Cool and clear, nice day to drive around. Yesterday was very nice. Clear and sunny but stayed cool. More of the same today would be nice.
Plan for today is a couple more pickups, then load the truck for a trip up to the BOL. Somewhere in there I will need to shop for groceries. I’ve been putting it off, but can’t continue.
The infowar out of Ukraine seems to have backed off a notch, but I’m sure things are still going badly for both sides. The speculation about the end of the USD as a reserve currency seems to be picking up. And our “leaders” are trying to outdo each other in the short bus olympics.
Stack while you can.
n
(super tired, headed to bed early)
It's April Fools' Day. Trust no one and believe nothing you see from the Internet or the mainstream media.
Just like any other day.
49F and 87%RH, so far the weather looks good, if a bit on the chilly side.
In between other things, I've been playing with the map maker WRSA linked, from BCExpat, and the official US topo maps… I want a good topo of the BOL surroundings. I'd like the historical one too, before they flooded the valley.
https://www.map.army/
https://partisanlabs.com/product/4tb-external-usb-drive-with-usgs-topo-maps/
https://topobuilder.nationalmap.gov/
I ordered a couple of the free custom maps. So far it's been almost 24 hours and they haven't gotten to my maps in the queue yet.
Time to make the donuts….
n
The government used to make a set of data files available which provided ground elevation points at one meter resoltion for the entire country. They were deprecated when I played with them about a decade ago for a school project.
I'll see where my files for that project went and provide the link if one is included.
This is not an April Fools joke:
HHS: Castrations/Mastectomies Okay for Transgender Minors
You first, plugs, you first. Is it me, or is the majority of people who want to cut off their son’s genitals, the mothers? This is crazy.
I guess this is why Bruce Willis made a series of movies where he just sits there and smirks:
Trump-Backing Movie Star Bruce Willis Retires from Acting w/ Brain Condition
I feel for him. I can think of nothing worse than losing your mental abilities.
They get elected.
Who’s going to be the heir to Ken Kesey?
ADDED: The APA and APA are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. The first lawsuits will be filed within ten years. Anyone associated with these surgeries—medical teams, hospitals, board members, ins companies, other souces of funds—will be found liable and financially stripped to the bone.
Or by that time the lying Wuhan ChiCom butchers and their libprogturd puppets will have destroyed everything.
My comment: We have always had our puppies, male and females, degendered.
But never our children.
Imagine the resentment that will come when some of these victims grow up and are faced with what their parent(s) did to them. What if a biological man wants to be a man, straight or gay. There’s no going back. Would you ever forgive the monsters that mutilated you? What a narcissistic act these people commit to satisfy their liberal views.
BTW – this on Tucker the other night.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-democrats-media-lying-florida-parental-rights-education-bill
If my parents had reassigned my gender when I was young I would be filing a lawsuit against everyone, parents, surgeons, hospital, psychologists, state, any one involved. I would be asking millions, multiple millions, from everyone.
Changing natural gender to a perceived gender is really, really, something that should be left to adulthood. Not some perverted parent who always wanted a daughter.
I got my latest Social Security statement. No wonder why they are going broke. I can get $2,342/month when I turn 62 in a couple of months, or $$3,326/month if I wait until I turn 67, or $4,124/month if I wait until I turn 70. Amazing.
See ya Jen, you won't be missed…
https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/jen-psaki-bashed-cable-news-before-taking-msnbc-gig/
https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/jen-psaki-to-reportedly-leave-the-white-house-for-msnbc/
pSaki is a typical hypocrite ProgLibTurd. Maddow 2.0.
@lynn:
We have a similar deal here in UK. When I became eligible for Social Security (although we call it State Pension) at age 65, I opted to defer taking my entitlement, which is paid for (nominally) by deduction from salary over the first 40 years of your working career, which led to a 10% increase in my pension, when I finally took it, for each full year of deferment.
I waited for three-and-a-half years, before starting to draw pension, so I got 30% extra, for the rest of my life. And my state pension is set up to pay half to my wife, after I assume room temperature, for the rest of her life. And when she reaches the appropriate age (for her, 67) she will get the full State Pension in her own right. If I’ve done the calculation correctly, that’ll be 2 years or so.
I'm not committing to web page exactly how much that is.
G.
@lynn … another 'lprogramming aw', which affects me often :
Changing one thing in a program to fix something will break something else. So will adding a new feature.
Story of my life. Fix something or add a new feature that is desperately needed by a customer and breaks a feature or ten. And my benchmarks only test about 20 to 25% of the program features.
In just one of my 6,000+ source code files, I have 9,934 lines of comments and Fortran code. There are 226 GOTOs alone in that subroutine. Following them around the place with or without a debugger is a freaking high wire act because you have to keep so many variables and program logic in your mind. It is my largest and most complicated subroutine though.
Microsoft's Make, included with the VS command line tools, is awful.
MinGW MSYS is a solution I’ve heard that some developers use successfully since it is GNU Make with Bash and support tools. Still, a lot of profanity will be involved.
