thomasjkenney
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Everybody jumps on the Orange Dick, and all logic goes whoosh! MoA is very bad right now. I wasn’t named for the skeptical Thomas, but here…try this…
It’s not him posting these last (2? 3?) ultimatums. He doesn’t control his accounts any longer. Has anyone seen him state these exact words to a camera? We just went through 4 years of random folks usurping President Potato. Dry run? Is the Orange Upstanding Dick now MIA? Thread on MoA recently contained a link to a fake David Attenborough video.
I see two streams accelerating, passing the myriad others. 1) “I told you so!” and 2) “Judas!!!”
There was another attempt at distraction this past hour. A semi-wildfire stated near Placerville, CA. Gold Country, south of Tahoe, now baked dry for the year. Looks like they knocked it down quick, but it’s only June.
@Germ re: TVASVVF
My mom passed this AM, peacefully. She was already suffering dementia (maybe >5 yrs?) when the ghouls conned her into getting the shot. Gullible? No.
So, Germ… I cordially invite you to go fuck a glory hole and contract a fierce case of syphilis. May your passing years be painful and full of frightening visions.
The incompassionate are so very very fucked.
Himself it was who wrote
His rank, and quartered his own coat.
There is no king nor sovereign state
That can fix a hero’s rate;
Each to all is venerable,
Cap-a-pie invulnerable,
Until he write, where all eyes rest,
Slave or master on his breast.I saw men go up and down,
In the country and the town,
With this prayer upon their neck,—
‘Judgment and a judge we seek.’
Not to monarchs they repair,
Nor to learned jurist’s chair;
But they hurry to their peers,
To their kinsfolk and their dears;
Louder than with speech they pray,—
‘What am I! companion, say.’
And the friend not hesitates
To assign just place and mates;
Answers not in word or letter,
Yet is understood the better;
Is to his friend a looking-glass,
Reflects his figure that doth pass.
Every wayfarer he meets
What himself declared repeats,
What himself confessed records,
Sentences him in his words;
The form is his own corporal form,
And his thought the penal worm.Yet shine forever virgin minds,
Loved by stars and purest winds,
Which, o’er passion throned sedate,
Have not hazarded their state;
Disconcert the searching spy,
Rendering to a curious eye
The durance of a granite ledge
To those who gaze from the sea’s edge.
It is there for benefit;
It is there for purging light;
There for purifying storms;
And its depths reflect all forms;
It cannot parley with the mean,—
Pure by impure is not seen.
For there’s no sequestered grot,
Lone mountain tarn, or isle forgot,
But Justice, journeying in the sphere,
Daily stoops to harbor there.Astraea – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson Lake, viewed from the slopes of Mt Emerson, Bishop Creek, CA
Ha! I get a two-fer today…if only a stupid little observation…
@jb-hb and @Dr D: That ‘meddlesome priest’ was also destroying power. He prevented the welding of church to state, by being a passive-aggressive little s#!+!@Dr D Rich re: “Mosquito Protocol”
It’s a very old affront. Use the Goggles and check out ‘mosque’ vs ‘masjid.’
re: Carlin…
Are the young’uns sharing clips of Lenny Bruce yet?
RE: soap vs detergent
Dr Bronners has unscented, but I’ve had good luck with Euc, Almond, and Citrus flavors. I use it for shower. Buy in 1-gal jugs, and it lasts ~6 mos. Wife uses the unscented bars, I prefer Euc or Citrus liquid.
For laundry, unscented All does the trick, haven’t looked into whether it’s ‘not-a-soap’ but it’s probably a detergent, like it says on the label. Tangent – if you crush a bunch of yucca spears in water, and extract the sap, it’s a gentle soap.
I have a severe allergy to anything with perfumes. Natural scents from oils (citrus, etc) are OK. It’s the fake stuff, chemically formulated perfumes, that do it. Especially deadly is fake lavender.
@jb-hb re: sprinklers and such
The Codes are another self-inflicted gutshot. I was gonna mention, but I figured anybody near a forest would know about timber interests.
re: fires
Those are 2 of the richest zipcodes on the planet.
Altadena: I’m aghast, somewhat surprised, but it’s possible. That’s Huntington’s neighborhood, in part. It’s a smear of very-very rich on the east, base of Mt Wilson Toll Road, gradually ranging thru mid-class to somewhat poor toward the west.
Palisades Highlands: Separate from the flats of Palisades, Highlands was a natural death trap. It’s a box canyon, very craggy sandstone formations. The only public road is via the narrows, ~2km of skinny canyon with sandstone cliff formations overhanging. The basin had expensive tract houses and condos built on the eastern slope, brush and live oak. Reservoir was at the base of sandstone/conglomerate cliffs. Almost no services in the canyon, a small cafe, post office, real estate. IIRC, one fire station. Always struck me as an extremely irrational neighborhood. One good earthquake, and you’re trapped. One good fire, and…well…
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“The funds were diverted to help MIGRANTS!!!!”
