Clear and nice for the next two days according to the national forecast. We’ll see what our local microclimate actually does, but it certainly was nice yesterday.
Too bad I spent most of the afternoon literally pretending to be a shade tree mechanic. And laying on my back in the shade under a filthy truck. The result of a few hours spent is ruling out the alternator and the starter/solenoid. Most of that time was driving from store to store to get the parts checked. My next possibility is the corroded cable at the battery clamp. I found a 2 volt drop in the first inch of the cable. The weird thing is that the problem appeared suddenly. Damage from corrosion is usually a slow and gradual problem. JEP said “it’s almost always the cable” and he may have been right in this case too.
I spent the morning getting dinner ready (crock pot pot roast) and packing the bulk meat I bought. Should have done it sooner, but it was still fine. Did I mention that Costco has standing rib pork loin roasts for less than $2/pound? I forgot that it was Easter time, and that they carried my favorite pork cut at Easter. Cut up as pork chops, or cooked as a roast, you can’t beat the flavor. The pot roast is a family favorite, and couldn’t be easier. Just add whatever sturdy veg you have in the fridge, I used turnips, carrots, potatoes, and onion, the meat (seared in cast iron first) and the Betty Crocker pot roast slow cooker seasoning packet. 6-8 hours later, add a fresh baked (shelf stable) loaf of sourdough bread to the table, and you have a feast. Stew in the slow cooker is pretty much the same, except the meat is cubed first, and I use the “beef stew” packet…
Plan for today is more exploration and hopefully a resolution to my truck issue. I need the truck to do about 80% of the stuff on my list. If I get it fixed, I’ve got all the other stuff that didn’t get done this week stacked up. If I don’t, that stuff will slip even more.
I guess I better get moving.
And btw, the head of Goya foods is warning about famine too.
It’s real and it’s coming. Stack it up.
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6am, 65F and 98%RH. Not actually raining, but very damp.
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Just in time for Memorial Day real estate silly season in Austin.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/administration-signals-student-loan-forgiveness-decision-may-come-soon.html
I know someone who works for Goya. The company’s upper management aren’t normally given to hyperbole. So that’s sobering.
Re working on cars: That’s a prepping skill. What will we do if young mechanics aren’t coming along to fix the mechanical vehicles? I had wanted to take my jeep in for an A/C charge and the shop is closed, no one answering the phone. So I don’t know what is going on. I hope they haven’t had a bereavement. The shop is always real busy, and they used to have two mechanics. Last time I was in there, one had retired and they had not found a replacement.
Should be a nice day here, aside from the wind which has become a constant over the past two months. Overcast and pleasant. High is supposed to be in the 80s.
Our eldest was here for several days, and went home last night, so I’ll be a little glum as always when a welcome visitor leaves. It’s nice when he comes, because he usually overstays a day or too longer than planned. He only lives in Dallas, but like everyone is busy busy with work so it’s a treat. I remember those days, and am glad all mine are busy with work and life… that’s the time for it!
It has just taken a long time (minutes) to load the site, which is becoming a more common issue. I can ping the domain and get a consistent 94mSec reply.
But, but, but what about ObolaCare?
There are only 10 cities in the US that are larger than 1M population.
There may be a few “metro areas” that surpass 1M too.
1M invaders who are either “taking our jobs” or taking our tax money. Or sometimes both.
And that’s just this year.
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Site response time is WAY down. Last night I had several multi-minute load times.
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@Nick
1M invaders who are either “taking our jobs” or taking our tax money. Or sometimes both.
Both. Fully factor the forn
@Nick
1M invaders who are either “taking our jobs” or taking our tax money. Or sometimes both.
Both. Fully factor the former and the effect on depressing wages for Americans, and I’d guess the $9billion doubles Oh, yeah. 23x for the rest of the invaders already here. Then factor in the high levels of money sent outside the US to prop ip governments that are not our friends. That money was #3 in the Mexican economy last I looked, and is probably higher for several others.
