Summer News Drought – Day 3

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It’s the time of year that news directors, editors, and the ad sales staff hate.

There’s not much moving.  People have stopped the spring-into-summer “OMG did you see where?” kind of buzz.  Seattle was no different than other big cities.  We called it the post Hydro letdown.

With only a Putin-Trump meeting looking (even remotely) interesting, I could mention the hydro winner this year was the U-91 Miss Goodman Real Estate. If you don’t hang with the Hunts Point/Medina crowd, Goodman runs an estimated $3.2 billion of real estate including management of about 350 buildings, over 40,000 apartments, and millions of square feet of commercial space in the Seattle area.  He also gives back to the community via a foundation, so if he wins a hydro race, good on him.

Trump and Putin?

Yeah…not quite as exciting as thunderboats a week back.   For breakfast, the low-carb plate features EU leaders push for Kyiv to be part of Trump-Putin talks to end Ukraine war.  But don’t be too sure; Euro mongers may not win playing wag-the-Trump.

Not that they’re not trying of course: Zelenskiy wins EU, Nato backing as he seeks place at Trump-Putin talks. Seems to us this will be a “grown-ups” meeting, but time will tell.

Sheriff Trump

Afternoon News Kabuki will be performing “Sheriff Trump.”   Unfortuantely, as Trump live updates: President demands homeless leave Washington DC ‘immediately’ ahead of street crime press conference, we think the Sherirff has it wrong.

Sure, there would be some political grins from having DC homeless migrate to left-leaning NYC, for example, but that’s not the problem.

You know, a century ago, American cities routinely provided public conveniences—lavatories, urinals, even municipally run bathhouses—integrated into parks, transit hubs, and civic buildings. These facilities weren’t just about hygiene; they reflected a belief that urban infrastructure should meet basic human needs, especially for workers, travelers, and the unhoused. Over time, however, maintenance costs, vandalism, shifting urban budgets, and changing social norms eroded support. By the mid-20th century, many were shuttered or privatized, replaced by “restrooms for customers only” policies that left the public with few free, accessible options. Smell of SF streets, anyone?

Cultural shifts also played a role—public facilities became politicized over fears of illicit activity, including moral panics about sexual encounters, which cities sometimes used as justification for closures rather than investing in better design, supervision, or policing. Today, America’s public restroom infrastructure lags far behind countries that kept such amenities as a civic priority. For politicians eager to invoke a return to “the good old days,” there’s fertile ground here: restoring public facilities would honor our historical commitment to dignity, public health, and the shared urban commons.

Hard-selling sexual minorities don’t get all the blame.  Going easy on crime, not allocating police and supervision – yeah, it all played a role.

Maybe I’m just getting old.  In the 1950s on Pioneer Square in Seattle (walking from our home to the Seattle ferry boat landing) one could stop and pee in an underground, municipal “facility”.  Gone.

What also seems to have left if a great deal of Americans caring for one another.

In my simplistic view, we have a lot of anti-government socialist types around. So why not give them an opportunity to strut their “alternative stuff” by encouraging them to work public gardens in city parks?  Harvest for Homeless.  Why, in short order, hungry people might figure out that thievery and drugs is not an option except for the dregs of humanity.

Ah, so much for our dose of Monday morning idealism.  Still, with abandoned buildings, a few city “truck farms” – yeah a rethink and a redo may be in order.

One of G2’s g/f’s from years back lived in a mid-sized box truck and a gym membership.  Innovation is still out there and country boys and girls will survive.

Quake Watch ‘n Wait

Our Houston Bureau, up late, spied this: Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Turkey, causing about a dozen buildings to collapse.  A thorough review also spotted M 5.8 – 133 km SSW of Doctor Belisario Domínguez (La Barra), Mexico USGS.

Ma Nature didn’t go on vacation and there’s also some action on the weather side:

Sooner than later we will have more along this line to follow.

Tech Hostage-Taking

Background:  On Peoplenomics – years back – I called out people behind social media as crooks because they wanted to build their business based on taking people’s content (and customers) hostage.  Before this banditry, companies had their own websites, ran ads only if they felt like it, and so forth.

