Intro
This is another of the W.O.O.D. series of semi-regular Weekly Occasional Open Discussions. (i.e. if I forget and skip one, no big)
Immediate prior one here:
and remains open for threads running there (at least until the ‘several month’ auto-close of comments on stale threads).
Canonical list of old ones here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/category/w-o-o-d/
“Me” News
First off, I have to give a H/T and Thanks to The True Nolan for a comment here about Zinc https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/drugs-diseases-keto/#comment-169218
He pointed out that zinc shortage can cause acne (and other skin problems). I’ve had sporadic acne from time to time (despite my age) and happened to be having a particularly annoying outbreak at the time of the comment. So, OK, I took 2 x zinc tablets of 50 mg each (333% of “daily value”).
These acne spots were of the “hurts when you touch them” deep sort, and multiple large red spots around my face (mostly on cheeks and near my nose). The very next day, the discomfort was gone, spots that had not resolved in weeks were resolving, even some that had been drained of some “goo” before and yet reformed. So I took another 2 tablets. Now pretty much all the spots are resolved or resolving. But why?
Why is simple. Zinc shortage is correlated with acne AND zinc is necessary for both immune function (keeping skin bacteria suppressed) and tissue growth and repair (fixing any damage done). Clearly I had become zinc deficient, but didn’t know it. Surprising since we eat rather well. But three things showed up as I looked into it. I’m supposed to be taking a daily Vitamin + Mineral pill but had ignored it for a few months due to a busy few months, and that allowed these life changes to take effect, IMO:
1) Swapping more fish for red meat cuts zinc intake a lot. Oysters are high in zinc, but that does not extend to other seafoods.
2) Being retired and free to have beer, wine, or spirits “as you like it” consumes zinc as you metabolize the alcohol away.
3) older folks are more likely to be zinc deficient. I’m eating less as I’m doing less. I’d also guess that more “repair” is done on older systems so perhaps more zinc is used up that way. It’s also possible that since I’m now drinking a few bottled waters a day, I’m rinsing more zinc out.
So, OK, now I know. Find where that big bottle of Daily V & M pills went, load up the daily pill dispenser, and if acne shows up, find the Zinc Supplement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_deficiency
The highest concentration of dietary zinc is found in oysters, meat, beans, and nuts. Increasing the amount of zinc in the soil and thus in crops and animals is an effective preventive measure. Zinc deficiency may affect up to 2 billion people worldwide.
While I normally love oysters and would have them often (as oyster stew or ‘on the half shell’) I’d not been doing that while bouncing around the country and dealing with the end of my move, and a friends move.
Also, while chili beans had been one of my favored meals for decades, along with refried beans, lately I’d not been doing that simply because it took more time to make.
Then while I had a few jars of nuts, I’d stopped eating them as they were a bit rough on my gums with bits sticking and my last dental visit took a lot of cleaning.
Then, finally, I was actively increasing fish meals and reducing red meat in the expectation of a higher omega-3 fatty acid content.
So basically I was, without thinking about it, cutting out my best zinc sources.
Signs and symptoms
Skin, nails and hair
Zinc deficiency may manifest as acne, eczema, xerosis (dry, scaling skin), seborrheic dermatitis, or alopecia (thin and sparse hair). It may also impair or possibly prevent wound healing.
I had seborrheic dermatitis (I think) along with poor healing of the lesions. From the wiki on it:
Seborrhoeic dermatitis is a long-term skin disorder. Symptoms include flaky, scaly, greasy, and occasionally itchy and inflamed skin. Areas of the skin rich in oil-producing glands are often affected including the scalp, face, and chest.
Face between ears & eyes, then down around to the nose. Now all healing up nicely, no discomfort, and all is good.
Back at the Zinc wiki:
Part of my move to more fish was because of some minor inflammation issues. Turns out that low zinc can cause that too. So, OK, fish is good for the Omega-3 oils, but only if your zinc level is right.
Immune system
Impaired immune function in people with zinc deficiency can lead to the development of respiratory, gastrointestinal, or other infections, e.g., pneumonia. The levels of inflammatory cytokines (e.g., IL-1β, IL-2, IL-6, and TNF-α) in blood plasma are affected by zinc deficiency and zinc supplementation produces a dose-dependent response in the level of these cytokines. During inflammation, there is an increased cellular demand for zinc and impaired zinc homeostasis from zinc deficiency is associated with chronic inflammation
Then there this chart:
Food mg in one serving Percentage of 11 mg recommended daily intake Oysters, cooked, breaded and fried, 3 ounces (85g) (about 5 average sized oysters) 74.0 673% Beef chuck roast, braised, 3 ounces (85g) 7.0 64% Crab, Alaska king, cooked, 3 ounces (85g) 6.5 59% Beef patty, broiled, 3 ounces (85g) 5.3 48% Cashews, dry roasted, 3 ounces (85g) 4.8 44% Lobster, cooked, 3 ounces (85g) 3.4 31% Pork chop, loin, cooked, 3 ounces (85g) 2.9 26% Baked beans, canned, plain or vegetarian, 1⁄2 cup 2.9 26% Almonds, dry roasted, 3 ounces (85g) 2.7 25% Chicken, dark meat, cooked, 3 ounces (85g) 2.4 22% Yogurt, fruit, low fat, 8 ounces (230g) 1.7 15% Shredded wheat, unfortified, 1 cup[36] 1.5 14% Chickpeas, cooked, 1⁄2 cup 1.3 12% Cheese, Swiss, 1 ounce (28g) 1.2 11% Oatmeal, instant, plain, prepared with water, 1 packet 1.1 10% Milk, low-fat or non-fat, 1 cup 1.0 9% Kidney beans, cooked, 1⁄2 cup 0.9 8% Chicken breast, roasted, skin removed, 1⁄2 breast 0.9 8% Cheese, cheddar or mozzarella, 1 ounce (28g) 0.9 8% Peas, green, frozen, cooked, 1⁄2 cup 0.5 5% Flounder or sole, cooked, 3 ounces (85g) 0.3 3%
Where I was putting in more fin fish (last on the list) and less shell fish and red meats (top of the list). All seafood is not the same. Lamb is not listed but I presume it is somewhere near beef as both eat grass & hay.
I note in passing that having “Krab” (fake crab tasting white fish used in Sushi) about 1 x week was NOT helping my zinc status even though I thought it ought to.
Note too that I’d been using a lot of canned peas (fast to cook) instead of beans (a few down from the top). Also kidney beans are more like peas in zinc content. All legumes are not the same…
Then avoiding nuts for gum comfort was not a good move either.
Basically, for unrelated reasons, I’d moved my diet from the top of this list to the bottom.
Increased loss
Exercising, high alcohol intake, and diarrhea all increase loss of zinc from the body. Changes in intestinal tract absorbability and permeability due, in part, to viral, protozoal, or bacteria pathogens may also encourage fecal losses of zinc.
I have to admit to “enjoying being done” with the move drama for myself, but also having a few “celebratory” beverages with Florida Friend over his “kid launch” and move. I’ve also been digging in the garden (and digging out the septic tank clog…) and moving a lot of boxes around. So “Beer & Physical Work” might not be the best combo for zinc status.
There’s a lot more at the link, but this tale is becoming tedious enough already ;-)
One of the biggest “Aw Shits” for me was the realization that shifting to “a lot more fish” due to a little inflammation was reducing zinc intake and low zinc can cause inflammation. A nice little accidental feedback loop the wrong way. Sometimes it’s the little things…
The World At Large
It is Super Tuesday (AKA “Nikki Who?” Day ;-) It will be a lot of fun to watch the MSM lose their minds with TDS over Trump sweeping the table…
Speaking of TDS, with SCOTUS having told the DNC & RINOs that “no, you can’t sue your way to the POTUS job” and “no, you can’t have State Minions just take your competitor off the ballot”: Congress is now trying to write a LAW to remove Trump from the ballot “to save democracy”… Because, you know, you can’t let The People vote for who they want and have a “democracy”… Because, you know, “real democracy” is when you only let the people vote for the person you say is right. /sarc;
Ukraine is busy losing the war. Russia is advancing nicely. The EU Rulers are busy trying to plot how to have a NATO War On Russia and not have Russia shoot back… Germany want’s England to launch German missiles at the Crimean bridge. Macron wants to send French Soldiers into Russia (because that worked so well for Napoleon and Little Napoleon wants a spot in history too). The UK is already “on the ground” along with Poland, but maintaining the fiction that just operating the war machines you gave for free isn’t “fighting”. While the USA is busy doing mission planning and all kinds of information gathering (i.e. spying and technical observations, sigint & more) to tell the Ukrainians what to bomb / drone and where. But “We’re not involved” they all say.
So when Russia rolls out their tactical and strategic nukes and says “IF you attack us we WILL fight back with whatever it takes to survive”, The West says they are just bluffing because, you know, lying and bluffing is what all of The West does… But Putin does not bluff. He plays chess, and does it well. There is no bluff in chess, the board is visible to all.
In Other World News
Farmers across Europe are protesting heavily against the draconian EU Rules being forced on them for, Muh, “Climate Change”. High Diesel prices, bans / limits on fertilizers, bans on cattle. The EU needs to realize that if these folks just decide not to farm for one year, the EU dies.
You can NOT just decide to ban fertilizers and still have food to eat. Sri Lanka tried it, riots ensued and their President was canned pronto; the nation was in chaos. Coming soon to the EU / UK if you don’t listen to the folks who know most about growing food: Farmers.
So Far the USA has avoided most of this idiocy (probably due to being distracted by TDS & elections), but they plan to bring it here, too. Just Say NO!
Food is, in several very real ways, just fertilizers, Diesel fuel, sunshine and some mineral supplements repackaged. The folks who know best how to do this are Farmers. Minor changes that a politician or ‘activist’ know nothing about can be the difference between lots of food and starvation. Here’s one example from that zinc deficiency page:
Biofortification
[…]
Zinc fertilization not only increases zinc content in zinc deficient crops, it also increases crop yields. Balanced crop nutrition supplying all essential nutrients, including zinc, is a cost effective management strategy.
[…]
Central Anatolia, in Turkey, was a region with zinc-deficient soils and widespread zinc deficiency in humans. In 1993, a research project found that yields could be increased by 6 to 8-fold and child nutrition dramatically increased through zinc fertilization. Zinc was added to fertilizers. While the product was initially made available at the same cost, the results were so convincing that Turkish farmers significantly increased the use of the zinc-fortified fertilizer (1 percent of zinc) […]It is estimated that the economic benefits associated with the application of zinc fertilizers on zinc deficient soils in Turkey is around US$100 million per year. Zinc deficiency in children has been dramatically reduced.
There’s a fundamental of plant growth. It is limited by that nutrient that is in shortest supply. Farmers measure their plant growth, measure soil levels, and apply just the right amount of what is missing to get the best growth. Field by field. You just can not do that with “rules” or mandates. This is a FAFO moment for political idiots in charge and food supply. Restrict ANYTHING and you will get less crops, hungry people, riots and out of office (if you are lucky and avoid a “let them eat cake” French Haircut.)
A Positive Note?
Trump is winning at every turn. The Lawfare against him is blowing up in the DNC & RINO faces. Soros sponsored Attack DAs are blowing up on witness stands as they are “outed” doing illegal things. SCOTUS is actually enforcing the law in a reasonable way. We The People are awakened and watching this farce of a political hit job. Biden is barely able to shuffle off stage, and can talk for all of about 20 seconds before making a major gaff or having a Brain Freeze Moment. It is looking good for a repudiation of all things W.Evil F. inspired and DNC corrupted.
In Conclusion
The world is busy driving toward a cliff at high speed, but the passengers in this bus have noticed the driver is drunk and the folks in first class crazy; so there’s a group marching up the aisle to take the wheel and put on the brakes. There’s still time.
Today is the start of the run to November. We can keep things together for 8 more months, I think.
WatchMaga
This will continue to be DIY for a while still.
https://rumble.com/user/WatchMaga
For more recent events, see:
Bongino Report:
Or Whatfinger:
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/
I’ve also gotten addicted to the Top Ten Memes of the week from WatchMAGA here:
They have interesting “bite” to them, along with a tendency to highlight the news of the week in memes, so good as a social attitude pointer too. Plus they are “way fun” ;-)
Musings from the Chiefio 
Thanks for the food list — saved. Interesting how oysters & crabs have so much, but flounder & sole just alittle.
Another feedback loop is that (1) having higher stress exhausts your zinc stores faster, while (2) being low in zinc makes you stress out more.
I must be going trough Zinc a lot then,
—I am very stressed almost all the time, it wakes me up several times a night even when I take sleeping pills, the constant “what ifs”, the brain that will not slow down…
— I am constantly analyzing, thinking, calculating, making drawings, graphs, taking notes, coming up with new ways to repair things or modify-improve things, and I am editing my comments 5, 10 or 20 times before I press “send”
— and as annoying as this is for others to read, I had my IQ tested by psychologists 6 times from age 11 to age 32 and..well…it is high ( it is ok you can roll your eyes, throw tomatoes at me, or hate me, I am used to it )
I probably need 3 times the Zinc a regular person needs
oh yeah, and since my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome causes me Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( lots of diarrheas…sorry for too much information ) and that reduces the amount of nutrients one can absorb…well I probably need tons of Zinc!
ok i m ready for the tomatoes now ;-)
@ Canadian Friend:
I know you’re not a fan of probiotics, but last week a friend recently got some Yakult when I told about how it helped me. The next time I asked him how it was going, he mentioned that he was sleeping through the night now. Ever since he started taking it, he no longer gets up 3-4 times in the night.
I had shared with him a journal article where the researcher had gone through the work of determining which health conditions responded well to which strains of “bugs”. He specifically mentioned Yakult helped get rid of eczema (which was my friend’s main complaint). I shared the article with my friend, in case he wanted to try something other than pharmaceutical drugs.
My problem was different from his. I don’t have eczema (I never have had it, either), but had developed a pattern that, when I ate non-organic wheat along with a beverage made with tap water, I had to stay close to a restroom for 3 days.
The Yakult helped quickly, as I mentioned. But I’m thinking the chloramine in the tap water, along with (probably) the glyphosate in the wheat, prevented me from having balance and diversity in my microbiome by killing off the “good bugs” I had spent all that “good money” on.
Glyphosate was originally patented as an antibiotic and chelator. And chloramine is a combination of chlorine + ammonia, so I would expect it to be killing microbes, both good and bad. In 2010, the EPA changed some rules about water treatment. Most municipalities switched from using chlorine to using chloramine to meet the new guidelines. I’m not sure when my town’s water works switched to chloramine, but sometime between 2010 and 2013 my problem started developing.
My goal is to eat whatever I want, whenever I want, since that is the way I grew up. In general, my strategy is to avoid germ killers to the extent possible, and to replenish my “good bugs” with diverse foods/products. I do regularly take Yakult and PB8 (another probiotic). The foods vary. I use prebiotic, probiotic, and postbiotic items.
I also take two forms of vitamin D (cod liver oil has it, and I have also been taking 10,000 IU capsules since 2015). The vitamin D helps protect the microbiome. There are lots of things it’s good for.
I also take two forms of magnesium: magnesium glycinate and a powdered product called Magnesium Calm.
Finally, I take one capsule of Zinc Balance. I take everything before bedtime, except the Yakult. I take the Yakult first thing in the morning, before I eat anything else.
The Yakult helped fix my wheat problem. It turns out the PB8 helps keep my respiratory system happy. I no longer have the chronic dry cough and sinusitis that plagued me for more than 20 years. I had run out of the PB8 in November-December 2019, about the time I reckon they were firing up the 5G transmitters in my area. That’s when I developed a croupy cough, oddly enough. But when I got some more PB8 in mid-December, I knocked out the cough within a day or two.
Dr. Sabine Hazan is very vocal about how important it is for us to not let things knock out our bifidobacteria. She says “Save the Bif!” The PB8 has several strains or microbes, some are “bif”, and some are lactobacteria. I think there is more than “bif” and “lac” in it, but I don’t have it with me here. She won’t recommend commercial products, but I learned about these things around the same time, so they’re connected in my mind. ;-)
Interesting Post. Also note that zinc was an added recommendation by those who doubted the “get shot regularly” information. I used Vitamin D3 3 or 4 (1,000) units a day along with one Vitamin K2 (brand name to avoid Natto, which I cannot get locally), and zinc with Quercetin. Occasionally a Multi-vitamin tablet (about twice a week) with some zinc). I have never had Covid but I am often amazed by those I know who have had 5 or even 7 jabs and had Covid several times. I note my Doctor whom I see about every 6 months has gone from being strongly advocating The Jabs to avoiding the subject. He had a supply of Ivermetin which was banned by the Government.
@Graeme No.3:
I was regular with my multi-vit & mineral pills, Vit-D, Zinc, Quercetin etc. during the covid scare. Then, the last year or two, I’ve just gotten very bored of it all and lax about things. Still, the “Vit-I” has worked a champ and I’ve had NOTHING bad at all.
Well, I guess my sloth had caught up with me. So now I get more diligent (again) about the supplements…
Well, I’ve thought we need just this sort of thing for a long time now to go with the marvelous fact checking services provided by … well … some one.
<i>Recently-released movies can now be graded on a new “Climate Reality Check” test, which will gauge on whether or not the film addressed the so-called “climate crisis.”</i>
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/03/04/movies-can-now-be-graded-by-new-climate-reality-check-test/
Power Grab,
I googled Yakult as I had never heard of it, did not know what it was
and it does not seem to be available here in Quebec
but they do sell similar stuff here ( like Kefir ), maybe I should give them a try again…you never know maybe one day I will find something that works ?
About probiotics,
in the 28 years I have been plagued with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I have tried many different probiotics, different dosage, different brands, tried gelcaps and liquid
and I saw no difference with my health problems
and ” full disclosure”;
about 3 months ago after E M Smith had posted a video about SIBO yogurt, I googled it and found out that you can also buy it in gelcaps
I know in gelcap form it is not as efficient as in a yogurt, but since probiotics have never worked for me, I did not want to go trough the trouble of making yogurt
I have been taking the 3 probiotics that make the SIBO ” team” for about 3 months and I see no difference.
Unfortunately probiotics don t work for me
and as bizarre as this will sound avoiding sugar and eating salty helps more than almost anything…it is not a cure…but if avoid sugar for a few days I usually feel better and if I eat more salty food than usual same thing; I feel a tad better
I must be from a different planet ! ;-)
Habist of a positive mind
I. Adjust yourself to other people’s state of mind & difficulties.
E. M. Smith
Gum issues. Try 2 grams Vit C daily. Started the in 2020. Tooth cleanings went from a pain for both of us to “Wow, no bleeding and no pain and really clean”. Told a friend, the dentist about 10 days later said he had a lot le inflammation than expected.
Worthy, but watch out for the ad at the end.>
We Hope You Die – News Update! – YouTube
So, it takes something different to post a vid now, @EM?
@Ossqss – Did you note the formatting options that now appear above the comment box? It seems the html formatting is no longer accepted and you have to use their house brand.
I only see 6 options. Over at the Treehouse, they have a few others such as underline and strikethrough.
@Ossqss & Per comments / videos:
WordPress has once again afflicted us with “Block Editor”. Yes I hate it. No I can’t change it. Yes others sites may be different (especially if they have a paid account so get more options). No, I don’t have and will not have a paid account. (IF I were to do anything it would be to move to a personally owned, managed, and installed copy of W.P. on my own server; but that is a LOT of work). And the biggie:
Yes, it screws up your (and my) direct use of HTML in strange and wondrous ways that I’ve not yet figured out (and have low motivation to work on). I’m quietly hoping it will once again get dumped; because as a programmer type, I just have the HTML flow out of my fingers, and that now is messed up. They want me to believe this is somehow “easier” or “better” but it isn’t.
“A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.“
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68477735
Oh well – he’s still alive…. Makes you wonder about how well the vaccines were stored, though.
Living on the littoral … I take Vitamin D and Vitamin C Zingles for immunity,
ramble by the river for healthy exorcise ‘n take a sceptical attitude to what
guvuhmint official tells yr is necessarily so – which ain’t necessarily so, jest
desirably so if you happen to be a tenured guvuhmint official.
Worth a listen, a good team of commentators on COVID and other topics. The montage of revealing comments about COVID is astonishing.
Duh, would help to leave the link.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/175-steve-deace-show-28419189/
I bought a 50lb box of L-ascorbic powder from amazon… my 2g vit-c is covered for the next 34 years….
@canadian friend
6x’s huh?
how much variation in score have you had?
FWIW
“Precision Shooting Versus Defensive Shooting”
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/precision-shooting-versus-defensive-shooting/
If you really want me to answer this,
get ready for a lot of extraocular muscle pain; the muscles that make your eyes roll
You will think I am making it up as I go along, and you will very probably roll your eyes a lot ( you and about 99% of those who will read this )
I don t know my score ( eye roll )
But here is what happened
In the 6th grade at age 10 or 11 I got the highest IQ score of a school of about 600 kids…the school director was so impressed he called my mother to tell her…but no one told me my score, they said it did not matter…my mother who passed away last fall at age 96 has always refused to tell me what my IQ score was in 6th grade…she always said it did not matter…
at age 14 in high school they tested all kids for IQ, then a few days later I was called to the director’s office where they told me - very sternly – the school psychologist had to talk to me…she told me my score was too high that I must have cheated…I spent about 30 minutes talking to her and at first she was 100% sure I had cheated that my score was simply too high, she was even hostile at first as she was sure I was a bad person who had cheated…
I explained to her that there is no way, even if I had done that same test before , that I could have remembered the correct answers for the many dozens of questions ( can t remember but I think there was about 90 or 100 questions, maybe more ) and she asked me all sorts of questions to verify if I was actually intelligent or just a good liar …she eventually realised I had not cheated…I asked her what was my score, she said it does not matter, that it is unusually high and it is all I need to know…
when I was about 16 or 17 and I was so damn shy ( I have always been very shy but when I write anonymously on the internet I am well… kind of the opposite or… a bit arrogant I guess? ) so shy I could barely function ( three times I quit school because I was too shy, I had trouble interracting with other kids and I was so miserable once home I would hide in my room and cry )
…I began seeing a psychologist to try and fix my extreme shyness problem ( therapy did not help at all ) , the first thing he did was test my IQ…it was a timed test, he had a stop clock in his hands and he sat accross the desk…he watched me do the multi page test, then when the test was about 80 or 90 % completed he told me in a firm voice ; STOP !…I was very surprised and asked him why…he said; I see that almost every answer you give is correct and at the high speed you are going it is useless to finish the test, you are obviously extremely intelligent, forget the test…I was of course not given a score that time either…
I ll jump to the last time I was tested ( your eye muscles must be sore by now ) , I was 32 on unemployment benefits ( still very shy, quitting job after job when my social anxiety – shyness was more than I could handle ) and was sent for tests to see if it was worth it for the government to pay me to go back to school ( I wanted a degree in mechanical engineering )…I did the IQ test, came back a week later to the psychologist’s office who told me and I quote; ” I cannot give you a number, your IQ is so high it is off the charts ” ( roll roll roll eyes ! )
of the six people who tested me for IQ not one ever told me my score, they all refused to tell me…which is hard to believe and makes me sound like a liar…I know
Then at age 36 I became plagued with CFS =Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the first 2 years I was so sick I thought I was dying and I was lying down all the time, an ex girlfriend would go to the store to buy me food, I was THAT sick and THAT weak…and my mind was so full of fog, I could barely do basic things like spell a word or add small numbers… and even though I am much less sick now I am far from being cured…
Why mention my CFS? because when I became sick with CFS, something in my brain changed…I used to very easily rotate in my head 3d objects, on those tests I would usually get a 100% perfect score, I could rotate in my head any geometric shape, it was super easy for me to do that.
I used to be able to read diagonally , which means in a few seconds I knew most of what was on the page of a book.
and at that game where letters of a word are all mixed up I used to figure out almost any word instantly…I was so quick at it, people were annoyed
I used to calculate numbers in my head very easily, and so on and so forth
well… after I became plagued with CFS, 28 years ago, I was no longer able to do those things, or definitely not as well, not as fast
the way I see it CFS has slowed down or weakened my cognitive functions so much it is like my IQ took a drastic drop.
To those reading this and not liking what I wrote, imagine if I was a 7 feet tall basketball player, would I be allowed to talk about the fact I was unusually tall or does a basketball player who is 7 feet tall ,who says he is 7 feet tall, becomes a bad person for saying he is 7 feet tall?
Should he walk around ” hunched” saying ; no no noooo I am only 5 feet tall…to not make others feel uncomfortable?
