Theoretically it could be he. Its about 1/10000 shot with trisomy 23 (nee Klinefelters Syndrome XXY genotype). Mind you I’ve seen lots of cats and never seen a calico or tortie male. I thought maybe it identified as a he, but no Cats are cool, calm and rational unlike Lefties.
Unlike leftists we also don’t warp our logical assumptions based on taking super rare genetic anomalies and using them to somehow come up with 54 genders. :)
Their style obviously includes a lot of howling and caterwauling. :-D
What the politicians and bureaucrats are doing is technically not theft. It’s embezzlement. You have to get those details right — or the indictments will never stand up in court.
“Diversity educators are starving in the streets and you’re laughing?”
During The Great Barracks Boombox War, I got a tad tired of losing sleep to a Mashup of rap, metal, country, pop, etc. So I found a crew served ghetto blaster on sale at the Exchange, and went hunting for non-traditional music.
Korean folksongs.
Japanese Flute mood music.
Then, I found the Whalesong tape. Joy.
If folks wouldn’t quiet down at the designated knock-it-off, I brought out Commodore Decker’s Planet Killer and played whalesong set to pure antiproton.
If you go down to the part where it explains how the quarantine works, and look at the “humane” egg production laws, you may notice it is as if someone was designing the “humane” routes in order to make it harder for those companies that the cage-free-egg laws didn’t straight up put out of business to function at all.
I wonder if the Humane Society’s recent name change has anything to do with worries that folks will eventually put it together with the egg prices….
It is actually up a bit, but meat-chickens are a completely different sort of animal, and are ready for harvest in like half the time it takes for a layer to start giving eggs.
Egg prices are also massively hurt by the various “cage free” and similar “humanitarian” laws that were pushed through, which we warned people would result in higher initial prices, a wider spread of disease, and lower quality product. (the stress of “cage free” makes hens lay less)
Guessing you mean for egg prices in cage free form, since opening up any farm store’s CHICK DAYS!! ad would explain the gap between layers and meat birds.
However, the shift to cage-free production comes at a cost. Researchers at Michigan State University warn of significant financial implications for consumers. “Adding these cage-free mandates and pledges to the mix could drive prices up even further, a burden that could be particularly detrimental to lower-income groups,” they stated in a report.
The researchers noted that cage-free facilities require approximately double the capital investment, specialized labor, more workers, and additional feed compared to caged systems. Furthermore, there are risks. “Cage-free production also introduces additional variability and risk into the production system, including more intensive disease, manure, and better ventilation,” the report said.
One of us specializes in bullshit, and it is not me.
When trying to get snide comments in, might want to remember you dislike me because I actually verify “stuff” before spreading it around, and I will have multiple sources for most things.
Or maybe save us both time and do your “clever” trick of responding to yourself rather than me from the start.
My nasty habit of being able to dig up evidence that directly contradicts your detailed accusations has, indeed, pissed you off greatly.
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Not like you’re the first person to decide that the fault lies in those who prove that they are wrong, rather than in themselves. It won’t be a formal fallacy otherwise.
Willamette is/was the big producer in Oregon. Before cage-free came in, $3.68 for 18 count eggs were common. A month ago, the were running $8.78 for 18 count, and then disappeared from the shelves. Oregon law/EO (not sure which) says any out of state eggs must come from cage-free sources. Smaller producers were selling for $4.50 per dozen.
Last week, Willamette came back in the store. They’re running $6.48/dozen. (while the others are still around $4.50).
$SPOUSE and I both see wide variation in egg quality, both in toughness of the shells and yolk size. This showed up after cage-free worked.
Common sense, from what I have heard about how fast chickens pass around pretty much anything nasty – chickens milling about in mosh-pit crowds would be a much easier vector environment than chickens in individual cages.
Apparently, a major vector for transmission is wild bird poop. So once you get a disease free flock, the best way to KEEP them that way is have them under a roof. Free-range / cage free apparently believes that letting the chickens run around outside where they’re exposed from all directions to more wild bird poop is “better”.
Farmers aren’t stupid, and “factory farms” are the most efficient producers of food of all types. Abundant and cheap food is a Bad Thing for Socialists. Go figure.
Like way too many liberal edicts, it’s something that The Favored People can do that lets them feel good while escaping the worst of the consequences. The fact that it hurts less favored people much more is a feature, not a bug.
Like most rainbow-unicorn ideologically driven solutions, it’s all about the daydream.
The thought-movie of gloriously technicolor “free range” chickens frolicking across hill and dale in the bright sunshine as happy music plays is too severe of a contrast with any visit to any actual food producing farm, so Things Must Change, and There Should Be A Law, and Find The Academic Experts – disregarding that the experts on how to raise chickens to consistently lay quality eggs, or alternately to be deep fried, are those people doing that now.
The terrible thing is, they even got studies to show that no, the chickens don’t like being free range or even cage free.
Their stress hormones go way up.
They like being in a fairly small group, without predators overhead, steady food and water, and not stressed enough by population to have a pecking order.
Outside, literally every shadow is “predator attack!” in a chicken brain.
And yes, this is where “stress free chicken” stickers come from.
The loons are way too into anthropomorphizing everything. “I don’t like being penned in, so they must not, so they will be happier outside like dogs are, and like cows are, and …” After all, their back yard birds (if they have any) and the birds on the kiddy farm they visited decades ago seem so much happier outside!
Suddenly, I’m flashing to the folks who thought that I must be utterly miserable reading a book or listening to the adults talk instead of being out playing with all the other kids.
When I was reading a book the house could have been on fire and I’d not notice, and the adults in my life at the time knew it, weren’t always happy about it but knew me.
Some of the conversations you hear sitting quietly off to the side with a book in hand, learn all sorts of family stories “not for the kids”.
Then my Dad busted me one time, just told me off to the side “not to be repeated”. Dang it, trusting me to do the adult thing just because I was asked and treated like an adult, now I have to not repeat. Such a dirty rotten parental trick.
Back in the day they could tell if you were changing pages or not. These days not so much. OTOH now one of the adults in the conversations, not the kid hanging out on the fringes reading.
What I know? Not only eggs and chicken meat gotten more expensive, here (I do know who to blame, and President Trump has not been in office long enough) but now I know why we are seeing more eagles, hawks, and owls … Just saying … The smaller feline (bobcats), canine (fox and coyote), and skunks, predators are probably getting a few too. After all pretty sure free range means missed eggs, and not all the chickens get rounded up at night for safe roosting, not with a large flock. Seeing black bear and cougar on neighborhood cameras too, but that is because no more bait hunting and no more hunting them with dogs.
Hey, might as well make it sporting for the local farmers … bring back the wolf and the grizzly to the Willamette Valley!!!! (What? I’m not suppose to give them ideas? You guys are no fun.)
Hmm, I was sort-of watching the ABC local and network news at the hospital ER on Thursday. (lung issues. Whee. Hooked up for heart/O2-sat and Kindle was out of reach.) For peace of mind, I kept the sound off, but watched the video feed, again sort of.
The Medford station had a story about wol(f|ves) killing a couple of calfs, I believe Eastside. They showed a map with known wolf populations, and I think there’s now a whole bunch around. I’ve heard of some wolves in the SW counties, and I’m sure that sending a few or a dozen or so to Salem would be popular amongst the ranchers.
