Cool and damp at the BOL. It was overcast and cool all day yesterday, until late afternoon, then it got beautiful. Even a tad warm… sun came out, wind died down a bit. Spring. All three weeks are lovely.
Didn’t do much in the way of work though. Given the day, I’m not to heartbroken. Basically I just piddlefarted around in the dockhouse, messing with fishing gear, and occasionally throwing a line in the water.
I did test the sprinklers and determined that they haven’t been watering. The pump lost prime so no water was coming out… or the inlet is under the muck again. I’ll be investigating that today. I really need the sprinklers to run.
Wife did some caulking and painting, so some minor stuff is coming off the list.
Kids had fun with the egg hunt. There is a lot more room to hide stuff here than at home. (yes, we’ll still keep doing it as long as they want to play along. It’s fun.)
Dinner was entirely from the fridge, freezers, and pantry. Oh, except for a ‘heat and eat’ loaf of garlic bread. Ham, baked beans, smashed cauliflower. Neighbor gave us peach cobbler for dessert.
My head is clearing, but I’m coughing more. Dunno if that’s a good thing, but I hate being snotty. I know some of you think Airborne is a scam, but I find that it works for me. Don’t know the mechanism, don’t care, if I can take it instead of more serious meds and get some relief.
Today will be a mix of small things, if the weather holds. I’ve got some blueberry bushes to plant, some herbs, and some squashes. I’ve got a couple of small jobs to finish, and the sprinklers to troubleshoot. At least my head is feeling better. Still don’t want to climb a ladder with a chainsaw, so the limbs might get a reprieve until next time.
I may not now my limitations, but I know when I’m getting close. 30ft in the air with a chainsaw and a stuffed head is dang close…
Better to get some extra sleep and push stuff off until later…
Stack, stack, stack… you won’t regret it.
nick
Just based on fashion choices alone, I’d say that those three are not FBI agents.
I’m no fashion plate, but the wardrobe choices don’t project that image. FBI agents are trained and paid to dress the part.
The woman may be a civilian employee/Dem operative who secured a vehicle from the motor pool, but even the SUV is suspect. A POS three cylinder Rogue?!? That isn’t exactly “Bureau”.
“FBI” drives something from GM Arlington with a maintainable Allison transmission, not Jatco which will go splody after a brief stint.
@Nick
“I’ve decided that if I should get crosswise with any agency, I’m calling my constable’s office to get some other eyes on scene. At least I know their names, and they patrol my neighborhood. They know me and my vehicles.”
exactly
That whole situation was dodgy as hell . As @Greg pointed out, not consistent with bureau dress, wheels, behavior, etc
Highly doubt any of them were agents . Some kind if contract employee? I’d be asking my reps to find out.
The female probably answers phones if that was really a Bureau vehicle. She looked like bad Dana Scully cosplay I’ll occasionally see at cons.
She didn’t dye her hair, but maybe she thought that would be pushing things too far.
Also no handbag with easy CCW access in an unknown situation.
My simple rule is to never say anything beyond my name to any federal agent, regardless of the situation. Wife taken hostage. I will get a lawyer and speak to the lawyer who can relay to the agents. Federal agents are never your friend. Martha Stewart learned that lesson.
@Brad: Re: rental “portals”
In my experience, apartment property management companies never take cash payments. The web based “portal” is a fee based external vendor that automates collections for accounts receivable, maintenance, and documents (leases, applications, work orders). I suspect, but am too out of date myself, that there is integration with the in house management software.
The external vendor’s function is to deal with identity verification, bank and credit card account numbers and authorizations and any fees from those payment methods. They charge based on the number of actual physical “units”.
The u-store-it company, my last employer, kept all that in house. Folks could pay with cash, check, money order in our office or automatic charge with debit/credit card with the in house software or through our website. I gather from ‘Tube videos that staff-less u-store-it facilities can automate sales and lease signing as well. A phone call to a human in an office, gosh knows where, deals with the logistics of padlocks.
