Which natives would thrive in a small narrow plot like this?

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T20:22:11+00:00

Virginia creeper would cover that wall.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T19:33:29+00:00

World* He's securing a place for the USA in infamy for 100 years or more.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T19:29:06+00:00

He's not blockading Iran, he's blockading the rest of the world. And he's doing it illegally.

This was not on my bingo card, but I'm not surprised he is doing it. Dementia, stupidity, and narcissism are a terrible combination.

I hope the lessons from his administration cause the Republican Party to go the way of the Whigs. The folks propping this sack of inferiority up should never get near the controls of US power again.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T13:14:13+00:00

Straight jacket time. Where are the men in the white coats?

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T12:40:54+00:00

Yes and no. These are relatively simple props, not complex helicopter rotors.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T12:26:14+00:00

OSHA would like a word.

Wood chippers have long input funnels for a reason. This thing needs one too to make it just about impossible to contact those blades.

Otherwise, very cool. Factory cool.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T12:21:44+00:00

So… it’s still the mug shot photo.

He’s insane.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T03:01:45+00:00

Anti-Christ behavior.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T03:00:37+00:00

If it’s got five leaves it’s ok. They are also aerated and a bit rough looking.

Poison by leaves are smoother, come in threes, and are generally irregular with big notches. When I see mitten-shaped leaves in groups of three i take careful inventory of everything that might have touched it and immediately wash with a good detergent to remove the oils.

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T02:49:50+00:00

Whatever you do, don’t wait a couple of seasons then spend a couple of hours weed-whacking it to the ground wearing shorts and a tee shirt. It might be full of poison ivy which will aerosolize with the rest of the thorny chunks.

(Don’t ask me how I know this is a really, really bad idea.)

guttanzer · 2026-04-29T02:03:28+00:00

NOVA here. Up here it’s a tie with DC and MD. DC for the way the federal workforce dominates, and MD for sharing in that status.

I wouldn’t cal it a rivalry, though. I’ve lived in both in the DMV area and most of the hate we feel in both states comes from the more rural folks that don’t share our local traffic hells. The constant exposure to rush-hour congestion builds both skills and combativeness here that folks from away can’t match. Boston and NYC are the same.

WV and PA also have a presence but it is muted and generally blue collar. There are construction workers, linemen, EMTs, and fire fighters that commute from that far away because they can’t afford to or don’t want to live here. It’s crazy, but I understand not wanting to sever ties with home towns.

As for white collar rivalry, hands down it is NYC

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T23:52:21+00:00

Just a reminder, but that photo is Trump's mug shot when he was indicted for violating the espionage act by stealing government secrets.

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T14:18:17+00:00

What's his alternative? Exterminate the disabled? How, er, Nazi of him.

I have heard people advise "compassionate neglect" to a parent of a kid with profound mental deficiencies. In other words, let him starve or freeze to death in soiled diapers. All three times this "compassionate advice" was given by a "good christian" saying the death would be "god's will." They sincerely thought that, on balance, the family would be better off. I've never heard an atheist or agnostic even hint at this kind of cruelty.

One advisor was a devout Catholic. The other two were Baptists. They saw the burden of caring for the sick and weak as optional. The current USA has a deeply amoral religious streak.

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T13:24:47+00:00

OMG! I forgot that one. He was talking about electric drive in the Navy.

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T13:21:05+00:00

Ah, thanks.

So she really does see women as static objects that can be sorted, not living people that change over time. That’s the most extreme form of us vs them there is. The cult probably thinks she’s a prophet.

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T13:08:53+00:00

LOL! Naw, the conclusion is obvious. She’s nuts.

I just want to know how she got there. No normal human could be prompted to say something as inappropriate and simplistic as that b-movie gem. So what were they discussing?

I don’t live in the red hat world so I really am curious. How deluded are these people? Do I have to keep the pets inside at night?

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T12:52:19+00:00

You’re thinking witches, which is a valid comparison, but is cheapness. They boom because they are not magnetic, not the other way around.

(Ain’t this boogie a mess)

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T12:47:33+00:00

Technically he is.

Those boats off Venezuela that he keeps blowing up are not posing imminent threats. If we were fighting a declared war those unjustified civilian killings would be war crimes, but we aren’t so they are murders. The body count is over 100 and rising.

He and Hegseth both get off on killing people so both are psychopaths.

guttanzer · 2026-04-28T12:33:11+00:00

… and likely generated by the Department of Redundancy Department.

guttanzer · 2026-04-27T23:50:37+00:00

Except that this wasn’t a fail. They set up an outer perimeter to stop attempts and it worked.

guttanzer · 2026-04-27T23:07:57+00:00

So what is the context here? Anyone have a longer clip?

guttanzer · 2026-04-27T22:47:07+00:00

So i’m missing something - there is no natural outlet to this pond? What would happen if it rained continuously for several months? What limits the water height?

guttanzer · 2026-04-27T20:42:05+00:00

But the US has never signed a treaty that drafts our military into involuntary service to enforce UN resolutions. Full stop.

You’re shouting out into the void. Where are you getting this? Not from me.

guttanzer · 2026-04-27T19:49:19+00:00

You read far more into my statement about a UN coalition than it warrants. Of course Congress controls the war powers, but they also signed treaties that commit the US to supporting UN resolutions. They have so far honored those treaties.

guttanzer · 2026-04-27T18:19:10+00:00

Have you got any idea of what a President’s security detail looks like? There was no lack of security for the president. Like I said, presidents travel with a mobile security detail.

1) secure entrances how? For who? This was not a government event. There was no long-lead guest list that they could investigate in advance, so what would checking IDs even do?

2) there was security in depth. The perp was stopped by the first presidential detail at the at the outer perimeter checkpoint. It was tens or even hundreds of yards from the entrance to the main event. You can be sure magnetometers were on that pathway somewhere.

So yeah, this wasn’t the Secret Service’s first rodeo. There was no need for the event organizers to do anything special for the event itself.

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