A few years ago, somebody did the S-S (2S, didn’t shovel) treatment on a problem wolf in the area. The ODFW was calling for somebody to point a finger at the shooter, but nobody saw nuthin’. I’m guessing that Mr. Wolfremover had his cellphone left at home.
Last I heard, the ranchers will (eventually, maybe) get some tax dollars as reimbursement for wolf predation, but heaven forbid they defend their herd with freedom seeds.
Haven’t heard of any non-black bears in the state. Yet. One assumes there might be contingency plans.
My vague impression was that the wolf packs are resident (and unmolested by TPTB) in the R-voting counties. I wonder if they’re doing anything special to keep the wolves out of the blue.
Side note: some outdoor show was being promoted, and one of the attractions was “The Wild Wolves of Yellowstone”. They had a couple on the set, trained to stay (more or less) touching a square pad. Not that wild, apparently.
Yes. Packs in Willowa/Blues and S. Oregon Cascades. But no where else that I’m aware of. One male was tracked into N. CA from one of the Willowa packs to find a female to start the S. Oregon pack (where she came from is unknown).
Some talk about relocating grizzlies from YNP/Teton greater ecological system into the N. Cascades NP area. With the (supposedly) hunting opening on Grizzlies in Montana/Wyoming, don’t know how that is going to go. No talk about relocating grizzlies to any other NP (Crater Lake, Rainer, *Yosemite, etc.) or wildernesses.
Re hunting grizzlies. OMG. Just having 399 hit on the highway south of GTNP, unknown status of her last (miricle) cub “Spirit”, is bad enough. Hear the out cry when a hunted bear is proven to be an offspring (will happen) or her daughter 610? Or the other “popular” sows in YNP? Bad enough when Wyoming Game takes out “problem” bears (so far just screaming, without major fining the cause).
(* Yes, exactly what the world needs … Black bears in Yosemite showing Grizzlies how to break into locked cars and RV’s …)
Well, that could take care of the “only one person in the park who can get tourists out of locked bathrooms”. Might be a shock to the “lockee” as he/she realized that they’re invited for to be dinner.
(How in hell do you get yourself locked into a bathroom, anyway?)
“only one person in the park who can get tourists out of locked bathrooms”
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I rolled my eyes when that one was reported. Seriously? More like “locked out of”. Bathrooms are locked down when park areas are closed. When it comes to Yosemite that would be the high country areas. Valley bathrooms, with running water maybe locked because water is shutoff to prevent freezing. Even YNP the upper reaches bathrooms are locked out well into May or later. Lack of cleaning staff will cause facilities to get locked too. Which creates a whole different set of sanitary problems. Yes, one set of keys, or keys only available to certain category of park employees/volunteers, is ludicrous.
Also. All the screaming about NP employees being let go? Seriously? YNP, and other parks we’ve been to: Other than law enforcement and required positions (admins, etc.), few employees working at the park are paid park employees. Others are either volunteers (get seasonal camping spot with hookups, maybe, power, water, propane, for free. Which given 2 week/stay limit in all NP systems is not a bad perk.) Or concessionaire paid employees.
“(Mailclerk)! I hear you know how to open doors?” “Yes sir.” “Come with me.” “Yes sir” “We lost the key. It’s probably in there. Open it. “Lieutenant, we should send someone to S-2 to get the spare.” “I don’t have time. Open that door, now. “Sir, that’s a bad idea.” “PFC, open that GD door!” “Yes sir.” MIGHTY KICK! Smashes open door. (LT boggles) “I was told you knew how to pick locks….” “Sir? No sir.” “Why didnt… Never mind. Leave. I will … deal with this…) (salute and skedadle)
After twelve years, my dear Kitten (a completely indoor cat) have probably exchanged every disease vector each of us had without ill effects (probably some DNA as well from occasional cat bites). I do notice that when I get a cold, a few days later she is sneezing.
Horizontal gene transfer, eh?
Do you find yourself with longer whiskers in the morning?
Do you mysteriously seem to see better in the dark?
Do you get cravings for raw tuna?
Does a length of yarn induce incomprehensible attacks of ADD?
A couple weeks back North Shore Ma (actually far southern ME for epicenter) had like a Richter 3.0 earthquake. Cat was dozing near me when he popped up and came to attention. Then there was a noise that I thought initially was a large 10 wheeler dump truck using it’s Jake brake in the near distance (low rumbly, verging on flatulent). When that passed he laid back down and went back to sleep.
If your cat does something like that pay attention. Their ears have better dynamic range than ours (especially if you are outside your 30’s) and hear an octave up from our best, their noses rival those of a bloodhound, their vibrassae (whiskers) pick up all sorts of vibrations. They seem to see different parts of the spectrum than us that include near UV, although in daytime high light they do have issues.
Animals in general seem to be sensitive to earthquakes, and are aware of them before even the most alert human will notice anything out of the ordinary.
Our previous border collie freaked out over an earthquake felt in the north SF bay area. Rough guess, 350 miles away. Haven’t had any sense-able local ones for a while, so not sure how Kat-the-dog reacts.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday ordered the transfer of “1,500 staff out of its Washington headquarters, two sources familiar with the orders told Reuters.”
“Some 1,000 staff would be dispersed to field offices around the United States, with another 500 ordered to transfer to Huntsville, Alabama, the sources said, adding that the news was conveyed to employees at a Friday meeting.” (article at Reuters)
Plus several Army logistics HQs. I forgetting whether Army Materiel Command has come down from Ft. Belvoir yet. And a research center that used to be second only to Silicon Valley.
I like Huntsville, but I keep saying that if there’s a better nuclear target in the region….
My guess is that they’re breaking up established teams and cliques within the organization. Sometimes when a company is a real mess (as the FBI undoubtedly is) the first thing is to isolate the troublemakers and remove established lines of authority. Once that’s done you can start identifying which employees you should keep and let go.
I wouldn’t be surprised– it looks like it’s a pretty big base, has over 500 admitted folks, but it’s got all kind of focus on development and networking.
Which makes the DC career guys scream and smoke like vampires in sunlight. ^.^
Well yeah, never mind that it’s a scenic little city and it’s one of the most educated cities in the United States (full of literal rocket scientists), it’s ALABAMA. And no self-respecting bureaucrat would want to go to that icky icky South. It’s full of…icky Southerners.
It amuses me SO MUCH to hear the “Alabama” stuff and then tell folks about how that’s where I met the “rocket scientists.” It’s been a while, but though didn’t talk of details (for obvious reason, and NOT just ox slow) I did speak with folks that did work on/for/with SDI.
A relatively recent name (and transferred team..) I recall when Rocket City FurMeet was a going thing, they had a raccoon mascot in the print stuff… and “Jugular Jaguar” had Issues (an act, of course) with that and campaigned to for himself instead of the ‘trash pandas.”
If you’ve seen the picture of a bunch of folks in a pool and jagaur ‘suiter wading in toward them, with the words ‘HAY GUYS’ added… that was at RCFM. That was Jugular Jaguar, and the folks in the pool were pretty much the convention committee. I did NOT take that picture, but I was there.
I don’t know. If you want irony in your diet, 39-odd years ago I was standing in line in a credit union in New Jersey behind two black guys. One announced, “I’ve been transferred to MICOM (Huntsville).”
The other guy: “You lucky so-and-so,” or words to that effect.
Did Kash Patel order that on his first day on the job, or was it Somebody Else? Some sort of attempt to disperse the guilty and make them harder to track down?
