Howdy, y’all. I am experiencing a five-dollar word feeling — ennui. Which is not the feeling of preferring an enema to dealing with another shitty UI. I don’t know what the feeling is, but I experience it every time I have to log my time in PeopleSoft. No, I’m just bored and discontent with my life today. Like every other feeling I have, it will pass. On the plus side, I only have one more day of work this week. So I assume it will pass sometime tomorrow afternoon.
Joe Biden, known biographical plagarist and creepy toucher of women, claims he is “the most qualified person in the country to be President”. In a way that makes this the best and worst of all possible time-lines to live in, he is not wrong.
Chimpanzee tribe aggressively defends island. Sorry, former laboratory test subject chimp tribe.
Camile Paglia gives another interesting interview.
He died with his boots on.
When I was a dramatic teenager, this would have been the perfect song for the mood.
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Paglia certainly has a way with words. Re HRC:
“I don’t see our stumbling, hacking, shop-worn Evita yielding the spotlight willingly to any younger gal”
You sure she’s not talking about Pelosi?
I think Pelosi and HRC are from the same lot of Skin suits that Mr Lizards folk sent.
Defective units, on the other side of the uncanny valley.
Remember back when the media was trying to warm everyone up to the idea that Chelsea was just about ready to inherit the crown? Whatever happened to that?
It became apparent that Democratic Dynasties have the same genetic issue that Monarch Dynasties have.
Whatever happened to that?
People realized she had neither the charisma of her father nor the ruthlessness of her mother.
Plus she’s a Clinton, which means she has no soul
Eh…I meant to say “ginger”. But both work
Webb Hubbell is charismatic?
Turns out it’s Michelle’s turn first.
Have you heard her speak? I imagine even the proggiest progs cringe every time she opens her mouth.
Oh FFS Camille.
Dude, she voted for Bernie.
She’s smart and interesting, but NOT an argument for suffrage.
Yeah, she thinks Feinstein is brilliant if that tells you anything.
Despite the glowing praise of her intellect I see no evidence of that in the interview.
Though correlated, erudition is often misinterpreted in that regard.
Exactly. This is the perfect example:
“I have been trying for decades to get my fellow Democrats to realize how unchecked bureaucracy, in government or academe, is inherently authoritarian and illiberal.”
Decades, eh? What’s the definition of madness again?
She is always an entertaining read but I still don’t understand why she’s a Democrat (and makes sure to let everyone know it at every turn).
I think it’s a defensive measure.
Think about it. She claims to be transgender. She claims to be a democrat. She name drops completely acceptable candidates.
She’s left them nothing to attack her on except her ideas. And the SJW hive mind is incapable of it; they lack the cognitive capacity to count to potato let alone digest an essay by Paglia.
I just think it’s tribal. The party might veer left into outer space, but dammit she’s gonna be a Democrat forever.
“B-b-but the party loves me!”
Dammit, Brett, I come home to get away from PeopleSoft.
Nevermind that I spent the whole workday in a lab related to PS training…
I know it was mentioned this morning, but Happy Birthday to Sean Carter aka Jay-Z .
(ft. Kanye…lyrics likely NSFW)
Also, the noteworthy birthday list failed to mention today is Chet Anacreon’s date of birth.
Chet?
You can call me Chet, you doesn’t have to call me C.
…but you doesnt have to call it Miller Light
Happy Birthday!
You know, if they’d just Done so in the first place it would have been cheaper in the long run.
is John still alive?
300 pound woman guilty of crushing boyfriend
FTA – Victim was drunk and wanted to smoke crack when he got into an argument with her.
“Thomas weighs about 300 pounds, while the 44-year-old Butler weighed about 120 pounds.”
Opposites attract?
Perhaps. Or may be reflective of just what large ladies will put up with for a solid D, presuming the crack habit was not developed during the tenure of the relationship.
Almost anybody is (gravitationally) attracted to a 300-pounder.
Gotta be hard to date though. How can you bring her on a date and survive economically when she is banned at every all-you-can-eat joint in a 3 state area?
Hence, I presume the alcohol and crack.
Eh, black dudes seem to be significantly more attracted to large women than anyone else
Sounds like he got some crack alright.
Smoke a little crack,
Break your boyfriend’s back.
My Front, My Back
(don’t google the rest at work)
Strangely (or not), Im aroused.
Challenge accepted !
We may never know the answer to exactly how the booted man came to rest in the river,
Early mafia hit?
I couldn’t finish the article after the writer suggested the corpse might have been a mudlark. Admittedly it was in the middle of a short list (three) of riverine occupations, but that just tells me they don’t know what a mudlark was. No one who could afford quality boots would be scavenging at low tide. Even if they scavenged the boots, they would have been a different category of scavenger.
The boots were put on *after* he drowned.
I can see it now. Some guy in 1500, going around and messing with bodies thinking “Heh the people in the future will never get this”
Dun dun!
Yeah, the picture of the skeleton in-situ looks like the same pose as those classic crime-scene body chalk outlines.
Had the Annual Sexual Harrasment training today. Thing i learned today:
If someone is harassing you by violating your personal privacy, they can charge you with harrasment if they see something they don’t like on your phone.
The lawyer presenting the material postured the question “What happens when you see a phone that isn’t yours just lying on a desk alone in a room?”. The entire engineering department remarked “Don’t touch it”, and she and the HR manager said “Pick it up to see who it belongs too”. So apparently if the nosy HR manager sees something naughty on your phone that they don’t like you can be hit for harassment.
“What happens when you see a phone that isn’t yours just lying on a desk alone in a room?”. The entire engineering department remarked “Don’t touch it”, and she and the HR manager said “Pick it up to see who it belongs too”.
I’m sorry, the correct answer is “dick pic”
And we have a winner.
Yeah, but you don’t say that in front of the head of HR, unless you are in an awesome small company.
IANAL and I’d be curious what the Glib lawyers say, but if someone picked up my phone and pulled that shit I would try to countersue for theft or something. There is no way this should be legal. I’m sure it is similar to finding a wallet and looking inside for ID. What if I had a pic of something in there or a note they didn’t like? Same thing, I assume?
Also, “Don’t touch it” is always the best answer if it ain’t yours.
I just don’t get how you can simultaneously think that if you grab someone else’s private things that they are somehow responsible for you seeing something they don’t want to see, and yet they are not responsible for intruding on your private life.
Don’t people lock their phones? Who is out there putting their dick pics as the screen saver?
In my defense, it’s not MY dick.
HR may take issues with checking Grindr non-stop.
HR may take issues with checking Grindr non-stop.
Then HR is homophobic. What’s the number for the EEOC?
*slides phone under stack of papers*
If you got it, flaunt it.
Which is exactly why I like to sit in my cube flicking a fidget spinner that is sitting on my dick. Who cares what the spoilsports in the neighboring cube and those harpies in HR say. I gotta be me.
