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Open thread 10/2/2024

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  • Anonymous October 2, 2024, 8:45 AM

    NEWS FROM REVOLVER
    Fauci admits mRNA vax myocarditis risk, especially for young men—#LockHimUp…

  • Anonymous October 2, 2024, 10:52 AM

    From The Highwire
    EXPERTS AGREE: TURBO CANCERS ARE CAUSED BY THE TOXIC MRNA COVID-19 JABS

  • Anne October 2, 2024, 11:27 AM

    Dear Ghost:
    I am trying to put that lid on my little seed shed. I only have one more question:
    It comes in widths that make it necessary to either cut the panels vertically which would be hard for us or to place the long sides on top of one another for a few inches of width? My thought is to lay one whole piece in the center and then use two side pieces to overlap a little–laying the side pieces so that they are under the center piece on those long sides. As always I am grateful for your thoughts.

    • ghostsniper October 2, 2024, 2:35 PM

      I understand.
      It’s best to install the END pieces first, then overlap them with the center piece(s).
      That way the rain has to run to the outside.
      It’d be smart to run a generous bead of silicone caulk at the laps.
      Also, use stainless steel screws with neoprene washers to connect the panels to the rafters, and only install the screws at the “low” points of the corrigations. If you install the screws at the high points the wood will force the screws back out over time because of atmospheric conditions and improper pressure on the neoprene washers. Don’t over tighten the screws. Get the screws snug with a drill then tighten em up 1/4 turn with a screw driver. Don’t want to crack the panels.

  • John A. Fleming October 2, 2024, 2:29 PM

    There are strange things done in the midnight sun
    By the men who moil for gold;
    The Arctic trails have their secret tales
    That would make your blood run cold;
    The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
    But the queerest they ever did see
    Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
    I cremated Sam McGee. …

    • Casey Klahn October 3, 2024, 5:58 AM

      Big Jim Whittaker once recited that poem for a small group of us.

      On the subject of the northern lights, this past year when the solar storms produced phenomenal overhead lights, it changed my whole perspective on these. We occasionally see the curtain type, but now I can make out faint radiance in the northern sky and identify this as northern lights.

      We live one county south of the cannuckian border.

  • Ozymandias October 2, 2024, 7:38 PM

    There’s really only one topic worthy of discussion this week in America: the aftermath of Helene and the absolute devastation it has wrought and the piss-poor Federal emergency response.

    So head over to you-know-who’s echo chamber and what is 99% of the blather about?

    Israel this. Iran that.

    Truly it is to laugh.

    • John A. Fleming October 2, 2024, 10:25 PM

      It’s leadership, the complete lack of it. The organizations that could respond, can’t or won’t. Nobody worth a damn is in charge, the people “in charge” are incompetent DEI hires, and so everybody does a half-ass job. It’s leadership, from the very top and all the way down.

      There’s another factor. The FedGov and the StateGovs are flat broke. They don’t have financial reserves for this. That’s why they do nothing.

      The voters are getting what they voted for: “If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

      No one is coming to save you. That’s the way it is now, and will forever be until the entire crop of government creatures are run out of town on a rail. The time for ap0logies is past. It cannot be reformed. It can only be reconstituted with a whole new crew.

      • John A. Fleming October 3, 2024, 9:48 AM

        See, I told you.FedGov is broke. No one is coming to save you. They spent all the money on Ukraine and illegals. This is the suddenly phase of going broke.

  • Casey Klahn October 3, 2024, 6:09 AM

    My friend on the Georgia coast was without internet service and as a result was in the dark about the storm which has caused severe damage and interruptions where she lives.

    Yesterday we were talking about the October Surprise, and today I see Drudge and Twitter users trying to pawn off Jan6th as an October Surprise. Jeepers, isn’t that news 4 years old? Of election interest, PA sec state decided to switch off voter registration during the upcoming hours of the Trump rally in Butler. There are little bits of news like this about election fukkery for your consumption. It is important, but my hope is that Trump’s votes will overwhelm the matrix of cheating and malfeasance. At the same time as the cheaters are emerging, some GOPe forces are shoring up the voting laws and practices wherever possible. I wondered if Trump would surge in the corrupt polls because he’s that much ahead, and the pollsters still have to turn a profit and show some merit to their ridiculous endeavors. I well recall Reagan’s landslide and how vehemently the Left resisted that, and how we commoners were kind of surprised that it happened.

  • ghostsniper October 3, 2024, 6:38 AM

    How much foreign aid will our friends and allies Israel and Ukraine send us for the flood victims?

  • Anne October 3, 2024, 8:17 AM

    In 1985 we lived outside of town in the wildlands. One night, the lights came and danced all around us, touching the ground, enveloping us as we walked amongst them. Multiple colors making an audible sound.
    In almost every state the election is already fixed. We are already in “those times” which in the past we have only been discussing as a worse case possible scenario.

  • John A. Fleming October 3, 2024, 10:51 AM

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    I’ve read other reports that people say the aurora make noise. How can that be, the aurora is above 50 miles altitude?

    The Wikipedia article on Aurora says

    Aurora noise, similar to a crackling noise, begins about 70 m (230 ft) above Earth’s surface and is caused by charged particles in an inversion layer of the atmosphere formed during a cold night. The charged particles discharge when particles from the Sun hit the inversion layer, creating the noise.

    Hmm, does that mean when the aurora is just above, a person is being irradiated with energetic electrons and protons from the solar wind?

    I prefer Hamlet’s take on it:

    HORATIO:
    O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.

    HAMLET:
    And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
    Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

    • ghostsniper October 3, 2024, 12:31 PM

      static electricity?

      • John A. Fleming October 3, 2024, 1:49 PM

        I’ll have to read the referenced tech articles to understand exactly the mechanism that creates noise. But yes, it’s a form of static electric charge/discharge. I hadn’t know that solar wind particles (electrons and protons) make it all the way to the ground underneath auroras. I thought the atmosphere/ionosphere/magnetosphere did a pretty thorough job of diverting/absorbing solar wind. Hmm, somebody somewhere has measured the ground-level flux underneath auroras. It’ll be interesting to see just how much delta REM/Grays/rads/Sieverts there can be.

        • ghostsniper October 3, 2024, 2:16 PM

          Remember Mike Austin? He has a pair of ceiling high Magnepan speakers that, I believe, generated sound through static electricity. I remember the first time I seen them, back in the 70’s, as I stood there listening to them I could not tell WHERE the sound was coming out of the speaker cabinet itself. The sound just seemed to emit right out of the front of the whole thing some how.

          https://magnepan.com/

  • ghostsniper October 3, 2024, 12:36 PM

    OK, what else don’t they have any money for?
    You know what happens don’t you if they have no money for EBT cards, right?

    Get your cold weather gear squared away because you’ll be pulling 8 hour shifts of perimeter guard for the indefinite future.

    Been a lot of coyotes about after dark the past few weeks. I hear them walking around in the woods behind our house.

    • John A. Fleming October 3, 2024, 1:54 PM

      Are you sure they’re from the genus Canis and not Homo?

  • Anne October 3, 2024, 10:11 PM

    We were at an altitude of 3,500 feet–maybe just a few feet higher. Mountains on our back side and an open prairie in front of us. Maybe that info will help understanding the noise.

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