There are only so many drywall hanging and house cleaning jobs to go around. Now the push is on to be in the country before the Ted Kennedy Memorial Every-20-Years Immigration Amnesty Bill gets debated in 2025.
The White House and Opie didn’t get the job done in 2005 so the Chamber of Commerce punished Shrub with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and denied Opie his promised reward of two terms as Florida Governor.
Republican or Democrat White House, the bill will come up.
As I tried to document yesterday, using the delete key to correct a tupo causes subsequent text to be dropped when I try to post it. Select all copy paste repost works.
The debt will be monetized. That has been the real goal of student loan forgiveness all along.
Whether or not the White House can spend the money will be the subject of many lawsuits if it happens, but, in the mean time, a lot of households plan around forgiveness happening.
At least one call from a true believer hits the Ramsey highlights every week. The last one I listened to in depth was from a Podiatry student asking Dave if he should borrow student loan money to play the stock market right now.
I doubt he’s alone.
Dave calmly informed the student that borrowing money to buy stocks with the assumption that the loan wouldn’t have to be paid back was stealing, pure and simple.
Only one thing I would add — Podiatrists. Of course it would be one of that crowd.
10 seconds to reload the page.
some baldwin links, for my own reference.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10757221/TOM-LEONARD-examines-new-footage-shooting-Alec-Baldwin-movie-set.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760233/Alec-Baldwin-complained-cops-Rust-shooting-cost-jobs-new-audio-reveals.html
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Hmm, this was odd when it happened, and then she was conspicuously missing from the tabloids.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10761063/Hailey-Bieber-details-mini-stroke-heart-procedure-scariest-moment-life.html
Hole in heart, but still the question of how and why the stroke… but not covid vax related, probably.
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I guess they’re vigorously contributing to the vibrancy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10760249/PICTURED-Three-suspects-charged-kidnapping-three-month-old.html
Yesenia Guadalupe Ramirez, 43, Jose Roman Portillo, 28, and Baldomeo Sandoval, 37, were arrested in connection to the kidnapping of a San Jose infant
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Cigarettes and birth control pills don’t mix well. Strokes are not uncommon. The PFO throwing a clot was probably a factor too.
I worked with a girl at GTE who died of a stroke mixing cigarettes and birth control pills, no other complications.
She continued smoking against doctors’ advice after being given the prescription following the birth of her second child. “What does a man know?”
Bieber’s wife is a supermodel?!?
Figures. Cigarettes and coffee, the diet of champions.
Cigarettes and diet Coke. Heroin optional.
Twenty-five years ago, my then-wife was the music teacher at a small, private school. For the annual musical they brought in a director with Broadway experience. She pushed the kids hard from around 15:00 until 20:00 and 21:00 on Fridays. The only breaks were two fifteen minutes spots for her to have a smoke and a can of soda. My wife called me one evening to bring food because the kids were starving and getting stupid and the director wasn’t listening. So I brought in a dozen pieces of fried chicken (KFC, basically, but a local place), a box of donut holes, and some other stuff. As soon as they smelled the food the teens rushed me. I was lucky to get away without getting a finger bitten off.
(You’d think that after the first rehearsal or two, the kids would think to bring some food. You’d be wrong. Maybe some of them brought something but most didn’t. I may have commented previously about the typical teen’s ability to think ahead.)
Complaints were made about the director but nothing was done, partly because the school had paid quite a lot for her and partly because my then-wife’s credit at the school was very low (on account of her really not being very good at her job). I heard that there was trouble getting anyone to sign up for the musical the next year.
I used to work on the periphery of the fashion industry.
One of the most horrifying things (as the father of two girls) I every overheard was one model telling the “new girl” that if she gets hungry she can eat wet toilet paper without gaining weight.
Up close, the girls were bony, and covered with bruises, as they weren’t getting enough food to heal properly.
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I wish I could unread that.
