Pulling a gun you didn't make yourself at a fast food restaurant is *still* an example of sessile nutrition. Even Captain Kirk, back in the day, managed to make his own gunpowder and kill the damn lizard.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6544435
Ontario butter thieves strike again with ‘large-scale’ robberies (Oct 22, 2024)
Police in Guelph, Ont., say there have been seven 'large-scale' butter thefts over the last 10 months, including two in October. The most recent cases resulted in losses of more than $900 each.
#crustr
Back when margarine smugglers from Illinois used to work the Wisconsin 'cheap dairy' markets.
Streets of Old Milwaukee...
...
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One last remnant of Wisconsin's anti-oleo campaign is still on the books: Restaurants and public institutions are barred from serving margarine as a substitute for table butter unless a diner asks for it or both butter and margarine are offered. If you're caught and convicted, the maximum penalty is a $500 fine and three months in jail for a first offense — and up to a year for each offense after that.
The penalty is similar to those for class B and C misdemeanors such as harassing phone calls or electronic messages; disorderly conduct; food stamp fraud of less than $100; and letting a prisoner escape.
...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6544435
Ontario butter thieves strike again with ‘large-scale’ robberies (Oct 22, 2024)
Police in Guelph, Ont., say there have been seven 'large-scale' butter thefts over the last 10 months, including two in October. The most recent cases resulted in losses of more than $900 each.
#crustr
KIA Soul at the Phora writes:
archive.org is also under legal attacks from publishers wanting to re-copyright all public domain works. Access to hundreds of thousands of public domain works has been removed. A sign of this was given when Google Books dropped carrying free downloads and offering more and more 'printed copies' for sale. Soon everything will be pay for view and the web will go the way of cable and satellite TV; many will eventually be priced out of internet services. Haven't visited the Cornell Library sites in a while, maybe they're already shrinking and disappearing as well. They had a lot of stuff on agriculture and 'Home Economics' and history there. HEARTH or something was the name.
HEARTH - Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History | Cornell University Library Digital Collections
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/hearth
'Home Economics' from the Progressive era covered a lot more ground than people would assume.
They've moved a lot of it to another site:
Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/
They haven't purged all of the politically incorrect stuff yet apparently.
https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth4732756_189_001#page/58/mode/1up
https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth4600510#mode/1up
Look for these collections to disappear soon, maybe try and download as much as possible in your lines of interest while they're still available.
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#crustr #wayback
My reply in thread (mid Oct 2024)
responding to a comment on another forum:
> 1 happened to need archive.org yesterday and found out you already posted here about it being down.
> But Archive.org is back online now!
From TBC version of this thread ^^
This partly true -- they put up a 'read only' instance
However
1/ all inbound links to them are still broken
2/ they also host the purl.org domain, which has the global persistent URL (pURL) resolver. You might not care but quite a few things in academia will break as that stays down. Have you ever seen an academic paper with doi:10.1000/blah sort of thing in it (a Digital Object ID used to identify academic papers and other things as 'objects'). Those use pURLs.
Some of those systems might run their own embedded purl resolvers, some may not. YMMV
[[ so far, recapitulating above phora thread ]]
To see the problem, suppose Twitter/X went under the wave... who cares, right? But t.co (url shortener) domain is used in every tweet everywhere to bring the click back to Twitter for market analytics and in particular only Twitter can translate t.co to an actual link.
archive.org understands the problem here -- if Twitter ever goes for final dirt nap, a very large portion of their curated collections will have 404 links and be useless. Solution, cache that information when they scrape as part of the process. It's not just content... but WHAT ABOUT THE METADATA? (link resolution).
Er, Houston, they forgot to cache their own metadata themselves. But anything like that on the web where the metadata is more important sometimes than cache the content (for most people who don't cache a Trillion webpages like the Wayback Machine does...) the data will be there... they just won't be able to find it.
Another instance: Google 'went down' for 5 minutes in Dec 2022... and internet traffic dropped 40% ... what happened? Is 40% of internet traffic people using Google web properties, watch YouTube or what? Hardly -- my guess is that 40% of internet traffic goes to sites that use Google Analytics, and the backend for that stopped working. Pages loaded slowly or hardly at all, people got bored with the internet for 5 minutes... and half of them found something better to do with their lives besides watching blank screens and spinning cursors.
The 'internet' was just fine of course -- all the sites were there, still functional. Two possible and easy fixes that no one will know who to do the NEXT TIME IT HAPPENS:
1/ if you are a webmaster, turn off the broken Analytics, Now your site works again and at least YOUR customers are happily browsing YOU. You won't be getting those analytics from Google anyway until they fix their shit.
