experiencing fall for the first time in a non-California climate, becoming one of those people who convert to Catholicism as an adult and immediately go full Opus Dei, but for autumn.
— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) September 19, 2022
The White House is hosting local officials to highlight funding opportunities and hear firsthand how coronavirus relief, infrastructure dollars and other policies are faring in communities. Energizing voters ahead of midterm elections is another goal. https://t.co/Ja8akbZGr5
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 22, 2022
The House on Thursday passed a package of policing and public safety bills, as Democratic centrists and progressives came together on long-sought legislation 47 days to midterm elections. https://t.co/iaqPMg7I9C
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) September 22, 2022
.@SecondGentleman, husband of first hbcu grad to serve as VP, invites White House HBCU Scholars from over 50 institutions across the country to the White House to cap off National HBCU Week. AlsoSenior Advisor to the President & FAMU grad @KeishaBottoms & @seccardona are there. pic.twitter.com/p8FeKpJRSF
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) September 22, 2022
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver a tag team address at the Phoenix Awards dinner hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation at its 51st Annual Leadership Conference on Oct. 1.
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— theGrio.com (@theGrio) September 22, 2022
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Sanity Line… can we agree the Repubs are both cowardly *and* evil?
They're not cowards. They're evil. https://t.co/CMPhealUO6
— I, Fred, will knock you all down!! (@LesserFrederick) September 21, 2022
The only thing nice I have to say about McConnell is that he is 80 and in poor health.
"'Let’s just ignore him,' the GOP Senate leader said at one point, underscoring his hands-off approach…"https://t.co/8QjkuOgxGl
— I, Fred, will knock you all down!! (@LesserFrederick) September 21, 2022
ALurkSupreme
Good morning, jackals.
mali muso
Good morning everyone! It’s like someone flipped a switch here in VA. Yesterday it was 80ish and this morning was a chilly high 40s, low 50s. Fall is definitely here.
Dorothy A. Winsor
It’s 45 degrees this morning, here in Chicagoland. Fall has arrived. It’s also Mr DAW’s birthday. Also Bruce Springsteen’s.
Spanky
@mali muso: And breezy! The windows were open all night and now I’m wearing a flannel shirt! Yay!
Elizabelle
Hillary Mantel (Wolf Hall) has died, aged 70. A stroke.
Elizabelle
@mali muso: Yes, that was a well-timed front coming through. Autumn weather arrives, first day of fall. Wonderfully breezy last night. A few leaves scrabbling in the streets.
Bike riding weather arrives!
Josie
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Wow. 45 degrees. And here in Houston, we are getting excited about the possibility of 60 degree nights next week.
dmsilev
We’ve got another heat wave coming in Southern California, though thankfully that just means “90s” rather than triple digits like a few weeks ago. Still warmer than I’d prefer, especially since my AC at home is still DOA (current status: gathering bids for a replacement).
MattF
@dmsilev: My heat pump was serviced about two months ago— and it’s switched from dehumidify/cool to heat. No ‘electrical heating’ mode.
Gin & Tonic
Fall has arrived in New England as well. 46 degrees when I took the dog out this morning. Looks like Wednesday’s swim in the ocean may have been the last of the season for me. September is bittersweet that way – the water has spent the summer warming up, there’s nobody at the beach, but every time I go swimming I think “this may be the last time for the year.”
Soprano2
We got whipsawed by the weather here as well. We had a high of 95º on Wednesday, and 69º on Thursday!
Well, we finally got the results of my stepson’s tox screen yesterday, and it was a big fat lot of nothing! They listed his death as from natural causes; the only drug in his system was THC, which definitely didn’t kill him. The detective said they listed cause of death as “Untreated neuropsychiatric brain disease”, which he said the police call “excited delirium”, which to me means they have no earthly idea why he died. When you look this stuff up it’s mostly associated with dementia patients, which he was not, or people who are using drugs, which he was not doing. It was most unsatisfying. Do any jackal attorneys or medical people have any better idea of what the hell they’re talking about here?
Danielx
94 on Wednesday, 49 this morning. Yes, autumn has arrived.
OzarkHillbilly
Republicans are afraid of anything they don’t understand. It’s like they think trans or gay are infectious diseases. They are especially afraid of ideas.
mali muso
@Spanky:
@Elizabelle:
Time to break out the flannel and the cozy casseroles! Here in my area, it will be time for apple picking and all things cider. Cider donuts, here we come!
dmsilev
@MattF: I’m leaning towards getting a heat pump in the replacement system (my unit is a “package” system that combines heat and cooling in one chassis). Surprisingly, it is actually less expensive than gas heat for purchase, though the contractor I talked with said that with current energy prices gas is cheaper to operate. Annoyingly, the tax credits for heat pumps that were part of the IRA bill haven’t yet been specified/codified, so I might not be able to take advantage of those.
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle: Oh, how sad.
I read Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies twice each, but I have not been able to get into the third one, for some reason. Too much dungeon and torture, and I guess I don’t want to see Cromwell die.
PST
@Elizabelle: I was also sad to read about Hillary Mantel. I think Wolf Hall is a masterpiece. I’m glad she finished her trilogy, although the other two books did not affect me as deeply. On top of all the other things I liked about Wolf Hall, I noticed a narrative technique that was new to me. It was somehow lodged between first-person and omniscient narration. It was the latter in form, but clearly from Cromwell’s point of view. The tell, for me, was the frequent use of the pronoun “he” with no antecedent. You soon learned that this was always Cromwell, but it took a little getting used to. I thought it was effective. I wonder if it is a well known device that I would have learned about had I made different life choices and gone to the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Ken
I wish I was better with non-ASCII characters. I’d make a sarcastic remark* about corporatist shills selling out the people, and tack on a rose emoji.
