After the outage of the last couple of days, I saw the title “No Service” and it was so perfect this post wrote itself.
‘No Service’ by Tom Anello from his ‘Homecoming’ EP.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.in.boston/
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tominboston
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4vk7AwwGqVSHkpMeZOyxmM?si=dmX7D8PqQdqMhMdCEg8kvQ
Website: https://www.tomanello.com/Recorded and mixed by Keith Lauria
So happy you are back. Congrats and FT
The rain finally came in and I was carrying my umbrella all darn day.
I see that reloading the page will reset all the comment karma numbers to zero, so there’s still something to fix. I’ll get to that. Probably a caching issue.
It’s not actually resetting the karma values — if you click the zero it will refresh and show the real value.
Media still obsessing about the Rock/Smith fiasco. FFS, let it go, people. Wake me if Rock changes his mind and presses charges, otherwise it’s over and it’s time to move on.
re: #7 Targetpractice
Media still obsessing about the Rock/Smith fiasco. FFS, let it go, people. Wake me if Rock changes his mind and presses charges, otherwise it’s over and it’s time to move on.
I don’t think the media is ready for a Dropkick Murphys concert.
i sure hope nobody posted the infallible solution to all the world’s problems in a comment at LGF sometime in the last 4 or 5 days, because if so it’s now lost forever.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
unless they post it again, of course. i sure hope they do.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I see that reloading the page will reset all the comment karma numbers to zero, so there’s still something to fix. I’ll get to that. Probably a caching issue.
When I click on the zeros, they turn into double-digit numbers.
re: #11 wrenchwench
That is because we are so happy to be back here. :)
Welcome back, Charles!
Welcome back us!
33 hours without LGF,
Amazed to be alive!
I did not realize how important this site was to my world view… Getting into my car for the drive to work and for some reason the radio comes on and its Hunter Biden this and Hunter Biden that. I pulled over and set the radio to blue tooth and asked siri to play some Rachmainoff. Much better! Glad you are back because I was jonesing for some Lizard wisdom.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I see that reloading the page will reset all the comment karma numbers to zero, so there’s still something to fix. I’ll get to that. Probably a caching issue.
You’re doing this to fuck with the karma counters, aren’t you? A shot across the bow for posters of cute dogs, for example. /////
What’s especially funny is hearing the media outlets whose every other whine is about how their latest “THE BIDENS ARE ALL CORRUPT MONSTERS!!!” obsession isn’t being talked about in the “liberal media” devote time on their shows to commenting on Chris Rock’s reputation being injured by a slap from Will Smith or how Smith needs to be punished in some way by the Academy…who apparently now have been caught lying about asking him to leave.
re: #7 Targetpractice
yeah, we are watching the slow rolling of the onion peeling of an attempted coup and a war of aggression in Europe and these guys would rather do ANYTHING than have to unravel and digest the harsh realities that the religious right and GOP are perfectly willing to to crap on 250 years of Democracy as long as they get to be in power.
I have to get up at the crack of dawn so I am headed out. I will be back tomorrow. :)
re: #17 piratedan
yeah, we are watching the slow rolling of the onion peeling of an attempted coup and a war of aggression in Europe and these guys would rather do ANYTHING than have to unravel and digest the harsh realities that the religious right and GOP are perfectly willing to to crap on 250 years of Democracy as long as they get to be in power.
Yeah, what a lot of people predicted was going to happen has happened: The legacy media got bored of reporting on Ukraine and decided to “move on” to other stories. “Oh, Russia still getting is ass kicked sideways? Putin still threatening nuclear war? *yawn* Let’s put that after the days-old story of two celebrities fighting and before the latest ‘APOCALYPTIC GAS PRICE INFLATION!!!’ story.”
re: #10 Charles Johnson
unless they post it again, of course. i sure hope they do.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
I can’t believe you’re actually making me do this again…
Or were you talking about this?
Wordle 285 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
re: #10 Charles Johnson
I might have. But I was high. I’ll get high again and try to remember.
Does anyone have comments about the FEC fine against the Clinton campaign? Did they pay just because it’s easier/cheaper than challenging the FEC ruling?
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
Does anyone have comments about the FEC fine against the Clinton campaign? Did they pay just because it’s easier/cheaper than challenging the FEC ruling?
Sounds like the FEC found time in their busy schedule of looking the other way on Trump’s blatant violation of campaign finance laws to smack the Clintons for shit that people no longer care about.
Well, Mr. Johnson’s site was down for less time than my Internet service and long distance telephone service.
Perhaps he’d like to run CenturyLink?
In other news, the Fairfax County tornado, if it ever existed, apparently just went south of me.
I guess that I am relieved rather than disappointed.
Last time I got a tornado warning, I was in the process of walking to the front door to try and figure why there was a sound like handfuls of small pebbles were being thrown against the west facing side of my house.
I and the neighbors figured that a very small tornado had not quite touched down as it passed over our development. It touched down about a quarter mile North and destroyed exactly 1 pickup truck and two trees before dissipating. Iirc, it was officially determined to be a tornado.
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
Does anyone have comments about the FEC fine against the Clinton campaign? Did they pay just because it’s easier/cheaper than challenging the FEC ruling?
For a fine of $123,000 total it’s not worth fighting over. And the fine was over how the report was classified in the Clinton campaign’s reporting, not over the contents. It was reported as “legal services” and “legal and compliance consulting” instead of opposition research. It does not go to the veracity of the Steele dossier, but of course Fux Noise is going to go to town with it.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, Mr. Johnson’s site was down for less time than my Internet service and long distance telephone service.
Perhaps he’d like to run CenturyLink?
no way man
re: #7 Targetpractice
Media still obsessing about the Rock/Smith fiasco. FFS, let it go, people. Wake me if Rock changes his mind and presses charges, otherwise it’s over and it’s time to move on.
This afternoon after work instead of being here I took a nap and in that nap I had a dream and in that dream my dog woke me up barking at a bird that was loose in the house and my dog was trying to bite it out of the air and so I ran to the front door to let the bird out and the bird understood and was flying out but the dog was also trying to get out so I slammed the door shut just as the bird was escaping and it dissolved into dust between the door and the frame just as my wife came home and woke me up.
could be
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
is this guy just really stupid https://t.co/2AtjXqo5RY
— darth™ (@darth) April 1, 2022
Well one good thing about the outage. I followed a few fellow Lizards on the Tweeter thing.
Am now trying to decide whether to watch the rest of the 2020 Korean film The Call. Very creepy. Similar in certain respects to Frequency but very disturbing.
Wordles!
Did it in 5.
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
So what happened over the past few days? More specifically than a DB corruption. What kind of set-up do you have running LGF? 20/20 hind sight, but redundancy and backups are pretty reasonable these days.
Ahhh, I have my window on the world again.
