Raining and cooler, but still wet. Probably. I hope not, because I have a pickup to do, but them’s the breaks. It was rainy to start yesterday, then cleared into a nice day, before turning rainy again late. We had all the weather yesterday. And we might get it all again today.
I started my day with office stuff, then pickups. Did a quick pass through the bins, then home for batteries for my tools, then to the shop to break down the two new lappy carts, and some wheeled bases I thought I might reuse. Decided I’d rather have the money so I added them to the scrap run. I did pull the casters for reuse or sale.
While I was breaking down the carts, it rained from a clear blue sky. For a little while anyway. Weird but not unknown here.
Got the truck loaded for scrap, trash, and loaded the drywall cart for my first pickup today. I won an 86″ monitor for $30. It looks like it’s cracked, but upon closer examination, I’m pretty sure only the touchscreen is cracked. I’ll pull that off and be sure. If there isn’t anything to protect the real screen, I might order a sheet of “anti glare” film and install that into the touch panel frame. I’m hoping the TP is just installed in front of the normal screen surface.
An 86″ commercial display is heavy and very awkward to handle. A drywall cart makes it doable for one person to move it around. I’ll roll it on my ramp to get it in the truck. I have a folding wheelchair ramp that is 6ft long and perfect for getting stuff into and out of the pickup truck. No pickup if it’s raining though.
D1 is still feeling poorly so she’s home from school. D2 “exempted” out of her final tests in all classes today (grades high enough) so she’s home too. I do have to get her to a Dr appointment for a new school physical for ‘sports’. Stay at home dad duties today as well as pickups.
Anything else I do will depend on the weather. I’m sure I’ll do something. Even if it’s just stacking.
nick
110 lbs, or 50kg is reasonable for a slim, not-tall girl. Guys forget just how much stronger we are. I am reminded of my judo days, when we would do mixed sparring. The women were fit, but you still had to be careful not to hurt them, and you had to help them throw you.
Some years ago, there was an article in (I think) c’t magazine, where they fooled fingerprint scanners on various phones. If your biometrics have been compromised, what exactly can you do about it?
Will be amazing, if they actually manage to produce this. For the moment, however, I tend to side with people suspecting this trickle of power is actually measurement error.
I’ll believe it when I see it… Source of energy: hacking the simulation’s computers 😛
Re the endless ‘free’ energy from the Casimir effect, go and take a look at Sabine Hossenfelder’s youtube video which explains the effect and points out that it won’t work as they describe, it’s looking like a scam to harvest cash from dumb investors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEteCJUMVn4
If stupidity could generate power, we’d never be lacking for energy. ←- possible t-shirt?
Don’t be gadget obsessed. The US has a problem in that regard.
Fingerprint and retinal scanners are “cool”, but your PIN/password is protected as free speech/thought.
Most people are not aware that text messages are not protected by the requirement to get a warrant. In many cases, a court order isn’t even necessary as long as the request arrives at the carrier through the right channels. Obtaining location data for a phone has an even lower bar.
Just ask Trump’s lawyers. Remember, they had Fanni’s phone records before the Orange Man was sworn into office,.
Wee Pierre got his walking papers in Mar A Lago at the end of November in 2024. Do you think Trump didn’t have his phone records as well?
Too true. Who was the guy who had this mysterious perpetual energy machine that he kept demonstrating? Turned out he was doing something like powering the machinery through its ground wire…
Still, quantum mechanics is weird stuff. If we really are living in a simulation, one could suspect that it is showing the limits of the resolution. And who knows – maybe they have found a way to hack the simulator. Why not?
I am reminded of an old Sci-Fi story – by Asimov? – where it turned out that each star is an incubator, and by discovering something. Hmmm, I think it was nuclear-powered shields? Anyway, the discovery paved the way for humanity to escape the incubator.
The Bush cabal are out for revenge for derailing the dynasty at least for now. They will make sure that they do everything that they can to see that Paxton loses.
Florida got over Jeb! after the cabal betrayed the state, hence Ron DeSantis sitting in the Governor’s Mansion instead of the family’s hand-picked candidate, Adam “Opie” Putnam, who was promised the office in return for being the cabal’s point man on the amnesty bill in the 2000s.
P.. Diddly came to Texas to build his political career.
Texas still isn’t over the Bush clan. Wake up!
More T-shirt material!
Wednesday. Good day.