* Which judging from recent incidents, would be mis-read by a few people as my real opinion. One of the hazards of the Way of Zen Snark.
NotMax
Been a weird summer this year chez NotMax, with daily swings in temperatures of around 40 degrees.
Hot, hot, hot (did I mention HOT?) during daylight, unseasonably cool – like in the low or mid-50s – overnight. So far as the highs went, quite a few record breaking days.
C Stars
@Elizabelle: she’ll definitely be coming back as a ghost
Dorothy A. Winsor
@PST: I listened to those books as I drove. It was surprising how well that antecedentless “he” worked. Really compelling stories. Her death is a loss.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: @PST:
It’s always sad to see an author like her die relatively young. She was working on a new novel, and no doubt had several more she could write. Writers sometimes do not suffer the dissipation of abilities that age brings.
Mantel had struggled with health issues for years, but took all that research and those ideas and new ways of looking at historical stories with her.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: They do believe this, that you can “catch” being gay or trans. That’s why they don’t want their kids around anyone who is gay or trans, and they don’t want them reading anything about gay or trans people. I think they honestly believe that if they can keep their kids from knowing about these things their kid will never be gay or trans. It’s kind of sad, actually.
kalakal
Meanwhile in the Caribbean…
So Invest 98L has now become tropical depression 9 and we have a Cone of Doom. If the predictions turn out to 100% accurate there’ll be a Cat 2 hurricane waltzing into Ft Myers Tues night/Weds morning. Take care all Fl Jackels
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/090354.shtml?cone#contents
Baud
@ALurkSupreme:
@mali muso:
Good morning.
2liberal
Some interactions with Ruben Gallego who might take on Krysten Sinema in 2024. (This may have already have been posted but I didn’t see it.)
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23323231/ruben-gallego-arizona-latino-voters
MattF
@dmsilev: Heat pumps are a good choice for temperate climates. Mine is about five years old, so it uses the more recent class of refrigerant. The major cost is initial installation and the various brands are really all the same— so finding competent installation and servicing is what actually matters.
Betty Cracker
No fall detected yet in my area except a subtle change in the color of the deciduous trees. Also, the temps have steadily declined from high 90s to low 90s-high 80s. So fall is coming!
Interesting article in WaPo about a confrontation between lawmakers during the VA congressional delegation’s meeting with DeSantis-lite Gov. Youngkin:
If your definition of “cordial” includes theocracy with a side of homophobia. okay…
But then Youngkin’s new policy for transgender students came up — ultimately leading to a heated exchange between Good and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D), according to multiple aides with first- or secondhand knowledge of the meeting, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly…
Good for Spanberger! Also, I believe Kaine is a good man, but maybe that wasn’t the time to pour oil on troubled waters? It probably was, and I can’t see that because I’m not a politician. But again, good for Spanberger for standing up to that bigot.
Betty Cracker
@Elizabelle: She was a brilliant writer.
C Stars
@Soprano2: I think it’s party this but also just a deep fear of their kids being in a situation in which gay/trans/”other” kids might be perceived as valuable human beings or worthy of basic civil respect. Because then–heaven forefend!–their kids might actually befriend such a person and eventually recognize the whole GOP hate industry for what it is.
PST
@Soprano2:
I’m asking this in good faith and with love for gay and transgender family and friends, but isn’t there a sense in which this is sometimes true, in a good way? How many people have lived and died with an unnameable itch they could never scratch because they lived in times and places where the taboos were too strong even to mention these? I can’t help but believe that having examples publicly before them allows some to find their true selves when they otherwise wouldn’t. And I don’t just mean come out, I mean realize.
WereBear
@zhena gogolia: What a loss. I have yet to read, because of those medieval tendencies you mention. Though I might not mind were it Cromwell…
Mr WereBear cut his teeth on Norse sagas so he never blinks but I prefer Blackadder.
Matt McIrvin
Autumn in New England is wonderful when it’s not raining, but the thing that makes it bittersweet for me is that the shorter sunlight really hits me hard psychologically.
It’s particularly a punch when DST ends right after Halloween and sunset comes very very early, though, come to think of it… is this the last time we’re doing that? Didn’t they pass that law?
Galento
@PST: Years ago, when a friend recommended Wolf Hall, he asked me if I noticed anything strange about it as I was reading it. Which of course was the “he” with no antecedent, but as I answered I hoped I wasn’t wrong, and it was something really obvious that I’d missed. I did find it disorienting until I got used to it. I later recommended the book to another friend, and asked the same question; he got it as well, but with the same worry that it was a trick question.
WereBear
I’m sure I’d have loved to have done an MFA at a good place. But I fear I would have emerged no more employable in a rapidly changing world…
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: They associate being trans or gay or in any way sex- or gender-unusual with being some kind of sex maniac, and since they also put an extremely high value on trying to maintain children’s “innocence” by controlling information about sex, that all goes in the same bucket.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker:
What a complete fucking idiot, a tool, a coward.
C Stars
@Matt McIrvin: I was wondering the same thing. We wake up so early these days that I was actually looking forward to DST. But in the before time –pre zero -period band at 7:30am–those instantly dark afternoons were really depressing. That’s when I usually start stringing fairy lights haphazardly around the house.
OzarkHillbilly
@PST: Yes, it’s a good thing that people can now be true to their natures but they were already gay or trans whether they were out or not, in denial or not.
Matt McIrvin
@Matt McIrvin: …I guess the Senate passed the bill to have year-round DST (by unanimous consent, though apparently some Senators were not informed of the request and were pissed off) but the House hasn’t. It was Marco Rubio’s baby but this isn’t particularly a partisan issue–Ed Markey was a cosponsor.
