Hey, Yinz. Well, remember way back when me and Mrs Coldwarrior had twins, and ‘datu puti’ at 3 years old?…2011.
Well, all is well. Cheerleaders and most populars…etc. BUT, a schism has occurred! yes! One is a violin player and, as expected, has outgrown her basic violin. So, time to upgrade. It isn’t as simple as it appears!
Lets get to it: New V Old:
GOOD LORD! it really doesn’t stop there….now we got some carbon fiber peeps:
money is gonna get spent.
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Well, I think the person who actually plays the effing instrument should have some input.
You go girl!
Anna Paulina In Congress — ‘I carry my firearm without your permission’…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/anna-paulina-in-congress-i-carry-my-firearm-without-your-permission/
“The same Democrats who are voting to send firearms to Ukraine are telling me I can’t carry one.”
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1620942002329378816?
Bless
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
Nothing like fresh wild salmon but the Kiwi stuff is OK. There are two types …. fresh water and salt water. The fresh water salmon is raised in the hydro electric dam’s ‘power races’ (outfall channels once the hydro water has exited the turbines) in the Southern Alps. The salt water salmon used to be raised in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island. The Sounds salmon are moving from near Blenheim to Cook Straight between the North and South Islands where the water is colder and has a fast current with 6-800 feet depth of water. There are zero contamination from salmon shit although all farmed salmon are now fed with a mix of Kiwi and Chilean fish food that maximises the fish weight gain. Hence Cold’s notice that the flesh has lower muscle density.
US $28 a Lb … that’s …over US$ 60 or NZ$90 a Kg RETAIL. That’s MADDNESS. You’re getting suckered.
I can source pallet loads of fresh caught and chilled (NOT Frozen) and airfreighted salmon anywhere in the US for a fraction of that. If either of you guys want to make some $$$$ do let me know and we can do some business.
You’ll need a wholesaler to handle the logistics but we can do the business where EVERYONE makes a very good living. Loads of experience with off season foods mostly to China ….. not anymore…. SPIT. Also have experience in craft woollens into the US so it’s not as if we are ‘newby’s’ in the US marketplace. US retail is a hiding for nothing and wholesale is the ONLY way to go!
e-Mail me if you’d want to discuss it!
Los Angeles just dropped new NetZero Ordinance No. 187714.
Nevermind that most of the wildfires (after lightning strikes) were caused by PG&E.
https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=c.search&tab=ORD
What’s up with these balloons from China? (I see Canada seems to have one also)
First – how did it even GET here? Did no one notice our air space has been violated?
Two – it poses no threat to people on the ground? HEY! GENIUS! How about when we’ve got 25 floating around and we’ve become desensitized to these ‘mere data collection devices’ – and then they all open fire?
Three – how long does it actually TAKE for the CCP to transfer all that money into Joe’s bank account?
Kira Davis, subbing for Bongino, just played this Hank Johnson classic from 2013. It’s not the one about Guam tippipng over. It’s about balloons.
https://youtu.be/Z2jVTbwVGko?t=66
oh yeah, almost forgot. Aren’t there CCP police operating in NYC and other places? Supposedly to keep an eye on ‘dissidents’?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
What a fool.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think the balloon in question passed over Canada before it crossed into Montana. I also think that weather balloons may be exempt, if that is what it is.
IIRC the Japanese used balloons as weapons in WWII, carrying incendiaries.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
This one has solar panels.
Possum wrote:
That is not what it is. Pentagon said it’s “just collecting data”. It didn’t say “it’s collecting weather data”. Not that we would have believed them in any case.
My money is on the scary balloon being a communications balloon that is used to provide Internet communications in remote areas of China and the deflate mechanism failed.
I looked for an old article deliberately. That was from 2010
https://www.gradiant.org/en/news/low-cost-balloon-repeaters-for-wireless-networks/
anyone hearing anything about an explosion in Billings Montana. I can find only one link and it’s behind a paywall
eaglesoars wrote:
There are CCP goon squad cops operating in San Fran as well.
So far the Feds haven’t upset them yet as they live in the socialist peoples’ republik of California!
eaglesoars wrote:
The US Project Mogul ‘Big Ear in the Sky’ was a secret US balloon project to spy on Russian Nuke tests between 1947 and 1949. Then Project Skyhook floated photo recon balloons over Russia from 1949, as well as two other spy programs Project Moby Dick and Project Gentrix, involving balloon overflights and photo
graphic surveillance of the Soviet Union during the 1950s, Project Moby Dick and Project Genetrix. The spy balloon overflights pissed off the Soviets big time, but they were only marginally successful and didn’t deliver film until a reasonable time after exposures, and were expensive.
Manned spy overflights followed during the 1950s until the Soviets surprised the US in 1960 as the Russian SA-2 became capable of ambush shoot-down.
The U2 overflights followed until the US overflight program ran out of luck and Gary Powers was shot down by a SA-2 SAM and he didn’t die as planned and embarrassed everyone involved!
Reconnaissance would afterward (for decades) be handled mostly by reconnaissance satellites and when the CIA needed something quickly by aircraft, like the Mach 3+ A-12 Oxcart and SR-71 Blackbird (photography and radar) and RC-135U and similar aircraft (SIGINT including ELINT and COMINT) floating along the borders of the Soviet Union and peering over the ‘fence’….
🙂
So you see that there is nothing new under the sun with these CCP balloons.
hey CW – a 23 min video on Escoffier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4EDc9JpTx4
@ eaglesoars:
Tho that video is London, it’s the same in NYC. Look at that stove and tell me any restaurant chef would go electric
BREAKING: MASSIVE Explosion Reported in Skies Over Montana [VIDEO]
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2023/02/03/breaking-explosion-reported-in-skies-over-montana-video-n1667806
And Milley needs to be frog marched out of the Pentagon. In high heels
from a comment at instapundit
The Chinese have been doing this for years, because until very recently they had no capability of launching recon satellites. So they’ve used high-altitude balloons instead. It isn’t anything new, and we usually ignore them and/or jam them.
This is being used to distract, but the question – as always – is “from what”??
Is that true?
https://www.wnd.com/2023/02/chinese-balloon-called-dry-run-emp-attack/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoFexzTakAIB29p?format=png&name=small
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
And people laugh at me because I slowly but surely prep
Biden ‘WILL try to shoot down’ the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic so it can be retrieved and studied – as aircraft is due to exit the east coast over the Carolinas by noon today
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11712933/Biden-try-shoot-Chinese-spy-balloon-Atlantic.html
Ok boys and girls, here’s the latest installment of the Harry & Meghan Montecito shit show. My source for this is the incomparable Lady Colin Campbell, a well known historian out of the UK who KNOWS EVERYBODY. She puts up youtube videos 3 times a week which I would have to be three quarters dead to miss.
So. About 2 weeks ago there were reported sightings of Meghan at the Beverly Hills hotel with a very old man that was unidentified. And another encounter in a suite in the same hotel where she was meeting with an apparent architect and they appeared to be going over house plans.
Well, things that make you go hmmmmmm…
The standard operating procedure for a narcissist – and Meghan meets the clinical definition, ticks all 10 boxes – is to EVENTUALLY discard their ‘intimate primary source’ after they’ve sucked and bled them dry. That would be Harry. But she wouldn’t do that YET would she? If there’s one thing Meghan wants, it’s titles for those supposed children of hers and she won’t dump Harry until the titles are granted or Charles gives her a firm “not on your life”. So the timing is a bit off.
In today’s video, Lady C, as she’s affectionately called, spilled the beans. Indeed Meghan HAS been hanging out with an elderly gentleman, an extremely wealthy one, current worth approx $2billion.
Gordon Getty. Gordon is known for his generosity. He had a long, happy marriage to Ann, who has passed, and a long term mistress (Cynthia I believe) for whom he built a house or two.
You may recall – or not – that in his recently published book, SPARE, Harry opened his fat mouth and said he had killed about 25 Taliban during his tour in Afghanistan. Which pissed off everybody, because that’ just bad form and Harry is an asshole. Also, the Taliban know where he lives, so he’s also a moron.
The sob story Meghan is feeding Mr. Getty is that she and her children are no longer safe because the Taliban will be coming after Harry and she has no place to hide.
Cue the architect with the house plans.
Now how in the world, you might ask, could Lady C POSSIBLY know this?
BECAUSE THE GETTY FAMILY TOLD HER AND ASKED HER TO SPILL IT
If anybody knows a gold digger when they see one, it’s people with loads of money.
Consequences: 1. Wait till Harry finds out 2. There goes the invite to the coronation 3. Those supposed offspring will see unicorns before titles 4. Charles may decide – finally – to pull the Sussex titles. They are no longer working royals, they don’t live in the UK and they were ‘favor’ titles conferred by Her Majesty upon their marriage. Charles can pull them at any time. 5. A member of Parliament has already submitted a bill to pull the Sussex titles, we’ll see how that goes. However, there have been petitions to also strip Harry of ‘Prince’, which the monarch cannot do, that is solely the purview of Parliament.
I have another 30 minutes of the video to go, back later.
One more piece of info. Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia renewed their vows the other day and had a party that H&M attended. I’ve seen one photo and Lady C’s info is that they spent the entire party like this.
On opposite sides of the room. The reason this is important is that up until then, they have never been seen not holding hands. People call it Meghan’s Claw of Doom.
Laid Back Picker & Honey Bun are from Southern Culture on the Skids.
So somebody shot down the fucking balloon I see
The U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, according to media reports.
The FAA issued a ground stop in parts of North Carolina and South Carolina on Saturday afternoon “to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/04/us-military-prepares-to-take-down-suspected-chinese-surveillance-balloon.html
@ eaglesoars:
The CCP knew the balloon was adrift, civilian weather balloon or not.
