“Oooh, and my face looks like a possum in the side of THIS pan! Thank you, Valium!”
A Shiny New Day
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 257 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at February 11th, 2025 - 4:12 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
@ Possum:
An update to this.
We watched videos, Red Arrows, Car crashes and all the cat stuff then after 1200ml of Merlot which is 960 calories consisting of 32g carbohydrates since 2pm went into the kitchen and put my nice ceramic coated frying pan on the stove on high with a 1/4 oz coconut oil in it ready to stir fry expensive bean sprouts and some marinated in soy sauce and cooked sliced chicken.
Then hit the floor, not a vaso thing just a drunken got legs tangled. Couldn’t get up.
Mr Trash bin saved me and broke my fall. Fucking trash all over kitchen floor.
Had to get up as stove on high and with oil in skillet, otherwise I would have just gone to sleep.
Anyway, ate my chicken then went to bed. The maid will clean the kitchen next time she is due.
Old drunk people should not live alone.
AND I just saw the picture Bunk posted for this thread.
My frying pan is going to need her magic touch.
@ Possum:
Scientific data. I log what I consume in 24hrs.
I has a spreadsheet.
I am awake and perky at 5am posting here, a coffee would be nice.
Last 24hrs was 1265 calories of which 960 was alcohol and 305 food.
My confirmed through months of research Basic Metabolic Rate (BMR) is about 2300.
So! by using that data I conclude the reason I fell over was I did not consume enough calories.
Going to have to make sure I drink more wine today, calories.
@ Possum:
And that is how you can manipulate data to give the result you require. Omit some vital information as to the calorie breakdown.
OK, and now this Internet and tracking posts on social media and things has gone way out of control.
Watching a TV show on Tubi and now in the commercial breaks getting adverts for Visiting Angels.
https://www.visitingangels.com/
6:49 and Glen is home. So doing a count and two cats!
Now I can close the door, and we can all go do a sleep.
I said it before, this Crepuscular thing and way of life is difficult to adapt to as a human, but I do my best.
To save anyone time Googling Crepuscular it means active at dusk and dawn. Prime mouse hunting times!
As to humans it means letting cats out at 6pm and leaving door open until 6am. They go hunting mice from 6pm to 8pm, then take a nap somewhere until dawn, 6am until now.
We sleep until about 4pm so good night.
This is us.
This is the FBI,
17 out of 20 terrorist plots thwarted by the FBI were actually planned, plotted, controlled, and executed by the FBI itself.
This is the same FBI that disrupted the official proceedings of J6 and then appointed 5,000 of its agents to investigate, persecute, and fabricate terrorism charges against American citizens.
“We are fools if we praise the government for exposing a plot of its own creation and saving us from a danger that never existed…”
Every single one of those agents should be investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Starting with the criminal Merrick Garland,
https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/1889026219712385485
Gretchen Whitmer comes to mind
from yesterday
JUST IN: Judge Amy Berman Jackson becomes the 5th judge *today* to block an aspect of Trump’s early-term orders, this time the firing of ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger. And night isn’t over. yet …
https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1889127528045973658
Given the pic in the OP, it would be Valium, not Prozac.
And breakfast was, a packet of ramen noodles, shrimp flavour, squirted with siracha sauce cooked for 3 minutes with less water than recommended.
Then tossed into a hot skillet where an Italian sausage was de-skinned and cut into eight pieces was cooked and waiting for the noodles! A big spoonful of peanut butter was added.
Breakfast eaten, time for a nap.
As to peanut butter, it has to be the chunky kind.
British food is the BEST! I made a fusion Italian, Chinese and Thai breakfast.
@ Possum:
toast and butter with marmite here.
@ coldwarrior:
Marmite is awesome, Bovril is just as good but is illegal in the USA.
It is cow parts…
@ Possum:
Bovrite is pretty good substitute
@ Possum:
The cat we rescued last spring is finally fixed. I was able to get her in my office early yesterday to start getting her used to our clowder. A bit of hissing and some swats by our FIV girl, but by late afternoon we were at detente.
I let her out with the rest of the mob, and there weren’t any problems. Put her back in the cage overnight and let her back out this morning.
It looks like she’ll be fine.
And the little snowshoe is fitting in well, too. We MIGHT have a home for him- Mrs RW talked to someone when she was getting her chemo that was looking for a 2nd cat.
@ eaglesoars:
reading the highlighted portion, the ruling isn’t based on the arguments provided but on the fact that not all parties had time to read everything.
Pete Hegseth just changed Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg–with a twist:
@ lobo91:
Pete is no dummy
NEW: Trump has fired FEMA’s CFO Mary Comans after she allegedly paid $59 million to hotels in New York City housing illegal immigrants, according to the Daily Mail.
Three others involved were also fired.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1889357874180079997
What is this genius’s problem?
NEW: Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., Premier Doug Ford stated that Ontario could cut off electricity as far south as Florida at a moment’s notice.
https://x.com/monkey_leader/status/1889405472924709223
uh oh
Elon Musk is mad about Judge McConnell’s decision to unfreeze federal grants…
So he posted a picture of his daughter, her full name, her position of where she works, and a page of a signed tax statement she filed.
The judge’s daughter.
https://x.com/LauraRiggaro/status/1889255691635855504
@ eaglesoars:
Correction: The form in this post was an electronic filing of her financial disclosure report and not a tax form.
https://x.com/LauraRiggaro/status/1889340882186330251
@ eaglesoars:
Did you read where she works? US Department of Education.
It wasn’t about “doxxing” her. It’s a conflict of interest
Related: Entire federal workforce replace by one 16 year old Chik-fil-a employee:
In other news – Harry and Meghan news
They’ve been at the Invictus Games in Vancouver. Meghan has been getting shit on because she’s shown up in about $12G of just new coats. WHICH INVICTUS PAYS FOR. Also, for all the fake lovey-dovey poses in the stands and her constant camera whoring.
In the meantime, Trump sez he won’t deport Harry because he’s got enough problems being married to Meghan. “She’s terrible”
Next thing you know, Meghan is leaving Vancouver. Cuz she misses the non-existent children
2 rumors going around: 1. She’s upset about the criticism over her clothes.
2. Invictus kicked her ass out. They’re done with her.
Now Lady C spills the tea. During one of their common knock-down-drag-outs, Harry says You are as horrible as President Trump said you were. And with that, she was on a plane.
I love this stuff………
24 – no – 48 hr rule. This guy sometimes gets out over his skis. So FWIW
TRUMP TO PARDON SNOWDEN – THE DEEP STATE’S NIGHTMARE BEGINS!
It’s happening. President Trump is preparing to issue a FULL and UNCONDITIONAL pardon for Edward Snowden.
