Several reader Comments have been getting to the idea of “slow, then building, soon.” Examples are seen in remarks from William of the Radio Ranch and Stephen2. And its really useful context for what’s going on now.
Seems this spring will be a find time for even non-Christians to be thinking about Psalm 121, 1-2: “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, From whence cometh my help.” (Or “Salvation” depending on version.).
In my family (Pappy’s side) the bible is mainly a “book of useful templates” with occasional pointers to where the natural gas seeps in the Middle East are (hint was location of the burning bush).
This “looking to the hills” has always been a ponder, though. Does this hint to subsidence at a continental scale? Some key role of “mountain people”? Or – as the Comments trigger today, a looking for a “high up, small event” (or sequence) that can trigger an avalanche of Collapse?
Worth a cup of coffee (tea’s fine) eyeing headlines looking for the small events that have “Big Trigger” potential to start the downhill run. Do we have any suspects? Always.
- Three crew members have been killed in an attack on a bulk carrier called True Confidence. First fatal attack on shipping by Houthi rebels escalates risk in Middle East. Not a huge body count, but it’s a victory fors the Houthis and it is likely to embolden them and that means more (and likely larger) attacks. Which then brings us to undersea cables coming under attack.
- Is this the first movement along a path in G.A. Stewarts piece (Without Eyes or Hands) based on Nostradamus works? Undersea network cable partly owned by Gibtelecom damaged in Red Sea – concern Houthi rebels targeting western undersea infrastructure, according to Chronicle.
- Language shifts (Clif High’s wheelhouse) popped an interesting related card in our scans: “Cabotage.” As in Malaysia to reinstate cabotage policy exemption for undersea cable repairs. Remembering from your schooling, a few eons back Cabotage is the “restriction of the operation of sea, air, or other transport services within or into a particular country to that country’s own transport services…” Making it easier to get undersea cables fixed, pronto.
- We can also see how a “data avalanche” can grow in stories like (following the AT&T outage “Beware of an email scam circulating after AT&T service outage.
Back to our starting point, literal biblical snow poles and Nostradamus, the Internet is the Modern Tower of Babel and the headlines have us wondering how long before it crumbles. Particularly when we all know how slowly government moves and just late last month, the White House came out with a “list of memory safe languages” for programming future apps.
It was with extreme interest that I did a “plug-n-n-play” of how bad things might already be when government starts telling corporation how to code, especially for space-based (coms) systems:
“The space ecosystem is not immune to memory safety vulnerabilities, however there are several constraints in space systems with regards to language use. First, the language must allow the code to be close to the kernel so that it can tightly interact with both software and hardware; second, the language must support determinism so the timing of the outputs are consistent; and third, the language must not have – or be able to override – the “garbage collector,” a function that automatically reclaims memory allocated by the computer program that is no longer in use. These requirements help ensure the reliable and predictable outcomes necessary for space systems.”
Individually? Just “mini temblors.” But taken as a whole (heat map of cyberspaces) there seems general “heating” in play. Whether that means bigger and badder will arrive momentarily isn’t clear, though unlikely. This is avalanche country. Takes time for a good society-level collapse to pick up speed.
Pre-emptively? Might want to add bookmarks for Internet Outages Map | ThousandEyes and play-by-play of website conditions on Internet Outages Live Map by Pingdom.
Speaking the Future into Being
Until overtaken by larger events (a massive global web attack would qualify, (especially if finance is shut down) the Fed continues with the notion that things are under control. With Jerome Powell telling the House Wednesday in his periodic confessional:
“We believe that our policy rate is likely at its peak for this tightening cycle. If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year. But the economic outlook is uncertain, and ongoing progress toward our 2 percent inflation objective is not assured. Reducing policy restraint too soon or too much could result in a reversal of progress we have seen in inflation and ultimately require even tighter policy to get inflation back to 2 percent. At the same time, reducing policy restraint too late or too little could unduly weaken economic activity and employment. In considering any adjustments to the target range for the policy rate, we will carefully assess the incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks. The Committee does not expect that it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent.”