When I say hardwire, I mean hardwire. A brute force script that compiles and links everything in the world for the calculation engine. All 5,000 source code files that compile and link to four Win32 executables and three Win32 DLLs. I use that for building the calculation engine right now with Open Watcom F77 / C / C++ called makeall.bat. It is a guaranteed way to make sure that nothing gets left behind as I have been fooled by the intricacies of make over the years.
I have binary file that I cannot recreate because the code got left behind on the IBM RS/6000 unix boxes when we jumped to PCs for software development. One of these days when the world slows down, I will convert that binary file to text as I do have the text source file for it.
My software distribution has ten Win32 EXEs and six Win32 DLLs in it, not counting the twelve Microsoft DLLs I ship with our software also.
Geesh. $100 isn't a real amount of money to most people right now. In August, prior to the child tax credit advances, the numbers were somewhere ~ 1.2 million.
The wild thing is that Telsa has a $300 million cash loan there, free of interest.
Musk is saying that his only production limits are computer chips and batteries. I wonder how many computer chips are in a Tesla vehicle ? Ford says that there are ten computer chips in each vehicle that they sell.
Since each Tesla Semi reputedly has four 250 kwh batteries, and a Tesla 130 kwh battery has 1,200 ??? batteries, that means each Tesla Semi has 9,200 batteries. Wow.
There must be established precedent behind the thinking that they can get away with it, cases of Kleinfelter's and similar situations which required parents to make a choice while the child was still young and unaware of what was happening.
The batteries have chips too, lots of them. Just when sitting idle, the discharge has to be carefully managed to avoid the batteries bursting into flame.
Three million. Essentially, the max. power generating capacity in Texas will be needed to charge all of the vehicles at night assuming the Tesla Jesus truck's charge requirements are similar to those of Ford's.
Wizard of Id: Booping Henry
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2022/04/01
That is not a good idea.
I did the math when circumstances led me to file for SS at 62 for the lesser amount. When I turn 87 I will have received the same aggregate total that I would have received by then if I had waited until 65, just spread out over more years. Thereafter I will be receiving less than I would otherwise. For me the trade off was worth it, got us through some slim times.
"There are TWO speeds of sound on Mars – one for high-pitched noises like the zap of a laser and another for lower frequencies like the whir of a helicopter rotor, study finds"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10677181/There-two-speeds-sound-Mars.html
No, sound does not have a weight. Probably.
The two speeds are due to physical properties of CO2 at low pressures. The pressure waves of high pitched sounds affect the CO2 molecules differently than low frequency sounds. The effect had been predicted.
The two speeds are due to physical properties of CO2 at low pressures. The pressure waves of high pitched sounds affect the CO2 molecules differently than low frequency sounds. The effect had been predicted.
CO2 does have weird properties at low pressures. You do not even get a liquid phase of CO2 until the pressure reaches about five times ambient pressure, about 75 psia. Instead, CO2 goes directly from a vapor to a solid (dry ice).
Ran a bunch of pickups, now to finish loading the truck…
n
Dang, I read the whole article…
https://carbuzz.com/news/canceled-tesla-cybertruck-is-dead
"Rolling Thunder (A Thunder and Lightning Novel)" by John Varley
https://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Thunder-Lightning-Novel/dp/044101772X?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a four book young adult space opera series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 2009 that I bought used on Amazon since my books are packed in the garage and the book is out of print. This is my third or fourth reread of this book. I have a new copy of the fourth book in the series that I am reading now.
Each one of the Thunder and Lighting books highlights a new generation in the connected families since the first generation of the connected families in the first book. This book specifically covers Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Podkayne Strickland-Gracia-Redmond, the first member of the third generation who goes by Podkayne. BTW, Podkayne reads Heinlein's "Podkayne of Mars" book and calls Heinlein a crazy old man. And yes, there are serious Heinlein fanboy comments all throughout the series as Varley is very heavily influenced by Robert Heinlein.
Podkayne is born and raised on Mars, a Martian. After all, two of her grandparents were part of the first five people to step foot on Mars on the first bubble drive spaceship. By the time she is an adult, there are over million people living on Mars. At the beginning of the book, Podkayne is a lieutenant JG, serving her mandatory two years in the Martian Navy. She is currently serving that duty in California on Earth as a local embassy officer. And then she recalled to Mars since her great-grandmother has an untreatable medical condition and is going into a stasis bubble until such time that a treatment is available.
My previous review of this book: "Book number three of a four book space opera series. This is my second or third reread of this book, the sequel to the sequel of one of my top ten all time favorite books. BTW, I would characterize this book as young adult SF but not juvenile SF. I get the feeling that there will not be a fifth book in the series as Varley seems to be a movie reviewer nowadays.
Varley reduces the Earth population from billions to millions in this book. I wonder where they all went ? (sarcasm)
I need a squeezer generator !"
John Varley has an active website at:
https://varley.net/
My rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (213 reviews)
"Peter Pansexual: Disney Prez Pledges 50% Gay Characters"
https://www.clayandbuck.com/peter-pansexual-disney-prez-pledges-50-gay-characters/
So she has a gay kid and a pansexual kid ? Uh, something is really wrong there. And whatever the heck pansexual is.
