Althouse: Sunrise — 6:24, 6:27.

April 5, 2024

Sunrise — 6:24, 6:27.

28 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Lots of shades mixed with colors. I like them. I like the beaver dam simulacrum too. You got sailing ships approaching. There a lot going on.; 4/5/24, 5:28 PM
Humperdink said...: > Crude oil closed 1/20/2021 $52.27.
> Crude oil closed today $86.73.

Scratching my head as to what occurred on Jan 20, 2021.

To make matters even more interesting, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is down over 200 million barrels. Biden dumped the crude to keep gasoline prices low.; 4/5/24, 6:37 PM
mongo said...: My brother is a prepper. He has heard/read that something is going to happen next Monday which will mean the end of our civilization. I’m not sure what he thinks will bring this about- maybe an EMP attack. I want to think he is mistaken at best and have seen nothing about the subject anywhere. Have any of you?; 4/5/24, 6:41 PM
Josephbleau said...: That is a new on, a "dendritic" tree shaped sunrise cloud.; 4/5/24, 7:09 PM
Mason G said...: "To make matters even more interesting, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is down over 200 million barrels. Biden dumped the crude to keep gasoline prices low."

$3.79/gal. at the corner station today, it was $2.89/gal. six weeks ago.

It was $2.04/gal. in Jan. 2021.; 4/5/24, 8:37 PM
Jay said...: I cannot believe the horrible abuse that poor U.S. Senate candidate is getting for pointing out that the New Jersey earthquake was caused by the climate crisis.

She is absolutely right. Gaia's poor stressed crust is still rebounding from the melting of the ice cap caused by those ancient SUV's from Atlantis.

End emissions, restore the ice caps!!!; 4/5/24, 8:38 PM
Josephbleau said...: "To make matters even more interesting, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is down over 200 million barrels. Biden dumped the crude to keep gasoline prices low."

The lack of a strategic reserve of oil creates price volatility. There is no plan B, you buy current production, or shut down your plants.; 4/5/24, 8:50 PM
Smilin' Jack said...: “My brother is a prepper. He has heard/read that something is going to happen next Monday which will mean the end of our civilization. I’m not sure what he thinks will bring this about- maybe an EMP attack. I want to think he is mistaken at best and have seen nothing about the subject anywhere. Have any of you?”

It’s a total solar eclipse. But your brother is overreacting. All he has to do is sacrifice a virgin to bring back the sun.; 4/5/24, 8:52 PM
Iman said...: Lovely setting and pics!; 4/5/24, 8:55 PM
rhhardin said...: Psychological Review, via derb, abstract:

The open science framework has garnered increased visibility and has been partially implemented in recent years. Open science underscores the importance of transparency and reproducibility to conduct rigorous science. Recently, several journals published by the American Psychological Association have begun adopting the open science framework. At the same time, the field of psychology has been reckoning with the current sociopolitical climate regarding anti-Blackness and White supremacy. As psychology begins to adopt the open science framework into its journals, the authors underscore the importance of embracing and aligning open science with frameworks and theories that have the potential to move the field toward antiracism and away from the embedded White supremacy value systems and ideals. The present article provides an overview of the open science framework; an examination of White supremacist ideology in research and publishing; guidance on how to move away from these pernicious values; and a proposal on alternate value systems to center equity, diversity, and inclusion with the aim of establishing an antiracist open science framework.; 4/5/24, 9:48 PM
iowan2 said...: IOWA Ladies, come back the get the better of UCONN. Great game that swung to Iowa as the time hit zeros.; 4/5/24, 11:12 PM
gadfly said...: Humperdink:

After the 1973 oil embargo that saw skyrocketing gas prices in the United States, Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, to take the bump out of gasoline prices whenever the Arabs blew up world crude prices and supply. But all we have ever stored underground was heavy crude with high sulfur content, mostly foreign, which doesn't work well in U.S. refineries built to handle U.S. light sweet crude.

Now that we are the largest oil supplier in the world, the need to tie up investments in unneeded reserves has become "ludicrous."; 4/6/24, 2:06 AM
Humperdink said...: RFK Jr. was interviewed by Howie Carr a few days ago. Carr asked RFK Jr. about being denied Secret Service by the Biden administration. Bobby responded with something that I did not know. Prior to his father's assassination, only presidential nominees were given SS protection. After RFk Sr's death, all candidates were given SS protection, including Lyndon LaRouche.

RFK Jr. doesn't think Biden wants him dead, he thinks Biden wants to hurt him financially. Kennedy pays over $1 million per month in security. Gee Biden bankrupting the opposition? Where have we seen that before?; 4/6/24, 6:02 AM
Rocco said...: mongo said...
"My brother is a prepper. He has heard/read that something is going to happen next Monday which will mean the end of our civilization. I’m not sure what he thinks will bring this about- maybe an EMP attack. I want to think he is mistaken at best and have seen nothing about the subject anywhere. Have any of you?"

Haven't heard anything.