He will be back on the hill today. Next Fed meeting is March 19-20. But feel free to take that late winter sun break vacation: The CME FedWatch tool shows a 97 percent chance of no change at the upcoming meeting.
Job Cuts and See-Saw Trading
The opener to jobs week Wednesday was the ADP (+140,000 jobs in Feb) number. Just out this morning is the Challenger Job Cuts report:
Job Cuts Jump in February 2024; YTD Cuts Down 8% Over Last Year
“U.S.-based employers announced 84,638 cuts in February, up 3% from the 82,307 cuts announced one month prior. It is 9% higher than the 77,770 cuts announced in the same month in 2023, according to a report released Thursday from global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.”
Federal numbers tomorrow; we will do our usual “BS spotting” role pointing out the hype and the actual database number of total people working… always fun and a spike of blood pressure.
Overall, the market is starting to fight inflationary headwinds. Gold popped to a new record and the Bitcoin price was peeking over $67,00 earlier. The outrageous upside stories are all over the place: Bitcoin ($BTC) Price Could Shatter $200,000 By June, historical Patterns Suggest | Cryptoglobe. We’re reprobates when comes to purely made-up money; again this year we checked the “no cryptos” box on our 1040.
Where Next?
The pullback this week was interesting and did dial back our upside expectation for the present trading box in our Elliott and trend channel view.
The rally keeps subdividing as the Biden administration tries to understand its own policies. Leaving us awash in stories like SEC approves first US climate disclosure rules: Why the requirements are much weaker than planned and what they mean for companies and even worse? Victoria’s Secret shares plunge on mixed results, weak sales guidance. No “taking off jokes” please. Leave that to the sleazy word-juggler.
ECB Rate Decision (likely no move, look for the jaw flapping, though) will land 15-minutes ahead of the US market open. Futures are higher early, so we look for no change and a half-teaspoon of glum.
Economics of Real Life
We may see the foreshadowing of cutbacks in the Bidenista/Marxist DEI meta-industry: Johns Hopkins Medicine chief diversity officer steps down after viral backlash over ‘privilege’ definition – Baltimore Sun. Or, tangentially related Disney CEO Just Admitted They CANCELLED Several WOKE Films After Disastrous FLOPS We’re Winning! Hold up, there pard…not so fast. Your “more than equal” Rulers will never give up completely.
Now that NYC is doing the fast-shuffle to deal with a billion dollar migrant mess (welcome to the party!) will the Marxist Media get real about open borders? (No.) So…here’s another one of those avalanche stories: Georgia bill would punish cities and counties that break law against ‘sanctuary’ for immigrants. Template to ponder: Which states will stand up to enforce existing laws on the books and which states are in the insurrection. (Like Gruesomeville). But stupid still lives in the oval: TREASON: Biden Regime Secretly Flew In 320,000 ‘Inadmissible’ Illegals To Lessen Border Numbers – The Washington Standard. Send them all to NYC, please.
Speaking of the Oval: While we wait for the State of the Mess pot, prebunking is sighted: Speaker Johnson: “We are going to cut 3% from DOJ, 7% from the ATF, 6% from the FBI, and 10% from the EPA.”. Tough talk is all it is, though.
WEF influence has gone too far in Europe: The Polish police are now beating up the protesting farmers. Truckers and rail workers need to turn off food to Davos ahead of the next globalist confab…
Tell me again why she’s in office? Liz Cheney Goes Bonkers! Plans to Overturn the People’s Vote (independentsentinel.com)
We worry about a major offensive in Gaza this Ramadan weekend: Dropping Meals and Dropping Alliances – AFNN. Almost setting up like a Texas deer hunt. Put out the food and wait for the herd to show up…
Around the Ranch: Just Work
We have found a great contractor/handyman to help jumpstart some of the projects around here – laid back by Elaine’s little health problem. Which was back down to 120/80 Wednesday afternoon.
