I'm in the future. Like hundreds of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries. Oh, lovely, you're a cheery one aren't you?
Wednesday, April 10
Boneless Chicken Ranch 10 April 2019
The word you are looking for, Chris, is "against".
He's not called Eric "nuke the peasants" Swalwell for nothing
Theresa May, making every other politician look good. Except maybe Eric.
The only people dumber than Matt Yglesias are his followers - and he can prove it.
I set up a new account - not now, a while back. Followed one person. Got suspended.
But grammatically precocious.
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Wednesday, April 03
Boneless Chicken Ranch 3 April 2019
Good thing you're not a kindergarten teacher, Neva.
Title card: A week after the field trip.
Teacher: Wait. Where's Bobby?
Cut to: Stock footage of a fat python picking its teeth.
Peak Twitter has been achieved. You can shut it down now.
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Sunday, March 31
Boneless Chicken Ranch 31 March 2019
Sydney has now officially exited summer and the weather is pleasant and so the temperature immediately dropped to 10C last night. Need to buy a heavier quilt.
Meanwhile, I think an emu has nested in my air conditioner.
Don't talk to me or my roommate the cat ever again.
You can click through to find the garbage take that Rita is responding to, but it's not worth your time.
I got suspended for being adjacency adjacent.
The American media is not only bought and paid for, they sold themselves cheap.
I mean, what even is this?
Brian never fails to disappoint.
But he's through to the next bracket, so there's that.
It's true. All of it.
I suspect this is Kamala's work. The rest of the Democratic front runners are imbeciles, and she's a shark armed with nuclear laser torpedoes.
Even Vox awoke from its vodka-and-adderall-induced coma for five minutes to pile on.
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Videos aren't working with the new embed tag. I'll poke at that.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, March 31 2019 10:32 PM (PiXy!)
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No, I am pretty sure it is Hillary's machine, gearing up for her 2020 run, that is taking the shot at Biden. Kamala Harris is as much as an imbecilic dolt as the rest of the current 2020 roster - whatever else Willie Brown gave her, his political genius and skills were not among them.
The pity is that Biden might very well be the best candidate the Dems have for the general election. His issues aside, he is excellent at retail-level politics and given the current make-up of the Democrat hopefuls, he might be the only one with a serious shot of winning back the traditionally Democrat rural working class white voters who went for Trump in 2016.
Posted by: cxt217 at Monday, April 01 2019 09:17 AM (LMsTt)
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Sandy Donkey-Chompers is *really* butthurt about Mike Lee's speech on the floor.
Of course, if that dumb bimbo's not prepared to invade India & China as opposed to turning the US into Somalia, her stupid Green Nude Eel isn't going to actually do anything.
And then, after blithely telling people all we need to do is print $90 trillion, she complains about the "waste of money" of Lee's posters. There's a Biblical verse about that.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, March 27 2019 11:44 AM (Iwkd4)
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I call her Bob now, after her rant about people not using her full hyphenated surname.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, March 27 2019 11:49 AM (PiXy!)
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Hm, I wonder what Wikipedia says about Spanish-style surnames?
"A man named José Antonio Gómez Iglesias would normally be addressed as either señor Gómez or señor Gómez Iglesias instead of señor Iglesias, because Gómez is his first surname. "
Oh.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, March 28 2019 12:15 AM (Iwkd4)
Michael Avenatti has been arrested for extortion and as soon as he gets out on bail is facing separate charges on wire fraud.
* The entire MSM is now in "well, ackshually" mode.
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Saturday, February 09
We're Going To Need A Bigger Envelope
I've been doing some back-of-the-envelope calculations on the real-world impact of the Green New Deal, based on existing projects like the California and Texas high-speed rail lines, and the cost escalation involved in running a multitude of such megaprojects simultaneously and on impossible deadlines.
First, if we take the published GND outline literally, the cost would run to around $375T per year, about four times the Gross World Product.
