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No sunrise photo this morning, though I did get out for today's sunrise. I let my phone battery die, so I was left using only my eyes to experience what was, today, a slow realization that the sun had already fully risen and I was seeing a very pale orange disc. How visible was it before I knew I was seeing it? The sneaky circle quickly brightened to the kind of deep solid orange that no one could miss.Without a sunrise photo, I'm giving you 2 photos I took yesterday afternoon at 10 to 5. This is a section of the UW Biocore where they did a prescribed burn in the early spring. It was charred black not long ago, and these are the native plants that grew in — very lush and healthy. That's our beloved Lake Mendota in the background.
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George Riddle passed away at 86. Who was he you say?
He was an actor for decades. Not a star, but that was his career.
He was conservative about most issues and could be very cantankerous. He was a character. He loved Afghan hounds.
He lived on a 4th floor brownstone walkup in NYC (East Village). He was next door neighbor to my mom's life long best friend.
Cheers!
I live close to the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa. They began a prairie reconstruction project in 1971, and continue to manage over 80 acres of natural prairie. It's a great place to take a walk with your dog and experience what the land here looked like before the settlers arrived.
Why did they do it, despite knowing the risks?
My unpopular opinion is that the search for meaning hits hardest the ones who can afford a dive into the bottom of the deep.
Eric Weinstein says "we have a worm inside our body"
I watched this video in its entirety. #MakeItMakeSense
If you like this kind of thing, click the link, quotation mark UW bio core quotation mark, and in that click the link quotation mark Prairie quotation mark. I thought this was all interesting and made me want to go out to the Prairie between Wisconsin and the Rockies and roll in the the grass.
Just heard via Twitter there's an insurrection against Putin in Russia?
google search
Who's waking Biden?
I took my wife to a local garden this morning for an outing; it was exceedingly pleasant; I am not any sort of green thumb but as apartment dwellers it was very good for both of us.
Just got Internet back after a power outage from 0530 Sunday to 2200 Monday. Xfinity went out, and we had an appointment for this afternoon which THEY cancelled without letting us know.
Finally talked to a human being who helped us troubleshoot. (Did I mention that neither Frau Narr nor I are technical adepts?)
We had to reconfigure our power cords in two rooms and will have to get new surge protectors.
I've missed you people.
Chat GPT is far, far, far, far, far, far better than the Chat assistants you get if you have a problem with a piece of computer or camera software or hardware. Far, far, far better. First, it's just one place to go and you get there at once. You don't have to wind about the manufacturer's site looking for "Help" on cleverly concealed drop-down menus. Second, you get an answer in seconds. And it's a good answer. While regular Chat assistants would still have you on hold, you have a list of things to try. And that's all regular chat assistants ever do - work slowly and stupidly through a list, the same list ChatGPT lets you see in its entirety at once.
I have hours of time saved to to sit here, saying: "It is a far, far, far better thing that ChatGPT does than any manufacturer's site has ever done. It is a far better rest that I go to when ChatGPT just cuts to the chase and I don't have to sit stewing over some pleasant incompetent's efforts; and getting mad. A few keystrokes and I can just shut my eyes and drift away. ChatGPT for President."
Something funny going on in Russia, where they apparently have the same political system that we've developed except with actual troops.
Wagner Group leader, Prigozin says Russia invaded Ukraine based on lies. Tim in Vermont and other American Russophiles most hurt.
“Earlier on Friday, Prigozhin had appeared to cross a new line in his increasingly vitriolic feud with the ministry, saying that the Kremlin's rationale for invading Ukraine was based on lies concocted by the army's top brass.
Prigozhin said his actions were not a military coup. But in a frenzied series of audio messages, in which the sound of his voice sometimes varied and could not be independently verified, he appeared to suggest that 25,000 fighters were en route to oust the leaders of the defence establishment in Moscow.
He said: "Those who destroyed our lads, who destroyed the lives of many tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, will be punished. I ask that no one offer resistance ..
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-mercenary-boss-says-moscows-war-ukraine-based-lies-2023-06-23/
I'm now six months in West Virginia. The bad news from Portland metro is still discouraging. It's been raining for nearly a week now and so I'm thinking about Oregon and here.
Moving from Chicago to Oregon was a big culture shock. This move has been a breeze. I can go down to the tavern nearby and talk right-wing politics with the guy on the next stool and not get treated by eavesdroppers like a fascist, white supremacist tranny-hater who will vote for Trump once more if I have to. I hate to have to be-closed mouthed even around my friends who don't want me to embarrass them in front of their friends so they would have to stop being my friend. It be crazy.
I can't wait to get out there on my new riding mower. I'm 71 and this is my first riding mower so you can imagine how disappointed I am with this rain. I also like leaving a store with a smile and a "Thank you, hon" from the checker. It's much more civilized here in the Eastern Panhandle.
How many times do we hear a news item listing costs in millions, billions, or trillions of dollars? People probably have no sense of these dollar amounts. Here's a rule of thumb for converting these numbers into a per-US-citizen cost.
There are about 330 million US citizens.
1. When govt spends a million dollars on something, that works out to be about 0.3 cents per citizen.
2. When govt spends a billion dollars, each citizen would need to come up with about $3 to cover it.
3. When govt spends a trillion dollars, each and every citizen would need to cough up about $3000 to cover it, $12,000 for a family of four.
