Good morning, all. How is everyone today?
If you did not read the middle part of the post yesterday, please allow me to remind you that there are now three current postings up that remain active. You can comment on any of them.
For most of you, you arrive here by landing on the main page. You should be able to scroll between the three posts and you can comment on any.
If you gained access via a particular posting’s comment thread, you can access the other posts by using the left and right arrows that appear above the post’s title, when inside the comment area. You can also go to another posting by clicking on the most recent comments for that post that stand alone on the right hand side panel of the post page. The commenter and the post they are commenting on are displayed. Note though, there are a limited number of comments in that section so if a topic is hot, you may only find them relating to a single post until and unless someone comments on another posting and then they will appear in that area.
I’m hoping that this will do a better job of keeping active posts up for you a little bit longer. As always, I welcome your feedback.
WELL, that went over like a lead balloon. I appreciate the feedback. I am back to one post. I will come up with a schedule to let you know when you can expect activity. Thanks for your patience. I apologize for putting you all in a tizzy with the change.
Ian is a Category 3 now, has just passed over Cuba and will gain strength before slamming into Florida. Thankfully the path has changed and now Ian is projected to come ashore in Venice. Tampa Bay may be spared the brunt of it, but remember Ian is almost 500 mile across. Venice to Naples is expected get the huge storm surge. Venice is already a town built on waterways; I cannot image how much of it will soon be underwater. The alligators are going to be *everywhere* in town after. Also the big cats are down in the Naples area. It would be sad to see them lose their homes too, and scary for all for them to be seen walking around after.
Personally, I find living in an earthquake zone versus a hurricane zone is easier. You don’t know the quake is coming, and when it does, it comes fast. Not so the hurricane. The stress of waiting on a hurricane’s arrival, and monitoring the path, and deciding on evacuation, its a much different animal. Here is the latest evacuation information from Florida.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
FYI:
I felt it was very important to repost PrismPrincess’ comment from this morning from the previous thread. I tried to post it on the previous thread but as I was posting it, I got the message that “comments are closed.”
As I recall, Howie didn’t even live in that area. But do you know who did? The Navigator and family. I don’t think Xhua would get involved to stop you (but who knows when crazy awakes). Seriously I would not expect any favors from that quarter should you follow through and trash _______. That a favorite’s favorite. Maybe you might want to make a calculated skip over that town. Just a thought.
Whoever Xhua is, it appears you don’t want to mess with him. I would heed the advice given. I hope you read this.
More shelters are expected to be opened as Hurricane Ian nears and local governments issue their emergency orders.
Officials cautioned anyone going to a shelter not to expect a hotel experience.
“Usually, there are only basic facilities available, like a floor and a roof,” the Pasco County emergency management team advised in a recent video.
Evacuees should bring something comfortable to sleep on, knowing also that space will be limited. The shelters do not provide private lodging, with people often cramming into gymnasiums and cafeterias with others who they don’t know.
“Remember: public shelters do not have cots or generators, and the space you will be able to utilize is limited,” the Pinellas County emergency management department stated on its website. “Prepare by bringing: one-person air mattress, books and activities, a fan, earplugs, covering for your eyes for sleeping, other hygiene, comfort items and medications.”
School cafeteria workers often help to provide some type of meal to shelter dwellers. However, the counties warned everyone not to depend on the shelters for food.
“It would be smart to bring your own water and snacks,” the Pasco staff stated, adding that there is unlikely to be any refrigeration available, so shelf-stable items are preferable.
Hillsborough officials advised people to bring one gallon of water per person per day, along with non-perishable, easy-to-prepare food. Shelter occupants are also asked to bring their own medications and medical items, sanitation and personal hygiene items and baby supplies.
Because they welcome so many people, shelters also work to enforce rules for civility. Those include maintaining quiet hours, usually from about 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., and not allowing certain items, including alcohol, tobacco products, nonprescribed drugs or weapons.
No questions will be asked about immigration status, just as no questions are asked to students.
Individual schools will host fewer families than in the past due to COVID-19 protocols that are still in place. Tampa’s Pizzo Elementary, for example, will be able to accommodate 976 families for Hurricane Ian, compared to the limit of 1,700 in years past, said principal Ovett Wilson.
”The bottom line is, we are here for you,” said Liz Valdez, who teaches second grade at Pizzo. District officials gathered at the school Monday to prepare for shelter openings.
Valdez explained how she arranged her classroom, where snacks, toys and activities will be available. The student desks that normally fill the classroom were stacked against the walls.