Booger
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, sorry to say VA-5 (IIRC) has long been afflicted by a string of increasingly odious and mediocre white men. I keep thinking Good is as bad as it can get, but the VaGOP continues to amaze me.
When you look back at Eric Cantor as better, JFC.
Soprano2
@PST: But that’s not “catching” it, that’s seeing someone else and realizing that you are like them. You were already gay or trans, but in denial or unaware (I’m sure this still exists in some places). I’m saying that I think some of these people think being gay or trans is like a disease that can be contracted. Some of them think people just decide to be gay or trans, or can be talked into it by others. I’ve asked a couple of people if they think they could ever be talked out of being hetrosexual, and they say that it’s different!
zhena gogolia
@2liberal: Can’t get past that mf-ing headline.
zhena gogolia
@WereBear: It took me five tries to get past the first 10 pages of Wolf Hall, but once I did, I was hooked.
I loved the miniseries with Mark Rylance and Claire Foy too.
Almost Retired
Fall! Autumn! My wife just retired from a 40 year career in education so we are finally liberated from the school calendar for travel. We haven’t seen fall colors beyond what’s available in southern California since the Reagan administration. So we’re on a massive road trip to Michigan and Wisconsin and (if the colors hold) Northern Minnesota, with a week in Chicago first.
Off season travel rocks! I don’t have to fight hoards of children for access to the waffle maker at the breakfast bar at the Best Western.
Amir Khalid
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Many happy returns of the day to Mr DAW and Mr Springsteen — the latter of whom has announced a tour of his traditionally energetic three-hour concerts with The E Street Band for early next year. At 73!
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: Rylance and Foy were both amazing in that series. Some critics didn’t like Damian Lewis as Henry VIII, but I thought he was great too — a menacing, egotistical toddler.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Soprano2
@Matt McIrvin: That’s true, they seem to believe gay people spend every minute of every day having sex.
C Stars
@rikyrah: Good Morning!
@zhena gogolia: Same for me with Wolf Hall. But then I had a bit of Mantel Mania and went on to read Every Day is Mother’s Day and Beyond Black and Giving up the Ghost (all before Bring Up the Bodies came out) and that is why I am fairly sure that Hilary Mantel will come back as a spirit to haunt her enemies.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: When Virginia’s new redistricting commission deadlocked, the state supreme court had two special masters draw the new congressional and legislative districts. The new map disappointed some Democrats, but not me. Those wonderful special masters took Greene County out of Bob No-Good’s 5th CD and put it in Abigail Spanberger’s 7th!
zhena gogolia
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: He grew on me in my second viewing.
His best role is Soames Forsyte, though. Perfection!
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: I’m sure there are some people who are somewhat bi or gender-fluid and are just deciding to present the “normal” way on a situational basis because it’s socially harder not to be, but it doesn’t strongly bother them.
But… so what? Is that a good thing that it’s really important to preserve? Some of these conservatives seem to think that almost everyone would be exclusively gay if there wasn’t a strong social stigma attached, and the species would die out, oh no.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Maybe we should convince them that facemasks and vaccines protect against the Gay.
danielx
@Baud:
This suggestion has merit.
Matt McIrvin
@C Stars: The sticking point in these proposals has always been that people can’t decide whether to go to year-round DST or year-round Standard Time, there are people with extremely strong opinions on both sides, so the status quo that almost nobody likes stays in place.
I guess that if you forced me to choose, I would go with year-round DST because I hate the dark afternoons in winter, but I know some people hate dark mornings more and it’s one or the other; you can’t actually make more daylight. My attitude is that I will NOT die on that hill and that getting rid of the changeover is more important than which time setting we settle on.
Almost Retired
@zhena gogolia: Me too! It took me awhile to get the narrative style — particularly the long stretches of dialogue with the speaker not specifically identified and hard to identify in context — but once I “got” it, it flowed. I noticed the next two books had a more conventional narrative style.
Love the mini-series. It was nice that Claire Foy was later able to play a queen who wasn’t beheaded.
Rylance was so good that he’s ruined for me in any other role. I see those commercials for his new movie and think “Why is Cromwell playing golf?”
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: Never seen that adaptation, but it sounds good!
Gin & Tonic
There is a recipe in the Ball canning book that calls for a “head” of dill per jar. Dill grows as a stalk – what is a “head”?
catclub
@NotMax:
interesting. I think the model of global warming is unseasonably warm nights.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: It’s really good. Corin Redgrave and Rupert Graves are also excellent.
zhena gogolia
@Almost Retired: Same here.
The Moar You Know
@Soprano2: I can comment a bit on this:
I say all this as a amateur. You’ve already heard from the professionals.
Personal observation: this is obviously bothering you and I get that; I had a very close friend of mine die in late 2020, and he wasn’t found for a week, because COVID. All we know is that he died from a fall, skull fracture, subdural hematoma. No foul play. No witnesses, no odd autopsy results, in his early fifties. Did he have a seizure? He had a history of that. Was he drunk? He had a history of that too. Did he just slip getting out of the bathroom? Was his mind raptured by Republican alien overlords? Fuck. And it grinds on you; you don’t know what happened. And you never will. And that, as it turns out, is a hell of a pill to swallow.
MattF
Rumor about that ‘partial’ mobilization in Russia. Number has climbed to 1.2 million.
geg6
@Matt McIrvin:
I don’t mind a dark morning but would love a little daylight after I get home in the evenings. I hate driving home in the dark and feeling like I should be going to bed as soon as I get home. It’s very dispiriting to drive into work in the dark and get home in the dark for 2-3 months, which is how it works now here in Western PA.
