More Nuclear Waste

Previously. In daylight on The Coast:And the Mid-West.Now, own your own!Only set you back US$600.00+. Betcha the two flatcars are 50 bones per; toss in the locomotive & the set could run US$1,000.00.

There Will Always Be An England

Other evidence: Spacecraft from shampoo bottles. A partially Limey thing. YouTube has a few videos devoted to it.I use the "squirty bottle" pumps (6:10) as loads on flatcars. Reduce, reuse, recycle.All in the paint job, of course.

And a Yank, who has devoted (1:49:03) to slapping together a shampoo bottle to the stars.People are silly.

Garbage Species

Spent just over a hr. in the outside world, 'though not voluntarily & for no good reason. (I will slit the throats of everyone who "works" at the new bullshit property management company, when I am finished w/ the slumlord & the fuckwads at the previous bullshit management company.) & saw nothing but ugliness & trash.

Your entire species does nothing but generate garbage & shit. Get off the planet!!

The Grim Truth

No, it's just ANGRY AS HELL! P.S.: It won't be "4000 A.D.", the robopocalypse is here now, chumps.

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can’t escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

Anyway, the pope’s encyclical is an impressive document, and I strongly suggest you read it, or at least read more about it. But it isn’t perfect. I say this with all due respect to the leader of the world’s largest religious organization: He missed some stuff. To truly teach big tech to put humanity first, it is necessary to catalog all the ways that big tech is currently putting humanity last. And because we are living in a time of historically unprecedented exasperation—a time in which many of us go through the day filled with a sort of half-repressed and unacknowledged fury that threatens to burst out every time the app we’re trying to use sends us to a website to log in, but the website won’t allow us to paste the password from our password manager, and clicking “forgot password” sends us back to the app, which immediately crashes—any account of tech’s antihuman tendencies must necessarily include a detailed breakdown of how its products are truly just a colossal goddamn pain in the ass.

The question I ask every damn day: Did you use your own platform before you launched it?

Testify, brother!! My righteous & entirely justified rage is not, however, "half-repressed and unacknowledged", but full-blown & ready to kill, or at the very least to destroy every circuit board on the planet.

How about the time a moronic robot at my credit union decided that my making a w/drawal at the same ATM I've been using for 16 fucking yrs. was "suspicious" & restricted my card? Dunno if I mentioned it here, but I'm still angry as hell.

Cell 'phones are bullshit too. First, make them ergonomic, not some flat slab that doesn't fit the human hand very well.

All that typed, remember it's pathetic excuses for human beings who design, manufacture & implement this bullshit & they must be held responsible. Preferably a facility where the only way to get food, toilet paper or anything else is to use Doordash or whatever but it never works.

Yesteryear In L.A.

Claimed to be downtown, but it's Western Ave., from north of Melrose Ave. to just north of Wilshire Blvd. I know it well.The area w/ the furniture stores still has many furniture stores, 80-ish yrs. later, & the St. Charles Ap'ts. are still there.

[Los Angeles History on Facebook.]

The Naked Lunch

Uncropped & uncorrected because I don't care anymore.

These Are Your Rights

Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

Purchased anything from your corporate masters lately, you consuming sheep?

Trump's immigration enforcers look into buying ad data. Industry insiders fear what comes next.

Businesses that collect and sell information on Americans face an ethical debate about its potential use in federal immigration probes.

"Ethical debate" my ass. Chickenshit corporate entities will knuckle under to the grift & gladly take blood money.

[POLITICO]

Traditional

Today I Learned

Jamaica's tamarind season, commonly referred to as "tambrin season", generally takes place from January to March. This time frame is culturally tied to the economic downturn following Christmas. The term "tambrin season" describes a period of economic struggle after the Christmas holidays.

Or the four-plus yrs. of economic struggle after electing a Republican President.

Can't Find The Bums-Phils Game

"Free" trial? To watch any of this crap? Never heard of any of it, none of it is interesting. And "Formula 1"?
"MLS"? Excuse me, Apple, but are these the United States or some woke Euro shithole? If you don't like it
here, feel free to send all your placstic crap back to China or wherever it's made, go to Europe & watch
all the races & matches you can stand. Real Americans will be at the drag strip &/or watching football.

