Soooo… the incubator snuck into the house, plugged itself in, loaded itself with eggs, and then opened its lid when they hatched. Riiiiiight. I’m having just a teensy little problem with my suspension of disbelief here. 😛
Or are you saying you didn’t know what would happen after you loaded up the incubator? Still on you. 😄
Well, if guns can be held responsible, and knives can be held responsible, then I can argue that an incubator can choose the eggs, load itself, and hatch the floofs.
I thus end up with chicks in my kitchen, no fault of my own, and chicken math has absolutely nothing to do with it.
What I’ve never been able to figure out is, why do all those Eeevul guns have to travel all the way to some Democrat-ruled city to kill people? Wouldn’t it be more convenient to just kill folks in the benighted Red districts where guns aren’t banned?
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Tank? I’d be glad for a gas can that isn’t designed to leak at the spout because “safety.”
[Covid Jab syringe] “Good Morning Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea.”
Froggie with sword? Obviously not the courting kind – no pistol.
Pluto got carded and was found to be a minor planet.
What’s cool is when the Moon is visible from Earth during the day.
Muslims are not cannibals. They’re rapists, murderers, slavers, and all-around destroyers of civilization, but not cannibals. Human flesh isn’t halal.
“As if” socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain? “As if”?
If cow farts doom the world, then the 60 million bison in North America c. 1800 must have been a huge ecological disaster too. Good thing we took care of that.
“If all the tax money that was taken from me was spent on far away wars, or thrown into the sea, or spent on wine, women and song for the leading politicians, I would be considerably better off.” – quote from the internet.
“No Kings, just the General Secretary of the Party.”
Lifetime Senators aren’t the real problem. Lifetime civil service bureaucrats are the real problem. Bring back the spoils system!
Funny how leftists argument steps resemble holocaust denier arguments.
You shouldn’t hand out guns to trick-or-treaters. You should hand out boxes of .22LR. It’s a kids holiday!
All taxes are evil. Taxes imposes for ‘social engineering’ reasons, rather than to raise government revenue, are extra-evil. What the tax is on is less important than how high the tax rate is.
Huh; it occurs to be that if the utilities aren’t secure, there will be cyber attacks here during the next war.
Yeah, since there already are ongoing attacks on utility infrastructure traced to the PLA hacker units, that’s a given. The plus is they have IT folks who are fairly experienced at this point at detection and containing intrusions. The downside is there’s still a lot of really old control hardware with sketchy and old connectivity. Fun times, fun times.
THere’s a joke that goes “If you were Muslim, you could eat your own daughter after you tired of using her for intercourse? Islam really is the light.”
In the lightbringer sense.
There’s another obnoxious joke. “Are you sure you are allowed to teach us about Islam, I don’t think you are an ordained Unitarian?”
“Lifetime Senators aren’t the real problem. Lifetime civil service bureaucrats are the real problem. Bring back the spoils system!”
Also institute ‘proof of life/mental competence’ for those folks! DC’s Eleanor Norton, 88 year old non-voting rep, being reported as in early dementia sufferer.
I had an uncle who lived in NW Indiana (Chicago in everything but name) who told me he always voted for incumbents. He figured they already had their graft, and wouldn’t gouge so deeply as a new guy would.
Raccoon with a crowbar gives me a visual for my Imp of the Perverse – that’s the source of the little voice in your head that, as you look out over a long drop, whispers ‘I wonder what it would be like to jump …’
Pluto got carded and was found to be a minor planet.
But that means it will eventually become a major planet. And we won’t know it until after it happens because of speed of light limitations. So we should just call it a major planet now – it will catch up soon.
Re. the buffalo. I heard the “rebuttal” to the “but they are cattle, and they release methane, yes?” point. The reply was, in essence, “They only ate grass, so they didn’t emit as much. Feeding cattle grain makes them gassy, and bad for the planet.”
SIGH. Something about arguing with a true believer …
This folds into their calculations of “how much does it take to feed a cow” that are based off of the finishing weeks for some beef cattle– which is very short term, and very intense, exactly to get more fat and more tender results.
