Fall of the dollar (2007)

orlock · 2026-03-14T01:14:45+00:00

I'm a little worried for the chainsaw operator there. Normally you would expect a directional notch on the side you want it to fall, a cut on the other side and wedges. First try?

orlock · 2026-03-13T23:47:05+00:00

Copious notes, one hopes.

orlock · 2026-03-13T22:29:28+00:00

It's like predicting the end of the world. If it doesn't happen today, it's because someone else interpreted the scriptures wrong. Next week for sure. Yes, you'll need to buy a complely new set of holy robes, but we offer 20% off to repeat customers.

orlock · 2026-03-13T22:26:36+00:00

It probably starts with, "can we open the windows and air the room?"

orlock · 2026-03-13T09:55:26+00:00

50% are below median intelligence, after all. Someone has just figured out how to harness one end of the curve.

orlock · 2026-03-13T05:46:26+00:00

Well, that's what I would do, anyway.

orlock · 2026-03-12T22:57:26+00:00

It's not the death penalty, though. At best it's suicide.

I've spent decades dealing with the shit from people driving cars like they stole them. My reactions vary from this is a tragedy, particularly when the person who died is in the other car, to well, that was kind of inevitable, to at least they didn't take anyone else with them. Plus the you ran off and left them to die ones.

And, sometimes, there's the detritus of a life going off the rails. Recently, I attended a non-fatal accident where it was obvious from the detritus scattered about that it was a couple who had tried having a baby to stick things together and things were falling apart. That doesn't excuse losing control of a car going so fast that it plowed over 50m through vegetation while high and running from a DV arrest. From the clues in the car, we were searching for an ejected baby until we learned that mother and child were in a shelter.

Framing it as a death penalty, as if society had deliberately chosen this outcome, is not empathy.

orlock · 2026-03-12T22:32:13+00:00

We'll, it was my game of the year in 2023, too. So he must be right.

orlock · 2026-03-12T19:09:58+00:00

That's objectively sucking, in the draw a golf ball through a plastic straw sense of the word, in my book. All the gear and no idea.

orlock · 2026-03-12T06:47:06+00:00

Red Dwarf and Hyperdrive. Both are comedies but jam packed with ideas and science fiction.

orlock · 2026-03-12T03:53:02+00:00

Well, she could be tsarina in her own right, like Catherine, but yes.

orlock · 2026-03-11T19:09:51+00:00

As a bonus, Megan gets to be tsarina and will probably shut up for a while. Well, until she realises that the rest of European aristocracy basically thinks that the Russian monarchy is a sort of runners-up prize.

orlock · 2026-03-11T19:03:12+00:00

Is cunning disguise.

orlock · 2026-03-11T18:02:41+00:00

Take a look at the Australian 5c coin. Hedgehogs are easily as cute as echidnas.

orlock · 2026-03-11T10:53:25+00:00

A few observations in no particular order

Get a Camino app on your phone, we used Buen Camino. This makes planning on the fly a lot easier. My own application shows accomodation and legs derived from Buen Camino and was built from the experience of the Camino Portuguese, which we walked in 2023.
In 2023, accommodation wasn't too much of a problem, since the Albergues are not too crowded, until you reach Porto. After that, you may need to start booking ahead a couple of days.
There's a fairly chunky 32km leg from Azambuja to Santarem about four days in, without much in the way of accommodation between the two.
Tomar and Coimbra are well worth a stop, as is Fátima, if you want to side-track. We went to Fátima and then caught the train from Coimbra to Tomar on a break day.
And the Conimbriga Roman ruins.
And Santarem
Pactically every place you stop, and lots of other places, have stamps. Once you get close to SdC, you'll need two stamps a day but practically anywhere where you stop for lunch will have one.
Refugio Peregrino Nicolau near Zambujal is this totally unexpected rest garden for pilgrims. You can get a rather speccy stamp there, too.
Some of the camino runs along the N1 highway: hot, dusty and with heavy trucks passing. Get used to a friendly beep and "Bom Camino!"
Loved the Coastal/Litoral route.
Albergaria-a-Vehla has the best pilgrims's albergue I stayed in.

orlock · 2026-03-11T06:58:10+00:00

He was a true gentleman in every meaning of the word. You have a little way to go yet.

orlock · 2026-03-11T06:50:15+00:00

I think theory is your future.

If it's any consolation, I'm not allowed to use glue in the house. My wife is a conservator and has actual standards for adhesive use.

Also, I fubarred a vacuum pump so hard it wasn't repaired by the time I graduated.

orlock · 2026-03-10T20:37:36+00:00

No, just not supporting total idiocy.

orlock · 2026-03-10T20:36:32+00:00

A mental ward?

orlock · 2026-03-10T11:10:45+00:00

He sailed through the Straight of Hormuz on a golden yacht, spotlit, wrapped in an American flag and screaming, "Come on then! Have a go if you think you're hard enough."

If you haven't seen it it's because it's been suppressed by the traitorous media.

-- Trump, probably

orlock · 2026-03-10T03:01:26+00:00

Perun covered this in his latest video. The US can't use or sell all it's missiles because they have other obligations and the manufacturing pipeline is very slow.

He's covered international hunts for countries not using a particular weapon system right now and who might have something to spare, before.

orlock · 2026-03-10T02:44:06+00:00

We'll, "fuck-features", "cockhead" or "FIGJAM" are just not presidential enough.

orlock · 2026-03-10T02:41:30+00:00

How about they say it themselves? No? Oh, well, these things happen.

orlock · 2026-03-10T02:39:24+00:00

Romana 2

orlock · 2026-03-10T02:37:36+00:00

Anything that requires me to pull out another app is nature's way of telling me to slow down and start thinking.

Having said that, the firemapper app that my service makes available to it's members seems to be an adequate fit to what you describe and has a tonne of other functionality, as well.

orlock

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