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May 19, 2025
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I just discovered that the iPhone Maps app has flyover tours for many major cities if you click on the city name on the maap and then select Flyover. I found this out by accident while looking at Tokyo on the map, then went and looked at Berlin. In the U.S., it's kind of hit or miss. Boston, New York, Baltimore, Charleston, Miami, New Orleans, St. Louis, Detroit and San Francisco all have flyovers, as does Mobile, Alabama. However, cities like Kansas City, Tampa, Orlando and Washington D.C. do not.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/oil-spill-monday-may-19-2025-c-and
“Orange skies
Carnivals and cotton candy
And you
And I love you too
You know I do”
—— Bryan Maclean “Orange Skies” off of Love’s “Da Capo” album
Nice walleye chop
Walmart to raise prices despite US-China trade deal ~ WSJ
I thought China was going to pay the tariffs. Just like Mexico was going to pay for the wall.
@narcisso, interesting graphs there. King Charles apparently has pancreatic cancer, and only a couple of years left, as he's declined chemotherapy. I wonder when we'll start seeing the 'Covid effect' graphs that apply to western society.
LOL, a guy who thought that we should really vote for Joe Biden is suddenly worried about rising prices.
The guy who thinks that bringing in millions of migrants to drive up rents and drive down wages is sound policy is suddenly worried about WallMart shoppers.
Rich. Biden voters opinions don't carry much weight here.
This guy adds guitar solos to modern pop songs that just don't do them anymore, and it's pretty amazing.
https://youtu.be/Mb6y6Qlsyvw?si=1SjlNTXS_XhpK3Rn
A few weeks ago, we were supposed to see the unexpurgated Epstein Files. Today, the FBI comes out and says Epstein Did Kill Himself..... and we still don't know any of the names from Epstein Island.
Today is the 39th anniversary of So, the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986.
All four previous Peter Gabriel releases where self-titled Peter Gabriel. "So" is considered his big time breakout album.
"Stereogum placed it at number one on its list of Gabriel's best albums, writing, "Peter Gabriel's fifth studio album is a mesmerizing dichotomy: simultaneously hooky and experimental; timeless, yet completely crystallizing its moment in history ... It's a masterpiece."
I just happened to be listening to Atlanta's "Steve’s College of Musical Knowledge” when I heard that tidbit about the legendary Peter Gabriel.
@lemvibebanditory— So by Peter Gabriel was indeed seminal…don’t give up is a timeless classic.
Onto another topic, cancer in the news. Every day I am hearing about someone else with cancer— young people, toddlers, strange, unheard of diagnoses…I will be dismissed as relying on “anecdotal” data.. but it means something, I am convinced. I will be looking for someone to tabulate excess deaths since Covid. Something weird is happening.
I bought a mini-iPad for my Uber app so I could enlarge the text just enough not to raise alarms and still read the darn thing. So, I've been calling Uber support, because (apparently) the app text is not dynamic. 2 calls to support and they tell me to expect a call from tech support that day. I've received no call from tech support.
While thinking about why, I recall how slick and finished the passenger Uber app looks, compared to the Driver app. Then it hits me. The driver app is a place-holder until the robocars are ready. Why spend valuable resources improving an app that's meant to whither on the vine.
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@Michael Fitzgerald .."A few weeks ago, we were supposed to see the unexpurgated Epstein Files. Today, the FBI comes out and says Epstein Did Kill Himself..... and we still don't know any of the names from Epstein Island...."
Not to mention Ghislane Maxwell, in the penitentiary for 20 years, for trafficking young girls to... apparently, nobody.
No January 6th tapes yet either, but $$ to Ms. Babbitt's family, not saying that's wrong, just pointing out that the former's still 'not yet'.
Today is the 39th anniversary of So, the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986.
That's a Top 10 personal favorite. (And I'm Rush, Zep, Floyd, Tool, etc guy.) Still have - and regularly play - the CD and the LP.
Both Genesis and Gabriel excelled after he went solo.
Is that a duck on the dock?
Not to mention Ghislane Maxwell, in the penitentiary for 20 years, for trafficking young girls to... apparently, nobody.
We have a Gitmo like detainee, not charge with anything remotely pertinent to the Patriot Act.
I did not realize how badly hurt Dennis Prager was after his fall from a ladder at home:
“He remains paralyzed from the shoulders down but is undergoing extensive rehabilitation. The injury is described as “incomplete,” meaning there is potential for some neural recovery.” (Grok)
'The reputation of Biden and his enabling aides may have been irretrievably tarnished by the cover-up of his mental and physical decline. But so, too, is the reputation of the regime stenographers who propped them all up."
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/18/the-outrageous-cover-up-of-joe-bidens-decline/
The things you learn about your neighbors. Or their schools at least. Over in Loudoun County, Virginia, which borders my county, a teenaged biological female (formerly known by the term “girl”) who claimed to be trans entered the boys’ locker room and used her cell phone to record three teenaged biological males who identify as.boys who were changing clothes. The school system is investigating the three boys for complaining about the incident, because of course it is.
Ref Peter Gabriel's So: Red Rain, Don't Give Up with Kate Bush, In Your Eyes with Youssou N'Dour, and Mercy Street are incredible groundbreaking songs that don't easily fit any genre.
Sledgehammer and Big Time, not so much.
Many of these songs are on Secret World Live, his double album recorded in Modena. Paula Cole and Papa Wemba sub in for Bush and N'Dour, but still great.
JSM
Back in 2017 Joe and Jill founded a charity called the Biden Cancer Initiative. In its first two years the charity collected $4.8 million. The amount it spent on research grants: zero.
