TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

Have a new laptop. Has windows 11 on it, and I
recently bought some airline tickets .
I now have all kinds of stupid pop ups telling
me that I have an infected machine from
visiting porno sites. The OS mistook airline
ticket sites for porno sites.
Need to figure out how to get unbuntu on
here. The new all solid state machines are
a bit of a mystery to me. Changed the boot
path, but can't get it to pull off of a thumb
drive.

armedoldhippy said:

the Dalai Lama once took a tour of the US. afterwards, reporters asked him what he thought of western civilization. he replied "i think that would be a very good idea..." damning with (very) faint praise.

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I remember that. He had a keen sense of humor.

Doubt he would've qualified to run on a presidential ticket, but he'd be far better at it in my opinion than the individuals we've had to choose from over the last 40 years.

Sologamy is better than being alone.

I'm duly shocked. The 400 notes samsung ar35 split, is not only cheap, it's the invertor drive tech I have been waiting to land. Using a twin rotary compressor, it only makes 20db. The fan seems to be invertor driven also. So both fan and 'importantly' the compressor, can be turned up&down. So unlike typical boxes that can only switch on and off, this is variable.

It's energy standards that are pushing this top tier tech into the mainsteam products we buy. We have seen EC fans, pumps, now AC units. My latest Dehu~ uses an EC fan (and perhaps pump) but lacks any truely variable output. I know it can be just around the corner though. Maybe on the boat already.

Is light, Dark Matter. Is it the sunglasses we can't find, because we are wearing them.

moose eater said:

Doubt he would've qualified to run on a presidential ticket, but he'd be far better at it in my opinion than the individuals we've had to choose from over the last 40 years.

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true enough. i'm not sure that ANY homeless person dragged out of his box under an overpass wouldn't have been just as good, mental problems and all.

Gry said:

MSN

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Not all followers are very bright. Makes them prime for being followers.

babies are not to be left ANYWHERE alone except in their crib. and parents all over the world check on them every hour or so, if not more often. (been there, done that) i wonder how their faith is holding up with the evidence showing that you can't count on God to take care of things. "God helps those that help themselves"

armedoldhippy said:

babies are not to be left ANYWHERE alone except in their crib. and parents all over the world check on them every hour or so, if not more often. (been there, done that) i wonder how their faith is holding up with the evidence showing that you can't count on God to take care of things. "God helps those that help themselves"

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Hopefully the sense of personal guilt weighs heavier than the thought of repenting to their Lord. Though in some faiths, no matter how outrageous, neglectful, or cruel the behavior, it's believed that God will forgive.

Again, the conscience and personal atonement to reality and the self is another matter.

A former neighbor (they owned land here, but not a building on it) lost a young daughter (4 or 5 years old?) to a stream or river down near Anderson, when the kid was playing on the bank of the river/creek/stream, and the mother was sitting in a van reading a book, then looked up and the kid was gone. Bear? Water current? Child abduction? I guess one would need to be paying attention to know, right?

I'd called them a few years earlier when officials and others were clearing right-of-way wood from their property without having been granted permission, to give the wood as firewood to another person up the road from us. I'd asked the officials involved if they were in the habit of committing felony theft while using official vehicles, or if this was a special occasion, then instructed them to contact the absent owners of the property first.

They quickly changed their modus operendi at that point.

Years later the mother of the missing young daughter came to my door, and a primary part of her purpose was to thank me for having contacted them about the intrusion onto their right-of-way for the firewood wood (though they did, indeed grant permission once contacted, a matter of protocol and proper dealings in my opinion).

The woman was clearly changed for years to come. The loss of their daughter brought torment one can only imagine.. Nothing needed or could be said or done by a third party or legal system to inflict anymore damage to her conscience or soul than her neglect had already inflicted. As far as I know, the little girl's body was never found.

Her husband was a janitor and maintenance person for numerous churches up and down the Parks Hwy.

I wonder how many people leave their responsibilities swinging the wind due to a belief that they're protected from carnage or mayhem by God? I suspect if God's indeed real, they're a relatively busy entity on a day-to-day basis. Best to take care of your own shit to the best of your ability.

That kind of pain, guilt and suffering would put many people in the ground. It would me.

moose eater said:

That kind of pain, guilt and suffering would put many people in the ground. It would me.

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got a neighbor here (real asshole. drawing disability from USPS despite riding motorcycles, ATVs, boating, doing roofing) that always parked his 4 wheeler in driveway, no parking brake on. "ah, it aint going anywhere..." his 6 year old kept trying to play on it. he finally got it to move one afternoon, and it pinned him against the house and killed him.

armedoldhippy said:

got a neighbor here (real asshole. drawing disability from USPS despite riding motorcycles, ATVs, boating, doing roofing) that always parked his 4 wheeler in driveway, no parking brake on. "ah, it aint going anywhere..." his 6 year old kept trying to play on it. he finally got it to move one afternoon, and it pinned him against the house and killed him.

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I look at those very near me, and those at a distance, and I'm not always convinced we're getting any smarter as we 'evolve.'

moose eater said:

I look at those very near me, and those at a distance, and I'm not always convinced we're getting any smarter as we 'evolve.'

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i'm afraid that as a species, we may have gone as far as we are going to go. i'm sure that individuals will continue to develop, but...they will stick out and risk being persecuted as "witches" or something. history is full of examples.

armedoldhippy said:

i'm afraid that as a species, we may have gone as far as we are going to go. i'm sure that individuals will continue to develop, but...they will stick out and risk being persecuted as "witches" or something. history is full of examples.

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We've to some degree exchanged or traded 'book smarts' for 'reality-based smarts' and the very important ability synergize variables in our lives and environments.

A sea of otherwise thoughtless beings, addicted to television and fast processed foods, unable to maintain awareness to any functional degree of the immediate aspects of our very real surroundings.

Reminds me of that band decades ago, 'Devo', and my thoughts about 'de-evolution', where change is occurring, but often in the wrong direction where thoughts and self-awareness of a constructive variety are involved.

Rivers, especially post break-up, move; rocks, bodies, dirt, trees, whatever. They're powerful forces. Some of the most powerful in the world, at 8 lbs. per gallon. And they're stubborn things..

Wheeled vehicles, especially wheeled power vehicles, roll and move. They often weigh more than an adult, let alone a little kid.

Do grown people with IQ's over 80 really need to be told these things? Let alone reminded by tragedy and loss?

Yet we put people on the moon and further out in space, and our spacecraft are occasionally brought down by a fucking simple O-ring.

Hardly anybody thinks about breeding anymore. It's seen as distasteful. Like some sort of ism. In the lower classes, it's fuck whatever you can. Even if it lacks all symmetry and can hardly speak. We will even put two such states together, pay for their existence, and let them run their own little breeding program. Making further messes for us to look after. How does this effect societies overall health and intellect?

Have a look at Sweden. It's no wonder hitler used them for his master race. When other countries were breeding degenerates, Sweden were still taking breeding rights away from people now seen as half decent. It's about 100 years ago, that lgbtvq+Sweden=castration. Which might seem terrible today, but look what their breeding program achieved. I would sign up for something like that. Where achievement gave rights to breed, an underachievement got you offered a payoff to not bother. Where we would look after those that needed it, but it would be contractual, not just for free. To ensure we were not signing up our kids to look after theirs, like we are slaves to our good deeds.

Euthanasia is almost a swear word here. Suicide is illegal. We should stop forcing people to live, if they don't want to. It seems like a human rights breach to me. We have dependents such as prisoners, who would rather just go. Especially if it put a bit of money in the pocket of someone they loved. Instead we keep paying for them.


We must be idiots.

Ca++ said:

We must be idiots.

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there "does" seem to be a bit of that going around.

Ca++ said:

Suicide is illegal.

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England used to have a law against it. i think they gave up on that...

armedoldhippy said:

there "does" seem to be a bit of that going around.

England used to have a law against it. i think they gave up on that...

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At least six US states allow for physician-assisted suicide in the cases of terminally ill folks, but most places require the Doc to sign off stating that the person will be dead within 6 months. There are some forms of cancer and other illnesses that by the time you're within 6 months of the Grim Reaper knocking, you might be in significant pain.

One of the areas where we allow others to enforce their religious values upon others involves the religious perspective on the 'value of life'. The whole "God never gives you more than you can bear" bullshit.

After enough time here, and enough pain, some might perceive that, unlike the Holy Rollers' version of the 'value of life', some of us might've gotten stuck with the Dollar Store's version of the 'value of life'.. Just sayin'...

In Alaska, if you've owned your life insurance policy for at least 2 years, it pays even in the event of suicide.

And for those places where it's a crime, what are they going to do? Arrest and jail the bloody carcass pending a trial?

Fucking lunatics.

Yes.. suicide being illegal is a tough one to prosecute. What they do go after, are people assisting in the attempt of suicide. While the attention seekers spending every Saturday night closing some bridge somewhere, get sweet tea. I think we should be able to offer them a way out tbh, as then they have no reason to be making a nuisance of themselves.

the penalty in England was supposedly hanging. do it right the first time, or we'll fix it for you...

I received an email notification that my portion of the settlement from the Zoom privacy class action case is all of $32.32. (Not much, but if you say it fast, it's got a beat you can dance to).

The email stated to look for an upcoming email that would allow me to claim my settlement via one or more methods of payment.

That email came the next day, affording me the day to run some inquiries and make certain it wasn't a phishing scam or malware tactic of some sort.

So, the next email that came with a link via which to confirm method of payment when the link is clicked on, perpetually results in the infamous 'spinning wheel of death' that goes absolutely nowhere, even if you get up to do chores for a while, with the heavy-duty security system left turned on.

So, I (and I imagine hundreds, thousands, or millions of others) used their internal email system to write them and inquire if this was a Defacto 'cost saving measure'? I mean, if folks can't effectively instruct them as to how to send the payment, they save a butt-load of money, right?

So far, no response.

They also offer up an 800 number to call and review a series of 'commonly asked questions.' No links therein to get to a live body or to leave a recorded inquiry that I've found.

They do offer addresses to which USPS snail mail might be addressed and delivered, but I figure if I do that, and send a certified letter in order to be able prove they received my 'complaint,' then I will have spent roughly a third or more of my 'settlement' on postage. Not very economical when one considers it, eh?

If this is in fact a method by which to avoid paying their settlement/penalty, thus undermining the judge's order, I wondered if they're aware of what the punitive damages can be for contempt of court and 'bad faith' in dealing with a judgement and screwing the victors?

Not prudent on their part, if they haven't considered that angle.

Maybe there's a short mini-series in this coming soon to cable television? And maybe that $32.32 turns miraculously into $1,000 or so for bad faith?

Stay tuned... Or not...