The apartment company in Milwaukee and the one here in Idaho had/have the external “portals”. The “portal” software collects my payment account info and authorization for my checking account or any additional payment method. I have a choice as to whether the charge is automatically deducted on the 1st or I manually visit the portal and make the payment in the last week of the month.
The latter system cannot handle roommate partial payments after the charge for next month’s payment is entered on the 25th of the month. I dunno which company’s policy controls that inconvenience.
Hope this helps.
@Nightraker: What bothers me about the portal are two things:
Looks to me exactly like the spam mails you get: DHL sends you a mail saying you owe money, but the link goes to some fake web address.
Now, I’m sure this is a legitimate company. I even figured out which one it is, but only because I am “techie” enough to do some sleuthing and figure it out. It’s just (imho) a really lousy way of doing things, that helps give scammers new victims.
But again, maybe I’m over-reacting.
Once upon a time, I was a traveling consultant, and I flew enough to get bumped up to first class a lot. I struck up a conversation with a fellow traveller once, and he proudly told me about his wife, who was a federal agent and had been for over 10 years.
I asked him if she ever considered getting honest work.
Ask me for more tips on making friends and influencing people.
Nope. It’s not too much to ask that payment systems look more legitimate than a Nigerian scam.
Naw, shady looking stuff is shady, if only because they’ve gone to some inexperienced low ball developer, who will make mistakes and mess up the security. Just say no.
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71F and light overcast but pretty gusty wind today. I’m breathing thru my nose this am, which is a huge improvement. Still not feeling even 80%, and still coughing, but clearly getting better. Ears feel like they are moist inside. Ewww.
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Wife is using the Starlink to work, her work vpn and server seem to be ok with the latency. We’re still running on the starlink router/wifi. I have a weblink wifi booster, a couple ubiquiti UFO shaped APs, an intellinet switch, and I can’t config ANY of it. The poe injector I brought up is dead (probably why I pulled it and it was in the pile) and the switch is too smart to turn on poe without being configured. The reset doesn’t seem to be working, despite varied and repeated efforts- I can’t get to the management page. IPScan shows a non-default IP for the switch, but even that doesn’t get the management page, or telnet.
I ran into the PoE enable issue with an ubiquiti switch at my client’s. FFS people turn on the PoE when the switch boots.
Gah. Tech.
n
@Brad:
I’m sure you’re not. In looking at the URL for the “portals” I’m using/used I see they are of the form /complexname.residentportal.appfolio.com
“appfolio” is the external vendor, I think. That is the name of a company that provides the software as a service out of California. In skimming their website, I see they are focused on rental companies.
Sort of like the “webstore” add-on Nick has mentioned for his other hobby website needs.
I’m sure there is a non-zero probability of fraud/breach in any ecommerce facilitator. So, I removed my banking info from the one I’ve moved away from.
Back in the day, the early 2000’s, the Section 8 apartment management company I worked for used a pretty clunky DOS software which multitasked under Windows to keep track of the resident bookkeeping. Each apartment complex ran as a separate instance over the LAN, 1 user only.
There were no electronic means of payment for the residents, paper checks and money orders only. The real work that software did was to submit requests to HUD for the subsidy payment, the vast bulk of revenue.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/01/the-electricity-crisis-is-almost-here-n3785712
Two highlights from Germany:
They are projecting 100 days per year of power cuts lasting 21 hours or more.
Industrial production for the last year is 15% below the 2015 baseline, and lower than the worst 3 months of Kungflu.
What do you think is the probability that Germany will meet it’s 2% defense spending pledge now, given that they weren’t meeting it before.
How much gas are they getting from Russia?
And who is orchestrating this monketshiite behind the scenes and laughing hard enough to shake the walls around Red Square?
isn’t it past time we tore up tje woodpiles to see what was in them?
Rayciss!
Leave me out of this.