Re: site load times. I looked at the Real Time stats in Google Analytics, and someone in Coffeeville seems to be indexing the site. Lots of access to old posts. And since each page access requires querying the comments database, which is quite large, that scanning might cause the site load time issue.
I think.
Re Monday discussions on chemicals (yesterday was a travel day)…I am surprised that nobody has noticed the superscript and subscript buttons that got loaded Monday afternoon. There’s even a
strikethroughbutton. Along with the newcodeand codeblock buttons.I might have time today to peek at the load times for the databases. The comments database being large is all your guys’ fault.
I resemble that
President with defective memory and impaired cognitive function rubber stamps choice for disinformation czar selected by unknown puppeteer. Said DI having been at the forefront of the Hunter Laptop Deniers.
Paging Mr . Orwell: Your dystopian future is ready.
@Rick
“Re: site load times. I looked at the Real Time stats in Google Analytics, and someone in Coffeeville seems to be indexing the site. Lots of access to old posts. And since each page access requires querying the comments database, which is quite large, that scanning might cause the site load time issue.
”
Inasmuch as that may be screwing up access for the actual users of the site, my response would be to block access and confirm the source of the problem.
And why does a certain troll come to mind?
re database size, number of posts and comments, and server load, I’d look into converting old posts and associated comments into static pages and then marking the posts as “archived”. (Or moving them to an Archive table or database, depending on what’s available in this version of WordPress and plugins.) Depending on features available and how you do it, this might preserve statistics such as number of comments by each user.
Because you have a nasty, suspicious mind?
I approve!
Coffeefille, as in Kansas? That’s a default value for a lot of IP-to-location databases when the entry doesn’t correspond to anything real.
Probably a VPN user. If it is just a troll, then someone really hit a nerve because indexing a whole site that way would be expensive.
I’d hate to think it is a lawyer hunting for something. I had that happen with my old web site during a court mess over my father-in-law’s estate.
“Liam Neeson: Age-Defying Action Hero”
https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2022/liam-neeson.html
“It seems like you enjoy solitude.
During the lockdown, I was in heaven. I read something like 30 books. I was a pig in s—, totally content. I was very aware of millions of Americans wondering where their next meal would be coming from. I was very, very aware of that. But there I was upstate. I wasn’t exactly Nero, but I was very content.”
“What were you reading?
A lot of crime fiction. I got into Nordic noir big-time. Jo Nesbø, Henning Mankell. I just couldn’t get enough of these thrillers. And then I’d think, OK, I’m Irish. I have to tackle Ulysses for, like, the fifth time. I must finish Ulysses and Crime and Punishment and War and Peace. So, I did — I managed to read those three books to offset all the crime novels. I can’t go to sleep at night unless I have read something.”
Whoa, grew up in Belfast during the troubles.
Coffeefille, as in Kansas? That’s a default value for a lot of IP-to-location databases when the entry doesn’t correspond to anything real.
Isn’t that one of the NSA sites ?
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS select all and COPY before posting !
I wish I could remember to do that as I seem to lose a posting to a 500 error daily now.
“U.S. GDP fell at a 1.4% pace to start the year as pandemic recovery takes a hit”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/us-q1-gdp-growth.html
Well crap, the recession is here.
hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
Tony Parker’s “May the Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast” made a big impression on me about life there in that time.
I’ve always been interested in Ireland, but I don’t read Irish fiction, nor watch Irish movies or movies set in Ireland because they are invariably tragic.
You’re probably thinking of the block of addresses that the Pentagon owns which are associated with an address in Sunrise, FL.
Yes, Sunrise really exists. The hockey stadium for the Panthers is out there.
The NSA’s big Hadoop center is in Utah.
I don’t think anything here would attract that kind of attention, but a lawyer wouldn’t surprise me.
all your guys’ fault.
–wouldn’t have it any other way!
WRT archiving, old comments are all linked to the keywords on the right, and I wouldn’t want to break that.
