Saturday Open Thread - 8/23/25: Odds and Ends
Good morning, good people! We had a nice mini-vacay in Galveston, and there were two highlights: Probate court was amazing. The deputy clerks are electronically connected to the County Clerk's office. The 2 documents required to be signed by the appointed executors are signed electronically, and immediately available for issuance of letters of authority for the executors to manage the affairs of the estate. What takes my small and poor county 3 business days to do only took Galveston County 10 minutes. Rain ruined certain planned tourist destination visits, but the dinner at Gaido's was one to remember. It is a seafood restaurant, awarded a James Beard Foundation Award for 2025, and I do not eat seafood, so I ordered a rib-eye. I rank it with the one I had at Delmonico's. Just off the charts delicious. One of the best steaks of my damn life.
The damnedest thing that ever happened in my travels around the world happened Tuesday night at 3am. The bathroom door locked us out. Staff came with just the right screwdriver to unlock it. The guy made some remark to the effect that "Well, this is one of those doors, huh?" If we ever stay there again, regardless of room number, the bathroom door will never be closed after we exit the room!
I have this thought that there are some highly placed people in governments here and there who might be pedophiles, but Ghislane Maxwell says no, so I will just stop thinking.
Ghislaine Maxwell says no Jeffrey Epstein client list exists as DOJ releases interview recordings
The same news was reported by CNN, etc...This one from Crazy-Like-a-Foxx News was the easiest to link. They are all reading the bullet points given to the by the Deep State.
Well, friends, you never disappoint with dropping in comments to share with we c99ers. With that said, share any and all topics you think are worthwhile.
Let 'er rip!
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Happy Saturday, good people!
Does it seem that having our military on the street and Peter Theil's surveillance of you and me is getting normalized?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It will never be normalized
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in this abnormal mind
glad you enjoyed your steak
bummer about the baño
Thanks for the OT!
Zionism is a social disease
Good Morning...
Sounds like y'all had a nice working holiday, and a nice evening meal.
We've got more rain due this weekend, but next week is dry and cool. I'm looking forward to it. Next week I'm having some reground asphalt spread on my trouble spots. I'm hoping it will minimize the erosion. We'll see.
I expect increasing surveillance, especially if they replace the dollar with CBDC. Even hiding in the holler, TPTB can keep track of us if we're of interest...another way to create compliance.
At least we live in interesting times! Thanks for the OT.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning otc et. al. Farmers' market todfay, of course.
Don't know if there is any really new news, though there is some "solar" news:
- livescience.com/technology/your-gadgets-could-soon-be-battery-free-thanks-to-new-solar-cells-powered-by-indoor-light?utm_term=191830F9-42C0-41F9-AA3E-01AAF95FC893&lrh=0da18adf2eb14ba8b2a0a87f25947d731aa5737ce22d075f2b2e0f5fc0c9dbc0&utm_campaign=368B3745-DDE0-4A69-A2E8-62503D85375D&utm_medium=email&utm_content=820CCDB7-E7EC-4055-9731-9D7087C80CA5&utm_source=SmartBrief
Don't get your hopes up. The idea is that cells generating electricity from indoor ambient light would be more sustainable and cost-effectivve than batteries, if there's enough light to use your device, then there is enough light to power it. This is based on the use of perovskite cells, which are much more efficient that silicon cells and are already seeing some use in regular colar panels. There are, however, longevity issues with perovskite so this all remains to be seen. They're more or less hot-rodding the perovskite with other addditives and, I suspect, such alterations might well eat away the sustainability and cost-effectiveness, but that's simply my basic skepticism+pessimism.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --