During the Great Power Outage here, I went to Burger King and got a recently new and improved Double Whopper w/ Cheese and it was surprisingly good. For years BK had let the flagship Whopper drift and become Meh. I will try it again to see if this was just a fluke.
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“Peace in our time.” Yessir, we got a peace understanding thingy going with Iran, if Israel does not continue to undermine it. So oil will be flowing Real Soon Now, which sorta releaves pressure on Orange Donnie. Nothing to see here, nothing to worry about.
Read: Lakeshore Public Media to simulcast WBAA News beginning July 6
This means the end of local NPR in NW Indiana, at least for now. WBAA radio serves Greater Lafayette, Indiana which is not part of NW Indiana. It’s very very sad but it is better than the station just going dead.
Big storm Thursday night. No power for 36 hrs but finally back. Cable internet still out. Bigger worry is the food in the refrigerator if its gone bad. Feh.
Stories that never happened are now all the rage on XTwitter.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE henchmen eliminated the staff and programs to monitor and prevent screw worm. Now we have screw worm outbreak.
The cattle industry should sue Musk personally.
Meanwhile, we have only Trump to deal with this new screw worm plague. Think about that. Doom.
The electricity used by AI data centers is nothing compared to the power used by all the sump pumps the giant Florida mansions of billionaires use trying to keep these places dry.
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I think we need to put some major limits on how many pardons the President can give out to anybody, but especially convicted criminals. No President, of any party, should be handing out trainloads of pardons.
Watch/Listen: Sia - Chandelier (Official Video)
I’ve heard the song many times, love it, but I just saw this official video for the 1st time today and the dancing is just astounding. A must watch if you have not seen it.
Leftovers tonight. Specifically, leftover curried chicken from the local Chinese restaurant, with something, tbd, added to it to stretch it out.
Eggplant Casserole. There it needed to be said.
Still at war with Iran, Strait of Hormuz still closed. No oil. Gas prices at peak. Neighbors starting to dress in Mad Max clothes.
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Headlines: Texas says Trump dropped the ball on screwworm outbreak and it will (yet again) raise beef prices. You know it’s bad when Texas blames or says anything critical about Trump.
Forget buying beef, eat Soylent Green instead.
10 out of 10 cats completely ignore AI.
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I’m noticing how many XTwitter and YouTube posts are titled “They lied to us” or are about how science or doctors or engineers, etc were all wrong and yet this one simple thing solved the problem they could not.
Beware: when you see that we are being manipulated.
#darkpatterns
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Our Founding Fathers didn’t anticipate that we would have a total bounder as President, a spineless Congress (both Parties) bought off by the wealthy and a corrupt Supreme Court majority all at the same time. It’s a perfect storm.
I’m sure if we could bring back saber tooth tigers, juicy politicians would be their only prey.
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Tried to get a haircut this AM but the place was closed for remodeling. Drove around looking for another haircutting joint with no luck. Went to ACE Hardware and bought caulk and weedkiller so the trip and expensive gasoline burn, wasn’t completely wasted.
Sigh.
Many HOA’s are amending their rules to allow giant fighting cages.
Random: We need more nursery rhymes about how good trickle down economics is for us.
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So, remind me again why nothing is happening, no prosecutions, on the Epstein Files.
Listen: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (Official Lyric Video)
There is too much talk of war going around. Not good. It’s not just Trump the Feeble, it’s also Putin and Xi and others as well. We’re drifting towards war(s). The CCR song Bad Moon Rising got me thinking of this.
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Somebody on social media pointed out that 2 years ago we were worried about electric vehicle adoption overwhelming the power grid. Now, there’s the big rush to AI data centers that eat energy and barely a mention of the power grid. Same old grid doing both EV’s and data centers?
Alert. We have gone to DefCon 3. Alert. I could not find Aldi’s ground dark French Roast coffee ANYWHERE on Instacart. I normally stock up. My fav. coffee. One by one Aldi drops my favorite items and my reasons to bother shopping there.