I didn't realize until recently that E. Jean Carroll wrote the bio of HS Thompson I read some 30 years ago.
I remember the line "It practically rains cocaine in the doctor's house" and a trip to the Woody Creek Tavern during which they went through a highway police check point. Carroll was initially curious about the purpose of the blanket he'd brought along, but realized its significance when her subject threw the blanket over the back seat, which was covered with special mushrooms that he'd brought along for the trip. Pun intended. The state patrol allowed them through without incident.
I stumbled across a link to a USA Today article about a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Maryland denying service to an elementary school group of special needs students and their teachers and assistants. This is not a usual source for me to check but this caught my eye. It was a group of 11 students and 7 school staff,who had called the restaurant earlier, explained the situation, and was told no reservations were needed. But once they got there they were told by the manager they could not be seated, and instead were moved to a closed back dining area and had to place take out orders. Then were loaded on the bus and had to eat their meals back in the classrooms.
Obviously Cracker Barrel corporate apologized but negated the sincerity of it by blaming staffing issues and a partially closed dining area. Which sounds like bullshit to me.
That source linked to another article on reporting from the Marshall Project, including work by Mother Jones. This involved women being referred to child protective services for post birth or infant testing showing drugs like morphine or barbiturates. But in some cases these were drugs administered by hospital staff in epidurals, for pain, anxiety, or even certain blood pressure meds, which may show up as meth. Leading to weeks or months of harassment by social services.
Just like the Cracker Barrel crap, excuses were made by all parties involved. Doctors are too busy or not trained to notice things like that. Social workers are too busy, not trained, and cannot overrule doctors. Hospitals have no policies about it. But still often do blood or urine testing after delivery, not before and after, which would be a better, but still not a perfect method to detect drug use.
Maybe some of these click bait sources can provide some useful but aggravating information.
It's a repeating set up. Iran getting rid of the Shah, replaced by the Ayatollah, Afghanistan with the US kicking out the Taliban only to be replaced by 20 years of corrupt US backed governments and the return of the Taliban, several changes over decades in Egypt, numerous South and Central American countries, and of course a few former Warsaw Pact countries kicking out Russia but gradually returning to a repressive government, including Russia itself. India got rid of the British but now is increasingly repressive against their Muslim minority and South Korea, with a history military dictators, barely escaped a recent attempt at martial law. And now it's happening in the good old USA.
It does seem like a never-ending swirling vortex into the the abyss Lefty, but ya gotta take the small victories when ya can. To think otherwise is an even quicker highway to total madness. As an Soviet era toddler refugee from Hungary, I know this lesson well.
That's what I was wondering about. Cautious optimism seems like a good place to be. After all, the new leader renounced his extremist name "last thursday."
I heard a bit on NPR. Israel claimed it was bombing in Syria to assist the rebels.
The explanation of why it was still bombing after Assad left was a little fuzzy.
I guess bombing the shit out of its neighbors is just a reflex for Israel at this point. Ya know, you've had a hard day and need a little something to pep you up...
The devil's in the details with these clowns, juts like Putin in Ukraine if Bib annexed Syria, the next question would "Now what do I do? Other than finance an expensive neverending occupation militia". Hafez, come back. Pleez.
As I understand it, his very right-wing supporters want more real estate for Israeli “settlements” so Israel can have it’s biblical borders restored. Not really sure what that encompasses anymore.
Completely unrelated, for some reason, I have had some almost completely cinematic dreams, both autobigraphical and fictional over the past month or so. I'll try to send you one of them since I myself have been suffering from severe longform writer's block on an autobiographical memoir that I've been trying to write for my family. Other than my non-commenting here, my fingers seem to be frozen at a keyboard for some reason.
The good doctor's a member of the US Public Health Service, traveling across the West in the late 1890s - early 1900s, collecting bounties by arresting venereal disease carriers.
So we had to go to the forced fun yesterday, because we were getting a back pack, and we thought it was about The Event we did, but it turns out, it was for that other thing we did in the summer where we became movie stars in a film about how cool fed jobs are (mind, co worker supe and I are not feds. We were amusedly annoyed by that entire thing).
