A friend, who i went to HS with, went computer science at one of the universities in pgh after we left high school. i just learned he died (cancer). he was part of this, so i will resurrect it as it lives no where else anymore. RIP my friend. And to my friend, Iron Fist. We had a great laugh on a phone call about this newsgroup post.
remember when we could joke about guns?
From a post year ago:
Many, many years ago I ran across the below comments that were on a CMU server. I ran across the bookmark last night and clicked on it…lo and behold it still exists! This is long, very funny, and posted here for your enjoyment. I have made sure to follow the copyright rules as posted on the about page. I thank Faisal N. Jawdat for not deleting this 18 years ago. This is an open and gun thread.
So, pour a drink, sit back, and have a read. This is well worth the effort.
Grad School and Automatic Weapons
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: Grad school and automatic weapons From: tomf@gte.com (Tom Fawcett) Date: 3 Nov 92 19:22:13 GMTGeek and weapons humor ripped off from DESPERADO.
22-May-87 19:26 Olin.Shivers@h.cs.cmu.edu Presentation announcement
It’s common knowledge that whenever you get two or more CS grad students together, the conversation will inevitably drift to the same topic: automatic weapons. Lately, we’ve noticed that whenever we attend a CS party, picnic, or bullsession, we always hear the same questions and discussions, usually from the younger grad students:
“When I switched from guncotton to standard ball powder on my .223 loads, the gas ports on my M16 would clog like you wouldn’t believe. Steer clear of that stuff.”
“You haven’t cleared an ejection port jam until you’ve cleared one in the Hill district at 4:00 AM on a Saturday morning.”
“I want to mount an M60 in front of the sun roof of my Tercel, but the mounting bracket wasn’t drilled for import cars. How did Josh Bloch do his?”
“What exactly are those special ‘conference rounds’ that Newell hand loads before AAAI every year?”
“Some of my friends at the MIT AI Lab don’t like M203’s because the grenade adds too much weight, but I wouldn’t have gotten out of IJCAI-85 in one piece if it hadn’t been for those 40mm flechette rounds. What do you think?”
“Do you have to be a god-damned tenured professor to get teflon rounds at this place?”
“Does the ‘reasonable person principle’ cover hosing down a member of the Soar project after he’s used the phrase ‘cognitively plausible’ for the fifteenth time in a 20 minute conference talk?”
“Where *did* Prof. Vrsalovic get that Kalashnikov AK-47?”
“I used to use Dri-Slide to lube my M16. How come my advisor says Dri-Slide is for momma’s boys and Stanford profs?”
“Does the way Jon Webb keeps flicking the safety of his Mac-10 on and off at thesis defenses make you nervous, too?”
In short, there is a lot of concern in this department for the proper care, handling and etiquette of automatic weapons. So as a service to the department, we are starting a two week daily series on “The Care and Handling of Your M16A1.” Every day for the next two weeks, we will post on the wall outside our office the day’s helpful hint on care and maintenance of that good old departmental standby: the M16A1. Our thanks to the US Army, whose training manuals we have shamelessly cribbed for material.
We would like to encourage other knowledgeable members of the CS community to share their expertise in a similar fashion. There is a real need for this kind of dialogue in the department. The new students come in here every fall, and are totally unequipped to handle the realities of graduate student life at CMU. Computability theory and lexical scoping are fine things to know about, but they just don’t cut the mustard when somebody from the Psych department opens up on you with an Ingram set to full auto.-the friendly automatic weapons enthusiasts of SkyCave1, Olin, Derek, and Allan
Date: Tue, 26 May 87 09:55:15 PDT From: jkh%violet.Berkeley.EDU@BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) To: Olin.Shivers@h.cs.cmu.edu Subject: Supporting one's opinion with sustained fully automatic weapons fire.I had recent occasion to view your Presentation Announcement on care and feeding of automatic weapons during lecture hall. I found it most amusing. I would very much like to see and/or contribute future material.
We have similar problems here at Berkeley, though it has been difficult to wean our students away from more the more mundane assortment of Browning Hi-Power’s, Beretta 92SBF’s and Sig-Sauer P226’s. The 9mm clique is pretty strong here, and the young grad students fairly parsimonious. They tend to balk at the idea of spending enough money on ammo to make full auto firefights practical. Lately, they’ve taken to sniping at each other from the Campanille tower and engaging in loose hit-and-run guerrilla tactics during finals. This is obviously not the American Way and needs to be changed. While I’ve been able to slowly ween them into more progressive arms (such as the Beretta 93R and an occasional mini-uzi), I still can’t seem to get past the supply problem. My questions are:
“Do you buy your ammo in bulk, or do appointed individuals do shifts on a progressive reloader?”
“Does the school pay for this?”
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jordan Hubbard
U.C. Berkeley
27-May-87 02:16 Olin.Shivers@h.cs.cmu.edu Automatic Weapons,
part IIIMy reply to Mr. Hubbard of UC Berkeley:
Mr. Hubbard-
Thank you for your letter. It was certainly interesting to hear of conditions out on the West Coast. What can I tell you about the situation here at CMU? I’m really glad I came to CMU. The faculty is absolutely first rate, and they all take pride in their weapons skills. We are admittedly a pretty opinionated bunch, which provides for many interesting interchanges within the community. I, for instance, think the long barrel .44 Automag is more of a fashion statement than a weapon, though you won’t catch me saying that within earshot of Prof. Fahlman. If you catch my drift.
Yes, I am aware of the West Coast predilection for 9mm pistolry. When I was an undergraduate, I spent one summer doing AI hacking at the MIT AI Lab. We’d hired this west coast guy to do Lisp hacking, and I can clearly remember being a little stranged out by his attitudes. He just wouldn’t shut up about Interlisp and Browning Hi-Power’s. Every time I tried to explain to him the way our project did things, he’d interrupt with “the right way,” i.e. the West Coast Way, to do it. He just couldn’t get it through his head that I didn’t want to hear about Interlisp, and I damn sure didn’t want to hear about 9-fu1king-millimeter automatics; we were a Zetalisp/.223 project. I finally gave up on him; that was the first time I’d ever personally encountered the east coast/west coast split in Lisp style and weapons choice.
I’m not quite as adamant about that sort of thing as I used to be. I guess these days I tend to have a “whatever gets the job done” attitude — even if it’s franz or a .22 Woodsman. But I’ve always thought that the west coast was really missing out on a good thing. I mean, on the east coast, public comment sometimes requires you to tuck a Beretta discreetly away in a shoulder holster. But when you are in Berkeley, it being the sort of place that it is, you can stroll down the street toting your automatic rifle of choice without so much as raising an eyebrow.
I am very fond of Berkeley. I think that while LA represents the dark, twisted climb-the-water-tower-and-start-shooting-until-the-Marines-settle-it side of California weirdness, Berkeley represents the very best of the pure, innocent-killer side of it all. The first weekend I ever spent in Berkeley was in the summer of 1983. I was sitting down at one of those really delightful cafes you have out there. To my left some old man was drinking cappucino and practicing Chinese calligraphy; down the street some undergraduates were engaged in a running firefight. I was taking it all in, thinking that Berkeleians have remembered something about living well that the rest of America seems to have forgotten, when this kid’s stray .223 slug shattered my glass of pomegranate soda. “Crazy undergraduates” I remember chuckling to myself as I put the safety back on my Hi-Power and returned it to its holster.
It seems a shame that ammunition is so hard to come by out there, though. We are quite spoiled here at CMU. The departmental attitude towards logistical support really crystallised for me in September of my first year. One of the incoming first-year hot-shots had taken out Prof. Felton with a head shot from 500 yards. We were all really impressed, and I think it was generally agreed that Felton couldn’t have asked for a more painless, appropriate end. It was a beautiful, almost poetic way to cap what had been a textbook career of brilliant, original mathematical insights punctuated with outbursts of random, deeply unhinged violence. Many were the stories of Felton told that week — we were particularly touched that, in a very real sense, he’d died with his boots on. He may have been all of 65, but his .357 Magnum had been in his hand when he hit the ground, a reflexive feat of almost mystical proportions, considering that by the time he’d become aware of the danger to himself, most of his processing hardware had become so much organic garbage heading west at Mach 1.
You’ve probably heard of Felton (National Academy of Science, IEEE Past President, NRA sustaining member). My advisor told me later that Felton’s academic peak had come at that now-infamous 1982 Symposium on Data Encryption, when he presented the plaintext of the encrypted challenge message that Rob Merkin had published earlier that year using his “phonebooth packing” trap-door algorithm. According to my advisor, Felton wordlessly walked up to the chalkboard, wrote down the plaintext, cranked out the multiplies and modulus operations by hand, and wrote down the result, which was obviously identical to the encrypted text Merkin had published in CACM. Then, still without saying a word, he tossed the chalk over his shoulder, spun around, drew and put a 158grain semi-wadcutter right between Merkin’s eyes. As the echoes from the shot reverberated through the room, he stood there, smoke drifting from the muzzle of his .357 Magnum, and uttered the first words of the entire presentation: “Any questions?” There was a moment of stunned silence, then the entire conference hall erupted in wild applause. God, I wish I’d been there.
But I digress. At Felton’s funeral, our departmental chairman delivered the eulogy. I’ll never forget his summation: “Poor Felton. Published, and published, and perished just the same.” And that’s the attitude that the professors take here. As my advisor said: “The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much more to mathematics if he’d only spent more time on his marksmanship.” The professors at CMU aren’t in the business of turning out effete researchers, aimed at the big industrial labs. They are interested in training real academicians, suitably prepared for life in the jungle of university-level computer science. And that means time spent practicing our teaching skills and weapons handling as well as making fundamental research contributions to the field. The department does not care to just crank out PhD’s, half of whom aren’t going going to make it through their first semester as a junior professor without winding up in a body bag. They are committed to a solid grounding in small arms fire, and if that means spending some grant money for the necessary resources, they are ready to stand up to the line.
So the short answer is, the department supplies us with all the ammunition we can use, and then some. Any caliber; any load configuration. They even keep those crazy Czechs supplied, who come in here every year with the absolutely strangest knock-off versions of other countrys’ guns that you have ever laid eyes on. The free ammunition has some nice side effects, too: the campus police never, ever give CS grad students parking tickets. And you just wouldn’t believe how attentive the students are in the courses we TA.
-Olin
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“You haven’t cleared an ejection port jam until you’ve cleared one in the Hill district at 4:00 AM on a Saturday morning.”
😆
or ran a ninja gpz900r at 110mph through a blood/crip gang fight in the hill. this after wayyyyy to many drinks with chris hitchens at cj barneys. 3 am and blind drunk.
i got rid of that bike as it was going to be death of me…drinking with that guy was also becoming a problem.