Classic doublethink.
“Don’t touch it” “Pick it up”
There’s a huge difference between most women and most men; this translates into different perspectives between the building/doing and the chattering professions.
This can only be resolved by the castration of the building/doing types.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m not a guy’s guy; I never thought the nudie calendars at work were appropriate; I don’t hate women. But I won’t pretend there hasn’t been a canyon separating they way they work such as I have noticed in the decades since Ford.
“Chimpanzee tribe aggressively defends island. Sorry, former laboratory test subject chimp tribe.”
This is pretty messed up. It wasn’t enough that the West colonized all of Africa and then arbitrarily created borders that continue to be a source of conflict, but we also had to relocate mutant chimpanzees infected with disease there too?
That’s equal parts bad ass and just such a dick move
Before someone says “Actually, Liberia was never colonized by the West….”, just don’t. We all know
Depends on how you look at it. The former slaves from America that relocated there…the first thing they did was make the locals slaves.
It’s the internet, he refuses to admit being wrong.
Got a link? I have never heard that. (But It would not surprise me.)
Wiki says he’s being hyperbolic, but gives the general impression that the culturally-western freedmen colonizing Africa behaved in much the same way as the culturally-western Europeans who colonized Africa.
Which is pretty much the way native Africans would behave when they moved into a new neighborhood.
Which is pretty much the way
native Africansall people, ever, in any place, would behave when they moved into a new neighborhood.FTFY
After I posted, I had the same thought.
But that doesn’t make it a “colony”. It was not a part of a separate sovereign entity.
Being subordinate to another polity is not a strict pre-requisite for a colony.
Well, that’s what makes upstate NY a colony of NYC
Exactly my nudist colony holds allegiance to no nation!
^^THIS^^
Is the US a European colony? Because that’s who first settled here and subjugated the native population.
Yes. That was never in doubt, or questioned.
What is now the US was an English colony until the Revolutionary War. Then, no longer being subject to the English government, it stopped being a colony, and became its own country. Before the war, there was a colonial government. After the war, there was not a colonial government, because the US was not a colony any more.
“A move is when you say ‘Checkmate’, a Dick move is when you then take your queen and knock over the opposing king”
Even if the borders drawn by the colonial powers weren’t there, the people fighting would find some other reason to fight.
“Island of the Chimps” just doesn’t have the same forboding panache as “Planet of the Apes”
That’s a terrible typo. It’s supposed to be “Planchet of the Apes” where by they’re taught monetary policy that puts them on the gold standard.
“The apes -who are infected with contagious diseases- were abandoned on the Liberian river island after being released by their captors.”
What could possibly go wrong?
Was this before or after the west african ebola outbreak?
This is literally the reverse plot line of the movie “Outbreak”
The chimps are in Liberia.
All the apes were released from a US vaccination testing laboratory
Of all countries in Africa a US laboratory just had to pick Liberia for chimps.
It worked out well enough the first time, all things considered.
Hey! Long time no see!
Indeed! I rarely catch the fresh links, always sniping at long dead threads.
It’s our only African Colony.
*pushes glasses up*
Actually, Liberia was never really an American colony, per se. At least not in the traditional European sense. Liberia enjoyed self-rule since the 1840’s
We sent people to colonize it.
That group of people ruled over the territory.
It is a colony.
Correction: an NGO, The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, colonized the country
And? It wasn’t as if it were a French NGO. Besides, corporations and private individuals have established colonies. Just face it, I was right.
*pushes glasses up*
No
A colony is a remote outpost or holding of a sovereign. It is subject to the sovereign. Legally speaking, at least.
No, RC, that is not correct. People who bud off from the original population to leave the soverign still form colonies when they do so by moving to different lands.
I’m just going by the legal definition. There are other, inferior, ones that you are welcome to use.
A group that leaves the old country and settles somewhere else but does not regard themselves as subject to the old country’s sovereign creates a settlement or a new country, not a colony. Colonies are colonies of a sovereign.
You are going by the inaccurate definition you mean.
Legal Definition:
Oh look, another one:
Oh look, Law Dictionaries.
A lawyer should know law language isn’t real language or applicable anywhere but the kabuku of the courts.
Sad, really, to see UnCiv submit the proggy condition of thinking words don’t have meanings.
They do have meanings – the real meaning. What the tongue known as legalese has pared it down to from the original source language is not that.
Take the L and move on, UnCivil
It really depends on when we are talking about. Around 20 years before the formation of the Republic of Liberia. Monrovia was founded by the American Colonization Society, of which James Monroe was a founding member. Monroe would be President (of the USA) only a year after the founding of the ACS. Considering that Monrovia was founded during Monroe’s tenure and the white American adventures who took the land through an African form of gunboat diplomacy ran the show with Monroe’s blessing until the promulgation of the Liberian constitution, I believe there is an argument for saying that Monrovia was at least a de facto colony of the USA.
I’d also like to know when “colony” was defined in either American or international law, as it doesn’t seem right to point to it as definitive if it were defined after the time period in question.
Just because you hired a lawyer to repeat your inaccurate theories doesn’t mean you changed the truth.
Your meaning of colony, as near as I can tell, is a group of people from somewhere else who rule over an area.
Some such groups form colonies, others form something else (countries, settlements, etc.) “Colony” distinguishes some of these arrangements from others based on being subject to a remote sovereign, and used accurately, refers only to those that are subject to a remote sovereign.
The exact same people and area constituted a colony when their territory was ruled by England, but not a colony when it was ruled by themselves. It is not accurate to refer to the US as a colony after the Revolutionary War. So its a good thing nobody does.
From your quote:
This is the older, broader meaning of colony, which UCS prefers. I prefer it too, as what other word do we have for this definition if we restrict “colony” to its legal definition? The Phoenicians and Greeks established many colonies that were not exactly under the jurisdiction of the home cities, and much colonization during the Age of Discovery was done outside the purview of the governments that would later claim jurisdiction. If an independent group settles on Mars, will that not be considered an Earth colony, even if it owes no homebound allegiance?
“The Phoenicians and Greeks established many colonies that were not exactly under the jurisdiction of the home cities, and much colonization during the Age of Discovery was done outside the purview of the governments that would later claim jurisdiction. If an independent group settles on Mars, will that not be considered an Earth colony, even if it owes no homebound allegiance?”
Sure, but we’re talking about the 19th Century. And since the formal conquest of Africa only really began in the 19th Century, I think it’s more than fair to use the definition applied to that time period
I prefer it too, as what other word do we have for this definition if we restrict “colony” to its legal definition?
Settlement. Country. Community.
The US is peopled by a group of emigrants or their descendants from some more ancient city or country. Nobody has called it a colony since it was no longer governed by that more ancient country. The distinguishing feature of a colony is foreign rule.
