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Hurricanes and Soap Bubbles – a Monday Schema – Ape Training

Futures are up — duh — because that “thing” we were talking about Friday is still in the process of peaking.

That thing is what we call a Belief Wave.

At its peaks, markets can show remarkable temporal coherence. In Saturday’s Peoplenomics ChartPack, we explained how, between the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ, two indices were hitting unusual “double-zero days” while the third was sitting in a “triple-zero.” With a high close today in all three, we may score double “triple-zeros” and a “quad-zero” in our Magic Ovals view of markets.

With no obvious exogenous drivers visible yet, markets are on autopilot. Which increases the odds of a Turnaround Tuesday tomorrow.

But that’s tomorrow’s coffee.

Today’s Blink is bigger.

Because the vector changed.

The resumption of U.S. strikes against Iranian targets moved the world away from a clean diplomatic-resolution track and back toward managed confrontation. Markets hear missiles before they hear speeches, and oil repriced the risk almost immediately because the Strait of Hormuz is not some obscure line on a naval chart. It is one of the world’s key energy arteries.

The question is no longer whether tensions remain. The question is whether anyone still controls the escalation ladder. That is the Big Monday Blink. Not panic. Vector change.

On Hurricanes, Hormuz, and Soap Bubbles

This could be a complicated series if you’re not used to the worldview-based reality checks we do around here.

Much of the blathernet is based on faux rage and ill-advised commentary. A waste of time to follow, but it monetizes well. So if you have enough time to piss away making someone else money, have at it.

Around here, we like to begin with a “template review,” which — as you’ll see in a moment — has a lot of interesting background. From there, we use our template work and run off, like the Good Apes we are, to maniacally test-fit whatever is laying around into the template to see if anything fits, or might fit in the near future.

That’s how today’s workflow starts.

The Hurricane Part First

Spew-media is all over the story that June 1 — today, if the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet — is the beginning of Atlantic Hurricane Season. Between now and November 30, the Atlantic risk is officially open for business.

On the Pacific side, it’s a little different. Eastern Pacific hurricane season begins earlier — May 15 — and also runs through November 30. Farther west, once you get past the meteorological name-tab line, the same sort of big rotating wind machines become typhoons.

Not to be confused with the old G.M. high-performance truck models, which also included the Cyclone, which would wander us off into a different convo entirely. ShopTalk Sunday, maybe. With wrenches.

There are two Pacific watch zones today, neither of which looks like a record-book contender on the scale of Hurricane Iniki over Kauai in September 1992, Hurricane Lane in August 2018, or Hurricane Douglas in July 2020.

Still, the point is not the storm. The point is the map.

The daily National Hurricane Center maps show us how little disturbances off Africa can move west, organize, strengthen, and eventually flatten Gulf and East Coast seaside cities. We don’t watch those maps because every cloud is a catastrophe. We watch them because little disturbances sometimes become large consequences. That’s the template.

  • Little disturbance.
  • Long fetch.
  • Warm water.
  • Organization.
  • Landfall.
  • Damage.

History often works the same way.

Sailing Trivia and Pacific Hurricanes

If you are still chained to a screen — or shop floor — counting the days to retirement so you can “go sailing,” one of the premier events to roll with is the Baja Ha-Ha, organized by the West Coast sailing rag Latitude 38. Better mates under sail are seldom found.

This is the cruising deal: an annual rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, about 750 miles, with stops at Turtle Bay and Bahía Santa María. The fleet typically casts off in early November.

In 2026, the Ha-Ha runs November 2–14 from San Diego.

If you get to work on it right now, you’ll have just enough time to rob eleven banks, buy a sailboat under a fictitious name, get arrested by the FBI, post bail, and be out on bond at exactly the moment when casting off would be a good idea.

Otherwise, new glasses for the screen and new shop-floor togs are probably the safer entry vector.

Still, if your timing is good, you might get lost in the crowd. Out-on-bond timing rocks.

Recent numbers give the scale of the floating tribe: in 2024, 131 boats signed up, 100 started, and 98 finished. Around the 2018–2019 era, 149 boats and 551 sailors were reported. Across the first 30 years, more than 3,000 boats and 14,000 sailors made the run.