Just got reminded that LGF and the Colorado Sun are my primary stops for national and local news respectively.
re: #7 Targetpractice
Media still obsessing about the Rock/Smith fiasco. FFS, let it go, people. Wake me if Rock changes his mind and presses charges, otherwise it’s over and it’s time to move on.
The Madison Cawthorn orgies thing doesn’t seem to be going away either.
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
The Madison Cawthorn orgies thing doesn’t seem to be going away either.
That’s a great story though. I hope the media keeps taking about GOP orgies and cocaine binges through the midterms.
re: #36 William Lewis
Well, none of the images I posted are missing. But now I think I understand what happened to the gerbil cage …
[Embedded content]
The comments table was the only part of the database affected. Somehow this one table got corrupted, possibly because it was so gigantic. Tens of gigabytes. We managed to restore everything but the last 4 or 5 days of comments.
Ok, we gotta talk about this some more.
Here are the latest developments from @wusa9: https://t.co/EjTlTtFU1b
— Nathan Baca (@NathanBacaTV) March 31, 2022
Anyway, I was originally mistaken in thinking the raid was due to the indictment against Lauren Handy and eight others dropping yesterday. (They raided a clinic in DC late last year and barricaded themselves in it.) No, someone decided to tip off DC Police to a potential biohazard in the residence, hence the raid. Remember, this is Washington, DC and I am sure that the police were freaking out about “body parts” or whatever it was reported as.
I’m old enough to remember when Melody Green, widow of Christian songwriter Keith Green, had a fetus in a jar she called “Baby Choice,” which she took around to speaking engagements in the 1980s. More recently, we were reminded that Karen Swallow Prior, formerly of Liberty University and now teaching at some Southern Baptist seminary, had kept a fetus in a Tupperware, which was named “Tia.” This was during a period of anti-abortion unrest centered on Buffalo, NY, in 1992. The fetus was brought out at one of the protests and seized. It’s unclear what happened to it.
But holy crap! Five fetuses! Where did Lauren Handy get them and what was she planning on doing with them? It’s been suggested that she was perhaps going to toss them in a clinic’s regular garbage (not biohazard garbage, which is sterilized) and then call the cops. Or something more nefarious was going on. But for people who claim to reverence life, it seems like they didn’t seem to give a damn about about the fetuses, except to use them as props. I hope the city throws the book at her.
My wife and I picked up the keys today for our new Hudson River home, about 15 miles north of Sleepy Hollow, finally completing the journey that started Christmas Eve when I accepted a cool job requiring I relocate from the Seattle area to metro NYC. What a long strange trip it’s been!
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
The Madison Cawthorn orgies thing doesn’t seem to be going away either.
It’s apparently serious because the GQP leadership are taking the very severe, unprecedented step…of supporting a primary challenger. Not punishing him, not censuring him, just saying “We’d really like somebody to replace you, but are prepared to keep supporting you if you somehow survive political suicide.”
re: #44 Charles Johnson
The comments table was the only part of the database affected. Somehow this one table got corrupted, possibly because it was so gigantic. Tens of gigabytes. We managed to restore everything but the last 4 or 5 days of comments.
I do not miss my DBA days for the state elections board. Financial report data was always tricky especially after we got software to the campaigns and had to import their reports… You have my sincere sympathy for the recovery and my gratitude that this is back.
Joe Biden has restored confidence in American leadership across the globe. pic.twitter.com/eFy0yQZ5Bp
— The Steady State (@steadystatevets) March 30, 2022
re: #45 mmmirele
Ok, we gotta talk about this some more.
Anyway, I was originally mistaken in thinking the raid was due to the indictment against Lauren Handy and eight others dropping yesterday. (They raided a clinic in DC late last year and barricaded themselves in it.) No, someone decided to tip off DC Police to a potential biohazard in the residence, hence the raid. Remember, this is Washington, DC and I am sure that the police were freaking out about “body parts” or whatever it was reported as.
I’m old enough to remember when Melody Green, widow of Christian songwriter Keith Green, had a fetus in a jar she called “Baby Choice,” which she took around to speaking engagements in the 1980s. More recently, we were reminded that Karen Swallow Prior, formerly of Liberty University and now teaching at some Southern Baptist seminary, had kept a fetus in a Tupperware, which was named “Tia.” This was during a period of anti-abortion unrest centered on Buffalo, NY, in 1992. The fetus was brought out at one of the protests and seized. It’s unclear what happened to it.
But holy crap! Five fetuses! Where did Lauren Handy get them and what was she planning on doing with them? It’s been suggested that she was perhaps going to toss them in a clinic’s regular garbage (not biohazard garbage, which is sterilized) and then call the cops. Or something more nefarious was going on. But for people who claim to reverence life, it seems like they didn’t seem to give a damn about about the fetuses, except to use them as props. I hope the city throws the book at her.
I read that she and some friends broke into an abortion clinic and stole them. Not sure how reliable the info is.
re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron
[Embedded content]
Well yeah, but Hunter Biden made some money as a private citizen, so obviously he needs to be impeached.
////////
I am now put in the envious position of having updinged myself, probably, I am guessing, due to a reused post ID and some crossed references in the database.
re: #53 Dopamine Fish
I am now put in the envious position of having updinged myself, probably, I am guessing, due to a reused post ID and some crossed references in the database.
I can down-ding you if you’d like.
Hopefully this fucker is in for a rude awakening.
I guess he figures he’s in the clear … pic.twitter.com/qjgRBPygJY
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 31, 2022
re: #44 Charles Johnson
The comments table was the only part of the database affected. Somehow this one table got corrupted, possibly because it was so gigantic. Tens of gigabytes. We managed to restore everything but the last 4 or 5 days of comments.
Charles, I know you treasure your comments, but maybe it’s time to think about purging all but say the last X number of years worth? Can you add more indexes to the comments table? Or is there a way to move those older comments to say, an archive? I’m just thinking that a huge database table is more likely to have issues and also about the days and weeks at work where we’ve waited for databases to be reconstructed and just offering suggestions because I was going through LGF withdrawal.
re: #39 JC1
This hit at a bad time, because I have a twice-daily incremental backup to a local hard drive, but that drive failed last week and I hadn’t replaced it yet when the database decided to throw a tantrum. So we had to fall back on the web host’s weekly database backup. Luckily that was taken before whatever crashed the comments.
Everything I absorbed from the Rebbe’s Torah teachings and example—how nothing is more important or dear to God than helping someone materially or spiritually—was for these last weeks,” @Chabad Ukraine Mission -@WSJ https://t.co/DBFndUq1al
— Avraham Berkowitz (@GlobalRabbi) April 1, 2022
re: #45 mmmirele
Ok, we gotta talk about this some more.
Anyway, I was originally mistaken in thinking the raid was due to the indictment against Lauren Handy and eight others dropping yesterday. (They raided a clinic in DC late last year and barricaded themselves in it.) No, someone decided to tip off DC Police to a potential biohazard in the residence, hence the raid. Remember, this is Washington, DC and I am sure that the police were freaking out about “body parts” or whatever it was reported as.
