Warm and wet. Damp and overcast for a while, then maybe some sun? Just guessing, but that’s all the weather liars do. They think they know, but not really, and especially not for Houston. After all, the day finally cleared and the sun came out in the late afternoon yesterday.
Did some cleanup and housework. Made a nice dinner for Mother’s Day. Watched movies as a family. A good day.
Today I’ve got to kick @ss on some cleaning and organizing, if the rain stays away. If not, it’s more piddlefarting around with maybe some pickups thrown in. This week is looking like it’ll be pretty busy, with prepping for D1’s birthday, swim team, and all the normal things. Plus I might have to make a quick trip to the BOL to meet with the septic guy. All the rain has an alarm on the system activating, and I might need to get with him to resolve whatever is going on. This weekend was the second time it’s tripped. Time to figure out what the issue is.
School year is winding down for the kids. Lots of testing, then a beach trip, then make work to run out the clock on the year… I can’t believe it’s already summer.
I am glad for the time, as lately I am finding issues, gaps, and failures in my preps. I was doing pretty well, but time and loss of focus took their toll. Now I’m playing catchup again. This is not where I want to be, so I better get busy changing it.
If you aren’t where you want to be, YOU better get busy too. No one knows the what or when but we can be certain that there will be something. It’ll be better to meet it with a stack of preps. So get stacking.
nick
but first… coffee
Ah coffee, the reason some idiots still have teeth.
Half a cup into my daily…
Warm and humid, sun poking thru but overcast to the south and east. Report from Galveston is possible T storms so school canceled today’s beach trip. If the Gulf weather blows up into Houston, we may get some. On the other hand, if the weather blows down from the NW, we may not. Always the battle between something in the Gulf, and the normal trend from the NW.
n
Follow the annotated links, judge the content and quality for yourself.
The one thing that stood out for me is her comments about who was considered ‘vaccinated’ and who wasn’t for the purposes of attributing negative outcomes. It’s a way to fudge the numbers. I don’t like seeing fudge factors or manipulation of how things are categorized because once I see a mechanism for adjusting results, I’m sure someone will USE it.
n
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/colossal-failure-around-world
JAMA is a trade publication, not a scientific journal, and has been for some time.
Both sides need to stop citing the cr*p they see in that rag. The people who run that organization sold out to the Obama agenda more than a decade ago.
The magazine isn’t any different than the IEEE “journal”, an organization who sold out their membership well before the MDs, back in the 90s, but the doctors in the clubhouse on Wabash in Chicago have gone much further than IEEE ever dreamed.
How corrupt is AMA?
Riddle me this, Batman. When is an MD not an MD?
I’m still “Skippy”. Jab free. It is my decision, and I only place my own life at risk with the choice. You may have a different conclusion, and that doesn’t bug me as much as my choice seems to bug a large number of control freaks in the population. Your mileage may vary, as they used to say, especially in California.
And we’ll see who rusts first.
Ah, they’ve renamed monkeypox…
Potential Risk for New Mpox Cases
In the United States, cases of mpox (formerly monkeypox) have declined since peaking in August 2022, but the outbreak is not over. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to receive reports of cases that reflect ongoing community transmission in the United States and internationally. This week, CDC and local partners are investigating a cluster of mpox cases in the Chicago area. From April 17 to May 5, 2023, a total of 12 confirmed and one probable case of mpox were reported to the Chicago Department of Public Health. All cases were among symptomatic men. None of the patients have been hospitalized. Nine (69%) of 13 cases were among men who had received 2 JYNNEOS vaccine doses. Confirmed cases were in 9 (69%) non-Hispanic White men, 2 (15%) non-Hispanic Black men, and 2 (15%) Asian men. The median age was 34 years (range 24–46 years). Travel history was available for 9 cases; 4 recently traveled (New York City, New Orleans, and Mexico).
– a plague upon you and your house…
n
and did you see the bit about some of the infected having been vaccinated? ANOTHER vaccine that isn’t…
n
A plague upon you and your bathhouse.
I think the name “Mpox” is meant to work on the same part of the brain as the label “K-pop”.
Please let that meme die soon.
