Avoiceinthecrowd Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Planes crash every day, still make planes. Cars crash every day, still make cars. Trains derail every day, still make trains. Boats sink every day, still make boats. One zepplin explodes and this is the most dangerous idea in history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avoiceinthecrowd Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/car-industry-food "A few years back, sadness took hold of the Gastro Obscura newsroom. We heard that Volkswagen had started to phase out “Product Item No. 199 398 500 A.” This was not a beloved car component. This was Volkswagen’s very own currywurst, with 30 employees turning out 18,000 sausages a day. Said sausages, served in company cafeterias with signature curry ketchup, were also sometimes packaged up and given as thank-you gifts to German VW customers." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avoiceinthecrowd Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 (edited) If you had to imagine what it might take to bring back zepplins you might, perhaps, imagine indicators of an eventual possibility of a return to airships in articles like this one... https://mises.org/mises-wire/eu-has-new-airline-regulations-and-consumers-will-pay Snippit from article: "EU policymakers have created new regulation for the aviation sector. ReFuelEU Aviation mandates the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and bans fuel tankering—a common practice globally. It is another climate-related initiative that will hamper native industry, increase prices, and reduce choice for consumers. Cheap fuel out, expensive fuel in The main thrust is to increase use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), which are incredibly expensive. To cite a conservative estimate, SAF is around 250 percent more expensive than conventional jet fuel. This is somewhat alarming because fuel costs typically make up 25-30 percent of an airline’s total costs." AVC writes: The way the zepplins just vanished from mainstream thought after a single explosion suggests to me that the incident was an act of sabotage that might find it's source with those industrialists eager to capitalize on their vision of what would become our modern commercial aviation model. The airships were cheap to operate and very quiet and easy on the environment. Just in terms of remaining consistent with their climate narratives and measures they should be pushing hard for an airship comeback but they aren't because the climate narrative is bs. You can see this in the continuity-of-thought lapses in their demented quest to heal the earth. What we have now is noisy, polluting, and requires long runways and complex traffic control towers. And tons of expensive fuels and oils and parts. I won't mourn the passage of jet air travel. Always pressed for time and suffering jetlag. Airships offer the hope of a more relaxed pace and more travel comfort. Edited January 22 by Avoiceinthecrowd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_j_evans Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 I love accounting web. This is from a recent article on AI: This brings us nicely to the folks at Geneva-based think tank The World Economic Forum, a not-for-profit with the lofty aim of improving the world by “promoting cooperation between the public and private sectors”, “shaping global agendas, creating initiatives, and building trust”. A bit like the Illuminati, but without the fancy dress 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Avoiceinthecrowd Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 "In Hamadryas baboons, the males often bite the females' necks and threaten them. Wild chimpanzees can charge at females, shake branches, hit, slap, kick, pound, drag, and bite them." - Wikipedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 I need to make a meme video edit thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numnuts Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) I can't quite believe he said that sober and in a formalish context, even as a bungled joke. Not like he was drunk down the pub one night. Not appropriate. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14325507/Wynne-Evans-spit-roast-strictly.html 'As a young woman it was so upsetting and offensive to see him treat his colleague that way way: Mail on Sunday journalist DOLLY BUSBY recalls the sickening moment Wynne Evans made appalling 'spit-roast' jibe.' t was a fairly standard assignment – the press launch day on the eve of the nationwide Strictly Come Dancing live tour – and I wasn’t expecting too much drama. But then I reached for my phone and started filming. I had a feeling, some hard-to-fathom instinct, that something was going to happen. Perhaps it was the way Welsh tenor Wynne Evans, the man who sang those irritating Go Compare jingles, was strutting around Birmingham Arena with his beautiful Russian dance partner, Katya Jones, on his arm. For one thing 52-year-old Evans was being boorishly loud and boisterous, his appetite for attention insatiable, cracking a string of unfunny jokes at his Strictly peers’ expense. Certainly the tension in the air was down to him. Then, as I filmed, he made a deeply abhorrent sexual comment about a female colleague. It was frankly disgusting – and, as a young woman, I was appalled on her behalf and deeply offended myself. Turning to the 30-year-old EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick as they posed for a group photo, Evans suggested – joking, if you can call it that – a three-way sex act. It was directed at Janette Manrara, 41, the presenter of Strictly’s spin-off show, It Takes Two, who is hosting the live tour, and who stood between them. What made it worse, if it could be much worse, was that Evans used the appalling term ‘spit-roast’. The word rang out around the near-empty 15,000-seat auditorium like the crack of a bullet from a gun. Edited February 1 by numnuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Kool AF! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avoiceinthecrowd Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 (edited) Edited February 5 by Avoiceinthecrowd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Almost as good as me at my peak 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avoiceinthecrowd Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 (edited) Cellphone service in our part of the world just got more expensive. The big three providers all followed suit, they make it sound like a tit-for-tat rivalry between them but all three come out winning. A rivalry should instead lower prices in the tit-for-tat ideology. They've flipped the tables. And they promise more hikes beyond inflation for the year coming. So, now we know who is paying for all that holiday largesse of big savings and killer deals on forfeits on Boxing Day...everyone. every customer was hiked 10-15 dollars per month. They dropped rates to create a tsunami of new customers and are getting it all back and some. I recall when I could call in and talk live with a representative. Now I must request a callback, not for my convenience but theirs. They probably want to eavesdrop the phone while you wait for the callback so they can calibrate a suitable response and guage your level of frustration before engaging you live. Decide who to assign to you. When you are in contact with them they are very polite since courtesy costs them nothing but the response is never clear and most of it is bs. Knife you with a smile and a mint candy. They justify the increase with claims to improved service. Personally I have found that problem solving mechanism and service have remained the same if not worst. All this always brings me back to wondering how humanity ever existed for centuries without these forms of communication. Then I wonder if humans could ever find their way back to pre-phone days when these clowns start using our communications to blackmail us and simply cut out the services completely. Strand people with landlines and cut cell service entirely. Forcing a civilizational reset of sorts. All I can say for sure is that these systems are not immune to the kinds of societal sabotage and instrument weaponization mentalities guiding us over the cliff of late. The cell providers see that inflation is ravaging the consumers yet, in lieu of a gesture of solidarity by lowering those already grossly overpriced products and services, and offering lower rates, they promise instead to raise the bar over inflation and throw more fuel on the blaze. Competition between providers is just an elaborate illusion. Cartels don't compete with themselves, they gouge and expand at our expense. Laughing when we say we will take our communication dollar to a competitor. It all funnels back to the same pool of wealth. Just to illustrate how insulated these communication industry leaders are from the clientel they serve, just file a formal complaint to those industry watchdogs-without-teeth, but plenty of bark, to get a feel for who owns them. Textbook controlled opposition. Illusions of redress to mask the real face of gluttony and felony. They know all the telecom rackets but keep it all bottled up, never refer any of it for prosecution as racketeering, and they generate the illusion that they have telecoms on a short leash. By the time you've decided to file a formal complaint you know dealing the issue with the provider is pointless yet the watchdog won't act on your behalf if you don't try to settle the matter with telecom first, and they want it in writing. The telecom watchdog is worthless. The information harvested through telecom eavesdropping has every person with the power to moderate them in fear of disclosures of delicate personal matters. They are unstoppable. Only a reset to pre-telecom lifestyles can arrest the progress of those beasts. Besides, they have immunity for poisoning us with those towers and complex weaponized waveforms like 5g. But they treat us like we should be grateful and pay the darn increase. Crazy huh? I can imagine a vibrant thread devoted to this issue and the implications of their growing greed and lust for control. Might be nice to see all that laid out and hypothesized. It is a gravely neglected rabbit hole. Fax polling technology started a wave that put an end to long distance telephone charges, a major racket. Maybe what's coming next will wipe them out and put us in full control of our communications. Like the way mp3 liberated us from storage and transportation limitations of music. Fashions and attitudes change incessantly and the best liberating innovations have still to be seen. I won't mourn the passing of those oligarchs' machinations and dark agendas of societal sabotage and enslavement. More food for thought. Mind's gotta eat, right? Edited February 11 by Avoiceinthecrowd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitochondrial Eve Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Researcher John Marzluff has been studying crows for years starting in 2006 in Seattle when his team trapped, banded and released 7–15 birds at five sites whilst wearing a novel face mask. Each time the crows spotted somebody wearing the same "dangerous" face mask, the crows would scold and mob them. The initial study stated that this behaviour had continued for 2.7 years up to the time of the release of the report. However the crows of Seattle continued to hold the grudge, passing it down through the generations, for 17 years until September 2023 which saw the first time a masked person was not on the receiving end of their vengeance. I'm glad I have been kind to crows... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsika Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 7 minutes ago, Mitochondrial Eve said: However the crows of Seattle continued to hold the grudge Be-Ill Gates lives in Seattle doesn't he I'm a great fan of crows - they are incredibly intelligent and resourceful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avoiceinthecrowd Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 5 hours ago, Mitochondrial Eve said: Researcher John Marzluff has been studying crows for years starting in 2006 in Seattle when his team trapped, banded and released 7–15 birds at five sites whilst wearing a novel face mask. Each time the crows spotted somebody wearing the same "dangerous" face mask, the crows would scold and mob them. The initial study stated that this behaviour had continued for 2.7 years up to the time of the release of the report. However the crows of Seattle continued to hold the grudge, passing it down through the generations, for 17 years until September 2023 which saw the first time a masked person was not on the receiving end of their vengeance. I'm glad I have been kind to crows... They claim that crows have funerals. In 25 years dwelling in marshlands and forest we had a good lot of them visit us regularly consuming handouts meant for them but more often lifted by Bluejays. Those blue squawk-boxes-with-wings (hunters despise them as they sound the intruder alarm and alert the game to a threat) would lift dogfood too. All this said I never saw a crow funeral and often wonder how anyone ever saw that to start with. Can't say with certainty if they were ravens instead or perhaps a mix of both. What I can say is I have one that sounds exactly like Homer Simpson. Boy, did I laugh long and hard when I realized how close it was/is. He's still out there..heard 'em recently, cracks me up every time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Never knew poisonous birds are a thing The hooded pitohui is a poisonous bird native to New Guinea. It's considered one of the most poisonous birds in the world. How it's poisonous The hooded pitohui's feathers, skin, and dander contain a neurotoxin called batrachotoxin. The toxin comes from the poisonous Choresine Beetle that the bird eats. The toxin concentrates in the bird's breast, belly, and leg feathers. What happens if you touch it Touching a hooded pitohui can cause tingling, numbness, sneezing, burning, and watering eyes. Scientists think the toxin is a defense mechanism to keep predators away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Crabtree Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 On 10/5/2024 at 6:45 PM, Avoiceinthecrowd said: The popular and tasty chocolate treat called the Kit Kat waffered bar is named after a West London jazz club from the 1920s. Who'da thought? I called my ex girlfriend = KIT KAT EXTRA, because you only get four fingers in an ordinary Kit Kat! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Crabtree Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 On 2/11/2025 at 6:18 PM, Katsika said: Be-Ill Gates lives in Seattle doesn't he I'm a great fan of crows - they are incredibly intelligent and resourceful. As I recently said Mr Po our local takeaway owner sold up and move back home to Eastbourne I saw him by the pier and asked how he was enjoying retirement? 'I get very bored, so I open a secondhand Crows shop it's doing very well and keeps us busy, and, no cooking'! I said 'do you mean secondhand 'CLOTHES' shop ? He said 'NO, you come with me now, I ret you have a 'Rook'! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Was playing basketball today vs the youngsters.. Don't wanna blow my own trumpet, but still got it. Gave them a dam good thrashing Only difference is, afterwards, my whole body feels rekt, can ardly move! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avoiceinthecrowd Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 3 hours ago, Mr H said: Was playing basketball today vs the youngsters.. Don't wanna blow my own trumpet, but still got it. Gave them a dam good thrashing Only difference is, afterwards, my whole body feels rekt, can ardly move! Show those young whipper-snappers who's boss. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 3 hours ago, Avoiceinthecrowd said: Show those young whipper-snappers who's boss. In your face, beatchs!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avoiceinthecrowd Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 (edited) Can people in the big cities of the world survive or function without electricity? They can't. Cutting off their power would be tantamount to killing them. So, why isn't electrical power a free basic universal human right? And because fat cats are sitting on the controls and using our use of power to line their pockets, spy on us, poison us, we are cursed with those damned smartmeters. As a basic human right there would be no need for metering at all. Are the people in society that are working and generating wealth not able to afford to own and operate electrical power distribution and production? Make it free and universal? Well, considering all the wealth pilphered and wasted by our governments I see in those sums many times the money needed to afford free electricity. But the money is never directed to making us more in control of our destinies. Why is the idea of free electrical power so shocking to most? I think it's because they have not thought much about the role of electrical power in our modern societies. It's not a luxury. It has become a basic human need. Take back your power! Edited February 24 by Avoiceinthecrowd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Avoiceinthecrowd Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 How effective are spending cuts when wrestling with an economy on the verge of financial collapse? My mind tells me that spending cuts are remarkably effective in containing and correcting economies teetering on disaster. We used to call spending cuts a 'tightening-of-belt'. We saw the concept as moral and reasonable. So, why can't a politician get elected if he doesn't promise more spending? In crumbling economies no less. I think it was Keynes that enshrined the false concept that you can stimulate economic growth with more spending. Keynes, taught to most economists, is the guiding philosophy driving us all over the cliff. An ideology....get ready for it...to enrich the rich even more and throw us to the wolves when they are done divesting us of the fruits of our labours and devaluing our currency...unbacked currency. As the economies falter they print up more money and bloat the currency inventories and create a far larger inflation monster. Keynes, poster boy for conman economics. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I'm now officially a grandparent , we drove 71/2 hours to get there but it was well worth it and yes I'm over the moon 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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