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I know, it's insane. Plus it really pissed off a lot of graphic novelists who could no longer say they were a "NYT Bestseller" as an advertising point, even if they sold more copies than the bestselling hardback.
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Some out of touch old geezers who think comic books are "Superman punches a robot"
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Maybe they are trying to discourage the, "don't worry a superhero will handle it", thinking in the younger set. If they see a villain don't wait, kill him/her yourself with that gun Dad keeps in the nightstand.
Anyway Big Banks, where are they?
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Piggies R Us
post images online
I read this summer heat wave that baked the US also baked China.
Since a large section of the Chinese are more afluent than ever they bought A/C units for their homes.
The demand for electricity outstriped supply so the government told Tesla, the factory that makes iPhones, and several other factories to cut their usage 50%. That's sure to effect supplies and prices for awhile.
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xoxoxoBruce wrote:
I read this summer heat wave that baked the US also baked China.
That heatwave and drought was observed all over the world. Friends took a Rhine River ship this summer. They had to disembark at one port near Frankfort. Were transported by bus to another port. And then reloaded onto an identical ship. To bypass low water. This has happen now twice in the past five years.
Britain scored record high temperatures this year at over 100 degree F. In a nation that typically does not have much air conditioning because temperature normally do not reach such levels. Also unusual is a hurricane forming north of Bermuda and this late in the year. A subtropical storm striking Alaska. India was setting new high temperature records (ie 120 degree F) in April - before summer heat.
High temperatures and drought were unusually common this year throughout the world.
Due to high temperatures, Europe has a problem with too much natural gas even with a Russian cut off. LNG tankers are not sitting at sea full and awaiting orders. All tanks in Europe are full. Demand is missing. Prices for gas dropped from $300 per KW-hr to about $35. Some were reported paid to take gas shipments - a negative price for gas.
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We ran our air conditioner yesterday for a bit. Don't remember doing that in November before.
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California has had 1377 wells go dry so far this year, 37% ahead of last year. One woman who's retire and has two pet horses had he 348 ft well dry up and had to scramble to water the horses. Of course all the drillers are up to their ears so she is on the waiting list. To put in a 600 ft well the low bid is $54,318.
Back to charts...
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Netflix. Spotify. I anchor those stats at zero.
Any idea why one of those passes Spellcheck and not the other?
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Who owns the land?
♫ And the sign said
"Anybody caught trespassin'
Will be shot on sight"
♪ So I jumped on the fence and I yelled at the house
"Hey! What gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out
But to keep Mother Nature in?
♫ If God was here, he'd tell you to your face
'Man, you're some kind of sinner'"
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Something is wrong with that chart. Since inflration in the UK (in other sources) is slightly higher in the UK by about or just under one percentage point.
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That graph is purported to show the difference in the inflation rate from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2022. It's really too small and unclear to show accurate numbers, only relative increases between countries.
Lower your carbon imprint, more importantly fatten your wallet.
How many people have bought every iPhone for bragging rights?
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One of the ways to grow your company is to gobble up competition and merge with key suppliers who might jump ship or help
your competitors on the side. You're gobbling their patents and expertise too. Think of the savings from paying 1 CEO not 6 or 8.
It's all good... for them, but when they are defense contractors not so much for the taxpayers.
Then you get what looked like a good idea on a napkin becomes the f-35 nightmare in reality.
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Where are the codgers, I'd have guessed the southwest and Florida.
The original of the following was interactive, when you could click on the yellow or blue for each state and it would give a more accurate number for that category than the line above it. I just sampled a few states.
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The Delaware codger increases are surely due to property taxes. Delaware has a higher income tax but a lower property tax. Once you stop making money in PA, MD or NJ, move to DE and save.
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Updated for 2023. I listen to NPR daily followed by the AP and pick up the WSJ on rare occasions. The rest of the chart is good to know if you're spending a lot of time surfing.
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But Griff, that's all depressing stuff. Tunes, need tunes, does it really matter if you know the world will end in 15 minutes? There's nothing you can do about it, but worry how much it will hurt. Tunes man tunes.
These people under the guise of editorial shilling for the appliance hucksters.
Watch out you might hit an animal,
Yes Dear. Yes, Deer.
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i mean on one hand it's ludicrous to think you could beat a lion or elephant unarmed
on the other hand the goose has this crazy achilles neck, very grabbable, and if you grab it you automatically win
the eagle has wildly powerful talons, and can grab so strongly it's impossible to release, but that's its only attack, grab and fly off. it can't fly off with a human. you will be horribly injured where it grabs you, but once it does, you have many ways to gain the upper hand
medium sized dog, pit bulls do kill people, but i think people kill them too, any animal you can reasonably kick is at a disadvantage
human can NEVER beat a chimp as any Rogan listener knows
king cobra, who cares about the royalty, once again you avoid its only attack and stamp on it near the head, i think that would work
croc, seen many southerners taking them on and as long as you know the tricks you can beat it
have britons never considered how to fight various animals? this is basic stuff
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I wonder what it looks like to "beat" an elephant. Unarmed, you have no realistic way to kill it. You can't puncture its skin with your teeth, you can't get your hands or even arms around its neck, you can't hold its mouth and trunk closed at the same time, you can't do anything to it. And it can stomp your head like a melon or gore you with its tusks, if it wants to.
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surround it with thorns
there is a tale as old as time... let me fetch it from the interwebs:
An elephant, wandering the jungle, gets a thorn in its foot
Unable to extract the thorn itself, the elephant leans against a coconut tree, waiting for some other animal to come along and help him.
Hours pass and no animal appears. Just then, an ant comes crawling along.
"Oh, Brother Ant!" the elephant says. "Could you please help me take this thorn out of my foot?"
The ant sidles up. "Sure but, uh ... what's in it for me?"
"I have very little, but I'll do what I can," the elephant says. "What would you like?"
The ant smiles salaciously. "I've always wanted to fuck an elephant."
The elephant blinks, offended. He looks at the ant, and - judging by his miniscule size - decides to let the ant have at it.
"Sure, go ahead," the elephant says.
Triumphant, the ant climbs up the elephant's leg, positions itself at its rear, and goes at it.
Of course, the elephant can't feel a bloody thing, but he can hear the ant grunting and working away.
As he starts to picture the image in his mind, the elephant starts to laugh. He laughs so hard, he shakes the tree. Suddenly, a coconut drops off and hits the elephant square in the head.
"OW!" the elephant cries out.
The ant says, "Yeah that's right, bitch - take it, take it all!"
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