Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

[Wat_Tyler]

I'm watching this documentary about digging up 75,000 year old Neanderthal skeletons.


Now, what did s/he do to deserve that???

 

[BAstoicguy]

May be beyond caring.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

After 75,000, I would hope so.

 

[BAstoicguy]

After all that time, they might even be glad to be out a bit.

 

[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

I think that your experience is unique.


And lots of it is fascinating.

Thanks! It helps my work as a writer, though i really only think about this now:

I feel like this:

( O O )

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Thanks! It helps my work as a writer, though i really only think about this now:

I feel like this:

( O O )

My experience is all over the place. Too much domestic. Varied characters, however.


Still overcoming a bit of inertia here . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Meanwhile, Wat wasn't slain in a bit of nasty firearms violence today, so there's that.


Even with a new 107-year-old killer firearm.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[BAstoicguy]

Every once in a while, something nudges my inner programmer:

Overall, however, various NASA articles agree with other scientific measurements that Earth’s magnetic field has been decaying about 5 percent over the past century, and about 9 percent over the last two centuries which indicates a near-linear overall decline unaffected by the short-term measured chaotic changes in the earth’s magnetic field. The complexity of what that decay would do is overwhelming and uncertain. Yes, it would allow more UV penetration through a deteriorated ozone layer but that has both positive and negative effects as well as consequential effects of those effects and so on. No models exist that can predict the outcome over hundreds or thousands of years. All we can do at this point is draw correlations and hypothesize in true DoE (aka “scientific”) fashion.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/real_science_and_the_earth_s_magnietic_field.html

 

[BAstoicguy]

Media 3D Ghost Gun:

 

[BAstoicguy]

Meaningless personal anecdote:

But aren’t serial numbers absolutely vital in solving crimes? During my police career I never solved a crime via a serial number, nor was I ever aware of anyone who did. That would require finding a gun at a crime scene, which in my experience virtually never happened. Even if I seized a gun from a criminal as evidence, possession was the point. A serial number was virtually always irrelevant to the crimes charged.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/ghost_guns_and_hunky_assassins.html

 

[BAstoicguy]

A good Question:

The past week ought to be the best argument for ending lame-duck sessions of Congress.

Lame-duck sessions occur when Congress meets after a general election has taken place. The members voting on lifetime federal judges, nominees to “independent” commissions, and spending your tax dollars are not the ones you elected. They are the people who were either defeated or didn’t run.

Congress has been in session roughly five weeks since the election. That Congress includes 11 senators who will be out of office January 3 (the date the new Congress meets).

Why are eleven people not reelected making far-reaching decisions about the country?

John M. Grondelski

 

[BAstoicguy]

Julio Riviera:

If 2024 were a movie, it’d be a dystopian thriller, where the hacker is both the hero and the villain. Picture this: Change Healthcare — a linchpin in America’s healthcare system — gets breached, exposing the private data of millions and prompting everyone to wonder if their medical records are now on sale alongside cheap knockoff sunglasses in a darknet bazaar. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity bigwig supposedly built to stop such calamities, faced its own cyber-event. That’s like hearing that a fire station caught fire — and no, the irony doesn’t make it any less terrifying.

Add to this chaos a laundry list of cyber-skirmishes: Iranian hackers weaponizing IoT devices; the endless menace of ransomware attacks, keyloggers, and trojans; and state-sponsored espionage campaigns from the usual suspects (China and Russia, here’s looking at you). In short, cybersecurity in 2024 was less of a strategy and more of a Whac-A-Mole game — but with the moles being sophisticated state actors and American institutions holding the mallet backward.

 

[BAstoicguy]

As often happens when a great man who is also a visionary fails, Field was immediately viewed as a villain. He was accused of fraud and of being a profiteer.

Before he could resurrect his reputation, the Civil War stopped all efforts at relaying a transatlantic cable. Field, however, did not give up. Although Rudyard Kipling penned his immortal “If” a half-century later, he might have been thinking of Field when he wrote

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
...
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

So it was that the moment the Civil War ended, Field mounted another consortium. This time, despite another accident that might have ended the project, Field’s dream came to fruition. After more than a decade of work and thirty ocean trips between Britain and America, Field presided over the first ever fully operational transatlantic capable, which was completed in July 1866.


https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...gnate_who_improved_america_and_the_world.html

 

[BAstoicguy]

Unions are for the common man, the working man and they know that the best way to strike a blow for the common man is to strike out at Christmas! That will show everyone who's The Boss!

 

[BAstoicguy]

Overnight, we hit Houthi and blow up fish shit.

Thank you Joe! You would have been elected. Those seven Million Man Maths would have Magically Materialized...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

There was a no strike law during WW2. Not long after VJ Day and the auto industry was getting back to making cars instead of tanks, there was a big-ass steel strike. I learned this tidbit by reading a history on anvils. My guess is, as bad as pent-up new car demand was, I cannot imagine they made any friends in the general economy.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Overnight, we hit Houthi and blow up fish shit.

Thank you Joe! You would have been elected. Those seven Million Man Maths would have Magically Materialized...

Hmmm, five Ms and numerous posts all in a row.


You, sir, are Truly Triggered . . . .


A Tired Terror truly Triggered.

 

[BAstoicguy]

There was a no strike law during WW2. Not long after VJ Day and the auto industry was getting back to making cars instead of tanks, there was a big-ass steel strike. I learned this tidbit by reading a history on anvils. My guess is, as bad as pent-up new car demand was, I cannot imagine they made any friends in the general economy.

Still basking in the warm glow of Wartime solidarity. Then came the UN and the great dissinunification in communication and pacification (and whole lot of getting even with Igor, who let them meet in his barn).

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Still basking in the warm glow of Wartime solidarity. Then came the UN and the great dissinunification in communication and pacification (and whole lot of getting even with Igor, who let them meet in his barn).

I think their/there/they're contracts were up and they had worked all war at the same wage. There was demand and inflation, and they wanted their/there/they're piece of it.

 

[BAstoicguy]

Peace, prosperity and a payoff.
They deserved it and earned it.
However, the example reverberates as inherited entitlement.
I know what they did for me, but what have you (they now) really done for me, or done to me, by paying your dues?
(in a less traditional sense of the words "paid your dues" as in, check in the mail, not, on deposit)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Those Levittowns wouldn't be along for a few more years.


Look what the GI Bill wrought. I reckon is was better than the WW1 Bonus - that spawned an army made up of ex-Army.


They would be leaving it to Beaver before they knew it.

 

[BAstoicguy]

It was a good thing, like the 14th, a specific thing, to the time, but like so many good things, so many refused to let go, to be "a part of it."

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Indeed, We have prepared for the wrongdoers a fire whose walls will surround them. And if they call for relief, they will be relieved with water like murky oil, which scalds [their] faces. Wretched is the drink, and evil is the resting place.

(Quran 18:29)


People who confiscate other people's property for whatever reason - lame, justified, or otherwise - are liars and thieves, scum in the sight of Allah, and he hates them and will torment them forever and a bit longer for good measure.

 

[BAstoicguy]

Gem on several levels for the bored (especially towards the conclusion)

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024...rvice-withdrawn-due-to-low-passenger-numbers/