Meanwhile the Jesus People showed up in NOLA to harass the heathens.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kcIPNtaZx-A?si=CAE4jGw97aWWl9Tb
coldwarrior wrote:
Gawd. Memories.
coldwarrior wrote:
beyond envious
Iron Fist’s obit:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/knoxville-tn/robert-johnson-7047487
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
From the live comments (midnight): “It’s just a tradition! they close the shudders and doors and clear the road for the parade. and it goes right back to normal after the parade is over! everyone floods the street and the doors.”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Police parade is underway, squad cars and horsies.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
gawd, 8 freakin years
time’s a’flyin… gettin old…
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that Republicans lost another seat.
Between the black eye Santos gave the party and the push in so many areas for excessive restrictions on abortion, plus the fact it’s NY, it was an uphill battle.
The party needs to make some changes, across the board.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Damn. I didn’t know he was younger than I am.
right_wing2 wrote:
I believe he was 47
So is anyone else picking up on this ‘imminent national security threat’ from some Ohio congressman that nobody can divulge except it’s from Russia? [RUSSIA!! RUSSIA!! RUSSIA!!]. Now it’s something space-based yada yada yada.
Right before the intel alphabet agencies are pushing for renewal of FISA?
Gah
@ eaglesoars:
3 years younger. Damn.
And in Oct of ‘22 I lost a good friend, and conservative and Irish whiskey fan to a stroke. He was 60.
Last July, an online friend died from a stroke at 51.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh and Ukraine.
Does anybody remember when some Congress critter was questioning some witness in a hearing and asked if we had biolabs in Ukraine? And before the witness could answer VICTORIA NULAND pops up from the back of the room YES WE DO.
What exactly are we funding?
@ right_wing2:
I recall quite a few friends we’ve lost from this blog. Remember INT2U? [I’m no threat to you] Remember Mike A? Remember Josh? (I don’t recall his nic)
CW was/is still in touch with the NT2U’s family. That one was a shocker. It was the day of Obama’s 2nd election and I had been out all day. Finally logged on about 7 pm to see CW had posted the news. She had a congenital liver condition that caused too much iron in her blood stream and needed regular blood cleansing procedure. For some reason, she just up and died during the procedure. IIRC, her name was Trina. We had just started to become friends and she was afraid of guns, so I was trying to talk her past that.
Somehow Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law backed her Tesla into a pond and drowned
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/14/angela-chao-mitch-mcconnells-sister-in-law-dies-in-car-accident/
eaglesoars wrote:
Haemochromatosis
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/haemochromatosis/#:~:text=Haemochromatosis%20is%20an%20inherited%20condition,%2C%20joints%2C%20pancreas%20and%20heart.
NOT a disease of the liver, apparently
of course she is
NEW – Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide Huma Abedin reveals she is dating George Soros’ billionaire son Alex.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1757899653603836410
Yes, indeed. Partly because constipated arsewholes decided to play Charlie Johnson.
Yeah, the trembly-bowelled admins have a real sad case of Charlie Johnson Disease.
right_wing2 wrote:
Wow. I didn’t know that either. Also didn’t know about his other credentials.
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds of ahoe puckering in and around DC. Bongino was talking about Ukraine & possible extortion – I didn’t hear the whole thing.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nil Stooge
Darkwords is still MIA.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Nil Stooge doesn’t ring a bell.
@ eaglesoars:
He was Engineer No. 3 of Daedalus’ Boiler Room Crew. Thought he posted here as well.
Cats’s birthday and cats are outside catching birthday mice so I an all alone.
Headphones on, volume at 11 and Nightwish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww2f4PPprSc
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I never participated in Daedalus so….
eaglesoars wrote:
Macker too, he enjoyed playing video games.
A bunch of us reunited on Facebook after the purge, only a few posted here. I was going through my friends list and was shocked by how many had passed away, most at way too young of an age.
Bordm wrote:
I think that was Josh. We spoke on the phone just about every day for the last 6 weeks of his life. He had no family to speak of, his mom was too frail to care for him and he had a so-so girlfriend. That was about it. The last 3 days he was pretty much incoherent. His girlfriend emailed me about his passing, etc. IIRC, he was also into designing games, etc. And he was very young.
@ eaglesoars:
ok, I just checked my email archives.
Josh Spencer. Our last email was May 6 2018 after he started chemo. After that he was too weak to write, we just talked.
gah
Bed.
eaglesoars wrote:
You missed out on a lot of fun. It brought Andrew Breitbart to Blogmock Radio.
Bordm wrote:
Macker! He was into Galaxy Quest, Babylon 5 or some other TV sci-fi stuff that I never got.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Galaxy Quest was a movie, the greatest Star Trek spoof ever. Watch it you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
@ Bordm:
Might have to watch it just for Sigourney Weaver.
Too bad Flash Basbo Space Explorer never made it to the big screen.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Free on Pluto. Seen it.
https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/movies/5e878a044f626f001a4c1454
eaglesoars wrote:
Without trying to offend, history and evolution is significant.
This place was originally littlegreenfootballs2 dot com. Eventually everyone was sick of hearing about charles johnson in here so a spin off site was created. Daedalus.
Next in the history was Charles Johnson filed a trade mark for Little Green Footballs and threatened the site owners here with a lawsuit.
Hence the name change to Blogmocracy.
And that is how everyone knows where Charles Johnson lives. His address is on the trade mark application.
I love history
@ Possum:
I still can’t get your comments to auto approve.
I’ll look at this tonight
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
B5. One of my favorites.
It’s discouraging seeing younger people pass, while some of the most vile people live to their 90’s.
Oh, God.
A possible Manchin/Romney ticket.
https://redstate.com/levon/2024/02/15/joe-manchin-says-he-will-ask-gop-senator-to-be-his-vp-if-he-runs-for-president-n2170160
@ right_wing2:
Oh, hell no
@ Possum:
@ coldwarrior:
Try it now
The story of the “pipe bomb” that was discovered outside of the DNC headquarters building on 1/6/21 is rapidly falling apart now that the surveillance videos have been released. First, it shows a Secret Service dog team walking right past the alleged bomb’s location with no interest.
Next, it shows the complete lack of concern displayed by the Capitol Police officers who were notified of its “discovery.” They finished their lunch before getting out of their car, in fact. Oh, and the random “passerby” who reported it was a plainclothes Capitol Police officer. Nothing suspicious there, right?
Now, we’ve learned that both of the surveillance cameras that cover the scene were rotated 90 degrees away from the scene just as the bomb squad began their work. Until that moment, neither of those cameras had moved in months.
@ lobo91:
They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore
aww man, ace is having a field day with the fani willis hearing
They are trotting out a lot of claims with no evidence — “Fani paid me back for all of these trips, but only in cash, and no, I have no deposit slips for when I deposited this cash into my account, you’ll just have to take my word for it as a He-Wore selling his man-pussy” — and Fani’s claim that of course she keeps thousands of dollars in cash in her apartment to pay for trips “because my daddy told me a woman should always have six months of cash lying around.”
She is using this lie to explain why there are no bank records showing her withdrawing money to repay Sweetdick.
He has no records of ever depositing the cash; she has no records of every withdrawing it.
This is how criminals at a criminal trial behave — but these are public officials and officers of the court at a disqualification hearing. And they’re lying and evading like common fucking streetrat hoods.
So they can claim these things, offering bizarre family lore about a woman needing to have six months salary on hand in cash to explain away the lack of bank withdrawals, but… does anyone believe them?
What I’m thinking is that they are preparing for their perjury trial. These lies are are defense for perjury charges. You can’t prove they’re lies, so they might get by with reasonable doubt.
Is the judge really going to buy this unbelievable bullshit?
These are public officials. They’re supposed to be forthcoming with the truth, not hiding it, not invoking privilege and refusing to turn over records.
Not daring the White Judge to say these two Strong Empowered Liars of Color are lying.
Instead, they’re acting like skeevey hoodrats who do a lot of cash transactions in paper bags.
And when you ask them what they’re doing with $20,000 in a paper bag, they go, “What money?”
funny shit
https://ace.mu.nu/
coldwarrior wrote:
And the “bomb” itself was laughable. It had a dollar store windup 60 minute kitchen timer attached to it. According to the official timeline, it was placed sometime between 7:30 and 8:30 PM the night before. So how was it supposed to be activated? Was the “bomber” going to come back the next day and turn the knob?
If you look up the training aids the FBI uses at Quantico, it looks exactly like what they use.
@ rain of lead:
Because they ARE “skeevey hoodrats who do a lot of cash transactions in paper bags.” They just happen to have law degrees.
Did you hear about Marilyn Mosby, the former BLM sympathizer DA from Baltimore? She’s going to prison for mortgage fraud.
@ rain of lead:
@ lobo91:
ummmmm…i’ll take what is tax evasion for $500, alex
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:Battlestar Galactica. The 2004 re-make, too — the good one. Not the 1978 series, which had to be heavily watered down because of 1970s sensibilities.
@ right_wing2: I enjoyed B 5, as well.
I actually find that believable. Because my father told me the same. Have a six month reserve in cash in your house.
He remembered the depression when the banks failed and nobody could get their money out.
@ eaglesoars:
Her father was a founding member of the Black Panthers, not someone who lived through the Great Depression.
Well, if anyone had “shootout between teenage gang members” on their bingo card for the Kansas City “mess shooting,” you win.
Of course, that fact isn’t stopping the media from blaming Missouri gun laws. Apparently, requiring adults to obtain concealed carry permits would have prevented minors from illegally getting guns and using them to shoot at each other in a crowd. No one has explained how, exactly.
lobo91 wrote:
OH
@ eaglesoars:
She was born in Inglewood, CA. That’s the original ‘hood in L.A., before Compton became famous.
On another note, this trip to Baja that Cody and I are taking is getting expensive. I had to pay close to $600 for insurance for my truck and trailer, and another $300+ for medical insurance.
lobo91 wrote:
???
@ eaglesoars:
Most US medical insurance is no good in Mexico.
This is a really good live recording. Poor Pau. You can tell she wants out of the penalty box.
@ lobo91:
ah
Darwin Award
Man is mauled to death by a lion after climbing into its enclosure and trying to take a selfie with it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13088211/Man-mauled-death-lion-climbing-enclosure-trying-selfie-it.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Just a random food post concerning air fryers and pastry.
Someone here mentioned Beef Wellington and it made me think. I have only eaten a perfect Beef Wellington twice in my long and interesting life. Both times at a really expensive corporate dinner event where obviously it was cooked to perfection and served fresh. Not a re-heated pre cooked frozen then microwaved thing.
So inspired by that I got a package of Pepperidge Farms puff pastry sheets and a pound of ground beef. Beef Wellington requires fillet mignon but for an experiment ground beef will do.
Them little cheap $32 air fryers are awesome! I just cook enough for one meal, a bonus is that in the summer months, March to October in Texas, using an air fryer instead of the oven does not heat the apartment to 110F.