Is it karma that he’s now dying of prostate cancer?
I honestly think we’re dealing with a bunch of toddlers. The Dem-media complex keeps claiming innocence about stealing the cookies, when we basically have it on tape. Come clean already. You’re not convincing and you will not be skipping the consequence phase. Why you think we don’t see you and won’t require a full confession is simply astonishing.
Everybody knew except the public, that Mueller was senile. "Nobody knows what Mueller knows..." Not even Mueller, apparently. The press has zero problems protecting the Democrats and lying to us on their behalf. Zero.
"I honestly think we’re dealing with a bunch of toddlers."
They think it's better that we think them stupid rather than know the truth about them. This is another primary rule of theirs. It's right up there with accusing the other side of whatever you are guilty of.
Big Mike, are you following the Buffalo Public School scandal? It is the same stuff. Schools claiming they are safe by making damn sure no one reports the crime that is occurring. Even the local “news” initial response is to attack the credibility of the whistleblower. What prompted the whistleblower to come forward was a school deleting video evidence of an attempted kidnapping of two elementary age kids by a complete stranger. Without the evidence, the kidnapper was facing misdemeanor charges, but now has 4 felony charges. The school didn’t even tell the parents.
Apparently MAGA Republicans have stopped worrying about the government's debt burden.
Tough one for Americans now because they’ll soon realize that the bond markets and not the White House is in charge..
On Fantasy Island DOGE cuts and big beautiful tariff revenues will solve this. Tax cuts will then boost tax revenues creating a budget surplus as America sails into a golden age of financial stability. Nurse!
Lem Vibe Banditory said...
“Today is the 39th anniversary of So, the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986.”
So was one of those rare albums that was liked by both people who loathed current pop music but liked other current music, and people who loved current pop music.
@ john mosby
The music video for "Sledgehammer" was pretty groundbreaking, though, back in those days when MTV played music videos. "I was there. 3000 years ago..."
I saw Peter Gabriel in Worcester in 1986. I’m not sure if I ever went to a Genesis show pre or post…
Lem Vibe Banditory said… “The driver app is a place-holder until the robocars are ready.”
The robocars (Google version) are ubiquitous in the Phoenix area. I use them for trips to and from the airport, and it’s a pleasant experience. They drive carefully, obey all traffic laws, and don’t expect a tip. I was impressed recently by the little Waymo’s ability to maneuver to the curb of an extremely crowded arrivals area. It waited patiently, saw its chance and slid right in 15 feet from where I stood.
The only problem: it seems to think I live next door. We have notified Waymo Central.
Lighten up with a Talking Baby Podcast...
https://x.com/itsme_urstruly/status/1924411390468796526
@Leland, I keep track of Loudoun because it’s right next door. I have to drive through it to visit son, daughter in law, and world’s smartest and most adorable granddaughter.
Why don't you tell us more about stuff you don't know anything about, like your "walleye chop." A walleye chop is when the wind comes up quickly on a previously calm day, and changes the light conditions in the water, mimicking dusk, and triggering the walleye to bite. You can't tell a "walleye chop" from a photos that are not a time series.
But I don't think you care about the truth value of anything you say, Kaki.
Are those docks in the water all year-round or seasonally?
And who can forget the jaunty opening chords of Gabriel’s “Salisbury Steak” ?
"No. They're floating docks."
And when the wind is up, as it was yesterday, it's very bouncy. I don't like them in the photos — though Meade does — so I often walk out to the end of the dock, but yesterday I didn't want to. Too scary! That person you see in photo #2, a random stranger, is sitting down. Not a great place to sit, given the chance of goose excrement, but I understand why she chose to sit.
Jaq — I doubt you’d know which end of the rod to hold.
“Walleye chop" is a term used by walleye anglers for rough water typically with winds of 5 to 15 mph (7 to 24 km/h), and is one of the indicators for good walleye fishing due to the walleye's increased feeding activity during such conditions.”
Tight lines ….
Jaq—for extra credit why don’t you share with us how or why a “bird’s nest” is created on a bait casting spool?
Even ChatGPT knows that you are wrong.
A sudden onset of surface waves, especially under changing cloud cover or wind conditions, can rapidly alter underwater light intensity and visibility. For walleyes, who are extremely sensitive to light changes, this mimics the conditions of dawn and dusk—times when walleyes naturally become more active and aggressive feeders.
In other words, the term "walleye chop" isn't merely describing surface conditions. It's also about the rapid change in underwater lighting, creating a "trigger" event similar to low-light feeding periods.
Thus, the key points are:
The shift in light conditions (from bright to darker, or more broken patterns of light) is a trigger for feeding.
Surface disturbance (the "chop") accelerates or mimics these conditions even during midday.
Walleyes become temporarily more aggressive, feeling safer and more willing to strike.
But I will give you the possibility that the term has fallen into misuse as people who don't understand it think that it is cool and repeat it without understanding it.
Jaq has to travel over to a LLM to get his fishing knowledge…..🤣🤣🤣
Seriously — Jaq utilized an LLM to ask about fishing terms he is completely unfamiliar with 🤣 🎣
I’m a helper — try a variety of resources before you make an @ss of yourself..
"Walleye chop" refers to rough, choppy water conditions with short, irregular waves, typically caused by winds of 10 to 25 km/h (6 to 16 mph), though some sources suggest stronger winds up to 40 to 60 mph (7 to 24 km/h). These conditions are ideal for walleye fishing, as the turbulent, murky water reduces light penetration, activating walleye feeding behavior due to their superior low-light vision. The term is widely used by anglers, especially in regions like the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, to describe this phenomenon. ~ Grok
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