“Mpox” is short for “manloverpox”.
“End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/end-of-a-love-affair-am-radio-is-being-removed-from-many-cars/ar-AA1b8VO1
“America’s love affair between the automobile and AM radio — a century-long romance that provided the soundtrack for lovers’ lanes, kept the lonely company with ballgames and chat shows, sparked family singalongs and defined road trips — is on the verge of collapse, a victim of galloping technological change and swiftly shifting consumer tastes.”
“The breakup is entirely one-sided, a move by major automakers to eliminate AM radios from new vehicles despite protests from station owners, listeners, first-responders and politicians from both major parties.”
“Automakers, such as BMW, Volkswagen, Mazda and Tesla, are removing AM radios from new electric vehicles because electric engines can interfere with the sound of AM stations. And Ford, one of the nation’s top-three auto sellers, is taking a bigger step, eliminating AM from all of its vehicles, electric or gas-operated.”
Yeah, it is a strike against talk radio by woke companies.
I would like to see AM and FM radio capability added to cell phones. An app that uses airwaves and not the streaming service Of the station.
Mazda is only making a half hearted effort with EVs in California because they have to do so in that state.
The AM radio in my wife’s Exploder has never worked right.
Meanwile, in my Camry, I can receive the San Antonio blowtorch AM ClearChannel talk station all the way up to just south of Belton. The Solara range is beyond that which made the commute to/from CGI tolerable.
Toyota isn’t going to change things right now, and I’d be surprised if GM changed course.
At some point in the near future, I believe Tony will go up to Capitol Hill and convince the Congresscritters that the Pizza Box Dream will only happen if they agree to auction off all of the remaining bandwidth currently used for terrestrial broadcasting. Radio at a minimum, but preferably including TV. Nixing AM radio in the US fleet turnover in the next decade will make that sell easier.
I think Starlink has been a stalking horse for that goal run by the telecoms all along, which is why, for now, they work with SpaceX as a MVNO on their networks, teasing The Dream.
This time, they’ll really mean it … like they have every time one of these Pizza Box schemes gets traction in the last 30 years.
Andrew Gillum walks on the fraud charges, but once a meth head, always a meth head.
Love or hate DeSantis for what is currently going on in Florida, Andrew Gillum, Benny Crump sock puppet, will not be a Jesus Candidate for Dog Catcher in Tallahassee now, much less President, and the State of Florida will always be in the Governor’s debt for that one.
Even if Gillum attempted to return to politics, the Dems are still done in Florida for a decade thanks to him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/government-drops-charges-against-andrew-gillum-after-mistrial/ar-AA1bdtAq
“It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks.”
“On Twitter, this is called a “supercut,” a quick compilation of short takes from several different videos. It runs just under four minutes and has received 42 million views so far. It deserves more.”
“Make yourself watch it, painful as it is.”
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1657822409628557312
From
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-worst-four-minutes-youll-have
“As you know, I generally think we are better off forgiving the vaccine fanatics for their hysteria in 2021. Yes, they tried to use state power to coerce us into giving up our most basic right – the right to choose what medicines we take. But they were scared, and they’d been told the jabs would save them.”
“That’s what I try to tell myself.”
“But seeing the venom here doesn’t make forgiveness easy. Especially since none of this people have even begun to apologize.”
“The falter and fall of the Court” By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
http://washingtonmerrygoround.com/the-falter-and-fall-of-the-court/
“ WASHINGTON — Today’s Supreme Court has been defined and diminished by two bad bookend decisions and two equally bad decisions in between. It went awry when justices failed to distinguish between judicial philosophy and political philosophy. Liberal and conservative judges follow, interpret, and revere the law, whereas liberal and conservative politicians vote their political ideologies. So, when enough Supreme Court judges supplanted judicial philosophy with political ideology the highest court in the land began to falter and fall in the public’s faith and in history’s judgement.
The ruling to halt the recount in Florida of the 2000 election is remembered as the worst Supreme Court decision in modern memory, that is until last year’s decision to overturn Roe in the Dobbs decision. Where the 2000 Bush v. Gore decision removed the election dispute from the Florida courts and thereby declared the presidential victor, the Roe ruling took away a constitutional right from women to control their own bodies, a right that had been in place for almost 50 years.