2/ but the real problem is at the edge -- the server isn't responsible for sending analytics to Google -- YOUR BROWSER IS. It downloaded that page just fine and all the .js assets it needed to get the job done, and followed orders... but those orders didn't work, so now your browser is useless and uninteresting.
Fix? Simple... find your /etc/hosts file and replace the failing Google URLs with 127.0.0.1 -- that will fail for you instantly, and your browser will in almost all cases give you a now fully armed and operational Death Page. Probably ad and junk filtering software, and privacy software, can do this more easily (fix at the proxy level rather than old hacker method of blacklisting URLs by returned them locally)
KIA Soul at the Phora writes:
archive.org is also under legal attacks from publishers wanting to re-copyright all public domain works. Access to hundreds of thousands of public domain works has been removed. A sign of this was given when Google Books dropped carrying free downloads and offering more and more 'printed copies' for sale. Soon everything will be pay for view and the web will go the way of cable and satellite TV; many will eventually be priced out of internet services. Haven't visited the Cornell Library sites in a while, maybe they're already shrinking and disappearing as well. They had a lot of stuff on agriculture and 'Home Economics' and history there. HEARTH or something was the name.
HEARTH - Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History | Cornell University Library Digital Collections
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/hearth
'Home Economics' from the Progressive era covered a lot more ground than people would assume.
They've moved a lot of it to another site:
Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/
They haven't purged all of the politically incorrect stuff yet apparently.
https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth4732756_189_001#page/58/mode/1up
https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth4600510#mode/1up
Look for these collections to disappear soon, maybe try and download as much as possible in your lines of interest while they're still available.
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#crustr #wayback
#cruster #spengler
KIA Soul said:
Trump basically hijacked the GOP, and I don't see any who can replace him as his 2nd term ends. We'll see, maybe Vance will shine. Democrats became the Party of billionaires by handing out trillions in corporate welfare, they are Will Streets' employees now, and they have a large core base of halfwits and stoners who are easily played. Doesn't look good for populists, labor, and small business after Trump leaves the scene in 4 years. Red China is rapidly taking over our crop lands and already infiltrated all our universities and tech labs. We will probably be used as lab rats in another bio-weapon experiment again soon. Trump can only delay some of the tide, but not all of it; the margin of votes in the Senate and Congress is tiny and easily bought, as we saw with Biden's IRA passage and all the pork forked over to Republicans who were leaving office.
And yet, as with most powerful late Republics, enough money and power is on the line -- with global rule at stake, unsolvable demographic problems, and declining resources and food supplies, you can rest assured that there will be several contenders for Ultimate Power.
99% of people will sit around and wring their hands: 'Somebody, do something!' Somebody usually does.
Water, Virtual Water (transported as foodstuffs, clothing, and similar hydrocarbons), Oil required for transport. The shape of the game sometimes determines the shape of the outcome, like the problem of getting Egyptian grain loaded in boats and delivered to the Roman core homelands ('supply chain').
Welcome to Egypt.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-starts-preparing-to-build-a-nuclear-bomb/ar-AA1u1Dlg
#MNUC #crustr
Ukraine 'starts preparing to build a NUCLEAR bomb
Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump pulls US military aid, a briefing paper prepared for the country's Ministry of Defence has revealed.
The weapon would be built from plutonium and use similar technology to the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report stated.
Despite giving up its nuclear arsenal in 1996, Kyiv is still in control of nine operational reactors and has significant expertise on how to build the weapons.
It comes after Trump reportedly backed the shock ultimatum President Volodymyr Zelensky gave NATO last month when he seemed to demand either Ukraine is granted membership of the bloc or they would become a nuclear power.
Zelensky later clarified he had meant there was no alternative security guarantee and Kyiv has since denied they are considering building a nuclear bomb.
According to The Times, the briefing paper prepared for the Ministry of Defence reads: 'Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later.'
'The weight of reactor plutonium available to Ukraine can be estimated at seven tons … A significant nuclear weapons arsenal would require much less material,' it continued.
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If I were Putin I'd be tempted to reply:
Any further land gains in the Ukraine will be recognised as North Korean territory.
Of course Zelensky would reply 'That's fine. And we'll give our nuclear weapon and Plutonium inventory to the arm the Poles'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-starts-preparing-to-build-a-nuclear-bomb/ar-AA1u1Dlg
#MNUC #crustr
Ukraine 'starts preparing to build a NUCLEAR bomb
Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump pulls US military aid, a briefing paper prepared for the country's Ministry of Defence has revealed.