"German Chemical Giant Warns Of "Total Collapse" If Russian Gas Supply Cut"
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/basf-ceo-warns-germany-total-collapse-if-russian-gas-supply-cut
"CEO of Germany's multinational BASF SE, the world's largest chemical producer, has warned that curbing or cutting off energy imports from Russia would bring into doubt the continued existence of small and medium-sized energy companies, and further would likely spiral Germany into its most "catastrophic" economic crisis going back to the end of World War 2."
I would not be surprised.
Yeah, check your calendar before taking any clickbait.
Musk will let Ford take the hit for being unable to deliver the base EV F150 at the promised $40k price point before making any decisions about increasing prices or outright cancelling the Jesus truck.
There would have been Old Testament Biblical-style rending of garments in the streets by the faithful if the Jesus truck really had been cancelled today.
>> pSaki is a typical hypocrite ProgLibTurd. Maddow 2.0.
Interestingly though, she has not (so far) been positioned as the 9 PM Maddows replacement.
That matches the math that I figured. Worked about the same when comparing taking SS at 66 versus 70. My decision was based on my still working. Taking SS at 62 and a significant chunk of the SS. The maximum taken would have been about $19K in my case reducing my SS about $4K for each year I was under 66 and kept working. That severely slanted the numbers favoring waiting until 66. At that time I could continue working without any reduction.
My friend chose to wait until 66 to take SS. He died two months shy of 66 and got nothing. Well, like he really cared. But his wife is getting half of what he would have received.
Everyone has a different scenario and different considerations.
Pansexual is attracted to everyone IIRC. Like Captain Jack on "Doctor Who".
Disney Animation is in serious trouble. They thought that they had successfully cancelled John Lasseter, but Lasseter is in the process of acquiring a critical mass of talent at Skydance, including, most recently, Brad Bird, who made "The Incredibles".
Delivery from the Skydance product pipeline finally starts in August. Meanwhile, the last Pixar flick went straight to streaming, and the hand drawn animation for “Disenchanted” had to be outsourced.
Not everyone can be replaced.
n
ICE killed me.
leaving for the BOL, truck is sagging…
n
Good news for The Real Life Tony Stark (TM).
CAFE of 56 MPG by 2025 wasn't going to happen, but 40 by 2026 will be tough, especially if Mayor Pete decides to reinstate 55 MPH as the speed limit on the freeways.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-donald-trump-united-states-environment-f46e6892e95d83a41f75b9d56edadbda
Lasseter is a unique talent.
ICE killed me.
leaving for the BOL, truck is sagging…
n
Be safe my friend !
"“Heartbroken” Will Smith Resigns From Academy Ahead Of Decision On His Future After Oscar Slap Of Chris Rock"
https://deadline.com/2022/04/will-smith-resigns-oscars-slap-chris-rock-1234992840/
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
I didn't take the early SS amount. My family has history of living into their '90s. I wanted to wait and start it at 70 but my situation didn't let that happen.
I'll be 77 this year and my Doctor tells me I will probably function normally in my late '90s.
Made it here. There were a couple of idiot street racers on the highway getting out of town, but decent traffic after.
One of the gas stations had gas@ $3.79 and diesel @$5.09. That is a pretty big split…
Most were around a dollar different.
N
Headline: Both parties see Red Tsunami in 2022
Headline: Republican voters registrations +100,000 in Florida
buh bye Mickey:
1)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/04/01/florida-just-sent-disney-a-strong-message-over-their-opposition-to-parental-rights-law-n2605354
2)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2022/04/01/letter-from-rep-jim-banks-highlights-how-disney-picked-a-very-bad-time-to-oppose-parental-rights-bill-n2605395
In addition:
https://www.indeed.com/hire/c/info/hostile-work-environment
Adding "political opinion" is a reasonable step, although "personal expression of constitutional rights" would include 1A and 2A.
Jammies not included…
https://blog.littletikes.com/work-hard-play-harder-with-my-first-cubicle/
The established precedent will be the pedo priests in the Catholic church and the pedo scoutmasters in Boy Scouts.
Which partly explains the push to mainstream pedophilia.
But only a small part.
The main impetus is the trial lawyers going after the Hollywood studios.
That is, aside from the general proglibturd attacks on Western values, merrily funded by the degenerate Wuhan murdering Chinese Communists.
Orlando and the rest of Florida tend to forget that without Disney, they'd be a rural ag state, without all the jobs and tax money.
N
Got the "site can't be found" message again. Phone this time so I don't think the issue is with me.
N
Check your state constitution:
https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/03/23/judges-strike-down-tennessee-law-allowing-warrantless-searches-by-state-wildlife-officials
Repealing Reedy Creek is a jobs bill.
Orange County will need 10,000 inspectors for the next 20 years to bring the Mouse up to code.
And if descriptions of the abusive employee meetings are accurate, there's going to be a whole lot of on-site monitoring going on after a few lawsuits. Sounds like a living wage at about $47.50 per hour plus bennies.
Who knows, maybe the silent majority of employees will rebel and "unwoke" SETU.
"Month," "Year," easy mistake, they do sound a lot alike, right??
https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/white-house-corrects-joe-biden-gaffe-on-renewable-energy/