I’m making supply runs and the “pallet genset shed” is on the short list next. That and work writing the tree farm plan update… never stops.
Go have a great one…which is kinda hard when America is in debt to the tune of $34,438,950,067,961.33.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
MARTIN ARMSTRONG: Our turning point in the Ukraine-Russia War is April 19/20th.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ecm-armstrongeconomics101/and-here-comes-april-may-2024/
G.A. STEWART: . Another set of days Nostradamus’ Pagan Sect uses for killing is April 19th and April 20th, the last day being Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
Nostradamus and the Third Age of Mars, The Prophecies of World War III, G. A. Stewart, 2019, Page 132
Since 2008, I have noticed many blogs referring to the inordinate amount of bloodshed and carnage that has occurred throughout history on April 19th and April 20th. I pioneered this research, and it first appeared on my website in 2008.
https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2024/02/20/a-date-to-watch-march-11-2024/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-national-debt-soars-adding-1-trillion-every-100-days-why-it-matters/ss-BB1jjL5k#:~:text=The%20US%20National%20Debt%20began%20the%20year%20at,swell%20by%20%241%20trillion%20every%20roughly%20100%20days.
“The US National Debt began the year at $34 trillion and surged to $34.47 trillion by the end of February, piling on $470 billion in merely two months. With the debt continually compounding, it’s on a trajectory to swell by $1 trillion every roughly 100 days. At this rate of borrowing, the National Debt is projected to balloon by $2.8 trillion over the course of this year. With Federal Debt spirally out of control, what lies ahead for Americans and the US economy?”
All kinds of money over the years
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-strangest-currencies/
In the age of internet why not Bitcoin?
I can not remember the name of the bank., but there is a small bank in south central Italy that to this day accepts fifty pound rounds of cheese as a security deposit for business loans.
This bank recently auctioned off a fifty pounder that was over twenty years old to cover a loan when the borrower suddenly died. Four restaurants got in a bidding war and it eventually sold for $20,000.
How long until King $ flexes its muscles and causes crushing deflation to strangle Debtors? The entire world owes dollars to mighty ZOG and that’s the reason .gov burns $1 Trillion every 100 days. Without that avalanche of funny money every quarter, the average Jose would be up schlitz’s creek. Repo madness part deux coming to a Knights Templar near you…
Liz Cheney is no longer in office , she just thinks we care what she says.
Interesting you always note bitcoin is made up money, but its value is set by individuals deciding for themselves the value of its use for themselves. Vs government currency that is truly made up and printed to enrich the politicrats and their friends. Certainly the worth of bitcoin will oscillate and perhaps ultimately go to nothing if people lose their trust or find it doesn’t help solve their monetary exchange headaches. Government is enriching itself to the tune of 1T$ per 100 days or so. They will never stop stealing from us unless we move on to something they don’t control. Is there a point you stop accepting dollars in trade for goods or services. Its value is dropping so fast, just holding on to for several months is a losing proposition.
My point when I made my comments about Bitcoin a week or so ago.
Which will collapse first? (or rather which will survive)
The US Dollar as it is currently constructed where more and more debt (ie: Dollars) THE WILL NEVER BE REPAID is created monthly (now up to the rate of $1 Trillion every 100 days, soon to be $1 Trillion every 60 days … then every 30 days)
or
Bitcoin which has a truly limited supply ??
(not talking about other cryptos here, just Bitcoin)
(and up until recently I have been a Bitcoin HATER)
People are starting to scramble for something, anything, that will hold value as the Dollar collapses. Bitcoin may not be it, hard assets are probably best … but who has the space to store hundreds of tons of copper? or iron? or wheat? or aluminum? Commercial Real Estate doesn’t look like the Golden Goose for value storage anymore either. (though ag land may be)
most currencies today are nothing more than digits on a screen or a sheet of paper..Bernie maddoff proved how easy it was. everyone including the federal reserve went to him to learn his secrets.