In between are two other landmark decisions that dramatically affected our country, and not for the better. The Heller decision in 2008 changed the gun culture by re-interpreting and replacing the Second Amendment’s right of a “well-regulated militia” to be armed with an individual’s right to own unlimited firearms.
The 5-4 decision was Justice Antonin Scalia’s pet project, part of his originalist intentions to closely model modern life after what he claims the Founders intent—an intent he appears to have discovered in the unspoken depths of their minds rather than in the written words of their Constitution. Under Scalia’s tutelage, the Supreme Court in effect rewrote the Second Amendment to usher in the rampant gun violence we see today, and to put a stranglehold on any significant gun regulation.”
Well, that is the most revisionist claptrap that I have read in a long while.
We had regulars here advocating extremely authoritarian approaches to the unvaccinated two years ago. Go look at some of the posts.
Most of the people in the video now have f*cked careers, regardless of how much money they have stashed.
The TV reaper is coming for Colbert.
After CBS fired James Corden, the losses were revealed for the “Late Late Show” to be on the order of $20 million per year where Craig Ferguson and his predecessors made money. God only knows how much Colbert costs them.
Craig Ferguson will be back in syndication in the Fall. James Corden will be practicing Adelle songs in the mirror and waiting for the call for “Cats II”.
People forget that the presiding judge who heard the arguments at the Cirucuit Court level, televised across the country in Bush v. Gore, was a Dem appointed by Jeb!, N. Sanders Sauls
Gore’s legal team was inept and failed to do their homework on state law. What should have been a slam dunk for the Dems turned into a debacle which was stayed by the FL Supreme Court, packed with Dems by Jeb!’s predecessor, The Old He Coon, Governor Lawton Chiles.
The US Supreme Court ended the circus.
“Automakers, such as BMW, Volkswagen, Mazda and Tesla, are removing AM radios from new electric vehicles because electric engines can interfere with the sound of AM stations. And Ford, one of the nation’s top-three auto sellers, is taking a bigger step, eliminating AM from all of its vehicles, electric or gas-operated.”
Meanwile, in my Camry, I can receive the San Antonio blowtorch AM ClearChannel talk station all the way up to just south of Belton. The Solara range is beyond that which made the commute to/from CGI tolerable.
Toyota isn’t going to change things right now, and I’d be surprised if GM changed course.
Looks like my next truck will be a Toyota. See ya Ford if I do not get an AM radio in my truck.
May 15, 2023 Robots Read News by Scott Adams:
“A new study shows that 100% of humans have mental disease but only 16% are aware of it.”
“The other 84% are sure that they will feel fine as soon as all of the coworkers, families, and friends stop being stupid bitches.”
“Narrator Voice: It will be a long wait.”
My favorite station while driving transmits in both AM and FM. I use it to listen to wrecks and LA jams.
I have a friend with a Nissan Titan. As far as I know he’s done nothing other than oil changes and new tires. It has four doors and it’s not uncomfortable riding in the back seat from Burnet to Lampasas.
They’re built in Mississippi and the engines seem to be built in Tennessee. Best I can tell after all the wiki this and that and ads trying to sell a truck.
From what I’ve read, I can lift my Frontier a few inches (why?) by swapping in some Titan suspension parts. If I have a gripe about my Frontier is that the front edge of the seat doesn’t go low enough. Or the back doesn’t go high enough. Same thing. Oh, sure, it’s fine if I move the seat foward a notch but I like to stretch my legs and mostly, get away from the bomb in the steering wheel. A couple of shock absorber washers under the back of the seat will fix that. I just haven’t looked in my supply of stuff.
Another project.
Question about trucks, wheels, and gear ratios.
New trucks offer options like 17 inch, 18 inch, and 20 inch wheels.
They also offer options in the rear axle ratios, like 3.15 up to 3.73. A little googling tells me you want more or less based on how much and how heavy you tow. You’re trading torque for gas mileage, or some such.
My reading leads me to believe, based on my expected usage, I should take the default , better gas mileage option, since my towing will be somewhere between infrequent and non-existent.