So the buffalo have zero impact but beef cows grazing under pine trees (which process more carbon than grass does) for nine months of the year are maaaagically feedlot level impact, forever and always.
Actually, grain is easier to digest and doesn’t have to be fermented, so cows fed grain will produce less methane than cows going through the full cycle of grass digestion.
There I go again, trying to confuse Leftroids with facts…
I definitely recall something from my long ago lower division organic chemistry class about carbon atoms not being allowed to spontaneously manifesting in any chemical reaction. I guess there’s an “in a cow” waiver for that chemistry locale.
As I recall, German toilets have a little shelf in the water-pool. I thought it was strange, but was told that (in the day, they said) it was considered important for the shitter to inspect the shit. Something about worms, presumably from funky pork.
For years, the fabulously beautiful planet of Bethselamin increased its booming tourist industry without any worries at all. Alas, as is often the case, this was an act of utter stupidity, as it led to a colossal cumulative erosion problem. Of course, what else could one expect with ten billion tourists per annum? Thus today the net balance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave; so every time you go to the lavatory there, it is vitally important to get a receipt.
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
…so the poopcam is just for documentation and accounting audit purposes.
There’s a class of people for whom they should be mandatory!
You see, it’s about the closing credits after movies. Aside from the joy of contemplating a list of the names brought together in making the movie–given the first- and last names, when and where was it made? Is Airton Ditz still the Best Name? (This is, perhaps, a niche activity.)–a movie takes you on a two hour trip to another world. Well-crafted credits with a well-chosen score provide a few minutes to savor that place, and to decompress on the way back.
Those eyeshade-wearing weasels? the ones in charge of your home screen? the ones who–on “premium” channels, mind–run the closing credits as the director intended them for the first five #%^! seconds, then crash in with a clashing-toned trailer 10dB louder for some other movie? …then, often as not, after the intruding trailer achieves completion and withdraws, the credits just march back in front of everybody, game face on, finishing their number like that hadn’t just happened.
Those weasels get that bed. Under brutal penalty of law they are forbidden to sleep anywhere else. It monitors their sleep. It watches their brainwaves, and the very instant they wake up…
For movie music fans that closing credits composition is often the best musical piece in the whole shebang, as the composer can finally stretch his composing legs without having to match beats up to actors doing things on screen. The closing credits music for Star Trek: First Contact gets played all the time on the classical station I listen to when they want Trek movie music, as it actually scans as musical.
Chopping the end credits off to run ads is sacrilege.
Yes! Credit-crunching, chopping out “unneeded” Easter Eggs and sight-gags, speeding the whole thing up a few percent to cram in wun! moar! cmershl!… remember that old Book*? It says stuff like Don’t Be That Guy who spends extra to make sure he’s harvesting Every Last Grape.
I have an old copy somewhere (I hope! on VHS, I think) of the old Disney film “Almost Angels” uncut and without commercials. A just-OK pre-evil-Disney plot, it stands out because a couple of times, at least, they let a boys’ choir perform whole pieces, beginning to end, three whole minutes or even four, without cutting away to a car chase or mob hit even once!
It’s up there with Blazing Saddles on the “they couldn’t make it that good today” list.
*Big thick book, but a famous Rabbi boiled it down to “Love God and don’t be a dick.” You wouldn’t think there’d be so much pushback.
Let sleeping dragons lie, until after the coffee maker beeps.
You know why you only serve young dragons coffee in bed? Because with older dragons like Smaug, it’s impossible to carry a cup up the side of that damn hoard without slipping and spilling it.
You mean normal people don’t have a strategic coffee reserve? I thought everybody had a strategic coffee reserve. Except I can’t drink coffee anymore, so I don’t. But everybody else should! For world peace reasons.
All percentile income taxation would be sparkling tax farming.
People who have leverage for higher income have leverage to adjust their income in response to taxation, and the people least able are the poor. Higher tax brackets and corporate taxes change the point at which costs are accounted for, but those wind up hitting the poor.