If it’s one person indexing, that should resolve itself when they are done. The issue has been more than one day though.
And to be perfectly honest, I’ve sucked down whole sites before too, and I’m glad I did when they went away.
The tool I used is supposed to be polite though.
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Well, it was in fact the cable. There was so much corrosion under the clamp that too few angry pixies were getting thru the electron hose…
I used this kit, https://www.delcity.net/store/Battery-Cable-Repair-Splices/p_819052.h_819061.r_IF1003
and the truck started right up. All told, I’m out the few hours, one new alternator, and the splice, for $200 total. A very thorough youtube vid put me on the right track with the PROPER troubleshooting, instead of just a parts swap.
Since the old alternator tested bad, I don’t feel like a new one was a waste. I may have saved some headache down the road.
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BC: Man’s First Flight
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2022/04/28
Uh, I am fairly sure that flight was not intended to happen. At least not by the man.
@Nick: Congratulations on figuring that one out.
Yeah, that brings back memories from the last millennium. I had an old F-100 whose positive battery cable was (unbeknownst to me) basically copper oxide crystals confined in a tube made of the wire sheathing. It sorta-worked for years, but electrical loads were pretty minimal. One day the plastic sheathing broke, the crystals fell out, and the car stopped absolutely dead on the freeway (on the I-10 in LA…such a joy).
Someone wrote a couple of weeks ago (at Chicago Boyz?) that the number of long term durable good orders was down. This recessionary flag was being masked by the sales numbers in $$ being higher, because of inflation.
Joe Biden, the Martin van Buren of the 21st Century…
Well, it was in fact the cable. There was so much corrosion under the clamp that too few angry pixies were getting thru the electron hose…
I used this kit, https://www.delcity.net/store/Battery-Cable-Repair-Splices/p_819052.h_819061.r_IF1003
and the truck started right up. All told, I’m out the few hours, one new alternator, and the splice, for $200 total. A very thorough youtube vid put me on the right track with the PROPER troubleshooting, instead of just a parts swap.
Since the old alternator tested bad, I don’t feel like a new one was a waste. I may have saved some headache down the road.
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Congrats ! And I hand built a splice kit like that for my 2005 Ford Expedition when the positive battery cable corroded off one day at about 180K miles. Got another two years out of the vehicle with no problems.
Because the energy density of H2 is very low. It causes embrittlement of metals. It burns colorlessly, so you can’t tell if it is burning at a distance. So, aside from niche applications, it’s a terrible fuel.
@RickH: About that moving to California…
My college roommate, a recently retired NASA engineer, was attacked in broad daylight by three thugs in a car while he was out bicycling last week. They chased him for two miles, caught him, beat him up, stole his wallet and phone.
The sheriff caught them, after a chase, and he got his phone back but not the wallet.
(Amish)
They caught a tiger, by the way, he’s 6’2″, lifts weights and bicycle’s 10’s of miles a week.
Despite that, the doctor’s in the ER said it was a good thing he had his helmet on, judging from the bruises left while it protected his skull.
If you don’t like tragedy, I would recommend reading anything by Roddy Doyle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_Doyle
and/or watching the films based thereon: The Commitments, The Van and The Snapper.
Irish humour with Brendan Gleason: The Guard and In Bruges.
Irish schmalzy romance novels: author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_O%27Flanagan
The “Ross O’Carroll-Kelly” books are side-splittingly funny as are the WW II memoirs of Spike Milligan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_O%27Carroll-Kelly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Milligan
If you don’t like tragedy, I would recommend reading anything by Roddy Doyle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_Doyle
and/or watching the films based thereon: The Commitments, The Van and The Snapper.
Or read just about any Jack Higgins book since most of his books are about the troubles. The rest of his books are about WWII.
https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Storm-Jack-Higgins-2012-06-01/dp/B01JXRMUC6?tag=ttgnet-20/
@RickH: About that moving to California…
My college roommate, a recently retired NASA engineer, was attacked in broad daylight by three thugs in a car while he was out bicycling last week. They chased him for two miles, caught him, beat him up, stole his wallet and phone.
