators During Wild Testimony”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rfk-jr-testifies-senate-amid-cdc-turmoil
“Update (1520ET): Well that was actually pretty interesting. As Democrat Senators read prepared zingers to try and corner RFK Jr. over vaccines and other malarkey, Kennedy hit back with several very specific haymakers during the three-hour session – calling the Democratic lawmakers ‘liars’ – and even pointing out the Elizabeth Warren has taken nearly a million dollars from pharmaceutical companies.”
RFK jr is trying very hard to clean up the CDC after the Covid vaccine debacle and these people are not helping.
BTW, I got asked at my eye doctor’s yesterday if I had taken the flu vaccine and the pneumonia vaccine. I said no.
I haven’t even turned on a Fire in a year or more, and haven’t used them in longer than that. They are heavy and the batteries don’t last… but then I never really used the fires for anything but reading. I’ve got a stack of them…
I have 4 paperwhites in rotation. Two at the BOL, two here. Wife has a couple too. They are light, the batteries last a long time with the backlight at 50%, and the reading experience is good.
I’ve even been using the web reader while sitting at my pc, something I never used to do.
Still have a DX on the shelf too, just noticed it today.
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Back from my pickups. Stopped by the shop and dropped off stuff for the BOL. Stacking it there is easier than here.
Tired. Had some lunch and now I need to head back to the shop and do more sorting and organizing, or I need to do stuff here. 96F in the shade, and the sun is blazing.
n
“New York AG Asks Appeals Court To Reinstate Trump’s $500 Million Civil Fraud Penalty”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-ag-asks-appeals-court-reinstate-trumps-500-million-civil-fraud-penalty
This woman needs to go away.
Finally got around to hanging the Starlink interior WiFi unit on the wall …. bought it last December … lost 3db in the front room, gained 4db in the office … –\oo/-.
The dark grey power cord really stands out against the light yellow wall in the kitchen/dining room. Maybe I’ll get some white latex and paint it. Alternately, there is a drop ceiling so maybe I can put an outlet up there, the antenna cable runs through there already, and that would be unobtrusive and look a lot better.
Been catching up on a lot of little indoor ‘prettifying’ things during our usual miserable late summer weather.
I’ve seen mixed things about Winux.
If you are going to try a Linux distribution, go with one of the mainstream versions like Fedora or Ubuntu.
The Benevolent Dictator is said to favor Fedora with a big text console. That’s how I work.
Windows 11’s interface seems like Microsoft is trying hard to chase Fedora/Red Hat/IBM.
After my wife left the clinic in Vantucky, the search for a replacement took seven years before they found another provider just as trusting and naive. In the mean time, the management took advantage of WA State law which allows pharmacists and optometrists to prescribe in order to try and close the primary care gap in that semi-rural part of the county.
The attempt was a bust mostly because the other doctors in the practice didn’t want to sign off on the prescriptions.
I use a Fire for movies on flights because I won’t shed a tear if the device is damaged or stolen.
Battery life on my four year old Fire 7″ is good enough for a four hour flight. Beyond that, I usually have our Noco in the carry on with a USB power out port, but I haven’t used that capability to date.
I will use the device as long as Amazon updates the firmware.
Moderna HQ is near MIT in Cambridge, MA, and Pfizer has an extensive research facility nearby.
Of course they are going to be among Fauxcahontas’ benefactors.
Safe and effective.
To those of you about hit the down vote, we’ll see who rusts first.
Windows 11’s interface seems like Microsoft is trying hard to chase Fedora/Red Hat/IBM.
Nah, Windows 11 user interface looks like Microsoft hired a million monkeys and this is their work product.
So? What’s the fuss? Are you skeered Facebook is gonna block you for not running Win11?
Run your existing hardware until it breaks and then go to the next OS version. Your Win7 or XP computers still work, right?
Why all the fear? You, at your house, are behind a router. Routers block shit. Routers are like Super Firewalls. And yes, Don’t click on stupid stuff.
Oh yeah, and MS is trying to push everything to be online in the cloud. How’s that’s work when Bubba digs up your local fiber or cable connection and you can’t access your files?