Eating lunch (köfte and a veal steak) at my favourite diversity restaurant. They don’t serve beer (anymore) or pork (ever), but they certainly know how to run a charcoal grill.
I attended the funeral of a gracious old lady this morning. I wasn’t prepared for how much the Requiem Mass would throw me back mentally to my own parents’ funerals. Sledgehammer of emotions.
Anyhow, I decided I needed some cheering up on the way home… grilled meat is what the doctor ordered.
State government in Texas, including Paxton, looked the other way while two children’s hospitals built facilities and support infrastructure to do God-only-knows what to kids in a quiet corner of Austin not far from my house. It was only after the RINOs needed a distraction from the true nature of property tax “reform” that the Legislature passed and Abbott signed the law regarding gender “confirmation” treatment in the state and got cranked up about the athletes.
Paxton also bailed out the Greedy -er- Griddy customers and upper management consisting of Clinton operatives without any debate.
I never did, except when showing how to perform a move or deliberately being a practice dummy so they could work on it. I was mostly helping with self-defense classes and had (and have) the firmly-held belief that it was a disservice to give women unjustified self confidence in their ability to fight off attackers or even pushy but not hostile guys. A few people appreciated my shrugging off a full-powered kick* but most people, students and instructors alike, criticized me for putting pressure on the students and hurting their self confidence. -shrug- Their choice, to live in a fool’s paradise.
Similar with water lifesaving instruction. I refused to help rescue myself, whether being towed across the swimming pool or being lifted onto the side. If I were really unconscious or coughing with a lung full of water, I wouldn’t be able to help, right? Even though I was skinny and weighed only 160-ish (at 6’3″), not one of the girls and only maybe half of the guys were able to rescue me when I was “unconscious”. If I didn’t keep my lungs full, almost none of the girls were even able to keep my face out of the water. And if I struggled like a panicking drowner, not a single student could rescue me and most got dragged under themselves. The instructors (I was a student, too, getting my Advanced Lifesaving or Water Safety Instructor certs) understood what I was doing but said that I needed to cooperate better because a pass rate of 20% wasn’t acceptable.
* One woman, who prided herself on the power, style, and speed of her kicks, did a roundhouse kick which I blocked by swinging my forearm down and smacking straight into her shin. I did feel the impact but it wasn’t as hard as when I smacked my arms into iron support poles in the cellar of the building where we practiced, to toughen them. She, on the other hand, sat down and started crying.
Transportation Secretary Duffy lights Sen Kirsten Hillibrand on fire and drop kicks her into an already flaming dumpster:
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/05/20/duffy-humiliates-gillibrand-she-tries-to-ambush-him-then-melts-down-when-her-7m-hypocrisy-is-exposed-n2202517
But she has a possible defense:
“Oh, did you say “private jet”? I thought you said “rocket ship”!”
Gillibrand said, “I think.” That was a lie. Gillibrand is an idiot. I’m not sure how she ever got elected to the House in the first place, unless no one else wanted to run. I do know how she became a senator: Governor David “Corrupt Retard” Patterson put her when Hillary Bitch Clinton resigned her seat because the power brokers needed someone pliable and reliably Communistic. Er, I mean, Democratic.
That’s really the idea: a living, moving practice dummy. I think our women knew full well what the strength difference was. The mixed sparring served the purpose of getting them used to a heavier, stronger opponent. If a woman is attacked, hopefully she will be able to throw him, or otherwise defend herself in a way that lets her escape.
That’s really odd – I mean, basic life-saving in the water isn’t that hard (as long as the rescuee isn’t trying to climb on your head). Maybe part of it: if you exhaled, likely you sank. A bit more fat would have helped your bouyancy. Even though I have a bit of a belly nowadays, I still have that: if I exhale in the pool, I sink. Maybe part of the reason I have never enjoyed swimming?
Used to love Nia Peeples on Walker Texas Ranger.
Self-defense for women should start with selecting shoes for running and then a running workout with 50-yard wind sprints and quarter miles.
If they can’t pass, get them into a carry course.
The best self-defense is not being there.
Wind sprints while screaming at the top of her lungs. The best cardio-respiratory workout!
Like a rock. I haven’t been in the water in years (can’t swim because of the shoulder and hip damage, so I don’t even bother) so I don’t know if I’m fat enough to float now.
You’re assuming a level of skill and athleticism which was not present, at least in many of the students. It was a good thing I could do without air for a while, as my face was underwater for most of the “rescue”. Sneer quotes definitely needed there, as at best they would have gotten a corpse to shore.