The sheriff caught them, after a chase, and he got his phone back but not the wallet.
(Amish)
They caught a tiger, by the way, he’s 6’2″, lifts weights and bicycle’s 10’s of miles a week.
Despite that, the doctor’s in the ER said it was a good thing he had his helmet on, judging from the bruises left while it protected his skull.
A good reason to slip a .38 in your bike shorts. I always carry one when out walking around. Shoot, I have debated about carrying when taking out the trash.
https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/model-36
Because the energy density of H2 is very low. It causes embrittlement of metals. It burns colorlessly, so you can’t tell if it is burning at a distance. So, aside from niche applications, it’s a terrible fuel.
But green hydrogen is a renewable ! “Texas Can Get to Net-Zero by 2050 and Simultaneously Bolster the Economy”. The University Of Texas professors are promising that we can change Texas to a hydrogen economy for very little expense and increase the reliability of the Texas grid while doing so.
https://news.utexas.edu/2022/04/13/texas-can-get-to-net-zero-by-2050-and-simultaneously-bolster-the-economy/
Surely they are not lying to us !
Surely they have experience in converting a $5 trillion electrical system from coal and natural gas to hydrogen and batteries.
And btw, the head of Goya foods is warning about famine too.
It’s real and it’s coming. Stack it up.
SWMBO gave me a lecture last night about the kitchen pantry which is a 6 foot by 6 foot closet. She wants to be able to walk into the pantry “like a normal person”. Instead, somebody has stacked many twelve packs of canned goods such as Bush Black Eyed Peas on the pantry floor. Somebody mentioned that there is a famine coming and she gave me a raspberry. I made her a path through the stacks.
Off to storage to unload a bunch now that I have the truck running.
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Our pantry has a lot of expired items which my wife bought but never used. I’m the expiration date police at our house, but I can’t keep up. It limits long term storage.
Bob’s Red Mill is a particular peeve of mine. Whenever I see Bob’s face in a grocery bag, I have to resist the urge to save the middle step of storing the product for a while until it expires and I toss the container away unopened. Might as well put it right in the trash.
Last week, I tossed expired Bob’s from 2017 which had been sitting on our kitchen counter for five years.
Bob’s is a sacred hippie brand in Portland because he sold the Red Mill to the employees. Dave’s Killer Bread is another one, but Dave got in trouble again IIRC.
Yeah, even The Commitments, which we own on dvd … great fun nearly all the way through, great soundtrack… BUT it turns out to be an Irish movie after all…. (started to describe but it’d be a spoiler so I won’t).
@Nick
“Since the old alternator tested bad, I don’t feel like a new one was a waste. I may have saved some headache down the road.“
Yup. And I’m surprised the alternator wasn’t $400.
ISWYDT. AvE is… different
Make the same basic truck platform for 30 years and a few aftermarket parts show up.
The Ranger, Tacoma, and Fontier all have bullseyes on them for Cash For Clunkers 2.0.
I have the candidate for the first person for Musk to fire at Twitter. “Twitter’s Top Lawyer Breaks Down In Tears During Musk Takeover Meeting”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitters-top-lawyer-breaks-down-tears-during-musk-takeover-meeting
“Gadde holds one of the most controversial positions at Twitter: Her teams decide how to moderate content. That’s made her a target of right-wing criticism, particularly when Twitter blocked the distribution of a New York Post article about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in 2020. She faced a renewed wave of criticism after multiple reports confirmed she was behind the decision to ban Trump from Twitter. -Politico”
My approach to essentially the same problem was to move the “preps” food and paper products and what-not out of the way and to declare that they are mine. If there’s a crisis and food is hard to come by, well, I have food for myself and my daughter (and Spare Kid if she’s with us). I’m sure my wife and her mother will be just fine with the dozen eggs, ten pounds of rice, and couple of onions that they have.