She said she learned lessons during Hurricane Irma in 2017 and has tried to do a better job this time in preparing her room for shelter residents. She moved bookshelves away from the walls to make more electrical outlets available for families who will want to charge their phones and tablets. She also created small, comfortable stations to help families occupy their children.
Many families wish to bring their pets with them. Some shelters allow this, while others do not.
In Pinellas County, Largo and Gibbs high schools are pet-friendly.
Hillsborough County lists 12 pet-friendly shelters — Burnett Middle, Durant High, Sickles High, Steinbrenner High, Shields Middle, Bartels Middle, Barrington Middle, Smith Middle, Erwin Technical, Sumner Elementary, Strawberry Crest High, Riverview High and Bowers-Whitley Career Center.
Explorer K-8 in Hernando County will take pets. Pasco had not announced its pet shelters as of late Monday.
The counties recommend registering in advance to bring animals to those locations. They also advise owners to bring supplies for their pets just as they do for themselves. That includes proper identification and proof of vaccination, a leash and crate, food and water, litter or newspapers for waste, and cleaning items.
(from an article on the Tampa Bay Times)
——-
This is why MANY people choose to not evacuate during a hurricane. It’s a hassle. Long lines and cramped conditions. After the event is over, you often can’t get home for a few days, while the city cleans up the massive mount of trees, tree limbs, building parts, telephone poles, etc. in the road, You wait knowing there could be and probably are looters in your neighborhood.
Did You Know?
Much like human test takers, rats, as revealed in recent laboratory studies, have a habit of skipping over tasks they’ve forgotten how to do—the interesting implication of the research is that rats may have “metamemory”, the ability to know what they do and don’t remember without actually recalling the forgotten memory itself.
Did You Know?
If you’ve ever dreamed about hiking to the end of the rainbow (in search of treasure or otherwise), we’ve got some bad news for you: you’d never get there. Rainbows are actually circular and have no end—they only appear as arches in our field of view due to the curvature of the Earth. If you ever have the good fortune to see a rainbow from an airplane or other very high location, you’ll see the whole circle.
Did You Know?
You can tell how writers worked together on a film by looking at the way the writing credits are stylized. An “&” symbol means the writers worked directly together as a writing team and the word “and” means they worked on the script, but not together. The credits for the film The Last Time I Saw Paris, for example, shows both methods and lists the writers as “Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks”, which is meant to be read as “Julius and Philip worked together, and then Brooks worked independently on later drafts”.
Did You Know?
Hyperdontia is a medical condition in which the patient has supernumerary teeth—additional teeth that can appear in any area of the dental arch. In mild cases, a patient may simply have an extra tooth or two, and in extreme cases, they may have upwards of one hundred or more additional small teeth found all along the gums and roof of the mouth.
How long are you going to give China time to compete with the US? They have failed. We will prevent you from interfering with the US launch if we are not satisfied with your AAR.
Gray matters
More professional women are letting their hair go gray, sticking with choices made in the early era of the pandemic, the WSJ reports.
Why it matters: Older women have long faced age discrimination at work, and many sought to cover up any evidence that they were over 40. If pandemic era social changes stick around, that could be some measure of progress, Emily writes.
Yes, but: It’s still rare to see silver-haired women in leadership roles.
Just three of the 32 female CEOs on the S&P 500 sport gray locks, according to Emily’s analysis.
Nearly half of working women age 50 and older surveyed by AARP recently said they feel pressure at work to dye their hair to cover the gray.
Meanwhile, men who go gray are more likely to be viewed as distinguished, especially in CEO roles.
Alas, there wasn’t enough time to do a quick study of male hair color stats given the much larger sample size of male CEOs at S&P 500 companies.
Driving the news: Gray hair came up as a possible reason for the surprise ouster of Canadian broadcaster Lisa LaFlamme last month. (Her employer has strenuously denied this.)
Worth noting: Emily asked Elizabeth Stapp, a newly retired business school professor who focuses on gender equity, if gray hair would be a boost for women at the board of director level, where presumably wisdom is valued.
“There aren’t enough women in the boardroom to derive any meaningful conclusions,” she said.
Not too close to Port Saint Lucie but let’s tear through everything else. Since there is no Howie, let’s start another to hit next month. This time we can make it stronger since we will have the effects of this one to gauge what we want to do that state.
If they think they can disrespect Howie and we won’t react, they will see that we mean to react.