Second, during the execution of the 10 Year Plan, industrial and transport activity would be multiplied by roughly a factor of six - and so of course would greenhouse emissions. Replacing air transport with high speed rail, for example, would take 500 years to show a net reduction in CO2 emissions.
Third... I'm not sure if there even is a third. This is insane.
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Wow. There is literally not enough money in the world to finance that dreck.
Posted by: Ed Hering at Sunday, February 10 2019 11:13 AM (/cXdK)
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You can tell that no-one involved in this has ever done a cost analysis in their life. And they've never even heard of second-order effects.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, February 10 2019 12:39 PM (PiXy!)
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Pixy You've omitted a major piece of the equation.
In fairness they were omitted from their FAQ.
These are socialists.
In order to bring high speed rail to everyone, they just have to upgrade the Acela slightly and kill everyone who doesn't live near it. Fewer people need less power so paving everything south of the Mason Dixon line with solar panels will power the Acela corridor nicely.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sunday, February 10 2019 01:32 PM (gxCG3)
When you do the arithmetic, it turns out that diverting the resources necessary to replace all air travel in the continental United States with high speed rail in the space of ten years would kill everyone on the planet.
On the other hand, zero emissions achieved.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, February 10 2019 04:12 PM (PiXy!)
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Which conveniently takes care of the objections from the dopey Senator from Hawaii.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, February 11 2019 08:01 AM (Iwkd4)
(Don't buy it. It... Well, it doesn't really suck, but it's certainly not worth building a system around.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 07 2018 05:10 PM (PiXy!)
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My son's been using an i5-3570K for the last 4-5 years. Around January it stopped booting (that is, you could get into the BIOS and see the hard drives, but it wouldn't boot to any of them. I decided to build him a new PC--an i5-8400, because it was a decent upgrade.
Then I delidded the 3570K and replaced the thermal paste with something better. I don't have a spare case nor extra fans to put it in so I can't do proper testing its limits but I set it to 4.5GHz, changed nothing else, and ran Prime95. Didn't seem to have any problems except that after about 5 minutes the temps started going up, and up, and up, and I stopped it at 93 degrees. Presumably if I'd had a better cooling solution than one Hyper 212 Evo it would've peaked at a lower temp.
Not an 8-core 5GHz but we're getting closer. IIRC the limited-run i7-8086K will do an all-core 5GHz turbo with sufficient cooling, but it's only a 6-core.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, June 08 2018 01:53 PM (ITnFO)
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There's nothing amazing coming out just now, but last year was great and it looks like next year could be even better. We could be seeing 8 core mainstream desktop CPUs from Intel, and 12 or even 16 cores from AMD.
Plus PCIe 4.0 should start rolling out, which will effectively double the I/O bandwidth for new PCs.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, June 08 2018 02:25 PM (PiXy!)
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It figures--I just had a new PC ordered at work.
However I got an i7-8700, so it'll be a huge step up from the Haswell-era PC I'm using now.
I mean, you wind up always buying something that's almost immediately obsolete anyway, but at least I managed not to get an i5-7200 or something to replace my 4590 or whatever it is. Also I got more RAM, an SSD, and two new monitors that are an upgrade from what I'm using now.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, June 09 2018 04:05 AM (ITnFO)
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The 8086 is truly a limited edition - I've heard they're only making 50,000 of them.
The 8700 is still the top Intel mainstream part, by no means obsolete... Yet.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 09 2018 12:00 PM (PiXy!)
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Wow that's a lotta heat to dissipate. I have a 250W heater to warm my feet in the winter, so 1/2 the year I'd be set. 35CFM air flow too, like having a vacuum cleaner running next to you. Have to bolt it down so it wouldn't fly away, lol! I think I'll wait a bit longer.
Posted by: Armed and Larry at Monday, June 11 2018 07:46 AM (rTqn/)
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If 7nm stays on track, next year's model should cut that to 150W and improve clock speeds. This is only for people who really need it.
I had two 125W CPUs running under my desk for about four years. Nice during the winter months. Now replaced both with a single 65W 8 core Ryzen.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 11 2018 03:16 PM (PiXy!)