I’m old enough to remember when Melody Green, widow of Christian songwriter Keith Green, had a fetus in a jar she called “Baby Choice,” which she took around to speaking engagements in the 1980s. More recently, we were reminded that Karen Swallow Prior, formerly of Liberty University and now teaching at some Southern Baptist seminary, had kept a fetus in a Tupperware, which was named “Tia.” This was during a period of anti-abortion unrest centered on Buffalo, NY, in 1992. The fetus was brought out at one of the protests and seized. It’s unclear what happened to it.
But holy crap! Five fetuses! Where did Lauren Handy get them and what was she planning on doing with them? It’s been suggested that she was perhaps going to toss them in a clinic’s regular garbage (not biohazard garbage, which is sterilized) and then call the cops. Or something more nefarious was going on. But for people who claim to reverence life, it seems like they didn’t seem to give a damn about about the fetuses, except to use them as props. I hope the city throws the book at her.
So she’s a collector. One notch less creepy than a serial killer? Is her hobby taxidermy?
— 🇺🇦 you can still mask w/o a mandate (@Amy_Rey) March 31, 2022
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
Hopefully this fucker is in for a rude awakening.
[Embedded content]
Considering the glacial pace this case is moving at, I’m wondering if he’ll be “vindicated” by the SoL running out first.
If you are in need of an upgrade in how your computer works and how you interact with it, have we got a product just for you!
..
database failures tend to cascade
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
windows xp was once my nemesis
re: #50 JC1
I read that she and some friends broke into an abortion clinic and stole them. Not sure how reliable the info is.
That must have been a different incident from the October 22, 2020 raid of the DC clinic. While (based on reading the indictment, which can be found on this page: justice.gov ) it appears the 9 defendants had physically barricaded themselves in the building and had to be removed, I don’t think the defendants had the opportunity to steal fetuses at that time. I have heard that this group and other associated groups have broken into other clinics, so it’s possible these were obtained during one of those raids.
re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If you are in need of an upgrade in how your computer works and how you interact with it, have we got a product just for you!
[Embedded content]
..
I find a lot of humor in how I always fondly remember the last WinOS whenever I upgrade to the newest one. I now find myself missing a lot of things about Win 7 when back then I missed XP, which made me miss Win 98 which…no, I can’t in good conscience say I ever missed Win 95. That OS was forged in the darkest depths of Mount Doom.
Remember when the legacy media cared this much about the Trump spawn?
CBS is having a God-awful week when it comes to journalism https://t.co/i77pzJu7Kp
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 31, 2022
Yeah, me neither.
So LGF wasn’t taken out by yesterday’s CME then.
The aurora borealis was visible here. This blog has photos (Scottsbluff, Nebr. is the second photo).
Wasn’t my fault…
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
re: #65 Targetpractice
I find a lot of humor in how I always fondly remember the last WinOS whenever I upgrade to the newest one. I now find myself missing a lot of things about Win 7 when back then I missed XP, which made me miss Win 98 which…no, I can’t in good conscience say I ever missed Win 95. That OS was forged in the darkest depths of Mount Doom.
You didn’t mention Windows Millennium.
I miss Windows NT tho.
we’re all doomed https://t.co/mtfIAGaO1V
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
re: #63 Charles Johnson
windows xp was once my nemesis
Then Microsoft said “Could be worse. Hold my latte” and shipped everything since.
(I run 10 to play video games with my son. WSL2 & GWSL makes it tolerable though I wish I could run FreeBSD under it)
re: #65 Targetpractice
I find a lot of humor in how I always fondly remember the last WinOS whenever I upgrade to the newest one. I now find myself missing a lot of things about Win 7 when back then I missed XP, which made me miss Win 98 which…no, I can’t in good conscience say I ever missed Win 95. That OS was forged in the darkest depths of Mount Doom.
Windows 2.5 for the win.
re: #72 The Pie Overlord!
Who has upgraded to Windows 11?
I have one PC that is on Windows 11. Mrs. Fish’s gaming laptop runs it. I don’t really have any more or less complaints than any other recent Windows version.
re: #63 Charles Johnson
windows xp was once my nemesis
Windows has been the nemesis of us all at some time in our lives.
re: #72 The Pie Overlord!
Who has upgraded to Windows 11?
Ask me in a week. I’m using it on the work laptop, and will put it on the home machine then.
re: #69 The Pie Overlord!
You didn’t mention Windows Millennium.
I miss Windows NT tho.
Never had to deal with ME because my family skipped straight from 98 to XP via computer upgrade. That upgrade was in part due to a…small mistake on my part. The teacher of the computer programming class I took in my sophomore year provided all the class with copies of Win2K to take home for free. What I didn’t know at the time was that certain motherboards didn’t support NTFS, which my dad and I didn’t discover until trying to install it on the home computer bricked the poor thing.
Likewise I never had to deal with Vista directly, though my sister did because the new computer she got a year after mine came with it pre-installed. When I upgraded over a year later, Win 7 was the new hotness and I avoided that whole headache. She had to carry that load until her PC died and the new one had Win 7. Then we both took advantage (by which I mean Microsoft forced us) of the free upgrade to Win 10 when that dropped.
re: #72 The Pie Overlord!
Who has upgraded to Windows 11?
Considered it for the built in X Server & better WSL performance but too many negatives “for your security!” and I’d have to fake out the installer because I don’t do TPM or Secure Boot.
The UI is fairly fugly too but that’s always fixable one way or another.
re: #72 The Pie Overlord!
Who has upgraded to Windows 11?
Bought mrs coin a new laptop with Windows11 on it. She was running Win7 on the old beast. She’s been able to adapt with minimal fuss.
I’ve had thoughts in recent months about trying to resurrect my dad’s old XP box just to have a dedicated gaming PC for all my old Win 95/98 games since compatibility mode in Win 10 is already a pain before I mix in the fact that old games do not like modern aspect ratios and screen sizes.
“I don’t recognize the civil authority of government, only god’s authority.” — Lauren Handy, who calls herself a “Catholic anarchist.”
Looks like that’s about to bite her in the ass.— Hypocritical Social Media Prayer Club (@HSMPClub) March 30, 2022
re: #79 coin operated
Bought mrs coin a new laptop with Windows11 on it. She was running Win7 on the old beast. She’s been able to adapt with minimal fuss.
I need to get a newer computer. This one is a 2012 HP laptop and my XP machine is a 2005 Compaq.
re: #72 The Pie Overlord!
Who has upgraded to Windows 11?
I have it on 5 machines, it has a few bugs but it works well enough. I like that it can do some android stuff, early days for that and limited but the Android Kindle app is tons better than the windows app.