Wait till we hit land with it. We are working on a heat catalyst. We still need to know if we can destroy structures that have been erected to resist the strongest Hurricanes. If we can make this like no other that has made land fall and we still don’t get the destruction we want. I suggest that we create a massive earthquake just a few miles from Miami and bring in 100 or 200 foot waves to wipe out Miami and take it close to Port Saint Lucie. The tsunami we can create after a 7.2 earthquake should do the job. That would only leave the top of the state. We can create severe thunderstorms with basketball size hail that will last about two hours that should smash most of that area. Then create a couple of tornados to sweep through the area and that should devastate the state and change it forever.
That’s not going to happen.
Report to LeI immediately.
Please. The people of Florida mostly have no idea who Howie is. Some one reading this might not even know. Your sense of vengeance seems misplaced to me. You just said yourself, he is no longer there.
If you were adamant about showing Florida “disrespect,” why did you not hit Palm Beach and all the Trump and family properties first! Hit the people who really would take a hit in their foundation, and their wallets. The rich folk. Poor people taking the hit, and there’s a lot of them in Florida, just become poorer.
You could have also hit Tallahassee, the state capitol and home to the racist in the governor’s mansion. Shutting down the government.
That seems more logical to me.
Also, I’m pretty sure the Navigator’s family is spread out in the state. Seems a big risk for little payoff but your own ego.
… in reply to: T[4
Noted we will shut down any further plans to hit that state. Your request has been noted and it will accepted.
You may have to reconsider, there are some on the planet that have taken umbrage with your desire to do as much damage as you can image. You will definitely have to adjust the amount of damage you wish to inflict. Too bad, I was looking forward to smacking those humans good.
So, what are our limits? Are We supposed to just shut it down? What about Howie? They should pay. Who is this Anonymous? Why are we being girdled? At least allow us to do enough damage to give these disgusting creatures pause to harm one of ours.
Nothing less that bodies floating in rivers of water would satisfy me.
right. for your own satisfaction. that is all. i could almost bet Howie wouldn’t even care. “they should pay” is laughable. “they” don’t know they are paying so what is the point?
Hurricane Ian was supposed to slam Tampa Bay head on. What happened?
“Some very subtle little ripples along that large scale weather system were key in determining what eventually happened to Ian,” said Jeff Masters, the meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections
https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2022/09/28/hurricaneian/
You gutless aliens. I hope the GODS will reward you with Their ire.
I agree we could have laid waste to those disgusting humans, but there will be other opportunities. We both know that they are proved to fuckups.
Imagine that you live in a country where for over 200 years White people could legally rape, maim, torture, and murder people of color for any reason. Now imagine that you are a person of color and every time one of your kind was accosted by a White person you would end up dead. Imagine that you had friends who had been falsely accused of crimes or had not done anything at all but who had been hung, set on fire, skinned alive what do you believe your inclination would be, when stopped by a white cop. Fight or flee?
Now imagine that you lived in a world where for 157 years it had been illegal to do these things and yet nearly daily White police who harass, torture, maim, and even kill you, then claim they did it because “they feared for there safety. Imagine they get to use that as the reason and the only reason that the police seem to consistently mistreat and ofttimes kill people of color is always the fault of the victim.
They will even go so far as to claim that when a police officer has a long violent history of misconduct that it has absolutely nothing to do with the most recent incident where the police officer killed someone and didn’t get punished. In all of these cases where the automatic Fight or Flee kicks in because history shows people of your race getting killed even when following all the police commands the only alternative is to fight back or flee because people of color are always afraid and with just cause. The Whites, not so much!
Please call.
JOKE:
This couple has a young son named Edward who is struggling in math in school. They try tutors, extra hours of teaching at his school and at home. Nothing seems to be getting through. They switch schools and each time, the schools tell the parents that them that Edward is bright, but he doesn’t pay attention in school and doesn’t often do his homework.
At wits end, they hear about a Catholic school that has had incredible breakthroughs when dealing with underperforming students. Not being religious or Catholic, they decide it is all or nothing to help Edward.
The first day of school comes and they drop Edward off. A whole day of nerves wrack them. Together they go to pick him up from school.
“How was school?”
“Good.” Not much else.
“Do you have homework?”
“Yes. I am going to do it right away.”
Understand that before this, every night they had to fight to get Edward to even consider doing his homework. Today, he takes his school backpack and goes upstairs.
Hours pass. They sneak up and see Edward is carefully working and writing out his homework. Not wanting to break his concentration they say nothing.
The next day, same thing. The day after that, same thing. Weeks go by and Edward is really focused on his math. The parents are just about to explode wanting to know what has happened.
Finally, they must know, and they ask him directly.
Edward takes in a deep breath and lets it go slowly. “When I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they were really serious about math!”
Understand the problem. Will respond after AAR. Check messages.