I am not bragging about my IQ, I am simply telling my sad story; extreme shyness and then disease have kept me from having any type of success…most jobs I had were minimum wage or just a little above that, as if my IQ was below average…
ok , I ll give your eye muscles a break now ;-)
Feeling safer?
“Chinese suppliers of US air launched armament supply chains 2023”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/03/06/its-probably-nothing-173/
FWIW
“Europe is Struggling to Meet Green Hydrogen Goals, Send Money”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/06/europe-is-struggling-to-meet-green-hydrogen-goals-send-money/
A little more on the topic of zinc. https://knowledgeofhealth.com/why-your-cardiologist-should-have-prescribed-zinc-during-your-last-office-visit/
@Canadian Friend: I had something similar happen as far as IQ scores go. No need for great details, but as a teen I was placed in a foster home, and was assigned a case worker at the same time. She would come and talk with me during school hours once a week. I was very curious about my IQ so one day she said, “I’ll just go to the principal’s office and check your records, and let you know what it is.” She left and came back about five minutes later with an odd look on her face. “What is it?” I asked. “I won’t tell you. I saw it, but I won’t tell you what it is.” That was all she would ever say about it.
I never took the SAT exam but did take the PSAT (preliminary SAT) at one point. Got perfect on science/math and 99th percentile on language.
@Canadian Friend: Oh, I meant to add, I certainly believe exactly what you commented. One of the nice things about being mostly anonymous online is that you can tell the truth about yourself. And here at E.M.’s blog especially, chances are the other people here have similar stories. As you say, if you are 7 feet tall, why lie about it? Besides, the folk here are bright enough they can tell who is blowing smoke and who is not.
The True Nolan,
Thank you
@Canadian Friend.
The only reason I know my IQ score is because I could read it upside down on my high school counselors desk (freshman year) with a quick glance (and picked out my line on the page…).
I was there because I had asked to change English Teachers (as the one I had was an aggressive buffoon, drove a sophomore repeating the class to tears at the board badgering her, and had told my 2 year older sister when she had Freshman English to “wallow in her ignorance” – one of his favorite phrases). My request was denied because “If I let you then everyone will want to change…” that ought to have been a clue…
So I proceeded to do damn near nothing in his class and got an F. Next year, repeated it with a barely 5 ft tall fresh out of teacher school nice woman. Got a B+ and had my creative writing essay read to the class as an example.
Throughout my school career, my grades directly reflect the teacher, not me.
FWIW, a couple of years later took the Kuder Aptitude and Preference Tests. I’ve shared this before, I think… my lowest was 86 th percentile in clerical. Pretty much across the board my technical, math, science, language, etc. was 99.9+ which was their “off the scale”…
BTW, I, too, was very very shy. Not ’til my 20s did I start to get over it. Then got trained for public speaking, taught college classes and eventually left it behind.
So you are not alone here.
FWIW
“Alteration Of Gut Microbiota Affects The Severity And Complications Of COVID-19”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/alteration-gut-microbiota-affects-severity-and-complications-covid-19
TTN said “And here at E.M.’s blog especially, chances are the other people here have similar stories.” Yep, though I also don’t know the IQ test scores. Comments here tend to go much deeper than other blogs, and give us all the benefits of experiences we may not have the time to have delved enough on our own. Maybe brings up stuff we haven’t ever thought about before.
CF – since the brain runs on ketosis, not glucose, would an increased consumption of Coconut oil make a difference to brain function? Might also be something to do with gut microbiota, and something in the food killing bacteria you need. What preceded the change in your brain functionality, that might have caused the lack of energy? Some antibiotic? Problem is that things are always changing, so finding a distinct cause and thus a fix can be difficult. Might be a change in what’s in the foods you normally eat, such as most farmers using Glyphosate to kill plants ready for harvest, or nicotinamides in the seeds at sowing. Could also be a genetic change such as the BT toxin introduced to maize, and since maize pollen doesn’t stay within borders all maize from anywhere will now have that toxin built-in. Thus could take a while to figure what changed and affected your personal chemistry in such a way.
My contributions here are more in the weird physics. A while back I found that in theory momentum is not fundamentally conserved, because light has a limited velocity so if the field transferring force is changing the action and reaction will not be equal and opposite. Thus the “reactionless” space drives are not physically impossible, and indeed the experimental results show that they work. If they work, then that also means that energy isn’t fundamentally a conserved quantity, either. Once you realise that, some examples become visible from well-known physics. For example, given that a solar panel receives around 1kW/m² from the Sun, and puts out around 200W/m² to a load, that should mean that when you take power out it should be cooler than when you don’t take power out. In fact, the temperature of the cell itself is the same whether or not you connect the load. Going into the theory behind solar cells, see https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/solar-cell-operation/the-photovoltaic-effect (but you need to read the whole course really), the output power seems to have no source. It depends on the number of minority carriers produced and the potential across the PN junction. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamboni_pile for a voltage source we’ve known about for a couple of centuries, where again there’s no chemical change but we get power out. I thought this was converting heat to output power, but deeper thought shows there’s actually (again) no source for the energy it produces. Easy enough to make a Zamboni pile, but the output is measured in nanoamps. Still, in engineering we figure out how to make a real but small effect into something that’s practically useful. When Rutherford was first looking at nuclear decay, he thought it was such a small amount of power as to not be practically useful. Later on, we figured out how to make the output a lot larger. My point here is that these are a couple of practical examples where it looks like energy is not conserved, and we should be able to improve the size of that effect. Yep, I’m working on it now…. The problem with current wind and solar power is that they are intermittent – you can’t make them useful without storage, and the storage costs too much, and the energy returned for energy invested is pretty lousy. Looks like it’s possible to fix all those problems, but at this moment those solutions are low-power and need engineering to improve them. Since most people think it’s impossible to violate Conservation of Energy, and those who think it’s possible are trying to do it using bad logic (and thus fail), few people will be looking at the stuff that works at low power and needs improvement.
I was shy like CF and almost failed to graduate my senior year in high school. I went to the school counselor and he at first said I should take up a trade or work in a factory. I told him I wanted to go into science and he kind of groaned. Then he looked at my ACT scores and said it might be possible.
I was shy and socially backwards throughout my twenties and also had some bad habits. Fairly common habits during the 70’s :).
I got into MENSA in my early twenties, taking the tests with a bad hangover ;)
Later, got a degree in Chemistry.
After many decades and shaking some bad habits, I can manage social situations pretty well now. I have my share of physical maladies, but still work as a programmer and still enjoy it.
@ simon
interesting little tidbit i saw on a youtube titled something like “greatest blunders, unintended consequences”….. it said that a meteorologist was trying to recreate a “glory” (kinda spiracle rainbow thing) and made a cloud chamber w/ rutherford, which led to his work on nuclear decay resulting in the atom bomb. I’ll try to find a link, later
@canadian friend
don’t think i heard any eyerolling….. didn’t expect any here either ;-)
similar story for me i’ll share later….
right now i need cofffee
found the video….
Hi C. F. You are not alone. The school system here has long used the Stanford-Binet test, though they might have stopped doing that in the last few years. There is no standardized test that I’ve not been in the 99th and higher percentile. Mom, sister, and me. Tested 160 plus multiple times. I learned how to read and write at 4 years old. My sister also. Family story is that my mom scored 200. Back when they still let kids skip a grade, they did that for me. Thus, I’m one of the youngest in the state to graduate from high school. Only one other was younger than two other students, if I am not mistaken. Oh, not only did they skip me, they didn’t hold this December baby back a year, when that was the rule.
I almost wrote up some of my metrics yesterday, but hesitated. But here are some:
When I took the SRA test in 8th grade, a teacher stopped me in the hall after school one day afterward and told me I scored at the 98th percentile.
When I took the GMAT as an adult, I scored at the 99th percentile.
The only IQ score I was given was by a person who gave me a test because they needed to practice giving IQ tests. It was the mother of a classmate when I was a college freshman. She said my score was 136. I know that’s not sky-high, but I reckon it’s respectable.
When I took the Johnson-O’Connor Research Foundation’s aptitude tests in my 30s, they told me I would do well in these fields (1) Research, (2) College teaching, (3) Acoustic engineering, (4) Medicine, or (5) Computer science.
I guess with all that documentation, you might think I would have accomplished more in life. However, I was sort of on the cusp of women’s lib. Before it really took root in society, the only job guidance I received was from my mom. She told me, “Well, you could be a secretary. Executive and medical secretaries make good money.”
I think she and I both assumed I would follow in her footsteps and be a stay-at-home mom. Well, even that didn’t happen.
Then later, my grandmother said she thought I should go into computers because they would always need people to fix them. I did get my first personal computer (an IBM PC-XT) in 1985. I had inherited some money and spent it on that. I figure it was a good investment since I am now (and have been since the 1980s) a programmer of sorts. I even did a little bit of classroom teaching–I gave PC beginner lessons to groups of college professors and college staff, both at my university and at another university out of state. LOL! My second degree is in MIS.
I haven’t really ever been one of those groundbreaking, trailblazing types of people. And I wasn’t really ever pushed to achieve more than my two BS degrees. Actually, one of the professors that I typed research papers for (econ papers…lots of Greek and math symbols, etc.) wanted me to enroll in the MBA program. I think he wanted to be able to hire me as his research assistant. But I didn’t want to be beholden to one person.
I had already spent 5 years working for a small business, getting a raise and a title change every one of those 5 years. But then the owner had a midlife crisis and divorced his wife and fired me. Then he had the gall to call after he moved to the big city and ask me to move there and work for him again. Nope.
Fortran was my first class in computers/programming. I loved it! But at that time my big university didn’t even offer a computer science degree. When recruiters came to campus to hire new programmers, they often looked at students working on music degrees. LOL!
I’m fortunate that this blog has folks who know a lot but don’t torment us who aren’t as accomplished as they. No one has dissed me to my face, anyway! ;-)
Oh, and I started college at age 16.
I will try to reply to everyone but I have to say I am a bit speechless
I usually get hostile reactions or people make fun of me, or call me a liar
Although I could see there are very intelligent people here, I was not expecting this.
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Who can you trust? Anybody?
This is an interesting story. The long missing MH370 flight, March 8, 2014.
Finally it is revealed that they knew all along that it was murder-suicide and even knew where to look, but that was surpressed and avoided.
https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/new-search-needed-now-australia-and-malaysia-knew-all-along-that-mh370s-disappearance-was-a-case-of-murdersuicide-all-thats-needed-now-is-to-confirm-it/news-story/c12c01ffe3676b1e10d4205b09df35ed
hidden feature! not-quite-gold lining!
It is now safe to type angle brackets —–> and not have them be taken as HTML.
@canadian friend
;-p …… i think that is sticking your tongue out (picture that einstein photo, very silly)
anyhoo…. bummer about the CFS, my deal is bipolar got diagnosed/had episode in ’07, again in ’13 and ’15 psych meds swiss-cheesed my brain, BIG TIME. been ok since nov ’15 and offf meds since dec ’17. it is just recently that my cognitive function is STARTING to return to “normal” it has been a long row to hoe, CFS sounds alot like depression…. i was sleeping 16+hrs a day and couldn’t form a thought for years, so i have empathy. ohh and on top of that my testosterone level went in the crapper.
I also no not have a# but have tested well above average on things. I actually might get a full neuro-psych eval in the next couple of years(i’m biding my time).
more than a couple of people have suggested i might “be on the spectrum”
so basically, I think you are among “birds of a feather”
@Canadian Friend, & Others:
I suspect the “culture” here is a product of 2 things interacting (maybe 3)
Looks like I got an auto-indented single spaced ‘list’ when all I wanted was to put some numbers in front of some lines and pick my own formatting and spacing (usually double spaced…). So, OK, I’m being forced into someone else’s idea of “proper style”… (damn-it…)
I’m a “formerly shy guy” who has reached a point in life where he does not accept anyone “getting in my grill” anymore; so appreciate other nice folks and will not let the jerks take over. Just where I ended up…
@CF: One very useful word that picked up here from E.M. is “neurotypical”. The commenters here are NOT neurotypical. What we may be in fact is a whole other issue, but “typical anything ” we aren’t!
Lot’s of familiar comments above ring true with me as well. Didn’t go to any kindergarten, but started first grade at age 4. Was not really legal, but my mom wanted me out of the house. She took me to school anyway and convinced the Principal to let me enroll. Ah, it was a simpler time! I was very shy also, and I attribute at least some of that to being the youngest, scrawniest, kid in class. On the other hand, there was a lot of alcohol, drugs, and violence at home, so I looked forward to school as the best part of my day. No cutting class for me, and as much time in the library as I could get! I still like libraries and even do some volunteer work there locally now that I am retired. One of my home bedrooms is just a mini-library, full of shelves, no bed. Honestly, I feel sorry for people who lose their sense of curiosity as they grow old.
Also, RE Simon’s suggestion of coconut oil for brain fuel, yes, not a bad idea. Coconut oil is about 50% medium chain triglycerides which can be metabolized directly without processing by the liver. However, you can buy 100% MCT oil either online or at some health food stores. Opinions are varied on its effective use but there are multiple articles online.
@Simon Derricutt: Forgive me if I have linked this book before but Dr. Jefimenko wrote about problems with EM forces and gravity due to the implicit assumption that there was no time lag between cause and effect. Sounds very similar to what you were explaining.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Causality-Electromagnetic-Induction-Gravitation-Gravitational/dp/0917406230/ref=monarch_sidesheet
@TTN & Simon:
May not matter, but saw a “thumbnail” on EwTube that was about the time delay in physical propagation of things like impacts. Showed a hammer hitting a metal rod, then a close up of atoms propagating that impact / motion as a wave of interatomic compression… Text was something like “time delay in EM & motion”. Background was an oscilloscope showing to square waves, offset, one from the face end of the rod, and one from further down the rod.
I suspect the point they were going to make was that the force moves via EM effects between the atoms, but there is a delay in the propagation.
IF I run into it again, I’ll watch it and report back…
@ttn
neurodivergent covers the rest, which may very well be a majority here. whether it is aspe/on the spectrum or adhd or others. i’d also guess most fall under the “introvert” category
May have some interest here, several have mentioned allergies before.
https://www.theqtree.com/2024/03/06/gmos-cheese-oh-my/
@ EM
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@barkerjim
interesting… the more you know right?
i’m not really scared by “CHEMICALS” or even gmo stuff in general…. definitely think it is worth looking into, though. my question is what was wrong with animal rennet? that stuff worked fine for thousands of years.
@Canadian Friend:
Not to put too fine a point on it (he said polishing the point…. ) but…
You are among friends here. Fellow travelers who have shared much the same experiences.
FWIW, I think you might enjoy this bit of fun:
At about 3 or 4 years old, we lived at the end of the paved road (about 100 feet of gravel to get to our humble home, right next to the rail road tracks and with an abandoned car in the empty lot next to my home… and 3 houses beyond was an irrigation ditch and a prune orchard… to say we were not “well to do” was way too much an understatement… Dad a W.W.II GI with 4 kids, a used car, and not much else.) About 1/2 a block toward the city was a run down industrial sort of building with the French Laundry in it. A set of very large washers and driers…
The owners of it lived next door to us. A young couple who mostly only spoke French and a little “broken English”. (To me, they were very old adults… likely about 25 ;-) and I would visit them (as, in those days, folks let their kids ‘play in the yard and neighborhood’ as a normal thing.) I liked them, and they liked me, I think…
Well, I have a distinct memory of them using me to learn English. The problem, of course, was that at 3 you do not have a very good pronunciation AND not that good a command of the language. I suspect, in retrospect, they were also learning about “raising kids” preparatory to some future ‘adventure’… Anyway…
They showed me a “fork” and asked “Qu’est-ce que c’est??”, urm, “Wat is tis?”
I said “It’s a forq..” (as a 3 year old has poor pronunciation…), and they said “Forgg?” and I said, “No, not a forgg, a Forghs” as my “K” was not good then… then we moved on to something else and they were putting a large fish (a carp I think) that my Dad had given them, onto a wooden plank in the oven. I asked, having never seen wood in an oven before, “Why are youputtin’ ta fisssh on ta plank?” The husband asked “qu’a t’il dit?” and she said “Lui a demandé comment..” at which time I said (having over the months picked up a bit of this stuff they talked, but not enough…) “My name isn’t Louis, it’s Michael, but you can call me Louis if you want…”
At which time the wife did some translation of my line into French, a good bit of giggling on their part broke out, more Giggling, and I caught on that Lui was a pronoun and not a proper noun after a bit of a think… ;-)
It was an interesting time. I learned some Spanish from the farm workers and from the Mexican Kid next door. A little French from this couple. A bit of German from W.W.II war movies… Eventually I realized these were not parts of English, and that the main language to use was English. But I still think some of my “flexibility” of language came from being immersed in that stew as I grew up and learned language…
I regret that my kids never had that kind of challenge as infants…
To this day, I’ll respond to Louis if someone calls me that ;-)
@Josh:
It is cheaper and easier to grow some GMO bacteria in a vat and extract the desired chemical than to collect a lot of cow stomachs from the slaughter house and then process them to get the rennet.
It’s all about the cheapness. Health and fitness not so much…
A first reply, a bit convoluted and in no particular order,
to E M Smith,
I had no idea you used to be shy, but then again, it is hard to gauge, to “apraise” ( probably not the right word) someone based only on what they write…we are different in our writings than we are in real life…
for example in writing I am more bold, audacious, some might say arrogant…but in person, reserved and shy, very polite, very respectful,
and in person words don t come as easily to me as when I write, I speak with some hesitation…because my brain is constantly distracted by the voice saying stuff like:
” what are you doing?
don t say that, damn you used the wrong word! now they will think you re stupid ! do I have bad breath?
Do I have something stuck in my teeth ? Maybe I did not use enough deodorant in my arm pits…
Stop thinking you are not even listening to that person talking to you !
you better not blush or you will ruin everything ! I should have never come here, now I want to leave…”
No I am not crazy, but social anxiety is pretty much that; a voice in your head that will not stop talking, you know like those people that tell you how to drive your car and will not shut up ? and every few seconds they tell you to be careful or you re gonna crash ? and they can become such a distraction that may cause to indeed crash?
I am not crazy, in fact I consider my self too sane…yes too sane…but that in itself would be a 20 page comment ! lol!
I can relate to teachers kind of keeping you down…a lot of people have done all they could to keep me down, some because they were jealous, because they hated it that I was so smart, they would set traps to make me fail and embarass me in front of everyone…or would refuse to let me do things they knew I could do better than them.
and some simply were not able to see beyond my shyness…they thought my lack of assertiveness, my being so hesitant meant I was low IQ or had very little abilities…
Simon Derricutt,
I appreciate suggestions and advice, I really do, but having been sick with CFS for 28 years I have tried almost everything
I have been using coconut oil ( and knew about the long chain thing, but I appreciate your trying to help ) and cold pressed olive oil for at least 15 years, I use them in almost everything…they probably help a little bit…
Needless to say, things that make me feel worse I simply stop using them .
jim2,
bad habit…well…I think I know what you mean…
when I was a teenager and in my early 20s I would occasionally smoke pot or hashish, but only when I was with close friends
pot and “H” made my social anxiety worse so I did not like being high in social situations
I guess it is in part why I never became addicted to anything…I even tried cocaine one summer when I was about maybe 26 or 27, every saturday and after 5 or 6 times I stopped because it did not make me less shy, did not help me at all…I saw no benefits, it did not make me feel all that great either
I wanted to try joining Mensa but I was too shy…meeting strangers , dealing with new people was very hard for me back then.
josh from sedona,
about the eye rolling
I was using the word ” you” but I meant it as all of those reading my comment, not only you specifically
but glad I did not cause you extraocular muscle pain !
cdquarles
I can relate,
my mother when she was young in the 1940s scored so high in an IQ test ( I think her score was 145 ) that they accused her of having cheated…( by the way both my parents were also extremely shy, both had doctorates )
Apparently when I was 10 months old I was already saying 4 or 5 words
I was saying ” bonjour madame” and some other thing ( of course I do not remember, I was told those things )
later when I was about 9 years old we went to some event the whole family, and a lady – I had no idea who she was – came to us with a very big smile and she told me that she used to be our neighbor when I was a baby, and she would bring people over to show them that it was true, that she was not lying, that there was a 10 month old baby who could say a few words!
and I would say ” bonjour madame” to those ladies !
Power Grab
136 is more than respectable!
Power Grab,
Like you I would have started college at 16, but because of my shyness I quit school a few times and ended up going to college at 18 …then about 4 months later unable to make friends, too shy to mingle I quit.
None of the friends or aquaintances I had in high school went to college…I was alone and incapable of dealing with it.
josh from sedona,
funny ( well not so funny ) that you mention bipolar disorder
I have always said that people who suffer from CFS look like – to an observer – we are bipolar
let me explain,
only in the first few 2 years of CFS was I sick all the time, after that, it has always been an on and off thing, many call it a roller coaster condition
Maybe I am over explaining this,
but to be clear CFS is the opposite of something that is permanent or constant
like say you have one leg shorter than the other, well there are never days when the leg is the correct lenght, or days where it is shorter than usual, it is the same everyday, it is permanent, constant, stable.
CFS is the opposite
I can be sick one day and well the next, I can be sick for 3 days or 3 weeks then I may feel good for a few days
I may even be sick in the morning for maybe 5 or 6 hours then it will fade away and in the evening I will be fine
it is a crazy roller coaster ride
and of course when I am sick it is depressing to be sick, depressing that there is no known cure and depressing that most people either don t understand or dont believe, and depressing that I cannot enjoy the things I usually like to do
which means I may be very inactive for days and look depressed… then one day, I will feel fine , gather my tools and go work on my car or do push ups or play the piano
for someone observing me it looks like I am bipolar, it looks like I go from extreme to the other
well of course on days I do not feel sick, it does make me very happy and my behaviour is very different than on sick days
I have always thought people with CFS, must look bipolar to the observer
… like my neighbors ( I don t talk to my neighbors ) who probably wonder why sometimes after a snow fall it takes me 3 days to go outside shovel that snow or why sometimes my car does not move for about 10 days…and then suddenly I am outside with my tools working on something and I am very active…they probably think I am bipolar, not that there is anything wrong with that
in fact I am convinced there are people out there who have CFS but got a diagnosis of being bipolar
and there are people out there who are bipolar who got a diagnosis of being CFS sufferers
I know that some people with thyroid problems sometimes are told their problem is depression and it takes a while before they can find a doctor who gives the correct diagnosis
The True Nolan
you said, ” … Honestly, I feel sorry for people who lose their sense of curiosity as they grow old. …”
I feel the same way
My curiosity or (*)intellectual curiosity has always been strong and I think it is even stronger now, the more I know the more I want to learn…
and I like talking to or listening to people who know things I don t know or don t know as well as they do…it does not make me feel inferior that they know more than I do about certain things ( some people feel that way, some people really hated it that I knew so much about so many things, they told me I made them feel dumb…which was never my intention )
and small talk is very very hard for me…
(*) about intellectual curiosity, I don t like the name, it sounds a tad artsy fartsy or pretentious, but I like the definition ( from Wiki) “…is curiosity that leads to an acquisition of general knowledge. It can include curiosity about such things as what objects are composed of, the underlying mechanisms of systems, mathematical relationships, languages, social norms, and history…”
Everyday I wish I had more time to read or to watch documentaries even though I spend almost my entire day doing exactly that….I occasionally watch movies, but given the choice I prefer a documentary ( some say I am strange …lol! )
josh from sedona,
for a while I thought I was a light case of Asperger
but I only have some of the ” symptoms”, so nah I am probably not Asperger
Introverted yes, but with a bit of extraversion too, I mean I did play bass on stage in a band a few times ( piano too but less often …those who know about Montreal, I played at la Place des Arts twice ) …of course the bass player is not the center of attention, so it was almost as if I was hiding behind the singer and the guitar player, but playing on stage is still something that would be considered extraversion… at least I think ?
I read a book about hyper sensitive people by Elaine Aron, and what she describes is pretty much what I am, I could explain but that would be another 5 pages of comments !
barkerjim,
Very interesting ( the cheese article )
When I was younger I would have never said this, but I think our technology has gone too far.
GMO in our food, Artificial Intelligence, et cetera
I think we are going too far
and I think globalism which has some benefits has a dark side…
how do I explain this…with globalism, if what you are selling becomes popular you become a Billionaire or multi Billionaire…while before globalism, if you product was very popular you became maybe a millionaire or a multi millionaire
my point being , I think that now that the reward is so mind bogglingly gigantic, and since power corrupts, I think it has turned many people into , well I just googled it because I could not find the words
here is what I am trying to say ;
” … Hunger for money: Refers to an excessive desire or need for wealth or material possessions. It is often associated with greed, avarice, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to acquire more money, even if it means exploiting others or engaging in unethical or illegal activities. …”
Yup !
that is what I mean!
the Billions of dollars that can be made thanks to globalism have turned many people into heartless soulless people who will do anything, illegal , unethical or bad for our health as long as they can get hose Billions of dollars
They are drunk with power and drunk with the obsession of making Billion$$$ and they don t care if their product cause you cancer or cause you some harm
There has always been people like that, of course, but in my opinion it is far worse today, far far worse.