Many of the women – age mid-teens to late 30s, I think – that I refused to roll over and die for had an entirely inflated and unjustified opinion of their ability to defend themselves and no apparent comprehension of the strength difference. Size difference was an issue mainly for arm and leg length, as many of the adult women were close to my weight. (Yes, that was a snide remark. Subtle, eh?)
And, for my next stunt I will float across the English Channel.
We can now see to the bottom of the pool. There was surprisingly more debris than I would have thought. Probably small pieces of dirt that fell through the cover, dead algae that clumped, whatever. I vacuumed the pool to waste which dropped the water about two inches in the course of vacuuming. The debris was too fine to be caught by the filter, in the quantity involved, so it had to be sent to the sewer system. Some was caught by the filter as the backwash viewing vial was very cloudy. I think it is just the volume of material was too much for the filter.
The water is still slightly cloudy. A couple days of filtering ought to take care of that along with the robotic pool cleaner.
The water bill will probably be a little over $250.00 this month due to having to replenish the water in the pool.
I swam competitively in high school. I wasn’t the best ever, but I did qualify for the state meet my senior year in the 100 breaststroke. I worked at a pool and was a lifeguard, water safety instructor, and later a lifeguard instructor. What SteveF says is absolute truth. There were a few girls who could rescue me as a passive victim. They were all swimmers. The rest struggled/failed. I would hold enough air in my lungs so I wouldn’t sink.
Active drowning rescue? Forget about it. I would tone it down so they could hopefully understand the danger. I continually emphasized the importance of using rescue aids to keep separation from the victim.
The above experience is why I also never want to own a house with a pool. Maintaining an Olympic sized pool with a diving well, along with another smaller pool for the city, was quite enough for one lifetime.
I took a CERT training class at a local fire station, and one aspect was dealing with casualties in a disaster. In one scenario, the 5’6″ 165 pound fire captain who played victim was very experienced in becoming deadweight. It took 3 of us to lift him and carry him without aids.
OTOH, with a proper canvas frameless stretcher, one person could drag him over smooth ground..
My oldest son was a BSA lifeguard. His instructor gave them all a speech the first day at summer camp, something like this: “The Boy Scouts will let me certify you if you complete the ½ mile swim. I won’t. You must complete the mile swim.” In addition to the other training, of course.
regarding self-defense courses for women:
There are at least three things working against success:
The current leftist idiocy of allowing male predators and opportunistic narcissists to compete in women‘s sports demonstrates the fallacy if physical equality of the sexes.
Hey, Lynn, I have a suggestion for you: Instead of rewriting your codebase in C++, why aren’t you using Rust? You can use an LLM to do it if you don’t know the language yourself. If it’s good enough for ESR, it’s good enough for you.
I wasn’t prepared for how much the Requiem Mass would throw me back mentally to my own parents’ funerals.
– powerful music always makes my eyes sting, and sometimes makes me cry. It’s intended to make you feel, and it does. Especially in context.
Funerals do it to me, not necessarily because of the guest of honor, but because of the scenarios and people it brings to my mind.
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Still raining although it might be tapering off. Moderate temps.
Nice to sleep in, but tell my brain. I woke MANY times during that “sleep” to check the time.
Time for coffee and something to eat.
n
Given the context, shouldn’t that have been spelled phallusy?
There are a lot of people who have never been punched for their offensive behavior. It’s a salutary lesson when one is young.
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72F and the rain is probably stopped. There is dripping, but I think it’s from the trees.
Time to get moving on the kid’s Dr appointment.
n
phallusy
– stevef breaks the internet today.
n
Ditto. The requiem by Fauré is also incredible. The same for other kinds of powerful art.
That said, I just don’t get modern art, or modern “classical” music. Just as an example: due to small town politics, last week I had to help set up for an exhibition. It’s a set of artworks inspired by the poet Rilke, who died 100 years ago. Modern artworks. So we get a set of pink plastic pillows melted together. An overly large mailbox. A piece of plexiglass with a story glued on the back: Rilke thought the chalk water from washing his poetic blackboard would make a valuable keepsake. Etc..
“Prices on request”. Um…not sure what I would charge to take those hideous melted pillows…
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
If not, let me know when ESR ships NTPsec written in Rust.
That’s because you are not a scatologist.
My rule of thumb is that if I can’t tell if a piece of artwork was created by a professional artist or by a five-year-old, it’s garbage.
