..Post-it-Notes..
*** Eva Vlaardingerbroek
The global center of the bug-feed industry is undertaking a compliance test. Let them eat bugs!
*** St. Augustine
“Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a whole navy, molest the world and are called an emperor.” -St Augustine, on Alexander the Great
*** Identify the Tank
Please be specific.
*** The Black Plague (I admit that the term is racist)
The Plague has long been cited by historians as a major blow to public faith in the Catholic Church because of how little effect the clergy’s prayers appeared to have on the disease’s devastation, which in turn was a direct cause of the radical increase in superstition and loss of respect for scholastic reasoning that in turn led to the rise of occultism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the widespread infusion of Death imagery into European art. The Plague’s sociological effects also up-ended the European political landscape in ways that laid the groundwork for mortal monarchs to find power opportunities in the schisms of Protestantism, which further damaged the Church’s credibility by bringing the issues of corruption to light and made restoring the Church’s single unified authority over Christendom impossible.
The Reformation ending in a stalemate was the real problem. The people were used to the idea that winning proved God wanted you to win. Otherwise, it would have been much harder to maintain a hereditary monarchy as a stable system. When two brothers fought it out, then as the historian John Lingard says, the people assumed that divine Providence meant the winner was who was meant to be king.
If the Protestants had lost, then they would have just been more Cathars. If they had won, then they would obviously have been true believers. A stalemate was harder to reconcile.
*** 18000 cows killed in a dairy farm explosion
When I first heard this report, I thought that it had to be a hoax, but from all reports, it’s accurate. Ok, farmers, what on a farm could explode killing 18 THOUSAND cows?
*** In Athens, near the Acropolis
It’s Easter in Greece
*** Leakers
In 2019, Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman admitted while being questioned by the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday that he had leaked information to an anti-Trump whistleblower at the center of the Democrats’ partisan impeachment proceedings of President Donald Trump. Vindman attempted to provide talking points to Trump prior to his “infamous” Ukraine phone call and then leaked a mischaracterization of the call afterward. Vindman was directly confronted by California Rep. Devin Nunes. Nunes asked:
“Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, did you discuss the July 25 phone call with anyone outside the White House on July 25 or the 26, and if so, with whom?”
“Yes. I did,” Vindman responded.
Vindman was pressed about the details and asked who he spoke with regarding the phone call. Vindman said he talked with two individuals who were not in the White House. Vindman was asked to provide the names of the people he had spoken with but was cut off by then-Democratic Chair Adam Schiff.
“We need to protect the whistleblower. Please stop. I want to make sure that there is no effort to out the whistleblower through these proceedings. If the witness has a good faith belief that this may reveal the identity of the whistleblower, that is not the purpose that we’re here for. I want to advise the witness accordingly.”
For the historical record, I oppose leaking, but with a two-tier justice system in place, it’s difficult to justify prosecuting anyone.
In the Days of Fighting Sail
The Hurricane Lamp
Before François Pierre Aimé Argand invented the hurricane lamp in 1780, oil lamps were seldom very bright, smoked a great deal and the slightest breeze would extinguish the flame – a particularly irritating problem on board ship. The son of a Swiss watchmaker, Argand was a scientist with a particular interest in chemistry. His hurricane lamp is perhaps one of the most enduring designs ever and is still produced by million over two centuries later, almost invariably in a form that its inventor would still recognize.
Argand study lamp, late 18th century, early hurricane lanterns late 18th century or early 19th century
Argand realized that a cylindrical wick that allowed air to flow both through and around itself would produce a brighter light than a conventional wick. The glass chimney he set over the wick protected the flame from wind gusts, while the control nob enabled the user to adjust the height of the wick and control the strength of light produced. Whale or olive oil acted as a fuel, although today paraffin is the preferred accelerant.
Candle lanterns were also found on board until the middle of the 19th century as oil lamps in great amounts were too expensive for one ship.
Sailors quickly adapted the wind-resistant hurricane lamp for use on their vessels. These lamps became necessary equipment for ships and in addition to lighting cabins and decks, were used as anchor lamps and to send signals from ship to ship. Even though there were only a few on board from the 19th century onwards because they were often too expensive. Only in the course of the century were whole ships equipped with Hurricane lamps.
Methane. I heard a good explanation by a Jersey farmer in Oregon. He has a high peek barn with top vents as well as side vents so he says his kind of barn is highly unlikely to have an explosion. Hot places like Texas tend to have low peeks with no vents and wall fans for cross ventilatilation. The methane could build up in the peek and was probably ignited by the manure truck. Cows belch and fart some methane and manure sumps can produce more. I have seen write-ups about covered manure systems that produce fuel for the farm buildings.
It would take significant methane, but yes, that might be enough.
Combined with high levels of ammonia gas and that’s a really bad mixture, between the boom and the poison gas cloud.
Ammonia gas is a real danger in semi-enclosed spaces.
i am told these mega milk barns harvest methane and use it to fuel generators that power the operation. i still doubt the 18k. they reportedly owned 18k, but photos after the fact showed several thousand still milling around the area. padding the insurance? …. vindman and schiff both need to decorate a wall with their blood.