I’d also like to know when “colony” was defined in either American or international law, as it doesn’t seem right to point to it as definitive if it were defined after the time period in question.
Not sure about the history of the legal definitions. Looking at the history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there is a real ambiguity about whether, or the degree to which, it was actually subject to the English government. It was called a colony at the time, but was established by a corporation and was effectively self-ruled, at least initially. Haven’t been able to track down just what the English government’s actual claim was, although there were land grants from the Crown (I think).
Also, this was back in the days when corporations were directly and specifically chartered by the government, and were much more creatures of government than they are now (often being used to grant monopolies or otherwise crony it up).
It could be argued that is was a nation formed by repatriated Africans.
Unlike the Orange County Unified School District, all appear to be vaccinated at least.
claims he is “the most qualified person in the country to be President”.
He killed Hillary?
Probably, unfortunately her dabbling in the dark alchemical arts saved her.
I find being qualified to be president, disqualifying.
No audio, I haz sad.
Self-proclaimed most qualified people dont seem to do well in actual elections.
Hell, I can claim the same thing.
Qualifications for US President – 35+ age and Natural born citizen of the US.
Millions of people are tied for the most qualified.
Since I’m apparently in a pedantic mood, those are the eligibility requirements, which are not the same as qualifications.
Right… I’ll bet you think there is some kind of a difference between a colony and a settlement too.
A settlement is what you get when you, and your opponent in a legal dispute, realize what paying lawyers to argue about the meaning of the word colony is costing you.
That is a very narrow definition.
I demand a stipulation that I was right.
The tweet I saw on this subject:
“That’s like RainMan saying he’s a good driver’.
I am experiencing a five-dollar word feeling — ennui.
That sounds like a problem. My advice is drink until your feelings can be expressed in one dollar words.
Since when is ennui a five dollar word anyway? It’s just what the emo kids spout on about.
Inflation, it really sucks.
See also: languidness
Sorry for the quick OT, Brett, but I need to get some work done and I didn’t want to drop it earlier in Suthen’s great article.
Declare the Strand Bookstore a City Landmark? No Thanks, the Strand Says
It’s for your own good!
Helping to death.
Just lie down and think of History!
You know, if they went through with it, I’d announce that thansk to the of the increased operating costs due to the landmark declaration, we were declaring chapter 7 bankruptcy, and put up a big poster thanking Peg Green for putting us out of business.
And then, I’d liquidate the fucking business, turning down every city offer of bailout.
Bu that’s just me being bloody minded.
You’re assuming that Peg Green doesn’t want the business owner out of the picture. I’m sure that if you looked deeper there was some previous spat or disagreement between the business owner and the city.
It will be fun to see what ends up in the space after the bookstore goes tits-up.
Molemen.
More likely the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
There’s a difference?
^^This. Theft by another name.
I will assume it’s kitty-corner from a Duane Reade and guess a Duane Reade.
I know a landowner who had timber cut. Subsequently his son found pottery and arrowheads on the property. There is also a mound. The son was fascinated. The father had a fit, made him throw all of that shit away and swear to nevr tell anyone.
There is a burial mound in my neighborhood and, by a strange coincidence, it is exactly the size of a single lot.
Lucky, huh?
Let out never be said that the Indians were incompetent city planners.
The apes -who are infected with contagious diseases- were abandoned on the Liberian river island after being released by their captors.
Do you know who else wanted to colonize a recently released population on Liberia.
Pubic lice ?
Liberia, not Labia.
ISIS?
RE: Presidential qualifications. I’m tired of this shit. According to my handy pocket Constitution, the only qualifications are natural born citizen of at least 35 years and in the country at least 14 years. That’s it. Fuck these people that think they are better than everyone else.
I had forgotten about the last qual.
A free-riding douche who hasn’t had a real non-government job in my lifetime – sounds incredibly unqualified to me.
Exactly. I’ve mentioned this to my wife again just recently. I worked with many people who spent there full working life in a Fedgov job. To a person they have very little understanding of how the real world works. Hell, just me being in for the last 18 years after 10 years working the typical entry level jobs (construction, factory work, etc.) was enough to make me feel like I now have no idea what I’m doing in the private sector.
Same with that John Dingell story in the last thread. Sixty years as a politician does not make you the smartest guy in the room, or provide you with much useful wisdom, sorry.
After 10 1/2 years in the state, I’m convinced no one in the real world is going to hire me with a resume blight like that.
Well, that and the people you hang out with online.
I don’t put thise site on my Resume, but I can’t hide a decade with anything but a long prison sentence.
That’s why people never leave government jobs.
That, and the low expectations.
He’s not even arguably right.
Being Vice President does not in any meaningful way prepare you for being President because you have and exercise no executive power. Same goes for being in the Senate no matter how long you are there.
Every single governor and former governor in the country, most Generals and Fortune 500 CEO’s have at least as good qualifications a Biden. And then you have Mike Pence who has a long history of executive leadership and is the sitting Vice President.
Joe Biden, known biographical plagarist and creepy toucher of women, claims he is “the most qualified person in the country to be President”. In a way that makes this the best and worst of all possible time-lines to live in, he is not wrong.
My dream of Biden-Trump debates lives on!
If I were Trump, I’d redo the ad that Hillary made to outrage women at him, but have it show Biden touching people on camera.
And a second commercial with Joe talking about 7-elevens and Dunkin Donuts.
Didn’t Stalin try to have super-apes created as soldiers? We were just trying to keep up during the Cold War.
If we had chimps fighting our wars there would be a hell of a lot more wars. Who doesn’t enjoy a monkey knife fight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdIltdDE4A
“We were just trying to keep up during the Cold War.”
The evidence for that is ample. Luckily we lost most things, which ended up bankrupting and destroying the USSR
1.Camile Paglia is brilliant.
2.Camile Paglia voted for Bernie Sanders.
Hmmm. One of these is not like the other.
As I noted below, she had high hopes for Harris.
Look, at least she’s aware of the bull shit. We have to take that.
Jimmy Dore that uber prog also has the light switched on in his head. He hates Clinton and thinks the Mueller thing is all bull. So far, he doesn’t have TDS.
Meh, “Brilliant, smart, intellectual” are subjective terms. Some people think anyone who makes a ton of money must be “smart” others think you need to be able to quote Shakespear and enjoyed “Gravity’s Rainbow”. Also, knowledge can be compartmentalized, Einstien couldn’t tie his shoes or some such questionable anecdote.
Einstein also never figured out the physics of sailing a boat. He literally had to be rescued every time he went out on the lake alone.
We do throw the word ‘genius’ around a tad too easily.
I remember when Oprah used it to described Jon Stewart. Sometimes I wonder if confirmation bias and the perception of genius are linked.