My head is clearing, but I’m coughing more. Dunno if that’s a good thing, but I hate being snotty. I know some of you think Airborne is a scam, but I find that it works for me. Don’t know the mechanism, don’t care, if I can take it instead of more serious meds and get some relief.
Airborne ? I don’t want to jump out of an airplane. One of my wife’s cousin’s did that a few times in Vietnam while people were shooting at him when he was in the 82nd ???. He did not recommend it.
“Houston Mayor John Whitmire Says City Is “Broke” After Decades of Overspending”
https://thelibertydaily.com/houston-mayor-john-whitmire-says-city-is-broke/
Houston may go into bankruptcy. That would be … interesting.
Houston wants an income tax across the metropolitan area (nine counties) of eight million souls bad. Real bad. 8% ought to do it for now.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Strategic blow: Alleged Israeli airstrike takes out Iranian general in Damascus”
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-794796
“The strike killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a top commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), according to a report in Reuters, citing a security source in Lebanon.”
Summer is coming. Gonna be spicy hot when it starts off bombing consulates flat into the ground.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
“A.F. Branco Cartoon – April Fool in Chief”
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-april-fool-in-chief/
“A.F. Branco Cartoon – Joe Biden is the biggest April Fool that ever set foot in the White House, choosing the day Christ rose from the dead to proclaim “Transgender Visibility Day”.”
That is nasty.
“They Thought Ozempic Would Help Them Lose Weight. It Didn’t Work.”
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/ozempic-weight-loss-drug-ineffective-why-6d7059bb
“There is a wide range in how much weight people lose on GLP-1 medications”
So, Ozempic is not the wonder drug for some people.
You know, that looks like a multiple stick pen. Ouch.
You may need to come in from https://www.drudgereport.com/ to get through the WSJ paywall.
How much gas are they getting from Russia?
Most of the natural gas in Europe now comes from vaporized LNG and new natural gas wells in the North Sea in Denmark, Scotland, and England. I do not think that any, if at all, of the two pipelines in the North Sea, the two pipelines through Ukraine, and the two pipelines in Georgia are flowing.
There is enough natural gas in the North Sea to last decades, if not hundreds of years. It just was not being produced due to the greenies.
There is always Oakland or Chicago for a similar jumping thrill.
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I don’t know if that is true. <cough>NSA and CIA<cough> But I’m very sure any mail going through GMail or Yahoo is mined. Same for anything Microsoft.
If you want the least chance that any US TLA is reading your email go with Proton Mail, especially if the sender is also on the service. They are based in Switzerland and are very security-focused. Their code is all open sourced.
Basic personal accounts are free. You pay for upgraded features and business accounts.
Recommended.
Memes: Swimming With The Dolphins
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/memes-that-made-me-laugh-203.html
I love number four.
“EPA sets strict pollution standards for trucks, buses”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/government/article/55001220/epa-sets-strict-pollution-standards-for-trucks-buses
“The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized strict pollution standards for heavy-duty vehicles for model years 2027-2032.”
“The rule would help avoid about 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and generate about $13 billion in societal benefits through fewer deaths, hospitalizations and lost workdays, EPA said.”
“The agency explained that trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles account for one-quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, which is itself the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US.”
Just another dictatorial ruling. This means that manufacturing of those vehicles will move out of the USA to Mexico, Turkey, and other places. Lots of good jobs going out the door.
BTW, the technology that meets these new rules is not mass producible. It only exists in demonstration vehicles and uses exotic materials in short supply. So, that does not meet the legal requirements for mandating this technology and the courts will probably strike this rule down, along with the new automobile and light truck rule issued last week.
“YouTube ordered to reveal the identities of video viewers”
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/03/youtube-ordered-to-reveal-the-identities-of-video-viewers
Well, that is not unnerving at all.