The loan fraud situation, perhaps only from 2010ish to 2025, likewise contributing to the offsetting of the alleged good of tax receipts spent on programs to ‘help the poor’, by employing degreed individuals who were perhaps mediocre examples of students. (Frankly, with the environmental regs causing entire industries worth of ‘squid farms on mars’ missing opportunities, good students could have a hard time finding real work. But federal jobs programs would have the consequence of preventing the churns that lead to actual growth.)
The first black Presidential candidate was Frederick Douglass in 1888. In the end, Benjamin Harrison won the nomination, and the election, but Douglass was in the Republican primary. We sure have gone downhill in 120 years, from Frederick Douglass to Barry The Empty Suit.
I say it a little differently: “There is but one greater sin than to be right when those in authority are wrong — proving it.”
The moon is not visible for about 5 days every month because it’s lined up close to the sun and hidden by a combination of glare and Rayleigh scattering.
The ‘Game Of Thrones’ character should be…unfinished. 😛
Of course the ‘Fat Positivity’ professor taught at Massey U! 😄
That’s a low railroad bridge. Just wait till a train goes over it after you’ve weakened it by running into it. 😮
Is a fifteen foot bridge low somewhere, for reals? Meanwhile, the 11foot-8inch bridge got updated a few years ago to Raleigh Peace St. standard, 12ft, 4inches.
Is a fifteen foot bridge low somewhere, for reals?
If some pointy-haired boss of a loading supervisor or driver wants to squeeze in as much cubage as the truck engine will pull, yep. Space per trip is Ghod.
A function in the app under ‘settings – route options’ with a new selection ‘vehicle height’ which a height can be chosen that allows maps to avoid parts of roads with low bridges, etc.
It’s been there since 2024. There are also commercial vehicle apps that will plot directions taking that into account. All they have to do is, you know, use them….🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬
Go to any RV FB page. There are popular apps for RV routes that route around not only low obstructions like bridges or tunnels, but close down roads that are forbidden due to height, length, and sometimes width. Ex: Glacier Highway to the Sun, Hwy 242 Oregon – Old McKenzie Hwy, Teton Pass, Bear Tooth Pass, etc. Most the roads get the stupid caught causing traffic problems, which once unsnarled by professionals and authorities result in massive fines for ignoring the prohibitions, on top of damages to their expensive setups.
Some, Teton Pass, too often, result in death for driver and passengers. Teton Pass has had at least 3 RV, motorhomes, truck/trailer-or-5th-wheel combos, accidents that were deadly just in 2025. The accidents were not weather related. Teton Pass has semi traps in a multiple locations on the steep downgrades. RV drivers aren’t taught to use those. Teton Pass it is “not recommended”, doable, but don’t, just don’t. We accidentally took Teton Pass out of Jackson/Wilson once towing the oldest trailer (using paper map back then, no warnings back then). We handled it fine. But traffic behind us was not happy. Uphill sections there were either passing lanes, or locations to pull over -ish, without actually stopping (not going “fast” uphill), to let traffic build up past. But down hill sections there weren’t. Going too fast on the downhill sections are the dangerous parts, causing accidents, and kills.
Bird flu not only kills non-chicken birds, the current nasty strain been a known issue among bird watchers since at least 2021, when I asked folks why the bird feeder wasn’t where it had been in ’19 and they explained it was a transmission vector, so now they were broadcasting seeds.
Beyond that, it’s mind bogglingly easy to check from even casual exposure, such as looking at Iowa announcements where most of the infected flocks are mixed.
Turkeys made the news, too.
And they get infected via wild birds.
Just some species can live longer than others while infected.
But it’s super handy for folks who want to kill off chickens, and pretend the Dem pushed laws haven’t resulted in massively higher infection rates.
Where we are the wild turkeys, which infect suburbs and city blocks, not just rural, the turkeys cannot be harassed, or *culled out of season. Cannot be culled in season anywhere other than rural, and the birds know that.
I’m sure glad I can consider Canadian Geese nuisances in certain circumstances and can harass them. I need to set up a slingshot target in my backyard, though.