The reports I’m seeing cite a directive from Patel as the initiative for the moves. Also some AL congresscritters requested it of him. The Redstone Arsenal is being mentioned as the destination for the moves.
I noticed an…interesting omission on Yahoo Finance Thursday. Sturm, Ruger & Co. (RGR) gained more than 13% but wasn’t listed under ‘Top Gainers’ while two stocks that gained 11% were listed. Hmmm…
I particularly liked the one about the 9 year old and the pole dancer.
On the FBI, I wish Patel hadn’t renounced his plan to close the Hoover building and make it a museum. The way I put it is that you can tell everything you need to know from the name they have on their headquarters. It’s a bit like putting the Civil Rights division of DOJ in the Roger B. Taney building.
On the seige engine meme, I thought May was a drink and December was a kind of wild ass/donkey. And now I will forever have difficulty taking those engines of destruction seriously no matter how effective they are.
Don’t put money into Apple when it was a startup. Put the money in just before they brought back Steve Jobs and he had Jonathan Ive start in with the design elements. You know, right around the point when they were going to de-list Apple.
Heck, even 2001 was a good time for stock-buying, given how much it has split since then.
I worked for Apple/Claris in the 90’s. New employees got 1000 shares in options that vested in thirds over the next three years. When I got hired, the stock was in the 30’s, then tanked, and stayed underwater the whole four and a half years I was there.
A few times they offered to re-strike the options, with a requirement to re-vest over another three years. But they were bad deals, reducing the number of shares. Then Jobs came back, bragging that he didn’t own any Apple stock.
We finally got a 1:1 re-strike offer, at $12.25/share. (We also got the promise that the next version of ClarisWorks would allow a complete re-write). Everyone jumped at the deal. Six months later Jobs killed Claris, spun off Filemaker into its own company and renamed ClarisWorks AppleWorks and brought it back in house. He laid off over 600 of us.
I’m sure that plan had been in the works for a while, and that the good re-strike offer was part of it, since everyone who took it and got fired lost out entirely.
Since then there was a 2:1 split, and a 7:1 split. And at its peak, AAPL was doing around $700 a share. So 14,000 shares at $700…. Jobs cheated me out of almost $10 Million. (Damn, I used to tell it at $3 Mil, but I just re-did the math here.)
We never had Apple stock. I bailed on Apple, the company when they abandoned the Apple IIe, no way to upgrade the little desktop, for the Mac. Sure few laptops or tablets can be upgraded, and few desktop machines are either (unless planned to be … son did with his). But still, back then, it was a presumption that the format wouldn’t be “abandoned”. We have had IBM stock. When it dropped, hubby bought more. Then it split, doubled, and split some more. Finally it all got called away through covered calls.
The company I worked for ’96 – ’99, until it got bought out, I had stock options, plus hubby bought some just because I worked there (no insider trading here. I had no company secrets. Unless you count that “I was working there!” Hint – huge “doubt it”.) Did really well. Three years vested, so 2/3rd’s paid when company bought out, then 1/3 for the next two years. Even though the new company was sliding into bankruptcy, by that 5th (for me) year. They had to pay. I told hubby he was absolutely to not, I repeat NOT buy the new company stock. Also declined to participate in employee stock discounted purchase plan (which I did not tell hubby about). The employees who did indulge, lost that money. Again, he had no insider information. I told him that immediately upon the two companies merging, well before signs of bankruptcy.
Did not get rich. Not in the way you are alluding to.
Did better than some longer term employees, whose hiring timing was “less better”. While not chump change, also wasn’t in the 6 figure, or higher, categories.
Did as well with the IP stock, which were not stock options. Just required to buy in 401(k) to get company matching percentage (in stock. Still allowed early ’90s.) We had the IP stock in my IRA rollover for couple of decades before the stock was finally called out (hubby sells covered calls, if stock isn’t called away, then resells more calls. Makes money on calls, dividends if stock isn’t called away, and when stock is called away at the call price which is a guarantied percentage cost increase. Three wins, for us. Not the way to make a fortune, but is a way to meet or beat the stock market average.)
April 2001 would have been a wonderful time to buy a ton of AAPL and AMZN stock.
I’ve thought for a while that the SEC must have a time-travel identification unit buried somewhere that just looks for those too prescient stock trades.
It’s my birthday this coming week. But don’t send me felicitations, please – I have decided to officially change it to October. Trebuchets are WAY cooler!
Yes. Yes, I would. (I’m only linking the harder-to-find stuff to avoid offending WordPress.)
Gunnerkrigg Court — Science fantasy webcomic set at a mysterious English boarding school. Excellent characters, one of the best long-form mysteries I’ve seen, and a story that ranges from goofy to heartrending. Art starts rough but improves rapidly. Ongoing since 2005, but seems to be heading towards the finale.
Lackadaisy — Crime drama webcomic set at a failing speakeasy in Prohibition-era St. Louis. One story that unfolds slowly over the course of a few days, as the owner of the speakeasy and her last few loyal employees try to keep the place afloat. Art starts out decent and becomes sublime. Ongoing, but slow to update. Last I checked, it was on semi-hiatus while the creator worked on an animated adaptation.
Problem Sleuth — Ridiculous comedy webcomic that starts as a parody of old-school point-and-click adventure games and escalates from there. Stylized as a video game where reader suggestions govern what the characters do. Expect late-2000s Internet humor, some cartoon gore, lo-fi graphics, elaborately animated GIFs, and lots of silliness. Complete.
Rice Boy — Epic fantasy webcomic about a humble civilian who learns he’s the Chosen One of legend, sending him far from home on a lengthy journey. Colorful, imaginative world with no humans, some cool designs, and a bit of mystery to it. Fairly serious tone, though, with darker themes than you’d expect. Complete.
Kill Six Billion Demons — Dark epic fantasy webcomic about a girl whisked away to a multiversal hub city ruled over by merciless demigods and criminals. Very gory and cynical, but incredibly detailed art and world-building, with top-notch action and a sprawling plot. One of the most thought-provoking settings I’ve ever seen. Ongoing, but heading into the final arc.
Ava’s Demon — Dark science fantasy webcomic about a depressed teenage girl who is the reluctant host for the exiled spirit of a demonic, galactic warlord who wants to reunite her crew and overthrow the church/business/empire/cult that beat her. Gorgeous painted art style with an interesting sci-fi story. Angsty characters, though, and the story goes to some dark places, including some very explicit violence. Ongoing, last I checked.
minus — Surreal fantasy comedy webcomic about a little girl with the power to alter reality. Generally upbeat, with a cute art style and a playful sense of humor, but there’s a fair bit of existential dread mixed in there too. Mostly standalone gags, but it develops into a running story towards the end. Complete. It’s a short run, and the link is to a rehost.
There’s a bunch more where that came from. If you’ve got a specific genre in mind, I might be able to recommend something more targeted.
Gunnerkrigg Court — Science fantasy webcomic set at a mysterious English boarding school. Excellent characters, one of the best long-form mysteries I’ve seen, and a story that ranges from goofy to heartrending. Art starts rough but improves rapidly. Ongoing since 2005, but seems to be heading towards the finale.
Lackadaisy — Crime drama webcomic set at a failing speakeasy in Prohibition-era St. Louis. One story that unfolds slowly over the course of a few days, as the owner of the speakeasy and her last few loyal employees try to keep the place afloat. Art starts out decent and becomes sublime. Ongoing, but slow to update. Last I checked, it was on semi-hiatus while the creator worked on an animated adaptation.