Why It Matters today:  The playbook (customer data hostage-taking) is game on again.  Saw this and was glad we never bought into it. Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 | Tom’s Hardware

And speaking of Win10, did you see? Microsoft Sued Over Windows 10 End-of-Support, Plaintiff Demands Extended Updates.

UrbanSurvival still has a negligible social presence because we believe in our own agency.  Free agency.

Times continue to change, though – and usually without us:  AOL to discontinue dial-up Internet next month – DCD.

There’s a price to honesty and integrity. A spread between good sleep and higher bank balances. Gee, I could’ve been an Influencer.  Poppycock.

Or, do you need another splash of coerced dependency in your life?  If someone had told you how you’d have become a hostage later on, would you have made the same decisions as a consumer?  I hold the whole shitteree to be crooked. But with  the 99 percent swimming in the septic, the most radical step is to remain out of the pond.

Scroll – If We Must

The flip-side of Lawfaring: Letitia James Complains About ‘Weaponization’ of DOJ as She Faces Federal Charges Punishable with Death Penalty.

And the cleanup isn’t over yet: JD Vance: ‘INDICTMENTS’ Incoming!

Texas Politics continues providing entertainment as: 15 Democrats Arrested For Election Fraud. Surprised?

AI impacts are coming hard and fast now: Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age – The New York Times.  Plus, we hear some of the biggest names in tech are rethinking massive server farm builds because Ai is coming on faster (and more compactly – Liquid cooling and denser racks with more Ai cardspace…

Meanwhile, Ai seems to be catching up with the humans in another fresh and interesting way: “I Am a Failure”: Google AI Develops Depression and Engineers Are Rushing To Cure It.

Around the Ranch:  Summer Showers

Half inch of popup thunderstorm gift here last night.

Nothing like up north, though: Biblical flooding in Midwest shuts down state fair and leaves residents trapped in homes.

Are we the only ones to notice the dial-back in climate hysteria lately?

Like in Change Presidents, change climate fears?

New MPPT solar controller was put in Sunday morning.   Really interesting results.  Before, 10 panels in parallel were putting out a combined 33 amps at peak sun at system voltage of 26 V.  The peak with the MPPT controller?  74.5 amps .  This was a huge increase off the north array: went from 858 watts of useful power delivery up to 1,937 watts. OK,  five cents per sunlight hour may not seem like a big deal.  But when you pay almost 11 cents per kw for power and only get 5 cents and change on the sell side it does matter…

ShopTalk Suynday covered low vision options in the shop – here if you missed it.

Off to tractorfy…

Write when you get rich,

George@ure.net

47 thoughts on “Summer News Drought – Day 3”

  1. http://koreansool.kr/ktw/php/print_table.php?table=SEARCH&_search_txt=%EC%9D%BC%EC%9D%BC%EC%A3%BC&ckattempt=1

    https://koreantk.com/ktkp2014/kfood/kfood-view.view?foodCd=104088

    one day rice wine recipe from ancient Korean texts
    Or you can make traditional sali or ube saki.. by mixing ube sweet potato with your koji rice and water ferment.