Agreed, the media enjoys saying 18000 to sensationalize the disaster, more likely about a 1000-2000 being milked at any one time in an automated facility.
A fuel-air explosive mix creates a hot blast and a very significant shock wave. There is no human body count? No names are associated as the next of kin appears in the media to lament the loss. Even with automatic milking machines, it takes people to milk 18000 dairy cows. Lots of people. I was never a dairyman. But I’ve worked on one as a kid and know that even with the latest tech, the cows don’t milk themselves.
Maybe these were Tranny cows, the story is a one hit shockwave then mothballed to avoid repercussions.
Worked on some Allflex RFID designs that were being adapted for dairy, barns were set up to automate gates and alleys to get the cows to their feed and milk stations. Quicker processing with fewer hands. But still, zero human casualties makes no sense.
Sorry to say but all the cows in milk must be milked twice a day! I’m not sure what kind of system this farm had but most of the people involved may have been in the milking parlor while many of the cows in the free stall or feeding areas. I milked cows for 20 years and I sure wouldn’t want to be involved with a huge outfit like the one that blew up. It may be that the surviving cows were dry cows and in a separate pen.
LVT-4 with Navy Mk 1 flamethrower.
Peleliu.
Nailed it.
You can tell it’s a LVT-4 and not any of the earlier models because of the rear drop-down door.
That’s the model LVT that most of the amphib tanks were made from, well, purposely made from rather than field-expediently made from. Bored Navy machinists and Marines could make up some interesting things.
Interesting indeed, although this one was not from boredom–
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/firepower-in-the-pacific-the-stinger-machine-gun/
I read that story before and I enjoyed reading it again. Thank you.
LTC Vindman was (and is) the real victim here, so don’t be victim shaming. Adam Schiff is also the real victim. Nunes however is a bully and a hater. Shame on him. That Jake wossname person is a bad, bad traitor and not a victim. He’s likely also straight and Christian, so two more Oppressor points and no victim points for him. (Fun fact, his parents expected a girl and planned to name the baby after their favorite country-singer gal. When he turned out to be a boy they called him “Jake” and used the intended girl -name as his middle name. Here’s one of that gal’s songs.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MbnrdCS57d0
Why do all of those teenage boys falsely accuse Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of having sexual intercourse with them? They’re underage, nobody can believe THEM. It’s just good that the American taxpayers are willing to meet their financial demands quietly through a Congressional slush fund set up for that purpose. You’re right. Schiff is a victim of both the radical Right and teenage male pages and interns who understand his vulnerability.
As to the Black Plague, yet another plague from West China, the beginning of most long-lasting plagues. Something about West China that makes for long lasting and low-to-medium deadliness that are also very persistent plagues. Hard to kill off once they get spread, can lay dormant for a while with or without human hosts. These are the real killers.
Africa? Fast, high-death, burns out quickly and dies without a host. Ebola, Marburg, stuff like that. Stuff that isn’t deadly to the US unless some Hafrican lets the inflicted come here while inflicted to our shores.
Another thing that made the Black Plague so damned deadly is the mini-ice age in the 1340s. Which forced people to sleep all crammed together to stay warm. And because it was so damned cold, hygiene suffered as it takes a lot of heat to heat up enough water to effectively wash a family and their clothes.
The Church did it’s best, but the combination of lots of factors just made the plague too damned difficult to fight effectively. Previous methods of quarantine and isolation were too difficult under the weather conditions.
Good news about the plague is it took care of a lot of ‘excessive’ population and reset Europe and probably accelerated the end of serfdom as laborers became a tad more valuable.
Weird how the world resets after big die-offs, no?
“Good news about the plague is it took care of a lot of ‘excessive’ population and reset …”
Sounds like the Davos crowd has come to the same conclusion. I wonder what will get unleashed right before our next election.
Striking down rich and poor, it provided a reset of epic proportions. I think that the Davos crowd are hoping to have an antidote to preserve the right sort of people when the manufactured version of the Black Death strikes.
Ahh, but haven’t you heard, there’s a “new more virulent Covid (come to hate that moniker) Variant” making the rounds. Manufacturing a death plague should require meeting God posthaste, no stopping at Go, straight to meet The Maker.
The plague came at a time when, for the most part, big wars were on the downswing. Excess population moving to the Crusades was over, Europe was at an all-time population breaking level, agriculture was dying back due to the aforementioned mini-ice age.
Plague or wide-spread famine, there was going to be a big die-off. Just the plague got there before the famine, though the plague contributed somewhat to actual famines, though the most hit by the plague were the city and town dwellers, not the farmers and forest laborers. For some strange reason, medieval outdoorsmen fared much better against the plague than those trapped inside.
Today, unless destruction of farms (like what the government tried in the Netherlands or in Sri Lanka) occurs, we have the over-capacity to produce food for way more than the number of people currently alive, so no ‘need’ to a great die-off.
Funny, but the same thing basically happened with Justinian’s Plague, cooling period, loss of agricultural production leading to a potential famine, and a bug from West China brought over by the Silk Road.