during the last depression wealthy ended up penniless..the run on the banks it was gone. people hid money in books jars buried in walls and hog lots..people buy gold with the tjought it will hold value diamonds etc. and as long as someone sees it as valuable. it will be..ancient egyptian empire was brought down by a devastating drought..and an envision of aliens called the sea people’s that swarmed the egyptian countryside. they were escaping their countries for a variety if reasons. some scholars reason it was food related. Rameses repelled the second wave unfortunately the damage had been done. the discontent of the egyptian people rebelled and Rameses was murdered by one of his queens or the guard in an attempt to take the country over. there’s a book 1177 B.C. the year civilization collapsed. I think I still have a copy around here somewhere.
it’s when the real SHTF that it won’t have any value. in mayan and aztec civilizations it was the same as well gold and silver were decorations..I believe the only reason we value it..is because of the annunaki and ancient sumerian..
Can any of the financial experts on this site explain to me why the selling price of a silver Maple Leaf is about 20% lower than the buying price from precious metal dealers while the difference with gold Maple Leaf is about 7%?
I wonder what it is in Egypt…
Silver Spikes 62% Overnight in Devaluation!
https://www.encouragingangels.org/new-blog/2024/3/7/silver-spikes-55-overnight-in-egypt-on-devaluationilluminates-the-need-for-precious-metalswho-is-next
BIC,
If/when silver spikes and you go to cash your cache don’t be surprised hearing ‘fast moving markets, sorry.’
In order to make any money w/physical silver you have to be the dealer. Hang your shingle “buy/sell silver”.
good lord knows I’m no financial expert..lol my bank balance is proof enough we’ve payday to payday.
what I can say is silver abs gold sure is pretty..nice and Shiney sparkle..but..like bit coin or diamonds etc. the ones that collect it won’t pay more for it than what they can make a modest profit.
in 60 years if it’s still held as valuable and continues to increase in value and demand it will gain. bit so will everything else.
I have said often.. go to the sudan.. where they have to walk fifty miles to get a drink of water or food. offer them a million in gold or a tanker of water and a truckload of food. see which they will leap on. for stones I cherish rose quartz..all of my grandchildren have their special rock. the one they cherish.. Chakra stones..it’s why they ancients had a crown if precious stones for the special properties they represent.. now each precious stone emits a different frequency. oh for another day..G could tell more on the benefits of the light crown.. in china its Jade .. I actually love jade as much as rose quartz to..
Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic came up with a new risk to the inflation scenario, or not really a new risk – because it’s been there and it’s already happening – but a new phrase to describe that risk, a phrase that will resonate here: “pent-up exuberance.”
“Pent-up exuberance” is that businesses, “ready to pounce,” would unleash a torrent of new hiring and investment at the “first hint of an interest rate cut,” which would unleash inflation all over again.
https://wolfstreet.com/2024/03/05/theres-a-new-upside-risk-in-town-pent-up-exuberance-feds-bostic/
In the 70’s the Federal Reserve was getting a handle on inflation – when Congress berated the Chair Head and “demanded” that they stop raising rates.
Not only did the Federal stop raising – in less than 60 days they cut the rates. 60 days later inflation came roaring back.
But that was a very different financial-era, with a very different economic base., and very different population.
We do not have the manufacturing might that we had “way back when”.., so the blowback this time could be an unexpected surprise.
For the better., or for the worse – has yet be decided.
This is of course, is all on the hopes-n-dreams of no major wars breaking out.
Also you have to consider the Hunt brothers’ gaming of the silver market. People who look at ’70s economics forget to include the +unresolved+ Vietnam recession and Bunker, Herbert, and Lamar Hunt’s 100,000,000 ounces of silver, setting in a Dallas warehouse (and three others in Geneva) for several years…
I buy copper coins ..
one year I got the nativity scene on one ..made great ornaments to give..
when Obama and biden were in office I hot one if the trillion dollar atinum ciuns lol ans some three dollar bills..
re: The Shah of Persia
feat: soft diplomacy
Folks,
As yesterday’s “PN” offered diplomatic updates from the former colonies, the “Daily Mail”, faced with an overflowing royal convalescence ward, reached back in time to the Wednesday July 2, 1873 special supplement of “The Graphic”.