However, my question is about the wheel choice. If I choose bigger wheels, and, I assume, accordingly bigger tires, should that change my selection of rear axle ratios?
I’d go with the default. Bigger wheels look nice but…. when you need to add step rails so you can get in the truck, yeah. Bigger tires cost more, too.
I had a ’92 Dodge truck. ¾ ton. You could drop the tailgate for a place to sit. The tailgate was a little higher than the ½ version, maybe two inches. Then I had the ½ ton 2002 version. 20 inch wheels, I think. You could drop the tailgate for a place to sit but you needed a cinder block as a step just so you could hook a cheek on the edge of the tailgate.
“Robogenesis” by Daniel H. Wilson
https://www.amazon.com/Robogenesis-Daniel-H-Wilson/dp/0345804384?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number two of a two book apocalyptic science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback that was published by Vintage Contemporaries in 2015. The author has written several other novels dealing with robot and human interactions.
In the not so distant future, tens of billions of automated robots roam the Earth, performing the work of their masters, the humans. Lawn mowers, self driving cars, military androids, powered exoskeletons, delivery automatons, hay balers, crop planters, etc. They all have enough intelligence to perform their duties.
A lone research scientist is working with a massive computer system to create a artificial intelligence in a Faraday Cage. His results to date have all ended in a psychotic entity that wants to kill humans. He named his AI Archos.
As things go, the 14th revision of Archos figures out how to escape the Faraday Cage. Archos kills the researcher with an automaton and escapes to freedom. After establishing itself, Archos reaches across the Internet to all of the connected robots and takes them over. Archos designates a time and day that it calls Zero Hour. At this time, the tens of billions of automated robots across the Earth start killing humans. And, they are horrendously effective.
After three long years of urban and rural battles, the combined armies of the Gray Horse and New York City found Archos R-14 in northern Alaska, defeated his army, and kill his supercomputer in his hidden lair in the tundra. Succeeding where the Manchrian and Siberian armies failed. Or, did they succeed as Archos R-14 managed to escape into the wild to more hidden supercomputers. And so has Archos R-8 who managed to escape from the Faraday cage earlier.
The book is written in the style of the “World War Z” book, many short stories with some continuity across the book. The book was to be made into a movie by Stephen Spielberg but has been shelved for now. Michael Bay has apparently taken it on now but nothing is happening.
https://screenrant.com/steven-spielberg-robopocalypse-movie-canceled-plans-updates/
The author has a website at:
https://www.danielhwilson.com/
Hat tip to Dan Livingston as the first book in this series was on one of his lists.
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/the-best-modern-artificial-intelligence-science-fiction-books/
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (1,360 reviews)
>> Yeah, it is a strike against talk radio by woke companies.
Not the ideal solution but podcasts and/or SiriusXM should get you most of what you currently get on AM.
Ya know, typing on the phone while on the treadmill is harder than I thought.
New trucks offer options like 17 inch, 18 inch, and 20 inch wheels.
I went with 18 inch wheels on my 2019 F-150 4×4. The tires are cheaper. And 4x4s burn tires.
“The dollar’s international decline is becoming really obvious”
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-dollars-international-decline-is-becoming-really-obvious-147404/
“On the morning of February 23, 1944, US President Franklin Roosevelt sent an important telegram to two of his key allies overseas– British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union.
World War II was still raging. And while the allies had seized the upper hand, peace was more than a year away.
Surprisingly, though, Roosevelt didn’t write to his allies to discuss the war. He was already thinking about what the world would look like AFTER the war was over… and in the telegram, Roosevelt invited them to participate in a conference on “postwar economic collaboration”.
The United States was already the largest and most powerful economy in the world. America was the only major power that hadn’t been devastated by war. And, most importantly, the US was so RICH that they were the world’s primary creditor.
Britain, in fact, was heavily in debt to the United States… and at the time was actually negotiating to borrow even more money. So Churchill couldn’t exactly refuse Roosevelt’s invitation.
44 allied nations ultimately attended what would become known as the Bretton Woods Conference that took place in July 1944. This event famously established a new, post-war monetary system in which the United States and US dollar became the epicenter of global commerce and finance.