Until the advent of antibiotics and other modern medical materials, the world had period die-offs and resets. It happened. One of the great die-offs is what caused the Egyptian proto-civilizations to form.
Combine that with modern agriculture, a combination of machines and chemicals (thanks to those pesky Germans and their organic chemistry research,) that have saved most of the world that gives a damn about using machines and chemicals from starving to death even in what would have been very bad years for agriculture (pre modern world.)
While dairy cattle do in fact produce methane as a byproduct of the rumination process, perhaps on the scale of Eric Swalwell, what they also produce copious amounts of is manure. What kind of manure storage and removal system this dairy had built into it I have not seen any article address, at least yet. I’m waiting on Hoards Dairyman, the premiere dairy magazine to address it. The size of the barn is also a factor, literally putting all of one’s eggs in one basket. Our 100 cow dairy worked our family as many hours in the day as we could devote to it. Milking cows on this scale is phenomenal. Disposal of that many carcasses will be an epic undertaking.
Anyone taking odds on when the Dems blame the cow explosion on GLOW-BULL warming and/or Trump?
Dairy barns nowadays have slatted floors with a huge concrete tank underneath not vented correctly you have problems
Some do but the two I follow on face book have solid floors and slow moving auto scrapers that move the manure to small pit on the end. I believe these pits are frequently cleaned with a vacuum tank/spreader. The one is 200 Holsteins and the other is 500 jerseys expanding to 1000. I worked in a 150 cow slat floor barn back in 1972! It was a real pain. The Holstein farm mentioned above has a total auto milking system. The jerseys have a rotary parlor with more human interaction. I’m glad I switched to working at a salmon hatchery about 1990 because I wouldn’t want to deal with these new huge systems!
Eva V. stated the facts about bug farms versus actual food/beef farms, NO ONE except a Lefty will eat bugs “to save the planet”. Sorry, not good for you and so moronic it’s laughable…The Big Mac with “two whole BUG patties” just won’t fly (so to speak). Altho, it might help the obesity epidemic here in the USA as people starve themselves.
The Morons in Charge should be forced to eat their brand of buggered 3-squares for a month.
There is also the simulated meet produced in the Bill Gates vats for you cretins who think that bugs are not to your liking. And if not that, there is Soylent Green. That will put hair on your chest. It would be a great ad for womyn transitioning to become men – hair on their chest to match the skull and anchor ink on their bulging bi-ceps.
“Simulated meat”…that about sums it up. If the weak-minded wanna eat that be my guest.
I can understand simulated and vat-grown meats, as their application in space travel and exoplanet colonies is tremendous. Though I’d prever vat-grown meat from actual meat starter than some processed and chemically manipulated yeast or vegetable product.
But eat that sh…tuff purposefully? Nope.
If we could produce vat-grown meat without nasty side effects, at a profit (or neutral) and not as a heavily subsidized economic loss, I’d buy it. Why not? No animal is raised in bad conditions* and then killed for it, and besides, most of what we eat these days is already heavily processed. Plus vat meat might not be full of exogenous hormones and antibiotics.
* yes, yes, of course not all animals are raised in horrible conditions, but I’m no fan of multinational corporate “ag”. And yes I understand that food would much more expensive if it were all family/local/etc. But that doesn’t mean I have to love Tyson, or Monsanto.
All that said, just because I’d buy it, doesn’t hardly mean I think everyone should be compelled to have it and nothing else. And I’d happily pay a premium for the occasional actual beefsteak from a proper animal, and everyone should have the right to do so.
As to the eating bugs thing? Of course it’s not about Saving the Earth. It’s about humiliation. Because these people are sick, twisted fucks. Speaking of literal health, by the way, why would anyone listen to physical wrecks such as Bill (preggers emoji) Gates, or a travesty of a man like Yuval Harari? Do those people LOOK healthy to you?
With “alarming” reports of mRNA vaccines being injected into food supplies, people will start moving to local ranch beef vs. corporate operations…who by all accounts pump up their beef with estrogen and other unnecessary hormones for daily weight gain (young girls maturing much sooner, boys running around with no muscle mass looking like 12 year-old girls…gotta come from somewhere.)
But…there is a caveat to that that does not require the fear-mongering panic being fomented by people who believe mRNA is the Covid Vaccine. I know these mRNA reports sound alarming and sound like they are giving people the Covid vaccine by the backdoor, however mRNA is actually “superior vaccine delivery science” (as compared to historical vaccine delivery science), and is rather beneficial. It works interior to cell level and does not leave (super simple explanation). And this delivery system is being used in animals (food and pet) for better pinpoint efficacy. Extrapolating the delivery system to “harming people” because some Big Pharma shops used it with the Covid Crapola is a broad brush mistake…because that was not a vaccine, it was a (by many accounts) a DNA manipulator.
You are so right on the forced bug consumption people, they are deranged, merely useful idiots for their Overlords. Eva is correct, this is yet another “compliance test”.
the lack of human casualties- most of the labor are illegals. those methane power plants take skilled techs to maintain. what’s that red flashing light mean? no hablo. one plus one equals boom.