Anyway it works, last night I made beef rolls, shrimp rolls, even had a go at those foreign Empanadas things.
Air fryers are ovens for lonely old men….
coldwarrior wrote:
I am ok with things as they are. ” Commit the crime then do the time ”
None of my posts are time sensitive, if admins just looked in the ” sin bin ” and released anything relevant just a couple of times a week I am seriously OK with that.
One think I do ask though, could the admins please correct the spelling mistakes in my posts before releasing them?
LOL
@ Possum:
auto approve is based on user name and email listed.
your email changed. i think its fixed now…
Possum wrote:
we get it once a year at gordon ramsay’s restaraunt in ceasar’s AC
@ Possum:
i’m too lazy.
i need auto approve.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1758563643724083361
welp
Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million and Barred From New York Business—The judge’s ruling in Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud case could cost him all his available cash. It also bars the former president from running a business in the state for three years.
https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1758591349547536419
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I met Iron Fist twice when he made the ride to the Ohio meetups from the former blog that shall not be mentioned. The second meeting a year or two later I met a different man than from the first meet up. He was at peace after finding the Lord and his future wife. Enjoyed the time the little time we had to talk.
Regarding Iron Fist’s age of passing. In 2017 I lost 3 childhood friends within a few weeks of each other– 2 of them vets. They all died at the age of 47. Peculiar.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
I first met him physically at reaganite’s retirement party in Fayetteville NC (he was stationed at FT Bragg and had married Ann by then. I THINK). It was right after he met Mafia Princess. He showed me her pic, then introduced us over the phone (we’re still friends!) Then we got COMPLETELY shit faced together. I’ve never been that drunk before or since.
The next time I saw him was the day before he died. We used to read books together – the last one was VDH’s Carnage and Culture
eaglesoars wrote:
No, it was THE DAY he died. He died a few hours after I got home.
Did yinz know he died 3 years TO THE DAY after his father? His mom, Adina, really went thru it. I sat with her for hours.
@ eaglesoars:
Reaganite. The EOD bomb doctor. LOL. His pic from Iraq circa 2004 with the Nokia cell phone “one missed call” was classic. I think I have that filed somewhere. We corresponded for awhile, but I lost touch. Iron Fist told me about his trip to Bragg and was stoked still about it. I did some TDY there back in the day.
And two decades later, the stragglers are still here. So gehts.
@ eaglesoars:
Great book. VDH was doing a tour in Europe a few years ago and was going to do a day tour in Nürnberg, which is about 3 hours from me. I wrote him an email explaining who I was and if I could join that particular tour for the day. He wrote back in person and referred me to his assistant for the details.
Of course that is a pale comparison to getting drunk with Christopher Hitchens and riding my motorcycle blind drunk. LOL. 😉
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
A source of everlasting envy……
@ eaglesoars:
I think they also slapped limits on his offspring. No idea how that’s legal.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Because they’re on the board of directors
wut?
Bill Gates’ Plan to ‘Fight Climate Change’ by Blocking the Sun Begins
Bill Gates’s radical plan to “save the planet” from “climate change” by blocking out the Sun has officially launched as scientists began pumping chemicals into the sky this week.
The idea, promoted by Gates and leftist billionaire George Soros, involves pumping manmade white clouds into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the planet’s surface.
The radical scheme would lower the planet’s temperature and allegedly “combat global warming.”
Soros claims the technology will help to prevent ice sheets from melting.
https://twitter.com/Denosko1/status/1758450973708517414
Critical part of Trump judgment that’s getting overlooked:
He’s now barred from getting any loans from any bank licensed in NY for 3 years
And most large banks, in US or anywhere, need NY license to have access to capital
Trump will have a LOT of trouble borrowing more cash
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1758638633056346481
@ eaglesoars:
I caught that right off. All major banks are licensed in NY.
They’re trying to destroy him.
interstate commerce clause will end this
Just a passing thought. What drives multi millionaires and multi billionaires to keep going?
Elon Musk has more money than any reasonable person could possibly spend in a lifetime but he just keeps making it and spending it on things. 44 billion to by Twitter, 30 million for every failed launch of the Starship thing. I kind of get it. When you have a shit load of money then you can buy bigger and more expensive toys.
Jeff Bezos spends his spare cash, many millions building a rocket that looks more like a penis than a penis does but does not really go anywhere except up into space for three minutes then back down again.
Trump. He has property, a family, a gold plated toilet. Why does he not say ” I am set for the rest of my life ” and cash out.
I don’t get it. Yes I would like more money in my retirement fund. But there is enjoyment in being retired.
I can understand Musk, Besos, and the rest of the younger billionaires keeping going and making money then spending it on stupid shit but as for Trump?
Donald, retire and enjoy the rest of your life.
@ Possum:
To clarify this as to why I think Donald Trump should retire from business and public life.
Even if he is elected as president again there is no way in hell he will be actually enable anything to be done to change the way things are.
Just my opinion as a foreign national who knows fuck all about American politics.
@ lobo91:
I got that frivolous legal action confused with the other frivolous legal actions.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I don’t see how it can even be legal for multiple cases to be going on in different places at the same time. A defendant shouldn’t have to bounce back and forth between courtrooms that are all up and down the east coast. Seems to me that the judges should have had a conference call and decided what order they were going to go in.
WHAT is the problem w/Navalny’s death/murder?
He plotted a revolution. OF COURSE PUTIN WAS GOING TO OFF HIM
Same with Kashoggi. He spied against his country. So of course he got dead.
They both knew the rules of the game and they played. Syanara suckers.
We should do the same. It pisses me off that our tax dollars are keeping Aldrich Ames breathing
I’ve been on the radio for over an hour and I’ve talked to at least (10) Truckers who are gonna start refusing loads of Monday for (NYC) …I talked to (3) guys that I work with who texted the boss and told him no (NYC)
Truckers are (95%) Trump… it’ll get overturned on appeal but you know how fucken hard it is to get one of these mfrs into (NYC) cut the bullshit
I’ll cya down the road
https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1758674105446838535
@ Possum:
we’re already far down the rabbit hole, it will be fun to watch trump throw a sabot into the machine tho…maybe delay the inevitable a few years.
@ eaglesoars:
peeps are gonna get hungry real fast…
btw, that tasting history channel is da bomb
eaglesoars wrote:
when one goes at the king…..
‘EXPERT’
NY Mag’s personal finance columnist was convinced by a cold caller claiming to be a CIA agent in Langley that she needed to empty her bank account, put the money in a shoebox and give it to a guy coming to meet her on the street.
https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html
coldwarrior wrote:
toldya!
eaglesoars wrote:
i made the colluseum dates…oh, hell yeah
Interesting fact about the Coliseum in Rome. The missing parts did not just fall down. The stones were systematically removed/stolen at the end of the Roman empire and were used to construct other, more primitive structures nearby.
Yep, the Possum lived in Rome and got the inside story from the locals there…..
@ Possum:
Mount Rushmore is my evidence. It looks great but if you look lower there is a really ugly pile of rock that was blasted, chipped and chiseled off the mountain to make the diorama. If I made that sculpture I would have moved all that waste rubble somewhere else.
Anyway, back to the Colosseum, Notice there is no pile of rubble by the parts that are missing.
Them rocks got stolen….
Another tip for travelers to Italy. Visit Rome, Verona ( Romeo and Juliet ) and Venice in the winter, in summer it is skunky.
But while you are in Rome and visiting the Vatican and getting a sore neck looking at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel please do not show your ignorance and ask.
” Where is the painting of the last supper “
Back in our old stomping ground, Northern Virginia, there was a house explosion in Sterling (a few miles down 395 from our place). Unfortunate, but these things happen. Well, they’ve already lost at least 2 firefighters and look at the traffic backup. I think this is 395 (and I’m sure 495 and all the backroads have been impacted) I have never seen a backup like this and people are probably running out of gas.
Here’s a pic.
https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1758694288110821536
@ Possum:
i kinda like the rubble, it acts as a foreground.
More cooking history. I think her name is Jen. This is early American in the early 1800s (and late 1700s I think) as it would be done in a log cabin.
This is winter 1825
It’s over an open fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T810tSwBMUc
I saw quite a bit of this at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown NY (which I’ve been to 3 times because I love it).
Oh, and you MUST check out American’s Test Kitchen on youtube. Lots of good stuff there
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=america%27s+test+kitchen
eaglesoars wrote:
been there wayyyyyyyy back
coldwarrior wrote:
I understand what you mean but if you look at recent photographs there are some trees that are starting to grow on the rubble. Wind blown dirt and wind blown seeds and as we all know nature has a way of healing man made scars on this planet.
If I was president I would sign an executive order to dump several hundreds of thousands of tons of dirt onto that rubble so new trees could grow and enhance the image of green trees against the stark contrast of the carved rock faces.
LOL a Brit even thinking as to how to improve a USA national monument warrants deportation.
@ Possum:
Having spent 15 months stationed in Italy, I can definitely verify that. Venice in particular.
@ Possum:
@ lobo91:
rome in august is….well…..thick
Possum wrote:
beards.
eaglesoars wrote:
Route 7/Leesburg Pike
Which is even worse. Fewer lanes
lobo91 wrote:
I think it’s Venice that has a Winter Carnival that is a bit like Mardi Gras I’ve always wanted to go to.
My travel days are over tho
Has anybody heard of this guy? Gonzalo Lira? Apparently people who are pissed about Nalvany are getting slammed for not caring about this ‘American’ who died in a Ukranian prison
Gonzalo Lira, a 55-year-old Chilean American who was imprisoned in Ukraine after allegedly spreading Russian propaganda then violating his bail conditions, has died in a Ukrainian jail.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, conservative social-media personality Tucker Carlson said he had been informed of the death by Lira’s father. Speaking to Newsweek, a State Department official confirmed “the death of a U.S. citizen in Ukraine” and offered their “sincerest condolences to the family on their loss.” The cause of Lira’s death has not been confirmed. Newsweek contacted the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for comment by email on Saturday.
Lira was formerly a pick-up artist who posted videos to YouTube under the name ‘Coach Red Pill.’ He was living in Kharkiv when the Russian military launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Lira gained a following by posting content online hostile to the Ukrainian government and its President Volodymyr Zelensky. Lira baselessly branded Ukraine’s leader a “cokehead,” and described the Russian operation as “one of the most brilliant invasions in military history.”
Lira was arrested by Ukraine’s internal security agency, the SBU, on May 1 before being released on bail. Lira subsequently released a video saying he was going to try to leave the country, before being rearrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions.