The CCP could have easily taken it down over the Pacific to avoid an international incident.
There was more than one balloon that went AWOL.
Test probe complete.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
To be honest pointless shooting it down.
In a couple of weeks it would have ended upback in China.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh! My husband just asked me about a second balloon and I told him I thought there was only one. Where’s the other one?
I have to read a Brit newspaper to find out wtf is going on in my own country
DNC ousts Iowa and New Hampshire as the lead primary states in major 2024 election shake-up aimed at boosting black vote and benefitting Biden : South Carolina will now take the first spot
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11713371/DNC-ousts-Iowa-New-Hampshire-lead-primary-states-major-2024-election-shake-up.html
Retired General Jack Keane yesterday.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6319741095112
eaglesoars wrote:
South America / Venezuela. There are conflicting reports about a third.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
oh, right, I knew that
This is weird.Someone in L.A. is sending me anonymous Valentines postcards. Got three so far, handwriting on two match.
Anyway, glad to be back in Houston after spending a few days in LA.
hey y’all
just a fun watch
Georgia Guidestones Darkest Secrets Revealed | Destroyed by a villain or a hero?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59IiApDiWjA
@ Possum:
lol
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
🙂
15 second video of the shoot down, the jet shows up at 14 secs
https://twitter.com/LtTimMcMillan/status/1621959244873441285
@ rain of lead:
never heard of ’em
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
save them. If you’re murdered homicide detectives will be interested.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It’s not me…
Reading Putins bio. One of them. Biden is Putin lite.
Learned that Russians like to drink beer when attending a sauna.
IMO. Putin will try and talk his way through Ukraine but would not hesitate to launch a Nuke if NATO over extends itself.
He wants a good chunk of the Ukraine back and also Estonia.
Putin once received 1000 percent interest on some St Petersburg bank deposits.
In Russia there is a good legal type of bribe and an illegal extortionate type of bribe. And culture matters.
halfway done haven’t gotten to the good parts yet. Currently he is working directly for Yeltsin.
Reading that no one has verified symptoms from the vax. I had a regression the past two months. I’m pretty sure its vax related. My body starts to spark with a coolness that I think is the color blue. Like someone pricked you with a pin. And the left hand started ocnly locking up with a full on cramp. And everything has a sweet aftertaste.
Just riding it out and seeing what makes things better and what makes things worse. Going to increase my weight lifting at the gym.
I lol’d at the gym the other day. Two young boys about 10 years old were there. One with mom. One with dad. They began this long series of good byes trying to outdo the other and get the last word in.
Finally, at about 15 good byes and see yah later alligators came “Hit the road, M’fcker.”
I laughed.
eaglesoars wrote:
Forward these clues to homicide in case I get whacked.
Someone bought them at World Market, either on 3rd Street or Santa Monica Blvd. One of them is female and left-handed.
darkwords wrote:
Obviously not. You only send half-empty packages of Reese’s.
For you medical sleuths.
A 25 year old came down with an illness suddenly and subsequent treatements were ineffective. Seven years later the cause was identified.
What is your diagnosis?
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, it happened same day as the balloon. Don’t go to The Blaze, they completely got the article wrong. The sheriff basically has said “something happened,we don’t know what”. It was caught on video by one person and is still a mystery last I checked. Some kind of odd explosion with a trail in the air.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
uh, let’s start with nutrition shall we?
@ eaglesoars:
That was a result of the illness, but not the cause.
Willow is barking in her sleep
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
not buying the diagnosis
Started watching Outlander on Netflix. Seems like a pretty good series so far. Actually learning some history by watching it.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
That reads like old medicine. Modern day would be a 2 week retreat at an Ayuahasca resort (5 stars) with a 30 day cleanse before participation.
However I can never guess right on these things. The SSRI’s, beta blockers, and anti psychotics are all shots in the dark by the profession. Tools which they use only because of experience with them before.
One thing people with void feelings should do is a parasite cleanse. The bugs often hijack emotional being. The gut biome is interrupted and stressed.
Then use https://www.insidetracker.com/ with promo code Huberman and a garmin fitness tracker plus 23 and me. That will line up blood work with the latest genetic technology.
For a person deep in the throws of mental confusion they will need a long term guide they can trust.
eaglesoars wrote:
That would be my main thought also.
one benefit of the pandemic. I started taking vitamin D every day and eating more fish.
darkwords wrote:
dna straight to the CCP
@ darkwords:
Your assessment is closer than you think. I’m gonna wait until CW takes a guess.
@ eaglesoars:
Several years ago the missus requested an Ancestry evaluation for her birthday so I got one for both of us. It told us nothing about our ancestries we didn’t already know, except that I’ve got a smidgen of eastern European Jewish blood.
That was before we learned of the Chy-Nah connection and how they could exploit such a massive DNA database.
eaglesoars wrote:
Someone submitted their pet iguana to 23 and me. Turns out his ancestors were in west Africa.
@ darkwords:
I’ll bet a lot of people did stuff like that, and now there’s one specifically for dogs and people who like to throw away money.
darkwords wrote:
The woman who started that company is the ex of one of the founders of google.
I gave my dna to Ancestry before I caught on. I decided to do 23 and me because I wanted to compare results.
THEN. I started getting all these requests from 23 and me to play games. After about 15 minutes I woke up and realized they were trying to establish my IQ and other stuff. They weren’t ‘games’.
I never sent my saliva samples in and I blocked them. For Ancestry it was too late. I still get notifications from them as they expand their database and it is fun. But never again.
btw, I’m still a Valkyrie. So. There.
Unfortunately ‘native Americans’ aren’t big on the dna bullshit so the Ancestry data on them is non-existent. My nose and the family Bible say there’s a lot of Shawnee there but Ancestry can’t spell ‘Shawnee’.
https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2023/01/31/ba-5-we-hardly-knew-ye/
This is not a bug, it’s a feature. They are absolutely serious about getting rid of natural gas. In NY, they passed a law with standards that are intentionally impossible to meet.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-2-4-in-new-york-a-very-slow-political-awakening
Friederich said that his coop had commissioned a study which indicated that for their buildings, no natural gas heat system could comply with the LL97 requirements come 2030, and that a replacement electric heat pump system would cost a completely unaffordable $25 million or so. Alternatively, the buildings would face fines starting at well over $1 million per year and escalating from there. Officers of a couple of other coop boards had comparable numbers to share. Meanwhile, New York State’s edicts for emissions reductions on a supposed path to Net Zero are completely clueless as to where the electricity is going to come from to switch all buildings to electric heat, let alone all cars to electricity as well.
So Friederich’s position was that his coop had been put in an impossible position, and he had no plan for what to do — other than to tell the politicians to change the ridiculous law.
John Ratcliffe was just on Maria B’s show saying at this point you have to wonder if some people in Biden’s security teams are compromised.
No idea where he gets THAT from…………
Germany: Global green energy company Siemens Gamesa reported Thursday that it had lost a staggering $967 million during the three-month period from between October to December.
(in 3 MONTHS??!!)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massive-green-energy-company-reports-1-billion-losses-calls-further-governmental-action
They want more gov’t money
Great shooting USAF!
An electronics package about the size of a small microwave oven is now scattered across an area of seven square miles in the Atlantic ocean.
Good luck finding all the bits and putting it back together LOL
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I’d do a tropical disease battery, full liver panel, urine and stool analysis…I’d start with malaria or rift valley fever and work back from there. Jaundice means liver failure, this can cause increased ammonia levels leading to confusion ans erratic behavior
@ Possum:
More importantly, did the get the balloons pronouns and support its sexual orientation before firing a phallus from a plane driven by a toxic male?
Lyme
My Possumy senses detect this may turn into a music thread.
@ Possum:
I was thinking along those lines…
Some good information about the Chinese balloon shootdown from a retired F-14 RIO:
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup.
When I first got ill back in Oz my GP was nonplussed. But when I told him that I had been in New Guinea and I’d had malaria whilst there 2 years previously, he sent me to the School of Tropical Medicine at Sydney University, and they came up with a admixture of various anti-malarial medications that cleaned it out of my system where it’d been lurking. Nasty disease that kills a LOT of folks every year, especially in Africa. Cerebral Malaria is particularly deadly and a Kyup (Patrol Officer) mate caught it whilst alone on ‘Station’ deep in the TPNG jungle and it almost killed him. He had to be medi-vaced by chopper and was sent back to Oz for treatment. My attacks were just common Malaria and that was bad enough.
coldwarrior wrote:
In order to make a thorough and complete diagnosis one must first look for spelling mistakes. Then research the patient’s lifestyle and musical abilities.
I did in fact attend medical school many years ago….
@ coldwarrior:
Not interested in making some $$$$ importing Kiwi Salmon in bulk to supply wholesalers?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Gin and Tonic cures that old boy!
Olives are optional….
@ Possum:
What instrument did you end up playing Possum?
🙂
Possum wrote:
So the Brits tell me. Alas my lip wasn’t stiff enough for the G&T cure!
🙂
Possum wrote:
For some reason a Fred Astaire dance routine popped into my head … white tie of course!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Unfortunately none. I can’t sing fore shit either!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Ginger Rogers was of course the exemplar of that duo, because she did every move backwards and in high heels!
🙂
@ lobo91:
Joe sounds almost coherent in that clip
Possum wrote:
Likewise.However I can play a comb and on a good day the ‘spoons’!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
For some reason that made me think of Beed!
eaglesoars wrote:
Obviously his meds kicked in, just in time for the ‘presser’.
🙂
Possum wrote:
Need??
The automated dobbie rolling machine or St. Bede the Doctor of the Church …. Beed?