I honestly think most of my hostility towards Win 95 is misplaced, as this was the era when “compatibility” was a joke and getting new software might mean an hour of fiddling with video card settings just to get it to work. I remember my sister being totally bummed out that she got a Pinocchio game back in the day that our PC absolutely refused to run. And this was back in the days when finding easy fixes on the internet was not a thing.
re: #79 coin operated
Bought mrs coin a new laptop with Windows11 on it. She was running Win7 on the old beast. She’s been able to adapt with minimal fuss.
The machines in our public library which were donated by the Gates Foundation my wife upgraded to Linux Mint when XP support ceased.
re: #84 Targetpractice
I honestly think most of my hostility towards Win 95 is misplaced, as this was the era when “compatibility” was a joke and getting new software might mean an hour of fiddling with video card settings just to get it to work. I remember my sister being totally bummed out that she got a Pinocchio game back in the day that our PC absolutely refused to run. And this was back in the days when finding easy fixes on the internet was not a thing.
For a period of time, I had to switch versions of the video drivers on my PC (which was not an easy task in those days) in order to play certain games that would break with older or newer versions.
re: #77 Targetpractice
I used all the “bad” Windows versions except for ME. I used Vista and Windows 8. Vista had driver problems but I had an ultimately productive time with it. Same with Windows 8.
It’s fashionable for self-styled computer “experts” to say they’d “never use Windows+1”.
Screw that. I and my employer were victimized by this kind of tech. (It took me five years to undo all this guy’s mistakes!)
It also doesn’t help that the IT press, especially the enthusiast press, defined “click-bait” before the term had ever been coined.
Looking forward to WSL2 in Win11. I’m sure I’ll be annoyed with some things. But I’m more and more numb to outrages after 35 years of using computers.
re: #84 Targetpractice
I honestly think most of my hostility towards Win 95 is misplaced, as this was the era when “compatibility” was a joke and getting new software might mean an hour of fiddling with video card settings just to get it to work. I remember my sister being totally bummed out that she got a Pinocchio game back in the day that our PC absolutely refused to run. And this was back in the days when finding easy fixes on the internet was not a thing.
I found Win 9x to be rather durable in its time.
re: #86 Dopamine Fish
For a period of time, I had to switch versions of the video drivers on my PC (which was not an easy task in those days) in order to play certain games that would break with older or newer versions.
Remember my dad getting all sorts of pissed one time that I got a new game because he’d about flung the PC out the window trying to get it to cooperate with the video card.
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) March 31, 2022
re: #46 Ferdinand
My wife and I picked up the keys today for our new Hudson River home, about 15 miles north of Sleepy Hollow, finally completing the journey that started Christmas Eve when I accepted a cool job requiring I relocate from the Seattle area to metro NYC. What a long strange trip it’s been!
Sleepy Hollow, you say?
re: #84 Targetpractice
I honestly think most of my hostility towards Win 95 is misplaced, as this was the era when “compatibility” was a joke and getting new software might mean an hour of fiddling with video card settings just to get it to work. I remember my sister being totally bummed out that she got a Pinocchio game back in the day that our PC absolutely refused to run. And this was back in the days when finding easy fixes on the internet was not a thing.
I did not mind 98SE. It fixed just enough to be stable and I could run my DOS stuff easily enough but I was still wishing OS/2 4 was viable and realizing I’d have to break down & go back to Windows NT 4 and wishing I could afford an Alpha box to run it on.
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Here’s the specs on mrs coin’s new system. She’s not a gamer…she’s a writer (first novel out soon!!!!) Spinning disk takes a little longer to boot up, but runs like a champ after. $500 at costco
re: #92 William Lewis
I did not mind 98SE. It fixed just enough to be stable and I could run my DOS stuff easily enough but I was still wishing OS/2 4 was viable and realizing I’d have to break down & go back to Windows NT 4 and wishing I could afford an Alpha box to run it on.
WIn98SE is next to XP in my fond memories, mostly because it addressed a lot of the issues with Win95 without introducing too many new ones. I could run all the old games on it, it handled the primitive internet surfing of the day well, and it ran for hours like a champ.
Biden Admin’s ONE WEIRD TRICK To Get Health Care $$$ Around Red State Govs! (Wonkette)
TL;DR, Montana passed a law after Donald Trump was defeated in the election, expecting Joe Biden would rescind the former guy’s gag rule on reproductive health care services, including abortion. The law prohibits the state health department from distributing Title X funding to clinics or hospitals which provide or refer for those services. That would deny funding in the five largest cities in Montana.
Title X is the programme which provides money for those services, and is usually administered by state health departments.
However, Title X also allows healthcare not-for-profits to distribute those funds if they apply and are approved, and the Feds chose a not-for-profit, and de-certified the state health department.
Montana Republicans are furious, from the government “taking their money.” They don’t understand (or are lying about) how Title X funds work.
YEA! We’re back online. Thank you Charles.
Goddess above I love Canada.
UlFuVUZDaWdEb2k4Z2pDQlhENU5CVVprWGlqL2NTWURuaHBsbDhYWWluWmFJQUNzUVZpY1JsWlBkV2lnWUFUTnhRaTU1ZVZ3NGZyekk5dEtjMmErSFFlTytJbU01N2lOL2xJMmd3Mmx6OThncnB6KytUVEU1UXpTRmpSRVhRK3dIZmQ4ajgyKzZFVnlOV0E3MG9pUG1VQVdJS3o2KzdiZ2xTTFJHSDlIVUc4OTZsZWRubkJoZGlSVFhqRU1FNDB3dzZhR09NYmViTWRKYXZyVmFaY1VmclFYZzJiMGdHdlIveHpwZzEvMS8wcFhkRkRVZjI2QlpPMnpXQ3dGaGZ3YTRxMHdJUWlGdWhIRnlvTFZITW0rNzVIcGdtNnVSQzVzRTM2QUN2V3lwQWNacTVrcnVta2oyTDV6YmZWZXZxdkRQTk12TFNZdnNReDgvbmwxbEYxTVJYL3NkYWswWTVXWDlSMU1zTEh2bENhUDFvVGlGMkduc3lNTUNCV2Jmd3NGMEp4c1M4N3dyWG5Zd1o4S0QzcFRLdTQrOFBWOVA4bkoxQXdIVGlLMFMvVm0zV3p5aTVxdW5BYldkSVowQkQwTjNOUktJUWlpdWRGV2s3Vk5iV1NSelBKczN0R2E1L0NERGZIVXFlK2VTOE1PMkxoVzQxYzEvVk1Ld2tlanp0MHBwTm9lMGFlLzJBS3gwS1dsSm43UEhRPT06Ore+60efJCBC2yPZPNDZrJ0=
re: #10 Charles Johnson
[Embedded content]
In other words, the world was destroyed by Vogons, and when it was reconstructed, they were unable to capture the last few days.