Speaking about Lira’s arrest, the Ukrainian government’s Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security, also known as SPRAVDI, said the YouTube poster had been charged with “justifying Russian aggression against Ukraine,” in violation of Article 463-2 of the country’s criminal code.
https://www.newsweek.com/who-gonzalo-lira-pro-putin-american-expat-dies-ukrainian-jail-1860496
and look at the video of this freak
Remember when Ukraine had this trans psycho go out and gloat about how they were going to make Gonzalo Lira “pay for his crimes”
The crimes were speech, and he died for them
https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1758728345791910241
ok, bed
What’s with Carlson in Russia? And why the hell are people praising Putin?
eaglesoars wrote:
Mostly former Soviet era bio-labs scattered across Ukraine that were utilised by the US after 2014 coup. There were somewhere between 6-8 labs in the Ukraine. A few were new builds, can’t remember the proportion? Dr. Colonel Kouzminov, formally of the KGB bio-warfare organisation, alluded to them when I debriefed him in Wellington NZ, on behalf of an Australian Security Services mandarin, who was writing his Memoirs.
@ eaglesoars:
“Has anybody heard of this guy? Gonzalo Lira?”
Yes. I have listened to his podcasts for a few years when he was going by the name “Coach Redpill” in the old days. His demeanour was off putting for many, but what he was saying was undeniable. Born in Chile and raised in the US going to one of the ivy leagues. He had an interesting life and was a straight shooter regarding what was going on in the world. Insightful. He was living in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and was openly critical of the gay little coke head running the country and the corrupt US state department– especially Victoria Neuland.
He was arrested for criticizing the “gay Führer” and his thugs. Was released and remained in country continuing his broadcasts. Arrested a second time, tortured and left to suffer and die. The Biden admin did nothing despite his fathers continual pleadings.
He was guilty of speaking the truth, but nothing else.
@ eaglesoars:
There were bio-labs in Ukraine, China of course and originally even the US (but most were ‘canned’ due to the risk profile) as well as scattered across Africa, all funded by ‘black funding’ working on ‘gain-of-function research, across a wide cohort of pathogens. Kouzminov reported to me that a Siberian research site had a major accident and the whole remote region was isolated and most people died locally, until the plague burned itself out. There were also a program where Soviet era pathogens were smuggled into the 5 Home Counties around London by selected Aeroflot crews. They were hidden by long term ‘sleepers’ and K wasn’t sure whether they were ever removed after the Soviet Union collapsed? Up to 7 Illegals worked in Oz during the Cold War and K alluded to a sleeper cell preparing to accept bio-weapons to a major Australian Naval Facility environs. I assumed he was talking about NW Cape Base but K admitted that the locations were around Garden Island near Kings Cross in SYDNEY. Active bio-warfare weapons were never in place as they were in the UK!
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Dr. Colonel Kouzminov, worked for the NZ Ministry of Health as the overwatch on NZ water standards, Talk about a ‘poacher turning into a game warden’!
🙂
He wrote a very interesting book called ‘Biological Warfare’ by Dr. Colonel Alexander Kauzemanov, known to his ‘friends’ (….ahem …..) as ‘Sasha’. you can still probably find a copy kicking about even now. Sasha was terrified of a significant ‘Gain-of-Function’ accident stuffing the globe. I even felt a little sorry for him as he got royally screwed by the BBC and several editors who were trying to monitories the material in the book whilst paying ‘peanuts’. He also got the rough end of the stick due to Ministry power plays and manipulation. His wife had a Doctorate in Musicology working in an old folks home cleaning up dirty napkins and he had two young daughters, who he worried about. Given his skillset I thought that the NZ government was ‘chancing their arm’ by pissing he and his family off.
I attempted getting him a job in Tasmania using the Aussie Security mandarin as a conduit. Alas it fell through because Sasha wanted to disappear as certain Russians in the West were ‘disappearing’ painfully, especially in the UK! In the end Sasha worked for a Russian oligarch who owned a water bottling plant North of Auckland until it went broke. Often wondered what happened to Sasha and his family! He’d been screwed and was very angry and given his knowledge was dangerous. I think he was given a a double Masters as his double doctorate was recognised. He eventually got his Western PhD at Auckland University, before I lost touch with him!
@ coldwarrior:
@ Aussie Infidel:
….. a double Masters as his double doctorate was NOT recognised.
fixed
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Found a brief I wrote back in the day!
🙂
Alexander Kouzminov was an intelligence operative in the 1980s and early 1990s for the KGB and its successor, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. He is the author of Biological Espionage, an inside account of his work within the top secret “Directorate S” where he helped implement Russia’s plans for biological espionage and biological warfare. He currently lives in New Zealand with his wife and family.
The California Literary Review recently spoke with Dr. Kouzminov about his past work and the dangers he foresees in an age of genetic engineering.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
That’s right
His book was called ‘Biological Espionage’, an inside account of his work within the top secret “Directorate S”.,
NOT Biological Warfare!
right_wing2 wrote:
journalism
Aussie Infidel wrote:
have to put that on my list, very intersting
https://conservativeroof.com/senate-democrats-are-now-pushing-new-bill-that-prevents-churches-from-having-armed-security/
Of course
What a lunatic
https://www.frontpagemag.com/rep-barbara-lee-explains-how-every-business-can-afford-a-50-hour-minimum-wage/
She’ll probably demand 8 weeks vacation, a 25 hour work week, and 3 years maternity leave, too.
@ right_wing2:
How does a state get so screwed up that Adam Schiff is the least insane person in their Senate race?
lobo91 wrote:
In the Land of the Blind the One Eyed Man is King!
🙂
there are many brewewries in north central pa….
@ coldwarrior:
guh, made it back safe
Found the book, bought the paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Biological-Espionage-Operations-Intelligence-Paperbacks/dp/B007BWFMMG
So these guys marched in Nashville today with Nazi flags. The Blood Tribe.
https://www.amazon.com/Biological-Espionage-Operations-Intelligence-Paperbacks/dp/B007BWFMMG
Advertising as Nazis
Nah
Feds
Not coordinated or anything
Breaking: African migrants & immigrants from Eritrea in Charlotte, N.C. are rioting & attacking police. The riot coincides with Eritreans in the Netherlands also setting fires and assaulting police. Warring Eritrean factions have taken their violence to the countries they claim asylum in.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1759031723726430218
can someone please tell me what ‘ASMR’ means? I see it used in something like #ASMR #Nighttrain #Japan but when I look it up I get a medical term
BREAKING: President Biden blames Congressional Republicans for Ukraine’s defeat in Avdiivka today, says “Ukraine’s military was forced to withdraw from Avdiivka after Ukrainian soldiers had to ration ammunition due to dwindling supplies as a result of congressional inaction, resulting in Russia’s first notable gains in months.”
In a statement moments ago, Biden wrote, “President Biden called President Zelenskyy today to underscore the United States’ commitment to continue supporting Ukraine ahead of the two year anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion.
“This morning, Ukraine’s military was forced to withdraw from Avdiivka after Ukrainian soldiers had to ration ammunition due to dwindling supplies as a result of congressional inaction, resulting in Russia’s first notable gains in months.
“President Biden emphasized the need for Congress to urgently pass the national security supplemental funding bill to resupply Ukrainian forces.
“President Biden reaffirmed the strong bipartisan support in the U.S. government and among the American people for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to imposing costs on the Russian government to hold it accountable for its actions.”
NOTE: Avdiivka in Eastern Ukraine had been a military stronghold for the better part of the decade but finally fell today.
When are the Ukies going to understand that some in the U.S. gov’t will fight Russia right down to the last Ukie? They are pawns in a proxie war. You think Schumer’s threat to send American troops to Ukraine if we don’t pony up the money? It wasn’t.
bed
lobo91 wrote:
Another question is how does Schiff qualify in CA when his primary residence is in MD?
No one with an R after their name has a chance in CA. Steve Garvey talks but doesn’t say anything. Mark Meuser has qualifications and smarts, but he also has no chance against the padded room crown.
coldwarrior wrote:
Vitamin I, and what others? I’m too lazy to googlize it.
Kind of a fun compilation to *cough* celebrate 10 years of teh Utoobage, 3-1/2 minutes of clips from 198 viral videos.
https://youtu.be/wPd0MumNLbg?si=71ZBSmE-jn2tuNMH
@ Possum:
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
@ lobo91:
Cool site with interactive digital 3D reconstructions of medieval buildings / interiors in Firenze:
https://florenceasitwas.wlu.edu/
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Too bad the Duomo doesn’t load. College roommate threw an orange over it in 1978.
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course they are FEDS!
Like the cretins of the Socialist Unity Party in Oz and NZ were 90% nutters and psychos, plus odd smart ideologue, who were dangerous. If all of the ‘government plants’ left the party, the whole ‘box and dice’ would have fallen to bits immediately. The nutter/ psycho cohort couldn’t run a booze up in a brewery, if someone took the ‘bungs out of the barrels’ for them! 🙂
The $$$$$$ that were poured into keeping the ‘party’ going was a total waste. The same nutters and psychos are still with us, but they captured the Green Party and now run it as their personal Marxist fiefdom. Trouble is by capturing an organisation these crazies automatically destroy what they capture every time. Truth be told the GRU/ KGB / FIS …’ whatever’ …. professionals, actually considered these ‘nutter / psycho’ cohorts as traitors to their own country, even as they were supposed fraternal comrades together.
🙂
The plants ran the whole thing and the Marxist $$$$$$$$s were totally wasted and the ‘alphabet agencies plants’ were running the whole shebang. Literally tonnes of propaganda material was shipped every week at huge cost that made the Post Office very happy. Most was diverted by plants directly to be pulped and never saw the light of day, except for a tiny fraction that was circulated for show!
🙂
The ‘plants’ ran the whole thing, and knew more about ‘who was who in the zoo’ than the embassy professional spooks. Hell the whole thing was an ‘ID and profile scam’ to establish inbound newby ‘spooks’ professional files, that would follow them around for the rest of their professional careers.
🙂
Same with the ‘nutter / psycho’ cohorts these days. If the FEDS withdrew their agents the whole organisational structures of these groups would collapse.
🙂
All true!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
yep
We’re watching American Assassin, based on Vince Flynn’s first book.
eaglesoars wrote:
Fairly decent movie. Much better than that godawful Grey Man movie, where I’m fairly certain that nobody involved has ever actually read any of the books.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, it was fun. I wasn’t too impressed with the guy who played Mitch but he was ok.
@ eaglesoars:
Great series. I got started on those when I was giving platelets.
They know I read, and one of the techs came out with a stack of books and asked if I was interested. I sorted through and picked probably 6-8 different things, including 3 of the Flynn books. I was hooked.
The movie… could have been better.
@ right_wing2:
Vince died some years ago, prostate cancer I think. He and Rush were great friends, both from Missouri. I remember when Rush went to his funeral.
Brad Thor is another writer. I don’t read him anymore because I won’t give my money to anybody who goes after Trump. But his books ARE good. There’s a really brilliant dwarf who has Ovcharkas, which is how I found out about the breed.