Problem Sleuth — Ridiculous comedy webcomic that starts as a parody of old-school point-and-click adventure games and escalates from there. Stylized as a video game where reader suggestions govern what the characters do. Expect late-2000s Internet humor, some cartoon gore, lo-fi graphics, elaborately animated GIFs, and lots of silliness. Complete.
Rice Boy — Epic fantasy webcomic about a humble civilian who learns he’s the Chosen One of legend, sending him far from home on a lengthy journey. Colorful, imaginative world with no humans, some cool designs, and a bit of mystery to it. Fairly serious tone, though, with darker themes than you’d expect. Complete.
Kill Six Billion Demons — Dark epic fantasy webcomic about a girl whisked away to a multiversal hub city ruled over by merciless demigods and criminals. Very gory and cynical, but incredibly detailed art and world-building, with top-notch action and a sprawling plot. One of the most thought-provoking settings I’ve ever seen. Ongoing, but heading into the final arc.
Ava’s Demon — Dark science fantasy webcomic about a depressed teenage girl who is the reluctant host for the exiled spirit of a demonic, galactic warlord who wants to reunite her crew and overthrow the church/business/empire/cult that beat her. Gorgeous painted art style with an interesting sci-fi story. Angsty characters, though, and the story goes to some dark places, including some very explicit violence. Ongoing, last I checked.
minus — Surreal fantasy comedy webcomic about a little girl with the power to alter reality. Generally upbeat, with a cute art style and a playful sense of humor, but there’s a fair bit of existential dread mixed in there too. Mostly standalone gags, but it develops into a running story towards the end. Complete. It’s a short run, and the link is to a rehost.
Sam & Fuzzy — Comedy adventure about a college dropout and his sociopathic talking bear best friend. Starts as a gag-a-day comic, then evolves into a sprawling plot about the Ninja Mafia, a talking refrigerator, a shady record company, and an underground world of mythical creatures and hidden conspiracies. The main story is complete, but the site continues to update with variety content, mostly in the same universe. This is sort of a “read casually until you get attached to the characters” kind of comic.
There’s a bunch more where that came from. If you’ve got a specific genre in mind, I might be able to recommend something more targeted. I only included links for the stuff that’s hard to find, but I can dig up the others if needed.
We all thought it was drugs that made all those artists do the cartoons from the thirties and forties okay fifties too. But no, it was life and some dude’s mom catching a hawk diving at chickens. I swear I saw that cartoon… Once again, Life does not imitate Art, Art imitates Life, and the dudes Mom.
Album, definitely. Retail: Accurate. Hot tub sniping. Just keep the spent brass out of the water…. Ooo, ballista! So many kitties. D’aww. Highlighter’s gonna run out…. Yes. So mad about that. Need the paycheck! …I’m beginning to wonder exactly that about the fraud and budget. Elimintating it sure seems like it’ll go a long way!
IIRC, Sarah has commented several times on how in the 60s and 70s Portugese TV stations, during times of imminent governmental crisis, would start airing “Green Acres” continuously. Well, this morning hubby and I were watching some comedy movies on Tubi — “Grumpy Old Men” followed by “Grumpier Old Men” — when the next video that automatically popped up in the queue was the pilot episode of “Green Acres”. Then after that came the 2nd episode, and the third, and before we knew it we’d been binge watching “Green Acres” all morning long. I hope this isn’t some ominous portent…..
According To Hoyt 
Technically she is playing the base. Because that’s a tortie and I’m feeling pedantic this morning.
Thanks for the morning smiles!
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Theoretically it could be he. Its about 1/10000 shot with trisomy 23 (nee Klinefelters Syndrome XXY genotype). Mind you I’ve seen lots of cats and never seen a calico or tortie male. I thought maybe it identified as a he, but no Cats are cool, calm and rational unlike Lefties.
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Unlike leftists we also don’t warp our logical assumptions based on taking super rare genetic anomalies and using them to somehow come up with 54 genders. :)
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SFBS!
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What is the album? Metal, of course. (Grin)
That last one…. Heck yeah. Rename it FAFO.
We need red hats with FAFO.
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Their style obviously includes a lot of howling and caterwauling. :-D
What the politicians and bureaucrats are doing is technically not theft. It’s embezzlement. You have to get those details right — or the indictments will never stand up in court.
“Diversity educators are starving in the streets and you’re laughing?”
“Laughing hell, I’m cackling like a loon!”
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So am I!
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Be happy warriors!
It very much annoys Wokescolds and other Leftroids.
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Yes I’m laughing; I don’t have a heart of stone.
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Muahahahahaha.
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I’m grinning ear to ear.
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Not quite on the red hat. We need red hats with
“DOGE = FAFO
*Federal Agency of Financial Oversight*”
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$SPOUSE was wondering why I was laughing so hard. Even though it hurt (damned pleurisy/bronchitis), it was worth it.
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Nah, it’s “Pet Sounds” (same as the 11th Beach Boys album)
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I had a album on tape of whale noises.
Yup. Whalesong.
During The Great Barracks Boombox War, I got a tad tired of losing sleep to a Mashup of rap, metal, country, pop, etc. So I found a crew served ghetto blaster on sale at the Exchange, and went hunting for non-traditional music.
Korean folksongs.
Japanese Flute mood music.
Then, I found the Whalesong tape. Joy.
If folks wouldn’t quiet down at the designated knock-it-off, I brought out Commodore Decker’s Planet Killer and played whalesong set to pure antiproton.
GoooEEEpppOHAHhhhhhh…..
eeeeOOrrrrah…blooooop.
I won.
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Tis is a thest.
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Back in the day, I had this button:
“This is a test. Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed.”
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If all those chickerns were “culled” due to disease/disease risk…. why isn’t the price of chickern up? Or is that next month?
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Nope. This week it’s dairy. Chicken is next week.
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Shame they killed all the chickens that were also immune or resistant. Not exactly the smartest people on the planet.
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Or preventing the disease in future was not in any shape the goal.
Don’t treat all these people as stupid. A certain percentage know exactly what they are doing.
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Ignorance can be treated, and even cured.
Stupidity can be bypassed. In rare cases, treated. In very rare cases, cured.
Evil must be completely, utterly, and remorselessly DESTROYED.
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This Lazarus Long quote would seem applicable:
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small percentage. They are profoundly maleducated and never have contact with reality, remember? Native brains mean nothing.
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The guy who made that meme (yeah, I saw it, too) was either reluctant to do a tiny bit of research before pontificating, or was deliberately lying.
There are quarantine options. For what little good it does, given how lethal it is to chickens.
Here:
https://www.birdful.org/how-long-to-quarantine-chickens-for-bird-flu/
If you go down to the part where it explains how the quarantine works, and look at the “humane” egg production laws, you may notice it is as if someone was designing the “humane” routes in order to make it harder for those companies that the cage-free-egg laws didn’t straight up put out of business to function at all.
I wonder if the Humane Society’s recent name change has anything to do with worries that folks will eventually put it together with the egg prices….
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It is actually up a bit, but meat-chickens are a completely different sort of animal, and are ready for harvest in like half the time it takes for a layer to start giving eggs.
Egg prices are also massively hurt by the various “cage free” and similar “humanitarian” laws that were pushed through, which we warned people would result in higher initial prices, a wider spread of disease, and lower quality product. (the stress of “cage free” makes hens lay less)
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Anyone have a confirming, reliable source?