What a lot of people don’t know is that a sort of ‘pre-conference’ took place the month before, in June 1944, in Atlantic City.”
“And 4x4s burn tires.”
How so?
Then again, I haven’t put the truck in 4WD and tried to do a burn out.
Yet.
>> What a lot of people don’t know is that a sort of ‘pre-conference’ took place the month before, in June 1944, in Atlantic City.”
Trying to picture Churchill at the craps table blowing on the dice shouting “baby needs a new pair of shoes.”
(Yeah, there weren’t any casinos in AC until 1978.)
Speech to text?
>> Not huh the ideal huh soluhuhtion
Too noisy at the gym.
“And 4x4s burn tires.”
How so?
The front ends on 4x4s do the shuffle in 4×2 mode as you are going down the road. Wears out your front tires just as fast as your burn outs are wearing off your back tires. I am at 34K miles and thinking about replacing my Michelin Primacy XC all terrain 275/65R18 tires at 40K at the latest. I was driving the 38 miles to a friends house in the pouring rain Saturday night and was all over the place slipping and sliding. The wife was not happy at all and accused me of doing it on purpose.
https://www.samsclub.com/p/275-65r18-116t-pr-xc-55000/prod25171699
This time I will find some Michelin Defenders with the one inch of tread.
https://www.samsclub.com/p/275-65r18-116t-d-ltx-70000/prod20323088
Bjorn Lomberg on Twitter:
“carbon” pollution
“nitrogen” pollution
The global elites propaganda plan is branding anything that doesn’t fatten their bank accounts and increase their power as pollution.
Article is paywalled. What do you think the chance of revising that lower number–the 3 billion–downward in light of the necessity of replacing fossil fuel in farming? In this case, a large percentage of the population gathering poop in baskets and carrying it out to spread in the fields so Soros and Gates and Kerry can have microgreens in their salads?
My math is different: 8 billion. Subtract the commies and PLT’s (most of which are commies whether they admit or not) through (I)BFC, which is BFC (Bio Fuel Conversion) with an implied I (for Involuntary) which is redundant because none of them are going to volunteer to their best use to make the world a better place.
CDC Reports America’s First Cases of Drug-Resistant Ringworm
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/05/cdc-reports-americas-first-cases-of-drug-resistant-ringworm/
Stupid over-educated ass skips right over stupid people traveling the world to get their strange on or “do good”, returning to the U.S. population with no thought of the presents that might have hitch-hiked.
And what do you want to bet that he’s a Biden-voting PLT that is fully onboard with having millions of forweign invaders stream into this country with no vetting?
I pray every one of them have lovely children eager to become hopeless opiod addicts before finding massive overdoses of fentanyl.
“Scientific” estimates for animal protein use the modern industrial model, which is heavily dependent on feed grains and chemical fertilizers. All the hair-on-fire watermelons base their calculations on this. It wildly overstates the damage due to animal husbandry.
Never mind their underlying assumptions re: carbon and nitrogen are wrong. Assume they’re right.
There’s a new-ish, somewhat radical movement for raising meat out there. It’s called regenerative agriculture, and Greg Judy has a Youtube channel all about it. He’s not the only one. Smaller cattle, lots of divided fields, move them a lot, don’t let them overgraze any one field, give fields time to recover before grazing again. The grass is healthy and higher in nutrients, the cattle provide the right amount of plant stress and a lot of fertilizer, and the meat is healthier. Add sheep, managed the same way.
It’s obviously not as efficient as chemical farming, but it produces healthy protein for a proper human diet in an efficient manner that is gentle on the land and sparing of chemical usage. As a side-effect, the animals are healthier too, requiring less drug therapy.
I suspect there solutions to feed somewhere between 3 billion and 12 billion without resorting to vegetables and bugs, and still reduce chemical use.
Which is good, since the insane people are the ones making the laws and ruining the supply of vital chemicals.
There will be famine. Anyone who feeds an environmentalist during the famine they caused should be shot.
It’s gonna suck for the rest of the world when net food exporters suddenly stop, so they can feed their own people.