The issue inclusive of engravings featured the very latest efforts of Her Majesty’s Government led by PM Gladstone to woo the Persian Realms. The diary of the Shah of Persia, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, records his arrival at Dover from Ostend on HMS Vigilant and being met by the future King Edward VII on Wednesday, June 18th. The Shah records that the Royal Train made an unscheduled stop enroute to London when a carriage caught on fire.
The following day the tactile Shah offered well-received overtures of greeting at Windsor to HM Queen Victoria, then in her thirteenth year of grief. We are told that 21 of the Shah’s wives had remained at home in Tehran. He was accompanied however by three ladies who were prohibited by PM Gladstone from spending the nights together in the Shah’s Buckingham Palace sleeping quarters.
HM having been forewarned by her eldest daughter of the Shah’s penchant to roast lamb over fire in his room while handling matters of state laid down extra carpeting for the purpose. The Queen was blissfully unaware at Windsor that her Royal Courtiers had thoughtfully arranged a training exercise of the London Fire Brigade at Buckingham Palace to run simultaneously with the Shah’s barbeque. Firemen treated the Persian guests to a spectacle as half-burned dummies were extricated from the top floor of Buckingham Palace by over-the-shoulder carry or rope belay.
The multi-week visit was a resounding success! The Shah’s diary account of his journey was translated into English by Sir James W. Redhouse and presented to the Queen.
https://archive.org/details/diaryofhmshahofp00nasiuoft/page/n11/mode/2up
Time to drop into the studio where DJ George is settling in to stoke up the cauldron. Here we go with a hot number from the Stones’ “Out of Our Heads” album –
“Play With Fire”.
re: Titanomachy
Stiks,
I will think affirmative thoughts that Mr. Musk will be receptive to your positive Ti gestures.
“The Telegraph” offered a report last summer about a CBS News reporter on board the support vessel to the submersible “Titan”, visitor to the “Titanic”. The report perhaps suggests the lost submersible was connected via Space-X Starlink?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-starlink-titanic-submarine-b2362168.html
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1671525792000425985
re: “Avalanche School”, Vulcanus
feat: “Fifth Element”, pylon gate, MdC
Folks,
Good news! Stromnetz (Powergrid) Berlin advises service is restored to customers affected by the burned pylon power outage allegedly by the left-wing Vulkangruppe. However it seems production at Europe’s nearby only Gigafactory will remain offline until next week. Gigafactory 4, sitting on the former lands of a German WW2 anti-aircraft battery and munitions ground, promises to witness a gathering at the gates tomorrow. Mr. Musk has published a public statement requesting factory staff and families congregate Friday at 1700 hours with smart-phone flashlights at the ready. Drones will be onhand to record the event. Interestingly, London’s “The Sun” offers that Vulkangruppe signed off on their arson manifesto as “Agua de Pau” like the Azorean mountain.
https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_de_Vila_Franca
From Indymedia dot org, the following is from “Agua de Pau”:
https://de.indymedia.org/node/344525
The thing about an avalanche is you may know it is ripe and about to come down, but you never know exactly where it will break. Boyhood friend was working with the Colorado ski patrol in the mountains as they tossed dynamite over the edge to loosen the snow below. Thought they were safely high enough near the summit, but no. The ledge broke under my friend and he went down with the avalanche. The rest of the team skied behind the snow mass and located him. He was still alive when they dug him out and got him on the toboggan, but he suffered crushing chest injuries and died on the way to the hospital. You may know an avalanche is coming… but you never quite know where it is going to break.
I hear you on that.. and what surprises me.. is NO ONE in DC.. is trying to avoid the coming avalanche.. they are betting that things will stay the same..
I have about a dozen snarky and unpleasant comments – most not suitable for civilized ears. But I won’t.., I’ll let you chose your own – without undue influence by me.
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During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden will announce an “emergency” military mission to construct a temporary port in the Mediterranean Sea on Gaza’s coast to get humanitarian aid in.