Montanareddog
@zhena gogolia: Can’t stand him. For me, he belongs to that school of smug, self-regarding, self-conscious actors that are like fingernails on a chalk board when I watch them.
Michael Madsen is my most pet-hate of that sort, though!
Gin & Tonic
@Almost Retired: Try the narrative style in William Gaddis’ JR. Nobody is ever identified, and the book is mostly dialogue.
PST
@Soprano2: Needless to say, I don’t think being gay or transgender is remotely like a communicable disease. But I wonder whether the bigots all really think so either. People live lies all the time and demand that others do so as well. “My husband is a good man. He loves me. He only beats me because I deserve it.” Terrible sad lies. I feel confident that many parents would rather see their children live a lie that makes them, the parents, feel comfortable. They may use disease as a metaphor, but what they really fear is that their child may be gay or trans and will discover by example that one can live life that way.
M31
@Gin & Tonic: I think they mean the flower head, traditionally stuck in the jar whole
OzarkHillbilly
Raised hand on the Group W bench.
Spoken as someone who doesn’t work outdoors. Take it from me, framing or hanging drywall in the dark sucks donkey dick and artificial light only goes so far in illuminating one’s work.
zhena gogolia
@Montanareddog: but see, “smug, self-regarding, self-conscious” are just what you need for Soames Forsyte!
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: The flower head.
Baud
@PST:
Agree. A lot of parents are like that. And a lot of it is because the parents belong to social networks in which they would lose face if their children acted “outside the lines.”
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: Some years ago an online friend of mine joined a weird ultraconservative Eastern Orthodox sect, actually became a priest in it and started posting all this anti-gay propaganda. One of them was a Family Research Council paper that, he claimed, would puncture for all time the pernicious notion that lesbians were safer from STDs than straight people.
Turned out the paper’s thesis was that the “lesbian lifestyle” consisted of perpetual nonstop drug-fueled orgies. Among other things, it claimed that lesbians have more sex with men than straight women do. The equation “anything unusual = obsessive sex mania” was strong in that one. Based on all the lesbians I know I just had to laugh. I’m wondering if the research consisted mostly of porn.
Ken
@Matt McIrvin: As Secretary of Transportation in the Baud! 20XX!! administration, I will introduce a compromise plan that offends everyone, taking the worst features from:
Sure, you may say it’s unlikely and unworkable, but I take my inspiration from Australia.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: You have just described the dynamic in many traditional Indian families.
Nothing like going back to India and spending time with MIL and SIL to realize the reason why I had the overwhelming urge to flee despite the warm cocoon that surrounded me
The religious rituals that my MIL loves so much are so humiliating if you stop to think of their significance if you are
a womannot a Brahmin man. It was like taking a bath in the toxic sludge of misogyny and casteism.Dorothy A. Winsor
@The Moar You Know: One of the things I love about BJ is the way people share personal experience of crisis moments to help fellow jackals.
Gin & Tonic
@M31: @OzarkHillbilly: Ah, OK, thanks. But my dill long ago passed that stage, so is a couple of stalks from the market an acceptable substitute, you think?
kalakal
@Ken: Wow! Australia really goes for it. I look forward to the Fl version.
OzarkHillbilly
@geg6: When I was 19, I worked in a factory one winter. Went to work in the dark. Got off work in the dark. 6 days a week. One day each week I had to take the acid bath out and dump it in the hazardous waste barrels. I lived for that day. Always stretched it for an extra 5 mins in the sun with a cigarette, no matter how cold it was.
Never again.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: Yes. My dill is always long gone by August so that is what I do late summer thru fall. Just try to get the same amount in each jar.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: The time zone just for one coastal town that is UTC+8:45 is going above and beyond. I’m sure they have good reasons.
Eyeroller
@Gin & Tonic: A bundle of flower buds.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I had the same reaction. The prose in Wolf Hall grabbed me from the start in a way it didn’t with the other two. I don’t know if that was just the new-ness of it on that first read, or if there’s a difference. Too old and too tired to make a study of it.
I think I read Rylance is signed on for a TV adaptation of The Mirror and The Light, but it was delayed/derailed by Covid?
WereBear
@schrodingers_cat: I loved your descriptions.
My background was repressive in other ways, and fortunately it came more from the surrounding culture than my own family.
What some saw as embracing I saw as a suffocating hand… but then, I was a woman.
Kristine
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Happy birthday to Mr. DAW!
In other news, left windows open overnight. House 61F this morning. Slept very well. Gaby-dog of the double-coat and reduced heat tolerance due to age is happy.
A/C a few days ago, shot of furnace heat this morning. Autumn in NE Illinois.
PST
@OzarkHillbilly:
I am accepting the first part of that sentence but questioning whether there might be a third possibility in the second part beyond “not out” and “in denial.” I think what might have raised this question in my mind is my adult daughter, who is transgender, asking whether most cis people were truly cis or had never even thought anything else possible. If I were to become a flat earther, I would be in denial, but if I lived in an isolated forest society and had never seen the horizon or heard of the spherical earth hypothesis, I wouldn’t be. In either case, I would actually be living on a sphere, but ignorance isn’t denial. If I try to imagine myself as transgender in a world where I had never met a transgender person, or heard of one, or even heard the word, I imagine my nature would manifest itself as envy of the “opposite sex,” not as a conviction that I was essentially of a different gender.
Kayla Rudbek
@Elizabelle: I had a dream last night that I was riding my single bike all over the place, and falling down when making turns but not really getting hurt. And then I woke up with a calf cramp! Maybe some of my calf cramps are from dreams about exercising instead of actually getting out…
schrodingers_cat
@WereBear: Thanks! My own birth family was and is live and let live when it comes to matters of religion. My in-laws, especially MIL is a level of controlling that can only be described as suffocating. If not religion she would have found another way to assert dominance
Also, the societal requirements for being a “good Indian woman” would have totally drained the life out of me.