@ eaglesoars:
Did you ever read Term Limits, Flynn’s first novel (before the Mitch Rapp series)?
lobo91 wrote:
Nope. I will look for it, thanks
eaglesoars wrote:
jeez oh flip! $14 on kindle??
It had better be good or I find out where you live. [I know where you live]
In other news:
I know I’m probably the most voracious consumer of twitter/X on this blog but if anyone else is seeing this – are you sick and tired of this intermittent fasting trend? According to ‘body type’
Can we please just fucking eat? Vegs, meat, dairy, fruit, etc.?
And don’t get me started on the whole ‘seed oils are killing us’ bullshit.
Even Ms Lyndsay has tested the waters and has changed his nominal RINO position to Make America First! But alas not before helping Schumer to donate $60 billion additional tax dollars to ensure that more Ukrainians have to be thrown back into the meat grinder … again.
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/7049-the-american-nightmare-one-nation-under-satan
Meanwhile as America’s current ‘sweetheart’ does Satan impersonations in videos, and she gets lauded by the MSM as an ideal example for our children!
Down is the new Up … Good is the new Bad …. and pope Frank can’t cut a break without looking like Judas 2.0
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
who? I’m missing something
@ eaglesoars:
I haven’t read any of the post-Flynn books.
What about Dale Brown, a retired USAF navigator/bombadier? He’s written that least 30 techno-thrillers.
@ right_wing2:
oh thanks! I’ll look him up.
In other news – I have no opinion but this may be true. Thoughts?
There isn’t going to be some ‘Trucker Strike’ of NYC because someone got fined for fraud.
It’s fake. It’s just twitter accounts and conservative pundits that know ‘Trucker Strike’ topics perform well on social media, so they are hyping up a few random people.
https://twitter.com/SwissWatchGuy/status/1759621324027097252
Drive by post of no interest to anyone.
Just got three pounds of yellow onions, a pound of beef liver ( not that fragile calf liver stuff that disintegrates ) and a pack of bacon.
So, tonight supper is going to be…..
A grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup.
Reading upthread ASMR is indeed a medical term. It describes the feeling someone gets when the hair on their head stands up, a tingly feeling in limbs and goosebumps.
Many youtubers etc are producing content designed to do that. It is a relaxation therapy kind of thing.
Personally I think it is a load of bollocks. Not the medical phenomenon of ASMR but the subscribe to my channel for eight hours of ASMR ” therapy “
Possum wrote:
thank you
Possum wrote:
We drove down the coast to find that the clinic is closed for Presidents’ Day and drove back. Nice and rainy, too. Matches my attitude.
@ eaglesoars:
I believe the phenomenon is real but I do not believe a YouTube video or any other Internet contrived post for clicks can trigger it.
In the old days the sudden appearance of a shivering sensation and goose bumps was laughingly attributed to ” someone just walked over my grave ”
I have triggers that do it to me, but not consistently. As an example I just went and listened to a song. Nightwish Nemo.
Sometimes the first few notes make my arm hairs stand on end / goosebumps. Other times no physical reaction. Today no reaction.
Link added for no other reason that this sometimes triggers ASMR, but not often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNg2Dh6gPkw
eaglesoars wrote:
They guy who first Xweeted about the NYC truckers’ strike, @Chicago1Ray, is doubling down.
“I’m in Wisconsin and I’m hearing guys refusing loads….. this could take longer than a week…. my advice for New Yorkers is start stocking up… there’s millions of Truckers for Trump millions of us .. leave Trump TF alone.”
https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1759615339422249302
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I understand the need to have federal days off. But I am really sure many employees would rather not have those silly made up days off and get another two weeks paid vacation per year when THEY wanted it.
Nobody asked why when I got onions, liver, bacon delivered but all I am going to eat is a cheese sandwich and soup.
Notice it went from grilled cheese which involves fire and things to just a cheese sandwich. Less chance of injury and death. Thinking about it heating soup up is dangerous.
You all guessed. Also a five liter box of wine for $17 also got delivered. That is 1.32086 gallons of %13 alcohol so I may not be posting here for a few days.
Or eating anything that requires flames, hot cooking oil or cutting shit up with sharp knives.
* burp *
eaglesoars wrote:
Who else? The US’ Taylor Swift herself in the compulsory satan mask doing her ‘thing’ fir all of the brain-dead children and their bat-shit crazy parents.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
oh. I don’t think I would recognize her music. She IS beautiful tho and she is apparently a great performer. As far as I can tell, she’s earned everything, so I begrudge her nothing. And her work ethic is right up there with Beyonce. So. Not my monkey, not my circus. You go girl.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
from Glen Beck
I spoke with truckers who are boycotting New York City over the state’s decision to charge Donald Trump $355 million for a VICTIMLESS “crime.” Their message was clear:
Rob from Pennsylvania: “Under no circumstances will I cross that bridge again.”
Roger from Alabama: “If a bunch of independent truck drivers start doing this, NYC will feel a pinch real quick.”
Scott from Massachusetts: “I’m not going to NYC… The last time I made a delivery there… the cops came along and gave me a ticket. $250 ticket for parking and $250 for blocking the bike lane.”
Jason from Maine: “I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s any truth to [this protest]. So, I’m glad [to hear it’s happening]. It will hopefully make an impact and a statement that we’re not going to tolerate this.”
https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1759667500537589832
My issue is that it’s difficult to determine how widespread it is. But it IS a ‘thing’
oh just fuck off
“Four American senators recounted a story Ukrainian officials told them at the Munich Security Conference: A soldier in a muddy trench with Russian artillery exploding nearby, scrolling on his phone for signs the U.S. House would approve military aid.”
https://twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1759328078243733788
For some reason, stuff about Assange is heating up. I asked Frank Serpico (yeah, that Serpico) why the gov’t is so afraid of him. His answer
Simply put,
It’s payback for exposing it’s hypocrisy, immorality, deception, corruption, pretense and lies to the whole world.
https://twitter.com/SerpicoDet/status/1759573957529715141
Creative protesting.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/a_guide_to_conservative_passiveaggressive_resistance.html
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Surfer Mikala Jones inside the curve of a perfectly shaped breaking wave
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1759547671918879220
superb video 11 secs
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s mesmerizing…
This is interesting. Svalbard Norway. The darkest place on earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVXKwNlvKSs
If you want a good laugh, the American Political Science Association released its annual presidential ranking survey results. You may have heard stories recently about a list showing Biden as 14th and Trump dead last. This is the entire thing.
Talk about utter garbage. FDR is ranked #2, behind Lincoln and above Washington. Woodrow Wilson–arguably the worst president of all time–is ranked 15th, right above Reagan. And Obama is #7.
@ lobo91:
gah.
Oh lookie here!
Judge Engoron Accused of Banging Secretary of Opposing Counsel in Previous Case
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/judge-engoron-accused-banging-secretary-opposing-counsel-previous/
I doubt this. I mean, look at him………..
@ eaglesoars:
Perfect
Lol. Ok…I’m a watch geek with wayyyy too many watches of all sorts, from omega to Casio.
I DESPISE smart watches…slave watches. Anyway, Mrs coldwarrior is a slave watch wearer.i was scrolling through some stuff and showed her one in her favorite color.
Sugess (chinese) copied a nice Breitling ($4500). The Chinese is a former swiss movement with rather high ranking and accuracy.
Her smart/pester watch irritates the hell out of me as it always interrupts. Zo….I bought the 150 buck mechanical chronometer that she is enamored with.
3 weeks later, the pester watch is on the rack and the old school swiss movement hand wind chronometer is on the wrist. She loves it.
Bonus, I get to wear it once in a while.
@ coldwarrior:
Could you recommend who to approach or what site to check to get a reasonable price for a digital watch from the 1930s?
coldwarrior wrote:
WE NEED PICTURES!!!
I could care less about watches. I wear a $50 Timex that lights up with a push of a button. Because I needed to time Bonnie’s seizures and so many of them started in the dead of night when we were asleep.
But working in jewelry retail – sheesh. When I worked at Bailey Banks and Biddle guys – it was always guys – would come in wanting these high tech dive things – and trust me, the only time they swam was in the pool at the country club.
The jewelry store I worked at here refused to deal with them. They were happy to replace a battery but they won’t stock watches. Total pains in the ass. The customers, I mean.
lobo91 wrote:
A self selecting sample if there ever was one!
Only hard core of the Fascist Left need apply! The token ‘conservatives / Republicans cohort were all extras from Actors’ Equity!
🙂
Goons!
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Most doctors watches in the 30s had numbers at least on the cardinal positions with an inset second hand for pulse. Hamilton and Elgin made excellent examples.
Nice examples can be found on line.
Looks like the SVR is cleaning up:
@ eaglesoars:
I said geek. Not snob.
The ‘best’ watches in the world are Casio g-shocks. I had one all the way through the army and into work during school on the flight line at ups. They are not expensive.
It gave up after 12 years from the arctic to the dessert to bashed everywhere else.
I wear grandad’s omega when it’s formal. Won’t own a Rolex. My best is a lovely Alpina I found at a pawn.
And then there are the Vostoks…yep
@ eaglesoars:
prior swiss machines
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Art Deco 1940 Pink Gold Filled Hamilton Wrist Watch Fancy Lugs Strap Watch
Type that into ebay. It has numbers.
And a Bulova moon lander…a…
Lol
@ eaglesoars:
I have two watches that go into salt water.
Both are Russian vostocks.
https://vostok.watch/
Why risk anything else! I have a couple dive rated seikos, they cost 3 times as much as the Russian tanks.
Or the g-shocks go in. Can’t kill them.
Wore a Benrus Mil-W-46374 Date: Mar 1969 plastic body watch from 1975 until the winding stem broke about 8 years later. It was the only mechanical watch I could wear all the time, every other watch would stop working after about a month. I’d toss the non-working watches in a drawer and 3-5 months later they would start working again, until I wore them again.
Beautiful watch (and what a price for a merely gold-filled piece!), but not what I’m talking about.
I have a wristwatch with a white-metal (possibly white-gold-filled, but more-probably merely steel) case, approx. 1″ x 1.5″ (I don’t have it in front of me).
When I say it is digital, I mean that it has no hands. The case has three small windows, behind which three small dials—hours, minutes, seconds—rotate. It is a digital watch that is approximately 90 years old.
It’s a beautiful thing, and not very common, but unfortunately the windows are small enough to make the watch increasingly difficult for me to read.
@ Bordm:
Did you work near high magnets
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Waitaaminute….
Lol
@ buzzsawmonkey:
does it say cortebert or some such thing on the back
@ coldwarrior:
Loaded splodie stuff on war birds. It’s something with my body chemistry, I also build up insane amounts of static electricity in dry climates. It’s one of the reasons I live near the Gulf coast, gotta have that moist swampy air.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ coldwarrior:
this guy!!!
or not….