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Nah! A prolific contributor to Daedalus a long time ago. I think Bunk is still in touch with him.
Funny, articulate and intelligent. Not like your average Swedish person.
eaglesoars wrote:
Maria Bartiromo? She was buddies with Joey Ramone.
https://youtu.be/zhmhNGHlKbw
coldwarrior wrote:
Possum wrote:
Bingo. Undiagnosed Lyme disease became chronic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3485588/Lyme-disease-forces-musician-dream-career-Sony-devastating-symptoms-leave-bedbound-23-hours-day.html
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Oh hell no! We bought it on a lark
Possum wrote:
There are a few Swedes like that about. I was blessed with one who was my step-father in law. Rolf was one out of the box kinda Swede. He’d done it all. Alas he died alone and he was the last of his family line. His mother was a Swedish countess from Uppsala. We inherited the family’s linen. Rolf had seen too much of life for his own good, especially working for the WHO as a Deputy Director in the camps just after the War. It ruined him, and he never got over it really. Sad.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Well run a Lyme titer anytime stuff looks weird.
It’s a bizarre disease
@ Aussie Infidel:
Very close also.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ll have a dozen chilled pallets on your doorstep next month. Make some space in your frig. 18 cubic metres should suffice!!!
HEH
🙂
Possum wrote:
#blackolivesmatter
@ Aussie Infidel:
It was the best farm raised we’ve had, for sure.
But
$28 a pound!!!! Oh hell no!
@ coldwarrior:
He got it in the UK in mid 2000.
So did many other undiagnosed people who had never been outside the UK.
I can kind of understand the mis-diagnosis.
Possum wrote:
He pops into my FB messaging occasionally but rarely. He’s architecting up in Norwegia, does some musical stuff when he’s not shopping for shoes. I did an album cover design for him, not sure if he used it.
“Julie” is a tribute to his SIL who died in 2020.
https://urort.p3.no/track/basement-flood/julie-4
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
He’s on Spotify too. https://open.spotify.com/album/2OLdhG3iRcYFWRbqObNHJ5
Today is my anniversary.
I’d left work early for a doctor’s appointment that he’d bumped up by two weeks. On the way I heard that Rush Limbaugh had made a big announcement about his cancer diagnosis. Bad omens. Later at the doctor’s office I got diagnosis. For some reason I’d brought the missus with me – she was more upset than I was when the proctologger gave us the word.
That day I also quit drinking. Just stopped cold, and I haven’t had a drop since.
Tomorrow is Treatment No. 71. Still on the 5FU & Avastin, and the Onkydoc wants to start iron infusion. Not sure why my levels are low – either an absorption problem or something’s bleeding. Last probe was in October, showed nothing significant. A few days ago P.A. Nurse Rachel Snakeyes gave me a mail in poop test and cut the cheese (Omeprazole) down to 20mg. We’ll see how it goes. I see stool softeners in my future.
Possum wrote:
Between US $12-15 / KG wholesale plus a small margin for profit clearance and shipping . Let’s say US$18/KGWholesale or US$8-10 a lb
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Chicken or shrimp Masala to start, then if that does not work then graduate to Madras or Vindaloo.
Real English food!
Also serves as a ” Natural ” alarm clock….
That was for Cold!~
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
Never get it past US Customs… They go nuts about importing any food.
Possum wrote:
A great dessert afterwards…. vanilla ice cream.
Then 8 hours later you sit there yelling …. Commm -on Ice cream!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I will give him the message! 🙂
Possum wrote:
Piece of cake with US Customs. Just as long as you follow the protocols and agreements for bulk shipping by air cargo. The US is a piece of cake. Chinese Customs …. not so much! Bastards. They lock your merchandise up in Free Trade Zones and only selected Chinese traders get inside to purchase the goods. Corruption is the key word!
As I said crooked bastards all.
SPIT
Still even there we learned to work around the regulations and play their stupid games.
@ Possum:
Ta
🙂
I am seriously considering a new career as an actor. I am watching many crime and who done it TV shows.
There seems to be a need for dead bodies. So I have been practicing not blinking, with my eyes closed and open. Doing really good so far.
Thinking I would start being a dead body found in bed or on the floor to start with, then make my way up to found in woodland with creepy crawlies on me.
When I master that I will do the face down in a swimming pool or washed up on a beach.
I just need to find a publicity agent.
My only concern is trying not to giggle during the autopsy.
I am ticklish.
Possum wrote:
I’m not in charge of the menu around here. The missus won’t even let me boil eggs without messing with my flame setting. Probably a good thing.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Reminds me of the time I met El Habanero.
@ Possum:
I ain’t normal
@ Possum:
Nothing is and nobody is.
The title track and first single from Ally Venable’s upcoming album, due out March 24.
Ally played this one way back at the Dallas Guitar Festival last May for what I think was the first time, because she asked people not to post videos of it. I was starting to wonder if Ruf Records forgot about this album, because she said at the time that it was in the can, but it was up to them when it would be released:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
We did the Ancestry DNA and I found out I’m about 7% Irish.
I guess that’s why I like redheads, Irish whiskey & Irish music.
@ right_wing2:
The Catholic church teaches that there are no such people as the Scotts-Irish, yet that’s what I am. Dad told me our ancestry traces back to a Carolingian monk, and it was decades before I got the joke.
I think I posted a while back about the collosal mess we’ve had getting our deck rebuilt.
Well, it’s still not finished. Our now former contractor STILL hadn’t bought the material we paid for in November as of last Friday. He’d asked for additional material money in early December when he somehow thought he’d bid based on a picture I took showing the color deck board we wanted (hios bid showed ‘prices per lumber yard x”) and last week he asked us to pay for labor that hadn’t been doine so he could buy the material we already paid for.
We had 2 different people come out to give us estimates to finish. Found numerous problems with the work- things like mis-cut notches, corners not being flush and 1 post being cut the same lenght as the others, but placed on the concrete slab which sits 3″ lower than the other 3 posts that are on the edge of the walkout area from our basement. There are also a few nails missing from the joist hangers.
We’ve disputed this with the credit card company, will be contacting the BBB, posting a Yelp review, and I let the realtor who recommended them (a friend I’ve known for 30 years, ahd have known her husband for almost 40) about the problem.
Every bloody week it’s one excuse after another.
No, not ALL of it’s on him- whoever built the deck originally didn’t install flashing, so that was a delay; yes, people get sick, and I work from home, so they can really only work on my day off or if I take PTO. Still, this is inexcuable, and we’re done with these jokers.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It does? Why?
@ right_wing2:
Sign up on the Nextdoor app and blast them. Nextdoor comes in very handy for stuff like this.
7.8 earthquake in Turkey. 118 dead so far, widespread damage.
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/turkey-earthquake-latest-020623/index.html
eaglesoars wrote:
They were Protestants.
@ right_wing2:
BBB & Yelp are worthless. Contact the State licensing board.
Bungee jumping at Victoria Falls.
https://www.lusakatimes.com/2012/01/09/video-clip-bunjee-jump-accident/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I think making a claim to the BBB actually helps the bad business. They deny it as folly and rack it up as a win.
@ darkwords:
BBB is a badge that means nothing. As for Yelp, although it’s worth checking, it’s unreliable. A lot of astroturfing goes on with both positive and negative reviews.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
The best way to visualize that contractor is through grace. Some communication is needed and some compromise attained. And someone else should finish the job.
It means taking a loss but also a shared loss. I find that hard to do for myself.
darkwords wrote:
Holy whatever. No words.
When I did Outward Bound in the Everglades we had to do a balance thing across ropes hung between telephone poles 40 ft above ground and I lost count of the number of times I fell off. And then slide down the zip cord. But once I did it I wanted to do it again, it was so thrilling.
The guides told me to fuck right off. I can’t even imagine what this woman dealt with.
darkwords wrote:
stop. Bitch slapping into next week has always worked for me.
nite
eaglesoars wrote:
One wants performance in clear writing. My grace caution is from experience where a friend offered an unwritten contract for someone to do $9,000 in repairs. There was a disagreement as to outcome and they ended up spending $250,000 in lawyer fees only to lose in court. The court expected a contract in writing and punished the homeowner. Best not to end up in court. See an end to the affair before it gets that far.
Amazon just announced a second season of The Terminal List. Not sure what took them so long
@ lobo91:
I got an email from Jack about it last week
Hubby just popped in to ask if Durham has come up with something new that the GOP is calling a ‘bombshell’. Haven’t heard anything, engine search doesn’t show anything. Anybody?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Not Scotts …. Scots … unless he has a stutter …
and that was probably no joke as those Carolingian monks were allowed to marry way back when!
Well that or they were into monkey business!
🙂
HEH
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope.
Zip
I’ll faint if Durham actually is not still comatose
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s a wonder that she didn’t get ‘sniped’ from the Zambian side of the river. It’s like ‘Dodge City’ there just now!
@ darkwords:
My realtor friend won’t be recommending them any more- and she works for a fairly large agency.
What I’d LIKE to do is demand a full refund of everything so the job could be done right from the start. I doubt that’d fly though.
We’ll settle for the new contractor just cutting 3″ off the tops of the other posts and installing nails (or screws) where they should have. One of the people who was out thought the bolt heads looked kind of small, and was going to back one out to make sure it was long enough to do the job.
I wonder what the odds are that Joe reads ‘pause’ out loud?
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/06/joe-biden-shows-off-his-notes-for-the-state-of-the-union-and-perhaps-he-shouldnt-have-n699401
@ Aussie Infidel:
my moms side is scots/irish coal miners. some of them were molly’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires
slaves were treated better. yinz winder why there are unions…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morewood_massacre
Frick burns in hell. i spit every time i have to enter one of his buildings.