The man who sacrificed EVERYTHING to expose the Deep State’s crimes is finally getting justice—and the corrupt establishment is in FULL PANIC MODE.
This isn’t just about Snowden. This is about tearing down the surveillance state built to CONTROL YOU.
THE HERO WHO EXPOSED THEIR SPYING MACHINE
✅ Snowden revealed the NSA’s illegal mass surveillance of every American.
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1889408872697438546
Schlicter’s take on the current legal shenigans
Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…
OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions.
Stop. Panicking.
First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come.
Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes. Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter – only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid.
Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it.
CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it.
So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly
https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1889129565319987628
@ eaglesoars:
The comments are interesting
@ eaglesoars:
I agree with his take 100%
Saw the doc today. Gave her the reports from the hospital. after exam she explained that my balance issue is because I have a head concussion AND a full body concussion. My back is one big bruise. Red blood count is low so there may be internal bleeding but will rule out a UTI.
So I laid in the ER w/o those geniuses even checking.
Not pissed or anything
coldwarrior wrote:
Fixed it just for you.
Stasi Starmer has just canceled local elections
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1889277688654795021
For CW
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) – which treats millions of patients – has announced it will begin requiring face masks in all of its hospitals and outpatient areas beginning February 12.
Masks will need to be worn in patient areas by patients, visitors, support and care team members and staff, making Pennsylvania at least the ninth state in which hospitals have recently implemented new masking guidelines.
https://x.com/toobaffled/status/1889482846370406775
Remember when Lois Lerner couldn’t find old IRS records?
WILD. Elon says the most number of people that can retire in a month is 10,000 because the government uses a limestone mine to hold all retirement paperwork which is done manually and stored via a shaft
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1889436898747359556
Oh remember Yvonne? Captured by the Taliban and converted to Islam?
Journalist Yvonne Ridley tries telling @JuliaHB1 that the hostages were treated “well”. What follows is the most entertaining WTF moment of the year.
Jaw dropping madness!
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1889332259897139663
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, the flu a and rsv are really really bad this year.
HAR! Guess who Harry and Meghan gave $250k you?
Archewell’s $250k donation to Ashley Biden sparks investigation calls
https://x.com/NileGardiner/status/1889346263855890680
Sarah Adams, former CIA targeting officer and Counter terrorism expert reveals we are paying welfare to Taliban martyrs families.
Every Taliban martyr who died during the war with us our U.S. government is paying them a stipend.
https://x.com/CRRJA5/status/1889428817573499212
NEW: Chrystia Freeland threatens Trump with the “biggest trade blow that the United States has ever endured.”
This includes 100% tariffs on all Teslas, a direct attack on Elon Musk, and a full ban on Wisconsin dairy products to stick it to Trump.
“I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us. And our retaliation will target specific Trump constituencies. Another group that we’re going to go after is Wisconsin dairy farmers. We know how important they are for the President, and we’re not going to let them sell their products in Canada anymore,” Freeland said.
This is the same woman who froze Canadian truckers’ bank accounts for protesting vaccine mandates.
https://x.com/VigilantNews/status/1889480807535784378
Freeland is the Ukie Nazi chick
oh please oh please oh please
Sources within Hamas:
“Israel has left voice identification devices all across the Gaza Strip. Senior Hamas officials have been instructed to disconnect their phones and find a hiding place.”
Operation Beepers 2 Incoming?
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1889415623614349420
The Trump Administration just fired the USAID Inspector General, Paul Martin.
Paul Martin was informed via an email from the deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel Tuesday evening that his position as inspector general of USAID was “terminated, effective immediately.”
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1889474736465588557
And by the way…..
Judge Paul Engelmayer’s wife Emily Mandestam works for an open borders NGO called “The New York Association For New Americans”
It gets funding from USAID- the same reform that Judge Engelmayer BLOCKED.
https://x.com/Ladylaw31256058/status/1889345478434681256
Zelensky Offers Land Swap With Putin To End War
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-wants-swap-land-putin-offers-return-kursk
Ronald Rowe, the head of the Secret Service’s Washington Field Office, has resigned.
https://x.com/Texasbrn/status/1889496631491334458
nice pick
President Trump has named a fierce conservative critic of the mainstream media, L. Brent Bozell III, as his pick to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the parent agency of the Voice of America and other federally owned international broadcasters.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272574/trump-brent-bozell-usagm-agency-for-global-media
Department of Education Calls on NCAA, NFHS to Strip Awards ‘Misappropriated’ by Trans Athletes
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2025/02/11/department-education-calls-ncaa-nfhs-strip-awards-misappropriated-trans-athletes/
It’s been a busy news Day!
Dany channeling her inner David Gilmour:
@ right_wing2:
It is a nice feeling when they all get along.
Boring cat post.
Taking a break from watching TV shows so Natasha could watch helicopter crashes.
She sees things that us humans do not, it is interesting to watch where she is looking.
One sequence was of an helicopter going nuts and falling to the ground. Very dramatic but Natasha was fixated on something in the bottom right corner of the screen.
It was the reflection of the rotor blades in the windshield of a car.
Maybe the FAA should employ cats to do crash analysis as they see things humans miss.
Anyway, while I am being boring, she loved watching the black and white 1950s declassified films of molten salt reactors.
Fixated while laying on my chest and purring.
@ lobo91:
noticed a bit of srv stankface also
oh and in case you’ve never had it… food poisoning is not pleasant
rain of lead wrote:
Oh yuck!
This morning’s headlines
GERMAN CHANCELLOR SAYS FREE SPEECH IS CONDITIONAL! “We have freedom of speech… Everyone can say what he wants, even if he is a billionaire. But what we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme right positions.”
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1889642677496586270
Tren de Argua: From the video- the mother and son pictured lived in Murfreesboro, they had operations in antioch in a motel and Nashville. They brought in illegals and told them it cost a lot to pay off their debt. Sounds like maybe they aren’t deporting the illegal girls??
https://x.com/IlltakeACookie/status/1889540997924712628
unconfirmed: Egyptian tanks move toward Israeli occupied territory
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1889684949260730388
cont’d
unconfirmed: Malia Obama got over $2.2 mil from USAID
https://x.com/JamesHu27192912/status/1889647959840579662
chores
unconfirmed: BREAKING: 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled against halting judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funding
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1889460204732907627
Walmart delivers cats.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1889712677573865566
What a difference eight years makes. I wonder if anyone watching these three little girls play this song at a TedX talk in 2017 could have imagined this?
Tulsi is confirmed. Only McConnell voted against
@ eaglesoars:
I do not follow politics much but.
