and I hope provides some distraction from the cold outside. And chilly inside if you're trying to keep the heating bill down.
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Friday, December 16, 2022
Holy crap. This from that wonderful 'free healthcare' system the Canucks live with.
Canada, the leftist shithole. And they elected the bastards behind all this.
No wonder Musk could fire so many and the place just keep going along:
When so many of those fired were incompetent, or crooked, or both. For example,
Former Twitter security executive Peiter "Mudge" Zatko says that he broached the topic of a foreign asset working at Twitter to another executive, who brushed off Mr. Zatko's concern.
...
Twitter didn't monitor employee computers at all, it was not uncommon for employees to install spyware on work devices
...
On 1/6, Mudge (the whistleblower) wanted to take action to prevent potential sabotage by a rogue employee. He learned it was not possible for Twitter to secure its production environment.
And on, and on. Including top brass lying about and concealing the crap. I have to wonder if some of that could get them legally charged.
And our major media, still, shows little interest. Isn't that wonderful.
Former Twitter security executive Peiter "Mudge" Zatko says that he broached the topic of a foreign asset working at Twitter to another executive, who brushed off Mr. Zatko's concern.
...
Twitter didn't monitor employee computers at all, it was not uncommon for employees to install spyware on work devices
...
On 1/6, Mudge (the whistleblower) wanted to take action to prevent potential sabotage by a rogue employee. He learned it was not possible for Twitter to secure its production environment.
And on, and on. Including top brass lying about and concealing the crap. I have to wonder if some of that could get them legally charged.
And our major media, still, shows little interest. Isn't that wonderful.
Thursday, December 15, 2022
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First, Bravo!
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office told the outlet that the altercation occurred just before 8pm and that Mr Buyas was “stalking an ex-girlfriend at her home” when members of her family discovered him.
Mr Buyas revealed that he had a weapon during a confrontation with the family members, one of whom discharged their firearm several times, investigators said.
Second, BOO! to this idiocy from the 'news':
The family members are working with the authorities and no one has yet been arrested.
That that's what the idiot writing this is bothered by...
Mr Buyas revealed that he had a weapon during a confrontation with the family members, one of whom discharged their firearm several times, investigators said.
Second, BOO! to this idiocy from the 'news':
The family members are working with the authorities and no one has yet been arrested.
That that's what the idiot writing this is bothered by...
About that fusion breakthrough, (updated)
it's a big step. And has the usual BUT:
A word of caution – there is a long way to go, between a lab demonstration of energy production, and a viable commercial nuclear fusion reactor. The break even claim only applies to the amount of energy pumped into the fusion target, vs the amount emitted, not the total energy expended to perform the experiment. Vastly greater amounts of energy were used to generate the final 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy which struck the target, to produce 3.15MJ of fusion energy. And that 3.15MJ of fusion energy was only enough to keep a 2KW plug in home heater running for 25 minutes.
To turn this into a fusion generator, the energy emitted by the target would need to be vastly scaled up, and the process would have to fire multiple times per minute, likely multiple times per second, rather than a single shot after hours or days of preparation.
Nevertheless this milestone is critically important – it provides a focal point of motivation, to solve the remaining problems.
A word of caution – there is a long way to go, between a lab demonstration of energy production, and a viable commercial nuclear fusion reactor. The break even claim only applies to the amount of energy pumped into the fusion target, vs the amount emitted, not the total energy expended to perform the experiment. Vastly greater amounts of energy were used to generate the final 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy which struck the target, to produce 3.15MJ of fusion energy. And that 3.15MJ of fusion energy was only enough to keep a 2KW plug in home heater running for 25 minutes.
To turn this into a fusion generator, the energy emitted by the target would need to be vastly scaled up, and the process would have to fire multiple times per minute, likely multiple times per second, rather than a single shot after hours or days of preparation.
Nevertheless this milestone is critically important – it provides a focal point of motivation, to solve the remaining problems.
It is very important. And I'll make a couple of wagers:
The enviroweenies who crap themselves at the words 'nuclear' and 'radiation' will try to delay this as much as possible, because a lot of them- besides the ignorant fears- do NOT want people to have cheap, abundant energy. Remember what a couple of their idols had to say:
… the prospect of cheap, inexhaustible power from fusion is “like giving a machine gun to an idiot child,” Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich says. Laments Washington-based author-activist Jeremy Rifkin, “It’s the worst thing that could happen to our planet.”
Second, this will have a bunch of them now saying "See, we don't need new refineries and drilling, because we have FUSION POWER!" Not caring that this being an actual thing is A, probably at least a decade- likely more- away, and
B, there's a LOT of things we need oil and gas and coal for.