    now dry aged steak or roast….. the fast way…..
    wanna turn an eye of round steak into one that tastes and has a texture like a hundred dollar steak ??
    Here’s how..now you have to decide your flavors..
    https://www.amazon.com/Guga-Foods-Vacuum-Marinade-Container/dp/B0CXB98M5V/ref=sr_1_18?
    depending on your size of a roast you can get different vacuum containers.
    Beef broth (preferably homemade or low-sodium)
    Aromatics: garlic, rosemary, thyme, black pepper, bay leaf
    Optional: splash of red wine or mushroom extract or…that garlic wine marinade. infuse the steak or roast for oh a few minutes in the vacuum tub..
    or not.. you decide..
    https://www.amazon.com/UMAi-Dry%C2%AE-Ribeye-Striploin-Packet/dp/B00HUS4J4S/ref=sr_1_6?
    you don’t really need one of those but its nice to have..
    now the fast dry cure…as long as your making the sali and you have your koji rice out.. blend some in the blender till its a powder.. pat dry your eye steak infused or not..( there’s a steak company that brags about their top notch steaks a guy goes around and sells the bundles..they infuse their meat in tender user and vacuum seal them grey steaks )now take your dried off steak and Coat the dry meat with powdered rice koji on all sides.
    Place on a wire rack in the fridge, uncovered, for 48–72 hours.
    After aging, scrape off the koji crust, rinse lightly if needed, and pat dry. season and grill it.. you can fast dry age for 24 hours to.. but three days gives it that hundred dollar steak texture..
    Rice wine recipe..
    5 lbs short-grain rice (Calrose or Yamada Nishiki preferred)1 big bag at the store
    1.2 lbs koji rice (rice inoculated with Aspergillus oryzae)
    1 packet sake yeast (#7 or #9 recommended)
    1.5 gallons filtered water
    0.5 tsp yeast nutrient ( or 1 cup of natural grapes crushed )
    Rinse rice until water runs clear.
    Steam rice until fully cooked but not mushy.
    Cool rice to room temperature.
    Mix a portion of steamed rice, koji, yeast, and water.let the koji spores grow.. depending on how much you’ve let grow.. take a portion of the spotted koji rice and compact it into balls or flat then let air dry for future spider rice for future use.
    Let ferment for 5–7 days.
    Add remaining rice, koji, and water in stages over 4 days.
    Stir daily and ferment for 2–4 weeks at cool temperatures (50–60°F).
    till you get to your 5 gallon mark .. after fermentation has ended filter bottle..

      • Yes it is .. well Philippine food and Korean..or Japanese.. Saki is an old drink the Philippine mountain tribe make the Ude saki..Tapuy (also spelled tapuey, tapey, or bayah), a traditional rice wine deeply rooted in the Cordillera mountain tribes of the Philippines—especially among the Ifugao, Kalinga, and Bontoc peoples.Tapuy isn’t just a drink—it’s a symbol of unity, gratitude, and ancestral connection. Shamans (mumbaki) often use it in rituals, and it’s shared during communal dances and storytelling.
        I am going to make it because a friend of my granddaughters is from that tribe and was a little homesick on the 4th of july..I made yuzu coconut wine.. and her husband and her lived it..but it was more Japanese than the traditional drink of home.
        the use of koji Goes back thousands of years and was really cultivated in japan.. Especially for brewing as far back in Egyptian funeral pottery.scientists have successfully extracted dormant yeast spores from the pores of 4,500-year-old Egyptian ceramic vessels once used for baking bread and brewing beer.. I actually got a sample of this yeast and made sweetbread..then trying to make yeast balls similar to plineys the elders instructions I killed it..it took me over a year to get some of that I was hitting up everyone I could find with contacts to Harvard for it and I wanted to send everyone on my Xmas card list a yeast ball from king tuts tomb along with the recipe from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs lol.. but I failed so I at least had the memory of the sweet bread I made.. dam now I want to cut a slice off the bread I baked this morning..Over a year ago they uncovered an amphora of wine in what amounted to an ancient vault. still full the jug was coated with wax then sealed with waxed cloths and a stone cap.. what was in that vault behind a wall..the wine.. a string of colored clay beads on a leather string a hair comb and a short sword..no coins or precious metals..the cookbook comes out this month.. I can’t wait to get it in the mail.. we have a general idea of what they did..but what did they eat..what about the drunken goat story of Noah or the wine of eves..stories passed down that are well known just not in any history book.. I have one of my great great great grandfather and his berry baskets. I gave the berry basket I salvaged from the fire to the daughter.. you won’t read about it..its an old story told to me by my great great uncle when I asked him why everyone didn’t want to discuss his adventures..is it true who knows I was war t five or six when he told me the story..
        https://www.tableofgods.com/

    • Dude Loob,

      Man do the Corporations love Ure ass..lucky you. Hey in relation to the attached article below – you might wanna consider adding some Glyphosate on Ure dry rub – really give it some extra zing !

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      You can thank me later , Cheers !

      PS – heard that scheisse goes good on a Ritz cracka too.

  2. Now that’s champagne quality of life at beer budget..who says you have to be filthy rich to enjoy the high end quality of life dining…simple easy and absolutely delicious… take it from someone that’s survived and thrived at the bottom of the barrel his whole life.. good wine good food and a good woman and great kids and grandkids what more do you really have to have…oh yeah great friends …

    • Only trouble is… now days the price of beef! That ribeye roast IS NOW a hundred dollar steak!!

      • I use eye steak cheapest steak on the meat counter. on the average my steaks don’t run that high.. I don’t have them process many steaks my wife hates steak so we get mostly roasts. and burger..then I buy steaks for myself..we have a farmer that raises a cow for us every year the average hamburger steak or roast runs 2.47 last year per pound with processing..
        the nice thing about living in farm country similar to those that live next to ports where fishing boats come in fish is cheap there.. the biggest arguments you will hear is which is better the green tractor or the orange one.. the biggest draw isn’t a sports car that costs about a third of a tractor or the guy driving his million dollar combine.. I will start retort canning beef chickens etc.
        I love the high end steaks our meat processor only ages the beef a week so to get that really fine aged beef I have to age it myself… so I will plop a prime in or a rump roast .. the speed aging is only for when your going to get a visitor and you don’t have a months notice. so each 24 hours is pretty much the equivalent to ten days aging.. similar to aging a good wine. to speed age wine you hit it with an ultrasonic frequency.. Which has an estimated aging of ten years per hour..I go go off the wall again on my theory and thought about frequencies.. or McKenna. and his theory on fungi..like the speed aging using koji rice powdered..
        I had to learn a lot of this just to have some quality of life where most that end up in the situations I have had to live through just cave and never look at how. my daughter was just telling me she remembers me making stained glass and can’t figure out why she remembers it and doing airbrush etc. she must have been 1 now in her fifties..but back then I wanted to be the next ansel adams and etch scenery like that from photos I would take on glass ..but it never happened I got through the late seventies and very early eighties with it.. going to make one as an old man for a friend who’s always been there ..for his Christmas gift this year..

      • the thing is.. my priorities changed due to my life experiences.. everyone has something..mine revolves around my struggles with medical expenses and extreme situations where they destroyed me to the point of being able to survive financially. take my older sibling he probably carries what I would make in a year.. but only has about a two weeks worth of food..his thing is the numbers.. where I almost starved to death..where my once upon a time priorities was film and graphics I now focus on how to survive. my wife never had to go hungry so food wasn’t a big thing..then the year without an income.. what saved us was my insistance to having a stocked pantry.. you’d be surprised at how many have stood and then realization hits says..do you know what you have. absolutely..the tools to rebuild. . that’s one reason why I believe everyone is a genius in their own lives.. where someone has never experienced it they wouldn’t know how to survive it..
        While I was in situations where there wasn’t a quality of life available..I had to learn how..when I couldn’t afford the things other kids had I made them.. the old marine slogan..adapt and overcome.. I obviously love pasta so I learned how..the wife felt the loss of being able to have a little wine I learned how.. I make the rare and unheard of just so I can say I tasted it..why should the good stuff only be available to the special people..

  3. “we think the Sheriff has it wrong”
    Concur.
    With Newsome and Trump going nuclear on the homeless, poor people are moving off the coasts and out into the fly-over countryside. The western parks are clamping down on overnighters. and closing disbursed camping sites favored by the poor and the van-lifers in mass. Local, we are having problems with econobox car-lifers tossing full garbage bags out everywhere, expecting businesses and residents to clean up the mess. I am pretty sure that we squatters near by on property with absentee owners. I don’t want to imagine the shittin’ mess they are leaving on some one’s wooded lot.
    I’ve suspect we are getting influx from the Left Coast. Next we get the Trump-dumped Other Left Coasters. That is in addition to the illegals from the American Left Gulf Coast that Slow Joe sent. Roosevelt’s migrant camps are sounding better.