Booger
@Gin & Tonic: The flowering head, after the seeds are set. Usually later in the season
ETA: A teaspoon of dill seed is a reliable substitute; I wouldn’t use dill weed.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
Healthy Canning on the Google says 3 heads of fresh dill = 1 to 2 tablespoons dill seed.
So if 3 heads ≈ 1½ Tbsp, then 1 head ≈ ½ Tbsp.
Gin & Tonic
@MattF: Mobilization is going great:
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: Thanks.
schrodingers_cat
OT Computer question what would cause a hard drive to suddenly die would temp changes during travel do that?
I traveled to the Midwest, upstate NY and then India this summer. The SSD on my new laptop failed suddenly in India and the data on it is irretrievable.
WaterGirl
PSA: Reminder that we will be talking about gwangung’s play on Sunday evening on Medium Cool. Here’s the thread where we introduced it, in case you want to read about it or buy a ticket ($10)
Paul in KY
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Dorothy, was up in Windy City recently and had chance to eat at Green St. Smoked Meats. If you like BBQ, Ribs, Brisket, you need to check these fellas out. Back in an alley with a couple other businesses. God, I wish I had brought some home!
rikyrah
@mali muso:
Flannel and casseroles😂😂😂
rikyrah
Do the happenings in Iran seem different this time to anyone else?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Paul in KY: Mr DAW would think he was in heaven. I’m actually not big on meat in general, so I’m not going to tell him! Happy birthday, Hon.
PST
@Ken: Good thing you’ll be Secretary of Transportation rather than me. I would base time zones on a confusing combination of latitude and altitude, not longitude. And maybe I’d throw in attitude as well as part of the algorithm. Make the go-getters run their clocks behind the slackers to even the playing field.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly:
But does that primarily happen early in the morning, or in the afternoon?
My impression is that a major constituency against year-round DST is parents who don’t want their kids to have to wait for the morning school bus in the dark.
WereBear
@schrodingers_cat: I have long thought of being a military wife as something similar to what you describe. Not a good fit for my personality.😏
Ken
@PST: Let’s talk. I will need a competent assistant secretary to handle the time zone change. I want it big and gaudy, sucking up all attention. That way I can focus on my main goal, which is to get personal kickbacks from every paving contract written by the US DOT.
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: In the mornings, October is what sticks in my brain. Not sure why, I must have dealt with it in March too.
Omnes Omnibus
@PST:
Those people were still gay or trans, etc. The just were able to live their live as themselves. They didn’t catch gay from someone. They found out it was just fine from someone else. Not the same thing at all.
schrodingers_cat
@WereBear: Yeah that must be its own hell. As someone who has moved 9 times so far I have some idea.
MattF
@schrodingers_cat: SSDs are generally very robust- current data says they should last through your computer’s lifetime. Here’s some actual data. Most likely cause of your failure is a loose connection of some sort.
kalakal
@schrodingers_cat: probably not temperature changes. SSDs tend to stand up to that better than standard hard drives.
Geminid
@rikyrah: The demonstrations seem to be more widespread and intense. They are now probably a bigger threat to the regime than the ones in “Bloody November,” 2019. The regime suppressed those with machine gun fire, although protests flared up for months afterwards.
I’ve been checking out video of the demostrations posted on Europe-based Iran News Wire. They linked to a Google Maps entry that located 100 Iranian cities and towns where protests have taken place.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia:
It doesn’t hurt for Henry VIII either.
Layer8Problem
Nothing so soul-deadening as dark commute in the morning and dark return in the afternoon. My lowest time of the year was after returning to Eastern Standard and knowing it was only going to get worse and worse right up to the winter solstice. This was into the Boston financial district and by Red Line, commuter rail, or car via Expressway or Pike at various times for various reasons, so the earlier one started the better for one sanity-wise. But stepping out at 4:20 PM and realizing you’ve been inside all damned day and you’ve just lost the sun? Arrgh.
Ken
I’m guessing the paper was published in the Cinemax Journal of Realistic Depictions of Sexual Behavior?
J R in WV
We have been switching from AC in the heat of the afternoons to a little spurt of heat in the early mornings. Last night I went out to the car to retrieve my tablet and could see my breath in the shine of my battery-powered headlamp. Sure sign of fall.
Some years ago Wife and I went on a road trip to visit Indian mounds so common around the Ohio valley. At our first visit in Moundsville WV, where there is a pretty big preserved mound, we got a guidebook with directions to many mounds out in the country, some of them in cornfields, etc.
There are a ton of museums around Mounds, which are surprisingly common. Marietta Ohio has a large one remaining in their very old cemetary. Chillicothe also has a couple. Many have been leveled to improve corn yields, allow a trailer court, etc. Sad. A large cluster of them were leveled north of town in WW I to make room for drill space to train recruits in how to march into machine gun fire.
Anyway, while staying in Chillicothe OH, I was waiting at the front desk while a pair of tourists not familiar with how fall works. They were heading north into NE, but were afraid they would miss the fall colors, as if they only last a couple of days. I told them that since they were driving north, it was impossible for them to miss the fall colors, as they would be moving south towards them as they drove north. They did not understand at all, so I gave up and asked the desk clerk about locally owned restaurants. I hope the tourists found a fall color somewhere!
schrodingers_cat
@kalakal: MattF: My computer tech says that it is damaged like it was subject to some corrosive liquid.
Dell technician who replaced the hard drive checked for the loose connections, tightened everything. Also it looks fine to the eye. And I have had this particular laptop for just over a year.
