One year ago today: December 7, 2024, JeePee in paradise.
Five years ago today: December 7, 2020, the camo-coop.
Nine years ago today: December 7, 2016, which I don’t have,
Random years ago today: December 7, 2007, too much “nerve gas”.
Happy Birthday, Eatmore. I still think about you. Sigh, the first time I knew for sure I was in love. Strange, how you just know. Silver is asking over $63, I’m guessing even the wildest bank predictions were ready for that. The kerfuffle over at Gab.com has caught my eye. There are two camps, the old people who don’t like the changes, and the old people who pretend to like them because they think it makes them appear younger. Trust me, as an entertainer I know this effect is super-real. The joke is listening to the owner explain why he made the changes without realizing he’s the one who let the old code become such a mess.
This is a silver bar for sale today, but you can go on-line and see prices of $58 per ounce. Why the spread? I don’t know, but I suspect and hope it shows a growing unwillingness of those with real silver to sell for the prices the banks are pushing.
We are treated to the frightening prospect of England becoming the world’s first Islamic nuclear power. I doubt it, as mentioned year ago I believe the English have had enough and will back Nigel in the next elections. However, like Trump, I do not think he has the stomach for what needs doing. Out they must go, all of the, the good, the bad, the indifferent. They do not belong. For a quick lesson on nuclear bombs, see today’s addendum.
Repeated warnings about censorship coming in 2026. For most users, that would mean X, but didn’t X say they would not do that? Canada’s gun confiscation has bumped up against Alberta. Ottawa has stated that citizens acting in self-defense will be regarded as “not being in the public interest”. Sounds Canadian, alright.
YouTube is on another ad-blocker crusade. It removes the skip button. Intrusive advertising sucks. The trick is to manually bypass the youTube code until the hardworking crew at your favorite adblocker app comes up with the next solution. You can read about the blocker in my post of March 14, 2023. The workaround is to replace [watch?v=] with [v/].
Remember, in this blog you type exactly what is between the [ and ].
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No changes or big events here, I was inside all day, reading. Here is an item that got my eye. Fox 49 has a new jumbo-size newscaster who they are passing off as “curvy”. She’s a good sixty pounds overweight and hardly in the right places. TV is inconsequential to me, but here are the used comments that gave me a laugh.
• "You look like you could survive a harsh winter."There’s a 90% chance I’ll be checking into the hospital in the next 24 hours. If the blog suddenly stops, well, it has been a ride, indeed. I’ve also been thinking of propelling this blog into the ray gun/cosmic era. The Reb has got me at least looking. I know that in the long,long run, it is likely those works produced in classic, conventional methods, that are most apt to survive. And as media, the written word has been pretty enduring.
• "I ain't never worked as hard as them ankles."
• "She's thicker than zoo glass."
• "Dayuum Gurl, I want you to put a hurting on me like you do those midnight snacks."
• "Brick wall, more like brick house, and I'm looking to move in."
• "She gots enough muffin tops to start two bakeries."
• "Fe fi foe yum."
• "Her parents gotta be beavers. Cause she's built like damnnnnnnnnnnnn."
Having viewed what’s out there, I reached two conclusions pretty fast. A.I. suffers from the same shortcomings as regular Internet fare, that is, lack of original content. A.I. is not inherently creative. By now I instinctively avoid video and photos that even smack of it. This blog, at the other extreme, is for all real purposes, 99.999% original. So, I’ll make a promise. If I survive, I will take a serious look at A.I. software as it might be applied to this blog.
I’ll avoid total fiction, because I see what sells is bubble gum generic, and that will be its own downfall. I will take a look, setting aside money for software in January. I already expect problems with on-line subscription nonsense and expect to pay extra for anything I can purchase outright. One quip I agree with is that A.I. will not replace workers, but that workers who use A.I. will replace those who don’t. Kind of parallels how I have not used a typewriter since 1981.
ADDENDUM
Most folks don’t really know or care about the difference between fusion and fission. Here’ the quick lesson, but don’t write this on the exam. This is as it relates to weapons, [which is] the primary use of nuclear tech since the beginning. There are a number of atomic forces, but the only two concerning us here are the splitting and joining of atoms. Splitting is “uranium” which releases the “binding” energy when the atom is split. Fusion is “plutonium”, the ingredient is hydrogen which converts 1% of its mass to energy when “joining” to form helium.
In plain talk, plutonium is 100 times more powerful than uranium. Now, uranium has to be mined and refined out of the ground and even then, only 0.7% is weapons-grade. The factories to do this are big fat targets. The U-235 isotope (I heard) costs nearly $200,000 per ounce, again, don’t quote me. In 1960, they figured there would be a shortage of uranium, so the military turned to plutonium, the “breeder reactors” concepts that produced more fuel than they used.
The danger with that is how plutonium does not need much work to turn in into a bomb. And this is the type of reactor that the US has been selling overseas, duh. Customers include India and North Korea, double duh.