But I do think you can be objective about it. It’s pretty clear people like Da Vinci were geniuses.
https://twitter.com/lmeschi/status/1068522342471487488
LOLOLOLOLOL
Saudi oil identifies as “renewable energy”
+1 Abiotic Oil Theory
Banned from Twitter for “Islamophobia”
Is that pro-pipeline Canadian wearing a MAGA hat? I can’t tell from the resolution if that is so, but it looks similar. That would be a bit odd, but then again people probably need a more PC replacement for rebel-wear than the Confederate flag, so whatever.
It might, in fact, be a “Make Alberta Great Again” hat. Not sure (when you zoom in, the resolution’s really poor…)
JP on Rogan
For those of you into that sort of thing.
Obligatory
Also obligatory.
That’s awesome.
FTA on the chimps: Fool-hardy tourists who have paid local fishermen to take them near the island – on the Farmington River – are pelted with mangoes by the territorial chimps.
That sounds eerily similar to the North Sentinel Island situation (except poisoned arrows instead of mangoes).
I love mangoes. In fact, just this afternoon I had a jar of mango chutney from Trinidad delivered to my office. How I love Amazon Prime!
It seems eventually someone would think to bring a mini-14, or maybe that’s just me.
If Africa you’re better off with a G3/CETME/FAL
https://twitter.com/Kmarkobarstool/status/1070054204079779841
HERO
Awesome.
See talk show hosts and prog comedians?
THAT’S HOW IT’S DONE.
/flicks Seth Meyers’s ears.
Fantastic.
All Americans should face Washington 5 times a day and flip the bird.
Is there an unedited version?
It’s like watching Goodfellas on AMC.
Being poked ennui isn’t as bad as being poked innuendo.
— Old Italian Proverb
Q: what do you call an italian suppository ?
A: an innuendo!
/I’ll be here all week
Doc: Luigi have you been taking your medication? The suppositories I prescribed you?
Luigi: Of course Doc! Whatya think I’ve been doing? Shoving them up my ass?
Paglia (I pronounce it pa-lya as proper) had high hopes for K. Harris? I’ll just have to let this slide because her overall message is good.
Also, regarding the Canadians. It’s ironic that for a country that is perceived to be boring and orderly we have produced an abnormal about of comedians and iconoclasts.
Even now, one of the most popular people in the libertarian world that has a shot at power is Maxime Bernier.
The charge against progressivism is being led by a bunch of Canucks in people like Crowder, McInness, Southern, Peterson….
Props where props are due for my country.
abnormal amount
Yeah, and the Leafs re-signed Nylander!
Fuck the Leafs….and Bruins.
I don’t like the Habs anymore but there are teams I just won’t share a Zamboni ride with.
And Seattle has a team now!
The Seattle Wokes!
Even worse:
Some of those names are gay.
If they could drop the ‘Seattle’ bit…
Cougars and Eagles, never heard those used before.
The funny Canadians all go south to make a success of their lives.
The rest stay behind and bitch about what an evil place they think the US is.
HEY! I’M STILL HERE!
Wooooo!
Agreed. For a country that engages in so much proggie idiocy you certainly have a lot of people that are decidedly not progs or idiots. Unfortunately for Canada many of them leave and come here.
Anyone ever hear from the Canadian Nuclear guy anymore? I miss that dude. I hope he moved down here and has a magnificent gun collection.
Stuck in India for a few more weeks. I’m guessing it’s just because of the little guy, sleep deprivation and the bluest blue balls,
B ut I can’t wait to leave.
I’ve made my home so comfortable and convenient little else can compare.
What happens in India stays in India.
bluest blue balls
Which Hindu god is that?
Krishna, technically.
Bravo!
I thought you could literally buy women in India? Importing them is problematic but I suppose you can just flip them at a discount to the hotel management.
Donald Trump: Tariff Man
The negotiations with China have already started. Unless extended, they will end 90 days from the date of our wonderful and very warm dinner with President Xi in Argentina. Bob Lighthizer will be working closely with Steve Mnuchin, Larry Kudlow, Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2018
……on seeing whether or not a REAL deal with China is actually possible. If it is, we will get it done. China is supposed to start buying Agricultural product and more immediately. President Xi and I want this deal to happen, and it probably will. But if not remember,……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2018
….I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It will always be the best way to max out our economic power. We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs. MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN
Do you know who else?
Alexander Hamilton?
He keeps swinging the tariff club, but has he actually hit anyone with it yet?
No one ever said Tariff Man was competent.
I agree with him that anyone putting tariffs on us should have the equivalent leveled at them. The idea of tariffs itself is not a good idea but if you are going to cheat then so are we. Take yours off and we will too.
Yes, by all means, let’s raise taxes on American citizens to teach the French government a lesson about taxing the French for buying from us! 🙄
Worst. Supervillain. Ever.
I think he realizes that he doesn’t want to hit anyone with it, just get them to put down their clubs, because ours has spikes and bits of glass attached to it.
Literally all of the framers?
Reed Smoot?
https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1070054972337864704
Is it “market forces” or is it that regulation has forced electrical plants to abandon coal? It’s not as if all of the regulation on coal that was even recently imposed during the last administration has been eliminated.
Wouldn’t this be akin to taxing Uber and not taxi companies and then arguing that “market forces” were pushing people to use taxis over Ubers?
I would think natgas is a cheaper fuel than coal. It is damned sure cheaper to transport and has more energy density.
It is cheaper (right now), but the capital cost to convert a coal fired plant to natural gas are expensive. And there is no guarantee that natural gas will remain cheaper than coal in the future. Many electric systems started to switch over around 2014 when regulation was coming down the pipeline (no pun intended).
But, no one has answered the question of whether they would have made that switch simply due to the temporary lower cost of natural gas absent the proposed federal regulation.
The only study I have ever seen that suggested this switch was entirely due to market forces was a very brief study that Bailey once used as the basis for an entire article that he wrote about why the US shouldn’t care about more coal regulation because the market was already killing coal.
I find that to be a little bit too convenient of an argument in order to not appear to be defending coal.
the US shouldn’t care about more coal regulation because the market was already killing coal.
For the same reason we care about somebody holding a pillow over the face of a cancer patient?
That was Bailey’s argument, as far as I can remember. It was a piss poor groveling article
Correction, I believe his article was essentially that we shouldn’t bother with eliminating coal regulation (this was during the 2016 campaign), because it was actually the market and not government regulation that was killing coal.
If the regulation isn’t doing anything – get rid of it.
My understanding is that it’s a lot cheaper to burn natural gas in a plant than coal and that’s what is hurting coal.
It’s easier to do continuous feed and throttle the temperature/volume with gas than coal.
I’m not saying that none of that is true, but then why did so many electric systems start transitioning from coal to natural gas around 2014, if there were already cost and other advantages associated with natural gas?
I’m seriously curious. I have to look at electric plants for work and there was a mad rush in ’14 through ’16 to switch from coal to natural gas. We concluded that this was due to proposed federal regulation, but now people are saying it was all due to “market forces”. That’s what I don’t get.
