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Now your photos are beginning to look surrealistically like AI. I am having AI hallucinations.
So that's what the sun looks like, I haven't seen it in so long I was beginning to forget.
Great photos!
Real drama...
https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download
That's just lovely, Althouse.
Prof is really getting the hang of it.
2nd photo from the mangrove swamps of Louisiana.
#1 is one of the best
The first pic stuns me. A perfect example of how complexity consists of layers of regularity. Laminar bands of turbulence. That is as close as man can get to prediction. We can predict within narrow ranges of linearity or lower powers of non linearity.
I should write a goddam paper!
Everybody share a random life story.
I just told wife about one part of mid tour return to USA from Iraq in June 2007. Was in some undisclosed location in nowhere Iraq desert, temperature felt 120 to 125, and there was nothing to do. I knew no one. Either sandstorms or militiary restraints kept us there for a couple of days. All I did was stay in ice cold makeshift quarters sleeping in sleeping bag, or going to the bathroom, or going to eat. Was glorious, in a weird minimalist way. All while keeping eyes/ears open about when we would fly out.
Cheers all. Have a nice long weekend.
I should write a goddam paper!
Just have ChatGPT do it. That's what all the college kids are doing these days.
Tariff failure? Or what?
U. S. Steel Statement on President Trump’s Leadership
May 23, 2025 5:41 pm EDT
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) (“U. S. Steel”) today issued the following statement:
President Trump is a bold leader and businessman who knows how to get the best deal for America, American workers and American manufacturing.
U. S. Steel will remain American, and we will grow bigger and stronger through a partnership with Nippon Steel that brings massive investment, new technologies and thousands of jobs over the next four years.
U. S. Steel greatly appreciates President Trump's leadership and personal attention to the futures of thousands of steelworkers and our iconic company.
https://investors.ussteel.com/news-events/news-releases/detail/727/u-s-steel-statement-on-president-trumps-leadership
Dang those are wonderful pictures!
I am Laslo.
The Loudoun County school board is back in the news over its transgender policies. The facts are these:
(1) A group of teenaged biological males who identified as males (aka “boys”) were changing clothes in a Loudoun County high school.
(2) A teenaged biological female who claims to identify as male entered the locker room.
(3) Three of the boys noticed that a biological female had entered the locker room and commented about it.
(4) The biological female used her cell phone to record the boys’ reaction.
(5) The three boys are in trouble with the school system, apparently for noticing that a biological female was in the locker room. They did not threaten the biological female nor did they call the biological female names (besides the word “girl”). They did, however, turn away from that biological female and pull up their pants so that no one’s penis could be seen.
(6) The girl is not in any trouble, although there is an absolute prohibition against recording video in a rest room or locker room.
Loudoun is a very strange county with a very disgusting school board.
So, now that more info is out about Biden’s cognitive abilities, even as early as 2020, how many people still think he received 81 million votes in 2020? ~7 million more than Trump?
According to perplexity...
"The largest employer in Loudoun County, Virginia, is Loudoun County Public Schools, with over 10,000 employees, making it the top employer by a significant margin."
@Mason G., now ask your source who is the largest employer of Loudoun County residents. It should be the federal government, hands down.
"It should be the federal government, hands down."
I have no doubt that is so.
Wow, those tarriffs are so stupid. And climate change...I could write forever on that subject. And we need to drill off shore and cut gas prices and unlease the free market and get all those damn Government beaurocrats and their red tape off our backs!
And did you hear what AOC and whoopi Goldberg just said? Wow, just wow.
Listening to Frank Sinatra. "One for my baby" - great singing. Amazing since as a kid I thought sinatra was a boring old fart singer. A sorta musical equivilent of Buddy Hackett or Alan King.
Glad to know Frank upped his game his game in the last 45 years.
If the Canadian Group of Seven had iPhones they could have saved themselves a lot of paint.
"If the Canadian Group of Seven had iPhones they could have saved themselves a lot of paint."
I like those guys! I have one of theirs hanging on the wall at home.
“Glad to know Frank upped his game his game in the last 45 years.” I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
Thank you, Jimmy Two Times…
If you look at the top photo long enough, it looks like the ocean is moving ever so slightly from right to left.
@Big Mike, interesting. I read a post related to that incident at Chicago Boyz and was pretty sure there was more going on than was included in the DNC-adjacent reporting, though my initial speculation was incorrect.
Actual or Augmented Interpolations?
“During a blistering Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) was visibly floored after Energy Secretary Christopher Wright dropped a bombshell: the Department of Energy handed out a staggering $93 billion in loans and commitments during the final 76 days of the Biden administration, a figure that more than doubled the loan total from the previous 15 years combined.
Kennedy, in classic fashion, drilled in with precision. “The 76-day period you’re talking about, that’s the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office. Is that right?”
“That is correct,” Wright confirmed.
Kennedy didn’t mince words when he asked how any agency could properly vet such massive spending in such a short window. “How do you do due diligence on one loan, much less $93 billion?” he asked.
Wright’s answer was damning.
“I think it’s probably pretty clear it wasn’t done in many cases,” he said. “There were commitments made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency, or how this project actually worked.” ‘
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/23/joe-bidens-93-billion-scandal-that-no-ones-talking-about-yet-n4940098
Iman... It's in there...
https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download
I’d like to share a table found in A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne
This table explores how individuals from different socioeconomic classes—poor, middle class, and wealthy—think about and approach various aspects of life, including money and education.