Why are all the popular Male Celebrities cheating on their wives?
It seems like every other day in the news cycle there is another breaking story about a popular male celebrity caught with his pants down (or in an Instagram model’s DMs). To add insult to injury, as of late, these famous men who are having to use the infamous Notes app to write an apology to their fans, friends, and wives (Usually the wife gets mentioned last — what is that about?) after being caught are all well-known former “wife guys.”
So, what is a wife guy? The New York Times coined the phrase in 2019 when deep diving into this new phenomenon. “A ‘wife guy’ is not just a husband,” NYT journalist Amanda Hess wrote, “He is a man who has risen to prominence online by posting content about his wife.”
Women swoon, “Oh what a good man!” while scrolling a wife guy’s social media, dreaming that their own flawed (or introverted or shy) husband would speak of them this way. These wife guys talk about their wives, post pictures of them alongside sappy Instagram captions, or include them in their music videos.
But is it really that simple? Is this the bare minimum needed for the public to idolize a man? Some could argue that, yes, many of these “wife guys” get their fame and notoriety from just how much they “love” their wife’s — more or less making it their entire personality. Let’s look at some men who recently found themselves in the midst of a shit storm because of their philandering ways.
First, you had John Mulaney, who didn’t necessarily step out on his wife, but also is rumored to not have handled his separation from ex, Anna Marie Tendler, with much grace. The comedian often used stories about Tendler in his stand-up routine and the dog they shared together.
Though he joked about his family on stage, he made it clear that he loved his wife. The two announced their divorce in May 2021 and by September 2021, Mulaney broke the news that he was expecting a child with actress Olivia Munn. That’s a tight timeline.
On an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Mulaney explained, “Since last September…I went to rehab in September, OK? I got out in October, I move out of my home from my ex-wife,” he explained. “Then, in the spring, I went to Los Angeles and met and started to date a wonderful woman named Olivia. I got into this relationship that’s been really beautiful with someone incredible. And we’re having a baby together.”
Congratulations?
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar about the divorce, Tendler said, “Everything that has transpired has been totally shocking and I think surreal.”
Moving on to Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, whose tattoos look like a Chipotle bag, as one astute observer pointed out. He was recently exposed for sliding into several women’s DMs on social media, even allegedly asking one of them if he could name his unborn child after her. Big yikes!
Levine, who has publicly spoken about how much he loves his stunningly beautiful seemingly great supermodel wife, Behati Prinsloo, several times over the course of their marriage. The two wed in 2019 — and Levine said was the perfect move for him. Levine told People, “I definitely feel like I’m sitting in the chair I’m supposed to be sitting in right now … It all feels very natural.”
Guess he got out of that chair.
Another shocking revelation came just this week when seemingly squeaky clean “wife guy” Ned Fulmer of Try Guys fame was caught cheating on his wife, Ariel. Fulmer has since been kicked out of the viral YouTube comedy troupe, admitting to “a consensual workplace relationship” after photos that seemed to show him kissing a woman who was not Ariel were leaked on Reddit. Another fan claims she saw Fulmer with the same colleague at a Harry Styles concert.
Not taking your wife with you to that concert in and of itself is a crime against marriage.
After Fulmer, who often referred to himself as just “the husband” to his wife, released an apology, stating how he “lost focus” for a moment. “Family should have always been my priority…,” Fulmer, who built his role in the Try Guys around being a family man, wrote.
Fulmer’s betrayal seems extra icky considering his wife was not just a supporter of his career, but a huge part of it. She even let the Try Guys film her first mammogram for God’s sake. The couple has also given a house tour (with over 4 million views) as well as published a cookbook together filled with simple “night-in” recipes as well stories from their relationship. *cringe*
So if so many men who project so openly about their love for their wives are actually secret cheaters, is anyone trustworthy? I guess that’s up to each individual relationship. This does however further support the theory that social media is just every person’s “highlight reel” and that reel might be fabricated — or even outright deceptive.
Maybe the best partners and husbands are the people who don’t feel the need to go full “wife guy” out in public all the time, because they are real wife guys on the inside. Let’s take Ryan Reynolds, who famously trolls his wife, Blake Lively, on the internet, and who openly talks about both the joys and the challenges of family life. Who knows what their marriage is really like, but there is much more of a sense there that he shows much more than he tells when it comes to honoring his relationship.
For example, when shouting out Blake on her birthday, Reynolds took the opportunity to post all of the unflattering pictures of his wife he could find in a super rude but hilarious moment.
At the same time, though, you can see how he looks at her — and he doesn’t have to say a word out loud about the way he feels. Exhibit 1: how he looked at her at last year’s Met Gala.
