If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

The only other species we see regularly are Rufous, and they aren't really as common as Anna's. There are a couple of Anna's who I think MAY be just about ready to hand-feed. They buzz around within six inches of my head, so I'm spending time sitting on a chair in my read shirt with a couple of smal...

Well, we got the ospreys back from the Baja this week, which is always an excitement! Pretty much everything else we see are year-round residents, but the ospreys desert us from October to April. Had a really bizarre experience today, though - I've been cleaning up the garage from the jumbled mess i...

Macroeconomics 101 Took this course is 1981 There is this thing that is theoretically called the demand curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_curve So... if supply goes down then prices rise. So... if demand goes up then prices rise. This is fucking basic shit. This is so well understood that...

Did someone mention inflation? This post talks about why it is not a classic case of too much money chasing too few goods (i.e. caused by printing money):

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartb ... is-hurting

That's the absolute first thing I thought, too...

I'm still hoping for a tl;dr of the Novum Organum. :-) It's there in my signature line: "Therefore shoddy and inept application of words lays siege to the intellect in wondrous ways." ;-) I always took that to be a threat. If words are violence, Steersman is a 10th dan blackbelt at Kung Fuck-you. (...

Very interesting article, especially for artillery nerds.

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/1 ... eration-z/

I spent a couple of weeks in Tucson in 2006, and the AZ Air National Guards flies a lot of those. Odd-looking bastards, but really effective against ground armor.

Also, F-16s.

No edit button for El Pitto...

Edit button for Twatter?

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/n ... it-button/

I have moments like that every week. The only difference is, I'm actually losing my edge. Growing old is a proper bastard! Oh that story is almost 20 years old. My upper body muscles can still handle 100 lbs, but it's my lower torso muscles giving way I'm worried about. Now though, I do have to lif...

I have never carried 100 pounds. 65 pounds max.... and that was a really bad time. Again... I am not a big guy, but I am bigger than Strayed. I done a career course alongside a bunch of paras (Parachute Regiment) many years ago. Part of the course involved a two-weeker "in the sticks" complete with...

For those of you with a longish memory:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/star-wars-kid-t ... l-shadows/

Brilliant:

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-putin-popov-partner-donald-trump-1693210 In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: "It's time for us, our people, to call on the people of the United States to change the regime in the U.S. early...

The Road to Wigan Pier nailed it and, unfortunately, continues to nail it. https://archive.org/details/roadtowiganpie00orwe/page/n1/mode/2up Thanks for the link - been on my "To Read" list for some time. But how's the quality? Many there at the archive are rather spotty at best. It's now in the pub...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Dr. Cat Pause, sociologist and public health expert, who'd recently been pwned by Steven Crowder, has died in her sleep. She was 41 stone.

FTFY.

Steersman wrote: ↑ :-) Sort of like MacBeth:

I think you mean The Scottish Play:

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Lsuoma wrote: ↑62 today...
Happy birthday old fart. Do you get to brag or commiserate over the number of your medications ? ;)

Colonoscopy Tuesday...

62 today...

John D wrote: ↑ My wife claims she wants to kill herself every day.

Well, she's shit out of luck there. It's one and done, not a daily affair.

Then she goes off on me at the end of the day about what a shit person I am.

Wouldn't most people here would have sympathy with that point of view? ;-)

Gumby wrote: ↑
Steersman wrote: ↑
Gumby wrote: ↑ I'm easily the least eloquent here, and I still could do way better than that.
Pictures are easily worth a thousand words apiece ... ;-)
Just for you.

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MarcusAu wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑Haha
Watch out - those things can be dangerous.

Read Riotous Assembly by Rom Sharpe...

Haha Steers… I really did enjoy your clip… “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” You made me laugh tonight and I almost opened my window and screamed this… but my wife is in bed… so yeah. I will save it for the right time. That movie is eerily prescient regarding the situation, but m...

Steersman wrote: ↑ But those looking askance at my defense and promotion of Wikipedia might like this latest from Neil Oliver - with a Scottish accent that one could cut with the proverbial knife

Are you fucking kidding me???

Finally you have truly nationalistic countries who simply want to exist as a unique ethnic construct within established borders. Ukraine, Japan, Central European countries, Greece etc. Um, look up "irridentism" to see countries that want to "exist as a unique ethnic construct within established bor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans_%26_Sutherland

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/t ... story.html

E&S was a unique environment. Ivan Sutherland, sometimes touted as 'the father of computer graphics' was an MIT prof who rarely traveled to Utah, and a number of the employees at this relatively small company were MIT , and I fell in with some of them and really had a blast there. We played one Scr...

Fantastic - I love Natasha!

Great funbags, BTW...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Was it a nuclear wessel?

The Alameda naval station is a business park now -- and a source of Putin-free wodka
https://hangarone.com

"Scotch? It was inwented by a little old lady in Leningrad!"

Fuck it. Fuck it.