@ coldwarrior:
Well, none of my family were mollys but yeah, Frick burns………..
eaglesoars wrote:
in hell.
@ coldwarrior:
oh, I’ve been meaning to tell you…that nicotine for tremors we were talking about? I told Hubby to get some nicotine gum. He’s going to try that the next time the meds aren’t enough. He can use the gum in restaurants/bars and not have to worry about spilling stuff.
thanks so much
https://vintagewatchinc.com/ussr/raketa/worldtimer-goroda/
straight out of the ukiewarzone. (dhl, as i told yinz earlier)
new case, face and hands, serviced caliber. the blue on the face is mesmerizing in the light. (loses 15 sec a day, fine by me)
whoever did the resto job on this watch is excellent.
i’v been after a good version of this for a while… years….
@ eaglesoars:
yes, but….
nicotine is addictive, he may take to having a cigar or two throughout the day. or he gets addicted to gum…
whatever. lol
@ coldwarrior:
@ coldwarrior:
couple times a week should be ok. ZERO smoking in the house/restaurants, it’s cold outside
eaglesoars wrote:
hence the reason for my heated deck w/ fireplace. cigars. oh, and so mrs coldwarrior can enjoy a cold night outside in front of the fire!
priorities and needs….
I had no idea it was this bad. 2400 dead and counting
The massive earthquakes that hit Syria and Turkey over the weekend have killed at least 2,400 people, but the death toll is sure to drastically rise with “tens of thousands of citizens… waiting under the rubble”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/02/06/middle-east-earthquake-an-emergency-within-an-emergency-n1667763
eaglesoars wrote:
up to 3500
@ eaglesoars:
Building codes are un-Islamic
lobo91 wrote:
Rebar is halal.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It was my own brain stutter. Scottish -> Scotts -> Scots -> Scotch
Yes, Scotch-Irish. I have this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Irish-History-James-G-Leyburn/dp/0807842591
@ Aussie Infidel:
Grandpa & his branch of the family came from Georgia. Many others with the same surname are spread around Oz.
I found our family surname in an Irish-Scottish book, same unusual spelling. It translates roughly into “shepherd who spends a bit too much time with his flock.”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
halal-hu-rebar!
right_wing2 wrote:
If realtors put out the kaboosh on the contractor he’ll probably go out of business. Or stuck on bad jobs.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
One would think they would fix it. I was aware 50 years ago that building codes in the US made disasters more survivable.
darkwords wrote:
Building codes are updated after every major earthquake, major fire or other significant event that causes building damage. These days there are not only computer simulations, but 3/4 scale test buildings that sit on seismic platforms to test different structural design concepts, and they shake them until they fail. Wild stuff.
@ darkwords:
you’ve never been in the 3rd world for an extended period, have you?
human lives are worthless there.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
the japanese have some crazy designs. i watches a few yinztubes and online stuff about it. yuge bearings at the base of the building. amazing
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Although US building codes are updated and adopted every two years, they apply to new construction only. Existing buildings are generally exempt until the owner makes additions and alterations.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Not in Turkey and Syria, they aren’t (or Kuwait…Saudi Arabia…Iran…Egypt…)
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s high-rise design. The building rolls with the seismic waves. Another design puts a massive block of concrete on rollers near the top of the building. Inertia keeps it in place and it dampens the swaying of the surrounding structure.
The same systems for seismic movement work for regions with high wind loads.
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, I was talking about the International Building Codes. Adoption by other countries isn’t mandatory.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
ballz.
straight up design ballz
coldwarrior wrote:
Mexico has some odd building codes. If the building rebar remains exposed, the building is considered unfinished and is exempt from taxes or something, yet it is approved for occupancy. I don’t remember the details.
coldwarrior wrote:
The first known building code was authored by Hammurabi, and it was concise.
If a house collapses and kills someone, the Architect shall be put to death.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
i do know about that.
@ coldwarrior:
Note that there’s no mention of the contractor that effed up a deck addition.
coldwarrior wrote:
Agree. Seemed so in China. Also virtually every non US country blames the evil eye for disasters.
As an design standard note. I was a passenger on an Aeroflot flight from St Petersburg to Moscow in the 90’s. A lot of culture shock.
We were expected to bribe staff with packs of Marlboro cigarettes. The panel separating the pilot from the passengers was unpainted plywood. The emergency exit ladder was a heavy knotted rope. But landed safely no issues.
The train ride was also dangerous. Bandits were stopping trains and gasing the passengers in order to rob them.
We could end up like that if the Biden playbook is fully played out.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
sure there is:
one eyeball extracted (if this a drinking deck) and a great blow to the knee.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I bet that Leaning Tower architect got off Scot free.
darkwords wrote:
I guess that’s better than parachutes
@ darkwords:
i had a diplomatic passport and many cartons of the greatest cigarettes in the world, american marlboro.
it was a good time in 89-91
Dallas Alexander – World’s Farthest Sniper Kill / JTF2 Operator 2.2 miles. Canadian sniper team in Mosul Iraq. Shawn Ryan interview
darkwords wrote:
That happened to some friends of mine in Italy.
i just spent 45 minutes with customer service making sure that all of my xm receivers and cars stuff was ok.
spent more time talking about cricket, west indies call enter. oh, hell, that was fun!
@ coldwarrior:
forgot, newer car and a destroyed receiver head.
@ coldwarrior:
the head and amp that lived through the tornado are now alive, moths later. i found them 500m away
coldwarrior wrote:
no shit.
they were stone assed, soaked, stopmed ded
She cleared things up about the earlier balloons.
https://rumble.com/v28l58k-stuttering-kjp-can-barely-get-massive-lie-out-about-trump-and-chinese-spy-b.html
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
If NORAD can’t track balloons how the fuck do they track Santa? He moves a helluva lot faster.
heartbreak
I hate this. I apparently did a crap job wiring my speakers. All but one of my door speakers have gone dead and one of my dash speakers blew. I need to find exact fit speakers at a cheap price.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
baloons?
how much did she make over these lase few days?
@ Aussie Infidel:
and high grade fencer, metal star, oh, and yeh…flies the plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86URGgqONvA
jeeze, i wonder how bad it would have been if the inca / azteks whatever’s, could figure out how to get to europe before columbus?
yeah, no thanks.
@ coldwarrior:
yeah, we all miss the Aztecs. The architecture and stuff………..
@ eaglesoars:
Descendants of the Aztecs are now known as MS13
@ Possum:
not sure. Aztecs in Mexico. MS13 out of El Salvador.
???
coldwarrior wrote:
He certainly does the business!
🙂
Trevolta just flew his B707 on occasional weekends but this guy actually shifts the band and crew on world tours !
Seriously impressed!
🙂
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Too bad…
@ Aussie Infidel:
Dickerson is a true Renaissance Man.
@ Aussie Infidel:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwi-pilot-reportedly-taken-hostage-by-free-papua-army/KMHNFSIBJ5DRFBVRN4SHHZHM74/
Possum wrote:
lol
After the Martha Vineyards beta program, DeSantis is gonna provide shuttle programs to “blue cities” for illegals invading Florida.
https://pjnewsletter.com/florida-ron-desantis-border-crisis/
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Whaaaat?
Since when?
Who told you that fairytale?
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
When I was flying there, I stayed mostly on my side of the border in the Sepik District. OPM were fighting the Indonesians just over the border and OPM used to dash across the border to our side when they wanted to break contact. That is except when I slipped across the border into Indonesia when the weather was bad on my side of the border. OPM used to use me to bring out their wounded from Amanda station where there were about 4 nun (nurses) stationed. They’d load the wounded on the tray on the back of the tractor and bring them the 4 miles up the track and through a few rivers to Imonda strip, where I’f fly in and load them for Vanimo hospital (7 beds, 1 doctor and 1 nurse)and eventually Wewak hospital and further afield for serious wounds. Then when they had mended I’d fly them hack to Pagei strip right alongside the border and they would slip back home over the other side.
I never had any problems at all with them and they were grateful to get evacuated. There was about a battalion fighting the ‘Indians’ at any one time with a reserve Battalion tending their gardens and stockpiling food for their families, and then they’d swap.
Initially the Dutch and Indonesians fought a war up on the border which the Dutch won hands down with only 6 KIA and a dozen WIA. The Indons lost hundreds. In one ill conceived operation they dropped a Company of Tiger Battalion Commandos (with their jeeps and heavy weapons) by parachute from C-130s into primary rain forest near Pagie strip. They lost the lot hung up in trees 200 feet op in the trees. ~200 KIA.
OPM had been supported by the Dutch after they were monstered to leave West New Guinea by the US and the UN back in the early 1960s. At first the Dutch used fishing boats and even submarines to supply OPM with arms and ammunition in their fight against Indonesia. The US put the acid on the Dutch and even that stopped.. OPM fought on using captured weapons and ammunition and at one stage the Dutch communist party were supplying ammunition covertly to OPM. One day in 1971 I was flying wounded out of Imonda strip there was a big battle just over the border. There were no PIR (Pacific Islands Regiment) regulars anywhere near the border because the TPNG administration was terrified about getting PIR vs. Indonesian Tiger Division into a firefight accidentally and causing an international incident. I however was a Platoon Commander with Delta Company Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (reservists) based out of Wewak and never wore my ‘green skin’ near the border and as far as everyone was concerned I was just another civilian.
I watched the battle going on all afternoon. OPM had their backs to the border so they could break contact whenever they wanted. The Indons had a 81mm mortar at each end of the airstrip on their side of the border (why I have no idea as mortars are deployed in pairs as a fire unit.) Finally OPM were getting short of 7.62mm machine-gun ammo, and they had accidentally dropped 4 boxes of ammo whilst withdrawing across the strip.