If Biden had chosen Tulsi as VP in 2020 then I think the outcome of the 2024 election would have been different and Trump would not have won.
Tulsi Gabbard seems like she was/is not Democrat or Republican but in the middle. America needs more politicians t5hat are in the middle.
Sick of seeing votes in the House and Senate on party lines.
@ Possum:
Also, the typos I make where a numeral accidentally inserts itself into one of my posts indicates one thing.
Can you guess?
@ eaglesoars:
so it looks like the judge was ruled in favor of
and now it will go to the supremes
just remember
if you are counting on the court to save you, you will be disappointed
@ Possum:
Tulsi Gabbard is the last person Biden, or any other Democrat, would have picked as VP. Following the events of the 2016 primaries, she became persona non grata within the party. That’s why she didn’t run for Congress again.
rain of lead wrote:
None of this stuff has actually been decided on merits. These are all fights over temporary restraining orders and stuff.
And here we go again:
Judge Temporarily Blocks DOGE From Accessing Federal Student Aid Data
Lunch update.
It would be chicken stew, carrots, onions, green peppers, chicken of course and a can of Campbell’s condensed chicken noodle soup. All placed in a slow cooker at 8am. Left to cook without stirring every half hour so as not to break up the veggies and turn it all into chicken mush.
But yet again as I live in a third world country no water here since 6am.
Do not worry, I had bottled water for coffee and plenty of other beverages in stock to stay hydrated. Merlot is a beverage!
Lunch could be devilled eggs, I boiled four a couple of days ago but checked my inventory and no fucking mayo.
However, I have fresh eggs, coconut oil and lemon juice and a cheap stick blender! Done it before to make emergency mayo.
@ lobo91:
That is the way I saw it. She was leaning towards neutral. Which is sometimes good.
@ Possum:
A note from a culinary artist.
If you do make emergency mayo from coconut oil you cannot keep it in the fridge. Coconut oil sets solid, it is then probably the second hardest substance next to diamonds.
That is why store bought mayo is canola or some olive oil ( look at the labels, some mayo made with olive oil has that listed as the third or fourth ingredient )
However making coconut oil mayo is the dogs bollocks as long as you make a small batch. No refrigerating leftovers.
Possum wrote:
I know you all are mystified.
Look at your keyboard.
a 5 in a typo next to a T means…..
My finger nails need cutting.
Lunch is on hold.
Due to something on X and related to bland and boring British food I started craving parsnips. Snow flake in hell getting any.
Pregnancy must be difficult due to food desires.
Checked Walmart, don’t believe it!
They have some.
Arriving within the next hour, along with mayo.
@ Possum:
We get nips at Walmart all the time.
@ coldwarrior:
It depends on the demographics of the population.
I lived in the middle of nowhere in Iowa and they opened a huge super Walmart.
The shelves in the international section were stocked with all sorts of food I like. Especially Pataks Indian sauces. Made in the UK.
LOL nobody there ate curry except for me. After about six months it was all on sale at a stupid price like 20c per jar. Yep, I bought a lot!
Here lamb is non existent. No Greek population.
Goat was available at a Foodarama nearby which has now closed. Africans, not African Americans, there is a difference, eat goat.
Also English people love goat!
Goats and sheep taste the same, they look the same. There are short haired sheep and long haired goats.
However, some breeds of goat and sheep may look alike they are totally separate species.
Goats have 60 chromosomes, Sheep have 54.
It is important as a culinary expert to know this. The number of chromosomes in the meat you are cooking dictates the seasoning and cooking times required.
Also the garnish….
Anyway, water is back on and so life returns to a kind of normal.
1lb parsnips have been sliced lengthways and are boiling in slightly salted water for 20 minutes or so before being drained and coated in lard prior to air frying them.
No hot water though, so looks like Mr Happy isn’t going to get to swim in the bath tub today yet again.
Was that TMI?
Senate votes to advance RFK Jrs. nomination. There still has to be a cloture vote and I think that’s in about 30 hrs. He’s as good as in, just a few formalities to go thru.
@ eaglesoars:
Another democrat on Trump team.
I like this neutrality.
@ Possum:
I absolutely adore parsnips. Roasted or cream of parsnip/potato soup. Downside: they are an absolute bitch to cut. Since I don’t have a chainsaw, I use a meat cleaver and pound on it with a meat tenderizer.
@ eaglesoars:
LOL..
I was going to mention that.
Don’t try to cut up a parsnip with a very sharp knife, you are going to lose a finger.
Just sawed mine up with a serrated bread knife.
Possum wrote:
Tulsi Gabbard is refreshing – sounds conservative, speaks confidently and coherently, stays on point. Her voting record tells a different story.
Possum wrote:
Yes.
Possum wrote:
Keep a log of water outages and send it anonymously to the Health Department and the city Building Official. Copy in the city attorney and the mayor.
Possum wrote:
Then postpone my suggested action. Hold for later.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
And then get evicted for some stupid thing like smoking in apartment or hoarding cats?
There are 320 apartments in this complex, nobody speaks English and many have small children.
Nobody complains…..
Not up to me to stick my neck out.
Anyway Mr Happy can go a few days without having fun in the tub.
Being serious, I can survive with no water for days. I am kind of prepared. If I need to make coffee and the cats have water in their dishes then, well, not done it yet but it is an option.
I do not know how families with children put up with this.
@ Possum:
Maybe the no deposit, no background check and no SSN may have something to do with why nobody complains.
Just a thought.
Possum wrote:
That and the fact that it’s probably not that different from what they’re used to.
Lunch will be roosted parsnips and a chunk of ham.
Not going to post a picture, use your imagination.
Today food delivery was of course parsnips and to get over the $35 minimum delivery threshold a ham was included. Cheap and versatile meat.
I get the boneless and non-sliced type. The pre-sliced ham limits the things you can use it for.
Boneless ham can be thin sliced for sandwiches, cut into chunks for soup or mac and cheese or sliced into 1/2 inch slices and fried for ham and eggs.
And remember! Cut your excess ham into big chunks, put the chunks into a quart ziplock then add a splash of chicken broth. Then put in the freezer.
No freezer burn in my home….
@ lobo91:
Probably.
Notable thing to watch this morning from my balcony was people carrying five gallon buckets of water from the apartment complex on the other side of the street.
And you all know Lucy would do it!
Lunch.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1889793874278641837
@ Possum:
From initial concept to lunch been eaten took over three hours.
Sometimes supper takes days to prepare.
I got to get a different hobby.
Pam Bondi announces that charges have been filed against the state of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul and AG Letitia James for failing to enforce immigration law…
https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1889802792241602592
@ eaglesoars:
and DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder.