Because Apple has it & I'll never buy anything from them. Can I threaten the lives of Apple execs for stealing from me w/o one of you squealing rat bastards calling the police to have me kidnapped again? Or do you chumps want to continue to pay even more for much less?

Helluva Job, Internet!!

No One Is Safe, Anywhere!!!

Raphael Satter / Reuters:

Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data  —  U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
Dell Cameron / Wired:   The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops' Phones for Years. Now They Are

Amy Furr / Breitbart:   Report: Adversaries Target U.S. Military in War Zones by Using App Location Data

Karl Bode / Techdirt:   Enemies Are Exploiting Unregulated Data Broker Location Data To Target And Kill U.S. Troops

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:   US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

Phillip Walter Wellman / Stars & Stripes:   Federal lawmakers demand stronger protections for troops' location data

Raphael Satter / The Independent:   Enemies using phone location data to hunt US servicemembers, Pentagon confirms

Victor Nava / New York Post:   US launches new strikes in Iran targeting military site that posed threat to troops, commercial shipping : report

more at Techmeme »

Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:   Commercial tracking data being used by adversaries to target US troops: CENTCOM

NB: "The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops' Phones for Years. Now They Are". Whiskey Pete's "non-woke Dep't. of War" doing its usual great job protecting American service people. Who are fucking morons for allowing tracking data on their 'phones.
"Enemies Are Exploiting Unregulated Data Broker Location Data To Target And Kill U.S. Troops". Thanks a lot, Apple, Bezos & Google. Now there's blood on your grubby paws, you pigs.
"Senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’". For once, an actual national security threat is identified. Will anything be done? Don't hold your breath. Consumption is king, & you can't get the sheep to consume w/o advertising.

"Yeeeeessssss?"

When Tee Vee Was King

Kills me every time. Plenty more on YouTube; do your own research.

J.J. Sedelmaier, director of the Wendy's "Where's The Beef?" commercial & other popular '80s adverts, was 92.They're dropping like flies.

 New Jersey Online:

Donald Newhouse, who inherited a media empire, led Advance Publications' newspaper and cable TV divisions, and was Newark Star-Ledger president, dies at 96  —  Donald E. Newhouse, who as President of The Star-Ledger and head of Advance Publications' newspaper group presided over a prolonged period …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:   BuzzMachine  —  I am terribly saddened at word of the death of Donald Newhouse …

Clay Risen / New York Times:   Donald E. Newhouse, Low-Profile Heir to a Media Empire, Dies at 96

Larry Arnold / Bloomberg:   Donald Newhouse, Who Led Family's Newspaper Group, Dies at 96

Genaro C. Armas / Newhouse School …:   Donald Newhouse's Belief in Higher Education Helped Establish Syracuse University as a Premier Training Ground for Journalists

Just saw this, for Saurday 19 November 1955. More Weterns than you could shake a six-shooter at, & Yma Sumac on Stage Show w/ the Dorsey Bros. In Jan. '56 Elvis Presley made his first national telebision appearance on the program.

[Sedelmaier obit from Off the Kuff.]

Random Act Of Senseless Spraying

More than 20 people developed sore throats near a luxury department store in Tokyo’s posh Ginza shopping area on Monday after a person allegedly sprayed an unknown substance, Japanese fire department officials said. (AP video shot by Mayuko Ono)

That'll teach the consuming sheep to "shop" in a "posh shopping area". Like, oh I dunno, Rodeo Drive? Hmmm. The Beverly Dr./Rodeo Dr. station should be open in Spring 2027. I will need a better way to get out of the area, however, w/ fucking cameras everywhere, especially in the train stations & trains. I wonder if I can still ride a bicycle. And where I could ditch the bike & change threads. And where to get some of this "unknown substance".

Waiting For Juice

Bonus electric-powered Google robot.

I wish I could juice myself up. I'm about half a level above catatonic, & could barely rouse myself to make it the few blocks to the supermarket & back.

Another Real Threat

I am so fucking tired of being lied to & cheated every instant of my existence in this world of shit, pain & lying cheats you fucking imbeciles have made for yourselves. What is wrong w/ all of you? Why are you all such cheating liars?

That's Yankee Dabbler, by the way. Fuck them to the theological place of eternal damnation for all eternity.

Farm Report: They Asked For It, They Got It! Good & Hard, Too!

Sorry, you can't afford any.