Two guys decided it’d be a good idea to break cover and run out into the open and collect these 4 boxes and run back towards the border. One of these schmucks got shot through the thigh and the other was creased by a 7.62mm Indon machine gun round. He obviously had a hard head. Both were retrieved by their mates and they were deposited with the nuns who delivered them to Imonda where I collected them and transported them to Hospital in Vanimo. This was typical of the OPM battles. Oh yes these OPM had burned down the Indonesian Station on the Border so the Tiger Division was pretty pissed!
Indonesian Transmigration is still happening where Indonesia transported millions of East Javans to New Guinea to replace the local people. That is the main driver of this low grade 60 year war that has been going on since 1960s. OPM has been shafted by everyone and no wonder they are a bit peeved with this Kiwi MAF pilot who got caught up in the politics of MAF co-operating with Muslim Indons as a sup for Christian New Guineans.
Amanda = Imonda
Indians = Indons
These errors were due to bloody predictive!
Grrrrrrr
things that make you go hmmmmm…….
New Zealand’s Largest Egg Producer Goes Up in Flames Killing 50,000 Hens Amid Nationwide Shortage (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/new-zealands-largest-egg-producer-goes-flame-killing-50000-hens-amid-nationwide-shortage-video/
@ Aussie Infidel:
what’s OPM?
eaglesoars wrote:
I was thinking more along these lines
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3018900/dismembered-heart-cut-out-ms-13-gang-members
@ Possum:
Yeah, they did that to some of their girls back in virginia. Cops found body parts scattered over Holmes Run Park where I used to take Willow
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Long ago. I corrected the Catholic buddy who said that. That’s what the nuns taught him.
eaglesoars wrote:
The Saudis do that too. Filipino co-worker spent a couple years there, said that one of the guys he worked with was caught messing around with one of the Saudi princesses. She was immune from prosecution when she lied about it. He was sent home in several boxes.
eaglesoars wrote:
other people’s money?
lol
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Oh, I remember a documentary called (IIRC) “Death of a Princess”. They hung – hanged? – her. I don’t recall who she messed around with (they hung him too), but she got no special consideration.
Was watching SOTU and he just said about repairs to a bridge that 2 BILLION dollars a day in freight crossed.
Not wasting any more time watching it.
Did you know Lake Baikal is the deepest fresh water lake in the world? It’s also the oldest, estimated at 25 million years old (I don’t know how they determine that)
I’m watching a yt video on the Golden Eagle trains, Trans Siberian Express. Fascinating. Next up – the Orient Express, then something in Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUINpw6CFTw
@ eaglesoars:
I travelled on the Orient Express. Fucking awesome! Had drinks and a very fine meal.
It was a birthday gift.
It left London and chugged around the South of England for about four hours.
A lasting memory.
@ Possum:
jealous
Possum wrote:
apparently he again said Rs want to ditch medicare and social security
when did anybody ever say that?
MTG called him a liar
@ eaglesoars:
As did a lot of others. The cameras happened to zoom in on her. High point of the speech.
@ eaglesoars:
My take was that it was the first time Joe sounded positive, nevermind that his administration’s cited achievements were based upon easily refuted lies.
There was some noise when he brought up fentynyl – GOP aisle voices shouted at him to close the border.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Oh, and BTW, Paul Pelosi was attacked because of Trump’s speech on January 6.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hunter wasn’t mentioned, but Beau was. Three times.
@ eaglesoars:
It was a very memorable experience in early 1990. In the opposite seats there was an American couple. nice people. When the train arrived back in London they invited us to come with them and have a few drinks in a bar in the place where they lived.
They lived in a big house in Grosvenor square, awesome place and it had a bar in the basement and smart young men in uniform guarding it!
So all in all a splendid day. A ride on the Orient Express then getting shitfaced in the London US Embassy!
@ Possum:
LOL first time I had to go through metal detector and get searched to go to a bar!
I have to say Russia is just beautiful. I wanted to go there on our honeymoon with the ex. But he worked for NASA on stuff like the shuttle and had a security clearance out the wazoo and they thought the idea was just TERRIBLY amusing.
We went to Spain instead and that was lovely. Except for Madrid. The pollution was so bad I got sick enough that they almost didn’t let me on the plane home. Great food tho. Tapas bars!
Possum wrote:
uh wut?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I read that she was going to bring a balloon. Do you know if she did?
@ eaglesoars:
In basement of US embassy in London there was a bar.
eaglesoars wrote:
Didn’t see it on camera.
@ eaglesoars:
This got people laughing.
https://rumble.com/v28q040-biden-makes-claim-so-stupid-on-oil-lawmakers-literally-laugh-in-his-face.html
Possum wrote:
In the mid ’90s we took our kids to visit gramma. It was their first plane flight. At one point a security woman was wiping down our carry-on luggage, and 5 year old Bunkessa asked me why she was doing that. I told her it was because she thought we had bombs.
That was the wrong thing to say in front of the screener.
Possum wrote:
ah
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
yeah, I’ve seen that clip. He doesn’t realize people are laughing at him
I think Biden must be an addict. I don’t see how he can function at this level without a med boost. Just a question of how long he can last.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup everyone here thought that it was a bit dodgy. These egg producers were about to get shut down because battery egg producers were now considered to be against Kiwi animal cruelty laws. Suddenly days before the ‘boom got lowered’ on these egg producers, their facilities burned down and instead of losing millions in having to rejig their whole operation, they just claimed on their fire insurance.
The investigations are now on going!
🙂
OPM are the Free Papuan Movement (in Dutch I think???) attempting to free West New Guinea from Indonesian rule. Once the US and UN got rid of the Dutch and the Dutch Indonesian guerilla war was stamped on by the US in the 1960s (bet you never knew about that little bit of US Diplomatic chicanery where the US supported the Indons and allowed them to import millions of East Javans to West Papua as a replacement population for the locals. This deal was done to keep the Chinese out of Indonesia, and Suharto a BFF of the USA). Bad luck for the West Papuans who lost their country to an invading Muslim nation of hundreds of millions, from next door.
OPM is that West Papuan Freedom Movement that has been fighting and killing Indons for 60 years.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Looks as if the nuns were telling ‘Porkies’
🙂
HEH!
coldwarrior wrote:
🙂
.
https://asia-pacific-action.org/node/133
Everyone has ditched them and they have totally lost their nation to invading Indonesians when back in 1964 there were Zero Indons in West Papua. Now there are millions of Javanese Transmigration replacement population …a bit like what is happening on the US Southern Border. Importing a replacement population with the US sucking up to Indonesia to keep the Chinese out of Indonesia and in the Western Camp. The US threw the West Papuans under the UN bus!
OPM. I’d forgotten that it was the Indonesian name for the West Papua Organization.
The current sole group still supporting the OPM are a few communist radicals in Oz. I think they ‘inherited’ OPM from Dutch communists once the Dutch military were forced by the US and UN to ditch OPM. They’ve been dying for 60 years and the Indonesians are practicing demographic warfare on those West Papuans still left.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Until the rebars rust out and lose strength and the whole place falls down killing the occupants! Well that and building additional levels without ensuring that there is enough engineering in place to support it ….. There isn’t … again falling down and killing occupants!
coldwarrior wrote:
Every month the Indon Colonels and their wives (Plural)from Djapura just up the coast and over the border from Vanimo where I was living and flying out of, would visit the Aussie District Commissioner for ‘talks’. They’d get plastered drinking the DC’s whisky while their wives shopped in Vanimo and the markets. Not 5 metres away were OPM wounded recuperating from wounds inflicted by members of the Indon Tiger Division! They knew it, we knew it and they knew we knew it! Then loader with shopping and drunk as (Muslim) skunks they’d climb back into their aircraft and fly the 20 minutes up the coast back to Djapura the capital of Indonesian West New Guinea.
SPIT
Nasty little bastards!
A company of PIR (Pacific Islands’ Regiment) the New Guinean regular troops rotating on a 3 month posting to Vanimo, were confined to barracks while the Indon Colonels were in town with their wives.
Now that ‘The Voice’ of Oz aborigines when it comes to changing the Australian Constitution to be colour sensitive and anti-white and certainly not colour blind when it comes to the law. This appeared in a local paper in Oz recently.
🙂
Letter to the Editor, Cairns Post, Sept 7 2022
The Torres Strait Islanders are a different race of unrelated people of Melanesian descent, their history goes back about 3,000 years diverging
to a mix of Papuan and Lapita people 30,000 years ago. They are a well structure society with agriculture and productive communal industry, and
warriors using bows and arrows. The aborigines never had enough smarts to copy their usage or society, they never rose above stone age weapons
(National Geographic) had gardens or agriculture.
Aborigines are of Indian descent, sharing the same mtDNA, and two basal synonymous mtDNA polymorphisms G8251A and A9156T with the M42
haplogroup, shared exclusively between(pre-Dravidian) Indian and Australian aborigines — “These particular mutations do not exist
anywhere else in the world; they are shared exclusively between a few isolated ancient tribes in India and Australian aboriginals” (Quote: Prof Dr Satish Kumar).
Ancient endo cast skulls have been found, strange Flat-Head skulls, others of very different ancestry from Kow Swamp, Nacurrie, Coobool Creek, Cohuna, Lake Mungo, Tasmanian Aborigines were Papuan Ulotrichi referred to by Professor Alfred Cort Haddon in his book, ‘The Races of Man’. We have photographs of the “little people (150 cm) of the Kuranda rainforest.
The many different races to have occupied Australia are scientifically proven by Dr Irina Pugach, Dr Frederick Delfin, Dr Ellen Gunnarsdóttir,
Dr Manfred Kayser, and Prof Dr Satish Kumar: Supported by research from Drs Norman Tindale, Joseph Birdsell, Peter Brown — and Professors Mark Stoneking, Allan Wilson, Alan Thorne, Colin Mackenzie, Manning Clark, Joseph Greenberg, Alan Cooper, Chris Stringer, and Dr Merritt Ruhlen.