“‘I Look Forward To Being Arrested’: JK Rowling Torches Scotland’s New ‘Hate Crime’ Law”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-look-forward-to-being-arrested-jk-rowling-torches-scotlands-new-hate-crime-law
I wonder if the Scots have the guts to arrest Rowling ? That would be amazing.
What happened to the Scots ? They used to be fearsome. White man’s guilt ?
“A boost for fusion power: With new law, Washington state leaders signal support for sector’s next steps”
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/a-boost-for-fusion-power-with-new-law-washington-state-leaders-signal-support-for-sectors-next-steps/
“The region’s fusion ventures are charging ahead. Helion is aiming to deploy a commercial power plant in Washington by 2028, with Microsoft as its customer. Zap’s target for commercial power is 2030.”
Did I miss a news release ? Is there a working fusion reactor now for more than a second ? Other than the big one in the sky ?
“A ‘D’ for the USPS Delivering for America plan”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2945256/d-for-usps-delivering-for-america-plan/
“The United States Postal Service delivers at least one thing consistently. It has lost money in every quarter since 2007, even though its 2021 Delivering For America plan guaranteed that it would finally break even in fiscal 2023.”
“Instead, it lost $6.4 billion in fiscal 2023, projects a $6.3 billion loss in fiscal 2024 (the first-quarter loss of $2.1 billion is more than double the $1 billion loss in the first quarter of fiscal 2023), and a $5 billion loss in fiscal 2025. The fiscal 2023 loss, which was $2 billion, or 44%, more than the planned loss of $4.5 billion, was attributed to lower mail volume, higher inflation, and service improvement efforts.”
How in the world ???
re: Transgender Visibility Day and Easter: the “TVD” was established in 2009, not this year (as another ‘made up’ recognition date – just about any event seems to have an ‘official’ day.
This year, TVD happens to fall on Easter Day, which has varying dates. I believe that it also happened in 2013.
From 2001 to 2100, it will land on March 31 five times — making March 31 one of the most common dates for Easter.
Perhaps bad optics for Biden administration to officially recognize both events that just happen to be on the same day.
Coughing up gunk here the last couple of days. Don’t think there is a drive to the eclipse in me this time around. Too bad
USPS does have problems. First off of my head is they have to fully fund their retirement funds. How novel! But that’s how it should be done.
The price of gas? How much do they use and has anyone noticed the price has doubled or so in the last couple of years?
How much mail do you get now a days? I use to get 15 to 20 magazines a month. I get none now. Bills? It was a dozen plus but now just four and I pay them on-line so I’m not using any stamps. I have noticed a decrease in stuff like Publisher’s Clearing House and the weekly sales flyers.
I suppose they self insure their vehicles but you never know. Folks need to be paid and I guess they get at least a COLA like SS folks get. I’m totally totally awed with my extra $27 a month after Medicare raised rates.
USPS seems to do a good job. Folks complain but I never notice any solutions being suggested.
Re: USPS – they deliver a lot of Amazon and TEMU packages- at least to my house. My postal person uses their own car (I think) to deliver (right-hand drive van).
I suspect they could save some money by getting rid of Saturday deliveries, but that won’t go over well with the constituency or labor unions (?). Just a guess, though.
USPS seems to do a good job. Folks complain but I never notice any solutions being suggested.
Both my house and my office building are on USPS RFD (rural farm delivery) routes that they sell to the highest bidder every day. In practice, they have trouble selling the house route so we get a desperate USPS employee at the end of the day who is racing so they can go home. The office usually is handled by a guy who lives down the road who knows us. When he takes a day off or a week off, the replacement throws our mail into a ditch somewhere. Not optimal.
I cannot use USPS for international mail so I have to use UPS or FedEX then. Very expensive, over a $100 now to most countries. And I have to send a physical copy for legal documents for the IRS exchange with tax treaty countries like Greece.
Saturday delivery isn’t a big deal to me. They could go to delivery on even/odd days while skipping Saturday and Sunday.
No, no, not silly stuff like Austin did about watering your grass depending on street address.