I would never admit to using a pellet gun to take a turkey with a nearly silent headshot. Nope. That would be poaching. Never mind that I can just about reach outside the door and grab one by the neck.
Right now, Germany’s dealing with a strain of bird flu (“Vogelgrippe”)they think – testing still ongoing) that has caused the death of over a thousand cranes and other large, migratory birds. They are very concerned, and rightly so, about infections spreading to non-migratory and domestic fowl.
King Henry V: What’s he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: If we are mark’d to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour As one man more, methinks, would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man’s company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’ Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’ Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he’ll remember with advantages What feats he did that day: then shall our names. Familiar in his mouth as household words Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
My favorite diagnostic level of crazy is “Loses Argument With Self”. I think it fits between #3 and #4. I consider any level of crazy below that to be benign.
The Reader had a habit of talking to himself while walking the (very long) halls of the complex he worked in. When nearby folks would comment, he’d tell them not to worry unless they heard him losing an argument. Most all the self conversation was technical.
The Bayeux tapestry has some threads of truth in it.
Killing them with kindness brings to mind a line from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash – “They’ll listen to Reason.” Reason was, of course, some kind of mini-railgun.
I wouldn’t inflict a Hi-Point on some innocent Trick or Treater. I might keep an unpapered one around in case someone broke into my place. (No, not really.)
Oh, the cat was definitely looking at the painter. The story’s embroidered…. Cackles No you can’t… I have seen a garbage truck bent by a similar bridge. Bent.
Four months? An amateur procrastinator! In February of this year I finally stitched together the two sides and batting of my first ever quilt, then knotted it. The outsides consist of 90 large squares of calico prints that my son and I had pieced together earlier. How much earlier? The machine-embroidered date block reads “~~~’s Quilt 8-88”.
Just left reviews for “No Man’s Land” on Amazon for all 3 volumes. 10 out 5 stars if they’d let me. One story I’ll be re-reading, because no matter how slow I tried to read, I know I read too fast and missed something. Switching between laptop and phone Kindle helps because end up re-reading sections because the page balancing between the two mediums is not perfect. Usually irritating. Not with these books. Number of places where I teared up.
According To Hoyt 
And she’s back!
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3 minute task: I got the chickens out of my kitchen! More like 30 minutes, but it’s been 3 years, so I insist it counts.
(I have chick-proofed my house, but somehow they still get in. [Staring suspiciously at the incubator, waiting for it to mess up my clean kitchen])
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If you brought the incubator in the house, the chickens in the kitchen are your own fault. 😛
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Nope. Incubator hatched them with no help from me. I can’t be held responsible for the actions of an inanimate object.
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Soooo… the incubator snuck into the house, plugged itself in, loaded itself with eggs, and then opened its lid when they hatched. Riiiiiight. I’m having just a teensy little problem with my suspension of disbelief here. 😛
Or are you saying you didn’t know what would happen after you loaded up the incubator? Still on you. 😄
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Well, if guns can be held responsible, and knives can be held responsible, then I can argue that an incubator can choose the eggs, load itself, and hatch the floofs.
I thus end up with chicks in my kitchen, no fault of my own, and chicken math has absolutely nothing to do with it.
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What I’ve never been able to figure out is, why do all those Eeevul guns have to travel all the way to some Democrat-ruled city to kill people? Wouldn’t it be more convenient to just kill folks in the benighted Red districts where guns aren’t banned?
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And they’re floofy.
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Tank? I’d be glad for a gas can that isn’t designed to leak at the spout because “safety.”
[Covid Jab syringe] “Good Morning Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea.”
Froggie with sword? Obviously not the courting kind – no pistol.
Pluto got carded and was found to be a minor planet.
What’s cool is when the Moon is visible from Earth during the day.
Muslims are not cannibals. They’re rapists, murderers, slavers, and all-around destroyers of civilization, but not cannibals. Human flesh isn’t halal.
“As if” socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain? “As if”?
If cow farts doom the world, then the 60 million bison in North America c. 1800 must have been a huge ecological disaster too. Good thing we took care of that.