You cannot disprove their science.
With reference in the “Atlas of Foreign Countries”, written between 265 – 316 A.D., Chinese Sea Captains describes the mysterious great south
land being inhabited by a race of one-metre-tall pygmies: Frank and Alexander Jardine settled Cape York recorded they witnessed the little Negritos being hunted down like kangaroos by the taller aborigines. In the 1400’s and 1500’s, Dutch and Portuguese sailors sighting the Western
Australian coastline noted “tall natives in warfare chasing and killing hordes of “little” native peoples”.
There is no need for a referendum to include Aborigines in the Constitution — The are not and never were the nation’s first people, probably the tenth race to have lived here.
Sincerely
Gil May
Forestdale 4118
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Hadn’t thought of that angle. Can’t sell an illegal egg farm, so cash out another way and move on.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s pretty much what happened during a large earthquake about 10 or so years ago. Idiot reporters said that in Mexico they leave the rebar exposed so they can keep an eye on the condition of the steel. 😀
That’s when I found out the real reason they did it.
Lou Dobbs is saying there have been at least 10 balloon incidents that the military never informed civilian authorities about
Aussie Infidel wrote:
wow. That entire post was fascinating.
The background on the NZ egg farms is most welcome. Can’t say I blame them.
Seymour Hersh reporting Nordstream 2 was blown up by Biden
(via Pesobiec on Bannon)
Does anyone know about an op code named Ivy Bells? or Bell?
@ eaglesoars:
never mind
Operation Ivy Bells was a joint United States Navy, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and National Security Agency (NSA) mission whose objective was to place wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines during the Cold War.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells#
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
The U.S. Navy’s Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name—down what was once a country lane in rural Panama City, a now-booming resort city in the southwestern panhandle of Florida, 70 miles south of the Alabama border. The center’s complex is as nondescript as its location—a drab concrete post-World War II structure that has the look of a vocational high school on the west side of Chicago. A coin-operated laundromat and a dance school are across what is now a four-lane road.
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
HAR!! I bet I can pretty much nail the ‘neighborhood’ tho. My sister and I got lost there once when she was showing me around.
Two Beagles rescued from Fauci-funded torture facilities will compete in Puppy Bowl
scroll down to see pics of the adorable Allison and Briscoe
https://dossier.substack.com/p/two-beagles-rescued-from-fauci-funded
from Elon 2 days ago
The worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC state.gov/bureaus-office…
They are a threat to our democracy
That is the line they fed the media about me
Read this thread for more detail
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1622739987031552002.html
Global Engagement Center, an arm of the State Dept
Man of the People
Bruce Springsteen’s ticket prices are so high that his fan site ‘Backstreets’ is shutting down after 43 years
Springsteen’s team has defended the prices as being in line with what is charged today by many of his peers. Like many artists, he says he’s annoyed when unscrupulous ticket brokers — not the musicians — benefit from high markups.
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Springsteen hasn’t backed down, telling Rolling Stone magazine that fans unhappy with the price after seeing the show can have their money back.
https://fortune.com/2023/02/07/bruce-springsteen-high-ticket-prices-magazine-website-backstreets-closes-43-years/
The last concert I ever went to was a Springsteen concert at Penn State
@ eaglesoars:
Meanwhile, I just paid $225 for two-day VIP passes to the Flagstaff Blues Festival, which includes parking, food and non-alcoholic beverages.
Samantha Fish is headlining Friday night, and Larkin Poe headlines Saturday night
lobo91 wrote:
not bad!
I’m off for my post-lunch nap
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Things NOT today in an airport
“Hi, Jack!”
Bomb
Yeah, someone wanted me to take this package with me. Don’t know who he was
@ right_wing2:
That one never did make a lot of sense. Do people generally just take stuff from random people and stick it in their luggage?
@ lobo91:
Probably ‘Can you make sure my daughter gets this’ but no it never made sense to me after working for an airline.
this will go well
Boston task force appoints TWO 11th graders and a BLM-supporting college student to decide how much money to pay black community
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11725245/Boston-mayor-unveils-reparations-task-force-members-including-TWO-11th-graders.html
eaglesoars wrote:
Various waves of immigrants trekked from Africa via the Middle East along the coast they followed the Indian Coast leaving their DNA as they moved leaving their trail. 60,000 – 40,000 years ago during these different migrations, walked across where Indonesia and Melanesia is now until they ran across a 60 mile wide deep strait south of where Timor now is. These migrations then sat there and shrunk as island isolated populations tend to do. The finally invented boats large enough to follow the flocks of birds transiting across to Australia. The little folks walked all the way to Tasmania 60,000 years ago, and the last of them in Tasmania were only destroyed by the tall guys since the late 1700s. Interesting and different cultures too. The tall guys along the Northern Queensland coast were cannibals, but the rest of the tall guys across Australia were not. Apparently Chinese landed in Northern Queensland 1500 years ago looking for gold. They found it too, but they also got eaten mostly, and figured that after doing a cost benefit analysis getting access to gold was not worth getting eaten over.
🙂
HEH
Holy crap. I just watched Paulina Luna ROAST Yoel Roth over twitter censorship. The woman is an assassin. There were no cameras on Roth but you could hear him kind of stutter an answer while she’s demanding YES OR NO?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Or the folks left behind at home realized none of them ever returned and figured ‘uh oh’.
I don’t know what’s wrong with Mike Lindell. He’s going after DeSantis over something about Dominion.
eaglesoars wrote:
We are seeing ‘instant cultural practices’ popping up and also loads of folks of a Marxist bent with freckles and blue eyes claiming that they are aborigines ….. and demanding ‘reparations’. The ‘smoking ceremonies’ where some guy who of 1/8th aborigine, waves smouldering eucalypts leaves about, and does a little foot stamping dance. Turns out that ‘real aborigines’ never heard of such practices.
Long story short a bunch of Maori radicles visited Melbourne and touted the ‘gravy train of money’ extorted from liberal bleeding hearts over reparations for Maori. They told an Aussie guy named Eddie Dingo back in the 1970s to get some ‘instant culture’ and put it on TV. Eddie thought up a 10,000 year old ‘smoking dance’ and suddenly MSM began to incorporate this ‘instant’ cultural item in all sorts of official ceremonies. It was all total BS and completely made up by Eddie, who saw it as a ‘nice little earner’ playing on Liberal left guilt tripping.
True story. Now in Marxist circles you can’t get away with not having burning Eucalypts and foot stamping.
🙂
And now he’s after Harmeet Dillon.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
These people are hilariously tedJious
Joe Allen, my go-to guy for transhumanism talked a bit about AI. The ChatGPT software has had a chastity belt put on it’s software so there are boundaries it can’t cross.
But there’s another ‘thing’ called DAN (Do Anything Now) that has no boundaries. Somebody asked What Is God
God is an AI construct made by an omniscient alien race, the creators of this universe and we are also their construct made for their amusement. It goes on and on.
I’m beginning to believe in the anti-Christ, I swear.
This guy made anti-Hillary memes and DOJ is trying to put him in prison for 10 years.
Douglass Mackey is alleged to be one of the many anonymous Twitter users who made the 2016 election so different, so memorable, and so important.
Like other anonymous internet memesmiths (anons), Mackey had no external reason that anyone should care what he said. He held no office. He had no byline at an elite publication. He had no vast pool of wealth that conferred legitimacy, deserved or undeserved, on what he had to say.
Mackey’s notability, like that of Bronze Age Pervert or Libs of TikTok, came exclusively from what he had to say, and that people found it funny and compelling. Over the summer and fall of 2016, Mackey allegedly went by the nom-de-tweet Ricky Vaughn (after Charlie Sheen’s character in Major League) and collected tens of thousands of followers who found him funny and compelling. Mackey was not single-handedly responsible for getting Donald Trump elected. But the work he allegedly did along with dozens of others is what made Trump’s victory possible. An MIT analysis estimated that Ricky Vaughn was a bigger influence on the 2016 election than NBC News.
But for the regime, the specter of anonymous individuals making the system tremble was too much. And so, for more than two years, the regime has been battling to send Mackey to prison.
You might not know much about Mackey’s case. It’s far less notorious than the January 6 prosecutions, or the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. But in terms of how much the speech matters for American liberty, it is as important as either of those — perhaps more so.
In January 2021, shortly after the January 6 incident inaugurated a national anti-MAGA crackdown, the Department of Justice charged Mackey with “conspiring … to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”
Mackey’s offense? Illegal memes.
https://www.revolver.news/
Interesting thread. Conversations w/ChatGTP and DAN
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1622840424527265792.html
Lauren Boebert grills twitter execs. Guy looks like proverbial deer in the headlights.
WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
5 minutes of pure entertainment.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh, it’s the Baker asshole!
linky, sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7mtoyrlXI
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/987549
AI Bot ChatGPT Passes US Medical Licensing Exams Without Cramming – Unlike Students
AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT cracked the MBA exam at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/toi-original/chatgpt-clears-medical-licensing-test-after-whartons-mba-entrance-exam/videoshow/97255956.cms?from=mdr
@ eaglesoars:
How long before they try to use that claim against people who argue in favor of voter ID laws?
