They won't be truly happy unless and until they can get their own voters to applaud videos of Republican officeholders actually "casting widows and orphans into snowbanks." Come to think of it, putting those immigrant-forbidding orange buoys along Texas border waterways looks to be pretty much the same thing, and there's little doubt that many are cheering on the governor of that state for precisely such heartless acts. Dickens would have to summon every bit of his great power of caricature to properly send up the deep-down cruel villains who flourish in the Republican Party of the 2020s.
They do not love babies - babies are out of the womb and subject to GOP denial of medical care, food and stuff - in the womb they get that from the mother - IF she survives the pregnancy, which is not guaranteed since prenatal care is also something they do not believe in.
He is such a good dog. If he is being annoying, you just pull his 9lb body into your lap, pull a blanket over him, and tell him to go to sleep and he does.
Just finished plugging another nine chapters (with artwork) into 'Family Matters.' The beast stands at 346 pages, 25.5 MB as a .docx file, with nine more chapters to go. No idea if saving it as a .pdf will make it small enough to email it.
Last I looked, we're pretty sure how he built it. A lot of the confusion was based on assumptions about ancient and 'primitive' people, particularly when those people weren't white, and it's taking decades to get rid of that baggage.
Difference between how could they possibly build that, it must be aliens and "We're not sure if they used ramps or pulleys or what" ^.^
Though you're right in that to like the History Channel, because Egyptologists cannot agree on the precise methods, this means it must have been aliens
I’m an ex-archaeologist. We know they used the Nile to transport the blocks and we know where they cut the millions of 2 ton blocks, but mysteries remain.
I think at least some of the stone is the type that is fairly soft when first quarried, but hardens fairly quickly. Remember too also it was sheathed in a white layer that slid off in an earthquake in the 1300s.
Bronze Age is copper/tin metallurgy but would have been enough for stone saws...I’ve seen some pretty good recreations where they use a chisel and wedge system to quarry it
I'm always asking my furry roommates to do stuff around the house and they are all like, "dude, we are cats and we mostly sleep." I should really let them know about the industrious ancient Egyptian cats.
My wife's mother and her boyfriend (in their 80s) once took us to a favorite hiking spot of theirs near the German border not far from Wissembourg. It was an incredible hike through enormous red sandstone cliffs and along a centuries old route between France and Germany. We followed the ruts made by ancient wagons on the sandstone, and came to a sign designating a spot as the border in former times. I wondered how many surreptitious crossings of that border had been made there back in the day. Bet it was creepy AF at night.
We walked to a small village a kilometer or two away and had a superb lunch, then walked back to the car we left in Germany.
Life is awesome. So glad I got to live half of it over here.
I had a hardship temporary duty assignment one winter to Dal Molin Air Base, Vicenza. Walk out of the hotel and, man, it's Italy! Four months. I never knew that the piedmont has such nice weather in the winter. Jump on the train and an hour later you are getting off at the grand canal in Venice. Quite a trip.
Birthdays: Mungo Park, Carl Zeiss, Julian Byng, Hawley H. Crippen, William S. Porter, Felix Dzerzhinsky, D.H. Lawrence, Theodor Adorno, Paul Bryant, Herbert Lom, Tom Landry, Earl Holliman, Gherman Titov, Lola Falana, Tommy Shaw, Kristy McNichol.
Obituaries: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jan Smuts, Nikita S. Khrushchev, Salvador Allende, Lorne Greene, Peter Tosh, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, The Three Thousand, Johnny Unitas, John Ritter, Harold Gould.
Yesterday we woke to find the campsite invaded by ants. I thought I got them all out of the food bin, but as I was carrying it up to the car, they came after me. I immediately dropped the bin, and ran to the water, stripping completely before jumping in. I didn't even wear shoes.
In an attempt to reboot the global economy, central banks slashed interest rates to almost zero, resulting in an era of cheap money.