Anyway, it was actually rather nice of them, but when we went up and got handed the thing and shook the hands and we turned around.....I saw all those people and went zomg there are people XD like instant hunched shoulders and toe gazing commenced.
Ah well, I am sure the picture will be interesting at least
I have done all I can to avoid "forced fun" activities like that. Since my Mom passed, no offence to my brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces, they seem to accept my absences from birthdays etcetera with no ill feelings.
oh yeah, I got a good excuse for those. I am the only one who lives a good distance away (4-5 hours depending on traffic)
I generally try to make the important things, like weddings and funerals, but as much as I love my siblings and would give any one of them a kidney, I don't especially feel like hanging around with them
You should get a doctors note excusing you because of an irrational fear of manky feet
Also....the fuck? I did not even know barefoot bowling was a thing XD And still wanna know why anyone thinks it is a good idea. I mean, kick one of them balls barefoot is a good way to break some toes
On the grass. Bowling clubs were seeing dwindling numbers so started doing it to attract young people. It’s very popular with the youngs. They get drunk in the sun and throw a ball at other balls.
I meant instead of doing the feet bowling thing XD Like, you want more people, your numbers are dwindling, maybe instead of jacking up the price you could, idk, make it more affordable for folks
Strictly speaking, and feel free to challenge me if you think I'm wrong, Diane, but I suspect that all of us hates ourselves to some degree. The sign of a healthy personal psychology is to recognize that and constantly try to make ourselves better. Damn that's a pretty deep introspection for an early AM non-comment, but I'll let it ride.
That makes sense since he is a libertarian douche canoe.
They all seem to want the things, personally, that they say they are against so I have decided it is because they think those things are a finite pool. Nothing else makes sense
I liked where someone said that it looks like Junior's and her engagement may be kaput, but there's nothing like four years of Greek men around to help her forget about all the secrets she undoubtedly could tell.
Yep. I've had papers get rejected because of it. Rightfully so. If you can't report in a way that makes your results replicated, there's not a lot of reason to publish in a scientific journal.
I will say that we've been rejected for proprietary stuff that we shouldn't have even been questioned on, such as how we get our sample representative, but those instances have been rare.
“ Services like Fog Data Science have triggered concerns about how police might use location tracking to prosecute abortions. "For several thousand dollars annually, the software lets police trace unique borders around large, customized regions to generate a list of devices in the area. Police can use Fog Reveal to geofence entire buildings or street blocks—like the area surrounding an abortion clinic—and get information on devices used within and surrounding those buildings to identify suspects," Ars wrote in November 2022.”
Oh yeah. My side of tumblr's been telling people to turn off their location data for months now. Mine only gets turned on for Maps and even that's enough to hurt me at times.
(tons of websites HATE that my computer doesn't give them my location. it's funny).
Yep. What's funny is they start assuming I'm in DC for some reason and it's like "I literally just searched Arlington City Government stuff any you still think that! my privacy is working!"
Not really necessary to my needs but I have plans if it becomes necessary in the future.
What's really funny is I have the weather channel hourly page for Arlington as one of my most gone to bookmarks and the other sites STILL don't know! MWAHAHAHA!
Semi-related:
I didn't realize until recently that E. Jean Carroll wrote the bio of HS Thompson I read some 30 years ago.
I remember the line "It practically rains cocaine in the doctor's house" and a trip to the Woody Creek Tavern during which they went through a highway police check point. Carroll was initially curious about the purpose of the blanket he'd brought along, but realized its significance when her subject threw the blanket over the back seat, which was covered with special mushrooms that he'd brought along for the trip. Pun intended. The state patrol allowed them through without incident.
How are her new “kidneys”? That’s pretty much all Treasonballs cares about.
She’s looking more like vanky!
"The President is not afraid of committing insect," many people are saying.
I stumbled across a link to a USA Today article about a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Maryland denying service to an elementary school group of special needs students and their teachers and assistants. This is not a usual source for me to check but this caught my eye. It was a group of 11 students and 7 school staff,who had called the restaurant earlier, explained the situation, and was told no reservations were needed. But once they got there they were told by the manager they could not be seated, and instead were moved to a closed back dining area and had to place take out orders. Then were loaded on the bus and had to eat their meals back in the classrooms.