@ Bordm:
@ Bordm:
how often did you and your watches get degaussed?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ coldwarrior:
i’m looking at some really fun stuff from that era…’digital’
this is the bomb!
now i want one
dont tell mrs coldwarrior!
@ coldwarrior:
Had a buddy that had a small hand held degausser he used to wipe reel to reel tapes before he reused them. We tried it on the watches, it helped for awhile, never thought about trying to degauss me. At the time I was stationed at Bergstrom AFB in Austin, Tx. with a FAC group, we covered all the fighter bases west of the Mississippi, training the pilots on how to work with Forward Air Controllers. Mostly places like Holloman AFB (Alamogordo – White Sands area), Nellis AFB (Las Vegas), Luke AFB (Phoenix Az.), Davis-Monthan (Tucson Az.), George AFB (Victorville Ca.), Hill AFB (Ogden Utah) and my hands down favorite England AFB in Alexandria La. Alex was great, I could drive there with a car load of friends, stop for dinner at my parents house on the way down and we’d spend the night there on the way back. The bars only closed at 1 or 2 am Sunday morning and reopened at noon, so all those Cajun women could drag their husbands to church. The best part was the small club music scene, I lost track of how many times I saw B.B. King or Percy Sledge playing in some little podunk nightclub in Alexandria. Sigh… great times…
coldwarrior wrote:
Hint – Buy it for her – but wear it when she isn’t…. Good luck.
@ Bordm:
Oh man!!!
@ Bordm:
That ploy is working
@ coldwarrior:
🙂 Always remember though, you gotta do the “since you’re not wearing it today, is it OK if I borrow it” routine. Just because I’ve never been married doesn’t mean I don’t have skills…
the jokes just write themselves……….
Chelsea Clinton Complains Her Grandmother Did Not Have Access to Planned Parenthood
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/02/20/chelsea-clinton-complains-her-grandmother-did-not-have-access-to-planned-parenthood/
I don’t get it. This guy ‘doctorcherokee’ never says anything else. NEVER. He spends his entire life on twitter telling everybody that Trump is destined to lose.
I don’t have an opinion, all I know it that this is ALL he says, 24/7.
Trump’s going to lose again. It’s already clear. The polls are irrelevant. He hasn’t won since 2016, and that just BARELY.
https://twitter.com/doctorcherokee/status/1760140950918082862
It’s already clear?
@ eaglesoars:
I think we can all agree that the world would be a better place if Hillary Clinton’s mom had been able to have an abortion.
@ coldwarrior:
I / we got invited to an after the concert party by Grand Funk Railroad during the Christmas break of 1969 (IIRC) at the Le Rrichelieu Hotel in New Orleans. The reason I say I/we is because I realized that the only reason I was invited was because Angelia, the girl I was with was drop dead gorgeous. The French club at the Catholic high school I was going to at the time sponsored the trip. My aunt Sr. Emily, A Dominican nun was the teacher and a chaperon. Anyway, Angelia and I were the only ones one the trip that were under 18, She was a junior and I was a freshman. All the older ones hit Bourbon Steet while we were stuck at the hotel but the left us a nice supply of booze to entertain ourselves. We ended up in an elevator that we had flipped the stop switch on, passing a bottle of Espana wine between us when a couple of long-haired hippy looking guys asked us if they could borrow our elevator and if so we could go their party, if we let them use the elevator. I asked them who they were and they told me, my response was along the line of “Yeah right.” They were quite amused and real nice about it. So, we get to their floor and it’s a big suite with a bunch of GFR gear piled around the fountain in the middle of the main room. We had a blast. The next morning, we (our classmates) met at the Café du Monde, they were discussing how they had a great time on Bourbon Street and how it was unfortunate we could not have been there. We looked at each other and grinned, she said do you want to tell them or should I? She told them what happened, they did not believe her until one asked the concierge about it. We were both rock stars when the found out it was true.
HA!
Trump supporters raise nearly $500,000 for New York fraud judgment
https://gazette.com/news/wex/trump-supporters-raise-nearly-500-000-for-new-york-fraud-judgment/
[this isn’t the only source]
Bordm wrote:
memories
huh
Red Cross Tacitly Concedes Blood of COVID Vax-Injected Is Tainted
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4218860/posts
huh
massive reshaping of Australia’s naval fleet
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-20/heavily-armed-optionally-crewed-ships-under-naval-fleet-reshape/103487878
huh
https://notthebee.com/article/kevin-oleary-says-the-business-world-is-scared-after-trump-verdict-i-would-never-invest-in-new-york-now-im-not-the-only-person-saying-that
huh
(I just keep finding things that make me go huh)
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/19/new-study-climate-models-get-water-vapor-wildly-wrong-a-major-gap-in-our-understanding/
List of potential running mates for Trump
https://nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-news/trump-vice-president-short-list-incudes-desantis-gabbard-scott-noem/
rain of lead wrote:
I asked CW if they screen the blood in the ER and he said NOPE. So be aware. And if you are planning a surgery, use your own blood
rain of lead wrote:
yeah, like nobody could see that coming. And for Gov Hochul to say they’re just after Trump, no one else need worry sounds an awful like a bill of attainder. I realize that’s about PASSING laws directed at one person but still.
Oh yeah. It’s a CLEAR violation of the 8th amendment
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/eighth_amendment
Does this look real to anyone?
At least 65 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine missile strikes as they lined up in field for a general’s inspection
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1760312920074833996
@ eaglesoars:
Not even remotely
@ lobo91:
thank you!
I. AM. CRUSHED.
Lady C is telling tales out of school. Sean Connery, one of the most devastatingly handsome men to have ever walked the planet – was a bust in bed.
*thunk*
She is not relating personal experience but from a friend who had an affair with him.
The left is terrified that Trump is going to win:
@ lobo91:
Yeah, he’s gonna destroy their gravy train
@ coldwarrior:
My watch looks like the one you posted here (straight sides, not angled sides), except that the minute-window goes in the opposite direction, which is to say, the upper side of the window is curved and the lower side has the pointer in the middle, instead of the other way around.
There are no marks of any kind—not maker, not metal content—on the exterior of my watch, and I am chary of opening it after all this time (I don’t think I’ve worn it for at least 15 to 20 years) merely to look at the case and movement. However, while it could doubtless use a cleaning (what vintage watch can’t?), at present it seems to be running to time. Guess the Swiss knew what they were doing.
I wish I’d blown that $80 with my old watchmaker for that 1930s stainless-steel Rolex Oyster he offered me some 30 years ago.
TOO KOOL FOR SKOOL!
Saturn-rise over the Moon
34 sec video breathtaking
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOOi07u92Q
damn, that was amazing
@ buzzsawmonkey:
The movement on my watch needs to be replaced. $150.
Because we’ve had pretty healthy cat expenses the last two months. If I ever get the inheritance money from a distant relative that passed years ago, maybe I can do something then.
Hey CW, if you check in – I just watched some ordinary guy in Japan refill his salt shaker. He opened a bag of Guerande salt – it’s a sea salt.
THEN – he toasted it in a pan and added ‘roasted’ rice as a drying agent.
hmmmmmmm……..
He’s a 40 yr old who works in a restaurant kitchen. Mean knife skilz
This is the most beautiful house I have ever seen. I MUST HAVE IT.
It’s in Italy. Belongs to the Fiat family, decorated by the famous ‘Last Swan’ Marella Agnelli (a great beauty in her own right).
I know the 10 commandments tell us ‘thou shalt not covet thy neighbors…’ but they’re not my neighbors so I think I’m in the clear.
I present The Villar Perosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQiOYKRqeg
I am unaware of when adult Indian peacocks became a metric for establishing the size of asteroids
An asteroid the size of over six adult Indian peacocks is set to pass close to the Earth on Thursday, February 22, according to NASA’s asteroid tracker.
https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1760259634047201602
@ Possum:
@ eaglesoars:
The rings are going to disappear on 6 May 2025 – Saturnal Equinox.
They’ll be gone for good in about 100 million years due to “ring rain” caused by climate change.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-research-reveals-saturn-is-losing-its-rings-at-worst-case-scenario-rate/
coldwarrior wrote:
We had a couple of my great grampa’s railroad watches, late 1800s, decorative gold filigree casings, porcelain faces. Don’t know what happened to them.
My dad wore a wristwatch he customized by removing the crystal and filling the case mechanism with clear epoxy. Don’t know what happened to that one either.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It is a wonder I have lived a full life without knowing that.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ongoing meme joke, mocking long-time asteroid size descriptions in terms of buses.
eaglesoars wrote:
Payback for making me look at obnoxiously gaudy interior design. 😀
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
It’s because I love you!
Yeah, I get it. You are an architect and all respect. But even tho you don’t like the decor – look at the house.
I’ve been looking at the houses excavated from Pompeii/Herculaneum and thinking about how they meshed with the outdoors. So there’s that.
Altho if you boiled all that down to its essence, a tent would be considered the final result.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
As I recall, they used that unit of measurement to describe the Chinese spy balloons, too
lobo91 wrote:
https://tackyraccoons.com/2023/02/06/the-bloonship/
A random post.
This AI thing that is taking the Internet by storm is going to kill the usefulness of AI. Actually it is not true AI but advanced search engine thingies with added commentary.
Artificial Intelligence in my experience does not exist and is not possible. Machine learning is real and is something useful.
What is the difference? Well machine learning first. For many years there have been contests for geeks where they program a little wheely mouse to navigate a maze and make a map of that maze and then the competition is whos mouse gets through it the fastest.
Home ” intelligent “thermostats. At least 25 years old technology. You tell thermostat I will be home at 6pm and I would like the living room to be at 70F. Takes heating system a few days to work out that depending on the external temperature and rate of heating of the system what time to turn on the heating so at 6pm it is at 70F
Artificial Intelligence. What is intelligence? The ability to learn from past mistakes and adapt so as not to make that same mistake again? I put that in the machine learning thermostat scenario.
Intelligence as in do not stick your hand in a hornets nest. Yep, same thing, do not make that mistake but you did not learn it from personal experience, you were told by others, or googled it, hornets sting.
Current AI is just a faster search engine.
The images stuff AI is producing is another issue.
lobo91 wrote:
😀
https://twitter.com/Vox_Oculi/status/1760330943875760159
@ Possum:
I have a one-byte computer that computes either 0 or 1 based on the position of the light switch.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Light switches, and any other switches are the ONLY improvement to safety and serious injury that America made that is better than the British switch thing.
Off is down in USA. In UK off is up.
Flipping a switch down as you are being electrocuted and ending on the floor flopping around like a dying fish is easier than flipping a switch up on the way down.
