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Pure-Gas is your friend. A field guide to stations pumping zero-ethanol,gas in the USA and Canada.

https://www.pure-gas.org

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Here's the book excerpt, from the New Yorker, with the full text of Milley's resignation letter (at least, a draft, presumably the one he most liked -- apparently he wrote several drafts) and the...

But you didn't have a Zorb.

https://youtu.be/Gr5qEVGq38w


https://youtu.be/Gr5qEVGq38w

Back around 1980-82, I somehow wound up with a Trans-Am as a car rental.

Terrible car , worst handling POS ever.

Driving in a light rain on a flat road, I spun out on a gentle bend going about...

That didn't take long.
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Anything found during the execution of a search warrant may be used as evidence in the prosecution crimes unrelated to the original warrant. So I understand.

48th anniversary (just checked), August 8th, 1974. The Watergate break-in was June 17, 1972 -- pity they couldn't have timed thing to coincide with that.

Willing to be the safe was more along the lines of, "Either you can open the safe, or we can open the safe the hard way. Cheaper for you if you open the safe."

Sh*te be goin' down!

Seems the FBI just executed a search warrant on TFG's digs at Mar-a-Lago. Wonder which other of TFG's homes/offices got hit? Trump Tower? Bedminster?
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Apparently, a high-school classmate of mine was cast in Grease at the age of 16. She spent the summer if 1977 filming Grease and palling around with Olivia Newton-John.

I don't remember that in...

I believe he's referring to American anti-abortion laws,-- near total prohibition, inane requirements on abortion clinics that other facilities doing in-house outpatient surgeries don't have comply...

Is that down at Seaview?

If I didn't have COVID, I'd come down and visit.

I used to know several people who self-identified as ovo-lacto-bacon vegetarians.

And barges are to rail as rail is to trucks.

Here's a video unloading a bottom dump hopper gondola. Scrub to about the 6m mark to see the unloading 115 tons of coal (250,000 pounds, 104,000 kilos) in about 5 seconds.
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[I've always like the "just turn it over and shake it" approach.]

We've got rotary gondolas like that, too, but also bottom hopper gondolas like these, with automated bottom gates. As the gondola...

Mary Travers or Peter, Paul and Mary.

To quote a comment on one of her obituaries, in response to hecklers making fun of the weight she'd gained from her leukemia,

"She was the hottest thing on...

Works for me.

Here's a guy in Abbottsford, BC, milling Alaskan Yellow Cedar shakes at CAD $100/bundle.

Maybe he'd ship?
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Happy birthday!

Oh goodie. Another spambot.

Don't get me started on the bad idea that is the FICA payroll tax disincentives for small businesses and shops.

And/or, just eliminate the FICA tax cap (you only pat Social Security taxes on the first $147,000 of income.)

Even better, do with the Social Security tax what Medicare does. Medicare is a 1.45%...

According to KTVU (Fox) San Francisco, it originated with a Berkeley Karen, posting on the app NextDoor and reposted to Twitter by an account @BestOfNextDoor that aggregates silly things people say...

I heard something earlier about a ferry on the Port Townsend - Coupeville run being out of service.

Must have been KENNEWICK. Wonder what broke?

Should have named this thread "Here, Hold My Beer And Watch This!"

Ron Johnson suggests Medicare, Social Security be approved on annual basis
BY JULIA MUELLER - 08/03/22 7:31 PM ET

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Wednesday that Social Security and Medicare should...

In this instance, people would be "delight[ing] in waving raw meat in front of people who choose not to eat meat...", because those people are being d*cks about it, trying to cram their preferences...

Yeah, I'd like to at least hope it's a fake/satire/parody, but . . .

"29th April 1971

Dear Sir,

We act for Mr Arkell who is Retail Credit Manager of Granada TV Rental Ltd. His attention has been drawn to an article appearing in the issue of Private Eye dated 9th...

Probably better off buying asparagus crowns (year old roots). Easier to get going and less time to getting asparagus.

https://extension.umn.edu/vegetables/growing-asparagus
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Or, as the master list above puts it, fallacy #23

The Bandwagon Fallacy (also, Argument from Common Sense, Argumentum ad Populum): The fallacy of arguing that because "everyone," "the people," or...

Posted to a food subreddit back in March.
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That's rather Begging the Question, because that "thought game" requires acceptant that the question under discussion, "Is a foetus a human being?", is true.

Further, it elevates the foetus,...

Maybe he's talking Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/

The "rules" of argument have been hashed out over centuries.

Most people with lung cancer have it by choice. Nobody forced them to smoke. It doesn't make it not a health problem.

For lung cancer, the death rate is 46.7 per 100,000 for white men.

Heart...

[QUOTE=Decourcy;6705666]

Most fetuses don’t harm the mother./QUOTE]

Only reason that's true is through the miracles of modern medicine.

Take a walk through any old cemetery and note the...

I should say that this "bicycle gymnastics" is an actual sport, "indoor cycling", governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale in Switzerland. Been going since the late 19th century.

Lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso assembled this "Master List of Fallacies", both traditional and contemporary.

We see many of these in politics, and here in the Bilge.
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Whatcha got?

https://youtu.be/5sYk-7v74C8


https://youtu.be/5sYk-7v74C8

Just the phone numbers by themselves will provide useful intelligence. From those, it can be determined

- where and when people were located (triangulation off cell tower pings)
- who called who...

Colonel Bob Smalser (ret.) checking in on Facebook.

Be interesting to hear his perspective on what's going on in Ukraine, given that fighting the Russian Army was something of his professional...

I can only remember it because 60 mph = 100 mph is easy to remember.

And the ratio between miles and kilometers is serendipitously close to phi, the golden mean, where the reciprocal of phi is...

Seems like an invitation to have a lot of angry ghosts.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-tombstone-house-petersburg-virginia

The Tombstone House
Petersburg, Virginia

A home built...

100 km = c. 62 miles. 187 miles is more like 300 km.

There's a setting in Google maps (Apple Maps, too.) to switch over to kilometers, or to let it choose based on the location in question.

Our front porch this morning, courtesy of number one son:

Lima: "We have contagious disease aboard."

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52267775471_034ff65695_h.jpg

My wife just asked,...

Sloop was port tack. Larger vessel was [seemingly] under power, so nominally the give-way vessel.

But, could their helm even see what was happening under their bow?

And, the sloop clearly had...

Weird. Link seems to have gone bye-bye.

Plot Summary: 30-40 foot sloop sails under the bow of much, much larger vessel. With predictable results. Didn't look like she got rolled, but it wasn't...

Did I mention that I hate Facebook? Let me see if I can get a link that works.