I just went down to the front desk of my DC hotel to extend my stay.
The receptionist asked me if I was a government employee, saying there’s a different rate.
But instead of a discount, the gov rate was ~25% HIGHER than the retail rate.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1889754151976128678
@ eaglesoars:
I’ve seen that before. I spent the better part of 5 years on the road, from 2004-2009. Hotels will often set their government rate at whatever the GSA publishes as the per diem rate for that city, even if they offer a lower rate to the public.
Government rate airline fares are usually higher than the standard fare, too, but there’s at least a good reason for that. It’s because they’re unrestricted tickets. There are no cancellation or change fees, and the fare stays the same regardless of when you book the ticket, even the same day as the flight. There are higher baggage allowances, too.
lobo91 wrote:
Gov’t genius strikes again!
This is from a left wing site that hates Trump but I watched it and Trump did say this
—————————
Just Now — Trump won’t say he views Ukraine as an equal member of the peace process, and seems to blame them for the war starting in the first place.
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1889792589584322763
I have no idea what Trump’s thinking but I’ve always thought the whole Ukraine/NATO thing was just to bait Russia. And Zelensky was set up thinking he would be admitted. Victoria Nuland maybe
A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when the United States announced a freeze on aid funding.
https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1889547052561932790
this is paywalled so…but leave it to the lefties to blame Trump
Apparently it was a Burmese woman living in Thailand
comments are fire
@ eaglesoars:
Except that there was no such freeze, and even if there were, how did she end up in a position where she depended on the US taxpayers to live?
@ eaglesoars:
Of course, we also have no idea what information Trump and his people have that isn’t public.
lobo91 wrote:
I don’t think she did. I think it’s totally fabricated.
The Navy just lost another E/A-18G Growler near San Diego. Of course, most people in the comments are blaming Trump and/or Musk.
rfk jr passed the cloture vote. Now it’s just the regular vote. Don’t know when that’s scheduled for
@ eaglesoars:
I’m more concerned with Kash Patel
eaglesoars wrote:
10:30 tomorrow morning
@ lobo91:
me too
FUCK! Where am I going to get my sewing stuff?
Joann moves to close 500 of its stores across the US amid bankruptcy
https://apnews.com/article/joann-store-closings-list-bankruptcy-filing-
The problem is people aren’t learning how to sew anymore
big surprise
In his sanctimonious letter, Pope Francis calls on the bishops to defend the “infinite and transcendent dignity of every human person” amidst what he terms a “major crisis” with “mass deportations.”
Outspoken Catholic leader Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has responde to the letter and called out Red Francis main concern is not about immigrants, but about losing the steady flow of American tax dollars into the Church’s coffers for immigrant “services.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/archbishop-vigano-exposes-why-pope-francis-is-pushing/
@ eaglesoars:
Just like that so-called bishop from the prayer service. Apparently, nobody noticed that her non-profit took in $53 million from the government to take care of “migrants” until after she publicly dressed down the president.
eaglesoars wrote:
Mrs coldwarrior and the middle girl are apoplectic
Sen. J.D. Vance calls on DOJ to investigate Judge Merchan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/29/jd-vance-calls-doj-investigate-judge-juan-merchan/
Video at the link
Biden’s EPA hid $20 billion on the way out the door in order to give it to left-wing groups:
RFK Jr is in
Zelensky, emboldened by European pro-war rhetoric, has reneged on his agreement to sign the rare earth metals deal. Treasury Secretary Bessent travelled to Kiev to get it signed and Zelensky refused to sign despite his commitment to Trump.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1890036196686057886
I have no idea what he’s thinking
eaglesoars wrote:
52-48 vote, with McConnell being the only Republican against him. Again.
Kash Patel’s nomination was sent to the floor by a 12-10 vote
The USS Harry S. Truman apparently “collided” with a cargo ship last night near Port Said, Egypt
The word ‘manufacturing’ is sexist.
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/02/13/jan-schakowski-manufacturing-is-a-sexist-term-against-women-n2408249
Beingufacturing?
Brooke Rollins was confirmed as Agriculture secretary by a 72-28 vote
eaglesoars wrote:
He is looking for a way out while keeping his skin, and ill gotten gains, in tact. He is a dead man once peace is secured. And he knows it.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
God I hope so. Malignant little thug who is living high off my money.
I’m CONVINCED this whole “let me in NATO” thing was just bait to get Putin to invade. I would not be surprised if Victoria Nuland set it up. She has a bug up her ass about Putin/Russia and was betting any U.S. admin would back any Putin adversary. Nice little proxy war.
Trump just said “I don’t see how Ukraine can join NATO”
If I were Zelinsky, I’d be looking for someplace to hide. Like Albania. Or Pluto.
My Nextdoor neighbors say there ARE a few Joann’s closing around here but ‘mine’ is not one of them.
DoGE seen entering the IRS bldg in dc
USAID: British politician complaining that his wife was supposed to get $1M in USAID grants before Trump cancelled the contract. Rory Stewart’s wife runs Turquoise Mountain Foundation, which exposes modern art to puzzled Afghan women.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1889999406050730120
USAID: The NGO which Rory Stewart’s wife works for just has its USAID funding cancelled, The Turquiose Mountain Foundation, teaches ‘liberated’ Afghan women about modern art like Duchamp’s urinal.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1890000165479887219
I seem to remember he said he walked across Afghanistan. And then was found to have embellished and/or lied about it
HHS splurged more than $22B on grants for migrants — including cash for cars, home loans and startups
https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/hhs-splurged-more-than-22b-on-grants-for-migrants-including-cash-for-cars-home-loans-and-startup-businesses/
Did you know about the anti-Trump gunman who tried a mass sh—ting in Milwaukee on Feb. 12? Of course not!
There’s a reason the MSM didn’t cover this extensively. Up until the shooting, Isaiah Stott urged his followers to “stay woke” & he also ranted in support of trans issues.
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1890168749803859975?
Muslim property developer wants to create an entire islamic city outside Dallas, Texas.
They want you to trust your money with them as they build an “Epic City” (their words) for muslims only.
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1889996193406865483
No. Not even the Amish live in their own cities. They live in normal communities. If they want muslim-only cities go live in a muslim country
@ eaglesoars:
I could accept a Muslim-only city if they made it mandatory. Maybe put it somewhere around the middle of Nevada
I see Trump brought Peter Navarro back!
Election Security: Firings at CISA have begun.