It also explains why people such as Elizabeth Holmes ( Theranos ) who are charlatans devoid of a conscience for the harm they do to others did what they did; because today the reward is mind bogglingly gigantic, it makes them lose their mind and only focus on the reward
TTN – I’d suspect that Dr. Jefimenko’s ideas are over-complex, adding in various other forces and fields unnecessarily. According to the book description, he assumes that momentum is absolutely conserved, whereas I’m saying that fundamentally it isn’t. It’s normally conserved, but the symmetry is broken if you use a changing field to transfer force. Most of the time, we actually use a fixed field to transfer force, and that will absolutely conserve momentum, but a particle will see a force depending on what the field strength is here and now at the location of the particle here and now. The particle will not be affected by what the field is elsewhere, or at any time other than now. A particle does not affect another particle, but it affects the field, and then the field affects another particle.
You may remember BobN here (Bob Norman, of Micron fame), who introduced me to Chiefio’s blog. Back in 2015, he told me of a device he’d witnessed, made by a friend of his who wanted some help on the control systems. Basically, you’d describe it as a UFO drive. Levitate, move around in the air in any direction, could carry the inventor, and ran from a truck battery using around 6W or so. Obviously impossible, but Bob saw it fly so what I thought was impossible wasn’t. I thus looked hard at why momentum was conserved, and found the flaw in the thinking. Bob died a bit over 3 years ago, the inventor probably before that (probably crashed or otherwise lost control), so I don’t know how it worked, but I do know it’s possible.
EM – the electric field around a charged particle is constant strength, thus in collisions between atoms momentum will be absolutely conserved. The delay from the limited velocity of light or sound won’t change that. Using Mike McCulloch’s QI theory, there’s a slight deviation when you get to crazy accelerations of around 1e+10m/s² and you have a specific mass-distribution around that volume, and again a deviation around 1e-10m/s² where momentum (and energy) are being accumulated with no applied force. Within those bounds, though, deviations from conservation would be too small to measure unless you get the design right. So far, Mike’s theory predicts well, despite the odd bit of paradox, so I think there’s a lot of truth in it. It’s not the only way of producing a non-conservation of momentum (and thus energy), though.
The couple of things I pointed to where energy appears not to be conserved (solar cells and Zamboni piles) could probably be improved once you realise they don’t conserve energy and why. Probably seems way out in crackpot land to most. Maybe we’ll find out this year as to how well they can perform when redesigned.
CF – the thing about Theranos was that the technology is indeed possible, and AFAIK some parts of it are now functional, just not covering such a wide range of maladies. Elizabeth Holmes might have succeeded in getting it functional too with a bit more luck and time. The problem was really over-claiming that they’d got it working too long before they had solved how to make it work. Too much “fake it till you make it” and thinking they’d solve the problems quickly when they were pretty hard. A bit more luck in finding solutions to the problems, and she’d have been a hero instead.
Much the same with Dr. Randell Mills, whose Brilliant Light power (BrLP) idea, of producing power from the shrinking of Hydrogen orbitals to below-ground states, has been burning money for decades. The guy is a genius, people are still putting money in, but producing a commercial product has been “next year for sure” for as long as I’ve been watching. Not a scam, as far as I can tell, but you’ll probably still lose the investment.
No real point in chasing $billions for me, since I’d doubt if I could spend it in my remaining time. Some more money would be useful in paying other people to make stuff where I don’t have the kit or the competence, and see if specific ideas work or don’t, but I have enough to survive and to do the thinking required to solve the riddles.
@ canadian friend
didn’t think “you” was singular, assumed it was plural. in the southern us there is even a term “Y’all” (you all) pronounced “Yawl”. that I didn’t hear any eyerolling, was referencing the group, and i expected your story would be well received. as em said theres just something about the culture of the blog
@em
that genny i linked to is on the block now, 6.5kw onan lpg, in ocala,fl bidding can happen online current bid 140, just over a hour left…..
Even if the Theranos technology is possible and eventually would have worked, it was still very dishonest, in fact criminal to have the blood tested the conventional way in a back room and then come to the investor and lie about how the blood was tested so that the investors will give her loads of money..and they gave her Billions…and feminists groups gave her awards thinking she was a fantastic woman…she was not she was a fraud.
that the idea behind her technology was a plausible one is a separate issue from her defrauding people.
She should have told investors her technology was not ready, was not yet working, she conned them…for money and fame.
I got email notification barkerjim had replied
I clicked on the link…but there is no reply?
I don t understand …
wordpress can be “fussy” sometimes
(@cf)
@ all
….as long as we were on the subject….
here is a fun little set of puzzles….
Mensa IQ Challenge | Mensa International
I just scored a 92! :-p
obviously i’m at the top of my game…..lol
I just took that test. I got 105, not high enough to get into Mensa. Oh, well. I don’t remember that other test (the one that I took more than 50 years ago) being all diagrams of simple shapes.
I do remember from the Johnson-O’Connor tests that I was high on 2-dimensional visualization, but really weak on 3-dimensional visualization. But I attribute that to my 5 years of working in print advertising. Lots of 2-dimensional visualization in that work.
Going from memory here, it is stuff I read decades ago,
On average females are better at remembering long series of numbers or letters… or when comparing two identical series are better at catching errors than men are
men on average are better at visualizing 3d objects and at reading things like maps
different strenghts, that is all
E M Smith,
when someone says things like ” you are among friends here”
I don t know what to say…I guess I am so used to negative reactions, that when it is positive I am a bit lost or even uncomfortable
but I can say thank you
thank you to you , and to the other people who also had kind words
A new dietary supplement or Marie Antoinette reincarnated? She’s the French Queen that famously said Qu’ils mangent de la brioche! (Let them eat cake).
“Let them eat cake” is the traditional translation of the French phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”, said to have been spoken in the 18th century by Marie Antoinette upon being told that the peasants had no bread.
Her name is associated with the decline in the moral authority of the French monarchy in the closing years of the ancien regime, though her courtly extravagance was but a minor cause of the financial disorders of the French state in that period.
But now?
Messaging that lands in a marketing spot might not get the same reception
when coming out of the CEO’s mouth.
WK Kellogg Co. learned this the hard way after its CEO Gary Pilnick appeared on CNBC and encouraged cash-strapped consumers to consider eating cereal for dinner.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/kellogg-backlash-cereal-for-dinner
Let them eat Kellogs.
A comment via Jo Nova about last night’s performance
“Some prize must go to Breitbart which described Joe Biden’s State of the Union display of youthful vigor as ‘Old Yeller’.”
@ Canadian Friend
Tough road you have been down. There seems a correlation between ultra high IQ and poor social interaction. More investigation required.
If my IQ was ever tested, no idea when or the result. It matters not. My Mother told me hers was 145. As a youth i was good at words, and once got a Dictionary as the prime Christmas gift.
The Navy had a recruitment dive about 1967 or so, and I took their test for a pilot. It was all bout horizons and aircraft positions, so pretty 3-D stuff. They liked the result and paid to fly me to their base and explain their program. I declined, as it was a 5year program. Got drafted a bit later and the Army sent me to Engineer Officer school. I graduated, got sent to Alaska to the Civil Works office, and was invited to leave the service a early as they had too many junior officers. Went to work for BIG OIL (BP) as a clerk in the drilling department, got into freight transportation getting stuff to Prudhoe Bay, got transferred to Cleveland, and left end 1995 when they had a mass reorganization and it sounded a bit too new age touchy feely.
I have no issue with public speaking. Got selected by the Nuns in grade school to be the narrator at a school presentation, with no sound system. I could boom it out after some instruction from the Nuns. In High School got put on a Model UN Team and assigned India as the country. Studied up on it, wrote a No Nukes Pacifist resolution, lobbied furiously and got it passed. Turns out the had prized for Best School and Best Individual. Twofer. Had no idea that was the case going in.
But, I am a borderline introvert. No need to join the discussion, or the group, no large circle of friends, no real social calendar. I suppose I could, just no real interest. I read these posts and comments daily, but seldom respond as I have no insights to contribute, so file it away and move on.
We all have a life experience, and I appreciate your sharing yours. Nothing you said caused any eye roll or thought of arrogance or bragging. It simply is, and you reported it. In the same spirit I offer mine. I should mention I have had setbacks and failures, some dealt with better than others, but no significant health issue such as you have dealt with.
Seems everyone here is friends with everyone else, or at least friendly towards everyone. May it continue.
CONCLUSIONS
• There is no simple linear relationship between either global or Arctic temperature and Arctic sea ice extent.
• Models are just a reification of the understandings and misunderstandings of the programmers.
• They are supposed to be “physics based”, but if they truly were, there wouldn’t be such huge disagreements between models.
• The use of the most extreme scenarios is clear evidence of the alarmist views of the authors of this study.
And a final thought. The world of climate science would be well served to declare a moratorium on these endless failed serial doomcasts, and study the climate of the past instead. The models are a joke in that regard. Consider that the models give climate sensitivities that range from about 1.5° C to 6.5° C per doubling of CO2. Despite that, they all do a reasonable job of emulating the historical temperature record … and if they are “physics-based” as the modelers claim, that’s physically not possible. I discuss this in my post Dr. Kiehl’s Paradox That is clear evidence that they are merely tuned to match the past, and thus they have no credibility in predicting the future.”
“DEVELOPING: United Airlines Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Tire Falls Off During Takeoff, Damages Parked Cars (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/united-airlines-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-tire/
Another one –
“JUST IN: United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 Suffers Gear Failure, Crashes Off Runway”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-united-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-suffers/
Check the wheel nuts and United’s DEI rating?
“
Microsoft says Russian hackers breached its systems, accessed source code
Microsoft says the Russian ‘Midnight Blizzard’ hacking group recently accessed some of its internal systems and source code repositories using authentication secrets stolen during a January cyberattack.
In January, Microsoft disclosed that Midnight Blizzard (aka NOBELIUM) had breached corporate email servers after conducting a password spray attack that allowed access to a legacy non-production test tenant account.
A later blog post revealed that this test account did not have multi-factor authentication enabled, allowing the threat actors to gain access to breach Microsoft’s systems.
Today, Microsoft says that Midnight Blizzard is using secrets found in the stolen data to gain access to some of the company’s systems and source code repositories in recent weeks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-russian-hackers-breached-its-systems-accessed-source-code/
Quick! Patch the Windows source code, taking out the garbage, bloat and spyware, and put the revised code back before anyone spots it. ”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/saturday-49/#comment-2742560
I have been saying for years ( more like 20 years actually ) that computers, as wonderful as they are, will be our downfall or an important factor in it
they make us very vulnerable.
without them we have no bank system, no clean water, no electricity, and so on and so forth
I know we are now way more advanced than that but a joke from a stand up comic almost 30 years ago was aproximately this
” Should we really put all the knowledge of the world on something that you can erase with a fridge magnet ?”
if an EMP attack or a comet or whatever was ever to erase most of the content of our computers, it would erase what is in your bank account, how much of your mortgage you have paid so far, there would be no paper trail
it would erase your medical file, no paper trail
and all those stores and stock rooms and hospitals that rely on bar codes or qr codes, to identify items, if for some reason we were not able to use those devices, what would we do ?
and since almost every system we thought was impossible to hack has been hacked, how long before an enemy nation hacks into the military computers and makes us pretty much defenseless?
makes our drones make a U turn and attack us ?
make our F 22 crash?
We rely too much on computers, we are blindly trusting those devices are safe, are infaillible.
I don t think I am being pessimistic, I think I am a realist.
“Col Douglas Macgregor Response to Joe Biden SOU Speech Is Profoundly Accurate and Important
March 8, 2024 | Sundance | 18 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/08/col-douglas-macgregor-response-to-joe-biden-sou-speech-is-profoundly-accurate-and-important/#more-256258
Just had to share.
That didn’t work.
Life Before The Internet Changed Us! (youtube.com)
The mighty horse paste!
“People who used ivermectin get better faster and were much less likely to die”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/people-who-used-ivermectin-get-better-faster-and-were-much-less-likely-to-die/
Storm at Roku
“
“Disgraceful”: Messy ToS update allegedly locks Roku devices until users give in
Users are opted in automatically unless they write a letter to Roku by March 21.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/disgraceful-messy-tos-update-allegedly-locks-roku-devices-until-users-give-in/
FWIW – long
“Saturday Snippet: It all comes down to corn”
“First published in 2006, Michael Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” exposed the hugely artificial, compromised nature of our First World food chain. It’s been a source of enlightenment and controversy ever since.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-snippet-it-all-comes-down-to.html
Note the conclusion
I have only read half of it so far ( the bayou link about food)
but I want to say two things before I forget
If memory serves ( I read about this years ago) beef, especially ground beef, is often a mix from different nations, they may mix ground beef from the USA with some from a place like Argentina ( one of the largest producers of beef) and some from I don t Canada maybe or some other nation
Apparently ground beef is a very strange mix
And although this is not food, most of our medications are made either in far away nations or in places that are kept a secret
my bottle of advil ( original brand ) says made in Brazil
my tylenol ( original brand ) says distributed by Johson& Johnson and gives a US address but it does not say where they are made, I suspect China
and prescription drugs, generic ones that the pharmacist takes from a gigantic jar and puts in a small bottle for your monthly prescription , well good luck finding out where they are made, could be China, Mexico, Vietnam, some other nation or could be India ( India that a couple months ago were who had made those eye drops that were very much contaminated, some people went blind, some died )
I also read that the cotton in our clothes also has an impossible to trace origin
they aggregate cotton from different nations, then send them to one nation for some processing and they send it to another nation for more processing, then send them to another nation where they are turned into clothes and then are shipped to a nation like the USA or Canada where they are packaged and a label says Distributed by x,y,z and gives a local address even though only the plastic bag or the tag on the clothes is from North America.
Globalism has some advantages but it has also a very dark side…our food, clothes, medications come from places 10,000 miles away far from the eyes of inspectors who visit those sites maybe once a year
I read 3 days ago that many sunscreen brands contain only one tenth of the active ingredients…that is only one example out of many thousands
stuff made 10,000 miles away from our ears and eyes , in nations that have lower standards can contain anything and it may take years or decades before anyone notices,
and the people getting rich importing and selling that cheap stuff don t care much as long as they make money.
Update; just saw that the article then focuses on corn, and the author is right , corn has become a problem…
again it is mainly because profits is all that matters to the people feeding us, they don t care if something is bad for us, they only care about making a profit…I am not a socialist, I am definitely pro-capitalism, but capitalism does not mean deceiving customers is ok, capitalism does not mean that it is ok to make toxic food for a bigger profit, capitalism has never meant that selling snake oil is ok. Those things are not capitalism.
Yeah…corn…
I digress but ethanol fuel made from corn is another ” atrocity” ( for lack of a better word)
making fuel from corn uses about as much energy as it saves
fuel made from corn – ethanol – makes your car less powerful ( google it, this is a fact )
if you rarely use a car or something like a snow blower , after a few weeks of siting still in the tank, gasoline that has ethanol in it starts separating from the ethanol, and water starts separating from the whole thing…that can cause corrosion or other problems
if you use ethanol in older things, from chain saws to cars, the ethanol can eat trough some of the plastic parts, even some metal parts…even Honda in its owner manuals had a warning about that problem…I am not making this up, I could find the link.
There is almost no advantage to ethanol, especially made from corn.
Ethanol added to fuel is only one more irrational thing that accomplishes only ONE single thing ; making the global warming cultists happy.
Ethanol is not good for the planet nor for your car, it is only good for giving a good conscience to the gullible under informed global warming crowd.
If they now make better ethanol from corn and all those problems are gone then I ll admit I did not know and I am wrong, but as far as I know ethanol has not changed.
I digress again,
but when I read this part ,
” … The great turning point in the modern history of corn, which in turn marks a key turning point in the industrialization of our food, can be dated with some precision to the day in 1947 when the huge munitions plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, …”
It reminded me of something most people don t know and that I only learned about maybe a year ago
something hard to believe yet 100% true;
that music that we call black music, that sound we call the black sound, some of the biggest hits ever, some by Aretha Franklin were actually made by a team of white guys.
yep!
Aretha Franklin’s biggest hit ” Respect” which was originally a not very popular ballad written by Otis Redding , a song we all perceive as black music ( me included until about a year ago ) only became a gigantic hit after a bunch of white guys gave it a cool beat, a cool feel, a cool sound, gave it ” soul”
I am not denying some black artists have made great songs and have contributed to that black “sound” ,
I am not trying to denigrate black artists,
I am simply mentioning facts that were well kept secrets for decades ( I guess we could say we have been fooled into believing something that was not true…was it out of white guilt? I don t know, but some people wanted the truth hidden )
yes of course some black artists wrote great songs, but some of their biggest hit songs were actually made by a bunch of white guys at the Muscle Shoals studio ( Percy Sledge also worked with those white guys good at making black sounding music )
The documentary called simply ” Muscle Shoals” explains it all
Don’t forget a place called Florence across the river from Muscle Shoals ;p. Further upriver is Athens, where a good sized nuclear power plant is sited nearby and even further upriver is Huntsville and the Redstone Arsenal and a NASA facility.
That sound studio is well known in Alabama, though it isn’t active now if I am remembering correctly. Check out Lynyrd Skynyrd. :) Sweet Home Alabama. Where the skies are so blue. Sweet Home Alabama, I’m coming home to you.
cdquarles,
Yes I know that song by Lynyrd Skynnyrd It is a great song I have loved since I was a teenager in the 1970-s !
I think another song they had was “Free Bird” which is like 20 minutes long, but it is good…well if one is into rock music and enjoys guitar solos ;-)
@ Canadian Friend re:
“…that music that we call black music, that sound we call the black sound, some of the biggest hits ever, some by Aretha Franklin were actually made by a team of white guys.”
I saw a TV show or two about that. One of the studios they mentioned was Muscle Shoals, and the other one was the Wrecking Crew (I think that one was on the west coast).
It was kind of a shock to learn about that. However, I figured that was one reason so much of the music in the 1970’s was so groundbreaking and enduring. It was being recorded not just by callow young rebel-types, but by guys who had spent their life being skilled musicians, and who could play in different style. Also, I reckon they not only had arrangers who contributed, but also the musicians themselves were good at improvising. And they “played well with others”. ;-)
I used to share an office with a fellow who was probably in his late 20’s at the time (around 1990). One day he said to me, out of the blue, “I’m jealous of you!”
I asked, “Why?!?”
He said, “Because you got to hear that 70’s music when it was new.”
I said, “Oh, well, yeah. There’s that!”
More recently, I played for a production at our community theater where there were 7 musicians and 2 actors (actresses). Most of the musicians were most comfortable playing by ear. I, on the other hand, am most comfortable playing from a fully-written-out score.
Our bass player spent a lot of his life in California playing as a session musician. He kept saying I would be able to play without the music if I just would stop looking at the music. I told him that wasn’t true. Besides, the score was something like 180 pages long.
In fact, when they were trying different things with the lighting, many times my light went dark. I would have to squall “NOOO!” loudly and stop playing to get their attention. If I can’t see the music, I can’t play the score!
Try to make that point with the tech crew without coming off like a diva or shrew!
Part of my “performance” is seeing the music, especially at certain points. I don’t have enough time to spend all day playing music since I spend 12-17 hours a day doing my work for my day job.
Also, since I was the only band member who had the director’s score, and could keep our path steady, I had to maintain the set path so that if anyone else got lost or forgot their entrance, I could keep it moving. They could jump back in when they figured out where they were. And there were good enough that it didn’t sound like a train wreck when it happened. Although…there was this one place where we had to make it sound like a train wreck!! :-D
Don’t get me wrong. I TOTALLY APPRECIATE musicians who can play by ear, or improvise like crazy, but that isn’t my strength. I can play off chord charts now since I had to learn to in recent years, but my strength is sight reading.
It feels like I’m using a different part of my brain when I play off chord charts and improvise, compared to when I’m reading a fully-written-out arrangement…especially when done by a gifted arranger who knows what they’re doing and knows how to notate it for others to play.
Is there anyone here who is good at both reading music and also playing by ear? If so, do you have any tips for someone like me?
@canadian friend
as per ethanol mandate…… you’re “preaching to the choir”
it has been covered here, not quite ad nauseum, but close.
…..gotta go buy a generator, i’ll have something to say later, bye for now
Power Grab,
What instrument do you play ?
I play bass and piano and I play by ear,
and again at the risk of sounding arrogant…
and causing some eye rolls ;- )
I am at a high level,
some people who saw me play the piano told me that it was impossible that I was a self taught musician playing by ear… Well… I began playing bass and piano at age 11…my brother is the same ; self taught musician playing by ear, and he is very good, but plays in a completely different style than I do.
I compose my own music, and using multi track recording devices I create my own arrangements, I add tracks of strings or brass ( played on a keyboard) or other instruments , I play a little bit of guitar too.
I can improvise in almost any style, from jazz to heavy metal or disco to blues.
I know people who like you cannot play without the music sheet, I am the opposite; the music on the sheet is Chinese to me…Along the years I have learned things such as what is a major or minor chord and stuff like that but when I play I never think about that, I simply play what comes naturally.
I think playing by ear uses different parts of the brain than playing by reading music.
So what instrument do you play ?
josh,
to be honest for a while I had stopped visiting and reading this blog, no particular reason other than I spend too much time reading on the internet and I had to cut something somewhere…and that was when I was spending more time with my girlfriend…now we don t see each other much
so I may have missed the times ethanol was discussed
@ Canadian Friend:
I play piano. I prefer acoustic pianos over digital ones.
When I was in high school, my dad used S&H Green Stamps to buy himself a nylon string guitar. Most of us kids picked it up and did a bit with it. My claim to fame is that I learned to play Classical Gas using the piano sheet music.
Eventually, I picked up a bit of chords, but not much.
My older sibling was left-handed, so Dad bought another guitar and strung it left-handed so they could be more comfortable. (Oh, wait…Dad was also left-handed, but he didn’t play his original guitar left-handed.)
Older sibling started piano lessons the same time as I did. Then my sibling went on to play clarinet in school marching band. After that, they also learned to play the saxophone we had for another sibling who didn’t stay with it, a flute, an accordion, and probably some more instruments that I’m not remembering right now. Whenever this sibling picks up an instrument, it isn’t long before nice sounds are forthcoming. :-)
This sibling and I played pianos this past summer for one of the grandkids who got married. We each had our own digital piano. Sibling also worked up some flute numbers for the wedding. I played the accompaniment for those numbers.
I’m not sure how it came to be that we planned to take two pianos to play in the wedding. But I was glad we did it that way. Sibling played (practiced) the song that was supposed to be for the bridesmaids’ entrance, and also for the bride, but with a different voice on the keyboard. When they demonstrated the switcheroo, they actually had to quit playing to get the switch done!! :-(
I said, “Nope. We’re not doing it that way. Let’s do this: I will play the quieter bridesmaid part, and you start playing the bigger bride’s part. I will stop playing as soon as you start.” It worked great!
The wedding was outside, in the boonies. We had to use our digital pianos because an acoustic piano couldn’t be taken out on that hillside (LOL!!) Of course, the first electrical outlet we tried to use to power our keyboards didn’t work. But then we eventually found one that did. (That’s why I don’t like doing weddings outside!)
Sibling’s spouse likes to play with multiple cell phones and recorded our practice sessions, and eventually recorded the ceremony as a movie on their phone. It sounded pretty good. I was surprised! I even ended up with some of those sound tracks loaded on my MP3 player.
@ another ian
lol, that weatherman’s name is Royal Norman, chan. 3 Phoenix, Az….. that is the chan. Jeapordy is on
A new record in “frank and open discussion”!
“LEAKED: CDC releases 148 Blank Pages about COVID risks to fulfill FOIA request”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-03-08/leaked-cdc-releases-148-blank-pages-about-covid-risks-fulfill-foia-request
“Confidence In The Global Economy, By Country”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/confidence-global-economy-country
@ Canadian Friend re:
“multi track recording devices”
What devices do you use for this?
@Per Ethanol Gas:
A lot of the topic was a long time ago. Lately I may have said that I get ethanol free Super for the Mercedes(plural) since they tend to sit a lot these days so added cost per DAY is very very low and it avoids phase separation from water absorption.