Can you even measure the market forces at play when you are dealing with a heavily regulated industry?
I don’t believe they would opt to convert because the marginal advantages would not themselves pay for the costs of refurbishing without being battered by the government regulatory cudgel.
So then it was not “market forces” or, at least, not “market forces” brought about by government action?
Not a chance.
At least in my distant opinion.
Government has a monopoly on force. Nobody told them this didn’t include “market force”.
I know a few things about energy and mineral rights, but sadly don’t have a comprehensive trend analysis or handy example to point to. Without spending the hours to pull all that together, I can still point to a few of the issues.
Energy guys talk in terms of mmbtu; pardon the nomenclature, but it means million british thermal units, so units of energy. At this very moment, I think most types of industrial coal cost $3 while NG happens to be around $4.50.
The other costs of using the fuels are
a/ amortization of initial fixed costs of burning; handling coal is probably much more expensive in every way than blowing NG
b/ cost of fuel per unit of energy (see above)
c/ treatment of exhaust: particulate and gas scrubbers are needed to address the toxins in coal emissions; there’s a range depending on the type of coal, but this is a huge operating cost that NG simply doesn’t have; water is produced by both processes, but I believe almost all of that is suspended in the exhaust (goes away) and isn’t a huge consideration at the burner
d/ efficiency: I think coal burns around 30% and NG is slightly higher…still looking
e/ management and handling: fuel is bought in spot markets relative to a position and you pay to move it from that spot; NG is priced in LA and is very easy to move (pipelines are safe and cost very little to operate per ton*mile); coal moves on river barges and train which are also pretty cheap (compared to OTR trucks!); but at the plant coal must be handled: queued, unloaded, dust management, wash down; once NG is installed, it fairly regulates itself and requires a fraction of the man*power/mmbtu of coal to manage
f/ handling of ash: NG ain’t got any; those huge piles and ash and the lakes of contaminated water that has touched it are strictly part of the fun of coal
I think that’s a fair and good start on things.
c/ is the heavily regulated one
f/ is the modestly regulated one
The other operational consideration of a power plant is life-time operation. It’s hard to say, but I’d expect coal by the ton to stay cheap for the next 200 years. We’ve squandered most of the NG every found so far (vented out of the way of oil or flared off), and it will be a long time before that is no longer true; the plays that are pumping today will work down over the years; like oil, it will cost a lot of money to find the incremental cubic foot (weird fact: the typical North American cubic foot of NG has almost exactly a million btu, so some people use those units interchangeably, but, in fact, when you own a well you are paid on quality which means dried energy). NG has bumped between $3 and $12 when I worked on it; looks like you can buy summer gas 2025 for $2.75 right this second!
When you add all this together, it’s easy to imagine that NG is cheaper than coal by the “clean” delivered BTU (total amortized costs) even though NG might be a more by the mmbtu as bought from the market.
File under own-devouring
SNL comic kicked offstage for offensive jokes
I can’t even see how this violates the orthodoxy. My manual must be out of date.
Rabid dogs bite.
He violated the SNL axiom:
“No funny allowed.”
OMG….Bill Nye is ssssuch a scummy, shit head rat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nh-tXGu-sM
I am shocked that Bill Nye the Mechanical Engineering Guy would have his ass handed to him by an atmospheric physicist and MIT Professor of Meteorology in a debate about climate change.
“It’s like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other.”
Gold.
But notice how he attempted to shift to ‘you don’t believe in climate change’?
He was owned and that was his only way out.
White-supremacist vegetables
Last week, a two-hour “Whiteness Forum” held by students at Cal State San Marcos added the children’s Christian program “Veggie Tales” to the list of forbidden “racist” media. I fondly recollect waltzing with potatoes up and down the produce aisle in my childhood years, and can report with certainty that evidence for this claim is just as hard to find as a Cebu.
According to The College Fix, a female student at the “Whiteness Forum” argued that “Veggie Tales” is racist because the villains are vegetables of color. “When kids see the good white character triumph over the bad person of color character they are taught that white is right and minorities are the source of evil,” the project stated.
As The College Fix’s Drew Van Voorhis explained, the female student argued that “the accents of the evil characters tend to sound ethnic, such as Latino, while the good characters sound white.”
Seems to me that such a forum is racist in and of itself. And how dare they make an accurate portrayal of what the vegetables look like in real life in forming their non-human characters for a fictional kids show!
I’m totally baffled. Are there any white vegetables on that show? Aren’t all the vegetables, hero and villain alike, vegetables of color?
Terry Shiavo?
*golf clap*
I’m Bob, I’m a tomato, and here to help!
Turnips, parsnips, some asparagus, hearts of palm, bamboo shoots, some onions
There are some white veggies
On the show?
Check your white asparagus priviledge.
Tard Tuesday in full effect!
Has to be parody.
We live in the world in which
was a part of a heartfelt apology. Parody is dead.
Unless said taco also had evidence of a hetro- relationship, there is no reason to decry a label of lesbian.
-1 collard greens
How long have you had that one chambered and ready to go?
Euphemism.
Good. Yuck.
Raycess
Ray cress more like
The blatherings of the SJW are indistinguishable from those of a schizophrenic. Why anyone pays attention to them is a mystery to me.
Because they have sympathizers in academia, the media, and the government.
The insanity of the delusion doesn’t matter. When the right people believe that the emperor is wearing clothes, a large plurality of people will believe he’s clothed even though you can see the freckles on his dong.
As The College Fix’s Drew Van Voorhis explained, the female student argued that “the accents of the evil characters tend to sound ethnic, such as Latino, while the good characters sound white.”
Perhaps I don’t have a sensitive ear, but I don’t think there’s a Latino accent. I’ve met Latinos who speak with an identifiably foreign accent and Latinos who speak with an identifiably American accent, but I’ve yet to hear a distinctly Latino accent. Same thing for white: I’ve heard American accents and foreign accents, but never a distinctly white accent. Thus it seems to me that this criticism, such as it is, would make more sense to claim xenophobia, not racism.
For people that grow up speaking Spanish, then learn English later, there are definitely some commonalities in the way they sound, and in word choices and the like. Those that grow up speaking both English and Spanish often sound “native” in both in my experience.
The peas are french.
There is one character who is steretypically hispanic, and he occasionally plays good guy and bad guy roles. He also plays neutral roles. He basically has a cynical sense of humor and acts as a foil to the more ideologically driven characters.
Xenophobia is 5 syllables and defined; racism is 2 syllables and has been deliberately defined in dozens of contradictory ways. SJWs prefer racism for these advantages.
What’s especially hilarious is that the guys doing the show chose to have animated vegetables as a way of avoiding offense by the more hypersensitive subset of devout christians.