Just do “this part of town today” and do “that part tomorrow”. If they get it right they wouldn’t need as many mailmen. Instead of (say)15 out here delivering mail everyday, have 10 delivering every other day. Save gas, vehicle wear, pensions, and so on. The 10 mailmen would work every day so no loss of pay for them.
And go back to putting a pink delivery slip in the mailbox. It’s nuts that the guy is driving a mile from the mailboxes to my house with a package and then a mile back to the pavement. I actually do not have a problem going to town for a package. The grocery store is next door and I always need something.
I’m on a RR. It looks like a normal street address because someone decreed everyone needed an address for 911 stuff. But you can (as of two years ago) send me a letter to Rt.3, Box 109 and I get it. With a scribbled note on the envelope to tell the sender my proper address. 🙂
Overrun with Muslims.
USPS; I’ve been saying for 10+ years that I’m OK with alternate-day delivery. Split all mail routes in half; first half on M-W-F, second half on T-Th-S. My junk mail can certainly wait a day, and I rarely get anything other than junk.
20 years ago, I’d buy rolls of stamps and use 20 per month just paying my bills. Now, bill-payment is automatic through my bank, and I haven’t bought stamps in at least 5 years.
“Climate Alarmists Battle to Censor Film Exposing ‘Climate Crisis Scam’”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/entertainment/climate-alarmists-battle-to-censor-film-exposing-climate-crisis-scam-5617778
“It’s been a little over a week since “Climate: The Movie,” a documentary produced by Thomas Nelson and directed by Martin Durkin, was released on Vimeo, YouTube, Rumble, and other platforms. And already, it’s garnered millions of views and thousands of reviews.”
““Watch this documentary to understand the lies, the pseudoscience, but also the self-interest of government-funded parasites pushing climate alarmism,” Maxime Bernier, the founder and leader of the People’s Party of Canada, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, about the film that details how “an eccentric environmental scare grew into a powerful global industry.””
Global Warming XXXXX XXXXX Climate Change XXXXX XXXXX Climate Disruption are fake, all fake.
You will own nothing and be happy.
“Climate Change” is real, and happening now, but in cycles 1000+ years long. It’s been colder; it’s been hotter; and it will be both again later on. At the peak of the last climate cycle, Vikings had dairy farms on Greenland. Based on sunspot cycles, I think we’re about at the peak of this cycle, and that the next major change will be cold.
Climate change has been observed on Mars, despite the absence of SUVs, lawnmowers, cows, and coal-fired power plants.
I am a certified U.S. Army “Cherry Jumper”, ie, I completed training at Fort Benning and did five jumps, but was never in an airborne unit. I live to tell the story.
I’ve already typed today’s date a few times, as usual, but I haven’t observed any April Fools’ Day jokes at all, including on what little TV I watch during the day. Are we losing our sense of humor?
For those who miss the frivolity, I went looking. Here are some oldies:
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/april-fools-day-pranks
Ahh, I feel better.
I started with a free account. I upgraded to a premium account over a year ago just for their VPN service. It works flawlessly. I use ProtonMail for my side biz.
LOL Mr. Fusion is just around the corner.
>> “The United States Postal Service delivers at least one thing consistently. It has lost money in every quarter since 2007, even though its 2021 Delivering For America plan guaranteed that it would finally break even in fiscal 2023.”
“Instead, it lost $6.4 billion in fiscal 2023, projects a $6.3 billion loss in fiscal 2024 (the first-quarter loss of $2.1 billion is more than double the $1 billion loss in the first quarter of fiscal 2023), and a $5 billion loss in fiscal 2025. The fiscal 2023 loss, which was $2 billion, or 44%, more than the planned loss of $4.5 billion, was attributed to lower mail volume, higher inflation, and service improvement efforts.”
@lynn, I’d guess if your company has losses like that you’d be flipping burgers at McDonalds rather than writing software…
The Mrs and I spent the day with our realtor looking at houses around Vegas. 1 out of 6 was a maybe. We looked at DR Horton’s new models featuring “MultGen Living,” i.e., MIL suite, but for your Millenial kid. That was a two-story 5300SF behemoth just under $800K. They are opening a single-story one starting at $600K. Where do these people get that kind of money?
She’s got the money to fight back. They’ll pick on influencers or commentors first.
Once they’ve got some precedent to quote, they’ll go after the higher profile people where they think they can “make an example” to discourage the others.
And it works.
she = JKR
n
doing my last check and then heading for home.
n
JKR needs to offer to pay legal expenses for anyone prosecuted.
Biden Claims He Didn’t Proclaim Easter Sunday ‘Trans Day of Visibility’
Click to see the proclamation that was issued by Joseph R. Biden Jr, President of the United States
and his Twitter thread.
Amazingly, National Whole Hog Sausage Month falls on Ramadan next year, or will, just as soon as we get it scheduled.
Odds are 50:50 that FJB will have forgotten he was ever president by that time, too.
Global Warming XXXXX XXXXX Climate Change XXXXX XXXXX Climate Disruption are fake, all fake.
You will own nothing and be happy.
I forgot Climate Alarm and Climate Emergency.
I agree with the movie, this is a Climate Hoax.
Selling their homes in Southern Cacafornia.
Houston and Dallas have been insolvent for at least a decade due to first responder pension obligations made by the politicians back in the day, including former Mayor of Houston, Kathy Whitmire, the current Mayor’s sister-in-law.
Repeal of the income tax prohibition will be on the 2027 ballot in Texas.
Houston could always try the Seattle route of passing an income tax and then fighting in court. Seattle lost, but that was WA State law.
AirBnB.
Still, 7% interest rates must have quelled enthusiasm for $600k houses.
The Fed will have to resume buying the mortgage paper before November.
Welfare. NHS. Scotland forgot how to be … Scotland!
My grandfather talked about how the Germans feared the Scottish soldiers the most in WWII.
She’s got the money to fight back. They’ll pick on influencers or commentors first.
Once they’ve got some precedent to quote, they’ll go after the higher profile people where they think they can “make an example” to discourage the others.
And it works.
she = JKR
n
J. K. Rowling really needs to make an example of what she thinks and move to the USA. That would create a huge stir in the UK and bring some of their nastyisms to light.
Home. Tired and hungry.
n
I finally just figured out how to make scrollbars always visible in Windows 11. Their fading away after five seconds pissed me off.
https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-10-11-customize-scrollbars/
Home. Tired and hungry.
When I am hungry on the road nowadays, I run through Chikfila and get a dozen nuggets. But you gotta hit them before 10pm.
I try not to eat if driving, too many things make me sleepy. The exception is sugar free beef jerky. I nibble that constantly if I’m feeling at all sleepy on the road.
n
“Dali owners DENY fault and demand lawsuits be capped at $43.6million – the cost of the boat that crashed into the Baltimore Key Bridge sparking deadly collapse”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13261407/Dali-Baltimore-bridge-collapse-ship-cost-fault.html
“The companies said before the fatal voyage, the value of the ship was no greater than $90 million. They estimated the repair costs will be at least $28 million, the salvage costs will be at least $19.5 million and the freight costs is estimated at $1.17 million.”
“The groups filed under a pre-Civil War provision of an 1851 maritime law that allows them to seek to limit their liability to the value of the vessel’s wreckage after a casualty.”
Not surprising. Don’t nobody want to pay for the new $5 billion bridge.
Or a 15 billion dollar bridge. Which is what I think it will be, 15-20 years from now.
n
The “Ladies from Hell”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020ppbp
Mad Jack Churchill’s antics in WW II. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
I have done quite a few long trips over the years, most more than eight hours a day. I used to carry a water soaked washcloth in a plastic zipper bag. That was refreshing and would keep me awake, especially before AC, but even in winter.