The port will be able to receive “large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” a senior White House official said. A senior defense official said the port’s main feature will be a temporary pier that will “provide the capacity for hundreds of additional truckloads of assistance each day.”
Regerttably, Biden is played again as the corporate tool=n=fool. He should worry about the invasion of America, not Gaza. Let Israel fix its relations (but they have a taught border) while we live with sellouts all around.
Yeah – got some strong thoughts on this. A pier will be like deer feeder, and then when its over, a corporate gimme for offshore gas developments as we have said from the start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Marine#:~:text=Gaza%20Marine%20is%20a%20natural,cubic%20feet%20of%20natural%20gas.
Joe doesn’t need to go on telley to show who the schmuck is. Move the Oval to Eagle Pass.
I am with you.. out of curiosity.. I wonder just how many people will tune into listen to the drivel that he is going to talk about.. he wants more money for ukraine.. we have open borders.. and a crime spree in NYC.. tens of thousands coming in.. maybe we should think about fixing the USA.. don’t we have anything better to do than to push for WW3
I did get good news today.. did taxes with the tax man.. and I won’t have to pay in.. I was sweating it.. with the wife getting SS and having had a full time job besides.. phew..
Apocalypse Now
Captain Willard: It’s a way we had over here with living with ourselves. We cut ’em in half with a machine gun and give ’em a Band-Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies.
A wonderful new port … for Israel.
What a thoughtful gift from the United States to Israel.
No, from YOU via your tax fraud take. WTF is wrong with DC? No border and we are being ports in Israel? Say what?
Never let a good crisis go to waste. I wonder what else we can get done under the cover of feeding the famished
A large logistical supply installation is technically called a “target,” and will be “secured” by American soldiers.
Sounds good, but probably won’t end well…
73
Prep Item:
Interesting Prep Item: Self Adjustable Glasses
As we troll around the internet we get hit by adds all the time, yep even at Urban. I always click past those ads, or at least DID until one popped up a couple of weeks ago for an item I knew existed, had actually tried to buy when it was first reported on (60 Minutes I think) but which was at the time unavailable to the general public. Tried again two years ago and again could NOT find it. Alas … I took the risk the pop up ad was a scam, but I really wanted it, REALLY WANTED IT, so I ordered the item up, crossed my fingers, … AND ALAS … it showed up about 5 days later (though my CC company DID block my account on the purchase until I orally approved it later!! Their computer thought it WAS a scam purchase! and shut down my CC account!! until I said it was a real purchase).
The item was Self Adjustable Glasses that were originally developed for providing inexpensive glasses to people in the third world who could not afford to see a person who could prescribe glasses, nor afford to buy regular glasses. Not talking Reading Glasses here, but the REAL GLASSES for using all the time. (ie: I am extremely nearsighted … so a person like me could distance see)
Anyway (since I am BLIND for driving etc without glasses) I clicked on an ordered up 3 pair, special was $25 each for 3 pair plus about $8 for sales taxes and shipping. (third world RETAIL pricing is reported to be under $5 each – goal was $2 each for aid agencies buying in bulk)
Glasses obviously are NOT the gorgeous designer type that will impress your friends at the Country Club, but basic black plastic in a universal fit width FLEXIBLE frame. Actually comfortable to wear.
The way they work is that there are two pieces of engineered plastic where they lenses are and you twist a knob on each temple to move each side’s plastic pieces back and forth against each other which changes it’s prescription power. For me I could obtain very good correction in the middle with a fall off as one went to each side getting worse the further to the sides one went, but still good enough for decent working clarity across most the lens area.
Definitely NOT as good as actual glasses, but as an emergency pair that can be adjusted to any strength (or almost any, I obviously can’t test other prescriptions) and serve as a working pair until one can get their glasses replaced they definitely can do the job. For an all plastic item they actually look fairly well made and feel solid.