The weapon would be built from plutonium and use similar technology to the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report stated.
Despite giving up its nuclear arsenal in 1996, Kyiv is still in control of nine operational reactors and has significant expertise on how to build the weapons.
It comes after Trump reportedly backed the shock ultimatum President Volodymyr Zelensky gave NATO last month when he seemed to demand either Ukraine is granted membership of the bloc or they would become a nuclear power.
Zelensky later clarified he had meant there was no alternative security guarantee and Kyiv has since denied they are considering building a nuclear bomb.
According to The Times, the briefing paper prepared for the Ministry of Defence reads: 'Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later.'
'The weight of reactor plutonium available to Ukraine can be estimated at seven tons … A significant nuclear weapons arsenal would require much less material,' it continued.
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Let me see if I can explain it like this ... Back in the 2010s I worked for a financial institution (financial equities) -- think, a startup similar to E*Trade -- that was bought by a bank that was bot by a well-known Credit Card company that used to run ads involving Visigoths.
So of course, we techs were asked to vet possible future hires and one guy who came our way was a friend of someone on the 'team' (OK, points for knowing how the Hell to network, just out of the box). I gave my thumbs up and we hired him to be a simple 'manual test executor' which is hardly a difficult position, and also he seemed IRL like a swell guy. I tend not to give a damn about formal credentials anyway (many such stories), but the decision to hire was unanimous.
Over the years, later, I learned a few things about him:
1. He was a D&D dungeon master of a group that had been meeting for *years*
2. He had Coast Guard experience, and one of his stories was the time his boat did a drug interdiction, obviously outgunned at the small arms level, but the captain told the drug lord 'we are going to board you and if you pull anything we will sink you'. Of course, the Captain's crew was nervous as Hell but they did their job. So... steady man, obeys captain at full risk to himself, and serves honourably.
I worked there until about the runup to the 2016 election, and I relealised THIS IS WHAT MANAGMENT MATERIAL LOOKS LIKE. (Of course I told him this and 'protected him' as if he needed that, since he outlived me in that crazy org).
Getting other people to work in a Faustian setting -- that is to show up, do their jobs, and getting them to 'play the game' year after year. It just doesn't get anymore management (as opposed to C-Level leadership, which is different) than that. The man was a born Centurion at least. Possibly under fire and at RISK to their own lives, implicit if not near certain. Some men can do this, some cannot. Know the difference, when hiring managers, C-level.
'Work' these days is a game. As a dungeonmaster ('manager' 'PM' whatever), you need to 'mix it up' enough to keep people INTERESTED in the Game, but to understand how to create a TEAM. Moreover, a TEAM that shows up every day, when they DON'T HAVE TO, and also a manager knows enough about team dynamics and motivation to keep the game going for YEARS. This is what FREEDOM looks like. Arbeit macht frei.
This is what a Proven Track Record looks like, gents. Boats. Teams. Men. Ludimagister ('Master of the Game'... of Mars).
The TV version of this is the 'IT Crowd' where the two geeks entertain some big wigs form out of town (who were expecting sex and a knight on the town) but in fact ended up playing D&D with the IT guys. I'll add a link if I can find it.[1]
[1]: this will get you into the ball park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jyVXwonTA
Democrats paying attention yet? #crustr
I have a sinking feeling that the Union is about to go #LordOfTheFlies ... I just hope no one breaks Piggy's glasses and 4 years from now we can still make fire.
#crustr
Destroying the Democratic Party is part of the plan that the Trotskyite Communists have, and it's working. Useful Idiots are a thing with Commies.
They don't need to destroy the Republican Party because Controlled Oppo can be lined up against the wall when the time comes.
#crustr
https://www.wordplays.com/crossword-solver/crustration
Is #Crustration actually a Crossword Puzzle word? #crustr
https://whigdev.com/white/index.php?threads/geeky-stuff-on-nuclear-weapons.4571/
#OSINT #WONK #MNUC #crustr
The Changing World of Mass Media #crustr
https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/the-changing-world-of-mass-media.1619/
Why are some Left wing and some Right wing?
https://tunisbayclub.com/index.php?threads/why-are-some-left-wing-and-some-right-wing.2867/
Election 2024: Battle of the Statisticians #crustr
https://tunisbayclub.com/index.php?threads/election-2024-battle-of-the-statisticians.2873/
Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
https://tunisbayclub.com/index.php?threads/statesmanship-and-political-philosophy.2872/
Yarvin on Monarchism
https://tunisbayclub.com/index.php?threads/yarvin-on-monarchism.2652/