I just hope I fail to hit the ground when I trip.
re: #94 coin operated
[Embedded content]
Here’s the specs on mrs coin’s new system. She’s not a gamer…she’s a writer (first novel out soon!!!!) Spinning disk takes a little longer to boot up, but runs like a champ after. $500 at costco
The cheap AMD’s are faster and have better graphics than the Intel based ones too.
re: #94 coin operated
[Embedded content]
Here’s the specs on mrs coin’s new system. She’s not a gamer…she’s a writer (first novel out soon!!!!) Spinning disk takes a little longer to boot up, but runs like a champ after. $500 at costco
Nice… And good at the price. Put a dual boot Linux os on it and have her save her shit to the cloud. When she’s ready, wipe the windows partition and she will only have to reboot it about once a month.
re: #99 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
YEA! We’re back online. Thank you Charles.
Goddess above I love Canada.
[private]
[Embedded content]
[/private
You need to close the last tag.
And I still prefer gummies :D
re: #99 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
You forgot to close the private, but enjoy!
witches curse? I’ll believe when I see it pic.twitter.com/2AL65EPaGu
— an english human 😗 (@English_Channel) March 29, 2022
re: #104 William Lewis
You need to close the last tag.
And I still prefer gummies :D
Gummies last too long like edibles tend to do.
re: #107 darthstar
Gummies last too long like edibles tend to do.
I like the Wyld gummies we can get here on the left coast. Cut them into quarters…take them about an hour apart (after the first one takes effect). Better control that way.
My $.02
re: #107 darthstar
Gummies last too long like edibles tend to do.
Last time I had some, I cut them into smaller pieces so they wouldn’t overwhelm my lightweight self. The time they lasted wasn’t a problem for me, but the dose was O_o
re: #107 darthstar
Gummies last too long like edibles tend to do.
Gah… posted before I was done.
I like the short high from a vape or a single hit of flower… enjoy the taste and slight euphoria and then continue to converse with people.
The aurora should be visible across much of the USA tonight.
Forecast: Auroral activity will be high(+). Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Inuvik, Yellowknife, Rankin and Iqaluit to Vancouver, Helena, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Bay City, Toronto, Montpelier, and Charlottetown, and visible low on the horizon from Salem, Boise, Cheyenne, Lincoln, Indianapolis and Annapolis.
re: #74 Dopamine Fish
I have one PC that is on Windows 11. Mrs. Fish’s gaming laptop runs it. I don’t really have any more or less complaints than any other recent Windows version.
That’s pretty much been it for me. It’s not a massive upgrade from 10.
The negative so far: the right context menu hides immediate access to Notepad++ for opening files; I have to click a menu in the context menu to get it.
The positive so far: I like the multi-desktop feature.
re: #95 darthstar
Well, the dog looks happy: but what did you have for dinner??
re: #78 William Lewis
Considered it for the built in X Server & better WSL performance but too many negatives “for your security!” and I’d have to fake out the installer because I don’t do TPM or Secure Boot.
The UI is fairly fugly too but that’s always fixable one way or another.
Why don’t you do TPM?
re: #108 coin operated
I have some of those. Ate a whole one and it was more than I needed. 🙃
Glad to see things are back up and running.
Feel like I’ve been about to tear my hair out the last day or two between the media being on its usual ‘We need more Republican voices’ kick and arguing with folks who insist that shitkicking Dems and laying blame on them for everything is surely, surely the way to get bills passed and it’s all the Dems fault that they’re inevitably fucked for the midterms anyway.
It hurts my head when the former Boy Who Lived is the sanest man in the room, especially considering how cracked his choices of projects since Harry Potter can be.
re: #94 coin operated
[Embedded content]
Here’s the specs on mrs coin’s new system. She’s not a gamer…she’s a writer (first novel out soon!!!!) Spinning disk takes a little longer to boot up, but runs like a champ after. $500 at costco
When you’re bored, figure out how to replace the hard drive, and get a Sony SSD. You will love the difference in the time it takes to load her favorite writing ap.
Tonight’s random recognition of karma points, now that Mr. Johnson’s Home for the Criminally Sane is back on-line goes to darthstar, who at this time has 264,616 points.
That many points might brighten tonight’s aurora.
re: #114 Belafon
Why don’t you do TPM?
It wasn’t built in to the Mobo I have and I’d have to find the specific one with the right connectors and the advantages aren’t worth the hassles/cost. When I upgrade to a 4 memory socket board with a Ryzen 9 then I’ll get it.
re: #102 darthstar
Nice… And good at the price. Put a dual boot Linux os on it and have her save her shit to the cloud. When she’s ready, wipe the windows partition and she will only have to reboot it about once a month.
And she can run her favorite writing app in WINE and watch it crash every few hours. :)
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I tried to upvote your comment, Any, but I got this error message (not the first time since LGF came back up this evening):
Maybe it’s cache related? I’ve been able to upding other comments with no error messages.
re: #115 darthstar
I have some of those. Ate a whole one and it was more than I needed. 🙃
My first foray into gummies, I took a whole one. This was after leaving the job from hell and I hadn’t touched THC in 20 years. ALL the tabs in my head were closed for the first time since we’d met (7 years and counting) and I was so decompressed that I freaked mrs coin out something fierce.
To any newbies out there…cut them up. Much better control ;-)
re: #95 darthstar
Sous vide lamb chops with artichokes, grilled leeks, and almost butterless tarragon bearnaise sauce…I had to whisk a little butter in…I’m not a communist.
[Embedded content]
How are dogs being sprayed with human gas? I only ask that because I don’t eat lamb because instead of having moral issues it makes me gassy. I would probably have gastro issues that I would blame on the dog.
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The aurora should be visible across much of the USA tonight.
Pity it’s overcast here. I’d love to try that new high-speed lens on the aurora. F/1.1 and ISO 3200 or 6400 could be fun :)
In many ways it feels like the United States has called a truce, but never really stopped fighting the Civil War.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
My theory on Windows is that 90% of people only need Chrome. The rest of us fight over who likes to maintain their own boot table and who doesn’t (I’m in the doesn’t crowd).
re: #121 mmmirele
I tried to upvote your comment, Any, but I got this error message (not the first time since LGF came back up this evening):
[Embedded content]
Maybe it’s cache related? I’ve been able to upding other comments with no error messages.
I’m aware of this and will get to it as soon as I get some sleep! 😉
re: #121 mmmirele
I tried to upvote your comment, Any, but I got this error message (not the first time since LGF came back up this evening):
[Embedded content]
Maybe it’s cache related? I’ve been able to upding other comments with no error messages.
I just got the same upfisting your comment.
By the way, I’m left wondering how to pronounce your nym here: hum-E-rell-y?
re: #127 Charles Johnson
I’m aware of this and will get to it as soon as I get some sleep! 😉
Reminds me of a quote that used to be on my college Computer Science department’s quote board:
“Sleep, she is for the weak.”