Never mind that Win11 has removed Wordpad/Write during an update. What else are they going to delete from your computer?
Wordpad isn’t a huge file. But it lets you do colored text and different fonts in one document. Notepad on steroids. Which is all I have ever needed 95 percent of the time. And that 5%? DreamWeaver 2 gets done the stuff I could do in WordPerfect..
“Here is Lego’s $1,000 Death Star, the most expensive Lego set ever”
https://www.theverge.com/news/770770/lego-ucs-death-star-price-release-date
That is not a moon…
Collectors will snap it up, but the sets getting the most attention at the store in the Rivercenter Mall in San Antonio last weekend were related to Netflix’s live action “One Piece” series, shot far from Hollywood in South Africa under strict control of the Japanese creator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeCCnOPqrA
And Harry Potter. So much for the boycott.
You’ve probably seen the video of SecDef Hegseth nuking a drug boat from orbit. That is what a “war” on drugs looks like. The PLTs can cry all they want. I want to see a Javelin blow up a drug truck. Then a AAM take out a drug plane.
Heck, leak some video of a cartel compound with every building on fire, and a row of dead cartel soldiers lined up on the ground. Close up of each face.
AC130, and orbit for a while, until it’s just splintered mess. Not even a risk to the guys on the ground.
n
Drop napalm on a column of “migrants” crossing the Rio Grande.
Have snipers plink at anyone climbing or cutting the border wall. No need to spend tax dollars on this. Announce that any American citizen is welcome to come and monitor the border. It’s not a free-fire zone, but anyone atop the wall can be assumed to be an enemy invader.
But most important, declare that anyone facilitating invasion or hiring “migrants” is a traitor, subject to arrest, imprisonment, and asset seizure.
My big complaint with Win11. currently, is how much of everything that was in Control Panel ain;t there anymore. I go looking for a setting and it’s like hours of dicking through the menus of my phone. I really hate the constant updates.
This “fluid” OS shell stuff sucks.
Drug cartels have the moral equivalence of pirates, so I’m completely in favor of sinking drug running speedboats. And after a few of them meet their highly deserved fate, perhaps the next few won’t be so blatant.
I’ve been saying this since about 1974. But who listens to some skinny white boy?
Meanwhile, you can go into Mexico. About 50 miles in was the number in 1975. After that you had to have a passport or visa. Without either, you go to jail. For something stupid like TRESPASSING.
Build the Wall. Or not. String a decent fence everywhere and man guard posts with liberty to shoot.
Ya don’t have to kill all of them to make the rest stop invading.
Oh yeah, cut off all welfare. All of it. Every dime.
Use the Search function on the Settings screen (phone or computer). Much faster. Or ask your favorite search engine.
Take advantage of the available ways to find things. Don’t waste your time poking around in the menus. You’ll find the answer much faster that way….certainly faster than complaining about something here.
Drop napalm on a column of “migrants” crossing the Rio Grande.
Have snipers plink at anyone climbing or cutting the border wall. No need to spend tax dollars on this. Announce that any American citizen is welcome to come and monitor the border. It’s not a free-fire zone, but anyone atop the wall can be assumed to be an enemy invader.
But most important, declare that anyone facilitating invasion or hiring “migrants” is a traitor, subject to arrest, imprisonment, and asset seizure.
I don’t think that we are ready for this phase yet. In fact, I know that we are not ready.
Many of the immigrants have fake documentation. If I hire somebody for a day job, do I have to check their papers ?
Use the Search function on the Settings screen (phone or computer). Much faster. Or ask your favorite search engine.
Take advantage of the available ways to find things. Don’t waste your time poking around in the menus. You’ll find the answer much faster that way….certainly faster than complaining about something here.
I like the fact that I can come here for advice. I do it all the time.
And I do not know the names of all of the functions of Windows and I consider myself an expert.
If I hire somebody for a day job, do I have to check their papers ?
– yep. And technically pay all the stuff .gov says you have to pay. Lots of people got in trouble for not paying nannies correctly. If you hire a service company it’s on the company to do the vetting.