The current US debt is somewhere in the neighborhood of $33 trillion dollars. If the above conversion numbers are correct, then our national debt works out to be around $100,000 debt for each and every one of us. I can't wrap my head around 33 trillion, but if the media would include a per-citizen breakdown conversion ($100,000 debt per person in this example), then that would make these numbers comprehensible.
I use the Keeper password manager. Their tech support, via email, is first rate. Immediate response. You can have a conversation via email, none of those "noreply@bozo.com" addresses (sorry Bozo). They had told me about a feature of Keeper that I didn't know about and that solved my issue on the first response. Needed some clarification about it, which they happily responded to.
Your pictures look similar to the newly cleared area on our property. We cleared the trees last year and the new meadow is a see of spear-ferns, sword-ferns, these purple-bell stalks and other vegetation. I used my tractor to clear half of the meadow about 6 weeks ago, the vegetation regenerate and I need to to it again.
YouTube censors Matt Orfalea's devastating Health Authorities Covid propaganda video.
Link to tweet with "unsuitable" video, in case you missed it. I posted a YouTube link to it about a week ago.
These fuckers are still serving the Kool-Aid?
It's a Friday night massacre at YouTube. They've also taken down a brilliant video Matt Orfalea made comparing Trump's election fraud claims to Hillary's election fraud claims.
Link to censored YouTube video now up on Twitter
It's just clips of people on both sides claiming fraud.
You people don't want to believe anything untoward is happening. Everything is hunky-dory.
Tweet: "Hunter Biden and Merrick Garland attended the same state dinner last night just hours after the Department of Justice was accused of a massive cover up involving Hunter's tax fraud case."
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Bicore Prairie seems to be weathering the dry spell.
Tweet from a US board-certified MD testifying before a Pensilvania panel: "99% of COVID Hospitalizations and Deaths Are Now Among the Vaccinated in Australia"
Scott Adams coins a new term: "Recreational Racial Torture"
It emerged from a deadly story in PA.
Something funny going on in Russia, where they apparently have the same political system that we've developed except with actual troops.
Wagner is moving against the MoD and has seized a city. Reports of Russian military and police switching sides to Wagner.
lonejustice, I live in central Illinois and often go to the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. Across the highway is the beautifully restored Buffalo Trace Prairie, a large preserve of gently rolling prairie grasslands where herds of buffalo once roamed. There are now hiking and biking trails, but I love to walk out into the grasslands filled with native plants and birds. It's other worldly to just stand there, take in the sounds and smells, and imagine it as it was then, an American Eden.
"The Prigozhin coup attempt is just an attempt to distract you from the latest Hunter Biden revelations. Don't fall for it."
Reports are that some Russian forces are defecting to the mercenary Wagner forces that had been fighting for Russia, but now are determined to bring down Moscow.
After leaving Ukraine, the Wagner troops have now taken the Russian HQ that was directing the Ukraine War.
Just watched all eight "Jury Duty" videos nonstop on Amazon Freevee.
included, of course, was the scene in which socially-awkward juror, Todd, wears a shirt that says "jorf" while visiting a restaurant with the rest of the jury. Several other customers become enraged at the sight of this shirt, claiming that "jorf" is a secret code for white supremacists to identify one another.
And I immediately decided that this would be appropriate to substitute for "MAGA", front and center on Trump's 2024 version of his campaign cap.
Now that biden has been completely exposed by the IRS whistleblowers and their tangible evidence, I suspect the "respectable republican" Usual Suspects at the lefty tech funded The National Review will be calling for a 3rd impeachment for Trump.
Oh look!! Just another quid pro JOE!!
So obvious, that EVEN a NYT "journo" is reporting on it!!
Kenneth P. Vogel
@kenvogel
Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/06/23/nyt-reporter-noticed-what-happened-within-10-days-of-hunters-whatsapp-message-to-chinese-official-n2384794
Milwaukie guy said...
"I'm now six months in West Virginia. The bad news from Portland metro is still discouraging. It's been raining for nearly a week now and so I'm thinking about Oregon and here."
We lived in Martinsburg for a while, and though it didn't work out for us as we hoped, we enjoyed our time there. It's close to historical sites - in fact it has its own history from the Revolutionary War on up - good places to eat, and a friendly ambiance. Shepherdstown is quirky and just on the edge of wokeness, but by and large, the communities in the area are amenable to pretty much any political bent.
Now we live in south central PA and the rural lifestyle around here is a lot like central Wisconsin, including the Mennonite/Amish farms. Much preferable to the island of unreality that is Madison.
Portland's DA, Mike Schmidt, is once again protecting his Antifa buddies. A pedophile Antifa terrorist, Blake David Hampe, 46, stabbed a black conservative, Andrew Duncom during the 2020 "Summer of Love." Schmidt reduced the felony charges to misdemeanors. Nice to have Antifa buddies in high places that can offer protection.
Beautiful pix and thanks for the information. Nature's inestimable regenerative powers in plain sight. Too bad the innate human tendency to catastrophize and imagine we have spoiled the planet with warming cannot apply this simple lesson. We could save ourselves a lot of money and a whole new level of problems being created by the relentlessly grasping grifters and the foolish busybodies who enable them. Look at the Dutch and their farmers, for example.
Enovix batteries will have a much longer charged capacity. And much cooler.
Our .4 acre of lawn wants to revert to forest, and a few weeks without cutting brings out the first volunteer oaks. Our narrow side yard on the east is well along, with a lot of green competition for the mid-day rays.
Speaking of prairies and buffalo, many of the great routes of America began as animal tracks and Indian pathways and portages. Successive generations of technology have obscured the story.
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