“The weak are such, because they sleep not.”
re: #124 William Lewis
Pity it’s overcast here. I’d love to try that new high-speed lens on the aurora. F/1.1 and ISO 3200 or 6400 could be fun :)
Perhaps it will clear up later. Call up the folks at HAARP and tell them to quit messing with the weather. /s
If the clouds aren’t too thick, they might look pretty kewl lit up by the aurora.
re: #57 Charles Johnson
This hit at a bad time, because I have a twice-daily incremental backup to a local hard drive, but that drive failed last week and I hadn’t replaced it yet when the database decided to throw a tantrum. So we had to fall back on the web host’s weekly database backup. Luckily that was taken before whatever crashed the comments.
Bad timing.
Synology 4 and 6 drive raid boxes are quite reasonable. You can do a raid 5,6,or 10 and be protected from 1 or 2 drive failures. Their OS and apps are pretty slick and the whole thing is not much bigger than the drives themselves. I have a DS1621+ with 6 drives running RAID10, connected via 10GBE link to my network. great for not only backups but also general use. Highly recommend it.
re: #117 Belafon
When you’re bored, figure out how to replace the hard drive, and get a Sony SSD. You will love the difference in the time it takes to load her favorite writing ap.
I’m a geek at work (enterprise storage guru working at a large fintech) and the *last* thing I want to do is troubleshoot her laptop. 2 years of tech support was included in the package…I’ll think about replacing the drive once that’s over ;-)
I’m assuming everyone heard about Bruce Willis having aphasia. For all of you ER fans, that was the illness Mark Green, Anthony Edwards’ character, had.
Unless a bunch of people are quick drawing on up dinging, there may be something wrong with the system.
This guy’s channel is an absolute hoot.
re: #134 JC1
Unless a bunch of people are quick drawing on up dinging, there may be something wrong with the system.
When you don’t have it for a day or two you tend to abuse it when it comes back.
re: #133 Belafon
I’m assuming everyone heard about Bruce Willis having aphasia. For all of you ER fans, that was the illness Mark Green, Anthony Edwards’ character, had.
My Mom had aphasia (fortunately fairly briefly) a couple times. Presumably stroke related, but it scared the living daylights out of her not to be able to communicate. I was able to reassure her that we’d figure things out until it got better. Thank heavens it was of limited duration in her case. Anyway-it’s no fun.
re: #134 JC1
Unless a bunch of people are quick drawing on up dinging, there may be something wrong with the system.
Charles probably still has a few kinks to work out. I’m just happy to be here and commenting again.
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Perhaps it will clear up later. Call up the folks at HAARP and tell them to quit messing with the weather. /s
If the clouds aren’t too thick, they might look pretty kewl lit up by the aurora.
I’ll take a peek out back of the hotel when I get done folding tonight, just in case :)
re: #134 JC1
Unless a bunch of people are quick drawing on up dinging, there may be something wrong with the system.
Yeah, I’ve noticed this too: most comments since The Great Reboot Of 3/31 seem to be collecting double-digit updings.
Not, of course, that all the LGF karma isn’t very well-deserved…
re: #134 JC1
Unless a bunch of people are quick drawing on up dinging, there may be something wrong with the system.
As of my comment, you have eleven upfists.
re: #139 Eclectic Cyborg
Charles probably still has a few kinks to work out. I’m just happy to be here and commenting again.
So say we all!
re: #141 Belafon
Action in Ukraine:
With a trailer.
That’s one way to keep the highway open to cars but close it to tanks. I imagine tanks aren’t as nimble as cars.
re: #141 Belafon
Action in Ukraine:
With a trailer.
I think that would call for a hand grenade to see if you could use the over pressure to clear them. Of course, the problem with that is then holes in the asphalt. And they were laid really nice an orderly …
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s one way to keep the highway open to cars but close it to tanks. I imagine tanks aren’t as nimble as cars.
Yes, but I think it was the Russians that put them there.
re: #142 Jay C
Yeah, I’ve noticed this too: most comments since The Great Reboot Of 3/31 seem to be collecting double-digit updings.
Not, of course, that all the LGF karma isn’t very well-deserved…
It could be that now the site is back up, everyone is jabbing that + button as fast as they can.
Have you guys been watching Servant of the People?
Netflix brought it back; I’m about 2/3 of the way done with the first season. No English language voice track. Russian with English subtitles.
It’s quite good and funny. It shows an astonishing amount of graft and corruption. Something I’d expect during the USSR years, but the show takes place in 2015 or so.
Surreal seeing Zelensky playing a comedic Ukrainian president.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It could be that now the site is back up, everyone is jabbing that + button as fast as they can.
Must be: you got 17 in three minutes
Now I can get a couple of “did you all see this” out of my system. First, from Biden:
Biden issued a statement today to mark Transgender Day of Visibility:
“To everyone celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility, I want you to know that your President sees you.” https://t.co/VJBe42Vmop pic.twitter.com/ApXZFLLWuQ— Axios (@axios) March 30, 2022
Next, Lil Naz:
Last year, Lil Nas X celebrated the release of his then-upcoming album, Montero, with a baby registry (https://t.co/z6bUfx3Cvh), asking fans to donate to an LGBTQ+ organization of their choosing. That registry garnered almost $500,000 and now, those seeds are bearing fruit.
— Kisandey (@IamKisandey1) March 30, 2022
And Balloon Juice has a link up to a guitar shop in Ukraine that was bombed. They are raffling off the remaining guitars. Because they are doing the “tickets” online, they have some very specific instructions on how to do Paypal (though I couldn’t actually find a place to put the “Do not send, keep the product” so I messaged them through their facebook page).
Just noticed on another web site that Saturday will be the 40th anniversary of the Argentine Junta’s attempt to wag the dog and keep the population in line. Even worse, it gave Maggie a chance to be all Martial and avoid her own domestic problems.
In the end, the only ones who would prosper would be the penguins.
The ones that nested in the Falklands were too light to detonate the mines and the old minefields that were too difficult to clear became defacto nature preserves. Go Go Penguin!
re: #125 Charles Johnson
The war was only suspended. The Korean war may end before ours does.
Jair Bolsonaro’s son works for 88 Tactical, the fascist-curious gun shop and range in west Omaha. Seeing Red Nebraska has been doing investigative reporting on 88 Tactical and the Bolsonaros.
Royce Gracie, the Man Who Introduced the Bolsonaros to the NRA and Donald Trump, Jr. (March 27, 2022).
88 Tactical also has an outlet in Ohio. They have threatened to sue Seeing Red Nebraska, which told them to piss off.
The gift that keeps on giving.
Alex Jones on the Cawthorn parties: “I’ve been invited to these things .. to the really weird stuff. Not with kids or anything, but all the occultist stuff. So I can tell you folks, the ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ things go on as well. pic.twitter.com/wXOLNXjMPv
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 1, 2022
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I just got the same upfisting your comment.