The Moar You Know
@rikyrah: yeah. Zero tolerance this time out. There’s not going to have another “Arab Spring”, this is going to be quashed immediately and VERY violently.
Heidi Mom
Looking at the group photo at the beginning of the thread, I’m reminded once again that the Second Gentleman is a class act.
twbrandt (formerly tom)
@schrodingers_cat:
I don’t know if you have it backed up or not, but if not, I really like Blackblaze. Once you set it up, it runs in the background, automatically backing up your files to their cloud servers. Retrieving them is very simple. The cost is $70/
monthYEAR /computer, which is cheap insurance I think.edited for math
schrodingers_cat
@Layer8Problem: Bingo. When I lived in Maine there were years when I left home before there was light and came back after it got dark. Sept-Dec is the most depressing time of the year for me. I just don’t get these, ooh I love fall people.
Give me more sunlight, damnit.
MattF
@rikyrah: Yes, spontaneous and not led by anyone. There’s a lot of dissatisfaction with the regime, particularly in cities. But, sadly, little or no chance of success, IMO.
CaseyL
@Almost Retired: That sounds like a glorious road trip! I hope it goes well and smoothly,and you peep many fine leafs :)
@rikyrah: It’s hard to say, since the regime clamped down on social media so thoroughly. I’ve seen this one compared to the 2019 uprising, which… didn’t end well.
hueyplong
@Ken: Well, you could see how that would be tempting. And after the orgies would come the CRT, no doubt.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: This whole thing is giving the term “shit show” a whole new meaning. We’re going to need a new phrase to encompass it.
schrodingers_cat
@twbrandt (formerly tom): Most of it was on the cloud. So about 90% backed up
Could humidity do the damage? The humidity in monsoon in Mumbai was close to 100%
twbrandt (formerly tom)
Welp.
Uncle Cosmo
@Matt McIrvin: The equinoxes are when the daily change in the length of daylight is greatest, thus most noticeable. Especially now, as the darkness encroaches:
From
Archibald MacLeish, “You, Andrew Marvell”
PST
@schrodingers_cat: I have read that SSDs can lose data if they remain powered off at high temperature. How high and how long I don’t know. Solid state memories are refreshed when in use, but with the computer off charge can dissipate, and the rate depends on temperature. So the worst case would be a long period unplugged on a high, hot shelf in a warm part of the world.
On a completely different topic, I thought of your nym the other day when I realized that what Trump’s lawyers are doing is trying to keep Judge Dearie from opening the box on Schrodinger’s Documents to discover whether they are in the classified or unclassified state. For now, they would prefer that the documents continue to exist in a state of quantum superposition.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
Ni khuia ne ponial. Eto vsio khuinia.
twbrandt (formerly tom)
@schrodingers_cat: glad you’re able to get most of it back.
MattF
@twbrandt (formerly tom): I use Backblaze, and it’s not as expensive as you’ve quoted. Their homepage says $7/month. But, of course, YMMV.
zhena gogolia
Their motives aren’t pure, but let’s hope it has the kind of effect we’re all looking for.
twbrandt (formerly tom)
@MattF: woops, meant to say $70/year if you prepay. Thanks for catching that!
justinb
For those that responded to my despair the other night about my son, an update. He’s at home now, and the doctors are really confused. Intractable vomiting is what they’re calling it. There are some causes, but none of them fit. He can hold some things down – there’s a unleavened flatbread and honeydew seem okay. He still needs to go to the hospital for IVs for fluids and nutrition, but my wife is an RN, so we’re going to get stuff to do that at home so he’s more comfortable. His school has been really supportive (we’re lucky- it’s private, his family are huge donors, they’ve got incentive, etc), so he’s okay there. All the doctors are working as a team. We’re all feeling much better about things.
Thank you all for the support the other night, it meant a lot to me.
schrodingers_cat
@PST: India uses different plugs so I had to connect via a strip and every time I did so there were some sparks. So I would charge my computer at night. That may have killed it.
Layer8Problem
@schrodingers_cat: . Our phone switch person would say “if I can get to 5 PM sunsets there’s hope.” We determined that, in Boston at least, that wasn’t until February 5th or so.
Geminid
@The Moar You Know: Then the security forces are behind schedule. When protests broke out in 2019 authorities had already suppressed them by the fifth day, using machine gun fire to kill 1500 people (by Reuters’ count). Today is the sixth day of these protests.
The authorities may be preparing for savage repression, but the scope of these protests are a challenge. And as it happens, Iran’s new hardline President, Ebrahim “Hangman” Raisi, is still in New York City. I think his UN speech is scheduled for Saturday.
schrodingers_cat
@Layer8Problem: True but at least after winter solstice you can see the length of the daylight increases which gives one some hope..
Keith P.
@twbrandt (formerly tom): There’s always the chance that he over-celebrates and ODs on coke.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@zhena gogolia:
What half-wit jackwagon wrote THAT bullshit?
Barbara
@justinb: Friend’s daughter had something similar– it was very mysterious but it slowly improved. I hope yor son continues to improve.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
There’s a Finnish branch of our family because my brother married a Finn, and we have a standing invitation to come visit Finland, particularly the north.
I would absolutely love to experience the northern lights one of these days, but unfortunately that means going to northern Finland in winter, and it’s not my wife’s dream vacation to be in a place where the sun never totally rises. She is really bothered by short days. She got seasonal affective disorder (though we didn’t have a name for it) even from the shortness of winter days in Syracuse (latitude 43), where we met at University.
I haven’t figured out yet how to thread that needle.