Update: From Science News:
But this latest fusion burst still didn’t produce enough energy to run the laser power supplies and other systems of the NIF experiment. It took about 300 million joules of energy from the electrical grid to get a hundredth of the energy back in fusion.
“The net energy gain is with respect to the energy in the light that was shined on the target, not with respect to the energy that went into making that light,” says University of Rochester physicist Riccardo Betti, who was also not involved with the research. “Now it’s up to the scientists and engineers to see if we can turn these physics principles into useful energy.”
So a looong way to go. Which brings me to C on 'what the enviroweenies/anti-humans will say:
The enviroweenies who crap themselves at the words 'nuclear' and 'radiation' will try to delay this as much as possible, because a lot of them- besides the ignorant fears- do NOT want people to have cheap, abundant energy. Remember what a couple of their idols had to say:
… the prospect of cheap, inexhaustible power from fusion is “like giving a machine gun to an idiot child,” Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich says. Laments Washington-based author-activist Jeremy Rifkin, “It’s the worst thing that could happen to our planet.”
Second, this will have a bunch of them now saying "See, we don't need new refineries and drilling, because we have FUSION POWER!" Not caring that this being an actual thing is A, probably at least a decade- likely more- away, and
B, there's a LOT of things we need oil and gas and coal for.
Update: From Science News:
But this latest fusion burst still didn’t produce enough energy to run the laser power supplies and other systems of the NIF experiment. It took about 300 million joules of energy from the electrical grid to get a hundredth of the energy back in fusion.
“The net energy gain is with respect to the energy in the light that was shined on the target, not with respect to the energy that went into making that light,” says University of Rochester physicist Riccardo Betti, who was also not involved with the research. “Now it’s up to the scientists and engineers to see if we can turn these physics principles into useful energy.”
So a looong way to go. Which brings me to C on 'what the enviroweenies/anti-humans will say:
"We don't need to build any nuclear reactors, because we'll have FUSION POWER! In just a few years/decades/next century..."
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Be it noted, whoever designed the battery cable clamps on some Fiats
is a bleeping idiot. If he's dead, he was a bleeping idiot.
Due to exhaustion I didn't think to take a picture, and I can't find an illustration right now, but imagine this:
Instead of a simple clamp where you tighten a bolt, you have a body that includes a sliding piece that has to be held tight while the locking bolt is tightened. There's no screw to tension it or good place to, say, put a screwdriver in place to lever it tight and then tighten that bolt, oh no; you have to find something like some channel-lock pliers that has jaws narrow enough to hold the clamp tight while not being in the way of the socket to tighten the locking bolt. Because if you can manage to just pry it tight, the negative in particular wants to turn as you tighten and really pulls on the wires...
It's telling that every auto parts place that carries replacement cables shows the nice, simple clamps.
I can literally say I would never have imagined such an idiot way to design a clamp.
Monday, December 12, 2022
About that subsonic load Updated
in .300 Blackout, a little more work was done. The original was five Federal and five Sig nickel brass. Loaded ten more Federal, and five Sig nickel and five brass, same load.
Oh, baby.
Four in one hole, and #3 was a called flyer. At least at 30 yards identical performance. I really want to put these over a chronograph as well as try them at longer range.
I have no pictures due to an error on my part, I'll try to recover them. I can say that at 30 yards, I did my part, we're talking one little-bit ragged hole territory. Very promising. At some point I'll be able to get to a longer range to try them.
It's nice, I got these bullets just as inexpensive practice stuff, if it stays this tight at longer distances I'll be wishing for a lot more of them.
Update:
I was able to get the pictures.
This is five rounds using Sig cases, 10.5 grains H4198, and the factory second 190-grain bullets:
This is five using the same load in Federal cases
Seems a mountain lion has been confirmed in northeast Oklahoma
Which doesn't surprise me: after being called extinct in the state for a long time they were found in the west, so why spreading out east would surprise anyone, I don't know.
Happily this is a state where, if you go into the woods, you can carry a gun just in case. Chances of needing it for a lion, low. Probably very low. Illegal aliens, drugrunners and such, considerably higher.
Well, this might explain some of the old Twitter hysteria about the word Groomer...
This guy was the head of 'Trust & Safety' at Twitter, and he's screamed "NAZI!", etc., at anyone to the right of Stalin, and seems he had a secret account that's gone now, but- as they say- the Interwebs is Forever!
Yeah, that might explain some of the sensitivity about that word. Especially if he had friends of the same leanings.
Which makes you wonder, how much of the contact with the EffingBI and others was he involved in? And were they aware of this account, or any others like it?
Californicated has some wildlife problems,
and until they decide to teach them to leave humans, and things around them, alone, it's going to get worse.
Sunday, December 11, 2022
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