At least 17 CISA (DHS) agents were placed on administrative leave. Ten of the agents were from the Field Operations Division which worked with state election officials. In my opinion based on research, these are the agents who were advising and directing state election officials behind the scenes. Initial reports indicate that the other 7 agents relieved served on the Election Security And Resilience Team. The Deep State influenced media is attempting to convince the public that these firings by the Trump Admin has jeopardized security. Based on research, it’s my assessment that this was absolutely necessary and will help mitigate Deep State interference in state elections. I suspect there will be more firings at CISA. News report below.
https://x.com/jeffmfulgham/status/1890151661336699099
Canadian bill would send people to prison for saying anything favorable about oil, gas or coal
The bill so broadly defines “false advertising” that it could apply to any statement favorable to the oil and gas industry, including an “I Love Canadian Oil and Gas” bumper sticker. The bill would also criminalize statements of fact, such as suggesting that natural gas has fewer emissions than coal.
The bill would impose fines as high as $500,000 or two years in prison for anyone saying anything nice about the coal, oil and gas industry.
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1890229204215566534
If they keep this up Canadians are going to be BEGGING to be part of the US
breaking news from the Mexican border. ICE just raided a cartel compound, arresting over 200 gang members in a joint op with Mexican troops. Videos show agents rounding up violent criminals with full auto weapons. Trump wasn’t kidding about cracking down on these thugs.
https://x.com/harparr1/status/1890226383017935118
This is a full recording of the show I was at on Friday night, complete with the annoying “flying” camera rig:
I wonder how much it cost to put on a show like that? Doing a “back of the envelope” calculation, they probably took in about $3 million in ticket sales over the three nights. And of course, they get a small portion of the merchandise sales (at least the official merchandise, which was vastly outnumbered by the unofficial merch sales in the parking lot–it was like walking through a flea market to get to the entrance).
@ eaglesoars:
But they’ll just bring their stupid ideas down here.
It’s almost as if that’s what he wanted them to do all along…
BREAKING: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declares that he will create his own NATO after being denied membership.
https://x.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1890427732086898952
with what countries?
Also there was a drone attack on Chernobyl. Zelensky is calling it a ‘false flag op’ by Russia
Nobody believes him
@ eaglesoars:
First step for him is to find out what the letters NATO stand for.
Then look at a map.
@ eaglesoars:
He’s going to be lucky to have a country when all is said and done, much less some sort of alliance
JD Vance delivered a great speech at the Munich Security Conference, calling out the European elites to their faces:
@ lobo91:
I would be quite content for there to be an arrangement like I advocated for two years ago. It ended up in a furball catfight in here because some people were anti-Russian. Russia bad.
We are brainwashed from decades of Cold War mentality.
The Eastern part of The Ukraine is Russian speaking, they want autonomy, not independence, not to become part of Russia.
Since 2014 the peoples of East Ukraine have been randomly shelled, bombed and oppressed. Russia finally stepped in to defend them. Russia does not want to invade and take over the whole of Ukraine.
I am surprised that NATO did not step up and step in prior to the Russian involvement. NATO should have gone into the Ukraine, bombed Kiev for 76 days and sent in a force to protect the Eastern Ukraine from oppression.
Where do I get these crazy ideas from? History.
If you are extremely bored here is some reading for you all. Now, when reading this mentally substitute Ukraine for Yugoslavia and Eastern Ukraine for Kosovo, or Kosova depending on whose side you are on.
NATO jumped in to keep the mudderfugers apart in what was essentially a civil war.
Oh by the way, the ethnic Albanians and the now Serbs are still fighting like rats in a sack on a local level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War
@ Possum:
And of course, most people gloss over the fact that the “ethnic Albanians” are Muslims.
A food post. Fuck the diet.
Just got two loaves of fresh baked Italian bread from Walmart. It is the best bread I can get in the USA. Only lasts 3 days before growing mold.
So, we have butter, mayo, ham, tomato, lettuce, beef burgers, pickled beetroot, sweet onions, hot dogs, extra sharp cheddar, meatballs and assorted soups.
So Happy Valentines day, and weekend!
Women love chocolate and flowers and champagne.
Possums are going to stuff themselves stupid with sandwiches.
@ Possum:
And eggs!
Don’t forget the eggs!
@ Possum:
And as usual there is always something missing.
I like putting crisps in my sandwiches. That is chips in the USA. I probably said this before, crisps in all types of sandwiches except egg salad sandwiches. Makes me think there is egg shells in it.
NO CRISPS in stock!
Just discovered a can of corn beef and several cans of sardines!
I will be ok….
@ Possum:
As to egg salad, I now have mayo and had to look up previous posts to see when the eggs were boiled and if they would be OK still.
Comment 63 on this thread says I have boiled eggs two days old and that was on the 12th, so doing basic math boiled them on the 10th and now it is the 14th so they are four days old.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-recipes/cooking/a32020400/how-long-do-hard-boiled-eggs-last/
Eggs are OK.
Possum wrote:
It helps if you’ve known actual Ukranians, which I have.
Pope Francis Rushed To Hospital
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1890474754139738575
heh
Democrats really thought the Trump arrest and mugshot would end him politically. Instead he now has the mugshot picture hung just outside the Oval Office.
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1890467839884103951
@ eaglesoars:
But maybe they were Ukrainians when Ukraine was part of the USSR or CCCP
Things have dramatically changed since then.
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom caves to Trump’s immigration policy and will veto a bill that would block ICE.
https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1890474541605896381
Possum wrote:
My friend is a Ukrainian Jew from Kiev. Her husband worked was an archivist in the library or museum, I forget which. She was an electrical engineer. One day he came home from work and said “We’re leaving”. He wouldn’t tell her why only that he saw something at work, and to this day he’s never told her what he saw. At the time, they were letting Jews leave and their first stop was Israel. For some reason, that didn’t quite suit and they came to the U.S. and lived in the Maryland suburbs of DC. I was her boss. They live in Atlanta now and are doing well and still have family in Ukraine MAYBE and keep up. We exchanged emails about 6 mos ago and she said so far her family was ok but that’s all she was prepared to tell me. So I wonder if they got out too
JUST NOW: President Trump bans the Associated Press from the Oval Office.
They will also be banned from Air Force One press spaces.
https://x.com/IanJaeger29/status/1890455240782041405
Tuna is on the menu here again.
Wednesday 2/12/2025 I got this email. Regarding the 24 cans of gourmet chunk tuna I bought.
I has eated most of the 24 cans!
Today I got another email.
So, no chance of me faking food poisoning and getting a multi million pay out from a law suit.
Damn.
Crimeny he’s busy!
BREAKING: Trump just signed an Executive Order that freezes federal funding for ANY school that mandates the COVID vaccine for children!