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Guessing you mean for egg prices in cage free form, since opening up any farm store’s CHICK DAYS!! ad would explain the gap between layers and meat birds.
Besides digging back through the archives on this very site where I pointed out it was going to happen, there’s stuff like this:
https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Cagefree-practices-pressure-egg-prices
Published two years ago, and has multiple links to evidence for “yes, these hoops increase prices.”
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Taking a few more seconds to do a search for cage free egg prices and setting the date to anything before the last three months:
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-eggs-expensive-cage-free-range-chickens-ethical-2023-3
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https://www.foodandwine.com/skyrocketing-egg-prices-cage-free-laws-2025-8780531
One of us specializes in bullshit, and it is not me.
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I say again….
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When trying to get snide comments in, might want to remember you dislike me because I actually verify “stuff” before spreading it around, and I will have multiple sources for most things.
Or maybe save us both time and do your “clever” trick of responding to yourself rather than me from the start.
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You have EARNED my distrust. Not about cites, but from presumptuous presumptive presumptions.
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My nasty habit of being able to dig up evidence that directly contradicts your detailed accusations has, indeed, pissed you off greatly.
:shrugs:
Not like you’re the first person to decide that the fault lies in those who prove that they are wrong, rather than in themselves. It won’t be a formal fallacy otherwise.
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Will anecdata help?
Willamette is/was the big producer in Oregon. Before cage-free came in, $3.68 for 18 count eggs were common. A month ago, the were running $8.78 for 18 count, and then disappeared from the shelves. Oregon law/EO (not sure which) says any out of state eggs must come from cage-free sources. Smaller producers were selling for $4.50 per dozen.
Last week, Willamette came back in the store. They’re running $6.48/dozen. (while the others are still around $4.50).
$SPOUSE and I both see wide variation in egg quality, both in toughness of the shells and yolk size. This showed up after cage-free worked.
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If need be, I can go back through receipts. Exact prices in above quote not guaranteed, but are reasonably close.
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No need. Just wanted a source that didn’t have a History of…
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Common sense, from what I have heard about how fast chickens pass around pretty much anything nasty – chickens milling about in mosh-pit crowds would be a much easier vector environment than chickens in individual cages.
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Even if one doesn’t consider that the pecking order is such that a dead chicken in a big flock will be eaten, yeah.
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Apparently, a major vector for transmission is wild bird poop. So once you get a disease free flock, the best way to KEEP them that way is have them under a roof. Free-range / cage free apparently believes that letting the chickens run around outside where they’re exposed from all directions to more wild bird poop is “better”.
Farmers aren’t stupid, and “factory farms” are the most efficient producers of food of all types. Abundant and cheap food is a Bad Thing for Socialists. Go figure.
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Like way too many liberal edicts, it’s something that The Favored People can do that lets them feel good while escaping the worst of the consequences. The fact that it hurts less favored people much more is a feature, not a bug.
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Like most rainbow-unicorn ideologically driven solutions, it’s all about the daydream.
The thought-movie of gloriously technicolor “free range” chickens frolicking across hill and dale in the bright sunshine as happy music plays is too severe of a contrast with any visit to any actual food producing farm, so Things Must Change, and There Should Be A Law, and Find The Academic Experts – disregarding that the experts on how to raise chickens to consistently lay quality eggs, or alternately to be deep fried, are those people doing that now.
But that does not match the daydream.
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The terrible thing is, they even got studies to show that no, the chickens don’t like being free range or even cage free.
Their stress hormones go way up.
They like being in a fairly small group, without predators overhead, steady food and water, and not stressed enough by population to have a pecking order.
Outside, literally every shadow is “predator attack!” in a chicken brain.
And yes, this is where “stress free chicken” stickers come from.
It wasn’t good enough for the psychos.
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The loons are way too into anthropomorphizing everything. “I don’t like being penned in, so they must not, so they will be happier outside like dogs are, and like cows are, and …” After all, their back yard birds (if they have any) and the birds on the kiddy farm they visited decades ago seem so much happier outside!
Idiots. Total idiots.
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Suddenly, I’m flashing to the folks who thought that I must be utterly miserable reading a book or listening to the adults talk instead of being out playing with all the other kids.
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Hm. Sounds familiar.
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Exactly.
Or people addicted to gossip and idle chatter who pounce on you for their next fix on the grounds you look so lonely reading the book.
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“don’t study so hard.” …. I was reading a novel.
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When I was reading a book the house could have been on fire and I’d not notice, and the adults in my life at the time knew it, weren’t always happy about it but knew me.
Some of the conversations you hear sitting quietly off to the side with a book in hand, learn all sorts of family stories “not for the kids”.
Then my Dad busted me one time, just told me off to the side “not to be repeated”. Dang it, trusting me to do the adult thing just because I was asked and treated like an adult, now I have to not repeat. Such a dirty rotten parental trick.
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Back in the day they could tell if you were changing pages or not. These days not so much. OTOH now one of the adults in the conversations, not the kid hanging out on the fringes reading.
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There is a reason “bird brains” is an insult. Thus, in the spirit: “Bird Brains. Total Bird Brains.”
FIFY 😁
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What I know? Not only eggs and chicken meat gotten more expensive, here (I do know who to blame, and President Trump has not been in office long enough) but now I know why we are seeing more eagles, hawks, and owls … Just saying … The smaller feline (bobcats), canine (fox and coyote), and skunks, predators are probably getting a few too. After all pretty sure free range means missed eggs, and not all the chickens get rounded up at night for safe roosting, not with a large flock. Seeing black bear and cougar on neighborhood cameras too, but that is because no more bait hunting and no more hunting them with dogs.
Hey, might as well make it sporting for the local farmers … bring back the wolf and the grizzly to the Willamette Valley!!!! (What? I’m not suppose to give them ideas? You guys are no fun.)
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Hmm, I was sort-of watching the ABC local and network news at the hospital ER on Thursday. (lung issues. Whee. Hooked up for heart/O2-sat and Kindle was out of reach.) For peace of mind, I kept the sound off, but watched the video feed, again sort of.
The Medford station had a story about wol(f|ves) killing a couple of calfs, I believe Eastside. They showed a map with known wolf populations, and I think there’s now a whole bunch around. I’ve heard of some wolves in the SW counties, and I’m sure that sending a few or a dozen or so to Salem would be popular amongst the ranchers.
A few years ago, somebody did the S-S (2S, didn’t shovel) treatment on a problem wolf in the area. The ODFW was calling for somebody to point a finger at the shooter, but nobody saw nuthin’. I’m guessing that Mr. Wolfremover had his cellphone left at home.
Last I heard, the ranchers will (eventually, maybe) get some tax dollars as reimbursement for wolf predation, but heaven forbid they defend their herd with freedom seeds.
Haven’t heard of any non-black bears in the state. Yet. One assumes there might be contingency plans.
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My vague impression was that the wolf packs are resident (and unmolested by TPTB) in the R-voting counties. I wonder if they’re doing anything special to keep the wolves out of the blue.
Side note: some outdoor show was being promoted, and one of the attractions was “The Wild Wolves of Yellowstone”. They had a couple on the set, trained to stay (more or less) touching a square pad. Not that wild, apparently.
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Yes. Packs in Willowa/Blues and S. Oregon Cascades. But no where else that I’m aware of. One male was tracked into N. CA from one of the Willowa packs to find a female to start the S. Oregon pack (where she came from is unknown).