Plus, of course, we don’t have hydrogen wells. H2 is a storage technology, like a battery but more flammable.
Exactly. If you want a wonderful-sounding proposal delivered by an engaging speaker, find a college professor. If you want an idea which will actually work, find someone who’s been working in industry for a few years.
@Lynn
I’d like ti hire on to help with that acquisition. First do an analysis to check for viewpoint bias in their actions againt users. Then when you find it, have Gadde write a handwritten apology to each one and deliver it personally with a dozen homemade cookies. Start at the bottom and work up to Trump over a year of so.
Good luck getting my Frontier. I haven’t hit 25,000 miles even.
“Biden requests $33 billion for Ukraine war; Putin threatens ‘lightning fast’ retaliation to nations that intervene”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html
So how much of that $33 billion is for “the big guy” ?
I am not worried about Putin shooting missiles on the USA. After all, we have our Star Wars system for shooting down ICBMs. They will protect us !
Plus, of course, we don’t have hydrogen wells. H2 is a storage technology, like a battery but more flammable.
You should see the green and blue hydrogen projects that I am seeing. Take a gander at:
https://gulfenergyinfo.com/h2tech
As far as I can tell, most of the projects are government funded. There are serious bucks being spent in the USA and Europe.
All must be purged to make way for the Jesus trucks.
Well, AT&T spinning off Warner Bros. Discovery is interesting.
With 48 shares of whatever, it was Southwestern Bell, that morphed into Borg stock when Southwestern Bell bought AT&T, spinning off Warner gives about a quarter share of Warner for each Borg share. Ok, eleven shares of the new stuff plus a $14 check for the partial share.
And has no effect on the amount of Borg stock.
Free money? I don’t know. Where did it come from? Suppressed dividends for many years?
Someone got screwed. Hopefully not me this time. I did that already with CircleK dividing by 10 and then reversing by 100 and I’m still pissed my $10 a week, three years of it, stock was vanished to about $5. $1500 or so just gone… which sucks when you make $5.25 an hour plus whatever overtime you can get.
Anyway. I need to get the shares out of the shoebox under the bed and put into a picture frame. Because the stuff is really pretty.
I went to the local HEB today. It’s almost the way it was when I quit. There’s an East German vibe though. Weird. The pictures of management are gone.
But the parking is easy compared to other HEBs. The aisles are wide and so are the parking slots compared to the “new” HEB in Marble Falls.
No Fiesta cayenne pepper. Or taco seasoning. Gaps. The menudo, I don’t know…. no problem.
The whole pasta section is just a mess. Got some spaghetti. No macaroni. There was some egg noodles, just extra wide. Ok, that works..
AT&T’s capitalization dropped by the amount spun off into the new company.
If you look at the stock chart, around 4/11 the price for T dropped by about 25%. You have the same number of shares, they just aren’t worth has much. When you combine T with WBD it’s the same value. As of the spin-off date, anyway.
WBD hasn’t done well since then.
“Musk breaks silence on Biden disinformation board formation after Twitter buyout: ‘Discomforting’”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/musk-breaks-silence-on-biden-disinformation-board-formation-after-twitter-buyout-discomforting/ar-AAWHIso?cvid=34c9b66bfd0e4d5999a86ffe85c0f965
What, Musk does not want a Ministry Of Truth telling him what to do ?
AT&T’s capitalization dropped by the amount spun off into the new company.
If you look at the stock chart, around 4/11 the price for T dropped by about 25%. You have the same number of shares, they just aren’t worth has much. When you combine T with WBD it’s the same value. As of the spin-off date, anyway.
WBD hasn’t done well since then.
Looks like WBD peaked at $53 on Feb 1, 2021 and have dropped to $18 since then. Not good, kinda reminds me of Netflix.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WBD?p=WBD&.tsrc=fin-srch
Disclosure: my wife got a boatload of WBD stock the other day, I guess via her AT&T stock. She is not pleased.