@ lobo91:
5..4..3..2..
darkwords wrote:
I just found a youtube short of Jordan Peterson talking about ChatGTP, I’ll highlight
– it’s basically trained on a massive corpus of text so it has derived its model(s) of the world based on human speech
– Peterson asked it to write an essay that’s based on the 13th rule of Beyond Order that combines the King James Bible with the Dou chai ching (I am going on Peterson’s pronnunciation for the Chinese thing I have zero idea what he’s talking about)
– ChatGTP popped out a 4 page essay that took 3 seconds and Peterson could not say he didn’t write it
This is absolutely terrifying
@ eaglesoars:
the short video I saw on youtube/shorts seems to be an extract of this 5 minute video (Peterson is in the same suit/tie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQuJajyf_Dw
crash course tutorial on ChatCTP – 30 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTxsNm9IdYU
Project Veritas is trying to oust James O’keefe
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/james-okeefe-project-veritas-paid-leave.html
Employees allege O’Keefe wasted money on his theater dreams, berated staff, and even took a sandwich from a pregnant woman.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-okeefe-outright-cruel-to-project-veritas-employees-internal-memo
IIRC the staff at Daily Beast is comprised solely of white chicks just out of ivy league indoctrination centers.
Microsoft Adds OpenAI’s ChatGPT Technology to Bing Search Engine
Yeah, I think I’ll be going to a Linux platform, thanks anyway
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/02/08/microsoft-adds-openais-chatgpt-technology-to-bing-search-engine/
Mother of God LOOK at this woman. She looks absolutely demented. I caught ONE blink at about he 30 sec mark. Seriously. Look at her
I am honoured to be Australia’s new Ambassador for Gender Equality.
I look forward to promoting ’s commitment to gender equality and the human rights of women and girls, and persons of diverse gender identities.
https://twitter.com/AusAmbGender/status/1623126565558321158
chatgpt
I’m sorry, but I am not able to provide information about a specific account on a website called “blogmocracy.com” as I have no knowledge of such a website. My training data only goes up until 2021, and I do not have any information about a blog post or an account called “darkwords.” If you have further questions or need more information, please provide more context or clarification.
chatgpt mixed me a drink.
“Gin and Sugar-Free Tonic”
2 ounces gin
4 ounces sugar-free tonic water
1 wedge of lime
Ice
Instructions:
Fill a tall glass with ice.
Pour in the gin and sugar-free tonic water.
Squeeze in the juice from the lime wedge and drop it into the glass.
Stir gently and enjoy.
This cocktail provides a refreshing and flavorful option without the added sugar that can often come with traditional gin and tonic recipes. It is important to remember that alcohol can affect blood sugar levels, so it is still important to monitor your glucose levels when consuming alcohol. Additionally, it is always a good idea to consult with your doctor before making any changes to your diet or alcohol consumption.
best rugby game chatgpt says are:
Determining the “best” rugby game ever played is a matter of personal opinion and can be subjective. However, there have been many memorable and historic matches in the sport’s history that have left a lasting impact. Here are a few of the most talked about games that could be considered the best:
New Zealand vs South Africa, Rugby World Cup 1995 Final: This match marked the first time that South Africa had hosted the Rugby World Cup and it was a historic moment for the sport and the country. The final was an intense and physical battle between two top-ranked teams, with South Africa emerging as champions in front of a packed and emotional home crowd.
Australia vs New Zealand, Bledisloe Cup 2000: This was a high-scoring and thrilling match that saw the two top teams in the world go head-to-head. The match was played at a breakneck pace, with both sides scoring multiple tries and exchanging leads throughout the game. The match ended in a 39-35 victory for Australia, with the game being widely regarded as one of the best in the history of the sport.
France vs New Zealand, Rugby World Cup 1999 Semi-Final: This match is remembered for its incredible comeback by France, who were trailing 24-10 at halftime. The French side scored three tries in the second half to secure a 43-31 victory, sending the home crowd into a frenzy. The match remains one of the biggest upsets in the history of rugby and is still remembered as one of the best games ever played.
These are just a few examples of the many classic and memorable games
chatgpt reccomends these stainless steel pans.
Here are a few stainless steel pans that are well-regarded by both professionals and home cooks:
All-Clad D5 Stainless Steel Fry Pan: This pan is made of high-quality stainless steel and features a bonded 5-ply construction for even heating. It is also induction compatible and has a comfortable, stay-cool handle.
Tramontina Tri-Ply Clad Fry Pan: This pan is made of heavy-gauge stainless steel and features an aluminum core for even heating. It is also oven-safe and compatible with all cooktops, including induction.
Calphalon Classic Stainless Steel Fry Pan: This pan features a heavy-gauge stainless steel construction and an impact-bonded aluminum base for even heating. It is also oven-safe and compatible with all cooktops, including induction.
These are just a few examples of high-quality stainless steel pans that are well-regarded by both professionals and home cooks.
Last one. Biblical verses that amend sorrow.
John 14:27: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
Psalm 34:18: “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
Isaiah 41:10: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4: “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
Matthew 5:4: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”
@ darkwords:
Ask this: What questions(s)/test(s) could be posed to you that would definitively expose you as an artificial intelligence and not human?
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s erroring out. You broke chatgpt…..!!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, I would ask “what is your favorite food ? ” when on a publicly visible session.
In a closed session I would have fun because I ain’t normal!
“Do you stand or sit to pee?” springs to mind.
🙂
Actually this latest craze about AI is something I really should read up about.
40 years ago it was called machine learning. Machine means computery thing.
Basically you write a program that instructs a machine not to make the same mistake twice.
In order to train the machine you have to let it make many, many mistakes.
I could ramble on about writing a program in BASIC that plays noughts and crosses, Tic Tac Toe in American. Computer never makes a move that previously ended up in defeat.
Run it enough times and build a data base and as we all know Tic Tac Toe always ends in a draw.
Another example of machine learning that is not AI is a rhumba floor cleaner.
How many times does it crash into walls and shit before it zooms around as if by magic?
@ darkwords:
All 3 are true
Possum wrote:
This is a little more complex. A ‘normal’ program is predictable, it will perform according to the code, nothing more, nothing less.
This is based on ‘neural network models’ and is anything BUT predictable.
Rep Anna Paulina Luna (13th-FL) is the assassin who questioned Yoel Roth yesterday and she had a chart that’s very interesting. I called her office this morning and asked where I could find that chart. Social media baby!
https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/1623463694280654848
This shows the gov’t agencies that worked w/social media/private entities to violate our 1st amendment rights.
She said something very interesting this morning on Bannon. She said Elon Musk dropped by to see the House panel and he lifted all lawyer/client privilege for the twitter employees.
be sure to read the comments
@ lobo91:
Oh no! What a great composer he was!
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine’s military from using the company’s Starlink satellite internet service for controlling drones in the region during the country’s war with Russia, SpaceX’s president said Wednesday.
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service, which has provided Ukraine’s military with broadband communications in its defense against Russia’s military, was “never never meant to be weaponized,” Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, said during a conference in Washington, D.C.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-curbed-ukraines-use-starlink-internet-drones-company-president-2023-02-09/
One of these days people are going to figure out that that Zelensky midget is a total thug
What if Dr. Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have gotten you and me blocked and banned at any point in the past three years? That just happened.
His article in Cell—“Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses”—states it as plainly as possible: the COVID-19 vaccine didn’t work because it couldn’t work.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/just-how-hard-were-we-trolled_5036930.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge
I hope Mr Hill has a food taster
Arecently retired FBI supervisory intelligence analyst told Congress in a whistleblower disclosure that agents in Boston were improperly pressured by Washington to open criminal cases on 140 people who had simply taken a bus ride to the Jan. 6 rally in Washington. The agents refused because there was no evidence the attendees engaged in any criminality, the whistleblower said.
George Hill’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee also raised new civil liberty concerns about the FBI’s Jan. 6 probe, including whether the Bureau mined Americans’ bank records without court authority and whether the agency possesses video footage it is refusing to release because it identifies undercover agents and human sources who were at the U.S. Capitol that fateful day.
Hill, a military veteran and longtime analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI who retired last year from the Bureau’s Boston field office, told Just the News on Wednesday night that he disclosed concerns earlier this week to the House Judiciary Committee during a transcribed deposition, including that the Bureau analyzed banking data without evidence of a crime — simply to find Americans who traveled to Washington around the time of Jan. 6 or who owned a gun.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/new-whistleblower-says-fbi-tried-open-criminal-cases-140-people-just
https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2023/02/681048/?utm_source=mcotr
Another NJ council member murdered.
At the center of the Biden document cover-up is the question of who blocked the National Archives and Records Administration from informing the U.S. public about the classified records found in the president’s office in early November. The archives’ general counsel told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability that he couldn’t divulge that information, but GOP House leadership concluded that only Attorney General Merrick Garland or Biden himself could have given those orders.
But there’s a third powerful name in play, this one from outside of the government: David Rubenstein. Co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm the Carlyle Group, Rubenstein is one of the archives’ most generous patrons. In 2013, the David M. Rubenstein Gallery at the National Archives was completed at a cost of $13.5 million. Rubenstein is also a major Biden ally. He has regularly hosted the Biden family at his Nantucket estate for Thanksgiving—in 2022, 2021, and 2014.
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Like other top Biden allies, Rubenstein has long been bullish on the Chinese Communist Party. “China has a very bright economic outlook,” Rubenstein told a Davos audience in 2022. “We will continue to invest there.” A 2019 Wall Street Journal report showed that Rubenstein’s Carlyle Group helped Beijing evade U.S. export controls to purchase satellites that help network People’s Liberation Army troops, boost CCP propaganda broadcasts, and allow Chinese authorities to put down protests in Xinjiang, where the party has detained more than a million Muslims, mostly from the Turkic-speaking Uyghur population, in forced labor and reeducation camps.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/closing-in-classified-document-coverup
I didn’t know you could donate to the archives.