Some talk about relocating grizzlies from YNP/Teton greater ecological system into the N. Cascades NP area. With the (supposedly) hunting opening on Grizzlies in Montana/Wyoming, don’t know how that is going to go. No talk about relocating grizzlies to any other NP (Crater Lake, Rainer, *Yosemite, etc.) or wildernesses.
Re hunting grizzlies. OMG. Just having 399 hit on the highway south of GTNP, unknown status of her last (miricle) cub “Spirit”, is bad enough. Hear the out cry when a hunted bear is proven to be an offspring (will happen) or her daughter 610? Or the other “popular” sows in YNP? Bad enough when Wyoming Game takes out “problem” bears (so far just screaming, without major fining the cause).
(* Yes, exactly what the world needs … Black bears in Yosemite showing Grizzlies how to break into locked cars and RV’s …)
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Well, that could take care of the “only one person in the park who can get tourists out of locked bathrooms”. Might be a shock to the “lockee” as he/she realized that they’re invited
forto be dinner.(How in hell do you get yourself locked into a bathroom, anyway?)
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I rolled my eyes when that one was reported. Seriously? More like “locked out of”. Bathrooms are locked down when park areas are closed. When it comes to Yosemite that would be the high country areas. Valley bathrooms, with running water maybe locked because water is shutoff to prevent freezing. Even YNP the upper reaches bathrooms are locked out well into May or later. Lack of cleaning staff will cause facilities to get locked too. Which creates a whole different set of sanitary problems. Yes, one set of keys, or keys only available to certain category of park employees/volunteers, is ludicrous.
Also. All the screaming about NP employees being let go? Seriously? YNP, and other parks we’ve been to: Other than law enforcement and required positions (admins, etc.), few employees working at the park are paid park employees. Others are either volunteers (get seasonal camping spot with hookups, maybe, power, water, propane, for free. Which given 2 week/stay limit in all NP systems is not a bad perk.) Or concessionaire paid employees.
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“(Mailclerk)! I hear you know how to open doors?”
“Yes sir.”
“Come with me.”
“Yes sir”
“We lost the key. It’s probably in there. Open it.
“Lieutenant, we should send someone to S-2 to get the spare.”
“I don’t have time. Open that door, now.
“Sir, that’s a bad idea.”
“PFC, open that GD door!”
“Yes sir.” MIGHTY KICK! Smashes open door.
(LT boggles)
“I was told you knew how to pick locks….”
“Sir? No sir.”
“Why didnt… Never mind. Leave. I will … deal with this…)
(salute and skedadle)
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My day is now officially brighter.
Thank you!
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I’m quite sure the “I am still the darkness” meme is a rerun … but I had been hoping to see it again, so I’m fine with it.
Two Highlanders? Are you going to make me say the line?
And the closing meme was so good, people asked if I was doing a Meg Ryan impression. I have no idea why.
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Two Highlanders just haven’t reached the ‘final duel’ stage yet. I’m wondering what’s with the big bump in the over-200 groups.
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There can be only one, in each age bracket.
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it is a rerunner, but I LOVE IT.
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I don’t know about re-runs here, but I’ve seen a few of these some time ago…. doesn’t mean they don’t still have that KICK to them.
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Could be Vlad Dracul, and the Highlander.
I mean, you can’t logically mark the “death” field “Y” for an undead, now can you?
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I doubt even this will work:
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IIRC, the cat was already infected with an alien parasite.
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Aren’t all cats? The Reader thinks that would explain a lot.
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After twelve years, my dear Kitten (a completely indoor cat) have probably exchanged every disease vector each of us had without ill effects (probably some DNA as well from occasional cat bites). I do notice that when I get a cold, a few days later she is sneezing.
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Horizontal gene transfer, eh?
Do you find yourself with longer whiskers in the morning?
Do you mysteriously seem to see better in the dark?
Do you get cravings for raw tuna?
Does a length of yarn induce incomprehensible attacks of ADD?
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*Singing Gospel songs*
Cat did this alert-on-nothing-visible thing last night, I started praying, then I could hear the coyotes in the field over yonder … oh, heh
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A couple weeks back North Shore Ma (actually far southern ME for epicenter) had like a Richter 3.0 earthquake. Cat was dozing near me when he popped up and came to attention. Then there was a noise that I thought initially was a large 10 wheeler dump truck using it’s Jake brake in the near distance (low rumbly, verging on flatulent). When that passed he laid back down and went back to sleep.
If your cat does something like that pay attention. Their ears have better dynamic range than ours (especially if you are outside your 30’s) and hear an octave up from our best, their noses rival those of a bloodhound, their vibrassae (whiskers) pick up all sorts of vibrations. They seem to see different parts of the spectrum than us that include near UV, although in daytime high light they do have issues.
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Animals in general seem to be sensitive to earthquakes, and are aware of them before even the most alert human will notice anything out of the ordinary.
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Writers are a clever sort of lower life form. Trust me. I are one.
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Our previous border collie freaked out over an earthquake felt in the north SF bay area. Rough guess, 350 miles away. Haven’t had any sense-able local ones for a while, so not sure how Kat-the-dog reacts.
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Uh.
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This needs an image to go viral …
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday ordered the transfer of “1,500 staff out of its Washington headquarters, two sources familiar with the orders told Reuters.”
“Some 1,000 staff would be dispersed to field offices around the United States, with another 500 ordered to transfer to Huntsville, Alabama, the sources said, adding that the news was conveyed to employees at a Friday meeting.” (article at Reuters)
Is Pres. T staffing up the MCB at last?
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What’d Huntsville ever do to $SOMEONE, I wonder.
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There is a bomb squad school on Redstone.
Plus several Army logistics HQs. I forgetting whether Army Materiel Command has come down from Ft. Belvoir yet. And a research center that used to be second only to Silicon Valley.
I like Huntsville, but I keep saying that if there’s a better nuclear target in the region….
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That requires enemies to THINK. More likely, they will aim at LA and/or NYC and do us a (painful) favor.
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My guess is that they’re breaking up established teams and cliques within the organization. Sometimes when a company is a real mess (as the FBI undoubtedly is) the first thing is to isolate the troublemakers and remove established lines of authority. Once that’s done you can start identifying which employees you should keep and let go.
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For those horrified that there WERE that many FBI guys in DC…that’s about 1/5 of personnel noted to be in the DC are.
Hope this means they’re making Huntsville the new FBI headquarters….
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McMurdo Station, perhaps.
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I saw a comment that Huntsville is like Siberia to the Feebs.
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I can only hope. I didn’t send much time there, but what time I did, it was NICE and totally undeserving of evil Feebists.
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I wouldn’t be surprised– it looks like it’s a pretty big base, has over 500 admitted folks, but it’s got all kind of focus on development and networking.
Which makes the DC career guys scream and smoke like vampires in sunlight. ^.^
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Well yeah, never mind that it’s a scenic little city and it’s one of the most educated cities in the United States (full of literal rocket scientists), it’s ALABAMA. And no self-respecting bureaucrat would want to go to that icky icky South. It’s full of…icky Southerners.
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It amuses me SO MUCH to hear the “Alabama” stuff and then tell folks about how that’s where I met the “rocket scientists.” It’s been a while, but though didn’t talk of details (for obvious reason, and NOT just ox slow) I did speak with folks that did work on/for/with SDI.