This resulted in two things. First, it incentivized investors to fund promising (and, in many cases, not so promising) young tech companies. But it also allowed for the emergence of business models that, in any other circumstance, would be completely unviable.
I am in love with Japan because they have a WONDERFUL public transportation system.
NAMBLA re-branding as "pro-child."
Coat Hanger Salesmen has a nice ring.
New Coke was a big success, though, right?
They won't be truly happy unless and until they can get their own voters to applaud videos of Republican officeholders actually "casting widows and orphans into snowbanks." Come to think of it, putting those immigrant-forbidding orange buoys along Texas border waterways looks to be pretty much the same thing, and there's little doubt that many are cheering on the governor of that state for precisely such heartless acts. Dickens would have to summon every bit of his great power of caricature to properly send up the deep-down cruel villains who flourish in the Republican Party of the 2020s.
Hey, it's texass.....
they're finally accepting the name that we've been giving them for years: pro birth. those psychopaths aren't pro life at all.
They do not love babies - babies are out of the womb and subject to GOP denial of medical care, food and stuff - in the womb they get that from the mother - IF she survives the pregnancy, which is not guaranteed since prenatal care is also something they do not believe in.
I just want to say that my dog is the best dog and that he is the only good dog there is.
No, no, no...I have the best dog (when he is not barking at everything, that is)
High praise from a catlady.
He is such a good dog. If he is being annoying, you just pull his 9lb body into your lap, pull a blanket over him, and tell him to go to sleep and he does.
Maybe he's a cat-dog.
[tilts head in dog-gesture of i-d0-no-understand]
Cat-dog!
https://youtu.be/6NKMJrLerQc?si=KXuB1MKvcXl-Yzr5
I'mma trying to picture the expression on any one of my cat's faces if they jumped into my lap and I told them to go to sleep. And I have easy cats.
He is VERY dog.
Just finished plugging another nine chapters (with artwork) into 'Family Matters.' The beast stands at 346 pages, 25.5 MB as a .docx file, with nine more chapters to go. No idea if saving it as a .pdf will make it small enough to email it.
Call it a trilogy.
If the artwork is black and white then maybe.. if its colour then probably not.
All the illustrations are color. There's sixty-five of them.
Then not unless you tweak the compression out the wazoo and pixelate the fuck out of the images.
Neither of which I know how to do.
How do you make your PDF's?
Can you use a drop box or similar to send it instead of an email?
Make a Triple Decker out of it.
I might have to. Three 21-chapter chunks.
Trump is no Khufu. Khufu built the tallest building in the world for 4500 years, and we still aren’t sure how he built it.
Space aliens built it. Just like Stonehenge.
Space aliens built my garage too, though they did a shitty job with the electrical stuff.
So much is made clear! Also, I think they're still there. I hear them in the attic sometimes.
explains my downstairs bath
Cause certainly a human who would use it as a human didn't build that.
Well, donnie did erect that huge edifice constructed of smoke and mirrors.
Last I looked, we're pretty sure how he built it. A lot of the confusion was based on assumptions about ancient and 'primitive' people, particularly when those people weren't white, and it's taking decades to get rid of that baggage.
Difference between how could they possibly build that, it must be aliens and "We're not sure if they used ramps or pulleys or what" ^.^
Though you're right in that to like the History Channel, because Egyptologists cannot agree on the precise methods, this means it must have been aliens
I’m an ex-archaeologist. We know they used the Nile to transport the blocks and we know where they cut the millions of 2 ton blocks, but mysteries remain.
Cut them with what is one question. Did they have iron tools?
I think at least some of the stone is the type that is fairly soft when first quarried, but hardens fairly quickly. Remember too also it was sheathed in a white layer that slid off in an earthquake in the 1300s.
bronze I think wannit?
Gotta know your geology for good stone cutting, and know how what rocks break on straight or relatively straight lines. Pretty baller work.