Having spent over a decade before the mast, I assure you the Ha-Ha is no laughing matter.

Still, you may be asking, “What the hell is all this sailing BS about?” Oh. No coffee yet?

Weather Templates for News Forecasting

Part the second, then, if it’s too early to go dot-connecting.

Weather forecasting teaches a useful mental discipline. You don’t wait for the roof to leave before asking whether a disturbance is worth watching. You look at energy, track, pressure, steering currents, historical analogs, and the open water ahead.

We do something similar with news.

We deploy reasonably competent AI models to sniff around obscure “event coasts” to see where clouds might be forming. Not because every cloud becomes a storm, but because some storms look ridiculous before they become obvious.

This weekend, Polish seer Krzysztof Jackowski’s outlook included a long discussion of how “bubbles pop,” and that struck us as a cue to get out the template book. Because he wasn’t talking about markets. He was talking about geopolitics, war, fragile lives, and mass migrations around Eastern Europe.

In Jackowski’s worldview, people are like soap bubbles floating on water: delicate, ambitious, full of plans, love, hatred, possessions, desire, and certainty — yet never knowing when the bubble pops. That image matters because it fits our current problem set too well.

  • Markets are in a bubble-pattern.
  • Diplomacy is in a bubble-pattern.
  • Refugee systems are in a bubble-pattern.
  • Energy logistics are in a bubble-pattern.
  • And bubbles do not always pop because someone attacks them. Sometimes they pop because a tiny pressure change finally exceeds the surface tension.

The Ukraine/Poland Template

Specifically, we have been worried about power outages in the Baltics, the Zaporizhzhia Ukraine Nuclear Power Station problem, and a possible related migration event involving Poland.

Jackowski’s translated signal included this:

“Something like this will happen that, for some reason, many citizens of Ukraine, in a short time, in some way, will move from Ukraine to Poland. Maybe it will be other countries also on the side of Ukraine, but the largest number of this population will move to Poland.

“So in Ukraine, something like this happens that a lot of Ukrainian citizens will move to Poland. Who knows if there will be a situation that more of them will move than when the conflict in Ukraine began. I don’t feel war in Poland, I feel a kind of exodus. So in Ukraine, something would have to happen. The problem of Ukraine. Gda?sk events…”

That is not a clean prediction. It is a signal cluster.

  • Exodus.
  • Ukraine.
  • Poland.
  • Gda?sk Events.
  • No war in Poland.
  • Pressure.

If we run that through a new/weather-forecasting template, a plausible scenario tree begins to form. Not prophecy. Scenario.

  1. A nuclear plant incident, major safety scare, or credible contamination threat in Ukraine.
  2. A large civilian movement westward.
  3. Poland absorbs the largest share.
  4. Social and economic stresses increase.
  5. Localized incidents occur between groups.
  6. One incident becomes internationally visible.
  7. “Gda?sk Events” becomes shorthand for that incident.
  8. Diplomatic pressure follows.
  9. International organizations become involved.
  10. Negotiations begin over rights, protections, zones, aid, status, autonomy, compensation, and who gets blamed.

In that framework, Gda?sk does not have to be the cause. It becomes the conference room. Or the camera shot. Or the diplomatic label. Or the place where a refugee-management problem becomes an international slicing-and-dicing exercise.

Port cities have a way of becoming more than port cities when history gets busy.

Big Monday Blink: The Vector Changes

Now bring the template back to this morning. The vector changes over the weekend.

The resumption of U.S. strikes against Iranian targets moved events away from a clean diplomatic resolution and back toward managed confrontation. Markets hear missiles before they hear speeches.

Oil immediately repriced geopolitical risk because the Strait of Hormuz remains one of the world’s most important chokepoints. The question is no longer whether tensions remain. The question is whether anyone still controls the escalation ladder.

Watch shipping, not headlines. Ships, insurance rates, and commodity flows often reveal the real situation before governments do.

Migration remains an underpriced risk.
Wars create refugees, but so do infrastructure failures, energy shortages, nuclear scares, and suddenly uninsurable places.

The Zaporizhzhia Ukrainian nuke plant problem never went away.
The plant is under Russian control, near the war zone, not operating as normal power generation, and still dependent on cooling and power arrangements that should make grownups sweat. A major safety event there would push populations westward, and Poland remains the most likely destination.

Pressure moves before armies do. Financial pressure, refugee pressure, political pressure, insurance pressure, energy pressure, and narrative pressure often arrive months before military pressure.

The world is becoming more coupled.
A drone strike in the Gulf can move fuel prices, shipping costs, fertilizer costs, food prices, election politics, and public mood half a world away.

The old assumption was stabilization. The new assumption should be volatility.

The Blink is simple:
When the vector changes, stop extrapolating from yesterday’s trend line and start looking for the next pressure point.

What to Watch

So what are we actually watching? Not just headlines. Headlines are mostly weather reports written by people standing indoors.

  • Watch oil.
  • Watch tanker insurance.
  • Watch Hormuz shipping behavior.
  • Watch LNG pricing.
  • Watch fertilizer.
  • Watch wheat.
  • Watch refugee flows.
  • Watch Poland.
  • Watch Gda?sk.
  • Watch power reliability around Ukraine.
  • Watch Zaporizhzhia reporting.
  • Watch whether officials start using humanitarian language where they used to use military language.
  • Watch whether “temporary” protections become “zones.”
  • Watch whether “aid” becomes “rights.”
  • Watch whether “rights” become “autonomy.”
  • Watch whether “autonomy” becomes sovereignty by other means.

That’s how slicing and dicing begins. Not with marching bands. With committees. And forms. And emergency language. And cameras. And then some poor bastard says, “Well, given the circumstances…”

History does not always arrive in a tank. Sometimes it arrives as a policy memo.

Back to the Market

Meanwhile, markets can still float higher because belief waves are real enough for trading purposes. A market doesn’t have to be rational to be tradable. It only has to be coherent long enough for the pattern to matter.

But belief waves peak. Soap bubbles pop. Hurricanes organize. Missiles change vectors. And migration tells the truth before governments do.

That’s why today with June beginning, the world feels a tiny bit different.

Not because everything breaks today. Because the board tilted. And once the board tilts, everything that was sitting quietly on the table starts looking for the low side.

Around the Ranch: Ape Training Notes

Neighbor’s boy is turning six years old momentarily.

So, in the interest of helping his parents raise a suitable replacement human, he got a dandy stack of goodies for his birthday.

Prizes included a nice Snap Circuits set because a young person needs to get acquainted with electricity on this planet sooner or later.

He also got a “make it nine ways” crane, bulldozer, earth-mover kit.

Plus a copy of the Cub Scouts Handbook, circa 1958, when it was functionally oriented and had little social content.

In short, a great haul.

Even gave his dad an earlier-times copy of the Boy Scouts Field Book. Again — probably incorrectly, too — one from before social anything and with lots more hands-on. Pictures of bugs and poisonous plants, which is a useful thing to learn out here.

It’s a great father-son relationship to watch bloom.

They just recently got power strung to their little cabin on a family pond. So Friday nights they can sneak out of cell and screen range, burn hot dogs, and do the kind of bonding that has been mostly missing for a couple of generations now.

Oh — the boy also landed a 12-inch bass. That was almost a Mark Twain moment.

Until I realized — working on The Time Farmer’s Secret book — that I was helping build another test-fitting ape.

The entire rest of Sunday blew up from that point on.

Because I am profoundly bothered by the question I asked:

“What is the difference between a tribe of self-delusion-sharing people calling themselves ‘educated’ and a troop of apes test-fitting every tool, everywhere, every which way, to see what works and then keeping track of it?”

I’m still trying to shake that this morning.

We tell ourselves we are educated. But how exactly is that different from a troop of test-fitting apes sharing results over time?

Maybe I’m just going, oh, bananas?

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

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  1. Hmmm… Odd how every time the price of oil drops below about $90 a barrel, someone starts shooting commodity price missiles. Midterm funding meme maybe ?

    • think about that for a minute. just before a holiday or something if you ever watch how the oil industry does it they’ll raise the price until it hurts. then they’ll lower it to where you feeling like you’re getting a relief but they still keep it a little higher than what it was then they’ll raise it till it hurts again and then they’ll lower it after you sit there and so you constantly are thinking gosh I’m feeling a little relief from them high prices but in reality you’re still paying more same way with all commodities…

      • It’s not the oil INDUSTRY, it’s your local distributor (and mine, and everyone else’s.) Okay, this time the petcos are probably also involved, but generally the issue is purely local. It takes 16-18 months for a significant shift in oil prices to work through the system to the retail market. Anything quicker is speculation or gouging, usually at the local level.

        BTW I’m starting to really like Indiana. I filled up twice– once at $2.83 and this last time at $2.64. Illinois is not being quite so friendly…

  2. G.A. STEWART: Peter Thiel, do you have a moment? The Antichrist and Argentina; are you for real? Let’s have a talk.

    I thought that I was done with commentary, but sometimes the world just offers you a softball. I can help you with your spiritual quest Peter Thiel.

    Let me explain to you the way that I see the global situation. First of all, we need to agree on the basics.

    Since you are the technology billionaire wizard who began Palantir Technologies, we know that your company services what I call The Antichrist System.

    Let me defer to the known facts for puzzled readers. As a writer, I have now decided to use Google AI for the basic introduction and details to a subject that some readers may have never heard of or read about. The information automatically takes a neutral position that is general and hard to debate.

    The debate comes with my explanations, exposition, and with what I call continuity of thought.

    Google AI:

    https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2026/06/01/peter-thiel-lets-do-lunch-and-talk-about-the-antichrist-and-argentina/

    • re: Tales from the ‘Land of Fire’
      feat: “Andromeda Strain”, 1971

      The surname Thiel apparently derives from a German form of “descendent of Matthew”. In turn Matthew is said to reach us from Hebrew meaning “Gift of God”. Mr. Thiel’s spouse also has a German surname of Danzeisen translating to “dance – iron [blacksmith?]”. The pair were married in Vienna on the perfect square 121st anniversary of the passing of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Apparently the Adagio from his 7th Symphony introduced German radio advice of the passing of Hitler on May 1, 1945.

      With mention of Argentina, perhaps there will be opportunity to visit the popular tourist destination of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego (sp: “Land of Fire”). Interestingly while the index case of Andes hantavirus onboard MV Hondius is allegedly attributed to a bird watching tour at a city dump, the mouse virus carrier – the long tailed pygmy rat – is not native that far south.

      Let’s join DJ George bringing us a public service announcement from the fictional Project Wildfire via the following Youtube link:

      https://youtu.be/t5A17IRfTTw&t=0m41s

      It seems Andromeda translates from Greek as “ruler of men”. She was chained to a harbour rock for sacrifice at Jaffa. The city took its name after the Flood from a son of Noah. Today it is part of Tel Aviv.

    • I overlooked mentioning that Perseus rescued Andromeda from her predicament. One of their sons, Perses, is said to be the ancestor of the Persians (Iranians).

  3. “Pressure moves before armies do. Financial pressure, refugee pressure, political pressure, insurance pressure, energy pressure, and narrative pressure often arrive months before military pressure.”

    ZZ TOP – Got Me Under Pressure”

    She likes wearing lipstick
    She likes French cuisine
    But she won’t let me use my passion
    Unless it’s in a limousine

    She got me under pressure
    She got me under pressure

    She likes the art museum
    She don’t like Pavlov’s dog
    She fun at the mind museum
    She likes it in a London fog

    She don’t like other women
    She likes whips and chains
    She likes cocaine
    And flipping out with Great Danes
    She’s about all I can handle
    It’s too much for my brain

    It’s got me under pressure
    It’s got me under pressure

  4. So, I was getting out of my truck at zero-dark-thirty this morning at work when the word “bananas” popped into my head. It was a non sequitur to a range of thoughts that were going through my head at the time, and I said that’s the word of the day. Let’s see where it takes me.

    And there it is…

        • The Urban Consciousness Post Eggs are ringing with two – unrelated – sailing posts coming within minutes – remember what I said in the chartpack Sat? We are in an oddly high coherence window now markets are starting to shake a bit – like a stall warning or stick shaker now

        • Egor,

          In the 1977 Frank Sinatra TV movie ‘Contract on Cherry Street’, I remember a scene in that film…

          Henry Silva tells Harry Guardino, “You’re bananas!”

  5. Perspectives my dear Ure, perspectives.

    To those who monitor and periodically look after the Lu, we are in fact a planet full of test fitting Apes.

    As well as a ready resource pool of Miners, for when the no “goodniks” return, to replenish their Mercury supplies/stocks. Think we are about due another visit..

    They certainly are not going to get their retractable nails/claws dirty, nerp, thats what greys and Humans are for – the hard, dirty Works.

    * is there a hole in Ure precious metals portfolio/holdings ? Looking at Palladium at these current levels and getting that funny feeling in my tummy again, so will prolly have to deal wit that soonly. Hear I was all about taking a small short position in F this weekend. So much for weekend research..still wanna short F..

    ** If FORD stands for First On Race Day, what does STP stand for?

    • Shut The Piehole? FORD means found on road dead – OMG – everyone knows that.
      As for aliens coming? Ha! They were here, foo. Many moved home with a prompt on t rump. But it’s an easy choice/ A nice home on the canal at Puerto Aventuras compared to NYC? AYFKM ? And unlike the lazy Ures, they already knew Spanish. Check that hood – the Maya Riviera runs a hot second to costa bug out https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marina+Puerto+Aventuras/@20.4994372,-87.2263143,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x8f4e370549ff3bbb:0x1ed7ae2f7b1d9ad7!8m2!3d20.4994372!4d-87.2237394!16s%2Fg%2F11l7579cch

        • Still using brake pads and rotors ?
          BiL Expedition had that kinda milage, and Flintstones style brakes, had to give it up as Body was literally falling apart, literally.

        • Ray : I’m beating my Explorer Sport and at 135k she’s showing wear. Still a gorgeous designer truck but increasingly buggy. I’d like to do a debug / wipe / return to factory refresh but that’s computer speak car guys cringe at? Though the car is full of chips. George has probably got an extraneous bone to pick with Ford. Buys furrin cars. ~E~

        • @Rusty

          “Still using brake pads and rotors”

          Ford SUVs have an endemic problem: The sills trap water and don’t permit it to drain. This causes the sill to rot next to the floor boards & saturate the sound-deadening substrate, which stays wet until it makes the floor go away. The water in the sills also does the wiring that’s channeled through those sills, no favors.

          I heard the sloshing and figured this out. The solution is obvious: A. 3/8 hole at each end of the channel, painted with (oil-based) tractor paint (or Rhino Liner) fixes the problem, and if done before the damage gets serious, will keep the floors flooring, practically forever…*

          * If you do this Egor, I suggest you flush your sills a couple times with water, first. Indiana and (especially) Michigan love beet juice. It works better than salt but is much more corrosive. After replacing brake & fuel lines a couple times and getting the lecture from my hired wrench, I invested in a car wash plan which includes an underbody wash. Stuff like salt or beet juice is much cheaper to intervene than repair…

        • don’t see any 100 yr toasters, nor any cars with cathotic protection,,, one could make his own, attach zinc to each part for rust protection, water hearters have cathodes, get one and cut it up into slices and put where ya need it.
          the connection has to able to conduct electricly

        • @TOBD, regarding zinc sacrificial cathodes (anodes?):

          Pennies made after some date in 1982 are zinc with a **thin** copper coating.

          I found recently an odd-looking dime. Closer inspection showed that it was a penny whose copper coating had disappeared, leaving it with an odd grey finish which was not shiny like a dime.

          I’ve heard claims that it is illegal to deface currency (which could include using them as an electrical element), so you may prefer to find other sources of zinc doo-dads for your purpose.

        • @OBD

          “don’t see any 100 yr toasters, nor any cars with cathotic protection”

          My toaster is 76 years old – looks and works as new. My truck is 91 years old and save for a finger-sized dent in its 16ga top, looks and works as new. Its original wood floorboards aren’t even showing any rot. That said, I can guarantee it has never rolled down a road that’s been treated with beet juice. The stuff is about as caustic as hydrochloric acid, but it’s used because it will melt ice down to ten below. I’m not sure there’s anything that’ll keep it from eating a car’s bare metal, other than near-daily washing. I certainly don’t know of any way to use a galvanic (destructive) process to keep it from erasing a vehicle’s soft underbelly…

  6. One could think that if Trump is so bad and the West is fighting a usless war , then a person wouldn’t be working on and supporting the war machine, just saying. Quit your military complex job.

  7. Long-lost footage from a classic 1958 Dracula film with Christopher Lee was found in a warehouse decades after it was cut because early audiences found it so terrifying that they fainted.

    The three minutes of footage, which has never been seen in the US, was found in a Warner Brothers warehouse decades after it was removed from the film, which was called “Dracula” in the UK but released in the US as “Horror of Dracula,” according to Screen Daily.

    The footage was cut because it depicted scenes that were too gory and sexually suggestive for contemporary audiences, with viewers in Japan reportedly passing out upon viewing the full-color images.

    The restored 4K footage includes part of a scene showing Dracula’s fangs dripping with blood after feasting on a victim’s neck; a sexually suggestive clip where the vampire descends upon a woman he’s going to bite; and some unsettling moments from Dracula’s gory death scene, according to the Independent.

    A new 4K version of the film with the restored footage will be hitting theaters right in time for Halloween this year and include the restored scenes, never before seen by audiences outside of Japan, in crystal clarity, according to Hammer Films and Silver Salt Restoration.

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/31/entertainment/long-lost-footage-from-dracula-film-found-decades-after-it-made-audiences-faint-now-us-viewers-can-see-it-for-the-first-time/

    • subliminal cuts. the old westerns had women’s breasts on the back side of a horse. you see him in commercials you see him everywhere

  8. Now there is something you don’t see every day. Went for an early morning ride along the lake – yes.., on the harley – on the way back I had to pull over and gawk a bit. Sailing up lake was a trimaran, a 22., 24 footer – nice looking, Dragonfly.., maybe? – not really news for the lake – see them once in a while – but this one was just a bit different.. it had junk rig. I have never seen a tri with a junk rig before.
    Unfortunately I did not have my camera and he was heading up-lake.., but I will keep an eye out for that unique boat – and see if I can get a talk with the skipper.
    Engineering that must have taken a mainframe. Cool idea.

    • Stiks has a brother on a mountain lake 50 miles long in Wa State??????
      For East Coast Apple lubbers – that’s 4 Manhattan’s long. Unless you drink ’em quick (boom dash)

  9. hi G. remote but having a look at my favourite joint . georges place . magic where i am . yep tea leave reading is perfect today from you . but turnaround tuesday could be a surprise for the freaks . anyway toot a loo , and i am happy i got my dose of sanity at Gs joint . back to remote

    • God love you Len – and thank you for keeping AIs honest, too. They have a tough time with genuine core humans, but not so much with the cookie cutter brain rounds in many spaces on the web

      • See the little Deer

        Does the Deer have any Doe ?

        Sure, Two Bucks.

        After “seeing ” the trailer and the Deer/Gray flashbacks, do we have better understanding of why Pennsyltuckians are always shooting em Dead?

        If you answered “Good Eats” you win a prize..”Thatta Girl” or “thatta Boy’.

        Bambi Burgers for the Win !

        • Humph…

          There are about two million car/deer accidents in CONUS every year. Over 30% of these happen in Pennsylvania.