Migrants who used those funds to buy houses in Granada Hills and build pirate duplexes on the properties. Granada Hills is San Fernando Valley, upstream from much of LA. The area is (has been for my lifetime!) overextended on water infrastructure. That’s just one of many self-inflicted gutshots from which the region suffers.
@phoenixvoice re: culture cycles
Interesting bit, thanks. Reminds that ’80s had the debauchery of yuppies and cocaine, with a Springstein/Mellenkamp callback.
All is spectrum. Even in late 19th C, barbarism, with white explorers allaying with one side or other, as convenience dictates.
Name a human-loving AI Colossus.
Name the first robotic surgeon Ash?
I’m sure that dude read Simak. For the love of dog, can he please call it Jenkins? Yeah, there’s a software tool already named that, but I’m sure they’d give it up if we explain that it’s just a new, fancy body for Jenkins, the trade-up.
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re: ‘Can no one rid me of this troublesome priest???’
HA! I was named after that troublesome priest.
@Dr D re: “…they’re only words, which we adults tell them, but the words are immediately injected into them with no walls or barriers…”
There are invisible realms to unpack behind such interaction. Even if the person receiving the lie is aware of it’s non-truth, and can shrug off the insult, it opens considerations of what the liar intended. What is the liar’s internal state that such an act isn’t inhibited (dopamine and/or adrenaline involved?). Some empathy for what damage may have caused the liar to start doing that. Or maybe psych/soc with no empathy, so lie like taking a piss. Thinking about the others the liar may have ‘injured’ or hoodwinked along the way. Sadness that such a hideous flaw is visible in a fellow being, someone you might otherwise befriend or at least respect.
Now, sidle up to the TV, dive into the alpha waves, and allow this to be poured in without even the rudimentary filters that are engaged when speaking or reading. “To see is to believe” is just how we’re wired. Animated speakers seem to speak more convincingly? Hmmm…
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Addendum re: TV
I’ve been trying (10+ yrs now) to unwind the damage from TV. Here’s another observation: we are trained as spectators. None of us viewers can ever resolve the conflict of the episode, because we’re not the scripted protagonist. We merely view, and can do nothing, because it’s always the protag or someone else who resolves the conflict, for our pleasure. In real life, see a car crash, think naught because the protag probably already called the services, or maybe the script says the wreck is the tragedy in the plot.
Maybe this is why Dr D needs to scream ‘WORK’ so much. We’re trained that almost everything else in our lives is somebody else’s job.
For Us, The Living – Robert Heinlein, 1938 (2003)
His UBI was based on mineral royalties (and maybe cattle grazing royalties too?). After all, this land is my land and this land is your land…
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@Dr D re: FemDom
Razor Boy – Steely Dan
BTW, my wife is my accountant. Can’t do shite without her at the helm, just fail miserably.
Brain Drain continues: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
Quietly merged into this week’s Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers.
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This includes the maintainer of the Acer Aspire 1 EC driver, Cirrus Logic CLPS711X ARM architecture, Baikal-T1 PVT hardware monitor driver, Libata PATA drivers, libata SATA AHCI Synopsys DWC controller drivers, ASCOT2E media drivers, MIPS Baikal-T1 platform driver, NTB IDT driver, PPTP driver, Renesas R-Car SATA driver, Renesas Super-H Ethernet Driver, and the UFS file-system. Just the maintainer entries are being removed and not the actual drivers themselves.
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This is just dropping Russian maintainers from the kernel but isn’t clear if patches from them will be accepted moving forward. Similarly, the driver code remains within the kernel — including for Russian hardware such as around the Baikal CPUs from Russia’s Baikal Electronics. So right now it appears to be little more than just not officially recognizing any formal kernel maintainers that are Russian.Keep the work, because it is sorely needed, but don’t give credit…how fucking petty can you get? The band often breaks up after those kinda shenanigans.
@oxy re: ask brownie
Santa Fe Grade – OOPS!!!
This area is now largely wetlands wildlife preserves, with many duck hunting camps built with the same ‘disposable’ philosophy as Denninger documents re: Florida beach houses.
@citizenx re: Inglewood show
I attended that show, beautiful breakdown in the second set…Jerry’s delicate best!
re: weather control
Aim a microwave beam at the ocean, what happens? Water molecules decide it’s too warm, and leave the ocean for life as a vapor. Add warm, most air to an extant tropical storm, and what happens?
Wink! Wink! Nudge! Nudge! Say n’more!
@tboc re: “The citizens of the US wanted a war with Russia. The citizens of the US have wanted a war with Russia since the beep, beep, beep of Sputnick challenged Western Superiority.”