MattF
@zhena gogolia: I sympathize and really do hope for better times, but given the ground-in levels of mutual distrust and dishonesty in Russia, it’s practically impossible to figure out what’s actually going on, IMO.
zhena gogolia
@justinb: I hope they can get to the bottom of it, and he can get relief. This is so distressing.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@justinb: That sounds like progress. Here’s hoping they figure out what’s going on
zhena gogolia
@BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️: I categorically refuse to read an article with a headline like that.
Miss Bianca
@Elizabelle: Oh, wow. RIP
(haven’t read the third Wolf Hall book yet. I liked the first two Wolf Hall books well enough, but thought her novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, was just amazing. Will have to re-read now.)
zhena gogolia
@MattF: Nobody predicted the fall of the USSR.
Tony G
@OzarkHillbilly: According to my half-assed understanding of human nature, there are people with conservative personalities who never want anything to change, and who hate and fear anyone who is different. As the old Talking Heads song put it … “Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.”.
zhena gogolia
@Miss Bianca: That one was highly recommended to me, but I couldn’t get through the beginning. Maybe will try again.
Sure Lurkalot
@Almost Retired:
Congratulations to Madame Just Retired. Indeed, off season travel is the best, there’s good weather mid September through October in many places and the throngs of humanity are gone. Enjoy your travels!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Gin & Tonic:
Sounds like the top part of the plant with the seeds?
https://veggieharvest.com/herbs/dill-growing-and-harvest-information/
(I was looking for a pic of the plant gone to seed, that’s the closest I got)
gvg
@Gin & Tonic: Dill seeds grow on a flower that has an umbrel shape. Maybe think of it as a frozen fireworks?A bunch of skinny stalks with seeds on the end that are joined together in one stem. Google says a dill head would be about 30 seeds.
Ken
There must be a few people in Japan going “Hmmm….”
schrodingers_cat
OT Dead drive update. Computer tech says it was moisture that corroded the capacitors. Good to know what happened, now I can close the book on it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I have seen them in central Wisconsin. Not often, but it happens.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@schrodingers_cat: So sorry. Are there such things as data recovery services for SSDs? I would guess that a good fraction of the data is intact, just inaccessible. May be a tricky bit of engineering to recover it though.
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
I wish I would sit in a room and have someone tell me that their anti-trans stuff was rooted in anything but hate.
Phuck them.
schrodingers_cat
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Yes my regular tech can’t do it. He estimates that the service that they send it to will bill me upwards of $500
Mike in NC
The Fat Orange Clown is holding a hate rally tonight at the Wilmington NC Airport. Supposedly to boost the senate campaign of lowlife gun nut and GOP Rep. Ted Budd, who Trump couldn’t pick out of a police lineup.
Where are the HIMARS when you need one?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Omnes Omnibus: Not the way they look up near the Arctic Circle, I would guess. The pics they’ve sent us are amazing, like something from a postcard.
Once when I was a kid they told us there was going to be an aurora where we lived, in upstate NY. Other members of the family said they could tell there was faint color in the sky. I couldn’t.
rikyrah
@Almost Retired:
Have safe travels :)
MattF
@zhena gogolia: In fact, there’s a Wikipedia article on that subject. Andrei Amalrik is my favorite— he was only off by seven years.
rikyrah
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Happy Birthday to Mr. DAW :)
I know what you mean about the weather. I put a turtleneck sweater on today :)
zhena gogolia
@MattF: Yeah, I heard him speak on that topic.
So “nobody” was hyperbole. It certainly wasn’t conventional wisdom.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@schrodingers_cat: Keeping electronics happy in India must be a real challenge, especially in winter. I would guess air conditioning is not widespread.
Long ago (after the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War) I remember a talk about the challenges to technology on Navy ships. Sand everywhere and the water they used for “cooling” was upwards of 35 C. (I’m making the number up, I don’t remember the exact number he used, but it was not effective for cooling)
kalakal
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Used to see them in the North of Scotland when I was a kid. Brings back memories
https://youtu.be/CIEqdXpG5Pg
Annie Haslam really had the most beautiful voice
Miss Bianca
@Soprano2: That’s it – I finally figured it out. It’s jealousy.
schrodingers_cat
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: It was monsoon, where the west coast of India has close 100% humidity. And SIL’s apartment had no AC.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@schrodingers_cat: Weird that my posting #166 said “especially in winter” when I meant to say “especially in summer”.
Weird spell correction, or disconnect between my brain and my fingers?
schrodingers_cat
@kalakal: North Scotland sounds so remote. It must be beautiful.
trollhattan
@The Moar You Know: Afraid I have to agree. Iran seems to be going in a direction of less-tolerant of modernity, not more. Except for their weapons industry.
Miss Bianca
@zhena gogolia: It helps to have an interest bordering on obsession with the French Revolution. ; )
But seriously…Mantel was definitely into
fucking aroundexperimenting with narrative forms. It can be a little off-putting at first, for sure.BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
@Layer8Problem: Don’t know if I’ve said it before, just wanted to say awesome nym.
zhena gogolia
@Miss Bianca: I have more of a problem with her need to detail physical injuries in depth. I couldn’t get past the description of (was it Danton? Robespierre?)’s horrific injuries at the beginning of the book.
kalakal
Citizen Alan
@zhena gogolia:
IMO, our response to the break-up of the USSR was a bipartisan screwup. When the Soviet Union fell, we had a choice: Should we encourage Russia to become a democracy? Or should we encourage it to become a capitalist nation? We chose the latter and are paying for it today with Russian and other Eastern European oligarchs trying to undermine our own democracy.
zhena gogolia
@Citizen Alan: Yes, a lot of mistakes were made. But ultimate responsibility remains with the citizens of the country.