By the way, I’m left wondering how to pronounce your nym here: hum-E-rell-y?
mee-rel-uh. Most people call me “Mir”, pronounced “mere”.
I’m aware that the comment karma counters are out of sync. Will deal with it as soon as my brain gets some rest.
Their viewers are very supportive of transgender folks
— Tura Satana Fan Club CEO (@UncleArthur3) March 31, 2022
re: #154 Belafon
Now I can get a couple of “did you all see this” out of my system. First, from Biden:
And Balloon Juice has a link up to a guitar shop in Ukraine that was bombed. They are raffling off the remaining guitars. Because they are doing the “tickets” online, they have some very specific instructions on how to do Paypal (though I couldn’t actually find a place to put the “Do not send, keep the product” so I messaged them through their facebook page).
Pres. Biden’s words are sadly empty. We’ve heard the same rhetoric/words during the campaign that we are hearing now. And he to date he has done nothing.
Lil Nas X has done more than Pres. Biden.
Sometimes you look at something and wonder, “How did that happen?”
I just folded laundry from the dryer, and wrapped inside a sheet was a spice jar of ground mace.
The jar apparently stayed sealed; the mace was dry.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I think if you pull some oregano from a stone next you’re the King of England.
I had a weird thing happen while we were gone. (The first part’s not the weird thing). I was recently added to an email list to get invited to weekly zoom calls among some former college classmates (and some spouses and offspring). I don’t think I’ll do one, because I’ve never done a zoom call and don’t feel like starting. One name on the list is someone I’d barely heard of, but turns out she’s the second wife of a former administrator at the college (which no longer exists). His first wife was best friends with my first roommate, and they’re both on the list. First wife has a wife of her own, now. Also on the list. The two wives were each students where this guy was an administrator, the first one was also when he was administrator. Anyway, tag time.
The second and current wife sent an email to the list saying she’s putting, sorry, transitioning her husband to a group home in AZ, where they’ve lived and still live, but she has opened a gallery in a small town in New Mexico. The one I lived in for 25 years. Her gallery is 3 blocks from the bike shop I used to own. I went to her website. An artist she is representing is the cousin of my father’s widow. I had dinner at her house once.
Plus, I had a good day at work today. I just can’t figure this world out.
It’s almost cute that they don’t seem to contemplate the scenario “the president could order the falsification of records maintained by the executive branch.” Almost. https://t.co/H0f1mkZtTZ
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 1, 2022
How can they be so naive about the way Trump works after all this time?
re: #162 Dread Pirate Ron
Don Jr’s fiance has really let herself go.
re: #158 JC1
The gift that keeps on giving.
Wealthy people have been having kinky sex parties for like, thousands of years now.
re: #168 darthstar
Don Jr’s fiance has really let herself go.
The hamsters are handing out updings. No offense, but I didn’t do this one.
re: #169 Eclectic Cyborg
Lately I’ve been reading Einstein in Berlin, and the Cawthorn DC party story is very much like the book’s description of Weimar-era Berlin including the antisemitism and looming Nazi takeover.
re: #170 wrenchwench
The hamsters are handing out updings. No offense, but I didn’t do this one.
Maybe if I do, it will disappear!
re: #170 wrenchwench
The hamsters are handing out updings. No offense, but I didn’t do this one.
31 in five minutes…People like Kim more than I thought!
re: #166 wrenchwench
Small world. You need to live in isolation like we do.
re: #176 wrenchwench
Hamsters like Kim.
It was an honest mistake
Fox Hires “Trailblazer” Caitlyn Jenner As Contributor - https://t.co/bwqn6h4AsF pic.twitter.com/PTgHvF7VXn
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 31, 2022
re: #138 calochortus
My Mom had aphasia (fortunately fairly briefly) a couple times. Presumably stroke related, but it scared the living daylights out of her not to be able to communicate. I was able to reassure her that we’d figure things out until it got better. Thank heavens it was of limited duration in her case. Anyway-it’s no fun.
My late husband had mild cerebral palsy and one of his lifelong handicaps was mild aphasia, so he used a lot of synonyms. It was occasionally challenging and interfered with his career but he was very persistent and, like most of us, worked in software development.
re: #178 jaunte
I tweeted this earlier, but:
Lucy’s completely recovered from her snakebite:
[Embedded content]
Good to hear…she needs to remember not to drive after three of them…
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Small world. You need to live in isolation like we do.
I did my best. The county I lived in in NM has 7 people per square mile. Course they all cram into the towns. You know how people are.
A reporter from @flatwaterfreep asked the parole board members why they haven’t been attending parole board hearings.
Instead of answering, they falsely suggested she was breaking the law. https://t.co/S7y1LeaXNj— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) March 31, 2022
The state parole board is accusing the Nebraska Journalism Trust of breaking the law for asking them questions about why they aren’t attending parole board meetings.
The important story behind the Parole Board story (Flatwater Free Press, March 31, 2021)
In a career spent doing investigative journalism, I have seen some ludicrous reactions to reporters doing their jobs.
But the Nebraska parole board’s recent reaction to FFP reporter Yanqi Xu - who wanted to ask members why they often don’t attend parole board hearings - may quite honestly be in a class all its own.
If you read our story published Friday on our site and Sunday in the Omaha World-Herald, you know that the five members vote on hearings together just 37% of the time. You also know that the data shows that, when the full board doesn’t appear at a hearing, fewer prisoners are granted parole.
(more)
re: #178 jaunte
I tweeted this earlier, but:
Lucy’s completely recovered from her snakebite:
[Embedded content]
Good Dog! Glad she’s OK. Copperheads aren’t nearly as dangerous as other pit vipers, but mercy, their bite hurts like a sumbitch.
Trust me on this.
By the way, did you have an RC toddle off this morning on a 6-hour test flight over the Gulf out of GVT?
Just a non-recommendation to all: Do not watch the 2020 Korean film “The Call”.
spoilery stuff
OTJqY2hlRjZwbWdYcHJUcDVFb1NIbzlGMnZKTFhHcE8ySVpXd0tEcjNJRWtkSkFhRUwzY3Z4QVlQMTN1MU04SzZMcENVUExMVjRlVTZGbllELzYvY2ljdFZPaXNBaGp3K3hkTXBtMHBabG1nOTZLTUVGNnQzeTRwZUNISDlocXZ1M1E1Z2xkY2FudHh0ZldKblBRZGxPcXRVdzVsMnRCRkRsRTJyZno2MDZVPTo6Q3l5XUjrzakazSHSNoLwzw==
Edited to correct date of Korean film.
re: #182 wrenchwench
I did my best. The county I lived in in NM has 7 people per square mile. Course they all cram into the towns. You know how people are.
Too dense. My county is 3.4 per square mile.
The same here though: Most of the 5,000 people here are crammed into the two cities and one village.