“If all the tax money that was taken from me was spent on far away wars, or thrown into the sea, or spent on wine, women and song for the leading politicians, I would be considerably better off.” – quote from the internet.
“No Kings, just the General Secretary of the Party.”
Lifetime Senators aren’t the real problem. Lifetime civil service bureaucrats are the real problem. Bring back the spoils system!
Funny how leftists argument steps resemble holocaust denier arguments.
You shouldn’t hand out guns to trick-or-treaters. You should hand out boxes of .22LR. It’s a kids holiday!
All taxes are evil.
Taxes imposes for ‘social engineering’ reasons, rather than to raise government revenue, are extra-evil.
What the tax is on is less important than how high the tax rate is.
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Cool fact. You can’t drink alcohol on Pluto. It’s frozen.
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Sure you can, you just have to thaw it. See Fritz Leiber’s “A Pail of Air”.
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That’s not cool, that’s cold.
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I prefer—by far—that all our wars be fought overseas.
Huh; it occurs to be that if the utilities aren’t secure, there will be cyber attacks here during the next war.
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Yeah, since there already are ongoing attacks on utility infrastructure traced to the PLA hacker units, that’s a given. The plus is they have IT folks who are fairly experienced at this point at detection and containing intrusions. The downside is there’s still a lot of really old control hardware with sketchy and old connectivity. Fun times, fun times.
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Actually, it is permitted if you are hungry, doing important jihad, etc.
You can also eat animals whom you have previously graped, in similar circumstances.
Also you can sleep with your own daughter if she is a slave.
Pretty much everything is permitted if you really want to do it, and you are an adult male Muslim.
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THere’s a joke that goes “If you were Muslim, you could eat your own daughter after you tired of using her for intercourse? Islam really is the light.”
In the lightbringer sense.
There’s another obnoxious joke. “Are you sure you are allowed to teach us about Islam, I don’t think you are an ordained Unitarian?”
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“Lifetime Senators aren’t the real problem. Lifetime civil service bureaucrats are the real problem. Bring back the spoils system!”
Also institute ‘proof of life/mental competence’ for those folks! DC’s Eleanor Norton, 88 year old non-voting rep, being reported as in early dementia sufferer.
I had an uncle who lived in NW Indiana (Chicago in everything but name) who told me he always voted for incumbents. He figured they already had their graft, and wouldn’t gouge so deeply as a new guy would.
Raccoon with a crowbar gives me a visual for my Imp of the Perverse – that’s the source of the little voice in your head that, as you look out over a long drop, whispers ‘I wonder what it would be like to jump …’
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I can see what sort of abuse they would make of “mental competence” already.
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Pluto got carded and was found to be a minor planet.
But that means it will eventually become a major planet. And we won’t know it until after it happens because of speed of light limitations. So we should just call it a major planet now – it will catch up soon.
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Pluto being a minor, all records are sealed.
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Re. the buffalo. I heard the “rebuttal” to the “but they are cattle, and they release methane, yes?” point. The reply was, in essence, “They only ate grass, so they didn’t emit as much. Feeding cattle grain makes them gassy, and bad for the planet.”
SIGH. Something about arguing with a true believer …
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This folds into their calculations of “how much does it take to feed a cow” that are based off of the finishing weeks for some beef cattle– which is very short term, and very intense, exactly to get more fat and more tender results.
So the buffalo have zero impact but beef cows grazing under pine trees (which process more carbon than grass does) for nine months of the year are maaaagically feedlot level impact, forever and always.
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Actually, grain is easier to digest and doesn’t have to be fermented, so cows fed grain will produce less methane than cows going through the full cycle of grass digestion.
There I go again, trying to confuse Leftroids with facts…
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I definitely recall something from my long ago lower division organic chemistry class about carbon atoms not being allowed to spontaneously manifesting in any chemical reaction. I guess there’s an “in a cow” waiver for that chemistry locale.
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President Trump, Vance, and Elon shoukd dress up as the three kings fir Halloween.
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I must like this comment, because it needs to happen.