All those temp agencies take the risk.
n
I think you would be surprised at the results if you try out the Search functions on your phone or computer. You don’t need to know the exact term.
Even though the advice here is often quite useful, Search will find you the answers much faster. And, even though AI has a bad rep and can be inaccurate, an AI query of your question will often get you the answer you are looking for.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15069457/maine-tuberculosis-three-cases.html
Cases not related, someone is still out there infecting people.
n
If I hire somebody for a day job, do I have to check their papers ?
– yep. And technically pay all the stuff .gov says you have to pay. Lots of people got in trouble for not paying nannies correctly. If you hire a service company it’s on the company to do the vetting.
All those temp agencies take the risk.
n
I think that if I hire somebody for a single day job then I do not have check anything.
However, I have hired a mowing service to cut my home yard weekly. I have never checked their paperwork.
And I have hired a guy down the way to cut my office grass, all 14 acres of it. I have never checked his paperwork either.
Ok, yes. I understand, I think.
But search on my PCs has never worked well. Because I turn the Windows CONSTANT drive churning indexing OFF,
And really, if you have so much stuff on your PC that you don’t at least have a clue where stuff is? Yeah, put all yer stuff up there on OneDrive or whatever and share it with the world.
The last thing I want, ever, EVER, is Google finding files on my computer.
Claim a square mile of Mexican land for every American killed by an invader from Mexico or who came through Mexico. Retroactive to 1985. After the United Mexican States (the failed nation’s official name and an obvious attempt at stolen valor) lose their top 100 miles, they may give some thought to reining in the flow. Or not.
Depends on who you talk to. I imagine that the minority of the citizenry who attend Christian church weekly would not have the stomach for it. I imagine that the construction workers who haven’t worked regularly in five years would.
And after the flow of illegals has been brought under control, we start playing Cowboys and Mohammedans. Cowboys and Indians. Cowboys and Chinese. Cowboys and Feral Descendants of Obsolete Farm Equipment would be problematic because they’re American citizens, but I don’t see any good reason to stop a purge before it’s done. Half-measures are a large part of why we’re in this mess. Oh, did I forget to mention Cowboys and Democrats?
A lot of Republicans still aren’t comfortable with the figurative beatdown that DeSantis gave Disney even though crushing The Mouse arguably saved Little Marco’s Senate seat and, combined with redistricting, swung four seats to the Republicans in Florida upon which House control depends until the next Midterm election.
And all it will take to end the possible coming shutdown are the signs going up at the entrance to Yosemite in October.
You sound like an AI bot. English to WTF and back to English. Thy grammar is mostly correct but off.. But maybe that’s just the way you talk.
Anyway. to your point.
Yes. Quite possible. Though Google has been garbage for the last year or so…
But we are, to me, a group of friends and we talk a lot of “bovine droppings”. And it’s all by design. We are a bunch of folks here and we have a good time talking to each other. The conversations are why we are here.
So, search what, exactly?
Jeebus. This reads like some Chinese seller on Amazon about how to care for your new rug or shirts.
Yes!!!
Unlike Covid, which is marginally treatable, a postitive diagnosis of tuberculosis requires the patient to stay home by law and undergo treatment until a test reads clear of infection.
Anyone still out infecting people is breaking the law.
I didn’t think you were asking about a file on your computer, but a setting on your computer that you used to find via Control Panel (prior versions), or Settings (Win11) – or even a setting on your phone (like when you asked about only allowing your phone to ring for people on your contact list).
Your original message wasn’t specific as to what you were looking for. So I (as a real person, BTW) suggested that you try the Search function on your computer (or phone) to find the setting you were looking for.
For instance, if you want to clean out the Trash folder on your phone, you could dig around in the Files app, or just search for “trash” on the Settings screen. (On my Android phone, a swipe-from-top will display the ‘gear’ icon; from there you can type in ‘trash’ in the search bar at the top. That will get you several places to look; it’s likely that the first choice will be the place to go to get into the Trash folder.)