The 2 x “regular gas” cars occasionally get No-Ethanol Regular or Mid-Grade, depending on how much I’m driving them and relative cost. So, for example, Driving the Ford Expedition to Miami and back, it was “just regular” the whole way. Arrived home with most of a tank, so have not gone through the conversion to “storage non-ethanol”. I expect to run that gas out sometime in the next couple of weeks, and will then start running the No-Ethanol in time to have a full tank of that when parked again (as then it will likely sit for a few months before using much gas again…)
The Subaru, as my present Daily Driver, is just mostly getting whatever is cheapest at the moment. I’m likely going to change Daily Driver in about 6 months, and then it will get the non-Ethanol when it becomes the “lesser driven”…
FWIW, my first ethanol gas experiments were done when I was in High School and a local station was selling “Gasahol” (late ’60s early ’70s – Ford Fairlane V-8) and I’ve done all sorts of things with it since. Including in the ’80s when I “converted” my lawn mower to run on straight Ethanol (Briggs & Stratton – just kept turning the fuel mix screw out ;-) At that time, also had a set of test tubes on my desk with different liquids in them (gas, gasahol, ethanol) and different metal bits in them (including chunks of carburetor and aluminum foil) to assess rate of corrosion.
My general conclusion was that, yes, corrosion can happen, but no, most of the time it isn’t fast (i.e. it takes months to years to be a problem), it does swell regular rubber so you need Viton or similar, and ethanol works best as a fuel “straight” with higher compression and spark advance.
So I’d not use it in any engine that was not rated for it (or was disposable enough to not care like my very used old lawn mower ;–) and preferentially put non-ethanol gas in cars I like a lot… or that will sit for very long between fill-ups.
IMHO <i>the</i> biggest issue is just that old cars pre-oxygen sensor and computer controlled fuel mix adjustment will end up running too lean. One of mine is that way (’89 Mercedes Wagon) and it makes for a rough idle and sporadic dying. I’ve since had that fixed (legal here in Florida) but fixing it was illegal in California (where they also have very limited access to non-ethanol gas…)
FWIW, I’ve also run E-15 in a slightly newer car with the same inline 6 engine, but WITH the O2 sensor / mix adjusting system, and it ran fine. Just did it as a 1 tank experiment when driving across the country, so it was in the system for all of about 6 hours; but nice to know it could be used in a pinch…
My general preference is for Real Gasoline, though, whenever possible and when they are not charging an added $1 / gallon for it… ( I found a local station where the “uplift” is closer to the 50 ¢ blending credit, and only about 30 ¢/gallon more than their Ethanol Super, so really quite cheap). Also I’ve noticed about a 5% to 9% improvement in miles / gallon, so really almost a “same same” on $/mile from that station ;-) Thus my filling up with it always… but have not yet found the same deal on “Regular”, and popping an extra $1+/gallon is a bit much… But that said, the gasoline I will run in my generators IFF I run out of propane, will be No-Ethanol Gas.
Regarding Zinc.
I’ve no idea about your issues. However, the Covid issues of 2020 brought out the role of Zinc and Quercetin, the latter, called an Ionophore, is needed to get the Zinc across the cell wall. Zinc needs to be intracellular to do its work.
Quercetin is a red pigment that adds color to many fruits and vegetables. It’s found mainly in the skins and leaves of plants. I was already growing red onions so I just doubled-down on those and added other sources, such as red apples and red wine.
I see what I wrote is similar to some comments. I should read more and type less.
@C.F. and P. G.,
My 15 minutes of musical fame happened when I was asked to perform solo, live, for a local radio station. I prefer woodwind instruments, but have played acoustic guitar and piano. I prefer sight reading from a score, too; but can play by ear. My sister and my mom and mom’s mom were also musically inclined. Some of the family could sing nicely, too. My singing voice was best before puberty. My sister and I did get a few state and county band honors. My high school band got to perform for a college bowl game half time and my youngest son’s high school band got to march in a Macy’s parade.
Interesting
The challenges of trying to reconstruct changes in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) since 1700: A response to Chatzistergos (2024)’s remake of Hoyt & Schatten (1993) (ceres-science.com)
@ cdquarles:
Good times! Good times!
I hope your folks are keeping up with their musical activities. :-)
Power Grab,
well 3 different things
Two very old that I use less and less and one other,
I have keyboard that is a MIDI work station ( Roland W 30 …it is about 30 years old ) , I can create 16 tracks of music ( piano, bass, strings, brass, percussions synthesizers etc etc ) of course being MIDI music it is not as natural even if the sounds mostly come from sampling the real instrument…
but that can be synchronized with my Digital recorder ( Korg D 12) which has 12 tracks of audio…I can record a voice, or multiple tracks of voice ( I sometimes sing in harmony with myself, it wounds like a small choir ! I am not a great singer, just an ok one ) an acoustic instrument, or the sounds from the MIDI keyboards if I want
the internal clock from one synchs with the clock of the other, and all tracks play together with ” military” presicision
but all that is now ” old” technology
Now everyone uses computer programs to record and process music, and those are way more powerful than my old gear ( but also much more complex )
I don t have one of those programs , but a friend with whom I play music usually once a week ( although sometimes I am so fatigued that I fall asleep on the chair while he reworks and processes the tracks ! ), has all of that and we record on his computer now.
He is a very good guitar player ( mostly for rock music but he can play some other stuff very well )
He does the guitar or guitars as often we record 2, 3 or 4 tracks ( one rythm guitar, one that does a counter melody or follows the bass, then a guitar solo played twice etc etc )
and I play bass, piano , organ, synthesizer and other sounds you can play from a keyboard such as strings, brass etc etc…I occasionally play guitar because I come up with catchy riffs on almost every instrument I touch.
He is very creative ( mostly on guitar and can make solos that are mind boggling ) and I am very creative on more than one instruments , so as crazy as this sounds , we compose new songs almost every week ( I say songs but neither of us is comfortable singing, so 99% of our stuff is music only… but we make our music keeping in mind we must leave room for someone to sing, so we don t make it too busy)
we are both shy reserved men, not good at public relations, so we have have never sold a song, we are not rich, not famous,
I began composing in the late 1970s, then I met my friend much later , and we have been composing music together for over 10 years
I know quantity means nothing, that what matters is if a song is good is catchy, but him and I have over the years composed a few hundreds songs of all genres
a lot of rock, of course, and some are heavy rock, some are more like pop rock,
but we have a few disco or dance songs,
a few ballads ( I m the one who comes up with ideas for ballads and soft songs, most of the time, mostly on piano… I have so many you would not believe me! ) ,
we also have music that would fit like a glove in action movies,
we have some that could be used in documentaries
we have a few jazz songs ,
one or two blues songs,
we have one or two songs that definitely sound Celtic,
I know we have one that sounds I guess I would say hispanic? he plays nylon string acoustic guitar in it and I play bass
we also have short songs ( jingles ) that could be the music in a tv ad for food or soap or something
Long story short,
stuff we record on his professional equipment ( I think it is a 32 track program can t remember the name…Studio One maybe ?)
sounds just as professional as anything you ll hear on the radio, tv or in a movie, because that is what professional use and because we are definitely not bad musicians ;-)
@another ian: RE “Confidence In The Global Economy, By Country”
Personally, the top half dozen or so of those countries are the ones I tend to put most of my stock investments into. (Not that it is a lot!)
Too bad they did not list confidence of the Russian people. Might be fun to know. I expect it is high.
@ Canadian Friend:
Wow! I’m impressed! I would like to hear some of your work. I hope you’re creating some sort of archive.
How much time do you and your friend spend to do one of your original songs, from start to finish?
A long time ago a friend had me come in to play the keyboard part of one of his original projects. I don’t think they used it because I probably wasn’t able to play in strict synchronization with the tracks he already had laid down. That’s OK. I don’t really have enough time to perfect something like that. I suspect that the “looseness” I started incorporating when I learned to play Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” is in effect most of the time. It feels stilted when I have to play in strict synchronization with something else. It almost feels like it’s more work to have to do that. LOL!
I do prepare what I call “practice tracks” totally on the computer. I use two programs. My first computer music program is Noteworthy Composer. I found it when I was looking for something that I could use to input the music from printed matter, and then transpose it and print it out in the new key so I could play it live. I know some pianists can transpose on the fly, but unless it’s something like playing something written in the key of, say, E flat, as if it were in E, I don’t do that enough to meet my own standards of performance quality. I prefer to rewrite it in the new key. In fact, I had to do 6 songs last night since our worship leader this time was a friend who is an alto. She has a very listenable voice, especially if it’s in a key she’s comfortable singing in.
We got together yesterday evening and selected songs, then went to one of my keyboards that has a transpose function. We had her sing with different keys until we found ones that were really comfortable for her. Then after she left, I entered all 6 songs into Noteworthy Composer and printed them out so I could play them in our selected keys. That’s way less stressful for me. I didn’t make practice tracks (.WAV files, in other words) for what I did last night. She didn’t need to practice listening to them. Neither did I.
So I still use Noteworthy Composer because I can type in the notes. I’ve always been a strong typist, so it suits me to be able to type in the music like a touch typist. I can keep my eyes on the printed copy and, usually, type in the music. I don’t have to use the mouse to painstakingly try to click a note in one little area of the screen. That’s too slow for me. It’s more stressful, too.
Once I’ve typed in the music, then I can export it as either a MIDI file, or as an older version of Noteworthy Composer. I take those exported versions into a program called Harmony Assistant. That comes from a company called Myriad, and the company is in France. That program not only has a slew of great MIDI instrumental voices to choose from, but it also has a Virtual Singer function that sings the lyrics, if the score does have any lyrics.
The first time I had Harmony Assistant play back a song that had lyrics, it sounded like a French person trying to sound American. (I studied French, so my ears picked up on the slight French flavor in the pronunciation.) It’s not a pronounced flavor, and I can ignore it. Besides that, though they have a long list of languages that you can select to use when it sings the lyrics. I did one song last semester that had a bit of Latin in it, besides the English lyrics.
One of the choirs I participate in has gotten to the point where they are asking for my practice tracks. Some people really don’t like the sound of the synthetic voices, but others find the tracks very helpful. One time last year, the main accompanist asked me if anyone actually uses the tracks. I said, “I DO!!” I don’t have time to do concentrated practice on the music I perform, so I put them on my MP3 player and run them at my job, over and over, while I’m working. It seems to help me learn them by “osmosis”…like I learned all those old songs from the radio when I was young. I can’t sing with them at work, of course, but when I am at home, I can play them through my big component stereo system (the one I acquired a couple of years ago). I can crank them up and try to really sing like I would sing in the concert.
I briefly looked into creating tracks by using sampling technology, but it sounded like I would have to acquire more hardware to make that happen. It would probably be a setup like you use. That’s why I was interested in learning what you use.
My stuff won’t sound as professional as yours, but as practice tracks, and with as little time as I can devote to their creation, it suffices.
I do still have my first laptop with Band in a Box music software on it. I can connect my oldest keyboard, a Casio Privia with 88 keys, to it and play into Band in a Box on the laptop. It’s very forgiving as far as synchronization with a strict meter. I can do things like rubato and it will faithfully transcribe whatever I play, and it will play it back just as I played it. If I want to edit the music it transcribes, I can do that. Then I might let Band in a Box generate the .WAV file or burn a CD, or I might take it to Harmony Assistant as a MIDI file.
wow right back at you , that is very interesting!
very different from what I do but very interesting
I ll write a longer reply tomorrow, right now i m having a flare up of symptoms, a tad of body pain but mostly a lot of fatigue, actually i would call it feeling exhausted…
but it will pass
“Go broke?
Australian financial pages. The $125Bn superannuation fund UNISUPER with mainly academics, scientists, university staff had a super Green fund. Along the lines of get woke, go broke it has not done well.
From assets under management of $2.5bn in mid-2023, UniSuper’s Global Environmental Opportunities Fund — perhaps the greenest superannuation strategy in the market, and the most concentrated — has lost $700m, or a third of its value, largely on the back of weakness in the EV market.”
More at
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/monday-44/#comment-2743226
another ian: 9 March 2024, “It all comes down to corn”
Interesting link, but it does not mention that corn is water-hungry, except in a comment.
India is also on an ethanol kick, but they get it from sugar cane.
which is also water-hungry.
“On average, 1kg of sugar requires about 1,500–2,000kg of water ”
https://www.rt.com/india/594086-food-fuel-india-hungry-citizens/
“Biofuel: India is getting ready to ‘feed’ more and more cars, but how will it feed its people?”
Looks like the 3rd Starship launch is going to give it a go shortly.
Here is a live link to watch it from NASA.
SpaceX Launches Third Starship Flight Test (youtube.com)
Looks like Spacex had a pretty good day.
Everything from launch to orbital speed AND open / close of satellite deploy door worked as expected. Learning points?
Staging went fine, as did post staging booster burn, up to the point of ‘near landing’ when there was some rapid grid fin movements and one person said less than the full complement of engines were burning. Still, got to near landing speed and near the ocean surface, then “splash”… so likely the next one will “land” (even if at sea).
Starship, on reentry, lost both TDRS and Starlink data links at the same moment. Suspected of breaking up at about 68 km and 2x,xxx km/hr velocity. Some great video of early plasma formation over the heat tiles ;-) Also they were flipping it around a lot (probably testing control) and it looked like some tiles got blown off at about 110 -ish km altitude in the rolling around. I expect the next one will make it to splash down (or at least break up lower down ;-)
So a whole lot of new milestones reached and passed. Including the critical “orbital velocity & altitude” fuel transfer demonstration. NASA wanted that as it is critical for on-orbit refueling to get to the moon.
So, in essence, SpaceX has demonstrated a very usable disposable BFR, and now just needs to work on the “reusable” booster landing and StarShip landing bits.
interesting little bit on skid steers
I remember several years ago when Microsoft bought GitHub thinking that MS is just gobbling up more open source assets. But they have used the code base to train the Copilot coding assistant. It turns out the GitHub code base has been “poisoned” with code that has vulnerabilities.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.11177v1.pdf
https://www.activestate.com/blog/githubs-malicious-repo-explosion-how-to-avoid-it/
It still takes a programmer :)
“DON’T RIP, KARL
Via InstaPundit, I learn that Karl Marx died on this day in 1883. I concur with Glenn Reynolds’ suggestion that March 14 should therefore be a holiday:”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/dont-rip-karl.php ”
Text from another cartoon –
“On this day in 1883,
Karl Marx finally
achieved a single
positive contribution
to humanity.
He died.”
How to rig elections (Australian version, with Australian venacular.)
So ol’ Marx died on “Pi Day” eh? Pi is everywhere, it seems ;-)
3.14
I like Pi hour. 3.14.1.5 or 1:50 AM on March 14th…
I suppose one could go out to 3.1415926 March 14, 1:59 and 26 seconds…
Things they forgot –
“Oppenheimer Oversights
What the Oscar winner conceals is crucial”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/oppenheimer-oversights/
FWIW
“Adams’ 6 Levels of Political Awareness”
“Table of Contents
1. Rupar Hoax Level
2. Breitbart Anger Level
3. Gell-Mann Amnesia Level
4. Fauci Expert Level
5. Benz Machinery Level
6. Epstein Suicide Level
CONCLUSION”
https://www.wholereason.com/2024/03/adams-6-levels-of-political-awareness.html
“Oppenheimer Oversights
What the Oscar winner conceals is crucial”
I watched two movies against my better judgement. Being for free helped.
Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Barbie is pure Hollywood Woke trash.
I was prepared to write off Oppenheimer as grade-B (or lower) Hollywood too,
But two hours into the movie, I discovered that it was a three hour movie.
Actually, it is a one hour movie (the final part), with a two-hour backstory part (the first part). It’s not quite that black and white, because the time-line is totally fractured and glued back together in an almost random sequence. Flashbacks galore, flashbacks on flashbacks, flash-forwards. With lots of flashy computer graphics (not very good in my opinion, but the producers thought they were great.)
It turns out that the movie is not really about Oppenheimer, even if he features in every scene. It is really about the “trial” of Oppenheimer (not really a trial but hearings about renewing his security clearance, which was a big deal to Oppenheimer.) And then it turns out that it’s really about the “trial” of a jerk shoe salesman turned honorary Admiral (and the “trial” is his senate hearing to become a cabinet minister or something.
And that is why you might consider watching this movie. In the last few years we have learned a lot about show-trials meant to punish someone, just because someone doesn’t like him, not for any actual crimes. That last hour did hold my interest.
I’m surprised so many others liked it; there is no accounting for taste!
And in the final minutes, we learn who killed JFK! That jerk I mentioned asked who voted against his confirmation, and the answer was JFK. And that jerk was the kind of guy to hold a grudge (even one that was only based on his imagination, as was his grudge against Oppenheimer.) And the kind of guy who takes care never to be seen as the guy holding the knife. BYW, that jerk was a J. Edgar Hoover (of FBI fame) guy.
If you do see the movie, I warn you that events have been dramatized way beyond any claim of based-on-truth. The movie is based on a book, not on original research. A very long book, many years in preparation, and most likely pretty trustworthy. So it is easy to look up scenes in the movie and compare them to what the book says. The movie does not score well.
Just to take one example, the beginning of the movie, Oppenheimer meets his old friend Einstein, but it is not revealed what is said until the very end of the movie and decades later. What was said was important because it forms the basis for the whole movie. And they made it all up. Poof! Documentary, no. Historical Fiction, not quite. But the period costumes are good!
About that book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus
Sanctions meet the fungible problem again?
“How Much Does The US Depend On Russian Uranium?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-much-does-us-depend-russian-uranium
FWIW
“Science PROVES NPCs ARE REAL, Some People DONT THINK AT ALL, We Call Them Democrats”
“Saturday Snippet: the lighter side of bush warfare”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-snippet-lighter-side-of-bush.html
FWIW
“IF VEGANISM WERE HEALTHY, VEGANS WOULD LOOK HEALTHIER: Harvard doctor says animal products are essential for mental health – in blow to veganism: ‘The brain needs meat.’ “One study published in 2022 surveyed 14,000 Brazilians between 35 and 74 years old and found those who followed a vegan diet were twice as likely to be depressed — even if they had similar nutrient intakes to carnivores. And a meta-analysis published in 2020 and including 160,000 meat-eaters and 8,500 meat-abstainers also found those who cut meat from their diet were significantly more likely to be depressed.”
That vegans have mental health issues isn’t exactly a shock.”
https://instapundit.com/636999/#disqus_thread
FWIW
“Room Sits In Stunned Silence After Black Woman Says What Few Will Admit”
From way back when –
“The Prophets: D.A. Henderson
Years before Covid, the scientist credited with eradicating smallpox warned against shutting down the world to combat an epidemic.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-prophets-da-henderson?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=260347&post_id=142625815&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
FWIW – Detailed
“Vitamin D: Deficiency Symptoms, Health Benefits, Optimal Sources, And Side Effects”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/vitamin-d-deficiency-symptoms-health-benefits-optimal-sources-and-side-effects
“Sorting for Stupidity?
Thoughts on the state of the federal government.”
“The upshot, then, is that as the federal government got bigger and more powerful, it also became more stupid. All because of the sorting I describe above.”
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/sorting-for-stupidity?r=9bg2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
FWIW
“Where Boeing Went Wrong”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-03-16/where-boeing-went-wrong
FWIW
“Scientific American’s Latest Foray into Gender-Based Science Analysis”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/03/17/and-scientific-american-steps-in-it-again-n3784854
“Friends from Legal Insurrection may recall I refer to Scientific American as the Bud Light of scientific journals.”
“Screwdrivers Now Permitted On Boeing Flights, To Allow Passengers To Help With Maintenance”
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/01/16/screwdrivers-now-permitted-on-boeing-flights-to-allow-passengers-to-help-with-maintenance/
Bring a Leatherman multitool on board and a roll of Duck tape and get a free upgrade to business class ;o)
@another ian
I really enjoyed the “timcast” and ”the black lady say’s”
both really good, thnx
Comment of note here!
On Hadrian’s Wall in UK
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/03/16/honey-i-finished-the-internet-389/#comments
“1800 years ago they knew walls worked. This is evolution. Biden has yet to tell us that he fought with and learned from Hadrian.”
More shit –
“The Silenced Voice of British Truth Teller Neil Oliver Still Speaks Brutal Honesty, They Just “Tuckered” Him
March 17, 2024 | Sundance | 54 Comments”
“Amid the “grey man group” is the voice of Neil Oliver, a voice who was increasingly red pilling the people of Great Britain, who, like us, are also in an abusive relationship with government. The British Government through OfCom took Neil Oliver off air stopping his televised broadcasts. However, even though they are not allowed to have him on television, GBNews still puts Oliver’s content on YouTube.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog
https://amac.us/newsline/elections/democrats-vote-unanimously-to-include-illegal-immigrants-in-census/
Woohoo! The Mrs. and I spotted a Tesla Cybertruck! This was about an hour ago while we were returning to the RV park.
I would sooner have expected to see a ’30s Duesenberg limousine.
Sounds useful –
“A reminder about a great scope accessory“
A magnification adjustment lever
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-reminder-about-great-scope-accessory.html
FWIW
“We’ve spent billions of
dollars to set up solar
farms, now they’re talking
about spending billions of
dollars to block out the
sun
That’s a special kind of
stupid”
FWIW
“This is a table of the effectiveness of various treatments for Covid 19
https://c19science.info/FDA_Drug_Approvals2.htm
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/tuesday-49/#comment-2746043
A trip though memory lane for some>
Let’s Travel Back To The 1980s! (youtube.com)
FWIW –
“Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use “Skimpflation” To Control Our Eating Habits”
I reckon you’ll be really taken with the 2030Food Pyramid (/s in case)
amomg other things there
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/cereal-peasants-how-elites-use-skimpflation-control-our-eating-habits
FWIW
“ANOTHER TURN OF THE WHEEL”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/03/18/another-turn-of-the-wheel-2/
Did anyone think we would live to see 208 billion transistors on a single chip?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-19/nvidia-s-nvda-blackwell-b200-chip-why-it-s-so-powerful-what-it-means-for-ai
Reading further down the Nvidia article, the B200 is actually 2 chips married together. So its “only” 104 billion transistors per chip. :)
@jim2 – I’m old enough to remember when we got our very first handheld transistor radio in th ’60s.
It was kind of a big deal.
HR – I had one of those also, six transistors I believe it was. I took off the back, and lo and behold – six cans, each holding one transistor.
FWIW
“Of parents, inheritance, and greed”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/of-parents-inheritance-and-greed.html
Obviously never heard of “Being of sound mind I spent it”
Another discovery
“Sorghum: The Ancient Grain For Modern Health”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sorghum-ancient-grain-modern-health
A sign of the times and the economic hurt real people are experiencing:
In our State’s primary, you are choosing your candidates for the Fall general election AND there are issues on the ballot.
The issues are an actual vote for/against and are not something that will then appear on the Fall ballot. They are typically school or fire or parks or social services levies. Now and then there’s a Constitutional amendment to vote on.
Get this. All school levies Statewide failed. That is a first, I believe. Our school district, which has never failed to pass a school levy, voted the levy down this time and it wasn’t a squeaker. The tally was 67% against and 33% for the levy.
Our district is solidly middle and upper middle class with a few quite wealthy people scattered about here and there.
The pain of inflation is hitting more than just the hourly wage people now.
Some 40 years ago the state put before the people a measure that required the legislature to pass the budgets before they did anything else, unless a super majority of the legislators agreed to waive it. This year they put before us a measure to repeal that. It failed, but just barely and only roughly 21% of eligible voters took the time to cast ballots and it just barely failed. That measure, to me, was the most important thing on the ballot. Yes, getting my squish representative defeated was important, but he had two challengers, so he survived. He will get re-elected, too, because the Democrat candidate will be worse. Sigh
Just wanted to say,
I’m not dead, I have not been abducted by aliens , I have not forgotten about you
It is just that a bunch of things are happening at the same time
I am feeling worse lately, more fatigue, more general malaise, more headaches, more digestive problems, more brainfog…Chronic Fatigue is a roller coaster it constantly changes
and since I am the executor of the will for my 96 year old mother who passed away last November and I finally received essential documents from the government, I am now a bit busy… well the one or two hours per day I don t feel too bad, I must devote to this; dealing with two banks where she had accounts, dealing with an accountant, dealing with a notary, dealing with family members,
making phone calls, asking my brother who lived with my mother if he knows about this or that or where I can find this or that,
or I am searching trough boxes and boxes of papers that my mother left behind
and today I learned that the bank wants proof my parents were married…they were married in 1943 !!!