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Stolen from AoS. Making a little note…
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It’s the three parts, so tricking the system to not sabotage the links.
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Yep. That’s messed up, not gonna lie. Needed to be shared with like minded crazy people for teh lols.
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Oh, you just THINK you’ve seen messed up. I put this in Interesting Links, but it needs a wider audience:
The Internet of Things has jumped the Grand Canyon with AI in the sidecar.
The timestamp should bring up the segment.
“Oh, Kohler, NO!”
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Shit!
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As I recall, German toilets have a little shelf in the water-pool. I thought it was strange, but was told that (in the day, they said) it was considered important for the shitter to inspect the shit. Something about worms, presumably from funky pork.
[Narrator voice: that is not the Diet of Wurms.]
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if it was like most legislative bodies, it’s subjects could probably see a resemblance….
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That’s just the setup. The shit tax will be the punch line. 😡
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…so the poopcam is just for documentation and accounting audit purposes.
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I’d say beds like that should be against the law!
But then who wants the government in our bedrooms?
Not me. And really, if you are the kind of person who has more money than sense, no government can save you.
You probably also have a fridge that won’t open because the internet is down too.
I guess you will just have to Door Dash because the internet is down….
OH, wait!
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There’s a class of people for whom they should be mandatory!
You see, it’s about the closing credits after movies. Aside from the joy of contemplating a list of the names brought together in making the movie–given the first- and last names, when and where was it made? Is Airton Ditz still the Best Name? (This is, perhaps, a niche activity.)–a movie takes you on a two hour trip to another world. Well-crafted credits with a well-chosen score provide a few minutes to savor that place, and to decompress on the way back.
Those eyeshade-wearing weasels? the ones in charge of your home screen? the ones who–on “premium” channels, mind–run the closing credits as the director intended them for the first five #%^! seconds, then crash in with a clashing-toned trailer 10dB louder for some other movie? …then, often as not, after the intruding trailer achieves completion and withdraws, the credits just march back in front of everybody, game face on, finishing their number like that hadn’t just happened.
Those weasels get that bed. Under brutal penalty of law they are forbidden to sleep anywhere else. It monitors their sleep. It watches their brainwaves, and the very instant they wake up…
…it dumps them into the ice bath.
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For movie music fans that closing credits composition is often the best musical piece in the whole shebang, as the composer can finally stretch his composing legs without having to match beats up to actors doing things on screen. The closing credits music for Star Trek: First Contact gets played all the time on the classical station I listen to when they want Trek movie music, as it actually scans as musical.
Chopping the end credits off to run ads is sacrilege.
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Yes! Credit-crunching, chopping out “unneeded” Easter Eggs and sight-gags, speeding the whole thing up a few percent to cram in wun! moar! cmershl!… remember that old Book*? It says stuff like Don’t Be That Guy who spends extra to make sure he’s harvesting Every Last Grape.
I have an old copy somewhere (I hope! on VHS, I think) of the old Disney film “Almost Angels” uncut and without commercials. A just-OK pre-evil-Disney plot, it stands out because a couple of times, at least, they let a boys’ choir perform whole pieces, beginning to end, three whole minutes or even four, without cutting away to a car chase or mob hit even once!
It’s up there with Blazing Saddles on the “they couldn’t make it that good today” list.
*Big thick book, but a famous Rabbi boiled it down to “Love God and don’t be a dick.” You wouldn’t think there’d be so much pushback.
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Dan Lane? THAT Dan Lane?
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I didn’t do it, and even if I did nobody saw me do it, and even if they did it wasn’t me, and even if it was me I have an alibi or three. Dozen.
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You and the fuzzies were visiting. We had a writers’ meeting.
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I wondered where the extra chapters came from. And the cat toys.
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Q: What’s more dangerous than an angry dragon?
A: A dragon who hasn’t had his coffee.
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Let sleeping dragons lie, until after the coffee maker beeps.
You know why you only serve young dragons coffee in bed? Because with older dragons like Smaug, it’s impossible to carry a cup up the side of that damn hoard without slipping and spilling it.