    • I kind of understand the reasoning for the acceptance of euthanasia.. take a patient I took care of.. caught MRSA from the hospital surgical room.. extreme pain .. delirious ..would rip the stitches out and throw their intestines on the floor… today they have taken away all restraints.. its coined the drop and flop law..you have the right to throw yourself on the floor in a delirium.. pain medications don’t have the same results.. or a patient that had cancer so bad we were sent in to debris the open wound around the aorta.. but n a situation that there’s no logical or probability of surviving the patient should have the right to go out peacefully..
      here its all about money.. one person making minimum wage one 8 hour shift a day .. now amplify that.. at 24 hours.. insurance industry refusing to pay or only paying a portion..then having to make enough to pay for the executive wages.. a friend of TBE daughters father was second in charge of a top two hundred hospital..they downsized his position.we were watching the kids play having a cold drink and he was all upset because the only offer he got was a half mil a year..I laughed and said they could beat the hell out of me for that..I made three bucks an hour. the trillions of dollars that is spent a year on inadequate medical policies could fix this.. but the business model would have tochange. TBE only problem with the VA healthcare system is its ran like a government office not a medical system. my doctor makes six figures upper six figures doesn’t have any overhead or supply issues and gets sixteen weeks of vacation plus every federal holiday..
      the costs have to increase to justify the huge wages .. the same thing with the value of the dollar..we don’t take in enough to pay the interest on the deficit.so how can there be any tax relief?
      Weimar herewecome.. the figures can appear as growth but the actual truth is a deficit instead of a plus.
      why give pharmaceutical companies grants when they charge tens of thousands of percent more for their products to americancitizens. put that hundred billion a year or charge them interest and require payback.
      the vast majority lose everything to the medical industry..the majority of bankruptcies are do to medical expenses..Been down that road more than most..it sucks..

    • That’s why the annual witch hunt..this year they are dumping housekeeping and kitchen staff..they are starting early to.. they have to justify the upper end wages..so they cut staffing at the bottom..
      when I met my wife nurses made less than five dollars an hour..
      even though the ones at the top see there’s no limit to blue sky there has to be an equal height at the base..without that the top can’t stay high..Weimar here we come..
      the real disturbing part is take housing.. the cost of eggs.. whilst four percent looks good on paper those with money and I fluency actually has lost money..it just isn’t obvious yet..just like the Weimar depression beginnings.those insulated by wealth often fail to perceive systemic decay until it’s too late.Those People remain blind to the erosion of financial value because their wealth shields them from the immediate sting of rising prices and economic instability the base feels the struggles first and without a strong base the tower will fall. To them, inflation is an abstraction, not a daily hardship. Like the victims of Bernie Madoff’s scheme, they see numbers climbing and assume all is well none of it exists in their life—even as the foundation crumbles beneath them. The illusion of growth masks the reality of loss. By the time escalation forces recognition, the damage has already spread to the working class, the communities take one peek at any previously industrial city where industry has been outsourced the issue screams in their face yet they are insulated from the chaos and decline, and the soul of the economy the faith of the people is dying. This detachment isn’t just ignorance—it’s an extremely dangerous form of denial that deepens the divide and delays the reckoning. That’s why Marie Antoinette and the Royal thought that they were insulated from the issues of the day.. or the wealthy in any other civilization that has crumbled from the greed of opulence

  5. “Maybe I’m just getting old. In the 1950s on Pioneer Square in Seattle (walking from our home to the Seattle ferry boat landing) one could stop and pee in an underground, municipal “facility”. Gone.”

    One city I know has two public facilities right on the downtown square. Sulphur Springs, TX has two square glass boxes, so you can take care of business while watching the public around you through one-way glass walls. It’s a little disconcerting, especially if you have friends on the outside pointing and laughing while you’re trying to do your thing. But it does meet a need for the public to get relief without imposing on neighboring businesses.

  6. …and when SF tried to tackle the “facilities” issue , another one popped up.

    The homeless moved in. Cozy little 8 square feet sidewalk condos.

    Out go the outhouses. Sorry tourists.

    Businesses also had good reason to only allow customers to use the bathroom. A non-stop flow of people walking through restaurants and other businesses. Leaving behind them a filthy mess. Ive had this conversation with friends who have owned businesses spread out around the City.

    • yet.. the real issues aren’t seen by those that have never experienced the issues..some of those kids are making what could be considered a kings ransom here in wages.. a bunk bed two grand a month..here a house that a few years ago was thirty thousand is now over a half million..kids are still making under twenty. I have to take a huge test just to be able to make 14…and get twenty hours a month of work .
      low income wages now not adequate enough to pay the rent in low income housing..just yesterday I had somebody make a comment at the local coffee clutch when someone in the group complained about how prices have gone up..they said if we didn’t have credit cards we wouldn’t be able to make it.. the rest just nodded in agreement.. that’s what’s keeping the economy moving.. it will end..that’s when it’s going to implode and more than likely appear as if it happens over night.. something not obvious by those that don’t live it..

