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A Few More Words on Ukraine Situation.

Posted on April 7, 2022 by No One

Here we see an article about seizure of yachts from Russian oligarchs. The story goes on to say this is “sanctions” in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When the Somalis were doing it, they called it “Piracy”. Funny how the West that used to be known for law and order now upholds the rule of “I’ll do as I please”.
It is still difficult to get any real news from the Ukraine. Everything you see reported by any source should be considered as suspect. Especially anything released by the government of Ukraine. The story about rapes, torture, ethnic cleansing and mass graves is typical of common propaganda. The news consuming public must have the memories of guppies. They keep consuming news from the same sources that have lied to them about everything for decades and think, “this story is different”.

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Hiking and pictures

Posted on March 21, 2022 by No One

Here are the pictures from this weekend.

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I love compliance

Posted on March 5, 2022 by No One

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A few words about the war in the Ukraine.

Posted on March 2, 2022 by No One

I seriously don’t know what is happening there.

I don’t know because all of the sources I would depend on to tell me have already frittered away their credibility by lying to me about everything for decades.

I can’t trust our government.

I can’t trust the legacy news media nor the “new media”. CNN, NYT, Fox, Sky, Reuters and even Al Jazeera, all telling the same story. “The brave and patriotic Ukrainian citizens rising up to fight Russian tanks with their bare hands are causing massive Russian casualties and defections”.

I can’t trust “right wing” sources. Even Mark Levin has joined the “Putin is literally Hitler” bandwagon.

I can tell you that when everyone is telling the same story I know I am watching an information campaign and not real news reports. The tells:

After days of combat in modern world where everyone has a cell phone camera, and where drones from Amazon are common Christmas gifts all over the world, we have no news footage of actual combat.
Claims of massive causalities, but no pictures. This is a part of the world that is not squeamish about publishing pictures of blood and gore.
When pictures are used, every outlet is using the same picture of the same burned out building and making it look like the whole country of Ukraine looks like that now.
Not a single story about anything positive about Russia or Russian soldiers.

This is what total control of the media looks like. It is more total than even during the Trump administration. It is more total than anything in North Korea, Cuba, or the old Soviet Union.

Vox Populi seems to be the only voice of alternative POVs. What he is saying is speculative, based on his reading lists and sources. It may not be true.

I don’t believe Putin is either stupid or evil. That said, he wouldn’t commit his nation to a war against the Ukraine for light reasons or anything less than Dire need. It just wouldn’t be worth the risk or the hardship. Every war is financially ruinous for those involved in it. For Putin to take that on tells us that in his mind, it was unavoidably necessary. Not for something as silly as oil prices or gaining a few hundred square miles of swamps. He clearly sees this as a battle of moral necessity. As such, he isn’t going to negotiate away his goals in exchange for a smaller payoff.

I fully expect the media to start running stories about Russian soldiers throwing Ukrainian babies out of hospital incubators any day now.

Edit: I am also noticing that YouTube is now running fund raising ads for all the charities that want to cash in on the Ukraine war. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

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Arts and crafts: hot tub repair 2

Posted on February 25, 2022 by No One

Total fail. I managed to get the tub on its side only to discover the bottom is glued to the tub and multiple pieces installed on the inside bottom. So it isn’t coming apart that way.

So. I put it back down flat and wait for warmer weather. A cold front just blew in.

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More Panoramas: Alaska

Posted on February 24, 2022 by No One

I went on vacation to Alaska last summer and completely forgot to post the panoramas. So… here they are.

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Arts and crafts: Hot tub experience

Posted on February 22, 2022 by No One

While I was away at the far and away, I unplugged and emptied my hot tub. When I got back, I moved it to a new location and that required new wiring run. I couldn’t really work on that in the winter because 3 pieces of #6 wire are not very flexible at under 40 degrees.

Anyway. I finally got around to it and was filling it up in anticipation of hot tub awesomeness. Then I noticed the water running out the bottom of the tub. It seems some of the PVC pipes were full of water and froze, thus splitting.

Those are not just “go to lowes and get a new one” pipes. So, I’m attempting to fix them with China freight 2-part epoxy. Applied inside and outside the pipe.

I’m hoping it’s just the one pipe and not one of those burried deeply hard to get to pipes.

Since I had the floor open to run the wire, I went ahead and ran some CAT 6 cable for internet as well.

UPDATE: It is FUBARed. The main manifold is also cracked and it is beyond arms reach to get to so I can’t even slather it with epoxy. This will require lifting the unit onto it’s side to remove the bottom and getting into it that way.