Or, you could type in your question in your favorite search engine. And then go through all of the results to find the answer – and you may need to go through several of the search results to find what you want. Or, type the question into the AI search ‘prompt’ of your search engine page. And that will do all of the work of grabbing the answer from all of the Search results – so you don’t have to look at them.
I’ve found that AI answers for questions like the above work really well. As does the built-in Search in your phone or Win11 computer. I’ve entered questions that I’ve seen here into the AI search of DDG, and came up with the proper answer.
If you aren’t in a hurry for the answer, then wait for someone here to do the Search work for you.
John Oliver Reads POM Wonderful’s Savage Response Letter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAY_-aQuHEA
Start right here:
Michigan Woman Indicted for Smuggling Illegal Aliens, Children, Across the Northern Border
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/09/05/michigan-woman-indicted-for-smuggling-aliens-children-across-the-northern-border-n2662839
Plea deal: She either gives up every contact and answers every question about how she was recruited, how she was given assignments, and each one in detail, or she gets charged for each one separately, goes to trial separately, and gets sentenced (if found guilty) consecutively.
5 House Republicans voted with Democrats to block the censure of LaMonica McIver for assaulting federal agents.
These are their names:
1. Don Bacon (NE)
2. Mike Flood (NE)
3. Dave Joyce (OH)
4. Michael Turner (OH)
5. David Valadao (CA)
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/09/05/accused-felon-lamonica-mciver-survives-house-censure-vote-because-of-republican-votes-n2193630
Every day citizens of this country are the victims of major crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens.
Here’s hoping that the families of these spineless morons are on the victims list.
Rowling Torches Gladwell, Chars the Bones
https://redstate.com/chase-jennings/2025/09/05/jk-rowling-torches-malcolm-gladwells-late-transformation-hes-not-an-ally-hes-a-weathervane-n2193621
and writer Chase Jennings makes another huge point:
I don’t think so, either.
Unlike Covid, which is marginally treatable, a postitive diagnosis of tuberculosis requires the patient to stay home by law and undergo treatment until a test reads clear of infection.
Covid is nothing more than a common cold. Marginally treatable indeed.
As far as I can tell, having had the Koof twice now at least, the Koof is just like a cold and not even as bad as the Flu.
The vaccine did nothing for me to keep me from getting the Koof the second time or moderating the effects of surviving it.
I am sitting here wondering if the Koof vaccine has given me lung cancer.
ICE Detained 475 At Georgia Hyundai Plant In “Largest Single-Site Enforcement Operation In History”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/05/ice_detained_475_at_georgia_hyundai_plant_in_largest_single-site_enforcement_operation_in_history.html
Due process should consist of immediately deporting each one that does not have a valid visa and record of entry.
And that should be the due process for any suspected illegal–call it the “No Papers Buh-bye”.
Any one who wants to lawyer up should be allowed to, after it is explained that while the clock ticks the fine of $500 per day for unlawful presence is being assessed, and the DHS is working on pushing the start date back to the earliest they can document.
“Tron: Ares | Official IMAX® 1.90 Trailer | Filmed For IMAX®”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8VJ0LSi5gQ
New Tron movie coming out Oct 10, 2025.
The Ripple Effect of Fraudulent Science
https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/09/03/ripple-effect-fraudulent-science-49704
Many of you will recall that JP commented on the misuse of LNT more than once.
The clarity that was taught for decades as the results of Mendel’s experiments in genetics has been found relatively recently to be the result of selectively cherry-picking the data. The charitable interpretation is that Dr. Russell fell into the same trap. But this does not explain the inertia of the scientific establishment to admit that LNT should never have been adopted, and should be discarded immediately.
What does explain it?
Hypothesis: Science is full of pinkos and actively and heavily influenced by foreign actors whose intent is to waste the resources of the U.S.