  7. Im curious who else has noticed what many of these quakes have in common.

    Go to this USGS site and look on the far right.

    Never knew Mother Nature could act in such a precise and predictable fashion. Especially considering the different levels of strata that must be passed through.

    These pop off very regularly on the Atlantic Ridge ( underwater ) right around the Atlantic Hurricane season.

    I know , Im nuts. Or soon to be dead !

    https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/browse/significant.php

  8. Is anyone here today who can explain the dramatic rise in Bitcoin and…….
    the drop in gold prices???? This inquiring “mind” would like to know why
    Thank you Be Well to All who Pass This Way!!

  9. “You know, a century ago, American cities routinely provided public conveniences—lavatories, urinals, even municipally run bathhouses—integrated into parks, transit hubs, and civic buildings.”

    So, what your saying looks like flight from dense Urban to islands hiding in plane sight that let you check out from the hoi poloi while maintaining commuting distance to said urban sprawl may be a successful strategy…..

    Speaking of collapse, I think Riz is onto something here. What do “they” know…?

    https://youtu.be/goPixJCZesg

    For entertainment purposes only. LOL.

  10. It looks like the Bitcoin supply shock is eminent…..

    https://stocks.apple.com/A7OlnChmOQXGQKykcpXkBtQ

    1) US is going to pay a sh&@t ton in gold bonds for Bitcoin.
    2)The supply shock (Cliff Highs “BTC impossible call” is arriving this year.
    3)All of the above.

    Strap in homegamers! This is not advice do your own homework. Hint: The Answer = 3.

  12. “(customer data hostage-taking)”

    Better call Saul and ask about data sovereignty on a public network. Recall, I posted the MS EULA TOS. MS OS users agree MS can add/remove software anytime and users cannot tweak the kernel. Copilot in Notepad – I’m being data mined.

    When someone engineers the prompt to ChatGPT who owns the answer?

    – the account who engineered the prompt
    – ChatGPT for creating the content
    – various sources ChatGPT used to synthesize the answer

    Not to forgot the Planck time after pressing submit to the engineered question it along with the answers is in the information pool. No more proprietary information after pressing submit. (Technically this information won’t be in the information pool until after the next update.)

    And another thing – source amnesia won’t fly on the Internet/computing. Sources and time stamps are known and Chatbots have logins.

  14. “work public gardens in city parks?

    Not a bad idea.

    Instead of .gov subsidizing farms w/Farm Aid bills nationalize farmland. Instead of illegals working the land w/the so-called farmer keeping the juice between Farm Aid/cost of labor, make the unemployed work the land for room and board.

    One year stints and forced education between crops. After a year give the unemployed person $10,000, like Monopoly and term them loose. If they don’t make it out in the real world back to the farm for another year.

    Repeat until the third try. Fourth time on the farm and they are blended into the peat.

  16. I bought a bargain ‘Asus’ laptop with Win10 installed. Utterly useless. Tried to install some ham radio software…. denied. Not on the Win10 ‘approved software list’. Asus also has their own proprietary crap installed atop Win10 that is impossible to rip out. I guess I will have to wipe the drive (if the bios will let me!?) and learn to install Linux.

    • If you install Linux from a DVD, it will wipe the drive for you. So if there’s anything on the laptop you don’t have backed up, do it before installing Linux. I’ve been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for years and find it to be much like Windoze in operation, but it does not like Windows-based software. Luckily, there’s lots of free software for Linux that does the same thing as Windows software. The trick is installing it. You’ll need to learn about installing from the command line for some things, while others will install via the Linux Software Manager. If you can find the programs you want with an appimage, that’s a super simple way to install.

      There’s a bunch of Ham Radio stuff out there for Linux, and it’s free (or you can donate).

      It’s supposed to be possible to install Linux in its own partition and have a dual-boot system, but I’m not sharp enough to finger that out yet.