And by and large, if the artist needs government subsidies to keep himself (or more commonly, herself) fed, he’s a garbage artist.
That’s because it wasn’t sarcasm. It was 100% pure, unadulterated nonsense. I’d say that it was like the crap that patients babble when coming out of anaesthetic, but I must regretfully state that the oral surgeon who took out my daughter’s wisdom teeth* used something which did not result in babbling. No one was more disappointed than her classmates, who’d asked me to record her yammering away like a fool.
* Hmm. No wisdom teeth. Could that explain some of her suboptimal life choices?
You just described plugs’ The LastTM least favorite son, Hunter, except replace subsidies with grift and out-and-out theft.
My friend who works for one of the “club” companies on Wall Street recently talked about using AI and feeling like a group of Mr. Datas (Datii?) on the bridge of the Enterprise.
All tech sits downstream of the art department of “Star Trek The Next Generation”.
Lets hope that we dont end up living on Pakled Planet.
Life on Ferengenar wasn’t bad until the Grand Nagus lost control of the war in Iran.
Never having had wisdom teeth is a sign of a more evolved human. SteveF is a parent of the future race.
Did the dentist not take an x-ray? Lack of wisdom teeth is pretty easy to diagnose that way, and quite a blessing for the protagonist.
First you die. Then they put you in a box and bury you. Then the worms eat you.
Be glad it happens in that order.
– Solomon Short
Hey, Lynn, I have a suggestion for you: Instead of rewriting your codebase in C++, why aren’t you using Rust? You can use an LLM to do it if you don’t know the language yourself. If it’s good enough for ESR, it’s good enough for you.
You know, that is ironic. Just ask Alanis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc
I have my wisdom teeth. They grew in straight. The dentist showed me the x-rays. I remember how they ached cutting through the gum. Just a dull ache but interesting to feel the lumps growing in my gums. Great fun to be eating something and chomping a flap of gum really hurts, too. No wonder babies carry on when they are teething.
My sisters and brother had theirs removed. I heard it was unpleasant.
Life on Ferengenar wasn’t bad until the Grand Nagus lost control of the war in Iran.
Nah, we have used nukes before and we will use them again.
“Three Supertankers Carrying 6 Million Barrels Exit Strait Of Hormuz”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/three-supertankers-carrying-6-million-barrels-exit-strait-hormuz
“The crude cargoes were split evenly among three Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) heading to Asian refining hubs. The first was Universal Winner, a South Korean-flagged supertanker carrying 2 million barrels of Kuwaiti crude oil. Shipping data on LSEG and Kpler showed that the vessel is currently en route to Ulsan, South Korea, to discharge at an SK Energy facility by June 9.”
“The second VLCC was Yuan Gui Yang, a Chinese-flagged vessel hauling 2 million barrels of Iraqi Basrah crude. Chartered by Unipec (the trading arm of Sinopec), the supertanker is heading toward Guangdong province with an expected arrival on June 4.”
“Finally there was Ocean Lily, a Hong Kong-flagged tanker loaded with 2 million barrels split evenly between Qatari al-Shaheen and Iraqi Basrah crude. Owned by Sinochem, the vessel is tracking toward Fujian province for a June 5 arrival.”
I wonder if they paid the $2,000,000 transit fee each to the IRGC ?
Unless flames and high temperature are involved. Then you are just dust, with small fragments, that look like coarse beach sand.
I have mine removed in 1972, by the military, on Oahu, at Hickam AFB. Yes, it was unpleasant. I was in the chair for three hours. All four were removed at the same time. Cutting the gums, drilling holes, then fracturing the teeth into smaller parts, yanking out the roots, then stitches. Towards the end the Novocain, or whatever the dentist used, was wearing off. I expressed my significant pain and the dentist said I had all the Novocain allowed by regulations. By the end I was in tears, clenching my butt cheeks, and squeezing the arm rest (with my hands, not my butt cheeks) until my fingers hurt.
I was prescribed some type of really strong pain killer tablets for afterwards, hydrocodone, I think. I went to McDonalds because I was hungry and the mess hall was not open, ate carefully as I was quite tender, went back to the barracks, took one pill, passed out, and slept for 18 hours, and woke up in a fog. I tossed the rest of the pills.