Uh…you’re out of your flurcking tree, man. Nobody I’d consider an acquaintance or better has ever wanted a war with Russia. Elites, General Ripper, yeah, sure. Man on the street, no fucking way!!!
re: storm surge
Denninger has written extensively (and sharply!) about those beach houses. TLDR, folks who built them usually know the score, but suckers buy them if they’ve got a bit o’lipstick.
Loverboy – Turn Me Loose – Live
“I gotta do it my way…or no way at all!”
Misc media:
The Knights of Arthur, Frederik Pohl – Let the brain-in-a-box run the ship, no crew necessary!
The Mouse That Roared, based on Leonard Wibberley novel – It worked for the Duchy of Grand Fenwick…
Destination Void, Frank Herbert – How to make a god, or, maybe we shouldn’t have let the brain-in-a-box run things.
@oxy and folded underwear
Folding clothes like that if for people with empty souls.
It is unfortunate that you cannot see the substance that fills another person’s soul.
My wife folds my underwear, despite my best efforts to break her of this habit. Keeping a tidy and functional household is a point of pride for her. I can reliably open the drawer in darkness, grab a pair, and know which side is the front…every dang time! I told her not to iron my t-shirts (told, told, told!) but they’re still the shape and shade of an envelope when I open that drawer, too.
Her soul is filled with light, love, happiness, silliness, good food thoughts. It’s a bleak world where such is disparaged, or cannot be seen due to occlusion or perception.
OK, I don’t do memes, but the meme is she opens her mouth, and repeats ‘Pairing… Pairing… Pairing… ‘
Asymmetric warfare?
Course Changes Due to Snow – Val di Fassa Enduro World Champs 2024
It’s been the worst decade in my life re: forest/grass fires here in the west US. If you can’t convince a volcano to do the work, how ’bout a bunch of sequestered carbon?
Microwave lasers (random non-sequitur, but it keeps bugging me)
I’ve been digging at disabling that last Scare Message System nag on my phone, the National Alert. That thing will speak any day now, and I don’t want to be within earshot.
Industrial espionage, with a garnish of blackmail, nestled in the picturesque Utah desert.
I have almost the entire Sierra Nevada (from CA-108 south) in USGS 15′ quadrangle maps on paper. I have maybe 1/3 of that duplicated in 7.5′ quads. At least 2 people I know had 1° plastic relief maps with contours, etc.
I was subjected to no small amount of network news this weekend. Helping my mom up north with furniture, and preparing for wife and I to follow. Mom wanted the company, so I mostly ignored the screen. Lots of the same and worse, but one very odd story about a pet medicine ‘…that can extend the life of your dog by 10 years!’ For a five minute segment, they gave almost no detail about what condition would be treated, nor what the effect of the medicine was supposed to be. They kept showing some guy’s morbidly obese corgie. Near the end, I suddenly hear something about starvation, like some pet owners were crash-dieting their pets. It then came out rather slyly that the medicine might be inducing ketosis. So…medicine to try to fix a dog that you stupidly overfed literally to death. Hmmm…
re: Waltzing… “Wouldn’t you say that your dereliction of duty in The Guard presaged your dereliction of duty as mayor of Minneapolis?” Keep hammering it, because it’s a standalone and because it segues into many another fertile field.
re: F-16, there’s an interlock. Can’t shoot friendly, transponder says. Was the transponder off? (!) Did Uncle Samwise not enable the interlocks when he handed over the keys and pinkslip?
re: Kennedy, make Americans the healthiest… Yeah, totally not scary Obamaspeak.
@Dr D:
And they used to say Bush could eat a baby on the White House lawn, thanks to the media. Then others have too, Trump said he could punch someone on 5th Avenue? Murder. On national TV. No one remembers. No interest. Nothing is “real.” That is, we’ve been trained so long to act and react to TV, words, all that, that we lost skill and habit to react to, say that bus swerving at us. It seems like an abstraction. I’ve seen buses swerving all the time! (A thousand times, on the blue screen.) Abstractions. Words. That is, lies. So flooded over and overwhelmed that the real is now lost in the shuffle and overlooked, vanished in the thick of thin things. What’s real? Not enough checks to reach the end of the month, that’s something you might motivate about.
And there you have it…perhaps the largest facet of my antipathy to video expressed in about sixteen walnut shells.
I’ve seen the term ‘saccharine’ used to describe Hary Janos and Lt Kije, like maybe Potemkin Music? Windmills is enough to drive a soul to pierce both eardrums with a steak knife.
Mighty Boosh: Crimp-Off – rap that self-deprecates
@Dr John Day re: pecans
I’ve taken to buying nuts’n’berries from Somis Nut House, among those are pecans. Do you sell? Mail-order, since I ain’t drivin’ to Texas! 🙂 If not, any sellers in your area you can recommend?
That is a beautiful picture…life… …
@jb-hb re: ‘Your music shocks me not, young’n!’
