07/29 OT: Bits and Pieces
Jigsaw Puzzle
Health and Nutrition
I recall a court case not too horribly long ago involving some purveyor of chicken "nuggets" wherein the judge, in dicta, iirc, said something to the effect of "I don't see how you can call this "chicken"". Then there was the great pink slime ruckus which came to nothing much. Meanwhile we have developed not only a vast variety of veggie "meats" but even lab or vat grown "meats" which are not particularly seen as at all that scary anymore. So time marches and it was virtually certain that somebody would develop bio-printed meat, or, at least bio-printed chicken nuggets. Yep, printed, and the prize goes to Putin, no wait, The Colonel, or, well would you believe a Kaintucky-Russia, Russia, Russia joint venture? No, this is not a joke, fraud, farce or hoax, Well, maybe a farce, but what isn't. So did KFC pick Russia Russia Russia because they are ahead of us or because they're behind us, or is this just part of Putin's unending war on our way of life. Well, actually, this pretty much IS our way of life, so scratch that last one.
So, steel yourself and peek behind that veil at https://global.kfc.com/press-release/meat-of-the-future-kfc-and-3d-biopr... where you will behold the online press release to beat all online press releases:
>Strong>MEAT OF THE FUTURE: KFC AND 3D BIOPRINTING SOLUTIONS TO USE A BIOPRINTER TO PRODUCE KFC NUGGETS
But really, I ask you, Isn't soylent green only good or bad depending upon what is in the bio-reactor, and even so, isn't recycling a good thing? Well?
Homeland Insecurity
Ok, get ready for it, ok ---- “Disturbing And Demoralizing”: DHS Employees Are Worried The Portland Protest Response Is Destroying Their Agency’s Reputation (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/dhs-employee-anger-ove...) Ok, ok, stop it with the "As if", this is a real issue for real people, so I decided to address it. Dear DHSniks, you need to start with an objective appraisal of the situation. It's not like the populace ranks you up there with Bankers, Realtors, Attorneys, or even Telemarketers, for FSM's sake. I did a round of word associations locally and got "luggage thieves, child abusers, kidnappers, terrorists, spies and eavesdroppers, those who try to frame suspected dopers, wannabe censors, Storm-Troopers, thugs, and more (or would that be less?). Now, of course, you cannot all be all, or even any of those things. You have many departments, like a Hydra, so one would be unlikely to find a single individual who is both a luggage thief and a Storm-Trooper. Beyond that, many of you never get to stand in the spotlight and share the glory, but you can still be proud to be the enablers and perhaps co-conspirators. After all, somebody has to keep track of the overtime and travel pay. Probably only 25% at most would be willing to put in long hours clubbing people and caging children purely for the fun and glory of it. Whatever may come, just remember that you've got the name: Homeland from Geheimstadt, intended from day one to instill fear and terror and the aura of unquestionable power and authority, so sit back and enjoy it, after all, no other agency has Storm-Troopers, right? You' da boss!
Second Best
The US might not be the only country to shoot down a commercial passenget liner flying out of a commercial airport on a normal commercial route, transmitting the IFF signal for a commercial passenger airline, but It's the only one I know of. That would be Iran Air 655 which we initially tried to allege to have been attacking one of our warships. Team Trump only scared the shit out of the crew of an Iranian passenger aircraft in Syrian Airspace on a flight from Tehran to Beirut. Several passengers were injured during the abrupt manuvers the airline had to made to avoid collision with a US F-15 that harassed it. Of course, the US has a different version, but they start their narrative with preposterous lies, so how can one believe any of it.
US Central Command said the US F-15 was on a routine mission in Syria and conducted “a standard visual inspection of a Mahan Air passenger airliner at a safe distance of approximately 1,000 metres”.
There are no routine missions in Syria. The US forces are there illegally, committing an endless series of acta of war because their very presence is an act of war. This was an act of aggression against both Syria, whose airspace we were invading with hostile intent and Iran, whose craft we harassed.