Regarding our friends in Coffeyville – I could block by IP address, but suspect (without having time to dig through the logs) that there are probably lots of IPs to block, with no guarantee of success.
There are ways to not show the comments without clicking on a button (via Ajax calls), but there are no good plugins that do that – I’d have to write one. If the comments are not loaded without a button click, then an indexing bot might reduce the number of calls to the comments database.
But I also think that not showing comments would affect search results for valid users. And, if the search bot doesn’t see a comments – because they have to wait for the page to load – that means that the bot can make more requests in a similar time. Net result – not an improvement.
I also don’t think that a caching process would help, because caching takes up more time, and only saves time if you get a lot of people accessing the same page. And caching comments would result in the comment list not being current for valid users.
Creating static pages of older content might help, but that’s a big effort. There is some overhead on caching.
So, don’t know the answer yet. Still researching. Want to make sure there is no effect on accurate search results, and transparent to real people. (I tried one lazy-load comment plugin, but it killed the CKEditor box, reverting back to the standard one.)
Wait until Amazon opens in the morning.
Disney is still cooking their numbers, praying “Doctor Strange 2” makes money to cover the streaming subscriber losses.
Might ask DreamHost to look at what other sites on the shared server are doing. Just a thought.
You want my ENRON certificate to add to the collection on the wall? I was gifted $5K of the stock and watched it rise to about $25K. Naturally that suddenly disappeared. I did get a settlement check in the amount of $0.02. I never cashed it figured it was worth more as souvenir of days past. I still have the check. Technically I did not really lose any money of mine as the stock was gifted. But it still hurt.
I’ll just have to wait and see how the quarterly div check goes. <shrug> So the almost $25 check drops and the new Warner stuff kicks it back up? Yeah, whatever. Please use lube…..
Kenny Boy!
Why. Ask. Why.
The Enron email corpus has been a really valuable research tool for Data Mining and Digital Forensics research. In retrospect, the Bankruptcy Court should have charged money for copies.
Nobody wants to be told what they can say by a Ministry of Truth. There are people who want to be the ones TELLING people what they can say…
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I’ve got a framed stock cert from Disney on my office wall right this minute..
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“Court rules against plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for discrimination”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/04/court-rules-against-plaintiff-seeking-emotional-distress-damages-for-discrimination/
“In Thursday’s ruling in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller PLLC, the court applied the contract-law inquiry to hold that Cummings could not recover damages for emotional distress. In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts (joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett), the court held that emotional distress damages are not traditionally available in suits for breach of contract, and so are not recoverable under the spending clause anti-discrimination statutes at issue in Cummings’ suit.”
I am sorry that she got her feelings hurt but, too bad. We need to stop this hurt feelings crap. Even John Roberts agrees with that.
Man, Jerry Garcia really knew how to write an awesome song. Listening to “Touch Of Grey” of youtube while beating some Fortran into submission.
And all I have left is a touch of brown. Everything else on the sides of my head is grey and white.
Nick, I have seen those repair cables, but have never used one. IIRC, they use a compression scheme that is OK, but vulnerable to… corrosion. Easy fix is to pack the strands of the cables with silicone grease before tightening. Disassemble and inspect every few years.
A better fix would be to buy a factory made short battery cable, cut it, and solder it to the defective one. Takes a big (500 watt?) iron. I have done that with no problems.
Any connection around a battery is vulnerable to corrosion, especially if moisture is present.
@JimB, you’re right, it’s a screw compression in a brass socket. I thought I bought the right grease, but I didn’t so they went together dry for now. It’s simple to pull back the plastic shield and take them apart so I might still get to it.
I’ll add it to the list… 😉
Honestly my first thought was to manually extend the wires, but the kit was so much faster and easier that I jumped on it.
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