The population density of my village is 745.22 per square mile (but only 117 people live here).
re: #141 Belafon
Back in the late 1960’s I had a French teacher who had married an immigrant from Budapest, Hungary. One day she mentioned that her husband had told her about a childhood game the Hungarian kids had played during the 1956 Uprising.
Many of the streets in his neighborhood were rather narrow. So whenever they heard a Russian tank patrolling down one, they would take pot lids and place then in the street. Just to watch the tank try and turn around or reverse back down the street. (Thinking that the pot lid was an anti-tank mine.)
re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Too dense. My county is 3.4 per square mile.
The same here though: Most of the 5,000 people here are crammed into the two cities and one village.
The population density of my village is 745.22 per square mile (but only 117 people live here).
That’s a very dense population.
It looks like up-dings from the lost comments are being tabulated toward new comments.
Colbert on CBS right now destroying CBS for Mulvaney hire.
— Donie O’Sullivan (@donie) April 1, 2022
Spanning over 327 miles, Austin has a population density of 3,214 people per square mile.
The county I live in, Fairfax, Va, has a density of about 2800/square mile. Most of my life I have lived in the North East Megalopolis, which has fairly high population density for the US.
Even when I was in Western Pennsylvania, what we considered fairly isolated villages were that way mostly because of the mountainous terrain. Not far from each other per a crow, but a larger distance due to having to drive around things like mountains. (That’s foothills to you folks out West.).
Even when I have been in extremely rural places like Arkansas or Oklahoma I was on Army posts of many thousands, and not in a rural small village.
That has me wondering about how different the life experience is.
Grew up in Chicago which has population density of 11,750 and then lived in northern suburbs that had densities of 2400+. Very different life in the suburbs.
re: #190 Dread Pirate Ron
It looks like up-dings from the lost comments are being tabulated toward new comments.
Ghostly updings in the hands of the hamsters. Do they have hands?
Speaking of the comment section, it got removed from The Hill today. There will be thousands of trolls out in the wild, I suspect.
re: #195 ckkatz
You don’t say. :)
Yep. My county is 21 per square mile. I can’t see any house from my house.
re: #188 wrenchwench
That’s a very dense population.
We live on top of each other. /s
It’s even more dense if you take out the places in town people don’t live: The Lutheran Church (occupies an entire block, mostly empty), the village hall and old high school (occupies an entire block), the county maintenance yard, the village fire brigade, the Post Office (occupies half a block, mostly empty), the former Catholic Church now gun shop, and the general store.
re: #191 jaunte
[Embedded content]
@KeithOlbermann Happy now clown? pic.twitter.com/TyYdE9kWgI
— EstebanTornado63 (@ETornado1963) April 1, 2022
re: #193 ckkatz
The county I live in, Fairfax, Va, has a density of about 2800/square mile. Most of my life I have lived in the North East Megalopolis, which has fairly high population density for the US.
Even when I was in Western Pennsylvania, what we considered fairly isolated villages were that way mostly because of the mountainous terrain. Not far from each other per a crow, but a larger distance due to having to drive around things like mountains. (That’s foothills to you folks out West.).
Even when I have been in extremely rural places like Arkansas or Oklahoma I was on Army posts of many thousands, and not in a rural small village.
That has me wondering about how different the life experience is.
I am a graduate of Woodson High School, and a proud Cavalier. When we moved there in 1965 and paid $30,000 for a 4 bed, 2 1/2 bath, brand new 2,000 sq ft colonial with an additional 1,000 sq ft unfinished basement, my parents thought they were torpedoing their future paying that much for a house.
It was just outside the Beltway and the rest of Fairfax County to the South and West was basically dirt, dairy farms, and Civil War battlefield parks. Centerville had three thousand people. Chantilly didn’t exist, Reston was still in design phase, and Burke Station was literally a Post Office and a general store.
We sold the house after our parents deaths in 2012 for $785,000.
re: #78 William Lewis
Considered it for the built in X Server
Cool. Pity none of my machines run X any more, everything is on Wayland now.
The Good Liars at The Libertarian Convention [VIDEO] The Good Liars visit the Libertarian Convention in Washington DC. They interview presidential candidates, talk to someone who thinks people should be allowed to own nuclear weapons, and Starchild. SUPPORT US: http://Herohero.co/thegoodliars SEE THE GOOD LIARS LIVE!NASHVILLE, TN JUNE ...
teleskiguy
Adam Conover - How Google RUINED the Internet [VIDEO] Google sucks now. Here's why. Get 20% off DeleteMe US consumer plans when you go to http://joindeleteme.com/Adam and use promo code ADAM at checkout. DeleteMe International Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com/ You may have noticed that Google isn't what it used to ... teleskiguy
What Result Will There Be From the Trump Trial?I did my best to boil this down. What say you?
Rightwingconspirator
An Appeal to Heaven An ancient political phrase and a historic flag of the United States has entered the discourse as a flag of Christian Nationalism, insurrection, and the question of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito's objectivity to rule on cases. So ...
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Grocers Are Finally Lowering Prices as Consumers Pull Back Consumers have been grumbling about the soaring cost of groceries for nearly two years. Now, some of the biggest names in retail appear to be listening. In recent weeks, Target and Aldi have broadcast price cuts on thousands of ...
Cheechako
A Water War Is Brewing Between the U.S. And Mexico. Here’s Why A water dispute between the United States and Mexico that goes back decades is turning increasingly urgent in Texas communities that rely on the Rio Grande. Their leaders are now demanding the Mexican government either share water or face ... Cheechako
Harper’s Magazine: Slippery Slope - How Private Equity Shapes a Ski Town …Big Sky stands apart for other reasons. The obvious distinction is the Yellowstone Club, a private resort hidden in the mountains above the community that Justin Farrell, a professor of sociology at Yale and the author of Billionaire Wilderness, ... teleskiguy
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Just Captured Ominous Signals About the Planet’s Health Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory just captured an ominous sign about the pace of global warming. Atmospheric levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide aren’t just on their way to yet another record high this year - they’re rising faster than ever, ... Cheechako
The Good Liars at the Schnecksville Trump Rally [VIDEO] New theories, great tunes and SHOCKING breaking news. SUPPORT US: http://Herohero.co/thegoodliars SEE THE GOOD LIARS LIVE!WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 23RD: https://www.unionstage.com/shows/good-liars-fix-america/NASHVILLE, TN JUNE 6TH: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/42992972/the-good-liars-nashville-the-lab-at-zaniesSAN FRANCISCO, CA JUNE 25TH: https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZbavGvggG/the-good-liars SUBSCRIBE TO OUR AUDIO PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-liars-tell-the-truth/id1731178442Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7mgfiwzr32907N4y68eFOCJoin this channel ... teleskiguy
Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ...
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Ranked-Choice Voting Has Challenged the Status Quo. Its Popularity Will Be Tested in November. JUNEAU — Alaska’s new election system — with open primaries and ranked voting — has been a model for those in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ... Cheechako
