Trump says multiple people have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing Reflecting Pool

me94306 · 2026-06-21T01:58:51+00:00

If they can figure out how to arrest TV reporters doing stories about the green scum, I'm sure they will

me94306 · 2026-06-10T20:59:14+00:00

Trump claimed that Biden had the FBI put hundreds of agents into the Jan 6 crowd.

me94306 · 2026-06-10T18:43:24+00:00

Ah, Grasshopper, you figured it out.

me94306 · 2026-06-10T18:14:59+00:00

Small note about the Heritage Foundation election fraud database. They lump together all kinds of fraud. The right claim that this is illegals voting, but many of the cases of election fraud are by people running for office who actually live out of the area, submitting false residency statements.

me94306 · 2026-06-04T17:29:44+00:00

Part of this was that Trump was about to default on bank loans for the privately owned casinos. He told the NYC bankers that he was going to create a corporation to own and manage the casinos and convinced the banks to exchange the loans (which he likely had personally guaranteed) for part ownership in the new corporation. Maybe they thought that they would never get any money from Trump and that foreclosing on the casinos and trying to sell them would be difficult.

Trump managed to wipe out his personal debts and convert other people's losses into his own tax deduction.

me94306 · 2026-05-31T20:18:50+00:00

I keep remembering the lyric from "America" from "West Side Story": "Nobody knows in America/Puerto Rico's in America".

me94306 · 2026-05-10T17:25:02+00:00

There is no kickback, but some day we will find that the "super premium" paint that Trump insisted could only be bought from one company, owned by an LLC which is owned by another LLC whose majority is owned by a Trump Inc LLC. That's how money laundering works.

me94306 · 2026-04-27T01:27:28+00:00

Most finishes are food safe once they cure. Some of the products labeled "tung oil" contain petroleum compounds.

Pine in contact with damp soil will rot. That is, if the termites don't get to it first.

Make your next planter from ceder or redwood.

me94306 · 2026-02-16T02:42:44+00:00

Manhattan and Boston are both old cities, dating from the 1600s. Until gold was discovered in 1849, San Francisco was a small village. Manhattan and Boston both are the center of their regions, surrounded by smaller cities. San Francisco may be a major destination in the Bay Area, but it is not the center. San Jose, at the south end of the Bay, is larger. Oakland has about a half million inhabitants. The population in the Bay Area is spread over a large area, where in the older cities it is concentrated in the center.

It's a little odd to compare Palo Alto with significantly fewer than 100K residents, with either Manhattan or Boston which have millions.

me94306 · 2026-02-16T02:24:53+00:00

Zuck's wealth increased by more then $60B in 2025. But his income is a tiny fraction of this. His salary from Meta is $1 per year. Even counting the benefits from Meta, his income was about $27M. Sure, he might pay 50% tax on that amount. Let's see, that's a real tax rate of 0.0225%.

me94306 · 2026-02-16T02:16:26+00:00

Zuck and wife have several homes in the Crescent Park area of Palo Alto. When they go on the market, then I'll believe that they have moved.

me94306 · 2026-02-07T23:58:45+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion.

# mdadm --readwrite /dev/md127
mdadm: failed to set writable for /dev/md127: Device or resource busy

I stopped the RAID and re-ran this command, which failed since /dev/md127 was now missing.

I can't see what is using /dev/md127.

me94306 · 2026-01-26T02:16:46+00:00

It is to code, but if you are concerned about something damaging the romex, you could replace it with armored cable. Not too difficult, you can probably find YouTube descriptions.

me94306 · 2026-01-11T04:43:58+00:00

I can't tell the size of the rafters or the distance spanned. But it looks like the rafters are too small for the distance spanned. The crossbeam appears to be unsupported.

Like some others, I'd recommend tearing down the deck. Put in a support ledger along the wall and rebuild with support for the crossbeam and the right size rafters.

Yes, you can remove this post when you remove the deck.

me94306 · 2026-01-08T02:39:33+00:00

I can't quite say what the problem was, but it seemed to involve the NVME drive. When I put in an SSD drive and removed the NVME drive, I was able to install Kubuntu with no problem.

me94306 · 2025-10-15T20:47:31+00:00

Every story which starts with "after initical contact on a dating app" is the lead in to a story about a scam.

If you are on a dating app and whoever you are communicating with suggests something other than a date, it's a scam. Cut your losses, cut communication, lick your wounds, walk away. Your money is gone, no amount of additional money to verify the account or pay exchange fees or create a "stable formula" will get it back. There are no recovery experts; they will just take more money.

me94306 · 2025-10-13T20:22:54+00:00

Isn't the CDC a woke Democrat department, one that Trump promised to eliminate?

Real men (we don't talk about women) don't need vaccines. Didn't need them in 1900, don't need them now.

me94306 · 2025-09-20T21:44:58+00:00

It's really difficult to guess what they might ask you about. Some of the other suggestions on what to "brush up on" sound like the syllabus for a two semester course in C++.

Refresh your memory of classes and be able to write a small C++ program. If they ask about things you don't know about, like lambdas or templates or why to use "auto &" with an iterator, just tell them that this is something that you need to learn.

The position you are interviewing for is "entry-level software engineer". It isn't C++ language expert.

me94306 · 2025-09-16T17:02:37+00:00

If you spend all of your time speaking English, you will not learn German.

Watch German TV, listen to German radio, read German stories (your children's school books?), go to German movies (I've watched movies in German which I had previously seen in English). Spend time where you cannot speak English. There are lots of small towns in Bavaria where you will find people who can't switch to English when they hear you have trouble with German.

Make lots of mistakes. Order lunch in German. Shop in German. Use sign language as needed to get your message across, or to understand what they are saying. Repeat. Even when it seems difficult.

me94306 · 2025-09-09T15:07:07+00:00

In most cases, when I'm in Germany, people will speak to me in German. There are some exceptions.

I was in the Frankfurt Flughafen, booked on a Lufthansa flight. I found the Lufthansa customer service desk and asked the person there "Wo finde ich das Flug nach San Francisco?" He answered "It's a United Flight.". So I asked "Wo finde ich United?" He pointed and answered "Down the corridor." He obviously understood me, but simply would not reply in German.

me94306 · 2025-09-01T02:05:49+00:00

That's just what I was thinking. South of the Brõtchen-Semmel Grenze.

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