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1890481349540151691
JOE ROGAN: “The (Deep State) cant conspire right now because their phones are tapped. The power that the Government has to look into people’s emails, their phones, their texts, their signal, their everything — the idea that they’re not doing that if they’re not in the middle of a trillion dollar fraud investigation is ridiculous. They also have to worry about people taking deals. There’ll be some people that squeal. So you don’t know who’s your enemy and who’s your friend and you go to lunch with someone and they’re wearing some button camera and now you’re f**ked. So they’re not united right now. This is why it’s working and they’re able to release all these information and people are in this hot panic right now.”
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1890291588578046141
It is going to be ham sandwiches.
Just carved off a few slices of ham off that big ham I got a few days ago and put them into a cheap ziplock sandwich bag to warm them up to room temperature.
Ham is like English beer, to be served slightly warm not ice cold. Brings out the flavour.
Anyone want to argue?
It is same as white wine is served chilled, red wine served at room temperature.
LOL current room temperature here is 52F.
I love Texas weather.
That Chutkin bitch again
The ironies just keep coming.
Several states filed a lawsuit yesterday asking for a temporary restraining order against Elon Musk and DOGE.
Their argument? That Musk’s position violates the Appointments Clause–the same argument Trump’s lawyers made against the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith. (It resulted in the dismissal of the classified documents case in Florida.)
This lawsuit has been assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presided over Smith’s J6 indictment against the president.
She has scheduled an emergency hearing at 4pm today to hear the matter without giving the DOJ any time to respond in writing.
Important to remember Chutkan not only imposed a gag order on the president but was harshly rebuked by the Supreme Court over her hasty and unconstitutional immunity order. She allowed Jack Smith to pull every trick in the book until the last moment. She is undoubtedly chomping at the bit to get another swing at the president.
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1890489409931514231
more at the link
@ eaglesoars:
They’re claiming that Musk requires Senate confirmation, which is bullshit. He’s a special assistant to the president or something. It’s not a position that requires confirmation, because it wasn’t created by Congress
BREAKING: US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has just called a 4pm hearing on whether Elon Musk has the authority to lead DOGE for the Government
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1890474684442935487
There’s a lot of back and forth in the comments about whether she has the authority to do this but I’m not qualified to evaluate them
U.S. Army announces they will no longer accept transgender individuals in the military and will STOP all gender reassignment procedures.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1890499970152747453
I wonder what they’ll do with the ones they’ve already let in and the ones who have started transitioning
hey y’all
bet this chapped somebody’s ass
$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed.
https://patriots.win/p/19AKmQRbFp/19-billion-of-hud-money-was-just/c
Someone’s insurance is going up
Pictures at the link. Quite a hole.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Kier Starmer has spoken to Zelensky & told him that Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO – Sky News
https://x.com/AlexandruC4/status/1890511785410662797
lobo91 wrote:
does this ‘just happen’?
I need a nap
BREAKING: President Trump and Doug Burgum announce they are opening 625 million acres of offshore territory for drilling, reversing Biden’s last-minute ban before he left office.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1890511291929817445
@ eaglesoars:
It looks like this one was the carrier’s fault. They were running at night in a crowded area, heading into the Suez Canal, with their automated collision avoidance system off.
The captain has a bright future at McDonalds.
lobo91 wrote:
Join the Navy! See the world!
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh no! Anyways…
No fan of Pepe. I have been calling him an apostate for years. Goes down real well with some of my relatives. LOL.
@ eaglesoars:
Zelensky is a little twink who became the WEF’s selected leader after the “color revolution” which overthrew the elected government, which was favorable to Russia, in 2014. Never saw any of his acting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u2Wf2FoM68
Ukraine is known to be one of the most corrupt country’s in the world. Just ask the Bidens. Hunter was on the boar of directors with Burisma for 10 years. Check out the pics from his laptop to see what he achieved there. The country existed since 2014 as nothing but a money laundering operation and test ground for deep state BS.
Z. himself is just a corrupt, narcissistic little coke head who is starting to realize the show is almost over and he will be hung out to dry. I mean, his purchase of a Swiss chalet, the mansion in Cairo, the yachts in Miami, etc… what is a little dictator who has his goons snatch teenagers off the streets and pressed ganged into a meat grinder suppose to do if he can enjoy the kick-backs and bribes for continuing a senseless war.
If you have time, listen to some postings from a Gonza Lira who was living in Kharkov. He laid it all out, especially about Nuland, and made no secret what was driving it all. He got picked up and died in a Ukraine prison last year. State department allowed it.
The war started in 2014 in the Donbas. NATO made treaties.. Minsk I and II which they broke. Angela Merkel, piss be upon her, admitted they were made just to buy time and they had no intentions of keeping them. Victoria Nuland has a personal hate of Russia– check out her father some time.
With whats coming out about USAID and everything else, one understands why Hillary stated (supposedly), “he (Trump) will hang us all.”
Did you hear about the labs and organ harvesting? Yeah.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
The only items I was unaware of is Nuland’s father and Merkle’s confession.
Has anyone heard about Russia’s flagship being sunk by Ukraine?
Oh my god, Ukraine dipped the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet into the world of shit with $270,000 naval drones and sank its fucking flagship with two obsolete missiles — and the largest naval power of all time that has 11 carrier strike groups operating worldwide says it’s not prepared to face Russia at sea?
https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1890418140598923776
I’m still not sure I believe in chemstraila
Iowa is the latest state to introduce a bill banning chemtrails.
The bill aims to outlaw the intentional release of air contaminants designed to manipulate temperature, weather, or sunlight intensity within its borders.
Numerous residents say the state is being poisoned by aluminum, barium and nanoparticles as part of government initiatives to control the weather.
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1890184926143893624
Let’s see these perverts try to enforce it
Ohio and Mississippi bill aims to make ejaculating without intent to conceive a felony — costing over $10K
https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/ohio-bill-aims-to-make-ejaculating-without-intent-to-conceive-a-felony-costing-16k/
Watch this guy absolutely stomp on these FBI guys and send them slouching away in utter humiliation
https://x.com/IsabellaMDeLuca/status/1890406480127435147
A friend of ours is a copy editor at the U.S Printing office. He said they’ve gone from 1500 pages a day to less than 100
look at the map!
REAL ESTATE: The @Doge team is causing a very real exodus from Washington DC. Housing listings are surging—over 14,825 in this snapshot alone. It’s less of a market shift and more of a mass evacuation, like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1890550669104332936
@ eaglesoars:
Good, since they don’t exist
@ lobo91:
And how many weeks before Israel starts getting attacked again?
@ Buckeye Abroad:
A Catholic friend called him the AntiChrist.
Lunch in six hours will be beef stew and dumplings.
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1890737159591645202
I really don’t know why she bothers cooking.