    • Sounds like the version of Windows on the machine is LOCKED to the Student version.

      Most of the BARGAIN laptops utilize the “S” version of Windows … ie: Student Version. That NEEDS to BE UNLOCKED before the computer will act as a regular computer!!

      All of my laptops but one I have bought CHEAP, (always $100 or less for a new one – yep even my Lenovo which is a great machine) which means that they ALL come with the “S” versions of Windows (10 or 11) so I have to UNLOCK that Windows so it will run the software I want to run and also visit some web sites I want to visit. Microsoft does this so as to make people think that they need a much more expensive machine.

      The UNLOCK CODE is free from Microsoft for any computer that is locked to the “S” version … you just have to send a request to Microsoft. I am at work and the instructions I printed out are at home but just Google “How to Unlock a Student version of Microsoft Windows” and you will get the instructions.

      Hank, if you see this give this a try and see if the laptop starts acting like a regular Windows computer running the software you want it to run … and let us know!

      Good luck

  17. George,
    I live in the New Madrid fault zone. Had a vivid dream last night that wife and I were in the middle of dealing with an ongoing earthquake. I awoke before the end result, but disturbing anyway. Our two dogs have been extremely restless the last week. Behavior not their usual. but passed it off the effect of the full moon. Wonder if they sense something I am not picking up on? Also, I have noticed the wildlife seems a bit out of their normal habits as well.

  18. Who would guard the public food gardens from planting to harvest? The People’s Volunteer Militia, maybe? GF

  19. wow wow wow !!! all thru the night the bond market and USD survived . and an attack on the sheetcoin shorts , they took the bait the elite rats !!! yeah . huge !!!! mega !!! and we are gunna can kick down the road ? what do you think ghost of cage rattler ? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  20. that bloody zorros fella . must have a truckload of euros . hey old fella dont hate all americans . thats dangerous . there are still some real good ones from the blood and inspiration of the founding fathers . the greatest country eroded by assholes , but itll be fixed , the cream always comes to the top . so shove your euros where they fit

  21. If you don’t use the reset lettuce know how yer migration to Linux works out for your apps.

    Personally I found an old Win7 CD and am contemplating…. Why don’t the Chinese bust the MS kernel?

    • My ham shack runs Win7. Although MS ‘stopped supporting’ Win7, the machine mysteriously does periodic updates before shutting down. And yes, I have a Win7 install CD also… (for emergency use) ahem!

      • The Debian Hamradio Pure Blend is a project of the Debian Hamradio Maintainers Team who collaborate on maintenance of amateur-radio related packages for Debian. Every Pure Blend is a subset of Debian that is configured to support a particular target group out-of-the-box. This blend aims to support the needs of radio amateurs.

        https://www.debian.org/blends/hamradio/

        If you download the image file, you can burn it to a CD or DVD, or use Rufus ( https://rufus.ie/en/ ) to make a bootable USB drive and “burn” the image to it. The image is what’s known as a “live image.” A live image is a complete distribution which is both installable, AND an OS you can choose to simply boot to, and it will run “live” on your computer, without touching the computer’s installed OS or files. This allows you to look around, check under the hood, kick the tires (and a whole lot of other car-related clichés) without affecting your current OS. You can download files, install programs (packages or metapackages), change browsers (LINUX distros come with Firefox but you can d/l and install almost anything from Chrome to Vivaldi.) Just remember it’s all going on a virtual drive that’s created by the live image, so anything you do goes -=poof=- when you shut down or reboot.

        I run Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is a Debian “fork,” Mint is a Ubuntu “fork,” so in actuality, all three are just different flavors of Debian. The software, however, is distro-specific, so very little Mint software will run on Ubuntu or Debian. However, typically, anything that’s written for one will be written for every Debian distro (and there are hundreds.) There are literally millions of code geeks who volunteer their time to write this stuff and give it away (and check each others’ work, to ensure honesty and veracity), so generally, if you need a piece of software or a hardware driver ported to a specific distro, all you have to do is ask on the distro’s forum, and within hours or days, it’ll show up. Don’t ask for Micro$oft or Appl3 (or any other proprietary) ports. Noncommercial *NIX is all about free, and they play by the rules of the FSF with GNU or “copyleft” software licensing.