@ Possum:
An electrician told me a woman wanted all the light switches in her house to be ON=UP and OFF=Down. He laughed. You’d need someone at each end of the hall to turn the light on.
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m a nuts-n-bolts architect, not into the fu-fu design stuff except to make it function efficiently. Once that’s done I can make it look as ridiculous as you like. Oh, and fuck Frank Gehry.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
That one is an anomaly. The hall/stairway switching thing. You need a single pole double throw or something switch at each end. And more wire…
@ Possum:
Motion sensors make the problem go away. Spooks burglars too.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I like nazi WWII vacation buildings and the Soviet era any apartment buildings.
Cheap to construct, fucking ugly but does the job to house people.
I would like to live in a home that was comfortable and warm or cool on the inside and I do not care what the exterior looks like.
Modern architecture seems to give more effort to the exterior looks.
I have to thank everyone here for not laughing and making fun of the British Royal Navy test launch of a submarine missile from HMS Vanguard.
It flew a few hundred feet in the air, turned around and went plop into the sea.
Yet another British fail.
Or was it?????
@ Possum:
I’m still laughing about Boaty McBoatface.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36064659
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
It was a missed opportunity. The naming of a UK polar research ship. It was eventually named RRS David Attenborough ignoring all poll results.
If it was named Boaty McBoatface and got on youtube etc to show what it was doing daily the ad revenue would have paid for the upkeep of the ship.
Fuck knows what the RRS David Attenborough is doing, don’t care.
Possum wrote:
Finishes are a significant cost of any building, maybe 10-20% of the cost of construction, and higher with custom housing. Got a big ugly concrete facility? Cover it with metal composite panels and faux plaster like Dry-Vit and pay through the nose to do it. Or you paint or clear seal up the concrete and masonry and leave it fucking ugly but doing the job.
Possum wrote:
Naming a small unmanned research submarine Boaty McBoatface as a consolation prize was just embarrassing. It’s not even a boat.
Did anyone lose phone/internet service? Apparently AT&T, Verizon & T-Mobile all died at the same time. Not sure if it was regional but it was widespread.
Cellphone DOS attack — if that is what it is — will now be the basis for beefing up security over “election infrastructure,” which as Mike Benz explains, is now considered “National Security infrastructure” giving the IC and DHS lots of justification to manage the manner in which is functions.
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1760683751993139225
The website Downdetector has detected a surge in outage reports from users of AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Consumer Cellular, Boost Mobile, US Cellular, and Straight Talk.
Outage reports for the carriers began around 0345 ET. Geographically, the outages have been reported across some major US cities.
Users of Downdetector began reporting AT&T outages around 0345ET.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cell-service-outages-reported-across-us
@ eaglesoars:
No, but Bonjo said a lot of carriers went down about 4am across the nation and Israel. I missed it. We’re on Spectrum.
@ eaglesoars:
I see you answered your own question.
AI text to image result for Opie and Sheriff Andy led to this nightmare.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I dunno. Some are saying solar flare, some insisting it’s a trial run. Personally I can’t see how a solar flare would discriminate among carriers
eaglesoars wrote:
i put kosher salt on the smoker and use that in a grinder, works great with truffle oil fries
@ buzzsawmonkey:
what you could do…if your watch guy is game, is have him open the back and do a light cleaning and lubrication. i would imagine that replacement parts are non-existant.
@ eaglesoars:
https://spaceweather.com/images2024/22feb24/doublex.jpg
x flairs last night
https://spaceweather.com/images2024/22feb24/otherexplanations.jpg
Possum wrote:
ineresting….
Google just announced it’s killing gmail as of Aug this year
coldwarrior wrote:
Sadly, I haven’t had a “watch guy” for about 25 years. My original guy died in his eighties about 35-40 years ago, and was succeeded by someone who disappeared from that location at least 20-odd years ago.
Used to be, when I took a watch in to get tuned up, I’d browse the Timepiece Graveyard in one of the display cases. They had lots of fun stuff. I have a nice copper-faced wristwatch from the 1920s, and another in white metal (possibly chrome) from the same period, as well as a number of ’40s/’50s stainless-steel timepieces. Then there’s the big nickel-silver keywind pocketwatch I’ve had since forever, and a couple of other interesting odds and ends.
In retrospect, I’m sorry I didn’t grab that vintage Rolex, but I’d just bought a solid-gold Tourneau wristwatch from them for maybe a couple of hundred dollars (gave it to my sister some years later), and felt a little tapped out in the watch department.
There was a lot of fun stuff going begging at low prices just a few decades ago. My wife has a “nurse’s watch”—a small women’s watch with a sweep-second hand and full 60-second markings on the face—which I got for a mere $4 when we were on a jaunt upstate a couple of decades ago.
It’s amazing what you can find if you know what you’re looking at.
coldwarrior wrote:
Sadly, I haven’t had a “watch guy” for about 25 years. My original guy died in his eighties about 35-40 years ago, and was succeeded by someone who disappeared from that location at least 20-odd years ago.
Used to be, when I took a watch in to get tuned up, I’d browse the Timepiece Graveyard in one of the display cases. They had lots of fun stuff. I have a nice copper-faced wristwatch from the 1920s, and another in white metal (possibly chrome) from the same period, as well as a number of ’40s/’50s stainless-steel timepieces. Then there’s the big nickel-silver keywind pocketwatch I’ve had since forever, and a couple of other interesting odds and ends.
In retrospect, I’m sorry I didn’t grab that vintage Rolex, but I’d just bought a solid-gold Tourneau wristwatch from them for maybe a couple of hundred dollars (gave it to my sister some years later), and felt a little tapped out in the watch department.
There was a lot of fun stuff going begging at low prices just a few decades ago. My wife has a “nurse’s watch”—a small women’s watch with a sweep-second hand and full 60-second markings on the face—which I got for a mere $4 when we were on a jaunt upstate a couple of decades ago.
It’s amazing what you can find if you know what you’re looking at.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
the rolex question…if i may offer insight. i havbe a very lovely and pricey omega (speedmaster/moonwatch). not as much as a rolex, but follow me here.
i almost NEVER wear it. i wont wear it to work, given the conditions and some of the dodgy areas i work in, i wont wear it into the city for shopping or culture vulture stuff. won’t wear it to the CC as it would end up scratched in my golf bag or i’d have leave it in my locker, and then forget to grab it. in short, it’s not enjoyable becasue of the precautions i feel i need to take to keep it safe. over-reacting? probably. but peeps are getting killed for thier watches these days.
i would be terrified to wear a rolex in an urban area. i wear the omega once in a while when i have a grilling to do as the chronometer function is perfect for that sort of thing, or i wear it to church or ‘functions’ in safe areas). it’s not built for that sissy shit, it’s a moon landing watch! but it’s price restricts enjoyment.
that said, i have a few Alpina (swiss) watches that don’t require the precautions. they are excellent and do everything very well. Seiko is the same way.
for dress, omega and grandads omega geneve in gold. for fun: bulovas and alpina and a coule microbrand divers. for work: g-shock, russian made vostocks, casio digitals. the nastier the work, the more toward g-shock.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
i got so lucky with that. a local jewler, who we go to now exclusively, has a cousin who knows a guy…..yinz get it.
jewler ships the watch out, i get a phone call from the guy, we discuss what needs to be done.
that said, sometimes i send the watch to the ‘official repair’. my bulova precisionist sea king needed a new battery (i have zero problems with quartz movements), it has been some years since the factory did a depth check (yes, this watch goes in salt water) so i sent it to the factory. it needed a new stem, pressure ring, and one other part. in short it passed 100m water (i’d never be able to dive that deep) and the bill was $215. a rolex would have been 6grand to do the same work. i had a 1500 dollar service/repair bill on the omega moon(needed less work than the bulova) , and i dread when i have to send in the geneve.the maintainance costs and basic servicing on some of the ‘premier brands’ is something almost no one thinks of when getting that ‘dream watch’
Look at this genius
According to Trump, russia defeated Hitler?! The ignorance and stupidity of this man has no bounds.
https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1760536038173213132
He’s an econ prof at Case Western. Ukranian/American
The ratio is glorious. He’s being reminded who the Ukranians fought for
https://timerediscovered.com/en-us/products/longines-admiral-pulsations-14k-1960s
oh mannnn…..
@ coldwarrior:
Just like exotic cars. Good luck taking your Lamborghini to JiffyLube for an oil change (or doing it yourself, even).
I wouldn’t take one if someone gave it to me for free, because I couldn’t afford the maintenance costs.
lobo91 wrote:
and that’s the trick. thousands for a normal servicing….yeah…no.i bought a used but certified omega with a yuge bonus i received years ago. always wanted one. but see my earlier post. now, i was told i wont have to ‘sort it out’ like that again (its a 1970’s). its this version but mine isnt as beat around the bezel
ok, not again, it will not go in the water (that isnt what it is for), so as long as it works a simple clean and lube isnt that much every 10 years or so.
i’d love to learn how to do this stuff myself…but, its a craft of itself that takes decades to get right
@ eaglesoars:
the history of the ukienazis has been soooo supressed.
lobo91 wrote:
i’ll take it and sell it!
eaglesoars wrote:
I’m seeing this is not true, but who knows?
Dumb and dumber
Ex Dem Tulsi Gabbard to Headline Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser.
https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1760808229716521234
Trump’s personnel picks are a real weakness
eaglesoars wrote:
it cant, its how you sign into google devices like chromebooks.
@ lobo91:
ok, look at this
under 300, bullet and water proof to 300m (no one needs that), swiss mecha/quartz movement. easy to fix/replace if it goes bad (it wont)…and out specks a rolex, dude from hong kong decided to get geeky on dive watches
NYC mayor’s migrant credit card scam
This debit card program — if you read the actual contract — has the potential to become an open-ended, multibillion-dollar Bermuda Triangle of disappearing, untraceable cash, used for any purpose.
It will give migrants up to $10,000 each in taxpayer money with no ID check, no restrictions and no fraud control. (HPD later provided actual amounts to The Post, saying a family of four would be given $15,000 a year).
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/inside-mayor-adams-migrant-debit-card-boondoggle-no-bid-bank-gets-50-million-border-crossers-up-to-10000-each/
@ eaglesoars:
me throwing around 15k would cause the irs to have a keen interest
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, I might do that. But I wouldn’t keep it, like I would with a similarly priced American muscle car from the ’60s.
What is this BS about ‘if Putin takes Ukraine, he’ll roll into Poland”
Poland is a NATO country and I don’t give a crap about Ukraine
What is this Smirnov thing about?