It’s not 100% accurate, but it gives insights into how different socioeconomic groups think about the important things in life.
https://kathyescobar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Hidden-Rules-Among-Classes.pdf
Meant to say this earlier. Welcome back Laslo! You still dating pony-tailed girl?
The Beiden era was great at the end. Too bad I could not suck start a billion dollars out of them for a big new nothing.
"the Department of Energy handed out a staggering $93 billion in loans and commitments during the final 76 days of the Biden administration, a figure that more than doubled the loan total from the previous 15 years combined."
Truly shocking governmental malfeasance, which will never penetrate the public's psyche because it will never be reported by the democrat's water bearers.
Where's the KaKa-bot, in the shop for maintenance?
You mean, let me understand this … cuz I … maybe it’s me? Maybe I’m a little fucked up, maybe? I write things twice.
I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown? I write thing twice? I amuse you?
Pete Fountain and Al hirt. Giants back in the day. Forgotten now. Just discovered by me. Thanks Youtube, you censoring, leftwing bastards.
I find it interesting that the Government wastes money. Who would've thunk it?
You do, RCOCEANII…
Except when you’re pimping Hamas.
Thanks, Bumble Bee. I’ll take a look after the Knicks-Pacers game.
Reddit: CNN prospect commentator
What the hell happened to the nba? We've gone from the dream team to the snoozefest. Looking back, its incredible how lucky the NBA was. Magic, MJ, Malone, Bird, Barkley, Stockton, Isisah and "The bad boys", Shaq, David Robinson, Kobe. One charismatic star after another for 25 years.
And now.. nobody. zzzzz.
Steel is a mature industry in a developed economy. We use less and less of it for every dollar of GDP. As much as our infrastructure needs renovating, we’re mostly built out. So we’re not a very steel-intensive economy compared to China. Second, everything got lighter. Steel got lighter (thinner gauges) and stronger (better grades), so you use less for a given application. Plastic displaced some of it, too. So you would expect a decline in use as an economy matures.
Trump pumped up steel prices in 2018 through his famous tariffs and walked them back when he selectively dropped them. Meanwhile, U.S. manufacturers using the steel raised prices, which found their way into vehicles and rolled coils. in 2022, we were number 22 on the list of steel producers in the world.
Then came today's bullshit.
“This will be a planned partnership between United States Steel and Nippon Steel, which will create at least 70,000 jobs, and add $14 billion to the U.S. Economy. The bulk of that Investment will occur in the next 14 months,” Trump posted on TruthSocial Friday.
Lest we forget, on March 12, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on steel imports from all countries, following the restoration of Section 232 tariffs. This action aims to protect our domestic steel industry and address unfair trade practices. It has not been clarified as to how Japanese steel plays into this now. Are they are giving us a billion dollars a month while paying 25% more for American-supplied steel? And do we have 70,000 steelworkers, who make an average of $25/hr, out of work?
Lovely photos. But that water is never calm. I always think could I mistake these photographs for ones taken in the Caribbean. No because the waters are never calm. The photos of the Lake never look peaceful. Always something going on.
gadfly said...
Just remember that gadfly and the democrat party will never accept American Working class people or anyone who tries to help them.
NY Post: “Anti-Israel group that helped incite Columbia library takeover praises DC shooter: ‘an act of solidarity and love’”
Top Reddit vote comment: “The upside is that a few leftists will understand this and back away. This is the start of the process that drove the trans activists to the fading state they are in now.”
"We use less and less of it for every dollar of GDP."
GDP is a funny metric. The script for a p*rn shoot is part of the GDP. So are financial instruments whose main purpose is to extract the value of a factory while shipping it and all of the jobs overseas.
If, hypothetically, 90% of the income of a country went to 5% of the people, compared to a hypothetical country where 90% of the income went to 75% of the people, could you figure out what was wrong with that first country by looking at GDP figures? Are there other important figures having to do with the economy, other than GDP? Or is it your contention that there is nothing at all wrong with that first country?
Why do other countries want to make steel so badly, and stuff out of steel, to export to the US if it's such a loser deal to do it that the US can't be bothered? Does it have to do with jobs? Why doesn't gadfly care about jobs that people without advanced degrees in math can do that don't involve flipping burgers or driving an Uber?
The second photo gave me kind of an Escher vibe until I realized (on my itty bitty phone screen) that the swath of what looked like turbulence next to calm water was actually vegetation. The colors in both photos are intense! I've found only a few places here in PA that allow for sunrises & sunsets over water, and miss having so many places to get good reflections of sky on water.
The play of light and shadow clouds is otherworldly.
If you look at the top photo long enough, it looks like the ocean is moving ever so slightly from right to left.
That's crazy - it does! But now I don't know if it was just suggestion, or if I would have seen it on my own. Anyway, thanks, Iman!
This guy won a Nobel Prize for his prompts.
Both of those are excellent. Good compositions.
Per EIA, gasoline prices are 11% lower than last year at this time when who-knows-who was President.
Laslo Spatula said...
Dang those are wonderful pictures!
I am Laslo.
What Laslo said +1. Except I'm not Laslo.
Thanks, Jamie… I didn’t know if it was just the mushrooms kicking in or what 😁
I'm worried about Billy Joel.
At least the man knew what was real.
Iron and Coke, Chromium steel.
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