Obviously Cracker Barrel corporate apologized but negated the sincerity of it by blaming staffing issues and a partially closed dining area. Which sounds like bullshit to me.
That source linked to another article on reporting from the Marshall Project, including work by Mother Jones. This involved women being referred to child protective services for post birth or infant testing showing drugs like morphine or barbiturates. But in some cases these were drugs administered by hospital staff in epidurals, for pain, anxiety, or even certain blood pressure meds, which may show up as meth. Leading to weeks or months of harassment by social services.
Just like the Cracker Barrel crap, excuses were made by all parties involved. Doctors are too busy or not trained to notice things like that. Social workers are too busy, not trained, and cannot overrule doctors. Hospitals have no policies about it. But still often do blood or urine testing after delivery, not before and after, which would be a better, but still not a perfect method to detect drug use.
Maybe some of these click bait sources can provide some useful but aggravating information.
WTF? But he still owes the Sandy Hook families $965 million.
𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗱
https://apnews.com/article/infowars-onion-alex-jones-4a835e87a93cc136f2348b362561f431
Liz posted an explainer last night:
https://bsky.app/profile/lizdye.bsky.social/post/3lcyw5ar7fs2v
Graci. Haven't read it yet.
That's some crap right there.
SHIT.
How dare you accept the bid you wanted instead of the ones from all these friends of his who you were supposed to accept?
That totally sux. Of course a fed judge in TX. Billionaires will end up bailing him out.
And our pay-to-play justice system is working as expected. However, the Sandy Hook families will not give up. Ever.
I have missed what is going on in Syria because I was out of town, but are people really going bananas with love over the leader of the rebels?
Assad was a monster, it is good that he's gone (unless one is Tulsi Gabbard or Putin)
No doubt, I'm just cautious about who will replace him. Not particularly getting my hopes up for the living conditions for women.
yup it's definitely a worry. but it's good that assad is going to be fetching putin's coffee in moscow - and that moscow got a black eye.
i think pod save the world is always helpful when international emergencies erupt. and they have more swearing than the economist.
Freedom is a helluva buzz.
I guess my fear is that they go from one extremist to another. When I hear calls for elections, I'll believe they are experiencing freedom.
It's a repeating set up. Iran getting rid of the Shah, replaced by the Ayatollah, Afghanistan with the US kicking out the Taliban only to be replaced by 20 years of corrupt US backed governments and the return of the Taliban, several changes over decades in Egypt, numerous South and Central American countries, and of course a few former Warsaw Pact countries kicking out Russia but gradually returning to a repressive government, including Russia itself. India got rid of the British but now is increasingly repressive against their Muslim minority and South Korea, with a history military dictators, barely escaped a recent attempt at martial law. And now it's happening in the good old USA.
It does seem like a never-ending swirling vortex into the the abyss Lefty, but ya gotta take the small victories when ya can. To think otherwise is an even quicker highway to total madness. As an Soviet era toddler refugee from Hungary, I know this lesson well.
I share those concerns. Too little is known at this point to know how it's all going to work out for those people.
As far as I'm concerned they've suffered more than enough but no one is going to put ME in charge.
Temporary. Maybe. Trying to get anything onto a close to even keel there
It’s going to be challenging
I've not seen a lot of that, more cautious optimism that things will improve and more celebration that Assad is gone
That's what I was wondering about. Cautious optimism seems like a good place to be. After all, the new leader renounced his extremist name "last thursday."
Granted, I am not on ANY of the social medias, so there might be people all being in love and I'd never know it
I was a bit surprised at how hopeful Marcie's article was.
Too soon to know. Israel is taking advantage of the leadership vacuum, so there's that.
I heard a bit on NPR. Israel claimed it was bombing in Syria to assist the rebels.
The explanation of why it was still bombing after Assad left was a little fuzzy.
I guess bombing the shit out of its neighbors is just a reflex for Israel at this point. Ya know, you've had a hard day and need a little something to pep you up...