Three days later, cheeks still swollen, I was given TDY orders for the Philippines to install a base computer system for Military Airlift Command (MAC). I had three hours to pack and get to the flight. I had to also get to the medical clinic for vaccinations for overseas. Six injections, three in each arm. Then crammed into the chartered plane for a 13-hour flight. I was miserable. My mouth hurt, my gums hurt, my arms hurt. I had the stitches removed, eight of them, when I was in the Philippines at Clark AFB.
Yeh, it was unpleasant.
Was the dentist civilian or military? I had a 100 year old civilian dentist redo a filling at Fort Hood. As the needle came up for numbing, his hand was wobbling all over the place. I knew it would hurt and it was the worst numbing I’ve ever had. When the filling was done, I told him he was the worst dentist I’d ever had and would recommend he be fired. I bet he had a suspended license. Cheapest bid contract dentist would be my guess. Luckily, I never had to have any more work done. This was my last assignment in the Army. I didn’t follow up on what happened to to him, but I hope he died of old age before his next “victim”.
Proof that this is the best of all possible worlds.
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90F outside, there are many things to do in the yard but it no longer looks like a construction zone.
Don’t be gadget obsessed. The US has a problem in that regard.
My home air conditioning zone computer got hosed last night in the thunderstorm and is now running the zone a/c full on. It got down to 65 F in my daughter’s area last night. The only control that we have is the a/c circuit breaker.
The thunderstorm also took out my GFCI in the garage which was screaming at me today, it has a beeper when it is tripped. It is now disconnected from the grid.
I am reminded of an old Sci-Fi story – by Asimov? – where it turned out that each star is an incubator, and by discovering something. Hmmm, I think it was nuclear-powered shields? Anyway, the discovery paved the way for humanity to escape the incubator.
Robert Forward’s “Dragon Egg” book?
https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Egg-Novel-Del-Impact/dp/034543529X?tag=ttgnet-20
Wisdom teeth. Top two done at 18 absolute piece of cake went out that night. Bottom two, 2 years later impacted and sideways. lots of work and I was miserable. Survived the next week on pain pills, beer and milk shakes. Right lower lip was numb for the next 20 years. My own fault for putting it off.
Proof that this is the best of all possible worlds.
And yup, ten ton worms roaming around the place eating anything and everything sucks.
And yeah, the Stargate universe sucks with the Gould constantly attacking Earth.
Hey, Lynn, I have a suggestion for you: Instead of rewriting your codebase in C++, why aren’t you using Rust? You can use an LLM to do it if you don’t know the language yourself. If it’s good enough for ESR, it’s good enough for you.
Wait, where did ESR mention Rust? Or is ESR now a Rust advocate?
Hmm. Looks like I linked the wrong tweet. Time permitting, I’ll see if I can find the correct one. Odds are I won’t have time, won’t remember, or won’t be able to find it. Summary: He doesn’t know Rust and is/was dubious about “vibe” coding, so he coded something in Rust, having an LLM do all of the coding, including functional tests to verify results. IIRC, he translated a program from C to Rust, or maybe wrote a Rust program inspired by a C program.
Meanwhile, ponder this: There are close to 1000 billionaires in the United States and not one of them has chosen to become Batman. Shameful.
Requiem music.
Once upon a time I told the story of being a non-singer literally in the middle of a choir singing from Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem. Wie Lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen.
My other such story involves attending the final rehearsal of the St. Louis Symphony and chorus doing Verdi’s Requiem. Since it was a rehearsal, I got the best seat in the house, center of first balcony. I was sitting next to the director of the chorus, who had prepared and then handed them off to the symphony director, Leonard Slatkin.
Verdi, being quintessentially theatrical, pulled out all the stops for this one. Four antiphonal choirs of brass, a bass drum the size of a pool table (and a mallet the size of an axe), and all the operatic fireworks you can imagine.
The brass choirs are striking wherever you are, but my seat was literally in the middle of the hall, and I got the full effect of 19th century quadraphonics. It was magnificent, and aurally disorienting. I was pulled forward and back, left and right, and my senses were overloaded. The Dies Irae moved you. If not emotionally, then at least physically.
There was an old NPR show called The Record Shelf, and the host described this piece of music like this: “I played this recording for an agnostic friend of mine. He said it almost made him believe.”
“SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st Starship V3 completes fueling test ahead of May 21 liftoff”
https://www.space.com/news/live/spacex-starship-flight-12-launch-updates-may-20-2026
“SpaceX’s newest version of its massive Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, is now scheduled to launch its critical test flight no earlier than Thursday, May 21, at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) from Starbase, Texas,.”