I don’t contend that this is the only explanation, only that it is a real partial explanation in a soup that includes The Pete Principle, petty human jealousy, ego, greed, hammer looking for a nail, and a lot of other factors. The history of science is full of cautionary tales: Dr. Feynman’s comments on the Millikan experiment, N-rays,
Of current interest:
Scientific Objectivity Is a Myth
https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2025/09/05/scientific_objectivity_is_a_myth_1133000.html
NB: I initially interpreted “myth” as meaning “falsehood”, but that is not the case. Dr. Girodano provides some good examples and discussion. Unfortunately, I then clicked on the profile link . I’m just going to ignore it for now…
I’m personally not concerned about Facehack, but I already found that the Kindle desktop app does not run on Windows 7. Also, Prime Video does not run on W7. My current workaround is a VM with Windows 10, but that won’t last forever, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Facebook and YouTube stop using video that can be viewed on W7. I’m not sure if I’d go to later Windows or to Linux.
Back from high school football. We won in the last couple of minutes. Almost every play had a flag. Almost every play had an injury. Either these kids suck or the coaches are pushing the limit for dirty play.
The marching band plays while in the stands too, and of the several songs in their “fight song” rep are “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” and “The Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin – which is not something I ever thought I’d hear from a high school marching band. Kid knew the title, but not the original artist.
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Just got an email from amazon offering me 20% off on a new kindle, on my 11 year “kindle anniversary”, and telling me about the trade in plan. Coincidence? I am guessing ‘not’.
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You may ask yourself, where the Hell is Eswatini…
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/09/05/wow-ice-has-reportedly-given-kilmar-abrego-garcia-his-new-destination-and-its-not-uganda-n2193642
If I write the lyrics can I find an AI to do a David Byrne voice?
My HOA sent out an email today that they have stopped the runoff for the second HOA board director position and are going to recount the votes again according to Texas HOA law due to a request by one of the persons. They assure us that their lawyer says that they can do this. This was decided in a private meeting, violating Texas public meeting laws. They also canceled the public meeting that they were supposed to have on the first Thursday of the month.
Me, it looks like a scam. They have not seated the person who won the first position director election who is part of the new guard. The second position runoff is between a new guard person and an old guard person. The old guard person is currently on the board.
This appears to be a delaying tactic to delay the runoff election as long as possible.
orgs use the delaying tactic all the time. They know that swayed but not passionate will not keep showing up. You can get the pitchfork mob together this time, and maybe next time, but on the third time? Or sixth?
It sounds fishy to me.
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orgs use the delaying tactic all the time. They know that swayed but not passionate will not keep showing up. You can get the pitchfork mob together this time, and maybe next time, but on the third time? Or sixth?
It sounds fishy to me.
Very fishy.
One of my neighbors got 20 violations last month. It turns out that we are paying a person to drive through our neighborhood five days a week. Every time this person writes a violation, they get $15. Something is not right about that.
We all have acreage lots. Mine is smaller at 1.2 acres. Some are 1.0 acres and some are 3.0 acres. Lots of things to write up for that much land. I’ve been amazed that they have not complained about my 20+ year old fence that is sagging.
There have been some squirrely things going on. Some members of the board have been reputedly getting free services from contractors to the board. The main contractor has been overbilling us by 10 to 20% and the main contractor just reputedly quit us. I have been advocating to spend the $40K/year for the main contractor instead on another cop to patrol our neighborhood for speeders.
“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
The latest W11 Pro update to the ARM version, running under parallels, has apparently corrected the high CPU utilization. I have run Steve Gibson’s InControl to stop any future updates but apparently his program does nothing on the ARM version of Windows. The program does display a dialog box, I put in the version I wanted to keep, but that apparently did nothing. The update still got applied.
My main reason for avoiding the update was the high CPU utilization, a lot of the time at 100%.
I just looked on my phone. Swipe down and press the gear for settings. How did you manage to add the magnifying glass for search to my phone? Swear, I never noticed it before now.
The call blocking thing. Something I would think that would be in the dialer or in contacts. Yep, got it figured out. I found it in Settings under Sound. Turn on Do Not Disturb. Allow Contacts to ring. It works. It’s not exactly what I want, there is still a missed call showing and then there might be a voicemail to deal with. I just don’t hear the phone ring. I was wanting something more like “block any number not in my contacts” with no missed call or voicemail notifications, just disconnect. Making noise like a fax machine would do.
Maybe the next phone will have the option.