Nathan Bomey / Axios:
Farmers growing desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices  —  Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as the Iran conflict drives up diesel and fertilizer prices — deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 1980s.
Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   Trump policies spark warnings of impending disaster: ‘Going to be fewer farmers’

Jesus Mesa / Newsweek:   Donald Trump Deals New Blow to US Farmers on China Trip

Sophie Hurwitz / Mother Jones:   Farmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump's Iran War

Do you like to eat? Ha ha ha! Too bad. Start saving now so you can afford Soylent Green!

Piling on, later. How dense are these sucker-ass chumps?

Brad Brooks / Reuters:

Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain.  These rural voters agree.  —  Perched behind the cash register at Stubs liquor store, Amy Van Duyn gazed out the window at a red-and-green gasoline price sign, which she said seemed to tick up daily.  —  The price was $4.34 per gallon …

Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   Three-time Trump voter rips president as ‘naive’ as Iran war decimates GOP stronghold

Drought won't help either. Two words: Dust Bowl.

CONSUME! CONFORM!

Via Red State Blues's weekly round-up (Helluva wk., & every item's worth clicking.) from The Propaganda Professor,
an image I like

Must admit, probably generated by a robot (Note dials on telebision set.) unless the Professor is a talented
(& fast-working artist) & it's not bad beside the dials & that black thing atop the moneybag.
Wonder what they told the robot to do, & if they showed it pictures. Oops! Missed a few at first glance.
Always count the fingers: The busty blonde is short one. Also too, the sugar cubes aren't all cubes (or white)
the salt shaker needs holes in the lid, the box should read "STAYS CRISP!",
the flag's not well rendered & the brain support looks hinky.

& an opening paragraph w/ which I couldn't agree more, to wit:

Confession time: I like my breakfast cereal soggy. There, I’ve said it. Yep, I like it to soak up the milk like the most absorbent of sponges, becoming so saturated that you can’t tell where the cereal ends and the milk begins. Apparently eating cereal without sound effects is a sacrilege, because the cereal makers have long been advocates for cereal apartheid, actively striving to develop and market a product that “stays crunchy longer” by adjusting moisture content, adding sugar or glaze coatings (yum), and altering density and shape. So those little neon-colored, sugar-bombed nuggets are more likely to get lodged between your teeth. Aren’t you thrilled? Do most cereal aficionados really prefer their morning bowl this way? I don’t know. But if they do, I strongly suspect that it’s only because someone on Madison or whatever Avenue decided they should, and began hyping that particular attribute.

Before I became a breatharian I enjoyed Cap'n Crunch® Original (Because there weren't 10 freaking varieties then.) fully soaked. The Professor goes deeper, & it's further evidence you're all sheep. I agree w/ that too.

Thirsty Thursday

From Ten Bears. All sources point to "Does not look good at all".Looks to be A.I.-generated, except with some embellished actual footage. Nonetheless, start saving now; even higher prices for protein and carbohydrates ar on the way.

Other watery nature studies. This established plate tectonics, & was drawn by hand by humanoids.

Izzat Main St. running down the middle? Fifth Ave.? Wilshire?

Equal time: Same city-block looking topography in the Eastern Pacific & south of Oz as the smaller ocean.

Zealandia's fairly obvious here, from the October 1969 issue of National Geographic.

Also raises the question of whether the New Zealand plate should be a continent.Why hadn't I heard about this before? Must've missed the paper.

And what about this Antarctic deception? Not real at all.

Antarctica w/o ice. It's better described as an archipelago, but accepted as a continent.

And where it's about to lose the ice sheet. Oops!

80 Yrs. Of Meat!

Hope I haven't forgotten this by Friday.The original Original Tommy's is less than two miles from the bunker. Bet three chili burgers will feed me for the wknd.

When I first moved here in '73 the weasels w/ whom I hung were quite excited about taking me to Tommy's. As well as telling me to avoid local brew Brew 102, mostly because there was a large billboard advertising the stuff on the brewery, which was on the 101 downtown.

They weren't kidding, either. $1.25 a six-pack for the 16 ounce. 99 cents for the 12 ounce. Never had any, as I was never much of a beer-drinker, even when I was an elbow-bender.

New Frontiers In Model Railroading

US$4.99 in HO & N, $15.00 painted. Guess I need a boneyard on the layout. What a morbid bunch, possibly starting w/ the "classic" Grusum Casket Co.