“You can see our latest updates on the Starship V3 (short for Version 3) rocket, including its test flight goals, system upgrades and more. Flight 12 is the 12th test flight of the Starship vehicle since 2023, but the first for this year, and the first Starship test flight in 7 months.”
“The world’s biggest rocket: How SpaceX’s new Starship ‘V3’ differs from its predecessors”
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/the-worlds-biggest-rocket-how-spacexs-new-starship-v3-differs-from-its-predecessors
“V3 stands about 5 feet (1.5 meters) taller than previous Starship builds and packs a much heavier punch. Both stages —Super Heavy and Ship — have been equipped with SpaceX’s new Raptor 3 engine — sleeker, more powerful and more reliable upgrades over the previous Raptor 2. For the Super Heavy booster, that means 33 engines firing with a combined thrust of over 18 million pounds at liftoff.”
More bigger rockets !
Hat tip to:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/05/third-version-lucky.html
“Another Killer Tranny”
https://areaocho.com/another-killer-tranny-2/
“TRANS TERROR: San Diego mosque shooting suspects identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark & 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez, identified as a transgender couple by classmates. 3 men dead including a security guard. Drive-by media will bury the shooters’ identities & ideology.”
“Hey, at least they are out there killing the Muslims who would gladly toss them from a roof. I will allow it. Penalties offset. Replay the down.”
“The fact that they were not MAGA, but instead were trannies explains why this dropped from the news cycle so quickly.”
Normal, non-mentally ill, White, American men are grossly below average. We’re not killing nearly our share of strangers, our own children, or people selected for their race.
Of course, when White men do get fed up and arm up, nations tend to die.
“Dow Advances Nuclear Project in Texas, Launches Data Center Cooling Program”
https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/industrynews/news/55378793/dow-advances-nuclear-project-in-texas-launches-data-center-cooling-program
“The proposed Long Mott Generating Station would be the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor deployed to serve an industrial site in North America.”
“Dow and X- energy, a developer of small modular nuclear reactors, announced on May 18 the completion of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)’s environmental assessment for Dow’s proposed advanced nuclear project in Seadrift, Texas. The evaluation of no significant impact moves forward the construction permit application filed by Dow and X-energy.”
“The proposed Long Mott Generating Station is being developed through Dow’s wholly owned subsidiary, Long Mott Energy, under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. According to the announcement, the facility would supply both electricity and high-temperature industrial steam to Dow’s UCC Seadrift Operations, supporting production of more than 4 billion pounds of materials per year. Once complete, the station is expected to be the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor deployed to serve an industrial site in North America, said Dow.”
Cool.
Normal, non-mentally ill, White, American men are grossly below average. We’re not killing nearly our share of strangers, our own children, or people selected for their race.
Of course, when White men do get fed up and arm up, nations tend to die.
I’d make the argument that White, American men are arming up and have been for several years.
“Commiefornia Gas Prices Could Surge to $10 a Gallon”
https://thelibertydaily.com/commiefornia-gas-prices-could-surge-10-gallon/
““I believe we could very easily be around $10 gas. … It’s about to get worse if we don’t do anything about it,” Assemblyman David Tangipa, R-Fresno, said in an interview with the Daily Signal.”
““We have become extremely reliant on foreign imports. The last tanker from the Middle East that left the Strait of Hormuz arrived about 10 days ago. Now we aren’t getting anything from some of these foreign markets.””
Their politicians led them into this mess.
There is no hope for that state at this point, but I see a lot more WA State plates around Austin heading into the Memorial Day real estate silly season.
Memorial Day is really early this year. I didn’t make the connection with the out-of-town plates until my wife said something last night.
From the people who brought you Napalm.
Management should hire a contractor to check the bulletproof glass on the windows facing the street at Dow HQ in Midland, MI.
@Nick – If you are seeing a lot of TP Link AXE5400 routers in the returns auction, a co-worker who just picked one up said that the company switched to a new hardware revision which is apparently not as good as the previous generation which I bought back in February.
After the last firmware upgrade, my 1.0 hardware has been solid, but I still don’t trust TP Link to sit between my cable modem and home network.
Thousands of Illegal Aliens Live in Taxpayer-Funded Housing. Trump Is Ending it.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/19/thousands_of_illegal_aliens_live_in_taxpayer-funded_housing_trump_is_ending_it_154133.html
Take their DNA, present them with a bill for illegally claimed benefits, kick them out, prosecute them for theft, and stay the prosecution if they self-deport. Then start going after the government enablers and bring conspiracy charges whenever possible.