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Try providing wake up coffee to the First Sergeant in the field.
Better a dragon on his pile than the 1SG in his hooch.
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Oooo A dragon with piles. Nasty.
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Saw this somewhere on the ‘net, but here’s AP’s take:
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-climate-change-drought-coffee-harvest-a6516a4b314e6ba7c11513c08afb6996
TL;DR, stock upl.
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You mean normal people don’t have a strategic coffee reserve? I thought everybody had a strategic coffee reserve. Except I can’t drink coffee anymore, so I don’t. But everybody else should! For world peace reasons.
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That last one though—oof.
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Akshully, progressive income taxation isn’t.
All percentile income taxation would be sparkling tax farming.
People who have leverage for higher income have leverage to adjust their income in response to taxation, and the people least able are the poor. Higher tax brackets and corporate taxes change the point at which costs are accounted for, but those wind up hitting the poor.
The loan fraud situation, perhaps only from 2010ish to 2025, likewise contributing to the offsetting of the alleged good of tax receipts spent on programs to ‘help the poor’, by employing degreed individuals who were perhaps mediocre examples of students. (Frankly, with the environmental regs causing entire industries worth of ‘squid farms on mars’ missing opportunities, good students could have a hard time finding real work. But federal jobs programs would have the consequence of preventing the churns that lead to actual growth.)
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SFBS!
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Agree!
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The first black Presidential candidate was Frederick Douglass in 1888. In the end, Benjamin Harrison won the nomination, and the election, but Douglass was in the Republican primary. We sure have gone downhill in 120 years, from Frederick Douglass to Barry The Empty Suit.
I say it a little differently: “There is but one greater sin than to be right when those in authority are wrong — proving it.”
The moon is not visible for about 5 days every month because it’s lined up close to the sun and hidden by a combination of glare and Rayleigh scattering.
The ‘Game Of Thrones’ character should be…unfinished. 😛
Of course the ‘Fat Positivity’ professor taught at Massey U! 😄
That’s a low railroad bridge. Just wait till a train goes over it after you’ve weakened it by running into it. 😮
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Is a fifteen foot bridge low somewhere, for reals? Meanwhile, the 11foot-8inch bridge got updated a few years ago to Raleigh Peace St. standard, 12ft, 4inches.
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If some pointy-haired boss of a loading supervisor or driver wants to squeeze in as much cubage as the truck engine will pull, yep. Space per trip is Ghod.
And the drivers apparently can do that now:
https://support.google.com/maps/thread/269742496/vehicle-height-function-to-avoid-low-bridges-etc?hl=en
It’s been there since 2024. There are also commercial vehicle apps that will plot directions taking that into account. All they have to do is, you know, use them….🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬
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Go to any RV FB page. There are popular apps for RV routes that route around not only low obstructions like bridges or tunnels, but close down roads that are forbidden due to height, length, and sometimes width. Ex: Glacier Highway to the Sun, Hwy 242 Oregon – Old McKenzie Hwy, Teton Pass, Bear Tooth Pass, etc. Most the roads get the stupid caught causing traffic problems, which once unsnarled by professionals and authorities result in massive fines for ignoring the prohibitions, on top of damages to their expensive setups.
Some, Teton Pass, too often, result in death for driver and passengers. Teton Pass has had at least 3 RV, motorhomes, truck/trailer-or-5th-wheel combos, accidents that were deadly just in 2025. The accidents were not weather related. Teton Pass has semi traps in a multiple locations on the steep downgrades. RV drivers aren’t taught to use those. Teton Pass it is “not recommended”, doable, but don’t, just don’t. We accidentally took Teton Pass out of Jackson/Wilson once towing the oldest trailer (using paper map back then, no warnings back then). We handled it fine. But traffic behind us was not happy. Uphill sections there were either passing lanes, or locations to pull over -ish, without actually stopping (not going “fast” uphill), to let traffic build up past. But down hill sections there weren’t. Going too fast on the downhill sections are the dangerous parts, causing accidents, and kills.