US Central Command said a single F-15 had made a visual inspection of the Iranian airliner “in accordance with international standards” to ensure the safety of coalition personnel at the military base in Al Tanf.
No international standards cover the operations of military aircraft of a belligerent country illegally and without provocation waging undeclared war against a country and invading its airspace with respect to civilian aircraft belonging to neither country operating in the airspace of the non-aggressor party. There is no need to protect the personnel or an aggressor war criminal base from a civilian passenger craft loaded with passengers on a commercial flight. Random countries don't harass our commercial flights to "protect" their nearby military bases. US based airlines flying routine commercial flights in the Caribbean aren't harassed by Cuban and Venezuelan forces to insure the safety of their bases, that is a total crock of shit.
So whatever, a few injuries, no fatalities, Trump is still waaaay second best to Rancid Ronnie Raygun.Tsk, tsk.
Economics
The savants at The Economist must've been working overtime, they finally more-or-less realized something. In a 3 part title, with a prefatory line saying Nature Depreciation they assert that The world’s wealth is looking increasingly unnatural
As natural wealth is used up, economies will rely more on human capital Finally, in 2020, they begin to realize that the earth's resources are finite and cannot be infinitely exploited forever. Instead, they, naturally enough, propose that economies will have to exploit human capital, because Gaia forbid that an economy exist somewhere that isn't based on the exploitation of something. I mean, without exploitation, how do the oligarch-rentiers amass ever more wealth for doing evermore less and less?
But, they did get something right. I can't help but wonder how they'll try to monetize that hugely belated bit of awareness.
Covid-19
It is killing people, many and possibly most of whom would probably not be dying quite so soon otherwise. Some people think that this is a bad thing. Some not so much. More will die. One place in Texas is resorting to triage because its medical facilities are so overwhelmed. Funny revelations about a great many things have occurred. Though any hippie could've told everybody that barbershops were non-essential, that fact has surprised, dismayed, and disappointed vast numbers. Ditto hair and nail salons. Ages ago I worked for the federal government during a budget driven shut-down. All non-essential persons were to stay home. Those of us who showed up looked around knowingly and said uh huh, thought so, many, many times. Now we have a great opportunity to look around and say uh huh, but we won't, we won't really learn anything from this experience. We have vast numbers of unemployed, who could've been cranking out PPE, and tests, administering and processing tests, building out certain kinds of infrastructure, and many other things that would've helped both those employed doing such things and the populace as a whole, and the real economy and the nation, but that isn't the American way. Instead we gave billions to the parasites who we (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) call job creators and sat on our hands and whined about the lack of baseball. The Marlins thank you, y'all..
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It's an open thread, so have at it. The floor is yours
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We have to run up to Vacaville (a real cow town) on business early this am and have no idea when we'll get home. As a result I'm not too likely to be about much.
Comments
Equivocation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
huh? oh never mind
out logic
Equivocation II
Springbok Puzzle
Ben Cunningham, 1965
My copy of that puzzle is underneath what wasn't left of Santa Rosa after the Tubbs wildfire, I miss having it. Oh well ancient history regrets. Resolve to acquire no more stuff through inheritance. easy now
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lol
acronym overload
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gas and plastic
Hey wow!
Brings back long forgotten memories.
Had that puzzle as a youth.
Almost went blind solving it.
Very challenging.
question everything
Hola QMS, thanks for the tune.
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 --
That's a fabulous puzze eyo. I don't think I ever had
it but I have seen the graphic and loved it. Sorry you lost it.
They should clone a copy and train it on rap, good get rich quick scheme.
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 --
just noticed that my original reply didn't ost as such, in a
rush, I was, sorry.
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 --
Good morning eyo. There are two types or forms of
equivocation, which is but sesquipedalian for "pun", which is a sentence no bot will ever write. In the words of the great Hudie Ledbetter, "I got to roll, roll in a hurry", so, hoping to post a better reply later, I'm off.