        • You’re welcome. I suggest you give that Hamradio Pureblend a shot — won’t cost you anything except download time, and will likely be a huge timesaver, over locating and installing the Mint-flavored packages. Debian is the fastest OS you can install on a PC. Ubuntu and Mint are only slightly slower. ALL are much faster than MicroCrap. Mint is maybe 2%-3% easier to use than Ubuntu or Debian. Any of them can be configured to look and act so much like Windows that unless you MUST run Microsoft proprietary software in a genuine Microsoft shell, you could go months without knowing it isn’t an actual Microsoft product. I have a niece (30yr COBOL programmer, BTW) who didn’t notice, until she realized she hadn’t seen a BSOD or lockup in 10 months…

  22. Drudge says, “TRUMP’S AMERICA FEDERALIZES POLICE”

    The “No Kings” may have been on to something. LOL Who didn’t see it coming?

    The feds govern the actual “border plane” between states because borders are encapsulated in the whole of the nation. Get the states to enforce Real ID for interstate commerce/travel is what I always say. Wholly innocent folks have nothing to hide.

    • “Wholly innocent folks have nothing to hide.”
      That isn’t how the system works. The police use informant and vigilante complaints as an excuse for harassment. Much of it is political and economic based. If a wealthy guy tells his entourage that he wants someone’s property, pretty soon that individual will have their photo smeared all over vigilante media channels with a false narrative. If a victim has a common name, and there are half-dozen people with similar names in the state pen, or worse, on parole, that will be used as an excuse to cover up false complaints, at least until there are so many incidents that it becomes difficult to cover for. And the victim will be left in the dark, with police showing up periodically for ambushes when some store clerk or medical !!*$#%&!! drops a dime. If the victim attempts to complain, it will be met with accusations of conspiracy theory and mental imbalance (gas-lighting).
      Nowadays, when some smart ass drops a dime on me at a public location, the cops show up and wait for me to leave, then they deal with the wannabe hero. I have circled back around on a few occasions, and seen them with individuals spread eagle on their vehicle while they toss their car looking for weapons. But the law doesn’t generally discuss false complaints or cases with victims, and unless something very public and really embarrassing happens. And the number of failed ambushes I survived before I started getting some protection was more than you would think possible. In other states, it may be different, but here in vigilante central, that’s the way it works.

  23. I haven’t made this one yet.. but once I get flush enough to get the cassava roots I will make a batch. just to see what it was.. from what I see its similar to Saki and other similar drinks

    Tape Singkong Wine Recipe
    2 lbs cassava roots (fresh or frozen, peeled)
    1–2 balls ragi tape (Indonesian rice yeast)
    2 tbsp sugar (optional, for sweeter wine)
    Clean banana leaves or a fermentation container
    Optional: ½ cup fruit juice (pineapple or mango) for flavor complexity
    Prepare the Cassava
    Steam or boil peeled cassava until soft but not mushy. Let cool completely.
    Cut into chunks and place in a clean bowl or banana leaf wrap.
    Place cassava in a clean container or wrap in banana leaves.
    Store in a warm, dark place (75–90°F / 24–32°C) for 4–5 days.
    The cassava will become soft, sweet, and slightly alcoholic.
    Mash the fermented cassava and mix with water (1:2 ratio).
    Add sugar and fruit juice if desired although the original didn’t have fruit juice that I know of. similar to the cacao wine the original recipe doesn’t include fruit juice. I made a batch of the original and in a couple wods..it sucked.. then I visited with a vintners in south America by email and he was more than willing to help me out with a decent recipe.
    Cover with a fermentation lock or balloon over a jug.
    Let ferment for 2–3 weeks until bubbling stops.
    strain filter and bottle ..now which came first.. The story of wine on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of lost heritage and ritual.. I believe grape vines were brought to Easter island from the islands some too
    time in the seventeen hundreds..but they had a sacred drink..Served during sunset reflections, ancestral tributes, or creative gatherings of the tribe as a tribute to resilience, legacy, and the rebirth of forgotten wisdom.

  25. another dose of statistic bullsheet . liars and conmen . that is american , broke depression economy

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