I have no idea where to find that, I guess some government department has a copy
I also have to contact the life insurance company, and they will want a dozen documents to make sure everything is real and legit
These days I feel good about 1 or 2 hours a day, so things are moving at a snail pace
oh and I have to find all papers for my mother s last tax return that have to be done in the coming weeks ,
And when the bank froze her account because she passed away that stopped all payments, so I had to fix that as well, had to pay some bills with my won money from my bank account…all that and I have about one or two hours of energy per day
we could pay a notary to do it all. we can afford it ( we; my brother, my sister and I ) but I am stubborn, I want to do it.
My mother named me the executor and I will do it.
@ Canadian Friend:
Thanks for the update. I think if you didn’t already have symptoms of CFS, you would develop them while having to deal with all that red tape!
You will know a lot more about her affairs and her life when it’s all done.
FWIW –
“Mayo Clinic Out With Some Interesting Parameters for Nursing Applicants”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/03/20/mayo-clinic-out-with-some-interesting-parameters-for-nursing-applicants-n3785073
The job description brings back Spike Milligan’s commnt about “moving in the general direction of away”
Thoughts lead from there to this –
Adapting a Lyndon Johnson to “bubbles” –
We are outside the bubble and pissing in. And there are more of us. Get to it and flood the bastards
E.M – fish with caution!
“Florida Fish Spin In Circles Until They Die, And No One Knows Why”
https://patch.com/florida/miami/florida-fish-spin-circles-until-they-die-no-one-knows-why?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Some thoughts here
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/whirling-death-fishthursday-march?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Well, lets see how WordPress plays with X nowdays>>>
(3) Elon Musk on X: “This is actually happening! https://t.co/qeNBu3S1mF” / X (twitter.com)
Amagnificent explanation of “DEI” (IMO)
‘Didn’t Earn It”
Granting a wider dietary choice –
“Ant[i]-Meat: CA Researchers Push Ants as ‘Delicious’ Food”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/03/20/ant-i-meat-ca-researchers-push-ants-as-delicious-food-n4927465
FWIW
“Yet another wake-up call about our water supply“
Water and preping
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/yet-another-wake-up-call-about-our.html
A couple of years ago, we were wondering WTF the lefties were up do, importing millions of illegal aliens. Gradually, it has become clear. These illegals are being used to reshape the congressional apportionment, which also affects electoral college numbers for states. The lefties realized that as they came to incorporate people with extreme lifestyles and cultures, such as Qs and pro-Islamists, that they could start losing elections because of it. They had to hatch a plan to counter that, so they decided to break the law, not that it’s unusual for them, in order to win elections. The Democrats are a party of Criminals and they don’t give a damn about the true, classical American way of life.
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/stop-allowing-noncitizens-determine-congressional-and-presidential
“FDA Loses its War on Ivermectin: Agrees to Remove All Related Social Media Content and Consumer Advisories on Ivermectin Usage for COVID-19”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/fda-loses-its-war-ivermectin-agrees-remove-all/
I’ve been trying to find data on how much the EU has spent on wind and solar per year. I keep getting results on how much nameplate capacity has been installed or how much money it is “saving” consumers, but nothing on specifically annual cost. So I decided to ask Copilot.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europe-accelerates-power-exports-fast-growing-solar-wind-markets-2024-01-25/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/bnef-european-energy-transition-2022/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/renewable-energy-electricity-record-europe/
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/757628/EPRS_BRI%282024%29757628_EN.pdf
https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/eu-power-sector-2020/
Rona McDaniel gets her reward by being a good RINO and helping the socialist Democrats.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/22/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-news-00148549
Lots to think about in this article: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/03/22/wake-up-call-2/
Main take away? We are in a battle between sanity and the insane.
I would only add that I do not agree with every single point in the article, much less every single comment addended to it — but in its major premise, I think it is correct.
More bad news …
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-deadline-global-pandemic-agreement-looms.html
@TTN & Jim2:
I’m fairly certain we are in a Luke_Warm WWIII War of The GEB/WEvilF West vs The Global Majority (with BRICS+ as “the other side”) and that the majority of the “past Presidents, PMs, and UN Anything” being on the Evil Side. Power grabbing for all they are worth and looking to turn the UN into a Global Authoritative Rule Making Government (complete with “RULERS” to enforce those rules).
Just trying to figure out how best to illustrate that, and hopefully how to avoid having it squash me like a bug…
It will be “interesting times”…
The “good bit” is that, so far, The West has played their hand horribly, Russia & The BRICS+ as playing a very good game of it; and it looks like the GEBs / W-Evil-Fies are going down in flames.
The “bad bit” is that there’s pretty good odds they will do something very very stupid as they are losing. Like move to a Hot War… Have “Ukraine” spread into Europe vs Russia (like that has EVER worked out well…)
Well, it will be a long slog to November. That is our next indication of “Do we still live in a Democratic Republic? or has it changed to an Authoritarian Empire?” After that, all hell may break loose, no matter which way the “voting” goes…
FWIW this guy finds some of the same history / links as I’ve found. Claims to have found the connections on the various GEBs WEF UN (but I repeat myself…) web sites. FWIW I’m not as impressed with his chart. It mostly just says “FOO causes cultural weakness and more money and power to the rich”. Well, duh… So you get a lot of the same text in the various bubbles. I’ve also not seen such a bubble graph used as some great instrument for laying out complex problems, but who knows… things vary.
BUT, that it starts back with the Family Rockefeller, spreads through their various organizations, and is in a constant quest for global power and control is not in doubt. Club Of Rome and “Limits To Growth” being prime examples. And that they make up “disasters” like Global Warming to herd folks off the cliff is also not in doubt. Similarly, the push to destroy Nationality and confuse genders, have paranoia about the population size (and desire to do in a few Billion…) is also well documented. So I think there’s some truth under the “sellers puff” and agree that “awareness” matters.
There’s clearly a Globalist Cabal, led by a very few of the super duper rich, out to destroy our world as we know it. Just don’t know if this guy has as much of a handle on it as the “presentation” would imply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1WMg5HuHwk
FWIW
“What a brilliant move when food prices are ridiculous”
Much more stringent waste water rules on food processing plants
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/what-a-brilliant-move-when-food-prices
FWIW
“Can You Guess Why the Biden Admin Is Warning Ukraine Not to Attack Russian Oil Refineries?”
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/03/22/biden-administration-urges-ukraine-not-to-attack-russian-oil-refineries-before-the-us-election-n4927549
In there –
““Russians are trying to create a new ecological disaster, cynically hitting the hydroelectric facilities and the dam,” Ukrhydroenergo, the operator of the power plant said in a statement.”
How many faced?
IIRC there was another dam on that riverthat got blown up
Light?
“The Energy Transition in Retreat: Arizona Moves to Repeal Its Renewable Mandate
When sober minds reconsider the costs and benefits of the so-called energy transition”
https://open.substack.com/pub/energybadboys/p/the-energy-transition-in-retreat?r=5c3gj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Quite well done.
Unpermitted documentaries (you can send to friends) « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
“Saturday Snippet: Sanctions-busting the hard way“
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-snippet-sanctions-busting-hard.html
ok my reply part one, of two or three or ten ! ;-)
I had to google those things you use, harmony assistant, noteworthy composer and band in a box.
I had never heard of them, and now I see they are mainly for people who can read music from a sheet.
I play by ear and so does my friend. We know a bit about reading music, I mean we know what an F a G or a minor or major chord is or what G flat 7th is, we know but that is not how we compose or improvise.
We simply grab our instruments ( him it is almost always guitar, me it is bass or piano or any sound that can be played on a keyboard from organ to strings to brass to synthesizers sounds ), we adjust the sound, find sounds we like, we sometimes pick a drum track at random, or if we have already started a riff before there is drum, we will simply play a click track at that tempo to record it, then later fond drum tracks that fit
and one of us starts playing what comes naturally, spontaneously
the drum is the only thing we do not really do ourselves, everything else we do, I mean we really play it, and record it, it is really us playing
the only tracks we use that are already made – to an extent – are drum tracks, but what we do is we cut and paste a lot of different drum tracks to build our own, and we even modify them a bit, it is a sort of micromanagement, we can go into the details and replace a cymbal or a tom with something else or remove or add whatver we want
what we come up with well,
sometimes it is ordinary or even weak, sometimes it is good and occasionally it is very good.
His computer program called Studio One by Presonus can turn our music into either MIDI notes or even write the conventional way sheet music is written but we never do that.
maybe if we had another musician with us who reads music we could print them for him or her but us we do everything by ear and by memory
Did I mention I began playing I was 11 years old? learned by ear…will always play by ear it is too late for me to change how I play music, at 64 I am too old to try and learn to play by reading a sheet
We have tried programs that add accompaniement ( bad spelling ) , for example from the guitar track my friend Patrick recorded it will add a piano or a string that plays different notes in harmony , but it is almost never as good as what we do ourselves…and it often sounds mechanical, or artificial or strange…
How long it takes us ?
some songs have been made in as little as an hour, some we have probably worked on them for 20 hours or more…it is never the same
there are songs we recorded years ago that we re-work, we add or remove things, we may replay some of the tracks, etc etc
I am surprised you say you had trouble playing in synchronisation with a pre recorded track, as people who read music are usually good at following the band…unless you mean their track or their playing was not tight, I mean they kept accelerating or slowing down and it was hard to follow that, then yes that is always hard to do
Me I am lucky I tend to play at a steady tempo and i can play with a click track and as Patrick often says after I record my track; ” no need for a second take ! that was perfect !”
Funny you mention ” Take five” because Patrick and I we also have done a lot of cover songs, and a few years ago we had our own version of “Take Five” in which I improvise on bass and do a sort of bass solo…but it was never recorded on his equipment, it was recorded on a pocket digital recorder…I have it as a MP3or as a wave file, can t remember…it is in my other laptop
which brings me to this, before I can let you hear any of that I will have to do some I think is called truncating
for example that ” take five” recording is relatively long because we were still rehearsing, it was a not finished project,
So i would have to truncate that and make something like a 45 second version or maybe a one minute version
And about songs composed and recorded with Patrick, I would also have to truncate some of them for a few reasons
Him and I have never made our music public, like on youtube, because we are a bit paranoid about people stealing our ideas
someone in Brazil or Taiwan or Russia or wherever could listen to our song on youtube, modify it just a tad and and say he composed it and it could be a success in his nation and we would never know ! How would we ever know if one of our melody is now the theme song for a popular tv show in Taiwan or Russia ?? or is used as a jingle in a yogurt tv ad in Spain or Belgium ?
I know I know that is paranoia and it is ridiculous…
Sometimes I think our music will die with us, never having been published, never having been heard, never having had any success
I know I sound paranoid but guess what Patrick is even more paranoid about it than I am !
I will not even tell him that you will hear some of our music, if I told him he would tell me not to do it, that I don t even know you or what you might do with our music.
But as I am getting old, I am 64 now – too old to become a rock star ! lol! - , I am starting to think it is ridiculous that we keep our music hidden
ok so that was part one
more later…
@Per Flaming Cars:
Oooh! I WANT one!
“Uncommon common sense.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/03/uncommon-common-sense.html
“The Caveman Challenge”
https://patriotpost.us/memes/105445-the-caveman-challenge-2024-03-23
@EMSmith, thanks for your latest video link. The guy (Ivor Cummings) experiences and overcomes insulin resistance, which is a common topic here. There are videos by brave doctors helping insulin resistance thru fasting and starch/sugar avoidance that I’ve seen.
The flame throwing car is nice — but I wonder whether a good spray of boiling water wouldn’t be easier to implement.
@TTN:
I’d likely go with anhydrous ammonia. Widely available in farm country, intensely irritating but unlikely to do too much damage. And the “evidence” just floats away ;-)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/court-tosses-jan-6-sentence-ruling-affect-100-cases-rcna141465
More J6 at SCOTUS.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2023/23-5572
Interesting discussion with a prepper tonight on the Jerusalem Artichoke. Never heard of it till tonight.
I will let you all choose your own links.
FWIW
““Misinformation Experts” are almost all left wing and they want to censor you”
“The “Misinformation Industry” has been caught with its pants down — accidentally finding, then burying, the information that nearly everyone in their own industry “leans left”. “
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/misinformation-experts-are-almost-all-left-wing-and-they-want-to-censor-you/
@ Canadian Friend
Thanks for posting that. I really do follow you.
I started taking piano lessons the summer before my 6th grade year. Before that, I had been in children’s choir and children’s music groups at public school and at church.
I remember getting to play colored hand bells by reading the pattern of colored bells on a poster on an easel. That was at church. In public school, every class I was in had a music period where we sang while the teacher led from the piano. We also did performances in assemblies at school.
Maybe in fifth or sixth grade, we all learned to play a plastic wind instrument called a Tonette. I think the sound they made was like that made by another wind instrument called a “recorder”. Tonettes were likely much cheaper than recorders. But they let all the students make music without having to be able to actually carry a tune with their voice. ;-)
I believe that we musicians usually are most adept at the mode of making music that we used when we started. You started by playing by ear. I started by reading something that was printed, although not really what you would call “music” in the early years.
That early session that I mentioned trying to follow previously-recorded music did not involve a click track. It was a new experience for me to try to play with recorded music. Most of the time, my eyes were my most important guide for knowing what and when to play. It sounds like you always were relying on your ears.
Also, during that session, I had never heard their music before. So I was learning what they were doing at the same time as I was trying to play with them. In other words, I was sight reading at the same time as I was hearing their music. Even today, I tend to have something of a “lag” as I mentally try to match up what I’m playing with the new music I’m hearing. They accuse me of not playing with the beat.
Most of my experience successfully playing with other musicians did involve multiple practice sessions. Even when I sang with a 400-voice(?) choir that made a professional record, and we had to learn all the music for an entire album and record it twice during a 2-day period, we practiced each song a few times before we recorded it. The music hadn’t been copyrighted yet, so they couldn’t let us see it until the recording sessions.
They could get away with it because the men were all music professionals. The women were the section leaders of the soprano and alto sections from the men’s home choirs. I was used to singing soprano because I couldn’t really hear harmony. But I went as an alto because the soprano spot from our choir was taken. But singing 2 full days as an alto didn’t cause me to lose my voice. And it was pretty easy to sing alto for the first time while surrounded by strong altos. I still can’t really make up an alto part in free singing, but in groups I usually sing alto or second soprano.
Making that recording was a great experience! I would do it again in a heartbeat! Of course, back then, recordings were done all in one take (if possible). These days, they only record a few bars at a time, then they let the engineer review it, then you continue to the next few bars if the engineer allows. It’s not as much fun.
While I was growing up, my dad used to make up his own vocal parts to sing with the performers on TV, or on the car radio. I always wondered how he knew what to sing without any music to look at. He talked sometimes about how he and a buddy used to purposely sing off-key in their high school choirs. The director would walk around the group, trying to pinpoint who was singing off-key. Then my dad and his buddy would “straighten up and sing right”. :-D
@ Canadian Friend
Regarding ways to lay down the drum tracks…I have noticed that some synthesizer keyboards have percussion instruments embossed/printed on the vertical surfaces of the keys. I assume that is so the performer can play their own original percussion tracks…after they figure out which key plays which percussion instrument!
I don’t think any of my synthesizers have that, but I reckon it wouldn’t be that hard to find a keyboard that does have them.
The groups I play with usually have a human drummer. I prefer a real human drummer, myself. ;-)
Worth an extra cup or two on spec?
“Coffee Compound Trigonelline Could Keep Muscles ‘Young’ In Old Age”
https://studyfinds.org/trigonelline-aging-muscles/
I’m wondering if Power Grab or Canadian Friend ever tried playing a real instrument to a Guitar Hero track. You can see the notes coming!
FWIW
“The Discovery From Denmark’s Crime Stats That the Left Doesn’t Want You to See”
“A peek at the Danish crime statistics from 2010-2021 delivered a gut punch to the globalists looking to tear down Western cultures by gavaging “asylum seekers” into Europe and North America. It turns out that Muslims commit violent crimes way more than people of Danish descent.”
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/03/25/you-arent-supposed-to-know-this-but-muslims-in-denmark-are-convicted-of-violent-crimes-more-than-danes-n4927625
@ jim2:
I have never used Guitar Hero. But I have played into Band in a Box (on my oldest IBM Thinkpad laptop) from my oldest Casio Privia (88-key synthesizer). It doesn’t let you watch the notes coming into the software real time, but you can edit the music after you save it.
I have edited the music in Band in a Box, and also as a MIDI file that I took into another program (usually Noteworthy Composer). I’m sure I could edit it in Harmony Assistant, but I don’t prefer the user interface on that.
I have also played from the Privia into Finale, but it shows the notes with so much accuracy that it’s pretty much useless for playing from. It’s also more prone to include the “lag” from the connection between the computer and the synthesizer.
I tried to lay down more than one track while playing into Finale, but there was so much lag that it never matched the rhythm of the previous track.
The only time I’ve done multiple tracks is when I took each track into Audacity and then cut out the lag time from the beginning of one track so it would match up with the other track.
Can you share some of your adventures playing an instrument into a computer???
FWIW
“Behavioural Scientists Aren’t Just Wrong About How to Win Over Electorates to Crackpot Progressive Policies; Their Evident Contempt for the Masses Has Contributed to the Global Populist Revolt”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/25/behavioural-scientists-arent-just-wrong-about-how-to-win-over-electorates-to-crackpot-progressive-policies-their-evident-contempt-for-the-masses-has-contributed-to-the-global-populist-revolt/
The unintended consequences of “misinformation”?
Maybe double benefit?
“Sildenafil as a Candidate Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease: Real-World Patient Data Observation and Mechanistic Observations from Patient-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons”
That is Viagra
https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/jad231391#ref011
CF and PG. Don’t know if you like rock, but someone had an idea similar to mine here. But he is using a real guitar apparently fed into the game ;) Anyway, you can see what i mean by seeing the notes flow toward you.
The link.
Hmmm utube seems to be blocked.
….:::youtube.com/watch?v=DlG51lLdQyI
“We’re all far right now”
So now you know!
FWIW
“We Don’t Need No Shattered Giant Mirrors”
“Hail storm in Damon, TX destroys 1,000’s of acres of solar farms.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fort-bend-co-neighbors-want-to-know-whether-solar-panel-farms-hailstorm-damage-leaked-chemicals/ar-BB1knNRW
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/03/26/we-dont-need-no-shattered-giant-mirrors-2/
FWIW –
“Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet”
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/22/boffins_tucktotruck_worm/
Coded by the crew that do your voting machines?
“Breaking: Massive Bridge Collapse in Baltimore; Large Sections of Key Bridge Fell into Patapsco River After Cargo Ship Collision Took Out Support Column”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/breaking-massive-bridge-collapse-baltimore-large-sections-key/
And
“Baltimore City Implodes: Police Force Collapses, Only Three Officers Patrolled Major District “
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/baltimore-implodes-police-force-collapses-only-three-officers-patrolled-major-district
FWIW
“
@Ossqss:
The Jerusalem Artichoke is a great survival garden item that grows well in a lot of crappy soils and places and make more Calories / acre than most things. THE one big problem: It makes people “gassy”… Kind of like beans… So sometimes called “The Windy Root” ;-)
It is also useful for diabetics as the inulin in it is a kind of starchy stuff that doesn’t spike your blood glucose level.
FWIW, I’ve never eaten one, but I did grow a bushel basket of them once. Had a bit that was planted outside the bedroom window in California to shade the sun … and the rabbits liked to munch on the tops. It is basically a very tall (7 foot or so) small sunflower (flower about 3 inches across) that makes an edible root.
It can be “invasive” – which is something you want in a survival garden where it faces adversity ;-) I ended my patch after a couple of years by just ruthlessly digging up every root and then letting the bunnies much down any new sprouts from any little roots I missed until the root was out of energy.
I’ve ordered a package of roots and planted them here. Still waiting for them to sprout now that winter is ending… I put them in a big pot this time…
In the category of ” what could possibly go wrong” !
Needville community concerned about thousands of busted solar panels (fox26houston.com)
Hmmmm! – FWIW –
“Global cancer rates in people under 50”
“Maybe the Mail’s handy infographic map could give us a clue. It shows western countries plus Russia and China with the highest rates of under-50 cancer:”
World map in text here
“Poor Australia! That benighted continent is now the young-cancer epicenter.
What could have happened there, out in the desert, so far away from everyone? What common “environmental” factor could possibly tie Australia to Europe and the U.S., which are both drafting right behind the Down Under? Hmm?”
(My bold)
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/four-years-tuesday-march-26-2024?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Given the horribly inconsistent nature of how various nations collect and report vital statistics, teasing out a common factor is not going to be easy with a multifactorial syndrome like cancer. I will say that one possible common factor will be the transposon injections.
More Baltimore bridge here including –
“The bridge spans the Patapsco River and carries an estimated 11.5 million vehicles annually. In this collapse, the only shipping lane in and out of the port was severed.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-baltimore-bridge-collapse-and.html
What navy instalations there?
@another ian: ““We Don’t Need No Shattered Giant Mirrors””
I was driving by my local high school recently and noticed that the solar farm (more of a garden really) for it was having some hundreds of PV panels replaced. Turns out that the big hail storm last fall had damaged a lot of them and they were now being replaced. I have some small experience with damaged panels, and as often as not they still produce a large part of their rated output. “Ooooh! maybe I can get some cheap panels!”
Tracked down the responsible person (County Superintendent of Schools) and asked about buying the damaged bits. His response? “You are about the 50th person to ask, but no, I can’t sell them. The insurance company now owns them and they plan on junking them. I’d give them to you if I could, but they are not mine.”
Waste, waste, waste… Multiple people could get some productive use of them, but instead they will go into a landfill.
@E.M.: RE Jerusalem Artichokes — I have grown them (in Florida) and yes, they are quite productive. The hardest part was cleaning them. They are VERY knobbly, even more so than ginger, and the sand gets in all the little crevices. Best way I found is to blast them with a high pressure nozzle from the water hose. Many recipes say to peel them, but that is a pain also, so just don’t worry about it. Eat ’em with the peel. Makes a very nice soup, rather like potato soup. I remember hearing that on a commercial level that make a good feed stock for ethanol production. Harvest them like potatoes and ferment. Researchers say they give more ethanol than corn per acre, but the Federal grant programs are all geared toward the corn producers, so the market forces get bypassed again.
Good work music. Better if you speak French, I’m thinking ;)
Watching the Baltimore bridge come down was startling. Heard on the radio that the Captain of the ship got a “MayDay” call out to shut down traffic over the bridge, which was done. Saving a whole lot of lives.
I’d watched the big trucks crossing wondering if one was going to be right in the middle when it dropped and a “miracle” gap showed up in the traffic… now I find out that wasn’t a miracle, it was a MAYDAY!
This is going to be a big shipping mess for a good long while. The ships can’t get in or out until the search & rescue is done and any cars that were on the bridge are brought up, AND the bridge itself gets removed, AND the container ship is inspected and found fit to move, AND it gets moved back to the docks (and likely unloaded onto trucks to some other port…). It could be a few months before the ships in port can get out and then the ships outside of the port stop stacking up in the anchorage area. There’s a whole chain of ships headed to that port which need to do a re-routing…
Then there’s the fact that there are two tunnels to take the car traffic, BUT this bridge was the Hazardous Materials bypass of the tunnels (which by law can not take such hazardous materials). So any such truck cargo will have to to a LOOONG way around the bay, inland somewhere.
@TTN:
I’ve never tried to actually prepare and eat one. Figured I’d do that if / when it was necessary. But thanks for the advice on how one does it. I figured I’d try one of those plastic scrubby sponges and see if the skin could just be scrubbed off… Or make it into “potato soup” like recipe and just run it through the blender… Pour off the top 9/10 after any sand settles ;-)
About the Baltimore Bridge.
I just watched the video below about 20 times and I am not crazy,
the animated map is w-r-o-n-g.
the video of the actual event shows the ship turning to its left towards where the bridge is higher as it is approaching the bridge.
by left I mean if you are the captain looking ahead, then the captain’s left
so as he is approcahing the bridge he loses control and the ship drifts or turns left
So far no problem, it is the video of the actual event.
but the guy provides also some sort of animated map , like a google map or something, he does not say where he got that or if he made it himself.
and it shows the ship turning to the right ( the captain’s right ) AWAY from the part of the bridge that is higher right before impact.
I don t know who made the animated map but it is wrong.
it is 100% wrong.
He plays the animated map and the actual video side by side and it is obvious ( to me anyway ) the animated map an the actual video show the ship doing two opposite things!
@ Canadian Friend:
There is a lot of interesting stuff about it on X. One comment I saw was that it is CGI, and they (TPTB) blew up the bridge, and no one was hurt.
But the thought that kept coming to me was that it was a hack and remote control was being used. Maybe the crew cut power because they knew they were hacked.
Maybe they thought that if they cut the power, it would break the hacker’s control. But they kept having to turn it back on to try to maneuver.