I would say don't worry about next Monday and just enjoy the eclipse this Monday.; 4/6/24, 6:18 AM
tim in vermont said...: https://www.weather.gov

Will give you forecasted cloud cover %, it's one of the graphs in the 48 hour forecast. Looks like 5% cloud cover here at the time of the eclipse.; 4/6/24, 6:32 AM
tim in vermont said...: Sorry, you click on the map, then choose hourly forecast.; 4/6/24, 6:37 AM
Humperdink said...: @ the gad. I read your response and it makes no sense. Why? Because your lackeys in the media specifically stated the draining of the SPR was to reduce gasoline prices. Maybe you lefties should lobby to fill the SPR with lithium batteries from China. Everybody wins: China, Biden, Hunter ... the whole cabal.

Further, recall early on in the Slo' Joe administration they did everything in their power to halt crude production, including shutting down pipelines for transport. Now they are going after methane (read: natural gas). When you pump crude, you get methane. And don't tell me about worthless leases.; 4/6/24, 6:37 AM
wildswan said...: RFK Sr. was assassinated by a Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan, because of Kennedy's declared support for Israel. RFK Sr. represented mainstream Democratic party thinking then; I guess Sirhan Sirhan represents the Dems in control of Biden now.; 4/6/24, 6:39 AM
donald said...: It’s only ludicrous if you’re retarded.; 4/6/24, 6:47 AM
Mr. O. Possum said...: Winner of this week's (or this hour's) lazy reporting and editing award...

.NYT Story on a mysterious possible planned cyberattack thwarted by a Microsoft engineer.

Fourth paragraph: "His job involves developing a piece of open-source database software known as PostgreSQL, whose details would probably bore you to tears if I could explain them correctly, which I can’t."

That's your job! And it's the editor's job to make you learn the details on behalf of readers.

Later in the story the proposed villains are China or Russia. No suggestion that the US might have wanted to disable software to serve its own interests.

Also interesting is that the story mentions that software types in Calif. like to joke that the internet is maintained by a "random guy in Nebraska." A sliver of an insight into what some think of rural Americans.; 4/6/24, 6:57 AM
Mr. O. Possum said...: And if you follow a link in the above NYT computer story you come to a software industry person describing how the initial hack happened.

Some random unknown person suggested it....here...and browbeat someone into letting it happen.

Then a commenter says: "I really hope that this causes an industry-wide reckoning with the common practice of letting your entire goddamn product rest on the shoulders of one overworked person having a slow mental health crisis without financially or operationally supporting them whatsoever."

Does not inspire confidence in how adults are running the world. The "product" is the software that runs factories, hospitals, etc.; 4/6/24, 7:08 AM
planetgeo said...: "The present article provides an overview of the open science framework...and a proposal on alternate value systems to center equity, diversity, and inclusion with the aim of establishing an antiscience open racist framework."

FIFY; 4/6/24, 7:22 AM
Dave Begley said...: Biden in Madison on Monday.

And, yes, I am that random guy in Nebraska who maintains the World Wide Web. I am the Master of the Universe!; 4/6/24, 7:48 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: For all the prediction of weather...
Use this weather site. Click on menu items in the left panel to answer your query..

https://www.ventusky.com/; 4/6/24, 7:54 AM
jaydub said...: Exactly where in Madison is Mongo's brother supposed to find a virgin?; 4/6/24, 8:12 AM
Iman said...: Great basketball game, Iowa!; 4/6/24, 8:22 AM
Kai Akker said...: Our veddy good Fed and its mates around the globe.... no problems too big that taxpayers can't bail them out.

"In case you missed it, Sweden’s central bank on Tuesday asked Swedish taxpayers for a cash infusion of around $4.1 billion. It’s the latest data point to emerge from the enormous economic experiment the world began in 2008.

"The Riksbank is asking Parliament for the equity injection to make good the losses the central bank has experienced as a result of quantitative-easing policies.

"The Bank of England is inflicting even more misery on itself and the British fisc. It is by far the largest central bank to engage in “active QT”—the sale of assets into the marketplace—and a parliamentary report earlier this year estimated the bank’s total losses could stretch to £130 billion, or around $165 billion. Taxpayers are on the hook for quarterly payments to the central bank to cover those losses since the government indemnified the QE program when it started in 2009.

"...the Fed, unlike its British and Swedish counterparts, is implementing a policy of “passive runoff,” meaning bonds fall off its balance sheet only when they mature and are redeemed by Treasury at face value. As long as this is the case, one can ignore startling data about net unrealized losses on the Fed’s asset portfolio, which stood at $1.3 trillion as of September 2023... But it will leave a hole of tens of billions a year in the federal budget as Fed remittances to Treasury disappear."

Joseph Sternberg in the WSJ, 4/4.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/another-cost-of-cheap-money-comes-into-view-central-banking-c07b86f5; 4/6/24, 9:12 AM
Narr said...: Mongo, I've seen lots of things on YouTube explaining/warning about what to expect on the 8th . . . one feature is that most of the eye-visible planets will be close together on the mornings of April 7 and 8. A fairly rare alignment IIUC.

If skies are clear I may try to see them.; 4/6/24, 10:38 AM