I hope the rebels kick Russia out of Tartus.
I think it's too soon to know, too. That said, the hype over the unknown deeply concerns me. I keep going to Castro, Mugabe, and Orban.
Bibi ought to be removed on the grounds of insanity. Cause only a fucking nutbar would decide hey, you know what we really need? a 3 front war
(IMHO) Bibi would annex the whole country if he thought he could do it.
The devil's in the details with these clowns, juts like Putin in Ukraine if Bib annexed Syria, the next question would "Now what do I do? Other than finance an expensive neverending occupation militia". Hafez, come back. Pleez.
What the fuck does netanyahu think he is doing to help his people?
As I understand it, his very right-wing supporters want more real estate for Israeli “settlements” so Israel can have it’s biblical borders restored. Not really sure what that encompasses anymore.
Well, given it's Colonialism at this point, I'd say they want ALL THE LAND.
I do not think he gives a flying fuck for his people, except in what they can give him
oh yeah, and Jordan and a few others besides
Dude has dreams of empire
Anyone around who could gift-link this one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/10/ukraine-syria-russia-war/
Syrian rebels had help from Ukraine in humiliating Russia
Eager to bloody Putin’s nose, Kyiv supplied drones for the offensive that toppled Assad.
https://archive.ph/h2Tp7 [Fuck the WaPo]
Thanks, I tried archive.org, they didn't have it-
Writing projects:
- Part 3 of my story 'Upgrade'
- Dr. Quinn Furbelow story
- Festivus porn story
- Christmas porn story
- New Year's porn story
- ongoing vignettes for my story 'Kiss Me in the Dark: A Quiet Life'
- Chapter 3 of my steampunk story 'Sky Above, Sea Below'
And on Christmas Day, The Wanderer relaxes in an attempt to recover from writer's cramp.
Ever since the election, trying to get anything written has been a major chore.
Completely unrelated, for some reason, I have had some almost completely cinematic dreams, both autobigraphical and fictional over the past month or so. I'll try to send you one of them since I myself have been suffering from severe longform writer's block on an autobiographical memoir that I've been trying to write for my family. Other than my non-commenting here, my fingers seem to be frozen at a keyboard for some reason.
Is that Furry Steampunk, or straight up brass, leather, and goggles?
Brass, leather, goggles, flying ships . . .
With furry twists (rocket wing-equipped bats to carry messages).
Stock up on any additional accessories you may need before the TrumpTarriffs kick in.
"Do you have anything without porn in it?"
Porn, porn, porn porn
Lovely porn, wonderful porn!
Bloody Vikings.
Christmas porn doesn't have much porn in it...
'Upgrade' has no porn in it, and neither does the steampunk story. The Dr. Furbelow story's a Western.
With a title like "Dr. Furbelow" one had questions.
Hey! She keeps it trim!
I stole the name from a medieval bawdy song, and you're quite correct at what the word describes.
The good doctor's a member of the US Public Health Service, traveling across the West in the late 1890s - early 1900s, collecting bounties by arresting venereal disease carriers.
eggs sausage spam and porn doesn't have much porn in it
(grins)
With cat ears instead of viking helmets. Could totally be a thing.
Durn tootin.'
I've got to respond to two classmate posts and finish the profile I have due Thursday.
Also, I need to start thinking about my pieces for next semester.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘫𝘰𝘬𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘨, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘴 “𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘶 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘢.”
𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘪𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴. 𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯.
𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲. 𝗦𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴
https://apnews.com/article/trump-trolling-canada-jill-biden-trudeau-39ecae6554c7b4350e6a106354672eb4
𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦
omg
It's a flair! Total flair! Lots of flair and bling!
So Presidential
Such diplomacy!
Any day he’ll pivot.
So we had to go to the forced fun yesterday, because we were getting a back pack, and we thought it was about The Event we did, but it turns out, it was for that other thing we did in the summer where we became movie stars in a film about how cool fed jobs are (mind, co worker supe and I are not feds. We were amusedly annoyed by that entire thing).