I thought there was a movie about hacking some decades ago, in the days of dumb terminals. Or maybe I read it. I can’t find it now. But the scene that comes to mind is about someone who knew their system was being hacked. They took out their metal keys and dangled them on the metal parts of the cabling that connected their terminal/system to the network. It was to prevent the hackers from really being in control, but not disruptive enough to cause them to break off the hack. The protagonist seemed pretty clever. I got the idea he was trying to make it seem like the connection was fragile.
@EM, did you ever have to deal with things like that?
@Power Grab
Re the “key trick”
Would you be thinking of “The Cuckoo’s Egg”?
I had a headache yesterday, then only slept 4 hour last night ( from 2 to 6 am ) and I have another headache right now … so I may post comments in a , what s the word, sporadic ( ?) inconsistent (?) convoluted (?) way.
but about that video of the ship… it is kind of driving me crazy,
and I saw another video from birds eye view and it confirms what I am saying,
I wish I could make a drawing of what I am trying to explain.
The animated map shows that the channel the ship is supposed to travel along is perpendicular to the bridge, it is at very close to a 90 degree angle to the bridge
and usually ships when they go under a bridge they go at it at a 90 degree angle, it makes sense.
but the surveilance cam shows a ship that is almost parallel to the bridge which is why we see very well the right side of the ship.
if the ship was traveling along the perpendicular channel as it approaches the bridge the camera would see the front of the ship.
Imagine you are standing in the middle of the highway and a car is coming at you, you would see the front end of the car not the side of the car.
but if the car turn left then you will see the right side of the car, only if the car turns left will you see the doors and the wheels on the right side of the car
The video clearly shows the right side of the ship, the ship is almost parallel to the bridge.
so the ship is not coming towards the bridge at a 90 degree angle, the ship is no longer traveling along the channel, the ship has turned left and is now almost parallel to the bridge
but the animated map shows the ship ( the little green rectangle ) as approching the bridge at 90 degree in a very perpendicular position, if that was true all we would see would be the front end of the ship but we see its entire right side.
I am not talking about the last move the ship makes when it veers – to its right – into the foot of the bridge and hits it,
I am talking about before that last maneuver; how come we see the side of the ship as if it was almost parallel to the bridge?
when the animated map shows a ship coming at a 90 degree angle and we should only be able to see the front end of the ship ??
I wish I could make drawings of all that
Beating a dead horse here but if you drew a line from the camera to the bridge, you d get a perpendicular line…that is why the cam shows the side of the bridge.
on an X Y graph, X being horizontal and Y being vertical
the bridge is a line along the X axis
the channel is a line along the Y axis ( at least that is what the animated map shows )
A line from the camera to the bridge would also be a line along the Y axis, which is why the cam shows the side of the bridge.
but the camera shows the right side of the ship… the camera shows a ship NOT traveling towards the bridge at a 90 degree angle it shows a ship almost parallel to the bridge.
so why is the animated map showing a ship totally perpendicular to the bridge when that is obviously false ?
why is the animated map – supposedly based on GPS data – lying ?…
Is there a way I can attach to a comment an image from my computer ?
because I would use the still image from CBS that was taken after the crash and I would draw the ship ( in microsoft paint ) as it was before when we could clearly see its right side; you would see the ship was not traveling along the channel as the animated map shows.
the GPS animated map is lying.
here is the still image after the event.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-the-key-bridge-crash-happened/
CF – judging from the piers of the bridge, the camera is pointing towards the bridge at an angle. The camera isn’t sighting a line perpendicular to the bridge. So that may account for why you can see the side of the ship and also why it doesn’t seem to be in the channel.
Is there a way I can attach an image I made in Paint to this comment ?
I used a still image of the crash and drew a line that represents what the GPS map shows and one that represents what the camera shows us
I saw a video of it also. The camera is at an angle, maybe 30 degrees off to the right side of the ship as we see it. The power flickers at least twice. They try hard to reverse/push away, for you see the thick diesel smoke. They lost control. We also do not know the current direction and speed nor the wind direction and speed from the video. Crack? maybe. Some sort of mechanical failure? Maybe. Both or some other combination? Maybe. Key, to me, is that the bridge did not have a collision enhanced pier. (That kind of thing happened in AL 20 to 30 years ago. A barge hit a train trestle with a train on it, and if I am remembering correctly, it was foggy. That bridge didn’t have an anti-collision device either. Such an accident had not happened, so they didn’t think it would be economically worth it to have one installed. I don’t know if that’s changed, since that accident. Barge traffic on several AL rivers is done.) When hit by a ship that size, there was no way that the pier could withstand it.
@CF, no you can’t attach a file directly from your computer. You must store it in a cloud service and use a link to get to it from that cloud service.
I don t use cloud services
but thank you
@Per Baltimore Bridge & @ Canadian Friend:
That video (by “What’s going on with shipping”) is from a guy who’s whole life is shipping stuff (and he is very good at it). He was also a volunteer ship Fire Fighter for a couple of decades. I’ve watched his stuff for a few years about all sorts of stuff and he is good and accurate.
Per the “animation”: That is a standard navigation map from the A.I.S. system. You can see an example here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/
I’ve used one of those apps on a Mac Tablet (iPad?) on my boat. They are ubiquitous and reliable. The AIS system (automatic identification system) is a transmitter on ships & boats that broadcasts their location and identity. It MUST be accurate and reliable or you run into things. (Other boats, aground, piers, rocks…)
So I would (and DO whenever we take the boat out) depend on it for our safety and navigation (especially in bad weather). IT is far far more reliable than any unknown camera angle with an unknown lens “length” and an unknown operator.
The pilots of EVERY large ship in EVERY port everywhere in the world use it to know where they are, where everyone else is, and where the channel is (and that they are in it and not going aground). Note the depth readings in the water, we depend on those being accurate.
OK, so why the strange stuff?
First off, the ship had dropped the port anchor and it was dragging. That will put a huge pull on the bow of the ship (and there are tremendous inertial forces from the gigantic payload on the ship). The misalignment of that center of momentum and the anchor attachment point on the bow WILL cause turning moments. Which way? Depends on the location of the actual anchor on the bottom which you do not know… Out to the port (left) side a long ways? Will pull the bow to port. Crossing under the middle of the boat to starboard? Will pull the bow to starboard (right).
Second: The cargo pile is a huge sail area. Which way was the wind blowing? Eh? Normally the rudder would be positioned to angle the ship a little into the wind to keep the track (line traveled over the bottom) centered in the channel. With loss of power you get loss of rudder control. Which way was the rudder pointed? Was it helping or hurting the windage from the cargo? How far was heading (direction the boat is pointed) off from ground track (course made good)?
Third: There are also tides and other channels with currents that join into this main shipping channel. They can move a boat (or ship) strongly despite wind and heading. What was the tide at that time? What were the currents in the main channel AND in the side channels (other wide white stripes in the AIS map) currents doing at the time?
Now we add ANOTHER factor: The power went out and so the prop wash (all that water the prop is shoving backwards over the rudder) stops. Suddenly your rudder does a lot less… Was the rudder holding the ship centered in the channel and now doesn’t? Most likely. Then later, the power comes back on briefly. It is unknown at this time if the belch of black smoke up the stack was the main engine, or the auxiliary generators getting electricity back. There’s some evidence (from the AIS speed record) that the ship was slowing. Was that from the anchor? Or was the engine in full reverse?
IFF The engine is in full reverse, what does the rudder do? Well, that depends on the size of the prop, the speed of the engine, forward speed in the water, and how much of the rudder is outside of the prop wash. A large rudder mostly inside the prop wash will now have the prop sucking water backwards over it, and will suddenly act opposite of what it was doing before ( I had this on my first boat). A longer thinner rudder that extends significantly outside the prop wash area will continue to act in the expected direction (even as the prop is full reverse) but with very weak or nearly no effect (what I have in my present boat). What was the nature of this prop to rudder area? is the rudder even in the prop wash line? We don’t know. The ship was going about 8 knots when it first lost power, in full reverse engine, the prop would need to stop that 8 knots flow over the rudder AND add more velocity forward (suck water over the rudder) to get any reversed rudder action. At 8 knots, I’d expect the rudder to mostly be in neutral flow as the prop mostly just stops the water. At that point, wind, tide, and currents along with the dragging anchor are all steering the ship, not the rudder. IF that was what was happening.
My point? There’s just so much going on, in such a small time interval, that we can not know what the forces were on the ship, and what steered it which way. Anchor, wind, tide, currents, rudder, prop, etc. What we can know, for certain, is that the A.I.S. data is accurate for track (and with a slight delay for velocity).
Oh, and one more thing. I’m a bit reluctant to mention it as it is a bit technical and confusing… but it matters. There is something called “Prop Walking”. The prop turns one direction (or in reverse, in the other direction). Hit with full speed rotation, the prop acts a bit like a wheel pulling the end of the boat to one side. My present boat has a LOT of this (my old boat not much at all – depends on prop size, engine power, size of keel, etc.). So IF your rudder is set for a straight forward course AND you are in fairly high speed forward (as a ship headed out to sea would be) and you SUDDENLY shove it into full reverse to try and stop the ship, Prop Walking suddenly is going entirely toward the other direction in the rear. Did you change rudder position in time? Was rudder control even in existence then? What is the relationship of rudder to prop in the circumstance (do you need to reverse rudder or is the 8 knt forward speed still dominant?) No real way we can know.
But I can tell you that I’ve changed suddenly from 4 knots forward to full reverse in a 36 ft diesel auxiliary motor sail boat and had prop walking swing the back end of the boat about 15 to 20 degrees…
Now mix all those things and you ought to see that it just isn’t possible to say what actually happened, or what makes sense, until you get ALL the recorded data from the ship for things like rudder position, anchor angle, throttle position, engine RPM, etc. etc. And that is why, for the moment, the best thing we have is that A.I.S. navigation display.
FWIW, the best speculation I’ve heard so far is that it was Smog Laws … honest!
See, in the last few years, ships have been required to swap over to “low sulphur fuel” and use one fuel in port and different (cheaper but dirtier fuel) crossing the ocean.
There have been recorded reliability issues with these giant engines on the “new” fuels (rather like in the ’80s when the swap for USA cars & trucks killed a lot of engines…). (Some of the stuff that used to stay dissolved in the old fuel doesn’t stay dissolved in the new fuel… and plugs up injectors and such).
So the speculation goes that the ship might have been swapping over from “in port” fuel (low sulphur diesel) to “at sea” fuel (bunker oil?) and that killed the engine. That the stacks blow dark black smoke on the restart argues for “at sea” oil in use then and not the “in port” fuel.
But to know for sure, we need the ship’s report on what they actually were doing then. Starting the aux generator on “at sea” fuel? Doing a “restart” on the main engine? Did they ever get the main engine going at all?
So the best guess is maybe a fuel issue due to the now mandated different fuels, fuel swapping when underway, etc. etc….
FWIW
“This dishonest denial of a covid jab link to cancer”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/this-psychotic-denial-of-the-vaccine-link-to-cancer/
E.M. Smith
I am gonna send you an email with 3 images attached
it is screen shots after the incident
on two of them I added comments and I drew lines to explain what does not make sense about the GPS maps of the incident.
If you think I am weird that is ok, I will not be offended, or if you think I am wrong same thing.
I will not get upset over something like that
but the more I analyze this thing, the less the GPS maps make sense
and the more my explanation makes sense
if someone can prove in a good solid way I am wrong i ll admit I was wrong and we will simply laugh at the whole thing.
but so far what I have seems pretty solid…please take a look at the 3 images I ll send in a few minutes
Reminder: Causation entails correlation, but the inverse does not. A link tells you very little without other, material and key, information. What we need to know about these things, especially when we are dealing with a multifactorial syndrome? Much of what we think we know may not be so. That said, for some, there will be a causal effect from the vaccinations. What we may never know is how many, how strong, and the full list of the necessary and sufficient conditions. Spurious correlations happen very frequently.
@ another ian:
YES!! That would be it!
I don’t remember having had the book that came up on a quick Google, but near the bottom of the Wikipedia page for that was a reference to a NOVA show called “The KGB, the Computer, and Me” on PBS in 1990. That was probably what I was watching.
Thanks! :-)
Ship path from ZH courtesy of WSJ. Dirty fuel item also.
Investigators Probe ‘Dirty Fuel’ In Baltimore Container Ship Disaster Amid Mid-Atlantic Supply Chain Crisis | ZeroHedge
@Canadian Friend:
I’ll look at your pictures, but it will be a day or two.
NOTE: The AIS System is ABSOLUTELY trustworthy and working OR ELSE A LOT OF SHIPS AND BOATS WOULD BE AGROUND.
Remember: This is a NAVIGATION system. It is used to position your boat where the water is the right depth and where you will not be run over by traffic going the other direction.
In the channels where my boat is located, that channel is about 40 feet wide. The AIS is regularly showing my position closer to 10 foot (or less) precision and accuracy. Get 10 feet outside the channel and you ARE aground.
I would sooner believe that Space Aliens had arrived and were running the world than believe that the AIS Map shown was bogus.
So yeah, you will have pictures and photos from all sorts of places and angles and with enough photo analysis can figure out why they have some distortion or illusion effects in them; and then you will end up with the AIS report being exactly right.
I can not stress this enough. ALL of shipping ALL OVER the world use this system to position themselves in channels, relative to other ships, in fog, in rain, near docks and ports, to navigate (as we did) from an Island in the Bahamas to the port entrance near Miami (where, if you are out of place, you hit the Rocks guarding the entrance…)
Yes, we had on board depth gauges, wind gauges, charts, compass, and yes we “looked around”; but then we would look at the AIS Map and it said the same thing, but with a LOT more accuracy, precision, and with the bottom depth in front of us displayed. (Not just under the boat where our depth gauge measured).
it is literally the best you can get. Everything else is crappy in comparison.
The only difference is that your speed will take a few seconds to a of minute to change in the AIS Display due to delays in information transmission, while the little paddle wheel under the hull responds instantly (when it works right…). Oh, and the wheel says “speed through water” while AIS gives true speed over ground… so very important for actual V Made Good and planning arrival time and fuel use…
Hopefully this makes it clear that THE place to look is “What is WRONG with the photos or the photo interpretation” and NOT “what is wrong with AIS”. Again, you know AIS is not failed or we’d have hundreds of boats aground or run into things all over the world.
How AIS works, a simplified explanation:
Your ship has an AIS Transponder. You can turn it on, or off, and you can configure it with the identity of your ship. That’s about it. So you have control of “ON” or “silent” and your particular identity. NOT your position nor speed nor really anything physical.
The AIS Transponder listens to the GPS Satellites. From them, if knows where it is. You have no control of this. It tags your coordinates and velocity with your identity and transmits it to the AIS system, which shares it with others.
That’s all you got. On, off, or fudged identity (that usually doesn’t work as your history is still out there and your government knows who is legal and who isn’t)
Now your navigation software (built in, on a tablet, on your phone or computer) displays your GPS Location, speed (course), and heading on your electronic charts (showing bottom depth and contours, local land masses if any) that are produced by various Governments around the world.
In the USA, the Coast Guard is out there charting all the time and mapping when the waves and currents move some sand into the channel and then updating the maps with that – or noting that the bottom changes often and is unreliable for places with heavy currents and loose sand). They also note the location of bouys, channel markers, and any other hazards or navigation aids and upload that data as well.
All that goes into your electronic charts on your navigation platform, then your AIS Data (along with anyone else in the area) is overlaid onto it. Now you have everything you need to navigate, stay in the channel, and not hit anything or go aground.
As you move, all this process repeats frequently and rapidly. Your “map” moves on your display as your boat / ship moves. Your vessel is a little triangle and as you change heading, the point of your triangle changes. A dashed line from the center of your vessel points out your course. (Remember that the nose of your vessel points one direction, but wind and currents mean you are really traveling in a different direction. Your actual course. This display shows both).
That’s basically it. You can zoom out, or in. Get more or less bottom detail. Zoom out to see a coastline 50 miles away, or zoom in to see that submerged rock 50 yards off your port bow… an incredible improvement over the way I learned to sail with one paper chart, a compass, and looking around.
For this system to fail, one would need to bugger the maps (unlikely since these are common to everyone and supplied by the Coast Guard to the system – and any “buggery” would impact everyone), bugger the GPS System (unlikely since the signal is sent to everyone so folks all over the place would be crashing into things, including air planes, and being a military system it is tightly guarded – though you can transmit bogus signals in a local area and confuse the local receivers; also unlikely in this case as the tugs and other ships had no problems), or (somehow) transmit a bogus AIS Signal into the system WITHOUT the ship in question noticing and without the system wondering why it was getting 2 conflicting signals.
Basically, for this system to have been buggered all sorts of flags would be thrown all over the place by all sorts of folks and with a LOT of evidence in plain sight.
Nobody else had any problems or surprises…
Here’s an article that details the fuel issues in shipping:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishandegnarain/2020/12/21/shipping-gate-explained-how-the-global-ship-fuel-scandal-came-about/
This has a ‘4 article limit’ so I’m looking for a more free description of the problem. But the basic point is that Muh, Paris Climate Crap caused a global change of marine commercial fuel to VLSFO an untested “frankenfuel” containing all sorts of stuff including some kind of “plastics”; and that has caused all manner of engine failures and “issues” globally.
The exact composition varies all over the place, how various batches interact is unknown, it has caused engines to stop for a variety of reasons, and it is not long term stable in tanks… or ships.
So I’d suspect that was “the problem” (a known big one) before I’d go looking for other unusual things.
In any case: Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil ”climate mandates” are a big issue and the likely root cause for a lot of crap happening in shipping.
Note that it was 41 degrees F air temp and about 49 F water temp at the time of the failure / bridge hit. It looks like one of the big issues with the VLSFO fuel is the formation of wax solids when cold, that clog up pipes and filters and cause an engine failure / shutdown.
https://shipandbunker.com/news/world/581135-feature-vlsfos-the-concerning-fuel-management-issues-so-far
So where I’d look first is at the fuel, the “gel point” and when it starts to throw wax crystals. This ship was coming from China / SE Asia with a load of stuff for Baltimore, so was going from warm to cold. Then sat in a cold harbor while being unloaded / reloaded. Reportedly they had “issues” with the engine dying even while in port.
I’d say the most likely scenario is a load of warm climate fuel starting to gel and throw wax balls at the filters after it got to the Cold North.
This would require confirmation by looking at the course prior to arrival (I’m assuming warmer waters…) and by fuel testing.
But: You have a known issue (VLSFO causing engine failures) a known cause (VLSFO throwing wax / sludge in cold weather) and a known condition (cold air and water in Baltimore) along with a known result (engine failed).
Seems like a good place to start looking…
I have to wonder that even if they determine it’s a fuel problem, will they tell us?
Here’s AIS live.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-56.5/centery:23.4/zoom:4
AIS live has a playback feature. I wonder if you could find the vessel that hit the bridge?
Here’s the DALI.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-76.530/centery:39.219/zoom:15
Photo distortion and illusions have limited ” abilities” they can not make a the front end of a ship look like it is the side of the ship and show you 10 illuminated windows on the side of the ship
when the ship hit the bridge it was face to face with the camera,
using the ship as a ruler – as it points directly at the camera once it hits the bridge – you can trace a line along the ship all the way to the camera
that tells us where the camera is
from where the camera is if you trace a straight line ( as I did on 4 different images from 4 different sources) all the way to the line representing the route the ship supposedly followed according to GPS.
it gives you an angle of maybe 5 degree at most ( but more like 3 ) between the line of view of the camera and the direction the ship is traveling
5 degree is not enough to see the side of the ship, and even with distortion or illusion a 5 degree angle cannot make you think you are seeing the entire side of the ship and even see the numerous illuminated windows.
I was able to count 10 illuminated windows,
the ship is not perpendicular to the camera but it is definitely at way more than a 5 degree angle, it is at 45 or more because you can see numerous illuminated windows on the side of the ship. You can even count them.
but tracing a line from where the camera is all the way to the line traced by the GPS gives you a ship coming at you with barely a 5 degree deviation, not enough to see its numerous illuminated side windows and count them.
I am not saying GPS is unreliable, I am saying what they are showing us makes no sense
they rig elections can t they rig GPS data to hide something ?
they are showing us GPS maps after the event, maybe the original GPS maps were showing something else and they doctored them to hide something ?
Anyway without the screenshots over which I traced lines showing the angles, I cannot show what I mean.
We could debate all day about it but if I could post the screenshots with the lines I drew on them, it would be obvious to everyone that the angle of the camera in relation to the GPS route and the angle of the ship does not allow it to see the side of a ship following the channel…
only if the ship veers off radically from the channel can the camera see its side…and the video shows exactly that ; the side of a ship and you can count 10 windows…
But without images I am not going to convince anyone ;-)
The video was probably shot from the Fort Carroll Lighthouse. ON the AIS map, you can see the lighthouse and the angle to the bridge the camera might have shot from.
Playback does not work for me, maybe because I am in Canada
but the still image of the ship confirms everything I have been saying
take a ruler, place it over the ship and trace a line all the way to the bottom of the screen, that tells you where the camera is
we don t know how far it was but in this case it does not make much difference
now from that point at the bottom of the screen – where we know the camera was since the video shows it was face to face with the ship when it hit – trace lines to where they show the route the ship supposedly followed.
That route is at about 5 degree from the camera line of view
on that route the ship would be facing the camera with at most a 5 degree deviation
not enough to see the side of the ship very well and to let me count the windows on the side of the ship
For the camera from where it is to see the side of the ship and its windows clear enough to count them the ship has to be turned sideways and be traveling towards the east instead of south towards the bridge and towards the camera
I don t see the channel on that still image but on another video I saw the channel was not at a 90 degree angle to the bridge it is actually at about a 85 degree ( leaning east ) , which pretty much cancels out the 5 degree the camera has…which limits even more the ability of the camera to see the side of the ship.
an image would prove all this…
Looks like the Port of Baltimore cam is at the lighthouse.
https://www.cruisingearth.com/port-webcams/united-states/baltimore-maryland/
Jim2,
If the camera was at Fort Carol it would see the left side of the ship as it approaches and and also once the ship hit, it would definitely be looking at the left side of the ship.
But the video shows the front end of the ship pointed straight at the camera as it hits the bridge.
I think the camera is on a floating device too small to be shown on such a map.
That floating device would be on that map at approximately 39.21 – 76.50
halfway between Fort Carol and the west shore
I think you are right, CF. There are a couple of buoys in that general area.
https://fishing-app.gpsnauticalcharts.com/i-boating-fishing-web-app/fishing-marine-charts-navigation.html?title=BALTIMORE+HARBOR+boating+app#15.26/39.2103/-76.5214
I’ve been busy with the yard and making dinner, so not had time to download, look at, and analyse any photos.
What I can say at this point is that there is one MAJOR flaw in the arguments presented so far: They seem to assume that boats go straight forward. They do not. A ship can turn sideways and make a LOT of “leeway” (or side slip – so much there is that term of art for it: leeway).
You can get 100,000 tons of cargo headed in one direction, toss the rudder hard over and rotate the ship about that center of mass, and it will just keep on going mostly sideways for a while until the keel gets enough force long enough to change the course to match the heading (I.e. get the boat going in the direction it is pointed).
FWIW, watching the video (a few times now) I see nothing, nothing at all, in the video that is unexpected. The camera is off to the side of the channel looking at the starboard side of the ship as it approaches (right side looking toward the bow / front of the ship). As power fails and then as the smoke belch happens (so some big motor got started up again) the ship rotates a tiny bit more toward head on at the support of the bridge. Smoke travels away to the rear starboard side, indicating about a 6 knot wind on the front port side cargo stack, so windage is working to turn the ship to starboard.
I believe most large ships have a right hand screw / propeller. IF this ship had one, it would be “prop walking” toward the port side under full thrust so the rudder would be pushing slightly to starboard to counter that. As soon as the engine stops, that rudder force is now unopposed and pushes the stern to port, turning the ship to starboard (right) and points is more at the bridge pier. Now, when they get the engine started (if that’s what the smoke indicates, and assuming that had it in reverse, you get more prop-walk force again angling the ship bow to starboard.
ALL of this is exactly in conformance with what we see. Ship in mid channel, loses power, and angles to starboard, crossing out of the channel to the right and hitting the bridge support. Exactly matching the AIS Data.
Nothing is unusual, unexpected, or hard to explain.
Like I said, I’ll look at the photos, but not as a priority.
“Photo distortion and illusions have limited ” abilities” ”
Yes, but human error and imagination and unfamiliarity with a situation have no such limits…
We KNOW the camera is off to the side of the channel as we do NOT see the ship headed straight at the camera before it loses power (and we know there is nothing in the middle of the channel because it IS a channel). So By Definition: the camera will see the side of the ship. As the ship turns to cross the channel toward the bridge support, you see less of the side. Again, as expected.