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And the Rocket City trash Pandas!
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A relatively recent name (and transferred team..) I recall when Rocket City FurMeet was a going thing, they had a raccoon mascot in the print stuff… and “Jugular Jaguar” had Issues (an act, of course) with that and campaigned to for himself instead of the ‘trash pandas.”
If you’ve seen the picture of a bunch of folks in a pool and jagaur ‘suiter wading in toward them, with the words ‘HAY GUYS’ added… that was at RCFM. That was Jugular Jaguar, and the folks in the pool were pretty much the convention committee. I did NOT take that picture, but I was there.
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And Germans, although the German contingent is aging out.
You have to work a bit to find someone born and raised there.
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I don’t know. If you want irony in your diet, 39-odd years ago I was standing in line in a credit union in New Jersey behind two black guys. One announced, “I’ve been transferred to MICOM (Huntsville).”
The other guy: “You lucky so-and-so,” or words to that effect.
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Did Kash Patel order that on his first day on the job, or was it Somebody Else? Some sort of attempt to disperse the guilty and make them harder to track down?
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The reports I’m seeing cite a directive from Patel as the initiative for the moves. Also some AL congresscritters requested it of him. The Redstone Arsenal is being mentioned as the destination for the moves.
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Ha! And they delayed Patel’s confirmation until AFTER the severance offer ended! I bet some of them are regretting that right now.
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Your meme is a 70s RAID commercial.
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KILLS BUG(GER)S DEAD! ?
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C4C
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OK, now someone needs to do a music video for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” based on the “Turn around” meme.
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(Eastwood squints….)
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🐈
💖
👏👏👏
🐿️
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I showed pur son the one about retail sales and he agreed, the hissing is totally normal.
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I did two years in retail. I KNOW.
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I noticed an…interesting omission on Yahoo Finance Thursday. Sturm, Ruger & Co. (RGR) gained more than 13% but wasn’t listed under ‘Top Gainers’ while two stocks that gained 11% were listed. Hmmm…
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I particularly liked the one about the 9 year old and the pole dancer.
On the FBI, I wish Patel hadn’t renounced his plan to close the Hoover building and make it a museum. The way I put it is that you can tell everything you need to know from the name they have on their headquarters. It’s a bit like putting the Civil Rights division of DOJ in the Roger B. Taney building.
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Who would have thought that a bigoted, vain, venal, black mailing, power hungry, twerp would be one of the better heads of the FBI.
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On the seige engine meme, I thought May was a drink and December was a kind of wild ass/donkey. And now I will forever have difficulty taking those engines of destruction seriously no matter how effective they are.
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#7: “Is that the Clue Stick I’ve heard so much about? Beat some Leftroids with it and let’s find out!” :-D
That tear in the Matrix sure looks like it was made from the other side.
Even if Trump abolishes the IRS tomorrow, that won’t change last year’s tax laws. You still have to pay. :-(
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Don’t put money into Apple when it was a startup. Put the money in just before they brought back Steve Jobs and he had Jonathan Ive start in with the design elements. You know, right around the point when they were going to de-list Apple.
Heck, even 2001 was a good time for stock-buying, given how much it has split since then.
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Ask me why I hate Steve Jobs.
I worked for Apple/Claris in the 90’s. New employees got 1000 shares in options that vested in thirds over the next three years. When I got hired, the stock was in the 30’s, then tanked, and stayed underwater the whole four and a half years I was there.
A few times they offered to re-strike the options, with a requirement to re-vest over another three years. But they were bad deals, reducing the number of shares. Then Jobs came back, bragging that he didn’t own any Apple stock.
We finally got a 1:1 re-strike offer, at $12.25/share. (We also got the promise that the next version of ClarisWorks would allow a complete re-write). Everyone jumped at the deal. Six months later Jobs killed Claris, spun off Filemaker into its own company and renamed ClarisWorks AppleWorks and brought it back in house. He laid off over 600 of us.
I’m sure that plan had been in the works for a while, and that the good re-strike offer was part of it, since everyone who took it and got fired lost out entirely.
Since then there was a 2:1 split, and a 7:1 split. And at its peak, AAPL was doing around $700 a share. So 14,000 shares at $700…. Jobs cheated me out of almost $10 Million. (Damn, I used to tell it at $3 Mil, but I just re-did the math here.)
So, that’s why I hate Steve Jobs.
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We never had Apple stock. I bailed on Apple, the company when they abandoned the Apple IIe, no way to upgrade the little desktop, for the Mac. Sure few laptops or tablets can be upgraded, and few desktop machines are either (unless planned to be … son did with his). But still, back then, it was a presumption that the format wouldn’t be “abandoned”. We have had IBM stock. When it dropped, hubby bought more. Then it split, doubled, and split some more. Finally it all got called away through covered calls.
The company I worked for ’96 – ’99, until it got bought out, I had stock options, plus hubby bought some just because I worked there (no insider trading here. I had no company secrets. Unless you count that “I was working there!” Hint – huge “doubt it”.) Did really well. Three years vested, so 2/3rd’s paid when company bought out, then 1/3 for the next two years. Even though the new company was sliding into bankruptcy, by that 5th (for me) year. They had to pay. I told hubby he was absolutely to not, I repeat NOT buy the new company stock. Also declined to participate in employee stock discounted purchase plan (which I did not tell hubby about). The employees who did indulge, lost that money. Again, he had no insider information. I told him that immediately upon the two companies merging, well before signs of bankruptcy.
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So many people in that era got rich from stock options. Not me.
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Did not get rich. Not in the way you are alluding to.
Did better than some longer term employees, whose hiring timing was “less better”. While not chump change, also wasn’t in the 6 figure, or higher, categories.
Did as well with the IP stock, which were not stock options. Just required to buy in 401(k) to get company matching percentage (in stock. Still allowed early ’90s.) We had the IP stock in my IRA rollover for couple of decades before the stock was finally called out (hubby sells covered calls, if stock isn’t called away, then resells more calls. Makes money on calls, dividends if stock isn’t called away, and when stock is called away at the call price which is a guarantied percentage cost increase. Three wins, for us. Not the way to make a fortune, but is a way to meet or beat the stock market average.)
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April 2001 would have been a wonderful time to buy a ton of AAPL and AMZN stock.
I’ve thought for a while that the SEC must have a time-travel identification unit buried somewhere that just looks for those too prescient stock trades.
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It’s my birthday this coming week. But don’t send me felicitations, please – I have decided to officially change it to October. Trebuchets are WAY cooler!
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Happy un-birthday.
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I’ll settle for the Greek Fire. Napalmolive* FTW!
((*)) h/t Firesign Theater.
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At least your device doesn’t have a history of “FAILED”….
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On the “happy warrior” topic, anyone care to recommend webcomics?
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Yes. Yes, I would. (I’m only linking the harder-to-find stuff to avoid offending WordPress.)
Gunnerkrigg Court — Science fantasy webcomic set at a mysterious English boarding school. Excellent characters, one of the best long-form mysteries I’ve seen, and a story that ranges from goofy to heartrending. Art starts rough but improves rapidly. Ongoing since 2005, but seems to be heading towards the finale.
Lackadaisy — Crime drama webcomic set at a failing speakeasy in Prohibition-era St. Louis. One story that unfolds slowly over the course of a few days, as the owner of the speakeasy and her last few loyal employees try to keep the place afloat. Art starts out decent and becomes sublime. Ongoing, but slow to update. Last I checked, it was on semi-hiatus while the creator worked on an animated adaptation.