Update 2: (Huff- puff-wheeze) This is the part where I invite several of my friends over to help. But I don’t have any friends. So, I use some of the five simple engines: The inclined plane, the lever, the pully, the wedge, and the Toyota 4runner. Unfortunately for me, the pullies are not up to the standard. If you recall your basic pully math, divide the weight by the number of rope sections to get the effective weight. So, in the picture below, I am dividing 1000 pounds by three. I’m still not getting there. In addition, I used cheap pullies that were not designed for this application and the ropes keep slipping out of the grooves. In addition, there doesn’t seem to be any secure attaching points in the frame of the tub. So, I started by levering it up from the bottom secure in the knowledge that I will achieve the tipping point of the tub, or it will fall on my putting me out of my misery. I need to go to Rural King and look for a better block and tackle rig, or find the winch I bought and crank it up that way… If I can find a place to secure it.

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Microsoft Sucks Rancid Monkey Balls

Posted on February 9, 2022 by No One

They never tire of trying to improve my life. In the last couple of months, they decided to market their popular Office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc) as a pay per service with monthly rental fees instead of the old way of doing it, you buy it and keep it.

Problem is, when Office 365 installs, it kills off any previous versions on your computer. I used to have office 2010 and was perfectly happy with it. Not no more. POOF. Gone.

Nor can I reinstall it. I installed it back in 2010 using this thing called “the internet” instead of getting a DVD at the local office supply store. But since that time, Microsoft (may they burn in hell) has decided to no longer support that version. So I cannot re-install it. Even though I have an apparently useless product Key.

I don’t want to be tied to renting software services for the rest of my life. I am already doing that for electricity, cable/internet, streaming and phones. I reject the death by a thousand cuts where everything is rented and nothing is owned.

MS (may they never get laid again) has stolen from me the value of the product I already bought from them.

I will try to find a copy of office 2016 at a reasonable price (probably should have updated anyway, really, 2010 was a long time ago in software years).

Failing that, there is still OpenOffice, the freeware (and worth every penny). If you are going to be ideologically pure, purity has a cost. I took a look at this and it also looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2010.

I suspect they are going to do the same with their operating system and force everyone into Windows 11. I Do Not Want. If that happens, I may have to go Linux.

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‘Rona update

Posted on February 9, 2022 by No One

We are still choking our way through a national nightmare of government over-reaction. This time it’s a virus. What will it be next time? The government loves them a good crisis. Then they can feel free to change the rules at a whim and do as they wish.

Vaxes still don’t work. I expect that a 4th booster won’t be offered because it will be like admitting that the first three did nothing.

Masks still don’t work. They never did work.

Trend 1: Children are showing huge language deficiencies. Children learn by watching Adults in their lives. Parents first, then teachers. With everyone masked and mumbling, children can’t learn to speak properly. They can’t see anyone’s lips move. Nor can they hear the right pronunciations on anything. This shouldn’t be a secret. It is what the black folk used to call “white privilege”, but it’s really education privilege. Evidently, a child learning to speak well from his parents has a huge advantage all through life. The opposite of children whose parents speak Ebonics or are illiterate, or have a 500 word vocabulary. Covid is forcing lots of children OUT of the privilege category.

Trend 2: It is a criminal level of child abuse to inflict Covid vaccines on children. They don’t work and children were never at any risk. NEVER. This is despite news media trying to overplay a few stories of children getting sick and dying. Turns out in every case, the kids died of something else. Add to that the possibility of unimaginable side effects (unimaginable because this was never tested for use in children or any long term studies).

The States and local governments are arguing among themselves about mandates. Not the value of mandates in accomplishing their stated goals. The clear correlation seems to be tied to the proximity to elections. Even Democrats are having a hard time campaigning on “following the science”. Here in Virginia, the State house went from a party line split over mandates to a near unanimous “lift them now” position. It seems Democrats were fine with Gov Northam having dictatorial powers but are reconsidering letting Gov Youngkin do the same.

If we were ever “following the science” we would have stopped wearing masks after the first 90 days and there would have never been a booster shot offered.

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Overnight guest

Posted on January 22, 2022 by No One

Young deer slept by my garage all night. This is unusual and makes me worried. He might be orphaned, malnourished, or injured.

Any ideas?

EDIT: he comes around often and sometimes sleeps there. He is really small. I call him “little guy”. His mom comes around too. So he isnt abandoned.

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