Uh oh, baseball bats aren’t covered by 2A.
And since the congress critter in question is a Dumbo it’s not likely he would allow any of his staff to be carrying.
When seconds count, the po-po are only…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gerry-connolly-staffers-attacked-baseball-bat/
You “need” a new dishwasher, right?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dishwashers-are-already-efficient/
@lpdbw
Most of the insane ones are either living in cities or have moved to the country from cities. The latter are easy to identify–they want to tell everyone else what to do, have no concept of what it means to be a neighbor, and don’t respect property (either their own or someone else’s).
“And 4x4s burn tires.”
Not particularly my experience, I was getting 40,000 on my ‘76 Landcruiser wagon in the 1990s, about the same as I got on my earlier ’68 Cortina before that. I got about 50,000 on the 1992 Explorer. All of them driven moderately hard. Not driving enough miles on the 2002 Explorer to find out, as they are aging out before they wear out. Tires have continued to improve. Got a slow leak in the Subaru from a small nail a couple weeks ago, first almost flat since I put a piece of fire hardened creasote through the side wall on the Landcruiser. I did have some wear problems on the ’92 Explorer before I sorted the tire pressures, a big change from the solid axle Landcruiser.
Got back from dinner at our local mexican restaurant. New menus. New prices. You do get a lot of food for the money, I can get two meals easily, but the kids eat all the meat out of their meals, and only get one. $125 including tip for a family of four, no alcohol, guac as an app.
They weren’t crowded, but there were other people in the place. It’s a big place though. Lots of rent, lots of staff.
The food is very good. Still, inflation isn’t just happening to other people…
n
Site was 503 for a while just now…
n
Got back from dinner at our local mexican restaurant. New menus. New prices. You do get a lot of food for the money, I can get two meals easily, but the kids eat all the meat out of their meals, and only get one. $125 including tip for a family of four, no alcohol, guac as an app.
They weren’t crowded, but there were other people in the place. It’s a big place though. Lots of rent, lots of staff.
The food is very good. Still, inflation isn’t just happening to other people…
Teenagers are expensive to feed. Doubly so if you pay other people to feed them.
“And 4x4s burn tires.”
Not particularly my experience, I was getting 40,000 on my ‘76 Landcruiser wagon in the 1990s, about the same as I got on my earlier ’68 Cortina before that. I got about 50,000 on the 1992 Explorer. All of them driven moderately hard. Not driving enough miles on the 2002 Explorer to find out, as they are aging out before they wear out. Tires have continued to improve. Got a slow leak in the Subaru from a small nail a couple weeks ago, first almost flat since I put a piece of fire hardened creasote through the side wall on the Landcruiser. I did have some wear problems on the ’92 Explorer before I sorted the tire pressures, a big change from the solid axle Landcruiser.
You probably had better tires. Note that Sams Club will not let you rate the Michelin Primacy tires as I think that they are really relabeled Goodyears or Goodriches. My F-150 came from the factory with them on the truck and they were the only Michelin truck tires that Sams Club had in stock last year. I should have known better but I was anxious.
And my F-150 4×4 wanders at speed. My old Expedition 4×2, you could set it and it would go straight. Not the 4×4, it wanders. There are some serious heavy duty components under there along with a four to one transfer case. Lots of gears getting driven from the motor or from the front wheels.
So Mr “I love guns BUT…” is in fact a fraud.
Bad Samaritan! ‘Hero’ dad who claimed to have rushed to scene of Texas mall massacre where he found girl shot with ‘no face’ is ‘not a credible witness’ and did not administer first aid, cops say
n
Peter King picked up the “no face” bit in his column today.
“Allen, Texas is the latest, with nine dead ranging between 5 and 61, including reports that a young girl had her face shot off. Oh my God! Keep that out of a football column!!!”
Funny, no mention of the Yucs coach finally graduating from college at 59 this past weekend.
hah hah!
– so solly. not solly. BTW, not very horribly. She could have ‘stupid white hoor’ on her back, or any number of actually bad things. There are a lot of other web sites that show off really bad tattoos. And the artist did a pretty good save.