@ Possum:
If you have an oven that works the best ever stew and dumplings is made by slow cooking the stew in a slow cooker for hours then letting it cool.
Set an oven to 350F and grease a Pyrex dish.
Mix Bisquik with water, preferably water you added onion powder and herbs to and microwaved to boiling then let cool.
Plop blobs of the Bisquick mix onto the bottom of the dish, then pour over the cooled stew.
Place in oven, time is indeterminate, the blobs of Bisquick will rise and float them to the top of the dish. Coating themselves in stew juice on the way up.
I LOVE British food.
https://x.com/VladTheInflator/status/1890527179898782076
Eagles got out right on time
Possum wrote:
“This has been a test of the Emergency Food Safety Network. You may now eat your food.”
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s a stupid stunt, and the lawmakers who proposed it should be sanctioned for wasting taxpayers time an money.
@ coldwarrior:
Prices must be for mansions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eruption-bleachbit-wipe-hard-drive-offshore-bank-searches-dc-suggest-deep-state-panic
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Nope. I’ve been through there a few times. Bigger suburban homes.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Idiots
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Did the EFSN have that annoying klaxon?
If not, I’m not paying attention
@ Possum:
Bisquik is banned here. Go from scratch. It’s much, much cheaper.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, but I didn’t know how to spell the sound properly.
“MEH-MEH-MEH”
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yeah! Lol
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t use much. I don’t make pancakes and I only use it for making third rate slow cooker dumplings whenever I get a craving.
I have the smallest size box they make, I keep it in the fridge to stop the roaches eating it. The box I have is still over half full.
Oh, and to illustrate how little of the stuff I use I just went and checked the expiry date of my little box.
26 May 2024
The missus’ finally got her dental implants yesterday. Three fakes replaced lower incisors that were getting crowded out from shifting. Now she has three bright whites in a field of natural ones. No novacaine required, no pain, doc said she can eat anything she wants including apples. The missus is happy.
Got an endoscopy / colonoscopy scheduled for March. Because of that, my onkydoc removed Avastin from my chemo cocktail last week. That’s the stuff that inhibits capillary growth, causes simple papercuts to take weeks to heal. I expect to notice some differences in a month.
Onkydoc said some other stuff but I’m not going to jinx it.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Probably doing that incase they have to lasso a polyp.
SHOCK: The U.S. Army has diverted over $151 million meant for soldiers’ food, according to the Military Times.
Financial records show that more than half of the money collected from junior enlisted troops was spent elsewhere.
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1890762993098506650
numbers at the link
Virginia and N. Carolina are flooding again
@ eaglesoars:
There need to be serious repercussions.
Possum wrote:
That’s exackly why.
Pretty nurse (tall version of Rhea Seehorn) once told me I was a polyp farmer.
eaglesoars wrote:
So was SoCal in the burn zones. Mudslides.
lol Hogg
https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1890877945104802036
Lucky me. I have my heart cath tomorrow morning.
@ right_wing2:
Hubby has had a few. They’ll give you some good stuff and you won’t feel a thing
keep in mind, this is just D.C. They haven’t looked at VA or MD yet
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WOW. Washington DC’s economy looks like 2008:
Unemployment filings in Washington DC just SURGED +36% in one week to 3 TIMES the 2024 average.
Over the last 6 weeks, unemployment filings are up +55%, now ABOVE 2008 levels.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1891131492207628533?
@ eaglesoars:
There’s a thread there is is very interesting.
@ eaglesoars:
I had one about a year and a half ago. That’s when I had the stents.
If anyone sees Dorian wish him Happy Birthday!
@ right_wing2:
Hubby had his for valve repair
@ right_wing2:
Fun times, eh?
The White House now has tech support.
The matrix is being reprogrammed to make success one of the possible outcome. They did not expect this.
K. Maru.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889842828790079633?
Kobayshi MARU
Ok Captain James Tiberias Musk…solving the “no win” battle by “programming”.
Using programmers to get our bureaucracies to show the American People the TRUTH about Spending !
https://x.com/PeriklesGREAT/status/1889846027177566641
Margaret Brennan speaking to Rubio who is in Germany
MB: “You’re standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to commit a genocide.”
Rubio: “Free speech was not weaponized to commit a genocide. The genocide was committed by an authoritarian Nazi regime.”
https://x.com/SonofHas/status/1891210308473032771
that kind of stupid should hurt
I don’t care about hockey but I admit – it was great that the Americans kicked Canadas ass after that booing BS
Crimeny, this is even before MY time!
The government is literally still running COBOL code that was written before DOS 1.0
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889891156005364051
@ eaglesoars:
Acktuwaly, I think the old high level languages were better than we have today.
In the good old days processors were comparative slugs to what is available today, but them computery things got the job done. Even though you had to submit a “job” and you got the result tomorrow.
As long as what data you input comes out the other end as a correct result then any high level language is OK.
Higher speed processors may do the accounting part faster but 99% of the CPU time is not doing math but generating fancy graphics and user interfaces.
@ Possum:
LOL and on that thread someone mentioned “Remember “sneaker-net”, I hear it still exists in many agencies”
And so it should. In very sensitive areas such as nuclear power plants and water treatment plants.
Also many references to running COBOL and floppy disks.
LOL floppies are the hardware, fuck all to do with running COBOL.
To the uneducated sneaker-net is a term used before the Ethernet, WiFi, Routers and things were invented so you could transfer files.
Using sneaker-net you copied a file to a floppy, took it out of a computer, walked to another computer and inserted the disk to download the file. While walking between the two computers wearing, um, sneakers.
Possum wrote:
COBOL gets a raw deal. It forces organization on your code and once you’ve had to debug crap C/C++ code you’ll be ready to mandate it. I heard the same BS argument for years – GOTO command sucks. So I started asking “Are you telling me you don’t know how to organize your code?” It was just some phrase they thought made them sound smart
If you ever programmed in assembler, that is really slow but you get 100% access to the hardware you kind of then create your own high level language to make a computer do what you desire.
You first have to write a routine that takes input, then a routine that outputs, then routines that read and write to storage.
Now you are rocking!
Just then all you need to do is write in assembler something that calculates your tax return!
Ain’t happening.
COBOL sits on top of the hardware and external devices.
I used to do the low level interface shit. They are called device drivers.
I must start playing with my toys again because streaming TV shows are all turning to shit. They become emotional trauma, who is shagging who and basically crap.
Fire Country was never really that good but now unwatchable. Especially when there is a fire and you see the actors deliberately not spraying water on the tiny fire so they don’t extinguish it in case the director needs a second take.
@ eaglesoars:
Well I am of the era where you PUSH and POP off the stack, and you can have multiple stacks depending where your stack pointers point to.