Reynolds keeps it real and doesn’t present his marriage to Lively as sunshine and roses all the time, giving a more real depiction of how marriage works than always defaulting to “I’m just the dopey husband and my wife is amazing.”
A person can talk about how much they adore their spouse all they want and post to social media, telling the world how phenomenal their partner is and how they love being a family man, but at the end of the day, it’s what is done in private that matters. The overcompensation, especially after all these public husband blunders, is more suspicious than ever.
The phrase actions speak louder than words is timeless for a reason.
Has a woman ever asked herself “How low will men stoop to see a naked picture of me?”
A girl created a Tinder profile to try to understand how far people would go to see a nude photo of her:
The staff went too far. The girl started a story that she was sick and needed transfusions, even so the gentlemen with whom she spoke followed with “send nudes” and even said they accepted to donate blood in exchange for photos of breasts.
sick.
On another occasion, this time interacting in facebook groups, other gentlemen also interacted with her, going so far as to send photos of private parts and obscene audio without the slightest pretense of anonymity.
But you know the craziest thing about it all? The girl in the photo she made up didn’t even exist.
The girl was a montage of the female version of the youtuber “Pedro Orochi”, made precisely to seek and expose this group of men who have no idea how to behave on the internet (and probably not in life either).
This matched perfectly with something that happened in the state of Rio Grande do Sul at the beginning of the year:
A group of scammers discovered by the police created fake profiles with pictures of girls, sent requests via facebook to men and started a sick conversation, collecting material potentially destructive to the public life of these guys.
In some cases, at the end of the coup, they made it clear via message that the man (victim) was talking to a girl under the age of 18. In most cases, this not only did not stop the conversation, but also generated even more “heavy” material for the scammers’ final gamble: blackmailing these potential pedophiles by threatening to publicly disclose the conversations if they didn’t deposit much money in the gang’s bank accounts.
This type of scam came to light in Vale dos Sinos, a region of Rio Grande do Sul, after one of the victims killed himself after receiving an ultimatum from the coup plotters. He was a man, over forty years old, married, with children and newly inserted in the virtual world.
This profile of person described above appears as a victim of most virtual scams and I have a strong hypothesis for this: These people have a huge propensity to commit crimes and all sorts of things that are reprehensible by society, but they do not do it for fear of the repercussion that these thing would generate. When they go online, however, they have the false impression that they are anonymous.
The internet works like a Ring of Gyges for them. There they put “God above all”, swear to family and morality ——- while spreading hatred and interacting with minors.
The insanity of these people goes so far as to not distinguish a clearly fake profile from a real one. To the point where they think it’s “ok” to even get involved with kids.
Whether the scammers’ “work” or the youtuber’s idea of interacting with these people, both were things that only revealed the real face of these gentlemen. Things that showed them that the (shallow) internet is not an invisibility cloak for criminals.
I am a girl and I would like to add this about men.
Trust your instincts and intuitions. If you are getting a weird vibe off a situation or a person, learn to pay attention to that. People can often detect micro expressions that a person is a threat and body language people are putting out that mean to do you harm. You often detect this unconsciously long before your conscious mind dials in and realises something is definitely wrong. You may just feel vaguely uncomfortable. Act on and be aware of your intuition. This has saved me a few times.
The rise in electrification is bringing all sorts of new technology front and center, from EVs and Ebikes to all-electric aircraft. This week, a prototype of one of the first all-electric passenger planes went on its maiden voyage, hitting the skies for an initial test flight.
The Washington-based brand Eviation announced its prototype aircraft named Alice hit a significant milestone as it flew for over eight minutes, its first flight ever. Alice is an all-electric passenger commuter plane that seats nine people, and the goal is to eventually replace regional flights with a smooth, fast, quiet, zero-emissions ride.
Eviation wants to eventually offer commuter and cargo flights between roughly 150-250 miles, similar to flying from Los Angeles to Las Vegas or other quick trips. The current model can carry around 2,500 pounds, reaches speeds of 260 knots, and has a comfortable cabin for its passengers.
The “AirCar” Flying Car Completed a 35-Minute Test Flight, Then Drove Home
For the test flight, Eviation’s Alice took off from an airport in central Washington, ascended to 3,500 feet while staying in the air for around eight minutes, then safely landed. It isn’t much, but just like the Wright Brothers, it’s a start.
Did You Know?
The capes worn by the Night’s Watch in Game of Thrones are actually IKEA rugs—costume designers started with the cheap rugs, then cut, shaved, dyed, and distressed them to give them an authentic medieval appearance.