Their idea was, and this is an actual quote “Who can hate vegetables? They’re good for you!”
Well, apparently the SJW’s can.
(BTW, the villains are vegetables acting in a church pageant. Seriously – the vegetable that plays a villain in one story will play the good guy in another. And, often the main characters are shown giving into temptation and acting badly. Anyone who thinks the show is singling a particular ethnic group as being evil is essentially blinded by prejudice)
You mean like this?
What happened to the link?
Ennui, huh? Why you use your tongue prettier than a $20 whore!
Titty Tuesday continues with Grand Canyons of cleavage.
http://archive.is/EOux0
Can’t really go wrong here, but I’m not sure what’s going wrong with 16.
2. 16 is wearing her little sisters bra.
I have no idea who this is, but she says “multiple sources” tell her The Weekly Standard will be shuttered by the end of the year.
I would “source her” if you know what I mean.
I don’t know what I mean.
If that’s true, I’ll have a drink to Bill Kristol in the unemployment line
Would x 100.
She’s on the uber-right wing One America News
There’s an uber right-wing media outlet? I was told the entirety of the media are uber leftists working in lockstep with Soros and the Clintons.
You were told wrong. It’s 98%.
Well, most of them are. I’ve never actually seen OAN, I only know who they are because there was some other story recently involving this Emerald Robinson chick (can’t remember what it was now), she was hot, and I’ve never heard of her so I looked it up.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/media/weekly-standard-future-uncertain/index.html
Bill Kristol is and always has been a flaming cockbag.
That may be hate speech. Against cock bags.
I would think natgas is a cheaper fuel than coal. It is damned sure cheaper to transport and has more energy density.
Really?
*not shit-stirring; I did not know that. I thought the benefits were more ancillary, like ease of transport and no pesky combustion residue.
Methane (natural gas) has a HHV (higher heat value) of 23,900 BTU/lb compared to 14,000 for anthracite coal.
It’s a trick question in a way. NG is a gas at 1,500PSI in the pipeline if by density you mean relative to the space it takes up.
On the other hand the bucket of anthracite in my back room hasn’t dissipated in the year it’s sat there uncovered.
I’m finding coal around 9X denser than NG. Stipulating TresCool’s figures above (NG 2X more heat), we get coal being 4 to 5X denser BTU/cf.
I can’t think of how that matters: coal is queued in rail-cars on the yard while NG is up the pipe; one is a matter of space to some degree while the other is more a question of pumping rate. Coal is denser, but it’s still much more “in the way” if you will.
That reminds me, if the coal arrives by rails and needs to be shifted to hoppers, you need people to shuffle those rail cars around (for now), while the pipeline runs with less staff.
right: I discussed that in point /e/ above @ 5:29 CST
Yeah, but that was a wall of text. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t just skip it.
I read it, Don. I thought it was fascinating.
Good! I’m gratified.
That’s my life: what’s the best way to build the place that builds the things?
We really screwed up the whole rail-yard thing at the chem plant I just built. Originally the rail folk told us our spur could be on X radius; a year and an engineering regime change later after the property and permits were paid for, 3X was required, so we’d’ve basically needed to buy out a dozen houses and run through a city park to make it work. So they’ll be eating around another $0.60/lb in handling fees to bring it in by truck . . . forever. Oh well.
I’m always amazed at the cost differential between ships or barges and rail and truck and of course plane. It seems like it its a factor of 5-10 in costs for every step up that ladder you go.
From what little I remember of transport engineering, the calculation for a curves radius isn’t that complex. Whoops.
What the order cheapest to priciest?
@Lackadaisical re “radius”
There are so many layers that go into any serious calculation, and there’s always soft factors where judgment can vary; we can noodle through some durability and warranty calcs together when you’re really bored! Maybe they didn’t really want to do the work at the quoted price, so they weaseled out of it; maybe they have a new insurer for that activity?
Handling costs are a double hit: if I buy and pay by the truck instead of by the barge or rail-car, I also have similar extra handling costs on my side (inside the plant) as well.
UCS, barge/ships is the cheapest. Airplanes are on the other end.
Saw some mention of Bob Dole standing to salute Bush’s casket, and I can’t be the only person whose reaction was “Bob Dole is still alive? I could have sworn he’d been dead for years.”
Bobdole forgot to die.
Saw some mention of Bob Dole standing to salute Bush’s casket
I hope you mean literally standing, and not “standing to salute” in the sense caused by the pills he was selling.
hahaha….well played
Dole was a shitbag, but that commercial was gold.
Dole was a shitbag
See, Last American Hero STILL thinks he’s dead
Just because they prop him up next to the corpse of Bush doesn’t prove he’s alive.
Also, he was a shitbag when he was in office. Since he’s been out of power and out of the public eye for a while, I have no idea if he’s just a kindly old man or still a shitbag.
So, tomorrow, we’re going to be treated to a litany of Democrats and the media (but, I repeat myself) decrying the fact that the Republicans have shifted from guys like George Bush to guys like Donald Trump. “Where is the fairness? The decency? The willingness to compromise across the aisle?”, they will ask.
The thing is, the Republicans have given them that. Time and again. And the Democratic response has been the same. Time and again. Fairness has been met with accusations of everything from fascism to sexual predation. Decency has been treated as an invitation to derision as “out of touch” or derision of their faith. Willingness to compromise has been met with reneged compromises and attacks for the very compromises Democrats have demanded of them.
Where are the guys like Bush? They’ve been pushed from the picture. Not by Donald Trump. But by the very left now asking that question. Playing the Bush or the Dole or the Romney has been shown a fool’s errand. And in the vacuum, the Donald Trump is the option Democrats have made sensible for Republicans.
If only we had a President who was an old fashion liar who never believed a word of his own bullshit.
And he raised to those taxes in the spirit of bi-partisanship. The deal was raise taxes now, cut spending later. Anybody who’s watched a Popeye cartoon knows how the Wimpy negotiation works. Team Blue threw Bush’s ass under the bus, then backed the bus over him during the campaign repeatedly by running that speech. Politics is dirty and bare knuckle and a veteran like Bush should have known better. Cry no tears for him. But the fact remains that a bunch of today’s team Red Senators and House members were staffers when GHWBush got fucked over, and they remember what it’s like when you compromise with Team Blue.
He signed a tax increase because he liked high taxes – the rest is a bullshit excuse. Ed Rollins dispelled the whole “Bush got rolled” excuse long ago.
Bush expelled the Reagonites as soon as he got there and started planning the tax increase almost immediately.
https://spectator.org/34257_speaker-george-hw-bush/
You’re like two steps behind – not only has all that you described already happened, but then the backlash to that, harrumphing that Bush was super racist and Trump is just the logical progression from Bush, has happened.
Someone was asking about children’s books the other day, and I was just reminded of the David Macaulay books about castles and pyramids and cities and such, good stuff if not mentioned already. Maybe geared towards older children though.