All we have here is a camera at an angle from the side (with an unknown lens so unknown degree of “wide angle distortions”) giving a particular perspective on ships at a distance and at an angle. IMHO, it is all about “photo interpretation” and not at all about where the ship went. AIS tells you exactly where it went, when, and at what speed.
The camera is not off to the side, it is in the water , and we know this because
-1- when the ship hits the bridge its bow is pointed straight at the camera, and the ship stops there and has not moved from that position, it is stuck to the foot ; pointing at the camera.
-2- and then when photos are taken from helicopters you see the ship – still stuck to the bridge foot, it has not moved – NOT pointing at the side, it is not pointing at the west shore it is still pointing at that camera or at a very distant point behind the camera many miles away.
I even provided the latitude and longitude of that point at which the ship is pointed which is where the camera is, not on the shore but in the water between the shore and Fort Carol.
The camera is on a floating device between the west shore and Fort Carol
If I could post screenshots and drawings this would be very clearly shown.
The Link Jim2 provided to the official maritime maps was showing very clearly in what direction the ship is stuck to the bridge and in what direction it is pointing.
and it is at something in the water between Fort Carol and the west shore.
With all due respect I do not need experience with sailing, or with ships to know that if I see the side windows of a ship, and if I see them so well that I can count them, then I am seeing the side of the ship.
I have never driven a tractor or repaired a tractor but if I see the side of a tractor I know this is not an illusion nor my imagination, I can tell the difference between the front end the rear end and the side of the tractor despite having never been a farmer.
And if I can count the side windows, and everyone who watches the videos can count them, how is that my imagination ?
and when you say this; ” … They seem to assume that boats go straight forward. They do not. A ship can turn sideways and make a LOT of “leeway” …”
well that is what I have been saying all along , that the ship is sideways!
…which is why I see the side of it and why I can count its windows!
so it is not my imagination nor my lack of naval experience; the ship is sideways.
I think this video is illustrative of the actual motions of the ship. It has a telephoto perspective (so distances are compressed and the ship looks closer to the bridge supports than it really is when it first turns toward it). Notice that the ship has a fair amount of “swing” after the onset of the first power outage. The nose / bow of the ship and the stern / rear of the ship swing back and forth off of the course (actual path the ship is taking). Initially the ship swings more to the right (starboard) then as power comes back on swings more to the port (left) as they try to turn away from the bridge supports at the last minute, but it just isn’t quick enough.
Also note that port anchor is clearly down, and he references earlier photos showing the anchor chain angle toward the rear (indicating they DID get the anchor dropped and it was dragging on the bottom.
Also note how the perspective of the “straight down view” is far more accurate than the telephoto perspective of the camera view. The camera makes it look like everything is happening in just a few feet and with large angles (from a shorter perspective on the length of the ship); while the straight down view shows just how long the ship really is, and now narrow the angle between center of channel and the impact point really was. Also note that the ship outline shows how heading is not always aligned with course (ends of the ship are sometimes offset from the course line from the channel to the impact point).. That shows how small the actual excursions were of the ends of the ship vs the track line (course).
Note that at the 6 min 30 second point they show the pier in the background (
Gun Dock Pier?Dundalk Terminal) so drawing a line from that through the impact point will show where the camera is located (that I think is the protruding land you see a mile or two away in the overhead shots).Then remember you are “swinging” 100,000 tons of ship in those swings.
Again, what I see in the AIS Data matches the actual dimensions of the ship, channel, and course to impact.
here’s the discussion about fuel:
E.M. Smith
you say you don t have the time to look at the 4 images I sent you.
but you have time for multiple comments and posting videos.
Yes, because I type a LOT faster than I can get into my email account and I can do it while doing other things. I have a limited time budget and “servicing the blog” is not just comments typed here. I’m also checking pending comments and doing other stuff (including washing the dinner dishes…)
Photo analysis is a much more attention demanding process than posting text, and downloading, printing, and analyzing photos takes a lot longer than saying “look at this”. I’d guess about 2 hours vs about 20 minutes. Or, if you like, I can rapidly glance at your photos and just say “you are wrong” and move on in 20 minutes… but I think you really want a fair analysis and that takes time.
What am I missing here. We have verified data and telemetry on course, speed, temp, depth, wind, etc., etc, and now the black box that is backing up the other remotely transmitted data.
The ship lost power, lost control and hit a bridge.
What am I missing?
OK, finished the dishes and did the email log-in download and inspection. Yes, you badgered me into it rather than having desert with the spouse.
I think I see the error. Telephoto perspective. Your drawing places the ship in the shallow foreground water and turned a LOT more sideways. It is actually much further away, in the channel, and at about a 45 degree (or tighter) angle to the camera. So it looked like a short dumpy ship when it is really more like 1000 feet long, but the foreshortening effect of telephoto perspective makes it look like it is going sideways (left to right at 90 degrees; not 45 degrees) and about 300 feet long.
I think the Camera may be on the tip of that peninsula located at the bottom of this chart four squares in from the right side. Three squares straight up from there is the Dundalk cargo facility (that area seen in the background of the video posted above and where the two white dredged channels head toward it). The Dali MUST be travelling down that main channel (going upper left to lower right at about a 45 degree angle) as otherwise it would be aground in the shallows. Realize it can NOT go outside the white areas into the blue areas since they are the shallows. In fact, it probably can not leave the channel itself into the adjacent white areas without risk of grounding.
So it is traveling upper left to lower right at a 45 degree (more or less) perspective IN the channel. Due to the long telephoto lens used, this makes the ship look like it is seen “directly side on” but as much shorter and closer than it is. It is really further away and at a 45 degree angle.
As it turns toward the bridge, it does not go to a full 45 degree turn, so continues to present some of the side view, which continues to have telephoto perspective artifacts. But does look a lot more like a “head on” shot after it hits the bridge and swings the stern a bit more to the left.
I don’t know exactly where the camera is located, but it is far away (so telephoto perspective) and very near or on land (or perhaps some small pole also near land). The fact that Dundalk marine terminal is visible directly behind the impact points sets the angle to the camera and the telephoto perspective sets the distance as ‘large’ which puts you on or near the dirt at the bottom of the chart.
The impact point is very near the upper left end of that darker outlined box inside the channel in the square four in and two up from the lower right corner.
https://mpa.maryland.gov/Pages/dundalk-marine-terminal.aspx
So it all comes down to the telephoto perspective foreshortening apparent lengths and distances, and the channel being at about a 45+ degree angle upper left to lower right.
Final note: Those dredged channels are not just suggestions. Note the little dots next to them. On the full sized chart those are depths and tell you it is important to know your depth even for modest ships and boats. For large commercial ships, they mean “you will be aground and you may lose your Captains Licence along with being fired. Stay inside the solid lines of the dredged deep channel.” This ship could never have been outside those dredged paths.
Hope this helps clarify things for you. (And I didn’t even need to print out your pictures, so that saved about a half hour ;-)
@Ossqss:
Not missing anything. That’s what happened.
I could take each point and explain why what you say is not what I said or not what I did or is not what is in the video or on the maps,
for example,
I did not draw the ship close to the bridge because I believe the ship was close to the bridge, I drew it where there was room to draw it on the screen shot I found.
Had I found a screen shot that showed 2 miles of water around the bridge I would have drawn the ship probably half or maybe one mile from the bridge while it was sideways traveling east before it turned north towards the camera , towards the bridge and hit it.
Also the angle I drew the ship at was not a precise thing, done with measuring tools after 3 hours of calculus to the tenth thousandth of an inch, it was done in 3 seconds to illustrate the obvious point that we see more of the side of the ship ( even if it is not perpendicular to the camera which I know it was not ) than we see its front end as it is traveling east before it veers north towards the camera and towards the bridge and then hits the bridge.
But instead of deconstructing each point, which would be as easy as what I just did above, I will simply say this,
one thing is clear ; You will never see what I see, and I will never see what you see in that video, those screenshots and those maps.
Sorry if I annoyed you. It was not my intention.
@CF, help me understand what you’re after.
What are you saying varies from the information that was confirmed with Obs and data?
What am I missing?
The boat turned into an intermittent log under inertial forces.
If you haven’t shared it, just do it!
Courtesy of Heller as an alternate local> the chiseling away of the pillars of society is relentless.
Climate The Movie – YouTube
FWIW- care with supplements –
“A warning about red yeast rice dietary supplement”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-warning-about-red-yeast-rice-dietary.html
Don’t ships have “full reverse” on their propulsion systems to slow them down?
Why would you re-engage propulsion in the forward direction when heading for a bridge support?
The maps I used ( 3 different ones , not only the one I sent you trough email ) and the pictures I used ( many different ones from different sources ) show the ship stuck to the bridge, at what angle and where its bow is pointing to, and it is pointing to where the camera is, as the video indisputably shows when the ship hits the bridge and then the ship remains frozen in that position.
the maps I used show the supposed trajectory of the ship, which also tells us at what angle that is to the line of view of the Camera
You are using a blank slate map that has no ship on it, no trajectory, on which you can place the ship, the route and the camera where ever it fits your explanation.
You are also not using pictures that show the angle of the ship to the bridge. You use a blank map on which you can place things as you want.
I used the real thing.
You can post blank slate maps here that you can use to support your point while I cannot post maps ( or photos ) here that show clearly what I am saying.
It is like my hands are tied behind my back in a boxing match.
you say it is impossible a ship would go outside of the channel,
You say . ” … This ship could never have been outside those dredged paths. …”
thus you conclude my whole theory is bunk and you think you have just schooled me.
That is funny because when a ship has a mechanical failure, and the pilot loses control, it can drift outside of the channel and even drift guess where ? into a bridge !
Too funny !!!
Ship pic from above. If it posts.
6602ce1b256b1.image.jpg (1232×599) (townnews.com)
Ossqss,
you said ; ” … The boat turned into an intermittent log under inertial forces. …”
Well that is pretty much my point !
When it became a “drifting log” that the pilot could not control anymore, it went outside of the nice perfect route the GPS-AIS maps are showing.
and the video evidence supports this.
The GPS or AIS maps show an immaculate trajectory, from which the ship deviated by something like 3 degrees and then hit the bridge , which is ridiculous, especially since the videos show a ship out of control – a drifting log – that is neither on the correct trajectory not is pointed in the correct direction…before it changes direction – by far more than 3 degree, probably 45 degrees – and veers into the bridge.
Turning a ship by 3 degrees does not allow you to see its side and count its windows.
The GPS-AIS trajectory is probably an extrapolation from data taken every few seconds, it does not show the actual trajectory, it shows a very smoothed path that does not represent reality.
But since they now have the black box but said it was defective and contains very little information and has absolutely NO video evidence…we will never have more evidence than we have now about the “drifting log” and how much it deviated from the pristine but fictional route the GPS-AIS maps show.
This is quite an interesting, but long, read. Courtesy of a Pielke Jr. email distribution.
Are Ecology and Climate the Same Thing? – by Rob Lewis (substack.com)
I bet there will be sat records that show the actual ship and its path.
Jim2,
Maybe there will be
but as of today, there are none,
I just did a google search and Space.com has Maxar images of after the crash and images from 2023…
Why such a gigantic gap of months between sat images?
Why does the ship have no video of the incident?
Why is it that its black box was defective, its sensors did not record everything?
Why is there is no sat images of the incident?
Why is the GPS-AIS maps show something that is not what we see on the only video available?
ain’t it strange that in this day and age were they can read your licence plate from space we have nothing…
is it coincidence?
… or do they have something to hide?
“Don’t ships have “full reverse” on their propulsion systems to slow them down?”
Ships have forward. Reverse is more complicated: some ships have to stop the engine to put it in reverse. And don’t expect full reverse to be very dramatic; a heavy ship is hard to stop, just like trains cannot stop “on a dime”.
“The GPS-AIS trajectory is probably an extrapolation from data taken every few seconds”
Not ‘extrapolation’, but ‘connect the dots’.
A Class A AIS unit broadcasts the following information every 2 to 10 seconds while underway, and every 3 minutes while at anchor at a power level of 12.5 watts.
https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/ais-class-a-reports
(So we can edit using HTML again?)
this is only a test:
pensar | Definición y ejemplos de uso | Diccionario del español actual (fbbva.es)
test
https://www.fbbva.es/diccionario/pensar/
I guess the sat would have to be hovering over the harbor to get pix. Perhaps a no go. From what I’ve read, the black box was out of commission only during the power failure. Even then, audio from the bridge was available via a backup power source. I’m haven’t seen information that persuades me that this was anything more than an accident. But like EMS points out, there could be confounding factors like climate fuel and also perhaps pilot training. Haven’t seem much about the pilots experience and training.
“Paying for the Key Bridge is going to be expensive”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/paying-for-key-bridge-is-going-to-be.html
As in Canada, so in the USA???”
“It’s emerged that a couple of years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) did a deep dive into potential future challenges in the light of then-current circumstances in Canada. The report was not publicized until very recently. I’m going to leave out the politically-correct “climate change” stuff, because I’m far from convinced things are as bleak as the “woke” like to paint them: but the rest of the report (the parts that have been released, anyway) makes interesting reading.
Here’s how the RCMP sees social and political developments over the next few years in Canada. Could we see the same thing here in the USA? Frankly, I’ll be surprised if we don’t.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/as-in-canada-so-in-usa.html
Note the conclusion
FWIW
“Now Global Warming is Altering Time?”
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/03/28/now-global-warming-is-altering-time-n3785556
Ends with
“But if they don’t, global warming may mess up our entire communications systems and bankrupt everyone. And that’s why you can’t have a gas stove and need to eat bugs. Are we all clear on this now?”
@HR/EM, schedule is lightening after this weekend, so may be a good time for the dodgy proceedings to proceed at the Lodge and Jiggs.
I’m in the process of making a posting with DETAILED close up chart images from:
https://www.charts.noaa.gov/PDFs/12281.pdf including the relevant legends and depths visible. This will take a while as saving / uploading a dozen images is a PITA.
The basic points that will be made / illustrated:
The MV Dali has a draft of just shy of 50 feet and a length of almost 1000 feet.
The channel is about 800 feet wide by my estimate. ANYWHERE outside of the channels is about 1/2 or less of the needed 50 foot depth. The MV Dali can not, at any time, be outside of the dredged marine channels for cargo vessels. Period.
The MV Dali can not be perpendicular in the channel either, the bow or stern will impact one side or the other of the channel, or both. It MUST be in the channel and at most about 50 degrees to 70 degrees off from center of channel (and that ONLY if the vector of motion is exactly down the center of the channel).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dali
Length299.92 m (984 ft)
Beam48.2 m (158 ft 2 in)
Draught15.03 m (49 ft 4 in)
We know from the video above that the camera is aligned such that the impact point on the bridge is exactly lined up with the Dundalk marine terminal. This means it is NOT out in the water where Canadian Friend claims, nor where his image (sent in private email) postulates. That location is not in alignment with Dundalk and far too close to the channel (too far out in the water).
Most of the rest of his confusion comes from failing to see / adjust for / understand Telephoto Foreshortening Perspective mixed with this misperception of camera location and angle.
The AIS Data is ACCURATE, CORRECT and since the ship is underway, precise to about 10 seconds.
What CF “sees” as “the side view” of the ship is in fact about a 45 degree angle from the starboard bow. This makes the ship look like it is about 400 feet long instead of 1000, BUT because of Telephoto Perspective flattening the image and making it all look like the same distance away, the perspective illusion makes the ship look like it is going at a 90 degrees angle from left to right. It IS NOT. It is going at a 45 degree angle down the channel toward the camera.
Then, when the ship is “facing the camera” after the impact, CF “sees” this as a 90 degree turn toward the camera. It isn’t. It is about a 5-10 degree turn toward the impact point prior to impact, a crossing of the channel to impact the right side, and then the stern swings over to most likely impact the other side of the channel and wedge the ship where it is not moving even in the tides and currents. This (roughly) 45 degree change of angle from directly down the channel is enough to make it LOOK LIKE the ship is now pointed right at you, and at this point CF believes that point is way out in the water near the channel (per his image). It is not. It is pointed at the land in a direct line from Dundalk Marine Terminal past the impact point. (Otherwise the narrow telephoto lens would not show Dundalk in the background, which it does.)
Please refrain from “jumping all over” this summary until I’ve got the posting up with the relevant chart closeups. Also please note that assertions that the AIS Track is wrong or a “lie” just illustrate a bit of stubborn clinging to a failed assertion…
Key Points: The ship draft prevents it from ever being in motion outside the narrow confines of the 50 foot deep dredged channels. AIS shows that correctly. The ship is too long and wide to pass sideways in the channel – it will ground. Telephoto Perspective makes things at an angle look like they are flat at a 90 degree angle and just fatter/shorter – when they are not. What is causing CF consternation is a mistake about camera location and not adjusting for long telephoto lens perspective illusions; along with disposing of the valid data (chart data, ship draft, AIS records).
I’ll be back in a couple of hours on the other (new soon) thread.
@YMMV: “Ships have forward. Reverse is more complicated.”
It is easy for people to forget that propellers are not screws, but are actually rotating “wings” or rather rotating hydrofoils. They have a shape similar to an airplane wing, and for the same reasons. On a ship, you can reverse the propeller, and while you do get some backward thrust, it is a rather weak and not very efficient backward thrust. It is almost like trying to fly airplane with the wings installed backward.
@TTN:
A big ship can take miles to get up to speed, and miles to come to a stop. Even dropping an anchor requires a long “lead” of chain to align the anchor properly to bite into the dirt (that may be very soft mud easily dredged by the sliding anchor…).
Most of the time, at least for the boats I’ve known, you throttle down to idle, THEN can shift into reverse, and then can throttle up again. It takes at least 20 to 30 seconds. Then and only then do you start to slow down… During that change, your rudder becomes useless and you drift. Then you prop walk until enough water flow builds up to get your rudder doing something again. At that point, you get to find out:
Ratio of prop wash area to rudder area. Ratio of reversed water flow in the prop zone vs water flow outside the prop zone (I.e. a 1 foot prop “blowing” over a 3 foot tall rudder has 1 foot of prop wash AND 2 foot of “forward motion” water flow to steer going forward, but has 1 relatively less effective reversed prop wash area and 2 foot of “whatever way the boat is moving in the water” area outside the prop wash area. This can give you anything from poor to NO to reversed operation in reverse… and a lot of excitement if approaching the dock too fast at the wrong angle… (been there).
BTW, MV Dali has ONE Bow Thruster that could have been used to steer the bow away from the impact… but it looks like it is electrical and, well, the electricity was out when the engine died… and those are usually a bit slow too.
I’m still looking at relevant specifications for the “real soon now” posting ;-)
@Ossqss:
That sounds like a very attractive idea ;-)
More “Covid Jab Oh Gawds”
“Doctors Raise Alarm as Brain Tumors Soar Among Vaxxed
Doctors have begun to sound the alarm after soaring numbers of patients have developed deadly brain tumors after receiving Covid mRNA vaccines.
Medical professionals around the world are now warning the public about the spike.
In some cases, doctors warn that people are discovering tumors within days of being vaccinated for Covid.
However, experts say that most patients had experienced continuous migraines in the days leading up to the disturbing diagnoses.
Doctors have now issued an alert that continued migraines after Covid mRNA injections could be a sign of something much worse.
The cases of several vaccinated patients who have suffered brain tumors have been made public in the hope of raising awareness of the issue.
https://slaynews.com/news/doctors-raise-alarm-brain-tumors-soar-among-vaxxed/
All Vaccinated Now Have Permanent Heart Damage, Studies Warn
Two major studies have just warned of a ticking time bomb after concluding that all recipients of Covid mRNA shots now have some degree of permanent heart damage.
Health officials have long claimed that damage to the heart that caused myocarditis after the vaccines is just temporary.
However, two independent studies have now found that the injections caused “heart scarring” in all people who receive the shots.
This heart damage is still present in all who received the shots but it is largely undetectable until the victim suffers a major health incident such as a sudden cardiac arrest.
All patients with follow-up cardiac imaging done more than 12 months after their myocarditis diagnosis had persistent late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), Australian researchers reported in a preprint of a new study, published on March 22nd.
This damage was reflective of heart scarring caused by the injections.
https://newsaddicts.com/all-vaccinated-now-have-permanent-heart-damage-studies-warn/
Don’t forget to get your boosters!
Too many people just overloads the renewables grid”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/friday-50/#comment-2749626
And now they want to inflict mRNA drugs on domestic livestock!
@Ossqss re Dodgy Proceedings – I’m good any time in April except 4/8 thru 4/11.
We’re headed to Key Largo for that Mon – Thurs.
Mrs. H.R. has done Key West a couple of times. Neither of us has explored much of lower mainland Florida and the upper Keys.
I have Buckeyes with your name on it. Shhh… don’t tell anyone 😁
I kind of prefer Saturdays or Sundays for the meet. Traffic is brisk but none of the rush hour crap of weekdays
E.M. and other Denizens of the Chiefio Blog? Pipe up, eh?
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9697428
Dali’s AIS is still broadcasting:
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9697428
course/speed: 87.5° / 0.0 kn
current draft: 12.2 m
navigation status: aground
(complete with photo of current position under bridge wreckage — but that isn’t AIS data)
The engine is interesting; search: 9S90ME-C9
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/28/2231894/-Container-Ship-Dali-Power-Failure-What-Happened
The same link has a link to an video which plots the AIS positions of Dali before the crash and other boats coming to it right after the crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBuUyleOrdk
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Thx for the Rob Lewis link to Pielke Snr, Ossqss. Re climate and ecology connection,
‘There is still a general assumption by many that the physical components of the Earth system…drive the ecological components,” Pielke writes. It’s not that those physical processes, such as the physical warming of the atmosphere by greenhouse gasses, don’t exist. They do, and all biological process involve physics in one way or another. But it’s a two way street. Ecology also drives climate and that introduces a whole new dynamic into the picture. “In the real world,” he says “there is no “physical” climate system on Earth. There is only a physical component of the Earth system.” If you want to see a climate run by physics alone, you’ll have to go to Mars.’
BERLIN — For years, discussions of extremism across Europe were about Islamic extremism and terrorism, but the debate has now shifted to extreme-right ideologies, with governments saying they need to be regulated to protect their democracies.
The issue is arguably most vivid in Germany, where calls for a ban of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) — the country’s second-most-popular political party — are growing and the government wants to cut off funding sources of right-wing extremist networks. In Britain, the government wants to keep extremists from meeting with lawmakers or receiving public funds, and it plans to publish a new list of groups it considers “extremist,” focusing more on beliefs rather than a propensity for violence.
…
The threat now is less about extremists planting bombs and carrying out violent attacks than about undemocratic ideology spreading through society.
“There’s been a change of emphasis since the early 2000s. It’s much broader now. It’s about thinking about what we want public discourse to be about, rather than focusing on any specific threat,” said Rod Dacombe, a politics expert at King’s College London.
He noted that in Britain, more people with far-right views than with extreme Islamist ideologies are being referred to Prevent and Channel, the government’s signature counter-extremism programs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/once-wary-of-extremist-violence-europe-now-fears-extremism-in-politics/ar-BB1kK1gc
Another “Day”
“The Day the (Pistol) Universe Changed”
https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/the-day-the-pistol-universe-changed/
All I will say is,
I have an UPDATE;
I am still saying the ship was turned at an angle ( I never said 90) and traveling east but now I know why, it is because , for some unknown reason, it was coming from the Curtis channel.
which one of my images would wonderfully demonstrate, alas that will not happen
The Dali may have drifted into the very wide triangular entrance to the Curtis channel or have made a wrong turn… we don t know.
The Curtis channel is to the left of the screen and the ship is arriving from the left of the screen
the Curtis channel where it joins the main channel to the bridge has the EXACT same curve as the ship’s trajectory on the video
and the Curtis Channel’s wide triangular entrance is about maybe a quarter or half a mile from the bridge which corresponds to where the ship was.
Maybe that channel is not wide enough for that ship but its wide triangular entrance definitely is. as it is even wider than the main channel!
maybe the DALI made a wrong turn and then realizing it, it turned around and that is why we see it coming from the left ( where the Curtis channel is ) and at the exact same angle as the triangular entrance of the Curtis Channel is.
the trajectory of the ship follows exactly the angled or ” curved” entrance of the Curtis channel where it connects to the main channel
Something one my images would illustrate wonderfully.
You ll say I am wrong,
I know,
but I am saying;
EUREKA ! I figured out why the ship was coming from the left and at an angle !
its was coming from the CURTIS CHANNEL WIDE TRIANGULAR ENTRANCE !!!