We need to quit supporting useless college degrees and get us a whole bunch of auditors.
GEN WARS: Gen Z Complaining to Boomers That They’re Expected to Live on ‘War Rations’ for Lunch
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/05/20/gen-z-complaining-that-theyre-expected-to-live-on-war-rations-for-lunch-n2428398
If you never learned to cook supper and pack leftovers for lunch, shop frugally and intelligently so you can make an inexpensive lunch that you enjoy, and limit eating out to the occasional meal that you can afford, then you’re probably an idiot in many other ways and think you can vote yourself into prosperity with a straight ticket for the Dems that promise “fairness”.
SteveF and Lynn; A lovely AI reading of that Kipling poem by “Amelia” of the anti-EU, pro-British video presentation.
When the English began to hate.
https://youtu.be/06MbRLE_kAQ
https://grok.com/c/bf338bcb-f55c-4094-b79f-045b5a53a5d2?rid=4c59b7a2-0f2d-4917-b3c3-38d4b47f5146
That is exactly what will happen.
He was military, a captain.
I did have one doctor on sick call at Randolph that bragged about losing her medical license in Texas. She was now on federal property and did not require a state license. I got concerned when she looked up the symptoms in a book then search for treatment. Which I promptly ignored and left. I came back the next day with the same affliction and asked for another doctor.
not one of them has chosen to become Batman
– that we know of!
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Cali imports thru the Straits of Horndog… now the whining about the closure MAKES SENSE. Since none of the rest of us use iraqi oil, I couldn’t figure it out.
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Definitely coming down with whatever D1 has. Yuck.
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Did most of my pickups today as the rain stopped and it actually got very nice in the late afternoon. Didn’t get the 86″ TV though. I’ll get it Monday. That will give me more time to make some room for it.
Two more aquatainers for <$10, and a bunch of one gallon collapsible water jugs. Maybe 16 total? I think I’m ok on water storage for a while. Aquatainers are an expendible item because they degrade in UV light and the spigots always fail from either time or chlorine.
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time for dadtaxi to get the kid and friends from a movie
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Current law requires the civilian provider to have a state license but not necessarily the same state as where they work. Some states are more forgiving about malpractice. Texas, however, is not one of those states.
Military doctors don’t need a state license, but not having at least one is bad “optics”.
UPDATE: Military doctors need a state license now according to my spouse. Any state will do, but the license has to be unrestricted.
The downside of the provider not having a license for the state in which they practice is that the patient is at the mercy of the prices at the base dispensary or exchange for any medications the military medical plan doesn’t cover.
BTW – New TP Link routers are Hecho en Vietnam.
My previous generation 5400 was Hecho en China.
No way this was a gasoline fire.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15834359/new-york-car-explosion-Manhattan-wall-street-raging-bull.html
MTA vehicle, maybe CNG?
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– why would you quarantine someone for a chemical exposure?
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– no protestation that they are US citizens or here legally. Lived here several years. COULDN’T SPELL HIS OWN NAME.
– his employer should be prosecuted too.
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Looks like the pine tree in the yard that was hit by lightning is dead after all. I thought we were going to be ok when the bark healed over the 4 inch wide strip that was blown off from crown to root, but all of the needles have browned and fallen out, and the limbs are shriveling. The change in just a week or two was dramatic.
So that is another thing on the list that I didn’t plan for. Gotta call someone soon.
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They are bending over backwards so far they can see up their @sses to avoid blaming the woman in charge.
Sucked into a cave system with no other opening? One where the water is so still that every surface is covered with silt that can be disturbed by an errant flipper movement? There can be no flow if the water inside doesn’t move– so pull the other one.
This whole thing is starting to stink. No way that an experienced diver, “one of the best in the world”, with” over 5000 dives”, dove in the wrong place and “accidentally” entered a cave at double the depth for recreational dives. If I know cave diving is dangerous, certainly an experienced diver does too. And they weren’t a little bit inside, they were all the way in.
I bet the dive instructor/boat captain said “screw you guys, I’m goin’ home.” It was just too late at that point.
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That is exactly what will happen.
“Fairness” is like No Child Left Behind which was actually No Child Gets Ahead.
But this child at heart is going to get to bed….
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But this child at heart is going to get to bed….
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I ain’t ever been called mature.