We need John Titor to stop faffing about and start a coup already.
Baby, It’s Cold Outside won’t be played on some radio stations, including CBC
Lord have mercy, Canada has become pussified to the point of no return. Don’t feel bad though, so has the US.
I’ll see your ennui and raise you mind destroying boredom. Today was day one of a two day, all day income tax conference for me. This is a high level attorney/cpa continuing ed class so of course the last 45 minutes of the all day class was a nice, but not at all adept at public speaking, lady from Paycor explaining how to do withholding and fill out w-4s…
This is akin to giving a talk to a room full of doctors about how one uses a bandaid.
But where is the afterparty?
Whenever I feel ennui, I slap on a yellow vest and flip over a Peugeot.
I could only find a Renault. I feel cheated.
Le Car!
When my older brother was 15, he had to commute to school. Dad bought him a 77 Renault Le Car. Ugly yellow with an entire .8 liters of cylinder displacement.
This was in 2001. I have no idea where dad found one that survived that long.
Split the difference and flip a yellow Renault
A roommate once had a yellow LeCar he called Mr French; it reminded me of one of the very oldest Beetles in most ways.
Citroën 2CV for the win!
Speaking of energy plays, FirstWife’s dad kept a 2CV in the oil plays he worked in Brasil that never had a battery that could hold a charge.
Christmas came early. Looks like the Weekly Standard may actually go out of business. Phenomenal
Hi! Haven’t been around too much lately…how y’all doin’? Any big happenings?
I wrote a book in a week. I’m forcing Evan to read it. It’s made him flee the country.
We’ve all given up drinking.
That’s so depressing a thought that I need a drink.
Time to open this little bottle of Kraken Rum.
That’s not too bad. I’d drink it again… but it was a 50ml bottle, so I’m out.
Does “We’ve all given up and are drinking” sound better?
?
I haven’t given up, I’m still drinking.
“Ullr Nordic Libation” is… minty.
I’ve moved to drinking Old Grandad 100 for the evening. Gonna be a short evening.
I’m clearing up the 50ml bottles I had sitting on my desk for over a month.
You missed the period between ‘up’ and ‘drinking’.
well played
That works too.
?
“We’ve all given up drinking.”
Huh. Was there a memo?
How is the handgun treating you?
Haven’t fired her yet – gonna try to get with the instructor before Xmas to put it through its paces.
Have you shot exclusively handguns at Elite, or have you tried out any of their rifles?
I’ve never shot any kind of long gun, at all. It’s not something that interests me a lot, but if I ever found myself in a situation where someone had a rifle, I might give it a try. No shotguns, though.
That’s a shame. The purpose of a pistol is to give you a chance to fight your way to your rifle.
WHo knows? Maybe I’ll like a rifle better’n a pistol, but I’m not going to go out of my way to shoot one. I’m still a total newb with the pistol – you would not believe my adrenaline the first 10 minutes I’m on the range. I need to learn to tamp that down.
you would not believe my adrenaline the first 10 minutes I’m on the range. I need to learn to tamp that down
I’m really flinchy, so it takes about 5 or so minutes for my body to adjust to the environment, especially if there are some big boomers on the range. A good set of earmuffs helps reduce the amount of time I’m jumping out of my skin.
That and Im not getting to the range regularly enough, so I’m definitely in the same boat as you regarding adrenaline, it takes a while to settle in.
You may be surprised by the diversity in recoil in the same platform. Bird load in a 12ga doesn’t kick much. Magnum 00 is liable to literally leave a mark. When I went dove hunting the first time, I was expenctinf strong recoil given my experience with 00, but it was minimal.
Last time at the range, I found the wrist snap of my glock . 40 less pleasant than the nearly non-existent kick from my dad’s Romanian AK. My 308 bolt action was the only one that we put away with ammo left because it kicked like a mule.
All this to say that if you like to keep to lighter recoil, your instructor will have options in all form factors.
You are missing out on the magical joy of shooting a 22 rimfire rifle. If you ever make it down here I will let you have a go with my Kimber. With very little practice you can 1 inch targets at 100 yards without much difficulty. The accuracy difference between a rifle and pistol is almost impossible to describe with words.
If you ever find yourself in the Philly area, say something. We’ll get you out to the rifle range. Between my gf & I, we will have a rifle you will enjoy. Rimfires, ARs, AKs, surplus, & hunting…we got ya covered.
someone bought a .380 after everyone ratified the 9mm as better, but that’s okay
Haha, I don’t actually think I’ve shot a 380 before. 38spl, yes, but not 380.
At this point we’re usually deluged with a lovely tangent of sectional density arguments and caliber vs magazine capacity studies. I’ve probably accidentally memorized everyone’s EDC by now . . . should I add that to the spreadsheet right after the pineapple column ?
What’s mine?
was a lie: I don’t really remember (it feels like 100 usernames/avatars here that don’t imprint on my old noggin quite the way faces and body language do . . . this isn’t really my medium at all)
the best part though is the matrix joke; from Trashy’s resurrection of it below, I guess it was his idea originally that I thought was so funny ?
Walther pps 9mm & zero tolerance 0350, for the record.
Here ya go.
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/share/8MuAEpWprFUMO90jroviVlACyBpj8pljVeqGtPyFT2G/gallery/V2kFouBQRSeNNFaNFzg91w
For the record.
Very rare to my pineapple column, 9mm to my edc column
I had 1/2 a pineapple for lunch today.
Was that your entire lunch?
I also had chicken noodle soup I made for my wife, since she is sick.
+1 “flavoring”
I have a Walther PPK/S and have shot my buddies Sig 238. They’re fun to shoot. Hornady Critical Defense .380 has decent ballistics. I still like my .45s though:)
Bigger bullet = better
I have a few 380’s but I carry a subcompact 9mm.
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/share/vt5bNwcE8RPeF7MiTvlmEWbwiEMpiXfCaQ5fQYvMzUL/gallery/JVkifMpzRZSfBpNO1qkFMA
These are fun to shoot. Especially with the extended mags.
Those are sharp:)
I shot the 911 at the range. It’s a great gun. I bought one for my daughter.
My wife and I went with Sig p938s to stay 9 MM.
I’ve come pretty close to buying a 938. I like the feel in my hand. My only 9 is a Beretta Storm Compact. Put a new hammer spring in to lighten the DA trigger but haven’t made it to the range since I did that. Also replaced mag release with larger button.
I still haven’t taken my px4c out yet. Extra mags seem scarce and a bit pricey.
I bought a couple 20 rnd mags for my PX4C off Berretta site. Don’t remember what I paid though. I also want to get the low profile decocker for it which will also nix the safety. DA/SA doesn’t really need a safety anyways.
“Diversity is our strength”. ?
I haven’t carried either of my .380s yet. I’m hesitant to give up my 9mm.
Though it’s nice to have options.
the 938 is a sweet gun. That is what I carry. Functions just like a 1911 and carries the punch of 9 luger.
I can shoot my J-frame smiths more accurately but for its purpose it is fine.
Nothing wrong with 380 ACP as a first weapon.
It will be enough for 90% of SD situations.
We resolved what the definition of colony is.
We’re waiting on the stipulation from Just Say’n and his Lawyer. I think they’re trying to force a trial and appeal to SCOTUS.
UCS right now
Untrue, I’m still right.
Im waiting for someone to ‘strenuously object’ like in A Few Good Men
Sorry. This was the best I could find.
Nice shot!
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/offbeat/sheriff-woman-kills-jail-escapee-who-kicks-in-her-door-12-04-2018
Headshot.
“He was probably just looking to borrow a cup of sugar!”
/bint
We’re gonna need a ruling from the Minne-Glibs.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a25378576/winter-testing-automobiles-at-30-below-zero/
“You know you’re in a social void when the meat raffle at the American Legion is a big deal. ”
Meat raffle?
*lights Jesse signal*
Yep. You can catch a buzz and leave with a package of t-bones.
I don’t particularly like having a car collodie with the doors of my vehicle.
Especially if you break your ribs.
Lots of bars up here in Northern MN have meat raffles. You buy a ticket and if your name gets drawn you go home with 50 lbs of meat. /meat market!
The cold. We see -25 degF once or twice a winter.
I’ve seen -38 degF once in my life. On that day I happened to be at a propane tank farm replacing a broken pump. Liquid propane boils at -40. Instead of vaporizing the propane puddled up.
I can usually deal with the cold. Layers are your friend. I have a hard time dealing with heat over 100 degF.
I worked winter test for my firm for years including running it two winters. We tended to test out of Bemidji, a cute and sweet little college town.
Wind tunnel work is normal, and we could get down to 0°F to hit most operational points for passenger car and commercial vehicles. But you really need to fire up and roam around in the snow to know how things really work in the day-to-day. I come from truck people, so I bring a unique blend of experience and hands-on to trucks.
Heating and defrost on trucks has gotten a bit harder as diesels have become more efficient, but, for the most part, start-up, heating, and operation are all pretty good. I have my favorites and my pans, but I might out myself if ranked the OEM; there are very few of us who know what the numbers are on everyone. I will note that Volvo dominates the artic markets, make of that what you might.
This guy talks about “flying” to MN. Tsk, tsk, office boy: if you don’t drive your products and your prototypes to Winter Test, what kind of engineer are you?
MN January suits me: I’ll take that any day over a humid 35°F mid-Southern winter’s day. And fried walleye and yankee beer kicks ass.
Half my career has been mobile HVAC; the other half has been classic manufacturing; some was overlap. Winter Test is the most fun I ever had in any of it.
” I’ll take that any day over a humid 35°F mid-Southern winter’s day.”
This guy gets it. It is hard to understand what high humidity and cold do to you unless you experience it. Most northerners who are used to sub-zero temps are shocked when they first experience a Louisiana winter with near 100% humidity at 35 degrees. It just sucks the heat right out of you.
It’s never bothered me – we get that all the time here in NYC.
I don’t miss the dry cold of upstate NY and its attendant cracked skin and bloody knuckles very much at all.
Let’s not forget the wind that is always blowing here. -25F with a 20mph wind is not just uncomfortable; it’s literally deadly.
Anyone who can operate a sling pschychrometer should get it, but maybe that’s not widely practiced. Anyway, like everyone else, I’m constantly lectured about my own areas of expertise, usually by people who can’t imagine the amount of heat contained in a grain of moisture at any given temperature.
I generally explain it this way: look at all that white stuff on the ground . . . that’s where your humidity is.
There is also a personal sensibility, though. I stipulate that minor cold (say 20°F) bothers some people emotionally a lot more than others.
From what I’ve seen of your comments, most everything is your area of expertise.
Humidity makes Missouri winters much more uncomfortable than northern Minnesota winters. You heard it here first, folks.
Miss Vandy (psychology PhD) would remind me that great gifts are often offset by great deficits; my social skills are academic at best, and she went her own way after a few very pleasant months. I don’t regret my bachelor learning curve much, but I truly blew an epic situation that time. Notice that I never kid about women, especially SEC women.
https://twitter.com/Pac12babes
You are serious about those SEC gals. I do envy you that.
@Q that is excellent for this dead thread
Miss Georgia flies in after a meeting at Soldier Field today. It’s probably some sick Oedipal thing that I am addicted to smart, beautiful Southern girls who can cook; there is no cure, nor do I desire one. I shall die in this pursuit, it is written.
The penis is evil in so many ways.
The very first time I went to Fairbanks in the winter, I got to experience ice fog. This only happens when the humidity is high but the temperature is very, very low. IIRC, it was approx. -50F. It does weird things. I drove (itself kind of a tenuous exercise) to UAF which is up on a hill. You could look down in the valley at Airport Blvd and the ice scattered the headlights straight up. Also, once all the water is frozen straight out of the air, that humidity drops very low; to the point that later that night as I was getting out of bed to go to the bathroom, a spark at least 3 inches long arced from my hand to the doorknob.
I would so live there, I love that place.
Just to necro-fuck this dead horse a bit more; current conditions here right now are 21F and 80% humidity. I wish to hell it would stay like this through February instead of the -20F and 10% that I know is coming.
As a neighbor that has the exact same weather and culture, it sounds pretty accurate; albeit with the expected fair share of snide digs and hyperbole.
This part is the no-shit truth that I don’t think people who haven’t experienced it can truly understand:
The reason for leaving vehicles running is more to do with keeping the interior warm that the car not starting again, but it not starting again is certainly not out of the question.
I’ve experienced the occasional – 15, even -20 on rare occasion. I can’t imagine dealing with those temperatures on a yearly basis. Hell, it got down into the positive single digits for 2 weeks straight last year and my heat pump didn’t shut off the entire time.
Western NY winters aren’t that extreme but having grown up with more than one beater in the family, I can attest to this.
They used to test car batteries in Grand Forks, ND because it is consistently cold. I remember news announcements that the snow plows were being pulled because the fuel was gelling. This was mid to late 90s.
I’m reminded of water lines. My dad was a rural water co-op employee for most of my life. He ran a backhoe. I had to go with him a few times in the middle of the night to help him fix a leak due to a burst, frozen pipe. Four or five, even six feet deep we’d have to dig to get at them. (They were all supposed to be buried >6 feet deep). The cold is real.
“The reason for leaving vehicles running is more to do with keeping the interior warm that the car not starting again, but it not starting again is certainly not out of the question.”
I’m not certain Wehrmacht troops on the Russian Front would agree.
Just keep a fire going under the engine block to keep everything from locking up.