@C.F. – How did it get into the Curtis Channel from where it was docked to the northwest?
If it was coming from the Curtis Channel, wouldn’t the bridge have collapsed along the length of the Dali instead of across the bow?
@HR/EM, how about the 6th, next weekend?
Thought to share after watching another AI science show. What could possibly go wrong with massive amounts of drones thinking on their own.
The advancements in autonomous drone technology are a bit unsettling.
Takes drive by wire to a new level. Just sayin…. I didn’t show you the military capabilities.
Biggest drone display ever! – Guinness World Records (youtube.com)
Here is a sample if you have Netflix. The quote that hit home to me was “Once the Genie is out of the bottle, it is out”
Watch Unknown: Killer Robots | Netflix Official Site
@Ossqss – I got nuttin’ so far on the 6th. Sounds good.
Just checked with Mrs. H.R. and she doesn’t have any activities scheduled for us.
The 6th works for me.
Well, if we even just have just us 2, It goin down then! :-)
X-ECUTIONERS LINKIN PARK -IT’S GOIN DOWN – YouTube
Framing things up for real discussions moving forward.
(1) Ryan Maue on X: “Wow. Guyana’s president tells the climatists to shove it.” / X (twitter.com)
Well, Ossqss, in years past, sometimes we’ve had fewer than two. There were a couple of times I wasn’t all there. 😉🤣
Oh… what time?
H.R.
how did it get there?
I explained it in my previous comment, did you not read it ? Or are you playing a game called ” let s fabricate reasons to make CF wrong “?
either because of mechanical failure making the ship drift into the Curtis entrance ( NOT all the way into the channel which I know someone will claim I said even though I never did…) or pilot error.
I never said I knew the cause, That it is a mechanical failure or Martians with laser guns does not matter.
all I am explaining is how it is physically possible, and if you look at a map of the channels, it is 100% physically possible for a ship to drift into the wide entrance of the Curtis channel, then turn around, get out of it, turn right and go down the main channel towards the bridge
this is super obvious stuff
your second question shows you either have not looked at any map that shows how the Curtis channel connects to the main channel, ( or you are playing a game of lets fabricate things CF never said and then tell him he is wrong about that )
if you had looked at the channel map( or were not playing a game of making me wrong at all costs) ,
and if you had read my explanation you would see and understand the ship came out of the Curtis channel and then turned into the main channel and thus was now facing the bridge.
it is like when you come out of the driveway of your house in your car and you turn into the street…you don t come out of the driveway and keep driving straight ahead until you hit the house of your neighbors across the street, you turn into the street
the ship came out of the entrance and then turned…this is not rocket science
this is very simple stuff
which my new screen shots and drawings would demonstrate so well, blind people could almost see it !
Either you and E.M Smith cannot understand what I am saying ( doubtful, you cannot be that obtuse ) or you are playing some game where you pretend I said “A” when I said ‘B” and then tell me “B” is wrong just to make it look like I am wrong
look at the channel map
the Curtis channel connects to the main channel like a driveway connects to a street
this is stuff an 8 year old kid can understand
Many of the things E M says I said are not what I said at all, he does that to make it look like I am wrong…
and now you act like I said the ship hit the bridge while going east which is not what I said,at all.
and you know it.
You and E M fabricate stuff I never said and then tell me I am wrong about that.
very disingenuous and very immature.
@CF – Not playing games. Not disingenuous.
You said, “Coming from the Curtis Channel.” That was a last minute ‘Aha!’ of yours.
Assuming it turned itself in that ‘Y’, how does a 1,000′ ship that has lost power turn itself? How does the ship turn itself again to impact the bridge support at pretty much 90 degrees when its bow thruster is kaput and the rudder is fixed, and all this within 1/4 of a mile? Without tugs.
To me, the scenario you described would take great maneuverability. 1,000′ ships don’t have great maneuverability without tugs to push them around, and even then, nothing is quick when it comes to turning. Mechanically/physically, how did the Dali make the maneuver in that ‘Y’ without tugs, at the forward speed it was making, to hit the bridge at 90 degrees?
I’m just not seeing that the Dali has the physical/mechanical ability to maneuver in the scenario you describe and hit the bridge at about 90 degrees. I understand the scenario. I don’t see how it can round the corner from the Curtis Channel at the forward speed it was making, with the power losses it was experiencing, without tugs, and hit the pier at the angle at which it hit.
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As to your latest reply with the driveway analogy, what if you pulled out of your driveway in a 60′ school bus, your residential street is 50′ wide, and you must be headed down the street towards your next-door neighbor’s mailbox that is 80′ from your mailbox? And your steering goes out intermittently?
To your advantage, your driveway is at a favorable angle to the turn, just like the Curtis Channel is to the bridge. On the negative side of the ledger, you have no reverse gear, the turning radius is 120′, and you have your mailbox at the bottom of the drive on the righthand side so you can’t cut over the curb. Possible? Maybe, with enough maneuvering. Plausible? Not really, given the physical/mechanical constraints that are much the same as the Dali was under.
That is (very) roughly the equivalent proportions and conditions which the MV Dali faced.
You have been describing trajectories and maneuvers that don’t square up with how the Dali impacted the bridge. You need to work backwards from that angle, which is well documented from photos, and explain how the ship, with all the constraints, was able to maneuver into that final position, given where it started. Not what is possible, under given conditions, but what is plausible given the physical/mechanical capabilities of the Dali and the constraints under which the Dali was operating.
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P.S. Yesterday, I was fishing off the old fishing pier at Ft. DeSoto that faces into Tampa Bay. and I watched 3 outbound freighters and 2 inbound freighters, none of which would make it to the 1,000′ length class. 800′ +/- is my WAG (Hey, I was fishing). They passed by within about 800-ish yards of the pier. Nimble they ain’t. Watching freighters come and go is a fun little bonus of fishing that pier.
6th works for me.
@C.F.:
I’v not “responded” here for 2 reasons:
1) There is now a dedicated posting addressing the ship motions, so comments about it ought to go there. (This thread will soon be replaced with a new W.O.O.D. anyway as it is already too long).
Link: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/some-notes-on-dali-downs-baltimore-bridge/
2)I have chosen not to respond anymore to your errors. It is a waste of my time and will achieve nothing but pointless bickering (as your “complaining” tone demonstrates). Basically “It isn’t about you” nor your mis-perceptions, it is about me tiring of trying to “fix” them.
One gets tired of pointing out errors in others, and after more than one or at most two, it starts to be impolite. So I just decided to stop. But as you insisted, I’ve given you an explanation here:
FWIW: The ship, going 8 knots, simply can not turn into the Curtis channel without grounding on the opposite side of the wedge at the exit. It takes MILES to stop and almost as long to turn sharply. It certainly can’t turn in, then back out again, in that space and time. To do that turn, it would need to come to a halt, have tugs rotate it in place, then accelerate again. Also, the camera location and angle (showing the Dundalk Marine Terminal due north) is not able to see that area anyway. It is looking under ONE span of the bridge almost due north.
@C.F.;
Do not accuse folks of lying. Lying is a deliberate and malicious act, which would require that you know motivation (which can not be done in text) AND proven there was not simple error of understanding.
Since accusations of malicious intent and lying are “insults to the person”, such claims will go to the trash. (“trash” is a term of art in WordPress and is the name of a specific folder in the management station; it is not a value judgment).
Please stop. (Failure to stop “insults to the person” are the only thing, really, that gets folks put into time-outs and eventually banned, so going down that road has a bad ending / outcome).
Be polite or say nothing.
Power Grab,
is any of your music, singing, or performances on you tube or some other site like that where I could see and hear it ?
Mine is not on any of those sites…well not yet anyway.
The only way I could let you hear some of mine would be if I sent you an Email,
but we are complete strangers, so I understand if you are not comfortable giving me your email address .
here is my email anyway,
chronicmusicsyndrome@yahoo.ca
Thank you.
@ Canadian Friend:
I will have to do some digging. When I share things I’ve done, I usually share a CD. In the olden days, I would share a cassette tape. These days, most recently, many prefer to get a thumb drive.
One of the groups I’m part of does put recordings of our concerts on the web, but I’m not sure what the URL is. I don’t usually access them that way. I prefer to get a CD and then rip it to my MP3 player.
The practice tracks I’m finishing up tonight are going to be put on a members-only site.
I need to print off and practice some new music for tomorrow’s service right now.
I will get back to you.
I like your email address! ;-)
Power Grab,
I also own the domain name chronicmusicsyndrome.com
I have for close to 20 years now…I was supposed to put my music there and try to sell some stuff I created, but I never did.
I own the domain name but never actually built the web site.
I think I also had created a channel at youtube with that name but never posted any video, that was also like 15 or 20 years ago, which is why I am not sure anymore…
and maybe because it was inactive it has now been deleted.
I was also supposed to sell my piano music on CDbaby.com, I don t know if they still exist.
I was supposed to do a lot of things but life had other plans for me ;-)
It flowed into my inbox, kinda. You decide validity>>
This is Definitely Not a Psyop – YouTube
Not sure if you will need to rewind from my watching.
[Reply: I deleted the &t= bit from the end so it starts at the beginning. -E.M.S. ]
@Ossqss: Fun video! As for the bridge collapse, while I come down on the side of “accident”, it is certainly reasonable to suspect terrorism and investigate. If the past few decades have proven anything, it is that we simply cannot trust what we are being told. The only reasonable response is to include all possibilities, then do some research and try one’s best to come to your OWN conclusion and ignore the so-called experts.
@ Canadian Friend:
I just sent you an email. Look for the subject “Here is a piano solo that I did in concert in 2021”.
FWIW
“Did The US First Catch Wind Of The Crocus Terrorist Attack By Spying On Kiev?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-us-first-catch-wind-crocus-terrorist-attack-spying-kiev
FWIW
“Why Is NATO And The Kiev Regime Terrified Of Russia’s ‘Zircon’ Hypersonic Missile?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-nato-and-kiev-regime-terrified-russias-zircon-hypersonic-missile
Power Grab,
I just listened to it, and twice.
Wow! you are very good! I’m impressed !
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-prohibiting-vaccines-food-awaiting/
https://thorium.rocks/
@ em
NAZIS?
@Ossqss – What time? 11:00? 12:00? 1:00? 3:00 am to avoid the lunch rush? 😜
Well, I sent you & EM an email. LOL
Worth a few minutes.
Stone of Madness – by Roger Pielke Jr. – The Honest Broker (substack.com)
Got it, duuuuude.
FWIW
“Not conducive to marital bliss…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/not-conducive-to-marital-bliss.html
About 15-20 minutes in, Dease discusses a study of 10 million people on statistics of COVID and the jab. Simply unbelievable.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/175-steve-deace-show-28419189/
@Josh:
I have no idea what your Na.. is referencing.
@Another Ian:
IF the guy comes back alive, I see a rapid divorce in their future…
@Ossqss:
OK, I’ll read my email before next Saturday…
FWIW
“Some emergency preparation questions and answers”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-emergency-preparation-questions.html
FWIW - Linux and”System D” gets a mention
“Does Malicious Backdoor Compromise SSH?”
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=57646
Mentioned in despatches again!
“Another Outlandish Overreach By The CDC”
“Easter weekend was lovely in every way.
And yet I could not stop thinking about the strange manner in which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has had such an outsized role in the ruination of American rights and liberties. This agency is supposed to be tracking infectious disease and finding ways out. This mandate became the leverage to allow them to impose nationwide mask mandates, a rental moratorium, a shutdown of the cruise industry, and otherwise send the whole country into fits of hysterics for two years and more.”
“As it turns out, the CDC had quite a large role in guiding election processes. Not that you can find the evidence on their website now. Nope, it’s all been scrubbed. However, if you look at the Wayback Machine, you can find an interesting little point. The CDC strongly recommended mail-in, absentee, and early voting as a means of disease control.”
“It seems that President Trump was following the advice of his scientific advisors who later turned out to be snake oil salesmen. Indeed, he seemed extremely uncomfortable making this announcement, almost like he knew that it was weird and probably unwarranted. Strange night.
As it turns out, earlier that day, the CDC decided that the whole country really ought to be voting by mail. They went into the website and edited the page that very day and produced the following checklist.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-outlandish-overreach-cdc
@EM
sorry, i was trying to be cute. you had recently mentioned that this thread was getting long, so i tried to invoke “godwins law” the paraphrased version, at least.
as i heard it: godwins law dates back to usenet bbs days, and states that as a thread gets longer eventually someone mentions hitler or nazis, and then the thread was effectively dead…
so like i said sorry, i was trying to coyly suggest a fresh w.o.o.d.
…beer might have been a factor….. mea culpa
[Reply: Got it! Nice joke, really… but wasn’t that really “mea gulpa”? ;-) -E.M.S.]
“Batman to the rescue — masked men install protected bat boxes over ULEZ traffic cameras”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/batman-to-the-rescue-masked-men-install-protected-bat-boxes-over-ulez-traffic-cameras/
And The Batman Equation”!
More info on role of vaccines (currently very loosely defined) in later chronic illness.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-survey-confirms-that-vaccines
One second summary? Don’t jab.
@ em
mea Gulpa, lol, good one!
just noticed the auto fill… oh well, not that concerned with anonymity here…
Thought to share this. Was quite good and more challenging than I thought.
Be warned. You may not be able to stop once you start :-)
General Science Quiz – How Many Can You Answer? (youtube.com)
Willis E has a look –
“Geneva: War Rules Good, Genocide Rules Mud”
Willis E had a look at the carbon tax introduced into British Colombia about 10 years ago.
And discovers a fine example of that well known modelling dictum of “If in doubt leave it out”
“How Canadian Carbon Taxes Shaft The Poor”
FWIW
“Princeton Scientists Unveil Breakthrough In Fusion Reactor Technology”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/princeton-scientists-unveil-breakthrough-fusion-reactor-technology
FWIW – a varied read
“Targets of Opportunity”
https://wlehman.substack.com/p/targets-of-opportunity
“The Medical Profession Betrayed Us”
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/04/the-medical-profession-betrayed-us/
Things that make you go, hummm.
Proposal to Move Bank Regulation Goalposts Signals Underlying Problems in Financial System (moneymetals.com)
@Ossqss:
FWIW, about a year ago I stuffed a lot of the proceeds from my house sale in Cal. into ETFs (exchange traded funds) in things like Gold. It has worked out rather well.
I’m also moving as much as I can out of $US and into “stuff” and “‘not $US currency”, though that has had issues in that the Euro is worse, and the Pound Sterling has been basically flat (and the rest of the anglosphere too) and outside of that, the only other decent currency is the Yen who have dramatic demographic problems along with a China Competition issue… I’d really like to have better choices of non-GEB infected countries, but don’t. The Swiss Franc was doing well up until the last 3 months, but not sure what happened there. (Possibly a lot of BRICS+ rich folks pulling their money out of “anything European” ?)
I’d really like to have access to a BRICS+ bank and currency, but at present that’s hard to do for anyone living in the US.
FWIW, I just bought a bunch of “brass, copper, lead” assemblies as “trade goods” prep. At about $0.50 each they make a nice inflation proof “half dollar”…
The simple fact is that at $Trillion every 100 days added debt from Bidet, er, Biden the $US is a dead dollar walking. I’m trying to move everything I can into non-$US anything… House is owned clear, cars too, and the boat. Probably ought to have loaded up on debt instead (so it can inflate away…) but chose “don’t need money” instead. But it is slow. Didn’t realize how much effort it takes to get rid of money ;-)
Especially while trying to preserve value…
Everything green, like wind and solar, EVs … plus government regulation in general shafts the poor more than anyone else. In some countries you can buy a brand new truck for $10,000. No A/C, no air bags, or seat belts, but it’s still safer than a motorcycle which is all a poor person can afford in the US due to all the auto safety regs. I like the idea to measure the proportion of socialism by the cost of government regulations and the degree of hampering of the free market, like auto safety or a carbon tax or mandated wind and solar or mandated types of appliances or …, if a decent calculation could be made for the US, I bet we’re already above 70%. It’s a nebulous measure for sure, but such a definition would avoid having to define specifics with respect to how the government controls the economy.
Positive engineering
“How a Steel Ball ‘Damper’ Saved a Building in Taiwan During the Earthquake”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/05/how-a-steel-ball-damper-saved-a-building-in-taiwan-during-the-earthquake-n3785980
Taking the “beat” out of the USA “birdflu beat-up”
Start here
“The New York Post ran a story yesterday headlined, “Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn.” The news was a single Texas dairy worker caught bird flu … so here we go again!”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/x-marks-the-shot-friday-april-5-2024?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
And read to find his symptoms
“Dense and Desperate Californians Need Class to Learn How to Leave the State”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/dense-desperate-californians-need-class-learn-leave-state/
Overtones of that joke about “improving the IQ of both coutries”
A possible investment in steel?
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/calling-larry-correia.html
@E.M. - Just so you know…
Scorpion Pepper Vs. Carolina Reaper Showdown (pepperscale.com)
So, not as hot as Carolina Reaper peppers, but d@mn hot!
Ya gotta stop at Dollar Tree and see if you can snag a bag of the Carolina Reaper cheese puffs. Now those are hot. OHH MOMMA!!!
Some vaguely-connected rambling.
Here in the UK, we’ve been having a lot more rain than normal. A lot more. The usual suspects and the BBC say it’s somehow evidence of Globull Warming.
Not so much mentioned was that huge underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
In the study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, Millán and his colleagues estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer.
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/
What goes up must come down, but thanks to prevailing winds, where will it come down? That volcano was in the Pacific, in the southern hemisphere. Will the prevailing winds pattern stop it crossing the equator into our northern hemisphere?
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-geophysical/chapter/global-atmospheric-circulations/
Not much mentioned by Al Beeb was the effect on farming. In a rural community, we still pay attention to what our local farmers say. Whatever our local reason for all the extra rain we’ve been getting, I’m told it’s been too wet to plant the usual spring crops yet. Fields in the valley are still flooded. The later in the year they do plant has obvious impacts on the available growing season and whether the crop yield will be as much as normal.
Lower crop yields = higher prices (again).
@Jim2:
Easy shortcut: Just measure the size of the US Legal Code and the height of the Federal Budget (paper stack several feet…). The first is the overall US Regulation / removal of freedoms. The second is the size of the graft, corruption, sweet deals for “constituents”, etc along with the size of the socialist “take” from the economy.
Other Shortcut: Measure tax take compared to GDP. Total tax take: sum of Federal, State, Local, Special “Districts”, and Deficit (future tax take spent now). Compare to GDP.
@Another Ian:
Per Bird Flue: Didn’t we already have Bird Flu a few dozen times?…
(MOST Flu swaps back and forth between cows, pigs, horses, birds etc. in China until a new variant forms. It then travels with migratory birds to the rest of the world; so in fact, most flu is “Bird Flu” at some time… )
Investing in steel is a huge challenge since most of it is made in China, Brazil or Russia. The USA mostly makes “boutique steel” via recycled materials.
FWIW
“The Reality Of Vitamin D Supplementation”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/reality-vitamin-d-supplementation
E.M.
Re “Investing in steel is a huge challenge since most of it is made in China, Brazil or Russia. The USA mostly makes “boutique steel” via recycled materials.”
No fleet of M60’s then?
Keith says: 7 April 2024 at 11:09 am “Here in the UK, we’ve been having a lot more rain than normal. A lot more.”
Are you sure about that?
I know the Met Office and the Beeb have been pushing that narative but the actual data looks a bit different.
The Eclypse! Too funny.
https://patriotclash.com/trump-post-goes-viral-with-hilarious-video-for-solar-eclipse/
Hold on to your wallet, your government is here to help!!!
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/08/0019201/us-energy-department-announces-blueprint-for-slashing-emissions-from-buildings-and-reducing-energy-use
FWIW
“Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-illusion-ruins
“On Contemplation of Eternal Hellfire“
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251099
“It’s not just Boeing…
Problems with Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engine, used by most recent-production Airbus A320-family airliners, have grounded almost a third of the fleet.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/its-not-just-boeing.html
“Contaminated metal powder” – sounds like it must have been a hell of a lot of it
FWIW – on the demising of empires
“Yellen Dispatched to Beg China for Face-Saving Slowdown”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/yellen-dispatched-to-beg-china-for
FWIW – more “Didn’t Earn It”
“DEI “Evidence” Debunked”
Multiple links
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/04/10/dei-evidence-debunked/
More on that
“African nation becomes ‘first country’ to outlaw entry of gas cars! EVs only! Ethiopia announces plans to ban import of gas-powered vehicles ‘to reduce its output of planet-warming pollution’ — But only 54% of people have ‘access to electricity’ “
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/10/african-nation-becomes-first-country-to-outlaw-entry-of-gas-cars-evs-only-ethiopia-announces-plans-to-ban-import-of-gas-powered-vehicles-to-reduce-its-output-of-plan/
Message to everyone,
This is under a reply to another Ian but I am asking everyone
Has anybody heard about Power Grab?
Let me explain
About 2 weeks ago I gave her my email address, she wrote to me, I sent her some of my piano playing she sent me two recordings of her piano playing
for 2 or 3 days we sent each other many emails back and forth,
then suddenly she stopped replying without any explanation…we were simply telling each other about our music, there was no disagreement or fighting or anything bad, we were simply talking about music
but then nothing…radio silence…
I have sent her 3 emails since then but she has never replied
and if I am not mistaken she has not posted any comments here either.
Do any of you know her outside of this blog or know if something happened to her?
Did something bad happened to her ?
Is she ok ?
“ICMJ hears how Russia rapidly developed a beef industry”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/icmj-hears-how-russia-rapidly-developed-a-beef-industry/
FWIW
“Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows
Fears are growing that the H5N1 outbreak among cattle in the United States could have been caused by contaminated animal feed.
In contrast to Britain and Europe, American farmers are still allowed to feed cattle and other farm animals ground-up waste from other animals including birds.
Dairy cows across six US states – and at least one farm worker – have become infected with the highly pathogenic virus, which has already killed millions of animals across the globe since 2021.
The farm worker, who is thought to have been exposed via infected cattle in Texas, is only the second recorded human H5N1 case in the US. Since February, the US has investigated and discounted a further 8,000 possible exposures, according to Dr Joshua Mott, WHO senior advisor on influenza.
Experts fear that H5N1, which was only first detected in cows a few weeks ago, may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called “poultry litter” – a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants.
In the UK and EU, feeding cows proteins from other animals has been tightly regulated since the outbreak of BSE – or ‘mad cow disease’ – 30 years ago.
Experts are unsure but fear it could be the poultry litter feed used in the US that has passed the virus to cattle.
“In the US, the feeding of poultry litter to beef cows is a known factor in the cause of botulism in cattle, and is a risk in the case of H5N1,” said Dr Steve Van Winden, Associate Professor in Population Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/chicken-waste-fed-to-cattle-may-be-behind-bird-flu-outbreak/
Live in fear anyway, it’s what the government wants.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/thursday-52/#comment-2754551
FWIW
“Science Proves Isaac Newton Doesn’t Even Break Into Top 8,000 All Time Greatest Scientists”
“Issac Newton was the greatest scientist. The calculus, mechanics, gravity, thermodynamics, astronomy, optics, the binomial theorem, even theology! You name it, Newton was there, looming over all of us.
“No way, Briggs. I checked. Newton only has an h-index of 70, whereas the great Richard Dawkins has an index of 83, and 83 is greater than 70, even without calculus.”
H-index?
“Yes. It’s a quantification of the amazingness of scientists. It’s a hard number, a solid metric, beloved of scientists and hiring committees, that quantifies their worth. Think of it like IQ.”
How’s it calculated?”
More at
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/science-proves-isaac-newton-doesnt?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=682601&post_id=143443465&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=umwt&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Via SDA
A comment in that article on the Russian beef industry –
FWIW – in there –
“The team and the people we met were great people, the Russians have a similar sense of humour to us.”
(Us being Australians)
@C.F. per Power Grab:
Over the years Power Grab has had various business & life challenges (I especially remember various car & truck failure issues) and they sometimes pull her away from blogs / email for a while as they get sorted out. It isn’t unusual.
@ E M Smith
Thank you
@AC – yes, Al Beeb is still pushing the “wettest ever!”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-68782450
@ CF:
I have been insanely busy of late. :-(
I need to squeeze in time to do my taxes this weekend, so I won’t have time to do much else this weekend.
I worked until after 10:00 p.m. last night. That’s not unusual. Lately I have had to work until 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m., or even 3:00 a.m.
I have asked the keeper of my most recent performances to give me access to them. I understand they are online, but I will have to have them send me a link to them.
My car is working at the moment. But we also are dealing with mice. :-P
Ok no problem
thank you
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