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 --
Must admit I've avoided...
the barber since the pandemic. Haven't had hair this long since the 70's. Still another month till I can get it out of the way with a ponytail.
Why aren't people/journalist explaining the Romney amendment in the HEALS act?
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-mitt-romney-wants-to-use-th...
The compromise is to wait till after the election to set up the so called trust committee...yeah right.
As we suspected, trade a one time $1200 for your social security and medicare and the dims are complicit and silent as they were with the CARES act that was the largest transfer of wealth to the elite in our history.
Someone here has the sig line "we are so screwed" How true!
Been busy this AM. Harvested, cleaned, and have cooking the last of the collards and broccoli (till fall). Also manured and mulched the bed they came out of, now ready for fall crops. Time to get those flats started for fall...cabbage, broccoli, collards, lettuce, onions, and so on seed can be planted. I direct seed some things into the garden, too. Spinach, carrots, radish can all be planted now in my zone.
So far we've had a mild summer with regular showers. I've only irrigated twice. Very unusual.
Well have a good one. Put those headlights on bright and think about what's coming and how to best cope.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
We’ve had a very mild summer here as well
Usually by the time August rolls around we’ve had several weeks of earth scorching heat. Hasn’t happened yet. We haven’t even hit past 95 degrees all summer. And most days we hover in the eighties where I can even feel a cool breeze in the shady parts of the garden. Delightful.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Hola Lookout. Pandemic is perfect setting for graft and grift
and the graftiest, griftiest politicians in living memory are all assembled to feast. Sounds like you've been busy and will be busy. Good wishes for your next set of crops.
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 --
The Impossible Burgers
Are a big thing at Trader Joe’s. Expensive too. Almost $8 for a package that might make 3 small burgers. People swear they taste “just like beef”. Haven’t put that to the test myself but I’m highly doubtful that anything could taste as good as a beef burger. A friend of mine who went vegan several months ago (and gained a lot of weight from all the breads and pastas she’s now eating) is sure I will eventually give up meat as well. Why is she so sure I will be doing this? Because I’m a Buddhist and as far as she’s concerned, the two go together. Which they may theoretically. But I still believe I can be a meat eating Buddhist who is perfectly capable of bringing value, compassion, and love to my family, friends and community. Not to mention I’ve known a lot vegans in my life who were selfish narcissists I wouldn’t care to break bread with under any circumstances. Life is never just black and white. It’s often in the gray areas where we tend to our souls.
Thank for this morning’s OT. Still laughing about the flambé joke you made yesterday. Lol.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Hola Anja. 8 bux for 3 small burger sounds like ye typical
fast food joint.
Buddha was captured. He trod a certain path and arrived at certain precepts. To be a Buddhist should not be to blindly follow those precepts by rote, but to follow that path and see what precepts you yourself find along the way.
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 --
The Iranian passenger airline and automatic controls.
I once read that modern jet liners have automatically collusion controls which will automatically put the airliner into a quick dissent. But this type of harassment not uncommon. An Russian airliner for the Defense Minister was flying back to Russia when an American fighter jet approached it. From behind the American fighter looks like two Russian fighters approached and one of them did a banking maneuver to force the American fighter away. I think the other one stayed behind probably aiming a missile.
Hola Mr. Webster. Good info. Thanks.
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 --
afternoon el
et al
Sunny here in the afternoons. Garden is doing well with it. But there is powdery mildew appearing. Yuk. What to do?
This crossed my path in my climate readings.
Newer PFAS contaminant detected for first time in Arctic seawater
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200729114838.htm
Well, well, well, how are we gonna turn this ship around? Be here now and love the ones your with.
Take good care and have a good one, all.
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good afternoon magi. Just recently back myself. I've
heard that Neem Oil works on powdery mildew, have no personal experience. Horrible, but not completely a surprise about the new PFAs. You mentioned the Fram straight as the context for this which made me think of Fram Oil Filters. Coincidence or happenstance?
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 --