Later, I learned that chewing gum works best for me. I don’t ordinarily chew gum, but learned the trick from a colleague who used it in long, boring meetings. Since I don’t drive many long trips lately, I found that candy coated sugar free gum keeps well over long periods of time when stored in a car. When I start to feel slightly sleepy, I start with one piece of gum. I add more as the gum loses its flavor. It also gets harder to chew, which I find is better at keeping me awake. If I become alert, I stop the gum until the next need.
As for eating, when I used to do long trips, I would make sandwiches to take along. I would eat a half whenever I felt hungry. That way, I didn’t eat enough to make me sleepy.
I have always liked coffee, but it never did much to keep me alert. In my mid-20s, a doc suggested I eliminate caffeine as a test. I found that, after I got used to no caffeine, I was less sleepy, especially late at night. Go figure. Also, if I drank some regular coffee, it gave me a kick that I had never experienced while drinking several cups per day. I still go on and off coffee, sometimes for a few months at a time. Now, it doesn’t seem to make much difference. My point: experiment; caffeine is an interesting drug.
Finally, on long trips, I find a safe place to stop and stretch my legs for a few minutes. That usually works well.
I guess some of this is training. I have a friend who has driven for long stretches alone, sometimes coast to coast. He does some of the above. After the first 24 hours, he catnaps for a half-hour to an hour every few hours, as needed. I have never gone that long without at least four hours of sleep every day. I have another friend who was a long haul trucker, who mostly drove alone. He said the rules kept him from sleepiness, but if he needed to stop for a nap he would. Naps are great!
Boredom is different from sleepiness. Fortunately, boredom can be conquered in a variety of ways.
Being in Switzerland, I would happily use them. However, there is always a trade-off between usability and security, and they move pretty far away from usability: Last I heard, you still cannot hook up an ordinary email client (like Thunderbird) to their service. @Alan: Has that changed?
Vicious. Absolutely vicious. Given how widely read she is, it just might make a difference.
Honestly, I haven’t figured Scotland out. We used to live there, and the Scots are great people. I wouldn’t say that they are any more “woke” than people anywhere else. But their government seems to be populated by fruits and nuts.
The US is…not an improvement. The US also puts trans-women into female prisons, lets them trash cis-women in sports, etc.. Speaking out about it is also political suicide. Rowling is fortunate, in that she is rich enough not to have to care, and is willing to face the wrath of the woke.
Can also recommend protonmail, I’ve been using them for a couple of years now without any issues. They also make pretty decent VPN, password manager and online storage which come with their accounts. They recently launched their own desktop mail client.
Nope. They have produced positive power, compared to power input into the reaction. But nowhere close to the “engineering” power, i.e., the actual power required to run the device.
Honestly, I’m not convinced that fusion will ever be a useful source of power. I can’t find it anymore, but I remember reading an article that pointed out that even in the sun, fusion is a very rare event. The sun’s power output from fusion (per volume) is roughly equivalent to a good compost heap. It’s just a very big compost heap.
So much for “clear”. It’s overcast, dark, and rain is pattering down.
Liars. Frauds.
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It is a comfortable temp though.
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Family is out the door, starting their day. Took a bit extra today.
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Unfortunately, like ‘political correctness’ or in otherwords LYING to make someone feel better, cancel culture and woke will be with us now as part of our culture moving forward. I think the pendulum will swing, it always does, but I don’t think there is any way it will go away. Too many people find power in it.
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But sort of like Foucault’s pendulum, it swings to somewhere else. No telling just where. Wokeness will fade, to be replaced by? Maybe something we’ll like better, maybe not…
Personally, I think the big issue of the next decade or two is the dropping living standard of much of the middle class (in the West). That seems likely to provoke a strong populist reaction. The problem with populist movements is that they tend to identify the right problems, but then come up with really stupid ideas that create far worse problems.