          I always thought Pennsyltuckians killed deer as a matter of self-preservation…

        • * post note

          We only hit the older, tougher ones, as the Meats need tenderizing, before ya grill em up. Unfortunately there is a lot of waste with Auto Tenderization. We have tried semi trucks, but there was nothing left, but green scheisse spread all over the place, not sure exactly what happens to the Meats…must go somewheres.

        • “We have tried semi trucks, but there was nothing left”

          Tryin’ too hard…

          During rut, driving between Lansing and Grand Rapids on I-96 I pass an average of 13 on any day, in either direction. That’s only about 50 miles of road and it scares me more than any beltway — including 495 in D.C. Even batshit crazy drivers function in a predictable manner. Horny whitetails don’t…

  11. Why skip the PNW Marine tragedy?
    Under pressure? or just aghast and adrift?, (investigation ongoing for 6 months, as to why the White Liquor killed 11 workers)

    Drink ‘um quick, ‘Roughly 600,000 gallons of the (White Liquor) substance rushed through work areas at the plant on Tuesday when the tank ruptured.

    Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson called it “the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington state history.”

    No trimarans available to escape the deluge…

    https://www.wafb.com/2026/05/31/workers-killed-chemical-vat-implosion-washington-paper-mill-identified-11-dead

  12. Dude G,

    Great news on the “sidesqueeze” scene, has recently been released. Seems Stealth and Concealment will no longer be a necessary concern when you find Ureself in the following situation, curtseys of Robert Palmer, ya know the addicted to love Guy.. https://youtu.be/w9EHbkpxUNw?

    How so you may be asking Ureself, well my good Citizen I am glad you axed, for it seems the Invisibility Cloak is passing thru Field Tests with flying colors..hear see fo Ure self -https://www.facebook.com/groups/252029351211252/posts/653221721092011/
    * Click out da pop up Dialogue Box to see article.

  13. Stiks had a lifetime of high performance sailing and sail design. Sailing life began at ten, eight foot dinghy with 40 sq ft. Then followed a progression to sail everything possible, including Finn, 5O5, FD, OK, FJ, snipe, and on and on. Dropped out of Berkeley in 1967, got a job apprentice for a champion dinghy sailmaker, moved from the Haight/Ashbury onto a 58′ schooner in Sausalito, then started building a 38′ cutter, finally sailing under the Gate in 1974, never wishing to ever go back to those cold waters. The ‘career’ ended up as designer of sails and equipment that was all about sailing speed, lots of World Records. High tension rigs, high tension life.
    In the back of all this though was experience with the fabulous simplicity and wonder of the Chinese junk rig. So I cast off a lifetime of high performance and built a strange shaped scow bow hull with free standing mast and a single relatively light but strong sail. One electric/manual winch, one sheet, five ‘control’ lines and we get speed up to 13kts, daily average at 150nm, and handling by elders near alone. Once experienced it is easy to find every reason why this rig is still relevant after being in use for probably 1000 years.
    The list of positive attributes is long, and we easily go to weather even in light wind, cross oceans in safety and comfort, and even with the rig made from carbon fiber and high tech fabrics, it cost less than half of an equivalent in the modern sense, and is possibly only 1/3 the weight aloft, making the boat more stable and enhancing the performance of the cool hull design.
    Junk rigs aren’t junk. They are smart.
    Stiks

  14. “What is the difference between a tribe of self-delusion-sharing people calling themselves ‘educated’ and a troop of apes test-fitting every tool, everywhere, every which way, to see what works and then keeping track of it?”

    The apes will survive and prosper forever without the intellectuals, whereas the intellectuals will die off within weeks without the apes.

    https://youtu.be/8QqkrIDeTeA?si=2KtjrusnxF4dZ78U

  15. Fracturalist upset? How about a world wide currency squeeze. Idea is big bad bill inflationary unless all currencies and hot money flows a safe usa with iran indigestion .

  17. All Huricanes are Pollywogs.

    On the topic of Apes and tools:

    it was Amatures that Built the Ark and it was Professionals that Built The Titanic.
    One ship survived a world cataclysm the other couldnt make it accross the atlantic ocean no matter how many news articals wrote it praise.

    I Win with God within ~

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