Problem Sleuth — Ridiculous comedy webcomic that starts as a parody of old-school point-and-click adventure games and escalates from there. Stylized as a video game where reader suggestions govern what the characters do. Expect late-2000s Internet humor, some cartoon gore, lo-fi graphics, elaborately animated GIFs, and lots of silliness. Complete.
Rice Boy — Epic fantasy webcomic about a humble civilian who learns he’s the Chosen One of legend, sending him far from home on a lengthy journey. Colorful, imaginative world with no humans, some cool designs, and a bit of mystery to it. Fairly serious tone, though, with darker themes than you’d expect. Complete.
Kill Six Billion Demons — Dark epic fantasy webcomic about a girl whisked away to a multiversal hub city ruled over by merciless demigods and criminals. Very gory and cynical, but incredibly detailed art and world-building, with top-notch action and a sprawling plot. One of the most thought-provoking settings I’ve ever seen. Ongoing, but heading into the final arc.
Ava’s Demon — Dark science fantasy webcomic about a depressed teenage girl who is the reluctant host for the exiled spirit of a demonic, galactic warlord who wants to reunite her crew and overthrow the church/business/empire/cult that beat her. Gorgeous painted art style with an interesting sci-fi story. Angsty characters, though, and the story goes to some dark places, including some very explicit violence. Ongoing, last I checked.
minus — Surreal fantasy comedy webcomic about a little girl with the power to alter reality. Generally upbeat, with a cute art style and a playful sense of humor, but there’s a fair bit of existential dread mixed in there too. Mostly standalone gags, but it develops into a running story towards the end. Complete. It’s a short run, and the link is to a rehost.
There’s a bunch more where that came from. If you’ve got a specific genre in mind, I might be able to recommend something more targeted.
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Could someone fish my comment out of the spam trap? I kept it to two links, but WordPress still didn’t like it. Thanks.
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WordPress (Delenda Est) will let you put one link in, but the second (unless obsfuscated, such as “foobar dot com” will land you in moderation.
Unless WP just ate it.
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Done.
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Could you fish mine out, too?
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did
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thank you!
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(Okay, let’s try this again. Part 1:)
Gunnerkrigg Court — Science fantasy webcomic set at a mysterious English boarding school. Excellent characters, one of the best long-form mysteries I’ve seen, and a story that ranges from goofy to heartrending. Art starts rough but improves rapidly. Ongoing since 2005, but seems to be heading towards the finale.
Lackadaisy — Crime drama webcomic set at a failing speakeasy in Prohibition-era St. Louis. One story that unfolds slowly over the course of a few days, as the owner of the speakeasy and her last few loyal employees try to keep the place afloat. Art starts out decent and becomes sublime. Ongoing, but slow to update. Last I checked, it was on semi-hiatus while the creator worked on an animated adaptation.
Problem Sleuth — Ridiculous comedy webcomic that starts as a parody of old-school point-and-click adventure games and escalates from there. Stylized as a video game where reader suggestions govern what the characters do. Expect late-2000s Internet humor, some cartoon gore, lo-fi graphics, elaborately animated GIFs, and lots of silliness. Complete.
Rice Boy — Epic fantasy webcomic about a humble civilian who learns he’s the Chosen One of legend, sending him far from home on a lengthy journey. Colorful, imaginative world with no humans, some cool designs, and a bit of mystery to it. Fairly serious tone, though, with darker themes than you’d expect. Complete.
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(Part 2:)
Kill Six Billion Demons — Dark epic fantasy webcomic about a girl whisked away to a multiversal hub city ruled over by merciless demigods and criminals. Very gory and cynical, but incredibly detailed art and world-building, with top-notch action and a sprawling plot. One of the most thought-provoking settings I’ve ever seen. Ongoing, but heading into the final arc.
Ava’s Demon — Dark science fantasy webcomic about a depressed teenage girl who is the reluctant host for the exiled spirit of a demonic, galactic warlord who wants to reunite her crew and overthrow the church/business/empire/cult that beat her. Gorgeous painted art style with an interesting sci-fi story. Angsty characters, though, and the story goes to some dark places, including some very explicit violence. Ongoing, last I checked.
minus — Surreal fantasy comedy webcomic about a little girl with the power to alter reality. Generally upbeat, with a cute art style and a playful sense of humor, but there’s a fair bit of existential dread mixed in there too. Mostly standalone gags, but it develops into a running story towards the end. Complete. It’s a short run, and the link is to a rehost.
Sam & Fuzzy — Comedy adventure about a college dropout and his sociopathic talking bear best friend. Starts as a gag-a-day comic, then evolves into a sprawling plot about the Ninja Mafia, a talking refrigerator, a shady record company, and an underground world of mythical creatures and hidden conspiracies. The main story is complete, but the site continues to update with variety content, mostly in the same universe. This is sort of a “read casually until you get attached to the characters” kind of comic.
There’s a bunch more where that came from. If you’ve got a specific genre in mind, I might be able to recommend something more targeted. I only included links for the stuff that’s hard to find, but I can dig up the others if needed.
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Much thanks!
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Hmmm. With an eye toward the range of viewers this comment may have. . . .
Order of the Stick RPG comedy
Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius high-octane gaslamp fantasy adventure
The Whiteboard — starts with anthromorphic polar bear owning a paintball store
The Property of Hate — very odd-ball adventure
Punderworld: Persephone/Hades romance
Rusty & Co: RPG comedy
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Black Cats are Best Cats.
But that “We are not the same” meme is pure Brandon Herrera bait.
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When they picked the siege engines, someone must have known mine was Feb 1st. 😁
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We all thought it was drugs that made all those artists do the cartoons from the thirties and forties okay fifties too. But no, it was life and some dude’s mom catching a hawk diving at chickens. I swear I saw that cartoon… Once again, Life does not imitate Art, Art imitates Life, and the dudes Mom.
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The most trippy stuff is made by people who never touched drugs. Steve Ditko’s renderings of all the magical realms Dr. Strange traveled through, e.g.
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I was born in November, making my birth siege engine the springald.
So don’t torque me off. ;-)
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I have a serious problem with the compliance meme.
If a cop tells me to get down, I don’t know how to comply. I don’t know the first thing about disco dancing.
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Album, definitely.
Retail: Accurate.
Hot tub sniping. Just keep the spent brass out of the water….
Ooo, ballista!
So many kitties. D’aww.
Highlighter’s gonna run out….
Yes. So mad about that. Need the paycheck!
…I’m beginning to wonder exactly that about the fraud and budget. Elimintating it sure seems like it’ll go a long way!
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I forget if it was Emo Phillips or another, who quipped that he didn’t do well in one class. He made the mistake of using a black highlighter.
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I nearly died over the XBox kid. He’s gonna be fine
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I nearly died over the XBox kid. He’s gonna be fine
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IIRC, Sarah has commented several times on how in the 60s and 70s Portugese TV stations, during times of imminent governmental crisis, would start airing “Green Acres” continuously. Well, this morning hubby and I were watching some comedy movies on Tubi — “Grumpy Old Men” followed by “Grumpier Old Men” — when the next video that automatically popped up in the queue was the pilot episode of “Green Acres”. Then after that came the 2nd episode, and the third, and before we knew it we’d been binge watching “Green Acres” all morning long. I hope this isn’t some ominous portent…..
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