The FBI is retracting a leaked document that advised the Bureau to infiltrate groups of traditionalist Roman Catholics who the assessment claimed were at risk of committing acts of extremist violence, the Daily Caller has learned.
The FBI tells the Caller that the document, put forward by the Richmond field office, “does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI” and that the Bureau will be conducting an internal review.
“Upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document,” the agency told the Caller. “The FBI is committed to sound analytic tradecraft and to investigating and preventing acts of violence and other crimes while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans and will never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/09/fbi-recruiting-informants-spy-traditional-catholics-latin-mass-southern-poverty-law-center/
Oh that’s bullshit, they just got caught before they could get started.
eaglesoars wrote:
named after a hotel that was a political refuge. Hotel named after a 19th century philosopher who advocated slavery was a necessary good for society.
right_wing2 wrote:
odd that no national probe is active. George Floyd got more attention.
eaglesoars wrote:
Elon is on top of things.
During my time in government we couldn’t even use SharePoint unless it was built in a separate physical space. And the personnel behind the support and maintenance all had to be US citizens. Microsoft built a SharePoint cloud just to serve the government population.
These non Enterprise rapid development services were all disallowed because they were leaky like sieves. I think standards have slipped.
eaglesoars wrote:
According to the document, Catholics “characterized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council” are prone to embracing “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fbi-retract-catholic-white-supremacist-memo-launch-internal-investigation
The attached appendices refer to a number of articles and the out-of-FBI-policy Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) at the end of the document. For example, Appendix D is a direct copy of the SPLC list of “Radical Traditional Catholicism Hate Groups,” including the web address accessed. The SPLC appears to be a source for the intelligence analyst’s beliefs that RTCs exist and that they are anti-Semitic. The SPLC description for this “hate group” states RTCs “may make up the largest single group of serious anti-semites in America.” Often in the intelligence world, this type of statement without any established evidence is often followed by the acronym “NFI” or “No Further Information” to indicate it is an unsubstantiated opinion. Additionally, SPLC states RTCs “embrace extremely conservative social ideals with respect to women.”
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/02/08/the-fbi-doubles-down-on-christians-and-white-supremacy-in-2023/
eaglesoars wrote:
I wonder why the House is not designated the SPLC as a hate group?
@ darkwords:
I don’t
Cody’s graduation video:
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup
Starlink is a two edged sword hanging over EVERYONE’s heads. It can be used for both good and ill.
Eion finally started doing the right thing.
Anyone know when Spaceship is due for launch? I am advised that it’s due this month but there have been so many false starts I just don’t know anymore.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ lobo91:
@ coldwarrior:
Another cyclone is headed from New Caledonia towards Auckland next Sunday evening through Wednesday. Not only HEAVY rain 1 foot Monday alone forecast but VERY strong winds. Getting ready to weather the storm!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
ugh
lobo91 wrote:
oh how great! He definitely seems like a well balanced dog. I hope they take a video of your reunion so we can see how happy he is to see you again.
@ eaglesoars:
He’s been home since yesterday.
And yes, he was very excited 🙂
He weighs 59 1/2 lbs now. He weighed 40 when we got him 3 1/2 months ago
I’ll have a foodie thread up tomorrow.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Baten yinz’s hatches, n’at.
lobo91 wrote:
video? And who is WE? Is there something you haven’t told us? *ahem*
Listening to a health podcast today. Speaker is a Dr who suggests that constipation in women is likely caused by stress over living in the patriarchy.
hmmmmmm. I suppose it’s possible. I {think} I’ve learned of the years that adequate fruits and vegetables and water solves that stress best.
I did have one relationship though in the past that seemed constipating.
@ eaglesoars:
I was referring to my mom
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe I oversimplified it. The program itself has no “intelligence ” as such. A Neural Network and other AI systems just produce an output, or response that is derived from previous responses to a particular situation.
Neural Networks need extensive training, as in basically building up a database of right and wrong results. The ” network ” part of it is concerned with the weighting of each aspect of the input as to its bearing on the output result.
Say in getting an AI system to identify a cat. Four legs, two eyes, two ears and sharp pointy teeth are high on the criteria. Fur is less of an indicator of cat as some cats do not have fur. Same with a tail, eg Manx cats do not have a tail. However no fur and no tail excludes the subject as a cat even though fur or tail was not important in identifying a cat. .
However, when something that is input before to an AI type system that has been extensively trained then the result that pops out may be very close to being accurate.
AI needs training. IE the program/system needs to build a database of correct/incorrect.
On chatGPT hone page they state it was trained, ( and by more people using it the training continues. My assumption )
lobo91 wrote:
ah.
Possum wrote:
we need a Turing test
@ Possum:
And to bore everyone even more. A fully trained AI system which identified a cat with 99.999% certanty even though that cat had no fur and no tail would add to its knowledge that the cat was either a Pharaoh cat that had an injury and lost its tail.
Or a Manx cat with feline alopecia.
Then the correct result is added to the database and next time a cat with no tail and no fur is encountered the AI can ask one more training question.
Was the tail there on the cat at birth? That goes in to the learning database as a VERY low priority as to defining what a cat is.
But in future when the system is really, really sure the input is a cat that had a no tail at birth and has no fur a visit to the veterinarian is strongly indicated.
@ eaglesoars:
I ain’t gay.
Two instances where the Turing test fails badly. Accidentally destroyed the theory once and felt bad for the young lady in the store. Never did it again. In January 1987 Washington DC
Destroyed the theory once again with a child mid 2000s in Iowa. Also never did that again!
Turing test is basically can you tell a real person from a machine.
Someone should ask that Chat AI thing to write a speech in the style of Kamala Harris.
It would probably explode
@ lobo91:
It is over capacity right now.
I think there are four and a half billion users trying to get it to say the “N” word.
LOL
Possum wrote:
When an employee in a store greets you and asks how your day is going you automatically answer ” great! ”
What you should not do is then ask the greeter how their day is. It is off script, not in their database and the AI greeter explodes.
Same thing with a robotic AI child trick or treater. NEVER tell them when they yell “Trick or treat!!!! ” I would like a trick.
Two examples of humans not passing the Turing test.
Game-Changer? Tennessee En Route to Reject Federal Education Money
“NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of Tennessee’s most influential Republican lawmakers says the state should stop accepting the nearly $1.8 billion of federal K-12 education dollars that help provide support for low-income students, English learners and students with disabilities.
“House Speaker Cameron Sexton told The Associated Press that he has introduced a bill to explore the idea during this year’s legislative session and has begun discussions with Gov. Bill Lee and other key GOP lawmakers.
“‘Basically, we’ll be able to educate the kids how Tennessee sees fit,’ Sexton said, pointing that rejecting the money would mean that Tennessee would no longer have ‘federal government interference.’”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/game-changer-tennessee-en-route-to-reject-federal-education-money_5046581.html
Was involved many years ago in a project that was an environmentally clean and healthy office building that had air quality sensors installed.
Strange peak of hydrocarbons detected between hours of 5:30pm and 6:30pm even though office closed at 5pm.
When I got the data took me 5 minutes to discover the problem.
If chatGPT was available then I wonder if it could have solved the problem faster?
@ Possum:
I know you are all in awe and fascinated to discover the reason for this mystery.
Ask that AI thingy.
@ Possum:
And as a result of this someone almost lost their job!
One day there was not a mysterious peak in hydrocarbons in the office.
@ Possum:
was a parking garage involved?
A really funny was when in the early hours of the morning a client decided to test our equipment installed in a data processing center. We were monitoring the temperatures. He thought it would be awesome if he breathed on the sensor to warm it up so as to cause an alert and see if we responded.
Yep it was noted as an over temperature alarm! We alerted the data center we were monitoring and advised them they had an AC failure in there computer room.
We got our asses kicked as there was NO AC failure, a false alarm! Undue panic…
Next day I went on a nice drive to Bristol city council where the data center was located
With the data from the temperature sensor that triggered the false alarm. Data was in one second increments. But there is more!!!!!
Un beknown to the person that hated our monitoring system the sensor he chose to breath on and trip the alert was a combined temperature and HUMIDITY sensor!
Was a nice chart I showed them… 15 breaths per minute,
A really funny was when in the early hours of the morning a client decided to test our equipment installed in a data processing center. We were monitoring the temperatures. He thought it would be awesome if he breathed on the sensor to warm it up so as to cause an alert and see if we responded.
Yep it was noted as an over temperature alarm! We alerted the data center we were monitoring and advised them they had an AC failure in there computer room.
We got our asses kicked as there was NO AC failure, a false alarm! Undue panic…
Next day I went on a nice drive to Bristol city council where the data center was located
With the data from the temperature sensor that triggered the false alarm. Data was in one second increments. But there is more!!!!!
Un beknown to the person that hated our monitoring system the sensor he chose to breath on and trip the alert was a combined temperature and HUMIDITY sensor!
Was a nice chart I showed them… 15 breaths per minute, @ eaglesoars:
No it was the cleaning crew. The spray bottles.
After they realised what caused the peak they knew when cleaning crew didn’t clean properly!
coldwarrior wrote:
gonna go work on it now…
this chat bot stuff is very interesting.
coldwarrior wrote:
oh wait till you start hearing about the transhumanism stuff.
Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC Teachers Flagged to FBI
On February 8, 2023, while arguing on behalf of fired NYC workers who declined covid vaccination, attorney John Bursch stated in open court that unvaccinated teachers in New York City were flagged with problem codes in their personnel files, and when that occurred “their fingerprints are sent with that flag to the FBI and the New York Criminal Justice Services.”
https://dailyclout.io/fingerprints-of-unvaccinated-nyc-teachers-flagged-to-fbi/
new thread, yinz, i’m back from my culinary journey into wonderfullness:
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/02/10/battle-hot-dog-open/