Anyway, it was actually rather nice of them, but when we went up and got handed the thing and shook the hands and we turned around.....I saw all those people and went zomg there are people XD like instant hunched shoulders and toe gazing commenced.
Ah well, I am sure the picture will be interesting at least
I have done all I can to avoid "forced fun" activities like that. Since my Mom passed, no offence to my brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces, they seem to accept my absences from birthdays etcetera with no ill feelings.
oh yeah, I got a good excuse for those. I am the only one who lives a good distance away (4-5 hours depending on traffic)
I generally try to make the important things, like weddings and funerals, but as much as I love my siblings and would give any one of them a kidney, I don't especially feel like hanging around with them
I have forced fun next Tuesday at the bowlo. Can’t wait to see my work colleagues manky feet as they drunken barefoot bowl.
You should get a doctors note excusing you because of an irrational fear of manky feet
Also....the fuck? I did not even know barefoot bowling was a thing XD And still wanna know why anyone thinks it is a good idea. I mean, kick one of them balls barefoot is a good way to break some toes
On the grass. Bowling clubs were seeing dwindling numbers so started doing it to attract young people. It’s very popular with the youngs. They get drunk in the sun and throw a ball at other balls.
Me, I woulda just made the lanes more affordable. Like 4o bucks for an hour is a bit stiff for the average family I am thinking. Half priced tuesdays!
But whatta I know XD
There aren’t any lanes in lawn bowls.
I meant instead of doing the feet bowling thing XD Like, you want more people, your numbers are dwindling, maybe instead of jacking up the price you could, idk, make it more affordable for folks
Well, see, you're supposed to kick the opposing player in the balls, not kick the ball.
Let's see how far Elno's "Free Speech" bullshit lies extend when there's legal wrangling ...
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝘀𝗺𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀
Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/11/india_musk_starlink_police_bust_demand/
oh no, he'll hand that over, innocent or not. It is for authoritarians after all and theirs is the only speech that matters
The "alleged" part of that just makes the defence lawyer industrial complex perk its ears up and extend it wallets out.
I think Must hates drug users.
Basically, I think that Musk hates himself and can't help himself from over-compensating.
Agree. He totally hates himself.
Strictly speaking, and feel free to challenge me if you think I'm wrong, Diane, but I suspect that all of us hates ourselves to some degree. The sign of a healthy personal psychology is to recognize that and constantly try to make ourselves better. Damn that's a pretty deep introspection for an early AM non-comment, but I'll let it ride.
oh I say, I love myself, for I am practically perfect in every way.
Sorta like Mary Poppins only I sing more like johnny cash.
Just a spoon full of burning rings of fire make the line walking more fun
surprising since he allegedly loves him his designer drugs.
You know, drug users who use up his drugs.
ohhhhhhh
That makes sense since he is a libertarian douche canoe.
They all seem to want the things, personally, that they say they are against so I have decided it is because they think those things are a finite pool. Nothing else makes sense
Re: Luigi Mangione
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeZ_phEbEAAG1j_.jpg
I did!
https://edge.dailyvoice.com/upload/Screenshot_2024-10-20_4.03.40_PM.png?width=720&height=720
Nice
Who is this guy?
Everybody's favorite re compensation hottie.
The Adjustor.
LMFAO! I’m going to hell.
Healthcare CEO shooter (allegedly)
Ah they caught him? Well, good.
Mario however is still on the loose
Who's that?
Just a Mario brothers joke, cause his name happens to be Luigi
From the nintendo video game series
I think Elno should rocket off and examine this expansion.
𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗯 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗵𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲’𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻
These latest findings further support the Hubble Space Telescope's prior expansion rate measurements.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/latest-james-webb-data-hints-at-new-physics-in-universes-expansion/
Written by Sean Carroll's wife. No wonder her picture is wacky.
Trump picks Andrew Ferguson to chair FTC, Ron Johnson as ambassador to Mexico AND Kimberly Guilfoyle to be ambassador to Greece.
So that's how DJTJ will get rid of his fiancé
So the Candyman’s going to Mexico?
Snort
I bet he brings back the best presents in his suitcase and pockets
Oh I see it’s the wrong Johnson
I assume this Johnson knows how to keep his nose clean/s
Diplomatic Immunity lets you get a lot of drugs in and out.