This second arrest of Smirnov, at his lawyers’ offices in Las Vegas, and after a Nevada federal court had ordered him released from jail under certain conditions, smacks of desperation by Weiss and likely the DOJ, attempting to shut him up.
https://twitter.com/KingMakerFT/status/1760805169787191420
What the Letitia James prosecution of Trump has done. This is just part of the thread
I know many reading this think they are experts in everything. You’re not. Those of us who actually attended law school and have been doing commercial real estate for over 40 years, you’ve been lied to. You do not have the facts. You do not know what you are talking about. We employ two of the largest law firms in the country and they’ve been in meetings 16 hours a day in order to determine just how bad this all really is.
Every one of these companies, representing trillions of dollars in real estate, is carefully evaluating whether to stay or exit.
Chetrit Group
Vorea Group
Turnbridge Equities
Extell Development
Bldg Management Company
Vornado Realty Trust
L+m Development Partners
United Construction And Development Group
Beb Capital, Totem
Howard Hughes Corporation
Starrett Corporation
Rfr Realty
Jay Group
Property Markets Group
Rabsky Group
Two Trees Management
Heartfelt Townhouse Builders
Lonicera Partners
Taconic Partners
Beitel Group
Whether Trump wins on appeal or at SCOTUS, the precedent has been set. A wall has been broken and there are no take backs. Any company can now be targeted and have their assets seized at the whim of an over zealous AG or politicians. I don’t expect you to know or understand standard CRE practices, but every company below could be found guilty of the exact same actions the Trump Organization was accused of and found guilty, because it is NOT a crime.
The feds declined to file charges as did the previous AG. And the reality is, this should have been heard by the Commercial Division, however, they had already declined to file.
Why do you suppose the real experts in complicated commercial cases, part of the Supreme Court of New York State would decide not to pursue?
https://twitter.com/TonySeruga/status/1760428638397510122
eaglesoars wrote:
Satire.
eaglesoars wrote:
Vodka anyone say?
eaglesoars wrote:
the russians are very easy to understand in this area. they dont want to be invaded, yet again. roughly every hundred and fifty years the enemy is at the gate in russia, AGAIN. 3 times in the last hundred fifty
at this point when russia looks at nato it sees napoleon all over again, or germany…
the made-up borders in ukieland are gong back to where they were before lenin, stalin, and kruzchev.
@ eaglesoars:
that’s a shit load of capital listed there.
eaglesoars wrote:
There’s some kind of “roll-y Pole-y” joke in there, somewhere.
its about time, yinz’s rank and file have been voting republican for 40 years
@ coldwarrior:
Democrats will suddenly become anti-union.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, that needs to be fixed. Nobody wants kinetic war with Russia.
That crack whore Zelensky was on Fox saying Russia had lost 400k soldiers. That’s what the US lost over the whole of WW II
He’s a member of the FCC
The FCC just ordered every broadcaster to start posting a race & gender scorecard that breaks down the demographics of their workforce.
Activists lobbied for this b/c they want to see businesses pressured into hiring people based on their race & gender.
Courts have already overturned the FCC *twice* for pressuring broadcasters into making hiring decisions in violation of the Constitution.
I dissent.
https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1760784050032156989
Hey CW – look at this. You know coal mining as do I. Where is the fire coming from?
https://twitter.com/Earthlings10m/status/1760862541658702170
Oh noes!
Vice Media to lay off hundreds of workers and stop publishing on its site
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/22/vice-media-layoffs-cease-publishing
ok, anyway, there’s this really cute video – oh wait! – the US is back on the moon
https://twitter.com/BobDorigoJones/status/1760824094663012487
A private endeavor, but still.
nite
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1760900214045507912
Does this look real to anyone? Having been caught in very moderate waves on a beach in the Caribbean that my sister had to rescue me from this doesn’t look survivable and I doubt those jet skis
This guy has prosecuted Trump before. It’s his money train
– IVF
– IUDs
– Plan B
– the pill
– abortion
– condoms
NONE of these things will be legal — anywhere in America — if Republicans win in November.
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1760827344753733798
condoms? Srsly?
@ eaglesoars:
Do not worry, sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
They forgot to add crocodile and elephant shit to the list.
https://www.naturalcycles.com/cyclematters/non-hormonal-birth-control-methods-through-history
@ Possum:
I can actually understand how that works. If I was in a steamy encounter with a woman and just before it got down to doing the nasty the most beautiful woman I ever met said in the heat of passion ” please excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom and stuff half a pound of crocodile shit into my vagina first ”
I would be out the door, running like hell back to the pub and having a few more beers with my buddies.
Advanced birth control.
I spend a lot of time watching TV shows and movies. I have become an expert at spotting when the “dead” bodies twitch their eyes while dead.
Another thing I notice is when there is a close up shot of someone’s face , not the dead ones , and they have a booger dangling from their internal nose hairs and it vibrates as they speak.
I use the rewind button a lot, just to make sure what I thought I saw is what I really saw.
Anyone else notice this?
eaglesoars wrote:
It looks like a spoil heap or whatever you call it in America caught fire.
When mining coal the coal is separated from the rock. on the surface. The resulting not coal rock and the residue from the separation and washing process is dumped in a big hill near the mine.
If you have ever seen a coal mine there is usually a big hill near it. That is the waste. HOWEVER!!!!!
Often there is enough residual coal and coal dust in that pile of waste that given the right conditions the coal will start to burn.
Same principle as you do not throw a pile of oily and greasy rags into a corner of your garage.
The pile of oily rags and a mountain of coal waste may, and does spontaneously combust.
I think that is what the video is. Digging out a hot spot occurring within a pile of coal mining waste.
Question here for coal mining experts.
What is the best job if you work underground in a coal mine?
Main gate ripper or a tail gate ripper?
@ Possum:
don’t know. I know what a ripper does and I know what a gate is but best job? They all suck
eaglesoars wrote:
If it’s real it’s a terrible way to conduct a surf rescue – they’re risking turning one casualty into three. Tow the surfer to calmer waters or drag a net / lifeline across the gap.
@ Possum:
Somewhat related topic that’s just plain disgusting.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2305756/
Possum wrote:
Here’s my favorite snot shot.
Another balloon
NORAD confirms intercepting #balloon
Fighters caught up with it over Utah at 43-45k feet altitude. Deemed not a threat to air traffic. NORAD will continue to track it.
Source describes the payload as ~2 foot cube under a Mylar balloon. Continues to move east fast thanks to a strong jet stream. Via CBSNews.
https://twitter.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1761162168073175418
coldwarrior wrote:
BUT you would still be perfectly dressed for a day out strolling on the Moon!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Tulsi is Trump’s poison pill. Don’t even think like that Don!
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
Or the damage every time you entered a parking building judder bar! 🙂
I take back everything nasty about AI and specifically the Google Gemini AI.
It is addictive. Asked it how to build a 10MW heavy water Thorium reactor and it came back with loads of cool information such as be careful and consult a professional.
Then I asked it how to cook a lettuce and yep! cooked lettuce is a thing. For stir fries etc. Stupid me being stupid as it seemed to be a stupid thing to ask but I LOVE stir fried Bok Choi which is in the same family.
OK so for a real laugh I asked ” how to cook a pebble ” yep a rock…
LMAO The bit that I found really funny was the fact that eating cook pebbles could be harmful if ” they are not properly cleaned or sourced from a safe location. ”
So if you really want to eat pebbles make sure they are cleaned properly before cooking.
Good morning Blogmoracy.
I had a few thoughts about the current state of Artificial Intelligence.
https://open.substack.com/pub/doriangrey1/p/the-threat-of-ai?r=22wx3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
doriangrey wrote:
Thanks Dorian, you said it and explained it much better than I could. Current AI is an advanced search engine with a built in bias. It cannot solve a problem, just regurgitates existing knowledge.
@ Possum:
It regurgitates existing data with a weighed bias for specific data, not information or knowledge.
Latest request to AI.
” write a program for arduino to remove toe nail fungus ”
An Arduino is a very small microcontroller thingy that has bugger all memory by today’s standards and is slow. But it is fun to play with and can control motors, heating, lights and measure temperature and lots of other shit but it is not rocket science. But it is a powerful real time controller. Give it access to the proper hardware and it can cook a steak to perfection.
So I asked AI to write a program to cure toe nail fungus. I expected AI to answer ” that is something I will have to think about ”
Not knowing shit about toe nail fungus I would approch this problem by first trying things like strapping an electrode to the subject’s ankle and another electrode in a bath of saline solution and zapping the fungus with high voltage AC current!
May result in the patient having a cooked foot, but fungus is gone.
That is me. A none artificial intelligent thing.
So ask the all seeing, take over the world AI the same thing. How to get rid of toe nail fungus and the answer I hoped for is ” let me research this and I will have an answer in a few days ”
I am OK with that. Even artificial intelligence needs time to think.
However within a second of me asking AI to find a cure for toe nail fungus this came back.
I tasked AI to provide a solution to the fungus problem and the AI did not even bother to solve a real problem. Just spat out disclaimers and links…
doriangrey wrote:
And importantly this AI does not come up with any new ideas. That is true intelligence, looking outside the box, circle, whatever and standing back and coming up with new ideas and approaches to a problem.
A real world analogy is being in a development meeting and someone says ” Why don’t we do it this way instead? ” Everyone looks at the person as if they are nuts, then thinks about it….
Gemini AI often says the results to the question are verified and sticks up a pop up box linking to the Google search results the answer was based on
No, I do not have toe fungus. Well I may have but I am so fat now I cannot see my feet anymore.
And before I go for my afternoon nap I will leave you with this toe fungus related topic.
Human intelligent humans are probably working really hard to eliminate toe fungus from humanity. If artificial intelligence is the way forward than artificial intelligence could really help.
However, artificial intelligence is computer and electronic based, and computers do not have toes, so computers do not really give a shit about toe fungus.
Asked AI to ” discover a cure for toe fungus ”
Reply was….
So basically AI said it is not even going to try to find a cure for toe fungus, but here are some links….
Finally a cooking post.
Do not over stuff your empanadas. Less filling is better.
An exploded empanada is not a happy or attractive empanada!
I am happy a small air fryer is more easily cleaned than a full sized one. LOL
eaglesoars wrote:
In a coal mine in the UK when there was coal mines the ventilation system was fresh air came down the main shaft and was extracted by another shaft at another part of the mine. The tail.
So best jobs were for the miners with seniority and worked near the main gate, the place where air was fresh, and the apprentices worked at the tail gate where the air was stinky and hot.
Where I was born and grew up 60% of males ended up in coal mines after graduation. Either digging coal or technical services.
Possum wrote:
And then they realize they’ve just been pantsed in front of everyone at the conference table by someone with less seniority and they’ll say something like, “Thanks for the input, Bunk, but we don’t do it like that here.”
300+ comments is just about enough for a new thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2024/02/24/sanitation-down-below/
doriangrey wrote:
“Nothing short of a complete and total rewrite of Gemini’s algorithms can remove Gemini’s ideological and racist biases, nor eliminate it’s predilection for intentionally producing misleading information.”
That’s the crux.