The one that really gets me is south and middle america where they didn't even have that. Granted the blocks ain't as huge, but they're still squared
Must have taken forever.
Bronze Age is copper/tin metallurgy but would have been enough for stone saws...I’ve seen some pretty good recreations where they use a chisel and wedge system to quarry it
They had Jews, working their space lasers.
https://open.substack.com/chat/replies/86f14a96-fbc3-408e-a69e-c9f8c04e1d91
he had a lot of help
From cats
Cats make lousy masons, but excellent bosses
My joke is that the pyramids are cat furniture, obvs
You know, this makes sense
More sense than a granary
I'm always asking my furry roommates to do stuff around the house and they are all like, "dude, we are cats and we mostly sleep." I should really let them know about the industrious ancient Egyptian cats.
Explain that they were worshipped for reasons.
Yesterday's picnic photos, if you are interested in that sort of thing:
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/riverside?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
My wife's mother and her boyfriend (in their 80s) once took us to a favorite hiking spot of theirs near the German border not far from Wissembourg. It was an incredible hike through enormous red sandstone cliffs and along a centuries old route between France and Germany. We followed the ruts made by ancient wagons on the sandstone, and came to a sign designating a spot as the border in former times. I wondered how many surreptitious crossings of that border had been made there back in the day. Bet it was creepy AF at night.
We walked to a small village a kilometer or two away and had a superb lunch, then walked back to the car we left in Germany.
Life is awesome. So glad I got to live half of it over here.
OBTW, I had a new phone and lost all the pics when I tried my first download. It looked a lot like this though: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1000,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/if_ar_lt_1.0/c_fill,g_auto,ar_1:1/if_end/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc0edbb9a-b49c-4d00-86b0-0ac9add25061_2288x1712.jpeg
I love this!
I had a hardship temporary duty assignment one winter to Dal Molin Air Base, Vicenza. Walk out of the hotel and, man, it's Italy! Four months. I never knew that the piedmont has such nice weather in the winter. Jump on the train and an hour later you are getting off at the grand canal in Venice. Quite a trip.
It was interesting to be there in the winter. No tourists. Except me I guess.
I see the anti-vax Serb won the Open.
No-Vax Jokeovic is devoid of basic humanity, to say nothing of charm.
I'll take his shot.
Well, crap.
I'll bet he has an awesome serb, er, serve.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Mungo Park, Carl Zeiss, Julian Byng, Hawley H. Crippen, William S. Porter, Felix Dzerzhinsky, D.H. Lawrence, Theodor Adorno, Paul Bryant, Herbert Lom, Tom Landry, Earl Holliman, Gherman Titov, Lola Falana, Tommy Shaw, Kristy McNichol.
Obituaries: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jan Smuts, Nikita S. Khrushchev, Salvador Allende, Lorne Greene, Peter Tosh, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, The Three Thousand, Johnny Unitas, John Ritter, Harold Gould.
Yesterday we woke to find the campsite invaded by ants. I thought I got them all out of the food bin, but as I was carrying it up to the car, they came after me. I immediately dropped the bin, and ran to the water, stripping completely before jumping in. I didn't even wear shoes.
That's one way to get really wet...
It was so awesome! The water was so warm!
Morning all. ☕
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Good morning!
That's one way to knock Monday out of the park.
In an attempt to reboot the global economy, central banks slashed interest rates to almost zero, resulting in an era of cheap money.
This resulted in two things. First, it incentivized investors to fund promising (and, in many cases, not so promising) young tech companies. But it also allowed for the emergence of business models that, in any other circumstance, would be completely unviable.
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘀
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/09/are-fintech-business-models-sustainable/
Your Wonkette non-commenters called this one months ago.
"Nobody could have predicted this!"
I shoulda been an economist.
Doesn't pay well enough.
As we’ve seen over the past decade, one of the most valuable barometers of a startup’s future prospects is its customer acquisition rate
*rubs eyes* so, a pyramid scheme
Correct.
Shocking!