John D, you are killing me. About ten years ago I went in a road trip with a crazy violin teacher ... A couple, old family friends of hers in Alabama, one evening visirlt, he'in his 80s and still farming, his name is/was of all things "John D" and the story I most racall was of his group bringing a...

John D, you are killing me. About ten years ago I went in a road trip with a crazy violin teacher ... A couple, old family friends of hers in Alabama, one evening visirlt, he'in his 80s and still farming, his name is/was of all things "John D" and the story I most racall was of his group bringing a...

I don't have a vote in Seattle (or even King County) - I'm registered in Island County, since that is where I spend at least half - to become >90% on retirement - of my time right now. https://www.islandcountywa.gov/Pages/Home.aspx It's certainly the City Council that has allowed this to happen, but...

There was a partial fix-up after McCarthy and after Nixon, but I'm not certain anything like that could happen now. I wouldn't be surprised (but I'm not predicting, yet) rioting and urban destruction that is going to make Watts seem tame. Re Matt's point on Seattle, he's spot on (fuck that hurts! :-...

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ For a failed state, there sure are plenty of people desperate to go live there!

I didn't say it was the worst by any means. It's a mixed bag.

I would say that some characteristics of a failed state are: 1. government authorities acting illegally and without oversight. See police actions such as stealing cash money from people, working in concert with car pounds to tow cars unnecessarily and impeding owners from claiming them, planting dru...

The United States must have the most mickey mouse "justice" system in the world. I was reminded of the Mercedes Carrera case and looked it up. She and her husband have been held without trial for over three years. I thought the USA was supposed to be the dog's bollocks, what with all your Constitut...

https://youtu.be/TjqjvD8He70 A parade of relatively fit healthy women in underwear. What am I missing? Most guys are like... um... yeah... I wish my wife was still that active and fit. I don't like blue hair however. I would have to cut that off in our first session. But... otherwise... let the spa...

Yeah, and they have a great U-Boat there too. Stukas: http://airsoc.com/articles/view/id/536add86c6f8fa835400010e/junkers-ju-87-stuka-survivors-and-replicas-stuka-part-1 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/junkers-ju-87-stuka-utm_sourcepenultimate.html BTW, I love the name of the Stuka's siren ...

fuzzy wrote: ↑

Since I don't have much to contribute these days I'll just post my photos once in a while. We have lots of deer round here, including one that thinks he's a bird: Yeah, they try to raid the bird seed and suet especially in the winter. It can be quite entertaining. It doesn't bother me; bird food is...

Gumby wrote: ↑ Since I don't have much to contribute these days I'll just post my photos once in a while.
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We have lots of deer round here, including one that thinks he's a bird:

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Ultimately it's the US that Putin sees himself at war with but that doesn't mean it's New York that will get the nuclear present. Most likely the Poles, which they well know, as evidenced by the handing over of MiG-29s to the US. That was them saying "here, you're supposed to be the 'leaders of the...

Smollett is off to jail.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60695975

Probably Club Fed, though, not Riker's.

So yeah, dilaudid is the name of the strong opiate elixir available in the United States for extreme pain. Wild E. Fuzzy, Super Genius, had successfully replaced an upstairs toilet, and with my ladyfriend gone doing chores in town, did not properly secure said heavy porcelain item, which fell and c...

Anyway, Shane with the crimson rambler was WAY more deadly than Shane with a gun.

zou3gou3 wrote: ↑ Fucking great. Now the Russians are shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

That'll give you a nice warm glow.

Also, I wonder if that report is actually true. Not saying it isn't, but my trust in reporting around this is zip.

Brive1987 wrote: ↑
Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Rodney Marsh has hung up his gloves for the last time.
Bummer. 🏏 😞

On a related note. I feel I’m the only person in the world to remember Garth Le Roux and the ‘World 11’ in WSC.

And Shane Warne won't be tweaking the crimson rambler any more, either. Heart attack at 52.

Rodney Marsh has hung up his gloves for the last time.

Fuck ALL the nuns!

FWIW, I do not believe any of the tweets, vids, reports from anyone. It can all be spun, and I have no way of telling what is what, or what is not.

The Twatter thread linked off that article a couple of post ago is wonderful:

https://t.co/b4rhcM6ik9

4. The sanctions ARE weak.

Another one for the Steersbot:

https://screenrant.com/harry-potter-new ... k-rowling/

Hotlips is now Coldlips. Sally Kellerman dead at 84.

I see Jean-Luc Brunel - an associate of Epstein - has been suicided in a prison cell in France. Anyone else in prison who was buddies with the kiddie pimper must be doing the old 5p-50p right now.

Steerzo'll love this! A women's group has convinced judges that an attempt by the Scottish government to expand the definition of "woman" to include transwomen breaches equality law. It doesn't go all the way, by requiring the definition of women to include only babby-producers, but it IS a start...

WTF is District 12?

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