The glasses came with a semi hard plastic glasses case, a baggie type of bag to put them into even before one puts them in the glasses case, an eye chart with instructions to help assist you in getting the focus right, and a cleaning rag.
For $25 each I think it was a good prep purchase particularly since I once lost my pair of glasses while on my boat and had to have the wife (now ex), who was 3 hours away, grab my prescription and go to a “Glasses in about an Hour” place, have a new pair made, and then drive 3 hours to our boat so I could drive home. That experience cost me $200 out of pocket, took 8 hours for her, and that was 25 years ago!!
OH … the adjustment in power can be done time after time. Once it is adjusted it is NOT fixed but remains RE-adjustable so one pair can be used by different people with different prescriptions over time (until they can get their own glasses replaced)
Anyway … as I note NOT a designer pair, not even a basic pair, but for a prep item that can be used for ANY prescription level for anybody who loses their glasses, and then reused later by someone else. At $25 each for 3 pair I am happy with my purchase.
Sadly none of the package inserts gave a name or website where you could order/reorder from … so you will just have to watch those ads that pop up as you surf the internet. Hard to believe in this day and age that they mail something out withOUT a name of where it came from on the inside packaging (and of course I through the package it came in away as soon as I opened it). (I think it was a direct mail from China, but can’t be sure)
Highly recommended prep item!!
I just save my old glasses. Not much change in the prescription and I can function just fine with them.
Ah … I do too, keep old pairs everywhere … BUT
Can others use YOUR old glasses for THEIR vision needs if THEIR glasses are lost or destroyed?
The point of Prescription Adjustable Glasses is that they can be adjusted to be used BY ANYBODY, not just by “me”.
“just late last month, the White House came out with a “list of memory safe languages” for programming future apps.”
Not seeing any languages, other than RUST.
Memory issues and vulnerabilities come from the programmer. If a programmer writes good code, the issues don’t exist. ‘Problem is, people who can write good code are retired or have passed, and what’s around now arranges visual blocks and calls themselves “programmers” or “coders.”
This from the dude who started with the “dead language” of IBM Extended Basic,* went to Fortran, Assembly, machine language, and so on, writing lines of code, one at a time, on 80-column punch cards and getting debug printouts on 17″ pastel green & white tractor-feed paper.
* Basic was considered a “dead language” because it was neither powerful nor useful, and had been supplanted by compiled languages like Fortran. My kollege gurus tried to steer me into the “up and coming” languages of COBOL and ALGOL but I ran into these 5 senior transfers from the University of Michigan who sported 4.0s and SAT scores of 1600, who transferred in for one semester, specifically to take Extended Basic. I figured they were smarter than the crayon-pushers in the Guidance Department, so went with my gut and followed the geniuses from UM.
The only thing I really notice is the White House has created a new bureaucracy to oversee both software and hardware development, which will go unnoticed because of the gobbeldygoop language in that paper.
Dunno ’bout y’all, but I really don’t want our government dictating CPU architecture, and telling me which high-level programming languages can be used to write code, in what manner.
“SEC approves first US climate disclosure rules: Why the requirements are much weaker than planned and what they mean for companies and even worse?”
WTF is the SECURITIES and EXCHANGE Commission getting involved with “climate?”
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“Victoria’s Secret shares plunge on mixed results, weak sales guidance.”
Go woke, go broke…
Understand L Brands and Victoria’s Secrets (which use combined common services) are selling some of their biz jets, the ones used to carry middle mgt around. umm … when a company starts getting rid of business jets you know their internal forward view is indicating issues for the future, issues that may not be reflected in outsiders analysis of the company.
“Tell me again why she’s in office? Liz Cheney Goes Bonkers! Plans to Overturn the People’s Vote”
She’s not.
When she ran for re-election in 2022, she got primaried and lost to Harriet Hageman 66.3% to 28.9% in the second-worst landslide against an incumbent in the past 60 years.
Liz is a Cheney, and is one of the least mentally-stable of all the neocons. Ergo, she’s a darling of CNN and MSNBC, where they’ll happily put her in front of a camera a dozen times a week.