Paul in KY
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Poor Mr. DAW…
Miss Bianca
@zhena gogolia: Would have been Danton, I believe. Gored in the face by a bull at a young age, which helped account for his decidedly unprepossessing physiognomy.
And yet he was apparently quite the successful poon hound, despite that.
gwangung
@WaterGirl: Thank you!
(Reviews here: https://www.heilmanandhaver.com/film-and-stage-reviews/She-Devil-of-the-China-Seas
and here
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/theater/pork-filled-productions-sheds-light-on-the-she-devil-of-the-china-seas/
if that’s useful to folks.
WaterGirl
@twbrandt (formerly tom): I took the liberty of editing that for you so 20 more people don’t have to correct your mistake.
I can undo the correction if you like.
J R in WV
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
My wife’s shrink Dr told her to get a special lamp to use as days shorten. It’s a 18 x12 (or so) lamp with 4 special Fl tubes, sits on the table facing her and shining on her, Was under $100, I’m thinking something like $57. Helped some. Worth trying, could travel with that… plus make the visit brief, cancel out as soon as you “see the light” as it were.
WaterGirl
@justinb: What a nightmarel, but at least a nightmare that’s a bit more under control. Sending good thoughts, and whenever venting here is helpful, go for it.
Geminid
@trollhattan: Iran’s new President, Raisi, is very much a hardliner. Reporting when Mahsa Amini died of her injuries a week ago was that Raisi had encouraged a crackdown by the “morality police.” Ms. Amini was caught up in the crackdown when she visited Tehran with her family.
So Iran’s regime definitely is moving backwards. It’s a young country demographically though, with 45% of the population under age 35. Although the regime censored the internet and social media before its recent curtailment, young people have been exposed to modern influences and many reject the Islamic Republic’s institutions, especially the intrusive and bullying “morality police.”
schrodingers_cat
@Miss Bianca: There is French movie on Danton, who is played by the famous French actor Gerard Depardieu. Have you seen it? GD was a force of nature in that. It was from his rise to his trial where he defended himself.
Layer8Problem
@BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️: You did once, which I saw very late in a thread so I didn’t reply, and thanks! Bill Arnold got it too. I’ve considered putting a link to the Wikipedia page into the comment form as my “web page.”
Can one assume “Ben Cisco” implies at least a CCNA on your resume? :-)
kalakal
@schrodingers_cat: It’s a great film. Depardieu as Danton and Pszoniak as Robespierre played off against each other brilliantly.
Zzyzx
@Uncle Cosmo:
I divide Seattle into 4 seasons based around the equinox. The two months around them are the Rush to Daylight/Darkness (depending on which one it is) and the rest of the year is 2 chunks of 4 months called The Dark/Light Months.
While September and even October are OK up here, the shortening days and coming of the rain makes me hate fall.
O. Felix Culpa
@PST: Your imagination is perhaps limited by your (presumed) cis-ness. I can tell you firsthand that I was aware of difference long before I had language or models for it. Furthermore, my then unnamed difference felt shameful, even without anyone ever articulating that such a state of being existed or was bad.
So no, one does not need examples to be LGBTQ+, but it sure helps to have them for self-awareness and mental and emotional well-being.
Miss Bianca
@schrodingers_cat: Yep, I have. Ironic that GD is such a hard-core right-winger himself, apparently, but he was a magnificent Danton!
StringOnAStick
@MattF: So, how cold can it get before heat pumps don’t work well? We live in a zone 5-6 area and the furnace is builder’s grade and 20 years old. Temperature swings of 40 degrees in 24 hours are common here because it’s high desert.
StringOnAStick
@Gin & Tonic: The mean the seedhead, which is an umble in form, like carrots or Queen Anne’s Lace flowers.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Soprano2:
Yes and yes.
Matt McIrvin
@Betty Cracker: The “grooming” thing is, of course, just another aspect of the conservative identification of any kind of alternative sexual orientation or gender identity with hypersexuality–so if someone is supportive of a child having some nonstandard identity, it must be because they want to have sex with that child. And we end by identifying half of the national population as child molesters.
ellenr
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Just go for a few days. Lived in Stockholm for a winter. It’s like twilight from noon to 3pm. Very beautiful in an odd way.
ellenr
@justinb:
Have they checked for IBD? I’ve had similar things from Crohns. No one checks for inflammatory conditions until they’ve run out of all other options. Look at the white blood cell counts. Also, try miso soup. Soothing.
Geminid
@Geminid: Well, I’ve been saying that Iran President Raisi had a speech at the UN tomorrow, but he returned to Iran this morning. The government organized pro-regime marches today and a spokesman for the army said it was ready to confront protests they said were organized by “foreign agents.”
PST
@O. Felix Culpa:
I realize that it’s late to add a comment, but what you have to say is clarifying for me, and I actually think it gets at what I was trying to speculate about, however ineffectually. Those who would suppress all open discussion would like gay and trans young people to be stuck at feeling silently and shamefully different with no way forward. They fear that open discussion and unashamed examples provide a guide that might help them understand who they are and how they want to live. What sounds like ignorance — “it’s contagious” — is much worse. It’s an excuse for gaslighting, a term that is overused these days but appropriate. Let those kids think they’re uniquely crazy or bad. Don’t let them discover all the others with whom they have much in common.
O. Felix Culpa
@PST:
I don’t know if all RWNJs are consciously gaslighting–my in-laws for example are woefully ignorant, and I suspect they are not outliers–but what you’re describing is certainly the effect of their behavior, intentional or not.
tybee
@schrodingers_cat:
if you are still watching this thread, my hardware guru says if you are getting a bit encrypter error, there may be a fix.
if you aren’t getting anything, have some check the connections inside the machine to be sure it’s not just a loose connection…