You're thinking of Ronnie Jackson.
I just got that. I should’ve read down
how many Ron Johnson’s are running around anyways?
Are they multiplying?
how else is he gonna bring back the fenny now that the border is magically secure?
Grifting Cronies is the name of my next fusion rockabilly gospel band.
We're acapella
I liked where someone said that it looks like Junior's and her engagement may be kaput, but there's nothing like four years of Greek men around to help her forget about all the secrets she undoubtedly could tell.
Is this true? Ron Johnson going to leave the senate? Tuberville going to take over as senate dumbest man?
My nightmare continues. I got confused on all the similarities last night.
It’s a different RJ. Very confusing tho.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-picks-ron-johnson-us-ambassador-mexico-2024-12-11/
Different Ron Johnson, I think.
yeah gotta keep the doc handy for all the drugs Trump totally does not take
That's Ronnie Jackson.
All those white Rons look a like to me
We Olde, White Dudes™ are interchangeable it seems.
Ah, okay.
Tinfoyle dates Jr, so she definitely knows Grease.
LOL! I thought Jr. dumped her.
That's why Dementia Don posted her to Greece ... so Junior can chase that Palm Beach honey he was seen with.
But they grifted steaks together!
How many lap dances did she have to give? And do they make ozembic in Greece?
HEY-O!
And Hamilton still hears carnival music. It's the worst tinnitus ever, lemmetellu.
The carnival barkers are the worst.
google made stuff up?
I'm shocked!
𝐴 2021 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑖𝑟ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑖, 𝐺𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑒, 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙.30 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 (𝑅𝐿) 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑠, 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑦 𝑑𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠. 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎-𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑅𝐿 𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑠 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑎 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑚 (𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔), 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟.
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wow.. simulated annealing is an ancient algorithm for placement.. we were using that back in the 80s for circuit board layout..
𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 = "proprietary". I deal with this in my own work.
You do that, you don't get to publish.
Bless my heart.
Yep. I've had papers get rejected because of it. Rightfully so. If you can't report in a way that makes your results replicated, there's not a lot of reason to publish in a scientific journal.
I will say that we've been rejected for proprietary stuff that we shouldn't have even been questioned on, such as how we get our sample representative, but those instances have been rare.
Well, how do ya get your sample representative, punk?
"So... this all seems horrible."
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿
Leaked form shows how Fog Data helps cops find where suspects have been and when.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/location-data-firm-helps-police-find-out-when-suspects-visited-their-doctor/
Well damn:
“ Services like Fog Data Science have triggered concerns about how police might use location tracking to prosecute abortions. "For several thousand dollars annually, the software lets police trace unique borders around large, customized regions to generate a list of devices in the area. Police can use Fog Reveal to geofence entire buildings or street blocks—like the area surrounding an abortion clinic—and get information on devices used within and surrounding those buildings to identify suspects," Ars wrote in November 2022.”
For several thousand dollars annually
Your tax dollars at work
It's a small price to pay for keeping babbies safe (punishing sluts)!
nothing to see here, move along.
/s
Why don't they just quiz the staff at the local McDonalds?
Oh yeah. My side of tumblr's been telling people to turn off their location data for months now. Mine only gets turned on for Maps and even that's enough to hurt me at times.
(tons of websites HATE that my computer doesn't give them my location. it's funny).
Well fuck those websites' widdul feewings then.
Yep. What's funny is they start assuming I'm in DC for some reason and it's like "I literally just searched Arlington City Government stuff any you still think that! my privacy is working!"
Turn off your location data and then VPN through a server in some unexpected country.
Not really necessary to my needs but I have plans if it becomes necessary in the future.
What's really funny is I have the weather channel hourly page for Arlington as one of my most gone to bookmarks and the other sites STILL don't know! MWAHAHAHA!
I love how delighted you are!
Know ye now loyalty and love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYf4q75AJ0A
wow..
Damn Ninja onions!
OMG, Uncle Walter and Charles Kuralt! There's a blast from the past. I miss those guys.