The Crazy Years

What’s wrong with Soylent Green, a lovely 1972 portrayal of 2022 New York (face masks included)?

The idiocy of the war on gas stoves is perhaps best demonstrated by my indoor air pollution monitor Flow:

Notice the big spike? That was me making French toast. The punchline is that I used an electric range.

NYTimes has been pumping content about stoves for months now, and it’s all fakery:

If they actually cared about CO2, they’d be pumping up nuclear power. And if they cared about indoor air quality, they’d pump up air quality monitoring, ventilation, and range hoods.

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Bit late, but that’s similar to how our summer Ubiquiti and winter Giggle WiFi networks are set up with separate SSIDs for the guest and main networks. Supposedly guest networks prevent communication between devices (other than the gateway, of course) on them, but now that I’m retired I’ve never dug into how they do that or including blocking sniffing

How does that differ from most software based products /ducks/

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They already are mwahahahahaha!!!

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This is occupying much thought and online study. I have just purchased a Synology RT6600ax router - as I am impressed with my Synology NAS and the reviews of the new 1.3 router Management System. It will replace a long-in-the-tooth Verizon FIOS Quantum Gateway, whose security capabilities are suspect with all devices under a single SSID. My network architecture is beyond suspect; it is inadequate. What I am trying to figure out (I am not very technical, though I managed to get my NAS up and running my myself) is whether I can have adequate security with the VLANs I can establish with the router or whether I need to insert a Ubiquiti hardware firewall upstream from the router, too. I would gladly pay a consultant, but everyone local wants to establish paid ongoing network maintenance for enterprises. I guess the home network opportunities are too small to bother with, regardless of how much vulnerability is out there. I just catalogued my IoT devices. There are 24 of them, some wired (4 cameras, POE, 1 WI-FI as part of my home security system), the rest WI-FI.

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A private Dutch sperm clinic impregnated up to 500 women with the sperm of a mentally handicapped Surinamese man by accident, it has been revealed:

The woman gave birth to a son and a daughter with the help of the sperm bank. The donor card stated that the donor was a Dutch man with two children, a university degree, raised in South Limburg.

“But as the kids grew up, they got darker and darker,” says Sonja. After a long search, the biological father turned out to be a Surinamese man with autism, ‘donor S.’. In addition to the fact that the information on the card was incorrect, this man should never have become a donor because of his autism. ‘My daughter didn’t inherit it, my son partially did,’ says Sonja. “I also got in touch with 12 half-siblings, and 10 of them are in trouble.”

Humo was able to contact the donor, and it turns out that the man donated much more than is legally allowed. The man’s semen was also distributed via the clinic in Rotterdam to hospitals throughout the Netherlands and even exported to Austria. Four to five hundred women are said to have become pregnant from his semen.

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I remember this from a while back. Someone with a funny bone in his body.

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Somebody in California had a Dodge Dart with a license plate “OBJET”.

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https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/deep-elicker-announce-launch-of-new-e-bike-incentive-program?utm_source=wtnh_app&utm_medium=social&utm_content=share-link

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?How come there are no serious questions about where all this electricity for e-vehicles is going to come from. California already gets rolling black-outs and here in Texas we have been “asked” to try to curtail our use of electricity, now that we’re back in the 100’s. BUT I don’t hear any demand that the Tesla drivers stay home and not use electricity.

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Downside: no more perspective-broadening journalism like this.

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Upside: tectonic catastrophe averted.

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I thought that was pretty funny. My french wife didn’t even chuckle.

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Zu vill eat zee bugs or you vill be put to death. Und vee vill blame your mental deficiencies.

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Mr. Starbuck does not provide a citation for the assertion that the subject “no longer identifies as a girl.”

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