One more or less PUSH or POP and it all goes to shit.
High level languages protect the programmer from that. Hopefully.
Best language ever is BASIC. Bullet proof as far as system crashes.
And, kid friendly.
Possum wrote:
yeah that’s a friendly language. I did code in assembler when designing screens for CICS systems. But god, it was tedious
If anyone deliberately made themselves the most hated person in the country, What would Stasi Starmer do differently?
Keir Starmer declares tonight he is willing to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine to enforce any peace deal.
Significant change in position. First time he’s explicitly said so. Comes in
@Telegraph article before crunch Paris meeting.
https://x.com/benrileysmith/status/1891249003909587041
@ eaglesoars:
Assembler is really tedious at the start of a project. Then you write routines and then call them. You build up a library of routines and in several years ( LOL ) to write something new all you have to do is call all the routines you wrote and pass them parameters on the stack!
@ Possum:
Yeah, the same with C/C++
Whenever somebody on my team had some downtime, I’d have them write routines we could put in our library.
@ eaglesoars:
Where is he going to get the troops to do that?
@ lobo91:
He isn’t. He just wants people to think he has some testosterone..
If you haven’t seen this clip, watch it. You’re in for a treat. Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes insulting everybody for about 8 mins
https://x.com/benonwine/status/1891210932509958552
Possum wrote:
7th grade. We were writing computer games on punch tape.
I have to go to bed for a bit. This concussion is kicking my ass
eaglesoars wrote:
Remember when I posted about bases running out of food. Knew this crap was happening, there is no other way for that to happen.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I was a little later. Programmed a ton of games in basic during middle school and high school.
A food and weather post.
Kind of like ” make hay while the sun shines post ”
Winter is stew weather. Just finishing up the last portion of a beef stew. Unfortunately local store was out of the green onions with big fat asses.
All ingredients in stock for an Italian sausage stew, I peel the skin off the sausages then cut them up into small 1/2in round baby meatball size, air fry at 400F for about 5 mins shaking them half way through. Yes I know, at only 5 mins my little balls will not reach 160F but the key is to always keep the food going in an upward direction temperature wise.
The sausage balls will be added to the slow cooker that is on high containing chunks of onion, green peppers, them little yellow potatoes halved and chicken stock. Balls air fried and added, grease and all, into vegetables when they reach at least 160F . Then the whole mess slow cooked for 8hrs or more. No fucking dumplings this time. The last attempt was nasty!
As to the weather, tomorrow 66/38, Wednesday 45/26, Thursday 48/32, Friday 42/37.
So, not only is gourmet cooking dependent on the accessibility of seasonal ingredients it is also dependent on the weather. This week is stew weather.
In August it will be ice cream and canned tuna!
@ Possum:
Oh and a new plan.
Once I have eaten my way through the current fresh food in the fridge and the identifiable mystery meals in freezer I am switching to a new way of cooking and eating.
Going to stock up on those cheap Banquet microwave for three minute meals.
None of this eight hour cooking thing. Then not eating it and cooking something else.
New way of eating is grab something out of freezer, nuke it, eat it and not fixate on cooking.
Just got a text.
Not had hot water for over a week, some days no water at all.
And here we go again.
Hey, I don’t really care, I has beer and the cats like the way I smell.
But it would be REALLY nice if the apartment complex dropped off a 24 pack of bottled water at every apartment that had children.
I would….
@ Possum:
Living here taught me a valuable lesson.
Wash plates, knives, forks, spoons, pans and everything else as you use them.
Don’t let dirty dishes pile up!
You never know when there will be no water to wash them.
Feeling smug, water is off, everything is sparkly clean here!
Except me….
Lunch, and bed time!
https://x.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1891536413880901805
Got a new stent in. No lifting over 10 pounds for the next 10 days. If there’s bleeding at the site where they inserted the catheter, I need to get pressure on it and call 911 since it’s an artery.
@ lobo91:
It’s Trump’s fault.
right_wing2 wrote:
I lost count of how many comments I read saying that. Never mind that it was almost certainly caused by weather and/or pilot error, and it happened in Canada.
Most pathetic press conference ever:
@ lobo91:
What is that flag on the left side?
It kind of looks familiar somehow but I can’t quite put my finger on which country it is.
@ Possum:
France?
Someone misunderstood what “gear up” means. Glad they’re all alive.
@ lobo91:
Could be.
That red white and blue is an indicator, or it could be Russia.
Maybe it is the top corner of the Hawaii state flag?
Anyway, whoever flag it is they are probably going to be blamed for the crash.
@ Possum:
I keep seeing people trying to blame Trump. I guess he fired the people responsible for the weather in Canada
TMZ just released video of the plane landing:
@ lobo91:
Wind shear. It dropped like a rock.
Crosswind it would have been coming in sideways.
@ Possum:
Or the pilot was an ex Navy f14 pilot and he was having a flashback to his days landing Tomcats on a carrier after watching Top Gun Maverick on the in flight entertainment system.
@ Possum:
That did look a bit like a carrier landing. Unfortunately, the landing gear on a CRJ isn’t built to be slammed into the pavement like that.
@ lobo91:
There was no flare either.
As an expert on aviation issues, no blame on the pilots.
Maybe some blame on the guy that is employed to watch the windsock for a 12 hour shift and failed to report it was spinning around like a kids toy windmill.
Glad no deaths and speedy recovery for the three critical.
Another angle:
@ lobo91:
You probably know of these sites. I used to visit them often just to read aircraft related stuff but now only go there when something crashes.
The threads are interesting at first as they are filled with videos and data but soon develop into speculation and a pissing contest between posters.
The first is a British predominantly populated site.
https://www.pprune.org/
Accidents and Close Calls is relevant to crashes.
The other is https://www.airliners.net/forum/
In celebration of black history month I have been living without hot water for most of February and even on some days I have had no water at all.
These African Americans don’t know how good life is here.
( having spent a year living in Africa. Most “African Americans can’t even find Africa on a map )
And the news you are all waiting for
2:15am and I am not hungry so no food post.
Both cats are inside, door and window closed.
Time for bed! We have to do a few minutes of Crazy Frog on phone once we all get into bed, then some car crashes.
About 3am we get to do the sleepy thing.
morning y’all
we got just enough snow overnight to make things pretty
NASA says there’s now a 3.1% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received.
have y’all noticed the odds on this thing have been creeping up for the last few weeks?
one of those things that make you go h’mm
Long past due.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/19/the-trump-executive-order-wipes-out-90-years-of-practice-and-permanently-changes-the-executive-branch-n2185746
New thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2025/02/19/hohneretta/