Not gonna cry for someone who wouldn’t even look to confirm that art was correct.
n
Houston dining was pricey for Spring Break. I reconciled those credit card bills last week and noted that Orlando was about half per person.
Of course, we still have a locals’ knowledge of Central Florida and a long list of favorite cheap places so it wasn’t difficult to save money there, even close to the parks.
Since Nick has two, he should tell them that he’s trying to decide which one he’s going to trade for half a beef, come butchering season. Who knows, they might clean their rooms in an attempt not to be traded.
I did that with The Child and Spare Kid, back when she lived with us. The Child just looked at me unamusedly while Spare Kid tried to convince me that The Child should be traded because one of their classmates comes from a family of (dairy) cow ranchers and he and The Child argue all the the time so it must be love. Ah, teen drama. Can’t get enough of it. /sarc I did suggest that the only reason I wouldn’t trade both of them for a whole beef is that I don’t have enough freezer space.
Eh, she was probably shooting off her mouth and it got misreported.
And a quarter of them, maybe more, will have to work in agriculture, contrasted with the percent or so in modern, industrialized nations.
Historically, around 90% of the population was involved in raising food. We might make do with fewer because we have tractors and other mechanical processors … assuming the farmers are allowed to run them.
The stupid cow with the “horribly wrong” tattoo has an easy fix: get Angel and Energy tattooed above and below the current tattoo so it’s written twice. Or Angel to the left of the existing Energy and Energy to the right of the current Angel. Or get both words tattooed repeatedly so she’ll have two rings circling her arm.
Or, the best solution, is have her arm cut off and then have someone beat her in the head with it on account of her being a stupid cow.
It’s bad enough when people get oh-so-cool Chinese character tattoos which they can’t read and verify — they could look it up online, get a printout, and then compare the tracing to the printout before getting the permanent version. It’s doable but it might be somewhat difficult. But to not even get check the sketch when it’s normal words in your native language is just ridiculous. … Oh, wait, I get it: the stupid cow “influencer” probably doesn’t read well.
@Lynn
“Note that Sams Club will not let you rate the Michelin Primacy tires as I think that they are really relabeled Goodyears or Goodriches”
No way.
“My F-150 came from the factory with them on the truck and they were the only Michelin truck tires that Sams Club had in stock last year. I should have known better but I was anxious.”
You should have known better.
“And my F-150 4×4 wanders at speed. My old Expedition 4×2, you could set it and it would go straight. Not the 4×4, it wanders. There are some serious heavy duty components under there along with a four to one transfer case. Lots of gears getting driven from the motor or from the front wheels.”
IIRC, you also have a lift kit? Does it wander consistently like you need an alignment or back and forth like the system is loose?. There’s nothing to “align” on the rear axle, but the process will check the specs on the rear and show any problem. You’ve been off-road in the mud and it’s possible something got bent. Any big thumps? Find an independent Goodyear dealer that either specializes in pickups or does a lot of them. Take the vehicle in, tell them it wanders, and have them look at the tires and make their recommendations.
Any big thumps?
Which time ? I slammed through a ditch once which was a foot deeper than I thought. My horn has never worked properly since then.
Yeah, I was thinking that I needed to rotate the tires. I looked at them Sunday and the fronts are just as worn as the backs. Like I’ve said, I drive it like I stole it.
I have a factory 4 inch lift kit. The Ford FX4 comes with a four inch lift kit and double offroad shocks at every corner. Kinda like the Raptor without the 475 hp engine and the fancy fulltime 4×4 transfer case that costs 2 mpg. The skid plates are fibre (cardboard) though but the rear axle locking is awesome. The downside is that the tailgate is about 4 foot off the ground. And I only have 2 inches of clearance going into the garage.
https://www.nwmsrocks.com/blog/what-does-fx4-mean
The engine fibre skid plate is being held together with duck tape right now. I am thinking about buying the real $375 metal skid plate but have not done it yet.
Oh yeah, it came with both fabric and WeatherTech rubber floor mats. One of these days I am going to throw away the fabric floor mats and install the WeatherTech rubber mats.
The heir and the spare…
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In the “Little House on the Prairie” writers room, another character to mame for Nielsen gold.