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“My guardian angel’s name is Rocket.”
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The meme on bird flu is probably glowy.
Bird flu not only kills non-chicken birds, the current nasty strain been a known issue among bird watchers since at least 2021, when I asked folks why the bird feeder wasn’t where it had been in ’19 and they explained it was a transmission vector, so now they were broadcasting seeds.
Beyond that, it’s mind bogglingly easy to check from even casual exposure, such as looking at Iowa announcements where most of the infected flocks are mixed.
Turkeys made the news, too.
And they get infected via wild birds.
Just some species can live longer than others while infected.
But it’s super handy for folks who want to kill off chickens, and pretend the Dem pushed laws haven’t resulted in massively higher infection rates.
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Where we are the wild turkeys, which infect suburbs and city blocks, not just rural, the turkeys cannot be harassed, or *culled out of season. Cannot be culled in season anywhere other than rural, and the birds know that.
(*) Hunted.
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I’m sure glad I can consider Canadian Geese nuisances in certain circumstances and can harass them. I need to set up a slingshot target in my backyard, though.
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I would never admit to using a pellet gun to take a turkey with a nearly silent headshot. Nope. That would be poaching. Never mind that I can just about reach outside the door and grab one by the neck.
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Right now, Germany’s dealing with a strain of bird flu (“Vogelgrippe”)they think – testing still ongoing) that has caused the death of over a thousand cranes and other large, migratory birds. They are very concerned, and rightly so, about infections spreading to non-migratory and domestic fowl.
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Shaq can’t Arklight either. Darn those B-52s.
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Well, Shaq isn’t a Linebacker.
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Since “shack” is a direct hit, there’s an entire “Airplane”-style bit implicit with Shaq as a USAF GiB while the squadron does a bomb run…
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Hey! Why is she drinking my beer?!
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That’s only on days that end in Y.
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King Henry V:
What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
From Henry V, Act IV, Scene III
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My favorite diagnostic level of crazy is “Loses Argument With Self”. I think it fits between #3 and #4. I consider any level of crazy below that to be benign.
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The Reader had a habit of talking to himself while walking the (very long) halls of the complex he worked in. When nearby folks would comment, he’d tell them not to worry unless they heard him losing an argument. Most all the self conversation was technical.
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The Bayeux tapestry has some threads of truth in it.
Killing them with kindness brings to mind a line from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash – “They’ll listen to Reason.” Reason was, of course, some kind of mini-railgun.
I wouldn’t inflict a Hi-Point on some innocent Trick or Treater. I might keep an unpapered one around in case someone broke into my place. (No, not really.)
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Oh, the cat was definitely looking at the painter.
The story’s embroidered…. Cackles
No you can’t… I have seen a garbage truck bent by a similar bridge. Bent.
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Four months? An amateur procrastinator! In February of this year I finally stitched together the two sides and batting of my first ever quilt, then knotted it. The outsides consist of 90 large squares of calico prints that my son and I had pieced together earlier. How much earlier? The machine-embroidered date block reads “~~~’s Quilt 8-88”.
;-)
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PROCRASTINATORS ANONYMOUS
Have patience, we’re still trying to schedule our first meeting.
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https://i.chzbgr.com/original/3057568512/hA77C46A6/
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da Vinci liked ermines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_with_an_Ermine
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Just left reviews for “No Man’s Land” on Amazon for all 3 volumes. 10 out 5 stars if they’d let me. One story I’ll be re-reading, because no matter how slow I tried to read, I know I read too fast and missed something. Switching between laptop and phone Kindle helps because end up re-reading sections because the page balancing between the two mediums is not perfect. Usually irritating. Not with these books. Number of places where I teared up.
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What’s that? Is the government still shut down? 😛
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Must confess the Mentos rocket made me lol. ~:D
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“Gentlemen, we have the technology!”
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But isn’t it supposed to be Diet Coke? What, is the entire national supply being piped directly to the White House?
(Of course, in line with the anecdote about Lincoln and Grant’s whiskey, maybe we should send a few cases to other world leaders.)
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